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hc Jih gt9n press. HOB PRINTING LV. AVE. T.BLUM, PUBLI8HER8 AND PROPRIETORS. U lappMed with all aicmary BaaUrlaJ, aa4 U tall prepared to d work Wlta MCATNESS, DtSFATCH, ajrs at ni TERMS: CASH JN ADVANCE. Bnritd fo Hotifos, JiltrMhtre, qntvttmt. 4$r1uts snd gennzl gnfarmsfwti. On Cory en year, . . . ; , . . BJ.59 z r .'ii"oBih' " three .. i a VERY LOWEST PRICES VOL. XXXV. SALEM, M". C., THURSDAY, JULY 14, B nr. to give a a trial abrs traetlac wlOa uriN . 1887. NO. 28 i I i 1 1 i I I r ill II Ik 1 1 1 1 i i -1 1 ii im : n nr u 11 z ' v vii i i i i j k u i i i i i i i i 1 1 i i r ii i i i i i i i . ik i v- i i i ii v uu u t, - Hi The annual losses by fire in the United States amount to $120,000,000, and the consumption of cigars, cigarettes and emoking tobacco amounts to $206,000, 000. Total destruction! by fire, $326,000 -000. ; I Here is a good word for the women. An English statistician has discovered that the married men live, longer and live better lives than bachelors. Among every i;000 bachelors there are thirty eight criminals ; among married men the ratio is only eighteen per 1,000. 1 According to the mint reports, Cali fornia has dropped to the third place among the States and Territories as a pro ducer of precious metals. iTsti II ranks first in the production of gold, but is away behind Colorado and Montana in the production of silver and in the total value of the output. ''Sportsmen are catching' many Ger man carp at a pond in Litchfield county," says the New Haven Xeics. "This tallies with other reports that the carp has thrived in almost all the waters of the State where it has been placed. The carp is not gamesome, but properly pre pared for thetablc can be made quite a delicacy, and promises ere long to be an important addition to our list of food fish." A New York railroad man tells a Mail ami Express reporter that the mile a minute speed is a myth. Occasionally, lie says, trains on a stretch of level track with an easy grade make a mile a minute, hut the fastest express train in the United States, the New York and Philadelphia limited, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, . averages 43 3-10 miles an hour. The average fast express of the United States reaches 36J miles an hour. The fastest train in the world is the "Flying Dutch man," which .averages 59 1-8 miles an an hour, between London and Bristol. The Minneapolis Tribune tells of a new feature in Baptist merrymakings: The young men distinguished themselves by the preparation of a supper at the church parlors, including ices, ice cream and charlotte russe. ' It was incumbent upon each young man to make with his own -liands a cake, and as a result nearly thirty specimens of these culinary tri umphs were set out before the throng in attendance. .They were in all shapes and sizes, and some of them were tear stained and bore evidence of many weary hour of deep thought and anxiety.- The men danced attendance as waiters at the tables and wore colors corresponding orange-yellow, pink and blue. The latest 'lions'1 of Paris "are nine negro'chiefs with unpronounceable names. They have been brought from the African coast by an enterprising contractor. . The object is to show them the sights of the French capital, and then to get them to sign an agreement with BI. de Lesseps to engage their tribes to work on the Pana ma Canal. They are all horribly tat tooed and wear ivory bracelets. They speak English. Some of the friends of the Panama Canal, by the way, fear that . it will go to meet the ghost of Captain Ead's ship railway. Already over $300, 000,000 has been expended on this gor geous ditch, and a very despondent critic writes that before it is finished it will cost France as much "as the Franco Prussian war. The New York Times says that the de luded persons who have been led to be lieve that a fortune of $75,000,000 awaits in England the pleasure of the Sands family in this country may be interested in a letter sent by Mr. Henry White, Sec retary of the United States Legation in London, to Mrs. Sarah M. Caswell, of Aurora, III., one of the "heirs," who had taken the precaution to ask him for in formation. Secretary White says: "I beg to inform you that there is no such 'estate' as the one you mention. Vast numbers of people in our country are de ceived and defrauded by designing per sons, who represent that great estates are awaiting American claimants here, where as, there arc none such. One of these rascals has recently been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for robbing Americans in thi3 way." Thisj; the Times adds, should he-conclusive as to the ex istence of the great-Sands or Sandys es tate in England. It does not, however, prove that there is no such estate in the moon, but tls "heirs" will not care to retain lawyers for the prosecution of claims in that luminary. A New Yp.-k correspondent of the Philadelphia Tress tells thus how the once famous pedestrian Weston lives : "I 'met Edward Payson Weston, the once famous pedestrian, the other day. He began life as a reporter for the Sun, and now ho is again reporting, this time for the World. His hair is dashed with white, but he is in- splendid condition, with a ruby glow on his cheeks and the light of health, in his eyes. He still walks everywhere, no matter how far along the streets he may have to go, be cause he says the street cars are too slow for him. He invited me to come up to his country home at Highbridge and swing in a hammock and eat cherries on his porch, lie entertains in a manner quite hospitable and unreportorial. Pedestrianism netted him about $30,000 in savings, but he has done with it, be cause, he says, it has lost its tone and be come loafery. He mounted the-ladder of that sport to its utmost height, he says, when he walked in England for the Church of England Temperance Society, and, ealizing that there was nq more rungs to ascend, he quiche turf, FULFILMENT. Fulfilment mocks at Hope's foreshadowing, " On mined fruits her sullen lips are fed; Athwart the last-limned dream, the song last said, , She sweeps the leaden shadow of her wing, A bitter burden of bare blight to hring, In sudden disenchantment, dull and dead. And so we waken in our seraph's stead To find a gaping gobljn-changeling. Sweet Hope is slain; come, let us bury her; The dream is done, the labor lost, we say; i But of times, gazing on the lifeless clay, The old fire fills our veins, our longings stir; , And still, to strive anew, we turn away From yet another dead Hope's sepulchre, Scribner. A SUCCESSFUL SEANCE. i BY G ART AH TOSE. Mr. Clithers sat in his private office Oust a corner partitioned off the great gram and meal store), in the thriving town of BeUevue, III. As he sat at east in the armchair, scanning with his keen blue eye3 the choice items of news in his morning paper, he looked every inch the shrewd business man he was. Socially he and his wife stood in the front rank. One half-column article in the paper seemed to interest him beyond all. It WSf-u- ief account of a mind-reading exhibition given in an Eastern city. "Now, that is very remarkable," com mented.Mr. Clithers, mentally; "There is no trick about it, either. I think the exhibition proved it can be done Gracious r what a revolution if every one could become a mind-reader 1 But I suppose he must have a gift." . - Just then some painful thought seemed to intrude upon his mind, for he frowned, and then, throwing the newspaper aside! he rose and stepped to his desk. After a hasty glance about him, he slipped a key into a drawer and pulled it out. A pile of bills lay in the inside. He shuf it again quickly, and locked it. "So it is still there," he muttered, "By Jove ! IU give anything to find out who's been robbing me lately. I wonder if that mind-reader could tell me, or is it only a guy or trick ? I wish I could get a mind-reader to try his skill on' this racket; I know it has baffled me." fow it is always well to consider whether we really want a thing before -r.o a unjiiciz.aru uesire ior it, be cause sometimes that eternal schoob teacher, Fate, takes it into her head to accede at once. At least she apparently did m this case, for, as Mr. Clithers turned aside from his desk, the door opened, and a tall individual, arrayed in close-buttoned frock-coat and soft felt hat, advanced with a light step, and pre sented his card. Mr. Clithers read with a perceptible start the words: "William Willis Cahqlkall, Misd Reader." This latter, with one comprehensive glance around the office, removed his hat. and calmly seated himself, not failing to note, indeed, the effect his card had upon Mr. Clithers. That gentleman, after staring at the card some time, at length looked his visitor nvpr hut gratification from his inspection A 1 1 t a iuu Deara covered the lower part of Mr. Cardinall'a fa nrl tli showing two high cheek-bones and a u"ai "w"u nose, pincned at the point, with a pair of very brilliant eyes, gave him a hungry look not at all pre- He smiled in a superior way at Mr. Chthers's scrutiny. "Perhaps you wonder why have called," he remarked, in a fulLbut low tone. "I will tell give a seance in this town, and I wish to const me aia 01 tne very . best people, in order that it may be a success. Do not mistake me: I am not work in or for mnnv I merely wish to test my wonderful power before an audience composed only of the "" lureuigeui ana cunurea people of BeUevue." "And you really are a mind reader?"' "I am only an amateur as yet, sir, but I feel the power is in me. I have given exhibitions before physicians, nu h of science and others. I have letters from presidents of colleges and many literary men. Are you acquainted with the President of ihe Weehawken State University?" Mr. Clithers confessed that he was not. "There is a letter from him," contin ued the mind-reader, picking it out from a package drawn from his pocket. Mr. Ciithers read, it. It seemed satis factory, and he did not doubt the man at all. He was thinking deeply, though. "Now, my dear sir," went on Cardin all, 'I shall have to throw myself on your good ature." I desire to invite to the seance only the cultured and wealthy people of this town all those who move in good society, in fact and I must have their names and addresses." "I have a list of those I invited to a ball recently, if that will c o," said Mr. Clithers, who could see no good reason for refusing, and -who wiw perfectly alive to the social eclat of introducing this lion to his friends. "The very thing. I will fix the date for the evening of the day after to-morrow. I am extremely obliged to you for your great kindess to a perfect stranger, and if I could do anything to show-" - "You can." said Clithers: "hv vnnr mind-reading." : "Ah! and how can that be?" Clithers drew his chair close to his visitor and spoke almost in a whisper. "For the past month I have been miss ing money from that drawer in the desk there. It is evidently taken whenever I leave the office. I have always to keep a certain amount of money on hand to make change, and I lock it up when I go out. Yet I find that somehow it is opened in my absence and five or ten dollars taken. I have watched and said nothing about it, but have failed even to suspect any one. Now, can you tell me who- stole that money?" Mr. Cardinall seemed iinp.asv. TT hitched his chair back, and hemmed and hawed. ; "Why, you see," he finally said, 'that is rather an awkward test. I should have to read the mimd of every employe and friend you have. Then, again, I should have to become acquainted thoroughly with this office so that I could, see it plainly in connection with any one else's mind. I am willing to try." "If you succeed, I will pay you one hundred dollars." "I want no reward, sir; I shall be only too happy to try. And supposing that I begin at once to convey the impression of this office to my mind, it will be neces sary that you go out, sir even out of the building and I will, as it were, take possession of the office. Then it will be come fixed on ray mind." $ for one moment Mr. CUtheri hejd- tated, but the man's brilliant eyes were upon him, and he acquiesced. "You need begone only ten minutes," was the gracious remark Of Mr. Cardinall as Clithers went out. - In thirty seconds his retiring footsteps had died away, and quick as a flash the mind-reader stepped across to an old fashioned safe that stood in the corner, and bent over it. , A grim smile played oyer his face. Then noiselessly he turned to the desk, and was just putting his hand to the money-drawer, when a slight rus,tle came to his ear. With the light tread of a panther he crossed the room and dropped silently into a chair that was behind the door. It opened inward, and the next instant there was a louder rustle, and the door was pushed open an inch or so. Mr. Cardinally mind was busy. "This is the thief," he said to himself. "Now to try the trick that has never failed.". 4, 4- ;. .:: , . . The doot swung open, and MrsTciith ers,a handsome woman of forty summers, glided into the room and turned to close the door. At that moment a hand was placed on her shoulder, and a harsh voice cried: "Where is all the money you have stolen?" I With distended eyes she turned to look at her accuser. "Oh, my God!" she cried, "I am lost! Oh, have mercy, sir I will never steal another cent. Oh, I shall die oh oh I" and then broke into the most agonizing sobs. "Stop that," snapped the polite mind reader, "and explain voursclf. Who are you?" "Sir, I am Mrs. Clithers, and I have as much right in, this office as my hus band. I am not afraid that he will arrest me; my fear is of his knowing itj Oh. sir, is there not some way of hidinjr this 1 rum mm! 1 promiso solemnly never to take any more monev in this way.' "Humph!" remarked Cardinall, look ing at her composedly ; "so you are his wife. So you don't want him to know. Very natural, of course; but hard to do. No, I don't want money. Who do you think I am?" "A detective, I suppose." "No, a mind-reader. Don't be afraid," with an amused smile; "your secrets are safe from me. If you give me a little assistance, I shall be mum about this af fair. In the first place, I want you to do all in your power to induce Your so- tieiy iricnas to attend a mind reading seance vour husband will trll vnu fit In the second place, I want you to send by man 10 tms address, to-night, if possi ble, a TOUCh T)lan. drawn nn mnr nt your house, and alsD indicate the recepta- 1 .1 -I -,-! 1 cics mat noiu, say a dozen valuable arti cles, and their location such as jewelry or silverware, etc. Yon wonder at such a request? It is in order fhat I may ap pear laminar wan tne inside of your house at the seance, and thus insure its success. Do this and keep a close tongue, and I am dumb. Of course you will be sure to be present at my exhibi tion to indorse the accuracy of my mind reading. Is it agreed. It wap evident that she doubted him. Such an extraordinary request. But then, the shame the bitter shame. ' "I will do it; only don't play me false." T J And as he smiled in satisfaction she slipped from the room. He looked at his watch; the ten minutes was nearly up. So he settled himself in the chair, and with a dreamy look in his eyes and a mysterious smile, Mr. Clithers found him on his return. "I thank you for your courtesy," he said, on taking his leave. "I have forged the first link of the mental chain that will bind your thief. Send that list you spoke of to my hotel the Palace and don't fail to turn up at my seance. " And so it happened that evening that two letters addressed to Mr. Cardinall were sent from Mr. Clithers's house. There was quite a crush on the event ful evening at the Bijou Hall, which the mind-reader had secured for his seance. Mrs. Clithers evidently had not failed to keep her promise. Her husband, too, had exerted himself to secure a large at tendance of the elite of society. The ladies' tongues were busy discussing from every conceivable point of view the new creed of reading the mind of man. At 8 o'clock precisely, Mr. Cardinall stepped on the platform. He had made himself conspicuous around the town since his arrival, so he was pretty well known. After a few words of introduc tion, in which he humbly stated that he was as yet but an amateur, he begged the audience to choose a committee of two to assist him in his demonstrations. A dozen offered themselves, but finally, after much discussion, a society youth, fearfully and wonderfully vain and pomp ous, and Mr. Clithers, were chosen to represent the audience. When the latter was chosen, a gratified smile wreathed Mr. Cardinall's face, but at the sight of the dudish youth he appeared almost dis gusted. "This is really too bad," whispered he to Mr. Clithers, when the. committee were on the platform; he has no mind; I cannot read a. vacuum ; do do let me use you as a medium. Just make the youth fetch and carry." And he winked solemnly at Mr. Clithers, who was evi dently flattered at this evidence that he had a mind at all. The first'test was the hiding of a gold watch by Mr Clithers the mind-reader and youth retiring. Now,when they both emerged Mr. Cardi nal! seemed to change his' mind about the brains of the youth, for h& asked him if he knew where the watch was hid. The youth answered Yes, having watched through a small crack in the door. Then the mind-reader said: "I will find it through you." Immediately both turned their footsteps toward one of the window-sills, and stopped at it. There was the watch. But whether the mind reader led the youth, or the youth the reader, was more than the audience Could determine. However, this success elicited the ereatest annlansp. Cardinall then requested some one in the audience to hide an article, and he would find it. As he spoke he fixed his eyes on Mrs. Clithers. She read that look at once, and conquering her dislike, stood up and said she would hide some thing. He bowed and aDolosized. and retired. She went to the sta?e and laid the article at the right-hand corner on the floor. It was a common pin. The mind-reader appeared blindfolded, as usual, and stepping down from ihe stage, took her hand in his. "Whee is it ?" he whispered, as he bowed. She told him. After a few manoeuvres, indieatincr nnwr tainty, he rushed to the spot, and picked up tne arxicie inumpnantiy. The rest. of the exhibition consisted en tircly of a description of the inside of Mr. Clithers's house. Having asked that eren tleman to say to the audience that the niind-reader had never, been inside the S house, he proceeded to make a minute statement of the location of . nearly every , artivJe oj value iir. CUtfera possessed. The latter was perfectly astounded. There could be no denying the gift of this maUi He declared that MfJ Clithefi was the best subject he had ever operated on, adding that he had a remarkable brain cell organism. In fact, he had Mr. Clithers blushing with pleasure and the audience in high good humor, when the town-clock struck eleven. He was apol ogizing for the lateness of the hour, when a sudden bustle.became manifest at the door of the hall. 8ome one was tryin to force an entrance, the ushers interpp ing. A harsh, gruff voice 6aid something in a low tone, and then a passage was made. The audience turning round to ascertain the cause, heard a murmur of "law" and "officers," as two burly men advanced toward the platform. A couple of silly women shrieked. All eyes in stinctively turned to the platform. Mr. Cardinall had retreated to the rear. A fearful frown was on his brow, and he was biting his nails convulsively. "Don't be alarmed," said one of the in truders. "I make no doubt you've had a nice evening of it, he's so very funny" pointing his finger at the mind-reader "when he gets started. But he's a luna tic, just the same." "A lunatic! crazy!" came in a chorus. Some of the women rose hastily, and at tempted to go out.' "You'd better all keep still,' continued the man. "He takes queer notions, and if he saw you all going out, he might think there was a-fire and get very vio lent, and maybe kill some one." "Come, come, angrily remarked Mr. Clithers, loath to gve up his idol," are you sure you're not making a mistake? Say, Mr. Cardinall, you are not crazy, are you?" Whereat both men burst into loud laughter. "Why, look at him," said the first spokesman; and indeed he did not appear sane. His eye3 were flashing vin dictively at the audience, and moving right and left, as though looking fcr a chance to run. "Oh, he'd deceive a smarter man than you," continued the keeper, for that is what he evidently was. "You 6ee he's got mind-reading ;on the brain. He's been that way these five years. He got away from the State Asylum six weeks ago, and we've been after him ever since. Here's our papers. " But everybody was so disgusted at the turn affairs had taken, that no one cared to examine the papers; they were only anxious that the lunatic should be got rid of. : Some-dropped an anxious word that the keepers might have difficulty in tak ing him off. '.'Never you fear," chuckled one of them. "We know our man." And so saying, he walked to the edge of the plat form, and drawing : from his pocket a large, luscious pear, held it up for Mr. Cardinall to see. That worthy glanced at it and turned away his head. Still it dangled there, and do what he could, his gaze returned to it Greed sparkled i his eyes. Finally he shook his head. The keeper said, "Come?" He shook his head again. Then from his other pocket the. keeper drew another, pear and held it up also. The poor mind-reader fixed his eyes on them. . . "Both?" he cried. "Yes, both of 'em, if you'll come quietly," replied the keeper. 'And can I cat one now?" with a comi cal assumption of shrewdness. " 1 011 shall have them both, now," as serted the keeper. The victory was com plete. W it h a formidable grin, the luna tic came forward, stepped from the plat form, and calmly left the hall, demolish ing his pear, and occasionally looking at his other prize in exultation. At the door of the hall a carriage stood, loaded with trunks, and the crowd who had rushed to the door saw two bags lying in the inside of the carriage. Mr. Cardinall and his keepers entered, and the carriage rolled away. It would be useless to report the Babe. of tongues that then found expression among the audience. It was the strang est experience that they had ever met with, and the unfortunate Mr. Clithers encountered many an ill-concealed re buke in the form of the oft-repeated query : "How could you ever be so deceived?" He didn't know himself. What indeed affected him the most was the fact that the mystery of the stolen money was as far from being solved as ever. So they separated finally, each to his home; but to many there was no rest that night. Most of them did not dis cover it until the morning; but all the next day there was weeping and wailing in that pretty town. It was found that while they were attending the seance, nearly every house belonging to the wealthy people had been entered, at the second story, and ransacked. It was a perfect nitrht of lootinjr. Mr. Clithers suffered the most. Many jewels which he supposed hidden had been taken, and, worst 01 all, his safe had been blown open, and all his available cash carried off. He was ruined, and indeed very many besides himself came near to bankruptcy.- Somehow, the good peo ple were many hours discussing the mat- ter" before they connected the mind- reader with the robberies. Then Mr. Clithcr's explanation of his safe robbery opened their eyes fully. It was still a mystery to him how they obtained an ac quaintance with the inside of his house, and it is so still, for his wife, although she privately sorrowed over her fault, kept faith with the mind reader. She dared not confess about the money she had purloined, and Mr. Cardinall kept his word. Shortly afterward, Mr. Clithers re ceived a note, as follows! 'Dear Sir: You wanted to find out wher your money was gone. I think you havedis covered by this time who stole it. The Mind Reader. n But' this insolent note did not satisfy the merchant, and to his dying day the truth was hidden from him. Frank Let lie's. 1 A King Among Pineapples. Mr. Joseph Hahn, of Washington street, has got the "boss" pineapple of the season ; in fact it is a mass meeting of seven pineapples. From the base of one exceedingly big apple grow six little ones that are as sound and healthy as an onion patch. The whole conglomera tion measures three feet around the base, is two feet long and weighs twenty-two pounds. It grew in the West Indies, and did not cause a revolution. Mr. Hahn is going to keep it for a month and then take up an offer of $10 for it. New Tori Herald. To Get Plenty of Lelsnre. Fist Merchant "Warm, isn't it?" Second Merchant " Very sultry. Makes me think of the seashore or the mountains; but I can't get away." "I'll tell you how you can get plenty of leisure time." "How?" "Take your advertisement out of the per, Philadelphia Call. '; BUDGET OF FUN. HU5IOROUS SKETCHES FltOM ! VARIOUS SOURCES. A Doubt ful Compliment A Palpable Hit Stood High Heart Troubles Romeo and Juliet Pol- 1 ished by Travel, Etc i Author (to friend) tories?" 'And you like my Friend "Yes." Author "Which do you like best?" Friend "The shortest one." Arlan taw Traveler. A Palpable Hit. Miss Fair "Now, Mr. Mundogsky, as you are a painter and an admirer of the beautiful you must admire my- friend MistfRose?" ... . 4 Mundogsky "Ah! but WP ruiinftn admire only the real beauties in nature, and I1 am told that your friend paints those charms we are told to admire." ; Miss F "It is a gross slander, I assure you. I have known her for years, and she no more paints than you do. " Jud'je. Stood High. "How about this young man that comes so often to see you, Millie?" said the old gentleman to his daughter. "Why, he's very nice and entertaining, papa. I'd like to have you meet him." "Very likely. But what is his position? Docs he stand high in society?" "Oh, yes indeed, papa." He is six feet two." Merchant Traveler. j Heart Troubles. i Two young ladies were sitting together" in a street car. One of them was very pale and thin and seemed to lc suffering At the next corner the invalid got up and left the car. A gentleman who had been sitting opposite .said to the remaining lady: , . ; 0 "Excuse me. I am a physician. I per ceive you friend is an invalid." "Yes," was the reply ; "she has a heart trouble." 1 ' "Probably an aneurism." ! ! "No, a West Point cadet." Sijlingt. Romeo and Juliet. He (languishing) "I have been hoping luai you wouia in time come to regard me as your company." Mie (bashfully) Company ! "AYhat do you mean by that ?" 1 f a - 1 l TTT 1 uc courageously; "vvcii, as your oeau." She (blushingly) "Oh! That's what company means !" ( II. t ?1" 1 V ft m lie smilingly; "ics. And 11 you consider me as your company I should like to consider you as my misery." ; She (wonderingly) "Your misery ?" He (triumphantly) "Yes, because, you snow, misery loves company bhe (demurely) "I see. We'll admit then that you are company and I misery. But don't you think misery a very disa greeable name lor a girl, and that it ought to be changed say to company." inenne popped. notion L'ourur, Polished by TraycL A Washington correspondent tells of a young man who has afforded no little amusement to society there. His father died some time ago, leaving him . a for fuse. The youngster, with a crrea flourish, went to England, and upon his return recently, an acquaintance asked "Did you visit the Tower?" "No." "Did you see Westminister?" "No." "Didn't you 6ce Parliament sion?" "No." "Well, what in the world did abroad?" in ses- you do l.T.l . A 1 1 "i prougni DacK six brand new over coats of the latest fashion," was the young man's summing up of the result of his trip. Clothier and Furniahier. She was Equal to Him. Hostettcr McGinnis ' 'Miss Esmerelda, I love you" Miss Esmerelda "But it's all a mis take about my being rich. I am a poor girl, Mr. McGinnis." "You didn't let me finish my sentence. I was going to say I loved you not" ; "That's all right, Mr. McGinnis. I Was only testing your affections. I have a fortune of $100,000 in my own name." "Why do you interrupt me? I was saying I love you not on account of your money, but for yourself alone." "I'm glad to hear it. That was all a J joke about the $100,000," replied Es . mcralda. McGinnis looked as if he was not feel ing well. Texas Sift ings. Mr. Evarta Got a Reply. At New York city, in the fall of 186-' a case was tried before Judge Sutherland. in which the law firm of Evarts, South mayd & Choate appeared for the defence, j Mr. Evarts made the concluding argu ' ment, and the fame of the great coun j sclor secured for him a considerable audi 1 ence of lawyers from neighboring courts, . in addition to many persons who had . more or less interest in the proceedings. I Mr. Evarts had been speaking for some hours and was evidently nearing his pcr ' oration. He began to sum up his argu I ments, and asked impressively what an swer could be made to them. Again he j placed the points in- lucid array, and ' again asked a similar question. Then a j third time he restated his case with vivid . eloquence, and once more, in louder tones, wound up with : "What is their answer?" ' lie paused. You could have heard a pin drop. Suddenly the door of the court room ooened. and a Deddler. stick- 1 ing his head and a feather duster into . the opening, cried out : , "Brooms !" Ina moment the room was ringing with uncontrollable laughter in which everybody joined even the judge 011 the bench and the orator himself. Mr. Evarts, however, kept on his feet, and was the first to recover composure. With his j hand raised to command attention, as the roa subsided, he said solemnly: "That was not, indeed, the reply which I expected. But you may rest assured that when you do get their answer you will find it equally frivolous and incon sequent. American Magazine. A Green Recruit. Adjutant General E. B. Gray, of Madi son, Wis., favored the members of Ran som Post, G. A: R., with a little talk re cently. In the course of his remarks he referred to the general ignorauca of the first recruits in all matters pertainining to the army and navy, and stated that the North had very few real soldiers the first two years of the war. As an illustration of this point he related the following in cident: J'Sqoo after the first call fqf troops was issued," he said, "a member of one of tha newly oriranizcd rcrimenti which had just been quartered at Washington waa ouumuS nuuui ue city one oay wnen nt stumbled into the navy yarcL His -curiosity was very much excited at what hJ saw there, he having been raised in an inland town. At - last he came across one of those great anchors that are used in a man-of-war. ' One of the flukes was sticking in the ground, while the other stuck some twelve or fourteen feet in the air. and the shank r tended mil to one side about fifteen fcek The recruit was very much interested in this strange piece of machinery. He ex amined it on all sides, tried to move it, and occasionally stared all around th yard, as if trying to connect it with some other object. After a while the yard officer came around and told him" he would have to leave the yards. -uiv out gosn blame it, I ain't ready to co yit!' said the recmit - 'Can't help it sir.' replied the officer: 'the yards close at five o'clock, and everv- body has to get out then.' 'But I want to stay here, and Tm not going out. My name's Peterson, and I belong to the Seventieth New York." Makes no difference: vou must eo. But what on earth do you want to hanir around here for?' - " 'Why. I've been waiting her for an hour to see the chan that handlim ili gosh-blamed pick, and I'm going to stay here till he comes if I have - to wait all summer."" Chicago Herald. Turkish Baths. The bathing establishments, or hamam. consist of large octagonal or circular halls. j ,i . .... pavca witn nag-stones, around which run stone scats or very hard divans. In these halls, which are heated to excess and filled with steam, the bathers have them selves washed, rubbed and shampooed by employes called telals. who, with their hands encased in hair gloves, knead the flesh vigorously until it becomes clean, flexible, and soft like satin. Men co to the bath sine-lv. and remain there only an hour or two; but women go there in parties, and sometimes pass tne entire day there, drinking syrups, smoking cigarettes, eating that loulvum and sweetmeats, and sleeping on divans or in small beds placed around the bath room. The exterior of the hamam presents nothing very remarkable. Thev ar large, low structures built of brick, covered with stucco, and alwavs naved with marble. They arc lighted only by small round skylights set Tn the cupolas and provided with greenish panes, which inrow into tne rooms a dim light, re sembling moonlight, and very favorable to repose. A furnace underneath - heats the building by means of pipes which are run all through the walls even. The temperature is raised to forty, fifty, and sixty degrees Centigrade. After undressing, the bathers envelop themselves in a long wrap (pecht umal), and make a delightful plunge into a cloud of vapor, which produces, even in th case of the leanest, a profuse and debili tating perspiration. One puts on clogs, which look like small stilts, to protect one's feet from the extreme heat of the floor. There are large white marble urns fastened against the wall, which receive cold and boiling water by separate fau cets; it is around these urns that all the purifications commanded by the Koran are made; Seated upon a little cedar stool,1 the bather pours upon his head and body large bowls of water, which he heats to the desired temperature by the fau cets, i The Kamanx, of which there are more than 300 in Stamboul alone, have no fixed tariff. The charges depend upon the look and the dress of the bather, and vary from two sous to twenty-three francs. Rich pashas sometimes hire them out right for their families, and think that if they pay less than forty Turkish livrcs (eighteen dollars), they have done some thing below their dignity, On the other hand, beggars and poor people are ad mitted free of charge to certain baths de signed for their use; and this is a bless ing to them as well as to their neighbors ; for these periodical ablutions diminish their extreme filthiness, and arrest the growth of the vermin nourished at their expense Cosmopolitan. How the Saltan Li res. Abdul Hamid lives in Oriental seclu sion. He is an inveterate smoker, and shows his European taste by smoking cigarettes, instead of Turkish pipes. His palace surpasses in beauty and mag nificence the rich descriptions in the Arabian Nights. Passing through a mar velously beautiful gate of green and gold, halls, chambers and apartments succeed one another, each and all displaying an airy grace and undreamed of splendor. The Hall of Jewels contains a dazzling collection of rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and other precious stones, heaped in large basins, while diamonds of great size and pearls 01 rare loveliness are as. plentiful as green peas in June. While the Sultan lives in all tho magnificence of Eastern luxury, the people are wretch edly poor." Beggars infest the streets of Constantinople by day, and thieves by night and as the city is miserably lighted, and the police very indifferent, the rob bers have every opportunity to ply their vocation with success and impunity. The salary of the police is nominally $3 a month, but as even this small amount is seldom paid, thpy divide the plunder with the thieves. The immense army of cooks, attendants, and others required to keep up the Sultan's large household is a constant drain upon the people. Abdul Hamid's personal expenses are 60,000,000 francs ($12,000,000) a year;. His favor ite attendant, Kishlar Agra, the Black Eunuch, receives 240,000 francs as his salary, with many rich perquisites. He bears the high sounding title of Gardien de la Porte de la Felicite. Epoch. 1 1 Cannibalism as. It Is. Although cannibalism is reported by missionaries to have died out among the islands of the South Seas, it is far more common than is generally imagined, says a writer in the San -Francisco Chronicle. In New Ireland I saw a big fight between two villages, and after the battle the bodies of those who had fallen were eaten. The bodies, after being scalded in hot water, are scraped with a bamboo knife by old women. An old man cuts up tne bodies, taking care to keep the thigh and shin bones, which are used for spear heads. ! Aftopfw!nr irrimncd in stout leave the dismembered" cadavers are placed in ovens dug in the ground and in four days are ready for eating. The natives made no concealment of their disgusting meaLand during the feast they held wild dancing and orgies. The preparation 01 sago. cocoanut and human brains is called sak- i sak, and is in great demand among the women. I Ihe females seem to be more brutal and savage tha.a the men during this cannibal banquet, A H0CSE1I0LD MATTERS. Soap. la examining the process of soan making, we learn that there is soap and J I I J " . . . v . jlu WW iivnorjnyi The real Article free from adulterations, injurious or useless, la never the cheapest. Poor brands contain palvefticd marble, talc or other mineral powders to giv in creased weight. Marble dust costs less than one cent per pound, and sometimes each pound cake contains fully one-quarter of its weight of mineral matter. The editor of a scientific magazine not long since analyzed a certain brand which had attained some degree of popularity for the toilet, and had received the in dorsement of several celebrated persons. He found in it a large admixture of fine sand. His process is a long one, but any housekeeper who chooses can test the quality of soap in this" simple manner: bhave an ounce of soap and put in a small bottle; nearly fill with alcohol and place in hot water till the contents are dissolved, taking care to have no posi bility of ignition. 6ct it away to cool and thicken ; if no sediment appears the soap is good. It is a better way to buy only the favorite brand of a well known mano facturer. A noted chemist says: - "The lalel and tradesmark of a known, reli able and responsible manufacturer is the best protection the public can have against frauds, imitations and counter feits. "When the manufacturer uses some fictitious name on a fancy brand, no matter how attractive the soap may be, beware of it" Its ingredients, dis guised under many shapes and delicate perfumery, may be repulsive or noxious. A strong, rank soap will also be avoided by the prudent houskeepcr; whatever attacks living tissue rendering the fingers shriveled and sore, is ruinous to garments and fabrics. In such cases, the alkali, not thoroughly combined with the fat, is left free to eat into the cloth ing. And it is evident that what is too harsh for vegetable fibre is not fit for contact with the skin. Recipes. Carsko Ccrrahts. Place the fruit in the kettle with very little wafer, and as soon as they begin to boil, add one half pound of sugar for each quart of berries. Boil six minutes ; remove from the fire and put into cans. Dm ed Rhubarb. Prepare the same as for pies, by peeling the stalks and cut ting into pieces an inch long. Spread it on plates, not pans, and place in a warm oven. It. should dry quickly, and then be put away in paper bags. Spiced Ham. Select a small ham, from eight to ten pounds, and have your butcher take out the bone. Fill the ham with mace, allspice and cloves, put into a white cotton bag and sew it up, and boil until thoroughly done. Take off the bag, then bake in a hot oven until browned. Molasses Cookies: Bring to a scald one cup of molasses, stir into it a level teaspoon ful of soda; pour it, while foam ing, over one cup of sugar and one egg, previously well beaten together; then add one tables poo nful of vinegar, a tea spoonful of ginger; mix very hard and roll very thin and bake brown. The omission of milk and shortening is inten tional. Peach Pie. Cover a deep pie plats with a pastry not too rich, and set in a moderate oven and let dry so that it will not be soggy. Let it cool when dried and fill with cut-up peaches. Take a half dozen soft peaches, peel, take out the pits, and place in a thin muslin cloth. Wash out the juice and pulp with a wooden spoon. Pour on this a half-cupful of boiling' water. Sweeten and thicken with a teaspoonful of cornstarch. Sweeten the peaches in the pie with plenty of powdered sugar. Pour over the thickened juice and cover with a rich, thin crust, having several slashes in the centre to let out the steam. With tho finger press a gutter around the edge of the pie, making a little hole occasionally so that the juice will not run over. Bake in a quick oven. When done sift pow dered sugar over the crust and serve with a pitcher of cream. Useful hints. Whiting or ammonia in water is prcf ferable to soap for cleaning windows. The warmth of floors is greatly in creased by having carpet lining of layera of paper under the carpet Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where ants congregate will drive them away. The same remedy is also good for mice. To make a good liquid gtue, put on ounce of borax into a pint . of boiling water, add two ounces of shellac and boil until the shellac is dissolved. Bottle for use. Saleratus is excellent for removing grease from woodwork which has not been painted. Spread-thickly over the grease spots, moisten, and after it has re mained a half-hour wash oil with tepid soap suds. A nice way to freshen old-fashioned silk, making it look like new surah, is to sponge it carefully with strong coffee. V hiie damp, lay it wrong side up on an ironing board and place paper over it. then press with a warm iron, lie sure .. ,.. - , ine conec uperieciiy settiea until near before using. This is also good to freshen black lace, cashmere, ribbon and alpaca. A Washington Statue. Perhaps the most laughed at statue at the Capitol is that of George Washing ton, which, naked to the waist, sits on a great marble chair in front of the entrance portico. This statue was begun' by Horatio Greenough, in 1832. The' original idea was to make it a pedestrian statue and to put it in the rotunda. The price was to be $5,000, and Greenough began the work in Florence. He got Congress to increase the price to $30,000, and the statue was completed, I think, in 1840. It made a great fuss in this country at x . that time, and the question was uvw iw get it here. By the direction of Congress the Secretary of the Navy ordered the commander of the Mediterranean squad ron to put it on board of one of his men-of-war at Genoa and send it to Washing ton. But this was before the days of much railroading,and the statue weighed twenty-one tonsl It was a big job to carry it from Florence to Genoa. A ponderous car was erected for it, and it was hauled by twenty-two yoke of oien. As it passed along the Italian peasants took it for an image of a saint, and knelt to it and said their prayers. It was found that the hatchway of the man-of-war was not large enough to admit it, and it then became necessary to charter a merchant vessel. Virginia (Aire.) Territorial En terprise. censure pardons bukes the doves, - the raen&, bqt re SUMMER. Sweet summer leaning o'er a rustic fence, I With marigolds beneath her freckled cLla, How fair thou art, a pitying Providence Hath srat thee to this world of toil and sin.' What though the sun that follow thy brown 1 feef Too lavish may be with its glowing beat What dawns thou brimrcst. brist with' scarlet fire. To tempt us from our downy couch of sleep, And lore us on to pleasure where the rr ' Doth gayly through the breathless UvickeU creep. And busy horoeU hide withm the bosh, ! And nimble snakes coil neath the bkwm'i I blush. What throbbinr stars to Peer throurh tha green trees, What witching moons to light the perfumed cavas, . Where cooing lovers sit in bliasful ease, I Amid the dim. mosquito-hauntei tea vex. What restful night made tuneful by the trill Of festive crickets in the grasses tiIL . What peace of miivl, what watermelons cool, ' What languid aila, what seas of sweet km cream, What doctor's bills, what fishing In a pool When all the fish have vanished like a dream, What sudden waves of tender sentiment. What strange forgetting all you ever mnaat Vacation is the happy word that ring j Through thy best days so fairy like anf j ' fair. Oh, that's the time when to the oU worU , j clings ! An ampler etberk a diviner air. , A little space it is, while sweet hours whirl, i To court ad libitum a summer girl 5 i Susan Hartley, im Boston Courier. i ' PITH AND POINT. Out of sight The blind man. J The cheapest thing in straw'hats this season b the head of a dude. Picayune. I The reason figures won't lie is because they always stand for something Tens Sijlings. ' A poet writer: "I know sweet songs I cannot sing." That poet has our grati tude. SomerriUe Journal. ' It was the lady who thought she was going to swoon who had a faint sus picion. Tonlcrt Statesman. , Orpheus was a musician whoie" music -had power to draw rocks, etc., toward him. The modern street musician has the same power. Tid-BiU Kn exchange says: "Mary, in the poem 'Mary had a little lamb, is now seventy Lears old and still hale and hearty. The imb, however, is dead. We ate a piece .. of it last week. Xevman Independent. . A Philadelphia woman, not yet 40 years old, draws silarics amounting to upwards of $15,003 a year. Sit down, ladies; sit down. She draws the salaries as cashier to pay off the hands. Detroit Free Pre. Manufacturers of silverware drploro the scarccty of silver-chasers in this country. We supposed there were plenty of them. About everybody that we know is pretty busy chasing silver. Boston Post. Within the clasp of a fair maid AsKuringly my hand I laid, 1 felt a pressure, soft and weet; Her eyes and mine did chance to meet; A blush spread e'er her cheek bo fair. My other band wma held out there; Hut neither of us thought of love She was but fitting on a glove. flack. "Well, I never quarrel with any one, remarked a quiet but cross grained and sarcastic individual in a down town office the other day. . "10, perhaps not," re marked a gentleman seated near, "but you give others plenty of r of opportunity of -" DkI jou 4ver quarreling with you. have such an acquaints nee f PkiLidd- phia Call. j Phillips Brooks declares that Webster, Lincoln and Bcecher were the three great est Americans of the century. Now,' tbo superstitious will please observe that each had seven letters in his nsme, and what is more remarkable, that three times seven are twenty-one, at which age Bcecher, Webster and Lincoln all attained their majority. Life. ', The Art of War. The command of a large army tasks the resources of the greatest mind. It is one of the highest of human achieve ments, and by common consent the first rank of fame is accorded to the great Generals. To move an army and to feed it on the march requires a higher order of generalship than to fight it Thirty hours without supplies would reduce the best army to a helpless mas of disorgan ized humanity. Food for the men,' forage for the animals must not only be provided, but must be at the precise spot when wanted. Napoleon, the great mas ter of the art of war, had a score of mar shals, any one of whom could fight a great battle, and scarce one. of whom could lead an army on the march. ' An army on the march resembles fo thing so much as an enormous serpent, stretched out mile upon mile, and moving,- alert and watchful, with steady and irresisti oie lorce. l-ci gangers threaten ana it ble force. . t . a. ; coU, itself together and prepares to avert or overcome the danger. Shrunk to a fraction of its former dimensions, it shows its fangs and is ready for attack or , defense. The danger overpast, the great mw unfolds its coils again and stretches out its huge proportions in progres.sive movement The brain of this mighty animal, the supreme mind that controls its every motion, is the general in chief. Chicago Herald. . , Ups and Dowas la Wall Street. An old genteman whom the writer met yesterdsy, in four years paid one firm in Wall street the sum of $2.0,000 in com missions. He was a Wealthy man when 1 he went into the street with a laudable - 1 1 . a.vi. .li but unwarrantable desire to increase his patrimony by speculating in stocks. Now, so heavy have been his losses that he' would be satisfied if be possessed the sum he has paid out in commissions. As it is, he will cheerfully accept a clerk ship in the same firm. If he had been contented with a handsome sufficiency for the day, amounting really to a super abundance, he would now be in affluence instead of comparative destitution. On the other hand, a young clerk who a few years ago commenced to s peculate in the street with $200, the savings of a year's abstinence from smoking, . is worth ia real estate ever $1,000,000 and several more in securities. In Wsll street speculation what is game for one man is ruin for another. 2ev Tori Ledger. Time hath - often cured the wound which reason failed, to heal.
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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