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VOL. XXXV.
SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1887.
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NO. 38.
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The Confederate Soldiers' Home
Richmond has 125 inmates. It is main
tained by contributions chiefly from peo
ple of that city. It is proposed that each
Southern city shall erect a memorial col-
KNOW,
lege.
Two wealthy Mexicans fought a strange
duel at Tampico recently. They shui
themselves up together. in a darkroom in
which 100 poisonous tarantulas had been
let loose. Instead of killing the tarantu
las, the tarantulas killed them.
Buttcrine, as it is called in England,
is used so extensively that the dairymen
hare applied to Parliament for a law com
pelling its name to be changed from but
tcrine to margarine. They think thai
they can head it off in that way.
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In the Colorado desert, near Idaho,
there is a large bed of rock-salt, and the
Southern Pacific Railroad, in laying the
track to the salt-bed? has been obliged
to grade the road for twelve hundred
feet with blocks of these beautiful
crystals. This is the only instance where
a road-bed is laid and ballasted on salt.
The sea which once rolled over this J
place dried up, and left a vast bed of salt
nearly fifty miles long. - The supply is
inexhaustible, and the quality excellent.
I know, the summer's day ia sweet;
I know that love is sweeter still;
I know that bliss is ne'er complete;
I know of no perpetual ill ;
I know that life has many sides,
That some things here seem hardly meet;
I know that baseness often rides,
"While virtue walks with weary feet ;
Tet often want and wealth, I know,
Bat for each other's mask have stood;
And men, I know, where'er we go
Are mostly happy when they're good.
I know that life, upon the whole,
Is well worth all we have to give;
And that the grander is the goal,
Bo much the grander 'tis to live.
I know that death is very nigh, ,
That evil shrinks before his breath ;
That only goodness gives "good-by"
A rainbow In the cloud of death.
she must be sure. Quite sure, herself.
then" but the day had been so weary
ing, she was so tired, she must have time
to think it all out. But time she was
destined not to have, scarcely had
the echoes of the 6hout Wthe last eman
cipated urchin died away in the distance
when Mr. Carlton came up to the un
painted pine desk where " the young
teacher sat with her head bowed upon
her hand.
Tho decline and fall of the Saddle
Rock oyster are thrillingly described by
New York Fish Commissioner Blackford.
The Saddle Rock bed was once famous
and its product vrps a most toothsome
luxury. Now it is in such a condition
that it produces few oysters, but an un
limited crop of "roller skates, bottles,
ashes, pasteboard and refuse." Yet
there is probably not a New York
restaurant where, in the oyster season,
Saddle Rocks 6annot be obtained by
paying a large enough price.
Bishop William Taylor has established
in Africa a new line of missions extend
ing seventy miles from the coast on the
Ca valla river. They are seventeen in
number, and the principal ones are at
Euliloky, Yawki, Bcaboo, Tobo Tatepa,
Gerrobo, Wamleka, Fahleky, Baraka,
Caraway, and Grand Scss. White men
and women are preferred by the natives
as teachers in preference to natives. He
has negotiated with the inland kings
and chiefs for the establishment of in
dustrial schools and missions along the
banks of this river, and calls for workers
to aid him. To each missionary and his
wife a good sized dwelling, ground, and
agricultural implements will be given.
The missionaries have been well received,
and many requests for missions have
been set aside for want of workers.
. A sensible correspondent from Europe
advises American parents to educate
their children in their native land. He
says: "There are here in Europe multi
tudes of American- children who can
speak French and German better than
their own language. I met the other
evening a family from Ohio, and I found
the son, a boy twelve years of acre, read
ing Cooper's novels and 'Uncle Tom's
Cabin' in German. 'I understand them
better in German than in English,' he re
marked, with a strong foreign accent.
Tp parents spoke of the fact with evi
dent satisfaction. Another American
family, in which are five daughters, who
have made a; great success in science,
medicine, painting and music, employ
German or French in their home circle
and cannot pronoyoce an English sen
tence without making a blunder of some
: kind."
HER BLIND WOOER.
The door of the country, school-room
closed behind behind the last noisy pupil,
and the young teacher was alone. She
bowed her head wearily upon her hand
and looked around the bare, comfortless
room with its hard benches, curtainless
windows and rusty, broken stove with a
shudder of disgust.
There were days and this had been
one--when every fibre of her sensitive
being shrank from association with
the motley crowd of urchins and from
contact with the dirty, dog's-eared books.
mo gnuijr uesiis anu aingy wans; out
she never allowed these feelings to in
fluence her; the duties of her positions
were conscientiously performed, the more
so, perhaps, because they were so dis
agreeable. She had dismissed school an hour
earlier to-day, ostensibly to enable her
to correct the compositions handed in for
to-morrow's reading; really because she
had seen Roy Carlton drive by, and knew
that he would return to ask her com
pany for an hour's drive behind his hand
some bays; ,and she had told herself that
she would because she must refuse,
henceforth and forever, all things that
he might ask of her; and she wished to
have a little time to strengthen herself,
to "have her dark hour unseen," before
she should shut the gate forever between
that world of ease and happiness, and,
more than all else, of Roy's love, and her
world of poverty, loneliness and sorrow.
- fine could not help but love him, he
bad laid so many drifts of sunshine across
her otherwise shadowed pathway, had
been such a jock of refuge in her desert
of friendliness since she came, over a
year ago,rto this dreary little village to
earn her living by teaching. -
She was not fitted to do battle with
the grun fiend of. poverty; she had, until
two years before, "fed on the roses and
lam in the lilies of life." Then came the
death of her father, followed almost im
mediately by that of her mother, and she
was left unprepared to face the world
alone.
Her father's wealth, which she always
supposed from their style of living to be
ample, faded away before the demands
of his creditors like snow in the spring
time. Her high sense of honor would
not allow her to hold back even the old
homestead and household furniture so
dear from the associations clustering
around it, and reserving but one or two
articles she allowed the rest, even her
piano, to be sold. w
Her summer friends drifted away one
by one, and she noted their departure
with scarcely a sigh over their defection.
Was it because she realized of how little
worth was their evanescent friendship?
nan ner iieaix, Biiuerin? a aeener
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Some features of Western land im
provement were explained to a New
York Tribune reporter in a brief talk by
John W. Bookwalter. He has been de
tained from a contemplated foreign trip
by the rapid growth . of country
about his large farm in Nebraska,
through which the railroads are pushing
their, way. He has cut up his land into
farms of 1G0 acres each, and has leased
12-3 of these farms on long term leases.
The leaseholds vary in price according to
location. The farms near the railroads
arc, of course, more valuable than those
, remote from the line of transportation.
The rentals average about $200 per year
for each farm. "This- is much better,"
said Mr. Bookwalter,'than farming on
a large scale, for several reasons. In
the first place, it develops the country'
and makes the property more valuable.
In the next place it makes each farmer
an eventual settler, who will want to
buy the farm that he has been improving
and making valuable. Then it is more
remunerative."
The foreign trade of the United States
for the last fiscal year was larger than
that for the year before in all directions,
In other words, we exported more do
ti.ostic merchandise (exports of foreign
merchandize were but slightly less than
Kfore) and imported more foreign mer
chandize. Including the figures repre
senting the movement of coin, it is found
that the totals of imports and exports,
nv i handise and money, balance within
$24 ',000, the excess being on the side of
I the imports. The merchandise account
alone shows that we sent abroad products,
gowls and wares valuecat $24,000,000
more than the imported articles. An an
alysis of the export account shows that
about 75 per cent, was agricultural prq
ducts. including dairy manufactures, and
20 per cent, manufactured articles, in
cluding refined petroleum. A review of
the import account shows that nearly
half the increase of the total is due to a
. largo importation of undutiable goods,
principally coffee, tea and raw materials.
Steel and iron, in various forms, contrib
uted the most to the increase of dutiable
import,.
or
wound, become dead to the smarting: of
lesser hurts?
Harry Vance had been her ideal of a
gentleman. She had cherished for him a
strong friendship, which, before her
father's death, had bid fair to ripen into
love. His attentions had been very lover
like, and the small world in which the
two moved had already, in imagination,
coupled their names together, when the
ciouds of misfortune shrouded her, and
he, with some trite sentences of con
dolence upon his tongue, had stepped
out of their shadow, probably congratu
lating himself that he had not gone so
far but what it was still easv to recede.
She sighed, not for him. but for her
shattered ideal, when she saw. 'that he
laught out a shallow, brainless favorite of
fortune, and sought by a vigorous court
ship to obtain her hand in marriage and
possession of the property he knew she
held in her own nght; and in that sigh
exnaiea tne last lingering perfume of the
uieuusmp Janice vjray naa ieit, not for
Harry Vance, but for the man she had
Imagined him to be ; and in its place grew
loathing and contempt for Harry Vance
the fortune-hunter, intensified a hundred
fold when, later,-she heard of the debts
and duns that harassed his pathway. For.
strictly upright and honorable herself, she
couia tolerate no dishonesty in others,
and in her vocabulary theft and debt
without means or intention of payment
were synonymous terms.
"Many a heart is caught m the rebound"
proved true in this case, for Ellice had
come to this little village to lose the
heart that had never really been in Har
ry's keeping.
She knew Roy would ask her to be his
wife, and she had allowed herself to
dream of how happy she could be with
him ; with what a blessed sense of rest
and peace she could creep into the shel
ter of his manly arms and lay her head
upon his loving breast. But now the
twakening had come, and the dream
was over. She had loved him so entirely
ior mmseu, ior tne great, generous
Heart of his, that seemed large enough to
take in all mankind as his brothers, that
ihe had not once thought of the differ
ence in their circumstances, for he was
ich as she was poor.
Now she had heard her name coupled
with the obnoxious terms, "adventuress"
snd "fortune-hunter," and the prophecy
that "if Mr. Carlton married her he
would soon know, as did all others, that
It was his wealth that won her."
She did not know that the remark had
been made expressly for her ear, had
been made, too, with the unuttered hope
that its barbed bitterness might rankle in
her heart, for had she not dared to,
kindly but unmistakably, refuse the at
tentions of the speaker s son?
Tr l . . . . - f
rLtxmj sensitive to me opinions in
others, she might yet have dared their
censure if this Tatter suggestion had not
given her pause. She loved him so truly
the could not bear that he should think
of her, even for a moment, as she thought
omarry Vance; better that they should
part at once and forever. Tnis was what
ihe had told herself again and again
every nour oi tnat long day and night.
If she was sure, quite sure,1" she told
nerseif, "that her willyigness to accept
aim naa not oeen caused, in part at least,
knd almost unconsciously to herself, by
her intense hatred-of the drudsrerv of
teaching, she would not give a thought
to what others might thinker My. but
Her face was so pale; she did net look
up and smile as she was wont to do; her
wnoie attitude was so suggestive of weari
ness, if not of despair, she was sue) ja
wee morsel of humanity and he was o
strong and manly that somehow, before
he well knew what he was saying, he
was telling her his passionate longing to
take her into his arms and shield her
henceforth from every discomfort.
She looked up then, with something
of the look the hunter sometimes sees in
the eyes of a wounded doe, looked up,
and crushed the hope out of his heart
with a cold refusal.
Then came, for her, the slow agony of
living on, day after day, knowing that
she had in that one hour- of weakness
cast aside all that made life worth living;
of walking daily through the furnace of
trial, with the ghosts of her dead hopes
ever reproaching her with the cowardice
that put an end to their bright but brief
existence.
' So two years drifted by, and along the
thorny pathway that she trod Ellice Gray
learned priceless lessons of self-reliance
and courage; learned to be a law unto
herself, and, once having chosen a path
way, knowing it to be right, grew strong
to follow it steadfastly to the end, though
a thousand tongues might censure.
Within a month after his rejection Roy
left his affairs in the hands of his steward,
to whom he gave power of attorney, and
went away to the city. A year passed,
and the dishonest steward, turning every
thing except the Carlton homestead into
money, gathered his booty and fled ; and
no one knew Roy's address.
Ellice Gray knew nothing of this.
When vacation came she had given up
her school, for she could not stay where
everytning reminded her of Roy. She
was teaching in a distant village, when
one morning the postman brought her a
letter which proved to be from a former
pupil in Shaft on, Roy's home. It told
of the loss of his property, stated that he
had of late returned to his home, that
while in the city he had joined a volun
teer corps of firemen and while in the dis
charge of this duty had been struck on
the head by a falling timber and carried
away insensible.
"When he revived," the letter went on
to say, "ho was blind. The physicians
talked of paralysis of the optic nerve,
thought time or electric treatment, when
he had somewhat recovered from the
shock, might be beneficial, but," said
the letter, "Mr.;- Carlton does not get
better, he seems to have lost all interest
in life." Then the letter went on to give
the other news of the village, but Ellice
did not read it.
nastily she prepared for her journey
and when the next train left the station
it bore her in the direction of Shaf ton.
The rosy blushes chased each other
over her otherwise pale cheeks whenever
she thought of he errand, but she did not
falter, even when she rang the bell at the
"Squire's" and was'ushered, by the prim
housekeeper, into the empty parlor. Her
heart beat tumultuously as she heard the
slow, uncertain step come down the stairs
and the hand grope for tho knob of the
door, lie came in and closed the door,
then stood moving his head from side to
side, as if looking for some one.
"I beg your pardon," he said at last.
for Ellice did not speak, "but does any
one wait to see me? I am blind." j
"Yes, Roy," Ellice answered, in a
choked voice, putting out her hand to
ead him to a seat It was the first time
she had ever called him by his given
name, and she saw the light flash over
his face. 1
"Ellice, oh,my darling 1" he exclaimed,
then he stammered, "forgive me, Hiss
Gray, that I forgot for a moment. It
wa3 very kind of you to .come."
"I fear you will think the motive self
ish when I have given vou my reasons
for coming," she replied, struggling
bravely for composure as: she sat down
near him. Then: "The tram leaves in
two hours, and I must return, so you will
pardon me if I am somewhat abrupt in
naming my errand?"
"Certainly," he replied, courteously.
"Well," said hi3 visitor, somewhat
weakly, striving to gain time, now that
the decisive moment had come, "the fact
is, I am thn king of getting married."
"Ellice,' he said, brokenly, "it was
cruel to come here to tell nre that. . Did
you think I had still any liopes that you
cared for me, that you sk6uld come here
to kill them with that announcement?"
"No, she replied, and then, as no
other words would come, sat staring
helplessly at his pale face, as he leaned
against the cushions of his chair. Pres
ently she arose and stood beside him,
letting her fingers toy with the crisp,
dark curls that shaded his brow. ' -
"Roy," she whispered, hurrying into
speech, lest her ; courage should fail,
Roy, don't you know that 1 love you
better than anyone else in the world? I
loved you then, but I love you a hundred
times more now. I My life has been one
long regret ever since. I came here to
day to ask you to marry me. Don t refuse
me, kqv. l have suffered enough for
my mistake and I love you." 1
"Ohl JSllice, he cried, between pain
and pleasure, "how can I consent? It
would be such a sacrifice."
"I know it Roy," she answered, wil
fully misunderstanding him, "when you
are worthy of the best woman living,
but only let me be your wife and I will
try so hard to make you happy."
.."I am blind," he murmured, hopeless-
"Let me be your eyes. Ohl Roy,"
she sobbed, turning away and covering
her face with he hands, "don't send me
away. ,1 cannot bear it. I cannot live
without you." t
He was silent for a moment, then he
arose and turned towards her.
'It seems unmanly to accept your sac
rifice, Ellice, he cried," "but my life is
so dark, and," his voice grew infinitely
tender, "I love you so, come to me, little
one," holding out his arms, "for I can
not see y.ou."
Then, as he clasped her to his heart,
and kissed the warm lips so near his own,
he whispered :
"I never knew before what the depri
vation the loss of sight is."
"And how soon can we be married,
darling, f he asked, as she was about to
leave him.
"Whenever you wish, Roy,", she re
plied. "Really?"
"Yes, really," she answered.
"To-day, then," he said, promptly.
"Oh, well, not quite so soon as that,"
she said, laughing,' "but in a fortnight,
perhaps; yes, two weeks from to-day.
"It will be an age," he declared, kiss
ing her good-by.
A week later she received a few lines
from hiro. The words were blotted and
the letters uneven, but she did not think
of that, for he wrote:
"You brought me Bight. I can dis
tinguish! the shape of the paper upon
which I write, and I live in hopes that
when we meet I shall be able to see your
dear face,."
And that hope was not in vain. New
York Journal.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES r FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES. I
a debt, and directly after thinking of
something my hair began to fall out, i
"I don't understand it" !.
"I do. I said what I thought, and h
reached after me." Arlwuaw Traveler. ;
A Nose Renovator and Eye Painter.
There lis a modest little tin sign in
black and white in a Sixth avenue door
way that attracts much attention. It
reads: ' .
-: , noses .: .
: Repaired, Reduced, Enlarged and :
: r Painted. :
Up three flights of stairs in a dingy,
ill-furnished back room the reporter found
the Professor. His sleeves were rolled
up, and he was perspiring over a male
patient with a broken nose. The patient
reclined . in an invalid's chair behind a
paper screen. After ten minutes' work
the bone was set and the man liberated.
"I can take the fiery redness from a
nose in five minutes," the Professor said,
"and give it a pure flesh-colored tint.
The preparation I use, although vulgarly
called nose paint, is really a lotion. It
instantly changes the hue of the skin,
which, - after repeated applications, re
sumes its 'normal color. Price, $1 a
sitting; and a cure guaranteed for $5." '
"You advertise to reduce and even en
large noses. Can you do that?"
"Certainly, although it is far easier to
enlarge than to reduce. The process for
enlarging is simple, and ia effected by
means off a mechanical appliance placed
over the i'organ. By exhausting tho an
it forces blood to the part, and in per
haps a month, no matter if it is the
veriest little pug before treatment, the
nose becomes a thing of symmetry and
beauty." j
"How do you reduce the size of a
nose?"
"Welfj sir, the easiest way would be to
cut it o.ff, I suppose," facetiously re
marked !;the Professor, with a ghastly
grin; "but I adopt another method. Of
course, it would be unbusinesslike for me
to give details so 1 will only say that the
desired result is attained largely through
rubbing, dieting and bathing in a liquid
of which I am the inventor. Price $10
for the full course of treatment."
"Who are your patients?"
"My best customers are young society
swells who in trying to paint the town
have got themselves into fights in which
their noses are either broken or flattened,
and their eyes put in mourning. I put
them in good trim again and send them
on their way rejoicing. Up to date,"
and the Professor consulted a memo
randa, "I have enlarged 81 noses, re
duced 17, painted 105 red ones, mended
44, and dressed over 200 black eyes. Oh,
yes, it's an odd business ; still I manage
to make a comfortable living by it."
New York Sun.
xne Trouble at Sandy Flat The
Moon at Its Best Too Much
Fass Seeing the Sea
Serpent, Etc
they
He d jes1 com down frum Roarin' Ron, he
told the boys be met, - i
An he'd come down to wade in blood an' hev
a time, you bet: - )
Fer he'd heered the Flat were some on the
fiffhtan'shootaa'kilL i
An' that they kinder blowed erronnd
thouzht he'd iret hi fill ; i
But he allowed twould jes' be fun, I
Ter swing erround a ten-inch gun,
An' learn 'em all ter hev respect fer men from
Roarin' Run! j j
He explained he were a rflycone as could tear
an' snort and rip
He'd then perceed to do it all ef they give him
. any lip; j
That when he fit he aTays come a-sweepin'
like a erale. i
An' ef he had a enemy he camped right on
his trail; i i
An' that they'd say he weighed a ton
About the time the light begun, i
An' that Harney's Peak were on 'em when
they'd done with Roarin' Run I
He stepped up to a feller as he lowed Vd
. make a bite, j j
An' slapped him one, he said, "ter inaugerate
the fight;" I I
But the cuss he swung a billiard cue that
knocked him on the floor. i
An' then he kicked him through the screen as
stood up by the door; i
An' then they Uowed the fight were done, "
About the time that it begun.
An' the terror scooted up the gulch that led
toward Roarin' Ron I
1 Dakota Bell
The Moon at Its Best. !
"When do you think the moon is at
its loveliest, George, dear?" she asked.
George, dear, stole his arm and a cau
tious glance around the immediate vicin
ity, and whispered : )
"When it is behind a cloud, love,"
and they were as happy as if they had
each taken a hypodermic injection of
morphine. New York ! Sun.
Where Ho Wanted to Get Off,'
' The other day a man got aboard of a
train on the Detroit and Lansing road,
accompanied by a big dog, and in due
course of time the baggageman walked
back into the car and said : j
i "Mister, that dog must go into the bag
gage car." i
I "I guess not." j
! "But I guess he willl No dogs are
allowed to ride in passenger cars." j
1 "Well, we'll wait and hear what the
conductor says. He is a friend of mine,
and if he says the dog can't ride here,
that will settle it."
j It was half an hour later before the
conductor, accompanied by the baggage
man, got around to the man. :
! "That dog must come out o' here 1" an
nounced the condnctor. ; i
! "Eor why? He isn't hurting any
body." ; . i
i "Because no dogs are allowed in the
cars." ! ' i
"And if I don't take him to the bag
gage car you'll ' i i
1 "Put him off."
! "H you put him off," replied the man,
after taking a look from the window, "I
hall go with him. My dog is just as
good as I am." 1 i
"Will you take your dog forward?" j
"No, sir."
The train was stopped and the dog led
out and pushed off the platformr
"Are you going, too?" queried tho
conductor, with his hand on the bell
rope. "Yes,I guess I will. I live in that farm
house over there, and if I go on to How
elL where I bought my ticket to, I'll
have to walk four miles back. Much
obleeged to you, conductor. 1 just kind
o figgcred to have the dog put off at
the right spot." Detroit Free Prets.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Too Much Fuss.
Johnny Fizzletop is 'not as industrious
at school as he might be, and his father
endeavors to correct the evil.
"So you were kept in again to-day at
school for not knowing your lesson.
Just, walk into that room," said old
.Fizzletop, hunting for a strap.
"U no, pa. jJon'tifor heaven stake
let us have another of those scenes."
Silings. j
Raisin? Telegraph Poles.
"It looks easy enough," said a super
intendent of the' construction depart
ment of a telephone company, the othei
day. to a New York Commercial Adter
titer reporter, "to put up one of those
sticks, but it isn't so simple as it looks,
by any manner of means. One of the
first things we meet when we start out is
the public spirited citizen. He don't
want to have a pole in front of his house,
and he generally declares he won't have.
We don't argue with such men, we sim
ply get around bright and early in the
morning, and when Mr. Man gets up he
sees a pole towering up some eighty feet
in the air. When we get ready to sink a
pole we drop what we call a sheer pole
and hold it in place by four guy ropes.
On the top of this pole is a block and
tackle. The rope is then made fast to
the centra of the big pole on the ground,
and the horse to which the other end is
attached starts up. The pole rises in the
air, and when it gets up a certain height
half a dozen of our men take hold of
the butt end and sink it into the hole.
It takes about twenty men and a horse to
put up one of these mOnstnrs, and we
can put up from eight to- ten per day in
the city, in tne country, where we erect
poles all the way from forty to fifty feet,
we can raise anywhere from fifty to
seventy-five per day. As to the pay of
these men, some get $30 per month and
board, and the more expert climbers $40
per month and board. The hanging of
the wire is quite a trick. The horse does
his share in stringing the wire also. We
attach the copper wire to a rope and
then throw the rope over a dozen poles.
The horse is at the last pole, and when
he starts up the wire is drawn just as
tight as can be. The whole business is
now right down to a science, even to
gripping the poles and stringing the
wires." '
Paupers In England and Wales.
The number of paupers in England
and Wales steadily declined during the
five weeks ended in April from 742,967
to 729,098, Indeed, since the fourth
week in January, when the number was
783,493, there has been a continuous de
cline, uninterrupted, save in the third
week in March, when there was a slight
increase on the preceeding week. . The
number 829,690 represents a population
of 36.2 in 1,000 in a total estimated
population of 27,870,586. This figure is
A AtA - A. 1 . J .T..rrtJ
equal w mat ux me same periou in 1094,
and slightly larger than for I883 (25.9)
but it is smaller than any year since 1857.
In London with an estimated population
of 4,149,543, the number at the end of
April was 96,654, the five weeks in April
showing a constant decrease. This shows
a proportion of 23.1 in 1,000, which is a
trifle higher than that of any of the pre
vious three years for instance, 1885, the
lowest known, shows a proportion of 22,
and neither 1884 nor 1886 reached 23 in
1,000. Of the total number of paupers
180,816 were indoor and 648,382 out
door; while- in London the numbers were
56,033, and 26,621 indoor and outdoor,
respectively. London Timet.
The Oldest Paper Money In Existence.
The oldest bank note in existence is
said to be one now preserved in the
Asiatic Museum at St. Petersburg. Its
date corresponds to 1399 B. C. It was
issued by the Chinese Government. As
early as 2697 B. C. so-called bank notes
were current in China under the name of
"flying money." This note bears the name
of the Imperial Bank, date and number of
issue, and the signature ot a mandarin,
and contains a list of the punishments
to be inflicted for , forgery of notes.
This relic of 3,200 years ago was probably
written by hand, as the earliest record of
printing among the Mongolians was 160
A. D., when the use of wood.en tablets
was introduced in tq China,
; Seeiner the Sea Serpent.
Pauline (who is very sentimental)
"Oh, dear, I" would bo love to see that
sweet, precious sea-serpent while we are
here at the shrine of Neptune?"
Claude (who is aggravatingly practical")
very well, my love; (I'll tell you how
yon can have your wish gratified."
Pauline (rapturously) "What a dear,
kind husband you are! Tell me, my
angel, how. I can get a glimpse of the
iascinaung creature." 1
Claude (deliberately) "Just before you
retire to-night eat heartily of devilled
crabs, lobster salad, pickles, pie, ice
cream and milk. That will bring out all
the mythological monsters ever created."
He Was Rewarded.
"Is the lady of the house in?" asked a
Western Addition tramp of the presid
ing genius of a small Grove street resi
dence, j I
"No, she is not," was the answer, for
the man was obviously a beggar and un
welcome. I
"How particularly unfortunate," said
the outcast, as he turned away with a
lookj of settled melancholy in his face.
"I am really very sorry for I heard some
gentlemen across the street saying that
the lady who lived i here was a perfect
Picture of the beautiful Mrs. Langtryand
felt sure it was yourself, madam, as
soon as yon came to the door."
He had three kinds of pie and hot cof
fee. San FrancUco Pott.
Bears Catching Salmon.
The Carbon River is a wild, turgid
stream, fed by the grct glaciers at the
base of Mount Tacoma. It tears down
through a region indescribably grand and
picturesque, and as it rushes onward
toward Puget Sound other streams join
it until it is a broad and sweeping afflu
ent. Almost all the way along this river
fish and wild animals of many sorts are
to be found in abundandance. Henry
Thorndyke, of Caroonado, is at a down
town hotel. .
"Did you ever hear," said he yester
day to an Examiner man, "how the bears
fish for salmon on the Carbon River?
They do for a fact. I live on the margin
of the river, and I pledge you my word
that in the Bottomless Canyon, twelve
miles from my home, I have seen as
many as tnree pears within a scope oi a
mile, sitting at the river's brink and fish'
ing as industriously as any man you ever
saw. Others in the same vicinity have
seen many 01 them oftentimes. They
are black bears, and live in the thick
woods along the stream. -
"The fish they particularly like are the
hook-nosed salmon, a large fish, not
well liked by most persons on account of
their age. The fish get up in the Carbon
luver, and, being unmolested by men,
stay there. ihe noses of the old ones
are long and hooked. The bears sit on
the side of the stream, watch their chance,
and swipe them up as they come along.
There's a great many in the river, and,
being largely unmolested, they are pretty
tame. The bears often rake out fish
there that are a couple of feet or more
long. Well, so many of these hook
nosed salmon do these bears eat that peo
do not like the bear meat, it is so fishy.
The result is that it is a great country
for bears, too. There are lots of them,
and they are as fat as butter. From one
end of. the Carbon River to the other
bears in profusion are to be found." San
Franeiteo Examiner.
How Milk i Kept Sweet. '.
A lady writing to the New York
World says : "Many of your readers prob
ably are not aware that milk can be pre
served, the same as frnit is, by bottling
or canning. It is said that milk thus
treated will keep perfectly sweet fof
months in a cool place. I have not made
sufficient trial to know that it will keep
for that length of time. But during tne
hot weather I have found this a conven
ient and effectual way of keeping milk
sweet long beyond the time when it would
ordinarily sour. I put fresh milk into
thick glass bottles and set the bottles,
uncorked, into a kettle of cold water,
which is gradually heated to boiling, and
boiled about half an hour. I cork the
bottles with rubber corks, while the milk
is still steaming, and remove from the
kettle. Milk prepared thus is esneciallv
good for children and invalids, because
the heat destroys all germs of impurity
and fermentation. It is well known that
boiling is recommended for milk and
for water when any doubt exists ss to
their purity. I have found this the best
way to put up milk for use on a journey.
When a bottle of milk is opened it should
be used up at once or any that remains
should be thrown away."
Recipes.
Calf's Brains Fried: Take the brains
and beat up with an egg. salt and
pepper; fry in hot lard.
Cookies: Two cups of sugar, two eggs.
one cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet
milk, one teaspoon ful of boo a.
Pudding Sauce: Beat together four
teaspoonf nls of sugar and two ounces of
butter; stir in a teacup of boiling water;
flavor to taste.
Cup Cake: One cup sugar, one table-
spoonful of butter, one cup of milk, one
egg. three cups of flour, one teaspoonful
baking powder.
Meat Balls: Take cold roast beef and
chop fine, season with salt, pepper and
sage, put in one egg, make into little
balls and fry in butter or drippings -
Green Sponge Cake: Two teacups of
sugar, one of cream, two of flour, four
eggs, one teaspoonful. of baking pow
der and teaspoonful .extract of lemon ;
bake quickly.
Lempn Marmalade : Take lemons, peel
and extract the seeds. Boil the lemons
until soft, add the juice and pulp, with
a pound of sugar to a pound of lemon ;
boil to thicken.
Snow Cake : One cup of white sugar,
half cup of butter, one and a half of flour,
half cup of sweet milk, teaspoonful 0
baking powder, whites of four eggs;
flavor with almond.
Corn Cake : Two cups of Indian meal.
two cups of cold water or milk, one-half
cup of flower, one-half cup sugar, one
AN OLD LUlMABY.
"Hash, my dear, L it ill and dumber
8weet the words that murmured low
In this twilight bom con? floating,
Frum the days ot long ago;
Whea, by loving arms enfolded,
- Gathered to a loving breast,
"Hail, my dear, lie still and rJumber,"
Lulled me to my quiet rest. '
Sweetly now the words come stealing
To my f eary heart and brain,
Soothing all my care and sadness.
Win their old familiar strain.
Almost I to-night could fancy.
Softly sung above my head
"Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed."
Soon shall life's long day be ended,
Soen the eventime shall come;
Cleaased from sin, and treed from sorrow
God thall take my spirit bone.
And His messenger so sweetly j
To this weary frame shall Say -"Hush,
my dear, he still and lumber, '
Til the resurrection day."
j II. Griffith, ia New York (Xwtr.
' PITH AND POINT
t I
Always seedy The fig.
It takes a sober man to walk a tight
rope, t
A barber walked into the City nail the
other morning and declared his intention
to pay his pole tax. PreUert National.
Ths bank cashier of the period does-
not seem to think anything less than half
a million worthy f his steal. Life.
Betwixt the hen and an inceu
Diarv vou inanire
Thedifrencel why, one sets on eggs.
1 se other sets on bre.
Tonkrrt OaxetUe.
Royal blood flows in the veins of the
Siam princci ; nevertheless they are not
half a well connected as were the Siamese
twins. .
A writer on political economy says:
"It's the little leaks that tell" Yes, in
deed; a little leak will give you away ss
fast as an overgrown onion. Statetman.
fair Phyllis made a pretty cake,
To please her papa palate;
Her parents put it on a stake,
And used it for a mallet. j
1 f I MladetpKia Aetnc j
"There is change in everything, ser-
moniaed Mrs. Dorcas. "Yes," assented
old Dorcas; change in everything except
in thej tramp's pocket." Epoch.
Their loved confess'd, when ecstacy was o'er.
And they had partially returned to reason.
"tt ell, no." sne answer a "tnai ts,not tnis
season!
The Burro.
Lucky for the Burglar.
"Mr. Poots "Where is that burglar,
Maria? Where is he? Where's the vil
lain gone?"
Mrs. Poots "Gone to the station
house. Oh, dear, I'm so distracted. A
policeman came and took him. Oh,"
John, why did you leave me ail alone
when the alarm rung1 and run into the
garret?"
"Why did 1 run into the garret? I
kept my arms in the garret, that's why."
"nut you've been gone an hoar."
"Took over an hour to oil up my gun
and grind my hatchet. But it'a lucky
for the burglar that my arms were not in
order." aijlmgt.
He Didn't Count on the Plaster.
There is a young man living in Co
lumbus, a good-looking fellow, who has
a sweetheart out in the country a few
miles, and he spends two evenings in
every week in her society. A few nights
ago he stayed to the usual hour, and as
he passed out the front door he discov
ered that it was cloudy and dark. He
.did not relish the idea of walking home
aione tnrougn the gloomy night, and
hinted a good deal to get an invitation
to remain, but it was not forthcoming.
But ihe young man was eaual to the
emergency.. Going down the steps he
artfully contrived to slip and fall gently
to the ground. Thereupon he quickly
set up a tremendous groaning. The ruse
worked admirably. The girl screamed
and the men came and carried the young
man tenderly into the house. Then he
was assisted to undress and deposited
in the spare room. He had barely begun
to chuckle over the success of the strata
gem when the girl's mother put in an ap
pearance, armed with a mustard plaster a
foot square. This she immediately pro
ceeded to clap on the young man's
shoulders, where he incautiously located
the damage to his frame. For two mortal
hours that woman sat by the bed, and
was not satisfied till she beheld a blister
an inch deep. The young man is now
reformed. Columbut Courant.
The fashionable pet for children this
year seems to be the Mexican burro, or
donkey, net the English donkey, which
1 a atia rr f h a TnAer istnlw sn1 SAmariitiAS
A VUO VA LAiV) U1V9S Uil 11"! OVU1V IIU1V9 I jm m y
the. most vicious of brutes. These little . and W freel
animals are at all times perfectly gentle
and harmless, and are entirely free from
that characteristic propensity of the
donkey tribe of kicking and biting.
They may be somewhat slow and - delib
erate in their movements, but they are
never known to develop viciousncss, and
for this reason they may be used by chil
dren with perfect safety. It is only a
short time that they have been used for
this purpose, but now they are to be seen
at all the large watering places, and many
are the city boys who own the homely
but interesting pets which they take with
with them on their summer vacations,
A friend of the observer, . who went
out to a ranch in Colorado a few years
ago, made his first visit Fast this sum
mer. In order to pay expenses, and
partly as a business venture, he said, he
decided to bring two carloads of burros
with him. There were over a hundred
in all. He procured them of a Mexican
ranchman, who raised them in New
Mexico, at a price which was almost
nominal. Three weeks after he reached
New York everyone of the burros was
sold at prices ranging from $25 to $100,
according to size and beauty, and his
trip, instead of being an expense to him.
actually left him several hundred dollars
in pocket. Most of the animals were
sold at Newport and the various water
ing places along the New Jersey coast by
means of agents employed by him at the
different places. A number of these
were also sold at Coney Island, where
they have been the delight of the young
folks who visited the Sea Beach end, and
where they have been in constant requi
sition for impromptu races and short
galops cnr the sandy beach. New York
Graphic '
egg, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar,
one teaspoonful of soda.
Beef Tripe: Clean the tripe carefully
and soak in salt water, changing several
times; cut in slices; boil until perfectly
done; dip in butter; fry a light brown ;
season wiw sail ana pepper.
Sponge Cake: To three eggs beaten
one minute add one and one-half cups ot
sugar and beat two minutes; one cup ol
whites of sixteen eggs, two teaspoonfuls
01 oaKing powaer; navor to lane.
unite mountain case: lhree eggs,
one cup 01 sugar, one-half cup of new
millr na.nslf Ann rt Thnff a t
( flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two tea
spoonfuls of cream of tartar; flavor to
taste.
rig uaxe: lhree pints 01 Hour, one
cup of butter, one of sweet milk, ; two
and one-half cups sugar, whites of : six
teen eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, one and one-half pounds figs,
4 J J A. "
uavurcu anu cut in trips.
Gooseberry Tarts: Prepare a pie paste.
as light as convenient, cover the bottom
of it with powdered sugar, then place
alternately a layer of pickled and
washed gooseberries and one of sugar,
Jiake three-quarters 01 an hour.
To J)ress Cucumbers: Gather, or buy
irom market early ; peel ana put on ice
until dinner; then slice ss thin as possi
ble and put with sliced onions in a dish ;
pour a cup of
vinegar over them, and lay ice on top.
Egg Omelette : One pint rich sweet
crtam, three tablespoofuls flour, three
eggs well beaten, half tablespoonful salt
and pepper, btir flour and muk smooth,
add the eggs. Melt a large spoonful
butter in a baking pan, pour in and bake
twenty minutes.
Gooseberry Pudding: Make a paste of
flour wjth one teaspoonful of .cream of
tartar in it, and beat two minutes; one
half cup of cold water with one-half tea
spoonful of soda and a little salt in it ;
stir thoroughly, then add one cup of flour.
t lavor wild, lemon.
lily Cake: Two cups of sugar and
one cup 01 butter mixed together, one
cup of sweet milk, one-half teaspoonful
of soda, one cup of cornstarch, two cups
01 flour, one teas poof ul of cream of tar
tar, whites of five eggs. Flavor, and
frost wsth chocolate frosting.
, Cream Cake 1 Beat to a froth one cup of
sugar and three eggs; on this pour one
cup of sweet cream, then stir in one and
one-half cups of flour in which one tea
spoonful of soda and two of cream of tar
tar are thoroughly mixed. Flavor with
lemon and bake in quick oven in thirty
minutes.
Sending Money by MalL
The proper way to send money by mail
is by a money order or a registered letter.
Sent in any other way it is almost cer
tain that it will be stolen, the letter con
taining it destroyed and no trace of it
ever found. The postal service is not re
sponsible for these losses, and steadily
endeavors to discourage sending money
in ordinary letters. The more is sent, the
greater is the temptation to poorly paid
postal clerks to steal letters and destroy
them. The expert thief can usually tell
whether it contains money by its feeling,
but if he opens a letter he has to destroy
it, whether it contains money or not; so
that those who persist in sending loose
bills ia letters not merely run their own
risk, but they tempt men who might
otherwise remain honest, and they expose
to pilfering and loss the letters of sensi
ble people who do not send money in that
way. The Writer.
It was midnight and an ' impassioned
lover an an uptown drawing room kneeled
at the, feet of his heart s choice and ex
claimed: ,4Gertie, I will do anything in
this world to make you happy." "Do
you inean it, George?" "I do, I do,
darling." "Then lor heaven's saxe go
home; and let me go to bed." New Or-
leant J'uayune.
A City of Bicycles.
Washington is the city of bicycles.
says i correspondent of the Philadelphia
JiecorL Its smooth streets make it the
best friding town" in the world. There
are two or three flourishiag clubs, a
"eyejeries, where you can hire a "bike"
or a ptnee ' by the hour, as though, it
were a livery stable hack, td say nothing
of hundreds of men and women who are
independent of the formal organizations.
iUKq Dicyciers everywncre, nasning
tonians know that it is their business to
get around pedestrians, and not the busi
ness of the pedestrians to gtt away from
thent. Therefore they regard bells, ss
useless and lanterns as worse than use
less because their only effect is to make
the steering hard. But the triumvirate
of District Commissioners take a differ
ent view, and among other municipal
regulations just put in force, is one re
quiring the bicyclers to carry and uso
both" bells and lanterns. This regulation
roused indignation in the bicycler s
breast. He complied with it the first
day by hanging a discordant cow-bell on
111s , maciine uu carrying a vurvu
light over his shoulder. Thus equipped.
he paraded in large numbers up and
down in front of the residence 01 tne
Commissioners until he had worked off
his spleen. He has come down to the
regmiation bell and lamp, however. He
annoyed himself the first day more man
he did the Commissioners.
. 1
, Caused by Thought,
"Your hair is much thinner than it was
when I last met you," said a man ad
dressing an acquaintance.
"Yes, considerable of it came out."
"How do vou account for it?"
"Thought!" , ;
"What! you don't mean to say that
thinking caused it to come out?"
"Yes."
."That goes to prove that baldness is
often caused by mental work. I have
for some time been thinking of preparing
an article on that subject, and I would
like for you to . give me your expe
rience." "Well, I can do so in a few words.
Several weeks ago I was talking to a fel
low named Jack Son. we were engaged I There is no suffering to a sensitive na
in a dispute concerning the settlement of tore like that which comw from doubt,
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White Fruit Cake: One pound of flour,
one pound of sugar, one pound of butter,
one ponnd blanched almonds, three
pounds citron, one grated cocoanut,
flour and beef suet chopped fine, five
well-beaten eggs, half a nutmeg grated,
a little ginger or spice and some salt;
roll out the paste, put it into a cloth, fill
it with gooseberries and sugar and let it
boil three hours. This is an . English
recipe. '
Useful Hints.
Milk bread dries out faster than water
bread. "
Scald peaches and the skin can be re
moved much easier than by peeling with
out scalding.
- In baking apple or peach dumplings
fill the pan two-thirds fullef water; they
are not so dry and hard.
In baking custard set the pan contain
ing it into another pan containing hot
water, and it will cook much better.
Ice affords the most favorable means
of preserving animal food; but it must;
be kept in the . ice until wanted, as it
goes bad quickly when brought into a
higher temperature.
In all ordinary cookery simmering at 1 80
degrees is more effective than violent
boiling at 212 degrees. The heat that
is applied to do more than the smallest
degree of simmering is simply wasted in
converting water into useless steam.
, Everything to be well done reauiref
preparation.
Table for the Use of Nails.
The National Builder gives the follow
ing table for the use of nails :
For 1,000 shingles allow 3fr to.5 pound
fourpenny nails; or 3 to 3 pounds three
penny nails. j
For 1,000 laths allow about 6 pounds
three-penny fine nails.
For 1,000 feet clapboards about 13
pounds sixpenny nails.
For 1,000 feet boarding boards 20
pounds eightpenny common.
For 1,000 feet boarding boards 23
pounds tenpenny common, j
For 1,000 feet top floors, square - edge,
38 pounds tenpenny floor, j
For 1,000 feet top floors, square edge,
41 pounds twelvepenny flooi.
For 1,000 feet top floors, matched,
bliad nailed, 33 pounds tenpenny floor.
For 1,000 feet top floors, matched.
blind nailed, 42 pounds j twelvepenny
floor. 1 . 1
For 1,000 feet furring, 1x3, 45 pounds
tenpenny common. j
For 1,000 feet furring, 1x2, 65 pounds
tenpenny common. j
For 1,000 feet pine finish, about 39
poinds eightpenny finish. J -
The Growth of American CI tie.
The following table shews the enor
mous growth of the three principal cities
of the United States :
Ckicneo.
4.400
R4..VW
122,700
SJlOO
572,000
TVir. Jirw York. tQa.
1K10 158,0U 1S,00
1840 3U8.50U !1,50U
1850 TGH, 700 " 432,300
i860 1,X 2,700 S0U,800
1870 1,700,100 70300
1S80 2,303,600 KH.VKW
It should be added that the inhabit
ants of Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken,
and other towns within a radius of ten
miles are included in Xhc above totals for
New York, while the territory between
Hyde Park and Evanston is included as
Ert of Chicago. While during the last
If -century the population of Philadel
phia has increased nearly fivefold, and
that of New York tenfold, Chicago may
be said without exaggeration to have lit
erally come into existence, its growth V'
ing from 45 in 1830 to 572,600 in 1-
-Mechanical Newt. -
In Germany the school h?0! relates
to. events down to 1813 only; in this
country it goes down to JSSo.
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