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NO. 39i
VOL. XXXV.
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Since the introduction' of postal cards
in the.United States in 1872, nearly 3,
240 millions have been used, the exact
value of them being $33,393,220.
The success of irrigation on the far
"Western plains and in the foot-hills tends,,
to make the man -with the hoe encroach
more confidently and persistently upon
those lands that are said to be fit only
for stock grazing. I
New York and. Pittsburg capitalists
have just purchased nearly 100,000 acres
of the finest pine forests in the South.
The lands are along the southern line of
South Carolina and the northern boun
dary of Georgia, mostly in the latter
State. The price paid was $1,000,000 in
cash. The lands are to be held until
the price of lumber greatly'increases their
value. I
r A remarkable balloon ascension has
been made at Paris by the aeronauts, i
Captain Paul Jovis and M. Mallet, in the
celebrated airship Horla. The aeronauts
started from the La Villette Gas Works,
Paris, at 7 :15 a. sr., and after rising to the
altitude of 6,000 metres, or nearly 23,000
feet, subsequently descended in Belgium.
This is an extraordinary altitude to reach,
and will compare not very unfavorably
with the highest levels ever reached by
aeronauts.
A speaker before the Association for
the Advancement of Science gave a crit
icism upon American living. He said:
'To the rule that those who most need
to economize buy the cheapest food, the
dietary practices of the people of the
United States evince marked exceptions,
in that maty, even among those who de
sire to economize, use needlessly expen
sive kinds of food. They too often en
deavor to make their diet attractive by
paying high prices in the market rather
than by skillful cooking and tasteful
serving at home.
Lots placed a jewel in my crown,
A stone as brilliant as the day.
He called it Friendship, and it shone
: For meal way. " v
t Lore bornished it, though I knew not.
I thought its splendor all its own.
But now the stone is doll and dim,
For love has flown.
, Edith Danforth
A Mining Speculation.
BY FLAVXIt SCOTT MINES.
The clatter of the farm-yard, mingled
witn the drowsy humming of the bees,
fell pleasantly on the air . as Squire
Harvey sat on his front piazza, toward
the end of a hot summer afternoon, read
ing the newspaper. Now and again a
particularly obnoxious fly would alight
on the bald spot in the centre of bis head,
causing the Squire to raise his hand and
to bring it down suddenly,' often harder
than necessary, with a subdued exclama
tion that sounded like "B'gosh." But
for this frequent aggressive movement one
would imagine that he was sleeping. It
was nearly time f orsupper and the Squire
had picked up the paper merely to hare
something to hold during the few minutes
that elapsed- before the welcome meal.
He was not reading, for his thoughts
were busy with the farm, and he was
wondering at what price Farmer Griggs,
Who was in somewhat straitened circum
stances, would sell his cornorlot. "It is
very convenient to my property," mused
the Squire, "and I ought to be able to
make a good bargain with my impe
cunious neighbor."
The sun sank a little lower in the west,
throwing its beams through the branches
of the trees, and one little ray, as golden
as his thoughts, twinkled before theJ
Squire's eyes. "With a sound midway be
tween a chuckle and an exclamation of
disgust, Silas Harvey elevated his paper
to shut out the sunbeam, and as he aid so
his eyes fell upon the following advertisement:
The Ameer of Cabul is a real "Arabian
Nights" kind of a ruler. The editor of
London Truth says that the Ameer was
recently afflicted with a boil while on a
countrv excursion. On returning to
Cabur the principal court physician was i
summoned, and he applied an ointment, J
which was no doubt intended to be highly j
efficacious in its ultimate results, but at
first it considerably aggravated the
Ameer's anguish, and, having passed a
Blcepless night, he ordered . the instant
executionof his medical adviser, 'who
accordingly was forthwith behetded
the courtyard of the palace.
in
"It is a fact not generally known," re
marked a railway official to a reporter of
the Chicago Journal, "that Illinois can
boast of a novelty in the shape of a rail
rocd which has no duplicate in the
United States." "What's 'that?" asked
a listener. "A road whose itock is"held
by the original incorporators?" "Noth
ing of the kind," replied the first speaker.
'The novelty is a railroad whose side
tracks are nine or ten times greater in
length than the main line." "Where is
such a road?" "The Peoria and Pekin
Union. -It runs from Peoria to Pekin, a
distance of fourteen miles. That is the
main line. Being a belt road, caring for
the cars of the several road3 running i
into Peoria and transferring the care
from one road to another, it has many
miles of side tracks oyer 100, I believe.
This accounts for the peculiarity of a
road having more miles of side tracks
than it has in its main line."
According to Mr. J. R. Dodge, the
statistician of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, the value of the
dairy product of the country this year is
$180,000,000. The number of milch cows (
row in use for dairy purposes is 21,000,- I
000. Calculating that each of these gives
330 gallons of milk per year, there is
annual milk yield of 7,350,000,000 gal- ;
Ions, of which about 4,000,000,000 gal- j
Ions is consumed in making butter and
700,000,000 gallons in cheese making.
' The quantity of butter produced is esti
mated to be about 1,350,000,000 pounds,:
and of cheese 6,500,000 pounds. The
butter is almost entirely consumed at
home, but the cheese shipments last year
to the English market amounted to over
85,000,000 pounds. On the other hand,
we import large quantities of fancy
foreign cheese. In this country, notably
in Connecticut, of late years have been
made some excellent imitations of
lloquefort, Edam and Cheddar cheese.'
Silver Crescent Mining Company. Of
the Silver Crescent Mines, situated on the
banks of the Smith River, Nevada.
Stock paying 25 to 30 percent, annually to
to the holder.
The chance of a life-time 1 Only a few
more shares left.
Write to Secretary S. C. Mining Co., Box
836, New York. ;
"H'm," muttered the Squire, as he re
read the advertisement. Then the sup-
r bell broke in upon his meditations.
e laid down the paper and entered the
house.
After supper, however, the Squire, in
a very agreeable frame of mind, picked
up the paper once more, and with a pen
cil made some calculations with which he
was apparently satisfied, for he nodded
his head in an approving manner.. Again
and again he read the seductive adver
tisement, his brain busy with figures.
Before he retired that night, a check for
t two thousand dpllars had been made out
to the Secretary of the Silver Crescent
Mining Company.
' Silas Harvey was undoubtedly the lead
ing spirit of Northbrook. It was not a
very progressive place, in fact it was
rather .behind the age, but the towns
people preferred to follow the slow but
sure guidance of, the good man, who was
decidedly conservative in many matters,
rather than the aggressive spirits who
proposed gas, patent sewerage and re
form. Forty-five years before, the Squire
had come to the village poor and unknown
buta " go-a-headitiveness," which he had
now outgrown, had won him a
place in the esteem of the' farmer for
whom he worked and finally he married
the farmer's daughter. On the death" of
his father-in-law, whose many acres were
added to his small plot of ground, Silas
Harvey arrived at the prosperous period
of his life, from which point he con
tinued to advance until he held the posi
tion of first man in the county. But no
one remembered those days now, and the
Squire was not apt to refer to them, ex
ceDt to point a moral to the rising genera
tion. -As Justice of the Peace he presided
over the welfare of the village, and no
judge viewed with a sterner eye the
thiftlessness of an individual; and woe to
the unhappy mortal who came before him
charged with vagrancy or theft. On the
other hand he was lenient to the very un
fortunate, and many a weak, erring man
or woman received the kindest attention
at his hands, blessing the fate that threw
them into the path of Silas Harvey.
A nephew of his, a partner in a flour
ishing banking house, had spent a few
weeks of the summer vacation at North
brook, and from him the Squire heard of
the doings of the stock-market. The
ybung man gave glowing accounts of the
fortunes made in the " Street." But of
the many who lose their all this nephew
did not tell. Why should he? There is
no need to spoil a pleasant little story
by introducing unpleasant features that
might as well remain in the background.
The young man did not dream of plant
ing in the heart of his interesting listen
er the desire for speculation, and though
ffthe Squire did not oner to invest any
and ill order to maintain his reputation
for conservatism, he felt bound to oppose
it. tk he set to work to prepare a scath
ing condemnation of the resolution where
by he hoped to squelch it at the meeting.
The day came, and the Squire, full of
his speech, arrived a little late. As he
entered the hall, he noticed that two
strange men stood near the entrance, and,
in passing, he heard one of them whisper
to the other : ' There goes the old hypo
crite." It is not a very pleasant thing to
hear some one designated as a hypocrite,
especially when you believe that the
term refers to yourself. But, paying no
attention to the remark, the Squire hur
riedly passed to the platform, where,
after opening the meeting, he proposed
to deliver his address. '
. "The Chair begs leave to make a few
remarfcs," he began, and then waited in
order that the words might have the de
sired effect. He had learned the phrase
from a newspaper report of a meeting,
and was proud of it, so he stopped and
gravely eyed his listeners. :'
"The Chair would say- " he went
ted him, and, turning, he saw one of the
men he had noticed at the door.
"May I speak a few words with you!
alone," he added, mysteriously. Won
dering what it was all about, the Squire
led the stranger into a corner,
"Silas Harvey, l believe, Director oi
the so-called Silver Crescent Mining Co. !"
said the man. The Squire nodded
"I am a detective from New York.
Here is a warrant for your arrest. Will
you come with me ouietly. and take the
nine o'clock train to the city? It wil
6ave trouble." remarked the individual.
hurriedly. -
The room swam before the Squire
Detective--arrest? What did it mean?
Whispering a few words to a colleague,
and in an agitated voice begging the
audience to excuse him on the plea of
urgent business, Silas Harvey, like one
in a dream, followed the man out of the
room.
He knew scarcely anything until ho
found himself on the train speeding to
New York, with the detective at his side
and the other man seated opposite.
"Look a here," began the loquacious
officer, pleased that he caught his man so
easily, "we've got two of the other of
you fellows safe enough, and they've
made a clean breast of the whole affair;
so you had better speak right out to the
Judge. Tell him alL I m givin you a
friendly 4tip' now. This is the third
company gone to smash- this week, and
it'll go pretty bad with you, I guess."
"What what company is this?" gasped
the Squire, a faint idea of the business
beginning to dawn upon him.
"What company?" laughed the detec
tive. "No funny games now, old man."
Silas Harvey winced perceptibly at the
last words and glanced at a paragraph
with a hearty kiss which nearly caused
a renewal cf laughter.
As the late director ot the mivcr ures-
cent Mining Company entered his house.
he thought of the ui-xatea two tnousana
dollars for the first time, and he inwardly
mnttcfRd ? "IJfttti it."
Ten days later his nephew wrote himi
saying that the matter had been arranged
as he said it would be. and after reading
thefrood news. Silas HarvBv. in his feast
chair oh the piazza, slept the sleep of the'
just, while 4 fly exercised itself undis
turbed upon the Squire's bald pate until
the supper bell rang. The Silver Cres
cent Mining Stock was old Harvey's nrst
and last speculation. The Epoch. -
Yehlcles In Mexico.
Besides the livery stables, which are
confined to the largest cities where f ami
lies of great Wealth, reside, there ate in
every Mexican town, writes Fannie B
Ward, many hacks, carnages, coupes,
victorias, barouches, etc, which are.really
owned and run by the government, and
whose price is nxed by law. To secure
them you do not send to a stable for no
body seems to know where they are kept
but look for them in the streets. In
the capital alone there are 250 of these
public conveyances, ranking ofhcially as
those of the first, second, third and fourth
classes. Their "class" is distinguished
by small tin signs in the form of a flag
stuck up in front those of the first-class
painted green, the second blue, third red
and fourth white. Their legalized tariff
is respectively $2.00, $1.50, seventy-five
cents and fifty cents per hour, except be
fore 6 o'clock a. k., and after 10 o'clock
f. m., and on Sundays and all feast days,
when the price is doubled; and v&JUtfat
are of. every-day occurrence, one may
safely calculate upon what to pay.-. Most
of them are dilapidated old rattle-traps,
in imminent peril of going to pieces on
these wretched pavements, like the
deacon's one-horse chaise, and as 4 rule
there is little difference in them except
in the color of the flag. With custo
mary pride, Americans usually insist upon
the most expensive foolishly,-however,
for the flag is immediately hauled 'down
as soon as the vehicle is engaged and no
body can guess what you pay for ij. .
Besides the coachman, each carriage
furnishes a footman without additional
charge, though the proper thing is to
give the unbargained-ior appendage a
shilling. The footman is called a mozo,
and acts as a sort of apprentice or pri
vate secretary to the cochero, or driver.
On entering a vehicle, the passenger who
does not wish to be swindled should re
quest of the driver his boleto, or ticket,
upon which is printed the number of the
carriage and its lawlui tarin. men me
moso rushes off to the nearest clock and
BUDGET Otf-l?Uft
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Didn't Wan't Ady-FrOlicd in the
Atlantic Sfectfrity Demanded
Sectional Hate-A - Suk-
ffcstion, tkc, titci-
T 7 J a
Thn Kov cot tin and walked around.
for two or three minutes; breathing as if
considerably excited, and then observed :
Say, mister, if you've got a case lor
Mr. Blank he ought to know it; if you've
got a bill he won't pay it, III take thd
chances and ask what yon want to see
him for?"
'TO collect ft debt of $7."
"Hdtriph! I took th chances and-
lost; He won't b home for ft week,"
Detroit Free PfetL
sr (to bald headed customer)
"Ah, Mr. Jones, you ought to try some
of Professor Invigoratbr's hair restorer.
It's" .
Customer "But I don't want any
hair." .
Barber (in astonishment) "Don't want
hair?" -
Customer "No, I'm married. Kew
Tort Sdn.
Frolics in the Atlantic
French Woman (at Long Branch)
"Oh, we hat sooch a fine time bathing in
de otcean. M'sidur Browri; he gif me vot
you calls 'cm a gosling."
American Woman "A gosling I Why,
a gosling is a little duck."
French Woman "Zat is vat he gif
me aleetleduck. Tid-Bit.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A
. A Postponed Funeral.
lady who is famous
her
, Security Demanded.
Teacher "Class in interest, take the
floor. What is the medium of exchange
in the United States?"
Class (in concert )-"nioney.
"Yes, but there is something more.
Can't yon think of another article that is
used as a medium of exchange?"
Class silent.
"Supposing I were to come to you and
want to borrow a hundred dollars, what
would you demand of me?"
Ciasj (animatedly) "Security."
American Commercial Traveler.
Sectional Hate.
"Going West, sir?" inquired Chicago
drummer of ft fellow passenger, by way of
opening the conversation.
"Yes, sir, I expect to take in the repre
sentative cities.".
"You will find Chicago a lively town."
"Oh, I shan't visit Chicago; only the
representative cities, you know."
j "Conductor," whispered the Chicago
drummer a little later, "who is that lour-
eared mongrel I was talking to a moment
ago?"
"lie s a at. lAis nsn aeaier, saiu me
conductor.
among
friends for the correctness with which all
her social duties are performed, ftfld who
is particular in attending! to an ine de
tails of intercourse with her acquaintances
and friends, was recently put in an amus
ingly awkwark pesition by the stupidity
of a servant A neighbor beina danger
ously ill, this lady one morning sent net
new maid Ovef to inquire concerning hef
condition. - . ,
"Go over," she said, "and inqdirthcr'
Mrs. X. is this morning. And if she is
dead," she added, as the girl started,
"ask when the funeral will be."
The messenger went as directed and
soon returned with the air of one wh8
has done her whole duty. ,
"Mrs. X. is better this morning," was
her report, "and they cannot tell when
the funeral will tc." Eton Courier.
Two Noted New terkers.
At the corner of Ann and Nassau
streets is Henry George's office, says a
New York letter to the Albany journal.
About a stone's throw to the northeast on
Bcckman is O'Donovan Rossa's. A little
further in the same direction is the sanc
tum of Shewitsch and Jonas, the radical
and aggressive Socialists. Bfore Johana
Most was sent to jail for political blas
phemy he had his den in the same neigh
borhood. And all about is the host of
big and little papers and magazines that
represent every snaue oi - opinion
pais
and
brings you a card upon which the hour is
written. At this point you will do well
to consult vour own watch and calculate
pointed out in a paper uiat was nanaea i accordingly, to avoid the dispute wiucn
lu nun.
The New York. Times says there are
two new additions to the list of profitable
products of the farm which promise to
find employment for many farmers who
have the requisite facilities. These are
due to foreign notions and tastes im
ported chiefly from France and Germany
along with the numerous adopted citi
zens who hail from these European
shores. One is the grenouille, so called
by the French, who esteem it as a choice
articlo for the exercise of culinary skill.
It is now served up at the first hotels and
restaurants in the large cities, New York
c-pecially, and appears in the markets as
a regular article of sale. The animal is
easily bred and reared, and feeds itself
and thrives most abundantly in marshes.
The other is called escargor, and is used
for making stews and soups, but is eaten
also boiled and roasted. This animal is
also easily reared, and requires no feed
ing but does better when a pasture is
provided for it. Known in common
...Un fh first as the frog and the
other as the snail, these readily acclimated
animals have never until now been con
sidered as of any value, but no doubt
horearter will furnish special business
here, as they have done for many years
,n Europe, to thousands of farmers.
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money in- tnat way, ne lormed ms own
opinions on the subject. When his
nephew had returned to the city Silas
Harvey anxiously scanned the papers for
an "opportunity." "A man to make
money must watch his interests himself
and not leave it to any one else," said
the Squire, and, in the simplicity of his
heart, he resolved to do a little specula
tion on his own account. He nad read
the advertisement the opportunity had
come and the Squire straightway em
braced it hence the check.
A few days later he received an ac
knowledgment of the check for two thou
sand dollars from New York and the let
ter closed with the flattering informa
tion that at a meeting of the directors of
the S. C. Mining Company, Silas Harvey,
Esq., had been elected to fill a vacancy in
the board, and it was hoped; that Mr.
Harvey -would give the company the
nrivilcEre of using his name. etc. This
pleased the gentleman beyond measure
and he joyfuily accepted the position.
As to his duties as a director he was some-
i what in the dark, for the letter made no
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mention oi tnem. w nen ne saw ms name
in print heading the list of trustees of the
Bilver Crescent mining -uo., ne ieit mat
perhaps he had lost somewhat by not
mingling more freely with the outside
world where he would have had an op
portunity to display his talents to greater
advantage. For some reason or other the
8. C. Mining Co. did not pay the ex
pected dividend at the end of the quar
ter, but it was explained to him by
pnnrteous letter that all the funds had
been invested in improvements for the
mine, which would eventually yield three
fold the amount originally put into it, So
: the finnire was thoroughly contented,
chuckling over his ability and judgment
Other things engrossed his attention,
however, and as the weeks pissed by he
almost forgot his investment. A resolu
tion for the introduction of some new
system was before the Board of Educa
tion, of which the Squire was a member,
- "Two directors of the last swindle, the
Silver Crescent Mining Company, ware
caught-to-day, and another one is re
garded by the police as safe. The others
managed to get out of the way and have
left for parts unknown.
The Squire sat as one dazed. He con
nected, with a swindle, his name heading
a list of frauds 1 The old man saw his
error too late. He inwardly cursed his
greed, his vanity. He felt that he was a
disgraced man. He saw the daily papers
holding him up to acorn, his name in
flaring headlines that told ot ms deceit,
and he wished that he could throw him
self from the car window. Above alL he
felt most deeply the probable loss of his
position in Northbrook. Had he lived
and labored all his life to die a felon?
The detective looked curiously at his
prisoner, who seemed almost unconscious,
and the train rattled on, bearing the
Squire nearer and nearer to his fate.
How he reached the police station Silas
Harvey knew not. . He remembered but
dimly entering a carriage and giving his
name, age and occupation to the sergeant
at the desk, and then he found himself
within the four walls of a cell. The
whole seemed to him like a horrible
nightmare, and when he confronted the
Judge the next morning he had grown
grayer and more haggard, and walked
like an old, old man.
"Bail is fixed at $2,500 in this case,"
remarked the Judge when he had heard
the charee. "Do you know any one in
the city 1"
"My nephew," the Squire gasped, as
the first thought came to him that he
perhaps might receive some help from
that quarter.
"Well, you may write to him," was
the rely. "Call the next case."
The innocent prisoner scratched off a
few lines which he gave to an officer, and
then he wearily trudged back to the celL
Hours seemed to drag slowly by until he
heard a pleasant greeting, and looking
through the iron bars he saw his nephew
standing mere, men me neavy aoor
swung open and his laughing relative
beckoned to him.
'Come on, uncle, ycu're out on bail,"
cried the young man, and the Squire
came slowly forth. Although only a few
hours in confinement, the broken-down
old man imagined that half his life had
been spent within the narrow dungeon,
and with a deep sigh he took the arm
offered to him.
"Ha, ha, hal" commenced the" young
fellow, when they had entered the carriage
that was waiting for them, "ha, hal ex
cuse my laughing, but it is so rich, ha,
hal
otherwise is sure to occur if you insist
upon your rights at the journey's end.
The mozo also jumps off and opens the
door for you. makes any inquiries, you
may desire and takes in your card when
vou are calling: and when the ride is
ended he again produces the card upon
which the hour was written, and you pay
from the time of starting. After all these
precautions, should any differences of
opinion arise between youself and the
cochero, they maybe settled at the office
of public carriages, located in the muni
cipal palace of the town. The cocheros,
heedless of the fact that you may be get
ting more nde than Jour money's worm
and bumps without numbers, drive pell-
mell over the worse pavements in the
most reckless manner: and more than
once,1 in my experience, have coach and
horses parted company, leaving me sit
ting forlornly in the street in the condi
tion of the enrl whom the poet ieit ue
hind him.
A Suggest Ion.
"Gosh blame the measley hammer any
how," howled a traveling man who was
tacking down a piece ot carpet, as ne
Bung down the Hammer."
"What s tne matter f" assiea ms wiie.
"Look at that," he said, taking out his
hand from under his arm and showing
the thumb. "I can't hardly bend it."
"Why don't you aim at your thumb
when you are tacking down carpet!
asked his wife sweetly. Merchant Traveler.
Parisian Flf Catchers.
Flv-catchers have a busy time of it in
Paris during the summer season The
callinsr is not a recognized or classified
one, nor do parents as a rule bring their
sons up to it. But there are hundreds of
experienced hands employed at it during
the dog days, and a good haul oz flies is
often profitable enough. The London
Telearavh says : 1
The fly-catcher is generally a good-for
nothiner rascal from the suburban lanes
and alleys, who does not want to" leave
Paris, and is too lazy to go into the
country forme hay-making or the har
vesting. Sometimes he is a person who
unites in himself a variety of callings,
being by turns a corner errand-runner, a
bootblack, a dog-shaver and clipper, or
even floor-waxer out of employment ,
. His method is as follows : He takes a
tolerably large-sized box with a little hole
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in lis iop, ami eutuuus uiiiucu uuwxu
grocer's shop where the winged insects
an busily buzzing against the window
panes on the lookout for stray drops of
molasses or chance grains of brown sugar.
These the catcher dexterously imprisons
in his palm, in the schoolboy fashion, and,
dislocating some of their antennae, puts
them into his box. Some times he is al
lowed to pursue his calling inside the
shon when customers are not numerous,
and is thus enabled to fill his box with
aim 4-vr
. - . . ....
After a few Hours oi mis exciting jtinu
Only a Brief Interruption.
It was in one of the stately mansions
of Beacon street, Boston, that our story
opens.
lie was declaring ms love in language
that only a Boston youth can use, and
even he must be sober.
'Dearest Penelope," he said, "if I had
loved you less I could have told you that
I loved you long ago. l -
. But he suddenly stopped. A far away
whither-am-I-drif ting look had come over
the girl'siace, and his heart sank within
him.
"If my words are displeasing to you.
Miss Penelope," he went on in his broken
tones, "if 1 have said what l ougnt not
to say, or you ought not t hear; if
I " . .
"Not at all," interrupted Penelope,
looking wildly about her, "but I havo
certainty lost my spectacles, un, mere
they are. Thanks. As you were saying,
Mr. Waldo " JSev lorn nun.
most of the languages under the sun.
The vicinity has come to be so much the
stamping ground of men with notions
about reform that one can hardly put his
head out of the window without seeing a
pair of them passing by. The most fre
quently seen faces of note are those of
Dr. McGlynn and Mr. George. The latter
tramps along the walk with his head well
up in the air considering the brevity of
his body. He usually wears a plain blue
flannel suit and a soft hat- When he is
setting out on a journey he wears gray
clothes and a tall white hat He carries
a bag in his hand and walks briskly, fre
quently consulting his watch when on
tbe start. Returning he proceeds slowly
as if tired and swings his bag to and fro.
Dr. McGlynn wears black trousers and
waistco.it and a dark alpaca coat and
broad-brimmed straw hat His massive
form is bent as he walks and he usually
seems to be listening intently to what his
companion is saying for he is seldom
alone. He and Mr. George usually lunch
at a popular French restaurant on the
street at about half -past two. On or more
of their associates in the propaganda
usually accompany them. Mr. George
leans back in his chair against the wall
with his elbow on the table and his eyes
half closed. Dr. McGlynn preserves his
stooping attitude and listens gravely to
what may bo said. He is chary about
entering into conversation in a public
place, but he is as fluent a talker as he is
on the lecture plstf orm. These two men
have become one of the sights of the
town and arelnvariably pointed out by
friends to one another. -
of work he eroes off with his spoil and dis
poses of it to the people who sell or keep
birds. His best and most open-handed
rimtimem are the frail denizens of the
Ouartier Breda or the Quastier de l'Eu
rone, all of whom keep the feathered pets.
The Squire blinked sorrowfully at his J They often pay so good a price to the fly -
A Surprising Reception.
Book Agent "I am offering to the
public a new work, the 'Encyclpedia
Universal, Eternal,' only five'!
Omaha Man "Come in, sir. Don't
stand there in the hot sun."
"I I guess you didn't understand. I
am selling "
"Certainly. There, tase mat seat Dy
the window. I am delighted to see
you."
"Permit mo to 'xpiam. This boolc,
glorious work, is complete in forty-five
volumes, at $5 a volume, and I am the
agent for it"
1 am sorry you urougui uuiy uue
volume. Can you get the rest soon,!
Oh, ves, but"
"By the way, there's the bell. Stay
to dinner, won't you?"
"I I beg pardon. Tnis is very
strange. Am I awake or dreaming (
"Y es, me nouse don't iook very prcny,
does it? You see, this is a private
lunatic asylum, and I. am one of the
patients." Omaha World ,
Held -on 1A ke Grim Death.
First Omaha Burglar I tell you, its
nephew, which sent the young man off
again. 'Who would have imagined such
a thing, my old respected uncle a direc
tor in a frauduleut concern 1 How did
you happen to join it? " . -
"You, Harry, you,' murmured his
uncle, so sadly that the graceless Harry
was threatened with an outbreak. ' 'You
told me all about stocks and I thought
one thing was as good as another in that
line." ,
"Now, look here, Uncle Si," at last re
marked the convulsed listener, 'fl am
driving you to the railway station. Go
back to Northbrook as though nothing
had happened and my lawyer will set
matters straight Why, you're all right.
I'll get those other fellows to make a
confession that; will clear you of all
blame."
"No, Harry, no: think of the papers,
the disgrace," and the old man shook his
head at the idea of returning to his home.
The pedestrians looked wonderingly
after the carriage from which came peals
of laughter as the merry nephew held his
Rides and crave vent to his mirth.
"The papers?" he cried, when the flood
of merriment had been checked, why
uncle, dear, it's not worth noticing in the
papers, except in a little paragraph, and
there will be no room for names.w
A feeling of relief canle to Silas Har
vey. " He felt that he was saved and he
soured forth his joy in tears. His nephew
was touched by this display of feeling,
and so assured the poor old squire that
all woqld be right that he was rewarded
catcher for his spoil that he is enabled to
go home after a successful day with ample
mpann in his nocket to defray the cost of
bed and board for half a week in one of
his dingy haunts.
Indians Preserving Their Traditions
Judge J. D. Walker, of Florence, Ari
zona, says that the Pima Indians select
several promising youths of their, tribe
from time to time for repositories of their
traditions, and they are carefully in
structed in the historical legions per
taining to their tribe, being required to
commit them faithfully to memory.
Thev in turn instruct their successors,
and thus preserve the traditions in the
exact language recited by their ancestors
of many years ago. They have knowl
edge of the tribe that built the oldCasa
Grande and other vast buildings, whose
ruins now excite such curiosity.
awful the way things are in New Eng
land, twenty or thirty women to every
man.
Second Omaha Burglar I suppose so.
All the men have come West
"Yes, that's how it is."
"Did you get much boodle there P
"Yes; but I had a narrow escape once,
I noticed a lot ef the finest diamonds
you ever saw on a Boston girl just going
out of the nouse to a lecture or some
thing, and I watched my chance and got
in and hid under ner bed. x ou see, i
was thinkin she would be so interested
the lecture, she went to that she
wouldn't think to look around for burg
lars, you know."
"Yes."
"But when 6he came in the first thing
she did was to look under the bed, and
there she saw me."
"Did she scream or faint?"
"She iust crabbed me with both
hands and held on like grim death."
"Eh! How did you get away I"
"I explained toher that I was already
married and she let me go." Omaha
World.
The Great Tumble Weed.
This weed once grew plentiful through
this country and Colorado. When green
they present a very pretty appearance and
look more like a dwarf tree than a weed.
Thev are very danzerous in case of a
prairie fire, and often dangerous in plain
wind storms when there is no fire. In
case of fire the flames seem to strip the
plant of its leaves, and it at once goes
rollinz before the flaming hurricane a per
fect wheel of fire. These revolving
wheels of fire will jump any ordinary fur
row or fire break and carry the fire into
the timber or grass, as the case may be
Nothing can stop their progress but a
river. Into these they jump, leaping
out into the stream forty, fifty and sixty
feet and go down with a hits, throwing
un a column of steam where they sink.
In Colorado windstorm-storms these
weeds are also a source of much danger.
In Middle Park, a few years ago, a party
of travelers were suddenly overtaken by
a storm. Seeing what they supposed to
ho. a mass of huire boulders in the dis
tance, they made for them, thinking they
would affoid at least partial shelter. To
their surprise, as they approached, tho
boulders snddenlyTroke loose and com
menced rolling toward them at a furious
rate, cutting all sorts of curious capers
and gyrating menacingly "as they came.
At times they would strike an obstruc
tion and bound high in the air, and
again striking the ground resume their
rapid circular motion. The travelers put
sours to their horses, and it was only by
the greatest effort they managed to es
cape from the track of these monsters.
On examination they found their sup-"
posed .boulders were really immense
weeds, which had been torn up by the
roots by the windstorm.
These weeds are so solid that they are
a great menace to man and beast under
Buch circumstances. Impelled by a heavy
wind, they go with force enough to kill
a horse, and a human being is in great
danger'if he cannot get out of the track
of these monsters when they are running
before a hurricane or in case of ft prairie
fire. WtchUa Kan.) Journal.
Electncltf has entered sport For the
angler who wishes to let his lint "float
gently with the stream; withxnrf the
trouble of. watching it little electric
arrangement has been devised whereby ft
pull upon the line cloeee the circuit and
rings a belL "1
French chemists who have recently lf
vestigated the nature of saccharine; put
ott record" the fact that this compound
traverses tbe organism without any altera
tion, And that it has an antiseptic prop-
ertv: Its sweetness is not similar o raue
sugar, as has been asserted; It flavor is
slightly saline and raw. j
According to recent investigatioas by
Dr. Chon, afl eminent authority od the
subject, diffused" daylight is not in
jurious to the eye, the great desideratum
therefore in artificial illumination Veinjr
to imitate the conditions of natural
light that is, it should not be dazzling,
fthould be supplied bountifully, skoald
nftt. fc&t the eves, and should .burn
steadil.
It has been asstimtd that the
which follows the stingintf of the nettle,
and possibly other plants, is due to fermic
acid. Dr. Haberland, of Vienna de
monstrates clearly that this is an error.
It is not formic acid that is emitted by
these stinging hairs; though just what it
m tha rwtnr m not able to determine. It
may lead to examination now that the
generally accepted belief is demonstrated
to be erroneous.
Prof. Manuel Marazta hs discovered
a race of dwarfs, not more than foil! ft
high in the valley of Rebas (Gerona,
Spain), at the end of the Eastern Pyren
ees. All the individuals have red hair.
broad faces, strongly developed jawt, Cat
noses, and eyes which are oblique, like
those of Mongolians. The males have
no beard save a few hairs, and the sexes
ire very much alike. They intcrcaarry
among themselves, live isolated -from
their neighbors, and have no chance for
improvement.
Some singular objects which appared
La Berkshire. England, in January, 1871,
were described by Rev. A. Bonney at a
late meeting of the Royal Meteorological
Society. A little before noon, ft group
of air bubbles, resembling ordinary toy
balloons in size and shape, were seen to
rise from a level space of snow to a con
siderable heizht and then to move up
md dnvn within a limited area and at
equal distances from each other. After
about two minutes they were caught by
an air-cuirent and borne eastward out of
sight Another group rose from, the
same spot and exhibited precisely the
same movements.
In recounting some of the scieatiflc
discoveries and inventions of modern
times, Sir John Lubbock declares that
recent investigations show that many old
principles have a far wider application
than wjs suspected by those who discov
ered them as, for instance, that the
formula of the law ot gravitation, as is
now known, applies to electricity, and
probably to other modes of force. The
invention of dynamite and other nitro
gen compounds, as a destructive force,
says Professor Lubbock, promises to play
an important part in the-history of civili
zation. Chemistry has yielded a Urge
number of compounds to prevent disease
and alleviate pain, and for the use cf the
arts. In connection with the sciences of
heat, light and sound, much has- become
known, the application of which has
greatly - increased the comforts and
pleasures of life, but it is to electricity
that the largest number of useful inven
tions are due. '
THE SINGING SAND 3.
I
Wide tretctiing lie tbe gleaining Bauds,
No ea with paarionate demands ,
Boats at tbeir breast,
OTi&othestorest
Tbeir few with cool-laving kanis;
Tbeae are the desert eaada,
Tbe dewrt sands whose heart a&ra
Throbe to the tan'i iirUof demire.
J?or suffers rain
To quell the pain
That girds them round in bornins tire.
Tbeae are tbe desert saaas.
But kl a breath, and hark! atouod
Like brooks that gurjrve rinderground,
. Or murmuring springs, I
Or CTOooing things j
That seem 4rembU all around,
These are the singing und.
i
The singing sands whom ea nor sun
Nor rain can stir, work caage npon.
. The taint winds more
To start and prove
Tbe melody that can be won"
From out their erried aaoR
i
; So His. methinks. with souls that be
? Far from that deep. aU-surgins sea
That seeks to bold j
And shape and moid .
. Them to its own necessity, '
; These are the desort souls;
' Tbe desert souls who poMng Ttm
In heaven-glow, eterne aa-t sugh;
- Who live nnbearl
Till they are stirred
By that broid breath, namaaity.
These are the sinzuvr souls.
Julit If. Lip!
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' PITH a;nd P01ST.;
A stable government should be one
that is ruled by horse sense. LWetf
Courier. "1
A roan's funny bone, we presume, en
ables him to laugh in his sleeve. Von
len Gazette.
On Canada's quiet banks I stand.
And cast an anxkxts ere
To that unhappy bank beyoo 1,
ITkn ll kit Ulmt 1m."
' Tid-Bfa
' It is strange! A woman who claim
td have mind of her own, take every
opportunity to give everybody a piece of
M.S'. Paul Herald.
Visitor "Do they have calisthenics at
this school. Tommy r Tommy "Ko,
ma'am, but they have measles; I m
com in down with 'em now." Tii-EiU.
' Tbe mia who does not advertise
Diplaji as much gool
As tbe tnw who doos bis Sunday pants
To climb a baroea-wire mm
, ftaartXU Brvse.
The man who can pass the warning
notice, " paint, n without testing the
matter with his finger to see if it is dry,
has sufficient will-power to give up
drinking. I
Her appetite is delicate, ,
She cannot eat to-day ;
But see her in the pantry
When ber bean has cone away.
"We have no milkmaid in these pro
saic times, n says .writer. We dont
know where vou ret your milk, brother.
but ours is made, and don't you forget
it. Bttrtington Free rreu.
To the novel colors invented for
women's clothes of "crushed strawberry"
and "whipped cream," has been added
the color of "supped Daoy. i nc ..
is probably a sort of yeller.
A rooster at Salem, 111., is so foad of
music that he will fly in at the window oi
Points on Memory.
Memory can be cultivated, of course,
but ft great deal of nonesense is written
about the so-called art of mnemonics,"
said ft professor of philosophy. "There
are different kinds of memory, to be
be sure, and all susceptible to improve
ment by constant practice. But as rule
a man's memory is strongest when follow
in sr the particular bent of his occupation.
General Grant had ft fine memory as to
rwraons. Once ft reporter met him in
San Francisco and had just a few words
with him. Five years afterwards he met
him in Washington. The General said:
Yes. I remember you,' and called him by
name, Outside of this his memory was
not extraordinary.
There are many 'freak' memories.
as I call them. They are in an abnormal
condition, of course, and strong only in
one direction. The boy who takes the
guest's hat at the hotel as he goes in to
dine and remembers to give back the right
hat has no 'freak memory, bnt simply
one he has acouired by practice. Clerk
Carr. of the Fifth Avenue IIoteL remem
bered a California banker he had not
seen for forty years. The banker did
not recognize him, and asked if he knew a
Mr. Carr clerking in the hoteL The reply
was: 'Yes, I am he. Then the banker
said:' "I will stake a groat deal tnat you
not! know me, Mr. Carr immediately
called him by name. Mr. Carr's memo-
rv. outside of names and faces, is not ex
traordinarv. Ex-Gov. Charles Foster,
when Governor of Ohio, remembered
the name of every county officer through
out the State. He now remmebers where
every gas well in the United State is
situsted and its daily output Thomas
M. Nichol knows by rote nearly every
message that President Lincoln sent to
ifce Senate." Xexe York Jfail and Ex-
preu. .
his master's house and run to and fro on
the keys of the piano, delighted with
the sounds he evokes. During one oi
the rooster's performances the lady of
hnttj in an adioining room, said to
her husband: WUliftm, don't you think
The Witching Hour.
mm t.ha mantle of nhrht o'er the earth is
And the sky with its twinkling gems is
starred,
Again on the roof of the back-yard shed
ti.. anin rw-i Pimm is neara :
AUV - , .
Then the neig boring windows are upward
rfliwvl.
And white-robed forms through the gloom
And swift from the hands of men half crazed
The showers oi dooh ana duwjku uj.
Hushed for a while are the lullabies.
And the wrathful people go back to bed;
But ere sweet sleep nas seaiea ineir eves
Tbe concert's resumed on another shed.
,- r- finxlnn Courier,
He Ijost
The occupant of an office on Lamed
street went out the other afternoon, leav
ing a boy in charge, and pretty soon a
stranger called and asked:
us Air. tsianic jnr
"No, sir.'
"Be in soonT"
"I I don't know.'
"Gone out of town!"
"Idunno. You want to see him per
sonally!"
"Yes. How long has ne oeen outi"
"Quite a spell. Can't you come n to
morrow!"" 'No ; must see him to-day. '1
The Thousand Islands.
The Thousand Islands in the St Law
fence River are mostly owned and occu
riirxl Vv wealthv men who use them as
summer resorts. George M. Pullman
and other millionaires are among the
number. The late Dr. J. G. Holland,
author and poet, owned one which he
named "Bonniecastle." Many lanciiui
and poetic names are printed on the
rocks like advertisements, telling to the
world that the owners desire to be rec
ognized. In tho early ages, when the
accumulated waters from the great chain
of lakes tore through this spot to find an
nntlpt to the aea. thev washed away all
fh dirt and loose stones and left noth
ing but solid rock behind. On this
thin soil was gradually deposited, out of
which came grass and trees, and thus the
islands were made. Near the source of
the river the rocks are large enough to
divide the water and form two channels
for many miles. The rockiest and wild
est part of the river between Kingston
and Montreal lies within the first fifty
miles from Kingston. About forty miles
down from Kingston the two channels
come together and form one stream.
A son of King BelL of Cameroon,
Africa, is apprenticed to a carpenter in
I Altona, Germany,
Banana liqmor.
The Indian Agriculturid, calls attention
to the fact that India abounds in bananas
or pl-ntains, and wonders that the fruit
has never Dccn empioveu im uic uuu-
tinn of a fermented liauor. Tbe common
ir4vi nr has been utilized for this
purpose in Malaga, and with consider-
.Hl advantage to the distillers; and it
now appears that missionaries in the
Congo region have discovered that a
beverage made of bananas is a pi eventive
of malarial fevers. A banana liquor com
pany has recently been started in India
for producing banana liquor in either an
alcoholic or non-alcoholic form," and
which can be used with eo,ual advantage
as an ordinary liquor or diluted with hot
or cold soda water.
September.
Beet of all months to remember:
Month when summer breeaes tell
What has happened wood and dell.
Of tbe Joy tbe year -has brought
And tbe changes she has wrought
She has turned the verdure red;
In tbe blue sky overhead
She tbe harvest-moon has hung
Like a silver boat among
Bhoata eC starm,-bright Jewels set
In tbe earth's bloeooroneC
Bbe has brought toe orchard fruit .
To repay tbe robins flat
Which has gladJeoed aalf tbe year
With a music liquid clear;
And she make tbe meadow grass
Catch tbe sunbeams as they paea,
' TiO tbe autumn's floor is rolled
With a fragrant cloth of gold.
r-Froafc Sherman in SL SicJtotat.
Julia is making wonderful progress in
her music lessons r And the proud
father listened intently ft minute or so.
and then said he did " notice a vasi im
provement in her playing. -J""" t
Uerald. ' '
Country People f Ensslal
As you get farther oh into Russia the
long boots of the country people snow
that you have come into the land of mud
and bad roads. All along the line you
see that monotonous beauty of the aorth-
landscape tbe wild, thica grown
forest, in which pines and bircn strive -fr
the mastery; the sluggish river now
broadening into a sedgy mere, anaceep.
oft, marshy meadows rougmy rauea
ith split timber. '
Rut. above alL the landscape conveys
to a stranger from tbe west of Europe a
sense of space, as oi a couniry
every tree is not numbered; where mere
J - . . m - 1 . I I m
is much land ana xew men, wuck
cheaper and easier to make ft ires roaa
over a new bit of land than to repair the
ruts of the old track. But when the sun
goes down behind a hill, throwing ft
bright light on the foliage of the wood
opposite foliage not of a dusky blue
frecn, dui wim uie ua. pmc
y the lightest freshest green, the green
1 . , I .V- i:V latnl-lM
oi tne in re ncs anu uie uu
oh the silver birch stems and the surface -
ol the quiet river turns to gold, men one
sees tho Russian sunset as portrayed by
Turgenefl with a glamour over it love
liness. At that moment the sight recalled
tbe landscape seen so often in stage
painting; and the Ruaaian peasants are
opera chorus peasants, dresecd'in bright
red skirts buciiled around the waist and
hanging loose over tbe trowsers, which
are always thrust into long boots. Over
the skirt they wear a sheep skin coming
down to their ankles. The women weai
pink or red dresses (the Slav likes bright
colors), bead" necklaces, a gaudy hand
kerchief over the head, and the legs,
when they are not bare, tied round with
bands. ELJama't Gaeette,
Where Fat Women About.
If the visitor be desirous of seeing the
very lattest women prouueev uj w w
tinent let him run across the Bohemiar
frontier to Marienbad, and when the
band plays he will see them rolling, IXV
crally ro.ling, along the paths k in tM
forest to the orchestra, in all degrees I
obesity, past the wildest imagination i
Siciure. Jianenoati uu mo i
ucingfat I sat at table d'hote one day
there, wedged in among la women, anu
saw and heard them eat. men i ceaseo
to wonder that they were fat, and my
opinion of the powers of the Marienbad
waters to reduce such vigorous and on
niverous eaten into moderate proportions
rose to ft high pitch.
This is what the fat lady opposite ra
ate: Soup, boiled beef, veal cutlet, roast
pork, raw herring and onions, baked
veal, then ordered "gefullte taabe"
(stuffed dove) and when she had eaten
that was ft gefullte taube herself.
CornkOl.
A mistake is one thing and
another. -
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