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VOL. XXXYL
SALEM, JT. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1888,
is mil ra luisxusst
U sappllad with all Bicmirr mUrll, aa4
U tally prapaj-ad to do work. wUfc
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VERY LOWEST PRICES
7M aar Va give a a trial
tTMUAf with mim eta.
We are told that the wolves devour
fwratj thousand Russians a year.
A tan of ropes, made from the hair ol
tlic women of Japan, is used in building
the 000,000 Buddist Temple at Kioto.
Toronto, Canada, with 150,000 inhabi
la its, 1ms no.Suuday paper, no open
(..li'irn, nor street cars on tho Sabbath.
A well known historian has made the
liscovc-y that George Washington never
lanced. There were times in his life
nl.en ho walked in a. dignified way
through a minuet. But the Father of
Cur Country never capered.
The Consolidated Railroad of Con-
ticut has adopted a bell-ringing tell
to warn employes of a bridge. Tho
car-wheels strike an automatic fixture on
the track as abridge is approached, and
the warning is then-given the who
length of the train.
Tho Portland S'afemnn speaks of
Oregon as the laiid of "the big red ap
iVs." The San Francisco Acta suggests
u looting the name in place of "Web
foot." "The Red Apple State" sounds
jipjn ti.ing, and is full of the sentiraen
til. memories dear to people who love
the king of fruits. ' , (
It is said that one effect of the Em
peror William's death, is that fully oO.OOO
ermans who fled to England to escape
con-i ription during the Franco-Prussian
w ar will now be at liberty to visit the
.fatherland without being arrested for de
sertion, as their offense was only coeval
with the Emperors reign.
A STRBAMTHAT FLOWS FOREVER
In Willow Brook I cast my hook,
And long I stood and waited;
But not a trout could I fling out
Though well my hook was baited;
Nor did complain, while yet no gain
Repaid my slack endeavor;
I only sought to take a thought
From the stream that flows forever.
But I was told by one not old
(I wondered he should know it),
The hook must skip, and bob, and dip.
And so, and so, you throw it,
And many a trout was hurried out
To pay his deft endeavor
I only sought to take a thought
From the stream that flows forever.
His trout now dead, had others bred,
For life is ever flowing:
This willow spray, unfurled toay,
bix thousand years was growing.
The ripples glaneed, and tripped, and danced,
- With steps that lingered never;
While yet I sought to take a thought
From the stream that flows forever.
The brooklet drains the hoarded gains
The mountain-hand secureth;
" Each drop is dead that fills its bed.
The stream alone endureth.
Be world on world to darkness hurled,
Succession endeth never;
Jehovah's thought hath all things caught
In the stream that flows forever.
A. E. Allaben, in Overland.
A "TERRIBLE MISTAKE."
The Japanese students at Cornell Uni
versity have a way .of cooking English
sparrows so that they make a very palat
able dish, and the Japs like themsomuch
th it they make a standirg offer of three
cents apiece for all the sparrows brought
to theni. -
Says a Washington correspondent:
."There is no reason for the . absurd're
i'ortsthat Chief Justice Fuller will have
to shave off : his big,, beautiful white
mustache in order to meet the traditional
wishes of the Supreme Court. Mr. Jus
tice Matthews, Mr. Justice Field and
Mr. Justice I amar, of the present Court
all wear mustaches.'' '
Mr. John Jones:
You are requested to draw two weeks'
salary, and for reasons with which I trust you
are acquainted, seek another position.
P. V. K.NICKER,
President Drovers' Bank.
Phiadelphia, Dec. IS, 1SS7.
How many times John Jones had read
this note he could hardly have told.
'Reasons with which I trust you are ac
quainted." lie, the cashier of the Dro
vers' Rank, dismissed for reasons with
which he was acquainted. What did he
mean? What were the reasons, and why
was he supposed to be acquainted with
them? These were some of the ques
tions which he was putting to himself as
he sat in his loom almost stupefied.
He did not fear inability to procure
another situation. John Jones was too
wc'il known and had been too faithful in
his services at his bank to fear that; but
why was he dismissed? ,
Well, he couldn't find out until the
next day, unless, to be sure, he called
upon Mr. Knicker at his home, and that
Jonn couldn't do in the state of mind he
was in just then.
of injured innocense is
The feeling
A great prodigy of memory was Daniel
McCartney, who died in an Iowa poor
house last winter. lie could repeat 20;)
hymns verbatim, and remembered what
he had eaten for breakfast, dinner, and
supeer for fortv years rark. lie could
r i-e any number under 40 to its sixth
power instantly. Arid even if given a
number above 10, as for instance 8!), he
would give it its sixth power, 496,'JSl,
.".0,'.Mjl, iu a very few minutes.
Flowers are making gardens of the
pavements in New York, announces the
Urafhi: Women seem to be wearing
th m more than ever. At four o'clock
in the afternoon on Broadway the pink,
vt-.low and white blossoms will lend to
the piomenaders a festival air. ' There
ar tortus of extravagance which every
. body tolerate, and buying flowers is one
of them. A florist asserts that he did a
bii-iness of $47,000 last year in bouquets
a-,.d boxes of fooe flowers. When to
this trade is added the dinner and call
onlers the business of this one man must
he easily over $100,000 per annum. It
n ay be safely assumed that more than
a million dollars are annually expended
for flowers in Xew York City alone.
44 A BANK IN A IIOLE."
DROVERS DEFRAUDED BT AN OLD EM
PLOYE.
What was that? The Drovers' Bank
defrauded? Why, lie used to be cashier
at the DrOVers' Bank. What a long
time it seemed since he had stood at the
cashier's desk, and yet it was only yes
terday. He didn't care now about Mr.
Knicker's note. Beth's message had in
flicted a so much deeper sting that he
had almost forgotten the note, but he
would read the article, and he thought
he should feel pleased to learn that
Knicker had been cheated.
"This morning when P. "V. Knicker,
the President of the Drovers' Bank,
reahed the office, he found a note tell
ing him that his cashier, John Jones,
was ill, and would be unable to be at
his desk to-day. Mr. Knicker is a very
careful man in business mattersj and he
decided to take the duties of cashier
upon himself until Mr. Jones was in a
condition to relieve him. lie, accord
ingly, unlocked the vaults and prepared
for work. Soon Adam, Mealie & John
son presented a check for a large amount
and, upon referring to the record of
yesterday's business, Mr. Knicker found
that a packaee of ten $1000 bills had
been deposited. He immediately de
cided to use one of those bills iu cash
ing the check, and. going to the vault,
removed the package supposed to con
tain them. In counting the money, he
found nine $1000 billsand a $100 bill.
On investigation it transpired that the
last person who. had handled the bills
was John Jones, the cashier. Before
passing into the hands of the cashier,
the bills had, however, been handled by
four subordinates, who reported that
there were ten of the $1000 notes in the
packet when they saw it. It then went
to Mr. Jones, and one of the clerks hap
pened to be standing near by, when
Jones took it. The clerk noticed par
ticularly that Mr. Jones seemed to find
it all right, but that instead of pinning
the litt e slip of paper with the amount
marked on it, which it is customary to j
place arond packages of money, he with- :
drew one of the bills and laid the others j
loose on his desk. ; The clerk was then ;
called to some other part of the room
and can give no further information.
Other evidence conclusively shows that
notwithstanding Mr. Jones's previous
integrity ho has yielded to temptation ';
and gone the way cf many others. It is
mentioned incidentally that that very j
morning Mr. Jones had said he was in j
great need of $1)00,; the exact amount j
extracted from the package. Mr.
Knicker, in consideration of Jones's
former uprightness and strict discharge '
of duty, will not prosecute. -
, John read this once, twice, three times.
He only uttered two words : "My God."
Falling back in his chair with wide
open eyes he sat staring at the wall.
The clock ticked away on the mantel
shelf, the fire grew lower and almost
died, the lamp sputtered and smoked,
but still John Jones sat back in his chair,
staring,' staring at the wall. Finally it
gradually became light, and the noise of
traffic began in the street. John moved
uneasily, looked around the room and got
up. llis head, he thought, was aching
somewhat harder than on the night be
fore, and he bathed it. There was a spot
on his cuff and he put on a clean pair.
Yes, he was sure his head was aching
harder. What was that noise? Wrhv,of
course. som; one was knocking at his
j door. He would open it and see who it
was a messenger boy. He took the
! message, opened it, ; and forgot to read
he had told Mr. Knicker that it was a lie ;
he could go now.
He took down his coat and hat put
them on, and went out into the street.
How was this? This wasn't the citt
street he had just left; this was the old
grass-grown lane running before his old
home. How the sun shone! How the
birds sang! There was the yard with
the old farm wagons and haystacks
standing at one side, and yes yes
there was the old tortoise-shell cat sun
ning himself on the fence. There were
the old milk pans, bright as silver, stand
ing in a row on the grass by the kitchen
door. But best far best of all there
was his mother who had lain in the
churchyard up on the hill for ten ycais,
holding out her arms to him.
"O, mother i O, my dear old mother!"
All was black.
When John regained consciousnest
there were manv faces around him," but
the light was so dim that he couldn't sec
wb"tvor he - knew them or not. "-He -heard
some one say, in a soft voice: "Ho
has opened his eyes. Then one of the
faces leaned forward and kissed him. It
was Beth.
"John, John, don't you know me?"
John lifted his arms and pressed the
sweet face to his breast.
"John, here is Mr. Knicker come to
tell you it is all a terrible mistake."
John didn't look at Mr. Knicker, but
kept his eyes on the sweet face close to
him. His hand gently smoothed her
hair, and he kissed her lips.
"Beth, my darling Beth, how I love
you. Of course I forgive you, and we
will go His voice sounded strange
and weak. How hard it was to talk.
"Wc will go and get married, won't we,
dear? Why, there is mother. Mother,
this is Beth. We are going to be
mar "
John Jones was dead. InteriOctaru
BUDGET OF FUN.
tttlMOROITS SKETCHES FROM
VAHIOUS souncES.
Then and Now An InTalllble Sljrn
A Man of Ability Homeward
Bound A Snmmer Day's
Idyl, Etc., Etc
He was a man of some account,
And well among his neighbors stood:
For any reasonable amount
His name was good.
He took to drink, and soon his nose
Assumed h tint as red as bloot
And now. as f;r as credit goes,
llis name is Mud.
Boston Courier.
An Infallible Sign.
"Mamma," said the sweet, small boy
oeiorc admiring lticnas. "1 knew as
soon as 1 came iu there was folks visit
ing here."
"Did you, darling?" said the fond
mother, trying to wilt him with her eye;
now did you know?"
un, you had your company voice
on." DUiVU Free lre.
A Man of Ability.
Do you know if Brown is a man of
ability, Dumlev ?"
"1 don't know anything about Brown
or nis ability cither, and don t want to
know. He refused to lend me twenty
five dollars six months ago, and 1 havn'
noticed him since. '
"He seems to be a man of financial
ability, Dumley. ' Kpth.
Working In the Dark.
"Ma and!," she said, shyly, "are mors
like sisters than mother and daughter."
"Yes?" he said, with a lingering in-
yss"
flection on the afterguard of the
which rose clear to the ceiling.
"Yes, indeed." said the cirL the rosy
flush on her cheeks making her infinitely
more beautiful than ever. 4 'Ma and I
are inseparables. We have never been
separated a single day since I was a lit
tle Daby."
".N-no? he said, this time with an in
flection on the second section of do that
went only half way to the celling and
back again.
"Oh. dear, no' the Bin went on, in
her artless way, ''and ma and I alway
said that when I was married she was
going to love my husband like her own
son, and come and keep house for us."
"Oh-nl" William said, with a circura
flex. Then he rose up slowly and firmly
and said that he had a note in bank to
take up at 3 o'clock, and as it was now
J:3t, he would go. Aud he did gov
And he didn't come back strain. ot
never. And ma said to the girl:
"That's where you missed it in not
fully trusting your mother. Why didn't
you tell me that man had been married
before? Had 1 known hg was a widower.
I would have played the 'Home for Old
Women' racket on him." Burdette.
not altogether unpleasant after all, and
John finally dispersed the constantly re.
curring questions, and prepared to go
out. He would go and see Beth, his
Beth, and together they would talk over
the matter, and he would decide what
to do.
John Jones had been sick all day. A
blind headache had begun to bother him
before he had left the" bank the day be
fore, and had grown constantly worse all
that night until when morning came he
was unable to go to his business. The
headache was forgotten now; occasion
a throb of pain would make him wince
physically, but his thoughts were too
thoroughly occupied with that unac
countable note to realize the pain.
He soon left the house ami decided to j if it was foggy outside or if his eyes were
walk up Chestnut street and thence to ; dim.
it. Tie was standing still and wondering
see uetu. tie saw no one, did not even i
feel the exertion of walkinir. until he '
brought up witha bang against a gentle
man who was going in the opposite di
rection., lie mechanically apologized
and started on, but soon did the same
thing again, and saw he' wai unable to
think about the present, even enough to
dodge his fellow pedestrians. He called
a cab and gave the driver orders to take
him to Beth's home. Before he realized
that they had started he w?.s aroused by
the sudden pulling up of the vehicle, and
the man, clambering down trom his seat,
opened the door and stood waiting for
him to get bu. He did so, and started
up to ring the bell when the driver called
after him. He had forgotten the man's
fee. He paid him, and then pulled the
bell.
"The lady said to wait for an answer,"
said the boy. . j
Oh. yes. There was that note. He
would read it.
"Dear Johx Come and see nie today.
I cannot l!ipve it. ; Beth."
Who was Beth? Oh ! he remembered
now she was the girl who had prmised to
marry him, the thief. The word, he
thought, mounded well, so he said it over
and over again. Thief! Thief! Thief!
The boy asked for the answer.
"Well," he laughed wildly, "tell her I
will be there."
John sat down again, aud again began
glaring at the wall. It was nearly 10
o'clock nowj and John got up and put
on his overcoat and hat, scrupulously
bruhed them and went out. He again
took a cab and went to Beth's house.
Incubating Ostrich Eg?s.
The ostrich egg is very delicate and
will not keeD its vitality for more than
thirty days. Now, as the laying lasts a
counle of months it is evident that half
j of it becomes worthless for setting and
; can serve no purpose except as curiosities
; in bazaars. It is, therefore, the business
j of man to provide against this improvi
! dent character of nature and utilize what
; is wasted by that force. No occasion to
go into detail about incubators; the
principle is well known. Practically
1 they are padded boxes, each holding l i
! to J0 eggs and heated by hot water,
i which can have its temperature readily
under control. The eggs are taken away
as laid, one always being left in the nest.
' Each one is numbered and dated, aud a
I list made out with its weight and de
' set iption of the parents. They are kept
in a dry room till the necessary number
is obtained, when they are placed in the
box and the heat is applied. The tem
perature is lorty degrees centigrade at
first. y9 decrees at the end of eighteen
days, and then 80.5 degrees to the finish
During the whole process each egg must
bo turned upside down every . day
at a regular time. This is absolutely
necessary. About the fifteenth day
The eggs are examined to see which are
impregnated and which not. This is
done witha box contain ins a lamp and
a reflector, in front of which is an open
ing which tits an egg supported on the
oitsi.lcbv a Huhshelf. If the egg is
clear it will not hatch; if opaque, except
at the larger end, where the air chamber
is. it troes back to the incubator. Some
times the esss is rotten, in which case
the gas formed within forces the liquid
through the shell and turns it yellow.
After 40 days tho greatest attention must
be paid day and night to listen for tho
noise of the chick. On the forty-third
day a small hole should be in the shell
near the a r chamber, which has already
been marked with a pencil. Next day
this hole is enlarged so as better to notie
any movement inside. When this i
seen the shell must be broken, the mem
brane torn away, aud the chick freed,
taking care to use the greatest delicacy
in every movement. The chick is
wrapped up and kept warm for 24 hours,
when it has a very small lot of finely
chopped greenstuff with a few bread
crumbs. On the third day it g ts a little
miik; on the sixth a little grain with
the vegetables and a little water to drink.
Ail (ha Ytar Mound.
Homeward Round.
Turser (making "dinner talk" "Glad
you made up your mind to come back
with us, Mr. Venn. Did you go every
where you intended.'
l'a Vcnu VYcp: didn't miss nothin'.
Went all through Italy, 'n' all over."
Purser "You spent some days at
Venice, of course:"
1 a Venn "Nop. Meant to, but when
we got thar, ther was a tlood or some
thin' and the hull place was under water.
Everybody goin' round iu boats, ho we
cleared ri?ht out."
Ma Vcnu "We was so disappointed!
Inttr-Oetan. """
A Summer Idyl.
When the summer sun is shininjr, and
the tendrils green are twininir, aud the
southern breee is gentle as the voices j
in a dream, then the man, for pleasure 1
wishing, takes his pole and goes otl
fishintr, to some cool, scque-tered vallev.
where disjorts the gladsome stream.
On the bank he sits and fishes, breath
ing blue, corrossivc wishes that he never
had Imm ii guilty ef a trip so void of glee;
and the bank where he s abiding, sud
denly goes downward sliding, and the
streamlet bears him gently down, toward
the sullen sea. AN hen he reaches shore
and scrambles, through the waste of
thorn and brambles, there are
I.ove'a Labor lat,
"Now, George, dear," said a fond lit
tle Newark wife to ber husband of a
year the other day, "this is your birth
day, Isn't it Y ou see I didu't forget if
vou did. and I've been working dread
fully hard for tour months to get a sur
prise for you, aud I'm going to give you
something that s all my own work.
he drew back a silken scarf as she
spoke and George saw before him a large
oil pa'nting in a frame that he knew he
would have to pay at least fo for when
the bill came in.
"Now, my dear," she said gleefully.
"aren't you surprised ? Didn't know I
could paint, did you f I couldn't four
months ago, but I painted every bit of
that picture myself. '
"You did V said George, "well, I am
surprised. How perfectly natural those
cows are."
"Lows?. Why. George,- those are
horses."
"Oh, so they are; I wasn't looking
closely. 1 was so taken up with the
natural look this old stump has."
"That stnmn! Why. my dear hus
band, that's a man."
"Oh, of course it is. I see it plain
enough now, and I suppose that is his
little clog running by hs side. Looks
wonderfully like our little Fido.
"Georce. it isn't a dojr; it's a little
: boy''
"Why. I I the picture isn t in a
i good light, is it? Let s move it around
a little. There; that's better. Y'ou have
', succeeded wonderfully with that raouu
: tain in the distance."
"George, where are your eyes? That
isn't a mountain -it'B a hay stack.
"So it is. What, am 1 thinking of?
solemn- i I ve been looking-all the tuna at that
for his pretty rustic bridge."
picture.
WORDS OF VUSDO.
Be chcerfuL A licht heart lives I
long.
Tha most profound joy has more of
gravity than gaiety in it.
Shame comes to no man unless ha
himself helps it on the way.
Pemembcr, every moment of resist
ance to temptation is a victory.
The end of nan is an action and not a
thought, though it were the noblest.
Work and play are necessary to ech
other, but they should not be mixed.
ne who buys hath need of a hundred
eyes, and he who sells hath enough of
one.
Oad may live like conqueror, a king,
a magistrate, but he must die as a
a man.
Nothing is so contagious as example;
we are never cither much good or much
evil without Imitators.
Wkkdt may prosper for a while :
hut in the loc run. he who seta a.l
knaves at work will pay them.
A man of strong character always
make enemies, but because a man has
many enemies you cannot be quite sure
that he is a man of strong character.
Teach self-deniaL and make its prac
tice pleasurable, and you create forth
world a destiny more sublime than ever
issued from the brain of the wildest
dreamer.
Those ho, in confidence of superior
capacit es or attainment, disregard tne
common maxims of life, tould i (-mem
ber that nothing can atone for the want
of prudence; that negligence and irregu
larity long continued win mane Knowl
edge useless, wit ridiculous and genius
contemptible.
voiced mosouitoe--1. huncrrv
nrincelv blood: there are wasivt and i "There's no bridge in the
things to fight him. there are rattle- You must mean that Pail fence
snakes to bite him, till he gives a howl
of fren.y, and starts homeward through
the mud.
The United States Treasury pays' $5 2, -oni
a year for reporting the debates,
whether Congress sits for one month or
for twelve, as the official reporters, like
most of the clerks, are paid by the year,
thmigh they seldom do more than twelve
.months' work in the twenty-four months
that in ike up a Congressional term. Over
1-10, Out) are appropriated for clerks to
"mmittees who have about the snugest
places in Washington. One's day's time
each week would in all fairness suffice
for the performance, of their duties, and
that only when 'Congress is in session.
When the adjournment takes place the
good clerks go home, and on the first of
every month the Bergeant-at-Arms for
wards a check for the salary due him,
just the same as if he,were engaged in
the ('overnment service every working
day in the year. It requires $084,000
to keep up the annual pay roll of the
ofiiccrs, clerks and messengers that stand
.about under the dome of the Capitol to
do the bidding of our 401 working Con
grC'Sincn. :
The door opened and he passed in, not i This time he paid the cabman, and as he
Another idol is shattered in the person
of Miss Minnie Freeman, the Nebraska
school teacher, who was reported at tho
time of the great blizzard in January last
to have saved her pupils after a dilhVult
and heroic struggle. It appears that
the story was an entire fabrication, and
was telegraphed by her loyer.a telegraph
operator, to an Omaha paper. The facts
in the case are that, instead of tying her
pupils together and accompanying them
home, two of the largo boys escorted her
home, and say she would have perished
if they had not done so. Notwithstand
mi? tho situation", she continues to re-
reive money which the stories of her
heroism had prompted kind-hearted in
dividuals to send her. The Nebraska
W't'e Journal suggests that she would do
an extremely graceful thing by turning
over the contributions she has received to
the unfortunate teachers, Miss Royce,
Miss t-hattuck and Miss Lena Weffalse,
who really performed heroic deeds on
tills ofcasion. Such an act would be all
the more appropriate because Miss Free
man is rich and well, while the other
teachers named are poor and suffering
frjm their injuries, . .
speaking to the servants who admitted
him. He f-eaced himself and didn't
move for three or four minutes. This
time it was the servant who aroused him.
wno ao you wisn to see, sir
John then noticed for the first time !
that he had never seen the man before, i
He turned to him, 'and the man started ;
back and asked hipi if he were ill. John j
paid no attention, to his question, but i
told him to tell -Miss Hughes that Mr. 1
Jones was in the parlor. Then he Fet- '
tied into his former position and did
not move again until Mr. Hughes en
tered and said : !
" Well, sir?" r
John looked np and asked for Beth.
"My daughter is engaged at present."
said Mr. Hughes.
Beth engaged when he. her betrothed
husband, was waiting to see her ? That
was very strange; he couldn't under
stand it. But he said: "Very well, I
will wait."
Miss Hughes will be unable to see
you this evening and requested me to
give you this package. I am sorry, Mr.
Jones, but I must beg you to discon
tinue vour calls.". '
Great God 1 What did it mean ? John
was thoroughly, painfully wide awake
now, and sprang to his feet.
' "1'ertha can't see me, and you ask me
to discontinue my visits ? Please tell
me why ?" . -
He was now standing perfectly straight
and gazing composedly but intently at
Mr. Hughes.
I trust that you" understand the
reasons, Mr. Jones, as well as I do," 6aid
Mr. Hughes, with a peculiar look.
Almost the identical words Knicker
had used in Irs note. John turned with
out a word and left the house. He did
not put on his overcoat, although the
night was cold. He tipped his hat over
his eyes and walked. He now realized
how sick he was. ; His head throbbed
until he thought it would burst. What
did he care? It even made him smile a
little to think of it. He pulled his hat
down hard, so hard that its tightness
hurt him. He wondered if that would
make his head ache any harder. He
: went in was about to spea to the scry
! ant when he saw that it was Beth her- ;
! self who had opened the door. He,
I however, was not at all surprised, but
' said good morning to her much as he
would have done to the serv ant,
j "Oh, John, I am so glad you have
I come why, John, are you ill?"
j He laughed and again said good morn
iing. He preceded her into the parlor
J and sat down in the same chair he occu
pied the night before. He was laughing
i ;uietly to himself all the time. His head
.; was aching terribly now, and that was
j very funny. I
I "John, dear John, tell me it isn't true.
; I know it is not. I was hasty lait night,
jjohn; won't you forgive me?"
I John looked at her, brushed a speck
j from his knee, and laughed a little
louder.
"John, John, why don't you answer
me? Why don't you tell me it isn't true?
But no, I won't ask that, I know it
isn't." She threw her arms around him
' and sank at his side.! j
! He did not move, but stopped laugh-
ling. Oh! how his head did acho. .So,
j it had stopped aching. Where wa3 hc?t
: Oh, yes. - Beth was ; with him and was
i sobbing. Why . was she crying? lie
I didn't remember, but thought that he '
was connected with it some way, he
I didn't know how. He lifted her head
I from his knee, bent down, and kissed j
ber. Kissed her many times, and drew '
her up, folding his arms about
, her. and telling her he was sorry. What
he was sorry for he couldn't have said.
I He got up and drawing her to him,
I kissed her again and said: "Good-by,
Beth."
He could see her lips move but he
didn't hear anything. He went to the
Concluded Ho V4 Mistaken.
"Miss Kacktus," said the young man
at the Arizona hall, casually rcstiug his
hand on the butt end of his six-shooter.
"1 believe the next waltz is mine, isn't
itl"
"I think you are mistaken, Mr.
Roundup," aid another young man who
was standing by, as he pointed in a care
less, easy manner at M.s 1' acktus's card
witha bowic knife eighteen iuches long;
my name is down for that waltz."
"You are right,1 Mr. Lariat," rejoined
Mr. Roundup, with his eves on the glit
tering blade. t'.ii'W'j Tiibune. .
No. surely not. What is the matter
' with this light? See, now it is a fence.
and there's a white cow lying; down
!on "
j "George Jenkins, that white cow lying
down is a ladv in a white dress sitting
on a fallen log. Y'ou're making fun of
, the picture and "
! "Ao. no, my dear, I 1 " .
j "You're just as mean as you "
t "Now. now, dearie, I 1
I "You're horrid; you just are! I'll
never paint another picture as long as 1
live. I never will." D-troti JVr Prt.
in
Indian Physic
! A complete catalogue of the contents
of a single medicine bag would excite
j the reader's wonder and provoke a smile.
There were dried hi rls in quantity,
! leaves, barks, roots and stems. Heie a
1 claw, there a tooth, yonder an car. One
package contained a beak and a feather,
another a human naiL Our search
1 brought to light small image of wood
wrapped and labeled, inese
. "1. .V-. .
re the totems mat preside over me use
Au Able-Bodied Iowa Fish Yarn. :
Mr. Thomas had a large farm on the
Missouri bottoms near Sioux City. It
was ail fenced with barbed wire, there
being two miles of such fencing on the
place. He happened in Sioux City just
about the t ime that the gorge up the
river had dammed the water to such a
prodigious he ght Foreseeing that
when the gorge broke it would be likely
to raise the water to such an extent as to
flood his farm, he rode hastily home and
made preparations accordingly. His
stock and all that was movable was
transferred to higher ground. Then he
and his hired men proceeded to impale
small chunks of meat on every bark of
; that wire fence. It was a big job, but
: it was finished just as the river began to
cover tho lower pasture lot. For twenty
six hours the water stood rive feet above
the to; of the highest fence post, and
when it receded the most remarkable
sight was revealed. From every barb,
except three, of that two miles of fenc
ing, hung a fish. There were pickerel,
has-, pike, suckers, and every other im
aginable variety. A simple calculation
j will show precisely the size of the haul.
i It was a iive-wire fence, each wire hav
ing thirty-six barbs to the rod, making.
as any school-boy can tell you, a total of
ll"i. .00 barbs to the two miles of fenc
ing. There were three barbs that had
caught nothing, so that there were only
lir, iu7 lish. Perhaps the most remark
able part of the story is to come. From
that day to this in all parts of the Missis
sippi river there have been caught just
three fish, the exact number that didn't
get caught on our friend's barbed-wire
fence. Jowa Fall Register.
Tommy' Itoniarkablo Standing,
Pa "Tommy, how do you staud
your class r"
Tommy "I'm the sixteenth, pa."
. . -. . i . t : . . i .. i
A few days later pa asks Tommy " "h
aain. . , , trt nt fne medicines, and without
the pouches the skill of
tors would avai nothing.
...... i i . , , 1 lie mLuaiiou iuw tuv ii.iiiuiii
l uy wie outer u:iy you iuki me juu ,
were the sixteenth.
"How do you stand now in your class? j JE
Have you gone up any . I h
I'm the seventeenth;' The initialion k
A Clown's Expensive Fan.
The Russian clown. Turoll. of the
Pctersberg Cioiselli Circus, trotted a
well-trained and knowing-looking hog
out into the arena, and caused it to carry
and fetch sundry objects in obedience to
his orders in the most approved canine
style. The aud ence was delighted, and
insisted on an encore, whcuu-on ue
clown threw a paper rouble note into
the anna and ordered the pig to fetch it
to him. Piggy trott-U up to the note,
sniffed at it disdainfully, and finally.
notwithstanding the vitupciat-ons and
obAiigations of the clown, deliberately
turned its back upon the note and trotted
away. On feeinir this, the ,ciwn
shrugged bis shoulders, and addressing
the pg, exclaimed: "new, alter ail, you
are not to be blamed! If a mm I ke
Wishnegradski tthe Minister of Fnanre)
is unable to raise the rouble note, surely
one cannot expect a poor ignorant pi,
like youre'.f, to do so'." 'Ihe Min.ur
of Fmaace was indigcant. and on the
follow in Jr day the clown was summoned
into thef presence of General Giesci,
chief of the city police, and ordered by
him to jail lor a period ol tnree uys.
On emerging from prison, the clown
waited uhtil ore night, when Ge:.eral
Gresscr, wi;h his family, was present at
the performance in one of the boxes. As
soon as he taw the chief of police, the
clown drove a whole troupe of trained
pigs into the arena, and made them squat
l wn all in a row on chair. Thereupon
he explained to the public that, during
his imprisonment, he had attempted to
pass away the time by learning German.
and then, with the object of bowing the
audience what progress be bad made, bi
turned to the pies, and addressed them
in that language." Crimencing with the
smallest pig, he exclaimed, as be ten
derly pa'ted its snout: "You are only a
little pig. but you," he added, to the
next one, "are gresscr (the German patois
for bigger), and you, turning to the
third, "are also greater, while you.
rning to the fourth, "are a very big
fug." Ihe audience lairiy roarea wnu
aughter, but General Greater considered
that he had been grossly and publicly in
sulted, and immediately left the budd
ing. The same night the down was
arrested, and when bat heard of, poor
TuroiI was on his way to Siberia, where,
at hard labor in the salt-mines, he will
have time to reiect on the folly of pok
ing fun at the chief of the Czar's police.
THE LITTLE SCHOOL, HOUSE.
In Um litUa white fcbool booa Just ntvWti
hill i
na'if hid by the maples an 1 clow to tS mCl
Whom wido prali branches alori
i6rt shade
As w lUte oel to the music tbe cU mill whrs '
mad
With it bun and whirr, it elatter and din.
It tnanhalvd us oat, and tnher I im in.
A pJaaaxater rrtinj plac couU ne'er roava
bera found,
Than this roomy an 1 airy old pw froand,
Tbe allow wera nesting und-T tho ravra.
An i glimpse of sky fch nin Uu through tha
leave. '
Making picture tn p!e.iinjr on memory wlL
That Uve touUvt ttoart aitteos aa Ihosm day
they raralL
Tbe signal for entering now falW on th er,
TU the olJ school U-ll ringing, in tows loud
and clear.
To hasten tbe loiterer that laga by th war.
And hid tb Uny otieaoeaa trom Ormr play.
Refrain from their mitrbief, laughter an-f
fan.
Be earnest and stodiooa, for school has begun,'
On through tb entrance that leada tint
'room,
With never a sunbeam to lighten tbe gloom.'
We enter the srboot room so narrow and low,
Through the wile o;t window the ununrr
winds blow;
And the murmur of voice float out on tbe
air.
As tbey answer tbe ro'.l call or join in tbe
prayer.
Oa tbe rough wooden bencbe. narrow and
low.
Are bright faces abinin;, with bt-a'.th' ruddy
Over exercise poring some are earnt intent.
While an occasional urchin on muk-hieC U
U-nt; i
Fearing tbe penalty of being detaind after
cbool.
Or committing to memory some unpteaaaat
rul
We gaze at the old Heks, grimy and black.
And a host of fond memorie carry u b- k
To tbe bright days of chDlhojd so happy an J
E'er sorrow or trouble coall drire them
away;
Reluctant to leave it, I r'1 on the sill,
Breathe a prai-r for tbe a bool boo just
under tbe LuL
Good Iloutkerpimj.
Onr Eyes are Close Together.
The effort of the War Department to
secure a field glass for the service of
than the one they now
"Yes, but a new loy was put
class yesterday."- Zir-r-M iitimjs.
in the
A (Jiieor lisli.
Two gentlemen who had come into a
restaurant one day, had scarcely seated
themselves at the tabic when a waiter
rushed up and asked, "What shall I
bring you, gentlemen:"
"oh dear," said one ol the gcnt.cmen
impatiently, give us a little respite!
All right saw
amieared.
1 J . . . , , .1 L!ll
They haa been looking over me oiu
of fare about five minutes, and were
waiting rather anxiously for the waiter
to return and take their order, wheu he
came up suddculv, aa if in breathless
haste.
"Sorry, gentlemen," said he, but the
respite is all out!" Ate it-rk Aim.
medicine men ditlcrs, as do ? nc hools
'hnr profits -to practice, l-i the far
north the candidate is compelled to de
vour, alive, a voung dog, while the as
sembled crowd duce around him. In
other instances physical torture alone can
lift one to the diginhed position of med
icine man, and some enthusiastic aspir
ants hive been known to endure excru
ciating pain for days in succession.
As to the cures per formed by the In
dian doctor, some of them belong to tbe
is a nine respite : , catalogje of the remarkable. Tbey fail
1 the waiter, aud dis- , oftenelhan they cure. which shows that
their knowledge of the healing art is
limited. They will gorge a patient with
food when nothing at ail should be
taken into the ktomacb, -and will place
one in the sweat tent when common
sense ought to teach them that such a
prescript iou means speedy death. I
have known the Indian doctor to pow-
wow over a sick child when the mother
begged him toadminifter a simple rem
edy which would have brought relief.
The mortality among Indian children is
largely increased by the foolish incanta
tions ol me lauaeu meuictn men
, Ifruke't Mifjazine.
Vcalinr; With Lanatics.
Manv anecdotes are narrated to
IV HUltU IUC uenouuj
it isry weak thing,"
hefflTii?Fxainined it awhile
Could Tlilnk So.
Two men on a railway train began to
book which the newsboy had
left on the seat
"I think
said one of the
ago, and I see tluthe characters are
wtak and ill drawn.''
"I like it very much," the other man
replied. "I think it is one of the finest
pieces of fiction ever produced in this
country." '
"I don't 6ee how you can think
that." . ,
"1 do. for, you see, I wrote it." Ar
lanitaa T rattler.
a ari ; oni aronf Hnwn r. ciw. greater power
-crV Rnrl wnnrlsrpd wbv the horse, icn.l ' ue, has discovered the fact that the eyes
wairons didn't make any noise. How i ot le average
silently they went along; how quiet j
everytmng was
He couldn't even hear
his own footsteps. He looked at his
i watch and saw that it was nearly 12
! o'clock. The bank had been opened
' nearly two hours. He would be late for
! business. Well, he would hurry.
John had lorgotten that he was no
American are closer
together than those of men in foreign
countries. The double glass, known as
the field glass, now used, is weaker than
that used in the armies of Europe. It is
of only from five to six powers entirely
too weak for the purpose. The only
glass they can get of sufficient power is
a single spy-glass, wnicn is neiecuvu "
gu
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w rin 1 1 crptl It nlS Dead COUlU aCUc O IV tiuuu uai iuikuiwu t.uu waa ; ' , 1 - 1 ' " , . , ,
woncrea ii ms neau c c y nM n( ch TWm-.,' nnk h that it does not take in a broad enoug
naruer. n " . - , , , "7 . cii Th. ht. mil tare field class in
have it. He d dn't notice where he was only rememDerea tuai ne wouia Delate tVT ,"tK wi,i r,mn .rmv
goin,, but madden,., W. ; 1- . , ' ''""L" 2 XTZZZ
py uniocKing i iic uwi ui xiio jiwuoc, e'- , " - - - - i ----- Q J ,U
ing up stairs and sitting down. Ah!
there was the aiternoon paper, xie
would read the accounts of the misery
the
of others and smile to think how mucn
more miserable he wa than any ot
them. He picked it up, glanced it
over, and was about to lay it down
again when his attention was arrested by
this headline;
started to go behind his desk. Mr,
Knicker confronted him, and he suddenly
saw it all again. The note, the news
paper and the night before at Beth's.
This man, this benevolent-looking old
gentleman, who was frowning at him
now, had branded him as a thief.
" "It's a lie! it's a lie I" he shouted.
Great God, how his head ached. Well,
adopt them by the War Department,
but it was found that the eyes of the
glasses were so far apart that they could
not be used by Americans. The Depart
ment is studying now to overcome this
diiheulty. PltH:ir'j Dhjxitch.
A broken wire can snap In twain in
stantly the intercoar9 o MtoOM.
The Manager" Spch.
It was in a Washington theatre one
night and an opera company wan play- ;
ing. One of the singers was taken ill,
and it was necessary to notify the audi
ence of the change of cast. The manager
elected to do it. "The fellows will hear
a speech to-night," he said. "The-
things are always made ridiculous and
silly, but I'll show you how to sjeak to
an audience." v
He went out liefore the curtain. The
audience gave him a reception and then
waited for his speech.
"Ladies and geutlemen," he began,
"Washington has always U-en the home
and centre of all that is artistic. .Music
has been more carefully nurtured here
than anywhere in the world, and the
best and greatest of oper "
At this point a voice in the gallery
called out "l.'ats !" The manager stopped,
looking blandly at the audieuce.
"Mr. Smith is sick this evening, and
Mr. Clark will sing in his place."
Then he bowed and waUed off. He
did not comment on th speech to the
listening crowd behind the scenes.
A D05 Rescues His Mistress.
Mme. Burnot, an elderly Parisian
bourgeoise, has good reason to be grate
ful to her Newfoundland dog Phoebus.
fihe was preparing her soup when she
suddenly felt herself seized from behind.
and five ringers were planted on her
throat. She-had been attacked by the
son of her concierge, a big. hulking
scoundrel, who had deserted from the
array after having robbed one of his otfi
cers, aud was living with h;s parents in
Paris. Just as the would-be murderer,
who was on the lookout for plunder,
pulled out his jtocket-handkerchief lor
the purpose ot gagging nis n-nui, mo
dog Phoebus fprang at him and made
; him relax hs grip of the woman. . The
scoundrel was frightened by the animal
and ran away, but was captured by the
police outside the house, lie has been
; sentenced at the assizes to eight years
penal servitude. London Telegraph.
Prince Bismarck Wife.
Prince Bismarck's wife is said to be a
typical "hausfrau." with never a thought
above petty domestic detail. The
Crown Prince's wife is of the same
nature. In their eyca it is a little short
. of infamous for the Empress to read
nhilowumv. advocate the higher educa
tion of women, and take an intelligent
interest in the affair of the Lmpire and
ot the world. Yet her breadth ot in
i tellect and force of character have never
nrevented the Empres from being
1 model wife and a model mother. ft
j York Tr&un.
illus
trate th tact required in dealing with
lunatics. Among the inmates of an asy
lum near Philadelphia was a man who
was considered perfectly harmless but
who. having no home, was allowed to
remain there, lcing employed to show
isitois around. The doctor went on
the roof with him one day to see about
repairing it, when the man suddenly
turaed and suggested that they should
jump down to tbe ground together. Im
mediately the doctor replied: '-o. uon t
let's do thaL Any one cn jump down.
Let's go down and see if we can jump
up. The lunatic considered the point
well taken," and agreed.
The head of a private aylum in Eng
land was in the bathe room watching a
number of lunatics bath, wheu one ol
them called out: "Let's duck the doc
tor," and they all took up the cry. See
ing his danger, tbe doctor said at once:
"Ad right, boys, but suppose yon give
a cheer for him urst ; and the noi of
the ir cheering brought the keepeis in to
his rescue. The same doctor was in a
room with a lunatic who by soma means
bad po-vseased himself of a carving knife.
The lunatic informed him gr.tvely that
he htd !een ord lined by God to cut him
into little pieces, and much as be re
gretted it, he should be obliged to do it.
"Very well, "said tbe doctor, "of course,
if that is the case, I shall make no at
tempt to prevent you, but I see your
knife needs sharpening. Allow me to
fetch a grindstone for you. And no ob-1
jet t ion being raited, the auick wilted
doctor made his escape. 2c Pvrk JW.
PITH AND POINT. ,
Military mrwurcs Kight foot, left .
foot.
A headlong man U not a man with a
long head.
Only a question of time A fat trot
ters record.
An "old stamping-ground" The
Post-office.
The crow very rarely leaves a place
without caws.
Half a loaf would never salary
thorough loafer.
There is no suth word as "fair mong
the fruit preservers. Their nwtto is:
I can."
Shakespeare was not a broker; but
who eltc has furnUhed so many slot a
nuotations.
Peal estate owners don't like biMren,
but they have no objection to Iy rents.
Cvvrler.
Staion Cry: "Will you have a han
wm, genthmanP Pretty girl solto
voce: "I wonder who'd want a homely
oner rhdtJ.ljJ.l.i &1L
In the bright lexicon of youth jhcre is
00 such word a fait but later ou, when
the youth gits intobume for hi mail i,
then the word shows up ia good shape, "
She (at the races s "What's the
trouble at the judge's stand. George P
He "There is some dispute over the
last beat. She "Aren't their thermo
meters all alike, George r"V
rber wa a young man in Japan,
Who wrote verm aftmr tbia -aa;
But tbe populace ro-,
As yon may rappovi. .
And tbey wiped out tual wretched young
tUMJX-
A grandma with a sroa!l boy boarded
a car the other day. and tbe co. lector
rang the indicator twice. "Wht that
forr" be asked. -That's two o lock,"
answered the boy. In a minute or two
snother passenger g"t on, and a?ain tbe
register rung. -Three o'eb-ckr ei
Slaimed the old lady a she bobbed
around on her seaL "My stars! but
how time docs fly in the city!" St
York .Ynrt.
Flannel Made of Testable.
Vegetable fannel is a textile material
largely manufactured in Germany from
the pinus sylvstris. 1 he hbre is spun.
knitted and woven into undergarments
and clothing of variou kinds, for which
medical virtues are claimed. J here are
two establishments near Breslau, in
which p ne leaves are converted into
wool ana flannels. The procesa for con
verting the pine needle into wool was
discovered by Mr. Pannewitz. In the
hospitals, penitentiaries and l-arrarka of
Vienna and uresuu, D.anaei tnaue irom
that material are eicluively used tine
of their chief advantages ia that no
vermin will lodge in them. The material
is also used as st titling, closely rese.nb.es
home hair and is one-third of its coat.
When spun and woven tbe thread re
sembles that of hemp, and is made into
jackets, spencers, drawers and stockings
fiaonel and twill for shirts, coverlets
body and chet warmers and knitting
varn. Tbey keen the body warm with
out heating, and are very durable. The
factories are lighted with gas fro t
1 reiose ot these manufacture.
Grant's Lnrk ia Selllaf His Book.
Ltouard Seit told aa interesting
story the other dy, illustrative of Gen
eral Grant tradition! good luck, as
well as bis lsck of what is called shrewd
cca in commercial dealing. When
Grant was engsged in writing bis me
moirs the rry Company, which bad
I teen publishing some of bis w.r arti lea
in tho C' fimrg yi&jtii', offered him
f I0.1KH) for th ronucript ot h:. bwk.
Webster, tbe pui.isber, alo naj hi eye
on the alert for the forihconiing work,
and one day called on the general to in-
Suire about it. Grant a aeated at h.a
ek, about to attach his signature to
the CHtmry Company contract, which
Uy before him. It had aprently never
occurred to him to ak more f ur hi bte
rary production. Webster intimated
that he would like to make an offer.
If it would not be impertinent. h
said. "1 would like to inquire bow m h
the On'ir? Company agree to fyjou.
'Ten thouoand dollar, General Grant
said.
"Then I wouldn't iga the contract
jut yet," said Webater.
Why notf
"Because I will pay you fVl.O-K
General Grant opened hi eye with
amaretnenL It ha I not occurred to bun
to set ao hiuh a value oa hi work: he
bad not thought of dickering leyond
the f.rst offer. But be did n.t sign ibe
contra L
Afterward Mark Twain. Weler'
relative and buioe-s -artner. called and
told the general that none of the i Umb
ers had o:feied him what bis ruanurri t
wa worth. "I will irive you sinc.O
and a royalty, be said. N Weltcr v
Co. became Grant publiabeta. The
firm h. grown rich out of Grant buok.
and Gram's family has been iJd over
5uO,tO0.
And Grant's book, svi I Mr. Swett,
ia con-'usion, "will becon.e a clasatc
more valuable than Ctsai's Vmmc. t
ries. I eonaider it the jrreateat ach.ev.
ment of Geoeral Grnl' wonlc.ftil lifV
to have written such work .itb death
looking over hi shoulder. Cep
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Chicago frwit dealers are bnytng large
tract of land ia Sonora, Mexico, to en
gage in ot an ge culture.
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