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8 1'ATi: Ii;MOCItATIUTICKi:T
I'OR UOVEKNl R :
ELI AS CAHH,
of Edgecombe.
I'HK likutexant-govekxor :
It. A. DAW UTON,
of Alleghany.
'OR HKCrtETAKV OF BTATK :
OCTAVJUSCOKE,
of Wake.
Kou trkaburkr :
DONALD HAIN,
of Wako.
roR auditor:
It. M. FUUMAN,
of Buncombe.
KOR hVlT. J'UBLJC INSTRUCTIOX
J.C. HOALBOROUOII,
of Johnston.
FOR ATTORNEV GENERAL:
Fit AN K I. OSBORNE,
of Mecklenburg.
FOR JCIJE TWELFTH DISTRICT !
GEORGE A. SIIUFFORD.
FOR ELECTORS AT LARGE i
CHARLES B. AYCOCK,
ROBERT B. GLENN.
CONVENTIONS.
National Dem., Chicasro, June 21.
National People's, Omaha, July 4.
National Prohibit'n.St Louis June 28
PRESIDENT POLK DEAD.
In another column is given
an account of Col, L. L. Polk's
sickness, death and funeral.
ste of the most prominent char
acters in America is no more.
But fw men if any have ever
had a larger personal following,
besides he was the official head
of the largest fanner and labor
organization the world has ever
teen ; but few men have been
more criticised, misrepresented,
misunderstood, and abused. But
such is, in a greater or less de
gree, the lot of every reformer.
Of course, those who have been
; instrumental in perpetrating
the wrongs tbat exist, those
who are tbe recipients and ex
pectant recipients of the spoils
from such wrongs, tog ther with
those who prefer to suffer the
ills that do exist to risking the
results of an attempt to estab
lish equal justice, are, as a rule,
against all reforms that must
be fought for. Tbe former are
opposed to any reform, the lat
ter are for only such reform as
are readily granted by the pow
ers that be. Therefore, the road
or every reformer is hard, and
nothing but heroic patriotism
and devotion to duty cau sus
tain such a man. But now that
Col. Polk is dead, those that
fought him most bitterly while
living, must all admit that no
purer public man ever lived.
While we ourselves think that
bis judgment was often at fault,
yet no ona who knew him could
ever question his honesty of
purpose. He was a man with a
big heart, inspired with nobI
impulses. He was genial, warm
hearted and brilliant, in abort
a man of wonderful personal
magnetism. He had no supe
rior as an organizer, and if he
had possessed the 8ame admin
istrative ability to direct and
execute, he would have been
one of the greatest leaders of
men this country has ever seeu.
How often do we see men en
ter public life por, but sudden
ly become rich-how, the pub
he seldom knows. Col. Polk
dies poor, and there probably
has never lived a man who'
could have prostituted his pos'iJ
Hon for greater flnaucial train.;
irft not only man who
tie was not oniy ui
coold not be bought al anjj
prire, but be was a man
w,,
pared with tbe pu pre m est con
temt ,a InainaUon any eu. -
,e.on of a deal nr a i
bowerer sUght or seemingly
platmble. Had be possessed
tbat ability marked by rreat
forestebt and cool Judjanent,
bad be been as wi-e as be was
pure and brilliau1, he would
bv l-eeu tbe Washington of
this Indntrial revolution, he
would bave stood in history
without a peer. Ills sudden
death does not lessen cur belief
that th band ol Providence ia
directing thi great morement
and the cauae of reform.
DUTY OF SOUTHERN DELEGATES-
The Democratic Cmvention
will be in session next week at
Chicago. We very much feir
from the present outlook that
Cleveland will be the nominee.
Tbe flno Italian band , of Wall
Street has tntten in its work.
If such a meeting as the Syra
care Convention of kickers Lad
been held for any one besides
Wall Street's candidate, the
unit id and associated pro's dia
patches and the metropolitan
dailies would havo branded the
men in the convention and their
candidate as bolteri, disorgan
izes ar.d enemies t ) good gov
ernment. They would have
been denounced as traitors.
Then all the little papers and
the machine politicians would
have echoed the same senti
merit. Wall Street ha been so
successful booming her man,
that many bave been made to
believe tint there was a con
siderable popular movbinent
among the masses for Cleve
land. But what sentiment there
is for him is largely manufac
A " T ytt t
turea. jnow uieveiana nas cer
tain lualities that Americans
will always admire. But his
views on matters of public
policy and national legislation
snow mat ne nas a narrow
i j t
horizon, and that he is influ
enced largely by his immediate
evlroninents. He does not tro
tor. . I
uu mo tanu, ami at
one tune sserned to be afnid
of the issue, while his finan
cial views are in direct conflict
witn the interests of the great
iurnuunurai ana weaitn pro
. i j i t i .
ducing sections of the country.
We trust that Hi a r1Wa.to
"""O-"""
uou tut) o-iuLu ana mo west
will control or at last be able
tn imnrp nnon thu
V.if
the imprudence and folly of
nomtnating Cleveland, when
there are other men who would
stand some reasonable chance
of beiug elected. The Chicago
convention, whoever may he its
preference, will not knowingly
invifA ,i00!1f rp. . , .
invite defeat. Th danger is
mat tney will not fully realize
th e situation. And hra lips;
the great duty of the Southern
delegates, and especially those
from North Carolina. Gentle
men, be honest with the con
vention, and tell them the situ
ation as it is.
We had hoped that Blaine
would be nominated at Minnea-
polis. In the
nrst place, we
think be could have Deen
- t I
r beat-
if y,
it he
ten, in the. next place
should have been elected.
he
would bave been less objection-
aDie man anv Kennh Uran Wfl
know, lla is opposed to the
a " k l
force bill, and his reelnmnit.
lj) . . I
rvwj
,uct 10 otep t"waro iree trade.
in iact Hlaine is a better Pemo-
crattban a nmh f
- va 11 a a III . I II I l!H I. I
nent men in this State who are
labelled Democrats. Then per
.11 Til . .
nuuauv uiaino is a man with
many admirable traits, He is a
big hearted man with many
generous and mble impulses
On th K.i it ,
" " w.iva uauu xiarrison is
a narrow, prejudiced, cold and
designing fellow. He is the
most dangerous type of a man.
He would rob you and then nrav
ior you. But the logical can
didates of the Republican party
would have been McKinlev and
Tom Heed, f Maine. Ther
' vuijf nvu fiistui-
guismng ideas of the Republi
can patty one, legalized rob
bery, the other, brute force
Yes, it should have been Af
Kinley and Reed.
Piles 1 Piles !! Itching Piles III
Symptoms Moisture; intense itch
ana stinging: most.af
mgiH,
continue tumors form, k' "
bleed and - ulcerate Tnmr"
alien, and Ik SiShE;
tumors. At 4ng Kml?
for 50 cents. y aiJ
Da. Swatnie A Rnv f- k JJecawe5uere Is ho injus
oc 8-tf WAYX,?h?..s, J lhe.ch and.the poor.
-yttn, w
a ciiitM i -
Xiov
flhe afcle. lie wcoia .toi, nave to
JcontribaL of hb own small earn-
t a meeting o a. number or Uazi toward iyiff for carrying
friendn of tb late Co!. L 1..
in in Ifa1.?h. June
j I3tli, jt w f eWlnM to
tfS?
tufift '2id. at 12 o'clock, for tbe
purpose of oran'zlni; a Polk
Memorial Awwclation, looking
to tbe erertion of a suitable
monument to hi memory.
To thin ei:d, the undersigned,
a committee appointed by paid
meeting cordially ii.vite the
co-operation of those interest
ed in this State and through
out the country.
Mario.v Butler,
rj. McK. Goodwin,
S. B. BuouowToji,
A. J. Da Liiv,
S. O. Wn.sos,
V. J. Peele,
J. J. Tiiomah,
Corn milt e
ao i:itN.Mi:vr ownership.
Ex-Gov. St. John, the famous pro
hibition lecturer, is with the people
on ino-t leforrn measures. His
sj-eech in this city Thu.s:ay nijrht
won much applause.
By the kindness of Mr. E. J.
Forney, one of the best stenogra
pheis in this city, we are able to
give his remarks on the government
ownership of railroads verbatim as
follows :
"I would put the railroads under
the absolute control of the govern
ment, to be operated at cost, in the
interest of the people, as our mail
service is operated to day. A Dem
ocrat said to me to day I am op
posed to that. Why? Because it
centralizes the power of the govern
ment Into a political party. Let us
s'e il it does so or not. this is a
government of the voters, by the
voter.-, for the voters, and there are
twelve million voters in this coun
try. I would rather have the pow
er centralized in twelve million
voters, than in Jay Gould and Van
derbil'. I have more faith in the
peo le of this country, than I have
in any one or a dozen railroad kings
in this nation.
"I want to call your attention to
one fact. The railroad companies
work the cod mines in Pennsylva
nia. You buy a bushel of coal for 8
cent, it starts West, and in ten days
It is at Laniard, Kan. That coa
has now reached 50 cents a bushel
rvanaas corn is wonn iz cents a
bushe!. You have them for Rhat
cost originally 8 cent", an article
that has been converted into four
bushels of western corn. A bushel
of this corn shipped east grows at
least to be worth 40 cen's.
"Notice then a Pullman car comes
along furnished by Jay Gould with
New Jersey's finest hand nn it. nnrl
a distinguished politician. They
p, "p at.thls coal mining station,
J""u mey nave a piece ot music, and
tbe miners come out from their
dark holes and gather along the hill
side and listen to the band. This
distinguished politician is brought
out and introduced to them, nnd
they give him cheer after - cheer.
He commences to say "my fellow
miners." l say he commences tn
say niy fellow miners, because
'I
w ,s nc one 01 yu- '1 know
Uh.1t it ia tn not a rana
mead, I know what it is to have
the e hiUuJs callous and blistered
Xou ..have "'V. deepest sympathy
iiUt tnaak tne Lot.tl wnen r t j .
Congress and put the railroad sys-
tem under such control as Gould and
Vanderbuilt, you get 3 cents for
your coal. See your wages, a dollar
a day.' And the band starts up
Hail Columbia, happy land, the
train moves on, and the miners, all
fall into line and vote with the old
P'' ln a few days this car stops
at Laniard, Kan., and around the
dePo is a great crowd of farmers.
Ane Dana P'y". the distinguished
statesman l- brought out and he
says 'ray fellow farmers, I call you
ixij- .triiuw iarmers, oecause l was
raised on a iarm, my father was a
farmer, my grandfather was a farm
er, and my great-grandfather was
farmer. But I have benn honored
by my fellow citizens, and r havo
been to Congress. P.ehnlrl
prosperous country.' The hand
p'ays Hail Columbia. Hannv lAnd
and tfie tiain
farmers all fall in and vote the old
Ktl ' lh2 corPratio sob
"7," u' F'uuu oetween tne ttvo.
vvnat the minor sinrl iMv-rj! t-t....
.'5lr Pyi m equalizition of prices,
,lhe-v demand that tha profits shall
be equally divided between them.
. . -w a t. IHUl." Willi I
and tney are going to have it, too.
r""? people' befre the fight is ovor!
w.r,i n .,,1.. , "
on the of the car sat a boy who
ivnr ecus a tro. in !
L,rT"5' a"? I aid my frien 1
wimi is i i u Tii a t raw v i r x i
" ' ujutt-ci i XXO cola
umi n aa received a telegram
, A K- uir t,,e deatn of bis
. ' cw..i.fK- said he
i cap miinn la- i ia
kwrm A 1 IT 1 inn -- . -
11 IT iin a Tl 1 nraa iA(i: i
?S:Just,.ten-1 8aw flCro&s e
aisle two distinguished looking gen
tlemen. I ascertained that thpv
--- vr a tri i in r r in a iaiii
were members nr th at0. vt.
. ..v, ion xoris
gisiature. The
sented a million nf n, .u.
. uvuaio, 1 11 M
member of the Honso hair a mS.i: '
Just then the condnprnr
the aisle in the performance of his
duty and this boy who was going to
t o aeatnoed of his mother paid
lull fare, and the condnetnr tr..
to these distinguished PPnllomnn
acnssthe way and each of them
handed out an annual pass.
auu wou neipmg us we propose to
do
rnv wan me laeuuaiir.v i.0
Wee? fte r!?fl an Por man of this
LI'?Jy
" io expense oi tnei
poor man does not nhw
paying full fare, but he dna
want to pay for snvr.!,. T
tell vou it. u r- "7. . 1
that there should be a necessifv
carrying millionaires and politicians
...v luiiiitaii. HFlflUf" I tr x
ll: '::Z Vr "ve,n?nt and what ia
icsuii. lO Uav. the rnnrno( l
in North Carolina i'
. A . 1 1 1, rwm 1 IIM Flh . .v.n.
in
iuo man service. Did
","Z p:ami about 1
mdl
. , i,ia. ver hear that it
rX rate -f po,ta
leLs ? Vh!? f'u tho' 8and
if, , rf J . hy do - ou hear no com.
wouia tQ i the result? This
Vftnli! travel to New York
on eqtullty with tbe una aero
the rich man. Xi man shoald rid-
at the exuen oi me puunc. ac
rnper o.
North Carotin having a
of pre luce ahouM put it in
ork oa the same terms as the
T . . I 1
apecuuioi nnviujc i ujuu.-mmiu cr
load. Toere wo j! J be equality and
an opportunity for all mankind to
get along in the world. I w s ur-pri-ed
when I wa told that la 1S90
the democrats of North Carolina
put h plank in Iheir pUlform de
manding the control of the railroad.
by the eoyernment, and fast the
other day entirely left it out. If It
was right I.i 1890, why is it wrtng
now ? Who was the pai ty afraid of
offend log? Was it the farmers?
No, they were afraid of offending
the railroad power. Uou knows
that neither the democratic nor re
publican party d irej offend the tail
road monopolistic" power of this
nation. All this cry about contrali-
Prog. Farmer.
NATIONAL LE31ANI)S OF
THE FAltMEltS ALLIANCE
ANL INDUSTRIAL UNION
OF AMERICA, AS ADOPT
ED AT ST. LOUIS IN 1880.
1. That we demand the abolition
of National banks, and the substitu
tion of legal tender Treasury notes
in lieu ot National B ink notes, issu
ed in sufficient volume to do the
business of the country on a cash
system; regulating the amount
needed on a jer capita basis as tf.e
business interests of the country ex
pands, and that alt money issued bj
the government shall be legal tender
in payment of all debts, both public
and private.
2. That wedeinand that Congress
shall pass such laws as shall effectu
ally prevent the dealing in futures
of all agricultural and mechanical
productions; preserving astringent
system of procedure in trials as shall
secure the prompt conviction, and
imposing such penalties as shall se
cure the most perfect compliance
with the law.
3. That we demand the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
4. That we demand the passage
of laws prohibiting the alien owner
ship of land, and that Congress take
early steps to devise some plan to
obtain all lands now owned by
aliens and foreign syndicates; and
that all lands low held by railroads
and other cprporations, in excess of
such as is actually used and needed
by them, be reclaimed by the gov
ernment and held tor actual settleis
only.
5. Believing in the doctrine of
"equal rights to all and special
privileges to none,'' we demand
that taxation, National or State,
shall not be used to build up one in
terest or class at the expense of an
other. We believe that the money
of the country should be kept as
much as possible in the hands of the
people, and hence we demand that
all revenue, National, State or Coun
ty, shall bo limited to the necessary
expenses of the government eco
nomically and honestly administer-
ed.
6. That Congress issue a suflM-
eiii amount oi iractional oauer cur
rency to facilitate exchange through
the medium of the United States
mail
7. We demand that the means of
communication and transportation
shall be owned by and operated in
iue interest oi tne people, as is the
United States postal system.
Mil. ALEXANDER ON THE
SITUATION.
Capt. S. B. Alexander, on his re
turn t ) Washington said that Polk
has a greater following among the
country people than the city and
town folks are disposed tojivehira.
iur. Alexander, being a candidate
for renomination, took a run nvpr
the district, and while he found the
sentiment in the city pretty nearly
uu way mat is, nothing is to
i feared from the Third nartv
movement he found that if thp
Demociats do not make a wise nom
ination the desertions from the pr-
ty are atl to be dangerously 1a r OA-
He found the farmers waiting tn
see what the Cnmatro onnvoniinn
win do, and he fears that if a Dm
O uwvr&j
nounceJ anti free coinage man is the
nominee there may be a ernnd deal
oi trouble in the State. Ex.
THE
FA KM ERS FOOT
HILLS.
THE
tne Alliance Echo, of Chatham
county, says : Thre is a great deal
oi iaiK nowadays-annul, thn unnr
mous amount of taxation the people
would be compelled to bear, if the
government were to buy the rail
roads. We would like to know who
paid i or these roads and who is pay
mg-tne expenses now. Certauly
the people who pay the freight bills
auyx uuy UCKeiS QO It. "rao if on
back, an you'll find the farmer and
aboring man has it to bear after all."
Beecher'a Engagement Ring.
une day Mr. Beeeher walked from
Amherst to Battleboro, Vt, to give a
temperance lecture his first public ad
dress. After speaking, he walked baci
the entire Journey, using the monef
ea to take him there and back , for
uooss, -lBy reserving enough to buy a
' aaga-gqid ring. The ring, worn out
by hard labor while at the west, and
mended time and time again the
mending paid for by sewing at. night
while others slept was, when we came
to Brooklyn, so thin It could only be
mended by lining, was worn long after
that until, after a quarter of a cen
tury's use, it could be no longer re-Jaii-edT-
Today it rests close to me as I
write sacredly kept as the result of
Henry Ward Beecher's first earnings by
public speaking at the age of seven
teen! .
I once heard a young lady say, show
ing her engagement ring: "There 1 I
always said I would never be engaged
if I could not have a diamond ringl
And then I thought of th old, worn
ryig, so carefully treasured, which, half
a century ago, cost eighty-five cents,
and questioned if there was on earth a
ring more precious. Mra. Henry Ward
Beeeher in Ladies' Home Journal. "
Every person under twenty-one years
of age needs nine hours rest out of the
twenty-four. So says Dr. Cold, an
eminent German physician,
A curious story from Oregon relates
that a young child in Eugene City fa
growing faster on one side than on the
oiner without apparent cause,
WHY' HE SfCRE OTF."
a Gauaua That Maal Bala for Om Maa4
7 DWtku
' "No," aid tb old drexoxaer fiercely,
I play no games of chsoc aaymor.
Dot even the siapleet kind, for money."
"Woat you pitch pexmiesf pmuted
hii companion.
Tht leart of iir he saii, TisiUy af.
fected.
'Why notr Asked the other.
"Do yon tee thia dolbuT he laid, tak
ing a cart wheel from hij pocket. "Well,
thereby hang m tale. Listen. Ten years
ago I wm, and had been for fire- yean,
traTeling for a big diamond importing
house in New York, and aa canal I car
ried with me a large n amber dt gems,
often baring aa much aa $50,000 worth.
One day four of as, all in the same line,
met in Denver, and that erening we were
matching dollars in my room. It was a
hobby of mine, as it was of one of the
other men, Frank H , who was as in
veterate a matcher aa ever the late John
T. Raymond was. Well, we drank and
matched, and kept at it until we began
to toes up at five dollars a toes, and the
other two eocn backed oat and watched
us. I guess we were both pretty drunk,
for before I knew it we had made a pot
of $100 and were tossing best two in
three for it. I lost, and lost again, and
then having no more money, I put up a
diamond against his pile. I lost that,
too, and then put up two against his
money and what had been my diamond,
and that time I won. I think we were
both half crazy now, for Frank pulled
out one of the pocketbooks from the in
side of his vest and laid it open on the
table and asked me angrily if I dared to
match it Of course I dared, and I dared
more.
"I put down beside it all mine, valued
at wholesale rates at $50,000, and he
emptied his other vest pocket to an equal
amount. Our two mends tried to stop
us, but we were wild and would listen
to nothing. Frank threw first, and 1
called 'tails.' It came 'heads.' It made
me shiver. Then I threw 'heads' and he
called 'tails, and we were even. I don't
know'how I felt as he picked up the
dollar, and I looked at those glittering
gems, for I don t know anything clearly.
though I had a vague idea that some
body wonld be ruined forever on the next
throw. Frank tossed the dollar to the
ceiling and I called 'heads.' It Btruck
the floor and rolled over toward the reg
ister, am rour or us made a rush for it,
and Frank fell headlong. The dollar
had dropped through the grating and
was lying on the closed shutters of the
register, just below.
" 'Get a match,' I almost shrieked.
"I stepped back and my foot struck
Frank. He did not move. I bent down
and shook him. He was still. I tried
to cry out, but could not. The other
two men caught hold of him then and
turned him over. His face was blue and
the blood was gushing from his mouth.
He had died in an instant. The three
were sober men in a second and at once
alarmed the landlord and sent for a phy
sician, but he might; as well not have
come. He told us death had been in
stantaneous. I put my diamonds back
into my pockets and took care of Frank's,
and the balance of the stakes I divided.
taking what I had put up and setting his
aside, and the next morning we started
home with poor Frank's body." .
"How about the dollar in the register?'
asked the listener. "Who won?"
vii, saia me oia arammer. witn a
start, "I almost forgot that part of it
I never thought of that dollar till just
before we left, and going back I fished
it out and put it in my pocket and this
is it. It was 'heads. "
"No wonder you don't gamble any
more,' exclaimed tne listener, with a sigh
of relief. "Let's go and take a drink as
a forgetter." .
"And I don't drink any more, either,"
said the old drummer quietly. Detroit
x ree .tress.
A Congressman Loses s Vote.
She had come down here with a large
party, and was feeding her aspiring
mind with the intellectual feast sup
posed by all admirers of great men to
be perpetually spread in the house of
representatives. She wanted to see "her
congressman." All the gallery occu
pants call them "my congressman," with
the accent on the "my.-" She slid along
in the front seat till she brought up
close to the wire net that confines the
ambitions of the press gallery and keeps
tne news sate. A busy young man sat
as close to it as he could, waiting for an
explosion of oratory.
"Young man," whispered the old lady,
"do you know Mr. Lodge Henry Cabot
ljOdge, or Massachusetts, when you see
mm?
The young man thought he did.
"Won't you show him to me?" the old
lady whispered imploringly.
Why, yes, there he is now." and he
pointed down in the pit where Mr. Lodge'
Was looking at the speaker's chair. His
hands were sawing his pockets as usual.
and peeping out from the festoons of his
curly beard was a real live cigar. The
dear old lady looked at him with rapture
tnat slowly dwindled away and changed
to a pained, shocked expression. She
wiped her spectacles and looked again.
Ihe sight was too much for her. In a
i. . , . , . . .
tout oi norror sne. gasped, ".But he is
impking a cigar!" ,
TT la a 1 1 i
jt es, ine nearness young man re
iponded promptly, - "he is. He does it
tvery day." -"But
is it right In the houser
"Yes, indeed."
"Well, I don't think it is nice, and I
shall never let James vote for him
again." Kate Field's Washington.
Differs from Many Chnrch People.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has exnressed
a very decided opinion in favor of the
Sunday opening of the World's fair. She
says one day is as good and no better
than another. What is wrong on Sun
day is wrong on Monday, and to close
the fair on bunday is to prevent thou
sands of people from seeing it. She is
surprised that Frances Willard objects,
and suggests that if the churches are
wise they will attend more particularly
to their own business and let national
affairs alone. Exchange.
Righteous Indignation.
Much indignation is felt in literary
wUv.va uj luc yunmg on saie, as has
been done, of the personal letters of the
late Miss Booth, long editor of Harper's
Bazar. In the many years which she
fvTSA Rurally re-
Drottln0f lf0m
ESXr ra-wS'
crs were on teW 'of cardntima
With Miss Booth, and their letters of ten
coupled with business frank references
to private affairs. Such will natnrallv
StlWWoo trr .. . , I
resent this publicity. I, is understood
that the letters are scheduled and nA.
tised with rates attached. The instinct
which thus sacrifices good taste and pro-
priety to business enterprise is to be de-
plored. Her Point of View in New York
Big Hole, small Ota.
A little daughter of Charle nvi r
Wilbur, Wash., while mrmW
alone, fell in badcer hole, and it tir 1
two hours' hunting to find her, and it
was only by accident she was found at
all, as nothing but her little hat, which
Was tied to her hmul. wna .tA
ibove the surface. Her mouth and avm
rer? nearly filled with dirt andsfte had
tried until she was too wmV
laore.
O0O3 AND ENDS.
Undo Sam baa 4 5, COO oQ vena.
Soot chraretu baud niake 2.000 a
d7. V
Savannah claim Us ok'v-t American
theater.
Many of th new h&tpin b.-v U.''lt
weight ailrtr head.
Next to a cooJ rane a cuod clock
U of naramoant iturhWtatHt in th
kitchea.
Vaahingtoa i th wt! city of ita
ix in the (Jutted State hich luts no
factory girla.
Londoners pay U-twrwn w0.000 and
f 100.000 a rear for water auld tinder
the name of milk.
To clean willow furniture um salt
and watr. Annly with a nail brush.
and scrub thoroughly.
The piwent plana of th Japanese
eovemment will double the navy of
9 -
that country within ix year
Reccut eiperiiuents how that with
proper appliances ordinary gaslight can
be used iu making phutograplia.
China has nt coined ailver dollar
which will Iw accepted In trade in place
of ths Mexican and Japanese coins
heretofore used.
Defiance, la., clahna to have a living
skeleton hi the pt'ron of a man who is
5 feet S inches in height and weighs but
sixty-five pound.
The numbor of eggs in a six noun J
eel in November U fully 9.000,000. Un
der the microscope they measure eighty
to the linear inch
To keep nickel silver ornaments and
mounts bright rub them with woolen
cloths that havo been saturated in
spirits of ammonia.
A Georgia farmer is living with his
sixth wife. Etch of his five other wives
died on tho Friday preceding the second
Sunday of the month.
The carp is about tbe only cud chew
ing fish, the coarsely swallowed food
being forced up to their throat teeth
for complete mastication.
When Deafness Is a Sweet Jloon.
Henceforth a "musical attachment"
Is to turn bicycles and tricycles into in
struments of "music," it is to be called.
Let us trust that the performers will be
merciful, and not forget, when they
start upon "a musical ride" in company,
to see tliat their wheels are set to the
same tune in the same key. Even so,
difference of pace would presumably
give a rather singular effect, and make
a hash of melody, even if it brought
out some startling novelties in the way
of harmony.
However, as everybody allows that
musical ideas are getting scarcer and
scarcer, and that there is not much
more to be done with tho scale under
present conditions and limitations, tlie
new departure may prove to have prac
tical value. It will inspire the musi
cians of the future with ideas of which
they would never otherwise have
dreamed, and no doubt produce a spe
cial school of composers at which even
Wagner would have opened his eyes
and shut his ears.
But the solitary rider will enjoy him
self the best The different effects of
mud, ruts and a newly mended road,
and up bill and down hill upon the
same air, should be a perpetual joy.
And when the beautifnl invention has
extended itself, as surely it will, to
cabs, omnibuses and sewing machines,
we shall be a musical nation indeed.
London Graphic.
Must the Uluefisu Go?
Are the bluefish deserting us? The
boatmen of Buzzard's bay say that this
gamy fish is "not in it" this year.
A few years ago, when the waters of
the south shore were alive with bluefish,
great shoals of menhaden were seen
everywhere. Finally it was discovered
that these feed fish could be profitably
seined and ground into oil. Factory
after factory went up along the shores.
In a few years the depletion had become
so great that many of the factor!
"went up."
A few straggling shoals of menhaden
yet remain, and where those are found
the bluefish congregate. Hut in the
hot chase for bait the remaining men
haden .will ere long be exterminated.
It is to be feared that soon -nothing
but grotindtish will remain for the nr
dent angler along our coasts. It. is a
regretable drift of things, for half of
seaside health and pleasure denartii
with the gradual disappearance of the
mackerel and bluefish.
let it is an inexorable law of life
that one cannot eat his cake and have
it too. It is for the legislatures to say
whether greed shall finally abolish the
occupation of the hand liner. If they
neglect to act decisively in the near fu
ture there is "(rrowinar evidence that
their action will come too late. 1? ston
Globe.
All Ills Pills llc-qui-alhcd to llim.
An eccentric old female of eighty
three years, who was very wealthy, h.-is
died in Lyons leavuiar behind lir
peculiar last "will and testament
which appears to be intended as a post
humous joke at the expense of the
members of the medical nrofessinn
In grateful recognition of the intelli
gent and devoted care of Dr. X.." so
runs a clause in the document "who
has enabled me to attain a ripe old
age, I bequeath to him everything con
tained in tny bonheiir du jour. '
Alter the death of the estimable tes
tatrix the executors unlocked tho ar
ticle of furniture in question and found
in it still unopened, sealed and corked.
all the pills and potions prescribed for
the deeea-sed by Dr. X. during the past
ten years. Paris Cor.' London Telsv
graph. -
Eating Beed Birds.
A lively scene took nlace in a well
restaurant recently when a
prominent citizen, who has a temper
like a bowl of Tobasco sauce, ordered
reed birds and found a shot in one of
them. The old fellow didn't mind tbe
- hot much, but themanner in which he
what the trouble,
He the prop-.
" JT ? IT1 Tou eat
g beaks," said he.
Crunch the bones up just as if they
x 1 .. .
were P" of ' "e roat. - Now, watch
Suiting the action to the words, the
old gentleman began to masticate a leg.
The first time bis jaws came together
he found the bird shot by the aid of a
drew a sbxiek ot laughter from his wife
na.. made the old man dance with
rage. The poor wife had a strusrrie
throughout the entire meal to suDnress
ner binghter, and It was doubly hard,
for other diners were enjoying the old
man's discomfiture without" taking the
HvsnKla v,; V t" -
change.
Prospeetors in Oreeon have raftP.nt.lv I
1 diaoovered the only mine of powpiati.
nrTi ht wWwxa m ' - -5F,
14 U WsMBsesw
. A tw o t trial of a young was in New
fork for lh murder of his wife was
marked by ure a-culiar feat ore.
Many r4 tbe details f the evidence
were t stom and tiorribl for any
womanly wous to wih to read, er n
In th prifacy of bcr chamber. Yrt the
courtrootn was crowded with women
not of the criminal class, lust f wealth
and education, who listened to every
word given by witnesses or lawyers with
keen interest
It is becoming the custom in large
eitiea a very bad casta-, which has
long been followed ia 'England and
France for women of this cLuss to fre
quent courts whenever a sensational
criminal trial Is going on, no matter
how tragic or questionable the circum
stances reveajed may U.
So peculiar a movement in social life
demands some investigation. We do not
believe that it is caused by any immoral
tendencies in these women. Licentious
books do not circulate among educated
American women, and they certainly
bave betrayed no murderous procUvi
ties. There is no country in tbe world
in which affection, modesty and mutual
rcajiect are found tnoro dominant in the
home life than hero.
How can wo account, then, for this
morbid, nnclean taste in matrons and
young girl whose own lives are inno
cent? A shrewd observer of hmuan nature
says, "The shortest road fr a woman
to vice is by a monotonous or an idle
life."
This aphorism explains as well why
foreign princes take to gambling for
pastime, and why those titled ladies of
Great Britain who seek only a diversion
flock to the high court of justice, aa it
explains why American women are bo
ginning to do the same thing. Youth's
Companion.
A Limoges firm Int introduced anew
process of firing porcelain by means ol
petroleum or residuum oils, which giv
a very pure heat without Fmoke oi
fumes.
The learn. J Dr. McEattcrll, In hit
artielo on the rapidity of thought
states that it require one-thirteenth ol
a second t 'diMiiiguIsh U-.tween red
and blue
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