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fl o 5 dif v . A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VIII. NO. 1 MAXTON, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1893. GI. CO A YEAR, n ol CHILDREN'S C0LU3O. A KITCHEN-GABDEN CONVERSATION, The Beetroot met the Celery " Good morning ! n said the sweet root ; Crisply the Celery replied, " Hoy are you, Mr. Beetroot ? " Tin weary, sir," said Mr. B., Qf living near to posies ; Im always hearing people praise The lilies and the roses. That lily's white and rose is red, I know by observation, But why don't folks give us our turn Of silent admiration ? " " Surely because," snapped Celery, " They scarce see past their no3es ; Vin whiter than the lilies, sir, Cbtt're redder than the roses." St. Nicholas. TIIE LEGEND OF THE WHITE BCSE. Summer is the time when you go to the woods to gather wild flowers. And you come home with your arms filled with daisies, dandelions, daffodils and wild roses. But the wild roses are th sweetest. Have you ever heard the story of the wild rose which tells you how it canle to be so sweet and pretty? This is the story as the German mother a tell it to their children. Once upon a time, when the sun was shining and the flowers were springing up out of the earth, the big double roses objected to the space which the little single roses occupied, and they began to crowd them away. There were big June roses, bold-faced cab bage roses, pink ox-heart roses, and gaudy white beauties. And they all objected to giving the tiny single rose space, and crowded the roots 6f the little rose, until it could not grow at all. One night, the little rose in grief left th9 big rose garden and fled to the woods, where it hid beneath a tree. Next day it spread its roots and blos somed, and when the dew touched it, there was a lovely fragrance, sueh as i had never known before, when it was in the big rose garden. Mother nature was very kind to the little timid rose that had sought her protection, and she promised the rose that it should grow each spring in the forest where it would be found and plucked by the best children in the world. New York Ledger. HOW A BOY BECAME A PRINCE. All the boys of the Farm, "Field and Fireside circle are doubtless readers. Some are more given to constant read ing whenever they can find a spare mo ment than others. It is our purpose tc help cultivate a taste for'good reading. Historic and biographic subjects ar always valuable and usually interest ing if treated by writers who know the art of writing. Among the periodicals that come to'our desk, which we can commend, is "The Whole Family," published in Boston. Under the above heading we find a historical sketch which is as interesting as any novel. We quote entire as follows ; Czar Peter the Great came near be ing poisoned. He was invited to dine at a distinguished nobleman's palace. There was a little boy engaged deliver ing things at the kitchen,' and while waiting about he heard the nobleman give particular instructions for tho preparation of a favorite dish of Pe ter'B. Afterwards, while the cook was ab sent, the boy observed him pour from a vyd into the dish something which he, believed to be poison. Menschi koff was the boy's name. Peter cal led to him and asked . hirn some ques tions, to which he answered sa happily that the Czar said : "I will keep thee in my service." The youth accepted the offer with joy. At dinner time, without orders, he entered the banquet hall and sta tioned himself behind Peter. When the dish appeared he bent down and whispered "not to touch it." Peter arose, and with smiling face, made pretence to take the boy into an ad joining apartment, where Menschi koff explained hiB suspicion. Upon the Czar returning to the table tlif Boyarn again offered the dish, and ivter asked him to sit at his side and partake with him. The nobleman col-"r-fl, and replied that it became not a Kiihjcft to eat the same as the emperor, 'ho, seeing his embarassment, took the plate and offered it to a dog, who swallowed all its contents. - But in a few moments it began to run and howlt hen staggered, fell, and soon expired. The Boyard was secured, but the next morning was found dead in his Mensehikoff had not to sell rolls :'y longer. The first step to his rapid fortune was mad., and his descendants i- a most powerful family- in Itussiw t"-(lllV. Hows strange that the first Prince Meiibchikoff waa pie boy at Moscow. THE NEWS IN BRIEF The Latest Happenings Condensed and Printed Here. In 1880, William Qarren was convicted of horse stealing in Henderson county, N. C, and sentenced to ten years' im prisonment. He escape! and settled at Walking Rose, Ga., where he became ono of the "leading citizens," aad served a3 a policeman. He returned to North Carolina on a visit five years ago and was arrested and sent back to prieoo. The Governor has just patdoned him. The State Farm at Roanoke, N. C, employs more than 800 convicts who have under cultivation 6,000 acres. There will bo an enormous crop thi3 season. The cornfield contains about 2,009 acre?, and will yield about 100,000 bushels; the cotton crop will be about 1,000 bales. More than 3,000 bushels of wheat have been harvested, and tha pea crop will amount to about 10,090 bushels. The bank of Leesburg, Fla , Yager Bros., proprietors, assigned Monday. Its liabilities are about $40,000 and assets fully $90,000. The valuation of Georgia property, as reported by the State assessors, shows a falling off of $12,000,000. The estimates were high, and the prospective Echool funds were based on increased reeeipts from taxation. The reduction in returns from taxes indicated Ly the assessors' reports will hare a serious effect on the schools of the State. Pat. H. Mehan shot and killed Robt., McBride, president of the cotton seed oil mills at Newnan, Ga. Mehan claims McBride insulted his -wife. The steamer San Juan caught fire off the Chinese coast. Chinamen on board climbed into the rigging where the flames followed them until some dropped to the deck while others leaped overboard and were devoured by sharks. Some took to life-boats and so overcrowded them that ths sharks leaped up from the waters and caught their victims. The panic was frightful. One hundred and eighty-two live3 were lost. A DISASTER ON THE TENNESSEE. Three Ladies and a Little Girl Drown ed While Pleasuring. Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Geo Reif, wife of the president of th? Chattanooga Brewing Company, Mrs. Chas. Rief,wife of the secretary and treasurer of the Chattanooga Brewing Association, Miss Lena Wagner, sister of Mrs. Chas. Reif, and Nellie Weber, the four-year-old daughter of Chas. Weber, traveling audi tor of the Chattanooga Brewtring Comp any, were drowned in the Tennessee River, about six mile3 from Chattanooga. The steamer R. C. Gunter carried the Magnolia Pleasure Club up the river for a day's outing. A dancing barge was lashed in front of the steamer. The yacht Eva, owned by Carl Painter, conveyed her owner and three male friends, keep ing about one hundred yards in advance of the steamer all day. Mr. Painter's guests were taken on the barge in the afternoon, and a party of ladies and gentlemen went on board the Eva. - About 4:30 p. m. .the party signalled the Gunter to slow down to make another transfer ef the yacht's passangers to the barge. The yacht was brought up to the barge with her prow to the barge'3 bow. The steamer's course was not wholly ar rested, and the yacht vas quickly drawn under the barge. Ed. Ransom, Carl Painter, Charles Reif and Mrs. Charles Weber were rescued by the steamer's boat. None of the others came to the surface, and their bodies have not yet been recovered. It is thought they were caught under the yacht as it capsized. RAMMED BY A WAR SHIP. T'ne III Luck of a Steamer from Cooaaw, B. O, . London. The British cru'ser Forth rammed the British vessel Kirkby, Cnpt. Brown, off Start Point, in a fog on Saturdy evening. A bai bole was knocked in the Krkby's port side amid ships, through which the water rushed in immerse volume. The fires under her boi'ers. were soon extinguish'. d and soma of her compartments filled with water. The nudamaged compartments kept her afloat 1 he Kirkby was afterwards towed to Plymouth by the Forth. The Kirkby is from Coosiw, S. C. , July 12, arrived at Plymou'h, August 4, and at the t'me of the collision was proceeding with part of her cargo for Rotterdam. The Forth had just l ft Torbay, where she had been with th-5 b!ue manoeuveiing fleet. Took in the Town and Got Killed. Jacksonville, Fl. J. W. Storry, a white man employed as woodsmin at Herlong's turpentine camp, was found murdered under an oak trio on the out skirts of Lake City. He was last seen with a man named Davidson. Th-J twe bad been taking in the town over Sun day. 6t rry's head was crushed in both bef' re and behind, and be lived only 8 shTt time. He formerly belonged in Dooly county, Ga. " Largest Flour Mill Burned. Denver, Col. The Crescent Mill, the" largest flouring mills in the West, ls burned. The loss is over $300,000 IT'S AGAINST AMERICA. The Behring Sea Tribunal Has Ben dered its Decision. Pabis. The decision of the Behring Sea Tribunal of Arbitration was handed down at 11 :07 o'clock. The five pointe of Artic'e 6 are decided against the United Btates. A close season is estab lished to begin May 1 and to continue until July 21. This close season shall hi observed both in North Pacific Ocean and the Behring Sea. A protected zon is established, extending for sixty miles sround its islands. Pelagic sealing is allowed outside of this zone in Behring Sea from August 1. The use of firearms in sealing is abolished. The American arbitrators have ex pressed their satisfaction with the texl of the decision. Baron De Courcel, after the decision was rendered, thanked the arbitrator; for the close and intelligent attention they had brought to bear upon the case. Lord Hannen and Senator Morgan, in replying to the president of the tribunal, acknowledged his courtesy and hospi tality. The American arbitrators believe thai the regulation decided upon by the tribu nal mean practically an end of pelagic sealing, and that they are better terms than were heretofore offered to th United States by Great Britain as a set tlement of the question involved. , GOV. TILLMAN'S TRADE-MARK He Wants Permission to Use the Palmatto Tree. Washington, D. C. Governor Till man of South Carolina has applied tc the United States Patent office for per mission to use the palmetto as a trade mark for South Carolina dispensary whiskey. The Patent Office officers are reticent on the subject and say that it is not the proper thing to give out infor mation concerning trade-marks until they are issued. Then the subject is a public ne. The facts in the case are that some time ago Attorney General Townsend, of South Carolina, came to Washington, and it is reasonably thought that his mis sion was to secure the trade mark desired. The examiner to whom the application was referred denied it. He maintained that the siatute provided for the issue of trade marks only to persons, firms and corporations, and that a State is neither. The attorneys then applied to Commis sioner f Patents Seymour. Their brief sets forth that a trade-mark is incidental to the right of trade and that a trade mark cannot be denied a State without a denial of a Spate's right to trade. It then reasons that the right of a State to trade is not disputed and - cites mail service, the government control of railroads in Germany, of tobacco in France and of wines in Hungary. The Coranussioner's decision as to whether the trade-mark sought shall be issued will be made pub lic within a few days. Bi-Metallism in House of Commons. London. In the House of Commons R' bert L. Everett (Liberal) asked that the House, in view of the fact that a bill for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 24 to 1 had been introduced in the Seante of the United States, declare that the time was opportune for Great Britain and the United State3 to establish a durable par basis for go'.d and silver. Mr. Gladstone replied that the bill re ferred to by Mr. Everett in no way repre sented ths views of the United Sates government. Its introduction, therefore, could not form a suitable opportunity for communication with the American gov ernment apart from the question whether the passage of such a bill by the Congress of the United States would justify the opejiing of communication with that country. A Destructive Engine of War. It is said that the hew field-gun ol the German army is the most destruc tive engine of war of its class ever in vented. It is a three-inch gun which can bo loaded and fired in one-third of the time required for the old weapon, and with almost double the effect and precision. Explosive shell is the only projectile. This is charged with anew powder of secret composition that scatters thousands of splinters over a circle of nine hundred feet, whereas during the Franco-German War the pieces of bursting shell fell within a circle of forty or fifty paces, and not more than seven or eight were wounded. Argonaut. The House to Pass the Repeal Bill. Washington, D. C. At a meeting called by the committee in charge of the bill for the unconditional repeal of th purchasing clause of the Sherman act, held in the Arlington Hotel, about 40 members were present, representing every section of the country. They compared notes and the meeting felt satisfied that there was a majority in the House of not less than 30 in favor of the Wilson bill. A Prospective Bride Commits Suicide. Indianapolis, Ind. Mifs Rose B dley, ng d 17, rr"tty, and a most estimable young lndy, who was to have been mar r ed Monday, committed suicide Sunday with morphine. MAKING MAPS. GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THIS ART OF LATE YEARS. They Have Become, Eoth More Re liable and Cheaper Some of the New Processes Now In Use. fy AUTOGRAPHY the art atd I business of forming maps and - charts of a country has improved to an immense de gree during the latter half of this cen tury much more than the art of printing and ten times more in its fun damental principles. The stupendous strides of civilization all over the world, and the grand march of immi gration from the East to the Pacific in our own country have, with the vast railroad interests, made great demand upon map makers. The business gives employment to a perfect army of quick and careless workers, as well as to plagiarists and copyright thieves of all kinds. In fact, one of the oldest map artists in America boldly accuses other map makers -of stealing his work, and inti mates that the United States Govern ment map makers boldly copied the work that took him years of labor to produce. If this be true there is prob ably no parallel case on record where a Government has granted a man a copyright of his work and then been the very first one to infringe upon it. G. W. Colton is the oldest and prob ably the best informed geographer and .map maker in America. For a full half century he has been buried among charts and statistics of the world, and is generally recognized as authority on everything connected with map art. According to his own statement he has made accuracy his motto sometimes at the cost of severe pecuniary loss. Dur ing the past forty yeara he has been a constant visitor to the geographical, topographical and geological depart ments of the Government at Washing ton, and in past years the officials there learned to depend greatly on his knowl edge and judgment in their own re spective departments. Locked in hi repository here in this city is the valuable accumulation of a life's work, among which is a collec tion of engraved copper plates, some huge in size, and representing over half a million dollars in value. The writer called upon the remarka ble man who has spent fifty years over the draughting table without the use of a spectacles, and was received in the room where all his work is done. Mr. Colton is six feet in height and spare of build, but straight as an arrow. That his seventy and odd years hang lightly upon him can be gathered from the fact that his face was unwrinkled, his eye bright, the sight unimpared, and that he works fifteen hours a day stand ing and seldom leaves down town un til 8 o'clock in the evening. "That the Western surveys of the War Department are most incorrect," said Mr. Colton, 4 'has often been proven, and from the careless manner in which it was carried on I cannot wonder at it. The first step in map making is to get all the authorities, and secondly to put them together. Now, when one finds that these au thorities differ vastly in their surveys as well as in their opinions, there is only one way for the map-maker and that is for him to go to work to find Out for himself. This is where my fondness for aecaracv has cost me bo much labor and money, and if I do not get my reward here for it I shall expect it hereafter. "There was an editorial in a morn ing daily here recently which said that to-day the world was so well-known, and surveyed that there was no excuse for incorrect maps of familiar local ities," Mr. Colton remarked. "The truth is there are few mans in exist ence of countries that are accurate and correct. If our country, that has been so well surveyed, suffers from inaccur ate portrayal of geography, why should not our maps of Central Africa and South America be far more incorrect. You would scarcely believe that the Government maps of our western coun try actually show postoffices where Uncle Sam's mail is distributed, in the wrong section of the country, but such is neverless a fact." There are two or three different pro cesses of making cheap maps that ars in general use. Some years ago a type-founder in this city announced that he had com pleted and had ready for sale a full j set of map type, by which most any map could be set up. He had shore lines, rivers, dots for cities, asterisks for capitate, mountains and lakes ga lore and in all conceivable shapes and forms, so that it was almost possible if one hunted long enough for the correct match xi a crook or turn to be found and worked into form. For a time quite an excitement preyailea among map-makers, but finally it died out, and the scheme was laid on the 6helf for really soientific purposes, but as Mr. Colton remarked, all processes have their uses, and this type method is in use to-day for setting up real es tate maps, plots and charts, and is quite satisfactory in this line of work. Colors are put on in cheap pvocesses about the same as in lithography only of course one is obligod to utilize the olectrotype plates upon a cylinder press. In three railical colors seven different tints can be produced by the minimum number of plates. This is the way colors arc produced to-day on certain daily papers. It may be an enigma to some how seven colors or tints are secured by three standard colors. It is by combining two to produce a third. Globe-making has had a complete revolution within the past ten years. Globes were formerly made of disks of wood glued together, then mounted in lathe and turned down. The surfaco of it was then sandpapered, polished, painted ; then tho maps were painted on by hand and the lettering stamped on, each name separately, requiring a vast amount of time, labor and ex pense. Such globes as these retailed for from $25 to 0150, brass-mounted according to size : and lucky was the country school that had trustees liberal enough to furnish one "for the use of the scholars. The first step toward cheapening the process was about twenty years ago, when the segment globe made its ap pearance. This was made by pro ducing the earths surface with the map stamped upon it, in twelfths, made of pasteboard, and which when wet were pressed by a mold upon a globe made of plaster and then the joints were carefully closed up. After paper boxes, barrels, plates, row boats, etc. , came into general use they got to making globes hollow by prees ing the twelfths into form, and when dry joining them together with glue and pasting the map, also printed in twelfths, with the laps, upon the form, and thus got the retail price down to 03 and $5 each, the $3 one being very small indeed. Is ew York News. Wrote Sermons While Asleep. One of the most remarkable and puzzling cases of somnambulism is one told by the Bishop of Bordeaux. The subject was a young ecclesiastic at the seminary. The Bishop was so deeply interested that he went nightly to tha young man's chamber. He saw him get out of bed, secure paper, compose and write sermons. On finishing a page he read it aloud. When a word displeased him he wrote a correction with great exactness. The Bishop had seen a beginning of some of these somnambulistic sermons and thought them well composed and correctly written. Curious to ascertain whether the young man made use of his eyes the Bishop put a card under his chin in such a manner as to prevent him seeing the paper on the table before him, but he still continued to write. Not yet satisfied whether or not he could distinguish different objects placed before him, the Bishop took away the piece of paper on which he wrote and substituted several other other kinds at different times. He al ways perceived the change, because the pieces of paper were of different sizes. When a piece exactly like his own was substituted he used it and wrote his corrections oa the places corresponding to those on his own paper. It was by this means that por tions of his nocturnal compositions were obtained. His most astonishing production was a piece of music writ ten with great exactitude. He used a cane for a ruler. The clefs, the flats and the sharps were all in their right places. The notes were all made aa circles, and those requiring it were afterward blackened with ink. The words were all written below, but once they were in such large characters that they did not come directly below their proper notes, and perceiving this he erased them all and wrote them over again. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Aliminum. There are many misconceptions about aluminum that are widespread, and which it seems difficult to oorreot in the public mind. Aluminum is not, section for section, a very strong metal. It is only one-half as strong as wrought iron. It has a very low elastic limit. It is not rigid, but bends under a transverse strain readily. It is in its alloys that its utility com mences to appear. With eight to twelve per cent, of copper or aluminum brozne we have one of the most dense, finest grained and strongest metals known. Hardware A new England hrm of shoe manu facturers has twenty-two retail agen cies where shoes purchased of them are shined free of cost as often as the wearer desires. HAMMOCKS. MAKING SUMMER COUCHES IS A YUCATAN INDUSTRY. Cultivating the Sisal Hemp on Plan tationsHow the Fibre Is Pre pared for Market Pret ty Girls at Work. PEOPLE who use Mexican ham mock perhaps would like to learn something about their history previous to their ar rival in the United States. To begin with just imagine yourself in a very large field in the famous peninsula of Yucatan, under a scorching midday sun, and not a tree anywhere near. This field and several adjacent ones are planted with "agave silalensis," an evergreen succulent plant indigenous to Yucatan. It grows well in stony soil and requires little care. The dark brown natives, perspiring in the intense heat, are removing the young shoots which grow out from the roots of the mature plant. These shoots, which they call "sons," have been left to gather strength from the parent plant during one year; now they are to be transplanted elsewhere ten or twelve feet distant from each other. This space is necessary because when mature the leaves are about five feet long, and as they are tipped with a very sharp point, the laborers must have room to pass between them. Af ter three years' growth the leaves are ready to be cut ; the plant continues to yield filament for about twelve years, after which it runs to seed and the stems are utilized where they stand by planting beans there, so that the vines may twine about them. The hemp plant is commonly called "hene quen." Another familiar name for it is "sisal hemp," because it used to be shipped from the port of Fisal, which was afterwards abandoned for Pro greso, from which place some $7,000, 000 or $8,000,000 worth of the fibre is now exported every year, the greater part being landed in New York. In one field are found laborers re moving the young plants ; in another, transplanting them ; while in a third they are cutting mature leaves from the stem and throwing them into wheelbarrows. Their implement is the machete, a heavy steel blade nearly eighteen inches long. The loaded bar rows are wheeled to another part of the plantation,- where there is a large building, in which, with machinery moved by steam power, the filament is separated from the green part of the leaf. This is thrown out to serve at fodder as cattle, and they thrive on it. It also helps to enrich the soil, but while rotting it burdens the air with a most unpleasant odor. - In the last few years the machinery used for henequen has been improved upon and its dangers somewhat obvia ted. Accidents are therefore less frequent than formerly, but even yet a workman's hand or arm is occasionally torn off by being caught in the machine while feeding it with the leaves. The natives have their own primitive ways of extracting the filament. They use a scraper of very hard wood, a foot long and four inches wide. One end is carved to form a handle ; the other, thin and sharp, is scooped out in the form of a crescent. There is a grove in the leaf. This is placed on a round stick, which is held obliquely. With the scraper the leaf ia then split length wise in two or three parts, each being squeezed between stick and scraper. Another method is to place the leaf on a flat board and scrape it with a two handled wooden knife. Working thus, the most diligent man can obtain only twenty-five pounds of filament in a day. When these methods are employed the work ia begun at midnight and aban doned at sunrise, because tho plant contains an acrid principle that, with the heat of the day, blisters the skin. After the squeezing process the fila ment is spread on trestles out in the sun to dry and bleach. It is then made up in bales of 300 or 400 pounds, ready for export or for the home mar ket, to be converted into hammocks, bags and cordage. These are most important industries. Twenty years ago comparatively few hammocks were made for exportation, but they were, as they are yei, the only couch used throughout Yucatan. Beds are con sidered uncomfortable. The hammocks used there cost from $2 to $30 each. Then came the demand for cheap ham mocks abroad, and the pretty girls and buxom matrons were set to making something very much coarser than the work they were accustomed to ham mocks that they themselves would not have deigned to rest in worth fifty or sixty cents when finished. An ex pert can make three or four of these hammocks a day, and receives about twelve cents for each. The article is sold in New York for $1 or a little more. Formerly all the torine was made by hand ; now this is only done occasionally. Men and boys twist it rapidly. Colored hammocks aro mado by combining red, blue and yellow twine, the dyes being obtained from the native woods. If a hammock were made in Yuca tan it is probably tho work of a pretty meztiza (half-breed) girl. Barefooted, but in flowing white cotton garment and with her black hair nmooth and gloHfcy as a raven's wing, slio stood netting the hammock on nn upright wooden frame. In the hut or out house where she worked were three or four other members of the family, each with their frame and a hammock in course of construction. Tho work ers were cheerful, gentle and content ed, for they were earning their bread and making the beBt of everything, always looking at tho bright side of life ; such is their happy disposition. In the eastern part of the peninsula a particularly fine, soft hemp is pro duced. It is called "pita" and is so highly appreciated that nono is exported, the people of tthe country keeping it for their own kammockH. Fashionable young women f Merida, the capital, take pride in netting their own luxurious hammocks. New York Tribune. FUN. "Oldby's getting to be qnitn an old settler." "Not of his bills. "Truth. When the dressmaker cannot collect her bill a dress suit is likely to bo or dered. Boston Bulletin. There is always plenty of room nt the top because tho top keeps getting higher all the time. Puck. "She kills at forty rods." "What so beautiful?" "No so homely." Kate Field's Washington. She "This fur rug is very beauti ful; to what beast does it belong?" He (candidly) "To me." Jury. Sign on a restaurant at Windsor Park "Lunches put up for World's Fair tourists in boxes." Chicago Post. Men who dare to fight their own battles are not to be relied upon in fighting for other people. Buffalo Enquirer. When woman gctn her rights she will probably regret the old dayB when In r position was masterful instead ol equal. Puck. Nell "Who was the belle of tin season at Clam Shell Beach?" Bellt: "Nellie Smith was the belle, I gnes-4. At any rate she got tho most rings. " Philadelphia Record. Government detectives in some of the "moonshine" diHtricts curry ko dacs with them to securo evidence, They pick up many a little bit of still life. Philadelphia Ledger. ' "I think I may say truthfully that T never forget myself," said old Colouel Pompous, and Bjenkins groaned : "So, and you never let anybody else forget you, either." Somerville Journal. The average five-dollar umbrell would be all right if it only had four dollars and a half worth of umbrelln and fifty cents worth of handle in it instead of four dollars and a Lalf worth of handle and fifty cents worth of um brella. Puck. Judge Mobley, of Greene County, Alabama, received an appointment tbn other day in one of the Washington departments, and he journeyed to th ? capital to qualify. But after looking over the ground, avers the New Or leans Picayune, the judge returned home, declining the appointment in a letter to his indorser, Congressman Bankhead, in which he said: "I give you the following reasons: (1) I have lived to be more than forty years old and have never been boesed by any body, and can't begin that now. (2) 1 am making more than $2000 at home and like to live there. (3) I have been elected President of the Greene Count y Fishing Club, and it is time to aasun the duties of my office." Warning lo Gum Chewers. It is said that the human mouth i surely but steadily moving toward tha left of the face, owing to the tendeuey to chew with the teeth on tho riht side. It is to be hoped that in some way gum chewing may bo suppressed, for if it increaseK there is danger that a race may bo developed whose mouth will bo located in the back of the head. To remedy this defect, some centurion af the vigorous chewing would be re quired to bring the mouth back to it3 proper position.- Boton Courier. Where Bull-Fighting Pays. .Lagartijo, the king of bull-fighters; recently made his last appearance ia the ring, at Madrid, and entertained an audience of 14,000 people by fight jag and slaying six savage bulls. This performance netted him $25,000. He ia a millionaire, and earned all" Lis wealth at bull fighting.
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