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j i ! I II I i 1 if i; !!.. i 1 i ' 4 i ' i ; 1 ! i is JONESBORO, Old RecJ Cloud, wn r deposed from hi3 position as Chief u the Sioux to make way for Amenvi;u Horse, a younger man, is no1 a pitiful spectacle, It , i3 said. He frequently visits the Chadron r.gency and weeps and wails about bis fall from power. He is now rapidly growing blind and seems to be dying from a broken heart. His aged aquaw remains faithful to him, and he is. popular with the Sioux. Nation. Sig. Henri Bosquet, of Bueno3 A3 res, Argentine Republic, says there are wme sixteen men to one woman in that very interesting South American metropolis, and that any newly arrived, fairly good looking candidate for matrimony can readily have a choice of fully fifty eager wains. IJoenos Ayres was once some thing of a cowboy capita!, and has evidently not yet passed the 'rentier period of wman worship. A PARTING GUEST. Dear world, how shall I say farewell to thee As from thy friendly house I go at last! Let me not lite an unloved wanderer be From thy door cast. No, I have been a litt'e while thy gn?st; Still there are light and music, down thy halls The laugbin? recognition of a jest Puses and falL. Thou hast with love and bread my wants supplied, And hurried on my hours in joyous flighty But longer with thea now I cannot bide I come to say good-night;, . But leave not other friends who need thee here Give me thy hand and I am quickly srone. Thy lamps will liht me with their genial cheer Until I meet the dawn. Meredith Xichofson, in the Century. '"Few people are aware, perhaps, that slave hunting is still carried 0:1 in Africi 1 by the local chief?," states the Trentoa (N. J.) American. "At a meeting of the Africau Society at Cologne on Wednes day, a statement was real s'.iovlag that A MIDNIGHT ASSIGNMENT. HEN Sandy Gra ham, stnnn ma?nn and bailie, kicked rcrgus vameron down ther back stair of his home on the j Lochee Road, of Dundee, and shied a bag of onions and a clothes line where his bi2 foot could not reach, he was au unconscious fact or 1 a V Y 1:1 W ZT Mi ' ff JmM? I the most revolting cruelty was still prac- jn oue 0f thc prettiest romances that ever ticeu in connection witu thin business, j cast a fragrance over the lite 01 a news- One slave hunter, Makatub , brought ! paper man. Tins was tne cause 01 an tne tmuoie. Fergus Cameron was the ten-shilling-a-wcek clerk at the salt pans. One and One made two during the day, but one and one in the tvsning represented only one, for while the former might be bags of-salt, or pounds, shilliugs or pence, the latter were the mutually, sympathetic hearts of Fergus Cameron and Maud Graham, the pretty daughter of the Dundee bailie. Now, the average Scotch bailie is a much bigger man, in his ovvn estimation, than the President of the United States. A chief magistrate of our nation might allow his daughter to marry an ordinary book-keeper;- but a President of the United States is. no criterion in estima ting a man chosen to rill the chair once graced by such illustrious characters as Donald MacTavish and Sandy Jaeriieson. Shades of Nebuchadnezzar! who so great as a Scotch bailie? back from a recent expedition 2'JOO na tives of every age and f-ex. They were chained together in batches of t'.venty, nd were like living skeletons. Hun dreds of them died of Ijunger, fever, and dysentery on the route, and a large num ber of women and children who, for lack of strength, delayed the march, were drowned.. It would seeru from this and similar statements that there is ample justification for the interference of civilization in the cause 'of huaaaity in Africa as well as in China." The census bulletin giving the pjopula ticn of Texas by 'minor civil division? shows Some wonderful percentages of in crease of population, uotes the Louisville Courier-Journal. The increase over 1880 in the whole State was 043,774, equal to 40.44 percent., which is itself 1 healthy percentage, though quite in significant compared to the growth in population of some of the counties. Only sixteen counties show decreases. Armstrong County shows an increase of 2015. 1C per cent.: Childress, 4G00: Collingsworth, DSSO; Hardeman. 7708; Randall, 0133.33, and Floyd, 17,533.33 per cent. The eirect of these magnifi cent percentages is somewhat impaired by giving the figures upon which Vney are based. Armstrong, for example, had only thirty-one population in I8S0 and 344 in 1690 an immense relative but very moderate positive increase. Child ress increased from twenty-five in 1830 to. 1175 in 1890; Collingsworth from six to 357; Hardeman, from fiity to 3904; Uaudall, from three to 187, and Floyd; 'from three to 529. There . are still counties in the State the population of which is put down at 3, 4, 7, 9, 14, 15, 10 respectively. iVv n Aa '' l'fc ' 4 ! ukv ' ' iX V Nvx&K'vvM ; i lit w&vs&sb Cameron arrived in New York with a few dollars in his pocket and fewer friends by his side. He spent the first night in a cheap lodging-house oa West street, and in the morning set out to find an old friend of hh father. The prospects of employment at his own occu pation were by no means bright, but an acquaintance on the part of the old man with the city editor of a morning paner opened for him the door of the newspa per kingdom. Into the humblest posi tion went Fergus Cameron. Naturally bright, well educated, and with no end of capacity for work, he cheerfully and manfully faced his new duties with a calm determination to turn the battle of life into victory, and be a bigger man than a Scotch bailie. His was the old, old itory of success and failure, of fail ure and . success, but his application to business and the excellence of his work carried him into the good graces of his superiors in orhce. The star that ruled his luckless lot might have fated him much that was disheartening, but its ad verse influence did not extend to his busi ness career. A wild niht ic Januarv. 1SSS. Snow had fallen all of two davs and nichts. and the States were beginning to feel the deadly effects of the greit biizzard Fergus Cameron was in the West, plow ing bis way toward a country village. A midnight assignment had fizzled out, his onlv hore had stumbled into a ditch j and broken its leg, and his choice lay between death in the snow antla struggle toward the village. Every minute waa like an eternity; he seemed to be drag ging the world at his heels. Mind weary and body-sore he fought the bitter, blinding tilast until overtaxed nature gave up the battle, and he sank in the snow. Two weeks later Fergus Cameron awoke from the torpor of oblivion and saw the world of light again. From the large heating stove in his bed-room a cheerful fire shot shafts of light over the sott rucrs on the floor. The surround ings were stranrre: what did it mpn? He lay there looking drowsily about him, and slowly recalled the incidents of his terrible battle with the storm, wondering to whose hospitality he was indebted for his salvation. His dream ing was pleasantly disturbed by the en trance of r graceful female figure. Who was it? Cameron rubbed his eves wondering if it was a new phase of his delirium. Another rub: another look: were his senses playing him false? By his bedside stood grace and goodness personified in his old sweetheart, Maud Graham. " - They are married now, and all the trials of the past are forgotten in the sweet bliss of the present. Old Bailie Graham's views have broadened consider ably since he failed in business and crossed the ocean, and no one is more willing to admit that his handsome son in-law is a much more important person than a Scotch bailie who can read Latin upside down. I'he Journalist. A MAGYAR RESTAURANT PICTTTKZSQTJE SCENES IN A IITJN. QAKIAN EATING HOUSE. HE FOUGnT THE ELAST. mor lio.ro V n t-i 1 r f Vw V bailie, but I knew one. It was Ions ago, but the awe-inspiring influence of a personal acquaintance with him has not yet departed. He was a newspaperman, to he saui, claiming the title by virtue of part ownership with his wife and Kirsty RuckW. a crabbed old maid, in a newspaper md magazine depot. All in all, he wa's a great man in the town. Examination day always brought him to school, and en such an occasion he sen The preacher must be a man of fine presence, awe inspiring, and, if possible, i trally stood with the Latin book upside philosophical and pensive, logical, po- I own. excuse etical and fanciful, asserts a writer iu the St. Louis Jit pull ic. He must alsj see the humorous side of things, and be the center of the social circle, and iust likewise possess the ability to touch the feelings. He must not only weep with ! those that weep but must make thos j who do not weep at least moisten theii ! dry orbs. Beyond this he must caust 1 mirthful smiles to "listen oa the half- I dried tears that he may have started. He must in his eloquence be a Cicero. He must be pious without seeming to bf 1 to, for there is no otlense mote obnox ious than cant and lon-facednessl though he may employ the undertaker tones at funerals. Smartness and novel- , ty must.be possessed, even if they trench on sacred associations. He must not be oblivious to the funny side of serious things, for he must draw like a poultice, developing the financial side of the cjhurch. The pews must be filled. Rail way companies and banks and corpora tions of every kind may refuse to pay dividends, but the church must pay through good and bad times. The pas tor must be one of those nondescrip financiers who can do better pecuniarily for everybody else thia for himself, as it is commonly understood to be "the prerogative of divine grace to keep him humble and of the church to keep hisa rjoo me, Bailie,' our teacher would remark in hi meekest way, ''ex cuse me, you have the book upside down." "Sir, don't you think a bailio can read Latin upside down How we rayed that a kind Providence in much love and mercy might make of us bauies and utwspppr men. Do you wonder that Fergus Cameron was kicked downstairs, and that a ba' of onions and a clothes-line hastened his departure, and that three weeks later he stood upon the deck of an Atlantic liner, gnzinc: with tearlul eye on the fast fading shore-line of the Land of blue mist and purple heather? An American Aouul have been hannier undt-t 1 Curiosities of rivniliment. An examination of the different en tries contained in theMacbyn diary sheds a strong light on crime and criminal punishment during the reign of Mary. vho served the English people from 1553 to 155S. First he mentions a young fellow who was tied to a post, "hard by the Stand ard Chop," with a collar of iron about his neck, and soundly whipped every two hours 4for five davs bv two stout I n en, lor Hie crime ot pretending 10 see (visions. Further on we read "Cheken, a parson of St. Nicholas, Cold Harbor, was this day driven about the streets of London in a tart, the parson himself dressed in a yellow iwu;' all of this because he had sold his wife to the butcher! Was it only a coincident e that a butcher was'one ot the parties to this transaction, or wa it the intention of 4the goodly man" to have his bette' half served up iu roasts? As it is now nearly 330 years since "the parson' com mitted that uncanny crime, it is doubt ful if we ever find out whether she "went to the skillet" or not. According to other items in Macayn one can readily see that purveyors of pro visions were thf; same kind of mortal i then as they are to day. They were in cliued to palm oil their base good as sound; to v;-e their arts to take in tin nutnn-.pr. oniv the tuinishment inflicted whci the fraud was dieovcred wa somewhat mrr. personal and severe than it U now. Micnyn says that a butcher of that time ho had exooed diseased The Womlrroasljr .prctlzlns Odor From the .National UUh, Gulvn Mad Kvel to UIpr"Muic. Like all large cities, Buda-Pesth has beautiful hotels, on which we need waste no words. Whea we arrive la a strange town we do not go in search of thos things which it Las in common with other municipalities, but we look for those thiols which are distinct and pe culiar. We will thea take advantage of the beautiful evening not to visit the Rational Theatre, where the Hungarian language is used (which, unhappily, wo don't understand), or the New Opera, which strives to compete with the opera houses of other cities but to eater a Hungarian restaurant in the courtyard of a houe, where some dusty oleanders form a sort of garden, covered with aa awning. Peculiar, wonderously appe tizing odors of the kitchen greet our nostrils, for we are here oa the classical soil of the Hungarian 'gulyas," which the Viennese pronounce 'rrollasch." and the Hungarians "gujaasch." What is, then, a "gulvasT Meat roasted in a peppery onion sauce. But what a stupid definition that is is! It is like saying that an opera by Mozart i a combination of sound?. One thin. however, is beyond dispute if there is a Hungarian heiven. gulya is ureto be eaten there. 'Gulyas, then, is a concoction of onion?, pork, mets of all sorts, and paprika (red Hungarian pep per), but who can praise :n Lttmg lan guage its savorinessf Who can describe with adequite e!j)U2ncc tne blood-and-marrow-penetrating strength of the J:aprika, this boasted national product? no can praise suuiceniiy uie puageni pepper with which the 'gtilyai' is seasoned in such abundant measure that he stranger who eats it feels something dissolve inside of him f Stars dance before Lis eyes, and the perspiration breaks out upon his brow. B it this exceive pun gency is tempered and enriched by the potatoes cooked into a mealy liquid and the little dumplings known as t4nokerIn. In "gulyas," as ia rnuaic, theie are in finite variations possible, but the key note is always the paprika. With the 4gulyas," one or more bottles ol fiery Hungarian wine are drunk. Ho, ho! Hungarian brother! Eljen! As an accompanhnent to "gulyas" and paprika belongs gypsy music. Oae of the many band?, whose chief is a local celebrity, installs itself in a corner of the room. Ia foreign countries oac sees gypsies of questionable origin. Often thev are Bohemians, or evea Ger mans (in Hungary they are called Schwooh), who in meretricious huzzih costumes exhibit themselves to heir guests. B it ia Buda-Pesth such play ing at gypsies would not be practicab'e. Here the brown, brawny fello.v," with their shrewd, deep dark t-yes, and t.ielr mustaches, show themselves in all their native picturesquenes'. Their clothes present a mixture of peculiarly Hungarian and European costumes; on their heid they wear small round hats with turned up brims. The men play without notes and it is asserted that the majority of them do not know o.Me note from an other, but play by ear, if not to say by instinct. The leader of tho band plays tho first violin, turning constantly with nervous alertness to the right and to the left, and the others simply accompany his melody with all sorts of variation. An important role belongs in evcr7 gypsy baud to the cymbal-p'ayer, who with two little hammers beat a kind of big zither. According a the leader with nervou, almost convulsive motions belabors his fiddle, the others tile awav after him, until they work themselves up, just a he does, into a musical de lirium. Long-drawn, plaintive, melan choly, signing tunes alternate wita sud den, unbridled bursts of joy. Like the clever psychologist that he is, the leader of the gypsies instantly picks out some quiet patrician ia the audience, to wiom he addresses the muic. Boldly he place himself ia front of him, sticks hi fiddle almost into id fcc,aad p.. form first tearful tunc?, which tnaKe the listener gaze with a serious irtent ucss into space; th.'n the ijypsy aocel-t-ratei the temp until he reaches th'i de- Is,whlch Is.after all, the taaia coruie-. tioa. Iliiycr' XijuLie. Brick Tea. This is the prcei of n2afctr.: The leaves acd twig?, after bciag $-V. dried, are put into a cloth aad susprrs 1 "j over a boiler t j be stearnsd. Me:iL.-. the mold is got ready, coruutin of f-I short boards set up ci end aad iec-r fastened, with aa iatcrai! space of , nine inches by thre aad a hlf i Within this cavity is placed a worca basket, aad into this the toftenel txx aad twigs are dropped ia smU haif with a little rice water to cau?c th to 4hcre. A lijcr after layer is al the stall is compressed by powerful b!? from aa iroa-shod rammer. Next coarser twigs are dried aai grous 1 powder aad sprinkled over the ctie. mass or betweea the Ujtrs, so as to t, come welded ia. The flexible bonet rouad the tea prevents the mass Uy taking too aagulsr a shape, as sharp cc?. ncrs oa the bricks "vould task? ti.3 awkward to carry oa the long thoy have to perform. After the mold is filled aad su:TI:i: J compressed it is takca to pieces, cake, still witma the mat, or t'itt, taken araia to the fire to be thorourL'r dried. Thea the ea Is of the c: drawn together and cloe I up, tzl ti pao, or cake, is ready for t Ma pert : Ta-chien-lu, where it undergoes fur.it preparation. It should be mcs::.:tfi that the cakes are weighed after 1;; steamed, and are sold'oa that Mci..:, . though they lore alout a third afier i lng dried. At Ta-cuieu la thry ire c;: int. uniform sizes and repacked i eL-u, cr bricks. The bet kind ol brick tea, s :ch xi a meant for the II issiv.i nurktt, is nm carefully prepared. The choice Into oaiy arc taken, an ! a'c ?pre.ri ia thr until slightly withers T..ey are ties rolled in the hand t ctil they brcjo? moist with exu ltion, aad prvwd ir- small ball, which are l:ft t fcrrr:. When ferm?ntation begias they are reiij for the mold, aad the process is j rt::j much as above described, but wi:LjU. the admixture of the twig dut. CViv Urti Jaurn.il, ycutn the oircumstar.; e. for In- wonl.l htwr .a i Maud Grai.atn with him, so little respect has an American youth for th? exaited oiiice of a Scotch baitie. - meat for "-a'e r. it 1 YZKGVS CAMERON SURPRISED. wa forced to rtile abut the streets of London, his face toward the horse s tad with half a lamb before and another half behind, and beef and j veal b re before hi in oa n long pole. Men who sold spoiled fish were put ia the pillcry wita decayed fiu strung about their necks. Theentiy of March 3, 1537, says Seea Thomas, the shoemaker, soundly thrashed at Cbeapside to-day for making a hish priced boot of a cheap quality of Irathcr." . LauU tep tliie. Here' a Good Hair Ton Iff. Here is a good hair tonic: Take sevea parts of water to oae of acetic acid (va ccnu worth from the droggist'a will last quite a while), mix well and rub well ia the scalp with some sort of brush every night. Of course it takes some time for the effect to become apparent, bat in time it really docs bring out the hair. Sao Russian Etlrjnette. At the Uuvsiaa court it ws (j-J :j, etiquette tht the Empress aad (irii Duche'-se should choose their pmaen for the dance themselves. A gestleu of the ehamlr is epec:a!ly clurti with the oSce of telling the lucky (f individuals of the hue.; accorded ti them. Oa oue cccaioa a foreign n.Iia- ter was conversing witli Nicholas 12 Ht corner of the bait-room, whea a clirs berlain very truhtlely came upsl aldrcsel !he diploriitit thus dlrr Imperial IIighne-s the Grat.1 cf Lcuchtcnberg bc;s cu to ij ber ti honor of dancing with Lr tr t.tit quadrille.' Tl.e a nbaa i r. .- i.Lrl ane! -jn-rplexcd and not kn a hi. ! do, glanced at the Kr.jpvr c a dt2k his permlsioa t rejK)nd t the iaT.U tioa of the Grand I) ict.es. Go and dace with m daj.h'-,-said Nicholas. ''s will reux cr conversation afterward. ' H-irdlr Lvi the diplo:na.i;t turned his back tL3 tls Emperor caught the chambcrliir ly ti arm Animal' be cried, .ay Lm; I want to peak to you. And thet the unfortunate courtier seetne 1 suJi ly transforme! to a statue, the Czar c: tinucd- "Triple fool! First of al!,j.a might have chosea a m re pprtirt moment to have delivered th" cti C my ehuhtcr intruded yi with, k: oa ily, it is no, right ta jay htr It; Highues the Grand Iuch of tcabe-rg; yovi oupht to hiv; 1 i Irnerial Hishnes th.- G.-.. ll- -'4 Nicho'.aitvua; a a I thirdly. ul lu'-f. it is the lr;r.c?, b yo 1 .:. I r-u-i. who honors her puttier It them to liace with htr.' Hr Emperor thojk thi v. re'.c .r i :ui:, was half dea l with fri-ht, ar. i th-:-tinucd- Here are my oria f mast stiy here whtu the !ig.i. i out until to-morr .v m rn:o4 a. 3 o ct walking up and down th'. r;. continually re fH:a:ia''. oat I : I, 1 1 biute! I am a brute'. Hi -'Vi clourak!" Of cure :L- chamberlain tcuk gol riro . m.j '--puerile ortler of his Ituptr;! lirium. which kindle such an intoxicating ecstacy in the patrician that, with a half smothered Jai!" he grabs his heal. Whea the playing is at aa end he stys not a word, but pulls frost, his big leather purse a bank-note of coai Jerable value, and spitting on the back of it, pites it on the gyjsys forehead. Nut so quiet is the scene whea the whole company hive been wrought into ecs.y; thea soxie one present is apt to tear a bill of a higa denomiaatioa in two, give one half tj the sypsy and rtick the other half int-j his pocket, surreadcring it only whea the gypsies have givcathe ci-nptay their fill of music. Fr-qu?atly a struggle for ex istence arises between the madcians aal the carousers. It hi happened rainy a time that the gypsies, whea they hive earned money enough, have vanished one by oae just as the company had beea seized with a desire t3 dance. To guard agai-ist this coatingeacy each oae of the band Lai to pull o2 oae b-xt aad keep the other, p'aying with oae foot bare. The coaSvated bots wrreflaaj into the cellar,, aad only aurreadcred whea the dance aad jolliScati.-a were at aa end. This iageaious procedure dors not ex press, perhaps, a high degree of mutual confident; but practical aad elective it Giants' Bones rnrartliL Trvl. tioa tells u that v. 21- - a ridge in the s xithtra county, there iics luried la l of ir..M.' Tzi ! Pjk-1 ti have lrn plart "I latenl sjot Ly th' ra:Ivir.:ii land psib!y tr; racual week ago a;e ; in : a cvc which is f .rm1 by -of thi iide, a r idt W.xY. y ' upia which c ju.d "r.!y r - the Ictrert .!. D." Th -tur. ity. ar.d kr. of treasure, led hvx to mae ploits. Securing a pick 1 ging aal sooa uitar'.L 1 1 a human lxly, which w our informant as hZi' 1 XT', A 1 s r- hi The jax-boie u Ur.-r ' - ' . ' over the jaw of aa ordinary v lZ. the inn-bone wrs over t0i" " ttiC arm-boae was oter two thaa of men alove the iz' Not being sat:Ieti w ;,h ..3 r . ging was continued until -t- third and fourth skt'.et- a which equal'M ia s.ze ti.e J veroJ. St FLrence V- J rdwrd Everett Ilale tionalizaUoa couairjf" JB
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