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THE OIkORGIA liNTERPRISE.
VOMIMK XXIV.
MjIMWAI, n,:ws *
Tioy of CURIOUS,
i,\' rn.\<: events.
H. , 1 '-' .v„„ NTH, KTHIIU,
IX, 4 \l- IHin MS"* OS IXrKMKT.
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'mM. i .-nik" .-•* I•<*<’ ordered in
Knn.Hi 11.. I*h., coni region.
m , I tioii ill Outline,
W i In--lay, the charter mu
X-d by 112 majority.
IHi.lKi.'i Me■lieiHMigli shot iinil killed
A U , -.1 iy night ut Kenton, O.
■l„i ? is threatened.
X, n ,jr,iiiuti"iis of the English svndi-
X f„ r 111,- Imt n :|k>l is lirewerle* have
H, ~| mu 1 hilure to agree on term*.
tin rulin', ii ji’itloua Inver ill Peru,
H' hliut und killed Maggie bmi'h,
X night, mid then killed hltn-
■, m I’,, „,-h j. ii run lints have been sen
■,.Ll to jiuy nominal tines fur publiih-
Hlie iiuli.'tineut against Ueneral Uou
Hn-New V,irk II ur/ll Thursday rnorn-
Hl'iiat-' minor that the actress, Mary
is in a private insane asylum
■vc buildings on the south side of
H r. la, were destroyed by iocendi-
Saturday. Loss f 1 5, 00). in-
Hl If II),0U0.
Hrniiris of specie from the port of
M y,,rk 1 -i we, k amounted to $385,-
H of wiiieli $273,030 w as in gold, anti
H,i | 14 in silver.
H lad has been returned against
Flereiice Maybrick, the Amenoah
■ i eliiuged w .th p lisouing her lms
in Liverpool.
Hnnmber of naval ofiicials at Berlin
■ K eil. tieimany, have been arrested
o i,,rge . I wholesale bribeiy. One
hie, committed suicide.
Ilh ,1,- N and senate passed a fi
x' : ;! Wid is lay, after inserting a
piokibinng the keeping of n ss
n t: i-i 4- i !', 11 .if any school house.
, a . fi iii Indian territory is to
Sir. tn.t the famous desperado,
X-",- v,... k ib-d last Sunday by the
Mu i-lii, kln :imi Light ll* rse
Many.
H im.’ lnte-t statistii s oare
i )aiji ai by tlie board of injury, nt
■ : i. ii. Wednesday, ttie iiurn-
H" ' ' I '' in the devastated district
\ thousand.
■i \ , i.r nf imports of merchandise
nst 11 .cal year amounted to
■.127,476, and of the exports to
an excess of imports over
ut $2,725,077.
H : - from Berlin says: General
■ s i t- 1 )- 1 . rf, , sjh-, ,'li at Ivne-
Ht-ia on Wednesday, said that a'.l
Bit war are groundless, lie hopeu
H has assurance \v mid be widely cir-
Ht'-'i.
■ i ha-iigo Johnstown relief commit-
in the comptrollers office
morning, and decided to
the balance of subscriptions in the-r
80. $25,000, to the Pennsylvania
■tc civil service eximination this
■ occurs on the 16th of August. A
number of persons will be exam-
H than ever before. In New York
H "l° lle there are abont 2,400 appli
■j- ! *' ' ,f half a ini : lion dollars have
■t subsciibed at Syracuse, N. Y., to
SB Ninth American Salt Association,
iiy (inondnga salt manufacturers
H" : -' ii:;,,:> ’ f atluiiSMou to til, assoeia-
a heavy rain storm at Ittdiun
■-", B'd-, Saturday niglit, thefertili-
H factory of E. ltaugh A Son was
The loss is estimated a* s(>o,-
■ insurance, $19,500. Loss ou stock
H #50,000.
large meeting was held in New
Wednesday in the interest of the
Exposition in that city in 1892.
He meeting was a success. Mayor
was empowered to appoint com-
on finance, organization, etc.
H'lie Standard, of London, Eng., lias
Haunted to apologize and to pay £IOO
Hnsges for asserting that Father Cove-
Hi °f Dunmanway, Ireland, publicly
to God to itrengtheu the hand
Htlie man who killed Inspector Martin,
■pweedor.
H'lie mi eting of Typographical Union
H> 0, of New York, was more largely
Heiin-'l Sunday than ever before, and it.
H decided by a vote of 800 to 400 to
■nt to the utmost any reduction in the
Hca of composition ns proposed by the
HNcw York dailies.
Vatican and quirinal nt Rome,
m sle doubly guarded, owing to the
Hipt of information of a plot to blow
H loth vvitli dynamite. It is rumored
■ {he departure of ,]le Pops will be
S' y ■ysisted and that government
-Hitpuht-e will w-ateh the exit of the
. fro,n Kansas City says: The
H whh’lTw” 1 . ' e . p, ‘ st few days in Kan-
Htive Ilf If ° . w ': como< l as a sure prc-
I ' Wlnd "i and as the saver of
Branch hIZ’ teum *? have done almost
Bint 1 \ aS n’V' ‘ d'lie damage to
Hint and oats will be considerable?
Ry - ndi ' ftte llns purchased
H six blew ei les m Patterson N,T
B an aggregate of $2, ,;^^-
Inetrn, "T" 1 ** 1 .‘"tere’it in the
Bioii di 'ans.uctions were mado
teThu e r I sdt atorQanelt - “ and
iimnlaT’ f I , s! ' ula ?g ist - member of (be
imbir ut deputies at Palis, France
ktdnesday night, attempted to make a
L ’ Albe > but
timber f? J ' m ° b nntl B,onc d. A
unhtr of import’s teeth were lirnken
>ou ton!* 06 C "i t ’ ar 'i d lIC receive d permis
' , t 0 P'uceed with hm remarks.
lnie men were removing rock and
't'ntr il°m' tUe chambers c! °std at the
w..,t, iV’ " ear Scranton, Pa. on
if ,i" e kr V by ’■ Cave : in ’ ,hr -' lamp of one
a,, , -° rer9 , 'k’mted the mine gas and
m and Robert B f , oll " Wed ' John Williams
° nd fu '"-
c„,'n y Stro,1 K- of It hi
’n,, llas *°®t Ins reason, and will
be command to Binghamton insane asy!
of m Wens S eou! g WBS f o rm crly president
BrQdie Ul th ft fro,n L^ ndon sa J 8: William
° w irfcb, -wbi] in
bordering on delirium tremens, stated
that he had committed the murders and
mutilations of women in and about
Whitechapel district, was diachatged
from custody, there being no evidence on
vv li eli to hold him and tlie physicians
pronouncing Idm anno. Ho whs imme
diately uriesto.l, however, ou a charge ol
fraud.
A cave-in occurred in Hyde, Pa.,
Wednesday morning over a vein of the
< entral mine. Over six acres of ground
were affeotod, and the sth ward public
school building was badly damaged.
Fully a cozen private residences have
cracke I found tion walls and jammed
doors as a lesnlt of the cave-in. A turge
fissure may be seen in the earth, and lu
'he center of the affected district the
i nrtli has settled fully ten feet.
Lawyer John U. Dunn was sent tc
Hog Bing prison, New York, Friday, tc
serve out a sentence of nine years and
six mouths. Dunn was found guilty of
having induced Cashier Bcott, of the
Manhattan bank, lo steal $185,000. At
soon as Dunn received the gteater part
of th i steal, he advi-ed Scott to fly the
country. Subsequently the cashier csine
back and appeared ns a witness against
Dunn.
A dispatch from Yankton, I)ak., says:
A party of explorers, on Friday, un
earthed a number of human skeletons
buried in Chalk Bluff, ten miles east ol
Yankton, on the Nebraska side. Fifty
skulls and two huudied headless skele
tons were tound, which local physiciaus
pronounce to be the remains of white
people, children and adults. The indi
cations are they have been buried forty
or fifty years. Further researches will
be made.
The Richmond, It. 1., paper company
suspendc 1 Friday morning. The com
pany suspended some time ago, and ha”
been working under an extension, SBOO
-new capital being paid in, secured
by mortgage, subji ct. however, to a first
mortgage held by tiic Rhode Island Hos
pital Trust company for $387,000. The
company has had no rating with Ilrad
street for some time. Their lust state
ment showed assets of $854,000 and lia
bilities ot SOOB,OOO. The plant is a mag
nificent one.
Rev. Father Curley, director of the
Georgetown university, died in Wash
ington, D. C., Wednesday morning. He
was the oldest living priest in the United
States, and, so far as known, iu the
world. He was bom in the county Ros
common, Ireland, in 1796. He entered
Georgetown college in 1827 as anovitia'c
and lias remained at the college ever
since, with the exception of two years
spent in study from 1827 to 1831. For
forty-eight years he was professor of phil
osophy and natural science and during
tips time he made a number of valuable
contributions to science.
Dr. A. E. Joins, familiarly known as
ffifinnel -Tones, was murdered in Cincin
nati, on i nuraaay,uy uio -t
--was arrested on suspicion and confessed
the crime. The colonel was in his sev
enty-seventh year, but was as active a
man of fifty. He bad always had an
inclinn'ion to military life, and held con
nection with the Ohio National Guards,
serving for a long time as surgeon of
the first regini’ nt. Governor Foreaker
was his neighbor aid appointed him a
member < f his staff as surgeon general.
He had been active in public "ff ora and
was perhaps mote widely known in Cin
cinnati than any other citizen.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special of Saturday
savs: It is out here that the sewer
pipe trust is leaking badly. It hus failed
to make connection and prices have been
knocked down. Sewer pipe is now
lower than ever before in the history of
the trade. Last April a combination was
formed iu the city under the head of a
stock company,known ns the Globe Sower
Pipe company. The company wasgiven
absolute control of plan's which went
into the combine, and each factory was
to be run in proportion to its capacity.
The company lias not been able to make
anv money, assessments are nowin order,
and eveiybody is trying to gel out as
nearly whole as possib e.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
MO YEMENI'S OF THE PRESIDEN’I
AM) MS ADVISERS.
APFOIXTMKNTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM TUE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The stato department Wednesday re
ceived from Henry F. Merritt, consul at
Chemnitz, Saxony,a list of subscribers to
tho fund lor the relief of the sufferers by
the flood at Johnstown, Pa. It amounted
to 3,785 marks, aud 89 pfennings, equal
to $9lO American money.
Emmons Clark, ex-colonel of the fa
mous Seventh regiment, New York Na
tional Guard, has declined the appoint
ment as consul to Havre recently made.
In his Idler of declination, Colonel
Clark says that he had fully intended to
accept, but that since the appointment
was made his friends, and especially hU
physician, had made such representations
to him that he felt constrained to decline.
Superintendent Bell, of the railway
mail service, said on Wednesday that
there was nothing exceptional m the
case reported from Lynchburg Va., al
leging that two white postal clerks had
refused to instruct a newly appointed
negro clerk. It frequently happened in
the South Unit white clerks at first re
fused to instruct negro clerks, but a lit
tle persuasive talk usually convinced
them that they were unreasonable.
Following is an outline .of the presi
dent’s trip to Bar Harbor next month.
The president will leave Deer Park on
the sixth of August and proceed to New
York by rail, thence to Boaton via Fall
river steamers. He will stay in Boston
one day. That portion of the trip be
tween Boston and Bar Harbor will be
made by rail. It is not certain that Mrs.
Harrison will accompany the president,
but it is probable she will do so.
Tlio attorney general has given the
Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to
the effect that there is no legal objection
to the transit through the United Stales
territory of the Chinamen recently ar
rived at New Orleans from Cuba, en route
to China vin Sail Francisco. This opin
ion is in accord with the decision given
by Solicitor Hi pburn on the same ones
ii n some weeks ago, winch was how
ever, not accepted by the Treasury De
partment.
The Heathen Chinesehave not been
slow in contributing towards the re.ief
of tho sufferers'at Johnstown. In 1 ttis
burgh they raised $l2O, with which ti'.'-y
bought supplies and Bent them on to the
stricken city. Over S3OO was raised by
the pagan Chinamen in this city.
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SI IK EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I" — Jewkiuon.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
k CONDPNSKI) ACCOUNT OF W*X J* OOINI* ON OV
IKFOBTANCI IN THE BOCTSEKN STATES.
Prof. J. W. Howell, a well-known
educator of Rutledge, Tenu., is dying
of hydrophobia. He was bitten thirteen
yours ago by a black and tan terrier.
Cora Herron, of Mecklenburg county,
N. C., aged 12 years, was bitten by a
mad dog about three weeks ago. A
mudstone was applied, but with no ef
fect, and on Wednesday she died in ter
rible agony.
Andrew F. Crutchfield, aged 65, e
journalist, who was well known in Bal
timore, Md., and throw,r’mut Virginia,
and who was one of the founders and
editor of the Baltimorean, died Wednes
day ut his home in Baliimorc.
At an adjourned mectingof Western Cut
Nail association held at Wheeling, W. Ya.,
Wednesday, the reduced gunge for nails
heretofore adopted, w.- s rc-sttfrmed and is
now going into general adoption in all
ut nail milL.
In Atlanta,on Wednesday, Judge Hen
derson received a sample basket of Irish
potatoes from Mr. P. Calhoun. Seven
uf them filled a big basket. Colonel
Henderson said they were the finest he
had ever seen.
The taxable property of Haralson
county, Ga., was leturued last year at
$1,400,758. This year it is returned at
$1,550,625 —an increase of $58,872.
The rate of increase last year surpassed
every other county in the state.
The southern part of VanZmdt coun
ty, Texas, is suffering from the acts of a
band of incendiaries, who are burning
churches and schoolhouscs right aud
left. Four of these buildings have been
destroyed within a week, mid the citi
zens are becoming greatly excited.
Twenty-three murder cases and three
rape cases, making twenty-six capita!
cases, arc set for trial at the present term
of the criminal court at Birmingham,
Ala., and the grand jury, now in ses
sion, is grinding out indictment for mur
der at the rate of two per day.
At Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday,
Fannie Biyant, the negro woman who is
supposed to have been the accomplice of
Dick Hawes in the murder of his wife
and children, was brought into court and
airaigned. She announced ready for
trial, pleaded not guilty, aud her trial
was set for Mouday next.
A dispatch from Danviile, Va., says:
Reports from thu growing crop of to
bacco in the Bright tobacco region, in
dicates that thu crop has been injured
by excessive tvst Weathur, hut with a fa
vorable seaitfc hereafter it is believed
good crops of bright tobaccos will be
•.. .Ax,i I>npi in rnr Rwnpn tih vh Dhkii
failures for two or three years past.
CIRCUS SWEPT AWAY.
k CIRCUS WIPED OUT OF HXISTENCE —
SEVERAL LIVES LOST.
A dispatch from Parkersburg, W. Va.,
says: Further details of the disastrous
fields in Wirt county have been received.
Tlie brother of Thomas Hughes, whose
wife and children were drowned Sun
day, arrived from Pittsburg to assist iu
the care of his brother, who is dying
from injuries received. Thomas Black,
who lived close to the Hughes family,
and who was drowned with his wife,
had but recently been married. A cir
cus was showing on Tucker creek when
the cloud-burst struck that section. The
flood struck the show just after the per
formance began and toic the canvas lo
shreds, utterly wrecking and ruining the
whole concern, carrying off horses, wag
ons and tents. M’Alm i, who performed
on the trapeze, was drowned. It is re
ported that some employes also lost their
lives, but the whole section of country
where the misfortune occurred is still in
such confusion that it is impossible to
get full particular. Sanlsbiiry, on the
Big Taig-ut river, is virtually wiped out
of existence.
MONEY IN POTATOES.
IMMENSE PROFIT FROM ONE AND A HALF
ACRES— HOW IT IS MADE.
Moses L. Petty, of Ophir, Ga., is a
grand success as a potato raiser—sweet
or Irish. He plants and cultivates a po
tato crop every year, because, ns he says:
"It is u lazy man’s crop.” He says it can
be matured at le s cost and labor with
better results than any other. He has
one aud one-half acres in Irish potatoes
this year from which he expects to gather
not less than OGO bushels. Now multi
ply this by the probable amount per
bushel he will get, aud you will see what
the aerfc and one-half will bring him
cortainly a great deal more than any other
like amount of ground will bring
planted in corn or cotton, or sowed in
wheat or oats, or almost any crop you
can name. He selects tho early rse or
Goodrich, prepares his land well, ma
nures freely with stub'c manure and un
slackc'd lime, plants deep for a long root,
and then leaves iho seedlings to grow
and get in their work. Tho result is al
ways satisfactory, as the crop nets him
well at a small outlay of work and ex
pense.
more trusts.
a COMRINE FORMED BY THE STRAW
BOARD MAKERS.
The straw board makers of the coun
try have united in one mammoth com
pany or trust. R- E. Newcomb, of
Quincy 111., acknowledges its existence
arid States that its corporative name is
“The American Straw Board Company.
It was organized very quietly, and the
public has not heretofore been informed
of the movement. Twenty-six nulls are
embraced in the combination, located in
the different sections of the country,
Rom Delaware on the cast to Illinois
and Wisconsin in the west. It also takes
In the largest dealer, in straw hoard in
New Yml Boston, Philadelphia, Cin
cinnati and Chicago who practically
control the trade. The capital stock of
the company is $6,000,000 Its pur
chases includes the plants of twenty-six
mills and all personal property thereto.
DEATH FROM GAB.
While James Sullivan, 14 years old,
,1 Patrick Dovle, were cleaning out an
a „d Patrick street ft „ d Vebstel
avenue New York, Saturday they were
ave .Uv newer gas and died. John
V ldvarTfatberol the boy, who went to
fbe ass’.st ince, was .Iso affected by gas
and Lin a critical common.
(X)VINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST I. 1880,
A BIG FAILURE.
I.KWI* HHOTHEHS A CO., OF riI.AI)KI.IMIIA,
MARK AN ASSIGNMENT.
Surprise w as occasioned in business cir
cles of Philadelphia, l’a., Thursday morn
ing by the announcement that the firm ol
Lewis Brothers and Cos., wholesale dry
good dealurs, Chestnut street, about Sec
ond. had made an assignment. While
the exact amount cannot as yet be ascer
tained. it is thought the liabilities of the
tiiin will rtnch nearly $4,000,000. The
firm is one of the largest in its line ol
business lu the city, aud perhaps in the
country. It has houses in many of the
larger cities of the United Stutes, nota
bly New York, Chicago, Baltimore aud
Boston. It is said that one of the cuuses
of failure was the Johnstown disaster.
The late Henry Lewis had a large inter
est in the Cambria Iron works there,
which his estate held, and the loss by
flood depreciated these sriWirities. The
Johnstown Manufacturing Company’s
Woodvule woolen mills,which consigned
their products to Lewis Bros.’ mill
was destroyed by the Hood, and
the loss was $300,000. It was con
trolled by the Cambria Iron Company.
Since January there has been doubt ex
pressed about their financial standing,
and in March last the Bradstreets took
away their capital rating and reduced
their credit, rating a grade. Last April
the firm made the following statement
to n largo financial institution: Assse s,
$5,472,000, ron-iisting of ledger accounts,
$1,875,000; of manufacturers' accounts,
$1,703,000; securities, $871,000; real
estate $770,000; bills receivable, $223,-
000; liabilities, $4,128,0u0, of whichs3,-
682,000 was bills payable, and $447,000
loans; net surplus, $1,843,000. This
was not looked on as a favorable state
ment by the trade. The firm hud
liard work to make colKctions.
For over twenty five years the firm ol
Li wis Brothers & Cos. have been a lend
ing house in the dry goods trade. It was
founded in Philadelphia in 1852. Ileniy
Lewis died lu 1880. leaving a large es
tate, of which $258,000 was invested as
capital in the firm; besides, $1,000,000
"fliis was continued iu the business.
For many years the firm has beeu re
garded as the leading c immisdon house
'>f Philadelphia, handling cottons, wool
ens, silks and imported goods in that
line, and doing a yearly business, it is
estimated, of from 85,000,000 to $8,000,-
OCO. It is reported to have done us mu< h
as $15,000,000 worth of business a year
A “DRAW” VERDICT,
THE HOW AUD JURY RETURNS A VERDICT
OF ONE CENT DAMAGES.
After being out two days, the juiy in
the celebrated Howard damage suit at
Jackson, Miss , on Friday returned a
verdict for plaintiff, giving him one
cent damages. The plainliff seemed
TeTemlanG 'fe’“YWc<Sf4fiL Mu thf
result. This suit was begun nearly
three years ago by the Rev. Frederick
Howard, D. D., against sixteen lead
ing Baptists and three newspapers. He
was charged with being under an as
sumed name and a "mass of corruption.’
The case will bo handed down as one ol
the most celebrated in the history ol
Mississippi. Depositions were tuken on
three continents to establish tho charge
of identity. The town, county and sur
rounding communities have been greatly
interested in the result, as well as Bap
tists throughout the country, one of the
defendants, Dr. J. R. Graves, having
more than a national reputation, and all
being prominent citizens. The case will
not be appealed, and the people are glad
it is ended.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE “WHEEL’
OF TENNESSEE SKIPS.
A veritable sensation has developed in
the state “Wheel,” in session at Nash
ville, Tenn. When their organization
met at the capitol Wednesday morning to
consolidate with the state allianoc the
secretary, W. T. Davis, was absent, and
it was necessary to elect a secretary pro
tom. A bombshell was then exploded.
A letter was read from secretary Davis
acknowledging that lie was short in his
accounts, and saying his body would be
found in the bottom of the Cumberland
river. He also stnted that he was tired
of life, and that he could not bear the
disgrace and face his friends, "lhe loss
which is not stuted, will be covered by
the official bond, which is $3,000. The
order is perfectly solvent and has suffi
cient money to pay til its obligations.
The suicide statement finds few believer-.
It is thought that Davis left the city Mon
day night and detectives are already fol
lowing clews which they tuink will lead
to his capture.
A PRIZE FORFEITED.
THF. STATE OF ILLINOIS GOBBLES $15,-
000 ON A WINNING LOTTERY TICKET.
Last week nt Chicago, 111., Lena Lurie,
a Pubsh Jewess, secured an injunction
restraining L- zarus Silverman, banker,
from turning over to Ike or Robert Lu
rie, more than half of $15,000 drawn on
a winning lottery ticket, claiming thut
they were attempting to cheat her out of
a half interest which she owned in the
ticket, she having bought it on shares
with Robert. Wednesday morning
State’s Attorney Longnecker filed an in
formation in the Superior Court asking
that the entire prize be declared forfeited
to the state. This aciion is brought un
der an express provision of a statute to
that end, and is fust of the kind filed in
that county. An injunction was at once
granted restraining the banker from pay
ing over the money to any of the claim
ants.
THE RABBIT FOOT.
A MAN RUBS IT ON A COW, AND THE COW
DIES, AS HE PREDICTS.
A peculiar circumstance occurred re
cently in Maury County, Tenn., which
may result in a novel law suit A man
had a cow which his friend and neighbor
wanted to buy. They were both willing
to trade, but could not agree on the
price. Finally the one who desired to
purchase snid: “I have offered you all
she is worth. If you are not willing to
take it, I will rub niy rabbit foot on her
and she will die within three hours.”
At the same time he rubbed on the cow
a rabbit foot which he held in his hand.
Curiously enough the cow did die, and
her owner declares that he will bring
suit to recover from the other her value.
There is no present prospect that work
will bo renewed on the Panama Canal. .
ORIEFS.
! The rains of winter scourged the weald,
For days they darkened on the field;
Now, where the wings of winter bent,
The poppies ripple in the wheat.
And pitiless griefs came thick and fast—
Life's bough was naked in the blast—
Till silently amid the gloom
Thov blew the wintry heart to bloom.
- -Charles E. Markham, in Scribner .
j * JOHN.
"Do you need a man to work about
your place, sir?”
Judge I’urkvr looked up from his law
books and papers to the questioner, a
stalwart man, about thirty years of age,
poor, but genteel, in appearance, and re
spectful in manner and speech,
i "Take a chair, ’’ said the Judge, polite
ly, motioning to one near him.
I “No, thank you, sir; I prefer to stand,
if you please. The door was open and I
made bold to walk in. I knocked several
times on the door frame, but you didn’t
hear me. 1 came just to ask if you need
a man to do any sort of work about your
place? If you do not, I'll not take up
any more of your time, as I sec you’re
busy. But I hope you do, sir; 1 need
, work badly.”
I "You are a stranger in Pixley, are you
not?” asked the Judge, leaning back in
his chair.
"Partly so, I lived here years ago,”
"Your name?”
"John.”
"Your surname?”
“I would like you to call mo just John,
sir, if you please?”
“Don’t you know, my man, that with
holding your name is not a good recom
mendation, and very likely to make an
unfavorable impression?'’
“I know it, sir, but if you'll only try
! me, I think you’ll find that my faithful
ness and desire to do everything right
will make up for the rest of my name."
Something about the man's bearing
and appearance strongly impressed Judge
Parker, inspiring a desire to know more
of him, and he said:
“Well, I’ll tell you candidly that I
like your appearance and manner, but
when a man refuses to give his name,
there's always something wrong.”
“There is something wrong, sir—l’ll
be honest with you—there is something
wrong with the name, but not with me—
not now. I could easily give you a false !
name. Ain’t the fact that I don't, give 1
one gome sign of honesty, and won’t you
please look at that as a recommendation,
sir?”
“It is an indication, certainly, re- I
sponded the Judge. “Now it just hap
pens that Ido need a mnn about my
country place here: need one badly. :
Summer is upon us, bringing a great deal
of work to be done about the grounds. 1
the new hand would have do oo me:
rough work, mowing the lawn, raking,
Weeding, sawing wood, keeping the
grounds in good order, running errands,
ind so on, Would vou be willing to do
that?”
“Certainly, sir,” John hopefully re
sponded. “I'll be only too glad if you’ll
try me.”
“But you arc an able bodied young
fellow who could make at some trade
much more than I could give you for the
work mentioned, and if I mistake not
pour appearance, you have had higher
liras than this sort of work.”
“That is all true, sir; I could make
more at other work, and I have had higher
aims, but you’ve seen how misfortune
steps in sometimes on our aims. But I'd
be glad to do such work us you said for
the summer, if you'll only give me a
trial.”
“What are your terms?”
"That is not important, sir ”
"Not important? Why, my man, it is
becoming plain to me that you have some
object other than this work; sonic plan
which such a position is to subserve.
Haven’t you?”
"Not exactly plan, but I have a rea
son for coming to you that I’d rather not
tell, if you please. It's not a wrong pur
pose, and I hope you won’t refuse me the
work on its account.”
“It gives rise to unfavorable suspic
ions, though. An unusual number of
things are against you. You refuse to give
your name, you seek work plainly be- i
neath your abilities, wages are unimport- j
ant, and lastly, the work is not your chief
object. You must certainly be aware
that these would be good grounds for
turning you away.”
"I am aware of that, sir, aud was
afraid that when I came to you that I
would appear in a bad light, but I con
cluded to be honest übout it anyhow.
Try me, though, sir; you’ll not regret it.
I want the place sorely; more than I dare
tell. I’m in distress. I have nothing
else to say. My appearance is my only
recommendation. If that won’t do, I
must go.”
He looked pleadingly at the Judge,
who, rising, came from behind the desk,
and standing close to the applicant, said:
“Well, John, let me tell you that your
candor and evident truthfulness have im
pressed me very strongly in your favor,
despite the appearance against you. I'll
try you for a month, but you must not
complain if you are denied certain free
dom and privileges that would be nc- j
corded to a man who has proven himself
trustworthy, or if your actions are more
closely watched."
"I’ve seen those consequences, sir, and
it’s all right. They arc to be expected
under the circumstances, and I won’t
complain. Do as you please with mo till
you feci I can be trusted. Show me the
work at once, sir, if you can. I couldn’t
find word to thank you, sir, even if you
had time to hear them. My work must
show you how grateful I am.”
Donning a broad-brimmed straw hat,
Judge Parker conducted the new man
out over his spacious estate, indicating
what work would be expected of him,
and set him to do some weeding at a
spot in sight of his study windows.
He then returned to his papers and
books, but as the afternoon wore on, lie
cast frequent glances through the win
dow at John. It was plain that he had
become deeply interested in the man whose
history had been so candidly aud honestly
withheld. He could not fathom the
mystery with which the applicant chose
to envelop himself, but lie trusted that
his purposes were honorable, though he
was somewhat suspicious.
Judge Parker was a large-hearted man,
widely known and beloved for bis genial
ity, benevolence aud uniform justice.
The buwbiest citizen, if worthy, fnigUt
apply to him for help, certain of a patient
and responsive hearing, Knowing that
his liberality had drawn to lum many un
worthy suppliants, he tmw suspected’ Hint
John had some design upon his philan
thropy, and accordingly believed lie
needed watching.
But each glance through the window
showed John working industriouslv,
w ith an earnest vigor and raie that out
the sharp edges from this suspicion.
And so lie worked throughout the trial
mouth. Faithfulness and a pains taking
interest were stamped upon each detail
of his work, and many persons comment
ed to the Judge upon the improved ap
pearance of the place.
John was an unusually quiet and unob
tnisiwman. He seldom ..wl re
mr rl.s up e tiT a sk instnictfius \ , -ruing
liis wff,-.,q v . -**-u ' (t
bidden. Judge Parker’s several efforts
to elicit some nceount of his life failed:
be was respectfully candid in answering
thnt he did not wish to toll am thing
about himself, saying that, he entirely
rested his hope of continued employment j
upon his work.
When the month ended he was re-en
gaged, and still he mantaiued the same
scrupulous care in every piece of work,
however trivial. He was not a "new
broom.” He never left the place, unless
sent upon errands, and, retiring earlv to
his room, spent his evenings in quiet
pursuits.
The Judge’s interest in him grew into
genuine fondness. lie liked to talk to
him, and found him well posted aud
shrewd in the ways of the world, and
ever ready to converse on all subjects ex
cept his past life—that was a sealed
book,
The summer wore uneventfully away
until one morning, late in August, a vis
itor entered the Judge's study. It was
Joshua Skiles, a member of one of the
bars in the judicial district over which
Judge Parker presided. His face indicat
ed an important mission.
"Judge,” he said, after a few remarks
on general subjects: “you have anew
man at work on your place.”
"Yes, indeed I have. I don't wonder
you've noticed it. Many others have
spoken to me of the improvement. But
he's no eye-server; he’s thorough going
to the smallest detail.”
Skiles grinned expectantly at this en
thusiasm, as he asked:
“Y7hat is his name?"
"He calls himself John,”
"No surname, eh!”
"No—well, the truth is, he declined
to give it, and he's been so faithful that
I have respected his reasons for conceal
ing it, whatever they are.”
“Is it possible you don't remember
him, Judge?”
“No, I don’t; yet several times I’ve
thought there was something familiar
about him, either in motions or looks, I
can’t tell which.”
to Europe, been most an "over me vm
country, and tho moment I set eyes on
your new man I knew the fellow, if he
has disguised himßelf with whiskers.
I’m not often deceived in people, I tell
you.”
"I dare say not, hut I am if I’ve ever
seen him before.”
"Well, then, Judge,” said Skiles, with
inauifest pleasure, "you sentenced him
ten years ago to the penitentiary.”
Judge Parker looked closely at Skiles
before replying or showing any feeling of
the statement. The man was not a fa
vorite at the bar. He bore a reputation i
for pettiness, his cases usually being |
trivial, most of them plainly trumped up
himself upon trifling disputes between
parties, and he was given to volunteer
ing services as bids for favor.
So the Judge looked at him, secretly
displeased at the disclosure. He didn’t
want to hear evil of John; he liked him,
aud was disposed to believe this one of
Sltiles’s desigus upon liis favor.
"His name, Mr. Skiles?”
"Jclm Dorker,” replied Skiles, effu
sively. “You sentenced him teu years
ago lust March for burglary, which was
proved beyond the slightest shadow of
doubt. There wasn’t a scintilla of evi
dence in liis favor. Why the jury were
out only about ten minutes. I was
present during the trial, and I can truth
fully say it was the plaiuest ease of guilt
in my legal experience. sou sent him up
for five years.” .
“Are certain of this, Mr. Skiles?
the Judge asked, coldly. “It s a very
serious matter to brand a man as a con
vict. He is doing well here. May you
not be mistaken?”
"No, indeed, 1 never forget a face.
"It seems that I do, theu. What is
your purpose?”
“Simply to warn you, sir. ’
“What good will it do you if I dis
charge him?”
These questions cut close, and Skiles
winced a little as ho replied:
“None at all, sir. I didn’t expect it to
—except that inward consciousness of
doing a service. I thought you would
certainly not wish to have a man sleeping
in your house whom you sentenced your
self, and who served his term iu prisou."
“Well, now, Mr. Skiles, to be frank
with you, I don’t believe in always put
ting tlie foot of virtuous scorn on a man’s
neck because lit was ouco a criminal.
There’s no reason why such a man
shouldn’t or couldn’t reform, and lead an
honest life. I’ve sentenced many men to
prison, but have never had a good
chance to do one a kindness. I honestly
believe that many a criminal would rise
to rectitude if helped, and John is one
of them.”
“We generally try to get rjd of a
stumbling horse, Judge, ’ said Skiles,witli
a weak laugh. "If you doubt iny story
call the man in and face him with it.
This was exactly what Judge Parker
did not wish to do. He believed the
story, but did not want to give Skiles
the expected satisfaction pf seeing John’s
disgrace laid bare. A sincere sorrow for
him arose, and he said:
“No, Mr. Skiles, I’ll not confront him
with it now."
The pettifogger thereupon bowed him
self out, somewhat crestfallen, as he had
confidently expected to win the Judge’s
influence in an appointment he aspired
to, and to have seen the criminal lgnorn
iuiously dismissed.
Looking after him Judge Parker mused
—“I do wonder why same people love so
much more to find evil than good in a
person. A noble character is to them as
a whitewashed fence against which they
delight to throw mud. I hate to tell
John of this, but I suppose it must be
done.”
John prnmntlv obeyed the summons,
entering respectfully and inquiringly, A
shade of distrust upon the Judge's face
made him uneasy, but he calmly and with
manly dignity awaited the nnummiicn
tion.
“Sit down, John,” tlie Judge began
kindly; “it may lie a long interview.”
He complied, and began nervously re
volving his straw hat by shifting Ids fin
gers along the edge of the brim, but ho
looked firmly at his employer.
“John—your surname, is it Porker?”
A slight pallor swept over the honest
face, as he replied:
“It is, sir. You have remembered me
at last.”
"You expected me to?”
"I did, yes, sir.”
"No, 1 didn’t recognize you, John,"
said the Judge, witli a note of disappoint
ment in his voice, "but a lawyer nt the
bur told me who yon were.”
“Always someone to give a fellow a
kirk, no matter how hard he's trjing to
get up.”
“Yea, it seems so. Now, John, he
says I sentenced you ten years ago to tlm
penitentiary. Is it true?”
“It is, sir,” was the humble reply.
"And you served your full term of five
years?”
"Lacking the time of commutation I
did."
"What have you done since your re
lease?”
"Nothing but try, sir; shifting about
from place to place. I’ve tried hard,
desperate bard to lead a true, honest life,
but it's up-hill w ork. There’s a weight
on a man like me, sir. The opening
penitentiary door is at the very foot of
a hill, and when a poor fellow* comes out
and tries to walk up, there's always some
one glad to push him baekagain.”
"Were you guilty of the burglary?”
“I was, sir. It was my first crime.
The easy gain looking tempting, and I
fell. I needed money; but there is no ex
cuse, I deserved the punishment. Those
awful years, sir, gave me time to reflec
tion, and I determined that when I got
out, with God's help to pick myself up.
It’s been hard; cruelly, fearfully hard,but
I haven't fallen again. I’m an honest
man in my heart, sir, if the world won't
acknowledge it.”
"But why didn’t you tell me this when
you came? It would have been better.”
"I suppose it would, sir. But I was
too weak. I needed work so badly, and
if you had turned me away then, why
“What, John?”
“Never mind, if you please, sir; you
didn’t turn me off.”
“Very well, John, I’ll not ask you.
But you said you had a special purpose
in coming to me. Can you tell me that?”
John Dorker arose, laid his hat upon
the chair, and facing the Judge said im
pressively :
“Do you remember, sir, what you said
when you sentenced me?”
">T„..y
selves into ray heart as if they’d been
sparks. I used to fancy I saw them writ
ten in fiery letters at night upon the black
wall of my cell. You spoke feelingly,
sir, like you pitied me, and that’s what
made them take such a hold on me.
They were: ‘Young man, you have set
your foot on a dangerous path. The way
of crime never leads upward, always
down, down to the unknown depths.
The pure sunlight of heaven never smiles
upon it. It is crowded with wrecks of
noble lives. When you tread it, you
i leave mother, true friends, light, peace,
j heaven and God behind you. You nre
going to prison. In the quiet years you
shall spend there, look over this life of
yours, aud think if you can afford to
spend the smallest possible portion of it
on this path. Come out a pure man.
You will still bo young, with much of
your life before you; many years to be
useful and good in, and to retrieve this
false step. Let me say from my heart,
young man, don’t blight your life.
lie dashed tho tears from his eyes,
and proceeded:
“My mother sat weeping behind me
sir, us I stood at the rail. I was liei
only support. God alone knew how slit
was to live during those years. Tout
words were knife-thrusts, sir. I die
have to leave her, friends, peace, heaver
and the God she had so earnestly taughl
me to pray to. Aud I did reflect, sir, ia
those quiet years, aud I came out a pure
man. God knows, how I’ve tried not tc
let that false step blight my life. But
wherever I went, someone spread the
truth: ‘Employing that man, that John
Dorker; why, lie’s a convict.’
“I became desperate; a temptatioi
stared me in tho face. I felt myseli
weakening. Starvation, gloom, despair,
a broken-hearted mother were about me,
and I wavered, sir, when a though!
came: ‘Surely, surely, the Judge who
spoke those words would help me; ho
wouldn’t turn me away.’ And I came.
It was my last chance. Too much dc
peuded upon my getting work, sir, to
risk telling you my story. But now I’m
found out, and I’m ready for your de
cision. Can you trust a convicted
burglar in your house? Will you give
me a trial? If not, I’ll go away and try
it again, sir, but I don’t know-™”
Judge Parker sprang up and warmly
grasped the trembling hand.
“Trust you, John? Give you a trial!
You have been tried, and I again sentence
you, John Dorker. to fivo years in my
service, )u my most earnest help, iu my
best effort to place you on the road to
prosperity. God bless you!”
And when the sentence was served,
John Dorker was an honest and useful
citizen.— Yankee Blade.
A Dying One Reviews His Whole Life
A I rench scientist affirms that a dying
person in his last moments thiuks of th<
ohief events of his life. Persons resus
citated from drowning, epileptics with
grave attacks, persons dying and already
unconscious but momentarily brought
back to consciousness by ether injection!
to utter their last thoughts, all confirm
this remarkable fact, Browu-Sequard
mentions the indisputable fact that per
sons who, in consequence of cerebral afi
fections, have been paralyzed for years,
get back when dying their sensibility,
mobility and intelligence. Such fact*
clearly show that at the moment of di
solution important changes take place, 18-
acting on the composition of the blood
and the functions of the organs.— Chi
cago Times.
St. Louts proposes to celebrate Aprl
30, 1903, the 100th anniversary of tbs
purchase of Louisiana, which was ao
WfflpUshed liy TUqtass JcSwsou,
NUMBER 41.
IN A MEADOW OF HAY.
You sin* the delight* of the <4ty or town,
Of the theatre, ball or soiree;
I ing of the joys of some tforae covered
down,
Borne sweet scented meadow of hay.
I care not who |K>re* o’er each counter or
book,
Who bulls or who bears on the street,
But give me the banks of some swift running
brook,
The charms of some shady retreat.
What pictures your painters can dimly en.
shrine
On the canvas so dull and so cold.
Can equal the luster these pictures of mine
Should nature her beauties unfold?
You drink to the health of your star of the
stage
In vintages costly and rare;
My brown cider jug shall my fancies engage
When I drink to the health of my fair.
I crave not your belles, who in fashion’s gay
whirl
Trip blithely till daylight away;
But give me the smile of some sweet country
girl,
A queen, in her meadow of hay.
—Chicago Journal.
PITH AND POINT.
Sound to the corps—A bugle call.
A poor relation—Story badly told.
Lumberman’s slang—Shute that log!
A dentist refers to his collection of ex
tracted teeth as gum drops.
"Matchless maid” is the way in which
a presumptious young man addresses s
lady of a very uncertain age.
There wouldn’t have been any milk in
the cocoanut if some dairymen had had
the construction of it.— Siftings.
Plenty of sleep is conducive to beauty.
Even a garment looks worn when it loses
its nap.— Binghamton Republican.
“Waiter, a beef steak—but not a small
one, I’m so terribly nervous that every
little thing upsets me.”— Fliegende Blact
ter.
Teacher—" What is an unknown quan
tity?” Coal Dealer’s Son—" What you
get when you buy a ton of coal.”—
Golden Days.
It is one of the paradoxes of life that
the more a wife keeps her husband in hot
water the colder he grows toward her.—
Boston Courier.
“ Where are the teeth on which in youth
So proudly I relied?’
“The sandwhieh has them, sir, in sooth,”
The lunch girl straight replied.
—Merchant Traveler.
Rejoice, O young man, in the days of
thy youth, but remember that, big as he
is, the whale does not blow much until
he reaches the top.— Terre Haute Ex
press. I
"What's the r-natter,” the .-Uq
• - fa,.'* aeff, 1,-j.a
his thumb with a hatchet this moruin-*
and I laughed.”— Epoch.
A little girl joyfully assured her mother
the other day that she had found out
where they make horses. She had seen a
man finishing one. He was nailing on
his last foot. —New York News.
Country and City.—Miss Sheafe —“Ah,
look at that wheat rising and falling yon
der in the breeze I How beautiful!” Mr.
Weetpit—“Ah, but you ought to see it
rising 'and falling in the Produce Ex
change !”
Hardware Dealer—" Now, Mr. Rusti
cus, there’s what I call a bargain. That
stove has a quick oven and the draft is
so arranged that it will save one-half the
fuel.” “Miss It. (who is a student of
economies) —“La sakes, pa, why not get
two and save all the fuel?”— Harper's
Bazar. . *
Waited Ten Years to Marry.
Martin George and Caroline Jcnkyn
were schoolmates in the old town of St.
Ives, Cornwall, England, twenty years
ago, and became engaged, but neither
had money. Martin decided to come to
America to seek his fortune, and Caroline
said she would wait. That was ten years
ago. Martin was a miner in Cornwall,
and he went directly to the mining regions
in California. He worked hard, saved his
money and at last settled down in San
Francisco as a broker in mining stocks,
and found himself rich enough to marry.
Mr. George arrived in New York a few
weeks ago by previous arrangement and
waited impatiently for liis bride, who
was expected to arrive on the Cunarder
Gallia. Miss Jenkyn came to New York
in charge of First Officer John Stevens,
who had known her family for many
years. When she arrived a tall young
man about thirty years of age, in a fash
ionable cutaway coat and silk hat, was
down on the Cunard pier. He was the
first to rush up the gangway, and in the
cabin there was an affectionate meeting
between the bride and groom, who had
aot seen each other for ten years. There
a-os no need for delay about the wedding,
because George had engaged Rev. Mr.
McAnney a week before to perform the
ceremony, and the bride and groom, with
Officer Stevens, were driven iu a carriage
to the minister’s residence. Mr. McAnney
and his wife were just going out for the
evening, but it didn't " takt- more than a
minute or two to tie the knot. The bride
was married in her traveling costume.
She is twenty-eight years old and the
bridegroom is thirty. Mrs. McAnney
and Officer Stevens were witnesses to the
marriage. Chicago Herald.
Geronimo as a Scholar.
Evidently born to be a leader, the fact
that he can no longer be first on the war
path has suggested to Geronimo, the
bloodthirsty Apache chief who so long
terrorized Arizona, but who is now im
prisoned on a reservation in Florida, the
alternative of being first in the Sunday
school, and accordingly he may be seen
ringing the bell, seating the pupils, and
keeping order generally with all the de
termination which characterized him
when his occupations were of a some
what more exciting nature. Both in the
day school aud Sunday-school he is re
puted as being the teacher's right hand
man, and we receive amusing descrip
tions of the confidence with which he is
called upon in emergencies requiring de
cisive action. One of the teachers writes:
“We have removed the organ to his (Ge
ronimo’s) house, and every evening we
go out there to sing. Not only the Indians
come, but some of the soldiers, and aftei
we are through Gerouimo sits down and
plays his tune, to the delight of the In
dians, who fairly roar their appreciation,"