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The iCoyiNGTON Star.
J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Propretor.
SYCAMORES IN BLOOM.
Like flame-wing’d harps the seed blooms lie
I Amid the shadowy sycamores.
The music of each leaflet’s sigh
Thrills them continually,
l The small harps of the sycamores.
Small birds innumerable find rest
■ And shelter ’midst the sycamores.
Their songs (of love in a warm soft nest)
Are faintly echoed east and west
, By the red harps o’ the sycamores.
The dewfall and the starshine make
Amidst the shadowy sycamores
Sweet delicate strains; the gold beams shake
The leaves at morn, and swift awake
The small harps of the sycamores.
O sweet Earth’s music everywhere,
Though faint as in the sycamores;
Sweet when buds burst, birds pair:
Sweet when as thus there wave in the air
The red harps of the sycamores.
— William Sharp, in Harper.
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A PRISONER OF WAR.
*• BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
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“There she comes now,” cried Kitty
Coram, standing on tiptoe to peep over
the great gate in front of the old brick
house.
And Georgie, her elder sister, came
flying up the snowy path, with cheeks
like rores, brown eyes that sparkled mer
rily, and a huge, flat parcel under her
arm.
a Do I look like the town carrier?” she
demanded, jubilantly, “Oh, I have run
so fast from the train, to get into the
'Ormistan wood-path before the grand sleigh from
Hall overtook me. I can’t bear
Mrs. Ormistan to put up her eye-glasses
at me and drawl out, ‘How do you do,
ma deah? How’s your deah awnt?”
i 4 Well, Georgie, what luck?”
41 Oh, splendid the new arrival
breathlessly responded. “Seven yards
of three-inch deep embroidery on vvbite
merino. And we’re to get a dollar a
yard, if it suits.”
t l Seven dollars!” repeated Kitty, “A
deal of money, isn’t it? But how we
shall have to work for it!”
“It's a world of work,” responded the
elder girl, clapping her cold hands to re
store the circulation and making haste to
unfasten the collar of her black cloth
coat. i. How nice the fire looks. Just
like a picture. What a blessing it is that
our wood doesn’t cost us anything!”
. i Oh, by-the-way,” said Kitty, “old
Giles wanted to chop down the big, black
oak tree next. n
4 4 What! The big one on the edge of
the swamp? To cut it down! Is he a
Goth, or a Vandal?”
“Just what I said. It’s the only tree
in the neighborhood that has mistletoe
growing beautiful all over it. I wouldn’t dollars!” lose, that
old tree for » n-uared
• i Neither would I,” said Georgie,diily.
14 Especially as I don’t know of anybody
who would offer us a hundred dollars for
it. ii
Just at that moment, by one of those
strange coincidences which are more
common in this world than people have
any idea of, old Jane, the rheumatic
servant, came hobbling to the door.
4 ( Does Aunty Anne want us, Jane?”
cried eager Georgie. “I’m going to her
directly. n
V ’Tain’t your aunt, miss,” said Jane.
“It’s Mr. Miles, the footman, from
Ormistan Hall.”
Georgie turned, with glittering eyes,
to her sister.
“I told you so,” she whispered.
“We’re going to be inviled, after all, to
the party. ii
■. And he says,” droned on Jane, “his
missus wants to know what you’ll take
for all the dark-green shiny leaves—
mistletoe, you calls 'em, doesn’t you?—
on the big swamp oak. They want it for
decorations. ii
A sudden change passed over Georgie’s
face, such as comes across a landscape
when the sun retires behind a cloud.
Kitty froze visibly also.
“Tell Mr. Miles, from Ormistan Hall,
said Georgie, “to give my compliments
—Miss Coram’s—to his mistress, and say
that the mistletoe is not for sale.
Old Jane withdrew. Georgie and
Katy stood looking at each other. ounger,“did
“Oh, Georgie,’’said the } r told
you want so much to go? But I
you how it would be; they never had the
least idea of inviting us. We don’t be
loug to the enchanted circle. ii
11 Yet they brought Colonel Hay here
I in wild strawberry time to spend the day
down by the Moss Rocks,” said Georgie,
in a slightly tremulous voice, “And
they always bring picnic parties here in
summer to go over the old house and
lake. ■■
row on our
“We are a convenience, said Kitty.
“We are not on Miss Ormistou’s regular
I visiting list. si
4 4 But 1 did think that Colonel Hay
would have called, after all he said that
day,” softly murmured Georgie.
And so he would, you may be very
sure,” said Kitty, “if Dorinda Ormiston
would have let him. She’s a deal too
politic Georgie dear, to let him contrast
her thirty-year-old complexion and
pale-blue eyes with your roses and spar¬
kles.”
“Well, it doesn't matter much now ”
said Georgie, mournfully. “I dare say
he has forgotten us-there’s no earthly
reason why he should’nt. Now I must
go up to Aunty Anne’s and tell her all
my adventures in New York.”
For old Miss Coram sat up in her
room, neatly embroidering flannel for
an order from the South. A lady born
and bred, yet she saw no degredation in
these bread-earning tasks.
“It's hard on the girls,” said she.
ii For their sakes, I could wish that the
Corams had retained somewhat of their
old prosperity. But for an old woman
like me, it doesn’t matter.”
Meanwhile, at Ormistan Hall, Miss
Dorinda was superintending the decora
tions of the great saloon parlor, which
was to be made a ds.nsmg-i'oom of, on
the occasion of the impending ball.
“Spruce boughs and hemlorks are all
very well in their way,” said she, “but
how I do wish I’d thought, when I was
-ill New York this morning, to get some
of that lovely, shadowy mistletoe the
vendors were selling on Fourteenth
street!”
“It comes horridly dear!” said Mrs.
Ormistan, with the offending lorgnette
held up to her eyes.
11 But the effect is so lovely!”
11 Mistletoe!” repeated Colonel Hay,
who was half-way up a stepladder,
draping a United States flag over the’
doorway. U Why, I saw a whole tree full
as we drove from the station, I could
easily get it for you.
“Could you? Miss Ormistan’s pale
eyes glistened, “But we couldn’t think
of troubling you?”
“It wouldu’t be the least trouble in
the world, said the gallant cavalier.
“I’m a regular cat for climbing.
“Yes, but--,” Mrs. Ormistan began,
when she was checked by a glance from
her daughter, who afterward explained
her policy.
. * Let him get it, mamma, said fair
Dorinda, “it will keep him from flirting
with the Fairlie girls, and give him
something to do. And he isn’t supposed
to comprehend how disobliging the Co¬
ram's are. For all he knows, the tree IS
in our woods; and the mistletoe will
produce such au effect against the pink
gray walls!”
So Colonel Hay went foraging, with
blithe step and careless whistle, little
knowing what he did.
“I wonder,” he mused to himself, as
he strode along, “whereabouts those
pretty Miss Coiams live? It was some¬
where in this direction that Miss Dorinda
took me that summer day. I should like
to call on them while I’m down at the
Hall. That tallest Miss Coram had a
face like the Sistine Madonna, I’ve al
ways secretly wished to see it again.
I do hope they’ll be at Dovinda’s party.
Halloa! here’s my old mistletoe tree, and
the ladder lying under it, too. Well, I
should do discredit to my school-boy
training if I couldn’t climb any tree go¬
ing under such conditions as this!”
Like a squirrel he sprang up the lad¬
der and made his way into the upper
boughs of the tree, clipping bunch after
bunch of the lovely green parasite from
the hoary-gray trunk and flinging them
down on the frozen surface of the snow
below.
It was a most fascinating business, for
even as he climbed, some still more
tempting cluster gleamed higher up.
The sun, red aud round as an orange,
poised itself for a second on the serrated
edge of the woods, and then dipped
down, leaving a warm glow where, but
now, the level light had streamed—and,
almost in an instant, as it were, the whole
landscape seemed steeped in a sober pur
pie.
“It’s growing dark, said Colonel
Hay, to himself, 4 . I believe I’d better
come down.”
A t the ■ orcar, irestl
young voice—a mezzo-soprano of the
most approved type—called scornfully
out:
“I’ve caught you, have I? A thief! I
wonder Miss Ormistan could countenance
such a contemptible action as this I Why,
do you know I could put you in jail for
this? Stealing my mistletoe in broad
daylight! But I won’t have you arrested.
I’ll simply teach you a lesson. You may
stay up in that tree and consider it, at
your leisure, until I get ready to let you
come down.”
And, balancing the ladder lightly on
her strong, young shoulder, Georgie
Coram walked off with the ease and com¬
posure of a nineteenth century Amazon,
leaving the gallant colonel transfixed with
disraa 3 r .
“It’s the Madonna!” he said to him
self. .. I’d know that face anywhere—
and the sweet, full voice! What does
she mean? I can’t be trespassing, or
Miss Ormistan would have warned me. Is
it a joke? or docs she really mean to j
leave me up here to freeze to death? It's
too far to jump, and I don’t dare to risk
a slide down the trunk. Well, there’s j
no help for it—I must just wait here
until assistance arrives on the scene. A I
pretty predicament! Whew! how the 1
west wind shrieks across the frozen lake!
Going to teach me a lesson is she? Well,
I’m learning it!”
“Oh, Georgie, how could you!” cried
the more pacific Kitty, when she heard
her sister's tale of triumph. “Why the
poor man will freeze!”
“He needed heroic treatment,” said
Georgie, her brown eyes shining mirth¬
fully. “The idea of his daring to steal
our beloved mistletoe!”
“But I dare say he only obeyed Miss
Ormistan’s orders!” pleaded Kitty.
“Then he must take the consequen¬
ces,” retorted Georgie. “But it is grow¬
ing awfully, awfully cold since sunset,
and if you'll go with me, Kitty, I’ll take
the ladder back and let him come down.
Sec how bright the moon is shining. It
will be a regular adventure!”
“Poor Miles!” said Kitty, laughing.
“He’ll have the worst kind of a rheuma
tism to-morrow ”
it I didn’t think of that,” said penitent
Ge01 .„ ie ‘standing
Aud, under the tree, she
called out in her sweet soprano voice:
“Miles! Miles! here’s tne ladder! You
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!,mc «*.l may .*
on you m the lu ure.
Slow*
And, Miles, aaaea weo , „ a hU n
der, foot touched “my sister the top round of the lad- ou |
am i.ik -
a pail of hot coffee to drink, so thayou j |
won t take cold. I wish you nobarmvw
I presume you only obeyed your mis- i
tress s orders, but it s time jou learned .
to discriminate between our grounds and ,
those ofOrmistan j
Thanks, avtluuy . saw a p ,
as the Colonel drank long an e cp °. |
fragfant fluid only I haven . t
the anj ,
mistress, and I don t obey an\ ones o.
j ders, and I hadn t any ' va * " i
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AU the same, ., m sure
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pardon if I ve > ‘: en * o or ,
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lant officer. i
the Georgie would have fleff P prornpLy f om j
sceue, >u more se -
detained her by lorce. ,
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 19, 1890.
tree were is Miss Ormistan’s footman^ and the
really ours, and we have declined
to let Miss Ormistan gather the mistle¬
toe.”
I i And oh, I’m so sorry!’ 7 faltered
Georgie. “What must you think oi
me?”
“That you’ve done exactly right,” said
Colonel Hay, melting visibly under the
troubled light of the lovely hazel eyes.
“Of course I was the trespasser, and I de¬
served all I got—and—and—”
“But you are shivering, ” cried Georgie.
U Oh, what have I done!”
i i Perhaps,” suggested the artful Colo
nel, “if you would allow me to walk
home with you aud get a little warm—”
“Oh!” buttered Georgie, her color va
rying enchantiugly in the moonlight, “if
you only would. Then I should know
that you had forgiven me.”
Colonel Hay went back to the old
brick house with the two girls and sat in
the orange glow of the great hickory logs
and was introduced to Aunty Anne, and
drank more coffee and enjoyed him¬
self thoroughly. And when he returned
to Ormistan Hall he carried all the clus¬
ters of mistletoe with him, as a present
to Miss Dorinda.
“But you’ll never, never tell her how
dreadfully I behaved?” pleaded Georgie.
“Never!” asserted the Colonel.
“You promise?” urged George.
“I promise,” reiterated the colonel.
Miss Dorinda thought his prolonged
absence very strange. She thought it
still stranger when the colonel strolled
over to the Coram place the next day,
and the next, and still the next.
4 . I—do—believe—he’* falling in love
with that insigni (leant little country
girl!” said she, with a black cloud on hei
forehead.
As for Georgie, she could scarcely
understand whnt it all meant.
“After my leaving him to perish with
cold that night,” said she, with carmine
cheeks and sparkling eyes, “I should
think he’d hate me!”
“I shouldn’t,” said smiling Kitty.
Russian Military Discipline.
It is a curious fact in connection with
the Russian army—that while it hac
often met defeat, it was never routed|
though beaten and driven from the field,
it never became a panic-stricken mob,
This coherence during defeat was due tc
its splendid discipline and rigid
obedience to orders, which were par¬
amount to all other considerations. A
Russian force was moving to the attack
of a position impregnable. A superioi
officer asked the commander where hi
was going. “To attack the position it
front,” he answered. “But it is folly—
madness.” “I know it, but I have mj
orders.” then!” “Ob the officer ***** l— coolly ---- said, - This
on,
incident takes a good deal of what has
been regarded as exaggeration out
of the story that is told of a Russian
army surgeon on his professional round.
On entering a ward, the officer in charge
gives the command, “Attention!” when
each inmate at once takes the position of
a soldier. “Tongues out 1" is the next
order, followed by ” the instant projection
that member. The surgeon, accom
panied by an attendant, then proceeds
along the line, examining each tongue
and giving directions as to treatment,
When the inspection is over and the
medical officer takes his departure, the
command “Tongues in!” releases the
line from its unpleasant and ludicrous
position, and “In place rest” allows the
men to resume their cots. And yet
military writers admit that the soldier
thinks always gets away with the
machine in battle .—Cincinnati
Commercial.
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An Operation to Help Fiano Flayers, n ,
A public experiment was made recent
lv at Steck Hall, in East Fourteenth
street, New York city, in the “liberation
of the ring finger.” This is an operation
which consists of cutting the accessory
slips of the ring finger, and the purpose
is to give it greater flexibility and free
dom of movement and additional
strength for playing the piano. The
operation was performed on a little girl,
A portion of the hand is benumbered by
a spray of ether, cocaine is injected and
the slips are cut with a lancet. A dia
gram of the child’s hand was made before
the operation and another after it, and
they showed that the hand, when ex
tended as far as possible, was able to
reach about an inch farther than before,
while the ring finger could be lifted half
an inch or more higher. The child said
that it did not hurt her, and a few hours
later the only external signs of the
operation were two tiny wounds, as of a
needle, on each hand, when the band
ages were taken off.
^Another child, Carrie Bowes, age
twelve, was also present. She had her
fingers liberated in this way four years
ago and gave illustrations, to show that
the gain in strength and flexibility was
permanent. This was shown by playing
the piano, by the grasp of the hand on
mechanical instruments and by raising
the finger, even when held down by a
-p—
Water la the Orient.
l The important Question of water in the far East
is one, and the water-cac
nets , form one 0 f t j, e largest f castes of In
^ ^ . q gypt they carry
their h^y water sin in skins upon their backs,
t they seUrt it by y^ the cup and ^ by the
^ ^
^ t 8kinSi and the ordi
= gallons. Water
™ ““ a *
ccnt 8kiQi and the
8trect8 0 f Calcutta are watered by these
c D rinkle the water from the
’ dust. The street water
gk ; n upon the
works G f Korea consist of a set of men who
<r 0 around with buckets of water on their
backg and ; u Japan the streets are kept
cool by a man who carries two buckets
o{ water fasten# d to a pole over his
shoulders, and lets the water out through
little holes in their bottoms. Both in
Korea and in Japan the water used for this •
purpose is taken from the gutters, which
form to a large extent the sewers of the
o{ the air is by ’
^ no
T purification of it .—Chicago '
m€ aus a
Herald.
TWENTY FATHOMS
UNCANNY THINGS SEEN BY
DIVER IN A GREAT LAKE.
Difference in the Waters of the
—Sunken Vessels—Recovering
Bodies of the Drowned.
t t Foundering vessels on the lakes,
especially sailing vessels, frequently
so squarely,” said a Toledo man who
longs to the precarious and perilous pro¬
fession of lake diving, “that we find them
resting on the bottom as trim and neat as
if their keels were still plowing the sur
face. This is particularly the case in
Lake Huron, whose waters are unlike
those of any of the other lakes in the
great chain, although all its water comes
from Lake Superior. What the scientific
explanation of the fact is I don’t know,
but a diver can work on the bottom of
Lake Huron at a depth of at least twenty
feet greater than he can in Lake Superi¬
or, and much deeper than he can in any
of the other lakes. In Superior a diver
can’t see further than ten feet into the
water surrounding him, but in Huron he
can distinctly distinguish objects fifty
feet away. At a depth of 100 feet in
Lake Superior a diver can only work an
hour at a time, the feeling of oppression
becoming unbearably painful, but I have
worked five hours at a stretch in Lake
Huron 115 feet below the surface with¬
out suffering to any great extent from
the pressure of the water. A man
drowned in Lake Superior never appears
on the surface, while the dead float on
the waters of Lake Huron.
“It is a weird and startling sight to
come suddenly upon a full-rigged vessel
far down in the solemn depths of the
lake, standing erect on her keel as if she
were dashing away before the breeze on
the gleaming surface. It is uncanny and
ghostlike. There are no 'waves down
there, but a mysterious (jwelling and
swaying of the waters that give a see¬
sawing, tossing motion to the spectre
craft, which is all the more spectral be¬
cause there is no creak of timber, no
cf straining ropes or grinding keel.
You may climb the rigging, walk fhe
go down into the sunken cabin, as
and easily as if you were a sailor
and the vessel were sailing along with
only the sky above her, but you can’t
thinking constantly of death and
tomb. There is no sound down there
the intermitting wail and moan, wail
moan of the swaying waters, all
and above you, and yet seeming
away. I would much rather find a
wreck a wreck indeed, You
naturally expect to find a broken ruin on
the bottom of the lake, not the ghost of
a perfect ship. Axyt’ci I atmxHgtJprrtictncu can work and search Lrcraiire
u .j ‘
and shattered spars and broken keel,
I have to pry and chop and batter
to uncover the object of m y quest,
it is merchandise, treasure, or
human corpses, than I can on a sunken
craft that gives me free and easy access
to her sunken stores and watery sepul¬
chres.
“The only time that I ever undertook
to do a piece of work on the lake bottom
reluctantly, and was badly broken up by
the result of it, although I had antici
pated and thought I was prepared for a
startling sight, was the time I went down
twenty fathoms in Lake Erie to find the
bodies of a woman and her two children
who had gone down with a propeller,
The propeller sank in a heavy storm at
night, foundering suddenly, as craft
usually do on Lake Erie, and the woman
and her children were in their stateroom.
The husband and father of the lost
family offered me a big price to go down
* n( l recover the bodies, but the touching
appeals of the heart-broken man alone
induced me to undertake the work. I
found the vessel in easy shape for work
ing, and reached the door of the fatal
stateroom without difficulty. _ The door
was locked, The fact that I must break
it down before the imprisoned dread dead could
be released increased the that pos
jessed pie, and I stood irresolute at the
awful threshold. If the money I was to
receive for the work had been my only
impelling motive, I would have hurried
from the wreck that moment; but I
was haunted by the memory of that
stricken soul above, awaiting in agonized
suspense the poor consolation of seeing
his cold and lifeless loved ones, and I put
aside my foolish-fear and with a few
blows of my crowbar battered down the
stateroom door. I had pictured in my
mind how the three corpses would in all
probability look, floating with staring
eyes about the room, and I think if
I had come upon them in that
way I would have accepted the
contact with complacency. But the re¬
ality of their appearance was far differ
ent from the one I had imagined. The
vessel gave a hard lurch as I broke the
door loose, and the water rushed out of
the stateroom. With the rush came the
dead inmates of the room. The three
were in a group, and such a group! One
child, a golden-haired little thing of
three years old. the mother clasped to
her breast with one arm. The httlc one
ttJsisrzrjSKi child, older
« c k. The .econd than the
first, held its mother’s other hand. They
were all in their night clothes, and the
mother floated from the room standing
ight] clasping her one child to her
breast and leading the other by the hand .
Her long vellow hair was loose, and
w thf . water . H er
eves were wide open, as I had pictured
them, ho^or but I had imagined no such depth
o{ in them as they expressed. Her
face was frightfully distorted, showing
the intense agony of her death. The
faces of both children were peaceful, and
the eyes of the one in its mother’s arms
were closed as if in sleep. The sight was
more than I could stand, and I retreated
to another part of the wreck. It was a
long time before I could summon courage
enough to fasten a line to the dead
bodies and signal for them to be raised,
I seat them to the surface just as they had
died, and as I found them, and quit the
wreck myself as soon as the work was
'
done .
In spite of the fact that no lake diver
ever goes ** below without feeling that the
chance is by no means remote that h*
has looked for the last time on the ski
and the earth and all he loves, there is I
fascination about the life that few inec
have ever been able voluntarily to resisl
after becoming familiar with it. This
seems the more singular because no di¬
ver, shut up in armor and held in the
depths by a hundred pounds or more of
weights, can ever banish the feeling thaf
a little stoppage of the air pump, a leak
in his hose, some slight carelessness on
the part of his tender in the boat above,
is sufficient to bring down upon him the
weight of a mighty mountain and crush
the life out of him in the twinkling of
an eye. There is always danger, too, of
the diver fouling his life line himself by
catching it on some projecting splinter
or around a sharp-edged timber, and in
his haste to release it precipitate the
catastrophe of which he stands the most
in dread. The fouling of a line fre¬
quently occurs, and never to me but what
I turn cold, in my effort to release it, at
the thought of what a slender thing
holds back the clutch of death down in
those moaning depths.
a Lake divers get big pay for their
work, but, as there are a good many in
the business and jobs sometimes far be¬
tween, they do well if they average more
than ordinary wageB year by year. I
have made $1000 in a month, but there
havo been many months in succession
when I have not made a dollar. Full of
pe ril as the life of a diver is, it is safety
itself in comparison with the life of ■
lake sailor. I’d rather work in a nitro¬
glycerine factory than sail before the
mast on the great lakes."— JS»w York
Sun.
WISE WORDS.
Few suffer uninvited insult.
Truth is a merciless iconoclast.
Alas! For those advanced in years
only.
Generosity serves others bettor than
itself.
People who are purse-proud set the ex¬
act mark of their intrinsic value.
Some persons have plenty of genuine
diamond ornaments, but only glass-bead
principles.
While the unhappy have still hope, the
prosperous tremble with fear. Such is
compensation.
Children and plants turn instinctively
toward the light. Let us emulate their
incipient wisdom 1
Those who go hunting for trouble are
very poor sportsmen, though they gener¬
ally bag the game.
You may suspect those persons who
rhlA rtf hmrinm
By all that we circumscribe anticipa¬
tion. we exalt fruition, the measure of
which was never yet quite filled.
Grand thoughts, like orchard trees,
amouut to nothing unless they blossom
and bear fruit. The fruit of thought is
action.
The Ordeal by Chewing Rice.
The East Indian method of discover¬
ing a thief by the ordeal of chewing
dry pounded rice has almost disappeared
of late. A case of its successful appli¬
cation many years ago, to discover who
had stolen a gold watch that was miss¬
ing, is described in Ghambers't Journal.
A native official who was employed by
the government for detecting thieves by
the rice ordeal, was called in to conduct
the process. The loser of the watch was
one of four Englishmen who occupied a
houso together. All the servants of the
establishment, some forty odd in num¬
ber, were seated in two row's on the
ground in one of the long verandas of
the house. A small piece of green plan¬
tain-leaf was first placed in each man’s
hand. The thief detector then went
round with a bowl of pounded rice, like
flour, and with a wooden spoon poured
a quantity into the mouth of each ser¬
vant. The order was given that each
man was, within five minutes, to chew
the rice-flour to a pasty mass and eject it
on to his plantain-leaf, the most of the
men set to work with a will, though a
few W'ere rather frightened at first; but
long before the five minutes had elapsed
almost every one had got through with
the operation aud held the evidence of
his innocence iu his hands. But why
are so many eye3 turned toward one man,
who sits back as if anxious to avoid ob¬
servation? We also look, and there is
the favorite servant of the loser of the
watch, with his face almost convulsed,
and trying in vain to get the rice flour
out of his mouth. His lips are dry, and
his glands refuse to produce the saliva
which is needed to moisten the rice
flour. At last the detector's eyes glare
upon him, and pointing at him with his
long, bony finger, be says solemnly,
“There is the thief!” The victim quails
and grovels on the floor before him; he
faintly appeals to his master for forgive¬
ness, and promises that he will restoie
the watch. The convicted thief slowly
rises, and requesting the master to fol¬
low him, goes to the well in the garden,
and produces the gold watch from under
a loose brick. This operation savors of
magic, but it has a psycho-phisiological
explanation. It is one of the instances
of the influence of mind over body; the
anxiety of the culprit evidently arresting
the flow from the salivary glands.
The Human Arm as a Razor Strop.
Few persons know how excellent s
razor strop is the human hand or arm.
If a razor is in fairly good condition and
not in need of the oil stone it may soon
be whetted to a fine edge on the palm of
the hand or the inner side of the fore
arm. The latter is best if it is tree of
hair, as it frequently is for it presents a
whetting surface quite as long as the or
dinary razor strop. The fat portion of
the palm, between the little finger and
the wrist, however, makes an excellent
strop. The process of stropping a razor
on the forearm appears a bit alarmiDg to
1 the look-on though there is little danger
that a skilful man will do himself barm.
—New York Sun.
The next annual B’nai B'rith Conven¬
tion will be held in Cincinnati in 1895.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Columbus has ihe highest priced men in
She Association.
Veby few extra inning games have been
flayed this year.
The Players’ League is still outdrawing the
National League.
League clubs all around are releasing men
“to reduce expenses.”
The Brooklyn Players’ infield is chain
ightning on double plays.
Long, of Baltimore, is the best run getter
In the Atlantic Association.
Sixty-one games in the Players’ League
Save been won by a single run.
Buffalo and Cleveland are the poorest
base running teams in the Players’ League.
Zimmer, of Cleveland, has now caught in
sighty-three successive championship games.
Ray, of Baltimore, first is considered base in by many
the fastest runner to the coun
try.
Gore, of the New York Players, was the
Srst man in either league to make 100
runs.
The New York Players in their three
games in Chicago appeared to nearly 15,000
people.
Burdock, the second baseman, lias signed
with the Wilmington Club and will net as
Captain.
Joe GerhaRdt and Jack Nelson are play¬
ing as lively ball as the liveliest kids in the
country.
Krock, who has received been released $1500 by Buffalo,
is said to have for pitching
three games.
Paul Hines, once one of the great League
batsmen, is now away down among the tail
enders in batting.
Mike Kelly, of the Players’ League, is
doing good work as Boston’s short field, de¬
spite a bad finger.
Captain Hecker has succeeded President
J. Palmer O'Neil in the management of the
Pittsburg League Club.
Bennett, of Boston, is leading the League
catchers, prize aud Ewing, of New York, holdsthe
among the Players.
Pitcher Lovett is entitled to the bulk of
the credit for the position Brooklyn occupies
to-day in the League race.
There has never been so few exhibition
games league clubs played this between major and minor
as season.
League Nash, of Boston, leads the Players’ being
in sacrifice hits, his record
thirty-one in eighty-five games.
Richard K. Fox, the sporting editor, who
is now in England, thinks baseball will in
time supplant cricket in the Queen's do¬
mains.
It is the intention of the Boston League
management to have Clarkson pitch in almost
every game when the clubs comedown to the
finish line.
John M. Ward, of Brooklyn, has (hade
more base hits than any man in the Players’
Association League and also more than any League or
batsman.
Pitcher Young, of Canton, Ohio, now
has the pitching record for the season of
1890. He disposed of McKeesport without a
hit and struck out eighteen men.
Roger Connor, of the New York Playeris’
team,is making Nearly a break for home-run batting
honors. every game big Roger hits
the ball at least once for Jtour
who trim. is always It hard, ready indeed, to pitcfl, and is in ,, ______ good
is to say where the
Players’ Club would have bean without
him.
Jack Rowe, a lub, player and part proprietor
of the Buffalo the C is authority for the
statement that American Association and
(he world’s Players’ championship League clubs and will that contend for
the all of the
clubs in the former organization will play
exhibition clubs the games termination with the Players’ of the League
championship at present
season.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Queen Victoria’s chief cook Is a Moham¬
medan.
General Ezeta, who heads the revolu¬
tion in Salvador, is only twenty-seven years
old.
Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, is said
to have a marvelous memory for facts and
figures. writes he is
When General Spinner with now piece
compelled to keep his eye open a
of adhesive plaster. of Cali¬
T T Cravens is the wheat bushels king of wheat
fornia. He now has 17,000
ready to be harvested.
R B Hayes, Grover Cleveland and
James G. Blaine are the only living Presi¬
dential candidates nominated prior to 1888.
John P. Buchanan, the Democratic nomi¬
nee for the governorship of Tennessee, is a
-ousin of the late President, James Buchan
in.
Bishop Joyce, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, has travelei on an average of 4000
miles a month since the beginning of the
year.
Adam King, the United States Consul
General to Paris, is authority for the state¬
ment that the position is worth $17,000 a
year.
Miss GRacf. King, the Louisiana novelist,
is a woman of stately figure and striking and
features. Her hair and -eyes are brown
she is twenty-seven years old.
The ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, in her
lid age remains the same elegant and grace¬
ful woman of the world whose beauty was
once the toast of all nations.
Henry E. Abbey, of New York city, whe
is probably the most successful theatrical
manager of the time, began his career a*
a cornet-player in an Ohio rural orchestra.
When the construction of the Pennsylva¬ Georgi
nia Railroad was begun in 18ffi, road,
Roberts, the present President of the
was a rod man in one of the surveying par¬
ties.
Colonel Thomas Russell Marshall,
who has just been elected Commandant oi
the Virginia Military Institute, is thirty
eight years old and a graduate of tbs insti¬
tute.
Lady Edith Ward, who is reported tobi
betrothed to Count Herbert Bismarck, is a
tall and very stylish young English especially woman.
3he is very highly educated if not
pretty.
A little black sign with the nam9 ol
“Salmon P. Chase” on it in gilt letters stili
remains on the door of tho Cincinnati law
office where the future Chief Justice placed
it many years ago.
Olive Schreiner, the author of “An
African Farm,” has, it is said, a cannabalis
tic liking for raw meat. She tabes her beef¬
steak just warm enough to remove the ef¬
fects of the ice box.
The Duke of Connaught of to-day is de¬
scribed as standing gravely erect, a soldier
every inch of him, and all the handsomer for
the brown with which Indian sunshine has
tanned his keen face.
Vice-President Morton delights in the
possession of three wigs. One is short hair,
just been cut; another is of medium growth,
Just right, eds and trimming. the third is rather long—in
tact, ns
Henry M. Stanley says that long ab¬
sence from the ranks for of journalism has easily. ren¬
dered it difficult him to write
But in his book words'a just published he wrote at
the rate of 8030 day.
A worthy ambition.
4 . Ihope you still regard me as a friend,”
he murmured.
“Why, of course,” she said, with a
merry smile. “I like to have all the
proposals I can get. You see, I want to
have more than Rosalie Dubon by the
time I return to the city. 11
VOL. XVI. NO. 38.
THE LABOR WORLD.
A labor revolution is threatened in line*
land. s
Police discontent troubles Paris as well at
London.
The bakers in Lis'con, Portugal, have gon«
on strike.
Contractors and builders all over the
country are very busy.
All the car-builders of the country have
their hands full of work.
All the railroad companies are making ex¬
tensions and improvements.
Canadian workmen are still pouring into
New England and Michigan.
The miners will strike next spring foi
eight hours; and they will win.
A large ship yard, the largest in the
country, will be started soon near Philadel¬
phia.
Brickyard workers at Denver, Col., have
810, a co-operative company with a capital of
Philadelphia’s locomotive works are
busy on a large order tar seventy-eight and
eighty ton engines.
Richard Coughlin, of Paterson, N. J.,
eighty conductor years of living. age, is reported to be the old¬
est
There are said to be 75,000 women in this
country who make a living by running the
typewriting machines.
Never were American technical and
manual training schools so prosperous. Hun¬
dreds of boys and young men are entering
them.
In the fields in Germany, the women cut
the grain with scythes and bind it, while the
men the help them in the latter work and pile it
on carts.
The makers of horse shoes and mult
shoes, especially those using special machin¬
ery, have all the orders in hand which they
are able to accept.
The cigarmakers’ unions of this country
have been invited to send delegates to the In¬
ternational Cigarmakers’ Congress to be held
at Antwerp, Belgium.
The young Emperor of Germany has dis¬
missed Court Seneschal von Liebenau foi
refusing to admit to the royal presence a de¬
putation of workingmen recently.
A recent consular report shows that co¬
operative societies are becoming very numei'
ous in Germany, and that over 4000 are
doing a profitable business in that Empire.
Domestic servants are so scarce in Mon
treal, Canada, that the women in want of help
are said to visit jail with a view to en¬
the gaging close young of their women terms to of work imprisonment. for them at
The Philadelphia cloakmakers, New following
the example of their York comrades,
have gained a decided victory. Their bosses
will employ none but Union men, and the
scabs are weeks. to be discharged. The strike lasted
fourteen
It was back in 1870 that the Dollfus’g of
Muihausen, Germany, reduced the working
day in their vast cotton mills from twelve
hours a day to eleven hours, and the same
men turned out five per cent, more work,
Yet out of 2271 of these famous workmen
only 1553 could read and write.
TnE New York Association of Working
Girls is composed of eighteen clubs, with a
total membership thirteen of 2635. The association
has rented whole houses aud thir
tagv sewing, uWraj; etc., twenty-three li¬
braries, five musio clubs, twelve provident
and benefit schemes, and twelve resolve
clubs.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Arizona is suffering from flood
Lunacy Is rapidly increasing in England.
Silver has gone up eighteen cents an
euuce.
There are 10,253 Americans living in
France.
The Hessian fly is becoming a pest in the
wheat fields of New Jersoy.
The population of New Hampshire is 50,
000 less than that of Boston.
Canada is imposing a tax of 88 a barrel on
importations of American pork.
Reporth from Manitoba indicate tha
largest yield of wheat ever raised there.
The great English horse Melton has been
sold to King Humbert, of Italy, for 850,000.
An international beauty show at Vienna,
Austria, offers as its first prize the sum of
$ 1200 .
The factories in this country making glass
tableware have been sold to an English syn¬
dicate.
The number of Turkish pilgrims to the
shrine of Mecca this year is estimated at
800,000.
So much snow has fallen in Switzerland
this summer that it has put a stop to mountain
climbing.
A number of Armenian peasants were
burned alive by the Turks for failing to pay
their taxes.
The continuous heavy rains in Nicaragua
have retarded considerably the construction
of the canal.
It is estimated* that fully 4000 Pennsyl¬
vanians are in the employ of tne United States
Government.
A summer charity in Philadelphia has given
a day’s pleasure to noarly 703,000 people in
thirteen years.
New York traveling their clothing best section salesmen for
say that the South is
orders this season.
The Salvation Army is Sheffield expending and $153,- Bir¬
000 for new “barracks” at
mingham, in England.
The United States Treasury holds l‘Jl mil
lio is in gold, and the yearly production is
nearly thirty millions.
So great is the depreciation of quoted Spanish
paper monev in Cuba that gold is at
$2.43, while 'flour is selling at $12.25, gold, per
barrel.
The aggregate of the public building bills
re ported in the present Congress is $25,171.-
63 9. These cover 211 buildings, almost one
for eacn member.
Fruit is so scarce the country over this
season that during the next six weeks there
will be 3000 carloads less for New A ork city
alone than last year. •
Deserters from the German army pass
into France nearly every week. They take
service in the foreign legion and are sent to
Algeria and other parts of Africa.
Washistgon Hotel, at Vicksburg, Miss., the
will employ white waiter girls when
weather becomes cooler, the first hotel in the
South to employ white female help.
Farmers in outlying sections of Northern
New Jersey report a superfluity of rabbits
this year. That game has not been so plenti¬
ful before in fifteen years, they say.
A monument has been erected in a Mon¬
treal (Canada) suburb to Catharine Tegahou- the
ita. the first Indian maiden She baptized died in into 1680.
Christian faith, in 1676.
An Oriental Floating Hotel.
There i* an interesting scheme for es¬
tablishing a floating hotel at Hong Kong,
China. The vessel is to have three decks,
the lower being arranged for dining,
billiard, smoking and card rooms. The
main deck will contain a drawing-room,
twenty-one bed-rooms, each with a full
sized bath and dressing room, while the
upper, or spar deck has been arranged
as a promenade .—Ghkago Herald.
Mild-mannered Chinamen who run
laundries in New York are found to be
the moat successful opium smuggler*.