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EDITOBLLL NOTES*
Two plans are proposed to relieve
• Over-supply of cotton spinners and
vers in the Massachusetts
to colonize the surplus laborers on
ern lands or to direct them to
mills springing up in the south, where
they may find employment at their life¬
long avocations. While the first effort
is perhaps the best, tbe latter is more
immediately practicable. It is almost
impossible to induce mill hands to take
np and operate the cheap lands of tin?
West and south.
The c'vil ist includes an army of men
over 83,000 strong. Excepting the post¬
masters and ra Iway mail employes, this
Mrmy is classed by states as follows:
district of Columbia. 12,542 Michigan 411
Kail way mail service. 4,00 Minnesota............ 15$
Alabama.............. Alaska................ 75 Mississippi............ 6U 57
7 Missouri.............. 183
Arkansas.............. Arizona............... 74 Montar n kV'.::;v.v,
64 Nebr« , .... 143
fornia ...... ...... 961 Nevada................ 12a
olorado....... onnecticut... ....... 179 204 New New Hampshire...... Jersey
........
akota.., New Mexico........ 84
'elaware 79 New York.......... ... 4,181
orida .. 174 North Carolina..... Du I
Idaho.., eorjfia.. 177 Ohio................ 571
Illinois. 55 Oregon ............ i
Indian Iowa............. Indiana Territory ISS=''! Tennessee.
Kansas.............. ...... 172 252
Kentucky........... 126 Tejcas ......a 293
'Axmisiana. 41
Maine................ ........... 99
r-44!
^Massachusetts....... Maryland.............. 153
!A
Diplomatic sular in and foreign con¬ Wyoming Wisconsin.......... Territory 8*2 51
countries.. 3991 ;
....
, Pos tmasters.. .,..48,1)00! Grand total..... .83,288
If we add to this number the army
and navy, we have a force in the employ
of the government over 100,004 strong.
The following table will show the
number ol emigrants who hava arrived
in New York during the present year
from foreign lands:
i5fiSr.v.r":::: Germany.............186,219 Finland... 899
cot land |jf ,fujk£" g ...... 6
r ales... 919
;,Ausi Hungary... ustiia. :::&«» B?BiiSii’ind&; •
feweden..... ... 18, 66h\ Algeria.............. 10
Norway...... 11,266 Africa..
7.856 Canada. Alan a 413
fw&d.' Scotia
8,931 West ......
Krance...... Indies... 1,450
Italy......... An-mhcff: 312
Ron mania... 100 Brazil.............. 121
Malta....... ........ 1 South America...,,. l
Greece...... ........ f-8 Sandwich Islands.... Sl 3
„ 8 . ........ . 1,033 Australia............. 2
par!.’.:::::’:::::: pa»n................. 50
( Bohemia 4,444 Bermudas
Of this immigrition New York state
Fas receive 1 the largest number, as has
been the case for many years past. Al
together 146,6o7 alient have settled in
the state, less than 40,000 of whom re¬
mained in New York City. More than
15,000 of the latter figures were German
Irish and English serving girls, who
came here with the intehtioa or finding
such emp’oyment and were furnished
situations bv the labor bureau. The
avowed destinations of all immigrants
arriving during the p st year can be
teen by the following table:
lair.-.— ^68 *33 Now Manitoba....... Ilampshi eBDJBBeEsgESSS(£s£Il£lEEi!sgc
Connecticut S&gfassz 446 9 North Nebraska.... Carolina
fSEEr .......
Jersey..... .........
v&l..... York................]
yiorida-.................... M 135 Sw— 1:
South Carolina
G**«**-................... 188 Tei nnesste*..
Indiana..................... Illinois....... 836 &:::
gtei Kentucky.. Kansas..... SI«*SS West Wisconsin...... \ Virginia
fjouisiana.. ia§ss§ag*i Washington Te
Maine........
' Mexico.............
li ian Territory.......
Minnesota................ aScotia..............
Mississippi............... r Zealand............
Montana...........
Mexioo................—
Massachuseetts
A good judge of the article will find,
nine times out of ten, when he orders a
bottle of French w’.ne in New York that
the vintage is either Ohio wine or very
poor California wine. Very little of the
■wine sold in this country ever saw a
French vineyard, although it may have
been doctored and fortified in a French
'aboratory. In this, however, the fancy
labels on the bottles deceive thousands
■When American wine is sold without
vivacious adulteration it is thinned by
adding about one-third water,
Ellen Terry presented the public
her full mental statute when she wrote
in response to a request for her auto¬
graph. “Those who love me call me
Nellie.’’ It is that “ie” business which
makes the modern girl appear such a
•weakling. Ellen is a good name, and so
is Mary, Katharine, Nancy or Elizabeth ;
but Mamie, Katie, Nannie and Bessie
are what Professor Pygmolion Wiiiflies
(“Piggy,” for short) would call “good
chewing gum names.” In our horror of
being considered strong minded, let us
not indellibly stamp ourselves weak
minded.
Tree culture is now attracting much
attention in some sections of the coun
try. The land where quick growing
trees are planted must be in first-class
■lition, deeply plowed, and as well
red as if the cultivator intende i to
'•rop of com. The hard w ods
of growth, but are more profi
walnut, seven years after
-eed, bears fruit, and all
mug trees pay at least
the cost of land, plant
Olose planting pays, as
rds be thinned out
o remain. As our
' exhausted, it is
ture supply, by
e scale.
Record having ex
i given by provision
finds that fully three
itter sold by them is
Besides the local supply,
or and five thousand tubs of
j are brought to the city daily.
Since the oleomargarine and butterine
were so easily detected, an article has
been introduced which is manufactured
under the name of suene and tastes like
the real production of Jersey cream. It
is made of pure leaf lard, thoroughly de
od uized, and fresn creamy butter •. is
sold for thirty-eight cents a pound.
Chicago and Detroit are the principal
manufacturing places, the former city
11/liU IT A 'AT ILTON JOURNAI
J,
YOU XII. NO. 5.
making 80,000 pounds of suene each
day.
Savants all over the world are trying
to account for the recent brilliant sun¬
sets. All sorts of theories have been ad¬
vanced, but just at present the most
popular is that the earth is passing
through a zone of meteoric dust, and
that to the presence of this chlst in our
envelope are dite to the strange effects
alluded to. The late snow storms have
materially aided scientists ifi testing this
theory. Th-i enow, upon examination,
has been found to contain meteoric par¬
ticles in groat quantities. Travelers in
the Arctic regions have noticed on Spitz
burgen, where no du-.t could prevail,
great patches of yellow and black, pre¬
sumably of meteoric origin. Pectdia
storms of blood-red and black dust, snot*
and rain have occurred from the earlieBt
history of the world. No Satisfactory
local cause has ever been assigned fo
these manifestations, and in the abseno
of anything better thocosmic dust theor
will probably hold i's own.
Av experienced cultivator cf German
carp says Vh it this uev» muivAry fully
warrants the construction of ponds fo!
the purpose, Stock ponds, however,
may be easily converted into carp ponds
at little cost. It is advisable to con¬
struct ponds in such a manner aB to per¬
mit the water to be drawn off. The fish
then can be captured and assorted.
Those intended for breeding purposes
can be returned to the pond while the
remainder can be placed in tanks or
boxes, here they can be conveniently
handled for marketing. Draw off the
water enables the fish cultivator to get
rid of branch minnows, frogs, turtles,
etc. Warm water, of course, is best for
growth, and every pond should contain
a place about three feet deep for the fish
to winter. Carp is really a vegetarian,
allhough he will eat anything. He will
also do as well without feeding as
chickens. A ton of caTp can be raised
off a one acre pond, and even at ten
centsapound this would amoun to$209.
A correspondent of the Chicago
News writes of a visit to Molokai, the
place which the Sandwich Islandere
have reserved for the \;ictims of leprosy.
This mysterious blight, which prevails
so extensively on the beautiful islands,
is not simply a skin disease, as most
people tbink, but a painful decaying of
every portion of the body. Nine years
the longest period a leper has been
to live, seven years being the
usual limit of ,h rV lease. Old women
live longer and suffer more than any
other victims Families often hide their
afflicted relatives in the mountains, but
the police officers bring more than a
hundred lepers every two months to the
hospital at Honolulu, where the doctors
them and consign them tj ban¬
ishment to the leper settlement, from
which death is the only escape. Many
touching stories are told of the devotion
the gentle islanders show to the'r loved
who endure this horrible death in
ife. One young physician, finding a
leprous spot on his hand, gave himself
at once to the authorities and went out
to Molokai to study the terrible malady
the benefit, of medical science.
GENERAL NEWS.
Baltimore owes $38,W0,000.
Florid a farmers are importing Ger¬
man labor.
A large hotel is to be built at Plant
City, Florida.
The southern lumber trade continues
to g off in Importance.
The growing of the camphor tree in
Florida is proving to be a success
Horghtjm is attracting the attention
of North Car lina farmers as a paymg
crop.
Louisville, Kentucky, has lost by
-ire during the past twelve months $85,-
4S4 63.
In four years Arkansas, Florida Lou¬
isiana and Texas have doubled their
railroad mileage.
The Birmingham, Ala , iron furnaces
are all in blast, and making pig iron at a
cost of $9 per ton.
Texas mTriage notice: “No cards,
no cake, no flowers, no thanks, no lt
grets, nobjdy’s business.”
During the year 1883 the value of
importati ns passing through the L iuis
vi le custom houte was $242,261.
The postmaster general is preparing
a bill to have introduced in Congress to
exclude newspapers pul dishing lottery
advertisements from thr pound rate.
The decrease of the public debt for
December was nearly twelve millions;
while the total decrease since the thir
teenth of June was over fifty-three
millions.
The ... Mexican - - . government . has , declar . .
ed forfeited the concession made to Gen
eral Grant for a submarine cable con
necting Mexico and the United States
and Central America, no work having
. been dons , ... the . .. , .
within presenne -ime. „
Under the pr-virion of the last post
office o- appropriation _ v bi.S ; .i tLet that wVipn when the the
compensation of any postmaster of the
fourth class reaches $250 for four con-
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1884.
secutive quarters, exclusive of the com¬
missions on the money elder bu-ines,
he shall be assigned to the presidential
grade, the following named fourth clasi
offices have been placed upon the list of
presidential offices with the salaries of
t e postmasters as stated; Yorkville,
South Caroline, $1,000; Morristown,
Tennessee, $1,200 ; Jonesboro, Tennes¬
see, $1,009 ; Koekhill, South Carotin*;
$1,100; Ath ns, Tennessee, SljlOfi;
(Quitman, Ga, $1,100
Ike business failures ol tire United
States dtlring 1883, as reported by R. G.
Dun & Go., number 9,189 against 6,738
in 1882, an increase of 2,446. The lia¬
bilities for 1883 are $472,000,000, against
$101,000,000 for IS Si. The failures of
last year are greater than those of a tty
year since 1878, wlieh they reached
10,438, With liabilities of $234,000,000.
A close analysis of the tables presented
in the circular siiows that out of every
ninety-four persons engaged in business
in 1883 one failed, while in 1878 one per¬
son failed out of every sixty-four traders.
In Canada the proportion of failures
during the year was one failure to every
forty-eight traders
The Railway Age publishes a sum¬
mary of the railway building in the
United States for the past twelve
months. It shows 6.600 miles of main
track laid, at an approximate cost of
$16 >,000,000, making the total miles of
railway in the c uitry to date about
120,000. The cons ruction during 1882
was the largest in the history of the
country— 11,600 miles, and the year
before 9,800. The States and Territo¬
ries which lead in the construction this
year are ;g follows:
Montana..... .418
Dakota...... ....409
Michigan.... Kill it. • - --400
New York.... 373
Pennsylvania Ohio........
2
Mississippi.. 805
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con¬
necticut, Delaware, Nevada and Wy¬
oming are the only States and Territories
in which no new roads were built.
Alaska is the native place of thb
seals whose fur is si highly valued, and
about one hundred thousand are annu¬
ally slain on the islands in Behring Sea.
The Alaska Company pays to our gov¬
ernment a yearly rent of $5o,u0), be¬
sides $2 on each skin taken. The you g
male seals aff rd the best fur and it is
fin st when about three years old. The
hunters go to the islands in June and
surrounding the herds of young seals at
night, drive them into inclosures where
they jjre knocked on the head. stabbed
t the heart and quickly skinfied The
skins are salted and shipped dire t to
London where they are prepared for use.
The seals were discovered near y one
hundred years ago by a fur trader whe
was lost in a fog, and drifted among the
i-lands. A warm current from the gulf
of Mexico makes a delightful summer
resort for the seals in the frozen zone.
“Peesness Vhas Shaky.”
A few days ago a clothing dealer in
one of the cities np the lake shore opened
the door for a customer who laid a
bundle on the counter nnd began :
“Two months ago I bought this ’ere
suit of clothes from you.” und it doan’ fit.”
“Oxactly, my frendt,
“I bought it to bnry my brother in.
Perhaps you remember the circum¬
stance ?”
“Oxactly—mit der greatest pleasure.
Vliell, did you dig him oop und take
off der clothes ?”
“No, sir! My brother lay in a trance
ter four days and then came to life aud
is now perfectly well.”
“Vhat a shame to act like dot! Und
so he doan’ vliant der clothes?”
“No; they are too small ter him.
Being as he'never wore them we thought
you might take the suit back and return
the money.” ompossible, frendt.”
“Dot vhas my
“Why?" vhas only against all
“Vhell, dot not bnt such
der rules of commerce, a
practice would bust a peesness all oop.”
“I paid you $15; can’t you give me
twelve?”
“Ompossible.”
“Say ten.”
“Mv frendt, you doan’ know how dis
clothing peesness vhas. You bought
dot suit eight weeks ago.”
“I did.”
“Vhell, right away after
an awful decline in wc
some big failures in TUa.
York. On top of dot I >
brudder. Den my brudm.
my wife. Den cotton g“
my vife assigns to me. fe
clothing market vhas si
Lonr agf) . -V-* — v hr*
an
mortgage ‘
“Say $>
undYiL
8Q ( j ot j ^
lia>f to ten
<.y e [], jot vhas .
your brudder vhas a man n.
his time comes und not make all discon
fusion. I doan’ keep sthore tor men to
^ ]Qto traric ^ nnd C0Iue Ufe . _ Good .
bj , e! j pfeg to oblige, bnt peesness vhas
too shaky.” — Detnit Free Press
_ , __
Safety. --D mindful rebmlding Rochester,
Minn., recently they f'e devastated of the tornado
that the town. They
are makinr strong stone vaults in the
^ en „, ]Rh u> &
aml hU . Ilg enough to withstand any
toriia4<
AHEAD OF THE WINTER.
MORE TRAMPS TH AN USUAL IN THE
ANNUAL RUSH TO THE CITY.
ti-rne- In the Stntion-A Movement Townrit
Locking tip the Ulirnnlc Jail. Vnamnia—Tltrcv
Hundred !Sent to
[From the New York ffitn.)
The tramps have come to tottn. Six
Weeks ago they began to reappear in
the parks, the empty wagons, ine sta¬
tion house lodging room, the so-called
distilleries, and on the sunny sides of
the streets. The country had at that
time begun to lose its attractions for
them. Chilly winds were blotting, toads tile
grans became the hnriis brown, lot tilt, tlte hold; gfew So
hard, and faced itt toward the
the disjointed and army it in conceivable
city and cittoe by every to road every and Railroad.
way, majority walked, stole ri
The somo les
on tbp of freight Cars, and under other
cars; home rode In farm wagons, and
some in canai boats, schooners find
steamboats. Now nearly all havo ar¬
rived, and have begun the winter rou¬
tine of begging, washing barrooms, in the
lounging about nnd sleeping po¬
lice stations. When the sun shines the
parks are full of them. When it rains
ub One ktiotts whefe they Spfelid tho
time.
Sergeant Creeden was behind tho
desk in the Eldridge street station
(Capt. Allaire) when the tramps began
to file in at half-past 5 o’clock one even¬
ing to get their lodgings station for the than night.
More tramps go to that to
any other, for Borne reason. There is
very little formality about the securing
or the giving of it behind night’s lodging. the dfesk, The
Sergeant presides by. Tho big
the doorman stands idly trainp
corheS in, shuffles up to waiting the debit, and
stops before the iron rail for tho
Sergeant to cease writing and look up.
The Sergeant sees him recognizes him
or recognizes his quality, and says: “All
right; go to bed.” Then the doorman
stirs himself, the tramp shuffles aoross
the room, the a door lies bangs, dbttii a lock slanting rattles,
and tramp with On rt
platforin perhaps, of boards and either his talks coat to under the
liis arm,
others lying there with him, or else
goes to sleep, The lodging room is in
most stations a big square apartment,
with an aisle up tho middle and a slnnt
ing platform on either side, the slant of
tho platforms being from the wall dottn
to the passage Way, with iii a fall of six
tad .„Jnes in six feet, tliC thorn for
women there may be a bit of looking
glass on the wall over the iron wash
sink.
The lodgers file in one *»t a time, all
coming along within an n%r on either
side of 6 o’clock. Hero ‘is how they
look: Hero is a man in a tattered me¬
rino office when coat with a cane, on which he
leans he walks, ije is tough
bearded and blear eyed. He wears one
boot and one shoe. The next man is
stout and broad shouldered, not more
than 30 years old. His skin is sun
bronzed, and he has a busby growtli He of
black hair almost all over his face.
wears a straw hat. He ltaaa most curi¬
ous slouch in his gait. His knees
spring, hiB shoulders rbli, shit his back
bends in and out. In spite of strength, his heavy
frame and outward signs of a
racking cough is torturing him. Next a
pert little old woman trips in. Every¬
thing about her is faded. Her hair has
the dead tone of straw, her eyes ore
weak and bleached looking, her skin is
colorless. Her once red shawl and
originally gay calico skirt have lost the
life that once was in theit colofs. Hel
bonnet is of faded straw with faded
flowers upon It. She Curtsies and trips
out of sight. Next, a well-built young
man steps in with a heavy footfall, and,
pausing, holds thedoorajaruntil a broad¬
faced, smiling, stout little woman comes
softly along, carrying something in her
arms. She lifts it up toward oneshoulder,
lets it settle back in her arms in a new
position, swings it and herself and hei
skirts all together - from one side to
another with a semi-eircnlar movement,
and says, “Sh-h-h-h.” The thing in her
arms is a baby, done np in an old shawl.
The Sergeant has been saving that
something ought to lie done to discour¬
age the chronio idleness and vagabond¬
age of the tramps. He thinks they
should be made to work for the State.
Without having heard Capt. Allaire talk
upon tho subject he expresses the same
sentiments as the Cat tain, that is to av
i hat if the tramps hat. to work for their
lodgings, or if, when they were obliged punished
for diaorderliness, they were cleaning tc
serve out their terms at street
or road repairing, or whatever the State
selects for them to do, there would soon
l>e an end to tramps in New York.
That is what he is saying when the
young man, woman an d baby come in.
He bows to them pleasantly and moves
his head in the direction of the lodging
room and they disappear.
“Now, that’r • -»se,” he says,
"That yonng an. It is
astonishing b ti wl ■
Lave come
here „
Ther.
tram;>h in
Captain Aum. . ... having
up. He has nad 300 dealt
this season. Only those a,
who come night after i.rght. j,
show iu many ways that they t.
merely unfortunate, but are deten.
not to hoio themselves. Others emnLv v
are ^hered to he searching ter
merit, are not disturbed The various
Poiioe Justices deal differently with
Justice thoso the Gardner Captain sends before them.
is strict. He sends
them to the Island tor six months. Jus¬
tice Smith usually imposes three months'
sentences upon them. Justice Duffy is
very mild. Five days or ten days are
the terms lie seems to regard as' just.
At the station house it is said that the
tramp evil is growing rapidly. Stout
young the ranks, men and are now boy frequently found in
one of 14 came to the
station few, the other compared day. Tramp women
are ns with the male
tramps. Saturday higlit'* blotter shows
that of twenty lodgers sixteen were men
and four were women. Twenty is a
small number, however. On Friday
night forty-nine slumbered on the soft
sides of the to plank quit the beds. City and The women along do
not seem roam
the country roads In the summer timo
as tile ifltsn around. deb They lead the same life
tho year
the In Captain Allaire’s precinct many of
which ■"■omen is the get enough llixhg money r'leV appear for rum,
only, tllS to
want in the world, by working for
aud orthodox Saturdays Jews, On Friday evenings
not do work, these,.old-style will JewB hot will
any even
ride on a horse-ear, so strict do they
observe their Sabbath. On those days
they household employ these s omen to do what¬
ever work has to be performed.
The keeping ttofuen half fip8y tints the pet the live Means for
other days of
and tho week. thus If a tramp that can is s nod' able si cent;
prove he to pur
chase a roll for his next meal, he is not
a vagrant under the law. Consequently
tho tramps that are now being looked up
In encli great numbers are noonsod of
ilisordetly Conduct gaining and of, having livelihood. no
visible means of theit
The Washington Monument,
Tho monument has now reached a
height weight of 410 feet. is With all of one-sixty- its enor¬
mous It bnt the
lourth of an inch—the thickness of n
sheet of stout writing-paper—out eight of
plumb. Our party went up in
minutes from the base to the top m an
flisson's Otis elevator, taking blocks up two of Hugh
marble ter the last course
or stone laid this season.. It Wan ft tremu¬
lous ascent up the dark marble alley
with those heavy stones, the elevator
quivering ns it went along, and as it
reached sunlight at the top, audiblo
breathing indicated tlmt relief from tho
suspense was ft boon to most of the
party. The ascent coiiid constructed hate been
made by stairs which are
along the inner walls to the top.
Atoned the monument at the present
height are swung excellently contrived sided)
hempen hammocks from all fodr
so in oase of a fall no danger would ensue
to the wotkwe£. Tlxoeo Rl*@ pot
dreaded, and are said to be frequent. A
week since a Baltimore beauty so dazed
a workmen that in lifting bis cap and
stepping back to let her pass he fell
over, and in the hammock, 400 feet
above the terra firma, Continued his ad¬
miring gaze with liis cap still in hand.
The superintendent says that in five
years the most serious accident has not
been more than a mashed finger among
his masons and laborers. The height
now to go in 145 feet. The base of the
Upfiet platform reached. will This commence will be when high 500
feet is The as the as
the visitor can go. interior of
monument is twenty-five feet square,
which continues to ft height of 150 feet.
Its dimensions are then increased to 31
5-12 feet by tho width of the walls being
reduced; from that point to tho top the
inner walls are perpendicular. Tho outer
face of the walls has a batter or slope of
one-fourth inch to tho foot until they
will reach 600 feet. _
As before said, tho ascent Is made by
an elevator, one of the Oils patent. It
has a carrying strength of seventy-five break
tons, and tho wire cables would
only at a test of 150 tons. Even with ft
Wreak the safeguards are such os would
prevent a fall of over ten inches. Yet
the superintendent says lie has frequent¬
ly had to stop, return and put men off,
whose tears were such as to compel lady re¬
lief. He added he never knew ft to
be unnerved in that direction.
Sltort for Kentucky Boys.
Thursday night Charles Italie, a
drummer traveling ter a wholesale jew¬
elry establishment in Philadelphia, ar¬
rived in HarrndKbnrg, Ky., and was
recognized by his appearance before he
registered at'the hotel. He was decoyed
by a personal advertisement, purporting printed
to be from a Harrodsbnrg lady,
in a Cincinnati paper. The correspon¬
dence had lieen kept up ter ft long time,
and a plae.i for meeting had been ap¬
pointed. Dressed in elaborate style, he
set out from his hotel ter t' '»
meeting, recognizing the sp
he had rw'vtv 1
gram
his correspondent
ing the yonng
hands of a d<
a otlf pond
yv> A
» it. i<
$1.00 A YEAR.
Queer Shadows.
It was twilight. The red flashes
thrown on the window-panes by the set¬
ting sun had slowly faded out and given
place to the first soft shadows of night,
which bring the cricket from its butterfly hiding
place and send the bee and the
to sleep. There was a feeling of rest in
the room—a feeling of quiet content¬
ment and perfect satisfaction. The
hum from other rooms lulled instead of
annoyed; the voices of children on the
street seemed far away and had a touch
of The pathos. uH lay at perfect ease. His
man
eyea rested on the wall at the foot of
tho bed—his thin, wrinkled hands were
folded one over the other—there was no
pain to deepen the lines on his kindly
face. He had seon the sun go down,
and he listened for tho voice of the
cricket and the eail of tho whip-poor
will. thhfft
-Fas that?
A shadow fttitldenly his flitted across
the wall in fiont of eyes. Now
another and another. Now tho fire t
shadows flit back to head a procession.
Passing from right to left the procession
moves--a procession of queer shadows.
Thev take on faces as they move along,
and the old dan's heart beats faster as
each face comes befol'o him. Hero are
the friends of his youth— faces which
grow white in death so long ago that
he had forgotten them. This one W IS
a Child—that ttllCn a youth—that stood by and a fair young the
girl earth ftp theni. They smile saw at him.
cover
and his heart, grows ends yonngef. be¬
One procession aud another
gins. These are tlie faces of men aud
women stricken down in the shared noonday his of
life. Home of them had
hopeft rthd sympathized with his sorrows
—all had betffi bis friends. The sea, the
lake and the forest gave their dead to
the procession of shadows, and each face
was fe&ignieed aud remembered. The
procession moves tdi and on. He is
shocked to realize that so ilUWr of his
friends fell in tho battle of life while kti
was spared to grow old and rest in peace.
Now comert the third procession.
There is a father, old and bent and fee¬
ble; a mother with wrinkled, patient
face; brothers in youth and middlo ago;
sisters who wept with him over some of
the graves, Every face looks ns it did
in life: every eye meets him with a glad
look of recognition. The shadows wave
their hands and move on, and the old
man’s heart grows childish and big.
There is another procession. The
first shadow is that of a loved wife, who
died while turned the snow-white looks had
scarcely gfitt. Then came the
children—sons and daughters—live in
all. One by one they lmd grown weary
and rested by the wayside, leaving hus¬
band and father to pursue the journey
oinn.v holds The procession bands belts, and every
shadow out its to the poor
old man ns if in supplication. His heart
swells- tears fill his eyes, and ho cries
out to them:
“I see you all—I ana coming !”
Back with your light I But it is too
late. The glare of tho lamp flings the
twilight out of the room with hasty
hand, aud the shadows which crept
along the wall are gone forever. No one
saw them but the old man, and yet there
is proof of their presence. His poor
old hands are outstretchod — on his
white cheeks are tears—on his wrin¬
kled face a smile of joy and shadows gladness.
His spirit had joined the I
M. Quad.
A Bntenl Car-Coupler.
There will never come a timo when
(lie headquarter office of a railroad line
will cot receive at least one visit per
week from tho man with a patent car
coupler. During the last fifteen years
he has called about four times a week,
and that, average is being maintained iu
way to wear out hail carpets ns fast as
manufacturers can desire. The car
couplers are not all alike, but the inven¬
tors are. The programme is as regular
as if it hud been adopted by a large the
majority. The inventor asks for
President of the road and is shown to
tho office :
“Good morning. Is t he President in?”
“No, sir; he won’t be in until after
dinner. Anything special ?”
“Well, rather special. I have in¬
vented—” Yon
“Ah ! to A the [latent General car Hupenritomlent.” coupler 1
must go kind
“It’s tho biggest thing of the
ever heard of. ”
“Yes, I know, but you’ll find him
four doors down the hall.”
The inventor opens the fourth door
and a clerk inquires business?" :
“What is your
“Well, I had a h ' pt last summer
and couldn’t do i y work, and
my I ni ‘
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND IN THE HUMOROUS
PAPERS TO SM1EB OVER*
STATIONERY POETRY.
Why did the penholder so tight,
And let the paper cutter so?
When Papa Terry knew 'twant right
To have a ruler for a beau.
Why did the inkstand idly by,
And note that tilings weren’t straight?
It should have tried to rubber dry,
And make the paper weight.
—Merchant Traveler.
FOUND OUT.
“What has become of ‘Bowery Mike,'
who kept a saloon which was a popular
resort for notorious characters some years
ago ?”
“He is in the Legislature.”
“And his partner, where is he?”
“He got found out and is in the Peni¬
tentiary.”
PRICES IN NEW YORK.
“So yon wish to marry personally, my daughter. bnt
Well, I rather like you
the question is, can you support her?”
“I have an income of $8,000 from an
uncle's estate." of
“Good; that will pay the rent a
house.” which
“I get $7,000 more from bonds
I own.” the
“Good again ; that will pay Mr*
vants’ wages.” from business
“I have $5,000 a year silent partner.” a
firm of which I am a
"Yes, that will feed you. What else?”
“That is all, sir.”
“AH 1 And do yon expect my Do
daughter to go without clothes?
you think wo are Hottentots ? She can
never be the wife of a poor man. Good
dny, sir .”—Philadelphia Call.
AN AWFUL TIME.
Ethel—“I hear that a twonty-four
o'eJock time dial is proposed.” if
Edith—“Y ob; isn’t it awful? Oh,
I only had the inventor of that thing
here, wouldn’t I pull his hair !’’
Ethel—"But pa says it will greatly
simplify matters.”
Edith—"Simplify them, indeed 1 It
will drive us all crazy.” dear?”
Ethel—"In what way,
Edith—“Why, pa and mu nearly take
the roof off now when dear Augustus
stays until after 12. Just imagine the
fearful time I would havo with them if
tho new dial were adopted and he should
stay some night until half post 24
o’clock 1 ”—Philadelphia Call.
HOW SHE KNEW.
He—“B eforo you givo my old overcoat
to that beggar, my dear, had you not
better look through the pockets ?”
Sue—"W hen did you wear it last?”
Ha—“Tho latter part of last March, I
^She—-“T hen I know there’s nothing in
tho pockets, ”
He— “How so?”
She—“B ecause that was before yon
stopped drinking.” contest.”
“he hain’t eager for the
“Mr. Smith, do you know the charac¬
ter of Mr. Jones?”
“Wall, I rather guess I do, Jedge,
“Well, what do yon say about it ?”
“Wall, he ain’t so bad a man after all.”
“Well, Mr. Smith what wo wont to
know is: Is Mr. Jones of a quarrelsome
anil dangerous disposition ?”
“Wall, Jedge, 1 should say that Tom
Jones is very vivid in verba) exercise,
bnt when it, comes to personal theooutest.” adjust¬
ment, he hain’t eager for
HE’D WAIT AND SEE.
T>utittff *1*0 Tim » t/l Hew
ers went ilowy. Into Pennsylvania to
prospect for oil, and, having discovert t
a “atr ium,” they undertook to purobasu
five acres of land of an old German. He .
was up to smiff, if not to oil, and refused
to sell at any reasonable figure. One of
the would-be purchasers finally said to
him :
“See here, Mr. Klopp, we propose to
buy this land and turn it over to the
•government.’' “Vhas for?”
"To help put down the rebellion. The
time has come when every man must
show his colors. Are you for the
Union ?”
: Vltell—vltell-”
: Are you a patriot, or not ?”
: Vliefl, I tell you how I hold it vhas. it for If dere
vhas oil in my land, und vhas ons
tousawl dollars an acre a
rebel. If dere vhas no oil, I sell it to
you for two hoonered dollars an acre nnd
vhas a good patriot”
ABOUT TRANSMIGRATION.
“I understan’,” began Brother Gard¬
ner, in the Lime-Kiln Club, “I under¬
state that sartin jmssons in dis club am
broke up ober de theory of transmigra- dat
shun. It lias bin shakiu’ reported hiB to butes me fur
Bamnel Shin am in
fear dat he will be turned into a dog and
have to teller a brick-wagon. I larn dat
Elder Toots am almos’ sick abed bekase
he expects to be transformed into an old
white boss an’ be used on a delivery dat
wagiu airly an’ late. It am said
Whalebone Howker had a fit when his
wife ate two hull pies an’ went to bed an’
dreamed that ho had died an’ bin trans¬
formed into a hyena. Eben Judge Ca¬
daver turns pale at the ideah of his ever
Iteeomiu’ a giraffe an’ havin’ to hold his
head too high to eber see a lost cent
on de sidewalk. do
“Gem’len, dar’ may be gum thin in
theory, but I see no occashnu fur worry.
If Samuel Shi. -ned inte - dog lei
him . an Me,
lv mi