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POOR SIGHTLESS WORKERS.
HOW BLIND PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT TO
SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES.
The Many Resources of Those Who Have
Lost Their Cyeslcht.
Two pale, slender young girls with and their a
BmaLl, nervous old woman,
arms closely interlocked, walked rapidly
up a Philadelphia street late the other
night. At a crossing they wandered some
steps away from the flag-stone, and when
they reached the curbstone they stumbled
slightly and moderated their pace, as ii
in donbi A moment later they seemed
satisfied what they should do, and hur¬
ried forward directly against a police¬
man who was standing at the corner of
the building. The collision was a mere
touch, and recoiling a little the three re¬
sumed their walk in the centre of the
sidewalk.
The policeman watched them. At a
house gutter they stumbled slightly, and
they several times ran into front steps
and awning-posts, but never with
violence. The officer’s curiosity was ex¬
cited and he set off at his bost pace to
overtake and question the little party.
“What’s the matter with them ?” he
was asked on his return.
“Blind 1 All three of them blind ! It
took me all of a heap when I stopped
them and asked them what they were
knocking they along that If way they for hadn’t to see been how
pale grew. I believe they
bolding to each other so,
would have fainted. Just ns soon as 1
spoke I saw what was the matter, for
they turned their eyes to me. There was
no light in them. ‘Never mind,’I said,
quick as I could. I asked them if I
•couldn’t help them, and the old woman
said no, they know the way. I thought
at first that the old woman and the girl
on the inside had the middle girl in I their
power somehow for no good; but their was
all wrong and I wish I had begged
pardou.” they going ?”
“Where are
“I didn’t ask that. They aro able to
take care of themselves, but they
shouldn’t walk so fast. I don’t see how
nnder the sun they help hurting them¬
selves.
The incident was described by a Phila¬ Hall
delphia Times reporter to H. L.
the blind superintendent of the Penn¬
sylvania working home for blind men.
“The blind,” be said, “can find their
■way about with an ease that must seem
wonderful to people who do not appreci¬
ate what resources they have in their
other senses and in memory. On the
street, for instance, a blind person knows
when he comes to a corner by the wind
that sweeps around the house, or, if
there is no wind, by the sound of
wagons, street cars or footfalls. When
he is approaching an obstruction he re¬
ceives a warning from the increased
pressure of the air between him and the
object, slight as tho change is and deli¬
cate as must be the sense of touch to
detect it. In the honso the greatest of
aids is a stationary aud permanent sound,
such as the ticking of a clock on the a
mantel-piece. One knows where
clock is, and he knows the relations of it
to all the rest of the house, and, in fact,
the whole city. Were I to go to sleep
in this room, I would instinotively take
my latitude and longitude from that
time-piece; and while I might n«t know
what time it told, I could travel from it
wherever I might desire to go. A clock
is made for the eyes of those who can
see, but it is even a greater aid tons who
hate oao eju-*” not always been blind,
“You hgve
have you ?”
“No. I hove been blind only a little
over twenty years—since the third year
of tho war. I get around with a good
deal of ease, but those who have been
blind from infancy are more rapid and
graceful in their movements. Their re¬
maining senses are more acute. ”
“Which are the more cheerful, those
who hove always been blind or those
who have become so after enjoying
sight?” lose one’s sight is
“Of course to a
dreadful calamity, and until tho unfor¬
tunate person becomes accustomed to
the new order of things, he is apt to
abandon himself occasionally to morbid
thoughts. But he gradually finds that
his usefulness is only slightly reduced. and
He learns to find his way about to
do a great many other things for him¬
self, and finally be finds there is work in
the world even for the blind. In mi
own ease, I am deeply interested in this
institution, and its prosperity is a eon
jtant source of happiness. The truth is,
that to be usefully employed is enough
to make anyone cheerful, and even those
who can see are miserable if idle. We
nave two men here who are both deaf
and blind, and they are among our most
capable and oheerful hands. One of
them earns more money than any othor
man on tho roll, not only paying his
board and lodging, but laying up $30 oi
more every month. Several of our mei?
npport their families.”
“Do they live in the building?”
“No; we have three classes of men.
Those of one class live in the home
here, paying each $2.50 board per week;
another lot come in daily to work, going
home at night, and to the third class we
send out the work. We have ninety
mta at present, but expect before a
great whilo to have 200. We have got
the ground room now to add a large
building, and to turn part of the present
factory in dormitories, bath rooms,
reading rooms and the like. Nearly all
the inmates of tliehome can read by raised
letters, and they are very fond of playing of
chess, dominoes and checkers. Some
them play the piano and organ admir
ably.” the their board ?”
“Do a'l men earn but
“Finally they do; some are very
slow at learning. You see they some- spent
times come here after many years
in idleness and darkness, and their
minds arc weak almost to the extent of
lunacy, but they all learn to make a liv
ing s* oner or later. We have a man first
here now who has just earned his
moDcv He netted $15 during March.
He came from the almshouse and was
utteriv devoid of pride and ambition. I
talked to him and did ail I oould do or
B av Finally he was guilty of bad con
duct and I ‘sent him back to the alms
house. Before long be wanted to come
here again and I giadiv took him. He
behaved properly after' that, but made
little progress at his work. Last winter
I succeeded in awaking a little ambition
in bis heart, and last month strange to
relate, he earned $15 above his board.
Now he is iabi'ant and he reallv seems
a new man. Instead of being a poor de
pendent he feels he is his own master
a-d and one one of oi the .nemos most useful men in the
“Ver^ oi a. Except '-=ome who occasion are in
temperate ^discipline there has been no
for during the last three
“
rears We have discharged some asvlum. men
frr drtnfeinc This “it is not an
Tt i« a factory i» not Intended
mppoif ikebM,
jRS5!r&3SS died fold.”
Hamilton Journal.
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YOL. XII. NO. 26.
fold “Are there any lazy men in your
?”
“There are some slow men, but not
many lazy ones. The trouble is the
other way. You know we begin work at
seven o’clock iu the morning, stop an
hour at noon for dinner, and quit at six
o’clock in the evening. Now we have to
keep close watch to prevent tho men
from working before and after hours.
If they could do so, nearly all would
make a few extra brooms daily, dropped and
some would work on until they
from exhaustion.”
Bulling Up Petrified Logs.
The Savannah Hews says: — The
United States snagboat Tocoi returned
to the Savannah Biver a lew days ago,
where she is having some of her ma¬
chinery overhauled. She was, until a
couple of weeks ago, employed in clean¬
ing out the Altamalia Biver from its
mouth to the Oconee River. The Tocoi
is of comparatively light draft, but one
of the most powerful boats of her class
in the Government service. She was
furnished with a good supply of dyna¬
mite cartridges and au electric battery,
which were found efficacious for the
work she undertook. A large number of
rocks, many projecting pieces of raft
timber, besides several large trees,
were removed from the channel, so that
tho river is quite clear for timber rafts
and light draught steamers. navigation whicli
Among obstacles to
the Tocoi encountered were a number of
petrified trunks of trees, heavier than tbe
largest stones that were taken from the
bottom of the river. About thirty miles
up the river from the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway bridge, a large gum
tree first formed au obstruction, over
twenty years ago. This huge trunk has
broken up several very valuablo rafts of
timber that were being floated to Darien,
and has directly and indirectly caused a
great deal of annoyance to all persons
who were interested in the business on
the river. There is a bend where tho
obstruction lay, and the locality came to
be familiarly known among the people Here
as the “Scooping Gum Bend.”
the raftmen always were m dread ex¬
pectation of having the timber in their
charge “scooped in” or broken up by
contact with the obstruction referred to,
and carried rapidly out of their control
by the current, which flows swiftly at
♦his point.
When the Toooi undertook to lift this
sunken tree from the river bed, it was
discovered that a monster of no insignifi¬
cant proportions and weight had to he
dealt with. The powerful engines and
tackle of the boat were found unequal
to the task, and hence the obstruction
had to be broken ud with dynamite »»d
the pieces tanen out separately. The
entire trunk had completely petrified,
aud was as heavy as iron. One of the
pieces was estimated to weigh about
seventy tons. Some of the fragments
were exceedingly beautiful, being of
different colors—some black, others
crimson and violet, and others contrast¬
ing shades.
Holding a Farm 150 Tears.
The Philadelphia Record says: “The
fine 160-acre farm belonging to the estate
of tho late Jeremiah Van Keed, in Amity
Township, Berks county, Penn., has
been willed to James Warren Van Reed,
now five years old, thus descending it:
uninterrupted succession in the Var
Reed family for over one hundred and
fifty years.' homestead All the deeds in and the papers hands of o t
tho old are
the Executors, and run back to the j<ro
prietorship of William Penn. Jacob
Van Reed, the first of the family in
America, came over from Holland a cen¬
tury and a half ago, settled in Amity
Township, purchased the farm, and the
place descended to his sons and grand
pons. The fourth owner, Jeremiah Van
Reed, was the great grandson of the first
owner, he lived longer than any of his
sons, and the old homestead now goes
in regular succession to his grandson,
James W. Van Reed. At the sale of the
personal effects of the old gentleman n
mahogany chair one hundred and twenty
five rears old was purchased by relic
hunters. The family Bible, which goes
to the young heir, is more than three
hundred years old, and was brought
here from Holland.
Facts About Spools.
Spools are made in immense numbers,
Q ne factory turns out 100,000 gross birch a
jj a y an q consumes 2,500 cords of
f annually. The wood is fir ft sawed
WO od
; n { 0 g tj c ks four or five feet long and
[ rom se ven-eightbs of an inch to three
inches square, according to tho size of
; [] ie spool to be produced. These sticks,
a fter being thoroughly seasoned, are
jawe q j n to short blocks, and the blocks
are dried in a hot-air kiln. At the time
they are sawed a hole is bored through
j them. The sjiool machine is managed
by a boy, who throws out the '•
, defective pieces. The spo,
themselves' by their motion ar
: in revolving drums. Some of
are dyed yellow, red or blac
are ready for use when they -
drums.
. The number of yards of the cotl
,pool is determined by size o
spool. The cotton is never mean..
but the spool is guaged the to contain 10c b.
200, or 500 yards, always as case send may tbf
Silk and linen firms to
spool makers pa!terns giving the sr
and shape of the barrel and of the h<
and bevel, which determines the amouL,
0 f silk or thr ead that the s pool will hold.
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He Mould „ Give ... It. „
—
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
“When a certain San Francisco lady,
who has made a wide Eastern reputation
as a writer, visited Japan some years
ago, she was entertained by one of the
j leading Americana of Tokio. Everything
in the house was artistic, ana the
curios, the most elaborate
ware, the finest Japanese art productions,
covered the tables and filled the rooms.
The San Francisco visitor was much
terested in all this, and was
admiring the dinner service which
Slbfc:”’
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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1884.
PIKE COUNTY FOLKS
A story about shorty ryerson>s
tame hear.
A Painful Ke*ult oi Foraetlnlnrus on tho
Port ol Sol, the Landlord.
“A good many folks thinks, wliep
they see Shorty Byerson for the fus’
time, that some time or other he must
ha’ beu a layin’ in the saw mill whar the
log had orter ben, with the mill a-goin’
full split; but that ain’t it,” said old
Sol, landlord of the tavern at Sol’s
Bidge. Shorty Byerson had just gone
out. There was nothing remarkable
about his appearance except that he was
less than five feet high, and that every
square inch of one side of his face was a
scar.
“No, that wa’n’t it,” said old Sol.
‘Ye see, goin’ outer five year ago I had
a tame b’ar, au’ kep’ him chained to that
pole out tliar iu the road. Him an’
Shorty was p’ticklar good friends, au’
when Shorty wa’n’t doin’ nothin’, which
were giuer’iv from daylight one mornin’
till daylightnex’ mornin’, countin’ Sun¬
days, lie were out tliar foolin’ with that
b’ar. They’d cuddle down together an’
go to sleep, Shorty an’ the b’ar would,
jes’ as nat’ral ’zif they war both bars,
and it got so that when Shorty happened
to be away fur ten minutes the b’ar’d git
so oneasy that ye could hear him heller
like a baby, all ’round the Bidge. Shorty an’
larnt the b’ar a heap o’ smart tricks,
business was s’pended half the time, an'
the folks all out a-watcliin’ him puttin
the b’ar through what bo know’d.
“The thing that tickled ’em most was
the boxiu’ matches Shorty an’ tho b’ar
’d give. Shorty had larnt that b’ar so
he’d stau’ up au’ spar with him ez nat’ral
ez life, and I swan if ’twa’n’t a sight
good fur a lifetime to see ’em stan’ that
an’ bat away at one another ez if they
was a figlitin’ fur money an’ the stakes
was up. ’Nother thing that nsetv take
the town down was the way that b’ar’d
walk inter the tavern with Shorty,
whenever anyone invited him to take
sumpin’, an’ stun’ thar ’long side o’ him
an’ take his glass o’ rum ez good harvest ez tho
best on ’em. That b’ar were a
for Shorty, fur ev’rvbody that’d come
along’d haf to call Shorty an’ Solomon
in to hev sumpin’. Cons’kenco was that
both Shorty an’ the b’ar had their wuth
less skins full pooty much all the time.
They got to be the hardest drinkers on
the Ridge, an’ I ustey say that the fust
thing anybody know’d they’d both git
the jams. tho b’ar
“Wall, by-an’-by Shorty an’ o’ seem’
got to be a nuisance. I got tired
’em p’formin’ out thar in the road, an’
suckin’ rum, an’ the hull town iiiieaienoct spendin’
its time w.irtW ‘cm. <>•»’ i
time an’ agin to shoot the durn b’ar an’
stop the hull business. But I hated to
do it, an’ kep’ a puttin’ up with it, an’
talcin’ it out in cussin’. Shorty allnz
commenced business with the b’ar long
about daylight, an’ the fust thing on the
program were alluz a sparrin’ match.
One nice mornin’ in June Shorty come
Bluffin’ down ez usual to begin tho ’round day’s
work. The b’ar was cuddled up
tbe pole. Shorty give him a whack on
the side an’ hollers out: ‘Gome, Solomon!
Git up an’ put up yer flippers.’
“The b’ar got np an’ put up bis flip¬
pers. Ye see whar that panel o’ board
fence is, up thar hy the hen house ?
Wall, Shorty were picked up right his thar.
They took him hum an’ sewed face
up ez good as they could, an’ the b’ar
were gone when Shorty came back to
the travern three weeks arterw’dw. He
never asked no questions ’cept to say:
‘Solomon must ha’ had the jams, didn’t
“Ye see, the night afore the b’ar put
up his flippers to Bhorty, ez I told ye,
an’ arter cv’ry body had gone hum, th'
were a pedlar come ’long to stop nil night
Ho had a durn ugly b’ar with him that
he’d traded fur, and the idee struck mo
to swap Solomon fur that b’ar an’ ten
dollars to boot, an’ I did. The new b’ar
were chained to the pole, an’by daylight
nex’ mornin’ Solomon were on his way
East. An’ ye see. I furgot to sen’ word
(O Shorty’bout tho dicker.”— Ed. Mott.
A Strange Story.
An extraordinary story is told in Eng¬
lish court circles, and has been retailed
by the Spiritualists, as to t-lie reasons
which induced tho Queen at the last mo¬
ment to alter the arrangements for
Prince Leopold’s funeral. It is said that
a short time before his death, dancmg
with an intimate friend, a lady of Danish
birth, of great personal beauty, and the
wife of an English peer, he was rallied
by her upon his unwonted abstraction.
His answer was that his sister Alice bad
come to him in the night, warned him of
an approaching calamity, and told him
not to trouble, for all would soon lie
well. The royal Duke, like his mother,
the Queen, seems to have accented su¬
pernatural vis'!' ’’ ’ " -s real, and he told
the lady *> l hij3r/
happened
m
money alleged .
laws on account o. -*.f
500 letters are receiveo day from
soldjer3 inquiring into the status of
c i a - lEQB which they have thus loa n in
flnced to file . Th<sy are persuaded to pay
an advance fee of from $2 to $5 to the at
torneys, who pay no attention to the case!
after r6C eiving the advance, Soldier- as they
know they are without merit.
then induced to send their discharge
j.^r, to these attorneys, who refuse to
re tam them, in the hope that they may
he o! benefit in the ever t of Legislation
the future, similar in term* to the
proposed equalization lfontity act.
LonimBl. giri. ha™ rarinrf
not to marry any man who goes out of a
theatre between the acts.
FACTOR! LIFE IN LOWELL
Mi*. Lucy l.nrrom lleoerlbe* wlint it wi».
Thirty Team Ago.
[From tho Lovell Courier.]
Miss Lucy Lavcon gave, iu tho ves¬
try of tho Kirk Strett Church the other
evening, a familiar talk on the recollec¬
tions of her life in Liwell 30 or 40 years
ago. She said at that time mill girls had
to work from 12 to It hours a day, and
at the present time so many occupations
were open to women that it was bard to
realize the condition of things then,
Those were long days of toil, and being
shut out from conversation with eaoh
other, wlint more mt-iral than to com
nmne with their own thoughts, which
oftentimes were written down on scraps
of paper and afterward published in the
Lowell Offering l This first Improve
ment Circle was formed in a parlor on
the Lawrence corporation, and later an
other circle was formed iu the Second
Universalist Church, through the efforts
of the Bov. A. C. Thomas, at that time
the pastor of the church. From those
literary circles sprung tho papor known
as the Lowell Offering, which was
permanently published in 1841, Thomas, under
the direction of the Bev. A. 0.
and in 1842 William Schouler, at that
time editor of the Lowell Daily Courier,
became manager. The Operatives’
Magazine started in 1842, and MissLar
com became a contributor. Then it was
a query who were the authors of theva
rious articles which were printed, and it
was said that the lawyers in the city
were managing tho magazine, and the
articles were credited to them. It was
then thought best that the real names of
the writers should write he given, although
much easier to under a nom de
plume, so that it might be seen that the
magazine was what it professed to be.
Miss Larcom said that when living in
Lowell she was best known in tbe First
Congregational and Kirk Streot
Churches, and spoke of the work of tho
Rev. Dr. Blanchard among the young
people of that time. She related in
stances of mill girls who had beoome tho
wives of clergymen, editors, lawyers,
and those in the higher walks of life,
many of whom had become famous,
wealthy aud influential. One lady, who
had married a minister in the West, on
being asked by a clergyman, a friend of
her husband, “where she received her
literary training,” replied, “in a Loweil
iactory.” Tho church picnics of those
lays were only a walk from tbe city into
tho country, but they were among the
bright and pleasant things of the mill
girls’lives. The girls studied not only
during their work but outside, and wore
constantly cultivating womanly and
Christian virtues. And why should it
uotbeso at present? asked the le«t,ur
er. The spirit in w'lich we do our work
is that which counts. Nothing which
falls to our lot should be below our
efforts to perform. Tlio mill girls of
years ago would have willing y given
their lives for one another, for thov
found in self-denial and devotion to each
other the true key to life. Toiling side
by side and sharing each others dis
eouragements and misfortunes, they
found the way of enriching themselves
with untold blessings.
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Something Wrong Somewhere
The Carson Appeal -; tells. , „ (1 thw . slory: ,
Sam Jones, of Gold Hill, Nev., lias a
domestic in liis house who is a country
woman of Sullivan. J lie other morning
he and Evan Williams were eating break
fast, when, by a preconcerted something agreement, like
they began a dialogue
ibis, Sam leading off: that Sullivan took
“Curious, ain’t it,
water from that Dutchman?
“Yes, indeed; I was quite astonished.
He seemed perfectly cowed.”
“Well, I don’t blame him. Hans is a
big man, and strong as a bull, and I
guess be can lick any two men in the
world, John included.”
“Pliat’s that, Mister Jones?” broke in
the domestic, who had been hovering
“saw astii: --> m Stfszft
ss?
meet Sullivan, and when he saw our
man be weakened and let the money
slide.”
The domestic dropped a china plate
on the floor, and stood speechless. fist,
“He breaks all bis rock with his ’
broke in Ham, “and runs the steam drill
by hand. We pay him $12 a day just
for the steam he saves. Bullivan hap
pened to come in when he was making
bird’s-eye porphyrv with his fist, and
I’m blamed if be didn’t turn pale as a
ghost ”
“Mr. Jones, if Mr. Evan Williams
says this I’d belave him; but as you say
so it wouldn’t go. There must be some
mistake about ' Tw*»bna*- ”
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sa)l •
viable kindlv tolo
b i’. ar
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* <-Vow L you know somethu
„y ”
What do you work at.
* “ Stetron^sate^^
Switch Station, sah.
“Fifty hours and fifty dollar,
take a man from New York to the t
of Mexico.” Ten cents’ worth of ar¬
senic will take him to a more desirab 1 -
place, no matter what sort of life t
IiJilV p riV u lived on this earth—provir*
• the reports from New Mexico are ‘
THE LAWS OF WAR.
HOW THEY WEEK CARRIED.OUI..BV *
THE BRITISH IN ASHANTEE. ft.
I
And Wlint a Lending British Mnanzinr has
to Suj on tho Subject.
The assumption that savage races are
ignorant of all laws of war, or incapable be
0 f learning them, would indifference seom to about
based rather on our
their customs than on tho realities ot
the easo. But whatever value there may
be in our own laws of war, as helping to
constitute a rearedifferenco between sav
nge and oivilized warfare, the bost way
to spread tho blessing of a knowledge of
.them would clearly be for tlie more civil
i zei i races to adhere to them strictly in
a u wars waged with their less advanced
neighbors. An English commander, for
instance, should no more set lire to the
capital of Ashantee or Zulu-land for so
paltry a pretext as the display of British
power than he would set fire to Paris or
Berlin; lie should no more have villages
or granaries burned iu Africa or Afghan- and
j 8 t au than he would in Normandy,
be should no more keep a Zulu envoy or
truce bearer in chains than he would so
dea ( w ith the bearer of a white flag
f rom a Russian or Italian enemy. The
reverse principle, which is yet iu vogue,
that with barbarians you must or may
i, e barbarous, leads to some curious il
lustrations of civilized wariare when it
CO mes in contact with tho less civilized
races. In ono of the Franco-Itnlian
W ars of the sixteenth century, more than
two thousand women and children took
refuge in a largo mountain cavern, and
W ero there suffocated by a party of
French soldiers, who set fire to a quail
tity of wood, straw, and bay, which they
a t a ckod at the mouth of the cave; but it
wlw considered so shameful an act that
the Chevalier Bayard had two of the
ringleaders hanged at the cavern’s
mon th. Yet when the French General
Pelissier in this century suffocated tho
unresisting Algerians in their eaves, it
W as even defended as no worse than
shelling a fortress; and there is evidence
that gun-cotton was not infrequently
used to blast the entrance to caves in
Zulu-land in which men, women, and
children had hoped to find shelter against
ftU arm y which professed only to be war
r j n g w ith their King. The following do-
8C riptkm of tho way in which, in tho
Aslmntee war, the English foroos ob
tained native carriers for their transport
service is not without its instruction in
this respect: “Wo took to kidnapping made
U pon a grand scale. Raids were
„ n ft n the Assin villages within reach of
the line of maroh, and the men, and
nomomuoH me ivumeu, carried on and
8en t U p the country under guard, with
cases of provisions. Lieutenant-
rendered immense service in this way.
Having been for some time commandant
of Accra, ho knew tho coast and many
of the chiefs; and having a man-of-war
Lvn placed at his disposal, ho wont up and
the coast,; landing with continually. and ob
having ^ interviews chiefs
tainil * from them large numbers of
men a ( i women; or when this failed,
landing at night with a party of soldiers
surrounding villages, and sweeping off
the adult population, leaving only a few
to after the ohlklr ®!V, ?"
this way, in the course of . a month he
obtained several thousands of earners.
The Gentleman s Maaazmc.
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Hon. ,,,, Ilmrlow , Weed’s mens riircon I Itcon.
How are wm «ainiT with Tenorter the
biography of your father ? o repor er
asked the daughter of tho late lion
T w’"iwTtiw,
Just then the pigeou that that was was Mr Mr.
Weed’s pc about six years abglnod cheerily n
the reporter s shoulder, and
cooing, peered round mto Ins face.
Suddenly the bird became dum > i
flew into an adjoining room. gentleman
He has done that to every
that has come into the house since father
pi .i a is
srSs&rs srf p r&s: s%£rxhs
but when he sees it w not iny father he
wfiI stop hw cooing and find some other
| pexph. Smce the day that father a re
mains were earned away the affectionate
! creature has been seeking for his master.
He honso flies and through fairly wff haunts ™ the hlAv lihraiy
where father spent most of his timo
with his pet
He will tread over every inch of
space on the lounge and then go t/> the
rng, over which he will walk repeatedly,
! as if in exjx-ctation of his dead master s
! coining. Ho invariably does this at
meal times, when our table is set in the
back parlor, of which we now mak
’ teat-room. He can ■'» our
. »»
do nc
spo-
$1.00 A YEAR.
THE MEXICAN HEFUBLIG.
No Dnnser of Its Annexation to Tli!»
Country. 'I
r
Adko \aw sonoe hasty philosophers,
nays Olikrles M. th^TUuitod iiua letter to the
Sun, who imagine that States
is likely in timo to aim ax at least the
northern portion of Mexico; and this
notion also finds favor among a con¬
siderable number of wealthy Mexicans,
who suppose that their property inter¬
ests would bo safer if the Government
of tho northern ropublio wero extended
over them.
This notion, however, seems to be en¬
tirely fanciful. There is nothing iu the
northern portion of Moxioo, with tho
exception, perhaps, of parts of Tamuu
lipns, to attract immigration of North
Americans. The barren regions of Coa
India, Chihuahua, and Sonora offer
small inducements to settlers. Even
the host parts of these States can only
be made UBoful for cattle ranges, and
these require but a limited population.
The mines, howover rich tboy may prove
to be, can only be worked with costly
apparatus, and tho Indians of tho coun¬
try will supply every demand for labor.
In this situation there is nothing to
bring about annexation. If the country
wero rich, if it wero capable of being
settled by a dense agricultural popula¬
tion, the case might be otherwise; but
as it now stands, there is nothing that
can make it an object for American
politicians to add Mexieo or any part of
it to the United States.
Of course, the restless Yankees wit!
always have heavy interests in Mexieo.
No matter what losses may be incurred,
the chances of successful mining or of
fortunate hits iu othor directions, will
always suffice to charm a duo proportion effect
of our speculators. But Whatever
these gentlemen may produce, or how¬
ever their wishes may bo seconded by a
few rich Mexicans, it is most improb¬
able that the northern republic republic will will de¬
sire, or that tlio southern
bo willing, to annex the two countries
together under ono government. In the
North the policy of adding six or eight
millions of Indians to a voting popula¬
tion iu which thero is already too much
of ignorance will not he tolerated; while
in the South the differences of race,
language, laws and images will present
on that side obstacles equally insur¬
mountable. Each country will, of course,
exert its duo weight in tho development
of the other; and there should be no
reason in any national jealousies or fears
of encroachment, why this development
should not he healthy, invigorating, and
always in the direction of progress
THE RUSSIAN GENERAL.
MlioltHeir, Man whom llio Soldiers
IionoiI llcarly*
a* TjnuFdnn
{£* »vh*licate handsome fuev* ” u
RUYn.’, Ho
,V a), o rode into battle
*»!“* SSShm* liah ■ .
““r tll o Turks Urn title of ...ookinJ A lib [Vslm ^’,lun or
J®,^ J «X'tMI dressed I’l Ul W i.o ‘Is no
“ f
‘Now, at Inst, I feel
H described as “fighting like an
sign.” «. The answer bide himself given was: like
b h d not a
^ „ He wftH ft] in til0 thickest
tbc rftin {)f bullets and sharped,
ing on his men, and showing Uio way
the enemy’s batteries. But though
was careless of himself, ho was
careful ot his men. His division was
jL Um ^ tea,‘and iJe<1 wit h fllr coats,
wi “com brandy.” with
I refused to have anything to do
, “ Department, ^ents and
JiJh r f do its own oora
Hou 0 one Bugge8tod might embezzle, that
0 j) K .,. rs
fjj H aimwer was: “If inv mer, ,;«t us much
bread J. und meat and tea and brandy as
wa]ifc if thero M0 n0 complaints
( j a „ alIlfl t my officers, if the mliafai
wbiIe the other divisions looked pale
d ’ > . th<J 0ra „ a
.. Whftt red . fftced (ellowg , One can
. .jj jjlled. Thank ’
^ ar6 w(
^ ^ do noJ . ]ook ljke
Flogging KK g and cuffing appea.
Btill jri the Bussian armv bis'
wonld have n0n6 0 f j t j n
told one of his favorite coloi
.
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ODDS AND ENDS.
Thebe are 125 licensed distilleries in
Scotland.
German horse dealers are purchasing
largely in England.
The assessed valuation of Minneapo¬
lis is $80,000,000.
A new Petroleum Exchange was
opened in Pittsburg.
A genuine vampire was recently cap¬
tured in Eos AngeleB, Cal.
Senator Edmunds’ private law prac¬
tice is worth $75,000 a year.
Goat Island at Niagara Falls is esti¬
mated to be worth $1,000,000.
The Chief Signal Officer has decided
to establish a station in Alaska.
A paper chimney fifty feet ljjgh has
been erected at Breslau, France.
The deaths in Boston in March, 1884,
numbered 779; in March, 1883, 813.
A delegation of Irish prelates will
visit Borne and confer with the Pope.
Payn, the English novelist, smokes
fifty pipes a day and sleeps ten hours.
There were more lynchings than exe- •
cutions last year in the United States.
Schuyler Colfax will deliver a
Fourth of July oration in Waseca, Minn.
The estate of Daniel Webster, in
Marshfield, Mass., is advertised for sale.
Bad dividends have been lately an¬
nounced by ocean steamship companies.
A lady has given Mills Seminary, San
Francisco, $5,000 for a library building
Every one, rich and poor, takes a dip
once a day in a caldron of hot water in
Japan.
The Prussian railway system covers
9,000 miles, a little more than that of
Canada.
Kentucky expects to raise this season
the largest crop of tobacco ever grown in
tlio State.
Logan smokes. For weeks he will not
light a cigar, and then he wiil smoke
constantly.
Half the sugar consumed Inst year in
the United Kngdom was madefromEuro
pean beets.
A lace factory is to be started at
Wilkesbarro, Penn., the first in the
United States.
The Zion Church Conference at New
burg, N. Y., expelled a minister for im
moral conduct.
The annual convention of the New
State Sunday Soliool Association will be
held in Oswego in June.
The census returns for 1883 give the
population of Berlin as 1,22(1,392, of
whom 20,587 aro soldiers.
A man in Braintroe, Vt., received a
bequest of $5,000 from a stranger, to
whom he did a chance favor.
In nine yoars proporty valued at $778,
012,358 lias boon destroyed by fire in
the United States and Canada.
Judge Yekkes, of Philadelphia,decides made
that evidence regarding statements
over a telephone wire is admissible.
The sohemo for tunnelling under tho
Straits of Messina lias met with such
difficulties that it has been rejected.
Hall’s Journal of Health says a cold
may be cured if the patient will keep
warm in bed und eat nothing for a day
or two.
Military authorities say that a thou¬
sand good soldiers with the improved arms
can do ten times tho execution that was
done twenty years ago.
The canton of Glaris. Switzerland,
abolished capital punishment a lev
years ago. The Government bos de
cided by a large majority to reintroduoe
it.
In tho present British Parliament
Wales has ono member for every 45,40(1
of her population, Ireland one member
for every 61,230, England one momber
for every 54,216, and Scotland ono mem¬
ber for ovory 64,278.
Monsignor Oaphl called with an
Archbishop on a Roman Catholic Amer¬
ican lady, who said to her four-year-old
boy, “My son, speak to the Archbish¬
op.” The hoy held out his hand and
said, “How do you do, Arch?”
Statistics show that among 1,000
doctors the number of deaths annually
ranges between fifteen and twenty-five.
At this rate the number of deaths an¬
nually among the 90,000 medical men of
this country would ho, on an average,
1,800.
Of the 37,072,048 inhabitants of
France, 1,101,090 are foreigners, of
whom 432,205 are from Belgium, 240,-
733 from Italy, 81,980 from Germany,
73,781 from Spain, 00,281 from Switzer¬
land, and only 37,000 from the British
Isles. The number of naturalized per¬
sons is but 77,040.
Bryant’s Tender Conscience.
A very pretty anecdote is told of the
late William Cullen Bryant, tho poot,
by a former associate in his newspaper
office, > which illustrates the trood man’s
simplicity of heart -ator:
“One mornir
reaching his '■
begin woi
market!:
“ ‘J CP'
“ ‘Wh
•‘ ‘Ol