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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL XXXIX.
on-BYE.
RIm ni Mel JMIJT gOO I -!))■«• ,
( f C »I 1 v.\ tli’*r>' in n<> word <o say but this.
N<*r any lq>* left for my U|»a to ki*«,
Nor any f<*m t hoi. wiioii th*tear* *Jry ;
K ni«\ ati'l «xv k < >)"*•
Pnr^woll, lw ghui. torg'-i ,
Thorn in no »<*" I to *»y ‘forest.’ I know.
For youth is youth, mi l tirn<* will have It so, j
Kmi though your lip* ir<- f alo and your eyes
wet,
Farewell, you must for,v*t.
You shall briiiK hom** your *h®nv®?,
Many, an 1 heavy, an l with blowoms
twined
Of momorli' I hit c* out of mind .
I/"l this on® ho, -if lc tw.no I with popj.y
leaves
When you tiring home your sheaves.
In garnered loves of thin *,
The rip® goo! trait of mmy hearts an 1
years,
Hoin*'wher<* l»*f thin lj«> :r.u ria l salt with
teiirs ;
It grew too near lle> i win I, an 1 tho brino
Of life, fills lov'' of mine.
I hi* *h<*nf v/ns Mpoil.'d in spring,
Alyl ovr-loug r.’.m green, and early sere,
\n l ii'*ver gnthere I gold Iu th<‘ lnt«ye.or
F rum nutii’im sun* :m I m<> >n* of harvesting,
Hut fallo i in frosts of spring.
\ et was It thin-, my •.V'!«*f .
This love, tl*.o i ;ii W 'aU as young <*orn
withered,
Whereof no man may gather an 1 make
bread ;
Thine, though it never knew th» summer
hunt ;
Forget not quite, mv sweet.
- Andrew Lang, In Worthington's Magazine.
THE MARPLOT,
IIY ABTHt'lt KIBI.D.
ITGUSTA VAN
Etten twisted in
Avxl b- a whisp tho
u U tter which had
just reach her
from her brother,
and cast h e r
M <* pretty blue eyes
downward in si¬
V lent meditation.
At the end of the
breakfast table
she another opposite where
sat young lady was enjoy¬
ing the contents of a newly arrived
morning newspaper, At tho first
glance a stranger viewing this quiet
domestic scene would have thought
that the young lady reading the news
paper was the first one’s double.
Closer observation would have re¬
suited in the hypothesis that they
were twins, aud singularly similar in
appearance, identical. though by no means
The latter surmise would
have been equally incorrect as the
former, for there was a year’s differ
enoc in tho ages of the ‘two sisters,
Netta. the one reading the newspaper,
being the younger of the two. The
sisters usually dressed alike, and in 1
the street were almost indistingtiish- j
able to all but tho closest acquaint
uncos. As to disposition, who ever
found two sisters alike in that respect, *
even if twins? I
“Was your letter from Robert?”
asked Netta. eventually looking up j
from her ‘
'
paper.
Augusta wagged her head in an ] ,
aftirmative nod.
“He is quite well, 1 suppose?”
Another . nod. ......
“1 am going over to the Sandersons,
this morning.”
“All right, dear. ’
“Won’t you go?”
“No, thanks. I have to cook.”
“Very well. Ferhaps I shall stay to
luneli, or 1 may be back early.” ‘
“1'here is no need to hurry, dear,
unless you choose. I shall be too
busy to feel lonely,”* replied Augusta,
still very thoughtful.
Netta went upstairs shortly after
wards, and arrayed herself for calling,
after doing which she came down,
kissed her sister good-bye, and de
parted on foot for tho home of the
Sandersons.
The servant came in to take away
the breakfast things a little later, and
Augusta rose, went to the window to
see that Netta had really gone, and
thou ventured upstairs to her own
chamber.
Going to her wardrobe, she took
several neat looking gowns down from
their pegs, and selecting the prettiest,
prepared to make her toilet in an ex
eeedingly careful manner.
Fora person who was about to do
cooking the conduct of Miss Augusta
Van Etten seemed incomprehensible.
Somebody has said though, that wo
man is au enigma.
But what could there be enigmatical
about a simple young country girl,
scarcely out of her teens, and reared
in the bucolic atmosphere of a place
like Chesterville?
To avoid any appearance of being
about to develop a mystery we will
state tlic facts of the case as sirnplv as
possible. ‘
Robert \ au Etten, the head of the !
family, and brother of the two girls,
was engaged iu business iu Phila
delphia, from which city Chesterville
was distant some fifty miles; and
being himself married, the girls were
left a good deal to their own devices,
Robert’s experience of matrimony
led him to consider that it was an ex
cellent thing for everybody, and as
his sisters were rather isolated where
they lived, he took every opportunity
of bringing them in contact with
young men of a desirable character.
l'ho letter this morning had an
Bounced that Mr. Seymour, a friend
of Mr. A au Etten as well connected
as he was well-to-do, would call to pay
his respects when passing through
Chesterville, on his bicycle, and it
bespoke for him a hearty welcome.
Mr. Seymour was due, the letter
stated. Tuesday morn iug, and as this
waa Tm-sduy the reason of Miss Van
Etten’s acquiescence in her sister’s
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 1894 .
▼isiting arrangement, and her own !
elaborate toilet making, explain them*
neWes. As for Augusta, her conduct 1
was pardonable, perhaps, for she was
a year her sister's senior. Her own
conacience was doubtless easy on that
point, deal. which also amounts to a good J
At any rate Augusta felt that
her appearance, when she descended
to the parlor to await the arrival of
Mr. Seymour, was about as satisfactory
an could be wished, a reflection quite
conductive to her fuller peace of mind. I
.Seated near the window, Miss Van
Etten commanded a view down the
road leading to the village, and final- j
ly, a little before noon, she had the j
pleasure of seeing tho gleam of steel
fixings in the sunshine, and a young
man astride of a trim looking “safety”
rapidly approaching the cottage. Miss
Van Etten surveyed the stranger crit
ienlly as he descended from his bicycle
and strode with an athlete’s easy
grace of movement op to the porch of
the front door.
“Iting-a ting” went the bell, and
Augusta listened for the coming of the
maid to answer it.
No maid materialized, and the bell
was rung again a little louder.
Miss Van Etten rose from her seat
and went to tho door.
A young man was bowing profusely
her *
to when sho opened it.
“Miss Van Etten, I presume?” the
handsome young man said, promptly.
“Yes, Mr. Seymour,” retaliated the
young lady—adding at once, “Como
in Mr. Seymour. I received a letter
frora my brother in Philadelphia this
morning, stating that you would be
here to-day. Please take a seat. ”
The young athlete dropped com
fortably into au inviting chair, re
sponding “Yes—Philadelphia—broth
or—delighted,” and so forth among
the polite rejoinders.
“Doesn’t bicycling fatiguo one
dreadfully ?* asked Miss Van Etten,
as soon as she had scolded the girl for
her tardiness and found her own seat,
“Not those who are used to it. You
de not ride, yourself, Mies Van
Etten ?” |
“I am afraid Chesterville would be
shockod out of its senses if one of its j
female inhabitants dared to do such a
thing. ”
“And yet such a charmingly pic¬
turesque place, too!”
“ Yes, Chester ville was rather pretty, „
Miss Van Etten conceded.
“Wasn’t it rather dull sometimes?”
“Yes, terribly so.”
“Were the neighbors sociable—who
were they, and what were their
ua ir, H '
Before Miss At Van Etten nn was con
scums of her actions she was giving a
1 e « escrip ion o cr neig ors,
nU ' U r * ° el na ? ' s enuigasin on y
1 f , e y Cn n ^ ll 1 * ni Cl ma ' in g ns
• . i , . .
10 !V e m 1< ( H <rvI L '
Il ’* attentiveness .. was really ,, flatter- ,,
. V Vr ° r “°*^ a v n * etae mo - r The f.° ™ ftrmlu ore hc S I
A Vt aU ' in cuusk net , nm,
' uas evnen y encouraging ler
•
!!' in ° n " as tr lHI ! 11 ' n n ?, un un P casan nsta • u
* * ' ei j
the u ^ bbor « badb . . f en exba,l8t « d the j
conversation drifted + to favorite an- I
thor f' H was surprising to see what a !
* existed m their tastes.
l lG cot.versa ion was so animated
mt ft “ other "l»m>lman, approaching
the cottage was scarcely noticed by
the busy couple.
A commonplace looking man dis
mounted Horn his bicycle, put a pack- ;
age under his arm, and walked up to
tb « front door. ;
“H i* ono of those horrid book
agents, T know, remarked Miss Van j
Etten, as she caught a glance of the
newcomer through the window. j
second thought she rose and
wou * * bo door to intercept the
maid, who was going to answer the
b °D*
one at home, miud, Clara!” she |
pab l firmly to the girl. “I don’t wish
to be interrupted.”
A minute later the man retraced his
steps down to the gate, strapped his
package back on the machine, mount
cd. and rode oft' quietly down the
road.
“Those book agents nre r perfect
nuisance,” commented Miss Van Etten. ]
“Intolerable,” replied her vis-a-vis,
promptly, adding, “as a rule they
travel around with third-class publica
tions, and are so deficient in manner
as to bore people insufferably. If
they would only sell first-class works
aud conduct themselves correctly, it
would be very different. ”
Miss Van Etten acquiesced amiably,
The subject of favorite books was
resumed.
“You have seen the uew societv !
novel, I presume,” enquired the Phil
adelphian. Miss Van Etten had not
l>eeu so fortunate. A dive into the
bicycling costume, and from some in
ner receptacle the young man brought
forth a neatly bound volume, which
he handed to Miss Van Etten.
“These are onlv some of the illus
he remarked, carelessly;
“the volumes have been gotten out in
the most superb style. To tell you the
truth, Miss Van Etten, the author is a
most particular friend of mine, and I
am so enthusiastic about the snecess
of his work that I am actually playing
the roll of au amateur book-agent. I
was sorry to hear you speak so dis
ptragiugly of although the profession a few
minutes ago, they decidedly
merit it, but yon see, in my case it’s
entirely different, something like a
gentleman making a wager that he
will cross the continent without a dol
lar in his pocket. I simply insist that
all my friends, of whom I have a large
number, assist me to gratify my
hobby, and just for fun. make them
; all sign a contract to take the book
aud help swell the bank-account, as
j well as increase the author. the reputation I of my
friend, your case. I see
that yon are such an enthusiast over
his works, I shall scarcely have to in
sist—you will most willingly do it.”
“With the greatest of pleasure, Mr.
Seymour.”
The young man handed a slip ol
paper to Mias Van Etten to sign, to
which she promptly affixed her signa
ture with the stylographic pen pro¬
dneed by her visitor,
“I am awfully obliged. Now I shall
have to apologize for having stayed so
long, and get upon my wheel again for
a five inile spin to Harrisburg. Ho de¬
lighted to have met you. When will
you be in Philadelphia? May I have
the pleasure of seeing you again,some
time? Your brother must arrange it
somehow. I am delighted with Ches
terville. Everything is so lovely here,
Why do we have to leave such pleas
ant placss?
Miss Van Etten was blushing. There
w is a hasty touch of the fingers, alow
bow, elaborated to almost the length
of the garden path, and the book
agent was gone.
“I have brought Mr. Seymour back
with me - He called this morning and
y° u were out. (An inflection on the
out.) But for Mr. Seymour's assist¬
ance I don’t know what would have
happened, for I encountered a lunatic
in my walk and, well, Mr. Seymour
will explain. He has a parcel for you,
^ ot> ’ which in his haste he forgot to
leave, aud he would not allow me to
bring it back, so accompanied me to
Oliver it in person. It is a birthday
l> refi « ut for y° u Robert.”
Miss Augusta \ au Etten stood stu
P idl y “taring at the speaker, her sis
ter ’ for fu,1 y rt couple «f minutes be
fore ftn ulea b cR aa to dawn upon her
befogged comprehension,
Then she nm^ged to gasp hysteri
cab y_
“Mr. Seymour,
“Is there anything so terrible look
m " ab “«t your brother’s friend?
Can’t you ask him to sit down? Have
you «een a ghost, or has a witch gone
ri<liD £ b y on a broomstick, or what
has happened.
“Oh, nothing,” gasped Miss Van
EtteD, as she sank bak into a chair,
her anticipated guest and her sister
Netta having seated themselves,
“What did you say about a lunatic?’’
eried the elder Mlss 1 an Etten, trying
to cover up her absolute bewilder¬
ment and chagrined feelings.
“Mr. Seymour, please give my sis
ter an account ot that individual’s
actions from whom you were kind
enough to rescue me. ”
“A rather good looking young man
on a bicycle—”
Miss Van Etten the elder almost ut
tered a shriek.
“Met f your sister at a lonely f ^ part of
the road between the two vil a es and
had the amlac ity, tile not only to address
her, which by way he did by her
correct name, but to insist that he
knew her and that he had spent an
hour or more with her to-day previous
to meeting her again.”
“I happened to come on the scene
and just at the time the man was put
ting his hand into his clothing, as we
both surmised to get some weapon, I
caught him a blow which apparently
brought him to his senses, for after
looking at us both for a few seconds
with ft bew ildered air, he jumped on
hig bi i e and rode away at the top
G f his speed.” \
« Bnt c wasn - t feeling for n wea .
pon!” interposed Miss Van Etten.
..p, Uow you know?”
, <He Wftg simply going to show you
the illustrations of the latest society
novel.”
“What on earth do vou mean,
Augusta?”
“That I am the - greatest idiot on
earth and that our resemblance to
each other caused the misunderstand
ing which led to your adventure.
The person you saw called here and I
believed him to be Mr. Seymour, who
I was expecting as I had been advised
of his visit by Robert, which, by the
by, I forgot to tell you about.”
“So it seems.”
“Believing it to be Mr. Beymour, 1
chatted with him for over an hour,
Oh, the baseness of that man. the
cold blooded villainy of book-agents!
He led me on in my delusion in the
most wanton manner, and induced me
to even sign a contract to take a copy
of the book from him on the strength
of an assertion that the author was a
particular friend, aud that he was
greatly interested in his success.”
(Irrepressible laughter on the part ol
two.)
“It is the same book that Mr. Sey
mour has brought you from Robert.”
“I even went so far, surmising that
it was Mr. Seymour I was talking to,
to send out word to the real Mr.-Sey
mour when he called that I was not at
sobbed Augusta.
“What an awful disappointment you
have bad > antl bow fortunate it was
Hiat I was out ami happened to meet
Hey mour. \\ e have arranged to
"° hshing this afternoon, t you
come with us, Augusta, dear ?
sufficient ior the day is the evil
thereof, when it leads you into a fear
f«l piece of maladroitness and leaves
J. 011 W1 t b R headache, and a younger
s i s * er ’ already through the unfair in
icrvention of providence, ahead of you
a of to much importance,
York Advertiser,
Teas of Various (Qualities.
The ordinary Oolong tea, costing
sixty or seventy cents a pound, has a
capacity of about 110 half-pint cups
to the pound, while the same amount
of Ceylon, silver-tipped tea, costing
$32, will supply over 1500 half-pint
cups, aud in addition the beverage is
vastly superior to that of common
brands. The intrinsic value of im
ported teas rarely exceeds that figure,
but in certain instances, where the tea
market has been cornered, as high as
$175 for a pound has been paid in
London, Society people have lately
declared in favor of the expensive
teas, and the dainty 4 o'clock teas are
no longer the economical social events
of yore. — Philadelphia Record.
GREAT NORTHERN SI01X.
PRESENT CONDITION OF THIS FA¬
MOUS TRIBE OF INDIANS.
How Their lerritory Has Dwindled
— Ihe ( haracter of Sitting Bull—
Indian Farms and Schools.
T I I yO aborigines, those interested and there in our
1 are but j
few- intelligent Americans who
(T are not, there is no more in
teresting place in the country Rock,‘North than
the agency at .Standing
Dakota, where are is. be found one
half of all that remains of the once
powerful and warlike Sioux Nation or
association of Sioux !>ands. Despite
incessant wars with the Chippewas
Hnrons and other tribes and their
continuous strife foF nearly a century,
with but few intermissions, with the
whites, to which mftv be added the
decimating effects of smallpox, whisky
and other adjuncts of civilization,
they still number something like 35 -
000 people, a third of whom are chaf
ing under the peace enforced by the
constant presence of white sabres and
bayonets.
The original territory claimed by
the Sioux and the title to which kept
them in perpetual hot water was
larger than that of Great Britain,
France and Germany combined
When the French missionaries, 200
vears ago, first entered the territorv
of the Dacotahs, as they then called
themselves, it extended from the
banks of the Mississippi in Minnesota
west to the Rocky Mountains and the
sources of the Missouri and north to
British America. At that time the
nation comprised sixteen tribes or
bands, each under nn independent
chief. They had frequent wars with
each other, but they were always
ready to make common |' cause against
an outside foe. %
Piece by piece the splendid domain
over which the Dacotahs held control
has been taken from them, until there
are only eleven millions of acres left,
and this is the poorest of* their terri
tory. But as the game has long since
been destroyed, and these people
do not take kindly to farming or
stock raising, preferring to live on the
rations supplied by the Government,
they have far more land than they
have use for. There can be no doubt,
but this territory wyll be gradually re
duced; it is certain it 'will be as soon
as the whites find that it* has any
value. *,
I find that though tljjQ famous Sit¬
ting Bull has been deal over four
years that his name is reverenced by
the Indians at this po* Even those
who did not like Aim while living,
mourn him dead, and secretly believe
that the whites paid for his assassina¬
tion. He was undoubtedly the shrewd¬
est chief the Sioux have had for gen¬
erations. He was personally brave,
but he understood his people and re¬
alizing that there were others as well
as himself, he set about controlling
them through their superstitions. He
became a medicine man. He studied
the savage rites and made himself their
leader iu all their religious orgies. In
time he claimed supernatural powers,
and as soon as his credulous aud ig
norant followers came to believe this,
he had them at his mercy.
Sitting Bull’s successor, Gall, is not
a medicine man, but in downright
patriotism and ability he is vastly the
superior of the man who preceded him.
While a natural born fighter, Gall has
the prudence to preach peace and the
sense to realize that henceforth war
is a game at which the Sioux must be
beaten, and therefore it would be pru
dent for him to forget.
But the power of the chiefs, as might
be expected, is decaying. They were
a necessity in the war days, and when
the leader’s word was all-powerful with
the tribe, but they soon lose their rev
erence for a man who is not onlv not
superior to the whites, but treated
with no particular deference by the
agents, from whom he is forced
to take his orders. Another class of
men whose power is going or gone,
are the “Squaw men,” that is, white
men, who, by virtue of their having
married Indian wives, are adopled into
the tribe. These fellows exercised a
great deal of control, but the Indians
seeing that the men are despised by
the outside whites soon come to re
gard them in the same way.
Farmers have been sent to Standing
Rock and other agencies to teach the
Indians how to cultivate the soil,
These, as a rule, are good men and
thoroughly understand their business,
but the Indian is not foresighted; he
does not take kindly to work, nor is
this to be wondered at. The warrior
has ever regarded labor as degradin 5
and fit only for women, and to the
women he leaves the work.
The great promise of the Indian is
in the schools, and those at Standing
Rock, as at others, are under the man
igement of very competent people,
The Indian children are imitative and
bright, and up to a certain age they
do about as well as white chiklen of
the same years, but it is noticed that
after the age of pnberty they do not
make rapid progress.
It is worth crossing the continent to
see the distribution of meat rations to
the Sioux of Standing Rock agency,
This meat is given them in the shape
of Texas steers on the hoof. All the
Indians have ponies, and it is safe to
say that they are the most graceful if
not the best riders in the world. Such
a distribution takes place every ten
days, and on such an occasion the In
dians dress in full hunting attire as in
the days when they chased buffalo,
and their eyes glow with the spirit of
the sport. The cattle are brought in
to a great corral and are separated,
fifteen or more being cut out in every
batch. These are let loose on the ;
prairie. The poor creatures are wild
with terror, and with tails up they
make a break for life and liberty,
Whooping as only the Sioux can,
stan after tliem * Tbeir Win *
chesters crack and here and there an
animal falls till all are killed, and an¬
other batch is subjected to the same
kind of butchery. The dead steers
are quickly and skillfully skinned and
cut up. Every thirty Indians, tho
smallest child being counted as one,
are allowed a steer.—New York Ad
vertiser.
Lightning’s Effects on Trees,
bome interesting experiments have
becu made in Frauce by IMmitrc
,n determining the effect of lightning
on different trees. Specimens of liv
. wood ^ dimensions
1DK e( l ua were
sub i ected in tbe direction of their
bbres a 8 P or ^ from a Holtz elec
* rb ’ machine. Dak was found to be
easily penetrated by the current-, while
black poplar, willow, and especially
beeob ‘ werc 11,0re resisting. In all
* bese Cftses f bu heart wood was the
least conductive, and behaved like la
Durnum.
Fbe observations made agree in a
S cncral " a Y with statistics of light¬
n * n g strokes in Europe. Thus, in the
^ ores * ;s °f Lippe, from 1879 to 18S5,
and in 1890, there were 159 oaks, fifty -
nine P ines > tw entv-one beeches and
twenty-one other kinds of trees struck,
^Dnitre’s investigations estab
lisllcd the fact that the starchy trees,
poor in oil, such as oak, poplar, willow,
™ a PWelm and ash, sutler much less re
s f s f ance f° the spark than beeches, wal
uut > birches and limes, which are “fat”
^ rees -
(bie branch of the experiment af
fo rded a siu gular confirmation of the
w ^ . sdom °f the recent introduction of
oil as an in »ulaior hi certain depart
mer dsof electrical work. It is shown
P* nes ’ which contain a good deal
of oil iu winter, but have little oil in
summer ’ are mu ? b more resisting in
one B ° ason tlAn in the other. In sum
rner time the wood is as easily pierced
by ^ be ®Pf r ^ ftS oakwood, and in win
^ er as difficult to penetrate as beech
When the oil of beech and walnut
wood is extracted by ether, the spark
g° es through easily. The dead wood
°' s t arcb y trees is more easily pierced
* be bv i n S wood, a fact which
m ditates against the common idea that
sa P con dncts f Fc discharge. The bark
aud b)ba r c frees are, according to
F> ^ ra ^ re ’ bad conductors.—New
F or ^ ^ ews *
Snake-Killing Razorbacks.
“Talk about snakes, ” said Edward
T. Atherton, of Boston, “there are
more of ’em to the square acre in
Florida than in any other part of this
glorious country. But, as numerous
as they are now, they are not
half as abundant as they were a
few years ago, before any organized
effort was made to annihilate the whole
serpentine breed.
“It seems that a bright idea, involv¬
ing the wholesale extinction of snakes,
entered the mind of one William Jones,
who, up to that time, had beeu poor
farmer struggling to support a big
family. Now he is one of the solid
men of the country, and lie made all
his money by the successful execution
of that idea. He knew that the ordin
ar Y razor-back hog of Florida was a
£f rcf d' natural enemy of snakes, and he
se ^ to work to systematically train a
wbole drove of hogs to hunt down and
destroy the reptiles. In a little whilo
be bad bis swine as thoroughly trained
in their P arfc as setter dogs are drilled
to P oint He first cleared his
OW11 ^ arm a „vast quantity of big
ones, and then he began to hire out
bis bo S s to ilis neighbors who were
sna '' e afflicted. The fame of those
razor-backs spread all over the land,
r4l ) d people whose places were infested
w i tb rattlesnakes and men who were
clearing up new land sent for Jones’s
bo 8 s *
“This is no romance, for I talked
w il b J° nes himself, and he told me all
about it and exhibited his book of en
gagements, which also contained a
record of all the snakes slain for the
P ast twelve months. I have every
reason to believe he was stating the
facts > for he gave me a warm invita
tion to visit bis place and promises to
8 ive an exhibition that would demon*
strate the skill of his snake-killers. ”—
Washington Post,
Something' Like a Voice.
‘The strongest voice I ever heard,”
said Colonel Marshal], of Charleston,
at the Laciede, “is that of the town
crier of Columbia, S. C. Columbia is
the only town in the United States that
still keeps up the custom of having a
town crier, and probably the largest
in area that any one man’s voice was
expeeted to reach the uttermost fcoun
daries of. The crier stands upon a
high tower and calls the hours: ‘Ten
o’clock and all is well‘11 o’clock and
ah is well;’ ‘12 o’clock, fire—fire —
bre ’ The voice of the man now oecu
*
pying that position can be heard any
where within the city, and if is re
markable how quickly he sees and re
ports a tire or general disturbance. I
was there once when at midnight he
cried that a child was lost, and within
h ve minutes it seemed as though half
of the population was on the streets,
ready to join in the search. It was
finally found under a bed, where it
hard rolled and gone to sleep. When
the crier dies the office will probably
be abolished—they certainly cannot
find another with such a voice.”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
An Epicure’s Daughter.
A certain gentleman in this citv
known as an epicure w as dining a friend
not long ago and the baby daughter of
the house, Katharine, to* aged seven, was
brought at dessert see the guest,
The guest, who is very fond of ehil
dren, was asking her all sortsofques
tions, but her father was somewhat
taken aback when he asked, “What do
you love best in the world?” and she
answered, “Papa and corn fritters. ”—
St. Louis Republic.
PAY OF REPRESENTATIVES.
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING
SALARIES OF CONGRESSMEN.
Pay of Members in the Marly Days—
The Mutter of Mileage -Salaries of
Foreign Representatives.
M EMBERS of Congress in
the early dftys of the Re¬
public did not have annual
salaries. They were paid
like the members of certain State Leg¬
islatures—according to the number of
days they were called to service. Their
per diem was $8, and if they had
worked every day in the year except
Sunday ou legislative business tliey
would have drawn much less than the
present members of the Lower House
draw for working an averago of six
months in a year. Members of Con¬
gress are now paid at the rate of
813.50 a day, or (allowing six months
of actual work in a year, which is a
good average) $27 a day for the time
they addition give to legislative business. In
to the number of days spent
at Washington, each early Congress¬
man had an allowance of one day’s pay
for each twenty miles traveled going
to Washington or returning to his
home. In the beginning of the cen¬
tury it took something like six weeks
for a man to travel from Providence,
R. I., to the Capital. Nowadays he
can mftko ttfe trip iu less than a day.
Mileage now is figured at ten cents a
mile by the shortest route. Tho Sen¬
ator who travels in his special car with¬
out expense from the Pacific coast to
Washington receives $(>00 for the ex¬
penses of his trip, just as does the
Senator who buys a railroad ticket.
In either case there is a considerable
profit. Mileage is one of the indirect
contributions of tho Government to
the Congressman’s income. There are
others—for example, tho stationary
allowance of $125 a year, which may
be drawn in cash if the Congressman
wishes, and the allowance for “bind
iug,” under which tho member fre
quently has private work done for
him or his family. But with all ol
these allowances the Senator or mem*
her of the House is seldom able to
live within his Congressional income,
We pay the members of our Lower
House more than similar statesmen
are paid in any other country in the
world. But we pay our Senators lese
than the Senators of the Canadian
Parliament receive ; and our Cabinet
officers draw beggarly salaries in com¬
parison with the advisers of foreign
rulers. As to our President, although
he usually saves about fifty per cent.
of his salary, he could not support the
iiio ^ttlcrtr x>i
great nations on ten times tho amount,
France, Austria, Holland and Por¬
tugal follow tho American plan of pay¬
ing their legislators annual salaries.
In France these salaries are equivalent
to about $1780 a year; in Austria,
about the same; in Holland, members
of the Lower House receive $830 a
year; In Portugal, both Peers and
Deputies receive $355 a year. In Bel
gium a singular system prevails,
Members of the Chamber of Repre
sentatives who live in Brussels receive
110 pay; those who live olsewhere re
ceive $84 a month. Virtually, there
fore, there is no salary attached to tlic
position of Representative. The $84
a month is paid to out-of-town mem¬
bers in lieu of subsistence, as an army
officer would say.
Great Britain and Italy pay their
legislators nothing; but the Italian
legislators are entitled to free trans¬
portation and they receive other con¬
cessions in the matter of taxation and
patronage.
In Switzerland and Denmark the
per diem pay of the early United
States Congress prevails. In Switzer¬
land members of the National Coun¬
cil receive $2.50 a year, and members
of the State Council, $1.50 to $2.50 a
day.
Perhaps the most thoroughly over¬
paid national legislature (if it can be
be called so) is the legislature of Cana¬
da. It has fifty-six more legislators
than England. There are 215 mem¬
bers of the Chamber of Deputies who
draw $1000 each for each session of
Parliament; and there are eighty
members of the Senate who receive
$10,000 per year each. The Speakers
of the two Houses receive $8000 per
year each. That is just the amount
paid to the President of the Senate of
the United States and the Speaker of
our ington House Star. of Representatives.^—Wash¬
An Light Thousand Dollar Hencoop.
A model hennery is to be built at
“Uplands,” the country seat of Mr.
Robert Garrett. It will probably
have no equal in this country. Accord¬
ing to the plans of Mr. Garrett, who
is an enthusiastic poultry raiser, the
building will be 210 feet long, forty
feet wide, and thirty feet high, The
front will be of glass, and several
towers will decorate the building.
The spacious structure, which, when
completed, will cost about $8000,
will be provided with patent in¬
cubators. Mr. Garrett has studied
this method of hatching chickens, aud
has consulted experts from abroad.
A large yard will surround the build¬
ing.—New York Times.
Making Their Land Grow.
Owners of land amoung the Thou¬
sand Islands have a way of making
their lands grow, not in numbers, but
in size. An almost bare rock of small
dimensions is thus expanded into an
island covered with vegetation and
having space enough for a house of
comfortable size. The thing is accom¬
plished by riprapping, pile driving
and the importation of earth. The
work is often done gradually, year b.y
year, until the landowner has made
Space enough for his house, and after
-•hat the island is extended as the
Deed arises.—Chicago Herald.
NO. ‘20
SELECT SIFI'NG**.
Oklahoma 1ms a sheriff named Fight
master.
In South America rain frequently
falls ill torrents from a clear sky.
In London there is a fnr company
which was established during the reigu
of Henry VIII.
In the eleventh century both Eng¬
lish and French dandies covered their
arms with bracelets.
The manufacture of artificial flow*
ers began in Italy in the early years
of the eighteenth century.
Seattle, Wash., furnishes a story of
ft cow that had been living for some
time with ft steel wire through her
heart.
King Edward T, of England, who
was dubbod Longshanks by bis peo¬
ple, was very sensitive about his great
height.
According to Homer clothing in his
time was washed by being placed in
water and stamped until it was sup¬
posed to be clean.
Six days’ rainfall without a mo
meat’s cessation is the unusual expor
rieuco the people of Ouachita, Ark.,
had the other week.
A domesticated sea gull, owned by
Frank Russell, of Cheboygan, Wis.,
runs around the farm with a batch of
chickens which it hatched.
Leather working was* practiced in
Egypt at least 4000 years ago. There
are manuscripts of that age written on
au excellent article of leather.
A pet dog in Bath, Ale., which has
now reached tho mature age of seven¬
teen years, drinks a cup of coffee and
milk for breakfast every morning.
Homer mentions iron and iron¬
workers. He speaks of or describes
axes, hipwrights’ tools, plowshares
and chariot axes, as made of iron.
The fastest time between New York
and Han Francisco was made by a spe
cial theatrical train in 1886—tlireo
days seven hours thirty-nine minutes
and sixteen seconds,
j ftmes Bragg, of Hawkinsville, Ga.
trained his dog to drive a horse.
While Bragg was absent from his team
the other day, the dog drove it homo
ftn d the owner had to walk five miles.
m There , • platform , ,» scale , tho .,
is a near
entrance to a Bowery (New York) eat¬
ing house and a sign on it says:
“Weigh yourself before and after ono
of onr famous twenty-five cent din
ners.”
Amasi Richards dug up a box of
soap on his farm near Lynchburg, Va.,
a n ( l from,the name of tm makci ii if<
/V t f ^feoap v nut IcBB 1 H&Yi
f A “ d #
‘*7 years u. * ' • -• ,, T
• y
flaky, out Farmer Richards mtei is to
keep it for the use of several HViiimor
boarders, who are expected in August.
Mary, Eliza and Martha Wren aro
triplets, living in Wrayford, Dovon
shire, England. They arc spinsters,
aged sixty. Mary weighs 350 pounds;
Eliza, 260 and Martha, only 20G
pounds. They do not resemble each
other iu the least. Mary’s hair is au
burn, while that of her sisters is dark
brown. The same remarkable dissim
ilarity existing iu their mental equip
ment as in their physical proportions
aud appearance.
Causes ot Loss of Gold.
There nre a number of unavoidable
causes of loss of gold. The first and
most important of these is by abra¬
sion. Jewelry loses much weight in
that way, especially rings, which aro
usually eighteen carat, and are worn
rapidly. Coins suffer much less, bufc
still considerably from wear. All gold
leaf is a total loss to the gold stock
of the worl k Where used for deco¬
rative purposes it is never recovered.'
It is not employed for filling teeth
nearly so much as formerly, “porous
gold” being substituted. But, of
course, the gold utilized for teeth is a
total loss, and in the aggregate it is
enormous. If it be supposed that tho
average dweller in cities of this coun¬
try has fifty cents’ worth of gold in
his or her mouth, which is placing tho
figure very low, it will be seen how
great is the waste ill this form. Each
succeeding generation takes so many
millions of dollars’worth of the metal
from the world’s stock in this way.
Some gold is lost in remelt ing,
though all possible means are taken to
reduce it to the lowest possible figure.
Not only are the floors swept and the
dirt treated for the recovery of the
yellow substance, but the wooden
planks arc burned eventually with tho
fame object. Even the shoes of each
man who works with the metal aro
subjected to the chemistry of fire,
yielding a small “button” of tho
precious material. At Tiffany’s work¬
shop in New York each artisan en¬
gaged iu polishin gold stands in front
of a big funnel, with a wide mouth,
which has a strong suction draft. This
draft takes in all dust and floating
particles from the air. It swallows
the filaments ground from the buffing
wheels, and these, with whatever else
has been caught, are deposited in a
receptacle, forming a sort of felt.
This felt is scraped out, pressed into
bricks and burned, being thus made
to yield the gold it contains. Inci¬
dentally, the workmen get pure air. —
Washington Star.
Trees Vary in Girth by Seasons.
Perhaps it is more interesting than
strictly useful to know that the diam¬
eter of trees not only varies from
summer to winter, but from* day to
day. They are larger from than noon un¬
til dawn next morning from
dawn to noon; they are smaller in
winter than in summer. Low tem¬
peratures, as well ns high, promote
evaporation. The trees evaporate
from their branches in winter, and so
the colder tho weather the more they
shrink.