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VOL XXXIX.
IN ITlE-OTiACIAI. DAYS
REMAINS OF THE EARLY SET¬
TLERS OF WYOMING.
I.of Slntjulnr ('rent urm of thp
Eoc«ne Hfnl M ■••in Perl(nlii Found In
i lip Bail Land* SturcM of Agent* of the
Mutciiin ol Niiturnl History.
Found In a Met*
The Immense county of l iniah, ex¬
tending from the north end of what
constitutes Yellowstone l ark, marks
ihe western boundary of the State of
Wyoming and makes the southwest¬
ern corner of that recently admitted
State. This corner has some of that
peculiar western formation known as
bad lands, and tills spot covers an
area of about .1,000 square miles and
Is particularly rich in fossils of pre
glacial animals. These bad lands,
according to official geology, were
once lakes back In what are known as
the eocene and miocene periods of
teitiary time, which means the first
two of the three principal divisions
during which were laid down the
gioups of rocks.
It Is averred by these scientists
that the rivers discharging Into these
lakes so wrought on the surrounding
Mill that the lake basins became filled
with alluvial material, and in these
old I eds and in the dills surrounding
L
kki,i/;ton or A pati Horn. is.
them arc found the fossil skeletons of
the peculiar fauna that illustrated
life In those early days. It may be
added that while the estimated time
since those periods varies, it is evi¬
dent that the first mentioned was
nqt less than 100,000 years ago and
1 lie second at least half as much.
Into this region a party of fossil hun¬
ters penetrated a year ago to collect
specimens for the Museum of Natural
History of New York and camped on
this region six months. Their search
was rewarded with finds of some re¬
markable creatures hitherto almost
wholly unknown to tho science of
paleontology.
t Most notable among these speci¬
mens is that of an animal never yi t
found outside of America—a huge
mammal that represents a compro¬
mise between tho elephant and the
rhinoceros and which, singularly
enough, was equipped with three sets
of horns. Two pointed, upright
■ t - of horr.s ted from the top
of ihe head, two forward from tho
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end of the nose or snout downward,
and two inclining with a slight curve
backward, midway on tho snout. The
animal was a swamp and lagoon den¬
izen and the equipment denotes an
aquat ic root digger. Of tills creature
this New York party secured fifteen
skulls and one entire skeleton, one of
tho skulls measuring over two and a
half feet aero s, indicating a mon¬
ster of no mean dimensions. As a
courtesy to tho Uintah Mountains,
near a spur of which the whole ag¬
gregation was found, the beast was
named Uintatherlcum, and palcntol
ogy may add another oddity to its
catalogues and another accession to
its quantity of orthographical ter
ror.
Many, perhaps most,- of these fos¬
sils are in solid, greenish sandstone,
and when seen on tho surface fre¬
quently stand out in bas-relief. But
something far more appalling than a
slowly depositing, alluvial process is
necessary to account for the evident¬
ly simultaneous death of a herd of
any kind of creatures, and especially
does this process not explain their
fossils in compact sandstone.
Another rare American specimen
secured was the patirofelis, au en¬
tire skeleton of which was found at
tlie foot of a cliff on a small tribu¬
tary of Green River. This is the
supposed ancestor of the modern fe¬
line tribes and is interesting as mark¬
ing thc advent of the swimming car¬
nivora on thc plane of development.
Only two s...all broken pieces of jaw
had hitherto been secured of this an¬
imal. Another large mammal found
was the paheosyops. The snout was
ornamented with a single twenty
^ ; . Stiffs
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SKULL OF THE PAE.KOSTOrS.
inch horn, an eocene product, and
was then not larger than a modern
sheep, but in 50,000 years had devel¬
oped to almost elephantine propor¬
tions. His present congenaic cousins
are tho tapir aud rhinocercs. These
explorers also found the geological
ancestor of the horse, but no longer
than a shepherd dog. Tertiary Wy¬
oming was semi-tropical, as numer¬
ous monkeys are in the collection, as
well as other animals belonging to
the warmer zones.
H ,‘ S r rdCr *
A , . Uni . i \\ h h is planned . an ad- ,
dn%&6 for a multitude, aud finds him
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, uA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1894.
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ills remarks, and the result is apt to
i/e ludicrous. A little story illustra
the of this point Is told in conneo
lion with a former president of the
University of North Carolina.
One day, as this dignified and
stately personage was wa king about
the campus, he observed an unlaw
fill assemblage of students at some
little distance. He did not hasten
hls steps, but proceeded slowly to
ward them with ills head down and
his eyes apparently Lent in contem
plation of bis own boots.
" hen this leisurely proceding had
brought him to the spot where the
students had been gathered, only odc
joung man remained, the others hav
ing precipitately departed.
1 lie president raised his head and
surveyed the solitary culprit with
apparent severity, although the
young man always contended that
lie detected a twinkle in his keen
eyes.
Mr, said the president in a com
manding tone, “instantly disperse to
your several places of abode!”
Difficult though the feat required
certainly was, tho young man exo
outed to the best of his ability by
dispersing” without further delay.
DUET IN A HORSE CAR.
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With Hit Accompaniment by the Conduct*
or End .ng In Ills Kiirlehmcnt.
Two women boarded a Broadway
cable car at Thirtieth street at rnati
nce time Saturday. With a groat
denl of fluttering and chattering
they secured two seats. The car had
gone on about a block when the con
ductor held out his bund.
“O, Carrie, don’t mind, I’ve got
the change right here,” said ono,
delving into a little purse.
“Now, don’t bother," said the other
almost in tho same breath, “I’vq
got just the right change here," and
she began to dig into a purse.
“Why, here it is,” exclaimed both
in unison, at the same time shoving
coins In the conductor’s outstretched
palm.
“O, why didn’t you let me pay it?”
they both exclaimed together again,
“Why. 1 just had the correct
change,” was another joint exclama
tion.
“Papdon me, ladies, but ono of you
gave me a dime and the other a pen¬
ny," the conductor broke in, showing
the coins in his hand.
“Impossible! I’m sure I had just
a dime in change,” said both in ono
breath.
The conductor smiled sadly, and
remained there standing with a muto
expression, with the coins exposed in
his still outstretched palm.
“That’s-;o,” exclaimed both women,
looking at the coins. “Well, I’ll see,
but I'm sure I didu’t have a penny,”
was the next joint exclamation, and
both shook tho contents of their
purses into their laps. There were
several coppers among the change
that rolled out, and then the women
exclaimed together:
I hat s^so, l forgot, it must have
been mo. Doth held their hands
out to receive the surplus cent, and
the conductor looked puzzled
, how singular, wa» the next
joint exclamation, and then both told
the (ondut toi he could keep the pen
ny. The fare gatherer bowed gravely
and moved toward the rear, while
tho women began a discussion as to
how iteou.d ha\e happened,
York Sun>
“THE FOURTH POWER.”
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An Attempt to Indicate Wliat It I^ooki
Like.
In a recent number of St. Nicholas
the above question was asked, more
as an amusing puzzle than as a serl
ous mathematical problem. Two
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“THE FOURTH POWER.”
clever correspondents, however, have
sent answers. Paul R. Ileyl, of Phil
adelphia. incloses a model in wire
open work and writes: “When we
wish to represent the fourth power
(which, being of four dimensions, we
may call a hypercube), we may do so
in solid perspective by placing a cube
diagonally above another and a little
behind it, and joining the cor re
snondintr cornprs w jip in
quirers to a book, “Scientific r 0
manees.”
A younger correspondent, Arthur
£ a cube
is , bounded by six squares: it -ti has six
teen corners, twenty-four squares, and
thirty-two edges.”
One of the correspondents says that
this model shows as nearly as possi
hlc k? “whit the fourth power looks
ft.? t
only a theory of geometr;**« ,
Canadian Canal.
The Hurontario Ship Canal Com
pany of Canada has been iacorpor
ated by the Canadian legislature for
the purpose of constructing a ship
canal from Toronto, on Lake Ontario,
to Georgian Bav. near Collingwood.
Tho stock capital of the company is
505,000,000, of which $1,000,000 must
be paid and 10 (>er cent subscribed
before it has legal ex.stence. One
clause in the franchise requires that
the directors must be British sub
jects. A number of American capi
talists are interested in the schema
| Jt is a revival of the old project
i which had been advecatod at inter
| \ais for many years.
THE FIRST TELEGRAM
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SENT FROM WASHINGTON FIFTY
YEARS AGO.
1-ihcartculng Trials of Inventor Morse—
How He Sronreil the Aid of the Govern¬
ment—Far-Simile of the First Messace
Ever Transmitted.
Invented ill lSS 1 !.
it has been fifty years since the
first telegraph line was completed
and the first message, “What hath
God wrought?” was transmitted from
Washington City to Baltimore,
Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse invented
the telegraph in 1332, but did not
perfect it so that it could be operated
for three or four years thereafter,
Even then, being a poor man, he
found it impossible to put it in op
oration, After he had exhausted
every resource within his power to
enlist capital in the enterprise, the
thought came to Professor Morse of
presenting the matter to the
United States Government and
asking its aid. He fully bo
Roved in the value of his in
ventlon and felt convinced that if
he could only get a line in operation
the telegraph would at once take a
foremost position as one Of the great
inventions of the age. He foresaw
that in a few years the lines would
He extended and instantaneous com
niunication would be established be
tween the cities of this country and
would extend over Europe, though
the wild dream of ocean cables never
entered his mind at that time. He
reasoned that bis enterprise was a
proper one for Congress to aid, and
finally, in 1837, he made his appeal
for an appropriation of $30,000 to
able him to construct a line and put
It 1'ho Ip operation, application to CoDgress
was
me t with derision and jeers. One
Congressman moved that one-half of
the sum asked for be appropriated
for experiments in mesmerism. Itep
resentativc Sam Houston suggested
that “Millerism” was equally entitled
to recognition and aid from Congress,
Qnd Congressman John White, of
Kentucky, who occupied the chair,
remarked, amid great laughter, that
“it would require scientific analysis
to determine how far the magnetism
of mesmerism was analagous to that
to be employed in telegraphs.” There
was but little faith in the reliability
of Prof. Morse or his proposition, but
finally after the bill bad passed from
one committee to another and had
been pigeon-holed time and again it
did pass the lower house along to¬
ward the end of the session, but did
Dot reach the Senate. The n«*xt ses¬
sion it had about the same experience,
and, in fact, the bill fared along from
year to year with little prospect of
ever becoming a law uutii 1843. Yet
Prof. Me;had not grown utterly
discouraged.
Passed at tlve Last Moment.
The last day of the session of 1843
arrived Tj )e telegraph bill had
p as3e( i to the third reading in the
Senate, but there were 119 bills
ahead of it. Professor Morse gave
up in dospai r. He had spent all his
money; he had spent his time for six
y ear5 trying to obtain the desired aid
from Congress, and nowall was to
cnd Ju failure . T hc case seemed
hopeless. There was but T '- Dr °bour8
remaining of the session, x,.,lessor
Morse was a sanguine man and an
earnest Christian. During his strug
ho held 1)6611 filled With llOp6, and
that hope had urged him on to the
consummation of his cherished ob
Ject. He had done all he could, he
had exerted all the influence among
his friends it was possible for him to
exert, and so he determined that so
far as he was concerned he could do
no more. He went to his room in his
hotel not knowing what to do—only
to give up all hope. lie had prayed
often to God to help him, and now he
thought the only chance for success
was from omnipotence. He after
ward told an old college friend that
in this extremity he knelt down
alone in his room and brought the
matter in prayer to God. Then, re
solving to worry no more about the
matter, the inventor went to bed
slept,
The next morning, March 4, 1843,
Professor Morse was yet sleep
a ’' noCli ; came at liis door and
a ^ a ^ened him. Upon going to the
do P r he received the card of a young
* ; idv, Miss Annie G. Ellsworth, daugh
ter °* hte ° ;d friend, who was then
C0111 ^' ss ! 0ne r of patents. As soon as
. possible lie ure^bed liimsclf
cind wont
to the parlor to meet Miss EUsworth,
who, with great enthusiasm, gave
him the news that Lis bill had
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“TbeLord be pjafted: Hehasau
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^fijtv Senate I thou bil Tit there was no possi
0 f niv 1 beir.uT ’ .^, Ca T e
r °5“ and le ;, t 11 aU wl ‘ h + th ®
^ord. and here la , the answer to ni)
P ra -' cr,
Mlss _. Ellsworth , explained , to the in
jaws
11 V* lortlni of ad-ouromeDt v'T^ 00
—he k saw the opportunity and pro
cured the help of a senator at whose
side he was sitting. This Senator
moved the passage of the bill for hu
inanity’s sake, for the nation’s sake,
and it was passed.
Professor Morse said to Miss Elis
worth: "You shall have the privi
iege of sending the first message over
tu6 ur>t *ine when it is constructed. ’
He immediately went to work to
carry out his plans, which required
more than a year to complete. He
put advertisements in the leading
newspapers of New Y'ork. Baltimore
and Washington for bids to furnish
100 tons of lead pipe and four insu
luted wires. The bids were let and
materials were supplied, and the
lead pipe, wit® U wires, wa§ laid
eighteen inches tl ier the ground
from Mount Clar depot in Balti
more to the Kel&Jl ause, a distance
of nine milea W n the test was
made it was found lat the electric
current would nw ss from one end
of the line to the other. There was
a leakage somewhere which could not
be found, and Professor Morse was
forced to abandq|si that plan. He
then adopted that of elevating the
wires on poles, a®d completed the
two ington wires by May from lift ill - more to Wash
Professor Mors® had an office in
the Supreme Court r ms in the Cap¬
itol. On the ever 1 morning the
connection wasecj*M < ted, and after
testing the currrp of electricity was
found to be pm 'ect and strong.
Morse and then Ellsworth were
at the instrument VqljWas ;u the office at the
Capitol. Alfred at the Mount
depot in Baltimore. And now
Professor Morse cal d upon Miss Ells¬
worth to send the r i message, which
had been suggest: i to her by her
mother; “What G<d hath wrought”
—a genuine inspiration. This was
flashed across the wire from Wash¬
ington to Baltimore and the first mes¬
sage had been sent
How the Earth's Help Was Discovered.
As first put into iperation the tel¬
egraph employed two wires to form
the circuit, ProfessorMorse earth not know¬
ing that the Ailo* would complete
the circuit. Kendall, then
Postmafter GeneifD. is authority for
the story telling Morse discov¬
ered that the earth was conductor
of electricity. Afte: about ten days’
working a countrym ja came into the
office in the Capitol to tell Professor
Morse that one of his wires was down
out “guessed at Bladensburg Morse said he
not—the wires were working
all right,” and paid do attention to
} 11 ac ‘came in in irwl^aWi and said /If that if
1 1 rofessor f Morse did not look out wag
ons would catch in his wires and tear
them all to pieces? that both wires
were down at Bladensburg.
Morse wanted to depute the man’s
statement even then, hut finally de
termlned to .?■, go out and see for him
sell. tt„ He tRai more than 100 ,A fl
yards of wire had been torn out by
passing wagons, and the ends were
grounded. Then for the first time it
dawned upon him low the earth
might he of assistance in telegraphy,
He connected the ends returned to
the city and ran the two wires to the
ground, not knowing that one would
l e sufficient. Then he had two wires
to Baltimore and could operate one
or both. Professor Morse ordejgf*
additional instrumen ts ®nd put vne
second wire into servlr *
mi HUN ini i iitttt ing « nt doar. J.TTL, .
,
Dogs for This Purpose Lately Imported
Into the Country,
Tho importation of several boar
hounds into this country from Ger¬
many and the preservation of the dogs’
natural enemies in several places here
seem to mediaeval promise the Europe renewal keenly of a sport
which rel¬
ished. Tho boar hound, writes George
E. Walsh, in Goldthwaite’s Magazine,
are trained to meet the wild animal
with great tact and intelligence. The
hound is swift and stronir in his move¬
ments, but it is only his superior intel¬
ligence which saves him from being
ripped open by the foam-flecked tusks.
The hound takes his position in front
so that the boar is brought at bay, and
the wild animal immediately becomes
madly excited and angry. It is equal¬
ly a critical moment for hunter and
hound. With sudden impetuosity he
turns either upon tho annoying hound
or upon the horseman. In the former
case a well-trained boar-hound will
take care of himself, adroitly avoiding
the sharp tusKs, and yet determinedly
heading the boar off if he attempts to’
escape in any direction. Should the
infuriated beast turn upon the hunter,
all his skill and strength is to be need¬
ed to avert the disaster by a well aimed
thrust with his boar-spear.
The nature of the wild boars makes
them different from all other wild ani¬
mals for which dogs are trained. Thoy
have marvelously-developed necks and
forequarters, with a stiff bristling
crest over their backs which alone can
often repel enemies. Two long, sharp
tusks pointing upward adorn the lower
jaw, and one blow from these would
kill man or beast. The wild boar is
very sensitive to sounds and odors, and
he can detect the presence of an ene¬
my at a long distance. Added to all of
these favorable qualities are others
which are no les3 important, such as
swiftness and activity in running, un¬
quenchable fierceness^ and hard, deter¬
mined powers of fighting.
To encounter such a warrior the
boar-hounds have to be thoroughly
disciplined for field work, and any am¬
ateurish training would simply endan¬
ger their lives when brought face to
iace with one of the wild boars.
JOHN BURNS.
SeSTS K”t?
British House of Commons is
John Burns ’ write = Justin McCarthy,
M. P. He has about him manhood-h? the charm of
a strong, self-reliant is
aoqve all things a man. Y'ou can see
this in his dark, soft, gleaming eyes,
They are eyes which invite confidence.
rivers which are associated in the ®
minds of most o{ u3 with the ex lo
i Qi:3 0 f Stanley and of Emin Pasha.
He has worked* in London sheds and
yards. He is a fine and powerful
speaker, workingmen and can control a vast meet
of with irresistible
J"|aSzationT?an^Xckon ! n 1 :
^ ‘speaks ^th
ou him He seldom in the
House of Commons, but when he does
speak he speaks He well and goes straight button
to the point. never speaks
'omo subject which he thoroughly un
derstands and about which he has
1 ^say.
alwa« feel? that SkJ quel
when his timeteomes and his own
tion is uppermost he will make a great
speeok.
TOOK THE CAR.
How Two Englishmen Succeeded In Get*
ting Lower Berths.
There is a decision and energy
about Englishmen sometimes which
arouses admiration, says the Los An
geles Herald. A case in point oc
curred on Monday. Two men, whose
clothes, monocles and accent forcibly
announced their nationality, called
at the ticket office of the Southern
Pacific Railroad and asked for two
lower berths on the train to San
Francisco.
“They are all gone. You can have
uppers, though,” was the response.
“Oh, no; doneher know me friend
Is beastly ill, and he cahn't go unless
he has a lower berth. He must have
one, doneher know?”
The agent was sorry, but as he
only had upper berths, he could do
nothing. Then the spokesman in¬
sisted on seeing Mr. Crawley, and
that official again explained the ab¬
sence of any lower berth, only to re¬
ceive the reply; “Aw, yes; but we
must have a lower, doneher know. ”
“All right, if you must, you must,”
answered the official. “They will
cost you just 8269. We have an ex¬
tra car here, and can put it in for you
at that figure, If upper berths are
not good enough. ” jf
“Aw! Yes, thanks awfully.”
They paid the money, the empty
Pullman was coupled onto the train,
and the boys at the depot say that
before the cars left the Englishmen
had made the porter make up every
berth in the car. Thoy said they had
paid for each of the sections and
they proposed to come as near as pos
sible to getting their money’s worth,
HE GOT THAT PACKAGE, BUT-.
The Fellow who Followed instructions
Had a Rough Tlmo .
There Is a man in this town, says a
Chicago paper, faithful who has than a male dog servant that
w ho more any
was ever born. He never questions an
order. The other day a friend of the
man came into his office and asked tho
man to tend him his servant for a short
time. w& nted a package
he le ft at his ho^e. The
man loaned the servant and his friend
g ave hi m these instructions: “Now,
John, I want you to go up to my hou 3 &
and walk right up the front steps. Tho
door stairs. will My we open is and you the head go right of the up
room at
stairs. You go in and you will find a
^ig package on my dresser. That’s
f he P**®*® 1 and lf I®” e et back
‘\h e “all eerfiot listened attent
ively and said that he understood his
instructions, He hustled out and in
^“sAjhan paoff&gv.’ an n© hour returned not in with good th
v .-aa very
eha ? e * H ! 6 face b F'\ and hi3
coat was torn. One of his eyes was
i hlaokeufed and the skin was off the
knuckles of his right hand.
“Holy Moses, John!” exclaimed the
owner of the package, “what you been
doing?” “Been in fight," replied John,
a
grimly. “What have been fighting
about? ” you
“Fellow up at that house.”
“With whom?”
“Why,” said John didn’t in the most matter- walk
of-fact way, “he want me to
up the front steps. They had just been
painted.” why did walk them,
then?” “Well, you up
John looked reproachfully at the
questioner. “Didn’t you tell me to go
up the front steps for that package?”
he asKed.
“Yes, but-—”
“They hain't no but about it. You
told me to go up them front steps, and
I went up ’em, paint or no paint. I had
to light the coachman, but I went up.”
“He seems to have given you a pretty
hard fight,” ventured, the employer.
“Huh!” sniffed John contemptuously,
“it wasn’t a patch on the one the
housekeeper and chambermaid gim¬
me.”
The man began to get alarmed. “Do
you mean house?” to say you lought everybody
in that he asked, severely.
licked “I dunno, ” replied John, gravely. “I
the coachman, and the house¬
keeper, and the chambermaid, and the
cook. If they was any one olse I didn’t
have no truck with them, but,” ho
added, triumphantly, I “I I got the pack¬
age and done what was told, and
I'll go back and lick the rest of tho
folks if you say so. ”
Bonners, Reasons.
Robert Bonner went to the New
York Herald one day, and asked the
business manager, Mr. Elliott, if he
could have a page of the Herald for
next morning. Mr. Elliott said:
“Certainly—two if you like.” “Then
I’ll take four,"said Mr. Bonner. “All
right. Y r ou can have four. ” “Then
I’ll take eight,” was the prompt re¬
sponse of Mr. Bonner. After con¬
sultation with Mr. Hudson, the ed¬
itor, it was arranged that Mr. Bon¬
ner was to have eight pages, but no
more, as to give him more space
would tax the resources of the com¬
posing-room. “Oh, you won’t have
much to set up,” said Mr. Bonner; “I
want only this six-line advertisement
in small type, set in the center of
each column.” It was so printed next
day. It was the announcement of a
new serial blood-and-thunder story
by Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. The morning
the advertisement appeared, Mr.
Bonner’s minister rushed to his office
to remonstrate with him on the ex¬
travagance and absurdity of paying
forty-eight times for the insertion of
the same insignificant announcement.
“Now, why did you do it?” the min¬
ister asked. “I had two reasons,”
Mr. Bonner replied; “I was not going
to be bluffed by Joe Elliott, and I
wanted to find out if you read the
Herald. I see you da ”
Rare Book.
It is reported, notes the Critic,
that a copy, in excellent condition,of
Poe’s “Tamerlane” (1827), one of the
rarest books in the world, has recent
) v been discovered and is held at $1,
‘
6 25 It is said to have been picked
up in a second-hand bookstore in Bos
ton sixty years ago, and to have re
mained in the possession of the pur
chaser ever siDue.
WATARI KITASHIMA.
He Is the First Ordained Japanese
Freacher In America.
The first Japanese ever regularly
ordained to the Christian ministry in
this country has. lately been put in
charge of a Unitarian parish at Yine
land, N. J. The young man is Rev.
Watari Kitashima, and was born in
western Japan in 1868. His father,
who was at one time a Shinto priest,
is a physician, and has charge at
present of the only Christian hospital
in Tokio.
Watari was brought up as a Bud¬
dhist and received a good education
in his own country. While he was
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WATARI KITASHIMA.
so occupied his father was baptized
and allied himself with the Presby¬
terian Church. Watari also was bap¬
tized and became a Presbyterian and
resolved to devote himself to the
ministry of that body. He deter¬
mined to come to America and so, at
the age of 16, with scarcely any
knowledge of English and with no
relatives or friends here, he set forth
for America. He landed at San Fran¬
cisco and soon made friends there.
He also entered a school there and
continued his studies, during the
progress of which he became a Uni¬
tarian. Watari soon announced him¬
self as a candidate for the Unitarian
ministry and went to Allegheny Col¬
lege, Meadville, Pa., in preparation
for this post. Later he attended the
Harvard Divinity School, whence he
was graduated last year. While there
he preached ninety-six times and lec¬
tured sixty throughout New England.
He then began preaching at Shirley,
Mass., and a short time since was
ordained and became pastor at Vine
BUENOS AYRES TO CHICAGO.
The Long TS Han -Tr-lp of TwofHarly
Hungarians. *
Two* adventure-loving Hungarians
—Antonio Blim and Louis Budinleii
—early in August, 1892, started to
walk from Buenos Ayres to Chicago.
They propose to write a book when
they have completed their long pedes¬
trian trip, recounting not only their
experiences on the journey, but giv¬
ing as well data of the countries
through which they shall have passed,
that they hope will prove of value
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ON THEIR LONG WALK.
to prospective settlers in the south¬
ern countries. They have recently
reached Panama, where they were
made- much of by certain high offi¬
cials, who aided them in raising a
considerable sum of money to con¬
tinue their journey, for their funds
had become sadly depleted.
Leaving Buenos Ayres, Blim and
Budinich traveled first to Bolivia,
stopping at the chief points of in
terest on the way. From Bolivia
they journeyed up through Peru,
Ecuador, and Colombia. Thus far
they have traveled 8,900 kilometers.
Much of the country through which
they have passed is practically unin¬
habited, and they have been exposed
to all manner of hardships. The ac¬
companying illustrations show them
in their walking outfit.
TRICKS OF THE TRADES.
How to “Deacon” Apples at Both Ends of
the Market Barrels.
1 Uifcle Dave^ as^the'four
marked old
timers again met to crack chestnuts.
“Y'es, boys, dear is the word, j
priced a barrel of Baldwins this 0
morning, and $4 was asked. I bought
the barrel, and had it sent to the
house. It was a stiff price, but they
were good appies. ”
“How do you know that?” queried
cld Bob.
“Why, I had the man open the
barrel, and could see myself.”
“Still, the barrel may have been
deaconed,” remarked old Bob.
“ ‘Deaconed ! » repeated U ncle
Dave; “wnat does that mean?”
“I'll tell you,” said old Bob. “In
preparing and putting up apples for
market, the practice of ‘deaconing,’
as it is called, is very extensively fol¬
lowed, that it means the topping off
of a barrel of the fruit with the best
and largest specimens. It is said the
term ‘deaconing’ originated in the
fact that some one holding the office
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of deacon in some church somewhere
in New England had distinguished
himself by adopting this system in
putting up his apples for market.
“At first the practice was to ‘dea
con’ the apples at one end of the bar
rel tmly, but an incident led to ar.
improvement. A dealer in a Maine
town, who understood the trick, at
one time sold a barrel of apples to a
customer and recommended them as
the choicest grown. In due time
the barrel was opened and found to
contain a very inferior quality: where¬
upon the customer, feeling that ho
had been impos'd upon, made com¬
plaint to the seller, who very coolly
observed that lie must have opened
the barrel at the wrong end. ThU
experience, however, made him more
careful in putting up his apples. In¬
stead of ‘deaconing’ the barrels at
one end he ‘deaconed’ them at both
ends.”—Boston Herald.
BESIDE MARBLE FRONTS
In Exclusive Astor Street nn “Unemployed*
Founds a Fleheiiin Ingrain.
In this moving and spring cleaning
time grounds on which carpet can be
beaten are quoted high on domestic
exchanges and their value is sure to
be as far above par as is Yerkcs’
street railway stock in parts of the
city where houses are thick. It was
in one of these parts the other day
that one of the “unemployed” who
had been hired for the occasion by a
family that was wrapping up its pen¬
nies and other bric-a-brac in burlap,
preparatory to a shift in Hats, went
forth looking for a bit of grass on
which to pound an ingrain. In fact,
it was in the most exclusive section
of the North Side. On Astor street
tlie “unemployed” spied a vacant lot.
He made for it and presently his
stout three feet of rubber hose, which
ho had nailed lo a broom handle,
was raising a cloud of dust. It float¬
ed lazily towards the windows of tho
two splendid mansions that walled
the grass plot in on either side.
“Whose carpet arc you beating?”
was the testy query that was short¬
ly pelted down on the pounder.
“v >h, it’s one I’ve got a job to clean”
he replied with meek indifference.
Tills was too much for the irate
questioner.
“That land is ours,” she said, with
the hauteur of Clara Vere de Vere,
“and don’t you bring another carpet
there to beat. ”
“No. I won’t, but I guess I’ll iinisli
this one,” and the rubber hose con
tinued.its tocrati^street plebeian thud in the aris
until the carpet had
yielded yds de, ”iien the “un
employed” took V, W» %
■ ^ novated
den and w«nt back tot iiu tt at.
A 3 be dropped the cari« t t the
floor he said, in answer to a ques
+ u. n as to where he had given it an
airing: w 0h, “ ' *"*'”•
between a coup
Why Did He I»o It?
A Southern magazine, by way of
illustrating the transitoriness of
fame, says that less than twenty
years after the close of the Civil War
thc following conversation took place
at a Chicago railway station, where
a soldierly passenger had just stepped
from a train.
“Who is that fine-looking man?”
said a prominent citizen of the city
to an ex-Confederate.
“That is General Buckner,” was
the reply.
“Who is General Iiuckjier?”
“General Buckner of the Con*
federate army, you know, who sur¬
rendered Fort Donelson. ”
The prominent citizen seemed to be
collecting his thoughts.
“Oh,” he said, “he surrendered
Fort Donelson, did he? What did
he do that for?
Caustic Wit of an Knglish .Judge.
Lord Bowen, besides being a great
Judge, was a great wit. How happy,
for instance, was the amendment lie
proposed when the Judges were draw¬
ing up an address to the Queen on
the occasion of her Majesty’s jubilee:
“Conscious as we are of our shortcom¬
ings,” said the address; “conscious as
we are of one another’s shortcomings,”
suggested Lord Bowen.
Not long ago Lord Bowen was
called upon, it is said, to sit in the
Admiralty Court. Upon taking his
seat he asked indulgence on account
Dis inexperience in admiralty busi
ness. “And may there be no rrioan
i 11 # bar,” he added, “when I
put out to sea.” Sometimes his wit
was ver y incisive as, for instance,
when he remarked, “Truth will out,
even in an affidavit.”—Westminster
Gazette.
Ready to Accommodate.
An exchange tells a story connect¬
ed with a strike on thc North Brit¬
ish Railway, during which much dif¬
ficulty was experienced in finding en¬
gineers to keep the necessary trains
running.
One of the substitutes, a young
fellow, ran some distance past a sta¬
tion, and then, putting back, ran as
much too far the other way.
He was preparing to make a third
attempt when the station agent
shouted, to the great amusement of
the passengers: “Never mind, Tarn
mas; stay where you are! We’ll
shift the station.”
Remarkably Considerate,
^ Cincinnati newspaper reports a
striking manifestation of amiability
on (De part of a little maiden of that
C i tv
A beautiful new doll had just been
given her, and as she sat holding it
and singing to it. her mother noticed
that the old one was not in sight
“What have you done with Bea
trice?” asked the mother.
“I've put her away,” answered the
little girl. “If she saw me loving my
new baby it might hurt her feelings.”
Brown —That will be a great de¬
bate between Y'ale and Harvard.
Jones—On what subject? Brown—
“Should the pitcher be placed back
five feet?”—-Fuck.