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TIIE MONROE
VOL XL.
Provision has been made for teaoh
JtirT the Japanese language in tUo Chi*
e *go University.
”s ! he Atlanta Constitution wants
' wMentint or other to explain the
unusual meteorological conditions of
*be vear.
The telegraph messenger boys of
ashing ton and Baltimore have been
provided with bicycles, and cv< ry
boy in those cities wants a position as
inesrcnger.
New York Recorder nunounees
Treat Britain has resumed silver
< “British
weight the Mexican
colonial nso only.
Almost . very where tho question is
bow t., account for tho increnso of
tine. Occasionally, as in Holland,
slight decrease may be noted; but it
s only in England, avers tho New
ork Independent, that tho study of
statistics dornonstrotes a note
decrease.
The Recovery of wood puli > as
a
mibvtifnD. for rugs ill tho manufacture
I'd paper will, it would scorn, soon
havo to l»o followed up by tho discov¬
ery of a substitute for wood pulp. It
is rsUnmled (fiat 800,000,000 feet of
* • prttco logs will be needed to fill the
rcquirumciits »f tho mills for thisyoar.
Germany does not make appropria
•lions to cut down weeds for farmers,
ijUbwerves urual, but the its Louisvillo Courior
schools aro provided
“ ^witli their wall maps representing woods in
natural colors and showing bow
Hmir seeds are scattered. Gorman
farmers are taught to make war on all
will; a minimum of labor.
m. According to tho Now Orleans Pjca
“rounds of applause” was tho
tgenerou* Jk'Keugers reward of given by tho liberal
an oxpress train to a
^»ng oiV woman who ran through a
r 1 ih to flag their train and save
their lives, at Rich Hill, Mo., tho
other night. Their extravagant gon
M prosit y left them “poor, indeed.”
Tb<> t * * — M»' >1 l.| ’t.lV, I,,
its rep/btl Dti the war with China, gives
the pctuiiI fighting slrengtji of tho ox
p^titionary force which did tho cum
paiguiug as follows; First Army
JO,007 ; ,Second Army Corps,
•l9; other troops, 1963, or a total
ijBlMHO. 734 Tho losses were: Killed in
; died of wounds, 231;
V diseaso (including 16)2 by
Til), ?UN.
Ahdur Rahman, tho Ameer of Af
glmuibtun, has unusual architectural
skill, and designs his own palaeos.
Stone and marble, both of which aro
to bo iound in considerable quantities
near Oabul, enter largely into their
construction, and they contain many
things specially manufactured in
Europe for tho Afghan Court, inolu l
ing electric lights, pianos and tho
ldiouograph. Tho Ameer’s gardens
elaborately and tastefully laid out,
and when ho entertains at night tho
^display would do of credit fireworks on his grounds
to London or Now
York,
The London newspapers record tUo
death of Robert rite, an Australian
millionaire. Few people to-day will
recollect the circumstances which made
Tate bo much talked about at one time.
About forty years ago, relates the At¬
lanta ( oustitution, ho was a dashing
lieutenant in tho Loutu Hussars, which
is always commanded by the heir to
tho throne. Ho was popular iu so¬
ciety and apparently had a bright
future, but one day lm yielded to an
insane impulse and struck Queou Vic
thrift with n cane when sho way leav¬
ing the death bod of her uncle, tho
Into Duke of Cambridge. Tho blow
foil on 1 ho Queoa’a face and left a
mark which is still visible. It was a
gross insult, and in some countries
1 nto would have beeu sent to the gal¬
lows or to prison for life. He lost bis
commission and was sentence 1 to seven
years’ penal servitude in Australia. Iu
tv few years he was released on a ticket
of leave, but was ordered to remain
where he was. He worked hard, made
good investments an 1 in time became
a leading millionaire. But this ex
convict cultured, rich and respectable
ill the colony, was virtually a prisoner.
lie was closely watched by the police
until tho day of his death, although
lio enjoyed unlimited freedom so long
ns ho remained in Australia. It was
generally believed that Pate ha 1 no
motive iu striking tho Queen, and that,
he was tho victim of a momentary at
*,«ck of insanity, but tho good cou
duct of a life time could not gain for
him permission to visit hit native land.
Duriug tho last thirty* years of his life,
however, lie was a man of influence,
and lived in luxury,
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA,TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1895.
WE A VI'S a.
Daily, hourly, we weave and weave,
Am I whether we sine, or Ml and grieve,
The weaving noes on without delay,
Shaping our robe for the judgment day.
')ur untiles and our tears in blended
sheen.
All through the woof of the fabric gleam;
And t' e garment glitters with threads of
gold
Wrought in by a patience manifold.
The kindness that won an erring soul
Strengi hens the strands and brightens the
Whole;
While the deed we deemed not worth a
place
In the finished web with joy we trace.
Onr very thoughts in t he pattern fair,
Now liglit’ued with love, now dark’ned
with care,
11 <• weave .'h mystical shuttle throws,
iill info t he robe their likeness grows,
The tangled threads, the knots and the
ends,
All into the woof the Master blends;
And with a touch of His skillful hand
Biings into its place each straying strand
O beautiful garment, thou sheen of pure
gold,
Reflecting God's glory from seam and
from fold!
Environ my soul with thy beauty and
1 igh t;
Hint, approved, I may stand in Heaven’s
clear light.
S. S. Eddy.
A Glittering Temptation.
When Leander Clarke married Mabel
lliorpe, he lnul no expectation of ever
being a rich man, but ns his affairs appear
at the present time he is on the broad high¬
way to future wealth, It all arose from
the fact that lie took time by the forelock,
the only way poor mortals have of ever
getting even with him of the scythe and
hour glass.
But it is this very thing that is causing
him such a lot of mental anguish now,
making his nights sleepless and threaten¬
ing to undermine his domestic
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ilislim lioii
temwn mch. m»
e y Urn. be, be",g . ov OT of
mid music, was instantly attracted to her side,
staid there during the evening. For
he rest she wore glasses, being near
sighted, and having been graduated from
an Kastern college, was rather stiff and
pedai. c in her nianner-a grateful change
bom the ordinary frisky young creatures
W ' lr been asaoqp/ yffk'
"' 1 ‘1 1 1 ■■••lores the pity—and love goes
win ic it is sent. Mabel • had expected to
become one of that noble army of martyrs,
teachers, but when Leander proposed she
reconsidered the matter, and thought she
heard the voice of duty bidding her answer
1 M’ s ' lu "! without more ado she accepted
aSo\n Mabel I horpe did not expect her
lieio to swim the Hellespont of life, with
all his armor on, hut she did demand from
him as she had a right to do a high moral
standard, for she had not married him un
til she had seen, as she believed, liis whole
past life open before her likeabook. 1 here
is no time when a man is as weekly senti
mental and religious as when he is trying
to live up to the standard of a pure young
girl’s ideal, and Leander became almost an
an gel.
There are very few of us capable of mak¬
ing human angels of ourselves. Good and
evil are as persistently present in our moral
nature as light and darkness are in our
atmosphere, and one serves as the com¬
plement of the other. To banish night we
use the light of science, to counteract
wrong we invoke divine help; but so large
ly is our worldly nature in excess of our
spiritual powers, that we are constantly in
danger of erring to be forgiven, in other
words, sinning and repenting.
Mabel Thorpe believed in an inflexible
uprightness, 'l’he command to do evil
that good may come was her perverted
text. She was not aware that there are
sins of omission, as well as of commission,
and that her uprighteous condemnation of
sinners, and her severe judgements, were
in themselves of a sinful nature. The self
righteous are too often harder to live with
than the sinner.
Leander Clarke had been a good son,
»ml lie iulemlei! to l« goo,I liusbaml. He
was both proud and fond of Ins wife, but
certainly regretted that lie. could not, give
her all the luxuries that she could up
pvceiate. not even the grand piano that her
musical talent deserved. But lie went to
work with a will to make Ler liappy. and
hoped in a few years to be able to add all
other needful things.
Among the wedding presents of the
young couple was one that far outshowu
ill the rest—a superb set of diamonds sent
by an unde of Leander’s who was near to
ileath, and gave the residue of a large cs
tate in this extravagant present. Leander
himself was genuinely sorry that such an
iiudcsirable gift had been made, but he ar
gued that his wife was a sensible woman.
and would turn them into something more
suitable to tlieir condition in life—a piano,
for instance,which was a necessity rather
than a luxury. What was his surprise when
his bride said:
“I never was so pleased in my life. Dia
monds represent to me the crystallization
of everything beautiful in art aud nature.
I never dreamed that 1 should possess such
magnificence.”
“But these have no associations,” said
her husband, “they are not heirlooms.”
•• They will be; all diamonds were new
at some time. And are they not
ated with the dear old man who
them ?”
Tho dear old man had been a terror
the family, and bad only given the
monds to blunder's wife because he
that nephew a little less thau the
whom he hoped to make horribly
and angry and—bad succeeded.
When Leander asked his wife to
lier diamonds in tlie bank, she
declined.
“But you surely will not wear
dear?” he suggested.
•* Why not ?” she asked.
“lt would injure our prospects, and
L« cousmeui with our position,”
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“They were a gift to me: surely I have
Hie n<T)it to do as 1 please with my own.”
' ^ he tight yes; biit 1 thought my wife
had more di creliori. I did not know you
cared for gew-gaws, Mabel.”
. o the ti r-t cloud came on the horizon of
l icir l<>ve. hut Leander was good-tern
> l rt -' rt ‘ < U-and Mabel satisfied and it disap
point . I he truth was that Leander had
exjK i led a handsome sum of money from
l,, \ v <;7 ,uu ‘* e > w * 10 was a bachelor, and
WI D,.‘ a n f had not mellowed an
I ugly disposition to thwart his relatives,
and after raising the young man’s hopes
! ,e 1°°^ * * il malicious pleasure in disappoint
'”7 1 ,ein - couple began
j V oun g life in a prett
! furnished . cottage on the modern plan of
chafing dish and hand-painted china, and
it worked like a charm. Mabel presided
over the dainty cuisine, the butler’s pantry,
the parlor and really did wonders. Leander
fell in love with her over and over again,
been But for the diamonds they would liave
as happy as larks.
I)id they hear a sound at night—it was
a burglar after those precieus gems. They
were afraid to leave the house alone lest
thieves break in and steal, and one or the
other of the two was compelled to be the
hiding place of the jewels, when they went
out together. Mabel did not care to adorn
herself with diamonds when she went to
market or to church, but she could not
listen to a sermon in peace if the gems
were not about her. And somehow it did
annoy her to carry concealed wealth, like a
brigand or a smuggler.
But when Leander had a chance to buy
shares in the “Little Catawba” Lumber
Company, and to make as much in three
months as lie would in a year by his clerk¬
ship, Mabel would not listen to the sug¬
gestion that the bank would advance
enough on the diamonds to enable him to
make the investment.
Then Leander discovered that his wife
could be a very obstinate woman. It was
in vain that lie laid before her the benefit
that would result from a transient disposal
of the gems. She replied, not without
logic on her side, that the “Little Catawba”
might be a failure, and then her precious
securities would be forfeited. Leander,
man fashion, grew angry, and after some
hot words reached the penultimate of pas¬
sion.
“1 wish,” he said, in tones of invective,
“that burglars would get the hateful
stones. They might at least be of some
use to them!”
It is said that curses, like chickens, come
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know the onccIBJ
and if they
succee " Mabei d ”
did not
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tile rag bag entered into calculi
t, u t places just as inconsistent did.
One night there was a crash in the room
i, e low. Mabel shook her sleeping husband
am j whispered in his ear:
“Burglars! Get your revolver and go
flown stairs. The diamonds are in the
bottom of the clock.”
Leander was startled and confused, but
ag q ie noise continued, he hurried on his
clothes, and taking his revolver ran softly
flown tlie stairs. Mabel remained where
s [ u , was, shivering with fear,
There was a fearful commotion below,
q, e no j se u f falling furniture, opening and
dosing of windows and the rapid firing of
j|, e revolver after some flying robber,
q'i ieu regard for her husband’s life com¬
pelled Mabel to liurry to his assistance.
8lie found him lying on tlie floor grasping
his revolver.
tslie did not faint or shriek, but kneeling
beside him bathed his face and besought
him to speak to her.
“Where am I?” he asked feebly, as be
tried to r;rse himself. “Are the diamonds
sa ‘ f .^gver e y”
mind' the diamonds,” said his
w q e “Are vou mortally wounded
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where?”
<q fl on q know,” answered Leander
feebIy) aml t0 lier cre flit, be it recorded,
M r8 . Leander assisted her husband to a
couch an fl sent off, or rather called for as
s j st a UCe , before she even thought of her
diamonds. tlie
q'lien open door of the clock told the
whoie story. The diamonds were gone,
root aml bran ,|, ; And they were the only
tbbl , rs
inlander had been surprised at the
manner of his w ife on receiving indifference the jewels,
he was ; astonished i at the calm
vU c h sho puted from them. She
allowe fl the usual course to be taken to re
cover tbe thief, or thieves, to justice, but
when no results followed, she said she was
,q. ul of it> that tbe gems had been like an
evb eve to them, and for her part she never
wanted to bear of them again,
..j wonder,” she said, “that I did not
see it iu that light before. I will never
keep anything in my house again to tempt
t he cupidity of the wicked or unfortunate,
that extent am I my brother's keeper.”
u u t the effect upon her husband wasen
tirely different. Either he caught cold on
that night of the burglary, or his nervous
system received a shock, for be was almost
\\\ f rom t he effects of his tussle with the
burglar. And be could not endure to liave
the subject mentioned before him. Not
even the success of the “Little Catawba,”
bl w liicli a friend hail invested for him.
gave him the peace and rest lie craved.
a little incident that happened at that
tune Hid. however, help to restore him to
j lls UO rmal condition. His wife received a
sma u package, accompanied by a soiled
an .j dilapidated note, which, upon being
opened, read :
-honord madeni:
.. j ,^1$ I uo s l e ap sence 1 steal yure di
moU s no yure laidy an i am a retch if i
^iu them up pra fur me.
- trend.”
“an unnone
And in the package Mabel found ber
diamonds, exactly as she had last seen
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lliem .
was pleased—where is the woman
wbo would not liave been?—aud she at
once showed lier confidence in her husband
p v placing the gems in his hands for safe
keeping iu the bank.
•-I wish I had taken your advice earlier,”
$be sa ki gracefully; “it would have saved
U3 so much trouble.”
Leander murmered something about all
being well that ends well, and at noon
brtnj glit her a certificate of deposit.
There we leave them, ou the way t© for.
turie and happiness if —if—Leander’s eon-*
science does not upset the whole scheme.
He would give a great deal to know, what
no clairvoyant coul 1 tell him, «how much
or how little Mabel has discovered. My
own opinion Is that she saw through it front
the first, and holds herself equally guilty
as accessory after the crime, and with that
sweet fickleness which even an upright
woman employs she will make herself a
conclusion loving accomplice. For it is a foregone
that Leander Clarke was his
own burglar—Detroit Free Press.
SACRED BEETLE.
An Insect That Invested the Wearer
With Rare Powers.
The Egyptian searabaeus is the most dis
tinguished insect in history, just as the
American Eagle it the most distinguished
bird.
According to Mr. Isaac Myer the scara*
ha Cits was the symbol of an'elevated re
Ogious idea embracing that of a future life
°f the human soul, a resurrection of it
f rom the dead, and. most likely, of a re¬
w «rd or punishment to it in the future
I ife ) based on its conduct in the terrestrial
bfe. Mr. Myer has just writteu a work on
this Dayton, subject, which is published by Edwin
W. in this city,
Three thousand six hundred years before
the birth of Christ, he says, the Egyptians
believed in Osiris, an eternal, living God,
as is proved by the tomb ,»f Men-Kau-Ra,
king of the fourth or Memphite dynasty,
builder of the third pyramid at Gizeth.
The Egyptians believed the heart to be
the seat of intellect and source of life and
when it was removed in the process of
mummification a model of the searabaeus
was put in its place.
The searabaeus is a beetle of which
there are many varieties. The insect com¬
monly represented by the ancient Egypt¬
ians is the ateuohus sacer. It had thirty
toes representing the thirty days of the
month, and the movement of the ball,
which it constructed and in which it de¬
posited its eggs, symbolized, among other
things, the action of Ra, the Egyptian sun
diety, at midday. The soldier wore the
beetle as a charm to increase bravery, and
the women to promote fertility. It was
supposed that the searabaeus was exclu¬
sively of the male sex, but this was a de¬
lusion. In this capacity it represented the
creator of the world—self-begotten and
conceived by no female.
It was often portrayed as a passenger in
a boat holding the sun in its claws, rep¬
resenting the sun god. The other deities
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s^WiaraoTvVr^___is signet i , in which
Ris probably sol a scarab, 4 put it on
the hand of Joseph to confJPauthority on
him.
The stone searabaeus was variously a re¬
ligious symbol, a charm, a medal struck
in honor of some event and a coin. The
Egyptians were troubled with no coinage
question, for a saereu. image on any piece
of stone made it monSy.
Small scarabs are usually found on the
breasts of mummies suspended by a wire
of gold or worn on the forefinger of the
left hand.
Mirrors of Thought.
Men will forget what we suffer but not
what we do.
To struggle again and again to renew
the coufliet, this is life’s inheritance.
The rainbow—see how fair a thing God
hath built up from tears.
The woof of life is dark, but it is shot
with a warp of gold.
A wide, rich heaven lmugs above you,
but it hangs high ; a wide, rough world is
around you, and it lies very low.
Goodness has slowly proved itself in the
world—is every day proving itself—like a
light broadening in darkness.
In every sphere of life the post of honoi
is the post of duty.
I{ h ig a virture in the world we
should sb( ll( aim a - m at at its ik cheerfulness cueeriuiness.
Cheerfulness creates hope, which is the
foundation of faith, and faith is more than
life, because it reaches into the beyond.
m worM is ahadoKed or brightened ° by
our own heart rather thau by anything it
, self. Our joy makes the cloudiest day
glad, and our grief finds night in the sun¬
set sky.
The truly noble heart bears no resent¬
ment.
Many a man who now lacks shoe leather
would wear golden spurs if knighthood
were the reward of worth.
j Towels, but No Soap.
A recent and noteworthy manifestation
0 f the new spaper enterprise and liberality
toward subscribers in the matter of prem
iums is to be recorded to the credit of our
esteemed contemporary, the Journal, of
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Beaver Springs, Penn. It says:
j TURKISH TOWELS FREE.
j i We making every honest effort to
are
secure new subscribers to the Journal, and
now offer to aend the Journal one year to
getlier with a beautiful brown Turkish
towel, size 12x22 inches, two ply goods,
fancy color, for only 15 cents. Send this
amount iu stamps to the Journal, Beaver
Springs, Penn., and receive tbe towel at
once aud Journal regularly every month
for a year, all postpaid. I his is a great
offer and is open to new subscribers only.
Surely a great opportunity for the people
of Pennsylvania, but why thq Journal don’t
throw in a cake of soap is more than vre
can understand,
Raise a Crop of Pickles.
A creat proportion of the cucumber
pickles used in tbe East are grown in one
.Main County. Over 160 acres are given
: up to pickle growing iu the vicinity of the
town of Camden. The crop is a profit
able one, usually yielding an income of
f iqq to $159 an acr*.
ADVERTISER.
WATER LIFE IN CHINA.
FLOATING HOUSES OF MILLIONS
OF PEOPLE.
Numerous ( raft of Queer Shapes-
Express Boats—Cormorant Fishing
Vessels.
Julian interesting Ralph has in Harper's Mdgttziue
an article on Chinese life. “The
activity on the water,' he writes, “is
marvellous. Hie craft are as numerous
and varied as the water will hold or the
mind can fancy. The most Impressive are
the junks, with preposterous sails that
hide everything behind them from earth to
sky. These junks ride low in front, and
are built up behind like the Piuta, Nina,
and Santa Maria. They have great gog¬
gle-eyes painted and carved on their bows,
and turned to look down at the water.
Every European in China loves to tell a
stranger why nearly all the boats, of every
shape and size, are thus ornamented. It
is because, ‘if no hab eye, how can see? If
no can see, how can savev ? If no can
savey, how can walk? 1 lieu there
are large cargo-boats shaped like long bar
icls or large cigars. 1 heir rounding tops
are made of bent mats that can be piled on
of one another in one place to make a
little cabin, or can be pulled out, end to
end, to cover all the cargo. There are
other long narrow boats, laden high with
garden truck, with potatoes or pease or
beaus or rice straw, and looking like so
many Flatbusk farm wagons afloat. There
are little sampans, from which men and
women tish with nets. And there are in¬
numerable otfler small boats, wherein men,
women and children are working those
tools, like oyster tongs, with which they
tear up the weeds that grow beneath the
water. These are spread on the farms,
and thus raise all central China higher and
higher above the water of the creeks and
canals, which is where the ocean water
once was, though the laud now rises from
four to six feet above it. The express
boats are very interesting. They are slen¬
der, long row-boats roofed over with mats,
for one or two passengers, and carrying in
the stern a muscular Chinaman, who pro¬
pels a big-bladed oar with his feet. With
a small oar in one hand to steer with, with
the other hand holding a parasol or fan,
the while he may be puffing at his pipe, lie
toils carmly on, all night or all clay, seat¬
ed on the point of his spine, and describ
in«r endless dicles with his muscular less
|sels, •MLthc even people the
.^Bvi\ i
uTT i\ til ifi57T77nT^H
ater, with a string
his leg to keep him at home—tiiesi^^!re
some of the assurances we had that certain
of the craft were floating homes. Often,
on the cargo boats, the dwelling place was
beneath a great square mat in the stern.
There the man slept, the woman cooked
the rice and tish, and the tiniest children
worked the 3 r oolo to send the boat ahead.
Baskets hanging behind served as closets
and clothes chests. On the chop boats,
which are floating homes of the best grade,
we saw pots of pretty flowers, and kitch¬
ens and cooks, and gentle ladies and
solemn looking mustachioed old grandees,
as well as nurses and children.
“Most of all were we interested in the
cormorant fishing boats. These are the
size of a Whitehall row-boat, and are all
open within, to permit the fisherman to
walk from bird to bird between bow and
stern. Often he is alone; often he carries
a boy or a wife to work the yoolo. The
birds sit at the sides of tlie boat, on pro
jecting sticks over the water. They perch
in pairs, and there may be ten of them or
two dozen. They are the size and look
very like the fish hawks of the Atlantic
coast; but they arc dirty birds, with rag
ged wings, plucked to keep them from
flying. In color they are a nietalie black,
with mottled or creamy or even white
bosoms. They have long, narrow, curved
bills of the flesh-tearing character. Their
perches are wrapped with straw, to give
the birds a good foothold. When fishing
is done their master tightens the noose that
eacli wears round its neck, and, putting a
stick before each one, lifts it down to the
water. When they have caught fish enough
or, more likely, have become so soaked
that they must be taken aboard to dry, he
rows among them and lifts them back on
their perches. Their skill lies in their greed,
and their greed has doomed them to servile
labor.
“They are caught on the sea coast when
young, and are trained by their purchasers
until they become worth ten dollars,
Mexican, apiece. Their training consists
in starving them all day and in tlwottliug
them so that thoy cannot swallow what they
catch. When they are in the water they
not only dive for fish, but are said to swim
swiftly under the water after their prey,
When a fish is caught, the bird rises to the
surface and gasps and chokes to gfet the
fish down. The other birds rush at him
to wrest his prey from him. The fisher
man hurries to the spot, beats tbe other
greedy birds away, and lifting the success
ful cormorant into the boat, takes his fish
from him. loosens his throttling string, anfl
pokes some food into his ravenous beak as
a reward of merit. At last the birds are
all returned to their perches. They yawn
and flap their wmgs to dry themselves,
and he prepares for them a fairly good din
ner of rice and small fish, or whatever is
cheapest, stopping now and then to scold
and beat one with a cane if one is quar
relsome.”
CH1LDREN WHO TOIL.
Shocking Conditions Found in Wis¬
consin Factories.
Ethelbert Stewart, special agent of the
United States Labor Department at Wash
ingtou, who is looking up labor strikes
from 1887 down to and including the Am¬
erican Railway Union Strike of last sum¬
mer, in an interview with the St. Paul,
(Minn)., Dispatch, said :
“Y'ou talk about the sweatshops and
homes in the big cities, but I have seen
places over in villages of Wisconsin that
are about as bad in every particular. 1 was
amazed in tbe first place to learn of the im¬
mense number and variety of factories in
Wisconsin. They had every kind of fac
tcry of whieh I know anything and tbe
number of children employed is so teething
wonderful. In the town of Oshkosh they
had more children employed in propor
i lion to the population than in any city I
have visited in the East or South, and in
many factories the condition is simply
awful,
“The children are crowded into poorly
ventilated and unsanitary rooms, and the
long Hud short of it is their lives are coined
into dividends for the company that em¬
ploys them. Then there are the cotton
mills, where they employ little children and
compel them to work eleven hours a day
a custom which was abolished years ago in
every other community. The factory in -
spection law of that State is a howling
farce,
“At the big bottling works at Milwau¬
kee they have 000 boys and girls, ranging
in age from 11 to 19 years, employed, and
that is the toughest sight of all, for the
roughness comes right out on the surface.
The children are employed at bottling beer,
and there is no limit to the amount they
are allowed to drink.
“The match factories arc just ns bad,
though of course the employees are not
half drunk all the time and not so much of
the rottenness appears on the surface,
“I aim to get both sides of a story when
a complaint is made, that of the etnploy
ees as well as of the employer. Besides I
made some personal observations, and the
conditions were worse in the Wisconsin
factories than anywhere else I have been.”
THE MARK WAS RETURNED.
Many Brave Feathers Takes a Long.
Ride.
“ Kahmeeschetookeehewnp, will you
ride a fine horse once ? ”
The Cree chief looked at the handsome
black mare the chief factor was leading to¬
ward him; then lie called one of his braves.
“ Bring my painted buffalo-robe and my
bow and feathered arrows,” he said.
lie mounted and rode back some way
along the trail which stretched over un¬
dulating prairie and on far to the south,
where the buffalo fattened numberless on
the rich grass. He would “ run ” the mare
a3 though lie was running buffalo; he
would show these white men how Many
Brave Feathers hunted!
He turned and gave her her head. On
lie came like the hawk, shooting his ar¬
rows at the little poplars in the bluffs along
the trail as lie rode. A crowd had assem
bled to see the run; part were his own peo¬
ple, the others the staff of the Company at
old Fort Ellice.
He was riding very fast. As he neared
the stockade he tried to pull the mare in.
But she declined to be pulled in; she was
just getting nicely going.
*JfckuiLLLiij yelled the spectators,
hi' : lint past, and
ead;
over a slope in tiie soulTI under
buffalo-skin. Then he went to his quarters.
The features of the other on-lookers wore
a big general smile as lie-disappeared. The.
genial sun smiled broadly too, in the sujh
mer sky; in fact, everything eeenied sioH
ing—except “Well if the that chief aiu’t factor. good un!” re-* ^
a
marked the clerk to the rest of ihe staff as
they sauntered back.
Many Brave Feathers passed the night, isj
at Moose Mountain. Moose Mountain
only seventy-five miles from Fort Ell iced
but then it was afternoon when he started.
Next day he arrived at a camp of his own
tribe ami Assiniboins on Broken Shell
Creek in the buffalo country.
All that fall and winter lie staid out on
the plains, running buffalo with tlie stolen,
horse, though lie never lent her to any one
except his sweetheart, who used to ride
bcr when they moved camp. In the spring,
when the grass was green, the camp, with
} ts slore of robes and cured meat, journeyed
toward Fort Ellice. Many Brave Feathers
ordered one of his men to catch him three
horses out of the band. He came to the
fort r jfli ng the mare and leading the three
ot her horses, and asked for the chief factor,
j n had c } ia fl j, a well fl the cared mare for seven and moons, fat. but she
been was
| “Ah-ha, 1 Mistahuse,’ you speak true,
The mare j s very fast,” he said, as lie put
t lie lines of the four horses into the chief
factor’s hand.
“ Blamed if I wouldn’t like some ab
original Augustus to borrow my pinto
ca y Use for six moutli3 on the same
terms ;» exclaimed the clerk. He thought
the oW man had the best of it after all. —
Harper’s Weekly,
A CAT’S QUEER KITTEN.
Experiment in Foster-Mothers Wherc
in a Young Hare Took Part.
An interesting experiment in the rearing
of animals is recorded by a German journal,
A country gentleman, having captured a
young idea hare a few days old, conceived the
; of giving it as foster mother a cat
which had just had a litter of kittens. The
cat showed no objection to this curious ad
dition to her family, and the herbivorous
nursling seemed to take very well to the re
gi inc to which it was so unexpectedly sub¬
jecled. The hare throve and grew, and the
ca t soon thought it time to begin the edu
cation of her foster child,
For the catching of mice, however, the
bare showed net ttie slightest disposition,
; and at each fault committed the adoptive
mother administered vigorous correction
with in?r paws. This produced but little
improvement, and the relations between
the two animals were becoming somewhat
strained, when one day they were placed
together on the lawn in front of the bouse,
The hare at once proceeded to nibble at
the vegetation with remarkable avidity, to
the evident astonishment and indignation
of the cat, who could make nothing of
such conduct. Finally, perceiving that
she had nourished anything but a kitten,
the disappointed nurse withdrew with an
expression of unmistakable disdain,
j
Rise and Fall of a Town.
Red Mountain, Col., which four years
ago was a prosperous camp of several
thousand people, and did tbe largest money
order business of any camp in tlie 8an Juan
country, is now without a postoffiee.
Temple Emanu-el, of New York City, is
tbe richest Hebrew congregation in the
United States.
NO. 31.
JOKERS' BUDGET.
JOKES AND YARNS OF THE
FUNNY MEN OE THE PRESS.
An Insurmountable Obstacle- Same
Stock—The New Man—Had Some
E fleet.
AN INSl' RMOT'NTABl.E OBSTACLE.
Mrs. Flatley—No, I’m sure I could never
rde a bicycle.
Mr. Flatley—Nonsense; you could easily
enough if you only really tried.
Mrs. Flatley — Yes, but, John, how
could I ever tell whether my lnit was on
straight or not.—Brooklyn Life.
GAME STOCK.
Widow Nolan (hotly)—-Thot wor a
foine settin’ of eggs ye sould me! The
half of thirn wor cracked!
Mr. lleunessy—Ye should have watched
thim; dthey wor from my game bins, and .
must have got to foightin’ when ye woru’t
lookin’.—Puck.
THE NEW MAN.
Wadsworth—Well, well, well! If thV
isn’t Billy Brown. How are you, old
man, anyway?
The Late Billy Brown—I am not Billy
Brown any longer. I am Mr. Simpkins.
I have married since we met last.—Indian¬
apolis Journal.
HAD SOME EFFECT.
Housekeeper—So you are located at
Dairyville? That’s where our milkman
comes from.
Rural Pastor--Yes, he is a regular at¬
tendant at our church, and always appears
deeply impressed during the services.
Housekeeper—Yes, I’ve noticed that his
milk is always richer on Mondays than
on other days.—New York Weekly.
STRICTLY BUSINESS.
“George,” said the beautiful girl, as sho
nestled close to him, “the last time you
called you proposed.”
“1 did, sweet one.”
“And 1 accepted you.”
“You did, love.”
“I presume, George,” she went on in
her most fascinating manner, “that you
look upon me as merely a foolish, thought¬
less girl, but—but—”
“llow can you think so, pet?" he in¬
terrupted.
“But,” she went on in a more business¬
like way, “I have something of the busi¬
ness instinct of the new woman in me, and
—and—I shall have to ask you to repeat
the proposal again to-night. The last time
you called it was Sunday, and contracts
made on that day, 1 learn, arc not legally
binding.”—Chicago Post.
AN INADVERTENCE,
Nelson—Well, I’m the luckiest chap in
the world.
Stanley—How so?
Nelson—It appears that Madge broke
with me about the same time s with
Jack Boodles, and now she’ty|
juuflge—Sorry toinS^^^^ ^TTii
sley and I want you to tackle a conun¬
drum. What is the difference between a
bore and a fool ?
Wick wire—You’ll have to settle your
own differences.—Indianapolis Journal.
A I’UOFESSIONAL VIEW.
She—“Do you believe in foot-ball for
ladies ”
He—“Yes, indeed I do.”
She—“Then you’re a new man, I sup¬
pose ?”
He—“No; I’m a surgeon.”—Judy.
A DRAWING CAlin.
“How in the world do you expect to get
guests enough at your Summer resort ho
tel?”
“That’s all right,” said the landlord,
briskly. “You wait till you’ve seen my
advertisement announcing that half the
hotel is reserved for the use of bachelor
guests.”
AN OLD ONE IlETOLD.
During the war old Rastus was asked by
a Federal soldier why he was not out fight¬
ing for his rights. After pondering for a
moment, lie replied: “Did vo’ ebber see
two dogs a-fightin’ over a bone, sah?”
“Yes, oh, yes!”
“Did yo’ ebber see de bone fight?”
SATISFIED.
Stranger—Any attractions here at this
summer resort?
Maiden (sweetly;—-Yes. Myself.
Stranger—Any distractions?
Maiden (sweetly still)—Yes. Love.
btranger—Any contradictions?
Maiden (sourly)—Yes. Pocketbooks.
fcjtranger—Good day?
HE DIDN’T AITl’.ECIATE IT.
Chollie—Baw Jove, I’d hate to be one
of these fellaws who liave to live by their
wits, you know.
Dollie—But if you ever should liave to
depend on your brains for a living, just
think what a soft thing you would have
to start with.—Cincinnati Tribune.
DIFFERENCE IN OPINION.
“All modern learning,” said the p<Man
tic boarder, “may be said to come from
Greece.”
“H’m,” said the cheerful Idiot, “Up
at the Chicago University they are of the
opinion that it comes from coal oil.”—In¬
dianapolis Journal.
CANDID.
Mix—Does your wife ever play jokes on
you?
Rix—She only played one, and that
nearly bankrupted me.
Mix—What was that?
Rix—She married me.
A MATTER OF INDENT!FICATION.
“Harold,” murmured the blushing girl,
as the enraptured youth slipped a dia¬
mond ring on her taper finger, “every¬
body says my twin sister and I look ex¬
actly alike, but you will always know us
apart, won’t you ?”
“Of course,” said Harold, ecstatically,
“I’ll know you by this ring, my dear
why, what’s tbs matter ?”