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THE MONHOE
VOL XL
The Dint riel <of Columbia has 382
U:rm,», »iJi» 11,715 ncrej.
Ex- Senator John J. Ingalls lately
f-sid that “law, journalism and rail¬
road manage fit are tho three HYG
Jilititt of
'Governor Budd, of California, has
aroused n good deal of opposition
MU om > m riii-military organizations by
] H r*<• 1 iio**l If, allow them to carry any
but Gjg American flag.
Tim feo for a professional visit of a
sloe, tor »n N dtingham, England, ift
uno hiliiiiff Cf jnal to twenty-five
••fills ; and ven thk pittance, tho New
Vor: ‘ Independent relate*, often lias
(o lie traded out with tho small nhop-
1 copers, who consider it an exorbitant
• Jem und.
I ho 1 ir h t triii! at, sea of tho Defender
was n great, disappointment to the ad¬
vocates of aluminum as tho metal of
Dm future, and many experts declare
against its utility. According to tho
NVvv \ ork World, it proved sollicking
in strength that the cleats and bolay
mg pins made out of it were so twisted
and bent that they had to be dis¬
carded, anil now ones of hand-wrought
Hti'eJ Mjtistitlltf'd.
( bio of tho quaint customs of Mada*
v use nr is that tho Prime Minister mas
always marry tlie Queen, states tho
Pathfinder. Tho present Premier lias
already outlived throe sovereigns, to
*‘»c)i of whom ho lias been united in
1 urn, I lie disability of tho office must
•depend a good deal on what the Queen
is like. It she were like some Queens
wo would Jet the office hunt us a loug
time bofoi- 0 we would accept.
General Greely’s statement before
Hie International Geographical Con¬
gress that in a little more than two
centuries the Arctic region has Bir¬
in bed tin' world with products worth
#1.200,000,000, will surprise most
renders, and iudicates to the New York
Mail and Express tho possibilities of
that frozen region when human dar¬
ing and ingenuity shall have por
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Two thousand million gallons or six
million tons of petroleum is tho an
Yiual output of the world ; half of this
is supplied by the United States, near¬
ly a quarter comes from tho Caspian,
2(1,000,000 gallons from Galicia, 25,
000,000 from Canada, and 7,000,000
irotn Burrnah. Tho working of tho
wells in Bunnah and Galicia is only
just beginning, while the petroleum
basin of the Mackenzie River isproba
bly the richest in tho world.
The habit of moving is still strong
in the American people, or it may bo
that it is in tho climate, for natives
nml newcomers possess it alike. Many
of the changes made, doubtless, are
in a process of betterment, but many
others appear to bo just for change’s
sake. Tho ot her week a party of Ken¬
tucky and West. Virginia farmers
passed through Kansas City on their
wav to settle in Kansas. A T ery likely,
suggtsts the Now York Sun, they
passed on their journey West a large
party of farmers from Kansas, Ne¬
braska and Illinois, who started re
eently to find new homes in Virginia
and Georgia. And in the same week
some families in Russell County, Kan¬
sas, were preparing to join a colony
of cx-Kausans in Wyoming, Suclx
migrations from one State to auother
are constantly in progress, and usually
they are iu tho nature of a simple
interchange of inhabitants.
The Superior Court at Cincinnati,
Ohio, has decided that a railroad is
not obliged to carry a passenger who
makes a business of conveying mer
chamlise between stations to supply
customers. One A. J. Smith had
built up quite a business as purchas¬
ing agent for persons living along tho
line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, and was in the
habit of carrying his purchases ou the
trainois he rode back and forth. Tho
railroad had a contract with an ex
press company, agreeing to give to no
one beside the express company the
privilege of carrying merchandise on
its passenger trains, In accordance
with this contract Smith was forbid
den the privilege of carrying his
bundles on the trains, the company
refusing to carry him as a passenger
with his usual load of satchels ami
bundles. Smith sued the railroad,
o'aiming that as he had a commutation
ticket he was entitled to passage ou
the trams of the railroad from whose
agents he purchased it, no matter how
many bundles he carried. The court
decided against him ou tho ground
that the railroad only undertook to
carry personal baggage on its passen¬
ger trains for passengers, r.ud that
personal baggage only included we \ v
ing apparel and personal effects, nu i
ft«t gtncral mer«Unttdj«ti
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING; SEPTEMBER U, 1895.
Moments.
Oh, there are moments in man’s mortal
years
V\ ben for an instant that which long has
lain
Beyond our rea^h, i3 on a sudden found
In things of smallest compass, and we
hold
The unbounded shut in one small minute’s
space,
And worlds within the hollow of our hand;
A world of music in one word of lore,
A world of love in one quick wordless
look.
A world of thought in one translucent
phrase,
A world of memory In one mournful
chord,
A world of sorrow in one little song.
Such moments are man’s holiest; the
divine
And first sown seeds of love's eternity.
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Ttie Judas Tree,
But we didn’t care
To got, at their secret at all unfairly.
—Bert llarte.
T HERE are a good many forlorn
and dreary farms in Nebraska,
but pefcpaps that boasting the
most forlorn ai*d dreary dwelling place
of all is one that lies between Hubbell
and Gilead. Tlie country thereabouts
presents for the greater part an ap¬
pearance of prosperity. It is rolling,
brown-bluffed; in its creeks oaks, wal
nut trees and wild plum bushes jostle.
It is a place of illimitable vistas, mar¬
velous skies, quivering cottonwoods—
a place desert-like in its loneliness, but
not without a certain sullen pictur¬
esqueness.
The farm referred to is a stony half
section of land lying well off the road,
with a house built out of rocks quar
ried from the hillside, huddled down
in the draw. What could have induced
any one to put a house there is a mys¬
tery which might bo worth tho solving,
for the draw is not an ordinary one,
long or oblong in shape. It is circular
and is walled around by drab cliffs or
hills. It Is quite concealed from al IV
traveler on the roads; it can be found
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only by the Initiated, and it may be
reached by those alone on quadruped or
in vehicle who are reckless of life and
limb. One could pass, approach, circle
or skirt the spot without even suspect¬
ing that.deep hollow in the prairie and
the stone house, squat and small-win¬
dowed. that lay sheltered in its heart.
The farm had been unlot and the
house untenanted for more than a year,
when it was most unexpectedly bought
and occupied.
The new owner came in on the “East¬
ern passenger” one spring evening. He
betook himself to the least uncomforta¬
ble of the hotels. The following day
he visited the local land agent. Many
farms were described to him. He per¬
sonally inspected several. To the as¬
tonishment of the agent he expressed
himself as satisfied with the place in
question. He bought furniture and or¬
dered it sent out there. He did not
ask the price of the articles purchased.
Tliat fact occasioned comment. He
merely said. ”1 will take this.” or, “You
may send me that.” He bought the
t ost the petty town shop afforded. Pro
visions also were taken out to the
queer. Isolated house he had chosen as
a home. Help was engaged. Two
weeks later he drove into town, pro¬
ceeded to the depot, and there awaited
the west-bound train. He was a blonde,
slender, handsome boy, with city
clothes and city manners. When the
train came in a veiled little lady step¬
ped on the platform, a lady richly
gowned, with a beautiful way of hold¬
ing her head, and a charming distinc¬
tion of carriage. He drove her out to
the remote and almost Inaccessible
house he had purchased, and there they
lived. Talk concerning them was rife
for awhile, gossip that never reached
them.
It was said that he had routed the
farm for a third of its produce, retain¬
ing only the house. Those who were
bold enough to venture down the cork¬
screw road and knock in neighborly
fashion at the door averred that the
queer old story-and-a-half house, with
Its low ceilings and steep, crooked stair
way. was inside like "a palace in a
book.” They explained that the car
pets were like moss and that in looking
at the pictures you thought you were
see lug "reel places an’ people.” As for
books there were thousands of books.
they said. They told, too, of a lovely
little lady who wore a soft, trailing,
beautiful gown; whose eyes were
brown and gentle; who had glittering
rings on her little milk-white hands;
who spoke to them iu kiudly fashion,
but told them nothiug of ber friends
or of ber peoplei a woman who w««
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thorn at once an enigma and a divinity,
Music stole tip at night from that mys
torious hollow-music so gay, so vib
rant, so sweet, belated farmers Jogging
homeward paused to listen with very
sincere pleasure and very righteous
doubt as to •‘them strange folks.”
f inaily, the curiosity that had never
been satisfied waned, while it did not
cease.
It was an exquisite May evening
when the little lady drove out to her
new home, between Hubbell and Gi¬
lead. She tvas profoundly impressed.
The daring descent, the lonely house,
the rockiness and solitude seemed to
attract her.
she cried, pointing to a tree,
the boughs of which trailed their clus¬
ters of intensely glowing purple blos¬
soms over the door, “look at that beau
tlful Judas tree!”
He started slightly;
“What did you call it?”
“The Judas tree. It grows wild in
Nebraska. In May it is a mass of fra¬
grant flowers. The tradition goes that
it was on such a tree as that Judas
hanged himself. 1 wonder you never
heard that;”
He laughed grimly. “The treacher¬
ous apostle had an eye for the pictur¬
esque!” lie commented.
Summer passed. The purple blos
soms were gone. Fall came—winter.
The tree rattled its skeleton arms over
the portal of the stone house. Waring
often woke in the night and heard the
branches cracking in the wind. He
tried to shut out the sound. He could
not. Finally lie ceased to try. When
he awoke he was listening and with
his heart beating hard. A change came
over him. II is boyish face took on a
drawn, aged look. lie lost his glad,
confident spirits. Ills companion no¬
ticed it. The farm people discussed it.
When spoken to about it he laughed
nervously.
“It is nothing—nothing,” he declared,
“but that cursed insomnia.”
April came. The winter wheat was
green. Cottonwoods bourgeoned. Mea
(low larks lilted. And the Judas tree
rippled all over with tiny green leaves.
Then there were prisoned buds, and lo!
a brilliant flame of purple blossoms.
Waring had watched feverishly the
glorious revivification.
Aou admire that tree very much,”
I ane said to him one day.
It. is a beastly thing to have at a
man’s door,’ he answered. “I shall
have It cut down.”
She looked at him in amazement.
“You are 111,” she said solicitously.
have not been like your old self lately.
You need a change. We musk go away.”
“Where?” he questioned.
“O, there must be many other places
where we would be just as safe from—”
She did not conclude tlie sentence.
He laughed harshly. “This damna¬
ble solitude and monotony is telliug on
you also. All for love and the world
well lost sounds very well.”
“Harry! How can you?”
He kissed her and admitted he was
not quite himself. He said he would
be better when that tree was out of
the way. Nevertheless, when, on the
following morning, the men came to
cut it down, he told them quite gruffly
to leave it alone—that he had changed
his mind. The fascination of the tree
forbade its surrender.
The summer wore on. Waring now
seldom went to town. Music rarely as¬
cended from the house in the hollow.
When it did it was no longer gay. woo
ing. seductive. It was fierce and bac
clianalian. The little woman regarded
the player often with eyes In which
lurked a vague terror,
Once more it was winter, and again
the leafless branches of the Judas tree
writhed and rattled in the wind which
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found its way into the draw and tore
around there like a caged beast seeking
egress. Waring did not merely lie
awake now and listen to the sound. He
rose quietly from his bed, stole to the
window ami watched the twistiDg
branches, One night ho could only
hear, not see them, though he strained
his eyes, for the sky was black,
Suddenly the moou crept out from un
der a cloud and then he saw that the
branches were arms, which courtesied
profoundly, flung upward as if in tor
ture. and all the time beckoned to him.
He looked at tlie sleeping face of the
woman he loved. He looked back at
the entreating tree. He crept from the
reom down the *ttirf, H« fumbled Id
a corner where something secretly pur
cliased months ago lay hidden. He went
out into the bitte*, black night. The
wind walled on nnd the branches
i groaned more heavily,
A pallid dawn broke. The woman
awakened, kissed her lover, rose. She
looked out of the window. Then she
fell, like one struck dead, at sight of
tlae strange fruit tLat* dangled from the
Judas tree,
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M firing's brother came from the East.
The woman met his gaze coweriugly.
“Will you ever forgive?” she whls
pored,
”1 forgive him,” he answered. “He
has paid the penally of treachery. As
for you—perhaps-jdn time-”
They went away together.
A Duet Storrt iu Nebraska,
A sweet, breezy May morning, so
crisp and cool as to be autumnal in sug¬
gestion. A sky i veusely blue, with
just the fugitive sa i of a cloud showing
once in a while o.i its sapphirine ex
pause. A wind blows up, a wind that
is warm—caressingly so. Soon it stings.
Tiie eyelids tingle. LOne goes Indoors,
contemplates the weather from a com¬
parative point of vantage. But it is
necessary to keep the windows shut,
else the dust, that is Mko pumice stone,
would choke, suffocate one. As it is it
blows in through loeed shutters fund
secured windows. It furs the carpet.
It dims tho velours of the best chairs.
It ridges the woodwork of the furni¬
ture. It makes grhty to touch the cup
you drink from,, tha paper you write
on, the page of th e lDo >k you read. It
grimes the baby's white gown. Every¬
where it lies, oil chair and bookcase,
on shelf and stair, on window ledge
and picture franqjjy thick and soft as
pale brown velvet!)
As tlie sun goes'lip it grows Hot—
hotter. The wind from Kansas, blow¬
ing up scorchiugly, % a fierce fever of
kisses—kisses that, like a courtesan’s,
burn, blight, and <V -enchant.
Tho sky haa darkened. Is it going to
rain _ bv any mischance? No
the darkness is that of dust. Dust in
lit tle, long, wave-like currents on the
country roads; dun rising in whirls
t lie spirals of which are shaped like
waterspouts; dust which surges tip with
a sul'en roar; which bangs a thick, dun
pall between earth and heaven; which
makes darkness at A o'clock in May;
which si fts in on vour pillow all night
long to the tune of alvagr ant ami I
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cursed wind; which ydfelfl
<r rbs between
dreams:
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'Boss. Yot e dee-Wed by an abrupt,
a SU(Wen > a delightful lull, which lasts
perhaps two or three hours. But be¬
fore noon it begins all over again.
Repetition! Revenge! Resignation!
the clock seems to tick.
The first is inevitable. The second
is impossible. The third—they say St.
Lawrence suggested a turn on the grid¬
iron during his martyrdom. Those who
endure the torture of a summer in a
small Western town, where a sprinkling
cart is an unknown institution, never
make a similar demand. For the heat
is enveloping, and they are roasted in
the most prompt, uniform and impar¬
tial manner imaginable.
Made His Point.
It is not necessarily great eloquence
or wisdom which gives a lawyer influ¬
ence over men's minds; the happy knack
of telling a homely story with a “point”
at just the auspicious moment lias
saved many a losing side. The world¬
wide exemplar of this is, of course,
Abraham Lincoln; but he has a multi¬
tude of followers.
A San Diego lawyer was once de¬
fending a young man from the charge
of larceny. The evidence against him
was purely circumstantial, but strong.
The lawyer claimed that no man should
be convicted upon circucmstantial evi¬
dence alone.
“Why,” said he, “when I was a boy
I knew another boy who, while his
parents were absent, went to the pan¬
try and nearly devoured a large cus¬
tard pie. Then, fearing the conse
quences, he looked about for means of
hiding the traces of his guilt.
“Seeing the cat, he took her, smeared
her face and paws with the custard,
and then taking the innocent criminal
into the hack yard, lie shot her. As he
did so, that boy observed to me, with
a chuckle. ‘There goes one more vic¬
tim of circumstantial evidence!’ ”
The lawyer won his case. Hours of
Impassioned pleading, or scores of cita¬
tions of cases in which innocent men
had suffered death upon circumstan¬
tial evidence, would probably have pro¬
duced less effect than the unjust fate
of that cat did.
Half-Price.
It is not without cause that the term
“hard-headed” has so often been ap¬
plied to the residents of rural districts
in New England. Not long ago a dusty,
tired-looking man presented himself
at the desk in the one hotel of a New
England town, and said he wanted a
room tiii 6 o’clock the next morning.
“Fve eat my supper, an’ I shall be
off before breakfast.” he said, gravely,
to the clerk. “Now. what would be
your lowest price for a room to sleep
in?”
“Fifty cents, if you leave at 6 o’clock
to-morrow morning.” was the reply.
“Well. now. wouldn’t a quarter make
it jest about right, then?” said the way¬
farer. producing a battered twenty-five
cent piece. “You see. I'm all excited up
travelin’. an’ I don’t expect to sleep
more'n half the time I'm in there!”
Investigation Off,
Official—What’s that? A man r - :z
over and hurt? Notify the entire police
force to watch for the bicyclist who did
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Policcman—But it wasn’t a bicyclist.
It was a beer wagon.
Official—Oh. if that’s all, never mind,
Fecpl? are used to being run over by
beer wagoa«,—Good Ktwi
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NOTES OF THE DAY.
There are 2,954 persons in Great Brit¬
ain who pay tax on an income of more
than $25,000 a yoaf.
In the royal palace of Servin lights
are put out invariably by 11 o'clock
by order of the King.
There are no fewer than four Euro¬
pean banks in Yokohama and in Japan
120, all with large capital.
In the gardehs around London there
are more specimens of the cedar of
Lebanon than on Mount. Lebanon itself.
In Norway a law provides that no
person shall be permitted to cut down
a tree unless he plants three saplings
in its place.
The coronet worn by the Countess of
Aberdeen on state occasions is distin¬
guished by five emeralds, which are the
largest in the world;
According to a Connecticut statisti¬
cian there are 9(3,000 crazy people in
the United States, of whom only (3,500
are under sufficient supervision.
An eccentric farmer who died the
other day in Connecticut directed that
his body should be inclosed in an iron
casket and thrown to the bottom of
Long Island Sound.
It is a remarkable fact that the actual
cost of the Kiel ship canal was below
the estimates. They amounted to 156,
000,000 marks ($37,440,000), and the
cost was 155,378,000 marks ($37,200,-
720).
A colored man was recently shor n
a skeleton by a Portland doctor, lie
had never seen one before and was
greatly interested. He examined the
skull closely and finally asked, “Where
are the ears?”
A family in Knox County, Maine, that
sleeps too soundly to bo awakened by
a chanticleer has a novel alarm. A big
cowbell is attached to the neck of the
dog. and at a certain time in the morn¬
ing he makes a tour of the chambers,
A Boston paper which has gone daft
on abbreviations thus reports a news
item: “His Hon. the Lieut. Gov. of
Mass, returned from N. H. yesterday
with y 2 doz. other citizens - of Mass., and
expects next wk to go to N. Y. by way
of Prow”
I’eople of middle age can remember
when the only use for India rubber
was to erase pencil marks, Tlie im
portance o: jytrticle now is indicated
K-. fc. g»**»Ai-st three months
SfiO.230 tot¬
rwiiTet, tTO ‘aim SpnfmuUsTP^
up steadily. ''It carried fijire insure n'-h
last year of $986,000,000, or about five
times that of other States with about
the same population.
For one person who cares about thea¬
ters there are a thousand persons in
England wild about cricket, and if the
ministry had given G. W. Grace a
knighthood among the birthday honors
it would probably have been the most
popular act of their existence.
Statistics have been accumulated
which reveal that in respect to color¬
blindness there is a remarkable differ¬
ence between the two sexes. About Sy 2
per cent, of men are color-blind to a
marked extent, while not more than
4-10 of 1 per cent, of women are thus
afflicted.
A store at Tempe, Ari., is about to in¬
augurate a novel cash system. When
anyone desires credit he is referred to
the office, where, if he be solvent, liis
note is taken for the amount needed,
tlie cash is advanced him, and he goes
into the store and with the money ac¬
quired does his buying.
Lord Rosebery will this year exhibit
no fewer than twenty-four head of
cattle and sixty sheep at the fat stock
shows at Birmingham and Smithfield.
His lordship will thus be probably the
largest exhibitor. His exhibits will in¬
clude many noted prize winners at last
year’s Scottish shows.
The first horse on record whose pedi¬
gree can be authenticated was bred by
Charles II. and called Dodsworth; and,
for his amusement when he resided at
Windsor, he appointed races to be run
in Datchet Mead, and at Newmarket,
where, it is said, he entered horses and
ftm them in his own name.
“Charley’s Aunt” lias reached Portu¬
gal and is attracting large audiences to
an Oporto theater. In its Portuguese
guise it is “A Madrinha de Charlee.”
With the exception of an"original play
of Shakspeare's, this is the first time
in years that an English drama has
been performed on the Portuguese
stage.
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William Scrubby, Trenton's official
dog catcher, tendered a pail full of
dog’s tails as vouchers for the number
of canines he laid low in tlie perform¬
ance of his duty and on which he based
his claim for payment The officials
refused to count the tails, but agreed to
accept Scrubby's statement of the cau¬
dal tale as correct.
John Simpson, the veteran St Regis
prospector, states that the kangaroos
on Blue Mountain are increasing in
number and will soon furnish good
sport for local hunters. Joe Reece came
across a wounded one the other day
and killed it to end its suffering. He is
having the hide tanned and will make
a hunting coat of it.
The fish commissioners of California
recently stocked the two largest rivers
in the southern part of that State—the
San Joaquin and the Kings—with 50
"Mi black bass. It is expected that not
only will the bass flourish and a little
later afford fine sport, but that they will
also clear these rivers of the small fry
:>f coarse and low grade fish.
On the roof of a building in Philadel¬
phia a sparrow trap is in full swing
night and day. The trap is one into
which the birds hop to get the grain
°ud bread crumbs plainly in sight.
* >nce Inside the birds do not know
! -tough to come out. The sparrowe
i«ffl more R cloudy anfi wludy day
than on a bright day, but no matter
what the weather is it Is a poor day
when the trap will not yield fifty spar¬
rows.
Austria gives prizes to farmers to
encourage them to recover waste lands
nud lay them down ns pasturuge, and
also to erect shelters or stables for
cows in high altitudes. The importance
of this may be seen frorii the statement
that one-quarter of the total fodder re¬
quired for cattle and horses In the em¬
pire is derived from Alpine districts.
In the front of a house in the Fauborg
de Shaerbueh, in Brussels, there is to
be seen, half buried in plaster, a can¬
non ball which was fired from a Dutch
cannon at the period of the revolution
of 1830, and has ever since been per¬
mitted to remain. Recently it was de¬
termined to restore and refront the
house, and it was decided to make the
repairs without disturbing the cannon
ball;
At Portland, Me., one of the crew of
a fishing schooner went out in a dory
to haul up some trawls which wore set
off Pemaquid in thirty fathoms of wa¬
ter. The usual number of cod and had¬
dock were found on the hooks, but the
man received one of the biggest sur¬
prises of his life when he hauled in a
forty-pound sfihnoti. What in the world
the big fish was doing out in deep water
no one can explain.
IlOnry Elliot, who has written numer¬
ous papers on the fur seals of the North¬
ern Pacific, tells how the Eskimo, with
a frail skin canoe, when the craft,
heavily laden with furs, had to land its
freight on a graven beach, put a row
of inflated sealskin floats in front of the
umiak (their skin boat) and rolled her
high and dry. Without that precau¬
tion the thin skin bottom of their boat
would have been torn.
Of all the varied changes in tho Yale
commencement exercises, the most im¬
portant is tho last step which places
the scientific department on a clear
footing with the academic. The intro¬
duction of a class day, a senior prom¬
enade and a high stand scholarship so¬
ciety are, perhaps, only symbolic, hut
they have broken down the last bar¬
riers which separate the academic from
the scientific departments.
In 1S80, Tampa, Fla., had 720 inhab¬
itants, and in 1894, 15,(588. Five lines
of steamers run regularly between
Tampa and New Orleans, Mobile, Ha¬
vana, Key West and local ports. Its
hotel property is valued at $3,000,000.
The city has .twenty-two miles of elec¬
tric car lines, three electric light plants,
about * “G--’ fivg P^lTTspring cie * " * n * ?tor\i as. arul
with Wfger.
through eighteen fillies of mains, to the
extent of 3,000,000 gallons daily.
One of the sections of the Constitu¬
tion for Utah provides that the State’s
indebtedness shall never exceed $100
000 . Another forbids the giving or
loaning of State, county, city or bor¬
ough credit to any business enterprise.
Another fixes the salary of the Gov¬
ernor at $2,000 a year. Another pro¬
vides that trial juries shall consist of
eight persons, and that in civil cases
the concurrence of six out of the eight
shall be sufficient for a legal verdict
In Los Angeles, in a jewelry store, a
three-liorse power motor is used in the
cutting of precious stones. The ma¬
chine worked by the motor is said to
be the only one of tlie kind in the coun¬
try. Tlie stone is held by a quadrant,
which is adjusted by a set screw to its
required position on the lap. As many
as sixty stones can be cut at one time,
and the method of adjustment is so
accurate that in no case would there
be tho slightest possibility of over¬
grinding.
From tlie registry of visitors kept at
Stratford-on-Avon, it appears In the
past year there have been In round
numbers 14,000 visitors, of whom 4,000
were from the United States. Sliaks
peare's plays were among the first pre¬
sented by regular theatrical companies
in the American colonies, and the visit
of Washington Irving to Stratford, with
Ills charming description of it, did more
than has ever been done by any other
single person to turn men’s minds to¬
ward the quiet old town beside the
Avon.
The Dogs of the Coneiergerie.
We seem to hear the baying of deep
mouthed, great, fierce dogs—shepherds’
dogs, as one might say, since their office
is to guard the sheep for slaughter.
Several of these faithful canine ani¬
mals were employed in the prison; but
one of them, named Ravage, was dis¬
tinguished for ferocity and sagacity.
Jailers slept at night near the cour de
preau, and Ravage kept watch there
with his master. Some prisoners at¬
tempted to escape by boring a hole
in the wall.
Their chief danger of detection con¬
sisted in the watchfulness of Ravage;
but, strangely enough, he was silent.
His silence was explained on the fol¬
lowing morning by an assignat of 100
sous, which was tied to his tail, to¬
gether with a little note, on which was
written: “On peut corrompre Ravage
avec un assignat de cent sous et un
paupet de pieds de mouton.” The de¬
praved dog walked about publishing
his own infamy, and was hailed with
shouts of laughter. He was immured,
as a punishment, for some hours in a
cachot, and emerged with an air of
deep humiliation.—The Quarterly Re¬
view;
The Reason Why.
Little Willie—I was going fishing
Sunday, but my papa wouldn’t let me.
The Rev. Dr. Saintly—That’s the
right kind of papa to have. Did he
tell you the reason why?
Willie—Yes, sir. He said there
wasn’t bait enough for two.—Life.
Reassured.
Excited passenger-Captain, shall
you weather the stprm ?
Captain—It’s doubtful; but don’t let
that bother you—every member of the
crew can swim?—Rocffienor Poit-Ex*
pr«»«-
NO. 33.
3
RAM’S HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Calling the Wicked to
Repentance.
'T OTto be a Chris*
ti N I tian everywhere
^ is to be one no
fT't where.
/ fm it tires an eagle
less to lly than
k it does a goose
to walk.
T h e trouble
\ with culture is
\ that it lias to
stop at the sur¬
face.
Sins that shine
are sins tha( kill.
Borrowed troubles are the heaviest.
A lie is tho blackest thing outside of
the pit.
Whoever leads a child to Christ gives
God an army.
Do the will of God and he will taka
care of the result.
If there were no difficulties there
would be no men.
A good man will hate a lie, no matter
how white it may look.
A blow at the saloon always hits the
devil square in the face.
There is more heat in a bunting match
than in a painted sunset.
When a wise man steps on a banana
skin he learns son etlilng.
The man who would lead others must
first learn how to stand alone.
If your life Is lonely, remember that
your Father can sec in secret.
God has no need of great instruments,
but lie does want willing ones.
We obtain favor with God when we
arc willing to give up the favor of men.
So live that men who reject the Bible
will have to admit that there is a God.
Tho devil could not take Jesus high
enough to show him anything ho
wanted.
No man Is in a hurry for (he devil to
go, who is willing for a sin of any ltlml
to remain.
Some people are as much afraid of
letting their light shine as a stingy man
is of burning gas.
There is a fashion in prayers as well
as in coats, and those who follow it
do it at spiritual cost.
A one-talent man who is wholly (ho
Lord’s outweighs the man with ten
who keeps one hack.
Th^o'busy "fov s hands should both be
kept have r the Lord that they (vj|
gossip.
When devil don’t know what to
do iu a oh, he generally raises a
disturbance } n the choir.
Take yo J Jt_ religion with you when
you travel, and don’t leave it at tho
gate when you go home. i
A marked difference between a hypo¬
crite and a child of God is that tho
hypocrite has no closet for prayer.
When some people smile they do it
in a way that makes you think it hurts
them, and you feel better vfhen they
quit.
Find a man like Job anywhere in this
world, and you will have found one
spot where the powers of darkness
cannot sleep.
“To love God and keep His command¬
ments” should mean something more
than going through the motions of be¬
ing religious.
Every improvement in the telescopo
opens the gates of the heavens wider,
and shows us that the arm of God is
longer than we thought.
The life of more than one girl has
been blighted because she had a mother
who made her go to church iu a faded
gown and a last year’s bonnet.
How quick there would be war among
the birds, if the owls and pelicans
should insist that the robins and blue
jays should behave as they did.
A Curious Modern Sale.
One of the most curious sales of mod¬
ern times is that which is to take place
to-day (Thursday) at the Paris Mart,
the Hotel des Ventes, in the Rue Drou
ot. The Heraldic College of France
is to be put up at auction, together with
all its archives. It is true that the in¬
stitution was never anything but a pri¬
vate enterprise, but it has had an unin¬
terrupted existence of more than half
a century, and it has amassed a great
store of documents relating to the titled
families of France. The Marquis de
Magny, the compiler of the “Livre d’Or
de la Noblesse de France,” founded it
in 1841, professedly in order to continue
the work of the genealogists of the
eighteenth century. But the new gen¬
eration of Frenchmen care little for
tables of precedence, and what Car¬
lyle called “Tom Fool titles,” so that
the whole concern is going for what it
will fetch. Upward of 40,000 genealog¬
ical trees and 400,000 original docu¬
ments upon parchment or paper will
be submitted at the sale.—London Daily
News.
Fitting Out in Europe.
“If I were going to be married In
September and to have $1,000 to spend
cn my wedding clothes I would spend
$300 of it in passage money and ex¬
penses, have a month in Europe ran¬
sacking the shops and bring back more
finery for the other $700 than could
have been got in this country for the
whole sum,” remarked the woman of
experience after the pretty girl had
announced that a fashionable wedding
was to be the end of her strivings to
be a new 'woman, with the working
capital of the old one.
Never Was One.
“There’s only one thing more rare
than a day in June,” says the Mana
yunk Philosopher, “and that’s an ac
tress who has never had her photo¬
graph taken.”—Philadelphia Record.
in in Paris Trance fruit is artificially colored.
there are far more fomalt
male bleycUitti