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THE APRIL FOOL .
'Twaa in the spring of *73
I first met Beattie—charming girl—
Who caught me with her eyes of blue
And hair of mellow golden hue
That wandered into many a curl.
One night I asked her for my wife
While cornin' home from dingin' school—
Protesting else my future life
Would be a blank and dreary waste,
From which all sunlight were erased—
“ Yes,” answered then the pretty miss—
I stole a furtive, burning ki-s,
And called her, in a burst of bliss.
My precious little April Fool.
'Tis now the spring of 'B3,
And we are married—Bet and I
I will confess, 'twixt yon aud me,
She is not what she used to be—
My angel of the years gone by;
And when I think of that sweet tints
I took her home from singin’ school,
I feci like weaving into rhyme
This bitter, weary, sad reflection,
Uesulting from profound dejection ;
When I went courting that fair Miss
And begged her grant me wedded bliss
And sealed her answer with a kiss,
'Twaa I who was the April Fool!
tV Wife’s Lesson
Pretty little Mrs. Ainsworth was in
tears—pretty little Mrs. Ainsworth was
in the habit of being in tears; it was one
of her especial weaknesses and irritated
her husband as nothing else could do.
“ Eternally snuffing and blubbering,’
be had said, savagely, as he grahl>ed his
hat and went out the front door with a
rush and bang.
“ Oh, dear! dear! How co—uld he be
so cru—el?” moaned Mrs. Ainsworth,
crying the harder. “To go and leave me
bke tliis—and all because I wanted—
twenty dollars for anew pair of curtains
that we needed badly—aud then to grow
so angry; he’s a be—ar! Oh! why did
I ever marry him? I might have known
mamma said tie was stubborn and had
a temper. Oh, dear! dear! dear!”
And lower sank lu r head in the sofa
cushions aud the little clock on the
mantel ticked the hours away until Mrs.
Ainsworth raised her head with a start
of surprise.
“Twelve o'clock !” she exclaimed. “I
wonder why Ned isn’t here ? What can
keep him in the office so late at night
Hark ! What is that ?”
It was the sound of feet upon the
pavement, followed by a sudden, sharp
ring of the door-bell.
Mrs. Ainsworth hastily smoothed her
hair and ran down-stairs and opened t In
door starting back with a cry of terror
at the objects that presented themselves.
There, in charge of two burly police
men, was Ned, his clothes covered with
mud, his face with blood, and his wild
eyes and lolling attitude betraying all ti>o
plainly his deplorable, disgraceful con
dition.
One of the policemen touched his hat
respectfully to the stricken young wi r o.
“If you please, ma'am, it’a nothing
f-Tious. The boys at the store made a
night of it and wound up with a row.
The cut on his head is not dangerous
and by morning he’ll be all right."
“ ‘By morning he’ll l>e all right,’ Oil !
no, no !” thought Mrs. Ainsworth. “He
is ruined—he will never stop now. I
know his disposition, and I—Oh, God !
pity me ! I helped to drive him to it.”
“Assist him up-stairs, please,” she
said, “and then you ean go,” and she
wondered how she could speak so quietly
and follow them so calmly when her
heart was breaking.
Strong arms laid him down upon the
lounge, and then the two policemen de
parted and the wife was alone with her
• orrow and shame.
She wiped the blood from his forehead,
imnothed back the wavy, silken hair,
nd knelt by bis side and prayed.
“Help me ; help me to be strong, Oh
God! and to keep him from temptations,”
•as the ceaseless prayer through the
ong hours of the night.
At last he stirred uneasily, and sud
tenly started up to a sitting posture.
“ Hallo, Nannie ! is it yon? And are
•on through crying? Where are tlu
laiys and ” —with a look of fea r crossing
liis face, in his now awakening facilities
—“ whero tlie mischief is that money ?”
—feeling nervously in all his pockets.
“What money, Ned?" inquired his
wife, anew dream corning over her.
“ Why, tire money I had of old
Smith's. I forgot to put it in the bank,
as he ordered, and went off with the
1 toys on a lurk, and-—and by Jupiter,
Nannie! it’s gone! I’ve been robbed of
my employer’s money ” —his face white
ning like a dead man's as he sank back
upon the lounge and regarded her in
mournful horror.
“ How much was it?” she managed to
ask through her trembling lips.
“Two thousand dollars!” he said with
a groan, burying his face in his hands.
“Oh, little wife ! I’m a ruined man. 1
never can repay i< that is, if I cannot
escape; and I haven’t a dollar. What a
mad fool I've been ! Hush !. isn’t old
Smith in the hall? Yes; I know his
voice, aid lie’s got wind of this some
how. 1 ’ll never be taken alive. Never !”
—and as he spoke she saw something
bright and shining in his hand.
She couldn’t cry out, though she
thought she was dying, and nearer aud
nearer came the voices and whiter and
more desperate grew the face of her hus
band.
“Ned! Oh, Ned!” she moaned,
and—
“ Why, what is the matter? Come,
wake tip. It’s dark and cold in here as
a barn. Why, Nannie, little wife, what
is it? Did I frighten you, or was it a
dream ? I could not get away from th<
office sooner. ”
But she could not answer. She only
flung her arms around his neck and
sobbed so hysterically that he was really
alarmed.
“ How nervous you are, my darling !
But list< n: what good news I've brought!
Mr. Smith came into the office to-night
and smiled as he looked over my state
manls of sales and profits, and he said:
“ * You’ve worked hard, my boy, and
merit an increase in your salary. We
will make it fifteen hundred from this
:
She (Dinette.
VOL. X
“ I don’t know what I said. I don’t
think I said much of anything, but lie
looked siit is lied and shook my hand so
kindly ami added that ‘ faithfulness
found its reward usually;’ and so you can
have your new curtains whenever you
want them, and a carpet, too, perhaps.”
“Oh! I don't care for them now. I
was so foolish to fret over such a trifle.
And I’ve had such a dreadful, dreadful
I ream !” But she never oould bring
herself to tell him of it.
“I was nnloyal to even dream so
wickedly about such a good, kind
husband. But I’ll never forgot it or the
lesson it taught me. I'll waste no more
tears over trifles.”— A b bie C. AT Keener,
in Arthur's Magazine.
TIIE LIME-KILN CLUB.
I>l! Nt Like the !>liiu’n Stile nnd Set lliia
Adrift.
“I would inform de club,” said the
President, ns nnotlier starch-box was
dropped into the stove to warm up
the back townships, “ flat de Hon.
Pokydemus White, of Grenada, Mies.,
am in de auty-room. Do gem'lan urrove
lieah las’ night on top of a freight ear.
His objeck in wisitin’ de Norf am to
debitor his celebrated lecktur' on ‘ How
to Economize.' He has offered to dehber
it befo’ dis club for de sum of aovonty
five cents, which am cheap 'null' fur any
sort of a lecktur’ on any sort of a subject.
But I has informed him dat we doan’
want it. It am plain to me dat he lias
bin economizin’ radder too much. In
place of an obercoot he has a yard of
brass watch-chain. In place of three
meals per day he seems to prefer one
meal an' two drinkH of whisky. While
de heels of Ids bntes am all run ober, he
w’ars n glass diamond under his chin.
While liis trousers am patched befo* an’
behind, he sports a galvanized watch
lat probably cost $6. Gein’len, de way
to economize am to save seventy-five
cents by not ’ceptin’ de offer of dis
leekturer. What de moas’ of us doan’
know ’bout economy no stranger wid a
stiff knee kin cum along an’ tench us.
When a member of dis club keeps fo’
chill’en iu skule, pays rent, has a Sunday
suit, cats oysters twice a week an’ doan’
owe de butcher or grocer, an’ all on a
salary of $6 per week, I reckon he has
got de economy bizuess down to as fine
a p’int as it kin be worked.
“Do Committee on Recepshun of
Statesmen will pnroeed to de auty-room
an’ remark to de Hon. Pokydemus
White dat we has decided not to li’ar de
lectur’ at any price. Hint to him dat
he had better leave do city on some
of de night trains. Tell him dat his
lectur’ will probably draw crowded i
houses in Toledo an’ Cleveland.” J
Sir Isaac Wal)xilc desired to state, be
fore passing de bean-box, dat de Hon.
Pokydemus had been roosting at his
house for twenty-four hours, and from
the way he passed his plate three times
for meat and potatoes, and gob’away
with bread and butter, it was plain that
lie was an economist only in words. He
wouldn’t board him a week for less than
£!7. —Detroit Free Press.
Women anil Children.
The census statistics relating to “gain
ful" occupations show some significant j
results as to the employment of women
and children. The whole number of fe
males reported ies pursuing gainful occu
pations in the United States in 1870 was
1,806,288. In 188:) tie: number was
1,647,157, showing an increase during
the ten years of 810,860. This result |
shows that the number of females en
gaged in occupations lias increased at a !
much higher rate than the female pojji
lation, and also at a higher rate than the
number of in ales pursuing occupations,
ft further appears that the rate of in
crease in tlic number of females pursu
ing occupations has been far higher In
manufacturing and mechanical industries .
that is, in factories chiefly—than in
any other kind of employment.
Similar results are shown by the cen
sus statistics with reference to the em
ployment of children. In 1870 the
whole number between ten and fifteen
years of age reported as pursuing gain
ful occupations was 730,161. In 1880
thonumber was 1,118,356, or an increase
luring the decade of 379,192. The rate
of this increase was greater than the rate
>f increase in the population between
I hose ages, and it was also greater than
the rate of increase in the number of
adults pursuing gainful occupations. As
in the case of women, so in the case of
children, the rate of increase in the
number employed lias lx-en greatest in
factories. Nearly throe hundred thou
sand more women, and about sixty thou
sand more children, were employed in
the manufacturing industries in 1880
than in 1870.
A Curious Case.—A curious case of
assumption of name and crest occurred
in the seventh century, affecting the
family of the present British Minister
at Washington. A certain hostler, who
Ijecame notable as a wrestler among the
students of Lincoln’s Inn, was known
(being probably a west countryman) as
“Jack of the West.” Having made
some money, he bought property in
Hampshire, and assumed the name and
arms of the Wests. The then Lord
Delaware being a minor, guardian
brought the case before the Earl
Marshal’s Court, or Court of Honor,
when Jack of the West, who had
cunningly made out a bogus pedigree,
proving his descent from a West “who
went beyond sea and was thought to be
dead,” was ordered never to write him
self Gentleman any more, and to pay a
fine of $2,500, equal to live times that
amount in present money,
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 27. 1883.
A POLITICAL STORY.
IIOU Til E DEMOCRATS WERE BEATEN
U Inn Tlitirloiv Weed bnd to Nny About the
Nomination of Gen. (•rani tor the
Presidency.
“During the summer of 1866,” said
Tliurlow Weed, “both of the political
parties were already casting about rather
anxiously for a suitable Presidential can
didate for the next oompaign. The
Democrats were very much iu earnest
that your, and had pretty strong hope
of being able to elect their next can
didate, since the Johnson administration
was turning out so badly. The Demo
cratic party nt that time was under the
management of Dean Richmond, an
exceedingly wise, honest, judicious man,
who had never aspired for office himself,
and who had tlio confidenee of liis whole
party. Richmond was a man I really
very greatly admired. Another gixxl
man, Peter Caggar, was at that time sec
retary of the Democratic State Com
mittee.
“I was in Albany then, and one day 1
called at Caggar’s office there to see him
about some business matter. As I en
tered the room I saw Richmond, Caggar,
Erastus Corning and one or two other
gentlemen seated closely around a table,
and overheard the words: ‘ Yes, Grant
is undoubtedly th< man ;if we —’ and
then the speaker Haw me and suddenly
turned the conversation upon some com
monplace topic.
“From this and the confusion expressed
upon the faces of the men I saw at once
[ I hat I had interrupted a private conver
sation. A few moments later, having
accomplished my errand, I left the office,
and then the words I had heard came
back to my mind. It flashed across mo
j almost immediately that these men liod
I been discussing General Grant as a pos-
J siblo Democratic candidate for the,
j Presidency!
“At that time General Grant was com
; milted to no political party, but it was
known that he had been a Democrat be
fore the war, and it was a not unreason
able presumption that he was still a
Democrat. I realized in a moment that
if the Democrats should nominate Gen
eral Grant, and ho should accept the
nomination, they would undoubtedly
i elect their candidate, for the General
, was then probably the most popular man
in the country, and oould bo elected no
matter whose candidate he might be.
As I thought the matter over I was im
pressed more and more strongly that tho
Democrats had this end in view.
“Not long after this I mot Erastus
: Corning oil the street. Mr. Corning
was evidently feeling very well satisfied
about something. He said to me:
“ ‘Well, Weed, what are your people
1 going to do for a Presidential candidate
[ next time ?’
“ ‘Oh, I do not know yet what we
shall do. There is plenty of time for
attending to that, and the Republican
party does not lack eligible men,’ 1 an
swered.
“ ‘Well,’ said Corning, ‘you had Ixitter
put on tho strongest man you have, oi
we shall beat you pretty badly in fact,
I think we shall do that at uny rate.’
“Then I felt moderately confident
that the Democrats had decided upon
nominating General Grant as their can
didate; but if any doubt of this lingered
in my mind it was effectually dispelled,
an hour later, by a few moments' con
versation I hail with Dean Richmond.
After some talk upon general matters, I
said to him:
“ ‘Corning tells me you expect to
tiring out a pretty strong candidate for
the Presidency some of these days, and
that you actually expect to elect him. ’
“ ‘Did Corning tell you who it was ?’
asked Richmond, ratlior anxiously, with
a distracted ex press ion,
“ ‘No; only he said that you have de
cided upon a very strong man.’
“ ‘Oh, well,’ responded Richmond,
‘Corning talks too much— altogether
too much, and he doesn’t know what he
is talking about half the time 1’
“That completely satisfied me; and
then I began to consider if we could not
do something to head off this contem
plated movement of the Democrats. I
felt pretty sure that Richmond and his
friends had very lately conceived this
idea of nominating General Grant, and
had not likely gone so far as to send him
any communication upon the subject.
It then occurred to me that if the
Republicans could see General Grant
first wo might effectually beat
tho Demorats in this particular scheme.
With that end in view, I took the first
train for New York, arriving in the city
late in the afternoon. As soon u pos
sible I saw Abraham Wakeman, Sheridan
Shook, Thomas Murphy, John Kelly,
Owen W. Brennan, William A. Darling,
Hugh Gardner, Dr. Van Wyck, and
some more of my staunch Republican
friends—all representative men in the
narty—and we met together, organized
and held a meeting that same evening at
the Astor House, in the old Room No.
11, where so many political movements
were planned in those daya. At this
meeting I explained what l had heard,
and suggested that we might capture
the General for our own ticket by a flank
movement, as it were—by seeing him nt
once, asking him if he would accept the
in initiation from the Republican party if
tendered, and then, in case we received a
satisfactory answer—as I had no doubt
we should if we were iu time—we wight
publish tho General's reply, committing
him to us, and thus prevent the Dem
ocrats from approaching him at all upon
the subject.
“The meeting was unanimously in fa
vor of this, and I was delegated fo visit
General Grant ‘at once.’ The afternoon
papers of that day had chronicled the
General’s arrival at Long Branch, so 1
hurried down to the Branch that
same evening. Tho next morning I met
the General in front of the hotel when
ho came out to take an early wnlk. 1
asked him to postpono his walk for a
while, and come to my room, ns I had
something very important to communi
cate. The General went with me, and
then I told him that I had come down
to obtain an expression of his willingness
to Ixxiome the Republican candidate for
the Presidency of the United States. 1
told him of our meeting held the night,
before, without, however, referring to
its hasty organization, but allowing liinn
to iufer that we had him in onr mimls as
a prospective candidate for a long time,
1 told him that I felt I could assure him
the nomination in the convention to be
hold in 1868, aud that tho uominntioii
would bo equivalent to au election.
“ ‘You,’ said I, ‘will have nothing
whatever to do iu the matter beyond
consenting to become our candidate.
You have done your work for us in the
war—now we will do our work for you
iu the coming campaign.’
“That afternoon Thomas Murphy
(afterward appointed by President Grant.
Collector of the Port of New York) came
down with a full account of the proceed
ings of our meeting, and an ‘official’
message from the committee. General
Grant seemed very much pleased with
our action, and formally consented to
become a candidate for tho nomination
at the hands of the Republican party.
So our mission waa accomplished. Tho
next morning tlm report that General
Grant had committed himself to the Re
publicans spread consternation in the
minds of the Democrats, who had al
ready come to regard tho General ns
their own future candidate. The hope
that they lmd placed in ‘a strong man’
was now completely turned against
them.
“Some time after this I met Rich
mond, and he confessed to mo that the
Democrats had been outwitted and their
thunder had been stolen almost nt the
last moment, for ho had no doubt but
that-, iu three or four days more, Grant
would have been pledged as a prospec
tive Democratic candidate.
“The rest is history—how, in tho Re
publican National Convention bold in
Chicago, in 1868, Grant was unanimous
ly nominated upon the first ballot, there
being no opposition whatever. And
from that time the Republican party has
been in power, as the result, in the first
place, of our having beaten the Demo
crats in securing the. consent of General
Grant to accept the nomination.”
Mr. Weed told the story with the en
joyment of an old soldier relating the
incidents of a mid within the enemy's
lines. The maimer is lacking, but the
actual words are closely preserved. —The
Continent.
Underground Rmn Shops.
Neal Dow says, in u letter to the bun,
that wherever officers in the State sus
pect liquors to bo sold, they search tin
place carefully ami thoroughly. On the
29th they searched one of those places,
a low den occupied by low people. The
cellar was surrounded by planks instead
of stones. In those they discovered
what scorned to lxi a dixir, but tliero was
no appearance of hinges or lock. After
acareful search they discovered a spring,
on touching which the door opened. Tt
gave access to a small cuve, with bo
window, and no meaiiH of entrance but
by this door. In the cave were two
jugs partly full of whisky, and an iron
gas pipe, coming from and leading to—
nowhere that they could perceive. On
pulling this pipe, a piece of rubber hose
was found to be attached to it, the out
let of which they did not discover. On
cutting this hose, whisky ran out, only
a Hmall quantity. The whole stock in
trade was not two gallons, lint the keep
er is one of the 1,102 who pay the
“special tax.” The penalty in this case
is SIOO fine and costs and six months in
jail. In another place the entire stock
was contained in two junk bottles, fas
tened to the belt, ono each side, under
the outer skirt of tho woman who kept
the place. In another place the entire
Htock was in a flat tin vessel, containing
about two quarts, fitted to the person
and worn by the “special tax” payer un
der liis vest.
His Major.
General Sherman recently had some
shirts madeata furnishing store in Wash
ington, and the cutter, a few weeks later,
met the General with a friend, walking
down the avenue. The General remem
bered the face, but could not locate him,
and the cutter greeted him with:
“Good morning, General. How are
you to-day?”
The General stopped, shook hands, and
the cutter perceiving that the General’s
mind needed refreshing, said quietly:
“Made your shirts.”
“Oh 1 I beg pardon,” said the General
quickly, and turning to the gentleman
with whom he was walking, he said:
“Ah 1 Colonel , allow me to in
troduce you to my friend, Major
1”'
The Towers nf Silence.
“ The Towers of Silence " in Bombay
are five in number and stand within nil
inolosure measuring about eighty
thousand square yards. There are also
within tho iuclosiire a house of prayer
for persons attending a funeral, a temple
in which tho sacred tiro is kept always
burning and from which its rays,
escaping through apertures in the wall,
fall upon the towers, and a well laid out
and well cared for garden. In tho garden
is an excellent model of a tower, which
is explained to visitors by the attendants.
The corpse of a deceased Parsec, clothed
in white, is carried up the hill on an
open bier covered with white cloth; the
malo relatives and friends, all clothed
in white, following in pairs, each pair
holding a handkerchief between them.
Some prayers having been said iu the
rest-house, the bier is again taken up
and tho body convoyed to one of the
towers. These towers are round, massive
looking buildings, with white plastered
walls, the circumference of tho largest
of them being 276 feet and the height
of the wall twenty-five feet. At a dis
tance of three feet from the ground
there is a door iu the wall, through
which the corpse-bearers push the body,
and then, entering themselves, place it
in its appointed place. The interior of
each tower, which is open to the sky, is
covered, ut a height of twenty-five feet
from the ground, with a circular flixiriug,
which slopes downward on all sides to
the center, and contains numerous open
grooves or receptacles for dead bodies.
The outer ring of this flooring is set
apart for the bodies of men, a second
ring for those of women and the third or
innermost ring for those of children. AI
regular distances, radiating channels in
tersect these rings. Tho body having
been deposited in its place, the bearers
retire, and immediately a swarm of vul
tures, which birds of prey may always
lie seen sitting in dozens on the top of
the walls, swoop down ami strip the
body of every particle of flesh in less
than two hours. After a few days the
corpse-1 x'lirors return, and, collecting the
bones, which are then perfectly dried,
place them.in the central well, forty-live
feet wide, where they remain to bo de
composed by the air and the rain. The
moisture runs off' into the ground through
filters of charcoal and sand, nnd leaves
nothing of tho human body in tho in
side of tlm tower, but the dry, crumbling
bones.
Manufacture of Apple Jelly.
The editor of The. Maine Fanner
visted during last season a small apple
jelly factory “in tlio town of Halifax,”
and gives these particulars of methods
and results, ft is certainly a better way
to utilize tho refuse fruit than sending it
to the demoralizing cider mill:
“A water power mid building used
part-ions of the year for the manufacture
of short lumber mid chair stuff, is
changed to drive a cider mill of sufficient
capacity to grind 100 bushels of ujiplos
in twenty minutes. From a tank be
neath the press it is pumped up into
another on tho floor above it, from
whence it is conveyed in a pipe to an
adjacent building and into an evaporator
such as iH used for evaporating sap or
sorghum juice, except it is of copper in
stead of iron. Tho evaporator is 12 feet
long, mid by working the day and mak
ing a long evening, 30 barrels of cider
can bo condensed. Apple jelly issimply
condensed cider, the bulk of tho water
being removed by evaporation, and all
other substances lemaining. No sugar
is used in this manufactory, though it
can be added if desired. As here manu
factured it takes the place of the old
fashioned cider apple sauce, only it is
purer and better. We prefer it without
the addition of sugar, and manufactured
without it, it is much cheaper.
“ The jelly as it comes from the evap
orator is about the consistency of good
thick syrup. It is drawn off into buck
ets or boxes and soon assumes tho jelly
form so that the box can bo turned top
downward without disturbing the con
tents. The cider must be evaporated
before fermentation takes place. The
apples we saw were native fruit, and of
no value except for feeding to stock or
conversion into cider. The proprietors
paid ten cents per bushel, delivered. Ten
bushels of such apples will make a bar
rel of cider, and 7 barrels of cider one
of jelly. Tho apples for a barrel of jelly
cost the manufacturers $7, and the jelly
made from 7 barrels of cider of 32 gal
lons each, at 7J cents per pound, the
present wholesale price, iH worth $26.40.
At this rate the jelly men are getting tho
lion’s share of the profits, after reckon
ing expense of manufacturing, boxing
and marketing. Tho boxes hero are
cheaply made and each holds 61 pounds
net. Six of these are put into a cheaply
constructed crate and the product is thus
sent to the market.”
“Hawkeve” Burdette, who is a fond
Bire, remarks to American fathers: “A
boy always wants to go with older men,
and if you make yourself his companion,
liis elder brother as well as his father, it
will do you as much good as it will him.
It will make your heart younger, until at
last you will lie the grandest thing in the
world —an old boy sixty-five years young,
whose fife and body have outgrown his
heart by thirty years.”
It is good consolation to seen plumber
compelled to buy something at a retail
drug store.
NO 23.
GAMBLING IN NEW YORK.
The Police Oil I lie It lulu Truck >o NupprcM
t• >imillii>M In llint City*
A veteran sporting man, whoso faco
has lioeii a familiar sight at every sport
ing event for the past twenty-five years,
was met in the City Hail Park:
“Law or no law,” he said with warmth,
‘the police have treed tho gambling
coon at last. All they have to do now is
to worry it a little more and it will be
theirs. The only way to rid New York
of gambling is to rid it of gambling
places, by raiding every place that- has
the reputation, however slight, of being
a gambling plaoe, and breaking and
burning every Bt-ick of gambling furni
ture that is found. Tliero is no other
way. By this wholesale destruction even
flic boldest gamblers will be panic-strick
en. No man wants to put $2,000, $3,000,
or SIO,OOO out for furniture or fixings
that he has good reason to believe may
be seized and destroyed within a week,
before there is time to recoup. Gamblers
will flee from Now York like rats from a
sinking ship, if this kind of thing is
kepi up. Seo how defiant and prosper
ous the dealers in Louisiana and Ken
tucky State lottery tickets were for sev
eral years. Why, no one but themselves
ean tell how many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars they took in in their
year or two of impunity. But the police
raided them steadily, destroying their
furniture as fast as they established new
offices, and to-day if you want to buy a
ticket in one of these concerns yon have
to solid your money by mail, stealthily,
to Chicago or Louisville.
“Ihave played, probably, in every
gambling place in New York, on both
sides of the table. Earlier in fife I used
to be a part of tho game myself. Bill
the old times of fair play are gone. A
lot of hungry sharks have got into the
profession, and there are only two places
in New York, old-timers, whore a man
can find fair play. The backers of flic
game don’t care who deals or rolls. At
tlie worst they know that the game will
win iu the long run. But in nine-tenths
of the other places a man is robbed by
means of every device that human in
genuity can put in the hands of men as
merciless as sharks. A mail stands as
much show of winning as he would if he
encountered a band of Italian brigands
iu one of their native passes. If over
there was a time when the police should
be helped by the public approval in
dealing with gamblers in the spirit, if
not tbe letter, of tho law, now is the
time. God only knows how many homes
ire broken up, how many promising
lives are blasted every year, iu the
gambling places of N. Y. city.”
The Return of a Jack-Knife.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells this
story:—A gentleman on Listen slice
Saturday was talking of flit: wonderful
return of a jack-knife that lie lost twenty
live years ago. The gentleman has been
visiting the clerk of courts iu Lewiston
during the past week. He made liis
jack-knife himself upon liis own forge,
and iu liis leisure moments covered the
bone handle with his initials and a num
ber of mid ih vices. A year after, in tho
deep snows, on the road to Kingsbury,
Mo., he overtook a man attempting to
tie up liis sleigh Unit had broken down.
He jumped out to assist the man, lent
him the jack-knife, and, forgetting it,
rode off without it. He never saw the
man again. Fifteen years afterward his
daughter married, and her husband,
struck with the western fever, took a
trip west and brought up in Minneapolis,
Minn. Among the people in that State
with whom ho came into contact was one
who was proverbially hard up. Reduced
to straits ho had pawned everything.
Coming along one day, with a peculiar
looking jack-knife, he offered it for sale.
The gentleman bought it, and came home
soon after, and a day or two after his
arrival he took tlio knife out of his
pocket. His wife pounced upon him.
With a thousand rapturous expressions
of surprise, sho demanded to know
where ho got it, He told her he bought
that knife in Miuneapi 'is. She said it
was “ father’s.” “ Fat/ jr ” was brought
in, and the knife m identified as his.
No explanation con! i be offered by the
gentleman as to how liis own identical
jack-knife, lost on a country road in
Maine, should bo found by liis son-in
law in the western country. Tliis was
1,.,, years ago. Tho gentleman lias the
jack-knife now.
Baby Farming in Connecticut.
The Legislature recently passed a bill
which strikes a blow at the baby farming
system in the State of Connecticut.
During the past year several distressing
cases were exposed in Now Haven and
vicinity, and public indignation was
aroused. The bill provides that any ]>er
son engaged in the business of taking in
fants under three years of age to board
in any number exceeding two at the same
time must, upon the reception of any in
fants in excess of two, give written no
tice to the Town Selectmen or City Board
of Health. Each house shall bo in
spected by the health authorities at least
once a month, and they are given power
to direct and enforce sanitary measures.
The penalty for refusing to give notice
as above, or for refusing admission to
the premises, is from SSO to SSOO, or im
prisonment for one year.
Now is a good time to recall the old
rule: “Stick to your flannels Uljtil they
stick to you,”
I’roducts of Florida.
“ Orange culture is tho furor or Flori
da,” says Jo. Moilill, of tlio Chicago
Tribune, “ but it takes eight or ten years
to bring an orange grove to the profit
able bearing stage. lam of tho opinion
that it would lie far wiser and more
profitable for Northern settlers to devote
themselves chiefly to producing what
thoy coll ‘ truck’—-that is, vegetables,
including strawberries aud potatoes—-for
the Northern market. Vegetables will
grow all winter in nearly all portions of
tho State, aud I saw early Rose potatoes
dug last month that were finer than
those wo import from Bermuda. I was
told, too, that where tho soil is favorable,
and by a moderate use of fertilizers,
gropsof from 150 to 260 bushels per aere
oan easily ho raised, which readily sell
for $2 per bushel on the St. John’s
River. Relow the 29th degree of lati
tude, which is supposed to bo tho 'frost
line,’ lemons are grown much more
profitably than oranges, being a surer
growth and much less liable to injury
from worms and insects. Bananas and
pineapples, however, are bound to be
come tlm popular fruits of ceutral Flori
da for large profits and quick returns.
I was told of men who made SI,OOO an
acre iu 1882 on the Indian River with
their pineapple fields. Pineapples are
planted like cabbages, and will produce
R),000 heads per acre. The fruit is mar
ketable in eighteen months from the
time the ground is cleared, broken nnd
planted with sprouts. The banana is
ready for market in less than throe years,
while oranges take from seven to eight."
Entire Confidence.
The other noon as the owner of a pea
nut stand at the Central Market, in De
troit, says the Free Press, was making
ready to go to dinner he called to the boy
who was acting as his clerk :
“ Henry. Bee hero."
“Yes, sir.”
“I am going to dinner, and you will bs
left in charge here for an hour.”
“Yes, sir.”
“I have unbounded confidence in yon,
lint I’ve taken all the change from the
till except then cents.”
“All right.”
“And while your honesty is above
question, I have also taken care to
measure the peanuts. There are just six
quarts on the table.”
“Yes, sir.”
"And while I may say at the risk of
flattering you that I would trust you
with every dollar I have, it is my duty to
warn you that I have asked the pop-corn
man over there to keep an eye on you
and see that you do not run off with the
roaster.”
“Yes, sir.”
"Always be honest and upright,
Henry, and I mav ns well say right here
that I shall count the peanuts upon my
return and in that way discover if you
have eaten any. Now then assume a
business air aud take charge.”
Don’t lie Afraid or Work.
Don’t be afraid of killing yourself
witli overwork, sou, is tho facetious way
the Burlington Hawkeye lias of counsel
ing young men to thrift. Men seldom
work so hard ivh that on the sunny side
of thirty. They die sometimes; but it
is because they quit work at 6 p. m. and
don’t get home until 2a. m. It’s the
intervals that kill, my sou. Tho work
gives you an appetite for your meals; it
lends solidity to your slumber; it gives
you a perfect and grateful appreciation
of a holiday. There arc young men who
do not work, my son—young men who
make a living by sucking the end of a
cane, and who can tie a necktie in eleven
different knots, and never lay a wrinkle
iu it; who enu spend more money in a
day than you can ourn in a month, son;
and who will go to tho sheriff’s to buy a
postal card, and apply at kbe office of tlm
street commissioners for a marriage li
cense. So find out what you want to be
and do, son, and take oft' your coat and
make success in the world. The busier
you arc, the less evil you will be apt to
get into, tbe sweeter will be your sleep,
the brighter nnd happier your holliday,
and the better satisfied will the world be
with vou.
A Washington Story.
The story comes from Washington that
a few days ago, when a $1,200 employee
of tho Senate died, Sergeant-at-Arm*
Bright received an application for the
vacancy. Colonel Bright read the
recommendation, and said at once:
“Very well, you can have tho place.”
The applicant was evidently astonished,
and asked, “When can I take hold?”
“You can begin to-day,” began Colonel
Bright; “but let mo explain the situa
tion. You see, when Mr. St. John was
buried it left his $1,200 place vacant.
Tho next man to him, a very capable
ono, receiving S9OO, was promoted. A
latxirer next below him at $750, stopped
into the S9OO place, and a man under
him was then lifted a little, aud ho on
through the whole lot, until] the place
really left vacant by the death of Mr.
St. John is a in the stable to curry
horses at $1 a day. You can have that,
and begin work at once.” The applicant
withdrew.
A Shocking Story.
Mark Hcutheote, a police officer of
Salem, was a witness before the Tewks
bury Alms House investigation in Bos
ton. He took Mary Ann Welch and a
foundling child to Tewksbury in 1977;
the baby was sick, and when he was
looking over the institution, about an
hour after his arrival, ho saw the infant
crying in the arms of a nurse aud saw the
woman stuff tho babe's mouth with soap
to stop it crying; he did not see the child
afterward. On cross-examination witness
said that he mode a record of tho fact
übovo stated at the time and submitted a
diary to prove liis statement.
This is the season when the saloon
keeper scatters a pound of sawdust and
n few old cigar stubs in his back yayd
and calls it a beer park,