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Philosophers May Deny it, But
the People Won’t
Two Ignorant Negroes Without
Effort Walk Out of a Guard
ed Prison.
“Philosophers may say what they
please, may call it the fruition of studied
•Bolt, or the result of intelligent causes—
but I tell you there is such a thing as
im*i and I will prove it to yon by the
tmdgcdy which occurred in jour city on
decoration day.”
The epeaker was one of the best-known
detectives in the State of Now Jersey,
ts attached to the prosecutor's or
district attemey’s office of Ess* x county,
New Jersey, at Neaaik. Detective John
T. Never, that being the speaker’s name,
was hen last week cs private bnslness,
and while detailing his experience told
the following story:
“I allude to the killing of the negro
Jackson and the capture of his compare
too, Thomas, aa being the tiagedy on
Kamoiial day.”
“Mbit do yoa,.mean by the‘luck’at
tanhinr to iiT”
‘-Just this: There wen two men, ignor
ant negroes, who were in the New Jersey
State prison to serve a term of 30 years
aacb, and yet they made their escape
with the gieateet ease, tesreely with an
effort, and with very little preparation or
fore planning that required ingenuity, ex
ceptlng the grasping of the opportunity,
while tbs re is today in the same prison a
man who for years has been trying to get
ont and has made sev* ral unsucc* ssful at
tempts, bringing to his aid all the tech
nice! mechanical knowledge of which he
is master, and no is one of the finest me
chanics in the United Stales.
“Before coming to the State prison he
made three almost successful attorn pcs 10
got out of the Essex county prison at
Caldwell, and the history o r those at
tempts is a wonderful one. But first, I
want to point out that dumb luck—and I'
can’t call it by any other name—succeeds
where weil-dirtcted effort fails, as X will
show.
“Now, Connors, for that is the name,
the professional name of this man is a
burglar wio taees r nk with Jimmy
Hope, IrviDg and others in that class,
with whom no did several job-, in fact,
and he was Bent to Caldwell pending bis
trial for breaking into Tapbagan’e jew
elry store in Newarx. He was closely
watched in the prl on, but he threw the
keepers off their guard by complaining
of costiveness. Tue prison doctors ot
tered to prescribe for him, but he said
that he didn’t want any powerfal uiedi
cine, but some figs would do, as they
w<ie sufficiently laxative. He was and
is a delicate loosing man, and nis request
was complied with. He used to throw
the boxts, as he got them every day, up
on the sheif of his cell, and no notice was
taken of the action.
-At the close of one day, when the
turnkey started to pull the lever which
locks aii the cells on the tier where Con
nors was confined, he found the ma
c inery refused to work. An examine
tlon was quickly made and the trouble
waa traceu toConno:s cell. It was there
found that he had loosened the anchor
bar In his cell, although it was strongly
set into the stone, aua bat for the timely
(untimely for Coddois) discovery he
would have been iree from the corridor
in an hour.”
“What had the figs to do with itt”
“He took the boxes, broke them up, and
e lated the thin wood between his Bible
aveb. He tnen bound the book strong
ly with stoat cord, and using It as a ful
crum gradually, with a jimmy, forced the
bar. The B.bie was like a rock, so hard
was it. He is a thorough master of the
power of leverage. ’
‘-Connors’ next attempt was just as ac
cidenta ty oi:covered. One of toe keepers
was talking to him through bn* ce.l bars
one day, when, taking his hands away
from the bars, which ne clasped for sup
port, he noticed that his hands were
block. An examination of the bars show-
ad that two of them had been all out
■awed through and the spaces filled up
with waxed fi lings, the whole being hid
den by biausiug irom his shots. He nad
intended to make ni» brsak for Itoerty
the night of the day he was discovered.
“His third attempt iu that prisou was
unsuccessful on account of the failure of
his friends to be on time. He hid worked
the bars of his cell windows loose and had
the necessary rope to lower him to tne
paid. The watchman was to be silenced
by an air-gun in tue hands of his fiieuos,
aa it was afterwards found out, but his
ftieiu ■ plaus unseat ried.
“He was shortly after this, upon con
viction, taken to Tienion. Pat Laverty
waa then head keeper, and when Connors
came to the prison Laverty went to toe
burglar and sale: Connors, are you go
ing to break away wnile I'm keeper?’
‘Liberty is a -eet, Mr. Laverty ,’ waa Con
nors’ reply, and then Mr. laverty had to
look ont for him. He wsb stripped and
searched thoroughly, every portion of his
body being examined, but no tool or im
plement of any kind was found on nim,
and a now salt of clothes was given him,
too. Before bis cell waa placed a cage of
fine wue netting to prevent communion
(ton wltn him.
“This cage waa about ten foot away
from bis cell door, and whoa his friends
•ailed they were not allowed to come a y
closer, and were watched by a special
keeper; yet scarcely a month after bis
incarceration one of those steel jaws or
L shaped levers, used for bending bars
farther apart was found in the cell. Tne
tool weighed 48 or SO pounds. Now, the
mystery is, where did ne get it?
“Now, tne point 1 want to maseisthis:
Here waa a man of wonderful mechanical
genius who spent years in his work of
trying to gain freedom, who brougnt to
bear every appliance known to the ma
chinist, ana every pr nciple know • to
the laws of scient>fic mechanism, yet he
tails to effect his escape, while two Ignor
ant negroes, without one tltne of his
brains, managed to escape from one of
the finebt prisons in the country. Don’t
tell me tLere’« no such tning us luck. 7 —
Philadelphia inquirer.
WHAT IS LIFE S GREATEST BLESSING?
I asked the tick man, and he suid "’lis
hem til ”
I , asked the poor man, and he answered.
“Wealth.”
I asked the feuiered prisoner, ‘ Ah, said he,
The greatest boon of life is to be flee ”
1 asked the Istoier, wnh toil oppressed
He wipid his aching bro:v, and answered,
• Ke,t.”
Sol have learned this truth—that each man
Counts
Life's greatest ulessiug the one he warns.
V. 11. Mark
Woman Vowed to Wear Trousers.
Mrs. Krelger has lived on a ranch on
the Ban Pablo, Cal. road for over fifteen
years, and during that time she has not
worn the ordinary apparel of woman. So
accustomed have the people of that vicin
ity become to her and her strange dress
that they no longer notice it.
Up to fifteen j ears ago Mrs. Kreiger
wore skirts and dresses like any other of
her sex. Indeed, it appears that sbe had
more of them, and that they were of more
varied forms, textnrea and colors than
are usually possessed by farmers’ wives.
It was shortly before tbe change in her
manner of dressing that she msrried
William Krtiser, a thrifty G* rman far
mer and a widower, and went to five on
the ranch.
Fora time they got along well, but
when be charged her with extravagance
in drew, she bang up her pretty gowns
and donned male attire.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Waco, Tex., Aug. 31.—Dr. Talmage to
day delivered the following discourse on the
text: “Then the king commanded, and they
brought Daniel and cast hint into the den
of lions.”—Daniel vi, 16.
Darius was king of Babylon, and the
young inan Daniel was so much a favorite
with him that he made him prime minis
ter, or secretary of state. But no man
could gain such a high position without
exciting the envy and jealousy of the peo
ple There were demagogues in nabylon
who were so appreciative of their own abil
ities that they were affronted at the eleva
tion of this young man. Old Babylon was j the place in the psalm book, or to nudge
afraid of young Babylon. The taller the them awake when they get sleepy under
the didactic discourse; or they would like
they grimace and wink and
chuckle, and say, “There goes a saint.”
don’t mind their scoffs.
Oh, young man, have decision of charac
ter. You can afford in this matter of re
ligion to be laughed at. What do you
care for the scoffs of these men, who are
affronted because you will not go to ruin
with them’ When the grave cracks open
under their feet, and grim messengers push
them into it, and eternity comes down
bard upon their spirit, and conscience
stings, and hopeless ruin lifts them up to
hurl them down, will they laugh then?
I learn also from my subject that men
may take religion into their worldly busi
ness. Daniel had enough work to do to
occupy six men. Ail the affairs of state
were in his hands—questions of finance,
questions of war, of peace, all international
questions were for his settlement or ad
justment. He must have had a corre
spondence vast beyond all computation.
There was not a man in all the earth who
had more to do than Daniel, the secretary
of state, and yet we find him three times a
day bowing tiefore God in prayer. There
are men in our day who have not a hun
dredth part of Daniel’s engagements who
say they are too busy to be religious. They
have an idea somehow that religion will
spoil their worldly occupation, that it will
trip the accountant’s pen, or dull the car
penter’s saw, or confuse the lawyer’s brief,
or disarrange the merchant’s store shelf.
INCONVENIENT RELIGION.
They think religion is impertinent. They
would like to have it very well seated be
side them in church on the Sabbath, to find
THE GOOD WORK WILL GO ON.
Public cent!ment hero and throughout
tha State ahowi an overwhelming aenti-
sent in favor of the ratification of the
now charter of the Louisiana State Lot
tory Company, which will bo submitted
to the people of the State at an election
to 1892. The nreeent charter does not
expire until 1995. However, long before
that time tbe State of Louisiana will
have made provisions to extend its eon
tract with the lottery company until the
year 1919. Of course there la no excite
ment about this matter, became it la
regarded as a foregone conclusion. The
Louisiana State Lottery Oon pany has
very generously made preparations to
increase Its col tribu tiona to the charities
and public works in the State and these
will go into fail eflect in 1995, when tbe
present charter expires to give way to a
second charter expiring in the year
1M9.-New Orleans (La.)City Item, Aug. 6
cedar the more apt it is to lie riven of the
lightning.
These demagogues asked the king to
make a decree that anybody that made a
petition to any one except the king within
thirty days should be put to death. King
Darius, not suspecting any foul play, makes
that decree. The demagogues have ficcom
plished all they want, because they know
that no one can keep Daniel from sending
petitions before God for thirty days.
So far from being afraid, Daniel goes on
with his supplications three times a day,
and is found on his housetop making
prayer. He is caught in the act. He is
condemned to t>e devoured bv the lions.
Bough executioners of the law seize him
and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the
growl of the wild beasts, and I see them
pawing the dust, and as they put their
mouths to the ground the solid earth
quakes wit h their bellowing. I see their
eyes roll, and I almost hear the fiery eye
balls snap in the darkness. These monsters
approach Daniel. They have an appetite
keen with hunger. With one stroke of
their paw or one snatch of their teeth they
may leave him dead at the bottom of the
cavern. But what a strange welcome
Daniel receives from these hungry mon
sters! They fawn around him. they lick
his hand; they bury his feet in their long
manes. That night he has calm sleep, with
his head pillowed on the warm necks of
the tamed lions.
Tin; LIONS’ MOUTHS WERE SHUT. -
But not so we!! does Darius the king
sleep. He loves Daniel, and hates this
stratagem by which he has lieen con
demned. All night long the king walks
the Hoor. He cannot sleep. At the least
sound he starts and his J.-sh creeps with
horror. He is impatieat for the dawning
of the morning. At the first streak of the
daylight Darius hastens forth to see the
fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors
open an! clang shut long before the |>eople
of the city waken. Darius goes to tbe den
of lions; he looks in. All is silent. His
heart stops. He feels that the very worst
has happened; but gathering all his
strength he shouts through the rifts of the
rock, “O Daniel! is the God whom thou
servest continually able to deliver thee?”
There comes rolling up from the deep dark
ness a voice which says: “O king! live for
ever. My God has sent his angel to shut
the lions’ mouths that they have not hurt
e.”
Then Daniel is brought out from the den.
The demagogues are hurled into it, and no
sooner have they struck the bottom of the
den than their flesh was rent, and their
bones cracked, and there blood spurted
through the rifts of the rock, and as the
lions make the rocks tremble with their
roar they announce Jo all ages that while
God will defend his people the way of the
ungodly shall perish.'
Learn first from this subject that the
greatest crime that you can commit in the
eyes of many is the crime of success. What
had Daniel done that lie should he Hung to
the lions? He got to he prime minister.
They could not forgive him for Unit. and
behold in tiiat a touch of unsanctified hu
man nature as seen iu all ages of the world.
So long as you are pinched in poverty,
so long us you are running the gantlet
between landlord and tax gatherer, so long
as you find it hard work to educate your
children, there are people who will say,
“Poor man. I am sorry for him: he ought
to succeed, poor man!”
TIIE PENALTY OF SUCCESS.
But after a while the tide turns in your
favor. That was a profitable investment
you made. You bought at just the right
time. Fortune becomes good humored
and smiles upon you. Now you are being
in some department successful your suc
cess chills sume one. Those man who used
to sympathize with yon stand along the
street, and they scowl at you from under
the rim of their hats. You have more
money or more influence than they have,
and you ought to lie scowled at from under
the rim of tiieir hats. Yon catch a word
or two as you passal by them. “Stuck
up,” says one. “Got it dishonestly,” says
another. “Will burst soon,” says a third.
Every stone iu j our new house is laid on
their hearts. Your horse's hoofs went over
their nerves.
Every item of your success has been to
them an item of discomfiture and despair.
Just as soon as in any respect you rise
ibove jour fellows, if you are more virtu
ous, if you are more wise, if you are more
nfluential, you cast a shadow on the pros
pect of others. The road to honor anti
success is within reach of the enemy’s
uns. Jealousy says, “Stay down or I’ll
knock you down.” “I do not like you,”
saitl tbesnowflake to the snowbird. “Why
don’t you like me?” said the snowbird.
Oh!” said the snowflake, “you are going
up and I am coming down.” Young mer
chants, young lawyers, young doctors,
ouug mechanics, .young artists, j-oung
farmers, at certain times there were those
to sympathize with you, hut uow that you
are becoming master of j our particular oc
cupation or profession, tiow is it now,
young lawyers, young doctors, young art
ists, young farmers—how is it now? The
greatest crime that you can commit is the
crime of success.
Again, my subject impresses me with
the value of decision of character in any
department. Daniel knew that if lie con
tinued his adherence to the religion of the
Lord he would be hurled to the lions, but,
having set his comp;iss well he sailed
right on.
MAKE Ur YOUR MIND.
For the lack of that element of decision
of character so eminent in Daniel many
men are ruined for this world, and ruined
for the world to come. A great many at
40 years of age are not settled in any re
spect, lie cause they have not been able to
make up their mind. Perhaps they will
go west. Perhaps they will go east. Per
haps they will not. Perhaps they will go
north. Perhaps they may go south. Per
haps they will not. Perhaps they may
make that investment in real estate or in
railroads. Perhaps they will not. They
are like a steamer that should go out of
New York harbor, starting for Glasgow,
and the next day should change for Havre
de Grace, and the next for Charleston, and
the next for Boston, and the next for
Liverpool—these men on the sea of life,
everlastingly tacking ship and making no
headway. Or they are like a man who
starts to build a house in the Corinthian
style and changes it to Doric, and then
completes it in tbe Ionic, and is cursed by
all styles of architecture.
Young man, start right and keep on.
Have decision of character.- Character is
like tbe goldfinch of Tonquin: it is mag
nificent while standing firm, but loses all
its beauty in flight. How much decision
of character in order that these young men
may lie Christians! Their old associates
make sarcastic-flings at them. They' go on
excursions and they do not invite them.
They prophesy that he will give out. They
wonder if he is not getting wings. As he
to leave it in the pew on Sabbath evening,
as they go out closing the door, saying,
“Good night, religion; I’ll be back next
Sundayl” But to have religion go right
along by them ail through life, to have re
ligion looking over their shoulder when
they are making a bargain, to have religion
take up a hag of dishonest gold and shake
it, and say, “Ha! hal where did you get
that?”—they think that is an impertinent
religion. They would like to have a relig
ion to help them when they are sick, and
when the shadow of death comes over them
they would like to have religion as a sort of
night key with which to open the door of
heaven; but religion under other circum
stances they take to be an impertinence.
Now, my frieuds, religion never robbed a
man of a dollar. Other things being equal,
a mason will build a better wall, a cabinet
maker will make a better chair, a plumber
will make a better pipe, a lawj’erwill make
a better plea, a merchant will sell a better
bill of goods.
I say other things being equal. Of
course when religion gives a m^n a new
heart it does not propose to give him a
new head, or to intellectualize him, or to
change a man’s condition when his ordi
nary state is an overthrow of the philo
sophical theory that a total vacuum is im
possible; hut the more letters you have to
write, the more burdens you have to carry,
the more miles you have to travel, the
more burdens you have to lift, the more
engagements you have to meet, the more
disputes j’ou have tosettle, the more oppor
tunity yon have of being a Christian.
HARD WORK AND RELIGION.
If j-ou have a thousand irons in the fire
you have a thousand more opportunities
of serving God than if you had only one
iron in the fire. Who so busy as Christ?
And j-et who a millionth part as holy?
The busiest men the liest men. All the
persons converted in Scripture busj- at the
time of their lieing converted. Matthew
attending to his custom house duties; the
Prodigal Son feeding swine; Lydia selling
purple; Simon Peter hauling in the net
from the sea; Saul spurring his horse to
ward Damascus, going down on his law
business. Busy! busy! Daniel with all
the affairs of state .weighing down upon
his soul, aud yet threo times a day wor
shiping the God of heaven.
Again, I learn from this subject that a
man may take religion into his politics.
Daniel had all the affairs of state oil hand,
yet a Christian. He could not have kept
his elevated position unless he hail been a
thorough politician; anti yet all the
thrusts of officials and all the danger of
disgrace did not make him yield one iota
of his high toned religious principle. , He
stood before that age, he stands liefoxe all
ages, a specimen of a Christian politician.
So there have been in our day and in the
days of our fathers men as eminent in the
service of God as they have been eminent
in the service of the state. Such was Ben
jamin F. Butler, attorney general of New
York in the time of your fathers. Such
was John McLean, of Ohio. Such was
George Briggs, of Massachusetts. Such
was Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jer
sey. Men faithful to the state, at the same
time faithful to God.
THE RISING GENERATION.
It is absurd to expect that men who have
been immersed in political wickedness for
thirty or forty years shall come to refor
mat ion; and our hope is in the young men
who are coming up, that they have pa
triotic principle and Christian principle
side by side when they come to the ballot
box and cast their first vote, and that they
swear allegiance to the government of
heaven as well as to the government of the
United State*. We would have Bunker
Hill mean less to them than Calvary, and
Lexington mean less to them than Bethle
hem.
But because there are bad men .around
the ballot box is no reason why Christian
men should retreat from tbe arena. The
last time you ought to give up j-our child
or forsake your child is when it is sur
rounded by a company of Choctaws; and
the last time to surrender the ballot box
is when it is surrounded by impurity and
dishonesty and all sorts of wickedness.
Daniel stood on a most unpopular plat
form. He stood firinlj-, though the dema
gogues of the day hissed at him aud tried
to overthrow him. We must carry our
religion into our politics. But there are
a great many meu who are iu favor of
taking religion into national politics who
do not see the importance of taking it into
city politics; as though a man were intel
ligent about the welfare of his neighbor
hood and had uo concern about his own
home.
Religion would drive out all base person
alities irom jjolitics. \ou have a right to
discuss men’s politics and denounce their
political sentiments, or receive them, as
you will; hut you have no right to assail
their private character, as is done every
autumn. That is not carrying religion into
politics. Now j ou can always tell without
asking, in any contest, what candidate i
will vote for. It is aiwaj's for the man
who is most badgered, and most abused,
and most spit upon, and most howled at.
You have a right to contest a man’s politi
cal sentiments; jou have no right, for base
political purposes, to assail his private
moral character.
My subject also impresses me with the
fact that lions cannot hurt a good man.
No man ever got into worse compfny than
Daniel got into when he was thrown into
the den. What a rare morsel that fair
young man would have been for the hun
gry monsters! If they had plunged at him
he could not have climbed into a niche be
yond the reach of their paw or the snatch
of their tooth. They came pleased all
around about him as a hunter’s hounds at
the well known whistle come bounding to
his feet.
You need not go to Numidia to get
among lions. You all have had them after
you—the lion of financial distress, the lion
of sickness, the lion of persecution. You
saw that lion of financial panic putting
his mouth down to the earth, and he
roared until all the banks and ail the in
surance companies quaked. With his
nostril he scattered the ashes on the do
mestic hearth. You have had trial after
trial, misfortune . after misfortune, lion
after lion; and yet they have never hurt
you if you put your trust in God, and
they never will hurt you. They did not
hurt Daniel, and they cannot hurt you.
TEARS OF SORROW.
The Persians used to think that spring
rain falling into sea shells would turn into
pearls; and I have to tell you that the tears
of sorrow turn into precious gems when
they flrop into God’s bottle. Yon need be
afraid of nothing putting your trust in
God. Even death, that monster lion whose
den is the world’s sepulcher, and who puts
hjs paw down amid thousands of millions
of the dead, cannot affright yot».
When in olden times a man was to get
the honors of knighthood he was compelled
to so fullv armed the night before among
the tombs of tha dead.carryinga sort of
spear, and then when the day broke he
would come forth, and amid the sound of
cornet and great parade he would get the
honors of knighthood. And so it will be
with the Christian in the night before
heaven, as fully armed with spear and hel
met of salvation he will wait and watch
through tbe darkness until the morning
dawns, and then he will take the honors
of heaven amid that great throng with
snowy robes streaming over seas of sap
phire.
An Appropriate Hymn.
Some time ago a prominent scientist
lectured in one of the leading churches of
the city, and, in the course, of an hour’
talk, undertook to show the relation be
tween geology and the Bible. It may be
that he was not as clear as was exjieeted,
it may be that the arguments of a scientist
were too deep for the audience, and still
again it is possible that the warm evening
produced a drowsiness that drugged the
senses of the hearers. At all events, the
relationship sought to be established was
not very sharply outlined to the audience
despite the number of degrees the speaker
has had tacked to his name by institutions
ot learning, and as the learned man ceased
his discourse a look of doubt as to just
what was the object of the lecture w r as ap
parent on the faces of all. While thus in
state of uncertainty the pastor of the
church jumped up and announced as the
closing hymn, “Nobody Knows hut Jesus."
The look of doubt vanished as bright
smiles beamed throughout the hall, and
the hymn was sung with an emphasis.
Pioneer Press.
Deliberation.
There is touch to he said in favor of
wisely deliberating before acting. Doubt
less many rash deeds are performed, bring
ing all sorts of unfortunate consequents
in-their train, simply for the want of a lit
tle reflection, anJ others, that would hav
been of the utmost benefit to mankind,
have never seen the light from tha same
cause. Yet while this is true there
kind of deliberation much practised wh’ch
is nearly aiwaj's pernicious iu its results
upon future action. It is that which puts
aside the first instinctive perceptions of
right and wrong, speculates upou them
doubts them, subjects them to processes of
casuistical reasoning, and generally ends
either by so clouding the mental vision
that no distinct course is visible, or by act
ually making the worse appear the better
cause. Much of the wrongdoing of the
world is the fruit of this kind of delibera
tion.—New York Ledger.
Top Knot Should Come Down.
' One of the American Bapt ist periodicals
finds fault with the free and easy conduct
of ministers when enjoying their vacations,
It says that when they take off their usual
black coat and stiff collar aud put on the
flannel shirt and the felt hat they often
put on manners which would astonish
their best_£flends. But, on the other hand
may it not be said that many minis
ters might advantageously banish their
formal conventionalities by which they en
deavor to show that they are different from
the ordinary run of humanity? it is not
without reason that a number of ministers
in the old country have dropped the title
of “Rev.” and are now only known amon
men by their plain names. No sensible
person would object to take spiritual guid
ance from a man because his manners were
simple and natural and because he wore a
flannel shirt and a felt wide awake.—To
ronto Mail.
A Camp Meeting Enthusiast.
The champion camp meeting goer of
America is Steve Merritt, the “eloquent
undertaker” of New York citj\ Mr. Mer
ritt has been a regular attendant at the
Sing Sing camp for forty years, never
missing a summer. He is a ready speaker,
quick witted and full of repartee and
saving grace together. Several years
ago he consented to run for a political
office, and his canvass excited a great deal
of talk he The Sing Sing meeting ; s the
oldest in the countrj-, having been estab
lished fifty-eight years ago, and kept up
eversince without a break.—Cor. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
[;eTi n
Versus Duller Taties.
It has becli proposed to put safety valves
upon the stoke holes iu the great ocean
racers, so that the air can automatically
escape when the pressure is so great that
the boiler tubes and grate bars are iu
danger. If a safety valve were intro
duced that would blow off when the stok
ers are in danger there would be much
less collapse among those useful hands
and much less difficulty in securing each
trip meu who are willing and able to go
through the fiery ordeal that stoking in
volves.—New York Telegram.
kailway BREVII Ito.
A statistician estimates that the number
of passengers carried each day on all the
railroads in the world averages 6,500,000.
On week days 225 trains arrive and 226
depart from the Broad Street station of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Philadelphia.
The rate of mortality in England for the
year 1888 was one passenger killed in
6,942,336, and one passenger injured for
every 220,024 carried.
In 1889 1.972 employes were killed and
20,023 injured on the railways of the United
States, or one death for every 357 and one
injury- for every 35 emploj-es.
In 18S9 2F.030 locomotives, 16,449 of which
were fitted with automatic brakes, 25,665
passenger cars, and 854,031 freight cars
were in use in the United States.
As early as 1853 a Bristol aud Exeter
broad gauge locomotive, carrying a light
load and running on a falling grade, de
veloped a sin-ed of eighty miles an hour.
The total number of passengers carried
in the United States during 1889 was 472,-
171,343. One passenger in every 1,523,133
was killed, and one in every 220,024 was
injured.
The new outlet for the Reading railroad
at New York is on tiie Arthur Kill near
Perth Amboy, N. J. At this point the
Raritan river is from thirty- to forty feet
deep at low tide.
According to the annual report of the
interstate commerce commission for 1889
704.743 men are employed on the railroads
of the United States, or 450 men for every
100 miles of line.
The Consolidated railroad’s new bridge
across the Niantic river near New London,
Conn., will have four spans, each .50 feet
long, and a draw span of 135 feet. Its total
length will be 335 feet.
It is said that the motive power of the
road to he built from St. Petersburg, Rus
sia, northeast to Archangel - on the White
sea, a distance of 500 miles, will be elec
tricity. It will cost $15,000 per mile.
Ex-Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, is the
author of a stupendous plan for construct
ing a railway across Behrings straits by
building two immense bridges, each of
which will be twenty miles long.
The Chicago Elevated Terminal railroad
incorporated at Springfield, Ills., is an
Atchison plan by which passenger trains
are to enter Chicago. A new passenger
depot will he erected at Twelfth and State
streets.
A novelty in railroading is the Boynton
Bicycle railway on Coney Island. Cars
and engine run on wheels placed one be
hind another. Additional wheels on a
beam above the track keep the train in
balance.
The first determine 1 blow waa struck at
the free pass system when the interstate
commerce commission caused the arrest of
D. B. Martin, general passenger agent of
the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago and St.
Louis railway.
AROUND THE WORLD.
Electricity puts a girdle round the globe
in a little less than a tenth of a second.
A ray of light will flash itself around
the world in a trifle over a tenth of a sec
ond.
A man walking day and night could
make the journey around the world in 428
days.
A railway train running continuously
could speed its way around the globe in
forty days.
0
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THE GOLDEN GOBLET FILLED WITH
WINE.
BY E. H.
Hengist an'T Horsa were two sallon chie f s:
To them Pri ce Vortigeo now toid his griefs;
Of th«- Piets and £cots a savag band,
With fire an sworu laid waste the Briton
land:
And begged them to make peace with nim and
come
And bring their country men and find a home
So ' hat together they might make a stand.
And drive the plundering robbers from the
land.
So did the Bax*n chiefs, and uow 1 11 tell.
Of something that the British Prince befell.
Hengist,the8ttxuu, had a lovely daughter;
And when the Scots * were driven across the
water,
And war and fighting for a time had ceated,
They alt made merry iu a royal least.
Bowena, was tbe Saxon maiden's name;
Aud 6he iu all her blushing beauty came:
To grace the fesut: softly the Prince said then,
That she was fair and eeautifut and when,
“ehe filled a golden goblet to the brim,”
Anu with her sweetest smile, gave it to him,
Saying in gentle tones, • Dear Kiugtby health ”
The King said loudly, that his heart and wealth.
And lands were hers if sbe would be his wife.
And biess him with her sweetness all lur life,
So they were married, and :f e’er tht king,
Had aught against her corn try men to bring,
His qu eu would put her gentle arms around
him
And w th her wooing eloquence she bound
him,
To treat them well; and she would softly say,
Dear King and Lord, remember you the day
I gave the goldt n goblet filled with wine?
So love the caxou people, they are mine.”
The old name for the people of Ireland.
GREEN TOMATO PICKLE.
My name is a strange one to the Household
baud, and perhaps would have remained such,
bad not Charmion besought some domestic sit
ter to give a flfecipe for making green tomato
pickle. I herewith send one whicn is quite
simple and easily made. I think Charmion
any of the intellectual sisters of the Household,
will find these quite a delicious pickle on trial
Take a half peck cf green tomatoes and ten
onions. Slice them as you woiud ripe tomatoes
for table use: a so blice the onions so they nmy
be proportionately mixed Lay them in a bowl
or jar and havii g prepared sufficient quantity
of weak brine to cover tbe who e, pour over co <1
and let stand three hours: after whiuh let them
drain thoroughly. Now place in layers in a jar
occasionally sprinkling a teaspoonful of whole
grains of allspice, a few cloves, and now and
then a crackeo lose of ginger. Take a sufficiency
of good apple vinegar, sweeten to the taste put
in a kett e aud let it come to a toil ai d pour
over the tomatoes while boiling not. Be sure
they are entirely covered with tne vinegar. Tnis
pickle is ready for use in a few hours. Tbe
qu&uiity I have given can be increased or de
creased as one desires, omy the formula remains
the same.
I know that Charmion will sj mpaihize with
me whin I tell her that like Maggie Tuilivtr, 1
have had great trouble hut unlike her, it was
not of my own making. My Joved home was
lost to me by fiuauciiu dhastei; but my heart
will ever yeani for the picturesque ola Stone
wall milJ, faraway in an Eastern State.
toy name, too, is Maooik.
ONE EXPERIENCE AND THE RE
SULT.
I remember vividly at this moment the ecta-
cy of my grief at the refusal of my first poem. 1
had snent days aud nights in w riting and per
feeling it Ninety-nine persons in a hundred
would have been satisfied with it in a cruder
state. Many would have been satisfied witn it
in its.first form; but I determined to make a
stride toward fame in my first efi'ort. The fate
of the spring poet should not be my fate. But
the blow I tried so hard to avert fell notwith
standing, for as soon as tbe editor glanced hur
riedly over it his countenance changed, aud
roughly folding it he handed it back to me and
shook his beau without even thanki g me for
submitting it-
Disappointment vents i self in various ways
in accordance with ternpeiaments; some wou d
have torn the poem to atoms, others would have
berated the editor for his ignorance. Some
would have wept o’er their blighted hopes
some would have trampled the poem unuer
foot and resolved to never touch a pen again.
Many would have begged the editor to read it
over more carefully, and see if he was not mis
iken in regard to us met its. I did nothing of
lese kind.
I neither vented my rage, wept over blighted
hopes, or made foolith resolutions. 1 only
quietly walked out of the office back home
again and mailed my poem to the editor of a
first class periodical!
The result was as 1 had expected. It was ac
crpted.. 1 wrote anotuer, then ««notbe.r, aud an
other, till I had worked myself tu the notice of
tbe literati. The thing was becoming profita
bie as well as amusing to me. It was gratifying
to behold the chagrin of the editor who had
refused to accept my poem for nothing, but ex
tremely so when he one day *sk* d me if I would
not write a sin rt poem for nis paper.
Any other person might have then aud there
thought ihe measure of their revenge was com
plete and said: ** wny yes, certainly!” But my
satisfaction could nevei lie complete, no matter
what snould iiippeu. My disappointment still
rankled in my; breast and could not eesubdued
Bo 1 told him if he would promise to read nil
poems submitted to him in the futuie before
declining them, that I would and then he faint
ed. it was an oed sort oi request to make and
ytt simple as it was 1 knew that if it was grant-
ed that in jess thi;u six uiomhs he woulu ben
ravingToaniac! cyclo.
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Free.
See tbe extraordinary announcements
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tribute free.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO.
Incorporated by the Legislature for educa
tional and Chari table pnrpopes. slid its franchise
made a part of the present State constitution,
In 1879, by an overwhelming popular rote.
To continue until
January ifet 1895
ITS MAMMOTH
DRAWINGS take place Semi-AnveUy.
(June and December), and tie GRAND
SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS taka
place in each of the other ten month* of tha
year, and are all drawn in public, at the
Academy of Music, New Orleana, La.
FAMFD FOR TWENTY YEARS FOB
Integrity of Ita Dronings and
Prompt Payment of Prizea. •
Attested as fol'ows:
“ We do hereby certify that we supervise
the arrangement* for all the Juonthlp
and Semi Annual Drawingl of the Louin-
ana State Lottery Company, ana in person
. t manage ana control the Drawings them
BciidllM! LOt ,e ^ M > unrf that the same are conducted
° . with honesty, fairness and in good_ faith
toward alt parties, an a we authorize the
Company to use this ceriifitate with fac
similes of our signatures attached, in ite
advertisements."
all unawares we shed onr inllnence around us!
A woxd spoken, a letter written, siiaicln s of
song may eituer Leal wound or com fort. Then
now careful we should he of words and , etions,
and we should, when writing, ask a ‘Wise One”
to guide the pen so there win be uo danger of
our leading others into forbidden paths.
Commissioners.
We the undersigned Banks and Banker*
will pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana
State Lotteries whiih may be presented ai
our counters.
Mother is cal dug come, my child, aud tend . R M. Wain slv, Pies. Lcutsisra Nat. Ek.
toainner.” it matters not to her now old we p )erre Lansux, Prm. Mate Nst’l Bank.
A. Baldwin. Pres New Orltai.s Nst'l. 8k,
Carl Kohn, Prts. Union National Bank.
have grown we are still “mamma's child.
How could I live without the sound of htf
sweet, cheerful voice?
‘Adieu, adieu, kied frieuds, adieu,
I cannot longer stay with you.”
I am only, Aunt Prudence.
She Sells Furniture.
There is not a brighter, prettier or
more capable furniture dealer in ‘ the
business than Mary Jane McShane, of
Madison street, a trim little Irish widow,
who has cheeks the color of poppies, a
pretty wit, blue black hair, and a well
poised, well modeled head that is brim
ful of brains.
This young woman knows enough
about textures, woods, metals and stones
to be able to pick out the real laces, all
wools, pure linen, genuine mahogany
and bronzes and perfect gems with her
eyes blindfolded. Sbe has a cellar full
dancing slippers; she has laces that the
Four Hundred have coquetted and mar
ried in; she goes about with her pockets
full of jewels, and has a calling acquaint
ance with a wilderness of theatrical and
fashionable women.—New York World.
Grand Month I v Drawicg,
At the Academy of Music, New Orleans
Tuesday, September 9, 1890
CAPITAL PRIZE $300,000.
100,000 Tickets at f20; Halvec f 10; Quarters
$5; Tenths ?2; TwentieUs {1.
i.nrr or mizes.
1 PRIZE OF fSXi.OOO IS -
1 PRIZE OF tlWj.uW) Is
1 PRIZE OY 50.000 is -
1 PRIZE OF 25.000 is
2 FRIZES OF 10,000 are -
5 PRIZES OF 10,000 are
25 PRIZES OF 1. COO are -
100 PRIZES OF .500 are -
200 PRIZES OF 300 are -
500 PRIZES OF 200 sra - - -
1300,000.
1100,000
• 5J,coo
2 5.00C
21.00C
ooa
25,000
•51.000
60 DOC
- 1JO.00B
afpboxmauok rxisar.
100 Prizes ol 300 are -
100 Prizes of 200 are •
30,000
2 MM
TERMINAL PRIZES.
999 Prizes of !00 are -
999 Prizes of ICO are -
99.90C'
- 99,900
3.134 Prizes amounting to •
|1 054,800'
She Is a Citizen Now.
Miss Anna Paton, of Port Huron,
wanted to get a passport to go home to
Scotland for a visit. Mr. Blaine said be
couldn't give her one, as she was not a
citizen of his. The lady went thereupon
before a circuit judge, renounced alle
giance to everything save Uncle Sam
and was made a full and complete citi
zen. She will now write Mr. Blaine.
Children who came to this country be
fore they were 18 years old without their
parents can take out full papers on be
coming of age.—Chicago Herald.
AGENTS WANTED.
A Female Pharmacist.
Mrs. Ida Hall Roby, of South Chicago,
is the only woman pharmacist in Illinois.
She is 24 years of age, a graduate of the
Illinois College of Pharmacy and sole , . ,, .
proprietor and manager of a tidy little [ election in 1892. which will
drug store at the comer of Forest avenue
and Thirty-first street, which is regis
tered under the dignified title of the
Thirty-first Street Homoeopathic Phar
macy. Mrs. Roby has one assistant,
Miss Jessie Carter, a Mason City girl,
who is to bo admitted to the firm in a
short time.—Chicago Letter.
aVFox Club Bziic. oi scy icittsi isiema-
tlon desired, write legibly to tl* iiftiriiusd,
clesrly Matir.g jour it(idctc«,Fith Stall, touit-
S 1, Street and hunter. Kc-re rrpld retuu a sli
elivety will he snored ty jour encloi’.it is
Euveicfe bniirt ycorfol) addles*
IMPORTANT.
Address M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, Ls»
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
By ordinary letter, containing Money Order
issued by all Exprers (enuauies, York
Exchange, Draft or IVstai Note.
Address registered letters con
taining currency to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
New Orltans, La^
R EMEMBER that the present charter of the
Louisiana Slate Lottery Company, which
the cupreine Court of the U. S. has d« tided to
he a Contract with the State of Louisiana and
part of the Constitution of the State, does not
expire until the first, of January,
The Legislature of Louisiana, which ad
journed ou toe 10t.h of July of this year, has
ordered au amendment to the CV^titution.of
tLe State to Lc mhpiitAp -iii'V
election in 1892, which will carry the ’ barter o?
The Louisiana State Lottery Company up to the
year Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen.
A very active woman in the field of
social reform in England is Miss Clemen
tina Black, whose pale face and eye
glasses are now known in every labor
meeting in London. She “runs” a worn
en’s protective and provident league, and
has just won, with the aid of John Bums,
a remarkable victory for some hundreds
of girls who were locked out by a firm of
chocolate makers in London.
Here’s a “howdy do*’ and hand shake for our
dear little Mother and ail the members of the
Household. No, I am almost tempted to leave
Dorcas out on account of the hard words spoken
against me in her letter some mouths since.
laik so much, Indeed! Why would have
thought, Dorcas, that you would accme me of a
crime you are guilty of yourself. I resemble an
autideiuvian, eh? Well, 1 will not say anything
about you that is very hard. Guess 111 hive lo
forgive you this time. Very likely your ne.v
drei-s turned your head, as von don't seem to be
use:: to them. Next timt- turn your old dress
instead of your Lead, and then 1 reckon you’ll
let rue a:oue.
Yesterday I bad a small chat with one of the
Householders. Guess if J had known earlier in
the day that he was one of our number. I would
not have given the other ladies a chance to talk
with him. i cannot send him a message, much
as I w» uld like to, in my letter, as he turned a
deaf ear to all my p endings and just wouldn’t
tell me his nom. Nevermind sir, I’ll find you
out j et. J
Heu Jay Min you are « Floridian, too; I have
heard ol j-ou. Haven't you a sister who is very
fa r, light hair, blue eyes and just brimmiug
over with mischief all tne time? *
.J?'" 0 . 1 s . 0 ,““ of lhe House!olderscorrespond
with me? 1 live away out In the corn. try. It is
true have a sood oeal of company, but that
is not like bavins some one near you—one to
woo ™ ieau tne same hooit ; then how delight
ful to get up an argument and with all the elo
quem-e you are eapabie, try to win them over to
1 our view of things. 1
Now don’t think I am lonely. This country
where I live is far too beautiful, and I am too
*™*5i5L* dmirer ° f Natnr * to ** ‘"‘“Me* with
„ doth Nature appear axaln!
How bright the sunbeam.!
How smites the plains!”
I read and write a great deal; then I go ont in
the woods and the stately pines aoftlv whhoir
to me of the bright happy dare of V-hiMiwiflV
then thoughts of the fm^re ^“J£ hood:
Where will I be three yean from now—wfq I
be happy as I now am or will I have drank
of Sorrow’s cup—experienced cares and
tlon?” And——but I hearea BtghrtJftrajTeiea
to the beantiiul beyond reverently exch&ntn?
De« Father, my trust it in The-. Only befp me
a . g ! or,ou * Present and I am perfectly
willing to leave my future In the hand* ofOnJ
who cannot err. —™.«« one
Tie lake looks beautiful this morning All
•round is a border of maiden cane; on her
banks the willow hangs,” the cypress tie s are
dnpeo in worn and when the sun comes up "he
dew drops glisten like so many diamonds. Th.
original name for this lake is Ochiawilla ‘shin
Ing water ’ aud I am so sorry the new settlers
chan-edit. 1 rather like the Indian names*
(wren they are pretty) as there is so much sig-’
nificance in them ‘
Hope you have such a dear, inspiring name
Y *». Indeed! I'll accept your beerty handshake
and will be proud of your friendship, too. Bow
The number of women pawnbrokers
in New York is put at twenty-two.
About five widows keep pawnbroker’s
sale stores. Mrs. Lynch, »f Broadway,
heads the list, and Mrs. Catherine Mur
phy, of Chambers street, and Mrs. Laura
Thorn, of the Bowery, have been suc
cessful in disposing of the trinkets and
souvenirs hallowed by memory and mis
fortune.
Annie Pixley, who is now in London,
chats pleasantly about ladies’ dresses,
and says: “All dresses for street wear
are now made sans bustles, sans reeds,
sans crinolines, sans pretty much every
thing, and .yet,” she added with a bright?
laugh, “I notice they cost from 25 to 50
per cent, more than they did when they
put in the whole business.”
The lady who has been chosen presi
dent of the General Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs is the daughter of Professor
Ralph Emerson, of Andover Theological
college, and the wife of a Dr. Brown.
She can speak seven languages fluently,
and has at different times hold profes
sional chairs in three colleges.
The will of Mrs. E. C. Atkinson, of
Boston, provides that upon her death
her body shall be examined by the stu
dents of the Massachusetts hospital in
the hope that science may be aided in
alleviating suffering. It is expressly
stipulated that the body shall not be dis
sected.
The mother of Oscar Wilde, who has
written verses that have been admired
in England, will henceforth receive an
annuity from the British crown, her
name having been placed on the pension
list.
Mrs. Davis, wife of the Minnesota
senator, is one of those who go to ex
tremes in the fad for black. All her
undergarments, as well as the sheets and
draperies of her bed, are black.
Mile. Sarmisa Bilesco, the first woman
to be admitted to the practice of h zr in
France, is only 21 years old. She is
pretty and belongs to one., of the richest
families in Roumania.
The Florida Trent Line,
THE FLORIDA CENTRAL
AND
PENINSULAR RAILWAY.
The most summery looking gins on
the seashore dress in white India silk,
made with an accordion skirt and round
waist; white shoes and a white wrap
complete the outfit,
Mrs. Rosamond Rogers Johnston, who
hm» recently been made a W. C. T. U.
president, is the first woman in Oak
land, Cal., to fill the position of school
principal.
Miss Carrolan, of San Francisco, is de
scribed as a “sunny haired girl with a
Dresden shepherdess complexion.” She
is immensely rich and extremely chari
table.
Iv thi
facilities this season for travel to Florida, hsv
ing In addition to ita old and popular eonnac
tlon,
The Louisville A Nashville B. B.,
Georgia Southern and Florida,
(the Suwannee Blver route to Florida) (or quick,
service from North and North-western points.
The road has now no leas than
Six Points of Connections with the
North,
namely, Fernandlns, Callahan. Jacksonville^
Live Oak Lake City and Kiver Junction.
Tha Florida Central and Peninsular Ball
Road
la the great artery of travel through the flnea?
parts of Florida, traversing twenty (our coun
ties—Gadsden, Jefiersou. Dnval Alachua, Lake
Pasco, Leon, Suwannee Naaaaw, Leroy, Orange.
Hillsboro, Wakulla, Columbia, Clay, Marion-
Polk, Manatee, Madicon, Baker, Braafonl, Sum
ter, Hernando and DeSoto—iu tbelr ric hest por
tions. It runs through the
Middle Florida Region of Hill Country,
where are tbe fine old
Farming Lands,
and the new
Tobacco Farms,
(reached by no other line) some o.’ them con
ducted on a large scale. Here are Quincy, Tal
lahassee, the capital. Monticelio. Madison and
other towns, from wiute comfortable, ample
dwellings, reposing iu a iertile country, la com
ing a renewed energy to employ the resource*#
lavished about them. Stretching down throngfc
The Peach Country
of Baker Bradford, Alachua and Levy couuttss,
through the prosperous
•Strawberry Kamia
of Lawtcy Starke arid Valdo—perhaps .-uperlor
in profit to the orange grove-it gees ilirougb
the heart of the Stale, penetrating seme its
finest groves, one body being
70,000 Fnil bearing Orange Treos,
passing Dearly a mile between them—m&kingltrr
way Souinward to tbe Gulf and 'o the more
.ropical aections of the State-
In all portions of the State it reaches points oS
8conic Interest.
Wakulla Springs in the West, the Suwannee
river, as beautiful and romantic as it is famous;
Silver Springs, in the lake region, and the
Lakes
themselves, with ibeir surroundings of roillnrs
isnd, interspersed with pleasant homes in green,
groves, sloping down to the clear lake fronts
By means of this road yon can moat reariilT
roach ihe
Hunting and Fishing Grounds
Of tbe State. Tarpon fishing has oi late attracted
much attention from -enterprising sportsmen
We are the shortest line to this region.
The settler will find on the line of this road a
neater opportunity for s varied selection of
land than on any other road in the State—from
lightest soils to those underlaid with clay and
marl, and of richest hammock—whether (or
Regular Mixed Fatminc, Stock or Dali*
Farming, Peach or Strawberry Cult-
tare. Orange Groves aud Vega
table Gardens.
The tourist will be gratified with Im scenery,
the health-seeker on Its ample route can fins
tome spot adapted to his wants. On the hard
clay roads of
Middle Florida
the horseman will ride with speed and satiaMe-
flon and tha Florida Central and Pensacola b
Sportman’a Route
of old.
Fete.—Fnmengeis from Northern connections
tovtog tickets over the Florida Central to!
Peninsular to poinM in South Florida have taw
privilege of being taken into Jacksonville ovaw
tae Company’• line and allowed a stop-over irtta-
“>® going iimite of the ticket, with return m
their route for destination bee of extra eharna
Send for ben map of Florida Mailed free
Mac Don kll, O. P. a„
_ _ „ , Jacksonville, Florida.
N. 8* Pennington. Traffic Manager.
D- * Maxwell, General Manager.
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