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“The heart’s desire!” It is the pathetic, childish
cry we send up to the dumb heavens, when that
whiclf it seems we need for our very soul’s salva
tion, does not come with the readiness we would
have it exhibit. It is the “heart’s desire,” in am
bition, in lust for power, in desire for station, in
aecend-etaaanail aiattat | thirst for fame, in love for man or woman. It is
a “heart’s desire” that we frame into a DEMAND,
and send forth, with passionate emphasis, into the
ears of heaven—the heaven we fancy is sometimes
deaf with indifference.
And—in the end—we take the half loaf. We
find out that—
Bells Pos- Never Heard.
Hear the telephonic bells—
Nickel-plated bells.
What a nervous agitation in their petu-
lancy dwells;
How our tempers they excite.
Through the day or in the night,
Along' the Highway
By FRANK L. STANTON
J
IN THE LIGHT.
I.
We dwell too long in the lonesome
night:
Come out in the light—the light!
There is ever a star in the storm
shines bright:
Come out in the light—the light!
As we hear the operator’* shouts and There is still some hope for the
The Bauble^And the Moon
m ERVANTES, we think it was. set out
to prove that if the world gave us
exactly what we wanted life would
— — speedily become unendurable by rea
son of its monotony. His formula,
plausible enough on its face, runs
somewhat after this wise: “If I did
as I pleased, I should have my will; j
having my will, I should be con- !
tented: when one is contented, there
is no more to be desired; when there
is no more to be desired, there is an
END of it.” Follow his arguments,
one after the other, accept them with- '
out reserve and you must reach his
conclusion: that it is not desirable for Providence,
or whatever force rules the universe, to give over
into the hands of each man and woman the exact j
making of their destinies. The thing is inconceiv
able at the merest glance. If you are not con
vinced, take your own case. Run through the list
of the darling wishes in your mind and on your
heart. Some of them you must have confided to
“Man, like the child, accepts the proffered boon,
And claspss—the BAUBLE!
Where he asked—the MOON!”
Straining After Individu
ality
EOPLE often overstep themselves
in going after strange idols. Num
bered conspicuously among this host
are those who follow individuality
for individuality’s sake. To be num
bered apart from their brethren in
thought, word and deed; to appear
unusual or outre when opportunity
offers, or to puzzle and dazzle peo
ple by unexpected actions or phrases
seems to constitute a large portion
of their ambition. Just whether
these people gain or lose in the long
run is a serious question. If they
yells!
•’Hello,” he says, “hell-o,”
And we wish he’d .thither go,
'For no tomcat caterwauling to such help
less wrath impels;
And everybody knows
By the bawling
And the calling
How the conversation flows.
As his thoughts into the instrument re
peatedly he tells—
As 'liis thought with maledictions he
continually tells—
Tells, tells, tells.
And again he rings the bills.
But the fellow at the other end is disin-
cTined to go.
eft once more he instills
Some hviph-ened syl-la-ble«,
Elite ft jackdaw in a panic.
And with vigor Quite Satanic.
It is wrong to. tear your hair.
And worse, they say, to swear
By this or that or here or there or any
other where;
But that was said
Before were made
Those palpitating, fast-vi'brating telephon
ic bells—
Bells, bells, bells, bells,
An/1 the yells, yells, yells
Of .the speakers and the hearers at those
hells. —Belfast (.Ireland) Gazette,
weary years—
A rose to bloom where a thorn ap
pears,
And solace sweet in a rain of tears;
Come out in the light—<the light*
II.
Let banners wave in the crimson
fight:
Come out in the light—the light,
To the Peace that broods with its
wings of white:
Come out in the light—the light!
Come out where Joy in the glad
world dwells
And Sorrow’s sighing his sad fare
wells
To the. music sweet of the morning
bells:
Come out in the light—the light!
PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY.
When Joy jingles his bells Trouble
osses his old raggedy hat, high in air
and nearly dances himself to death.
You’ll 1 get all the glory you’re en
titled to in this world. Maybe the
glory in the next one will be too
warm a proposition for you.
FROM AN AUTHOR’S JOURNAL.
I think that poetry certainly pays—
sonaiebocjjy, for I sent an editor a
dozen stamps with as many poems,
and he kept the stamps to get his
mail off.
The poets of old lived In garrets,
but now the elevators go sky-high,
and the wise author takes the ground
floor, where he can hit the grit easy
when he sees a bailiff coming.
Very few authors can afford a pri
vate secretary now. The trouble with
a secretary is—he demands a salary,
and that’s what an author can’t get
for himself.
The great genius gets a monument
when he is no more, but he’d rather
have the price of it while he lives—
in nine cases out of ten.
j When the Six Shooter J
| Was Judge (SLJury *
• •
! i on the Pacific Slope !
• •
• ■•■0—0»-0-0-m0*-0 — 0
HU halcyon days of the
ALL WE’RE WANTING.
I.
We’re wanting just enough o’ light
To tell the way we’re going.
And just a flower or two in sight
When blizzard winds are blowing.
II.
We’re wanting just enough o’ grace
To satisfy the soul.
To do our work—to fill our place,
And let the old world roll!
THE TROUBLES OF GENIUS.
‘‘There goes an author who has
made enough money to start a bank
Even if we don’t win in the life account, but it’s been the ruination
j race we’ll have the consolation of
knowing that we didn’t lose mudh.
Getting Around a Difficulty.
(From September Lipplncott s.)
An instructor in a certain boys’ school j It s high time for the dreamers to
is noted, anion,;, his pupils for his diffl-jwake up and shake the light out of
cult examination questions. One of the i their dreams,
youthful students after struggling over |
a particularly strenuous list of questions; We really haven t time to growl at
in geography, came upon the following i Time for flying so fast. The fiddles
query, which completely stumped him: I are going, the dancers are ready and
of him.”
“How so?”
“The poor
nights for fear the bank '11 fail,
he'll have to start over again!”
fellow can't sleep o’ j c i, UI
claimjumper and the shot
gun miner were anteced
ent to the squatters' wars
of San Francisco. In old
Pioehe, when the Kay-
mon & Ely and the Mead
ow valley mines were in
litigation over a rich ledge,
men handy with the gun
were paid $20 an hour to
go underground and hold
the drifts, and then hati
many a bloody battle —.
the dark.
In the rush to the Comstock, also,
much confusion arose in the location of
claims and the shotgun prospector
found opportunity to get in his work.
Two of the tough citizens of Virginia
even had the effrontery to jump a lot
that had been presented to Father Ma-
nogue as a site for his church. The
Comstockers loved the robust priest, and
when he told a few of them that jumpers
were on the church lot they went with
him to adjust matters promptly and
vigorously.
PLUCKY PRIEST SAVES LOT.
The jumpers were defiant, and trucu
lent, and one of them spoke insultingly
to the priest when he requested them
to move off the lot, whereupon Tom Ri
ley became hostile and roared: "Stand
aside, father, and let me get at the Irish
Wank dash.”
"Tut! Tut!, Tom,” said Father Ma-
nogue reprovingly, “leave out the ’Irish,’
my son.” And then the father peeled
off his coat and offered to settle the
matter personally with the insolent
junipers. The lot was saved to the
and
:h.
only the present moment, perhaps their aspirations
arc fulfilled. But if, as pointed by standards alike
of progress and conservatism, we look for perma
nent results, the story is am entirely different one.
To be sure, individuality is an excellent thing
people for whom you feel a great affection; the j j n way'. Coupled with energy and Persistence,
vast majority, perhaps, have never crept beyond ** * s ^ le ,U S1? C ^ pioneer that has ever pus ed oi-
the barriers the most foolish and mouthy of us j ward beyond the border lines of civilization and
exploited and settled new territory. lndivulu-
keep between these rain,-how-clad children of hope
and an unsvmpathetic and sneering world. But—
for the sake of argument—admit that tomorrow
the hand of a conjuror liberated these visions from
\ our mind and gave them definite shape and sub
stance. Suppose that ALL those things which you
have known in some of the dreams that take hold
of ns in our waking hours, suddenly became real:
that we had our wish, in its slightest little detail; ] nient for its exhibition. Moreover, it did not know
that from living in a universe of sordid, disap- ! itself by the fanciful name applied to it todays ts
pointing andt grim realities, we executed a right
about face and found ourselves in the fairyland
which florid fancy paints—in our more optimistic
moments.
Now, wait!
Is it not reasonable to suppose that since YOU
have these incongruous, incoherent wishes and de
sires. clashing with all the laws of the universe,
that EVERY OTHER PERSON of y'our acquaint
ance has the same hopeless maze of insane, impos
sible dreams—waiting, just waiting, to he materia
lized
Well, then—
Imagine, if you can, all these different things
set adrift on civilization at one and the same mo
ment. Imagine that every man. woman and child
whom you know, had every wish granted, every
foolish or far-fetched vision fulfilled—what sort of
world would he the result?
Just a drunken, confused mass of conflicting
whims, running counter to every rule of law and
order, upsetting justice, making a mock of nature,
and finally dissolving in a tragic orgy of nightmare
confusion. *
That would be the logical, the inevitable conse-
sequence if we each of us obtained everything that
we desire of the world and of humanity. We would
sicken of it. as soon as it came into our possession.
!We would clamor to he relieved of this burden of
“Name twelve animals of the polar
regions.”
The youngster scratched his head,
, , . - .. . r ,. . thought hard - lor many minutes, and
are looking for the gratification ot finaIlyi under tlie spe ii of a sudden in
spiration, wrote:
“Six seals and six po’.ar bears.”
The professor was so pleased witli
his pupil’s cleverness that he marked
his ipaper 100 per cent.
Told by His Looks.
(From Tlte Epwortli Herald.)
Some things "go without saying,” as
we say. They are self-evident, and need
no explanation. They tell their own
story, as it were. That is, sometimes they
do, and sometimes they do not. Here
is a case of the latter sort cited by a
New York paper.
A pair of bushy whiskers shoved them
selves into the money order window and
the voice behind the whiskers said:
“Gif me a money orter.”
The clerk shoved him out a blank ap
plication. When it came back, tilled out,
the clerk said:
“Here, this isn't right. It’s for Dresden,
Germany, and you've got it on a do
mestic blank You want a foreign blank.”
“Veil!” saic lie voice behind the whis
kers, “vy didn't you gif me a foreign
blank?"
“Why didn't you ask for one?”
"Mein gootness,” said the voice be
hind the whiskers, “do I look like I
ranted a domestic .blank”
The Retort Humorous.
“You don’t seem to understand,” blus
tered the man who was trying to make!
his point with a university professor. “I
tell you, sir. I ought to know. I’m an|
ality in science, in art, in exploration, in letters,
even in religion, has consipred to make this won
derful twentieth century development what it is.
But this species has always been stamped with the
brand of spontaneity. Inborn and coursing along
a man's veins with every pulsation of his heart,
it has been a force which required no encourage
possessor simply felt within himself the workings
< f a mighty agency, perhaps inherited, perhaps a
combination of his own special talent or abilities.
Tt is not with individuality itself, warm, actve
and creatve, that we quarrel. It is with the pal
pably spurious species which goes by that name.
It is the man who prides himself on being “orig
inal” to whom we would point the error of his
way’. Did it ever occur to you that in striving to
catch every opportunity for a display of this qual
ity you are binding yourself within a very narrow
limit? Your sphere of activity' and development
necessarily reaches its boundary in the qualities
of the people with whom you associate. If you
have any ability’- at reading character, and the as
pirant in this quarter is generally due credit for it,
y ou can pretty accurately gauge the mentality and
grasp of your friends. Assure yourself, then, that
will exert yourself in just sufficient measure to
appear unusual to them. What you might really
accomplish is a waste which your blindness seldom
permits you to see.
Again, this brand of originality frequently cre-
J ates jealous enemies, ever ready’ to pick a flaw or
dig a pitfall. But genuine individuality has noth
ing of this sort to fear, and if it possess, in addition,
i the invaluable gifts of persistency and determi-
I nation, the result may be confidently reckoned
J upon.
we should all keep time to the hal-
ieluia music.
THE LESSON OF IT.
I.
Listen to the lesson
I’m teachin’ you today:
If you can’t ride the hurricane,
Keep out of its way!
II.
When it comes a-howlin’
Taint no use to pray;
When you hear the thunder growlin’
Keep out of its way!
PLAIN L FE MAXIMS.
I.
In de life-time battle
Don’t you think ter fail;
’Twixt de whale en Jonah,
I ruther he de whale!
II.
When ol’ Trouble cornin’,
Put up bolt en bar;
Holler from de housetop
“You ain’t a-livin’ dar!”
III.
Climb up ter de hilltop
From de fiel’ en town.
But always leave de lan’marks
Ter guide you, rollin’ down!
Danger and Death in These
>4* Common Field Plants S*
By HELEN HARC0URT.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
OAIE of them we know,
these tares among the
. wheat., ibut many of them
we know not until their
true character is revealed
by disaster. Many are the
descriptions that have been
written of the helpful class
of plants, but comparative
ly little has been written
concerning the harmful
ones, in comparison with
rheir importance. We have
not affected. The second spot, left on for
four hours, showed decided irritation of
the skin. The last two spots, where the
poison had been left to work its will for
seven hours, exhibited a genuine case of
ivy poisoning, blistered, red and itching,
es the experimenter forcibly exclaimed,
“Like the old scratch.” And that was
literally true, for tthe plucky devotee of
science came “up to the scratch” in ear
nest. These four spots were within an
inch of each other, but each remained
entirely distinct, thus proving that the
poison is not spread b.v the blood, but is
purely an affection of the skin itself.
There is a remedy for this widespread
poison that should be more generally
known than it is. A few applications of
’Are j
ou? That s not singular, was the vvit-j j la |jj ta t j n t ) ie south, yet few of them | the low grade alcohol named above, add c * eak Dick Pr< ntiss, earned an evil rep"-
: rejoinder, utteied so quietly that the a) . e generally recognized as such, nor powdered sugar of lead (lead acetate),! t a ti° n even among the bad men of early
alumni of this institution myself
you?
ty
blustering man never knew hat had hap-j even when known, are they
pened. j against as they should be?
On another occasion tlie same profes-, jj ot a f ew mysterious deaths of people
sor. having ordered from a music pun-| and animals might be traced directly to
“Valse Im- :
many poison plants in the an alcoholic solution of sugar of lead will;
United Slates, and many of these are' Sive speedy anJ permanent relief. To
James G. Fair saved a part of the Bo
nanza ground from clainijumpers by a
different method. “Long" Brown, dean
of tlie gambling fraternity, had a long
run of had luck and needed money in
his business. He made a deal with
“Waller Defeat” Prentiss, and they hired
two miners and begun sinking a snaft
on ground belonging to one of tlie Bo
nanza companies.
They worked ostentatiously and by the
time the shaft had been sunk a few feet
their operations attracted the attention
of Uncle Jimmy Fair, who strolled over
to the scene of the new strike and
found “Long” Brown and Prentiss, Well
heeled with guns, bossing the two
mines.
FAIR PURCHASERS CLAIM.
“Well, my son," said Air. Fair in his
most suave manner manner, "and what
might you be doing here?”
“We’ve located this claim and are do
ing our assessment work," replied Long-
Brown cheerfully.
"And have ye any capital, my son?”
inquix-ed Air. Fair with friendly solici
tude.
“Yes, we’ve got a little, enough to
make the riffle, I reckon."
“And how about the title, now? Is
your title quite straight, d'ye think?”
Mr. Brown admitted that there might
be a cloud upon the title, but he added:
“We’re not going to fool away any of our
capital in hiring lawyers; we need it all
in running the mine. You see, unde
Jimmy, we don't go much on litigation,
and tne and my partner Prentiss allow
that we can attend to any little matter
of that sort."
“..o doubt," assorted Air. Fair. "An i
r.ow. what might your claim be worth ->n
a fair and reasonable estimate, d’ye sup
pose?”
Air. Brown supposed that it might be
worth about $2,000, and lie went over r.i
Colonel Fair’s office and got a check Cor
Chat amount.
BAD MAN DICK PRENTISS.
Long Brown's partner in that mining
guarded
Leaves from an Old »Scrap BooK
until no more wiil dissolve easily. Rub.i Comstock days. In the early '70s a di
ttos milky fluid well into the skin severalj Pute arose over the ownership of the
times in the course of a few days. The Waller Defeat shaft of the WoodvilD
intolerable itching will at once cease, and! mine, and Prentiss was hired by one of
lishing bouse a copy of a "Valse Im-; tl ] le [ r a g ency , jf once suspicion were! the mar vh of tffie enemy be checked. But! the contesting parties to hold the prop-
promptu by a certain French compos- arouse d. Probably tlie most familiar of| in using this remedy, do not forget that! erty by shotgun title. Under some color
er. received an Impromptu Waltz bj. ; t-i iese noxious inhabitants of our woods the lead solution is very poisonous if! of legal authority, Prentiss and several
another man. The publishers, when; and Helds
is the .poison ivy, which is also' taken internally. Moral: guard it wellj companions, acting as deputy sheriff-,
called to account for their mistake, re-j known as he poison oak, poison vines,) from children. Dogs and cats are too 1 ; took possession of the hoisting works, and
plied rather insolently that they >had beenj three-leaved ivy. These are tne signifi-j sensible to touch anything that contains! would not permit anybody to approach
in the music publishing business a long. cau t names by which we know the plant) alcohol, however disguised. j the buildings
to get lom*
court, depu-
poison ivy and! tized half a dozm men as constables and
m me music pueiisiimg uusmess a lone,: cant names by which we know the plant j alcohol, however disguised. the buildings,
time, and had yet to discover the dif-j j n the south, and in the greater part of) It is not too much to say that the law- The other side managed
ference between a "Valse . Impromptu j phe north, but in some sections of the,' makers of every community should com-! sort of order from another
and an “Impromptu Waltz." Would Dr.I ] att er it has other local names peculiar! pel the destruction of poison ivy and' tized half a doz« n men as co
Smith kindly state to them that differ-1 those sections only.
ence ?
other acknowledged poison plants, wher- sent the men to take possession of tto
"Gentlemen, ’ wrote tiie genial -profes-; s | iru .p, but sometimes it grows erect. It
Tee poison ivy is a climbing or trailing! ever -they may be found near a town orl works a ' midnight. The constables at -
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
I
I the Southern railroad for several mnes;
j all shops where government work was
FIND in the old scrapbook tlie fol- j being carried on. All the stores in the
lowing interesting story of the I {; ity were pillaged, their contents either
ankee occupation of Jackson, Miss.
The story appeared in The Brandon,
Aliss., Republican in April. 1863:
"In order to ascertain the amount of
damage done by tlie yankees during the'r
forty-eight hours’ occupation of the city
of Jackson, we went over and took a
careful survey of the place yesterday
morning, and give below the result of our
observations. We could not get a com
plete list of the property burned, and
otherwise destroyed, owing to great con
fusion in the city. The following build
ings were burned:
"Green’s cotton factory, together with
all the machinery, 300 bales of cotton,
cud all the buildings connected with tlie
factory; Phillips' factory, and all me
small buildings connected ' therewith; J.
A. Stevens' foundry
shed, containing a larg
carried off nr thrown into the street and i
burned. Tlie Mississippiun office was brok- j
en open, the type thrown in the streets and
the presses and furniture broken up. j
Tlie postoffice was rifled of its cou- \
tents. ’ Tlie governor's mansion was j
broken open and pianos and furniture de- j
stroyed
“The Episcopal church was entered and
-the whole interior effaced. Nearly all tlie
private residences were entered and
trunks broken open, fine dresses torn to
pieces, and all jewelry, silverware and
provisions taken. Dr. Knapp’s office was
broken open, his dental instrument car
ried off and his .furniture destroyed. Cap
tain L. JuTHans book store and bindery
was destroyed. J. W. Gi*ay Sc Co.'s drug
store was partially destroyed. Jo Mor-
Bailey’s cotton ! gridge was an extensive sufferer by the
juantity of tar, i depredations of the vandals.
lime, cement, etc.; Catholic church and | “E. Vorden’s loss in sugar, molasses,
parsonage; Airs. Bakewell’s house, and I etc., is estimated at $200,000. D. W Bu-
contents; Confederate house, together
with furniture, etc.; railroad depot, and
all the buildings immediately west and
juth of tlie same; state penitentiary
sick lost heavily in his tobacco commis
sion store. Allen Ac Ligon lost all their
books, paper, money and merchandize.
•Dr. S. C. Facial- lost liis horses and
witii all tiie machinery; flouring mill, I mules. J. W. Rawlins lost liis carriage
and carriage horses. Almost every horse
mule, cow and hog in tlie city was taken.
Watches and oreasbpins were forcibly
taken from gentlemen on Bhe street. Ne
groes, .front 300 to 500, were taken from
the city and adjacent country, and as an
inducement for them to go they were
State ' promised commissions in the yankee army.
near Phillips’ factory; all tlie houses on
Slate street, from tiiiaws’ store to
Graves' corner, including Green’s bank
ing house; Anrtu-ozier’s grocery, Allen Ac
Jvegon’s store, and Graves' large brick
building, with a number of small inter
vening houses; all the houses on tiie
south side ot Pearl street from
street to the Mississippi Baptist office,
including tlie confederate quartermas
ter's office; a number of slieds or ware
houses, near tlie old depot of tlie South
ern railioad, containing an immense
quantity of cotton, sugar, molasses, etc.,
and a number of old cars, belonging to
both railroads; all the houses in front of
tlie city hall, and Alarket house, except
Airs. Sanders' boarding house and one
cr two small shops; Leniley’s hat fac
tory, Robinson's warehouse, General
Freeman’s dwelling house; all tlie build
ings belonging to the fair grounds; rope
.factory and saltipetre works; tiie rail-
.-Njad and cltj bridges across Pearl river,
•ltd all the bridges and trestle work on I negro and 3 horses, etc.
and about 100 of .them were armed be
tore they left the city.
"Intelligent gentleman estimate the iblal
loss of properly in the city at five mil
lions of dollars.
“It is asserted and believed that in the
ry came over to Rankin and tore up the
railroad about four miles, and a few rails
at oilier places to within two miles of
Branoon. They i-anaac-aed ene private
dwellings for arms and ammunition, tak
ing away a tew negroes, horses and
mlues. .among the chief sufferers in the
laid were All’s. S. M. Hamilton, 4 ne
groes; Austin Neely, 13 negroes; G. W.
Rains, 2 negroes; General P. Henry, I
It is asserted and believed that in the-
retreat between Jackson and Clinton, I
many houses were burned and nearly all;
tlie horses, mules and catle driven away.!
"We could' learn no particulars of the I
fight at Raymond, except tiliat our loss!
was about 200 and that of tiie enemy;
from four to five -hundred. It is reported-
that we whipped tlie enemy very badly at
Edwards’ Depot on Friday, and that we
captured his immense wagon train. We
have no doubt of tlie triith of tlie report."
IN THE YANKEE BASTTLES.
One of the most interesting stories I
find in the old war scrapbook is tlie
following letter which was written by
the Nassau correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier;
l.ife inside of the bastile is not very
agreeable. The prisoners destined for in
carceration are first taken by the mar
shal to Fort Hamilton, where they are
turned over to the colonel commanding,
familiarly known as ‘the tyrant Burke.’
As soon as the Fort Lafayette boat is j
announced they are sent off without fur-1
tlier parley, under a guard of five men!
with fixed bayonets, and after a row of
three hundred yards reach the bastile
landing. '1 hey are taken charge of by
another squad and conducted to the pres
ence of the officer in command. Lieuten
ant C. O. Wood, who owes his present po
sition of keeper of tlie bastile to the care
he took as a railroad _ conductor, of
Abram, when the frightened old sinner
fled from Harrisburg to Washington in
the historic Scotch cap and cloak.
"The prisoners answer to the call of.
their names and Wood, gives a receipt
for them to tlie Fort Hamilton convoy.
The victims are then required to give all
the money, watches, etc., in their posses
sion. They are subsequently searched in j
sor, in answer. "I have not, like your-
eslves been in tlie music publishing busi
ness, and am, therefore, not fully quall-
tied to Inform you, but since, in your ex
tremity, you have appealed to me, 1
would venture to suggest that tiie differ
ence between a ’Valse Impromptu’ and
an ■'Impromptu Waltz’ may be similar to
the difference between a blind Venetian
and a Venetian blind.
"Your very truly, ’ and so forth.—
Youth's Companion.
Divorce Statistics.
(From The Chicago Evening f’ost.j
You have done a good day’s work,”
says the chief as the census enumerator
comes in with an armload of blanks
and other things. "With a few more
such men as you we could get the di
vorce statistics u(ompiled inside of a
month.”
“Maybe so,” replied tlie enumerator,
wearily, "but you'd have to have about
ten thousand more, if that's what you
mean by a lew."
"Hows’ that?”
"All these documents are on one case.”
"One?”
“Yes. They represent information 1 got
from Aliss Amazaha Flipfiash, the well-
known soubrette, as to her matrimonial
venturas. And here,” lie produced a
large -bundle of photographs, “here are
fifty 'pictures of her in costume that she
gave me, thinking we were to illustrate*
our report.”
Just Quips.
(From The Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
"After all, what is the difference be
tween ’shopgirl’ and ‘saleslady? I
don’t know, but the differences between
salesladies are sometimes fierce.”
"My dear madam,” remarked the weary
wayfarer, "1 have had nothing to eat for
twenty-four hours.” “Poor man,” sighed )
■the, dear madam, ’’have you no appe- !
tite? Let me give you one of my tonic I
tablets.”—Philadelphia Record.
“Harold,” she exclaimed after she had
rested- for a moment against his manly
breast, ”1 believe you have'heart trou-
an ante-room by a sergeant, and when it I ble.” “Calm yourself, darding,” he re
sults tlie whim or malignity of that of-1 plied; “I’ve agreed tv help Professor
fiejal oftentimes stripped to the skin. Lightrtnger with his sleight-of-hand per-
Afler this unpleasant ceremony the pris
oners are conducted sometimes ‘to sep
arate rooms, but generally to No. 6.’
where some thirty-five arc confined. It
is a battery casement, on the lower tier,
westside, mounting five thirty-two pound
ers. The impression made upon the new
comer when entering the prison is not
very pleasant. The faces of the prison-
Oontinned on Fourth Pam*.
formance tonight. That’s a rabbit.”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
”1 wonder, now,” mused the dog, “what
tool thing it is that my master wants im
to do witli that hoop he is holding out
before me. Maybe he wants me to jump
through it. I’ll do it, and see. . . .
That was it, all right. How little it
takes to make a man happy!”—Chicago
TribuiMk
lias variable three-foliate leaves,’ aerial
rootlets and greenish flowers, which
bloom in Alay and June. The blossoms
are followed by smooth, waxy white ber
ries, which often remain on tiie vine until
late in the winter. The leaves differ from
those of tlie familiar and beloved Virginia
creeper in having only iliree leaflets,
where tlie latter lias live. The poison
ivy is a good deal of a cosmopolitan,
thriving everywhere, in the open mead
ows, in tlie midst of underbrush, in the
forests, in ravines, on mountains and in
cultivated fields. It is no respecter of
places. All it wants is enough soil to
sprout the seeds dropped by tne birds
that feed on its berries in tlie winter.
SOME ARE IMMUNE.
Sometimes, through ignorance of tlie
true character of the plant, it is actuall;-
planted around residences for its orna
mental appearance. But not always does
the person who makes tills unlucky blun
der suffer for it, although some others
are sure to do so. For some persons
are totally immune from ftie action of
its .poison from infancy to old age. Others
are always affected by it, while st. ill
others may be immune until middle life,
but after that time, oddly enough, are
astonished to find themselves 'falling vic
tims to its poison, like common folks.
Still others, not naturally immune, be
come so after once or twice suffering,
and again some are affected only lightly,
while others arc actually nig.de ill by
their suffering. There is another odd
thing, too, about this poison ivy, and
this is that it lias no apparent external
e'ffect on animals. The human skin alone
seems susceptible to its action. The horse,
mule and goat eat its leaves with im
punity, and so doubtless do wild rumi
nating animals.
The noxious element of the poison ivy
is a nonvolatile oil that exists in all
parts of the plant. Even its wood, when
thoroughly dried, retains tiie poison. Like
other oils, it cannot be dissolved in wa
ter, and therefore cannot be washed off
the skin wilii water. But it can be easily
removed with alcoiioi, a weak grade, 50
or 75 per cent, being preferaole .to a
stronger grade.
The oil, extracted from tlie plant, pro
duces exactly tiie same effect as the lat
ter itself. In experiments made with the
oil, it was applied to four places on the
wrist, and these inoculated spots were
carefully guarded from spreading to each
other. In an hour one of the spots was
well washed off by several applications
of alcohol. Three .hours later a second
spot was washed in the same way. Three
village, or on private grounds. They can i t em P te<3 to 'force ar. eptranoe to the sh:.<”
, f . . ... ,. s , , house, and were fir. d upon without waro-
be destroyed with little danger, if the from the inside Six of them were
work is done properly, and it is a work; killed, and it was believed on the Com-
done for the public interest. As we have! stock that Prentiss fired all the deadly
seen, some people are immune. These 1 sh ots.
should be employd to rout the common! CARRY ON UNDERGROUND WAR.
'foe. Alost of the task would be purely From that time on he was known as
mechanical. The surest and most sTmplej “Waller Defeat” Prentiss, and looked
mode of extermination is to pull the vinej upon as a. cold-blooded murderer, an I
up by the roots. Even immune*, in do-! tlie Comstock boycotted him socially. H>
became morose and surly, and eventually
dropped down to tiie level of a barroom
outcast and “check guerrillo.” being de
nied the distinction and respect accorded
by the Comstock to the "bad man” who
gained the title in fair fight.
Prentiss was one of a gang of shotgun
miners hired’ by Ned Boyle to carry on a
war underground in the Alta against the
justice crowd in a dispute over an ore
body ion the line between the two mines
The working miners objected to the pres
ence of the fighting gangs in the drifts
I and the Miners’ and Mechanics' unions
i took the matter in hand, marched en
masse to tlm Alta works and told tho
superintendent to hoist his shotgun men
forthwith.
found that the “remedy is worse than Boyle demurred, whereupon the mtnei.s
the disease.” The vines should never be summarily look possession of the works,
left on tlie ground, nor tiie wood used. j r ut their own men in charge of the en-
„» ^ _ omni it toe down the
fighters out of th *
ing this, would be wise to wear gloves
and wristlets, since tlie contact with the
plant would be close and continued, and
there are such things as overdoses and
going "once too often to the well.’’
DESTROYING THE PLANT.
There is another mode of destroying the
plants, however, and this should be em
ployed if an immune cannot be found
to root them up/ A half teaspoonful of
concentrated sulphuric acid applied to the
base of the stem every two or three
weeks will kill poison ivy, root and
branch. But care must be taken in
handling the acid not to let it touch one’s
skin, for it is highly corrosive. In this
case, if applied to the skin, it would be
for fuel. Every scrap of the plant ought
to ibe burned in an open field, and care
should be taken by every one near not
to Inhale tthe smoke, or to handle tiie
brush more than is necessary. Thost
who arc working with the plants eftndo
be too careful not to transier any of the
oil from their clothes or hands to other
people. This transferance is easy, and
rile uanger too apt to be overlooked.
Alany mysterious cases ot skin poisoning
could nave been traced to this cause.
Special suits should oe worn by thost
who are engaged in destroying this nox
ious piant, and their hauus should- be
washed several times a uay with the al
coholic solution mentioned. The clothes,
when finally put off, must oe thorough
ly washed lu not water and s. rung soap
suds. it should be Known and needed
that towels used by persons who have
•ot-en handling the poison ivy are a prouno
source oi conveying 1‘lie poison to others,
if also used by them.
Then there is the poison sumac. It,
like the ivy, has many aliases. In Ala
bama it is best known as the poison
dogwood and poison elder. From Vir
ginia to Georgia, one has a varied as
sortment of names to choose from, ac
cording to locality, such as poison
tree, poison wood, poison swamp sumac,
and thunderwood. It is a tall shrub, al
most like a small tree, with long, pin
nate leaves, having from seven to thir-
liours la’ter still the two remaining spots j teen leaflets, but no marginal teeth Or
were also removed by the same process. I ——— ——
The first spot, washed in one hour, was l Continued on Fourth Page.
glnes and sent
shaft to order tin
mine.
MET DESERVED FATE.
It uvas known that “Waller Defeat
Prentiss was one of the gang, and it ha 1
been decided that if he were caught with
a gun in his hand he was to he snuff. 1
out on the spot. Prentiss got an inklin .
of what was coming to him. and he es
caped from the works disguised as a me
chanic with a kit of tools instead of a
gun in liis hand.
In 1890 Prentiss had a dispute with a
rancher about a debt of $3. and went to
the man’s cabin in Six-Mile canyon to
collect the debt with a gun. He Invited
the farmer to come out and be killed,
but the farmer poked a shotgun through
a window, pulled both triggers, and the
coron. r’s jury allowed that the hand o_
Providence was clearly diseemable in the
jointing of the gun that called “Waller
Defeat” Prentiss to his last account.
“GALOOT FROM ARKANSAS.”
Of a different type was the “Bad Man
of Cosumnes,” whose character was the
subject of a story told one night by
Dr. George C'hrismorc in the Bohemian
Olub. "It was back in the '60’s when I
first saw my desperado.” said the doc
tor. “He came into Cosumnes one day
Without any particular swagger to pro
claim that lie was a bad man. but tlie
camp sized him up at once as either a
very tougili customer or a four-flus'ii
desperado.
“He was tall, angular and wiry, and he
was not handsome. He wore iSlack broad-
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