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IT MADE THEM WILD.”
Ij&JrReason Why Apache Indians Wear
It Their Hair Long.
W . js with Samson of old, the Indians’
Mildness lay in their long hair, which
the returned educated Indians wore
because, as they boasted, “Tt raado
them wild.” All energies were bent
to compel the adult males to cut their
hair and adopt civilized attire in vain,
Even the police would not wear their
uniforms. A proposition to cut their
hair, from a former agent, resulted in
a mutiny. The duties of the police
are to arrest offenders and to herd
the beef cattle purchased for their
own consumption. Rations were con¬
siderably increased to the police to
make it worth their while to think
twice before leaving the force, and
they were informed that when there
were no police to herd the beeves the
tribe would go without. That was a
different proposition. Two members
who had been to school were dis¬
charged for wearing long hair. One
old fellow’, as a special favor, ent his
hair, but it cost me #3. His wife
made bis life a burden, and he in turn
appealed to me to hasten with the
rest.
By using rations nnd other supplies
aa a lever, I induced a few more to
eut, and then I directed the police to
cut theirs or leave the force. They
reluctantly comjdied, but once ac¬
complished they were only too eager
to compel the rest, and they cheer¬
fully, under orders, arrested and
brought to me every educated Indian
on the reservation, There were
twenty of these, georgeons in paint,
feathers, long hair and blankets, edu¬
cated at an expense of thousands of
dollars, living iu their brush shelters
wilder than any uneducated Indian
on the reservation, and fully as lazy
and ambitionless. The “leaven” had
failed to work. The mass absorbed
them and compelled them to back¬
slide. They soon had a hair-cut and
a suit of clothes put on them. The
Indiau office, at ray request, issued a
peremptory order for all to cut their
hair and adopt civilized attire; and in
six weeks from the start every male
Indian had been changed into the
semblance of a decent man, with the
warning that confinement at hard labor
awaited any backsliders. There has
been none, and the task of moving
them upward has been perceptibly
easier from the time scissors clipped
off their wildness.—The Outlook.
Humorous Signs.
Of unwittingly ludicrous or humor¬
ous signs there are plenty.. A tin¬
smith near Exeter, England, has a sign
which reads, “Quart measures of all
shapes and sizes sold here.” At a
market-town in Rutlandshire the fol¬
lowing placard was aflixed to ttie shut¬
ters of a watchmaker who had decamp¬
ed, “Wound leaving his creditors mourning:
up and the mainspring
broke.” Equally apposite was one in
Thomaston, Ga. On one of the
principal streets the same room
was occupied by a physician and a
shoemaker, the disciple of Galen in
front while he of St. Crispin’s trade
worked in tho rear. Over the door
linng the sign “We repair both sole
and body.” On the windows of a
London coffee-room there appeared the
notice: “This coffee-room removed up
stairs till repaired.” The proprietor
of the place was not an Irishman,
though the framer of the notice over
the entrance to a French burying-
ground, “Only the dead who live in
the parish are buried here,” must
have been. One may see in the win¬
dows of a confectioner iu Fourth
avenue, New’ Y'ork, “Pies Open All
Night,” A Bowery placard reads,
‘‘‘Home-Made Dining Rooms, Family
Oysters.” while a West Broadway
restaurateur sells “Homo-made Pies,
Pastry, and Oysters,” and still another
caterer, on East Broadway, retails
“Fresh Salt Oysters,” and Larger
Beer.” “Boots Polished Inside” is a
frequent sign in New York, and on
Atlantic Avenue, Library,” Brooklyn, there is a
“Stationary the latter is
really a circulating library, and the
word “Stationary” adorns one window,
and “Library” the other. Philadel¬
phia has a sign reading “Ho Made
Pies!” and a barber shop in the same
city bears this inscription on its win¬
dow’, “G. Washington Smith, tonsor-
ial abattoir.”—Demorest’s Magazine.
Wealthy* But in the Poorhouse.
Though worth $50,000, Janies Web¬
ster, a farmer living four miles from
Eldora, Iowa, will probably die in the
county poorhouse. When the panic
of 1893 came Webster turned his prop¬
erty into $50,000 in coin, and buried
it in casks upon a fa»-m w hieh he still
held as a tenant. Three mouths ago
his mind failed and although he seems
to have some recollection of burying
his money, he cannot remember the
hiding the place. He is now a charge up¬
on county, having no relatives
upon w hom he can depend for sup¬
port.
Confinement mid Han! Work >
Indoors, j>nrticulnrly in tho sitting ]>os ure, are
far more prejudicial to health than excessive
muscular exertion in the open nlr. Hard se¬
dentary workers are (ar tco weary after oaice
hours to take much needful exercts e In the open
air. They often need a toato. W here can they
seek In vigor-* tion more eartainl y^and agreeably
than from Hoatetter’s Stomach tters. a reno-
vent particularly adapted Use to reerutt the ex-
hausted force of nature. also for dyspep-
eta, kidney, liver and rheumatic ailments.
Seme husbands are so indulgent that they
can never come home sober.
Ynkon and Klondike Gold Fields.
Parties Intending to visit the Klondike Gold
Fields or invest in stock companies the operating
in that country, are advised to get Cana¬
dian Government Alaskan Boundary Com¬
missioner, Prof. Ofilvie’s. Report on the Yu¬
kon and Klondike Gold Fields.hefore doing so.
This is the otwaial report made last spring
which eogstounded the Canadian Government
thjt they did not publish It till Prof. Ogilvie
Confirmed it personally on his arrival in Otta¬
, The is extensive, abounding
wa. report very and Maps and giving the
in Photogravures information to routes, climate,
most reliable indescribable wealth as awaiting the
and the paid,
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in PabUdtw*,' at-amps, by the Toronto Newspaper Union
44 Bay St., Toronto, Canada.
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THE WIND BLEW IN THE WHEAL
A sickle moon hung low and white, in the edge ot a golden west,
with clanging bells the herd came home; and mother birds on the nest
Thrilled to the song that is never sung—so soft! 60 wildly sweet!
The whippoorwill In the marsh-land called, and the wind blew in the wheat.
High summer had broken to hedge-row waves with a foam of elder bloom.
By And waste nibbling and hares way-side the sweetbrier stars showed faint in the tender gioomi
crept out to play, on silent velvet feet.
As waxing dewdrops timed the chant, the wind blew in the wheat.
“Benison to each bearded head, in the land of golden grain!
Ye shall drink of the sun, in strength and power, nor lack the grateful rain.
In the bursting mills, in the ocean pressed with the keels of a laden fleet.
Ye may read the smile of the Lord of Hosts,” tbs wind blew in the wheat.
—Martha McCulloch-Williams, in Harper’s Weekly.
m
A*RAI L WA Y * ADVENTU RE.
- ■3K-
By DR. MAX NORDAU.
foj N this night
fm the windows
of the crowd¬
ed cafe had
been thrown
IK open, and
wf m the fresh,
cool air of
the spring
m gled night for strug¬
mas¬
1 tery with the
« close tobac¬
co-laden at-
which filled the large — mospliere
hall.
A glance out into the night showed
tho deep-blue heaven overhead and a
brilliant full moon, whose cold, clear
rays sparkled on the fresh foliage of
tho budding trees as they swayed
gently to and fro iu the light breeze.
The members of the society to which I
at this time belonged had been accus-
tomed for some time past to reserve a
certain table in the cafe for them¬
selves, where they met every evening
to chat over and discuss the events of
the passing hour. They were, for the
most part, respectable citizens, who
had far more appreciation for bright
gas-light ami a good dinner^than for
the charms of a glorious spring night,
and nothing was further removed from
their thoughts on this particular ocea-
sion than u romantic contemplation of
the beauties of nature. On the night
I am speaking of our conversation
was of a prosaic enough character, as
was only natural in a small town, and
exhausted itself in discussions about
local matters, the theatre, taxes, and
similar—to au outsider—extremely nn-
interesting topics.
Through some chance remark, how¬
ever, which I can no longer recall, the
question had sprung up if it were
really credible that a man’s hair could
suddenly become grey in consequence
of a violent shock to the mind. Some
of those present were only half inclined
to disbelieve this somewhat startling
theory, whilst others could not be
sufficiently scathing in the remarks
they made concerning people w’lio were
simple enough to place any credence
in such nursery tales.
As the discussion grew warmer and
warmer, until every member of our
party was engaged either in champion¬
ing or combating the question in point,
a man, seated near us, rose slowly,
pushing his chair from him, and ap¬
proached our table. He was a fine, tall
fellow, of herculean build, and his in¬
telligent features, which bore an ex-
pression of great determination, were
rendered very striking by a pair of
keen blue eyes; but what made his
appearance still more remarkable was
the fact that both liis liair and beard
were as white as snow, although they
surrounded a countenance which would
not permit one to reckon his age at
more than about thirty-five.
“Excuse me, gentlemen, if I am in¬
terrupting yom-conversation,” he re¬
marked, bowing politely to us. “You
wer« just discussing a subject that has
more thau an ordinary interest for me.
I happen myself to be a living proof
Ant, under certain circumstances, a
terrible shock to the mind can pro-
duoe that self-same physical effect of
which you were just speaking, and
whioh the majority of you seem to dis¬
credit.”
These words naturally excited the
curiosity of all present to the highest
degree. We quickly made room for
our new acquaintance at the table,
and, when he had seated himself
comfortably, urged him to relate to
us the circumstances which had] pro¬
duced such a strange and sudden
change iu his appearance, The
stranger feigned no great shyness,
and acquiesced in the most pleasant
manner possible by relating to us the
following:
“If any of you gentlemen have ever
interested yourselves more closely in
American affairs, the name of Auburn
cannot well be strange to you: it de¬
notes much the same for the United
States as Spielberg does for Austria.
You must not picture Auburn to your¬
selves merely as a gloomy and exten¬
sive prison—as one large, solitarv
building—no! It is rather an entire
colony of criminals, a sort of town or
metropolis for the wretches that the
community has thrust out.
“Shut in by immense walls, which
rise up from the level plain to a con-
siderable height, are crowded to¬
gether a large number of detached
buildings—houses that contain the
prison-cells, warders' dwellings, hos-
pital, and workshops—all sullen and
forbidding-looking; dotted and here and there
about may be seen a small patch
of grass, a few trees, and, very occa-
sionally, a flower-bed, like the last
lingering recollections of innocent
childhood amongst the black thoughts
° f * crbnblRb
“Certain .
events, which would have
but little interest for yon, had led to
birthplace—to my journeying from Hamburg—my
America, immediately
after the completion of my studies, and,
after a short stay in New York, I ac-
cepted the post of prison-doctor at Au-
burn, which, as you perhaps know, is
situated in the State of New Y’ork. I
was intrusted with the medical su-
pervision over that part of the prison
which was set apart for the worst
class of criminals—men, or I should
say, human hyenas, whose blood, as
Mephistopheles says, had already
ceased to be ‘a fluid of rare quality. ’
“Two of these wretches were des-
traed to spend the remainder of their
days m the prison, and they, by rea-
son of their great physical strength as
well as by the extraordinary cunning
they had evinced in several desperate
attempts to regain their freedom, '
were subjected to even closer super-
vision than the rest of their eompan-
1 ° b ^ ec ^ of Particular
t0 heS6 tW ° SC ° Un ~
tal Ul\n m the the disco* discovery ^ i of i b , een a in?t number 7 men of ‘
mm implements which they-God
k r W8 h °^ th ? y obtained
possession of f them!—had concealed
their clothes; and again on
another occasion, because I had re-
used to receive them into the hospi-
talwhen they feigned illness,
ing r doubtless when they were
once in there that they would find
more favorable opportunities for ac¬
complishing their escape. The ruf¬
fians were separated and placed in re¬
mote parts of the prison, and were
laden with chains; but in spite of all
these precautions, one fine morning
the one, and a few days later the
other, together with their chains, had
disappeared without leaving a trace
behind them.
“It must have been almost a fort¬
night after the flight of these two
criminals, which had caused the ut¬
most consternation amongst the
authorities at Auburn, that I ordered
my horse one aftornoon, and started
off for a ride to Cayuga Bridge. It
was midday when I reached the end
of my journey, and I stood still for
some time contemplating with silent
delight the exquisite scenery which
lay stretched out for miles before me.
The Cayuga Lake, one of those which,
together with Lake Erie, compose that
vast system of inland seas in the State
of New York, lay in all its beauty at
my feet. The long, slender streak of
silver wound in and out of the rugged
black cliffs which hemmed it in, and
which rose sheer up out of the lake,
facing each other like grim opponents
who had for thousands of years bid
one another defiance. Far down the
lake, which is forty miles long, and
at this particular spot about one
broad, I could discern the enormous
trestle-bridge, a marvel of American
engineering skill, which carries the
Auburn division of the New York Cen¬
tral Railway across, passing on its
way through the small station of
Cayuga Bridge. village
“My business in the was soon
finished, and towards evening I started
home again. Do you know how de¬
lightful a ride on a summer’s evening
is? Cayuga Bridge is surrounded by
extensive oak forests, through which
the greater part of my journey lay. The
gnarled and massive trunks cast long
shadows, and the foliage rustled so
gently in the soft eveningJireeze, that
one seemed rather to feel than to hear
it. As I rode between these giants of
the forest, sweet recollections of my
distant home crept into my heart, and,
sunk in my thoughts, I let the reins
fall on my horse’s neck, who trotted
steadily forward. I admired the mar¬
vellous variety of color that the rays
of the setting sun produced as they
shone through the mass of dark-green
leaves, and seemed to kindle their
edges into flame.
“Suddenly I was startled out of my
reverie by a slight noise which ap¬
peared to come from the undergrowth
on either side of the road. Turning
3harply round, I grasped my revolver,
but in the same moment I received a
stunning blow on the back of my head,
which knocked me senseless from my
saddle. Once more I recollect opening
my eyes, and thinking that I could see
indistinctly one of the escaped criminals
bending over me, and then all became
a blank.
‘ ‘It must have been late in the night
when consciousness again returned to
me. Slowly opening my eye3, I saw
far above me the dark blue vault of the
sky, and the full moon shining bright¬
ly. A dull, painful sensation at the
back of my head prompted me to place
my hand there, and then I discovered
that I was bound hand and foot. Grad¬
ually I collected my thoughts; I re¬
membered now the murderous attack
in the forest, and a fearful foreboding
flashed through my mind, which al¬
most caused my heart to stand still.
I felt that I was laid across two sharp
parallel projections, which cut into my
shoulders and the back of my legs,
causing me intense pain, and far be¬
low me I could hear the gentle plash¬
ing of water.
“Heavens; there could no longer be
any dogbt: I was lying stretched across
Cayuga Bridge, bound, incapable of
moving an inch, with the hideous and
absolutely certain prospect of being
cut literally to pieces by the next train
that passed. For the second time that
night I almost swooned as I realized
my situation; bnt by a powerful effort
of will I recovered myself, and tugged
desperately at the ropes that bound me
until they cut almost into my muscles;
I shrieked, and wept finally like a
child. I made mad endeavors to roll
myself into another position, and then
recollected that a careless movement
might precipitate me into the flood be¬
low—bound hand and foot, to sink like
a stone!
“A shudder ran through my frame,
and I lay motionless again; but not for
long, for the light of the great—almost
fearfully bright—moon overhead, the
ripple of the water deep below me, the
breeze that came in light puffs, and
then died away again, giving place to
a death like stillness, occasionally
broken by the scream of some distant
night-bird—all was unbearable, and
caused me the anguish of death. And
then the rails! the rails! My thoughts
were torturing me, and yet I could not
escape them. The wooden beams of
the bridge vibrated perceptibly from
the movement of the water below, and
I thought that I could already feel the
approach of the train, and my hair
bristled with the horror of it. The
breeze now blew somewhat stronger,
and I imagined that I could already
hear, far away in the distance, the
puffing and panting of the locomotive,
and my heart stood still, to beat with
redoubled force the next moment.
“There are certain things, gentle-
men, which are absolutely ineompre-
hensible to me: one of them is the fact
that I was able to survive that night. 'my
mind: One thought stood ever clear in j
I must endeavor by some means
to shift my position—if possible to
one between the metals—if I did' not
wish, possibly even in the next mo-
ment, to become the prey of the most
awfnI death one could conce i ve And
-
1 8Tlee eeded! I strained every muscle,
every sinew, till I could strain no more. !
I wound and twisted myself, and
panted until I thought my head must j
burst, and after superhuman exertions, I
which appeared to last an eternity, and
perhaps lasted bnt a minute, I found ! I
myself in the hollow between the rails.
“Was I saved? I had no time to!
consider that, or to rejoice over tho
fresh chance of life which was now
offered to me, for my whole being con¬
centrated itself in intent listening. Far
away in the distance I could now hear
—first of all indistinctly, and then
gradually increasing as it drew nearer
and nearer—the regular, monotonous
panting which heralds the approach oi
a locomotive. The fearful stillness of
the night gave way, as each minute
passed, to the more fearful noise, to
the clanking and thundering of the en¬
gine as it raced on towards me at the
headlong speed of American trains.
Now a thousand feet more—now five
hundred—all the horrors of hell pos¬
sessed me; but I lay without moving a
muscle. Once, indeed, I tried to scream.
I could no longer hear my own
voice; how, then, could the people in
the train be expected to hear me? And
now for an immeasurably short space
of time a blaze of light beat down upon
me, and a blast of hot air rushed over
me, then everything became dark, and
I hoard a thunder as if the heavens
were crashing in. Close, quite close,
at scarcely a hairbreadth’s distance,
rushed the enormous mass over me. I
was saved!
“Already half-unconscious, I was
still sensible of a deafening clattering
and roaring above me, and I saw shad¬
ow-like masses flying past; still one
moment more of deadly anguish—one
of the coupling-hooks, hanging some¬
what lower than the rest, had caught
and dragged me several yards, tearing
finally a large piece out of the breast
of my coat—then all objects seemed to
whirl around me, the moon, the bridge,
and the lofty cliffs, in one mad dance,
and I became insensible.
When I next woke I found myself in
my own bed, and around me well-
known faces. And now to be brief:
I had been found on the morning after
that awful night by a plate-layer who
had recognized me, and had brought
me back to Auburn. For a fortnight
I lay delirious with brain fever, hover¬
ing between life and death; but my
strong constitution pulled me through.
The first time after my recovery that
I had occasion to use a looking-glass,
I saw what traces those moments had
left on me.”
The doctor ceased speaking; but his
pale face, the look of horror, and the
great beads of sweat on his forehead
all showed how keen his recollection
was of that terrible experience, We
also had listened to his narrative with
breathless attention, and it was some
time before we could shake off the im¬
pression it had left upon us.—From
the German, in Strand Magazine.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Society is the book of women—-
Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Behavior is a mirror in which
every one displays his image.—Goethe.
Life is not so short but there is
always time for courtesy.—Emerson.
Man’s inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn.—Burns.
Labor rids us of three evils—irk¬
someness, vice and poverty.—Vol¬
taire,
In business three things ai*e neces¬
sary—knowledge, temper and time.
—Feltham.
Whatever makes men good Chris¬
tians makes them good citizens.—.
Daniel Webster.
Labor to keep alive in your hear!
that little spark of celestial fire called
conscience. —Washington.
One part of knowledge consists in
being ignorant of such things as are
not worthy of beiug known.—Crates.
The fountain of beauty is the heart
and every generous thought illus¬
trates the walls of your chamber.—
Bovee.
Nature gives us many children and
friends, to take them away; but takes
none away to give them us again.—
Sir W. Temple.
There is no open door to the tem¬
ple of success. Every one makes his
own door, which closes behind him to
all others.—Marden.
The diligent fostering of a candid
habit of mind, even in trifles, is a mat¬
ter of high moment both to character
and opinion.—Hov/son.
The youth who starts out by being
afraid to speak what he thinks will
usually end by being afraid to think
what he wishes.—Marden.
It is with narrow-souled people as
with narrow-necked bottles—the less
they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring it out.—Pope.
If any one speak ill of thee, con¬
sider whether he hath truth on'his
side; and if so, reform thyself, .that
his censures may not affect thee.—
Epictetus.
When infinite happiness is put in
one scale against infinite misery in
the other; if the worst that comes to
the pious man if he mistakes be the
best that the wicked can attain to if he
be in the right, who can, without mad¬
ness run the venture.—Locke,
Reed’s First Speech.
The one which opened Reed’s way
to fame as a man was short. It was
delivered not long after he began his
career in Congress. He had not, up
to that time, taken much part in de¬
bate, but one day, while he was mak¬
ing a somewhat labored argument, an
older member tried to break him up by
putting a question to him suddenly
and demanding an immediate answer.
Reed gave the answer readily. Then
he paused, turned toward the speaker’s
desk and drawled out: “And now,
having embalmed that fly in the liquid
amber of my remarks, I will go on
again.” The house roared. The
galleries took it up. The newspaper
correspondents sent it flying all over
the country, and to his own surprise
more than any one’s else, Reed found
himself a man of note from that hour.
—Illustrated American.
Why a Boy Was Gootl Fifty Years Ago*
Assistant Marshal Wright amused
himself the other day with watching a
small boy, who thought he was unob¬
served, try to let the wind out of a bi¬
cycle standing in front of the Western
Union office. He unscrewed the cap
from the valve and then glanced about
to see if any one was looking; then he
squeezed the tire, put his knee on it,
and tried various means to get the air
out, looking, meanwhile, to see if the
owner was coming. He finally 'ex-Mar- had to
give up. Mr. Wright said to
shal Hendrick:
“Talk about bad boys; they wouldn’t
bave done that fift T y ears a g°-” Mr.
Mendriek, , evidently believer in the
a
lx>y of to ' da - T ’ answered:
“Oh, no; they didn’t have bicycles
. ago.”—Springfield
bcan years Repnb-
-
Returning to Palestine.
During the last few years nearly
150,000 Hebrews have entered Jerusa-
lem, and the imminent^ arrival of another host is
said to be Already the
railways are opening a^d the country be-
tween the coast Jerusalem' and
Damascus, and a Hebrew mi wion on
a large scale mav cause iSance Syria to be Si
oome once more of vast importance in
the East.
OUR BUDGET OF
LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
The Modem Marco—Fair to Look Upon—A
Ridiculous Question—In Washington—
Ups and Downs—Labors Divided—An
Easy Exploit—Saving Labor, Etc., Etc.
At midnight. In his gold boudoir,
The broker dreamed, with smiling lip,
That Greeks and Turks, in strife afar,
Had made wheat take another skip.
—Detroit Free Press.
A Ridiculous Question.
Miss Flitterley—“Oh, Mr. Soper,
didn’t I see you asleep in church?”
Mr. Soper—“I really could not say
if yon did.”—Pick-Me-Up.
In Washington.
Office Seeker—“Have you given up
all hope of getting that job?”
Ex-Offioe Seeker (sadly)—“Yes, I’Ve
just grasped the situation.”
Ups and Downs.
“Betterdays has come down in the
world, hasn’t he?”
“Decidedly. He’s living on the top
floor of a tenement.”—Puck.
Fair to Look Upon.
“Miss Highsee is a beautiful singer,
isn’t she?”
“Very. That was all that made
her singing endurable.”—Washington
Times.
The Lord Specks.
“Do you think it’s true that every
man has his price?” asked the heiress.
“I’m sure I don’t know,” he an¬
swered thoughtfully, “but if you want
a bargain you needn’t look any further.”
—Chicago Post.
Labors Divided.
Parke—“I have a joint account in
the bank with my wife now.”
Lane—“Good! You make an even
thing of it, eh?” '
“Yes. I put the money in and she
draws it out.”—Detroit Free Press.
An Easy Exploit.
Brown—“I don’t see why so much
fuss should be made about Queen Vic¬
toria reigning sixty years. ”
Jones—“Nor I. We have thousands
of statesmen who would guarantee to
hold on to a job sixty years, provided
they didn’t die and were notremoved.”
—Puck.
Golden Bridge Building.
“Of course you’ll give me one little
kiss before I go,” he pleaded.
She looked at him intently for a
minute and sighed.
“It’s pretty high pay,” she replied,
“but if you will go early enough I sup¬
pose I’ll have to call it a bargain. ”—
Chicago Post.
Saving Labor.
“Our typewriter girl asked the boss
if be couldn’t lighten her work this
hot weather.”
“What did he say?”
“He told her not to hit her type¬
writer keys so hard and to lick "her
postage stamps only on the corners.”
—Chicago Record.
The Returned Student.
Upton—“Well, I see your son is
home from college. What does he in¬
tend to do?”
Manville—“I don’t know exactly,
but, judging from the start he has
made, I’m inclined to believe that he
proposes to put in most of his time ex¬
plaining hoiv he was turned down
when the racing crew was chosen.”—
Cleveland Leader.
IWhat He Wanted to See.
“Did you see the account of the new
submarine boat?”
“Yes; but I didn’t read it. It doesn’t
interest me, you know.”
“It certainly indicates extraordinary
progress.”
“Of course; but in the wrong direc¬
tion. Enough boats go down now.
What I want to see is one that is
,
guaranteed to stay up.”—Chicago
Post.
A Caprice of Fortune,
“I noticed in th’colyumns of the
daily pr-press that Actor Bancroft was
knighted by th’ gr-r-racious hand of
the lady queen. Now, who in Erebus
is Bancroft?”
“Barnsy, me boy, I dunno. I un-
derstood he was retired. ”
“Gods! Listen to that! Retired!
Such is our pr-r-rofession. The obsolete
and spavined oldlaid-on-the-shelf gets
garters, while we active ornamentous
of the stage can’t even connect with
dime suspenders! Truly it is a parlous
world.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Legislator a Victim of His Own Law,
This is the story of a man who was
hoist by his own petard, His name
is Ira N. Terrill, and he ivas the first
victim of the capital punishment law
in Oklahoma, escaping on a technical¬
ity. He is the author of the law, hav¬
ing been a member of the lower House
of the Territorial Legislature.
After much work his labors were re-
warded and the bill making hanging
the punishment for murder became a
law. Shortly after the Legislature ad¬
journed Terrill and a man named
George Embree had a discussion iu
the land office in Guthrie over a plot
of ground. Terrill drew his revolver
and shot Embree dead.
Terrill wks tried before Judge Dale
and was found guilty and sentenced to
death. His attorneys were clever,
however, and obtained a new trial for
him on the plea that the crime was
committed on that part of Guthrie
known as the “Government Acre,” be-
ongmg to the United States and that
therefore the trial should have been
before a United States court.
At the second trial he was sentenced
to twenty years’ imprisonment and
confined m prison Then his attor-
neys tried to get a third trial on habeas
sn.’fflawta." »s
twelve K*jwara>astt years’
A impr,somr.ent.
brohe Mountams, out and escaped into the OsS
where Tamil remained two
About a year ago he made an effort
£ ^
was taken back to the penitentiary
and i, there now, awaiting the de
cision of the courts as to which sen-
fcence he shall fulfil.—New York i ora Jour- j our
na l
Fire in a Curions Place.
A fire has occurred, of all curious :
pi ^ aces, in the ice-cold
of New York firm. storage vaults
a Whii Winie the fire- «
men were at work a vessel containing
ammoma used in the refrigeration ex-
in all dirocrions Wht^he 7 ' For sev ql ^ °IT
the firemen work- 1 “ ^
cellar, mlSlvu -,! L in freezing f at-
monia vapor X cubJued IdrinfatT^lT r 5 eVer SW ' I '
the fire ’
£L ;• One ° ne faremau
: W ost bic his life while two were taken to
ternb] y from
lenfe tense cold.-Scientific "Id S'" a T°* American. ia aQd »- |
TRAWLERS °!™L? RAND BANK *
How the Cod and Halibut Are Taken by
the Small Vessels.
Gustav Kobbe writes an article en
titled “On the Grand Banks and
where” for St. Nicholas, Mr. Kobbe
says: generally found
The trawlers are on
the Grand Banks, the hand-liners on
the Western Bank and Quito. These
hand-liners are smaller vessels with
fewer dories, and the men fish with
hand-lines, one man and two lines to
a dory. The hand-liner sits in the
middle of his dory, with a compart¬
ment in its stern and another in its bow
for his catch. When you see the bow
sticking far up into the air you know the
fisherman has his stern-load. Then, as
fish after fish flashes into the other
compartment, the bow settles, and
when the dory is on an even keel the
hand-liners pnll back to the vessel.
The trawlers bait with fresh herring,
mackerel and squid; the hand-liners
with salt clams. The catch of both is
split and salted, and the jessel has a
full “fare,” or catch, when she has
“wet her salt”—that is, used up all
her salt and is full of fish. A trawler’s
voyage lasts about eight weeks; a
hand-liner’s, eleven.
A trawler’s crew receives no wages,
but fishes on shares. First, the cap¬
tain gets a percentage; of the remain¬
der, one-half goes to the vessel, which
“finds,” that is, supplies the gear,
stores, salt and half the bait; and the
other half to the captain and crew’ in
equal shares, which run from $110 to
$150, and even to $250.
But among the hand-liners each man
is paid according to what he catches,
the “faro” from each dory being
weighed as it is taken aboard. This
stimulates competition, There is
judgment in knowing where to fish
or how long to stay over a certain
spot; and even the quickness with
which a line is hauled in will make a
perceptible difference at the end of a
day’s fishing. It means something to
be “high line,” ns they call the best
fishermen, at the end of a voyage, and
those who win this distinction time
and again, as some do, become known
as “killers” and “big fishermen.”
The main catch on the Banks is ood
and halibut. There is also a fleet of
small American vessels which pursue
the merry swordfish. Swordfishing is
good sport—-whaling on a small scale.
A man, dart in hand, stands in the
vessel’s bow, supported by a semi¬
circular iron brace. When near enough
to the fish he lets fly the dart. A
swordfish may weigh 350 pounds. One
can tow a dory a mile, and a piece of
the sword has been found driven
through the bottom of a pilot boat,
Prinbe Wore a Necklace of Pearls.
The conversation given last night by
the East India United Service Club to
meet the Princess and other Indian
visitors now in England, proved an es¬
sentially brilliant function, Crowds
of well-dressed guests lined the stair¬
case and filled the large entrance hall,
overshadowed by palms, to witness the
arrival of the Queen’s Indian guard,
many of the Hyderabad contingent and
other finely built native soldiers with
a profusion of orders on their breasts.
They were quickly followed by several
of the Princes. Pertab Singh was
clad in a red and gold striped habit,
with a light blue and silver turban, on
which figured a medallion portrait.
His aid-de-camp] was in red and gold,
divided as a short skirt and long
jacket, with a black and gold turban.
With him was another Indian visitor
in a long white satin coat cut as they
wear them in the East. Another
Prince was arrayed in white satin with
rows of pearls about his neck; a long
bar of diamonds clasping, not the lobe,
but the entire ear, and magnificent,
diamond ornaments glittered on his
soft silky yellow turban. A grand old
nawab’s coat was entirely composed of
cloth of gold, and, with his gray
whiskers curiously tied and largo tur¬
ban, he towered above all tho rest.
There were three Parsees in shiny
black caftans, the elder Sir Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy.—St. James’ Gazette.
Queer Funeral Habit in Cuba.
There are queer, and sometimes
touching, superstitious practices in
the island. One that I witnessed in
Santiago de Cuba—I do not know if it
obtains in other parts of the country—
is poetic in its weird sentimentality.
The dead are carried in an uncovered
coffin to the graveyard, where the lid
is fastened on at the last moment; but
at the funeral of a ’child there is no
sign of mourning. The little corpse is
olad in some gauzy white fabric and
crowned with flowers; young children,
the companions of the deceased, walk
on either side of the coffin. They are
dressed in white, with bows of bright
colored ribbons; each carries a small
basket filled with shredded petals of
flowers, which they, from time to time,
throw by the handful in the air, the
fragrant leaves falling like raindrops
around the little corpse, Musicians
playing lively airs precede the coffin,
which is invariably carried by hand.
The people say the sinless child is B11
angel returning to heaven, which
should give cause for rejoicing, not for
grieving. A rather too realistic illus¬
tration of this belief was given once,
when the dead child’s eyes were kept
open by some contrivance, its cheeks
and lips rouged, and a pair of gauze
wiDgs attached to its shoulders.—New
York Sun.
When Blonffin was Afraid,
When Blondin was astonishing wonderful the
world by exhibitions of his
f ea ts of balancing, one of his favorite !
jokes was to offei to carry some di S
tingaished spectator across the rope
with him on his back Everybody eaS-
naturally refused, and the great
libri *t, with a genial smile, wou *•» d say-
But he was hoist once
dhibiting in Pariaf and was .bon™
Mm , at invM
o'tat
r;-“r„“bac^ Cham * / ^ K hat » n ™ 1 ”“!! ereA
Iwered i Iilonto “Xm if -aT” A “tb?r?- ? J ’° mph \ 5 J “?t‘ an- _ __ .
T exclaimed Cham ^ ai ^’ tills M.
w Blondin, n n,iin it t is you who are afraid!”
Uges of Steel.
We ride to New Y'ork on a steel
road OV f r steeI bnd S e 3* ^ay at a steel
frame * hotel, and take a steel sten-w,.
ship to England, a country whose civ-
ilization rests on steel. "Our farmers
*7 Steel pl ° WS ’ 0ur chants steel
saf f* ^ manufacturers steel boilers
aud steel water-wheels, onr carpenters
steel 1 nails, and our soldiers fire steG
ganf? from behind steel shields. Steel
7^ dr °P s are one S ° it is cbeap not tbat worth if a his carpenter while to
pick it up, for ten seconds of his thne
is worth more than the nail Thev
ai ’ e 90 cb « a P ^at it pays to lose them
-Hartford (Conn.) CoWanfc
Pistols and Pestles.
The duelling pistol now occupies its proper
place, in the museum of the collector of relics
of barbarism. The pistol ought to have be3ido
it the pestle that turned out pills like bullets,
to be shot like bullets at the target of the
liver. But the pestle is still in evidence, and
will be, probably, until everybody has tested
the virtue of Ayer’s sugar coated pills. They
treat the liver as a friend, not as an enemy.
Instead of driving it, they coax it. They are
compounded on the theory that the liver does
its work thoroughly and faithfully under
obstructing conditions, and if the obstructions
are removed, the liver will do its daily duty.
When your liver wants help, get “tho pill
that will,”
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills.
A Medical Warning.
All medical men of large experience
have frequently met with cases in
which patients have placed a bottle of
medicine to their lips and taken a
draught of its qpntents in a darkroom,
under the impression that there was
“only one bottle upon that shelf,”
when in reality some other member of
the family had placed other bottles
there. In this way serious cases of
poisoning have occurred, In other
instances a wife rising in the night to
give some medicine to her husband or
child has picked up the wrong bottle
in the dim light, and administered a
fatal dose, with terrible result.
Where medicine is ordered in drops,
you should always obtain a medicine
dropper from a drug store, and avoid
attempting to drop the medicine from
the bottle, as it requires a very steady
hand and accurate counting to avoid
mistake.
Finally, let me warn you against one
common habit, which is closely con¬
nected with the use of bottles contain¬
ing old medicines, and is strongly
condemned by oculists, who most fre¬
quently meet with it—the habit of
preserving old medicine droppers
which have been Used for dropping
fluids into the eye. Quite frequently
powerful medicines dry in these di*op*
pers, and ivlien they are used some
months afterward for the introduction
of eye washes they produce symptoms
which very seriously alarm the pa¬
tient, and which may to some extent
mystify the practitioner.—The Chau¬
tauqua.
Disease Germs Id Soils.
It-has been observed in France that
iu localities where animals are inter¬
red which have died of charbon, the
germs of this infectious malady per¬
sist in the soils for many years, and
that especially wheu cereal crops are
cultivated upon such soils, there is
great danger of contaminating healthy
cattle with the same disease. In one
case it was observed that many sheep
which were pastured iu a field in
which two years before a single ani¬
mal which had died of charbon was
buried, were infested with the dis¬
ease and died. In like manner, it is
entirely probably that the germs of
hog cholera may be preserved in the
soil for many years, to finally again
be brought into any activity which
may prove disastrous for the owners
of swine. Every effort should be
made by agronomists to avoid infect¬
ing the soil by carcasses which are
dead from any zymotic disease.
Cremation is the ouly safe method
of disposing of such infected carcasses.
The investigations of scientists have
shown that there are many diseases of
an infectious nature due to these
germs, and that these germs may pre¬
serve their vitality in the soil. Among
others may be mentioned yellow fever
and tetanus, and the microbe produc¬
ing the bubonic plague, which retains
its vitality in the soil, and thus escape
entire eradication.—Journal of the
Franklin Institute.
Purely a Local Disease.
Eczema is a local disease and needs local
treatment. The irritated, diseased skin must
be soothed and smoothed and healed. No use to
dose yourself and ruin your stomach just because
of an itching eruption. Tetterine is the only
simple, safe and certain cure for Tetter, Ec¬
zema, Ringworm and other skin troubles. At
druggists or by mail for 50 cents iu stamps.
J. r. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
The busy little bootblack never fails to im¬
prove each little shining hour.
fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous¬
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottleand treatise free
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A Peculiar Optical Illusion.
The correspondent of a photographic
journal, in speaking of the special in-
terest*.that attaches to the Roentgen
rays among photographers, who often
are not in a position to invest in elab¬
orate and expensive sets of apparatus,
says it is not generally known that by
means of a very simple optical illusion,
an almost perfect imitation of the
wonders of the radiography can be
shown without the trouble and ex¬
pense of induction coils, tubes of
floureseent, screens. All that is nec¬
essary is to- take a small feather from
a pheasant or turkey, and holding it
close to the eye look through the ra¬
diating ribs at the end of the feather
at the Augers of the hand held up to¬
wards the sky, or against the window.
The flesh of the fingers will then
pear to be transparent, with the opaque
bone running down in the center as
shown by the true radiography. If it
is desired to exhibit the phenomenon
by gaslight a piece of ground glass
must be held in front of the flame to
diffuse the light.
TEXAS LADIES
Don’t Lie.
\ Qui tman, Tex. .writ 03: After
Kk Dyspepsia 1- years’ Buffering and Sicls from
jpV sssl ,-u-iio I vrv.E cured by Head- Dr.
j 31. A. Simmons i.iver
% m 3Iotlicinc. It cured my
Husband of Constipation,
fifijj our little Girl of Nm ons*
noss, and our Son of Ca¬
tarrh of: the Bowels. It
cured Mrs, Newman of
t^EPPwgp^and zzg* 55 v Painful Menstrual ion,
carried >?rs. Fields
safely through Cliansreoi Life. It perfect¬
ly regulates the Liver, Stomach nnd
Bowels, and leavci no bad effects, while
both “Black Draught” and "Zeilin’s Liver
Regulator” did not leave my bowels in such
good condition. I found more of it in the
Package, and it only required half the quan¬
tity for a dose, and I had rather nay 26 cts.
per Package for it thRn use “Zeiiiu’s” or
•‘Black Draught” as a free gift.
Bad Taste in tha Mouth.
Digestion is tho grand process b 7 of which the
nature repa'rs the wasted tissues
health body, which, when the individual faithfulness is in
anq is performed with great
regnlarity, and without giving tise to
any Indigestion disagreeable sensations. which . consists of
deviation ia a disease a
from this ordinary mode of health
and in the deficiency or vitiated character of
those secretions which arc essential to the
conversion of food into blood. The bestcor-
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remove the offensive taste.
Randolph, will Ky., without writes: I
never be Dr.
M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine. It cured me of
Chronic Constipation
and Torpidity of Liver
afterseverai Piiysieiansand
ma . ny Patent Medicines bad
failed. I took three times
as much “Black Draught”
as tho directions said take,
and it had but little effect
on me, and I don’t think it
IS* W-dES had much strength.
Backaches Common to Mothers.
The busy mother sometimes feels an in*
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feels inactive, weary and depressed.
Her back, oh, how it aches! When she sits
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up, and when she stands, that she must sit
down. The truth is, the capacity of her ner¬
become vous system has been overworked, it has
exhausted and there is a breaking
down. What she needs is a course of Dr.
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healthy and vitality functional activity and give tons
to her nervous system.
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