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CHILDREN'S COLUMN
Tli»nk«uiC"K.
o: children, little child ran,
In happy homes today,
lili-Hsed with kind friends and parents,
With love and cure tilwity,
Remember those who suffer,
Remember tlioe* in need.
And on tills day,shed some bright ray
Of light upon the way.
0! children, little children,
Who sit at feasts today,
At. tiibb-B spread with plenty,
A bountiful array;
'Think of the poor and starving,
Think of the lono and sad,
And on thi: lay, for such as they,
Do some kind act, I pray.
(iiitiig SkiitDH it N»*w Invention,
Cinderella’s glass slipper bids fair
to become something more than a
my h, though the modern ( inderella
will need no fairy godmother to fur
nisb her with a coach in which to
’.................. Hoi ulijipen, will
answer the purpose
The modern Cinderella s glass
elipper is a skate, of winch the upper
part resembles a slipper open be
land, with a split “lace-up heel-cap.
The Age of Steel describes this new
skate as a skate of glass, hardened by
consistency . . of ,
a new I"".....*
steel. I, very part of the skate is of
g uss rom the slippev-Uko upper to
the glittering blade.
It is said that the glass blades are
i.m.d. more slippery than steel ones
and that they will run almost as well
over rough, snow-covered ice as on a
smooth ice-sbeet, and will also go
eas.ly over inequalities, twigs and
other obstructions.
They are made very sharp, and are
so hard that it is almost impossible to
blunt them. They are unlike steel
skates, in that they never need grind¬
ing, and never rust.
The new skates are ns pretty as they
are efficient. They are very neavly
transparent, and in some cases the
glass, while in the liquid state, is
variously colored. Several notable
skaters are said to have tested them,
in every case with satisfactory results.
Ho tho pretty skates, with their sharp
blades, will, in all probability, Boon
he seen skimming over lakes and
streams, and youths and maidens who
long ago relegated the Cinderella
story to tho legion of their childhood,
will take u renewed interest iu glass
slippers.
The Largest Pie mill 1’iiilillng.
Thanksgiving for blessings received
or national rejoicings of any kind,
have been for more than a century
celebrated in Yorkshire, England, by
the making and euting of immense
public pies or puddings. Probably
the largest plum pudding ever made
was thnt of Ptidsey, iu the \Ve§t
Riding, made in 184<i to celebrate the
repeal of tho corn laws—a Free Trade
Pudding it was called. The flour
alone weighed 280 pounds, and suet,
fruit, etc., wore added in proportion.
The ingredients were divided among
twenty housewives of the village, who
each mixed her share into the requisite
consistency tor the tinal bloiuling*
The pudding was boiled in an immense
i ye pan a one o le noa at ones,
ainl was lowered into tho pan ma
large suck made for the purpose and
by means of a windlass and chain. It
nights and , i was K then ( ° r t hoisted irUe t ' ayS on V to a
truck, decorated with flags,and drawn
through the village by four horses, ft
was taken to a large field aud cut up f
x t ; ..... i:k s
fi * ado. y l t Each ( l guest „ 1 paid 1 n ? v ° shilling 1 u ir " 1 for . a
a
it, and provided his own plate and
spoon.
One of tlni biggest pies . on record
was luade at Derby Dale, near Hud
derstiecd, a place noted since 1788 for
its -national pies, to celebrate the re
coverv of (leorge III from an illness.
A second one. to celebrate the peace
Winch tallowed the battle of Waterloo,
was made iu 1815; but the largest of
all was made last year iu eommemova
tion of the Jubilee of Free Trade.
Tho dish in which it was baked was
teii loot long and six and one-half feet
wide, and was made of steel boiler
piate neatly half au inch thick. Ihe
entire contents of the pie weighed
oi'20 pounds; one thousand pounds of
beef, 150 pounds of mutton aud 200
pounds of veiil and lamb being put in
to it. Ihe crust took 1000 pounds of
flour and lo2 pounds of lard. It was
baked iu an oven built for tlie pur
pose, and was n perfect success:
Visitors from every part of England
flocked to Derby Dale, and the monster
thanksgiviug without pie was entirely oaten
up. any waste or disorderli
ness. New York Tribune.
, A Novel Game.
A popular device for n drawing
room game is the sliced animal game,
Frow four to ten can engage in the
game. Players should be seated at a
table; if four play, a card table will
answer ; if ten, it is better sport to
gather around a dining table. Conn
ters must be provided for each person
taking part in the game, a color for
each; thane are readily made of thin
cardboard, yellow, red, bine, pink,
green, violet and their shades, to
gether with black and white, will fill
the necessary number. Each chooses
his or her color and retain* one at the
left hand for proof. A file is required
to check a point, so it will be neces¬
sary to have n hole punched in the
Centre of the counter*. For sociability
alternate in seating a girl and a boy.
The box of sliced animals is turned
out on the table, w ith face downward.
Knelt person in turn takes four slices.
The one at the left, of the person who
draws lust plays first. lie (or she)
j lays one of her sections out face up;
the witty player w ill try to puzzle the
next player by a blind* lead; that is,
he will lay out a bind leg, part of or
whole trunk of the creature, but never
give away the animal by a lead. For
instance, one leads a tail; the next
player scans bis sections to see if he
has part of the trunk which goes with
that tail—it may be a lion’s tail—if he
can add (or build) to this, the hind
part of the body, he does so; if not,
he can and anything which suggests
to him a completion of the aninml he
takes it to be I he has not the
right section, he draws one from the
pile in the centre of the table, and if
this does not match the next person
tries. II 1„ ........ aajrtblM lbs.
he deposits a counter on the tile,
There must be no suggestions as to
what the animal may be Silence
must be strictly observed Grave
and grotesque errors amid shouts of
laughter is the life of the game. When
the animal is completed the one who
has , contributed the most . members , of ,
the body wins one point. Ibis[is
shown by the counters on the hie.
The completed animal is left aside and
another is begun after the same
fashion. Perhaps this time with an
eye or an ear. Whoever wins the
most points is presented with a prize,
A child « book of animals would be
suggestive of animal study for first
prize, Noah’s ark fqr second.
A Busy Kxecut.ioner,
Frauces Courtenay Baylor tells an
old fashioned fairy tale in the Ht.
Nicholas, under the title of an “End
less Story. It begins in this prom
lsing way:
There was once an Oriental king _
whoso chief delight and recreation
bom the cares and burdens of his
royal condition was to listen to stories,
Reading was by no means a universal
accomplishment iu the kingdom of
Kaziwar, and its sovereign cn ed noth¬
ing for parchment records or pictorial
representations of the ancient history
of his own people or those of any
other country. It was the delight of
his leisure hours to stretch himself on
a divan in the beautiful courtyard of
, his . palace, , and, , amnl the plashing ... of ,
lts fountains and the odor of its
flowers, to have the cleverest ana
most imnginnfive and traveled of his
subjects tell him tales of every kind,
while his courtiers, grouped about
him, shared his pleasure, and were
punished withnothiug less than death
if they yawned three times in succes¬
sion, or were guilty of the least in¬
terruption. The king’s passionate
fondness for this form of diversion,
and the great rewards that he heaped
upon the men who had tbe good for¬
tune to keep him amused, naturally
resulted in his court becoming the
rendezvous of all the most brilliant
talkprs (th t kiud in that , t of the
™ven y SCiV the 8mftU t piece of paper in
the way of a memorandum wnsstfletly *
; aJcovdiug ,, to'the , .1 ,1
versatility
of their minds and the fluency with
which thev .{ were able to disguise the
c [ act . ,1 U f . ^ W61 ' 6 , bonowl,l • e a11 ,, the .. v
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kueW fl WU 8om ? m ° Ve S0Urce .’
°!' abundantly , able to invent
situations ( and plots as diverting and
characters that interested intensely /
theu * im P enal . , ftUl1 , . lord » »
who, bored by chronicles, bad a tbous
aud pairs of ears and as many pairs of
eyes as a fly for all the tragedies and
comedies and adventures that eouU\
be recounted with tbe human voice
aud presence to give them color aud
life. Natives aud strangers vied wi h
l)Ue another for years in repeating or
inventing all tbe tales that they could
imagine or recall for the benefit of
their swarthy lord, who, stretched ou
his divans, fixed on them his piercing
eye, and bade them do their best,
it was very nervous work for the
poor souls, though; for the king's ex¬
eeutioner, armed with thel^m<e sU^Htver est aud
sharpest of simitars, king'w^f'd by
their sides,and if the them
repeat themselves or one auother, if
they turned pale under the straiu, or
forgot what they had to say, as like
aa no t he would frown fiercely aud
,>lnp his hands—when off would go a
head! Whereas, if lie were easilv en
tertaiued, he would listen greedily to
every detail, aud. the story done,
convnand pipes and wine and fruit to
be brought for the refreshment of the
speaker,clothe him in robes of scarlet,
present him with a fortune in tho
shape of a single ring, and add to it
twenty purses of gold or a dozen vine
yards, according to the measure of his
satisfaction.
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The r«u»e of the T.ouhi,-.
Mr. Mnchblest - Yes. doctor, T have
a frightful cold. What i you say
was votir special method of treaJ
ment?
Physician—We strike at the cause
or origin of the trouble.
Mr. Muchldest—That’s odd. Auv
bow. you’ll find the baby iu the other
room.—Brooklyn Life.
NOTED WILD WHITE MEN
DERELICTS WHO FELL INTO THE
HANDS OF NATIVE AUSTRALIANS.
Adventures of William Iiuckley, an 1*:«
eaped Convict—He Was Six Feet Seven
Inches Tall, and Won the Heart of a
t hief’s Widow — JEpicurean Cannibals.
The meteoric appearance of a gen
tlemau named Louis de Rougemont
with a marvellous story of hitherto
unheard-of adventures during an al
leged residence of some thirty years
with the blacks of northern Australia,
revives recollections of the “wild
white men’’ that from time to time
have fallen into the hands of the un¬
civilized Australian aborigines and
been restored to white humanity after
long years of separation and degrada¬
tion,
The first recorded wild white man
vva3 WiUiaiu Bnokley , a native of
Macclesfield, and at the close of the
,, (st ceutul a 8olclier in the Fourth,
Kiue’s Own roeiment 7,- On Dec
*L“Sj ; n uith six other
tempt £ on the life of the Duke of Kent.
He ns sentenced to transportation
for ]ife and takeu out in a CO nvict ship
to the Antipodes. g During a brief stay
t u ' }1 f t j U ow V the U harbor Ua ‘° ur
of Melbourne he contrived to escape
in company with two other convicts.
The ]utte ; perished-how was never
aBcert «ined-aml when Buckley was
81lljSeq uently questioned as to their
fate he was exceedingly reticent and
(ii8Concerte d. That it was a case of
calmibalism was the gene ral belief of
tho earl 8ett |ers around Melbourne,
Auyhow iu tbe !ast 8tages o{ hunger
and privatioD) Buckley lav down up
on w]lat proved to be 'tbe “grave of a
newly-buried chief. Luckily for him
the widow came along, and supersti
tiously concluded that her dear de
parted had returned to life in the
shape of a white man. She promptly
annexed him as her own, led him to
the camp of tlie blacks, explained the
circumstances under which she had
found him, and secured his admission
as a chief of the tribe, a position for
which he was physically well quali
fled, as he was a man of great stature
(<; f ee t 7 inches), strength and en
durance.
For the next thirty-two years Buck
ley led the life of a savage, hunting,
fishing and fighting with the tribe
that adopted him. He does uot ap¬
pear to have taught the blacks any¬
thing or raised them in any degree iu
the scale of civilization. He simply
became one of themselves aud adapt
ed flflyggif f 0 flj s uew environment
in every redpect—perhaps his best
and wisest course under the circum¬
stances. It was on July 12, 1835,
that he saw a white face for the first
time after a lapse of more than thirty
years. On that' day the pioneers of
the city of Melbourne landed from
their little schooner, aud Buckley ad¬
vanced to meet them. He had by this
time become but little superior to the
savages around him, but the new¬
comers noticed the comparatively
light color of his «kin. He tried to
summon up some English words from
the depths of his memory, and at
last succeeded iu articulating the
word “bread.” He made himself
very useful as an interpreter between
the new white settlers and the blacks,
and when his reached Loudon
the imperial authorities magnanimous¬
ly drew the sponge over his offence
and sent him a free pardon. He en¬
joyed a small pension in his Inter
years, and lived until Feb. 2, 1856,
when he was thrown out of a cart and
killed iu his 76th yeait- The site of
Geelong, about forty miles from Mel¬
bourne, was the headquarters of the
tribe to which Buckley was attached
during his three decades of savage
life. Three miles from Geelong there
is still shown a cave in a river gorge
where he is said to have resided, aud
the Wm ^iacent rapids continue to per
peti his uame as Buckley’s Falls.
James Morrill, a native of Maldon,
Essex, was tbe sole survivor of the
shipwreck of the bark Peruvian, that
struck ou a reef off the northeastern
coast of Queensland on March 8,
1846. He lived with the Queensland
blacks for an even longer penod
twenty years.
The story of a little cabin boy
named Narcis§e Pierre Pellatier
ought to have attracted the at
teutiou fore of the He boys’ engaged novelists cabin loug.be- boy
now. as
on the St. Paul, bound from China to
Australia with 350 Chinese emigrants,
She a' s ° struck on a reef off the north
eastern coast of Queensland. Officers
and crew got away in tbe boats, not
troubling themselves about the ( bin
ese passengers; and in their hurry
forgetting the little cabin boy, who
"'as subsequently dying found by tbe blacks
in a condition in a cranny
among the rocks. They nursed him
back to life, fed him. treated him well
and, iu fact, made him tbe pet of the
tribe. Nearly all the Chinese passen
were captured by the blacks ami
eaten up two at a time. The flesh of
the Chinaman is esteemed a great
delicacy by the cannibal blacks of
Queensland. From the point of view
of a cann bal, a vegetarian is far su
perior to a nreat-eater. Little Pella
tfer lived with the blacks for seveu
teen year®*, and v as rescued by a
Uiiiak ship, the John Bell, on April
13, 1H75. lie immediately returned
to France, where he may be still liv
iflg. He wuukl cow be it man of be
tween titty and sixty.
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MR. DOOLEY ON THE ELECTION.
After Attending a Political Meeting He
Tells l(«mi«kHy !(U Views.
“ ’Tis as much as a man’s life is
worth these dsvs,' saiil Mr. Dooley,
“to have a vote. Loo here," he con
tinned, diving under the hat- and pro
during a roll of paper; “here’s th v
pitchers iv candidates I pulled down
fr’m th’windy,an’jus’kuowin’they’re
here makes me that narvous f’r th’
contents iv th’ cash dhrawer I’m afraid
to tur-ru me back f’r a ininyit, , . .
“All heroes, too, Hiunissy. , . .
r-veady to sarve their countkry to th’
bitther eud, an’ to r-rusk, voucher in
har.d, to th’ city threeasurev’s office at
a miuyit’s notice.
“I wiut to a hero meeting th’ other
night, Hinnissy, an’ that’s sthrange
f’r me. Whin a man gets to be my age
he laves th’ shoutin’ f’r th’ youth iv’
th’ laud, ouless he has a pol-itical job
“Well,sir, there was O’Toole an’ all
th’ r-rest on th’ platform in uuyform,
with flags over thim an’ th’ bauds
playin’ ‘They’ll be a hot nw® ; u t k ’
ol’ town tonight again,’ and \ tb chair¬
man was Plunkett. . . . Whin
th’ battle r.-raged,’ he says, ‘au’ the
bullets fr’m th’ haughty Spauyaids’
raypeatin’ Mouser rifles,’ he says,
‘r-roared,’ he says, ‘in the air,’he says,
‘where was Cassidy?’ he says. ‘In
his saloon.’ says I, ‘in Itn-rald avnoo,’
says I. Thrue f’r ye,’ says Plunkett.
‘An’ where,’ he says, ‘was our candy
date?’ he says. ‘In somebody else-’a
saloon,’says I. ‘No,’ says he. ‘Whin
the Prisidint,’ he says, ‘called th’ na¬
tion to ar-rms,’ he says, ‘an’ Congress
voted 50,000,000 good bucks f’r th’
naytional definse,’ he says, ‘Thomas
Fracis Dorgan,’ he says, ‘in that min
yit iv’naytional pearl,’ says he, ‘left
his good job in th’ pipe-yard,’he says,
‘an’ wiut down to th’ raycruitin’ office
an’ says: “How many calls f’r volun¬
teers is out?” he says. “Wan,” says
th’ officer. “Put me down,” says
Dorgan, “f’r th’ tenth call,” lie says.
‘This, gentlemen iv the foorth pre
end,’ he says, ‘is Thomas Francis
Dorgan, a man who, if dieted,’ lie
says, ‘upon ‘vietkry will perch,’ he says,
our banners,’ he says, ‘an’, he
says,‘the naytional honor will be main¬
tained,’ he says, ‘in th’ county boord, ’
he says. . . .
th’ “Mighty few iv th’ rale heroes iv
war is r-runnin’ f’r office. Most iv
thim put ou their blue overalls whin
they was mnsthered out an’wint up an’
ast f’r their ol’ jobs back—and some¬
times got thim. Ye can see as manny
as ten iv them at th’ rollin’ mills de¬
fendin’ th’ nation’s honor with wheel
bakr’s an’ a slag shovel.”—Peter
Dunn, in Chicago Journal.
A Ciiinauian’g Memory.
“The intellectual capacity of the
Chinese may rank with the best in
Western countries. Their own liter¬
ary studies, in which memory plays
the important part, prove the nation
to be capable of prodigious achieve¬
ments in that direction. It is slated
in Macaulay’s Life that had “Para¬
dise Lost” been destroyed he could
have reproduced it from memory. But
even such a power of memory as he
possessed is small as compared with
that of many Chinese, who can repeift
by heart all the thirteen classics; and
it is as nothing to that of some Chi¬
nese, who, in addition to being able
to repeat the classics, can memorize a
large part of the general literature of
their country.
“A Chinese acquaintance of mine
was able at the age of sixty-five to re¬
produce, verbatim, letters received
by him in his youth from some of his
litJrary friends famous as stylists.
When pitted against European stu¬
dents in school or college the China¬
man is in no respect inferior to his
Western contemporaries, and,whether
in mathematics and applied science,
or in metaphysics and speculative
thought, he is able to hold his own
against all competitors.”—“China in
Transformation,” by A.R. Colquhoun.
The Sikhs.
Sir Le el Griffin has placed on re¬
C0V( j k j s conviction that the Sikhs
form the back < one of the Indian army,
tor thqjollov igieasons: Ghnrkas,
though at least equally valuable -as in
fantiy, ai by no means so plentiful,
aud are an independent race. Patbans
are apt to become homesick and dis
like to be stationed at any great dis
tance from their native land. Diffi
cutty is experienced in enlisting pure
Rajputs in any number. But the Sikh
is always ready to enlist and to nndev
take duty across the “Black Water,”
even should that duty be to fight an
epedeiuic in Hong Kong or to chase
Arab slave dealers in Central Africa,
if ouly he be well paid, (for the Sikh
has several Scottish qualities).. He is
equally good as horse or foot, at de
feuse or iu attack; he appreciates the
value of discipline aud is devoted to
his duty. — Gentleman’s Magazine.
Non-committal.
Alderman's Wife—I see that the
members of the Spanish Cortes don’t
get any salary at all. I wonder how
they live,
Alderman—Maria, I never divulge
professional secrets, especially *
women.—Chicago Naurs.
During the F.Iopemeut.
It’s Cholly—Reassure yourself, dearest.
only papa steadying the ladder for
us while we are descending. Judge.
Th^KnormaiiM Thig■wiinsc dl' <Jol<1 Product of 1808.
From 8ruth Africa, 1 jlie Klondike rear in history.
tralia and Aus¬
thu preolpus metal Is being shipped in
\argt* quauttiies. It is believed that this year’s
oitrput will he neRrly double that of any pre¬
vious twelve months. The sales of lloatet
ter's Stomaeh Bitters are also Increasing very
fast, and this your that famous remedy will
cure more people of dyspepsia, indigestion,
COMO iit>rvousu"9H add »"»Iukwi than
f'ver Wlrote
It’s hard t., com . . a thiel that there are
any honest mru in th» world.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
ll TakeCiwcaretscandyl'«tlutfil% C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund lOcor 2Vi.
money.
It hurts a person less to be lied about than
it does to lie about others.
Rheumatism
Is caused by acid in the blood. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla neutralizes this acid and cures
the aches and pains. Do not suffer any
longer when a remedy Is at hand. Take
the great medicine which has cured so many
others, and you may confidently expect it
will give you the relief you so much desire.
Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla
Is America’s Greatest Medicine. Price $1.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Hood’s Pills cure sick headache. 25c.
A Backslider.
A minister’s little girl and her play¬
mate were talking about serious
things. “Do you know what a back¬
slider is?” the former questioned.
“Yes; it’s a person that used to be
a Christian aud isn’t,” said the play¬
mate promptly.
“What do you s’pose makes them
call them backsliders?”
“Oh, that's easy. You see, wlieu
people are good, they go to church
and sit up iu front. When they get a
little tired of being good, they slide
back a seat, aud keep on sliding until
they get clear back to the door. After
awhile they slide clear out and never
come to church at all.”—Ram’s Horn.
Their Bear Friend.
Mabel: “Mrs. Bobbit is a regular
after-dinner caller."
Nettie: “Indeed! She invariably
comes just before dinner.”
Mabel: “That’s what I say. Dinner
is what she is after.”—Harlem Life.
THEY WANT TO TELL
These Grateful Women Who Have
Been Helped by Mrs. Pinkham.
Women xvho have suffered severely
and been relieved of their ills by Mrs.
Pinkham’s advice and medicine are
constantly urging publication of their
statements for the benefit of other wo¬
men. Here are two such letters:
Mrs. Lizzik Beverly, 258 Merrimac
St., Lowell, Mass., writes:
“ It affords me great pleasure to tell
all suffering women of the benefit I have
received from taking Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound. I can hard- •
ly find words to express my gratitude for
what she has done for me. My trouble
was ulceration of the womb. I was un¬
der the doctor’s care. Upon examina¬
tion he found fifteen very large ulcers,
but he failed to do me good. I took sev¬
eral bo ttlesof Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege¬
table Compound, also used the Sanative
Wash, and am cured. Mrs. Pinkham’s
medicine saved my life, and I would
recommend it to all suffering women."
Mrs. Amos Trombleay, Ellenburgh
Ctr., N. Y.. writes:
“ I took cold at the time my baby
was born, causing me to have milk
legs, and was sick in bed for eight
weeks. Doctors did me no good, I
surely thought I would die. I was al¬
so troubled with falling of the womb.
I could not eat, gad faint spells as
often as ten times a day. One day a
lady came to see me and told me of the
benefit she had derived from taking
Lydia E. Pinkham’s medicine, and ad¬
vised me to try it I did so, and had
taken only half a bottle before I was
able to sit in a chair. After taking
three bottles I coul *do my own work.
I am now in perfect health.”
PILES
"I suffered tbe torture* of the damned
with protruding piles brought on by constipa¬
tion with which I was afflicted for twenty
years. I ran across your CASCAKETS in the
town of Newell. Ia., and never fonnd anything
to piles euosl rhem. like To-day 1 am entirely free from
ma leel a new man.”
C H. K E 1411 Jones St., Stoux City, la.
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