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LEFT ON TRAINS.
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All Sort. of Article* Are ForgeUei- by
Absentminded T***.ncer*.
Recently a Chicago railroad displ y«d
in its unclaimed parcel room five bt rela
of robber overshoes and a box ful. of
false teeth. All this property and more
during a period of six months had been
left on the suburban and through trains
by absent minded passengers. The gen
eral baggage agent, upon being asked
what was the oddest occurrence of this
kind, said that a woman once left on a
train a 6-months-old baby, and she did
not miss it until a trainman overtook
her with the little bundle of humanity
before she got outside of the train shed.
It was not a case of abandonment. She ‘
had forgotten to take up her own off
spring.
Only one-half of the articles left on
trains are claimed and returned to own
ers. At all the railroad offices in Chi
cago there are to be found motley col
lections of about all the articles which
man or woman ever owned. It would
be impossible to list them in a whole
page of a newspaper.
The article which figures most exten
sively among the lost and found of the
big railroads is the umbrella. An offi
cial of the Illinois Central says he re
ceived in the baggage department 1,600
umbrellas a year. General Agent Sadd
of the Burlington says his records show
about 600 a year, and the other lines
report large collections of thia service
able article, which are left on trains in
all kinds of weather. On a recent fine,
sunshiny day the Burlington railroad
showed on its record a whole page of
abandoned umbrellas.
Next come the overshoes, which are
daily found, singly and in pairs and of
tentimes.odd in size and kind. At, all
the offices they axe accumulated to the
extent of barrels and barrels. It is a
common occurrence to find upper, low
er and partial sets of false teeth. Some
give evidence of long service, others
have been too new and have been “laid
out” to give relief. But they come in
all shapes and sizes.
Wearing apparel in large quantities
is to be found in the lost parcel rooms.
The clerks in the Alton’s quarters at the
Union station fitted out a dummy figure
with every single article that a man is
likely to wear from head to foot. The
articles were all 16ft piece by piece on
the train and gathered up by the em
ployees until the figure was togged out
in newest fashion.
The young woman stenographer in
Baggage Agent Sadd’s office has a pet
kitten which was found in an envelope
box on a train, and, there being no
claimant, young Tom is being taught to
earn his board by mousing in the bag
gage room.
Cripples- frequently leave their
crutches on trains. There is a collection
of them at all the offices. Hanging up
in the parcel room of the Illinois Cen
tral is a big anchor made of moss gath
ered from trees in the far south. The
maker had taken care of it until Chica
go was reached, only to abandon it to
the care of the parcel man.—Chicago
Tribune.
Frw In Spite of Himself.
Under the first French empire the ad
ministration of the prison of Sainte-
Pelagie was so loose that it was not rare
for accused persons to lie there six
months without knowing the cause of
their incarceration. The following ad
venture, narrated in “The Dungeons of
Old Paris, ” discloses the fact that re
lease under similar conditions of igno
rance was not impossible:
The doctor had given to a prisoner
who was slightly ill an order for the
baths. Not knowing in what part of
the prison the infirmary was situated,
he presented his order to a tipsy turn
key, who opened the outer door of the I
prison
M. Guillon, a free man without being
aware of it, took the narrow street to be
a sentry's walk and went a few paces
without finding any one to direct him.
Returning to the sentry at the door, he
inquired where were the baths.
“The baths?" said the sentinel.
“The prison baths."
“The prison baths,"said the sentinel,
“are probably in the prison, but you
can’t get in there. ’’
“What—l can’t get into the prison?
Am I outside it, then?"
“Why, yes, you’re in the street. You
ought to know that, I should think."
“I did not‘know it, I assure you,”
said M. Guillon, “and this won’t suit
me at all.”
He rang the prison bell and was re
admitted, and his recital of his adven
ture restored to sobriety the turnkey
who had given him his freedom.
Sheridan and the Joke.
Sheridan, himself a brilliant orator
as well as a shrewd observer, was one
day asked how it was he got on so well
in the house of commons. “Well," he
said, “I soon found out that the major
ity were fools, but all loved a joke, and
I determined to give them what they
liked." The great advantage of a joke
is that it puts the speaker at once on
good terms with his audience. Hence
Cicero recommends it for an exordium.
A common way of winning the good
will of an audience is flattery. When
the Jews brought down the orator Ter
tullus to accuse Paul, Tertullus began
his speech with flattery of King Agrip
pa, “Since by thee we enjoy," and so
on. Another way, a subtle form of flat
tery, is to describe yourself as a native
of the same place or county as those
you are addressing. The forensic formu
la, the fustian apostrophe to the 12 “in
telligent and patriotic and high minded
men" whom the rhetorical Buzfuz sees
before him, is played out, but it has its
modern equivalents.—Westminster Re
view.
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Diaconeertiny.
Mrs. Manycooks (severely)—Didn’t I
hear a man talking loudly with yon in
the kitchen just now, Mary?
Mary (complacently)—Oi hope so,
mam, for thin Oi can call yes as a wit
ness in a case av braich av promise suit,
ma’am.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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UNTAMABLE TENDERFOOT.
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The FlraS to Open Up * Greet Territory
In the Far North.
To a certain extent all the 6,000 argo
nauts who have flocked to Alaska this sea
son belong to the Underfoot family. A
rush to the arctic regions is a new thing
with the Anglo Saxon race. The MdfSe
men traveled south for their promised
land, and the setting of the current in the
opposite direction cannot be gauged in the
Heretofore the tenderfoot
has tackled many difficulties, but never
found them piled as high or as forbidding
as in a Journey to the Klondike. Yet the
tenderfoot,- with his heavy burden of sup
plies, plpda op over glacier? and narrow
mountain paths, wading through rapid
torrents, cUufiberihg around boWlders,
toiling throiigh swampy ground, shooting
rapids not too dangerous, and making a
packhorse of himself around water too
rough for a raft with any cargo. If he is
exhausted or sick, the only remedy at hand
Is the rest cure and the friendly interest of
his fallow advbnturera. He has cut loose
from coxnlurt and safety, but all he asks is
a chance to struggle on. About the worst
punishment for tnc burdened procession of
pilgrims would be to compel them to turn
back. ■* » ,
The Ateakatenderfoot, in spite of his
disposition to be too venturesome, de
serves the sympathetic attention of his
countrymen; Ho is the first to open up a
great territory in the far north, and he
represents civilization in his inarch. Ho
is necessarily a builder of roads and towns,
and every squad of mon whoreach the dig
gings make the conditions better for those
who follow,. A yepr .from now the routes
to the upper Yukon will fie comparatively'
easy. The thousands who have gone there
will use all possible energy to open up
lines of travel. They want regular mall
service and pqreonal access to the outside
world. Already the large niJmbcr of min
ers who are assembled near uhllkat, but
will not be able to cross this fall, have
founded a town, and their first business
will be road and trail improvement. The
long polar night. will not repress their
American energy.
Many a tenderfoot will fail at the mines,
but Alaska will surely present other op
portunities. More than 50 years ago coal
was found there and mined by the Rus
sians. Copper and other minerals have
been located. Vegetables, hay and other
needed crops can be raised in the southern
part of the territory. Thorough prospect
ing for gold on the American side of the
line Will be encouraged by the unusual
and greedy restrictions on mining adopted
by Canada. By the end of 1898 the tender
foot of today willbe an Alaskan pioneer,
and whether he bo rich or poor the world
will admire his indomitable pluck. The
tenderfoot should be dealt with generous
ly, and that is where the .Dominion is
making a mistake. Men could not be
hired for wages to do what he Is doing.
It is the thought of a competency for him
self and his family that inspires the ten
derfoot and nerves him for his tremendous
task, and eVery manly nature will wish
him success.—St/Louls Globe-Democrat.
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Value of Unpopularity.
As the tall, angular, stoop shouldered
man went by the house the host took his
feet down from the railing of the porch
and, indicating him by a motion of his
cigar in that direction, suggested to his
guest that he was the only man in the
whole neighborhood that he epvied.
“He doesn’t look like a very jolly or
companionable man, ’ ’ suggested the guest.
“He isn’t,” replied the host. “He is the
meanest, most disagreeable and most un
popular man in the neighborhood. Why,
it’s a popular impression around here that
if a boy ran across his lawn he’d blaze
away at him with a shotgun loaded with
rock salt. And he’s always kicking about
something.”
‘ ‘ I should think you’d hate him. ’ ’
■ “Ido. Do you know he even made a
complaint to the police because the boys
used his sidewalk for a bicycle path, and
now there isn’t one of them that doesn’t
take to the road when they come to his
property.”
“Incredible!”
4 ‘ Fact. And he raised such a fuss about
the peddlers that there isn’t one of them
dares go near his house. He’s just as
mean to people who solicit subscriptions
for churches and charities too. ”
“Really?" y ;
“Yes, l ideed. Why, he actually insult
ed the last committee that waited upon
him to ask him to subscribe |6O to help
build a tower on a needlework guild hall.
The women who composed it have sworn
that they will never go near him again. ”
“But I understood you to say you en
vied him.”
•‘That’s what I said,” admitted the
host. “It may be a big price to pay for
it, but think of the advantage he has over
the rest of us!”
“Advantage?”
“Yes—the luxury of being let alone by
his neighbors and his neighbors’ children
and of having his rights respected by
everybody. Oh, it must be glorious!"—
Chicago Post.
Obstacles to Ke form.
A short time ago an order went into op
eration upon the Boston street railways re
quiring conductors to address feminine
passengers as “madame. ” The always
cheerful chatterer of the Boston Herald
tells us that, in pursuance of the order,
the conductor is trying very hard to cure
himself of his habit of calling his feminine
passengers “lady” and “Mrs. Lady," but
he has not as yet hit upon a uniform meth
od of addressing them and in his inde
cision has resort to “hi, say,” “missis”
and “ma’am,” but he will doubtless settle
upon the right thing eventually. The
other day on a Huntington avenue car a
conductor who had evidently given much
attention to tho subject won special dis
tinction for himself by the use of the word
“madame” in this regard. But there is
no rose without a thorn. Among his
passengers was a colored girl who carried
a Ihrgo bundle, doubtless the week’s wash
of some patron. She asked him to stop
at a certain street, and when the car ar
rived there he said to the gentle Afro-
American, ‘ ‘ This is your street, madame. ’ ’
She at once gave him an angry look and
said with marked asperity: “Who’s yer
callin madame? Watcher mean by insult
in me? I’d have you to know I’m a lady,
I am,” with which she hustled indig
nantly to the street. The conductor looked
perplexed, and as he rung the bell with a
vicious jerk he sententiously observed,
“She ain’t no lady anyhow, even if she
ain’t n madame.” It is hard to please
everybody.
The Uttle Critic.
“Why, papa, ” said Frances, who was
looking at the family album, “surely this
isn’t a picture of you?”
“Yes, ” replied papa, “that is a picture
of me, taken when I Was quite ycung.”
“Well,” commented the little girl, “it
doesn't look as much like you as you look
now."—Harper’s Bazar.
OLD TIME SWEETNF SS GONE
Molmw, la Wow Mqd« I» o Bu> and
Brown Sagar Can't Ite Bought.
"The old fashioned mola sea is rapid
ly disappearing as an artrnle of com
merce,” said a prominent ;rocer, “and
in its plaoe have come a number of
| sirups which are more costly and by
no means as satisfactory, especially to
the little ones, who delight, as we did
when we were young, in having ’leases
on their bread. Moat of the molasses
goes into the distilleries, where it is
made into rum, for which, notwith
standing the efforts of our temperance
workers, the demand is constantly on
the increase, especially in the New
England states and for the export trade.
The regular drinker of rum will take no
other liquor in its place if he can help
it. It seems to reach the spot more di
rectly than any other dram.
“The darker brown sugars have also
disappeared, and they are not likely to
return, owing to the methods of boiling
and the manufacture. Granulated sugar
is of the same composition, as far as
saccharine qualities are concerned, as
loaf, cut loaf cube and crushed and
differs from them only in that its crys
tals do not cohere. This is because it is
constantly stirred during the process of
crystallisation. The lighter brown sug
ars taste sweeter than the white, for
the reason that there is some molasses
in them. Housekeepers have difficulty
these days iu finding coarse, dark sug
ars, which are always preferred for use
in patting up sweet pickles, making
cakes and similar uses. As they cannot
get brown sugar any more, it may. be
Well for them to remember that they
can simulate brown sugar by adding a
teaspoonful of molasses to each quarter
of a pound of the white granulated sug
ar. This combination does as well in
all household recipes that call for
brown sugar as the article itself, and
besides it saves them a great deal of
hunting for brown sugar, which, as
said before, has disappeared from the
market."—Eastport Sentinel.
HE COULD FORGIVE HER.
For In Hl* Opinion Mrs. Slddoas Did Not
Marry an Actor.
Mrs. Siddons, the actress, was born
in 1765 at the Shoulder of Mutton inn,
Brecon, South Wales, of parents con
nected with the theater, her father,
Roger Kemble, being a strolling man
ager. The child Sarah, was reared in a
theatrical atmosphere, and at 10 she
was playing ArieL
As she grew up she became very
beautiful and had many admirers,
among whom was Henry Siddons, a
young actor in her father’s company,
who had little difficulty in winning the
girl’s heart. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble had
made up their minds that Sarah should
not marry in the profession, in conse
quence of which they strenuously op
posed the marriage, and young Siddons,
in a fit of retaliatory humor, composed
a song detailing their opposition and
his trials, which brought about his
speedy dismissal from the company.
Sarah left the company, too, and hired
out as lady’s maid in Warwickshire for
two years.
During this time the lovers carried on
a lively corespondence and finally,
gaining the reluctant consent of the
Kembles, were married at Trinity
church, Coventry, in 1778, when Sarah
was 18.
It is said that Mr. Kemble told her if
she ever married an actor it would
make him discard her forever. After
her marriage he said, “I may forgive
you without breaking my word, for you
have certainly not married ‘an actor,’
whatever the gentleman himself may
think is his vocation. ” This is on au
thority of Lady Eleanor Butler, who
knew the persons.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
Hi* Bread Upon the Water*.
Fifteen years ago Carrie Burch was a
servant girl in a California household
where William F. Hastings was also
employed. The girl became ill and had
to leave, but had no money. Hastings
loaned her S2OO, and she went away.
The years rolled by without the S2OO
being returned, and Hastings had for
gotten the occurrence when he received
a letter from a banister in London stat
ing that an estate of $73,000 had been
left him by a Mrs. Hall, formerly Miss
Carrie Bnreh of California. Hastings
could hardly believe what he read, but
he has the money now, and for his gen
erosity to a strange girl years ago he
has become independently rich. When
the girl left California, she went to
Australia as a nurse and there married
a retired English merchant, who died
some years afterward, and the widow
then returned to London and lived there
until Jt~r death.—Exchange.
A Good Reason.
The general passenger agent of one
of the Chicago trunk lines received a
letter from a Kansas man the other day
requesting a pass for himself to Chicago
and return. There was nothing about
the letter to indicate that the writer
had any claim whatsoever to the courte
sy he requested, but the railway man
thought that perhaps the Kansan had
some connection with the road in some
way, possibly as a local freight agent.
So he Wrote back, “Please state explic
itly on what account you request trans
portation." By return mail came this
reply, "I’ve got to go to Chicago some
way, and I don’t want to walk."—Ex
change. *
A Bakeahop Machine.
One of the latest appliances for use in
a bakeshop oven consists of a machine
which takes the whole meat and grinds
it, mixes water with it and kneads it
into dough ready for the oven.
Open the doors of opportunity to tal
ent and virtue and they will do them
selves justice, and property will not be
in bad hands.—Emerson.
In 1620 the first large copper coins
were minted in England, putting an
end to private leaden tokens.
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A SEA ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
Mriraordtnary Buponrtittam Obm Fseva
tea* la Kaalacd.
The curioui superstition that there is
an ocean above the cicuds is illustrated
by the following strange story by an
old English writer: “One Sunday the
people of a certain village were coming
out of church on a thick, cloudy day,
when they saw the anchor of a ship
hooked to one of the tombstones—the
cable, which was tightly stretched,
hanging down from the air. The people
were astonished, and while they were
consulting about it suddenly they saw
the rope move as though some one la
bored to pull up the anchor. The an
chor, however, still held fast by the
stone, and a great noise was heard in
the air, like the shouting of sailors.
Presently a sailor was eeen sliding down
the cable for the purpose of unfixing
the anchor. When he had just loosened
it, the villagers seised hold of him, and
while in their hands he quickly died,
just as though he had been drowned.
"About an hour after the sailors
above, hearing no more of their com
rade, cut the cable and sailed away. In
memory of this extraordinary event the
people of the village made the hinges
of the church doors out of the iron of
the anchor. ” It is further staled that
these hinges "arc still to be eeen there,"
a bit of evidence much like Munchau
sen’s rope wherewith he once climbed
to the moon. If you doubted the story,
you were confronted with the rope.
There is another queer tale about
this aerial ocean. “A merchant of Bris
tol,” it is said, “set sail with his cargo
for Ireland. Some time after, while his
family were at supper, a knife sudden
ly fell in through a window on the ta
ble. When the merchant returned and
saw the knife, he declared it to be his
own and said that on such a day, at
such an hour, while sailing in an un
known part of the sea, he dropped the
knife overboard, and the day and the
hour were found to be exactly the time
when it fell through the window. ” All
of which was once implicitly believed
by many and regarded as incontroverti
ble proof of the existence of a sea above
the sky. One is at a loss to conjecture
how that "unknown part of the sea”
connected with the rest of it A phys
ical geography showing this would be
no small curiosity.—Boston Poet
SILKWORMS OF LEBANON.
How They Are Cultivated In tho Moaa
, - tain. of Tripoli.
Harry Fenn, the artist has written a
paper, entitled "Silk and Cedars," for
St. Nicholas, describing his visit to
the famous mountains of Lebanon.
Concerning tho silk industry, which
plays such an important part in the
lives of the natives, Mr. Fenn says: As
the time approaches for the silkworm
to hatch out the egg the family move
out of the house and camp under the
trees, giving up the entire establishment
to the worms, after having placed the
eggs on shelves made of a reedlike
bamboo. At first the young worms are
fed on finely chopped leaves, bat as
they grow larger the leaves need only
be broken in two. The people have to
feed and watch the wormq night and
day, or they wander in search of food
and get lost, and in the silence of the
night the sound of the worms feeding
is like a gently falling rain.
The worms fast three or four times
during this period, and about 24 hours
is the length of each fast. A curioui
feature about their fast is their posture.
They assume the attitude of a cobra
snake about to strike and remain rigid
ly fixed in that position for the entire
period. When they are ready to spin,
small branches are placed on the
shelves, and as the cocoons are formed
upon them the dead twigs seem to bear
golden fruit. When the worms get
through that part of the business, the
neighbors are called in—something as
to an old fashioned New England ap
ple paring bee. They call it “qtaf’ in
Arabic—that is "picking," and soon
you see piles of pale green, pure white
and golden yellow cocoons'heaped upon
the floor. Later they may be spun into
hanks, but usually the cocoons are sent
down the mountains to Tripoli or Da
mascus, and after their 80 or 40 days
of toil they, too, often have to sell the
produce for next to nothing, as the Chi
nese are always ready to undersell them.
Another curious use Mr. Silkworm is
put to is to soak him in vinegar for
some hours, after which he is drawn out
into so called “catgut" to make enells
or leaders for fishhooks.
Ser-ring Carrot*.
Away of serving carrots is the fol
lowing, evolved by a cook desirous, as
all cooks should be, of “something
new." The vegetable is scraped, diced
and boiled till tender. Meanwhile a
slice of onion is browned in a table
spoonful of butter. With this one table
spoonful of flour is rubbed smooth and
stirred until the flour is cooked. Then
one cup of tomato juice, not heated, is
added to the mixture with a half tea
spoonful of salt and a dash of pepper.
The whole is stewed together three or
four minutes before being strained over
the carrots, which have been drained.
This dish is much more palatable than
the creamed carrots because it adds a
needed flavor and is none the harder to
prepare than the better known prepara
tion.—New York Post
What I* Really Needed.
“Somebody has Invented another talk
ing machine.”
"That’s a stupid thing to do. Won’t
these scientists ever learn that what ths
world needs is listening machines?”—
Chicago Record.
To the poet, to the philosopher, t»
the saint all things are friendly and
sacred, all events profitable, all days
holy, all men divine.—Emerson.
The man who has not passionate lo
cal attachments can never become pa
triotic in any broad or generous sense.
—American Friend.
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To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD ‘‘CASTORIA,’’ AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA," as our trade mark.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
wu the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now 0/1 ever y
bear the facsimile signature qf wrapper.
This is the original - PITCHER’S CASTORIA;’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
gears. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought /-rs /yrrsz ' on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. fl s
March 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
"The Kind. You Have Always Bought’’
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed lon.
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