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SHE SANG FOR DEATH.
The l>ath<>» and <►< E”*"**
Ibbott’e Pa»«lnu An nr-
One night in the /. ity
located at the eCmia Abbott
the Rocky mountam.. ~ (he
was billed to appearfo F«
rriVyear-oTdgirl. belonging to one of
hl wealthiest families, lay in the last
Itatres of that fell enemy of the human
race—consumption. Some weeks before
the arrival of the company she ijaid to
those around her: “Oh, I hope the sun
will shine and the weather will be warm
and genial, so I can hear Mies Abbott
sing once more. I think I could then
pass away peacefully and without one
single regret. ” But there came with the
queen of the lyric stage a northern hur
ricane—with the very air charged with
icicles, which penetrated the lungs.
Some one told Miss Abbott of the griev
ous disappointment of the dying girl.
She went to the opera house and never
sang more sweetly, and as eoon as it
was over and the audience dismissed
called her carriage and directed it to
drive to the home of the young lady.
The scene which followed was worthy
of the finest brush ever wielded by the
grand old masters. There lay the dying
earth angel, with pallid lips, hectic
cheeks and lustrous eyes and the light
of immortal beauty shining upon her
face. Standing beside her, in one of her
richest robes (the one she had worn that
night), sparkling with pearls, rubies
and diamonds, stood the almost divine
mistress of earthly melody.
The first piece rendered was “The
Old Folks at Home, ” and then followed
“I Know My Redeemer Liveth. ” The
finale of this weird scene was “Rock of
Ages Cleft For Me, Let Me Hide Myself
In Thee.” And then Miss Abbott bent
over the frail form and kissed her an
eternal farewell. Soon after the spirit
passed into the wild winds which rang
through the wild mountains near by—•
set sail for that haven from which the
first homeward bound bark is yet to
be seen —the stainless soul wafted to
the stainless heavens by the sweetest
music ever heard on earth —into the
melodies of paradise birds.
Miss Abbott returned to her room at
the hotel and retired. Some time dur
ing the night she awoke with a pain in
the left lung. It rapidly grew worse. A
physician was summoned. Then anoth
er, and another, who applied every
remedy they could command. All to no
purpose. It was typhoid pneumonia in
its worst form. The black camel was
kneeling at her door. Angels of the
heavenly choir had that night listened
to her voice in the sickroom and eent
for her to come home to them.
In three days that voice which had so
often raised the souls of men and wom
en to the noblest, the grandest heights
in holy ecstasy, was forever stilled in
death—gone forth into—the night.
So fades the summer cloud away.
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er.
So gently shuts the eye of day,
So dies the wave along the shore.
—H. C. Stevenson in Atlanta Consti
tution.
GERMAN MILITARY SERVICE.
A Curlon, Method by Which It May
He Avoided.
Anybody can emigrate from Germany
before he is 17 years old without run
ning the risk, in case he should return,
of being forced to join the army, but he
will be allowed to remain only nine
months in Germany. If he stays longer
he becomes again a German citizen and
must do military service. If he leaves
when he has been a little less than nine
months in the country and stays away
for two or three weeks he can return
without running any danger and can
stay another nine months. If he does
this every nine months he can live as
long as he likes in Germany.
As soon as a man is 17 years old he
cannot leave Germany -without serving
in the army. He can, however, get per
mission to leave the country until he is
20 years old if somebody is willing to
give bond that he will return and serve
his term.
In case a man forfeits his bond he
cannot return to his fatherland before
he is 43 years old, as he would be
promptly arrested and sentenced to
serve a longer term than the original
one. After a man is 45 years old he can
goback to Germany without being pun
ished and live there as long as he likes.
In case a deserter is caught in Ger
many before he is 45 years old he is sen
tenced to two or three years’ imprison
ment in a fortress and all his personal
property is confiscated. New York
Herald.
An Eye to Dnilnens.
The doctor hurried in and called the
druggist to one side.
“I've just been called to attend the
Croesus baby,” he said, “and I’ve given
a prescription that calls for nothing but
paregoric. When they send it over here,
you must tell them it will take at least
an hour to put it up and the cost will
be $3.50. That’s the only way to make
them think I’m any good, the medi
cine's any good and you're any good,
and I want to keep their business." —
Chicago Post.
Proof Positive.
His Honor—What's the charge, offi
cer? Drunk?
Officer—No, sor—crazy.
His Honor—How do you know ?
Officer—Well, sor, he is a proprietor
of a daily paper, and I heard him tell a
man that the paper probably had the
smallest circulation in the city, and so—
His Honor—The padded cell—quick!
—Harlem Life.
l ean) Repartee.
“Gentlemen of the jury," said the
pompous lawyer, assuming his most im
posing mien, “I once sat upon the
judge's bench in lowa.”
“Where was the judge?” quickly
inquired the opposing attorney, and the
pompons gentleman found the thread
of his argument hopelessly entangled.
—Detroit Free Press
A SONG.
Ah, what Is better than this, my dear,
What is better than thia ?
The thought of a night which has lost itl way
Between tomorrow and yesterday;
The full of the tide and the gray of the sea,
And a gull that circle,h endlesttly;
The breath from a wind which bloweth well)
A sail that hasteth new ports to tell;
If aught is better than this, my dear,
I find it not here, I find it not here.
—Blanche Trask in “The lajnd of Sunshine.”
JUST A CURTAIN FIRE.
It Wa« In a Girl«’ Boarding School
and Did Complicated Damage.
A fire in a skyscraper may bo thrill
ing, but for dramatic episodes and un
expected complications a fire in a girls'
boarding school surpasses it. The board
ing school fire is usually what is known
among insurance men as a curtain fire,
but a curtain fire in a girls’ school is
more exciting and causes more casual
ties than an ordinary blaze anywhere
else.
One evening last week two girls, who
occupy a microscopic hall bedroom in a
swell up town school, took the globes
oft the gas fixtures for hair curling pur
poses and left them off, because it was
easier to do that than to put them on
again. Theu the girls raised the window
a trifle in order to cool the room and
dutifully sat down to write home let
ters. The inevitable happened, and
when girl number one poui®d her pen
in the air and glanced around the room
in search of inspiration she saw the
curtains in a blaze. She screamed. Girl
number two looked around and echoed
the scream. Then, with promptitude
and discretion, both girls fainted. The
screams had attracted the attention of
the other girls, who rushed to the scene
and then did various and sundry stunts,
according to their several dispositions.
One fainted, several wept, a few ran
out of the house, and the rest shouted
for the one man on the premises.
When he arrived, things looked rather
hopeless. Qurtains and woodwork were
blazing finely. The floor was littered
with prostrate forms, and when three
girls have fainted on the floor of a hall
bedroom there isn’t much space in the
room for promenading. The man picked
his way across the prostrate forms and
ordered all the girls who were not in a
dead faint to leave the room, but they
didn’t go until he lost his temper and
spoke with a force which isn’t common
in boarding school circles. Then they
fled; but, unluckily, there was an ene
my in the rear. A vigorous and practi
cal woman from Texas had been inspir
ed to go after some water. Returning
in mad haste with a large pitcherful
of water borne triumphantly aloft, she
collided with the retreating forces at
the door. The pitcher struck the leader
of the retreat squarely in ihe face and
knocked out two of her front teeth,
whereupon the Injured girl made the
fainting trio a quartet end the water
carrier dropped her pitcher and went
into violent hysterics.
Hysteria, as boarding school teacher!
know to their sorrow, is contagious,
and the one case touched off the crowd.
By the time teachers arrived upon tha
scene the fire was out, but the survivors
were in a bad way. It was necessary to
put nine-tenths of the school to bed and
order wholesale doses of bromide. Even
now the girls insist that they haven’t
recovered from the shock sufficiently to
do hard studying, and the victims of
the water pitcher are both under ths
care of trained nurses. As for the man,
he gave up his place the next day and
confided to the cook that he was going
to look for a job in a lunatic asylum,
where his boarding school experience
would be of value to him.—New York
Sun.
Hnftlißii Penny Novels.
Penny novelettes differ from one an
other in externals rather than in in
ternal. The get up of the better sort is
neat and attractive. The type is clear,
and the covers might even be called
“artistic” in the catholic sense of the
term. The inferior kinds are indiffer
ently printed “on gray paper with blunt
type, ’ ’ and there are many degrees of
excellence between the two extremes.
All except one have illustrations rang
ing from the rudest of woodcuts to the
smudgiest of “process” plates. Os
course the artist selects the most sensa
tional incidents for his pencil to adorn.
The stabbing of the heroine’s father by
the villain disguised as the hero, tha
kidnaping of the heroine by Black
Tom and his gang of gypsies at the in
stigation of her jealous rival, the horse
whipping of the villain by the hero in
“faultless” evening dress—these and
their like naturally present themselves
as thoroughly suitable and congenial
subjects. —Blackwood’s Magazine.
Mnliclon. Interference.
“I’ll get even with that printer,”
said the editor of the Plunkville Bugle,
“if it takes me the rest of my life.”
“What printer?” asked his friend.
“That tramp I took on while my wif«
was visiting her mother. I got a $lO
write up out of old Hiker, who is lay
ing his pipes for the senatorship, and I
said that some day his little son would
make as big a mark as his father, and
that villain fixed it that the young 'un
would ‘be’ as big a mark, etc.”—ln
dianapolis Journal.
A Uaeleiif* Wish.
“Oh,” sighed the poetic lady, “had
I the wings of a bird'.”
“Don’t!” protested her husband.
“Don’t wish for the wings of a bird. If
you had them, some other woman
■would probably be wearing them on her
hat before the season is over.” —Wash-
ington Star.
A well known professor says that
over a large area of central Russia the
magnetic needle does not point north
or south. It is in one part deflected to
the west, and at another part to the
east, and at one place it points due east
and west.
The eggs of a bluebottle fly, if placed
in the sun, will hatch in two or three
hours.
SLACK IN DISCIPLINE.
Cowardice of Cbine.e Sailor. In
Presence of Danger.
A terrible illustration of the utter in
competency and cowardice of Chinese
naval men in the face of disaster was the
wreck of the Chinese cruiser Hecching at
Port Arthur, in which 118 of her officers
and crew perished. The disaster was one
of the most terrible in oriental marine
history. It was due entirely to the cow
ardice of her officers, who were crazed by
the sudden coining of the typhoon that
swept down upon them. They had steam
up, but wore afraid to take up their an
chors and make for the inner harbor, as
did the Russian cruisers from the same
anchorage.
The Heeching was lying at anchor just
outside the inner harbor of Port Arthur,
in company with two Russian cruisers.
The weather for several weeks had been
fine, but shortly before noon on the day
of the disaster a storm came up almost
without warning. The anchorage is very
exposed, and in case of storm vessels either
run out to sea or go into the small har
bor, which is perfectly landlocked.
The storm was a furious one and caused
great excitement on the warships. The
perfectly disciplined Russian crews took
in their anchors and steamed with consid
erable difficulty into the inner harbor.
There was not a single European officer
on the Heeching, and the scene on her
decks was one of utmost confusion. The
terrified Chinese sailors rushed from one
part of the ship to the other, and the offi
cers were equally confused. As far as the
Russians could learn, no attempt was
made to get up her anchors.
At last the Heeching began to drift to
certain destruction on a rooky point at
the entrance of the harbor. Even then
there was a chance for saving the men on
board had the warship's boats been
launched. The waves were dashing over
and around her, and the Chinese staid by
the ship.
It was only a few minutes before she
struck, going on the rocks almost side
ways, several hundred feet from shore.
The enormous waves that swept over her
took with them their share of struggling,
frightened humanity—took them into the
surf and dashed them upon the rocks. The
ship’s old fashioned boilers exploded and
sent more Chinese souls into eternity.
As many of the crew as could find room
climbed into the rigging. Those on the
lower rigging unable to climb farther up
struggled with their shipmates who were
fighting for a foothold.
On shore gathered the sailors and officers
of the Russian ships with many of the
Chinese residents of Port Arthur. A
rocket with the line attached was fired by
the Russians.
It was well aimed, and fell across the
rigging. Had it been properly used many
of the unfortunate Chinamen could have
been drawn ashore. There was a fight,
however, for possession of the line. A few
sailors got hold of it and, cutting the line,
jumped into the sea. They were pulled
ashore more dead than alive and were the
only ones saved.—Seattle Post-Intelli
geucer.
“Navy Sherry.”
According to the navy regulations,
whisky is not allowed on the warships ex
cept in the medical supplies, but It gets
aboard somehow, as visitors to the hos
pitable officers can testify. It is called
“navy sherry” on shipboard.
Sometimes when the fleet was on block
ade duty newspaper dispatch boats carried
supplies to the officers. A man Ignorant
of the rule about “navy sherry” hailed the
flagship New York one Sunday morning
off Santiago and asked the officer of the
dock If he would send a boat for some
supplies.
“For whom are they?” the officer asked
through a megaphone.
“The wardroom mess,” was the reply.
It was an Idle hour on the New York,
and a crowd of officers and men had lined
up and were listening.
’ “What supplies have you?” the officer
asked again, and through his megaphone
the correspondent bawled:
“Onions, potatoes and whisky!”
Then he wondered why all the officers
in sight fled to the other side of the ship,
holding their sides with laughter. The
onions and potatoes were sent on board—
at least they alone were received officially.
An officer who asked a friend to get a
case of “navy sherry” for him later on
was astounded when the man brought
real sherry. He had supposed that every
one knew the difference.—New York Her
ald.
I.oyalty of the Hawaiian.
The Hawaiian loves and hates strongly.
Ho loves his country, his monarchy, the
throne and him or her who occupies it.
Whatever may be the sovereign’s charac
ter, he is loyal to his monarch. They loved
and were loyal to their late queen, whom,
whatever may have been charged against
her as faults, or even crimes, they consid
ered a g<x>d woman and a good queen, for
she was intelligent, queenly, dignified and
charitable. They did not believe that she
had committed any wrong. To them, even
if admitted, the faults charged were venial,
even virtues. There was a universal feel
ing that when she was dethroned she was
wronged and throughout the land prayers
to the true God and to the false gods were
offered for her restoration.
A vast majority of the half whites
shared the views of their Hawaiian rela
tives. Many of them were in sympathy
with those who attempted by revolution
to restore the queen. Some joined those
in revolt, and quite a number contributed
funds. Clearly all of the natives, Includ
ing the half whites, were firmly convinced
that their government had been taken
away from them by violence without cause,
and most of them think so to this day—■
Rear Admiral L. A. Beardslee, U. S. N.,
in North American Review.
Judge Adair's Funny Mule,
Judge Adair has a little black bank
mule that ought to be with a circus. He
has plenty of brains and Is mischievous.
He found a farmer’s sack of corn In a
wagon, untied It, caught the other end
and shook the corn out and had a feast.
A hog grabbed an ear, but was sorry after
being run all over town for It. The mule
used to jump out of the bank stable win
dow, open the door and let all the other
mules out, then eat their corn. When he
gets whipped by a negro, he never fails
later to kick the right negro.—Hawesville
(Ky.) Clarion.
The Deadly Lyddite Shell.
The howitzers from the opposite shore
threw in two days 415 shells into Omdur
man. Neufeld tells a terrible story of the
effect of the lyddite shells. He says that
118 men were assembled in an iron mosque
beside-the Mahdi’• tomb. A lyddite sheil
fell among them, leaving only 12 alive. I
did not see the dead in the mosque, but it
was certainly a complete wreck, while
there were probably not less than 1,000
dead lying in the streets and buildings of
Omdurman. —London News.
FIRST TO GROW ORANGES.
Jesnlts Introduced Them Into the
I'rllcnn State.
The orange of Louisiana is an excep
tionally tine variety of that fruit, and
commands a good price in the market.
The orange was first introduced into
colonial Louisiana by the Jeauits, hav
ing been first grown by the members of
the society on their grounds, which
formerly comprised that part of the city
of New Orleans which constitutes the
lower part of the first district, down to
Common street.
While St. Bernard and Plaquemines
parishes are tbo chief centers of the
orange culture of Louisiana, the fruit
also grows well in the parishes of Or
leans, Jefferson, St. James, St. John
Baptist, St. Charles, Assumption, St.
Mary, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Vermil
ion, Cameron, I'.eria and Sabine. The
orange tree begins to bear at about the
seventh year, although it is not reck
oned to have reached its full growth
until its twelfth or fifteenth year.
The orange culture in Louisiana is
probably the mo t profitable industry of
the state under favorable conditions, a
full grown tree producing from 8,000
to 5,000 oranges, the fruit on the tree
generally selling for $lO a thousand,
and as some of the largest orchards in
the state yield as many as 8,000,000
oranges their market value gives a
princely income to the owners of the
trees. Comparatively a very small sere
age of the state is devoted to the growth
of oranges—possibly not more than
2,000 acres.
The sweetness, delicacy and juiciness
of the Louisiana orange, the best of
which are regarded in the markets out
side of Louisiana as superior to even the
oranges of Cuba, to which island the
fruit is indigenous, render the Louisi
ana oranges highly prized in the north
and. west of the United States, so much
so that the supply is not by any means
equal to the demand. —New Orleans
Picayune.
TAYLOURS AND SMYTHS.
They Were the Commonest Trade* I
In the Thirteenth Century.
The manufacture of leather in the
thirteenth century seems to have been
important, showing that leather jerkins
and breeches were commonly worn. We
have 19 skynners, 40 barkars, 6 sad
delers, 3 cordeweners, 167 souters,
(shoemakers) and 8 glovers. The sur
name feuster is a trade name denoting
a maker of pack saddles.
The commonest trades are taylour and
smyth, since one lived in almost every
village. The taylourfl number 407, of
whom 140 are called by the Latin name
of ciseor. In addition to 261 smyths,
several are specialized. There are two
arusmyths, three lokeemyths, three
goldsmyths, five fferonrs (shoeing
smiths) and six marshalls (farriers).
The wryght wrought both in wood
and metal. The number catalogued is
186, of whom 81 are called by the Latin
name saber (French favre), one of the
few cases in which the Latin transla
tion of a trade name has become a com
mon surname. The wryghts’ trade, like
that of the smyths, was specialized.
The arkwryght made the great arks or
chests in which the clothes or meal
were stored, and we find a plowwryght,
a wheelwryght, two shippewryghts, 11
cartwryghts and two glasswryghts (gla
ziers), who were probably concerned
with the windows of churches. Glass
windows in houses were rare, as is still
the case in Sicily or Egypt.
The bakesters are few (15), suggesting
that families baked their own bread.
There are 26 butchers (fleshewer, bocher
or carnifex), whence Labouchere, while
the surname potter shows that thia
trade was in existence. The fysshera
(43), were opulent, being taxed 12 times
as much as laborers. —Notes and Que
ries.
The Tins.
My introduction to this prince of tha
Pacific was on this wise: My brother
and I were trolling for yellowtail off the
island of Banta Catalina. Suddenly out
of the summer sea a flying fish—the
humming bird of ocean—flashed
athwart our bows and then, not a dozen
yards distant, the waters parted and a
huge tuna, in its resplendent livery of
blue and silver, swooped with indescrib
able strength and rapidity upon it»
quarry, catching it, mirablle dictu, in
midair. In a fraction of a second the
deed was done. The ocean, recording
the splash of the leviathan, rippled ap
plause, and our questions pattered like
hail upon the somewhat hard under
standing of our boatman, a son of Al
sace.
“Yes,” he said, his white teeth in
curious contrast to a lean, bronzed face
I —“yes, messieurs, that is a tuna, a 200
I pounder, at least I”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Smoke One With Me.
“Do you smoke?” asked the middle
aged mart “You didn’t two months
ago. You oughtn't to smoke, my boy;
you’re too young and not strong look
ing. ” Then the elderly adviser started
to light a cigar. “Have a cigar?” he
[ said absentmindedly, as he scratched a
I match. The young man took the cigar
and bit off the end.
“These are very mild,” ended the
| speaker, presumably for the benefit of
I his conscience—“very mild, and won’t
I hurt you any.”—New York Commer-
I cial Advertiser.
Capacity of St. Paul'*.
As many as 86,000 people have been
I accommodated in St. Paul’s cathedral.
I but that has been with temporary gal-
I letiee, etc., erected. On festivals only
I between 6,000 and 7,000 people find
I seats. At an ordinary service about
I 4,000 people will make the cathedral
look quite full.
Two Points of View.
I “My children,” said the poor man
I sadly, “are crying for bread.”
“Which shows, ” replied the rich man
coldly, “how much you have to be
thankful for Now, mine are crying for
bunions.”— Brooklvn Life.
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fru »i rXI
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has home the signature of
I‘ ns been made under his pcr
/ sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTOR IA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant, it
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhiea. ami Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
ami Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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