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bird flight.
They flock upon the hazy nir.
Silent of note nnd purpo-eful of wing.
Nor Kosyip '‘f th '' "airborn uwfng-
DGtarlH their rhyi.mil* ,
Across the (lying twM* the sun;
Th T en tn-P-hey wing their
Fur S m hast- "« 1 “'« lono -
Now .11 the stubble land turns twilight gray
*Thum with inysti - rum and harvest nils.
Above the watching world a tiny speck
Grows pale and fades against the southern
—Elizabeth Alden Curtis in Philistine.
WAR AND MATRIMONY.
Cupid Im Much the lliiMieHt In Times
of Peace mid Prosperity.
“There is a close connection between
marriage and the price of wheat, beef,
pork, beans, corn and other things
which go to make up the main portion
of human food, ” writes Professor D. R.
McAnally of “The American Girl’s
Chances of Marriage, ’’ in The Ladies’
Home Journal. “As the prices of these
commodities go up the number of mar
riages goes down. From 1851 to 1854
times were good, food was cheap, and
the marriage rate in Massachusetts
went up to 26 per 1,000. i >*t v»«- n 1855
and 1859 there was great depression of
trade, and in 1858 the marriage rate
went down to 17 per 1,000. The years
from 1873 to 1879 form another period
of depression. Factories were closed and
manufacturers of every kind suffered
severely. In one year, at least, crops
were short and the prices of food were
high. The result was immediately seen
in matrimony, for in 1874 the number
of marriages went down from 21 per
1,000 of the population to 18, and in
1876 and the following two years de
clined to 15 per 1,000 —a tremendous
falling off from 26 per 1,000, the figure
attained in 1854, which was the banner
year in the state of Massachusetts for
matrimony.
“Almost as unfavorable as that of
hard times is the influence of war upon
matrimony. Whenever Mars is in the
ascendant Cupid’s stock goes down.
During the civil war the number of
marriages in this country fell off from
20 per 1,000 of population to 17 per
1,000, and immediately after the civil
war was ended, in 1865, the number
rose to 22 per 1,000, declining in 1860
to 21. The woman who is looking for a
husband has a better chance of getting
one just before or just after a war than
at any other time.”
With the Fading of Beauty.
A 16-year-old girl imagines that she
is an angel, and never gets over it.
After a woman gets old she thinks of
how she was admired and compliment
ed in her youth and feels that some
great wrong w’as done her because she
did not remain as pretty as she was at
16. If she is married, she is apt to lay
the blame on the brutality of her hus
band ; if she is an old maid, she lays it
on her father, who was poor, and thus
forced her to work, which resulted in
a stooping figure and harsh features.
A man never has this experience. He
is at his worst at 16 and does not reach
his best until he is 26 to 30. By that
time he has acquired a little sense, and
never mistakes a compliment for the
truth.—Atchison Globe.
Sunday .School Genm.
Stories of strange and amusing an
swers given to examination questions
are frequently told, but we do not so
often see recorded the equally surpris
ing answers given by children in Sun
day schools, and yet they are frequent
ly original enough.
A teacher, lately wishing to turn the
young idea toward the mission field,
asked, “What are good men called who
leave their homes and go to foreign
lands to teach the heathen?”
“Prodigal sons, ” was the prompt and
triumphant reply.
A class of boys when asked, “What
were the ten plagues?” answered with
more fervor than gallantry, “The ten
virgins, sir.”—Westminster Gazette.
Have No Vue For Cents.
Pennies are not used by the banks of
New Orleans in the payment of checks.
If a check, for example, is drawn for
$62.18, the holder receives $62.20. If
the amount is $62.17, he gets $62.15.
The split is made between the second
and third cent, and the system, which
has been in vogue for many years, is
very rarely the subject of any com
plaint. It makes an exact balance of
coppers at the end of the day’s business
rather unlikely, but the doctrine of av
erages operates to even things up to
within a few cents. In the long run
about as many checks break on one-half
of the nickel as on the other.—New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Money MnklnK Indians.
The Menominee Indians, in north
western Wisconsin, are making as much
money in lumber operations as are the
< 'sages at farming. By the sale of pine
logs in years past the 1,300 men, wom
en and children have accumulated a
tribal fund aggregating $1,000,000,
which is still growing. The tribe ex
pends about $75,000 a year in logging
operations and clears from $50,000 to
SIOO,OOO annually.
Detecting Flaiva In Metal.
To detect hidden cracks opening from
the surface of metals the surface is first
i-fined with kerosene and is then
dried off with a cloth. It is then coated
v oh tlialk. Aft er. a little while the ■il
works out of the little cracks and stains
the chalk. A sort of diagram of the hid
den fissures and defects is thus pro
duced.
Professor C. Lloyd Morgan has in his
book on ‘Habit and Instinct” advanced
the theory that, while the calls and
alarm notes uttered by birds are prob
ably due to simple instinct, their songs
may be traditional—that is, handed
down from generation to generation
and perpetuated through the faculty of
imitation.
STUCK IN THE SNOW.
Dangers of Traveling by Sledge In
Siberia In Winter.
Traveling by sledge in Siberia in
winter has its perils, as tbo experienca
of Mr. Robert L. Jefferson and his
friends goes to illustrate. The incident
is told in “Roughing It In Siberia:"
We had chartered six sorry looking '
horses to drag us on to tbo next stage.
It was night when we started. The driv
er, maudlin drunk, had to be helped
to his seat, and we set off along the
narrow roadway at the usual gallop,
which, however, soon dwindled into a
mere shuffle through the snow. We had
gone to sleep, and some hours after our
departure Gaskell woke me and said be
thought something was wrong.
The sledge was at a standstill, and
our shouts to the yemshik brought no
response. Black darkness prevailed. I
bundled out of the sledge, so benumbed
that I could scarcely move. I felt along
the sledge, sinking to my knees in tho
snow.
The driver’s perch was empty, and
just then I stumbled over one of tho
horses, which was lying buried up to
its neck. It was clear that the driver
had fallen from his seat, and that the
horses bad wandered from the track.
The poor beasts were stuck fast, and a
closer inspection showed one of them
to be dead, literally frozen to death. If
we would save ourselves from the same
fate, prompt action was necessary.
The other horses were nearly suc
cumbing. They lay flat on their stom
achs and nibbled at the snow. We cut
tho dead animal adrift, and, using the
spare rope as whips, we stood on either
side of the living and lashed them till
our arms ached. At length they moved,
and by pushing and pulling we got the
sledge turned. Then, step by step, with
much floundering and many falls, we
began to retrace our way.
All this in pitch darkness in a raw,
cold wind and in momentary expecta
tion of one or all of the horses dropping
dead.
It was a terrible experience, but we
regained file road and finally reached
the village.
BLIND MAN’S BUFF,
The Origin of This Favorite Sport of
Childhood and Youth.
This favorite sport of childhood and
youth is of French origin and very high
antiquity, having been introduced into
England in the train of the Norman
conquerors. Its French name, “Colin
Maillard, ” was that of a brave warrior,
the memory of whose exploits still lives
in the chronicles of the middle ages.
In the year 999 Liege reckoned among
its valiant chiefs one Jean Colin. Ha
acquired the name Maillard from his
chosen weapon being a mallet, where
with in fight he used literally to crush
his opponents. In one of the feuds
which were of perpetual recurrence in
those times he encountered the Count
de Lourain in a pitched battle, and, so
runs the story, in the first onset Colin
Maillard lost both his eyes. He ordered
bis esquire to take him into the thickest
of the fight, and, furiously brandishing
his mallet, did such fearful execution
that victory soon declared itself for him.
When Robert of France heard of these
feats at arms, he lavished favors and
honors upon Colin, and so great was
the fame of the exploit that it was com
memorated in the pantomimic repre
sentations that formed part of the rude
dramatic performances of the age. By
degrees the children learned to act it
for themselves, and it took the form of
a familiar sport.
The blindfolded pursuer, as, with
bandaged eyes and extended hands, he
gropes for a victim to pounce upon,
seems in some degree to repeat the ac
tion <f Colin Maillard, the tradition of
which is also traceable in the name,
blind man’s bluff.—Philadelphia Press.
His Reaion.
Some of the best of Dean Pigon’s sto
ries come from Halifax (not Sheffield).
One of these concerns his verger, on«
Sagar. Imagine him, a venerable figure
with gray hair, skullcap, gown and
verger’s staff. In ignorance they had
married a man to his deceased wife'i
sister.
Sagar, whose business it was to set
tle the matter about the banns, was at
once cross examined. "Oh, yes, vicar,”
said he, “Iknowed right well! I know
ed parties. “But why did you not
tell me?" I should have forbidden
them.” “Well, vicar, it was just this
way, do you see. One of the parties
was 84 and t’other 86. I says to myself:
‘Lord, it can’t last long. Let ’em wed,
and bother the laws!’ ” —London News.
A Regular Polyglot.
A gentleman in a rural district drew
down upon his bead a storm of adverse
criticism by marrying a second wife
shortly after the demise of his first.
Two of those good ladies who look gen
erally upon the surface of things and
who are ever ready with condemnation
were discussing the disgraceful affair.
"Why, my dear, tbm ’s his poor wife
hardly cold in her grave, and he goes
and marries another!” “Dreadful!’’de
clared the other. “I never heard of
such a thing.” “I should think not
indeed,” went on No. 1 angrily. “Mar
rying wife after wife like that —why,
the man’s a regular poly got 1” —-Cornbill
Magazine.
The Last of the Patches.
I was born in 1837, and I have per
sonal recollections of a lady in the early
forties using them. The curate of
lodged in a farmhouse contiguous to
my father’s place. His wife was a tall,
fine, handsome woman, dressed in black
when I first saw her, and had patches—
“beauty spots” they were called—on
her forehead, cheek (left, I think) and
chin. I told my mother on returning
home, and she replied they were “beau
ty spots” and “in tho fashion.” I have
a most vivid recollection of seeing her
and her busband on the occasion. A
handsomer couple you would rarely
meet -Motes and Queries.
RILEY’S JOKES.
The Hoosier Poet Talka Interesting* |
ly to u Reporter.
The Hoosier Poet was busy when the
Tales of the Town man called upon
him.
“Glad you came in,” he said. “Not
■ that I’ve been—but that’s General
New’s story. General New of the Indi
anapolis Journal called on General
Grant during the latter’s first term and
found the president warrior laughing
heartily. Os course New looked as
though he wanted to know the reason,
and the general told him. He said he'd
just had a call from an old friend who
lived in Galena, Ills,, one of his early
day acquaintances, who said he’d been
in Washington for two or three days,
but had been so busy that he was un
able to call upon his old friend, the
president, any sooner, and he apologiz
ed for the delay. General Grant looked
at him in his comical fashion and
gravely said:
“ ‘Well, John. I haven’t been lone
some !’
“You see, tho visit occurred at a
time when the president was being
harassed to death by callers from all
directions, who had driven him nearly
to distraction.
“A man who travels a good deal
comes to know towns because of certain
points that are usually entirely person
al with him. Sometimes a bad hotel,
sometimes an extremely early train,
will stamp a characteristic on a town.
I remember that my old friend Bill
Nye was once chatting with Senator
Shirley of Maine and remarked upon
the fact that he (Nye) was born at
Shirley, in the senator’s state, adding
that the town had doubtless been nam
ed for one of the senator’s ancestors.
“‘I didn’t know, ’ said the senator,
‘that there was such a town in Maine
as Shirley.'
“ ‘I didn't know it either,' said Nye,
'until I was born there!’ ”
And the poet went on with his writ
ing.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
HE COWED THE BULLY.
Harold Frederic's Encounter With a
Lordly Prussian Lieutenant.
Harold Frederic’s self confidence and
power of dominating strangers stood
him in good stead in one of his first
visits—if not his very first visit—to
Berlin. The incident as he related it
seemed natural enough to an American
not brought up in awe of a military
caste, but to those who knew Germany
it was almost surprising that he came
through it with bis life. He had been
paying some formal diplomatic calls,
and in the evening dropped in at the
Case Bauer in the unwonted glory of a
frock coat and a tall silk hat. This hat
was carefully hung on a hat stand, and
Frederic sat down to read an English
newspaper just arrived.
Enter a particularly fine specimen of
the lieutenant, booted and spurred and
sworded and epauletted. He brushed
against the hat stand, knocked Frederic’s
hat over into the sawdust and swag
gered to his seat without so much as
looking around. The slight to the hat
was more than Frederic could endure.
In a towering passion he went to the
lieutenant, stood over him and pointed
to the object on the floor. “Pick up
that bat, sir!” he roared. The officer
stared amazed; the waiters were par
alyzed with texjor at hearing one so
much more than human so addressed
by a civilian. “Pick up that hat!” re
peated Frederic in a tone more menac
ing than before. And the lieutenant did
what he was told. He was as irresisti
bly dominated by the courage and force
of the man as a schoolboy before bis
master, or perhaps he thought Frederic
carried the customary west American
revolver. —Saturday Review.
The Danger of Disease.
The danger from a case of diphtheria
in New York at any season of the year
is far greater than the danger from a
case of yellow fever in the same place.
Still persons who would shun a street
where a case of yellow fever existed
would deliberately enter the apartment
of a person suffering from diphtheria.
A serious outbreak of typhoid fever
creates but little consternation, and tho
presence in our midst of innumerable
cases of tuberculosis, a disease which is
responsible for an incredible number of
deaths, is looked upon with indifference
by the public. The misconception in
regard to the danger from this class of
diseases often renders the efforts of
health officials ineffectual. —Alvah H.
Doty, M. D., in North American Re
view.
Too Sngneitlv* of Luxury.
"Doctor,” said the member of parlia
ment for a rural district, “are you sure
it's gout that has attacked me?”
“Positive. But you needn’t be alarm
ed. It’s nothing very serious,”
“Doctor, you don’t appreciate the
situation. You don’t know what a prej
udice againstgout there is in my com
munity. I don’t ask you to do anything
contrary to your conscience, but if I
manage to get the story started that I
caught my toe in a piece of machinery
think of my prospects and the welfare
of your country and don’t contradict
it.”—London Tit-Bits.
The Firwt Celebration of Christmas.
Christmas was first celebrated in the
year 98, but it was 40 years later before
it was officially adopted as a Christian
' festival. Nor was it until about the
' fifth century that the day of its celebra
-1 tion became permanently fixed on the
25th of December. Up to that time it
: bad been irregularly observed at various
’ times of the year—in December, in
1 April and in May, but most frequently
I in January.—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Jnst What He Meant.
' “It was a pitch battle,” he said.
’ “ ‘Pitched,’ you mean,” she correct-
ed-
“I don't mean anything of the kind,”
he replied. “I mean ‘pitch.’ It was »
fight between tars.’’—Chicago Post.
DOORS OF VENEER.
■ -
Door*. Xot liten tin More Cotlio
1., . M ide of solid Wood.
The very finest of doors nre made
. Bowat ays of v< net r on a body of pine. !
Ev, n when made of mahogany or some I
other <■ stlv word doors have to be ve
necr< d. Tiie body of the door is made
of a plain, straight grained mahogany,
while tbeu rfan s are veneers of lino
WO.'.'l.
In the finest d* .r> the body is made
of selected white pine, free from sap
and perfectly ?< a-e an <i, which is cut in
to narrow strip- and then glued to
gether. The outer edges of this door are
faced with what is called a vem « r, lint
which is really a strip of the tine wood
half an inch or more in thickni ss. The
inner edges of the frame, by the panels,
are covered in the si tiie manner with
thick strips, in which the ornamental
moldings or carvings are made and
which are groovt <1 to receive the panels.
This built up frame of white pine,
with edges of the tine wood, is then
veneered with file fine wood. In some
lighter doors the panels may le of solid
mahogany, but in tin- fimr, larger and
heavier doors the panels also are made
of sheets of white pine with a veneering
of the fine wood, so that the entire door
is veneered.
It would I o difficult, if not impossi
ble, to procure at any cost mahogany
lumber in fine and beautiful woods of j
sufficient size for the larger doors. The i
built up and veneered door of pine ■
wood, however, has every appearance j
of a solid door, ami. made of selected i
veneers, it may be more beautiful than i
a solid door would be. It is more serv
iceable and remains longer perfect. Its
cost is about half what a solid door
would cost. —New York Sun.
WASHINGTON RELICS.
Articles of Priceless Worth Kept In
the National Museum.
One of the most interesting relics in
the National museum at. Washington is
the camp chest used by Washington
throughout the Revolution. It is a com
pact affair about the size of a tourist’s
wicker chest for cooking of the present
day, 2 0 feet long, 2 feet wide, 1 foot
high, and it contains an outfit consist
ing of tinder box, pepper and salt
boxes, bottles, knives, forks, gridiron
and plates. Every bit of the outfit save
one bottle, which is broken at the
shoulder, looks strong enough to stand
another campaign. «
Near by are tho tents used by Wash- j
ington—three in number. Ono is a j
sleeping tent, 28 feet long, witli walls I
6 feet high and a roof with a 6 foot ’
pitch. It is made of linen. The other
two are marquee tents of smaller size,
one with walls, the other a shelter tent
open on the sides. That the tenting ma
terial of Revolutionary days was good
stuff is proved by the excellent condi- I
tion of these tents, which sheltered tbo
great commander through all his severe ;
campaigns.
Here also is Washington's uniform, I
worn by him when he gave up his com
mission as commander in chief of the
army, at Annapolis in 1783. It consists
of a big shadbelly coat of blue broad
cloth, lined and trimmed with soft
buckskin and ornamented with broad,
flat brass buttons; buckskin waistcoat
and breeches. The size of the garments
(which are in a state of excellent pres
ervation) testify to the big stature of (
the Father of His Country and sng- *
gest that he had an eye to a fine ap
pearance in bis dress.—Washington
Post.
Factories Without ChiinnryH.
The statement that a chimney, the
third or fourth tallest in tho world, has
just been completed at a cost of $53,-
000, and the announcement that the
most gratifying success has attended the
use of forced draft, without any chim
neys whatever out of the ordinary, ap
pear in contemporary journals. The ex
periment of forced draft gives promise
of great economy in fuel, as well as
doing away with tho expensive and un
ornamental chimney. The draft arrange
ment consists of a largo fan, which is
connected with a 4 by 4 double cylinder
engine. The fan has a wheel 54 inches
in diameter and runs at almost any rate
of speed desired. The draft is something
prodigious and makes it possible to em
ploy fuel of a lower grade than any
heretofore used. Instead of tho best
Cumberland coal, a mixture of Cumber
land and screenings has been tried. The
cost of operating the fan, even with im
perfect apparatus, is something like
SBOO per annum. The smokestack id
scarcely taller than the roof of the
building ami of less capacity than that
heretofore used for such purposes.—New
York Ledger.
Storj of Lincoln.
This Lincoln story is told in Short
Stories: A New York firm applied to
Abraham Lincoln some years before he
became president for information as to
the financial standing of one of his
neighbors. Mr. Lincoln replied as fol
lows:
Yours of the 10th inst. !<■'•> ived. lam will
acquainted with Mr. X. and kn .v hi- circum
stances. First of al!, he has a wife and baby;
together th>*y ought t<, lr* worth . B‘<■
ondly, he Ims an office, in which there area
table worth 11.50 and three chairs worth, say,
11. I .jot of all, thi re is in oie ■ rner a largo
rathole, which will bear 1* king inf
“peetfully yours, A. Ij.wots
Wnntcd It Altered.
Minister (to newly wedded pair;—
The married state imposes various du
ties. The husband must prefect tho
wife, while the wife must f< How the
husband whithersoever he goes.
Bride—La, sir. couldn’t that be al
tered in onr case? My husband s going
to be a countiy postman.—Judy.
The Bottle Post.
The “bottle post” is an old institu
tion on the south coast of Iceland. Let
ters are put into corked bottles, which
are wafted by the wind to the opposite
coast. They also contain a cigar or oth
er trifle to induce the finder to deliver
' th- le'ter as addressed.
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