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sraMps ?Y THE MILLIONS.
AN [LLINOIS GIRL'S RACKET THAT
18 KNOCKING OUT THE MAILS.
stiss Ena R. Brown, of Kaneville, Wanted
a Million Canceled Stamps to Aild
fger Inyalid Sister, a Good
Many From Dawson.
gbout a week since a letter was re
ceived in Dawson which revealed a
scheme in the form of a geometrical
- chain letter, the sort that has been used
pefore, which was ostencibly for a good
purpose, and no evidence of being afake.
A good many charitable persons were
impressed with it, and complied with its
guggestions.
It said vhat there was a young lady in
Kaneville, I, who had been a cripple
since she was ten years old. A medical
ipstitution there had offered to treat her
if she would secure a million cancelled
posiage stamps. The gist of the scheme
was in the following paragraph:
«please take three copics of this let
ter, as we have done, only changing the
pumber at the top, numbering them all
the same and sign your own name. Re
turp this letter with ten orjmore cancelled
postage stamps, to Miss Edna R. Brown,
Kaneville, 111., also the names and ad
dresses of the three new letters, and
they were asked to do the same. Any
one not wishing to do this will please
potify Miss Brown so;that she may know
the chain has been broken. The person
receiving letter No. 50 will return it
without making any copies, as that ends
the chain.”
These letters were not only received in
Dawson but throughout the state, and,
indeed, the eniire country. The request
in the letter wasin nearly every instance
complied with, and the chain was spin
ping on until some curioas parties, who
began to reflect on tlie magnitude of this
scheme and the enormous number of
cancelled postage stamps thatjwould be
secured for the alleged invalid girl,
wrote to the postmaster at Kaneville
asking if Miss Edna Brown was receiy
ing any letters, and received the follow
ing reply:
“Edna Brown does receive letters at
this office. In fact, she received twenty
seven bushels of them today. She is
collecting stamps for her sister-in-Jaw, of
this place, who has been a cripple since
six years of age. They collect the stamps
and sell them, but no medical institution
has offered to treat her for cancelled
stamps. She has already many tixes a
million, and please do not send any
aore.’’
The Savannah News says that probably
a hundred or more citizens of that place
have contributed to the stamp collection
of the artful little Edna, but they will
not do so again, Many whose sympathies }
were aroused also sent Edna money m'-‘
ders, Itis said that the scheme took “
pretty well in Columbus, and hundreds
of cancelled stamps were forwarded to
make the required million, |
Kaneville is a little country place off
from any railroad line, and is reached by!
stage. Ordinarily one small pouch is |
sutticient to carry the mail. Since Miss
Brown Las gone into the cancelled post
age stamp business the stage is loaded
down with pouches, and extra teams
bave been employed to haul the mail.
The worst of itls her mail is increasing
every day, and if the chain in the corres
rondence that she started is not broken
pretty soon, the village itself will not be
biz enough to hold the mail. The post
master at Kaneville wrote to Washing
ton a week ago that Miss Brown’s mail
¥as averaging twenty-seven bushels of
mail a day.
Now that the bubble has burst, how
ever, and Fdna’s hittle scheme will be
ventilated throughout the country, the
“chain” will be mashed to smithereens,
and the little Kaneville gir'ls mail will
drop to its normal size, probably a letter
a month,
Better Than Carrying the Dog.
From the Out'ook.
Everbody has heard of the great St.
Bernard dogs who in the Alps have saved
S 0 many travelers who have fallen ex
hausted in the snow, and of the great
Newfoundland dogs who save people from
drowning; of dogs who bark when they
Lave discovered a fire until they alarm
the people in the house; of dogs that
bave killed poisonous snakes to save
Some one they love; of dogs who will
carry haskets in their mouths, and of
dogs who will go on errands. Butl do
00t believe you ever heard of a dog who
Would carry his mistress’ dress in his
Mouth over muddy plates in the street.
There is such a little dog in London.
He goes shopping and calling with his
Mistress, and she pays no attention to
ber dress; the little dog trots behind
ber with the hem in bis mouth. He
uever lets it touch the ground. |,
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Fresh car load of Alabama line just re-
Ceived at Dawson Variety Works. e
, RED HOT TIMES,
Interesting Reminiscences in Stewart
County of a Presidential Campaign,
The Stewart County Hopper has some
interesting reminiscences of the presi
dential campaign of 1840 in Stewart
county. In that campaign William Hen
ry Harrison and Martin Van Buren were
the leading spirits. Harrison led the
whig party and Van Buren the demo
cratic. The whigs and democrats of
Stewart, who were about equally strong,
caught the inspiration of the party spirit
that pervaded the land and made good
use of it. Stewart county then was
much Yarger thanit is now. It embraced
portions of the territory now occupied
9y Chattahoochee, Webster and Quit
man. Lannahassee, now Preston, was a
Stewart county presinct; so, also, was
Hard Money, now Weston. Racooons
and polk stalks held no sway in this as
in the campaign four years later, but log
cabins, hard cider, gourd vines and red
pepper were the ornaments. It was said
that Harrison lived in a log cabin en
twined by gourd vines, while strands of
red pepper hung beside the door. The
whig campaighers caught on to it and
instead of talking ‘‘tariff” and ‘‘free
silver,”” they talked log cabins and free
cider, It took like wild fire with the fron
tiers men and they sang hallelujahs to
“Old Tippacanoe.”’ The whigs were on
‘the “top rail,” as the sequel proved, and
their mass meetings were largely attend
ed, notable among which was one held
in Lumpkin, or in the valley—it was be
tween Lumpkin and Scottsboro. The
campaign logcabin was built on wheels of
light timber and its apartments contain-
ed barrels of cider, being decorated upon
the outside with gourd vines and strands
of red pepper. On the morning of the
Lumpkin mass meeting the log cabins
‘began toroll in nd in artsstic finish,
with gourd vine and red pepper decora
tion: ; the one from Marion county *‘took
the cake.”” Among the leading whigs of
the county at that time were B, K. Har
rison, Willard Boynton, Richard Snell
ings, W. P. Carter, Samson Bell, Thomas
Giibert, John Talbot, Loverd Bryau, Dr.
Stokes, Richard Gill and others. Their
leading opponents upon the other side
were Dr. Catchings, Erasmus Beall, Jas.
Mitchell, William Jims, Tomlinson Fort,
John D. Pitts, Mark Fleming, E. F.
Kirksey and others. Of those mentioned
Judge E. F. Kirksey is the only one who
n es in the county. The others
have long since passed over that stream
that divides the visible from the un
known,
American Dialect Stories.
Have we not had about enough of
those American dialect stories? The
country seems to be splitting up into
sections, linguistically speaking. There
is the southern dialect, both negro and
‘‘cracker, ’’ worked with such success by
Ruth McEnery Stuart and Charles Eg
vert Craddock. We bave the awful mid
dle belt dialect of Edward Eggleston in
“The Hoosier Schoolmaster,’’ certainly
the vilest patois under the sun; the
cowboy and mining lingo of Bret Harte
and his hundreds of imitators, and the
rustic New England dialect made so fa
miliar in the wonderful short stories of
Marie Wilkins. George W. Cable has
given us the New Orleans creole patois.
It is a little odd that our best and most
brilliant story writers are the worst
sinners in this respect.
Lately there is evidence that another
dialect in literature is to be sprung on
a helpless public. It is the corrupt and
degenerate mixture of tongues, alleged
to be English, that has grown up around
the Bowery and east side slums in New
York city. It has sotainted and injured
the language in the big city that correct
English amoug even moderately intelli
gent people there is the exception.
It is time to stop this bad practice. In
a few years more, unless thoughtful
people and schoolteachers struggle suc
cessfully against it, we shall have as
many and as unintelligible dialects in
the United States as there now are in
the different parts of Great Britain.
Let us have some stories written in
good, pure English.
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l STARVING NEBRASKANS,
l\'hlldrtn So Hungry They Devour the
Raw Frovisions,
Nearly all of the cities and towns of
Georgia have contributed something to
relieve starvation in Nebraska, and a
few fragmentary shipments are still pass
ing through Macoun for points in the
famine-stricken territory. Several car
loads were carried by the Southern to
Atlanta last week. The stories of hun
’ger land want are not so numerous as
;they have been, but the last issue of a
Nebraska weekly paper had a story de
scribing the situation in this effect:
Ina country town a man entered a
store and tried to purchase a sack of
flour. The merchant refused to sell it
to him, because of the general scéarcity
of the article. The man plead with the
merehant to no avail. Seizing an oppor
tunity the man stole the flour, and was
pursued to his home by the officers of the
law, Arrived there the scene was one
calculrted to bring tears to the eyes of
the most callous. Pale and ghastly the |
poor wretch's wife and children were
ravenously eating the raw flour—too
hungry to await its preparation.
This is said to be the situation among
thousands upon thousands of people.
b Good When Yoa Find It.
\ Judge Caldwell of North Carolina
was slow to see the point of a joke. On
trying a case on one occasion the solic
itor called in vain for a witness named
Sarah Mooney. As she did not answer
he informed the court that he could
‘not proceed ‘‘without ceremony.’’ The
bar laughed, but the judge looked puz
zled. Some weeks after that when aw
home the point dawned on him, and he
broke into a loud laugh. Upon his wife
fnquiring the cause of his merriment
he explained that the solicitor had call
ed Sallie Mooney, and when she did
not answer he had said he could not
oroceed without ceremony. The wife
said she did not see the pvint. The
judge said it had taken him three weeks
to find it, but when she did see if it
would be very funny.—Green Bag.
African Ants.
Dr. Sharp gives the following extract
from Dr. Livingstone’s ‘‘Narrative of an
Expedition to the Zambezi:”
“We tried to sleep one rainy night ina
native hut, but could not because of at
tacks by the fighting battalions of a very
small species of formica not more than ‘
one-sixteenth of an inch in length. It
soon became obvious that they were un
der regular discipline and even attempt
ing to carry out the skillful plans and
stratagem of some eminent leader. Our
hands and necks were the first objects of
attack. Large bodies of these little pests
were massed in silence round the point
to be assaulted. We could hear the
sharp, shrill word of command two or
three times repeated, though until then
we had not believed in the vocal power
of an ant. The instant after we felt the
storming hosts over head and neck.” -
New York Ledger.
Queer Ways of the Toad.
Paternal affection is not perhaps the
precise emotion that we should be dis
posed to look for in the coid blooded
frog. But the Surinam toad appears to
exhibit this praiseworthy attitude of
mind toward his numerous progeny.
When his mate lays her eggs, thesolicit
eus father places them carefully upon
her back, where in due time their pres
ence causes an irritation that produces
numerous small holes, into which the
eggs forthwith drop. In these cells,
which, from mutual pressure, get to be
hexagonal, like honeycomb, the young
frogs are finally hatched, and for a bit
scramble about their mother’s back, hid
ing in their nurseries when danger
threatens. London News.
An Electric Booijack.
Lightning tore the shoe off the left foot
of Fred Dreyer, a Chicago raliroad flag
man. Dreyer suffered no ahysical damage.
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no spe
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tric Bitters sing the same song of praise.
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For cure of Headache, Constipation and
Indigestion try Electric Bitters.—Entire
satisfaction guaranteed, or money re
funded.—Price 50 cts and $l.OO per bot
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Ten days loss of time on accovnt of
sickness and doctor bill to pay, is any
thing but pleasant for a man of a family
to contemplate, whether he is a laborer,
mechanic, merchant or publisher. Jas.
0. Jones, publisher of the Leader, Mexia,
Texas, was sick in bed for ten days with
the grip during its prevalence a year or
two ago. Later in the season he had a
second attack. He says: “In'the latter
case I used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
with considerable success, I think, only
being in bed a little over two days. The
seconAd attack I am satisfied would have
been equally as bad as the first but for
the use of this remedy.”” Itshould be
bhorne in mind that the grip is much the
same as a very severe cold and requires
precisely the same teatment. When
you wish to cure a cold quickly and
effectually give this remedy a trial. 25
and 50 eent bottles for sale by Farrar &
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TIT FOR TAT,
This is one of Sam Small’s little poemes,
and the advice each gave to the other is
80 good that both ought to have taken
it:
The editor told the farmer:
“Don’t make your old mistake
And plant your land with cotton
As the only crop to make;
You'll overdo the business
And bring the prices down,
And then next fall come cussiao’
All thro’ this pious town!
‘Diversify your planting—
Make 'taters, corn and oats,
Get hogs of fancy breeding
And raise some dandy thoats;
Have chickens, ducks, guineas
About your place to roam,
And thus be independent
By living all at heme!"”’
The farmer eyed the scribbler
{ With glarejas cold as ice,
And said: ‘““lv’e often wanted
To give you some advice.
Why don’t you run ycur paper
With all the lates: news?
We folks out in the country
g Don’t want your silly ‘views.’
“Give up the patent inside,
Throw out the biler-plate, |
And dish up county doings J
Directly up to date;
Quit tryin’ to teach us farmers J
The way to till our loam,
And print your sheet at home.” ‘
A City Pay Roll ‘
The cost of municipal government in
New York city is $12,000,000 a year,
$1,000,000 a month. That of Chicago is
not so very much less. The mayor of
New York receives $lO,OOO a year, the |
same salary as the governor of the state. }
The city has on its pay roll more than
17,000 employees. These include, of
course, policemen and schoolteachers.
The mayor has at his disposal already
$325,000 of public patronage. Certain
changes in the state laws may be made
by the new legislature, which will place
€1,737,000 worth of patronage in the
hands of the mayor. Oune ot the proposed
changes is the abolishment of the much
abused system of police justices. Next
to being president, therefore, the best
thing is apparently to be mayor of New
York.
The mayor has the appointment of sev
eral officers whose salaries are larger
than his own. One of these is the city
chamberlain, who gets $25,000 a year.
Another is the corporation counsel, who
has $12,000. The police justices, made
famous and infamous through the inves
tigations of the Lexow committee, re
ceive $B,OOO a year each, and there are
15 of them. The innumerable host of
commissioners, fire, police, dock, health
aqueduct and otherwise, which New
York carries, get $5,000 a year each.
Some of them have managed to ‘turn a
penny or two outside of their salaries.
There are in New York city 20 police
matrons, who get each s§72o a year.
Georgia is not going to be left in any
thing. A great pork packing plant is to
be established at once at Valdosta.
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