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VOLUME LVI-XOH6
THREE OOOO DOCTORS.
'XUz best of *11 the plll-bo XArcw,
Since ever time began, »’
Arc the doctors vrbo have most to do
With the health of * heart; man.
And *o I count them up again
And praise them as 1 can;
There'a Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merry*
man.
There’s Dr. Diet, he tries my tongue.
“I know you waU," says he;
"Your stomach Is poor and your liver Is sprung,
We must make your food agree."
And Dr. Quiet, he feels my wrist
And he gravely shakes his bead.
•“Now, now, dear sir, I must Insist
That you go at ten to bed."
But Dr. Merryman for me
Of all the plll-hox crew!
Yor he smiles and says, as he fobs his fee/
"Laugh on, whatever you do 1”
So now I cat what I ought to cat,
And at ten I go to bed.
And I laugh in the face of cold or heat;
Yor thus hare the doctors said 1
And so I count them np again,
And praise them as 1 can;
‘There's Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Matiy-
man. —The Independent.
SECRET SKELETON'S.
Hysterics Hidden Behind the Bo-
UtNle'a .Sign-Busluess Black Lists—
A System that Ministers to Boehlaoo
Kxtravmrance I’ostlna Fair Deltn-
<)aon te.
Hew Tort Mercurw.
For some days last week there appeared
In a morning paper the following curious
advertisement:
If J. W. will return the skeletons ho will re
ceive the prico ho demands.
The name attached to this invitation
was that of a well-known Fifth avenue
tnodiste, and a Mercury reporter, desirous
of ascertaining in what direction skele
tons were made valuable In the business
of enhancing woman’s charms, called on
the advertiser. The servant stated Hist
ahe was engaged, and ushered him InWa
reception room. Across the hail was a
door marked "private office,” and the re
porter speedily became aware of an any
thing hut friendly conversation being con
ducted on the other side. Finally the
door opened and a young man came out,
followed by the modiste. “Very well,"
said the young man, in angry tones, "this
is the fifth time you’ve got me here, and it
will be the last. You know how much I
want; pay it, or
I’LL OIVK THE WHOLE SWAP AWAY.”
The modiste entered the reception-
room without answering, and asked the
reporter his business. When he stated
itibe flushed and replied, hesitatingly;
“Well, there's nothing in it, sir. My
brother is a medical student, and a young
man who was employed here stole hand
some, prepared skeitona from him, and
he advertised for them. That’s all, I as
sure you. Excuse me, but I’m very busy,
and must bid you good^lay.” The re
porter went out. On the wont steps he
found the young man, who seized him by
the arm and said: "You’re a reporter,
ain’t you? I thought so. Just come
along with me and I’ll tell yon what yon
want to kuow. I’ve got the skeletons,
and here they are.” And he palled from
his breast pocket two octavo-sized account
books, whose leaves, as he fluttered them
over, disclosed long lines of entries and
columns of figures. "I was her book
keeper,” the young man went on "and I
worked like a slave for her for $12 a
week. She hasn’t paid me a cent these
three months, and last week she told me
she wouldn’t unless I took it at the rate
of $10 a week. Then I kicked and
ELOPED WITH THE SKELETON,
and she’s been advertising for roe ever
since. Why ? Why, because she can’t run
her business without ’em. There’*
$50,000 in money lent In these books, and
she can’t make out her spring bills with
out them. Why, I could hurst the whole
millinery business in New York inside of
a month If I could get hold of their skele
tons.”
"But what do yon call skeletons ?” de
manded the reporter. “The extra books,”
replied the young man. “See here now.
There are few dress makers in New York
with any style that do a straight business.
They can’ll Their customers won’t have
it. There’s more money lent than la
spent in customers’ dresses, and when a
bill for a couple of thousand is made out,
you can bet your life that half of it is
^clear cash, with interest. In these skele-
' ons,” said tbe young man, impressively,
p/f.’pping tbe books with his forefinger,
itii^Oiere’s over $75,000 entries, and less
vxhtu $;k),000 of them are square business.
rest are loans of nve per cent, a
month that the husbands have to pay lor
•long with the clothes that their wives
wear. There’s one lady in this book whose
spring bill will be over $5,000, and less
than $2,000 is for dresses. The rest is
for cash borrowed since last fall, and
INTEKEST OX IT.”
"Do you mean to say that dress-making
is another name for usury then!” "I
mean to say that many dress-makers In
Hew York lend money on interest to cus
tomers. That's where the skeletons come
from. Tbe skeletons are tbe secret books
of the house. On one page of them Is en
tered the actual indebtedness of the cus
tomers for dresses. On the opposite page
are the loans. Every month the books of
tbe business are made up from these
skeletons, the money loaned being charged
to the dress-making account. See here.
Thore isn’t a full name on this whole
book, you notice, but each amount is
headed with a number, a letter or a star,
or some combination of them. This Lum
ber. letter, star or combination, corres
ponds with some name on the other books,
and nobedy’s got tbe key to them bat
the man who keeps the books. I’m the
man that kept the booas up there,
and I’ve got the keys and the skeletons
too. So if I don’t get what she owes me
there’ll be trouble about the spring settle
ment. But more than that, I’ve got the
11 LACK‘BOOK, TOO.”
“What Is the black-book?” “The credit
reelster. There's a system among the
-dress-makers of keeping up a sort of regis
tration of customers who are bad pay. It
was started about ten years ago by a big
modiste on University place. Whenever
a lady ran up an account and failed or re
fused to settle it tbe modiste entered her
name in a memorandum book, and sent
written slips detailing her indebtedness to
the different other big dress-makers here.
They were warned in this way to lookout
for her, and in return would warn her of
their own bad customers. After a couple
of years these names made up a long list.
About five years back, when the business
of lending money commenced, this list
became very valuable, for it saved the
dress-makers from heavy Rai. There are
some swell names in It, I can tell you—
women who are rich enough to buy you
and me out with a year’s income, and
who yet have to pay cash for every bit of
ribbon they buy. But women are not the
ouly ones in the black-book. There are
pages devoted to men, too. For instance:
You are tu the habit of kicking at paying
your wife’s bills. Very well. You are
entered as a kicker and au extra charge
tacked to your
wife’s bills xveby time.
They are sent in to pay for the trouble of
collection. Another man is slow pay, so
Interest is added to his bill. Doubtful
husbands are kept account of, and those
who have to be sued noted. There are
men on the list who are regularly charged
with the expenses of suing them to collect
thsir wives' bills. Some women are allow
ed unlimited credit, because they have the
knack of making custom for their dress
makers. There is one iady who dealt
with onr house who hasn’t really paid a
bill for years, and yet we have made thou
sands through her. All these points are
down in the books as regularly as tbe ac
counts themselves. Why, look hero.”
Be designated an entry on a final page of
one of his skeletons. It ran: "4** # —A
close bargainer, but fond ol show; hus
band essy; father pays many bills. A.1.”
Following it was the entry; "A. 4—Talk
er and buyer; husband suspicions, but
pays; money of her own; boen sued
twice;” while still another reads: "0.0.
—Irregular; Interest charges.”
THE TOTAL SENTENCE,
the yonng man explained, meant that an
allowance must always be made In Mrs.
O. O.’s accounts for tbe delays In paying
them. In tbe same way all bills and
credits were adjnsted by reference to the
credit regiiler. As regards the loaning of
money he stated that the customers to
whom that confidence is extended are
only the recipients of it when tbe lender
is satisfied as to their solvency by a sys
tem of elaborate and exhaustive Inquiry.
The lender has absolutely no security for
her money. Her rates of interest are usu-
rious, ranging from 5 to 10 per cent, per
month, according to the character of the
borrower and the urgency of her
need; and if the esses were ever
carried into court the usurer wonld
fare badly. "Bnt they never go into
court,” said tbe young man, "because
they are never disputed. The woman
who borrows money from a dress-make;
knows that if ahe doesn’t settle she will
be posted in evory other establishment in
New York, and she sees to it that the
bills are paid. There most be some ter
rible scenes when the dress-maker’s bills
come home in some of cur uptown houses,
and we used to get warnings from gentle
men not to trust their wives any more
along with the checks in settlement.”
"And what did yon do?”
“Let them fight it ont between them
selves, and gave tbe lady wbat she want
ed. She was onr customer, not the hus
band.”
A REMARKABLE CASE
Which Goes to show That It U mot Al
ways Beat to Convict s Man Purely
Upon Cl reams tan tlal Evidence.
A rather remarkable criminal case,
showing tbe danger of conviction on cir
cumstantial evidence, has recently devel
oped in ML. Vernon, Posey county, Ind.
On January 2Sth, 1881, the town was
very much excited by the robbery of Dr.
Spencer, a well known physician, and
an attempt to murder him. The particu
lar! of the robbery, which are still fresh
in tbe minds of evory one In that portion
of the State, are as follows: Dr. Spencer
had collected $1,000 on that day from
one of his tenants, and the supposition
waa that he had tbe money on bis person.
About 8 o’clock (bat night, as he
was going from his office to his
home, which was only a short
distance-off, he was followed, and, when
within a few feet of his door, s*t upon,
knocked in the head and robbed. He
had, however, deposited the money in
bank, and the robbers obtained only a
small sum and a case of instruments.
The town was terribly excited over the
affair, and soon every one was on the
alert to catch the slightest clew asto who
the parties were. Quite a number of per
sons were arrested on suspicion, and
among the number were three men named
Francis Moore, Ben Kemper and John
Reed. A man named Wm. Morgan, who
had acquired a pretty hard character,
having been one of the famous "cow
boys” in the West, was known to be in
town the night of the robbery, but left the
next day. Suspicion rested upon him,
and he was tracked oat of tbe city and
finally arrested on "Devil’s Island,” lu
the Mississippi, and brought hack.
He remained In Mt. Vernon about a
week, and was finally pat upon the stand
to give bis testimony, and to the surprise
of all be gave a dear account of the rob
bery. Moore was then on trial, and was
convicted on his evidence, coupled with
that oi other very responsible parties. He
stated that he was in town the night the
robbery wss committed, and was'on his
way to church. He passed the doctor’s
house, and became unwillingly a witness
to tbe whole aflair. He stated that four
men committed the robbery after having
knocked tbe doctor in tbe head with a
hatchet. Three of the men he identified
as Moore, Reed and Kemper, tbe three
men who were arrested on suspicion; the
other one he could not Identify. The
other evidence against Moore was very
strong, but entirely circumstantial. Sell
able persons testified that he knew the
doctor nad collected tbe money. He was
seen to follow him arounii all day, and
when be left the office to go home that
night a man had seen Moore dog his foot
steps, with a hatchet in his hand, and
both of them disappeared. Upon this
combined evidence Moore was convicted,
'at the November term of court, and sen
tenced to fourteen years in the peniten
tiary at Jeffersonville. He was sent up a
.short time afterward, and is there now.
iThe two men, Reid and Kemper, were
tried separately, and on the evidence of
Morgan, who testified that one of
the men was Reed, he was
on last Friday sentenced to eight
years In the penitentiary. Tbe trial
(of Kemper, the remaining man, com
menced last Saturday, and it was then
that the whole story was lonnd ont to be
a fallacy. Morgan had never been sub
jected to a severe cross-examination, bat
jon this trial Major Menzles, who assisted
for the defense, determined to test his
story. lie was taken into a private room,
and there cross-examined by Major Mcu-
ziea and Judge Edson, until he was
tangled up, and forced to mako an open
confession. He Mated that he and a man
named William Pheniz had followed the
dewtor from his office, thinking that he
had tbe money on bis person, knocked
him in the head with a hatchet, and then
robbed him. In the construction of his
testimony against Moore and others Mor
gan had showed remarkable cunning. Ho
was in town for about a week before the
trial, and had found out what all tbe wit
nesses summoned knew about the matter,
and then shaped his story to correspond
with theirs. For instance, one man heard,
or thought he heard, signal whistles, and
another heard four men run by his house.
In bis testimony Morgan described the
signal wills' les and tbe four men running,
thus cunningly weaving a chain ot cir
cumstantial evidence strong enough to
convict any man. After his coniessioD,
however, an entirely new face was put
on the matter. The men who had sworn
they saw Moore following Dr. Spencer
home, then testified that it was a case of
mistaken identity, and the whole chain
was completely broken. Motions have
been made to give both the men convicted
new trials, and it is probable that all save
the guilty parties will be released. The
unexpected ending of the trial has created
much comment and a great deal of ex
citement, while no little satisfaction is
felt at the turn affairs have taken.
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HEX OF NERVE,
Who have Looked Death Squarely lu
the Eve.
. Times-Democrat.
"I would like to tee you a moment,”
said a well known railroad man yesterday
to a T.-D. reporter.
“Certainly,” replied the scribe; “what
is it about?” ,
"It Is about railroad engineers. I no
ticed in Thursday’s Timea-Demoerat an
article in which an English lady now in
this city on a visit, expressed her admira
tion and gratitude for Engineer Copely,
of the Louisville and Nashville road,
whose steady nerve and cool courage pre
vented a passenger train with its load of
human freight, being dashed to pieces. I
agree with the lady In her state
ment, that in this country there
is not a proper appreciation of tha
brave deeds of locomotive engineers, who
are often called by duty to look death
squarely in the face, anil to stand between
it and a passenger. I know of two engi
neers—heroes I should say—who are not
known ontside of their narrow circle of
friends, and yet these men held the throt
tle with an arm of steel when they felt
they were rushing into the very jaws of
death. Do you know U. S. Miller? No 1
Weil, that doesn’t matter. He was an
engineer on the "Big J,” and used to pnll
a train on tbe Canton and Water Valley
division. In about 1868 ho wa3 running
the north-bound passenger, and while he
was gliding along at tbe rate of twenty-
fire miles an hour, bis engine jumped
the track while going over a twenty-root
embankment near Holly Springs.
As soon ss he felt her leave tbe rail and
go beuncingorer the ends of the cross
ties, he closed the throttle and “ revers
ed.” This bad the effect of checking the
train, but hardly bad he done so when
the lender coupling broke, and the engi
neer, with his band still on the throttle,
plunged with a crash down the embank
ment. The ponderous tender followed
the engine and fell npon tbe cab. The
sudden jar caused the door of the fire-box
to fly open, and Miller’s right leg was
buried almost to the thigh in tbe blazing
furnace, while the timbers of the crushed
cab pinned him motionless totbe foot
board. There he lay, amid the debris of
the wreck, while his leg, from the foot to
the knee was being horned to a crisp.
You may think that I am wandering
from the troth when I say that not a
groan escaped him, but it is a fact. Only
the death-ltjso pallor of his face, the quiv
ering lip and the great beads of pcnpira-
tion on bis forehead told of the terrible
agony he endured. But greater than all
this was his presence of mind. While the
train men and others were working like
beavers to clear the wreck from him he
assisted l>7 quietly directing them how to
do it. Miller lost tho leg aud experienced
tbe torture of a thousand deaths, but he
saved his train acd the lives of those who
depended on him. He is now the fore
man of lb* railroad shops at Cantou,
Mississippi, and although bis crippled
condition renders him forever unfit for
the life of an active engineer, his old
fondness for “throttle-pulling” sometimes
induces him to take au engine out on an
extra run. The other engineer to whom
I referred is John Hawkins, who is
still running an engine, and has the rep
utation of being ono of the coolest
and most careful "drivers” on the “Big
J.” road. About a year ago Hawkins was
pulling the fast mail, and everything went
along smoothly until he got to a Bridge
near Waterlord, Miss., when a cow at
tempted to cross the track a few feet from
the end of the bridge and directly Jn
front of tbe engine. The pilot struck the
cow anil throwing her forward on the rails,
the fore truck running over her body and
caused the engine to leap the rails and
ruu a considerable distance on tho cross
ties. Hawkins realized fully the danger
he wasjn—below was a gulf thirty five
feet deep, that appeared mere terrible
thau ever before. The situation was one
well calculate J to strike terror to the
staunchest heart, but he was equal to it.-
As quick as was possible he closed the
throttle, “reversed” and put on
-the air-brake, and the next mo
ment tbe great pulsating engine
went headforemost over the edge of the
bridge, carrying the brave engineer with
it Borne sweet cherub up aloft, however,
must have been watching over Hawkins,
and guarded tbe life which trembled upon
tbe verge of 6ternity, for tbe engine in her
terrible dive of thirty feet or more stuck
her nose in the soft clay bank, and settled
back upon her driving wheels without turn
ing over. When the train men reached the
wreck they found Hawkins in the cab,
somewhat dazed by the effects of the fall,
but uninjured. He had the opportunity
to jump had he wished to do so, but he
stuck to his post ot duty, and took the
chances that every engineer bus to take
who pulls the throttle of a locomotive.
These noble fellows are men of nerve,
and yot^an depend on it,’
' Tbe Comet.
Xeur York Sun.
Everybody who can command the use
of a telescope ought to get at least one
look at the new comet before it becomes
visible to the naked eye. It is a sight to be
remembered, especially if the comet
should make as great display within two
months as the astronomers predict it will.
Remembering that this gives promise of
being one of the grandest comets ever
seen, it Is interesting to look at it in its
babyhood. It is far from possessing any
thing imposing in its appearance. Tbe
inexperienced oBservcr has to
look twice before seeing It
at all, especially If tbe tele
scope he is using be of small aperture.
Yet anybody can see that it is an infant
Hercules. It has a head like a star, com
pact and brilliant, and it trails behind it
in its million-mlles-a-day flight a little,
straight bright trail, bigger already away
out there in space than most comets are
able to display at their perihelion. Look
ing at this little comet in the telescope, it
is difficult to realize its powerandpossibil
ities, or comprehend the speed with which
it is darting toward the sun.
Tbe later measures confirm the first
calculations that the comet will go extra
ordinarily close to tha sun. No astrono
mer has succeeded In identifying it with
any previous comet, and it is probable
that this is its first visit to the solar sys
tem, at least since men have made records
of celestial phenomena. It is uot impos
sible that it last exhibited the glories of
its train to the inhabitants of the worlds
revolving around some distant fixed
star. The question is frequently
asked, “How large will tho comet be?”
It is impossible to say more than
that, judging from the brightness of
its nucleus and the present rate ot increase
in the size of its tall, it ought to be a more
brilliant comet than that of last summer.
But nobody can promise that it will be,
because tbe nature of comets and the laws
that govern- the development of their tails
are not well enough understood to enable
astronomers to make positive predictions
concerning iheir appearance.
The comet’s position when nearing the
sun will not be such as to^ive us tbe best
View of its tail. The comet of 1858, like
tills one, was watched from tbe time that
it appeared as a faint object in the tele
scope until, hanging in the western heav
ens, it seemed to span half the arch of the
sky, making the autumn evenings brilliant
with its light. By May first this comet
should be conspicuous to tbe naked eye.
A Remarkable Article m tbs Death
al Jews James.
Seda ha (Mo.) Democrat.
“Let not Cssaar’s servile minion*
Mock the lion thus laid low :
TC was no foeman’s hand that slew Iptr,
’l’was his own that struck the blow.”
Not one among all the hired cowards,
hard on tbe bunt for blood-money, dared
lace this wonderful outlaw, twenty even
against one, until he bad disarmed him
self and turned hi* back to his assassins,
the first and the only time he did it in a
career which has passed from an almost
fabulous romance Into that ot history.
We called him outlaw, and he was; but
fate made him so. When the war came
on bo was just turned of fifteen. The
border was all aflame with steel and fire
and ambuscade and slaughter. He flung
himself into a band which had a black
flag for a banner and devils for riders.
Wbat he did he did, and it was fearful.
Bat it was war. It was Missouri against
Kansas. It was Jim Lar.e and Jenuison
against Quantreli, Anderson and Todd.
' When tho war closed Jotse Jame- bad
no home. Proscribed, haunted, shot,
driven away from among his people, a
price put npon his head, what else could
the man do, with such a nature, except
what he did do? He bad to live. It waa
ins country. The graves of his kindred
were here. He refused to be banished
from his birthright, and when he was
banted ho turned savagely about and
hunted his hunters. - Would to God be
were alive to-day to make a righteous
butchery of a few more of them.
There never wss a more cowardly and
unnecessary murder committed in all
America than this murder of Jesse James.
It was done for money. It was done that
a few men might get all the money. He
bad been living in St. Joseph for months.
The Fords were with him. He was
in the toils, for they meant to betray him.
He was in the heart of a large city. One
word wonld bavo summoned five hun
dred armed men for his capture or
extermination. Not a single one of the
attacking party need to have been hint.
If, when his house hail been surrounded,
ho bad refused to surrender, he could
havo been killed on the ioside of It and at
long range. The chances for blin to es
cape were as one to ten thousand, aud not
even that; but it was never intended that
he should oe captured. It was his blood
the blooJy wretches were after; blood tnat
would bring money to the official market
of Missouri.
And this great common wculth leagued
with* lot of self-confessed robbers, high
waymen and prostitutes to have one of its
citizens assassinated before it was positive
ly known that he had ever committed a
single crime worthy of death!
Of course, everything that can be said
about the dead man to justify the manner
of his killing will be said. But who is
saying it ? Those with the blood of Jesse
James on their guilty souls. Those who
conspired to murder him. Those who
wanted the reward, and would invent
any Ho or concoct any diabolical story to
gout. They have succeeded, but such a
cry of horror and Indignation at the in
fernal deed Is even now thundering over
the land that if a single one of the misera
ble assassins bad either manhood, con
science or courage; he would go as another
Judas and hang himself.
But, so sure as God reigns, there never
was a dollar of blood-money obtain
ed yet which did not bring with it
perdition. Sooner or later there
comes a day of vengance. Some among
the murderers are beasts of prey. These,
of course, cau only sufier through cold or
hunger or thirst. But, whatever they
dread most, that thing will happen to
them. Others again among the murderers
arc sanctimonious devils, who plea'd the
honor of the State, the vaiuo of law and
order, the splendid courage required to
shoct an unarmed mau in the back ol tbe
head. And these will be stripped to their
sklu of all their pretensions, and made to
shiver and to freeze, splotched as they are
and spotted and piebald with blood, In
tbe pitiless storm of public contempt and
condemnation. This to the leaders will
be worse than death.
Nor Is the end yet. If Jesse James had
been bunted down as any other criminal
and killed while trying to escape or in re
sisting arrest, not a word would have
been said to the contrary. He had sinned
and he had suffered. In his death the
majesty of the law would have been vin
dicated. But here tne law itself becomes
a murderer. It leagues with murderers.
It hires murderers. It aids aud abets
murderers. It borrows money to pay and
reward murderers. It promises immu
nity and protection to murderers. It is
itself a murderer—the most abject, the
most intamous and the most cowardly
ever known to history. Therefore, this
so-called law Is outlaw, and these so-called
executors of tho law are outlaws. There
fore, let Jesse James’ comrades—and be
has a few remaining worth all the Fords
and Littles that can be packed together
between St. Louis and St. Jo—do unto
them as they did unto him.
No, tho end Is not yet; nor should it be.
What right had any officer of this State to
put a price upon his head and hire a band
of cut-throats and highwaymen to murder
him for money? Anything cau be told of
a man. Tho whole land is filled with
liars and robbers aud assassins. Murder
is easy for $100. Nothing is sare that is
pure, or unsuspecting, or just. But it Is
not to be supposed that tho law will be
come an ally and a co-worker In this sort
of civilization.
Jesse James has been murdered, first,
because an immense price had been set
upon his bead—and there isn’t a low-lived
scoundrel to-day in Missouri who would
not kill his own father for money; and,
second, because he was made the scape
goat of every train-robber, foot-pat and
highwaymen between Iowa and Texas.
Worse men a thousand times than tbe
dead man have been hired to do this
thing. The very character ol the instru
ments chosen to do the work shows the
infamous nature of tho work required.
The hand that slew him had to be a trai
tor’s. Into all the warp and woof of the
devil’s work there were threads woven by
the fingeta of a harlot.
What a spectacle! Missouri, with
splendid companies aud regiments of mil
itia; Missouri, with 117 sheriffs, as brave
and efficient on the average as any men
on earth; Missouri, with a watchful and
vigilant marshal in every one of her prln
clpal town* and cities; Missouri, with ev
ery screw aud cog and crank aud lever
and wheel of her administrative machin
ery in perfect working order; Missouri;
boasting ot law, order, progress and de
velopment, bad yet to surrender all these
in the face of a single man—a hunted,
lied upon, proscribed and outlawed man
trapped and located in the midst of thirty'
five thousand people—to ally Itself with
some live or six cut-throats and prostitutes
that the majesty of tbe law might he vin
dicated, and the good name of the State
saved from alt further reproach 1
Saved! Why tbe whole«tate reeks to
day with, a double orgy, that of lust and
that of murder. What tbe men failed to
do the women accomplished
Tear tbe bears from the flag of
Missouri. Put thereon, in place of them,
as more appropriate, a thief blowing out
tbe bialns of an unarmed victim, and a bra
zen harlot, naked to the waist, and splash
ed to the brows in blood.
Tax public will please bear In mind
tb&t tbe carbonic acid generated in tbe
bottle of “Conrad’s Budwaiser Beer,” is a
healthy attribute thereto. Ask your gro
cer for it. Sell wed, Siesel A' Gtblan,
agents. lw
BERNHARDT’S MARRIAGE.
Wk* Bsosls is, sad Wfcjr Sbs Mar
ried Bias.
Farts Correspondence of (ha New York Tribune.
Sarah Bernhardt has espoused M.
Damala, or Daria, for many reasons, the
first and strongest being that she was
desperately in love with him. She want
ed to have a right to be jeaions of his
affections. He is ateirible flirt, and took
pleasure, when he saw that she wee smit
ten by his manly beanty, in tormenting
her. It now turns ont that those fainting
fits with which she wss seized on the
stages of Italian theatres were expedients
resorted to la order to prevent tbe loved
one from carrying on flirtations before
her eyes, in the wings, with Mile. Lina
Munte. When Dona Sol fainted, ot
course she had to be borne out. The
piece was thus spoiled. But an end waa
put to the amorous biiling aud cooing of
Damala and Lina. When also the
manager found out why the gifted actress
swooned he took measures to prevent a
repetition of the annoyauce which had|>o
deeply affected her. it appears that she
and Lina tore their taps about the hand
some actor. Sarah was not tbe preferr
ed one. It was during a "scene” in the
wings that she first announced her deter
mination to wed M. Damala, or as he is
known in theatrical circles, Darla. "What
right have yon to meddle in hia affairs, or
mine, either ?” asked Lina. "The best
of all rights,” answered Sarah; "he is to
be my husband.” “You’re mad,” was
the reply; “do yon think that a hand
some fellow like him would bind himself
for life to a pair of castanettes ? Besides,
be has a wife and children hidden away
at Marseilles.” “I don’t mind tha^” re
plied Sarah, "I’ll buy out her interest in
him. As he has not seen her for over
three years, she’ll sell it cheap.” “Oh!
with all my heart! Tako him, and joy
go with the pair of you.”
And so Dona Sol took him. He bolted
an oath iu Loudon in order to obtain a
certificate of residence with which to get
married in baste. Sarah’s present fortune
is 1,200,000 franca. This does not com
prise her bijou house lu Rue de Fortuny,
or the place near Havre.
Another motive for becoming a stave of
the ring was to have a decent status in
London, whither she goes on the 28th. At
least, this wss tbe excuse she urged to her
son Maurice, who is now grown np and Is
as sharp a fellow as there Is in the Bourse
district. He Is In tbe office of a stock
broker. His mother, who hss ever shown
him great affection, summoned him from
Paris to Genoa when she felt bow madly
in love she had become and was afraid of
being drawn by her passion into matri
mony. She thought the sight of the youth
would steady her. Damala, when Mau
rice Bernhardt arrived, played cold, and
began to rave about the luxurious beiuty
of tbe Itslian women. Flump women
were good-tempered and gay, and it
was pleasant to look at them.
There waa a sonsy actress In the troupe
to whom, when Lina Munte waa busy
with her role, he paid court. Poor Sarah
was in despair. When she had resolved
to perpetrate matrimony she told her lov
er how she had been pointed at by the
finger of scorn in the United States, and
preached against. The sermons in which
she was stigmatized had been repeated in
the London press, and the probability was
that if she went back to Eugland as Mile.
Bernhardt, she wonld be treated as a
black sheep. An argument which tad
more weight with him M. Bemhart file
was, that Laving a husband who was a
good man of business and an actor, would
release her from the impreaaril, who have
battened upon her. A woman could not
do without a Barnum, and it was better
that he should be her husband than a
stranger who wanted merely to prey npon
her.
Who Is Damala, or Daria ? He is a
Greek by nationality, ot semi-Hebrew
race. To call him a Count Is absurd.
There are no titles in Greece, except of
ficial ones and In the royal family. His
diplomatic experience was extremely
short. He was in some accidental man
ner studied to tho Greek Consulate for a
few days. HU true profession Is that of a
commercial traveler. His father was a
trader in raw silk, keeping a house at 8yra.
Sarah Bernhardt’s huibsud, whose Chris
tian name Is not Aristides, but Jacqnes,
represented it at Marseilles and Lyons.
It was at tho Marseilles Lyceum that ho
received his education. His class-
fellows liked him. After he left
school he was a joyous aud fast-
living youug fellow. The father died
and left him a fairly good fortune, which
he soon devoured with his boon compan
ions. He never refused, itis said, a small
loan, when he bad money m his pocket,
to a friend who was in hard straits. Af
ter ho had got to the end of his heritage
he returnedto business. Ho vu getting
on fairly enough when he got entangled
with a bouffd-opera singer, Mile. Mlnelll.
She had an engagement at the Grand
Theatre of Marseilles, and then went to
star it at Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bayonne,
Lisbon and Rio. M. Damala loilowed
tier during ten months. It is
said that he married on return
ing to Provence, but that his wife
and he disagreeing, be came to Paris
under an assumed name to take dramatic
lessons and obtain an engagement. It
was not Talien but Delaunay who was
his professor. As a Greek, he sought tbe
patronage of Madame Adam, and obtained
it. He was - also patronized by M. Rou-
vier. Until he went on his tour in east
ern Europe with Sarah Bernhardt he
never played in any theatre except tbe
Vaudeville, where secondary roles were
given him. He was valuable Tor his
manly beauty. What has become of his
wife? Nobody knows. It he had gone to
be msffried before a French mayor, a cer
tificate of her death would have been re
quired.
All these particulars I have just had
from a Provencal deputy who knew Daria
very well when he was Aristide Damala,
and used to give joyous dejeuners at tbe
Reservfe, a celebrated restaurant at the
east of Marseilles and overlooking the
sea. Damala is described to me as a very
good-natured, handsome fellow, fond of
poetry, music and the fair sex. My in
formant tells me that he must have had a
swarm of creditors at his heels when he
and his bride were about to embark in
the Segovia for Barcelona. He is fond o
gambling, bat although ho was mixed
up with Larnbri Pacha two or three years
ago, is no, a blackleg. If his first wife is
dead, he is master of Sarah’s fortune, she
baviog married without a contract. The
acquaintance began last October,
when he called on her, and asked
her to get M. Duquesnel to engage him in
a company of which she was to be the
bright, particular star. Selections from
“Hernani” and “Phedre” were recited to
her. She did not like his style, but ad
mired and liked the man. Duquesnel en
gaged him as a supplementary actor, and
promised that if Augelo, who was to play
with Sarah, broke down, Daria should re
place him. Apropos of Goncourt’s work,
“La Faustin,” I explained to you how
much embourgeoisee the modern aclreaa
has become. It is now a fashion among
them tojget married. Sarah probably
wouid have done better if she had espous
ed a mere business man, who would have
been at once a house steward and a Bar
num.
Parisian friends of Sarah imagine that
her hasty marriage will not bind her here.
As she Is of Dutch nationality and her
husband of Greek, tbe hard and fast regu
lations of the Code Napoleon do not apply
to their nnlon. I believe Ibat^he mar
riage, being legal in England, will be
valid all the world over—u indeed there
is no "first wife.” I read to-day In tbe
London correspondence of a French paper
that tbe bride caused the news of tbe
happy event to be communicated to tbe
Prince of Wales, and that his royal high
ness exclaimed, “By Jove! 8ar*h getting
married 1 She most be mad 1” Of course
I do not vouch for tbe veracity of the cor
respondent.
“GEBB TMAXDERIXG.”
Sssatlhlav About Osd El bridge (ter
ry, Whose Hstate is Thai Percent -
slt*.
Boston Traveller.
Gerrymandering has become a sort of
rage, and one party is about as bad as an
other in having resort to it. There is no
excuse for it, mod it should be condemned
by men of all parties. The word gerry
mander is of Massachusetts origin, but
the prevalent belief that it originated in
an unfair redistricting of this State In or
der to control the election of members of
Congress Is unfounded. Eibridge Gerry,
who was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence for Massachusetts, was a
man of much note here for about forty
years, he dying in 1814, while holding the
office of Vice-President of the United
Slates. He was governor of Massachusetts
from May, 1810, to May, 1812. Tbe late Mr.
Wm. Sullivan, In his lively "Familiar
Letters,” says: “As there is nothing to bo
said of his administration, which one
could take pleasure in saying, so the pain
of speaking of It at it may have deserved
may be avoided, When the time comes
for writing the sober history of Massachu
setts, the historian will find abundant
materials for his work in these two years;
sod tbe exercise of party power in dis
tricting the Commonwealth for the choice
of Senators is particularly commended to
his notice. He will find the English lan
guage enriched by a new term (gerry
mandering) which may often find a
suitable application when the origin of it
may have been forgotten. He may find It
in tbe patriotic labors of the two
yean in which Mr. Gerry was.gov
ernor of Massachusetts.” At the election
which followed the introduction of
the gerrymander to our politics, Gover
nor Gerry was defeated, and the House of
Representatives was carried by the Fede
ralists; but the Republicans (Democrats)
c*rried the Senate, showing that the ger
rymander’s back was equal to its burden.
It was a question, “Did the gerrymander
save the Senate, or did it cause the loss of
the governorship and the House of Repre
sentatives ?” Probably it did both, as the
popular majority of tbe Federalists was
not large. A picture of the gerry raander
wm published, acd a moet comical-looking
beast it proved to be. Copies of the pro
duction are occasionally to be seen,
even now, they having survived
the wear and tear of seventy
years. It was reproduced years
later, in at leMt one newspaper, where
we saw it, about a half a century since.
We remember having heard old Demo
crats say, in our youthful days, that,
whatever the demerits of tbe gerrymander
it was unfairly christened, for, they as
serted, Got. Gerry had as little to do with
the offensive redistricting m a man in his
position could well have. But he was
governor of tbe State, and tbe highest
member'of the offending party, and so be
was made to bear ills party’s burden of
sin, as being that party's representative
man. Then his name came so pat that
there wm no so such thing as missing its
usefulness in what seemed to be a natural
caricature—that is, a caricature that
is not forced, but proceeds easily from tbe
occasion. Had the Governor’s name been
Hicks or Howard, Simpkins or Sidney, it
would have been impossible to employ it
iu the way that Gerry was employed.
Maoder was, we suppose, from the Latin
mando, or from mandatory; and the Gov
ernor wm regarded as mandator, or di
rector. Germander is a scientific word,
relating to certain plants. Gerrymander is
one of the very few of our political slang
terms (bat have survived, and apparently
it is destined to last as long as tbe base
practice it satirizes—that is to say, for
many ages.
GLASS 8AXD.
A Vast DtpMlI Discovered at Fort
Pickering, Tennessee.
Memphis Avalanche.
' Probably very few of the clllzecs of
Memphis are aware of the fact that the
bluff in the vicinity of Fort Pickering
contains a mine of wealth, which might
readily be converted Into a source of prof
it for many people, aod add greatly to the
prosperity of the city. A few old citi
zens have long known that a vast de
posit of the finest silica sand existed
in the blufis about Fort Pickering.
It may be remembered, too, that at
one time, about tho years 1850 acd 1851, a
small plant for a glass factory wm erect
ed in Foit Pickering. As to the exact
history of the-enterprise, the Avalanche
is not informed. Nor Is it known now
what particular cause led to tbe failure of
tbe undertaking. Bnt, at any rale, tbe
glass factory, which was commenced thir
ty years agu, wm soon abandoned. From
that time to the present very little has
been said about the vast deposits of pure
while sand in the blufis here. No effort,
so far as known to this writer, has ever
been made to turn this rich possession of
Memphis to a valuable account.
Yesterday an Avalancbian accidentally
stumbled upon a splendid specimen of
pure white silica sand, equal, if not supe
rior, in quality to the best specimens
from Tlatin Creek, or Pacific, J«o., from
which such excellent crown, plate and
bottle glass is manufactured in St. Louis
and at Crystal City. It was learned that
this sand wm taken from the bluff in the
vicinity of Fort Pickering, and that there
were YMt deposits of tho same kind in
that quarter. It wm a matter of sur
prise to the Avalanche representative to
learn this fact, and the further Informa
tion that it has never been mined for
shipment. Tbe glsss sand-banks of Mis
souri are extremely valuable property,aod
thousands of car loads are shipped annu
ally from tbe mine of Pacific and from
those on the Iron Mountain railroad in
tbe vicinity of Platln Creek. Tbe lurther
fact was ascertained that fire clay of a
most excellent quality existed right here
In tbe bluff.
Meeting Mr. Hughes, the well-known
glass Stainer, the scribe gained some in
formation, which might be turned to val
uable account. Mr. Hughes has some
knowledge of and experience iu tbe busi
ness of glass making, haviog at one time
been connected with a manufactory of
glass in Pittsburg. He informed the wri
ter that vhe sand cf Fort Pickering Is of a
very superior quality, and can be mined
at a very small cost. As to tbe quality
of tbe fire clay found here, he says It is
equal to the very best. This <%y, he
thinks, would make excellent crucibles
aud finishing slabs for window glass'.
The aand and tbe clay then are here.
Only the fuel and the caustic soda em<
ployed in glass making need bp brought
from abroad, to all American glass manu
factories. But there are advantages of
situation here which are superior to those
possessed by auy other seat of this partic
ular Industry. The sand and the clay are
' on the banks of the river in close prox
imity to the railroad Roes, and beuoe
there are superior facilities afforded for the
transportation of fuel, and also for the
shipment of tbe prodncUana of the fac
tory.
There is a splendid opportunity offered
for the Investment of capital in this enter
prise. Glass of a very superior quality
might be produced here, at a leu cost,
than it is possible for tbe factories of St.
LoujA New Albany and Pittsburg to
nsaylt. Who will inaugurate tbe enter
prise, and thus add ooe more to the al
ready increasing manufacturing indus
tries of Memphis ?
Death mt >r fsues.
We are ones more pained to announce
the’deathof Hon. Jesse James. We speak
of him as Hon. Jesse James because it is
possible he may not be dead yet, and we
should not desire any personalities raked
np in case he shonid be still at large.
The regular semi-annual death of Jesse
James has been a cause for national sor
row for some time. His obituary has been
written seven or eight times by the falter
ing hand that pens these lines, and we are
still young.
Death has marked Mr. James for its
own a good many times, and now he has
again been butchered to make a Missouri
holiday. Tbe soil from Maine to Califor
nia has been drenched with his gore, and
the green grass waves above his ashes in
every portion of onr great land. No man
has perished from tbe face of the earth
so ubiquitously as Mr. Janes, and no
American citizen ha) yielded his young
life unde%such varied and peculiar cir
cumstances.
Lay him down where the bobolink
blossoms on the sweet potato viue, and
always plant him in tbe valley where the
pecan waves.
Born of humble and obscure parents,
he rapidly rose to the proud eminence of
America’s leading thief aud murderer.
When death marked him lor Lis victim
tbe last time, be wm m prominent a man
m Henry Ward Beecher or Roecoe Conk-
ling. His genius took a different shoot, it
is true, but be won a name as a pluudet-
er which throws the achievements of our
modern bank cashiers back into cold and
clammy oblivion. Death has once more
stilled tbe pulse ot a man who, were it
not for his little eccentricities m a liuman
butcher and grand larceny connoisseur,
would have made an elegant humorist or
statesman.
Had he been lees of an enthusiast, and
less radical m a murderer, he might have
shone in the best society. Had he pleaded
emotional insanity the first time be got
np a surprise luneral, instead ol making
an outlaw of himself, be might now be
alive, loved and respected. But be wm
ignorant of the law, and thought that
when a man murdered all the first-class
passengers on a train, be would be dealt
harshly with and ostracised. That is
where he committed a grave error. He
went on from bad to worse, aud lost all
respect for himself.
Yellow fever and the James boys have
been a great scourge to this country. The
mortality from these combined diseases
hM been ’frightful. Now that Jesse is
dead ooce more, we feel hopeful that tbs
country can be populated without delay.
Heretofore it has been an upbiii job, aud
such men m Dr. Hsywood have felt at
times as theugh they wouid sink down
with discouragement. But now there
is hope again. The fever is subdued,
aud Jesse Jsmes again reclines on his
bier. The census should show a rapid
advance in tbe next five years, and boom
in a way that will make other nations
sick.—Bill Hye.
Debilitated persons, and sufferers
from wasting diseases such as consump
tion, scrofula, kidney affections, will be
neatly benefited by using Bro wn’s Iron
Bitters.
A JOB VERDICT.
The Award ot One Hundred Thousand
Dollars to Htlboarn-The Possibili
ty ot Va«*mlB( tho Transactions of
the Heel Estate Pool.
N. Y. Sun.
Washington, April 24.—Hallet Kll-
bourn, chief of Boss Shepherd’s staff and
one of the Washington ring, was impris
oned by order of the House of Represent
atives lor refusing to produce the books
of his firm, that wouid have exposed the
secrets of the real estate poof, of which be
and his partners were the intermediaries
and the beneficiaries.
At tbe Ume of the investigation Kil-
bourn’s concern had pretty well run
through an odious career at Washington.
He and his asrociates had quarreled over
former transactions, and they were in the
wont odor with tbe community at large.
Their business wm gone, and it never re
covered from a loss of confidence.
Kilbourn ns restrained of his liberty
for forty-five days, and during that time
he wm maintained liberally at the public
expense, and enjoyed every indulgence,
except the freedom to go and come at his
pleasure. This nominal imprisonment,
tor it wm, in fact, nothing else, was sanc
tioned by an unbroken line of preoadeuts
under Republican administration, and was
really nothing but an exercise of authority
by the House to bring out the proof of
corruption known to be in tbe bands of
the recalcitrant witness.
A model jury has decided that Kilbourn
was entitled to more than $2,200 a day,
or over $01 for every hour during this re
straint, aud has a’towed a gross $100,000
for his wounded feelings. Whereat the
ring Republicans and the Kilbourn Demo
crats, backed by their “organ,” rejoice
with exceeding joy over tbe verdict.
It would not distress the country' much
if John G. Thompson, late sergeant-at-
arms, who brought iu tbe liquor bill for
the Garfield funeral, and against whom
this suit waa brought, should be mulcted
for the verdict. He may be described as
a Kilbourn Democrat generally, who was
recently defeated for common councilman
in tbe town where be bM always lived,
and where hb is best known outside of the
capital.
But the verdict and the money are two
different things. There is some comfort
In knowing Congress will never vote for
this jury job, and ought not to do it if the
award was only one hundred cents. Kil-
bourn’s creditors will have to wait in any
a day before they can attach the proceeds
of this verdict, which even shocked the
judge who tried the case, and who has
long been recognized as a friend of the
Washington ring aud of Kilboaru.
The House ot Representatives failed to
get at the secrets of tbe real estate pool.
But the court may succeed in doing what
the House did not do. Mr. Hillyer and
Mr. Sunderland, of California, made ex
tensive purchases of real estato in Wash
ington during the reign of Boss Shepherd.
Kilbourn and Latta were their brokers, to
whom large sums of money were ad
vanced.
These persons have filed a bill against
Kilbourn, Latta, and Olmste&d, charging
fraud in the transactions, the illegal ap
propriation of their money, and most ex
orbitant bills for alleged agency. Iu
other words, vast swindiiug. -They pro
pose to prove the charges by the books
and papers oi tho Ann in part, and by
other testimony. If they do, the real cs
tale pool will be uncovered.
No production from hope and malt has
so many favorable indorsements from the
medical fraternity as “Conrad’s Rudjvilser
i Beer. ’ iScftwed, Siescl <fc Glhian, sgant*.
t lw
TABOR VS. TABOR.
Tbe bBH Celebre a* Denver Beeaafca
t» Is taypasM te Have .WliUaan
In Iu
Denver Special to Chieaoa T mee.
Just now Denver’s wealthy and aristo
cratic society, and the eoc.'ety which is
not wealthy and aristocratic—In fact,
everybody in the pretty, aspiring liuia
city who read* the newspapers and listens
to gossip, is greatly Interested In the suit
brought by Mrs. Augusta L. Tabor against
her husband, Horace A. W. Tabor, liau-
tenaot-governor of tbe State of Colorado,
the kaiser among tbe State’s bonanza
royalty, and a formidable wlli-be candi
date this fall for theUntted Staten Senate.
The suit Is not brought for a divorce,
though the plaintiff says that he hM de
serted her ; but U to compel tho defend
ant to support her. She states in her pe
tition that her husband has repeatedly
refused to pay taxes on the family resi
dence, and other expenses, aud that she
is necessitated to rent rooms lor her own.
support ; while among the charges Is tha
infidelity cf the defendant. Tho accused
smiles a calm smile, and say* : “I have
given her $100,000. What has she done
with It ?” Oh man ! great is thy assur
ance. Twenty-five years ago, * Horace
A. W. Tabor took Augusta Pierce “for
better, for worse,” winning her away
from wealthier suitors ; took her from
her pleasant Maine home and brought her
to the then wilderness of Kansas. Here
they pre-empted a farm, but they were
too poor to stock it. So they started
for Colorado amid tbe golden ex
citement, he hoping for a stroke
of luck that would enable him to fit np
their farm, she following uncomplaining
ly wherever he went. And for twenty
years they labored together in Colorado,
she bearing .her half or tbe burdens; the
first white woman in the region, living all
of tbe time beyond the limits of culture,
cooking and working, uot only for her
family, but for the men her husband em
ployed, assisting him to wait upon tbe
customers of the little mountain store of
which he wss proprietor. A life such as
this for twenty years. Then tbe waiting
and working, and hoping brought their
reward. Presto 1 the Little Pittsburg wm
discovered in California guicb, whore
they had so long looked for gold and
found none. Mr. Tabor beesme a rich
man. A State election wm held. Mr,
Tabor became a lieutenant governor.
In fairy books, or novels, this would be
the dellgbtfnl climax of the story; it is
the juncture where the chronicler should
stop, bat this tale didn't. True, they
bought a handsome house, and lived very
happily for a while. But the Governor
began to display a penchant for the socie
ty of ballet girls, and other pretty but
naughty females. At last his attentions
to this class became so open that bis wife
could no longer live with him, se ha
transferred bis residence to the Windsor
Hotel; and it is stated quite reliably, that
he has several times offered her money If
she would sue fora divorce, but the
spunky wife would not gratify him oy ac
ceding. And for a year and a half they
have lived openly apart, both going in the
best circles of Denver society.
Now, Tabor is not othewise a bad sort
of a fellow. He hM built elegant build
ings for Denver and Leadville. He is al
ways doing odd generous sorts cf things,
I remember, when he intended building
his opera house, he met one day a stone
mason whose only fault wm poverty, us
he wm both capable and honest. Tabor,
who Is himself $ mason by trade, ana
knew the young mar., said to him: “Are
you not going to bid on my opera house?”
“No,” replied the other, “lor if I should
win it, I have no friends who txo able to
go cn the bond required ot' me.” The
amount was $20,600. "Bid on it,” said
Tabor, "aud it you are the lowest 2 will
go on yoor bond myself.” Aud, as tha
yonng fellow wm the lowest, he reality
went on his bond, and tbe happy mason
did tbe work. Every once in a ’ while be
throws open his opera house for a free
matinee to the children of Denver. He
1* ever doing something generous, and,
indeed, it is partially through this very
generosity ana good nature that he hM
sinned.
But when he comes forward and pleads
that be has given his wife $100,000, while
lie himself is worth $10,000,000. I have no
patience with him. Granting that he has
given it to her, about which I do not
know, it is a very paltry sum, wheu by
every unwritten decree of just humanity
she is entitled to much more. "Tbe ap
ple raised by the mutual industry ot th$
pair should be equally divided between B
them.” Oh! it will not be; you may be
certain of that. Men do not usually agree
to s division of that kind; but it is a teen
disgrace, I take it, to tbe Lieutenant-
Governor of Colorado that his wife
should be compelled to go before
tbe courts and ask for mainte
nance, and that he shall pay tbe
taxes on the house she lives in, wnich
is still in his name. But then there were
no taxes to be paid in the little log-cabin
of yore, unless it were to tbe Indians,
who sometimes constituted themselves
collectors anyhow, and were ones not to H
be despised.
The suit is the talk of tbe hour just now
in Denver, and the sympathy is on tbe
side of the wife. They bate but one son,
a young fellow of twenty-four, now La
Europe. He treats<hi* parents with equal
affection, and both are equally fond of
him. It is ssid, however, that the Color
ado law makes m provision for a suit of
Mrs. Tabor’s kind. Bo it remains to be
seen wbat will be the outcome of it all.
He Hnet Faith Sana* Doubters.
Samuel E. Palmer, a young employe
iu tbe Gents’ Furmshiug Store of T. Mil
ler, No. 255 Sixth avenue, New York
City, hw Invested regularly in the draw
ings of the Louisiana State Lottery by
sending to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans,
La. He failed to get a ticket in the Feb
ruary drawing, as he sent tv> late, bat
received one in the March distribution.
He was laughed at by his friends, but of
fered to bet $100 that he would some day
win a large prize. Sure enough he found
that U14 wm a hail of ticket No. 600 ,
which bad drawn $5,000. He collected
it through Adams Expresi Company, and
m he hM frequently drawn small prizes
of $20 and $10 before, wil send in time
tor May Ot'u, to be in the next drawing
uuuer the special supervision of Genorals
G. T. Beauregard of Louisiana aud Jubal
Early of Virginia, m usual.
File* assd Boss
Flies, roaches, ants, bed hugs, rata,
mice, gopher*, chipmunhs, cleared out by
"Rongb on Rats.” 15c. lw
A PuEBtlntr Situation
Cott filiation.
It would be risky to lay the odds as to
whether Gorhein or the esteemed editor of
the New York Tribune will break his sus-
jlenders first. The situation u very’ puz
zling.
Tbe Qulitlrweace.
Lc figure.
“ Where are jon going in nneb a harry ?”
“Ouly hack into the house n minute, to
change ray poeketbook.” “Change it?”
“Yes, I had no idea the day was so hot j I
started out with my sealskin pocketbook,”
Beware ot Frauds,
Tito original and ouly genuine “Rough
on Rats” is manufactured by and baa tsa
nsmo of EphsaMu 8. Weils, Jersey City,
N J., on eheQgffijfe H ‘ employs no
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