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Remarkable Young Man.
Accidents of Speech.
New Yark "World.
What is a gentleman? The ques
tion has been variously ^answered.
Admiral Sampson’s view is that it
Marietta journal. i The sons of Erin have long labor-
Mr. A. H. Talley, of Oregon dis- ed under the imputation of making
tricfc, was in our office a few days more breaks with their tongue than
ago, and he remarked: “There is any of their fellow mortals, but from
requires certain specific advantages one of the most remarkable young j the^following it would seem that the
of early education and training to
make a gentleman. If that is .so,
then gentlemanliness is an acquired
art, not a natural gift. This is not
a great advance on the old English
social doctrine that gentlemen are
bom, not made. But in this demo
cratic age and country neither high
birth nor liberal education is essen
tial to the making of the true gen
tleman.
When Gunner Morgan, in spite of
the unfavorrble indorsement of his
letter to Admiral Sampson, called on
the latter and expressed his regret
that the correspondence should have
been so published as to annoy the
Admiral, he went far to show him
self a gentleman in the true sense of
the term. It was a gentle deed, jus
tifying Steele’s observation in the
“Tattler” that “the appellation of
gentleman is never to be affixed to a
man’s circumstances, but to his be
havior in them.” Old Chaucer’s cu
riously spelled opinion
That be is gentil that doth gentil dedis
still holds good in the high court of
common sense. We speak of men
“behaving like gentlemen,” Imt the
phrase is unhappy. A man cannot
behave like a gentleman unless he is
one-—for affectation or insincerity is
itself bad manners. “Nothing can
constitute good breeding that has
not good nature for its foundation,”
says Bulwer.
Thackery s definition of a gentle
man is one to which thousands of
men measure up who never saw the
inside of a college or even a high
school and have no distinction of
either birth or wealth. “To be a
gentleman,” says the author of “Van
ity Fair,” “is to be honest, to be gen
tle, to be generous, to be brave, to be
wise, and, possessing all these quali
ties, to exercise them in the most
gracious outward manner.” The
great scientist, Huxley, puts it* a lit
tle differently and makes a just dis
tinction when he says: “Thoughtful
ness for others, generosity, modesty
and self-respect are the qualities
which make a real gentleman or la
dy, as distinguished from the ve
neered article which commonly goes
by that name.”
Judged by these high standards
it is quite probable that there are as
many real gentlemen among the
gunners as among the commission
ed officers of Uncle Sam’s navy.
The Utah Senate has passed an
act legalizing polygamy, in so far as
plural marriages already contracted
are concerned. The federal laws
prevent the celebration of other plu
ral marriages. The purpose of the
Utah lawmakers, it is said, is to le
galize the children of plural mar
riages contracted years ago, and to
permit husbands to take care of
wives “sealed” to them before po
lygamy was outlawed. Should the
bill be passed by the House and
signed by the governor, it is alleged
many men would resume their po
lygamous relations, and no process
at law would be against them.
men in our neighborhood in this ! “bull” is not necessarily indigenous
whole country. He is nineteen years j to Irish soil, says the Chicago Rec
old, the son of Mr.-N.~E. Williams, ord.
and his najne is John Williams. He
It was a Frenchman who in writ-
is perfectly blind, cannot see a wink, ing to an acquaintance said: “I left
and has been so since he was five my knife at your office yesterday. If
Night" Was Her Terror.
“I would cough nearly all night
long,” writes Mrs. Chas. Apple-
gate, of Alexandria, Ind., “and
could hardly get any sleep. I had
consumption so bad that if I
walked a block I would cough
frightfully and spit blood, but
when all other medicines failed,
three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King’s
New Discovery wholly cured me
and I gained 58 pounds.” It’s ab
solutely guaranteed to cure colds,
coughs, lagrippe, bronchitis and
all throat and lung troubles. Price
50c and $1, Trial bottles free at
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
The tradution that sleep walkers
are immunes from injury by falling
or other accident was shattered in
New York the other night. A wo
man sleep walker climbed out on a
third-story fire escape and jumped.
According to the traditions she
should have gathered herself up un
hurt and gone back to bed. But she
didn’t. Her skull was fractured and
she died.
years old, when meningitis closed
his eyes in perpetual darkness.” Mr.
Talley went on to say: “Young Wil
liams has been working for me the
past several days, and morning after
morning he would go into my lot
and select from two jaairs of oxen
the right pair every time, yoke them
to the wagon and drive off just as
accurately as any man with two
eyes. He loaded logs on the wag
on and unloaded them, just as well
as any one. He is strong and active
and intelligent, and does me as good
a day’s work as any other hand I
hire, and I pay him as much. When
he rides over from home on his mule
he goes to the same place and ties
his mule to the same limb every
time. He rides five miles to church
on Sunday, takes the right fork of
the road, knows when he reaches
the church, hitches his horse, goes
into the church and takes his seat as
if he had the sight of two eyes to
guide him. He took an axe and
went to the woods and cut a tree
down with as much precision as any
one. His faculties are all keen and
sensitive and his memory remarka
ble. What he does once he can do
again. He goes all about home, the
fields and neighborhood alonejknows
where the branches and creeks are
as well as any one.”
He is indeed a remarkable young
man, and accomplishes blind what
many other people are too lazy to do
with good eyesight.
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Senator-elect Simmons of North
Carolina has been seated in the Up
per House without objection, a sig
nificant fact in view of the declared
intention of the republicans to con
test not only his right to his seat,
but also the right of ail senators
elected from states where the negro
vote is limited, on the ground that
the election of the members of the
legislature had been in violation of
the rights of large, numbers of vo
ters. It had been thought that if
Mr. Simmons was not required to
stand aside, he at least would have
his credentials called in question by
a reference of them to the commit
tee on privileges and elections. It
is now said that the contest will be
dropped. The reason assigned is
that it might be necessary in order
to reach the disease to enact new
reconstruction legislation and to de
clare that North Carolina did not
have at republican form of govern
ment. The natural inference is that
the republicans have decided to
drop all persecution of the south
and permit it to govern itself in its
own way.—Our Washington Corres
pondence.
Ton Know What You Are Taking
When you take Grove’s Taste
less Chill Tonic because the for
mula is plainly printed on every
bottle showing that it is simply
Iron and Quinine in a tasteless
form. No cure, no pay. Price 50c.
A currant report of the govern
ment of India shows that during
the year 1899 the number of deaths
among humau beings attributed to
wild animals was 2,966. Tigers
caused the death of 899, wolves of
338 and leopards, hyenas, jackals
and crockodiles were accountable for
a large proportion of the remainder.
The loss of human life from snakes
reached the high total of 24,621, a
greater mortality than in any of the
four preceding years. Nearly half
the deaths occurred in Bengal.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo )
Lucas County. $ SB
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is the senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of
Hall’s Catarrh Curb.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this 6th
day of December, A. D. 1876.
t ) A. W. Gleason,
I £ ^ L 5 Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
teenally and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials,
free. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
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you find it, please send it to me.
“Yours, Le Roque.
“P. S.—Since writing this I have
found my knife, so you need not
trouble to send it.”
The same individual sent a pres
ent of some fruit to a friend, and in
the bottom of the basket he placed a
note, the postscript to which read:
“You will find this note in the bot
tom of the basket, but if you do not,
let me know immediately.”
It was * a Scotchman who said.:
‘The butcher in our town, does such
a small business that he only has to
kill half a beef at a time.”
A German, in advertising for a lost
pig, said: “It has no earmarks except
its tail, which is missing.”
A British magistrate, on being in
formed by a vagabond that he had
no wife, responded: “Well, that’s a
lucky thing for her.”
At a prayer meeting in Vermont a
pious old deacon invoked a blessing
on a “poor young man whose father
is a drunkard and whose mother is a
widow.”
At a negro ball the doorkeeper, on
being asked what “not transferable”
on the ticket meant, replied: “It
means dat no gentleman am admit
ted ’less he comes hisself.
Counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve are liable to cause
blood poisoning. Leave them
alone. The original has the name
DeWitt’s upon the box and wrap
per. It is a harmless and heal
ing salve for skin diseases. Un
equalled for piles. Holtzclaw’s
drugstore.
Some people are always grumb
ling because roses have thorns. We
ought to be thankful that thorns
have roses.
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