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VOLUME VII. NUMBER 48.
/ There is complaint of a scarcity or
lailors in our navy. *
Artificial watering it is said, will mul¬
tiply Montana’s crop five times.
Heal estate in New York city doubles
in value every eight years now. There
are only about 40,000 vacant lots left.
There are Frenchmen who say the
close of the Exposition in Paris will be
the beginning of a “Boulanger Revolu¬
tion.”
A sign of the business boom in the
South, according to the New York News,
is the rapid establishment of new banking
institutions.
It i3 stated on good authority that
notwithstanding the destruction of human
life by the late Civil War tho white pop¬
ulation. of the Southern States has In¬
creased in a greater ratio than tho colored
race by nearly four per cent.
The New York Sun suggests that one
feature of the Paris Exposition which, by
all means, ought to bo transported to
New York for the great Exhibition of
is tho mammoth globe, forty feet
-diameter. It affords an object lesson
Geography of incomparable value.
In China tho inhabitants arc counted
every year in a curious manner. The
oldest master of every ten houses has to
count the families, aud has to make a
list, which is sent to the imperial tax
house. Last year tho whole number
amounted to 879,383,500 inhabitants.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat, in
a jocular vein,says: “The restaurateurs
of the country are preparing to roast tho
skewer trust, which has just been formed.
With toothpicks, skewers, frying pans
and stoves all syndicated, the great
American stomach is certainly in danger,
Taught by the experience in tho case
of Mrs. Maybrick, the London Law Times
advocates a change in English law, so
that prisoners may be allowed to testify in
their own behalf, as the they do with us.
‘ ‘The highest interests of justice are sub¬
served by granting that privilege,” de¬
clares the New York Sun.
Boston is an unlucky name in our naval
history. If Hamersly is right, the new
United States cruiser is the fifth Boston
we have had in our navy. The fate of
three was disastrous. One fell into the
hands of the British at the surrender of
Charleston; another was burned at Wash¬
ington in 1814 to keep her out of the
British clutches; and a third was wrecked
on the island of Eleuthera in 1846,
Suicide manias are often ascribed to at¬
mospheric influences, but may be often
due to a penchant for imitation, fostered
by the graphic sensationalism of our
periodical press. Jack the Ripper’s ex
ploits were emulated iu not less than
fifteen different American cities and a few
days ago the manhole horror of the Cronin
affair simultaneously repeated itself in
Hamburg, Germany, and Cincinnati.
Says tho Macon (Ga.) Telegraph:
“Memphis is mad. It has been dis¬
covered that a geography procured for
uso iii the public schools of that city
summarized Memphis as ‘a river port
f;om which cotton is sent to New
Orleans.’ The enterprising agent who
adapts his text books to different localities
made a mistake iu shipping them and
sent the New Orleans geographies to
Memphis.”
It is a curious fact, remarks the Now
York Herald , that there are two hundred
thousand people in the United States who
have artificial legs or hands.. This num¬
ber does not include tho veterans of the
Union of the Confederate army. In New
York city and vicinity there are about
five thousand men aud women who have
supplied the place of lost limbs with the
manufactured article. It is possible foj
a man who has lost both legs to walk as
the best of us. Modern science has come
to his aid, and by a curious contrivance
enables him to go about his business with
a very small amount of inconvenience. IS
he has only one artificial leg'he can dance
or ride a bicycle without so much as a
hint that he had been crippled.
The King of famous Dahomey in Africa
is dead, and as his successor must prove
before he ascends the throne that ho is a
brave and great man * the young aspirant
is looking around for adventures. At last
accounts he had gone hunting for King
Tofa, of Porto Novo, declaring that noth¬
ing less than the head of that potentate
would satisfy his ambition. King Tofa
was at peace with all the world, but his
country is suddenly plunged into terrible
commotion simply beeause his head is
wanted across the border in Dahomey.
The French are now busily engaged in
Porto Novo helping the King keep his
head on his shoulders. It is such puerile
quarrels as these that are playing the mis¬
chief with the West African trade, and
keeping a long stretch of the coast in an
uproar.
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OP LINCOLN COUNTY.
LITTLE WILLIE.
Poor little Willie,
With his many pretty wiles;
Words of wisdom in his looks,
And quaint, quiet smiles;
Hair of amber, touch^ with
Gold of heaven s- ,-e;
Ail lying darkly hid
In a workhouse grave.
You remember little Willie:
Fair and funny fellow! he
Sprang like a lily
From the dirt of poverty;
Poor little Willie!
Net a friend was nigh,
When, from the cold world,
He crouched down to die.
In the day we wandered foodless,
Little Willie cried for bread;
In the night we wandered homeless,
Little Willie cried for bed;
Parted at the workhouse door,
Not a word we said;
Ah, so tired was poor Willie,
And so sweetly sleep the dead.
• ’Twas in the dead of winter,
Wo laid him in the earth; •
The world brought in the New-Year
On a tide of mirth,
Cut, for lost little Willie ,
Nota tear we crave;
Cold and hunger cannot wake him
In his workhouse grave. ,
We thought him beautiful,
Felt it hard to part; j
We loved him dutiful; '
.Down, down, poor heart!
The storms they may beat;
The winter winds may rave;
Little Willie feels not,
In his workhouse grave.
No room for little Willie;
In the world we had no part;
On him stared the Gorgon-oye,
Through which looks no heart.
“Come to me,” said Heaven;
And, if Heavens will save,
Little matters though the door
Se a workhouse grave.
—Gerald Massey .
A STOWAWAY’S STORY,
Reading in the papers the other day of
the arrest of the mate of the Rio steamer
Finance for cruelty to three or four
stowaways who made their appearance
after the vessel was well on her voyage,
has recalled vividly an adventure I had
when a boy of fourteen, and, though I
was a very humble individual myself, the
particulars of that adventure stirred the
people of a great kingdom,
I know the sailor from topmast head to
kelson, I have sailed in all sorts of
crafts, with all sorts of crews, and have
served are' many rough Captains. and 1 kn\— K!l y_
ore uncouth, and
there is always a disposition to find fault
and to magnify evils. Jack would have
his growl, no matter how well fed and
how well used. On land there is a cer¬
tain antagonism between employer and
employed. On shipboard this is intensi¬
fied, but that is because the employer has
so much more power over the employed.
I frankly admit that I have never met
half a dozen sailors, no matter what sort
of Captain they were sailing under, who
were without complaints, but it does not
follow that all the others complained with¬
out reason. The ship may be comforta¬
ble aud full-handed, the fare all right,
and the Captain a good man, but the
mates can still make the craft mighty un¬
comfortable for the men. I venture to
assert that there are not half a dozen
long voyage sailing crafts leaving our
shores in which abuses calling for loud
growling do not exist, aud what is true
of America is true of all other countries.
The Dutch, Swedes, Russians, and Las¬
cars will stand overwork, poor grub, and
the abuse of officers, and as much for
this reason as any other the Yankee sailor
has been driven from the sea, and his
place filled by these substitutes.
When I was eleven years old my
mother died, and my father decided to
go to Australia. I was his only child,
and he was by no means burdened with
money. He was a master plumber, and
he set out for Sidney under contract;
Three months after our arrival he married
again, and it was not six weeks before
my stepmother pushed me into the
street. I was under-sized and sickly,
but I never gave her the slightest cause
for even a harsh word. She simply took
an aversion to me, and somehow her
hatred came to be reflected in my father.
He saw me thrown out on the world
with hardly a protest, and two days later,
when he met me in the street, he gave me
about eight shillings in money and ad¬
vised me to set up as a bootblack and
newsboy. I should probably have fol¬
lowed his suggestions had I not on that
same day chanced to fall iu with two or
three lads who were planning to stow
themselves away aboard of an English
brig called the Charles H. Churchill.
They were boys who had run away from
home or been thrown over like myself,
and the idea was that they could do bet¬
ter in England. I was invited to join,
and when our plans had been laid there
were four of us of about the same age.
We looked the brig over, found that we
could get aboard, and made our arrange¬
ments.
One night when the brig was nearly
ready for sea I stole aboard, carrying
with me about two quarts of water and
four pounds of bread and meat. This
was the share I was to furnish. I was to
board, slip down the midship hatch, and
the others were to follow at brief inter¬
vals. A fire on board a ship a few hun¬
dred feet away collected the crew of the
brig aft and I got aboard without risk.
The hold was nearly full of bags, barrels,
and boxes,and after waiting a few minutes
I made my way over these toward the bow,
and found a very comfortable place on u
lot of dry hides. I remained awake and
alert for two hours and then fell asleep
without realizing that I was a bit sleepy.
It was morning when I awoke, and as the
sailors were at work below, I dared not
move or call out. I figured that my com¬
panions were in hiding around me, and
so rested easy through the day, sleeping
most of the time. At about sundown I
felt the ship under motiou, and au hour
!
LINCOLNTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1889.
later the hatches were closed and I was
in midnight darkness. I had matches
and a stub of candle, and, after striking
a light, I moved around and whistled and
called to my companions. I could make
my way over the freight very easily in
any direction and I would not give up
that I was alone until I had searched for
a full hour. Then I was positive that I
was alone; the others had either backed
out or had been baffled in their attempt
to get aboard. I was much upset at the
discovery and crawled back to my bed
and cried myself to sleep.
It had been agreed among us boys that
we should keep secreted three days after
sailing. None of us anticipated any
trouble when we should make our
presence known. I had no way of com
puting time, as it was night all the time
in the hold, but after my bread and water
had been used up and I was hungry and
thirsty, I decided that the three days
hatch were up. Crawling to the cover of the
I knocked on it aud shouted, and
after a little it was opened and I was
helped out. It was 9 o’clock on the
morning of the fourth day. The first
word from the Captain was a curse, and
his first act was to swing me about the
deck by the hair. Then he called foj a
rope and beat me until I fainted away,
and while lying unconscious he and the
first mate kicked me several times,
When I came to I wa 3 ordered forward
among the men. They gave me kind
words, satisfied my hunger and thirst,
and hoped that the worst was over. It
was not, however. At about noon I was
called aft, and after the Captain had in
terrogated me as to my identity and why
I had selected his vessel, he gave me
another beating, and turned me over to
the mate with the words:
“You can have him now, and I hope
you’ll kill him before the week is out.”
“Aye, sir, leave that to me,” was t'nc
reply. “I’ll find a dozen ways to make
him wish he’d never been born.”
I had committed an offence, but noth
ing deserving such punishment as I re
ceived for the next three days. I was
flogged, kicked, cuffed and maltreatedin
every and way Captain and mate could think
of, was more than once rendered in
sensible by their cruelty. I heard the
men cursing the officers for their con.
duct, and but encouraging each other to in
terfere, I was passive. Indeed, after
a beating or two, I was so harried that i
could scarcely remember my own name,
On the afternoon of the fourth day, soon
after dinner, while I was forward with the
watch and assisting the sailmaker to re
pair a sail, the first mate called me aft.
The wind was light and the sea smooth,
and a few fathoms astern of the brig was
an enormous shark. It had occurred to
the two brutes to have some fun with me.
The mate noosed a rope and passed it
around i»y waist, aW then, while I
Struggled and shrieked and begged for
mercy, he carried me to the port quarter
and dropped me overboard for shark
bait. The shark made a rush for me,
but I was hauled up just in advance of
his jaws. The Captain and mate laughed
uproariously, and the latter had picked
me when u p the to drop me from the other quarter
entire crew came running aft.
I saw that much, and then fainted away,
and what took place while I was uncon
scious was never clearly related to me.
The crew had determined to interfere,
and their action excited the Captain and
mate to a terrible degree. Thhe former
had a revolver in his pocket, and when
the crew refused to go forward he fired at
and wounded one of them. This brought
on a fight, in which botli officers and one
of the sailors were killed. It was rebel¬
lion—not mutiny. The sole idqa of the
crew was to protect me from further
cruelty. In carrying this out murder was
done and all were liable to the gallows,
The dead bodies were lying on
on deck when I recovered con¬
sciousness while the men had congregat¬
ed in the waist of the brig for consulta¬
tion. The second mate whose name was
Chapman, had sympathized with the
crew although he had no hand iu the
fight. He was now asked to take com¬
mand of the brig until it dbuld be deter¬
mined what should be done, and he did
so. The three men were prepared for
burial in the usual way, aud launched
over the side without service, and an
hour after the fight not a trace of it was
left.
When the question of what should be
doue came up for discussion most oi the
men were appalled at the seriousness of
the case. It was the first duty of the
mate to set a signal of distress, but, of
course, Under the nothing he of the sort was done.
law should head for the
nearest port and there surrender brig aud
crew, but, of course, he had no thought
of this. While he had not incited the
crew to resistance, he had not come to
the aid of the officers. It would have
been easy to prove his sympathy for me,
and that would have made him the acces¬
sory of the crew. It was realized that
all had outlawed themselves, and tho
question was where to go and wliat to do
with the brig. It was finally decided to
haul up for the Solomon Islands, The
brig was bound home through Torres
Strait, as she had two ports of call to
make before reaching the Cape of Good
Hope, and we were not over 450 miles
out of Sidney when the mur
ders occurred. We therefore had a voy¬
age of quite 1500 miles before us.
For the first week men could not have
behaved more sensibly. The discipline
was good, and all were under proper re
straint. We were sighting vessels daily,
and on several occasion we were passed
so closely that we had to signal oqi^ uum
her and report all well. On the third
day a man-of-war exchanged signals with
us, and through some bungling on our
part his suspicions seemed to have been
aroused, and he would perhaps have
boarded us had not a chauge in the
weather occurred. After about a week,
however, the men began to get independ
ent and to bring forward new plans,
and there was no longer any harmony
among the crew. While Chapman was
the only one who could navigate a ship,
and while he had been put iu charge of
the brig, the men finally refused to do
any work beyond that of sailing the craft,
ftome openly advocated that we turn
pirate, aud others wanted to run M ^
port and sell brig and cargo and dl
vide the money. This was hooted at by
the more intelligent,^and gave rise tofur
ther ill-feeling.
The brig had light or contrary winds
and made slow progress, and at the end
of two weeks the situation on board
could not have been much worse.
There were nine of us, including the
cook, a black man, and each man of
them seemed determined to do as he
pleased. A11 messed in the cabin, and
all had access to the liquor, and as a con
sequence fights frequently occurred, and
there were times when the brig had close
shaves from being made a wreck. On
one occasion the men charged the mate
with playing them false, and with plan
niug to deliver them up to justice, but he
somehow satisfied them that he was hold
ing to the course originally agreed upon,
an <l he was honest in what he said. Af
ter a ruu of some twenty-five days he an
nounced that we were approaching the
Solomon Islands, and the men at once
made ready to carry out their further
One hundred 'Titles southwest of San
Christoval, which is the easternmost
island of the group, is a smaller group
called the Little Solomons. It was this
group we were approaching, and at that
date no white man had set foot upon
them. They were inhabited by fierce and
blood thirsty natives, who combined pi
racy, wrecking and ,fishing, and the mate
was for making for the other group. He
was overruled in this, and when the brig
had hauled in until the land could be
seen from the deck the long boat was got
over and loaded. The men intended to
P la y the part of castaways, and had a
story all fixed up. They erased the name
of the boat, and took nothing aboard
which would betray the identity of the
brig which they meant to scuttle. At
noon, after working all the morning,
they had loaded the boat with whatever
suited them, divided up the sum of §1250
found on board, and were ready to bore
holes in the brig’s bottom,
For two days I had been ill of fever
and confined to my bunk. I knew from
the conversation around me what was
going on ! and at noon, when one of the
men brought me a cup of gruel, he said
we should soon be off. Half an hour
later the brig became so quiet that I
grew afraid, aud with great effort crawled
°n deck. The long boat was a mile
away, with every man in it. About four
railes to the west, coming up under a
light breeze, was a British man-of-war.
All sail had been taken off the brig so that
she was simply drifting. It was the
®igbt of the man-of-war which had hur
rid our crew off so suddenly. In about
au hour she came up,and after a crew had
been put aboard, both vessels stood in
and came to anchor in a bay, and then
boats were cut for the, mutineers.
NotfWeu a sight of them"was ever ob
tamed. Ten years later it was known
that they made a landing on one of the
small islands, were secreted by the na
tives until the ship sailed, and every one
of them was then knocked on the head
for the sake of the plunder.
I was taken back to Sidney, and later
011 to England, and as I was the only
survivor my story was told and retold in
the courts and press until the whole
world had the details .—New Tori Sun.
Grasshopper Pan Cakes.
“Talk about queer articles of food,”
saida well known Washington connoisseur
recently, “there are some samples of diet,
in the Agricultural Museum, which would
make a Fejee Cannibal take a back seat.
The Chinese may eat their birds’ nests
and sharks’ tongues, and the native Afri¬
can enjoy his msssionary a la mode, but it
remains for the Digger Indian of our own
country to go to Agricultural the head of the culinary
class, In the Mueum there
is exhibited a greenish looking flour with
Which the Digger Indians make pancakes
somewhat similar to the Mexican tortilla.
This green Hour is made from the dried
bodies of grasshoppers, The Diggers eat
their grasshopper cakes with as much
relish as we do our fruit or poundcake at
Christmas time. If a Digger Indian ever
offers you a‘ma-seat-ra,’ you had better
decline it unless you want to become the
tomb of a number of those little jumping
jacks known as grasshoppers.” — Feic
Tori Star ,
The Fiy as a Disease Carrief.
It has long been known that the house
fly and various other flies have been the
ctv ise of malignant pustule by carrying
the contagion of anthrax from diseased
animals or animal substances to man.
During the past year Dr. Alessi has been
experimenting with flies to determine
their liability to spread tho infection of
tuberculosis. The bacillus of this disease
was found in the intestines and the excre¬
ment of flies which had feasted on tuber¬
culous sputa; and their dried fseees, in
which, with the aid of the microscope,
the bacillus was known to exist, was
used for inoculating rabbits, and the ani¬
mals became tuberculous. According to
the “Annals d’Hvgiene Publique,”it has
been found iu the Nile country that the
granular ophthalmia of that region can be
spread by means of house fligs passing
from the eyes of tlioue who are affected
with the disease to other persons .—Hew
York Mail and P.cprest.
A Lecture ou Fools.
Last year, at the New York Chautau
qua, when Dr. Henson, of Chicago, came
to lecture on “Fools,” Bishop .Vincent
introduced him thus: “Ladies aud gentle
men, we are now to have a lecture on
‘Fools,’ by one of the most distin
guislicd”—there was a long pause, for
the bishop’s inflections indicated that he
had finished, and the audience roared
with delight, so that it was some time
before the sentence was concluded_
“men of Chicago.” Dr. Hanson, whose
readiness of wit holds every emergency
captive, began his lecture when silence
was at length restored, bv sayiug ■
“Ladies and gentlemen, I am not as
great a fool as Bishop Vincent”—and
here ho stopped, apparently through
with the sentence, while the audience
again wildly applauded,, finally eondud
gin—“would have you think,”—il/hi/i#
aa,.Tr4bune.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Grewsome and Grim—Something New
in Bric-a-Brac—She Had
Heard It—As He Un¬
derstood It, F.tn.
The bird only seen by his bill—
A grewsome bird is the gas meter grim ;
Sitting silent and loEe in the cellar light dim;
And Nor day time’s fast night. Sight,
nor
Bring any change to the meter grim,
Save in the race
Where On numbers its figured face. toward the millions’
grow
place.
A watchful he sit* alone eye keeps in the the cellar meter light grim, dim;
As
And he marks the gas
And As rammer days of pass, interim,
makes no note an
Nor takes off a dime
For the two months’ time
You close your house for a coder clime.
A merry bird is the gas meter grim,
And be laughs alone in the cellar light dim;
And And he thinks how you’ll swear
tear out your hair
When the quarter's bill comes rolling in;
For whether away,
Or at home you stay,
The bill is the same you’re called on Times' to pay.
—Richmond
SOMETHING NEW IN BEIC-A-BBAC.
Ethel—“Oh, I saw such a sweet match
safe this afteinoon.”
George—“What shape was it in?”
“It was in the shape of a marriaHe
“
certificate.”— Tims.
SHE HAD HEARD IT.
Bob Stayer^—“Hare you heard the
latest, Miss Chester?”
Miss Chester—“Yes, indeed; I just
heard the library clock strike twelve.”—
Golden Argosy.
AS HE UNDERSTOOD IT.
“No smoking allowed,” shouted the
railway official.
And the emigrant when the remark was
translated to him asked if he would be
1 permitted to smoke in silence— P/iiladel
\>hia - Press, -
fit's" in professionA ii parlance.
First Basebaliist—Did you propose to
Miss Diamond last night, Battersby?”
Second Basebaliist—-“I did, Pitcher,
my boy."
F. B__“Score?”
S. B.—“Whitewashed .”'—Button Cour
ier.
A BOOTBLACK AND HAIR DYER.
A bootblack, after puttiug a briibant
polish on the him Shoes with of an elderly smile customer, visible
turned to a of
satisfaction and, looking into his face,
remarked in a confidental whisper—
“Permit me to inform you that I also
darken whiskers.”— Fieramosca.
ALMOST. BUT NOT QUITE.
Drummer (showing her necklace)
“How do vou like this?”
Miss Lovelorn—"Oil, how lovely'. You
are altogether too kind to make me such
a beautiful present.”
Drummer (grabbing it)-“This is a
new sample 1 I’m to take out on the road
next vn®k."~Ept>ch.
THE COP CANKERED,
A man alighted from a side door of an
uptown saloon last Sunday with some¬
thing bulky under object his coat. A police¬
man tapped the with his club and
asked:
“Have you a tumor there?”
“No," replied the man, “I have a can,
sir.”— 2mo York Herald.
couldn’t blame him.
She—"Isn’t this rather sudden, Mr.
Ponsonby? Wouldn’t it be better to
postpone better acquainted?” your proposal until we <W;
PonSOUby—“I don’t know about that.
All the other girls said they might- have
accepted me if they hadn't known me
so Well.”—iTcw York Sun.
A SICE OLD LADY.
Ada—»“So you have been to sec tout
husband’s fronds, have vou, Lulu?
how did you like his mother?”
Lulu—“Oh, ever so much. Ada:
made me feel so much at home. Whv.
iu loss than twenty-four hours after I
rived there she had me inthe
wiping dishes .”—Hew York Sun.
CUNNING HOGUES.
Two Paris loafers are reading a notice:
“Lost, a black poodle. One
francs reward.” One of them says to the
other:
“You must take the one you stole yes
tppdflv **
“But it is white.”
“You must say that is has turned white
through grief .”—Monde lllrntre.
UNSEEMLY LEVITY.
Walter—“Oh, Mabel, I worship the
very haiT of your head. Give me one
curl to recall this hour at some future
time.”
Mabel—“Oh, I see—a sort of
lock.”
Walter—“A lock is a good thing
adore; that’s why I want it .”—Detroit
Journal.
LET IN.
Mrs. Aleet—“If you should make a
thousand dollars unexpectedly, Tom,
would you give me that diamond pend¬
ant I’ve been looking at so long?”
Mr. Aleet—“Why, yes, dear.”
Mrs. Aleet—“Very well, I’ll order it
to-morrow. I stopped wanting that ivory
finished piano to-day, and a thousand was
just the price of it.”
SHOWED HIS COURAGE.
Jimmy Freshley (stopping in front of
the new neighbor, end gazing intently at
her)—“Ain’t I a brave boy, Mrs. Spinks?”
“Mrs. Spinks—“Why?”
Jimmy—" ’Cause, mamma said you
were a perfect fright, but you don’t scar*
me a bit.”
The Freshleys and Spinkses are not on
sp*aking terms .—Lawrence American.
GO UP HEAD.
At a college examination—“And now,
sir, let us see whether you know more
about phygicai science than about the
other subjects you have studied. What
are the properties of heat?”
“One of its properties is to cause ex¬
pansion.”
“Correct; give me an illustration.”
“Oh, that's easy enough. In summer,
the sun, being hotter, causes the days to
lengthen, sir.”
THE butcher's BLUNDER.
“Ye3, ma’am,” said the butcher,
“there’s as nice and tender a roast of
lamb as you’U find in the market. I
wouldn't sell it to anybody but an
customer like you. It was my eldest
daughter s little pet lamb, it broke her
heart to let it go. Y cu see she had
played wit» it ever since she was a little
I ^ mean to say oh, you preier
some veal cutlets. Shall I send them up,
ma am!' —Detroit Jmrr.cd..
GEORGE A1X EIGHT.
Anxious Mother— 1 -My dear. I'm afraid
George is getting into bad company. He
is out very late nearly every night. ”
Observing Father—“Ob, he's all right.
He goes to see some girl or other,
Shouldn't wonder if he'd announce an
engagement soon.
“He hasn't said a word about any
lady.”
“No; but he's keeping company with
one all the same. His right wrist is full
of P*" scratches. "-.V«e Tori Weekly.
MAINTAINING A REPUTATION.
A gentleman wno , , knew General John
A. Logan in southern Illinois before the
war tells us that on a certain occasion
voting , Logan found , , it . necessary to doubt ,
tae word of a man, and told him so
without any circumlocution.
“Don't, you call me a liar, sir,” said
the man . excitedly; “I have a reputa
t0 maintain, and I mean to main
tain it, sir.”
“I know it,” said Logan; “and you
arc maintaining it everv time vou tell a
lie.”
SHE WAS MERCENARY.
NIrs.Fondma—“Me Goodness ?Bea-trice,
you're nawt going to disgrace Mr.'oidog. your parents
j by marrying that hawrid who
has such terrible manners and dresses in
such wretched taste. Why, he actually
cats pie with a knife.”
Beatrice—“Yes, I know he eats
a tuifo. mamma, but he knows how
j they to cut do coupons that with his shears, all ri.q-ht: and
say manners when he
presents a cheek at the bank are charm
ing. I love him, mamma, for his
worth.”
0rT 0F THE AKIST °CRATIC ACTION.
^ .“Mamma, I meet shall I of speak them to the Hefter- street?
: ' » any on tae
j Vm know don t hveP “™ avc '
The .
' uue now .' - V re movea to ^hxgan
a'ccue
1 tbeJ ;T?u
S*® . “- v chlId h tke -N. are stlU 111 ollr set
' ' -
Treat them cordially.
“But they are above Thirty-first street,
mamma."
“Then pass them with a bow.”
“In fact, their home now is just above
Sixteenth.”
“Cut them dead.”— Chicago Tribune.
HE HAD TO GO NORTH.
“Promise „ me, James, T said . , the . South
Chicago wife, sobbing, “that you will
taue good care of yourself and wnte to
me every ay.
exclaimed . . tlA bus
: ” Usa °’
, J ,and , be mas his emotion
' ai ! ere own
: by a violent effort and embraced her
; A- tf^derly. 315 separation, "You temporary can never though.it know how
may
e - " 1 m = s e _• u e P SKian 5
-
ordere are ^rative He says nothing
, but a change , of climate null save mm I
must leave this latitude for the North !
And he tore himself away from fas
weeping wife and took the train for
North Chicago.— Chicago ‘ Tribune.
-
matter-of-fact men.
“Good morning, gentlemen,” said
comer, as he joined a group
corning. responded
“It isn ‘t a S 00ti morning,”
.one of those greeted.
“I mean, I hope you ha# had a good
morning,” said haven’t,” number one. the unahi
“But we came
rnous reply.
“What I meant,” said the new comer,
“was that I hope vou would have had a
. .. , . , ,
goo morning, i i la wen a gooi
“"‘■We 8 would, but as it wasn't,
111 n ,' fa f e i*
-' he ,
"Well, then good afternoon said . ,
new comer, and off he walhed.-iW
ence 1 eiegiam.
Tlie Congo Free State.
The Congo Free State of Africa is
now one of the recognized sovereignties
of the world, constituted under interna¬
tional guarantees. The sovereign of the
Free State is King Leopold, of Belgium,
aud there are under him four administra¬
tive divisions or provinces, at the head
of which are native chiefs. The area of
the State is 1,056,200 square miles, with
a population of 27,000,000. The terri¬
tory includes a strip on the north side of
the Congo, except from Manyanga to the
Likona, claimed by France, and em¬
braces the basin watered by the Congo
and its tributaries, extending to the Niger
water slied on the north, to Uganda and
Ujiji on the east, and to include Ulanda,
'Urala and Lake Bangweola on the south.
The trade is to be free to ail nations, and
the navigation of the Congo is under the
direction of an international commission.
Au immense deposit of mineral soap
has been found new Sau Diego, Cal.
Subscription : la Advance.
EARLY ONE MORNING,
She goes! Hie goes!
And no one hears,
And no one knows,
But Hie fears, she fears.
Her father sleeps; if she only knew,
Her mother weeps lest a dream come true.
And the morning wears,
6he goes! she goes!
j Down the echoing stair,
And the white light grows
And is everywhere.
Soon the birds will chirp, and the busy mill
Hum. mifl the cows go up the hill,
And shepot there!
She goes! she goes!
i On the window sill
The white cat knows,
But sits on still,
Blinking her yellow eyes in the ran;
The house dog knows, but he’U tell to
Since tis her will!
She goes! she goes!
The door’s unbarred,
How the cock crows
inthe neighbor's yard!
She shrinks when she hears the ripe pear fall
Qn the dew-sodden earth by the garden wall,
All's heard! all’s marr'd!
No, for she goes.
With a secret smile,
For she knows, she knows
That all the while
Her lover stands where the roads divide,
With a song on his lips and his sword at his side
And a foot on the stile.
•-Violet Hunt, in Longman's Magazine.
PITH AND POINT.
-
A cereal story—Lying about the grain
yield.
A. Hawk is a most successful poultry
raiser.
A place for lawvers—The Sioux Reser
vat j 0 j,
A ship goes down when it strikes the
rocks; a business concern when it doesn't.
_ &ranto!l TrutL
Said the chimney swallow: “This is a
dark outlook, but I suppose I will have
to be sooted with it.”
It especially true of , the . , baseball
is
umpire that no man can judge pitch
without being reviled .—Baltimore Ameri
can.
The man who went out on a “lark”
Will not acknowledge that dark,
Somehow, somewhere in the
The “lark” changed —Boston to a “bat.” Courier.
’
Amateur Baseballer—“Why is it you
•fellows always play for money while we
play for honor?” Professional—“Well,
I suppose that each play for what they
most lack.”
Success is doing what you can.
No matter what encumbers;
If you expect much praise yourself or pelf
Unless you up and hump
\ou il be laid'c,cr ufGLTke sltei! i^
TTith other old “back numbers.”
—Philadelphia Press.
Enter Seedy(with manuscript)—“Good
morning, sir. • Want any jokes? My
forte is the absurd and ridiculous. Got a
place for anything like that?” Editor—
“Certainly. Take a seat .”—Philadelphia
Pi-ess.
j The baggage smasher, merrily.
j Sow tosses travelers’ trunks:
He cachinnates with ghoulish glee.
j But And breaks fine them into this chunks. soulless fiend
some morn
Will skyward take his flight,
For he will monkey with a trank
That's filled with dynamite.
— St. Joseph Herald.
A Vegetable Curiosity.
There is a vegetable curiosity in the
vicinity of Avon Springs, N. Y., which
botanists have found nowhere else. It
is a remarkable bulbous root which
formerly grew on the Genesee flats in
abundance. It lies a few inches below the
surface and % horizontally to the
'
le th o{ four r five feet ’ and f re tly
a diameter o{ nine inclies . It
sembles a small log. From it springs a
a bright green vine, not unlike a straw
p errY v i ne which bears a small purplish
: blosiom The IndianSi reIics re .
; minders of whose occupancy of those rich
flats st;n abound, called this root “the
man 0 f the ground.” They attributed
^ t medicinal virtues to it, ’ but if it has
it is vet ', to be discoy ered b \ the
^ e . Red Jacket as triU itiou
has it, annually camped .A* where the pres
« “P ; „ * ^ *i
i eu - ' on r "8 s s * 0 e -ri ( u
S was N for
| * ls r ° ot ’ “ “ ^ advantage a ot
the mineral water, the peculiar and bene
ficial effects of which were well known to
the Indians long before the Genesee
counriy was known to the whites.-*
IorK aun -
Telegraphing To and From Trains.
A company is about being formed in
Baltimore to place in operation the sys¬
tem of telegraphing to and from moving
railway trains invented by Baylus Cade,
Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Cade places a
wire along the railroad near the track,
, and tke communication is made with the
'moving train by a drag descending from
the car. Recent experiments at Raleigh
demonstrated the success of the system. >
. d to ; of th rail
Zmore one .
B and Washing
ton with the Cade system. It is asserted
that, with the new system in operation,
collisions between trains equipped with
the instruments will be practically im¬
possible, as the instrument on one train
will automatically give notice of the ap¬
proach of another train on the same
track. It will also enable all railroad
business to be transacted directly with
the train, and do away with the neces¬
sity for the block system of telegraphic
signals.— New York Tribune.
The Tiger’s Choice.
The Java Bode records a singular ad¬
venture which recently befell a Govern¬
ment surveyor in the wilds of Sumatra.
After a hard day’s work on a mountain
side he passed the night in the open air
in a hut hastily run up by his coolies. As
he was falling asleep after long watching,
the sight of the two fiory eyes paralyzed glaringin him at
entrance of hut almost
with terror. An enormous royal tiger
glided in, smelled him all over, and then
setrtdr work devouring the remains of his
evening meal to the last morsel. After¬
ward his terrible guest disappeared.