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VOLUME VIII.
Church Directory.
METHODlST.—Dovm.Aßvn.nK—First, tliite •
•nd fifth Sunday*.
SaittSphin&s—Second Sunday, aid Safr.rJa)
before. <
Medway—Fourth Sunday. wtl-Saiurdav !•*■.
lore. W. K. F XHE, Pasicm.
lUpim--DwigmTille, first and fourth Sun
days. Rev. J. B. Vaughn, pastor.
** ,onic -
D<»ml*,sril)o Lodge, So. 289, F. A. M.,meeh
eti night before rhe first and third :
, Mnndaya in ecofi month. J. R. Carter, W. M., i
W. J. Camp, Seay. ,■ j
County Directory.
efilinary—R. T. ckwiper.
Ulerk-8. N. Dorsett.
Hherif -Ktiiiu Ward.
Deputy Sheriff G, H. Sonter.
W Receiver—E. H. Gamp,
fax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Hney.
Coroner-—F. M. Miloheb.
Bt’PJBBIOH COURT.
Meets on third Monday* in January and July '
end hold* two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
Hot Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reich
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY CODttT.
Meet* in quarterly semon on fourth Mon- I
days m Ifebruary, May, Angust and November
and holds until ail the canes on the docket are
sailed. Tn monthly session it meet* on fourth
Mondavi iu each month,
Judge ‘ Hou. R. A. Massey.
Hoi. Genl.-Hun. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
OJUMNAXTB COUBT
“ Meets for ordinary purpose* on first Monday, I
and for county purposes on first Tuesday in
Hash month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justwm oourra.
730th Diet. G. M. meets first Thursday in each !
month. J. 1 FeWy, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P.,
I). W. John* and W. K. Hunt, L. C.
790th Dint. G. M., meets second Saturday.
A. R. Bumat, J, P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., 8. C.
Yeager, L. C.
784th Diet. G. M. meets fourth 8* turd ay.
Franklin Uanar, J. P., C. B. Baggett, K. E,
J. C. James and M. S. Gora, L. Cs.
1269th Disi. G. M. meets third Saturday. T.
M. Hamilton, J, P., M. J... Yates, N. P., 8. W.
Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan. L. 0.
ilOQih Disc.. G. M. meets third Saturday. N. i
W Camp, J,l‘., W. 8. Hudson, N. P., J. A
Hill, L. <!. I
13715 t Diet. G. M. meets first Saturday. C.
<>. Clinton. J. P. Alberry Hembree, N. P.,
1272ud Diet. G. M. meets fourth Friday. >
Qeo. W. Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. I*., !
- , L/C.
1273rd Diet. G. M. meets third Friday. Thus.
White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J.'Harbin, ’
L.C.
Professional Cards.
ROBERTI MASSES
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office tn front room, Dorsett’s Building. /
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Dougluss county.
W. A. JAMES.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in all iho conns, Stare an , i
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE. GA
WM. T. ROBERTS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,!
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Court*. All Jega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
»» Court House.
C. I>. CAMP.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice iu all the court a. Au UtudneM
intrusted to him will receive prompt attention.
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOU3LASVLLI.E. GA.
Will practice in all the courts. Stave and
Federal.
JOHN IN, EDGE, j
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGI-ASVILIX, GA.
Will practice iu all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to hisoare.
J. S. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGIASVHJ J, GA
Will practice in the courts of Dong’am,
GampbelL Carroll, Paulding, Cobh, Fnhon and
adjoining counties. Tmtupi attention given
to all businm.
“ I H McLaRTYT
ATTORN EV AT LAW,
DOttGJSVILLE, GA.
Will pravliee in all ths e>>urt*. both State and
Fwh-rat. tJobeetfena a specialty.
JOHN Y EDGE?
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
POUOLASVIIA-S, GA.
JOB PRINTING
NEATLY DONE
H THE “STAR" OFFICE.
Wte wtrfw sol
HUMBLE BUT USEFUL
A Short Sketch of the Evolu-
tion of the Match.
How Matches Stand in the World as a
Factor of Econcniiy.
Tn his address at the opening session of
the British association. Prof. Lyon Play*-
j fair, M. P., the president, said: “Let
I me take a single example of how even a
]x?tty manufacture, improved by the
teachings of science, affects the comforts
■ and enlarges the resources of mankind.
When 1 was a boy the only way of ob
, tabling a light was by the tinder-box,
with its quadruple materials, flint and
steel, iwmt rags or tinder, and a sulphur
match. If everything went well, if the
box could be found, and the air was dry,
: alight could be obtained in two minutes;
but very often tiie time occupied was
mndi longer, and the process became a
great trial to the serenity of the temper.
The consequence of this was that afire or
burning lamp was kept alight through
; the day. Old Gerard, in his herbal,
tells us how certain fungi were used to
carry fire from one part of the country to
i the oilier. The tinder box long held its
! position as a great diaeovery in the arts.
| The pyxidietiUt •igniaria of the Romans
I appears to have beon much the same
implement, though a little ruder than the
I flint and steel which Philip the Good put
I into the collar of the Golden Fleece, in
1429, as t he representative of high knowl
edge hi the progress of the ai ts. It con
tinued to prevail till 188a. when phos
phorus matches were introduced, though
I have been amused to find that there are
a few venerable ancients in London who
will stick to the tinder-box, and for
whom a few shops keep, a small supply.
| Phosphorus was no new discovery, for it
had been obtained by an Arabian called
Bechtel in the eighth century. Howev
ja, it was forgotten, and it was rediscov
ered by Brandt, who made it out of very
stinking maloriuls. in 106*1. Other dU-
* had,
fit could Tie uw-d for luejfer matches,
f The Bcttmee of enmhwflon was only de- ' "
i veloped on the discovery of oxygen a
; century later. Time had to elapse be
fore chemical analysis showed the kind
of bodies which could be added to
phosphorus to make it ignite readily. So
i it was not till 1838 that matches became
a partial success. Intolerable they then
were, dangerously inflammable, horribly
; poisonous to the makers, and injurious
to the lungs of consumers. It required
1 another discovery by Schrottcrin 1845, to
j change poisonous wax into innocuous red
brick phosphorus in order that these de
fects might be remedied and to give us
the safety match of the present day.
Now r, what have these successive discov- I
j cries in science done for the nation in
this single manufacture by nu economy
of time? If, before 1888, we had made
’ the same demand for light that we. now
i do when we daily consume eight match-
A per head of the population, the tinder
box could liavc supplied the demand
under the most favorable conditions by
an <'X|H-nditure of one quarter of an hour, i
The hicifer match supplies a light in fif
teen seconds on each occasion, or in two
! minutes for the whole day. Putting
these differences into a year, the venera
ble ancient who still sticks to his tinder ’
box would require to sja nd ninety hours i
yearly in the production of light, while
the user of lucifer matches spends twelve
hours; so that the latter has an economy
of seventy-eight hours yearly, or alwut
; ten working days. Measured by cost of
i productiou at 1 shilling 6 |»ence daily,
the economy of time represented in mon
ey to our population *5£28,000,080 annu-
* ally. This is a curious instance* of the
! manner in which science leads to eeono
' my of time and wealth, evea in a emull
manufacture.
The ImporUßce of a Sneeie*
Ace-ording to th? old superstitions,
1 there is mwh iuq>ortan<T in a sneezr.
: (Homebody has been hunting up the sub- ,
ject and has found the following vener
able saw:
Saeere on Monday, you snrew for danger,
ftneeae on Tuesday, you kiss a stranger;
ftneere on Wednesday, you snreae for a
letter,
Sneenw on Thursday for something better;
Bneere on Friday, you sneeae for tonwr,
oa Saturday, your sweetheart to- i
morrow,
j Sneaae on Sunday, ynur safety seek.
The oM Nick will have you the whole of the ’
When IU G?t» Raoad.
Wife—" John.dear, I notice that your I
brother James never makes a friendly call
upon ua units* he is intoxicated/’
Husband—“No, my dear, hr doesitt.
James reminds me of the moon/’
5
Wife— H Ri nnmU you of the wkmhiF*
Husband- “Yea, dear; he nevrr gets
. /dcitl Ul hcl IkUL“- .
FA.W SISG TO NONE-CHARITY T O ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. APRIL 2(1: 18S(>.
‘•Uhip’s” Letter.
“Chip,” a Chinese house-servatrfc long
employed by one family in San Francisco, j
having accumulated a snug little sum of
money, recently determined to pay a visit
to his relatives in China. Desiring to
correspond with the family during his ab
sence, and not being able to write in the
English language, he hit upon the follow
ing novel expedient: He applied to a
friendly neighbor-—a young lady—to
write from his dictation, enclose and ad
dress a letter to his mistress, be taking
the same with liiin for the purpose of
mailing from China. A few day before
his departure the lady of the bouse
chanced to go into Chip’s room, and
there saw lying upon the table a scalfed
letter addressed to herself. Thinking its
presence there to be an oversight on the
part of Chip in not promptly delivering,
she opened the letter, and on reading it,
discovered the true inw-ardness of the
same. Not wishing to have Chip know .
that she had surprised his litile secret,
she had a new envelope properly prepared
and addressed in close imitation of thv
original and left the letter where she had
found it. The letter graphically de
scribed the trip from San Francisco to
Hongkong; it dwelt particularly upon a
terrible storm at sea, during which.nearly
every one was seasick except the writer; ,
Chip's arrival home was touched upon;
the joy of his mother and faintly;;was
feelingly described; finally the of
his intended return was given a
answer requested. Chip, having seeded
his certficate, departed hence asarrafiscd,
and, sure enough, the last China mail !
brought the wonderful letter from Chip, :
and, no doubt, when he receives the an- ]
swer, which was promptly sent, his heart
will swell with pride and gratification,
and his importance among the circle of
his acquaintance in his native home bfi
duly increased, by his foreign correspond
cnee.—JS®n ArfioiMut.
-Ill——lll
Two.
Ben Maddox, who for some time ar
ried the midi between the towns of
boro and Whitney, Texas, is the posses
sor of a variegated voice. He usually be
gins speaking in a very high, asjierate
voice, and when about half throtigh she '
sentence falls to a very deep l>ass, in
which he finishes. One day in returning ;
from Whitney his team ran away, tlirew
Ben out. in the mud and turned the light
covered hack which he was driving, over
on him in such a manner that, although
uninjured, he was unable to get from un- j
der it. While he was there a stranger
came by, when the following conversation
took place:
Ben (in his fine voice) —“Hello, mister,
will you please' get down an’ raise t his
back up so as I can git out?”
Stranger-—“ Yes, I guess I can, but
how did you get under there?”
Ben (in bis coarse bass voice)—“The
horses ran away and turned the hack over
on me.”
Stranger—“Lookee here; if there are
are two or three of you under then* you
are able tn raise that hack up youXelf, '■
and I am not going to get down in the
mud to help you.” And away he rode,
leaving poor Ben to get out the best way
c could. - Ihtroit F,-w
Mudstones for Hydrophobia.
North Carolina boasts of no less than
four mudstones carb of which is alleged
to have certain specific virtues, making
each the great »md only madstonv. Won
derful apparent, cures have been effected
by the use of these mad«tones during the
past half a century. Some of them are
even older than that, but faith in theii
efficacy has never diminished. There i*
a famous stone in Halifax County, and
people bitten by rabid dogs have been
taken to the stone or the stone has been
taken to them for years.
Another stone is know far and near as
the Painter madstonc. and is owned bv
Mr. Painter, of Person County. It is in
demand by both Virginians and North
Carolinians, and there are cases known of
person-s having been taken hundreds of
miles to be touched by this stonei—Aeu
lent FaHd.
The Wrong Date.
The widow of a German army office!
went to the pension office for th»* purpose
of drawing her pension. She presented
the usual <'ertificate of the mayor of her
village to the effect that she was still
I alive.
“This certificate « not right,” said the
i official.
I “What is the matter with itf*
“Because it bears the date of December
21st, but your peusfou was due De xmber
15th.”
“What kind of a certificate do you
want f*
“We must have a certificate that you
were alivt on the 15th day of Dec—tber.
Os what use »this one that says yo»
were alive on the 21st day <Deceniber—
AMONG TIIEPERSIANS.
An Afternoon’s Walk in the
CFiief City.
Our Late Minister Describes Some of the
Sights of Teheran.
S. G. W. Benjamin late United States
minister to Persia, describing an after
noon in Teheran, says, in Harper’s: It
is the hour of peace; a rosy light bathes
the house-tops, but tire stately avenues
leading north and south are in shadow,
and cooled by the water thrown by the
sakkahs. The tender evening light also
rests on the snowy crests of the vast ridge
ol the Shim Jrain, or Light of Persia,
which soars to a height of 13,000 feet
across the northern side of the plain, but
nine miles away. The evening glow, be
, fore it. fades into twilight, lingers last on
the snowy cone of Demavend. 21,000 feet
high, ever present in evciy view, like the
presiding genius that protects the capital
of Persia.
| With slow and dignified steps the Per
sian gentlemen stroll through these invit
ing avenues, engaged in genial converse.
Their long robes, their massive beards,
their lofty caps or voluminous turbans,
give them a lofty stateliness as they wend
' along, undisturbed by the numerous hor
i ses or carnages, or the hideously unkempt
and filthy dervishes who claim alms on
account of then- sanctified rags.
■ At this hour the tea-houses arc in lull
blast. The reader may be surprised to
I learn that the national beverage of Persia
is not coffee but tea. One would natu
rally suppose that a country so near
Araby the Blest and the aromatic groves
of Mocha would, like the Turks, prefer
i coffee. Os course a great deal of coffee,
prepared in the Turkish way, is con-
i sumed by tin Persians, hut the fact re
mains that they are «-ssentially a tea
drinking race, drinking it in vast quanti
ties, flavored with lemon fine . and
sweetened almost to a syrup. The habit
is probably the result of the rommen'ial
intercouite which ut an early period exist-
,ed between I’ersia and t’hina, and i
: which, as is now well known, gave an
' Impulse to the art* of Persia, of which
evidences appear at various stages of her
, usthetic history. At Teheran the tea- j
houses t ake tjie place of the coffee-houses J
of Constantinople. One meets them fll j
' every turn, of every rank, but all alike
resorts for rest, leisure, and entertainment.
There one may see public dancers, who
by law are now invariably men, although
women contrive to evade the laws some
times and exhibit in the harems. The
male dancers arc brought up to this voca
tion from boyhood, and invariably wear i
long hair in imitation of women, and
shave their faces smooth.
What interests an intelligent European
more at these tea-houses than the dances
are the recitations from the poets. The
songs of Hafiz may be heanl there, and
entire cantos from the great epic of Fcr
doonsee, repeate<l with loud, sonorous
modulation, heard sometimes at quite a j
distance at the more inspiring pa-sages. ’
and listener! to with enthusiastic rapture. |
Here too, one may hear the “Arabian |
Nights" titles given without any attempt ‘
at expurgation, exactly as in a recent
translation. The reader will recollect
that the characters in the “Arabian
Nights” are constantly and at every op
portunity quoting long and appropriate
passages from the j>oets. This may to
the European appear to be an affectation
■ or a freak of poetic license on the part of
the author of these tales. On the contra
ry, he was simply giving us another of
those traits of Oriental character the
reeortl of which has given to those ini
mitable narratives immortality as the fin
est picture ever given of the life of the
East, which, after thousands of years, is
only just beginning to feel the transform
ing influence of western civilization.
As one eontimua his riunli|c through
Teheran at this hour, h< secs a jeprad,
amused by balxmns dancing to the beat
of tamlHjurine-—animals which, if they
do not get all the happiness they deserve,
at least well fulfill their mi--ion in minis
tering to the pleasure of myriads by their
absurd antics and grimaces. Or we see
a chained lioness put through her paces
or, fatigued by the j»art she has been
forced to play in life, and unable to es
cape from it by suicide, is sleeping heavi
ly on the pavement. But one of the most
common spectacles of Teheran in the late
afternoon—a sight which always draws a
crowd—is a match of trained wrestlers,
or athletes exercising with clubs, as both
of which the Persians are very expert
although they make no grer:t figure in
_
Grandpa-—“ Tell me, Ethel, why do
you have six buttons on your gloves?”
Ethel—“ Yes, grandpa, dear. I will tell
you. The reason is, if I had seven but
tons or five, they would not match the s
{kJ.
A Character of the Frontier.
A recent number of the Chicago Her- I
aid says: There came to the city yestcr- ■
day and slapped his name on one of the
hotel registers one of the simon-pure ori
ginals of the wild West. II was “Jim”
Whitlachj of Nevada. “Jim” Whitlach i
is a character. He has been a miner and ,
prospector in the far West for more than
twenty years. He is one of the best, un
scientific miners in the country, and next
lo Senator Fair and. George Hearst, of ;
California, the best judge of a mineral ...
prospect the mining regions have ever '
known. When “Jim” Whitlach looks |
down a shaft or “skins” his eye along a (
hanging wall he seems to know intuitive- ;
ly what is behind it. When the great '
bonanza was discovered in 1874. in Vir- i
ginia City, Whitlach went into the mine ■
and made the closest guess of all as to ;
the extent and value of the deposit. And !
there were many wild guesses made by \
very scientifie persons. A. Yale professor :
said the great bonanza was worth $700,-
000,000. Phil Diedeshehncr, a German .
mining expert and geologist, went nearly ;
crazy over the find, and wildly asserted ;
that the bonanza was w orth $1,500,000,-
000. He had bought a little stock and
on the strength of the millions he was i
going to make he went to a big hotel in
San Francisco, hired a suit of eight
rooms, stocked them with champagne
and cigars, and kept open house for a
week. Everybody laughed at the crazy I
German. Even John W. Mackay guess- !
ed wide of the mark on the value of the !
find, lie put it at $300,000,000 and de- J
dared that it would take ten years to ex- J
haust the mine. But Whitlach guessed
within a few millions of the truth. He
said there was $125,000,000, in the bo- t
nanza, and that 120 st amps would use up i
the orc in. five years. The actual yield of •
the mine was and the pay !
orc was exhausted in four years and eight
months after the mine was opened.
In 18fH Whitlach himself made a dis- ;
covery in White Pine, Nevada, which
showed some of the richest silver ore
ever found in tins country. Jlis mine,
contained ore worth $14,000 a ton. He
sold If. for $175,000, put the money into
ilv San Francisco stock market, and in
two inontiis he was again in the saddle,
and with a little pack mure trailing be
j hind, enroute to the mountains. Whit
! Inch is now scouring Colorado for new
mines, with Leadville as his headquarters.
He says there is more money underground !
at Leadville than has ever been taken •
out. “The camp hasn't begun to boom :
yet,” he says.
Exercise for Aged People.
M. Bouchardat. professor of hygiene at
: the Paris faculty of medicine, protested
i in strong ternw at a recent lecture against
the advice given by some hygienists who
recommend almost complete rest to the 1
aged, in the following terms: “I protest
against the oft repeated adage that old ;
ago is the age of rest.” This sentence '
■ has led to a very great error in hygiene. ;
j The regular general exercise of all organs
j of nutrition and of locomotion is necessa
iry to persons of all ages. The greatest
< attention on this point* is all the more
' necessary that the tendency to rest brings
on a gradual deminution of the strength, i
If the old man does not resist, his i
strength will visibly and progressively
diminish, and the few days he may have i
to live may be transformed into just so
many hours. In proof that regular daily
exercise is beneficial to the aged one has
only to observe the results in gome of the
handsomest ohl men, who take little or no
rest. Moderat': exercise, particularly
walking, should be the leading precept '
of | the hygiene of the aged, without
which longevity is well nigh impossible.”
Professor Bouchardat also recommends !
that old p'Ople should maintain their in
tellectual faculties, or otherwise they will
get into a state of incurable torpor. This j
is best accomplished by having some
steady intellectual pursuit, and by taking
an active interest in the events and pro
gress of the day. In our boyhood we re
member a very old man, who told us he
kept in as perfect health as an old man
I can be by chopping wood for an hour or
two every flay. This he regarded as suf
ficient exercise for him. Another old
man we know finds his health greatly
benefited by sawing wood with the ordi
nary- buck saw. — Herald oj Health.
She Was Satisfied.
“Doctor,” said an old lady to her phys
ician, “kin you tell me how ’tis some i
folks arc born dumb?”
“Why, certainly, madam.” replied the
doctor. “It is owing to the fact that
thi y come into the world minua the pow
er of speech.”
“La. my!” exclaimed the old lady;
“now just see wbat it is to have 3 physic
education. I’ve axed my ole man a hun
dred times that air same thing, and all
‘ that I could ever get out of him was, |
k iai 1 ’ _ ‘
NUMBER 11.
THE NATIONS PAGES.
The Boys Who Walton Sena»
tors »nd Congressmen.
Peculiarities of the Little Chaps, Their
Mode of Life and Dissipations.
, An Indianapolis coircspondent at
Washington writes: Some interesting
character and peculiar hits of life are
found in the pages of the Senate and
House of Representatives. In the upper
branch of congress there are about fifteen
and in the lower branch about thirty-five
pages. Their duties arc well-known to
the average reader. Their fields of labor
. are the floors of the two branches of epn
-1 grass. A page for the senate, however,
never does anything for a member of the
: house, and vice versa., Sometimes a page
is found who is almost ol age and nearly
■ full-grown; but they average from fl ta
14 years, and most of them are very
small in stature, ami. npon first appear
ance boyish in character. As years go
on, if they are retained, the little fellows
become sagacious, often proud, and not
infrequently imitate the statesmen in
bearing and conversation. Tltere is no
better school for a boy in which to be
come an actor. He has the best of oppor
tunity to study every phase of character.
Speaking of the pages sometimes imitat
ing the acts of their superiors, reminds
me of an incident that occurred a few
•lays ago. A very diminutive page v.ho
; was borne upon the rollfl bf the last con
gress was superceded. When he learned
that his place ha<T Ifeeii given so another
he became considerably dejected, for this
little fellow had dissipated in a mild
; way and had been profligate, so that he
was found almost without funds, and
was as far away from home as the state
of Missouri is front Washington. But
the boy had been an observer and knew
a trick or two. He studied the situation.
’He solved it. Going to his boarding
house he hastily pfoked up his effects
without attracting the attention of any
one. With great caution he removed
them to another quarter of the city.
Then he went out to bid his old confreres
adieu. Meeting one of them, who was
about ten years old, and as tall as a
man’s arm is long, he said:
“%ell, good-bye, old fellow; I’m off.
My constituents have given me the shake
. 1 was defeated in caucus and beaten in
I convention. The situation, however,
leaves me a little flat. I am nearly broke;
but I-have founu away out. I will jump'
my board bill. They all do it.”
Sometimes the pages run in schools,
like fish, and become clannish. Not in
frequently one meets a crowd of them, all
under three feet in height, at the mid
night hour, making the town howl.
Many of them smoke cigarettes and play
billiards. Frequently the little fellows
drink beer, for they can buy it any
where at the counters. There is not r
very great proportion of them, however
who fall into these channels of dissipa
tion. Those who do generally conv
from the larger cities. Then the page
have away of “hazing,” and some of the
capers they play upon plebeians or inex
perienced boys are wonderfully severe
and terribly embarrassing. One of the
favorite tricks in the line of hazing is to
take a new boy down into the basement
under the hull of the house and ;<how
him the “rubber man.” This basement
is very dark and very broad and cavern
ous. Portions of it are unlighted, and
the unsophisticatfcij yoqtb soon finds him
self lost. The surroundings are weird
and frightful, and it sometimes takes an
hour to get out. Pages receive $75 per
month during the session. Those in the
house are generally changed every two
years, but the boys in the senate arc re
tained, and some of them grow up to
manhood from '.hi:Mh<x>d at their posts of
duty, as did Senator Gorman, of Mary
land. It is said that a considerable num
ber of pages in the house are blood rela
tives to memlrers, and sometimes the
members have their sons appointed.
Had Heard the Name.
*‘Don't know L’raniner, of Colorado!”
queried a Montana man at the Merchants
* few days ago. “Well, I thought every
body knew Cranincr. He is one of the
biggest cattlemen, not only in Colorado,
but in the world. His cattle, and there
are a good many of them, too, are all
branded with three circles— the three
circle brand, as he calls it. Cranmcr was
at a convention of cattlemen at Hugo.
He was conversing with a party of cat
tlemen when one of tbe party happened
to mention the name of Bhalwsi>eare.
‘Shakespeare V observe* 1 Cranmer, -when
have I heard that name before? Whai
kind of a brand docs be use on his cat*
tief”— St. Paul Pioneer-Preu.
Some people are willing to be good if
they are well paid for it. Others prefer
to be good for nothing.