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VOLUME VIII.
Church Directory.
METHODlST.—Douglasville—First, thin)
*nd fifth Bnnd*yK
Salt SPRlMGa—Second Suiuby, ard Satur >:n
before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday, and Satnrdav K,
fore. W. 11. FAOTE. Pastor.
Bap J ist—Douglasville, firat and fourth Bun
days. Itev. A.. R Vaughn, pastor.
Masonic,
Douglasville No. 289, F. A. M.,meeti
ou Saturday night before the firat and third
Sundays in each month. J. R. Carter, W. M.,
W. J. Catnp, Secy.
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County Directory.
Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—o. N. Densest.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—(.t. M. Souter.
Tax R'.ieeiver—E. H. Camp.
Tai Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John St. Hney.
Coroner—-F. 51 Mitchell.
SUI'BWOIt COURT.
Meeta on third Mcudajs in January and Ju’j
and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
801. Gent—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—B, N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNT! COURT.
Meets in quarterly Mission on fourth Mon
and holds until all the cases on the docket are
oaiied. In monthly session it meeta on fourth
Mondays in each month.
Judge —Hon. IL A. Massey.
Hol. Gent—Hon. W. T. Roberta.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
oa»nfAny'B OOUBT
’ Meeta for ordinary purpose* on first Monday,
and for county purposes on first Tuesday in
each month.
Judge—Hod. H. T. Cooper.
JUSTIOXS COURTS.
730th Diet. G. M. meets first Tim mlay in each
month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P.,
D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, I*, C.
*• 733th Diet. G. M., meets second Saturday.
A. R. Bomar, J. P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., 8. C.
Yeager, h. C.
1 784th Dlst. G, M. meets fourth Saturday.
Franklin Carver, J. p., (J. B. Baggett, N. i*.,
J. C. James and M. 8. Gore, L. Cs.
1259th Dias. G. M. meets third Saturday. T,
M. Hamilton. J.P., M. L Yates, N. P., H. W.
Biggers, L.C., 8. J. Jourdan, L. 0.
1230th Dial.. G. M. meets third Saturday. N.
W. Camp, J. I’., W. 8. Hudson, N. P., J. A.
Hill, L. C. ’
12715 t Dist. G. M. meets first Saturday, C.
O. Clintou,J. P. Aiberry Hembree, N. P.,
1272nd Dist. G. M. meets fourth Friday.
. Geo. W, Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. I’.,
1273rd Dist. G. M. meeta third Friday. Thos.
White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J. Harbin,
l. a
Cards.
ROBERT A. MASSEY,
Attorney at law
Ms DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(bfflee in front room, Dorsett’s Building. t
Will practice anywhere except In the County
y Court of Douglass county.
W. A. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice In all the courts, Slate tn
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WIL T ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Court*. All leg*
tmaineM will receive prompt attention. Office
» in now®.
O. O. CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice iu al! the court*. All business
intrusted to him will receive prompt sttaaliou.
B, G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
•S. * Will practice in all the courts, State and
Fwlrral.
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
| 5 DOUG LAS VII I JR, GA.
WilymcUce in aU the eourta, and promptly
aiteudto ail busmen entrusted to his sere.
J. S. JIBES,
ATTORNEY,AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice »u ibe courts of Donglan.
LWtpbclU Uwdl, PanlJlng, Cobb. F«ium ami
•dteinteg couuUm. Pn>u.pt attention given
io all bualnvM.
J. h.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE. GA.
Will p?»."tuv m all the cwnrta, both Slate and
FtaUrat. OnterttaM a spcctatiy.
JOHH FmGL
ATTORNEY AT LAW»
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
JOB PRINTING
NEATLY DONE
AT THE “STAR ’ OFFICE
i
Weefeto Star.
AMONG THE MOQUIS.
Pueblo Indians Resenting the
i * Presence of Whites.
A Curiosity Collector’s Exciting' Adven
ture with His Wife iu Arizona.
Colonel James Stevenson, of the Bu
reau of Ethnology, haa returnmi to
Washington after a sojourn of about six
montlis among the IndiauH of Arizona,
bringing a earload of r:ire and valuable
curios, illustrative of the social habits,
: worship, and industries of various tribes,
of which little is known. He was a<-
j coni]Kinied in his t ravels by -Vlrs. Steven
\ son, and the pair had an adventure
among the Pueblo Indians quite unusual
iin its character. Having explored some
newly discovered cave villages in the vi
cinity of Flagstaff, Arizona, they gather
ed a small party and struck across the
; desert to the northeast for the Moqui
, towns, several days’ journey distant.
They arrived safely, and encamped at
I the foot of a higli mesa, upon the top of
i which stands Oreibc, the largest, west-
I ermnost, and least known of all the
I “Pueblo’’towns. Its population is about
850 souls, and the village is a compact
mass of rubble structures, standing one
, upon another, like a pile of empty boxes,
; and with as little regard to any general
| plan of nrchiteidure. The like
i all village Indians, are comparatively
I harmless, but, unlike the majority, have
; a strong aversion to contact with the
, whites.
Some of the leading men of the town
i came down to the camp, and, after eon
' sidcrable palaver, gave consent 4hat
j their village might be visited, but stipu
i lated that no effort should be made to
convert the jwople to Christianity. The
j next day Mr. and Mrs. Stevcnaou, accom
' pmiicd by their four friendly Moquis
■ from,other villages ami as many Nava
joes, rodq to the top of the mesa, ilis
: mounted, walked into the village plaza,
’ and thence climbed a ladder to the top of
i the cociq tie’s, or high priest's house.
' When the preseuei! of the strangers ho
' came known there were signs of exeite
l m<-nt throughout the village. The neigh-
I boring hoiisetojie ’and;'the plaza were
I thronged with excited /barbarians, who
chatted in loud voices ami made threat
ening gestures. One burly savage upon
a roof just above the eocique’s dangled a
' lariat suggestively noosed at the end, and
, loudly demanded that the white* be
; taken to the estufa, or underground
! chapel of the village, and there sunnnari
!)y dealt with. One or two demonstra
tive individuals volunteered to be the
first to apply the knife. The friendly
Mo<piis stood their ground only a few
j minutes, and then disappeared, but the
i Navajoes, who tm* made of firmer mate
rial, rwntuned.
Col. Stevenson says that while the sit
uation was highly interesting it was
i probably less alarming than it would
I have been to ]wople unacquainted with
; the natural timidity of the Pueblos,
j Mrs. Stevenson, who hits sojournt'd with
her husband through many wild tribes
and knows the Indian character well,
| created an opportune diversion by shak-
I ing her fist in the face of a hunch-backed
j savage, whost* vindictive eloquence seem
i ed to exert a most nuschievous influence
i over his fellows, addressing to him at the
j same time several brief but vigorous re
i marks in Fmglish and Spanish which he
was, of course, quite unable to under
i stand. Before the man had recovered
his telf-posaeasion the strangers had
backed down the ladder and then slowly
made their way, with the howling pack,
men. women, children and dogs, at their
heels, to their ponies, mounted, and rode
down to rtanp. They found the c<x>k.
* who was the only other white person in
the party, considerably alarmed. He
said the camp was surroumted soon after
their departure by many friendly Indians,
but when the Moqui deserters reached
; them and told the story of the proceed
ings on the me.Ni all mounted their po
fcies and made haste to get away. The
cook feared his conqianions had been
made prisoners— js-rhaps murdered.
The jkirty remaimnl in the neighbor
hood several day* visiting the. other
Moqui villages, to all of which they
i were welcomed, and many times they
were visited surreptitiously at night by
people from Oreibe, who brought curios
for salt, which they dared not offer open
ly, In this way a fair collection was
made. Meanwhile the story of the ejn
wmlc in Owibv was carried to Keam’s
I O*nun, 35 miles distant, the proprietor of
which, an English ranchman, has lived
in the vk inity many years, and by fair
dealing, pluck, and firmness has gained
•n extraordinary influence with Navajoes
and Moquis. Mr. Keam at once organ
bed a party of three or four white men.
the only ones living within 60 mile*, and
» dossen or twenty Navajoca for a rescue.
The Creibes received information of
FAWNING TO NONE-CH ARITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MAY 11. 1886.
his approach, and the licsml men of their
tribe incontinently fled. Ream sent his
Navajoes after them, and the two, includ
ing the hunch-backed chief, were
brought in. Keain tied their elbows and
took them to his ranch for disciplina, the
Stevcnsous accompanying them. The
prisoners were defiant at first, but after
two <>r three days' confinement under the
guardianship of Navajo jailers, Who beat
drums, dtuuied, and indulged in other
terrifying jierformances, they began to
relent and confessed that they had acted
badly.
“Now you are beginning to talk rea
son,’’ said Kearn, “and we will see alxmt
letting you go soon.”
“But,” snarled the hunch-back, “we
must go now.”
■•Hold on, my friend, you are too fast.
You will not be so abrupt, perhaps, to
morrow.”
After another night's confinement the
prisoners begged their liberty and were
joined in their prayers by a deputation
from the village. They promised good
behavior in the future and extended an
apparently cordial invitation to the Stev
enson* to return. “Now,” said Keani,
“you are talking like men. We will keep
you another night.”
The next day they were sctaf w
and went away crestfallen and repentant.
—Ac/r York Timex.
No Initials.
Since the death of William 11. Vander
bilt his sons, Cornelius and William K.,
concern themselves actively, in company
with President Depew, in the business
doings at the Grand Central Depot, New
York. Cornelius finds time, however, to
go down occasionally into the basement
of that big structure, where the chapel
and reading-rooms of the Railway Young
Men’s Christian association are situated,
to attend the prayer meeting. This in
terest is not new to him, for it was he
who got from his father the use of the
premises.
At a noon assemblage of a score of em
ployes for devotion, the other day, one of
the worshsjiers was Bob Sinter, a clerk in
the baggage department. He is said to
be the most methodical and conscientious
of all in the office, and mybody doubts that
his religion is of the same vkcclleni'e.
Owing to some errors arising of late, from
t he clerk’s habit of designating the differ-J
ent railroads by the initials of their names
iu railing off bills of lading, the orders
are that no longer can they say “N. and
H.” for New Haven and Hartford, or
“N. E.” for New England. Every word
must be spoken in full. Well, Bob be
gan to pray in this noon meeting, over
which Cornelius presided. The burden
of his petition was that a friend might be
converted, and he said: “’O, Lord,” i
grant that the heart of that dear young
bstggiigeman who start; d anliour ago on
the Chicago special on the H. 11. R. and •
N. Y. may be t niched with salva
tion." Then a consciousness of a Van- ;
derbilt presence, and a memory of the i
new, nite, mine into Bob’s mind, and he
hesitatingly added: “I beg pardon, I
mean the Hudson River and Ne w York
Central. ''—Philodeiyhia Newx.
"MM——te«—i ■■ i V
A Doctor** Confession.
* A young St. Louis doctor said to a re
porter; You frequently wee funny ex
pressions in print about doctors killing
their patients. Well, the thing is often j
true. I, myself, acknowledgt? to having
killed two patients. I killed them out
right, and make no lames of confessing
the fact. One man 1 kilted by prescrib
ing morphine at a time w hen his system
was not strong enough to stand the dose, j
He left an estate, and there was some ex
citement about dividing the estate. Hie
wife was charged with having poisoned
him, and the remains were exhumed,
and there was a great to-do about the
matter, but 1 puUed through it all right.
The other man was suffering from a pro
longed spree, and I gave him chloral,
which killed him. It was an out-and- ,
out murder, but the Coroner held an in
quest, and attributed his death to jim
jams. These two jx-opte I know I killed,
and. as lam yet young, and there are
more active poisonous agents than those
I have so far exjjerimented with, I expect
to kill mon: people before I die.
tyieer Old Hymns.
We stumbleti awhile ago ou the fol
lowing in one of Newton's hymns:
The kine ungukted went ,
By the din?cted nwi.
When tbt- Philistines homeward aeot
The ark of Israel's God.
Jjowing they puewd ateog.
And left their calves shut ttp;
They felt am interest for their yooug.
But would Not tum nor stop.
This its worthy ’.King remembered with
Isaac Watts's verses:
He qpake, and straight our heawta and brains,
With all tbwr moticos
Lrt blood mid W, flow around the veins.
And round the rate it flow*.
—Christ ten Advocate. \
THE OLDEST MAN.
An Ex-Slsve Near Detroit
Claims that Distinction.
, He is Said to be 127 Year? Old and He
members the Revolutionary War.
• When old “Dad” Freeman was buried
across the river in Windsor a short time
ago, says a Detroit (Mich.) letter to the
New Y’ork llerahl, it was believed that
the oldest man in the world had been
laid to rest. “Dad” was 122 vears old,
as conclusively proved before his death,
and left 138 descendants. Since Free
man was buried some relic hunters have
brought forwanl a man whose authentic
record fixes his age at the remarkable
j figure of 127 years. The proof furnished
! leaves no room for doubt. The name of
’ this man is Andrew Lucas. He is the
father of Mr. P. A. Lucas, who for nine
I years past has kept a barber shop in De-
• troit. Mr. Lucas was born a slave under
i the father of General Jackson, he of
; “eternal” fame, and was a grown man
when the General .succeeded to the pa
ternal estate. He remembers the Revo
lutionary War distinctly and recalls many
te-ypy interesting’ incidents of the second
this country and Great
; that it is as dis
tinct to him General
Jackson went, to New Orleans m.
that very memorable struggle, when he
accompanied the General as his body ser
vant. He describes the cotton bales
piled up as a temporary fortification.
Soon after this, at a time when the
; General was away, Lucas was whipped
' for some reason and ran away. He re
members very well why he was whipped,
| but docs not give the reason. He worked
, his way slowly north and crossed into
i Canada at Black Rock, on the Niagara
I Inver. Andrew Kirby, then customs
; collector at Fort Erie, sheltered him and
helped him to crigss into the King’s do
main. Lucas found employment in the
: family of General Brook, who was killed
iin the War of 1812 at Queenstown
' Heights. Next he ran on the Niagara
River, under Captain John Clinch, for
i
th>by his employer because
the lafltA’ aSdere.l him too old to be
r useful. Lucas was then sixty-two ye.yrs
, old.
Lues| soon found employment again,
this time at Kingston, Ont., where he
married his second wife. His slave wife
i had borne him sfcven children. Ills sec
ond and free wife had bofehim seventeen.
I One daughter by this union is now living
i at East Saginaw,Mich. Her name is
I Mrs. AVilliams, and she is seventy-one
, years old. Fifty years ago Lucas removed
to Bnml ford, Ont. There he got work
from the father of Judge Stevenson, of
Cayuga. The Judge, though now an old
< man himself, remembers Lucas a» a man
: about seventy years old when he, as a
j boy, was going to school.
For twenty-nine years Luc:is was a
driver for the express company at Brant
ford and resigned the place ten years ago
for the n asou that he was getting along
in years and felt the need of rest. He
1 has the frame of a once powerful man
and stands six feet three inches in his
stockings. A year ago he sawed and
split twenty-five cords of wood for Wil
j liain E. Walling, of Brantford. Up to
three years ago he never wore spectacles,
and during the summer of 1883, when
visiting his son in Detroit, Mr. Lucas
read the City Hall clock in front of
■ the Kirkwood House, across the Campus
Martius. He then walked without the
assistance of a cane, being 124 years old!
This is a most remarkable case of lon
gevity. Lucas is certainly as old as stat
ed, and from his appearance to-day
promises to hang on for some time to
come. This man ia probably the oldest
person living. He has witnessed the de
velopment of the most wonderful era in
the world’s history, and has jsersonal rec
-1 olh'etions of all the many great events in
the career of this nation.
A Mother’s Sacrifice.
‘‘Now. listen to me and pay at
tention, for cm these few words may de
pend your future Imppiness."
‘’Yes, ma.”
“When Henry comes this evening and
you pass him the nit. w atch his counte
nance closely."
“Yes, mm”
“If he trembles with joy, ask him how
he likes your cookery. But if he shud
ders, just mention casually that your
mother always attends to the pastry."
“Oli, ma! how kind of you.”
“Don't mention it. He will hate me,
but when I live with you, after marriage
all will be explained.”— C«U.
More tomatoes are canned annually in
I New Jersey, it » stated, than in any
other state, and more are canned in I
j Salem than in any other county.
Origin of Snowshoeing.
Snowshoeing is an Indian custom of
long standing. The aborigines found
themselves, long before the advent of the
white man to the American continent,
unable to traverse the snow-covered earth,
which snow, then as now, drifted into
the smaller valleys and gullies, rendering
traveling over its surface dangerous and
at times impossible. This condition of
affairs was most characteristic of the ex
treme northern portion of the northern
continent. The snow fell early in the
fall and remained till late in the spring.
The moccasined feet of the braves sank
deep into the drifts, and even the pract
iced eyes of the denizens of the forest
were unable to pick out the scantily-cov
ered earth from the equally inviting sur
face of snow that covered up a small
gulloy. As a result they formed s t first
rude bark coverings for their feet, which,
by extending the surface of their weight
over a larger area, enabled them to scurry
over the surface of the snow-clad earth.
By degrees they perfected the snowshoe,
similar in construction, if not in shape,
to the racquet used in lawn-tennis and
the lacrosse club used in the game of that
name. The snowshoe conformed to the
shape of the foot, and in addition was
extremely light. It was easily carried,
and when on the feet did not materially
interfere yvith locomotion. They became
very popular with the Indian tribes locat-
M territory now known as the
Hudson T>By*C(uintry and the Northwest
ern territory as Canada.
Many of the most pro
ficient in using the ’ u '
stead of proving an impediment to T 022"
motion they increased the natural gait, so*
that those accustomed to using the win
ter shoes could cover from sixty to
seventy-five miles from the dawning to
the going down of a sun. They wore
them during the entire winter season,
mid found them not only an assistance in
traveling, but also a source of warmness,
as the feet were in a measure separated
from the snow, and the natural heat of
the lower extremities was thus not neut
ralized by close contact with the cold
snow. It was soon found that the wear
er was not obliged to assume any unnat
ural step or motion hi moving over the
su.ovv, but that the natural step was all
that was essential in making the best
time With the snowshpes. A few Indians
in each tribe becamu most expert in the
use of the snowshoe®, and as a result the
winter sports or games ‘’came to include
snowshoeing as an essential feature. The
aspiring braves and the young men of
each village began to consider it an ae*
complishinrtjt worth the while and digni
ty of every Indian, and many contests
and games were arranged to show their
skill and proficiency in this particular, j
The snowshoes were made of the best
material that could be fountl. The finest
workmansliip was expended in their
manufacture, and the greatest amount of j
decoration was not only permitted, but :
invited in their general make-up.— St. ■
Patti Pior<rer Prexx.
Frozen dl2 Feet Depp.
Scientific men have been {terplexed for j
many years over the phenomenon of a I
certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. A Rus- I
sian merchant in 1828 began to dig the ■
well, but he gave up the task three years I
later, when he had dug down thirty feet i
and was still in solidly frozen soil. Then
the Russian Academy of Sciences dug
t away at the well for months, but stopped
when it had reached a depth of 382 feet, !
when the ground was still frozen as
hard as a rock. In 1844 the academy
had the temperature of the excavation ’
carefully taken at various depths, and j
from these data it was est-mated that ;
the ground was frozen to a depth of
612 feet. Although the pole of the <
greatest cold is in this piovince of
Yakutsk, not even the tcrnbte severi
ty of the Siberian winters could freeze ,
the ground to a depth of 600 f ee t. i
Geologists have decided that the frozen ;
valley of the lower Lena is a formation
of the glacial period. They l>elieve, in
short, that it froze solidly then, and •
has never since had a chance to thaw ,
out.
The Me awing of Sealing Wax.
As many of our readers well know, it *
is the fashion now to seal letters with
wax instead of the ordinary mucilage. ’
But that the color of the wax possesses
a significance of itself is not s> generally
known. The ordinary red wax signifies
business, .and is supposed to be used
only for business letters. Black is, of I
course, used for mourning and condol- i
enee. Blue means love, and in the four I
or five tints of this color, each stage of !
the tender passion can be accurately !
portrayed. When pink is used congratu- j
lotion is extended. An invitation to a i
wedding or other festivity is sealed with
white wax. Vanegated colors are sup
posed to show conflicting emotion.—
nutn't Art JmtrrtaL - -
NUMBER IL
CHEAP MEALS.
j A Paradise for Tramps in th®
i . Great Metropolis.
i
i A Restaurant Where a Dinner May bb
Obtained for a Few Cents.
After a very pleasant lunch in Park
i Row, Defective Gilbert Carr said to a
i New York reporter, “Wo know how all
i decent people live; suppose we see how
the beggars and tramps eat their food.
I Let us go to Tramps’ Hall.” Tramps’
Hall is a small restaurant, if it can be so
styled, in Pearl street near Chatham*
The sign over the door bears the inscrip
tion, “Small Delmonico.” There area
half dozen tables and twenty-four stools
'in the place. The tables arc made of
rude material and are covered with white
oilcloth. There are a few cheap pictures
and theatrical show bills hung up on the
walls. The kitchen is in the rear and
communicates with the eating place by
. means of a door in which an aperture has
; lieen cut. Through this door the dishes
I ordered by customers are handed out.
j The cook and the kitchen are rigidly
kept in seclusion. No outsider is allowed
to enter the mysterious laboratory in
which the repasts of the Lazar uses of
■ New Y’ork arc prepared. There are no
' waiters, for the proprietor, Mr. R. Barna
! bo, is too wise to trust strangers in so
; economical a business. He acts as wait-
■ er and cashier, and his deep trousers.
pocket is the till from which he makes
change. Mr. Barnabo is an
10U nature, something in
YweKUiy of a cross between Mr. Wardle’s
fat boy and Uriah Heep. He fairly bub
bles over with good nature and impress
es a casual visitor with the idea that he
j is ready at any moment to throw his
i arms around the stranger’s neck and kiss
him on both cheeks, after the traditional
: and repugnant Italian fashion. A curious
j crowd was partaking of Mr. Barnaßo’a
i cheer. There were two blind mendi
cants and two blear-eyed women who
! share their spoils, a cripple who hobbles
I about on the stumps of his legs, an organ
grinder who had deposited his instru
ment under the table at which he sat,
and a vagabond dressed in solder’s uni
form, who is doubtless faniiliar to the
general public as a broken-down veteran
who lost liis arm at Fredericksburg. iTw
plates were of the coarsest crockery, the
knives and forks of the commonest kind
and the spoons of pewter. “It does not
pay to have expensive articles here,” said
Detective Carr, with an explanatory smile;
“the customers might be tempted to
leave the house and take them with
them.” Mr. Barnabo proudly exhibited
to the reporter his bill of fare and pric*
list. It rear! sis follows:
(!ent«. Cental
Cup of coffee or tea, 1 Fried fish, 4
Bowl of coffee or tea,2 Beefsteak,
Cruller. 1 Pork chops, 4
Bowl of soup, 2 Fried brains, 4
Fried liver, 8 Pork and beans, 4
Heart, stew, 3 1 Sausages, 4
Fried heart, 3 Bread pudding, 4
Hash, 3 Liver and bacon, 5
Roost heart, 3 Roast l>eef, 5
Pies, 4 Veal cutlet, 5
Pies, half, 21 Roast mutton, 5
Beef stew, 4jTwo fried eggs, 5
Mutton stew, 4 Maccauroni,
Pork stew. 4'Chicken stew, 5
Corned beef and cab., 41 Roast veal,
Pig’s head and mb., 4; Ham and eggs, 10
Muttonchops, UHainberger steak, 10
When asked how he could sell food at
such a price and earn any profit, Mr. Bar
nabo smiled, shrugged his Shoulders and
said: “Economy, signor, always econo
my.” On leaving Tramps’ Hall Detect
ive Carr said to the reporter: “There i,
no mystery about the matter. In th*
hotels the unused food left on theii
plates by guests at meal-time is sorted
out when brought back to the kitchen.
Every evening Mir. Barnabo calls with his
wagon, secures it and recompenses the
cook with whom he is doing business.
That is the cook's perquisite. So it is
that the precise article which a surfeited
millionaire refused to his stomach yester
day is consumed complacently to-day bj
“One-eyed Jimmy” or “Slobbery Mike"
in Tramps’ Hall.”
The Boy Hot Along.
The AVall Street Daib/ Newt tolls this
story: “It was a New York capitalist
who flung SI,OOO at one of his sons a
year ago and said; ‘There it is, and it
is the last dollar you’ll get from me. Yos
don’t know enough to pound salt. Spec
ulation! You haven’t sense enough te
buy and ship eggs. The other day the
old man went down to Florida to sec
about a 3,000-acre tract of land he had
purchased at $3 an acre for an orange
grove. He went to the headquarters of
‘The Florida Orange Grove Estate Agen
cy,’ and he found that his son was Presi
dent, Secretary, Treasurer, and sole own
er. Half an hour' later he discovered
that his 3,000 acres raised alligators iih
stead of oranges, and that the boy had
cleared about SB,OOO in the single tran*.
action.