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VOL. XIV. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SA RDAY, MAY NO. 23"
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j 6jprrcy T. OriW.
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It was noonday in a little couati vii- ou
lage on the banks of the Hudson, well
termed "the Rhine of America." From
many a lowrgofed farmhouse came the be
welcome godnd.of the dinner horn, na
calling the weary toilers in the fields Bi
to their mid-day meal. Relieved from m:
their irksome studies, a merry stream kn
of children trooped forth from the vii. Bii
lage school, some repairing to their rin
homes negrby,'others flocking together on
in gtbups, to eat a generous luncheon no
beneath the shade of the great over- fro
hanging oaks.
Their joyous laughter, echoing afar,
rippled through the closed shutters of in
a small cottage not far distant, whose oi
evident gloom strangely contrasted to
with Nature's gay, spriig like splen- li
dor. It reached tfhe cars of a group
seated in the "best room" of the littiJ: i
bouse-a group .n:.,,-,t I of thri
persnb. ,!f irat't 'ges, whotso ,un wl
tJilancr'i cach' :,.prPssed a different th
Sr otio I th
, a, spectacled old gentleman, at- I
tired in clerical garb, who listened th
with manifest approval to the matter di
of. fact tones of a strong minded look- of
ing woman of perhaps 40, with re- wl
pressed malice and well simulated sa
charity struggling for mastery dn her uI
brow. The last of the trio was a slight
figured child, whose ordinary half- y
girlish, half-boyish face, surrounded by ye
golden, curly hair, now seemed won
drously mature and almost manly in tv
its righteous wrath, while the old cler- mh
gyman spoke,
"My child, what you suggest is de
impossible. You could not live in this se
cottage all alone, now that your moth- sIt
er and brother are dead. You are in
barely 14 years of age,and we have de- th
cided it to be for your best Interests to tb
-to stay-with Mrs. Anderson. ac
"You mean, sir, that we are bound tr
out. You might as well say the words
at once. Why should I fall from the ,
status of a free citizen to that of a di
pauper and a slave? Did not my poor ct
mother leave all this property which b
you benevolent people have just ,sold m
for over $300? And if I went into this of
bondage, what opportunity should I lu
have for study sad improvement? You
know mother always wanted me to go "l
to college and be a teacher or a mu- y
sician or an author or something-grett,
but I don't see what chance I would l1
have if I followed your 'plan." e
"What did I tell ye, parson! What
did I tell ye!" cried the sharp.visaged o
woman with - uplifted eyebrows. i1
"That's what comes of sendin' a child t(
to school when it tala't no more than ,
five years old and a-makia' of it study y
all its life to home. What good's a
person what's spent their life on r
boor-larnin'? Tell me that." e
S"Oh, Mrs. Anderson," deprecated b
the minister, who prided himself on a
his knowledge, "education is surely
Valuable."
"Yes, I know all that-k'4li I
thought sO-5tie. I vk gi-bo e1di- c
myselif, but it iwarn't none of
this new-fangled book-larnip' that this s
obstinate child's got. My mother, at.
any. rate, warn't no fool, which is more Ij
than you can say of some people's -
mothers, even if they be dead an' gone i
-though it taln't for us poor mortals
to say where they're gene. I might i
give a mighty sure gueas where some I
people's mothers is gone, 'what never i
taught them n6thin but book-larniA':
but then, we're all poor, frail human <
bela's."
"Doctor Wesley." here broke
child, "if you think I'm going to s d t
here and have my mother's spotless 1
name reviled and desecrated by that
low-lived- " 1
"Low-lived, you little paeUp- In
grate, you!" a
"Yes, Aow-lived, ill-bred, tude, un
coath!" declared the angry young per
son. "Oh, I know all about you, Mrs I
Anderson, and I know why you'V t go
a grudse agatast her sad me. Did you
ever h~er the name of Francis Sum- a
ner? Ah! you see I know-I reed a
the letter--"
"Ye've been spftb', reading a pack o'
lies, have ye? Jlst walt till I have tlfe
charge of ye, Sd ilra ye to spyI
around things what den't beldag to 1
you."
"I beg yeour pardon. As I sr the
only heir to my mother's property,
they are now mine, And, doeter; let
lee tell you what they sal. You hnow
Franes Sumner amid my mother were
ensaged to be married sad broke it
of. Do you know why? Becaue--"
Panmm, if you donat sht that littCle
liar np I vtill!"
"Gently, etimV, Mrs. Andrseb,"
said he aid man. "It's orly natural for
Cloe to be excited after jast losia
two dear rlatve·s, and yu must make
allowaces. Now, Clem, wel leave
you to tost after al this worryf' and
troblaM Aid tomorrow mo~th
Squire Vrg and I will eoae v*i
ad ir'l make all the arr'agemaet
for yoe to slay with Mrs. 4pdesa--"
."E' avsmr ge -r!1 die fret!" ,de
lared i eMseits poeg herer, s-
"o, ye won'tat, p Jest walL Me
sad my Ilam'i taie some * thot
igh ou.itb .t .t ye. -ood-bp te
lttle tretwek Jest walLk"
-wiee and elahadd t se di the esaJ
alaw n sat de sakyiFsoa. Al aitture
$141ib liI pin see amt ot Am i
sM4*itg ehve IB ghtt aIbsid' SligagS
-lai' i~ l~'iiki~ ~lias·sr
out inrto the world alone, .4th not a to
Why not take mother's mon- gl
.. lne-j-rt no-it would sn
be, like stealin, iand then they would .F
nave some incentive to search for me.
But I will take my own money out of hr
my iron bank-that's $18 and they don't he
know I have it. Oh, mother, the sti
Bible, which they say gives them the ki
right to enslave and beat me, says
one must not take his own life. Buthad
not the same words often dropped fa
from your own lips, tomorrow I ,would ye
be with you and Frank."
The gray dawn was just appearing r
in the east, when a boyish fore C-ept
our of the house and swiftly fled wt
t,, uare the railroaý station, four miles an
Ji.tant be
'Ito.wecll. old house-my own home, ye
iron, whi, 1traagers dLve me-fare
Iw11, murmured a voice trembling re
with emotion, and the next moment as
the small fugitive had disappeared in ps
the darkness. yc
The morrow's sun had nearly reached al
the meridian as it poured through the
dim window panes into the dusky
office of a prominent' city lawyer, m
who gazed perplexingly down upon a ci
small applicant, who stood hanging e>
upon his scarce formulated answer.
"Why, my boy, you are much too
young-you could not do the work-
you know nothing about office routine. o
You should first take some position at
two or three dollars. Your parents di
should-," ' m
"My patents-all my relatives are
dead, sir, and I am thrown upon my
self for a living. I could not live on
such wages as you speak of, and see
ing in the paper that you offered $8, I se
thought I'd try and get you to give me to
the place. I canwrite well and figure N
accurately, sir. Won't you give me a
trial?"
The legal light hesitated. The plea, a
while earnest,had been made in such a a)
dignified tone and manner that he
could not, worldly as he was, turn the 6
boy away as he had many another tl
more hardy one. And then he thought
of his own child, surrounded by every
luxury.
"Well, my lad," he said, with a sigh, g
"I'll see what you can do. What is
your name?" 51
"Clement, sir," answer the bay, bold- ,
ly, though flushing somewhat. "Clem
ent Travers."
t "Well, Clement, you can start in at e
once. Fuller (to the head clerk), this ,
is the new boy. Give him something i]
to do. And, Fuller" (in an undertone), g
a "don't treat the poor little devil like b
Y you did the last-he can't stand it." t
a "All right, sir," assented the clerk, 1
n respectfully, but with a sneer at his
employer's softness after the latter's i
d back was turned. "Here, just sit down
I and copy this off, and don't make any
y ,yare mistakes than you can help!"
Despite the apparent hospitality of
L5 Fuller, this was indeed a promising
I- opening for Clement, and he set to
f work with such will and energy as to
s astonish the ordinarily somewhat easy
it going employes of the law firm of
'e Johnes, Clarkes, Robinson, Smyth and
a Browne, who wondered "how that del
Ie icate looking kid was such a hustler."
Is However hackneyed the authority 1
it for the assertion, it must be said that 1
e perseverance will always win in every
'r branch of life, and the lad who had
S' made sucl a favorable entry into the
i ceblebrated law office was no exception
to the rule. Before three years had
r fully gone by, ris izdustry, had more
Ed than doubled nit starting compnsa
Stion.
it "Fuller," said, Trowne, the junior
partner, one morning, "isn't today the
" date set for the transfer of that town
site of Pullman's?"
a- "Yes," answered that individual
r- without looking up. "But he provides
e. the customer, and we only draw the
It papers."
ai "tWe were to look up the title," re
n- sponded the junior partner, sharply,
1i 'and your report guarantees its clear
ness. Are you sure there's afothlng in
0' the way? No second mortgage?"
e "There is but one documentrecorded
F besides the original grant of (0 years
to ago," said Fuller, in the staccato tones
of a man who wishes his words to im
he press the hearer.
F. He uttsered a sight of relif as his
t inquisitor walked away satisAfed, and,
w glasncing around the room and meeting
e the honest blue eyes of Clement keen
it ly Axed upon him, he turned ashen
"pale and wheeling his chair maround.
le abruptly loft the room.
OClemeat withdrew his gase and bent
," It thoghttully upon a law book before
0r him.
g "You seem to be deeply Ilnterested in
Ssomething, Clement," broke in upon
re him uddentif .
ad He looted up.
Ig "Will you stand a catch queeo;
if Mr. Jegerson?" he eagerly inquired of
ts the new comet, somewlhat Irrelecat
"It it has a practLeal beaing,"
.- ,aughingly replied the latter, a young
member of the biar, who was already
Ee noted as betin the Omg. lawyer who
ist cold alwars seeUSo±s Y
ye rthe iasd eso lhls
"Seppewse" Clement, "5 -an
laiem ott & t4 a arts
ad sse-'tns h an oter for the
ire u psaUo trvr the earns ame t o
19 *.Ire--ast'w a ne thsn I ehiit*
a-1~
s9 :~tL~ r;
RS,
and g a handsome stranger, Who,
at sight, scarce looked the 40 as
ye sharp observer would have Ini
nced him. an
Then please give him my card and Mi
ell him I have a note of introduction
from Mr. Pullman, a client of his."
Clengent started. This was the "cus
tomer" then. He took the card, and
glancing at the scrolled name on the
small slip of pasteboard, the words m4
"Francis W. Sumner" seemed to brand ,i
themselves on his brain. The card t
dropped from his hands, and reeling, ta,
he would have fallen ha4 not the he
stranger caught him in his arms. fr4
"Young man," he murmured, in a pli
kindly but trembling voice, "where to
have I seen you before? Your face is lip
familiar. Why does my card affect co
you in this manner?" so
Clement scanned the deserted ante- we
rootr in which thef were. so
"Will you promise eoq to reveal a ex
warning if I give it?" he whispered. to
and as Sumner assented, "Postpone
buying this property, on any ground a
you like, for one week." of
"How do you know? Why? What ve
reason why I should?" ejaculated the ve
astonished caller, and then, after a th
pause, he added calmly: "I will take m'
your advice, but I shall want to know m
all before tomorrow."
"Fuller," said Brown, the next day,
after a long interview with the custo-'
mer, whose entrance to the legal pre
cincts had resulted in such a curious TI
encounter with the young law clerk, pl
"Pullman's buyer holds off on that in
deal." th
"What!" cried that ordinarily pomp- lo
ous individual. "What's' his reason?" i
"Short of funds," said his employer, a!
dryly, noting his excitement. "Not re- ly
markable for a man to find it hard to t)
raise $50,000 all at -once, is it? By the di
way, I've let Clement off for a day or in
two. You'll have to make some of the
others do his work." tl
Two days later Clement Travers was P
seated opposite the individual referred ol
to, in a Pennsylvania train speeding to fc
New York. I
"Clement," said the latter, "how gi
came you to detect the fraud in this b
matter? I can understand Pullman d
and Fuller drawing that second mort- D
gage for $40,000 upon the back of the w
first one, but they had covered up their P
tracks so well that I don't see how c'
you first found a clue to work on." 0
"Oh, as to that, it was their intima- a
cy and something I overheard that g
gave me my first suspicion. At first n
I couldn't understand why Fuller
should want to risk his position for
such a sum as he could secure in this
way, but of course his plan ensured
secrecy" for years until a thorough
examination of the title was made
and then it would merely appear as
if he had overlooked this second mort
gage on the back of the first, and no
harm would be done even to his repu
tation. I never, though, clearly com
prehended the case until the very day i
you called, and then I had just found
it out."
"You have great intellect, Clem, for
a boy."
"For a boy!" repeated Clem, half t
sadly, half bitterly. "Oh, it was noth- r
D ing but guess work all through,''" e c
added.
"A clever guess, which has saved me
, that forty thousand, and I shall see
d that you lose nothinig by it, though
l Johnes and company's head clerk will.
By the way, Clem, you have never told
me your name. Why, what's the mat
,t ter?"
y He pe ed into his companion's face,
d somewhat obscured by the dusk of
e evening, which was rapidly falling.
n Clem nerved himself.
d "Clement Harrison Travers," he an
e swered.
"Clementine Harrison!" murmured
Sumner, in startled accents. "Oh'
r Clem! I'm doubly fortunate in finding
e you. Your mother-it must be--'the
n likeness, I see it now. Is she aldtve?"
"Your name was the last word she
Sbreathed," answered ,Clem, mourn
Sfuliq. "A letter to you, the last lines
Sshe wrote. It explained-"
"Needless! I always loved her,
Sthough parted by a lover's quarrel.
That letter, have you it with you?"
"I have carried it constantly in the
Shope of .ainding you," replied 'Clem,
and then in a tone of anguish, "But
Soh! how can I give it to you-you will
Slearn all!"
S"All! All what? Clement, can you
. betray your mother's trust? I must see
it."
a "Take it, then," replid Clem, sad!y,
d, "and with it my secret."
g Sulner perused the letter with mml
. gled grief and bewilderment,
n "Why, Clem, how she speaks of
, you! 'An orphan to make her way'
'let her take my place!' ". And then.
at reading the truth in his companion's
face. "Ah, Clem, why could I not seat
My poor little girl! Image of her;
SPWhat trials you must have had! But
cheer up. Your mother's friend will
make amemds-ha she's fatnted!"
The three years' strain and the pre
Seat embarramssment had been too much
or the delicate girl, and her limp form
lay almost lifeless at his feet before
his sentence was Anished.
ag "I don't munderstai~d this, Browne,"
y remaried Johes, aOe morning, per
1 hap. a year following, as he held en
a open letter ia bL hand, "Our old
riand o imer wiitu.tat be'sh iet
- Clemeat ch to arepne and .arwrie
b silde. J4a aof ease, as5a e33ist
"Fiddlesticks!" reeied his partner, a
as he took down "The Evidences of
Insanity" from the ett stocked shelf A
and repaired to his sanctum.--Waverly AS"
Magazine. I
ARTIFICIAL FROST. tr Ye
This Is the Latest to Growling Flowen T
Faster Tham Nature,.
Some curious and successful experi- ."C
ments are now being made in Europe is ai
with ether, the object being to ascer- Thoc
tain whether it can be used to advan- time
tage for the purpose of forcing hot and
house or other plants. The ordinary comi
frost has stripped the leaves from the a
plants, thus permitting them to take mer
for a season that repose which all f
living creatures need. If vegetation m
could be arrested and repose begun hay
sooner it is evident that the plants sonu
would blossom much earlier next sea- to h
son, and this is precisefy what the w
experiments with ether are deesgned pub]
to accomplish. and
If a phial of ether is placed under so
a lilac, an azalea or any other plant cam
of a similar nature the vapor of this that
very volatile liquid will quickly en
velop the branches, and thus will cause that
the leaves to fade, and at a given and
moment will arrest growth in the same
manner as frost arrests it. In other long
words ether softens the period of vege- ers
tation and produces the same effect be
as the first frost. The best results
with ether can be obtained between leal
July and the beginning of September. one
The plants to be treated should be the
placed in a dry room, or, better still, the
in a box which is entirely closed and
the temperature of which is not too mec
low. The ether is poured from outside acu
into a vessel which is hung within,
and the opening must then be prompt- na
ly closed, so as to avoid any waste of con
the vapor. This operation should be ing
done during the day, as ether is highly In
inflammable.
They will blossom much sooner than al
those forced in the ordinary' manner. ci
Prof. Johannsen of the Danish school co'
of agriculture obtained during the first ma
fortnight of September blossoms from B
lilacs which he had etherized in Au- cag
gust, and similar excellent results have Zot
been obtained by Prof. Franz Ledien, "ra
director of the botanical garden in eve
Dresden, and by Herr Seyderhelm, a rep
well known horticulturist of Hamburg. ces
Prof. Maumene maintains that this dis- to
covery will certainly bring about a rev- cer
olution in the production of cut flowers pol
and potted plants, since it will enable tqn
growers' to produce them much more cox
rapidly and at no greater cost than any
heretofore.-New York Herald. Ste
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS. re
rat
Every Chinese woman is practically A
a slave until her son marries. Then, of
as mother-in-law, she begins to rule, to
her son's wife being her subject. is
aid
The Chinese pea from time imme- m1
morial has been a brush made of some the
soft hair and used to paint the cur- me
' iously formed leters of the Chinese w
alphabet. Ja
ra
r From Tomsk, to Irkutsk, on the Sib- las
erian railway, a distance of 932 miles. lis
If there is only one town deserving the fo)
t- name-Krasnoairs-with a populay~on
e of 28,000. - ca
e Berll~ pays a salary to a profession- tui
e aL bird catcher, who keeps scientific th
educational institutions supplied with a
birds, birds' eggs and nests. He is th
d the only man in the empire permited is
to do so. co
At Montalto, in the province of p
Genoa, in tearing down an old church,
a small underground room was found pr
full of art objects of the Roman time, o
chiefly chiselled silver amphorae and to
vases filled with gold and silver coins. ve
er
The plow is certainly the oldest a
Sand probably the simplest of agrical
g tural implements, being represented li
among the hieroglyphics on the an
clent tombs of Egypt, dating back
more than 4000 years. As early as the rb
year 1000 B. C. the plow was described a
Sby a Greek historian as consisting of h
a beam, a share and handles.
1. The following curious advertisement th
recently apglred in a London paper:
0 "Gentleman wants board-residence.
, Real good home, in small family. No th
ut other boarders. Being overstout,
il thereftre subject to many annoying re ,
marks, advertiser prefers very stoat o
i people's company. No others need
ee write. Referrences exchanged. Ad
dress," etc. t
A ,yndicate comprising English cap- ol
- Italists has been formed to promote
the sale bt "tie silks," composed of 50
of percent wood pulp and 50 percent arti
- cial silk. Samples are being suabmit
n tet to the .New York wholsale neck
1 ar manufacturers, and cashideibe p
a eperiment is. taking place In point
.od price this material shows advan
t Ite over conventional fbrnica. Its
hfl lter, feel and general appearance,
cosely resemble genuine silk. .
di
ch 1 Wu 5-hu's * Re. gard iree ta. Tu
n The reporter who lied to the Chinese
e nister at Washington, Wu Tins
&ng, Lbout his salary, no doubt de
ded ahimself with the thought-if he D
ave *he matter a thought at all,-that d
r-t wa a "white lie" that would hurt
y. But let us see the sequel:-
SOn the first occasion, when he called
1 to interview the minister, he was ask
t what salary he receivedal., "One
hunmdred and fty dollars a week," glib
Sly replied the youth. * "It is too muek. P
It is altoether too mach," said the 1
mrre candi tdma polite Wu Tng-*
" on are not worth more than twea
e dollars a week."
Th¶ Chinese talsr, it it a15ld,
I marned later, through other ·ea
i per men, that the reporter had mot
e oken the truth, ad tlt iead t of i
,·se hundred and afty eow.lo rwolr
e- recelved but'msir s aWaO bl',
Sl ~ hen he aga~tn pre I- ipItself at
te~ toChtaeae ligation fOr'Iaims P
irhs,PSIW he -41 e1r,tt dwbiupr~
oWls 'Youuctvl -lti.
" ysmwirstlb~
r"t yesi t4aw
If Too Strip the. der of Ite d
Keledles lou Will -ave a made to
SThat Has Bee in VogUe nee Slnt me o
I a-Why Street Sons Reose. m
"Call it what you will, sand 'ragtime' ly
is as good as any other n me," says sis
Thodmas Preston Brooke. j'This 'rag- or
time' existed centuries befote ourtime, ot
and it will go on for qenturies to pl
some after -we have been forgotten." ci
"Ragtime," its origin, it, status, its se
merits and demerits,' any its chances si
for perpetuation, have 4een worrying sl
musicians with long hair and the public is
having long purses ever mince a popular pi
song writer a few years ago claimed
to have "in ,'ented" its rhythm. di
When a discrimina ng public for pl
public e~dct BA famnd upon ragtime a
and its popularity w h the hol polloi, b
some one high in t e musical world a
came forward in it. defense, sqying y
that some of the w Id's famous com- oi
posers had used it in classic music, ol
that technically it as syncopation, to
and under that n e was worthy of -
place in any comp sition. Yet still the
long-haired must an aid his follow
ers are not recon fled. In the Chicago
Federation of M uicians there is a pros
pect of a split in the organization,
leaving the players of the classic on
one side and theiragtime champions on
the other. 'The 1ong-hailred men are re
fusing to assoc te with the ragtime
men, a9d the bituation is becoming
acute. In Dentier last June the Amer- 1l
ican Federation) of Musicians at its an- y
nual conventio passed a resolution ii
t condemning ratme and recommend- a
Sing that its me bers cease playing it. g
In like measurd the Dancing Teachers'
Asgociation of America and the Nation
al Music Teachers' Association are de- a
clared against it and pledged to dis- 1
1 courage the uqe of ragtime in every t
it manner possible. t
n But against/all of this Brooke's Chi- S
cago Marine Band at the Cincinnati !
e Zoological Gardens least season gave i
I, "ragtime concerts" every Wednesday
a evening, and in spite of Cincinnati's
a reputation au a musical city, these con- 1
S. cewts drew Irom 12,000 to 15,000 people
I- to them every evening. At these con- I
r- certs the best elements of Cincinnati's t
I population were there, doubling the at
e tendances at Wagner and dfmphony I
e concerts. At the Buffalo Exposition, I
n and in e cry other city in the United
States ald Canada where Brooke's 1
band has played ninety per cent. of the
requests for music have been for the
ragtime selections.
iy Mr. Brooke's standing as a composer
n, of popular music has given him a voice
e, to be heard on the subject. Efpecially
is hiq epinion valuable when it is con- I
sidered that not one bar of ragtime
e- Imgae occurs in his compositions, and
le that, while he does not defend it, he
LtI maes it plain that ragtime music is
se w4 h the people for all time.. Mrs.
Japes L. Blair, a society leader .of St.
Louis, declared in a public address
b- last spring that .the Missouri metropo
~. lis was a "ragtime" city, and in the
,e f9wing talk the bandmaster agrees
*ith her as:-to all citich "being in the
category.
"Ragtime," said Mr. Brooke, "is now
n- the most generally mooted of all
fte themes among musicians, but why such
th a su. jct should threaten to disrupt
is the Chicago Federation of Musicians
is rather difficult to understand when
considered from an intelligent and tn
prejudiced standpoint. During the last
of year there have been published count
:h' less articles on ragtime, written by
ad prominent musicians, teachers and
le, critics, many of whom had something
nd to say about who 'discovered' or 'in
Is. vented' it. Ragtime was not discov
ered or invented by any one. Darwin
ult says 'music was known and understood
abefore words were spoken,' and I te
ed lieve that ragtime existed in the lower
in animals long before the advent of man.
h It is simply rhythm or intensified
rhythm, and I have frequently ub
served animals keeping time t3 music
having a strong, marked rhythin.
"Rhythm is the skeleton on which
all music is hung, and if you will strip
the so-called-modern ragtime of its mel
odies you will have the music that has
Sbeen in vogue since the beginning of
time and that is still the only music
Sof many of the heathen races. It is the
S'juber,' buck and wing dance of the
old plantation hand, and no -more ln
d spiring ragtime was ever played than
that which he patted with his hands,
shuffled with his feet, or plunked on
his rudely constructed banjo. All the
old-time 'fiddlers' were ragtime per
formers. The backwoods player who
rt- sat perched on a barrel in a corner at
ita 'corn-husking bee,' who held his fiddle
at elbow 'and his bow at half-mast,
ble played the 'Arkansaw Traveler,' and
lt 'Up Duck Creek' in a style that would
l ut to shame many of the fellows who
Its claim to have originated what they are
pleased to call 'ragtime.'
"Drumrers have played nothing tut
ragtime since the invention of the
drum. The bass drum is now used onl'
to punctuate or emphasize the heavy
beats or pulse of the manil, Lut.in the
Soriginal 'sheepskin band' that has fur
he nished martial music for our eoldiers
in times of war for centuries the bass
drummer used a stick in each hand
and helped out the ragtime rhythm of
led the snare drum. -
"Wh. has not stood on a bt,
Swatching a passing parade, and~
ticeJ how wearily the ,en in lire
Splodded aklt ng to the monototnis
t 1-1-1-2- of th bass drunt? BRef wbpen
the smare drums broke into their merry
ragtime beats of 'tat-t tat--tat" how
the marchers Immediately brrated
and walked with a buoYrat elastle
step! Accrding to goadt autlhority te
sense of rhythmt i greter by ninety
three per eeqt tha either the sems
of harmne ar in melo..
r ages wetsam .e
~~ -t
was .a past master tat it. It isa aW W
known fact that the themes for many
of our most poprlar ragtime soap oil
were taken bodily from his operas.
"I have always delighted in strong I
contrasts-from the sublime to the ri- sa
dicutous, if you like-and I invariably kn4
follow 'Tannerhauser' or 'Leonore' his
overxures with some little street song 5
melody or ragtime march. It frequent- PI
ly happens that two persogs will st of
side by side at one of mf doncerts, vel
one a lover of 'high class' music, the I
other with a desire only for the ragtime IfL
piece. By bringing the extremes in the
close contrast the grand Old overtpres col
seem grander, and the street song bs
sweeter and more entrancing. Why ai
should any conductor refuse to play 50
music which causes so much harmless thi
pleasure?
"Ragtime is not a fad, as many have an
declared, and it will not 'die out.' It
pleases the God-given sense of rhythm ac
and will endure as long as the warm on
blood flows in human veins-as long be
as the world shall stand. Call it what m(
you will--ragtime is as good as any
other name-it existed centuries before tri
our time, and it will go on for centuries
to tome after we have been forgotten." ge
-Ohicago Tribune.
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There is in existence an unrepealed at
law in Switzerland which forbids the
wearing of hats of more than eighteen
inches in diameter, artificial flowers
and foreign feathers, under a heavy in
penalty.
According to a decree of the Prs
sian Minister of Education, Jupt pub-w
lished, children in Germany will have
to be most careful in addressing let
ters to the Kaiser in future. Any re
quests for stamps, dolls, and similar
I atticles are to be severely punished bl
the school authorities. -
w
A number of antique coins have been
found on a farm near Bervie.fin sin- i
cardineshire, England. While plow
ing a field a laborer unearthed an old
urn containing four or five hundred a
small silver coins the size of a six
penny piece. They are stated to be
long to the period of the first three
Edwards. The urn which contained
9 the coins was broken by the plow.
P The volume qf carbonic acid ex
haled by a healthy person in twenty
r four hours is about 15000 cubic inches,
D containing about six ounces of sclld
carbon. This s - at the rate of 137
pounds avoirdupois per annum; and
L taking the population of the world at
a thousand milligns, this means that b
e the human race breathes out every
s year 61,000,000 tons of solid carbon, a
quantity of coal getting on for twice as
much as the total annual export from r
Great Britain. d
The "barkei't on oil wells in Cass
, TowlshIpD._Oto, have aroused the ire t
of a number of residents, and peti
tjons have, been circulated and freely
signed that oil men shut down their
wells on Sunday. "Barkers" are tin
cans hung on the end of the exhaust
and the sound is like the bark of a dog, h
it thus telling the pumper that the dir- t
tant wells in his charge are working t
regularly. The noise is a distressing '
one, especially, say the protestors, der
u ing Sunday services at the neighbor- t
hood churches.
d It is not expensive to become a noble I
in Bavaria. To be made a simple t
"Von" costs a matter of $375; to be I
V- raised to the "Ritterstand," $500; to T
bc made a "Ereiherr," $1290; to be I
made a "Graf' costs $2500, while to
e- be made a prince only costs $O0. 1
r These prices are only for one person, i
' but the Government kindly makes re
d duction in the case of whole families
Swishing to turn noble all at once.
SThus, for $10,000 or $15,000 a smaU
family can be made princes, though
they are only permitted to use their
ip title within the iLngdom of Bavaria.
Loauis Wain, the authority on cats,
c declares that the domestic cat has at
e last reached a very interesting stage
e of develspment. Mr. Wain states that
- the physial l and nervous tissues of
in the cat having ,felt the eonfnement
Is, of home life, the long period of cruelty
practiced upon it having come to .an
cnd, and practically all wild sense and
the old instlnets having been beaten
a out of it, thb cat of the present day is
l8tt to construct a new life for itself
and to adapt itself to its modern sur-'
t roundinga. It beglni the new career
Smentally weak, but loving care and at
Stentian will strengthen its brain, and
Sthe ntefuture we may look forward to
creatures grandly and beautitfully made
of great lsoe and intelligence. "The
cat," gays Mr. Wain, "will then have
bad given to it a power which man has
not conceived possible-the power to
to produce its remarkable qualities
amoag the wild animals of its own
kind and through them gradually into
the savage Inimals. Thus will begin
the conqueat and reclaiming of' the
d whe brate creation from the natoural
sasvagery ef nstue to the most benign
domianon of maL"- h Newsa
A moeasber orf the m al elty of
euverod that a galvante curremnt pre
Smote tha sswrth.r these. Two ess
et -tee IdEe, 5 the ese, witl e
tie pden tS ' Wsh, the tuinea pigs
b wese'ti ae r tsst mess e . Throegh
. ie of the ea as iutre t eyrest
, wd pasue dra and 3r,~Igkf. e daer
It t~. .
BEYOND CIVLIZATION'S PALE.
dipS in the audson BDa Coantry
Desertbed by a Visiter.
Mil Spencer, agent for the Hud I
son IBy e~mnpany, in the almost un. pin
known d4ltrictsof Hudson bay, is on a
his first shit to civilization. Though
56 he 1evar seen a railway train V.
previ his present trip, and had A
of cony a ce as an electric car. I
veyanei'b electric car.
His lif has ben spent among the Do
Indians awk Esquimaux who occupy
the northernaarts of Labrador and the a
country immediately east of Hudson i
bay. Contrary tq the general belief
arising from the relports of missionar.y
societies and others, Mr. Spencer saye I
that in many respects the different
tribes still adhere to their old customs
and traditions.
Teh Esquimeaux in particular, art
according to Mr. Spencer, a very difi
cult people to civilize. There has never
been such a thing as a marriage cere
mony among them, and the nearest
they have got-to one today in the die
tricts controlled for the company by
Mr. Spencer is that the young man
generally tries to go to some post tr *
buy a blanket, and that is all the cere
mony there is about-it. They are not 4
so numerous as formerly, and it if /
thought that this falling off is princi a
pally due to the fact that for the past O
generation they have been taught tc
use English and American foods ag
Formerly they never even cooked thel s
meat, and they seemed to derive more In
benefit fronl it raw than in its cooker
state.
Money has not yet come into use
among the people with whom Mr
Spencer has business dealings.. Boti -
Indians and Esquimeaux bring theoy
furs into thU company's posts and it
return receive different kinds of mer
chandise. Counters are used whict
are known as "made beavers," each 01
which is worth about 60 cents of out
money.
The chief animals now hunted by u
these people are, first, the fox, ant
then the marten, beaver, otter, rein
ldeer, .and fisher. The silver fox is of1
course most eagerly sought, yet not
withstandings its extreme value in civ
ilisation, the finest specimens sold
at the posts yield only 30 made bear
ers, or $18.
By far the largest amount of the
credit received for furs goes for toban
co. When an Esquimaux or an Indian
gets 60 made beavers, it is safe to sal
that he spends 59 on tobacco. The Es
quimaux, in particular, will sarrlfce
almost anything else for it.
They sr wonderfully friendly peo
pie among themselves, and it is ver3
seldom, itf ever, that quarrels arise be
tween thb people of different districts
The same thing cannot be said of the
Indians to the east of Hudson bay.
Mr. Spencer is authority for the
rather surprising statement that there
has been no falling off in recent years
in the number of furs sent out of this al
country. i
Nearly all the white men in this ter
2 ritory marry squaws, and young chil
dren, too, often grow up neglected
The only education any of them re
celve is when a missionary happens
to pass that way, for schools are Un
known.-New York Sun.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlat.
t Mr. Chamberlain makes his way inte t
his place, and, before sitting beside
the leader of the house, takes froe
the table an order paper of the day
g This, as is generally known, containi
, a 'program of the business to be
transacted at that evening's sitting
Having seated himself, he studies the
paper intenaly for a few seconds, and
e having apparently mastered its con
e tents, throws it from him with an Im
a patient gesture. Mr. Chamberlain thel
-, readjusts his eye-glass, thrusts hi
legs straight out before him, and looks
round the house. On rising to spead
he places his neatley written notes om
the brass-bound box before him, an.l
Shaving pat the edges straight, firs
Saway. Mr. blamberlain speaks slowl3
. an4 uses scarcely' any geAlure. Most
Sdangerous when niost polite, hkiacc
- becomes like a piece of parchimeno
Ir when roused to anger. In th* art o1
r crushing an adversary by an incoe
venient quotation or by some persona
thrust Mr. Chamberlain is unequaled
It is this gift that makes him as for
Smidable on the plitform as he is Is
e the House of Comrtods. At publke
t meetings he always seems to expect
a few of his old radical friends amona
,t the.audiesee. But woe be to the inter
Srupter! Led on by the orator withl
I seductive question, his opponest gives
id Jast the reply Expected. Back like
a lightning comes a crushing retort,
Sand thenceforth, all is smootp sailing
I His perorations are invariably writte
- out in lull in his utudy, and frequntly
committed to mtemory. His volce is
t firm and clear, but not very musical;
ihis enunclat,.n prfet.-Chbambers'
o Journal."
le cow n ols with a oesse.
TI'he strange story of the elopement
e of an ordinary milch cow with a btl:
t moose comes from Lake Onasa, a
Spretty sheet of watr in the hills o
SPtsataquils county, much freqanted
t by sportsme~n from the big cities. The
o mw was the property of D. A.T. A '
& den, whose cottage is located aon the
shore of Onawa, and she was khept it
a pasture encloseDby a rail teae.a A
big moose had been several times see.
hanging around the cottage sgrcund
late at sight, displaying great bold
nes. Thursday night he camie close
up to whet the cow was, and the twi
seem-sed to be good frltads. ItM a'
alnght a truemendou crash wa heard
Sand t n hext porate the telce was a
wreck, sal the cow s0e. Neters sh
n sor the moodse ha been basn ssges.
g Bansor (Ms.) corrpadspsiao o t U
mt Chicago lntoerOc.
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State Gftw t La lu
Governor-W. W. Heard,
Lieut.aent-Oovernor-Albert EMt
pinal.
Seeretary of tate-.-John Miohel.
Superintendent of Edestion--Job"
V. Oakhoun.
Aldtor-W.& " Frasee.
Tr.aurer-Ledons E. SEaiQ.
U. a. SENATOBS.
Don Oaff*ey and S. D. MoEnery.
BEPRESENTATIVES.
1 Distrit--I O. Davey.
a D tioit--Adolph Meyer.
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