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"The World is Governed Too Much." IIY IR . BIOSSA0 , Business Mnager. ,ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1886. VOL. XLI.--NO. 40 'TWAS EVER THUS. 'Twasy while at "the Pier" last summer, That I fell without much ado, Into the net of a siren, A beauty from Kalamazoo. She spoke with a Western accent That was really a shock to me, And called her stout mother "Mommer," And always said "supper" for "tea." And I knew at tje very outset That of course it would not be right For one of the great Van Duzers To marry a Kalamazite. And so I left for the city, Where I'm wretchedl anti il and blue, I know that I'm slowly dying, And-I'm off for Kalamazool "How are you, Mr. Van Duzerl And welcome to Kalamazoo! Heard of my wedding to-morrow, So came? That's just lovely of youl -Roland King, in Rambler. LOVE AT THE HUSKING. The Mean Trick by Which Jones Got All the Red Ears. The corn had all been cut and piled away in great stacks in the huge barns. The Canadian landscape had been clothed several times in silvery frost. Tihe rye was peeping up through the upturned fields, and the first week of the farmers' season of leisure had passed. In that great stretch of level country about Stratford, where farmers reap as rich harvests as are garnered anywhere in the Dominion, a programme of fun had been prepared by the young men and women. There were corn-huskings where red ears brought kisses, surprise parties where nobody was surprised, straw rides, apple-paring parties and gatherings where the staid cotillon was danced to the music of a violin. The first event of the fall of 1882 was an ap ple-paring. This whetted the appetites of the country folks, and everybody was eager for the big corn-husking that was to bring all the beaux and belles into the big barn of Farmer Treuette. It was known to the young, hard-fisted farmers that Sally Treuette, the only daughter of the old farmer, was to guide the course of events during the husking, and that a great many grains of red corn had been mingled with the white grains that had been dropped in the corn hills in the Spring. Every red grain of corn meant an ear of the same color, and every ear meant one kiss to the finder, and per haps more if he could smuggle the ear forward again. There was another circumstance that added an unusual excitement to the husking. Sally Treuette was a rosy cheeked, plump, raven-haired lass whose roguish eyes had made sad havoc *with the hearts of nearly all the young men formiles around. There was hardly one of them whom she had not smiled upon at various times, and whom she had not snubbed unmercifully after ward. Red-haired Jim Radford, who owned forty acres of fine farming land near St. Mary's, and Owen Jones, a sharp-featuted Yankee, who had opened a country store near the railway station in Stratford, had each sworn in the most solemn manner to marry Sally or pre vent her from marrying anybody else. Radford was tall, broad-shoultered and strong of ltmb, with muscles hardened by work. Jones was tall, slim and angular, with hectic check and a sharp cough that told of weakness and disease, but lied every time they told it. IHe was like many of the old stone houses in the neighbor hlood. The more they settled and the worse they appeared the stronger they were. Radford was always nervous and ill at ease when he was in the presence of Sally, but Owen was always able to talk a streak and tell marvelous tales and interesting stories of adventure that were very entertaining to the un sophisticated Sally. She liked Radford for his worth and Jones for what lie seemed to he. 'The night of the husking camne at I~ist. Thd silvetr .rescenit tof the new illOint ltung in tit: west. The ;tir was just froaty enotugh to be invigorating. A string of twinkling lantetrns hullng ;nt'ros. larmner Treuttte's barn yarId. Lautertus swung from rusty nails all over the interior of t.i harn. 'Tllhe un huIlkeld ears of corn ilhad been tolrn from tihe stalks and heipetd in a ,reat pile in 1he ce(nter of thie barnl. 1or1e Iboxes, ulpturnied nail-kegs :and rough Ietlnchels fonrmed a:t circle about tlhe pilh. '[lh old rninlliing f:al't-h-loisP aboutita hutmtred etowtled l ith elderly lmlen a:nd women IpV,,1)aring in a butstling. garrulous way thei refrxshlents. Sall, clad in lihe eiaghtsct calico 'purchasa:lie in lJonisi .(tire, with h tlii eht s of bright i'iltbbt at ht r throat and in her haif, Ilitted 1llo)ut like a spic'k of color ii ;in nocia;n t)f bit' when thev are out for a jolliheiation, ind the1 jinuglinug of bells, the clattiermlun :lllungs nucll1,e thit, n·ig,,ht air quiver•. Yoiunllt iltilw atid wtlum'tn soli iatll t r it t li lit. hard t uliug frt.,l thil :It Sally .1hook haii I,, with Iivcr (illdi who up lV fai~.lh a. Th,'n the wl'rk of lil kinl htg'n iiit 1('n . lflt" 1 m)t n anin d int .lt o li Well :t'"er for the ll:ti'ing ti !t ias Il :uljusted a hitckrv coln pts lon ii strolng right hand. :itl soon a :-trie:'n of tliuteniiln. ones w s flyin over hi left - " ih-'. , : .':tS righit opp it,, him . d:'a. ,d littl i,, lklc of c11'1 tof\lard thiml. :111 ti--tll lI i h Sr bft!' - ll inew ilwhat hil i"3tnlailn \lIre. She utt5ctd :l litthe I : iP l il ll id half st1r1ltig frml "' I ,, l l ilhi.'" <aid Jones. l milingi t : w'it.l ('IVny .Joimii- toitu hile read cter persistently, but nobody else succeeded in getting any, and the laugh that had heraldedhis success finally gave place to mutterings of discontent. "Look yer," said Radford, suddenly, "all those yer ears must be left whar all kin see 'em. No repeatin', mind yer." "A little applause greeted this, but it was hushed when Jones said sarcastical ly: "Thar they be. A goodlier pile than ye'd husk in twicet ther time." He pointed behind Sally at a pile of the red corn. Still Jones found noth ing but red ears, and Sally got all the kisses. Nobody else found any, and the common discontent was apparent wben the pile had finally dwindled away. Then a fiddler began scraping out wheezing dance music, for Jones success had cast a damper on the party, and the merry time dragged. Finally a barrel of cider was tapped, and all were invited to drink. Jake, the old hired man of Farmer Trenette, drank more than was good for him, and became noisy and garrulous. He had appeared that nig ht wearing a brand new pair of cowhide boots and a waistcoat of wonderful pattern. When asked where he got his gqod clothes, he winked syly, but refused to make any explanatlon. The bell "at the house summoned all the merry makers, and Jones seized Sally around the waist and led her off, leaving Rad ford a prey to jealousy behind. Jake, meantime, was capering gleefully about the party, occasionally stopping in front of Jones and winking malic ionsly. Jones lost his patience at last, and pushed the old fellow from him so forcibly that he fell headlong to the ground. He got up, threatening ven geanee. The supper was at its height, andthe guests seemed to have regained their spirits, when Radford rose, and, rap ping ldudly on the table, asked per mission to make a speech. Everybody was astonished. The idea of the diffi dent, irresolute farmer making a speech was something they could not understand, and so they were silent through sheer wonder. "I stan' yar to tell ye suthin' ye'll find it hard tu believe, but which it will be true as preachin', howsumever. Thet man thar," said Radford, growing red with anger and shaking his finget men acingly at Jones, "is a reptile in human shape. Yisterday he got Jake to pile all thor red cars on one side, an' he, know in' which side they was to, set hisself thar, an' has been a stealin' kisses an' a robbin' us of 'em ther hull livelong time. Which I've said, an' now want Jones to meet me out yonder an' see whuther I kin punish him for his rob bery." Everybody agreed that it was a mean trick, and glared at Jones. The lat ter rose, and in a laughing way re plied: 'Which ther statement made by Rad ford bein' kerect, I have no wish to dis pute. What I'm hankerin' to say, though, is jest this: All's fair in lovean' war. I hey beat him in love, leastways in kisses, an' now'll tackle him in war if so bein' all's agreeable." The women protested, but the men put them down, and insisted that there was no other way out of the diffi culty. The'party, men and women, withdrew to a level pasture beyond the barn, a ring was formed, and Radford and Jones in their shirt sleeves squared off at each other. The moon had not yet disappeared, and with the stars gave just enough light to enable the men to see things in a blurred, indistinct way. Sally, with a pale face and frightened eyes, stood a little space away. At the word of a man who agreed "to see fair," the two men rushed hfiercely at each oth or, and the heavy sound of blows was heard. Radford staggered back with a bloody face and gasping for breath. Jones was cool and confident. It was seen at once that he could use his hands, and that the great strength of Radford would be conquered by Jones' skill. Again the men met. Jonesparried Rad ford's blows with ease, and finally sprang back and launched out both of his great rawboned fists, lading them square on Radford's neck. Redlford dropped as though he had been shot. There was a shrill scream and Sally dashed through the ring of people and kneeling beside the prostrate man raised his head in her lap Sand fondled him until he regained con SeiOiiSi1t3SS. "Whar ye should be, Sally, is ovet var," said Jones, lugubriously. S illv turned upon him fiercely. "You rulfian " she cried. "You robbed him and the rest of all lpleasure to-night, and now you beat him. I love him and I bite you." Ri ford, regaining his feet, began to tremlie. "Ye lore me?" he cried. "Why, gal. I fIu'rive hit freely, in' would take all thr -ickin's hi ewver heerd tell of for this." "Ef so be it." said Jones, sulkily, "It-" ain't no oie else :i-waitin' thr le licked. 1'1 jist meander humwards, but I ive ve fair warnin', tier fist time I ketch .1ake I'll lambiuate hitm.''-N. Y. A Powerful Torpedo-Boat. The Falke. torpedo-hIoat. just bult in -.Engl:tni for the Auitri:e. Gov(;, urnnit. ital, h r t'tli.i:ni trial rec ntl, whe the mean slted of hir 'ix runs -"er the mtea.ured mile. mnle in ti~1hting t'in. reached the suttri ing - igur ,e of ")". _,0"kn,,ts per hour. The ve,.<l hav in. iwa, lli coteiwred 22 1-4 kint- wi ttin Ii hur. "The F'lk, i 13- f I't h )ng. It t in txtrec widtlh. :I d 9 ftot itet,. tHberdr iti fo'ard in tiuhtin, Sh,. i< I ui' l hr t 'hin h t ,f ,,.alvaniud *t,,l, h- r skin varyinb in tt lickn,,,s frnilni on te-cii"ght rl th to , h a-t:n t ,i on inl, t e i 'gre2tet thi -. . hin5 at her' how-.' ti ..trength',,n h,', for ran.. Imill purp,* ..- H[,r n,,.,hinerv 1. ,f the ',nllquand -u,,fatt .- u,lcel.-inl.. t3 p,' 1;n* " f :i. dirol .'} rs from" wth :t f me',, only . ,legre.:. FROM ONE WHO KNOWS. Views of an Ex-Governor of South Carolina on the Southern Questiou. In the current number of the Ncw ti Englander, Mr. Daniel H. Chamber- i lain-of whom, as Republican Gov- d ernor of South Carolina, the country 1 once heard a great deal-breaks a long silence to discuss the present and pros pective aspects of the Southern ques- 1: tion. We are bound to say that his re- a marks, as a whole, are among the best a yet made on a very fruitful subject; c and coming from such eminent Repub- i lican authority, are especially deserv- t ing the thoughtful consideration of all b honest members of that party. It will 1 be remembered that Senator Sherman a while unintentionally helping to elect a Democratic Governor in New York last fall-redommended, as an infallible h panacea for Southern ills, thereduction t of the basis of representation in those Southern States where fewer Repub lican votes are cast than the party man agers think ought to be. Chamberlain devotes more attention to this charac teristic proposition than its impudence merits; declares that the alleged rem edy would not, even if it could be tried, reach the diseases and that the latter must be left to cure itself. He says and let us not forget who it is that says it-that " The evil in question is plainly the result of the want of intltlgence. experience and'.good juldgment otfnthe part of the class who arc de prived of the right to vote; and of the race prejudice and political ambition of the class which inflicts the wrong, intensified and made reckless, in respect to the right to vote, by the insupportable corruption and maladmin istration of most of the Southern State gov ernments from 1868 to 1876. In other words, if in any Southern State colored citizens are deprived of any of their political rights, it is main ly, if not entirely, the fault of the Re publican party. First, in conferring citizenship upon a class not even now possessed of sufficient "intelligence, experience and good judgment" for the proper recognition and fulfillment of its obligations; and second, by the establishment and maintenance of "the insupportable corruption and maladministration of most of the Southern State governments from 1868 to 1876."' This is the whole Southern business in a nutshell. The freedmen-as Presi dent Lincoln so well knew-were not prepared for citizenship, and should have been allowed to wait until some degree of preparation had been at tained. But in spite of their unfitness, the ballot was thrust into their hands by an unscrupulous Republican policy; and then, in order to consummate that policy, they were used to fasten upon the Southern neck the meanest and dirtiest of despotisms. The results of which Republicans complain are, says Chamberlain, inevitable "whenever in any community those who hold nearly all its property,- intelligence and ex perience in self-government are set againtst those who are for the most part without property, education or experi ence of public affairs." We may add that if Massachusetts or Maine had suf fered for eight months "the insupport able corruption and maladministration" which South Carolina and Louisiana endured for eight years, they would have risen in righteous wrath and driven every negro and carpet-bagger into the sea. The wonder is, not that the Southern people, under such intense provocation, did some things they ought not to have (lone, but they were not utterly reckless in their resistance to the ineffable iniquity. The greatest wonder is that, in less than ten years after the provocation was removed by the destruction of Republican rule in the South, the two races are working together for a common prosperity in peace and harmony; that there is so little real trouble between them that during the last Presidential campaign Republican oflice-holders and traveling newspaper correspondents could not find a single "Southern outrage" worth reporting. Chamberlin 1 ges his political asso ciates to "abandon all efforts to pro long, through party proclamations and appeals, a controversy which has re sulted so disastrously to those in whose interests it has be-i carried on," and to leave whatever diflienlties yet re main in the Southern situation to be overeomne by the N ational forces now at work. That is, let the Suth man age its own affairs in its own w'y, un vexed by Northern interlierenee or in struction. It is mrost d(letotedly to he wished that Shermut1 iLog:u antl their co-laborers in the ma ki ,' of see tion:hl mischiff. may follo ehi sn.tsi bie and patriotic advie.; lut if the, do. what will become of the blody i idci? -nud withoutr the bldotdy shirt ';00 would become of "',he grand ,;l lparty?"-St., L ou; Auli, m,'!].. RASCALS CdY OUT. The .huse iuirleil :It Commistoner Sparks Not (;ouliing 0oh Honest H5Fme The outcry t'hat huas lately bemi n, mde agi:n.st Citrujissilin.er Sn:1'ks. of the i.and Oflice. wou(01 naulrally leaul the pufiie to blive that Mr. Sparki is an ,dioui tyrant, who,1,, ,,e', .-hponding the i -nn of pin tnh until th n claims 1.1 ii th la, - (it ili '. , . it1) :m itifiol wa;: l owt :t t}i " 1).; }I r inos e l~ irie f th-::.10.'I, \\ii' "rh5 r has ii,'Pi 'l.II , "p,i'.* " f i F' g ' -l.,;i.l ' I. 'I f l il ea <,fI r., il ,iu ; i- tl wl' .-' I,'i' -. , l'.!i { '. h' I . 'lt i , 1}1 i tr.x ' ;I Iins h . h : I.. }ii ,, f -t .,l , Iv - ' i .\ : ..... III. 'i' lit 'ii'-"- I' -!Li', tt ' '3'i 1i " . ".I iUt\ 'J1 \ in_- T;1 been carried may be inferred from the report of Special Agent Webster Eaton, in regard to a portion of the Duluth and St. Cloud land districts. He states that four thousand and three hundred final homestead entries have been in a district in which he finds less than one hundred actual settlers of all kinds, who are making or trying to make a living by farming. "It is a shame that this wholesale robbery of the public lands has been allowed to exist until nearly all the lands available for settle ment have been gobbled up. But be cause wrong has been done in the past is no reason why it should be allowed to continue. Wifat lands are left should be reserved for actual settlers and the large bodies now held fraudulently should be restored to the public do main. Commissioner Sparks will have the countenance and support ·of every honest man in the country in his effort to withstand.the rapacity of the land grabbers.-Philadelphia Times. THE DECIDING ACT. The Law of the Land Does Not Oblige the President to Give His Reasons for Removals. It is.not generally known that origi nally the requirement of confimation of the executive appointments of the President by the Senate did not, in practice, exist, whatever may have been the theory held by Congress. It is true that originally confirmation by the Senate was applied, but only in the cases of quite a small number of the principal officers. In the meantime, however, the Senate has been constant ly extending its claims to the prin ciple of confirmation, until they now include a considerable portion of the whole executive offices of the Govern ment, some one hundred thousand in number. Now, in view of this enormous stride toward the assumption of purely exec utive functions on the part of the Sen ate, nothing can be clearer or more certain than that the President is com pelled to make his appointments with an eye to the favor of the Senate rather than to the welfare of the public serv ice. And when to the evil of the de privation of the Executive of a power which naturally and scientifically ap pertains to his branch of the Govern ment are added the political Jobbery and mutual trading which have in the past influenced that body, and which the Civil-Service act was designed to reform, the evils and the tendency to political debauchment by the present Senatorial practice can readily be per ceived. There was one period, however, in the history of the country when this domination of the . Senate in appoint ments passed into desuetude and, in deed, into a state of almost abject abey ance. This was during the civil war. The necessities of the then situation re stored the PresidTent to his natural and scientific place in the Government, and compelled the Senate to abdicate its virtually usurped and absolute execu tive powers and to accept obediently the nominations of the Executive. At that time, in fact, both houses of Con gross attempted to solve a problem which no Legislature, from that of the long parliament of Cromwell to the revolutionary assembly of France, had ever successfully coped with, and most signally and abjectly failed therein. 'The war once ended, however, the Senate, through the unpopularity of President Johnson and the instrumen tality of the Tenure-of-Office bill, was again enabled to seize the powerwhich had been wrested from its grasp by means of President Lincoln's over mastering astuteness and the favoring circumstances which environed him. Just now a contention has arisen be tween the President and the Senate. . The Senate claims, under the Tenure of-Office act, that the President is bound to submit to it his reasons for removal of officers. This act author izes the President. "in his discretion," to suspend any ,officer during the re cess of the Senate. But, at the same time, it is by no means in any portion of it mandatory on the President to state his reasons for removal. Consc quently, if the President should refuse to give those reasons, technically this refu.al, it would naturally follow, gives the Senate no just cause for refusing confirmation. In the meantime the public will watch the outcome of this contention betwcen the Executive and the Senate with no little interest.--Chicago News. DEMOCRATIC ITEMS. --Over four thousand bills have neen introduced into the present Con gress. The anxious public which the most of these manifestations of states mnanship propose to despoil have no control in the matter. but on the other hand they have the consolation of knowing that a hah: and hearty maun :at thei other end of the avenue stands with his v\rto axe poised in the air ready to strike rePctivec blows where blows are ne.,.arv.-hhic"go 1Timcs. S---cret:'ry Lamar i" an example Sof the i~fact that a poetic temperamentt Si- not il: ,)niiitenlt with a judicial mind. SA i an! mna -o' th .!le nmunses witholut :atf ,. SNAKE STORIES. w 'tales of India's Fearful Pest, the Cobra-A . Missourl 1'able. The cobro is without doubt the'most fearful pest of pest-ridden India. 'Sir s Joseph Fayrer has shown that of twenty a thousand persons annually killed''by c wild animals and reptiles in India, sev enteen thousand die from snake poison. Of these again more than one-half are set down to the cobra, which is found in r all.parts of the country, from Ceylon to I the Himalayas.. When one thinks, too, i of the inevitably large number of un recorded deaths from the same cause in 'India, and the number killed in many j other Asiastic countries, where no stat istics whatever are obtainable, it will be plain that the sum total must be some thing appalling. And yet they may be expected at almost any time to visit the Indian country-house; may be found in your bed, your cupboard, your boots. A correspondent of Nature states that he found one in the lining of his brougham and another in the sleeve of one of his wife's dresses, which was hanging some feet above the floor. .Horses instinctively, avoid the cobra; whole herds of cows or buffaloes will flee before a single one; even, the tiger dreads it. A gentleman in the civil serv ice of India had a pet tiger confined in a strong cage, which often got so noisy and disagreeable that it had to be 'bambooed-a rather difficult job. One day some one threw a freshly-killed cobra at his cage, which, getting en tangled among the bars, hung sus pended there. The tiger trpmbled from head to foot, and slunk into the furthest corner of his cage, putting up his fore claws, with the apparent idea of pro tecting his head. He was complbtely cowed until the defunct reptile was re moved. A monkey in Cochin China ab solutely went into fits and fainted away when the 'rather cruel experiment was made of fastening a dead cobra to his collar. On the other hand, the cobra does not always have its own way. There is a story of a duel, seen from a window, between one of these snakes and a female rat; the latter was for a long time too agile for the heavy movements of the cobra, and managed to wound it severely,. while it" escaped unscathed itself.. At last, however, the cobra managed to inflict a poisonous wound, when, as though aware that it was all over with her, the poor rat rushed into close quarters, firmly grasped the snake's neck with' her teeth, and never let go ' her hold again. The cobra, plunged about furiously, but to iio purpose. A death-grip was on its throat, and both the duelists fell in that struggle. In spite of its viciousness, and almost because of it, the cobra is the snake selected by the so-called charmers for their exhibitions. They assert that the cobra is really the only snake that will show fight, all the rest being slug gish, and, wlhie prone enough to bite, can not be taught to perform any tricks. The fangs are usually extracted. Some times the tables are turned and the snake itself becomes the charmer, fascinating its victim. The story goes that a,young girl of thirteen, living with her parents in Franklin County, Missouri, was found to be gradually wasting away in a de cline, at length becoming 'little more than a mere skeleton. A peculiarity of the case was that she could not be in duced to eat in the house, but always in sisted on taking her bread and butter, or what not, to the banks of a neighbor ing brook, where she would remain for hours together. At length hertanxious father determined, unknown to her, to watch her movements. One day she had been sitting quietly, on the bank for some time when she returned to the house and asked for food. This was given to her, and she went back to the brookside, her father stealthily following her. To his horror he saw a huge black snake slowly raise its head into the child's lap and take pieces of bread and butter from her hand. If she ventured to take a bite herself the snake hissed and showed signs of anger, when the child would tremblle like a leaf, and immediately give her food to the reptile. The father was completely paralyzed, and groaned in his agony. The noise disturbed the snake, which glideld away. and was, for the time being, lost to sight. The child refused to answer any questions; she I))appeared, indeed, incapable of so doing, It was determined that she should be allowed to go once more to the bank where she had been aIccus tomied to sit, in order to allure the snake to it.s doom. Next day, then, the girl went with her little meal to the brook side, andl the mnoment the rel)ptile apLpeared the father, who was on the watch, shot it through the head. The child fainted at the sight; the .:mke, writhed and died. The poor litt!,, girl never recovered the shock, 11ll(l cmine to her senses only to swoon iagain and again till shel expired, appa;r eutly in great agony. What was tihe mysterious inluence?-Good Words. TWEED'S ISLAND. .The yitery of thie Plaee VhIere T'Polltl. lins (lOnre (Ilcl Carnlval. Syi) rt the month of the lndiam H:i ''i r. 'r '-enwi 'h. Cour.. hcau iful h went to Indian Harbor, - twenty-five years ago, he attempted to purchase the island. The ancient books <with untanned hide covers in the 0L town clerk's .office were carefully L searched, but no title was found in any tl one of them. Three years afterward, on Aihgest 80, 1863, the club, amid a great hilarity, and after careful prepar- o ation, seized the islafd in behalf of thier chief and betowed upon it his name. That occasiop ,was one of the many grand festive days at Indian Har- tl bor.. Gurney, the phoographer, was on i hand; and Tweed's Island was' taken a second time. The instrument was placed n on a point of rocks now covered by the south piazza of the Indian Harbor Hotel. tl Tweed sat behind surrounded, by many I political stars, then bright and shining a lights in the city government, but now forgotten. To add to the attractiveness of the island, Tweed built the cottage n mentioned, still standing, and placed over it a tall flag staff. After Tweed's escape in 1874 the cot t tage was said to be his hiding place, and for several days oystermen were em ployed in boating detectives and report ers to this place in search of clews. From that time till 1877 the island was the resort of oyster thieves by night and an occasional picnic party by day. The cottage lost its coat of paint and was gradually falling into decay, when a poor .oysterman, James M1. Morrell, took possession of it, and went to work to restore the place to its former attract iveness. Last winter, in the Rocky-Neck store, Morrell boasted that he would soon own the island by adverse posses sion and doubtless he would, had he talked less upon the subject. The mat ter was brought to the attention of the owners -of the Indian Harbor Hotel.. They wanted it, and State Treasurer Al fred L. Goodrich declared the land to be an escheat, and petitioned.,the Probate Court for an order of sale for the bepefit of the State. During the progress of the proceeding William F. S. McLaughlin, of Plain .field, N.. J., appeared as a witness, and he astonished every one by producing a warrantee deed, executed in 1833, and conveying the island, for $35, to his father, John G. McLaughlin, of Jersey City. McLaughlin testified that his father had purchased the island suppos ing that it abounded in potter's clay. Finding that he was mistaken, he con sidered it of no value; he died, twenty years ago. The deed was found on rec ord, but had been onitted in the index. The escheat proceedings then ended, and the McLaughlin heirs agreed to sell the island to the hotel.-N. Y. Tribune. SUPERSTITION. Some of the Vague Premonitions of im- pending Danger Harbored By UPreason ing People. After curiosity, the most deplorable attribute of human nature is blind, un reasoning superstition, and yet.we see people every day who are ignorantly superstitious. Many a man who is old enough to know better will shiver with supersti-. tious dread when the stove pipe falls I and hits him on the head, and again there a great many who regard it an evil omen when they see a creditor over the left shoulder. I ohce had a very dear friend, whose only weakness was superstition; such trifles as a visit from his wife's mother would depress'him for days, and once, when he fell outof a third-story window, he said that he regarded the incident as an evil omen. In his arduous duties as driver of a street-car, one would.think that he would have had but little time to indulge in such vagaries of the imagination, but he always had the greatest faith in omens. On one occasion, when the company put a sorrel mule on his car, he expressed a vague premonition of impending dan r er, and was gloomy and taciturn all I n the evening a passenger who was standing on the back platform of the car was surprised and annoyed by being hit Son the equator with the remains of the, Sdriver, part of which also hung over the bell rope, and protruded from the fare box. His presentiment had 'been verified and the mule was still robust. Afterward, sevun ldrivers were hurled into space by this animal, all of whom exprlessedl a presintimnit of evil as soon as they b)oarded the car. I have( only hlel one presntiment in ny life, but it w~as a large silver-plated i' rsentim -t with a silver tip; I was try iinr to entr :a ncighbor a hoiusc :tl mid night by the lack window, to s(:(ule a Sfew .'ticlles of silvr aIs souvenirs, whec I encountIr ed the f:unily bull-dog. ln dr4:tl,, atndil wVital tltt. stanC( was OVteI, liar dr.ad wxat .till thare. Wal- I' ,t tason in The Whij,. SALT LA(ES. Descrlpflon of Twvo A.iatic L lkes of Shlid ( )n .. r, : v'hi ! ,. 1 . . - • ! . '. ,: . : - ;', H ' ' ' " . ' , PITH AND POINT. -Kingston (N.' Y.) ddes have do Blded not" to kiss girls who chew gum. Let theqgood-work go on. We mean the gdin-chewing..j'Fall River Advance. -Bishop Horne promised to "spare no labor to learn the art of it" if any one would tell him "how truth may be spoken without offending some."-N. Y. -This was a rare philosophy in the three-year-old boy who asked what night is for, and not content with the reply "For rest and sleep," added, "No, papa, night is for to-morrow." -A Virginia Colonel blew into a gun the other day and found it was loaded. It isn't safe for men who don't know anything about' firearms to bother with them.-Rochester Post-Express. -"Kisd thebaby while you can," ad monishesa poet. We can kiss Jher just as well eighteen or twenty years from now-nif'she's'that kind of a baby," cau tiously remarks the Buffalo Ezpress. -A modern wit defines the difference between men and women: "Aman gives forty cents for a twenty-five-cent thing he wants, and a woman gives twenty five cents for a forty-cent thing she does not wRant." -In a New York bank: T$xas Vis itor-"I ieckon, stranger, you do a right smart business?" Banker, prompt ly-"My dear, sir, you have no idea how extended our business relations ire: ' At the present time we have three cashiers in'Canadas--N-. E. un.. -A little four-year-old girl-was put to bed in the third story of her home and left, as usual, in the dkrk. A ter rible thunder4storm came. up, and,the mother, thinking that the child would be frightened at the lightning, :went to her. On entering, ,the child called out with' delight: "iammnia, the wind blow the sun up just now; did' you see it?" Fears had. no entrance .thero.--bledo Blade. -The athleticism of these times is not always condueieto'the smooth running of the household. ."I must hurry home," said Mrs. De Peyster to Mrs. De a3ghhs theiither morning.' "'Reinald ,has been ridiagighis cyle again.' "In deed, - and did he break his recordP" "O, no; but he broke his other leg. He has only one:whole'limb now, and that is the middle finger of his left hand." Sarmford Post. - -,"Yes, .sir,'!. said::Jones, to.. Sith, "as men, grow in age and eexperienco they adwanie iii klnowledge." "I don't think: so," replied Smith. . :"'Dbn't thihk sop That's rther si gular. The.opin ion I ihold on'the subject is the iifiversal opinion." 'It, maybe, but have my own opinio~s aiverthJless,,and itis that the younger we are the more we know. When I was ayouth I knew 'twie' as -imuch as nly: father. Now ; mnlagd, and l4o a't know half as much as say son."-Boston Gazette: -"0, Henry! yvbn must send fdr the doctor at-once.' I believe I ami getting the dropsy. Now. don't delay a mo ment." Mr. De Blank--"Why, 'what put that, in your head?" "Dear me! Will you never be satisfied that what I say is ttue.P .4 got weighed to-day, and 0, it's awful. I weighe three hundred pounds." "Awful! Where did you get weighed?" "'Around at. :your :c6al yard." "Calm yourself, my dear. Your weight is exactly one hundred and fifty pounds."-Montreal Witness. oNCLE' ESEK. Words of Wisdom and Philosophy Clothed ' n a Homely Garb. If we expaet to be happy we must be busy; it is better to hunt up.a hornet's nest and fight that, than to be out of a job; no idle man ever was happy, and but few idle men are innocent long. 'Mirth is short-lived; cheerfulness niever tires. It never was intended that man should be perfect on earth; the great thing is not never to miss the bull's eye-but to get a little nearer to it every time we t shoot. 3Those who mold and move most the minds and actions of mrn arc seldom seen. They never hoel the procession. 1 Rheumatism, like many other things, is easy enough to cure in sonime one else;: but when we undertake to c're our own, then business begins. My (lear youth, if you must talk aboutt yourself, pray lon't m':utihn your good htlck; the worl doesn' ca0re 1 listen to such things. You n:may put the worlh down as :t - mob of fools, but doun forr':l thlf:! it takes a smuart man to heat. thltu. a No man ever diii a 1olitc thing Vet without f:c'lini littl- prludlc r for it. T here are ple:nty (of Ilople on earth. who 'ur 'egoing to, be very indiglnant when thev r·:wch thr , o,!ll.r world, and lind tl there : n'Io r'e!'rI'dl seats. .Justic ought l he as cheap as tIe diw, but half the timie ii c,,li mI)nre ti get it than it ii" worth.-- ('nury. BASE BALLS. How They Aro, Ml-hAn-- - Ilngeusll, awll . . . I. o rt - ,dtry.