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"The World is Governed Too Much." HENIY L. BIOSSAT, Business Manager. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST- 10, 1887. VOL. XLII.-NO. 32. BATTLEDOOR. Merry-hearted maidens four, Laughing. play at battledoor; And my heart, the shuttlecock, To and fro they nimbly knock. Maggie, Fannie, Hattie, Kate How their bright eyes scintilate, As the poor, bewildered thing Back and forth they gayly fling! Hat 'tis lodged in Fannie's hair; Scarce a moment nestles there, When away it bounding flies. Lighting plump in Hattie's eyes. Now in Katie's kerchief hides; Then, abashed and blushing, glides, (Battledoor is full of slips!) Bouncing straight to Maggie's lips. Merry-hearted maidens four, Playing thus at battledoor, Cease, oh! cease, my heart to knock, Poor, bewildered shuttlecock I -Century. A CURIOUS CASE. An Interesting Story from a Lawyer's Diary. During the last week of September, 1870, a young man, giving his name as Charles Brackett, called upon me in great trouble. He asked me if I had a private room. I arose at once. led the way to my consultation closet, closed the door and turned the key in the lock. I pointed him to the sofa, taking my own seat at the table. "Now," said I, "what is it, young man P" He started and caught his breath; and as he began to speak, I made up my mind that, let the case be what it would, he was not a guilty party. He was too fearful, too broken-spirited and unhappy, for a criminal. The case, as he presented it, was as fol lows: He was employed as book-keeper, and at times acted as cashier, in the wholesale establishment of Arnold, Merriam & Co. For a considerable time money had been missing from the funds of the firm, and at length suspicion had fallen upon himself Said he: "I am situated peculiarly. My moth er is an invalid; and I have two sis ters-young ladies. We four live to gether. My father died when I was only twelve. One of my sisters has to remain at home to take care of the house and to take care of mother; the other-two years younger than my self-gives music lessons when she can get pupils. Our little house our father left, with a mortgage on it of fifteen hundred dollars, which has remained ever since, until little more than four weeks ago. when we paid it off" There he stopped, hesitated, and choked. "How did you raise the money for that?" I asked, quietly. "Must I tell you, sir?" he returned, imploringly. "Do you want me to defend youP" "Yes, sir!" he answered, quickly. "I was sent to you by-by a man who said you would help me." "Then," I told him, "you had let ter trust me. If you do not-" There he interrupted me by asking if I would keep it secret. I told him he must trust me fully. I would do what was best; and of that he must leave me to judge. And after a little further hesitation he told me. A young gentleman, whose parents were wealthy. and who was himself well-of had loved the music-teaching sister, Bells, a'long time; and they were to be married during the coming fall, and go at once to Europe. The young man was very anxious that his parents should not know, as they had other plans for his future. He Bella's affianced-had furnished the money for paying off the mortgage, and, also, for repairing the house; and be had made them all promise not to speak his name in connection with it. I suspected at once who the man was. He was a member of the same club with myself and several of us had felt sure that he contemplated matrimony, sub rosa So I looked at my visitor smilingly, and said: "It is Albert Christopher!" "Who told youP" he cried, in won der. "Never mind," said I, "so long as you did not And Christopher sent you to meP" "Yes, sir." "All right. Now go on and tell me what has been done." It appeared, from his further story, that Mr. Merriam had for several weeks suspected him, and when it had become known that the mortgage had been paid off, and when Brackett would not tell where the money had come from, but instead thereof trem bled and turned pale, then the sus picions became confirmed, or very nearly so. '"Two weeks ago," the young man went on, "Mr. Merriam gave me a package containing five hundred dol lars, and told me to carry it into Winthrop Sturgis' counting-room, and ask them to forward it to Colonel Wal ter Pennington, at Joliet, Ill. Colonel Pennington was in business there-in Joliet-and corresponded with both our houses. We had wool of him. Perhaps yon anow, sir, Sturgis is in the same line that we are in. Well, Sturgis had told our folks that he was going to make a remittance to the Colonel, and offered to take the sum they wished to forward and cover it in his check. "1 carried the money to Stnrgis' place, and in the counting-room found only his head book-keeper, Damon Wadleigh, at his desk. It was some where between one and two o'clock. I gave the money to Wadlegh, and he opened the package--it was sealed g$ oumsed It-just 4.9 b~nrq 4o1 lars. He asked me if I wanted a re ceipt. I told him he had better give me a line, just to show that it had been received in that house. He wrote a simple acknowledgement of the recep tion of the amount. I took it and ran the blotter over it; then folded it up and put it into my vest pocket, and went to my dinner. Before returning to the store-the weather had grown cooler than it was in the morning-I changed my pants and vest for thicker ones; and I forgot the receipt in the vest pocket. That night when I went home it was not to be found, and I have not been able to find it since. "I'm almost through, sir. Just one week from the day on which I paid the money in at Sturgis', Mr. Merriam re ceived a letter from Colonel Penning ton, in which, at the end-after the business-occurred this passage: 'My dear old fellow, when are you going to let me hear from you? I haven't been blessed with your kind remembrance, I don't know when.' " "When was that?" I asked. "Last week Tuesday, sir." "And you gave the money in at Sturgis' counting-room whenP" "The Tuesday before that, sir-the thirteenth of the present month of Sep tember." I nodded for him to go on. "After Mr. Merriam had showed me the letter, and told me to read that sentence, he asked me if I was sure I had given the money to be sent to Colonel Pennington. You can imagine I was indignant. But I didn't know then how much I'd been suspected. I held in as best I could, and told him I had given the money into the hands of the bookkeeper, Damon Wadleigh. During the afternoon he-Merriam called in at Sturgis' and-sir-O! I can't understand it-they all-Sturgis and Wadleigh, and all there employed -swear that they never saw the money! "I forgot to say, sir, that Mr. Mer riam asked me if I took a receipt; and it was when I confessed the loss.of that that my heart began to quake. Yes, sir, they swear-all in the counting-room-that they never saw the money. Mr. Sturgis says he filled out a check, as he had said he should, on the afternoon of the 13th inst., and mailed it to Colonel Penning ton, at Joliet, but nothing had been received-so nothing had been covered in-on the account of Merriam & Co." Then, in broken accents, the young man told me that he had been accused of embezzlement; had been brought before a trial justice for preliminary examination, and bound over to appear before the grand-jury in October. The evidence before the justice had been deemed by most of those present as conclusive. There was the case. Brackett said he had searched in vain for the receipt. But the missing receipt was not alL The lifting of the mortgage from the house told heavily against hip.. He had himself paid the money, and the business had been done in his name. Yet he had utterly refused to tell where the money had come from, and had almost cried-had fairly shed tears-when pressed and badgered on that point. That the astute justice had taken as a sure sign of guilt. I asked him if he suspected Damon Wadleigh of having appropriated the money to his own use. He shook his head dubiously. He knew not what to think. He and Wadleigh had always been most excellent friends, though he had never been able to keep exactly the expensive company that Damon did. "But, mind you," he added, "Idon't mean to intimate by that that he ever lives beyond his means." I thought the matter over. Really and sincerely, I believed my client in nocent. "Look here," said I, as the thought struck me; "did Colonel Penningtop speak, in the letter which Merriam showed to you, of the amount due him from your firmP" "I am very sure he did not," re plied the youth. "He -the Colonel and Arnold Menrriam, were college mates, and have been close friends ever since. My thought of the pas sage was that he had missed his old friend's chatty, newsy letters." I had about made up my mind to send the young man away until the next day, that I might think, and per haps, investigate, when the thought occurred to me-a thought so simple -so exceedingly simple-that it had not found lodgment before: "What does Colonel Pennington say about itP" Brackett didn't know. He was very sure the Colonel had not been written to. "Well," said I, "let us begin at the bottom. The money was for Colonel Pennington. If there had been no wrong done by anybody, he should have received it." And I sat down and wrote as follows, with date and the address at my end of the line: To COrONaL WAra PUNINGTON, JoLnrr, a.: Have you received five hundred dollars, whioh should have been forwarded to you from Arnold Merriam, of this place, on the 18th in stant? Answer immediately to me. I signed my name; gave it to Charles Brackett bade him take it to the West ern Union Office, and remain for a's answer. In little more than half an hour the young man was back, and here is what Colonel Pennington telegraphed: The money was paid into my own hande on the day name--lvehnndred dollrs. 'WAiraa Panseszomn. I was not satisied with that. I w.gi now sure that, in some way, the Cole- i nel had received the money. B |t how? Before Imade my appe~aanaee I tothe aceusers,.I wished to be whole tooted. 8o I wrote -anthmr tle.r.auj asking the Colonel to send to me at once, by telegraph, a full and explicit statement of how he had received the money, and let it come at my expense. This dispatch Brackett took away; and the clock was striking six as he came back with the answer. Here it is-the body of it: On Tuesday, the thirteenth instant, shortly afternoon, I was on my way from Portland, Maine, to N. Y,, and thence home. I had to pass through your place on wings. I had just time to look in at Merriam's, where I found -nobody! Then I looked in at Sturgis' where I found one of the Wadleigh brothers-1 never could tell them apart-and he gave me a pack. age containing five hundred dollars, saying it had been left only a few moments before by one of Merriam's people. In my driving hurry I put the money in my pocket. Wadleigh said nothing about a receipt, and I didn't stop to think of it. And I have hardly thought of it since, till I received your telegram. What's up? WAvrER PENNINGTON. "Ho, hoP' I cried, when I had read. "Another case of Twins. A thousand dollars to a penny that you gave that money to Pythias Wadleigh instead of Damon!" And so it proved. Damon and Pythias Wadleigh were twin brothers, as like as two peas m a pod, and had both been in Pennington's command during the war. Upon a critical over hauling of events in the past, it ap peared that on that Tuesday noon the 13th-Pythias chanced to drop into Sturgis' counting-room when his brother was there alone. Damon was famished for his lunch, and he asked Pythias to remain on the premises while he went out; and so it had been done. So, when Charles Bracket dropped in, he found Pythias, instead of Damon; but did not know it. When Colonel Pennington looked in at Merriam's place he found it empty, and moved on. He reached Sturgis' not more than two minutes after Brackett had gone; Pythias, knowing him so well and so intimately, had given him the money as a matter of course, and thought no more of it. Half an hour later, when his brother returned, he came in company with two customers, full of business; so the subject of the Colonel and his money was not touched upon. And from that time the two brothers had not met until this strange business called them to gether. Mr. Merriam, and others concerned, made all the reparation in their power. On the merchant's promise of due circumspection, I revealed to him the secret of Brackett's ability to pay off the mortgage on his mother's house; so the last burden of doubt was lifted from his mind, and he was in the right humor to give his young clerk an ad vance in position. Love is always in order, and always interesting if it be true love; and that leads me, in closing, to say: Albert Christopher and Bella Brackett were married before the snow flew; and his parents, when they had come to know his accomplished young wife, were perfectly reconciled, and even happy. -Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., in N. Y. Ledqer. PLAYING SCARECROW. How a Busy Editor glade Good Use of a Lady Caller. "Oh, there is little danger of an ordinary mortal's growing conceited!" said a lady, in mock despair. "Pit falls are always waiting for our pride." She then went on to say that, having some business with one of the literary world's great men, the editor of a well-known paper, she ventured upon a call on him at his office. He was most cordial, and her errand was soon completed to her satisfaction. Just as she was about taking her leave, there came a knock, and she rose at once to go. * "Oh, pray wait one moment," said the editor. "I know that knock. Oblige me by waiting until the gentleman has handed me his manuscript." "I did wait," says the lady, in tell ing the story, "and found that the new comer was a celebrated author of our city. He glanced at me, gave the editor a package, and hurried away. To tell the truth, I was immensely flat tered that the editor should have pre ferred losing the celebrated man's call to shortening mine. Judge of my feelings when he said, as soon as the door had close'd behind the visitor: 'I really beg your pardon for making use of you in this way, madam, but I absolutely couldn'tresist the temptation. I knew he wouldn't stay if he saw I had as visitor, and his calls are so confound edly long. "-Y oullh's Companion. Marie Antoinette's Diadem. A well-known resident of Buffalo has just returned home from a trip to Europe. Among other souvenirs he brought with him a diadem made for and worn by Marie Antoinette. The fillet is a plain band of Roman gold, inlaid with a mosaic of opals, tur quoises, rubies and sapphires, depict ing the incidents of the lives of Helen snd Dido. Above this rises a spray pattern of beaten gold, exquisitely wrought, supporting a border of fleur de lis composed of rose diamonds and pearls. Three of the diamonds are from the famous Golconda mines. The monogram of the unhappy Queen is engraved on the inside of the fillet. This is said somehow to have escaped the notice of the auctioneer, else it might have brought much more than was paid for is, 0,500 frs--J-eelers' Weekly. -A New Jersey negro says he has fought with fists, clubs, corn-cutters, scythes, pistols and slung-shots, bul for a down-right goo~ weapon of de "ense he preferi a rasor with a white bonhandle.-Detrit Free Press. -T" a leae wltI- 8.01 -heth. DEMOCRATIC VETERANS. otrhe stohameless Wayin in Whicsuch posts as that Aof De Moines and maintain their self-respect. But why should not Democratic sol diers organize. Theby Republican Partisan. party Ithas never yet failed to make Republicrchan nodise ofod the patriotismve themselves blood, theabout this organization of the Democratic soldiers- I dierhas been so not only ever since thedown the wind. There will be quite enough ofwar, but ever sincmake the machine uncomforta-tic ble, and to make the G. A.. R. wish it solhad kept out of politics. There is in it not the slightest coldness or animos ity tso when he G. Aenlisted. He lefxcept his it for-me his family, his loyed ones to go out and sakoffer up his its trlife in a cause whpurpose credit undhe knew would booe claimed by athe mer-nd cenary men who abused him for hi politicabuse another. The Depatotism of the sol posdier who remwas on the popular side inthey propolitis does not comparnize outside of ithi. A valued exchange ven to this day the patriefore notism quite correct in saying: A large number of the .Democratic soldier is impugnedes Moines haves been denied because of the offensive ness of the ofciaTuttle element. It is hard for Dem-ents ocrats to remain in such posts asll that of Des Moines and maintanly heir has endulf-redispect. But But why should not Democratic sol the time for endurize. The Republican party. For bearance has ceasiled to make a virtuerhan Considering of the patriotism, the blood, the whlives of the enlisted, and the patience with which, for his country's sake, he has borne insulo not and injury from since the wartime the unseasoned flesh of his tendere the Democratic youth yienlisted to the knbullew it wountl hibe so when he enlisted. He left his homejoint stine with agemily, there is noted ones theo go out and histoffer up his lifmore shiinng a cause whosexample redit he knew would be claimed by the mer cenary men who abused him for his politics. The patriotism ofthan this same Demoratic soldier. Why shouldn't he organizeP ]de dierasks nwho was on thdue pension. He is not seeking ofllee He seeks only the politics does not compare wieace and happiness of the whois. country. He did not ofer his dayife the patriotism Prof the Democratic soldierbe insulted, the country rent with civil strife, and the hearts beenof his chdenied any participationdy in the official honors a portion of theirnts countryme country. He fought for peacell this, and union. He thinks that four years andof fighpatiently he has twenduty-two years more- But thef waitimeng are enough; or ought to. For enough, to gain thoeased blessed ends. Cons he not ring the circumstances ndtPer whIt is the enlisted, and the patience with which, for his country's sake, he human borne insult and injurmay be proud tohe time theand up nseasoned flesh of h. He is tendero arcyouth yielded to the bullet untilges his hairecently observed, Mis jsourints sent 17,8ed withore men into there is not on thearmy thange of rows did. Missouri cast only 17,028; votes for Lincoln, but sent 86,680 men history a more shining example ofas patriotism than this same Democratic soldier. Why70,409 votes for Lincoln he organized only He aished 68,680 mundue pensi to the Union army.not seeking office. He seeks only the peConce ading thappt two-thirdness of the Iowhole country. He did not offer his lifes were Republicans, and that Pwo-thirdents migof thost be insulwho voted for Lthe country rent with civil estred in the Uniond the hearts of his children filled with undy rmy, wing hatred against a portiontal of about 57,000heir coRepublican soldiersHe fom these State, and unwhie the same Statehinks furnished 98,000four years of fighting and twenty-two years more of waiting are enough; or ought to be enough, to gain those blessed ends. Is he not right? Democratic soldiers tic.soldier, of all army! These figures are rather inter human besting. A good manys, who may ore prsuch ould to stande furnishd be counted.De Moi .) Leader. is not scarce. As one of our exchanges has SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. Wrecey the Miobserved, Missouri senhit 17,80 ]Ended F~orever and ftorevers One mesignificant feature Union armyof the recentan discussion concerning the rebel fla7,028 matvotes for Lincwas the total abut sence of any il86,530 men feeing on the Union armyt of thile South. The 70,409 votes for Lincoln and only fur nished 68,680 mwhen to the Republican army.bosses could produce political capital very Conreadingly simply by two-thirdsritating a fewa Southldiers were Republicanditors, and then inflame theat tworthern heart by repeating theid for iliny coln in Missouri enlisted in time hUnion passed, and one reason why the South armywill not bhavedrawn intotal of about 57,000con roversies with Republican agisoldiers from these Stators while the same States furnished 98,000 Democs that it is too busy builditng up newion andustrimy! Thes and incgureasing are rathe gener-al busing. Aess of that section of the countyld A very recent review of the industria. browth of the South demonstrates that the people have been earnestly at wors within the last two decades, and that Ohe fruits of this earnest work have dien most marked during the last sia flonths of the present year. The Sanufacturern ' e ecord, published it Baltimore, gives the fobeowing eniori c umber. osmber. Tron furnace'eompanies.... ... 90O pa.hine shops and fonedries.. h t o wilcultural implement faeo torie s R......................... 11 t los mits t o.................o.... l n e industries and i.n. creasin.e... ge e buiestio tht sctio. o...... 88 1c t C-nn-worfac..r.................. Z4 15 A vceryreents reviw of th idutra mine-w rs, ........k...... .... 46 1 growth ofd theout demto nstats. tha the popl have been earnestly. at wor wii the lgast tomm dess....... and t thefrluniof enterprises work.ha.e enmsarink ftores nth............ st mtonth ofo hesp.e................. Th is ptpbe-hwos ....... dierit o naewfetacuernrte corprdic ubish o e i Bealthy growth. The building of cot aon mil is againu attracting much re teetedcptl numear. Numbtr. Southern States new mills are being erected, and especially in South Caro lina is this activity noticeable. Several very large mills are being put up and the older and smaller ones are being enlarged and otherwise im proved. At Greenville a cotton mill to cost $600,000 will soon be built. Texas is also becoming largely in teresting in cotton manufacturing. The amount of capital (including cap ital stock of incorporated companies) represented by the new enterprises or ganized or chartered in the South, and in the enlargement of old plants and rebuilding of mills destroyed by fire during six months of 1887, as com pared with the same time in 1886, was as follows: --For si months of-. 1887. 1886. Alabama ............5... 1,00 14,808,500 Arkansas .............. 29,812,000 11,428,000 Florida ................. o805,000 91,000 Gorgia ................ 9,957,000 1,88,000 Kentucky ........... 21,710,000 17,20,100 Louisiana. ii..........,92,000 1,202,000 Maryland ................ 11,295,000 Mississippi .......... 2,23,000 457,000 North Carolina... 9 h,000 1,485,900 South Carolina.......... 1,60,000 ro88o,000 tennessee .............. e 56,000 5,297,000 Texas ................... 1, 0 ,000 2,986,000 Virginia... .. 10,889,000 5,663,000 West Virginia.......... 4,961.000 6,123,800 Total ................1161,192,000 668,618,900 These statistics mean "business." They are no idle tales invented by boom-makers, and they demonstrate the vastoess of the recent revolution that has been quietly going on in the Southern States. The bloody shirt nmay flap and flutter for for the Re publican agitator, but it can be used no longer to retard the progress of the Southern States.-Indiai napolis Ben tineL THEY ALL WANT IT. Some of the Interests That Are Howling for a Bloody-Shirt Campaign. There are several interests in the country which would like to have the "rebel flag incident" made the chief issue of the next campaign. Weak as that issue might be, they regard it as strong in comparison with some others that might be fprced upon them. The big combinations in coal, lum ber, salt, glass, copper, iron and steel would like to fight the rebellion over again in 1888. Alien landlords now on the point of being driven from the country would not object to it if it promised to bring back the party under whose rule they flourished. The cattle barons who were ejected from the public lands which they had unlawfully monopolized would wel come it. The land grabbing corporations which have been forced to do justice to the settler and which have had their unearned grants forfeited all want it. The Pacific railroads, owing the Gov ernment $100,000,000 which they do not want to pay, would not object to a bloody shirt campaign. The Dorseys, the Elkinses, the Clay. tons and the Chacffees are all yearning for a fight on the lines of a generation ago. Every theiving monopolist in Ameri ca, forced by recent events to defend himself against attacks which are in creasing in force, wants to change the subject. Even Jay Gould would not object ii the prospect were that the war issues would restore the party from which he bought the appointment of a Justice of the Supreme Court. The claim agents, the subsidy grab bers, the naval and steamship rings, the pension swindlers and old Robeson and J. Warren Keifer all regard the rebel flag as a first-rate thing to scare honest men with. The only trouble with the crowd is that it is slightly too eager. It banks too much on an incident which will not avail them much. The "rebel" scare kept them in power eight years after the country was ready to turn them out. It will not suice to restore them to power now that they have been turned out.-Chicago Herald. POLITICAL PITH. --Sherman is trying to do the strad. dle act with a banana peeling under each heel.-Bichmond Dispatch. --Some of our Republican contem poraries are busily engaged in carry ing next year's Presidential election this year. Their occupation is harm less and it may amuse them. Next year's Presidential election will be car ried by t~he Democrats next year.-T-roy (N. Y.) Press. -The President's statement that more Union veterans are employed un der this Government than under any previous Administration is like one of Mr. Sullivan's swinging hits from the shoulder, and it completely knocks out Tuttle and the Tuttle style of blather skites.-St. Louis Republican. -Blaine was not in Congress, it is maid, when he was put down as "right" in 1862 and got $10,000 worth of railway stock for nothing. That is so. He did notget into Congress until the next year, being too busy getting Spencer rifle contracts "and sich." But he was "right" just the same. Detroit Free Press. ---If the Republican party of the country hopes to retain the strength which it still has, much more of it hopes to recover the strength which it has unquestionably lost, it must face to the front and vindicate its claim to be a party of progress. It can not move forward with eyes averted to the past or win triumphs on issues that are dead. lothing could be more fatuous than an effort of its leaders to arouse the sectional animosities of times gone by or to attempt to base its claims to popular support upon care for the soldiers of the wgr of gAg MURDEROUS MALAYS. WSat the Phrase "Runnlag Amuck" Slgal. Res In Oriental Countries. "Running amuck" is a phrase deriv. ed from the Malay word "'amok" ("kill ing") and constitutes a well-marked hysterical affection of certain races in habiting Oriental countries. It is rarely, ever, manifested among the quiet-tempered Hindus, and but seldom among the Indian Mussulmans, while whenever it does occur in Hindostan, the malady may generally be traced to the abuse of opium or the extract of hemp called bhang, gania, or charras. The Hindu tobacconist sells a special confection made up of bhang, opium, datura, cloves, mastic, cinnamon and cardamums, which is mixed with milk and sugar and eaten as a sweetmeat. This diabolical cake-known as majum -will drive a man mad about as soon as any thing. With the Malays, how ever, who have given a name to the terrible mental aberration' of which we speak, and who are far the most addicted to it of all Eastern people, there is seldom any such ex planation of the outbreak. Sud denly, without rhymes or reason, a man will spring up from his shop board or his couch, draw his kris-the wave-bladed dagger which they all carry-and, with a scream of "Amok! Amok!" strike its point into the heart of the nearest wayfarer and dart down the crowded basar like the lunatic which he is, stabbing and cutting on all sides. "Amok! Amokt" echoes from a hundred mouths, and every body hurries for a place of refuge, fleeing in all directions, except those bolder spirits who snatch up weapons of defense and join the armed throng which pursues the desperado. The path of the chase is soon strewn with bodies of men, women and children, dead or bleeding to death, until some lucky shot or daring thrust disables the murderer, who is pierced with a dozen blades as soon as he falls to the ground. Occasionally it turns out that the "smoker" has received some per sonal afftront or injury or was hope lessly in debt or disappointed in love; but more commonly there is nothing whatever to account for the wild fury of his proceedings, and the street sweepers drag his carcass away as carelessly as if a leopard had been slain in the publiestreets. So ordinary, indeed, is the occurrence that in many towns and cities where there lives a large Malay population an instrument is kept in readiness at every police station called the "amoker catcher." It is something like an eel-spear with a very long handle, and so contrived that two elastic-pointed spikes close round the madman's neck and secure him helplessly when the itron prongs are pushed against his nape from be. hind. Neither rank nor wealth keeps a Malay from this sudden access of homicidal mania if he has the predis position or has been greatly excited. There was an instance at Salatiga, in the island of Java, where the Regent was celebrating the marriage of two of his daughters, and every body was in a festive and joyous mood. Just, however at the gayest moment of the ceremonies, the Regent's brother-in. law, a high official, came rushing through the procession, stabbing every body he could get at with his jeweled kris. The Regent himself, coming up to inquire into the uproar, was killed by a single thrust, and it was the brother of the Prince who ran the "amoker" through the back with a spear and brought him down, yet not before he had slaughtered nine of the palace people and wounded six others more or less severely.-London Telegraph. HOW TO GRADE LOTS. The Upadsomeet S *ee Which a Real deuce Property Can Present, The advantage in appearance which a house has that stands up well above the level of the street or roadway, is now very generally understood, and consequently we find the foundation walls built higher than was customary some years ago. In order to increase the effect still more, it is now a very common practice in ordinary suburban lots to fill in soil sufficient to raise the surface a foot or two above the street, thus forming a terrace at the street line. We do not advise this practice for general adoption, but in some cases the peculiar circumstances make it desirable. Where the fall of the drainage is very slight, it is even nec essary; where the grade of a street is lowered, and the grounds have al ready been planted, there is usually no other course but to terrace at the tine. But a course that is necessary under the conditions named has been meaninglessly copied in many instances where there was no occasion for it, and we see the lots along the whole lines of streets piled up sometimes as much as three feet or more above the general level, even where it is necessary to build within a few feet of the line, thus requiring the entrance to the house to be by a flight of eight or ten steps. On larger grounds where are built villas or resi dences of much pretension in style and finish, and which occupy a snui ciently elevated site, and at consider able distance from the street, this method of grading up the front and terracing at the line is sometimes adopted, but the appearance is far lees pleasing than an even grade over the whole surface; one effect is to shorten apparently the line of distance from the street to the house, and thus di minish the size of the grounds. A gentle and gradual rise from the street line to the front of the house is the handsomest surface a residenqq lqt 95n pres.t,--fch'. Maaaszie PITH AND POINT. -Without weariness' there Is no rese in life, even as without hunger there is no relish of bread. -Ease may be the result of wealth, but wealth is never the result of ease. --Texas Siftings -Good ends is like hard-wood tim ber which allers grows slow, but lasts powerful whea it gets its size. -It is sometimes hard to tell where business sagacity leaves off and down. right. rascality begins.-WAUfd&f Times. -The man who was to publish a newspaper to suit everybody fell out of Noah's ark and was drowned. -ape Ann Advertiser. -An economist has sagely observed that, no matter how large its popula. tion may beoome, there will always be enough earth to go round. -Wifoe-"You haven't been inside of a church since we were married." Husband - (sorrowfully) - "No; a burnt child dreads the lirt." -Affectation endeavors to correel natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it al ways misses it. -Locke. -When you meet a friend all broken up it's a little funny, isn't it, to have him tell you that he's been three weeks in the country recuperating? -What is written is written; and truth shall stand though pride fall, though vanity lie prone upon its face in dust, and love turn away in heart. breaking farewell of its dearer self.-' DetroU Fres Pres.. -No Better Than His Company. By one's surroundings it is shown What sort of harvest habit respe; And so a manager is known By just the oompany he keeps. -2Teas Riflings.. -"Excuse me, sir, but haven't we met before? Your face is strangely familiar." "Yes, madam, our host in troduced us to each. other Just before dinner." "Ab, I was positive I had seen you somewhere. Inever forget.a , face."--Ife .:, -It is gent' bnceeded that wom. en dress to attiat the- admiration of men, and.the Pittsburgh Dbpcuok asks; "But why do men dress' ?". Well, be. cause they look-better that way. They would attract altogether too much at. tention If they didn't dress.-Norris tomn Herakld -The old composers were not in dolent, but they had very treacherous memories. There has not been a year during the, past quarter of a century that the manuscript of an opera by. somb noted and long-deceased orm poser has. not been ditoovered, It Is supposed the author stuffed it away, in the pfgeon-hole of his desk and forgot It.-Norristown Herald RHODE ISLAND COAL Valruble Beds or Maerls Uoaderag 'the Sarbee of the ittle State. The following letter has been re ceived by Thomas J. Hill, of ProvI dence, from W. F. Darees, a well known engineer of New York,` in relal tion to the deposits of iron sad eooal found in Rhode Island. Mr. Durees is a man of great experience and his opinion of the value of the Rhode Island coal and iron, backed as it sb his knowledge, is of Interest and impor tance. Here is the letter, the formal parts of it being omitted: "It has become a popular belief that the day had passed when New England can successfully compete withPennsyl vania in the manufacture of iron and steel, but. as the result of recentinves tigations. I am fully persuaded that so far as Rhode Island is concerned this belief is erroneous. I have had. asyo know, over thirty years experieone in the design, erection and operation ac establishments for the manufacture of iron, steel and other metals, and I naturally, as the result of that exper#. ence, feel qualified to form ans iateli gent opinion of the merits of any pro posal relating to such industries. Recently I have been csalled upoe to report on the feasibility of proft ably manufacturing the best qtity oal pig iron from the COmberland Ironwre by the use of Bhode Island coal as fuel. Without going into the detail, (which I am fully prepared to do If requested), I have no hesitation in saying that by the use of the oe •named, combined with a proper --pro portion of foreign ores (which can be brought into Narragansett bayeheaper than at any point in this country where they are now used), there an be madewithin the limits of the State of Rhode Island at a very re munerative profit as good pig Iron as is made anywhere in the United States; iron, in faet, in every way suitable for the manufacture of Bes semer steel The anthracite coal of RhodeIsland, though not well adapted for either a steam or domestic fuel, by reason of the presence of lime and alamina, is especially well suialted for the use of the blast furnace, as the ingredlents nsme-d are just what is needed as a dux for the Rhode Island ores and wouald have to be supplied from some souree. The Rhode Island ore is free from sulphur and contains as much fixed carbon as the average Pennsylvania anthra-ites. As an illustration of the great valuae of this coal for the manufacture of iron, it may ianterest you to know that at the present time there is being mined in the town of Cranston sad shipped to Pittsburgh from 250 to 800 tons per week of this coal, which is there used in the reduction oi Iron-ore for the manufacture of .! oms," 'ad so successful has this ius of 3hode Island fuel been found, at who are using it are innoeas, %* wqrks.-4w1