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SShe. g THE WORLD IS GOVERNED TOO M~CH. VOL. 50.1 ALEXANDRIA LA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1895. INO. 35 The Louisiana Democrat PUBLISIIEhI EVERY WEDNESDAY - AT ALEXANDRIA. Oilicial Journal of the City of Alexandria Ollicial Journal of the School Board. MIOBLEY & CO. - Propr's. W. G. MOBLEY, - - Editor. 'ITERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ......................75 cents. Six Months ................... .50 cents. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING RATES. Itlu~s.l I mo. 2 nios. 3 ulonsG I6 m.' year 1 inch.! $1 50o $3 00 t4 001 $ 00 X10 0i 2 " 2 5) 450 6000, 100 1.500 4 " 6 00i 8 00 1000 15 00 20 00 6 " I 8 00o 12 l1 15)I 00 20 00 2 00 8 10 00i 15 0u, 20 0o0 o00 35 00 col'n 15 00 25 00 :l0 00 40 00 (60 00 1 " 25 00 3500 45 001 60 00 100 00 T'ransioet :iadlv:rtiscnemuts $1.00 per square foir first iusrtion, 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. All advertisements of a political na ture must be paid for in advance. 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I IYou change your address, notify us, giving your name, present post otfice and the post otffice to which you wish the paper changed. RAILROAD - TIME - TABLE. TEXAS AND PACIFIC o West Bound: No 53 Arrives............... 4:40 p. nm No. 51 " ................ 3:05 a. am No. 51 Departs .............. 3:15 a. ui East Bound: No. 54 Arrives.................. 9:14 a. mi No. 52 . ................12:10 a. min No: 52 Departs ................12:20 a. in MORGAN'S LOUISIANA AND TEXAS: Leaves Alexandria ............9:05 a. in Arrives at Alexandria .........7:45 p. ii i First-class fare from Alexandria to New Orleans by either of above named roads costs $5.80. HOUSTON, CENTRAL ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN: No. 221-Arrives ..............11:15 p. in No. 222-Departs.............. 4:30 a. in KANSAS CITY, WATKINS &ND GULF. Passenger No 1 Arrives at Alexandria..........11:15 a m Freight No 3 Arrives at Alexandria......... 4:00 p m. Passenger No 2 Leaves Alexandria ...........12:15 p m Freight No 4 Leaves Alexandria ............6:00 a. m. Nos 3. and 4 Larry passengers. All trains daily, cseept Sunday. JOHN KRAMER UNDERTAKER salesrooms CORNER FOURTH AND SCOTT STS. ALEXANDRIA LA. CAREFUL ATTENTION GIVEN. I have one of the handsomest hearses in Cen tral Louisiana, and a supply of metal lic and other coffins. Prices very.rea sonable. Telegrams promptly attend ed to night or day. ROBT. P. HUNTEBR, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW ALEXANDRIA, LA. tfOmee corner of Third and Lee streets G·EO. O WATTS NOTARY PUBLIC - and - REAL ESTATE BROKER, ALEXANDRIA, LA. WANT A < O 8ituatioa? a .W. Co. Ma& Uppsr sL.,opp.Cowl lHOusEa C WILBUR R. SMITHi, PRESIDENT, a LEXINGTON, KY. ][fbA-lO,,i-O suneseful graduates, In ewa cludidng 100 In Bankl. wmard of Medal d Diploma at World's Exposition for Book-keepg etc. A Thorons hl, Inm tl and Honomesred College. Hundreds of students in attendance - the past year, from U states. husiesa Course consists of Book-keeping a Business Arithmetic, Penmanship, Commerciatn Law, Merchandisting, Banking. Joint Stock, I Manufacturing. Lectures, Business Practice, Mercantile Correspondence, etc. Cost of FUhll Buasness Course, including Tuition, Stationery and Board in a nice family, I Shorthand, Tlpewrltlug and Telegraphy C are apeet-ltieas have special teachers and rooms, and can be taken aone or with the Busi ness Course. I peclai department for ladies. t SItatiou--The demand for our graduates in different departments of this College has ex Sceeded its supply. The Prilcel of the Branklnr Depart sent or thil Colege has been a Dlrector and I Vice-President of a bank for a number of years, and refers to nearly 100 former pupils now holding f positions in banrks as Presldent, VieePresidents, Cashilers, Book-keepers, etc.; nine in Lexington E banks. The Princlipal of the Phonographle De. paramentis endorsed as an accurate and practi cal stenographer in taking verbatim reports phon 0 netically, and as a good English scholar endorsed by the City, County and (ommonwealth Attor neye, Judges and a score of other leading attor neys of this city who have employed him. he Prielpal or the Telegraphl. Do. partmente or this College was for a number of years an operator, principal clerk, acut, entc, for o the L. & N. R. R.. and whose qualilication is en dorsed by the leading oicers f that road. The other Teac-hers of this College In Book-keeping, Business, Arithmetic, Penman- i ship, etc., are experienced and emicient. Thls College i ltablisbed and relies on its clear record of over a quarter of a centuryu , aponaible and ecactly as represente4.and endorsed by its thousands of former pupil for Ihones ano conesetentfou toork, and who influence annually hundred of their relations and friends to attend. No Busiyness College i Amerises can refer to more distihguished and snccestsful graduates than this College. Our catalogues have letters of endorsement by representatives of One Hrndred OfBefals, including a Lieutenant-Governor, Con gressmen, Attorney-General, Judges, Members of to Leghsl etureset; also Ore uilndred Beln em ploys. One hundred former stdente . holdingl the highest and most lucrative positions in this seal is awarded tie graduate, of tis Crollege. m aeoy Unrsi, tl is theon otg Prof. wmiths of College ars noted forts healthfulntso and finsCl climateege haes 25 cuvfof receiving Isr bant Accesin 1 the LtMerro tmntrow. enraduatesuy Unccert fl. For otlre clars address its President, WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexingto n, Ky.mth CollegeWhat a Promi nent Citizenes and ne ilebyts manyraLiveryma n I fulC. For rclars aowddrs. ident, I have used Dr. Sylvester's Spe Bcific for Bte, Colic anid Tympae naes in horses and mules. I fnd its effect marvelous-acts like a Scharm. I have need several reme diesi but nothing cones up to this. IRVIN MOGINNIS. FOR SALE AT Eagle Drug Store, - - J. Geiger YOU CAN BE CURED WHILE USING IT. The habit of using tobacco grows on nmn until grave diseased conditions are month and stomach; dyspepsia; lose of r nerve, resulting in impairment of vision, even to the extent of blindness; dizziness or vertigo; tobacco asthma; nightly sufo cation; dull pain in the region of the heart, followed later by sharp pains, pal pitation and weakened pulse, result ug in fatal heart disease. It also causes lose of vitality. QUIT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. To quit suddenly is too severe a shock to the system. as tobacco-to an inveter ate user, becomes a stimulant that his system continually craves. "BACCO CURO" .is a scientific and reliable vege table remedy; guarrateed to be perfectly harmless; and whicen has been in use for Stihe last 23 years, having cured thousands of habitual tobacco users-smokers, chew ers and snuff-dippers. YOU CAN USE ALL THE TOBACCO CURO." IT WILL NOTIFY OU WHEN a TO STOP. WE' GIVE A WRITTEN a- GUArANTEE to permanently cure any case with three boxes, or refund the money with 10 per cent. interest. 'BACCO-C(URO" is not a substitute, but a reliable and scientific cure-which with no inconvenience. It leaves the system as pure and free from nlcotileo, as Sold by all dranggists, at $1.00 per box, three boxes, (thirty days treatment, an-id SGUARANTEED CURE,) $2.50, or sent dirrect upon receipt of price. SEND SIX TWO-CENT STAMPS FOR SAMPLE iBOOKLET ANDI PROOFS FREE. Eure ia Chemical & Manufacturing Company, Manufacturing Chemists, LaCrosee, Wis conti.n THE FIRST ATTACK. Oh, there's something the matter with Teddyl B Some great weight on the mind of the lad, Some sore trouble he's not told "the mater," Not yet brought to the ear of his "dad." Such a change has comp over our laddlel 01 He has lost all his ardor for noise, And he waxes sardonic when sought out To "have fun" with the neighborhoodboys. a' He Just mopes by himself. If he whistlee, d' 'Tis some tune in a sad minor key; If he speaks, it is not to the question. The brave boy, once so frank and so free, 01 Grows secretive and dumb as or. oyster, Oh, some trouble or other he's got Ridden now in his heart's deep recesses, C Though 'twonld puzzle the lad to tell Wha f( Though it needs no M. D.'s diagnosing To explain this condition of his- His strange sadness, his silence, his tremors- He himself doesn't know what it is, s1 Though his elders (expert at detecting All the signs and the symptoms thereof) Could have told him-the boy's never dreamed d' yet, Poor dear lamb, that it's nothing but lovel All he knows is that-though he once wondered What his big brother Billy could see P IdI girls, silly things, to distrnat him ( From his baseball and mumblepee-he R] Blushes red when one little maid speaks now, Grows first hot and then cohl iL her curls R Brush his cheek, and he wonde.rs no longer ti Why his big brother Billy likes gtrll -Boston Globe. Those Who Do or Who Do Not Read. J There are people to whom it comes a natural to read, and there are others, , even in these days of newspapers ii and schools, to whom reading comes a hard. I have seen, as most of us p have, so many thoroughly worthless ~ persons who were great readers that ti when I meet a thoroughly worthy n and intelligent person who doesn't s read it fills me with admiration and I respect. I do meet such persons o now and then. They are apt to be t: quick and accurate observers, good t talkers, people of action. Of course h they do read a little something every I day, the newspaper if nothing more, a but reading is not a necessity to t them. They don't count on it as an o amusement or depend upon it as an b exercise of the mind. To the habitual reader reading be. b comes as necessary as alcohol to the , dram drinker. It doesn't seem to make any violent amount of differ. n ence what he reads, but he must sit . in a chair a certain length of time a every day and rest his eyes and t mind on a printed page. You can ' no more judge such a person by tneo I book company he keeps than you l can judge a lunatic by the qualities I of his keepers. His reading is habit. t It never turns to energy, never in- . fluences action. He sleeps better t after it, that is all.-Scribner's. Italian Peasants. Ouida deplores the fact that in ° her beloved Italy the peasants do i: not sing as of yore. Twenty years ago in Italy, she says, melody was to be heard all over the country. _ The laborer going home to bed through the vines sung his stornello i or his rispetto to the sleeping fields. 1 The boy who drove his yoked oxen or cows in the big square cart be. guiled the way with song, joyous or amorous. The guitar and the man. dolin were heard at dusk" at every i farmhouse door, and in the streoet 1 of the town youths went singing and playing until the moon was I high. There was musio all over the . land, along the hedgerows as in the city lanes, under the poplars and mulberries as beneath the walls of citadel and baptistery. How many a I time at sunset or in the starlit hi have I listened to the beautiful can zone of the peasantry when the sweetness of the vine flower filled the atmosphere or the drooped acacia blossom shed its smell on garden paths. Now rarely are these wood notes wild over heard to lighten and spiritualize toil. Arithmetic Applied to Dramatic Criticism" Howard Paul tells a story which has Henry Irving for its subject. One night at the London Lyceum two American women sat behind Mr. Paul in the stalls. 'The play was "Romeo and Juliet," Irving playing the lovesick Montague and Ellen Terry representing the faii Capulet. The balcony scene was reached, and Irving was sighing and groan. ing under the balcony, while Miss Terry looked down upon him with her glowing but scarcely maiden eyes "How old is Mr. Irving?" asked one of the women. "About 50," the other answered. "And how old is Miss Terry?" "Somewhat near 40." "Hum! Fifty and forty make ninety. Well, I think they're old enough to know better."-Life's Cal. endar. A Lesson Iu Pronunetlion. London Truth is responsible for this story: A bishop of St. David's confided to an old Welsh olergymen his difioulty in mastering the Welsh double L. The parson replied, "Put the tip of your apostolio tongue in the roof of your episcopal mouth, my lord, and then hiss like a gan der." All buildings in the city of Glas gow are furnished with water b the municipality at cheap rates, ant. there is always plenty of it. It is brought from Loch Katrine and is of the best and purest quality. In London nearly 264 streets are named after the queen, while there are 241 Cross streets, 240 Albert streets, 212 Church streets and 191 Queen streetae . HE SLEW CHIEF TECUMSEH. iI' Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky the Hero As of the Fight. While nearly every one has heard of the famous Indian leader Teoum- ty seh, there are mn-ny who are not tii aware of the fact that his death was tr due to the bravery of a man who a afterward became the vice president st of the United States. Richard M. s Johnson was a native of thQ Blue tb Grass State and the fact may account s, for his fondness tora fight. He was re born in 1781, while Washington was still alive and when the American pl states had scarcely passed out of their swaddling clothes into the oi dress of full fledged and independent ut sovereignties. The white man ruled fo only in the east, and out no the vast se prairies of the west roamed the In- i, dians, and the settlers on the out- in skirts of civilization never knew at ht what moment they might be at- i tacked and destroyed. Such continued to be the state of affairs for some years, and when L Johnson was in congress in 1812, p and the English and Indians had combined to attack the new ropub- r lie, Johnson went home to Kentucky tc and raised a battalion of three com- of panies, and after they had been con solidated into a regiment was made , the colonel and served for ten months. He returned for a short rt space to his congressional duties, lii but at the command of the secretary tu of war soon raised a regiment of a A thousand volunteers and went to at. 1If tack the enemy in the west, joining his force to that of General William w Henry Harrison, who was then gov ernor of Indiana and the leader of st the American troops. It was then, ", on Oct. 5, 1813, occurred the famous battle of the Thames. The English forces wore posted as between the river and the marsh, a; while the Indians were on a high ground in the swampy land. Colo nel Johnson ordered his men for- gý ward, and'the Enghsh lot them get it almost within a few yards before or the command to fire was given. w Then the bullets laid the front rank w low. A desperate battle took place, but the conflict lasted only about 1(8 I minutes, the Americans being vie- h torious. Tecumseh was found on the field dead, and it was asserted h that Johnson was the one who shot him, as he was killed by a man on horseback, and Johnson was the only one mounted, his command be. c, ing infantry. It was also known v that Johnson had been engaged in a hand to hand' fight with one of the most desperate of the chiefs, and it n was thought that Teoumseh would a be the very one to single out the t] leader to meet his- tomahawk, a foe h Worthy of his steel. Johnson him. self was badly wounded. Although the death of Tecumseh at the hands of Johnson has been a Z much disputed point, he has always ii been given the credit, and in eleo. h tions it was something which large- t. ly added to his popularity-nothing dtrange in an age when the states men were required to fight on the frontier of a new world. When Johnson returned to con gross, he was still too sick to walk, t and his wa- up the street was a tri. umph'al procession, while a joi"t s resolution of thanks was passed by i the body. Afterward he came to the senate, and then he was chosen a vice president on the ticket head. ed by Martin Van Buren. No eleo. tion was made by the electoral col. lege. Thus failing in an election by this means, Johnson was chosen by the senate to that high position.- I Philadelphia Times. Li zard Captured by a Spider. ' The giant of the whole spider fam. Sily is the "hound" or "dog spider" 1 of Madagascar. Its body weighs Salmost a pound and each of his eight legs is longer and larger in diameter than the common cedar pencil. Each of its mandibles is three-fourths of an inch in length and very strong. SThe dog spider does not spread a Snet and lie in wait for its prey, as Sdo the gigantio bird spiders of Cey lon, but "follows the trail" in exact Simitation of a hound. It will follow a faint scent to and fro through the weeds and underbrush until the course is ascertained and then sud denly dart off in abee line and quick : ly overtake the lizard, rat, mole or d other animal of which it is in pur Ssuit. It has been known to capture and kill lizards a foot or more in length, and Professor Barnaby tells of one which pounced upon and killed a full grown rat. The dog spider is said to be the Sonly variety among the larger spe cies of spiders which is absolutely nonvenomous, there being no more Sdangerin its bite than thereis in thatof a squirrelor a rabbit.-St. SLouis Republic. Discretion the Better Part. "I'm prrfectly oonvinoed," said the ambitious young man, "that I s can write the greatest novel of the Speriod." "Why don't you go ahead and do it, then?" r "Oh, I wouldn't think of such a e thing. I am happy now in my belief r on the subject. Where's the good1 1 of my risking disappointment?"- : Washington Star. HE WANTED A SNAKE STORY. And the Man From Londoun County B Sa tiated Hls Longing. The man with the Loudoun coun-:I ty whiskers was waiting at the Bal- P; timore and Potbmao station for a a: train to take him home, when a Star g man, mousing around there for a` stray bit of news, happened on him. b "Hello, there, young feller," he n said cheerily, "do you know any thing about that Ioudoun county I snake with a pneumatic tire skin I b read of in the paper?" a "Nothing whatever," was the re. I ply. t] "Well, do you know, I've got my d opinion of snake stories," he contin- ii noued as he made a place on the truck p for The Star in~ to sit down. "It fi seems to me that hoss tradin and n fishin and snakes and politics are all e: in the same class, and a man can't f' have anything to do with any of them if he don't lie some." p "I don't know about that." "You're old enough to," said the b Loudoun man, with a not'e of re- d proof in his voice. b "This is no joking matter," said o The Star man sternly. "What I want o to know is, haven't you some kind a of a snake story to teoll?" a The Loudoun man rubbed those v whiskers for a minute or two. t "Well," he began slowly, "I have run across a thing or two in that t line. Last summer as I was goin along p the ridge between Snicker's Gap and i Ashby's I met up with a snake about o 16 feet long"- a "How long?" put in The Star man, 0 with promptness. I "About six feet long, " replied the a story teller without turning a hair, "and about 14 inches in diameter"- a "How much?" "About four inches in diameter, a and he had a head on to him as big f as my hat, and"- c "Hdw big did you say?" f "As big as that," laying three fin- a gem across the palm of his hand as f innocently as if he had never been a called down in his life. "And he d was stretched across the road like he ' was sunnin himself." If He stopped as if in doubt about I finishing, and The Star man urged I him a bit. c "Well, what did the snake do?" I he asked. "Just lay there." "And what did you do?" t "I slipped upon him as quiet as I a coald with a corn knife I had along i with me and give him' a whack." "Did you kill him?"' I "Kill him?" he exclaimed. "Not 6 much. I chopped him into a thou-n sand pieces, for I counted them after I the fight was over, but I didn't kill 1 him after all." 1 "Come off," kicked the listener. I "Do you mean to tell me"- 1 "Of course I do," interrupted the Loudoun man, starting for his train in a hurry; "the snake was dead an hour before I got there. "-Washing. ton Star. Neglect of English. I asked Professor .J. A. Sherman of the University of Nebraska if he found the students entering college better prepared in English now than they were in former years. "No," said he, "they are not so well pre. pared as they used to be. The rea" son, I suppose, is that the prepara. tion for college now is much easier, so far as facilities are concerned, than it was years ago. In New Eng. land 25 years ago there were the two preparatory schools, Phillips Ando. ver and Phillips Exeter, but the ma jority of those who went to college were obliged to get their preparation through high schools and acade mies in their own towns, and that meant they must do a great deal ol the work by themselves. In thoese Sdays fewer boys were sent to college. SThose who went generally made Stheir own way, and the work that Sthey did was more apt to be thor. Sough and individual work." "Do you blame newspapers for the Spoor quality of English used by the Speople?" "No, I think newspaper English, poor as much of it is, is an impor Stant stepping stone to the reading Sof the best literature. It forms a connecting link'between the settled book language of old and the oral language of every day. Its prao r tical features will be incorporated in the literature of the future and will Smake it more than it has ever been Sthe literature of the whole people." -Chautauqua Aisembly Herald. Long Ife of Wood& SThe durability of wet timber is . something remarkable. Recently, y aooording .o a Vienna paper, one of Sthe piles supporting the bridge built aeross the Danube by the Emperor Trajan was taken up. Although driven 17 centuries ago, it showed no change save that it was petrified to the depth of three-quarters of an The chestnut, beechb, elm and oak Spiles on which stand the Savoy pal. ace, London, are undecayed. They o wereputin placein thelatterpart of the thirteenth century.-New SYork World. A youth does notalways get mucb comfort out of his first cigar, but -' gets a heap oe erpience . . POIER AND CLASS. No Reference to the Game of Pair. but La to a Form of Art. For a long time poker work, or I pytography, has been a fashionable sai art, but until recently it has been be, generally applied to wood only, abi Now, however, glass pyrography is ab being taken up, and thus quite a pie new field is being opened in this fas hab cinating branch of decorative'work. he In the newer form of pyrography the Th burning process is exactly the same eat as in the old poker work on wood, rex which is now so well known, only of the platinum point is made many St( degrees hotter for the glass--indeed ` it can scarcely be too hot to acocomn in plish the desired result, and there- ho: fore it needs to be' of special hard. Th ness. This being the case, art deal- me ers now sell points made on purpose Fo for glass pyrography. pa: The glass used is the ordinary as plate, and through it the design can to readily be traced with the hot point ho by those who have not the skill to at draw offhand, which saves all trou- gu blo of transferring the pattern. An- no other advantage which -glass has over wood is that it has no grain, blc and therefore the lines of the novice the are not marked by that unevenm as lox which characterizes the work of a Ne tyro in the art of wood burning. 1ik Glass pyrography may be adapted sha to the decoration of mirrors, screens, ev panels, etc., and if carefully done we will be found an excellent imitation we of engraved work of the finest kind, in and the effeot, if a good design be the chosen, will be most delicate and an beautiful. Just a white frosted do- da sign on' the clear glass looks very wi well, but the worker will soon be er, ambitious of better things. pe A pretty piece of the work shows in a loose bunch of oxeye daisies and ex field grasses burned into ordinary hip clear plate glass. The design when inl first executed had a frosted appear- wl ance, but this was removed by care fully scraping off all roughness with Ti: a sharp knife, thus leaving the da daisies and grasses in clear outline. mi The work in that state was beauti. to ful, but it was made more so in the th following manner: A layer of gold be paint was carried entirely over part oa of the design, all the etched lines Ti being filled with it. sic To effect this a pad of soft cloth wl was used damped with turpentine pa to remove all the gold on the. fiat to surface between the lines. An ordi- o'i nary paper stump with rag over it or was used to clean off the rest. This loi left merely a fine gold traoery on the glass, and on turning the plate it o0 seemed to stand in relief on its sur- ga face, though it actually only showed ed through from the other side. A wl thick coat of ivory enamel was then Ti laid on, great care being taken not we to drag up the gold from the lines. fo This gave the effect of ivory and fo gold from the other side and ren- th dered the glass opaque.. fa Any other lustra or metallic paint w: Smay beusoed instead of gold, and the M color of the enamel may be chosen dl to suit the fancy. In working in re- s member that rho point must be kept th at almost white heat, that it must or be perfectly clean, and that it must dc not be used for wood scorching. or Should the point' be insufficiently be heated no amount of force will affect the glass, but it will injure the point If itself. The pressure on the point ti must be firm and steady, but not b hard. It is not well to work too long T upon one spot, for the heat should sl be distributed as much as possible. w The special point for glass pyrog. tl raphy is furnished with an ihnei a mechanism for generating heat, and, a: though the work may be done with ti an ordinary point heated to almost tl white bheat, still the process is tedi. I ous and the tool will soon be too e mbuch damaged for further use. Buffalo Express. g t Widows' Row. II The half square on Berks street e between Twentieth and Woodstoek t *streets is known to all who are ac Squainted with the' neighborhood a b the "Widows' Row." This is due to , " the fact that no less than 17 bereav. Sed wives reside within its confines. E I All of these are said to be handsome and thrifty. Five of them are en d gaged in business for themselves, i and 11 have very comfortable in- 3 Scomes. Two years ago there were 23 widows in the row, but four have I made ne', ventures on .the matri. I Smonial sea since that time, and two have joined their husbands in an other land. It would be a breach of confldence to mention the number who will be remarried before the close of the year, but it is safe to say that the "Wklows' Row" will It lose itsprestige asthe abodeof lone ly femal1s unless several engage iRents are broken off.-Philadelphia Record. Japeae Prapere. SThe Japanese religion demanda that a man must worship "on the ik soil" every day. Princes and rich 1. men evade this by sprinulinga little y dirt in one corner of a room, some rt times on a square of cemenit made rw for the purpose. In 1435 'pesohes cost in Ialy 12 h cents a theousand. They were very ut small, hardly exceeding the size of almonds. . ... . - .- - -- . ' 2 JOSEPN1.IMSLER. t gA Am Itaodst 4a Sb £,o a ms or taM tlllus ~eis. I . "Speaking ptinotilioasnees," said Colonel Calliper, "sou remem.¶ bermy telling you some time ago about a man who was so partioUlar about hisadrees that-at a watering place where he was staying, the tide happening to serve after 6 o'clook, he went olamining inevening dress? That seemed like carrying things to extremes, but I lmew'a.much more remarkable case than that--the oase of my friend, Josoph Timbler of Storkville Centre, Vt. ' "Mr. Timblei always wore even, ing dross wherever he might:beh-at home. or abroad -after 6 o!olook, There was- indeed :"a- period of a month or two in summer, after the Fourth of July and-until the latter part of August, when,, punotilious as he was, he considered it all right to wear an informal costumi at home, but he never did this abroad at any season, and at home, as Au. gust waned and September drew near, he put on evening dress again. "In the course of time: Mr. Time blier's health failed somewhat, and the doctors, prespribe .for .him a long sea voyage. Ife sailed from New York for a trip around 'the Horn to San Francisco.· Aboard ship, as everywhere else, he' wore evening dress'nfter '-'clock. There was no other passenger, but -he al ways appeared at the evening meal in evening attire. Down through the tropics, into the low latitudes and round into the Pacific day aftera day and week after week it was al ways the same in all sorts of weath. er, and after supper, if the weather permitted. Mr. Timbler sat on deck in his swallowtail coat and broad expanse of shirt front and smoked his evening cigar, an object of great interest to the silent sailor at the - wheel. "In the Paciflo the ship that M: Timbler sailed' on vwas wreOked. For days she was waterlogged iand un manageable, but the captain clung to her till- the last with the hope that he might yet save her or that help wouldi come, .But the time - oamo when they had to leave her. The longboat, equipped and provi. sioned, had been kept ready, and when at last longer delay was imn possible the captain gave the order to leave the ship. It 'was after 6 o'clook, and Mr. Timbler stepped over the rail into his place in the. longboat in evening dress. "For days they floated on the ocean, and at last their provisions gave out. Then for days they starv- _ ed, and then they drew lots to see who should die. - The lot fell to Mr. Timblerý It was noon when the tote were drawn.. .The killing was- set for.6 o'clock, Lots had been drawn for this task, too, and at 6 o'cloolk the'sailor upon whom the lot bad fallen came aft, knife in hand,'to where Mr. Timbler sat, For .ineoe Mr. Timbler-was net in evening dress at the hobr, thodglk when he saw the sailor approach he- knew, that the hour.;had come when he ought to b.. ,He .asked for time to dress. lie had accepted the lot with out a murmur, but he didn't like to be killbd in norning costuie.u ''Thh stilor carried -his request forward, And:aftor ta brief conversa tion it was decided to give Mr Tim- . bier time. As a matter 9f fast, Mr. Timblor had been liked abdardthe . ship bgth forward :and aft. Not.. withstanding his phnctiliosness inii the matter of dress, he could look agale in the eye, and'hewa·is not afraid of salt water. So it was felt - that this courtesy was due him, and the sailor went back and told him he would have time to dress. Mr. Timbler was as deliberate as he was precise, and it does nOt seem alto. gether improbabld that on this icoa sion hewas perhapasrather morede liberate than usual. He came to-the end at last, but while. hbe was ar rxanging his tie and the man who was waiting forbhim was sharpening his knife on the giwale a shout Swas heard from forwards - " 'A saill A sail' "'w.Nw York Sun.. riser Non Gatsh or a tJUm The statistical man who can tell you how many ponnds of leather you will wear from your rhoes in a lifetime and how many tons of :food you will eat, providing you live to the Biblicallimitof "threesoore and ten," has just finishedsomoddpta. tistics on finger nail growth. He 'nds that the averagr human beiing~ e unts away about the one thirty-see e ond part of an uoha of aail ach U week, or glittle ahore than an inch and a half each year. Healso ands Sthat the average length of life the a world over Is a'bout 40 years; that threreme 1,300,00,0Omiles of ftiger nails in each generation--St. Louisa Lepubhlo. se , Am Zletwegraph-. I An eleotograph for marking li Unen i ndelibly was shown to the Boyal !. society lately. The fabrio Is-damp. Senied and a current passed for two~ seconds from a silver dis, carrying silver into the fabric i*evrere it L touohes. The current is then revers, rt ed for three seconds, edacing the of metal The result Is that metallio . .er isnb~.fit .-onthe tm. ..