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J .& IIwS& ' " v Jp-U Yearly Svitosoriptioxi 1 TWELFTH YEAR. TUB BKOOIC JJEt:AT11 THE SNOW. bv s. vr. ross. Way down In dad's ol inedder, -where tbo pussy wiUera grow. I used to go an htsen to the brook beneath the snow; Above I heard the roarin win' an' saw the snow gust whirl ; But the brook beneath the snow an' ice danced singin', liko a girl. I'd put my ear down to the ice, I didn min' the col'. JLn' w'en I heerd its music, there wus summer in my soul ! Ac' w'en dad licked mo, an' my heart 'ud bile an overflow, I would go on' hear tho music of the brook be neath tha snow. An' then my sobs 'ud chango to shouts, an sor rer chango to gloe, For it Dtrowed along its music from tho moun ' tain to the Bea; An' I'd stretch my ear to hear it, an' my heart 'ud swell an' glow, "W'en I liesened to the music of the brook be neath tho snow. Since then the wintry blasts of life have blown me hero an' thero, . An enowstorms they havo blocked my wayan hedged mo even where ; But sheltered from the harrycano, within the valley low, I lissen for the music of the brook beneath, tho snow. Tor I know bonpath the snow an' ice that there is golden sand, By that glbrious streak uv melody that wiggles through the land ; Ihe storm boats hard ; the wind is high ; I can- . not hear it blow, Por I lissen to the music of tho brook beneath the snow. SWINDLED HIMSELF. BY DWIGUT BALDWIN. OME frauds do not alaya fraud; schemes sometimes perform the boom erang act, the biter jis occasionally bit ten. A recent occur rence, or rather ser ies of occurrences, in Chicago, tends somewhat to estab lish the truth of the above rather apoth- egmatio text. The entire matter promises fair to find its -way to the criminal calendar of the country, for -which reason the names herein given are fictitious, though in other respects tho account is absolutely correct. A short time ago a man rang the bell of a Chicago boarding-house. His erect, tastily dressed figure, well brushed hair, and handsome face, pro claimed him a gentleman, and an active one. "I wish to see Mr. Paul Revere Dun levey," said he, bowing to a stout woman who, with a pipe in her mouth, answered his ring, and whom he seemed to instinctively recognize as the land lady. I WISE TO SEE MB. PATH, BEVEBE; "Yes, air," she responded, though making no motion which could be con strued into an invitation to enter. "Is he in?" asked the gentleman. Tea, sir that is to say will you come in?'' The caller complied with an alacrity that left no doubt as to his willingness. "The "fact is,3 resumed the lady, when they were standing together in he typical boarding - house parlor, "that he's staying in at present." Hi?" "No, sir. He and his trunk are locked up in the hall bedroom, pend ing a settlement of a bill of $i3, the odd dollars being for money actually - locaied." "Xm in the nick of time, then. Ci 5 B 7 KV&TAm . 50. "You know him?" "No, but I bring him news, or rather I am the custodian of a secret, which will render him independent, affluent, I mav say." "Oh, dear! I hope " "He shall carry no resentment, madam, I promise you that. As for your bill, it shall be discharged, and ten for one. Please take him that" "That" was a card of the finest bristol board, upon was printed the name, Chester Oldfather, and the information that its possessor carried on in a down town office, the business of real estate and loans. In a few minutes the woman returned conducting a red-haired rather crest fallen young man of perhaps five and thirty. "I have called on a matter of some importance," said Mr. Oldfather, when the the two were alone together. "Then come forward to the bay-window, and speak lower. She's listening in the hall." "You advertised yesterday for work?" "Yes," responded Paul, with a de cidedly falling face. "That's how I came to learn your name and residence." "I see," assented the young man, his face brightening. "Is your father living?" "No. He died thirty vears ago in Fort Wayne, Ind." ""What was his name?" "Samuel." "For whom were you named? "For a man who rode into Concord with news of some kind." "I dare say. Do you want to make some money?" "Don't I?" "There's a tract of land in the south western part of this city which stands in the name of Paul Severe Dunlevey of Great Barrington, Mass." "Well?" "It's worth $50,000." "I don't see " "I can sell it for one-half of that, spot cash." "Why not?" "I mean quick, with rio very search ing investigation made. Your name, by a curious coincidence, being the same-1 " "Ho! hoi I see. My deed would go?" "Exactly!" "But that would bo forgerj "You can write your own name can't yon?" " "That's so, but Pd have to claim to own the land?" "Yes. Well, if you don't care to " "But I do. What's the terms ?a "We divide even." "Agreed." Two days later Dunlevey called by appointment at the office of Mr. Old father. There he was introduced to a well known capitalist, the prospective buyer of the tract of land. This gentleman asked Paul a few questions, which, thanks to a careful coaching on the part of the real estate broker, he was able to answer in a satis factory manner. At length the capitalist was satisfied, a notary was called in, and a deed to the premises executed by the young man. For this the purchaser gave him a check for $30,000, the agreed price. "Indorse that," said the broker and Fll get it cashed and deduct my com missions." "Stall I fo lf ?" PotI INTRODUCED TO THE CAPITALIST. STOCK PjQ. -p.-M-TNTrs- TECH BASIS WA-KEENEY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10,1891. "No. Pll be back within ten min utes. Wait here." Twice, three times, ten minutes passed, and still the real estate man did not return. At length Dunlevey become sus picious, and hurried away to the bank, where he found that the check had been cashed nearly an hour before. Then he began looking for Chester Oldfather. He soon discovered that the old gen tleman's reputation, while not positively bad, was a trifle shady. It then dawned upon him that he had been swindled by his partner in crime. For two days he continued his search and at last became satisfied that Old father had left the city with the pro ceeds of the sale. On the third day, tired, hungry and penniless, he was trudging along when he came face to face with his late land lady and present creditor. He made an effort to escape, but her strong hand detained him. "'Pon my word !" he began. "Don't say it!" interrupted she. "I only want to congratulate you on your good fortune." "What good fortune?" asked Paul with a feeling that his crime had come to light. "Then you havent seen -it?" "Not L" "Bead that!" She thrust a newspaper into his hands and pointed to an advertisement. With a swimming brain the young man read the following. "Information wanted of Paul Bevere Dunlevey, son of Samuel Dunlevey, who died thirty years ago at Ft. Wayne, Ind. He is the sole heir at law of Paul Bevere Dunlevey, who died recently at Great Barrington, Mass. The estate consists of a small sum of money, and a valuable tract of land in Chicago, HI. To this was appended the name and address of a Massachusetts lawyer. An exclamation of blended astonish ment and disgust, swept the lips of the heir-at-law. Like Esau, he had sold his birthright at a ridiculously low figure. But un like the .old-time Hebrew, he had been cheated out of the mess of pottage. Broker Chester Oldfather has not yet been discovered. Sleep for School Children. Wo all know how much greater U the need of children for sleep than of grown persons, and how necessary for their good it is to be able fully to sat isfy this need; but how great it is gen erally at any particular age of the child is very hard to define exactly. The amount varies under different climatic conditions. In Sweden, we consider a sleep of eleven or twelve hours neces sary for the younger school children, and of at least eight or nine hours for the older ones. Yet the investigations have -shown that this requirement lacks much of being met in all the classes, through the whole school. Boys in the higher classes get little more than seven hours in bed; and as that is the aver age, it is easy to perceive that many of them must content themselves with still less sleep. It is also evident from the investigations that the sleeping time is diminished with the increase of the working hours from class to class, so that -pupils of the same age enjoy less according as they are higher in their classes. It thus appears con stantly that in schools of relatively longer hours of work, the sleeping time of the pupils is correspondingly shorter. In short, the prolongation of the work ing hours takes place for the most port at the cost of the time for sleep. Pro fegaor Key. in Fopular Science "what good fobtune?" OF OTJI-& nsnDXTSTi?,lBS.- TCtnorson on Nnivspapors. In his book of conversations with Emerson, Mr. Woodbury reports the seer as saying that "newspapers have done much to abbreviate expression and so to improve style." This is ''a hard saying" for the ac ceptance of those small essayists and other superior persons who decry the newspapers; for one of their most fre quent complaints is that the newspaper writer, in the haste incident to his work, discards the grace3 of rhetoric and misleads the popular taste with crude thought and unpolished ut terance. But Emerson was light and the superior persons were wrong. The in fluence of newspapers upon style has been good, not bad. It has done much, as Emerson says, "tb abbreviate utter ance," but that is not the whole of its service. It has taught the value of sim plicity in expression, of directness of style, and of clear thinking as the con dition of clear writing. It has made men understand the advantage of say ing what is to be said and thenstopping. It has banished the exordium and the peroration of literature. The assumption that the higher kind of newspaper writing is hasty and slip shod is unfounded. The newspaper writer writer rapidly, but his mind has been trained to think rapidly and to give quick formulation to thought. THis mind is akin to that of the extem poraneous orator. In miner reporting, done by novices, the style in often faulty and the dicta tion sometimes bad, especially where there is not time for editorial revision but the editorial writing and the more carefully done news and special articles of any great modern newspaper will compare very favorably indeed with the book and magazine literature of our time, in point of vigor and cor rectness of form. It is fortunate that this is so, because the newspapers are now the chief teachers of the people in this as in other matters. They are much more widely read than any other form of literature read at all by the majority o? the people. In this .particular the tendency of the newspapers is to grow steadily better. They more and more insist upon the best educational qualifications on the part of the writers. They more and more seek to enlist scholarship and culture in their service, and men of the highest literary qualifications are more inclined to seek newspaper utterance as that which gives largest power and influence to the messages they bear. J Emerson had come to manhood in our day he would have found his true vocation in a newspaper office. It is a pity that ho did not have that oppor tunity to reach hundreds of thousands with a wisdom that was uttered only to a chosen few. Ifew York World. Gen. .Belknap's Three "Wives. The late Gen. Belknap was married three times. His first wife was a Misa Beid, of Keokuk. She was the sister of his regimental commander, Hugh T. Beid, after whom his first child and only son was named. There was a good deal of romance about his second marriage. While on duty in Kentucky he captured a Major Tomlinson, of the Confederate army, and through him he was introduced to two ladies, one of whom afterwards became his second and the other his third wife. They wore Tomlinson's bisters, and lived at Harrodsburg, Ky. His second wife died in December, 1870. On her death bed she enjoined her husband to marry for his third wife her sister, who was then the young 'and handsome widow of a Confederate Colonel named Bow ers. He "married Mrs. Bowers in 1873. His third wife, who is still living the mother of his second child and only daughter was, in her youth of twenty years ago, a very bright and a very handsome woman. Globe-Democrat The Stage anil tho Church. Mrs. Lyne-Stepbens has just defrayed the entire expense, no less than $500, 000, of building a magnificent Boman Catholic Church in Cambridge, Eng land. Forty jears ago Mra, Lyne Stephens was one of the most celebrated dancers in Europe. She was then known as YolandsMarie Louise Duver nay. In 1845 she married the late Mr. Lyne-Stephens, of Lyn ford HalL The new church stand in grounds given principally by the Duke of Norfolk, and is calkd'Tfe ChHrchol OnrLud and tiie Eaglik ZJgfc'?' 'fji4 " ,? t .?- "Vv. COWTOK Se Valuable lor Tea-Drtnorst it is well known that the green tea affects the nerves much more than the black tea, which is believed to arise from the different mode of preparation. For making green tea the leaves are put over the fire and partially dried directly after they are picked, but with black tea the leaves are put into a basket and then exposed to the influence of the at mosphere for twenty or thirty hours, during which time a slight fermenta tion takes place, and the color of the leaf turned from green to a brown or chocolate huo (this is easily seen by the infubion of the dried leaf of black and green tea; the leaf after infusion will show the different colors named); they are then put over the fire and finished. In this country about 215,000,000 pounds are delivered yearly; of which about 40,000,000 are exported, but the propor tions are about 207,000,000 of black and 7,000,000 of green, Oolong and Japan. While in America the black tea im ported is about 5,250,000, the green tea (including Oolong and uncolored Japan tea, which possesses nearly the same properties as green) amount to 58,000, 000. Would nctfthis excessive use of green account for tho opinion of the American doctors as to the effect of tea on the nervous system ? I doubt very much if a pound of black tea, -boiled down in the same way as the young Hyson mentioned, would poison either rabbits or cats with tho same dose. There is no doubt the fermentation of the leaves of black tea reduces the amount of the active principal "theiue" that you find in green. Another thing: In preparing tea for the table, boiling water is put on the leaf and an infusion made which is at once partaken of. But whoever would think of boiling tea to drink? By so doing you ex tract from the stalk and woody fiber of the leaf an acrid decoction that no one would find pleasure in taking, and from which woody part would be most likely extracted poisonous qualities men tioned. In tea-drinking Europeon countries, as Germany, Bussia, etc., scarcely any green is used, and doubt less the great increase in the consump tion of thi3 country arises from the almost universal use of black tea, green being.only used in mixing with it to impart a flavor, and while of late years the consumption of black tea has largely increased, that of green has re mained stationary, which clearly shows the taste in this country is entirely different from that of America. May we long continue in this country to en joy "the cup which cheers but not ine briates." Fall Mall Gazette. A Case of Mind Cure. Here is an old story illustrating mind or will cure. Judge W was called to the beside of an old lady to make her will. Her voice was quite faint and she seemed to speak with effort: "First of all I want to give the farm to my sons, Harry and James; just pnt that down." "But," said I, "you can't do that, Mrs. Norton; the farm isn't yours to give away." "The farm isn't amine!" she said in a voice decidedly stronger than before. "No, the farm isn't yours. . You have only a life interest in it." "This farm that I've run for goin' on forty-three years next spring isn't mine to do what I please with it! Why not, Judge? I'd like to know what you mean." "Why, Mr. Norton your husband gave you a life estate in all his property, and on your death the property goes to his son John, and your children get the village houses." "And when I die John Norton is to have this farm whether I will or no?" "Just so." "Then I ain't going to die," said the old woman, in a clear and decidedly ringing, healthful voice. And so saying she threw her feet over the front of the bed, sat up, gath ered a blanket and coverlid about her, straightened up her gaunt form, walked across the room and sat down in a chair before the fire. The doctor and I came home. That was fifteen years ago. The old lady's alive to-day. A Southebx preacher recently ad vised his congregation to be saved in the nick of time from the Nick of eter Bitr. Jester. As ordinary mas. during an average BJawiliariftkafcottt 175 )bcfee4f ol - w - WJ i , - JRr "! -jw3 xtia-fkh7.& ht.0j-.iB - , .; t v5 -. . rTv. WBLOH, Eds & Props. NUMBER 47. . IT BUTTONED UP BEHIND, And Also Bad a Bustle Thero and Could ot Ho Iteverod Bow Girl's Dress Bothered a 1 tall road Man. M Heusner is the local agent of the Michigan Central Bailroad. Every body has some funny experience in life, and Mr. Heusner is not an excep tion. A gentleman went to him re cently and said he wanted to send his daughter to New York; that she was a. young girl, and one who had never traveled a long distance. He was anx ious to have her placed under the care of some one who would take an interest in her and see that she reached her des tination safely.. The agent, as wa3 his duty, related the advantages of his company's limited. Tho father of the young lady was still unsatisfied. "Have you a maid on your limited?" le asked Mr. Heusner. The agent said no, and as was his duty under the circumstances said that such an attache was not necessary to anybody's comfort. The father of the young girl still hesitated to purchase a ticket. "I think," he said, "that in the present case a maid would be very handy. Til tell you, confidentially, however, how it is. My wife has had her dressmaker at the house for the last ten days get ting the young lady ready. And the dress is finished. I wish you had a maid oh your trairfe"' - t "How old is the young lady ?" asked Mr. Heusner. "About fifteen, going on," said the circumspect father, who had been well drilled at home. "Old enough, I should think," said the agent, "to arrange her own dress." ''She could get it off easy enough, re plied the father, "but she couldn't get it on the next morning." "1 don't quite understand," said the agent, wlio began to be perplexed at this turn. "You don't?" queried the father. "The Wasted thing buttons up behind,, and it's the first dress of that kind she ever had," roared the father, his face like a dipped lobster. The agent reoovered from the ludi crous situation in time to say: "Well, I suppose she has other dresses be sides this one?" " "Yes, plenty of 'em, but she and her mother have got it into their heads that she can't go to New York unless she goes in the dress that buttons behind," said the father. , The agent appeared nonplussed, but, only for a moment, for the resources o'f a railroad agent are without number, "I have it," he said. "Let her turn the dress around." The father felt of his chin in that contemplative manner which a man ha3 when he is between the devil and the deep sea. Then he came to the front. "That won't do," he said. "The dress has a bustle in it." , f "What's the use of her taking off the dress at all?" said the agent, as his face glowed with the discovery. "I'll go home and talk the matter over," remarked the father, about whose alabaster front there had grown large fonts of perspiration since he had en tered the office. "The affair," saidMr. Heusner, "pre sents a new feature in the railroad busi ness, and one which will be discussed at the next annual meeting of the agents. The father has not returned, and I am afraid of the result." Chi cago Tribune. In a Chinese City. To a stranger a Chinese city always looks as if it were en fete. Everybody hangs out as many signboards, lanterns, banners, and figures as he can afford. I understood from my guide tnat many of these notices indicated not only sublime admiration for the goods sold in the shop to which they belonged,' but pro found contempt for rival stores a sort of "Don't go over the way wid be cheated like an owl, but come here and buy for next to nothing the wonderful cats' legs that we nave in the window!" Stop; I do the Shanghai tradesmen an injustice. The only shop where cats and dogs are sold for food belongs to m enterprising Cantonese who has lately -come among them. This eminent r iauraieur is, in fact, almost the only seller of Canton luxuries in the plae. Other people may attempt to iiiitaW v pressed ducks, the iIilssly Wast A eggs, the ft southern pork, ast&rtiMi patrideabbage of Gaato. 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