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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1889-SIXTEEN PAGES.
SHE LAWYEBS AND DOCTOBS
Incident That Happened in the Course
of Sccurins Justice and Medicine.
A Czzz That Had to Be Tried Without a Wit
nea-IIotr & Physician Cured a Society
Wocun of tte Alcohelic UiblU
CLIENTS AND JURORS.
' A Pto' Two In the Experience of Learned
lien of the liar.
. It ii only the dignity and personal inter
est of the average lawyer that prevents his
exhibiting any amusement at the mistakes
cf his clients, bnt that dignity oftimes dis
appears when the clients' backs are turned.
Many a man has handed over a $10 bill to
his attorney, thinking that the matter
M-oald end there, but it is probably fort
ucate for him that he cannot see his legal
adviser taking a hearty laugh while he re
lates an incident or two bearing upon his
own ignorance. This phase of the
lawyer's life is highly entertaining
when brought out by a few ques
tions, but they must be well put, for
the policy of secrecy in men of the law is
an essential of professional excellence. "I
remember a very amusing incident that
occurred onco with ine," said one of the
city's leading attorneys to a reporter, re
cently. It was my first case. In the
town where I opened my office there were
Xto Greeks, one of whom couldn't speak or
understand a word of English. The other
could, and acted as interpreter. They be
came involved in a dispute with an old
farmer, who claimed to be somewhat of a
lawyer himself, and the matter was taken
into court. I think now, if I remember cor
rectly, that the Greeks claimed a lien on an
old wagon which the fanner had. and they
caroo to mo for advice. Finally they decid
ed to get me to try their case, and I spent
we k on laying out my course of action,
and the list of questions I would ask. The
day for which the trial was net came at last,
and the little court-house was crowded full
my arm big enough to scare almost anr
jnry, and took my seat with all
the dignity and self-control I could
muster. Across from me sat the farmer,
who was defendant and attorney combined.
The docket had been called and everything
was ready to begin the evidence. I told
the Greek, who couldn't understand Kn
glifeh, to take the stand, which he did. Hut
imagine my surprise and discomfort when
1 was told that mv interpreter had been
taken suddenly ill the night before and
was at that moment delirious at his homo.
There I was, the only witness in the whole
case a man who was worth absolutely noth
ing to me without his interpreter. 1 saw a
sort of a Tve got-you' twinkle in the old
farmer's eye. but I was equal to the emer
gency. J asked that we bo given the
privilege of arguing the case on its merits
without witnesses, and it was agreed that
we shonld do it. Of course all the ques
tions I bad prepared for tho occasion were
useless, and I was in a dilemma. But I
went ahead and advanced arguments that
played no part in the original case what
ever. They came so suddenly that my op
ponent didn't havo time to think of any an
swers forthem. I won the case, though,
and my reputation in the town was made.'
"What is the most troublesome class of
clients with which you have to deall" asked
lie reporter or another attorney.
"What I might term the over-obligi
ng
ana wiy ciass. was me reply.
"It is the man who goes on the stand,
when his time comes, and tries to turn
uvery question that is asked him into a
joke, lie tries to make the jury laugh and
thinks he has made a creditable appear
ance when he sees the court smile. That is
the kind of a client that I always like to
avoid."
"A lawyer's worst enemy," said another
attorney, "is the juryman who refuses to
look you in the face. There are men, you
know, who will keep their eyes upon you
while your face is turned, but as soon as
you look tbem directly in the face they
avert their gazc. Whenever I get a man
like that in a jury I feel like
ponring all my' argument into his
ears, and I generally do pick him out as a
target for all of my strongest arguments.
You can almost always depend upon, that
man hanging the jury if he can. His
nature is one that likes to be obstinate, and
tho power of hangingajurvis too much of a
temptation for him."
TECULIAU PATIENTS.
Some of the Things Doctors Undergo In Slak
ing Demand fur Their Services.
We havo strange patients occasionally,"
said an eldexly physician to tho reporter,
"and a medical man is sometimes called
upon to dissemble in a way that would
shock tho moral ideas of straight-laced
Christians. These are, however, the whitest
of white lies, fabricated for the good of the
patient, and not requiring a single tear
from the recording angel to blot them out.
Sonio years since- a lady came to mo wifS
what she called a nervous attack. I dis-
coYered that she was pretty well fuddled,
and that for months she had been
drinking no inconsiderable quantities
of a certain popular strengthening'
preparation Doctor Somebody's cele
brated bitters which contained about the
amo percentage of alcohol as does ordinary
whisky, I did cot dare to tell her bluntly
whit was the matter, that she was becom
ing a drunkard. I didn't even intimate
that I suspected such a thing, but I deter
mined to cure' her of the drink habit if
possible without her knowing it. She had
an occasional palpitation of the heart, and
I magnitied that aberration seriously. I
told her that she must carefully abstain
from this, that and tho other, and above all
must not drink wine or anything that had
ven the smallest amount of alcohol in it.
In giving her a prescription 1 took pains to
tell her that sue must always take it in
teaspoonful doses immediately before meals
in a laige gobies of water. Thi9 was
shrewdly doue to replace the alcohol she
was in the habit of drinking just before
meals."
-What was your prescription. Doctor!"
asked the reporter.
"Ob, nothing but eight ounce of colored
water, in which was dissolved a half ounce
of bicarbonate of soda. She came to me in
& month and said she wa cured, bo she
was. the alcohol was out f her system and
she was all right. 1 warned her, however,
agaiuit wine or alcoholic preparations of
any kind, as they would bring back the
disorder, anil that the next time it might
not be bo easily controlled."
"Now and then an old doctor forpr-ts his
cunning and allows a young practitioner to
trip him. Auold physician who had Ions
waited upon t lady, who was rich and
whimsical, lost her as a patient one day by
refusing to fall in with a notion she had
taken into her head. She said nhe was
sutlering greatly from a tooth-brush bristle
that had lodged in her throat, it having
come out of tho brush while she was cleans
ing her teeth. Tho doctor looked down her
throat, couldn't see it and plainly told her
that the bristle and attending symptoms
existed nowhere but in imagination. He
was quickly shown tho door and was
never again called to cross tho threshold.
Tho next physician sent for was a
vonng sprig Jof a follow who didn't have
half a dozen patients, all told. He had a
pretty wife, and had recently come into tho
neighborhood, attended a fa&ftnable church
and managed to get in in a social way with
tliH best people, but he couldn't catch on as
a doctor, lie pulled the silver door-bell,
and was ushered in to the patient, who told
ot her snlicring by reason of tho bristle in
tier tlir oat. Jf requested her to open her
xnouth. ghe did so. and he took a long and
searching gaze down the lady's gullet. Voti
ar right, madam." said this young dis
sembler, ,,tho irritating substance is there,
and 1 will have to go to my otlice for an in
strument to remove it."
Will it rill it Ih a painful operation,
doctor! tremblingly inquired the pitient,
and yt happy that her diagnosis had re
ceived indorsement at last
"Not in the leaat. certainly very little;"
p-.daway he went after the instrument,
'n proved to be nothing but a pair of
m people who had come to see the 'young
lawyer.' as they called me. try his first case.
"1 marched in with a roll of naner nnder
bristle between the lips of the tweezer,
which heqnietly placed in the lady's throat,
and then withdrew it for her inspection.
That was tho doctor for her, and for her
friends. She became his patron, and helped
him to an extensive pructice. Tho young
rome bad tact, and deserved success.
"Some time ago," said an old physician,
"my friend Dr. 11 was called to see an
old fellow on the North Side, who had been
on an awful 'jag,' and was dallying on the
racgededgeof delerinra tremens. The old
fellow was at home tearing round theplaco
rat-hunting. Tho Doctor was a special
friend of tho family, und after a while
managed to get the old man in bed. The
wife said it was no use to put
him in bed; that soon as the Doctor went
away he would get up aud go down
town for more drink; that ho was a walk
ing drinker, and never gave up. The Doctor
looked at the old fellow's legs, aud, taking
some thin boards -from the back of a pic
ture frame, he held the patient down with
the aid of the wife and son, and, putting
the boards under his legs at the knee-joints,
took bandages and wound them round and
round the old fellow's knees untii he could
no more bend them than if they were pok
ers. This stopped all locomotion, and, bid
dingthewife and eun to answer no ques
tions tho old fellow might ask as to why ho
was trussed up that way, took his depart
ure. To make a long story short, the old
chap was kept in bed three weeks,
given careful attention and nourishing food,
came out all right and has since taken the
Murphy pledge aud put on the blue ribbon.
He thinks, or at least did think for quite
while, that he had fallen down stairs and
hurt his legs in some way.",
"Old doctors are full of tricks," remarked
a young physician to tho reporter, "and if
we younger men expect to get on in the pro
fession it will be worth our while to learn
some of them. 1 studied medicine with an
old ffcntlemnn who knew how to get into
th god graces not only of the patient, but
all his family and all hisrelatives to the re
motest kin. He never failed to have all the
sympathetic old ladies of a neighborhood
on bis side, those who aro on hand
when one of their Bex is in a delicate
situation and who think their experience
and advice are not to bo scorned
by any phynician. They aro alwa.va
ready with suggestions, aud the sagacious
physician is bo who chimes in with them.
Don't you think she ought to have somo
catnip tea, dot-tor!' would be suggested by
one of the dames. 'Catuip tea. my pre
ceptor wonld nay, his face beaming with
thinks, 'Catnip ten! the very thing, my
Lood lady, l'mgladyou thought of it.' And
h would rub his hands together as if tho
suggestion was something in the nature of
au inspiration. 'Catnip tea,' he would con
tinue to murmur, rubbing his band with
delight. 'Catnip tea, why its the very
would sound bis praises far and near with
a fervor no cold type can express."
RAISING GEESE FOR MARKET.
Old-Time Fattening Process and that Sow Used
in Getting Theui Ready forhe Cook.
A saunter through the market yesterday
morning showed a largo number of geese,
some with, and some without feathers; the
latter, by a lingual absurdity, being de
nominated "dressed." The purchasers of
this bird, which is own cousin to the swau,
are for the most part of foreign birth, na
tive Americans preferring the turkey for fes
tal occasions, as having moro tender ilesh
aud a more delicate flavor. Yet Americans
who have investigated tho matter have
found that good roast goose, with apple
sauce, was not to bo sneezed at even in the
coldets weather, and Sol Smith Russell's
praise of "goose and in gins" is calculated
to excite tho salivary flow.
The common tame goose of this country
had his ancestry in Kurope, and is descend
ed from wild birds that had been domesti
cated, though it varies considerably. in
color from its progenitors, yet less than
ducks and other fowls do from their wild
originals. It tci;jls to a general gray,
especially tho female, while the male is
often wholly white. The usual weight of a
good goose is tif teen or sixteen ponnds, but
by cramming with nourishing food this'
weight is sometimes almost doubled. Tho
society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals wonld probably ob
ject to ouo method employed for
the fattening of tho goose. Many ages ago
it was discovered that by conlining and
preventing motion, employing fattening
diet and sometimes stupefying substances
tho body of the bird would become loaded
with fat in a comparatively short timo.
It was during the reigu of Louis XIV that
a thrifty Freuch market woman discovered
a way to restrain her geese from wander
ing by nailing their feet to a board. This
enabled her to fatten the geese rapidly, and
her product was in great demand, as
the enlarged and diseased livers f
her birds were in request for pates defois
gras, which from that day to this have been
greatly esteemed by epicures.
The Chiuese have for centuries led the
world in the cultivation, und education of
this bird, bringing it to a high state of per
fection in size and flavor. The goose is
long-lived when allowed to ruminate and
prolong its days, having been known to live
to be 100 years old. It has been alleged
that a goose of this old ago iiuds
its way to market. The habit of hissina at
nnpleasing performances is imitated from
tho goose, and was much indulged in by our
ancestors when theatrical entertainments
we re not to their liking. It may be re
marked, however, that the hiss has fallen
into innocuous desuetude, and no matter
how bad a performance may be the
dreaded sibillant symptom of disapproba
tion is never more heard. Of course
no article on the goose would be complete
without a passing allusion to the geese that
saved Home, one night when the electric
liht had gone out and tho watchmen were
at a benefit ball.
Indiana has a goose farm upon which that
specimeu of predatory poultry is brought
to a high degree of excellence. There are,
in fact, three farms, all owned by one man.
It. C Shaw, of Farmland, and they are all
in the neighborhood of that place. Mr.
Shaw pays most attention to geese, but he
also furnishes grazing ground for ducks
and turkeys in no inconsiderable numbers.
His business is to fatten these birds for the
market, and it is ouly in the fall and early
winter that ho pursues his occu
pation. "Mr. Shaw buys geese,
ducks and turkeys at this season
of the year." said J. IL Undd, the commis
sion man, "and fattens them for the New
York market. He buys all about him in
Indiana, and we have sent him this winter
a thousand geese and more than a thousand
ducks. He has pens and sheds and the
birds are penned up and kept quiet and
comfortable, ro that they will take on fat
readily. A short time ago he had 5.000
geese fattening, and about as many ducks,
as well as a large number of turkey.
He feeds chiefly with corn, and
of his own raising. When he
bays geese they are poor, bnt an eight
poiind goose can be made to nearly double its
weight in two weeks. He sells the product
for Christmas, at which time, the demand is
at its highest,, but he puts his ducks m tho
market m January. A duck will fatten in
Ironi twenty to twenty-live days in cold
weather, though it will never fatteu until
it is full-feathered. I think the highest
profitable weight that can be giveu n goov
is twenty-live pounds. We havo ducks,
white Tekins, that will weigh from ten to
twelve pounds. I think.however, that a duck
weighing from six to eight pounds is best.
The target t and fattest ducks aro not much
sought afUr in this market. Mr. Shaw has
been fattening fowls for soveral years: ho
is a bauker at Farmland and his poultry is
sought after by New York commission
houses as the finest that comes to that mar
ket and he gets higher prices thnn any oue.
New York retailers can give our market
men pointers on poultry. They know the
valno of a name, but they always persist
ently misrepresent Western produce.
I have betii a ponlterer open
a barrel of dressed chickens
nnd taking out the liuest yellow-legged
Bpecimens he would hang them npand label
them 'choice Jerseys.' These he wonld fl.sk
a fancy price for, while the scrawnv ill
looking ones he would designate as 'West
ern.' The hueat turkeys are called 'Jer
seys.' no matter where they come from,
aud this is true, also, of chicken, though
home choice towls are lalnded as 'Phila
delphia when, as a matter of fact, the
Ouaker City is eatine all the chickens in
that neighborhood herself."
J7 Indian Ilowpititl Company.
This company contracts to pay to 20
weekly indemnity on irkuesnr aceJdeut. and
furnishes doctor and medicines tree, I or further
particulars call at company' oiliec. 1 too ins 47
and 4H Vance Hlock, corner Washhigtou street
und Yirmuia avcmio.
thiniT Jn this way he woulu nave all ine
neighborhood crones solidly for him. Talk
about advertising! Whv. these gossipers
PBOMOUNG TIIE FLAX CHOP
Sew Process Which the Inventer Says
Will Lead to a Great Linen Industry,
The Supporters of the isht-IIour Jlovement
Sanguine of Its Success Next May Notes
from the Yariuru Fielrf3 of Labor.
Additional information relativo to the
construction of a mill in tho city for spin
ning and weaving coarse linens, has been
received by tho Board of Trade. The in
ventor of the new process says
that flax now grown for seed
may be made by his machine into
liber suitable for all kinds of crashes
and toweling. He also says the machine
will open a way for great benefit to farm
ers, who can increase the value of their
crops by adding to them flax. 'Ihe inventor
urges that an impetus will also bo give to
the establishment of a flax and linen indus
try in this country. There are - nearly
a million acres of flax growu in the United
States every year for the seed alone, tho
straw is wasted because there is nodemaud
for the liber. It is said this country is not
ouly in every way perfectly adapted for
flax-growing, bnt every facilitr exists for
tho manufacture of linen. Mills wonld
long ago have been erected, it is claimed,
had the government aflorded the same safe
ty for the in vestment of capital in that line
as in the other textile indusiries. The new
process, the inventor cHims, has been test
ed in Kurope and proved highly satisfac
tory. He Kiysit has both simplicity and
rapidity. Tho flax straw is taken direct
from the farmer, and from it is produced
in a few moments n almost white liber,
soft and silky, which spin as readilv as
cotton and silk. The crash nnd toweling
made from it are said to be so white as to
need very little if any bleachirifr. The pro
cess was awnidtd the only medal for flax
liber at the Paris exposition.
The Eight-Hour Agitators.
It has been decided that May 1.1S00, shall
be the day upon which to inaugurate the
eight-hour movement. During the coming
winter an enumeration of all tho trades in
every city of the country will bo made, and
report3 will bo prepared showing the exact
number of men and women who favor tho
movement and those who do not. The
question has been agitated for somo
time, and organization is being perfected.
"The movement is to elevate the workine
man, socially and morally," said one of its
supporters yesterday. "That i the prin
cipal object we havo in view. The present
condition of the laboring man is far better
thau it was twenty-live years ago, but we
hope to improve it a great deal more in the
next ten years."
t"Are you sanguine of success in regard to
eight hours?" the reporter asked.
Wo havo every reason to be, for the peo
ple are taking hold of tho idea as well as
could bo supposed. We have many daily
papers in the country on our 81 e, nnd a
strong sentiment is being created in favor
of fewer hours of work and more in the
home."
Labor Notes.
The Cigar-makers' Union has $210,000.
Cleveland barbers demand Sunday clos
ing. IJed and breakfast can bo had in London
for 3 pence.
Typographical Union No. 1 will meet at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
The iron-molder8 of Boston propose to
start a 6ick beneiit fund.
There are 240,000 men and women em
ployed in Ohio's factories.
A national convention of barbers will be
held at Detroit next Tuesday.
The trouble between the local stone-cutters
and stone cellar-builders has been ad
justed. V president of the Winchester Arms
Company, Hartford, will be elected in
February. The salary is over 810,000 a
year.
One of tho industries in Vcrgcnnes, Vt
is that of brick-making. A large 3ard is
located there, the presses ot which aro op
erated by steam.
Ship-builders of Maine are now getting
about $7,000 more for the construction of a
1.000-ton vessel than th( received a vear
ago. The advance in price is warranted bv
tho good condition of the froight market.
Tho pulp-mill to be established by the
New York capitalists, who have been mak
ing a tnnr of Maine in looking for a loca
tion, will b one of the largest in New
England. The cost will be no( less than
$400,000, and its capacity will be thirty tons
per day of manufactured pulp.
Owing to the great increase of orders of
the Westinghouse Electrio Company in
Pittsburg, a notice has been put up in the
various departments of tho company's
works informing the employes that they
will have to work overtime threo nights
every week during this winter.
In China barbers get $4 per month; bhek
Bmitha, $"; brick-layers, $4; cabinet-makers,
carpenters aud carvers, !ii to iX) cents per
day; femaJo cotton-spinners, 10 cents per
day; d y ers get $S per month; chair-bearers
get SO cents a day (for carrying their "supe
riors"); painters, 21 cents; plumbers, 21
cents; sailors, 4 to 8 per month; salesmen
get 4, per month; clerks, 5, with board.
Tho largest iron casting ever made in
Fitchburg. Mass.. was poured at the Put
nam foundry recently. It was a bed for
the largest planer ever built, which is one
hundred inches square. Thirty tons of
iron were melted in tho furnaces. The
weight of the whole maehine, which tho
Putnam8 will build, will be between seventy
and eighty tons. It was ordered by a Pitts
burg firm.
The Richmond paper-mills, at Providence,
K. 1., which wero recently sold, have been
deeded to the Rhode Island Hospital Trust
Company for disposition. Nearly $1,500,000
have been sunk in these mills since they
were erected six years atro. Tho depression
in the paper market, and the costliness of
experimenting led the corporation into its
first indebtedness. Before it closed, tho
price of paper dropped very near one-half.
For tho sulphite pulp, which they manu
factured at tho rate of twenty tons per day,
there was a demand which they could not
supply. t
m m
Tho girls are crocheting silk over rings to
use for fancy articles. These rings cost but
25 cents a gioss, and the silk comes at S5
cents a ball. Sometimes several rows of
tho rings are placed diagonally across a
black satin shopping base, or they are used
to finish a scarf or tidy. Certainly this
style of trimming is cheap enough, for a
gross of rings and a ball of eilk go a long
way. Home Queen.
Jihat the Arcade Will Do,
The Christmas Arcade will open in the
parlors of the First Presbyterian Church
on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, and con
tinue through Wednesday.
Tfio baby booth, in charge of Mrs. II. R.
Allen and Mr. Johnson, will havo the
latest ideas for the uursery and its inmates.
The fancy-work booth, in charge of Mrs.
Hervey Bates, will have gold and white
crickets, hour-nlass stands, decorated
picture frames, screens, eti?.
The bac booth, in charge of Mrs, Oran
Perry, will have bags ot every size and de
scription, from the dainty knitting bag to
the laundry bag; also, book worms and shoo
menders.
Tho pinafore booth, in charge of Mrs.
Thompson, will have aprons, from the
daintiest creation of lawn, lace and ribbons
to the plain gineham; also, work-baskets
and their usual contents.
The housekeeper' booth, in chargo of
Mrs. Pattison and Mra. Johns, will havo a
great variety of articles, very tempting to
the fashionable housekeeper engrossed with
social duties mince-meat, apple-butter,
grape marmalade, pickles, preserves, cakes,
etc.
The eamly booth. in charge of Mrs. Henry
Long, will probably be the center of attrac
tion, as she will be assisted by a number of
young ladies "Sweets to the sweet" There
will be nn elegant assortment of very
choice receptacles for candy, suitablo for
gifts.
The refreshment room, in chargo of Mrs.
J. H. Hollidoy and Mrs. Bryce. will ervo
tempting viand through the entire fair.
The amusement booth, in charge of Mrs.
T. C. Day, assisted by at accomplished
troupe of merry-makers, will give some
charming surprises. Admission fee 10 cents
for old aud young.
The music will be furnished by Zunipfe's
Orchestra.
A HOLIDAY
Beginning Monday, and continuing through the month of December, vre propose to give
A FINE GOLD-HEADED SILK UMBRELLA
With every sale of $15 or over. At the same time we guarantee every dollar's worth
of goods bought jn our house to be a saving of from 15 to 25 per cent. If our prices
are not lower than those of our competitors we will cheerfully refund the money.
CHILDREN'S OVERCOATS
Just received .a new lot of Cape Over
coats, which run from $3.50 to $8. All
colors and beautiful new fabrics.
MEN'S OVEEOOATS
From $4 to $25. We show special bargains in Men's $10 and $12 Overcoats. These
arc not equaled in any houso in this city at less than $2 to $3 more on each coat
OUE SUIT DEPARTMENT
Our Suit Department comprises everything imaginable in new fabrics and shades,
fine qualities, excellent workmanship and fashionable shapes.
IN HATS ' AND CAPS
We are doing a great trade. Everybody now realizes that our prices are absolutely the
lowest. Mothers are specially invited to bring their boys and see our Steamer Caps.
Orig
mal
L. STRAUSS, Proprietor.
TALKS IN THE LOBBIES.
Gossip Travelers Exchanged with Reporters to
While Moments of Chance Meeting
"That is all nosh!" said Mr. A. E. Miller,
of Trenton. N.J.,at the New Denison Hotel,
the other afternoon, as he threw aside a
Chicago paper, in which ho had been read
ing a dispatch from Trenton regarding the
8nlFeTinp of Mrs. Parnell from absolute pov
erty. "These stories have been circulating
for the past two weeks now, and I don't see
what possible object their author, or au
thors, can have. Mrs. Parnell owns pro
ductive property in Trenton nnd a good
sized farm near the city. Even if it were
true that her crops had failed, and that her
famous fon was unable to give her
much assistance, she has another son,
George Parnell, a' wealthy resi
dent of Georgia, , and a daughter
ho is the wife of a rich Londoner. It is
hardly likely that cither of them would
let her want. I don't believe she knows
anything of any ol the alleged interviews
with her that have been sent out, or over
saw the interviewers."
It is remarkable what little things some
people will try to stir up an international
quarrel about," said Mr, Henry G. Alces, a
Cuban cigar manufacturer, now the Ameri
can representative of his house, who
stopped over Thanksgiving at tho Hates
House. "Here are the authorities of Key
West, apparently in a great 6tew and he
sieging the State Department at Wash
ington with complaints about the
alleged interference in their affairs
by the Spanish authorities at Ha
vana. There were about 400 or
rm Cuban citizens who were employed in
the Key West cigar factories when labor
troubles arose, and they either struck or
were locked out, 1 don't know which, but
that question has no bearing on the case.
As there were reports of threatened blood
shed a Spanish gunboat anchored in the
harbor in order that, should trouble arise,
the Cuban citizens might have adequate
protection. Our people there, of course,
soon ran out of money, as the roanufactxir
crs naturally tried to starve them into sub
mission. In order to savo them from
want, their friends at home chartered a
vessel which went to Key West and
brought them to Havana. That was all
there was of it. and I fail to see how the
peaceful embarkation of a few hundred
men can be made a subject of inter
national dispute. I strongly snspect
that the Key West manufacturers
who failed in their purpose of starving the
men ont are the prime movers in the com
L taints that have been sent to the Stato
lepartment."
"I always register from Kansas City,
now," said Mr. P. A. Hail, of Peculiar, Mo.,
as he affixed his name to the Grand Hotel
register. ,I don't like tho idea of going
back on one's home, but it has become
necessary with me as a measure of self
defense. When fate throws one's residenco
in a town whoso narao excites tho risihles
of every hotel clerk, and brings out a bom
bardment of questions from every man who
happens to planco at the register, I think
he in justified in dropping it for
something more commonplace. The
narao had a rather queer origin.
The town didn't havo any particular begin
ning, but, like Torsy, it 'jest growed' in
the vicinity of a country grist-mill. After
enough people had got together to think
thev should have a postoffice they sent in a
petition, and. with tho usual inventive
poverty in the matter of nomenclature that
lias marked all the Southwest, they sent in
the name of Cassville. becanso the settle
ment was in Cass county. In time a letter
came back from the Postoffico Department
with the statement that everything was
satisfactory but the name, which had
alreadv been pre-empted by another town
in the "State. The letteraiso suggested that
thero wero a good many towns in the coun
try with ordinary names, and they
would do well to avoid confusion by
selectinc somo ntcnliar name. Tho letter
was read at a little meeting of the settle
ment, and one of the old.men present asked
what was tho matter with 'Peculiar,' for
tho name of the town. This was probably
the lirst novel idea that had ever been ad
vanced in the place, and it took at onco.
Peculiar went, and Peculiar it still remains.
I ventu to say there is no other town in
the wond bearing the same name."
"I was traveling toward Wichita, last
April, just when tho Oklahoma boom was
on," said Mr. W. A. Lyons, of Chicago,
'when I fell in with a Presbyterian minis
ter who was going to join tho boomera.11
Eag
He said he expected to go to Guthrie,
get in a claim for a town lot, set
tle down upon it, and. in time
build up a church and congregation.
" 'But they are a pretty savago lot.' I re
marked, 'those fellows poins into Guthrie.
What chance does a man of your peaceful
inclinations stand of getting a lot!'
"Well renlied the dominie in aU se
riousness, 'I propose to get a claim and
settle on it, and I reckon if any of the
brethren can Ret the drop on me before I
do on him he can havo mv lot"
TIIACKEUAV8 FATHER.
Brief rteminescencet of a Man Known to the
World Only Tliroush Ills Son.
Ann Thackaray Rltcher. In Si. Nicholas.
There is a picture we used to look at as
children in the nursery at home, and which
my own children look at now, as it hangs
upon the wall. It is a water-color sketch,
delicately penciled and tinted, done in
India three-quarters of a century a?oby
Chinnery, a well-known artist of those
days, who went to Calcutta and depicted
the people there with charming skill.
This picture represents a family group
father, mother, infant child a subject
which has been popular with painters ever
since they first began their craft. Long
before Raphael's wondrous art was
known, this particular composition was
a favorite with artists and spectators, as
I think it will ever be. from generation
to generation, while mothers continne to
clasp their little ones in their arms. This
special ijroup of Thackerays is almost the
only glimpso we havo of my lather's
earliest childhood, but it gives a vivid
I massing impression of his fiist home, which
asted for so short a time. My long, lean,
young grandfather sits at such ease a peo
ple allowed themselves in those classio
days, propped in a stiff chair, in tight
white ducks and pump9, and with a kind,
grave face. He was Mr. Ilicbxnond Thack
eray, of the Bengal civil service, the then
revenue collector of the districts called
'the twenty-four Perganas." My grand
mother, a beautiful young woman of some
two and twenty summers, stands, draped
in white, with a certain nymph-like aspect,
and beside her. perched upon half a dozen
big piled books. with his arms
round his mother's neck, is her little
son, William Makepeace Thackeray, a
round-eyed boy of three years old, dressed
in a white muslin frock. He has curly.dark
hair, an innocent face, and a very sweet
look and smile. This look was almost the
same,, indeed, after a-lifetime; neither long
years of work and trouble, nor pain, nor
chill winters of anxiety ever dimmed its
clear simplicity, though his spectacles may
have sometimes coiuo between his eyes and
thoso who did not know him very well.
He used to take his spectacles off when he
looked at this old water-color. 'lt's a pret
ty drawing," he used to say; bnt if his
father, in the picture, could have risen from
the chair he would have been about nine
feet high, according to the length of tho
legs thero depicted. My own father n?ed
to tell tis he could lust remember
our grandfather, a very tall, thin man, ris
ing out of a bath. Ho could also remember
the crocodiles floating on the Ganges, and
that was almost all he ever described of
India, thongh in his later writings there
are many allusions to East Indian life. In
"The Tremendous Adventures of Major
Gahagan," for iustance. there is enough
meaning and intention in the names and
Hindustanee to show that he still retained
something of his early impressions.
A year after the sketch in question was
painted, the peaceful home in India was
broken up forever. The poor young col
lector of the twenty-four Pergnnas died of
a fever on board a ship, where he had been
carried from the shore for fresher air, this
was about 1816, when mj- father was tive
years old.
Kichmond'Thackery was himself little
over thirty when he died. His young wid
ow remaiucd in India with her mother, and
married a second timo. Two years after
her first husband died, her little son came
back to Eugland with a cousin of the same
age, both returned uuder1 the care of an
ludian civilian, Mr. James McNabb, who
had promised to befriend the children on
the journey honit aud of whose kindness
we were often told in our childhood.
Cutting Out Slate Fencil.
rhUJultlpMa Teleprapo.
One of the most peculiar branches of in
dustry in this country is the manufacture
of slate pencils. Thero is only one slate
pencil factory in the United States, It em
ploys twenty-tive hands, who turn out
200,000 slate pencils every day. The method
of manufacture is a good deal in advance of
tne primitive methods employed some years
back. Not long since the blocks of soft
slate from which pencils aro cut were sawed
in lengths and distributed among the neigh
boring families to be whittled down to pen
cil shape. Those working at them could
earn about f0 cents per thousand. Now the
blocks are put into a machine aud cut into
square lengths by revolving knives, and
the lengths are afterwards polished by ein
erv belts. One man can cut and iinlsh
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