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SP 'Jp 4 A S* * pto Ll ,' ; v j ; . <;•; .* $ * * A / PRICE, 3 MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891. VOL. XIIÎI-N0. 38. JltiBirçllanfous ^dMijtispifnts. STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER. PHILADELPHIA. OUR OPENING DAYS In Seasonable Dry Goods for the Autumn of 1891 causing widespread interest, and^day after day our im mense salesrooms are thronged with visitors, inspecting the many beautiful things of use and beauty, that have been gath ered by our own representatives—from all parts of the world. are To all within reach of our city, we extend a cordial invi tation to visit this great exhibition of Art and Industry. To are prevented from calling in those, who for any reason person, we would suggest that our efficient MATT. ORDER DEPARTMENT » I the shopper by mail with the same careful attention serves that is accorded to those who buy at the counters. Send for samples of whatever material you require. 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Call and seethe above named stove. Coal Hods, Shovels, &c. »-Coal nods, shovels. Pokers, Zinc,' Stove Beards, Pipe Elbows, Dampers, Collars, and a largo stock oi all kinds kept in a first-class hardware, stove and tin store. to Roofing, Spouting, &c. 4S- Hoofing, spoutimr and all kinds of tin and Iron work, and repairing ot heaters, cook and coal stoves at short notice. Re f alrs furnished ior any stove made, of which give special and prompt attention. Paints, Varnishes, &c. 49- Readv-mixed Paints in any quantity. Walnut, Cherry, Mahogany and Maple oil stain. Varnishes—Coach, Furniture and Fin ishing in any quantity. Lamps, Agate-ware, &c. ttf I make a specialty in lamps, lamp goods, agate warc,)Jupanned tinware and pressed ware. tsm 43- Any article in tinware that I have not Instock 1 am always prepared to make at short notice ; I also give prompt attention to repairing in Tinwaro. I extern^ an invitation to the public, my friends and patrons to call and examine my stock and prices. No Trouble to Show Goods. Hoping for a liberal share of your . I am most respcctlully. patron age W.S. LETHERBÜRY, MIDDLETOWN, DEL. 1891, SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 1891, " - a of üitattfl® â Captain E. 8. Brooks, — WILL LEAVE — Odessa for Philadelphia, - AND RETURN FROM - Pier 9, North Wharves, As per time table. iu Odessa. SEPTEMBER. Phila. Tuesday, 1,2 pm Wednesday, 2, 7 pm Thursday, 3, 3){ pm Friday, 4, \y % p in Saturday, 5, 4% p m Friday, 4th, Corbit's Landing, 7pm Monday, 7, 3 pm Tuesday, 8.6%pm Monday, 7th, Corbit's Landing, 8pm Wednesday, 9, 12 m Thursday, 10. 8 pm Friday, 11, 1 pm Saturday, 12,10>£a m Monday, 14,5 p in Tuesday, 15, 1 pm Wednesday, 16, 6% p m Thursday, 17, 3 pm Friday, 18, 1% p m Saturday, 19, 4 pm Monday. 21,11 am Tuesday-, 22, 7% pm Thursday, 24, 1 pm Fiiday-, 25 11 am Monday, 28 5 p in Tuesday, 29, 2 pm GRAIN, FRUIT and STOCK Freighted at Reasonable Rates. Attention given to the earelnl handling and prompt deliver}- ot all consignments. For information in regard to freight rates apply to F. B. WATKINS. Odessa, Del. OD. my the the aud any will to the to this had and is and had the acli-23-tf CAPITAL, - - S50O.OOO.UO. SURPLUS, - - *60,000.00. Security Trust and Safe Depit Company, 519 MARKET ST., WILMINGTON, DEL. Mosey U »employed or waiting investment can be made to earn you Interest if deposi ted with this company, Istbrest Paid on deposits ot money as fol lows : 2 per cent on deposits payable on de mand, by check, same as hanks; 2 % per cent on deposits payable alter 19 days' notice ; 3 pei- cent on deposits payable atter 30 days' nolice. Special rates for large sums to remain tor a year or longer. t "J. 1 " Attention given to the accounts ot Ladle iso to those of Executors, Adminls 1 '•alors, Trustees, Guardians and Receivers 1 he Company acts by authority ot law as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Re ceiver and Agent, and executes trusts ot every description. Correspondence solicited and lull informa tion furnished concerning any branch ot the Company's business, Satisfaction guar anteed. Send lor pamphlet. BENJ. NIELDS, President. H. C. ROBINSON. Vice President. Benjamin Nie ids* Jos. II. Chandler, M D Sïlü'A Ç.- Hold nanti, J. Davis Staler, Phillip Plunkett, William M. Field, James A. Hart, Charles E. Fritz, Henry F Dure, Archibald A, Capelle, Win. p. Bancroft. Win. K. Brinckie Wm.J. MeClary, SamuelG. Simmons, mayl-ly JAS. n. CLARKSON, Treas. .t Sec. JNO. S. ROSS ELL, Trust Officer. Directors : FOR RENT. THE STORE-ROOM, No. 4 Cochran niock. THE HALL, lately occupied by the I. O. O. F., on third floor ot No. 2 store. The 3-Story Brick House adjolning the Citizen's National Bank. Apply to E. R. COCHRAN or S. M. REYNOLDS * CO. teb26-tt THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.' I hold It troth, the truest joy That may on earth be had Arises from the sweet employ Ot making others glad. If there be selfishness in this, It hoards no secret pelt. But welcomes still to share its bliss Another as Itself. Its dearest treasures It would give, Nor stay.to count the cost ; If others on its bounty live. Then notblng It bos lost. This love is lavished—never sold ; Its honor knows no stain ; There is no canker on its gold— No mildew on its grain. Be mine the happiness to know, It rjpb. how blest is he. Whom God Himselt haa honored so. ills almoner to be. But, it it be the Master's will That I should daily faro Through narrow ways, a toiler still For all I eat and wear. Then, he it mine with grateful heart Such blessing to receive impart As 1 would willingly Another to receive, — T. H. Hill, in Balelgh News and Observer. High THE BIG JIGTOWN FAILURE. I T would be difficult to imagine a more depressing place than Jig lown in May, except for one who had seen Jigtown in April. The spring there had a peculiar effect of deferred hope. Obdurate patches of grimy snow lay along the fences, with outliers here and there into the stony fields. The winter road-bed of im pacted ice, furrowed with miniature brooks, seemed as likely as not to last till it formed a' " bottom " for the next season's sleighing. The shapes and attitudes of the few straggling trees suggested a struggle for istence hardlv worth struggling for. They had the' dejected air of aborgints nearly civilized out of existence. Turn whichever may you might, it invariably seemed up hill and into in creased chilliness. It is true, Jigtown enjoyed a certain reputation among scientific circles as the " centre of an elevated plateau," and had been the subject of acrimonious personal con troversy, one learned gentleman hav ing eloquently described it as " that peculiarly interesting locality, that great Silurian island round which the billows of the Devonian ocean had re hearsed their ancient song of chaos," and another openly deriding it as modern refuse-heap, simply the dump ing-ground for all that was worn out and worthless in the great continental glacier." But to ordinary people, whose imaginations do not habitually carry them back to x millions of years, b. c., it was only a collection of shabby wooden houses on a bleak hill-side, most of them unpainted and repre senting the second growth which 30 years ago had succeeded the log cabins of the settlers. Two white wooden boxes with high windows were apparently meant for churches ; and one, distinguished by slightly greater size and shabbiness, was evidently the tavern. There was a blacksmith's and a cooper's shdp, a " general-pur store, and near the brow of the am Bak Zinc,' kept tin an ex in to he of of tin Re oil Fin and not at my my a pose hill a narrow two-story building an nounced itself on a faded sign to be a " drug store, two glass vases filled with a bright-red liquid gave the ouly bit of color to ihe cheerless scene. Nearly opposite lower bouse, with a newer sign - " Miss Bloom, Milliner." This had a neat fence in front, and a general air of smartness, as befitted the temple of Fashion. Ou a chilly morning in the early part of May the owner of the drug store was standing in front of his door downcast and irresolute attitude. He was a sandy-haired, light colored, thin man of thirty-five, of that unde cided appearance which gives little intimation of age or character. He walked slowly back and forth on the narrow porch in front of the store a few moments, and then moved more quickly across the street and entered the low house opposite. The jingling of a bell attached to the door gave notice of his approach and summoned Miss Bloom from the inner fane of the temple of Fashion, where the sacred mysteries of her craft were hidden from the public gaze. She was a short, plump young woman with dark hair, not exactly pretty, but with that wholesome, helpful look in her face which the eye finds it pleasant to rest In the window of this, was a iu a m m of to on to the up, ly he of and " said his OD. " Well, Norman ?" said the girl, with cheerful interrogation, looking steadily into his downcast counten ance. " It's no use," said the man. " I out all day, and I only got forty seven dollars. I didn't get back till nine o'clock, or I would have told you last night." " Well, that's quite a beginning. Tell me all about it;" " Some of 'em was mad at being asked, and they said they guessed they was good for a little drug-bill, but didn't pay me a cent. Some of 'em hadn't sold their butter 'cause this oleo-margariue is making it so slow. The widder Brown was the only one that paid me in lull, 'n' she gave me my dinner besides, 'n' I guess she is the poorest one in the lot. She had the $4.33 all ready by itself in a drawer, and said that was the last debt her husband owed. I might have got a yearling calf over to Bron son's. but Harbert & Froud won't take a yearling calf for their pay. Tbey say they must have the money, aud the whole of it ; aud I don't see any wav how I can raise it. They will have to come up and take the store. I'll go out to Middletown to morrow ; but it's no use for me to try to raise $608 dollars. I don't believe there is as much money as that in all the township. I wrote 'em last night after I got back, and gave the letter to Silas Van Duser to take to town this morning. I told them that I had committed an act of bankruptcy, and must make an assignment, unless they would give me time. But what is the use ? I don't see how time can make it any better. I'm a failure ; and I'd better fail." This loDg speech was delivered in a monotonous, resigned tone, as if it had been learned by heart. Indeed, the limited intellect of the man had was dwelt on the subject so long that its action had become mechanical, and the recital of hi3 troubles flowed from him with as little spontaneity, and with much the same dull suggestion of pain, as the opening of " Paradise Lo 3 t " from a school boy. Miss Bloom could not but help recognize the hope lessness of the man before her. But she tried to answer cheerfully : •< We can't tell what time may do, Norman." , , Do what she could, the brave little could not keep the tears out Sympathetically she ed, he to so ten of woman of her eyes, looked at the world through the man s eyes, and it seemed hard, forlorn, joy less. The little fabric of their lives seemed about to be crushed in a piti less necessity. She raised hek face with tearful eyes and put her hands instinctively on the young man s shoulders. " I don't feel a3 if I had auy right to kiss you, Carry, said he. « I gave you the right when I promised to marry you ; but you are the best judge of that. Men have wanted to kiss me when they hadn't right," said she, drawing away from him with a touch of resentment. Even poor Norman Dowoer, brok en iu spirit as he was, could not resist this. a Jig who The of of with im last the for. it in an the hav that that the re out c., 30 log the the auv off of said " as a of the his the of with ded from and part It of by on the to past a hills the after the the the in, been o fast Then she whispered tremulously, I've got sixty dollars, Norman, that have to help make up what you can yoii want." She moved as if to go into the other room, but the druggist stopped her with more decision of manner than could have been expected iu him. ex "No; no; I cannot take money from you—least of all to pay my debts. You are the very one that I could uot take it from. Besides, all your money !—oh, no ! not if you had a thousand dollars clear." He shook his head with a vigor that seemed to transform him. " Why. Norman," said the girl, " who could you take it from rather than from me ? I shan't want it be fore next winter, and I wish you would take it." " You've got yourself and your mother to take care of, and I will never be a burden on a woman. You have done me a mighty sight of good by offering it—more'n a hundred dol lars' worth. If the worst comes to the worst, I'll go out west and find some thing to do." He was so evidently in earnest that the girl did not attempt to renew her offer, and Downer, again saying that he would go to Middletowu next day and collect what he could, crossed the street with a much firmer tread than before, and entered his store to wait for such customers a3 chance might send him. Silas Van Duser's idea of an "early start " was so primitive that he drove out of Jigtown at three o'clock in the morning, and thus it happened that Norman Downer's letter to his New York creditors was posted in the county town at eight, and at four o'clock of the same afternoon formed one of a neatly tied package on the desk of Mr. William Frond, manag ing partner of the great wholesale drug bouse of Herbert and Froud, to which the debt which had caused so much uneasiness in Jigtown was due. He read them rapidly aud laid them in separate boxes, with a few penciled words on the back of each. When he came to the one iu which Dowuer with needless frankness confessed bis utter iuability to pay bis bill, he frowned slightly. What does the fool mean by that? This letter is enough to jug him. He called sharply to the office-boy in the outer room, " Robert, tell Mr. Blood that I wish to see him at once ; " then to the book-keeper, " Make out N. Downer's bill as quickly as you can, and charge the amount over to profit aud loss." The man sent for came running up the stairs from the basement, where he had been checking off an invoice of bottles. He hastily brushed some straws from his sleeve and, on enter ing the room, assumed at ouce an air of alert attention tempered with res pect. a a to He the a the a ' Act of bankruptcy' ! "Henry," said the manager, " that rascal Downer is trying to beat us out of his bill. You will have to go to Jigtown and get what you can out of the wreck, if it isn't more than enough to pay travelling-expeuses. You musn't let the rest of the creditors get ahead of us, if we are not too late al ready. You can take the six o'clock express, and reach the county town to-night in time to find out whether auy assignment has been filed, and be on hand with an attachment early to morrow morning. Nab everything there is in sight. I'll go right down to the lawyer's office aud swear to the papers aud have them sent to you at the Barclay street station. Get what money you want from John, and have him telephone to 41 Wall that 111 be there in ten minutes, and one of the firm must be in the office." Saying this, the manager jumped up, caught his hat, and walked brisk ly down the store, putting coat as he went. In a few moments he was rolling down town on the ele vated road ; and two hours later, Blood, seated in a railroad car just moving out of Jersey City, was en deavoring to read a paper courteously addressed to " any constable or sheriff of the state of New York, greeting," and containing, in a vast labyrinth of verbiage, a peremptory command that " ye take, hold and possess all the goods, chattels, credits, choses in action, of every kind, nature, name, sort, or description whatsoever, now being in the possession of or in any way pertaining or belonging to the said Norman Downer, the above named defendant." The clerk of Summit county was much surprised by a sail at eleven o'clock that night from an impetuous little man with a full l.lack beard and bright black eyes, who wished to know whether Norman Downer had filed an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. The clerk assured him that no official claim had been enter I is a I ; a it G " he a letter about that could got see " mauy know, What clear " uot " " " roll was the of fraud. on his over " " we fair this have the is I its do, , out she ed, aud that the attachment he now received would be the first lien, and should go on file at the opening of the office in the morning, and bowed him out with the impression that a great commercial crisis must be impending. " Now," said Blood to himself, as he walked back to the livery-stable near the station, " if that beat hasn't removed the goods, and if there is no one else already in possession, I ought to be able to light on enough to make fifty per cent, and expenses, anyway. Must be a good six hours' drive over there ; and I may as well start now as later." Some little delay fras caused by the caution of the stable-keeper, who was so much astounded by the receipt of ten dollars in advance and by the energy of the New Yorker's manner, and so unable to conjecture why any sane man should insist on driving to Jigtown in the middle of the night, that he suspected his customer of being a bank-robber fleeing from jus tice. He sent for an athletic young giant who acted as driver for him on occasions when there was a likelihood of a personal encounter with a passen ger, and, when he came, cautioned him ; s s I are " You've got to drive the blacks over to Jigtown to-night, and you want to look out for that feller. He might kuock you on the head and run off with the team." " I kin handle him," said the man, with calm confidence, alter a careful survey of Blood's figure, which the other illuminated by the feeble rays of the stable lantern. " He's quicker'n a cat in his motions," said the livery-keeper nervously ; " 'n' mebbe he's science. Don't you run the team, whatever he says ; 'n' keep your eye peeled for him." " Let him be science if he wants to," said the son of Anak contemptuously. " Come, driver," sang out Henry, " if we are going to get there, we must start." They drove out of the barn, care fully watched by those that remained, as is the habit with the hangers-on of a livery-stable, who regard every start with as much interest as if it were the trailtrip of an experimental vehicle drawn by newly-domesticated animals. Blood, with the experience of a veteran traveller, appropriated the larger part of the robe, and made himself as comfortable as possible on his side of the seat. The driver sat with his neck slightly forward and the muscles of his shoulder in a state of tension, ready for a fierce grapple with his suspected companion on the slightest warning; but the latter nod ded and dozed with perfect equani mity, except as he was awakened from time to time by some unusual jolt,—for how could the driyer, whose eyes were partly closed and inversely turned toward the seat, avoid iu the imperfect light the holes and ruts which make up the greater part of a country road in the spring ? It would have been hard to tell which of the two men was the less impressed by the beautiful night-effects of the mouutain-road, the gray floating mists, the dim light of the half-moon on the western horizon, the wayside pools obscurely reflecting its rays, the mysterious and suggestive shadows of the trees ; for each wa9 utterly blind to all such things by nature, and no culture had widened the scope of his natural vision. So they drove un conscious through the silent night, past farm-houses which seemed as un substantial as the " baseless fabric of a dream," till the monotonous and drowsy crow of a cock from the ad joining barg seemed to give them reality and coherence of outline, past banks of forest from the depths of which the wood-thrush was already sounding his magic flute, through hollows filled with mist-clouds, over hills from which the mist showed like the fleecy covering of a lake, till soon after daybreak they slowly climbed the last hill and halted before one of the Jigtown taverns. Blood jumped down as fresh a3 if the corner of a buggy were his usual nightly resting-place, and ran briskly in, relieving the jaded driver from his vigilance. Early as it was, the work ing-day of Jigtown had begun. The landlord, in answer to Blood's hasty inquiry, said that no stranger had been in the town for weeks, and that Downer was in his store and meant to o to Middletown in a few moments, enry said, " I'll be back to break fast shortly," and went to Downer's store. iu I to ! " it to G " I'm from Harbert & Froud," said he to the druggist, who was looking over a package of bills. " We got your letter yesterday, and I've come to see about your little bill. How are things ?" Downer was so staggered by the sudden appearauce of a flesh-and-blood creditor in answer to a letter which seemed but just to have left his hand that it was some seconds before he could reply : " Bad enough. I haven't got the money for you, and I don't see how I can get it." " The bill has been running a good mauy years with small payments, you know, and it ought to be closed up. What have you got that is free aud clear ?" " What there is in this store, and uot quite one hundred dollars in money.'' " Does this stuff all beloug to you?" " It would if it was paid for." " Well," said Blood, " I'll take possession. Thi3 is a copy of the at tachment, and this is the original." So saying, he handed Norman a roll of legal paper, attached to which was a copy of the unfortunate letter, the writing of which, though an act of pure integrity, constituted a legal fraud. in I " Now," said the New-Yorker, " we are going to treat you perfectly fair ; but we must go to the bottom of this thing. You seem disposed to be square, and we will be with you. I must have an inventory of what there is in the store, and I don't know that there is any use for an outsider. You and I can take an account of stock and schedule of your debts and book-ac counts well enough alone. Then tell you what we will. do. It is not going to be much of.a job, and we might as well begin right off." Drawing a long, narrow book from some mysterious hiding-place in his back pocket, and a Mackinnon pen from bis breast, he gave it a smart jerk, and said, " Take one shelf at a time, and begin right here." Downer was so much bewildered by the rapidity of these operations, and awed by the decision with which the stranger gave his orders, that he moved mechanically to the place in dicated, and said, in a weak voice " Some cinnamon." " All right," sang out the crisp voice of the New-Yorker. " Give me the number oi jars, and hold them up so that I can see the stuff.—Two jars cinnamon,—say, ten cents.—Wh next?" and the as no as the was of the to of on r can at Ipecac," said Downer, still more feebly. " Tinct. ip.,—say, two gills ; twenty five cents.—Fire ahead." These repeated 3purs roused Nor man's energy, aud he began to feel as if he were really " doing business." Blood relaxed slightly his per emptory manner as he put down, " Four doz. ten oz. vials sulph. qui Powers & Weightman's mark, and the seals unbroken, by all that's sour !" said he to himself. " Good as the gold. But what under the sun wa3 he doing with so much his we of it ? of nine. quinine i Suddenly the door flew open, and Carry Bloom burst into the dingy store. Very pretty she looked, with tears in her eyes and wrath and alarm in her face. She went past Blood to where Norman stood, and clasped his arm. " Oh, Norman," she said, " what does it all mean ? I couldn't stand it a minute longer. I saw him come in fifteen minutes ago. What is it all about? What is he doing here in your store ?" And she confronted Blood with a defiant expression. Norman, who felt the moral sup port given by the presence of another man and the digüity of haying really failed, said gently, " We're taking an inventory. This gentleman rep Harbert & Froud." He fell using the word " represents" almost gaye him a mercantile standing " We're going to the bottom of this thing. Don't feel bad, Carry." " How can I help feeling bad ? I've brought the money over." And she deftly inserted a small roll of bills into his waistcoat-pocket. " No, no," said Norman, patting the money back into her hands and nervously but. firmly closing them over it. Blood looked on with conflicting emotions. He was rather afraid of women, regarding them as beings who did not respect the sacred nature of invoices and bills of lading and cap able of endless ^rgumentr against a point definitely settled by a trial balance, besides being the main cause for which money was drawn out of business and failure invited. He was not insensible to the value ot the money as a hard, incomprehensible asset ; but since he had inventoried the quinine and glanced at the con tents of the remaining shelves, a glittering vision of seventy-five cents on the dollar began to rise before his commercial imagination. The cer tainty of being ahead of all other creditors was soothing to at least the amount of the other twenty-five per cent. Besides, he took it for granted that the girl owed the money to the druggist, aud meant to inquire into it as soon as she was out of the way. At present, having nothing to say, he wisely kept silence, and regarded Miss Blood with a blank and impassive resents t that is countenance. The young woman felt the awk wardness of the situation, and, saying, " Come over and tell me all about it as soon as you are through, won't you, Normar. ?" left the store. Blood closed the door after her, and said, looking through the narrow A good, square-toed girl ; handsome, too." Turning round and pointing to a trap door : " Is that the way you go down-cellar?" " Yes," said Norman curtly. It was not pleasant for him to hear Carry's good looks commended, as if she, too, were an article to be in ventoried. " What do you keep down there ?" said Blood. " There's nothing there now but some barrels of whiskey," answered the druggist. " Whiskey !" said Blood, with sud den interest. He bent over and pull ed up the door by a leathern thong nailed to one side. A smell of damp, musty wood, mixed with a peculiar aroma which seemed greatly to ex. cite him, filled the room, it is ! but it is different from any thing I ever smelt before. Where's your light ?" Norman brought him a dingy-chim neyed kerosene lamp. Having light ed it, the two descended a rude ladder into an oblong cavern extending under the entire store, and empty ex cept at one end, where two rows of wooden-hoped barrels were ranged. The men were obliged to stoop down to avoid the beams of the floor over head, which were of round timber flattened on the upper side. In some the bark still remained, and of Why, so cases from nearly all cobwebs hung, white with dust and motionless. Blood crouched down and counted them. " Twenty-eight, eagerly. " Are they all whiskey ?" " I believe so," replied Norman. " Is it yours ?" " I suppose it is yours i plied bitterly. ".Father before he died, to make some bitters ; that's how I came to have so much quinine. He paid for it, and it took ail the money he had, and I've been in debt more or less ever siuem^Thea he joined the temperance, and ! Ml too, and 1 promised him t he last » that I r .ould never sell anyjÄ^ I never haye." Äif ' [Continued on fourth» • ■ If . said he now," he re bought it is we his pen he in me up A gentleman of this city wiuM taken some interest in mind-reaJH hypnotism, telepathy and the entered his office the other day, just as he was sitting down thoughnH a friend whom he wanted very muclfl to see on a matter of business. In leas than a minute in walked the very person. "Did you just arrive?" asked the gentleman. ' 'Drove up to the-door about half a minute ago," said the visitor. "Must send it to the Psychical Re search Society," said Jthe gentleman explaining what had happened. After his visitor went away he began thinking it over. Then he suddenly recalled something he had overlooked. On passing his office through another room he saw a gentleman reading a book with a peculiar binding. It re minded him of another book in simi lar binding he had been reading at a Summer resort the week before. This reminded him that he thought of going back there for another week of recrea tion and that reminded him that his friend had been down there, too, and was expecting to go back with him. Then he wondered how many similiar mysteries might be rationally explain ed if the connection between one'B thoughts could only be re-established. —Detroit Free Press. r at as all Talente Differ. Chauncey M. Depew tells a good story of an old backwoodsman in his State who came to him one morning and said : " I liked that, 'ere speech 'o yourn last night." " I'm glad you did," Mr. Depew it in all in an of of of a of a it replied. " Yes, I'd give five years of my life to be able to make such a speech that." as " You never did anything at public speaking, then ?" " Me ? Not a thing. Couldn't say ' Boo' in public, I don't s'pose. There are things I can do, though. Give me an ax, a draw-shave an' a log 'o wood an' I can make as pretty an ox yoke as there is in the State. Yes, sir, that's all I want—ax, shave an' log, an' 'bout two days' time, an' there's yer oxyoke. That's what I can do. Now I s'pose give you them things an' you conldn't do nothin' with era—less mebbe 'twas to hop on the log 'p' make a speec and the drawshave 'boul iron." h to the ax t the tariff on The Typewriter in Preparing Copy. To-day Robert Louis Stevemion uses the pen ;"so does Arthur Sher burne Hardy, the gifted author of " Passe Rose.' ' The Harpers, too, are a conservative firm, and have al ways refused, personally, to use the typewriter. Miss Booth, when editor of Harper's Bazar, told me that she much preferred handwritten MS. To me, however, the real value ot the typewriter seems to reside in the view it gives you of your work in cold blood. The ideal method of composition, if life were not too short, would be to dash offyour work hastily in the first glow of enthusiasm with pencil and paper ; even ink is too slow Let it cool, blue pencil it copiously, copy it on the typewriter ; boil down and revise the typewritten copy and make a new fair copy from the revision. This is substantially the method employed by Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, who, however, instead of writing his first rough draft employs a stenographer.—Emily A. Thackray in New York Epoch. A Shrewd Tramp. People in Broadway enjoyed a joke on a man who was distributing samples' the other day. He went into every store on bis side of the street, leaving there a small piece of tobacco to be sampled. As the dû burser entered one store a seedy looking man went into the one im mediately behind this one, and while the man who was giving away the tobacco came forth each time with one less piece, he who followed him came out with his store increased by one of the samples. A good deal of quiet laughing was done at the ex pense of the agent. No doubt when day was over the dispenser of tobacco felt satisfied that he had faith fully served his employers. There is no doubt that the tramp was con tent, for he had tobacco enough to last him for many days.—New Y'ork Tribune. it ; if the Butler's Book. General Butler's forthcoming book will be one of the largest historical autobiographies ever published. It will contain one thousand large pages, printed upon high grade paper and illustrated with several lundred wood eugravings. It will be published in English, German, and French. The best artists are now employed on the work. The Dickin son Type Found ay is casting type especially for it. The typography and press work will be by The Barta Press of Boston, the first edition to be not less than one hundred thousand, probably double that number. The publishers are A. M. Thayer & Co., of Boston. John G. Bryant, sole agent for Delaware. 506 King St., Wilmington, Del. She—" I wonder wh made man first." forced to do it by necessity." She— Why, how you talk. The Creator anything." as in this y the Creator tie—*• He was ; couldn't be forced to do He—" All the same He was case." She—" How do you make* that out ?" He—" Simply enough. If the woman had been created first, she wouldn't have her mind made up yet what kind of a man would suit her," __ . " The situation in Turkey " just now seems to be a lack of financial rican. 8tU the, doo r-bell is FJSu'are the only ure in the bath-