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A
ABILENE REFLECTOR
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
STEOTBEE BEOS.
THE BEST SHIP AFLOAT.
Of all the ships afloat
On Atlantic or Pacific.
Or far within the tropics
On the Indian ocean's breast,
r With white sails all a-sleamin;?,
with brilliant colors streaming-,
There's no ship
Like Friendship.
The staunchest, and the bestl
"When tempests hover nigh,
Anfl the sea Is lashed to fury.
When loudly roar the breakers.
And above the sea-gulls swarm;
When skies are overclouded,
4-nd sunshine is enshrouded.
There's no ship
Like Friendship,
To battle with the storm!
A welcome sight is she
"Wherever we may meet her.
With canvas spread out finely.
With pennon bright and blue;
To none she is a stranger,
.And in the hour of danger
There's no ship
Like Friendship
To lead us salelr through!
From port to port she sails,
'The bearer of dispatches
From Love, the mighty monarch
Her outJlt all complete;
And thougli little skiff orclipper
May in a race outstrip her.
There's no ship
Like Friendship
In all the royal fleet!
'Of all the ships afloat
On Atluutic or I'aciUc,
Or far within the tropics
-,..?" tn.e Indian ocean's breat,
. ?'hitc mlla a" a learning.
itn brilliant colore streaming.
There's no ship
Like Friendship.
The Rtaunclivxt, and the best.
Josephine IWlartl, in X. Y. Ledger.
A SERVICE OF SONU.
The girls had crone to town. Grand
nna sat in the open .sitting-room door,
sewing. Grandfather stood in tiie cool
shade at the long work bench at the
end of the kitchen, making a new single-tree
for the light wagon. Thev
could not sec each other. I doubt ff
they heard, or at any rate observed,
each other's voices, but I could plainly
see and hear each one, and I forgot my
book, listening to them and trying to
guess their thought-; from their "dis
jointed, changing, abrupt fragments of
song. And the occasional Mutter of the
leaves stirred by a wandering breath of
wind, the shadows dimpling the second
growth of red clover, the shaving note
of a ru-.tle.ss bird, the long, dusty road,
stretching far away past "the woods to
the "high prairie," the Hash of a but
terfly's wings -how it all harmonized
with the broken songs that fell almost
unconscjousiy at times from the old
lips, while "the sin yens were ovnr tho
business of the house," and in all that I
iiour of peace, while "the whole earth
is at rest, and is quiet, they break forth
into singing."
A Hash of bright beautiful blue from
the widows and a kingfisher, with his i
lonesome cry, skimmed a pool in the
plough with a plash and sped awav.
The old man's eves followed the flight
of the bird, and then rented a moment
on the wandering stream, loitering
away to the woods on the Schneblv
xarm, and tne strong voice san"- to old i
fc.xuortation:"
"A span is all that re can boast,
An inch ortwo of time:
Man is but vanity and dust '
A search for the drawing knifo
stopped his song, and as a cloud drifted
over the sun and soothed all the land
with shadow, grandma sang in the
plaintive strains of 4Vhina"':
"Well might the tiin in darknes h!'ir
And .-hut hi- glories in.
When ("hrirt th mighty MUr, died
For man, the creature's sin.".
While like a triumphant esho from
the work bench end of the choir came
ringing the glorious strains of "St.
Martins," thrilling and
A Clever Doff.
lnsmrinn" as a
j blast of trumpets, cheering as a bugle
vim, granu in its tone 01 unsnaKen con
fidence: "Beneath the shadow of Thy throno.
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone.
Ami our defense is sure."
But the cloud drifted away and the
sunburst of light blazed over the earth
again, and in stately measure "Dun
dee" swelled in its half note step from
the bench:
"A faith that shines more bright and clear
When tempests t?ige without:
That when in danger knows no fear.
in aaruness ieeis no uouDt.
It may have been the majestic old
tune, or it may have been, I rather
think it was, the cooing wood dove,
mourning in the tall old elm down b
the horse well, thatniadegrandma&inf :
"Itetnrn. oh. holy dove, return,
Sweet meengfrof rest;
I hate the sins that made thee mourn "
Rock, rock, rock, the old straight
back rocker finished the verse without
words and in a moment the whirling
flight of my pigeons sweeping from the
barn roof over to the cool woods changed
grandma's song to jovous "Amster
dam:" "Kise. my soul, nnd stretch thy wings,
Thy better portiin trace;
Itif from transitory thint.-t
Toward Heaven, thy native place.
Sun. and moon, and st:trs decav.
Time shall oon this earth remove,
IUse, my soul, and haste away "
"Our life is a dream:
Our time, as a striMm,
. Olidcssuirtly away.
And the fugitive in mient refuses to tay
The arrow is llown;
Tho moment is gone "
"O. mav we nil remember well
The night of deatli d aws neir,"
'came from grandma's lips and she
hadn't opened them before in half an
hour until the clock struck four. Her
voice died away, while 1 listened for
more, for her old hvmns as she sail"
them were alwaxs known unto us
one
Rut grandpa, with lusty arm and
clanging h-iramcr, beating on the iron
rings that bound the ends of the single
tree, sang aloud, with terrible voice,
that direful old revival hymn that used
to melt with sudden fear the trembling
souls of impenitent youth:
"Pav, have you an nrm like Cod,
That yon His will oppoe?
Fe-iryou not that iron rod
With which He breaks His foes?"
And like a soothing balm to his
avenging chant that seemed to echo the
dread thunders of Sinai, came the
mourning notes of the wood dove, and
dear old grandma's sweet "Aletta":
"Weeping onl. no longer mourn,
.Tfwus all thvtrrirs hath borne:
View Him b'oi'dinir on the tree,
T'ourinir out His life for thee;
J nere tny every sin He bore,
We-ping soul, lament no more."
A distant strain of song from the men
in the liehl with Uncle John caught the
old man's ear, and he straightened him
self a moment, to rest or to listen. He
looked at the reapers, then down at the
mulberry trees by the spring in the
pasture, across at the long ranks of
corn, at the golden field of oats, wait
ing impatiently for the reapers and
sanjr:
"On Jordan's stormy banks I stand.
Anil oat a wi-tful eye
To Ciinu-n's fair and hapny land.
Where my possessions lie."
While like a benediction came chanting
into his song the mourning dove and
grandma's "ion,"
"Has thy niglit ben long and mournful?
Hive thv friem.s unfaithful proved.'
Have thy fues been proud and scornful
By thy sighs anil tears unmoved?
CVaso thy mourning;
Zion still is well beloved."
DOXOLOGV.
A rattle of wheels down the carriage
drive, a 'horns of plea-ant voices and
rippling latgliter, a cataract of talk, of
band box and package and .sample and
price list, and news of the friends in
I'eoria- wh is dead and who is mar
ried, who they saw and whit he said -the
girls have returned from town, the
LS.'L Icui-i nn of .i.nir i.- ,,.. 1 I.:., 1.. ..
i I f . . 4 o.l i i,w wi ow.i i-j inui .will 11 a i;i-5l
,JW.-V,uKui one mat nam a i hymn mingling with the jovous la Ht-plea-ant
voice a-id can play well on an twain! merry "chatter of his girls. a3"iio
clock I drove- the horses over to tho I nm i
instrument. I heard the old
give its iiecti-; cough, as if in illustra
t.on of the hymn. Grandma wearily
turned the work in her hands, and the
measures of "Brown" swelled out in
"Jerusalem my happy h-jre,
Name ever dear to me
When fha.l my labors' have an end "
A broken thread broke the song, and
when the busy needle resumed its
llight, the dear old singer had pa-sed
to the closing 1 ne of the next stanza:
"And streets of shining gold."
I knew how the busy brain and tho
Uher softly singing to
heard grandf:
"Ortonvillo."
V:iy should the children of a king
(jo mourning all th.-ir days?'
Iiobi. J. Burdstlc, in Brooklyn Eanlc.
For Sale.
A citizen in the western part of the
city who has a house for sale :-ays that
he has learned more of human" nature,
in the last three months than during all
his life before. Nine people out of ten
...K. .. 4 1 I. 4 !.. MA MHA I
:...,. i 1......1,. i i e ' . . i dune in i"uik ai ins zi,jjj nouse
tired hands Icired for rest, and I mm i . i . , ,..,
,i..,..i :f ci, ..."v ,V.:Jt.- ; ,. .n I haven tten dollars to buy with. The
.v... .. .-.,v. ..nu l uiiutiuiLr in :ui rim
years ot weariness and toil, and of a
-certain mortgage that with its black
wings of threatening and terror had been ,
hovering above the farm for veaix liL-n I
same proportion n7c deliberate liars.
Niietcen out of twenty want every room
c anged ab nit. Ten out of twelve go
all through the house and then ob ectlo
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. . -. ... . . - " iiiiirT.iii'i-1. .11 inn1 vinir I. n-fiTii-i, ri,T
a Hawk. 1 didn t have a verv cleir t .i t i " n . 1. ..
comprehension of a mort-a-? lTmf the, s 7 w;.10 e called at the
afraid, but I knew that times Yad bee lT "n' - ' Il,e? ",an to ssltfv
ea-iera d money more , le. tiful sine tmPora'7.cnosity. One woman h d
it had been lifted, and I v w pre "ttv I 'f P' vwlu lhsK -fi.rt-i.il
ilmt ..tr-m' ,V,- i mP ,, ' ,f !ier carpets would fit and tiien sud
wou dsc"r?nU- lj2r 7 P?hl lv 'Hscovered that the house was a
i I clirt tVftitlfl l!v ifnt Yri- .. 1 !... lf
. T ie eliek of 51 fnllinn- frn, .. 41.- t '.'"- """'"- V,l-.V. '"'. '" 'tu ieii
'besceehinj:
irane and the the pla-e in a huT because there wasn't
clieep.s of half a rio.-n 1 .i...i:..4 ix i. .. .. .
torrltJ,.,! ..T.TL-c . o;.i.4 : , ": , il ..ii:ui"iiai, v-inii cu on me next corner.
"- -" "' ""i " my iiiiesi im-
proveu quail trap, set
whore no nuail
was e er Known 10 come. Grandfather
stepped away from the bench to relievo
"tho unharmed captives, for I never
-moved, fearing a demand for explana
tion, and in a moment the plaintive
"m nor strains of quaint old "Hyacinth"
-sang out:
"I delivered thci when bound.
And when wounded, heaied thy wound
Sought thee wandering, set thec right
Turned thy darkness "
"O. the transporting, rapturous scene
That rises to my sight:
Sweet Holds arrayed in living green "
mnd at the sound of Grandma's voire I
'turned my face, and saw the wrinkled
hands dropped in her lap as she sat
.looking out on llie ion"-
tnegrcHt rolling held where wc snivel
the tirst Crop of Hungarian, the fringing
woods aild the wide meadows all ooded
in glorious sunshine -how eonhl she
sing anything else? Triumphant as the
psalm of the long rolling surf, the beau-.
tiful voice sang on for a moment, and
then the old hands picked up the work,
and the melody drifted into the sad
sweetness of 4Naonii," and the
-of the singing went on:
"When will my pilgrimage be done.
The world's long week be o'er."
Sure enough, I remembered, it was
only Wednesday and it seemed to the
busy ones yet a 'long time to the re tful
messofthe form J-abbath. A moving
shadow at the work bench drew mv
ejus, auu .is giauu aiuur arew me tae
line to hnd
A third was about to leae two hundred
dollars to bind the bargain until next
da.whenit suddenly occurred to her
that her sister out in Pontiac might not
like the location. Out of sTxty or
seventy men who have called evcrv
single one liked the location, thought
the property cheap, and would return
net day. The citizen finally got tired
of such conduct, and now when anyone
calls lm asks:
"Do you wi-h to look at the house or
the furniture?"
"O. the ho ise, of course."
"Well, this hou-e stands on tho north
side of the street. It is on block four
teen, lot forty-two. The house is of
Wood. It is fortV rods to a nhnrMi -..!
pasture, over eighty to a school house. Street oars
do not pass the door. Circus proces
sions never come this way. Now, then,
have you any idea of buying?"
"Certainly. We must "move next
wec'-j.'
"Very well. Please deposit .--, Hol
lars for my trouble in showk-' you
over." fc -
"Two dollars! I'd like to see mvs.f '
Why your house ia the poorest oili. for
sa e in ah Detroit, and I'd not live m it
rent free!"
"Rut you came here to buy?"
"No, I didu t. I happened to be
passing, saw your sign, and I thought
I misrht as well tramp over your
premises as to go down town. Good
m rniug.sir! You'd bc'ter insure vonr
house and set fire to it." Detroit Fr?-
voice
the middle of the hickory lrcss.
piece he was shaping, he sang to Scot- '
tish "Avon," m According to Japanese custom, age
" Teach me the measure of my days, s coumed from the fi'st day of the , a-
IouiSvevf :n--fmme' u? ?ut;L'eedin? l"h. At that date a
Thorl J t u j cmld ,s one -vear oltl. whether born the
There was a fault somewhere, and previous January, at midsummer or on
-silence mdi ated it, for grandfather the 3ist of December.
mever snug m moments of perple Aty. 1 -.
He would talk to himself then .is though J An Eastern insurance company has
ie was or were, as the case, or rather refused to insure houses in which
tnumber may be, twins, but he never spherical fish globes or water bottles
Jang. And with closel eyes I waited are kept Thev act as sun "lasses, and
and knew the measurement was per- three tires are recorded from this cause
fectedwhenheweaton: last winter.
A handsome Scotch colly dog in tho
office of Dr. J. C. Corlies", in Market
and Mulberry Streets, Newark, has
bejn trained by his owner, R. IS. Will
Hams, Dr. Corlies's young clerk, to do
things which prove him to be an ani
mal of unusual intelligence. He spells
words, distinguishes colors, and per
forms arithmetical calculations; or else
be and his owner are among the most
clever of living practicers of legerde
main. Yesterday a reporter of the
Sun called, with a friend, at Dr. Cor
lies's olliee to see the dog. The friend's
mission was to assist tha reporter in de
fecting any possible collusion between
.Ur. Williams and Boz. The latter was
iounu 10 oe a Deautiiui animal, with a
whUe and tawny coat, a large head,
and dark intelligent eyes. He is twen-ly-two
inches high and is tea months
old.
"Dr. Corlies gave Boz to me when he
was three weeks old," said Mr. Will
u'ams. "It would take me a day to tell
jrou how I taught him to spell and fig
ure. It will be easier for me to show
i-ou the results. Bo., get on the sofa."
The colly jumped upon a lounge and
remained there while his owner set sev
eral blocks in a row on the floor. Each
plock was painted a different color.
"Now call for vour colors." said Mr.
W illiams.
The reporter asked Boz to pick out
green, and the dog walked slowly
along the row of blocks until he came
to the color called for. when he lifted
Mie block by a leather strap en the top
of it and set it one side. In like man
ner Boz correctly selected red, white,
yellow and black. The reporter ob
served that when making his choice of
colors, and later, of letters and figures,
the dog faced his owner. The visitors
therefore watched the latter to ascer
tain if he gave Boz any signals, but
were unable to detect any communica
tion between the two. Several timos
when tne dog was doinir his work Mr.
Williams turned his face away from the
blocks and looked out of a window.
"Boz, match this book," said Mr.
Williams, pointing to a pink-covered
telephone list.
The dog promptly picked up the pink
block. 1-inally, only a dark-blue block
remained on the floor. Mr. Williams
called for light-blue. Boz walked
several times around the block and
without disturbing it, returne 1 to his
master to signify by a bark that there
was no light-blue block. Blocks with
letters on them were next placed on the
lloor, and the reporter asked the dor to
spell Tan. Boz picked up T and then
got A and N. The other visitor called
for the first letter of the word white,
and the dog pre-ented the letter W.
Next he spelled his own namo, and then,
being asked for the firat letter of what
he is, picked up D.
"Who is the biggest fraud in the
room?" inquired Mr. Williams.
Boz set U before him. When only K
and C remained, the reporter asked for
the first letter of tiie word corn, to
ascertain whether Boz approved of
phonetic spelling. Ihe dog ignored K
and picked up C.
"This gold collar on his neck Boz
won," said Mr. Williams. "Mr.
Edward Cox, of New York, said the
dog couldn't pick out colors unless
these blocks were used. So he tried
Bo, with pieces of leather, and the dog
did just as well. Mr. Cox also askefi
for the initial of his first name and for
all the letters of his last name. The
dog succeeded in this, too, and Mr.
Cox was so much pleased that he got
the collar and gave it to Boz. Now
test his memory. Call for several
colors at once."
The color blocks having been put back
on the lioor, the reporter said: "Boz I
want green, pink, red, blue, yellow,
black and white." As he called them,
the reporter wrote down the names of
the colors. Mr. Williams asked for
the names and wrote them down for
himself. After a minute had been con
sumed, he said:
"Now, Boz. gire the gentleman the
colors in the order in which he called
for them,"
The reporter could not remember
them without the aid of his paper, but
Boz picked up ea h block in its order.
As in all the tests, the dog faced his
master, while the visitors were behind
the dog. and facing lUr. Williams.
"I .-uspeet that you guided him,"
said the reporter to Mr. Williams.
"Else why did you ask for a list of the
colors beforhand? 1 would have told
vou whether the dog succeeded or
failed."
Mr. Williams explained that he
wanted to know during the progress of
the experiment how Boz was gettino- on
with it.
With ten blocks with figures on them,
the intelligent colly performed sums in
addition and substraction, multiplied
two by four, and then, getting into
fractions, gave the product of twice
two-and-a-half. He answered a ques
tion as to the number of days in the
week, and counted five by producing
live blocks. He was told to pick u
4, then 1 and afterwards 9, and was
again equal to the demand. The re
porter asked for 55, when there was
only one on the floor. Boz barked to
say that he could not comply with the
request. Eight newspapers were laid
on the floor, with their names in sio-ht.
1 . 1 -.1 n- v .. " .
xjo; ieu on oy producing tue nun in
response to a call for it. and then pre
sented the Telegram. Police Gazelle, the
Newark Kctcs, and the others r.s he was
requested.
Mr. Williams called the dog's atten
tion to the clock, and asked him what
the time was. It was o:20. Boz was
slow in responding, apparently being
tired, and had to be punished. "You've
wasted time," said the owner. " and I
want to know what time it is now."
Boz picked up 3, 2 and 1. It was
3:21 o'clock.
"If I gave you eight cents and took
away eight how many would you have
left?" asked Mr. Williams.
Boz picked up an 0.
"I nave eighteen quarts of oats for
my hor-es three meals today," the
owner continued. "How many quarts
shall he have for each meal?"
The dog carried a 6 to Mr. Williams.
"How many meals a day did I say
the horse was to have?"
A a was promptly placed beside the
"Boz, get bine, white, -yellow and
pinkr
The dog got the blocks, in the order
named, and while he was doing it Mr.
Williams did not speak or in anyway
jhauge his position, his eyes being di
rected toward the ceiling and his liands
being out of sight.
"Ii the dog were intelligent enough
to be guided through the :vhole alpha
bet by my eyes, or some mysterious
language of "the hand," said Mr. Will
jams, "he certainly could read letters
aud distinguish colors. You have seen
him do surprising things, yet he is only
a puppy younger. i fac't, than most
dogs are when their education begins.
In time I will teach him much more
than he knows now." X. Y. Suji.
MISCEIJiANEODS.
An Old Hoarder.
If Goldsmith had made a tour through
the village of New England, fifty or
sixty years ago, he would have found
more subjects for his delicate humor
'.han greeted him in
Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain."
A writer, indulging in reminiscences of
his boyhood, passed in a village of the
3ay State, sketches an "original,"
whom he knew as the most fascmating
of men and the most penurious of
hoarders.
"Old Storer," as he was called, used
to dress in a snuff-brown coat, a white.
indented hat, patched breeches and
thrice-darned hose. Ignorant of the
forms of life, ho was never abashed,
and showed an address that a cultured
gentleman might have envied.
He had but one ambition to hoard
money. Only one occupation interested
him the search for new sources of
wealtJi. These made him steady in
action and gave unity to his life.
In early life he worked on tho large
farm of a rich widow, many years his
senior. He determined to obtain those
broad acres and, therefore, courted the
widow. She listened to his honoyed
words, and became susceptible to'his
sou, gracetui address.
Now and then, during the progtess
of the courtship, doubts of the srncwity
of the young man's lore would obtrude
themselves. One evening, while thev
were walking in the fields, she hinted
her suspicions that the attachment was
not wholly disinterested.
"Tell me truly, do you really love
me? I fear you don't,1'
"Not love you, my dear!" replied
Storer. suddenly inspired with truth.
Hove the very ground you tread upon!"
In a few weeks Storer's art gratified
his ambition. He received the widow's
hand and her lands. Not long after
the marriage Storer began talking of
"the live stock that saddled the estate."
and wished that he could get rid of his
wife.
He once sent her to church on a race
horse, rightly anticipating that she
would be thrown. Contrary to his ex
pectations, however, she was not killed.
In his old age, Storer would now and
then break out into a freak of liberality.
He gave a clock to the town. That
gift was the theme of his self-srratula-
tion.
Frequently when he saw a stranger
parsing the steeple in which it was
placed, he would stop him, with the in
quiry: "Can you tell me. sir, what is the
purport of that inscription on 3'onder
clock?"
"Presented to the town by Joseph
Storer, Esq.," replied the stranger,
reading tho inscription.
"AlT, yes! j-es!" the old man would re
ply, chuckling to himself. "I remem
ber now. Munificent donation that,
sir! Great public benefactor, that ,
'Squire Storer!"
"Who is he, sir?"
" 'Squire Storer? Why, a gentleman
living near by, sir. A man of great
wealth, sir. "Munificent donation that,
sir!"
And the old man would go off, happy
in the thought that another stranger
had heard of his generosity.
As he had no children and disliked
his relatives, the suggestion was made
to him that the medical college in the
town would be an appropriate legatee.
He approved the suggestion, and often
intimated that he would make his will
in favor of the college.
He was taken sick. His physician,
seeing that it was the old man's'last ill
ness, urged him to make his will. But
he could not endure the thought of let
ting go his grasp upon the gold he
had hoarded.
"Tell me," he said, the day before he
died, "when you think I am going to
die. and we will torile 5f."
He died without a will, and his hated
relatives inherited all the property.
Youth'' s Companion.
Charles Neaman, a Cleveland
wloon-keepcr, committed suicide be
cause he was unable to pay his license.
The black poodle is again becom
ing fashionable in England. These
animals, to be correct style, must havo
their hair shaved into knots and knobs,
and be rendered generally hideous.
Mehille testified recently before
the Jeannette Committee that cannibal
ism was thought of when the explorers
seemed on the verge of starvation, but
it was determined that under no
emergency should it be permitted.
Washington Star.
It is said of a trimming-store clerk
in Denver, that on seeing a party of
ladies approaching him on the street
he dashed into an alley- and hid until
they had passed. He had forgotten his
cane and could not think of meeting
the party in such a state. Denver
Tribune.
Eddie Schalk. of Waterburv. Conn-
twelve years old, who was seized three
months ago with a craze for Westerc
adventure, has returned to his home
The boy rode and tramped to Indiana,
a distance of nine hundred miles, beat
ing his way on trains and begging his
food. Hartford Post.
A foot tourist in Eastern Montana
found a finger-board marked "Six miles
to Miles City." He traveled eight days
and nine nierhts in the direction indi
cated before lie reached that town, and
found that the sign had been carried off
by a party of Indians and stuck up
where he saw it, Chicaqo Herald.
An Easter egg was made by a Pari
sian house for a present to a very
wealthy Spanish la.ly, at a cost o"l
$4,000. It was formed of white enamel;
on the inside was engraved th. gospel
for Easter Day, and by some icj-enius
mechanicism, a little bird lodged in
this dainty cage sang twelve airs frcm
as many popular operas.
The smelling-bottle craze has beet
a very fashionable one with yotinggirla
in Washington in the past few mouths
It is a costly fashion. One belle now
has her sejond bottle presented within
three months, each of which cost sixty
dollars. The tirst was crushed uudei
her carriage wheals in coming from a
party one night, aud its gold with hot
initials on it alone escaped destruction.
Another young lady carries one at leasf
a foot in length, and being of verv
thick cut glass", it is particularly ponder
ous. A bottle of this k'nd.even ol
moderate si'.e, costs forty dollars.
Washington Star.
Probably the meanest man on rec
ord lives in Rochester, N. Y. Hi
recently bought a pound of beef, and
on the strength of the purchase induced
the butcher to give him a generous sup
ply of "dog meat." He directed his
wife to prepare a part of the "dog
meat" for dinner, save the remainder
for the next day, and carry the pound
of beef back to tho butcher with the
explanation that she herself h-id pre
viously bought at another place all the
meat the family could use. The dutiful
wife did as she was co:nm mded, and
the meanest man got his money back.
Rochesl'T Express.
Not long ago a speech of one ol
the most prominent members of Con
gress was in typo and in possession of
the occupants of the reporters' gallery
several days before it wa delivered",
and all through this speech in cold
type, before the congressional audience
knew that the speech was to lie made,
were the words "app a-ise," "laugh
ter" and "great laughter" inserted at
what the author of the spec h sup
posed were appropriate places. Ilis
juugmem was goo;i, ior in most in
stances, so '"ar as the spcejh was de
livered, he ha 1 rightly gi:?ssed at the
humor of his audience. Chicago Tim s.
I In the broker's office: "I under
stand that 1 can subscribe lice for
stock in the Meager Itailroa 1." said a
stranger, whom the hayseed in his hair
aud the mud upon his" brogaus indi
cated as belonging to the country
"Yes, sir," replied the broker. "Let's
see; this is a safe investment?" "Per
fectly safe." "And you have had
twice the entire amount o.lered bv
leading capitalists?" ilYcs, sir." "But
the projectors chose to give the people
an opportunity to make a good thin"?"
"That's it, exactly." "Well," re-
, marked the country "inquirer, "I guess
I'll be generous, too. I ain't no hog.
J I'm willing to g've somebody elsea
chance. So long." And out he went.
accompanied by a chuckle in his throat
HE WAS WITH GRANT.
I was with Grant," the crippje said.
Said the Patriot: "Say no more.
My heart goes out it yearns, in fact
For men who've dabbled in gore."
I was with Grant." he feebly said.
J' Nay, nay," was the response. "No more;
1 ou have fought your country's battles well.
And now you are old and poor.
Come sit thee down in this quiet nook;
And we'll wrestle a couple of beers;
As your mein'ry awakes yon'll tell me o'er
A tale of those dreadful years
"How you fought and marched with the gal
lant chief
From Bilmont's bloody shore
Down to that Appomattox field
Now famous evermore."
The stranger sipped of the foaming meed,
In his eye a glistening tear;
His trembling lip of his anguish told,
But he rallied under the beer.
" 1 was with Grant," he grimly said;
" But 'twas not in the Civil War.
I was with him down in the street called Wall,
When he cleaned 'em both near and far.
"I happened to be a depositor.
And I fell in the foremost rank.
I was with Grant, and likewise Ward,
ju mc cipiueiuu 01 meir Dane
Then spake the Patriot never a word.
But he teat with his cano full sore
This fraud who financiered with Grant
Some years behind the war.
X.T. Worid.
Kello "Acquitted."
William Pitt Kellogg is at present a
Congressman from Louisiana and
formerly was Governor and United
States Senator. He has just been
found guilty of receiving $50,000 from
a Star-routo contractor named J. B.
Price, and acquitted. The paradox of
the assertion is only apparent. The
payment of the money ana the payment
of it to Kellogg, for his influence in get
ting a contract, were not only proved,
but admitted; the offense was de
monstrated and confessed But because
the transaction took place five -ears
ago, it was held to be barred by the
statute of
thereupon,
Kello2r.
limitations,
directed the
The court.
acquittal of
It ma- be asked, how did tho Law
Department of the Federal Administra
tion come to arraign this man on a de
fective indictment? It will never be
possible to say whether this was by ac
cident or design. The indictment put
the date of the reception of the bribe at
June 16, 1879. It was shown that at
the date named Kellogg cashed the
drafts given to him as bribery money
and that was not quite five years ago.
But it was also shown that he received
the drafts about three months before he
cashed them. The court held that the
reception of the drafts was the date of
the rri cry, not the timo when they
were turne 1 into money. The Adminis
tration lawyers declare that they did
not know thc-drafts were three months
old when cashed: but the informer
Price, on whom they relied for convic
tion, swore on the stand that he told the
Government counsel that very fact.
11 is a, uiiseraoic ousiness. lcllO"'"
I I !.. I . . . ."
iias Leeu acquitted necausc nis crime
has "aged;" the indictments against
Price have been nolled. because he
turned informer, albeit a useless in
former, and al the remaining charges
against I rady have been canceled, be
cause, since the noticing of the indict
ments against h mself, Price declares
he will no' be a witness any more. An
even mon'h before the Chicago Con
vention, the Arthur Administration
presents the last of the Star-routers-with
a complete acquittal. Tho fur
ther announ ement is that Kellogg and
the rest of the Louisiana delegation to
the Republican National Convention
have dec.ared for Arthur.
Such incompetency and corruption
comhincd ought to in urc the Adminis
tration with its party, but so far it has
only gained it delegates. A more con
demning commentary on pol.tical Re
publicanism th in these facts mae
could not be ma''c. As for Kellooro-,
t!iere is nothing in his previous career
which con icts with the offense just
adm ttod I y him, and only by a habit
ami history of such o enses has he
been able to keep his place in the or
ganised cr me, which goes by the name
of Itcpu licanism in Louisiana. Al
bany Argus.
Berelt f tke Ifeffra Yetera. .
The Inter-State conference of the, col
ored people at Pittsburgh is full of
political significance. W e don't kaow
that the leaders of tho RepubficaH party
will be wise enough to read the mean
ing of this Pittsburgh Convention, and!
we are sure if they So they will be- pow
erless to avert the dangers which it in
dicates as threatening the grand old!
party. It is unreasonable to suspect;
that the negroes will go on v.oting
blindly, as directed by the Republican
party, for all time to come, through 1
mere sentimental fancy that- graistade
requires they should make themse&es
political vassals. Emancipation gave
the negro political freedom, and it has
only been a matter of time for him to
assert his political independence, Thi
Pittsburgh conference shows that--tho
time for the second emancipation is fast
approaching, perhaps, has already;
come. There have been expressions
not alone of discontent and dissatisfac
tion, but of turbulent indignation also,)
and these manifestations by the leaders
may bo taken for a fair reflection of thet
feeling of the colored masses. ' The
adoption of a resolution declaring
against an indorsement of the
Republican party was practically?
an act of war, and it will
be found impossible for the Repub
lican party to frame the basis of
a compromise. The colored people ive.
tired of being mere voting cattle, and
the only thing to satisfy them is a fair
share of the offices; but this is tho one
thing they can not bo given, since; the
great body of white Republican voter
invariably and always bolt a negro-
uuiuiuauon. .every itepuDiicsn leader
knows that, and is aware thatthe thins
the colored leaders are asking would
ruin the Republican party if given. ' JU
is already apparent that the weak en
deavor to stem the torrent of this re
volt by electing a few negroes as alter
nate delegates to the Republican Ra
tional Convention has intensified ' in
stead of allaying the discontent. Little
things like theso counted for much in.
the first years of freedom, bnf tho
negro is no longer satisfied with, the
hollow honors that carry no substance
of reward with them. He has' been,
told he is just as good as a white man.,
but he has found the Republican party,
little disposed to act upon that political-
principle. There is nothing stfaqge,
therefore, if tho negro has at last con
cluded that he will be more of a Tfrcei
man and get a great deal more personal
benefit from his right of suffrage bv
putting his ballot "where it will do' the
most good for himself, whether' that
hurts or helps the Republican party.
SL Louis Bepublican.
Another Rascal Saved.
An Appeal to Ihe People.
The Tin Can's Mission.
and a twinkling in his eye. Boston
Transcript.
The empty tin can at last has a mis-'
sion,r.ndaprofitableoneatthat. Emptied .
Arthur Tells a Story.
There was an unusual number 01
visitors to "pay respects" at the White
House yesterday. I happened to see
some few who "went in a little in ad
vance of the crowd. They were taken
n nT tWMC nrm cnin'll vt-m,ns 1..- 4- Al .
01 11s contents ot peaches or toma-' .', "t..1. .- it-,m'5
toes, discarded and thrown out at the I j11",1 intrduced to the President, who
kitchen o-atc.tit mav snon ho sonr m -it ' had gotten through with the business of
T-- - , .,'V-. vw -vIV Ml.
the front door or find an honored place U1 , mormnK an. z to the strangers
in the best room ;n the house. Thou-, aPle?sant greeting. He made an agree
sands of these cans are authercd in ' abIe imPre;3S,on Pn all, and there was
Ph adelnh a everv week and matin inm ""H". "oeie evidently irora ai
shining sheets aud used to decorate or I, !mvn ln iiCV i?rk' oncc the bo3'-
coyer large traveling trunks, and thus
get a promotion from the back yard to
tne Potittoir. Un the outskirts of the
city, within a short time, a number of
factories for the conversion of these old
buffeted and battered cans and other tin
refuse from the ash heaps have sprung
up; and the business is a growing one.
One of considerable size is on Moya
mensing Avenue, below Miflln Street,
where a large force of men is kept busy
day in and day out. The cans are col
lected in various ways, but principally
irora tne city s ash heaps ana the hotel!
noou nome 01 tne i'resident. He at
once referred to his life in this country
village, telling them how long his
father had preached there, then of his
own experience as a school teacher,
giving the exact spot where he taught
and the name of the family with whom
he boarded.
And then he told what I had never
heard before, that General Gar
field had, two years later, taught in the
same place, boarded with the same
iniuiiy anu ocupie 1 tne same room
le said he had
After all. t'ns very defeat of the Mor
rison ill. which the protectionists are
so ma ly exulting over, may and, Ave
lelieve, will prove the worst thing for
them that coul I have happened. It
does not settle the question for a year,
nor for a day, nor even for an hour. It
unsettles it more than cvr. Nor t'oes
it remove the question from the realm
of polities. On the contrary, it plants
it tnere to stay ti 1 it shall have een
definitely and satisfactorily disponed of.
Nothing in the way of tari.T reform is
to be cxpe -te i from the present Con
gress. The House has abdicated its
""fjht ' y re ectingthe Morrison bill, and
the Senate has imitated the evil ex
ample y defeating the free-ship feature
of the Sh pping 1 ill. But this is clearly
jot the end of the matter. It must and
will e taken to a higher court; it will
be appealed to the people before whom
ii 4 . 4? '.
un giuui, 1 uesuons must come nrst or
last; an 1 when it comes before them it
will receive thorough and exhaustive
treatment, rnstead of being emascu
lated as a political issue betw en the
parties l-y the defeat in the House it
will e found that that defeat has im
parted to it a more vigorous v'rilitv.
and a more intense significance: and
that, so far from cutting no figure in
the approaching Presidential canvass, it
will t e the only ibsue, and will cut the
only figure in that cacvass.
r irst and f orsmost, it must go from
Washington to Chicago; and next from
Chicago to the country. The Republic
an Convention will declare for protec
tion, or reiuse to declare asa'nst it
When William Pitt Kellogg was
placed at the bar to answer a criminal'
indictment we told the people to pre-1
pare for another farce.
Ihursdny Ivelloggwalkcdoutof court
a free man. The indictment was de
clared defective. A false date had been
inserted, but the prosecution was barred
by the Statue of Limitations.
The Administration has known of
Kellogg's guilt for three years. It knew
the charge involved Tom Bradv. It de
layed the prosecution purposely until
the Statue of Limitations had expired.
It further fortified the accused by flaws
in the indictment.
The Republican Administration did
not dare to punish Kellogg. He is a
representative Republican leader. Ho
had. &een fraudulently made Governor
of Louisiana; fraudulently elected to
the United States Senate; fraudnlentlv
kont there by Republican vote. TI
I had been a partner in the fraud that
seated Hayes. He holds the secrets of
Republicairsm in his keeping.
Send Kellogg t jail? A.ssqon con
demn to the penitentiary the whole" Rb
pu licau party. ,
The Government had the witness -who
Eaid Kellogg SiO.OO'i for himself , and
radv to have his Star-route contract
raised so that he could rob the people
of S50.000 or Sb'0,000. it had tho
banker who had cashed the drafts. It
had the proofs of payment Its only
way to protect Kellogg was to delay
the indictment until the Statuto of
Limitations would debar tho prosecu
tion. So Kellogg walked out of the court
Thursday and e-caped ja'rl. But by
what right did the Judge allow tho
jury to indu'ge in a legal fiction and
rcturd the lying verdict of "not truil
tv?" b
Kellogg was guilty! He was-' not ac
qu'lted. Tho indictment was quashed.
He was saved by the Statuto of Limita
tions! Thus another Star-route rascal is
saved, and the people are furnished
with another illustration of the impossi
bility of punishing public crimes while
the Republican party remains in power.
In such occurrences as these Ties the
foundation of popular disaffection with
the Government" They are the hot
beds of communism. 'Thev fomi tin
belief that there is no equality' of jus
tice, but that one law prevails for the
rich and influential-and another or tho
poor. They bring .all law into con
tempt and impress the people with the
conviction that the courts are as cor
rupt as the politicians. JV. Y. Sun
talked a'tout this with
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. . . .. .- -.tannr-ii .- 1-1 mill Tfnn iv ,..'. ... 41 . ....
.ind large boarding-houses. At the u A tl i.-'i,, B- l he Democrat c Convention will do the
factory Thesoldered .Yearns aresubjected J?!!?.."?? rthe very opposite: it will demand! in dear?
to an intense heat in su,-h a way that ?,"S,f ZJutf them e,;uivocaI and unmistakable : words,
the solder is, allowed to run into a re- KthpKP-i ? f- ! reduction of duties in the direction of
centacle. and is carefully saved and ? ht. the 'rc ,dent e? .ved tj.'kmg , ree trade. There is not a shadow of
sold, the prosit from this source none . ",." Vrtll- ..v-.3 -4"11 " quite as doubt about this. The Nit,-! l).m.
verv dif-
tpavingforthee.vpen.se of "-ath-1 p,case'1 to recall them as his visitor; ocratic Convention, will be a
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ncr on. him. intr nf t.hP rvinj 'Mm "-- w -ow .... ui uu u wurei ID forpnt.
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6 bv Boz
Boz was directed to say his prayers. ' they pres
He leaped into a chair, placed his "fore CMfcl-ept
paws on its back, and laid his no-e on
his paws. His owner talked to him,
but n )t until he heard -'Araen" did the
do-r raise his head and leave the chair.
almos
eri
tops and bottoms orthe cans are melted
and turned int window sash weights.
The labels an the tin plates are easily
taken oT. a'ter having been thoroughly
soaked in water and the plates them
selves rolled out Slat by machinery. As
the inside of the plates are not 'much
6uch memories of humble be"-innintri.
Washington Capital.
A Cure for Drunkenness.
the
can
There is a prescription in use in En
gland for the cure of drunkenness bv
which thousands are said to have been
enabled to recover the nselves. The
discolored by the contents of
ent a clean s irface and make I ro.-mo ramp ,nfrt T.r.tn--;..M--.,. u r4
covers for trunks, the seams ' nf Mr .T,i.r. v,na Woii ,-. ;. j
h.inffl.i.;.ln)n.tl,.tr..nMmn :,U 7,' ' "A" " . r- ""-"." """"" OI
-". iwiiwu M bl.f v&UMSk. 'l.-Ul3. CILUm . TnO 1-rT-Ofir HICTOIn
I - 4aht .44w-Ld,l. !
aUUr
vituci
of wood or sheet iron. Other uses are
also made of the tin plates, and there
is considerable profit in the business.
The reporter departed with the opin- Tne process is quite simple, and very
ton that Boz is an exceptionally intelli- ' j'ttle capital is re mired. One concern
gent dog. but w.th the conviction also in this city rolled oat 40,00)' of these
that in his education Mr. Williams is plates in less than two months, and the
not pursuing the line followed by Sir industry promises to be largely devel-
John Lubbock. oped both here and elsewuere. Phila-
To determine whether the owner &(pA Bccord.
guided the dog either with his hands or I
eyes, one of the visitors, at a snbse- I William Hyatt and John Bush, of
quent visit made by them, requested Marion, O., were eating supper alone
Mr. Williams to pnt his hands in his when a thunderbolt struck their house,
pockets and to look steadily at the ceil- They still sat erect though both were
tng. The latterMid as he was requested, dead. Hot a scar was found upor
tmd tho visitor then said: " , them. Cleveland Leader.
steamship. Ho h.id
fallen into such habitual drunkenness
that his most earnest e rort3 to reclaim
himself proved unavailing. At last he
sought the advice of an eminent phvsi
cian, which he followed fa thrsillyfor
several months, that at the end of that
time he had lost all desire for liquor,
although he had been for many years
led captive by a most debas ng appe
tite. The recipe wfiich he afterward
published, and by which so many other
drunkards have been assisted to re orm,
is as follows: Sulphate of jron, twenty
grains; magnesia, forty grains; pepper
mint forty-four drams; spirits of nut
meg, four drams. Dose, one table
pooniul twice a day. Toledo Globa
body from the House of Repre
sentatives. The latter contains one
hundred and ninety-six Democrats and
one hundred and eighteen Republicans'
the former will be composed entirely of
Democrats. It is true, there will be
some protectionist Democrats in it, but
they will stand alone- they will not be
reinforced and supported, on the final
test., oy one hundred and eighteen Re
publicans, as thev we-o in the House
vote. They will do what thev can, of
course, to def at an authoritative Na
tional Democratic declaration in favor
of tariff reduction: but they will fail.
The Convention will recognize its
bounden, unavoidable duty as a low-
tariff party a duty which it can not
shirk without dishonor, which would
invite disaster, by boldly and clearly
reavowingthe principle of the Morrison
bill. Thfe will make up the issue, and
on the two parties will go before the
people. We havo no fears about the
result St. Louix Republicin.
.
Two new Cnna-ders are now being
bnilt with the obje -t o beating all pre
vious records in crossing the Atlantic.
Philadelphia Press.
POLITICAL FOISTS.
There will, of course, bo no re
treat or lowering of the flag, of the De
mocracy. They will go into the ap
proaching National cam baipn" with tho
doctrine of revenue reform inscribed oa
their banners with all the emphasis of
unabated earnestness, and those, who
battle with them will have to march un
der that sign and with that profession,
of opinion. This is no time for hesi
tancy, nor will there will there bo
wavering or doubting in tho ranks. SU
Louis Republican.
0:ir Washington correspondent
intimates that the Republican leaders
arc looking into the future and prepar
ing to make the party undertake a re
form of the tarff. Well, if this is the
case, they are wise, and it will be inter
esting to see whether the Democrats
will allow themselves to be driven from
what have hitherto been regarded as
their hunting-grounds. Onefact re
mains certain sooner or later tariff re
form mnst come, and whichever party
undertakes it will deservo the public
connuencc i. i. neraiu .
The outrageous navigation laws
which have killed our commerce under
pretense of protecting sbfp-buildcrs
s and in the way of rehabilitation of ouu
merchant marine, whiqh is a more ur
gent necessity than the rehabilitation of
the navy, and their revision H impera
tively demanded by the jhipowners
and merchants of tne country. What
we need are commerce promoters, not
commerce destroyers, and it Ls plain
that we mnst look to the Democratic
party for them. The action of the two
branches of Congress on marine mat
ters is significant in this respect , The
Senate spends itstme helping I he Robe
son ring.pnt up naval ;obs.while, tha
House pas-ns bills to build up the. mer
chant marine.-:. Botn Globe. ,