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;,VOL. XIII. NO 18.
tiOLLY
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fefTY, N. J. TUESDAY, MAY 3. 1892.
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ESTABLISHED 1879
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
Trains leave from Mount Holly an follows:
For Philadelphia, 5.30, 6.00, 6.52, 7.30, 8.01
8.57, 9.15, 11.20 A. M., 12.51, 2.31, 4.21, 5.05, 6.19
8.37, 10.50p. M.
On Sundays, 8.38 a. m., 12.05, 5.30, 7.50 P. M.,
For Pemberton, 7.33, 9.26 a. m., 12.24, 2.03, 3.32,
4 5L 6.05, 7.05,Sundays, 10.28 a.m., 6.05
ipStiiiiligfoW#a-^n 18-1 n-the-P1 nes. 7.33. 9.26 a. m.,
12.24, 3.32, 4.51 and 7.03 p. m. Sundays, 10.23
For Vlnoentown, 9.26, 11.28 a. m.3.32,6.0 6 p. m.
For Burlington,Bordentown,Trenton and New
York, 6.38, 9.00, 10.50 a. m.. 2.50, 4.38, 5.55 p. m.
For Lew Is town, Columbus, Kinkora, etc. ,2.03,
3.32 p. m. On Sundays, 6.05 r. m.
For Luinberton, Medford, Marlton, Haddon
tleld and Philadelphia, 6.32, 9.48 a. m., 1.25,
5.10 p.m. On Sundays, 7.13 a. m.
I1 or Toms Kiver, Island Heights, Long Branch,
etc., 9.26 a m.
For Trenton and New York, via Peiubertou
and Kinkora, 2.03 r. m. Sundays, 6.05 p. m.
For Hlghtstown, 7.33 a. m., 2.03,4.51 P. m. On
Sundays 6.05 v. m
lVains leave for Mount Holly at follows:
From Philadelphia. 6.30, 7.40, 8.30, 10.00, U.2o
A. M., i.00, 2.30, 4.00, 4.30. 5.10, 6.10,6.30, 8.00,
10.30. 11.45 p.m. On Sundays; 9.15 a. m., 1.00,
5.00, 10.30 P. M.
From New York, viaTrenton and Burlington
8.00. 9.00 a. M., 1.00.4.00,5.00 P. M.,
From Trenton, 7.41,9.25,11.08 A. m., 2.53,5.33,
From Burlington, 8.20,10.06 11.53, a. m., 3.32,5.45
7.40 p. m.
From BrowVs-Mills-in-the-Pines, 8.20 a. m.,
12.15,1.55, 5.45, 8.05 r. m. Sundays, 5.00, r. m
From Pemberton, (north) 6.35, 7.40,8.32,a. m.,
12.19, 4.07,8.17 p. w. On Sundays, 8.05 a. m.,
(south), 8.36 A.M., 12.30, 2.11, 4.50, 6.00, 8.19 P. M.
On Sundays,5.13, p. m.
From Vincentown, 6.55, 10.55 a.m., 1.55, 4.00,
From Hightstov it, via Burlington, 11.02 a. m.
From Medford, S.33, 11.55 a. m., 4.16, 6.35 p.m.
On Sundays, 6.32 p. m.
From Long Branch, 2.35 1*. M.
From Toms liiver, 7.48 a. m., 4.12, r. m.
From Island Heights, 7.35 a. m., 4.06ip. m.
From Hightstuwn, 7.14, 10.00 A. M., 7.03 p. m. On
Sunday 6.45 a. m.
TDCKERTON RAILROAD.
Trains leave Beach Haven for Tuckerton at
6.50 a. m. daily except Saturday; 3.05 p. m. Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, and 7.10 p. m.
Saturdays only. „ _ „
lieturning leuvo Tuckerton lor Beach Haven
at 4.55 a. m. on Mondays, 10.20 a. m. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, and 5.52 dally ex
cept Sunday.
Leave Mount Holly for Tuckerton, 9.25 a. m.,
4.51 p. m. dully. For Beach Haven, 9.25 a. m. on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday ; 4.51 r. m.
d*LeJave Beach Haven lor Mount Holly, Phila
delphia, etc., 6.50 a. m. daily, and 3.05 p. m. on
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. Leave
Tuckerton at 7.03 a. m. and 3.20 P. M.
Pemberton and UUfhtslown Railroad.
Trains leave Mount Holly for New Egypt
Cream Ridge, Hightstown, etc., at 7.33 a. m.
2.03, 4.51 p. m. Sundays, 6.05 r. M.
Trains leave Philadelphia and connect for
New Egypt, Cream Ridge, Hightstown, etc.,
6.30 a. m., 1.00 and 4.00 p. m. Sundays, 5.00 p. m.
Trains leave Hightstown lor New Egypt,
Pemberton, Mount Holly and Philadelphia
at 7.14, 10.00 a. m., 7.04 p. m. Sundays, 6.45
p. M.
Mount Holly Post Office.
MAILS LBAVK AS FOLLOWS .*
A. M. P, M.
New York and East.7.15
Pemberton and Hightstown.... 7.15
Vincentowu.
Trenton.
Uordentown..
Foreign.
West.
Atlantic City.
Medford.
Philadelphia .
Burlington —
Camden.
Lumberton —
7.15
7.15
7.15
7.15
8.30 2.10 8.00
8.30 2.10 8.00
8.30 2.10 8.00
8.30 2.10 8.00
8.30 2.10 8.00
8.30! 2.10 8.00
8.30 2.10j8.00
8.3012.10:8.00
8.30 2.10 8.00
8.30 2.10:8.00
8.30 2.10
8.30 2.10
4.20
8.00
&0O
8.00
MAIL8 ARHIVK AND READY FOR DISTRIBUTION :
A.M. FM.
New lorkand K..
Pemberton.
Vlncentown.
Hightstown.
Trenton.
Bordentown.
Foreign.
West.
Atlantic City.
Medford....
Phiiadelnhia.
Burlington.
Camden.
Lumberton.
7.45;
7.451
7.45
7.45 j
7.45
7.45
7.45
7.451
7.45
7.45
7.45:
7.45
7.451
7.45
9.15 11.15 3.00
3.00
3.00
15 3.00
15 3.00
15'3.00
11.1
9.15illJ
9.15 11.1
D 15
9.15
9.15
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
5.05
4.00
5.05
5.05
.00 9.00
900
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
9.00
(9.00
9.00
9.00
^JUAKliEH M. 8LOAN,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE,
office in Arcade Building, Mount Holly, N. J
pKOUGB W. CHAMBERLAIN, D. D. H.
^ NEW EGYPT, N.J.
Office Days: Every Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Gas Administered.
Qlf ARLES EWAN JlERRITT*
attorney and counsellor at law,
Mam Street, opposite Arcade,
Mount Holly, N.J.
I . If* *SURVE YDU AND CONVEYANCER,
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, „ _
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
Cedar Rtth. Ocean County, N.J.
S
A ll UK I. t’ALEY, M. D..
IIOMCEOPATU1C PHYSICIAN.
Garden Street, near Cherry Street, Mount
Holly, N.J.
Office Hours: 7 to 9 a. m., 1 to 2 p. m.,6 8to r m.
QEOROE W. V AKDERVEERt M. D.
HComooor>atliist,
Garden St. near Buttonwood, Mount Holly.
f Until 9 a.m.
Office Hours : 4 6 to 8 p.m.
1. 1 tO 2 P. M.
piRE» LIFE AN I> ACCIDENT INSUR
ANCE.
Reliable Companies and lowest rates. Cor
npanics i
respondeuce solicited.
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON,
General Insurance Agent.
Office with Mark R. Sooy, Esq., Main Street,
. tHo‘- 'T ’
above Garden, Mount Holly, N.J.
QHAN. HARKBR* .11. D., D. D. S.
DENTAL 0PFI0E AND LABORATORY,
Hin Stmuct, Mount Holly, N. J.
(Opp. Court House.)
-C VS ADMINISTERED.
Medford, Wednesdays.
i DMINISTKATOR'S NOTICE.
fiotice is hereby Riven that an order has
been made by the Surrogate of the county of
Burlington, bearing date on the twelfth day
<>t January, A. D. 1892, upon the application of
Joseph H. Gaskill, the sub»crlber, requiring
the creditors of KICUAUD F. \WLMKBTON.
deceased, to bring in their claims against the
estate of said decedent, under oath or affirma
tion, on or before October 12,1892, or they will
be debarred of any action therefor against
the said administrator.
January 12,1892. JOSEPH H. GASKIEL.
A DMINISTRATOIl’S NOTICE.
4o
Notice is hereby given that an order has
been made by tbe Surrogate ol the county of
Burlington, bearing date on the First day of
February, A. D. 1892, upon the application ot
Ada K. Coy, the subscriber, requiring the
creditors of i’ll 1 bit' H. COV, deceased, to
bring in their claims against the estate of said
decedent, under oath or affirmation, on or
before November 1, 1892, or they will be de
barred of any action therefor against the said
administrator.
February ], 1892. ADAB.COl
t ■
is#'
COUNTY ORPHANS1
TYURLI NOTON
0 COURT.
In the matter of the application-)
of John B. Kirby for I.ettera of 1 Order to
Administration on the estate of [show cause
Samuel A. Kirby, deceased. J
Mark it. Sooy having made application to
me in writing, setting forth that Samuel H.
Kirby, late ot the State of Michigan, haying
died intestate, and that it is necessary to have
Letters of Administration of his estate grant
ed In this State, and praying an order to show
cause; I do hereby order that all persons in
terested do show causo before me, at the Sur
rogate’s office In Mount Holly, County ot
Burlington, on the sixth day of May
next, A. D. 1892, at the hour of ten A.
M. of that day, why Letters ot Ad
ministration ot the estate ot said Samuel H.
Kirby should net be granted to the said John
B. Kilby, and this order be published in "The
Mount Holly News," a newspaper printed at
Mount lloily, and set up in three or more ol
the most public places in the County of Bur
lington tor the space of four week preceding
sttld day. CHARLES li. BALLINGER,
Dated April 1st, A. I) 1892 Surrogate.
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The Basing of Major Ki gore,
by Yonng E. Allison.
The February (1892) number will contain
Roy the Royalst.
by William VVestall.
The March (1892) number will contain
A Soldier’s Secret,
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NO. 11 MAIN STKKiiT. MOUNT HOLLY
Keens the best assortment ot W atches,
Chains. Kings, anti Spectacles in Bur
lington county.
Also, a full line of Silver and Plated
Ware. ,
ERRORS OF YOUTH
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329 N. 13th, Below « allow hill St., Philn.
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THE AMERICAN CATARRH CURE.
It gives me great pleasure to testily to the
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ialists for lour months without any relief;
but one-half bottle of your Amrrienu Ca
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llolly, N. J. Prepared bv l>r. W. It. Jones,
liOiS.SthStreet, Pbila. Sold by druggists or
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ONE MOMENT. PLEASE!
If you arc suffering with*a cough, cold,
hoarseness or any disease ot the throat and
lungs, or any broncnia.1 affection, there is no
remedy thut equals
McDonnells cough syrup.
It is guaranteed to relieve you at once or the
money will be refunded. For rheumatism,
lumbago, neuralgia, headache, earache, tooth
ache, frosted feet, colic, cholera morbus, etc.,
use McDonnell’s
NONPAREIL LINIMENT.
These are no new remedies. They are es
tablished articles and by those who usHjphein
are praised highly lor their merit. Give them
atrial. The price of each is 25c per bottle.
Sold by druggists and storekeepers. Manu
factured by c. e. McDonnell, Mt. Holly.
HAVE YOUR PAINTING
DONE IJY
Samuel L. Bullock.
Best materials always used, Pure colors,
best White Load and Zinc and Pure Linseed
Oil. All Hinds ot painting done ; Sign, Orna
mental, Frescoing, Graining, Calclmining.
Glazing, So. Work solicited Horn all arounu.
None but competent an ! need men
employed, and all work gua. amend. All or
ders should be left at my residence. Union
street, or T. B. Bullock’s store, G rden street
Mount Hollv
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Mr. Warren D. Wentz
ol Geneva, N. Y.,
Tells of His Fearful Sufferings After
Gastric Fever and His Cure by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
All who know Mr. W. D. Wentz
give him the best of recommendations
for honesty and integrity. For many
years he has worked for Mr. D. P. Wil
son, the harness maker and member
of the Geneva Board of Health. He says:
“ I was taken sick last October with gastric
fever and my chance for recovery was con
sidered almost hopeless. After 7 weeks the
fever slowly left me, but I could not eat the
simplest food without terrible distress. It
seemed that I had recovered from the fever to
Die of Starvation
I took pepsin compounds, bismuth, charcoal,
cod liver oil and malt until my physician
confessed that his skill was about ex
hausted and he did not know what else to
try. Everything I took seemed like pour
ing melted lead into my stomach. I hap
Sened to think I had part of a bottle of Hood's
arsapariila that had been in the house for two
or three years, that I found had benefited me
previously for dyspepsia. I began taking it
and soon began to feel better. I have now
taken a little over two bottles and can truth
fully say I feel well again and can eat any
thing without distressing me, even to
Pie and Cheese
which I have been unable to touch for years.
The English language does not contain words
enough to permit me to express the praise
I would like to give to Hood's Sarsaparilla.”
W. D. Wentz, 181 Castle St., Geneva, N. Y.
A Good Voucher
“ I have known Mr. Warren D. Wentz for
many years and can vouch for him as a man
of veracity and one well known about here.
I have sola him several bottles of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
during the past few months.” M. H. Pabt
bidgk, Druggist, Geneva, N. Y.
Hood’s Pills Cure Liver Ills
DO YOU WANT RELIEFS
KROUT’S RHEUMATIC REMEDY
Will promptly relieve the most die*
treusiDg case of Aoute or Chronic Rheu
matism or Gout. By Strictly observing
the directions, it will curs you permsn*
ently. -—■
Unlike the nnmerou* preparation* that flood
the country, thie medietas le a epecifie for the
various forms of rheumatism only, and not in
► any sense a “cure ail." On# bottle will make
_ a satisfactory impression on the system, and
in oenneetlon with the pills, convince the sufferer that
the proper remedy bas been found. Too ui earnestly re*
quested to test the merits of
IKROUT’S RHEUMATIC REMEDY,
as its valuable properties are endorsed by hundreds of the
most flattering testimonials.
Only vegetable ingredients, remarkable for their earatlve
powers, are used In the manufacture of KEOUT'B
RHEUMATIC REMEDY.
H.00 Per Bottle. 6 Bottles, $6.00. Kill, 25 Cti. Bos.
If youreetorekeeper does not keep It, send fl.25 to the
manufacturer, and yon will reeelve ft by mall.
ALBERT KKOt’T,
!»fl37 Market Street, Fhllad’a, Pa.
smiFEom
Should be used In every family. A 10-cent box saves
Ten Dollars of your shoe bill in a short time. It
softens the leather and keeps it from cracking or
breaking. It gives life and strength to leather, and
makes it water-proof, and gives yoor shoes a fine,
new appearance. It may be used on the finest kid
or morocco shoes. Ask your shoe dealer for It.
John Kan Ley. Miff! In burg. Pa., Sole Manufacturer.
mor sale by Lai ns & Magi unis, 30 N. Third 8t..Phila.
RUPTURE!
We, the undersignedwere
entirely cured ot rupture
by Dr. J. 11. Mayer, 831
Arch St., Philadelphia, Fa„ S. Jones Philips,
Kennet Square, Pa.; T. A. Kreitz, Slatington,
Pa.; E. M. Small, Mount Alto, Pa.; L. H. Run- 1
kei, 437 N. Tenth St., Allentown, Pa.; Kev. S.
H. Shermer,Sunbury,Pa.;J.U.Fehr, 1021 Chest
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Twelfth St., Reading, Pa.; J. Yates, 424 Vine
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St., Philadelphia ; H. L. Rowe, 309 Elm St.,
Reading, Pa.; George and Fh. Burkart, 439
Locust St., Reading, Pa. Send lor circular.
•THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND
NEW AND MV COMPLEXION IS BETTER?
My doctor un It acts gently on the stomach, liver
and kidneys, and Isa pleasant laxative. This drink
Is made from herbs, and Is prepared for use as easily
as tea. It Is called
LANE’S MEDICINE
All druggists sell It at 60c. and *1.00 per package.
Buy one to-day. Lane’s Family Medicine mofea
the bowels each day. In order to be healthy, this
Is necessary.
Thereto NO SURE CURE FOR EVERY CASE OF ASTHMA" or
-EVERY CASE OF HAY FEVER" but the worst cases,
if uncomplicated by organic disease, can be
CURED TO STAY CURED
by constitutional treatment,
and this at the pa
tient’s home.
We treat no
one without a thor
ough knowledge of
Incurable Cases Declined.
Examination free by mall.
We want name and address of.
every sufferer from Asthma or Hay Fever.
P. HAROLD HAYES, M. D„ BUFFALO, N. Y.
What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas
toria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend.
Castoria.
11 Castoria [r an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mother* have repeatedly told mo of Its
good effect upon their children.”
Da. O. C. Osoood,
Lowell, Maes.
•' Castoria Is the.best remedy for children of
which 1 am acquainted. I hope the day Is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
Interest of their children, and use Castoria In
stead of the various quack nostrums w hlch are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves.”
Da. J. F. KmcnsLoit,
Conwav. Ark.
Castoria.
“ Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.1*
II. A. Archxr, M. D.t
111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
“ Our physicians in the children's depart
ment hare spoken highly of their expert
cnoe In their outside practice with Castoria,
aud although we only hare among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon It."
United Hospital and Dispensary,
Boston, Mass.
Allen C. Smith, Pret.,
The Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, New Tork City.
GULLS OF THE LAKE.
Birds That Safely _ Breast tha
Fiercest Galea
With a Skill and FrecUion That la Mar
velous, They Wrest Their Food
from the Very Jaws of
the Tempest.
Those who have not seen the big
pinioned birds of Lake Michigan in
their quest for food along the surf which
washes the city shore have missed one
of the many exceedingly Interesting
sights furnished by this ever-changing
panorama of fascinating water which
too many Chicagoans think is too com
mon to be worthy the least attention.
These great birds, says the Chicago
Tribune, look much like eagles, of
which they are a type. Tlvy are typical
Chicagoans. Many of tnfem race in
with the suburban trains in the morn
ing, and out«pgain to the wooded shore
lands at night. They seem to like the
din and roar of city life. Daily they
pursue their trackless path deep into
the city's heart, and not infrequently
sound forth tlteir satisfaction at what
they see from its business housetops,
i These great, eagle-like birds are de
voted workers for Chicago, workers for
the happiness of Chicago people. Their
wings measure nearly three feet from
tip to tip, and their power both to soar
and poise in the teeth of the angriest
gale is a marvel. The fact that the
wings of these lake gulls are heavily
muscled gives Httle clew to the won
derful secret, for when in mid-air it
seems as though they must be entirely
at the mercy of the gale, particularly
when poising, for at such moments
they are maintaining a certain definite
position with apparently no effort, and
their entire appearance is that of
statuesque repose. For many seconds
at a time they may be seen thus poised
while perhaps within speaking distance
huge lake craft wit! hundreds of tons
of ballast reel and stagger almost to
capsizing by reason of the hurricane
that is sweeping the lake. As an ex
ample of how exceeding far the cun
ning of nature surpasses the alleged
wisdom of man; the motionless poise of
these gulls of the lake, mid-air in a
raging storm, gives evidence most strik
ing.
If the storm brings the human mariner
distress, and often death, it is the kind
liest friend the lake gull knows. For
the storm does the lake gull’s market
ing for him; it is his greatest provider of
food. Therefore, when tempest is howl
ing and angrily hurling the billows in
of water is the time to see these gulls
busiest in their quest for food. A storm
on the lake means the casting towards
shore of quantities of dead fish which,
were it not for the gulls, would add to
the city’s pestilential possibili ties. With
keen eyes scanning the surging flood
these great birds, riding mid-air, and
usually but a short league from shore,
wait as if at perfect ease for the ap
pearance of their food. Sighting a fin
ny carcass, they take a position imme
diately above it, then drop like a shot
upon their prize, and seemingly with
out touching the water they seize the
fish and soar gracefully away. The ab
solute nicety with which they gauge
their drop—which is usually a distance
of not less than fifty feet—involving an
accurate calculation as to the distance
the fierce wind may carry them be
tween the moment of their folding their
wings and the instant they will reach
the water, together with the calcula
tion of the shift of position occasioned
to the fish by the surging waters upon
which it floats, is something past all
finding out. Of course no one presumes
for a moment that the gull does any
mental figuring on these points; not
one-thou6andth part the calculating
that a man would do when about to
swim a narrow, swiftly-flowing stream
and make a certain point on the oppo
site side. And yet the feat performed
by the gull is probably a thousand
times more wonderful than that of the
man who swims a swift current accord
ing to his calculations.
The curious may wonder why the
gulls do not wait until their favorite
food has been thrown up on the beach,
and then take it with seemingly less
danger to themselves. Well, the reason
is that unlike many people the lake
gull never loses any time waiting for “a
ship” that may never land. Its knowl
edge of wind and water tells it its food
may be washed to within a rod of shore,
then the storm which brought it may go
down, leave it there, and another storm
spring up from the island and wash it
away again. When dead fish are not
plentiful the menu of the gull is made
up of refuse matter generally, which is
flung up by the waves, as well as of
various marine creatures left upon the
sands when the storm has abated. When
the elements have proven negligent in
its behalf, this bird resorts to incursions
inland. At such times the more distin
guishing ’ traits of its honorable and
fearless ancestry assert themselves. It
is bold and independent, even to insist
ing that fishermen along the piers are
bound to share their baits with it. It
seems to prefer that they do so willing
ly. If they don’t it will suddenly drop
down beside them, take a mouthful of
the grubs or minnows, which have pre
viously been located from a great dis
tance above, and then soar away, leav
ing the startled fisherman to wonder
what happened.
Seen at a distance the lake gull seems
of but one color, a muddy brown. A
close view, however, shows the neck
and head to be of white and the remain
der of the body, including the wing,
gray, variegated with white edges and
tips. The tail and whole undersurface
are pure white, and the legs and feet
Ste ashen green.
THE TRUE CENTER.
The Strength of a Nation Lies In It*
Homes.
The elmraeter of the homes of a na*
tion makes the character of the nation.
The characteristics developed in th«
greater number of homes become na.
tional characteristics, and are part oi
the history of the nation. It is this facl
that makes his home-training, horns
development, of national importance.
How shall each home minister to the
national good? By being administered
solely for the moral good of each mem
ber of the household. This sounds sel
fish, it seems to disregard the human
family, of which the home is at most,
and best, only a fraction, a part; but
perfected fractions make a perfect unit,
a symmetrical whole.
It is one of the errors that we are
constantly making in arranging and
adjusting our lives to the demands
made upon us, that we are apt to use
our natural vision to discern the evils,
and the remedies for the evils, in homes
that are really foreign, though in our
land—the homes which in philanthropy
we are apt to term “our neighborhood.”
The intensity of our interest in social
questions at large frequently prevents
us from having interest in and knowl
edge of the social conditions and social
questions affecting the homes of which
we form a part, perhaps even the ones
of which we should be the centers. It
is this diverted, not to say perverted,
interest that results in denouement*
which amaze and appall all thinkers,
and in which the thoughtless find oc
casion for derisive jokes and slings at
would-be reformers.
All true reformation, like all true
charity, begins at home, and it is only
as the student of social questions has
the wisdom to test his theories, his
knowledge of hygiene, sanitation, eco
nomics, psychology and ethics, moral
and spiritual, upon the individuals for
whose physical, intellectual and moral
standards he is responsible, that he
shows himself tit to grapple with those
problems that are part of the history ol
all civilized nations.
The man who fails to maintain a
reputation for honesty in his world Is
nota man to deal with political issues
wnose ocgmmng
ty and principle. .
conlyoi.fahnse] fj
lardly the
one to manage an ifstJtuttou, guide an
association, or h*an erecutive office.
It is the hom^inat offer) the best place
for philaplfiropte
legislation and admi
know that if every > hi
bi-ought to moral perfectfn
questions would all he sol’
not be accomplished hy mi
work of life. Moral di
ents, for
,tion. We.
could be
the social
This can
it is the
tions.if not
moral disasters, come too often from
homes where the promise *ems that of
long strides toward humai| perfection.
The approbation and the Applause of
the outside world are often a fatal at
traction. They result in oil taking to
our homes only the remiants of en
thusiasm, the dregs of viallty. It is
fair to share with the worl(! those abili
ties which are not requirp at home;
more than that is requjrP at home.
The best we have of socialifrace, of in
tellectual brilliancy, of sjritual mag
netism, belongs where
sponsibility is—in our O’
thing else is fatal tp our
and is fatal to its develop:
bring only disaster am
Christian Union.
greatest re
iomes. Any
evelopment
int, and can
disgrace.—
He Was Itoostlt
Some hunters.
woods uune ac
the other "3ay.
hours and finally ti
that he was a man, but
his species was for the
“Come down,” said
“Don’t be afraid. We
“W-w-what year is
the unfortunate, his
and his eyes distent
“This is 1892,” was
“Still leap yoar?” he
further up the tree
for
im, discovering
so uncouth that
le a mystery,
of the men.
sn’thurt you.”
lis?” bellowed
ith chattering
ith fear,
reply.
:ed, climbing
howling with
terror.
“Yes, it’s leap year.jhut you’re safe,”
laughed one of the m*>. The women
can only propose on oni day now—the
29th of February, anti (hat’s past now.”
“Perhaps so,” said the man up the
tree,” and perhaps not. I’ve been the
leader of a church choij long enough to
know when it’s safe ani when it isn’t,
and I don’t propose to lake any foolish
risks. I know these l«mg Island wo
men.”—Texas Siftings.
WHAT A HAT gHOWS.
The Man Often Stamped by the Headgear
“Where did you get I
question
iat?” This
nfl&J**
Wgree imrer
ely to show a
; the most im
1 and adorn
at “the tailor
• misleading
■ it is the hat
Hant finishing
adult Wil
hklng ior Sir
tinent It is askedpi
fellow interest cancer
portant article of man’s
ment. The declaraidcȣ
makes the man” is slij
and not altogether tru
ter that gives the imp
touch to the attired
liam Shakespeare, sp
Francis Bacon, says:
For the apparel oft prid ims the man.
Had he been speakin of the modern
habiliments of men he vould no doubt
have declared that the tat always pro
claims the man, and in tones that can
not he misinterpreted.1 The headgear
is the first and often th only portion of
a man’s dress that impresses an ob
server. A man’s hat h to him what a
headline is to an articlj in the news
paper. If it is unpleasantly shocking,
we care to know nothing farther of that
with, which it is connected; if it looks
inviting we are willingfto cultivate a
more intimate knowledge of its sur
roundings We ean tmt by it a» the
children of the nursery by counting
the number of buttons o? the waistcoat,
whether the wearer is ^
Rich man, poor man, beggar man thief,
Lawyer, doctor, mercHattickfl6f.
Nature in one of her m>st intelligent
moods designed the hatNj» the index or
a sort of a tag to be attached to the
wearer of it, whereby th) world may
know what and who he iswithout hav
ing to ask impertinent questions to
satisfy its consuming curieity.
The hat and the mantlr of wearing
it is the perfectly natoraltnd inevitable
product of the brain ieneath it, and
shows the moral and intellectual soil
and seed it springs fromas correctly as
do the fruits and flower, of the garden
or the weeds of the fenct corner. More
properly it may be sail that the style
or condition of a hat my he the result
of circumstances over Wiich the wearer
may have no control, hit thq manner
in whioh it, is placed on -he head is the
true index to its owter’s character.
The same style of a hat On a dozen dif
ferent heads may express as many pre
dominating traits of character. The
ordinary black derby i.at worn fairly
and squarely on the hes\ in ay not con
clusively prove that the owner is a fair
and square man, but it, offers no sug
gestion to the contrary. A man who
wears his hat in thiaJjWmer is not
handicapped by hjOgMftE.4nc0: you
tmintltety-arflV*■tHWWaeraston that
he may be a pretty decent-sort of a man
and you would not nuoh hesitate to
trust him in any ordinary business ca
pacity. He is not above or below the
common people. If he haB idiosyncra
sies and freakish notions they are not
worn publicly on the sleeve nor pro
claimed by the manner in which he
wears his hat
Take the same sort of a hat and set it
well back on the head and slightly to
one side and the impression It creates
on the mind of the observer is not al
ways altogether flattering to the wear
er. No one would guess that the brain
only partially beneath It ia particularly
noted for the highly practical, moral,
sober thoughts it coins The man un
der the hat worn in thts way may be
wholly upright and swupulously cor
rect in his moral behavior and again he
may not be; there exists'® doubt in your
mind. Y ou feel quite sure that he is a
jolly, happy-go-lucky sojrt of a fellow,
who would be a pleasant companion on
an outing, but you are not quite certain
if he be the right sort of a person for
your younger brother to chum with.
Still he might be, since all appearances
are more or less deceiving.
Any sort ol a hat bright down over
the forehead till th<'-War is almost even
with the eyes give^^^nkrer a sus
picious look, and caS^^HKind the old
Spanish sombrero—a^^ad, slouched,
flapping affair—that was often looped
down on occasions so as to lerve as a
mask, and was well adapted to a land and
age when serenades, jealousies and mid
night stabbing were of common occur
rence. You would be just a little afraid
to meet a man who wean his bat in this
way in a dark, lonely place. Hia mind
may be the home of honest and noble
intentions, yet you doubt It, and you
will not fall to give yomself the benefit
of that doubt. The hat of the sporting
man has i»n individuality that is clearly
exclusive. There seemSto hover about
it some of the associations of its wearer.
One can almost see spadis and diamonds
outlined upon it or hear the rattle of
dice when in its immediate vicinity. No
wide awake observer could ever mis
take its owner to bs a minister of the
gospel or a leader of the Y. M. C. A.
Sometimes men are not so bad as
they are painted—not so bad even as
they paint themselves. For example,
callow youths will often affect the hat
of the sporting fraterniA^ and assum
t says,
d rather be
fesuada
they 'are
-They remind
fcolaring,
Of a wuff,”
yht of a toy
covers a mul
til
indt-^v&Ti bad men
one of -CfSitade ’
"I am a 'fejwlble
fainted dead away at 1
pistol. The high silk! v
titude of sinners and tome saints It
lias no meaning of a »*yle that it can
wholly abrogate to itserf. It is worn
by all classes and nearly all ages. Min
isters and confidenoe men, deacons and
the owners of fast hordes, Judges and
youths scarcely out of their snip period
all don it.
But while silk hats as a class are not
indicative of character, ych individual
hat is more or less an ®a&x to the na
ture of the man it covers. Shabby gen
tility has nothing so characteristic as ;
its old silk hat There is always an un
natural calmness about its nap and an
unwholesome gloss suggestive of a wet
brush. The waning strength of decay
ing fortune is expended in smoothing
its dilapidated surface. It is the last
flickering ray of respectability. There
is no mistaking the old silk hat that is
being worn by the man who did not
buy it originally. It may be much
scuffed and sadly out of shape still it
has about it a suggestion of better
times and surroundings that make it
appear out of harmony with the rest of
the wearer’s appareL It is an odd piece
of furniture and it knows that the world
knows it.
The nice new glossy silk hat is a
thing of beauty and, alas, a joy for a
very short time. All of earth, animate
and inanimate, conspires to destroy the
comeliness of its shine and shape. Hence
a fine new hat of that style indicates
that its owner had cash until quite re
cently, that his credit is good, or that
he may have visited some public place
and secured the new hat by mistake,
leaving in its stead one not nearly so
good nor resembling it in the slightest
particular. And so, on the whole, you
can’t tell, whether or not the wearer of
a nice silk hat is a better man honestly
than is the tramp who Is wearing the
remnant of a tile he fished out of a
garbage box. As has been before said,
a great deal can be told by the way in
which men wear hats, and the style of
hats they wear if one only knows how
to tell it.—Chicago Tribune.
WOMEN AS MONEY-SAVERS.
Methods Sensible and Practical, Albeit
Sometimes Ludicrous.
The fact that women are economical
and money-savers is difficult to impress
upon the minds of men as a class. The
methods adopted by women are sensi
ble and practical, sometimes ludicrous,
and often pathetic, according to the
position in which they are placed in re
gard to the amounts which fall to their
lots to dispose of. There are a few
Hetty Greens, and it is more wholesome
for the race that her class is in an over
whelming minority. Money-savers of
her kind are a detriment and not a ben
efit. One who denies herself even the
common decencies, not to mention the 1
necessaries of life, is not a good exam- 1
pie for others. Whenever a wonan is
allowed a certain sum or earns a reg
ular amount, with which all expenses
must be met, then she is better able to
appreciate the relative values, and she
will soon accustom herself to the best
methods for ^procuring the most and
iafWsi Ac e. sloes -women
are more saving than men ever think
of being.
The wife of one of the most prom
inent politicians this state has ever pro
duced was the financier of the family,
and but for her ambition and faith in
his abilities he would probably never
have been known beyond the confines
of his own county. Her far-sightedness
in real estate purchases, which were
exceedingly small at first, made for
them a modest competency which gave
him opportunities in furthering his po
litical career. All the household labor
was performed by her own hands, and
the sale of dairy products gave them
their first start
une plan was to Duy a 101 m a respect
able quarter and place several houses
upon it The houses were not built j
thereL The wife passing through the
streets would find houses for sale cheap
if they were moved from the place.
These were bought and placed on the
lot mentioned, the cost being muoh less
than a like structure when new. Fresh
paper within and a coat of paint made
them desirable to rent and little by lit
tle the fortune was accumulated.
The officers of the building and loan
associations have found thousands of
woman stockholders Young women
fired with an ambition to own property
and have a home of their home are pay
ing weekly into the association hun
dreds of dollars Many of them have to
practice the most rigid economy in or
der to meet their obligations The com
parative newness of women in business
life and their naturally sensitive con
sciences make them prompt, and dealers
in real estate have found them, as a
rule, desirable purchasers. In an organ
ization recently started the plan is the
same as that of a savings bank. Any
sum may be deposited at any time and .
after the deposits amount to fifty dol-'
lars interest is paid to the depositor.
Among the persons who have dealings
with this association are women of our
most fashionable sets, who entertain
handsomely and seemingly have every
thing heart can wish. Their savings are
sometimes as small as twenty-five cen ts,
fifty cents, occasionally as many dollars.
—Indianapolis Journal
THE MALIGNED "KICKER.”
He Doe* Much to Preserve a Proper
Equilibrium.
The “kicker” is not generally looked
upon ua philanthropist and a benefac
tor to the race, but it would not be a
very difficult matter to prove him so.
There is no man who is such a terror
to corporations as the intelligent
"kicker.” It is to him that the public
owes most of the pleasures, luxuries
and privileges which it enjoys, by
means of the various corporate bodies
which make our most important im
provements. A “kicker” is a man who
objects to established abuses which
have grown into customs. He is not
well-pleased, and while there may be
several hundred other men who are
equally uncomfortable, they are unwill
ing to protest, passing the discomforts
by With the remark: "This is
almost past enduring, but one
doesn’t like to make himself dis
agreeable.” And all these go their
way, and nothing is done until
the kicker comes along. Then there
is a time. Timid people sit back and
indulge in little chuckles of amusement,
and those who would not be disagree
able for all the world, look on with one
eye over the tops of their newspapers,
eagerly watching the effect of the on
slaught, and hoping for a victory on
the part of the objector over the tyran
ny of the corporation. By and by some
one catches the fever, and there are
two or three disaffected spirits, and the
war goes on more fiercely than ever.
The louder the noise of the battle, the
more closely the timid keep under
cover.
Borne day the company yiems a point,
everybody is made comfortable, and the
public thanks—whom? The men who
were brave enough to fig-lit the people’s
battles for them? O, no, but the com
pany, with a big C. Such nice men!
Ana by and by the fearful and unwill
ing the would-be-agreeables make their
appearance, and some one says: “ What
a time we have had getting things as
we wanted them,” and the otherschime
in, and say: “ What a time, indeed, but
we beat ’em, after all, didn’t we, boys!
Ha! ha!”—N. Y. Ledger.
uik , ay Ior nnot Making.
There is in St. Louis a firm of rope
makers and dealers that has a side line
that it does not advertise. It is the
manufacture and preparation of liang
man’B ropes. The firm sells as many as
one hundred of these ropes annually.
The price of the rope, with the noose
ready for use, is five dollars. The ropes
are hand-mode and of hemp, and one of
the employes of the firm's North St.
Louis rope-walk ties the knot. A few
weeks sinse the sheriff of Madison coun
ty ,~Iir.ri»ad a man to hang at Edwards
vllle. He bought a rope that he thought
would answer the purpose. The tying
of the knot he found, however, to be a
more difficult matter than he imagined,
and he went to St. Louis to have the
noose made. The ropemaker charged
him two dollars and fifty cents for tying
the knot. _
Ancient Knvelopo*.
Envelopes are supposed to be quite
modern, but in the Kirch manuscripts
in the British museum. No. 44!i:i—105,
there is a letter from Martin Triewald
to Sir Hans Sloane, dated Stockholm,
April 24, 1755, inclosed in an ordinary
envelope, which is opened out and
, mounted at the end of the letter
SOUTHERN BUTTERMILK.
It Is Said to Ilo Fluor Than That of An.
Other Section.
To the southern housekeeper butter
milk is a practical, everyday necessity.
She not only uses it in cooking, but
puts It upon her table as a beverage.
“I never use baking powder,” said a
lady to a New York Recorder reporter
one day, “except in cake,” and I noticed
she expressed the minds of the southern
women generally.
One woman will even sour her sweet
milk with vinegar rather than not
make her biscuit in the usual way. The
Tennessee woman churns every day in
warm weather, and she churns sweet
milk.
In fact, all the milk that is not used
for family purposes is put into the
churn. It follows that the amount of
butter is small, but it is the buttermilk
she is after and that she gets in such
abundance that the question of the
little child: “Mamma, which cow gives
the buttermilk?” is not so strange, after
all. The children drink it as they would
water.
At dinner it is often the only beverage
upon the table. What is not needed for
the family is readily sold at the uni
form price of ten cents per gallon.
Many a woman of the south makes her
pin money in this way.
In fevers and all diseases of a malarial
type buttermilk is is useful drink. An
observant physician who knew the
habits of both northern and southern
people once remarked: “I believe that
one reason the people of the south do
not suffer so much from dyspepsiais be
cause of their free use of buttermilk. It
i¬ only a promoter of good digestion,
but a good blood purifier, and therefore
a valuable internal cosraetio.”
Do you suppose, my northern lady,
that when you taste the sour, salted
contents of your bi-weekly churning
after that great golden lump comes
forth you can form a just idea of what
southern buttermilk is?
If you wish to do so you must sacri
fice somewhat of your butter's gilt and
weight, you must churn as did the
black “aunties,” and then you may j
know the fresh, sweet, nutritious, anti
malarial, anti-dyspeptic buttermilk of
the sunny southland.
POETRY AND DEMOCRACY.
roets Will Give Expression to the Great
Heart of Humanity.
“The voice of the masses was never
heard in the old world literature,” says
Walter Blackburn Harte in the April
New England Magazine. “A whisper
of it was heard almost for the first time
with the French, revolution. It is now
beginning to be heard in real earnest,
and if it does not find a strong utter
ance in poetry as yet, it is because
poetry is trammeled by tradition.
When the poets really awake to the
grandeur of being able to give expres
sion to the great heart of humanity, we
shall hear no more of this twaddle about
this age being too democratic and too
prosaic for the production of good poetry.
If the common life of the nations can
not afford inspiration for a great poet,
then we may believe that poetry is in
deed dead forever; for it will then ap
pear that the great poem of God is ridic
ulous in the eyes of his human mouth
pieces. The awakening intellect of the
millions will throw down kings and
aristocracies and plutocracies and the
brutal chivalry of romance forever, and
there will then be a greater, more
human, more divine inspiration for the
true poet in the common life of the peo
ple. The old poets, from Homer down,
concerned themselves principally with
the prominent men of their time; the
men who were the peaks of circum
stances, and whom we have since
learned to accept as great. They have
really been deified by the greatness of
the poets. II istory is beginning to show
us how small and mean and petty they
actually were in their lives. The poets
were too often courtiers.”
Dreas of the Salvation Army Women.
This is what Mrs. Bramwell Booth
says about the dress worn by Salvation
Army women: “The dress, I think,
was developed hit by bit. It was not
in the early days so distinctive a uni
form as it is now. In the Christian
mission period the bonnet was small
and close-fitting, and it might be
trimmed with black velvet, but the
strings were of- white ribbon, which
soon became soiled. Our present bon
net, when you come to consider how
many styles of face it has to suit, is not
unbecoming. Elderly women and peo
ple with large faces look much better
in a large bonnet than in a small one,
and a large bonnet is protective to the
hair—a point which we have to consid
er. The dress might formerly be either
black or navy blue. Now it must
be blue. Yes, the uniform is very
comfortable, and it is pleasant
to think that we need not discard it for
any change of fashion. My only fear is
that our dress should look rather too
smart for the very poor people we go
among, for our chief point is that we
should be in all things one with them
selves.”
UNCLE SAM'S DAILY.
Interesting Facts About the Publicatlor
of the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record for the
Fifty-second congress lately made its
appearance. Some interesting facts are
connected with this official gazetteer of
the proceedings of congress, says the
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. Alto
gether, the publication makes more
typesetting and presswork than half a
dozen ordinary papers in the United
States. It sometimes has from 100 to
125 pages of solid matter, which would
make an octavo book of 400 to 500
pages. It requires an enormous amount
of typo to get out the Record. A new
dress is procured at the beginning of
about every other congress—every four
years, and sometimes every two years.
A new dress means over 100 tons of
type—many times more than there is in
a dozen of the largest printing offices,
including type of all grades.
About 12,000 copies are published.
Each member of the house gets about
27 and each senator about 40 copies
daily. These they have mailed
daily from the government printing
office to those they wish to have them.
Some of them are preserved and bound
at the end of the session, all free of
cost. A new dress of type for the
Record costs in round figures $78,000.
It costs probably $8,000 to $5,000 to give
a first-class daily newspaper a new
dress. The type came from the foundry
in Chicago and filled 883 boxes, aver
aging a weight of 115 pounds.
The old type is sold at the Dfest prices
the public printer can get. It is usually
about half worn when sold and ordi
narily commands about five cents a
pound more than the metal is worth.
Many newspapers in the country have
been given a new dress from the old
dresses of tho Congressional Reoord. A,
two-year-old dress of the Record is or
dinarily not worn more than that used
for twelve months in a country office,
as there is go much in use here, and:
then everything is stereotyped.
TURNED TO STONE.
A. Monument to Woman's Constancy and
Man’s Perfidy. *
While on the trip through North Da
kota, on whioh ho got the piece of the
cabin, Inspector Watkins was told by
the Indian agent at Standing Book;
Agency the legend of the stone from
which the place gets its name, says the
Helena Independent.
Yoars ago, according to the Indian’
tradition, a buck and his squaw were'
on a journey down the Missouri river to
visit some relatives at u distant point.
Where Port Yates now is the buck saw'
a young squaw of surprising beauty,
with whom he fell desperately in love.
I In spite of the tears and entreaties of
! his lawful wife he refused to proceed
j on the Journey or in any other direction,
but resolved tq stay right there with
j his new-found pnssloO, ’flu) deserted
1 squaw exhaustedhf r eutnwfcie# and her
tean, ana imaiiy arose to leave the
place alone. As she did so she fell back j
In the spot where she had been sitting
and turned to stone. There she has
remained ever since, a standing re- |
proach to her faithless lord and master
and to all tys kind. By a faint stretch j
of the imagination the standing rock j
from which the agency gets its name j
can be made to take on the outlines of a |
woman.
The Indians believe the story and pay
homage to the monument of man’s per
fidy and fickleness and woman’s con
stancy. While the Inspector was at
Fort Yates he saw an Indian approach
the rock, bow reverently, and lay some
thing at its base. When the Indian had
gone the inspector and the agent went
out to see what the offering was. It was
a chew of tobacco, no heavy sacrifice, it
might be said; but perhaps it was the
last the Indian had.
A TRICKY ENGINE.
Railroad Men Believe It Is Possessed bj j
an Evil Spirit.
Northern Pacific locomotive No. 671 is |
looked upon by all conductors, engi- j
heers and brakemen on the road as the |
rankest kind of a hoodoo. She was j
brought onto this division about three j
Crs ago, says the Yakima Herald, and i
spent the greater part of that time i
in the repair shops. Her first wreck j
tv os at Prescott, the crew escaping with
slight injuries. The next was a head
end wreck one mile from Buckley. The
third was a frightful collision at Eagle
Gorge, at which time Engineer Young
and Fireman Cooper were killed. Then,
in trying to butt a train from the track i
at Palmer, she was hurled into the
Green river, and so, throughout her life,
she seems to be possessed of the spirit
of the evil one. Strange stories are told
of a goblin perching itself on the pilot
of 671, of the hose spurting blood when
an attempt is made to draw water from
the tank to wet down the coal, and of
various mysterious pranks and caprices
that the old engine is given to. “You
may call it superstition,” said an old
Northern Pacific employe, “but there
isn’t a railroad man on this division but
what fears 571, and they will all rest
easier when she finds her way to the j
junk shop.”
Etiquette of the Bottle.
The waiter first pours a little from
the newly opened bottle into your host’s
glass. Why? Is it to cleanse the bottle
of anything which passes off with the
pouring of the first glass? No. Away
back in feudal times it was a custom,
too. In those times it told a man’s
guests that if his flagon of wine was
poisoned the contents of his own beak
er would prove it. So if a guest didn't :
see his host doubled up with the
cramps, and his face working like a
jumping jack, it was safe to conclude
that the wine was all right, and the re
past might proceed.
The Japanese as Smokers.
Among1 the people of the globe the Jap
anese, in their use of tobacco, as in many
other things, would seem to be the most
temperate as well as the most refined.
The rudest coolie or the coarsest farm
laborer equally with the lady of rank
(the pretty geisha) and the minister of
state is content with the kiseru, a tiny
pipe which does not hold enough to
make even Queen Mab sneeze.
MISCELLANEOUS.
—Morocco leather may be restored
with the varni3h of white of an egg.
—“Are you the head-barber?” asked
Spatts, as he took his seat in the chair.
“Yes, sir; replied the artist; “you don’t
see a chiropodist’s sign hanging up in
the shop, do you?” — S. G. & Co.’s
Monthly.
—The Way of a Woman.—“Only love
me a little bit and I will be your faith
ful, willing slave.” “But where is the
fun in that? What a girl really enjoys
is managing an unwilling slave.” — In
dianapolis Sentinel.
—“Do I have to stick this stamp on
myself?” asked a dude of the clerk at
the post office. “0, •>o,” replied the
clerk; “you couldn’t go in the mail
bags, and besides, this is a letter stamp,
and you are not first-class male mat
ter.”—N. Y. Sun.
—No people in the world are more
dependent upon boats than are the na
tives of southeast Alaska. They live
in a region where the coast line is
broken into many channels, straits and
and harbors by the numerous islands of
the Sitkan Archipelago
—Hourly trains from New York to
Chicago are promised by an enterpris
ing railroad for the world’s fair season.
And with seventeen complete hotel
kitchens, one thousand waiters, cooks
and scullions, five acres of dining
rooms, and numberless restaurants in
connection with the principal buildings,
there would seem to be no lack of pro
vision for all who may choose to join the
great western pilgrimage in 1898.
—There is a lake in Missouri called
Devil's Lake, which is fifteen hundred
feet above the sea. It is on the top of
a mountain, about seventy feet below
the earth surrounding it, and has no
visible inlet and no outlet, yet it rises
periodically several feet, and there is
no apparent reason for this rise. It is
supposed that the lake is fed by a sub
terranean river, or is a part of an un
derground river.
—It was not until 1752 that the ad
justment of the calendar, on the plan
devised by Pope Gregory in the six
teenth century, was adopted in En
gland. Even after the change was
made the common people were very
slow to adjust their holidays and anni
versaries to agree with it, and many for
a long time kept Christmas on the day
corresponding with that formerly ob
served, the 12th day after the Christmas
of the new calendar.
—A Character Study.—"Did you ever
study the faces in a barber’s shop of
the men waiting to be shaved?” "Yea ”
"Did you ever try to distinguish the
pessimistic from the optimistic?” “Yes;
and there is very little difficulty in as
signing them to their respective classes ’
"Indeed!” “Yes; the pessimist is the
last man that comes in and who has to
wait until six other men are shaved be
fore his turn comes, and the optimist is
the man distinguished by the appella
tion of ‘next. ’ ”—N. Y. Press
—A young man of Buena Vista, CoL,
decided to try his fortune at Crede, the
new El Dorado, and as the first part of
his outfit he bought an immense revol
ver. While fooling with it he accident
ally shot himself. The Leadville
Chronicle remarks that “the revolver,
the bowie knife, the dirk, and the
slungshot have no place in the Colorado
of 1892. ‘Bad’ men are at a discount,
and the chap with a knife in his boot
and a brace of pistols in his belt will
find his occupation gone.”
—At 4 o’clock a Portuguese maiden,
i 17 years old, named Conception Sylva,
became a bride at West Berkley, CaL
| Four hours later she was a widow. The
wedding party escorted bride and groom
; to the station, where the happy couple
j were to take the cars for San Francisco.
| While awaiting the arrival of the train
' the groom, Frank Bispo, placed his lit
i tie nephew on his shoulder and amused
! himself by running up and down the
! track. A train unexpectedly came
upon them, instantly killing Bispo and
slightly injuring his wife and nephew.
| —The following story Is told of Mr.
| Barnum: A friend once wrote to him
that a certain Mr. Tourgie, of Pennsyl
! vania, “had a nose seven inches in
length.” Mr. Barnum immediately
wrote to Mr. Tourgie to come to New
York, and he would pay his expenses
Mr. Tourgie obeyed. One look satisfied
the distinguished showman that he was
the victim of a practical joke. Without
a word he ascertained what his ex
penses were, and handed him the
amount. Mr. Tourgie saw the sights of
the city, and went home admiring the
liberality of showmen.
—Galapagos tortoises are the only
! survivors of an anoient race of huge
I turtles which lived so loner ago as the
early part of the Tertiary epoch. Speci
mens weighing from 600 to 700 pounds
have been captured, and there is authen
tia record of one individual taken which
tipped the scales at 870 pounds. How
ever, nearly all of the very big ones have
been caught and devoured, and it will
not be very long before the race is exter
minated—literally "eaten off the face of
the earth by gluttonous man.” It is
reckoned that 10,000,000 of these turtles
have been taken from the islands since
their discovery.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
—Paris lias 100 public schools for boys
and 174 for girls.
—The Methodist Episcopal church has
over 15,800 traveling preachers.
— Before the reformation fifty per
cent, of the land in the United Kingdom
belonged to the church.
—There are thirty colored men in the
ordained ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal church of America.
—Out of 100 Indian students returned
from Hampton institute, Virginia, to the
reservation only two have been failures.
—Prof. II. E. von Holst, of Freiburg,
who has just accepted a call to the new
Chicago university, will receive $7,000
annual salary.
—In almost every school of the mi
kado’s empire it is the custom one day
in tVte autumn to tivlie tlie pupils, ou^
rabbit hunting.
—“General” Booth of the Salvation
Army attracted much attention in
Rome, where he was mistaken as a pre
cursor of the carnival.
—The gross income of the missionary
society of the Methodist church in Can
ada for the last year was $143,000.—Illus
trated Christian Weekly.
—“Aren’t yon afraid that yon are liv
ing rather too well for your health?”
asked the chicken. “I ain’t in this for
my health,” answered the turkey, be
tween pecks. “I am ont for the stuff,
so to speak.”—Indianapolis Journal.
—“What church were you married in,
grandma?” “I wasn't married in any
church, dear. I was a very naughty
girl, and ran away with your grandpa.”
“Mercy, me! I’d never run away with
such a fussy old gentleman as grandpa.”
—In St. Mary’s Catholic church, Bid
deford, Me., one Sunday recently the
pastor. Rev. Father Linehan, created
a sensation by declaring that hereafter
he would refuse to administer the sac
rament to any person who sold liquor
.on Sunday.
i —Cardinal do bon s Has addressed a
circular letter to the archbishops and
bishops of the Reman Catholic church
in the United States, suggesting the
propriety of some concerted action with
respect to the solemn religious observ
ances on -October 12 next, commemora
tive of the discovery of America.
—Probably the largest congregation
in America is that of the Church of St.
■Stanislaus Kostka, in Chicago, which
has 30,000 communicants. The number
of attendants at the several masses
every Sunday frequently exceeds 15,000.
The cure of souls committed to its charge
requires the services of twelve priests.
It has a parochial school attended by
3,000 children, and these are taught by
twenty-six sisters and eight lay teach
ers. The church maintains an orphan
asylum in which about 300 inmates are
cared for.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
—An American missionary writes
from the Yangtse river that he tried in
November last to buy land on which to
build houses for the accommodation of
a party of missionaries who were com
ing up the river. He thought he had
secured the land. All arrangements
had been made except the signing of
the deed. Then the man who was sell
ing the property heard a report that
the missionaries ate children. That
ugly news frightened the poor man and
he declined to sign the papers. The
missionary hoped the man’s fright
would subside, but at last accounts he
had not yet succeeded in buying the
oroperty.
AN UNINVITING OUTFIT.
now Indians Appear on a Marketing Ex
pedition.
An incident of this typical Journey I
am describing would, at more than one
season, be a meeting with some band of
Indians going to a post with furs for
barter. Though the bulk of these hunt
ers fetch their quarry in the spring and
early summer, some may come at any
time. The procession may be only that
of a family or of the two or more fami
lies that live together or as neighbors.
The man, if there is but one group, is
certain to be stalking ahead, carrying
nothing but his gun. Then come the
women, laden like pack-horses. They
may have a sled packed with the furs
and drawn by a dog or two, and an
extra dog may bear a balanced load on
his back, but the squaw is certain to
have a spine-warping burden of
meat and a battered kettle and
a pappoose, and whatever personal
property of any and every sort
she and her liege lord own. Chil
dren who can walk have to do so, but
it sometimes happens that a baby a
year and a half or two years old is on
her back, while a new-born infant,
swaddled in blanket- stuff, and bagged
and tied like a bologna sausage, sur
mounts the load on the sled. A more
tatterdemalion outfit than a band of
these pauperized savages form it would
be difficult to imagine. On the plains
they will have horses dragging tra
voises, dogs with travoises, women and
children loaded with impedimenta, a
colt or two running loose, the lordly
men riding free, straggling curs a
plenty, babies in arms, babies swad
dled, and toddlers afoot, and the whole
battalion presenting at its exposed
points exhibits of torn blankets, raw
meat, distorted pots and pans, tent,
poles and rusty traps, in all eloquently
suggestive of an eviction in the slums
of a great city.—Julian Ralph, in -Har
per’s Magazine.
A Mistaken Female.
i Two gentlemen in the orchestra, Mr.
Manhattan Beach and Mr.Uptown Gay
hoy . are disputing about their opera
glass. Each one claims to have the best.
Mr. Gayboy—1 can count the wrin
kles in the face of that old woman in
the box up there.
Mr. Beach—And X can count her gray
hairs with mine.
The lady in the box observed that the
two gentlemen were looking at her. so
with a gratified smile she said to a friend
at her side:
••A handsome woman always attract?
attention.”—Texas Siftings.
Blindness Extraordinary.
Bessie—How old are you, MissOldun?
She—I've seen eighteen summers.
Bessie—Yes; but how long have you
lieen blind?—Brooklyn Life.
They Finished the ’Gator.
A Florida man had an alligator,
which he regarded as a pet. It usually
lay under a high bank and came out
when punched with a pole. One day
four mischievous boys of the neighbor
hood borrowed a mule with plow har
ness and took him to the creek where
the alligator lived. They punched the
saurian until he came out, then dropped
the plow chain on his nose. The alli
gator seized it at once, while the boys
started the mule, a powerful animal.
It was only necessary to start the mule.
He looked around and, seeing the alli
gator, tore away homeward at full gal
lop. Of course the saurian had not
sense enough to let go, and, as the mule
dashed up the narrow road, the alliga
tor, at the end of the chain, struck
; against'trees and stumps at every jump.
! When the mule got to his stable the
alligator was decidedly dead, but the
! mule's nerves were so shaken that he
i smelled alligators in every breeze, and
I never could be got down to the river
road again. —-Golden Daya
i —“The boss has got his back up this
morning.” tlls that so? Then sve ve
got to hump ourselves.”—N. Y. Press.