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VOL. XXVIII.
LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1893.
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to Southern Herald
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CARDS-PROFESSIONAL, Eto.
GEO. F. WEBB,
Attorney at Law,
Office tn the Butler Building, Liberty,
Amite County, Miss. 11-9-W
D. C BR AM LETT,
faj ul Ecassslkr &l Uw,
WOODVILLE, M13S.
Will practice in all the Coarta al
Amite and adjoining counties, and in the
Supreme Court at Jackson. , 1-9L
theo. Mcknight,
Attorney at Law,
SUMMIT, MISS.
Will practice tn all the Courts ot
Pike and adjoining counties, and In
the Supreme and Federal Courts at
Jaokeoo.
J. R. GALTNEY,
Attorney at Law,
LIBERTY, MISS.
All business confided to bis ear will
receive prompt attention.
E. H. RATCLIFF,
Attorney at Law,
OLOSTER, MISS.
Will practice in all th Court al
Amite and adjoining counties and la tat
Supreme Court at Jackson. lfr-M.
E. H. RiTri.iFr,
Gloster, Miss.
J. I!. Wtrn,
Liberty, Miss.
RATCLIFF & WEBB,
Attorneys at Law,
LIBERTY, Misa
Will practice In all the courts of Amite
. and adjoining counties and in the Su
preme Court at Jackson.
V. E. CILL, '
Attorney -at -Law,
LIBERTY, MISa
Will practice In all the court el
Amite and adjoining counties, and la
the Supreme Court at Jackson.
Mas! Ms for!
tt. Louis, Missouri.
rr. u. Mcdowell, : : Agent,
Amite County, Miss.
HOTEL
And Livery Stable,
LIBEBTT, MISS.
The tdersIgnod begs to announce
Hat he is now prepared to reoMvs
bcardert and entertain the traveling
public Fare the best the market a
fords. Be is also prepared to meet the
wants of the public in the way of feed
ing, stabling and grooming stock which
stay be entrusted to his care. Charges
seasonable. Giro me a trial
TIIOJIJB WARIKG.
Liberty, Best tS, W -
TH13 PAPER 13 ON FILft
in CHICAGO
mm HEW YORK
-at ma etnen ot-
THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY.
Will sona wise b&b Vaatus Journey!
Orer lud ud over act
T the eouBirte vber the rainbow
Ami tbe jlorioua suastu be,
Kiixllj leU a huie stranger
Wa has oddly kw her wy.
Where s the rod that she must Xnrvi
To retura to Yesterday?
For, you see, she's uttfamlliar
With To-day, ud cannot read
What its strango, mysterious tign poaia
Tell of ways and where they lead.
And her heart upbraids her sorely.
Though she did wot meta to stray
he she fell asleep laat erraiof
And abaadoned Yesterday.
For she left a desl neglected
That she irm.il y should have done.
And she tears she's kost some fa tort
That she fatrly snibt hare woa.
So she'd like to turn her backward
To retrieve them if she nay
Will sot tome one kindly tell her
Where s the rosd to Yeateraay?
Julie M. LippanaiiS) is St. Nichols.
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ICopyrfgbt, 1HM,
by the Author.)
lull.M Ar was
the handsom
est of the aer-
aral clerks and salcsincu In Kitt's
great "Glass of Fashion" clothing em
porium on Uroadway so handsome
that all ot his associates coveted his
looks as well aa bis ability to handle a
customer. lie had a nodding' acquaint
ance with many of the rich young
patrons of the bouse, some ot whom
liked bim well enough to occasionally
ask bim out to "take something," and
they were not above recognizing him
when they chanced to meet him in the
lobby of a theater. He was useful to
some of his customers, aside from bis
regular line of business, for be was a
veritable magaziue of stories, such aa
lively young men like to telL When
he would unfold one of these tales the
hearer would look at him enviously
and inform himself that Eighman
must be a tremendous fcllotv among
the girls in fact, s regular lady-killer.
Yet, during his several years of serv
ice at Fitt's, the handsome salesman
remained a bachelor. The other fel
lows did not know what to make of it,
for one by one they found their own
necks in Hymen's halter, although
none of them were either good-looking
or rich. Little Tapes, the plainest ot
the lot, expressed the general wonder
to his wife one evening, after Eighmun
had been in to dinner with them, and
got some light on the subject when
Mrs. Tapes replied:
"No woman worth having is going to
marry a man who looks at women as
be does."
Tapes repeated this remark in strict
confidence to each of his associates,
Woo in turn talked it over with all the
others; then they reminded one anoth
er that one of Eighman's habits was
not calculated to mako a man look
respectfully at woman. The hand
some salesman had a way of standing
at the side window, early in the morn
ing and late in the evening, when shop
girla by scores were going to or from
work, and eyeing the young women In
a manner which seemed very taking.
Some of the other men were moved to
emulation, but they quickly retired
from a contest in which they found
they had no possible chance, for none
of the girls would look at anyone but
Eighman.
Yet the Adonis ot the shop was not
happy. Sometimes be would retire
suddenly from the window with s
scowl on his face, and with bad lan
guage for anyone who asked him what
was the mater. On one of these oc
casions he suddenly dragged Jerry, the
red-haired shop boy, to the side door,
pointed down the street, and said!
"See that girl going down street
alone the one with a brown hat,
book and a paper parcel In one hand?"
"Yep," the boy replied.
' "Well, I'll give yon a dollar If you'll
find out her name and where she
works; but if you open your head about
it in the store I'll have you bounced.
Understand?"
Jerry understood, and In the course
of time he reported that the girl's
name was Susan, she worked in a box
factory at tour dollars a week, and
hadn't any fellow, and wasn't over
smart at work, though the other girls
liked her well enough. Jerry also
volunteered the information that
Susan was a "regular stunner," and
that if he were English he would
"make a mash." Then he retired,
with some assistance in the shape of
cuff of the ear.
. Afterward he noticed, prompted by
the curiosity peculiar to small boys,
that Susan seldom looked into the win
dow which Eighman decorated with
himself, and that whe n her eye did
chance to meet that of the handsome
talesman it was as inezpressivo as if
wanderingover a pile of samples. Jerry
also learned that it was inadvisable, on
such occasions, to be in Eighman's way
tvhen the piqued man turned from the
window.
Eighman was so annoyed, , indeed, at
being ignored by a mere shop girl that
on several occasions he followed
Susan, to see if there might not be in
some other window a man for whom
the girl was reserving her smiles He
saw dozens of men look admiringly
and insolently at ber, but not one did
she recognize. Then he set himself to
work hs sn amateur detective, but
Warned, to his mortification, that her
insensibility to hira was not due to a
hubhand or sweetheart; so he tried to
console himself by storing more of
fensively than ever at the shop girls
who would return bis glances. As for
Susan, she continued to go every morn
ing to the box factory, carrying in one
M I
L rs
hand a book snd a small package of
luncheon.
A time finally came when a good
business offer took Eighmaa westward,
where he was so successful that he be
came a partner. His old associates
beard of his good fortune, snd also that
he was still unmarried, several fine
young women having refused him in
spite of his satisfactory financial stand
ing. They were none the less glad to
see bim, though, when he strolled into
the old place ten years later, and, after
chatting aa boar or two, lounged to
his old place at the window.
The same sad dog, ebT said one ot
the men, nudging Eighman's side, "and
the same handsome fellow."
The visitor accepted both remarks as
complimentary, gazed through the win
dow with the air of a conqueror at the
scene of former triumphs, snd said, as
the homeward-bound procession passed
"Different crowd. Same stvle as ot
old, but different faces."
"Not all of them, Mr. Eighman,'
said Jerry, now a man and s salesman.
"It's about time for there she is now
see? Susan!"
Eighman frowned, yet stared Cer
tainly it was the same girl, looking a
little older, perhaps, but with no
change of expression, and apparently
with the aame book in ber band as of
old.
The visitor left the store abruptly;
he scarcely knew why, except that he
wanted to be alone with his thoughts.
lie was now a prosperous business
man. He had gone steadily upward
until to-day there were bank presidents
and other prominent business men who
were glad to knfjiim. Meanwhile,
Snsan bad apparently been going daily
for years to iier common, poorly paid
work, and remained modest and un
conscious, although stared st offen
sively by thoussnds of men, ot whom
he hsd been one of the earliest and
most persistent
His pride was so hurt by his reflec
tions that he tried to comfort it with
liquor; but the effort failed. Hs
neglected the business which had
brought him to the city, and gave him
self up to his conscience, which made
a miserable week for bim. He wanted
to confess to some one; he tried Heaven;
yet something still seemed necessary.
Again he became an amateur detective,
and. succeeded finally in being intro
duced to Susan, wHo remembered his
face and averted her own.
"Please don't," said Eighman. "I've
sought you out to make confession and
reparation. I saw you a week ago, for
the first time in ten years saw you
"I've
SOUGHT TOU OUT TO MAKE CO!t-
' KKSSION."
just where I used to. I was a brute,
but you have shown me myself. I am
changed entirely and forever and I
owe it all to you. I am rich; I want to
give you all I have, and my life be
sides. You may wait as long as you
like before deckling wsit until you
are satisfied that all I have said is
true. I'll be as patient In waiting as
yon have been at work you noblest,
grandest woman I ever saw!"
Naturally, he had to wait some time,
for Susan's astonishment was too great
to subside easily; but one day the sales
men at the "Ulass of Fashion" were al
most paralyzed by receiving wedding
cards on which Eighman had penciled,
nnder the bride's name, the single word;
"Susan.
TREACHEROUS QUICKSANDS.
Two Tonn Women Narrowly Escape
Tuelr Covetous ClntohM.
Two young women, who were driv
ing on the beach above San Francisco,
Cat., narrowly escaped a terrible death
not long ago. Extreme low tide south
of the Cliff house uncovers treacherous
quicksands, and travel along the beach
is hazardous. The young women with
the horse and buggy did not know
this, and were enjoying themselves
hugely, when the horse began to strug
gle frantically to get out of the sand
that reached almost to his knees All
his strong endeavors were vain, though,
against the suction, and in a moment,
as his whole frame shook and con
vulsed in an upward, onward impulse,
he fell on bis side and became more
helpless; but he fell toward land. The
wagon had at this time gone down so
far that the tide, just in the beginning
of the flood, washed over the bubs
Terrified were the women; but a leap
from the vehicle would have only in
creased the danger. To scream for
help was the only hope, but the shouts
were lost in the thundering surf. At
this critical moment, Capt Unsch, of
the Ocean house, chanced to look along
the shore and saw the victims. His
horse was standing by and he dashed
to the rescue, anil when he got there
the waves were breaking over the
buggy-box. But he pushed his way to
the bnggy, and bidding the women,
one at a time, to jump Into his arms,
carried them to shore in safety. They
were drenched and badly frightened,
but otherwise uninjured. The captain
then cut the harness awsy from the
poor horse, and he struggled until he
reached firm footing., The buggy dis
appeared, but the young women were
too happy over their own escape to
care for that Golden Days
Clergyman (examining a Sunday
school class) "Now, caa any of you
tell me what are sins of omission?"
Small Scholar "Please, sir, they're
sins yon ought to have committed and
haven't" Tid-Uits. '
GlVlNQ OF DINNERS. I
Lad Jaa Lars ! Ooldea Kolas for i
AaMUMt BMlmM t r allow. 1
The euccess or failure of a dinner
must depend mainly on the hostess and
on her cleverness to provide a pleasant
eollectlon of guests, according to aa ;
article on dinner-giving by Lady June. 1
We may safely divide hostesses into
two classes the safe hostess and the
ambitious one. In the first case we
may be sure ot a pleasant evening, and.
riving equal conditions of life and for
tune, we snau nave egooaa.nner, gooa
wine and nice people. aU more or less
pleasant, and the Impression remaining j that hsTe a led nd cod, lea
st the end is one of having passed a 1 , , .,t .ll.
soothing and agreeable couple of hours, ;
v""S ( ,
The ambitious hostess goes further
afield and strives for new sensations,
and in the compositions of her dinner
there are sure to be elements both In
teresting snd exciting. The combina
tion of "smart people," literary, artistic
and political, insures an entertaining
evening. One great temptation to the
ambitious hostess is to crowd her table
ith too many distinguished guests.
Lions do not like to meet lions; the
noble beasts are jealous of each other,
and a mixture of more inferior animals
adds to the general composure and har
mony. There is a story of a dinner
given by a well-known lady in
London, soms years ago. where
eighteen guests comprised a per
fectly representative assemblage of all
that was distinguished In politics, art.
science and literature. A prime minis
ter, two cabinet ministers, sn eminent
divine, a well-known general and two
of the most brilliant luminaries in art,
science and literature composed a din
ner which a most appreciative guest
declared was the dullest he ever remem
bered.
On the other hand, a certain hostess
states thst ber pleasantest dinners are
those to which she ssks all her "bores,"
for no one ever discovered why they
were all Invited to meet each other,
and, none being pre-eminently bril
liant, no one found himself duller than
his neighbor, but there is nothing
more uncertain thsn the success or fail
uau ot a dinner, for it depends si i
variety of small things, any ot which
helps in either way. There are one or
two golden rules which no one can ever
do wrong in following. The dinner
should be unambitious and well served.
Everything should be hot There
should not be too much to eat, and no
dinner should last over an hour, or an
hour and ten minutes at the outside.
Very few dine out for the sake of get
ting good food only. There are some
houses where one expects snd where
one gets a dinner to dream of, but such
houses are few, and the ordinary hostess
should content herself by feeling sure
that, when her guests leave, no par
ticular dish, or wine, or person has
made a more lasting impression on
them than the fact that they hare passed
a more than usually pleasanterenlng.
Chicago Tribune.
ADOPTING A DOC.
A Little AiWIca for Those Who Might B
ConteDiplatliia Such a Courte.
The adoption of a dog into one's
family is, it would seem, a matter re
quiring grave thought and responsibil
ity. There is a dog for the country and
one for the city flat, a dog for orna
ment and play, and a dog for com
panionship and affection, and any ona
of these dogs must be carefully select
ed and well cared for tf the owner
and the dog are to do their duty
to each other. Having decided on
the kind of dog that will best fit in
with your way of living, Mrs. Olive
Thome Miller, an authority on house
hold pets, recommends reading up on
the different varieties and then visiting
good kennels, orif possible, adog show,
before buying.
"Baby dogs," she reminds us, "are
almost as prone to disease as baby hu
mans;" and in taking a young dog,
though It may repay you for your pa
tience and care by a hundred cunning
waya, it may discipline you as well aa
the dog. There is something in being
a dog's first master, like being a first
and only love, that appeals to both
men and women. Having chosen your
dog with sufficient care to see that it
has all the "points" that good blood
should guarantee, Mrs. Miller finally
cautions the dog-buyer "to look care
fully on the body behind the foreleg
and also behind the ears for indications
of irritation," and to promptly reject
the most promising dog who shows any
such aigna N. Y. Post
A Long- 'lima Ago. "
A most remarkable thing is reported
to have occurred at Maples in the year
1531, Antonio Lazettl, a beggar who
had formerly resided at Tarentum, but
who on account of age had been sent to
a home for the aged at one or the other
of the places mentioned, experienced a
complete renewal of life. At the be
ginning of the transformation he was
little less thsn ninety years of age. The
first thing noticed which suggested
that something extraordinary, was
about to take place was in his skin,
which cracked and came off like that of
a toad or snake, leaving a soft, new
skin in place of the wrinkled cuticle
that had been worn for foui
score years and a half. Within
a surprising short time his flaccid old
muscles became strong and plump, the
white hairs fell from his bead and curly
black hair, similar to that which had so
delighted the maidens -seventy-four
years before, appeared. His eyesight
also returned with all the vigor of
youth; his complexion seemed fresh
and rosy; in fact, he was a new man
from the soles of his feet to the crown
of his head. He lived sixty years after
this transformstion, and then died at
the sge ot one hundred and fifty years
Philadelphia Press,
Ills Main Support.
"Whe support Du Bant in his grea
character of HamletT'
"His wife."
"I didn't know she was an actress."
"She isn't She's wealthy. 'WPuck.
. Closer Ihaa a. Brother.
, At a natural history examination.
- "What is the animal capable of thi
closest attachment to man?"
- "The leech." Demorest'l Magazine,
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
GingerCake. Oae pint of molasses, n la proposed to snake use of e e-one-half
pint lard, one-quarter pint tricity tor heating and lighting private
water, two tab'.espooufuls of aoda, one ! houses, and machines for this purpose
of ginger. Mix; add Hour enough to ; have already been contrived.
rolL . Ohio Farmer.
Parsley Butter. Cream three table
spoonsful ot butter, add one table
spoonful each ot lemon Juice and chop
ped parsley, one-half teaspoonful of
salt, and one-eighth teaspoonful of pep
per. Beat all together and serve.
Good Housekeeping.
Add1. Custard. -This la made bv
,,.; ,j k.,:, ,., .i..
Dak9d Thi, QeMert u be eaten cold
with flntrr touted wafers nr
any preferred cake. Delineator.
Ginger Snaps. Good for six week
One teacupful each of brown sugar,
molasses, and shortening halt each of
butter and lard, or suet or pork f sV, one
teaspoonful each of saleratus and gin
ger, one-half teaspoonful salt, one egg.
Four one-halt teacupful boiling Water
on the saleratus, salt and ginger and
mix with other ingredients. Use flour
sufficient to roll out Orange Judd
Farmer.
Salsify Soup. Scrape two dozen sal-
j sify or oyster-plant roots, cut into
slices, put in s saucepan, and cover with
boiling water. Let boil until tender.
Add three pints ot new milk, six whole
allspice, aix pepper-corns, and a blade
of mace. Rub two ounces of butter snd
two tablespoons ot flour together, and
stir into the boiling soup. Season with
salt and a dish of Cayenne, and serve.
Harper's Bszar.
Mushroom Sauce for Beefsteak.
Brown a spoonful of flour in the oven,
put a tablespoonful ot butter in a spider
and let brown, then atir in the flour.
pour in half a pint of stock and stir un
til it boils, then take off and strain, put
back over the fire, add a tablespoonful
of mushroom catsup and half a cupful
of mushrooms, cook slowly a few min
utes, then season with salt and a dust
of pepper and pour over the beefsteak.
K. i. Observer.
Pound Cake One pound of flour,
one pound of sugar, i pounds of but
ter, 10 eggs, one nutmeg grated, one
wineglass of rose water. Beat the but
ter and sugar together; when it is per
fectly light stir in the eggs, which must
have been whisked to a thick troth; add
the flour, then the nutmeg and rose wa
ter. Beat the whole for a quarter of
an hour. Butter your pan, line It with
paper, which should be well buttered,
and pour in the mixture. Bake it for
three hours in a moderate oven. When
the sides of the cake appear to shrink
from the sides of the pan the cake will
be done. Boston Budget
Buckwheat Cakes Dial te one
drachm of compressed yeast with a gill
of lukewarm water, and let it rest for
ten minutes Add to it half a pound ot
buckwheat flour in a basin, pouring in
a pint of water, and season with a light
pinch of salt Mix thoroughly with
the spatula, cover the basin with a
cloth and let it rest for four hours.
Have a griddle large enough to hold
six cakes. Grease lightly with a piece
of fat pork-rind and place it on a hot
stove. Pour half the batter into the
six sections ot the griddle, distributing
it evenly. Bake for two and a-half
minutes, turn over and bake two and
a-half minutes longer. Heap the cakes
on a hot plate, make the other six in
the same way and serve in relay
They must be very hot end golden
sirup, honey or maple sugar should be
served in small plates to be eaten with
them. London Black and White. '
STARTING A TRAIN IN GERMANY.
Wonderful and Complicated Bad Tape At
tending the Operation.
An American railway official recently
returned from Europe, referring to rail
way practice in Germany, aaya:
"The roadbeds are about perfect,
while the stations are simply magnifi
cent, even in the most insignificant
places being very fine. The roadbeds
are quite rigid, but this is mainly due
to the iron and steel cross ties that are
used.
"The locomotives are fine pieces of
mechanism, hut their capaci ty is scarce
ly equal to those on this side of the At
lantic. Their entire passenger equip
ment la away behind that in use here.
Their trains, however, run like clock
work, and the connections are perfect
"The method ot dispatching trains is
altogether unique and peculiar, and pe
culiar, and will cause American agents
and trainmen to smile. The agent is
an imposing, dignified and solemn-looking
official, attired in elaborate uniform,
literally guilt-edged, and he acts as
master of ceremonies on imposing occa
sion a
"When the train arrives at the sta
tion he is standing bolt upright in an
almost military position, and he is on
dress parade. One minute before the
train starts he reaches ap and taps a
gong three times Then a strange scene
takes place; and it would seem that he
hod pressed a button, for at the last tap
the conductor, who has been at the rear
car, comes galloping along the entire
length of the platform, shouting In
German the name of every station the
train will stop at
"When the engine is reached he
wheels about and on his return quick
ly closes and locks the car doors, darts
back to the van to his perch on the rear
car, whistles thrice on a tin or metal
whistle, which is Instantly repeated by
the br aire man at the front end, and the
train starts" Railway Review.
whit Soap.
Excellent soap for washing flannels,
ginghams of delicate colors or any
washable" material requiring care can
be made at the expense of a few cents
and a little economy on the part of a
housekeeper. Take three pounds ot
new unslacked lime and six pounds of
washing soda; pour over this five gallons
of boiling water. Stir until the soda is
all dissolved; let it stand till it becomes
perfeotly clear, then pour off the clear
liquid. Add to it six pounds of clean
fat (saved from the cooking) and one
cup of salt; boil for three hours. Take
a little out in s saucer, and if it hardens
pour the mixture into a wooden tub,
and when cold cut into' bars. It will
soon cure and be as white and firm ai
white ca&tile soap. N, Y, Tribune,
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD. I
In Delaware farmers are progres-
Ive enough to be willing to give the
right of way for the trolley line
through their properties free of charges,
It is learned that Prof. Elisha Gray
has perfected his writing telegraphy,
and that the manufacture of the instru
ment has been commenced on a large
scale in England.
The Shoshone Falls of the Snake
river of Idaho, which have a body ot
water 900 feet wide, with a fall of .10
feet, are to be used for developing elec
tric power for irrigating purposes,
Another use baa been found for
electricity. Ia Ceylon experiments
have shown that it is more economical
to dry tea leaves by its sgency than by
the old method, and extensive plants
have been erected for that pnrpose.
In French army circles there Is said
to be much activity relative to the In
troduction of telephones into the serv
ice. Telephonists are now regularly
organised in sets of two men, each man
being equipped with a mile of wire.
The simple Vcceivlng and transmitting
apparatus is attached to the soldier's
cap, while the reel for the wire consti
tutes a sort ot breast plate. The whole
equipment weighs less than six pounds.
The telephotoea, the instrument in
vented by U V. Houghton to enable
vessels to communicate with each other
at long distances, consists of a series ot
wires and electrical connections oper
ated by a keyboard by which 100 incan
descent lights are controlled and made
to produce the signal ot the Morse tele
graph alphabet The inventor claims
thst thlrty-two-csndle-powerlsmps can
be seen at a distance of ten to fifteen
miles.
Prof. Elihu Thomson states that he
has operated with 1,000,000 alternations
per minute, snd has built a machine cap
able ot giving a, 000,000 alternations per
minute, but considers it of little value,
because he has since devised a plan, not
yet ready for publication, whereby a
continuous current, by purely electrical
processes, csn be made to give alternate
lng currents of sny desired frequency,
which frequency can be governed to
cover almost any range by very simple
means. It hss no moving pieces what
ever.
It is curious to note the survival ot
a superstition in these days which
should bring the blush to every cheek
of every right-thinking man. It ap
pears that in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the
new system ot telephone calls, chang
ing from names to numbers, has been
adopted. The residents of the city are
so superstitious that a general refusal
has been made to accept No. 13, snd it
has been omitted from the list New.
burgers are also superstitious, but it
may be considered a strange coincl
dence that U J. Bazzoni of that place,
previous to the failure, was known as
No. 13 at the telephone office. That
number is no longer held by a New
burgh subscriber.
A few New York hotels and many
in smaller cities have s standing ru e
that a call from a guest's room shall be
answered by a bell-boy bearing a pitch'
er of ice-water. A New Yorker stop
ping with his wife and children at
Boston hotel, and forced to sign si many
times because ot various wants, found
his mantelpiece lined with nearly
dozen pitchers of ice-water. An elab
oration of this simple code is presented
in those signal dials as big ss a dinner
plate, by means ot which a guest may
announce to the clerk almost any con'
celvable need, and may order any ono
of three or four brands of champagne.
A Liverpool hotel, however, has Improv
ed upon all this by placing in each room
a telephone connected with the office.
An electrical journal asks whether
some one can not discover a way to pre
vent the slipping of street car wheels
and thus remove a factor of danger in
the operation of street cars, especially
in winter. The cold ami snowy rails
are responsible for many of the collis
ions and other casualties which occur
during the winter season. In Scranton,
Pa., recently, there was a sort of epi
demic of collisions for a few days,
chargeable entirely to this cause. The
motormen claim that the custom of
sprinkling salt on the rails to melt the
snow and ice thereon is a good one to
that extent but a bad one in that when
the salt becomes crushed and pulver
ized it makes the rails as slippery as
before. In the meantime there is a
chance of a fortune for the inventor
who has the luck to hit on the right
remedy.
WALKING LEAVES AND STICKS.
Some Inseeta That ara Almost Parrect
Counterparts of Veg etabla l'roducta.
Nature's laws, being almost universal
as far as . the protection of the weak
creatures is concerned, it is not at all
wonderful, perhaps, that she has form
ed insects into perfect counterparts of
flowers, leaves, sticks, eto. Some ot
the "walking leaves," those which are
natives of India, China and Japan in
particular, are large, grotesque-looking
creatures, their resemblance be
ing strikingly like a bundle ot
yellow twigs joined together with
faded, macerated leaves The limbs ot
this species ot insect are long, slender
and very twiglike, the coloring being
suited to thst particular species of veg
etation upon which the deceptive
mimicker subsists.
The "walking stick," like the walk
ing leaf, is also very deceptive, as far
as looks go. The males have small.
Blender bodies, the legs or arms start
ing from it just as smaller limbs of a
tree or weed start from larger ones.
The "walking ihorn" of Java belongs
to this curious order of insects, as do
also the "devil's horse" and the mantis
The "walking thorn" looks exactly like
the large compound spine of our com
mon honey locust tree, even in color
and general contour. St Louis Re
public. "
la a Qaanrtarr
Mamma What's the matter now?
Small Daughtei- There isn't room
enough for all the dolls an' the ltittie
in the bed. Where shall I sleep. Good.
News.
RELIGIOUS N3
The average v ' t '
tsaa candidate f. t-c w
1145 pound.
O, how much rs', -r
meanest exrweuatof u -' i w -
than the sole poesesaor ot V.
N. Y. Observer.
Whenever Cod c'.i. acu,a i. I
to make a move of some ksai Le .. t
stand atUL It he won't obey l
run sway. Eam'a liars.
The pope in bukSiag farewell t '
English piigrims to Roojeesprw ' '
hope that he would soon see 1 1,
again a Catholic country.
The devil ahowa how moA t
afraid of a foreign misionry ly '.
way he works to get a few ear l. it ?
whisky on the same boat Cam's i
Protestant churches ia wnrscir
contributed $i,000,000 for tue i! --
cooesses work, 4,00O,OOO for horn
11,000,000 for foreign niisaioiia the 1-Sk
year.
The catalogue of the Georgia l .r
Normal and Industrial college s'io
that 171 young women from TS count.:':
in the state matriculated during its Si :? i
year.
ine attendance at u.e varu-.. oi,;
versities in France during t!ie f - . '.
winter term is 18,544. Of these i t
alone has 10,211 The sma!Ut on .u! -er
is found at Besaneon, namely 10.
President L. M. Atwood wrHr i
the Christian Leader that a cris a i-
tronts the Universal church eonsj
ie t
upon the dearth of minister, In i
denominations the troul'- ' sn
of ministers.
If religion is good anywW: ,
good everywhere. Any prindj
tiat
is potent on Sunday must be sptmesbse
on Monday, elae it is a delusion sod a
snsre, and whoever trunks otnerwie
tricks his own soul Anon.
Two Episcopal churches and two
Presbyterian churches in New York
city have recently united, and i- r
there is talk of two old Metuwtit,t
societies uniting. The churches beicjr
in the down-town regions bate grown
in wealth but decreased In nurabt'r.
Prof. J. Rendel Harris, who tran-
lated the recently discovered gospel of
St Peter, is to return soon to the Greek
convent of St Catharine in Mt biuiai,
where he will t outinue his researches
among the valuaoie ancient manu
scripts. It was in this oooveut that
Tischenderf over forty years ago dis
covered the Codex Sinaiticua.
The establishment of a new theo
logical seminary of the Southern Pres
byterian church, at Louisville, Ky., hss
been practically assured. The sum of
(."0,000 has been secured tor a site auJ
building, and nearly 1100,080 for en
dowment The library of the late lr.
Stuart Robinson has been tendered to
the seminary. It will be under the
control of the synods of Kentucky and
Missouri.
Wonderful is the long procession of
popes to which Roman Catholics not
unfairly point as a proof of the unbrok
en continutyof the line of St Peter.
The entire number of popes from the
apostle to when the first vicarate snd
the keys were given to Leo XIIL is iKi.
Of these nine reigned less than s month,
thirty less than one year, while but
eleven have reigned more than twenty
years snd but one, Pius IX., for twenty
five years, except St Peter. According
to tradition, St Peter ruled seven years
in Antioch, snd twenty-five yesrs, two
months and seven daya in Rome, or
thirty-one years and seven months in
all. Farrington-Maxwell, in a Syndi
cate Letter.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Thought is the property of thoe
only who can entertain it Emerson.
The man win rides a hobby al
wsys wants the whole road for hhue!&
Kam's Horn. .
The best kind of a standing army is
the one that will stand in the face of the
enemy. N. 0. Picayune.
"I envy Cnrtley his memory"
"Whyr, "He Invited Miss Griiuchap
to dance and then "forgot it" Inter
Ocean. "
Citticus I wonder how it is flint
o few women stutter when they tnMr
Witticns They haven't got time rv
Lance.
About the only way to make some
people happy is to provide for them
some sort of imaginary martyrdom.
Galveston News
One of the redeeming features of a
Wagner concert is that you can't bear
the man next to you whistling his
accompaniment Philadelphia Record,
"John, you are not listening to a
word 1 am sayjng." "Why, my dear, I
am all ears. "1 Know you are, ana
that makes it sll the more provoking."
Quips.
There is something wrong with a
state of affairs nnder which whenever
the mercury starts for zero the price
ot coal aeta out for SO in the shade.
Washington Star.
, Not Responsible. Jess Mr. Sta'ate
threatens Miss Sears with a breach-of-promise
suit Bess What is ber de
fense? Jess That on the night he pro
posed she was too sleepy to be responsi
ble. Browning, king ft Co. s Mommy.
Age and Youth. Jack Her come
old Ramsay and young Griggs Tom
Old Ramsay and young Griggs! Why,
Ramsay's just thirty and Griggs is six
ty, tf he's a day. Jack I know; but
Ramsay has just become a father and
Griggs has just become a grandfather,
Truth.
In all lives there is a crisis in the
formation ot character. It comes from
many causes, and some which on the
surface sre spparently trivial But the
result is the same; a sudden revelation
to ourselves of our Secret purposes snd
a recognition of onr perhaps long
shadowed, but now masterful convic
tions -eBeaconsfleld.
If you hsve laid aside ill-natnreand
reviling; if you have lessened yonr
harshness, indecent language, Iuron: !
erateness, effeminacy; if you are r.r t
moved by the same thinp as former: v.
or if not in the same maimer n . i;.:
mcrly, you may keep a p"r ! f '
val, to-day for success in one aft" i r, sn.-l
to-morrow for another. i v i, ':- -,
better a reason for saertiV -
obtaining1 a oonsil:!i'ii it
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