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NUMBER 20.
NEWARK, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, MAY 3, 18S4.
VOLUME VIL
HANDSOME LINE
OF
SUMMER
SILKS!
Brocades, Satins, Plaids,
Checks and Combination Suit
ings, Cashmeres, Debeges,
Dress Cloths, &c., &c.
MILLINERY !
In all the new Spring shapes
and styles. Bleached and Un
bleached Muslins, Sheetings
and Table Linens, Ginghams,
Checks and Cheviots at
LOWEST
CASH PRICES.
Carpets, Mattings, Floor and
Table Oil Cloths, Furniture,
Baby Carriages. Bedding and
Stoves.
VSlVW'u'Wli».»'».'
'f
CLOTHING.
WATCHES !
WATCHES ! !
WATCHES ! ! !
American Lever Watches,
WARRANTED FOR TWO TEARS.
In Silver Cases, good movement, $13.00
" " 1 ' " " 15.00
17.50
20.00
" 8 oz. better
" "«1111 "
" " extra fine,
Cents' Gold Watches,
Ladies' " "
Ladies' fine Elgin movement,$35 to 50.00
22.50
$35 to 75.00
' 25.00
If these watches are not as
represented and Correct Time
keepers, bring them back. A
full and complete line of Ladies
and Gents' Chains, Charms and
Rings, as well as a very hand
some assortment of Ladles'
Bracelets, Neck Chains, Setts,
Ear-rings, etc , at the very low
est cash prices.
Sold on our
LIBERI CREDIT SYSTEM,
As cheap as the same grade
of goods can be bought any
where else for cash, and we
WILL WARRANT THEM
To give you satisfaction.
On Weekly ot Monthly Payments
TERMS:
On a BUI of $ 10.00, $1.00
Down and $1.00 a Week.
WALSH Jk CO
506 MARKET ST.,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
I
WHOLESALE and RETAIL DEALER in ALL KINDS of
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
CUCUMBER WOOD PUMPS.
Clover and Timothy Seed, Land
Plaster, &c.
HAYE REMOVED TO 110 & 118 KINO ST
WILMINGTON, DEL.
M
Our room and facilities for the display of goods being materi
ally increased; we would invite attention to our line of AGRI
CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS and MACHINERY. Special
attention is called to the new
REMINGTON CORBAN PLOW•
THE REMINGTON has achieved a reputation unexampled
in the history ot Plows. It is not surpassed in any particular,
hut it is superior in form, finish, metal ai d light weight to any
other cast Plow ever produced. The carbon metal of which it is
made, being largely composed of cast steel, has all the hardness
and scouring qualities of the chilled iron, and is much stronger,
the lightest and strongest of the Cast Plows.
Our line of HARVESTING MACHINERY is SUPERB;
all new and elegantly finished, with every improvement that
practical experience caii suggest.
BINDER is really a mechanical wonder, being reduced to such
simplicity as to place it without a rival. Jhe SELF-RAKE
REAPER, NEW MOWER and LIGHT MOWER; taken
altogether, are beyond doubt the handsomest line of hai vesting
machinery to be found on the Continent, and justly have the
title of CHAMPION.
The new CHAMPION
Furniture.
Furniture.
Persons in need of Furniture will find it to their advantage to call at
L. L. MESSICK'S, S.E.Cor. 6th &Tatnall Sts., Wilmington, Del
For PARLOR, 'CHAMBER, DINING-ROOM and KITCHEN
FURNITURE. MATTRESSES and Bedding of all kinds, in stock or made
to order. Order work a specialty. Goods delivered within 12 miles of Wil
mington free of charge.
A.
E. A. Watson,
s
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Having formed a copartnership aud opened a new shop
Avenue, near Deer Park Hotel, for the manufacture and sale of all kinds ot
New London
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Are now ready to supply their patrons with eecrytning in tho liue of Trade
such as
BritiNGFiELD Vibrating Thhkhiikkh and Engines,
JOHNSON MOWER A REAPER,
STRAW AND FODDER CUTTERS,
TWIN HARROWS, UNIVERSAL CULTIVATORS,
DOUBLE AND SINGLETREES,
FIELD ROLLERS, WHEELBARROWS,
HORSE CARTS & WAGONS made to order.
Cucumber Pumps a Specialty.
WHEELWRIGHTING and"all kinds of REPAIRING neatly and
promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed.
Farm Gates constantly on hanc
SAWING A\l> PLANIN« »ONE TO OUDHIl.
o
E. A. "WATSON & CO.
DELAWARE HOUSE
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Delaware,
KTowarkL,
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Having just taken charge of this house and having refitted it throughoul
in a manner that must meet with the tastes of the most exactiug, I am now
prepared to receive boarders, both transient and regular, at moderate rates.
0
_A- HRST.CLASS LIVERY STABLE
is always essential to a well regulated hotel, and believing this to be so
have added an excellent one in every particular. It will bo my endeavor to
cater to the interests of a generous public. Teams can be secured at all
hours, day and night.
EVAN W. LEWIS, Prop
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LOOK TO 'YOUR INTEREST,
and hare your house painted by
CLARK & ÜBER
nOVSK, SIOJT and SHIM* FLUTTERS, UR.lIJrERS ami
Il V make a specialty of Graining .
500 and 502 POPLAR STREET, W1LMIX0T0X, DELAWARE.
Send orders by postal card.
Gt.aiiZHHS.
All work guaranteed.
J. Clayton Massey,
JEWELER.
Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Ear Kings, Lace Pins, Finger Rings,
GENTS' VEST CHAINS, LADIES' VEST and OPERA CHAINS, Spec
tacles, and Thimbles. Repairing a Specialty.
404 IKIISra- ST., •WXX.XÆI3NT OTOIsT, DEL
BREWERY! BREWERY!
Hotel and Saloon Keepers will find it to their INTEREST to go to
lOSEPH STOCKLE'S DIAMOND STATE LAGER BEER
BREWERY,
COR FIFTH and ADAMS ST., WILMINGTON, DEL.
1&.SALC0N NOS, 223 and 225 KING STREET.-fe*
Grain« or offal from brewing served to farmers.
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MY BIB1>.
When hushed the noli*» of busy day
And gentle quiet round
The cares of life I cast away
And listen to a voice that calls
With power that makes my glad heart
stirred
And filled with deep love for my bird,
sweet
fella,
There may be birds that sing
lovely
a nd
my
'er my lot to meet,
they
Before their voices could be heard;
And Thus 1 know
But these 'twere
And if such
have flown
like my bird.
I have known pain with my bird
When 'tis a mournfhl song she sings;
And often, too, there falls the tear
At other scenes her sad voice brings;
But still such pain is almost bliss
And rapture comes with my bird's kiss I
To
we
A WIFE'S CHASM.
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Can
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to
as
A pout upon the red lips of Gerald
Sinclair's young wife—unmistakably a
pout—for though a wife of almost two
years, her fond, indulgent husband bad
for tiie first time said nay to an openly
expressed wish.
The fancy ball of the season, a grand
and fashionable assemblage, was to take
place during his absence, and he had said
that he should perfer she would not
attend.
She was only 20. Let this much be
said in extenuation of the two great
tears that rose to the brown eyes and
slowly trickled down the pretty face,
splashing on to the dainty morning
dress, which, clinging to the dainty
form, revealed so perfectly its graceful
outlines.
Certainly, Niobe had no reason to
feel ashamed of this one of her chil
dren. But Gerald Sinclair had only
stopped and kissed away the glistening
drops, in a lialf-hurried manaer, per
haps to hide his awakening remorse.
"Never mind, little wife. I'll make
it up to you another time."
Then he was gone; but she sat still,
turning and re-turning her wedding
ring, with eyes bent upon it. It was a
curious ring—a solid band, set with five
large diamonds.
It had been her charm, her talisman,
not to be taken from her linger until
soul and body had parted; but this
morning it had lost its charm. If it
failed to scatter the clouds, it failed to
bring back tbe sunshine.
Even when the hour came round for
and
her
to
had
to
her
Gerald's home coming, he missed his
usual w
welcome; but lie thought
that he might trust his wife's heart and
said nothing. The next day he started
on his journey.
"You're not going, my dear?" ex
claimed JS1 rs. Martin, bursting in upon
tier friend on the morning of the ball.
'And why not?"
"Gerald
away," replied Mrs. Sin
clair, with some little show of wifely
lignity, as though the fact were in itself
sufficient explanation.
"And why need that make any differ
ence?" pursued Mrs. Martin, a bewitch
ing little widow some few years her
friend's senior. "I will share my es
cort with you—Count Belzonil"
Sophie Sinclair looked up amazed.
She knew that the man mentioned had
but lately gained an entree into society,
ind knew also that her husband dis
liked and distrusted him.
Once or twice she had seen his eye
fixed admiringly upon herself, and had
felt somewhat
the bird might feel
beneath the basilisk glare of the ser
pent.
"Well, why don't you answer?" con
tinued Mrs. Martin. "Will you go?"
"No, no, she replied trying to speak
with firm decision. "Besides, I do not
think that Gerald admires the count."
"Prejudice, my dear, all prejudice.
The count is one of tiie most charming
ind agreeable men I know. Indeed, I
think I should be canonized for my
willingness to share his attentions,
especially as I have heard him say all
manner of pretty things about you."
retorted Mrs.
"Nonsense, Ellen,
Sinclair.
But she felt the ground slipping be
neath her feet
she spoke.
After all Gerald had not said posi
tively no! Had ho thought it necessary
after ho had openly expressed his dis
approbation of her going?
lie had not known that she would be
so sorely tempted. Besides she would
wear a mask. No one would know her;
and when she told Gerald he would for
give her. A sudden thought came to
her.
"I will go," she said at last, after
continued urging, and looking at the
picture in all its brightest lights, "
the condition, and that is that no one is
to know
—not even the count. Say
that you have persuaded a friend to ac
company you, who wishes to remain
unknown. I will come to your house,
where he will find mo, and thus gain
clue.
to
I
So jt was decided; but, in spite of her
exquisite costume of a fairy as she con
cealed it and herself beneath a large
domino, as the clock of her mantel
chimed ten, it seemed to Sophie that
every stroke said: "Stay! stay!"
She was almost tempted to obey it,
bnt she had promised Ellen; and, after
all, she had heard that it was well for
young wives to assert themselves.
An hour later and, on the Count Bel
zonl's arm, she entered upon the bril
liant scene. So far he had not even
seemed curious to ascertain her iden
tity. She experienced at this a sin
gular sense of relief.
The ball was at its height as the clock
rang out tiie hour of midnight, but for
the first time in lier life light and gaye
ty were distasteful. A bundled times
she wisli herself at home.
"I will tell Gerald. I have already
been punished." she whispered to her
self, as she stood for a moment alone in
a quiet corner.
"You look more like a nun than a fairy
—rather like one who had foreeworu
of
one
the
full
and
dog.
beg
she
by
of
the vanities of the world, than a siren
to tempt men to their destuction," said
a voice close to her, "though to the lat
ter I know no one more fitted."
"Sir!" she exclaimed indignantly, îe
cognizing, as she spoke, the count stand
ing at her elbow.
"Ah, you thought I did not know
you. I should penetrate any disguise
you wore. Besides you have forgotten
to remove a badge of recognition."
She followed with her eyes his down
ward glance, and saw that it rested on
her hand, ungloved,
with the exigencies of her costume.
Involuntarily she drew it away, with
the ring which had betrayed lier.
Denial was useless.
better accord
"Since you know me, th8n,
will not further play a part.
she
said,
To the others we are masks; to ourselves
we are ourselves."
"Ah, madame," he whispered, "let
us rather say to the world we are our
selves, to each other we are a mask.
Can men, think you, look coldly on
uch beauty as you possess? Can-"
Indignant and alarmed, she checked
his further speech by starting forward
to escape him. His hand closed on hers
as in a vice. She wrenched it from
him, sprang among a crowd of maskers,
and so made her way to the door.
"Call a carriage for me," she direc
ted.
Ten minutes later she was within
her own home. Her first impulse was
to tear off the hated costume which
had caused her such trouble; her next
to throw herself on the bed and sob out
her excitement and contrition. The
morning sun, streaming into her room,
awoke her.
With a shudder, she remembered the
events of the past night. She looked
down at her hand—the hand which had
been polluted by another's touch—as
though in some way she expected to
find the contamination branded on its
soft white surface. It was all unmar
red; but— She looked again—she rub
bed her eyes and looked—the color
meanwhile fluttering out of her cheeks,
and her pale lips quivering, as if her
heart seemed to stand still in a sudden
agony of fear; for from the third linger
was missing the talismanic ring.
When and where had she lost it, and
how could she now find the courage to
confess all to Gerald? She rose and
dressed, revolving this problem m her
minds.
At any hour her husband might re
turn. For the first time she dreaded to
meet him—dreaded to look into his
kindly, handsome eyes and read there
all bis incredulous reproach, mingled
perhaps with scorn and anger.
The day wore on. Her friend, Mrs.
Martin ran in to scold her for her deser
tion; but her pale face and trembling
tones made good her plea of sudden ill
ness.
At nightfall Gerald arrived. She
threw herself into his arms in a burst
of nervous weeping; but when he won
deringly asked its cause, her courage
failed her.
Why was it she never imagined that
he might look stern until to-day?
A week passed, when one evening,
sitting m the twilight, a step sounded
close beside. She looked up to di scover
the count.
"Pardon!" he began, in answer to
her indignant, questioning look. "Why
must you be so cruel? May I uot now
see you?"
"Sir, I command you to leave me. I
am now under tho protection of my
own roof."
He was about to answer, when a
latch key was heaid inserted in the out
side door.
In an instant lie had sprung into
some place of concealment, but tbe fact
that he was near lent to the young wife
a suddon courage, born of the moment's
desperation. lier husband, entering,
approached her, but she motioned him
back.
"Gerald," she said, "I have a bitter
confession to make. It is fitting you
should hear it now."
He listened, with arms folded across
his breast, while she told him all tiie
story of that fated night.
"And is this all?" he questioned bit
terly, when she had paused,
"No, not all," she continued, raisiug
her voice. "My confession has another
witness, who has forced his hated
presence again upon me. The Count
Belzoni is here again, Gerald.
As sbe spoke she drew aside the cur
tain; but the form she expected to dis
close was gone, the open window attest
ing to its flight.
Silently the husband drew a paper
from his pocket, and showed her a
paragraph offering a reward for tiie
arrest of a thief and swindler known
as the Count Belzoni,
"My darling," he said, "my little
wife lias learned a lesson she will never
forget. I have known this story all the
time, but have waited until you came
to tell it to me. I returned the
night of the ball, to take you with me,
when I found you had gone. Imagine
what I suffered, and my added suffer
ing when, arriving at the scene of en
joyment, where I had followed you, I
discovered who
I
to
is
it,
for
for
her
in
your companion.
I stood near you, and heard tiie words
he addressed to you—heard with joyful
neart your answer; saw you wrench
your bauds from his hold, and also
what you did not, the sparkle of the
ring he drew from your finger. Poor
little girl! I watched you hasten through
the crowd, and knew that you had al
re.'uly met your bitterest punishment.
It has been through my efforts that the
count has been traced and exposed.
Only this morning I recovered your
ring from the man with whom he had
pledged it as security. Once more I
place it on your finger. But remember,
darling, it is only the outward charm.
A wife's true talisman is her husband's
honor.
a
ing
come
mind
the
up
the
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Why Sh e Ski pped.
One of the most eccentric standbys
of the infirmary department of Cleve
land, Ohio is Kate Garrity. She is also
one of the most steadfast. Kate is a
chipper liatchet-faced young miss on
the shady side of 50 summers, is chuck
full of animal and other spirits, fairly
bubbling over witli suppressed mirth
and hilarity, and can talk the hair off a
dog. She has been an inmate of the
infirmary off and on for years. Every
Christmas or New Year's she used to
beg for a pass to go to Wakeman, O.,
where she claimed to have triends,
promising to shake the mud of Cleve
land off her feet forever. But alasl
Kate always returned from her trips
looking fresh as a daisy, and of late
years no passes have been issued. The
humdrum life at the infirmary soon
grew monotonous for Kate, but as she
was not allowed to depart at pleasure,
she varied the programme occasionally
by running away. At such times she
would walk through the streets of the
city in a riotous state of intoxication,
painting everything she came in con
tract with a deep colored red. Her
modus operandi consisted in having an
infirmary pass issued to her which she
would show to people, and beg the loan
of enough money to pay her street car
fare out there, claiming to be sick and
unable to walk. In this way she was
able to collect quite a little sum of
money day by day, and whenever her
pass got dirtv or torn with handling she
would come back and have a fresh one
issued. The authorities discovered
Katie's scheme, however, after she had
floated round in a sea of dissipation for
some weeks, and she again became an
inmate of the infirmary. For a time
matters went along smooth enough,
Kate and Superintendent Mellen alter
nately taking charge of and running
the institution. Yesterday morning,
however, it was discovered that she
bad again performed her great specialty
act entitlei "Skipped by the light of the
moon," and the most rigid search and
inquiry failed to reveal her whereabouts.
Late in the afternoon she suddenly trip
ped lightly into the infirmary office in
the city hall, with an abandoned "waltz
me-again" sort of movement, and be
gan relating her experience to the Press
reporter, whom she found assembled
there. She unfolded a "hair stand-up
on-end-like-quills-upon the-fretf ul-p o r
cupine-sort of tale, which chilled the
item snatcher's young blood. She had
been compelled, she said, to sleep all
alone in a room iu the upper story,
where scores of poor mortals had brea
thed their last, W ith the ghosts of the
departed as her companions she did not
sleep a single wink all night, and, one
ghost she claimed had the gall to throw
the shadows of his hands upon the wall I
The next night she was asked to sleep
in the same place; but Kate drew the
line at hobnobbing with the spirits of
departed infirmary subjects, and allow
ed several mountainous hints regarding
the state of her feelings, on the subject
to escape her. Nevertheless the powers
that be remained firm. That evening
as the luminous queen of night was
floating athwart the azure sky, a small
but ghostly figure of the female persua
sion, with a dilapidated straw bonnet
hanging under its left ear, might have
been seen gliding from a back door of
the institution. It reached the fence,
monkeyed a moment with the top rail
ing, then climbed slowly up and tum
bled quickly off, after the usual dull
thud, the single word, "the divill" was
borne away on the night air from the
other side of the fence, and all was
again still. Two more fences were
scaled with equal success. A grave
yard was gone through without dilly
dallying on the way to read tombstone
inscriptions, ai d the early dawn found
a figure on the railroad track, which
ever and anon climbed over a stone car
or straddled a height train, the while
quietly wending its way towards the
city, two jumps at a time. Kate had
again skipped the tra-la-la-leel
to
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the
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Hor*ebac k ItDIIng and . Health.
If it be true, as is alleged, that the
fathers aud mothers of our earlier day
had more vigorous constitutions than
the present stock of American-bornl
people, no little of the superior physique
was due to the habit of horseback rid
ing. Previous to the railroad era the
horse was an "institution,
and men, boys and girls, rode on horse
back. Long journeys were taken in
this way. This open-air exercise of an
invigorating kind was favorable to
strength and longevity. There is no
more agreeable exercise than equestrian
ism, and none more conductive to
health. It is a good sign that riding
schools are being established in all the
arge cities, and they promise to im
prove the physique of our women,
which does not rank with that of their
British sisters. Now that spring has
fairly opened, it would be well to
rganize riding parties in this county.
* * * Tiie tired student and the
professional man would do well to
cultivate tiie saddle. A spirited horse
and a fine spring day, with the bud and
bloom of reawakened nature to greet
and refresh the eye—what else d
want in the w'ay of i impie and whole
some provocation to pleasure? Gallop
over our rural roads and gather fresh
strength for tiie cares and toils to which
your avocation commits you. There is
more saving virtue in a good horse than
iu any apothecary shop,
Women
one
the
al
the
had
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Viel
The general manager of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company says that the
examinations have resulted thus far in
ascertaining that about four per cent,
of those examined have proved defec
tive, either iu hearing, vision or ability
to distinguish colors. Nearly five hun
dred meu have been so unfortunate as
not to pass tbe examination, and were
suspended within the laot few days.
on
"K-k-k-chew!" and the sneeze was to
repeated by the visitor and one of the
proprietors of the rag dealers' store in
Chicago. The sneeze came from one of
a bevy of young women who were sort
ing rags. At intervals a sneeze would
come from others, and to the visitor's
mind the scene presented three features
—rags, dust, and sneezes.
To one who has never visited a large
store where rags are bought and sorted,
the place is of peculiar interest. Away
up in the top story is a large room. At
the back are huge bins, each one con
taining different qualities of rags and
paper. At the front
ready spoken of. Their nationality, al
most without exception, is Polish.
Their heads are covered with veils or
cloths to keep the dust fiom their hair.
Their clothes are of the meanest de
scription, for the occupation admits of
no other drees. For wages the most
expert sorters receive all the way from
|4 to $0 per week. As they are paid by
the number of hundred pounds of rags
and paper which they sort, the amount
of the girls' pay is dependent on the
deftness of their fingers. And to see
those fingers move is a sight to remem
l>er. Two girls stand at what is called
a "sorting-table." This is a shallow
trough with a wire bottom, A bag of
rags is laid over one end of the table.
It may contain twenty different varie
ties of rags, several kinds of paper, old
boots, tin, wood and all sorts of foreign
substances. Around the table are at
least fifteen barrels. The girls, after
drawing a quantity of the mixture into
the table, commence to sort it. Imag
ine a thousand different pieces of rags,
large and small, lying in the table mix
ed together. Then imagine iwo hands
picking out piece after piece with
lightning rapidity, and remember that
the senses of feeling and sight must tell
ust exactly which barrel the particular
piece must be thrown into. The blacks,
blues, browns, reds and greens of wool
must go into different receptacles;
the same colors of cottons must go into
as many different places; the papers go
into others; the refuse into still others.
And as the mass is handled a stifling
dust to one who is not used to it rises
in the air. After the sorting process
the different grades are put into a hop
per which leads to the baling-press
below and made into bales.
"Is not the business a fearfully
healthy one?" asked the visitor, be
tween sneezes. For an answer tl e pro
prietor turned to a srirl of about 22
years, who looked as strong as a horse,
and said:
"How long have you been with me,
Tony?"
"Five years, sir,"
"Were you ever sick?"
"No sir;" and Tony then proceeded
with her dusty work.
Sorting Bag*.
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the girls al
Uootjaok (lamp.
Bill Nye says; i put up at Bootjack
Camp on the raging Willow River,
where the gay-plumaged chipmunk and
the spruce gum have their home.
Winter in the pine woods is fraught
with fun and frolic. It is more fraught
with fatigue than funds, however. This
winter a man in the Michigan and Wis
consin lumber camps could anse at 4}
A. M. t eat a patent pailful of dried
apples soaked with young Hyson and
sweetened with Persian glucose, go out
to the timber with a lantern, hew down
the giants of the forest, with the snow
up to the pit of his stomach, till the
gray owl in the gathering gloom whoop
ed and booled in derision, and all for
$12 per month and stewed prunes. I
did not trv to accumulate wealth while
I was in camp. I just allowed others
to enter into the mad rush and wrench
a fortune from the hand of fate while I
studied human nature and the cook. I
had a good many pleasant days there
too. I read such literary works as
I could find around the camp and smok
ed the royal Havana smoking tobacco
of the cookie. Those who have not
lumbered much do not know much of
true joy and sylvan smoking tobacco.
They are not using a very good grade
of the weed in the lumber regions this
winter. When I say lumber regions I
do not refer entirely to tbe circum
stances of a week back. (Monkey
wrench, oil can. and screw driver sent
with this joke; also rules for working
it in all kinds of goods.) The tobacco
used by pine choppers of the northern
forest is called the Scandihoovian. I do
not know why they call It that, unless
it is because you can smoke it in W is
consin and smell it in Scandihoovia,
When night came we would gather
around the blazing fire and talk over
old times and smoke this tobacco. I
smoked it till last week, then I bought
a new mouth aud resolved to lead a
in
to
to
to
to
is
different life. I shall never forget the
evenings
shack in the heart of the forest. They
are graven on my memory where time's
effacing fingers cannot monkey with
them. We would most always con
verse. The crew talked the Norwegian
language, and I am using the English
language mostly this winter. So each
enjoyed himself in his
This seemed to throw the Norwegians
a good deal together. It also threw
me a good deal together. The Scandi
navians soon learn
spent together in that log
quiet way
ways and lan
guage, but prior to that they are quite
olannish.
The cook, however, was an Ohio
man. He spoke the Sandusky dialect
with a rich, nut-brown flavor that did
me much good, so that after I had talk
ed with the crew a few hours in
English and received their harsh, cor
duroy replies in Norake, I gladly fled
to the cook shanty. There I could
rapidly change to the smoothly flowing
sentences peculiar to the Ohio tongue,
and while I ate the common twisted
dou&hnut of commerce we would talk
in
as
on and on of the pleasant days we had
spent in our own native land. I talked
to him of his old home till the tears
would unbidden start, as he rolled out
the dough with a common Budweiser
beer bottle, and shed the scalding tears
into the flour barrel. Tears are always
unavailing, but somelimes I think they
are more so when they are shed into a
barrel of flour. He was
easy weep
er. He would shed tears on the slight
est provocation or anything else. Once
I told him something so touchful that
his eyes were blinded with tears for the
nonce. Then I took a pie and stole
away so that he could be alone with his
sorrow.
He used to grind the coffee at 2 A.
M. The coffee mill was nailed up
against a partition
from my bed. That is one reason I
did not stay any longer at the camp. It
takes about an hour to grind coffee
enough for thirty men, and as my ear
was generally against the pine boards
when the cook began, it ruffled my
slumbers and made me a morose man.
We bad three men at the camp who
snored. If they had snored
language I could have endured it, but
it was entirely unintelligible to me as
it was. Still, it wasn't bad either.
They snored on different keys, and still
there was harmony in it—a kind of
chime of imported snore as it were. I
used to lie and listen to it for hours.
Then the cook would begin his coffee
mill overture and I would arise. When
1 got home 1 slept from Monday morn
ing till Washington's birthday, without
food or water.
the opposite side
my own
He Bobbed Stewi
t'S Grave.
A correspondent had an interview
with an unnamed detective, who says
that in the summer and fall of 1882
Chief of Police McGarigle, of Chicago,
and two or three detectives held nego
tiations with Lewis C. Svveigels, then
serving a term for robbery iu the Ches
ter, 111., penitentiary under an assumed
name. Sweigels, who was known to be
a professional grave robber, and was
concerned in the attempt to 10 b the
grave of President Lincoln, told a very
complete, circumstantial, and consis
tent story of the robbery of A. T.
Stewart's grave by himself, Larry Gavin,
and a keeper of a saloon in Fourteenth
street, New York. Svveigels promised
to restore the body only on condition
of his pardon from the penitentiary and
receiving a part of the reward.
His pardon was recuted, aud,accord
ing to the detective's story, a syndicate
with a capital of $10,IXK) was formed,
which included McGarigle, Detectives
Capin and Lansing, and E. J. Lehqian,
all of Chicago, for the purpose of work
ing up the case aud securing $100,001)
from Judge Hilton for the return of Mr.
Stewart's remains. Two or three visiu»
were made to New York, aud negotia
tions were couducted through Mrs.
Johnson, a female detective of New
York, and at one time connected with
the Chicago foice. Inspector Byrues,
of New York, became offended because
he was not consulted after the first visit.
The remains were finally returned upon
the payment of $25,000 by Judge Hilton,
"as an evidence of which Sweigels had
plenty of money about that time."
Interviews witli McGarigle and the
detectives are also published. They
deny the formation of a syndicate to
the case. McGarigle admits
the general details of the story, includ
ing Sweigels' pardon and the subsequent
negotiations in New York, but says
that they finally became disgusted with
Sweigels because he trifled with them,
claiming that the daughter of the ex
pressman who carried the remains to
the place where they were buried in
stigated her father to remove them se
cretly to anotlior spot unknown to Swei
gels. The latter could obtain no iufor
rnation from tiie woman as to the where
abouts ol the body.
McGarigle says he became convinced
that this was me ely a trick of Sweigels'
to secure a pardon, aud that tue nego
tiations were broken off betöre tiie re
mains were returned and never resumed.
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out
the
for
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as
not
of
this
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do
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a
work
The Clevelai.t
Idea.
The Cleveland school board recently
abolished semi-aunual examinations, it
might possibly be worth while cousider
ing whether such an arrangement wouid
not be an improvement generally. Semi
annual examinations are a great tax on
teachers, and a greater tax probably on
scholars; and as a test of ibe latter's
abilities, it is a question whether they
are really as valuable a one as would be
afforded by simply averaging tho
"marks" for the whole term. That
would be a basis for promotion in which
there would be no cheating, and the
terrors of examination day would be a
thing of the past. Possibly there is
omething in the Cleveland idea.
lluiwlan Asia.
California has long had a little trade
with Russian Asia. Small consign
ments of supplies are sent every spring
to Petropaulowski, Nielaefski, and the
Amoor river. For the first ten years
after 1854 the amount was $1,101,700,
and for the last ten years $1,255,300.
Flour has been a prominent item iu
these exports from the start. Last year
6,000 barrels of flour were sent, valued
at $31,000. There was also a value of
$10,000 in dry goods. A novel item in
the exi>ort8 from San Francisco to Rus
sian Asia last year was a steamboat,
valued at $20,000 for
river.
the
con
log
in the Amoor
Good Luncheon Dish. —Boil a pound
of soaked oodfish arid wtieu cold mince
it fine Heat a cup" of dr iwu butter,
stir in the fish, pepper to taste, mix m
well two tabloapooufuls of grated
cheese; butter a baking dish; pour in
the fish, strew fine, dry crnuios on top,
and set in the oven until delicately
browned. Gold, fresh ood, halibut, or
other firm, white fisti is very good pre
pared in tiiis manner.
BR 0 PK 880 B Low,an English authority,
says that boiled potatoes, mixed with
cut straw or hay, may be giveu to^hor
ses of every kind, even when on the
hardest work ; and this forms a species
of food both wholesome and eoouomi -
lan
did
in
cor
fled
talk
ML
Parents should modify their methods
according to the tem;»er of their
children; no two are alike
exactly the same treatment.
—King Humbert of Italy suffers
from dyspepsia.
—Young Jim Nutt is farmiug near
Leavenworth Kaus.
require