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OUT OF THE WAV!
It's out of my wy," says the telltsii man,
iJHwillinK to please another.
" L'U "i' liiuisolf out of the dally rut
a wufort neoily brothers
"It s out of my way, and 1 haven't titual"
How common are these uxouses;
Ani clinnce is lost at a trifling cost
Of correcting the world iibuucs.
"It's out of my way, anil I haven't tlmo!"
Hays the flippant, unfeeling liouuty,
i W ho quiets hfr conscience every day,
Koisliitiwr the rail ot duty;
I And he' but one of a nuirlity host,
, - A inonilni nt purse prouil fuetiou
I V no never out of their way will go
To do a generous ueiiuu. ,
1. nit of their way to be kind anl true,
To furnish a balm for sorrow;
And tliey haven't time to do irnod to day,
wJ-MTeriliinTetnttTfTfTtoTiiOTrowr
' The cry of the sick and needy ones
r Tbcy hear, but they do not mind it:
Trouble ccmos," they esy, "and it doesn't
- pay
To ko outfit our way to find It."
Put the holii-Rt tU-cda thnt are ever done
Take on the form of Bti t- M'Ihos,
And llie heart that is elisor for angel tnsUs
A pl:in lor its work devises;
Tor the rood of Ri'mpiitliv is not trn!g-lit,
Aud i lie I'm- and the lanes of pity,
Iiu ond a doubt, are not iaid out
ljihe the streets of a worldly city.
I And every day, all aloiifr our wav.
There me cliances to help anoilier,
Iin. a;d to e and kind words lo speak
To a Nitnerintf friend and brother;
And he ban the sweetest reward of all
In lite us he journeys thiowitli it
ho, seeing the need ot a kindly deed,
Uueseut ef his way to do it.
Jutciililue l'u!h'id, in N. Y. Ledger,
A BIO HALL.
The Assembly Chambor of the
Lower Houao of Congress.
How the National Legislator. Are Ar
ranged Convenient Chairs unit Vnnsoil
Valo-luer ISaskets An Elicited
"Objeetor" Salarka, Etc.
The hall of the House of Representa
tives Is, the largest legislative chamber
in the world. It covers fully a quarter
of an acre ol ground and six acrobats,
each six (foot high, might stand in it,
cue. on the head of the other, and while
the feet of the first rested on the iloor
the litiir of the sixth would just graze
the foiling'. The room is thirly-six feet
high, ami the floor inside the railing
where the Congressmen's desks are
placeuVvcovers as much space as a city
lot of sixty-nine feet front an.' one hun
dred anil fifteen feet deep. The ceiling
ia of cast iron and glass. There is a
checker-board net-work of east-iron
frames, and the panels of the board ant
, lilMl in -with glass which is glazed
tonhly and painted with t':- coats of
arms of Iho various States. All of the
light which the House-' cets conies
-wV.JyW4Vrr- as there aro in. w in
flows," except those in (he many doors,
mid these which enter the House
through vestibules of ten or twelve fed
in thickness give only the radiated
light of windows far. away. This light
is supplied , by the. sun by day, andliV
electricity by ni'ght.
Tito-floor of this big hall is covered
Willi a carpet of Brussels which was
lit; d'( to order for it. Its color is green
inixed withered, and it takes one thou
,. Simd four-hundred yards to cover it.
It looks new and fre.sli now, and there
are no tobacco stains upon it. lint the
average member chews Iho weed, and
though the Government gives him a
Kuitoon beside his (lout lie spits as
irffceii on tloj" iloor as in the spittoon.
The desk used by the members are
small al'lkii'S, much like those used in
the common 'schools. They have a top
which can be. lifted up and gives room
below for the stationery and papers of
the member inside. Each member has
one desk to himself, and his mum; is
pasted or tacked., upon its lid. The
chairs of the members are (he common
swivel attachment, swinging oll'ic:
chairs with wicker backs, and these
i i. i i .i . . . ,
uacKs are so ingii mat tue L'ongress-
'nian can easily throw Uis back upon
cnem aim oy elevating ins leet to the
tori of the dek in front of him put hitii
se.f in thoMayovite American altitude
for sleeping. Tlji is not an uncom
mon position uV uirthe halls of the
.House (! iiringji session, and the Korlv-
cighth C ongress had members who did
mure sleeping Ihan working.
BesitUi each Congressman's desk
there stands a waste paper basket, but
your average Congressman never uses
this. He tears up Jits paper in bits like
a moody lunatic and scatters it on the,
floor. After a day's session the Iloor
of the House is littered from one end
to the other and there is enough paper
upon its carpet to buy the country tin
ware for a whole Ohio County.
Tho desks at the right of the, hall
pit those occupied by the 1'cpuhlicanH.
J'he D'rfV.oerats sit on the left side, and
Moi tison and Uainlall have seats in
about the middle point of the. Demo
crat ie body. Tom Lvd, the Republic
an leader, sits in the iV.e'Jst of the Re
publicans, and Congressman Ji tdley very
near him. Kcllcy's seat wili''i(! the
tame this Congfe.-s as last. He ha'-ie
choice, of seats on the ground of being
the oldest member in point of service.
The Speaker's desk is in the center,
find is a very tine piece of work. It is
three feet above the Iloor, and it is
made of white marble with a base of
Tennessee marble. Carlisle, who fills
it, is a tall, lank, black-faced fellow,
Willi -i .viuooih fa.,; and with jo, v. a
which, aro always chewing tobacco
when they are not talking. He fits
generally on his spine, and his body
the hack of the hall and opposite the
Speaker, facing him. It is a very pret
ty clock, and is a line work of art. It
is the bete noir of long-winded speak
ers, and cuts oft many a blow html be
fore, his time for ending hag come.
At the sides of tho hall door over
which this clock stands there are two
cloak rooms, and at the left hand cor.
ncr of tho back there is a barber shop,
where the members may ; he shaved
while a stormy or dull debate is going
on. At tunes members are in this bar
ber'u chair when some legislation which
interests them conies up, and I haw
sefii a statesman rush from the har
J'.er's o!liee.wilh half Ins beard .of, tho
lather over the rest of his face, and a
limber's sheet around his neck, and ob
ject to a certain ruling. Such speeches
are more food for laughter than for
good. '
Half way up the walls of the House
hall tho galleries begin, and rise by
graded seals almost to the roof. 'These
galleries will sent twenty-live hundred
people. The most important is tint
pres gallery to 1 o(h the speakers and
the people, for it. is through this thai
they hear of all the doings below. Thin
is directly back of the Speaker's desk
and above it. It Is gilded and 'letter
arranged than the. other galleri s and
has desks with little ink standi ct, in
to lliem for the use of the press Each
paper of note has a right to one seal
here, ami about one hundred and
twenty-live men constitute tho occu
pants. Just back of this-gallery there
is a telegraph oilico and a writing
room. A speech is delivered in Con-g't'e-s
at two p. in. and the words arc
in the olliees of the newspapers ah1
over the country almost as fast as they
fall from the speaker's lips. The gal
lery opposite the press gallery j,s 1 Jin
diplomatic gallery, Wheats' of which
are painted blue. It is often, filled with
foreigners, amPtione butlhc diplomatic
representative;; oforeign eouuh'io
have the right to eufer-tt.
At the disk in front of the Speaker
the Clerk stands with his assistants be
hind him. He reads e-onera!ly in a
voice which is a cross between the
rasping of a buzz saw and the sharpen
ing of a slate pencil. He gels $),W0 a
year for doing it. Itelow him at a
shorter desk are the shorlhimd report
ers of the House, who take down the
matter of debate for the Hecoril. These
men eael get .15,000 a year.
Running about through the House at
all times are the pages, who are paid
about two aii'i one-half dollars per day.
These are lively lit tie boys, generally
of about twelve or fourteen " years ol
age. When a member wants I hem In
claps his hands and they run to his
In addition to these, there are
of oilier employes about tl
of lieiircseiitalives who do all
kinds of work, from the cleaning of th
spittoons and carrying in of cards, to
the aiding tint fspe'a"ker and Chairmen
of committees in their work. These
get from OHOto $2,000 a year. Door-
keepers are paid from I,)0 to 5l'.(KX)
lor merefy opening and shnlliiig a duo''
about six' hours a dav. and when the
numerous servants are considered it is
no wonder thaf-the expenses nf at on
gressional session run up so high. Thu
average cost of a session is about
000,000, and the Congressmen receive
mileage in addilio lo t heir salaries of
8 .0o6 each, amounting to a total of
ff M.'l.Gil. The newspapers and station
ery consumed by a Congress runs a?
high as ?ro,000 yearly, and (lie salaries
of Ihe Senators amount to Sf.'lSO.OiK) and
thnt of the Iteprosentatives to .'irl.fiu'.j,
000 every year. The Speaker of t'.-s
House and the President pro tern, of
the Senate each receives $8,000 a year,
and one of the poorest paid men in the
Senale is tho Chaplain, who gets but
lf'.)00 a year. "Carp," in Cleveland
Leader. "
PEIMOUEUM WELLS.
desk.
Si 'U'l'S
House
THE FOUNDATION.
rests on it in
makes a good Speaker, however, and is
generally fair in his rulings.
Just beside the right of the desk, on
ft pedestal of Vermont marble, stands
the mace. This mace is the insignia
of the authority of he House. It is al
ways in the House when that body is
in session, and the Sergeant-at-Arms
inust carry it in lii.j. hands when he
wishes to arrest a nie- ier, or to force
uim to submit to the, i'tiii:ie-s of tb,i
House. The mace is a bundle, of lie
tor's rods, bound together with silver
cords and surmounted by a silver globe
reprrseliling the world. which is
crowned by the American eagle.
The H :u-e usually begins its sessiom
a! twelve o'clock noon, and continue
tu Mt tmtil about four or five o'cloelc p.
-in. duriiiir wiiUn'.rv thnei. The Hoima
chirk U tin) tiliici'ieoe tliat rule. It
The Most rniporta.it Oiinlily to tie llevel
cjiril In a t'lilld'a Mind.
If the question were asked by any
mother of thought and character:
What do you consider the most import
ant quality to be developed in your
child's mind? The answer, without
doubt, would be: Truth; for the enriier
stono of character is truth, and there
can be no true success without it.
"Electricity can not follow a broken
wire, nor success ;v lving life." With
out truth there is fio development. And
how many ways there are of proving,
without speaking, that absolute truth is
essential r.i the tlrat steps a Ir.iby takes
toward learning! Give him a box of
blocks to build a house, and you can
show him that unless Ihe first blocks
laid on the Iloor are in lino the whole
structure will be crooked; that in mak
ing the lines on a slate, if the lirt is not
straight, not true, the lines w ill all fol
low the first, or the spaces will not be
very true; that in copying any work
exactness is the very foundation of suc
cess, am! lint another name for truth.
In ri ptating a conversation, in tellies;
of a scene, to watch Carefully thai, the
actual fact is related, is described as a
mother's duty.
So oflen a grave fault is over
looked because it is a child, and it
is a jik jisant liction that the child will
oiMjrrow h'.v Any fault that indicates a
weakness of character should receive
immediate and prayerful care. An ex
aggeration, however amusing, should
be cheeked at once. Carelessness in
gi ing aoe .iiiiis ol ii,s ow li or its play
mates' doings should be checked by
questions so put that a child w ill dis
cover, it it is carelessness, that a nns-
riio .Si-lecUtui and l-'irAt Taiiiiiiy: of rroin
li.iiiH' Kjmtrt.
Pro-peetors-iii selecting a promising
spot to test new territory are often in
lljienced by a "belt theory", first ad
vanced by a man named Angell. Ill a
gi.ui.Tiil way ln's idea has been verili
by c.iperir.tiee. It proceeded upon the
hypothesis Unit oil lie.) in belts or pools
having a noilheast and ft sotithwesl
trend, sometimes calh d the "forty-live
.legree line." In districts known to bo
oil-bearing the wells are frequently lO'
cuteJ ncHB b.nun1a,ry sf .the. o w ner
properly. J he object is to drain as
Hiiu'li-of his neighbor's oil as possible.
for there are no parlilions in tho sub
tci'ijtiK'an chambers corresponding
to llie lines of surface ownership. Th
driller's motto is "lirsl come, tirs
served," hence there is generally i
race to see w ho shall first tap nature s
till.
When the exact spot for the well has
been determined upon, a well-hole
dug about fifteen feet in depth, and
solid rock is not reached, a wrought
iron pipe, eight to twelve inches in
diameter is driven down to it. Above
this is erected Ihe "derrick", a pyramii
al structure of heavy timbers, generally
seventy-two feet m height. At eat
side is located a fifteen to twenty horse
power engine, which operates a walk
ing-bcam to which is attached a heavy
cable and the drilling apparatus.
This consists of tour purls. The up
per one is called the "sinker-bar
about eighteen feet in length; next
come the "jars", seven feet in length
then the "aiigiif-slem", about thirty
feet. long, of three and one-quarter ine
cold rolled steel; and finally, at Iho end
of this is a "bit" three feet in length
Thus equipped, steam is turned on, and
the nitnderous weight of two thousand
to three thousand pounds, alternately
raised and dropped, as in a pile-driver
drives the bit into the rock at tho av
erage rate of sixty to one hundred feet
daily. After drilling for some time the
tools are hoisted and a fresh bit is in
scried. Meanwhile a "sand pump or
"bailer", a cylindrical tube with valves
opening inward, is dropped down the
hole to remove detritus or water. A
"casing" is fitted snugly to the walls
of the well to keep out the water: an''
when it is necessary to nunm tho "ib
the well is tubed. "The tube is about
two inches in diameter, around which
a rubber packer is inserted just above
the oil and iras bearhuf rock. This
cuts oil' the escape of the gas, forcing
it. up through the fu')''. and musing the
welt to flow. Th "ore of the well va
,-i"S from ei-'U to six inches, flint i!s
bnlh varies with the geological for
rualion, averaging perhaps twelve hun
dred to fifteen hundred feel, and some
times reaching twenty-live hundred.
'J'he cost of a well naturally depends
upon its location, depth and character
of rock. The owner generally erects
the derrick, engine and tank, at an
average expense of fifteen hundred dol
lars, and then contracts with a driller
to furnish the. tools and sink a well.
This charge will probably average sixty
cents per foot. It is perhaps safe to
say that wells in the larger fields aver
age in cost from twenty-live hundred
to three thousand dollars.
Torpedoes, which were first intro
duced about 1M.5, were received with
distrust, but are now in general use,
and have become a necessary part of
the equipment of a well. They are
cylindrical tubes, varying in size, but
generally eight inches in length and
four in diameter, containing fluid nitro
glycerine. These torpedoes aro care
fully lowered into tho wells and ex
ploded by dropping a twenty-pound
cast-iron weight upon them from above.
The explosion shatters the walls, giving
a greater exposure of surface to draw
oil from, thus stimulating the wells and
increasing their production. Though
this treatment hastens the exhaustion
of a well it is believed by many that
the amount of oil obtained exceeds
what otherwise would bo procured. At
first only five or six quarts of nitro
glycerin were introduced, but now it
is no iiiutsual thing to employ one hun
dred and twenty to two hundred quarts
of glycerine, equal to 3,210 to 5,100
pounds of gunpowder. George R. (Jib
son, in Harper s Magazine.
a change made in the method of trans
mining their surplus money order
funds in their depositing olliees, as they
feel that the present arrangement is not
only troublesome in the extreme, but
entirely useless,
Tliu'qiiestion of box-rents is also
subject of agitation and will receive at
tention during Ihe convention. Tuey
assert that under the present law a
postmaster of tho fourth class is de
barred from receiving a greater com
pensation than ifl.OOO a year, while
those of the third class are cut off at
$2,000. They may invest all the way
from J.'iOO to'l.OOl) in beautiful boxes
and other attractive features, yet
It 4..- 1.. . .....I n......l.
thTfoui
(lunula on Ins canee.lation oi stamps,
lie is debarred from receiving more
than fo-O from his box rents, ev6n
though they may amount to fJtH), and
the entire surplus must be turned over
to the Government. Considering the
fact that the boxes aro the private prop
erty of the postmaster, they feel that
the United Stales lias no moral or just
right to the revenue from them in the
way of rents, and they want the law so
amended that they will receive what
ever ineonio there may be from that
source.
There is no question but that tho
postmasters have just cause for com
plaint, and it is to be hoped that they
will succeed in their undertaking.
They have gone about it in a business
like manner, and the indications aro
that they mean business. We are glad
to hoar that the move is upon the part
of Kepublieans and Democrats alike,
and that they have no political ends in
view. Cinehiunli Timet. . .
HARD TIMES.
All llonfut Sstlnr'n I'nllle At tempts to e
cui'A Winter IJurtrtem.
Soon after eight o'clock the other
morning a man about, forty years old
rang the olliee bell at the Workhouse,
and to the door-keejer who answered
it, he asked: "On I come in?"
"Why, yes, f course. Whom did
a"
the form of a bow. He ',tk0 has been made, ami eorrevl it at
once itself; if the tionide is a want ol
love of trill h, the knowledge, that false
hood is always recognized us falsehood,
whether intended or not, will help to
develop a regard for truth mid exact
ness. Another great requisite tor teaching
a child to regard truth is for the par
ents to set an example of perfect truth,
fulness. In all ihe. intercourse of life;
in iJie homo, the t.'ieiai life, the business
life, let truth in all purity be ever pres
ent, and the children will by instinct
and principle follow' tho example that
commands their love and resptct.
Christi'tn I "tiivn.
E.v-ri'esidenf Havn' farm in Da.
kota, which soiu the other day tor
ttfl.OOO. WMtf puroini.ed in IS,? ti
worth of NuJirr fttciiW
A POSTMASTER'S CONVENTION.
Tlmlr Allegnl Grievances, hucI tlie Item
eille They Propone A Nuu-J'iti (hhii
movement
The postmasters of tho third and
fourth class have resolved upon a Na
tional Convention, and havo issued
their call to convene in Chicago on
Monday, February 15, 188C. As there
are over seventeen hundred of the third
grade, and almost fifty thousand of the
fourth, it is evident that when they get
fully organized they will become a
power in tho land. Their movement
is not of a political nature, but solely
for Iho purpose of inducing Congress
to grant them relief in the way of ex
penses for rent, light, fuel and clerk
hire. As their salaries arc based en
tirely upon the value of the stamps
canceled, getting a commission upon
them, of course their income instantly
dropped one-third when letter postage
wn reduced from t'o-oe to two cents.
Their revenues were cut off while their
expenses remained the same, all of
which they have to bear theniselveg.
Tlicy feel sore that while postmasters
of tho .second class haVe everything
furnished them by the Government,
they are compelled to foot nil such bills
out of their own pockets. A post
master of the third class may be rated
as having an income of one thousand
six hundred dollars, which of itself
looks very large to those not in otlice,
but aftr he pays his rent, light and
fuel expoimes and his clerk hire, these
figures will lixvn lpconi dissolved in
nothingness, and ho will have but a
bare living out of his year's work.
The issuing of money orders at three
and one-haif cents each is also a bitter
cause of complaint. They claim that
it does not begin to pay for the timo
and labor involved iu transacting the
business, and t lint the old law giving
them one-third the fees charged the
publin fcliould be restored. They fOso
prouow to jBtke a wove lowsivl linvlug
you wish lo see
'Oil, nobody in particular. You may
put me down for about ninety days."
It was soon discovi vol that he was a
sailor who wanted lo be locked up for
the winter, pud ti door-keeper was
obliged to iiifoi in him that he couldn't
be taken in after that fashion.
Sol ve got to be arrested and taken
before the police judge, eh?" ho en
quired.
ics, have you any money v
About twenty dollars, which I want
to savo until spring." ,
J lieu you can t lie arrested m a
vagrant. 1 ou will have to commit
some offense. You'd better get drunk."
But 1 am strictly temperate."
Well, get up a row with somebody,
smash a window, or run oil' with some-
trolly's horse. It ought lo be an easy
matter to get arrested.
The man walked down to the hay-
market and looked around for some
body to got up a row with. He selected
a fanner who seemed to bo a good
hearled man, and walked up to him
and saiil:
'Say! X want a row with you. I want
to be arrested."
Look a-here, young man," replied
the fanner, "don't you come fooling
around met I'm cold and mad, and if
you give me I tin least provocation, 1 11
make dog-meat of you."
The sailor turned away and picked
up n rock and walked down to a saloon,
determined fo hurl it through the win
dow. The old man twho keeps the
place saw him coming, and he went
out and said:
You keep avhay! If you throw
dot shtono in my window I'll shoot
vnu mo lieln nin o-rneiniis!"
'illut I want to do something to bo
arrested."
'T can't help dot! you keep avhay
or I put some bullets into you!"
1 ho man passed on about a square
to where a horse was hitched, and ho
was untying the animal when tho
owner came out and said:
f'Suy, you get up and skip or I'll
break your back for you!"
He drove oil', looking back and ut
tering threats, and a policeman came
along and asked what had happened.
"Why, I want to bo arrested, and I
was going off with his horse. Will you
arrest mo if I abuse you?"
"Try it on!"
"Well, you are a bow-backed sheep
thief, an infernal iiar and tho biggest
coward on the force! 1 wouldn't have
your face on me for ten thous !"
Tho oflicer seized him and flung him
over a yard fence into a lilac bush, and
then looked after him and said:
"If you don't leave town before night
I'll hunt you down and hammer you
until your own mother can't identify
the mangled remains!"
"I'll be hanged if I don't! you haven't
got enterprise enough to keep the
moss off my back, and I'll
out if I have to go on my hands
knees!" Detroit f'ree 7'ress.
ARAB JOCKEYING. '
Husluna MetlioiU Thnt Here Iteen Pre
served for Two Thousand Veer
The formalities of business methods
are among the last habits of a people to
undergo any change with time or cir
cumstance. They aro of native growth,
and show much of the character of those
who use them. It is said that tho busi
ness habits of the Arabs living in the
desert of Syria are just the same to-day
as they were more than two thousand
years ago as described by Herodotus.
An Arab who wishes to sell a horso
will never consent to bo the first to
says: "sell, thou will gam.
Tho vender replies: "Buy, thou wilt
gain."
"Sneak thou first."
"No, speak thou."
"Was he purchased or reared?"
"Keared in my tent, like one of mj
own children."
"What hast thou been offered for
him?"
"1 have been offered one hundred1
rf()M)U."
"Sell him to mo at that price thou
wilt gain. Tell me, then, what thou
askes,."
"See what is written with Allah."
"Come, let us drive away tho previ
ous bidder, and do thou take ten tlouroa
over and, above his oiler."
"I accept. Take the horso, and Al
lah arrant thou mavst be successful iinori
his back as many times as ho has hairs
upon, it." -
Should the seller be desirous to avoid
all risk of future annoyance on the sub
ject of warranty, he adds, in the pres
ence of witnesses:
"The separation between us is from
this very moment. Thou dost not know
me, mid I havo never seen thee."
I'vuth'i Contjmnion.
LITERARY BACHELORS.
Men Who Conslilereil the Married State
lrieoiiiiralile Willi their lliKli Culling.
A writer on this subject says: I can
not but admit that many men of genius
have, from some cause, repudiated
matrimony altogether. When Michael
Angelo was asked why ho did not mar
ry, ho replied, "I have espoused my
art;" and when a young painter told
Sir Joshua Reynolds that ho had just
taken a wife, and was preparing to
pursue his studies in Italy, the great
painter exclaimed: "Married! then you
aro ruined as an artist!" It was an
axiom with Fuseli, that Ihe marriage
state is iiicoiubatablo with a high emit
vation of tho tine arts, and such
appears to have been the feeling of
many distinguished painters and sculp.
tors. Tht irreat nietanlivsieiiins. llobhes.
Locke, Tenlham and liutler are as soli.
tary as Spinosa and Km it, and the eeli
bate philosojiher Hume conducts us lo
the other bachelor historians, Gibbon
and Maoaulay. The bachelor Ilishop
minor inings us lo Marrow, Lhillmg
worm, Hammond and lcighton princes
.of f.nglisli divinity, llie poets, Ariosto,
Akenside, Iteranger, Collins, t'owper,
Gay, Goldsmith, Gray, Herrick, Lamb,
1 etrarch, l ope, Swift, Sheustone, lasso.
Thompson and Voltaire. Among our
countrymen, Washington Irving, Henry
1 lioreau, riU (rreene JIalleek, ami many
lesser literary lights never married.
Exchange.
EVOLUTION.
Hr. Nye Veclttee to Jerk the ItUIng Gen
eration Into the llrtiillnc Effulgence ol
t'erinxnllnf llralue.
The following paper was read by me
in a clear, resonant tone of voice, before
tho Academy of Science and Pugilism
at Erin Prairie, last mouth, and as I
have been so continually and so earn
estly importuned to print it that life
was no longer desirable, I submit it to
you for that purpose, hoping that you
will print my name in largo caps, with
astonishers at the end of the article,
and also in good display type at the
close:
him' v ATTjniqr or- . v i n.u ti uh.-
No one could possibly, in a brief
paper, do the subject of evolution full
justice. It is a matter of great impor
tance to our lost and undone race. It
lies near to every human heart, and ex
oreises a wonderful influence over our
impulses and our ultimate success or
failure. When we pause to consider
the opaque and fathomless ignorance
of the great masses of our fellow-man
on the subject of evolution, it is not
surprising that erimo is rather on the
increase, and that thonsands of our race
are annually filling drunkards' graves,
with no other visible means of support,
while multitudesof enlightened human
beings are tit tho same time earning
a livelihood by meeting with felon?
dooms.
these I would ask in all seriousness
mid in a tone of voice that would melt
the stoniest heart: "Why in creation
do you do it,.'" The time is rapidly
approaching when thero will ba two or
three felons for eaeh doom. I am sure
that within the next fifty years, and
perhaps sooner even than that, instead
of handing out these dooms to Tom,
Hick and Harry as formerly, every ap
plicant for a felon's doom will have to
pass through a competitive examina
tion, us he should do.
It will be the same with those who
desire to till drunkards' graves. The
time is almost here when all positions
of profit and of trust will be carefully
get
and
Sun-Glows in Sweden.
Toward the end of October tho re
markable sun-glows were again seen at
Stockholm. In tho western horizon a
yellow cloud-bank, strongly illuminat
ed, appeared behind n number of tiny
clouds, grayish in color, the sky above
the lormer, to a height of forty-five de
grees, being lurid, entirely coloring
tho clouds. Later on in the eveuing
tho glow imparted to the edges of the
clouds the most remarkable reflections
of cAlor, varying from ochre to yellow.
violet and pink, with shadings of blue.
ai limes me iiigiier-lyingelouils formed
most reinarkablo formations. It
seemed that the glow was situated be
tween cumulus and cirrus clouds. If.
Y. Post.
COMPLETELY CURED.
VliJ Tailor Schmitt In Down on Newspa
per Men.
"I dou't vant nodings to do vid dem
noosbaper vellors. Dcy ish too sehuiart,
all der vile."
"How's that, Schmitt?"
"Veil, do oiler day von noosbaper
man gums my blase in nndt he zays:
'How Ish der vail vashions, Sehmittie?'
Undfcl says: 'Brctty nioch ter zanio.
Vant a suit?'
, "'Vy,' he zays, 'goats ish vorn lon
ger dish month as dcy vash last month,
ain't it'r"
"Ad I zays: 'No, ain't I a dailerP
Don't I know my drade?'.
"Uu't he zays: '1 pets you lint offer
goat.' Unt I zay: 'Aller right.' "
"Did ho prove il?"
"Veil, he gots nndt allamach undt
shows how Sepfomber hnf dirty fays
nndt Ochlober diify von. So dr goal
vos vorn von tay longher dish month
So I hafo to makes him UKd seextv-fife
toller olfergoat, gost me vecfteen toller.
I hafo no yose vor dem noosbaper vel
Iers." The Wasp.
Over-Garments.
Georgie Felt He Was Safe. They
were stainlmsr at the front iralo.
Won't you come into the parlor ami
sit a little while, Georgie, dear?" "N-o;
I think not," replied George, hesitat
ingly. "I wish you would," the girl
went on; "it's awfully lonesome.
Mother has gone out, and father is up
stairs groaning with rheumatism in the
feet," "Both feet?" asked Grore-e.
"Ye, both feet." 'Xheu J'il C0W i "
, i iWJVT,
Although hip basques are eery much
worn there aro many ladies who prefer
their overdresses made after the princess
polonaise stylo. Only very good figure
can wear with grace tho present fashion
of dress basque a model cut off so vory
short nt the hips that unless the form is
slender thero is a two bunchy effect near
tho waist to look well. One of the pret
tiest modes for a polonaise is tho "Cor
inne." The waist part in front tits
close and the vest is very pointed. Over
this are two plaits that extend below the
waisl iuiu and leiuiaiaie in alone;, , ow
ing overskirt opened in front. The
sides aro draped high and tho folds arfl
gracefully extended at the hack in a ncal
tournure, where are rich ribbon bows;
on cither side tho long flowing ends run
down in a careless manner over the
folds of the skirt drapery. The "Lido
na" skirt can be worn with the "Maple"
overdress with excellent effect. Ths
latter garment has a round front, carried
low over the hips and buttoned closej
this model has been called the "boxing
In" style it so admirably gives toalargn
figure a small look. The back of the
basque has thrco long box plaits turned
nnder and faced with some sort of bright
contrasting goods. IV. Y. Jlerald
and judiciously handed out, and those
who do not lit themselves for those po
sitions will bo left in the lurch, what
ever that may be.
It is with this fact glaring me lathe
face that I have consented to appear
before you to-dav and lay baro the
whole hypothesis, history, rise and fall,
modifications, anatomy, physiology and
f eulogy of evolution. It is 'for this that
have poured over such works ns those
of Huxley, Herbert Spenser, Moses in
the bulrushes, Anaxagoras, Lucretius
nnd Hoyle. It is for tho purpose of
advancing the cause of common hu
manity and to jerk the rising genera
tion out of barbarism into the daggling
effulgence of clashing intellects and
fermenting brains that I have sought
the works of Pythagoras, Deinocrilus
and hpluivliu. hcrever I could
find any hook that bore upon tho sub-
eet of evolution, and could borrow it,
have done so while others slept.
That is a matter which rarely enters
into the minds of those who go easily
and carelessly through life. Kven the
General Superintendent of tho Academy
of Science and Pugilism hero in Erin
Prairie does not stop to think of tho
midnight and other kinds of oil that I
have consumed in order to fill myself
full of information and to soak my
porous mind with thought. Kven the
O'Koilly College of this place, with its
strong mental faculty, has not informed
itself fully relative to the great effort
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Nathaniel Hawthorne nevor used
n italicized word in any of his works,
his style furnishing all the noeded em
phasis. Mrs. Dahlgren, the novelist, is a
Zancsvillo (O.) girl. She is wealthy,
nnd she owns several houses iu Wash
ington. Lotta, Mary Anderson, Emma No
vada and Marie Wilton are all com
municftnts of the lloman Catholic
Church.
The tallest man In Washington
Territory is John Hutchinson. He
stands seven feet four inches in his
stockings.
IL'll'erLftL. Newell, the 'Orpheus
C. Kerr'1 of popular renimiibfarice, en
joys a serene old age at a cosy home
nest iu Jersey City.
Hon. Galusba A. Grow and Hon.
A. Gilmoro are the only surviving
members of the Thirty-second Con
gress. if. Y. Tribune.
Mine. Sophie Menter, tho famous
pianist, is now enjoying the possession
of a fortune of three million dollars,
left her by a Uussian admirer.
A Calcutta paper says that a na
tive woman has become the editor of
a Christian periodical, which she con
ducts with remarkable ability and suc
cess. -
Catherine Gregory, who diad in
New York the other day, was a
school teacher for twenty-two years, .
and never missed a day during that'
period until she was taken sick. if.
Y. Post.
The Mexican Congress proposes lo
change the press laws to the end that of
fenses charged against nowspaper
writers shall lie tried before a special
jury, and not as is now done, under the
criminal code.
Lord Hotchkiss, one of the swell
cowboys of Montana, recently won a
heavy wager by walking froni'his ranch
to Miles City, a distance of twenty-two
miles, in four hours and four minutes.
Chicago Tribune.
Senor Quesada, the new repre
sentative of the Argentine Republic at
Washington, is a journalist and author.
Ho is distinguished as a writer on In
ternational law, has tilled several
prominent posts In tho civil service,
and for the last four years lias been
Minister to Brazil.
Kx-Governor Bishop, of Ohio, is
sixty-three years old, out is still very
active. Jjivst summer no went to his
son's home in Clifton, and, passing
through a high gate, was attacked by a
savage dog who did not reoognizo linn.
The Governor took a running jump
and cleared the high gate at one boiiud
like an athlete. Cleveland Lender.
A queer old lady, the Baroness
Rolle, has just died in England at tho
age of ninety years. Sho was married
at twenty-eiglit to a gentleman who
was seventy-four year old, and if he
were living now he would be one hun
dred and thirty-live years of ago. At
his death ho settled sii income of f30,
OtK) per year upon her, and she has de
voted more than (ifty years of her long
life in charily.
HUMOROUS.
-Why Is the barber's trade easy fot
Within the limits of Washington
Territory aro z:l,0A,0X) acres of land
yet iinsurvcyed, of which at least 16,
(NXWHK) acres are excellent agricultural
lands, well timbered. The Territory
has a population of about 140,0X), and
a valuation of over f-W,Ov0,X,,0,wf;A
up iitkr-Qiumn,
necessary Deioro a lecturer may sneak
clearly, accurately nd cxhaustinE'lv of
evolution.
And yet here in this place, wdiere.edu
canon is rampant, and the Idea is
patted on the back, as I may say, hern
in Kiin Prairie, where progress and
some other sentiments are written on
everything here, where I am addn ssing
you lo-niglil for two dollars and fee
for my horse, I met a little child with a
bright and cheerful smile, who did not
know that evolution consisted in
progress from the homogeneous to the
heterogeneous.
So von see that yon never know
where ignorance lurks. The iivdra-
headed upas tiei and bete noire of self-
acting progress, is Jiuch ignorance as
that, lurking in the very shadow of
magnificent educational institutions
and hard words of great cast. Moth
ing can he more disagreeable to the
scientist than the bete noire. Nothing
gives him greater satisfaction than to
iiitse it up a tree or mash it between
two shinglns.
for this reason, as 1 said, it gives me
great pleasure to address you on the
sutij"et of evolution, and to go into de
tails in speaking ol ft. I could go on
for hours as I have been doing, de
lighting you with tho intricacies and
peculiarities of evolution, but I must
desist. It would please me to do so,
and you would no doubt remain pa
tiently slid listen, hut your business
might suffer while you aro away, and
so I will close, but 1 hope that any one
now within the sound of my voice, and
in whose breast a sudden hunger for
more light on this great subject may
have sprung up, will feci perfectly free
to call on me and ask me about it or
immerse himself in the numerous tomes
that 1 have collected from friends, and
which relate to this matter.
In ehiximjr 1 wish to snv that I have
made no statements in this paper rela
tive to evolution which I mil not pre
pared li prove; and, if anything, I
have been over conservative. Kir that
reason I say now, that the person who
doubts a single fact as I have given it
to-night, bearing upon the great sub
ject of evolution, will have to do so
over my dumb remains.
And a man who will do that is no
gentleman. I presume that many of
these Ktatrmonte will . bo snapped up
and sharply criticised by other theo
logian and mnny of our foremost
thinkers, but they will do well to pause
before they draw me info a controversy,
for I havo other facts in relation to
evd'.Vvin, and some personal remin
Iseenes and family history, which I am
prepared to introduce, if necessary, to
gether with ideas that I have thought
tin myself. So I sav to those who may
hope to attract notice and obtain noto
riety by drswlnv mo Into aooutrovumv,
beware, It will he to your Ints rvi tq
kffl!-' A'V, f WttM f(W'f,
men to learn P Because every man
was once "a little shaver."
"Is the man honest?" asked old
Hyson. "Honest as tho day is long.'.'
"te-es," said old Hyson; "but then ha
won't do at nil. I want him foi a
night watchman." Boston Bulletin.
Boston stheticism.
What to mo are heavenly pleasures,
Tlint from earth my fiinoy wenns?
Wtml ohi'U I for worldly titiasiirnn)'
Waller, ileae, more pork and liOHiil.
Chicago Telegram.
Our Country men Abroad (In' th
Champs Klysejs). English Gentle
man (inquiring way) "Pardonnei.
moi, Monsieur." French Geal.'.-man
(very politely) -"Certainuietit, Mon
sieur." Together: "Good gracious!
Smith, Jones, is that you?" Jlarper't
Bazar.
"Do you allow drunken people on
tho train?"" asked an old gentleman at
the City Hall elevated station. "Some
times, but net when they are too
drunk," replied tho brakeman. "Just
take a seat near the middle of tho cm
and keep quiet, and you'll be all right"
X Y. Hun.
He "My dear, we can't possibly
take this flat. Why, when our furni
ture is In there won't be room for ma
to walk around to It." She "Non
sense; you are not expected to walk
around in a modern flat. When you
want to walk what is the matter with
outdoors?" if. Y. Tribune.
A four-year-old, who has a drum
and is not so slow to beat it, heard a
hand-organ the other day, and was
particularly struck witli tho fact that
the organ-grinder took up a collection.
After the "musieian" had departed tho
little fellow remarked: "I don't drtini
any more only for money."
We are told that more than eight
courses at a dinner is vulgar. Snibbs
says he is hi the height of the fashion,
for ho lias only six, as follows: Soup
aqua pma, beans a la oven door, pork
de scored ton. brown bread a la steam
er, oleomargarirfj In a butter-dHnrAnd ,.
toothpicks ad libitum. Boston Budget.
A few davs atro two men were in
Smith's barber-shop. One had red
hair and the other was baldheaded.
Ked hair to baldhead "'on were 4iot
around when they wcro giving out
hair?" Baldhead "Yes, I was there;
but they only bad a littlfl red hair left,
and I wouldn't take it" Bow rsviUe
((ia.) Union.
"Now, John," said the keeper of
the cigar store at closing up tiimi to
his boy, "lake the Indian figuro from
the door and lay it down behind the
counter." "Hadn't wc better let it
stand behind tho counter?" said johu.
"Why so?" asked the employer. "Be
cause figures never lie, you know.," '
Boston Courier.
Brown to Smith, w'-io has teen an
Invalid for years "Hu'loa. Smith!
How are you now-a-duyj? Has Dr.
Dubbledose hulped you any?" Smith
"A little, perhaps, hut not nearly so
much as I have helped him. jfmi should
ea the new houao he has jiut builtl
NoHiltiff like it ia towu - eicgaiii, per
t
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