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VOL. IV..
niLLSlH)i;()U(iII, SII'HKA COUNTY, N. M., AIMUL 10, I88(.
NO. 7.
STOSKBRAKBS.
J. W. IwolIlMir'j 2uik and Urnnd.
"V. P. Ornbuun. U. a. I'lnurer.
. , l!-rt side of cattle: I L I Q nr lM.lh aid.-
La-A A II I Hill m liulit r: h T 1-mfC P tkJ I Ion oil r'lfllt mill
jf V. VT 11 ,n.. hull ..fi ,.urui If . I i .V underdone off left .
V iWk HI't'T lilt- Stoop 111 - -
"""" y&'M ' ... Kivolnph on led rjrrre i '
S. S. Sl.iil.-y's Brand, lip c'nit' Hmi'll 7 ,JAA 1 ,
K. A . ;;i5!:;iH, '' ;:k M AiJl I
i . 1 .ii irft Fhim .ier. ;-- j
aCTN: fm Williamronom Si,rr. I..ml and CtftfrL .j.
Ui?X ItMj -C A Theh.dl.ll.cd
1. O. ailmo-s. Chloride, V M. It, f f v'";i &ifa&1K v n the lert liiie In
. ly kj v 4 jr i" .1 iho lollowin- man-
r.iv.-.oa & to. V j. $ Stock brand used V I , 1 nor: 8 on shoulder,
CX ' if tei-. 4 on I'UfUl si.lo. X, "O L w jl I, on side and C on
I r wit v iA"'iiip aml
NB ; tft-''"', I 1 ii-i-ib Iho rump.
.-.'O r"Tu SS.- VCi -i Y f Jl'lie rump nitrk M
,'. Lp ! j " -. ftJl. " "H -f J '" I'1""" "f lh
Sb, V" Placed on left of lloiiL'hlmi i& Itnivo r mark as rword-
. -J -HHIc. - liont.111011 A UOHC. ed ill book "A," p. W, Worm Co. record.
t!'rl A'i 7 The nlvovo In ulo 01m of our brand for
I I VJ 1 stock on tin' Iplt Kiili..
x S 5l R. " llopixT, Ocm-ral Maiiatrer.
f V jj S. S. .lai kon, Kniirh Manager.
. aa!ipV 1 1 P. O. adilri'ss: Kinitston, N. M.
Ci'' Xi I'liicpd upon tiio ri a Jfll f Sainticl (ircpg.
cl't kIh 111I1 ii;r nf --.kTISi''
i liKi.. 1 ' 1lV"rVl im- Hunch on Indian
f. '' l CkfjrKQ - Cm Ho hM Inva- v .,,,,,1, of l.ake Val-
"4X "iJL ''"' "'in- tl. 'J-x 4 Hrun.l on left
" . , 1 "Wi"''''''r'iiid,tliua 1 - - jf .i()0 of .-utile anil
f J ,E!iQ I citlur sldo of
-A-rl XSV! ! JT ,1 lorsn block.
1, TN I l!cca upon 1hc H v , . . ff JL Lake Valley. N. M.
HfS .-I-1 " ell s ilc 01 cnl. Nti -y,-" ' Kraml of font;- ZjrrP'- 3a .
l I ;- .ml vcurlll.BK and Le''- -7? nc.ilal Call to Co. ., ,. , , ,
. "d'i jl .nil,.'- I.n shoulder - U-.I-.I as abovo slul- .lllllll'S Ullisllt.
tA-rJli 7 , -71 "! hci.-l.iii.ir. CgS. . .
, ...... ..u n. u r u 1 ,ik (connected) on
x ( , ! n 'on. . K Ji-itniiKii.
rir ,ir,ni... li Oration. N. M. fc- 8 Jfjf
-pl.t alio e ci-oji in ."m--!
A b'V 5 ' "i'.'d. ii.l.li-.Ks, I.ns .iV
n ; Mi !,ili.uia,Sierral.o., fV: A li. I. Parks.
" ' V 3 VaiJrifl . -i. .(fiisl'.-l
v ' 4 i,3 B I Y I i"V on the ril side of
Orr v F . v"8.. " V" . ""
J' 1 i.i-m.s branded i-T -rr BC "
ta JfsshI ; -" isuJk
, -- Q j.1 a?-a. j Cattle branded on
L y " V. ffi - I1 l,.,ll nnl,....ll,, ' l,..l It,., rl.lit hm. 1
fef?VO -' " .rft'- m left hip. tltln-r X ity'V f 1 1'-. ail.lreKS:
, T 1 v ' i.rniKl .1 r iiinl f r i KlHiuan, Hierra
. W I J , . f ilewhip iit once. , y ffJfi'oumy.N.M.
, V L "'",' on i:afniark.-rn.anl yMLmJlltl.
... .I .-null.-uml horses. Hy.",W " n miIh l.nlh ( ill,,.,- - ' -
.J!'1!! ' W i'v. k Vallrjr l.und anil J,iv Mock ( o.
RC-'-JE. . jfj?'' . f " cattle, horses
NtV,Vj .mile Iho n-
'9 Bi On ,lr,.8 mi on llieiiKht
.111 Jill I ralllillll. n 1 S) f " Jb,i. (in sheep and
- t-r 18 1 ' 'jjP" Imir an under hair
,V-.r " " II y clipp In the loft CHr.
KiSlg' . v lorc l.randnl Ksppridan TafojIU i fy,Hi iir A. M. .lames.Sec'y
Z 1 mi Icfl b le or l.-ll f BIIH 1 V. I,. I.. K. Co.
,L4. .1 ' IT ( i p. Sh on eat- . If Ia -? '. O. aildrem:
i W I mill the nd.ll- ji - .gStff&'k iX:r5iA 'i I-ake Valley. N. M.
, rf ' "f car mark. f. J
VVi I--M car iM-imtapin ,1 T fJ KubfU Shiver.
15 rjj. in.l iiiiilei-h I. f - llranil for utoek v
hjsuJj l . "s'"' " 'h sidu- V y
. -'' tv ew
Herman (irulic A Fred Sliaiv. -, , ' , j Cl ' U U ' p. o. address:
Li-.- 1111 :) Kiiirview, Sierra
txfr . .. 'attic l-ran.led Fraucisrn Apmlaca. jafiV f i"--'-
C,1' A -A: : i :p'ii'ii.i"om.-"'n i! ii f v If!
, rr 7 i.,o,i.-.i,:,.i ti.HT HiuU-r5iL
"H..li ear cut oil. l .
. Mr.iii.l on hois,- l-l,, 17 A 'J llia.i.lcd An rifrlit li ! ;r..i.
V,; . above ou left I f s .1 hones and v ,,ru,,p
John B. Alley. & W Kaniro at and
.... n u,.,,,,,,,! white Hock
VwC Jop Tafoja j Garcia. uimaO I s,!rln,r- ..
,' j llranil for cnttle; JS To) l.ake Valley, N. M.
t J -.-c on.l on side. V,t3-' 1 " "-5-', jJ?
'''"'i'lSrV m Si JTG J J-uehprNeirro. IVrHns Shr7nTX "
l'lii'blila Canili lavio tliavcs. tZf K D Y"r' m on left
X " ZfA ,. Br
. W J Stock on left hip "v , niid used on left Ctjfl Jfl' Co., N. M.
XI M nnd car mark on , , -I hlp ol horses mid "SiW-f.-Ht-
''"l ''cui-8. f ' (t l-attlo.
31. ry V;.ile. '-'.r1Ji' I CC fJ CumI oi r'ghtaidn.
t ,,i ,t t Vv .ir I'-'ir mark: Itouud
jT Bafael 0I(llicil. I Jyy f hole m each ear.
CV."vV? . i. n loi.ir. .
7,. T y fVTi 1 Lake Valley, N. M.
-sS i C Urnnil for flock : fcSyyft- . i, - lfcili!w-Vi.v'l
N I'm-marks croppi il I 1 j BWr: -iirJ
H '" ,llu '''tf1" Cm1 " A I Urnnd n.ed on
.fVl '"K U1' ' X'- ,J;Sr,ro':C", . J. W. Talc.
-KfrneM " rfl y Cattle branded on
J- ,, la )fii rt?.-j.-a ii i 11 n
" Q S -fxjyj1 7s'. ' . . 'eft hip. Somecat-
Wcllv & Slillox. . "Si.V..?V CZj" AUR I11" 'n ,a"rn
Antonio Hpcz. MllV Si ,"l",rl:,.',,"1 br'u'a-
. Ax r--B
V' W?' , "rand u.cd n ... lA gdkX&JUftl
M -iSf i '' rl,! l'aI'' & Ml L branded on the 1,-it V8J
'9 ajLJi l'.o. adilro8: p. o. address: (irafton, N. M.
rBl hZjl L"T'""'""'- J. V. Siator.
' ' w,, . '1 he above fs used
John hullivau. --- f f"r H c'lch and
x uiiiiicn, vtoir iiiiiM-n. 7sr ' V i ? i f
-N ! r H ZB Koifzl
U1 I-'I fl liri.nrt on .vk- 7 . . fl "" ' ' '
k:..; Q OW 3 VSJj
i ie. lap on na-ht car. V. Vl '" "'" JJU ILjjj
cjjj jiiii ,,P
-.. r ..-T. j " Urafton, N. M.
Jtiliil S .ii. ll OH'l I. . -
. I'h'ti I. SjiIiw;iiii - . IA.
. jtisk.
J$hmmm, ' s Hi and for Mot k ! .iwj , , 4Vii lVVf connected,
7 , TT 1 .S.-.I on ..f: bii. rTC' " ' branded on w ?''iMlr. used on
"v. - bat k. near the ! (T- f dr Ijar mark: Cn- T;vW--iVT StM J'-t thlro
V - ' U -i...ii-,i..r. Kartnark u ''r, 1,1 'fit and V Sil uww brand.
.-j A '..:.-r slope in each J f fl crop. V 1 11
X ,iJio-V 3 1 ill. . -esV I'. ' a.ldre.s: Vj II H P.O. addrtws:
5 ,13 IMi n.!lrcs: T r .1 fairview. sierra f IM j rat ton, N. M.
Felix (MiimaUs. I. M. 3;iroe. s-
A. y y . Mf mark and
feftf'' IJ ! --va . ' Fv5jl brand ns.d on cat-
I iTirp both ear. V -r JT !' branded on npht
MY MOTHER.
A nimpW' fuit'KonHrrP phtin ami brown
'hiTc i v i ii mi t .h mI up uml tlow ii
W ith swoi i 1-imt rof-r.
A plai t the I'iii i.r-i suii'h'Uiiih k 1st.
..Ol 1(1. H MirU'.M di by (lif Ul.nt
The IS' ik ti ( tiiu-UiHon.
wr'Miirlii with juti'iit (Hr
A llt w lh)M incrtir titled I lit ir
llli nhttllif-H li V.
Ih'ii' iM'unl hci'full ItnMtlrr li'l.
Ami 'ell ihc huinc, a lirukrii iichi,
lit li lt Mini ItUH'l).
To chihiri-n' htiut, nud tinirtfl grown
st 14 itttr
V.'i'ti tin'ti sit. t m h ti-dHtm lonji.
And -ml ih lenrn iitf,
Tlml pniwi r. nt-r t nrv run ,'rr rrmort)
'4 lie Uw t i omNlr;f ti-.i to I hat shon-
'v OMll it l in !lil).
We've ieninrd tun well oft thriMtKh these
ears.
Iiic -m U oiih where there Hie no teiirs,
Iioi (o (hi pet tinl.
A i ll i'kim y tuittx cm ili'd lonp'rm'ir IihihIi
(h'M the liiiii.' not unule u.lh Itmitts,
Seen re, eternal.
( Moiher. w it'll tl.e xt'i limn n eyes!
In ih.v Ian- home leoiil the fk.es
in I expertfc;'
f'nu'ft thou not tell me tlml tit last.
V lien Vnwf thai tlirp-dHtlri all huvc piissed,
J t-hali not lie t-ejeeteil?
AiihOulit ij. iiaith itmru ill ( UlltUt.
A CI.0SK FAMILY.
One Goucrous Member Proves
Savior.
(Mil .laci.li Miller wna a close man.
lie liail lanioht :i slony hillside farm,
ami tin- soil icl.lcil him such a Knll'S
in' liinjr thai his penurious habits
fjlciv upon him. i:piiseil to the lileak
noi l li w iml, his fruit did not ripen well,
ami his sheep ami cat Me, wainlci in
iiImuiI niminjr ,(. rwk ami briars,
alwavs bail a hnniv look. Still, ho
liianap'd o lav bv uinucv. Vear after
year he added to Ins hind, anil your
liner year lie went on livmo; in the. same
old house - half frame, half U;n. He
kept it sharp eye on the wood and Hour
uml meal, ami never parted with a lnl
lar without a hit tor strain:!,.. Ilis wife.
a hi oken-dow n woman, linally pave up
tea he enimlded so much nlloiil it.
'lea was the only comfort 1 Innl,"
she used to think sometimes, ivilh it
tieh; "it chirked me up wonderfully."
1 ler hands were brown and ruiii'h and
m i' form was bent. She never knew
what it was to have a molher's peace
or happiness until hersceuu'l was lioi-n.
The olilest was like his father. She
used to think siimel imes, when he or
dered her around or snatched a piece
of bread from her hand at the lahlc.
that lie would never he any comfort to
her. lint when her second sou opened
eies, and smiled at her, instead of
set I in.; up a scream lis his brother had
done, the world no longer seeineil so
il.ii'k. She drew the little liiinille
closer, but the hahv snuLriileil down
into a peaceful, sali-lied, contented
way, as t lnmrli he had made up his
mind to make the best of things and he
a friend to his mother. From that day
she used to my, with something be
tween ;i tear and a treinblin smile:
"lie has never made nie a mile of
trouble. His temper was a good trial
to his father, but he was always good
to me. F.ven when he was a'bahy he
would wave his spoon at me and try to
talk, and he was never satislied until
he had given mo part of his bread and
milk. He would sit and watch me it ti
his big eyes until I had eaten it, and
then he would laugh nud cat his
own. Sometimes when he was very
hungry I would try him by giving hint
only a little milk in a cup. but it was
always the same-he would insist on
div iding il. and wimld never drink a
drop until I had thank mine. And he
would work like a little beaver. He
used to drag in sticks of wood as soon
us he could walk, and when he got
older his father said he never saw any
one that would go ahead so. F.dwaril
was free kearted and ipiiek-lempered
liiul his father was close. Thev had
high winds sometimes, and Kiiward
would come home with his eyes Hash
in;; lire and his lips shut liglit, and ho
W(4iild go upstairs to his room. I used
to follow him sometimes, and I always,
found him thrown down with his face
hidden. After a while he would get
over it and laugh, thourh I know he
had Im-cu crying, and then he would
always Im hitler to me than ever, for
fear lie had worried mo.
"Hut one night tin re was a dreadful
scene.' His father struck me, and Kd
ward Hew at him like a young tiger.
His father knocked him down, and
w hen lie got up he went to his room
w iMii mt a word. I did not dare to fol
low him; hut before daylight the next
morning he came to nie in the kitchen.
with a little bundle in his hand, and
(aid he was going away. I clung to
him and begged him not to pi; but Im
unfastened my bauds gently ami said:
"Mother, listen. This house isn't
large enough for me and father. I hnte
him!'
" The dark red Hush that I knew so
Well swept over his checks, and the
Hashing liglit burned in his eyes; nnd
then he broke, down and cried, and put
his arm mound me as he. had so often
done before ill his trouble, uit)said:
" 'Forgive nie, mother, mid let nie
p-o. It. w ill lie best for us. 1 ou dim t
km
Bines and thought bow he had never
cried or fretted w hen he was a baby,
and how he ahwiys laughed and waved
his hand at me; and 1 wished we had
both died when he w as born.
'1 never heard any thing from him
for len long yars. 1 know he wrote,
but his father would not let me see the
letters. I felt bad. terribly bad alsiiit
il. And then we had other troubles,
too. The barns burned and a good
many of the cattle died; and then John
married, and that was the worst trial
of all. His father ft-1 1 satislied, for
John's wife was a spry, managing
woman; but 1 never took to her. She
was too close, and she came into the
family at acinic w hen I felt as if any
more closeness would be the death of
inc. John's father bad had a hmsiiit
nnd lost it, and finally, to save the farm,
he had deeded it to John, John agree
ing that be should have the control of
it as long as he lived.
"We got along somehow for a year
or two; but John took such good care
of the money, and bis w ife look such
pmd care of every thing else, that it
kind of broke us dow n.
" 'If I could "ot anv place to work,'
John's father said to ine one night, 'I'd
go. I don't get enough to eat here.'
"He wasii t what he Used to be I
oil Id see. His shouldel s stooped ami he
ooked dow nheai ti il ami out of spirits;
and he wasn't as close as he had been,
though perhaps that was because he
hadn't anv thing to be close with. He
had been a hard man to us all, but I
began to kind o' pityliiui. He couldn't
walk in his orchard and pick up an ap
ple without .loliii s w ife following nun
close and calling:
Father, father! don't pick the mar
ket apples.' And as thev were all mar
ket apples according to her tell, Il
ncicr timed touch one. Finally things
got so bad that we dulii t have anv
thing but corn-meal mush to cat
Though corn-meal mush is nourishing
and good for a change, 1 can't say as
like it for a steady thing, lint we hat
to eat it. Ami lather some w ay 1 hm;
got to calling him father-said it made
him sick to even see coi n gFowing.
"line night when he eoiililn t sleet)
lor thinking ol it, lie asked me if I siii
posed they had mush all tin-time at the
poor-house. I told hiiu'twanl no wavs
likely that they had it 1114110 than hall
or threc-ijiiarters of the time, and then
he said we'd go. And though 1 hail a
little pride, or did have once, I felt as
though even the poor-house would he a
relief, ami the next morning I set about
getting our things ready to go.
"ltul we never went, for that night
(iod sent my hoy home. Oh! how glad
we were to see him. I cried, ami his
father cried, lather was completely
broken down; but when Kihvard said he
was going to take us back to the West
with him. his fact' brightened, and he
asked Kdward in a whisper if he lived
on a farm.
" 'No,' said Kdward, laughing, '1 am
a lawyer!' ! am glad of that," said
lather; -I am glad of that. If I was to
see any more corn 1 don't know but I
should go clean out of my mind.'
" 'I live in town,' said Kdward, put
ting his arm around me in the old w ay,
'and I am going to have one of the
handsomest and best housekeepers Mill
ever saw.'
"I asked him who the woman was
wilh a sinking heart, for I had a kind
of dread of daughters-in-law, and he
answered, 'Mv mother.'" A. Y.
IforM.
A HOTEL
DINNER.
Mrart-lli iiillnii llesei -luilon by One M'ha
Has Siilli-red I ". (I Hid fallen. ly.
Parlies who live at I onic in opulence,
nnd luxury w ith thr. ..(oals a day can
not appreciate the a .i'i.ps that sweep
over the hotel boar .It . s heart when ho
sit s down to a di'.o. v that has grown
cold wailing for i in).
He lirst orders soup, and the waiter
brings out a bowl of pale, consumptive
fluid tlii' sight of which makes bin
heart ache. It is composed entirely of
water, save when it is labeled vege
table soup: you may then pcrnj en
lure lin. I n turnip peeling or an onion
skin in the bottom of the bow I. Hotel
oyster soup is the bill, rest calumny 011
the whole oyster race that could be de
vised. It is a luxury lo w hich hoard
ers are treated on Sunday, and one
oy ster is compelled to llavor the soup
for twenty boardi rs It is no wonder
that both the hoarder and the oyster
feci inclined to murmur and repine.
When the meat is brought the hoard
er's anguish becomes greater, for ho
has 110 saw to cut it with and life is ton
short to spend its best years trying lo
chop 11 hole through a slice of mutton
with a table knife. The only thing
that will successfully rend a piece of
hotel mutton is nitro-glycerine, and it
is too demonstrative.
The side-dishes are also discourag
ing. In one of tlicin there are six or
seven peas w hich are not unite so soft
as marbles, another has three or four
beans which have coiitiacted consump
tion by exposure to the Weather, and
another dish has a potato. If I In)
boarders give up the job of culting tlio
potato, it is taken back by the waiter,
crushed with a pile di ii er and loom 4
up at the next lucal in the shape of
hash.
A biscuit generally accompanies the
meal which awaits the boarder's on
slaught with a stony imlill'crenci! that
is painful to see.
I once knew a boarder to fly in a
rage and hit the waiter with one of
these biscuits, killing him inslaullv.
He was arrested, and the judge told
him that henceforth he sln.ul. I throw
gridirons or clock-weights at the wait
ers, or something less hard than hold
biscuits.
The but ler is dillicull to overpower,
and when most wauled is generally
found swinging Indian club-., or prac
ticing ou the hi.riontal bar.
Homer's description of hotel butler
perhaps the most worthy of any yet
w I'll ten:
"I'lysses, p.iwerlul thoiiith tie wa.
W as itiri.u 11 Into the gutlcr,
While o'er It in stood Ii s sinmirer foe.
The dink, ti iilinphiinl biiller."
SI I. nil ix W'lii).
ABOUT DIAMONDS.
WitsbtiiKlnii llt-iiUer's I'h it About Valu
able am! It.-iiiil II11I Im-iiis.
From all over the world diamonds
are forwarded to hint, and be has nun
which at one time sold for !7(i.niii),
now ollcred at less than half that rale.
1'his is claimed to be the largest, ex-
I tlie Koh-i-iioor, which over caiutt
westward. I looki d it all over. It is
about as dig as a but Ion on mur walk-
f
ITALIAN PEASANTS.
Tha Deplorable Condition of Common La
borers In Italy.
It would he diflicult to exaggerato
the miserable condition of the. agricul
tural population in Italy, the wretched
dwellings, tho unwholesome food, tho
amount of disease, tho low wages, tho
want of morality and of education.
Tho disease induced bv unsanitary
conditions are fearful. In tho "jiel
lagra, which i akin to leprosy, tho
body dries up and wastes away, tho
skin grows yellow and black, and in
covered with scales; it loses all feeling,
so that a -prick or cut U scarcely per
ceived; finally, the patient, inert, apa
thetic, motionless, half dead, with
sunken eyes, becomes a mere mummy,
unconsciously awaiting tho opening of
his grave, h is sometimes said to -.
arise from excessive poverty and star
vation, but," says the report, "why
are there so ninny villages where the
country people "are almost dying of
hunger w ithout a single case, while it
is found in others not worse lodged
and fed?" The probable cause is tho
use of putrid and mouldy mai.e, often
exchanged by tho millers for bitter
corn, but also brought in from abroad;
tho bread is made into enormous
loaves, baked thus to nave tiring, the
inside of which grows putrid before
the week's end which they are intended
to last. "Other diseases, though less
heard of, are ipiite a numerous scrof
ula, cuest complaints, anil 111 some
valleys cretinism." It sounds strange
in our ears to talk of consumption as
one of the scourges which desolate
Italy, of which wo have considered the
north to have a sad monopoly. Malaria
and fevers of ilill'erent kinds are ex
tremely t'umiinui in Latiuiu, Lnmbardy
and other parts, Tertian fevers are as
dangerous as the pelagra In the
Honian ('ainpagim and tho irrigated
country in l.ombarilv. "Where marshes
exist niau can not live. If he does not
destroy the marsh the marsh destroys
him." The excessively divided proper
ty in parts of Italy is such as lo reduce
it to a mere proletariate of owners,
abominably bulged and ill nourished,
who could not possibly earrv out anv
saiiilary improvements, even if decreed
by the law. Health and morality tiro
inseparably bound up together; for in
stance, about Koine there is a ..me of
small properties amounting to about,
twenty thousand acres. Hero the w ant
of water, of proper houses and the
total absence of roads at the very gates
of the Kternal City, greatly diminishes
the value of the soil. Wages are from
yi) to i.'i eenls a day, but there ure
nearly a hundred festival days. Farm
servants who are clothed ami fed, have
.fl to 1.;')0, the women from 2,' to 7A
eenls a month. Xinrkcnlh Century.
.IMEKILN CLUB.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Odd Things Ttnll Came I'mler the Olmervil
lion of a Canadian l:dllor.
In IKSii an ailult black parrot fruit,
Madagascar was placed in the zoolog
ical collection of Hegent's Park, Lou
don, w here it remained lifly-four years.
On its death il was spoken of as the
oldest inhabitant of the gardens.
To keep postage stamps in the
pocket or memorandum book without
sticking, a New Orleans posi-ollieu
clerk advises people to rub the sticky
side over the hair two or three times,
l'heoil of the hair coats the mucilage
and prevents it from sticking.
It is said that the oak is creeping out
into the prairies and covering uiioecu
icd grounds in the West w herever it
is not too w et or sandy for it to grow.
Thousands of acres are now covered
with young oaks where they did not
grow forty years ago.
Il is Allegheny in reiiiisylvnnia, AI
leirhanv in Viiginia, and Alh ;anv in
New York. Kcccnlly the l'osl-o'ltiee ! I Said I :
brand ued for
'Pick on the left I
i.le. i
H O. addi-ess; j
IMlsborotltrb, S.ii.
iw how I feci w hen father is so cruel
and mean.'
"lie was getting excited again and I
held him clove ami felt as if I couldn't
b-t him go; but I bad to do it. 1 put
oil my crying till after he was gone,
and went upstairs and brought down
the -lockings I had darned for him and
his white shirts. Then I hunted up the
dollar bill I had kept laid away so
long and tried to make him take it", but
shook his head and tried lo laii.'h.
nnd kept his hands behind him. He
w. .nl. hi t touch it, though I knew he
hadn't a cent, f
watched him go awav in the early
dawn with his bundle. When ho got
to the lop of the hill he stopped and
ki-se. his hand lo me, and then I went
into the kitchen and threw mv apron
over my head and cried till I 'hail no
111. il'- teal s lo shed. It seemed as though
i ll ! lit- world was dead. Would 1 never
tar him bounding down the stairs
r-r.dn. whistling or singing, or see him
steal into the house to help me with mv
nork w hen I was sick or had a head-
Wl'.e?
"I went upstairs and looked at his
Department being in doubt as to how
the name should ho p'-lled in Mary
land, applied to the historical society
of that Slate, which recoiiiineniled Al
legany, because that spelling accorded
with the statute creating Allegany
I'ounty, Maryland.
A lady f our acipiaintanen is en
gaged in rather peculiar work of de
stroying every picture of herself that
has ever been made. She thinks she
secured them all but one photograph,
and she has just w ritten a distance of
nearly one thousand miles for that.
I'gly, did you say? Not at all. It is
only a woman's whim, and who would
undertake to explain that?
l'rof. .1. A. Harrison, of Virginia,
says that the fertility of the negro dia
lect is reany wtunicriui, not only 111
the ingenious distortion of words, bv
which new and startling signilicanec is
o-iven to common Kn-bh words-, bt.t
more especially in the imitation of ani
mal utterances. It is an car language
altogether. The only wonder i-hov
the negro could have so truly caught
the sw iftly uttered sounds about him.
A natural bow that is on exhibition
at the Hfivn nsville (Ore.) po-t-olliee is
described by the San Francisco Kxmu
itirr. Il is a vine maple about eight
feet in length, has the curves of an
ordinary Indian how, and, strange to
say , is already strung with a slender
limb that grows out of one end into the
other so perfectly that at lirst sight it
would la? quite dilVicillt for one to de
tect at which end the limb began. The
bow is 11 1 Mill t three inches thick, and
the string part is about one-lifth of that
thickness, and is strong enough to shoot
an arrow two hundred yards. -,lo'irca
Mar.
ing coat -sav half to three-ouarli
an inch in diameter. A diamond a lil-
iiii'er, I sin. iild think, of aboiil half
that size, I was shown, w hich I was of
fered lor '.''..',oiiii. While we were tall.
ing a family cnl.-rcd the room, and the
wife was indicated as Mr.-., lihink.
w hose husband had come to ashing-
ton some years ago. Mie liatl ap-
proacied tiie dealer a few days before
I sat down with him, and said: "I am
not satisfied wilh the way my ilia
monils are set, and would like you to
lake ami rest ring them into other
forms." "Now." said the dealer, "do
you know thai she handed over to mo
-1:1 diamonds, which would about half
lill that glass of water before you? She
asked for no im-nioi anilum or receipt
whatever, and I have sent them out lo
( 'incinnali to he set. Von would I
.' urprised," he said, "to see w hill foolish
letters I get. One man writes that I
has a stone which his father had before
him. and he is quite sure it is a dia
mond, but. he wauls to be conlirmcd
about il; and he w tints to have me
come and see it and haw a long tall.
1 ii.-v an mink mat 11 tney can nave a
talk they can comince me before my
eyes that a piece of Hint in a diamond."
Micro seem to be more di-
-False standard of existence what
is he worth? True standard what
good docs he do? Chicago Lul'jcr,
anii. ml.- at present than there are buy
el's "
"That is the case," said the diamond
man. "Von can get your diamonds
now quicker than you can get your
customer, but I have seen the I i tin
when you had your customer and
coiiiitu 1 get your diamond. 1 here are
a thousand million dollars (l,(HKi,
(ni.ikhi) worth of dial ds in the
I'liileil States. When people ma!-
money quickly nv turns, as 111 miniutr
or speculation, or real estate, they
want line diamonds, and il is hard to
gel tin-in. hot when there is a pull on
the purse people drop to the idea that
their diamonds are the easiest things
sacrilieett, and so thev fluctuate in
Value." (iitlli. in l'iiirin..nli tiijuini:
A Titled Hangman.
The t.olce ,.f t-Aeciiiioliel is ,Oie which
we can hardly imagine any man of or
dinary human feelings would olnntary
assin.i.-. Hut this is just w ha;, an Kn-
f'lish baronet is -aid to lutv e don" recent
y. The story is that he assisted the.
hangman in indicting the death penalty
upon three burglars w ho killed a police
otlieer after a celebrated robbery in
Knglnnd a few nmnth-i ago. H ex
plained his conduct bv saying that he
desired the experience in case he
should be called upon in the future, as
sheriff of his 1 ounly , to superintend a
hanging. It strikes Ps thst this is
rather an insutlieieiit reason for a man
to volunteer to act the part of hang,
man. .V. I". I.nlir.
Jild-re Smith Is Treated to a CorTei-MIII
and Nome rhlbiMoplitc Advice.
"Will Judge Consecutive Smith
please step dis way?" asked Brother
(iardner as the meeting opened with
sixteen kerosene lamps shedding their
radiance over the hull.
The judge advanced in two-four time,
anil the president .continued:
"Judge Smith, you am about to lcavo
us an' take up your home in a distant,
Slate. You will not only carry wid
you do bes' wishes of ehery member of
dis society, but you will still preserve
your membership wid us. In gwinn
oil' among strangers, dar' am some
rules an' maxims tint it would be well
to obsarve:
"While it am fashnabul to eat wid ti
fork, doaif let a good piece of bacon
slip away fur want of usin' ycr knife.
"When you has foun' a butcher who
will give you credit, you has foun' ai
enemy.
"It ain't do amount of wages you
aim, but it am do number of days you
am idle.
"Honest an' industrious men needn't
worry nlxiut do number of patent jail
locks.
"He man w ho lights two candles to
think by am Hindi' to want fur light to
wdrk by.
"Ho time spent In buihlin' air cas
tles would nurvide de world wid taters
at a cent a bushel.
"Honesty am a good policy, but it
am w ise to wait an' see w hat tie odder
feller am iutcmlin' to do.
"You can't cotch pork in a dii-c-lxtt,
nor pav your taxes will lottery tickets
dat didn't draw.
"Now, Bind, ler Smith, on behalf of
de members of Mis club i shall pi cs, nl
you wid dis coffee mill. Its intrinsick
walue am not great only lif tv cents
but you will prir.0 de sentiment w hich
acktuatcfl de. givers.- lie ole woman
kin use it to grind coffee or pop-corn,
an' de children kin play boss wid it an'
hurt nolKidy's feclin's. It am a-llus
wound up. It am prcpar'd fur cbery
change of weather. It lubber needs
tin , an' de bellows nel.ber gits outer
order. Take it, Brudder Smith, an
muv luck an' prosperity attend you."'
iho judge attempted to mice bis
feelings, but it was a failure. His
ohin quivered, a lump gathered in bis
throat, and seahling.tears fell into the
hopper of the mill. i'elroil free J'nis.
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River a Cholera Sources.
A
clergMfian who married fom
couples in one hour the other cvcnine
remarked lo a friend that II was "fnsl
work." "Not very," responded hit
friend; "only four knots an hour."
L'Jivaijti Ledger.
TJlC Lutmi lius IL.lv.C up lis luUl..!
that rivers have much to do w ith the
spread of cholera. Paper-makers will bo
interested to know that the severity of
the last cholera epidemic at (irenadsi
has been raced to water contamination,
due to a paper mill. The rags used at
this mill were washed in the at ream
from which (In nada t'ity dravi its
water sunulv. The rars thus washed
came from Valencia and other cholera
centers. No cholera cases had (K-curped
in (irenada up to the time when these
rags were imported. Afterward tlm
cholera spread over the province, fol
lowing in every case the course ol the
infected stream. Ouh one town thus
situated esra'd Infection, and this be
cause its twelve thousand people drank
no river water. (.tor. A, i". Ttleyrum.
It is said that leprosy has .ip)M'r.Hl
at various places in Canada est, the
result of Chinese immigration..
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