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THE
HOME JOURNAL.
VOLUME XXII.
WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE, OCTOBER IT, 1883.
NUMBER 3:.
GENERAL NEWS.
Skhia. Alnbniua, expects soon to have
electric light.
Alabama marble is much used fur
monuments and other purposes.
LaikiR quantities of walnut and poplar
logs from southwest Virginia are shipped
north.
GRF.nNni-i'H, S. C, him n ixipulutinii
of 8,353. An increase of over two thou
sand in three years.
A nitiixiE over tho Mississippi river at
flow Orleans, nt ft rest of thirty million
dollars, is talked of.
The orange crop of Florida this yent
will he one-eight in excess of last year,
to 'tis estimated.
LorwiANA is being grid-ironed villi
railroads mid in consequence hind is ad
vancing iu prices.
Tiieiie iH a Justice of the Pence in
Bunks county, Git., who has held his of.
flee for eight years nnd has never tried
sense, alv.ays getting tic litigni.ts. to
compromise.
Tin-ktonh, si'veiify-eight per cent tin,
has lately hern discovered in Binning
ham, Alti. The lands where the lia 1
occurred are being developed and iwHt
is expected from them.
While blasting on. the site ot the new
bath-house at Iot H)rhif". Ark., re
cently, a new hjiring of hot water was
discovered, thu thermal lluid bursting
forth with a force suflicicul to throw a
stream a distance of fifty feet.
Extensive land s des are reunited in
Arkausns. Splendid tilnher huids, ex
tending up the Sabiuc river, with a river
front ef twenty miles, have lately heeii
pmrhnscd with foreign capita). This
large tract, it is raid, cintniliH
001) feet of timlier.
Since the death of C'lminliord, the last
Royalist nowspupor in France has ceased
publication. It is prohnlile that the
poor pretense if royalty was a costly
haslilo to Chambord after all, and that
it was his purse that opened when a lit
tle advertising was needed.
The will of Mrs. Fillmore, widow of
tho late Pn siih nt, is tho subject of a
contest in a court nt linffulo, New York,
claim lieing mndo that fche was insane
when she niaile it It is another warn
ing ti wealthy pel sons to distribute
their property ns they w ish it before the
call of dentil is heard.
Dritiso September 11,218 raliin pas
sengers entered our Golden Gate, against
9,8S3 for the sumo month hist yen-. The
number of immigrants for the same
mouth was !)2,!)( 0, being o decrease from
the preceding year. The year's immi
gration shows a decrease of about (JO. WD
from the figures of last year.
The South stands low '.n tho scale of
wealth. In Georgip., for exiuiinlo, in
1H80 1210,000,000 represented the aggre
gate value of property ot 1,500,000 peo
l'le, making hut (Kit) per capita, less
than half tho $M0, whieli was tho gen
eral avrago on tho samo basis of valua
tion. However, of tlio (210,000,000
shout (231,000,000 were held by the
whites 817,000 iu number so that the
wealth per capita tf the white citizens
was about 185, not so far below the av
erage. For tho sake of comparison we
nolo that the individual wealth of Great
Britain is the highest in the world. Say
in 1880, an aggregate wealth of l.") bill
ions of dollars divided amongst 32,(1(K),
000 persons., nn averago of $1,100 per
capita, Franco stands next. Popula
tion 3fi.000.000, wealth 37 l.illiou dollars,
sv rape, (1,030. The United States is
Ucxt in order, if !() billion dollars be a
correct valuation, about 18C0 per capita.
Germany with a population of 41 ,000,000
and a wealth of 30 billions, next, the av
erage per capita being (710. rrolmbly
Massachusetts, as a single state, would
head the list of wealth per capita, with
hetwe.iu (1,500 and (1,800 us the aver
se,
Population of the World.
Ike latest estimates by German seien
toA the total population of oui earth
e,m round numbers, as loiiows:
r On Square Inlinu-
Kilnmi'trfK. Maul.
loitnll 9,Ufln,ooo fmmiKm
"rope !).8m,ono 3l!i,ii'n.nt!i
Afric ... .an.non.ono so6. fio.ooo
merles 43.0(10.(100 H'l OO-i.OOO
4t.C0'),000 s:ill,0H(l.OO
Europo is tho most densely populated
i Hie continents; Asia coi'tiuns more
man one-half of the inhabitants oi ine
8'ohe. As long as thcro Is evidently
room for untold millions of peoplo there
need be no fear of over population. Ac
cording to their religious creeds, the
W 1,413,000,000 may bo classified
thU8:-212,000,0H) Catholics, 121,000,
WO TroU'stanU. 81,000.000 Schismatics,
7,00,000 Israelites, 200,000,000 Moham
medans 103,000,000 lirahmins, 423,000,
WO Buddhists and 230,000,000 pagans
The number of Christians aggregate,
therefore, 420,000,000, tho worshi crs
Jt one God are less than one-half the in
habitants of the earth, and 828,000,000
M Ben to idolatry. The foregoing
Utislica reveal the extraordinary fuel
jhat the Catholic rtdigion has only 4,0!)0,
W0 worshipers more than tho other
Christum confession.
AiAsmoNABLH New York yonth has
Wooeeded in getting himself, dubbed
"King of the Dudes." His name is sup
pressed for the sake of a cousin of his
ho it respectable and sensitive hod
Carrier in Philadelphk.
THE R V INK n wi:u..
" What seek yen l.oro, my Utite maid?"
I asked, nn hy l,0 ruined well
Him atood, and looked hh if oh y.-d
l!y tier, was some unholy null,
"TM, not (he hour, tmr UiUlhc loc0,
For iniiiili n Mich an you to roam.
Come, from thy brow Unit Had lHik chaso
And find with me your fin-ci homo I"
''Nny, sir, "tin not cham-c lair-HS me Intfe,
No folly doca lay slip ullcnj,
Tin- hour has f.,r mc mi fi ar,
No t rioiail(. thu wild aceno blond"
'Then Ml mo what Invites your cni
Ha thin place ileau:ee t'.-.rn, for thco?
fciiili lonely vill fxnm ao rare,
For hi huliouM he sorrow free,"
"A lover, air, had I, tut ho
la fur away-erowi orraua' foam
T. a tlioiiM .nd iiiilea from Normandy
A atwiiht-r land la now hia homts"
"On many an eve, like Oil", to-night
Wo atelnil yon blight ataia cuat their apeil
O'er the dark wene, ud knew eaeh llht
That kia-cd thu water ill tlila wcU."
"I, was tho well, lie said to me;
llerp niy love and clear my la srtj
Tim twinkling ataralmvo waa ho,
Steady and true, tho" fc siisi V."
"Jin hade nm cniao whene'er tho aky
Vi yxim w atara of the dipper showed-
And Icii liiiiK from llioae gem on l.ili
tSie, where in yonder will they glowed."
'"niea think of Into; for that aamo hour
That anw me nul h cnih Iwink inn light
Wc u'd draw iil.o Jtt.e tlie niKuet'a power,
To natch tin in in the riletit night,"
"Oh, Sir, llio'unaeetl, no to you,
My lovi r ha.l.a fnnu yomh r alur,
III this old well, lellirtii.n too,
Of hia dear f..lin fhiiu a from afar."
She pausid, and on to l:i l(,lit (;ini fu'd
A look of h"jip, content and love
Hin h tiu.,t wiili dniilit and pain iiiiinix'd,
- Knoiigli the heart of stone to move I
O child -like failh, wo need m -h, tu. ,lti
Than ul.xt tliiK ( in Ih at piraelit yn lda
Whi l e hope noil Iviiat togelher nmr
To hiinlit, r i-l.iia aiol luavetilv titlili.
-II. , Ilr.Muco.
If yon will t-iih: With me some morning
over a hilly section of New Kiiglmd, I
will showyor. my old home. 'J'i.e !i t!o
manufacturing village of Uty 1'oyhood
has become nliwnlft city. Our lamily
residencr, o,iee tho best in town, wiil
sixiii niiiko way for a row of tenement
houses. Oneo tho dingy. )iiny inmed
windows cast niei-ry glances within.
Now, far-sec'.tm witli (he vision of old
age, they look beyond tho busy street,
beyond tho briek-crowiie J hill, with tho
ghosts of an ancient forest waving over
it, nud they seo a low, pr-mi city.
Among its crumbling door-plates they
cim rea I tho names of all tho Ih nuisoii
family save ono, and that Ih on my otlice
door John ltoimlsnn, 5f. D.
Tears, eit, father owned a woolen Mc
tury at the Falls. I snppol'o he was
considered a pwnmw'Ui man in tlio town,
for he held Imi'ilutaiitoHiees niaiiy years.
M'lther died when Jiu-k and I were very
yoirig. Jack and 1 were twins. Few
outbido of our own lamily knew ns apart,
so peoplo called us indiscriminately Jack
or John, lhc niigiiiKirs Knew mat tno
fastest runner was Jack and the loudest
tnllttr was John and everybody knew
that when cue boy was visible the other
must be wit hm hearing distance, -
Fannio and Alice kept house for us.
The poor girls must have had an iincom
fortablo time of it with Jack nnd I. It
was doubtless a hapiiy day for them
when wo were pushed oft' to tho acad
emy some twenty miles distant, with the
promise that if wo nenaveii ourselves
and tho teachers thought anything could
lio mado of ns we could tit lor college.
"Now, young men, if you go to piny,
co pranks and don't attend to your
books, you'll walk homo and go to
work," father said, as no arovo nwny
from tho boamuie-hoiiso.
Father was a man of ins word and we
coverncd ourselves accordingly, al
though wo managed to have somo pretty
gay times. At tho end of three years
wo had completed our -nr. j'aincr
curio down to the exhibition and lis
tened complacently while wo shouted
forth our lofty aspirations ana our
sweeping denunciations against the fool
ish world. Wo went homo fooling tlmt
wo wcro just tho men to rovolutioniao
society. Four years seemed a long time
before we conht liegin nnd I was nfraid
somo of tlio other fellows would pot
ahead of us and right nil tho wrongs by
Viro wo we're out of college.
What plans wo mado that summer.
Of course, wo wero going to study for a
profcs.sioi), and wo would always be part
ners, lint, what profession would best
i-Hhi.r th interests of tho human race
and tho credit of tho Pennison family ?
1 was in favor of studying mediciuo, but
.lack used to say that ho didn't want t
(.pond his life doctoring flick bailies or
loultincr bread nou tlecs.
One ilav after wo had had a more than
usually earnest discussion wo went into
I he house nud found father sitting in his
..rm.xlmir unconscious. Ho had lieetl
,wl,li.tilv stricken with tmralysis. Wc
summoned the doctors and they told
in thiil. lie could never bo well again jn
mind or bodv, although ho might live
for years. W" all boro our affliction ns
well as we could. .Tuck and 1 saw that
must look after tlm mill and tin
family, and that the umvgeucrnto world
must lixik after itself. We divided the
work between us and got on very v-eii.
One morning tho lust of August, Jack
came to me and satd
i.T.dm. 1 want vou to go to collegi
nr. ni. Iwitli needed here. I can
hire help and tako care of the factory
well enough. I like it first rate. Ton
i...i with a dootor vacations and it
. t tikn vou so very long to get
., i. w., must have one profes-
ioual man in the family, and ymi know
t never did care a great deal about
LE medicine. Now . pack . your
Tfirst I wouid not M to the pop
A.1 . . n ft wiis lust what J
osition, dui seeiy T V
bid been wishing PPPen "at
rosily bverearno my scruples and the
next week I started' for Dartmouth.
I remember how Choery iin)k IHt'd to
look h:it tt'.r.f'uing when tho stage rat
t'odnpto the door.
"Don't bo iu a hurry," he said, an we
lifted in tho trunk. "I shall get along
all right, (lood luck, old 1o-j" ami
heard hoi whistling as we slowlV climbed
tilt) hill-.
What with the hazing nml without
Jack I was u thoroughly hiistirahle bov
for tho next month. )ly tlic- tlili-d day
aftet my a-ri-al nl ilanover, t had de
cided that running a factory was tin
most delightf Al occupation in the World.
I wroto Jack that I hud decided it eome
homo When the term was out. t tilled
lonr leltels with descriptions of tho im
bhivcmeiits that wo could make nt the
FalU. Wo would run a ncwsiia)er, I
said. We h-otdil ai It the (7;i(n,
and it Rhmild combine tho interests of
literature nnd the wool trade. In time
we would go to the Henate-.
To these plan", elaborated" Hit many
pages of foolscap, Jack replied with a
loconio "Stop your homesick nonsense,
and count your bones when you've extra
time."
Ik-fore tli1! t'.irte months were over I
hten'Jlo qmto contented, nnd decided
not to go home, "esiiecially if Juck
dix-sn't want mo," I thought, feeling a
little injured. Bo I did not go home till
tho summer v.uiiti"", Jnt'd jlpju -.t't-eil to
lie in eiiH'ilt'iit spirits and I went away
feeling that he wus having quito the
best of it, and that I was being sacrificed
on tho nltir of family prldtS Pinro
Jack was having so film a time t decided
to enjoy my remaining years of martyr
dom. As it waa liefore thedays of rapid
travel and my long vacation was taken
up with study, I was at home Very little.
1 remember thinking every succeeding
Vacation that Jack and I resembled each
other less and less. II;: was getting to
care nothing for good clothes or for go
ing among people. He looked Cummtln
place and t"kvd like Hit) old men of tho
vi!!;tpt
"What a difference education mnhes In
people," I thought, as Jack laughed at
my centnrics'-riht jokes, t cautioned
hi'.n iiow nnd then against fostcrinc a
love of money for I thought him a bit
;Iose. llo always sent hie money
enough to ?'ny tho bills, but there was
ncVeir much margin. Tho factory was
doing a good business and it seemed to
me that I ought to have mor) rpemling
money.
IMiiiig my last year in collego 1 ho-
came very intimate- with a former chum
whoso family was staying iu Hanover.
Tn short I was interested ill my chum's
s!tei Ely chum was studying meili-
cuie. lie Had decided 10 spend two
years iu Germany. His mother and
sister wero going, and ho urged nie to
form one of the party. I was easily p.-r
sitndcd that nothing but two years tn
Germany could ever ninko a successful
Jiractitioner of me. I wroto the same to
'nek along with tho request that the
necessary funds be provided. Tho an
swer came by return mailt
"It s hard tunes," lio wrote, "and I
cannot get tho money."
I was angry. JaeK was carrying ins
hoarding a little too far. I sat down
and answered his letter in short but
P'-reniptory terms. My letters to Jack
were all short now.
"You nro forgetting," I wrote, "that
a part of tho factory belongs to me.
Dense send mo tho money soon, ns 1
havo no time to come homo for it. We
aro to sail directly after Commence
ment." I felt uncomfortable after I had
posted the letters, and I Wandered un
easily about the streets that evening. A
prnyer-mecllhg was going on in ono ot
(lie churches as I passed. I turned back
md went iu jnst in time for tho last
hymn. They wero singing "There is
Vht for the weary." I sang too, but I
camo out a measuro or two abend nnd so
ILsturbcd a gentleman in the next pew
that he turned around to look at me. 1
recognized him then. Ho was Mr.
Hanson, n former business acquaintance
ir my father. After the. services he
shook hands, smiling, and asked if I
wasn't trying to sing him over tlio .Tor
laii a little too fast for a doctor. Then
he said ho hoped I was going homo to
luck soon for lie needed rest, and, judg
ing by my singing, I wnsn t in tin-east 1
weary. Something in his tono alarmed
me niid I followed him up the street nsk-
inor him (tueatioUB until, alter bodiu hesi
tation, ho told mo tho whole story, lie
had just returned from the Falls, Jack
hail been bleeding at tlio lungs, II.
was in a very weak condition, but would
not lot mo know until 1 was tnrougii my
studios. A business man told Mr. Mini-
son privately t hat tho factory had not
belonged to my father since ins mness.
md that business troubles had cnused
(he shock from which ho had never ral
lied. Jack hnd known all this from the
first, but had hepgod tlio owners of the
mill to keep tho matter secret until T
was through coiiego. He hnd worked
for a salary and had supported tho whole
family, keeping mo like a prince all thu
while 1 was grunuiiuig.
I started diroctly lor nomo, roncumg
ilm Fulls tho next evening. It was
mite Into, so I did not arouse the house
hut climbed in tho window. There was
light burning in Jack's room as I wont
safely up stairs and entered, l wish i
oiihl forget tno next nan uour. niy
u tter lav freshly opened upon the table
md Jack had commenced a letter to mo.
ifo had written "My Dear Brother,"
ho pen was yet in his hand and the ink
vas not dry, but he was forovcr beyond
iiv li.Hnrs or wordB of mine.
It all happened years ago, but even
iow I would give- two years of my life to
Uavo asked Juok's lorgivenens. -
The velocity at which a man can move
tin- nn in n ilontist's. a ciunrter of a milt
mi-ma under ( liierent niuiumiw-
awry, can bo easily traversed in three
and ouo-half ruinutes, while in chasing
a train, or hurrying to the bank just be-
r l .-- a man rha eiLU l'UQ
lore closing ntuo, - -
800 yards in twenty minutes uu w
wings to do it. jsuravuv.
tery yonne mnn onght to take a vi-
aiiv if ha has a Kill. "
will cunble her to retire at an early nour
wl(c!i ho is away, and thtts get a mucu-
peeded rest, A'om oennna
VYORKEHS IS STHAW;
ro,d Vh. ftink mill Mrll lie n.U;-nr la
.MiiMfirbaartl.
Cerhiih parts bf Worcester Minty and
the wML-riipuHhf Norfolk nfToid more
than (111 average number of chances for
tho employment of women, and they are
all well improved. In nddition to the
millSi stbresj brinting ofllcesi .telegraph
ollleeO, hillilnrly nnd tlresstuakiiig psi.-ili-lishments,
etc., which are oixmi to fe
males in other parts of the StntOj the
manufacture of straw hats nflords a to
speetablo hnd pleasant employment to a
largo number. About half of tho indus
try in the United Slates Is in M issachu-
setts, nnd tho g-cater part nf this In the
section named abovu. flU nf gtiVcu
thousand hands are employed in tho
business, probably three-fourths (if them
being females. Fifteen years ngd the
number of peiiplo employed iu this
branch of industry In iliussnchtlsetts
was oVef ll.fltlO, !)lj per IjPul, being fe
inales. Sineo the general introduction
of straw Bowing machines the percentage
of females has been somewhat reduced.
During' Ilia Jiiit yrnr titpatt ftinm-.fiic-tories
produced alsmt 10,000,000 hats,
a small proportion being felts, plush and
velvets. On tho straws the winding the
braid for tlio machines, the sewing,
wlriMrti Ill'itisS nud trimhilng, in Hum by
womeil. On tho other varieties, except,
perhaps, felts, woman's work is a large
part of tho labor required. Where the
girls all conic from is a question quite
eommthi ft-oW strangers, for although
everybody knows that this Stata is nu
merically great on the woman qui stioli the
proportion seems out tit reason in a
strmV towth Maine tnniisheft large
numlier of a superior class of work -girls.
The towns down Fast offer few oppo -tunities
for employment, and tho daugh
ters of the fanners nnd the sisters of the
captafun nnd mates of the sailing Craft
oj tlmt sturdy Rtato t'olne to wUik In the
straw shop. Many join the ranks of the
"straw girls' art) industrious nud save
money to carry homo in tho summer,
when the season closes. Otbcrsconicfrotn
comfortable homes to see a little of tin
world beyond their fwll Cotnrttriheiilth.
A lut-fjt) nttrr.lM-r collie nut for the ob
ject of petting n husband all, not but
that is thu result, nevertheless, so that
in "straw towns," iu nboiit half the mar
riages, it is flufe to assume flint tho bet-t-
r hair of her parents belong Ih Maine.
Aliout half oflhe twenty-live or thirty
men engaged in the business in the sec
tion considered tintr RlicCccded in put
ting by something for it rainy day
some of them enough of worldly Wealth
for quito a heavy rain. In several caso
this condition has been reached, eithei
by luck or jibiek, from Very small be
ginnings. One whosO Possessions now
are estimated among the hundreds 1 1
thousands started some twenty years
ago with less than a thomand dollars.
Another opened his business career in a
city of the Middle SI lies with a kit ol
tools or renovating old straw lints and a
capital of SHii. Tilings are different
with him now.
Another began life in a strnw factor;
in a subordinate position, won the good
will of the proprietor, was taken into
partnership, nnd to-day is nt tho head
of one of the large concerns ill the Stub;
and with a name good on paper for tens
of thousands.
These nro some of those regarded nB
successful in business. Of course there
are examples of failure also, men who
havo made nnd lost and others who
seem destined to win little iu the pur
suit of riches unless in the be! tcr direc
tion of "laying np treasures in heaven."
Jlnton Olobn.
The Troubles of a
Hoy.
Foor boy I Down to his grave ho is
self-willed, disobedient, foolish, slow to
learn, hard to manage, born to evil, and
full of corrections ns a proof-sheet. II.
reaches in tho fenco-corner for a black
berry and picks np a "piscn" vino, nnd
so he Icarus too late the minohebenght
was "salted."
He is spanked in tho cradlo, flogged
at school, nud scourged all tho rest of
his life, and still it seems to do him no
good. Ho lives under an unchangeable
law of pains nnd penalties. Incessantly
his ears nro boxed, to every "Thou shnlt
not" is appended a threatening "nnd if
you do," nnd eveiy thundering "Thou
shall" is seconded' by the terrifying "or
you'll wish you had." Inexorablo is
the master of bis school. He can appeal
to no Board of Fardons. No tender
hearted Governor, figuring for ro-cleo-
tion, overlooks his misdeeds, lho ad
ministration has no need of him or bis
influence. Do not keep such late hours,
and do not eat hot suppers nt midnight.
Rut nil the same he docs keep into hours
and have good times on tho sly, poor
boy, thinking if he gets in at roll-call it
will never be known, lint ns no answers
to his nnrno tlio order is entered, "Dock
that man's life ten yenrs." Tako care of
your teeth IB a regulation of tho school.
But, while nobody is looking, tho fool
ish bov lets his teeth tako care of thorn-
s-lves. So no is sentenced to lose nan
his teeth and fined $150, to bo paid over
to the nearest dentist having jurisdic
tion. "Do not Into on that broken
tooth." eomos t'io command from the
hond of tho tnblo. But the boy tries it
iust to seo what the master will do about
it, and instantly he gets such a box on
tho inw that makes him think he has
bit on a thunderbolt. It is not a bnil
able offonoo. and execution of sentence
cannot be postponed nntil next torm of
court "Do not run through the wet
crass in your slippers," is shouted to
himfrom tlieuo-stuirs window. The in
stant the window is closed he skips
ncross the Inwnr knowinor no one can see
him, and for this he is collared and led
into the bouse, doubled np with rhenmn
tism for ton years, or perhaps tortured
all tho rest nf bis life. He plays lawn
tennis until he streams from every pore
Then ho hastens to refresh himself with
a glass of clear, oold ice-water. "If yon
drink that ice-water," says his watchful
master, "I will kill yon' He believes
that no one could be so cruel as that, and
drinks tho ieo-water. Often the condi
tions arc ripe for the judgment, and the
sentence is carried into execution.
Sometimes the execution of this sentence
is preceded by hours or days of fearful
flgony, to teach him that these law .xc
pot to be trifled wjtb, Bubdkt.
JUDGE LYNCH AT IIOMK.
W At TilEt HJt H THIM!
OUT Mliftf;
tlrlSj lrrrlrilii at .lira wdi Vmn.
nl n I nrlilK I'lirir-Tlirj llo hn
Mark fllfnllj ilttlik littrrrtilnnilnn.
ifrrtns ths fJMroit Prte tress.)
if oil tun V hnVe scon sireet riot. That
is simply lie outer Alleles r n whirlpool,
A shower of brick-bats a Biirgo ii nud
down It down broken head?. a cry of
"pOllcci1' nnd your crowd scatters like
.beep, and slinks nwny like ents.
A mou sets out to resist iiiu uuiuo.i
ties; Sine out of every ten men in it
are Cowards Thy boast and brag nnd
encourage, bnt tlley keep theif own
liodics in tho back gronnd. They w.tnt
to see soffloone hurt, but they know that
law will triumph, rtfifl they want to lie
able to prove that they o simply
lookers-on. One bravo man wiil walk
into a tool) nn1 defy (tnd over awe it.
A brutrtl ontrago has been cofn.f'iled.
It is an nffair that stirs the blood of sons
and brothers nd brings a dangerous
light to tho eyes of hus'i.lhds and fathers.
There is no boasting or shouting. l.i'"ts
of men gather here and there, and they
spcuk with fierce earnestness, but in
low vdioc;!; N? mob surges up and
diwn no wild yells fefttl thi ir no
cowards furnish drink to excito yo'i'iiiy
men to foolish deeds.
"Lynch him I"
It 19 not nhonte.l, bnt spoken in whis
pers tr tend ih each other s pyn, Jbvery
man has obeyed tho laws (-Very mini
would ncril his life In aldlint to enforce
theffi. but there is a feeling that legal
punishment does not always punish suf-
lieteiitly;
"Lynch him 1"
When men who never pnrtako of
mei'.l without bowing the head iu prayer
wliisner tlioRB words, look out I The
benrt burns and thrills.
Tut tho time I
iiiu
being law is nothing. 1' at hers whisper
it to sons, brothers to each other, mer
chants to mechanics. laps lighten and
grow palci teeth shut close, eyes Hash
as volt ncvef BaW lliettl befur",
Tho knots of men swell into gfotipfi
tlio groups consolidate into a crowd.
Tho lender takes his place, nnd instinc
tively tho crowd realiyie that ho is the
proper person. Speeches nnd orations
ure not m order ropes are !
See how I Teeth shut tighter ns the
crowd moves. Not n man would turn
back from a loaded cannon. It moves
ahead, but it swirls and hisses and gur
gles like a river vexed by rocks, Jt, is
tho whispers -the quick answers the
palo faces whieli tell you what danger
mrkB in the crowd. A noisy crowd can
bo scattered. It will fall to pieces ol
tself. A silent body of men wiil take
your life if every nam haa to peril his
own.
It is tho jail. Key or no key, the
prisoner tnltst come out, The crowd
would have him if a score of gfatt.-l
doors had to be battered down. He does
mt plead for mercy. Ono look around
'iiiu tells him that his life is hungered
or with such intensity that prayers
xonld lo mockery. Ho may look up at
the harvest moon and star-studded
heavens, bnt ho sees nothing. He is
du.ed nnd awed by tho grim silence of
the band.
"Halt I"
No voico commands, but hero is the
tree. Tlio whirlpool stands still for a
moment. Faces grow a littlo whiter,
mt tlio eves of every man show a dogged
letermiuation that would lila.e into des
ecration if opposed. The noose is rapu'
ly adjusted, thero is a falling back, and
with a groan of terror and despair trem
bling on his lips tho guilty wretch swings
in tlio air. The croak of tho limb tlio
lis of a night, bird tho deep breathing
f
men aro plainly heard as tho body
-iwings to nnd fro or t;;rns round and
ound ns the dentil strugglo goes on.
It is morning. Merchants are behind
heir counters, mechanics at tiic bench.
sons at school, Thero is no sigi tn.it
lust night was not ono of tranquility anil
peace. iMen spealc again, women ami
children lunch i.s they walk abroad the
cyclone has passed. Tho jail doors are
being repaired inn tree no longer Holds
corpse, nud a stranger would iook upon
this face and that and whisper to him-
nelf:
"What good-naturo I see in every
ine of their countenances I They are
obedient to law and enforce the best (.
order."
Riots are the work of demagogues and
boasters. Mobs aro created by cowards.
When men turn out with abut teeth ami
whispered voices, to tako tho law into
their own hands. Judgo Lynch has
opened court aud sentenced a man to die.
American Drinks In Russia.
A letter from Moscow says; "Amcri
... .. .. . . i , ...
oan drniKs are ino inu-si novenj
brought from the country of the iiuiKees
to that of the Czar. Now you hear men
in all the hotels and largo vodka shops
hero asking for American drinks, and
many a joke is cracked on such occa
sions. I heard a goutlemnn say: n
"I prcfor Americnn to Russian.
"What American to what liussian?
he was asked by a fellow countryman.
"Spirits, of course."
"In what sense?" . .
"In nny seme tho Americnn drink in-
PA Tipsy Russian remarked: "I feci I
am getting Americanized.'
Americnn drinks are in good demand
here, nnd the Treasury reaps a large
profit from them. Yet the word "Amer
lean," being used too often, and particu
larly by loose tongues, annoys the auto
cratio Government in good earnest. It
Is very probable that Amerioau
like Nihilist pamphlets, will soon bo put
on the list of forbidden things.
Revenue. The roturns for the first
"?u tw .ehedule of interna)
United
K decrease Tef revenue for July,
the year.
II0MKWAKI) HOUND
WHY TIIKY WI'llP. TltAVKI.IMi TO
W.KI id AINU.
An SttA r.'iir(f f.rnvliitf I Inh lla-l.lnii
Tlirin rt i in Two llorm-i ( nn t'nrrt
Tbrm.
A lettef from Cleveland, Ohio, to tin
New York sdr."! Two duit-covcred
horses, a cov red wiuoli c .ntniiiing a
man and n woman, with n long rope, to
winch was ! father! nil aged yellow dog,
appeared on the street here recently.
The man was dark and swarthy, witli a
white beard nud long flowing litur. the
woman was dressed iu a faded calico,
her if k in was as dark ns her husband's,
nnd her face was covered w ith wrinkles.
"Mt name is Harah Stafford, nnd tins
is niv husband, Timothy Stafford," said
the woman. "We lives, or ut least wo
used to live, tweutv-eighl miles from
l'ortlMid, State of Maine. For four
years we've l".'"n galavantiu' about out
West, and are now ci onr way homo,
thankfnl that we vo liad onr lives pre
served, fr-t we've been in some nlmijdity
tight places, alii! cverul times looked
death in the face."
lrs. Stafford lighted a little black
pipe, and n'r pulling vigorously, colb
tinned:
"Wo don't look like Mormons, do we?
Well, wc ain't Mormons any more?, b"t
we (Wire was. The fools niu't nil (lend
vet. which iiCfo'ints for our boin' hero
to-day. You see, m.V Timothy was nl
ways'siiseeplilile, and I had to d" this,
that, and the other thing if I wanted to
live with him in peace. Well, one day
while he was euttin' grass in tlio meader
a lcniiifh man with nn nwful oily tonguo
came along and asked him to join the
Mornious.
"JVow, so far as I was concerned, I
hated Mormons wus than I did pien;
i but when Timothy brought tho man to
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mini use io iuo nou t-iuoi iiiu inn
Kisler Flnfforil, I sorter warmed up to
him and listen, d what he said. Oil, ho
painted an awful pretty ficpiro of Utah,
where nil w.w love nnd happine.is, nnd
win-re there was no buekhitin' or slander,
lie rend to ns from bin Bible nud prayed
and se; nied so good that Timothy here
w:in nclually struck, while 1 well, J
guess I was a little bit struck too.
Well, to nuiuo n long story snort, as
(lie savin' is. Timothy nnd I were ier-
snu.ded" to sell our farm nnd go to I'lah.
We pot there in time and was welcomed
by tlie Mormon Chur ill. ilia deacons
aiid other big guns mado a great fuss
over Timothy, whils tho women looked
aftef f?e, One old fellow with n K ng
neck and a rYoioVd leg said we must liny
a farm at once ami prepare for great re
sponsibilities. He then winked kind of
ml-tirions like nt Timothy aud went
away, Timothy allowed that ho meant
to elect him to some hif1' oftlco in tho
Church, bnt I told him otlice didn't bring
in bread nnd butter, so I guessed We'd
poi-lpcno biiyin' the larni till wo found
out how wo liked tlio community. 8d
we rented n small house hear tho town,
and held on to our cash. I'd liwn a
K-rapin' and diggiu' lor nigh onto thirty
years, and didn't propose toget swindled
if I knew it.
"Well, lifter we'd bin thero a while,
along comes a squad of tho deacons,
who looked pious and resigned like, and
said that Timothy ought to tako another
wife, a young woman who could bo a
daughter to me, and comfort my declin.
ing years. Well, sir, It they d slim mo
down thero I wouldn't havo bccll mort
surprised. After I had collected mj
thoughts a little bit I went into the
kitchen, and got a pot of bilin' water,
and then I sailed .nto them deacons.
Scatter ! you better believe they did. I
thought they'd break their pious necks
t'yin' to get over the fence, Tho gate
was too small for 'cm, nnd they went
down tlie road liken hurricane. 1 picked
up n rake and went after 'cm, nnd if I
didn't basto tho hindermost my linmi
ain't Sarah Stafford. I'll win rant there
wasn't two inches of sound hide left ou
him. When 1 got back to tho houso T
found Timothy in a terrible rage. lit
said I didn't have his ph'asuro or com
fort nt heart, and that 1 dldn t love htm
liko I used to in Maise. llo even told
me that I was a-gettiu' too old for him.
and he ought to iiave a young wife if ho
wilm goin to ho a liighoockalorum in the
Church. Well, sir, when ho told me
hat I used the rake on him."
Mr. Stafford attempted to speak nt
this juncture, but his wife shut him up
with oiio decided look and continued:
"lie don't liko to bear what a fool he
was among them Mormons. Now, I
could havo married tlio long-ueekcd
deacon I sisike of a short timo ngo, but
Timothy had been, my mainstay and
guide for thirty year aud I was satisfied.
It made mo terrible mad, though, to bear
him jubbcrin' about a young wife, jest
as if I warn't good 'nough for him. But
I took him by the hand and left tho
country. Wo walked until morniu' and
put up at a farm house. I bought them
horses and Hint waffon of tho farmer,
and kiveroii tlio wagon myself with mu
liu. Since then wo'vo been trnvolin to
ward Maine ns fast as thorn critters will
carry us, and when we git thero wo
nevA- leave again nntil they carry us out
feet first So there, young man, is our
slory. It s as true ns gospci, mm "
teach nny old fools iu una eiu....j
stuy nt home, mind their ousiuchb, .
? .... .1 .n a.n nnilt it
lot tho juoruious .om, J -r , , " ...
in your paper, altnouguxu .
my old neighbors down in Maine to see
it. . ... i :ma1i,
Mrs. Stafford, wnn u ""71
low dog, nud jaded horses, left for Uio
East
A Skssatios. A sensation has been
caused in Baxter street, Now York, by
the clandestine marriage of a Christian
resident of that stroot with tho daughter
of a Jewish neighbor.
What a hnppy woyof putting thing
(he real poet has 1 iNow, minis, insieaa
of saying "Beware ot pickpockets I" ex
presses tho snmo idoa by "A obiels
among ye takin' note." .
The Old Scrap-Box.
Mr. Peters, a somewhat ecccntrio old
merchant, stuck np a notice in a window
t his store that thero was a "wry wanted,
md tho card remained there a great
tvhilo before ho got tho lioy ho was after,
lohn Simmons, nnd C'hailey Jones, and
no or two beside, wero taken lor a fow
days, but nono of them stood trinl.
Mr. Teton bad a peculiar wy of trying
them. Thero was a huge, long box in
tho attio full of old nails and screws, nud
miscellaneous bits of rusty hardware,
and when a now boy camo, the old gen
tleman presently found occasion to send
him np there to set tho box to rights,
nnd judged the finality of tho boy by the
way ho managed tho work. All puttered
over it moro or lens, but soon gnvo it np
in disgu.it, and reported that thero was
nothing thero worth saving.
At last Crawford Mills was hired. Ua
knew nono of the other Ixiys, nnd so did
his errands in blissful iguornnco of tho
"long box" nntil the second morning of
his stay, when iu a leisuro hour he was
' nt to put it in order. The morning
passed, dinner-time came, nnd still Craw
ford hnd not nppenred from tho attic.
At hist Mr. Teters culled him. "Got
through ?"
"Jfo, Bir; there is ever so much moro
to dll.''
"All right; it is dinner-time now; you
may go buck to it nfter dinner."
After dinner back ho went; nil tho
short afternoon he was not heard from,
but just as Mr. Peters was deciding to
c ill him again, ho npeareil.
"I vo done my best, sir, ho said,
"and down nt tlie very bottom of tlm
box I found this." "This" was a live
(1- I'ar gold piece.
"That's a queer place for gold," said
Mr. Peters. "It's good yoit found it;
w ell, sir, I suppose yon will bo on hand
to-morrow morning?" This ho said,
putting tho gold-piece in his pocket
book. After Crawford had said good-night
and gone, Mr. Peters t'Hik the lantern
and went slowly up the attio stairs.
There was the long deep box in which
the rubbish of twenty-five years had
gathered, Crawford had evidently been
lo thu bottom of it; he had fitted in
p:eees of shingle to make compartments,
and in tlio diftcrent tills ho had placed
Hie articles witli bits of shinglo laid on
lop labelled thus : " O.mhI screws."
"1'i-etty gixsl nnils." "Picture nails."
".Small" keys somewhat bent." "Picture
h-inks." "Pieces of iron, whose nso I
ilin'tknow." Soon through the long
Im. In jH-rfeet order it wasat last, and
vei-v little that could really bo called
im. fill was to be found within it. But
Mr. Peters, ns he read the labels, laughed
nnd said, "If we aro not both mistaken,
I 1 avo found a boy, and he has found a
f ii i une.
Sure enor.gh, the sign disappeared
fiom tlie window aud was seen no more.
Crawford became tho well-known errand-boy
of the firm of Peters k Co.
lie had a little room neatly fitted up,
next to tlio attic, where ho spent his
evenings, and at the foot of the bed hung
n motto which Mr. Peters gave him.
"It tells your fortuno for you, don't fo;--m.i
If." he said when he handed it to
f Crawford; nud the boy laughed and read
it curiously, "lie that is laithlul in mat
which is least, is faithful ulso in much."
All this happened years ago. Craw
ford MiHs iH nn errand boy no moro, but
the firm is Peters, Mills & Co., a young
nian and a rich man.
A Philadelphia Hero.
Benders' will remember Charles
H 'lido's hero, who saved many lives
fiom drowning, and m whose Dentin tun
warm-hearted novelist addressed tho
Americnn public n'irly ten years ngo,
But in Philadelphia l.hi'y have just dis
covered a modest young man of about
thirty who, if his exploits are to be
measured simply by the numlier of Iivcb
he has snveil, is a greater hero Utan
James Lambert "Roddy" Shannon,
who is a hnrd-working stovedore in
Flolndolphin, living in an humble frame
tenemouiln "Crooked-alley," near the
wharves, is ar credited with an astonish
in l- number of rescttes of no less than
one hundred nnd sixty-three men and
I a vs. He snys ho never ' 'got a woman'
in his life, which is partly to b? account
ed for by tho fact that his life-.nving
W' rk seems to have been dono nbontbe
wl .arves. He b?gan when he was ton
( i rs old, nnd hns been nt it ever since,
Wi'iiuho. ns ho said modestly to a re
porter: "It's my nature to drop in if 1
sei a anybody in trouble, and I havo
pulled out a tidy fow." But ho remarked
di prceatuigly : "it loons as wongn
somebody was making a fuss about noth
ing. They are always tumbling in aliout
lu re," ho said, "and I never get more
than thank you from any of them, and
sometimes I dou't even get that. The
first thing a man docs when he s brought
ashore is to shout for his hat." He ex
plained that they were usually poor men
and he wanted nothing. It wasastrango
ir.mv of fortune that Shannon, who
saved so many from the water, lost his
seemed io uiiyo uu'"-- r . i TT.
I for the water, WW "55f
depth, and drowned wiui muw
and boys looking on wno am uu.
that he was not in sport Congressman
fi--..,-in. fntrrflstinflr himself to obtain
a Government medal for Shannon, who
is modestly grateful for this nnd other
-thm Hons, but Beems disposed to think
that the chance to earn moro than 812 a
week for his wife and lour children,
would be a plensanter reward than many
medals.
Tn on aid of an English railway oar-
riage recently refused to allow a natural
ist to carry a live hedgehog with him.
Tho traveler, indignant, puiica a lurtie
from his wallet and said: "lake this,
to ;" but the guard replied, good-naturedly:
"Ho, no. sir. It's dogs yon can't
curry, and dogs Is dogs, cats is dogs, and
'e.Us'ogs is dogs, but turtlos is hinseeta.
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