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LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1887.
NO. 20.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.
LEBAXCT LOPGE. !TO. ". A F. A. M : MmU
at Uitr new bail la siuoult Bloc, c a Saturday
avenue, on or Mton toe lull moon.
j J WASSOJT, W. M.
A SOT tODGF, XO. 47. I. O. O. Moll Sat
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LEBANON OREGOX.
tf Ota In Dr. Powell' Rea'deaca.
F. M. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Notary Public and General Insurance Agt.
5 UCBASOX. OBEOOK.
Collection, and other business promptly attended to.
OSlca on Main street.
DR. A. H. PETERSON,
SURGICAL DENTIST,
Filling and Extracting Teeth a Specialty.
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Office tn resMenoe, on V,in street, next door north
U C. M nta-ue's naw reaideuee. A I wort warranted.
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UEBAiroX. OBEOOJT.
harla. Hair CatUnt. and Sbampoolsj In the
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BEST STYLES.
"Patronage rrspectfally eoUoned.
St. Charles Hotel,
LEBANON. Oregon.
ST. W. Corner IfVn and Bbmta Streets, two
Kastot II Drpo.
J. NIXON, - Proprietor.
Table Supplied with the Best the Market
Affords.
ample Kooma and the Brat Acroasnodationa for
Commercial men.
-GENERAL STAGE OFFICE.-
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Harness and Sidd'es Repaired Promptly
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LEBANON
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Preprleters.
Fresh and Salted Beef and
Pork,
MUTTON,
PORK, SAUSACE,
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HAM.
Bacoa as Lard always on HaM.
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. MANUFACTURES OF.
Tin, Copper, Sheet-Iron Ware,
EVE SPOUT, Etc.
All kinds of Repairing
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Brownsville, Oregon.
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.carry the largest and beet assorted stock of Vehicles on the Northwest
Coast. All our work is built especially Tor this trade and fully warranted.
Send for new 1887 catalogue.
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Front Street, Portland, Oregon.
Oar goods ar sold by F. II. ROSCOE & CO., Hardware Dealers, Lebanon, Or.
G-. E. HARDY,
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THE SONG THE SlffENS SANO.
In sea cares diirk nnd rorlis whom hides
The restlesn wind that haunts the tea.
Where murmuring wares and moaning tide
Chant their unceasltip mrlorty:
In meadows bright with fadeless spring.
Where dead men's bones the Htrht detllaa,
What were the sonK thry used to sing
The utrons of this sunny islof
Soft Hreathed snt fendor, swct mud low.
Across the waters dark and wild.
The wanderer heard their numbers Bow,
And all his soul their charm bCfruUed;
Swift through the breakers' snowy foam
He drove his bark with panting breath,
Fonrrttinn wife and child and home,
V hile sirens sang him to his death.
We know their sonps thryhad but one
Odysseus beard th fateful thing;
And madness seized Laertes' son.
Who heard "The Flower, that Bloom la
Spring:"
And still unchanged In air or word.
The sirens sintr. with tireless breath.
The same old song I'lrsses beard.
And with it still sing men to death.
Sobfrl J. BuriUttt, in Bvoilf EoU.
PNEUMATIC GUNS.
Aji En grll ah Journal cm the Great
American Invention.
ft Admits That America Tlas Again Revolu
tionized the Krlenr. of War KtTrx-t
of Giant Dynamite Shells 1'pou
Inrlnrllile Ironclads.
Tlie problem of flritig or, rather, pro
pellinjr slu-lU fill.-il withbirhexlosires
mar be !aiJ to have len sati-faotorilv
olretl by the AnK-tit-au. Tentative
exj)erim(nt4 !n that direction hare been
carried on for the lar"t two years with
powder guns by oilieers of tiie Uniteti
States anvy. Eatly in 185 trials were
made witii dj uamite'sheils at Port Lo
bos, Cti., under the supervision of Gen
eral Kelton. a-dted by Lieuteti.iut
Quinan, cf the Fourth L'nltetl Statef
Artillery. The piece of ordnance ued
arns a eoudfiitned three-inch ritlwl
wrought-lrn gun. iir. ljuiuaniu per
n loadi-d the she!!, each shell an
donated threv-ii:ch ritle projectile
jeing' charfT'-d with c-fen ounces ol
lynamiJe. The first projecting chnrjre
a quarter-pound ofrdiary powder
is nsi-d in the L'ntttnl States artillery,
itibieijiieiit y iiu-renr.-d to half a ound
ind one iti:d- In the first and si-t-nd
dis-harjre. the shells did ju.t what
expwted f them: they dhl not tx
pule until they stiiuk the tar t.
rvM-k one hniidr.'d yards from the jrtm.
When the thiid chalre wr tirel, how
ever, Ihe explosion of the charge, the
burtin of tlie ri'icll and the shatieritt? i
)l the g'.sn. appeaieil to be simultane
ous the piece tf ordnance l-einp trn
.nto fragincnts. This may In? said t
have lx-en just what was xp etcd jtnd
intended, the I'M.-et leiiis 'o deinoit-
l rate how far a s-lull !o:nkd with n j
high explosive may be fired from onli-1
tarygiinsif the propelling eh.irye is
aropcrly regtilatHl.
Suberuentlr, tti:ils were made e-
the Ptomae, near Washington, by the
United St.it. !nrnaiTitte Projectile Com
pany with Snider dynamite pnjcctile.s. i
c. : : 1. 1 1 . . '
( oiu Mvinru Mieii", earn nig cieien-
pound biirtitig charges of uitro-gida-ine,
were firel against a Ktie of rock
ne thousand yan'.s distant. Tlie ex-ierim-n:s
wore regnnied as a ucee
n every re?pect, and as n conclusive
aroof of the destructive power of cix
nch shells, the latter exploding on
striking the target, and doing good
execution on the rtx k. l?nt 90 far, all
sttempts to throw larger charges of
high explopives out of powder gun
jave failed. At least four gun have leen
urst at Sandy Pook; one recently,
laving failed in the attempt to throw
tncfiinphorated explosive gelatine, the
rery much less sensitive camphorated
ix'plosive gelatine was resorted to.
This Is also less powerful than the un
erophornted, aud requires very strong
titial detonation by fulminate of tner
ury and dj-namite -or gun-cotton to
tttain its fullest development of
trength. In no ease have the requisite
ietonatora of fulminate of mercury
een thrown, as these are very sensi
ive to explosion, by the shock which
hey receive in the powder gun. All
lie experiments made were instructive,
iut they were also destructive of the
;uns.
The problem of propelling shells
illed with high explosives, with safety
o the guns and to those discharging
hern, was not sat sfactorily settled
intil Lientenaut Zalliski, of the Fifth
Cnited States Artili -rr, brought for
vard his pneumatic run, on the Inven
Jon and itnprovemen. of which he had
jeen engaged for some time. This gun
s in reality a tube sixty feet
ong, made of half-inch iron lined with
ine-stxtecnth of an inch of brass, and
iavinsr a bore of eight inches. The
jarrel is supported and stilYened by p
,ight but strong iron frame, at the cen- !
:erof which ii a pivot, nlioiit which
-he iiu may be revolved, the breech I
nd being provided with wheels, which
run upon a circular t.'.ick. The gun is
levatHl and depressed by means of a j
piston, the cylinder of which receive
cir from eight reservoirs each of
-hich is twent- feet long, twelve
inches outside diameter, and made of
iron half ui inch thick placed upon
the framo beneath the barrel, tho air
teing supplied by a compressor. This
piston presses upon the gun just for
ward of the trunnions to elevate the
barrel. Upon the air being allowed V
escape slowly, the barrel is lowered by
gravity. To the pistons of two cyliii
Icrs placed at tho pivot, arc secured
he ends of wire ropes, ouo of which is
tecurcd to the rear part of the frump,
die other to the posite bide. The
gnn may be rapiuly turned in either
direction by admitting air to eithero
the cylinders. An ami at the center of
one of tho trunnions, throughi. which
the compressed air passes to the gun.
operates an auxiliary ralve, which in
turn moves tho main valve, opening
the passr.ge to an air-chamber behind
tlie projectile. From tho instant of
opening the valve, the full pressure of
the air in the reservoirs is exerted upon
the projectile until it reaches tho mnz
zle, when the valves are automatically
closed. The eight reservoirs contain
enough air at one thousand pounds
pressure to discharge the gun
six tiroes; but as they can be continu
ously resnpplied with air by the com
pressor, there need be no delay in
firing.
All the movements of the gun are
co&troUod from the platform at the
kreeoli. -The cartrlcLra iaunckaJ farrn
'fi-oni the tube consists of two parts
s wooden tailpiece fifty -one inches long,
which guides the projectile in its
fight; and a head. The forward por
tion or head is a brass cylinder forty
inches long, having a conical cap
forty iuchcR long. In the tube re
placed one hundred pounds of explo.!
gelatine, through the center of wni. h
extends a core of dj namite; and in the
center of the dynamite, again, is an
exploder of fulminate of mercury,
from which a rod leads to the point '
the cap. As soou as tho latter strikes
an object, the charge explodes. In
oiilor that tho charge may be exploded,
ia case of failure of tho above arrange
ment, a dry battery, ilaced in a little
roeessin the tailpiece of rhe cartridge,
is connected with the fulminate ex
ploder. The battery begins to work
t'poh being brought into contact with
water, nnd tho gelarpo is then ex
ploded. For it. i for nawl warfare, in th
tuht place, that the pneumatic gun o!
Lieutenant Zalinski is intended. Anil
it must bo admitted that, while the
United States are still without the muv!.
needed ships, fortifications and heavy
guns, which would place the country
on a level with other naval powers,
these pneumatie guns will form
very efficient defensive weapons.
Besides mounting them on points
along the coast liable to at
tack by a hostile fleet, they are to
be employed in a more decisive way.
It is admitted that the range of pneu
matic guns is limited 43 compared with
jxHY'Vr guns. An enemy's fleet might
lie beyond the rang f pneumatic guns,
and bombard American orts and cities
with impunity. But it is suggested,
aud appears perfectly feasible, to mount
pneumatie guns on fast sea-going torpedo-boats.
With such boats, aggres
sive action of a very decided and de
cisive character would be possible.
Boats have been designed two hundred
and ten feet lone by twenty-six feet
beam, carrying from one to three of
thee guns, of calibers of from ten and
a half to twelve and a half inehes. The
sjeHls of torpedo-lxiats so armed are to
be from twenty to twenty-tire miles at
hour. The shells are to be thrown a'
t-at one mile, and to contain from tw.
hundred, to five hundred pounds of ex
plosive gelatine, the rapidity of firing
them beiug from one to two ahells evert
two minutes.
The efTect of such shells npon even
he strongest ironclads would 1m? in-resistible.
If dropped upon the deck ol
an enemy's ironclad, they would cer
tainty crush it, for their action would
not be conlined to n simple local per
foration, but the crushing i:i would cli
que over a considerable breadth. Il
idi'S the direct bre-king action at the
toint of impact, thp.v would le a very
Teat transmitted s'lock. which would
ek out and break up the ship at all
eak points in the viciuity. Tho decks
even of the mt heavily srmored ve
ds have les than six inche of armor,
ind they present by far the greater
portion of the target tired at More
over, the most heavily armored ship?,
leaving out of account their decks, h:tve
but a small proportion of the eutire
surface covered with heavy armor.
Should the shell strike the portions of
the armoring too thick for perforation
the tremendous blow, as stated alxtve.
would seek out the neighboring weak
points by the transmitted shock. It
might be assumed as A lmost certain
that the effect of exploding a large
quantity of dynamite or explosive gela
tine upon the turret or the casemate of
a ship would le such as to render the
crew inside incapable for further ac
tion, even if tlie armor were not pene
trated. Supposing, nl.ao, that the shell
should fail to hit the vessel, if it ex
ploded near enough, even if its explo
sion were not sufficient to disrupt the
hull, it would certainly affect the mo
tive power and the steering apparat n.
and thus practically paralyze the ship.
Whilst twelve nnd a half inches is at
present the limit o caliber, there
nothing to hinder th" construction 1 1
gun of sixteen and ; half inch caliber,
and such a gun ce Id throw a chargi
of one thousand ".mis of explosivt
gelatine. The effect of such a fearfu".
missile exploding r board a ship hat"
'better be left to the '.agination; but it
is well to bear in - i';id that throwing
uch charges long .tstauces has be
come perfectly practicable by the intro
duction of the pneumttic gun. Cham
bers' Journal.
ON A CASH BASIS.
A Sub-Treasury Official's That About t ool
Haui's ItUAlness M et lot!-.
Uncle Sam does not deal in credits.
He pays cash and sees that he gets
cash. In our vaults here we have
many thousands of dulhtrs, and we
daily handle nn immense amount, but
we do not receive checks certified or
otherwise. When the b.-nrtlts want to
do business at the sub-treasury they
bring cash, as for instance a local
bank's correspondent In tho country
sends here for so much silver say
f.i.(XH, He sends a check to us and
we notify the local bauk. which then
deposits the money, receiving the check,
and we rdiip tho silver free. We do no
banking business, our duty being to
supply the people with currency, being
the medium of exchange lctween the
Government and Its citizens. The
notes of national banks are legal ten
ders, but wo pi-otect ourselves against
them. They are accumulated to a
given nmount at Washington, nnd the
banks are ordered to redeem them.
Then, If one of these batiks hero is so
notified, it send:i a deposit to us to cover
tho amount of the notes, and after we
ship the money to Washington the notes
are delivered by ns to the bank and
goesagain intoeireulation. Wedoeredit
with one persou tho pension agent of
this district for a certain amount to
cover the quarterly payments, but that
is charged to the disbursing office. St.
Louis Globc-Democrnt.
A six-vear-oia boy in Gait, Can.,
has become an expert clgaretto maker
and smoker, and uses any paper that
comes to hand in which to roll his to
bacco. The other evening ho went into
his mother's room in . the dark, and
picking up a pieoe of paper - from the
bureau,, rolled a cigarette, and had
burned two-tturca 01 it before it was
discovered thaS It mgti&? Jtr ts t,
dollar bill
THE GYPSY'S TENT.
Construction and Interior Arrangement of
the Nomad's Only Home.
A tent of goodly and generous size
w-lll be twelve feet long, seven or eight
fi-et wide, nnd live or six feet high. The
frame-work consists of a long, stout
center-piece of oak, through which, in
either direction, pass the ends of quar-tcr-cln-lo
hickory bows, the other end
of which lit in the sockets of oaken l;gs
driven into the earth Over this frame
work, which no ordinary storm could
displace or weaken, is tightly drpwn
woolen stuff resembling our own old
fashioned, homespun woolen sheets.
There is not a stitch taken anywhere.
Yon will see these woolen spreads
fastened together by dainty hickory
skewers, pointed ' atki polished as a
farmer's well-used hiifking-piti. The
rear end Is ulwavs tightlv covereii, but
the front Is always open. The "floor"
of the tent is usually covered with a
jreneron depth of elcan straw, over
whh-tr are cotumonlv seen bit of Kail
cloth or carpets and many blankets;
but if the camp is where such trees
abound, they will give place to branches
of the l.-ireli, pine or cedar, whose aroma
the Gypsies dearly love.
The interior of this little brown home-
nest in the woods is something of a
study. The rear portion, consisting of
about four feet of space running across
the tent, is sacred to the valuables of
the family, which are bestowed at head
and foot of this remotest couch, always
occupied bv the husband and wife.
This is separated from another bed bv
old shawls or blankets, or sometimes by
gay cnttainir.g. In the latter bed the
girl-', pass the night, and between their
apartment and another at the tent
month is more drapery. In the outer
division are packed the old men and
women, the boys and the dogs. This
arrangement Is preserved, varying only
as tlie size I eac-n lamtly may diner,
even if its head mar be so prosperous
us to owu a handsome wagon especially
built for the road. Even In this ease the
ow ner and his belongings will more fre
quency m found in the loved tent upon
the as deerlv loved ground. From
the stout tent-bows depend the fam-
Hv's a!l-orts, from bits of ribbon and
innumerable articles of apparel to
poultry and extra pots and kettles.
Erich of these articles is oftener
tied In Its place by a slender willow
thong than with string, for the Gvpsv is
hereditarily as deft at all use of the
withy, fragrant osier as is the sailor
with the stnrdv, odorous rope. Artl-
lc of toilet are scant among the bijou
terie of tlie tent Hut the Gypsy woman
or girl, while neat and sweet attout her
person, has come to know many little
u'.cksof adornment, where a waving
fold, or a deft tuck, or an airy tilt of
the hair or scarf, stands her in good
stead in the place of bandoline, batting
and flummery of the social female pre
tender, who, with all Iter perking and
primping, can never attain her Gypsy
-iter s ingenious ingenuousness. But
two toilet articles can r.ever lie fonud.
These ar common propert v. Thev are
the eoars. comb and the cheap looking
glass. The former does good service
on the hores tails. The latter, while
everylody"s who wants it, is the Gypsy
woman only shrine I can give no
i-aon for if, but I never yet saw a mir
ror larger than one's hand among these
people; never was an unbroken one
seen among them; and the universal
affair of this sort seems to be a bit of
broken looking-glass canght across its
harp angles by thorn-like skewers.
and thus fastened to tne woolen stuff of
the brown tent-cover.
When you rememlH-r that this little
tent is the Gypsy's home, as much as
vour own habitation is yours, and has
leen his home slni-e his race was born
in the night of tho centuries, you can
easTiv come into a partial recognition
if the race feeling of attachment to and
sentiment in it. Indeed, this is not
going far enough. I believe it true
throughout nil the world that the
mailer the home-acre, the home-en-virvnrncnt
in fact, the home-nest itself
the dearer it is to those who live and
love in It In this compact fact and
en?e the Gvpsv ever glows In restful
enjoyment There is'a tender, loving
and almost pathetic encompassing of
the little spot with his very sight and
heart which I am sure I aui not deceived
about. Its very daintiness and oneness
and littleness tire all within his in
stant vUion, comprehension, protection,
fletiee it becomes a part of him, and to
him so siicreM a part, that there is no
more nse of expecting the snobbish
dweller in a modern American "estab
lishment" to admit the existence of such
a sen.'iment. than there is in expecting
hint ni-d his good "lady." who are now
in a p:daee anil read the Sunday papers
reguli rlv, to admit that, they started
out in life in one room, on knuckle
bone up. at six dollars per week.
lint fven in a language only pre
served from lip to lip in memory, and
whose possessors are too ignorant to
comprehend Its or their own origin,
there still remain from the imagery of
an almost barbaric heart-lore many ex
pression of most poetic form and feel
ing. These tell how chrsely knit into
the very life-fiber of the Gypsy has
been the aspiration to make his tent
hoine tho symbol of all dearest and
best to him. Edgar L. Wak-eman, in
Chioaqo Xcw.
W. Holton, of New Haven.
Conn., who is staying In Buffalo just
now, exhibited to a number of hotel
guests a card upon which had been
written, in 188, by his cousin. MaryS.
Holton, of Ellington, Conn., in a circu
lar space no larger than the butt end of
an ordinary load .pencil, the old and
new version of the Lord's Prajl-r, with
her full name and tho town and State
in which she lives. It was conceded to
bo a remarkable performance, hut
when Mr. Holton stated that the work
was executed in fifteen minutes, with
the naked eye. his listeners looked with
open-mouthed wonder. Boston Globe.
A merchant in Los Angeles, Cal.,
saw a newsboy peering down. Into the
grating in the sidewalk in front of his
store one afternoon recently, and
learning that the little chap had dropped
a quarter into the place, and was study
ing upon the best means of recovering
his wealth, sent one of bis clerks down
Into the cellar, recovered the coin, and
0 voiu, UI'U f 1
1 , Ok. I
'i . put it Into k! tm.
jriif
INDIAN POTTERY.
ftefions la th. Mexican Republic
Whera
the old Art Still Survives.
It is thought by some that ornament
al patterns on pottery are handed
down by savages from one generation
to another.- This is not true of our
IndL-tn, who, after making a pot, orna
ments It with improvised dasigns. H-j
has no patlern-bnoks to guide him.
Indians of New Mexico accustomed to
pottery-making have, since their con
tact with whites, given attention to
more elaborate ornamentation; just as
those of Mexico meet a demand nnd
find their way into public aad private
collections. The most noticeable
chango in technique is the me of ani
mal and human forms, which, though
not unknown on older pieces, are rare.
Toy forms of pottery aad those animal
arid human designs which met the
readiest sale have been ra st improved
by a kind ot natural selection.
The thirst for antiquities has also
stimulated the native artists tomitse
them. In the City of M-Jxieo an Italian
made a good living for threj years
making stone sculptures in imitation
of antiquities. The writer saw some
of his works, but they were easily de
tected. The children all had European
faces, and the delicate parts of the
body were two well worked out Near
the city of Mexico live a settlement of
Indians who have the credit of mann
f.icturifig clever imitations of ancient
pnttery. The noble custom of excit
ing la children the love of the beauti
ful through toys and dolls was not neg
lected by thfi ancient Mexicans. Even
at our day a striking example is the
manufacture of toys in great profusion
at Guadalajara, which are sold not only
throughout the republic, but outside.
They are taken on the backs of men
and animals packed in baskets and
crates. These toys are very truthful
representations of the manners and
customs of the people. For the rude
apparatus employed, they are truly re
markable. The most interesting fact
about this ware is the way in which the
artist holds on to ancient forms, and In
the decoration yields himself absolutely
to the whims and demands of the mar
ket He even borrows front the Span
iard the art of silvering and regilding.
This almost total hiding of the old
thing which they are unwilling to give
np, with paint and forms to which their
old art was a stranger. Is also seen in
their gonrd vessels.
The pitchers from Toltica, once sim
ple, onnozzled vessels, are lost in "the
large spouts, altered handles, polished
surface, elaborate decoration, glazing
and stamping. Still, one may Tisit re
gions in Mexico where the old art stiil
survives, Tlie Fames, near the Valle
del Maiz, and the Hnasteeas, the In
dians of Sierra Isola and of Savanito,
away from th? influence of innovation,
make their pottery as of old, simple in
form and decoration. EJiaarrl Viwr.
it Amcrtrm Nntura?M.
TEUTONIC WISDOM.
f arl Dunder TelL. Ills Friend TTIit rfe Is
llaprtr and How He Ciot Kich.
Sometimes so nepody enmss to mo
itnd ssys vhss I Carl Dander? I vhas.
All right. Mr. Dander, yon vhas fat
nnd sleek: yon vhas always mit a shmile
on your face; you haf no trouble mit
your family; eafery po ly sh:eaks well
of yon. I like you to tell mo how it
vhas done. Und I answer him:
"If somepody vhas content he gets
fit If snmepody vhas at psaee mit, all
der woridt he shmil5. Der roan who
marries for love und is a true husband
to his wife and a good fodder to his
shildren will haf no trouble mit his
house. Eafery pody must siipeak well
of a mau who keeps oudt of boXties,
pays his debis, shtands to his word nnd
preaks no laws."
Und sometimes somepodr comes to
me nnd says vhas I Carl Dander, dot
oldt Dutchmans? I vhas. Mr. Dan
der, I vhas your frendt T like a little
loan for aboiidt two weeks. Cad I
says to him:
"Make oudt your note due in foefteen
days uud get some good indorsers uad
I lend you ten dollars. I like to ke?p
you ash my friendt und so I do pees-
ness mit you ia a peesnoss vliiy. Jo
stranger gets malt at you for aa
honest, opinion, bat sometimes yonr
best fi-en.lt gets m-.tdt vhsn you dan
him. Djr banker makes no enemies
vhert he collects his moaev. Vhy
should I?"
Uud again somepo.ly comes to mo
mit a long face nnd asks vhas I Carl
Dunder. dot Dutchman who makes so
mooch money? Mr. Dunder, you vhas
sooch a lucky dog! You vhas shust
coining money. Ton pogins so poor
yon doan' own your own boots, und
now you ride in your carriage! Ah!
Fortune vhas an eccentric jade. She
shmiles on some nnd frowns on others.
I like you to tell mo how you manage
it Und I says to him:
"My frendr. Luck vhas dor o!d man
in der poor-house. If yon wait for
Luck to come along uad help you oudt
you wait for der city to bury you. I
work hardt I spend lee. lie; I plan care
fully; I buy no vacant lo's in a hollow,
und I build no shipyards on a hill.
What you smoke und drink pays my
taxes. What time you loe builds my
fences nnd shingles my hrn?ex. Gif
Perseveranc3 a dollar nnd he makes it
two; gif Half-Heart a doKar nnd he lets
half of itshlip avhav while he is wait
ing. Detroit Free I'ress.
He Was Scared Indeed.
"You know Jimmy Say well?" said a
traveler.
"Yes."
"Weil, he's a great poker player."
"Yes. he has the reputation of being
one of the. best in the city. Lots of
nerve. Never known to back down be
fore a poor hand."
"Yes, but I saw him scared nearly to
death the other day at a small pair."
"Indeed! Who held it?"
"The nurse. They were twins,"
Merchant Traveler.
Not a t-air Show.
.Magistrate to prisoner) lou are
char- ed with Toeing drunk and disor
derly and assaulting a Dutchman.
What have you to say for yourself? . .
SveiJmrtS;" 1 1Kb,
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MARTHA WASHINGTON.
Facts Showing That She Was Not an Ed
ucated Woman ta the Sense of To.Da.
She did not spell well, and her gram
mar would h "dly stand the parsing of
the public schools. Copies of two of
her letters to her sister, Mrs. Bassott,
lie before me. They were written at
about the beginaing of the revolution.
She begins one thus: "I have wroto
to you several times, in hopes it would
put you in mind of me, but I find it
has hot had its intended effect"
Farther on she adds: "The rivers has
never been frozen hard enough Xs
walk npon the ice since I came here."
Among the misspelt words of the letter
are: "Navey" for navy. "IodcxT for
loaded, "coles" for coals, "distant"
for destined, "clerc" for clear,
"heare" for here, "plesed" for pleased,
and "greatfol' far grateful Com
pany she spells "companey," and per
suaded "perswaded."
- In the foe-simile of a letter that she .
wrote ta William B. Eeed, of New
York, in 1777, 1 see that she knew no
other punctuation mark than the dash,
that the apostrophe was a stranger to
her, and that her writing, though not
illegible, was far from beautiful or ele
gant The nse of the capital was as
embarrassing to her as the nse of the
punctuation point, and her letters look
as though the capitals had been shaken
out of a mammoth pepper-box and per
mitted to lie wherever they felL
One of her letters, commencing "My
dear Fanny," was lately communicated
by Rev. IL E. Hayden, of Pennsylvania,
Xtt the Magazine of American History.
It is dated "Mount Vernon, Ang. 7.
17S4," and the verbatim spelling and
pnnctuation are preserved in the publi
cation. Some f the sentences begin
with capitals and some without She
writes of "My nttle nelly," referring
probably to Nellie Custis, and in the
same line says that "Tut is the same
claver (clever) boy you left him," tbns
capitalizing the boy's name, while she
gives no capital to that of the girl. She
writes Fanny "that the General had re
ceived a letter from her papa" dated at
"riehmond," begins the next sentence
with a small letter, and in it capitalizes
"Brothers," " Families " and "Gen
eral." A person uses his best grammar
while writing, and he who makes mis
takes here makes more in conversation.1-....
Martha Washington may hare bea '
well educated in the school of society
and in that of life. She was certainly
not so in books and literature. There
was no library to speak of at Mount
Vernon, and General Washington was
more of aa o tit-door man than a stu
dent We have no record of his wife
being a reader, save that she read a
chapter in her Bible every morning
after breakfast She knew nothing
about novels, and the American month
ly magazine, the great family" educator
of the present, was not yet born.
Martha Washington had, however,
the best advantages of the day. Her
whole life was spent among learned
men and bright women, at there -is fid
record left that she. was briliiant ia so
cial conversation, and you will read i;i
vain for the reported bon mots of
Martha Washington. -The truth seem
to be that Martt Washington thought
woman's sphere was home, and that
knitting and cooking were more im
portant than writing letters and a
knowledge of French. She is said to
have been a good business-woman and
to have managed the large estate of her
ist husband very ably before she
handed her share of it over to George
Washington. Cesincj-olitcrn.
INSTEAD OF HANGING.
What Electricians Say of Taking Life
by
Ateans of a Battery.
An electrician st the Edison building,
in Pearl street where electricity is
maenfactured for illuminating pur
poses, was asked how people might be
killed with neatness and dispatch by
electricity. He said that It was the
easiest matter in the world. All a con
demned, man would have to do at the
hour and moment when he was to leave
ihe world for brighter climes, would be
to take hold of two wires, one connected
tvith a positive battery and the other
with a negative battery. Acting thus
as a conductor between the two wires
the electricity would go through him
like astroke of lightning. He would
die in an infinitesimal fraction of a
second. His taking off would b as
painless as it was sudden. Ha would
never know what had hit him.
He might stand on two plates, ro
;eive the electric enrrent through his
toes and die with bis boots on. ne
might sit in a chair with his feet rest
ing on the plates, and die comfortably.
Killing the condemned by electricity
is a humane, civilized and scientific
way of disposing of them. A rnsi is
usually sixteen minutes dying at the
end of a hangman's rope, and he usu
ally suffers a great desi before death
comes to relieve him. A one-cell bat
tery would kill all the prisoners who
will ever be hanged in the Tombs
under the present, law. Tho only peo
ple opposed to the nsa of electricity in
capital punishment are the hangmen,
and they are opposed to it because it
would throw them out of work. If the
gallowses are taken dowa all the hang-
men in the country will strike. X. Y.
Star.
Keeo the Manners Clean.
The more highbred and spirited tha
horse the more dainty he will be about
his feed, aud the greater ears must le
taken to keep feed-box nid Tl.ngers
free from filth. Almost any rrb
would, however, refuse tj eat out of
mangers as they often are left, with
portions of the unconstimed hay or
grain to be run over nnd soiled by
fowls while the horse is away at work.
This is a . too common condition of
many farmers stables at this season,
when increasing warmth, iulls the ap
petite and makes soiled, food doubly.
offensive by its decay. Many a hard-
worked horse gets off hjs feed, ns
said, and grows poorapufs, EtC
alone. More care si . - -
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