Demartic Wale
Bellefonte, Pa., August 8, 1850.
S—
COUNTING BIRTHDAYS.
One tiny birthday,
And baby can walk,
Two bonny birthdays—
Baby can talk.
Three merry birthdays,
Baby can run,
Four gala birthdays,
Childhood’s begun.
Five happy birthdays,
Learning to spell ;
Six I .
Reading quite well.
Seven Ro birthdays,
Childhood is past—
Eight joyous birthdays,
“Girlhood at last!”
Nine precious birthdays,
The happiest time ;
Ten flowery birthdays,
Life all a rhyme.
Eleven bright birthdays,
Never te see—
Twelve more sweet birthdays,
So careless and free,
Thirteen and fourteen,
Fly away fleet,
Fifteen and sixteen,
Maidenhood greet.
Seventeen and eighteen,
Halcyon days,
Nineteen and twenty,
Cupid’s sweet maze.
Then swift on the wings of old Time fiy the
years,
Sunshine and shadow and langhter and tears,
Springtime and summer and antumn and
. snow,
Bring all at last to one level below.
E—————T———
THE OLD SILVER WATCH.
Charles Eames stepped into the office
of his friend Bowles, editor of Zhe Glen-
ville Courant.
‘How are you, Eames?’ asked the
editor.
‘T ought to feel happy, I suppose,’
said the young man, a little ruefully,
‘for I've just received notice of a leg-
acy.’ ]
‘Indeed, I congratulate you.’
‘Wait till you hear what it is.’
‘Well, what is it?’
‘My Aunt Martha has just died,leav-
ing fifty thousand dollars.’
‘To you ? I congratulate you hear-
tily.’
‘No; she leaves it to a public insti-
tution. She leaves me only her silver
watch, which she has carried for forty
years.’
‘How is that ?'
‘She didn’t approve of my becoming
an artist. She wished me to be a mer-
chant. If I had consulted her wishes
I should, doubtless, have been her sole
heir. This small legacy is meant more
as an aggravation than anything else.’
‘But you can make your own way.’
‘I can earn a scanty living at pres-
ent. I hope to do better by and by.
But you know my admiration for Mary
Brooks—if I had been Aunt Martha's
sole heir I could have gained her fath-
er's consent to our marriage. Now it
is hopeless.’ :
‘I am not sure of that.
may help you.’
‘An old watch ? You are joking.’
‘Not if you will strictly observe my
directions.’
‘What are they ?'
‘Simply this : Agree for one calen-
dar month not to mention or convey
the least idea of the nature of your
aunt’s bequest. I will manage the
rest
‘T don’t at all know what you mean,
Bowles,’ said the young artist; ‘but I
am in your hands.’
“That is all I wish. Now, remem-
ber to express surprise at nothing; but
let matters take their course.’
‘Very well.’
In the next issue of 7%e Glenville
Caurant the young artist was surprised
to read the following paragraph :
* We are gratified to record a piece of good
luck which has just befallen our esteemed fel-
low citizen, the promising young artist Charles
Eames. By the will of an aunt, recently de-
ceased, he comes into the possession of a piece
of property which has been in the family for
many years. Miss Eames is reported to have
left fifty thousand dollars.
‘Really,’ thought the young man,
‘anybody would naturally suppose from
this paragraph that I had inherited my
aunt's entire property.’
He put on his hat and walked down
the street. He met Ezekial Brooks,
Dies fom of the Glenville National
ank.
Mr. Brooks beamed with cordiality.
‘My dear sir, permit me to congratu-
late you,’ he said.
“You have read 7%e Caurant, said
Eames. :
“Yes; and I ain delighted to hear of
your good fortune. Can I speak to you
on business a moment ?’
‘Certainly, Mr. Brooks.’
‘You'll excuse my advice, but I know
you are not a business man, while I
am. My young man, do you want to
make some money ?’
‘Certainly, I should be glad todo so.’
‘James’ Parker has 500 shares of the
Wimbledon railway. It stands at fifty-
8ix, a figure much below its real value.
But Parker is nervous and wants to
sell out. I want you to buy out his
entire stock.’ 7
‘But, Mr. Brooks’
‘I know what you would say. It
may go down,but it won't. I have ad-
vices that a speedy rise is almost cer--
tain.
handsome thing out of it.’
‘But how shall I find the money ?’
‘Of course ycu haven't received your
legacy yet. I know there are delays.
No trouble about that. Give your note
on ninety days, and I'll indorse it.
You'll sell out before that time at a
handsome advance.’
‘I will place myself infyour hands,
Mr. Brooks, but you must manage the
business.’
‘Certainly ; I shall only want your
signature when the documents are
made out. By the by, come around
and dine with us, or have you another
engagement ?’
Another engagement !
This legacy
If Eames
" bad had fifty engagements he would
have broken them all for the privilege
of meeting Mary Brooks This was
the first time he had been invited to
the capitalist’s. table. The fact is, un-
til this morning Mr. Brooks had
scarcely vouchsated him more than a
a cool nod on meeting ; but had chang
ed or appeared to, and his behavior al-
Buy him out and you'd make a |
tered with it.
world !
It was a very pleasant dinner.
young artist remained afterwards.
‘I have an engagement, Mr. Eames,’
said Mr. Brooks; ‘a meeting of the
bank directors; but you mustn't go
away. Mary will entertain you.’
The young man did not go away,
and apparently was satisfied by the en-
tertainment he received. He blessed
his aunt for her legacy, if only it had
procured him this afternoon’s inter-
view with the young lady he had ad-
mired. But it gained him more. Eve-
ry four days he received a similar invi-
tation, He could not fail to sze that
Ezekial Brooks looked with evident
complacency on the good understand-
ing between his daughter and himself.
“What will he say?” thought the
young man, ‘when he finds out what
sort of a legacy 1 have received from
my aunt ?’
Occasionally, too, he felt nervous
about his hasty assent to the proposi-
tion to buy five hundred shares of rail-
road stock at fifty dollars a share. He
reckoned up one day what his pur-
chase would amount to, and his breath
was nearly taken away when he found
it amounted to twenty-eight thousand
dollars. Still, it had been in a man-
ner forced upon him. He asked no
questions, but every now and then the
old gentleman said: ‘All going well !
Stock advancing rapidly.’
With that he was content. Indeed,
he was so carried away by love of
Mary Brooks that he gave little
thought to any other subject.
One day Mr. Brooks came up, his
face beaming with joy.
‘Wish you joy, Eames,’ he said-
‘Wimbledon’s gone up like a rocket to
par. Give me authority and I'll sell
out for you.’
The artist did so, hardly realizing
what it meant till three days after, he
received a little note to this effect :
Dear Eanes—Have sold out your five hun”
dred shares of Wimbledon at 101. As von
bought at 56, this gives vou a clear profit of
&45 per share, or 822500. You had better take
the rise and reinvest your surplus. Call at my
office at once. Yours truly,
Ezerirn Brooks.
Charles Eames read this letter three
times before he could realize its mean-
ing. Could it be that without investing
a cent he had made over $20,000? It
must be a dream, he thought.
But when he called at the old gen-
tleman’s office he found it was really
true.
‘Mr. Eames, how about this money ?
Shall I reinvest it for you ?’
‘Thank you, sir. I wish you would.
I should like a litlle in hand, however.’
‘Certainly. Will that answer? and,
the old gentleman wrote a check for
$500 and placed it in the young man’s
hand.
Ic was more money than he had ever
before possessed at one time. This
was convincing proof of the reality of
his good fortune.
The next day he went to the city and
ordered a handsome suit of clothes at
a fashoinable tailor’s. The fact was
his old coat was getting threadbare and
his overcoat decidy seeded. While
he was about it he bought a new coat
and boots, as well as other needed ar-
ticles, and still returned with money
enough in his pocket to make him feel
rich. He changed his boarding house,
engaging a handsome room at a much
nicer place.
‘It seems to me you are dashing out,
Eames,’ said his friend, the editor.
‘You know I've had a legacy,’ said
Such is the way of the
The
: Eames, langhing.
‘I begin to think you have,’ said the
editor.
When Eames appeared on the street
in his new suit it was a confirmation of
the news of his inheritance. His re-
moval to a fashionable boarding house
was additional confirmation. It was
wonderful how he rose in the estima-
tion of people who had before looked
upon him as a shiftlesss artist,
All at once it occurred to him, ‘Why
shouldn't I propose for Mary Brooks ?
With twenty thousand dollars I could
certainly sapport her comfortably.
There was a very pretty cottage, and
tasteful grounds, for sale at five thou-
sand dollars. This would make a
charming home.’
One morning, with considerable tre-
pidation, young Eames broached the
subject to Mr. Brooks.
‘No one I should like better for a
son-in-law, if Mary is willing,” was the
prompt answer.
Mary was willing, and as thereseem-
ed no good reason for waiting, the mar-
riage took place within a few weeks.
‘Charles,’ said his father-in-law ; af-
ter the young people returned from
their wedding journey, ‘it is time for
me to render you an account of your
mouey affairs. I have been lucky in
my investments, and I have $31,000 to
your credit, or deducting the amount
paid for your house, $26,000. By the
way have you received your aunt’s be-
quest?’
‘I received it yesterday,’ said Charles.
‘Indeed I’
‘flere it is,’ said the young man,
and he produced a battered silver
watch.
‘Do you mean to say that is all she
left you ?" asked his tather-in-Jaw stupe-
fied.
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Ezekiel Brooks whistled in sheer
amazement, and his countenance fell.
For a moment he regretted his daugh-
ter's marriage, but then came the
thought that his son-in-law, through a
lucky mistake, was really the possessor
of quite a comfortable property, which,
under his management might be in-
creased. So he submitted with a good
grace, and is on the best of terms with
his daughter's husband, who is now in
Italy with his wife, pursuing a course
of artistic study. He treasures care-
fully the old waich, which he regards
as the foundation of his prosperity.
CHICKEN SANDWICHES.—Take thin
slices of crustless bread and cut it into
{ any desired shape. Mince cold chicken
. quite fine, season with salt, white pep-
i per and a dash of cayenne. Rub ina
{ small quantity of butter. Serve with
tomato salad.
Declares Against the Force
Bill.
Powderly
He Criticises the Attempt to Control
the Election by Bayonets.
The following letter upon the Lodge
Foree Bill, by General Master Work-
man T. V. Powderly, was issed to the
members of the order in the Journal of
the Knights of Labor :
‘Read twice and ordered to lie on the
table,’ is what was done on July 7 in
the Senate of the United States with
what is known as the Lodge Force biil.
The bill, if it passes, is intended to regu-
late the election of Congressmen, and is
particularly designed for use in the
South, at least that is what it is suppos-
ed to be. A very appropriate title for
the bill would be, “A law to place the
control of its own election in the hands
of the United States Congress land to
prevent the people from interfering too
much in that little matter.”
The proposed law covers seventy-six
pages of the regulation Congressional
file, with about two hundred and fifty
words to the page. It is socomplicated,
go cumbrous and illy-eonstructed a piece
of machinery that it is very dcubtful if
its parent could successfully manage it
and explain what it would be able to
perform. Shorn of verbiage the intent
of that law is to perpetuate the existence
of the party in power and enable it to
keep a close watch over the election of
all officers as well as Congressmen.
Why should a special law be enzeted to
regulate the election of Congressmen ?
‘Whom do they represent that they
should insist on manipulating the elec-
tion machinery in their own inter-
ests ? A Congressman does not repre-
sent the United S atesin the House of
Representatives—he represents a num-
ber of citizens comprising a certain terri-
tory in a certain State, and the people
of that State should have the right to
scrutinize and regulate the election of
the man or men who will represent
them in Congress.
WHAT THE LAW PROVIDES.
The law provides that the agents of
the United States Government shall
have the right to scrutinize the election
of members of Congress, but it is so art-
fully worded that they shall also have
the privilege of scrutinizing the election
of all other officers as well. Section 9
of that law is in direct violation of the
contract by which the several States are
bound to the United States, and is a
most unwarrantable interference in the
legislation of the sisterhood of States. It
reads :
Section 9. Hereafter all votes cast for the
office of Representative or Delegate in Con-
gress shall be counted, canvassed, certified
and returned in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided ; and any State. Territorial or munici-
pul law or ordinance, in so far as it conflicts
1erewith, is hereby annulled.
If the citizens of the United States
value their independence they will
prompily resent such tramping with
their rinht make State, Terr:torial and
municipal laws to suit themselves. It
the government of the United States
shall have the right to supervise the el-
ection of its own officers and take the
right out of the hands of the people
who are supposed to be represented, of
what use is it to support the government
of the separate States and Territories ?
Where does Congress get the authority
to annul a State, Territorial or munci-
pal law ?
INTIMIDATION INCREASED.
It is told by its friends that the law is
to operate in the South, and that its pas-
sage will enable the people of that sec-
tion to guard against buldozing and in-
timidation. There is more intimidation
contained in four lines of that law than
in all the Southern outrages that have
taken place since the war. It is claim-
ed that this law will enable the colored
citizens to vote free from intimidation
and influence, That may be frue of
the outside of the polling-place, but it
simply transfers the intimidation and
influence to the inside of the polling-
booth. Why not act the part of men
and say that the colored men are not fit
to have a vote, for that is what they
mean ? If there isa body of menin
this land who do not know enough to do
their own voting, if they lack the man-
hood to defend their ballots with their
lives at the polls, then that body of
men are not the kind to be privileged to
vote for those who make laws for others.
The Democratic party does its best to
intimidate the colored citizens of the
South, ard they give as a reason that if
they did not do so they would be sub-
ject to negro rule down there, or, as they
put it, “ignorant rule. In the North
the employers of labor intimidate the
workmen in the interest of the Republi-
can party, but that party cannot lay
claim to so respectable an excuse as to
desire to avoid ‘ignorant rule,’ for the
workmen of the North have never im-
posed ignorant rule where they elected
their own Representatives.
VOTERS SHOULD READ AND WRITE.
Our laws should not be framed in such
a way as to recognize ignorance or illit-
eracy, for te recognize illiteracy is to
perpetuate it. Every law should aim at
the abolition of illiteracy, and, instead
of making laws to guard the uneduceted
man at the polls, we should make laws
to guard the Republic against illiteracy
by obliging all voters to know how to
read and write before voting. A law
that would fix on a certain day, in the
future, on which all citizens would be
required to know how to read and write
before voting, and which would not
interfere with those who are voters at
the present time, and who are not so
educated, would go further toward regu-
lating the election of Congressmen, in
an honest way, than the piece of ma-
chinery now on the table of the United
States Senate.
The adoption of the Australian elec-
tion law would serve the difficulty so far
as an honest count and an uninfluenced
election is concerned, but I fear that
that is not the aim or intent of the pro-
posed law ;in fact, I believe that if
we had not agitated so vigorously, and
so successfully in faver of the adoption
of the Australian law, there would be
no fear of an honest election, and as
a consequence no necessity for the sup-
ervision of Congressional wateh-dogs.”
DISHONEST LEGISLATION.
In Section 10 the following is to be
found :
If during the count and canvass of the
ballots contained in any box other than that
intended for the reception of ballots for the
office of Representative or Delegate in Con-
gress there shall be found any ballot or bal-
lots for the office of Representative or Del-
egate in Congress it shall be the duty of the
chairman or acting chairman of the inspect-
ors of election to count the number of such
ballots so found and then deliver them to the
chairman or acting chairman of the super-
visors of election, who shall count them and
immediately place them in an envelope and
seal them up.
If our election boards are to remain
as at present constructed in such States
as have not adopted the Australian law, |
what guarantee have we that said |
boards will not be dishonest enough to |
fail to live up to the last-named provis- |
jon? TItis evident that the supervisor
is to bave the scrutiny of other boxes
than those containing ballots for Con-
gressmen, and thatis indirect conflict
with the trend of public opinion of to-
day, for the cry is for a secret ballot and
not a public one.
LEGALIZED VOTES THROWN OUT.
Furtheron in that same section the
election of a Congressman is left to
chance ; a sort of Louisiana lottery
scheme is invented by which a second
ballot may be avoided, and the game of
blind man’s buff substituted for an hon-
est election. It says that, if there are
more ballots in the box than voters,
Then one of the inspectors of election and
one of the supervisors of election shall be
blindfolded and placed with his back or their
backs to the said box, from which they shall
publicly draw so many ballots as shall be equal
to the excess, which ballots shall be forth-
with destroyed and the votes for the persons
named in such withdrawn ballots shall be de-
ducted from the votes entered for such per-
sons on the tallies.
A more dishonest piece of legislation
does not exist than that. It does not
record the will of the majority, it
does not aim at justice and it certdinly
does not express the sense of those who
voted in’earnest. Where a number of
ballots in excess of the number of vot-
ers are found in a box it shows that il-
legal voting has been done, but, instead
of making an honest effort to find out
and punish those who did the illegal
voting, a second wrong is perpetrated in
drawing, at random, a number -of votes
without questioning whether they are
the illegal ones.
ACTION BY THE PEOPLE URGED.
That law passed the House of Repre-
sentatives without the advice or consent
of the people of the United States. It
was hastily passed and without due
consideration. Itshould be reconsider-
ed and published to the world, so that
those who are to be governed by it may
know what it is in time to express their
opinion on it before its passage into
law.
According to rule there is no proba-
bility that that will be done, and the
next best thing is for the people to send
in their protests to the Senate against its
passage by that body. Our members
should act at once and ask the Senators
from the various States to voice their
sentiments on this measure when it
comes up for consideration.
The name of every Congressman
who voted for that law should be pub-
lished to the world and the citizens who
are opposed to such high-handed work
should scratch them on next election
day.
T. V. PoWDERLY.
Foiled Again.
A very smooth looking individual
rushed up to the desk of the Grand
Pacific hotel and addressed Clerk Gores.
“Give me twenty-five cents quick for a
special purpose.”
Gores failed to recognize the appli-
cant as a guest of the house, and replied
that he did not loan money for special
purposes.
“But this is a special purpose. Give
it to mequick. 1 am an old friend of
Mr. Drake.”
*“What is the special purpose ?”’
The applicant coughed to gain time
to think, and in an injured tone replied"
“I see you doubt me, sir. The fact is,
I owe a man $100, and I find I have
just $99,75 in my pocket. He is going
away on a train ina minute and is
waiting for me outside. Give me the
quarter.”
Gores coughed to gain time to think,
and then pulling a dollar from his
pocket said: “All right. Happy to
oblige you. I haven't a quarter in
change, but you give me your seventy-
five cents and I'll give you this dollar.”
The applicant did not reply, but with
a look like that of a dying fawn he
turned mournfully away and walked
slowly out of the door.— Chicago Post.
An Adventure on the Plains.
Early in March, 1867, a party of
friends, all old buffalo hunters, now
living and prominent citizens of Wichi-
ta and Great Bend, in Kansas, were
caw ped in Paradise Valley, then a fa-
mous rendezvous of the animals they
were after. One day, when out cn the
range stalking, and widely separated
from each other, an awful blizzard
came up. Three reached the camp with-
out much difficulty, but he who was
the furtherest away was fairly caught
in it, and night coming on, was com-
pelled to resort to a method frequently
employed by persons lost on the plains.
‘Luckily he soon found a superannuated
bull that had been abandoned by the
herd, and killing him, took out the vis
cera, and himself crawled inside the
huge beast, where he lay comparatively
comfortable until morning, the storm
having cleared off, and the sun shining
brightly. But when he attempted to
get out, he found himself a prisoner, the
immense ribs of the creature having
frozen together and locked him up as
tightly as if he were in a cell. Iortun-
ately his friends, who were searching for
him and firing off their rifles— which he
heard, and yelled out to them—discov-
ered and released him from his peculiar
predicament.— Harper's Weekly.
The Provender at Mt. Gretna.
Commissary General Patton reports
the following provisions used by the
National Guard and U.S. soldiers en-
camped at Mt. Gretna last week :
Potatoes, 50,148 pounds; fresh beef,
38,100 pounds; fresh bread, 38,100
pounds; ham, 17045 pounds; hard
tack, 17,045 pounds; salt beef, 9539
pounds ; beans, 6513 pounds; sugar,
8799 pounds ; coffee, 5866 pounds ; on-
ions, 5002 pounds ; salt, 2196 pounds ;
pepper, 14} pounds ; vinegar, 3 barrels ;
soap, 1524 pounds ; candles, 733].
It took 650,000 pounds of oats and
56,000 pounds of hay to feed the horses.
The cost of subsistance is $12,000, or
20 cents per man per day for eight
days. .
Two Women Tramp 1,800 Miles.
Two sisters, whose maiden name was
Hesler, and who lived at Wilkesbarre,
married and went to Kansas City with
their husbands. One of the latter died
and the other deserted his wife. Both
women were left penniless. They were
unable to get agreeable work and want-
ed to get to their old home in Wilkes-
barre. Being unable to get money they
dressed up in the clothes left by their
husbands, and with $540 in their
possession tramped and stole rides on
freight ‘trains till they reached their
home. ¥rom Chicago to Cleveland
they rode in a car loaded with big pipes,
crawling into the pipes to avoid detec-
tion. They made the entire journey
(1,800 miles) in less than a month, and
wore male attire during the entire trip.
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A Whole Family Killed.
GrArTON, W. Va, July 27,—A
frightful raiiroad accident occurred here
this morning, resulting in the death of
five people, members of one family.
About the time a west bound aceommo-
dation train was due William Golden,
his wife and three children. Started to
cross the main line of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, but seeing a yard engine
coming up the yard, they stopped to let
it pass. Mr. Golden was holding his
2-year-old boy in his arms and his wife
held a 8 months old baby when the
catcher of the passenger engine struck
the farnily, instantly killing husband,
wife and two children and fatally in-
juring a boy who was in his father’s
arms, the little fellow dying in an
hour, The engineer of the trainsignal-
ed but the noise of the yard engine pre-
vented the approach of the train being
heard. .
’Tis So Everywhere,
Wyoming County Democrat.
We had a pleasant call on Tuesday
from Wilmer H Johnson, editor of the
North Wales (Montgomery county) Re-
cord, who has been stopping at the
Keeler House with his family for a few
days. He is apparently a conscientious
gentleman, and well versed in the
politics of his county, and while he is a
Republican, he says he cannot support
Delamater and the corrupt practices
which he represents. His nomination,
he says, will make Montgomery county
Democratic, which has of late years
been carried by the Republicans, and
that in all probability-they will lose the
whole Republican county ticket and
the member ot Congress trom that dis-
trict, now represented by a Republican.
And this is the condition of affairs
which exists in all sections of the State.
The unpopular and obnoxious cardi-
date which has been forced upon the
Republican party by “Boss” Quay will
make every close county Democratic,
and many which have not been con-
sidered doubtful heretofore will have to
be placed in the doubtful column.
A Remarkable Volcano,
The city of San Salvador, the capital
of the smallest and most populous Cen-
tral American republic, was founded in
1528. It has been three times almost
entirely and eleven times partially de-
stroyed by earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions. It is 18 miles from the sea
coast, has an elevation of 2,800 feet, and
is surrounded by a group of volcanoes,
two of which are active, San Miguel
and Izalco, and present a magnificent
display to the passengers of steamers
sailing along the coast, constantly dis-
charging masses of lava which flow
down their sides in blazing torrents.
Izalco is as regular as a clock, the
eruption occurring like the beating of a
pulse. every seven minutes. Jt is imn-
possib’e to conceive of a grander spectacle
than this monster, rising 7,000 feet al-
most directly from the sea, an immense
volume of smoke like a plume continu-
ally pouring out of its summit ard
broken with such regularity by masses
of flame rising 1,000 feet, that it has
been named El Faro del Salvador—
the lighthouse of Salvador. It is in
many respects the most remarkable vol-
cano in the world, because its discharges
have continued so long and with such
regularity, and because the tumult in
the earth’s bowles is always to be
heard. It 1s the only volcano that has
originated on this continent since the dis-
covery by Columbus. It arose from the
plain in the spring of 1770 in the midst
of what had been for nearly a hundred
years a magnificent coffee and indigo
plantation. — Guatemala Star.
EC RE ROTI EO
The Unregenerate Pagan.
A Sad Sequel to the Mission Work of a
Christian Woman.
Chicago Hereld,
Nearly all the Mongolians of this
city have been devout members of the
First Baptist church for quite a time,
writes a Lowell (Mass.) correspondent.
They have been baptized in the church,
‘and a whole Sunday school class of pig-
tailed laundrymen have been under the
charge ot of Miss Hattie Morris, who
had about convinced the other church
members that she had the whole crew
converted.
The Chinamen gave tom-tom concerts
before the church people, and told how
much better they felt for being Chris-
tians and how sorry they were for their
fellow-celestials who played fan-tan and
smoked opium. On the way to and
from church they moved in a body,
and advertised their Christianity for all
it was worth.
For quite a while Miss Morris has
been suspicious of her yellow birds.
She noticed that they were surely cor-
rupting the rest of the Sunday school.
In her quiet way she did a little detec-
tive work, and the result was that last
night she put the police onto her Bible
class, the members of hich were play-
ing a nice quiet game of fan-tan and
smoking opium. One Chinaman jumped
under a bunk and yelled: “Me no
smokee opium ; me no see gamee ; me
like Melican man.” He was pulled in
with the others, and in court the mem-
bers of the Bible class were heavily
fined, while Miss Morris stood by and
aided the prosecution. One unrepent-
ant pigtail said, to Miss Morris as he
was leaving court: “0, damn going to
church anyway!” The lady nearly
fainted at this ending of her religious
hopes.
LE A ET I EA NE
All Sorts of Paragraph.
—In France the copyright of an au-
thor is for life.
—The population of the earth doubles
in 260 years.
--The oaken staircase in the
Albemarble Hotel, Londen, cost
000.
—Ice is still coming into New York
from Norway at a handsome profit.
— Artificial ice is cheaper in Georgia
than the natural product in New York.
—The chef de cuisine in charge of
Queen Victoria's table is a Mohamme-
dan.
—A movement is on foot in Alexan-
dria to export Egyptian cotton to
Massachusetts.
— Washington has a population of
229,796, a gain of more than 52,000 in
ten years.
—An Adrian, Mich., photographer is
able to converse fluently in twenty lan-
guages.
—The obeli:zk in Lendon can not
stand the climate any better than its
compeer in New York.
—Queen Natalie, of Servia, has had
her life insured for $200,000 for the
benefit of her son.
—Mr. Edison has had a phonograph
made expressly for the Mikado and has
sent it to Japan.
—A hatter at Wilkesbarre, Pa., has
made a straw hat with a brim fourteen
feet in circumference.
—The Emperor of China is a hand-
some young man, who is said to look
like an American college student.
—P. T. Barnum’s wealth is estimated
at $10,000,000, and the number of houses.
he owns in Bridgeport about 350.
—George Package, of Tom Green
County, Tex., is 104 years old, and is
probably the “original package.”
— Mrs. Morris, of Sheboygan, Wis,,
has a meerschaum pipe that belonged to
a King of Denmark 238 years ago.
—It is stated in London that M., Eif-
fel has received an order from Chicago
for a tower 500 feet higher than the
Paris one.
—The water of the Gulf stream is
said to be twenty degrees cooler than its
normal temperature at this time of the
year.
—One of the Boston street railroad
companies has 125 suits pending against
it for damages, mostly inflicted by elec-
tric cars.
—Pasteur has treated during the past
three years 7,803 persons bitten by mad
dogs, and of this number only thirty-
three died.
—Mme. Demoret, a dark-faced, little
old French lady, has furnished ice-
cream and confectionery for all the
Presidents back to Buchanan.
—A Howell, Mich., justice of the
peace recently senter.ced a man to fif-
teen days in the county jail for stealing
an umbrella on a rainy day.
—The real sum which Mr. Stanley
received for his latest book is said to
be in the neighborhood of $70,000.
ae story that it was $200,000 was ab-
surd.
—A puff adder crawled into the bon-
net of a Galveston lady. When she
put it on the serpent struck her, but her
hair saved her from a venomous sting.
—In selecting the names of a jury to
try a man for murder down in Georgia
the name of the murdered man was
drawn out of the box along with the
others.
—The German Emperor will give no
more jewelry to those whom he wishes
to honor, but photographs of himself,
with his autograph, framed in silver or
gold.
—A Russian society has begun the
publication of a newspaper in London
called ‘“Free Russia,” which is designed
to influence English opinion in favor
of constitntional liberty in Russia.
—Sir Frederick Leighton has the re-
putation of being one of the handsomest
men in England. He is described as
having a head like a Greek god and a
bearing like that of an ideal prince.
—Jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa's twenty
years’ termi of banishment from Eng-
land is about to expire, and his friends
are raising money to send him back and
keep him there for the rest of his life.
—Fred Stimpson. of Ann Arbor,
Mich., has a bob-tailed cat which has
inflicted her lack oftail on a litter of off-
spring. The faculty is at a loss to ex-
plain the freak, and the kittens mew a
ceaseless tale of woe.
—It is said that through a livery
monopoly which owns all the carriages
and controls a number of shops, the un-
wary traveler at Niagara Falls is plund-
ered pretty much as he used to be in an-
te-reservation days.
—Randall Drake, of Kalamazoo,
Mich., is ninety-one years of age, and
within the last two months has dug
seventy postholes and built thirty-six
rods of fence, in addition to laying a
floor in a barn.
—-Lord Aberdeen created a great deal
of excitement in London recently driv-
ing up to the door of his club in a milk-
wagon. He had been unable to obtain
a carriage, and rather than walk he had
chartered that modest vehicle.
—The collection of rar2 coins of the
late Louis G. Parmelee, of Boston, was
sold at auction in New York the other
afternoon. A Maryland penny brought
$350, and a Massachusetts Good Samari-
1) shilling was knocked down for
_—The English crown is made up of
diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and
emeralds, set in silver and gold bands.
It weighs 39 ounces and five penny-
weights, troy. In it there are 8,452
diamonds, 273 pearls, 9 rubies, 17 sap-
phires and 11 emeralds.
PE —
Cuerse Toast.—Cut from a stale
loaf of bread six slices about one-half
inch thick. Beat one ege into a cupful
of sweet milk and add one-half pound
of good cheese and one tablespoonful of
butter. Put this mixture in a clean
saucepan set in a pan of boiling water
and stir until quite smooth. Place the
trast on a hot platter and cover with the
dressing, to which should be added a
pinch of cayenne. For a change this
new
$50,
dish may be placed in the oven until a
rich brown. It serves fur luncheon or
| for a dinner course.