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THE SUNDAY SIDE.
Tin- world t-.is many :i j.-y to : ivo,
M:iny a t. I;i n of l-alm :in I I li.-s.
tr ri lii-.-r a'ul i-:t for .ho troul.l.-d breast.
Vt- "oliii.ll.v ini.-s-An.l
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iiliu iit'!! rvrr thi II fJt ilrnit'il.
Tlr.il woiil'l :-h.ii shim- in did t niu-o hot-in
To walk throu'li lif.- on the Sunday side.
Tlif wii'U-l:iy Iroul and wwk-ilav toil,
I.ilct- a ihn !t mi-isma ol s.-on' llio mv,
And tl.r r.Kls v.e lovr. as wc daily prove.
Arr j.'ii.- f flay.
Hut I t ti. r thin -a o may hoi- to ivai-h.
If wc follow the steps of a U-ttcr iruule.
For the lit.- N vain th it .lot-s mt coulain .
A tilth- bit of the Sun-lay M.le
The liorscs vce Imild may far cx-t
Tin- c..-!lv i-ilan-.-i of t:i- cajit.
An.l ji ui Is rare and bliauumut fair
:a.v riai'e li:e frat.
Hut it is not heme in the unit-test sense.
If tl:.- !.i"-s :iri.t u in.l.iu s so l.nn? and wide.
An.l the he:ir:s that within ihi-lr faucics piD,
I is !! not out on the Sunday bl.le.
For 'tis all n folly and all n waste
To ! ud our lives, a-s it w, re. for naught,
1 In- food to shun, and U have not one
I 'iii.iiiti" ; In .tii-lit.
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l:i riistic n.ttau'i'. or hails of pri ie,
Tt ere's a i hatu e. I'm Mire, for us all to ftocuro
A little hit of the Sunday side.
Josephine Pollard, in lml.-s' Home JournaL
THE DESERT TKA3IP.
Incidonta of Nomad Life
Land of Thirst.
In the
l'lenty of Feed lit Spit of the) Aridity
liiutriieU-.l lii Applying fr Vra:
tiot m lU-etsteak lu llarnh
FwmIiIou.
Althiniph tra:nis a-nlenty can lie
foiiiitt in parts of the UniU'J States,
Uie tK-oplo of the tk'st-rt ininiii t-antps
tlial, liko Ilaprtrott, Calif. iiiia, ur 1
cateil on railroads, Ik'Hi'Vi? that tiirt-e
times as many can le foiiii-l thoro in
pruJkirtion to the population as in any
otln-r purt of the country. Wn-tche.las
tliis eoutitry is as a site for human hal
itatioiu ilevoi.l of all human iiooessilies
- -lc void, even, of water save at the
stati.ms rind cursed with a eiiuiuU' all
hut intolerable, a day never passes
uitlinnt a trump com in to the l.Hrs
of .some of the houses and l'rr--iio;
for f.xnl. Nur i they online them
selves t. iK-vo-inj. They lirowln-at an.l
terrorize women found al.me in tneir
homes and the Chinese cooks cmpl. .y-.l
in restaurants and kitchens, very
much as tramps do else where, and this,
too, in s,itc of the reputation which
ile-crt men have for tain the law in
their own hands in dcalin0 v itli atich
I'll' -s.
Then, too, the reputation of the aver-:i-e
ilc--rt man as a man-killer is unde
served. There are desp-i-ii..-s on the
d.-seit, an.l they ! the kilKnT. as a
rule. The men who have wives and
kitchens are not desperadoes. They
are res-ctal.le t it !.c!is. wiilinr to cti-
lnrc e-rcat privations in the h.- of a
fill nr.- ...iiis t. neo. They arc like re-siH-et.il.e
eitiens elsewhere in their
slowness to t.ii.e a l.l.naly re venire f. .r
a i s..ii.il injury. The tramp know s
tiu i. rv well, and acts on hi-, Umi
le.lt'e. In a journey that included the
wildest towns 011 the Mojave desert
the writer did not hear of a single
trump who hail leen killed for hin
temerity for did he tind more than one
li.. use thai was at all free from their
visits, and that h.use did not enjoy en
tire immunity. It was left compara
tively free, however, In-cause of the
vigorous treatment which the nomad
received at the hands of its master.
Mr. .1. W. S. Perry, of Hapsctt, is
the superintendent of a borate of
li:rc iiiiiie ill tin Calico ninu itain ,
nine miles from there. II s olii - is in
iii-, hou-.c there, w -here he lives with his
wife, who, dnrinr most of the year,
keeps no servant. When they first
cunie there the tramps swarmed alxiut
the house. Mrs. Perry ia a California
eirl, and could not lK-ar to refuse a man
w ho asked for food ill respectfui lan
jjuarre. Put one la3' came a tramp to
the kitchen door who was not respect
ful. He walked lilit in without a
word. As luck had it Mr. Perry lnip
pened to walk in at the dining-room
at the same instant.
SuiK-riiitemlents of desert mines are
accustomed to dealiiip; with all kinds
of men and are particularly prompt in
action.
"What do you want?" said Perry to
the tramp.
"I came to see yon ahout gettinp; a
job." replied the tramp, who was try
in j to make the Iiest of a bad case.
"And you thought the way to pet
work was to come around to the kitch
en door and enter without knocking,
did you'.'" The tramp made no reply,
and Mr. Perry continued:
"I will conduct you to the oflice door
and show you how to get in there in a
proper way."
At that Perry turned the tramp
around, kicked him out the kitchen
door, kicked him around the house to
the otlice door and stood him up there
and said:
"Now knock on the door."
The man knocked and Perry opened
it an.l entered.
tome in," he said, and the tramp
followed.
"IK1 you want work or have you got
rather more than you wanted?" Perry
cont iiim-,1.
The man jrlanced up and then fleL
Perry is a six-footer, who can kick like
a desert mule.
It was a long time liefore Mrs. Perry
was troubled by tramps again; hut, of
course, there was no escaping them al
together. Kven the purchase of a won
derfully intelligent anil well-trained
dog did not kl-'ep them away alto
gether. Mr. Perry had to drive to the
mine, nine miles away, several times a
week, and the wife was often left
alone for several hours at 11 time. One
afternoon something at the mine de
tained Perry so that he could not reach
1 ie until after dark. Mrs. Perry un
derstood the matter, and did not licgiii
to prepare supper until after nightfall.
She was going to broil a steak that
night, and, having li rhtod the fire and
a lamp, was putting the broiler on the
stove when a tramp stalked in at the
OjK-n kitchen door, having in some way
escaped the dog. The frightened look
that came to Mrs. Perry's face at once
showed him that lie was master of the
situation, anil, sitting down at the ta
ble, lie bade her go on and get the
steak ready In haste find to fetch out
the lwst of evory thin? sho had in addi
tion. The Waring of the man was so
terrifying that Mrs. Perry did not I'are
to refuse, and, greatly agitated, she
brought the steak and put it over the
glowing coals. The other work was
also continued, the man meantime
cursing her for lieing slow- so continu
ally that he did not hear the wheels of
a buckhoard that was driven up to the
rear of the house, nor did Mrs. Perry
hear them.
The hiifklmard contained Mr. Perry,
and he could hear the words of the
tramp very plainly. Dropping the
reins he walked silently toward the
kitchen door just as Mrs. Perry ap
proached the stove with a quart shaker
full of powdered salt. She fioised the
shaker, and by accident shook the
cover off so that more than a pint of
salt fell on the meat, glanced at the
door and saw her husband coming, and
then fell in a dead faint beside the
sti ve.
Without a word Perry entered the
room. and. walking to the table, picked
up the carving knife, while the tramp
fell ou his knees and begged for life.
That was the only move that could
save his life. Perry could not kill a
man who liegged for mercy, but he
could and diil give him a frightful re
turn for the misery Mrs. Perry had en
dureiL For a moment he considered
how he could punish the fellow, and
then his eyes fell on the stove.
The steak was bubbling on top and
scorching below over the redhot coals,
while the salt in a browning heap lay
on the middle.
"Hold out your hands flat, said Per
ry. The tramp olieyed, and with the
knife and fork Perry placed the steak
iiixm them. The man shrieked with
pain, but dared not drop it.
"You ordered the steak 'quick, and
you shall have it," said Perry. "Sow
eat it"
With the ready knife before his eyes
the tramp choked it down, salt and
all, and then disappeared in the night.
The eastern reader may think that
after such an exiierience the tramp
died on the desert next day, but he
didn't, and the chances are that by ex
hibiting his burned bauds and telling
some pitiful story about them he !
ta'uie.l more squ-ire meals during the
next week than he had had in three
months le fore. That Perry was justi
fied in his treatment of the man no one
doubts who knows the desert and its
nomads.
Although rarely it ever done to death
by the citizens on whom they prey,
more trumps die violent deaths in this
country than elsewhere. 1 tec a. use the
count rr is a desert thev must ride on
the cars in the hot monthf. There is a
curious rule among the railroads of the
whole Pocky mountain region that
works to the advantage of the tramjs.
'1 he Indians of the region are allowed
to ride f ree on the outside of and l
twecn the car. It is "Vr-at vrraft" for
the tramp w ho finds a group of Piutes
or S!i. tshoiies on a train. The train
men do not iiotits the addition to the
irroitp, and the Indians are not unlike
ly t sliart- their food with the tramp.
Put Indians are tiot iftcn found on the
railroads in this part of the desert,
while tramps are as plentiful as sand
storms. A train never g.es over the
road w ithotit carrying trau:ls or with
out a liiit ln-tween t'lem and t he train
men. The utter recklessness of the
tramps in stealing rides is enouirti to
unnerve the ine Xcrieneed seet:itor.
It is useless for them to try to lard a
train that is standing at a station in
the daytime, so they walk up the track
and wait there till the train has started
and attained a speed at which it would
be dangerous for an ordinary man to
try to climb on or even jump from the
platform, and then, grasping the rods
that brace the floor timln-rs of a car,
they swing themselves under and land
on the brake beams. This i:i done to
some extent by tramps in the cast,
but railroad men say that the tramps
here can lioard a brake beam on a
train going from twenty-five to thirty
miles an hour. The tourist hears this
told so often and so candidly that he is
obliged to believe it. P.ut sooner or
later the nerve or the muscle of the
tramp fails and he drops under the
wheels. So many tramps are killed by
the trains that the local papers give no
more attention to events of the kind
than New York papers give to the
maiming of children by recklessly
driven trucks. The stories of railroad
accidents on the desert are telegraphed
to the east only when the lives of pas
sengers have Is.-en lost, so eastern read
ers do not hear about the killed tramps;
but a railroad man told the writer that
out of seven collisions involving freight
trains, with the details of which ho
was familiar, tramps had beeu killed
in four. X. Y. Sun.
I nhealthy Churrhe.
The medical oflleer of health for the
city of London has started a movement
to compel all the churches of the city to
remove the dead that are burh-d
ln-neath their floors, and bury them at
II ford. It is said that the condition of
many of these churches is frightfully
unhealthy, as they literally stand over
a mass of tlead Wlies in various stages
of decay, from which it is a wonder
that a pestilence has not resulted long
ago. The move has created great cons
ternation among the vestrymen of the
churches, as the process of exhumation
will 1m? expensive as well as dangerous,
the average cost per church being esti
mated at ten thousand dollars. One
warden jiositivcly refused to allow any
interference with the dead, but when
the health officer had the flooring of his
Icw taken up, and showed him what
lay lieneath him every Sunda.v, he
quickly changed his mind. One man
tried to block the proetHtlings by
claiming the Ixxly of nis grandfather,
which was buriisl in one of the aisles
of the church some fifty years ago. lie
was told that he could have it, of
course, all that was necessary was for
im to identify it.
A C'nt Vhlppte) ly Uirda.
At Farmingtoit, Me., the other day a
eat captured one of a flin-k of martins
which had their nests in a little house
provided by the owner of the feline,
and was niakingolT with the dainty mor
sel. Attracted by the piteous cries of
the bird, its mates came to the rescue,
alighted upon pussy's back, and ps-ked,
scratched and screamed so furiously
that she was ffHtn (jlad to drop her
prey and escape Indoors. Then tht
purple martins held a great rejoicing,
noisily chattering over the salvation of
their mata,
"1 Will" and 'I Shall.
Asa guide to the proper use of the
the words "shall" and "will," some one
suggests the folluwing verso:
In the first person, siuinly 'shall" foretell,
Jti ill" a threat or ft- a promise dwells:
' Shall" lu the .-cend or the third doth threat;
Will" lmply tbeq foretell the feat
THE PANAMA SCANDAL.
How tno Groat Lottery Loan Was
Manipulated.
The Primary Can of the Great Toenail
Which Is Now Convulnlna; France
I'romliieol 4m!la Iiirmc;cl
ta Sharp l'nartleea.
For two years prior to the lottery
loan, writes the Paris correspondent of
the London Economist, the public had
befrun to manifest a reluctance to in
vest more money in the scheme. In
issti an issue of r00,000 bonds was made,
but only 4."8,SO were suWriU-d. In
17 a fresh subscription of the same
number w as opened, and only 2.Vs,S57
were taken. The source had almost
dried up, and when money was required
again in lsss some additional attraction
to investors was necessary.
M. de Lcsseps then pi oposed to raise
a linal great loan of fWo.iHHj.ooO francs
with lottery prizes, that sum Wing suf
licient to terminate the canal. Put lot
tery loans require the authorization of
parliament, and a bill was presented to
the chandicr March 1. M. de Lessens
Wing, however, in immediate want of
money could not wait for the bill to
pass through the necessary stages be
fore becoming law, and March 14
offered for public subscription :C0.(HK
Umds of l.Oou francs, without lottery
prizes, but which subscrilers could ex
change for new bonds w hen the lottery
loan was authorized.
Of the O.oou I Knds offered only 112,
4s:t were taken up. The situation had
beo me desicrate. and the undertaking
could only lie saved by the passing of
the lottery loan bill. The bill was
passed successively by the chamWrand
the senate, and became law- on June S.
The events that are to lieeome the sub
ject of the parliamentary inquiry oc
curred lictwecn those dates of March 1
andune S, lsss. Parliament hal in
creased the amount of the loan from
WW.OiM.oyj francs to 7-M.OOO.OOO. in order
that the additional 1'iU.OtHi.tXK) should W
invi-sted in rentes in trust to insure pay
ment of the lottery pri.-s and the re-dempti-m
of the ltils in ninety-nine
years, the company being only liable
for the interest.
T.ie l.ian was issued in 2.On0,0ou bonds
at "(N frati'-s, but only S-l'J,-J4'j were sul
scrilcd, including those taken in ex-
hate'e. producing ruia.iKiO.Ooti francs, of
w hich '.Vi.oxW.Oi'd were for the company
and M.ifcM.UiM f..r the trust. The cost
of the Usui' witi enormous, and are set
down in the report drawn up by M.
MoRchieourt, ot'ictal liq li.lator of the
eo:.ir-:i.:iy ia ls'.m, at 0I,i"Mi,7sij francs, or
over 1 iht cent- of the amount sub-j-crilxsl.
Of that sum U.ooo.uoo francs
Is entered under the head of "syndi
cates." 7,:k)l,ini francs for the pres
and Io.'.Hnj.s:;- francs for commission on
the sale of the lnds. The remaining
two millions went for the printing of
the bonds and clerical work.
The charges brought by M. Delahaye
and some opjiosition journals against
the deputies may Im? and probably are
exaggerated, but they are so precise
an.l in some cases are accompanied
with details so circumstantial as to
leave the impression that they are not
alisolutcly unfounded. Take the story
told of the vote on the loan bill in the
chamln-r. The committee consisted of
eleven moralK-rs, of whom five were in
favor of the bill and five hostile. The
eleventh, it is said, pretended to be un
deeitletl. but went to the company and
offered his vote for 200,000 francs. The
proposal was declined, and the deputy
then joined n bank for a War operation
in Panama shares, with the intention of
giving hi.s casting vote against the bill.
The company, however, reflected on
learning of the War operation in Pan
ama shares, and sent to the chamWr its
emissary, who called the deputy out of
the committee-room and offered him
100,000 francs, which was declined.
The deputy was sent for a second
time and obtained his terms, and the
majority for the bill was obta-iniii. P.ut
the deputy licghcted to inform his i-iui-fisderate.
v. ho continued to sell Panama
shares, and as they made a sharp re
lionnd on the decision of the committee
W oming known the banker was nearly
niine.l. A-: he has since W-cn quite
ruinml and has absconded his name has
been given, but that of the deputy is
not yet revealed. The sudden death of
Karon do Ueiiiaeh. who was the inter
mediary employed by the company, is
said to have occurred from a fit brought
on by the discovery that the lxxik con
taining copies of his letters had been
stiden after he had destroyed all other
documents of a nature to incriminate
him, as he was to have lx-en made one
of the defendants in the prosecution.
Me, however, employed a well-known
financial agent, who disappeared a few
months after committing large forgeries
to the prejudice of the. dynamite com
pany, anil who now 1 masts from his
hiding place that ho has in his posses
sion the check-lxxik from which the
deputies were paid.
FAST ENOUGH.
A Ru.lsii'4 llan for 1'rmu.lnr the
At
l:ill In TweiityMeht Hours.
It is said that a new maritime inven
tion, intondi-d to revolutionize the pres
ent system of marine locomotion, is W
ing perfected by Lieut. Apostolow, of
the Russian navy. The other day a
private exposition was given of the in
genious nuxlcls Ik fore Admiral Van der
Fleet, Karon Pistrom, Capt, Perelesehin
and other naval ollicers, in the directors
nx.mof the Kussian company's estaV
lishmcnt at Odessa. Sufficient informa
tion has Wen collected by the London
Transcript to show that Lieut. Aposto
low's new ship has neither screw nor
paddle. There is, instead, a kind of
running electrical gear right round the
vessel's hull, under the water line, and
a revolving mechanism, which will pro
pel the ship fria Liverpool to Sew
York in twenty-eight hours. This law
over , is but one part of the Russian's
scheme. Some unreasonably timid per
sons, Lieut. Apostolow imagines, might
object to the discomfort of W-ing
swished through the Atlantic billows
at the rate of one hundred and thirty
knots an hour. To these he offeis the
alternative- of a submarine passage
"without rock, roll or vibration, and
with a goixl supply of oxygen and
hydrogen during the short voyage.
Vt'hat tho oza.r'3 officers think of the
Apostolow plans is not reeordod. AU
that is known is that tho lieutenant has
quitted Odessa for Moscow and St
Pt'tersburg, where lu intends to exhibit
his ni.xlcls Wfoye. he embarks with
them fr that valhalla of invention
the world's fair, ;
BETTING ON ELECTIONS.
Now Recognized as a Legitimate
Branch of Brokerage.
AVall Street Operator I'liu-e Iteta for
Their I'atrona and lu-altze La.r-e
I'rotita I'olltiral Sec.
station Uroau.
Iletting on elections has lieeome a
recognized branch of the business of
many Wall street brokers. Toward the
end of the recent campaign the W-tting
on the national election tiecame of such
magnitude that the names of C leveland
and Harrison might appropriately have
Wen placed among the stK-ks and
printed with the regular quotations.
The Sun thinks it is likely that in
future campaigns much more W-tting
than ever w ill be done by recognized
brokers, and that the election W-tting,
like other big financial interests, will
center in Wall street.
As the majority of the Wall street
bets were not made with the publicity
which attended W-ttir.g in hotels, it
was only when settling time came after
the election that their gross magnitude
Ut-ame somewhat known. The Wttors
on the election in Wall street were
greater speculators than those who
mailt wagers at the lu dels or put up
their money at some up-town p.xl
rooin. Hundreds of men keep balances
with their Wall street brokers to W
available at any time in stock specula
tion. These accounts differ from the
ordinary bank account in that the Wall
street account is kept for purely specu
lative purposes, while the bank account
is for business purposes. After a pros
perous business season, when the mer
chant has taken care of all of his own
paHr ai.d obligations and has a com
fortable surplus left, he is apt to go to
Wall street to invent and usually to
speculate, for he regards the Wall
street fund as somewhat of the nature
of fraruhlinir money.
With such men speculation last au
tumn txk for the first time a turn t.
wanl elections, whereas In-fore it hud
len confined to stocks, wheat, corn,
Vil and other product with recognized
quotations. None of th.-m uppoal to
the business man as doe politic. Al
most all business men jx-rsonaily have
strong political prcjudici-. Even mar.y
of those w ho will not take the trouble
and tiuie to reU,ter and vote liave a
strong feeling for one party or the oth
er. Wall street brokers have not as yet
charged commissions on election W-t,
and this gave the speculative business
man still more of a turn toward election
W-ts, for he did not have to pay a quar
ter commission. It al.so attracted him
from the tip-town Wtting resorts, for
any man going to a Ixxikmaker to place
his money would do a little worse than
if he could meet at once some man who
was as eajfer to W t on the otlr side.
The brokers Wgan by placing elec
tion Wts to oblige their customers w ho
hail balanc-s with them, and they smn
found tliat the business was profitable.
The money was always put up by the
customer, and as the brokers making
the Wt were well acquainted with each
other there was no necessity of putting
ttie money in the hands of a stake
holder, and the respective brokers could
retain the money wilhouL paying in
terest. If the election Wls were inade
a long time W-fore election tho profits
to the broker were greater than if he
had made a turn in stticks for his cus
tomer, ami the Wther was much less. It
is likely that in the aggregate these
Wall street election Wts amounted to
more than the Hoffman house Wts. A
man could offer through his broker to
place fifty or a hundred thousand dol
lars on Cleveland or on Harrison, and
the broker would parcel it out in lots
in the same way as if he had unorder to
buy or sell five thousand shares.
New possibilities have been opened
to the Wall street broker now that
they have seen how easily they can do
the business of election W-tting, which
Plight W extended to cover any other
event of uncertainly or great public in
terest. There is now no W-tting piacv in
New York corresponding to certain
well-known W-tting establishments in
London and Paris. There are any iium-W-r
of pixil rooms, but it requires a man
of some experience to deal w ith them;
W-sidos, the associations arc not always
pleasant and the sit-urity for payment,
if one wins, is not so g.xxl as it might
W. The per cent- against the player is
high, as the expenses of the pxil rimius
are large, ami there is not the open
comjH'tilion Wtwceii tlu-iu which ex
ist W-tween the brokers. It now re
mains for brokers to take W'ts on horse
races, as they have taken W-ts on the
elections. They would get a dillerent
kind of men in the horse race W-tting,
and through the summer Wall street
would not W so dull and profitless as
it usually is during that season.
The iJte of Nlnewre.
Concerning the wearing away of Ni
agara Falls, Prof, Le Coide says: The
upper stratum of rock Is Niagara lime
stone, a hard rock, but Wneath it is a
Stratum of shale. It is the slow under
lining of this shale that causes the lime
stone to break oft from year to j-ear
and the falls to recede. They are recoil
ing now at the rate of tlm-e or four
feet a year. What will W the final re
sult? They may go back to the lake,
but the limestone is growing thicker
and thicker and may finally extend to
the bottom of the falls In that case
the rock would not break off, but would
wear away and form a rapids. Iu any
case, if the falls should roc4de to Lake
Erie, at the present rate it would take
at least twenty thousand years."
He Tailed the Turn.
On the morning of the last election
day, says the St, laul tlW the school
ma'am of one of tbe rooms of the Har
rison sell ad asked for an expression of
her children, who average alxmt ten
years in age, as to whom they thought
would W elected, Harrison or Cleve
land. "I think Harrison will Ik? ole;-tod,"
said she. ''Now, all you who think as
I do, please arise,"
Ever child arose except one little
Ixiy of teq years. A'd when she called
for the vote on Cleveland he alone
jumped to his feet,
"Why, Freddy, am, surprised," And
this remark of the teacher resulted in
every scholar making life m iserable for
him the remainder of the day. Pat the
next morning when the news that
Cleveland was elected by an overwhelm
ing majority bro ke, the exultation of
Freddy, as he wal ked into sclixl, can
be Wttcr imagined than descriWsJ.
FOR EE All AN CE.
Nay! W t it pit;'
Twas Put a hasty uurj.
I'nthink itT tittered n unwlllliut heard
Although uixiu my ear II straiurely jarred.
A lifeloui; friendship shall not thus be marred.
Nay: let It pass:
Nay: let ft pass!
I will not answer so.
Lest word on words to fr eater difference
prow.
Vnaruariicil momi'tits rome to all to me
lift u.s-iis the trust of lovinp chanty;
Then let It pass!
Then let it pass.
And not a thought r main
To tKiin niy heart or cive another's pain:
I-t hearts t- true, and let the friendship end
That tx-ars not with the failings of a friend.
Yes' let it pass:
Jauios Kork. in t'tiumtx-rs' Journal
THE ADJECTIVE VENDOR.
IUustratincr tho Paet and Present
Styles in Those Words.
"Adjectives to sell! Adjectives to sell!
Nice sharp adjectives! Sweet round ad
jectives! Adjectives to sell!"
The adjective vendor stood on a sun
ny corner. His pack was slung across
his back by means of a string. The
striag w us made of long adjectives,
and when the vendor sold one from it,
he linked on another taken from his
pack. In that way the string never
grew too short to fasten alxtut him.
'i'lie adjective vendor was a wide-awake
man. He had traveled far, and had
friends in all parts of the world. He
had now just returned from the Arctic
regions, where be had W-cn to collect
ixlditics with which to replenish his
hUn'k. He w as glad of the sun on the
street corner, and finally decided to
take up his station there for the day.
i;..l pw. pie ai:
(.lie tii a cull'"
he sang out, a he arranged his atock
on a little counter by the side of the
w a!k
"Here's for young ladies! "Die latest
goods for (rents! Just imported! Here's
for the magazines! Fresh adjectives!
tiivc us a eail!"
th! the dear thing!," exclaimed a
young woman who was passing. She
looked longingly at the vendor's w ares.
"I do love them," she inustsL "How
much is that one w ith the frilled edge?"
"Not mucli," said the vendor, with a
courteous smile. "Put will it U-couic
yo-i?"
"May I take it Unit to try?" said the
young woman.
"Free of charge!" answered the ven
dor, with a deep Ww.
"Those showy g.Mxls hare all gone
out, if she did but know it," he mur
mured to himself. "She'll appear like
a fool, but that's not my atTuir.
An old man drew near, and, putting
on his glasses, stoojK-d over the wares,
"Pshaw!" said he, "these gimcrucks
are nothing like the adjectives of my
day. The world is growing foolish."
and w ith a motion of disgust he moved
on.
"I mut look up something for him,"
thought the vendor. "It will pay."
"Adjectives sir?"
This remark was addressed to an
erect, prim gentleman, who had not
apparently- noticed the vendor.
"1 never use them," said the stiff
gentleman, without turning his head
The vendor shrugged his shoulders.
Put he was sKn consoled for the re
buff. He spied a Wvy of schoolgirls
coming down the street. He drew his
feet together, ami down lie want in so
deep a Ww that the cap in his hand
swept the ground.
"tiooil morning, ladies Those on
that side are for gents," he added,
hastily, as he perceived his customers
flocking to the wrong side of the coun
ter. "These are the thing, of course,"
sad a short, round miss with a prom
inent chin. "Have you the latest from
Yale?"
"Yes," said the vendor, but he looked
Ww ildered. The world, it seemed, had
Wen marching on during his stay in
the Arctic regions. Put he was a
ready, shifty man.
"If you like those rough goods,
ladies, I can show you any varieti.
The gents sometimes use them strung
together, but you only want an odd
one now- and then, I judge,"
"No. indeed," said the former speak
er. "1 shall have mine strung together.
What do you say, girls?"
The girls pounced upon the vendor's
goods, and rolled them over, and turned
them over and talked them over. Such
great, hard articles as they chose!
Some of the gentlest of the buyers
could hardly grasp their purchases,
but that only made them laugh the
harder.
"Kittie's got the nobbiest lot!" they
all exclaimed, as, laden with purchases,
they departed up the street. Kittie
was the short maiden, and she had
truly chosen the longest an.l the most
bizarre of the articles for sale.
The vendor of adjectives was tired.
He sat down upon the curbstone and
wiped his brow,
"Who would think it!" he murmured
to himself.
Put he was above all a man of busi
ness. H is stock uoeded rearrangement.
He must bring out goods from his pack,
to take the place of those that were
sold. While he was busily working, a
group of young men lounged up to
watch him. They were the gilded
youth of the town.
The vendor did not at onee, accost
them. He was no longer certain what
would please them, and he did not like
to show his ignorance. Put he soon
caught by the expressions of their faces
that the latest novelties from the Are
tic regions were the objects of their ad
iniration. "Hang it!" cried one "these are
stunners!"
Thought the vendor: "I will put up
the price."
The vendor Wgan to be very happy
Wfore night descended and put an end
to his traflic His gains were enor
mous. All uay the youths and maidens
hail Wen flocking to his counter. He
had tucked away the grave and solid
goods, and had displayed only the most
tempting novelties.
When he went to bed that night he
set his alarm-clock so that it might
awake hira carl v. , , ,
"1 will liaue on some of those shop
worn gorxls on the working people,"
he thought to himself.
Alas! misguided man that he was!
The sun rose bright and smiling.
When the vendor arrived at his ixt
the street was cleauly swept. The
shop w indows were still covered with
their shutters, and only a few wagons
went rattling by. The vendor whistled
cheerfully to himself.
All of a sudden the sound of many
feet attracted his attention.
Confused cries of "Catch him! Catch
him!" broke upon his ears
He turned and saw a crowd of peo
ple. Some had canes and some briMims.
llere was a man with the fire shovel,
there one flourishing the tongs. Some
were without hats; some were strug
gling into their coats.
"Catch him! Catch him!" was the
cry of alL
"Gentlemen, gentlemen," cried the
vendor, spreading out his arms. Put
one of his own adjectives, w hizzing by
his ears, warned him that expostula
tion was vain. He seized his pack and
ran.
"Catch him! Catch him!" cried all
the townsjxjople.
I town the narrow streets he dixlgc.l,
threw the broud streets he flew, pelted
from Whind, panting for breath. Put
the vendor was still a man of resource.
He had now got fairly out of town.
He spied a vacant marshy plot eaiso by
the road. Into it he flew, and set his
goods W-fore him in the inannci of a
stockade, until only his head apts-ared
alvove the top thereof.
The vendor's conduct fairly took
away the breath of the townspeople.
How strange)- he looked in-cring over
his adjectives.
'tientlemen," he sail, "lam a peace
able man. In wluit have I offended?"
There was a confused murmur, and
then one man st.xxl forth to act as
spokesman for the rest He was an
erect gentleman and prim also, al
though at present somewhat ruffled by
his late exertions.
"You have made a jabWruigg.xise of
my daughter." sai-1 the gentlemau.
"And of mine!"
"And of mine," shouted Voices from
the crowd and tin- vendor was obliged
to d.xlge dow n Ix l.ind his st sadc to
avoid the adjective that descended
upon him.
II gentleman wailed for Liuu to ap
Iear. "And a jribWring maniac of uiy son.
he continued
Here tlic uproar a so great that
the prim f.-i.licniau ;.-e.i a br.-,u
and waved tt tow !n.j-..,:.. n,t- or.i. r
1 he vendor, lean.ng Lis head u-n
his hkiuL observed the enemy with hi
bright eyes.
"How much will you taaeT' sl the
vendor, finally.
"Take l.:s head." sail one voice,
'Take bis money." suid .tiiotWr.
"Take his pack." sasl a third.
"His tongue," said a fourth, and ail
the tow nsjs-ople spoke at once.
TW prim gentleman l.est l.ia temtx-r.
He luidalx.ut hitu with his br.x.ni. put
for every blow Le gave lie got one iu
return.
The vendor saw his chance. He
-oized the whole stK-kade with Wth
ais hands and hurled it at the enemy.
For a moment the sky was dai i.'eiie.l.
"Catch him! Catch him!" cried the
townspeople. Hut their v. .ices Wcamc
niufUed and they were Wnt to the very
?arth; they were Wwildered and
blinded by the shower of adjectives.
It was some time Wfore the prim
gentleman, passing his hand across his
forehead, stumbled to au upright posi
tion. "Where am I at? Where am I at?"
he said, faintly.
At his feet all manner of broken ob
jects, false and true, fair, fantastic,
sharp, blunt, curved, straight, short
and long, lay glittering in the morning
sunlight. Around his neck he found a
twisted chain. "You-dcar-dailiiig-dc-lieious-daisy-papa,"
said the chain;
"the.-e's the sweetest ham for break
fast!" The prim gentleman turned stiffly in
the direction of home, whither indeed
the chain seemed to lead him. Once
only he paused on the roiwi
"Did we catch him?" lie questioned
of a neighlKir.
'Did we?" said the neigh Wr.
'Did we?" cried another and another
and still another, as the question
passed on down the line of the return
ing citizens.
Xot one could answer, but a gay and
mocking laugh rang through the air.
The whole company looped up and
then dow ii. and to this side and to that
side, and even backward. Nothing
was to W seen.
"It is the wind blowing from tlie
west," said the prim gentleman. "Why,
breakfast hour is at hand," and so say
ing he hastened home.
As to the adjective vendor, whither
he went, and how, 'twas never known.
We know the wind was blowing from
the west, and we know that whether
by land or by water, whether on foot
or wing, the vendor was a shifty man.
Margaret Newcomb, in Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
A UaUh That Speak.
A Geneva watchmaker named Casimir
Livau has just completed a watch of
whu-h he is the inventor. Instead of
striking the hours and quarters, it an
nounces them by speaking like the pho
nograph. The mechanism of the watch
is based on phonographic conditions,
the bottom of the ease contaminga pho
nographic sensitive plate, which has
reeoivetl the impression t l the human
voice Wfore Wing inserted in the watch.
The disk has forty-eight concentric
griMives, of which twelve repeat the
hours, twelve those of the hour and
quarters and twelve more those of the
hours and second and third quarters.
If the hand on the dial shows t he time
to W 12:15 o'clock, one of the tine noo
dle points of the mechanism crosses the
corresponding groove and the ilisk,
which turns simultaneously, calls out
the time, just as the phonographic cyl
inder. The lower lid of the case is pro
vided with a tiny mouthpiece, and when
the watch is hold to the ear the sound
is all the more plain.
Jadce llsieni'l 1'roverhe.
Thar's more pollitick in honesty,
than honesty in tx.lliticks.
Thar's a g.Kxl many more pollitishans
for sale than is Wught.
It don't do no hurt to watch the pul
llc dolus of a statesman w hose private
doins won't bare watclun.
Thar's some things that men in polit
ikle life docs, that wimmcn in polit
ikle life wouldn't do.
Public oflis is a public trust that's
mighty on re liable fer lastiu' qualities.
Politikle prefference skis some pow
erful goisl material.
A statesman fer glory gits tired
quickern one fer emolimcnts.
The Amerikin eagel d.m't draw- no
sallery.
This glorj-ons republic ov ourn is git
tin to W the yuniversle disinfectant.
letruit Free Press.
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