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VAXDEKSONVS VOTI-
A Boy's Experience as a
Politician.
Country
It hail iH-enahot political campaign.
All over the state brass bands were
playintr, cannon wore tiring-, illumina
tions were tflarintf ami four hundred
and twenty-s'ven stump sj-Hakers were
deliverino; every niyht four hundred
and twenty-seven addresses. The har
angues were at once "rinpring-, electri-fvinji-
masterpieces of eloquence," to
ijnote the reporters who agreed with
their sentiment and '-tissues f lrir
elinjr iniMulacitjv" to iuote the re
porters who diil not agree. The four
hundred and twenty-seven mass meet
ings were each "a grand outpouring of
bii aroused people," or "a small, spir
itless gathering, of disheartened dema
gogues" quoting as lefore.
In almost every town rival compa
nies of "Jam's iluards," "Smith Han
gers' and ''Thompson Continentals."
arrayed in uniforms that did not tit,
and carrying' torches that dripped with
oil, scuttled through dust, splashed
through mud, and bespattered them
selves with kerosene.
They raised flags, serenaded candi
dates and escorted all sorts of distin
guished statesmen from nowhere in
particular to everywhere in general,
and back again.
Then the newspapers! How they
"nailed lies." "exposed conspiracies,"
"tore oiT masks" and "held up to pul
lie execration," proving "irrefutably"
that their own side had, and would
have, all the virtue and victory, and
the other all the vice and vanquish
niciil! Our village of New Xicopolis had
every requisite for a lively canvass
two halls, two newspapers, two bands
and two aspirants for every olliee.
Moreover the town was so evenly di
vided politically that no candidate
could reasonably expect a majority of
more than three or four votes.
As the struggle drew near its end,
men Wcame so excited and enthusias
tic that business was almost at a
standstill. No one thought or dreamed
of anything hut politics. The men
sjH-nt more time at the taverns than
in their simps, and hammered harder
on grocery counters than they did on
their anvils. The women were divided
iiito two classes those who quarreled
every time they met, and those who
wouldn't sjH'ak to each other at all.
Of course yvc loys imitated our cid
ers. We attended every meeting,
marched in every procession, and got
up meetings and processions of our
own in our patriotic ardor. We en
gaged in ceaseless discussions which
were none the l"ss hot and intolerant,
liccausc, as a general thing, neither of
the disputants hatl the slightest idea of
what he was talking alMiuU
(oing out on the streets alone was
like taking a little promenade on
llounslow Heath in the old days of
highwaymen; and on the evenings of
opposition mass meetings my return
from tin pH.st olliee was often in imita
tion of the liritish retreat frm Con
cord. Now election day was here. We were
assured that victory was in the air,
and about to perch upon our banner.
Victory seemed to le regarded as a
bird of some kitid, but whether it
would turn out an eagle or a crow
eagle for the winners croyv for the
losers no one could tell.
if my participation in the campaign
had hitherto K-en merely sympathetic,
I was happy in knowing' that youth,
like old age, had on this day its honor
and its toil. Though I could not vote
myself. 1 could bring indiiTerent or dis
abled citizens to the polls with my own .
pet colt and buggy.
The lirst ballot put into the lx at
Town Hall was thrown by old Jemmy
'rant, the lame cobbler, whom I had
dragged out of his stall at seven
o'eloek in the morning., that he might
do his whole duty as a free American
and to keep Fred Cran.tall from get
ting at him tirst- Fred was active for
the hostile tump, and if his slow-paced
family horse could not make as many
trips as my Knox three-year-old, yet he
brought, three times as miteh freight
when he did come, lieing provided with
a twit-seated Iteuch wagon, while my
buggy had room for but one passenger.
Fred was a boy of the most irritat
ing audacity and enterprise, and he
possessed, moreover, the advantage of
know ing nearly every voter by sight and
each man's political opinions by heart.
Consequently he lost no time in aslting
for information where to j,'o or whom
to bring, while I rt quired a great deal
of direction and advice.
All day long, the contest went on,
until, late in the afternoon, there was
scarcely a man in the whole town of
New Nicopolis who had not voted; but
as ballots liecame fewer the anxiety in
creased, for the check books showed
almost an equality between the part ies.
Even my father leg"an to rtw
nervous and the politicians rushed
about like lunatics. One of them sud
denly ran up to me.
"Here, Charley!" exclaimed he.
"Drive out on the north road as fast as
you can go, and bring in Vanderson
at the red house next lieyoud the
bridge."
I w hirled my horse around without
waiting for more. The rest of what
ever the politician had to say was lost
in the ratllingof the wheels as I dashed
down the road at twelve miles an hour;
but the colt had gone too far and too
fast that day to keep up such a pait,
an 1 I soon reluctantly allowed him to
take an easy jog trot.
Fred Crandall suddenly dashed by
with a fresh stce.l, which I recognized
as I)r. Parker's new roadster. Thinp-s
must le at a desperate pass indeed if
the doctor was willing to commit hU.
lest hoise to such a hard-driving; Jehu
as Fred!
Fretting- was of no use, thonph, and
I watched him disappear over the next
hill with more or less resignation.
It was a long road to Vandcrson's,
and I had still hal a mile to go when
Freil appeared as suddenly as liefore
around a turn just ahead He had uo
one w ith him, and his countenance in
dicnteif the greatest disapfioiutment.
He pulled up as we met, and called
out:
"Where are you poinjr, Charley?"
I simply smiled, having no intention
of U'traying iuy plans.
"Well, don't tell if you don't want
to." continued he, "but I know. You're
tfoing to Vanderson's."
"What then?" I inquired.
"Nothing, only your man Isn't at
"HB IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE ASD ALL ABE SLATES BESIDE."
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1S93.
home. You might as well save your
self the trouble of going- any farther."
Now this struck me as suspicious. I
did not precisely think Fred was tell
ing a falsehood, but my brief experi
ence of politics had inclined ine to dis
trust everything an opponent might
say. So I resolved to find out for my
self, and told Fred as much.
"All right for you, Charley," replied
he, driving on offended. "tJo ahead
and see what you'll make of it."
I reached Vanderson's comfortable
looking farmhouse almost certain of
proving Fred right and myself wrong
by finding no one there. To my ex
treme surprise I saw an elderly man
near the stable, hard at work oiling a
wagon-wheeL
"Mr. Vanderson?" I inquired.
"The same," he replied, hardly look
ing up,
I caught my breath. Fred had told
me a lie, after all; I am glad to be
able to say that I wish I had believed
him.
"I want you to come to town with
me, if you please," I continued, after a
minute. He looked at me, quizzically.
"Want me to vote, eh?"
"Yes, that's it. How did you know?"
'Oh! there was another young man
here awhile ago, who wanted the same
thing."
So Master Fred had been trying to
steal my man, had he? I no longer re
gretted anything, but solemnly re
solved that Vanderson should go to the
polls if I had to carrj- him on my back.
"lie laid down on me pretty eonsid'
ble hard, but I told him it wam't no
use. I'm all sole alone to-day, for my
son's gone away and there's slathers o'
things to do,"
"It won t take you an hour, Mr. Van
derson. The election's awfully close,
and we need every vote we can get," I
pleaded.
"Do, ch? Well, ye can't have mine,
young sir," answered he, looking ex
tremely obstinate. "Fustly, this wag
on's to ile "
"I'll help you on that!" exclaimed I,
jumping from the buggy and grasping
the oil can.
"Secondly, the stove's to black," he
continued, giving up the oiling to me
without protest.
"I'll do that, t u"
"Thirdly-, the ashes is to sift for
mulching the apple trees."
"And that, too." 1 iersistel, wondering-
how it hapiH-ned that all his joi s
should 1 either dirty or dusty. He
liegan to show signs of j-ielJing.
"If ye can git through in time, p'r'aps
I'll go with ye. you ng sir."
My oiling of that wagon must have
leen a rare sight, and my blacking- of
that stove a rarer. I5y the time 1 be
gan to sift the ashes my face and
clothes were oil where they were m t
all stove polish. The ashes combined
with the other sulistances and the per
spiration arising from my exertions
formed a remarkable complexion jhw
der. Meanwhile old Mr. Vanderson lighted
a pije, seated himself comfortably to
windward of my whirling ash dust and
talked on aiiout his farm, family,
friends and foes until I thought he
would drive me distracted. Then he
began to ask me questions altout the
studies at school, and. finding astrono
my to le one of them, immediately
brought out his hobby a theory that
the moon is inhabited.
I' poti this he argued to such an iin
ltearable degree that 1 heartily w ished
the moon were inhabited by Vander
son, vote or no vote, liut 1 had put my
hand to the ash sifter and 1 would not
look back.
I finished the work, did three or four
more little jolts which he pointed out,
and at last, oily, tlusty and tire.L suc
ceeded in getting fairly on the road to
town.
We drove up to the hall only just in
season. The crowd seemed in more
suspense than ever and our arrival
caused a great commotion. Some ap
plauded. ' some cheered and some
laughed not a few hissed and a gen
eral rush was made into the building.
As I hurried my companion through
the throng I caught sight of Freil, who
stood stat ing- at us w ith a queer mix
ture of contticting expressions. With a
triumphant glance at him I pressed up
to the box, in which, scarcely a second
ltefore the clock struck the hour of
closing, Vanderson calmly placed a
straight ballot which carried the elec
tion by one vote for the opposite
party!
Such a yell as went up! Nothing
saved me from Wing mobbed by my
friends except that the other side sur
rounded me in a dense mass to proffer
their sincere though bitterly ironical
congratulations. And Fred was the
loudest of them all.
"Didn't I tell you, didn't I tell you?"
he kept shouting. "The son who had
pone away was your man. Old 51 r.
Vanderson's never voted anything but
our ticket for the last forty-five years!"
"Sartain true, young- sir!" said the
old man, grinning. "Ye never asked
me aliout my views, an' I tuk it fur
granted ye was one of us. l'.ut if ye
ain't much of a canvasser ye're a mas
ter hand to work. If J-e'll come out to
morrow we'll continue onr argyment
consairning the inhabbcrterbil'ty of
the moon, an' I'll hav s'more ashes fer
ye to sift!"
I broke away from him, escaped the
crowd, and rushed home like a wild
boy. Father sultsequeutly found me
buried in the haymow tip to my neck,
crying with rage.
'There, there. sonny, never mind,
never mind." said he, soothingly. "If
you aren t exactly cut out for a politi
cian no more is your father, either;
and it's a great relief to me that I
haven't got to goto the legislature!"
l'.nt if I had only ltelieved Fred, or if
I had ask cd old Mr. Vanderson a few
questions or if, or if. or if! Manley
II. I'ike, in Youth's Comrnnion.
An KnclUL Trmdltloa.
Southampton Fields, known to cu
riosity seekers as "The Field of the
Forty Footsteps," is a small plat of
ground lying directly to the rear of the
F.ritish museum, London. Tradition
savs that two brothers, sometime dur
ing the duke of Monmouth's rebellion,
encaged in a deadly duel upon this
little piece of vacant ground. Both
were killed. When the grass began to
grow in the following spring there
were forty dead patches iu it. corre
sponding exactly in shape and size to
impressions left by human feet. Super
stitious ieople said that they were the
i last steps taken by the brothers liefore
exchanging the fatal shots. To this day
the place is known by the name Kiveo
above. Philadelphia Press.
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KIND.
A VI
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I-t- rcre-
Urjr tVliidonL
Speaking of the cabinet officers who
-fathered around Mr. Harrison's tabh
at the In-ginning of his administration
brings V mind the late Secretary Win
lom. He was a kind and atfahle pen
tleman. and his sudden death was a
shock to the country at large and a
cause of grief to those who enjoyed his
acquaintance, says a writer in the Washing-Urn
Evening News.
I rem. inU r an incident which showed
his kindness of heart and the unosten
tatious qualities inherent in the truly
great.
It was an insufferably hot day in the
August preceding his death, and tin
sun glared with blind force on the con
crete of the open space Itetwecn the
west entrance of the treasury and the
while house.
On the curb of the fountain basin a
half grown sparrow was making- fruit
less efforts to get a drink of cool water
which bubble,! tantalizingly just be
yond its rca,-h. Finally it leaned a little
Vm far, and, losing its balance, fell
overboard.
Its struggles were taking it toward
the renter of the basin and lieyond
rescue. I reached out my open um
brella, and just as I was drawing him
in I felt a hand on my slioulder and a
hearty voice said:
"Well done! I'll see that you have a
life-saving medal for that."
It was Mr. Windom. He was on his
w ay to a cabinet meeting, but the af
fairs of state ami the country's linanee
hail to wait while he assisted at the
n-si-ue of the half-drowned bird.
He took the ledraggled little creature
in his hand, and after smoothing its
plumage laid it on the sunny terrace
out of harm's way to dry. Then, invit
ing me to share his big green sun shade,
we walked on to the white house.
GERMAN RUDENESS.
A Noted Doctor on the t ut-lilvalrlc Con
duct of II 14 t'ouutrymrn.
Louise von Koltrll, who is Frau von
Eisenhart, has written a ltook of "Con
versations of Dr. Dollinger," lately
translated into English, from which the
Daily News of Intl. n has taken ex
tracts. Driven into an inn by a shower
in o.ie of their walks, he was greatly
annoyed by the conduct of some young
men. w ho swore at the weather, smoked
and called impatiently for Itccr.
"Tobacco and alcohol are demoniacal
powers." said lnl linger, half in jot and
half ia earnest. "Smokers a re barbar
ians. . . . The eternal smoking of
pijH-s and cigars by our forefathers
doubtless helped to bring aliout the
short sight which has now leconie. he
reditary in tlermany. Tobacco smok
ing i.-, the ruin of society und of chival
rous conduct toward women."
Talking of the (iermaii love of public
houses, he said: "When I compare our
young men with young Englishmen
what a diifcivnee I find! How many
spectai-le-w earing, weakly, uncouth,
mannerless youngsters 1 see here, while
it is a real pleasure only tit hok at tVe
boys and students in England, so vigor
ous, healthy, well grown, clean and dis-tinguished-hniking
in their attractive
College dress."
At another time he said that if he
were a legislator the first law he would
introduce in tlermany would lc one for
the protection of young girls. England
and America were, he said, in advance
of t'lermany in the treatment of women.
'-For instance," he added, "I hardly
think that an educated Englishman
would allow his wife to fetch him his
Itoots, slippers, cigars and newspapers,
as do so many of our countrymen."
TURKEY HUNTING IN ARIZONA.
The Oroit Slaughter Jut liefore 1 hnk-
The Arizona bill of fare is too apt to
contain only the items bacon, licans,
hard bread, llapjacks and coffee three
hundred and sixty-four days in the
year. Thanksgiving is the exception,
and no dinner is complete on that day
without a turkey to remind the miner,
prsp.ct.'r or ranchman of the old
home in the east. In the southeastern
section of the territory there is a creek
culled Kio Pricto. ami nicknamed the
"Turkey river." It is the only place
within altout two hundred miles where
wild turkeys alxiuud, but then there
are enough of them in the narrow val
ley to stork a state.
Just before Thanksgiving this valley
is iilicd with hunters from every part
of the territory, and the slaughter is
very great: but it takes place only
once a year, and the ranks will lie filled
up next spring and summer. Some of
ttie hunters come so far that they
have t. make "jerky" of the turkey
meat in order to get it home. Aminer
must Ik" very fond or turkey when he
will travel one hundred miles for it,
and then lake it in the shape of salted
and sun-dried strips and shreds, and
usually fried iu a gravy of bacon,
grease and Hour.
These turkeys are very large birds,
as half a dozen are altout as much as a
pack-mule can carry out of the valley.
Old-timers say that gobblers weighing
thirty pounds have been taken out of
the Pricto canyon.
WELL-KNOWN MEN.
WniTRLAW Rf.ii has leen presented
with a Sevres vase of great value, by
the French republic, as a mark of its
appreciation of his services as American
minister to that eountry.
John S. Dfss. the new head of the
Keoiioiuites, has had a stroke of paraly
sis. He is getting Itctter. however,
and says the society will turn its at
tention to manufacturing rather than
to farming.
Hanker W". S. Ladi, of Portland,
Ore., one of the wealthiest men in that
state, carries ia his pocket a ten-cent
piece which is a part of the first "two
bits" he ever earned; that was back in
the early '50s.
Capt. McKay of the Fmbria has
nothing of the seaman about his man
ner or uniform, appearing on Itoard his
own ship more like a passenger than
an officer. He is a short, slightly-built
man, with a pale face and black hair,
and is as quiet and reserved as a travel
ing clergyman.
Cook TaIjCott, who died in New
York city a few days ago, enjoyed the
distinction of having defeated tlen.
Grant for the position of county sur
veyor of St- Louis county ltefore the
war, and but for that defeat Grant's
later career would muet proliably have
been very different front what it proved
to be, ...
SI. SO and
ZULU MAGIC.
Extraordinary Performances of
Witch Doctors.
rrofeeoor or the Itlsrlc Art la Aitoond
t by the Trick of Native Jur
Klere In Mouthers
Africa.
During the Zulu war, says Prof. Kel
lar, the well-known magician, in an
article in the North American Ueview,
I was in South Africa, traveling- north
through Zululand. In Dunn's reserva
tion, two hundred miles north from
Durban, in Natal, I saw a w itch d.tctor
levitate the form of a young Zulu by
waving a tuft of grass alut his head,
amid surroundings calculated to im
press themselves deeply upon the most
prosaic imagination. It was evening
and the witch doctor, who belonged to
the class more than on-e descrilted by
Kider Haggard with great accuracy,
was as revolting- in his appearance as
the high caste fakirs had been pleasing.
A numlier of fakirs had gathered
alxmt our camp fire and I had given
them some illustrations of my own
skill. They sectued puzzled, but were
not specially curious. One of them
stole away and after some minutes re
turned with their own conjurer, the
witch doctor in question. After con
siderable solicitation from the natives,
the intricacies of which my knowledge
of the Zulu language did not enable me
quite to penetrate, the conjurer, who
at first seemed reluctant to give his
consent to au exhibition of his powers
liefore mr, took a knob kcrry or club
and fastened it at the end of a thong
of rawhide altout two feet long. A
young native, tall and athletic, whose
eyes seemed to Ik fixed upon those of
the conjurer with an apprehensive
steadfast m-ss, took his own knob kcrry
and fastened it at the end of a similar
thong of hide. The two then stottd
altout six feet apart, in the full glare of
the fire, ami ltepan, all the while in
silence, to whirl their knob terries
altout their heads. I noticed that when
the two clubs seemed, in their swift
flight, almost to come in contact, a
spark of tlame passed, or appeanil to
pass, from one of them to the other.
The third time this hapjH'ned there was
an explosion, the spark appeared to
burst, the young man's knob kcrry was
shattered to pieces, and he fell to the
ground apparently lifelesss. The witch
dx'tor turned to the high grass a few
feet In-hind us and gathered a handful
of stalks alxuit three feet long. Standing-
in the shadow and away from the
fire he waved, with a swift motion, ex
actly similar to that of the clults a few
minutes liefore, the bunch of grass
around the head of the young Zulu, who
lay as dead in the firelight. In a mo
ment or two the grass seemed to ignite
in its flight, although the witch doctor
was not standing within twenty feet of
the tire, and burned slowly, crackling
audibly. Approaching more closely the
form of the native in the tram-e the
conjurer waved the flaming grass gently
over his figure, altout a foot from the
flesh. To my intense amazement the
rx-cumltcnt ltody slowly rose from the
ground and floated upward in the air to
the height of alxuit three fiot, remain
ing in suspension and in wing up
and down, according as the parses of
the burning grass were slower or faster.
As the grass burned out and dropptI to
the ground the ltody returned to its po
sition on the ground, and after a few
passes from the hands of the witch doc
tor the young Zulu leaped to his feet,
apparently none the worse for his won
derful experience.
WITH A SPIDER'S WEB.
Power Could lie Transmitted from
Kufliie If itun Kioit ICitouch.
'Science can do some wonderful
things," said Samuel Watson, a practi
cal engineer, who has been devoting
some time to studying the various meth
ods of transporting power from the m.v
tor to the machine. He read a paper on
his discoveries some time ago In-fore
one of the engineering societies in New
York, says the St, Louis tilobe lK-m.-crat,
"It would strike you as rather funny
to see the slender line of a spider's web
conveying the power from a two hun
dred aiid fifty horse-power engine,
wouldn't it? P.ut it has Jteen demon
strated that such a tiling can lte done.
Now- let us start with the m?,t common
and general method of transporting
power, the ordinary leather licit. Sir
KoWrt Hall, an eminent scientific en
gineer, has found that the heavy slow
running ttelt can, when the conditions
are favorable for a change from
weight to speed, le made away with,
and a light-running, cotton rope may
take its place with a greater amount of
satisfaction than the belting ever gave.
Following up this line of thought it has
K-en demonstrated that a rope as light
as sewing cotton going at the same rate
of speitl as a rifle ball would satisfac
torily carry a single horse-power. Now
take the extreme lightest line known to
the world, that of the spider's web, and
the extreme highest-known velocity of
travel, which is that of light, and we
find that, astounding as it may seem,
if a line of spider's web conild be driven
at the speed of light, it would salisfac
ctorily carry something over two hun
dred and fifty horse-power. Sinpular.
isn't it? Hut Sir Robert Hall's discov
ery in this respect is going to tie of in
estimable value in electricity in a very
short w hile."
Australia I l lr.t.
Eight car loads of gitods that were
shipicd frotn Australia two months ago
have lieen unloaded within the agri
cultural building and deposited upon
the space assigned to that country.
This will be the first exhibit to enter
the building, and a the work of instal
lation is to proceed at once Australia
will have the honor of N-ing the first in
piisition. The space assigned to the ex
hibitors frtim the antipodes within the
agricultural building is on the first
floor and just east of the central dome.
It is eighty-five by one hundred feet in
dimension and well lighted. The ex
hibit is to consist of wool and cereals of
all kinds and some canned gitods. It is
however, with its wool that Australia
expects to make the lcst showing.
The Slaughter of lllrda.
in one consignment recently a feather
dealer in London received C,ho birds of
paradise, WO, 000 birds of various kinds
from the East Indies, and 400,000 hum
ming binls. In three months another
dealer imported S5o,3tf8 birds from the
East 1 ndies.
111 ul , U .
postage per year In advance.
NUMBER 13.
INSURANCE AGAINST BORES.
One Form of Imponltlon. at Least. Has
louud a llemedy.
From London comes news of the or
ganization of a Sn-ial I)eniands Insur
ance company. The soc iety arise- out
of the question that each man and. wom
an puts to himself: "How much can I
give without seeming shabby?" when
asked to give money to objects for
wliich they have no sympathy, but to
which tradition or some sense of reci
procity obliges contribution.
There are always restless people
altout getting up statues, testimonials,
anniversary gifts, from silver dinner
services down to quill pens, w hom one
wishes in Jericho, but are imiMnvsihle to
refuse. To thus lighten these needl-ss
burdens of life conies the Sicial D
m a nds Insurance company.
According to a writer in the Iindon
Times this soeietj-. on receipt of a sult
scription graduaU'd according to the in
come and needs of the nieinliers, will
transact for them the whole businesson
the cheapest possible scab'. The t
ciety will not le afraid of ln-ing called
shabby, having no corjntral delicacy of
feeding.
Memlters (who have paid in their sult
ftcriptions) will merely send to the sec
retary each week their Mtcial Wgging
letters. The society, doing a ready
money business, can easily buy in bank
rupt stock of clocks, eperpnes, bric-a-brac,
silver, liooks. Thus it will lie able
to furnish suitable presents at reduced
prices.
The Indon society pocs far in engag
ing a staff of sculptors, phosts, impres
sionist painters, in aeouirinp a collec
tion of painters" misfits that can lie
easily altered to suit the occasion, and
other artistic refuse that may lte util
ized at reasonable terms.
The sultscriplion of a duke, for ex
ample, to the Social Demands Insurance
company is put at 10 Ks. while a per
son of letters would not te charged
more than f.s. d.
In this country, until the tariff is re
duced, the subscription of the rich men
ranking with the English dukes would
lie approximately $70, while writers
would lie proportionately charged not
more than f i a year. These sums, how
ever, are initiation fees, and engage
only the services of the society. Moneys
raid out would have to lie subsequcntly
reiruburscd.
A DIFFICULT JOB.
The Mending of the Suspension HrM-ii st
N lag-am.
The eahlis of a suspension bridge are
subjected to great strains, and are
therefore firmly anchored to heavy
masses of masonry by means of long
bars of iron or steel having holes at
each end by- which they are Kilted or
pinned together. The Engineering
News says that one of the bars in the
anchorage of one cud of the smaller
suspension biidge at Niagara was found
recently to be broken. The problem of
replacing it was difficult. s'm'c the wires
attached to it had to have the same ten
sion when it was in piace that they had
when the old liar was intact. The new
bar was formed of a piece of steel
twenty feet long, six inches wide and
three-quarters of an inch thick, with a
hole in one end and a band Kilted to the
other. This band yvas d.signed to pass
around an iron bar in the abutment and
resist the pull of the wires. When
the band hail K-en placed about this
pin in the masonry and Kilted to its
liar the bar was carefully heated by a
womlen fire in a trough Kdow until it
had expanded sufficiently to allow the
end of the w ire cable to Ik connected
with it. As it cooled it contracted until,
when it reached its normal temperature,
the wires attached to it were strained
to the same degree as the others, and,
in this way, a difficult problem yvas
easily and cheaply solvetL
RHODE ISLAND'S ODD CUSTOM.
The Klection of lllat-k Governor la the
Old Colonial I lay.
A rollicking time in Rh.ide Island in
the old colonial days was the election
of the "Illack Governor." descrilted in
the New England Magazine. After the
white people had elected the governor
of the state, the slaves had a curious
custom of pnthcriiip together on the
third Saturday in June and electing a
black governor. To this ejection the
negroes went in fine style, on Narra
gansctt papers, with their wives on
pillions K-hind them. All were dressed
in their finest clothes, with swords and
with powdered hair, and often a long
false queue lied on la-hind. W hen all
had gathered together, the vote was
taken by the opptsing parties forming
into two long lines, with the respective
candidates at the head: the lines were
then counted, and the longest line elect
ed its candidate. After the election a
supper anil dance were given, for which
the w hite owner of the newly elected
black governor had to pay The last
election of a slave governor w as held in
lsoo, but the custom of '"Nigger 'Lec
tion" day did not die out through New
England until many years later.
A Man I p a Tree."
The following paragraph is printed
in several Hritish Indian ps-pcrs: "I'p a
tree," wrote a native forest suKirdiuate
recently in his diary, "where I adhere
with much pain and discomposure while
big tiger roaring in a very awful man
ner tin the fire line. This is a very in-c-onsid
.rate tiger, and causes nie gr-at
griefs, as I have Ik-fore reported to your
honor. This is two times he spoiled my
work, coming and shouting like thun
der, and putting me up a tree, and mak
ing me K'have like an insect, I am not
able to climb .with agility owing to
stomach K-ing a little bip owing to bad
water of this jungle. Chcnchu mans
can fly up tree quickly. It is a very
awful fate to me. Even when I do not
see this tiger and he dK-s not make
dreadful noise, I see the marks of his
hoofs and his naiLs on the path!"
Loved Ills loK.
An old colored man went to jail in
Washington last week for the sake of
his dog. He had neglected to pay for a
license Vi keep the animal, for kill the
dog he would not. His explanation
was that the dog K longcd to his child,
and aKiut the time he was going to pet
the tag for the dog his child died. It
took every cent that he could iKg or
lxirrow to pay the funeral expense-.
"And," he said, "I keep the dog tor the
sake of the dead child." He promised
to get the tag if the judge would give
him further time, but, as the old man
had not wrecked a bank or done any
thing in the first-class order of crime's,
he had to go to jaiL
i AuvertiKinrrjntCH.
The Urreand reliable elrruUtlon ft the
BlA Ik li en as cnmmenile it to the tsvnratile
ron Mers hod of siertiseri wboe latrora will l
(rtel st the tallowing low rsiee :
I Inch. 3 Imes .....$ 1 .10
t Inch, S month! H.M
1 Inch, 6 noDibi s.M
1 lorn tyesr b oo
t iDohes. t moDtbe.... t oo
SlDrbes.i year 10.")
S inchee. 6 month 8.00
S Inches. I year S.oo
xi eoinmo, 6 month. 10 0b
5 column. 6 months.. - au oo
keolDDi I year W W
1 column, s months........................ 40 W
1 column. I year Tfc.oo
- Business Items, first Inrertlon, 10c. per Itoe
subsequent Insertions, be. ter line
Adminipirs tor's and, tif color's Notice.. fl to
Auditor's Notices z.bQ
tray and similar Notices X00
-Resolutions or proceedings ot any corpora
U in or society and eomaiual-atlons dwl-u.d lo
call attention to any matter of limited or Indi
vidual Interest tnut ! paid lor as adTertismenta.
Hook and Job fnntln of all kinds neatly and
eieiktusiy executed at the lowest prices. And
doo'tyou loncel it.
MEXICO NEEDS IMMIGRANTS.
People I'rom Northern Kurope Would Set
a Valuable Ksample of Thrift
There is a rumor to the effeft. that nn
effort will K made in Mexico to turn
the curri'iit of European emigration
from the I'nited States to that coun
try. There is room in Mexico for many
more Ksiple, but it is by no means as
sparsely inhabited a country as many
Ami-rit-ans think, says the Ik-nvcr Re
publican. In area it is aKiut one-fourth
as great as the I'nite-d State's. Its jiop
ulation is I-J.ooo.ooo. The same density
in the t"niteel State's would give this
country altout 4s,ooo.OM), which is but
2.000.000 hss than the census of lsso
showed our population tei K' in that
year.
Mexico ncHds a different kind eif
population, rather than an increase-.
AKtnt one-half the people are- full
blooded Indians, and of these one-half
are uncivilized. There are aK nit l.ooo,
ooo white's, the majority of whom, eif
course', are tf Spanish descent. The
remainder, with the exception of a few
negriK-s ami Chinese, are of mixed
I.IimkI. Probably !.ono,000 of the in
habitants have Indian blood in their
veins, two-thirds of this numK-r K-ing
full blood. The hope eif the country is.
therefore, in the pentple who have In
dian blood. If they shall not develop
to a high civilization the- country yvill
altvayslie pove-rned by a small class,
compose'd chiefly of, the white's.
Fortunately the civilized Indians of
full bleKMl are a quiet, orderly people,
capable of tK'rformiiig a great deal eif
luKir and attaining to proficiency in the
me-chanic arts. Juarez, one eif the
greatest ef Mexican statesmen and gen
erals, yvas a full-blooel. The hybrids,
like hybrids gene-rally, are worse- than
their paren ts of either steick and have
caused a gre-at deal eif trouble. Immi
gration of a good class from northern
Europe would do Mexico pood. K'causc
the immigrants would se-t an example
of industry and thrift to the natives.
Hut there is not much inducement for
immigrants tf the laboring, mechanic
or agricultural classes to settle in Mex
ico. The demand for laKir doe-s not
equal the supply, and the farmers would
find but pi Kir markets for the-ir prod
ucts. Mexico is a good country for men
with money to invest in mining and
other industries requiring large capital,
but to immigrants yvithout means the
field is not inviting.
ARE WINTERS COLDER?
It Seem So in Kuretpe, While Ours Are
droning Warmer.
It is often asked, regarding the sea
sons, whether they alte-r f nun year to
ye-ar, whether there is a rtositive- ehanpe
in climate from century to centurj-.
The general opinion seems to K ac
cording to the New York Pre-ss, that
the springs and summers are e-ooler
than they were once, and that the win
ters are less cold.
The re-cords of thermoractrieal oliser
vations show that the temperature of
the month of May is diminishing, but
that the tcmjH'rature of the year, taken
together, rather tends to increase?.
Taking into consideration a ikthkI of
fifty or sixty more years, there has K-en
observed an actual diminution of the
mean temperature in the climate eif
France. Hut observing a longer period
comparing, for example, the earliest
centuries of French history with the
present time no sensible difference eif
the seasons can be established.
For example, the Roman emperor,
Julian, was very fond of living at Paris,
ami aKiut A. D. liliO he made several
long sojourns in that city. In his Mis
opogon he rclate-s that he was greatly
surprised one fine morning to se-e the
Seine stopped in its course and its
waters changed into blocks of marble.
Syve see that there yvas at that time,
as well as to-day, winters severe cnouph
to freeze the rivers, and that the cli
mate has not changed much if any.
Perhaps the men eif the present time
have a more sensitive epidermis than
had their hardy ancestors.
LIFT YOUR HATS.
Neglect to I to So on Meeting a lady Is a
llreach of tietetd Manner.
"There are two occasions upon which
I never will recognize a gentleman, not
even my own husband," said a we-11-known
sK-iety yvomau the other day to
a Neyv Orleans Picayune man. "If he
is sitting on a street corner ti have his
shin's blacked he might Ktw at me till
the crack eif doom, but I would not
recognize him. Or if he was coming out
of a saliMin."
"Did you ever have a man greet you
in the street without lifting his hat?"
asked a frie-mL
"Once or twice, but I never recog
nize'd that individual again. One of the
lie-st know n clergymen in New Orleans
makes a habit of not raising his hat to
some ladies he knows. He would not
fe-el Matten-el if he; could hear die com
ments that are made tin his Kmri.-di
manners,"
"Perhaps he forgets," said a man w ho
was ready to defend his se-x.
"That is no excuse. I would not ex
pert an armless man to lift his hat to
me em the street, but nothing less rem Id
excuse him. A gentleman has net busi
ness to forget at 1 cast the apjH'aranee
of giMMl breeding. A woman f-e-K a
man has treated her w ith almost famil
iar cetntempt who d.K-s not lift his hat
when spe-aking to her, and if she has
any spunk at all she will never Itow to
him again,"
HER ANNUAL DIVORCE.
A Married Woman's Yearly Season
of
llesplte.
"I don't know what I would do," said
a very gay marrieel woman to a Phila
delphia Time's writer, "if it were not
for my annual elivorce." she laugheel.
"You perhaps wonder what that is, but
it is really the pr-atest of social insti
tutions, and I would die without it. I
mean the six or eight weeks every sum
mer that I can go ayvay and Ik just like
a young girl once more,
"I love Jack very dearly, but I would
got very tiretl of him if it were not for
this yearly respite. We are very happy
now over our reunion, whereas if lie
had seen me every day all summer
long he would be wanting to go out
every night and h-aving me alone in-ste-ael
of lining escort duty. It is a great
scheme, and should be adopted by all
wives."
Poor, clastic wctlding vows, we
thought- "Till death do us part" has
not the significance it once elid in
the giKid old days of our fathers and
mothers, when an "annual divore-e-"
would have been regarded with holy
Lorror.
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