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THEHMPTEROFEKE.
His Snakeship in Various Manifesta
tions as Enconnlered in the
Land of the Free.
OIL CITY TROTH STRETCHERS.
A Cultivated Serpent Which is a Decided
Success in Fishing Tools From
Oil and Gas Wells.
AXTICS OF CALIFOENIA EA1TLEES.
Two Mows Ihit Htla'i Xomtaia Pus Oiumed "7
tie Katie of t Viola.
I WUlH'Mf FOB THE DISFATCH.'
Ever since Pete Gruber was bitten by a
rattler, snakes have been a popular topic of
conversation in Oil City, and a lew nignts
ago at a social gathering ' of gentlemen
"only," some of the most refreshing rem
iniscences of reptiles one ever listened to
were recounted. The Florida man started
the ball rolling with a snake story of round
proportions. When the Indians were camped
onAnastasia Island, off St. Augustine, a
huge rattlesnake appeared at the entrance
of their palmetto hut, in which several of
the chiefs of the Keowaf, Commanches and
Cbeyenncs, all wrapped in blankets, were
smoking the pipe of peace before the dying
embers of ihe supper fire. As soon as the
snake appeared the eagle eyes of the Indians
detected his presence and every man froze
into a statue Howling "Wolf, a handsome
son of the forest, was a living picture.
Raised toward bis lips was the pipe, poised
gently between the thumb and forefinger.
The snake hissed, slowly moved toward
the fire and deliberately pulled his sinuous
glittering coils over the naked legs of White
Horse and passed trom the tent. As his
head emerged it was met by the quick,
sharp crack of a blunt arrow whipped
from the thong of a bow in the
hands of Sittiug-Down-In-a-Bad-Place,
who had skirted the tent and was
prepared for the monster. The big reptile
made the air fairly quiver with his death
song an ominous and continued rattle in
describable in words, but capable of causing
the hair to rise on the unfledged. Contorting
himself into a thousand coils he at last died.
The commandant in charge measured the
snake and he required 10 feet 8 inches of
tape to string hitn out The Indians etrnng
him up in the tent and had a war dance
over his remains. The next day they took
his hide ofi, sewed it neatly together and
stuffed it with wet sand. The snake stretched
at an alarming rate and when it was carried
to town the astonished natives beheld a
snake bigger than any in the memory of
Sergeaut .McGuire, of'Fort San Marco fame
nhica is saying a great deal. That snate
then measured 19 itset long and two feet in
dumetcr. By the time account of it got to
the papers the tnake had stretched to such
an extent that editors scouted the story and
refused it for fear ot ruining the reputations
oi their journals. But the story is neverthe
less true in every particular.
TZncnlnc Fioinn Itaccr.
Said the man from Punxsutawney: "I
never knew that snakes would run at you
until one day about three years ago. I was
out clearing up a piece of ground and one of
these darned black snakes, or black runners,
whipped up out of a bush, put his tail inhis
mouth and came rolling at me like the driv
ing wheel ol a Shoo Fly express. But didn't
I rnn! Jeliosanbatl"
"Why didn't yon stop? He'd 'ave stopped
if you had stopped," interrupted a listener.
"Yes," continued the gentleman from
Pnnxsutawney,"but by the holy horn spoons
I wouldn't 'ave stopped. I ran down the
road two clean miles lor home, and every
time I looked over my shoulder there waB
tliat reptile comiug like a scared greyhound.
I couldn't get in tne house, bnt had to keep
running around it; didn't even have time to
think of getting tired, and I kept on run
ning until that infernal reptile died from
sheer exhaustion."
The story oi the gentleman from Punxsu
tawney will pass. Js'ext!
Tiainctl to Clenn Sobers
"An old man in St. Louis," said another
member of the company, "showed me the
first educated snake I ever saw. He was a
sewer cleaner and used to send this snake
with one end ot a wire in his mouth through
the sewers. A wad of rags was tied to the
other end of the wire, and it cleaned the
sewers."
"What was the man's name7" inquired a
tool fisher from Manmngton.
"Zeph Harrison," replied the other.
'-What kind of a snake?"
"Coach whip. I bought that snake from
Harruon lor $200 I use him in fishing for
lost IooIb in oil wells. I send him down
with a stout wire in bis mouth. He passes
through the eye ot the drill, like a thread
passes through a needle, a bit of wire rope
lollows the wire, and the tools come up.
Yes, sir, I am the man that owns that
snake."
"Hold on, gentlemen, this is becoming
extravagant," said the gentleman iroui
Punxsutawney.
"Very 'sltazy,' " said the man from Flor
ida. "We are confining ourselves to facts
and we want legitimate snake stories."
A Stomp- tailed Horror.
"We have some of the most peculiar
suakes down in Alabama," said the Colonel
from Mobile, "that you ever looked. at
There's the stump-tailed moccasin, sawed
off at the tail about a foot lrom where he
ought to have grown to. He conceals him
self in a bush by the roadside and for pure
cussedness strikes at everything that comes
along lrom a grasshopper to a mowing
machine. Where be strikes he generally
kills, being fully as venomous as a rattle
snake and more of a sleuth and more Vindic
tive than a cobra. On the old plantation we
lived in a log house. My father killed one
ol these snakes once and knew that he'd
best look out for the mate which would fol
low bis trail and kill him if it could. One
night I was an iniant then my mother
came to the door of her room, and, seeing an
immense snake between the logs of the
house over uiy cradle, almost froze with
fear. Her first instinct was to scream. She
suppressed this however, ran back into
another room and secured an old.
fashioned dueling pistol. Women
were taught to shoot in those days
sb they should be in these and she was a
dead shot; could cut a string at ten paces
nine out oi ten. She came back, and in the
meantime the snake had crawled down
within a foot ot my head. Taking aim with
a rest ou the door frame, she fired and cut
that stump tail's head off as clean as a whis
tle. 1 rui told that the snake wriggled and
Jell into the cradle and poured copious quan
tities of his cold blood over my face, bat I
dreamed through it all."
California's Hie Fellows.
The snake season in California has opened
unusually early this year, and from valley
and mountain come strange stories of ad
ventures with the reptiles peculiar to that
region. Fur some unkuown reason the
California rattlesnake is unusually large.
At Woodsland. the other day, Bob Sinkev
nnd Charles Ganitnill brought to the post
office a huge rattlesnake, which they killed
in Kelson's thicket, on Cache creek. It
meaturrd 4 feet 4 inches in length aud 3.314
inches in circumference, had 11 rattles ana
s. button.
On a Bncer Wlirrl.
At T'"ini! OaJ . Mr. K. W. Jt nnd
Miss Maud had quite an adventure with a
rattlesnake recently. They were driving
along in a bucgy near home, when, it is
supposed, the wheel ran over a rattler, and
as the mule tbey ere driving was moving
at its slowest possible gait, his snakeship
wrapped himself around the wheel and came
up squirming and rattling uncomfortably
close to Maud's face, and acted as if it
would like to get into her lap. But woman's
defense a piercing scream awoke the mnle
Iroin his reverie and caused him to step ont
a little livelier, carrying the rattler to the
ground, Uot having been invited into the
seat, it did not come up again. The men
were hauling hav from the same locality
shortly atter, and found the snake under
the hay and killed it.
In the Children' Plnjlioine.
John A. Theronx, of Sprague, Cal., re
cently built a playhonse for his children,
and for the past two weeks the children
have been telling their parents that there
was a big snake in their playhouse, saying
that when they were playing the snake
would come out and run aronnd the play
house and, then run away again. Finally
Mr. Theronx's little son James came run
ning to his mother, saving: "Come to the
plavhouse and see if I don't know what a
snake is."
Mrs. Theroux went to the houso to see if
there was anything there, and was greatly
astonished to see a big rattlesnake calmly
sunning itself on the floor in the doorway.
She picked np a big boulder and smashed
his snakeship. "When Mr. Theroux came
home he went out and found the snake dead,
and cut off his rattles, of which there were
seven.
A Monster in HIi Lap.
A
Henry Bassfbrd, when he was driving
home from Suisun, Cal., the other day, saw
a large bullsnake stretched across the road,
and he thought it would be a good joke to
run the wheel of his cart over the reptile.
He did so, and the next instant the
wriggling, squirming five-foot monster was
in his lap, brought up from the gronnd by
the revolution of the wheel. Henry kicked
and frisked about and the snake kissed and
struck at everything in reach. The situa
tion became eo unconvortable that he de
cided to throw himself from the cart, but in
an endeavor to do he became entangled in
some manner, and horse became frightened
and ran a considerable distance, dragging
Mr. -Bassiord and bruising him up quite
severely. When be had stopped the horse
his snakeship was missing.
A Narrow Escape.
A crowd at the Stockton depot, San Fran
cisco, last month, was attracted to the rear
car of the incoming train this noon by the
sight ot a man who could not stand up, but
had to be assisted off the plaform by two
others. He had been bitten by a rattle
snake. Dr. Besde, who was at the depot in
response to a telegram sent from Milton,
had the young man taken to the Commer
cial Hotel, where the remedies for the
poisoning, including hypodermic injection
of ammonia, were administered. The
patient is Juan P. Sosi, a Portuguese aged
17 years. For the past two years he has
been working as a herder on Juan De
Costa's sheep ranch, the other side of the
Salt Spring reservoir. While herding his
sheep he stepped upon a rattlesnake that
lay concealed in the grass. The reptile,
which was a very large one, sprang almost
up to his face. Sosi, upon stepping upon
the snake, mechanically threw up his
hands as he jumped back, and the rattler
bit him on the left thumb. He immedi
ately slit his thumb open with a jack knife
and' pressed as much of the blood and
poison out as he could. He hurried to De
Costa's house, where a half-pint bottle of
whisky was given him to' drink, and the
wonnd was ba'.hed with ammonia. The
hand and forearm are very much swollen,
and the thumb is discolored, but the patient
will recover.
Cunrmed by Violin Mold
A musician by the name of Paul Keister
had a fight with a conple of rattlesnakes in
the Sonoma Mountains, California, last
Sunday morning that is worth recording.
Mr. Keister is a violinist of considerable
ability, and he is called upon frequently to
lurnish music for dancing parties. Last
Sunday night he played at a dance given at
a farmhouse back of Yulupi Mountain, and
in the morning started for home over a trail
that led through a deep canyon, the sides of
which are exceedingly steep. At one point
in this canyon the trail is very narrow, hav
ing been cut into the side of the mountain,
and it abruptly rounds a projecting point ol
rock that stands oat from the walls ot the
ravine.
Keister was trudging along the path with
his violin box under his arm when he was
startled by the ring ot a rattlesnake, and
looking up he found he was confronted by a
monster rattler that lay directly in his path.
Keister turned to run, but another warning
trom the weeds by the side of the path
warned him not to advance in that direction,
and with his hair standing on end he backed
up against the rock and eyed the
snakes that had coiled themselves np
and were angnljr rattling their tails.
Escape was impossible, and Keister would
have taken SO cents for bis life when it oc
curred to him that he had read that music
had a soothing effect on snakes, and pulling
his violin out of its box he began to play.
The souud of the violin attracted the atten
tion of the snakes and they soon stretched
themselves out on the ground and began to
glide in the direction or the player. Keister
says when he saw the snakes coming toward
him his hair actually danced on his head,
and with his oervescompletely unstrung he
sawed awav on the violin regaidless ot
harmony. "When the snakes got to within
two feet of him they coiled themselves
and reared their heads. They were close to
each other, and at last, becoming desperate
under the glare of their eyes, Keister cangbt
bis violin by the neck and brought it down
on Ihe heads of the snakes, who were
stunned by the blow. The musician fol
lowed up his advantage aud quickly dis
patched the snakes. His violin was badly
damaged, the back being broken in, but
Keister rejoiced at having got away with
his life. One of the snakes measured eight
teet long and bad ten rattles; the other was
six feet long and carried six rattles.
TRAINED THE TAEAHTDXA.
The Uclr and Dangerans Pet Educated by
n Hnlf-Dreed Mexican Boy.
rnlladelphl Times. 1
A half-breed boy of Mexican and Indian
blood recently attracted much attention at
Winslow, Ariz., by the performances of an
educated tarantula he owns. He carries the
big, formidable-looking insect in a large
wooden box slung about his neck, which,
when exhibiting bis pet, he places on the
ground at a sort of stage. At the command
of its master, the tarantula mounted a small
ladder, rnng a bell and performed on a
miniature trapeze. Tben, to the thumping
of a tambourine in the hands of the hoy, it
proceeded to revolve slowly about, as if
waltzing, and when it had finished, sainted
the crowd by lifting one leg three times.
Alter its performance was over it crawled
to its master's shoulder, where it sat, occa
sionally running around bis neck or down
into his bosom. The boy says he tamed the
spider when it was young, first by feeding it
every day until it grew accustomed to him,
then gradually taught it the tricks it knows.
He declares that it is much more intelligent
than any dog, and very tractable, though
uncompromising in its enmity to anyone but
himself. It is as large as a silver dollar
when curled up, tbongh its legs are two or
three inches long.
The body is an ugly dull brown, covered
with short, coarse black hair, which also
covers the limbs, but is very sparse and
bristly. The eyes are small and gleam like
diamond points, while the mouth is fur
nished with slender overlapping fangs. The
power ot. spring in these creatures is said to
be something incredible, a leap of ten feet
being no tremendous exertion. The boy,
who owns the only one which has ever made
friends with any other living creature, is
from the Mogollon Mountains.
THE WORLDJS ONE,.
Says Novelist Howells, Speaking of
Modern Literature '
HIS HIGH REGARD FOR TOLSTOI.
Our War Governor and OtherOld Men Who
Arc Still Writinit.
BIG CHECKS DRAWN BT RICH HEN
rconnEsroNDENCE or- the dispatch.!
"Washington, September 20. I met W.
D. Howells, the novelist, at Saratoga the
other day. He has been spending the sum
mer there and at Lake George. He is one
of the hard-working writers of the day, and,
like Anthony Trollope, he carries his work
with him. Every morning he 'sets aside so
mnch time lor writing, and he turns out a
certain amount of work daily. He says he
finds novel writing hard work, and he does
not think it pays him to spend more than
three or four hours a day in actual composi
tion. Ho used to write much more tban
this, and he has at times worked 16 hours
out of the 24. He is now engaged on a short
serial novel, and this with his editorial
labors constitutes his present work. During
our conversation I asked him for his opin
ion of the Kreutzer Sonata. He replied:
'I think it is a great work. It is the off
spring of a master mind, and I do not think
that the critics are right in their opinion
oi its evil tendencies. The novel Is true to
life, and you can expect no other ending for
such a man and such a woman than that
laid out in it for Posdnicheff and his wile."
THE TOUNO DON'T READ IT.
"Bnt, Mr. Howells, do yon not think that
a hook or this kind is harmful to young
readers?"
"It is not the kind of a book," replied Mr.
Eowells, "that would, I think, attract the
young. It is more a book for men and
women of mature years and experience. I
do not know that it would be fit reading for
young girls, hut it seems to me that the
young men who read it will get from it a
lesson in the direction of purity and good
living." '
"What do yon think of Mr. Tolstoi, Mr.
Howells?" I asked.
"He undoubtedly is a great man," was
the reply. "And he is all the greater for
his simple bravery and truth. I believe the
world would be belter if we could be as
brave as Tolstoi is, and I think many of his
ideas, at which the conventional world
laughs, are the right oues. I believe, for
instance, in his principle of working with
his hands a part of each day, and I would
that I could do it myself. I believe that if
we could all do this if we could bring our
selves closer to a common level of humanity
ifin short, we could realize in its full
the brotherhood of man, we would be better
workmen and better men."
A WORLD LITEKATUEE.
The conversation turned to American lit
erature, and I asked Mr. Howells whether
he thought we were forming a distinct
national school ot writers. He replied: "I
think not. I believe the tendency of the
times is toward the formation of a world
school in literature. The writers of all the
world hare mare of a uniformity of
thought and expression to-day than they
have ever had before. We are finding out
that the unity ot the hnman mind is by no
means entirely a fiction, and the means of
communication of thought are such that
the brains of all the world work more to
gether than they have ever done before.
"You find this in the similarity of the
literary productions of the preseuj, all over
the world. A novel written by one of the
realistic school of writers of America to-day
has, perhaps, its counterpart in a realistic
story written 3.000 miles away in Spain or
Germany. The German develops and
creates the same ideas as the American at
the same time. The Spaniard tickles his
fellows' sides with the same humorous
thonght as the Yankee, and, like the Yan
kees, his fellows double themselves up and
laugh when they hear it."
OUB OCTOGENABIAS WBITKBS,
Some of the oldest men of the country are
doing their share of literary work. Gover
nor Andrew G. Curtin is writing bis
"Beminiscences of the War" at his home
in Bellefonte, Pa., and he tells me he has a
pile of mrnuscript as big as a dictionary.
He dictates his stories to a very rapid type
writer, a young lady whose critical literary
judgment he says is good, and who can take
down the matter almost as fast as he can
talk. Cassius M. Clay is, I am told, writ
ing away at the age of 80 in his Kentucky
home upon some additional memoirs ot his
career, and I met not long ago the Hon.
John H. Latrobe, of Baltimore, who, not
withstanding that he is nearly 00, is still
writing.
This man is one of the most remarkable
characters in the United States. He was
born during Jefferson's administration, was
a cadet at the United States Military Acad
emy when Monroe was President, was ad
mitted to the bar during the administration
of John Quipcy Adams, and when Jackson
was first elected he became counsel for the
Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad and secured
its right of way over the mountains. He
was the Inventor of the Latrobe stove or
Baltimore beater, and be has published
about a dozen works, including law books,
infautry tactics, hints for travel in Europe,
children's books and novels.
A lAWTEB'S $60,000 CHECK.
It was John H. Latrobe who acted as
counsel for the Winans Brothers in their
railroads contracts with the Bussian Gov
ernment, and I heard the other day the
story of how he was engaged by them. He
was in Europe at the time for his health
when he met one of the Winans Brothers
and was asked by him to go to Bussia. "I
can't go and you can't afford to pay me
what it is worth."
"But you mast go" said "Winans. "We
have got to make a big contract and we need
a man we can trust. We will pay you any
price you want, and what will you charge?"
"I don't want to go" answered Mr. La
trobe, "but if I do go I will have to have
$60,000.
"All right" said Mr. Winans, and, as
Governor Curtin tells the story, he there
upon took: out his check book and wrote
him out a check for the amount. Tte
result was Latrobe drew up the contract
with the Government and by this secured
the control of the road for 25 years. It
was an expensive piece of business but
they made millions oat of it.
THE CZAR'S BAH.ROAX). '
"The,"Witians Brothers," said Governor
Curtin, "were among the first railroad build
ers of Russia, and the story of their fortune
making there reads like a romance. They
first came to the notice of the Czar; from a
contract which they took to build a bridge
across the Biver Neva. They lost about
150,000 roubles on the Job. The Czar was
told ihat the American contractors had lot
He offered to reimburse them, bnt tbey re
fused, aud said that in their country men
stood by their contracts. This pleased the
Czar very much. He then told them that
he wanted a road bnilt, and a survey was
made for the purpose. The surveyors laid
out the road in a sort of zigzag line, taking
in the biggest cities and the best grades.
This survey was shown to the Czar Nicho
las. He looked at it and then said:
"That is not what I want," and then tak
ing down a map of Bussia he laid a lead
pencil upon it, resting one end of the pencil
on the city of Moscow and the other on 8t
Petersburg. "There Is where X want my
road to ran," said he; "it must be a straight
line lrom one city to the other, and the rail
road will make other cities between its
chie points."
The Winans built the road and, through
Latrobe, got a 25 years' contract to run it.
After 20 years were passed the Russians
wanted to take it out of the hands ot the
foreigners. I was Minister to Bussia at the
time and the Winans asked me what they
should do. I replied, ''If the Czar wants
the road you had better sell out to him."
THE- PITTSBTJRG1 DISPATCH,
A few davs after the "Winans were asked to
sell the "road vto the Government. They
fixed, the price, t $9,000,000 and got it with
out a .word.
CHECKS EOB MILMONS.
A good story relates to the purchase ol
the Missonil Pacific Bailroad, which Jay
Gould bought of Garrison. The .road was
paying good dividends and Garrison, was
not at all anxious to sell. Jay, Goulq asked
him what he would take for the property
and his reply'was: "Two and one-half mil
lion dollars."
"That is too much," replied Gould, "and
I can't give It."
"Well," returned Garrison, "you don't
need to take it if you don't want to: bnt I
will tell you that the price will be three
millions to-morrow." Gould laughed and
went away.
The next dav he called again ana offered
to give the $2,500,000 for the road. "You
can't have it," replied Garrison; "the- road
is now worth 53,000,000." The result
was that Gould waited iver until the next
day and actually paid $3,500,000 for the
road. t
The largest check ever given in this
country was that given hy Gould to Thomas
Allen for the Iron Mountain. He paid $2,
000,000 for it, and he handed Allen a check
for that amount upon bis acceptance of his
offer. Allen looked at the paper that
represented this vast sum and said: "Isn't
thts a good deal of money for one man to
have in one bank?"
"I don't know," replied Gould; "perhaps
it is. Let me have the check."
Allen then handed the check hack to
Gould, and he banded it over to the office
boy, saving: "Here, boy, take this check to
the bank and have .the cashier certiiy to
it." t And the boy went ont and did it.
A COAL OIL CHECK,
John Rockefeller and Sam Andrews were
poor young men in Cleveland together 20 or
30 years ago. In connection with Flagler
and others tbey organized the Standard Oil
Company. Bockeieller in some way got the
start of Andrews, and Andrews was very
jealous of his growing power and wealth,
and when Bockefeller built a big house in
Cleveland Andrews put up a bigeerone,
bringing artists from Italv to do the fine
work, making one of the finest residences
west of the Alleghenies.
Then Bockeieller bought a country seat
near Cleveland and Andrews bought an
other, and so the strife went on.
When Bockefeller was made President of
the Standard Oil Company Andrews be
came very jealous, and asked lor a look at
the books ol the company.
"You can't see the books iust now," said
Bockefeller. A fev days later Sam An
drews came in again and asked for the
book. In reply he was handed a statement
of the condition of the Standard Oil Com
pany. He looked at it, and as he did so his
face grew red and his eyes grew angry.
"This is not what I want, Mr. Bockefel
ler," said he, "I want to see the books of
the company. If I can't see the books I
want to sell my stock.'-
"What will you take for your stock," re
plied Mr, Bockefeller, very coolly reaching
for his checkbook.
"I want just 51,000,000 cash," said An
drews. The President wrote out a check for
$1,000,000, and Andrews was ashamed to re
luse. Ebank G. Cabfenteb.
HE HAS BISMARCK'S PIPE.
A Memento of the Scboolbnr Dais of tbe
Iron Chancellor
Atlanta Journal. J
"This is all that I have left of a pipe which
Bismarck used in his school days."
The speaker was Judge J. Gadsden King,
who leaned far back in his easy office chair
as be spoke and held up in his hand a plain
cherry pipestem about a foot long.
"How did I come into possession of it?"
the Judge said, repeating my question.
"It was in this way. You see my brother,
Mitchell C. King, went to sobool with Bis
marck when he was a student at Dr. Beck
er's famous school at Frankfort-on-the-Main.
They were classmates and roommates alto
gether very intimate friends. Now, when
tbey were about to leave college they ex
changed pipes for you know every German
student has his pipe. Well, Mitchell
brought the pipe which tbe future Chancel
lor gave him in exchange for his own to
America with him, and it fell into my
hands, for I am a great smoker.
"The pipe," Judge King continued, "was
quite a pretty one. The bowl was made of
hne china, and had a cameo likeness oi Bis
marck on the front of it. The stem was
about twice as long as it is now, lor it has
been trimmed very o ten.
"Mitchell and Bismarck were very warm
friends, and corresponded with each other
for years; in fact, they do now, I think.
Some time ago somebody in America wrote
Bismarck a letter, asking him if he knew
anybody on this side of the water. He re
plied that he knew and corresponded with
two men in the United States one was
Mitchell C. King and the other Dr. Emory
Coffin, of Aiken, S. C. Mitchell, my
brother, is now 76 years old, and is living at
Flat Bock, M. C."
"How old is the stem?" I asked.
"Well, it's bard to say," tbe Jndgo re
plied. "Let me see. Mitchell brought it
over with him in 1835; that makes it 55
years old, and I don't know how old it was
tben. It as an interesting memento, and I
prize it very highly." the Judge concluded,
as he laid it carelnlly away in one of his
desk drawers and turned to pick up his
every-day pipe, which be bad laid aside
while holding the stem of Bismarck's
school-day pipe in his hand.
CHARITABLE BEDS,
Wonderful Performances of Books That Are
WrII Established as Pacts.
London Spectator.
I read with much interest in your last
issue, in Mr. Beid's communication, the
following passage: "I observed a curious
thing one day lately. Some food by some
good Christian had been thrown out to the
starving birds, when a rook came down and
flew back to where he bad left another rook
sitting ip a very weak-looking condition,
aud ted her with what bo had picked up.
This he did twice in my sight before taking
anything to himself."
I bad some time previously received from
a correspondent in Wales, a stranger to me,
a precisely similar account of another ol
these birds. "One day, in the bitterest of
the weather, when'l am sure our friend, the
rook I have spoken of, was indeed reduced
to great extremities, tbe bird nevertheless
performed the following good deed: It
picked up a bit of bread, carried it to an
other rook, which sat on the terrace wall,
too shy to come nearer, and ted it there.
Nor was this alter baying satisfied . its own
hunger, for it had only just alighted."
When I put this little story down I had a
misgiving that any one who might read it
would scarcely be disposed to believe it, as
beyond credibility. I was therefore much
gratified at having so soon aiterward seen
such an exactly slinil ir fact recorded in cor
robroation of it, as above. It was indeed, I
think, a very touching incident, and one to
make every one, I should hope, who reads
it, have much good feeling for all God's
creatures.
THE EDITOB'S MISTAKE,
A Man Who stattcrp Shows Him Where
Be' Wronn on Bore and X'octs.
New York World.
Great Editor I advertised for a private
secretary, whose chief duties will- be to sit
in the ante-room and keep poets, bores and
other undesirable persons at bay. The posi
tion requires something of a diplomat as
well as a fluent linguist. You would not do
at all.
Bicketts(who stutters a trifle) That's
wh-wh-where you make a mum-mum-mis-ttke,
'squire! As sus-sus-soon's a bub-bore
cnc-cuc-came in I'd bug-bug-begin to tell a
M-loug s-s-story, and before I'd gng-gng-got
half through, bub-bub-between whu-wh-what
I'd sus-sus-sav and w-what I'd tut-try
to sus-say, I'd have him cuc-cuc-completelr
tut-tut-tired out. 1 ain't mum-mum-mucn
of a dud-diplomat, perhaps, hut as a 1-1-lin-guistl'm
a cuc-cuc-cautionl
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER.
THIS MORTAL FRAME.
Short Talks on Health, Disease,
Drugs, Foods and Habits,
THE pfifjPBRTIES OP CAFFEIKE.
possibilities "it ttie Prevention and the
Care of Consumption.
CAEE OF THE FEET AMONG SOLDIERS
Steam WliUttcs nnd Deafness.
At the last meeting of the British Medical
Association, -which was held in Birming
ham, Dr. Thomas Barr, aural surgeon of
Glasgow, made an indictment against the
railway whistle as the cause of much deaf
ness now prevalent The organs of different
persons, as is well known, vary considerably
intheir "vulnerability," as it is called, to
injurious influences, aud fnthe case of tbe
organs of hearing this vulnerability is in
creased not only by the mysterious and far
reaching influence of heredity, but probably
still more frequently by the actual existence
of a disease in the ear. There are many
persons dull of bearing especially on one
side and the dull ear being the seat of
disease, the disease usually increases tbe
vulnerability of the organ to damaging in
fluences. In tbe case of snch a dull-eared
person standing near to a locomotive in a
covered station, and the steam whistle sud
denly giving fortb a note of great intensity
and enormous height of pitch there are im
pelled iuto hisears and upon his tympanum,
like so many bullets from a gun, intense
and rapidly moving condensations.
It is a species of assault, and whether the
ears are damaged by it depends very mnch
upon their vulnerability to injurious in
fluences. If tbe ears are strong, and free
from any hereditary or acquired disease,
nothing more than an unpleasant sensation,
with some temporary dullness and ringing
in the ears mav be experienced. If, on the
other hand, there is excessive vulnerability
lrom hereditary or actually existing dis
ease, tbe two small sentinel muscles do not
act promptly and effectively, the power of
accurate adjustment or accommodation of
the ear is impaired, leading it may be to
permanent damage to the delicate endings
of the nerves ot hearing. A whistle of
lower pitch wonld be less Injurious to the
ear and equally effective as a signal, and
Dr. Barr suggests that it would be desirable
to substitute for tbe high-pitch whistle one
of much lower pitch.
The Poplar nnd Rbonmntlsm.
How few people there are who will Confess
that superstition has played any part in in
clining their thoughts or actions to certain
channels, bnt how many are there whose
minds have not been affected to a degree by
the strange influence which passes for super
stition? George H. Sharpe, a wealthy
builder of Hamilton, Ont., says the New
York Star, who has just returned from a trip
abroad, in chatting on the subject yesterday,
said:
"Perhaps you have heard the story of the
poplar tree cure for rheumatism. I didn't
believe in such stories. I don't now; but let
me tell you of my experience in trying this
panacea. For years I was a great sufferer
from rheumatism, which incapacitated me
at times from attending to my business.
Several old women adyised the poplar tree,
and I was instructed to take hold of a branch
with one hand, cnt the branch from each
side, and bring the piece home within my
grasp and lay it away. I would have no
more rheumatism, they said. I said such a
proceeding was nonsensical.
"Shortly after this interesting advice was
vonchsafed I was attacked with rheu
matism, and my wife suggested that I try
the remedy. It would, do no harm, if no
good came of it, was her argument I
called myself an idiot, bnt I followed in
structions. The incident passed from my
mind, and one day, some months later, my
wife called my attention to tbe fact I had
not suffered from rheumatic attacks since
trying the old women's prescription. It
was so, and since the experiment I have
bad no trouble with rheumatism. I don't
claim that the poplar tree cured me, but
in truth, I have suSered no recurrence of
the tronble. I don't believe in supersti
tions, but this was my experience."
Inoculation for Consumption.
Among the subjects that came before the
recent Medical Convention at Berlin for
consideration was that of the treatment of
pulmonarv complaints. Dr. Paul Gibier,
of the Pasteur Institute in New York, who
was a member of tbe Berlin convention, was
asked the other day byaTTorfd reporterwbat
he thought the probable outcome would be of
the reported recent discoveries relating to
the treatment of consumption.
"I have received a copy," he replied, "of
an elaborate report by Prof. Cruncher, of
the Pasteur Institute, Paris, which has just
been made to the French Academy of Medi
cine, giving tbe re.ults of experiments in
preventing consumption by vaccination.
The animals operated upon were rabbits.
Briefly it may be said that the object aimed
at by Prof. Grancher is to make the rabbits
consumptive-proof. Tbe virus i s prepared
from tuberculosis bacillus (the germ of con
sumption) and is of ten grades of strength.
"The inoculations were made at intervals
of ten days, care being taken to see that tbe
animals were in a per'ectly healthy condi
tion. Alter being subjected to this treat
ment the rabbits were inoculated with
virulent virus, but no development of
tuberculosis followed. The efficacy of tbe
treatment was illustrated by inoculating
other healthy rabbits, which had not been
treated according to the new discovery, with
the virulent vims. In all these cases tu
berculosis was quickly developed and the
animals died. None of the consumptive
proof rabbits were affected.
"It will be seen that the treatment thus
far is a preventive of the disease, but further
experiments are being made with tbe hope
ol being able to apply the treatment, or one
somewhat similar, to the patients in which
tuberculosis has been fully developed."
Persons who have been travelingtin far-off
lands have been bringing back with them
for some time now startling accounts about
tbe stimulating properties of various plants,
of which the native populations make use
to enable them to lurnish a considerable
amount of work without taking any food.
Thus in South America, says the New York
Herald, they tell us of the coca, mate aud
guarano plants; in Africa, of the kola nut;
and in Asia, of tea and coffee. But the re
searches earried out by chemists have made
it known that nearly all of these plants,
with tbe exception of a few, such as the
coca, contain caffeine. M. See has been
making experiments with a species of cake
made out of kola nut, and which Prof.
Het&el has already tried with success in
the army. He has come to tbe conclusion
that caffeine and its derivatives possess the
two following properties:
First They, facilitate muscular work and
allow it to be kept up for a long time with
out fatigue.
Second They allow.us to go without food
for a considerable length of time when we
have anything to do requiring a great deal
of exertion.
Experiments made on a series of 30 indi
viduals in good health and withont sign of
cardiao or pulmonary disease, have shown
that in the generality of caes the exertion
of running does not modify tbe respiratory
rhythm in persons under the influence of
caffeine; whereas without caffeine the loss
of breath increases the number of respira
tions threefold. In a word it can be said
that caffeine places a man who is not in
training in the condition of a trained ath
lete. Caffeine has not the property of tak
ing the Place of food; it does nothing bnt
replace the general tonio stimulation pro
duced by taking food,
, Making Dili-. Look Brainy.
It is astonishing what a difference in per
sonal appearance may be effected' by a hair-
21, .1890.
cut, soys the St. Louis Qldbt-OtmoeraU A
badly shaped head may, by a skilliul bar
ber, be made to assume an intellectual cast,
and in a very simple way. The intellectual
head, viewed from tbe trout, is wider at the
top than just above the ears, and a clever
barber, by'cutting tbe hair short over tbe
ear and gradually lengthening it to the top
of the head, may give tbe greatest dolt an
appearance of brains and intellectuality.
The Teal shape of the head is concealed bv
the hair-cut, and 60 per cent of good looks
added to the face. They say the tailor
makes the man, and no doubt he helps, but
the barber does bis part, and if well trained,
his part is by no means contemptible.
Tobncoo nnd the Brain.
Bnlwer, when but a stripling among men
of letters, when so far as to say that "the
pipe ripens the brain and opens tbe heart;
the man who smokes thinks like a sage and
acts like a Samaritan." That increasing
years have but confirmed him in his opin
ion we gather from the following passage
(ungallant, I own) in "What Will He Do,
With It:"'
"Mr. Waife drew a long whiff, and took
a more severe view of affairs. He who dotb
not smoke hath either known no great griefs.
or re nseth himself the softest consolation,
next to that which comes from heaven.
'What, solter thau a woman?' whispers the.
young reader, xoung reader, woman teases
as well as consoles. Woman makes hall
the sorrows which she boasts the privilege
to soothe. Woman consoles ns, it is true,
while we are young and handsome; when
we are old and ugly, woman snubs and
scolds us. Ou the whole, then, woman in
this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter, hang
out thy balance and weigh them, both, and
if thou give the preference to woman all I
cau'say is, the next time Juno ruffle3 thee
oh, Jupiter, try the weed!"
Habits of a Methuselah.
The following is from Mander's "Bio
graphical Treasury:" Francis Hupazoli,
centenarian, and one of the few men who
have lived in three centuries, was born In
1S87 in Sardinia, and died in 1702. At
first he was a clergyman and afterward
became a merchant at Scio, and in his 23d
year he was appointed Venetian Consul at
Smyrna. By his wife, whom he married at
the age of S3 years, he had four children.
His drink was water, he never smoked, and
ate little, principally game and Iruit.
He drank a good deal of the juice of the
root of viper's grass, ate very little at night,
went to bed and rose early, then heard
mass, and walked and labored incessantly
to tbe last. He wrote down in 22 volumes
everything remarkable which he had wit
nessed. He never had a feyer, was never
bled, and never took any medicine. At the
age of 100 his grey hair again became black.
When 109 be lost bis teeth and lived on
soup, but at 113 he cut two new teeth and
began again to eat meat
Doctoring the Feet.
Brigadier General Bengougb, C. B., is an
officer of a practical turn, says the Pall Mall
Budget, being of opinion, as he Bays, that
"battles are fought and won as mnch by
marching as by fighting." he has recently
issued the following orders tor the benefit of
the troops under him in Madras: "In view
of the importance that attaches to the proper
care of the feet of infantry soldiers as re
gards comfort and endnrance. in marching,
the Deputy Surgeon General has been de
sired to arrange for the instruction of two
men per company in the cutting oi nails
and the treatment ot corns, blisters, etc.
These men, when instructed, may be re
lieved of guard dnties, and be held respon
sible for the care of the men's feet in their
company, and company officers will make
periodical personal inspections, specially
be lore marches, to insure that this duty is
efficiently carried out The necessary in
struments ioreach company will be issued
by the station staff officer.
Coins Carry Dtssaae.
"You have no idea," says a physician in
the New York Star, "of the various ways
in which our greenbacks and coin can sow
the seeds of disease. Silver coins of every
description and greenbacks pass mpartially
from the hand of tbo millionaire into that
of the beggar, constantly circulating
through every condition of society. The
person of fastidious tastes, who will turn
from his path rather than risfc coming into
contact with others of uncleanly dress or
person, will receive, handle and carry in his
pocket, withont the slightest disgust,
money that has passed through hands
whose contact he would shun.
"Coin is much worse than paper. You,
no doubt, have noticed that blackish coat
ing in tbe recesses of your quarters and
halves. Immerse that coin in a glass of
water and examine it under a microscope,
and you will find the water swarming with
bacteria and fungi."
Preserves and Good Health.
A great deal has been written abont tbe
unwholesomeness of preserves done in the
old-fashioned way, with an equal amount of
sngar, but it is all a notion, a mere fad,
without foundation, says the Boston Herald.
Mr. Matthieu Williams, who is certainly a
good authority, says: "As regards cooked
fruits, I say, jam lor the millions, jelly for
the luxurious, and juice for all. With
these in abundance, the abolition of alco
holic drinks will follow as a necessary re
sult of natural nausea." There is a bit of
wisdom for tbe reformers of various kinds
and degrees to reflect upon.
Nntore's Frrok lp a Nose. k
I was talking to one of the old settlers the
other day, says a writer in the Lewiston
Journal, and he said: "Don't know Hen
Jones, do yon? Wall, when you see him
you'll know him; he's got the darndest nose
on him that you ever seed on a live being.
T'other day I see Hen coming down hill
into the village, and he was driving a horse
with one hand and niakin queer motions
with t'other. When he got up to me I seed
what he was doin'. He was pickin' up
pebbles from a pile in his wagon, aud was
stouin mosquitoes onn ine ena ot nis
nose."
A Care far Ieprosr.
Sister Bose Gertrnde in a recent letter
from the leper islarid states that several
patients have lately been cured. This state
ment has been confirmed by Dr. Lntz, the
governor physician, in an interview which
a press representative bad with him on the
the subject Dr. Lntz further expressed
his belief that leprosy can be checked, and
that it is not contagious. The cases which
he had cored proved not to be beyond the
control of physicians.
VESUVIUS IK ITS GLOBY.
Tbe Sparine Scene From the Top of the
Grand Old Taleano.
London Dally Neiri.1
One night last week Lord and Lady
Dnfferin, with a party of friends, among.
whom were .Lady Haldon and her daughters,
made a night ascent of "Vesuvius. Tbe
weather was perfect No electric light was
needed atf the. fnnicnlar railway, for the
moon shone bright as day. Tbe central
crater was mil of incandescent matter, over
which flickered snlphurous fl.mes in all
the colors of tbe rainbow. Frequent erup
tions of fine ashes took place without much
noise. On the way up the cone the sulphur
ous fumes greatly Inconvenienced some of
the party, but on the edge of the crater the
gentle breeze blew all deleterious gases
away from the visitors.
Sometimes one or another would sit down
carelessly on an incipient funiarole, only
quickly to jump up lrom this hot resting
place. Many of the party climbed down to
the stream 'of lava which is still flowing
slowly toward Pompeii. The dawn and
sunrise were perfectly beautiful, the air
calm and cool, and all so transparent that
tbe bouses in Naples and all the coast
seemed quite close.
TIMELY TOPIC TALK.
If Electricity is to be Taxed What
About Thunderstorms?
GOSSIP ABODT TOE flAERISONS.
Plttatmrj Goes Scot Free in Buchanan's
Coming Cataclysm.
THE DEATH PENALTY FOB MDEDEE
twitiTTZx roa Tin prsrATnr.1
And now it is proposed to amend the tariff
bill so that Canadian electricity pays its
passage over the border. This is all right
from a protectionist point of view, hut I
apprehend that there will be some difficulty
in forcing the prohibition or collecting the
tax ad valorem. So far as tbe human prod
uct is concerned no great opposition may
be met but what in the world are we to do
about the natural element? Quite a num
ber of our severe electric storms take their
rise in Canada. They are distilled or
brewed in the Queen's dominions, and come
skipping over the border without asking
permission from anybody. A serious ques
tion here presents itself to the statesmen of
our country. What has the magnetic man
from Maine to say abont this?
Five dollars per horse power would cer
tainly produce quite a revenue, es
pecially in such a season as we
have just experienced. The correct
measuring of such a mighty force
opens up many an avenue of use ulness for
the Edisoas of the age, bnt until it is
demonstrated how the object can be at
tained the problem remains unsolved. Look
ing at the matter with an unprejudiced eye,
there seems to be only one way out of the
difficulty, and that is friendly reciprocity.
Ot coune, Canada will have the advantage
so far as the natural electricity is con
cerned. Very few storms travel from the
United States over into that country. Iu
this emergency, so that an equilibrium may
be maintained, how would it do to send on
a periodic lecturing tour a few such men as
Cannon, Kennedy and Ingalls. Surely
there is some way of balancing the matter,
an equalizing tbe reciprocal principle.
It Is Not Toadyism.
Some newspaper writers are apt to he
critical, if not cynical, over the attentions
paid to the President of the United States.
All his movements have an interest to the
people. His health, and that of his family,
is precious, and every little irregular pulse
beat is noted and flashed over the wires. The
people "want to know," as the Yankees say,
and the only way they can know is through
the newspapers. I do not believe that this
is man worship It is the nation's tribute
of respect to a grand ideal. In our Presi
dent we see the embodiment of a noble
principle, and it will be a sad day when the
country ceases to respect and venerate tbe
man who holds such an elevated position by
the will of the people. We Americans think
nothing of fawning upon a visiting Prince
or duke, or even a little shallow-pated lord
ling. It is certainly ont of place to criticise
us lor having a feeling of esteem lor the
office of the President
That it is not the man hut the office that
is thus respected and reverenced is proved
by tbe fact that as soon as tbe man ceases to
occupy the position he is practically for
gotten. One fn a while we bear something
about Mr. Cleveland, but how little interest
bis movements create in comparison to
what tbey did. It he was to catch a salmon
as big as a crocodile not many people would
knon of it, bnt if President Harrison hooks
a minnow it is telegraphed lrom Dan to
Beersheba. There are very few Presidents
who command attention alter they leave
tbe Presidential chair. .Now, there is Mr.
Hayes, for instance; all we have heard of
him lately'is that he is raising a good breed
of chickens. The nation does not go into
ecstacies about it, and all the people are not
studying chtclcenology. .Now supposing
President Harrison were to engage in rais
ing some peculiar kind of poultry, every
body in the country would be building
chicken coops, and quarreling with their
neighbors about chickens. Their would be
a rooster fight in somebody's back yard
every day in the week, and every hour in
the day." It is the office ind not the man
the people worship. I would rather be
President of the United States for four -rears
tban wear England's royal bauble for half a
century.
The Coming Cataclysm.
I was delighted in reading of the "Coming
Cataclysm," of which Prot. Buchanan is the
advance agent, to notice that Pittsburg is to
escape all the awful disasters. New York,
Philadelphia and all such wicked places are
to, be swallowed up or shaken to death.
Those wicked Southern cities are to be pun
ished, and a great tidal wave will push up
the Mississippi as far as Baton Bonge. Car
accas will be entirely destroyed. The earth
will change poles like a dancing bear on the
street, the Suez Canal will go by the board,
the Democrats will regain power, General
Grant's monument in New York will he an
nihilated, tbe Sandwich Islands will be in
great danger, San Diego and Coronado are
in the awiul swim, but Pittsburg is O. K.
Won't this be grand news for my dear old
aunt out West? She thinks we live in the
region of great cataclysms, and that it is
only a matter of time en wo shall be
swallowed up. Vf hen a bouse sank into a
mine at Wilkesbarre she wondered what bad
become of u who lived near Pittsburg, and
when a hurricane struck Beauing she
thought it was all up with us.
Prolessor Buchannan deserves the thanks
of Pittsburg in particular, and Western
Pennsylvania in genera, for bis generous
and friendly bearing towards us as a people.
Other cataclysmic prophets have said that
natural gas will eventuallv doom this part
of the State to abysmal oblivion, but here is
a great scientific predicator, establishing his
grqod theories upon the solid ioundations of
the laws' ot periodicity, which entirely ex
empts us from these elemental catastropnles.
A good topic for exposition voting next
week wonld be "shall we, or shall we not,
build a monument to Professor Buchanan,
said monnment to be erected just where tbe
Monongahela and the Allegheny kiss each
other and become one great Ohio?"
Blood for Blood.
The question of capital punishment,
brought so prominently into notice by the
recent action of.the Emperor of Austria, is
one upon wbica it is profitable to dwell. I
do not believe it is right to take hnman life.
Christ forbids it Not from any feeling of
maudlin sentiment would I argue against
killing the murderer, but as a matter of
right and policy. It is a tact that a large
percentage of murderers escape the gallows
by one technicality or another. There is
always an eqnal chance between being bung
and escaping it When a man's heart is
filled with revenge or lust for money he is
ready to take risks. Becently published
statistics show how few meet with death as
a result of their deeds of blood. Insanity,
the ever readv plea, gives liberty to thou
sands ol tbese human butchers.
When a man or woman purposely takes
a human life, sane or insane, they should
be placed in close confinement lor life, the
insane having more care than the sane, but
never again should they be permitted to en
danger life. If a person has once been in
sane enough to murder that sell-same In
sanity may very easily assert itself again.
Murders are more rife than ever, alter cen
turies of capital punishment Why not try
some other system for a few years If the
criminal could see before him nothing but
solitary confinement, with no ray of hope
aud no opportunity to escape on any plea,
would it not be more efficacious in deterring
men lrom acts of violence than tbe present
system, having to run the gauntlet of a
grand jury, which is often a grsndfhambug.
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and a -petit jury, which is often a still
granderore?, Pnt the murderer in a cell,
without bouauets or flowers or feminine
fools to fondle him and sooth his weary
hours, and vou will probably have fewer
murders. Abolish all degrees ol murder.
Did he intentionally kill the man? If an
intelligent jury says yes, let that settle it
Ihe idea ot murdering by degrees. First,
second and third. Let there be one degree,
intent, whether the outcome of passion or
premature intent Murder is murder. If
I kill a man in a passion once I may kill
some other man if I get another opportunity
and a passion.
Vacations in tbe Ministry.
Preachers are back again and the churches
are putting on new life. Those who could
afford to take a vacation are full of reminis
cences, while those who conld not, are con
gratulating themselves that they stuck to
their posts of duty. The latter put ou a
smirk of extra virtue, and declare that as
the devil has bad no vacation they could
take none. Some of those who have been
vacating are glad to get home so that they
can rest from their ramblings. While I do
not know very mnch about vacations and
cannot speak from experience, still it strikes
me as a very salutary thing to have an op
portunity ot getting outside of your per
manent surroundings, andreceive a stimulus
to thought
Very few people appreciate the wear and
tear of a preacher's life. Unless he can go
on a vacation he has no time during the
whole year that he can call his own. From
one sick chamber to another, from one death,
bed scene to another, to-day burying soma
mother's hope, to-morrow entombing some
woman's only support There is the crank
inside the church that must be kept well,
oiled, and tbe crank ontside that no amount
of oil will lubricate. I wish those people
who think that a minister's life is a bed of
rose3 could try it for a little while. If ha
makes a slip his name goes rolling around
the country, feeding the hungry maw of the
scandal lover, bnt bis days of toil and nights
ol care too often pass unnoticed, except by
the omnipresent eye of Him who seeth all
things. The Cocntet Paesos,
A POLISHES BUTLEB.
Thelalellrctoal Genius From Abroad Who
Looks After Channcor Depew.
KewYorkPress.1
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew has in his em
ploy a butler who is a very snperior person.
He is of Swedish birth and ancestry, a col
lege graduate and he speaks several lan
guages. Coming to this country to conquer
fortune, he found it difficult to obtain em
ployment for which his breeding, his edu
cation and his inclinations fitted him. A
position in an office which he was offered
proved, from its indoor confinement, injuri
ous to his never overstrong constitution, and
be finally became attached to Mr. Depew'a
office at tbe Grand Central depot Shortly
after his installation there Mr. Depew had
one of the few but serioun illnesses which
have befallen him in his busy life.
Tbe young Swede, coming frequently to
bis residence on bnsjness errands, finally
became a stationary fixture there, and his
entire and untiring devotion to Mr. Depew
during his illness won the gratitude and
admiration of the great man's family. On
bis recovery Mr. Depew, like the fairy god
mothers in the story books, asked the faith
ful Swede to choose what he would and It
should be given to him. And be begged to
be allowed to remain as butler. After the
amazement caused by his request had sub
sided, it was granted, and for many years ha
has been not only a trusted but an esteemed
servitor in tbe house of Depew.
Every few years, when he has accumu
lated a considerable snm from his wages, he
is bitten by an ambition that many a
mightier man has found fatal. He starts a
newspaper and keeps it going until his sav
ings are exhausted. Then he returns to bis
allegiance to the butler's pantry. He U
phenomenally punctilious about bis duties,
and bis discharge of them is marked by tho
courtesy and respect to others bestshownic
those who have much self respect The god
ot his idolatry is Cbanncey M. Depew,
though he is closely pressed for this distinc
tion by that little edition himself, Chaun
cey M. Depew, Jr., aged 10 years.
TEAD2S HT HABM0UY.
A Little Incident Involving a. Man, a Box
and a Plamber.
Sew York Sun.:
A man with a box on his shoulder was
making his way along Chambers street tha
other day, when it fell to the walk. After
two or three efforts to replace it, he appealed
to a man in a doorway with:
"Give me a lilt, please?"
"Can't do it," was the prompt reply.
"And why not?"
"Because I never mix business. I am a
plumber, and tbe man next door is in tbe
elevator business. It's for him to give you
a lilt"
The man with the box thought for a mo
ment, grinned in a good-natured way, and
by an extra grunt reshouldered the box and
paswd on.
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