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VOL. XXVI. NO. 13. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM.
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Japan in Inking most enthusiastically
to the kindergarten.
The Government ( Mexico 1ms
issued nn official circular calling the
attention of tlio Mexicou people to the
necessity of immigration in order thiit
the oouutry mny le developed.
Tho Young Men's Christian Assoeia
tion in England, started forty-nine
years ago in a small room at St. Paul's
churchyard, has attained such a growth
thnt last year 2120 new members were
enrollod.
According to tho New York Post
there are encouraging signs that pub
lic sentiment throughout tho country
is coming to recognize more clearly
than ever before the necessity of in
telligence in tho exercise of tho suf
frage. "
In Ran Francisco fifty thousand
Chinamen are allowed to huddle to
gether iu an area of something like a
dozen blocks. Puck presumes that
the Ran Francisco Hoard of Health
permits this state of affairs bocauso it
is a novelty ns picturosque as it is
foul.
On the far northwestern waters of
rnget Sound there oro so many dead
trees always floating thnt none but
screw steamers or stern wheelers can
navigate A side-wheeler would sooner
or later strike a log, perhaps weighing
many tons, which would knock liei
paddlo to splinters.
Dvorak, tho Uoheminncomposer,
who recently conducted some of hit
own music at tho World's Fair, de
clares that tho possibilities of an
American school of music lio in the
Southern melodies. He believes that
American composers should study
these songs and build npon them.
Tho gavel presented by tho New
Orleans Cotton Exchange to Judge
Chrismnn, who defied the mob in Mis
sissippi and protected prisoners, it
flunked with so d plates of gold. Iu
accepting it the Judge made a modest
and a model speech. Tho Chicago Her
ald stutcB that his conduct is univer
sally lauded in tho South by press and
people.
Tho steamer John Hancock, which
was wrecked a few weeks ago, by a
gale while tied up at the wharf at
Bundpoint, Alaska, has an interesting
history. During the troubles between
the United States and Japan the Han
cock carried tho pennant of Coinnio
doro Perry, and it was iu her cabin
that tho treaty between the countries
was signed.
The "baby King" of Spain has
ceased to auiusa and entertain his sub
jects by his iufahtilo graces, hears tho
Argonaut, and has become a weakly
and uninteresting child of larger
growth. As ho becomes more mature,
he gives evidence that he has inherited
the weaknesses of profligate ancestors.
Officially he is Alfonso tho Thirteenth,
and the croakers think thero is an
omen in the unlucky number.
Colonel rfohn A. Creighton, ol
Omaha, Neb., ten times a millionaire,
has a semi-National reputation as a
philanthropist. no has given $3,
000,000 at various times to the city ot
Omaha, to be devoted to charitable
purposes. Ouo of his gifts was a hos
pital. It has an ironclad rulo to the
effect that the applicant for relief shall
be asked no questions us to his race or
color or religious beliefs or morals or
politics. All that tho physicians are
required to know is that he suffers and
needs attention. If he is able to pay
he pays, and if he is not his treatment
does not cost him a cent.
America has always been liberal in
her educational expenditures. Chief
Harris, of the Bureau of Education,
estimates that "on uu uverage tho
youth of the laud receive each seven
teen weeks schooling anuuully for ten
years," aud he says thnt in the nine
teen years prior to ISM'J tho value of
property owned by public schools in
creased from $1 30, 000, 000 to $323,000,
000, and whereas in 1870 tho amount
expended on education was $1.61 per
capita for the whole population, the
expenditure in 1889 was 82.10 per
capita. Here, however, it would bt
well for the optimist to ftl figuring.
In 1870 the total of $ti3,00'J,000 was
spent for the education of 11,000,000
of children between the ages of six
and twenty, ru i.verago ot $5.75 for
each child, while iu If Hi) there were
$133,000,000 expended for 20,000,000
of children an uverago of $0.60 for
each child. Thus, while it sounds
' well to soy thut the' unuuul expendi
ture more than doubled in the length
of time under con,. leratiou, the real
increase per child was small and
hurdly kept pace w ltu tho demands uf
pducalioual progress.
Kansas has a school for every 188
pupils, Massachusetts one to 600,
Pennsylvania ono to 400.
Tho Madrid Epooa expresses tho be
lief that Great Britain will ultimately
cede Gibraltar to Spain if indemnified
for tho cost of the fortifications which
Orcat Britain has constructed there.
Tho New York Mail and Express
claims that it was tho first to use tho
expression "Old Glory," as applied to
the Stars and Stripes, the former ap
pellation being not almost as common
as the latter.
During all tho thousand years in
which the Tckin Gazette, the organ of
tho imperial crown in China, has been
in existence, only seventeen of its edi
tors .have been Iwbeadod. So says
Joe Howard in the New York Recorder.
The warden of the Central Prison at
Toronto says in his report to the
Ontario Government that "of 25,000
children brought to Canada by Miss
Macpherson, Dr. Barnardo, Mr.
Quarrier and others, from Great
Britain, . only throe per cent, havo
lapsed into crime." These children
were nearly all homeless waifs gathered
iu London and other great cities.
Five thousand little graves are dug
each year in .Philadelphia for little
babies, says a medical paper of New
York City, and C000 little headstones
are yearly set np over their graves, all
duo to deaths traccublo to tho diseases
which spring from wrong feeding. Iu
the overwhelming majority of instances
the poor food of which the babies die
is bad milk, diseased milk or skimmed
milk.
The New York Post announces that
a war between Cores and Japan has
been averted by the mediation of Sec
retary Gresham. The trouble arose
on acconnt of a Corean decree prohib
iting the exportation of beans and pulse,
the country being threatened with
famine. The Corean Government has
agreed to pay 110,000 indemnity to
settle the claims of Japanese mer
chants. It appears that during the ten years
from 1881 to 1891 the population of
India increased from 253,000,000 to
287,000,000. Tho- enumeration of
tracts previously neglected and the ad
dition of Upper Burmah to British ter
ritory accounts for nearly 6,000,000 o
the increase, but the actual population
of the area enumerated in both years
shows an increaao of over 27,000,000,
or about eleven per cent.
The London Industries is consider
ably worked np over tho way this
country is taking away Great Britain's
locomotive trade with South Africa.
During the first quarter of the prosent
year England Shipped only about one
third as many locomotives to South
American countries as she did during
the first three months of 1890 and her
miles in South Africa were roduced
from $192,890 to $1700. These coun
tries are buying just as many locomo
tives now as two years ago, 'but they
are buying from this country instead
of from England.
Says the New York Post : Wo hear
more and more every year about the
growing difficulty of obtaining work in
this country as it becomes more thickly
settled. Yet there is one important
department in which the supply of la
bor fulls constantly further short of
the demand. This is domestio service.
The complaints are universal, and they
become all the while more vehement.
The Watertown (Conn.) correspondent
of the Waterbnry American writes:
"There is a great demand for good and
honest servant girls in our town. Ser
vant girls, as a general rule, do not
like to come into the country towns,
as there is little society and but few
amusements such as entertainments,
theatres, etc. for them here. No
matter how good the pay aud the treat
ment is here, they had rather be in a
city where they will get less pay aud
have to work harder than to go into a
country .town. It is almost impossible
if any one is in need of woman help to
find any ono who is willing to work for
any price. A few good women who
understand house-cleaning, washing,
aud that sort of work could find work
here the year around at good wages. "
There is nothing exceptional in tho
condition of Watertown, adds the I'ost.
Huudreds of country towns are as
badly off. Moreover, tho diflloulty of
obtaining good Bervico in the city in
creases all tho time. Meanwhile wo
are constantly importuned to bewail
the condition of women who are work
ing for "starvation wages" in other
employments, but who would rather
keep on than earn good pay as laun
dresses or cooks. It is one of the niobt
extraordinary phenomena of modern
civilization.
STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS.
Last night there tolled till late a Utile spin
ner ;
From loaf to Vfit her silken threndB she
swung
Now, dow-ensllverod in tho morning sun
shine, Tho finished lace Is hung.
And one who hath boon wont to storm aud
conquer,
And strongest bars to break with diiuntloee
prldn,
To spare the filmy web across his pathway,
Pauses, and turns aside.
Clara W. Bronson, in Youth's Companion.
THE FOURTH AT KA BOB.
BY FOKHKST CRISHEY.
Uiaw.;
nE Jayhawk
family was in a
state of intense
excitement, which
increased as the
Fourth of July
approao hed.
Nothing had oc
curred since tho
birth of Jehial,
the only scion of
that rural house.
that had so stirred tho tranquility of
the household as had his meek request
for the use of the old mare and the
h"Bgy with which to take Phoobe
Jones to "tho Fourth" at Ka Bob.
Jehial understood the lay of the
land well enough to know that his
startling petition should be put in
along with tho first seeds of spring, in
order to ripon definite decision by the
time tho smoko and tumult of In
dependence Day began to ascend from-
the Ka Bob publio square, which was,
to him, the grand theatre of all truly
metropolitan events.
Jehial had conceived this daring do
sire to distinguish himself as a man
among men while casting "sheep's
eyes" at the back of Fhfebe's bowed
head during the long prayerB that con
stituted the bono and sinew of tho
weokly "conference meeting" at Zion's
Church.
It must be confessed that thoro was
little courage about his first conscious
wish to celebrate the glorious Fourth
by so bold a stroke of gallantry. It
wasBimply a wish. But as each warm
spring day spread its seductive in
fluences about him, and ho strode
across tho steaming field in the wake
of plow or drag, his longing grew
stronger, and he nursed it Into a sturdy
resolution.
tint, somehow, ins courage was
stronger when alone in the field than
when face to fuco with his father, at
home.
It seemed as though tho right op
portunity for approaching his father
with tho proposition never would pre
sent itself, and he delayed tho dread
ordeal from day to day.
At lost the handbills announcing tho
order .of exercises for tho great cele
bration at Ka Bob appeared. It was
to eclipso all former celebrations in
magnificence, and each special attrac
tion was discussed with as much zest
and relish as though it was not a pre
cise repetition of tho programme that
had been advertised year after vear,
until every adult knew just which
features would bo presented and which
omitted.
"Ma, I wuz jest a-thinkin' I'd like t'
go t' that Fourth of July down t' Ka
Bob, " said Jehial, to his mother, as
sho camo out to tho old well sweep for
a bucket of water, where be was wash
ing the plowed ground from gaunt
feet.
"Why, of conrso ! I s'pose we're all
going," she replod.
"But I don't mean that. I wuz
thiukin' I'd like to go alone and and
take some ono, " he stammered.
"'Go alone aud take some one!'
Why, child, who ever heard of such a
thing? Whot on 'urth do you mean?"
"S-c-hl here comes pa!" excluimed
the timid Jehial, in an undertone, as
his father emerged from the barn.
looking like a rural conception of
stern justice, with the exacting bat
ances, as he lifted an old-fashioned
blueueck yoke to his shoulders and
stooped to hook pendant arm into tho
bail of a froth-flecked pail of milk.
When they were again alone, Jehial,
without looking up from his labor of
ablution, resumed tho conversation.
"Yes, ma; I'd like t' take Pheabe
t' the Fourth ; but I ain't said nothin'
t' pa 'bout it. I kinder hate to, some
how. Can't you have a little talk with
him 'bout it?"
"Well, I s'pose I con," replied the
mother, "but I'm euro I don't know
what ho'll think 'bout it."
Accordingly, after Jehial had re
tired, she laid tho proposition before
her husband.
"Lord-a-massy, Mary I What 'u
idee 1 That boy ubowin' Square
Jones' little gal round on a Fourth of
July I Why, he's nothin' but a colt,
an' the whole town would bo npokin'
fun ut tho little fools. An', what's
more, no Jay hawk's got auy call to bo
mixin' with tho Jones after all tho
trouble thut we've hud with tho old
Square over thut line fence. It's all
poppy-cot. I'm williu' that Jehial
should go t' the Fourth, but I don't
want uuy gal business 'bout it. Why,
Mary, jest think of thut youngster's
tukin' a horse uu' buggy ui.' a gal
round there where they'd be a-shoot-iu'
firecrackers an' anvils, aud a-suap-pin'
them pesky little torpedoes!
'Taint no place for a horse, l;t ulone
triibtin' it with a boy that's got a gul
aboard. Ho'll break his neck au' the
gul's too !"
"But you remember tho time when
you took me to the Fourth at Busti,
and you weren't any older than Jehial,
and hudu't had uuy inure experience
with horses Hum he has."
This was uu iirgunient ad homiuein
that the futhcr hud not counted on. i
He gave it several moments of silent
consideration and then took refuge i.
his lubt platitude :
"Well, it ain't safe!"
The mother of Jehial was quick to
see this sign of weakening, and fol
lowed np her successful attack, at dis
creet intervals, until the matter finally
came to a head.
After a protracted night session of
tho domestic executive committee, it
was determined that Jehial should at
tend the glorious Fourth, with full
power to act.
Jehial cheerfully accepted fifty cents
from his mother, anil made his way to
Squire Jones's to obtain tho consent of
the Jones family.
As he entered the Squire's gate and
passed np the narrow gravel walk be
tween the balsam trees, vainly laboring
to formulate his request in graceful
words, and commit them to memory
before reaching the door, ho would
have gladly exchanged his task for thnt
of breaking a Canada pair of steers,
plowing a ten-acre field, or teaching a
trio of calves to drink. How his heart
thumped as the soles of his cowhide
boots grated on the coarse gravel of
tho walk. He imagined that it wonld
not seem so hard were it not for the
fact that he was on hostile ground
for a Jayhawk had not set foot upon
the Jones premises since the immortal
bottlo of the line fence. But those
who can vividly recall the trepidation
with which they preferred their first
request for a young lady's company
win doubt if any collateral circnm
stances could materially enhance the
terrors ol the moment.
His footfalls npon the front porch
sounded, to his own ears, like 'ailing
planks, ana tbe raps of his knuckles
upon the panel of the front door like
heavy ortillery. But the calm that
settled down upon the house and all
nature, after his knock, seemed still
louder. Could it be that they were not
going to respond to h is rappings? Or
was she laughing at him from behind
the shutters before admitting him?
Before ho had decided which of these
theories to accept ho heard footsteps
approaching along the hallway, then a
hand upon the door-knob. One mo
ment more and he would stand in tho
presence of his fate ! He drew a full
breath and braced himself for the un
known. But the door did not open.
It had not been open since the minister
called, in the winter, and seemed averse
to establishing a precedent. In vain
the person on the inside struggled with
the key and clicked it backward and
forward. At last, when the suspense
had become intolerable, a voice from
within called forth :
"Go to the side door, please."
To the side door he went and again
screwed up his courage, which had
reached ebb-tide during the period of
Buspense, and found himself admitted
by Mrs. Jones to the kitchen. A glance
revealed the fact that ttie lord of tho
house of Jones was fast asleep in his
arm-chair, his boots off, and his calves
Waid across a kitchen chair.
"Is Miss Jones in ' timidly inquired
Jehial, fearful that his voice might
arouse the sleeper.
"Y-e-s," doubtfully replied Mrs.
Jones. "Do you want to see her in
particular
"Yessum I I "
"Well, she's gone to bed; but if
you 11 wait 1 11 call her, interrupted
Mrs. Jones, going to the stairs door
and shouting :
"Ph'eb! Phoobe Jones. Git right
up an come down, lou ve got com
pany 1"
The sleeping father evidently recog
nized the peremptory tone and awak
ened with a snort the fragments of an
exploded snore. Ho rubbed his eyes
and inquired :
"What's up?"
"You are, an' you'd better go on to
bed," responded his wife in the same
convincing tone.
He evidently shared her opinion, for
he immediately groped and stumbled
along to an adjoining room, without
ever discovering Jehial in the unlight
ed room.
It seemed to Jehial that hours passed
before Phoebe descended the stairs and
entered the room, and in response to
Mrs. Jones's questions he had told all
that he ever knew and considerable
that he only guessed at, regarding the
history of the Jayhawks and their an
tecedents and "circumstances."
Phoebe, clad in a simple white dress,
that seemed to him a marvel of ele
gance, advanced and gave him her hand,
saying:
"Good evening, 'Mr. Jayhawk ; will
you excuse me while I get a light?"
Sho went into the parlor and lit the
center-table lamp a ponderous affair
with an cloborately decorated globe of
ground glass.
"Walk right in this way, Mr. Juy
hawk," sho called from tho parlor in
her best parlor voice.
It was tho first time he had ever
heard himself called Mr., and it seemed
so ridiculously out of shape that the
ghost of a grin began to twitch the
corners of his mouth.
Fortnnately for Jehiul, Phoebe di
vined both his timidity and his inten
tions and at once brought matters to a
successful issue by asking him if ho
had seen the announcement for the
Fourth and if ho purposed to attend.
"Yes; I was thiukin' I'd like to go
if-if-if I might"
"Certainly; I should think you
might just as well us not. It would be
too bad to miss such a Fourth us this
is to be, I'm sure," prompted Fho-be.
"1 I I mean I'd like the pleasure of
your company to the Fourth, Miss
Jones," he stammered, recollcctiug his
formula and pronouncing it at a single
breath, as though fearful thut it might
escape him before he could pronounce
it.
"Certainly; with pleasure, Mr. Jay
hawk," replied Miss Jones in tho af
fected tone prescribed by the "Ladies'
Guide to Etiquette or the Manual of
Good Manners." Then came a dead
culm broken only by the echoes of
the pareutul snores whose outer rip
ples penetrated to the most distant
portion of tho house. Finally Jehiul
grinned at tho variations in tho nasal
serenade and crossed his legs, rhfr-be
also grinned and shifted her position.
Then they grinned in concert and
shifted in concert. Phoobe a-hemmed
aud Jehial a-hemmed.
Jehial remarked that he must bo go
ing, and Pheabe remarked that lie
must not be in a hurry. He took her
at her word and allowad another dead
calm to settle. Even the parental
snores failed to start the conversa
tional circulation. Tho frogs in tho
deep hole digniflod in common par
lance by tho name of Daddy Jones's
"music box" did their best to rasp
the silenco into speech and failed.
Then a screech-owl lit on tho well
sweep and fetched a screech that foily
lifted tho speechless couple from their
feet.
Jehial again remarked that he must
bo going. Phoebe did not dispute it.
As he passed out into the moonlight
and heard Phoebe shut the door be
hind him and struggle with the rebel
lious look it seemed to him that he
was walking upon thin air instead
of gravel. There was something in the
moonlight that he had never known be
fore. Even the frogs in the old "mu
sio box" crooked with a rhythm and
cadence almost divine he wondered
that be had never noticed it before.
Ho wondered at the pangs of doubt
and timidity that he had suffered a few
moments beforo when going np that
walk. It seemed a new world to him.
All things had become new. Every
star twinkled with a seven-fold bril
liancy all because bis star of hope
had risen 1
....
The Fourth was over, almost. They
Had gazed in unconcealed astonishment
at tho long procession of masked and
painted "Fantastics, " and laughed till
they ached at the broad burlesques
and crude impersonations ; they had
convulsed at the falls of the bag races,
and roared at the antics of the pur
suers of the greased pig ; they had ex
perienced the patriotic shocks which
result from the discharge of an anvil ;
they had drained to the dregs the
pleasures of pink lemonade and feasted
on the sweets of sticky popcorn balls.
As they rode home the sun slowly
sank behind the hills gray and
grizzled with the sheen of dry, wiry
poverty grass that fringed their sterile
summits, like the scanty bristles on
the back of a lean herd of swine. They
had reached the period of silence that
always falls about the last half hour of
a long homeward journey.
At the top of the lost hill straggled
the line fence over which their parents
hod contended. When they had fin
ished the ascent and came opposite this
Jehial pulled the mare to halt, pre
sumably for the purpose of allowing
her to rest, and then cast his eyes
about for some object of conversation
to render the interval less embarrass
ing. The first and only thing in view
which afforded a possible topic of con
versation was tho historio line fence,
and that was well-nigh as embarrassing
as the silenco.
"I must go an' fix up that lino fence
tho first thing I do, "he ventured ; "pa
no business to let it run so long with
out patchin'."
"Well, it will bo a shame if you have
to, for 'taint your business to keep up
the part this side of the old burned
stuff; pa ought to do that, but he
won't, he'd rather quarrel about it,"
said Phoebe, "an' that's just what's
kept them that ought to be good neigh
bors apart."
"Well, I never saw a line fence that
was worth hard feelings between neigh
bors and and a thousand line fences
can't keep ns apart, can they, Phoabe?"
Jehial exclaimed, as tho mare gave a
sudden pull that indicated a desire to
continue the homeward journey. Al
though sho had heard the answer to
Jehiul's question, she wisely said noth
ing only frisked her tail knowingly
and hurried on.
The line fence that day did ponanco
for the strife that it had once provoked,
and in due time it entirely disap
peared, for tho Jones and Jayhawk
farms were consolidated, and the
Fourth of July is celebrated with more
than patriotic sentiment byl'hcebeand
Jehial. Arkansas Traveler.
How the Patent Office Mas RaTed.
When, in tho War of 1812 the office
having been removed to a building of
its own two years before the British,
who had taken the city, trained their
guns upon tho Putent Office, Dr.
Thornton, throwing himself diroctly
before tho guns, criod :
"Are you Englishmen or Goths and
Vandals? This is tho Patent Office
a depository of tho ingenuity and in
ventions of tho American Nutiou, iu
which the whole civilized world is in
terested. Would you destroy it?
Then let the charge pass through luy
body."
Aud tho building was spared.
Twenty-four yours aftorwurd, however,
it "was destroyed by fire, together with
everything in it. Aud with this came
the beginning of tho present buildiug,
added to from time to time, till at last
tho noble pile stands complete as it is
to-dav, holding model or a drawing
of every invention kuown iu the whole
world, uud having paid something
more than two millions of dollars over
and above its own expenses, a sum
which represents only a trifle of tho
great umouut it has added to the
wealth of tho Nutiou. Harper s Young
People.
The Nile's Aiiuuul Overflow.
Tho Nile hug a full of but six inches
to tho 1000 miles. The overflow com
mences iu Juno every year uud con
tinues until August, attaining an ele
vation of from twenty-four to twenty-
six feet above low water murk, aud
flowing through the "Valley of Egypt"
n a turbulent body twelve miles wide.
During tho lust 1001) years thero bus
been but one uiddcu rUc of the Nile,
that of 1829, vhen 30,000 were people
urowuvd.
l'UT "STICKERS" ON COINS.
NEW DEVICES WHICH ARK BOTH
ERING THE TREASURY.
Tradesmen Sticking Advertisements
on Silver Dollars-Putting "DouUo
Headers" on Sliver Pieces.
CT TICKERS" are giving tho
)( Government a good deal of
J) bother. They are circular
bits of paper with adver
tisement on tho face and ronciluge on
the back. Made by tho lick of the
tongue to adhere to tho reverse of a
silver dollar, ono of these little (..as
ters is just big enough to fit inside of
tho milled rim. They have been com
ing widely into use in tho West and the
South. Every time a merchant re
ceives a cartwheel dollar in tho way of
business, he slaps a sticker upon it,
which rends, "Take me back to liuggs,
cheap furniture house, where you get
tho biggest value for cosh," or, "Ke
turn me to Snaggs, the dry goods man,
and I will fetch a bargain."
Many people are unwilling to accept
the sticker dollars, and so the circula
tion of Uncle Sam's coins is interfered
with. Most banks will not take them,
because the Troasnry has issued a noti
fication to the effect that it will not ac
cept or redeem them. It holds tho
ground that they are defaced and are
not legal tender on that account, ft
is true that they might bo restored to
their original perfection by removing
the stickers, but Secretary Carlisle hoi
no appropriation for scraping them off.
Tho mucilage employed is of so excel
lent a quality that twelve hours' soak
ing does not loosen the paper from tho
silver.
Furthermore, the covering uy of
ono side of tho coin renders it greatly
more difficult to discover whether the
latter is a counterfeit or not. Chief
Drummond, of the Secret Service,
showed to your correspondent o
specimon of tho finest imitation dollar
ever struck with a die. It is plated
with silver, and few experts could dis
tinguish it from a real one. Tho de
ception was considerably euhonced by
a sticker on tho reverse advertising a
shoe house in Ottumwo, Iowa. Were
this practice permitted manufacturers
of false money would make a business
of pasting on the backs of their bogus
pieces advertisements bearing the
names of reputable shop keepers. Thus,
inasmuch as a respectable merchant
would not knowingly use bad coins to
publish his business, his credit would
help the counterfeits to gain circula
tion. Also, how is anybody to know
that the side of the dollar concealed by
sticker has not been scooped out and
filled np with lead?
Fortunately there is a legal enact
ment forbidding the defacement of the
United States money, and that law is to
be enforced for tho immediate suppres
sion of this new attack upon tho cur
rency. Many district attorneys in
various parts of tho country havo
already threatened to prosecute mer
chants using the stickers, and tho
business will be brought to an abrupt
close. Oddly enough, a scheme wholly
similar was started a few years ago,
but it was nipped in tho bud beforo it
had a chance to spread. Men some
times stamp their firm names on coins.
Likewise they print their business
cards on the backs of 1 or 32 bills.
Such acts aro strictly forbidden by
law. The penalty is (100 tine for each
note or coin so marked.
A speoies of coin mutilation not less
interesting than that above described
has excited the attention of the Secret
Service during tho past year. It is tho
manufacture of whut are technically
called "double headers," for gambling
purposes. For example, a silver dollu.1
is put into a latho and a cutting tool
is applied to it in such a manner as to
roniove three-fourth of tho metal from
tho back, leaving the milled rim in
tact. What remains resembles in
form a blacking box lid. Next, an
other dollar is taken, and tho buck of
it is sliced off iu tho shape of a thin
disk. This disk mid t'uo frugrnent liko
a blacking box lid are then joined
neatly together in such u manner as to
produce what has tho apper.runco of a
wholo silver dollar. The piece thus
composed has no head of Liberty, but
two tails ono on each side.
In precisely the same manner silver
coins aro turned out with two heads.
Such pieces aro sold by some dealers
in so-called "sporting'' goods to per
sons who wish to use them for cheat
ing ununspieiotis strangers iu bar
rooms aud elsewhere. Di.llurs thus
prepared fetch $5 each, hnlf dollar $3
each. A Chicago man arri-toil for
manufacturing them recently wai' con
victed and fined under the law nliich
prohibits tho making of "coins of
original designs" by private individu
als iu this country. There is no doubt
that tho idea is exceedingly original
as well as dangerous to tho unsophisti
cated. The "little game" worked with these
"double headers" is us simple as it in
profitable. It is uecessary thut the
operator shall bo provided with two of
tho coins one with two heuds and the
other with two tails. On finding a
man who iu willing to gamble for dol
lars, he says: "I'll mutch you first."
Tho other fellow lays down his piece ou
the bur, head up. Seeing thnt, tho
swindler chucks u, his coin with two
head. Of coiirao hu cauuot help win
ning. Theu ho puts down the good
dollar which he has just won, uud his
odversury throws up uud "uiutches."
Hero ha hus au exactly even chunco.
Uut on tho next throw his opponent
lays dowu his coin tail up to be
matched. Observing thnt cireniu
stituce tho operator chucks up his
piooe with two tuils. It is easy for
him to interchange the two fake dol
lars offhand. Luck being eveu other
wise, he must win three out of four
times, uud a few minutes' pluy is sure
to net a satisfactory profit.
GiiKny hus been iu use iu the United
Status fut1 tho last sixty yt-ius.
A WATERMELON SONO,
O, tho Ooorgla watermelon it's n-growln'
cool an' green,
Au'll sonn bn pullln' heavy nt the stem ,
An' tho knife It m'ils a whettln', au' tho
Modois gittln' keen,
O, tho Ooorgia watermelon Is a gem I
Melons cool an' grwn
J-s' the liest yoti ever seen !
Kee tho sweet juice drippin'
From them melons cool an' green !
O, the Ooorgla wutcrinelon with the purtlest
sort o' strle !
It sln't a streak o' fnt an' stronk o' lean ,
You thump her with yer fingers, au' you benr
her answer "liipe !"
0 tho Georgia watermelon cool au' green I
Slelons cool on' green
Jes' the best you ever srvii !
Bee the rod Juieo drippin'
From them melons con! sn' rrni
Atlanta Constitution
HUMOR OF THE HAY.
Time flies Seventeen-year locusts.
Barking dogs sometimes bite the
dust.
It is tho man who bents that is will
ing to lot by-gones bo by-gones.
Tho camel is a lucky brute. It never
has to hump itself. Troy Press.
A low-suit weors out sooner at the
pockets than at the knees. Puck.
A Bkcptic is a man who doubts the
accuracy of his own watch. Puck.
Talk about women being flighty t
Look at bunk cashiers. Texas Sittings-
It is probably called pin money be
causo the husband is stuck for it
Troy Press.
Our uncle, tho pawnbroker, may not
havo pleasant ways, but wo have to put
npwith him. Puck.
Nenrly all tho men who have in
vented flying machines aro residing in
our cemeteries. Statesman.
That many men have many rnkids
Provorlilftl law astutely Units,
To me it oftener seems fall
That mnuy have no miuu at all.
-Life.
The niite that tho Anarchist is will
ing to contribute for tho promotion
of his causo is dynamite. Detroit
Free Press.
"I didn't know it was so late," said
the volcano, awaking from its long
slumber; "I must start my fire."
Chicago Tribune.
When Fogg has run upstairs and ar
rives at tho top out of breath, he very
properly refers to his pneumatic tire.
Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Slimdiet "Don't you find it a
little lonesome sitting down to luncheon
all alone?" Bordoire "Oh, no; the
cheeso is hero. " Truth.
"I've got it in for you, my friend,"
soliloquized the mosquito, sinking it a
little deeper in tho sleeping victim's
noso. Chicago Tribune.
Wo aro all willing to acknowledge
that we havo our faults; but mighty
few of us aro willing to acknowledge
the faults our friends see iu us. Puck.
Wealth does not tiring contentment,
And nono gets whut he axes ;
For if ho did, he'd want the. earth,
And growl ubout the tine.
Judge.
"From what I've been reading 1
suppose boarding-houses must have
been found first iu Turkey." "Will
you explain why?" "Tho best variety
of prunes grows there. "
"Which of us would you rather
have?" asked ono of the two men run
ning across the field. "I don't cure,"
replied tho bull; "it's a toss up be
tween you." Washington Star.
"Don't you think Mrs. Stanton's
opinions aro very much biased?" Mrs.
Lntestyle "Mercy, I mil not sur
prised, for sho hasn't any more idea
of stylo thun a heathen." Chicago
Inter-Oeoau.
"They amputated his leg after all,
eh? Whut made the doctors wait so
long?" "Jtidgin' from their bills, it
must have been to give 'em a chance to
pull it beforo they took it oil'." Buf
falo Courier.
lack "I dou't believe all that
stuff about women always wanting the
last word." Dick "Why don't you?"
Jock "Well, lust night I told Miss
Checkbook that I knew thut I was not
worthy of her, and sho did not suy a
word in reply." Iuter-Oceuu.
An Ancient Alligator.
An alligator has just been killed in
Louisianu thut is known to have been
120 years old. In 1773 the greut-great-grundfather
of the present owner ol
tho plantation on which this alligator
wus killed purchased the plantation.
His first work was to rid it of alliga
tors. Ho rallied a family of alllatot'U
uud killed nil but one, who escaped,
leuving a portion of his tail. This alli
gator was seen from time to tunc and
reeoguied because part of his tail was
gone. The alligator was never tamed,
but in a general way received tho care
uud protection of each member of the
family through tho lour generations.
A visitor to the plantation saw a rciit
alligator lying on the bank. He raised
his gun, but it required several .shots
before the animal was killed. He wus
delighted with tho success, when his
host camo up and showed his sorrow
lit what his guest had done. The alli
gator was buried on the banks of tho
stream, the entire family attending
tho obsequies. Xew Volk Observer.
ibttallou ot Crops iu l inpf.
The rotation of crops now most
commonly practiced in Egypt includes
wheat, generally followed by barley,
dhoura, beans, or lentils; clover fol
lowed by w heat, saltlowrr by lupins or
peas, sutar eiuie by tlhuiira, the latter
b tin , ami they aain by imbo,
which li-ts for three ears. In the
X'uyottm ilisti ict, the rise crop -e- u
grcui industry, ."' , 1 1; it) ouuec-, ot Kw
im'Ihv being exported ytat ly.