SULLIVAN JSIK REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XI.
A man in Wolfo County, Kentucky,
lias been disfranchised for life for selling
his vote.
Calhoun County, Florida, is without
a railroad in its borders, has not a single
lawyer, nor is there a single barroom in
the county.
A French merchant, the victim of sev
eral defaulting cashier?, now advertises
for "a cashier as honest as possible and
paralyzed iu both legs."
The Territory of Arizona is, so far as
the sheep industry is concerned, in as
prosperous a condition, avers the New
York World, as any State or Territory in
the Southwest.
The United States furnishes 673,000
Freemasons and 047,471 Oddfellows,
"with lodperoom reasons for late hours
nnd latch keys,"according to the Chicago
Herald.
Kate Field's Washington, after patient
toil, has discovered that it cost more to
Lury and eulogize a dead Statesman than
it does to feed and clothe him during his
two years of Congressional service.
American ingenuity in holding tho
ribbons is extending very rapidly to the
manufacture of ribbons as well, boasts
the Chicago Herald. The product of
American looms has increased, according
to the figures just published, from
$0,023,100, in 1830 to $17,051,447 in
1890.
The death of General Beauregard
leaves but one of the seven full Generals
of the Souther i Army living and none of
the five men on whom the rank was con
ferred at the beginning of the war.
These five men were Cooper, Lee, Joseph
E. Johnston, Albert Sydney Johnston
and Beauregard. Bragg and Kirby
Smith were afterward made full Gen
erals. Kirby Smith alone survives.
A new style of wall decoration iu these
hard times in England may become pop
ular, opiues the Caicago Herald's Lon
don correspondent. A Dover street
sufferer by recent corporation collapses
has papered one of the rooms of his
house with share certificates, now value
less, but which represent the investment
of an immense sum. C. W. King, the
well-known philatelist, set the fashion
some time ago by covering the walls of a
room with postage stamps valued at
$3500.
Among the envelopes containing the
electoral votes for President and Vice-
President was one with a queer seal,
y now in possession of Mr. Sparr, one of
k the doorkeepers of the United States
Senate reception room. It seems that
Montana, though a State for seme time,
has as yet no seal. Tho envelope con
taining the electoral votes was fastened
with a great splash of red wax fully two
and a half inches in diameter and in the
wax, while it was still soft, was stuck a
bright silver dollar of the year of Mon
tana's admission into the Union.
Grover Cleveland evidently thinks that
type-written letters are not good form.
This, at least, the New Orleans Picayune
thinks, is the fair inference to be drawil
from the following incident: A politi
cian of National prominence the other
day, wishing to urge the claims of a cer
tain persou for a cabinet position, dic
tated a letter for Mr. Cleveland to his
typewriter, signed it and sent it away.
Shortly afterwtrd ho received a reply,
written in a somewhat crabbed, but dis
tinct hand, which on examination
proved to bo on autograph of Mr. Cleve
land. The gentleman has put the letter
carefully away, and says that he will
never again be guilty of sending Mr.
Cleveland a type-written letter. The
typewriter is very convenient, all the
same, and a good deal more legible than
most autographs.
A St. Louis man says that "it is u
question just how far a silk hat and a
supreme nerve will carry a man, but our
people appear to yield readily to such in
fluences. The best instance of this is
Colonel Hale, of nowhere in particular,
but who has a habit of blowing iu with
the spring breezes and promoting things
generally, much to his own interest.
Colonel Hale blew into a rapidly grow
ing Western town recently and quickly
grasped the fact that there was no cable
road. With everything gone but a silk
hat and $125, he spent SIOO for admis
sion into a swell local club and proceeded
to Mist on the remaining $25. He
gathered about him the leading moneyed
men and laid bare the scheme of mill
ions in a cable road. He agreed to ob
tain the franchise and put it all through
for $30,000, part of which was to be
paid down as a guarantee of good faitb 1
Do you believe that that fellow dusted
up his silk hat and attacked tho alder
men next. By dint of promising and
pompous appearance of wealth he Se
cured an ordinance, was voted stock,
drew what was coming to him and blew
out again, leaving every oae to wonder."
THI ROAD TO YESTBRDAT.
Will some wise man who has journeyed.
Over land and over sec.
To the countries where the rainbow
And the glorious sunsets b«\
Kindly tell a little stranger
Who haa oddly lost her way,
Where's the road that she must travel
To return to Yesterday 1
For, you see, she's unfamiliar
With To-day, and cannot read
What its strange, mysterious sign-posts
Tell of ways and where they lead.
And her heart upbraids her sorely,
Though she did not mean to stray
When she fell asleep last evening
And abandoned Yesterday.
For she left a deal neglectei
That she really should have done;
And she fears she's lost some favors
That she fairly might have won.
So she'd like to turn her backward
To retrieve them if she may,—
Will not some one kindly tell her
Where's the road to TesterJayf
—Julie M. Lippmann, in St. Nicholas.
"CHIHUAHUA" BROWN.
BY MOHAKD H. LINTIIICUM.
H HJORTUNES were
found sometimes in
a day at Pyrites,
E an< * 80 Chihuahua
Ju Brown went there
when the camp was
first started. That
was six months be
-7 'fly, f° re time of
which I write.
£o's Pyrites was a typ
ical mining town
: or "camp," far up in the Rocky Mount
ains.
It had grown in six months from one
log cabin to a town of a thousand in
habitants. It was a rough, unpreten
tious town, both as icgards its buildings
and a large number ot its citizens; but
under the duck suit of the miner there
are more honest hearts, more noble and
generous natures than will be found in
almost any other calling in life.
It is a noticeable fact about a new
mining camp that the most high-sound
ing titles are applied to the most com
mon-looking structures; the cheapest
place always has the grandest name. For
instance, the Delmonico restaurant was
the worst of all the eating establishments
in Pyrites, and the Windsor Hotel of
fered the poorest accomodations of any
hostelery in the place.
The cleanest, most home like eating
house in the place was Mm. McGwire's
restaurant. Bridget McGuire was a
lively, bustling Irish woman, with a red
face and hair a shade lighter. She was
popular with "the boys," as she called
the miners who patronized her place.
"We can always get plenty on our forks
at Mrs. McGuire's," was the usual sen
tence of praise bestowed upon her es
tablishment.
"Chihuahua" Brown boarded with
Mrs. McGuire. He was a quiet, retiring
sort of a man. No one knew much about
him, except that he once had some min
ing property near Chihuahua, Mexico.
There was another Brown in Pyrites, so
he was given the sobriquet of "Chihua
hua," to distinguish him from the other
Brown'. He paid his board promptly,
and was highly esteemed by Mrs. Mc-
Guire, who sometimes spoke of him as
"the widow woman' 3 friend," on account
of his once having loaned Mrs. McGuire
S2OO without security, when the good
natured Irish woman first started in busi
ness. Now she was beyond the need of
financial assistance, and was doing a
flourishing business—such a lajge busi
ness, in fact, that she had been obliged
to send to Denver for additional help to
wait upon the table. The "help" duly
arrived upon the stage and created a sen
sation in Pyrites. The first general de
scription was given out by the stago
driver, "Fairplny Bill," ton deeply inter
ested throng of listeners at the Silver
Bear salc>on.
"She cum up on the stage along side
of mc," said Bill." "There was three
girls for the danco hall, besides. When
we got to the first station, at Turkey
Creek Canyon, she asked if she could
ride on the seat with me; she did so ad
mire the scenery. I took her up beside
me on the box, and you never heard a
girl goon so about the color of the sky,
and the trees and rocks, and the wild
flowers bloomin' on the mountain side.
She pointed out things to me about the
scenery I never see before. I never see
a girl so gone on scenery. She really did
enjoy it. I got so interested, hearin'
her talk, I cum purty near slidin' the
whole outfit down the mountain, as X cum
'round Dead Man's Curve. She's differ
ent from any biscuit shooter ever I see."
"Purty? She's purtier than that nigh
leader o' mine, but she don't put on as
much style as Kitty does, 'specially when
she's just been- hitched up, an' anxious
to go. Purtyr? Ever see 'em pictures
'bout a woman raisin' up out the sea?
Ever see that picture of 'Rumyo and
Julia?' She's purtier than either one of
'em. I've crrried many a hash slinger
In my time, but I never see one like her.
Most of 'em's got their hair cut short
and curly, an' act fresh. She's differ
ent; long hair, blacker'n a dark night
in the canyon; big eyes, roses in her
cheeks; she's a lady, that's what she is.
I could tell that first time I see her.
This was how Doris Ware came to
Pyrites to be the "help" at Mrs. Mc-
Guire's restaurant. It was not strange
that the business of the restaurant in
creased. Mrs. McGuire's now waiter
girl was very, very pretty, and a pretty
face is an attraction anywhere, but es
pecially so in a new mining camp, where
> women constitute a very small minority
of the population.
It is not strange either that many of
Mrs. McGuire's boarders fell in iovo with
Mrs. McGuire's waitress. There was
quite a noticeable sprucing up in the
waj of general appearance among the
boarders. Two or three of"the boys"
affected brigh* colored ties, and when
they came to their meaW they were par
ticular about washing tbeir faces very
clean. They seemed to put more than
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1893.
the usual amount of water oil their
hair and combed ft back slicker
than they had been in the habit
of doing. All this seemed to hare no
effect upon Mrs. McGuire's help. She
was a* demure, retiring and modest as
when she first arrive J. There jvas one
boarder who loved the pretty waiter-girl
with the consuming passion of a secret
affection. Ho scarcely dare raise his eyes
to her, be was so diffident. The Sutter
of her dress was sufficient to cause every
nerve in his body to tremble. If she
spoke to him he was sure to put a lump
of butter in his coffee or sprinkle sugar
all over his plate during the ensuing mo
ment of confusion. This boarder was
"Chihuahua" Brown. He was reserved
in hil manner, so quiet and gentlemanly
that Doris was naturally attracted to him.
They became friends and gradually "Chi
huahua'' Brown learned of the past life
of Doris Ware. Her father had been a
man of wealth; he was a speculator. A
bad investment had left him almost pen
niless. He lacked the moral courage to
face adversity and in a moment of des
peration and despondency lie blew out
his brains. The shock almost killed his
wile, a woman of a delieate, nervous
temperament. His daughter Doris ro \e
superior to the occasion. She supportel
her mother from the rather small wages
she earned in a store. One day she read
an advertisement in a Western paper:
"Ten girls wanted for light, easy occu
pations in the mountains; wages $25 per
week." With such large wages she
could comfortably support her mother.
The amount was more than twice as
much as she had been receiving. She
had used her meagre savings to come
West, only to find that "the light, easy
occupation" for which the ten young
girls were wanted was to serve beer in a
dance-hall in Leadville. Being almost
without money she took the first place
she could get; it was her present one—
waitress in Mrs. McGuire's restaurant.
"Chihuahua"' determined that the girl
should not longer work in the restau
rant. But what could he do? There
was no other occupation in which she
could engage and remain in Pyrites, and
he could not bear the thought of send •
ing her away
Well, there was one thing which
ought to be dope, if it could ho done.
One September morning "Chihuahua''
Brown bade adieu to Pyrites for a short
time and went up to bis mines on Snow
shoe Mouatain. Before going he laid
in a large supply of writting paper,
some big, thick pointed pens, a bottle
of ink and some blank mining deeds.
The miners working adjoining claims
noticed that "Chihuahua" Brown was
paler than usual. His manner was less
lescrved. He was nervous and excited
at times. He sat up late at night writ
ing and always concluded by tearing up
what he had written. One night when
he was thus engaged, one of the men
working on the night shift came to the
door and yelled:
"Chihuahua 1 Chihuahua! come into
the mine and look at the stuff we've got
in there—we've strjek it big."
"Chihuahua" hurried into the mine.
It was a beautiful September after
noon in Pyrites. The mountains were
covered with wild flowers, and here and
there the sides of the monster hills had
been touched by the frost, transforming
verdant hues into purple, crimson and
gold. Doris went for a stroll early in
the afternoon. She gathered the flowers
as she went along, and almost every steo
revealed some new beauty of the floral
kingdom. Her mind was not so much
upon the flowers as it was upon him—
big, bearded, honest, manly "Chi
huahua" Brown. She had received a
letter from her mother that morning, in
which a remittance of SIOO was ac
knowledged. The letter to her mother
had been sent by "Chihuahua" Brown,
and he had stated therein that the SIOO
was a part of the proceeds from a mine
in which Doris had an interest with him.
The money was badly needed by the
mother, and her gratitude was almost
extravagantly expressed.
Doris strolled on, thinking of the
generosity of "Chihuahua," and the
secret, delicate method he bad taken of
showing it.
It was time to return. The shadows
began to gather on the mountains, and
darkne«s would soon be upon her.
She started back to the trail; but, alas 1
there was no trail where she thought it
should be. Again she located in her
mind's eye the place where she had left
the trail in her search tor flowers, but
there was no trail when she arrived
there. It was almost dark. She real
ized that she was lost. Lost in the
mountains; lost in a little basin, with
the town of Pyrites just over a small
ridge. But this latter fact she did not
know.
Higher up in the basin she saw a
light. It came from a miner's cabin.
She started there. It was very much
further than she thought it was. It
seemed at least an hour before she ar
rived at the little cabin from the window
of which the light streamed out upon the
dark mountain. The door was slightly
open. Dorris knocked. No answer.
She entered the cabin.
There was a Are in the stove, for the
night was chill. A neat looking bank
with clean blankets and coverlid stood in
one corner. There was a mining map
upon the wall. A bucket of water and
a wash-basin were near the door. Can
dles and miners' candle-sticks were
stuck in the log crevices. In the centre
of the room was a table covered with
writing paper. On the table was a light
that had guided her to the place—a can
dle stuck in the mouth of an empty
bottle.
What was this! A mining deed.
Maxwell H. Brown to Doris Ware, a
"ue-balf interest in the "Goodness
Gracious" lode.
A letter—she must not read it. Her
name? Why, what could this mean?
•'Dear Miss Doris"—so the letter be
gan. Then she read:
All my life I have been going It atone, and
I'm getting tired of it.l want a pard—a
pardner, 1 mean—and that's you. 1 took
you into pirdnership on the "Goodness
Gracious' JOJ« last month. WiU jrou be my
pard for life, and have a regular warranty
deed made out by Parson Wllaonf I never
was in love till 1 met von. I don't know
bow this affair will pan out, bnt I don't
think Pit be able to winter throogh without
you. I know my lovo ain't worth aa much
to you as your* is to me, and if yon say you
will be my wife, I'll try and make the bar*
gain even by throwing in the whole "Good
ness Gracious" mine and the "Small Pota
toes," which is an adjoining claim. Answer
me quick. If I don't get an answer, I'm
afrai 1 I'll hurt some of the boys. because I
dou't know what I'm doing half the time.
Please marry me—will youf And oblige,
yours respectfully.
MAXWELL H. BBOWN.
Just as Doris finished reading she
heard a step, a heavy step, at the door.
She grabbe I the pen and wrote in large
letters at the bottom of the sheet;
My answer is yes. —DORIS.
Some one was bending over her.
Some one had Been her write. Some
one saw that plain, big "Yes," and she
was gathered tight in a pair of strong
arms, and felt a fervent kiss upon her
lips.
Another step at the door. It was
"Galena" Mike, a miner.
"Chilhuahua," he said, "there's an
eight-foot vein oi that stuff, and it will
run at least SIOOO to the ton.
"Chilhuahua" did not answer Mike,
but Doris heard him say:
"I wouldn't give one minute like this
for 8,000,000 tons of it."—New York
World.
Cultivating the Appetite.
Altogether too much time and talk are
expended on what we shall eat and what
we shall drink. Dainty dishes are all
very well in their way, but in many
fumilies their preparation seems to be the
chief end and aim of existence. No
sooner is one meal cleared away, than
plans are laid for something new and ap
petizing for another.
What to cat forms the subject of con
versation in little gatherings of all sorts.
Of course, cooking-schools and the gen
eral interest in culinary matters have
something to do with this, but the sub
ject, like ail others, is in very great
danger of being overdone. Especially
is this the case where there are youn{
and growing children. They gather
from all that is going on about them
that eating seems to be the principal in
terest of the family and friends, and it
is not difficult to see to what this will
lead. The little appetites are pampered,
and the minds are filled with fastidious
notions about dishes and the way to
serve them.
Too much importance cannot be at
tached to good, plain cooking and tho
proper preparation of food, but eating
should not at any time form the princi
pal subject of conversation. It is no*
considered good form to talk about one s
food while at table; there are topics of
conversation much jgore desirable, and
some pains should be taken to introduce
some agreeable and interesting subject
at the outset of the meal. Do some
thing, do anything to avoid tho unceas
ing tirade about what to eat and how to
prepare it. That sort of thing is well
enough in its place, but is by no means
a proper subject for general discussion.
—The Ledger.
How Corean Troops Are Drilled.
On the recent arrival at Chemulpi,
Cores, of the United States steamer
Marion, Commander Gridley, accom
panied by three of his officers, paid an
ofiicial visit to Seoul, where they were
the guests of United States Minister Au
gustine Heard, at whose request His
Majesty, King Li Fin, granted a private
audience to the officers and assured tho
commander of his friendship for the
United States. The officers were also in
vited to witnes; the drill of a battalion
of Corean soldiers, whose military bear
ing was specially noticeable, as were also
the precision and excellence of their
drill.
Two companies of 130 men each took
part in the evolutions, which were per
formed according to Upton's tactics.
The manual of arms, wheelings and
marching in quick and in double time
were admirably performed. The file
closers all earried long handled clubs, or
paddles, instead of rifles, like the rest.
The officers' curiosity regarding the use
of these paddles was soon satisfied. A
poor devil in the rear rank,who brought
his piece to "shoulder arms" instead of
"order arms," was instantly pounced
upon by two burly file closers, knocked
down and given a beating that must
have made his bones ache for a month.
He made no more mistakes that day.
This interesting diversion was repeated
several times.—New York Herald.
Pests of Australian Farmers.
The Australian farmers have many
enemies to fight against, besides those
which have been imported into the coun
try, like the rabbit. Large fruit eating
bats do much damage to the orchards, and
it is no pleasant sight for the industrious
agriculturist to see devouring swarms of
these so-called flying foxes advancing on
his crops of an evening. Wild dogs were
formerly very numerous, but they did so
much damage that they were destroyed
without mercy. On large plantations a
man is kept whose sole work is to lay
out poison for them. One of the greatest
annoyances in certain parts of Australia
is the poisonous net*', or "stinging
tree." It is so poi onous that if its
beautiful heart shaped leaves are only
putin motion they cause one to sneeze.
They are covered with nettles on both
sides, and a sting from them gives great
pain. Horses wounded by them roll as
if mad with pain, and if they do not at
once receive attention they will in this
way kill themselves.—Chicago Times.
Parental Influence.
As a general rule a child's taste, opin
ions, character and trend in life, and
even its permanent destiny, are practic
ally shaped before the child is seven or
eight years of age. The failure of the
parents rightly to instruct and train it in
these early years, both by teaching and
example, by constant watchfulness and
loving care, can never be made good by
a lifetime of dgvrtedness in later years
—Detroit Free Press.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Mexicans have been using a decoction
of black spiders as a cure for typhus
fever.
The average weight of the circulating
blood in the body is about twenty-eight
pounds.
Tanning is done In this oountry in
about one-quarter of the time allowed in
Europe.
The leading metallurgists in this
country and in Europe have for some
time been endeavoring to enlist electric
ity into their service.
It has been shown by Nathan that the
addition of a small proportion of nitro
genous material to the "must" of fruit
results in the formation of more alcohol
than usual.
The duration of the electric spark
does not exceed the twenty-five thou
sandth part of a second, and a bullet in
(light has been photographed by means
of this spark, a marvelous development of
modern science.
A moist, warm atmosphere, where the
changes of temperature are slight, is the
most favorable for persons suffering from
rheumatism. The worst place is one in
which the air is the dryest and the cli
mate the most changeable.
The programme of the sanitary exhibit
to be held in connection with the Chi
cago Exhibition defines its purpose to be
to show as adequately as possible the
position-in which the theory and prac
tice of hygiene stand at the present day.
Copper and brass can be melted in an
iron pot because their fusing point is be
low that of iron, but most metals aro
melted in earthen pots—crucible is the
technical name. These are earthenware
jars of various sizes and shapes which
stand tremendous degrees of heat.
Ouo of the latest ideas for illuminat
ing towns is to suspend in the air a large
balloon shaped like a torpedo and ma le
of thiu aluminum, filled with a suitable
quantity of gas and having a rotating fau
to keep it steady. The light can be de
rived either from a number of arc lamps
attached to the ends or sides, or from
incandescent lamps with which the out
side of the balloon can be covered. The
height of the balloon above the groun .1
would be regulated by the length of
cable employed.
Professor Joseph Leidy placed the fact
beyond doubt several ago, that
nlgtc existed in the tissues of fresh water
mussels. Professor John A. Ryder
noted &reen about the heart of oysters
in the aquafa at Sea Isle City, and
which coloration, noted also in Europe,
has been ascribed by Professor Decaisne
and others in France to phycocyanin ab
sorbed from certain batons. Profewor
Ryder inclines to the belief that Dr.
Liedy's discovery, as above noted, forms
a more probable explanation.
Wolves In Russia.
Wolves arespecially active this winter.
Even in France accidents have been re
ported, and Government has thought it
necessary to urge the Louvetiers to exert
themselves. Dreadful stories have
reached u» from tho plains of Eastern
Europe, where the inhabitants are used
to reckon wolves as an abiding peril of
the winter season, and take no great ac
count of the victims whose lives are lost
in the accustomed manner. But it is
many years since a town—even as
"towns" go in Russia—was actually be
sieged by these animals. Such, we are
told, is the fate of Tikhvin, in the Pro
vince of Novgorod. They quarter its
neighborhood in large packs, and make
forays into the streets, seizing any living
thing they can catch. The women
stay indoors, and the men only go out
armed to the teeth. This tale is not to
be dismissed as a mere fable. It may
probably be exaggerated by legendary
incidents handed down from the time
when there was no safety outside the
towns. The Governor is said to have
despatched a battalion of infantry, asot
nia of Cossacks, and three hundred Chas
6eurs to make war upon the enemy. Such
a force may protect Tikhvin, but it is
not be hoped that the wolves will suffer
much. They will be driven off to prey
upon the country districts. Those who
know nothing of the matter are apt to
regard it as another evidence of barbar
ism that these creatures should be al
lowed to flourish. Why does not the
Government or tho people exterminate
them? The answer is that it cannot ba
done, even in France, though they might
be redifced to a trifling number there if
the Louvetiers were in earnest. But
wclves are migratory. Many of those
which aro beleaguering Tikhvin may
have traveled from Siberian wastes.—
London Standard.
Tallest Structures in the United States.
The tallest structure now existing in
the United States is the Washington
Monument, the memorial shaft erected at
the National capital in honor of the
memory of the "Father of His Couutry."
It is 550 feet in height. Next after the
Washington monument, the tallest struc
ture is the tower on the Madison Square
Garden, near Madison square, New York
City. The lookout gallery at the sum
mit of this tower is the highest point of
vantage in New York City, and with the
exception of the summit of the Wash
ington monument tho highest in the
couotry. Proin the pavement to the
electric lights on the forehead of the
gilded Diana, which until recently
crowned the structure, there was an in
terval of 341 feet.—New York Press.
The Biggest Sehoolhonse.
A schoolluuse to coat $200,000, capa
ble of seating 2100 pupils, is being built
in New Yoik City. The structure will
contain four floors and an attic. The
first floor will be used for a playground
and will be so arranged that it can be
thrown into au auditorium 60x120 feet
for lectures and evening classes. The
attic is to be devoted to manual training
and a gymnasium. Tie three floorulie
tween are to be divided into claws rooms,
—San Fiaucisco C'Lirouicle.
Terms—ll.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months.
WHITE HOUSE KE<;EPTIOiNS
DIVERSIFIED GATHERINGS AT
IHI EXECUTIVE MANSION.
People One May Meet «t * Presiden
tial Reception—A Panorama ot
Oflclal and Political Lite.
TT T the Preiident's house on a
/ \ reception night, or at the house
of <i cabinet officer on a Wed
£ nesday afternoon, or of a Sen
ator on a Thursday afternoon, or at any
place to which people are asked for their
public position, there will be found men
and women representing every stage of
prosperity in the Union, and every honest
calling that leads to prosperity. And
that is precisely what is to be found in
the public places of the Republic—in
the House of Representatives, in the
Senate, in the Cabinet, on the Supreme
Bench, and in the White House itself.
It is a strange and interesting acsumula
tion of human beings, most of them too
timid to be as interesting as they might
be. Even when the President issues
cards, the people who get together make
up a curious conglomerate.
The new Congressman takes his wife
to the President's, expecting to find the
entertainment not very different, al
though perhaps on a somewhat grander
scale, from that to which he is accus
tomed in the judge's house at the county
seat during court week. So he goes,
perhaps, in his frock-coat, feeling an
American prejudice against evening
dress, and a white or lilac tie, while his
rather fearful helpmate has put on her
best black silk, modest or prudish, as
you will, with its high neck and its
long sleeves. The new Congressman
experiences no trepidation in addressing
the President. They are both politi
cians, and the new Congressman may
even believe for a moment that some
day he may even stand at the head of a
line of well dressed women, whose necks
and arms now shine in his startled eyes.
Ha does not doubt that the President is
aware of the unique vicissitudes of the
recent campaign in his district. There
are a hundred subjects that the two have
in common, but he is disappointed as he
is about to utter his first smart phrase of
conversation to feel that the President's
baud is gently impelling him forward
and that thero is a soft pressure of the
crowd behind him in the same direction.
It is his first introduction to the reti
censes and restraints of high life, an in
troduction which is emphasized and
made more impressive by the disinclina
tion of the receiving women to shake
hands, or to indicate their recognition of
the new member by anything warmer
or more emphatic than a courtesy,
which, however, is <}•,*-? enough for the
timorous wife at his side, who, much
more than her husband shrinks before
the grand dames of the White House
and Cabinet, some of whom were born
to polite society, while some have ac
quired a large amount of social assur
ance during their husbauds' struggles up
the ladder of fame.
Other persons besides Congressmen are
here, some of them equally uncomfort
able, many of them, however, enjoying
themselves to the utmost. There is a
panorama of all that is prominent in offi
cial and political life. There are officers
of the army and navy who have been on
itaff duty at the capital, and are now
undergoing, with pbasure or fortitude,
as the case may be, the pronounced ad
miration of young women. There are
older officers, who have been more re
cently on the plains, and who come to
the function with their wives and daugh
ters and sisters with a delight or rever
ence due, to their honest thinking, to
the highest and most resplendent social
ceremony in this country—the drawing
room not only of the head of the Nation,
but of the commander-in-chief of the
two military services. The army and
navy folk of the staff are usually of that
inner circle whoso peculiar traits and
customs are not now under considera
tion ; but the army people who have spent
years on the plains know nothing better,
or wiser, or generally more praise
worthy, than their own people. There
lore they will be found to
gether, although the excited women,
who have for years endured with a noble
patience the monotony of life at army
posts, are lejoiced beyond words if they
may only grasp the hand and hear the
voice of some paragon of Congressional
wisdom who has been good to their hus
bands or to tho service.
There will bo diplomats in dazzling
uniforms; Chinese mandarins in silk at
tire; Japanese officials, the men in the
black evening dress of convention, and
the women iu tho proper costume of
Europe and America.
Nearly every one of those who make
up this interesttng human collection finds
somewhere in tho moving throng a friend
or comrade who will save him from that
terrible isolation of an evening party
which most persons have felt, and which
is often as depressing as the solitude of
a great city. There is little need to be
alone, and the object of a wondering
gaze that freezes the warm blood, in a
crush it a Washington reception.—Har
per's Magazine.
The Vegetable Fly.
One of the most curious productions
of the West Indies is the famed vegeta
ble fly, an insect about the size of a
drone bee, but without wings. In the
month of Uay it buries itself in the earth
and begins to vegetate. By the begin
ning of June a sprout has issued from
the creature's back and made its appear
ance upon the surface of the ground.
By the end of July the tiny tree
(known on the island as the fly tree) has
attained its full size, being then about
three inches high, but a perfect tree in
every particular, much resembling a
delicate branch. Pods appear on its
branches as soon as it arrive* at its full
growth; these ripen and drop off in
August. Instead of containing seeds, as
one would naturally suppose, these pads
have from three to six small hail worms
upon the interior.—Rural Collaboration.
NO. 26.
TALK'S CHK*t\
There's lots o' quaint ol' Myista
Fve,noticed in my d»y—
Big truths and solid principle"
Told in the shortest way.
My father ust to have one.
An* this 19 how it ran:
'•Talk's oheap, my boy," he oak to MT»
"But money buy* the lan'."
I own the sayin's homely.
Undignified and rough;
But then it tells jest what you mean,
An' tells it brief enough.
An' when you git to thinbin'
How short is UfeFs thin span, 1
It's well to min' "that talk is cheap,
But money buys the lan'."
'T won't do to boast an' blaster
An' brag an' try to bluff;
An' don't you git to thinkin'
This world "ain't up to snuff."
It is; an' while you're blowin'
Tour own bazoo, my man.
There's some one sneerin', "talk is cheap,
But money buys the lan'."
—Chicago News Record.
HUMOR OF TIIE DAY.
An unostentatious gift—A loan.—
Fun.
Mistress of the situation—The servant
girl.—Life.
Consumed with curiosity—Unfamiliar
viands.—Truth.
Gets down to work—The pillow
maker.—Truth.
A man never finds how dull he ii till
he tries to live by his wits.---Life.
Carver—"l'm but a hewer of wood."
Marine Painter—"And I but a drawer
of water."
She—"Are these flowers all uaturet"
He—"Yes, all except the price."—Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
In a tight between a porcupine and a
bull dog recently,, *he latter was severely
outpointed.—Puck.
She "Diamonds are like women's
hearts—the richest jewels in creation."
He—"And the hardest."—Fun.
Ethel—"How did George like your
swan's-down boa?" Maude—"He was
tickled with it."—Newport News.
One of the times when a man begins
to cry and sigh that all men are not hon
est is when he gets the wrong hat.—
Ram's Horn.
"Well, I've been making a goose of
myself," said the hen, when the egg 9 on
which*she had been sitting hatched into
goslings.—Truth.
"Did you ever goto Bins, the tailor?"
"Yes. Got two suits from him. One
dress suit. One law suit. Very expen
sive man."—Waif.
It is curious how much faster ;i street
car humps along when you are running
after it than when you are riding on it.
—Richmond Recorder.
"Goodness me, Johnny 1 What are
you crying about now?" " 'Cause
Tommy dreamed about catin' pie last
night and I didn't."—lndianapolis Jour
nal.
"Why did your hired girl leave you?"
"She didn't like the extra work."
"What extra work did she have to do?"
"Collecting her wages," Harper's
Weekly.
Merchant—"Now here is a piece of
goods that speaks for itself." Uncle
Hayseed—"Well, that wouldn't suit
Mandy. She likes to do her own talk
in'."—lnter-Ocean.
Father—"A hundred dollars for a
suit of clothes I I nevor paid that for a
suit in my life." Son—"Well, you'll
have to begin now, father; here's the
bill."—Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Bingo—"Dear, "after this you
must wear a dress suit down to dinner."
Bingo "What for?" Mrs. Bin>®
"Our now girl has been used to itr*»-
Clothier and Furnisher.
He—"Do you love me, darling?" She
—"Sometimes I think I do; and then
again when you have that hideous, baggy
new overcoat or. I doubt the strength of
my affection."—Tid-Bits.
Trotter—"l hear that Grace Willough
by is engaged to a teal live lord." Bar
low—"Well, they claim he's alive, but
I've seen him several times and I'm
rather sceptical. "--Vogue.
"Now we can fix him in this way,"
said the lawyer. "Ob, talk is cheap,"
said the clieut. "Well, wait till you get
through with this and see whether talk
is cheap or not."—New York Press.
"Don't you find him just as I repre
sented him?" Lady (indignantly)
"No, sir. You said he was a bird dog,
and he hasn't sung a note yet, and I've
had him two weeks."—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
At the Chemistry Exam: "Which is
the best-known insulator?" The Candi
date (a young student, pale and thin,
with a bilious complexion and a savage
look about him) —"Poverty, sir!"—Le
Monde Itlustre.
Mother (putting the boy out of the
gantry) —"How many more times will I
ave to tell you to keep out of the pre
serve jar?" Small Boy (sobbing)—"No
more, mamma; they're all gone."—De
troit Free Press.
Sport—"My watch loses something
every night and seldom makes it up dur
ing the day. What ails it?" Jeweler
(reflectively)—" Evidently it is trying to
conform to the habits of its owner."—
Jewelers' Weekly.
Prisoner—"Yes, your Worship, I
committed the theft with which I am
charged entirely through the instigation
of my medicj 1 adviser." Magistrate—
"You mean to that in carrying out
an experiment * hypnotism he sug
gested the crim to you?" Prisoner—"l
don't know about that; but one thing ia
certain, he told me to take something
before going to bed."—Agenda Prin
temps.
Reports from New Orleans show that
the Louisiana sugar crop reached last
year 189,500 tons, upon which the
bounty will be $7,580,000, as against
$6,882,590 paid in bounties last year,