STORIES OF THE DAY.
MAhon's Ride—An Unfinished Lawsuit of
i the. War Times,
I must tell a horse story of Leo's in-
vamion of 1863 that ought to be historic.
bat that I believe has never appeared in
print. Congressman Mahon, who will
prebably prove the only sincere advocate
of the ‘border claims’ in the next con-.
goess, is the hero of this tale.
Mahon always had an eye toa good
horge, and so it is not surprising that
an aimal belonging to an officer in
Jenkins' cavalry brigade should have
“taken his particular fancy. As the
borongh of Chambersburg was then in
possession of the enemy, most other men
would have been content too admire,
without a thought of ownership, not-
withstanding the horse was riderless for
the moment and withous an immediate
awendant. W
vo.act, and so he sprang into the saddle
#ad rode away. He wad pursued, but
cenped and still had possession of the
hie after the ast “‘reb’™ had gone back
fo Dixie. :
But somehow the town fathers of
dear ob Chambersbarg imagined that
the borough owned that horse, and as
attorney {vr the town I was instructed
- to sue Mai on for the value of the an
imal, I ac rdmgly bronght an action
on the case and filed mv “narratio,”
while Mahon » 3
formidable arri of conusel All this
. happened in Oct lor, 1563, but the se
has never been 1 ~L It onght to be
Mahon will consi: to watvo all for
pralitieés, or rather formalities, so that
we can get. the case by y Juidises Stave:
art and a Jory ’ SE
I believe 1 will go back and try it
What a Rip Van Winkle proceeding %
would be! Idon’t suppose 1 could win,
- far I never believed the old town had
any more claim to that horse than [
have to the moon, but if the deiouse
was willing and the court gave us
plenty of seope wo world carry ont a
new chapter in history, and Mahon's
"ride would become asfamons as Sheri-
dans. — Philadelphia Inquirer.
ade answer by a nmios
In Strict Confidence.
The following story is said to have
originated somewhere on that part of
D street where cast off garments enjoy a
segund time on earth as fabrics of the
finest tissne :
Jakey’s father, who presides over an
emporium in that locality, secured for
his son a position where there was un-
limited opportunity to advance in his
chosen profession, and where he re-
ceived a salary of $1.50 a week. When
Jakey had been employed there a week,
and Satnrday evening arrived, he
turned in his wages to the head of the
family, who, after counting the money,
/ said ©
“Jakey, how is this—only a dollar
and fordy-five cends. Where i is der oder
wmigkel, Jakey?"’
“Fader,” the young man replied,
“the man dot geeps der store don't gif
us no ice wader, and we have to buy
“dee for ¢ nrselves.
“Well, 1:0 pose you buve todo like
the oder boys.” said his father reluc-
tamtly.
The fo ollowing Saturday night there
WR but ¥1.45 handed in as the week's
‘wages, and Mr. Hol fenstein wanted to
know the cause of the deficit.
“Well, fader, they took up a golleg-
shan for a boy what got hart and efery-
body put in somding, and I gave 5
oepds. ’’
18 fathior said voting.
When the next Saturday came, Jakey
‘was again & cents short in his accourits.
Now, Jakey, where did it go this
; tima?'’
“Well, fader,” began Tukey. CI —
““Btob!”’ interrupted Mr. Hoifenstein,
“feome with me.’ .
. Jakey followed his father to another
roo. where, after carefully closing the
door, the fatherssaid impressively:
“Now, Jaey, my son, this is my con-
fidential office, and I would rather yon
would drop dead where you stand than
tell'mea lie in thisroon. Now tell me,
cdakey—tell me—ire you geing to get
maticd?'—W ashin gto m Post.
A Warning to Tourists,
A well known Phils telphia lawyer,
whe has jost badge from”abroad, tells
- a rather remarkable story of his exrorn- |
ence with a doctor in Paris. Over
there,” he remarked, “‘everyliing is
done by contract, a fact which 1 diseov-
ere to my sorrow. - My wife caaght a
With Mahon to admire was
taking investigation of this subject
‘A crude drawing taken from under the
amateur Sherlock Holmes, put these
. by mysterious symbols.
SIGN PICTURES OF BURGLARS,
Gate May Mean--Of the Other Hani,
ehievous Boys W hich. Mean Nothing.
added anothe er chapter to his little note
book which records the
trifles that are important clews to the
doings of the erimin: il classes, - Spots
nmbrella are all eloquent tor this ahaory
a whole literatare on the rands of New
York and vieinity, their eslor and con.
sisteney and the various dagrees of at
mospheric’ moisture under which they
toothpicks and matches as characteristic
of varions restaurants and localities are
full of meaning.
Now it appears, by what the amateur
Sherlock Holmes bas been revealing in
a moment of confidence, that the dead |
wall® of New York, stoops of houses,
basement entrances and area gateways
are the signposts of the criminal classes,
and that what look like the rude scrawl
ings of boys are in reality the secret
symbols by which burglars communics ite
with each other. :
Chalk marks ander the edga of one of
your front steps may mean that your
house has been spotted and will be bro
ken into on a certain date. A rude driw-
ing on the area railings may to the en
lightened eye of the initiated mean:
“This man has a burglar nlarm on his
second story windows and keaps a revolve
er under his pillow, but the silver is ip
the butler’s pantry on the first floor, and
the house may be entered through the
second basement window, where the
latch is broken.’
The fraternity which has developed
this sign language to such a high degree
of perfgetion shows considerable ingen.
ity in its design, but no attempt is made
at accuracy of drawing, as that would
attract attention. The sign pictures of
the burglars are made to look as much
like the rude scrawls of schoolboys as
possible.
Three figures were found scrawled on
the gateway of one house. The informa-
tion thus pictorially conveyed was to the
effect that the hon e was tenanted by a
lady, one woman se. vant and a boy page.
That he was a boy page was indicated
by buttons on his coat, ana the servant
was indicated by a short skirt, dotted to
resemble a print dress.
Another picture in the notebook of
the amateur Sherlock Holmes was more
easily deciphered, as it showed merely ’
fierce bulldog guarding the house,
warning to all members of the eins
nity. The next sign, taken from a house
in the suburbs, was more mysterious and
complicated, but upon a study it finally
resolved itself into the announcement
that the man who lived there went out
to business at 9 in the morning and re
turned at 6 in the evening.
Another picture gathered by the ama-
teur Bherlock Holmes during his pains:
showed accurate information, as wag
subsequently discovéred, upon the part
of the sign writer as to the interior of
the house. It indicated that there wers
three electric bells on the windows, and
that one woman servant was employed
edge of a stoop indicated that the serv.
ant there had been ‘‘squared,’’ and this
house presumably was just ready to be
burglarized. Some of the booty expected
to be secured, together with warnings as
to possible difilculties to bo met with,
were indicated by sign pictures of silver
spoons, coin and - plate, together with
the statement that the place was ‘*A1,”
but there were significant sketches of a
dog, a revolver and electric bells to mt
the thieves upon their guard as (0 w Liat
to expect.
Frequently the burglars, says the
gigh pictures on houses remote from:
those: to which they refer, and in this
~.s¢ the identity of the later is revealed
This was the
case with a rade drawing of ahouse dis-
covered on a street corner. It represent
od a tall house with a line barbed with
severe cold and was taken quite ill. 1
‘calied in a French physician who had |
* be: highly recommended by the pro
priet ‘of the hotel at which 1 was stop-
- ping. ahd he paid five visits to my wife,
- after which she was so much improved
that his services were no longer required.
. The pext day I received his bill for
2,000 francs, which is equivalent to |
£500. Thinking a mistake had been
ce, Where he
| method of ingress was through the reof
an arrowhead leading to the roof from
| the street and indicating that the best
: The street and number of tnls noose
were al#o shown by a succession of no-
merals which only the initiated could
understand.
Don't get frightened when you see
chalk marks on your front stoop or area
gateway. The probabilities are that
they are merely the idiotic scrawls of
an I wrat to his
— me that the bill was
Werreet. To my remonstrances he re
el +1, ee made no contract
“When I told him I womldn' t
: bi oid an esorbitant bill, be in-
ormed me that it would be impossihle
"or me to leave France. Ip desperation
‘consulted a friend of mine who resides
= Paris and found that the French doc-
ad me where the hair was short,
= in the cud I bad t9 pay it.”'—New
boys. At the same time examine them
AMATEUR SHERLOCK.
LEAVES FROM is NOTEBOOK ON.
What Chalk Marks on the Front Stoop or
They May Be Only the Serawls of Mis-
The avaatenr Sherlock Holmes has!
gnificanen of |
ink, cigar ashes, marks on the finigér and |
the particlc#of dust in the folds of an |
ant seeker after truth as revealing
times, places and occurrences in which
people uiay have been engaged. There i3
will be reduced toa fluid state, wliile
: Hope For Patriots.
The time is near at hand, alas,
When orators galore .
Will sti. cur patriotic hearts
From the convention floor,
They '1} nominate that famous mun,
The 3.an “who''— as of old,
With virtues only less than Job’ 8.
CA barre.s full of gold.
Th ir * firm allegiance to the faith,”
"heir past was sanctified,
They will athrm in fiery toaes,
‘And they will “point with pride.”
The ship of state will calmly wait
Lintil the JH nile vote, ;
And if the ins uf vy in she'll sivim,
And if they Jd i
CLEVELAND'S KINDNESS.
He Gives a Helping i»
tious Youth.
A gentleman in Baltimore baz
ceived a letter fro ov a friend, telling
how a Foung man withont political in-
| fluence obtained an appointment. as a
i naval eadet from the president. The m.
| cident Mustrate q the manly way Presi-
! dent Cleveland has o f appreciating man
liness in others. It also shows that the
president, although always busy with
the affairs of state,
to interest himself in and sympathize
with young men and help them te
realize their ambitions wi» 1 ax
within his power. The fatho, bad
young man who received the appoint-
ment from the president was a chief]
engineer in the navy and bad an excel
lent record. He is now dead. Two of !
the father's brothers were in the Con
federatn service. Here is the young
appointment:
ence to help me secure an appointment |
the president myself and personally Iay
my case before him. All my friends,
with one exception, my teacher, Mr.
crowds waiting to see him can only be
imagined. Finally my name was called,
“and I entered with abdut 50 office seek
ers.
‘AR goon as possible 1 made my wa
to Mr. Cleveland and told him my name
and business. I told him that I had nc!
political influence, and that I only bad
four letters from old friends of my
father, and one other from a friend of
my own. Mr. Cleveland took the let-
ters, put his hand on my shoulder in a
fatherly way and said, ‘Young man, 1
am told that I bave no more appoint-
ments for this year, but I will do all]
can for youn.’ He also said he would see
that my papers were filed if I would
leave them with him. My heart was toc
‘full of gratitnde for words, but I took
his big hand and squeezed it with both
of mine.
‘‘Six months passed, and I received
an alternate’s appointment from the
president. This did me no good, as my
principal passed the examination and
was enrolled. I again applied to the
president, this time by letter, and his
secretary replied, saying that Mr. Cleve-
land would do what beconld. That was
last fall. Ir March I received my ap
pointment. There never was so happy
| DID HOLMES USE IT
1 to an Amb | then
ran still find tigne |
| is shown by tho discovery in his Chi- |
man’s own account of bow he got the
as a naval cadet I deterriined to go te!
f view,
Blacklmrn of Alexandria, smiled at this!
plan. Fle gave me a letter to Mr. Cleve. |
land. I went to the White House four | |
times beforn I got into his office. . The! !
boy us I was when I received that ap
pointment. Sixty-eight boys took the’
examination, and 87 or 38 passed. 1
was seventh on the list and one of the
15 who passed on the first. examination. |
“The president understood my posi: |
tiom and helped a poor boy, I have nc
politician to thank, but have written tc |
Mr. Cleveland, not, however, being able |
to tell him what I feel for him.’
The young man is 18 years old and!
was bora in Norfolk: — Baltimore Sun.
| CONSERVATIVE.
The First Use of the Word as an English | |
Political Torm.
Canning, and not Croker, was the |
rét to tse in Englikh politics the word |
conservatiye in Its present sense, and
too long has Thackeray's “Mr. Wer
ham’ ’ (Disraeli’s ** Mr. Righy™') ha’ (he
credit which belongs to a fur man
liant man. The general a ests iption has i
been that the term was egrliost emi
ed in The Panay R evics wor Janwa
1830 (No. , page 276), in an article
which has a ommanly said, but upon
no specified anthority, to have be
writfen by Croker, but its true first use
was five years and a half previously.
On June 8, 1524, a dinner was given |
to Georpee Hibbert, the chairman of the
West India Merchants of Lemdon, by the
members of that body, and several of the |
leading ministers then serving under |
Lord Liverpool, the Tory premier, were
present. In the course of the proce ed
ings, says a contemporary account, “‘an |
| observation which fell from Mr. Can-
ning was that the spirit of the present |
governraent, as that of all governments |
ought to be, was essentially conserva-
tive.”
This appeared in John Ball of June |
i
i
i
elosely, and if they seam to point to bur:
glarious intent or design it might not be
a bad idea to report the matter tothe
police. The. latter will probably langh
at you among themselves, having not
yet developed many Sherlock Holmes
propensities, but the fact that the signs
have been noticed will, in some mys-
terious way, soou be known ta the crim-
fnals, and those enterprising gentry may
Orleans Times- Democrat, re
In Partnership With King.
James R. Morse, formerly of San
. Frageisco, but more recently of New
* Yofk and Yokohama, has received from
his eayal highness the king of Korea
control of the richest mining districts
‘in the kingdom and has been actually |
taken in as partner by the king himself.
For 80 years foreigners have endeavored
to gain a foothold in the rich mining
districts of the kingdom. Mr. Morse is
gaid to be the first to get a coneession. —
~ New York Sun. :
About Equal Chances.
Wanted, to swap chances with some
Praibition candidate. Address (a con-
fidece) Mrs. J. O. Dominis, Honolulu,
— Famhange.
bet frightenn] off. ==Now York Wor "
ba Sr 2 _—
- —-—
To Mark a Historie Tavern.
A statue in bronze of a catamount is
to be erected on a granite pedestal to
mark the site of the old tavern at Ben-
nington, Vt., in which were held tko>
councils of military and state officers in
Revolutionary days. The tavern had a
swinging signboard on which was
‘painted a catamount as an emblem of
defiance to the British lion. Hence it
was called the Catamount tavern.
Conceatment No Lounger Kousenss:
Mra. Oldun—Why, my dear, you look
ten years older since you were Ti
Mrs. Yo —AndIam. Yon know
1 havo Leen only 23 for the past ten
years. —Detroit Free Press. :
80 obviously remarked that it was itali
cized. Years passed, and@am. ig had
died before the word is again to be met
in English politics, but on March 14,
1829, Charles Greville noted in his dia
ry that ‘‘ Herries told Hyde Villiers that
their (the Tories’) policy was conserva-
tive, that of the Whigs subversive, and |
that they never could act together.’’
“The Cireville Memoirs, volume 1, part
1, page 192,
The word, employed by both C ‘annin
| question stands out clear and
i “What became of the bodies? :
| they experimented with the bodies of
13,1824 (page 198),and the apt word was | of the body, bloed, bones, flesh and
es
THEORY THAT THE ALLEGED MUR-
DERER USED NITROBEMZINE.
Rome Notorious Murderers Who Were
Scientific Men,
t The mysivry which surrouns 1s this dis-
| appearance of some of the slleged vie
“+f tims of Dr. BL H' Holmes has set
{ Buffale chemist to thinking and theoriz-
| ing. and he has produced a 10st novel
y Fiolmes to make away with the
of come of his victinn after all
Bl the iittie pre. mimics in the way of
| collecting inswanes nvney and the like |
had been cotielded.
| Holmes is a man of scientitle ideas, a
man who has kept abreast with the
march of scier 0 in all its branches,
and who has boonapperanily something
of a picneer in ressarch himelf. This
| cago ‘castle’ «[ a most wysterious flu-
{ 1d, composed
off a gas which caused death in a short |
{ time. That much has béen discovered.
1.1 What the acid was remninsg to be
{
learned. se
This Buffalo chemist, whe seems to
| have been devoting considerable time to
the matter, has worked out a theory
that Holmes may have nsed a. prepara
“After failing to get political infln- | tion known as nitrobenzine for the re-
f
moval of his vietimsg after ho had nsed
them for whatever purpose ke had in
The great study of crimirals shen |
th ey have oo mitted a murier is the
isposal of the body. of their victim,
nd, strange as it may seem, the most |
meated men, the most scientific, the |
erladatad and rhe heavy brained, allj
«mmit the fatal error of a too great
ation. :
There was the Parkman- Webster muor-
*, one of the most celebrated in the
tory of killing in this country. Pro-
| {i sor Webster, the demcnstrator of anat-
7 at Harvard college, killed Park-
in. The professor had handled hun-
8 of cadavers in his time and was |
oughly familiar with the disposal
{ the remains of bodies after they left |
+ dissecting room. Yet, wish all his
wderful mind and the opportunities
118 command for the disposal of a
<'y without suspicion, he attempted
burn Parkman's remains and was
car rht,
Livery one who reads the newspapers
at ull must remember the proat eare ex-
erc.«ed by the murderers of Dr. Cronin
to prevent discovery of their crime, and
80 with the murderer of Unger, in New
York, some years ago--the man who
killed his friend, Awgust Boller, and
shipped his body to Baltimore im af
trunk. To prevent identification. he
cut off the victim's head and threw it
into the East river as he crossed one
night with the trunk Yet in the
forethought which he exsreisod—and he |
spent two days figuring ont his plans
for disposing of the body with certain
safety to bhimself—-he overlooked a mark
? WHY HE SUCCEEDED.
Bodies Placed Im This Deadly Chemical
Are Completely Dissolved -- Instances of
rv regarding the method probably ©
‘incipally of petrolenm, |
¢ | which, when a1 acid was added, threw |
OST STOO tHINRers as well as the an- | :
we
A SENATOR'3 GOOD FORTUNE BEGAN
WITH A GAME OF POKER.
A Boyish Prank That Made It Necessary
the Conntry— Members of the Bar Whe
Tried to Beat the Pet Law of the Town,
“My seat in the senate and all 1 have
besides had root in a gane of poker.”
Here the sepstor gazed benignantly
. abont his small andicnee
reminiscent mood. He was a wise, deep
sea little senator, as saplent as ever
went into executive session. Now and
then he liked to talk about the past.
“It sounds queerly to say it,’ the
senator continued, ‘but it was a poker
| game which lost me to the east and
gave me to the west, to become i in time
a senator, This is the story:
“1 was born and bronght ap in a
town in Kentucky. It was a small
town. - You conld throw a lariat about
the whole outfit and drag it with a
| pony. But it was a highly moral town.
As a community it bad a pet law. It
made a specialty of epforeing the stat-
utes against gambii ing. No games of
chance could thrive in\that community.
| And no matter wha’ the-position in life
of an offender, were hg milty of gam-
' bling he would be deayiKich Such was
the impartial boast of/ the town. - Indeed,
a8 one citizen observed : :
{ - "*They would: admire to catch a
judge or proseenting/atiorney violating
: the law merely to a the Por-
iten fairness of local sentiment.’
“It was the Jue term of the cirenit
i court. There was a crowd of Iawyers in
town. The judge RAimself was fivna
_ down the Ohio river. During the noon
i
Por Him to Go West and Grow Up With |
He was in al aa.
4 da 1
ROW TO STOP THE CONTEST.
¥f Quay Really Desires Peacs Tt cane
Secured by His Withid:nual. ~~ ©
Senator Quay, who precipitated this
fight in the party, is now seeking: a oGar’
promise by all the means in his pe ATE
For him this present battie ng ust LAN
ate administration has gone fur aash
ery stares him in the face Fhe be
that ho will nut gor more than four Cla
gates out of hes vesty fn Philadephia
only four out of the county of Allegheny,
that Lacknwanna turned its back on him
on Friday and saturday lost snd eltoety if
Hastings and Gilkeson delegates, 18 cis
Aetiies “to. dm that his political CArCEr Jd
i ! fo onleog Ise can fruduee tha FOVernos,
Colonel Gilkesan, Mayor Warwick, Ni
tinfial Committeernan Martin anid © 1.
Mages to agree to a compromise,
hero is but one way in which the iro
put contest ean he ended. Senntor ay
is the tnly distarber of the peace in ‘he
Republican party. If he earnestly desires
to end the pr erent trouble he can do it in
a word; that.is, by withdrawing his she
tentions to the position of state clmis aan,
and permitting the Republican pni.e to
proceed on its way uninterruptedis by the
re-election of Colonel Gilkeson as otate
chairinan
publican party are yelling for punce at the
top of their voices. The hysterical Tila
delphia Inquirer, whose cumipaign dy (inst.
men in its own party has shamed oven
Democratic organs, has gone whining edi-
torially to the governor and asked him to
restore . peace.
But peace at this stage of the ‘contest is
out of the question except upon the cone
ditions named The governor did notin.
augurate this fizht. Mr Quay began it.
He had his plans Inid for this “‘csmpalgn
of assassination” six mwmonths ago. Three
weeks ago be began sending out matter
abusive of the administration and ite
friends, by plates and otherwise, to all the
leading country newspapers in the state.
He has had his paid workers in every
threat and speeimen of cafolery that it is
possible to conceivaof, It has all failed.
| hear a quiet game of poker was talked
over as one of the happy methods of |
passing the pending evening. The town |
had a habit of going to bed at 9 o'clack,
and it al} promised to be graveyard dull |
to the visiting lawyers and the judge, |
Whispered word went aboggly therefore, | |
that a game of gards, with a meek and
lowly limit, would be a good way to]
ward off eave. But there wus no plase |
to play. ;
*“The hotel wonld neg do A light
in any room after 10 o'c’ wonld have
provoked the most baleful sarmises and
. fwestigation as well. The prosecuting
attorney was one of the foremost in ar
ranging the eoming speculation. It was
he who, in the fertility of his nature,
suggested the flatboat. His father was
proprietor of a flatboat of ample cabin |
accommodaticn. Just then # was moor-
ed, bow and stern, at the foot of the
levee. A couple of games were pro-
grammed to come off thad évening in
the cabin of the flatboat. It would be out |
of sight and hearing of the testy little]
burg which made n specialty of punish- !
ing gambling. i
“It. was 10 o'clock. The night was as!
dark as the interior of a eow.. Two
games were going on in the cabin of the !
flatboat. The judge, the prosecuting at- |
torney and some nine members of the |
bar were engaged. It made: two nice |
tables. Everybody was bending to the §
game with all of the native ardor of La
Kentucky gentleman. It was about this |
of positive identificaticn. a crooked lit-
| tle finger and a most pecuiiir sear at |
| the joint. That identifiech the Ie dy, and
| Unger is now serving a 20 years’ sen-
| tence. He would have been hanged if!
the head could have bern found, Had |
i be cut off the little finger and disposed ©
| of it he would be a free man today.
Holmes seems to have been more snc-
| ¢essful, for up to the present time there
does not serm to be, judging {from what |
| has been published, very mrich direct
evideneo against him in ary of the
i cases. True, bones have been found in
his henge, hot ba hag o dafonia $n thee]
ecnuitien Or affairs In tae fast nat ned
wag a medical man and Bad the bones
for stndy. And through all his ease the
This may be a solution of the ques-
| tion——this theory of thechemist referred
to above.
Some time ago in Muhausin, Alsace,
| there was an explosion in a chemical
| factory in a room where thera was stored |
a quantity of what is known as nitro-
benzine. There were severi. men em-
ployed in the room, and all escaped bus
| ane. The nitrobenzine of conrse flooded |
| the place, and when the fire Was put oat |
and search made for the body of the
man the mixture was several feet doep |
on the floor. It was thought the work-
' man’ had escaped, for no trace of him |
| could be found until} a part of one font |
was found at the edge of a pool of the |
| nitrobenzine.
That set the chemists to thinking, and |
| animals, with the result that it was
found the stuff destroyed every particle |
teeth. Further experiments showed that
metal even would be destroyed by the
nitrobenzine, so that the body ef a hu-
‘man being, fally dressed, if placed in
the chemical, would be totally obliter-
ated within a few hours, not the slight-
‘est trace of éven so much as batton re-
maining.
What would be easier than to place
the body of a vietim in a bathtub, and
when the action had taken place to pull
eut the plug? A clear fluid would flow
distinct, |
Cold frame in half a dozen pockets. Is!
| might better gu.
time when, in eompany with: a friend, |
I strolled om the levee in the vicinity of
the flatboat. TI was 20 years of age and &
‘had no money. My friend was equally
; well fixed. ©unr yonth and our poverty |
forbade anything like poker so far as we |
were concerned. On discovering the old |
folks thus oliarmingly engaged a taste
to be humorons swept over ns. We were;
law students; they were lawyers. That
was reason cpoungh for the joke. As the!
boat rose and fell on the swelland slack: |
ened the ropes we cast her loose. Silent
ly she drifted away over the dark bos- |
om of the river. The jovial gamestersi
drew and filled and straddled un) raised
and called, all unconscious." At 2 o'clock
in the morming Colonel es hadi
won $70. It was in Mexican money,
and he had sinkerad it about his honest
was about ail of the money at that table,
‘and Colonel Stebbins conelnded he!
He murmured somes i
thing about cold feet and promising his |
wife to come ap to the hotel early and |
arose to go. The rest jeered mildly and |
C made invidious remarks afte the fash-
ion of losers at poker just as the game,
breaks up. But Colonel Stebbins was,
inflexible He put cn his hat, bid oe- |
erybody ‘good night, stepped out inte!
the inky darkness aud carvefgily picked
his way averboard.
“The water was 20 feet deep. The sil.
ver all but drowned the colonel, how-
ever. At last he was fished ont and laid
across a» barrel te.evies the Ohio river
from His system. The whoops and yells
of the voyagers at Inst brought a sleepy
little sug to theiraid. They Ad. them-
selves 17 miles below the town. For
$30 of Colonel Stebbins’ nine the tug
towed the party back :
““They arrived at 2 o’cloelt ia: the aft-
ersoon and found the towws sallemly lin:
ing the levee waiting for thera. They
were one and all promptly indicted. In
the frank enthusiasm of youth my friend
and I relagsed how we had east these
poker gues adrift om the Ohio. We
made a grave mistake when we told
this story. Publicly we were threatemed
with indictment; privately we were
‘menaced with death by the gentlemen
we had betrayed to the river. We took
and Herries, was thus ‘‘in the air’ Li
this accords with a statement made in
the course of a correspondence on th ie |
“Etymology of the Word Conservative
which appeared in The Standard at the
end of October, 1832, wherein it was
said to have been firstused in 1829,
daring the closing controversies upon
Roman Catholic emancipation. —Notes
and Queries. :
i Barrack Tard
Corporal — When approaching your
bharses from bohind, Jou must call ont
to them, else they will kick your thick
skulls, and the end of the story will be
that we have nothing but lume hors
in the squadron. —Soidatenireund
fore it wag given in The Quarterly, and |
crime. This, then, is the theory—that
' Holiaes may have used this chemical in |
his work in some cases, It seems prob-
able, for so far as can be learned not the |
slightest trace of some of his alleged |
victims remains ; not even their bones |
have been found.
There is cone safeguard around the nse
of this chemical as a common aid to
covering up crime, and that is thas a
persen nnaequainted. with ifs nse, man-
ufacture and handling woald be very
likely to go into space himself before
he got a chance to. place his victim's |
wil og n it, for it is a most treacherous |
compound and mach given to exploding |
News
away and with it all the traces of a!
en the slightest provocation. — Buffalo |
counsel of our woes and without await-
ing the worst went west.” This was all
| long ago—48 years ago. My partner in
| sin is now a United States judge,
while I am in the senate. We often dis
cuss our destinies and lay evesything to
that flutboat poker game *—Washing.
| son Post.
Sergeant Keefe, whic spent Sve years
i in the observatory on Pike's peak, says
that the lowest temperatays observed
| was 50 degrees below zea, the highest
| 62 degrees above.
In 1402 the co 1d was so severe in Rus-
gia that the Bultic sea was feozen over.
In 1460 this occurred agabm, and horse-
Governor Hastings could not compro-
mise this contest upon ang other terms
iC he desired.’ Then there sre other party
leaders who nsast be consulted. Thess.
nien, like the governor, have suffered in.
sult and contumely at the hands of Sena
tor Quay and his friends in thelr war on
the administration, and it is demanding
foo mich to ask of these men that they
now surrender and yield victory to Sen
oor Quay.
There can be no compromise except
| upon the uncorditional withdrawal of
Mr. Quay from the state chairmanship
fight. Let doubtful Republicans hesitate
no longer. Govermor Hastings, Colonel
Gilkeson and the-other anti-Qpay leaders
represent the mass of the Republican
party. and they would be unfaithful to
their trust if they compromised with Quay
at thistime. All talk of compronsise on the
part of Senator @hay’s organsswpon any
other terms is useless. The fight is already
won, and Hastings and Gilkesondelogntes
are being clected ses every side. :
There is but oneery that thse organs
ean rajse uow in their defense, and that
is. that thy delegates who were imstructed
for the administration will vote: for Gov
srnor Hastings tobe chairman of the state
{ convention and that Senator Quay will
get their votes for: state chalrmam. This
sort of talk is silly The fight in Lacks
wanna, where Senstor Quay pus in $4,000
| 80 defent the Hastimgs Gilkeson delegates,
‘answers this question effectually. :
The ght is on, smd can only be ended
By Senator Quay lwaving the fleld and per
fmitting the great Republican party to -
pursue its way without further faetional
disturbance on his part, and by all turn-
{Ing in for the re-election of Colosel Gilke-
son to a position which he has filled with
,such distinguished success in SWO camp
"paigns.
DIRECTING / A A PARMDE.
Novel Use Mads "or Electricity at the
Knights” Meet In Bosten.
But the most interesting use of olec-
tricity reported by the Knights was that
which was mada in Boston as the time
of the parade of the commanderies. It
revealed thet by the use of electricity.
great bodies of men can be sommanded
from a central station almost as easily
as the ches player controls his pieces
and pawns. 16 was a new departure in
the way of directing parades in which
many thousand men participate,
Upon a platform, with. a telephone
‘The Quay organs in tie Re
county in the state using every argument, »
at his command and a switehboard con-
pecting with a dozen or more circuits,
sat the general director of the parade.
All along the proposed line of the parade:
there were placed at consenient inter-
vals skillful men, with a telephone alse
at their command. They sat upon ele
vated platforms.
Each ome was able: to take in abs
glance a considerable section of the
parade. All of them saw the whole
parade; and they were ayes for the gen-
eral divector. It was as thongh he, from:
his central station, saw that whole
parade. Therefore when 8 break oe
curred anywhere in the line the observer
telephoned the fact #0. the gameral
director, and it many tims happened
break before the sommander of the eom-
mandery knew ik
- The director was therefore able ine
stantly to commanicate with the com--
mander, telling him to wait until his
line had been reformed. Thusthe whole
parade, containing perhaps 58000 men,
mnved with the speed, the good order
and the ease of a battalion im a drill
room, probably the first time that such
a thing has been accomplished, exoept-
ing, perhaps, by the veterans of the war,
upon Pennsylvania avenue, in 1865.
~The method is sure to be adopted
everywhere hereafter for the direction
of great bodies of men moving im
varade —Holland in Philadelphia Press.
posite is sare to be clearly represented
there. The human face is nature's tab-
let. The truth iscertainly written ere
on. —Lavater.
portable than the comments of our
friends upon them. —A. Dumas.
Turk estan was originally the stan, or
land, of the Turks.
Toh :
Tesnodd is grown in 43 states
| territories, but nearly balf = the
comes from Kentucky, ‘Virginia, Ohio,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Pray
wen rode from Denmark Lo] Bway
vania and Connectient,
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ed hy the facial expression as its op- °
Most of our misfortunes are more sup.
that this director was aware of uch 5,
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