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It is now almost two full centuries
•Ince England and Scotland were
united, in 1707, under the name of
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time the world continues to employ
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lish army, and so on, with no mention
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same little clachan, happened to be
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Unseen by Telephone.
A business house of Aberdeen, Scot
land, recently engaged as office boy a
raw country youth. It was part of
his duties to attend to the telephone
in his master's absence. When first
called upon to answer the bell, lu re
ply to the usual query, "Are you
there?" he nodded assent. Again the
question came, and still again, and
each time the boy gave an answering
nod. When the question came for the
fourth time, however, the boy losing
his temper, roared through the tele
phone: "Man, a' ye blin'? I've been
noddin' me heid aff for t' last hauf
'oor!"—New York Tribune.
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THE STORY OF OLD 8188.
HOW TOM CORWIN PAID A DEBT
OF GRATITUDE.
A Dramatic Scene In a Court Room in
Illinois Years Ago The Famous
Oliionn Secured the Acquittal of Ills
ISovhood't* Benefactor.
Blither Laflin Mills, when he was
several years younger, but almost as
well known, delivered a lecture at
Eockford, 111. Presiding over his
meeting was a venerable-looking man
with a white beard, which hung well
down toward his waist. Mr. Mills
was told that the Chairman's name
was Bibb, and that he was formerly
Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio. After
he had finished his lecture Mr. Mills
walked home with one of the members
of the Reception Committee. As they
strolled along Eockford's almost
deserted streets, nnder the light of
the full harvest moon, Mr. Mills
asked:
"Who is this man Bibb? They
tell mo he used to be Lieutenant-
Governor of Ohio."
"What!" exclaimed his companion,
stopping in the road. "Don't you
know who Bibb is? Haven't you ever
heard the story of Bibb?"
"No, I never have."
"Why, I thought every one had
heard the story of Bibb! And so you
really don't know it? Well, you
mustn't livo another hour without
hearing it. Sit right down here and
I'll tell you the story of Bibb."
So the two sat down on the grassy,
moonlit bank in quiet Eockford, lit
their pipes, and Luther Lafliu Mills
listened attentively while the farmer
told his tale.
And this is the story of Bibb as re
lated to Mr. Mills those long years
ago—a story which he loves best of all
to repeat because its hero was Thomas
Corwin, candidato for President of the
United States, noted lawyer, most
famous of stump spoakers in ante
bellum days. Governor of Ohio,
Minister to Mexico and member of
Congress.
Bibb, in the early days of Ohio's
history, was notivo in politics. He
was well liked, though regarded as
eccentrio. He was elected Lieutenant-
Govornor after filling minor positions.
When Bibb stepped out of thi3 office
he had grown tired of tho maelstrom
of political life. He loaded his family
and household goods into a few
wagons and camo West, settling down
on a farm in Winnebago County.
He grew grayer in his new home,
liviug n quiet, happy life, respected
by all his neighbors. His family
grew up abont him, sharing the re
spect with which the father was held.
Iu the course of time Bibb's eldest
daughter had blossomed into beauti
ful womauhood and became engaged
to one of the honest young farmers of
Winnebago County.
Tho wedding wns celebrated under
tho Oliioau's roof in right good old
fashioned style; but later in the even
ing n half-intoxicated charivari party
paid a call, waking the echoes with
horn, pau aud drum. Old Bibb had
left Ohio to get away from just such
noise and confusion, and so, stepping
to the door, angrily exclaimed:
"Get off my land!"
The merrymakers laughed at him.
"I'll givo you just three minutes to
leave my property."
There was more laughter and an
noynuco. Bibb went into the house.
"Y'our three minutes are almost
up," ho said threateningly, returning
an instant later.
More noise, more beating of pan
and drum.
Promptly upon the expiration of
the three miuntes Bibb again stepped
to tho door—this time with a shotguu
in his hand.
"Bang! bang!" twice spoke the old
gun.
Bibb had killed two of the first
young men iu Winnebago County.
Quietly stepping back into the
house, he put the gun back on the old
rack, kissed his wife and his daugh
der, whose wedding night was thus
darkenod by a double tragedy, went
to tho barn, silently hitched up his
rig, drove to Eockford, and give him
self up to the Sheriff.
Winnebago County in tho space of
less than an hour was at fever heat.
The fathers whose sous had been
shot down led a mob against the jail,
but the Sheriff by cool action saved
his prisouor from the iufuriated farm
ers, so Winnebago County settled
down to nurse its deep wrongs and
heap maladictiou3 upon the head of
Bibb.
And the newly made wife spoiled
her honey-moon and eyes by weeping.
A special grand jury was sum
moned, and Bibb was indicted on two
charges of murder. There was no
session of court for six months, so
Bibb made himself as comfortable as
possible, and tho countrymen talked
over the tragedy again aud again as
they worked iu their fields.
About a week after the shooting
thoro rode into Eockford a stranger
on a roan mare. Ho was tall, smil
ing, aud wore a blaok sombrero. Ho
,went to the village hotel, handed his
maro over to the hostler, aud said he
inteuded to stay awhile. No one
knew who the guest was or whenoe he
came; but each morning he rose at
5 o'clock, breakfasted, saddled his
roan maro, rode out into the country,
and returned in tho evening. Dur
ing the day ne made it his business to
call on tho farmers. He dined with
this family, he got a drink of water in
that house, he took supper with the
next family.
And wherever the mysterious
stranger went he made friends.
No man had the fund of stories on
tap that he did, no man in all Winne
bago County could tell stories as he
could. The antics he played, too,
with his facial muscles were wonder
ful to behold. Fear, burner, sadness.
joy chased over his countenance at
will, enlivening and emphasizing each
narrative. Happy was the farmer
who had the privilege of entertaining
the mysterious stranger. The guest
kept the whole household in a roar ol
laughter, made the chills creep up the
spine or the blood tingle at some
stirring tale.
In the evening the stranger enter
tained the loungers about the hotel and
soon the lobby of the country hostelry
was crowded each night with men who
came to laugh or wondor at the guest's
stories. At the end of three months
the man with the black sombrero had
made friends with every man, woman,
and child in Winnebago County.
He continued his daily visits, he
praised the farmers' stock, he paid
delioate compliments to the rosy
cheeked daughters, he had words of
admiration for the grandmothers'
needlework, he smacked his lips and
said he had never tasted such butter.
He swore by all the stars that he had
never seen such fine colts as the farm
er's boy had raised from the foal. His
genial ways won the confidence of all.
He acted as arbitrator in family dis
putes and made friends of both sides,
and chased away the clouds with the
magic of his speech.
At the end of live months every
man, woman and child in Winnebago
would have almost walked through fire
and water for the winning stranger.
Six months drew around and the
stranger was still there, and Bibb's
case was called.
There hadn't been a murder trial in
the county for years, and never one of
such absorbing interest as this.
The farmers drove in from miles
about. They brought their wives and
children and lunch, and hitched their
heavy farm teams to tho Court House
Square railing.
The oourtroom was jammed to the
doors and boyß hung lite monkeys to
the window ledges, trying to get a
peep within.
The stem tattoo of the bailiff's ham
mer silenced tue excited tones of con
versation. The clerk called Bibb's
case.
"Guilty or not guilty?" asked the
judge.
"Not guilty," said old Bibb.
"Are you ready for trial?"
"I am."
"Have you a lawyer?"
"I have none. I will defend my
self," was Bibb's resolute answer.
There was a stir in the crowd and
from out of it stepped the man with
the black sombrero.
"This man has a lawyer!' exclaimed
the stranger, in a voice which had al
most challenge in it. "I'll defend
him."
"Who are you?" asked the Judge.
Facing now court, now audience,
the man with the sombrero replied in
dramatic tones:
"Baok in Ohio they call me Tom
Corwin. Tom Corwin is my name.
Years ago, wheu I was a barefooted
boy on the tow-path, this man Bibb
befriended me. He took mo by the
baud and led me to higher and broader
paths. Anything lam in life I owe
to old Bibb. He was my friend when
I needod friends most of all. He was o
friend such as few poor boys have
been blessed with. And wheu they
told mo back iti Ohio that old Bibb
was in trouble, I saddled my roan mare
and I rode at once to Wiuuobago
County, and I have been hero ever
since, and I intend to stay here until
the steel doors of your jail are thrown
open and Bibb walks out a free man!"
The great audience broke into ap
plause at tho words of the famous
Ohioau.
"Why, that's the man that took din
ner with us last week," said one old
farmer.
"I swan if that ain't the same fel
ler what told such flue stories down
ter the scule-house," said another.
"I always knew he was some great
man."
"And so it war Tom Corwin what
said wo had the best bay maro in the
whole deestrick." added another.
"We are roady for trial," said Cor
win when the gavel had restored some
semblance of order, and he laid his
hand ou the shoulder of his benefac
tor and with head thrown back and
with shoulders squared glanced about
as though ho had thrown down u
gauntlet and looked to see who dared
pick it Up.
The work of securing a jury com
menced at onco. Of the twelve men
selected every one was Tom Corwin's
sworn friend —and it couldn't have
been otherwise, as he had bound all
men in Winnebago County to him
with those magnetic ways which had
made him most beloved to all
Ohioans.
Corwin knew every phase of tho
shooting and just whom to call to tho
stand, for ho had heard the case dis
oussed and rediscussed in a hundred
farmhouses. He tried the case as
only a great lawyer can try a case. Tho
jury, after brief deliberation, filed
back to their seats and the foreman
said: "Not guilty."
The second murder indictment was
quashed and "tho steel doors of the
jail were thrown open and Bibb
walked out a free man."
Corwin had caused a complete
change in sentiment in the county,
and Bibb was borne home like a con
quering hero. There were feasting and
merrymaking at tho farmhouse, and
the daughter whose honeymoon had
been as sad as a funeral laughed for
the first time in six months.
Then Tom Corwin saddled up his
old, roan mare and rode back to Ohio.
A Kaiy 1< eut.
One day Tommy accompanied his
mother on a shopping expedition, and
seeing a large candy man in a confec
tioner's window, he paused in front of
it with a wistful look; then, turning
away regretfully, said:
"Mamma, I could lick the*) fellow
with both hands tied behind met" —
Troy Times.
AN OCTOPUS DINES.
The Sea Monster Observed In the Act of
Catching and Fating Its Dinner.
Never before lias it fallen to my lot
to see as terrible a monster as the oc
topus we eucouutered on the last pas
sage from San Francisco toward Nan
aimo in the bark Willscott, of Hono
lulu, writes a correspondent of the
San Francisco Call.
We knew that the octopus grew to
an immense size, as Banks andSoian
der, who accompanied Captain Cook
in his first voyage around the world,
found the dead carcass of one floating
on the water to the westward of Capa
Horn. It was supposed to be twenty
by thirty feet, the body only; the
tentacles were hanging under water.
It was surrounded by myriads of
birds, which were feeding greedily on
its remains. Pliny also mentions a
similar monster having eight arms,
thirty feet long, and a corresponding
girth; and many other writers, too
numerous to meutiou, have certified
to its actual existence. But I did not
believe that anything similar to the
terrible "devil fish" described by
Victor Hugo was really in existence
until I had ocular demonstration of
the fact on this passage.
I will now quote our log book in
relation to the monster we saw:
Light breeze from north by east, dry,
cloudy weather; smooth sea, except
for the usual slight undulating swell
from the northwest. Ship under all
sail, braced sharp upon the starboard
tack, going five knots per hour, but
soarcely making a ripple on the water.
At 2.30 p. m. my attention was called
by the Quartermaster, Frank Bastas,
of San Diego, Cal., to a terrible com
motion in the water about three point 3
forward of the lee beam.
Its eyes were large, of a greeuish
tint, and somewhat protruding; its
mouth, however, was not so very
large, and it appeared to be shaped
like a parrot's bill; its tentacles were
tapering, and, like its body, of a gray
ish color, covered with spots. It ap
peared to possess the chameleon-like
power of changing the color of these
spots in a most extraordinary manner
as fast as the eye could detect the
changes; they varied from a very rich
crimson to a dark, dull brown, these
changes, no doubt, indicating the
high state of excitement under which
the creature was at the time.
Suddenly the octopus discharged a
huge jet of a dark-colored fluid full
into the eyes of the sunfisb, and then
rushing forward with the rapidity of
an arrow it encircled its prey with the
long tentacle, and in another moment
the victor and the vanquished had dis
appeared below the surface of the
water.
In a few moments more we had
sailed right over the scene and found
the water was colored almost blaok
for a space fully 200 feet in diameter,
aud we uoticedt'an odor slightly re
sembling iodine rising from the water;
our patent log line of snow-white cot
ton, which was towing astern, was
colored almost black, aud it has not
yet assumed its white freshness, al
though it has towed in the water
fully 800 miles since the above epi
sode.
About twenty minutes after we bad
passed over this spot wo saw the
huge creature again on the surface,
enjoying its meal in a very leisurely
manner, rolling the body of the un
fortunate sunfish over and over and
biting off large mouthfuls with its
oruel-looking beak.
I knew before that these huge ooto
pods and their relatives, tho decapods,
were not altogether mythical, as they
have at the United States National
Museum in Washington a papier
fnache cast of one of the later which
was found stranded on the north
shore of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland,
on the 22d day of September, 1877.
The total length of this speoinieu, in
cluding tentaoles, was only sixty feet,
so it is quite safe to infer that it had
not become of age when it was
wrecked.
The Wooden Spoon at Cambridge.
Having now had the distinction of
providing Camhridgo with a Senior
Wrangler, India may one day achieve
tho complementary success of win
ning the "wooden spoon." This
coveted trophy goes to the man who
comes last—as the Senior Wrangler is
first—in the mathematical honors'
list. It id not a distinction only in
name, for the wooden spoon is a
reality. Provided by fellow-students,
it is a huge, spadelike thing, decorated
with the arms and colors of the col
lege with whioli its winner is asso
ciatcd; and as the latter passes out of
the Seuute House after taking his de
gree it is lowered from the gallery,
where it has been kept ready until
the psychological moment. It may
be mentioned that while the last man
in the Tripos is known as the
"wooden spoon," the last dozen (of
whom he is one) are popularly desig
nated "the twelve apostles." A few
years ago the coxswain of the uni
versity boat won the spoon, and the
glory of even the Senior Wrangler
paled in comparison with-his ou that
oocasion.—London Chronicle.
Henderson and Holnian.
David B. Henderson, who will be
the Speaker of the next House of Rep
resentatives, onoe fired a rather hot
shot at Holman, of Indiana, whose
savage opposition to any and all ap
propriation measures earned him the
title of "watoh-dog of the Treasury."
Some years ago, when au appropria
tion for Ilolmau's own district was up
for consideration, the latter arose,
and, departing from his usual custom,
made a warm speech in its favor.
The instant he sat down Henderson
was on his feet. "Mr. Speaker," he
said, "the member's address brings to
mind Byron's lines:
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—San Francisco Argonaut.
LIKE BANQUO'S GHOST.
Qncstlon of Conductor* and Pennies to
the Fore Agnln.
It was in a suburban trolley last
Sunday that the question of the con
ductor's reluctance to receive pennies
in change came up again, says the New
York Herald. This penny question is
like Banquo's ghost and will not down.
A woman passenger had given the con
ductor a nickel and five ponnies for
two fares. "I would rather change $5
for you. madam, than take those pen
nies," the conductor said, in a
grumbling yet perfectly respt -tful tone.
"Why?" asked the woman. "Because
the company will not take them from
us. That is the only objection I have
to railroading. We must turn in nick
els or silver when our work is done."
"But why do you not sometimes give
those pennies to men? You always
palm them off on women." "Well, the
women always seem to keep them
specially for us. Now, if the public
could only know what a trial they are
to us sometimes they might understand
our reluctance to take them. For in
stance, one of the extras, a man who
had been out of work for a long time,
after making the number of trips re
quired of him, found he had fifteen
pennies among his change. He did not
have a cent belonging to himself, and
there was no money at home, and the
pay that was coming to him at the of
fice for his week's work was needed by
his wife and children for bread. They
would not take the pennies at the of
fice, and he could not draw his pay un
til his fares were accounted for. When,
after considerable trouble, he got three
nickels for fifteen penr ies and returned
to the company's oSh-e it was closed,
and he had to go home without his
pay."
Another Blue Grotto.
The famous Blue Grotto of Capri has
now a rival in the state of Minnesota.
It occurs in a lake on the shore of
which there is a cavern of white lime
stone flooded with water. A swimmer
enters the cave, and turning to look
outward sees the moot beautiful shades
of green and blue in the water and a
silvery sheen over his submerged
limbs.
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removal, for health and cleanliness. Ivory Soap meets the
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produces a copious lather, white and pure. Loosens the
dirt and grease, rinses thoroughly and leaves the skin
soft and clean. Economical because best.
IT FLOATS.
NIAGARA'S VOICES.
They Are Not Rambling or Rapid, bat
Plangeirt and Silvery.
Niagara has many voices, and some
of them are thus described by Mrs.
van Rensselaer in the Century: "And
the noise of Niagara? Alarming
things have been said about It, but
they are not true. It is a great and
mighty noise, but it is not, as Henne
pin thought, an 'outrageous noise.' It
is not a roar. It does not drown the
voice or stun the ears. Even at the
actual foot of the falls it is not op
pressive. It is much less rough than
the sound of heavy surf—steadier,
more homogeneous, less metallic, very
deep and strong, yet mellow and soft;
soft, I mean, in its quality. As to the
noise of the rapids, there is none more
musical. It is neither rumbling nor
sharp. It is clear, plangent, silvery.
It is so like the voice of a steep brook —
much magnified, but not made coarser
or more harsh—that, after we have j
known it, each liquid call from a for- |
est hillside will seem, like the odor of |
grapevine, a greeting from Niagara. It I
Is an Inspiriting, an exhilarating [
sound, like freshness, coolness, vitality
Itself made audible. And yet it is a
lulling sound. When we have looked
out upon the American rapids for
many days, it is hard to remember con
tented life amid motionless surround
ings; and so, when wo have slept be
side them for many nights, it is hard I
to think of happy sleep in an empty
silence. Still another kind of music is .
audible at Niagara. It must be list
ened for on quiet nights, but then it j
will be heard. It 13 like the voice of an
orchestra so very far away that its
notes are attenuated to an incredible
delicacy and are intermittently per- I
ceived, as though wafted upon varia- |
ble zephyrs. It is the most subtile, the I
most mysterious music in the world.
What is its origin? Why should we
ask? Such fairy-like sounds ought not |
to bo explained. Their appeal is to the !
imagination only. They are so faint,
so far away, that they almost escape
the ear, as the lunar bow and the fluted
tints of the American falls almost
escape the eye. And yet we need not
fear to lose them, for they are as real
as tho deep bass of the cataracts."
Woman Finds Wealth.
quartz mine. The vein is from 200 to
600 feet in width and is intersected in
its source by Atlin City. It has been
traced over three-quarters of a mile.
Miss Florman's father is a mine expert
and numerous assays of the ore which
(Tacoma, Wash., Cor. Chicago Record)
Miss Frankie Florman, of Black
Hills, S. D., has discovered what Atlin
mining men regard as an immense
he recently made disclosed values run
ning from $S to $27 per ton on the sur
face. Mining Expert Frank Baker and
William Partridge have bonded the
property for $200,000. Partridge left
here yesterday for London to place it
on the market there.
At Roubaix, one of the Socialist !
strongholds of Franco, the 11.000 public
Bchool children receive free food and
clothing, at the expense of the town, i
Beatify Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
itirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking I
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
Sir Frederick Bridge, the organist ot
Westminster Abbey, has a brother ;
who is also p. Doctor of Music. Before !
Sir Fredercik was knighted, his friends
used to call him "Westminster Bi idg " ,
to distinguish him from his brother.
The disproportion of the sexes is still !
very great in Australia. In West
Australia there were only 54.000 wom
en in a population of 168,000.
'"THE CLEANER 'TIS, THE COSIER 'TIS."
WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT
PAPGUO
Fits permanently cured. No lit* or nervous.
reFB nfter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise
lree. Dr.R.II.Ki.TNK. Ltd. ttU Arch St.Phila.Pa
The railroads of Australia have
never discovered that it is possible ta
take up tickets on the train, hence the
passengers are locked in the cars to
prevent any of them stealing a ride fc
and when they arrive at their station
and hustled out through a Lurnstßs
and held up for their tickets.
Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
10c, 26c. If C.C.C. fail, druggists ref uud money.
New York's nigh eat Point.
Perhaps the highest point in the bor<
ough of Manhattan Is at Ninety-sixth
street and Madison avenue. This It
where the New York Central Railroad
tunnel begins, and from this elevation
a fine view is obtained of Harlem to
the north and the East river and Long
Island to the east. One can look cis-er
the roofs of the five-story houseu of
Harlem clear to Washington Heights
I and distinguish many points in the
l borough of the Bronx,
j From here there Is a sharp decline
I to the East river, and tho tall chimney
! at tho foot of East Ninety-fifth street
does not look so very 'jigh from thla
altitude. It Is altogether a sight well
worth seeing.
An Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYIIUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUI* CO., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
tive principles of plants known to be
medicinally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
!or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing fig%
are used, as they are pleasant to tho
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co. only. Jn order to got its beneficial
effects and to avoid imitations, please
remember the? full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package
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BAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.—Price 50c. per bottl®
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CARTER'S INK
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