Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 04, 1891, Image 1
lewis >t. grist, Proprietor. | gin Jndoptndcnt <jfaiml]j ftapapcr: <Jbi[ tfuj fjromotion of tin; |olitiflal, Social, gjiprultiitptl and <|ommti[tial Jntcrcsts of the j&oufh. | TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
VOL. 37. YOEKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1891. 3STO: 39.
THE MAN WITH A THUMB
Bj V. CI HUDSON (Barclay North).
[Copyright, 1801, by Cassell Publishing Company
and published by special arrangement
with them.]
CHAPTER TIL
UBl'llNU UP A MAN OF FASHION.
Oathcart took it, and, moving the glass,
handed it to Porlson.
Within a week after this conversation !
Dorison was in occupation of a comfort- '
able suite of apartments in Twenty- i
ninth street
Through the agency of old Mr. Nettleman
he had gathered a stock of such
fashionable clothing as he had not had
since the days prior to his father's death.
He was in enjoyment of an income over
and above his salary of two hundred
dollars a month with which to support
his pretensions, supplied by Mr. Nettleman.
Also he was counected nominally
with a mercantile house in the lower
part of the city, and this also through
Mr. Nettleman, who had taken a friend
into his confidence, and given Dorison
thereby a standing other than that of a
mere idler of the town. And in addition
he had brought the young man into
pleasant relations with several young
men, sons of his friends.
All this was in pursuance of the suggestions
of Cathcart, and though he did
not inform Dorison as to his reasons, he
did his cousin. The reasons were not so
much that Dorison could aid in the capture
of the murderer as that he saw that
any explanation of Reuben Dorison's
strange letter was to be obtained in the
circle in which he had moved. And he
hoped to edge the younger Dorison into
it without hi3 identity being known.
Cathcart had a theory as to Reuben
Dorison's connection with the Farishes
which he kept closely to himself. In
what direction it tended may be imagined
from this brief exchange with his
Cousin Nettleman one evening when they
were together.
"What was Reuben Dorison's private
life, Cousin Nettleman?" he asked suddenly.
"Was he given to intrigues with
women?"
Mr. Nettleman was indignant and in
arms at once.
"No, sir," he replied emphatically.
"No purer man in his private life ever
lived. Of that I am certain. His home
life was perfectly happy."
"Are you saying that because you
think you must be loyal to the memory
of your dead friend, or because you believe
it?"
"I say it because it is true. From the
moment he married his wife he was a
devoted husband and a pure man."
"His wife died how many years ago?"
"She died the first year he moved into
Twenty-third street?in eighteen hundred
and fifty-one."
"Ah, twenty-eight years ago."
Whatever he thought, he was exceedingly
busy in these days, leaving Dorisod
much to himself. About two weeks
after the young man had entered upon
his second career as a man of fashion, as
Cathcart called it, the old detective made
his appearance at Dorison's rooms. It
was early in the morning before the
young man was out of bed. He pushed
himself into the sleeping room and sat
himself upon the bed as he talked.
"I have found out who transferred by
deed that house in Sixteenth street to
Mrs. Parish," he said without preface.
"After a search which carried me to
Buffalo, 1 found that the man had been
dead a year. I have made diligent
search for Mr. Parish, and have not
found a person who ever heard of him.
I have, however, picked up a great many
a?/*!? vmll in fima wa /^ankf vm
USUiCO ?UibU nm au wauv) uv uvuw?| w
of value. 1 have been hoping to find a
starting place for you."
"I thought yon had abandoned me to
my fate as a fashionable rounder," said
the young man lightly.
"No," replied Cathcart seriously.
"But I want you to make a systematic
study of hands."
"Of what," said Dorison, perplexed by
the seeming irrelevancy of the remark.
"A study of the hands of the young
men of your acquaintance. You must,
as I have indicated before, look high
and low for such a hand as I have described
to you."
"And finding such a hand arrest the
body to which it is attached, I suppose?"
"No; inform me. Find his name, occupation
and surroundings."
"Ah, an easy matter surely when
you've caught your bird."
"Here," continued the detective, tak- j
ing out a well filled wallet and extract- j
lug a paper iruiu it, is a tuuipicic not
of all places where tliey make gloves to
order. Yon most visit each place and
order gloves for yourself, and while doing
so get up a talk on the peculiarity of
hands that glovemakers meet with, and
perhaps you may stumble upon the maker
of the glove 1 have told you about."
"That ought to be easy."
"Now, don't go too fast," said Cathcart
warningly. "It is by no means as
easy as you think?that is, to do it without
arousing suspicion. People do not
like detectives except in books, and if
you give them reason to suspect you to
be one, you will find the bars up against
yon. Again, you are liable to direct the 1
attention of the police to yourself, and 1 ;
particularly desire to avoid that. Now ;
one word more and I'm off. I want
you to meet me at police headquarters
at eleven precisely this morning.
Not before that hour, because 1
don't want those fellows to get at you !
as they will be sure to do: not after that j
hour, for 1 don't want to wait a mo- |
ment."
With this he was gone. Dorison con- I
suited his watch and found he would !
have barely time to dress and breakfast, j
So he harried into his bath.
At eleven, as he turned into Mulberry i
street from Bleecker, he saw Cathcart
approaching from Houston. They met I
at the foot of the steps of the police '
headquarters.
"One moment before we enter." said 1
Cathcart. "Answer no leading question
except by evasion. 1 want you here to
make a study of that glove. If you have '
the^lightest aptitude for this business,
from a close examination of the glove
you can gain an intelligent knowledge
of the character of the luqjd you are to
seek. And let me tell yotF there is as
much character in a hand as in a face. I
Impress it on your memory, burn it in, !
and when you have fastened it on your :
mind, turn to me and say, 'No, 1 never j
saw this glove. 1 do not recognize it.
Do you understand?"
Assuring the old man he did, Dorison
followed him into the building and into
the office of the detective we have twice
met before in the course of our narrative.
The detective himself was seated
in his office chair, his feet stretched out,
his hands in bis pockets, his chin on his
breast and his face wearing a gloomy.
perplexed expression.
As he perceived his visitor he brightened
up and rose to greet Cathcart.
"Ah," he said, "I am glad you have
come. I was this moment desiring to
see you. Have you anything new?"
"I have something to say to you," rej
plied Cathcart gravely. "But tirst 1
i want my friend Dudley to see that glove
j we found."
The detective, who had not greeted
Dorison, though he had recognized him,
now addressed a salutation to him, and
I bending over his desk moved a newspaper,
revealing the glove under a glass,
still on the little fan on which it had
been placed. Cathcart took it, and,
moving the glass, handed it to Dorison,
who carried it to the light. He expended
five minutes in its examination. Turning,
he handed it back to Cathcart with
t&e words the old detective bade him
utter.
"Another disappointment," quietly remarked
the old man as he turned to go.
He was detained by the captain.
"1 thought you had something to say
to me," he said.
"Yes," replied Carthcart "Excuse
me, Mr. Dudley."
Tftlrincr t.his as an intimation to remove
himself as far as possible, Dorison took a
Beat near the door. Cathcart and the
captain talked in whispers.
"What is it?" asked the captain.
"What did you bring him here for?"
"Abare chance," replied Cathcart; "he
talked to me of a man with a long
thumb, and I brought him here to Bee if
he could recognize it. He does not know
the meaning of his visit"
The captain closely examined the face
of Cathcart as he was thus glibly lying,
but it was inscrutable.
"Now what have you to tell me?"
asked the captain.
"Only as to what I have been at work
on. Nothing as to what 1 have found,
for it is nothing. From her minister I
have found there was some strange or
wrong event in Mrs. Farish's life, but
what I cannot even guess at I have
found out who deeded the house to her
only to find him dead. In short, 1 have
been looking iuto her antecedents without
result. No one knows where she
came from or .what she was prior to
turning up in Sixteenth street twenty
years ago."
"Your experience is not unlike iz.rown.
You are discouraged then?"
"No. If I were at the beginning; of my
career?say, thirty-five years ago?I
should throw up my hands. As it is, I
feel as though the real search has only
begun."
"Oh," said the captain, with his
peculiar Bmile. "What is your plan?'
"To tramp around until I knock
against something that will give me a
suggestion."
"Well," said the captain after a moment's
hesitation, "here is one thing.
Mrs. Farish had a son who was wild
and unmanageable and left home when
he was eighteen to go into the west. He
gave his mother much trouble."
"Ah, where did you get that?"
"By accident. An old carpenter, who
' 3. -33 * %t T7I \.v VI I
used W UO OUU JUUS lUt .UI8. ctumu, UIDH
in here a day or two after the murder
with that single bit of information."
"Name and address," demanded Cathcart,
polling out his memorandum book.
The captain gave it, and it was duly entered.
"It is not much," said Catbcait, as he
put up his book. "I have heard of the
son, but the minister believed him dead
from the way his mother had referred to
him. What else have you heard?"
"Nothing," returned the captain; "I
have been traveling over the same ground
yon have, and with a like result But
as a matter of fact I have not been able
to devote my whole time to the case. A
series of most skillful burglaries have
been going on for some time, and we are
nnable to get trace of them. The commissioners
are making my life miserable
and I am nearly wild over it They are
skillful and audacious. They are hands
new to New York. The methods they
employ 6how that they are not the old
cracksmen. And the old fellows do not
know them any better than we do. I
have half the thieves in town looking
for them from curiosity."
"AO," said uatncart, muco miereateu.
"What are the peculiarities of their
work?"
"There is no picking of locks; no lifting
of windows; all entrances are made
through front doors to which they have
keys; intimate acquaintance with the
location of valuables and of the interior
of the houses. They take money, jewelry
and small plate if it is silver, and
nothing else. In three instances they
have passed over negotiable securities,
refusing to take them."
"Accomplices from the inside?"
"That was my first thought; but I
have abandoned it. Here are two
strange things. They scatter their work.
Night before last they entered a house
in Sixty-third street, near Madison avenue,
last night in Fifteenth street, near
Sixth avenue, and so it goes. Every
house they enter has a sick person in it;
it never fails."
"Ah, ha!" said Cathcart, "there is
your point. Follow that up. Those
things don't happen. Confine yourself
to that point."
"I wish you would work with us in
that murder affair."
"I will give you assistance. Devote
yourself to these robberies. 1 will follow
the murder up until 1 know something.
You cannot divide yourself on two such
important cases and succeed in either.
If you want reports from me every
morning I will give you something you
can show as indicating your progress.
Trust me."
The captain wrung Cat heart's hand.
"That was the very proposition I was
going to make. You have removed half
the load from my should era If you
want men send to me for them. I leave
the case to you."
"Discreet and skillful shadows will be
all I want"
"Send for them then any hour of the
day or night"
They parted at the door.
Dorison followed the old detective
into the street, when he said:
"You have those torn scraps of paper
safe."
"Yes," replied Dorison.
"Hold fast to them. Put them in a
safe place. The time may come when
they will be of the utmost value."
On the corner of Broadway and
Bleecker street Cathcart halted and
said:
"My visit has turned out better than I
could have expected. The captain has
given the case into my hands. Now I've
got it, it is a question of time only. No
interference now by blunderers. I know
the man and how to catch him with
proof."
"You know the man?" said Dorison
surprised.
"Yes, 1 know the man. That is to
say"
The old detective stopped suddenly
and attentively regarded a man passing
on the other side of die street. Without
a word he slipped across, leaving Donson
so astounded he could do nothing
but stare after him as he nimbly followed
the man who had attracted his
attention.
CHAPTER VTIL
AN ADVENTURE.
A
The young lady, rising, turned to Dorlson.
"I have seen politer gentlemen," remarked
Dorison to himself, when he recovered
from his astonishment. He
stood for a moment npon the corner.
"Well," he muttered, "he has given me
instructions a3 to one piece of work, and
I will go at it at once."
Reachiug Eighth street he crossed to
the other side of Broadway, on which a
glovemaker was, but his steps were
checked by an omnibus which stopped
immediately in his way to permit a
young girl to descend?a young girl perhaps
of nineteen summers, whose bright,
pretty face, surmounted by a wreath of
golden curls, attracted his admiring attention.
She turned to the sidewalk to
which he was crossing without seeing a
pair of horses rapidly driven down the
street
Before Dorison could sound a warning
the girl was knocked down by one of the
horses, and but for a mighty leap upon
his part, which enabled him to reach her
in time to drag her from under the
wheels nearly upon her, she would have
been run over. He lifted her to her feet
quickly. Perceiving she was either injured
or fainting from fright he bore
her in his arms to the sidewalk, a policeman,
who had run to the girl's assistance,
stopping the vehicles to make way for
him.
As he reached the curbstone with his
burden a young man stepped up to him,
and with no little insolence said:
"I'll relieve you of your charge," attempting
at the same time to take the
girl.
Dorison, from a rapid survey of the
young man, was not impressed favorably,
and said curtly:
"I do not recognize your right."
"Then Til make you," angrily returned
the young man. "This lady I know; I
am her friend."
"Stand back now," said the policeman,
"your right will be recognized
when the lady can tell who her friends
are."
To Dorison: "Is she hurt? Carry her
to that drug store," pointing to one
near by.
' At this moment the occupant of the
carriage came hurrying up.
"Is 6he injured?" he asked. "Bring
her to this drug store. I am a physician."
"By ! Fassett," cried the young
man who had interfered, with an oath,
and who was following, "you manufacture
your patients. You ought to have
your neck broken for driving like that."
"Be quiet, Harry, for heaven's sake!"
implored the physician.
During this brief interchange Dorison.
accompanied by the policeman, who was
assisting in bearing the young lady, had
reached the drug store and placed her in
a chair.
The other two followed, and the physician,
bending over the girl, said:
"It is a faint."
Calling for remedies, he soon restored
the young lady to consciousness.
Opening her eyes she looked about in
a dazed manner for a moment, as if she
could not collect her senses.
"Where am I?" she asked bewildered.
"What has happened?' Recognizing the
physician, she said: "Oh, is it yon, doctor?
How came I here?"
"Are you injured, Miss Eustace? Tell
me. Ik was 1 who knocked you down."
"Yes," bitterly laughed the young man,
"with his fine, fast span, he knocked you
down."
The girl looked up, and Dorison was
certain he caught an expression of dislike
an/} contempt as it flitted over her
face during the moment her eyes rested
upon the speaker. For the first time
Dorison seriously regarded the young
man, and observed that his face bore the
unmistakable evidence of rapidity of
life, and that he was no stranger to the
brandy bottle. Yet the face would have
been called handsome by most people;
the flush attributed by Dorison to alcohol
by many would have been taken
as an evidence of youth and health, and
his air and manner called dashing and
engaging. His fine clothes were extreme
in cut and loud in colors. The sum of
Dorison's rapid conclusions was,that the
man was a low bred "cad."
The physician repeated his question.
"No," replied the girl. "I am not
hurt. But what does it all mean?"
The policeman replied to her question:
"It means that after you got out of the
Fifth avenue stage opposite here you
were knocked down by a team, and
you'd 'a' bin run over but for the spryness
of this gentleman," indicating Dorison
with a nod, "who leaped forward,
pulled you from under the wheels and
brought you to the sidewalk."
The girl lifted her violet eyes to Dorison
with a most grateful expression and,
blushing as she spoke, said simply:
"I thank you, sir."
"I thank my good fortune I was 60
near as to be of service," replied Dorison,
a little embarrassed under such grateful
eyes.
"None but the brave"? sneered the
young man.
"Be quiet," said the policeman, so savagely
the utterer of the Bneer found it
convenient to walk away a short distance.
The physician began to question
her as to possible injuries.
To all inquiries the young lady made
such replies as indicated no serious damage
had been done, although she was
evidently much shocked.
"I do not think the young lady has
sustained any injuries beyond a few
bruises," said Dorison. "She was struck
by the shoulder of the horse nearest her.
I am certain nothing else touched her.
not even a horse's hoof."
"Then," said the physician, "I am
thankful to be able to say that a slight
stimulant is all that will be required to
enable her to return home."
This was administered, and the dirt
r*r>r? Knnn V?miohor1 frnm hpT
ttliU UUOb uavui^ ui uouvv? >.v>
clothes, the physician said:
"I hope. Miss Eustace, you will permit
me to make a slight reparation for
my blundering carelessness, by driving
you home? My excuse for rapid driving
is that I was hastily summoned to a very
sick man."
"Then do not let me detain you another
moment, doctor," hastily replied
the young lady. "1 am wholly recovered,
and 1 think I was silly to faint."
"1 will accompany Miss Eustace
home," said the young man, perceiving
an opportunity and striving to utilize it.
"No, sir, it is unnecessary," replied
the young lady, with such coldness and
haughtiness as to make a repetition of the
proffer impossible. To the officer 6he
6aid, "Will you do me the favor to call
a cab?" To the physician: "Doctor, you
must go to your patient. I insist upon
it. I will forgive you for knocking me
down if you will go at once, and I never
will if you don't. Go. I am not injured
at all."
The doctor departed with apologies as
the officer entered, having caught a cab
at the door.
The young lady, rising, turned to
Dorison, and with color again flushing
uer cneens sum:
"Sir, if I have not expressed gratitude
to you for your service, it is not because
I am insensible of its value. Indeed, I
thank you very much."
With this, to which Dorison responded
with a low bow, she walked off with
the officer, who returned a moment later
saying:
"The young lady desires to know your
name and address, so that her father
may call upon you."
Dorison had regained his self possession
fully, and he replied:
"Say to the young lady, with my compliments,
please, that while I shall esteem
it as an honor to be visited by her
father, his thanks are unnecessary, since
I am grateful for having been able to
render service to his daughter. My name
is James Dudley; my address is number
? Twenty-ninth street."
It is doubtful whether the officer repeated
any more of this rather grandiloquent
speech than the address. Dorison,
turning, saw the young stranger regarding
him with an insolent sneer. It made
9
. him angry and all the more bo because j
: he was conscious that his speech, a little i
too pompous to be in good taste, had j
given reason for the sneer.
So he rushed forthwith into another j
error.
"My name is James Dudley. What is
yours?"
"Really," said the young man, with
j studied insolence, "your information is
; highly important, but I am not barter|
ing on such terms."
An angry reply leaped to Dorison's |
tongue, but perceiving the absurdity of !
a quarrel upon such insufficient grounds,
he walked out of the store.
It was some time before he cooled, for !
! he felt he had made himself ridic- I
ulous. Indeed it was not until he recog- I
nized the humor of the situation?that i
he desired to punish the young man for |
having himself been absurd?that he j
could laugh it off. By this time he j
found he had passed the store he wished I
to call at, and retraced his steps. Although
he endeavored to bend his mind j
to the business he had in hand, he was !
not able to banish that charming face, !
especially those upturned eyes. Per- |
haps his failure to elicit any informa- :
tion, and he visited the whole list, was
due to that haunting face and to the |
memory of the pressure of that soft,
yielding form in his arms as he bore it
to the sidewalk.
Tired out at the end, disgusted with
| his failure and blaming himself for having
done his work badly, he returned to '
his apartments to prepare himself for j
his evening's work. Indeed, he had bare- j
ly completed his dressing when a card j
was presented bearing the words, "Her- j
bert Clavering Eustace."
As he directed his caller to be shown
up, he was conscious of a feeling of elation,
reason for which he could not satisfactorily
give to himself. However,
little time was given for self examination,
for in a moment Mr. Eustace was
ushered into the room.
His caller was a tall, slim gentleman,
whose sixty winters bore lightly upon j
him; a gentleman of elegant and courtly
bearing, whose head was covered with !
j snow white hair, while a mustache as ;
white swept across ms lace ana iosc it- ,
self in soft, silken white whiskers. With j
perfect breeding he stated the purpose j
of his call to be wholly that of thanking i
Mr. Dudley for the inestimable service j
rendered his daughter, and not only, he
said, did he convey the thanks of the j
other members of the family, but of the I
young lady herself, who, she was quite 1
certain, at the time of the accident had
not shown proper appreciation of what
she had been saved from by Mr. Dudley's
quick wit and ready hand.
All of this overwhelmed Dorison, who
was really a modest fellow, and he felt
that shamefacedness at being: so much
thanked manly men ever do. By a
strong effort he pulled his wits together
and met the courtesy in a well bred
manner, avoiding the error of treating a
service the beneficiaries regarded important,
as trivial, as ill bred people are so
apt to do. This in turn impressed Mr.
Eustace. They glided into a general
chat of a few moments, when the caller
arose and again renewing his distinguished
considerations, expressed the
l hope the day was not far distant when
the young lady might thank him in person,
but in such general terms and in
such tone that Dorison instantly felt that
he would be a consummate fool if he
were to take the expression to be anything
more than a polite courtesy.
He accompanied Mr. Eustace to the
door, and in doing so passed into another
light, giving Mr. Eustace for the first
time a fair opportunity to observe his
face.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the old
gentleman, startled out of his propriety.
"What a marvelous resemblance. Sir,
are you related in any way to Reuben
Dorison?"
Too well disciplined in this direction
to be taken aback, Dorison replied:
"The gentleman is unknown to me."
"He is dead these eight years. He
was a dear friend of mine. Your resemblance
to him, at the age you are now, is
something wonderful. Indeed, intervening
years pass away, and as I talk
with you 1 seem to talk with him. You
have his voice, his bearing, his very
tricks of manner, even your smile is his.
Upon my word it is wonderful."
It required all the self control Dorison
could eummon to prevent a betrayal of
himself in this outburst. Murmuring
something about strong resemblances
being not uncommon in this world, he
bpwed his visitor out.
He waited long enough to permit Mr.
Eustace to depart from the street, and
went out troubled and worried.
[TOHK CONTINUED NEXT WEEk.]
Ancentors of the Physician.
Diseases were supposed in ancient
times to be caused directly by the displeasure
of the gods, a belief that has
not yet disappeared from the minds of
savage tribes. Evil spirits also played
their part, the two beliefs being connected
more or less intimately. Hence
the intervention of priests and kings, to
whom attached a sacred character, and
the idea that the latter could cure by a
touch which prevailed until a recent
date. The faith in the healing principle
presumed to emanate from the royal
person was really part and parcel of the
belief in the divine right of kings, that
is, their right to rule regardless of the
wishes of their subjects.
From all these causes c ame that mixture
of superstition, metaphysics and
medicine that characterized the practice
of the heuling art in the middle
ages, when doctors wore gowns and a
special form of head covering and talked
indiscriminately law, religion, astrology
and medicine. Astrologers made health
and longevity to depend on the constellations,
witches and sorcerers on occult !
causes, and both dealt to a certain ex- j
tent in remedies that depended rather on j
! tradition than on science. From all these I
j germs, with something of the druggist
and the barber?who were in thus.; old
j times more or less connected with medicine?thrown
in, came the full fledged
! physician of today.?San Francisco
| Chronicle.
Lifting rower of a Cyclone.
In his article on the frightful cyclones
: which visit the Bay of Bengal with surprising
frequency, Mr. Eliott, meteoro- |
, logical reporter to the government of
Bengal, incidentally gives some curious
figures to illustrate the cyclonic forces
i developed by such storms. The average
daily evaporation registered by the Bengalese
instruments is two inches. The
amount of heat absorbed by the conver- I
: sion of this amount of water daily over !
j so large an area as the Bay of Bengal i
J must necessarily be enormous. "Rough- I
j ly estimated," says Mr. Eliott, "it is \
! equal to the continuous working power
of 800,000 steam engines of 1,000 horse
power each." A simple calculation will
show what it suffices to raise aloft over
j 45,000 cubic feet of water every twentyfour
hours from every square mile of the
I i e i < x ?. :x il.. '
I UOSOlll 01 uie uay <uiu kicvuspui b it iu iuo
clouds above. When wo extend the calI
culation from a single square mile to the
: area of the whole Indian gulf, the mind
is lost in its efforts to conceive the force
which, in a day's time, can lift 50,000.000
tons!?St. Louis Republic.
A Good IMucc to Keep Fluvrern.
i "Men really have more gumption than
| we give them credit for," commented a
j young woman the other day, with the
air of having made a remark; "yesterday
afternoon a man I know asked mo to
stop with him at a florist's, and select an
orchid for a boutonniere to wear at a
I danco last evening. I did, and when
one Wits chosen I was surprised to see
I him reject the paper which the florist !
| put over it, take off. his hat, and care
fully tuck the delicate blossom in the linI
ing band. 'I always carry my coat !
1 flowers there,' he explained, and 1
| thought it quite a clever device."?San
j Francisco Argonaut.
Miscellaneous Reading.
BILL ARP.
He Meets a Man Who Can Tell a
Stunning Story.
As iron slmrpeneth iron, so a man's
face sharpeneth the face of his friend.
How it shortens the miles to travel
with a companion who has something
to talk about and knows how to talk
it. I came with one yesterday from
Atlanta. The day was hot and the
dust and cinders disagreeable, but the
minutes and the miles flew by and I
was at home before I knew it. The
other day I found good company on
the train, for it was Mark Hardin, the
ancient and modern clerk of the house
of representatives, and I soon got him
on the trail of his late travels to the
Pacific coast and the new State of
Washington. A man who has not
traveled some knows but little of what
is going on in the world. He can't get
it from reading history, ana mere are
but few travelers who can tell what
they have: seen ahd make it interesting.
But Mark can, and I could listen
to him all day on a train. I had been
traveling some mymKpfcnd was narrating
as how I had been away out to
Kansas City and saw them killing cattle
and hogs, and how it seemed to me
I had gotten almost to the jumping off
place, and so forth, when Mark took
off his coat and squared himself for
business, and bit off his tobacco and
said: "Well, yes; Kansas City does
seem a good waysi off, and I used to
think it was, but not long ago I took a
notion to peruse this western hemisphere,
and I stalled out from Atlanta
with a friend, and by the time we got
to Kansas City we had traveled a
thousand miles and felt like we must i
be about half way, and so we stopped
over a day and blowed around and
rested and then took a fresh start for
the Pacific. Well, sir, they penned
us up in a vestibuled train, and took
enough provisions aboard to feed an
army, and they fastened on the kitchen
and the cooks, and the dining room, j
and parlors and reading rooms, and a i
library and a saloon and everything
else but a carriage and horses, and
away we went over plains and valleys
and hills and mountains at thirtyfive
miles an hour for 1,740 miles, with- j
out stopping ten minutes anywhere, I
and didn't stop at all for 500 miles at
a stretch."
"How'about coal and water?" said I.
"Blamed if I know," said Mark.
"Might have stopped while we were
asleep, but I never saw any. JJon't
need any more than half the way, nohow,
for you just roll and slide down
the mountains for half a day at a time.
You climb and climb higher until you
can almost touch the moon and the
seven stars, and you can see all creation
down below you, and it makes a
man feel like he was nobody, and had
no kinfolks, and it dident matter a cent
whether he lived or died. A trip over
the Rockies and the Sierras will take
the vanity out of a man quicker than
anything I know. There is nothing
left hi:m but to trust his maker. He
feels more helpless than he does on the
ocean, for to be drowned is nothing
horrible, but for the train to break a
wheel or jump the track on a narrow
cliff a thousand feet high and the
whole concern go to falling and cracking
to the gulch below is just awful.
And there are hundreds of such frightful
precipices. Well, when we had got
1,740 miles west of Kansas City they
let us out for thirty minutes and it was
just glorious to get on the ground
again and feel the solid earth under
your feet, and to my opinion it is the
best place?better than water, better
than air, better than riding on a train.
Of its dust we were made, and in i ts
bosom we must sleep. But as I was
telling you, we boarded the train again
and put on a clean shirt and took a
fresh start and rolled away for 1,440
miles more, and got to the jumping off
place sure enough, and like old Balboa
1 1 ?? -1- in rnniaa. '
SIOOG upon U lUUK uuu "*?J
tic silence upon the Pacific ocean. If I
were Byron or Shakespeare I could tell
you all about that, but I'm nobody
much since I got back and never expect
to be. The world is a heap bigger
thing than I thought it was. Why the
fir trees all over Washington are 300
feet high, and you have to take t wo
sights to see the top, and I saw a measured
acre that had been sold to a saw
mill and the timber cut off, and I
counted twenty-seven stumps, and the
smallest was eight and a half feet in
diameter, and the mill cut up one of
the trees into shingles while I was
looking at them, and that ono tree
turned out 80,000 shingles and left a
hundred feet of the top for laths and
firewood. And that's the truth if ever
I told it, and one day some of us went
out in the timber to shoot some deer
and the whole face of the earth was
covered with ferns?ferns as thick on
the ground as the palmetto in Florida,
and it was from six to twelve feet high
and we came across a big tree that had
been blown down and the deer were
said to be just over the other side and
I tiptoed up by the side of the tree to
put my gun up on it and I pushed it as
far as I could and then tried to climb
up on the crevices in the bark, but
they shelved down the wrong way and
mv shoes had cot slick and I couldn't
make it and I couldn't reach my gun
any more and had to come oil* and
leave it. I went back next morning
with a boy and put him on my shoulder
and he reached and got the gun.
I wish you could see that fern. It is
in a belt about ten miles wide and 100
miles long across the country, and so
impenetrable that a bear can't get
through it, but there are paths through
it every few miles apart?narrow paths
that have been there for a thousand
years, they say, and were made by the
wild beasts, and the bears and the
panthers and mountain lions and the
wild hogs and the deer all use them,
and the settlers told me that the animals
all understood these paths to be
common property and neutral ground,
and never showed light in them, but if ;
a deer was going and a bear was com- j
ing, and they met in a path, the bear j
squatted down and the deer jumped '
over him. That is what the old set- j
tiers told me."
And Mark bit ofr some more tobacco.
"I believe it," said I, for I remember
that Colonel Patton of the United
States army, told me that his command
was stationed one long, dry summer
in the hill country of Utah, and every j
water course dried up, and every lake I
and pool except one, and his command j
had to go to that and cam]) and stay |
" ' - " * r~~ 1: i
all tIlC lull, Una iur a ruuius ui ?i nun- |
dred miles tlic wild beasts came by
night for water, and the bears and !
wolves and panthers and deer and prairie
dogs would drink together and
there wasn't a growl nor a fight, for
you see they were all beset by a com- !
mon danger and understood it and j
raised a flag of truce around the water, j
and Colonel Patton said that his men |
all partook of the same feeling and !
never raised a gun to shoot, not with- j
standing they were nearly starved for J
fresh meat and that is what (lie poet j
alluded to when he wrote that a touch ,
of nature makes the whole world kin.'
(Jo on, Mark,"
"Well, as I was saying, you never i
heard of such a climate as they have i
on the western slope of Washington. ;
The boys don't wear shoes the year ;
round and if it wasn't for the fogs it |
would be a splendid country to live I
in. The fogs don't rise until *10o'clock I
in the morning, and sometimes they
are so thick that you can move it
around with a broom and sweep it out
of the house. It's like a cobweb, and
you wrap it around a stick or a broom
and carry it out. I never saw them
do it but that's what they told me.
You can't raise corn there, but wheat,
and oats and vegetables just grow immense.
I saw Irish potatoes fifteen
inches long and as large as my leg.
Half a potato is enough for a moderate
sized family. They slice them crossways
like we do for Saratoga chips, only
the chips are half an inch thick and as
big as saucers. Everything grows big
there but the people. I never saw as
many little, scrawny, screwedup people
in my life. They are most all foreigners?low
Dutch, Poles, Italians, Swiss,
Swedes, Irish, Chinese and every other
sort, and not one in ten can speak the
English language. They can't call for
a match to light a pipe with, but they
have to make signs for everything."
About this time our train received a
shock and put on the brakes and stopped,
and we all got out to see what
was the matter, and found that we
had run into two mules and a doubleseated
buggy and two negroes and seven
jugs of whisky. One negro and one
mule were killed and the others badly
broken up. Nothing of the buggy
could lie found except the tires. It
was close in town and the people all
came running. The wounded were
soon cared for and the train went on.
Such is life and such is death when
men are coming from a stillhouse loaded
down inside and outside with whisky
and try to beat a railroad to a crossing.
The next thine will be three or four
lawsuits for damages, I reckon, for a
railroad is an institution to be picked at
and pursued, right or wrong. They are
our greatest benefactors and civilizers,
and not one in five makes any money
for the stockholders, but the liberty of
a ten dollar cow is of more importance
than the lives of passengers or the
wreck of an engine. I was on the train
one night when a wandering bull threw
our train from the track and the engine
down a bank and we had to stay
there until morning, and a thousand
dollars wouldn't pay the damages, but
the owner of the hull got his pay all
the same, and to my mind it is all
wrong and I would stop it if I could.
A railroad company may be just as
careful as human foresight cnn be, but
if a mau is killed the juries go for them
to the tune of five or ten thousand
dollars. Just let a wreck be heard of
and an Atlanta lawyer will take the
first train to the spot and hunt round
for a fee like a buzzard sails round for
a carcass. I wonder how mean it is
possible for a man to get and still hold
up his head and pretend he is a gentleman.
Bill Aup.
THE USE OF PILLOWS.
No mere matter of habit is the use
of a pillow. It has a physiological
basis. We sleep, for the most part,
on the side, and without a pillow the
head would be uncomfortable and
harmfully lower than tne ooay. it
will be remembered that Jacob, when
fleeing from Esau, took a stone for a
pillow. He needed something for
that purpose and nothing better than
a stone presented itself. Such practices
are common in Africa at the
present day.
Some people rest the neck instead of
the head on hard pillows. In Africa
extraordinary headgear makes this
practice necessary, and many a civilized
woman has been compelled by a
somewhat similar coiffure to forego
both the pilow and the recumbent
posture.
A consideration of the physiological
reason for pillows will suggest their
proper thickness. They should merely
bring the head to the natural level.
Some pillows are much too thick. By
bending the neck unduly, they interfere
with the outflow of the venous
blood from the head. The pillow that
just fills up the space above the shoulder
best suits its end.
Again, pillows of feathers are objectionable.
While they furnish the
needed support for the head, they are
too heating, as they have a remarkable
capacity for holding and accumulating
heat.
It should be remembered mai more
blood, and hence more heat, goes to
the head than to any other part of the
body. Head heating pillows are
against the wholesome maxim : "Keep
the feet warm, but the head cool."
There is nothing better than the hair
pillow.
Further, the pillow is for the head,
not for the shoulders. To rest the
shoulders on the pillow defeats the very
end for which it is used.
Finally, special care should be taken
of infants in this matter. We have
seen their heads sunken deep in the
softest and thickest of pillows, and
their faces, as a natural consequence,
covered with beads of perspiration. It
is no wonder that children so treated
die.
Rainy Sundays.?A rainy Sunday
is an opportunity afforded to the followers
of Christ to show to the scoffers
at religion that there is something real,
something earnest in Christianity. An
opportunity to show that going to
church is not merely a Sunday formality
to be gone through with in fair
weather, when men and women can
parade in their best clothes without
discomfort or inconvenience. An opnnrtunitv
to show that it is a pleasure
I %r
and a privilege to go to the house of
the Lord, and one which Christians
will not forego because of inclement
weather.
Fair weather religion will never save
the world, and to convince skeptics
that going to church is something more
than mere dress parade, church members
must hail the Lord's Day as the
"day of all the week the best," and
find in its religious privileges greater
pleasure than staying at home to read
an interesting novel. To get up early
and go to Sunday-school and then go
to church morning and evening despite
the rain, is the best way to spend
a rainy Sunday, and to do this not to
be seen of men, but because it is a
blessed privilege and a pleasant and
holy duty, is the way to convince nonbelievers
that it really means something
to he a Christian.
BfeDf" The man who wants more money
will find no royal road to the wealth
he covets, no patent methods for its
acquisition. He must give something
for it honestly his own, and the man
who sets himself earnestly to do this
will find that all financial systems will
bend to his conquering will. The
gambler, whether he plays his game in
the exchange, at a faro table, in a polcy
shop or with smaller stakes in pri- >
vatc circles at baccarat and progressive
euchre, will find the issue precarious
and unrewarding. The way to j
get more money without any loss of
"t. cnir.i-nonnnt i<5 tn enril it liv I
r " r?' ? ? - i
toil of brain or sinew, and the funds j
thus acquired have no gnawing teeth. :
All other wealth eats like a canker.
Eftf Learn to be brief. Long visits j
long stories, long exhortations and long i
prayers seldom profit those who have j
to do with them. Life is short. Moments
are precious. Learn to con- !
dense, abridge and intensify. We can
endure many an ache and ill if it is soon
over, while even pleasures grow insipid
and pain intolerable if they arc protracted
beyond the limits of reason |
and convenience. Learn to be brief. (
Lop off branches; stick to the main i
facts in your case. If you pray ask {
for what you would receive and get i
through; if you speak tell your ines- \
sage and hold your peace; boil down
two words into one and three into two. j
Always learn to be brief.
HORSES, MULES AND JACKS.
Much General Information About
their Production in the United
States.
Missouri, according to the census,
has upon her farms 936,191 horses.
There are only three other States
which have more. They are: Illinois,
first; Iowa, second; and Texas, third.
The foals of the preceeding year in
Missouri were 113,914 horses, 34,553
mules, and 946 asses. In mules and asses
Missouri beats the world. She has on
her farms 245,102 mules by the census
count, and 6,441 asses. No other
State in the Union comes anywhere
near Missouri in mules save Texas.
As for the iacks. Missouri has one-sixth
of all there are in the country. Mortimer
Whitehead, the agent having
special charge of this branch of the
census, notes some interesting changes
in the relations of horses and mules.
The percentage of increase of horses
from 1880 to 1890 is shown to have
been 44.59, very close to the increase <
from 1870 to 1880, which was 44.95.
The percentages of increase of mules
for the same period were 26.60 and
16.98. It will thus be seen that, taking
the whole country into consideration,
the mule is not keeping pace with
the horse as a farm animal; but reference
to the table shows that the mule
grows in favor and use in several of
the Southern States faster than the
horse. One reason for the change in
the Eastern, Northern, Central and
Western States is probably the falling
off in the profits of agriculture during
the past decade, causing the farmer to
economize in many ways. The price
of horses has held up better than most
classes of farm stock during the past
ten years. A team of mares can do
the farm work and raise a pair of colts
each year, so mares have the place of
mules on tens of thousands of farms.
Still the breeding of mules is a great
industry found largely in Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas, with
a considerable development in Kansas,
California, Illinois, Arkansas, Alabama
and North Carolina.
Under the diversified system of agriculture
rapidly spreading in the South
the breeding ot horses ana mutes is
growing in favor, and cannot fail to add
largely to the material wealth of that
section. For the first time in a United
States census an enumeration of asses
independent of mules has been made,
variously known asassses "jack stock,"
jacks, jennets and burros. There are
several millions of dollars invested in
importing, breeding and raising this
class of animals, so essential in the
mule-brceding industry. The hardy
burro has advantages over both horse
and mule, and in some sections counts
up into the thousands, notably in New
Mexico, California and Colorado.
Census figures show that on the ranges
in New Mexico in 1890 there were
13'074 of these useful creatures used
as pack animals for transportation.
The breeders of "jack stock" are
mainly located in Tennessee, Texas,
Louisiana and Alabama. The jack
stock imported into this country comes
mainly from Spain, France, Italy and
the Islands of Malta Mojorca. The
best animals sell as high as $2,000 and '
$3,000 each. In the Poiteau district
T-1 " ???- /*L lnttmAM llinn mAof
or r rauee, nut mutu iuig<-i tuau uiunv
of our counties, statitics show that in
a single year 50,000 mares were bred
to jacks, and the yearly export of
young mules amounted in value to between
$2,000,000 and $3,000,000. In
the north central division, Illinois and
Iowa lead close together in number of
horses on hand June 1, 1890, Illinois
having 1,335,289 and Iowa 1,312,079,
while there were foaled in 1889 in Illinois
184,198, and in Iowa 188,932, but
as Illinois foaled 6,408 mules and Iowa
2,305 it will be seen that the two States
are remarkably close together. In the
south central division, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Texas take the lead in
the production of horses and mules,
Texas reporting 1,025,876 on hand
June 1, 1890, with 136,341 horses, and
25,381 mules foaled in 1889, but this
does not, as before stated, include the
horses on the ranges of the State.
Kentucky and Tennessee show, respectively,
401,356 and 311,842 horses
on hand, in addition to their mules,
which are for Kentucky 146,521 and
for Tennessee 19,272.?Globe-Democrat.
THE MISTAKES OF A SMALL BOY.
A boy would not be worth much if
he never made mistakes and was never
told of them. There is hope for a boy
in proportion to the number of mistakes
he makes and afterwards corrects.
One of the most common mistakes
of a boy is in what he wants. He is
ant to want most the things he hasn't,
and one of the things a small boy
hasn't and hankers after most of all is
size. Oh how he does pine for size!
He wants and counts days and scratches
the wall with pencil marks, and
stretches himself up trying to catch
up with his big brother. And all the
time he may be more of a man than
his big brother, if only he would put
the right kind of measure in place of
the foot-rule.
You have heard of the Irishman
who went to the market to buy the
most for his money, and finding that
turnips were so much cheaper than potatoes,
bought four bushels of turnips
instead of two of potatoes. But he
was much surprised to learn that the
turnips were 75 per cent, water and
that he might have bought a package
he could have carried in his vest pocket
that would have contained the same
amount of nutriment as his four bushels
of turnips.
That was a case where size was deceiving,
and that is the way the small
boy is often taken in. It's not the
size of a man's fist, or the breadth of
his shoulder, or the height of his stove
pipe hat that counts. I have seen a
seven foot bully do a thing so mean
and unmanly that a seven-year old
hoy ought to blush for it. And I have
seen a boy pass along after him and pick
the whining dog up that he hud lamed
by a kick, and treat it with such pity
and tenderness that, if we still lived in
the days of chivalry, and we do in
more ways than one, that hoy would
have been knighted and spurred and
- * i ;i
received ilie appmuse aim suiues ui
fair ladies and noble men and his king,
and the hulking giant would have been
given to some magician to be changed
into a Ilea or a potato-bug or some
petty, noxious insect. If a boy would
only hanker after the thing that ought
to go with size, and let size take care
of itself, he would make no mistake.
Another thing the small boy is apt
to overrate is his physical strength. He i
is always bragging about what he can
do, and the strongest boy in a crowd
is sure to have things pretty much his
own way. The whole world used to
be boys once in that respect. The man I
who could strike the blow and slide
the fastest and jump the farthest and i
use his arms and legs the best, was tbe
best man. Now it is the man who |
can use his head the best. It is the
man who has the best heart. The Indian
said when he first- beard a pistol
fired and saw the deadly effects, "lie
heap little, heap loud, heap go quick
and bit hard.'' A boy who is little j
need not be loud, but if he can "go i
quick" and hit the mark clean through !
in doing his duty, he is manlier than |
some who wear men's clothing. It is i
not the exhibition of strength, it is the |
just and kind use of strength, that i
makes great. The horse lias more j
strength than the man, but tbe man
with his less strength and his superior ,
mind makes the horse go as lie pleases, J
and subdues the wildest and most ferocious
beast.
Don't ache for size; don't ache for
strength. Don't lie awake nights
thinking how to get it. Let those
things take care of themselves and be
just the kindest, most truthful, patient,
industrious, merriest, happiest boy you
can, and get all the love you can from
others and give all you can to them,
and men will one day say of you.
"What a power he isand may be
you couldn't lift a five-pound dumbbell.
But all I say will be true nevertheless.
A Bio Gun.?On the government
reservation at Sandy Hook, there is a
new twelve-inch gun waiting to be tested,
which is the largest piece of ordnance
produced in the United States
up to this time. It weighs fifty-two
tons, is over thirty-six feet long, and
will carry a 1,000 pound ball. Mounted
it stands fifteen feet high. It requires
440 pounds of powder 'to the
load, and the initial velocity of its projectile
is estimated at 1,940 feet per
second. At a distance of a mile the
projectile would penetrate twenty-eight \
inches into iron plate, and at a distance ]
of two miles twenty inches into the \
same material. Every charge of pow- i
der will cost $118.50 and every ball j
$40. As about 300 shots must be fired |
before the gun's range, penetrative j
power and durability can be ascertain
ed, the cost of testing alone will amount ]
to $50,000.
This monster gun was turned out by
the Watervleit arsenal, West Troy, N. j
Y., which is now at work on a 16-inch ]
gun, which will be 46} feet long and <
weigh 125 tons. A charge of 1,000 1
pounds will be required for this colos- i
sal weapon, and the projectile will ]
weigh over a ton. It will have a muz- ]
zle penetration in iron of about three <
feet, with a maximum range of about <
fifteen miles. j
The plans of the Fortification Board '
include forty-four of the 16-inch guns, i
thirty-six of which are for New York, j
San Francisco and Boston. They are i
to be mounted in pairs in turrets com- \
manding the principal water approach- f
es. Hundreds of the 12-inch guns, ,
which are to be supplemented by 12- ]
inch mortars', will be required for coast ,
defense, and the navy department in- <
tends to use a large number in a modi- <
fled form.?Brooklyn Standard. j
After the Saloons.?The Nation- ,
al Temperance convention make an j
appeal to the American people. They
say: "Scientific research, divine ad- j
monition and human experience all
concur in a common warning against ,
the beverage use of intoxicants as j
needless and harmful. The liquor
traffic imposes enormous, avoidable, ,
burdens upon individuals, families and ,
the State. It is chief among the producing
causes of poverty, vice, and
crime. The saloon is a center of irre- <
ligion, impurity, anarchy and misrule.
The large influx of ignorant foreigners,
bringing with them the Old World ,
drinking customs, is an evil of threat- (
ening proportions. The purity of the ,
American home, preservation of the ;
Sabbath and the maintenance of good 1
government, especially in cities, are all
jeopardized. This convention, there- j
fore in the name of God and humanity, ,
appeals to thoughtful men and women i
in all parts of the land to abstain from ,
the use of intoxicants, and from pro- ,
viding them to others on all social and
festive occasions; and it urges all citizens
and "voters, irrespective of partisan
political associations, to combine
in primary meetings, and at the polls,
to insure the overthrow of the iniquitous
liquor oligarchy by the selection
and election of legislators and executive
officers, State and national, favorable
to the immediate and entire prohibition
of the manufacture, importation
and sale of alcoholic beverages throughout
our national domain."
America's First Strike.?"Do i
you know that this government had
been in existence over fifty years before
such a thing as a strike was
known among the laboring people ?"
asked Frank Grassner, of Cincinnatti,
as he leaned thoughtfully against
the cigar stand at the Occidental.
"Yes, sir, fifty years, and it was
reserved for Ohio to be the scene of ,
the first revolt.
"It was in 1840, in June, I think
that the employes of Wolf & Co.'s
foundry in Cincinnati struck for an
increase in pay, and in a few days it
spread so as to include all the iron
workers of the city. For more than a
month both sides held out, and at
the end of that time the laborers succeeded
in securing money with which
to start a co-operative foundry.
"They chose a superintendent and a
business manager from among their own
number, and started out with a big
boom. At the end of three years they
went to the wall, and after everything
was cleaned up they were still $300,000
behind. As each of the incorporators
was personally responsible under the
Ohio law for the liabilities of the concern,
without limitation as to time,
every one of the strikers was compelled
to leave the State in order to prevent
their savings from being seized to satisfy
their creditors. So ended the first
strike."
Learned Skeptics.?After all,
Christianity cannot be a very weak
and pusillanimous affair when so many
of our strong rulers are not ashamed to
advocate it. We are on the way to
the time when kings shall he nursing
fathers and queens nursing mothers
to the church. We shall after awhile
have the best brain enlisted on our
side, and the day will come when u
man's sanity will he doubted if he
questions the truthfulness of Christ's
religion. We do not want skeptics
auy longer to pat us patronizingly on
the back, saying, "Poordeluded souls!
They mean well enough!" We do
not want the firefly born in the swamp
to lecture the full harvest moon on the
subject of optics. There are enough
men of brain and official position on
our side to make it respectable. Indeed,
we suspect that if by post mortem
examination the head of the learned
skeptic was explored, it would be
found that there is a soft spot somewhere
in it, into which his egotism has
soaked, leaving dampness and mold
together. A man who, amid the accumulated
evidence of the ages, can
doubt the existence of God, is mentally
deficient somewhere. He may be
supremely talented in other respects,
but he is lacking in that department.?
I)r. Talmage in Christian Herald.
One of the best ways to punish a
child is to find out what the child
wants to do and then prohibit it from
doing that thing for a while. Perhaps
it mnv he well to nrohihit a certain
kind of food of which the child is fond,
as a punishment for misdemeanor,
The going without will teach him selfcontrol
and he a constant reminder of
his error. Some method of this sort is
much better than corporal punishment,
which usually hurts only for a few mo- j
ments and the chief ell'ect of which is i
to make the child angry. <
SsaT" Fred Douglas undertook to prove,
in an address at Washington the other
night, that negroes and white men belonged
to the same race, and cited as i
evidence of the truth of his assertion, I *
that whisky serves a white man just as I
it does a negro. Whisky, remarks the I
New Orleans States, also makes anion- j :
key just as drunk as it does a negro. j i
and yet Fred would grow very indig- | i
mint if this argument was advanced j <
to show that the monkey and the negro {
belonged to the same race.
GOLD IN OLDEN TIMES.
The history of the issue of coins in
this country by private individuals
md companies would make a very interesting
book. When gold was struck
n North Carolina a man named Bechter
started a mint of his own there,
vhich was abolised by law in 1849.
Half eagles, quarter eagles and one
lollar pieces issued by him were largely
rirculated in the South and West. Although
of honest gold they were about
l\ per cent, under value on an averse.
About the same time Templeton
Eteid coined gold in Georgia. He
noved to California in 1849 and minted
eagles and 25-dollar pieces on a considerable
scale. Many companies and
efineries in California and elsewhere
nade a business of striking gold coins
luring the same period. Naturally
;here was a great temptation to make
;hese coins under weight and of inferior
fineness. The Mormons in Utah
ssued eagles and double eagles which
jore on the obverse an eye, with the
egend, "Holiness to the Lord." *
Quantities of twenty-five cent and
Sfty cent gold pieces were likewise
nanufactured at San Francisco, the
former containing only about six cents'
worth. Years ago a iotrtrf these were
taken over to Germany and circulated
there, which elicited a formal diplomatic
protest from the government.
The private minting business was finally
put a stop to.?Washington Letter.
Bead and Heed.?A man is rejponsible
for not knowing what he
might have known. This will fix a
ireadful responsibility on some of us.
We will not be allowed to plead that
we did not know better when we negected
the opportunity to gain such
knowledge. When an opportunity
jnce passes it is gone forever. Another
may come just like the one past, but
t will not be the same opportuuity.
The young do not fully appreciate this,
but they might be taught to realize it
nearer than they do. Parents fail to
seize the passing privileges and opportunities
to educate their children. In
some instances they fail to supply their
children with sufficient and proper
books and papers. A newspaper is an
educator. No family should be withnut
one. Children will learn to read
with very little help if provided with
proper reading matter. That man or
woman has a false idea of economy
who thinks it does not pay to buy
books (that is good books) and take
papers, not too many, but enough. It
would be a good Christmas gift or birth
day present to send a good paper to
your own boy or girl for a year. Such
i course would give handsome returns.
Parents, try it. Subscribe for a paper
p t- ?11 will ka
lur )uur uuy ui ouu jvm mv
pleased with the result.
What to Do With a Bad Temper.
Starve it. Give it nothing to feed on.
When something tempts you to grow
angry, do not yield to temptation. It
may for a minute or two be difficult to
control yourself but try it. Force
yourself to do nothing, to say nothing,
and the rising temper will be obliged
to go down because it has nothing to
hold it up. The person who can and
does controljtongue, hand and heart, in
the face of great provocation, is a hero.
The world may not own him or her as
such but God does. The Bible says
that he that ruleth his spirits is better
than he that taketh a city.
What is gained by yielding to temper?
For a moment there is a feeling
of relief, but soon comes a sense of
sorrow and shame, with a wish that
the temper had been controlled.
Friends are separated by a bad temper,
trouble is caused by it, and pain is
given to others as well as self. That
pain too often lasts for days, even
years?sometimes for life. An outburst
of temper is like the bursting of
a steam boiler, it is impossible to tell
beforehand what will be the result.
The evil done may never be remedied.
Starve your temper. It is not worth
keeping alive. Let it die.?Exchange.
Husband and Wife.?Preserve sacredly
the privacies of your own house,
your married state and your heart.
Let no father or mother, or sister or
brother, ever come between you or
share the joys or sorrows that belong
to you two alone.
With mutual help build your quiet
world, not allowing your dearest earthly
friends to be confident of aught that
concerns your domestic peace. Let
moments of alienation if they occur,
be healed at once. Never, no, never,
speak of it outside, to no other confess,
and you will come out all right. Nev-.
er let the morrow's sun still find you
at variance. Renew and re-renew your
vow; it will do you good, and thereby
your minds will grow together, contented
in that love which is stronger
than death, and you will become truly
one.
fifiT When Mrs. Martha Wilk plunged
into the water at Springfield Lake,
New Jersey, last week, vowing to
drown herself, John Wilk, her husband,
stood coolly watching on the
beach and refused to interfere. When
remonstrated with, he intimated that
Mrs. Wilk had her own ideas of what
she wanted to do and he proposed to
respect them. What a shining lesson
such forbearance furnishes for those
husbands who seem to feel it incumbent
upon them to be everlastingly
meddling with the business of their
wives.
One of the most unique ordinances
ever adopted by municipal authorities
recently became a law in
Kansas City, Mo. The ordinance provides
that all who drink liquors in that
Tonunpv 1 1SC19 shall TiftV
V-1LJ ailCl UUilUU! j *vv-,
a license tax into the city treasury for
the privilege. Drinkers are divided
into four classes as follows : Beer drinkers
exclusively shall pay $20 a year;
beer and wine, $25 a year (excluding
champagne); beer, wine and whisky,
$30; champagne, $50. It is estimated
that the city wi(l derive a revenue of
a million dollars a year from this
source.
BttT "Did you ever see a deformed
or crippled Chinaman ?" asked a gentleman.
There was a negative reply,
and the questioner continued: "I
don't think you ever will. If a Chinese
child is born deformed it is made
way with as soon as possible. Just how
the babe is killed I do not know, but
it is never permitted to live. You
may travel all over the world and you
will never see a crippled Chinaman.
When an accident befalls one of them
he is made way with too. This is a
part of their religion, and they adhere
to it closely."
Thk Sizk ok Raindrops.?Yaria
tions in the size of raindrops are dependent
upon the difference in the
height from which they have fallen and
to the amount of atmospheric disturbance
present at the time. If they fall
from a great height the drops suffer
gradual division into smaller and
smaller parts, until they are at last
converted into mists. In calm weather,
with the clouds near the earth's
surface, the drops arc apt to be large
and heavy.
fifcir Whisky will take out every kind
of fruit stain.?Household News.
Yes, and it will take out many other
things. It will take the money out of
a man's purse, intellect out of his head
and purity out of his heart, if he will
stick to it closely. It will take the roses
out of his wife's cheeks, bread out of
his children's mouths and peace out of
his home, if he gives it a chance.