The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, December 12, 1889, Image 2
Thrre arc 22ft cottons mills in the
South, consuming 255,000 bales of cotton.
The English postofhcc 'loos all the express
business in Great Britain, carries
parcels at an average cost of eleven cents
each, and make? a protit of $2,250,000 a
year.
It is announced that Secretary Blaiuc,
in consultation with United States Minister
Ryan,"lias arranged a comprehensive
piau for the promotion of reciprocal
trade between this country and Mexico.
The latter Government will umjueslionably
accept.
Suicide as a risk to life decreases rapidly
after the thirty-fifth year, and the
very old take their own Jives as rareiy as
the very young. Under ten and over
seventy years of uge, suicide i6 extremely
rare and rakes an insigriScnut place in
the statistical tables.
The American nation uses mo'c soap
per capita than any other on the globe.
Where the English uses four pounds per
head we use tire and a half. No other
nation uses over three pounds to our five.
Italy uses least of all, and Russia beats
her only by a few ounces.
Cremation is coming more and more
into vogue in Germany, iu spite of the
expense ami certaiu legal difficulties
which render its performance in some
parts almost an impossibility. At Gotha
no fewer than one hundred bodies have
been cremated during the present year.
The nickel-in-the-slot contrivance has
been utilized for the sale of postage
stamps. A machine has been inveuted
which will produce a two-ccnt stamp
when two pennies arc placed in the slot.
There are also machines so contrived that
a large number of stamps can be obtained
when ten or fifty-cent pieces arc used.
The inventor of the machine wants the
Unuommon! tn firinnt it..
v*v. w J
The number of persons employed last
year in and about mines in the United
Kingdom under the coal miues regulation
act was 534,935, of whom 3035
were women working above ground. In
these mines there were 821 fatal ncci^
4
dents and 888 deaths, the number of
accidents being nine less than in the preceding
year, aud the number of deaths
107 less.
Miss Mamie Isdell, ? dashing Missouri
young woman of twenty-two years, has
just been married to Jesse Fovel, of
Calhoun County, III. Mr. Fovel, who is
seventy-nine years of age, was compelled
to give his bride 6100,000 in securities
and money. Miss Isdell, who was educated
in a convent, is a very beautiful
girl. The groom has grandchildren older
thau his new bride.
A Hebrew colonization society numbering
500 members has been organized
within the last two months in Pittsburg.
The organization is known as the
"Lovers of Zion," and its object is to
colonize Palestine with American
Hebrews. About 1SOO colonists have
gone from this country already for this
Durpose. This is the outgrowth of a
movement begun in Europe several years
ago among the Hebrews of the middle
and lower classes to encourage emigration
to Palestine to once more make Jerusalem
the capital of the Orient. The leading
Hebrews in this country, it is said, are
opposed to the movement. - "
Unlike most countries, China holds
the ouicide in honor, and by her laws extends
to him the most lenient consideration,
having regard iu all cases to the
motive which prompted self-slaughter.
The motive is not unfrequcntly revenge,
as the Chinese law requires the householder
on whose premises the dead body
is found not only to provide the funeral
expenses, but to compensate the relatives
of the deceased. As suicide is thus a
means of rescuing one's relatives from
poverty, it has been made in China a fine
A curious dcvci ipment of it is the
practice of offering one's self as a substitute
for a person under sentence of
death. This vicarious payment of legal
penalties is, of course, much appreciated
by rich criminals who arc enamored of
life.
Secretary Rusk, although not the first
Secretary of Agriculture to sit in an
American Cabinet, is the first to issue an
annual report. The AN ashiugton Star
asserts that ''it will attract general attention
from the fact that it enters with
some minuteness into subjects which
show the real value to the country of
such a department, conducted with skill
at the executive end of the line and liberality
at the Congressional end. It is
ridiculous to claim that the usefulness
of a piece of governmental machinery
like this one ends with the collection of
statistics and few general advisory functions.
The Sec-rotary proposes to raise
h>8 department from that level. He
wants a national meat inspection law, for
example, which shall enable public officers
to locate the centre of any disease
which breaks out among American cattle,
and prevent tiic shipments of live and
dead meats unfit for consumption. Another
excellent recommendation is that
the forestry interests of the Government
be given more intelligent attention. As
.hey arc now, there is absolutely no way
i". which timber thefts ana forest fires
:; be prevented; and the loss to the
avernment Irorn these sources, as shown
/ Chief Fernow's figures on repeated
occasions, is greater every year than the
IN HOrK OF- SPRING.
! Above his rest deft autumn softly weaves I
J A coverlet to wrap uie new grave in, J
I And broiders it with gold and scarlet leaves,
While spring's sweet mysteries of bloom ,
begin (
j Beneath the mold o'er which the sore heart .
grieves
For hopes that perished, like a flower in j
frost? t
A symbol that each passing season leaves, }
To say, That is not dead which scomoth j
lost.
Cold, silent lips, which our warm lips have i'
kissed. '
Dear hands, whose touch can never bo for- j '
gotten, |
j Friendships that vanish like a summer mist. 1
We have j*ou, and. behold, wo have you i '
1 tint | 5
I
A lonesome shadow falls across the floor
From each low grave they heap beneath
the sod
IVhere sleep the ones we miss; but evermore 1
We have them safe in Paradise, with God. !
1
To me. it often seems that death must be I
Like going on a journey, very far,
Across the mountain and the solemn sea, ,
To dwell in a new land where strangers [
are. '
But if a friend is there we loved of old,
Our eager thoughts fly faster than our j
feet.
And when in ours their loving hands we ;
hold.
The stranger-land seems full of welcome
sweet. 1
How fair his grave will be when spring comes ' (
back, j
And from the mold that hides his face I
|
awny, \
The violets grow, and every robin's track I j
Is covered by the creeping things of May. ]
flow fair his face will be when dreams come j ]
tine. i (
And we stand face to face with him, and !
see ]
The rapture of a joy we never knew
Break in the eyes we miss so constantly. j
Sleep well, warm heart, so brief a time on
earth. j'
Beneath the dead leaves and the autumn |
rain:
That which men count as death, in heaven j
is birth;
Flowers die, we say. but bloom in spring 1
again.
1
The violet, above you, in the mold.
Awaits tne resurrection or rn<> year.
And when its leaves, in April days, unfold, '
We'll say, "He lives with God, who once
was with us here."
? Vick's Magazine.
l!
SHE DID HOT MEAN IT. j!
"Marry you? Not on any considera- j'
tion. Why, Mr.?I mean John, of course j
not." '
Such was the disconnected reply, I
which blue-eyed Nellie Loring gave to j
Jclni Hart well's request that she would
be his wife. He, looking gravely at her,
answered.
"But I am very rich and can surround
you with every comfort. More than that,
I can help your father out of his troubles
and can put. your brothers in the way of
getting a good start in life. More than
that, and most of all, I tell you for the
j hundredth time, Nellie, that I love
! you ''
The girl grew pale, and, for a moment,
seemed to falter. Then her lips became ,
set. and, returning his glance with one {
no less steady than his own, she said:
"You tempt mc sorely, John, but I
must not yield."
"Tell mc one thing," he pleaded.
"Do you love me?"
Her cheeks grew painfully red, then
whiter than before. With a nervous
grasp, she caught the gate by which j
they stood, and trembled visibly as she j
spoke in a tone scarcely above a whisper:
. "No, I do not."
He regarded her for a moment in '
amazed silence: then, lifting his hat, j
turned away. He seemed as he did so to try |
to say "good-bye." and she herself made j
an ellort to speak n worcl of farewell;;
hut the rising tears choked her utterance,
and sadly and silently she walked up the
garden path to the door of her home.
Once within that friendly shelter, she
hastened to her chamber, and. throwing
herself across the bed, let the tears flow
freely.
"Love him?love him," she moaned.!
"Oh, John, I would die to make you
happy. Oh, why do things go so wrong?"
And with weeping and self-reproaches
she spent the long summer evening.
Meanwhile John had gone to his hotel,
paid his bill, and taken the first train to i
the city.
The story of the events which had led j
up to the scene just described, was not a |
long one.
Nellie Loring was a farmer's daughter. !
i She was yet young, being scarcely twenty;
j was pretty, piquant, and although quite j
J lackiug in repose of manner, was a lova- |
j bit* specimen of a country-bred girl. Her j
I father was the owner of a tine farm; but !
recent losses had greatly embarrassed him.
! and he was not a little troubled about
I Nellie's future and that of her two younger :
J brothers, neither of whom were fitted,
physically, for farm life.
John Hart well was a young man of
toll onrl lino lAALnnrr e/\mn. !
l-liuu-lltl, tuil <*1.1 VI l I VIV lUUllll.-, .UV- j
what grave and dignified in manner, hut
frank, manly and simple in his tastes and ,
habits. He was very wealthy, although :
his style of living would not have led a
casual observer to that conclusion. "While
yet a lad, lie had been impressed with
the poverty and misery of the great city j
in which was his home, and was full of 1
plans to alleviate them. In pursuance of:
these he hud come to the pretty village '
near which the Lorings lived, and having j
met Nellie, had speedily lost his heart, j
In the hope of winning her, he had pro- j
longed his stay to a much greater length
than he had intended.
As for Nellie, she was at first awed by
the grave and handsome young stranger;
then had grown to feel a happy security j
in his presence, and had ended by return- ;
ing his affection with the whole strength j
of her nature. Her native modesty I
taught her to keep a watch upon her i
tongue, and she had answered her lover's j
protestations of esteem sometimes with j
pleasant bantering, but oftener only by a >
happy glance.
"I will wait until he asks me to he his .
wife,"' she would tell her heart, when '
its quick heating almost forced the '
words: "I love you!" trom her lips;!
"and tell him then what he is to me." j
It happened one day, as she sat in her
favorite seat beside the river, that two j
ladies from the city, who were standing
r.afir, but not in sight, began to speak of
her lover, and for the first time, she
learned of his great wealth, his high position
iu society, and his plans which
were already the talk of the circle
which he moved. j
"And to think he will mar his future,"
laid one of them, "by marrying a com- t
non farmer's daughter; for I believe ho 1
s in love with the little minx."
"How his sisters will despise her, c
vith her country-bred airs," replied the r
)ther. "and how ridiculous she will op-1
>ear in the Hart well parlors." j I
The first laughed as she answered; "I \ 1
eel half sorry for the little thing, for all ! 1
he people here seem to be in love with i
ter. Yet he is certain to tire of her if 1
le marries her." 1
What a revelation it was to poor Nel- j s
ie, who, until this moment, had never ;
1 reamed that such rocks and quicksands ! i
ay in the course of true love. Jler first! i
bought was that she had been foolish to J 1
masrine that her lover had been serious j 1
i-? ?
in his professions. Her next was a re- I
solve to refuse liirn, if he made an offer !
if marriage: and she would do this, not :
so much for her own sake as for his. <
fhey said she would wreck his future by j
Harrying him. There would be a wreck, i
she said to herself, but it would not be j j
his. And so it came to pass that, when !
that very evening, he offered her his j
hand, telling her that his heart was already
in her keeping, she crushed her j
happiness to the earth, and gave her fal-!
tering refusal.
* * * * * *
A year had passed, and Nellie sat be- j
fore the farm-house door, changed but
little, except that she was a trilie more
womanly in appearance, and her expression
was more thoughtful than in the old J
days. It was her habit to sit thus at J
evening, and her thoughts would always !
turn to the hour when she parted from j
her lover. The tenor of her thoughts I
was interrupted by the sharp click of a j
horse's feet, on the hard road. In a mo- j
ment a carriage drew up at the gate, a :
brisk, business-like man alighted and
came quickly up the pathway.
' Is this Mr. Loring's?" he asked, as i
he reached the door.
Nellie arose as she answered him in the |
affirmative, uud invited him to enter. |
Having shown him into the little parlor, I
die left him to summon her father.
"By George,'' said the visitor to him-!
self: "she is a lovelv ffirl; what news it I
will be to her."
He glanced around the room with
many smiles of approval at the signs of j
taste to be seen on every hand, and had I
liardly finished his hasty inspection when j
the farmer entered. The visitor rose !
and bowed.
"Is this Mr. Loring?" he asked.
"Yes," was the reply.
"Were you in California twenty years ;
ago! But stay, let me first introduce:
myself. I am Joseph Roberts, a lawyer j
iff San Francisco."
Mr. Loring extended his hand with i
old-fashioned courtesy, as he replied :
"I was in California twenty years j
ago."
"You bought some land there, did
vou not?"
"Yes."
"And own it still <"
"Yes. I have had offers for it, but j
not for a long time. I never felt like
selling, as it. represents to me some of the
best years of my life."
"Do you wish to sell now?"
"I think perhaps I would, if I could i
get anything like a decent price for it."
"What would you say to two million
dollars?"
"Two what?" was the astonished reply.
M" 1-tl Al- 1
"Two million aouars, was rue chhu
answer.
Mr. Loring hesitated a moment before
replying. Then speaking slowly, he J
said: "I would like to know something:
more about the matter before answering."
"You shall be told everything there is |
to i.c!i* only promise me the refusal of!
the place at. the figures I name if you de- [
cidc to sell. I would like that promise J
because, to speak frankly, I suspect that (
you will have other offers."
Mr. Loring readily gave the promise
asked for, and his visitor entered into a !
long and elaborate explanation, the sub- j
stance of which was that a valuable sil
ver mine had been found on the prop- !
ertv, and a half dozen different concerns ;
were on the lookout for the proprietor. J
It was finally agreed between Mr. Loring .
and his visitor that the former should go !
to New York at onc e and make further j
inquiries from there. He said very lit-1
tie to Nellie of the object of the lawyer's
visit and of his own sudden journey to ]
the city, except that she might hope for i
very good news.
The result of his inquiries was that, he ;
sold the property for two millions in cash, i
retaining to himself n quarter interest in j
the mine, and the first that Nellie knew I
of her altered fortunes was when she
awoke one morning to find herself an j
heiress.
? * * * *
"Bv the way, Mart well, have you met j
the new beauty, Miss Loriug? She has j
just returned from Europe. I warrant |
that you have seen nothing more lonely i
in your three years' absence."
"Loriug?" repeated the other, his;
grave, handsome face coloring slightly. j
His friend noticing it laughed, as he :
replied: "Why, Hartwcll, there must be '
something in a name after all, since vou,
r> - j
who are known as a woman hater in both
hemispheres, blush at the name cf a;
woman."
Hart well had by this time regained !
his self-control, and his voice showed no ,
trace of emotion, as he said:
"1 was not aware that I changed j
color, and you must be mistaken. I i
will answer your question. I have not
seen the new beauty."
"Well." laughed the other, "you can !
say that no longer. 'Speak of angels,"
you know. Here she cotnes."
ITartwcll looked in the direction in- j
dicated, and what lie saw made his heart, i
almost cease to heat. If his friend had I
been regarding him then, he would not i
have accused him of blushing. His face ;
was almost ghastly in its pallor. Changed j
though she was, far more beautiful than |
he had ever imagined she could become, !
graceful in every movement, bearing her- 1
self with a quiet dignity that added to ;
her charm, sh.: was the same Nellie j
Loring, who was ever present in his,
thoughts?whose image he had vainly j
tried to banish. She was coming straight:
toward him: and his friend, without rc- j
moving his eyes from the lovely figure, j
said:
"Hartwoll, we arc in luck. She is:
coming near us. Let us ask our hostess j
to present us."
"No, thank you," was Hartwell's J
reply as he turned on his heel and dis-1
appeared amid the throng. The other:
remained where he was, and in due time
was honored by the presentation he so
much desired.
"Who was that tall gentleman stand- j
ing by you just, si moment ago?" asked
Nellie, during a pause in the conversation
which followed the introduction.
"That must have been Jack Hart well,
he best fellow in the. world, though a
ittle weak about women."
"Why. is he too fond of them? H3
ioes not look like a man who would be
itfeetcd in that way,"-said Nellie.
"Oh, no. Quite the reverse. Noiody
knows anything about it; but I be*
ieve Jack lost his heart years ago and
las never since found it."
"Poor fellow," said the girl; but if
her companion had seen her face, lie
vould have thought the adjective
strangely misplaced.
A little later Hartwcll v.-as standing in
i remote corner of the conservatory alone
ind lost in reverie. The never-to-beforcotten
scene at the farm Lrate came be
Tore him more plainly than the gorgeous
bank of flowers besiac which he stood.
Suddenly he felt n gentle vouch upon his
irm. lie turned tqcyfind Nellie at his
side. V
"You did not say 'gooc-byc' that, day
three years ago, when we parted at the
gate, John."
He looked down into her upraised
eyes, his own beaming with the old-time
tenderness and said:$
"Shall I do so now, Nellie?" For answer
she extended her hand, saying:
"Not until you have forgiven me for the
last words I spoke that day." Then her
voice dropping to a whisper, she added:'
"They were not true, John."
His forgiveness was not long withheld.
When, as the ball broke up, he parted
from her at the carriage and turned to
join the friend who had first told of her
presence, the latter said:
"I thoi^ht you Sf.id you did not wish
to he presented to Miss Loring, Jack."
"Why should a nc^n want to be presented
to his promise*? wife?" was the reply.?
Godey's Lady\\ Book.
Girls Who I'ain'l for a Pittance.
A comparatively new industry has
sprung into existence in New York city
within the last few years. It is the manufacture
and decoration of all kind3 of
bric-a-brac and "novelties," and includes
such things as slipper-holders, handkerchief
cases, photograph cases, spectacles
cases, portieres, sofa cushions, cravat
holders, table covers, lambrequins, fans,
shawls, lamp-shades, shaviDg-paper holders,
screens and mary other trifles. The
materials used in the construction of these
works of art, some cf which cost several
hundred dollars?aDd the simplest bit of
celluloid painted, fram $1 to $2?is silk,
plush, satin, celluloid, tin, pasteboard,
japanned and water-color paints, embroidering
silk, leather and ivory.
There arc several large establishments
in the city where these articles arc made
and sold at wholesale. Ir. one in Fourteenth
street, about .forty girls are employed,
whose wages range from $3 to $0
per week. The girls who embroider receive.
65 per week, while those who paint
receive 63, 8-1, $6 and 89 per week, according
to their skill. On the scieens,
tabic-covers, cushions, etc., the design is
stamped and the work is comparatively
simple, but on the majority of things the
artist paints her own design free-hand.
It is the latter class who make the most
money, and the work is generally on celluloid
and ivory, with japanned paints.
The difference between prices paid the
artist and the prices at which the novelties
are sold is startling. Feu- painting
and lettering? celluloTfl spectacles cases,for
instance, the artist receives sixty cents per
dozen, while the retail price is $1.50
apiece. The girls who do this work
mostly live at home and are willing to
do it at any price for the sake of extra
pocket money. Many of them, however,
support themselves, and in some cases
others, by their brush, and the competition
of the amateurs seriously affects their
livelihood, and night work with piece
work is necessary to make both ends meet.
The busy season in the art decorative trade
is from September T to April 1, the latter
part of the season being devoted to
Easter offerings. None of the girls belong
to any labor organiza ion and the
majority have no idea of agitating for better
pay. The hours of work are from' 8
a. M. to 5 :ot) p. m.?New York Tribune.
- i "What
a Street-Car Passenger Saw.
The average woman will scold if carried
ten steps beyond her street, but if
she holds a car two minutes while picking
her way through the mut she should
have crossed before signaling, it's all
right. But there is a plcasanter view of
the street-car man's life with woman,
says a writer in the St. Louis Star-Sui/iiiy*,
and a happy illustration of it occurred
last night. I was the sole passenger of
the car, having gotten aboard just as the
train reached its outer terminus. The
conductor was a young, beardless fellow,
and had evidently just been married, for
u little woman came aboard and sat with
him while the train waited for "time."
Iler pretty face peeped from the folds of
a natty scarf thrown hurriedly on, and
in her arms she held the cutest of little
dogs. The young man and woman
chatted in almost a murmur, and when
the starting signal was given the young
woman moved reluctantly toward the
door and down the step. The youthful
conductor followed, and just before he
went out on the platform he looked
back at the sole passenger. The lookappeared
to be unobserved, and so the
conductor stepped quicker and reached
his hand for the retiring figure of his
little wife. She stopped and leaned
toward the door; her husband threw his
arm around about her, and . It was
only for a second, and then the sound of
retreating footsteps came. "It's my last
<vli-i uticl Til Sf> lmmr> sonn." pnllrrl nul
?hc youth; and in happy tones the
young woman answered: "Make it very
soon, dear."
Female Kleptomaniacs.
I was talking recently, said a writer
in the Chicago Times, with the manager
of a large store, where they sell everything
from a clothespin In an overcoat.
"There is hardly a day," he said, "that
we do not arrest three or four women for
stealing. We have a force of detectives
distributed through the house and it
keeps them busy watching all the crooked
characters who come in here. Most of
the women that we arrest we let go with
a warning. But occasionally a professional
shop-lifter comes along and we feel in
duty bound to prosecute such offenders.
The other day a lady wearing silks and
sealskins was seen to take some articles
from a counter and conceal them
under her cloak." She was taken
upstairs to the office and the
goods found in her possession. She
cried bitterly and begged to be set free,
saying that an irresistible impulse had
caused her to net as she did. She is the
wife of a prominent Board of Trade man.
; We let her go and told her not to come
near the store again. Almost every thief
we arrest is a woman. On an average we
have twenty-live of them t. week."
CURIOUS FACTS.
A curly walnut log was sold by a
Burch, Logan County (W. Va.) man for
$5000.
The fastest recorded time made by an
electric railway is about twenty miles an
hour on a street car system.
More than four thousand persons perished
by a hurricane which devastated
Barbadoes, October 10, 1780.
Four telegraphic messages can now lie
transmitted over one wire at one time by
using the quadruple.* system.
It is estimated that 250,000 persons in
the United States are engaged in business
depending solely on electricity.
Eighteeu years ago a Kansas City mau
paid $3(500 for a lot, and was laughed at.
The other day he sold it for $132,000. i
An Ohio girl has a photograph album
containing the pictures of fourteen men
to whom she says she has been cngagcu.
In a colony numbering seventy-five in
Tulare County, Cal., no church or saloon
is tolerated, Board of Trustees governs
the whole.
J. J. Banta, of DeLand, Fla., has a
Di tch Bible nearly 300 years old that his
family carried to the State of New York
when first settled.
Will Hensel's wife, of Punxutatvney,
Pcnn., decorated a favorite cat named
Jonathan with a ribbon and a bell.
Jonathan then climbed a tree and hanged
himself.
A wealthy citizen of Alameda, Cal.,
who died a week or two ago, provided in
his will that if any of his children marry
first cousins they shall forfeit their share
of the property.
The cost, in human life of the wars of
the last thirty-three years, beginning
with the Crimean War, is computed at
2,253,000 souls. This does not include
mortality from sickness.
While Charles Lawson was blowing up
stumps at Everett, Mo., he found a powder
can containing $750 in gold and silver
coin. It is supposed it was hidden
during the War of the Rebellion.
In transmitting a message from San
Francisco, Cal., to Hong Kong, Chin;!,
via New York, C'anso, PenzaDce, Aden,
Bombay, Madras, Pcuang and Singapore,
about fifteen minutes arc consumed.
There arc four brothers in Crawford
County, Peun., all of whom are stalwart
men and mar.*ied, and not one of whom
is on speaking terms with any of the
t others. Property litigation is the cause.
Five miles an hour is considered good
walking for a man, but W. T. Young, in
Morgan County, Georgia, can beat
this. He walked all the way troni
Duluth to withiu a few miles of Madison,
j a distance of over fifty miles in less than
ten hours.
Oaths were taken by Abraham B. C.
1892 (Gen. xxi., 24), and authorized
1491 B. C. (Ex. xxii., 11). The admin
istration of an oath in 'judicial proceedings
wns introduced into England by the
Saxons. That administered to a judge
was settled in J344.
The bridge of the Pennsylvania,
Poughkeej>sie & Boston Railroad at Port
land, Penn., recently completed, is one
of the largest in the United States. It is
925 feet 6} inches, and the viaduct is
993 feet 7 inches, making a total of 1921
feet and i an inch.
A j'oung lady from Caldwell, Ohio,
created a little scene in the ticket office
sit Zanesville the other day. She laid a
late-improved six-shooter on the countei
and proceeded to search for her pocket,
then bought a ticket for Seattle, Wash.,
s.hoved her gun in her pistol pocket and
departed.
Since 1869 more than 60,000 bodies
have been buried in the Potter's field, on
Hart's Island, New York city. There
are no single interments. The bodies are
placed in trenches, dug in regular rows,
rorty-iive feet, long, fourteen feet wide
and ten feet deep. Each of these pits
will hold 150 bodies.
1 ? * ~ s ci,.;c?;onl:
i ne estimaiea nuujuci ui vihw??uo
over 408,000,000; of Buddhists, 420,000,000;
of the followers of Brahma,
:180.000,000; of Mohammedans, 150,000.000;
of Hebrews, 8.000,000; ol
atheists, deists and infidels, 85,000,000;
of PngaDS, 50,000.000, and of 110C
minor creeds, 123,000,000.
"Several weeks ago, while Mrs. N. C.
Deatrich, who lives near Philadelphia,
was gathering hickorynuts, a blacksnake
coiled around her ankle. She endeavored
to shake it off without.a vail, whei.
in her desperation she heroically pulled
it off her ankle and threw it from her,
which certaiuly required much nerve foi
a woman.
Scenes in Shun.
''An Aiuericau finds Bangkok, the capital
of Sinru, full of the strangest contrasts
and oddest sights," said Mr.
Perkins, a returned traveler from that
country. "He sees the river banks lined
for miles with floating houses, the home?
of many thousands and the scenes ol
busy trade, tin one corner is the splendid
palace of a nobleman, and on the
next the hovels of the very poor. Here
arc groups of Buddhist priests in yellow
garb, shielding their faces with fans at
the sight of women, and near them are
gangs of the toughest of convicts clank
ing their chains as they toil in the streets.
Here are lepers horribly repulsive, unrestrained,
and clamorous for alms, and
r.oon, perhaps, the King passes witn a
brilliant retinue, sitting on his state
chair of solid gold. Fine ladies have
teeth as black as polished ebony. When
a member of the royal house dies the cremation
ceremonies cost a fortune, and
while thousands are witnessing the imposing
display vultures are tearing dead
bodies to pieces m the heart of Bangkok,
and the poor are burning their dead, a
couple of armfuls of wood serving as the
funeral pyre.1'?Neoi York Sun.
How to Luce Your Shoes.
The other day the proprietor of a big
down town shoe store showed me something
J can vouch for as a good thing.
He taught mc something I had no idea I
was not fully up in, hut I am now very
thankful for the lesson. Not one person
in a thousand laces his shoes correctly.
About tli': nearest anybody gets 10 u is
to lace as tightly as possible. The cor
root way is to put your foot when you
are about to lace your shoe as much as
possible in the heel of the shoe. You
can do this best by lacing your shoes
with the heel of your shoe resting in a
chair standing in front of the one you
are seated in. Over the instep the lacing
should be drawn as tightly as possible.
This will hold your foot back in
the shoe, giving the toes freedom and
preventing their being cramped. Lace
about the ankle to suit your comfort.?
New York Truth.
TWO PHASES.
BY OPIE P. READ.
OHN. O, John!"
A sleepy boy turns
%A?) over in bed.
J %gKL "Ho> John!"
f "Git up, now, and
b 'ItW*^feed your bosses.
.:n . "**l)avlight lo.g ago."
Syf//J^ How delightfully
u y\ '/TvmIHsomnolent the morn'
\uVlt Js^^Bi'ig air is?the very
/?v *bloom of sweet
\ "John, if you don't
hKm\ x [ fill get right out this
jV yJH minute I'll come in
i%tf\ fv there after you."
l^5^ \ John knows what
jj&y this declaration
means, but how
JftZft-' ' harsh and raspiog is
the thought of breaking the golden
doze! He puts one leg into his trousers,
and. with the silken strand of a
dream still in his mind, he sinks back
upon the pillow.
"I am coming!" he exclaims. He
hears his father's footsteps. He mutters
as he starts toward the stablo: "I
ir? -rw,r*T-?1 ck \vr?rkincr
UUX1 1/ UCIiUt C ill ? - ? 0
selves to death. Hope there'll come a
time when I can lie in bed as long as I
want to. This thing of snatching a
fellow out of bed at such an hour is all
wrong. The hogs and the dogs are all
asleep, but I've got to poke around
here and feed the stock. Wish I were
a man?or a dog?I don't care much
which."
The years pass on. The trees in the
orchard have grown old. It is early
morning on the farm. A man gets out
of bed and looks at the clock.
"What time is it, John?" his wife
asks.
" Only three o'clock. It does seem as
if day will never come, and that bottom
field of corn has been liberally run away
with by the grnss. It does seem that
we can't get time to do anything."
He goes back to bed and vainly attempts
to sleep. Bhcuma ic pains are
sending dispatches up and down his
legs. An hour passes. A cock crows
and birds begin to twitter in the locust
trees.
"Well, it's time we were stirring.
Jim,oh! Jim."
"Yes, sir," comes a drowsy answer.
"Come, get up now and feed your
horses."
Ten minutes pass. No Jim.
"Confound that boy, he's as lazy as
a dog. Jim, Jim!"
"Yes, sir."
"Hustle out of there now or I'll come
after you."
Ten minutes pass. "I'll go in there
and take a strap to that lazy rascal.'"
He starts; Jim comes out. "You'ouglp
to be ashamed of yourself, wanting to'
lie in bed at this time of day. When I
was a boy you couldn't have kept mo in
bed at this hour.
Jim starts toward the stable, muttoring
as he goes. "Hope the time will
come when I can sleep as long a31 want
to. Wish I was a man, or a dog. I don't
care much which."
Ah Tiord. how we do foraret. The
lesson wo learn is that everything comes
too late. In youth we smell the lipc
fruit, and we long to eat it; at last it
falls within our grasp, and lo! our teeth
are bad and our taste is gone.?Arkansaw
Traveler. ?~??
Indian Horsemanship.
It has been suggested that the easiest
way to solve the "Indian problem,"
of which we hear so much, would be to
employ all the idle Indians as soldiers.
They are not, to-be-sure, amenable to
the minor details of discipline, but they
are equal to the Cossacks in all that
goes to make up dashing cavalrymen.
They are absolucely fearless, good
shots, capable of enduring great fatigue
and privation, and they arc sj leuI
did riders.
| A newspaper correpondent, having
visited an Arapahoe camp, gives the
following account of an Indian drill,
ordered for his amusement:
"Fifty fine looking young men,
mounted upon ponies, drew up before
! the tents. At a signal from the chief
J they began their evolutions with a loud
I yell.
"In a moment they disappeared over
! a neighboring hill. Then there sudI
denly rose a mighty tramping of feet,
j and they swept past again, so compact
I that I ouly saw a ball made of horse3
| aud men.
! "Splitting in two, one body swept to
I the right aud another to the left, and
I again they disappeared. Presently
1 they charged each other in solid liues,
I and while the spectator waited breathlessly
for the shock of collision, tin
files skillfully opened to the right aud
left, and the lines passed the i.tervals
without touching.
"Now came the moment for displaying
individual horemnnship. Some of
the riders approached, each lying so
! close to the ])ony's back that nothing
! but the horse could be seen. Others
II stood erect upon the animals' backs.
|! Some hung to the horse by one foot
I and one haud, so that their bodies were
1 completely protected by tho.e of the
(j ponies.
"These young warriors threw objects
' j upon the ground and picked theni up
j at full gallop, ami drew bows and arI
rows from beneath the horses' necks.
1 Somo of the men exchanged horses
j while riding.
j "Again, a man would fall from his
horse, as if wounded, aud two others
I j riding up beside him, would take him
i I by an arm and a leg, swing him between
their hnrsPR and carrv him off.
? "Tliis exhibition lasted nearly two
i hours."
Rest Needed.
I # .
A tramp kuows what it is to be legwearv,
a farm laborer to be bodyweary,
a literary man to be brainweary,
and a sorrowing man to be
' i soul-weary. The sick are often weary,
j even of life itself. Weariness is a
i physical or spiritual "ebb-tide" which
i time and patience will convert into a
I "flow." It is never well to whip or
i spur a worn out horse, except in the
direst straits. If he mends his pace
I in obedience to the stimulus, every
! step is a spark subtracted from ins
! vital energy. IdlcfftflkiS not one of
j the faults of the present ago; wcari'
ness is one of its eonunonest expc!
rienees. The cheeks which many a
I man draws on liis physical resources
are innumerable; and as these reI
sources are strictly limited, like any
j other ordinary bank account, it is vcr
| easy to bring about a balance on the
| wrong side. Adequate rest is one
I kind of repayment to the bank, sound
j "loop is another, regular eating and
: good digestion another.?New York
j If'ilnexx.
1 Ministku?Johnny, is your father a
! Christian? Johnny?Not since last
j week, sir. He has l.? mght him a cheap
typewriter.
FOLLY AS IT FLIES.
, A whisky de'il?the imp of the
bottle.
Song of the syndicates ? Gobble,
gobble, gobble.
A howling swell?The boil on a
small boy's nock.
The son who goes to work in a mill
represents the flour of the family.
The man who is hard of hearing is
apt to be troubled with "hey!" fever.
Like many a young man, nature be>
gius her fall by painting things red.
Winks?I didn't see you at camp
meeting this year. Minks?No; I've
reformed.
A man discovers that gas isn't equal
to coal when he tries it on a coal dealer
to secure credit.
Temperance Orator?What is it, my
hearers that drives men to drink?
Voice from the back seat--&alt mackerel.
A man who was compelled lo sue an
.il'l nnmrnilo trt ramvdr -U'Vlftf. lip OWAfl
him, called him his pseudo friend.
Sued??sued?owe? ? ah, yes, we
catch on.
"Now I am a highwayman," remarked
the commercial traveller to the ferryman
who was takiDg him over the river
in a skiff. "Why?" "Because I am a
rowed agent."
Maria?It's no use my trying to
please you with my cooking; you are
never satisfied. John?You could suit
me exactly if you'd only try. "How?"
"By hiring a cook!"
"Pa, what's the difference 'tween a
cutter and a fitter the signs tell about ?"
"Same thing, my son. My barber's
such n beastly cutter that he's titter to
adorn a slaughterhouse.''
Charlie (who has been blowing the
cornet for an hour): "Say, Ned, dojou
think there is any music in me?" Ned:
"I don't know. There ought to be; I ^
didn't hear any come out." gA
SnE ? What a beautiful world it
would be if it were summer and day- ^
light all the time! He?Daylight all
the time! H'm! When would lovers
have a chance to do their courting?
Tompkins?Heard you left the boarding
house, Jack. Jack?Yes; the landlady
was far too modest for me. Tompkins?Modest?how's
that ? J ack?U,
she insisted that we eat dressed beef at
every meal.
Mb. Goodcatch (calling on the oldest
sister)?Why, Johnny, how you are
growing! You'll be a man before your
sister if you keep on. Johnny?You bet
I will. SisterTl never be a man if she
keeps on being 20 like she has for the
last five years.
Two Irish servant-girls were quarreling
the other day. "Hhure," said
the one, "an' didn't Oi hear yer mashther
comin' in afther half-pasht 4 av
the Dciglit!" "An' sure," rctorteu tne
'other, uan! didn't Oi hear yer mash'.he
not conrin home at all lasht noight?"
Fitzboodle?Now that you consent
to be mine, darling, let us bo married
soon. Belinda?Oh, no dear, let us
wait two years at least. Fitzboodle?
Two years! Oh, you don't mean itl
Belinda - Yes, indeed, I do. Pleaseplease.
let me think you perfect a i long
as possible.
Binolev: "Have you heard that
Pushley is giving away a box of cigars
with every suit of clothes? I bought a
ytrhrygslrciday.?Tiji miswrW
flighting up): "Thanks. I should think
(puff), JBingley," that you would be
glad (puff) that you only (puff) buy
two suits a year."
I Visitor?The boys do be tellin' me
that Dinnis is sick abed. Is he any
better, Idunno? Lady of house?I
can't say just yit. Yoz see he thried to
heighten me by hidin' under my bed
protendin' to be a burglar, an* he's lyin'
up stairs wid a broken leg an' two doctors
a tryin' to take four bullets out o'his
body. But how was T to know hiui
in the dark?
THE OLD MAN'S OL'TING.
Bobby?Ma, did pa spend a good
deal of time at the dentist's vhen he
was in Chicago?
Mother?I didn't know that ho was
at the dentist's at all, Hobby. Why?
"I heard him tell Mr. Smith that it
cost him over a hundred dollars to get
his eye-teeth cut."? Texax S'ftivqa.
A Beautiful Yacht.
The exquisite cleanliness of every
thing strikes one forcibly on board tht
Victoria and Albert, Queen Victoria'*
traveling vessel. The deck is laid with
<ork iloorcloth, over which, when the
Queen is on board, a carpet is placed,
and everything else that is to be seeD
is of pure white, with gilded reliefwork
and silver mountings. There are
very comfortable little sitting-rooms on
the promenade deck and behind the
paddle wings, and there i-t also a dining
saloon 0:1 the promenado deck,
which has three big windows and a
skylight. It is furr.i>hed in green
mo occo, and the ceiling i< painted in
white and gold.
The state apartments below are
placed on cither side of a corridor, and
they are famished with n very pretty
chiutz. The Queen's cabins are 011 the
starboard side, and her sleeping apart
mont contains a largo and nld fashioned
but very com for! able-looking bedstead,
with pillars and canopy, and next is
the dressing-room, which was formerly
Prince Albert's cabin, and i! remains
as he left it his little writing table and
wardrobe never having been moved.
Large maps hang on the walls. The
cabins occupied by Princess Beatrice
(or by any princess who happens to be
! travelinc with the Queen tare aft of
her Majesty's quarters, and on llio
other side ot' ihe corridor a?c the cabins
of the Princess ari l a large bathroom.
'ihe breakfast room is in the
afterpart of the vessel, and it has very
large windows and is hung with llie
portraits of all the officers who have
commanded the royal yacht. Tlio
drawing-room is forward 0:1 tho port
side, and it is futnished in bird's-eye.
with a piano and scvcial beautifully
carved side-table3. It is hung with portraits
of members of the royal famil y
| and in this room is a small library. Tho >|
yacht is now lighted with electricity, y
except in the Queen's own cabins. f
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