The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 22, 1901, Image 4
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Self-Iiaposed Taxci*.
S~y EXERAL HOY STONE said
I / recently iu a speech at l*ar\
U~T" kersburp:, W. Va.: "Among the
taxes which the farmers pay
are some that are unavoidable, and
these it is useless to talk about. There
? 'N A4UMU<I 1 fo*?n\A?*o 11 noil
illV uiucid ii uau luiiiivio
themselves, which they hesitate to
f .. share with others, which they submit
to witl^ut a protest, and even cling
?> to when they are be ins removed.
Tnese taxes we cannot talk about too
much. These are taxes, too, which
|?-: bring no useful revenue, nor even supl'
port a tax gatherer; they are burdens
as needless as the traditional stone
f": which balanced the grist on the way
il^ to mill.
"Through the failure of the Government
in the original surveys of the
public lands to lay out a scicntiQc system
of roads, and divide the lands ac
cordingly, farmers have been left to
: lay out the roads for themselves, and
V generally they have put them on farm
V lines, going over all the hills that come
in their way. The result of this is
the hill tax In hilly regions and what
J. may be called the square corner tax
on the prairies.
"The amount of hill tax I have cstl^
^ mated In one county in New Jersey,
and found that needless hills double
all the cost of hauling in the county,
making practically a money tax of
I $10,000 annually to the township. Tlie
people liave paid this tax for 100
years, and yet tliey wonder why they
jSv are poor. In the prairie regions, for
|5ir want of the diagonal roads which the
Government should have laid out, the
farmer, to reach a point ten miles to
the northwest, for instance, travels
seven miles north and seven miles
west, adding forty per cent, to his distance,
or, for the average of all travel,
twenty per cent. This Is the square
corner tax.
"The mud tax is probably about
-equal In total to the hill tax, and this,
again, doubles the cost of all wagon
transportation; yet many farmers are
opposed to stone roads.
"However, the farmers themselves
are doing away in many places with
the enormous burden of the fence tax,
and with it will go the snowdrift tax
and the waste land on the roadside.
They are slowly abandoning narrow
' tires and tracking wheels. Moreover,
many of them begin to realize the
enormity and absurdity or tne bin,
- * mud and square corner taxes, and we
may hope in time to see in this country,
as we do in France, beautiful
?7' hard roads everywhere, winding
s through farms, with crops growing
close to the wagon tracks and. the
roads serving perfectly every purpose
of public use and private convenience.
"You ask how all this can be accomplished
without a burden of taxation
which will neutralize its benefits. I
\ answer that it is all being done to-day
i-* a hundred places in the United
L States, and there are farmers who acknowledge
that they are getting rich
in these hard times solely by reason
ef the improved roads which have been
forced upon them, and are raying
with perfect ease any additional tax
they impose. These Improved roads
are being built in many ways and in
various forms of construction, and
every year's experience reduces the
cost and brings about an easier providing
of the necessary means.
"It would be a very long story to go
j into the details in this direction, and I
would not be prepared to say which is
the best of the many methods of construction
and of payment. Both need
to be greatly varied to meet the conditions
in the various States, and a
careful study of local legislation is
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gecessary; out uie viuu quesuuu i? iui
^ "the farmers themselves to settle genjp
erally -whether they want good roads,
and whether they will accept the help
Er*; H?f those who are willing and anxious
t?-join In paying the cost of road imx
provement If they will take up the
subject in all their organizations and
Bp? appoint active working committee to
te visit the nearest accessible localities
where good roads prevail, and to urge
such legislation as will make them attainable
everywhere, the work will
soon reach a point where its own momentum
will carry it forward.
?? - "The estimate of your able secrejfe
, tary that $600,000,000 is wasted annuls
. - ally in this country through bad roads
is supported by that of other statistieians,
and from this it appears that
the tax they impose takes one-quarter
* of the whole value of all farm products
in the United States. To abol>
ish this tax is a reform great enough
I* to engage the best attention of this
Congress. It is a,j>?rctical and practicahi#^A?ii^mMlSenergies.
What the
\j& Congress says-**, this subject will be
listened to everywhere, vw, -o-batit
. says on other subjects may fall cn
jpf*; deaf ears."
Tlio Crusado in Kentucky.
i The women of Kentucky arc evincing
much interest in the good roads
movement. Fully one-half of the 2000
persons present at a convention at
Hopkinsville to advocate road improvement
the other day were women.
And the fact that a great many farmers,
too, were there in spite of this
being their most busy season was very
encouraging to the projectors of the
assemblage. Fifteen counties were
represented by storekeepers, manufac
turers, professional and public men,
as well as llie agriculturists. Governor
Beckham spoke, and said ho
thought much more of good roads
than he did of building political
fences, and that he is more interested
in building up Kentucky Industrially
than he is in the making of any political
slate.
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Abandoned Trip.
The proposed transcontinental auto'
mobile trip inaugurated by the Cleveland
Plaiiidcaler has been abandoned,
owing to the impossible feat of driving
the machine through the sand
drifts of the Sahara of America.
Everything went well until the desert
was reached, and although 13C miles
were made through it, the last thirty
miles were impassable, and the venture
was reluctantly given up.
The Youngest Editor.
Probably the youngest editor in the
United States is a sixteen year old
girl, Lillie Miller, who successfully
manages a weekly paper at Camden
Sl and supports her widowed mothbrother
and sister. Her fatliveFf
whoVftis'the proprietor, was killed
Jr in'a railway accident recently.
Ultra-Fashionable Cliirography.
^.n Atchison girl writes such a fashionable
hand that when she recently
refused an invitation to go to a picnic
the young man interpreted it as an acV
ceptance, an(i aPPeared on time with
jiis horse and buggy.?Atchison Globe.
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LIVE-WIRE FISHING.
Every Fish That Gets Within Ten Feet of
the Net Is Caught.
It is "positively shocking" the way
J they are catching lish at the plant of
the St. Anthony Falls Water Power
Company. This. too. in face of a large
sign oil which is inscribed in plain letters:
"Xo Fishing Allowed; Keep Off."
Put. then, only the imniedato attaches
of the power house are privileged.
The electricians have become yo
| used to working wonders by electrici
it}'?such a miracle, for instance, as
i running the street railways of two
i cities without scarcely having to turn
a hand themselves?that they are in
the habit of calling the mysterious
! flulil to their assistance whenever it Is
I convenient to do so.
! They started out early in the season,
| which did not open until Wednesday,
to flsh in the legitimate way, but failing
to get any fish to speak of by hook,
| they determined to catch them, if possible,
by crook?to electrocute them.
Since then fish have responded with
such wonderful alacrity to the novel
bait that A few minutes' sport will
give the new fisherman "a nice mess."
The sight would bring tears to the
| eyes of Ike Walton, who believed "art
for art's sake," who accounted it a
i more creditable performance to catch
J one fish an hour by patient, painstak|
ing, philosophic endeavor, than to
! slaughter the finny tribe on the wholej
sale plan iu short order.
At the power house they take n good
1 live wire, properly insulated, where
i the angler holds it, and stick the same
' Into the water. Water is a good con,
ductor, as everybody knows, and
J every time a fish comes within \en or
i twelve feet of the centre of disturbi
ance he is conducted to the surface.
He is not dead?he is simply shocked
I into insensibility by his sensational re;
caption, and if left to his own re|
sources would soon be himself again.
1 But the cruel man on the ledge of maj
sonry which juts out into the river
ornnnrl thn T\r\rvnr* Imnea tlir/Mi rrli
| U4VUUU IUV ^/V/?? N.4 liV UCV, Ull VU^,U
j which the tail race comes pouring,
! reaches deftly into the water and
scoops up the unfortunate fish with a
nctf
Perch, shiners, bullheads, crappies
and an occasional sturgeon are caught
! in this way. One of the electricians
who was directing the mighty maj
chinery which generates 10,000 horse
! power, said that he had caught a
! sturgeon early in the spring which
j weighed twenty pounds. He said that
! an ordinary current of electricity was
j strong enough to bring the most obstreperous
fish to the surface in most
j cases. He had to hand the sturgeon
| considerably more than the average
' before he could make him "lie still and
; be quiet." ? < >
! Sometimes a simple iron plate with
! electrical connections is used. It is
j hung over the side of the wall into the
river, and does the work as effectu;
ally as the wire apparatus. The law
: does not specifically forbid electric
fishing, but Game Warden Fullerton
is going to see if the power house
sport can't be stopped. ? Minneapolis
Journal.
A Ycrltablo Nemesis.
'A melodramatic story of Nemesis
' quite Oriental in color, comes from
Knin, in Dalmatia. A substantial
cattle dealer, having sold a couple of
beasts for 500 crowns, stealthily gave
the money into his daughter's keep
ing for safety. On the way home two
men who knew of the transaction waylaid
the pair and"murdered the father,
letting the girl escape. Fleeing in
terror she at last took refuge in a
solitary cottage, where she told her
story to the women, letting out also
the secret of the money. Xhe hut
turned out to be that of the murderers,
who on returning chagrined at the
barren result of their crime, were surprised
to learn that the prize still lay
unsuspiciously within their grasp. The
girl was invited to rest for the night,
sleeping with another girl of about
her own age, the murderers intending
to strangle her as she slept. As
it happened, the two girls changed
i places during the night, and the men,
1 going in complete darkness for their
; fell work, strangled their own relative,
j while the intended victim, paralyzed
! into silence, lay still until all was
quiet again, and then managed to
make her escape through the hole ih
j the wall doing duty as a window. Th'e
i murderers have been arrested?London
Pall Mall Gazette.
The Cat Goddess.
In old Egypt there was a burial
place for sacred cats as well as for
i sacred bulls. A cemetery of cats cxi
isted near Bubastis. A few years ago
| Monsieur Naville found buried in the
I mound the ruined temple of Bast or
| Pasht, the cat goddess, who gave her
! name to the city.
I The foundation of Bubastis carries
j us back to the period of the building
I of the great Egyptian pyramid? rrac
! Bubastis of the Egyptio"-3 xne same
! as the Artemis tllC ^ho is
' o-ppn-oijv o?id to be the same as the
1 Diana of the liomans, a goddess of
j light, representing the moon. So Bast,
I cr Pasht was connected with the cat
i cn the one hand and the moon on the
! other. Accordingly it is quite possible
| that puss, when she figures as a symI
bol in the Egyptian worship, rcprcj
sents something in astronomy and in
! the calendar.
Ovid calls the cat the sister of the
j moon, and says that Pasht took the
form of a cat to avoid Typlion. AcI
cording to Plutarch, a cat placed in a
i lustrum denoted the moon. It is stated
| by seme writers that the "cat" was
I an interclary month, added in the one
j hundred and twentieth year to rectify
! the calendar.
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New York's Elf? Iteservplr.
Che area cf the Jerome Park Reservoir
is over 300 acres, and the cost cf
! the land was about $2,000,OX. There
; will bo about 10,000,000 cubic yards
' of earth and rock removed, and the
j 50,0C0,0X square feet of surface in;
side the reservoir walls will be laid
j with from three to six inches of cou|
crcte.
The contractors had to purchase 250
acres of lan 3 on Long Island Sound
where they could deposit the exea
vated earth and rock, and five miles of
j railway had to be built in order to
: carry it there. When the reservoir is
| finished the retaining walls will not
j bo conspicuous from the outside,
I although in places they will be more
I than thirty-six feet deep on their
inner slopes. In some few places the
i walls will stand from eight to ten feet
i above the surrounding country.?New
York Times.
Food and Force.
The best-nourished individual, other
things being equal, is the strongest
and most useful, and the best fed nations,
other thigs being equal, are
those which lead the progress of the
world. An abundance of food is to be
i regarded as the essential foundation
for all individual, social, economic and
national aggrandizement.?Dr. Wiley,
j in Everybody's Magazine.
BILL ASP'S LETTER
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Eartow Man Ducmees the Pros
ana Cons of Marriage.
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MATING OF COUSINS A GRAVE MISTAKE
Deaf and Dumb Institute Figures Prei
sented as Proof?Love Is a
God-Given "institution."
! When a young man falls in love and
resolves to get married I reckon it is
a good thing that he is reckless of the
consequences. I was. I know, for 1
never thought of anything except the
pretty girl and how happy I would be
l to got her. I had no thought of trouble
or poverty or grief or war or death.
The time was far, far away when the
silver cord would be loosed and the
; golden bowl bo broken. As for the
girl, she is more reckless than her
| lover, even though her peril is far
| greater, for hers is to be the pain and
suffering, the caro and anxiety?the
night watching and sometimes the broken
heart. It is a mystery to me how
the mother endures it all and holds up
her head and keeps her strength. But
love for her offspring, maternal love,
| sustains ncr. It is the gift of God.
j There was a marriage in our town the
j other day, and as the crowds gathered
j at the church, our neighbor, Mrs. Felj
ton, stopped in tho veranda to rest
and see the battle from afar. She was,
! as usual, merry and sad by turns?
| sometimes the tears were glistening In
her eyes and soon she laughed merrily
and showed her pearly teeth. When
the bridal carriage arrived she gave a
maternal sigh and whispered, "Poor
thines. they little know what is a-head
i of them." Suddenly she branched off
into a story about her little pet mule
! colt that is now her daily comfort. "It
j watches me at the window," she said,
I "and when I go out it runs to me and
lays its head on my arm and almost
nestles in my bosom. Mary's lamb
| was not more loving. It bites and kicks
at everybody else, but runs to me and
! fawns upon me with perfect adorai
tion." She laughed again, but all at
j once the corners of her mouth drooped
; to an angle of 45 degrees ana her voice
I trembled as she said: "But, major,
| I have at last come down to hard pan
and misery in my old age. No cook,
i no help of any sort, and though yesterday
was my sixty-fourth birthday,
j I had to pull the buggy down to the
j branch and wash it. Oh.my country!"
She cried a little and then laughed a
i good deal more. Pearly tears and
| pearly teeth are attractive features In
j a woman. Nevertheless, between peti
ting mule colts and washing buggies
j she still finds time to plead for the
( education of the poor country girls of
north Georgia.
1 But what kind of a girl should a
} young man marry? Of course, she
j must bo born of respectable parents;
she should be virtuous; she should
| have a good, loving disposition and a
fair education. She should be healthy
and have no taint of her lover's ancestral
blood in her veins. All of these
qualifications have been discussed and
; treated over and over again, except
| the last. I am inspired to say something
about that because its importance
has long been overlooked?neither
poets nor philosophers nor scien1
fists have written upon it nor given
any warning. A letter recently received
from a young man in Mississippi
asks if there is anything wrong in a
man marrying his cousin. Yes; very,
very wrong. The answer is found in
j the records of the asylums for the
deaf and dumb and blind. Their chief
patronage comes from the intermari
riage of cousins. These institutions
cost our state about $75,000 a year,
and half of the expense could be avoid!
ed if the intermarriage of cousins was
prohibited. I have not the reports of
the blind asylum before me, but I know
j of three blind children of one family
I who were sent there, and they were
I the offsprings of parents who ware
! cousins. I know of five children of
one family who were sent to our deaf
and dumb institute at Cave Spring:
Their parents were double cousins.
They had but one child who could
hear and speak. She was a good-looking
country girl. Sn? married a clever
young man ^?no hauled wood for
me. Soon ^rter his marriage he moved
to Texas and hired to a cattle man,
o.nd was so faithful in his service that
I in a few years he bought an interest
in the ranch and prospered. I met him
at Waco sixteen years after he left
Georgia, and he was said to be worth
$100,000, and his two elder daughters
were at a boarding school at Wacb, 12
miles from his home. He had six
children, and, alas; one of them was
i a mute. The taint had cropped out in
{ the second generation.
Professor Connor, the faithful and
long tried principal of our deaf and
dumb institution, has tabulated the
; paicntage of nis pupils for manyyears,
and reports that in 26 families
producing 48 mutes the parents were
first cousins. In 12 families produc|
ing 19 mutes the parents were second
i cousins. In 11 families producing 15
mutes the parents were third cousins.
Altogether there were 97 mute children
of parents closely related.
Of the 400 deaf mutes 193 had deaf
parents, an~ many of these deaf parents
are no doubt the offspring of the
intermarriage of cousins.
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! Among mese *?uu pupua mairiages
have occurred and there have
; been born to them 110 children, 89 of
whom can hear and 21 are mutes. In
j 19 of the marriages there were no chili
dren born. Now, after one, two or
tnree mutes have been born in suc!
cession to parents, it would seem a
! sin, if not a crime, for them to have
more. The law should prohibit it. But
i if this cannot be done after marriage,
the remedy for the future is to pro'
hibit the intermarriage of cousins?
! yes, and second cousins. To be born
dc-af or biind is a sin against the child,
j and to have it supported by the state
is a drain upon the treasury that might
be avoided.
But being deaf or blind is not all
; the evil that follows these incestuous
! marriages. If tUe children are not
' deaf or blind they are generally under
i some physical disability. They are
, consumptives or epileptics or idiotic,
j and pass through life and leave no
! sign. Fortunately most of such marriages
result in no progeny.
! "Oh, well." some say, "the Levitlj
ca. law did not prohibit it." No. it
I did not, and I reckon that Cain marj
ried his sister. We know that Abra
! ham married his haif sister, and no
i doubt that is why no children were
I born to them except one by grace in
; their old age.
But it is said that the Roman laws
J and the laws of England permit such
j marriages. Yes. the Roman law did j
| until Pope Alexander II stopped It and j
! prohibited first, second and third cous!
ins from intermarrying. The laws of j
{ England permitted such marriages be- |
! cause the kings and the nobility want- |
ed to keep the crown and the titles j
i and their estates in their families. :
| And so our American people, who have 1
j patterned after English law and pre- j
I cedent for more tnan a hundred years, j
have been reluctant to make any.;
' chango in this regard.
But the question is now coming to
' the front, and the time is coming for
; a change, it seems now to be an es!
tablished and universal rule that !
j these marriages entail upon the off- i
I pnrinsr evil conseouences, bodily or j
! mentally, or both. The evil effect of j
i what Is called ' breeding in" among |
| animals leads to the conclusion that J
it is an universal 'aw. Good stock, j
j blooded stock, is not perpetuated In j
j that way. Heard a conceited man de- !
j Clare that he was descended from the
I Carrolla, of Carroilton, in old MaryI
land. Suppose he did. That was six
j generations back and would give him
! sixty-four ancestral fathers and mothj
ors. and hence he had only one sixtyj
fourth part of old Charles Carroll's
blood in his veins. I know a lady who
i boasts that her father could trace his
lineage back to Cromwell. That was
eighteen generations back, and would
give him 512,000 ancestors?not much
j of Cromwell's blood in her. It is as- ;
j tonishing how rapidly the ancestral |
j tree widens. Two generations back j
gives a man only four great-grand- I
fathers and grandmothers, but twenty
generations gives him over a million,
j Just think of it, young man, and quit
! bragging about your ancestors, for j
I there are over a million different
strains of blood in your veins, and no
j doubt some of it is bad?very bad. My
J wife's grandfather was a Holt and his
j grandfather was a Randolph, and his
i grandfather was a Peyton and his was
! Lord Rolfe, who married Pocahontas,
j That was ten generations back, and
| gives my wife 1,024 ancestors, and
j therefore she has 1,1,024th part of
| Poky's blood in her veins. Mighty
j slim strain, it seems to me?not much j
i Iojun about her. One day I ventured j
to ask her about the other 1,023 parts
that did not come from Poky and sho
never said anything, but looked at me
in a peculiar tone of voice that reminded
me it was none of my business.
But I honor a noble ancestry.
I used to think that maybe I descended
from Captain John Smith, but on
investigation lound that he was never
married and had no children to
speak of.?Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
WAYS OF COMPOSERS
Some Prominent Men Have Worked Under
All Sorts of Conditions.
There are few things, said a well
i known musician, about which there is
so much popular misconception as the j
way in which music is composed. There
are, I believe, thousands of people who
are firmly convinced that a musical
composition is laboriously built up with i
the help of a piano or other instrument, I
and a few sheets of paper oil which the I
notes are jotted down as they are found. J
Nothing could he really wider of the j
truth; for the man who cannot compose
without the aid of an instrument has
certainly mistaken his profession. In
fact, if you were to shut a musician in
a whitewashed cell and give him a pencil,
he could write his compositions on
the walls with as much facility as if he.
were surrounded hv all the musical facilities
you can con ccive.
Much of the best work of a friend of
mine has been done in trains or on omnibuses.
the motion of which somehow
seems to furnish the necessary inspira- |
tion; and the music, as it comes to him,
is jotted down on the backs of envelopes
i or any odd and ends of paper he may
have in his pocket.
Sir Arthur Sullivan used to work under
every possible condition. He could
compose as fluently in a crowded rc?uiru_
taking part *n tnc conversation at intervals,
m bis own study. Much of
the '>cst and brightest music was written
iii bed between the paroxysms of pain,
and "The Lost Chord'' came to him
I when he was watching by the bedside of
| his brother.
Mr. Chevalier wrote both the words
and music of "My Old Dutch'' with the j
light of street lamps as he was walking j
one wet wintry evening to Islington, j
My own happiest inspiration came to j
me at Vauxhall station, when I was ,
waiting for my daughter to arrive from !
Southampton; and I am sure can't \
imagine any more uninspiring environi
ment than that.
j A friend of mine told me that a very
j popular composition of his. which is a
I great favorite with ail music lovers,
came to him while trying to listen to
a dreary sermon, and was jotted down
on the blank leaves of his prayer book.
There is scarcely any condition you
can imagine under which good music has
been written; and I need scarcely tell
you that the composer can judge its effect
just as well as if he heard it played
j by the best orchestra of the world.
What is, perhaps, less intelligible to a j
j layman is the rapidity with which a i
| musician can score his compositions for j
| each instrument of a large orchestra, j
I writing down his notes with almost j
j lightning rapidity. As he writes he can j
i hear the orchestra in full swing, and j
j knows exactly the part he must assign |
| to each instrument in producing the I
; general effect, with all its delicacies of j
j "light and shade." The scoring is the i
| drudgery of a composer's working life, I
| and to some men it is very irksome, ;
| while others, like the late Sir Arthur j
I Sullivan, perfectly revel in it. He per- i
j formed prodigies in it, often working at j
it for a dozen hours at a stretch, and ,
producing an amount of work which
j would take most men as many days.
: Boer markmanship has convinced the
; British war authorities that swords, j
j lances and bayonets are of little use as j
weapons of modern warfare, and that a
j soldier who can't shoot straight is en- j
| tirely useless except as a target for the j
bullets of an enemy whose soldiers can i
shoot better. Hereafter the British sol- i
diers will be drilled in long distance j
markmanship ?s the most essential item \
of their military training. Sword, lance
and bayonet exercises have been abol- !
' ished. and the soldier who can shoot will j
i be the soldier of the future. It has taken J
a long while, and cost a heap of money. I
to get this sensible idea through the
British cranium: but the idea is evidently j
j there to stay at last. ;!
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! Oak. ebony and mahogany arc the !
j three best known woods which are heav- j
j ier than water.
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COSTLY DOLL HOUSES.
THEY LEAVE LITTLE TO THE If
AGINATION OF CHILDREN.
Some of Them Cost a Small Fortune
How They Are Built and Furnishee
Description of a Miniature Colonl
House of a Cotham Little GirL
Some of the doll houses that are bu
these days leave little to the imagin
tion of the children fortunate cnoui
to possess them. Very often they cc
a small fgrtune and the workmansh
expended on the furniture and oth
accessories is of the highest order.
Doll houses of this kind are not
be bought ready made in a toy she
but are built to order and often on sp
cifications, in which the smallest det:
i? mnsirlerfd. One which was oreser
ed recently to a little girl of the upp
West Side was built and furnished <
such a scale of magnificence as fai:
to stun the recipient.
This house is of the colonial style
architecture and is four feet high, fi
feet wide and three feet deep. The
are four ample windows in the rear ai
five in the front. Two tall chimney
painted in imitation of red brick, si
mount the roof.
The main entrance is through doul
doors, approachable by a short flig
of steps. There is a door bell tb
rings and the number of the hou;
which is 37, is painted in gold on t
glass of the doors. All of the froi
except the central portion containi
the main entrance and the window abo
it, may be swung back on hinges, th
revealing the interior. On the first flo
are the kitchen and dining room,
the kitchen is a range in perfect ord
in which real fires may be built. T
frying pan and griddle are of iron a
the coal scuttle and dustpan of copp
Then there are the clothes boiler, a b
full of clothes pins, wooden water pai
and a closet with shelves, in the draw<
of which is a complete set of of pcwi
dishes for the use of the servant. The
is aho a closet in which may be stor
kitchen utensils. The chairs are of so
wood.
An arch leads from the kitchen ir
ihe dining room, which is furnished
sumptuous style. The carpet is Turk
red and the paper on the wall is bl
and gold. The table, which is round,
of inlaid wood. The chairs are of o;
solidly built with cane bottoms a
turned legs. There are also a side tab
a buffet, a couch of inlaid wood and
easy chair, with red velvet seat in t
corner. The dishes are china.
The second floor is occupied by 1
parlor and the bedroom, both very bes
tiful in the eyes of the child own
The parlor carpet is old rose and t
wall paper white and gold. There :
five high-backed, padded chairs, an ar
chair and a sofa with a carved bai
all exquisitely made and all cover
with white flowered silk. There are
so two wooden nigh-back chairs of far
design.
In the bedroom are four high-ba
white and gold chairs, with blue sa
cushions and a white and gold bed w
a blue satin canopy. The dressing tal
matches the rest of the furniture a
in the centre of it is painted a bunch
roses. The room also contains a har
some white wood desk with green ba
top and closets underneath, a marl
top stand and an ebony armchair a
foot rest, both covered with red sat
There is a lace spread for the bed.
In each room save the kitchen there
an elaborate brass chandelier auspehci
from the ceiling. Each room also cc
tains a fireplace and mantel. In 1
parlor, dihing room and bed room ;
hung little pictures, resembling oil pai
ings, and framed artistically in g
All the front windows have lace ci
tains tied back with blue satin ribbo
Just inside the door there is a me
card receiver and a brass umbrella n
has three bright colored sun umbrel
in it. The baby carriage is of m
modern French build, with high bo
movable top and easy moving Spfifi
A brass bird cage containing a min
ture parrot hangs from one of the s
ond story windows. There is a br
clock with glass face in each room,
one in tl;e parlor being flanked
either side by a tall candelabrum.
The family that occupies this wond
ful mansion is French, if one is to ju<
by the dress of its members. Besi<
the father and mothgj>>*fl?ffr>15r^f!
children, a jfchcf and two lnai
York Sun.
Of More Importance.
? "Enjoyed your party, Bobby?"
|Tes, ma."
"WeTirWhatdlttle girls did you dai
With."
"Oh, I didn't dance; I had th:
fights down there with Willie Richa
son, and I licked him every time.'
Tit-Bits.
State or Ohio, CitY of Toledo, )
Lucas County. )
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho Is '
senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Cheney
Co.,doing business intho City ofTolcdo,Coui
and Stato aforesaid, and that Baid firm will ]
tho ram of one hundred dollars for ci
and every caso of cataebii that cannot
cured by tho uso of Hall's Catabrh Curi
Frank J. Cuenei
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
j - x - . prcsenco, this Cth day of Decern!
< seal | A. D., 1886. A. W. Gleason.
' ?r~~ ' Notary Public
Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken internally,!
acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfn
of tho system. Send for testimonials, free
F. J. Chenet A Co., Toledo, C
Bold by Druggists. 73c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Ten days' intimate acquaintance w
poverty will satisfy any ruau fqr the r
of his natural life.
Soo advertisemcnt of EE-M Catarrh Cur
another column - the best remedy made.
A bit of paper money has been <
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value is 8167. redeemable in silver.
FITS permanently cured. Nofitaornervo
nese after first duy's use of Dr. Kline's Gi
Nerve Restorer. 82 trial bottle and treatise f
Dr. B. H. KLrsa, Ltd., SSI Arch 8t.t Phila.
The Mexican volcano Popocatapetl ^
utilized as a source of sulphur more tl
400 years ago.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for child
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamt
tion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 23c a bot
The shipping trade along the Cenl
American coasts is to a large extent
German hands.
Iamsure Piso's Cure for Consumption sa
my life three years ago.?Mas. Thomas R
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Once l*so<], Always "Wanted.
Thousands recommend John It. Dl key's
Reliable Eye-water. Why? Because It ri
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pain. Children lite it because it f>-els g
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Hard hearts are apt to grow harder i
soft heads to grow softer.
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j This is tho recent decision of one of the
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er Cryolite is a mineral found in Green*
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Dyeing is as simple as washing when you
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descriptions of 133 distinct species, about
)le 120 o(which are African.
,
Four and one-half million people use
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ith 11111 ' ""
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er* in the W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50
iee shoes than ho can get elsewhere.
, W.L. Douglas sells more $3.00 and$3.50
ues other two mimufacturers.
> cannot beequalleaal futr^p
- ahoem are made of the same high
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ahooa and are Just as good.
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Catalog frc?. W. L. Douglas, Krock ton, Mass.
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