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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 23, 1890. 3 HE TALKS TO HIMSELF.' Tho Sago of Rocky Croot Oots Into a Contemplative MdocL Fool rollin’* IMilko Too) IVopIc-l.ookI.is Ua. IiUiir.l -The tf on »«<>‘lio ioj- At read) with tho Oenerct govern IXient. the wimly 'izS'wu «• r. wi'h • </ Hit v.;i i on a raw and r’-ist; day in a.- niontli of March, aid says I to mysdf, fool jKililies mal cs life S ^ fool people. Down tiorv on the old Tackeon Trail read the other side of h/ Panther (’reek bridge ] met up „ with dd man x Tube Murray. ^ lie v.asdrivin a yoke of oxen to a eover’d wag on. lie liad eow :'T:d three fogs and all the rest,' his family along with him. After ] ass n the ivglar eoui])lIiient8 in regards to the weather and tie eroj*!, I wanted to know if they wer* runnin away, or mm in out west, ortravelin around or jest naturally goir. some- wheres. on Caney branch? The sap is up no’.; —how would you like to run away and go swimmin in the old mill pond, or cut some hickory sprouts and make whips and whistles? Wouldn't it be bully times if a whole passle of us boys and girls could fling in together and hunt for honeysuckles and sweet vio lets, or play mumble peg, or build fly ing Jennies? Hut honest Injun, Eufe, ccmin right down to business and rock bottom, would the grown man love to swap places with the boy? Do we raley want to throw down the hand we now hold, and draw to tit hers which we. know not of? We haven’t got so very high up I know, climbin us liest we could, but would it suit us to turn loose and drap back down the ladder and take another pull from the first round? Would it. pay to spit on the old shite and spile out and start over? Take a good look at all the surroumlin circumference, llufe, and see w hat a general, all-around spile out would mean for you and me. We have come over a long and rough and dusty road—sometimes up and some times down—and by now we ought to know that the time to count the costs is before you take the trip. We will stop right now and count up the costs of this business,, and then I reckon we will turn around and come back before we start. POLITICS IN A TANGLE. Tho Oonlal Georgia Philosopher Summarizes tho Situation. 1U1I Arp Say* There Are In tho Seventh Three Caudhlate* for Congressional Honors—There Will l!o Other*. We used to have our polities in the fall of the year, but it seems to have worked back into the spring. Stump speaking lias begun in earnest. Candidates are looming up all over the state and every one is chock full of patriotism and git ready ions with agin tin went, “and I thought i w ed to move up to town and A Joyful Old CandSdntiv “We han forever shook the.’amdr. of Panther creek from our nnlallowed feet, llufe, and we are now moun up to town,” old man Tolie come hack at me. “I have sold out in the old set tlement, k>; k. stock and barrel. I have rented u fine house in tow n wih green bay windows and lightnin rots on it, and hencef awards from now on oid liiiin Murray and bis folks will keep company with tho higliristocrrcy. "You must recollect, llufe, tint I am the next high sheriff of the •ounty,” old ia.in I obo went,on, waxin warm and Hiv f'd as h J * luoughta for the business—git, fninil- ic documents befoie I go up a me, as it were. “Of coarse the election nlntcomeolT as yet, llufe, but Tobe Murray uint no body’ . r:.tural-born blame fool, and I don’t han to wait forever to tee which way t he eat will jump. I have done Irceu tlie round > and counted the roses, luul tlie po.ij !■’ are most all for no. In nil (lie rounds 1 didn’t meet up ’Hh hut a few seatlerin votes that nir.t /it-footcd for Toil- Murray for high sheriff. l?y pollyr, i.'afc, V have got the thing In a tai k a: d gpiiie with it. All I have got to do i to wait till the returns come in and then proceed with the proceed ins." , With that old man Tobe la.ighed and laughed till he laughed all ovw himself, to to speak, and then him nnj his folks driv on towards town. •‘i'oftgy Up the (’recti.” Jfow then. The primary cleftlon come [to pass as usual one day last week. The liveather was clear as a 1 ( lion election [day, but as the returns car.* in and be* [fore the sun went down it was Jookln j trcineiidius foggy up the crock for old man Tobe. And when finally at last they swung down under the wire it was plain to a man on the grandstand that the candidate from Panther Creek was the hindmost horse in the race. Old man Tobe he got left. He likewise also got foamin mad. Put tin other fel low got the votes. The very next day old man Tobe lit out for the Panther (’reek settlement. He wouldn’t take a meal of vitt mils nor Jilt a lick of sleep till he rued the trade and got holt of his farm and farmin fix* menIs onest more. He is now ready to give up his town house and return back to the old lick log, w here lie belongs. “I tun plum satisfied with tin’ way In which the democrats run, and lam more than willin to quit the game as it now stands,” says old man Tobe to me right after the storm. “Hut it rea'ly hurts me, llufe, when I think about how many of my horny-handed fellow citizens are silver-tongued liars. Dad blame ’em, the woods are full of ’em! ” And tint’s what makes me say to my self, says I: Pool polities makes fool people. Never count your chickens till the old lien comes olT. The muincst thing is the votes. I.ookinf; liackwuril. I do reckon about the most lonc- sonicst thing in this world is a rale lone some man. And as for me, when I git one these big lonesome !t|tolls on me I will stoop mighty low down for com pany. I have seen the time when I was so hard run for company till I would talk in my sleep, t nnetimcM I go out and talk to the hones and the dogs. And then sometimes, when I can’t do no better, 1 pitch in and talk to myself. So the other day I was down in tho orchard suiinin my old clothes, and wntchin the bees hum and hustle, and listenin at the birds, and smellin of the tipple blossoms, when presently I got to talkin and argifylu with myself at, a iieaudiilous rate. When I got back to the house mother lowed 1 must bo practicin for a stump speech or go In crazy. Hut I was neither. marking Up "Tho Cost*." Now, what would it cost the old man , 1o spile out and swap places with the : 1 toys? You would then have a home with the old folks, but you wouldn't ; have a foot of land, nor a horse, nor j a eow, nor n pig—nothin which you could call your own in your full and proper name. You could play a little J around the edges, an it were, but you would have to work a whole tremen- ; dins big lot. You would have to take i holt and turn ofl all the various and 1 sundry odds and (’nils and jobs that monght naturally fall to a peart and handy boy. And that wouldn’t lie so t very infernal nice and pleasant, would i It? Hlamod If the very thoughts don’t : make me tired and hungry and sleepy. Hut. that nint all, by a whole lot. If we was to take and spile out for a new deni you wouldn’t have mother and the babies. How in the round created world could you put up with that, you blasted old Idiot? You monght maybe come over the old trail and fall in love with the Feme girl and git married to the same. Hut there nint no tellin. Men alnt quite altogether ns skeerce around Hooky Creek as they use to lie. Rome other youngster monght pull In ahead and turn up Jack and block your game next time. Then you monght hove to wiggle and worry through without mother and the babies. Nobody to smooth down the wrinkles, and pull out the silver threads, and let in the sun shine, and brush away the tears, and sew on the buttons, and darn the socks, and patch your Sunday breeches. No- IkmIv to pout and cry for dolls, and pic ture hooks, and new shoes, and beor stories, and swings and playhouses and rocky horses, and the good Lord knows what not. No more of that, llufe, says 1 to my self. The spile out don’t go. It would cost loo outrageous much. You are a bloomin, beautiful ok! rooster to be raisin a rumpus with fate anyhow, I went on with myself. This world lias been monstrous kind and good with you. Jiiifus Banders. You have been young onest, and now you ore old, but wo have never yet seen the righteous man around at the kitchen window beggln cold grub. You raley ought to spend half of your time read in the Scriptures and savin Am a* In (Irace. We have lioon wild and wayward in our generation, and in spite of all that could be raid or done our wandcrln feet have sometimes straggled out of the good and narrow way. Hut so far as the record runs we have never run up the white feather in a fight or took up with any thing that didn’t belong to us. Wo have net the enemy at the dead line, and no man ever cone around by our house spilin for a fight but what he got accommodations. We have belt up the good name and standin of the Sanders generation, and we have never yet got called when we couldn’t show down. Mo nml tho (•oTcrninont, There Is another thing, llufe, forme and you to shake hands over and be glad alxmt, says 1 to myself. We are movin along smooth and easy without kickln up any big dust to speak of with the general government, if the shebang alnt agin us we are not agin tlie.shebang. All we want Is an open field and a fair tight—then let the best man win. Hleesed l>o (iod, we are sprung from the ai Istoorney of simple homes and honest hearts and hard knuckles, and if we can’t swim without a full set of govern ment gourds around us, by Jings we can stay out of the water. No doubts you have heard tell of the big scheme some of tlie candidates are fix in up so a man can borrow all tlie money he wants by puttin his farm produeenicnts In soak with the general government. We will he agin that move on general principles. They say Dunk Strickland has got a little one-eyed, slab-sided, wobbledy-legged, razor-back steer, which he wants to put in soak for $.10. He maintains if other jieople can soak their lands and their crops he can soak his steer, cause he nint got Unfits Sanders, rays I to myself, these fine spring nioniins are pleasant to look upon, but they have got u mighty feteliiin way of startln a man’s nothin else, and every man is free and thlnkln inaohitiJry olT on the’biick trail, equal In this great count ry. Thntwould now ain’t that so? We can swell up 1 be n big thing for Dunk, you under- und talk big' about bein a man amongst stand, but if we start the soakin htisl- inen ami liaxiu a li'ul as big ns a ham- ness with the governmentnobody knows l*’r basket Mini the like of that. Hut, for certain where It would stop. A* for by jingo, when the apple blos.soi<is bloom, and the birds sing' sweet and constant, and it seems like everything is breakih out in iv fresh place 1 —then your mir.<l turns backwards and goes plimgin oil’ towards tho old home down then- in tlie old settlement. Von couldn't catch by the tail with iv steel Imp big enough for Ix-nr and hold it back. Say, llufe, how would you like it if wo could call buck these many yearn and be a boy onest more? How would it .’nit ,tou to dig hujio grub Worms thiu morn in and go Ikdiiu over us, we couldn't soak our com and cot ton and seed potatoes if wo hud done been and run heels over apiietitu in debt, ami so long as we don’t owe noth in wo can keep the stutT here at home, or sell it and put the money away in tho family ohist. Consequentially, says 1 to myself, if it ever conies tot hat puss where we can't make tongue and buckle meet without soakin somethin with the government, then I will move that wegound put our blame fool head in soak. Hrrui Sanders. knows exactly how f to save the country. Those who are in office have saved it several times and will do it. again if the jieople will let them. Five thousand do’- lars is a wonderful fertilizer to jiatHol ism. And besides having saved the country a man wants to be vindieated. He wants the people to rise up and say: "Well done, thou good ami faithful servant.” Then again there is the line of promotion that must beolisorved. In the army a lieutenant aspires to be a captain and a captain to be a colonel and n colonel to be a brigadier. Just so the young lawyer must go to the legis lature a few times and get acquainted with the 1k>vs and by and by the boys will elect him to the bench and that j brings him in contact with the jieojileof his circuit and in course of time he j climbs into congress and then maybe j into the governor's chair or the United | States senate. The professional candi- j date wants to lx*, climbing the golden | sta.irs all the time, and he could do it if there wnsnt some things in the way. j There are some selfish itoojde in this I world whodon’t want a man to have but | little nor have that little long. Hy the j time a man has fairly settled down in j congress and learned 1k>w to save the j country and has fert ilized his jiatriotism with ?i 1,000 or $20,000 lie hears a voice away down in his distr’et say “rotate, rotate, rotate!” And by and by he hears another and another ami so he gets leave of absence and comes home to mend his fences. Hut there is no telling where we are at down here In the Seventh, for polities is j in an awful tangle. We have got two democratic silver candidates in the field right now and one independent, who, like Dr. Felton, defies the-field, and there will soon be a goldbug backed by the administration and before long the fusion candidate of the jwjiulists an I republicans will give a Comanche whoop and let loose the dogs of war and “erv htivock" and the sixiils of office. Of course, the old-time rock-ribbed deme- ernts will stick to their party if they ean find it, hut there is a lot. of re.'-t less souls who say they can’t lx' worsted and in tend to vote forwhom they (logon please. They are discordant, d’l.-severed, belli gerent^ and, like King David’s little army, include "all who are in distress or In debt or lire discontented.” My good friend. Newt Tumlin, said a long tine’ ugo that the only way to get even with the republicans was to “jine’i in," and 1 hear some old-time democrats say they ere going to do it if our platform don’t suit them. Hut if the fusion of j oju:- lists and republicans does take place then the republican platform won’t suit our disaffected democrats, for it will be a straddle both on silver and the tariff. There are n good many protect ion demo crats around here and more gold buys, but it Is rare to find a democrat who favors both. Among the office seekers the sjioils will cover everything, for as one told mo recently, these jiarty jfiat- fonns are only intended to get in on. Passengers must not stand on the jilai- fonn while the train is in motion. The way It looks now a platform cannot be made that will harmonize the jx’ople of any jKiirty. The cohesive power of jiuhlie jilunder may harmonize the lead ers and the office seekers, hut the jieople will not. follow like they have done. They have lost confidence In parties and platforms. They are better educated politically than they have ever been and will not go It blindly. This is an age of surprises and nobody can foretell who will lie the next president nor representative from the Seventh district. We have not for gotten that Dr. Felton, an independent, carried this district three times nor lliut the pojmllsts now elect their rejirc- sentatlve to the legislature from this county, nor that this county went re- jiuhliean when (larfield was elected, and there is more political dissatisfaction in those jiarts now than ever Itoforc. The jx’ojile have good cause for their discontent. Take a man who four years ago bought a good little farm for $1,000 and paid $2,000 down and gave h’s notes at one, two and three years for the rest of the juirehase money, and still owes it with Interest, and he can’t sell the farm lor more than $2,000 now. That man is holding somebody to blame for his des- jx*rate condition. He is like the Irish man who said lie did not know what jiarty lie belonged to, but, begorra, he was agin the government. Take an other man who owns a mine of manga nese, or who works in the mine or hauls the ore to town and has mode a fair liv ing in some connection with the min eral business, and suddenly without, warning the tariiT reform committee takes olT the duty on manganese and it comes in free from Cuba and Hrnzil and its price drojis away down, and all this was done to jilease Carnegie and the Chicago steel works. Well, of course, that man is agin the govern ment, and t here are scores of t hem right here la Hurtow county, and they are all for jirotcction. In this sublunary world almost every man jirays the Lord for a blessing on “me and my wife, my son John and his wife—us four and no more." I’ve long been hunting for that man who, when he was robbed of his coat, gave the robber Ids cloak too. Ib is as scarce as the wandering Jew. Kverybody wants jiroteetion of some sort-especially if it comes out of the jiulilie crib. An honest man is not the noblest work of (iod, but 1 don’t blame Mr. Poj»e for saying so. An honest dis turber of jiublie money is worthy of u jH’iision nml umonument. SoU'Uiiy men arc dishonest and so mutiy ale deceit ful that jiocts and philosophers seem to have lost confidence in the whole annum race. The old Scotch preacher was reading a psalm to his hearers, and when he got to the verse that reads:; “And 1 said in my haste thatall men are! iars,” jiaused and npostrojihised: “Ah. David, me maun, an* if ye had lived till now ye might have said itatyour leis ure.” Hut hrijqiily there are many honest and many truthful people. The salt has not lost its savor and the smile of the Lord is still upon the land. Neither war nor famine nor jicstilencc nor any ( rent calamity has for a long time be fallen us.—Hill Arp, in Atlanta Consti tution. AN OX IN THE DITCH. Sam Jones Outlines a Plan Getting Him Out. for Ilcmcmbcr tlie Sxhtuith Day to Keep Iloly—Detter Work Could He Douo In Six ’ !ia:i In Seven—Work for the Idle. It STORIES ABOUT PARROTS. Itatc’s Clever Speeches and Trick*—Ko- niaatlc Disappearance. An American gentleman has a jiarret named Kate. She had a.splendid time of it, for she was never kept in a cage. She was so tame that there was never any fear of her not coming back to her owners, and she ilew about wherever she liked. She could talk very well, and sometimes her speeches were quite un cannily clever and very amusing. Hen' is one of the stories her owner told ulxwt Kate: “Kate used to sit on the mantel while father said grace, and as lie always used the same form of thanks the parrot got so that she knew it by heart. One day the minister took tea at our house, and of course father asked him to say grace. Kate was on tho mantel as usual, and be fore the preacher had finished Ids first sentence she shouted: ‘That ain’t right.’ The parson went on, but Kate kejit shouting ‘that ain’t right!’ at him till he finished, when she flew to fa ther’s shoulder, and said, coaxingly; ‘Da. you say it!' Father asked the blessing to jilease the jxirrot, and when he got through Kate perched herself on the jireaeher’s chair and muttered: •That’s the way to say it.’ The parson was a very serious man. hut the par- | rot’s oajtor tickled him greatly.” This is very funny, but it is also rather wicked. Derhaps you think it is ; too clever for any j>arrot to have done, j Hut this is not so, for I know a jiarrot ; which did a similar thing, and made j everybody in the room just shake with j si!j>j)ressed laughter. This parrot, i which was called Dolly, as most jiarrots [ arc, was always in the room when even- j ing jiraycrs were read to the whole | household. As a rule she was perfectly j silent and well behaved during ji ray its, but one day. when everybody was kneeling down, listening to the prayer. ! Dolly at once became restless, clucked ! like a lien, crew like a cock, and began to whistk’ the tune of “Knocked Him in the Oid Kent Hoad. Fako the bird out!" said the head of the household to , one of tlie maids, and she got up. took j the cage, and went toward the door. | Hut before she had got half across the j room with the cage Dolly called out. In I funereal tones,: “Sorry I sjxike! Sorry i 1 sucks!" and then the door was shut * i upon her. This v, a.s, quite as bad an Kate’s speech, was it not ? Another story about Kate runs like ! this, and show s the bird from her worst j side. A pack jx-ddler wlio came through j our region jicriodieally gave Kate a cufT one day because she was treading \ on tlie goods he had spread out, for mother to look at. lie had long hair, and while he was strajijimg his pack Kate tlew in with her claws full of mud and jilastorcd his head with it. Then she called him a thief and broke him of calling at our house. , And last of all, there is a story of If all the animals in the world '"ore oxeto, and they were all in the ditch, hu manity coulii ot be much busier get ting oxen out > f the ditch. In my jx’re- grinations thn ughout the country I And so many m d men—tired in mind, tired in Ixxfy and tired in soul. With these I find de m :i who are tired of doing nothing. I believe we might kill two birds with one stone if there were not so many oxen in the ditch. I was in Haltimore, Md„ the other day riding up the street with a friend. I saw an odd name placarded over a door —simply “Quid.” I said: “1 hat’s a peculiar name.” He replied: “It is the name of a suc cessful business man.” I asked: “What does he do?" “Ho makes ice cream and cake,” he icjilicd. “He lias been doing business here for pcrhajis 30 years. He has grown immensely rich. He makes the best icc cream and the best cake in all the land. And another peculiar thing.” he said, "he never furnished anybody either cake or ice cream on the Sabbath! No orders arc filled from his jilace of busi ness after 11 o’clock Saturday night un til Monday morning.” And 1 asked: “You say he has grow n rich?” “Yes," the gentleman said. “Helx’gan a jioor man ‘and is now one of our wealthiest citizens. He made a g-ood cake and good ice cream, and labored six days a week and outstrijiped a,II his competitors who labored seven days a week.” ‘Miis put me to thinking on a subject that I would like to see the world re formed on. One of the Ten Command ments reads: llcmeniber the Sabbath to keep it holy. Thou, nor thy man- servants, thy maidservants, thine ox nor thine ass neither shall labor on the Sabbath. Sunday trains and Sunday druggists. Sunday scxla water. Sunday dry goods merchants. Sunday lee cream and cake manufacturers; and 1 have seen in tho state of Missouri farmers running their harvesting machines on the Sabbath. I don’t believe that a man ean steal a march on Drovidente. 1 do believe that the best things a man ever did for himself qr his family or his business are the things he docs in side the boundary lines ef human and Divine law. It has been demonstrated that a man can do more work in six days than he can in seven. Then why cannot this lx* true.in an aggregation of men? I honestly believe that rail roads can haul more jiasscngers a.n<l move more freight in six days than they can in seven, (iod know when lie wrote the Ten ComiraUdmciits on ilie tablets of stone on Sinai’s top that it would be a struggle for existence and n battle for bread wit h the human race, and the great (iod who know s all things and who advises always to the best, says: Six days aholtlhini labor. One day shall then rest. The tired railroad men, the tired clerks, the tired oifice : man. the tired laboring men, when we look uj’-m their constant, everlasting, never-let-up labors we feel sorry for them. We can adjust ourselves to six days of labor and one day of rest, and tho world will be better and hapjiier there by. (iod’s law will be honored and man will Ito benefited. I have been aji- him and rest him up. When an englno gets out of fix it goes to the, shop for repairs; but when our national and commercial life gets out of fix we gnzo anil stare and wonder like idiots nml never lend a hand in making repairs and readjustments. Livery stables fre quently do their biggest business on tho Sabbath. So with railroads; sometimes so with drug stores, peddling soda water, cigars, etc., and the ice cream dealers frequently make it their busiest day, confining their men and desecrat ing the Sabbath; and frequently the orders they supjfiy are for the homes of deacons and stewards and elders in tho church of (iod. It is a shame upon our civilization, to say nothing of our Christian vows to (iod. Six days shalt thou labor, an 1 these days are yours, says the great (iod. The seventh is mine. If I were to meet a blind Ix-ggar in tho road and give him six of the seven silver dollars 1 had in my jxioketnml he were to grop'i his way to my room that night and steal the other one l had left for myself lie would 1 o no greater sinner than the man who takes the six days (iod has given h u.i and then steals the other. I frequently hear men say: “I don’t like these Sin lay Christians.” I am free to confe.SK they are the only ones I am stuck or. . t nil. Show me a man who keeps th Sabbath day holy and I will show you a man that keeps every day in the week holy. Show me a man who desecrates the Sabbath and I will show you a man who desecrates every day in the week. Hut I believe we are getting Irottcr along these lines. I see some imnrovc- inents. I liojx' for greater imjirovements. In common, with nil we need rest, and with all who deplore the state of things now obtaining I lift my heart to God and jmiy that the wickedness of the wicked may come to an end and that the righteous may bo established In the earth. Sam P. Joxrs. Kate’s disapjtoiirance, which, though it pronebed bv wives and mothers and is sad, is very romantic and jiicturesque. i usl . C(1 to Ka ‘ y something to employers You remember, of course, from your “Leather Stock ing’’stories that in North ' America enormous flocks of pigeon:; j migrate every sjiring and .summer. "In those days millions of jiigcons flew north every Ajwil. and one sjiring the jiarrot got in the notion of sailing into a flock several times a day, seizing a jiigeon by the neck and flying hack to the house with it. She seemed to take on this subject. A railroad that can’t make its dividends and do its work six days a week either deserves a change of management or ought to go jxt- mancntly into the hands of n. receiver. A inai^ who can’t make a living by six days of honest toil a week ought to be eared for by public charity or arrested as a vagrant. If God’s own hand guide.; and 11 is eye overlooks this world, and great delight in :'/.-*king the jiigcons to i 0 |j j n f rac tion of law brings His dis- denth. One morulvg Kate jilungcd into ; pleasure, in this way I ean account for an enormous flock ..-ome distance below | n ,ji ro a,i wrecks, commercial disasteis tin' house .giving a screech a.s she met it. | aiu i financial ruins. We have watched The great mass of birds eomjdetelysur- | lin(1 waited for three years for better rounded the Jiarrot In an instant, and ' tinH . s ;m j ,,p W nrd tendencies, but our when tin’ big flock came along and watching and waiting have not availed darkened the sky we could hear Kate ! shouting: ‘Stoji crowding! I’ch.nve, there! Give me room!’ and other ex clamations of distress, but we couldn’t see her. Tlie jiarrot was swept away by tho thousands of moving birds, and wo watched in vain for Kate till th? flock went out of sight. The jiigcons must have carried the jiarrot many miles away before they released her, for the jioor bird never found her way us anything. It is largely true, as Dr. Dark hurst said some time ago. a crowd has no conscience: and just as men iiiultijily and human Itoings congregate and aggregate it seems that conscience dies or is relegated to the rear. Custom curses the world when cus tom conflicts with the law of right and wrong. 1 would hail with delight a state law that would jirohibit all kinds of work ujxin the Sabbath day. Not back, and we children had many a cry- simply because it is a violation of God's ing sjvH over her minster Hmlget. sad fate."—West Content* of nn Ostrich'!! Stomach. One of the flock of ostriches owned by the Darninn £. Hailey show and kept in the Centra! park zoo died recently. To nsec Ha in the cause of death a jxist- morteni examination was made by J. Kowley. the taxidermist of the museum of natural history. In tho bird’s stomach were found these ar ticles: One wooden clothespin, two bottoms of beer boMlcs, a mouth har monica five inches long by two inches wide, a metal skate key, the ferrule of an umbrella, with a piece of the handle a!out. four inches long, an ordinary brass door key five inches long, a black horn comb, a silk handkerchief with the initial “M," two piecesof coal about an inch thick and three stones about an Inch thick. Death was not caused by any of tin se nor hy indigestion, but by tuberculosis. A Hat ut u l ife I'r«*«rver. It is not generally known, says an exchange, that when a person fails : nto the water a common felt hat may be made effectual use of ns a life preserver. Hy jihicing the hat upon tlie water, rim down, with the arm round it, pressing it slightly to the bmistJlt will bear a man up for hours. tt Jaw, but because the desecration of the Sabbath works ruin to humanity. A man cannot pray who does not live right. A man cannot ask in confidence the guiding help of God that violates Jaw at every turn or looks with com- uionjilnce uj>on those who violate the whole law. There are many 1 hings even now that our lax laws will not tolerate men doing ,on the Sabbath day. Every state has its law against the sale of in toxicating liquors on the. Sabbath. A man lias as much right under God to sell liquor on Sunday as he lias to sell beef, or jxitatocs, or ico cream, or clothing; and I have as much respect for one class of these hucksters as the other. It is 1 wrong for a man to keep his clerk eon- fined to business on the Sabbath. It is wrong for the railroads to tie men down not only away from the church and the means of grace but to rob them of the rest their bodies so much need. By working only six days a week we could find work for one more seventh man, and thereby take in nearly all the idle men here and there throughout tlie country. Our national machinery is not working right. Our commercial and ninnufaciuring machinery does not roll without friction and fire. We vio late law at every turn, and liojie that things will turn out well by and by. When an old horse gets sick we doctor EYES ARE ROENTGEN’S RAYS. 1'rof. Salvlono'* Method* for ICnablliig U* to fjeo ThrouR!! Solid*. From a translation In nature of tho proceedings of the Academia Medio- Chernrgiea di Donigia: Though the retina may he fioreseent to tho. lloontgen rays, ns Is tho glass of tlie jihotogrnjihic jilatc, it is hardly probable that it could sec objeotK di rectly through layers of wood, alum inium, flesh, etc. This, however, does not exclude the jxissibility of seeing them indirectly, by transforming, so to say, the llocntgcn rays into ordinary luminous rays before they reach the eye. 1 have made a simple, arrangement by means of which I ean distinctly see the shapes of txxlics inclosed in Iioxch of cardboard, aluminium, ete. ThL; cryptoseojx?, which I have the honor of showing to the academy, consists of ;i small cardboard tube, about eight cen timeters high. One end is closed by a sheet of black j>apcr. on which is spread a layer of fish glue and calcium sul- jiliidc (there being no barium nml jilat- iiiiim cyanide at hand); this sulfstancc 1 have found to lx? very phosjihorescent under the action of Roentgen rays. Within tlie oardlxxird tube, at the other end, at which tlie eye is jilnecd, is fixed a lens giving a clear image of the phos- jihoreseent jiajier. On looking through this cryjitoseojx? one ean see, even in a light room, the shajie and j-osition of metallic bodies inclosed In Ixixes of cardboard, wood, aluminium,and with in the flesh. Its action is obvious; tho fioreseent jiajier under the action of tho rays is illuminated only in those por tions which receive rays, consequently the silhouettes of the objects intercept ing tho rays ajijiear dark. In this there is, of course, nothing new which could not have been deduced from the orig inal exjieriments of Koetitgon; the nov elty, if, indeed, it is so, consists merely In making use of the known facts todc- sign the arrangement. It seems to me that, in a more per fected form, it might be of extensive, use in surgical and medical science. The suljthide of calcium may Ixs rc- placed with advantage hy the cyanide of barium and jilatinmn. It is further clear that, when, by a camera or other means, not only the shadows, but also the Images, can U* jdiotogmphed (which, 1 believe, Drofs. Hattelll and Garbasso, of Disa, have already suc ceeded in doing), the same cryjitoscope will render visible also the images of bodies inclosed In wood or other ma terials.—Troy Times. I’aUcrt-wnk! on Clilrngo MuhIc. “This music Infatuates me!" It was thus 1 aderewski sjxike«rthe efforts of the Chinese artists who aro now filling every hole and cranny of the Chinese rookeries with the din of their unmelodious but chronic produc- tions. “Then it ia music?" was asked. •’Music," he answered, “music? Why, it is wonderful music. 1 never say more dramatic exjiression put into tomw. In their plays fully half-their effects are produced by the orchestra. I could not understand their words* but the music told the story. "What njijtoalixl to me most was tr»r beautiful simplicity of It all and tho evident art. There can lie. no doubt. It Ls art,” he asserted, when sonic ono questioned the work of the musicians coming under that head. “It is art, too, that is the result of cent in Ies of study. Those players do not sing as they do wit bout great study and practice. Neither could tlie In strumentalists produce the effects they do without having been enirfully trained. It seems to me to combine many peculiarities of the Slavic and oOf the Scotch music. The rhythm is jier- feot. Through long bits of recitative the entire orchestra rests, yet tho measure is never lust.”—San Francisco Cali. rcHtrml by Crunk*. Dr. Jameson is so pestered by invita tions, requests for Ids autograph ami photograjih and gossipy letters from total strangers that Le has Imvh obligixl to employ a secretary to answer letter* of no moment.