Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 23 November 1889 — Page 7

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A DAY TO COME.

«re*ll come day when the supretnesl »plete1*w I earth, or *&>".

fjVSTU

or ma.

ate'er th«'r

mlraeie*. nubum# or tender

wake

i»« joy# in me.

4»rrc"n come a flay when all the aspiration ow with siWi fervor fraught,

lift* to helshu of brcthless etaitatioa. 'ill MH'BJ a. tbliiR of naught. rre'll come a day wh«*». rk lie*. honor. flOT. LMuile at

wn(t

and art,

WP?iH look I! We puppet* iu a w^rii-jut »tory Where each ha* played hi* part.

sen*'11 c«.niie & day wb*-o hun.au to**. the Gift that Include* ttit- wf»o!«pf God*# Jtrand |{1 vf? ^(Vt-rr-ijrKett, eotaplete** fail so fit! !y *»ul. 4TK»it'U

ewue a d:»V 1 "hail not ear*

TnecJoud my kixbtSte. from earth'* ueitMi

,If only, birfc

tKrasv'i.l

I *prlijy to it* H-,*ht.

•Cjrolifith Johnning. why jou solute?

Ripper -n -j»i iiri on dc i»Uve dis £ilf hour." and Aunt Lucy faced her

£%e

lord with stern dignity, but

Uuvifi'

mo*',

ready

be propitiated. "Old Dandy .MDWS an" rne been havrir it out."

what out"' You ain't been

JL' had a fuxi wid Mr. IteiiHon. 'Liah diUMinj^?" ••Yes, I have, old Skin« h-r. Here

Iwn a hoein' hard in dc fi'-F ail day, od be mean *nou£fh to

0 cent*

an I

itm!

WILI

n.ilUoiiH for do cjiureh

da! cause I

to «ee Jim Jam-H fwiilt

vvatcr-

feM.'hU-,

he him pie-o of iny mind." 1 a'pose Mr. Benson don a for work he don' fit. ••Don' tfit!J Why. thar Stevens an Bill J«-dkln*: ^juoro'n half d- tins". handles mnrc'ii t'oth

Hut I

uitnt Ui

wa- Sam ihey talk

an' rented un they •r half, an* did ho

dock th«-iu any:' Not ho lit |jot ^fl)",' VH'n

n"?-

'^n

flH

anyway."

«'loto'H a

••YVhar'd you j/it dat new hoc?" ijueried Aunt Lucy, an 'Liah hung that irmtrument u|» in the woodshed preparatory to a HoiiHtj In tin* buMin of water ready in the kitchen sink. "Nebber you rnind. Wotoen always atiek their none Into ebberytinjj."

Mr. JohiHon was evidently in a very bad humor. '•An1 what on dotiewld your olo hoo you took away thi.n noon? You didn1 triwle dat off for new one*, dat I know. 'Llah." [.'t)i.*ti:d bin wife. "Yc4, I did. 'f ve will know." ••'Linh tJohnninjj." blurUid out Aunt Lucy, a? a Hudden Hiinpielon flamed in her eyt H. ••dnl an't one of MOHOK Henwon'H hot-H? You an't jjonn an'chanpod yo1 ole lux* for one hln'n, I hopo? You wouUrnt do dat If lie is a «kiru her. you a member of dechureh, Llah.John#ing?" ••Miss JohnMin^. you jest, ten' to yo' own bua'riesH, Don yo' let mo hear no jiio'- not one mo' word -'bout dat hoe. You hear rue?'

With elonely compressed lips Aunt Lucy eompi«!ted the arrangement!* for Hupper. Shu called in the children— elx, of all n^e«» tuid they Hat down. ••'Lbih Johtuiin^. auk do bbwing." «dio saiil, her IIMUIV! Intimation that all wiifl ready for a *tnrt, but on this eanlon twcomprmunl by a look that fald plainly: -If yon can."

The meal went nomewhat gloomily off. The overture* of the younger fry to either parent were grumpily met. Supper things" being cleared away, young Sally *at down to the melodeon in the parlor and played Moody and San key uonga for the Johnson chorus, while their elder* mt on the porch and nilently watched the young moon go down, each absorbed in unpleasing meditation.

Suddenly, n* bedtime dr»-w nenr, Llah rt»*e and went into the hooae, raying a« he went, (lot to go down dp nlo'. Lucy. I forgot I got to mow Dnwkinm*' flel' tomorrow, iind my whetsSuti'M worn clean down todohone. an' I've got to start off tomorrow Tow *to open 'Liah had been gone hnrdly ft mltute when .Aunt Lucy called in a tragic whisper to Paul, her oldest xon. veard of age. You. Tuul. yon como here quick, by yoVelf,"

Paul, uned toobeylng. came promptly, und was down clo«e to hi- mother on the sett***'. "Now. y»n. Paul continued the tragic whbper. I wonder ktn I t!u*t vbu to do sMjmething for me?"

Paul, distrustful of aueh general demands, kept dbemstly »ltent ••1 wish you's a little bigger, but ds Lortl will hoP you up, Paul you

listen." A small boy ctuld hardly listen more intently, •When yo' paw come* home from de «to' an' we'# all gone to be*l an' got 'SUH»P. yo. henrin', Paul?** •Ycs'm."

You git up stHP* mou»«» an" you make no noi.M? taktn' it dow n, an* you any dat bo« obor to Mr. Henwn's. You hearin'. PauP*" •Ye'"m •An' you put dat hoe whar he hi«'iv yci. know whar ht!« twl?t bo, l*aultt" ik*Ul back de stable d0^*, "Av? Vt»u take de ?hh» dat's» hangln* dar —dat'n our hm\ Patil, dat yo j»aw left lb ere by *take yim take dat hoo nn' bring it home an' hang it up in the woodihetl. an' don* neb^r u»U yo' paw nulhin* 'boul it Thank goodness* Mr, BotiMn don' keep no dogn. An* you be mightv rftill. now. Pant

Now. you jro baek'a *?ng*# loud'* you kin- I do b'liove dat yo' pa*r now in d« kilehiftf H« mwt ha etimo tn de back gat*. No* «»vi *memteM U'o My In' on v« a gvx^d deal. Paul, •Yejt

Luckily Mr. Johnson chow »a wtrly txxitime io insnts* early rfc»tn|r tor ^b« morrow morning Luckily, beonwa young Paul. exaH*ed beyond tiwwuw bv hi* mether"* unwonted eonfld«*uoa and tbe »uprvine detUfhl of Urt »y»t^ riouf plot, bubbled over with *ly vriAka

jA*, r-

a ml sig-nllleant gesture#, which would infallibly have led to

complete dis-

clo-ure if hi# fnt'ier had noticed him. 'i.iaii*- guilty conscience did not bring about the proverbial insomnia, but Jong after hi* s-norcs had begun to resound through the low chamber Aunt Lucy'** eyt wert?

The firt ^un-ray* were shining at the window through the morning glories, the early breakfaM wun smoking

wiui

d*-k

'CHUKC

my wajfe#

warn't niore'n

|talf an' hour or tree quarter* of an liour at do

You may new reh is« place. Mr. Benson, from top to bottom an' side to «lde an' you won't fin" no stiver of yo' old hoe. How you got mine. I 'clar I give up. hut you kin see for yo'aelf. Now here's where I keep* my hoe," and 'Liah swung op -n the wood-died door.

Thei-e hung Mr. flent*on' now hoe. You Paul!" fairly whouted Aunt Lucy, pouncing on her young hopeful, •what did von do la*1 night?'"

Did jlst what vou top me." blulv bored Paul, look lawk dat hoe an' changed it for de one in Mr. Benson's barn." ••Took hack what hoe?" shouted 'Llah in his turn. -Lucy Johnsing, what have \oubeen stiekin' your fingers in?"

Well. 'Li:th, 'lowed I wei'on.t goin' to have no hoe in dis house what didn't b'iong to us by rights, 'n' so 1 tol' Paul to git up hu»' night an' ohango tie hoes back agin, an' if he did it how dis one conies heah beats me."

You, Lucy Johnsing. see whatyou's been an' done wid yo' meddlitf! I took back that hoc 'fore 1 went to bed. when I made's though 1 was gettin' the whetstun. an' then you wont changed \«rn biiek agiu *n* got de c.onatablc on me." ••'Liah Johnsing, why yo' keep secrets from your wedded wife? Why dld'n' you tell me you^e gwiue put dat hoe back?"

By this time Mr. Benson saw there was something moiv in the matter than he bad supposed, and. sending away the constable, he got from the worthy couple, with much circumlocution, tho story of the night's mistakes. Being a man with some hense of humor, ho was quite mollified In the comicalities of the situation, and even went so far as to take breakfast with the Johnsons, in response to Aunt Lucy's repeated solicitations ami in token of restored good feeling. ••An' after dis. 'Liah Johnsing." waa Aunt Lucy's tuorc}l. -you'd better tink twice Tore you keep any secrets from yo" wedded wife!"

t»«*rlrt«1i noM.

was said by an enemy of Napoleon III. that he had no sentiment of good or evil, only the sentiment of self." The haolt of continual self-conscious-nessand self-attention is as fatal to one* happiness as it is to one's usefullness and gm»d manners but the only way to curt) it is to cultivate thoughtfulness of others and kindne*uj toward them. The Uev. Kdward Kverett Hale says: 1 remember having to advise a man who had fallen into

laat

r. iv.v

how

Its.

A comi iiY UK i:i

the table, the aix young John

sons were straggling down in various stages of »!eepine«*-. Aunt Lucy was bending over the stove, and Liah washing at the sink, when aloud knock

heard at tlie kitchen door, which, being opened, dihelosed iir. Benson. By his !»i)e *tKd the viihige constable. In hi* hand wan an old and much-bat-tered hoe. "IJah ±ave the hm* and his upper jaw fell. Aunt Lucy's gaze also wiif rivets! in amazement on the Hame article. ••(loliah Johnson.*' «tid the con^ta^ ble. "yo»rre my prisoner. You ."toteMr. IkjnMm'»» hw."

For' de Lord. Mr. Betmon. I an got your hoc. What you doin with mine?" ••You needn't protend that you left your old hoe in my barn yesterday by mistake, 'Liah Johnt*on.-' buivt in Mr. Benson. *aH if you couldn't toil this old thing from my new hoe. Luckily I took note of your hoe yewterday. and HO found you out. What have you got to »ay for yourself

yejr.

The

baby

oj^n and her

ears intent on the slightest noie. She grinned uneasiiy in the irk a» she heard a flight rustle by the door, a creak or two on the rickety stairs. Her heart leam*d as the shed door closed with a loud bang, but "Liah slept on. The moment.- seemed hourj-. How she longed Ui

to the window, which

commanded a »*oraplete view of Paul's journey across lots to fienson'#! But she consoled hen-elf by remembering that it wa# piu*h-dark. and fehe couldn't see anything, any way. At la*t came the longed-for creak on the stair*, the second rualle paut the chamb»»r door, and Aunt Lucy, with a satisfied smile and a murmured Hre^t. de Lord!" went soundly to sleep.

sad. because

morose, life, and had put himself under my counsel, and I said. -Suppose you begin by parsing the butter at tho table." He needed to be on the outlook constant, for little occasions to serve those around him. Take care in the least exercise* that you care for others. 1 do not like that man,'' «&id a ttound observer tome. I aaw him let his wife pick up her own handkerchief" This critic w«s right In that quick judgment.

I judge him by the way he treat* hb dog.*" That is

things.

)l«r* In lt*Mrt».

Lord Lonsdale was said to have more daughter* than any other mem. her of the British aristocracy.

At one time be waa at German watreing-place, and took a walk in com pony with his six oldest daughter*. Some vicrmans. a little behind him, ga«ed at the prooewion, and presentlyone of them remarked \la».* poot* man.**

Lord l*oa«dakt caught the words, and turned Immediately. Oh. no. not vo poor as yOti think have tlx other daughter* at hoo*"

fTEWS INSTRUCTIVE AND IHTERESTIN&

Ten million p^es were eaten in Chicago

King of Spain

Hungarian red wine is used to make blonde hair copper bro n.

Yankton, Dak., has an artesian well flowing 4.000 gallons

Samuel Coles, whose agae, at. attested bv the parish register, was 103 years, died recently at Ottndle. Northamptonshire. England. He used to drink two glasses of beer daily, but was not a smoker.

The smallest circular saw in the world now in actual use is a tiny di-k less than the fourth of an inch in diameter, used in the Tiffany jewelry establishment fot slitting gold jjens. It is the thickness of a .-lut't of writing paper and revolves at the rate of 4,000 revolutions ]er minute. Tin- high velocity keeps the saw rigid, not withstanding its thinneAH.

The soul, savs Dr. A. H. Stevens, ot Philadelphia, is located in tne corpuscallosuni, a little *|*»ngy b. dy situated at the lixse of the i»ntin, which has defied the effort* of physicians in their endeavors to a-scertain it-' uses in the human uuatorny. Ti.e crpHs callosum. sfud the doctor, "is the reat of the imperi-h-able mind, and i-. the great rewrvoir and sloreh'iis«' of

eh--triciiy,

There is something intensely wierd in the recital of the cruise of the Thetis, which has betsn where no American vessel Irns ever Ix-en before, and where no ve.viel has leeit at all since. .McClure discovered the northwest passage in lt*3l. On the south si leof llerschei', island the crew of the ship came ujiou a deserted village, of which history furnish no account. On the graves were laid guns of long-obsolete pattern, and birds had made their nests in the skeletons of thq brave men who had given up their lives there. Who were these unrecorded hories

Francois 1'haynot, of Cornwall Hollow. \mong the (Cornwall mountains in Connecticut, has boen searching for three years for iron ore on his farm. For the p.wt year he has been employed in digging a tunnel about six feet square into the side of a mountain. He has gone in 350 feet. At the entrance he blasted for a long way through solid rock, then came a kind of clay of a yellow color, and next he found a red subHtance resembling ochre, lie has a gravity track and car running the whole length of his queer mine, which lie is working alone. Many springs have been found that gush forth pure cold water. Mr. hay not ha^t uow struck into stone containing large quantities of iron, and all his Hud* are richer as ha proceeds inward.

In l&ll Sergeant Malloy, who acted as police sergeant at the soldiers' home at Togus, Me., was shot while iu the discharge of his duties He owned a largs New found land dog, which was his inseparable companion, and was with him at the time of the shooting. The dog would have torn the murderer in pi»c a but. for the interference of other ininaics, and ever Miice the animal has displayed peculiar symptoms at the lime of funerals. Whenever burial is to take place at the home and the latid ln*gitis to play the dead march the dog will hide among the bushes until the llrst volley of musket is tired over the grave, when he will rush upon the firing squad with every symptom of madness, and it is with the utmost difficulty that he ran be kept off. No matter what the weather the big Newfoundland attends every funeral at the home, and he has not is-ted one since the burial of his murdered master

lSW.

Jfc-e\ent

wise criticism.

And tf it 1« wise In criticism, it is wise In lif«. Train yourself to unselfishness In what the world pleases to oail little

1'KRRE HAUTE DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NOYEMBER 23, 1889.-SUEPLEMENT

picture on postage stamps.

to have his

minute.

Orer 1,000.000 miles of telegraph wi rt are ui operation in the United Statesenough to encircle the globe forty times.

Tlie Scotch system of admitting voluntary patients into lunatic asylums is said io work very satisfactorily.-. Last year the number of such patients was fifty-five.

The largest inland sea is the Caspian, lying between Europe and Asia. Its greatest length is TOO miles, its greatest breadth 270 miles, and its area 156.000 square mile*.

which is ab

stracted from the bl»»od iu the arteries, and conveyed through the nerves up the spinal cord to the corpus callo?uin.

A negro wom in employed on Mr. Joseph Middleton's farm, near Brazoria, Texa -. was some time since p»*cked in the hand by an angry lien. She has now grown quite mad, and acts like a chicken, wandering about the woods and peeking sit all who accost her. Sue make* a,clucking noise, horribly like that of hen, and rat- by the hour scratching tij earth with I lauds ami feet. She |»eeks up her food. amV her very face is assuming a sharp, bii\i-like asiKs'l. She roosts all night iu a tree and refuses to sleep under a roof.

BITS OF WISDOM.

rather than repent.

Be willing to commence at the foot of the ladder. Deal with every person a if you expected to him a^ain.

Labor rids us of three evil*—tediousom vice, and poverty.

You can not do good or evil to others without doing good or evil to yourself.

Tin* study and discipline of accuracy aud method in every act is the true cor-ner-stone of life.

To l»e satisfied, or at all evenly reconciled. with our occupation, the first essential of mental health.

To secure happinessand success in life,

let

your every act le dominated by order, precision, method and repose

Gentleness is the est test

gentle-

jnanlinem, A conskl«r.«tion for the feelings of others will pervade the true gentleman's whole

•ondixr

If anybody gives you ill-tonguag* rather pity him than he moved to an^er. You

will

find that silence or very gentle

words are the best revenge. As you must inevitably keep company with yourself as long as yon live, it is of cons* sence to von to make of yonmtf a plea-ant, agreeable companion.

Tin* M*«* Who Own, the Karttu

have been to see the man who owns the earth. I saw him in a drfam. a dayI dream, one of those dreanis in which the I thing we call Reason takes the bits be1 twecn its teeth aud goes dashing down the narrow lane of logic, permitting us to look neither this way or that, lest we mav see how really impa^^ably the path 1 we are pursuing is. Itat a pleasing d®lusion human logic is! How the reason rushes, leap on leap, along this lane! I What barriers it overcomes! How mountains melt to make a way for it! "What a fool it makes of a man! and bow the fool enjofs himself! hat do you think the man who owns the earth is like? Does your imagination picture him upon a golden throne with priceless* jewels sparkling their defiance of thesun with myriad crouching slaves eagerly watching in hope of reading in his eye some forming wish that they may hasten to fulfill before lie can etpress it in command Well, It?* is nothing of the kind.

He i»a plain, weary-looking man. whom vou would not notice in a crowd, save as his far-off troubled lo-k might urge your heart to pity if you knew not who 1 he was. Do you think he L- a roundfaced, happy-bodied man who scatters j' rubies in the crowd and laughes to see the grown-up children scramble for ilie I gems? Well, he is nothing of the kind,

He is stingy, pinched-nosed. deep-eyed: he has furrows in bis face not made by smiles, or if by smiles, by smiles of avariue. those grimdngs such as Satan has been pictured with when be has won a soul in his immortal lottery called life. Do you imagine this man who owns the earth has found content? Poor fool! He

But 1 supiwse you want to know how he acquired the earth. Like enough you think it was by somegTeat masterstroke, some dazzlingly muguiticent idea, some revolutionizing coup which turned the heads of men and blinded them with all its brilliant daring: overwhelmed them as a tidal wave might overwhelm the sands upon the shun-. Nonsense, you child! He got the earth by fawning for it by cheating, lying, lagging, robbing: by weeping when lie had no woe, by smiling when he had no joy by taking crusts from hungry little liovs and girls: by waiting, watching, pilfering, by tramping do\Vn the poor and building up a mass of misery to stand upon that he might reach to lure them down to poverty.

while lie must and crushed him down to poverty when he could. Consistent with his former views, he sowed the seeds of discontent among his fellow manufacturers. He told tlieni what united eifort would effect for them, and they believing rallied to hi» cause. Thus he became coinmaudcr of a trust, and with the power ho then possessed crushed out such manufacturers as refused to do his bidding.

It came to pass that all the interests of the earth became involved in trusts. All things that men required were thus controlled. each by its trust, Tin* man who owns the earth was still unsatisfied. With feeding want he had enlarged that ant Again he sowed the seeds of discontent. this time among Ins fellow managers of trusts. He told them what united effoit would effect for them, and they believing rallied to his cause. Thus he became the controller of the trust of trusts and with his overwhelming jiower could crush the trust that would not come beneath his sway. And so he came to own the ear h.

But now that he bad reached perfection in bis earthly plans, he began to know the misery of miseries. When there were other fields to win his discontent was pleasure to his soul, but now the want that had become his very life waa filled to overflowing. To live to have no single want was living death to him. Here was the paradox to which all human logic tend*. He found perfection to be the one wholly imperfect thing in life The filling of hia every earthly want made his life an empty thing. The earth all 1m he wanted everything except the earth. He would have given whole domains for one nights sweet and peaceful sleep upon the of contented man. but when he found that man, behold the fellow had no bed. and wanted no domain. Thus up and down the earth the man who owned it all went wishing for one throb of pity in some humble heart for him. but—who could think of pitying the man who own* the earth Wiu. S» Hawkiks.

The Scripture are now accessible, a* to languages, lo nine-tenths of the world inhabitants, while in the early part of thm century they could 1* studied only by tbout one-fifth.

The rubber tip at the end of lead pen I ril* has yielded $100,000 in England.

Tbon«uit»

is a miserable thing. He owns one thing towns, though they do not have much —the earth one paltry thing—the earth: and every other thing is lost to him. Ten thousand joys he sees before his very eyes and vainly wishes he might give the earth for any one of them.

-at*

HAS VASBA CK WCK8.

Killed on the Susquehanna River- How Slaughtered.

The ducking fields on the Susquehanna river are known and talked about all over the United States where sportsmen live, and are proltably the finest in the world. Ducks are found in abundance in other tributaries of the Chesapeake, in Albemarle and Pamlico sounds, in North Carolina, in Florida, in tributaries to the Gulf of Mexico, and in many other bodies of water, but they have no such flavor as the canvasback, black and blue heads that feed on the flats at the mouth of the Susquehanna river. The flavor is due to the {leculiar diet upon which they feed. This is the wild celery. The ducking fields of the Susquehanna are sharply limited by statute. The northern line begins at the lighthouse on the shore in front of Havre de Grace on the Harford county side, runs across to Carpen- I

jer's Point on the Cecil county side, to a spot half a mile north of Locust Point, and thence along Spesutia island Aore, keeping everywhere a quarter of a mile from the beach and the adjacent mainland. till the shore at or near Oakiugton is reached. The line thence runs along the shore to the starting-point at the lighthouse. Gunners must keep strictly a quarter of a nide out. The distance from the north to the south line is probably four miles, and between the eastern and western limits about six miles. This embraces a large area of the finest feedgrounds for ducks on this continent. The best jvirt of the shore is on the Cecil side. The lerv is thick there and the ducks are not disturbed bv the noise from the

rest from gunners on the legal days. The wild celery is the wild duck's daintiest food. They will leave any other feeding-ground and come to the Susquehanna shore. The water in which it grows is fresh or very slightly brackish, Below Spesutia island the water is saltish aud the

ducks

do not feed there in

great numbers. This wild celery is a long riblmn grass, which grows so thick in MI miner that sometimes with difficulty a boot can be forced through it. If takes root in the mud and the top comes to the surface of the water with the tide. In winter the top dies and is carried oft in masses. The white, toothsome root, about four or five inches long, is what the duck searches for. He dives for it and

feeds ujMn

Yet urobably you would like to hear the story of hia life, uninteresting as in itself it is. Well, he was born to drudgery ami want. When lie was hungry nature bade him steul. or beg or take by force the bread his playmates had. He fawned upon his richer mates it got for him the things he had to have, lit preyed upon the joorer ones it made them yield their little all to him. He smiled upon the strong and won protectection from their silly gratitude. He trod uion the weak and made them cringing slaves to work his ends, Bred, born and nourished in this poverty, he lenrmtl to want: and wanting taught hiin how to get. in early manhood the future seemed to hold no hope for him beyond a drudger's life. But there was the craving want within his heart, lb-wanted everything he saw he envied every man who had what he had not. He coveted his rich employer's ease and j)ower. He sowed the seeds of discontent among his fellow laborers. He told them what united etlort would effect for them anil they lielieving rallied to his cause, lie let his master see the power he held and then lie licked master's head. This made him foreman of the works and then he ground his workmen till his master saw hts worth and made him a proprietor. He yielded to his pav^u^r deljthia. No other wild fowl can equal in

it with the greatest de

light. The peculiar character of the bottom, enriched as it is by the constant washing down of the fertile

soil

JJAILBOAD TIME TABLE.

of Cecil

and Harford, ami the freshwater, makes it grow in great abundance and gives it its peculiar taste.

No gunner is allowed to cross the gunning line liefore 5 a. m. If he dot*.-, he has to pay $- fine, and it may be forfeit his outfit. Rich and enthusiastic gunners from the cities sometimes pay the fine in order to continue the sport C-ounting in all the shooters from bo counties, about 2.r0 licenses are issued yearly.

The best shooting is on the opening day. The ducks are frightened aud can be more easily approached, and every gunner, having been eager for months to get a shot, goes to work in earnest. The best record ever made in these fields was alout eight years ago. when, on the opening day, William Dobsou. of llavro de Grace, an expert gunner, killed from a box 5-10. and burst a line gun before he stopped. He kept two men busy all day picking up dead

ducks.

The second gun

got at times too hot to bol l. Ten or tif,een vears ago 15,IKK) were killed in a day's shooting. In an average season there are here ab-uil fifty boxes and 150 bushwhackers. The capital invested in the bu.-iuess is from $75,000 to $100,000. This includes b.iat-.,

decoys,

boxes, guns,

etc. From 'J.'i.OOO to II.'j.OOO duck shave been killed in a season in latter years. They are sold everywhere. The lest prices are given iu New York, Washington. Boston. Baltimore, an I Pliila

fla\or a Susquehanna canvasback duck.

An Anclont Industry.

uO.

I thy spindle and thy distafT rcadv, and Cod will give thee flax." The spinning of the flax filler is an industry so old that utterly no history of its origin exists.

Pliny mentions the introduction of flax culture into the northern ami northwestern districts of Kurote and beyond the Rhine. The earlier Roman emjierors encouragingly recommended linen importation from Kgypt. ami pleasurably recommended its excellencies. Herodotus mentioned the extent of the linen trade of Egypt, Tvre, and Sidon with Greece, and Josephu* discoursed ujion the plant byssus (flax) and the uses of linen apparel for the priesto of ancient Egypiand its extending use in vaiioua rites, especially funeral. It baa been questioned if the mummy wrappings were not of cotton, but microscopic examination proves them to be linen, the cotton plant being more particularly indigenous to India. There are some samples of thir old linen in the British museum manuf .etured upon the rude hand loom* of the ancient Egyptians, containing i\t many as 270 threads per inch of warp, or more than double the number warp u.«ed upon the nicest Deccn looms for the finest modern fabric. In Europe the manufacture of linen first reached a high tandard with the French and Flemings, particularly in Flanders, its manufacture upon power looms commenced some time after that of cotton weaving. Tlie first linen mill was erected in Darlington, England, near the beginning of thi* century. The use of hand or family made linens was given a great impetu* through iu« large production in Ireland. The product waa disposied of through a sort of liall or market being erected for the |mr,"-ief and to this day the hand male li .ts are sold iu this way in Bal

mena,Ballym«mey,Coleraine, Armagh, and Lurgan. The climate of Ireland is particularly favorably

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manufactured aiikk is

takcii :o th* bleaching greens for three

days, but ti.-c whole process of bleaching I takes often from three to six weeks, and I Hwne'oaies at the expense

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TIME TABLE,

Standard time 10 minutes slower than city time.

VAKDAUA LINE.

LEAVK FOR THK WSST—1:42 a lOiJl a 2:10 8:10 m.: £04 p. m. LEAVE FOR THK EAST—1:S0 a M: 1:51 a 7:16 am 12:4? ±30 m. &0o p. m.

ARRIVE FRO* THE EAST—L S0 a M: 10:12 a £00 p. m. &45 9.00 m. ARRIVE FROM THE WEST—1:20 a 1:12 AM: 12:42 &10 m.:5:00 p. m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

LEAVE FOR THE NORTH—&00 A 4:00 m. ARKXTK FROM THE NORTH—12:00 nooa 7:30prn. E. & T. H. Trains leave for the sontb at V.20 a ltu« m, Jt 40 ui and ft50 m.

Trains arrive frotu the south at M0 a iu li:0t m: S:i0 m, ahd 10:25 m. T. H. & P. Trains leave for the northwest at Mian: 3:00 m.

Trains arrive from aorthwest at 11:00 a

8:00Pm-

K.&I.

Trains leav« for the south, mail and express, &15 a Worth. mixed. 4:05 m. Arrive from the south. Worth, mixed 10:14 a m. mail and express. 4:0o m.

C. &E

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Trains leave for the north at 5:20 a 10:i" a 2:M ra and 10:36 m. Tralne arrive from the north at 3:15 a 10:16 a S:Si and %45p in.

BIG FOl-R.

Trains leave for east at l:2ta. n.:S(Ka a.: 12:54 p. iu.: 3:4S p. m. Leave for the west 1:20a. IU, 10.09 n. m.: 12:W p. m.: 7:27 p. iu.

LI El*

The Fashion Livcrv,

512,514 AND 516 CHERRY STREET.

corrftui*-

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Fine Cabs and Carrlafles!

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LIVKLLY STABLE.

LIVERY STABLE.

C.p.Staub,

Largre and Commodious Quarters,

3358 Main Street.

Horeee will be boarded for $10 per month Aud

will l»e delivered to any pnrt of thuetty promptly wlurn wanted.

INSURANCE.

A Car

TERHK MAcm, IND..Oat. 26th IIS#. We, the undersigned, return our thanks tu B. F. 1 lavens for his satisfactory settlttment of our losses by fire, and we cordially recommend those wanting fire insurance and prompt and fair treatment when they meet, with losses, to insure with Mr. iinvens.

JOHN L. BEDFORD.

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WATCHES AND JKWKLItY.

New Silverware

Ju*i rweiviyl, elegant lino Jewelry, frccotnl to none iu the city. All good* were houeht foi *pot c&ub mid arc Wing *yld at remarkably l#w price#.

FIRST-CLASS WATCHES.

Some of the finest timepiece* in th« ally.

DIAMONDS

At pries* tUat will fmrprise you. An lu»pc«ilfru invited.

DALE & STRANG. 674 Main Street.

KIN EST ClOAItH.

.——S110W8 THK

FINEST AND BEST LINE OF CIGARS!

FOR THE MONEY. IN THE CITY.

IJILI-IAJtU HALL..

FOR AN HOUR'S EVENING SPORT

VISIT TilK

Health Office Billiard Hall!

HaT FINEST IK THE STATE."**

INSURANCE AND

the fabrics

The «r«vict labor of Texas netted $43,* 000 fur the State last «ar.

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E.STATK.

W. M. SLAUGHTER,

Insurance Real Estate Agent,

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NO- 33® OHIO STREET.

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