Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 September 1883 — Page 4

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LIFE AUD SOCIETY.

Women* Marriage and Luxury.

IN A GARDEN.

There's a garden of my childhood that I only see In dreams, „o Ever sunshine lies upon It, shadows only

Thro' the vista of my memory very fair that garden seems, And I sometimes yearn with longing once again to enter it!

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smell the lawn's first mowing, and the rich earth freshly turned, When theSprtng's warm-fingered toucnes woke to life the garden beds. "Where the double row of crocus liKe a golden pathway burned,

And the tulips in the border waved taelr stately crimson heads. "Where the south wall lured the swallows wheeling up against the blue

Summer beauty gained upon us ere we knew the spring begun There the pale wisteria clusters tender arras of fragrance threw

Till the white magnolia lifted cups or silver to the sun. Year by year the blooming orchard lay like enow beneath the moon,

Year by year the chaffinch nested where the moss-grown boughs divide, And her brood upon the branches twittered through the dawns of June Till the growing apples reddened under

August's smile of pride.

Hp ring and ever-radiant summer and full autumn hold It fast, My enchanted garden, whither fancy leads me back to-day. Never winter falls upon it, for the picture of the past,

God be thanked, are happy pictures, ana their skies forever gay. Only when across life's highway comes the scent of country briar,

Or of wafted honeysuckle, westward borne and cold with dew Then the longing for my garden fills me with such strong desire

That my soul is faint within me for the sunshine that I knew. —[G. B. Stuart, In London Argosy

"IF EVER SUCH "WIGHT WERKJ*

A Wisely Anonymus Man.

I know a woman wondrous fair— A model woman she— Who never runs her neighbors down {When she goes out to tea.

She never gossips after church Of dresses or of hats She never meets the sewing school

And joins them in their spats.

She never beats a salesman down, Nor asks for pretty plaques She never asks the thousand things

Which do his patience tax. These statements may seem very strange— At least they may to some: But lust remember this, my friends,

The woman's deaf and dumb.

Velvet and Woolens.

There never has been a velvet season without silken fabrics of great richness of color and effect. Velvet calls for an association of elegant materials. Velvet will lead during the fall and winter fabrics, and consequently dress goods will be correspondingly elegant in effect

Among handsome dress goods already opened are several new Btyles of brocades. In one of these gold and silver thread are interwoven through figures on satin ground. In another are reproduced quaint figures from silks 200 years old. The Ottoman bro cades are quite new and will attract much attention and probably^

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share of patronage.

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»ilk .«• Hp ly the rhadzimes silks. Then th^Kwre new Pekin silks with stripes afcd the Pekin velours with a ground of satin merveilleux overlaid with stripes through which occur velvet figures.

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FOR VELVET.

Plain velvet will be largely employed not only for dress skirts and entire costumes, but for cloaks. It will also be much used for trimmings and in association with woolen stuffs. With the rage for velvet will reappear the velvet basque, to wear with skirts of •Other fabrics. Figured velvets will appear in a great variety of designs. Some specimens seen exhibited sot figures of large dimensions which,Hit must be said, are more striking than beautiful. Many ladies will hesitate to wear a dress, however elegant as regards quality, that is covered with begonia leaves or devil-fish, and yet these and other equally absurd subjects contribute designs on some of —Jthe new figured velvets.

A number of novelties have appeared in woolen goods. The Ottoman woolens lead off with their corded surfaces in imitation of the Ottoman silks. Many of theseareof plain colors, others are brocaded, and then there is what the shopkeepers call the Ottoman tapestries, because antique figures in dull colors are woven in among the cords.

There are the usual number of twilled woolens. A novelty christened velours serge has its twilled surface cotted over with velvet designs. Quite new in chevoits are those with rough surface. At present these are not pleasant to look upon, but with the approach of cold weather, it is quite probable they may have a run.

With the continued fashion of tailormade cloth suits come in any number of suitings with new names, usually English, as the suits are of English origin. The Ascot and Epson cloths are prominent. Many of the suitings here smooth surfaces the others are twilled. Decided plaids and checks appear, as do what are termed invisible ones. Quaint colors are introduced in some of these suitings.

Plain material in combination with figured material will remain in favor. Vests and plastrons will be worn. The basque ana polonaise will both be represented. A favorite model will preeent a basvue front and priiicesse polonaise back. Sleeves remain high on the shoulders, and drapery at the back presents a bouffant effect.

TUB THING IN HATS.

The English walking-hats and tur bans are already out in new shapes and will be conspicuous in autumn millinery.

Velvet and feathers will be

the principal trimmings. Walkingjackets will again be made of the stockinet or Jersey cloths. There are two styles, the English shape and the French directoire model. A very long coat, originally introduced by Sarah Bernhardt on the stage, will be represented in the new wraps under the name of Mollere coat. A feature of this wrap is its shirred waistcoat.

Much Lectured Mothers.

There is a suggestive story told by Helen Campbell of Lydia Newman, whose old Quaker uncle seeing that Bhe fastened her pretty little Newport ties with poppy red ribbons, frowned and told her it was not seemly. "I k, don't care for them myself," she Baid, "but I want my little boy to remember that his mother wore red bows on her shoes." The old Friend retorted that the reason was much worse than the offense and so Lydia received a lecture, but kept her ribbons. The moral of this story is directed against that lectured-by-everybody class, the mothers of families. When we think of the ceaseless labors of a good mother, of her efforts to guide wisely her household, to be her husband's best friend, her children's most interesting ft &Teins a shameful thing to find any' fault in her.

A really wise mother will take time to dress herself tastefully, to be fair and lovely in the eyes of her children/ to read and even to study for their Bakes, to learn and to talk on higher Bubjects than the plague and curee of American servants, to live in the present, to keep step in the march of civilization. Very difficult, almost impossible at times, is to be a child'B confident and companion, to make home the dearest place in the worl to dress becomingly for tb»" who dotes on a "pretty BT mothers who have done mothers who have best cam

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are held, there area great many small intrigues and innocent endeavors to circumvent the detectives. There Ere eloquent glances, signals, fan-talk and the sly interchange of notes. Then the iron-guarded window, instead of being a protection, becomes a great convenience. It is more than the frontgate with us. She knows when he will pass by, and stands inside with a fair hand clasping the bars of uer cage and waits for him. They stand there with the iron between them aiid talk. Every day it is so, and if mamma wishes to stop it she must come and stand in the window also. There are other respects in which the young man has a bard time. He must come every day. He must, and she holds him to the strict letter of this law. .He is bound to show by every means in his power that he holds all other women in contempt and detestation. He must not dance with any other, and had better not be caught holding on to any other window bars in any other street. He tells his near friends about it, and she all hers, and the matter is diligently discussed. If he should fail to come around regularly every day he haB to tell a satisfactory story. I have known her to send her brother after him. He takes his revenge after marriage.

Female Freaks.

Dr. Mary Walker thinks of residing in Middle-sex county, England. A Georgia woman has a pair of seizors that have been used for sixty years. Her mother had them wben she married, and they are good scisors yet*

Joaquin Miller's wife, formerly Miss Leland, is an attractive blonde, having the face of a mere child, but strength of proportions and lieigth carrying her into the maturity of a hne woman.

A Philadelphian writes to the New York Sun: "I find our young men, and, of course, our young women, as ignorant of American history before the year 1861 as though they were living in Japan or Fiji."

Miss Chamberlain, the American girl who has become a professional beauty in London, when at home in Cleveland lives in one of the oldest houses in that city. She inherits a large fortune from her father.

The queen of Denmark, mother of the princess of Wales, is an accomplished painter, and has lately presented the little village of Klitmoller, in Jutland, with an altar-piece, entirely executed with her own hands.

The wife of the notorious Tichborne claimant and her two children are the inmates of a work-house at Southampton, England. She still persists in calling herself "Lady Tichborne," and her name stands as such on the workhouse register.

Mrs Jane Randolph Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson's mother, is to have a new granite monument over her grave at Charlottesville, Va. The monument bears this inscription: "Jane Randolph, wife of Petei Jefferson and mother of Thomas Jefferson, born in London, 1720. Died at Monticello, 1776."

To the construction of a comfortable and at the same time artistic dress, Lady Harberton has devoted several years of unwearied thought and experiment. She speaks in public and writes well on the subject which occupies her time. "There is no use," she

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Female Fancies.

Mrs. Youngwoman wants to know how to tell afresh egg from a stale one. Taste it, goosey, taste it.

The number of school teachers who failed to lead a victim to the altar this summer is said to be greater than ever —in Jersey.

A Texas woman, only 99 years old, has been married seven times, and yet she isn't half so good looking as lots of girls who can't even catch a beau.

There 8 ia voung lady in New York City who makes, it is said, about 360 calls nearly every day of her life. Oh, you need not look disconcerted, miss —she works in a telephone office.

Chicago is jealous of the Pagan Indian because his foot measures 16 inches in length, and there is a spread of half an inch between the toes. Chicago needn't think its girls are going to monopolize all the territory.

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Mrs. Russell Greene is an old lady residing on Clifford street, in Providence, It. I. She is 89 years old, does all her own work, and lecently she whitewashed a long board fence be tween her own and a neighboring garden. She rises every morning at four o'clock, and gets her work done before the majority of people are up for tne day.

A first-class summer resort ich the cottagers will not hotel guests. A second-

resort is one at which the hotel ssiS will not speak to the cottagers. A third-class resort is one at which everybody tries to have a good time.

Hartford Post: ANew Hampshire reformer is "agin" chewing gum, sayB it leads via tobacco to rum. At the same time there is a satisfaction in seeing a girl chew gum. It employs her jaws and she can talk all the time.

A West End younst lady wishes to know what is a proper fancy dress ball poetume for a girl with very auburn— fhet, and—hair, and is thus ad-

proud of their grown-qp Bp" .I*.'"11isome Orleans Time*.. following us,: ^Who is that fellow, i^u my deah^ "Why, that is the man pffctr Courtship. who was 80 nfear marrying me before I

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don't know him. How can you hate him?" "He didn't marry you, dont cher knaw, my love." "Have you heard any bad news?" «airoH a minister's wife of her husband, as he entered the house, looking a little despondent. "Yes," the good man replied, "I have the marriage of oung Smith and the Begley girl is put off until next year."

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Lowell Citizen: In France a divorced woman married again and found that hei second husband had engaged her first as a servant, uie latter husband was much pleased to observe how naturally his wife took to ordering the new man about.

Nellie Arthur, though but a child, goes shopping in great state when in Washington. She sits back alone in the crrriage, gives ber order to the footman, who repeats it to the driver, and away the equipage rolls, ine shopkeepers treat her most deferentially-

A bachelor so greatly admired the way in which his housekeeper prepared his jcoffee that he proposed to ier and was accepted.—New York Morning Journal. An Irish servant now attends to the matter, and the {gentleman confines himself to tea. Rochester Post-Express.

The town of East Turner, savs the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, is bragging about a smart girl. The young lady name is Eva French. Rhe is sixteen years of age* In consequence of the scarcity of help in the haying season. Miss French, whose father is one ol East

Turner's well-to-do farmers, put on her broad-brimmed hat and went into the hay field. She has this sum mer driven a pair of horses on the mowing machine to cut twenty-live acres of grass, and has raked the same with a horse-rake, and pitched it into the barn with a horse-pitchfork. Ine farm cut nearly forty tons of hay. In addition, Miss French can bake as good a batch of biscuits or dcUt any housewife in "xurner.

Facts About Women.

Probably the queen of the gypsies has passed away with the death of Esther FaaBlytbe.

Mrs. Edwin Lee is writing a life of her father, the late Gen. Pendleton, of the Confederate army.

Mme. Julia Rive-King, the talented pianiste, lived in a handsome Yorkville apartment house, and she played a great deal. After awhile a professor of the piano moved into the flats next door, and he, also, played a great deal. Mrs. Rive-King couldn't stand it, and so she left.

A good story is told about Mr. W. W. Astor, our minister to Rome. When he introduced his wife to King Humbert that royal personage complimented him upon the beauty of the lady, to which Mr. Astor replied, with utmost modesty: "Si, Majesti, si. Mr. Astor is now spoken of everywhere as "Si, Majesti, si." "Aw, can you tell me, Miss Fair,' queried George Washington LaDude, after a brief period of intense study, "why the—aw—Ponto's caudal apendage is like a coming event?" "No,Mr. LaDude." "Well, aw, it is something to a cur, dont you know—ha! ha! "Very good, Mr. LaDude very good. But can you tell me why your hat is like a bad habit?" "Why, er-r,aw well, no—why is it?" "Because it is something to a void." Oh, weally new, Mies Fair, you are just too bati for anything, don't you know."

The Bismarck Tribune is responsible for the following: As the ticket agent at Mandan stood at his post yesterday afternoon sampling the various styles of breath that came at him through the small window a most beautiful lady came up and asked for a ticket to Bismarck. He stamped it and laid it down, and the lady fumbled in her purse for the change. All at once she exclaimed in a petulant voice: "Darling, can't you be patient? What does my pet want? The agent turned so red that his ears fairly blazed, and stammered out: "Madame, I—I—I—I assure you that —that there is no hurry at all. Take your (ahem)—take yourtime, madam. With a look that froze the blood in his veins and made him feel as if icicles were hanging all over his body, she re plied: "Sir-r-r-r! I

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my little girland peeping through the ticket window he saw a wee bit of a cherub, togging at the lady's dress. When she had gone he sank down in a chair as pale as a corpse and told Conductor Richards that if his family were better provided for he didn't think he'd care to live an hour longer.

Bears and Woodchucks.

from six to twelve bears yearly. The bear becomes fit for use when about 18 months old, at which age he is killed his flesh is sent to the city and sold under various names, and his scalp is to the head of the state bear department. A few bears are imported from New York and Canada, but the number is too small to be of consequence, and the bear farmers have never felt the injurious effects of competition.

Encouraged by the success of the Maine farmers, the farmers of New Hampshire have decided to adopt, if

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Zv""tn £lkeof8 Cirls' educa- their awful roar, and exterminating Zt nntil ha£ health enough to iYery animal that comes in.then-path. tion until they have health enough to sustain some mental strain." Lady Harberton has a fine establishment in fashionable part of London, and possessing a striking personal appearance she makes every dress becoming.

There is not the sympathy for Christine Nilsson in Europe that she finds in America. Her treatment of her husband before his death excited unfavorable comment in Paris. She reproached him bitterly and continu ally for his losses in the Union Generate, and when at last he was taken to a mad house to die she did not go near him. Rouzaud was universally respected and beloved in Paris, while bis wife was as widely regarded as a cold, heartless woman. Parisians sneer when they hear Americans speak eloquently of Nilsson's "hearts.' They think of Rouzaud and that lack of heart which might have saved him.

EUROPEAN ECHOES.

Globe-Democrat.

Whether Bismarck's organ, the North German Gazette, really believes that France is pursuing a domestic and foreign policy that threatens the peace of Europe, may be doubted. That journal is in the habit of saying sensational things for the sake of the effect likely to be produced on the Teutonic mind. But there is really some excuse for the belief in Germany that the French are gradually strengthening their position on the border land. New forts are going np and old ones are getting new armaments. When the next European war comes— and come one surely will, sooner or later—France will not be caught as it was in 1870. One of the bestevidences of the truth of this assertion is the imnroved character of the arrangements lor moving troops. The programme of the ministerial press of Pans for operations against Germany runs something like this: Since 1870 an organization has been created in France which, up to that period, Prussia alone possessed. Many lines have been constructed, others have been provided with facilities for embarking and disembarking troops. The stations

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racticable, a similar industry. They asked the legislature to pass a law putting a price, to be paid out of the state treasury, upon the head of every woodchuck in the state, and the legislature, in answer to this prayer has appointed an investigating com mittee. ... v. until nearly noon, when the people be-

The committee, the members of "n"1.

which evidently know what is expected of them, has made a report, in which the woodchuck is denounced in unmeasured terms. It appears that there is no more dangerous wild fowl than the woodchuck. The grain, po tato and cabbage crops of New Hamp shire are, as a rule, completely de stroyed by woodchucks, and the voracious animals, not content with eating most of the green grass in the state, are suspected of an intention to eat up the entire forests. The ferocious character and terrible strength of the woodchuck are notorious. Every year hundreds of men, women and children fall victims to his deadly fangs, and are dragged to remote dens in the wilderness and there torn to pieces Packs of woodchucks numbering sev eral hundred of these hungry and fear less beasts roam over the country ter rifving all other living beings with

every animal that comes in their patn. The woodchuck seems to know no fear, and railway trains while running at full speed are sometimes attacked bv packs of woodchucks, who kill and devour the passengers, the trainmen, and even the candy and prize package boy. In view of the terrible devastation caused by woodchucks, it is the opinion of the committee that a handsome reward should be paid for every woodchuck's scalp that the fearless hunters can capture.

If the legislature passes the desired law no more bears will be reared in the state. Woodchuck-culture will be the business of every enterprising citizen. The woodchuck breeds so much faster than the bear and eats so much less that not only can a much larger profit be mrde from a woodchuck crop, but three crops can be raised in the time required for raising one small crop of bears. At the

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must not be forgotten that the pauper woodchucks of Canada can easily be smuggled across the border. The New Hampshire farmers will find it very difficult to protect themselves against imported woodchucks, and it is not impossible that the bright hopes with which they are about to enter upon woodchuck culture may before long be partly disappointed

Safe Place for a Pipe. About forty years ago E. D. Baker, a veteran York State editor, spent a day on an island in Lake George with a number of good friends, all of whom are now dead. After a day's work fishing they indulged in song and story, ending with a smoke. After which, and before retiring to the canvas house for the night, the newspaper man laid his frail clay pipe in the hollow of a tree, near the ground. It was forgotten, until thirty years afterward, he was in a small boat passing the spot The incident above flashed on his memory. "I'll go ashore," said Mr. B. to a companion, "and get my pipe." He had no difficulty in finding the tree, as it was the only one on the place where it was left so many years before. It was filled on the spot with tobacco,

it was niiea on uie spui wim tune. It has been monastery, smoked and returned again to :its rest-

ing place. The ^other da^ the ^place

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concentration have been se

lected and provided with everything needful, and the extraordinary semce of railway employes can be put in working order at a moments notice. There is nothing to be improvised on the spur of the moment. the order for mobilization is given at 12 clock the first military trains will be mo tion the same evening at 6 clock. Per contra, the" Radical sheets declare that the Germans are quite as well fixed as this. Here is what they fear: "Nine days after the rupture of diplomatic relations a German army of nve corps, concentrated on the Moselle between Metz and Thionvdle, will take up a position between Toul and Verdun. Six days after the order of mobilization has been given another army of five corps will occupy Nancy. Nine days after this date a third army will commence the investment of i/pinai.

The extraordinary prosperity of Lon don builders' trade was referred to recently. Many houses make low rents. If there is anything to justify a St. Louisan in wishing he were a Britisher it is the knowledge that in the English metropolis he could get a comfortable house without paying an exorbitant rent for it. A couple of advertise mentsof houses of the middle class, taken at random from a great London daily, will show the reader something about prices there. Here, for instance.

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Times. roorrts of seven and eight For many years the state of Maine "fitted bath room (hotand has offered a reward for deacLli^- cold wat *r), gas, bells and Venetian rather the ears of -ars'or blinds, and close to mlway stations rather the ears or^fo

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jiain Woods is exceedingly small, but

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the number of dead bears for which per annum, or $13 to $18 each per the state has annually been required month, each house having gas, s,

in^ka)un ™rv l#rop The pv- Venetian blinds, a bath room, ana ha(j

to the city." The

oflers a residence of seven rooms

eight roome for $180,

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rooms for $225 each

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planation is simple. The Maine farmer gjtuated close to two Metropolitan

has found bears one of his most profit- District Underground railway stations

able crops. In the remoter regions of and omnibus routes. Maine, where the sheriff is rarely seen and the newpaper reporter is unknown

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every farmer of any real enterprise lars about the excitement into ic CVOIJ iniuici VI OUJ 1V€»1 vuwvii/i^v has his bear-pen, in which he raises the recent insurrection threw the gay E .... .'. ^~I,, rru,V i~ -\FNA^A

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people of Madrid. The news of the Badajoz rising reached the capital in evening, and about midnight a force of 3,400 men, bound for the scene of war, began to move toward the southern stations through the main streets, which even at that hour are always crowded. The wildest and most absurd rumors were rife all night as battalion after battalion passed, and the heavy artillery rumbled along in tbe darkness. The southern terminus of the capital presented a scene of great animation until the last train had left the platform, upon which Marshal Campos and a great number of generals and officers stood to witness the departure of the column. The marshal then returned to the war office. The next morning the city was in a state of feverish excitement and impatience

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gan to notice that the troops held in readiness to follow the first column were countermanded the friends of the government showed smiling faces, and then came an announcement of the entire collapse of the insurrection, and the flight of the rebels to Portugal, on the first intelligence of the approach of the royal troops.

The Jerome Bonapartists look upon Prince Victor as the lawful heir to the French throne because he was designated by the late Prince Imperial as bis successor. The young man has just come of age, and his father's pretensions are now even less substantial than before the occurrence of that auspicious event. A grand banquet of Imperialts, attended by some 1,200 people, celebrated the event. It is possible that Prince Jerome, "Plon Plon," will formally abdicate in behalf of his son. This was suggested indirectly at the banquet. One of the speakers of the evening asserted that the empire was the only really democratic regime which could possibly exist in France, and he was sure there could be no compromise with the republic. It was the duty of every one, he said, not only silently to accept Prince Victor, but to publicly announce allegiance. The hall was handsomely decorated, busts of Prince Victor, the Prince Imperial, and Napoleon I. being prominent features, and an old soldier, who had fought under Napoleon I. in Spain, and had been a prisoner of war at Portsmouth, made an immense sensation. He wore the St. Helena and other medals. He is now a hale old fellow of 93.

The vandals are in Venice. Not the ancient Vandals who pillaged civilized cities, but modern vandals, who are none the less plunderers. Just off the public gardens lies the beautiful little island of Sant' Elena—a picturesque spot that tourists remember with

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was again visited and the (pipe found in good order. Civil Service in China. German emigration has brought the

amination. Lord Carnis, of England, is the son of a tallow chandler, and is known as Count Dip. Lord Annaly is the son of butler.

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The system of civil service examina- German newspapers to the point of distion is said to have prevailed in China co^g earnestly and senously the ad-

Wear a green dress^and put ggtabiiahed in this country, only a lit- people to stay at home, and to all who

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THE TERREfiAttflS fitPRESS, SUNDAY MORSPtG, SEPTEMBER %, 1988.

that three-quarters of the emigrants are persons of robust working capacity, and the capital spent for their education, together with the value of their innate working power, may readily be estimated at $600 per capita. If to sum is added the amount of ready money or valuables which they bring with them, there is obtained a total of not less than $760 for each, which sum, multiplied by the average annnal number of 300,000 emigrants, shows the loss to Germany to be some 1225,000,000 per annum. Is there room for these people at home? the social economists are asking. The German population is not over half as dense as that of Belgium. But it is dissatisfied. It finds existence a burden, and knows that it is easier beyond the seas.

BEAUTIFUL SMUGGLERS.

How Uncle Sam la Defrauded Out of Large Revenues—A Special Treasury Agent Discloses the Secrets of Custom

Duties Kvasions. Hew York World.

"Now is the time we have to keep our eyes open," said a prominent member of Captain Brackett's staff of

Ladies will brintroY»rpftt|bt leat jpjlhceu slu/.ea. -r^7TcaPskin sacks

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offering for '^tuTmiddle of summer and wear DCr aUDUm —§140 fkA*n wVian iVio fViormnmcffii' fain t.hfl month—hou^3|iaiw^,^sfifS&,j or $12 per

them when the theimometer is in the nineties, simply to be able to swear that they have been worn. I remember a lady who wore a brand-new cam-els-hair shawl valued at $2,500. In her trunk was another shawl of the same material, worth about $500. She claimed to own both of them, but the dearer one was confiscated and never afterwards called for. It was subsequently ascertained that the person who had given her the commission

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pleasure. A stock company has recently bought this little islet and is done entirely without "his knowledge, building an iron foundry on it Rub-

even bake-house. But an

foundry is the unkindest inflic-

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as visability of offenng inducements to

Each applicant, in addi- do so increased chances of earning a

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to attach them and tni

steads, to attach them and their successors to the soil. In some quarters it is fully realized that a fruitful measure would be the abolition' of laige landed estates. It is "well-known

her a present of the cheaper

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Another device of the ladies is to fold new dresses inside of their old ones, and it takes an experienced eye to detect the fraud. In one caBea Udy covered a $500 Worth dress with an ordinary calico wrapper much the worse for wear. I knew that she was too aristocratic to wear anything BO humble as calico and that awakened my suspicions. Had she took one of her ordinary wearing dresses instead of her servant's, the fraud might have been successful. Some ladies do not hesitate to resort to trunks with false bottoms. One trunk in particular had false sides as well, and when I pulled a couple of screws out of it all came to pieces." "Do you ever arrest the ladies whom you catch in the attempt to smuggle?" "No. The only case of arrest that I remember is that of Mme. Leone. We are contented to confiscate the goods. We send the articles to the public store, and the owners ran obtain them either by paying the duty or proving under oath that no duty is due. We take that course even in cases of suspicion, and I admit that innocent passengers sometimes suffer delay and hardships on this account. We must be extra cautious or Uncle Sam's revenue would be seriously diminished. You have an idea of our work when I say that over $80,000 are annually collected at the docks of the various steamships for duty on baggage brought over by the passengers. This is exclusive of what passes through the custom house in the ordinary

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his desk a hollow boot-heel fashioned of iron, to which was attached an iron clamp, and showed it to the reporter. "Do you see this? This clamp was fastened to a man's boot after the leather heel of the latter had been removed. Then this iron heel was filled with diamonds and screwed to the clamp. The shape and color are exactly like those of an ordinary heel, and were it not that the smuggler's nervousness betrayed him he might have defrauded the government out of about $5,000 in duty.

Another case happened- on board one of tbe Havana steamers. I was looking for smuggled cigars, and having as I thought, satisfied myself that there were none on board, was about to leave, when I noticed the cleat of the window of the barber-shop^ which was on the upper deck, was a trifle loose I caught hold of it and pulled, and, to my surprise, the panel came out, revealing an aperature about three feet high and one foot in depth, and running along the whole with below the window. This space was filled with boxes of the choicest cigars. After my men had seized them the barber and the steward of the vessel mysteriously disappeared, and have not shown up around the ship again." "Did not the captain know this?" "No, from his explanation I feltconvinced that the smuggling was being

^a? si*ty men in his crew and only

.. one pair of eyes to watch them while

bish is filling up the water around it, were watching him. I wish I wharves are under way, and the place could say that all captains of inbound is no longer recognized by its friends, vessels-are as innocent of complicity in There is on this island a striking Ital- smuggling as this particular one was. ian Gothic church, disused now for Other favorite methods of smuggling some time, and covered with a rich in cigars are^to pack them in the center mantle of ivy. The patron saint, Sant' Elena, is no other than the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the great. In more recent times the church has been the burying place of many famous Venetians. During the last few months workmen have Deen busy breaking up the vaults. The remains of the empress saint, however, have escaped this indignity, for the urn supposed to contain them was removed some years ago to the Church of San Pietro di Castillo. Sant' Elena has gone through many changes of fortune. It has been monastery, bar-

He mentioned the name of a fellowpassenger, and added that he had shown some attentions to the passen-

ers wife on the trip over. That had,' said, 'aroused the husband's iealousy and he musi have denounced nim for revenge. I'll get even with him,' he added, 'he's got a lot of jewelry secreted in his trunk. He told me so himoftlf. Now, I'll walk np to him and shake him by the hand and then you'll know who he is.' Now, as a matter of hut, the Englishman had not been denounced by the person he mentioned, but it was all the same to us. We found the jewelry and confiscated it."

The Good Little Boy. I love to so to Sunday-school, And pnt my pennies in the plate ,. I love to learn the

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torn house detectives to a reporter of the World yesterday. "All the gay birds of fashion who

Bpend

"All of them don't, and some are so overconscientious that they even offer to pay duty on non-dutiable goods, But human nature is the same, whether it is a fashionable dreps maker or the wife of a prominent cleigy man, like the one who had twenty yards of fine Valenciennes lace tacked in her petticoat. I cannot give you her name for publication, for no proceedings were taken against her except to have the lace removed from the gar ment and sent to the public stores, from whicn her husband afterwards obtained it by paying $4 a yard duty." "Are the ladies cunning in the devices they adopt?" "Their ingenuity is unbounded Take for instance the case of Mme. Leone, the fashionable modiste, who was arrested for smuggling some time ago. She declared that she was an actress and that the dresses which she attempted to pass through without paying duty formed her theatrical wardrobe and were entitled to be sent in free under the section relating to tools of trade. She showed a contract in which she was engaged to perform the leading female roles in a number of plays. On the trial this contract was proved to be a forgery.

Golden Bale and? nve the heathen from their fate. IV wouldn't break the

Sabbath. Mot For i- that is awful wicked.

Oh! I

wouldn't swear. To steal a pin would be a very dreadful sin. I give myplaymates,tracts ana tell them ... ali about the burning bell where the bad boys go who like to play upon the blessed Sabbath day. I pull off legs and wings from flies, and I put out oar kitten's eyes such fun! It made me

laugh

to see

her blinded, crawl away, from me, I find birds' nests, and smash the MIS, ud I break the little :chickens' legs, and once: rrRACT: I put some parts green in:

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mamma's tea. You should: have seen ber light. It was so jolly that I gave a little to the cat. It died.

S I mean to stick baby's a Now I go, for

t® try a pin inC#

dea 'must*' I'm a

little lamb,

you know a Christian, too, me pray for you.

and if you're not

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dear sinner, let

.the sum

mer abroad are on the wing for home, and if tbey can slip in even a few yards of costly lace without paying duty it would save them the expenses of their trip."

The Average Boy. A's the green apple, with bites all around,

is the ball that's lost on the ground. Is the cigarette mak- I I ing him pale. 1) is the dog -v-' with acan on his *. tail. Els :. tbeerrand that makes him look wry. is the fishing and Fourth of July. Is the games that makes happy his days

ica vuuv iu»(»va ""rrv the hooky from school that lie .lays. I is the Indians he's going to slay. Is the Jacknife he's trading away. is the kite in the jky scarce discern e?. is the lickings for lessons unlearn ed. is for marbles and melons subllmo N Is the novels that cost him a dime. O 's his old man with a strap by the gate. P's his to pistol, which settles his fate. Q, is the quarrel which bloodies his nose. is the ruin be makes to his clothes,

A t. 1. A t* MaK ll A# ll

S Is the swimming, skates, snowballs and sled. is his tops and is toys a in uproar he he's taun'd. whe he's a wh 1 bappshrill. pen

W's his le an is

Res

when-

is the yells

day. is his at the

's ill.

he emits all the zeal that he shows play.

—{H. C. Dodge, in the Hawkeye.

GUTRIPPAH'S SNAKE STORY.

An. Adventure with a Tobacco Sign Leads the Colonel to Iudnlge in Whopper.

"You all may believe or not, sah," said Colonel Gutrippah to the renortgr I.W-4-0—•«— uquaifl Aver's Ca-

Mrtic Pills.

"RIBPIN

niy

OUUBNERII DIOOQ 11

aiun

••i-jo'piilmySGuthernblood

-inof fiAiv oaa urnmon nroltincw fnav naah

sah!' "It was probably a Mother Hubbard dress, colonel," said the reporter. "They are quito fashionable at present." "Well, sah, if it was a dress, and fashionable, sah, it's all right. I like to see people dress in fashion, sah." "There is a great objection to those dresses in some quarters, colonel. Some preachers have preached sermons against them." "What's they cussed objection to they condemned Motbah Hubbahds' dresses, sah "The preachers said they were too suggestive," replied the reporter. "Well, sah, a preachaw who feels that away ought to take a run in they woods foh awhile, sah. He alls blood is too rich, and he all needs rest, sah. He all will bah watching, sah. Yes indeed, sah." "Have you had any fun lately, colonel asked the reporter. "Fun, sah I always has fun, sab. Not a half a houah ago I was walking up they street, smoking my seegah,and they cussed seegah went out, san, 1 had a match in my pocket, sah, and stopped to scratch it on an Ingun tobacco Bign, sah. When I done scratched they match, tbey cussed, condemned Ingun said 'Huh! and walked away, sah. I done scahed me foh a minute, sab, to see

sah!"

A TOBACCO SIGN WALK OFF ALONE,

and I done went into theji saloon and asked they bah keep about it, sah. He all said it was a sliuah enough Ingun, sah, and they was a lot of 'em playing in they opera, sah, at the Pahk variety shop, sah." "People often make mistakes that way," said the reporter.

"That's so, sab, that's so. Do you all

course of business. How large an knowCokmel Shohtohn Peppahgrass, SS Th. reporter -id no, he didn't know horrified to be called smugglers, and ..

Colonel

sional smugglers? .. he alls lunch, sah. It was a colin-beef "I should say I d.d, replied the de-

tective, with a smile, as he took from

fae all(j coatrtail

Pennahfrraas

Ba ndwich an(1 he a]1

^ed it in

pocket, sah/They

.pohn-beef was rathah tough, sah, so Colonel Peppahgrass took out he alls

uoionei reppangrass

TOOK

they knife handy he all stuck it in they log, sah. "Well, sah, the minute the knife struck that log, sah, it stabted with him with such a jerk as to neahly dis locate he alls condemned neck, sah, and he all found out he all had been setting on a snaik. They snaik run so fast he all couldn't jump off no inoh than if it had been a express train,sah, be all went through the aih so fast as to set he all's naih on fiah with the friction, sah. "Pretty soon he all see a snaik's head a coming toward him, Bah, and he all gave up they game, and begun to sing a Sunday school hymn he all learned when he was a boy, sah." "What did this other snake do?" asked the reporter. "It wasn't a othah snaik at all sah— same snaik all they cussed time only they reptile had took a turn about a big tree, sab, and thah they cursed, condemned snaik was countermarching —snaik going east and snaik going west—same snaik all they time, sah— same snaik." "He must have been a monster," said the reporter. "But what did Colonel Peppahgrass do "They Colonel held on like grim death to an aged niggah, sah. He couldn't do anything else, sah, foh he all was going too fast to 'light with safety,sab. Heall

CLUNG TO THEY SNAIK'S BACK

till he all come to they shoht turn about they tree, sah, when he all took a sail through they are like a bird, sah. He all said aftahwahds he all was kind of nervous and excited, being subject to heaht disease, and didn't know how high he all did go, sah, but should judge it to be between half and threequarters of a mile." "Is it possible?" exclaimed the reporter. "Did he survive the fall 7" "Yes, sah. Of course be all survived

of barrels of oranges or in between baskets of bananas and other fruits." "Is it not risky to have a man searched unless you have good cause for suspicion?" "There's no pecuniary risk, but you are liable to discharge from the service on complaints made by the innocent sufferers. We must use our best judgment, and even then we are sometimes put on the right track by mere luck. "I remember one day searching an v"' -7,— wr Englishman, who was highly indignant it, sah. He all had been in the mulewhen nothing was found upon him. breeding business, sah, and had often We told him that he had been pointed attained the same attitude dunng they out to us as having smuggled articles annual round up. Wall, sab, Colonel in his possession. 'I know who told Peppahgrass fell in they top of a big you,' he exclaimed in his broad dialect, tree, sah, and mashed through they tt ij ...j a hran(*hoa irk fhflv crmtind. Me all broke

branches to they ground. He all broke both arms, they right laig, all they ribs on the left side, and two on they right, sah, broke he alls collah-bone in two places, sah, put out his right eye, tore he alls mouth open on one side to they iaea inac

eab, struck they ground with such

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ail fall and thought it was a meteor, sah." "How could a man with BO many broken bones recover, Colonel?" asked re or "Well, sah, they done rolled bun in they mud till he all was covahed about six inches thick, sah. Then they all jut him in they sun until they snn raked they mad, and thah he was, sah couldn't move a muscle, and it was all he all could do to wink, sah. They mud kept getting hardah every cussed day until they bones was knit, Bah, and then they all bad to cut it offen him with condemned coal chisels. Did you all evah try Baeh Grass with slice of pine apple, sah?"

ORIGIN OF POPDIiAR PHRASES.

Written for the Globe-Democrat.

Mad at a March Hart.—A familiar saying found in Skilton's "Repljr Against Certayne Young Scholais (1520), and also in Reywood's "Proverb" (1546).

Burden a/ a Song.—"Bourdon" is the drone of a bagpipe, hence a runnidg accompaniment or repetition of musical sounds or words is called the •burden."

Sadder and

red. is the makes when V's his vim ad in

WHKT

Jfan.—This phrase

is from the "Ancient Mariner, by Coleridge: A saddar and wiser man

He rose the morrow morn-

Balderdath.—Originally the froth or lather made by barbers in dashing balls of soap backwards and forwards in hot water.

Bubbly spume or barber's balderdash —[Nashe, 1699. Malaprop, Mrs.—A character in Slier

idan's comedy of the Rivals, noted for her blunders in the use of words. The name iB obviously derived from the French mat a propot, unapt, ill-timed.

Every One to His Own Taste.—A literal translation of the French proverb, Chacun a son gout. It is generally used satirically, as, "Well, I didn't think he would associate with people of that kind but (with a shrug), every one to his own taste"

Whisky—The stuff itself was ongin: ally an Irish manufacture and was called usquebaugh (pronounced us-kwe-baw), from uisge—water, and beatha— life. It meant "the water of life." The reason the last syllable was omitted may be that its use oftener led to death than to life. It was called usque and finally spelled whisky.

Folded Their Tents Like the Arabs— Longfellow, in his poem, "The Day is Done," wrote the verse from which this now very common saying was taken: And the night shall be filled with music,

And the cares that Infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

Siesta.—'This Spanish term for a nap in the day time has become, completehuiiiB, aaOuldcrSt l?%c „cl88B.

gl tnareic jriiis. ,* ly naturalized in this country. The went down and asked him if hie'd_ got

Spanish nap is* usually taken about au xne nanas

the

the room appropriated to away.

Oh, fool! faint heart fair layde ne'er could win. Cheers but not Inebriates.—Cowper used this phrase in reference to tea, but it had been previously applied by Bishop Berkley to tar-water. In his work "Siris," paragraph 217, the bishop says: "Tar-water iff of a nature so mild and benign, and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm withoat heating, to cheer but not inebriate, and to produce a calm and Bteady joy, like the effect of good news."

Standing in Another's Sfwes.—In an article on "Legal Usages Amongst the Ancient Northmen, in Bayley's graphic illustration (London, 1834), it is said that "The right of adoption obtained, one form of it consisted in making the adopted put on the shoes of the adopter. It has been asked whether our phrase of 'standing in his shoes' may not owa its origin to this custom."

Crosspatch—"Patch" was at one time a term of contempt. It did not, as Pares suggested, necessarily mean a fool, but signified what we now mean as a contemptible fellow. Shakspeare, in "Midsummer Night's Dream," says:

A crew of patches, base mechanicals. Crosspatch is the only remnant of the word. It is very expressive of a cross, ill-tempered, disagreeable person. "P. P."—Symbolic letters placed in front of the signatures of clerks and other employes of large firms to correspondence and other instruments authorized by the principals. "Procuration" is both the management of another's affairs and the instrument by which one person is authorized to act for another. The letters "P. P." stand

Per. Proc.," meaning "by procurann1 ainnifiAa that tVl A nloflr Ifl

for

out no ans tion," and signifies that the clerk is

knife, sah, and cut off a chunk of beef, duly and legally authorized thuB to repand begun to chaw it, sah, and to have resent his principals. resent his principals

Sleep, Death's Ally.—This quotation was written about 1590 by Father Robert Southwell, one of the sweetest of a earlv English poets. It begins a stanza on '"St. Peter's Complaint," which reads:

Sleep, Death's ally, oblivion of teara, Silence of passions, balm of angry sore, i\/C vi |/ooaivuD| Suspense of loves, seuurlty of fears,

rath's lenity,' heart's ease, storm's

Sensed and

8sho°u?s:'

ber^

London Morning ost.

the police on August 22 at the shops of

tion

dren, seme of the remains being in an

Siscovery.

ahed consciousness foh houahs latah, every indication of having been, atillhe all had a crick in he alls back and a born. 11 headache." "I don't wonder at it," said the reporter. "But he mus'' ance in getting Borne. "Oh, yes, sah.

wonuer at ii, wu

A GHOST ON SHIPBOARD.

Strange Disaster on lake Huron—The Old Sailor's Description of the Cruise of the Board of Tmdo—A Mnrdored gwsim'i Curse and the Water Spout. Chicago Herald. ii ft

Down in the lower part of South street the other day, says the New York Snn, an old sailor sat on an anchor-stock in front of a ship chandler's store. He was an intelligentlooking man, and was fairly well dressed for one of his calling. Other sailors were seated on a bale of oakum, oh a wide-mouthed pump without a plunger, and on the single stone step of the Btore. The ship chandler and a young friend sat in chairs just outside the door. The group were talking about ghosts. One of them had just told his experience.

You'r a sorry dog," said the ship chandler to him. "You were drunk, and the spirits you'd taken in made you see the spirits without. It's always that way."

The old sailor threw one leg over the anchor-stop, faced the. rfiip phandler, and said: "You know I. never take no grog, don't you, captain?"

The ship chandler nodded. "Well, I saw a ghost once. I saw it as plain as I ever saw anything. The captain of the scooner I was on and the man in the waist both saw it too. There wasn't a drop of liquor onboard. It happened upon the lakes, and I reckon you know the captain. It was the talk of the docks the whole sea-son...-u •, "I know a Captain Jack Caster, of Milan. He's the only fresh-water captain I'm acquainted with," said the ship chandler. "He's the man.' I neard him speak of yota once.' It was a little over ten years ago. I was before the mast then. It was the opening of the season, and I was in Chicago. I'd been through the canal from Toronto on one of those little canalere. What with tramping through the mud with a line over my shoulder and taking turns around snubbing posts every time the schooner took a notion to run her nose into the bank, I'd got enough of canal schooners. I heard at the boarding house that some men were wanted on a three-masted schooner called the Erie

Board of Trade. The boys gave her a pretty hard name, but they said the grub was good and that the old man id the TOD waees everv time^so I

•nnntrtr The went down anTasked him if he got

if I didn't Spanish nap is usually taken about all the hands aboard. He looked at

just now see a woman walking they noon, which in their reckoning is the me a minute,and thenaskedme where streets in her night shirt sah! You sixth hour (sesta). Hence in Spanish my dunnage was. "Tien I told him ii v.«i2.Vsestear is to take the mid-day nap and he said I should get it on board right all cussed Yanks ah cunous people,

purpose, usually on the north side "The Board of Trade was as handof the house. some a craft as ever floated on the Sambo— A cant'designation of the lakes. She'd carry about 45,000 bushnegro race. The following passage ira- els of corn. Her model had as clean mortalizing the appellation, is from lines as a yacht. As I came down the Harriet Beecher Stowe: "No race has dock with my bag under my arm I ever shown such capabilities of adapta- had to stop and have a look at her. tion to varying soil and circumstances The old man saw me at it. He was as the negro. Alike to them the snows proud of her, and I thought afterward of Canada, the hard rock land of New that he rather took a fancy to me beEngland, or the gorgeous profusion of the southern states. Sambo and Cuffy expand under them all." Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady.— This is a very old proverb. In a "Proper New Ballad in PraiBe of my Lady Marynes," printed in 1639, are these lines

Then have amongst ye once again, Faint harts laire ladies never win. In "Britain's Ida," by Spencer, canto v., stanza i., the second line reads:

S'r.3h

HUUBTU* HW IWACU MI*

wasn't any watch below in the day-

time, and we were kept painting her

0ut

cumbers, We handled that rope carefully, for Id Benumbing sense of ill with quiet slum-

A horrible discovery was made by

to hoist away. I and a youngster,

reprleval from all the «»ptain'B nephew, were standing by.

6een

how tender the chair was. When

we'd got him up chockablock the

A Shocking Discover*. young fellow a turn around the AsbocKtiiff lJiscoverjr.

and

undertaker named Camden, carry- Just then the chair gave way. He fell ing on business in Long-lane, Ber- bunched up until he struck the crosstrees, and then he spread out like mondsey. In consequence of mforma-

advanced stage of decomposition, the captain: "This is pretty bad busiUpon further search, another"' shell, ners,_sir this man's been murdered, containing three dead bodies was discovered, in even a worse condition. The lemains were removed to St. George's mortuary. A statement of tbe facts has been placed beiore the coroner, wbo will make a full investigation. The divisional surgeon is of opinion that the bodies must have been secreted several months. Mr. Camden, the proprietor of the business, has been in communication with the police, and, in the light of this statement, it is not believed that any more serious charge than that of erecting a

ublic nuisance will arise out of the According to the caretaker who resides on the premises with his wife it is no unusual thing for bodies of still born infants to be brought to the Bhop and remain there until the number have accumulated, when they are buried en bloc. It appears that a very small charge is maae for the interment of such corpses, and it is alleged that tbe undertaker could not recoup himself unless the course was adopted. Though he admits a general knowledge that this practice of warehouseing dead infanta was carriedSon, the caretaker states that he Was not cognizant of its extent, and he had' no idea that such an accumulation had

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taken place as was revealed by the po

sed velocity as to make a hole three lice search. The bodies brought to feet deep, sah, and when be all recov- ugni are au UION UI

uiuuiui uimnt

light are all those of infants bearing

Mr. Vennor predicted a dry August,

But he must have had assist- and there was a dry August. Once in awhile a prophet makes a hit in spite of himself.

niggah saw he

i00took ked aloft to see what

and

Scotty was doing. As I did so, he

reached

for his knife with one hand

put out the other for the backstay

an(j

fej[ fja^

received, Sergeant Pickles pro- of the cabin, on the starboard side. I ceeded to the shop at an early hour was kneeling beside him in a minute, yesterday morning, and discovered in ^^^V^m^wSja tell® I a shell the dead bodies of nine chu-

wa8

the deck, just forward

feeiing pretty well choked up to

gee

a shipmate killed so, and I said to

eyes and looked at us. llien, in a whisper, he cursed tbe captain and his wife and children, and the ship and her owners. It was awful. While he was still talking the blood bubbled over his lips and his bead leaned over to one side. He was dead. "ft was three days before the schooner got to Cleveland. Some of the boys were for leaving her there, but most of us stayed by, because wages were down again. Going through the rivers there were four other schoonera in the tow. We were ne^t to the tug. Just at the big bend below Port Huron a squall Btruck us. It was too much for tbe tug, and some lubber cast off the bowline without singing ont first. We dropped our bower as quick as we could, but it was not before we'd drifted astern, carrying away the headgear of the schooner next to us and smashing in our own boat. We were a skeary lot going up Lake Huron and no boat under the stern.

There was a fair easterly wind on the lake, and as we got tout of the river in the morning we were standing across Saginaw Bay during tbe first watch that night. I had the seeond trick at the wheel. The stars were ahining bright and dear, and not a dond was in sight. In the northwest a loir, dark streak showed where the land was. Every stitch of canvas was set and drawing, though the booms sagged and creaked as the vessel rolled lanly in the varying breeze.

up the companion way and out on deck. He stepped over to the starboard rail and hud a look around, aud then the lookout began Btriking the bell. The last stroke of the bell seemed to die away with a swish. A bit of spray oj something struck me in the face. I wiped it away, «bd then I saw something up slowly across the mainsail from the starboard side of the Jock forward of the cabin. It was white

and coffee with milk, it was a first- and does not go home. It waits for cabin passage all around. But the old more death and carnage before its man made it hot for most of us. There

ftWful

had

just sung out to the mate to strike eight belli when .the captain climbed

•'v.

%nd all bunched up. I glanced at the captain, and saw he was atari Dg at it too. When it reached the gaff, near the throat halliards, it hovered over it an instant, and then struck the crosstress. There it spread out and rolled over toward us. It was Scotty. His lips were working just as they were when he cursed the captain.

straightened out he seemed to stretch himself until he grasped the maintopmast with one hand and the mizzen "f with the other. Both were carried away like pipe stems. The next I s-aw the ship was all in the wind. The squaresail-yard was hadeing in two

...i

pieces, the top-hammer was swung, and the booms were jibbing over. "The old man fell in a dead faint on the quarter deck, and the man in the waist dived down the forecastle so fast that he knocked over the last man ol the other, watch. If it hadn't been for the watch •, coming on deck just then she'd rolled the sticks out of her altogether. They got the head sails over, and I put the wheel up without knowing what I was doing. In a minute it seemed we were laying our course again. The second mate was just beginning to curse me for going to sleep at the wheel, when the mate came along and glanced at the binnacle. 'Whatthe is this,' he said,'laying our course and on the other tack?'"

The voung man by the ship chand-, ler had" listened with intense interest. Here he said: "That story is true. I was there. I the captain's nephew you spoke about. was reading a story paper in the

cabin that night. The window was open forward, and so was the conipan-ion-wav. As the bell began to strike I felt- a "sudden drought through the cabin, and my paper was taken out cf my hands and out of the window before I could stop it. I hurried out of the cabin after it, but as I got my head up through the companion-way I heard the crash of the falling masts. When the schooner began to go off on the other tack I saw a bit of a waterspout two miles away to leeward, and-".

The ship chandler laughed. "Did you find your paper?" he asked. "No," said the young man. "I thought not, said the ship chandler. "Well," main facts.

said the old sailor.

j, **o!ofy can be easily

verified. The next voyage the steamer was sunk. The insurance company resisted payment on the ground that she had been scuttled by her captain. During the trial of the case the story of the death of Scotty and the loss of her topmasts under a clear sky was all told under oath. Anybody who doesn't believe it can see a copy of the printed testimony by applying to Rosburg & Baker, the ship chandlers of 1,789 Central Wharf, Buffalo."

A Refractory Audience.

Laramio Boomerang, A very sad thing occurred at a late

cause I couldn't help showing I liked performance given at Laramie City, her looks. At the close of the last act one of the PH-'P-' .p", i, I-taUy but what times are pretty good up killed. It is then the duty of the audithere. We were getting $2.50 a day for ence to rise, pick up its umbrella and the first round trip out and $2 the last

wa]j{

Ch .^ »»di«».

home. Sometimes, however, the

0t tanlllar with the p,.y

thirst for blood is glutted.

A°at

was

up on the down trip anu scrubbing weeks ago. The stage hired man, who the paint off again on the passage up. hauls the dead off into the dressingSkippers don't handle the belaying

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down wuen arguing wiiu ixieu, because there's a lot of shysters around the docks waiting to get the men to tie the vessel up for it. A man who's handy in fisting a mainsail will generally find pretty fair cruising. "The first trip around to Chicago every man but me got his dunnrae on the dock as soon as he was paid off. I'd seen worse times than what we'd had, and when I got my pay I asked the old man if he's want anyone to help with tbe lines when the schooner was towed from the coal yard to the elevator. He said he reckoned he could keep me by if I wanted to stay, so I signed articles for the next trip right there. When we were getting the wheat into her at the elevator, we got the crew aboard. One of them was a red haired Scotchman. The captain took a dislike to bim from the first. It was a rough time for 'Scotty,' as we called him, all the way down. We were in Buffalo just twelve hours, and then we cleared for Cleveland to take on soft coal for Milwaukee. The tug gave us a short pull outside the breakwater, and we bad no more than got the canvas on the schooner before the wind died out completely. Nothing would do but we must drop anchor, for the current, setting to Niagara river, was carrying us down toward Black Bock at three knots an hour. "When we'd got things shipshape about decks the old man called Scotty and two others aft and told them to scrape down the topmasts. Then he handed the boatswain^ chair to them. Scotty gave his chair a look and then turned around, and, touching his forehead respectfully, said: 'If you please, sir, the rope's about chafed off, and I'll bend on a bit of ratlin stuff.' The captain was mighty touchy because the tug had left him so, and he just jumped up and swore. Scotty climbed the main rigging pretty quick. He soon got the lialliards bent onto the chair, and sung

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to see the post-mortem They could not go home until it had been settled that the villain was fully and thoroughly dead.

There he lay, with his ear against a kerosene footlight, suffering, at $9 per week, and the audience absolutely refusing to go home and allow the man to revive or to requiescat in pace. The curtain, thor^h loaded at the bottom with a telegrs p'i pole, failed to come down, and the 1 -1 of the avenger and other members ihe troupe fitted past the space ltil by the unruly curtain, and the dead illian lay on his back, having yielded up his life four times that same week in the same manner, besides carrying the heavy trunks of the beautiful actress up two flights of stairs for her in three different towns.

As there were no programmes people lookek at each other and wondered. Thev knew that this man was undoubtedlv dead, but whether the company had afresh one or not was the question.

Finally two adult memoers of the troape came forward and pulled down the refractory curtain. Then the manager advanced to the front of the stage, and in a voice choked with emotion, said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we would be glad to massacre some more of our troupe if we could, hut we can not afford it. In a one-stand town one m»n is about all that we can yield up to the cold embrace of death. Our printing is high, and we have to pay $15 for the hall. Therefore, we regret to announce that the play is now over. You can go home with safety, and we will attend to the remains. We have every hope that the young man will be able to draw his salary next week, and that we may win him back to joy and health again. He has a good constitution, a ftur appetite and we feel like trusting it all to the future. We regret to see you go, but as the janitor is now blowing out the lights and it is getting pretty well along into the shank of the evening we must say good-by to you, hoping that during

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A Feminine Revenge.

venturesome. Finding herself a little beyond her depth, the lady turns to her escort and remarks the fact: "Yes, I see we are," is his comment, as he promptly leaves his companion's side aud puts to shore. She reviews the situation calmly frr a moment, waits for the next breaker, and comes in riding proudly on its crest there was a dangerous gleam in the eye, however, and she took swift revenge. The gallant feels her little stabs every time he asks permission to bathe a lady, and meets with stereotyped rtfus l: 'Thanks, ue I might get out too far."

Dressing Little Girls.

London Truth. It has been particularly noticed lately that the daughters of the Prince and Princess of Wales are always dressy/ 7*^ with great neatness, and with a chart ing simplicity. It would be well if mothers of many of the other childrk, and what Lord Beaconsfield termed "unfledged" girls, who are constantly seen about were to imitate the princess in this respect and array their offspring in a quiet style, which would be more in accordance wiuh their years than the gaudy costumes which their distempered fancies lead them to think becoming.

Miss Genevieve Ward is making a tour of the United Kingdom, to be extended to India, Australia, Japan, the United States and Canada,

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