Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 32, Hope, Bartholomew County, 1 December 1892 — Page 2

J10PE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C Smith fl OPE INDIANA Boy. B.own, of Maryland recently met Gov. Brown, of Rhode Island, *md Gov. Brown, of Kentucky, at Chicago. The Czar has dismissed his ablest general. No more the foes of Russia will be compelled to quail before the awful name of Dragoniroff. It appears that Dragoniroff was not only too harsh in his methods to bo a congenial element within the gentle sway of the Bear, but he had a habit of filling his military skin with rum, and while under its influence would swear with a fluent accuracy that was none the less true to its mark because the royal master was occasionally the target. So Dragoniroff had to go. ; ' It is not often that even the most accomplished swindler can count so many as three thousand victims. But of all the easiest forms of duping the human animal the matrimonial swindle is said to be the easiest. So perhaps we need not be surprised to learn that whole regiments of noodles answered the advertisement in a French newspaper which announced that a young orphan lady, with a splendid income, wished to marry a serious and refined gentleman. It was not until multitudes of these hoaxed persons, each of whom had paid a $6 fee to the intermediary, clamored for justice that the police intervened. ! The abominable smell often noticed about very cheaply bound books is caused by the carbolic acid which is put in the paste to preserve it and keep it free from cockroaches, which will scent pure paste a block away and come to it in shoals. Under ordinary circumstances cloves will do as well as carbolic acid, but in book binderies where there is always a good supply of paste and where the other attractions for cockroaches are numerous, carbolic acid is really the only effective preventive. In, the case of better bound books very little paste is used, and the leather has generally sufficient perfume about it to counteract a little unpleasantness. ■ There is something farcical in the announcement the policeman’s club has been abolished in New York') when it is accompanied by the state ment that hereafter each member of the force should carry a small ’billet of wood fourteen inches in length concealed in a pocket. This is a good deal like the abolition of corporal punishment in certain prisions where the lash is no longer permitted, but where inmates are flogged with a strap. “Do you go to school my lad?’’asked a benevolent old party of a small boy whom he saw trudging along with his satchel in bis hand. “No, sir,” said the boy indignantly; “I don't go to school. I’m tending ,’cadcmy. ” Somebody has reported the important fact that the royal, family of JRussia has at length discarded the China tea, which, from time immemorial has been carried on camels across the wastes of central Asia to the Russian markets. The Czar and his household have transferred their patronage to the tea raisers of Ceylon, in which respect their example seems to have been followed by nearly the whole of Great Britain. The ■weaker teas of India are being displaced by the stronger teas of India and Ceylon, and within the past five years, while the import of Ceylon teas into Great Britain has increased fivefold, the quantity of China tea imports has diminished about oof half. Tnis illustrates a phase of colonial policy that is becoming very noteworthy over the water. Everything has been done to encourage Ceylon tea growing and make a market for the product in Great Britain. Germany tries to induce her emigrants \to settle in her colonies, so that, as buyers and sellers, they may not be lost to the Fatherland : and Austria, having no colonies, is opposed to any at all.—New York Sun.

ONvTHE TOANO GRADE. Frank Bally Millard in Saa Francl?co Argonaut. Dark and dumb and cold as death itself lay the dry mesa. It was late at night. The coyotes had coused to howl. The owls no longer gave forth their dismal hoots. No breath stirred the leaves of the dry grease wood and sage. The cold stars shone out as they ouly shine through the rare, clear eye of the desert. The slim horn of "the cold moon droppingdowu over the far away buttes, glinted the wheel worn edges of two steel rails tl at ran away into blankness on either side of the spot. Near the railroad stood a ghostly telegraph polo, and its wires also ran awa/ into the blankness. If there were any sounds at all in the air it came from these wires. But they must have been mere whisperings, for the man who lay under them heard them not. The man was frightfully, strainediy awake, hut by his side and under the same blanket lay another man who was sound asleep. It is best for a supersensitive man to sleep, and sleep soundly, if he must needs lie put on the desert under the stars. It is an awful thing for such a one to be cursed by sleeplessness at such a time and in such u place. The horrible stillness, the dumbness of nature weighed upon the wakeful man, who lay there u)>on his hack looking up at the myriad of eyes that peeped through the dark roof of the world. He felt the oppressiveness of it all as keenly as ho felt the numbing of the chill night air. Ho turned on his unyielding bed of saa I and beard the crack of a sage twig under his body. A pistol shot would have sounded no louder to his overwrought ear. Why did the sound not awaken the sleeper at his side. If only ho would awake or even turn. But. poor, tired man, he had tramped man}' a long mile over the burning plain, through alkali dust, aud by sage and cactus wastes. Let him sleep. The sleepless one raised his hand to his face, on which the'skin was tightly drawn. How hot the unwinking eye of heaven had blazed on him through the day. It seemed to harp seared his cheek and forehead. “God! If I had but one glass of rum -one glass!” he groaned half aloud. Aud then he went over his life and made himself to see clearly why he had become so dependent on a liery J fluid for his peace of mind. It was the thirst—the pursed thirst—that had built itself up within him out of the very elements with which ho had thought to appease it. Aud the consequences of that thirst! His mind 1 run back to his home. How she must halo him —that patient wife, who had borne with him so long! Did she? Was it hate that blazed in her eyes when they had that fatal quarrel and he had left her, never to return? He could not bring himself to think it was. He was so frightfully alone—so much in need of being' in some one’s kindly thoughts Ibal— The man at his side did turn at last. But he settled down at once to peaceful slumber. He had not awakened. If he ouly would awake his cheery Irish banter would mako the night less hideous for a time, perhaps, hut let him sleep. He should not trespass on his good nature by arousing him. Although only the acquaintance of a day be : had, in his genial Celtic way, been more than kind. He had given a I, o-t unworthy and undeserving man food from his store, and now he was sharing with him his poor, thin blanket. An unworthy man—yes, most unworthy. Had he not left h : s wife to shift for herself ? Had he not wholly deserted her? Yes, but she no longer loved him. He had been such a drag upon her—such a burden, t ho was better off without him - far better. The in moving tide of th's heavy thought bore down upon him more than ail the oppressivelies- of the night silence on the dese. t, more than that fearful thirst. It •was better that she should live without him- far better. Ho was unworthy. How cut off ho seemed ;vom the whole world 1 The little warmth he felt from the man’s body, lying by his own, made its impress on his mind. In spite of all his desire for independence when he had started off on that wild journey with only a few coins in his pocket, his hot assertion that ho could go his own way without reference to others seemed now to have been a part, of his old weakness of character. Even the strongest must lean upon some one. None could go their way wholly alone. How interdependent was the whole race of man. And she had leaned him. Perhaps she did still, in a way. For might she not be looking for him to come back ? It was not likely that she even dreamed that he was a thousand miles away. What were a thousand miles after all ? He had not been long in passing them over. It would not take long to retrace them. With these thought g in

his brain, he could no longer lie there. Ho mhst be up and in rao- | tion. So ho arose and lamely made his ! way to the railroad track, leaving i his friend of a day to sleep it out alone. He stepped between the rails and halted there, facing the telegraph pole. To the right was the way of the freeman, without wife or homo. To the left, the way led back to her. “I have almost killed her by ray recklessness, ’’ he thought; “ why should I go back to complete the job ? ” He glanced over his right shoulder. “But that may moan the same thing. She is alone and helpless. Still to go back means—God f” he sobbed ; why can’t I be a man I ” His eyes sought the stars. “Yes, I can be.” He took off his hat and raised high his hand. Then he spoke, while yet looking up and the still night air heard his words: •T swear that hereafter I will hold ray desire for drink in check, and that I will strive to make myself worthy of the good woman who bears my name. So help me God. Amen.” Then down the back track he strode fiercely, clenching his hands as-he swung them at-his sides. Two hours later ho stepped upon the platform of the station atToano. There he stopped to rest. It was then dark, and no one was about to look at him suspiciously as upon a tramp, and to tell him to be off. From,a small building across the way lights were shining. Through the open doorway he saw men sitting about a stove. He heard their loud jokes and hearty laughs. How warm and comfortable they seemed. And he was bitterly cold. Ho went nearer to the place. As he approached it a man came and stood in the doorway. Strange to say this man greeted him with a cordial “Hello, pardner!” He made some sort of reply in a shaky voice, for his teeth were shatter! ng. “Trampin’ to ’Frisco?” “Yes.” “Wal, it’s good walkin’, ain’t it?” “Oh, yes.” Why should his teeth chatter so? “Bay, now, pardner, I kin tell you sutnin’ that beats walkiug all to pieJes." ‘jWhat is it?” ‘[Why, ’bout half a mile up the railroad there’s a heavy grade on a cmfve. When the emigrant train gops up there she don’t go fast—not much faster’n a horse and wagon. You kin jump on without any trouble or without any of the train hands noticin’ you, as they would at a station, and you kin go into a keer and sleep all the rest cf the uight. When you wake up in the morning you’ll be at Mesilla, seventy-five miles from here. That’s two big days’ journey for a man travelin’ a foot, It was worth trying. “When will the train be along?” “In 'bout an hour,” “Thank you,” “Say,” and the voice grew kindly, “ain’t you pretty blame cold? Come inside awhile and warm up.” He followed the man into the house. There was a bar there, and some men were before it drinking. His new friend led him up to the bar. This would not do. There was his resolve to consider. Well, he was on his way back home —that much was settled. And as for drinking, there would be just this one glass to warm him up. He was really very cold and numb, and needed it. As it was to be just one and the last, it was well that it should be a large warming draught. So he poured the glass nearly full. He felt the fire of it as it Went down. Yes, it did warm one —that was certain. He had eaten so little that the hot liquid swiftly set up its reign in his tired brain, and when his new comrade urged another and still another upon him he could not refuse“Now, I reckon you better git up the track if you’re goin to git that free Pullman pass o’ yourn from Toano to Mesilla, with no change o’ keers,” remarked his entertainer, glancing at the clock. He started up. “Good bye,” he said. “God bleth you.” His tongue was thick, though his gait was fairly steady. He could walk very fast now, and soou he was up the grade and at the curve. How strong his nerves were. No longer did the night weigh upon him. What a different man he was from the creature who had limped along the ties a few hours ago. How much firmer of purpose. The light from an oncoming locomotive shot up the track. The iron giant coughed, wheezed and panted. It was truly a hard pull up the Toano grade. He stood by the side of the track as the dazzling headlight glared upon him for a moment. How firm he was, but how he would have trembled had he gone there unbraced for the ordeal. He did not tremble now. It was a long train The cars, with their dull lights, passed slowly at first, but gathered speed as tiiey went along. He would not wait for the last, for that was the caboose,

and in it was the conductor. What speed the train had gathered! Still it was not going very fast,he thought. Now was the time. It would be two days’ foot journey nearer to her. Ho would soon boat home. He grasped a handrail, lifted one foot up, missed the step, and was thrown with relentless force under the wheels. There was an awful cry, a crunching sound, and the train had passed, leaving the dust it had stirred up to settle down again under the sagebrush leaves. ♦ » * -n » • “Say, Bill, I heard some one yell.” It was a brakemail who spoke, and it was the head brakemeu who heard him. “So did I—it was under the car. Another tramp gone to kingdom come.” “We ought to stop—hadn’t we? — and see about it.” “Stop on the Toano grade? How wild you talk! You must have been drinking.” ■ MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. There is no cure for color blindness. Icebergs sometimes last for 200 years. Epizooty is raging among Idaho horses. Tea is gathered from the plant four times a year. Chinese streets are not often more than eight feet wide. “No, Maude; a girl don’t have to be brazen to be a belle.” The line between Idaho and Washington is being surveyed. The German Emperor has a rhinoceros skin walking stick. A crocodile takes eighty seconds to turn completely around. An oil field has been discovered in the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Brownsville, Pennsylvania, boasts of a tomato that weighs two and a half pounds. The saloons of London, if set side by side, would reach a distance of seventy-five miles. The ultimate cost of the new public library building at Washington is limited to $11,000,000. Bishop Brook’s, of Massachusetts, emphatacally condemns the secret sessions of religious conventions. Chile is said to number among her population more poets per capita than any other nation in the world. The Michigan lumbermen carry cedar knots in their pockets as a cure , and also as a preventive of rheuma-, tism. Fleetwood, Pa., claims to have a | quince which weighs twenty-eight ounces and measures sixteen inches in circumference. The longest word in the new Century dictionary is palatopharingeolaryngeal. The next longest is trausubstantiationalist. Herculile, the new French explosive, is so powerful that half a pound of it, in a recent test, displaced a stone weighing thirty tons. By order of the commissioners of the District of Columbia all the theaters in Washington must be fitted throughout with electric lights. A blind man who should hear the strong voice and the quick, firm step of Edward Everett Hale would never suspect that he was seventy years of ago.

Leaves attract dew;’ boards.sticks and stones do not, because leaves have a chemical use for dew and detain it, while boards and stones have none and do not. The smallest inhabited island in the World is that upon which the Eddystone lighthouse stands. At time of low water it is only thirty feet in diameter. There is a tree in Jamaica known a s the life tree on account of its leaves growing even after being severed from the plant. Only by fire can it be entirely destroyed. Fortieth Friend (since breakfast) —By Jove, old fellow, you’ve got a fearful cold. What are you taking for it? Sutferer (hoarsely)—Advice. —New York Weekly. It does not seem to be generally known the turkey was domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of this continent by white men, but such is the case. A Passaic inventor has devised a novel projectile, which is rifled to correspond to the bore of the gun. The grooves are provided with bearing pieces to diminish friction. Among the New York exhibits at the Chicago Fair there is to be a roll bearing the names of all the meritorious literary women of the State. Only 200 names are yet on the list. Diego Xermines, of Phoenix, Ariz., a Spaniard, died on Monday. He was reputed to be . over a century old, and had been a participant in all the Mexican revolutions since 1824. The proposed underground electric railways for Loudon, if sanctioned, will be sixteen feet under the Thames, sixty-eight feet beneath Kegent’s Park, and eighty-five feet below Oxford street.

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