Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 August 1895 — Page 8

AS SUMMER GOES.

Now summer all her golden treasures lays Before us, smiling that her work is done; And as we take the gift lo, she is gone! Withdrawing from us with her harvest day. Nor stops to hear our gratitude and praise. And when I see her go, then I entreat That it may b with me when I complete !Th task Life sets, and vanish in the haze. Bo; let there be no parleying at the last, But take the harvest, be it large or small Assured, oh, friend, that it is my great all, And let me join the summers of the past As peacefully as drops the harvest moon Adown the sky lulled by the west wind's tune. -Womankind. CHARLIE CLIFTON, of the Pangal Cavalry, had bought two opal rings of a wandering peddler. What did he care about the superstition regarding the stones? His fellowofficer, Alloaby, was only laughed at for warning him against the purchase. Clifton rode off with the rings, while his friend strolled over to where the peddler was tying up his pack. "See here," he said, '"here's a rupee for you. Now tell me about those rings. Tho sahib has bought them, and you can tell me the truth now." "Master promise not to tell the other ahib, and I will tell him," replied the old man. Allcnby gave the required promise. "Those Jewels very unlucky Jewels," began the ancient vender. "They mating very bad luck to different peoples. First sahib who bought them was Maharajah of Karospoor. The sahib knows what happened to him. Then Fortescue, sahib at Ilotibad, bought them. That poor gentleman killed out vidiig rery next day. After Itotibad merchant buying those jewels, and his house burnt down next week. Then all the people saying: 'These very bid Jewels,' and all very much afraid to to buy them. That merchant wanting to sell them to me; but I too TiOch afraid to buy. Then another man told me those jewels ouly bad for three people. You buy and then sell them, nd next purchaser will have good lack. That's all, sahib. I tell sahib whole truth. The sahib who has bought those Jewels will have good luck, if Cod wills." The old man took his departure and Allonby continued to muse over his queer story. After all, he thought, it may simply have been a coincidence that those three people should have come to grief. Anyhow, I hope old Clifton won't have bad luck. Meanwhile the subject of Allonby's thoughts had reined in in front ef a pretty little bungalow half way up the Kharpur Hill, where most of the residents of the station had their bungalows, and whero what breeze there was in the place could be enjoyed by the jaded plain dwellers. At the sound of his horse's hoofs a j'oung girl who had been reclining at ease on a deck chair in the veranda hastily rose. Nettle Vernon was a pretty sight that afternoon, with her golden hair and the English roses still in her cheeks. So thought Clifton, and he thought, too, what a lucky fellow he was to have won her. "Why, ,Sir Officer," said the young lady, with the light of laughter in her eyes and its dimples In her cheeks, "what brings you here so early this afternoon? Have jou been promoted? Are you ordered to the frontier to fight the Russian., or what? Do tell he, and don't oh! don't look so serious." The young officer looked down at the bewitching upturned face, and then ! "Did you come all this way to do that?" asked Miss Vernon with mock reproach. "Oh, how foolish and hotheaded the young men of the present day are. Now, when I was young oh!" The sentence was not finished. "Look here, Nettie," said her lover, "what do you think of this ring? That's what brought me here. Isn't it a beautiful opal? And the most beautiful girl in Pangal shall wear it if she likes." "Oh. Charlie, what a dear you are!" cried the young lady, in delight, "but aren't opals dreadfully unlucky?" "There you go," said the discomforted lover, "you are as bad as Allonby, who has been croaking on the subject like Edgar Allen Poe's 'Raven.' " "I didn't say they were unlucky," pleaded Miss Vernon; "I only asked if they weren't. I am sure, Charlie dear, nothing will bo unlucky that you give xne," she added sweetly. In another moment the ring was on, and the two lovers, comparing their jewels, thought them quite the nicest In Kharpur. A few days later Charlie Clifton was driving to the Kharpur station. It was the day of the Sawarbad races. Sa warbad was some forty miles from Kharpur, and a large party was going over. The railway station was a couple of miles from Clifton's bungalow. He had driven about half way when he discov

ered his famous opal ring was not o his finger. "Confound It!" he exclaim ed. "I must have taken it off when 1 washed my hands. I must have iL 1

promised Nettle never to take it off; besides. It might be stolen. I shall have to go back." He turned his horse's head and drove rapidly home. He found the ring; and he found also when ho got to the railway station that the train had gone without him. Poor fellow, how sick he felt as he walked out of the station. Nettie must have gone without him; and he had been looking forward so much to the outing. A dreadful feeling of desolation took possession of him. It seemed to him that he was separated forever from his beloved. He cursed the opal ring which had been the cause of his misfortune. Was It really going to bring him 111 luck after all, he wondered? A sound j of wheels approaching made him look up. Was It possible? He knew the cart. He knew the driver. Miss Vernon drove up looking the prettiest of pictures In a new straw hat and a most becoming frock. After all, there is not always such a great gulf fixed between raradise and the other place! "We must be quick, Charlie," cried the young lady, as she threw down the reins, 'i have run It very fine, I know." "Don't hurry, darling," was her lover's reply, given In a calm and leisurely manner he could afford to be calm and leisurely now "the train has goue without us." "Oh, what a pity!" cried Nettie, claspher hands, "but never mind, dear, we have got each other," and she looked at the young man In a way that more than consoled him for all his disappointment. "And now," said the young lady, "I daresay you'd liko to know how it Is I am so late. Do you know, sir, It Is really all your fault? Yes, It was. It's no good denying It. It was that opal ring of yours that fell off you know it was rather large for me. Well, I spent no end of time looking for it I thought I should never find it; but I did, and here it Is. But what on earth makes you stare so? Don't do it, dear; you look so ugly, and you are really not suc h a bad-looking boy In your normal state." Toor Clifton explained the cause of his own delay, which he had been trying to do for some time, but his fair lady had not given him a chance. "Now, dearest," he concluded, "doesn't It 6trike you as very curious that we should both of us have been delayed on account of our opal rings? I wonder what It means?" "Yes, I wonder, too," said Nettle, nodding her golden head reflectively. But they both of them knew an hour or two later, when the terrible news of the breaking down of the Tatharpar bridge under the train they would have gono by reached the station. Ajid In the days of grief and desolation that followed for Kharpur they found time to wonder why they two should have been saved. Charlie and Nettie are older now, but they still wear their opal rings those rings which, Instead of bringing them 111 luck, saved them from an awful and sudden death. At least, they so regard the matter. And so dri I also, for I. too, am superstitious, and not ashamed to own It. Great Divide. AVhen Irving Was Hissed. Sir Henry Irving recently told the following story about his early experience: "In my early days I accepted a stock engagement at a provincial theater, and did not know until I got there that I had been put Into the place of an actor who was locally very popular. He had not left, I believe, on altogether good terms with the management; to the audience vented their spleen upon his successor. I was that unfortunate person, and for a whole week or more I was hissed every night; not for my bad acting, but out of love for my predecessor. I remember how every night I walked to my rooms, some two miles out of town, very wretched, and walked in again the next night no less miserable. To this day I never pass the place by railway without a shudder." Cobwebs. Since Annie has been big enough to take care of her own room, she has had a rage for neatness end orderliness very encouraging to see. Not long ago she said to her mother: "May Bridget brush down that horrid cobweb in the corner over my bookcase?" "Yes." said her mother. "But don't call it horrid.' It's only because it's in the wrvng place. In itself, It's very beautiful." "Oh, I don't see how any one could think a cobweb beautiful!" said tho fastidious maiden, with a shrug. "Except, perhaps, the cobs." And why not? If a spider's web is built by a spider, why shouldn't a cobweb have been spun by a cob? Rieyvlcn act Itevenue Producers. An Ingenious idea has been hit upon by tho president of a Canadian railway for creating travel on the company's ears. Along the railroad, running some distance out of the city, the company has allowed bicyclists to construct a cinder path, for their own convenience, as well as giving the company belter ballasting on the road. The only revenue the company expects to derive from the path is from the fares of the wives and families of the riders who take the cars to watch the wheelmen practice. As the riders of the wheel in Toronto number about 10,000, the enterprise of the railway company Is ilke'y to be well rewarded. Magnificent. The North British Railway Company Is building a station at Edinburgh at a cost of $1,200,000. Cheap Enough. The feeding expenses of the animals In the London Zoo are 5 000 weekly.

KILLS THE HOPPERS.

MACHINE THAT SLAUGHTERS 8,000 BUSHELS A DAY. Minnesota Scientists Tackle the Farmers' Terror in a New WayCanvas and Kerosene Bend the Pests to Death. "Hopper-Dozers." Minnesota scientists have tack!?d the jrasshoppr pe.st in a new way. Canvas and kerosene is the combination, before which the tiny hoppers go down to their death. Out there it is known as a "hopper-dozer." The Slate pays the expenses of the slaughter, and the slaughter iterrific. Think, if you can, of S.0O0 bushel baskets packed with hoppers. That was the average record in a day of killed and wounded insects at the height of the scourge. Dr. Otto Lugger, Minnesota's expert on bugs, is the man who utilized the ourious "hupper-duzer," says the St. Louis I'ost-Dispatch. Why he calls it by that name it would bo interesting to know. Perhaps it is because it sends the hoppers to their last 6leop. lie was invited to do something to rid the farms of their voracious brigades of hoppers early this summer. lie found evidences of enough of them to kill all the crops in Minnesota. The rains helped to kill off some of them, but science had to do its share iu the extermination. In the neighborhood of Taylor's Falls Dr. Lugger focind a grasshopper-infested district covering fifty or sixty square miles. The insects were descendants, ho thought, of a previous generation which had made trouble in 1S90. They were of the so-called pellucid or Calif oixia variety. There happened to be n State appropriation far killing hoppers, and this was turned over to the executioner. "I had 200 hopper-dozers built after the most approved fashion," said Dr. Lugger to a correspondent, "and purchased sixty barrels of kerosene oil. All we asked of the farmers was that they run the machines. That they were anxious to do this is tdiown by the fact that there was a fight for the machines. Every farmer in the section wanted one and wanted it at once. We could not get them built fast nough to supply the demand. The same thing was done at Rush City, Duluth and other points, although there were not as many of them furnished at the.se places. I estimate that these machines killed about 8,000 bushels a day during the time that they were all running. I do not

THE "HOrrEH-DOZER," RY WHICH S.000 BUS I ILLS HAVE RE EX KILLED IX ONE DAY.

think that this is exi ggerated in the least, as there were over 400 of the machines. and at the end of a day's work from three to ten bushels could be taken out of each machine with a shovel. Just about j one hopper in ten that dies docs so in the machine, so you can see that my estimate is not a large one by any means." 'What is the nature of the machine?" he was asked. "It is something of the nature of an overgrown dustpan, and is made of tin. j It is about eight feet long by two feet j wide, runs cn three small runners, and is drawn over the ground by a horse. At the front of the machine is a trough tilled with coal oil, and behind this, at right angles, a piece of canvas rises to a height of three or four feet. As this machine Is drawn over the ground the hoppers jump into it, the canvas preventing them from jumping over. They fall into the oil and that is the end. "Some of them strike the oil head first nnd die instantly. Others only touch it with their feet or bodies and are able to jump out ngain. It makes little difference in the end, however, as they cannot live over three minutes if they have even the reo Tin: onAssiioppF.n. smallest drop of the oil upon their be dies. The fact that ouly those which get into the oil head tirst die instantly is the reason that such a small percentage of them are found in the pan at the close of the day's work. "Of course the Lcpper-dozers are only a makeshift. I am conducting experiments now which I hope will show me a much better way of petting rid of the pests thau the very clumsy one of gathering them up on a dustpan. A little while ago I read in some paper that in certain counties in Colorado the hoppers were dying in great numbers with some sort of a disease. I sent to the postmasters of a number of towns in that State asking them to send me some of the insects that were diseased. I received a large number, and there is no doubt in my mind that they nre. really atllicted with a disease that is contagious in its nature. We are trying to find out if the insects which we have In this State arc liable to this disease. If so we will then know how to deal with them in a scientific manner." rhilip Hauffman and Michael Snyder were arrested at Coney Island, New York, charged with running an illicit still at Neptune avenue. The men rented the house one year ago, since which time they have lived In it and carried on their work. The whisky was stored in a cellar under the rear extension of the house. Grand Chief Powell, of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, has anked for a conference with the managers of the Cotton Belt, Railway relative to the company's abolition of it agreement under which its telegraphers work.

BARRED BY A RAILROAD.

Illlnofs Central Refuses to Allow Chicacoaus to Cross Its Tracks. Actual conflict between citizens and armed oihVers of the Illinois Central Company on the Chicagj lake front because passage to and from the lake front was denied to tho people has brought tho question of rights to a decisive issue. Mayor Swift declares the crisis has been reached. He proposes to protect the people against a repetition of the outrage of exclusion. John Dunn, assistant to tho president of the company, announces he will not budge from the determined stand taken by his force of men with revolvers He says citizens were denied right to cross tiie tracks out of regard for their lives and intimates the corporation will tight any opening of streets. Iu short, the company's position is construed by city officials to be a determination to stick for alleged vested rights. This earnestness on the part of both contestants makes any more conferences and consequent agreements impossible. Chicago's lake front on Wednesday was in the possession of tifty armed men. hired hy thi Illinois Central Railroad Company to U-ickaJe passage to the harbor from Itandolpli to l'Jxh streets. They had clubs in their hands and revolvers ia their pocket. They were instructed to use both if necessary ou any person who insisted on his right to an approach to piers in i. i vigable waters, and, in carrying out the instructions, they compelled a score cf women to imperil their lives Wednesday night. This climax of the contest between the corporation and the municipality was caused by the action of the company in retaliation for the order to tear down the Van Buren street viaduct. Special Officer O'Keefo was called into the general manager's room and ordered to secure a large forco of assistants. He was Informed that at sundown the people were to be taught they had no right to a passage to the lake front. He was told to furnish his assistants with weapons and to arrest peacefully in all cases where a beating was not necessary, any man, woman cr child who tried to enter Chicago from the steamboats. This order, said to be without precedent in the history of maritime matters, was put into working force at the time when the peopio were returning from Lincoln Park and Windsor I'ark Reach by boat. CROP CONDITIONS. General Outlook for Corn Is Flatter injj Much Kain in Places. The reports as to the conditions of the crops throughout tho country and the general iniluenco of the weather on growth, cultivation and harvest, made by the directors of the different State weather services, sny that the general outlook for an exceptionally tine corn crop continues llattering. Except in the Dakotas and Minnesota where it is somewhat late and in Indiana where it is maturing slowly, the crop is generally in advance of the season and early corn is now practically made over the southern portion of the corn belt. Kansas and Missouri report much of the crop made, and in Missouri the largest crop ever raised in that State is promised. Six hundred Iowa reparts, all counties b-?ing represented, show the condition of coin as much above the average in sixty- e counties, above average in eight court vs. while thirty counties promise a crop below the average. In Nebraska corn is ia excellent condition in the southwestern part of the State and in the counties along the Missouri River; but has b"en much injured in the southeastern section, except in the river counties. In Indiana, while corn is maturing slowly, it is in good condition. In Ohio the outlook is less favorable, being poor in the uplands and on clay soils. Kentucky reports corn prospects unprecedented. No unfavorable reports respectingcoru are received from the Southern States except from portions of Texas nnd the Carolinas, where in some counties drought is proving injurious. In Texas cotton is needing rain on upland; and the southwest portion of the State, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana report improvement in the condition of cotton over the previous week, while the outlook iu South Carolina is less favorable. I a Missouri there has been too much rain for cotton and the crop is grassy and the outlcok unfavorable in Arkansas. Spring wheat harvest has begun in North Dakota and continues elsewhere in the spring wheat region. Tobacco is in good condition in Virginia and growing rapidly in Kentucky ami continues in excellent condition iu Maryland, but in Ohio it is not doing well. Light local frosts occurred in Northern Indiana and in Northern Maryland and in the mountain 1 of West Virginia. No damage reported except slight injury to corn in Maryland. Drought continues in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Southern Texa.i and in portions of Maryland and the Car olinas, where crops are being injuriously affected. Sir T. 1 Wade died at Cambridge. He was born nlout W2Q and entered the army in 1S.'5S, serving afterward in China and elsewhere. He was advanced to the rank of K. C. R. in 1S73 for his exertions in negotiating hniortant treaties with the Chinese Government and obtaining treating facilities in that empire. The students' recent outbreak in Guatemala was due mainly to the punishment inflicted on some of their number. Twelve were arrested and switched until the blood flowed. One afterwards com raitted suicide by shooting himself. Louis Stern, of New York, was sentenced at Kissengen, Germany, to two weeks' Imprisonment for insulting a public official and to pay a fine of C00 marks for resistance to the authority of th state.

BABB FOR G0YEBN0B.

IOWA DEMOCRATS CHOOSE THEIR CANDIDATE. State Convention at Marshalltown Reaffirms the National Democratic Platform of 1802-Lively Contest Over Silver. Tho Ticket. Governor Walter I. Babb Lieutenant Governor S. L. Bestow Supt. of Instruction L. B. Parshall Railroad Commissioner G. Jenkins Judge Supreme Court T. G. Harper The Iowa Democratic State convention was called to order by Chairman Howard at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning in Marshalltown. The convention was held at the Odeon Theater, and the handsome auditorium had been prettily decorated with bunting. The delegates left little room for spectators. Prayer was offered by Itev. leather Leniman. V. O. Pierce, the youthful Mayor of Marshalltown, made a brief speech of welcome and put the convention in good humor by saying he extended the freedom of the city, especially to the Scott County delegation. Temporary Chairman French, who was received with applause, attributed the special invitation of the Mayor to tho known modesty of the Davenport delegates, and then launched upon his speech. He dwelt fully upon the prohibition question and scored the mulct law unmercifully. He then took up the several vital State issues in detail, together with national questions, strongly approving President Cleveland's course during the panic. Mr. French thought silver monometallism would cut wages worse than during the war and demonstrated how free coinage would decrease the value of the workingman's earnings in savings banks fully 50 per cent. The volume of money, he declared, was suflicicnt for business de mands. Low prices, including the decline in wheat, were next considered, and Mr. French closed with the hope that neither the gold nor silver monometalism would drive the other coin from circulation. The convention reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national convention of IS!)"-!. The silver men mad" a Ktron.rfight, but they were beaten. They had been claiming from 7h to N'JO of the 1,179 delegates, ..but when it came to the test they were able to muster few more than half the number claimed. They fought for the permanent chairman and were beaten by a vote of TmJO to 417. They fought for a silver plank in the platform and went down uudir an adverse vote of nr2 to 4-jo. Lx-Judge Walter I. Babb. of Mount Pleasant, was nominated for Governor without opposition. Mr. Babb is 1. bimetallist and indicated his position in a short speech before the convention. There was no candiate for Lieutenant Governor. Mayor Vollmer was too young and Joseph Eiboeck, of Des Moines, would not permit the use of his name. W. A. Groneweg. of Council Bluffs, ex-State Senator, had been mentioned, but without consultation with him, as he was not present. It had been designed by the old party leaders to name a representaive German for the place, but when the silver men, smarting under their defeat, sprung the name of ex-Lieut. Gov. S. L. Rcstow, of Chariton, th opposition saw a good opportunity to soften fho asperities of the tight and heartily joined in nominating the man who had been beaten a few minutes before for permanent chairman of the convention. Thomas G. Harper, of Burlington, wai named for judge of the Supreme Court In a contest with E. E. Hasner, an old lawyer of Independence, but Lyman B. Parshall, of Maquoketa, for superintendent of public instruction, and George Jenkins, of Dubuque, were nominated without opposition. It was n large and enthusiastic convention, with a bitter fight on the silver qurstion, but the result was accepted with a show of grace. " The Platform. The democratic party of Iowa. In convention assembled, reatiiruis th national platform of the party adopted in Chicago la 1SU2, points with satisfaction to evidences of the wisdom of that convention. In results accomplished according to promises, to evidences of returning prosperity, restoration of wages and the re-estubiihnient of Industry upon a prosperous basis conditions which have extorted congratulations from even the Republicans of Iowa. We declare the rescue of the finances of the country from the baleful effects of the Sherman law. the repeal of the un-American Federal election lau, and the uprooting of MeKlnleylsra work9 worthy of tire history und the prestige of the great Democratic partv. and of a courageous Democratic administration. We reaffirm the faliov.ing portion of the seventh plank of the last national Democratic convention: "Wc hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to coin both gold nnd ellver without discrimination ng.-ilnst either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of loth metals must bo of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted by i n t orn n t it n:i I agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall Insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times, and we demand that paper currency shall be kep,t nt par with and redeemable In such coin." We Insist upon this policy as espccbiliy necessary for protection of farmers and lalorliig classes, tho first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency. We condemn the cowardice and trickery of the Republican party of Iowa in failing to meet In its last State platform any of the Issues Important nnd vital to the Interests of our State. We believe the mulct law falls to meet the requirements of a good excise statute. It is unfair as between communities and Imposes hardship upon property owners, nnd compromises tho honor of the State In declaring the sale of liquor a crime and condoning the offense for a money consideration. We repent our demand of the last five years for a hcnl option, high license law, nnd. on behalf of the commercial Interests of the State, we favor a law permitting the manufacture of liquor. We favor the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. We favor Just and liberal pensions to all deserving veterans, reiternre our unflinchiuz opposition to all monopolies and trusts and call for enactments which will abolish combines of . nil kinds. We demand that State Institutions be governed by n single nonpartisan board of control, which can Intelligently comprehend their relative wants and economically nr.d Justly apportion among the whole that which their Just requirements demand. We favor the speedy completion of the Hennepin canal and the deepening of tho waterways from the great inkes to the ocean, to enable ocean vesaele to pass through. Notes of Current Invents. The Good Citizenship League of Wichita, Kan., has taken steps to start a daily paper. Plows are being operated by electricity in Germany more cheaply than they could be by steam. Twenty-two prisoners were injured bjr atfalling bridge in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M. Farley, The murder was the result of a game of cards.

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. The English sales of '-Trilby," counting all the editions, have reached thirty-four thousand copies. Tho recently Issued large-paper edition was practically exhausted by subscribers and booksellers before It was published. Mr. Stead, for the better inculcating of public taste, is bringiug out editions of the Lnglish poets at the low cost of one penny per volume. The first Issue was Macaulay's "Lays," the second 'Marmion," the third "Childe Harold." The fourth is to be "Selected Poems from Lowell." Longfellow will follow soon. A granduncle of Rudyard Kipling, an ancient gentleman vermin? on 00 years, has lately burst upon the world as a poet. Ills verse does not suggest the powers of his honored relative, but it Is comparatively well-meaning. Dr. Ibsen is to have a monument erected in his honor during lifetime. It is to be by a well-known sculptor, Herr Stephan Sindinjr. and will stand in front of the Loyal Theater at Chrlstiania. Stevenson's new story, "St. Ives," deals with the adventures of a Frenchman captured in the Peninsular War and shut up In Edinburgh Castle, whero be falls in love with a Scotch maiden and has a duel over her with a fellowprisoner. "SL Ives," It is said, was left practically completed by Stevenson, lie had been at work on It for more than a year when he died; the first half of it had been entirely rewritten several times, and many chapters had received bis liual revision. Mine. Lardin de Müsset, sister of the poet, has emphatically declared that sha has no intention of publishing any of the posthumous works of her brother. Nothing of the kind in her possession Is calculated, she says, to add to the fame of Alfred de Müsset as a poet. Gossips will be disappointed, no doubt, to hear that Mme. Lardin de Müsset has likewise determined to keep secret her brother's letters, and notably the correspondence between him and George Sand, with whom he was passionately in love. Boy's Kssay 011 Cleanliness. A London magazine submits the following essay cn "Cleanliness" as the product of a 12-y car-old boy In a grammar grade: "Do not go nnd say that you are feared of making yourself clean, just becose it is cold and it hurts to get the dirt off. or becose the suds get in your eye. For when you arc clean people do not edge away from you. never mind about your clothes, but they say unto you like our teacher that is next to godlyness. Be thankful unto him becose your mothers can afford soap, and becose they make you use it. Also when your mother puts her fingers down your coat-neck afore breakfast and peeps to see if there is any black there, and then sends yoxi back to the sink again to wash yourself better, say unto her, yes mother, also smiling. On Saturday night say also unto her, mother, don't forget to get my bath-tub reddy for me, and a new pace of soap, for I love to wash myself course of cleanliness for It Is next to godlyness. Do not be same as thera there Blacks, and Amerikens, and Ingoos, which just splashes their faces with water and no soap, and never gets inside of a tub, only a paddlin about bits of rovers. When you say to a dirty boy, 'Dirty Dick wants the stick.' only say it about once, so as he can't say as you are wicked. Say unto him, look at tho thotcful cat, which spits on its pores Just to get a bit of lather for a fair start, and then wipes its nose, and Into Its eyes, also behind its ears, not'eounting over. Then say unto him as It will actshclly lick itself when It can't get Its pores, rather than be hitching anywheres round. Tell him to liok at the necks of the masters and superintendents and preachers, aud he will never lind a ring, which Is always a sine as you have Lot gone far down." A Fable of the Springtime. Oace upon a time the Sun and the Wind disputed as to which was tho stronger. Presently a wayfarer approached, and, to settle their differences, they agreed that superiority should be conceded to that one who could produce the most marked effect upon the man. "Oh, I won't do a thing to him," remarked the Wind, and blew violently. But the wayfarer only drew bis coat more closely about him and tossed down a ball or two of Medford. "Xow, watch me," said the Sun, and shone fervidly, whereat the wayfarer thought It was Spring and changed his flannels. Whenever thereafter the Wind became boastful, the Sun had but to point to a little mound In the churchyard. Detroit Tribune. An Kffeetive Freight Carrier. A conveyor erected at Bridpeport, Ala., illustrates the facility which has been attained in the handling of freight by mechanical means. The convey or is about 173 feet In length, and is design, ed to carry sacks of grain, boxes, packages, bales, etc., to and from the boat at the river landing and tho warehouse on the top of an adjacent hill. It Is constructed of two strands of roller chain, each link having an attachment to which wooden slats are bolted, forming an endless apron. The roller chain used In the conveyor makes It run smoothly and with the minimum amount of power. The carrier house a large cargo In short order, and frequently handles 1,500 sacks In an hour. The finest musician Is he who his 4 Uddle In his heart.