fiiscellany.
IN ARCADY.
It was easy to say "I love yout"
Under a summer sky.
When the hours went slow and the bees
hummed low,
And the winds went whispering by.
For we were young and happy, '
Nothing of life knew we; - iit-
And what more sweet than with careless
feet
.. To wander in Arcady?
To-day, in a book forgotten.
I found a rose you had kissed.
.Do you remember the moonlight?
The path to the lover's tryst?
And do you sometimes, I wonder,
Think of the past and me?
And wish some day we could steal away
And wander in Arcady?
Ah, no, 'tis a foolish fancy,
The dream is dreamed and over.
And you have forgotten the dear, dead
days
When I was your royal lover;
For we were two weary worldlings.
Seldom from care set free.
And never again can we find the path
That leads through Arcadyl
Detroit Free Press.
THE INSPECTOR'S LOSS
Inspector Hookyer had served Ms
twenty-five years In the detective force,
and his colleagues were entertaining
him at a little farewell dinner. In an
ticipation of his forthcoming retirement
The chairman having eulogized the
guest of the evening to an extent that
brought a blush to the face of that case
hardened officer, the Inspector rose to
reply, and at the finish he said:
"The chairman has said that I never
let a man slip through my fingers after
I had once got on his track, but I am
sorry to say he Is wrong. I am bound
to acknowledge that once an offender
was too clever for me."
"Tell us about it," arose spontaneous
ly from almost every throat, and In
spector Hookyer, In response to the re
quest, gave the story.
"It was a good many years ago now
when I had intrusted to me a case of a
young woman named Eliza Thick-
broom, who had been found dead (evi
dently murdered by having her throat
cut) In some fields adjoining a canal
near a town In Lancashire. She had
been a domestic servant, and was of a
very retiring, staid disposition, and bore
an irreproachable character. Her
friends lived In quite another part of
the country, and her mistress had no
knowledge of her keepjng company or
anything of that kind. For some time
I bad considerable difficulty in fixin
the crime or any reason for it Upon
anyone, but at last, after a lot of In
quiry, I ascertained that she had been
out walking with a man named Lam
prey, who lived near Stockport, "in Che
shire, some thirty miles from where
Eliza Tbickbroom resided.
"It seemed that the girl had been In
the habit of spending her holiday, when
she had a day off, In geing to Stockport,
where Lamprey met her, and that she
had become engaged to him, but that,
hearing something to his discredit, she
had refused to have anything more to
do with him, and, so far, nothing fur
ther was known to Implicate Lamprey
In the crime, but I, of course, at once
took the train to Stockport and proceed
ed to hunt up Lamprey, and to make
inquiries In the town where he resided.
"I knew nothing about him except his
nacae, but from the local police and
cautious questions of one and another,
I ascertained that be had been a sailor
and was then a 'steeplejack,' and one
of the best climbers known.
"'Jack Lamprey!' cried one man to
whom I had spoken. 'Ah, he can climb,
for sure, can Jack I Why, he climbed to
the very tep of yon steeple,' pointing to
the church hard by, which had a spire
remarkably tall and slender, and very
hard to mount 'After the storm had
damaged the weather cock Jack climb
ed and fixed it all alone for the parson,
ana he refused to be paid for It'
"The man seemed to look upon Lam
prey's refusing payment as more won
derful than bis climbing the steeple, and
perhaps he was right Well, bit by bit,
I found little things which, when pieced
together, pointed unmistakably to Jack
Lamprey as the murderer. He had, un
til recently, been seen frequently in and
about Stockport with the girl, but for
the last two or three months she had
not been observed In his company. He
had been a Jolly sort of fellow, but since
the girl had ceased her visits it bad
been noticed that he had become
moody and silent, and he had taken to
drink a good deal, although he had ore-
viousiy Deen a most abstemious man.
"He was away from his lodgings on
the ntgbt of the murder, and on his re
turn early the next day he was travel-
stained, as if he had walked a long way.
TTIa InnJInAn - m 1 ll. , . . . .
Ui3 lauutauj icuicuiucinj lilac De I01U
her be had fallen down In some chem
ical works where he had been on a lob.
- and had stained his clothes, and she
recollected immediately after his ar
rival home he had busied himself brush
ing and sponging his garments.
"There was sufficient to Justify me In
obtaining a warrant; but he was away
on a Job no one knew where exactly.
except that It was somewhere near Liv
erpooland It was useless for me to
leave Stockport, where I had the best
chance of catching him, on a wild goose
chase to Liverpool without better in
formation. My only course was to wait
and keep quiet till he came back, which
he was expected to do the following
day.
"I took every precaution to prevent
anyone knowing that he was 'wanted,
but some 'pal' must have got to suspect
It and given him warning. The police
in Liverpool had been wired to, and had
kept watch of all trains In the direction
of Stockport, and toward evening of
the second day I received the intimation
that a man resembling his description
had taken the train and was on his
way. Assisted by a local detective who
knew the man, 1 watched every pas
senger out of the train on its arrival at
Stockport but no Jack Lamprey alight
ed, and, on inquiring of the guard, it
seemed pretty certain that he had got
out at Cbeadle, a station a few miles
outside of Stockport
"It was the beginning of winter and
night had set In, so that It was extreme
ly doubtful If we could follow the man,
ibtt we-took a train which was Just go
ing out of. the station, and in a few
minutes were at Cheadle. I there made
certain that my man had got out He
had booked for Stockport and had given"
up his ticket, but do all we could we
could get no trace of him. He had left
the station immediately on leaving the
train; no one knew him and we could
find no one to tell us anything more. So,
hoping perhaps to pick up a clew on the
road, we walked back to Stockport and
on to the town where he lived, which
was a few miles the other side, but our
tramp was in vain.
"We had left instructions at Stockport
for Lamprey's lodgings to be watched,
but by some blunder a man had not
fceen sent there for ome time, and,
much to my anger and disgust, when I
arrived at his house I found that he had
been there, just for five minutes, his
landlady said, and had left again with a
bag of clothes.
"1 was mighty savage, you can guess,
both with myself and with the police of
the place for not keeping a better look
out, but it was no use losing my head
over It, and 1 at once set to work dog
ging his footsteps after he had left his
lodgings. In the public house which he
frequented I came, across a man to
whom I had .previously spoken,, who
'seemed to know Lamprey in a very dis
tant sort of way, and I turned the con
versation on the man I wanted.
"'Ah! I've just seen him, said the
fellow. 'About an hour ago or mayhap
a little more. He was going to Maccles
field, he said, to catch the early train
In the morning Into Staffordshire, where
he's got another Job. He seemed In a
mighty hurry, too.'
"I had reason afterward to think that
this man was the- one who had given
Lamprey warning, but whether that
was so or not his information that night
appeared to be correct, for I met several
people who had seen Jack going across
the fields toward Marple, which was
his best way of getting to Macclesfield
from the place he lived In; but when I
arrived at Marple station I was at fault
again, for no train had been out for
quite two hours, and although I waited
till the last train to Macclesfield had
left Lamprey did not show up.
"Tried and vexed beyond description.
I tramped back and got what rest 1
could, hoping that something might
turn up in the morning to assist me In
recovering the ground I had lost, but
afraid that for once I had let my quarry
slip, and that I might never catch him,
now that he was aware he was being
tracked.
"Sure enough, something did turn np
In the morning, and something which
confirmed my fears, though I felt that
I had got my man dead if I had missed
him alive. The postman tame around
soon after 7, before it was quite light,
and I had only Just got up when a boy
came running in with a letter, which
had been delivered at the police station.
It bore the Marple postmark, and was
addressed to !The Detective from Lon
don.
"Tearing it open, I read something
like this:
" "From John Lamprey. I know you
are after me, and I know what for.
managed to keep out of your way to
night and I meant to try and get down
south, but you are sure to have me,
sooner or later, so I've determined to
make an end of it Look at the church
steeple when you get this to-morrow
morning.'
"The church steeple was a tall and
prominent feature whichever way you
turned, and I had only to go to the end
of the street to get a full view of It
When I got there and looked up I saw
something that gave me a start In the
uncertain light of the early njornlng I
could discern against the gray sky,
hanging by the neck to one of the Iron
loops which serve for a ladder on the
side of the spire, the figure of a man!
" 'So much for Jack Lamprey! I said
to myself, as I hurried to the police
station. 'He has saved me any more
trouble.'
"By the time I had been to the station
and back to the church it was broad
daylight, and of course the body hang
ing aloft had been seen and a crowd
had already collected, every one recog
nizing it as that of Jack Lamprey.
" 'A strange freak,' I remarked to the
sergeant who was with me.
" 'I don't think so, he replied. 'Jack
had made himself a sort of hero over
going up the spire to repair the vane and
there was nothing more likely to occur
to his mind than to finish his career at
the same place.'
"There was no one round Stockport
who would venture up the spire and a
telegram had to be sent to Stalybridge
for a man to come and get the body
down. It was past midday before the
steeplejack arrived and by that time
half Stockport had heard of the affair.
'I shall never forget the few minutes
that followed, while the steeplejack
(now looking the size of a little child)
made his way very cautiously close up
to the body and, fixing a rope to it,
made his preparations for lowering It
to his assistant, who was waiting on the
top of the square tower to receive it
There was something awfully sad and
solemn about It all!
'In due course the assistant received
the corpse, which he let down to the
ground and everyone around me re
marked that he swung it roughly to the
earth, without showing the respect
which might have been looked for. In
fact some actually called out 'Shamer
'But all at once the hush which bad
fallen upon the crowd was broken by a
storm of jeers and laughter! The thing
which had given us all trouble was
nothing but a guy! And I never felt
such a fool In all my life.
'So that he might get nearly a day's
start Lamprey had cleverly misled me
the night before. While I had been
wasting my time at Marple he had been
employed in stuffing the suit of clothes
which he had taken from his lodgings
with straw, making a very passable rep
resentation of himself, and In the mid
dle of the night he had climbed the
steeple (which was child's play to him)
and left his effigy to deceive me and lull
me into inaction.
"I need not dwell upon the chaff I re
ceived. It Is too painful, even now, for
me to recall without annoyance, but you
may be sure that I quickly made myself
scarce.
.
'Did the fellow get clear?" asked
someone. "Yes. He took the train to
the east coast and succeeded in getting
to Holland unnoticed," replied Hookyer.
'But he hanged himself in earnest some
considerable time afterward, leaving
a letter behind admitting his guilt and
stating thathls conscience troubled him
so that he could not bear to live." Tit
Bits. Well-Pald Clergy.
The Established Church in England
pays its preachers well. ' The salary of
the Archbishop of Canterbury is $75,-
000 per annum. The Archbishop of
York has $50,000; the Bishop of Lon
don, $50,000; the Bishop of Durham,
$35,000; the Bishop of Winchester, $32,-
500; the Bishop of Bangor, $21,000; the
Bishop of Bath and Wells, $25,000; the
Bishop of Ely, $27,500; of Gloucester,
$25,000; of Chester, $21,000; of Exeter,
$21,000; of Hereford, Lichfield, Liver
pool, Lbandaff, Manchester, Ripan, St
Asaph, $21,000 each; of Carlisle, Lin
coln, Norwich, Peterborough, St" Da
vids, $22,500 each; Oxford, Salisbury,
Worcester, $25,000 each; NewcasCe,
$16,000; Rochester, $19,000; St Albans,
$16,000; Sodor and Man, $9,000; South
well, $17,500; Truro, $15,000; Wake
field, $15,000 ;and then besides there is
an army of deans, bishops, suffragans,
canons, etc.
In View of Recent Events.
'Jimson wants the Presidency of the
Fifth National Bank, doesn't her '
Yes; but he stands no show against
Shumway."
"What's Shumway'a recommendation
for the place?"
He hasn't any relatives. V-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
KING'S WIFE IN A WORKHOUSE.
Ead Story of a Refined Woman and
Her Wretched Bnd.
The romances of the London -workhouses
would form a thrilling and pa
thetic record, and for sad vicissitudes
and ill luck few cases could surpass
that of an Inmate of one of these pooi
houses who has recently passed away.
A lady visiting the Institution was
struck by the evident refinement of an
elderly woman in the infirmary, who
was a Norwegian by birth, but who
spoke English and other languages flu
ently. She had all the beaux restes of
a very lovely woman, which years of
poverty and ill health could not de
stroy. She was very reticent as regard
ed her past, but was so evidently a ?en
tlewoman that the sympathetic visitor
exerted herself to obtain admission for
the invalid into a home for the dying,
in which she might pass her hist days
iu peace and amid congenial surround
ings. Before her death the stranger told
her story, and a strange and romantic
one It proved to be. At 17 she was in
formed by her parents that she was to
be married, and although she had no
voice in the matter nothing could have
been more satisfactory. Her husband
was handsome, cultured and devoted.
They lived in a charming country
house, surrounded by every luxury,
and four children were born to the
couple. The only drawback to the per
fect happiness of the young wiff were
the long and frequent absences of her
husband, which he attributed to busi
ness, but would explain no further.
At last there came a day when the
man returned no more from his accus
tomed Journey, but sent his lawyer in
stead, from whom the bewildered and
heartbroken woman learned that' her
supposed husband was the king of
and that, owing to pressing reasons,
the liaison should terminate. An ade
quate sum was settled on her and the
children, and, wishing to break entire
ly with the past, she cam; to live in
London. After some years she married
an Englishman and shortly after the
king died, leaving a lump sum to her.
This money the husband got from ker
to invest and ran off with, the entire
amount, leaving his unfortunate wife
penniless. She had never been trained
to do any sort of work, and thiags vent
from bad to worse until, utterly desti
tute and dying, she became an inmate
of the workhouse.
Sunday-School Libraries.
Edward W. Bok has been making a
careful and coinprebeas've exam nation
of Sunday-school libraries, and in the
Ladies' Home Journal he confesses
himself disgusted with the literature
thus placed in the hands of our boys
and girls. A less complete investiga
tion, Mr. Bok says, would not have
made it possible for him to believe that
the libraries of our Sunday-schools
were stocked with such piles of rub
bish "wishy-washy literature,'' as he
terms it He quotes .the titles and give
the themes of a number of books he
obtained from Sunday-school libraries,
and these seem to completely warrant
his conclusions. "Such books," he con
tends, "are an insult to the Intelligence
of the young people, and have a per
nicious influence. Instead of being
healthy books they are decidedly un
healthy In tone and teaching. Surely
we are cultivating a dangerous ta3te
for reading in the young when we feed
them on such rubbish."
Mr. Bok unhesitatingly lays a part
of the blame upon the Publication
Boards and Societies, which are influ
enced by a denominational spirit that
narrows their choice of books, lhen
again, it is shown that the most medi
ocre sort of "talent" is employed to
write these books, and that beggarly
prices less than $80 per book are
oaid. A shnre of responsibility. Mr.
Bok asserts, rests upon the men who
purchase Sunday-school libraries, who,
as is most frequently the case, are not
qualified for the task, and whose ob
ject is to secure a library as cheap as
possible. Mr. Bok warmly urges that
the selection of Sunday-school books
be left to women, who "instinctively
know and feel the kind of a book which
a bov or girl will read and enjoy." He
Insists that women should be given
carte blanche to make the selections
so far as the prescribed amount of mon
ey will go. "A hundred good books,'
Mr. Bok concludes, "are far better than
five hundred books of indifferent in
terest," which are bought s'mp'y be
cause they are cheap. "A Sunday
school library cannot be created in a
day, and no discouragement should be
felt if the financial means of the church
are contracted, and necessitate the pur
chase of only a few books at a time."
The Chicago Stock Yards.
It Is very interesting to watch the
sale of horses in the arena at the yards.
You enter at a large door and are In
troduced to some horsy-looking man.
commonly red-headed, and then this
course of secret society hailing and re
sponse Is gone through as eligible' for
the higher glories of a place alongside
the railing of the arena:
"So .you're from Chicago,' Mr.
Brown?"
"Yes."
"Good town."
"We think so up there."
"But she ain't in it with the National
yards on mules," very decisively.
"Ah," says the candidate for the es
quire degree. "Is that so? Do you
think so?"
"Think so?" retorts the red-haired
chancellor commander, "There's no
call to think. It's true."
"Yes?"
"Yes. And horses, too. National
yards just wallops the daylights out of
Chicago on horse sales." .
"You don't say."
"You bet I do. Why, we send horses
to Germany, Arabia, Iceland, the South
Pole, Saturn, the Milky Way and Nep
tune. Our sales and shipments last
year were " And then he goes on
rolling out ciphers and figures and sta
tistics like a sort of volcanic eruption.
If you, the candidate for further mys
teries, are wise and cautious, you will
assent to this villainous -insult to your
town's greatness and supremacy, and
will be allowed to approach the arena
and, indeed, may be given a cigar.
The cigar, however, you should by no
means smoke. It was made by an in
competent and excited non-union man,
and the materials were jimsonweed,
and the maker was in a hurry Chica
go News.
An Egyptian Advertisement.
The story of the proposed trolley line
from Cairo to the pyramids recalls an
other instance of modern enterprise. A
certain tract society commissioned a
painter to place religious texts on all
available objects in Egypt. He traced
this question on one of the pyramids:
"Do you want to be saved?"
"Another painter. In the interest of a
quack medicine concern, came alou.c
and added beneath:
"If you do, take Blank's Piils." At
lanta Constitution. : :
Nearly every - man is compelled -i
walk up bill to reach ' Is grave
HIDDEN PLACES.
Why a weasel should hate a rat is stranga
as he is only an elongated rat himself.
Rats, ind mice love hidden places, and a
weasel is about the only living thing that
can tind them out. Aches and pains are
iike rats and mice. They seek out the
hidden places of the human system and
in law and ravage the muscles and nerves.
St. Jacobs Oil, like a weasel, knows how to
a;o for them. It will penetrate tothesecret
recesses of the pain, and breaks up its ftab
itatioji and drives it out. Hats and mice
shun-the corners where a weasel has been,
and pains and aches once fairly driven out
by t. Jacobs Oil are permanently cured
and seldom come back to their old "haunts.
There must be patience with the treatment;
some chronic forms are stubborn and re
sist,. but the great remedy will finally con
quer and give health aiid strength to the
artiicted parts.
. A fish with ' nine mouths was cap
tured in California recently, and ich
thyologifitp are in doubt what to name it
THE FAULTS AND FOLLIES OF THE
AGE
Are numerous, bnt of the latter none is more
ridiculous than the promiscuous and random
se of laxative pills and other drastic cathar
Sics. These wrench, convulse and weaken both
;he stomach and bowels. It Hostetter's Stom
ach Hitters be used instead of these no-rem-ed'es,
ihe result is accomplished without pain
nd with great benefit to the bowels, the
stomach and the liver. Use this remedy when
constipation mani eats itself, and thereby pre
vent it from b-'foniing chronic.
Salicylic acid, boric acid, borax and
formaldehyde are some of the chemi
cals added to prevent milk from souring.
' -
HOMK PRODUCTS AND PURE FOOD.
All Tastern Syrup, so-called, usually very
light coiored and of heavy body, is made from
glucose. "Ira Harden Drips" is made from
Sugar fane and is strictly pure. It is for sale
by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac
tured by the I'acifk: Coast Sykup Co. All gen
uine "Ten Gttflrn ria" haye the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every can. :
Two bottles of Piso's Cnre for Consump
tion cured me of a bad lung trouble. Mrs.
J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., March 26, 1895.
In the fiords of the Norway coasts
the clearness of the water is wonderful.
At a depth of thirty fathoms objects
the size of a silver dollar may be clear
ly seen.
A wealthy gentleman in Paris, whose
wife could not resist the desire to gam
ble; has secured a legal seperation from,
her. In six months she had lost 435,
000 francs.
A - proposition . to reorganize forty
counties in Western Kansas in four
large ones is being agitated in that
state.
Warner's Safe Cure
IN LARCE I
OR SMALL )
BOTTLES.
I
Ill
Owing to the
many requests
from its patrons,
Warner's Safe
' Cure Co. have put
on the market a
O J-F EJ:;
J,
smaller size
bottle of Safe
Cure -which can
now be obtained
at all druggists at
half the price of
the large bottle.
KIDNEY AKD LIVER.
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proval, and maintains its posi
tion for a fifth of a century,
must necessarily possess pe
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Most British geologists are now pre-;
pared to admit that. the earth has pass--ed
through several glacial periods, in
stead of only one, as is commonly
'supposed. - -
J A T .in finiantiot lino 1 1- von tfiil i
mirror of celuloid which accurately re
flects every object. The celuloid rnir
.ror is unbreakable, and is cheaper than
glass and lighter. '
The hissing sound produced by ser
pents is greatly exaggerated, as the
quantity of air contained in a snake's
lungs is too small to produce-a- loud
sound when ejected.
In the opinion of Crispi, former
prime minister of Italy, Americans are
working to prepare a future for the peo
ple of the Old World which is not -an
agreeable one. " . - - -
Hunters in Kansas earn about $2 a
day slaying jack rabbits. The skins
are sold for three cents each to Eastern
hatters, who use the hair in the manu
facture of soft hats.
In the mountains of Sweden, Norway
and Lapland all vegetation would be
destroyed by the Norway rats were it
not for the white foxes, that make spe
cial game of the rodents.
The lighting of certain of the London
prisons by electricity is under consider
ation, and is proposed to erect a
special description of treadwheel to
supply the motive power.
St. Louis, Mo., is the largest street
car manufacturing city in the world
The output last year was about 3,000
cars. '
The velocity of light is 186,880 miles
per second.
A Young Woman Gains 20 Pounds
Her Physiciam ia Iowa Said She Was
Going Into a Decline, and That
Her Lungs Were Affected
They Sent Her to Nevada.
But to Figbt lung Tronbles or Any
Wasting IMaeaae, ISuild np
Tour Flesh.
From the Express, Los Angeles, Cal.
Two years ago, back in Eastern Iowa,
Miss Maude Lease began to go into a
decline. She lost flesh rapidly. Her
appetite failed. . Fearful headaches
nearly drove her frantic. She consulted
local physicians good, honest, practi
tioners. They told her that her lungs
were affected; that medicine might
alleviate, but a change of climate was
the only remedy that offered a prospect
of cure.
Ill and despondent she delayed as
long as possible her departure, but at
last it became imperative, and . she
came to an aunt at Verdi, Nevada, in
the hope of finding health and strength
in the pure air and among the pines of
,the Sierra Nevadas. But she con
tinued to fail, and to add to her mis
eries, learned to know the anguished
(sufferings which attend that complica
tion of ills, that for want of better
nomenclature, has been denominated
"female weakness. " ;
And now comes the miraculous part
of the story, just as she told it to the
interviewer last night: "
"I ran down to 118 pounds," she
said, "suffered tortures from those ter
rible headaches and from sleeplessness.
My aunt persuaded me to try Dr. AVil
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I
had used nearly every kind of 'prescrip
tion,' could get no relief from them,
and hoped for none from these pills.
. " But to please auntie I began to take
them. From the first day I noticed a
bieficial effect. The headaches grew
less severe; my appetite gradually re
turned. I could sleep nights and be
gan to get good and strong.
"I used to take one of them three
'times a day. In two months I weighed
138 pounds, and was entirely well, and
have been well ever since. The win
ters at Verdi were very cold and, be
sides, I had heard so much about South
ern California that I came to Los
Angeles.
"Dr. Williams Pink Pills have
helped me more than anything I have
ever taken. I thank them for my
health and ability to enjoy life. I am
living at NorSOO Hope street, Los An
geles, anT shall be only too glad to re
peat what I have just said, to anybody,
either in person or by letter."
So spoke young and attractive Maud
Lease, and no one who saw her big eyes
snap as she said it could doubt the
earnestness and sincerity of her state
ments. And that is why we say the story of
a miracle is floating through the air,
although now the miracle has become
an established fact.
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partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effect of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, all forms of weakness
either in male or female. Pink Pills
are sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a
box, or six boxes for . $2.50 (they are
never sold in bulk or by the 100), by
addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine
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A SURVIVAL OF NONSENSE.
Soma Absurdities Connected frith
Letter Writing. -
Why do we write "Esq." after a
man's name or "Mr." before it Jn ad
dressing a letter? Why do we write
"Dear Sir" even in addressing the veri
est stranger? "Why do we subscribe
ourselves to all correspondents as
"Yours truly," or other words to that
meaningless effect?
We do none of these things in tele
grams, yet we do not feel tnttt we a
discourteous to John Jones when we
address him by telegraph solely as
John Jones and sign our names at thei
end of the dispatch without any flour
ish of words. Why should we not be as
direct, simple and truthful in our let
ters as in our telegrams?
- All these practices are survivals from
an age of leisure, extravagance and
servility of mind. They are now an Ab
surdity and a costly one. More than
three billion letters are written every
year in the United States. Allowing
half a minute as the time consumed in
writing "Dear Sir" and "Yours truly"
Inside and "Mr." and "Esq." outside
of each of these letters, and allowing
300 working days of ten hours each to
the year, the people of the United
States waste In this way 8,333 years
of time every year. In other words,
we actually waste the whole time of
more than 8,000 persons In writing
"Dear Sir." "Yours truly," "Mr." and
"Esq." At the lowest calculation the
time thus wasted each year is worth ten
millions of dollars, or half a river and
harbor bill.
The sole purpose of a superscription
on a letter is to tell the postofflce peo
ple to whom and where to deliver it.
All that is necessary for that purpose
is to write the name and address, "J.
Wintersmith, 3 John street, New York
City," completely fills the requirement
All else is waste. There is no occasion
to tell the postman that J. Wintersmith
is a clergyman by writing "Rev." be
fore his name, or that he is a woman
and unmarried by writing "Miss" there,
or that J. W. aforesaid is a married
woman, or has been, by writing "Mrs."
But we have worse habits than
these. In addition to the meaningless
"Mr." and the absurd "Esq." we are
constantly addressing men as "Hon."
or " Jol." or "Kev." Why do we do it?
As every little politician who gets him
self elected an alderman or a member
of the Legislature is thenceforth for
ever called "Hon.," why should any
body think it a requirement of courtesy
to address so justly distinguished a
man as William L. Wilson, for exam
ple, as "Hon. W. L. Wilson?" We do
not speak of Hon. Thomas Jefferson
or Hon. Daniel Webster. -
Military titles are necessary in mili
tary life. In addressing a general or a
colonel in the field an indication of
his rank helps to find him, and perhaps
it helps discipline, too. But why should
we go on calling men colonel, general,'
major and the like long after they have
retired to civil life, merely because
they held such rank in the volunteer
forces of thirty-odd years ago or be
cause some governor has appointed
them to his staff? We do not speak or
think of Gen. George Washington or
Gen. Hannibal or Gen. Julius Caesar.
Still worse is the title gratuitously
conferred, the "honorary" title of col- j
onel and the like. There are tens of
thousands of "colonels" in this country, i
who never commanded a squad, and !
"judges" who never sat on any bench
or read a page of law. j
It is all falsehood and flummery. As
an honest, self-respecting people, why
should we not rid ourselves of it? "Mr."
Is convenient when the first name of
the person addressed or referred to la
not used. So are "Mrs." and "Miss :
n like circumstances. All the rest are
fleather and prunella," which Is the
poet's phrase for stuff and nonsense. 1
New York World.
The First literary Critic.
While the writings of Aristotle, Plato
and other eminent philosophers, before
the Christian era, are in a sense criti
cal, those of Plato especially bearing
this character, the first professional
literary critic, who can be classed as
such, was Longinus, a Greek philoso
pher, born A. D. 213, and put to death
at Palmyra, A. D. 273, by Anrelian,
after Zenobla had been defeated and
Palmyra taken. The works of Longi
nus have been jr reserved only In frag
mentary form, but laid down the jines
of criticism, which, In most essential
particulars, have been followed by sub
sequent writers. The fragment of his
essay "On the Sublime" has been the.
model for subsequent essayists, even
the great Burke not disdaining to imi
tate his style of handling a snbject.
A Ring in a Cow.
A gold ring that is supposed to have
spent nearly two years in a cow's stom
ach was sent the other day to its owner,
a young lady of Homestead, Pa. Two
years ago the young lady was visiting
on a dairy farm, and while In the barn
picked up a kitten and tossed it in a
pile of chop and. bran. With the kitten
went a gold ring from her finger, which
could not be found,' and was given up
and finally forgotten. Several days
ago Edward Jones, a butcher, bought a
cow from the dairyman, and when the
cow was killed the ring, with the
young lady's name- engraved upon it,
was found In its stomach.
Tbis Is Hard to Believe.
queer story Is told of an English
naturalist, who died In 1860, and was
buried at Blankey, in Lincolnshire.
Among his pets was a large gray bat.
This bat was permitted to enter the
tomb, and was sealed up alive along
with the corpse of his dead master. In
1866 the vault was opened,, and to the
surprise of all the bat was alive and
fat. On four different occasions since
the relatives of the dead man have
looked after the welfare of his pet, and
each time it has been reported that the
bat was still in the land of the living,
although occupying quarters with the
dead. It was last seen in 1892.
Jacky's Wisdom.
"Papa," said Jacky, "would you like
to have me give you a perfectly beauti
ful Christmas present?"
"Yes, indeed."
"Then now Is the time to double
my allowance, so's I'll have the money
to buy It when Christmas comes."
Harper's Bazar.
Ob, What Happy Days!
Barbers in the -early days of the
Christian era were not permitted to
talk while shaving a patron. Indeed,
silence was so much appreciated by
persons while tinder the barber's hands
that mutes were preferred for this ser
vice. - - -'
On the Right Track. '
"Tommy, what is a miracle?"
"Som'thin that never happens,
mum." ,
"No; it Isn't exactly that But'ean
yon Illustrate what you mean." :
"All I know Is that mom says it
would be a miracle If pap come home
sober. Philadelphia North American.
A man is occasionally called chicken
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Every disheartened sick person and
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pastor of the Curtis Bay Church, the
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more. On March 31, 1896, the Baltimore
Sun, under display headlines, pub
lished the following news of Rev. Mr.
Bailey's affliction:
"Rev. Wm. T. Bailey, pastor of the
Curtis Bay Baptist church, was para
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He said Mr. Bailey was suffering from
a severe attack of nervous prostration
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The whole city was shocked. The
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South Baltimore, Md., April 13, 1896.
Messrs. Wells, Richardson & Co. :
Gentlemen I was taken very ill
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Fraternally,
William T. Bailey.
Later in the year the proprietors of
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attended her, and one bottle of Paine's
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She and I are together using Paine's
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ure let you know the result. Frater
nally, William T. Bailey.
Baltimore, May 18, 1898.
Wells, Richardson & Co. :
J Gentlemen It is impossible for me
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the great good Mrs. Bailey and I have
derived from the use of Paine's celery
compound. I am a new man. AVe
have taken together eight bottles, and
I wish to continue its use. The people
of my church are very kind to the poor,
and I have given to some of the poor
money with which to purchase the
medicine. You may use my name if
you wish and I will with pleasure
answer all communications sent me. I
believe the remedy is the best in the
world. Yours very truly,
William T. Bailey,
Pastor Curtiss Bay Baptist Church.
A few weeks ago there was published
a testimonal of the great virtue of
Paine's celery compound from Rev.
Charles L. Thompson, D. D., LL. D.,
the eminent Presbyterian preacher of
New York City. Rev. Dr. Meek, editor
of the Central Methodist, recently
wrote an open letter, telling that Paine's
celery compound had worked a remark
able cure in his case. And last montli
the great temperance evangelist.Francis
Murphy, told the public how Paine's
celery compound had been a blessing in
his family.
- These are few among thousands.
Every one knows conscientious, char
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Such persons fill up the army of broken
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