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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON: FEBRUARY 23, 1883.
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NO. 29.
VOL. III.
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' TIIK MF.KTINV. WATKKS.
Close besi-le the mooting waters
Loiisj I stooi :ii in a tlream,
Watehmg how the little river
Fell into the broader stream.
Calm and still the mingled eiirrent
ilided to the waiting wa.
On it hreat stretiely ietnrei
KKmting clou J and skirting tree.
And i thought, "Oh! human spirit,
Stiiii and deep, and pure an, I Liet !
Let the stream tt my e'xislenoo
liiead with thine, and tiud its rest."
I would die as iliiM the river
In that curt cut deep and wide;
I would live a lives Us waters,
ria.-d.iin:: from a stronger tide.
FLOAT ON A FURNACE.
"For nearly a week wo were on a float
ing fnruaee," said (.'apt. Charles Nichols
yesterday. "For nearly a week with the
deck timbers scorching under our feet,
and never a chance of popping below
without suffocation."
He sat in the cabin of the steamship
Neckar, just arrived from Bremen by
way of Southampton, with one of the
men who had buffered with bioi along
side. These two, with five other men,
had been taken on board in mid-ocean
from a burning vessel which was not ex
pected to hold together for two hours
after she was abandoned
'My craft was the barkentino Mary
Lizzie.of St. John's, X. F.f" the captain
continued. "She was owned by F. & L.
Tessiei of that port, and -cm -the -3d
TITuliryeelrfTt with a cargo of cod
fish for Bahia. in the Brazils. The
weather was fair. We had a fresh
breeze from the northwest and made
good headway till we were out of sight
of land. At eight o'clock next morning
the wind hauled around to the south
west, and at four o'clock that afternoon
it was blowing a gale. We took in
double reefs and kept on till the follow
ing day. At 8 o'clock I called all hands
on deck to shorten sail. We clewed up
the foretopaail anil hauled down the
standing jib. The ship was brought lo
the win J. It' was blowing, a heavy
gale from the northwest und the sea was
runnicer high. The men were busy
balance-reefing the mainsail, when I
chanced io look forward. A whiff of
smoke caught my eye up toward the
bow, and I sent one of the men to see
what was the matter. He came running
back with his face white as a ghost.
The ship's afire!' he cried. 'The fore
castle's all in a blaze! A lot of us went
forward in a harry, lean tell you. There
was a sight for us there.
"The whole of the vessel below deck
was in a blaze. The flames were rush
ing np through the forescuttle, and the
smoke was creeping up through the tim
bers, i tried to go below, but was met
with a blast that seemed to come from a
furnace, and saw the forecastle under
ine a mass of fire. We never found out
how it occurred. I suppose the lamp
. must have fallen down and the oil caught
in the bogy. The whole place had
sprung into flames in a twinkling. 1
"called all hands forward and wo tried to
get at the fire. It was no use. Tho fore
hatch was filled with flames, and no one
could get down. We got sails and cau
- vaa together and c6vered the forchatch
and ventilating holes to keep the draught
off. The siuoks vas coming up still, and
we could hear the rour of the fire under-
neath; but it seemed a bit stilled, and we
cut small holes in the deck and kept
Leaving buckets of waier on them. All
hands worked with a will. The men
knew their lives wore in peril and they
worked in downright earnest.
"The wind was still blowing, and it
would go hard with us if it crept through
any loop-hole. We used the canvas to
cover everything and made every effort
to prevent the fire going aft. We bat-
tened down the after companion audsky
light, and closed up all tho vents we
onhi find. It -was of no avail. The
smoke stil kept
com in?
up, und we
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ioanl the rr:ickiin!? of the llnmes as thev
worked deeper and deeperinto tLe heart
of the vessel. There was no escaping
the truth. We were aboard a burning
vessel an actual floating furnace in
mid ocean, and we could do nothing to
help ourselres. Our lives depended on
the spe;-dy appearance of a passing ship.
We got out the boats and kept them
ready for au emergency, but made up
our -"miuds nottiiake to them till tho
last moment, when every hope was gone.
Our spirits were low enough, I can tell
you. But 'there, wa little tima for re
liction. Every man was busy. We
" were safe while "the flames could be kept
below, but we knew that at any moment
they might burn up through the deck
timbers, making a vest, and then all was
over. It was this wo had to fight against,
and we had to be at work incessantly to
do it.- The tleck had to be kept salt
watered, and day and night through all
that dreadful time ,the meu were- never
sparcdVaGneiSv but went rushing
about with -buckets, plashing the water
over the tanVas and emptying it on the
timbers. At tlfe start ve got some pro
visions up on the deck from the cabin,
and it was lucky we tiki, for before long
would have been beyond our reach. The
mate and I got what clothes we had out
of the cabin, and they had to serve us
all, for the crew hml their kits in the
forecastle, and none of them were able to
save a stitch. Poor fellows! they had to
suffer a great deal. The weather was
bitter cold, and sometimes the sea would
splash over them, wetting them through
.and through. Some-of them were cov
. ereJ with ice as they handled thd . buck
ets, and it - was hard.wprjbC for them to
keep their feet- k No one daftl to go be
low, and there -was no place to snatch a
moment's resti Indeed, that could not be
tbdught of anyway, for there were only
eight iaen all told.ron board, and not a
oul coulit te spared while the tire was
liable to break out under us. For three
days that unceasing st ruggle was kept tip
without a change; no sail in sight, no
hope of assistance! Nothing but the
swashing of water about the deck, with
the smoke steaming up and choking us,
the wind and rain beating down a good
part of the time. - j
"On Saturday, the Cth of the mouth, I
noticed signs of great j danger forward.
Tho ship was getting very weak there. 1
supposed she was fairly gutted aod all
the ceiling aud timbers were burned.
There was no telling whether she would
break or not. To guard against it wo
had to cut the two anchors adrift from
the bow and let them! go. This eased
her for the time and we went ou with
our work. We did notj hear the flames
crackling any nioro, butj tho smoke still
kept rising, sometimes jin a dense vol
ume. It tilled our throats, but wo were
too much occupied to mind it, and toiled
ou without rest and with very little food.
On Monday, the 8th, a strong gale blew
from tho southwest. The rain came
down in torrents and a heavy sea tossed
U3 about and seemed j likaly to smash
the vessel to pieces. To lighten her we
cut away the foretopgallaut masts, the
roj-al mast and jib boom. The Mary
Lizzie was now little more thau a hulk,
without anchor, with little timber stand
ing, at the mercy of the winds and with
a blazing fire shut up injher. It was no
wonder somo of us began to sink under
the excitement and suffering and came
near losing our senses. The smoke, too,
always coming up about us, always
frightening us with a scare of fire here
-or there, wherever it was thickest,seemed
to have gone to our brains and crazed
us. I- was the first to feel it. I had
made shift to creep into the cabin on
Sunday morning. It was thick with
smoke and I could not endure it long.
I tried to go ou deck, and was going up
the hatch when the place, got dark and I
fell down senseless. They carried me
up on deck, but it wa$ a quarter of an
hour before I recovered. From that the
men were more or less prostrated iu the
same way. I rememberrfour who had
severe attacks. They were William Lis
combVthe cook; the "mate, Daniel Kane,
aud two seamen, John Thompson and
John Adams. They were working on
deck when it came upon them. Their
faces would get as white as a sheet, and
in a jiffy they would jbe down on the
deck working in a fit. It was dreadful
to see them rolling about there, raving
like madmen, and looking the picture of
death. It wa3 the smoke and the work
and exhaustion did it. All we could do
for them was to hold thom down aud
keep putting cold w'tter in their mouths
and rubbing their foreheads with it. I
suppose that the thick! smoke was the
chief cans- of the trouble, and we bat
tened down the companion -and secured
all the hatches for good, and from that
time no one was allowed to leave the
deck.
"Our little provisions were going out
now. We had been able to bring up
only what we could readily look after in
the'lirst instance, and it would not hold
out long. The men looked . like ghosts,
and were barely able to trudpre about
and keep the decks wet. - jTwo of them
Liiscomb and Thompson were frost
bitten, and all were suffering severely
from exposure. On the morning of
Wednesday last the smoke was coming
through the timbers from stern to stein.
The water began to steam where it fell
upon the decks. It was hot under foot,
and we could feel that the fire had
traversed the vessel, burned up all the
inside and would soon break out. We
looked at the boats and dreaded the mo
ment wo would have to take to them on
the opeu sea in such bitter weather. We
were all exhausted. Some of the men,
after their, hard fight, were forgiving
up. It was" two hours after midday, and
we all believed the vessel could not
stand two hours longer. The fire even
then was rushing to. tho cabin, and it
would soon be all over. It was just
then, in our worst extremity, that help
came. The Neckar hove in sight. We
hoisted the ensign upside-down, and ran
up underneath it the pennant and square
Hag, C and E, to show wej were in dis
tress and wantoi assistance. The steam
er saw us and lay on our weather bow
till we launched our boat'and went out
to her. Wo were taken on board and
treated by the Captain with the greatest
kindness. The sinoko was rolling up
from tho Mary Lizzie, and the fire was
beginning to break out. pur rescue had
been timely. In ten minutes we lost
sight of her in the thick weather." N.
Y. Herald, January 15th. i
Tne Swiss Good-Night.
.. Among the lofty mountains and ele
vated valleys of Switzerland, the Alpine
horn has another use beside that of
sounding the far-famed j "Kanz des
Vachez," or Cow Song; and this is of a
very solemn and impressive nature.
When the suu has set in the valley, and
the snowy summits of the mountains
gleam with golden light, the herdsman
who dwells upon the highest inhabited
spot takes his horn, and pronounces
loudly and clearly through it.as through
a sjieaking trumpet, "Praise the Lord
God!" As soon as the sound is heard by
tho neighboring herdsmen, they issue
from their huts, take their Alpine horns,
and repeat the same words. This fre
quently lasts a quarter of ; an hour, and
the call resounds from all the mountains
and rocky cliffs around, i All the herds
men kneel and pray with uncovered
heads. Meantime it has i become quito
dark. "Good-night!" atj last calls the
highest herdsmen through his horn.
"Good-tfightl" again resounds from all
the mountains, the horns of tho herds
men, and the rocky cliffs, j The moun
taineers then retire to their dwellings
and to rest. j
If the price of beer goes ,up there won't
be go much cf it going down.
i
Thoughts on Names.
Mary is too universal to be distinctive,
ner name is as wide as nature and as
fertile as spring. All sorts of conditions
of women are Maries, from tho best and
noblest to tho basest and most degraded.
Laura was once the sign-name of a
lady, emphatically una bella donna,
whom a turn of the wrist made into a
Madonna. Tho aroma of Petrarch's un
fading laurel hung round that name for
centuries, and poetry powdered the
imago with gold-dust that shone and
sparkled in the sunlight of imagination
and harmonions association.
Lucy is always lovely. It would seem
impossible for Lucy "to bo unworthy.
She must of necessity he iunocent and
pure, gentle and serene; and we should
give her golden hair naturally breaking
into curls about her pretty head, soft
blue eyes and a wild rose face. Wo have
never seen a Lucy who was a brunette.
Some must exist, of course, but we our
selves know them not, nor havo we ever
known a Lucy who made us regret her
name, enshrined as it is in one of the
loveliest niches of memory and associa
tion. Lucilla is another creature alto
gether; so is Luciuda. These are doubt
ful persons in point of wisdom; certain
ly they lack simplicity; but Lucy may
be wise as well as innocent, and she has
no affinity with finery or folly.'
Sophia" was once in the outer circles of
romance. She and Matilda, she and
Clarissa and Theresa, together with Julia
and Arabella, Georgina," Wilhelmina,:
Augusta, Thomasina and the like were of
the same class as are now Hilda and
Helen, Edith, Eva, Ella and Nina, Ada
and Maud that is names of distinction
falling short of startling originality
hillocks of individuality, not mountains
of notoriety. Sho was a personage .in
her time our graceful Sophia; but So
phy was a dwarf when compared to her.
Sophy did not challenge respectful admi
ration as did her- elder sister. Sophy
was a plaything, but Sophia might have
been something belonging to a court;
and she h-id'a sweeping action with her
skirts wlr.cn always suggesteu trains ot
feathers. She
lost ft little of her
nrestii?e of late: but she is still djstin
cruished. und not to be confounded with
a Tilly, a Polly or a Clary.
It is strange how tliminutives cnange
the character of a name. Constance sug
gests u grandeur of womanhood which
might easily rise into sublimity; but
Connie is a light-minded little puss,
whose brains are no belter tfian feathers,
and whose heart retains an impassion
no- morn tb.au Joou the sea-sand below
high water mark. Hester, like Esther, is
beautiful ; she may be a little grave.almost
Puritanical, indeed, in her sweet sev
erity; or she may be simply gentle and
womanly and charming all the way
through. Be that as it may, she can
never be aught than savors of meanness
or smalluess. Hetty, on the contrary,
may fling her cherry-iibboned cap over
the m:.ll at her pleasure, and no one will
think her conduct out of harmony with
her name. Flossie and Florrie go hand
in hand in frivolity with Cissy and Lottie
aud all are of a kind of whom we would
not predict the wearing of a crown won
by merit. But Flora may be a coble,
broad-shouldered queenly creature of the
nature of a modern Ceres plentiful,
wominly, superb; Cecilia has potentiali
ties of nobleness within the circle of her
fair existence; and Charlotte still justi
fies Werther. For Carrie no man would
commit suicide; but she lis an eminently
correct and lady-like person, and one of
ido the social team straight
as a die, and .keep the domestic reins
taut and firm.--; -m
Mncrrrin is of 'a nobler type, and Lizzie
does not lend herself to levity. Maggie
may be quite as grunti a creature as
Margaret, who is queen by the royal
right of nature. Maggie may also bo a
winsome lassie of the buttercup type in
any case she ought to be sweet jind dear
and trustworthy, a girl to love, a woman
to admire, a human being to respect and
honor. Neither does Elizabeth mate
herself well with ignobility. Eliza is a
shade moro flashy, more approaching
fastness and perhaps, frivolity; but Eliza
beth should remember the traditions of
her name.
The high-flown days when reigned Ara
minta and Amanda, Theodosia, Arethusa
and Dolabella have gone, together with
sacques and .farthingales, patches and
high heads. Clorinda no longer suggests
an acrostic beginning with "Come
heavenly muse!" and ending with
"Adieu, sweet maid!" Chloe in a Wat
teau costume, leaning on a crook adorned
with ribbons, has ceased to posturize be
fore a couple of lambs washed in milk
and fed on flowers. Sophonisba forgets
to let uwn her back hair, while she inks
her uu-vached fingers over epics empty
of heroic . Lnd elegies void of pathos.
Jacinta is k.rraid of damp dews and cold
winds, and therefore remains comfort
ab indoors working "crash" by the
fireside, instead, . as of old, spouting
sentiment under the moonlight. And the
whole, large-eyed, languirl troop who
once hung on the skirts of Ho3a Matilda
have faded into nothiuguess.which is the
inevitable end of folly and exaggeration.
Home Journal.
A Boy Murderer Ilatiged.
Philip Matthews, a German boy of
eighteen, was hanged at Belleville on
January 12th, in the presence of a small
gathering, He ascended tho scaffold
dressed in broadcloth and slippers. He
said: "I wish you good-by all," and then
when the blackcap was adjusted he said
to the jailor, "Good-by." In falling he
struck against the side of tho pit dug
under the scaffold and rebounded, but died
game. Matthews murdered his sweet
heart, Annie Gier, in May last, when she
was at work arranging tables in the woods
for a Sunday school picnic that was to
take place the following day. He claimed
to have held conjugal relations with the
girl for a year befcre he murdered her.
Just before the killing, stories of evil
couduct on the part of her lover caae to
the ears of Miss Gier, occasioning her
great distress. ; He visited the house on
one occasion while drunk, but the poor
girl whose pride was thus outraged still
allowed him to visit her after he had
made a solemn pledge that he vould
change his course for the better. He
violated his pledge, and again called on
Miss Gier while intoxicated, and on this
occasion a quarrel ensued between thein.
Matthews left Belleville, coming to St.
Louis, where he secured occupation for
six months. Ho seems then to have
gone to the bad. Returning to Belle
ville, he' called again ipon Miss Gier
stupidly drunk, and this- time she finally
and fully discarded him, requesting him
not to visit tho house in future. Then
Matthews left Belleville and went to
New Orleans, returning, however, in the
spring. From there he wrote her htters
telling her he was coming back to kill or
marry her. Agreeable to his promise,
he returned and sought out his sweet
heart, whom he found in tho woods. As
soon as he saw her, he said to Miss Row,
one of her. girl companions: "She will
never leave this place alive. I loved
her once, but I hate her now." Mat
thews then drew his pistol and dis
charged it into the breast of the helpless
girl. She sank to the ground with tbnl
let through her heart, and died in a few
minutes. There was the greatest excite
ment on tho picnic grounds, and only the
firm attitude of tho officers after the ar
rost of -Matthews saved him from the
populace. The . murdered girl was uni
versally loved and. the crime of her
taking-off was so brutal and unprovoked,
that it was resolved to . lynch her
slayer, but better counsel prevailed, and
punishment was left to the law.
A Woman and Her Accounts.
A student of human natnro who
writes for the Atlanta Constitution, says
It is a touching sight to tjee a woman
make up her expanses, having firmly re
solved tp put down every cent she
spends, so as to find out where to
economize, and were all the money goes.
Procuring a small book, she makes a due
entry, and on Monday after the first
Saturday in which hor husband brings
home his pay she carefully tears the
margin off an newspaper, and with blunt
pencil strikes a trial balance something
in this v ;
John brought mo home ifS y. uUa
$1 at cents I had is $4i SI), and $1 0i
cents I lent to Mrs. Dixon is $50 U3
but hold on, I ought not to enter that;
because when sho returns it, it'll go
down. That was $19 93, and what have J
done with that?
Then she puts down the figures, leav
ing out the items to save time a process
which enables her to leave out most of
the items to whero a round sum is in
volved, on the supposition that they have
already been put down, as thus:
Six dollars and fourteen cents for
meat and ten cents for celery, and ten
cents on the street cars, and a bal five
cent piece I got in exchange, and $2 81
cants I paid the milkmanVwho.owes me
19 cents that's $3,- and fifteen cents at
church, and the groceries they were
either $15 GO or'SIC 50, and I don't re
member, which they were, but I guess it
must have becu $15 60, for the grocer
said that if I would give hiui a dine he
would give me half a dollar, which would
make even change, and I couldn't, bo
cause the smallest I had was a quarter
and $2 75 for1 mending Katie's -shoes,
whioh id the last money that shoemfcker
ever get3 from me, and 10 cents f or cel
ery no, I putthat down. -
Finally she sums up the trial balance
sheet, and finds that it foots up $54.28,
which is about $15 more than she orig
inally had. She goes over the list sev
eral times and checks it carefully, but
all the items are correct, and she is just
about in despair when her good angel
hints that there may be a possible mis
take in the addition. Acting upon tho
suggestion, she foots up the column and
finds that tho total is $14.18, and that,
according to the principles of arithmatic,
she ought' to have $5.65. Then she
counts her cash several times, the result
varying from $1.10 to $1.17,but then she
happily discovers that she has been mis
taking a $2.50 gold piece for a cent, and
that she gave the baby a trade dollar to
cut its gums with. On the whole she
came within 86 cents of a balance, and
that, she says, is close enough, and she
enters in one line of the account book:
"Dr. By household expenses," so much;,
and is very happy untill she remembers,
just before going to bed, that sho has
omitted $2.75 for her husband's hat.
An Ungrateful Own". A well-known
place of physical refreshment in Con
cord, N. H., is presided over by John
Adams, a man of such tender sensibili
ties that when, the other night, just as
he was shutting up shop, he discovered
a half frozen owl on the doorstep, he
took the bird in and made it comfortable.
When he retired for tho night ho loft the
owl perched upon tho safe, to which one
of its lags was fastened by a stout cord,
and blinking with extreme gratitude and
devotion. As soon as he had gone the
owl bit the cord in two, devoured every
fragment of food on a well-stocked lunch
counter, sampled every kind of liquor in
the saloon, broke all the bottles and de
canters within reach, and in the morning
when the doors were opened, was stand
ing solemnly behind the bar ready for
business. Worcester Gazette.
Good breeding consists in having no
particular mark of any profession, but a
general elegance of manners.
Set apple trees twenty-five feet apart
each way. Perhaps thirty feet would be
better.
The Energy That' Succeeds.
The energy that wins success .begins to
develop very early in life. -The charac
teristics of j the boy commonly prove
those of the man, and the best character
istics of young life should be encour
aged and educated in the wisest possible
manner. The following story, given by
Judere P.. strongly illustrates this truth:
Abont thirty years ago I stepped into
a book store in Cincinnati in search of
some books that I wanted. Whilo there
a little ragged boy not over twelve years
oi age came- in ana inquired ior a geog
raphy. ,
"Plenty of them," was the salesman's
reply. - .
"How much do they cost?"
"One dollar, my lad."
"I did not know they were so much."
He turned to go out, and even opened
the door, but' closed it again and came
back. I
"I've got i sixty-one cents," said he.
"Could you let me have: a geography
and wait a little while for the rest of the
money?" 1
How eager his little bright eyes looked
for an auswer, and how h'e seemed to
shrink within his ragged clothes when
the man, not ' very kindly, old him he
could not. The disappointed little fel
low looked up at me with a very poor at
tempt to smile, and left the store. I fol
lowed and overtook him.
"And what; now?"
"Try another place, sir."
"Shall I go, too, and see how yon suc
ceed?" !
"O yes, if you like," said he in sur
prise. -
Four different stores I entered with
him, and each time he was refused.
"Will you try again?" I asked.
"Yes, sir; I shall try them all, or I
should not know whether I could get
one." ,
We entered the fifth store, and the lit
tle fellow walked up very manfully and
told the gentleman just what he wanted
and how muSh he had. .
"You want the book very much?"
asked the proprietor.
"Yes; very much."
"Why do 3011 want it so very much?"
"To study, sir. I can't go to school.
but study when I can at home. , All the
boys havo got one, and they will go
ahead of me. Besides, my father was a
sailor, and I want to learn of the places
where he used to go.
"Well, my lad, I will toll you what I
will do; I will let you have a new geog--onhv.
and you may pay me the remain -
tier oi luo money when joucsn, or will
let you have one that is not quite new
for fifty cents."
"Are the leaves all in it, just like the
other, only not new?"
"Yes, just like the new one."
"ft will do just as well, then, and I
will have eleven cents left toward buy
ing some other books. I am glad they
did not let me havo one at the , other J
Xlaces." ' . .
Last year I went to Europe ou one of
of the finest vessel that ever ploughed
the waters of the Atlantic. We had very
beautiful weather until very- near thd,
end of the voyage; then came a most ter
rible slorm that would have sunk all on
board had it not been for the captain.
Every spar was laid low, the rudder was
almost useless, and a great leak had
shown itself, threatening to fill the ship.
Tho crew were all strong, willing men,
and the mates were all practical seaman
of the first class; but after pumping for
one whole night, and, the water still
gaining upon them all' the time, they
gave up in despair, and prepared to take
to the boats, though they might have
known no small boat could live in such
a sea. I
The captain, who had been below
with his chart, now came up. He saw
how matters stood, and with a voice
that I distinctly heard above the roar of
the tempest, ordered every man to his
post.
"I. will land you safe at the dock in
Liverpool," said he, "if you will be
men."
He did land us safely; but," the vessel
sank moored to the dock. The captain
stood on the deck of tho sinking vessel,
receiving the thanks and blessings of the
passengers as they passed down the
gangplank. As I passed he grasped my
hand rnd said:,
Judge P- 7-, do you recognize me?"
Jf. Id him I was not aware that I ever
size him until j I stepped '.aboard of his
vessel. - J
"Do you remember that boy in Cin
cinnati?" j
"Very well, sir; William Haverly."
I am he," he said. "God bless you!"
,vid God bless you, noble Captain
..fl." Youth's Companion.
Dr. Tauncr'4 Oplulou or Dogs.
It is my firm belief that pork eaters
have, as a rule, no part or lot in that
"inheritance that is incorruptible and
undefiled, and that fadeth not away."
Why? Because they are constantly pan
dering to the animal, and the animal
hounds out the seraph. We are told in the
Soriptures that tho "legion of devils,"
when cast out cf the Gadarene, asked
permission to enter into a herd of swine.
They were permitted to do so, and find
ing the boga congenial companions, and
finding withal that they were left in
peaceable possession, they have un
doubtedly remained with them m to this
day, finding them a very convenient ve
hicle by which to find ingress into other
animals of the : biped species. An hab
itual pork eater, I fear, can never com
prehend the sigoificauce of tne worus,
"The kingdom of heaven is within you,
for there can be no heaven where pork
devils hold riot and high carnival con
tinually, and the appetite calls throe
times a- lav ifor pork,, more pork.
whioh when interpreted aimply means
reinforcements. All such would better
comprehend " the great ' twin truth',' tho
kingdom of hell is within you. The Jews
have ever held pork as an article of food
in the lowest-possible . esteem. On this
question they are "level-headed" at least.
I believe it was for this reason, and this
only, that the Jews were called a "chosen,
people," and were so much richer in
"spiritual gifts" than the Gentile world.
Now there are professing Christians who
will get up front a breakfast table with,
their stomachs filled to repletion witu
"hog and hominy," and go at once to the
"family altar" and on bended kneo3 cry;.
"Lord! Lord!" Now I shall not assume"
that God does not answer the prayers
of a pork eater. There is no doubt a lit
tie of the "grace of God" in their hearts,'
but if they have indulged in a pork "diet
every day for a number of years it will, I
think, bo safe to assume that they havo
at least seven devils secretely intrenched
in their livers. The house is thus divid-'
ed against itself. The spirit of God in
the man's or woman's heart prompts him
or her to cry, "Lord! Lord!" The Beven
devils in the livor prompt continually to
an indulgence of their swinish propensi
ties. "Of such is the kingdom of Heav
en nas no reference to those wno trans
form the earthly tabernacle (designed
for a temple of the living God) into a
hog pen. Letter in Cleveland Herald.
They Can't be Beat.
At Charleston I mot a man from Bing : . &
hampton, N. Y.. who was agent for some
sort of cotton machinery, and almost tho"
first thing he asked me was: ' -'
"How do you manage with the hotei ,
waiters?"
"Why, I have to fee them, of course."
"That shows how green you art.. I-
am going to stop here four days, and I
won't pay 'em a cent."
. .. . i .
"Then you won t get mucn service. ri ,
"I won't, eh? Well, you just watch
4 1 A. f J '. .
me ana learn a tuing .or iwo. no
that?" ...
- It was a lead half-dollar, neatlj- cov- .
ered with gold foil, and at first glanco it
seemed to bo a $20 gold piece. When
the New Yorker's trunk came vp stairs. ;
and the two darkies lingeredaround for
a quarter apiece that "twenty" appeared
to view, anil ne said:
"Smallest I've got to-day. . ill see-.
you before I go."
The same thing was worked on the; : .
table-waiter, on the waiter wLo brpught , ,
up ice-water, and on several other col
ored individuals, and when we were all
ready to take the train for Savannah tha.
trunks went down on the wagon and we
,Mr1lcnl to If h a 'VTrnt.. Two nii nut ps bo
fore the train pulled out the New Yorker- i
turned trf'the African with his gripsack
and said:
"James, will you take this coin and;
square up with the boys for me?" - -t '
. "Yes, sah."
"Place it carefully in your pocket and
don't lose it." - - . -
"She' -dar, sah, and Ize millynns o
times obleeged to you."
"Never mind that. Well, we are off."
- All the way down to Savannah that
evening my companion chuckled over
his1 keenness in beating the colored pop
ulation, but when we reached the latter ,
city his chin took a drop. We were not,
clear of the depot when we were arrested'
for passing counterfeit rnoney andll hisrJ
explanations did, not prevent his return
to Charleston by the next train. I'met
him afterwards in Alabama and ho told. '
me the affair rcost him $65. r
' Flirtiu; With Strangers. '
"By George! there's tho girl J told ,
you about, who flirted with me the other"
day-the one with a sky-blue necktie and
hat with a feather. Good afternoon, Jacki; .
I'm after her."
"No, you're not!" said tho other S9iz -ing
him roughly by the shoulder; "that
girl is my sister."
"Whew! Beg pardon, Jack, but that
must teach your sister not to flirt'with
strangers if you want her spoken of, with
respect." " " "
The' practice of' flirting with strangers
on the street, in the horse cars, in restau
rants. etc.. "iust for fun," without the
shadow of an introduction, at best under
cover of some flimsy pretext which is at .
once understood by the opposito party,
has grown , very prevalent.
Don't do it, girls. You may have as
niuch pride of character aod self-respect
as the moat punctillious well -bred lady
who stands upon strict etiquette, but
you won't get credit for it.
"But it's such fun to lead them ou a
while and then make fools of them." '
Don't delude yourselves. They don't
see the matter from your standpoint. In
nine cases out of ten, you make your
selves ridiculous in their eyes, and pam
per their self-conceit, which is too well
fed before.
We know innocent pure-minded girls
do such things thoughtlessly for love
of mischief one leading on the other.
But if they could hear the sly innendoos
and covert insinuations with which their
acts are coupled aftowards, their slum
bering, womanly instinct would bo
aroused, and thev would blush with mor-.
tified shame at tho motives imputed to
them.
Tub Tomato. English travelers, who
write about this country, are usually
surprised because the tomato is used i
almost as generalbVas the potato.
Thomas Jefferson brought tomato seed
from France, whero he saw that that '
vegetable was ' exclusively used as food
for swine. Dr. Dio Lewis used to say.
that the" too frequent eating of it by hu
man beings produced salivation. The I
Italians have-taught Americans that fine e
tomato sauce makes macaroni more
palatable. But there are many poor
cooks who liido their shortcomings by ,
putting the 'tomato in every dish; so that
one chief recently said of another! "Oh, '
he'd put it into a church plate."
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