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THE COLUMBIAN. 7 1 Published Every Friday, AT ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR., by E. O. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor. Subscription Rates : One year, in advance '2 00 Six months. 44 '. 1 00 Tkree months, ' 0 Published Evkrv Friday, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR.. BY E. 0. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor Advertising Rates : One square (10 line) flrwt insertion. . $2 CO Each subsequent insertion 100 A VOL. V. ST. HELENS, . COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 24, 1884. NO. 12. THE COLUMBIAN. COLUMBIAN BR! LI I A NTS. The patient pleading of tlw tre.s How deep it shames the stasi s despair! lu supplication movels. mute, They keep their attitude nf pj-ayer. John Vance Cheney. lie who stands bv my side nlway, Nor waits to see "what the world will say, Caring not what my fortune lie. He is mv friend, the friend for me. F. F. Wetherhy. Great souls have died for truth, and left their fame To l the watchword of another uge; By virtue, justice, courage, and ln'h aim. Descend through time, a common heritage. And heroes live to-day iit all but name. Charles L. Hildreth. tlodlly Attitude mid Health. American Queen. A writer on health very justly condemns lotinginr ' '" . i. large numlx'r of per sons indulge, h.- injurious to- healths lie .says: "Anere.-t N-l.ivri itndt nf ?.tl more importance to hcaltli than- is genef atly imagined. Crooked bodily positions, maintained for any length of time, are al ways injurious, whether in a sitting, standing or lying posture, whether sleep ing or walking. To sit with the body lean ing forward on the stomach or to one side, with the heels elevated to a level with the head, is not only in bad taste, but exceed ingly detrimental to health. It crams the stomach, presses the vital organs, inter rupts the free motion of the chest, and en feebles the functions of the abdominal and theoric organs, and, in fact, unbalances the whole muscular system. Many chil dren become slightly humpbacked or se erely round-shouldered, by sleeping with the head raised on a high pillow. When nay erson finds it easier to sit or stand, or walk, or sleep in a crooked position than a straight otic, fuch person may 1k? sure his muscular system is badly de ranged, and the more cartful he is to pre serve a straight or upright position, and get bhek to nature again, the better.'' How Xliey Hot II I m Out. Chicago Tunes. In Paris, recently, a workmen fell ovei the parapet of one of the bear-pits at the Jardin des Plantes, and very nearly be; came a prey to two huge bears awaiting their afternoon repast. The man lay for a few minutes insensible, with a bad wound on his head, from which there was a copious flow of blood. The spectators for a short time kept the bears employed by throwing them endless pieces of bread, but thev made so much noise in carrying out their well-meant stratagem that the animals were frightened away from this frugal entertainment, and the male, wandering about in search of refuge, ap- froached the more palatable food, and icked up the blood flowing from the pros trate sufferer's wound. Amid intense ex citement the keepers arrived, and the man recovered his senses. Seeing his danger, however, he lay still, as if dead, while the keepers prepared a rope and distracted the Lear from its prey by striking it with long x.les. At length the prisoner clutched the rope and was speedily hauled aloft, to the disappointment of the bear, who displayed much irritation at the withdrawal of so dainty and ample a meal. The rescued in dividual, who was badly hurt by his fall, w as conveyed to the hospital. A Defective' Slirewdnen. London Standard. Only a few months ago the papers gave an instance of the acuteut-ss of a French detective. A man had murdered his fe male companion and buried her liody in a cellar. The corpse was discoved, and the man then said that the woman had killed herself by falling down -stairs, and that he had buried her secretly, fearing to be accused of her death. He as serted that this "accident" took place in the autumn, in October. The detective observed the traces of smoke on the ceiling. "Von hud a candle when you buried the body, " he remarked, and was answered in the affirmative. "And you say you only entered this cellar that one day in October?" The suspected man again averred it. "You are speaking falsely, " retorted the detective, and showed the murderer, between the crevices of the ceiling, the half-consumed larvae of cer tain insec ts which only lay in the spring, and which had been burnt by his candle at the time when he had actually buried his victim. lCqiiallzin; the Charge. Philadelphia Call. Railroad Magnate See here, sir! this won't do. You sell me that sugar at 10 cents a pound, and I have just found out that you have been charging my son 15 cents for the same brand. Grocer But you see, sir, your son lives in the next square, close by, while you re Mde a mile away, and I have been afraid that if I did not m-11 you at a low price you would prefer to buy at some grocery nearer home. R. R. Magnate I can't help that. Y'ou have no right to discriminate against my son in that way, ju-t because he lives near yoiu Grocer Well, I will stop it. R. R. Magnate And let him have his susar at 10 tuts. Grocer No, I w ill charge you 15 cents. Wot Ahead of Lincoln. New York Tribune. .The story was told of President Lin coln's first visit to the penitentiary at Springfield. Ills. An old criminal, look ing out through the bars of his cell, re marked: . "Well, Mr. Lincoln, you and I ought to be well posted on prisons; we've seen all there nre in the country." "Why, this is the first one I ever visited," said Mr, Lincoln, and was astonished at the response: "Rut I've been in all the rest." truteful Arc We. Burlington Hawkeye. Yes, we think well of bicycles and bi cyclers; we love to watch them wing their noiseless way swiftly past the house and we are glad we do not keep a gun. Every Saturday afternoon there is one particular bicycler goes by; a fat man; a very fat man in knickerbockers, a pleated blouse, short skirted and gathered in at the belt, mutton chop whiskers, single eye-glass and navy cap. Grateful, indeed, are we, :very Saturday, that there is no gun in the house. . Didn't Like It. Texas Sittings. J Mrs. Yerger being afflicted with face ache, sent to the drug store for some car bolic salve, which she rubbed on her jaw. The salve smeit like creosote, whereupon her son Johnny remarked: "Mamma, I wouldn't use the medicine. It smells like toothache.'' Queen Elizabeth of Roumania is said to have had a fondness for boiled sea gulls, u nee cheese, and hartshorn jelly, dainties unknown to the nineteenth cen tury bill of fare. THE HANK CHECK. New York Times. ) What I have to tell is absolutely true. It did happen exactly as I shall try to write it. The only thing I will omit are tho names of the persons and the place where it happened. I might by lengthening out the story show the play of those fell pas sions, greed and covetousuess, but I trust what I have to say will not lose its point from brevity. The moral is the same old trite one that honesty is the best pol icy. When a man is tempted to commit a wicked action' it often happens that the injury done another becomes irrepara ble. "There is a sequence in all dishonest transactions which escapes the evil-doer. Effect follows cause. This mny coruo instantly, as quickly as an explosion when the hammer of the gun-lock strikes the cap containing the fulminate, or tite tire may hang back, but it will come some day or other. .This is a longer preanitde laau 1 thought would be drawn from my pen, but as I am not a young man 1 may indulge in such comments, lecause in the life of any one who has passed the half century the force of inevitable constantly occurs to him. A man of my age has been long enough in this world to have seen passing before him many a sad drama: he has been present at the very first scene, and has been an unwilling witness of the terrible conclusion. 1 supjKe few people who have had di rect transactions with banks are not aware that errors sometimes happen. The heads of firms rarely are acquainted' with such mistakes. It is the business of clerks who have the checks cashed to see that the amounts paid them are correct. Paying tellers if they do err are rather likely to pay too much than too little. Should they give more money than the face of the check calls for. If the receiver of the money is dishonest, then the paver does not always hear about it. If he underpays, the demand for the difference is invariably made nt once. I am rather inclined to re peat the assertion that in such mistakes as are made in the rush of business, it is the commoner error to pay too much. Sometimes a very tired, man, whose brain has been too long oil the stretch, or wiio is ill or nervous, mistakes the number of the check for the amount, and pavs away some thousands instead of hundred's. I have known this to happen in a New York bank to a j'oung friend of nunc. He had sufficient good judgment not to em barrass the paying teller by making any noise about it. He resumed his place in the line, handed back his bank book, po litely requested the teller to look at tho check he had presented, the amount he had received, and it was all so quietly done that he made for life a fast friend of a careful and expert bank teller. I have two or three times leen overpaid by a bank teller. People who shop have very often mistakes made in their change to their advantage. Need it be said that without waiting an Wnstant restitution should be made? I was a clerk in a house whe n the inci dent I am about telling happened. We did a large business in the city of- , and our check-book was in constant demand. I made out the checks and kept the bank account, but did not have the signature ot the firm. Generally for greater scurity, wLen the amount was. large, I drew out the money myself. A great many of the transactions we were engaged iu re quired us to pay at once to the individual the hard cash. The paj i lg teller of our bank in ihe busint-. s season had all he could attend to. The money to be paid for an agricultural product very much in demand would ou .some days make the cash disburse ments of the bank amount to $750,000. I remembered that ou one occasion, looking at the teller, he seemed tired and depressed. Presenting my check for some amount less than $1,000 wanted by me in $5 and $10 bills he overpaid me" 50. He had counted the money over twice be fore passing it to me. I recounted the money, found the error, and, being pressed for time, could not return the r?-""0 until after 3 o'clock. The teller was obliged to me, but I noticed that he bore a worried look. A month after this we had some balance to pay a customer living out of the city, amounting to $450. A check was, draw n by me, handed to the creditor, and his account was balanced. The busi ness entirely dropped out of my mind. Some three months afterward the firm received a letter from this man, which was rather ambiguous of its kind. There was an error, so lie said, in his account. Would we look over it? At once I examined the books, checked off every item, went through all the debts and credits of his business, and ended bv inspecting the final check paid him. My employers, who were very honest and careful gentlemen, were satisfied with the accuracy of the ac count, and I was instructed to write him a letter to that effect. I did so, as politely as I could, but at the conclusion of my let ter I said, " You leave us in the dark, "how ever, as to one thing. Three months have elapsed since our check was given to you. If you bd not been paid what was due you we should have certainly heard from you before. Have you been overpaid?" Mj- senior "employer, a shrew a business man, looking over my letter, remarked, "Perhaps your question here might not 1h? liked "by Mr. . However, let it go. " I mailed the letter. We heard nothing more about it for a month. Then there came a tortuous let ter from the man. "His account was wrong, " he wrote. "May lie he had come across some money he could not exactly account for. " lie did not state how much money it was, or how it happened. It was a mean shamble on his part. I knew that. He had pricks of conscience; that I was certain of. The firm consulted with me what they should do. I made up my mind that more money had been paid the man on the check than he was entitled to. I went at once to the teller of the bank. I found him ill, nervous, and tremulous. 'Yes," he said, "my accounts were wrong. There had been a big deficit. 1 have not slept for months. 1 am afraid I have overpaid some one. Rut thank God I ma le it up. 1 mortgaged my house and passed the amount short to the credit of the bank. I must have made a blunder somewhere. Rut the strain on my mind has beet: killing me. I feel as if I were no longer lit for the place. " He seemed to me to have moments of doubt and un certaint "I still cling to my place, " he said. "Of course I have no recollection of having ever paid that check of $450.'' I said to him that I bad hopes of getting some of ihc: money back, but I did not like to tell him how. Rut what I did do was to go that evening to the president of the bank and state the case tohim. As it had been through him that I owed 1113' po sition in the firm, he had every confidence in me. My advice was asked. I was forced to dcclmv that I thought the paving teller had bet'er be given another and lighter po sition. The next day when I went to the bunk :he old teller had been apparently re lieved He was casting up some accounts in the ledger. When I spoke to him aeioyi the l ulling ho did not seem to recog nize me. Next day I was shocked to learn through tho president of the bauk, that such positive indications of mental trouble had been shown by the teller, that his friends had thouiht it wiser to confine him to his house. His accounts had been at once rigorously examined, and were found to lie correct. It was perfectly true that he hail mortgaged his house, and had paid the amount into the bank. He had con ccaled the loss for three months or more from the bank, which was a mistake on his part, but ho had been punctilious enough to even add the interest for some ninety days. Now, I felt absolutely certain that the man to whom the .check had been paid must be a rascal. If he had offered resti tution it came late very much late. My firm gave me carte blanche to manage the matter as I pleaded. I could not have him arrested. As he lived in an isolated part of the country, no efficient summons could reach him. If I had been aggressive before, probably no a cent would have been returned. I wrote now, a sharp letter. I said: "That a very large amount of money must have beeu paid him over and above the face of the hist check given him, which was for $4o!J. " I stated, "that I knew exactly how much it wiw. " I must confess outright that this was a hkdr. I was not sure that the teller had not made other mistakes besides this one. I wrote that "unless the money was at once restored I would blast his reputation. If he was inclined to be honest, even at this lat date, let him do all he could and send back the whole amount.' I thought it wiser not to let him know the mental con dition of the teller. I was quits certa in that if he knew that if the teller was out of his mind not one penny would he return. I wrote to him that he must be in a hurry about it. That only the teller and 1 knew of it, and that my firm were yet in ignorance." At once, by return mail, I had a letter. The sum was not, as he said, what I rep resented it to be He made some specious arguments about a man finding a purse, and the description of it not tallying with the actual purse lost, or the amount in it. Under such circumstances, was a man bound to return it? If I could prove that he had been overpaid, I ought to state exactly what was the amount. He might," he added, "never have written me a word about it, and no one would have been the wiser. But he had a conscience, "so he said. I replied with la vigorous letter. I confuted his arguments. "He knew," I said, "the mo ment he had the bank-notes passed over to him that he had been overpaid." A man might find a piece of gold in the dust of the road, and could never tell who dropped it there. Rut there was no anal ogy between the two cases. I cried "for immediate restoration, or there would be an exposure. " His answer did not come for ten days. "I was mistaken, " he said. "He was not aware that he had been over paid until he got home. Then he did not know of it for a week afterw-ard. It came out then in his accounts. " I knew this to be a w icked lie, but it contained at least the written ac knowledgment that he had been over paid. Ills letter concluded as follows: "The matter has worried me considerably; has taken up a great deal of my time, and time for me is money. Don't you think there should be compensation allowed me, or in other words, can't we make a com promise?" (Oh. the blackguard!) "If such a thing could be arranged I will come to the city and pay over to you the money. I am not afraid of the bank. I consider that my transactions have been with your firm.-' The money overpaid by the teller had "been some $4,000, and he had probablv counted out $4,500 instead of $456. I hated to do it, but I offered the scoundrel his traveling expenses. His reply came promptly: "To leave his business wa3 worth a great deal more than that. Then, again, he thought of bring ing his wife on with him and en joying themselves." The up and down of it was that I must offer him a certain amount. "My temptations, you remem ber, have beeu very great. " I offered him $500. I was disgusted. I felt like going to his place and tackling him myself. "This is my ultimatum, " I said. "If I do not hear from you in ten days I will disclose the whole matter and you will be dishonored." His letter came back promptly enough. "He would take the $500. It wasn't very much. The bank was ever so rich. Corporations had no souls. " I consulted with the bank presi dent, who thought it was better to close with the man. Would it be believed that that wretch and his wife came to ap parently on a pleasure trip? He had clone a sharp and a vlever piece of business. He had not the least compunctions of conscience. He came to the office of an evening, and I do not hesitate in saving thai in my hip pocket there was a revolver. He handed me over something less than $2,000, asserting that the amount received less the traveling expenses and the $500 made up this balance. When the money had been transferred by me to the safe I gave him a piece of my mind. I did not spare him. I heaped on him every insult ing epithet I could think of. Then he showed his temper, which was an ugly one. "Now, " said I, (remember, I was 26 then, and hotter blood ran through my veins than to-day), "you are worse than a thief; you are a murderer. Y'ou have wrecked an honest man's brains. That teller of the bank, whose money you took, has lost his reason. He will, 1 am afraid, never be a sane man again. This is vour work. " That seemed to cow him. " Your repentance comes too late. I hate you so that God forgive me had you as much as lifted a finger against me, I should not have hesitated in killing you like a dog, and no jury in the land would have touched a hair of my head. Go out of this city by the early morning train, or 1 will make you. " "The wretch left the office like a whipped cur. What was the sequel ? A sad one. The bank teller lapsed into a melancholy condition, which rendered all mental labor impossible. He had some little money, but many friends, and such few comforts as he required were ungrudg ingly given him. He died ten years ago. He never did completely recover his senses. As to the canting rascal, his fate was a dire one. Somehow the whole story came out, though 1 did not divulge, it In that section of country where he lived he was discredited. He took to drink, and be came a confirmed inebriate. Ho neglected his business, and his plantation was sold. His wife sought and obtained a divorce. Two years ago I read that in a brawl in the most degraded quarter of a town in Alabama this man met his death in a negro dance-house. Training; Chlldreu. Philadelphia Call. A child's education in obedience should begin at a very early age, but in a most gentle way; little by little as events occur. Do not crowd the young mind by telling it what it should not do. Simply tell It what it should do. A LITTLE GIRL'S FORTUNE. What a Bundle of Confederate Bondi Brought an Orphan. Frankfort (N. C.) Letter. This quaint old place, which lies in the center of the Quaker settlements, was during the war a favorite resort of "refugees," by which name was desig nated those persons whose homes in the eastern section of the stata were in side the danger line, or in the counties already held by the Federal troops. In this sleepy town these .found a haven of refuge, and made themselves comfortable, to remain while the war lasted, They brought here their money and the old-fashioned bank stored Confederate bonds and currency in great amounts. The crash cams in the fatal 1865, and Stoneman's raiders whirlecj down so near that mo -t of the refugees prepared to fly. A little later the war ended. Ihe big old safe, as solemn as the grave and as chary of its secrets, was shut. Rut few of the depositors had withdrawn the now valueless currency it contained. '1 he bank, a dead corpor ation, ceased to exist; dying as it had lived, lazily. Years rolled by, each making the old safe and its secrets mere solemn still, as it stood cob-webbed in one corner of the lower rooms of the gloomy old bank building. Rumors of its contents being of value began to be created in the fertile field, imagina tion, and it was whispered that in its deep recesses lay piles of sound silver, vast quantities of bonds, jewelry worth a prince's ransom, and finally the con tents of the safe became a matter of daily conjecture. Last year the "boom" ia Confederate bonds began. The safe was rans icked. From its ca pacious depths were taken oat quite c-3,000,000 in Confederate bonds, and ne irly $l,000,0JO in state bonds and as much in Confederate and state cur rency. " The bonds were tied in rolls or in boxe, and the names of the owners could Le found in but one case. On a large roU was found the name of "Adam Exum, 186;." The bundle was found to contain 1,500 J 1,000 Confederate bonds. What the long-dead owner had paid full value for and what had been for years so much w aste paper, had be come worth $5.50 per $l,0u0. Rut strange as the past events might seem, future ones were even more curi ous, it was found that Exam had gone to Charleston, S. C, October, 1863, and nothing had since been heard of him. His son, a soldier, had been wounded; h. d married after the war in Virginia; had come back to North Carolina ; died in 1871 ; his wife following a year after, and their child, a girl, had been placed in an orphan asylum. The action of th? ex-bank officers were prompt; and ju t. , When told about the girl, so poor, so desolate, they sold the bonds oa which were her grandfather's name, and sent the money they brought $ 8,250) to a Raleigh bank, notifying the superintendent of the orphan asylum where the girl was being cared for. The case is a curious one in all respects, and is attracting much attention in the state wherever known. The girl is intelligent and mcdest, and, though no great fortune comes to her, yet the strangeness of its coming gives to it an interest which would not ordinarily attach to it. The girl has been sent to a lead ng school. How the Frlnoo of Wales Look. Olive Lo a i's London Letter. The most powerful supporter Gen. Baker has is his liege lord the prince of Wales, but you know the old adage, qui sereseru blent, s'assemblent. I saw the heir apparent in a hansom this morning not a common hansom, you understand his own hansom, a mag nificently appointed little affair, with such a beauty of a bit of gray horseflesh between the shafts. Dear me, how that exqusite, shapely brute did dance about! Tho driver was a light-weight, a good-looking young fellow, in the usual gray livery cf the Wales'. We alvaj"fc know the princess is coming when we see the gray livery and the horses with red head-bands and red rosettes and we always know the prince is coming when we see the gray livery without the red ribbons. So, forewarned forearmed, we have time to stop and have a good stare. The prince is getting uglier and more dissipated looking every day and the princess seems more and more charming every time we see her. Whatever the real home life of this so famous couple may be we know not, but their demeanor to each other in public is so really affec tionate that one wonders at their clev erness in keeping up appearances that is, if they do not care for each other. We think it surprising that a man who ha? such a pretty aad good wife as Alexandra is should care to as sociate with the creatures we hear his name coupled with. Noted Checker-Players. I Exchange. J Chess is oftened mentioned as the fa vorite game of great generals, diplo mats, and scholars; but the simpler, though, perhaps, not less pleasing game of checkers must have its innings on that score, too. Not only did Plato use it for philosophical illustration, and Cicero turn to it for mental diversion, and Frederick the Great spend hours over it, but, in later days, such men as Lincoln and Garibaldi prized it highly ; and it is said that, as his namesake's place in Ithaca was the scene of many checker contests, so Gen. (3 rant used to "clean out the boys" at West Point at it, and indeed ascribes much of his military success to the training of the sixty-four squares. furlon Natural Barometer. Exchange, The natives of the Chiloe islands make use of a curious natural barome ter, to which, from its having been first noticed by tho captain of an Italian corvette, the name "Rarometre Arau cano" has been given. This novel weather guide is the shell of a crab, one of the Anomura, probably of tho genu Lithodes; It is peculiarly sensi tive to atmospheric changes. It has a color nearly white, in dry weather; bat as soon as wet weather approaches small red spots are exhibited, varying in number and intensity with the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. In the rainy season it is completely red Vnder the Cottonwood, j Chicago Herald "Meddler." ! "I see the cholera is coming," said a big man to another on the north side street cars. "I never hear of the epidemic but I think of an incident that came under my own observation in Missouri A physi cian in one of the prairie towns of 1 that 6tate went away to California during the gold fever that raged so strangely in this country so many years ago. His compan ion was his old man-servant, one of the best old negroes that ever lived. The mis tress was left in Missouri to take care of the old house. There were few mails in i those days and months passed away before any tidings came back of the master and his servant. One evening, two vears after, the old negro came back and found his "Missus" in the doorway of the old home. He had a short story to tell. I First he laid down at her feet f 10,000 in gold. The story told was of a dying master, his command to the old servant, and a grave in the sound of the waves of the Pacific. At the time of the old ser vant's return the cholera was sweeping over the west. .That very night the old servant died, and in an hour after the old "missus," hearing of it, had passed away. They were buried on a knoll on the prairie side by side. Two cottonwood trees, the only ones in the range of the eye stood sentinel above their sleeping pb'.ces. : I One day two bodies of men fought on this site. The struggle was brief, jbut it was as fierce as any that the war witnessed. It is known in history as the battle of Lone Jack. During its engagement a wounded soldier crawled over to i one of these graves and rested upon it, under the cottonwood trees. He had not been there long when another one did the same: thing. One of them was a rebel soldier, the other was a Federal. They were brothers. One of the graves where the greeting took place was that of the mother of the rebel and Federal. The other grave was that of the old servant. The war ended; right there, so far as those boys were concerned. I never hear of cholera that I don't think of this incident. " Thought Sumthln Was tho Mat ter. 1 Chicago Herald. "Did you ever," asked a New York Cen tral fireman, "hear of old Jerry Drew who lives up near Rochester? No? Well, we had a scrimmage with him one day. He gets drunk every time he goes to I town, and that day he was drunker than, ever. He alius seemed to get to the track 'bout time we got to the road, an' I've seen him whip up his horses and whoop and yell and try to get there the same minute we did many a time. I le seemed to delight in it. Once he stopped right on the j track, and when we came up slow with brakes on he dured us to come any! closer, and said he'd run over us. Had to whittle and sc are his horses in order to get him off. The time I started out to tell you about, though. Jerry had had too; much and was sound asleep in his wagon. The horses went on the track right in front of us, and the whole institution was! busted all to pieces. "We stopped as quick as we could an' run back. Roth horses was killed and the wagon all cut up to kindlin' wood an' scrap iron. Over by the! fence was old Jerry. I saw he wasn't dead right away. The .shock had woke him up, an' he was tryin' to drink out of the neck of a bottle, the neck lein: all there was! left of it. 'What's the matter here?' I shouted to him. Re looked up. opened his eyes a little, an' gazed around him. T guess hie,' he said, 'I guess. I must o' hie run into sumthiuV " I The Jew In ItuIa Boston Advertiser. There cau be no question that the Jews have a hard time of it in Russia The miserable scenes which have just een en acted at Novgorod are only a repetition of what has rejieatedly taken place) during the past two or three years in various parti of the czar's dominions. The Russian law itself teaches the people to look with con tempt and hostility upon the Jews. Under that law the avoc ations open to the Jew are strongly restricted, lie cannot be a lawyer or a doctor, or even a merchant in the ordinary sense. He is foreverj forbid den to hope for anything like social rank or political preferment, i If he would live, he must stick to usury! and the smaller trades. He stands, moreover, in perpetual peril of insult, outrage, and even death. His appeal for justice in the courts and for protection from the state is often little heeded. The orthodox Russian, how ever, seeks the aid and converse j of the Jew, when, as often happens, he is in need of funds. All over eastern and : southern Russia the Jews have been for many years absorbing the land and other properties of the small boyard and the agricultural class, foreclosing mortgages and grasping pledged effects. The natural issue is the j ever-recurring persecution which the government is not always prompt to check. ! j A Convenient Fashion. New York Times. I To all wearers of false teeth thej news of the recent fashion set try a Chicago society lady will be extremely welcome. This ladv has an entire set of false upper teeth, and she neither conceals the fact nor pre tends that they are preferable to real teeth. She is also near-sighted, and wears sus pended to a hook on the northwest summit of her dress a pair of neat eye-glasses, which she puts on whenever she wishes to look at anvthing. Some time ago it oc corred to her that it would be the! part of common sense to use her teeth only when she desired to talk or eat. Accordingly, she now carries them suspended by a cord around her neck. When she (meets a friend she first puts on her eye-glasses and looks at him, and then puts in her teeth and indulges in conversatiou. Similarly, when she goes to dinner, she puts in her teeth as soon as the soup has disappeared and the fish is brought on. Reing a leader of Chicago fashion, her example has been followed by other ladies, and at a! Chicago opera quite a large proportion of the ladies of the audience wear their teeth gracefully suspended from the neck. : I Invention of the Shaker. iNew Orleans Times-Democrat. The peculiar sect known as the "shak ing quakers," deserves credit for many of the useful inventions of the present. More than half a century ago they tirst origin ated the drying of sweet corn for food, and they first raised, papered and vended gar den seeds in the present styles, From their first methods of preparing medicinal roots and herbs for market sprang the im mense patent medicine trade. j They le gan the broom-corn business. The first buzz-saw was made by the shakers at New Lebanon. This is now in the Al bany Geological hall. The shakers in vented metallic pans, first madd of brass and silver. All distilled liquprs were abandoned as a beverage by tho shakers sixty years ago, and during tho past forty years no fermented liquor of any sort has been used, except as a medicino. Pork and tobacco are also numbered among the "forbidden article." . I ALMOST OUT OF THE WORLD. The Simple Little Community on Lonecome rule an Haut. New York Sun. Away off the coast of Maine, outside the cordon of rocky isles that stretch like a protecting chain between the Atlantic and Penobscot bay, exposed to the ceaseless beat of the waves, aad to the fury of every storm, is the oldest, lonesomest, and most primitive spot on the American coast, the Isle au Haut. This name was given to it by one of the early French voy agers, who thought lofty island or Isle of Weight a most appropri ate appellation for the sca-g'rt rock, whose perpendicular sides rise immedi ately from the water, with scarcely a break in their monotony or a bit of beach. The island proper, with eight or ten smaller companions, now comprises a town, hav ing leeii set off from Deer Isle in 1874. All the islands together have an area of 8,000 acres, aud about 200 people live on t'-em. They all live by the sea, directly or indirectly, and their life is but a dull existence. Anthony Merchant first settled in one of the group, which now beats his name, in 1772, and since then the hamlet of fishers has grown by twos and threes, painfully, slowly. There is no postoffice, no minister, no lawyer, and no doctor. If anybody is sick, or wants any red taje, or an expected letter, he must take a sailboat and go to Deer island or to Rockland, the journey beiug nearly always rough and often impossible. ( n the summit of fhe cliffs is a great level plot, half sheep pasture and half blue lerry bog, and there is grown the best mutton and wool in Maine, and there, too. is the blueberry pickers' paradise, whole schooner loads of people ofteu going in summer from the main land to gather the berries. There was an attempt made years ago by a Georgia gentleman to make Isle au llaut a great summer resort, and he put all of his own money and that of some other persons into the scheme. A splendid pavilion for concerts and dancing w as built and roads along the cliffs constructed at great expense. Then, just as the plans were ready for a great hotel, the finance department of that association collapsed, and with it the whole scheme. That was years ago, before the expressive term "crank was ou the boards. The natives used the roads for sheep paths, and dried nets 011 the hard-piuc floor of the pavilion. The fishers arc as simple as the old Ar cadians, of whom it is written: "Neither locks had they to their door, nor bars to their windows. " Not manv of them have ever seen the mainland, and scarcely any of them know what a city is like. Only a month ago the first horse ever landed on the island was brought there, and a good half of the simple folk gazd then for the first time upon a member of the equine species. No steamer ever lands there, and in all probability the only glimpes of good-sized steam craft the Islanders ever get is when, on clear days, . they see through a gl;is passing vessels of the In ternational and Roston and Rangor lines. I'arinerx. l,)onn Piatt. 'K" I now hurl buck the foul asjtervion, made by certain members of the press, wherein I am charged with falsely posing as a farmer. If I am not a farmer, friends and neighbors, I would like to know what in the old scratch I am? Now, as I understand it, a farmer is a man who tills the earth, with great loss to himself, and benefit to others. So you see my claim to being a practical fanner can not Im denied. Like honest Dogberry, I boast "my losses." A farmer is a man who toils for fifty years for the privilege of living ten and then, in a majority of instances, gets cheatcxl out of that by rheuma tism. He rises liefore daylight, and labors till after dark. He eats what he can not sell; wears barely enough to make him decent in appearance, but not suffi cient for comfort or health, is a hard task master to his family, and death to his wife. He is industrious, sober, and, if you don't touch him ou a horse trade, or too closely in a little bargain, almost as honest as a country merchant, and as honorable as a county court lawyer. This grand pursuit is the underlying foundation of our existence. It is not only the author and creator of our homes, but of all the immense improvements that amaze the world. This net-work of rail roads, measuring over 100,000 miles of operating rails, was built by farmers. These great c ities, all these towns, canals, telegraph, mines and manufactories were built out of our earnings. We make eight tenths of the labor of the land. The ITIaorl King. London Letter. We have a tatooed man over here who is attracting a great deal of attention. This is the Maori king, Tawhiao. The king at tended the JIaverly Minstrel show at Drury Lane the other night, and was the observed of all observers. He looked like a new kind of minstrel himself. Skidmore, the interpreter (probably one of the orig inal Skidmore guards), tried to translate some of the jokes for his majesty, Iit if the sullen looks of the king are any cri terion he did not approve of them, which shows him to le a man of some sense. The Maori king is tattooed in a manner that gives him a surprised sort of look. Commencing over the nose !etween the eyes the tattoo marks radiate all over a rather large forehead. It looks something as if the tattooer tried to make a picture of a sunrise. The nose is ornamented with little circles, and from the base of the nose other lines corao round under the chin to the nose again. The king is tall, but walks with an undignified shuffle. Something seems the matter with hi9 knees. He gets sick every few days in other words, drunk. SurprUed at Connecticut. New York Sun. " Yes, sah, " said a North Carolinian at the New York hotel yesterday, " I like yo' city very much, but, sah, I am very much puzzled at Connecticut. 1 have been up thar on business, and I have ridden pretty much all over the state a consid'ble po'tion of the way in a buggy. It's a pretty country. Thar's lots of neat-looking places, some fine buildings, plenty of nice stock, and it is evident that thar's a freat deal of wealth; but, sah, I can't un erstand how they live up thar. The rocks are so big, sah, and thar's so many of them, that I can't see where they can raise anything to feed themselves with, for I give you my word, on my honor as a gentleman, sah, that if I was put down thar, sah, though I am a farmer, I would starve to death. And yet, sah, they ten me, sah, that the hay crop of that mass ol stone carbuncles, sah, called New England, was one-third mrc in value than the whole of the cotton crop of the south. I tell you, sah, it s'prises me. " Springfield (Ia.) New Era: A man should always consider himself under obli gation to sweep first his own dooryard. The Current: Among the ln arts the "tlie-holier-than-thou-aru." "Fly Loo In St. Louii. St. Louis Post-Diitch. If you should happen to drop into a saloon, gentle reader, as a novelist would say, with the addition; probably, of a sav ing clause, and if you should happen W find there a prominent doctor, lawyer, merchant, stock-broker and statesman standing in line a little distance from tlw liar, doing nothing but intently and atix iously watching something lying thereon, you need not conclude that they are pon dering deep problems in their respective spheres of activity. In .a moment or two, K-rhaps, one of the watchers will spring rward, exclaiming: "It's mine! I've won! That's my lump! He lit on mine!" or something to that effect, and after a more or less heated discussion; ending with the drinks all around, the group w ill drop back again .into a state ofquieseent watchfulness. They are only playing "fiy loo," which is an all UbsorHing, soul -entrancing game of chance that threatens, in its flush of popularity in St. Louis, to supersede all others and even to throw racing pools into the background. "Fly loo" is exceedingly simple, easy to learn and the greatest neophyte may be a successful as the oldest expert. It is played by borrowing as many lumps of sugar from l4he bar bowl as there are players, placint them on the counter and waiting. The oVvner of the lump on which a fly first alirhts is winner, and the game opens again. JThe- stakes are all the way from the drinks to as much money as the play ers choose to put up, and sometimes con siderable sums are wagered on the fancy of a frolicsome and sweet-toothed fly. It U all the rage about town, and it is a com mon anil amusing sight to see solid-look ing business and professional lights watch ing the antics of a house fly. If any one thinks it is not a fascinating game let him try it. A Too Wlllluz Young TXan. Burlington Hawkeyo. "Do you love me as dearly as men have ever loved women?" said Mabel, finding an easy anchorage for her cheek about the latitude of his upper vest pocket and the longitude of his left suspender. "More," said George, with waning en thusiasm, for this was alxnit the 214th encore to which he had responded since 8 o'clock. "More, f.u more dearly. Oh. ever so much more." "Would you,' she went on. ami thero was a tremulous imprcssivencas in her voice that warned the young man that the star was going to leave her lines aud spring something new ou the house! "Would you le wlr'ng to work and wait for me, as Ihichel waited at the well, seven lom; years?" "Seven!" he cried, in a blast of genuine devotion. "Seven! Aj-c, gladly 1 Yes, and more! Even until seventy times seven! Let's make it s. venty. anyhow, and prove my devotion." Somehow or other he was alone when he left the parlor a few minutes later and it looks now as though he would have to wait about 700 years" before he saves fuel by toasting his shins at the low-down grate in that parlor again. There are men, my -son, who always overdo, the ll,irg hey want to be mrejws; than Mose;y Vi-w fcr than Samson and ten times moi parti r uU thanJob. ' ' Terra Cotta Cofflnt. 'Have you any terra cotta coffins?' wai asked of -Sir. A. R. Scars by a customex who had called to order a casket. "No they are not in use,"' answered Mr. Sears. "Didn't you advocate them last year and write a communication to Dr. Wright about the propriety of using them?" "I did; but that was merely a sugges tion which was forced upon me by finding so many graves at Elniwood and othei cemeteries half-filled with water. The terra cotta or baked clay coffin Is the cleanest, safest and best receptacle for the dead, aside from cremation, which is the highest and fittest burial art. The ancients us.d them, and they are found very frequently in excavating "old sepulchers." The customer bargained for a cloth covered and draped casket, and ordered it sent immediately to a number designated. "Would terra cotta coffins be received favorably?" asked a reporter who wai present in the undertaker's establishment. "They undoubtedly would," said 3Ir. Sears. "After I wrote that letter to Dr. Wright, prominent men of thi3 city stopped me on the street to tell me how much they liked the idea. But people are too fond of decoration now to take up any thing so plain and sensible. They are even draping and ornamenting the metalle casket to make it look like a work-basket or a jewel-case." A Comedian Presence of Jllnd. London Letter. There was nearly a panic at Drury Luu theatre the other night. The oxyhydro gen apparatus exploded under the stage and badly hurt two men. The audience were panic stricken, but the end men saved things by their presence of mind. Haverly's minstrels are at the theatre and among them is Emerson. When the cm mi shook the theatre Billy shouted to th other end man: "Did you hear my trunk fall?" Sweetman replied: "Golly, that your trunk? Mighty heavy trunk that?" "Yes" said Emerson, "left that full of stones to pay my hotel bill, and the land lord's just chucked it out of the window." The audience took in all this and believed the explosion was part of the programme, like the old lady who thought the trains always stopped like that, when on her first ride there was a collision. The pajK-r praise the presence of mind of the Ameri can minstrels. Charles Wyndham pre vented a panic in his theatre in a similar way not long since. A Ship Odometer. Cor. New Orleans Times-Democrat. This ship has the first odometer in plain sight that I have seen. It is an instrument for measuring the distance traveled by th. boat affixed to the gunwale of the oop. A long rope, with a small propeller at tached, trails behind in the water aud causes the clockwork to operate. The length of the rope has to 1 altered to cor respond with the speed, or else the officers have to make an allowance in their calcu lations to meet the discrepancy. The odo meter is a great improvement on the old log system. Not From the West. Philadelphia Call. Edith Here is a pretty poem, entitled "He and I," by Adelaide Proctor. Who U she? Mabel A well-known writer evidently an eastern girl, judging from the title cf that poem. Edith Why, how does the title indicate that she is an eastern girl? Mabel Were she a western girl lit title would be "Me and Him." Had DUeait and Worn Itemed y. A cure has been disco vercd in South America for elephantiasis. It is to cat tho flesh of a turkey-buzzard a bird so loathe some that starving people have been known to refuse it when offered as a dLrh.
