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"Go West, Youiiff Man."
The other day, while I was seated in
trie Kennard House, Cleveland, w aiting
for supper and train time, the omnibus
backed up to the door, the porter ran out
and a boy about thirteen years old de
scended from the vehicle with an air of
considerable importance. He handed
bis old satchel to the porter and walked
down to the office without looking to the
right or left. His shoes were old and
worn, his garments were coarse and i 11
titting, his hair was long and uneven,
and as he halted before the stove for a
moment to warm his hands he pulled out
a half-consumed cigar from his pocket
and lighted it.
The porter came along at a slow pace,
a look of disgust on his face, and as he
reached the stove he dropped the way
worn satchel at the boy's feet.
"Here! you look out !'' exclaimed the
lad. "That there satchel contains wealth,
and you'd better be a leetle harmonious
in handling it. Is Kennard at home?"
The porter gasped for breath and
pointed to the clerk behind the desk.
The boy walked up to the register,
picked up a pen and laboriously wrote:
"Jim rite, from New York." "Wiping
on the reu on Ins elbow be remarked to
the clerk :
"Supper for one is how much?"
"Seventy-live cents," replied the clerk,
alter looking mm over.
"Whew 1 but that's hard pan, that is
Atter a lellow Ins been putting up at
the Fifth Avenue for a year these "West
ern prices knock him down. Only sev
eniy-uve cents, en f can vou cnange a
dollar bill?"
The clerk handed him back two shill
jugs, and the boy relighted his stub,
walked back to where the porter had
taken a seat, and in a tone of reproach
observed :
"There's that 'ere satchel right where
you dropped it. You leave it there and
let it get stolen if you want this house
sued for $50,000 damages!"
The porter hesitated a little and finally
took the satchel to the cloak room and
procured a check.
"That's more like bizz-te-business," re
marked Jim, as he pocketed the check.
"You probably thought I was some one
horse member of the Legislature from
some scrub town counties, but that's
where you got left. Twenty minutes to
supper, eh? Well, you find me one of
the daily papers."
Jim sat down near the stove, and the
porter, laboring under a seeming mag
netic influence, hunted up a paper and
handed it to him.
I happened to sit next to the boy at
supper. He gave his napkin a critical
examination, scanned the tablespread,
and when the waiter came along to him
James remarked:
"Oysters fried in crumbs, milk toast,
green tea, a biled egg, hot biscuit, and
you want to jump as if codfish was forty
cents a pound and the market rising!"
The waiter didn't jump, lie moved oft
at a slow pace.
"I'll fix him !" whispered the boy in a
confidential way. "lie probably owns a
brown stone front on some high-toned
street. I'll buy the next house to him;
teai it down, put up a boiler shop, and
I'll hammer Texas out of his peace and
harmony !"
Jim seemed to nave an aitcction tor
fried oysters. As he lifted up the tenth
one and dropped it behind his teeth, he
turned to me and said:
"Fair to medium, but yet I sigh for
the bivalves of the St. Nicholas. It's cu-
rus, isn't it, how a feller will get used to
one race of oysters?"
?f ..I i 1 .
y line tne waiter was aosent alter a
second cup of tea, the boy had a stru
gle with himself as to whether he had
better leave a shinplastcr beside his plate.
1 heard him saying to Inmselt:
"Of course it would look kind o' stvl-
ish and unique to put down two shillings
tor that tawning sycophant to pick up,
but I am not on the unique just now.
I'm looking for land, and land costs
money."
I met him again on the train. He was
asking me if I knew of a lively town in
the West, where a go-ahead boy about
his size could commence at the foot of
me muuer ana grow up, when the con
ductor came along and called for tickets.
"Half-fare, of course," replied Jim, as
he felt in his pockets.
"Full ticket," said the conductor,
reaching right and left.
"Is this a bigger road than the "Sew
York Central?" demanded the boy.
"They didn't charge but half fare on
that road, and it had three more tracks
on than this. .Don't count me out that
way, Mr. Conductor."
"Ticket! ticket!" called the official.
'Taason and come and see me later,for
the cash is in my boot," replied Jim, get
ting ready to pull oil one.
In about twenty miuutes the conduc
tor returned, and the boy tendered him
half fare in small change and said:
"Don't be tough on a feller. There
wau't room for both B iss Tweed and
me in New York, and so I'm looking for
a estern town to grow up with."
"You are old enaugh for full fare," ob
served the conductor.
A.-T'l 1 . . 1 1
iiiaiswiiere my iooks deceive me.
they do. The fact is I don't age worth a
cent. I have looked to be about this old
ever since I can remember."
Half fare was taken, and after the con
ductor had departed Jim returned to the
subject nearest his heart by remarking
"I'd like to find a town of about COO
denizens, for instance. I could jine the
church, walk around with h umility in
my eyes, and in no time at all I'd be an
alderman or sometlnn . 1 m bound to
work up, I tell you, and if any fellow
can beat me at securing the ailections of
a discriminating public I won't say a
word."
I left him in Toledo. He was look
mg at a patent spuug bed bottom, with
a view to purchase a State right, and
was musing:
"The question vividly arises. Can a fel
low with a patent right work his way to
the hearts of the "masses?" Pittsburg
X eiegrapn.
Seveu vl weeks asroa package containing
$10,000 was put up in the cash room of the
Treasury Department to be forwarded
to the Illiuoh National Bank at Chica
go in exchange for a similar amount re
ceived for redemption. The records of
the department show that the amount
was delivered to the Adams Express Com
pany in the usual manner. Upon deliv
ering the package at Chicago it was
found to be secured by the seals of-the
Treasury Department, and the bank offi
cer receipted for its delivery. Upon
breaking the seals it was discovered that
the package contained nothing but
soft paper.
Tiie Protestants are gaining ground in
the Holy Land. They have now 520
congregations, and 7,000 children at
tend their schools.
A Householder's Night's Trials.
The chill breath of winter is in the air,
and as the night wind whistles around
the house, and wrestles with the blinds,
the husband and father, happy that his
wife and little one3 are sheltered and
comfortable, draws the drapery of his
couch about him and is about going off to
pleasant dreams, when the partner of his
joys ana snarer ot his sorrows says:
"ð, you must go down aud fix
furnace, or the gas will strangle
baby.'
Then the wretched man butt ns
the
the
his
breakfast jacket over hi nightshirt,
pokes his left foot into the right slipper
and his right into the left, and, "drunken
with sleep," feels his way down stairs,
falls over the cook's hod ofcoal and
kindlings at the kitchen door, aud bursts
into the cellar like a torrent. He jerks
open the furnace door, inhales a few
quarts of coal gas, spits it up mixed with
some hard words, bangs the door and
knocks over the long poker and cast-iron
shovel with a clang like a rolling-mill in
full operation. He seizes the wrench,
and, hooking on the grate, shakes it sav
agely; and the grate, which has hereto
fore yielded sulleuly to his strength, re
volves as if it were set in oil, by depos
iting the whole tire in the ash-box, with
the exception of two or three big clinkers
that wedged it up edgewise. First he
tries to pull it back with the wrench, but
the thing won't move. Then he gets
down on his hands an 1 knees and jabs at
the clinkers with a poker like a man stir
ring up a cage of animals in a menagerie,
but the hot coals heat him up to another
attempt on the wrench, and springing to
his feet he braces himself for a mighty
pull when the grate slips into place like
a spring-lock, the wrench slides off and
bangs his bare shins as he staggers back
and knocks his head against the plaster
partition.
Just then the policeman rings the front
door bell and asks "if there is a fire in
there?" and having the door slammed in
his face with "No! I wish, there was!"
tells his relief at the next corner that
"old Simpkins, at 42, is drunk, aud rais
ing' an awful row."
That unhappy citizen has hurried back
to the cellar, and throwing a basketful of
wood and kindlings into the furnace he
lights them, and starts for the coal bin.
Returning with a hodful of coal, he es
says to pitch it dexterously into the fur
nace. Just then a puff of wood smoke
strikes him in the eves, the edixe of the
hod strikes just below the furuace door,
and the contents are dashed on the floor,
with the exception of finer particles
which sift into his slippers. With the
calmuess of despair he fills the furnace
by shovelfuls, and with sneezes, heralding
a coming cold, waits until tlie fire is an
accomoliihed fact. As he reaches the
chamber floor a dismal wail freezes his
already chilled blood, aud he is wel
comed back by his loving wife with:
"I wish you could ever do anything
about the house, SeSli, without making
such a dreadful noise. Here is the baby
broad awake, and I don't believe we shall
get ainther wink of sleep to-night."
Then the wretched man pulls the few
hairs a vii tums life has left him, the coin
foits of his home fade from his mind, aud
he wishes he was a homeless wanderer in
the cold streets, with tha prospect of a
warm lodging at the station-house.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Runaway Coal Train.
The wildest and most improbable of
Jules Verne's "Scientific Romances" con
tain nothing more thrilling than an acci
dent that has just occurred at Dunmore,
one of the suburbs of this city, and the
great shipping center of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company. The coal trains are hoist
ed up a series of steep planes over the un
dulating mountaias that intervene be
tween Scrantou and Hawiey, by a finely
regulated and admirably equipped system
of machinery, and where gentle slopes
and long "levels" occur are sped onward
by gravitation, under control of an expe
rienced corps of brakemen.
A runaway train down one of those
sharply sloping places is a rare occur
rence, every precaution possible being
taken to avert such an accident. Yet oc
casionally there is a ruuaway, aud its
headlong flight is something terrific. The
train of which I speak consisted of four
cars ladtn with coal. They were drawn
up the plane by a stout w ire rope, and
were preceded by a small truck known
as the "balance car." Just as they had
reached within a few feet of the head
house, the fastening gave way, a mo
ment's pause, and the coal train com
menced its wild career down the moun
tain side, striking terror into the hearts of
the workmen at the engine-hou3e as they
saw it spred away. Down, down it
dashed, with a rush like a whirlwind,
gaining in momentum as it went until it
ueared the front of the plane.
A workman named Durkin, who was
engaged pushing a car along a branch
track at the foot, immediately in the way
of the runaway, saw it approach him and
was paralyzed with awe. It was yet sev
eral yards distant, and he made a desper
ate effort to escape. But with a velocity
almost as great as that of a cannon ball
it struck him and the car by which he
was standing, sweeping both a distance of
two hundred yards, until Durkin and the
car collided with a large coal train lyino
on the level. The scene that ensued baf
fles description. The crash was followed
by a thick cloud of coal, pieces of wood
and iron, and in the midst of the destruc
tive tumult, poor Durkin was torn to
pieces. The men who saw him when he
was struck looked for him after the force
of the shock had been spent, and were
horrified to find him cut up into frag
ments, the largest of which weighed uo
more than a pound. The strength of the
shock may be imagined when Instate that
heavy car wheels were flung as high as
the car shops, fully a height of twenty
feet in the air. The accident, which is the
first fatal mishap that ever occurred on
No. C plane, is described by those who
witnessed it as being wildly grand when
the rushing train descended like a thun
derbolt down the sleep track. The plane
is constructed on a grade of one to every
three feet. Durkin was over sixty years
of age, and had been in tha employ of
the Pennsylvania Coal C .m,.. ....
twenty years. Scranton,
pondence.
Cor res-
A Cumous Feux. In Ciina there
grows a tern which bears a curious like
ness to a lamb. This likeness causes
English-speaking people who have seen
it, to call it the Tartirian or Scythian
lamb fern. It is covered with a deuse,
sott, vegetable wool, of a yellow color.
Us main stem, covered with the wool,
lies flat, a short distance above the "round,
and other hanging stems look like little
legs supporting it.
It
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iooks sweetest when his
pose.
mouth is in re-
If I Were a Boy Again.
Let me tell vou, my young friend,
some of the things I would do if I were
a bov again ; some of the too often neg
lected acts I would strive to accomplish
if it were in my power to begin all over
anew.
I would learn the art of usiug tools of
various sorts. I think I would insist on
leaming some trade, even if I knew there
would be no occasion to follow it when I
grew up. What a pleasure it is in after
life to be able to make something, as the
saving i; to construct a Heat box to hold
one's pen and paper; or a pretty cabinet
for a sister's library; or to frame a favor
ite engraving for a Christmas present to
a dear, kind mother. What a loss not to
know how to mend a chair that refuses
to stand up strong, only because it needs
a few tacks aud a bit of leather here and
there. Some of us cannot even drive a
nail straight, and should we attempt to
saw off an obtrusive piece of wood, ten
to one we should lose a finger in the
operation.
I thing I should ask permission if I
had happened to be born in a city- to
have the opportunity of passing all my
vacations in the country, that I might
learn the names of trees, aud flowers,
and birds. We are, as a people, sadly
iguorant of all accurate rural knowledge,
We guess at many couutry things, but
we are certain of very few. It is inex
cusable in a grown-up person, like my
amiable neighbor Simkins, who lives
from May to November on a farm of
sixty acres, in a beautiful wooded coun
try, not to know a maple from a beech,
or a bobolink from a cat-bird. He once
handed me a bunch of pansies, and called
them violets, and on another occasion he
mistook sweet peas for geraniums. What
right has a humau being, while the air is
full of bird music, to be wholly igno
rant of the performer's name? When we
go to the opera, we are fully posted up
with regard to all the principal singers,
and why should we know nothing of the
owners of voices that far transcend the
vocal powers of Jenny Liud and Christine
Nilsson. A boy ought also to be at
home in a barn, and learn how to har
ness a horse, tinker up a wagon, feed the
animals, and do a hundred useful things,
the experience of which may be of
special service to him in after life as au
explorer or a traveller, when unlooked-for
emergencies befall him.
If I were a boy again, I would learn
how to row a boat and handle a sail, and,
above all, how to beccme proof against
sea-sickness. I would conquer that
malady before I grew to be fifteen years
old. It can be done, and ought to bs
done, in youth, for all of us are more or
less inclined to visit foreign countries,
either in the way of business or mental
improvement, to say nothing of pleasure.
r ight the sea-sick malady long enough
and it can be conquered at a very early
age. Of course every young person
novv-a-days, male or female, learns to
swim, and so no advice on that score
need be proffered; but if I were a boy
again, I would learn to float half a day,
if necessary, in as rough a bit of water
as I could hod on our beautiful coast.
A boy of fifteen who cannot keep his
head and legs all right in a sea
ought to try until he can. No lad in
these days ought to drown if he can
help it!
I would keep "better hours," if I were
a boy again; that ii, I would go to bed
earlier than most boys do. Nothing
gives us more mental and bodily vigor
than sound rest when properly applied
Sleep is our great replenisher, and if we
neglect to take it naturally in childhood,
it is all the worse lor us when we grow
up. If we go to bed early, we ripen; if
we sit up late we decay, aud sooner or
later we contract a disease called in
somnia, allowing it to be permanently
nxed upon us; and then we begin to de
cay, even in vouth. Late hours are
shadows from the grave.
If I were a boy again, I would have a
blank book in which to record, before
going to bed, every day's events just as
they happened to me personally. If I
began by writing only two lines a
day in my diary, I would start my little
book, and faithfully put down what hap
pened to interest me. On its pages I
would note down the habits of birds and
animals as I saw them, and if the horse
fell ill, down should go his malady in
my book, and what cured him should go
there too. If the cat or dog showed any
peculiar traits, they should all be chroni
cled in my diary, and nothing worth re
cording should escape me.
There are hundreds of things I would
correct in my life if I were a boy again.
and among them is this special one: I
would be more careful of my teeth.
Seeing since I have grown up how much
suffering is induced by the bad habit of
constantly eating candies aud other sweet
nuisances, I would shut my mouth to all
allurements of that sort. Very hot and
very cold substances I would studiously
avoid. Toothache in our country is one
of the national crimes. Half the peo
ple we meet have swelled faces. The
dentist thrives here as he does on no
other laud on the planet, and it is be
cause we begin to spoil our teeth at the
age of five or six years. A child, eight
years old, asked me not long ago .if I
could recommend him to a dentist "who
didn't hurt!" I pitied him, but I was
unacquainted with such an artist. They
all hurt, and they cannot help it, poor,
hard working gentleman, charging, as
they do, like Chester.
I would have no dealings with tobacco,
in any form, if I were a boy again. My
friend Pipes tells me he is such a martyr
to cigar boxes that his life is a burden.
The habit of smoking has became such a
tyrant over him that he carries a tobacco
bowsprit at his damp,disco!ored lips every
hour of the day, and he begs me to warn
all the boys of my acquaintances and
say to tliem emphatically, "Don't learn
to smoke!" He tells me, sadly, that his
head is sometimes in such a dizzy whirl,
and his brain is foul from long habits of
smoking he cannot break off, that he is
compelled to forego much that is pleasant
in existence, and live a tobacco tortured
life from year to year. Poor Pipes! he
is a sad warning to young fellows who
are just learning to u-e the dirty, unman
nerly weed. Youth's Companion.
It seems unfortunate that the Centen
nial couldn't have extended over the first
of January. This leaves a man no resort
when he sees the bill-collector coming,
except the old one of stepping down cel
lar, and leaving word that he has been
called away to attend the funeral of a rich
uncle out west. Thi9 does pretty well,
as we all know, but it is only generous
to the collector that he should have a
little novelty now and then.
They all want office down in North
Carolina. For the position of State
Librarian, with a salary of $000, the
newly elected Governor had no less than
51 applications.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT
A Wonderful Place.
At n JVM California street. San Francisco,
ha3 been established Wood's Museum, which
contains the linest. collection of relies to he
found iu this country, west of I'hiiiuie.pnia,
and one wliii-h will :iimlv rcrav a visit. The
proprietor has spent a great deal of time and
money in eolle' ting the curiosities to be
found there, whic h number idols of stone and
wood, carved in the most grotesque manner,
aud 6onie of which have been pronounced by
experts to be thousand of years old; animals
of nearly every species, petrincations, mum
mies, reptiles, ana everymiur iuieretuus aim
instructive to both the old and young. One
live reptile in the collection is the most won
derful ever placed on exhibition, being a
double-headed 6uake, which runs either way.
and strikes alike with both ends, iiie great
skeleton of the inastodon,180,000years old, is on
exhibition therew ith 100,000 other curiosities.
Professor L. King, one of the best magicians,
humorists and ventrilouuists of the a.;e, gives
daily exhibitions. Everything is included in
the one admittance fee of y5 cents, and the
Museum is just the place for children aud
families to visit, as they can be at the same
time amused and instructed without becom-
inir demoralized. The tricks of the magician
are especially interestinir, us they are nearly
all new and their performance seems to be an
utter impossibility. A matinee is given at 2
r. m. cue u uay, wnen tne various curiosities
are explained to visitors. The Museum is
opeu daily, excepting Sunday, from J A. m. to
10 P.M., and in supplying a want Jonjf lelt, al
fovds a place which cau be safely visited by
ladies and children who are without escorts.
There is an entire change of programme of
frofessor King s entertainment each day, the
management being determined that each visit
made shall discover something new. S. f.
Chronicle.
An Item of Interest.
In our travels through the business por
tion of San Francisco, seeking information
which would be of interest to our readers
and the public generally, we met a repre
sentative of the New American Sewing Ma
chine, and being interested in every enter
prise which possesses merit, we stepped into
their salesroom, 124 Fifth street, S. F., to in
vestigate so as to satisfy ourselves. The
first point of superiority claimed, and which
carried conviction to our mind that it was
eminently a first-class invention, was the
self-tu heaping shuttle, the only one in
the world which requires no threading, and
also the only shuttle that requires no read
justing of tension when the bobbin is re
placed m it, greatly facilitating its use, par
ticularly with those whose eyesight is im
paired. We recommend our readers and all
those contemplating purchasing a sewing
machine, to the New American, which car
ried oil the highest prize at the Centennial
Exhibition, 1ST0.
Fine Horses.
Xo addition that has heretofore been made
to the tine blooded stock of California has
created the same universal interest as the
last importation of pure blooded I'erclierou
horses, direct from France, by Mr. Sackrider.
The Kecord Stables, on Market street, oppo
site Seventh street, San Francisco, where
these magnificent . animals are kept, are
thronged daily by visitors from all parts of
the Slate. We have heard but one opinion
expressed iu regard to them, and that is that
they are the finest work and road horses iu
the world; aud we do not think it is saying
too much to say that they are the very beat
stock lor all practical purposes that has ever
been introduced upon this coast. Of course,
Mr. Sackrider is importing this stock for his
own benefit, yet we think he should be re
garded as a public benefactor, and it is to be
hoped stock raisers will not be slow to avail
themselves of the advantages that he places
within their reach.
The Rogers Piano.
This new candidate for public favor is un
doubtedly destined to command a very large
share of the piano trade. It is constructed
upon an entire new principle, by which the
old wooden pin block is dispensed with, and
a movable iron slide worked by a set 6crew
substituted in its place. This important
improvement renders tne instrument less
liable to get out of repair, as it is
utterly impossible for the pins to become
loosened as in the old instrument. The whole
strain being sustained by a solid ironwork
that cannot be changed by extremes of
weather, or by use or uge. e see uo reason
why such an instrument should not last a
Utctiuie. Messrs. lilackmar ilc Davis, corner
of Market and Powell streets, San Francisco,
are agents lor the liogers, to whom all com
muuicalions may be addressed.
Peerless Yeast Powder.
Tkv it. For sale in quarter, one, two, five.
ten anu twenty pound packages by all gro
cers. 13. F. Hakto.v it Co., manufacturers,
zll unu Sacramento street, San t rancisco.
A radical cure for Briirht's disease. rrav
el, dropsy, diabetes, gout, non-retention or
incontinence anu au ailections ol the kidneys
and bladder, is Kearney's Extract liccuu.
Sold by druggists everywhere.
Land. Owners Without Patents
Should euclose $3 with their receipts to Col.
L. Biiiirham & Co.. Attnrneva for :i:iim .w
Washington, D. C, and receive their Land
raieuts.
Cancer can bb Cuked. Dr. Bond, of
Philadelphia, anuounces his discovery for
the radical cure of Cancer. Ao Knife! No
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lars sent free. Address with Btamu. Dr. H
T. Bond, S59 North Broad 6t., Philadelphia, Pa.
A Cure within the reach of the poorest
sufferer from rheumatism, sore throat, still
joints, and all aches and pains Trapper's In
dian Oil. Price, 50 cents per llask.
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on horseH
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sell
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found one of the best remedies for all nnrrxwiK
manufactured. ' ' I
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although nron.rod fntM,itA..ii- nn
as an Internal Remedy.
for animal and white for human flesh.
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