A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE.
Charlotte C<>rday, the s.ul-faced, |
tender-hearted pear-ant girl of Nur-,
mandy made great history by one dee-1
perate act!
Hiukened by the saturnalia of the
French revolution, and moved to des­
peration as Robbespierre and Marat
were leading the flower of France to
tlie guillotine, she determined that she '
would pul an end to Moral’s bbxjdy j
reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victim*! for the guillotine!
He proponed to kill off the enemies
of trie Revolution to make it per­
petual I
*
*
AMONG
m » b »-
THE
DUTCH
BOERS.
Very Ouorr Costume«— Medlelna and
<J oackery—lAauici u<.
—Mrs. Celeste H. IL Winslow began
to write stories and poems when nine
years of age.
—George W. Childs has an extreme­
ly rare and valuable collection of man­
uscripts. One of the most interesting
is that of Edgar Allan Foe’s, “ The
Murder in the Rue Morgue. ”
A Being ot Kemarkabln Importance and
Royal Seir-Fo**e*»lon.
HUNTING
WILD-CATS.
Thrilling Sport with Whieh Floridians
Assooe Therase Iras.
A carrier pigeon messace service has been es­
tablished at Key West for communication with
the adjacent islands in conjunction with the
Signal Department
—A true story of the perplexity of a i
graduate of the Boston English High
School over a word that he found oc­
curring with vexatious frequency in the
foot-notes of a work that he read re­
cently: “Do you know,” he asked,
“who Ibid, the author, was? I’ve been
reading a book that has lots of ex­
tracts from his writings in it, and I
can't find his name in any .encyclo­
pedia." The young man was told that
he was a relative of the distinguished
author. Anon, who has written some of
the most beautiful things in the En­
glish language.— Boston Transcript.
—A Lawyer living in a town near
Waterbury Conn., states a fact which
well illustrates the thrift and frugality
whieh characterize many of the old
families which have not been touched
by modern extravagance and love of
display. In that town three estates
have been settled within a few months
aggregating property to the amount ot
1700,000, and yet he says if all the
household furniture of those three
families had been sold at the best pos­
sible price the amount received for it
would not have amounted at the out­
side to over |300. It is too often the
habit now to have thousand-dollar
furnishings
for hundrcd-dollar
estates.
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Chatting over their cigars, a few
BACON OR SHAKES­
Those of my dear readers who can gentlemen parsed a pleasant hour ex­ WHICH WAS IT? PEARE.
read [and I suppose, without a doubt, changing personal experiences of the The aufhorahip of the dramatic productions
attributed to the last of the above named is agi­
that a g<K>d many of them can] will, chase. Mr. M. N. Bryan, of Madison tating literary circles to the very centre, but af­
the practical masses far less than the mo­
with little difficulty, recall the awe in County. Fla., told, with much interest fects
mentous question, how to regain or preserve
to
his
listeners,
stories
of
the
bunting
health, that essential of bodily and mental ac­
which the magicians of the olden time
tivity, business success and the "pursuit of hap­
of the wild-cat. He said:
piness." We can throw far more light on this
were held by their fellow mortals. This
“The Florida wild-cat, when fully latter subject than the most profound Shakes­
awe and veneration has a parallel in grown, weighs about fifty pounds, is pearian can on the question r rst propounded,
if the system is depleted, the nerves shaky; if
modern life in the general respect and as large as a good-sized fox-hound, indigestion or eonsapat' -n bothers oue at times,
consideration with which the county and when in full chase of a pack of or constantly; if the skin b yellow, aud tile
tongue furred as in biliousness; if there are
surveyor is treated on the occasion of a hounds is an object to startle and be­ premonitory twinges of oncoming rheumatism
or neuralgia: if the kidneys are Inactive—use
professional visit to one of the hemlats wilder a Northern hunter. With fur H.wtetter's Stomach Bitters, the finest récupér­
ant of an age prolific in beneficial and success­
thrown
back,
claws
extended,
leaping
in his territory.
ful remedies. Remember, if malaria threatens
with
great
springs
through
forest
or
or afflicts, that it neutralizes the poison and
Enoch Jinuon and Solon McGill got
fortifies the system.
swamps,
the
ordinary
sportsman,
at
into a wrangle over a new line fence
the first sight of the animal, turns pale Fannie L. Davenport-Price, the actress, has
that must be built, each wanting to
and wants to leave instanter. The cat been granted a divorce from her husband, Edwin
shove it over toward his neighbor a
will attack sheep. Iambs, young hogs H. Price.________________________
little. Although the land in dispute
and poultry, but the human family,
White Elephant of Siam, Lion of Eng­
amounted to but little, they could reach
except young and unprotected chil­ land, Dragon of China, Cross of Switzer­
no settlement of the difficulty without
land, Banner of Persia, Crescent of Egypt,
dren, need have no fear of him. I Double Eagle of Russia, Star of Chili, Irie
the lines being “run.” So the county
know of no sport so exciting and de­ Circle of Japan. Harp of Erin.
surveyor is called in, and it is then that
To get theae buy a box of the genuine
manding eflfort so hard and long-
his importance is manifested and his,
D r . C. M c L anes C elebrated L iver
continued as a ‘oat drive.’ The hunt­ P ills , price 25 cents, and mail us the out­
vanity gets a wholesale tickling.
ing party having been agreed upon, side wrapper with your address, plainly
Augustus Bings is not a man you they meet an hour and a half before written, and 4 cents in stamps. We will
would pick out in a crowd as being one daylight, mounted on their best horses then mail you the above list with an ele­
to whom the world at large would look and attended by hounds, often to the gant package of oieographic and chro­
matic cards.
up with any remarkable degree of ven­ number of forty. Tlie wild cat is gen­
F leming B ros ., P ittsburg , P a .
—The ancients believed that the
eration; nor does he seem to expect it, erally found foraging at this hour and,
as he walks among his fellow men in being surprised, runs quickly to the Foreign scientists have discovered minute earth was square, but that was proba­
diamonds in meteorites found in Siberia.
bly because they had never beon round
the populous county scat. But when cover of the nearest swamp, or climbs
much.— Lowell Citizen.
WOMEN’S MODESTY.
he reaches the little town of Punkin- a tree. If he seeks a tree, he is not
Many women are prevented by feelings of
—Farmer (sneeringly)—“After you
ville his dignity and importance have shot, but the tree is cut down or he is delicacy
from consulting a physician in those
grown to enormous proportions. Pos­ otherwise dislodged. The hounds are disorders arising from functional derangement get through digging what are you going
her peculiarly delicate organism, and the to do?”
Amateur Gardener—“Put a
sibly it is the ozone of the country air held in leash until he gets a good of
most serious results are often caused by this
neglect. To such persons I)r. Pierce’s Favorite porous plaster on my back.— Life.
that has so remarkable an effect.
start, when the leader blows his horn Prescription is an especial boon, as it offers a
On this trip he is accompanied by a and the pursuit is resumed. If the cat sure and safe cure for all those distressing At the International Exhibition st Brussels,
to which women are peculiarly the Westinghouse uir br-:e received the highest
youth who carries the chain and holds enters a swamp, the hounds follow disorders
subject. While it MVM a modflft girl or woman prize.
the rod with intention of ultimately him there and ultimately drive him from the embarrassment of a personal consulta­
with a physician. “Favorite Prescription”
Jack aud Jill each took a pill,
learning the mysteries of the profes­ out and the hunting party, guided by tion
is the only medicine for women’s peculiar weak­
Old-fashioned kind—full mown:
nesses
and ailments, sold by druggists, under a
sion, and at last shining forth himself. the noise of the dogs, is ready to take
Jack's went down—but with a frown—
positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that
Jill died from)"cause unknown.”
This youth is the cynosure of all eyes, up the chase near the point where the it will give satisfaction in every cast*, or money Smiles will
supercede many frown«, and many
will
be
refunded.
See
guarantee
on
bottle
as far as the juvenile portion of the game emerges. And so we go! Over
discomforts will be unknown, when Dr. Pierce's
wrapper.
Pleasant Purgative Pellets entirely supersede, as
village Is concerned, and is envied as the hills, through the farms, jumping
they bid fair to do, the large and less efficient
The sales of diamonds in New York are esti­ pill of our forefathers. Every day they gain new
being the happy possessor of enormous fences, leaping ditches! No English
mated to foot up $50,000,000 a year.
laurels! Most popular when most ills abound!
brain qualifications, thus <4> enable him fox hunt can compare with the Florida
USING
THEM
FOR
EVERYTHING.
to act In the important capacity in ‘cat drive,’ and few are the farmers
Michael Pavltt’s woolen company has de
Peter .Magerus. residing at 267 Johnson dared a dividend of 7 per cent.
which he does. Ail the slang phrases who can resist leaving team a-field and
which he drops are eagerly snapped running to the house for saddle Avenue, Brooklyn, E D., N. Y., bays:
AN HONEST POUND.
During the last eighteen years I have
up by his young admirers, and the when the baying of hounds and the
been
using
over
fifty
A
llcock
'
s
P
lasters
chestnuts that he incidentally relates blowing of horns tell that a ‘cat
Do you know that STAR PLUG is the
pass current as the latest and best wit drive’ is on. The hounds of every a year in my family. I have found them only first-class Chewing Tobacco that is always
a most perfect external remedy. They made in 16-oz. plu • ? You save from two to
for many a day.
farmer hearing the din leave their have repeatedly cured me of rheumatism,
ounces on every plug of Tobacco used, by
It Is only the assistant that jests, kennels, and are found loudest- to which Ig^jaU^ect every winter. They four
taking only STAR, and you get the best
however. The surveyor himself is mouthed in the pursuing pack. At have cured wWur pains in the sides ami Tobacco made.
self-contained, and scorns such frivol­ last comes the end, as all sports inust back th red times. My wife, children and
mother-in-!aw tell me allcock ’ s P las
ities, as being unseemly in a man so end.
teks are the best remedy ever made, so
(ar advanced in science as he is. His
“After an all day’s chase the wild agreeable, so certain. I know they have
J. H. FIHM, Asaayer and Analytical
utterances are brief and sententious, cat at four o’clock in the afternoon, or cured my wife of pains in the back and a Chemist. Laboratory, 1(M First st, Portland.
Or. Analyses made or all aubstances.
severe
cough.
My
mother
in-law
has
been
and confined mostly to sundry and dark at five o’clock at the latest, can go •ur-d of a most severe cold, which threat-
hints as to the capacity of the indi­ little further. The snapping jaws of to turn in o pneumonia, by A llcock s
P etek M aoehus .
vidual who run the lines before.
the hounds come closer and closer. P lasters .
Deliberation and lack of hurry are He turns his glaring eyes a moment
PU RC
marked characteristics of our surveyor behind him and staggers on. The Cholera has brokeu out lu Khartoum.
on these trips, and it being so near pack of dogs that had been In full cry
SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.
Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of theuasal
noon he does not undertake his work in the morning is now broken. Only
passages, discharges falling from the head into
until he has refreshed himself with the hardy ones have kept up with the the throat, sometimes profuse, watery, aud acrid,
dinner. The smiling and gracious long chase. Horses and riders are at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent,
bloody and putrid; the eyes are weak, watery
landlord escorts his guests to their worn and jaded. The cat can run no and inflamed; there is ringing in the ears, deaf­
ness, hacking or coughing to clear the throat,
seats; the cook holds the kitchen door more. He prepares to battle for his expectoration
of offensive matter, together with
open a crack and inserts a tousled head life. He turns on his back, raises his scabs from ulcers; the voice is clanged and has
nasal twang; the breath is offensive; smell aud
to steal a glance at the great man; the feet and strikes his long claws vicious­ a taste
are impaired; there is a sensation of dizzi­
young lady that waits on the table ad­ ly at any hound that dare attack him. ness, with mental depression, a hacking cough
and general debility. If you have all, or any
justs her bangs and looks pleasant at Tlie battle Is long and bloody, and be­ considerable number of these symptoms, you are
the assistant; the regular boarders fore it ends hounds are frightfully suffering from Nasal Catarrh. Tne more com­
plicated your disease has become, the greater
file in and seat themselves and turn scarred and often lose an eye. Many the number and diversity of symptoms.
Thousands
cases annually, without manifesto
their conversation to as important sub­ a time after a cat chase have I sewed ing half of of
the above symptoms, result in con­
jects as possible so as not to be consid­ up the ears of my dogs. The cat drive sumption, and end in tne grave. No disease is
common, more deceptive and dangerous, or
ered too ostentatiously flippant
is the Florida man’s favorite sport. It so
less understood, or more unsuccessfully treated,
by
physicians. Five hundred dollars reward is
Dinner over, our surveyor and his is not pursued with the purpose of ex­
offer( <l by the manufacturers of I)r. Sage’s Ca­
assistant are rejoined by the contend­ terminating the animals. Indeed, by tarrh Remedy, for a case of catarrh they cannot
ing parties and an augmented audi­ a State law, a hunter, who will shoot cure. Remedy sold by druggists, at only r>0
cento.
ence. They proceed to the seat of war; a cat in front of his dogs, is fined |25,
the assistant spreads the three sticks and, by a rule of the Hunters’ Asso­ The telegraphers throughout France are on a
for better pay.
Business Is seriously
so they will stand alone; the surveyor ciation, he is fined again for the same strike
hampered.
motions the boy who carried the box offense. You see if the cat is killed
Far Bronchial and Asthmatic Com­
to come forward. He steps forth with by a bullet the hounds that have fol­ plaints,
Us superior excellence proven In millions of h< mesfor
and Coughs and Colds, “Brown's Bron­
chial
Troches” manifest remarkable curative mote than a quarter of a century. It is used by the
his precious burden with the proud lowed it are forever spoiled for the
United
State« Government. Endc rsed by the heads of
properties.
the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most
step of a soldier called from the ranks chase. Their proper discipline and
Healthful. Dr Price s Ore&m Baki ig Powder does not
T ry O krmea tor breaktest.
oontain Ammonia, Idme or Alum. Sold only in cans.
to receive a decoration for bravery. future usefulness require that they
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
The eyes of the publio are turned should kill the oat. On this account
NKW YORK.
CHICAGO.
ST. LOUIS.
ODD
WEDDING
RINGS.
toward the box, eaeh eager to catch shotguns and rifles are usually left be­
A WALKING ADVERTISEMENT
the first glimpse of its contents. The hind.”— St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
How the Natives of the Upper Congo
Country Dispose of their Savings.
surveyor takes a key from his pocket,
PLEASURES OF REVERIE.
Lieutenant von Francois, the African
stoops down and deliberately opens the
Day-Dreaming
and the Enjoyment That explorer, has recently described a
cover. A stillness falls upon the group,
Can Be Derived from It.
strange custom among the Bayanzl,
as he lifts from its resting plr.ee the
Re.erie is a natural condition, so who live for many miles along tne Up­
transit and puts it in position on the
tripod. Each move he makes locating, common to children that they are per Congo. The custom would seem
leveling and all the various maneuver­ hardly able to distinguish between the to make life a good deal of a
ings are watched carefully, and no mo­ reports from the external world and burden to their married women.
tion escapes notice.
His assistant the images presented by their imag­ Brass rods, which are the fa­
walks away from the instrument, bear­ ination. But reverie is a common ex­ vorite currency in the country, are
ing the figured rod and pulling the perience of the human race in all welded« into great rings around tho
wire chain. He pauses at a certain stages of development. It differs from necks of the wives. Many of these
distance; holds up the rod; the sur­ abstraction in the faot that the latter rings worn by the women whose hus­
veyor places his eye to the Instrument Is the intense pursuit of a train of bands are well-to-do weigh as much as
which thirty pounds, and this burden must
and waves his hand to the right; the reasoning or observation,
absorbs
the
mind
to
such
an be carried around by the poor women
moves
the
rod
to
the
assistant
extent
that
there
is
no
attention
as long as they live.
right; he waves his arm again; the
“Frequently,” says Lieutenant von'
assistant moves again; he gazes long left for the reports of the senses.
and earnestly, then stands erect aud Hence the abstracted man neither Francois, “one sees a poor woman
the surveyor produces a little red book looks nor listens, and a noise or an im­ whose neck is raw and sore under the
Ever; man that sm >kes a pipe m a walking
in which he makes a few figures. He pulse, far greater than would suffice to heavy weight, and in places the skin advertiser of the merits of “Seal of North Caro­
stops to talk with Jimson and then awaken the same man if asleep, may is rubbed off by ths ring. This is a lina Plug Cut” Smoking Tobacco.
w ith McGill. The postmaster sidles up, be sufficient to divert him from the sure sign that the ring has been re­ The “Seal” is pronounced by all emokera the
cently welded around her neck, for
holds one eye shut with his finger, train of thought which he pursues.
Reverie is literally day-dreaming. after a time the skin becomes calloused, beet Tobacco ever sold on the Pacific Coast.
squints Into the instrument with the
other and sees—nothing. The cobbler, It is not reasoning. The image-mak­ and then the strange ornament pro­
WHY YOU SHOULD USE
the next best politician, who is also ing faculty is set free and it runs on. duces no abrasion. But the weight is
The
judgment
is
scarcely
attentive,
an
inconvenience.
They
never
get
deacon in the church and school com­
mitteeman, follows the postmaster with hardly conscious, and the tear may used to IL and it is a perpetual tax
the same success. One or two more of come into the eye or the smile to the upon their energies. In every crowd
I the more influential and important in­ lip, so that in a crowded street-car or of women may be seen a number who
or COD LIVER OIL WITH
habitants do the same, while the new even in an assembly attention may be are supporting the ring with their
doctor, who once carried chain during attracted to the person, who is wholly hands, and thus for a time relieving
HYPOPHOSPHITES.
vacation to earn money to pursue his unconscious of the same. A person their weary shoulders of the heavy It is Palatable as Milk.
studies, asks the surveyor “if his ver­ may imagine himself other than burden. It may be said that with every It is three times as efficacious at
nier reads to the fractions of seconds,” he is, and derive great pleasure movement of their bodies the rings
plain Cod Liver Oil.
which so booms his reputation for from the change, and pass an hour, give them discomfort.
a
morning
or
a
day
unconsciously.
In
“
A
ring
is
never
put
around
a
wo
­
It
is far superior to all other so-
learning, that old Doctor Bolus loses
three patients during the next week, reverie persons frequently become man’s neck until she is believed to
called Emulsions.
who transfer their support to the new practical somnambulists—that Is, they have attained her full physical devel­ It is a perfect Emulsion, does not
speak
words
which
others
hear
that
opment Once on it is no easy matter
doctor “who is up to the times.”
they would not have uttered on any to get it off. The natives have no such
separate or change.
At length the survey is made, and
account, strike blows, move articles, thing as a file, and though they can .’t is wonderful as a flesh producer.
the matter decided in favor of neither,
for the old fence was in the right place, gesticulate and do many other thin gs. hammer a lot of brass rods into one It is the best remedy for Consump­
and the two contestants become friendly sometimes with the effect of immedi­ it is very difficult for them to cut the
tion, Scrofula, Bronchitis, Wast­
once more. The surveyor and "his as­ ately recalling them to a knowledge thick mass of metal in two. Women
of
the
situation,
when
they
as
well
as
ing Diseases, Chronic Cough and
who increase largely in flesh after the
sistant leave on the evening train, and
Colds.
the village settles back into its accus­ others are amused, but often without rings have been fastened on their necks
Sold Ly all
tomed tranquillity, but for some time being aware that they are noticed. In are in danger of strangling to death,
to come, the record of an event is based extreme cases the only distinction be­ and instances of this sort have been
on the number of days or weeks that it tween reverie and dreaming sleep are known to occur.
“Yet these women regard the cum­
happened before or after “that there regular breathing and the suspension
FOR EVERY PORPORE.
of the senses which accompany the brous ornament with pride, imagine
surveyor was out to Jimson’s.”
latter.— Dr. Buckle//, in Century.
Sold on Trial !
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that it enhances their importance and
—Mamma (to daughter)—“Did h'
beauty, and wear the burden with
—
Mrs.
Arthur
"Stannard,
better
propose?” Daughter—“No, but he dit
known to the reading public as “ John light hearts. Brass is the money of
the next best thing to it.” Mamma
Strange
Winter," lives on the banks of the country, and by putting it around
“What do you mean?” Daughter—“H<
the
Thames
and has a large garden their wives’ necks the men are pretty
kissed me and sqi 3ezed my waist, ant
running
in
a
series of broad terraces certain that it won't be stolen or fool­
Mary and Tommy saw him. ”Mam
Investment small, profits
down
to
the
water’s edge. Here she ishly expended. But it is an odd and
large. Fiend 20c for mailing
ma—“Get your things on at once, m;
cruel sort ot a savings bank.”
large illustrated Catalogue
gives
pleasant
garden
parties,
attended
darling. We can get down to Mr
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with full particulars. Man­
ufactured by
script and go it blind than trust himself Brief's before the courts dose if we by literary people.
—He who is capable or mailing tae
GOULDS * AUSTIN,
to stick to his prepared speech, for, nine
—Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, the nov­ nicest distinctions in language is in
hurry.
”
—
Town
Topics.
191 At 1«« Lsl. «t.,
times in ten, he’ll get away from his
elist,
is
a
devoted
member
of
the
the
greatest
danger
of
saying
what
he
CHICACO. ILL.
—Reporter (te statesman) — “Wil
paper before he is half through, in which
case he'll thank his stars forever that the you be a candidate for----- ” States Church of England. With the pro­ does not mean.
LJAWKEi
it
reporter has a grammatical and reason­ man—“Excuse mo, young man, but 1 ceeds of her novel, “ The Heir of
—The esteem of wise and good men
L
GRUB
A
STUMP
ably coherent composition to print instead
Redcliffe,” she fitted out the missionary is the greatest of all temporal encour­
MACHI’.’:
of his disjointed “impromptu” speech.— have nothing to say, I am entirely it schooner, the Southern Cross, for the agements to virtue; and It is the mark
the
hands
of
my
friends.
”
Reporter
—
Dan Liuahan in Globe-Democrat.
use
of
Bishop
Selwyn.
and
ten
thou
­
of
an
abandoned
spirit
to
have
no
re
­
“Do you think that your health i
Work« oo
sand dollars from the profits of “The gard to it
either STAND­
'■—Summer visitor at farm house to sufficiently robust to under---- ” State­ Daisy Chain,” ar? said to have gone to
ING
TIMBER
or
—What is the cure for gossip?
BTÜMP8. Will poll
old lady —“ Your son, I understand, is man—“Nothing to say, young man the building of the missionary college
so ordinary Grub
Simply
culture.
There
is
a
good
deal
■
nothing
to
say.
My
health
is
also
it
a pedagogue in Boston.” Old Lady—
in New Zealand.
of gossip that has no malignity in it
•• I guess not, unless it happened late­ the hands of my friends.”— Bpoch.
—The late E. P. Roe used to do his Good people talk about their neigh­
—
“
Tommy,
”
said
the
old
gentleman
ly. When he writ me last month he
writing in a little' workshop at t he top bors because they have nothing else to
was teachin’ school and doin’ right J sternly, “1 understand that you wen
of his home. It is a long, narrow, uncar­ talk about to pass the social hour.
;
hanging
about
the
polo
grounds
till
smart”— Washington Critic.
peted room, under the slanting roof.
—Anguish of mind has driven thou­
—“Ah. Clara,” said a young sur­ ' afternoon, instead of being at sohool It is well ventilated, and filled with
I
won
’
t
have
you
wasting
your
time
is
sands to suicide; anguish of body,
geon (after hospital hours) as he sank
lazy loungesand chairs, while common
upon his knees, “ would that I could that way. What on earth could yoi book shelves, a large writing desk and none. This proves that the health of
see or hear by peekiag through a knot­
the mind is of far more consequence to i
gain possession of your.heart!” “You
a cabinet of Hudson river birds are the
KHAMCH, PKAHlt*
can, Mr. Sawbones.” replied Clara hole in the fenoe?” “I eould see you. only other furniture in the room. Mr. our happiness than the health of the Q1PINU/AY
ai Cinn« I. HU H. Gabler. Roenls’
pa,
”
responded
Tommy,
“
settin'
on
th.
body,
although
both
are
deserving
of
Pianos:
Burdett
Oraras.
band Instruments terses
promptly, but blushingly; “ and with­
ot Sheet Masfcrad Boob. Brads supplied »■
gran' stand, an’ shoutin’ “Good boy, Roe’s hobby was collecting birds and much more attention than either of stock
■ratera Priora MATTHIAS GRAY 00.. Me Pos
out giving me ether either.”— N. Y.
studying their songs.
Street. Bra Vrwosoc
Danny I”— Tid-BiU.
them receive.— Colton.
Sun.
The traveler (I speak ot one who is
•upixeed to understand Bo r speech and
habits) arrives al a farm bouse in, say, i
the Orange Free state. A farm house
may have one field of forage and a stone
kraal; <xherwi»e the farm is open coun­
try. He will not off saddle his horse
without receiving [icnuisnioti; this having
been asked for and granted. the farmer
leaiis hirn through the half doors into the
main apartment. There is home made
furniture, numerous pink and white
paper flowers, and painted on the
walls vases of fruit like those seen
depicted on the London pavements.
Horrible thought!
The visitor will proceed to shake hands,
No wonder it tired the bl'xxi of this ’ commencing with tne stout vrauw
patriotic peasant maid!
and ending with the baby in arms. This
Gaining acceasto his closely guarded ' is not the English “handshake,’’ but a
quarters by a subterfuge, ¿be found I resting ot palm within palm. The coffee,
him in his bath, even then inexorable i w hich is made from sunrise to sunset, is
snd giving written directions fur fur­ tlien brought in in bowls, tobacco
pouches are exciianged, and conversa­
ther slaughter!
He asked her the names of the in­ tion. which seldom varies, commences.
imical deputies who bad taken rtfuge The visitor anil the farmer ans wer or re­
in Caen. Bhe told him, and he wrote ply pretty much as follows: “The veld is
them down. “That is well! Before a green. The clouds are heavy; there will
week is over they shall all be brought ( be a tiiuuderstorm to-morrow. I have a
very fine red horse running. Nachtmaal
to the guillotine.”
(communion) will be next month. My
At these words, Charlotte drew from j vrauw has a cold. The preaident is a
her Loaom the knife, and plunged it fine man. Japie de Villiers (pronounced
with supernatural force up to lhe hilt, Vilje, and minus the prefix) has had a
in the heart of Marat.
ram born with five hemls. The English
“Come to me my dear friend, come I are thieves.” The handshaking cere­
to me,” cried Marat, and expired un-! mony is then repeated, the horse, fed
and rested, is brought round; the trav­
der the blow.
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash­ eler mounts, smacks his sjamhock, shows
ington is a famous painting of Char- j off his steed and proceeds on his journey.
The fanners have trained ponies to a
kiite, represented as liehifid the prison !
special pact called a “trippie,” and a
bars the day lie fore ber executiog.
It is a thrilling, sad picture, full of good ’ trippier” is always prized. With
sorrow for her suffering country, and | this pace no “porting” of the saddle is
required, and on a long journey the trip­
of unconquerable hate for her coun- ' pier will arrive each night without turn­
try's enemies.
ing a hair, while the trotting horse, bis
What a lesson in this tragic story! companion, may lie done up. Distance
Two hundred, nay, five hundred tbou- is reckoned by time—six miles to the
u nd people would Marat have sacri­ i hour. If an Englishman near the hour
ficed to his unholy passion of power!
of sunset asks a Dutchman where such a
Mt thoda are quite as murderous and village lies, he will 1« answered by a
inexorable as men, and they number raised hand and “a little way over that
hill.” You then ride ten miles and sleep
their victims by the millions.
The page of history is full of mur­ out in a thunder storm, perhaps. You
ders t>y authority and by mistaken reach the village tire following midday.
it leas! In the practice of medicine Superstition and fear of contagious dis­
alone how many hundreds of millions eases are great among this [»eople.
The Dutch are accomplished herbal­
Iiave been allowed to die and as many
ists,
doulrtless obtaining the knowledge
more killed by unjustifiable bigotry
of the Hottentots and Bushmen; they
and by bungling!
have herb brandies for colics and plants
But the age is bettering. Men and for sores. They are often the prey of
methods are improving. A few yeais quack doctors; the mare as genuine prac­
ago it was worth one’s professional titioners, who iiave to go long distances,
life to advise or permit the use of a charge lieavily. A Dutchman is satisfied
proprietary medicine. To-day there with the treatment so long as his medical
are not two physicians in any town in adviser brings to the house a quart bottle
this country tvho do not regularly pre­ of physic; if he present him with a small
scribe some form of
pr prietary vial he doubts his skill and sefids for an­
other man. The dead are buried on the
remedy!
H. H. Warner, famed all over the farms, and over them traveling masons
world as lhe discoverer of Warner’s erect mausoleums of brick. Dutch wo­
safe cure, began hunting up the old men are enormous in size, good cooks in
remedies of the Log Cabin days; af­ their style, gobble sweets and cakes all
day and take little exercise. But now
ter long and patit nt research he suc­ and then a Dutch wife and her daughters
ceeded in securing some of lhe most may be seen kraaling the sheep at even­
valuable, amtmg family records, and ing. A ,Boer likes his wife's company,
called them Warner’s Los, Cabin rem­ and will leave passengers by his wagon
edies—the simple preparations of roots, stuck in the mud and half starved while
leaves, balsams and herbs which he tracks off fifty miles with another
were the successful standbys of our vehicle to ¡my a visit to the vrauw.
grandmothers. These simple, old- Feather beds are greatly prized by this
fashioned
sarsaparilla, hops and people; they generally carry their beds
buchu, cough and consumption and with them on journeys.
The trekkingB of the Boers are re­
other remedies have struck a popular
chord and are in extraordinary de­ markable. Annually the furmhouse on
mand all over tlie land. They aie not the “low veld” is shut up, and the sheep
the uutried and imaginary remedies of and cattle ore taken scores of miles up
to the “high veld” for mountain pas­
some dabster chemist intent on mak­ ture. Beside some rushing stream the
ing money, but the long-sought prin­ wagons are camped, perhaps tents are
ciples of the healing art which for pitched, and domestic life goes on as
generations kept our ancestors in per­ usual.
Fowls cluck among the wild
fect health, put forth for the good uf grasses, and the cows are milked beneath
humanity by one who is known all the sliadows of mighty mountains. The
over the world as a philanthropist—a general belief in tlie excellence of Boer
kivsr of his fellow man,—whose name shooting is no delusion.
The people are excessively fond of
is a guarantee of the highest stand­
music and dancing; concertina, harmo­
ard of excellence.
The preparations are of decided and nium and fiddle are their delight A
known influence over disease, and as withered Hottentot dwarf will draw a
in the hands of our grandmothers they strain from the sole of an old shoe strung
raised up the sick, cured the lame, and with sinew, and men and maidens will
vigorously dance to it for hours. For
bound up the wounds of death, so in dancing there is no touching the English
their new form but olden power as Afrikander, and his measures seem quite
Log Cabin remedies, they are sure to original.
The Boers have a bad
prove the “healing of the nations.”
character for pilfering.
When the
Gorday did the world an incalculable men
and
tlie
women
enter
service in ridding France of tlie an up country ctore they are allowed to
bigoted and murderous Marat, just as carry off small goods like sweet« ar rib­
thia man is doing humanity a service bons, which they unconsciously pay for
by re-introducing to the world the in the Lail. The farmers are not often
simpler and better methods of our rich in money, their wool crops being
mortgaged sometimes to tlie stores for
ancestors.
two seasons ahead. “Young bloods” are
impudent and wild. A i.murt curveting
horse and hat with white ostrich plume
—'Hie Scotchman has long been usually denote this species. When a
noted for his fondness for vowels, a . Boer drinks be is an entire fool. In
peculiarity in lauguage illustrated by order to keep a firm band over the young
the following story: Going by a men riding transport, the elders of the
draper's shop a man noticed a coat free state recently passed a bill prohibit­
ing the sale of liquor at wayside can­
and asked ; “Aw’ oo?” “Aye, aw*
teens, and thereby lost a large revenue.
•oo.” replied the shopkeeper. “Aw* However, there are smugglers.
a' ’oo?” was the next question. “Aye,
The Boers are great religious formalists;
aw’ a* ’oo,” was the reply. In English and at certain limes they and their fam­
the dialogue would have referred sim­ ilies ride into lhe villages from great dis­
ply to the fact whether‘the coat was tances to celebrate the Nachtmaal (night
all wool and all one wool, the answer meal or communion), their wagons loaded
with prodm»—presents for the parsons.
being “yes” to both questions.
At this time business is brisk and the
—An experienced shoemaker says
streets are like a fair. Yet, where natives
that blacking greatly shortens the life end land are concerned, the Boer's con­
of shoes. As blacking can’t very well stant violation of the Commandments
be dispensed with, though, he advises does not need pointing out. The Boers
that the shoes, or rather those parts are by no means modest, and their family
which are polished, be liberally rubbed converaauous are ut times boisterously
with oil. Such treatment, about once indecent. Household arrangements, save
every two weeks, or thereabouts, but on rich farms, ars necessarily meager,
after the blacking has first been and the traveler must be prepared to sleep
•craped off. will, he says, not only on the floor in the midst of four ar five
sisters and their Shrew or four brothers,
make the leather more pliable, and ull grown up, while the head couple snore
consequently easier on the foot, but on on elevated and ponderous feather bed
materially curtail the shoemaker's bill. in a curtained corner of the room. V7hcn
—A traveler from Iceland asserts sleeping at a superior Transvaal farm­
that the people of that country are so house, it is veil to examine the mattress:
honest that crime is almost unkno wn. if it rests on sheepskins, throw the skms
They never lock their doors, and but ouL—St. James’ Gazette.
two cases of thieving are known to
Th. Conwlentlon* Newspaper Man.
havo taken place within many years.
It is my experience that a conscientious
One was an Icelander who had broken ewspaper man will do his work—inter
his arm, and whose family in the winter lewing included—about right if the man
were suffering for food. He stole sev­ a lio has the news to give will only let
eral sheep and was Anally detected. him. Reporters don’t wilfully and ma-
'iciously misquote talkers and misstate
He was at once put under medical care facts, as they are so generally credited
for his injury, provisions were fur­ with doing, and I find that the best plan
nished for his family, and in time he to pursue in giving material for publica­
was given work. This was his punish­ tion Is to state the facta clearly and let
ment. The other case was a German Uie reporter do the dressing up.. These
who always insist on being re­
who stole seventeen sheep. He was in fellows
ported verbatim, and who must dictate
comfortable circumstances and the theft the text of every item they furnish, in­
was malicious. His punishment was to variably make a sorry mess of it. An­
sell all his property, restore the value other thing I’ve noticed: If a man has a
of his thefts and leave the country, or speech prepared for a banquet, presenta­
tion or any occasion of that character, he
be executed. He left at onoe.
had better give the reporter the manu­
—The outward signs of prosperity
are visible in churches of all denomi­
nations. There is no lack of churches
in any American city, and there are
preachers for all pulpits. Contribu­
tions in silpport of the church are lib­
eral. In fact, the churches seem to be
doing pretty well.
In California,
which is sometimes spoken of as a be­
nighted sort of a place, a church is
about the third building to go up in a
new town. No one would think of
boom in real estate in a place that di
not *qpport one or more churchea/
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ARM & HAMMER BRAND
four teaapoon full of Um
beat Baking Powdor.acv-
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coat,
boaidac
being
much healthier, because
it doM not con tain any
inj irioua
aubatanoac,
■ucbraalnm. torraalbc
etc., of which many Bak­
ing powder* are made.
I>a rymen an.l Farmer*
should use only the - Arm
A Hammer" brand for
cleaning and keeping
Milk Pan* ffWM* ral
Clean.
Cacnon.
Bo* that
•very pound package of
“Arm and Hammer
Brand" contain* full
IS ounce* net, and th*
»pound packag**JWi
euners net. Boda or
Baleratua aam* ra apeov
A*d on *rah prakag*.
To nouoekoepors and
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Baleratu» you use should
be White and Pure sama
as all similar rabstsnoea
assd for food. To insure
obtaining only the “Arm
A Hammer” brand Soda
or Salerat >s. buy it in
“pound or half pound"
cartoons , which bear our
name and trade-mark, as
Inferior goods are ssme-
Mmessubstitutcd fdsthe
“Arm A Hammer ' brand
when bought in bulk.
Partiee using Baking
Powder should remem­
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property consists of bi­
carbonate of soda. One
teaspoonful of the - Arm
9 Hammer" brand of
Soda or Saleratus mixed
with sour milk equals
Packed in Card Board Boxes. Always keeps Soft.
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THE COW BRAND.
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USE
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