DOGS
East Oregon Herald.
TWO KINDS OF CAPITAL.
The Comparative Value of Money and of
Knowledge and Skill.
In 1848 tw’o young man graduated
from an interior college. When they
were about to leave for home the presi
dent shook them heartily by the hand
and wished them success in life.
CHEATED BY HIS BROKER
“Ah, doctor,” said one, “it has come
llow the Most Notorious Marooner of the to Jim already. He has a fortune of
I.HMt Century Lost All Ills Treasure.
fifty thousand dollars. But I have no
First of all upon the list of pirates capital to begin life with.”
stands the bold Captain Avary, one of
Jim's fortune was a large one for
the institutors of marooning. Him we those da vs. He had invested it and
B.’e but dimly, half hid.h u by the for a few* years lived on the Interest of
glamouring mists of legend and tradi it. The investment proved a bad one,
tion. Others who came afterward out and he lost every thing. He had nei
stripped him far enough in their do ther trade, profession nor business
ings, but he stands pre-eminent as the habits. Hence he remained for the
first ot marooners of whom actual his rest of his life a poor man. His com
tory has been handed down to us of the rade, knowing that success depended
on his own efforts, studied a profession
present day.
When the English, I) itch and Span which, without a dollar of capital,
ish entered into an alliance to suppress brought him a competency, and at last
buccaneering in the West Indies, cer wealth.
Young men are apt to estimate money
tain worthies of Bristol, in Ohl En
gland, fitted out two vessels to assist alone as capital. That one of their
in this laudable project; for doubtless number who has inherited money is,
Bristol trade suffered smartly from iho they think, better equipped for the
Morgans and the L’Olonoises of that struggle of life than any other. They
old time.
One of these vessels was should look into the comparative
named the Duke, of which a certain commercial value of money and of
Captain Gibion was the commander knowledge and skill, before they are
and Avary the mate.
quite so sure of that. Figures, in this
Away they sailed to the West In case, tell no lie. Of late years, money
dies, and there Avary became im- in this couirtrv has decreased in value
ycessnd by the advantages offered by as a money-getter, while human ability
piracy, and by the amount of good has increased. That is, the income from
things that were to be gained by very money invested at interest has dimin-
little striving.
Iished w hile the compensation for serv
One night the captain (who was one ice rendered has become larger.
of those fellows mightily addicted to
For example, a capable domestic
punch), instead of going ashore to sat
urate himself at the ’ordinary, had his servant in our cities may annually lay
drink in his cabin in private. While by a sum equal to the income upon
he lay snoring away the effee's of his three thousand dollars in Government
rum in the cabin, Avary and a few bonds; and an industrious mechanic,
other conspirators heaved the anchor in steady employment, earns a sum
very leisurely and sailed out of the equal to the interest of twenty thousand
harbor of Corunna, and through the dollars at four per cent. A teamster
midst of the allied fleet riding at an in Montana, or a cow-boy in Colorado,
ffiids that his strength and skill are
chor in the darkness.
By and by, when the morning came, worth to him, in money each year, as
the captain was awakened by the much as would be forty thousand dol
pitching and tossing of the vessel, lars invested in the same lands, even if
the rattle and clatter of the tackle he could buy them at par.
The lawyer or physician in a country
overhead, and the noise of footsteps
passing and repassing hither
I
and town who earns his two thousand
dollars annually, if suddenly debarred
thither across the deck.
“What’s the matter?” bawls the from practice would require sixty-six
thousand dollars in bonds to yield him
captain from his berth.
the same income; and the editor-in-
“Nothing,” says Avary, coolly.
“Something’s the matte or with tho chief of a great city daily has a power
sh’p,” says the captain, “Does she in his brain worth to him, in hard cash,
the capital of half a million.
drive? What weather is it?”
Such estimates, of course, vary with
“Oh, no,” says Avary; “we are at
place and time, but they will serve our
sea.”
purpose if they convince the boys and
“At sea?”
•Come, come!” says Avary; “1’11 girls who read them that they have in
lell you; you must, know that, I’m the their brains and hands, while the power
captain of the ship now. and you of brains and hands remains, actual,
must be packing from this hero cabin. money-yielding capital, more perma
We are bound to Madagascar, to make nent and secure, and far more satisfy
all of our fortunes, and if you’re a ing, than any gold bearing bonds.—
mind to ship for the cruise, why, we’ll Youth's Companion.
be glad to have you, if you will be
PET ECONOMIES.
sober : n 1 mind your own business; if
Spendthrift» Who Were Penny Wi»e »ml
not, there is a boat alongside, and I’ll
Pound F oo II h I i .
have you set ashore.”
Wo don’t all realize it, but each one
The poor half-1 ip<y captain had no among us has got a pet economy, Be
relish to go a-pirating un Icr the com lie ever so careless or extravagant in
mand of his backsliding ma'e, so out other respects, he still clings to that.
of th.' Hhfp ho
nii.l away he
A man who was a great gambler,
*2’^^ciXiUF--fKur or five of the crew, and thought little of losing £500 or
wlo, like him. refused to join with £600 at a sitting, would always be
their jolly shipma'es.
scrupulously careful, from economical
The rest of them sailed away to the reasons, to turn down his lamp before
East Indies. * * On his way Avary making his way to the tables. He Said
picked up a couple of like kind with that., having sometimes forgotten it
himself—two sloops off Madagascar. and passed along a couple of streets,
With these he sailed away to the const he would feel compelled to turn back
of India, and for a timo his name was and attend to the unfulfilled duty, even
lost in Iho obscurity of uncertain his though ho knew his friends were wait
tory. But only for a time, for sud ing for him ami his hour past. Did he
denly it flamed out in a blaze of glory. resist the impulse? The recollection of
It, was reported that a vessel belong the wasted light would so annoy him
ing to the Great Mogul, laden with that his play for the evening would be
treasuro and bearing the monarch’s entirely spoiled.
own daughter upon a holy pilgrimage
Another, who squandered thousands
to M‘oca (ihoy being Mohammedans)
in the year on his special brands of
had fallen in with the pirates, and champagne, his forced pines, his straw
nf'er a short resistance had been sur berries midst the snows of January, his
rendered, with the damsel, her court, lamb and green peas on Christmas Day,
and all Iho diamonds, pear's, silk, had a hatred of seeing salt wasted, lie
silver and gold aboard.
It was would dole out a limited number of
rumor« d that the Great Mogul, raging grains into his plate, adding minute
nt Iho insult offered to him through his fragments from time to time to flavor
own flesh and blood, had threatened to his last mouthful of mayonnaise, ami
wipo out of existence tho few English looked daggers upon those among his
Bettlements scattered along the coast; guests who had left a snowy hillock on
whereat the honorable East India Com the edge of their plates almost un
pany was in a pretty sta’e of fuss ami touched.
feathers. Rumor, growing with tin»
It is a common thing for a man who
telling, has It that Avary is going to finds at the eml of the year that he
marry the Indian Princess, willy-nilly, has exceeded his income by several
and will turn Rajah and eschew piracy hundreds to stop a magazine in his
as indecent., A m for the treasure it- household or order a penny paper in the
self, there is no end to the extent to place of his former, and with that rest
which it grew as it passed from mouth content, having a vague feeling that he
to mouth.
has effected economies, and all will now
Cracking the nut of romance ami be well.
exaggeration, we come to the kernel
Another man, generous by nature,
of tlie story—that Avary did fall in ifter deciding it would be impossible to
with an Indian veBsel laden with great dispense with the services of his second
treasure (and possibly with the Mo footman, tries to strike the balance
gul’s daughter), which he captured, even by carrying his own bag across
ami thereby gainod a vast prize.
the railway platform to avoid the
Having concluded that he had earned necessity of superfluous tips, or sneaks
enough money by the trade he had un- shame-faced round tin* corner of a more
(leitaken, ho determined lo retire distant street that he may escape a
and live decently for the rest of his tom b of the hat from his pet crossing
1 fe upon what he had already sweeper who mutely asks for a copper.
gained.
Others will prefer to risk setting the
Al first Avary had a groat part of a house on lire to striking a fresh match
mind to settle nt Boston, in Massachu on the second story in place of carrying
setts, and had that little town been up that with long quivering red end
one whit loss bleak and forbidding, it which has served to light the gas below.
might have had the honor of being —London Times.
1 lie home of this famous man. A« it
wa«, he did not like the looks of it, so
Early Information.
lie sailed away to the eastward, to Ire
land, where lie settled himself at Bid
“I knew we were to have steak this
deford, in hopes of an easy life of it for morning.” observed D .mley at the
the rest of Ids day s.
breakfast table.
“1> d you?” responded the landlady,
Here he found himself the possessor
of a plentiful stock of jewels, such as with a pleasant seeond-floor-front
pearls, diamonds, ruble«, etc., bu‘ smile, “and how did you know it. Mi
with hard y a score of honest farthing» Dumley?”
“I heard the cook pounding it” —
to jingle in his breeches pocket. IL
consulted with a certain merchant of A. Y. Sun.
Bristol concerning the disposal of the
—Scene between Freshly and bis
stones—a fllow not much more
e’e inly in hi« habits of honesty than took, Mrs. Freshly being out of town—
Aiary himselt This worthy under •‘What do you mean, Mary, by serving
took to act as A vary’« broker. O T he oie soup with a lot of hair ip it?”
marched with the jewels, and that wa* “Sir,” replied tin» maid, with a simper,
the last that the priate .«aw of hi- “it’s nothing but a little surprise; you
Indian treasure.— ilowad Tyl^ In asked me for a lock of my hair yester
day.”
Harper's Magazine.
— A lumber journal asks: “Of what
—The f nion Theological school at 1 use aiv knot-holes any way?” We
Tokio, Japan, supported by all the ’ would suggest that it put this question
evangelical Protestant churches, has 1 to the small I mh who habitually sees
nine professors and lecturers in as the noble game of base-ball through a
many different department«, two of knot-hole, and It will get a prompt
whom Messrs. Ibuka and Ggimi, are answer couched in picturesque irrnae-
natives.
A 1 . ■ • ’*4.
BURNS, OREGON.
KXTlSTtC TABLE-WARE.
OCTD SCENES IN 8IVAS.
Cliarmlns and Costly Noveltie« Exhibited
by New York Dealers.
Caston« Observed by the Turkl»h l’eople
When Malting Purchase».
Cups and saucers are shown in infinite
variety of shape, color and design. The
bowl-sha)x‘d cup is preferred by many
of the best authorities, while others
choose those that have almost straight
sides. Especial attention is given to
after-dinner cups. They are to be
found in almost every imaginable
shape, and with all sorts of quaint and
fanciful suggestions in form and decora
tion. Shell-shaped saucers have cups
following the idea of the shell as nearly
as possible, the handles being in the
form of smaller shells of various sorts.
A popular handle is a pair of butterfly
wings very slightly spread. Bronzed
handles are popular, and although not
a novelty, are seen upon some of the
finest of the new designs. Some handles
appear like forke 1 or irregular
branches of trees.
They are cut
squarely off, having little projecting
twigs, very odd-looking and pretty.
There are also cups an I saucers with
raised enamel, and fine vine patterns
that are among the most popular of the
current styles. This relief work, how
ever, is seriously objected to by sensi
tive persons, as the contact of spoon or
fork with an uneven surface is thought
to be somewhat trying to people of
delicate nerves. Such persons will do
well to select dishes that show relief
only on the edges or the outside.
Salad 4ets are brought odt both in
square and oblong-square shapes, the
plates in either being perfectly square
or round, according to fancy, or square
with a small portion of each corner cut
off. Other styles are oblong or half
deep, with round or octagon plates.
The styles in fruit or berry sets number
scores, each one rivaling the other in
beauty of form, pattern and quality of
decoration. Special attention seems
to have been given to this department
of table-ware, and with the happiest
results. Some housekeepers disregard
all ideas of matching in these sets, and
select a large, deep bowl of fine cut
glass, with some of the choice fancy
wares. There are shell porcelain dishes
for serving the fruit that are extremely
pretty with these cut-glass bowls.
They are made with raised patterns,
and appear as though set with jewels,
so brilliant are the colorings of the
flowers and foliage. Ice cream sets are
somewhat more conventional in shape.
As cream is frequently sent to the table
in long bars, an oblong dish or platter
is most convenient for the purpose.
The plates are either square, round or
of fanciful form, or fancy glass dishes
may be used with equal propriety.
With the present wealth of design and
shape the artistic householder can
scarcely go wrong selecting from the
standard makers of china, and if her
taste is cultivated her table may be as
perfect, judged by an artistic standard,
as her means will allow.
In the way of odd pieces there is
almost endless variety. Special dishes
with chaiacteristic decorations are fur
nished for almost every article of food.
Bread plates have a design of a folded
napkin laU across the middle. As
paragus dishes look like the stalks of
the plant either in wicket-work design
or in the form of one-half of a large
bunch of the vegetable as it appears in
market. There are baskets for rolls,
covered dishes for cheese, egg dishes,
long, slender celery boats, sardine
dishes with attached or independent
trays, according to taste.
Platters
have metal points upon which the game
or roast may be impaled, for the con
venience of inexperienced or careless
carvers and the absolute destruction of
carving-knives.
There are very attractive pudding
dishes with metal baking dishes to place
inside. Some of the new styles in fine
ware are peculiarly attractive and
unique in form and decoration.
Dishes for sauces are shown in vari
ous shapes. Those designed for the
fish course are made in the shape of a
fish, with one side hollowed out and the
tail turned upward for a handle. Reg
ular gravy and sauce tureens and b >ats
are made, with attached or separate
trays. Some of them have china ladles,
but they are so fragile that nearly all
housekeepers must resort to silver la
dles sooner or lately and the demand for
those of china are decreasing.
There are few novel features in the
extensive and varied stock of cracker
jars, oatmeal sets, oyster dishes and
bone plates. The latter are larger than
those that were first brought out, and
there is such a steady and growing de
mand for them that they hid fair to be
come a part of the regular dinner
service.
Large boats or flat, low dishes for
floral decorations for the table are inter
esting. They come in several sizes;
those very low and Hat, not unlike a
platter, with perpendicular rim, are
most convenit nt. In them the flowers
are arranged by the skilled florist,
a centerpiece being added or not ac
cording to fancy.— Domestic Monthly.
Like most Turkish towns, Sivas has
Its covered bazars, but they are notex-
tensive, and are not particularly
worthy of notice. Most of the mer
cantile business is done on two long
streets, running nearly parallel with
each other. These streets are lined on
both sides with shops. They are nar
row and ill-paved, and, during business
hours, are so crowded with men,
horses, donkeys and cattle that they
arc difficult of passage. A little rain
covers the uneven cobblestones with
mud as slippery as ice, making pedes-
trianism any thing but pleasant. There
are no sidewalks. A line of stones
through the center is raised a little
above the level of the street and serve
as stepping stones when the mud is
very bad, which it generally is. The
stores are merely booths. They boast
neither counters, shelves nor chairs.
The floor is elevated two or three feet
above the street, and there the mer-
chant sits on his heels with his goods
spread around him. The customer
stands in the street, or, if he be a man
of importance, climbs upon the plat-
form and sits with the merchant. Buy
ing any thing of any value is a very
elaborate process. It is not to be hur
ried over, and requires a vast deal of
bargaining. If the buyer is a foreigner
the dealer is vo^j-deferential and ment
ally marks his 'goods lod per cent,
higher.
When the customer goes into the shop
and sits down, before any thing is said
about buying, coffee is served. Then
the merchant rolls a cigarette ami
hands it to his guest. Pipes instead are
sometimes offered, but not often now,
as the cigarette has almost entirely dis
placed the pipe in Asia Minor. After
the coffee and the smoke, the subject of
purchasing something is gradually ap
proached. Not abruptly; that would
involve a loss of dignity, but slowly and
circumspectly—casually, as it were—as
if the buying of any thing was a mere
after-thought not intended in the first
place. The customer has just dropped
in for a friendly call. The merchant is
not a merchant, but a host entertaining
a guest.
This pleasant little fiction is kept up
for half an hour or more, until, by
gradual approaches, the customer indi
cates what he wants. After due time
spent in discussing the quality of the
goods, the customer asks the price in an
off-hand way, as if he were not particu
larly interested. The merchant replies:
“O, whatever your Highness pleases,”
or “I shall be prowl if your High
ness will do me tlwe honor of accepting
it as a gift.” This, of course, is a
mere form of Oriental politeness and
means nothing, as both parties under
stand; it is merely a graceful introduc
tion to the haggling over the price
which is sure to follow, for the Turkish
merchant never has a fixed price for
any thing. To do so would be to vio
late all the principles of his mercantile
code. What he sells a thing for de
pends entirely on the customer. When
the buyer insists on having a price
stated the seller will, with engaging
frankness, with a manner of silk and a
forehead of bra s, name a figure at
least four times what the article is
worth. Then the real business com
mences. The buyer offers a half or a
fourth of what he expects finally to
give. The “war of words to cheapen
this or that” is then indefinitely con
tinued, each gradually yielding a point
until they finally agree on a figure.
This bargaining, w th the loud talk
which accompanies it, is very amusing
to a foreigner, unless he is personally
interested, when it becomes generally
exasperating. — Cor. Boston Herald.
Very Stupid Indeed.
Even a child sometimes ascribes the
neglect of the ordinary social duties
ami courtesies by one of its companions
to the true cause, hut usually children
arc only frank enough to speak their
minds on the subject.
A little child, seeing another, some
what older than herself, looking in at
the garden gate, ran to her in a most
friendly manner.
“What is oo name?” she asked, sev
eral times, without receivingan answer.
“Where do oo lib?” she continued,
with the same effect.
The visitor then slowly walked away,
and the socially inclined child called
after her: “Bib my Inb to oo mamma,
oo toopid!”— Youth's Companion.
— If we only had sufficient Chtistian«
itv to prevent our children showing
so much vice.— Pomeroy's Advance
Thought.
— One reason why the homely girl
takes the scholarship prize is because
she look« into books more than into
ni»rr«h*s.— Xeir Orleans Picayune.
—The Episcopal cathedral in Topeka.
Kan«., has been sold, and a new edifice
is to be built, with chapter-house con-1
nected. to cost ffto.000 or flOO.OOO.
—The <’umberland Presbyterians
now have 2.546 ehurehes. and a mem
bership of nearly 150,000, and the pub
lication honse at Nashville, Tenn., is
credited with a clear profit of $8,189
for the last year, —/ndianapo’is Journal.
ABOUT WOOD CARPET.
A Profitable lndiistry That Is Monopolized
by Four American Firm».
Tiie use of wood carpet is constantly
on the increase, and there is scarcely
any limit to the prospects for it. This
kind of floor covering can be made so
as to sell as cheaply as a good quality
of ingrain, or it can be so wrought with
costly woods is to sell at one dollar or
more a foot. Good oak, ash and maple
carpet can bo sold at between eighty
arid ninety cents a yard. Finished in
oil, it is good enough for any ordinary
use. For wainscoting and ceiling it is
admirably adapted.
The process of making wood carpet
is comparatively
simple, though
with
the work must be done
exactitude, Carefully adjusted saws
strip the lumber into the desired
thickness and width, the latter
differing according to the work re-
quirt'd. The stuff’ is then subjected
to the saws that cut it out in proper
shape for inlaying, to form the fabric
and figure of the carpet. This must be
done with much particularity, as each
of the multiform pieces must exactly
fit. The arrangement of the pieces and
the gluing of them is done by lads, and
looks like slow work, but yards arc
thus woven with fair celerity. Canvas
is glued on one «ide to give strength to
the fabric. The carpet is then sub
jected to sand paper, and is finally fin
ished with hard oil. The designing of
wood carpet is tedious and expensive.
Sometimes the manufacturer devises
and works out a pattern at great ex
píense, only to find that it does not suit
ihe popular taste, and must lie thrown
aside. The popularity of woods also
fluctuates, as it «loes in interior finish.
Plain, white oak carpet is now very
salable, because it is cheap, finishes
well, and is of lasting quality.— N. B’.
Lumberman.
BOLD
RAILWAY
THIEVES.
How Traveler» In Italy Are Hobbed of the
Content» of Tlielr Trunk».
English travelers in Italy have now
and then had occasion to perceive that
their luggage was not safe from depre
dations which could only be charged
to the railway employes, but com
plaints have always been fruitless even
to diminish the number of thefts ex
cept for a short period, some years
since, when a lady of the diplomatic
world had her jewels taken neatly out
of her trunk, which cnuse-1 official ac-
tion ai d detection of the dishonest
officials, when for a time the thefts
were less common, The effect of tin
investigation which then took place.
however, passed away, and now we
have another Princess robbed and an
other inquisition, for railway robberies,
like collisions, require victims in high
positions to secure the intention of the
authorities.
In the last ten years I have had my
luggage rilled live times before 1
learned the way to treat it, which is,
first, to put nothing in the luggage
which can be of value to the thieves;
and, secondly, to see that the locks arc
such as can not be tampered with
without showing it when the luggage
is delivered.
Some cautious people
carry leaden seals and pincers with
cipher, and seal all the luggage as if it
were going from Rome to Florence.
This is effective.
The thieves have access to the lug
gage vans, and work while the train is
in motion. They generally drive out
the pin of the hasp of the lock or those
of the hinges, go carefully through the
contents, put them back as carefully,
after having taken what they want,
and put the pins of lock or hinges back
in their place. The thefts are gener
ally limited to luggage going through
Italy or that which evidently belongs
to foreigners. If a box has luggage
tickets on it showing that it goes back
and forth continually in Italy the
thieves let it alone. The owner of the
luggage thus does not discover the
theft till too far from the thief to com
plain. Complaint is, however, of no
use. In one personal experience, in
which my w ife’s trunk had been deli
cately overlooked and £20 extracted
from an envelope in a writing-case at
the bottom, w here it was put at Turin,
every thing else having been carefully
replaced, I made complaint to the
station-master at Venice, as soon as we
found that the money was missing, and
the magnanimous official laughed at
me, saying: “If you fear for your ef
fects take them into the carriage with
you,” at which the whole staff’ haw-
hawed uproariously; it was so good a
joke to propose to take a lady’s trunk
into the passenger carriage. In an
other case I found a portmanteau
forced open, so that I was aware of the
robbery before I took my luggage from
the station, and at once called the at
tention of the officials to it, when they
replied that as the luggage had passed
over several roads it was impossible to
say where it was done.— Rome Cor.
London Times.
WEBSTER
ANC
POLK.
The Uberal'tr of the Former and Plca-
yiin'Khiio»» of the I.after,
In conversation a few days since
with an old resident of Washington,
who was proprietor of a large custom
and ready-made clothing establish-
ment on Pennsylvania avenue when
James K. Polk was President, he said
of all the great men of that time whom
he knew or had business transactions
with. Polk was the most picayunish,
and Webster the largest-hearted. One
day Webster came in to select cloth
f r a dress suit. Almost always beg
gars, mostly women beggars, watched
him as he went in and out of his favor
ite resorts on the avenue, and ap
proaching him with pitiful tales, never
failed to get money, if he had it. This
time he had hardly got inside the door
when in came a poor old wom
an, and
with
tears trickling
down h r wrinkled cheeks suppli
cated for alms. Webster was more out
of humor than was his wont, and
Cramming his big hands down into his
small pants pockets and brought out a
piece of money and said: “Here, take
this and be off with you, or I’ll have
you arrested! It’s all I have got for
you.” After selecting the cloth for
his suit he put his hand in his pocket
to make the accustomed advance pay
ment. Turning the pocket inside out
and lo king at it, he sai l: “If I didn’t
give that woman a ten-dollar gold
piece! Well, it’s all the same! It’ll
do her more good than I could have
got out of it Charge the whole
amount!” He rarely asken the price
of any thing, ami never intimated that
it was exorbitant, as Polk always did.
Of course, knowing his weakness in
this direction, many tradespeople im
posed upon him.—.Vimwa/io/«« Trib-
une.
THE DAYS OF ’49.
Interesting Extract» frtim an Old Califor-
nhin*» Day-Hook.
Among the effects of the late James
W. Marshall, in the hands of the puo-
lic administrator, i9 a day-book which
is quite a curiosity. It was used by a
firm named Shannon & Cady, doing
business at Coloma, and contains en
tries from April to October, 1 19. We
give some of the entries to show what
was sold in those days and the ruling
prices:
CAPTAIN T. MC’COY.
One bottle ale ...
...........................•
JACK SMITH.
Three bottles ale..............................................
One box percussion caps................................
non wybukx .
One hat...............................................................
One pair shoos...................................................
One bottle pickles............................................
DOCTOR * TAYLOR.
One box herrings..............................
One bottle vinegar....... ...................................
ISAAC OWES.
One frying pan ................................................
Two pounds crackers.....................................
Five pound« fresh beef..................................
One butcher knife............................................
r ~
B. KVASS.
One pair sock ....
* OC
15 00
3 00
10 Od
14 Ofc
—Gamin —“You're droppin' some
7 SC
thin', boss.” Citizen—“Bless my soul!
30
Ofc
so I am. I wouldn’t a lost that gas bill
3 0C
for the world. The company might
6 00
have sent me a longer one.”— Life.
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—Mrs. Nouveau Riche—“Aw, yes.
3 0C
that’s very pretty, but I don't like the
title, ‘Common Prayer.* Haven't you
Oysters brought $10 per can; sar
—aw—any other kind? I don't care
dines, $5 per box; nails, 75 cents per
how much I have to pay.”— Basar.
pound: sugar. 50 cents per pound;
—The Reason Why.
flour, 45 cents per pound; a bottle of
Why do thf few »ucee*« attain? ••
An ea»y thin# to settle:
A
mustard is put down at $4.50—no
B>-cause the many lack, ti« plain.
doubt it brought tears to the eye« of
The vertebra and mettle.
the miners; a pap« r of tacks, $3.00.
—There’s a Reason for Every Thing. The credits were nearly all by gold
—Mr. Robinson—“Why. I declare. Miss dust. A g<x»d many queer things can
Fanny, your mamma is getting quite be discovered by looking over the
dout.” Miss Fann} — “Ah, that is be book. — Eldorado (CaL) Republican.
cause we all make «v much of her.”
ANTIDOTES FOR POISON.
FOR THE ARMY,
Himpl« lleine.lh«« at Hand In «very Well-
Itcguluteil Family.
cam. M—n :ter.’^t
|y Trained
"“r
••More tliftii two-third, of the denths
The various powers of the dog h.V. from pohon could be avoided if men
been tri. d t«> their utmost n (« rimn y. and women would only ueqiinint theni-
It will Im almost im redtble to tlb
^.lvc rt itli the zimple remedies iilw.iy»
habitants of a city where Mr
at hand in every well-regulated houae-
liergli dwells that its sister ».« rnmn
citv suffers tlm greatest erui'l.y to tlmse '“■Jlu. speaker win a house surgeon at
faithful attemiants of man without ueitv hospital. "I se‘> «1»’ »'»me. of
raising a protesting Video. I rue, t ««>« six »enema on this record of mine
is a society for tlm protection of snL whom 1 know might have been anved
mala, to which an Atuer.oan left luv.- ha.l their fr'.en.h of the police known
000 marks, but it seems one only in what to do,” he continued. "All six
nniiie. I have seen cart« at
u- which
......... an
- died because too much time win lost in
ox might stare with
'.•« horror, drawn by „„tiffing the police, calling an ambu
.............
...
i
and
a
woman,
all
two ordinary dogs
lance, and ill getting lllu »'‘Bercr» to
three half dead under the load. V*«,
the hospital. 1‘afis green, rough on
said one of the owners, with whom I rats ami laudanum seem to bo the fa
talked, “it is true; but a custom in vorite poisons for suicide. For each
Berlin can not b.i changed.” No one of tin so poisons an antidote cnli bo
seems to care for them.
Men walk found in almost every household. The
along the Linden and listen to the chief points ill ca-es of poisoning tire
dogs’ bowlings from the ever-ready to encourage vomiting, and tints get
lash, and see their panting tongues, rid of tlie substance; to eounternet the
without a word of reprimand or syin- poisons by antidotes, ami to check
pathy.
pathv. The Germans have also found denth by the use of stimulants and arti-
another use for these worthy brutes,
lieial respiration.
against which there is nothing to say.
••Rough on rats is simply arsenic.
Among the thousand and one inven Hardly a day passes but some one «td-
tions, appliances, and wonderful uses eides by its us •. If on discovering that
of men a id beasts which German gen this poison lias been taken the autterer
ius has devised to defeat trance incase is given one or two raw eggs, and the
General Boulanger’s successor heroin *s
eggs are followed up with largo
unpleasant, the d >g plays a significant
draughts of tepid water into which n
role, employed as messenger and sen
tab’.espoonful of salt or mustard has
tinel. Experiments nave been made
lieen thrown, the stomach will tisunlly
for nearly a year now, and have proved
highly satisfactory.
The dog ma throw tlie poison oil. 1 hese, supple
neuver of the hunter batalion was de mented by a «lose of castor oil, sweet
oil or milk to offset the action of tlie
cidedly the most interest! ig of the re
will usually save the life of the
cent campaign.
Several regiments poison,
1 .
,... same . treatment
. ___ a. is «1.«
the
...» -....... ........
have been furnished with the German patient. 'The
shepherd dogs, known for their wis one to be followed when Paris green,
dom the world over.
Each one is at opium, morphine, paregoric or laud»
tached, so to speak, to the person of a aniini is the poison used. \\ hi'ii opium,
soldier, in whom the dog soon recog morphine, paregoric or laudanum is
nizes his master, and who conducts his swallowed, it is well to give a cup of
training. While doing duty the dog is strong black coffee after the emetic, to
kept with the sentinel, and easily apply cold water to the head and neck,
learns the requirements of his post. A and t<> prevent, sleep. These poisons
few of the experiments performed be represent the majority of those taken
fore C >lonel von der Goltz Pacha, who bv accident, or by persons intent on
represented the Sultan at the ninetieth silicide. When tartar emetic is taken,
birthday of tin'Emperor, and has since after encouraging vomiting, it is well
remained to witness the reviews, were to give milk and strong tea to
Win'll poisons like mineral
surpr sing. A soldi r, taking the dog drink.
from the sentinel, inarched off’ on a re acids are used—such as aqua fort is and
connoitering expedition. After wr -- oil of vitrol—after an emetic solutions
ing his observations and placing of soda, magnesia, and even of plaster
them in a cask about the neck of the scraped from the wall can be used with
brute, the latter was told to return to good effect. Oxalic and carbolic acid
his master, which he did in an aston calls for the same treatment after
ishingly short time. O io dog employ using a little flour and water, the
ed in this service arrived at his post ten white of an egg, or castor oil in order
minutes before a mounted Uhlan to protect tin* gullet and walls of the
When poison like caustic
charged with the same instructions, stomach.
though the latter rode at a desperate potash Koda or lime is used, administer
speed. But even more than this was vinegar, lemoh or orange juice in
If phosphor
accompli-lied. With a message tied water, enu'tics and oil.
about his neck, ns in the former case, ous is taken, like the ends of matches,
the dog was told to seek a distant for instance, kee p up the vomiting and
sentinel and bring a return answer. administer big doses of magnesia in
This ho did with great speed, carrying water. Oils in such cases must not bo
his message directly to his master with used, l or corrosive sublimate admin
ister the while of an egg, flour and
out fail.
I: is a little wonder that Pacha Goltz water, or milk, and then the enmiic.
was surprised at the success of the ex In poisoning from chloroform or il
periments given in his honor. And luminating gas, let the patie nt have
they are truly wonderful for the pres fresh air, loosen the clothing and dash
ent, though bidding fair to become a. cold water about the face and neck.
“Ail of these antidotes are, ns a rule,
fcommonplace institution in that great
jnachine—the German army.
Tne always at hand, and if used will al
eons« qin-nees ami possibilities of the most, every time save the life of the pa
shepherd-log service are apparent to tient and greatly facilitate the work of
all who know anything of military the physician when the caso <*omes
science, and make their citation super under his care.” —.V. F. Evening Sum
fluous. One thing is certain, that a
Coins of Many Realms.
future war between Germany ami any
of its neighbors will not be conducted
At the Colonial Exhibition in London
without its dog-regiment, which, though mechanical begging-boxes, in aid of
.not employed in concerted action, will the London hospitals, were placed at
perform service more valuable than various points. Some of these boxes
the cats of ancient E :ypt.— Berlin Cor. w< re on the “put in a penny and the
N. T. Tribune.
.
figure will work” principle. The fol
lowing is a list of the contributions
INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT.
deposited in them: £404—which sum
Why No Vf >n Can Judge Fa rly Who consisted of a few gold coins, a larger
Judge« All by llimivlf.
number of silver, but mostly of pen
Independence of judgment involves
nies, half-pennies and farthings; 257
a full knowledge and a fair estimate
old or defaced British coins; 428 foreign
of more views than cue on the point
coins- Indian, Egyptian, French, Bel
which is judged. No man can judge
gian, Swiss, Grand Duchy of Luxem
independently who judges all by him
self, without hearing and carefully burg, Canadian, German, Austrian,
con-idering wh .t others have to sav Italian, Dutch, Straits Settlements,
on the snbj *ct before his mind. If Spanish.Portuguese, American, Jersey,
there are, f.iirly, only two sides to a East India Company; one counterfeit
question, and a person hears one man florin; 11 metal tokens; 178 buttons of
on one side, and one man on the other various patterns and substances; 30
side, he must bo of the same opinion disks resembling coins in shape made
with one of those men in order of metals, bone, india-rubber, card
lo be absolutely independent in his board, mother-of-pearl, chalk, sugar
j .dement.
And if, again, he hoars and glass, including three spectacle
only one man’s argument, and that on glasses and one lens; two rings, three
the opposite side from his own former links and many pieces of folded paper.
impressions, it may be a higher proof —N. Y. Post.
of his independence of judgment f >r
—Bam Jones told an audicncfi at
him to surrender th s? impressions, Round Lake, N. Y.: “I c:u.i get along
and adopt the view thus newly pre with an old sinner
can bear patiently
sented to him, than for him to adhere with a po
ffrunkard; but when a
to those impressions, now that he secs church men
begins to apologize for
they are not well founded. Yet how his meanr •ss and gets mad because he
prone a man is. who wants to have is told oí his faults, it makes me sick
credit, for independence of judgment, at my Stomach. If any ol J 0" get
to adhere to his own earlier impres at vvliat . nln s;,vin<i just come up like
sions, rather than to conform his gentlemen am..i
my^pardon and 1 11
views to the new light which forgive you.” NoT)i»odvHj>ologized.
—
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he has received from another.
A judge on the bench,
as a
rule, refuses to give a final opinion on a
question submitted to him, until he has
heard arguments on both sides of that
question; in order that he may be
more independent in his judgment,
even though agreeing with one of the
lawyers who has argued the case be
fore him, than he could be by acting
Is the Oriental salutation,
on his own unaided impressions and
knowing that good health
pr dil ctions. Real ind >pendenco of
cannot exist without a
judgment must, at times, seem as
healthy Liver. When the
though it were a result of another's
Liver in torpid the Bow
personal influence; yet it is better to
els are sluggish and con
lie Independent, even while seeming
stipated, the food lies
not to be, than to seem to be independ
ent without bring so.— S. 3. Times.
in the stomach undi-
Your Liver;
• •—
■■ ■■■
—The other evening a little boy was
telling Ills mother how brave he was.
••Mamma.” said he, "I ain’t airaid of
le dark—never was afraid blit just
once.”
“Wh n was that, deary?”
asked his mother.
• Las' summer,
t
when I was at Aunt Lizzie’s,” said he.
• I went down to zech'set in ze kitehen
all alone bv myself in ze dark, an' I
»■as awful 'fraid!” “You were a fool-
sh littl»boy,” said his mother, “for
•Ji<Re is nothing in the dark that can
wrt yon.” ••Oh, I wasn't 'fraid of
cat,” cried he. “I was 'fraid zat I
1 wouldn't find anj cakezare!”— ilncaao
1 Sewt
—••It Is curious.' remarked a sales
man in a Chestnut street store this
morning, "what mid excuses people
will make for not buying thing, rather
than tell the truth."— Philud piia
1
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I
Cl, poisoning the
; frequent headache
ensues ; a feeling of lassi
tude, despondency and
nervousness indicate how
the whole system is de
ranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has beea the
means of restoring more
people to health and
happiness by giving them
a healthy Liver th m any
agency known on earf-h.
It acts with extraor-
dinary power and fficacy.
NEVER BEEN Dl3APP9fNTEo
I
It
alm<*t a per
it *>enis to be
tx-n|m.«t
twr
dist ases ot the stomach an
W. J. M c E lr
t eure for a*,
towels.
Macon, G j