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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1887)
' T éléphoné THE TELEPHONE. DI^IOCRATIC. PUBLISHED IY FRIDAY RATES OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. »UBLICATION OFFICE: North of oor or Third ud E Sts , M c M innville , or . DBSCRIPTION RATES: WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. • y’ ' (IN ADVANCE.) ...............................................................»2 00 ■............................................................. I 00 ith......................................................... 50 CATION SHAMS. IOCLIVITY OF THE POPULAR jlCHER TO “BREAK DOWN.” Should Take a Holiday When- Jle Can Consistently Do So. It la Possible to Overdo the rso you will not understand me as ¡that vacation is in itself a sham, oi ng that a man should not take a Whenever he can consistently do so. jean that some of the developments Bstions of the subject are strongly Irith humbug. a lady talking the other day about fawal of her pastor from his pulpit jtive purposes. What she said im« he, because I thought it presented Isuujectof growing ministerial in- id the recurring necessity for periods [said she, “he is going away for [our months. To be sure, there ar« pen who will remain in town almost [of the summer and work hard to Ly his salary along with their other lenses. But then, of course, you y are not expected to ‘break down? Isn’t time for that. There are in our bn now growing old who never had m two weeks’ vacation in all their fchen I was young many people hemselves very fortunate to get What is there in the constitution her that makes it necessary for him d his occupation for a good part of St answer her because, among other thought she had already answered her own satisfaction. TYPE OF A CLASS. bt you have heard of the clergyman I this is a chestnut, though it is not [>t on that account—who had suc- 5 periodical prostration and gone to m« lacks. His congregation bad not n him leave of absence and hired f to do his work, but had also fur- n with a sum of money for expenses, that is considered good form in I. One day after his arrival at the xls the Rev. Mr.-----was politely to ask a blessing at the table. i me,” was the reply. “I promised b that I would perform no labor iy.” der ecclesiastical plant was only an rpe of a well ascertained class. The f u war vessel built by private con- the debilitated navy of the United l not get out of order with more by, nor tho ship more regularly go ry dock, than does tho gifted and lloved divine feel himself “generally F and And it necessary to lie up for hp for repairs usually consists in pome where and having a good time le up at least two months of the pl every few yeara he is compelled the recess in order to thoroughly line adequately good. The period [in putting in a new intellectual I patching up the physical seams res, so that he may come back to 1 out” and to “teach” with more ce” than ever, has been gradually r for years, re several of the highest priced of New York pass several months rear on the other side of the At- [ CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. pclusive evidence on tho subject that tier time ministers’ vacations were pf. Will anybody venture to assert I labors were less severe than those [successors? The hard headed old I used to deliver three discourses on L every one of them twice or thrice I the thirty or forty minutes’ essay bow customary. There was, in ad- [this, church work for them which jagger a contemporaneous parson Is and invites his soul” on the sands [the hills. Many of them, too, were inch or turn their hands to anything Dinised to eke out a slender living. t, they were too busy to “break to yield to “nervous prostration” or pin “a bronchial affection”—or to cation. To say that the easy going t of to-day is harder worked and [jnires more frequent rest and re- k>f course, absurd on the face ol Dd then a clergyman takes honesl I the matter. Ho frankly says: guite able to preach still—all sum- tcessary. But my parishioners for part go out of town during tho hot Why should I stay when they ore B it worth while for mo to get up nday and address *a beggarly oc- impty’ pews, even if my church is I, as my trustees always order it to psition is at least intelligible, al- i invites some queer reflections. I Let to this hypothetical divine’s tak- ntion. I don’t object to anybody’s |e whenever he can reasonably get a bnly iet us treat the matter sincerely put indulging in cant. ¡nly fair to say that the rest and re humbug is not peculiar to the popu- ¡her and his admirers. Times have elsewhere than in the pulpit t deal of nonsense is printed and bout cutting down the period of toll, fht hour laws and about an increased of legal holidays. There is nothing ihat men and women were anv worse llectually, physically and morally, htury ago, when they thought far ese things.—Brooklyn Eagle. DTects of Freezing Bacteria. Mitchell Prude.», oi New York, Las lecuting researches upon tho ice sup- few York, which are of more than i portance. His energy has been di- bward the study of the effect of upon bacteria. His method of study to take a number of test tubes, plug th with cotton and add water. All pparatus and contents are thoroughly L la to each of the tultes is then in- l a small quantity of a pure culture 1 well known and clearly defined [ bacteria, and the num tier of t|?se to the cubic centimeter of water ac- i de ermine«!. The tubes were then t a temperature of 14 to 30 degs. bit. Six different species were se ll thus treated, but many succumbed b the treatment after a few days, bold fever bacillus, however, gave ■ring results: Before freezing, in- le; after being frozen 11 days, 1,019,- r being frozen 27 days, 335.457; after after 1<6 days, 7,348. By 1 the same results were practically | These results are of great import- Irovirg the remarkable vitality of tee germ and its power of working fen after long periods. — Chicago ry Endicott has decided to do away practice of making military prisoners ry logs for punishment. He co» cust an barbaroaa ___ _ VOL. II FATHER OF CHEAP POSTAGE. The Enterprise of Lysander Spooner, the Rowland Hill of America. There died in Boston the other day a man to whom belongs more jusQy than to any one ylse the honorable title of the father of cheap postage in America. This was the veteran Lysander Spooner, who passed away at his home at the age of 7V. In 1844, when the lending of a ordinary letter any dis tance was a serious tax, Mr. Spooner began an enterprise which was almost immediate and proved lasting in its results. He lie lie ved, while denying the right of leagues to monopolize the carrying of mails, that tho business could be done more cheaply at u profit To prove his belief and test the power of leagues he established a private mail from Boston to New York, afterward extending it to Philadelphia and Baltimore, carrying let ters at the uniform rate of five cents. The business grew rapidly, but the government officials soon overwhelmed him with prosecu tions. Every letter ho carried could be mado the basis of a suit He tried to get the at torneys of tho department to let the question go to tho last tribunal on one test case, waiv ing proceedings on the others for tho time being, but this did not suit their purpose, which was to crush him with the weight of legal expenses, and thus sooner drive him from the field. This they succeeded in doing in the course of seven or eight months. lie had not tho means to defend tho numerous cases piled up against him, and was compelled to surrender. Others, following his example, had established private mails, and they, too, were forced to retire. But the moral victory was his. He had demonstrated that a low rate of postage would support the department, something of which the people but for his action at that time might not have been convinced for many years afterward. So well had he done his work that in the next year congress mado tho firstreduction in postage rates, followed in 1851 and in subsequent years with still further reductions. Mr. Spooner was also a volumin ous writer and an active abolitionist, and the publication of bis work demonstrating the unconstitutionally of slavery* marked an epoch in the anti-slavery agitation.—New York Times. At a New York Table «Filote. MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1887 FISHING FOR SHAD. A DUNKARDS* LOVE FEAST. Free OPENING OF THE ANNUAL SEASON ON THE HUDSON RIVER. The Dunkards of this valley some ten year ago worshiped iu Father Zug’s barn. Th- charm of this novel simplicity has given wax to the digujty of spacious worshiping places. Then a beautiful grove was Hie grand rally ing |M>int. It was a motley, almost a weird gathering. Under tue heavy spring foliage of those trees brotherly and sisterly greeting* were extended the livelong day. Somber, quiet dresses—no tucks and ruffles—distin guished tho women folk. There was a sub dued harmony in their plain frocks and still hoods. Pretty rosy facts tooked out from be neath white fringed caps and no gross out line of soul was shaded by the broad brimmer lmt. The men embrace each other and ini print tho “holy kiss,” and likewise the women Then you could have heard, just ns tho su: slanted bis rays from the west, a measure« drollery of song in the words of tho Pennsyl vania Dutch dialect come up from Eldei Zug’s barn. Tbe love feast was preparing. You lool> witbin upon the extended threshing floor an. almost tbe living counterpart of Leonardo d Vinci’s “Last Supper” b reproduced here First we witness tbe rite of feet washing men with towels and basins bow before tb< line of the brethren and women wait up” the sisters. Around a rude table sit th: quietly demeaned participants. Tho bishop or housekeeper, has by his sido the minister of the first or second degree; hats and coat of ono measurement make a solid phalanx. It is the Dunkards’ paschal—a song, a prayer, a discourse, tho kbs and then the mutton soj and bread. It b really a love feast, and that “holy kbs,” however sacredly applied here, partakes of a most ludicrous awkwardness in its execution. The tawny hands of those son* of toil are grasped in angled curves, the broad brims of those hats meet and bend to un upward pressure, and ‘he religious kbs, ii unabated boldness, sounds :te praises upon th« air. Tho faint barn lights flicker and th< Lord’s Supper now logins. It is a suppei with them, so it b night. “This is my body,’ “this b my blood,” uro the words solemnly spoken. The inodo of tho lovo feast lias changed but little from that primitive style. The Heidel berg meeting bouse has,.however, intensified tho importance of such a gathering. Visitor, from great distances in tho west and other parts are here. At meal hours tbe basement, with its stoves and baking houses, is a busy scene. A free table bids welcome to all visi tors. iX. half loaf of bread is placed before every six or ten guests; each ono must cut bi.- own slice to suit. Cold meats and pre-emi nently tho “snitz pie,”along witbcoffeodrunl. out of yellow bowls and filled from sprinkling cans, make up tho bill of fare. Tho affected refinement of tho world’s table etiquette is dbilaiufully ignored here. Beds in tbe garret are improvised for tho distant visitors. A high board partition is run through the mid dle part, making separate apartments for male and fomalo tleeiiers. Tho beds are simply straw strewn on tho floor, with bundles oi straw for pillows and such blankets und coverlets as the near friends Lad provided. Tho addresses upon tbe occasion are as much tLo culminating and exciting climaxes of thi meeting as any oratorical effort before a great poiilical convention.—Berks County Cor. Philadelphia Times. Planting Poles In the River’s Bottom. IIow the Nets Are Arriinged*»Hablts of the Fish—Losses to Which Fisher men Are Subject. At the foot of Rocky bluff, in Weehawken, stood a picturesque group of shad fishermen. Their feet were thrust into big rubber boots. Stretched upon poles stuck in tho sandy beach of tho Hudson river were muny torn nets, and bung over elevated |>oles were nets which bail never been used and which were waiting to have stout cords run around their edges. Hickory and white oak trees from sixty to seventy-five feet in length and eight to ten inches in thickness, and tapering to a point, lay upon the strand, some of them partly im bedded in the mud of tho shoal waler. Fish ermen say that the mud preserves the wood fiber and keeps it free from worms. These [K)les are taken out into tho river and driven down through forty feet of water into the river’s bottom. The boats which the fishermen use are thirty-two feet long and six foet wide. Each boat is manned by four men. The poles aro driven down by tho help of what tho fisher men call “riders.” These riders are stout pieces of timber fastened at right angles to the poles. By standing upon the riders and grunting and “heave lioing” vigorously the poles aro made to stand upright so that they u ill resi ,t the action of tho wind and tide. They are placed about forty foet apart in rows of from thirty-six to forty. ARRANGING THE NETS. When the poles have all been planted two ropes eleven feet long are fastened to the bot tom corners of each net. The nets are about thirty feet square. At the extremity of each of these ropes is tied an iron hoop. To the two cornel’s of the top of tho net are tied ropes sixteen feet in length. Tho hoops are dropped over the poles and sunk to the bot tom. The top ropes are tied near the surface of the water, and thus the net bellies up or down tho river at the bidding of the tide. It is roughly estimated that some 250 rows of these poles are planted from Staten Island to Yonkers on the Jersey shore. Four stout men are required to lift one of the nets, freighted as they are with shad. Most of tfie fish aro taken from the bag of tho net, very few of them being caught by the gills. The men employed are paid from $30 to $60 per month and board, according to skill and ?x- perience. “Persons unacquainted with the details of shad fishing may think that no education is necessary in order to catch sliad,” said Mr. Randolph Clayton, “but 1 have been fishing for Jbwenty-two years and I am not an expert. A successful fisherman must understand the Habits of the fish he is trying to catch. Other important factors are a knowledge of wind and tide. When the water is cold shad swim close to the bottom; when the water is warm the fish swim close to tho surface. The nets must be trimmed to catch them wherever they swim. Little is known of the habits of the shad. Many theories aro hold by fisher men, but they are not founded on facts. Some fishermen hold that when the wind blows from the west fishermen should throw their nets in that direction, and that the same plan should be followed when the wind is from the east. Of one thing we are cer tain. When the conditions of air and sea are unfavorable as the fisli come up along the coast they will seek a harbor by tho way, just as a vessel would do in stress of weather. If a school of North river shad runs into the Delaware river the chances are that they will stay there, and so many less fish aro caught in our water.” There are about forty persons present nt 6:30 o’clock, and dfnere drop in and out uutil after 8. At the further «nd of tho room are a couple of family parties, the ladies without their bonnets and with tlieir children. These are evidently residents or lodger» at the hotel. Four other tables aro occupied by young fel lows who think it a great thing to dine at the Brunswick, are impressed by the elegant sur roundings and overawed by the portly French waiters. You notice at several tables the same sort of couples—an elderly gentleman and a very young laxly. These are fathers, or uncles, or guardians, perhaps, who know too much of the world waste an expensive dinner upon a lady and yet like to take their wards to a first rate plaSe. The rest of the company are easily assorted into parties who are going to the theatre and parties who have arrived from the races. Before the first dishes are served a boy passes around the room and offers a basket of boutonnieres to every diner. There are swet t pinks for the gentlemen and white rosebuds for the ladies. To those who hesitate to help themselves tho head waiter politely explains that there is nothing to pay; the flowers are a little compliment to the guests. This head waiter is a character. He is supposed to know everybody. As he bands you the bill of faro you ask him: “Is there anybody here today, Gustav?” He is a picture as be lboks shrewdly from table to table, sighs gently, as if the whole company had been weighed in the balance and found wanting, and solemnly replies: “Nobody, sir.” He means nobody worth mentioning—no LIABILITY TO LOSS. body whom ho ought to know—and equally, “To what losses ,are tho shad fishermen of course, his diplomatic smile and glance as liable f ’ sure you that you are excepted from this “Well, vessels run over our poles and nets. sweeping condemnation.—Stephen Fiske in Many a poor fisherman bus lost bis whole New York World. plant because some pilot wouldn’t give his wheel a turn. One slap of a steamship’s paddl 3 The Mexican's High Priced Headgear. wheel will tear a net to slireda It’s no joke When the men persist in wearing such ex to have a pole tom up and sot adrift when it tremely large hats it seems a little queer that costa from $8 to $10. We suffer, also, some the ladies wear no bats at all, and one can what from the greediness of crabs. Further not but feel impressed with the idea that if up the river, where shad aro caught in drift they could be persuaded to “split the differ nets, many a fine fish is disembowled by ence” and average up their headgear fashions large eels.” tho result would be more comfortable for “How long does the fishing last?” both sexes. The most ordinary sombrero “From eight to ten weeks. During that costa not less than <15, while the more uni tim ? the nets are lifted twice a day, at high versally popular ones—those profusely gar water and slack. Every forty eight hours nished with bullion—range in price from <60 the nets arc taken ashore and cleaned of the to $600. slime from the river, and the rente in the nets Of late years the upper strata of society are mended.” cover their heads exactly as do gentlemen in “Have fishermen any protection under the London, Paris or New York, but a genuine laws?” Mexican of the middle class still invests all “Yes. Jersey laws permit us to fish for his surplus capital in his bat. A serving man, shad to the middloof the river. But we have whose wages ars not more than $12 per no means of determining the limit of our fish month, patriotically puts a year’s income into ing ground. The fishing grounds have never tho expensive national sombrero, though he been buoyed. Once iu a while we inadvert economizes to make up for it in the matter of ently stick a pole into New York water, and shoes, wearing ox hide sandals of his own the harbor police destroy our nets. Wo manufacture. An American gentleman tells don’t infringe intentionally, and the middle me that, after being absent three months, ho of the river is very difficult to determine. paid his footman $42 back wages, and beioro We fishermen think we are entitled to more night the fellow had invested $35 of it in a exact legislation, and that wo ought to have new bat and devoted the remaining $7 U the more protection. The people of New York wants of his numerous and needy family. want their broiled and scuffed shad in its sea While many a thoroughbred Mexican sports son, and we are of the opinion that our rights a sombrero whose value is away up in tho should be more strictly defined.n hundreds, the ragged boy who blacks Jvmr “What is the average haul to a row of boots is the proud possessor of one which cost poles?” him at least 150 “shines."—Mexico Cor. Phila “The number of fish varies greatly. One delphia Record. set of nets yielded 400 fish in one tide last season. Two years ago a man about four Englishmen Not So Rich as Reported. miles lielow us caught 1,100 shad at one haul. Ono fact revealed by Mr. Goschen is very I think it would lie safe to say that the aver interesting. There were, he stated, ninvty- age haul is less than 100fish.” • flve persons in England with an income of “When does the season end?” £50,(MX). It is almost impossible for ordinary “On June 21 the nets and ¡»les aro brought people to understand what that income means. ashore. The nets are good for two seasons’ It is a thousand a week; it is more than £140 work. Tho poles are left in the mud untE a day; it is as nearly as possible £6 an lcv.7. next spring. The men, who are farmers, car A man with more than £50,000 a year mn pen tere, and a few of them blue fishermen spend a £10 note whenever the clock sttiken go to work at their several pursuits healthier during wbaDmay be called his working honrs, anil wealthier for their brief sojourn on the and 1« will only be living up to his* loecme. river.”—Now York Cor. St. Louis Republi* He is not only rich beyond the dreaixs of can. avarice, but rich beyond wbat one w<nld imagine would be personal convenience. nw Making Artificial Rubies. fact that there are nearly 100 such persons in M Fremy has read a paper at the French England is of the greatest interest. Ono Academy of Sciences, describing the success would like to have Mr. Goschen’s list of thetn, ful researches made by him, with M. Vern- or, better still, to appoint a royal comnnssia© eciFs afNi tance, for obtaining artificial rubies. to investigate the use which they make of Some years, ago he discovered the first method their money.—Li verpool Courier. of producing rubies, but all the specimens obtained jrero pas:y, and wore away in Perhaps Ho Always Does. Kales. He adopted another process, and by A handsomely dresserl man, much the letting alumina dissolve in fleoride of calcium worse for wine, in endeavoring to walk down ho olitaincd crystals of ahimitin, that is to a flight of marble stairs leading to tbe offlet say, perfect rubies, defying the closest of one of our big hotels, fell to the foot and scrutiny, and even higher in value than per battered hb new silk hat, tore his clothea and fect stones. Tin y can be made of largo size.— cut and disfigured Lb face in a frightful ma» Detroit Free Proa. aer in bls rapid descent When as^btaacf waa tendered him by a dosen sympatbetHr At the Snnday School. people he was much disgusted and wave«/' A teacher in an Austin Sunday school, tliem away. He would not acknowledge by the acceptance of a helping hand that he ww wishing to imprees his class with the necessity i:i a condition calling for aid, but kept hie < faith. aeke«l tbe clars why dhl Mows lift np dignity and independence intact by axe!aim tbes rpent in the wilderness. None of the ing: “Go ’bout your biasbbnee s nowing tbe class answen«l except one. Ho said Moses ?naaaer; I always come down stairs that lifted ft up bemuse he knew it wouldn’t bite. Jt was tbe youth whow^d the Jews made way!”—New York Times. a gotlen calf because they didn’t have gold to make tbe wbefte cow.—Texas Board for Man and Beast at a Primitive Religious Festival. Dangers of the Electric Light. “Why do you take so many precautions?” “Tartly for my own safety and partly for tho sake of doing first class work . . . . You s?e there is a current moving through those two mains, as wo call them, that could kill 100,000 men in an instant. If through care lessness I put myself in its way and got its full force that would bo tho l ist of me. A year ago I was a little thoughtless or clumsy, anti slightly ‘grounded tho negative main? That b, I touclial that upper ring of copper when ono knee was on tho baro paving stone. Here’s wbat tho current did.” He rolled up lib coat and shirt sleeve and displayed a mus cular arm that looked as if it Lad lieen en graved with a chisc‘1 and then eaten with nitric acid to produce an etching plate. “1 vwb in tho hospital over a mouth for that, and that was so tough a lesson that I’ll never forget it. I’ll show you how strong that current b. ” Ho took a broken pair of flno pliers, and, holding them with a cleft piece of wood, touched ono end to the upper copper ring and ono to tho steel cover rim. In an instant the gray metal broke into sparks and flame. IIo removed it with the rernui k: “That cun-ent would burn up a crowbar or lamppost if it were properly directed.” “Is there much danger?” “There used to bo, but it grows smaller overv day as wo kuow moro about handling electricity. It’s liko a liorse sometimes that runs away. It will get into railroad tracks an«l knock a liorso over and sometimes kill the animal. Sometimes it leaks out of tbe wires and gets into a water or steam pipe, and then paralyzes some of these Italians you sco digging up tbe streets nowadays. They think it b the devil and hold a prayer meet ing. Sometimes it gets us boys. Down in Wall street ono day the lights were behaving badly and I went to see what was tho matter. Everything was ail right inside the offices, and so I went out in tho street to coo if there was a leak or a bod wire. It was raining a little, just a drizzle. I put my hard on tbe plate glass window, and I was knocked down just as clean c.3 if Sullivan had done tbe job. You see tbe wire looked just over the window, and the layer of rain on the glass, along with the gold lettering, made a good conductor, and I got tbe bonelit of tbe job. I wr.s soro tho next throe days, b:.t I fixed it up all the same as if nothing bad ba[>pened. Wo Late to let on to outsiders when wo get caught ourselves. It don’t look professional and they always guy us.’’—New York Cor. Globe-Democrat. The Ainos of Japan. | , | ! ' ! ' j i j i ! ! • ’ A puzzle to tho ethnologists is presented in tho fast expiring race which were the true predecessors of tho Japanese all over the Japan archipelago. Tbe dawn of history shows tho Ainos living far to tho south and west of their present haunts; and ever since then, century by century, we see them re treating eastward and northward, as steadily as the American Indian has retreated west- ward under the pressure of tho colonist« from Europe. Their numbers are growing smaller decade by decade; their industries are passing into Japanese bands; the animals which were their principal sustenance are rapidly beconi- ing extinct; the survivors of tbe people al- most all speak Japanese as well as their own tongue, and are losing tbeir special chai acter- istics. The race is now no more than a “curio” to tho philologist and to the ethnol- ogist. It has no future, because it has no root in tbe part. The impression left on the mind after a sojourn among tbe Ainos is that of a prof«.und melancholy. The existence of thb race bes l^en as aimless, os frufttesa, as h the perpetnnl dashing of the breakers on the shore of Horobestu. It haves I m Lind it nothing save a few names.—Chicago News. Tbe Queen of Spain. An English traveler returning from Rpain d'-scriljes the queen as a woman full of force h*.l«l in reserve, with intellectual features and aige r.ml expressive ey». The whiteness of her skin, set off by goaleu hair, gives the idea of a delicate constitut'on to the dark skinned Spaniards.—Kansas City Journal ' ENGLISH FUNERALS. SIGNS OF WOE ACCORDING TO THE PREVAILING CUSTOMS. An Old and Poetic Superstition » A “Mourning Function”—“Mutes” an<l Their Metliods—JIorror of Being Bur ied Alive—The Funeral Flowers. Directly the breath leaves tbe body the window blinds, usually inside Venetian shut ters, are pulled down, the windows of tho' room where the death occurred being left slightly open, however, from the top to per mit the spirit to take its celestial flight. Thia latter is an old superstition, a very poetic one. In the country the house doer is left ajar on the day of the funeral until after the mourners’ return. “Because.” they say, “to shut the door would be to shut cut tho corpse. To leave it open is to show a welcome to the spirit’s return.” In ti e country, notably in Hampshire and Somer setshire, the usual shroud of the simjikr villago folk is composed of white cotton wad ding, shaped about the body dressed in ordin ary undergarments. The coffin is borne on tho shoulders of friends to the cemetery, the other mourners following on foot to the grave. Naturally such customs aro impracticable in a city like London. Only intimate friends, but not tho more immediate family, accom pany the body to its burial place. Tho leave- taking of tho family is private. Other friends assemble iu the drawing rooms. There ii no service until reaching the chapel in the cemo tery, where one takes place, if at all, as sup plementary to a final ono at the grav»» itself. Only when tho deceased has been a great public man is there a service in th* church be attended in life, or in 8t. Paul’s, the Abbey, or other noted sacred edifice. This service is called a “mourning function.” Memdrial ser vices, on tho other hand, for a noted man ci* woman may occur simultaneously in many churches. There are no crape streamers on th«» door knocker or bell handle, as in Philadelphia or other cities in America. Tho blinds nr * down, tho knocker muffled, and frequently straw is placed in the street for half a block to deaden the sound of vehicles. It is also an unwritten courtesy of the neighbors to draw their blinds on the day of the death and on that of the funeral. Thus we know that the “King < f Terrors” holds his grim, dumb court within the house with drawn blinds and muffled knocker. Even during the last four years changes in funeral costums have taken place. Homo peoplo still rigidly keep to the ol«i ways. Therefore, if we should not at first bo sure <>f death, the presence on tho doorsteps of two lugubrious persons would prove it Tliose, relieved with other two at certain intervals, Tn nd one on each side the door to weep until the period shall be ended between the death and the removal to the cemetery. These pai«l mourners are “inutcs.” Their business is to ween, and they perform it 'faithfully. In solemn black garments, hands in black gloves, broad streamers of crape, calle«! “weepers,” about their lints, they ply hand kerchiefs to tlieir eyes, black boidered and gloomy. When there tire no passers by th y discuss the local politi«-s or their own nffairs. Directly some one heaves in sight up go the handkerchiefs. The ends of th ir noses are suspiciously red. Ono feels that gin is the causo of such a perpetual flow of salt water from their weak, red<lish eyes. It is, despite the solemn cause of their employment, ex- ceedingly droll. They look like pen and ink -sketches, and their niarionet wc« is ghastly in its grotesqueness. Strange that this custom of tho early Romans should have survived until tbe nineteenth century. Many of the Roman rites have lingered on those isles of Great Britain, once so extensively used as Roman encampments. “The funeral baked meats” of sacred as well as of profane history —these are still prepared. Poor, indeed, th« London family which fails to have s banquet provided on the funeral day for the assem bled friends. So widespread is the horror concerning be ing buried alive that bodies are kept here longer than in America. It is regawhd as barbarous to keep tbe Ixriy less than a week, and ten days is moro frequently tho tim *. Of course in cases of contagious disease th*- an thorities enforce speedy and private burial. Perhaps the humid atmosphere is not con ducive to mortific.-turn. Certain it is that ess ice is used here, if used at all, than in America on these melancholy occasions. Tho funeral flowers are even moro extrav agantly used than in America, and not oloti«» white flowers, but all the delicate hued blos soms pertaining to the season. Besid«'s nat ural flowers quantities of a ppecies of ever lasting white pinks are used. These flowers com© from Africa and are called “(iipe flowers,” also “wraith flowers.” They resem ble in shape a double carnation pink, and are graceful, ghost like blossoms. They are re garded as lucky emblems, messages from th«» spirits, and are rather a joyous garniture than otherwise, since they are symbolic of hop«*. Another floral extravagance is iirtlie form of composition—China flowers made tip into wreaths, crosses, anchors, etc., which aro pre served under raised glass cases, and placed ♦ n the mound in the cemetery. This mound is raised up squarely like a low bed, wilh i. headstone or monument at tbe Lead of th« same. The funeral hearse is either open at th- -i«lesan<l ends or it ’s closed in quite dirk During the last year or two a few hearso have made their appearance with glass sides. These are called “American funeral car riages,” but are not popular. Tbe hearse is ornamented with huge waving plumes of coal black. The horses are jet black and have tails sweeping nearly to the ground. They also have long, full manes which the passing breeze during their slow, measured stepping blows lightly about The largest and handsomest horses are devoted to funeral travel, both for hearse« and mourners’ ear ring. s, and livery men there are who keep nothing else in readiness. These horses have to lie broken and trained as laboriously as though for ring riding in a circus. Their drivers sit very high up with a black velvet pall across their throne like perches. Their rape weepers flow down thrir backs from one to two yards from their bate. The horses’ beads are decorated with nodding plumes. Tbe “mutes” walk behind tbe hearse. —London Cor. Philadelphia Record. He Knew George. Col. James Russell Lowell tells tbe story shat one of tbe gentlemen he met in Chicago »nd a great deal to nay of his travels in Eu- ope. Col. Lowell remarked that be greatly •Tijoyed the French literature, and thut teorge Hand was one of bin favorite so tbotu “Oh, yes,” exclaimed the Chicago ;ent)ernan, “I have had many a hnppy hour with Sand.” “You knew George 8ai.«’f ..heuF asked Col. Lowell, with an expressi« n j >t surprise. “Knew him? Weil, 1 should rather say I did,” cried the Chicago mat, ind then he added as a clincher, “I roonxd h him when I was in Paris.Chicago Ne wx _________________ NO. 21. THE MADiSON SQUARE PHILOSOPHER ki a night w ____ ________ WIT AND WISDOM. George Francis Train Appears With the Flowers of Sprin*;anllis Remarks. —“Nobby pea soup” is advertised by 8 Reading (Pa ) landlord. —It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.— Ruskin. —The official whose business it is to took into the affairs of the na'.ion is rery properly called pry minister. —The $800 fan of the Queen of Italy does not raise nny moro wind than a palm-leaf article “two for five cents.” —Every smart man takes his turn at actin’ de fool. De shorest-footed boss in de worl’ stumbles sometimes.— Ar- kausas Traveler. —“You look,” said an Irishman to a pale, haggard smoker, “as if you had got out of your grave to light your cigar, and couldn’t find your way back again.” —Kansas City Man—I suppose you've never been in Kansas City, have you? Omaha Man—I was there last week. “Last week! Oh, but you ought to see it now!*’— Omaha World. —A Connecticut paper speaks of a man “looking on with baitod breath.” Some men bait with cloves, and some with orange-peel. Why didn’t the paper give its readors fuller p .rticu- lars? If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, apd not by self-indulgence and in dolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.— Ruskin. —They tell in Philadelphia of a small boy whose governess one day, out of patience with his mischievousness, caught him by the arm, saying: “Harry, 1 believe the Old Nick has hold of you.’' Quick as a flash, the youngster an swered: “ Yes, butt only with one hand.” —Bascomb (just returned from Aus tralia)—Well, sir, what would you say if I told you I had seen a snake out there that measures forty feet in circum ference and ninety-three feet in lon'jthP Darnley—I should sify—er—that Aus tralia does not produce good whisky.— JudjC. —The habit of faltering and distin guishing and concealing, and putting forward the edge of the truth instead of showing boldly the full face of it, at last leads men into an insincerity so habitual that they really do not know whether they speak the truth or not.— Cardinal Manning. —Bui grief is not the end of all. I seem to hear the funeral march become a pesan. I see beyond the forest the moving banners of a hidden column. Our dead brothers still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death—of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of the spring.—O. Looking for His Lily. Not so very many years ago a couple- IK Holmes, Jr. new ly married—stopped at the Ryan for the —A colored individual at Elmira, N. night. They hailed from somewhere in the valley of the Red district, and had money Y., asked the clerk at the post-office to enough to make a small ripple in the city. direct a letter for him. The clerk The bride retired early; but the groom, still wrote as desired: “Miss Rosy Bell feeling his oata, went out to see the town. Washington.” The writer waited for IIo visited a number of the prominent resorts, and about midnight found himself in tbe further information. Finally he asked: hotel elevator. Calmly transfixing the hoist “Well my friend, where does ‘Miss boy with his eye, he addressed him: “My boy Rosy Bell Washington’ live?” “Why, ish swhere’s my brideshf Swhere’s my turtle boss,” answered the darky, confiden dove?” tially, “dat'B jos’ w’at I do’ know. If I The lioy, of course, could not answer him. knowed I’d d’reck it mysolf, and not But finding the number of his room he at- bodder de post-office.” tempted to take him there. —A well-known steam engine builder “Noshir 1” sai«l tbe inebriate. “Ish—hie— wansh slimy cooing dove. She’s tbe rosesh of lays that a large share of the fault tho valley, she is.” found with engines running unsteadily Everybody in the rooms along the ball was awake by this time and several heads peeped comes from permitting the governor to get dry from lack of oil, or gummed up over the transoms. “She’s—a—a—a—hie—lambsh,” he con in some of its essential parts. He in tinued, “a swan of tho sea. Where’sh she? stances sending a man one hundred Thatah what J want—hie—to know? Whosh and fifty miles upon repeated com stole my cuckoo from mesh?” plaints of an engine sold two years By this time they were at the door of his room. It suddenly opened, a hand and arm previous. A half-day spent iu putting clothed in white was thrust out and the un die governor in condition was all the fortunate yanked in with a terrific jerk and .nan did when he got there.— American this remark: Machinist. “Here’s your rose of Sharon an«i lily of the —An odd practice prevails in regard valley, you old. foot Go to bodPioneer- to mourning for deceased relatives in Press. Corea. Any one who has suffered such Varieties of Oranges. a loss goes about for a year wearing a “The orange is a very deceptive fruit, kind of pointed basket on his head, said a Fulton market fruit dealer the other which completely hides his face, and morning. “In nine oranges out of ten the more beautiful their outside appearance the no one is permitted to address him or poorer will lx> the quality of tho fruit within. tpeak to him. It was by adopting the Tbe deceptive oranges ore tho result of allow •nourncr's bonnet as a disguise that the ing fruit to remain on Iho trees to color after ?arly Jesuit missionaries succeeded in they are fully d-vcloprd. The young fruit entering'the country and making their on tho snmo tree abstract the juices from the way about, unquestioned by any bodv. lull grown orange until nothing remains but A gray bear led man, a matronly woman, a dozen children and four or five dilapidated ¡M'rsons surrounded one of the benches in Mudison square the other afternoon. On the bench sat a broad shouldered man of striking appoai*ance. IIo wore no hat. His head was bald on the top, but long white hair tossed carelessly back fell like a mane upon bis shoulder.?. His face was very brown from exposure to wind and sunshine, and iho top of Lis Lead was as brown as his face. Steel blue eyes of remarkable brilliancy, wi‘h oddly dilated pupils, looked frankly and fearlessly out upon I he world from the sunburned face. The broad shouldered man was talking to a little girl, evidently the daughter of the ma tronly woman. “Peoplo don’t know anything,” he said. “They don’t know enough to live. They won’t learn. All tbe world is hypnotized.” The little gill looked as though she thought this a very terrible state of affaire, and tbe tramps listened to the strange words with re spectful admiration, 'lhe woman stooped down and told the little girl to ask the man something. He caught the question before the girl could sjieak, and answered, directing hi* remarks to her: “Crazy? No. You pity crazy people, don’t you? Well, you never heard anybody pity me. People don’t say, ‘Look at that |xx>r man sitting on a bench enjoying tbe sunshine and the air. Isn’t it too bad that he sits there?’ Thoy never say that.” Again the woman stooped down and spoke in a low tone, and the man quickly replied: “I live thus Liecause I know how to live. I have the secret. I hold it in my hand. I have it all here—success or failure, life or death, happiness or misery,” and lie clinched a muscular hand and turned his wrist back ward and forward as he si>oko. It was a very powerful hand and looked ns though anything gi asped by it would be held by a tremendous grip. He continued: “1 haven’t eaten meat for twenty years. People eat too mu« li. I cat once a day, and only a pound of food then. Once I went to Black- woll’s Island”----- Hudden expression of sympathetic interest on the faces of the tramps. “I looke«! at tho food they give the prison ers. How much do you suppose they give each prisoner a day ? Eleven pounds I If they didn’t make the men work they would die. I think they must have a system for killing prisoners off by gorging their stomachs.” The tramps sighed and looked longingly eastward. “Omaha? Yes, I saw that was the place for a city of millions. I jumped ashore and found a hut lying in the road. Nothing else there. Now there is a city. I owned half of it once. Do you know how people live? Ten own everything, and ninety own nothing. I saw if I held that land I would be one of the ten. I didn’t want to swim with ninety men on my back. I said: “Take your city; I don’t want it,’ and left them to do as they pleased. Now I sit here, and it costa me>only $1 a day to live.” The little girl, being prompted, said good by. The little knot of people melted away, and the broad shouldered man began reading a newspaper. A red eyed, shabby man came along ami nodded smilingly to him. The man on the bench waved his hand courte ously, smiled and nodded, but said nothing. George Francis Train speaks only to chil dren. a spongy, wool like bull covered with a rough, thick, but brilliant colored skin, which is of no u e except to makers «rf jam. ” “How many vai ¡«‘ties of oranges come to New York?*’ asked tho reporter. “Tbe list is a long one. It includes the Ha vana, t he Jamaica, the Porto Rico, the Nas sau, tho Abbieco, tho lziuisiana and the Flor ida varieties. Tho fruit from five differ ent porta on tho Mediterranean son and the five different varieties from California are classed by dealers as summer f. uit. All these varieties of orange como to the port of New York. Wo can, therefore, supply tho world with oranges tbe year round.”—New York Sun. v • J„l»t and PnsARge Men. It is stianzc that freight and passenger men should know so little concerning each other’s departments, even in matters of long standing aud considerable importance. * Yet such 14 tho case, os any ono may fln«l out for himself by questioning a memlier of either divisions ronwmiug the workings of tho other. The chancesaro that the well Informed outsider will find himself better posted on freight mutters than is tho passenger man of tbe very railroa«! in question. Tho members of the two departments do not, for some mys terious reason, as a rule, affiliate. The b« a«i of tbe freight man is constantly fllle*i with some mathematical problem, while the pwenger representative confln«?« his cogi tations more to ways that are dark and t ricks that are far reaching and rabtle. And so wo go our several ways, almost ns ignorant of ono another’s busineai ns if we were engag ed in wrjai ate and distinct interests.—Globe- Democrat. Tbe Dismal Swamp. 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