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_A.t>stra,ots of -Aull Lands and To-wn. Lots in tlxe County,
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Addies TILLAMOOK ABSTRACT CO., Tillamook, Oregon.
His back was toward me now. He wae I
THE ART OF EMÜAL..UNG.
getting out his writing desk from the sec­
Through all that y ear-war red agony of height. retary, and I looked up as I said. “Horae* How Bodies of the lleail Are Preserved
Travers!”
Unblest of bough or biotin, to where expands
for Future (veneration».
Hi« wandy circlet with his bladed bands
He did not move. He was silent a long I Said a reporter to a prominent under­
Dividing every wind, or loud or light.
time, and when he turned to me his fact taker the other day; "I suppose this
To termless hymns of love and old despite,
was no paler than usual. His tone, too, warm weather will cause you to get out
Yon tall palmetto in the twilight stands.
was delilierately careless when he at length your
Bare Dante of these purgatorial sands
refrigerators?”
That glimmer marginal to the monstrous nlghL Baid: “Horace Travers? I do not know I
“Well, it would a few years ago, but
Comes him a south wind from the scented vine. him?”
That same evening we spent with my now, you know, we never use ice for pre­
It breathes of Beatrice through all his blades.
North, east or west, Guelph wind orGhibeline. father and mother
We had arranged tc serving a body except in a few cases
*Tis shredded into music down the shades;
start the next day. At the last Mr. Hatch where the friends or relatives object to
AH sea breaths, land breaths, systol, diastol.
tried to persuade me to remain at home, our embalming it.”
Sway, minstrels of that grief melodious soul.
• That is more expensive, though, is it
but I told him frankly that I would not
—Sidney lumier in Columbia State.
forego the opportunity of making inquiries not?”
for my missing friend, and that I would go.
“Oh, no; the cost is about the same
1 brought the subject up before mj and the trouble is much less. Now, you
MY LOVER HORACE.
lather and mother again, and Mr. Hatch Bee, ill using ice we have a big box to
showed quite plainly that he was annoyed carry around, and where we have three
Horace Travers and I had been engaged by it.
or four cases at the same time we would
a year. During that time I had seen him
“You speak of your friend so often that be obliged to have several coolers, but by
but once! But when spring came round be must have been a dear one.”
i the new way of preserving here is all we
Horace wrote me that the whole month of
In the midst of the «lead bush which fol
to carry," and he laid his hand on
May should be mine and his.
lowed the half angry words 1 replied: “He have
looked like a sample case, such as
My father went into the town on some was a dear friend. I was to have married what
is ordinarily carried by a liquor salesman.
errand later in the day, my mother with him.”
On opening the case it bore a striking
him, and our servant girl went out to
Mr. Hatch’s face grew livid, but he con
evening church, leaving me alone in the trolled himself almost instantly and said, resemblance to a surgeon’s case, except
house. It grew dusky by and by, so I could with the careless air which was habitual that on one side there were three quart
not read, and 1 drew my chair up to the with him in moments of suppressed pas bottles filled with milky looking fluids.
window, w here I could look through the sion, “So I supposed from your constant The instruments consisted of a small
door at tlie stars coming out one by one in recurrence to the subject.” And, without knife, a lancet such as is used by physi­
cians in “tapping,” and a syringe with a
the sky, and wondered if Horace could see waiting a reply, spoke of something else.
The next day our journey began.
them too.
great variety of nozzles. "This,” said the
C
----
was
a
large
town,
crowded
and
It grew quite dark at last, and I lit the
undertaker, picking up the syringe, “is
lamp on the table and returned to my book. busy. I made no inquiries for Horact tlie principal thing used, and the nozzles
For a time I read on; then the air grew Travers the first day of our stay, Edward are used in just as many ways as there
chilly, and intending to close the door I took me directly to his house, a large are nozzles. Now we use this nozzle when
handsome building in a retired part of tb( we do not intend to do a regular job of
rose from my chair and looked out.
There, in the hall door, as I had seen him place. It was elegantly furnished, and J embalming, but simply to preserve the
a few hours before, ou his departure, stood secretly wondered how an unmarried mar body a day or two, and it is used for
came to be possessed of so comfortable h
Horace Travers.
injecting the fluid into the stomach. This
I went back into the parlor and sat down. dwelling. I fancied he might have been is
for a hypodermic injection, this for a
I reasoned, scolded and argued, but I could married before, but dismissed the thought
vein,
this for an artery and this is used
not rid myself of the icy shivers which ran as impossible.
for
what we call inflating. That is, if the
A man might conceal the knowledge ol
through my frame, or the leaden weight
a dead love, but a dead wife always take« person has been sick a long time and is
which fell upon my spirit.
very thin in the face, we insert this in
My mother came in at last and sat down, an honorable place in his memory.
Edward left me alone a great deal. He the face under the ear and force a certain
with some trifling remark on the beauty of
the evening. When she looked up she said he had been trying to sell some prop fluid into the face to give it a round aj>-
crossed over to me in alarm, and taking erty of which he had found it troublesome pearance. ’ ’
my hand cried out: “My child, what is the to take care, and he meant to stay in C----
"Then I understand that it is not neces­
matter? You look as if you had seen a until he was rid of it.
sary to lill tlie veins and arteries in order
Naturally, of course, I took to the librarj to preserve a body for a few days?’ ’
ghost?”
“I think I have, mother,” 1 said, trying in his absence.
“Not by any means. Of course it de­
There
was a curious old secretary in one pends very much on tlie condition of the
to smile, but bursting iuto tears, and then
corner I rummaged this in search of h body when given into our hands, but or­
I told her all.
“Now, my darling Laura,” said she, “go sensation, for the days dragged on heavily,
we inject into the stomach and
to bed and take a good night’s rest, and and at last I found a sensation I little ex dinarily
and into the head through the
my word for it you will be troubled with pected. There was a drawer in it which I intestines
no more alarming glimpses of Horace ex­ bad never succeeded in opening, and my nose and ears. In a thorough job, where
cept in dreams, when his presence is agree curiosity was roused to such a pitch that 1 the lxxly has to lx“ kept a number of days
broke it open. I doubted if Mr. Hatch in warm weather, we fill the arteries, and
able rather than otherwise.”
would ever know or care what I had done. in case of the sudden death of a vigorous
I took my mother’s advice.
There was a folded newspaper in th< person we usually have to draw out the
The next day 1 was ready to look at the
drawer. It was yellow with age, and when blood first. This we are obliged to do
whole occurrence in the same light.
But when it came near the time when I I lifted it I saw under it a small hammer. while the body is warm, but we do not
The newspaper was printed in a town east inject the embalming fluid till the animal
expected a letter from him I began to be
very impatient about him. The letter, of of C---- at least a hundred miles. I won warmth has left the body.”
dered
if I were to make any discoveries. I
course, would settle my mind effectually.
“How long will a lxxly retain its natural
But it did not come. In fact it never came; was trembling all over, and felt that noth appearance that has been thoroughly
and that was the last, last sight I ever saw ing would seem strange now, and, as I took treated?”
up the paper, I began with the first page
of Horace Travers.
”1 can hardly say, All the way from
Ah, those years—those weary, weary and read it carefully. Then I turned tc one year to ten or even more, and I ex­
years! How each day dragged its slow the second, and half way down the first pect if I embalmed a body just to see
length along! How the weeks and months column I read:
“Melancholy Accident—The body of s how long I could keep it. it would keep
crept away—how the years tortured me!
Each day I said, “Surely, I shall hear young man was run over by the night ex till it was destroyed by outside agencies.
press. The deceased was a stranger in the I have removed Ixxlies that have Ixcn
from him at last.”
Each night I went to bed saying, “I am place, and there was nothing upon his per buried three or four years that were per­
one day nearer to the tidings which must son to identify him except a small Testa fect, only they were covered with mold.”
ment, with *l»aura to Horace’ on the fly —Rochester Herald.
come at last!”
But I never heard from him and I waited leaf. The remains will be buried tomor­
row,
after the inquest, as their dreadfully
Monkeys ns Track Inspectors,
for the tidings vainly.
But though I thought time moved so mangled condition renders early interment
Near a place called Niddivunda there is
slowly, still it moved on and brought me necessary.”
a large to|K' which is well known to 1»
•
•«••••
to my twenty-fifth year. Then I began to
infested w ith a host of monkeys. Having
When 1 became conscious again my no other inode of occupying their dull
go back to the friends I had so long neg
lected. Society recieved me with open mother was with me. When I was well hours, they are bent upon trying to de­
arms. I bad outgrown old or faded mem enough to travel she took me home.
the railroad track on the Tarnbur
I asked for my husband, and they told stroy
1
ories; my thoughts of Horace Travers were
It would appear that these animals,
1
growing bitter, and I longed for some di­ me at last that he was dead. My mother line.
aliout
fifty
or sixty, form themselves into
admitted that he had killed himself; but 1
version to take me from them.
comjianie»; they range themselves
1
My engagement had never been made why I never knew until years after. Then two
t systematically, one half on one rail and
public; it was my wish that our marriage I came across it in a paper.
He had killed Horace Travers. They the
1 other half on the other. They begin
should be the first announcement of it, so
were partners.
I by first removing the earth from the
I was spared the questioning of frieuds.
Quite unexpectedly he met Horace at sides
i
of the rails. Then they arrive at
The life I took up now was a busy one.
( the difficulty of nuts and bolts, which,
Our family w’as so small, there was so lit­ that little wayside station.
Hatch was an adept in crime then, and though
,
they examine them very minutely,
tle home work to do, and I had grown so
,
cannot get over. On the approach
tired of solitary reading and music that I his confusion and guilt were only too evi they
dent to Horace, who comprehended ere of
( the up or down train, they will wait
took to the change kindly.
Al all festivities I noticed the presence long that the friend he had trusted had ( till the engine is within a few yards,
robbed
him
of
everything,
and
was
on
his
of a tall, distinguished looking gentleman
when, with the utmost coolness, they
who had settled in our town nearly a year way to leave the country with his ill gotten simply jump on one side till the train has
gains.
before. His name, I knew, was Edward
and then resume their work.
Horace sprang at him, seized him by the passed,
1
Hatch, and his business was that which
A remarkable instance occurred on one
Horace Travers had followed. This is what collar and called loudly for help, but the of these occasions. As an engine was ap­
had interested me at first; and afterward, engine was blowing and whistling in the * proaching, the monkeys made their usual
when I came to understand that he noticed station and no one heard the cry. He was 1 jumps, with the exception of one, who
me closely, yet persistently a voided an in­ repeating it, trying to drag Hatch with persisted in remaining on the line, the
]
troduction, my curiosity was piqued, and 1 him, when the latter, rendered desperate engine
by this time being very near. Five
watched him still more closely. He was by the attack and his probable arrest, <
< six monkeys, seeing the danger one of
past his first youth, was unusually re seized a hammer off a pile of lumber and, or
i
number was in, made a sudden rush
served, almost gloomy; but when he threw quick as thought, struck him with the im their
■ and dragged him off, some laying hold of
off the depression of spirits which troubled plementon the back of the head.
It killed him instantly.
him by the tail, others by the legs; they
him he could make himself the life and
And that was the way my darling died. ( saved him. H>ey are now styled the
soul of our company.
—
Courier
Journal.
Niddivunda gangmen by the guard» and
The only thing I did not like was the at
drivers.—The Christian at Work.
mosphere of reserve which seemed to close
Miser'.
Catamount.
around him now and then. 1 had out­
grown that romantic age when a mystery
Old John Mizer, one of the early settlers
Counterfeiting Ohl Cremona«.
is charming. I bad suffered bitterly enough of what Is now Bucks township, O., went
To such a great extent is counterfeiting
from one mystery.
out one day on Buckhorn creek to secure a and experting carried on that fully half
It came to pass in the course of a year wolf scalp. Having fixed the bait, which the so-called Cremonas are spurious, being
that I married Edward Hatch.
consisted of a skinned rabbit, he was about
The gloom and reserve of Edward Hatch’s to hide near by when his practiced ear de inferior instruments, doctor«! and altered.
character took a tangible shape at last. tected the tread of an animal behind bim. There was one ex|>ert in New York who
Mizer supposed it to be a wolf, but ns he had a number of tickets printed on dingy
Night after night he paced the floor stead­
ily, untiringly. Day after day he went to turned quickly he beheld a catamount fol­ pa|ier with the names of prominent mak­
his business, his food untasted and the lowing close upon bim. The moment th® ers. which he placed in all sorts of instru­
hunter stopped the animal sprang into a ments and sold with a guarantee.
darkness of night on his face.
They sav that a violinist can detect a
“Edward,” said I, one night, “are you tree. Mizer took aim and fired, and with
angry with me? I cannot bear this cold­ a scream of rage the catamount sprang rare instrument by its tone, which can
ness and separation. I am your wife for upon him, landing ou nis back, and sank not be imitated. The appearance can lie
better or worse, and I would try to make its claws deep into the flesh.
imitated, but not the tone, it has often
With great presence of mind Mizer In­ been declared. There is even a way of
you happy if I only knew how.”
He came and sat down by me. He took stantly stepped backward against a tree deceiving the ear by thinning the wood
my hand and said: “Isaura, dearest, I have and pressed the creature hard against It. of the breast underneath the bridge. The
no fault to find with you. But 1 wronged He then dropped his gun, drew out hi» purchiiscr looks only at the thickness of
you terribly by marrying you, as you will hunting knife, and was successful in using the wood, indicated by the f. f. holes,
know some day. Oh, heaven!” he cried ft upon the side of the biting, scratching and the tones being responsive will lead
wildly. “I wish It were all over! What beast.
He continued to press against the tree him to believe tlie violin an old and rare
pangs have I not suffered!”
Then he flung my hand away, aud began with all his might., and within a few min­ instrument. But it will deteriorate with
utes the catamount ceased to struggle, and time.—St. Louis Republican.
the old monotonous pacing.
I made no further attempt to break down when at length the man stepped forward
Salt as a Medlelee.
the barrier between us after that, but the creature dropped dead at hie feet. It
There is the highest medical authority
drifted slowly into a separate life, with its weighed more than a hundred pounds and
measured three feet in length.—Youth’s for the statement that there is nothing
own pursuits and pleasures.
better than common salt for any ordinary
One day my husband came in with a Companion.
nurried, determined air. He threw him­
inflammation of the throat, mouth, or
A Valuable Trinket.
self into a chair and said; “Business calls
nasal passages. Dissolve a dessert spoon­
me to C---- immediately. I may make a
"Excelsior” is the name of a new pro­ ful in a coffee cup. and gargle the solu­
lengthy stay, and as I have a house there, duction of Parisian ingenuity. It 1» a per-, tion, or snuff it up the nose until it comes
** well come with me, Laura.”
petual calendar in the shape of a trinket out into the backmouth. Repeat two or
A house in C——I You never told me made of gold or oxidized silver. No larger three times a day until <nn»l.
you ha$l lived there.”
than an ordinary coin, it enables you, by [ Dr. Thackeray, of I'hda lelphia, has
He looked at me witl/a strange, burning simply shifting the central disk, to ascer­ found that salt is effective in the most
look in hia eye: then bit his lips and said tain the day of the week corresponding to violent attacks of erysipelas, and. more­
carelessly:
any particular date either in the past or in
“What do you knew of C---- ? I might the future, and conversely on what date over. leaves no unsightly scars tiehind.
He uses a saturated solution—that is as
have mentioned it had I known the name XX» y»bX^ «r
■;
bad any special interest for you.”
“It has,” 1 said. “I had a friend there fall The article in question has been keeps the ports covered with a cloth wet
years ago. His btisinees was the same aa greatly admired at the Moscow exhibition. it At the same be c<»ls the system with
a dose of Epeom salts, mixed with lemon
yours. It was more than eight years ago —La Feuille d'Avia.
juice, and orders a light farinaceous diet.
that he took leave of us, and we never saw
or heard from him since. If you could
_ Youth * Companion.
Raielffh'* Head.
throw light on his fate it would be some­
Sir Walter Raleign's bead in a red bag
Corks In the Bricks.
thing of a relief after all these years.”
was carried to hi» wife, who caused it to be
“That I ean hardly do. I leftC---- nearly embalmed »nd kept it with her all her life,
German builders we a mixture of cork,
ten yean ago, and have only been there permitting favored friends, like
■and. and lime molded into brick» fwthe
•ince on flying business visits like thia one.
ON
A
PAMETTO.
How Tin Plato. Are Made.
The following particulars of the More-
wood process of tinning plates, now in
use in the United States, may be of in­
terest. The plates are rolled in the or­
dinary manner into black sheets, eight
of these sheets being rolled at one time,1
and after being sheared to size are put
in the black pickle bath of sulphuric
acid, where all oxidation is removed.
They are then placed in an annealing
furnace for thirty-six hours, after which
they are passed through the cold rolls,
receiving a smoothly polished surface.
They are annealed again and put intc
the white pickle, where they are thor­
oughly cleansed from any oxidation.
They are then ready for the tinning
process.
The mode of putting on the coating of
tin is very simple. The plates are first
submerged in a bath of palm oil until all
the water disappears, the oil forming a
flux for the tin. the first coat of which is
received in the tin pot: the plates are
next dipped in the “wash pot,” and whet
taken out the tin is spread over the Bur
face with a brush by hand. The final
act iu the tin coating process consists in
passing the plates through rolls running
iu palm oil, whereby the tin is evenly
distributed and a smooth surface ol>
tained.
There are five of these rolls used, three
running on top of two, and the platei
make two passes through them, in the
first place being let down through the
first and second of the upper set, and by
a cradle arrangement being returned
through the second and third. This com­
pletes the tinning operation proper, and
the polish is obtained by rapid move '
ments of the plates through bran and
middlings, respectively, and then polish­
ing with sluepskin. The result obtained
is a very excellent article of bright tin
plate.—Iron.
Wliat Vertigo Come» From.
One of the principal causes of the
more serious forms of vertigo, or dizzi­
ness. is a diseased condition of the in­
most portion of the ear, the labyrinth.
Vertigo of greater or less severity may
result from whatever disturbs the blood
pressure, either within tlie labyrinth or
in the middle ear. Similar effects are
also produced by false impressions re­
ceived through the eye, or through the
senso of touch, and by disease of the
spinal cord.
Since the great nerve which goes to
the stomach is at its cerebral center inti­
mately associated with the auditory
nerve, disturbance of the stomach may
cause the vertigo, and on the other hand,
a disturbance of the auditory nerve may
occasion nausea or vomiting. Vertigo
is sometimes brought on by paralysis of
a single muscle of the eye, or even by
the temporary weakness of an overtaxed
ocular muscle.
The form of vertigo now known as
“Meniere’s disease" is that form which
the famous Dean Swift suffered, and
under which he often appeared like a
staggering drunkard. The patient on
rising in the morning feel» as if the
room were whirling round, or as if he
were floating or sinking. Sometimes he
falls when attacked, but lie never loses
consciousness. There are noises—some­
times quite loud—in the ear and more
or less deafness. There may be also
faintness and vomiting. The attacks in­
cline to be repeated with increasing fre­
quency, In the intervals, however, the
patient remains well.—Youth’s Com-
pan ion.
Those New Net Dresses.
“Have you seen the new net dresses?
I don’t like them, they are two com­
municative.”
_
"Why, for pity’s sake, what do you
mean ?”
i
“Just what I say, they are too cow
municative. You buy one, and see whs«
a fix you will be in. 1 have one. and
every time 1 put it on I wish 1 never had
been born. Everything sticks to it. If
you sit on the beach when you get up
you are covered with shells, minnows,
dirt. If you chat confidentially with a
young man and get interested and sit a
little near him, the wool from his suit
clings to the netting, and every one of
your friends knows right away with
whom you have been spending your
time. Oh, they are horrid things! The
merchants are advertising them big, but
1 wouldn't have another for any money.”
The »peakers were two women ravag­
ing the Broadway dry goods stores for
wardrobes for a season at Newport.—
New York Recorder.
Contagious IliifM«,
Individual resistance to contagion is
none the less remarkable. A physician
or nurse will lie brought into the most
intimate contact with a case of contagi­
ous disease without contracting it, while
the same patient may communicate it to
a person passing him in the street, in the
early stages of his trouble, before it has
developed sufficiently to cause any
alarm. We have known of a most tna-
lignant attack of diphtheria comtnuni-;
cated to a druggist by a person calling
at the store before his disease had fully
developed itself; and a lady suffering
from the mnrnps succeeded in communi­
cating them to a sympathizing neighbor
who stopped for a moment at the door
to inquire after her health, while other
members of the family residing in the
same house remained unaffected.—Popu­
lar Science News.
A On. Sided
The champion horse trade of the vicin­
ity took place recently A well known
Lee jockey secured a showy colt, and
hied himself to the Dale to see the boys.
When he came back he was driving a
fine black bone, leading a good bay,
while there followed behind * pair of
oxen, a cow. an old sow and eight pigs.
—Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Beaotlful Shell Monar-
The most beantifol shell money in ths
world is made of the abalone of our
western coasts.
When polished the
abalone shows lovely green, purple and
TWO ALTERNATIVES.
Shrewd Young Man Chooses An
fair but the Expensive One.
Cn-
Mil PRESIDENT, ONLY.
A young man came to this city some BUT ONE FORM OF ADDRESS FOR
Played to Get Big time ago with no capital, but with an
experienced and expert knack of getting
Money.
rid of money He brought letters in­
THE CHIEF
EXECUTIVE.
Hr 1« Not “Tonr Excellency,” Nor “Your
troducing him to the favorable attention
Honor"—Neither 1« He to Be Written
of several rich and influential New York
to •• “Dear Str” —FI h I ii Mr. President
businessmen. His relatives in the west
In Sufficient—Why It W»a So Decreed.
—persons of good social standing and
Styles of Hanking That I*roved Unpopu­ some means—were very glad to grant
If you ask a president’s private secre­
lar at Louisville and
Philadelphia. such courtesies to him in consideration tary he will tell yon, among other
Bow Mr. MiiMgrave Tried to Swindle of his departure from their immediate things, that not one persou out of ten in
neighborhood. He had proved an ex- i writing to the president addresses him
Life I unii ranee Companies.
pensive indulgence for them.
properly. Each corresjiondent seems to
Three remarkably complicated cases of
One of the gentlemen upon whom the
frau.1 have recently excited the reading young man called was the president of a follow his own sweet fancy. Thus the
public All allow how very hard it is tc flourishing down town bank. This bank man who writes and asks for a pension
or an office on tlie ground that he served
be a rascal nowadays ami net away with
anything Major William Tillman waa president had been the intimate friend in the war is apt to begin his letter,
of
the
young
man's
father,
and,
without
born in New York in 183-1, served on th(
“Dear General." and after having told
staff of General A. S William», of Michi thinking of the consequences, be offered his want» he signs himself, "Yours fra­
to do anything in his power to advance ternally.”
the interests of the sou of his old friend. I This is pretty familiar. The president
The young man had "a business scheme" isn't a general, except in that he is com­
in his head and he wanted credit at the mander in chief of the army, and as for
bank until his expected remittances ar- i al) meu being brothers, it is true as a
rived. The bank president told him theory, but is hardly correct on all occa­
that he might draw up to $1,000.
sions as a practice. If the letter from
The checks came in promptly for large the old army man is answered, as nearly
and small amounts until the young all letters are, the writer is addressed
man's overdrawn account amounted to with due formality as "Sir," and not as
$1,150. The hard headed cashier then “Dear Comrade." This ought to be a
went to the president and suggested sufficient hint to him to keep his dis­
that the hank ought to have some col­ tance, but it is not, ami a week later he
lateral. He frankly admitted that he bobs up serenely with another long com­
had no confidence in either the young munication to bis "Dear General.”
man s schemes or his intentions. The
There are a number of his correspond­
president saw the force of his cashier's ents who wish to be very formal and
suggestion, but, still chary of offending respectful, and they always call him
his old friend's son, he wrote a personal “Excellency." It sounds so big, is such
letter to the young man, saying:
a pleasing mouthful, that many people
MAJOR WILLIAM TILLMAN.
Mv D baii Y ovno F kikno —It has been a who ought to know better cannot resist
gnn, during the war and then held a lucra­ pleasure
for me to accommodate you with a I
tive place as paymaster He married a small line of credit at the haul». Sufficient the temptation of using this form. As
Miss Pettit, a daughter in one of the time, however, has o lapsed, I think, to enable between such an expression as “Dear
wealthiest families in Louisville, located you to realize on your own resources, anil I General” anil “Your Excellency” the
there in 1875 and was soon a favorite of the trust that you are now aide to make a settle­ former is preferable, for there is no law
very i>est society and in tine time became ment. In fact, 1 am constrained to say that against it, while there certainly is an
you must either make your account »ood or
cashier of the Palls City bank
unwritten law against the latter.
At length he was made commissioner of ( cease drawing checks on the bank
When the constitution was formed
the sinking fund, which enabled him to i The yottng man wits n d thin skinned,
put *900.000 of public money in his bank, I and this letter did not offend him. He there was a great deal of discussion as
and then,as the evidence now indicates, he smiled as he read the closing sentence, to tlie form of address that should be
went wild When the Democrats nomina* and stepping into the office of a friendly applied to the president. Some people
ted another man to succeed him, his friends broker, he penned the following note:
thought he should be addressed "Excel­
created a deadlock in the city council and (
H
kapbcthu S ih -Accept my cordial thanks lency," others would be satisfied with
so held him in place Then he contracted for your kindness. Of the two alternatives “Your Highness," while still others
with one William P Johnson to elect the that you suggest I am obliged to accept ths thought ho should be called “Majesty."
latter count}' clerk in 1890, on condition latter. 1 bluill <•» • drawing checks on your
The New Yorkers who bore in mind the
that the bank should run that office, and bank. With kii
I regard», etc.
days of the Dutch republic wanted the
spent somewhere (»etween *50,000 and *90,
The kind heart od bank president was heatl of this republic called “His High
000 in the election No such corruption' somewhat nonplussed by thU*reply, and
had ever been known in Kentucky As1
Mightiness."
much as *150 was paid for one vote. But he showed tlie note to his cashier. That
FREQUENT MISTAKES.
Johnson was beaten and .Major Tillmail practical functionary looked over his
After a great deal of wrangling and
was ruined Nevertheless, he kept up a fail gold riimned glasses at his superior and considerable exhibition of party feeling
outside appearance until the bank made an said: “Umph! well, that is pretty slick,
assignment a few mont hs ago, and as soon But
“ you have got rid of him cheapei over tlie matter, it was finally decided
as the new bookkeepers got to work figured than 1 thought you would.”—New York for all time tocoaie that the chief execu­
tive Hltould be addressed simply as "the
of grave meaning were revealed
Times.
president of the United States.” That
Major Tillman had systematically falsi
fled all the accounts Overdrafts were
settled it and made it an impropriety to
Wliy Erl« Are Objectionable.
found on firms long gone out of business.
Inasmuch as eels must go to sea in call him ' Excellency.” The governor of
One for *5,000 was on L. L Warren, who
order to propagate their species, they are a state has more form about him iu cor­
found not to multiply at all when placed respondence than the president, for un­
in ponds that are landlocked, although less there is a clause in the constitution
in such places they will grow rapidly of the state expressly prescribing some
and bo healthy. It costs so little to pur­ other mode of address, it is correct to
chase young ones by the quantity that call him "Excellency."
The democratic spirit of some states
this is no obstacle to the usefulness <>t
stocking inland waters with these fish. has interfered to prevent this, and it has
They have many very important advan­ been prescribed that the governor re­
tages from the economic point of view, ceive some simpler title, but there are
inasmuch as they will feed on anything only two or three of these states. As •
dead or ailve, will thrive in water clear general thing the rule can be laid dowu
or muddy and at any temperature, and that the governor of a state should be
addressed “Your Excellency." To begin
require no looking out for.
However, in rivers like the Susque­ a letter to the president in the same way
hanna, where gill nets are used, eel» is to establish an equality between the
are very undesirable. It is not unusual two executives that does not exist.
Another frequent mistake is made by
upon hauling the nets in that stream
and in others farther south to find that those who begin their letters to th»
the catch has been entirely eaten up by president, “Your Honor.” His honor it
myriads of the aquirniing robbers,which tlie presiding judge of a court, or usually
have left little besides heads and back­ the mayor of a city. Some men, from
bones. It has been found advantageous constant associations with courts of jus­
CIIAIILF.8 LAWKENCK.
by tlie fish commission to plant eels in tice, come to regard the judge as th»
had bten daag
years H
highest ami mightiest individual on
count was overdrawn ter £U enormous the Upper great lakes and in tlie Missis earth, ami they can conceive of no great­
sum. And. wdrst of all. be had convert Bippi. They have also been introduced er distinction to lie conferred on th»
to hi* own personal uae some #15.000 out of Tory Rtaas-i.lully in California.—New
president than tocall him "Your Honor."
t he fo’rtnne of f2I.«» left to the widow and York
,
Sun.
To cut a long matter short, let the cor-
(laughter of II ” Alexander, formerly!
Curved Truwk* Get Strelfht.
Nut toimfor a< 1 < inaaing
ent lie
cashier of the bank Yet hTJ-
XMM* |
ceeded in getting hi in well on the way
V“—iihly the greatest maiiif>“station at given I te amply “
Canada before much of this was known.
growth |siw< i ''’•»♦ wnoM be referred t* . rieuu, pra*l«Bt *
The Philadelphia Keystone bank story is is in the power of many Irel' to eurw , Mr. President." 1
similar Its president, Marsh, is not yet their trunks when partly blown over,’’’
vnur »ay. if you are nJf pn
found “Honest John’’ Hardsley is in the
i **r
penitentiary for fourteen years Charles though they may have hail them straight can finish tTir “rawinnicat'on
have
the
honor
to
be,
STnTTiwfteiit,
for
a
quarter
of
a
century
This
curious
,
hwrence, cashier of the Keystone, is In foi
seven years and others have suffered ac­ subject is yet in its infancy as a branch | your obedient servant, John Smith."
ADDRESSED BY KINOS.
cording to their degrees of guilt. Soon of study; but so fur the curving has I
Don't make the mistake that is some­
after receiving his sentence Mr. Ijiwrencs been noticed more in connection with
favored Bank Examiner W. II Drew with palms and coniferous trees. A trunk times perpetrated of signing yourself
a circumstantial account of their methods may be, say twenty or thirty feet high thus; “1 have the honor to be John
of deceiving bim
Smith." It may reflect honor on you to
B. K. Musgrave was an enterprising lad ami afoot thick, and as straight as a gun
of Indiana, Illinois and all around there, barrel. Should it, from any cause, be­ be who you are, but it is hardly modest
who had had some trouble on a charge of come tilted in a few years the whois of you to say so. What you want to
forgery but still retained a good standing trunk from the ground to the summit say is that you consider it an honor to
be the president's obedient servant.
with his friends Charles M Trout was * will lie found curved like a bow.
real estate dealer of Terre Haute. These two
To the rest of the world Uncle Sam
It was at onetime thought that plants
1125
for
a
skeleton
in
St.
ix>uis,
an*
paid
grew toward the light, and we come to and the president are one, aud that is
believe that "as I Im twig ih le nt the tree why the latter insists upon ceremony in
is inclined," but it now seems that his di-alings with other powers. Proba­
“grew” is not here an active verb—the bly readers are familiar with the form
mass of/oliuge that which was grown as observed in correspondence between the
wi ll as that which is growing—is really president aud the head of another
lifted - lifted by some power in nature government. It is part of the law of
so far entirely unknown to vegetable bi­ nations that they are all coequal.
The king of Samoa writes to President
ology.—Thomas Meehan in Philadelphia
Harrison in the same terms of equality
Ledger._____________ __
as are use»l by the emperor of Germany,
New etitl Hernilr«« Antlarptle.
and the president replies in kind. The
A new antiieptic agent called micro­ The head of these little island, receive»
rid i tie. which is composed <»f 75 (ter cent, a munificent salary of les» than $300 a
of naphthol of s<xium and 25 ¡ st cent, year—that is, he receives it if there is
of naphthol and phenyl compound*, ha* money enough in the treasury to [>ay it.
been tried in France. It is a white pow­
When Germany had trouble with his
der. soluble in three parts of wat»*r. majesty and demanded an indemnity for
The solution, which is cheap, is said to damages of $10,000, a broad smile went
l>e a very effective antiwptic, without around the world, for it was well known
Iteing (Mjisonous or caustic or injurious that the treasury of Samoa had never
to instruments or linen Its antiseptic had, and in all probability never would
properties are inferior to those of corro­ have, a sum half so large in its coffers.
sive sublimate or naphthol, but surpass Yet the king of Samoa is addressed by
R H MVSORAVC.
planed It In a logbduee near Terre Haute those of carbolic and boracic acids ten the president as "Great and good friend,"
which was temporarily the home of .Mr an<l twenty times respectively. The so­ and the president signs himself, "Your
Musgrave One night the cabin was lution ha* given excellent results in
burned, the bones were found and great dressing wound* - New York Telegram. good friend," and when Queen Victoria
receive» a letter from the president h»
was the wailing of .Mr Musgrave's mother
treats her with precisely the same for­
and sister It was sien revealed, however,
A New ll»y II take.
mality and no more. —Washington Star.
that the “deceased” bail $»I.«UO Insurance
A westerner han invented a hay rake
on hie life—a very large sum for an un which he thinks will avoid some of the
Strength of Men and Ant*.
married man—all the policies having been
defects of those now in use. It is »com­
An ant three-eighth* of an inch long,
taken within a few weeks.
Tbe companies decided to net the detect- bination of the sulky and revolving rakes. carrying a burden of one-sixth of a grain,
Ives to work, and straightway .Mr. Trout Thera are the wooden teeth of the re­ moves at the rate of one mile in eleven
was scared almost to death. He wasn't volving rake hanging under and revolv­ hours. This weight—a small one com­
the sluff that socenssful criminals nra ing round the sxle. The proper motion pared with what they sometimes carry—
mails of. He told Frederick F Markle, is given by means of a hinged back. The is eighteen times their own. In currying
brother-ln-law of .Musgrave, all about It, nl a h a sulky rake which will not
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