The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VIII.
HAHKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1890.
NUMBER 21.
THE CRY OF ARMENIA
DR. TALMAGE RELATES HOR
RORS OF THE MASSACRE.
The Turk Places So Valne on the Life
of a Christian Heroic Work of MIs-alonariee-Uutr
of tho Nation to
fctop Persecution.
Oar Weekly Sermon.
It was appropriate that in the presence
at bis Washington church of the chief
men of this nation and other nations Dr.
Talmage should tell the story of Arme
nian massacre. What will be the extent
or good of such a discourse Done can tell.
The teit was II King jclx., 37. 'They
escaped Into the land of Armenia."
In Itible geography this is the first time
that Armenia appears, called then by thu
same name as now. Armenia, is chiefly a
tableland, 7,000 feet above the level of the
aea, and on one of Its peaks Noah's ark
landed, with its human family and fauna
that were to fill the earth. That region
was the birthplace of the rivers which
fertilized the garden of Eden when Adam
and Eve lived there, their only roof the
crystal skies and their carpet the emerald
of rich grass. Its inhabitants, the eth
nologists tell us, are a superior tyie of
the Caucasian race. Their religion is
founded on the Bible. Their Saviour Is
our Christ. Their crime Is that they will
not become followers of Mohammed, that
Jupiter of sensuality. To drive them from
the face of the earth la the ambition of
all Mohammedans. To accomplish this
murder ia uo crime, and wholesale massa
cre is a matter of enthusiastic approba
tion and governmental reward.
The prayer sanctioned by highest Mo
hammedan authority and recited every
day throughout Turkey and Egypt, while
atyling all those not Mohammedans as In
fidels, is as follows: " Ird of all crea
tures! () Alluh, destroy the Infidels and
jtolytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of
the religion! ) Allah, make their chil
dren orphans and defile their bodies!
Cause their feet to slip, give them and
their families, their households and their
women, their children and their relatives
by marriage, their brothers and their
friends, their possessions and the race,
their wealth and their lands as booty to
the Moslems, (.) Iord of all creatures!"
Turks at the Old Business.
The life of an Armenian Id the presence
of those who make that prayer is of no
more value than the life of a summer In
sert. The sultan of Turkey sits on a
throne Impersonating that brigandage and
assassination. At this time all civilize)
aliens art in horror at taw attempts of
wt Mohammedan goveraawnt to destroy
ad th Christiana of Armenia. I bear
somebody talking as though some new
thing were happening, and that the Turk
ish government had taken a new role of
tragedy on the stage of nations. No, no!
Hue ia at the same old business. Over
looking her diabolism of other centuries,
we come down to our century to find that
in ltC2 the Turkish government slew 50,-
000 snti-Moslenis, and In 1X)0 she slew
10,000, and In 1800 she slew 11.000, and
in 1870 she slew 10,000. Anything short
of the slaughter of thousands of human
beings does not put enough red wine Into
her enp of abomination to make it worth
ooaffing. Nor ia this the only time she
has promised reform. In the presence of
the warships at the mouth of the Darda
nelles aha has promised the civilised na
tions of the earth that she would stop her
butcheries, and the international and hem
ispheric farce has been enacted of believ
ing what she says, when all the past ought
to persuade us that she is only pausing in
her atrocities to put nations off the track
and then resume the work of death.
In 1820 Turkey, in treaty with Russia,
promised to alleviate the condition of
Christiana, but the promise was broken.
In 1839 the then sultan promised protec
tion of life and property without reference
to religion, and the promise was broken.
1 o 1844, at the demand of an English min
ister plenipotentiary, the sultan declared,
after the public execution of an Armenian
at Constantinople, that no such death pen
alty should agaia be inflicted, and the
promise was broken. In 1860, at the de
mand of foreign nations, the Turkish gov
ernment promised protection to Protest
ants, bat to this day the Protestants at
Ktambonl are not allowed td build a
cboreh, although they have the fnnds
ready, and the Greet Protest ante, w&o
have church, are not permitted to wor
ship la a In ISM, after the Oriateaa
wet, Turkey promised that no ooe aboaid
be hiadered In the xsrt-la ef the religion
he professed, a ad that premise baa baas
bteken. In Xtflt, at the sssnorahse treaty
of Berlin, Turkey pri Isii religious 11b
rly to all aer subjects In every pert of
the Oftoaua empire, and the promise was
broken. Mot enoe la all the oaotaiiat has
the Turkish fovernssent kept her promise
f merey. Ho far from any improvement
the aontUtion of the Armenians has be
come weos and worse year by year, and
all the promisee the Turkish government
new make are only a gatulag ef time by
which aha la making preparation for the
remplet extermination of Christianity
f ran her border.
Blot Oat MenasssnedaalasB.
Why, after all the national and conti
nental and hemispheric lying on the part
ef the Turkish government, de not the
warship of Europe rid np as clone as t
loeslbte to the palace of Constantinople
and blow that accursed government to
atoms? In the name of the eternal Ood
let the nalaanc of the ages be wiped off
the face of the earth! Down to the perdi
tion from trbieh It smoked up sink Mo
hammedanlaml Between three outbreak
of mil era tb Armenian suffer In al
ienee wnsofli that ar seldom If ever t
parted. They ar taxed heavily for Mm
m rWlbsj) ef Mvtag, a ft tax
anJVtd "tb bamlttatioa tax." Tier as
mmifil ta 00 tar dare' w
stay pan that way. Tnr asset nor
HI i II ta too nr, lent h mm)
the rata ef Ms paopsrty ta bight.
1Jb Italian ta aoart kKH mm,
44 If 19 Arm tan saw wrong eear-
mitted snd one Moha.nmedan was present
the testimony of the one Mohammedan
would be taken and the testimony of the
SO Armenians rejected. In other words,
the solemn oath of a thousand Armenians
wonld not be strong enough to overthrow
the perjury of one Mohammedan. A pro
fessor was condemned to death for trans
lating the English "Book of Common
Prayer" into Turkish. Seventeen Arme
nians were sentenced to fifteen years' Im
prisonment for rescuing a Christian bride
from the bandits. This is the way the
Turkish government amuses itself in time
of peace. These are the delights of Turk
ish civilization.
Hut when the days of massacre come
then deeds are done which may not be un
veiled in any refined assemblage, and If
one 8eaks of the horrors he must do so
in well poised and cautious vocabulary.
Hundreds of villages destroyed! Young
men put in piles of brushwood, which are
then sHturuted with kerosene and set on
fire! Mothers, In the most solemn hour
that ever comes in a woman's life, hurled
out and bayoneted! Eyes gouged out and
dead and dying hurled Into the sunie pit!
The slaughter of Lueknow and Cawnpur.
India, in 1K57, eclipsed in ghastlinees!
The worst scenes of the French revolution
in Paris made more tolerable in contrast!
In many regions of Armenia the only
undertakers to-day are the jackals and
hyenas. Many of the chiefs of the massa
cres were sent straight from Constanti
nople to do their work, and having return
ed were decorated by the sultan.
Turkish Murderers Decorated.
To four of the worst murderers the sul
tan sent silk banners In delicate apprecia
tion of their services. Five hundred thou
sand Armenians put to death or dying of
starvation! This moment, while I speak,
all up and down Armenia sit many people,
freezing In the ashes of their destroyed
homes, bereft of most of their households
and awaiting the club of assassination to
put them out of their misery. No wonder
that the physlcinns of that region declar
ed that among all the men and women that
were down with wounds and sickness and
tinder their care not one wanted to get
well. Remember that nearly all the re
ports that have come to us of the Turkish
outrages have been manipulated and mod
ified and softened by the Turks them
selves. The story Is not half told, or a
hundredth part told, or a thousandth part
told.
None but Ood and our suffering broth
ers and sisters in that faroff land know
the whole story, and it will not be known
until, in the coronations of heaven, Christ
shall lift to a special throne of glory these
heroes and heroines, saying, "These are
they who came out of great tribulation
and bad their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb!", Mr
Lord au4 ar M A thus didst on the croea
nffar for them. Vat then nreiy, O Christ,
wilt not forget how much they bar suf
fered for the! I dare not deal In impre
cation, but I never so mneh enjoyed the
Imprecatory songs of David a since I
hare heard bow those Turks are treating
the Armenians. The fact ia, Turkey ha
got to be divided up among other nations.
Of course the European nations must take
the chief part, but Turkey ought to be
compelled to pay America for the Ameri
can mission buildings and American
school house she has destroyed and to
support the wives and children of the
Americana ruined by this wholesale butch
ery. When the English lion and the Rus
sian bear put their paws on that Turkey,
the American eagle ought to put in its
bill.
Missionary Heroes.
Who are these American and English
and Scotch missionaries who are being
hounded among the mountains of Ar
menia by the Mohammedans? The no
blest men and women this side of heaven,
some of them men who took the highest
honors at Yale and Princeton and Har
vard and Oxford and Edinburgh; some of
those women, gentlest and most Christ
like, who, to save people they never saw,
turned their backs on luxurious homes to
sjiend their days in self-expatriation, say
ing good-by to father and mother and af
terward good-by to their own children, a
circumstances compel them to send the
little ones to England, Scotland or Amer
ica. I have seen these foreign mission
aries in their homes all around the work),
and I stamp with Indignation upon the
literary blackguardism of foreign corre
spondents who have depreciated these
heroes and heroines who ar willing to live
and die for Christ's sake. They will he ve
the highest throne In heaven, while their
defame rs will not get near enough to the
shining gate to see the faintest glint of
any one of the twelve pearl which make
ap the twelve gates.
Daty of the Hr.
Bat what la the duty or the hour? Sym
pathy, deep, wide, tremendous, Immediate!
A retigtees paper, Tb Christian Herald
of Mew Terk, ha led th way with munl
tceat cootribe tioos collected from sub
scriber. But the Turkish government is
opnpead to any relief of the Armenian
sufferers, a I personally know. Last
Aagost, before I had any idea of becom
ing a fellow citlsen with yoo Waahing
tonlans, 900,000 for Armenian relief waa
offered me if I would personally uke that
relief to Armenia. My paaaag wa to be
agaged on the Ctty of Paris, bat a tele
gram was sent to Constantinople, asking
If th Turkish government would grant
me protection on such an errand of mercy.
A cablegram said the Turktab government
wished to know to what point In Armenia
I desired to go with that relief. In onr
reply four dtlea were named, en of them
the scene of what had been to chief mas
sacre. A cablegram came from Constan
tinople saying that I had better send the
money to the Turkish government' mix
ed commission, and they would distribute
It Ho a cobweb of spider proponed a re
lief for nnfortunaU Steal Wall, a man
who would start np through tb moun
tain of Armenia with $80,000 and no gev
eramcntaJ protection woo Id be gnllty of
amnmewtal foomardlaas.
The Turkish gov era meat ha ia every
poaarbt war bl adored Armanlaa relief.
Now whan hi that aagol af ssaeey, Clara
BrbT. who appaarat n ha Ml
f
if Vrawak nf German w it tMk i
Paris and in Johnstown floods, and
Charleston earthquake, and Michigan
fires, and Russian famines? It was com
paratively of little importance that the
(ierman emeror decorated her with the
Iron Cross, for God hath decorated her in
the sight of all nations with a glory that
neither time nor eternity can dim. Born
in a Massachusetts village, she came in
her girlhood to rhis city to serve our gov
ernment in the patent office, but after
ward went forth from the doors of that
patent ottice with a divine patent, signed
and scaled uy Cod himself, to heal all the
wounds she could touch and make the
horrors of the flood and fire and plague
and hospital fly her presence. God bless
Clara Itarton! Just as I expected, he
lifts the banner of the Ited Cross.
The Hed Cross of Mercy.
Turkey and all nations are pledged to
respect and defend that Ked Cross, al
though that color of cross does not. In the
opinion of many, stand for Christianity.
In my opinion it doe stand for Christian
ity, for was not the cross under which
most of us worship red with the blood of
the Son of God, red with the best blood
that was ever shed, red with the blood
loured out for the ransom of the world?
Then lead on, O Hed Cross! And lef
Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish gov
ernment is bound to protect her, and the
chariots of God are 20,000, and their char
ioteers are angels of deliverance, and they
would all ride down at once to roll over
and trample under the hoofs of their white
horses any of her assailants. May the
eToo,0U0 she seeks be laid at her feet!
Then may :he ships that carry her across
Atlantic and Mediterranean seas be guid
ed safely by him wlio trod into sapphire
pavement bpHtormed Galilee! L'pon soil
incarnadined with martyrdom let the Ited
Cross be planted, until every demolished
village shall be rebuilded, and every pang
of hunger be fed, and every wound of
cruelty -be healed, and Armenia stand
with as much liberty to serve God in Its
own way as in this the best land of all
the earth we, the descendants of the
Puritans and Hollanders and Huguenots,
are free to worship the Christ who came
to set all nations free.
Doctrine of Helpfulness.
It has been said that if we go over there
to interfere on another continent that
will imply the right for other nations to
Interfere with affairs on this continent,
and so the Monroe doctrine be jeopardized.
No, no! President Cleveland expressed
the sentiment of every intelligent and pat
riotic American when he thundered from
the White House a warning to all nation
that there is not one acre or one Inch more
of ground on this continent for any trans
Atlantic government to occupy. And by
that doctrine we stand now and shall for
ever stand. - ,
But ther I a doctrin a moca higher
than th Monro doctrin a th heaven
are higher than the earth, and that is the
doctrine of humsnitarianism and sympa
thy and Christian helpfulness which one
cold December midnight, with loud and
multitudinous chant, awakened the shep
herds. Wherever ther la a wound it ia
our duty, whether aa Individual or a
nations, to balsam it. Wherever ther
is a knife of ansa ad nation lifted it Is our
duty to ward off ths blade. Wherever
men are persecuted for their religion It la
our duty to break that arm of power,
whether it be thrust forth from a Protest
ant church or a Catholic cathedral or a
Jewish synagogue or a mosque of Islam.
We all recognize the right on a small scale.
If. going down the road, we find a ruffian
maltreating a child, or a human brut in
sulting a woman, ws take a hand In the
contest if we are not cowards, and though
we be slight In personal presence, because
of our indignation we come to weigh about
twenty tons, and the harder ws punish
the villain the louder our conscience ap
plauds tie. In such case we do not keep
our hands in our pockets, arguing that
if we interfere with the brute, the brute
might think he wonld have a right to In
terfere with us and so jeopardize the Mon
roe doctrine.
Ths Ark of gysapathjr.
The fact is that that persecution of the
Armenians by the Turks must be stopped,
or God Almighty will curse all Christen
dom for its damnable indifference and
apathy. But the trumpet of resurrection
is about to sound for Armenia. Did I say
in opening that on one of the peaks of Ar
menia, this very Armenia of which we
speak, in Noah's time the ark landed, ac
cording to the myth, as some think, but
according to God's "say so," a I know,
and that it was after a long storm of forty
day and forty nights, called th deluge,
and that afterward a dove weat forth
from that ark and returned with aa oMve
leaf in her beak? Svsa so new there I
another ark being launched, but thia on
goes sailing, not over a deluge of water,
but deluge of Mood tb ark of Arme
nia sympathy and that ark, landing on
Ararat, from it window ahall ly th save
of kindness snd pea, to Dud we elive
leaf of returning prosperity, while all (hs
mountains of Moslem prejudice, oppres
sion and cruelty shall stand fifteen cubits
under. Meanwhile w would like to gath
er all the dying groans of all the 000,000
victims of Mohammedan oppression and
intone them Into one prayer that would
mov th earth aad the heavens, hundreds
of millions of Christians' voices, Ameri
can snd European, crying out: "O Ood
Most Uigbl Hpare thy children. With
mandate from the throne hurl back upon
their haunches the bones of the Kurdish
cavalry. Stop the rivers of blood. With
th earthquakes of thy wrath ahaks ths
foundations of the palace of th sultan.
Mot all th nations of Europe to com
mand cessation of cruelty. If need be, let
th warship of civilised nations boom
their Indignation. It the crescent go
down before the cross, and th Mighty
One who hath on Ma vesture and on hi
thigh nam written 'King of King and
Lord of Lord,' go forth, conquering and
to conqaar. Thins, O Lord, la th king
dom! Halleiajahl Anion r
Tb old rang of 10 bj4 30 loch oakbor
t ran Hamilton, Hw Tock, an fit
hay po to wonpoa af malar
Bat Um itw mmm vtl anfty a
taa asttan, or taw Omm ta raaanafiBo
t mm, aasj aaa akm b srwl wtta
WEE FOLKS' FKOCKS.
LATEST STYLES WORN BY LIT
TLE GIRLS.
Hot Until the Daaabter Is Font-teen
or Fifteen should She Brain to Dree
After the Manner of Her Elder
Wrap in Small Sizes.
Minr Catching Models.
Vw Xork correspoadsnce:
MALL folks
should be dressed
to look young aa
long a possible.
Some mothers go
bo far a to dres
their daughters of
14 and 16 in nurs
ery style, eiM!cial
y If there are a
lot of older sisters
to nmrry off. Of
course, the girls
don't like this, but
they don't know
how pretty they
look with their
straight gowns
and hair about
their face. Certainly not till a girl Is
14 and 15 should her 3 reuses fit along
arown-up lines, and It la really wrong
to put her into corsets until she Is 10.
These early teen find girls at a time
when It Is a difficult problem to dress
them prettily, but with the tots It is
ee-sler. Mins Dernurity, aged 8, 4 or 5,
U the sweetest thing In the world to
look at In the little wool gowns she
wears now In the house. To be sure,
wlien she sits, as she was posed for
this picture, on a Aa1r In which her
little toes can hardly tip' the ground,
WHAI'S IS W1I SUKS.
nays: "My dollle not rey well," and
Mffba, it's hard to look at anything but
Hi dear face and the ttny pug of soft
bavlr, trot the gown la worth looking at,
too. It la the softest blue caanniere, or
may be of Challle. Tb skirt la full on
th wide belt tbat make the dress
quaintly nhort-walstd, and the wee
bodice 1 tucked up and down, the tucks
being feather-etiluyhed. The baby-neck
end It la a pretty fashion, though the
hygienlsn are down upon It Is bared
by a little square cut-out Prom be
low Che puffs at the shoulders long
leevea come, but roe sleeves can be
snipped out to show the dimpled arm.
The mother who bares her little
daughter's arms and neck ln-Vx)rs can
find some eicivne for it, no matter how
tnUjCfo physicians condemn It, friwn die
fact Ifcat Children's coats and wraps
prortd no thoroughly for tjielr com
fort outdoors. Wee cloak are found
In a variety of style that are as com
fortnbla a can be. One serviceable
model appear at the right In th nest
picture. It was of soft, rough cloUi,
coming down to the tups of Its little
wearer boota, was loos no that an
under jacket might be worn, waa
doUa-fc resetted, and had a eboolder
oaf baalda. Tber were nice flannel
Haed porawm. too, lit tie fur thnpot waa
roiLOwiM tti.m Foa wcatna.
about Caw
rat ta asa tea ant
fa ate of too
ttTawawf ttta?' tgannjNj
w
oa fca wfl Nt,
grown-up folks' eoats. It Is loosely
fltted, though the lines are graceful, and
warmth will be Insured by an under
Jacket of chamois. A trimming of
braid and frogs down the frout for fas
tening keeps the Jacket from seemiujj
too severely grown up, although the
upper velvet-faced collar Is as gentle
manly as can be. If little Mia Ten-
year-old Is a silver-spoon damsel, as this
pictured one was, she may have her
coat lined with plaid silk, wear a plaid
skirt to match and her wide felt hat
may have a big bow of plaid to trim It
Only the coat lining Is even a little ex
travagant about that, after all. Tlaid
la not only pretty and suitable, but It
THK BKI.I.E OF THE PAHTY.
wears well and Is very styllsO), though
style does not bother Mins Maid much
yet, but When (die is atMint 14 or 15, It
won't sufliee that the cloak Is warm and
comfortable and pleases mamma It
muKt be swagger, too, and please Miss
Maid.
If It I desired that the daughter of
12 or 14 should dress somewhat after
the manner of her elders, the third pic
ture's costume Is an excellent one to
copy. It will make what the young
lady will allude to with Intense satis
faction as her street dress. Its big
puff sleeves to the elbow are of wool
en plaid, the long tight cuff being of
plain green cloth matching the green in
the plaid. The rest of the dress is green
cloth, and the skirts of It are set out
Jauntily from the belt at the waist The
green cloth opens In front all the way
from throat to hem, showing a panel of
the plaid, a gTeen strap marking tho
waist The plain cloth may be slashed
at the shoulders and show the plaid
there, too, and there are green velvet
rosettes at either side of the high plaid
collar. The wide green felt hat Is gay
with plaid ribbon and a high lift of
black feathers. At the Sight of her
daughter thu attired, mamma sighs
and realize that Mtas Maid is getting
to be a young lady very, very rapidly
Milady of 6 years will dress In aim
pie gown of soft stuffs for the party
at which she la to be so delighted and
no delightful. A dainty on comes
a Tlsv normowi.
In th next picture, and H can be easily
made by th horn dressmaker of cotton
or of silk crepon, a I preferred. The
little skirt hi edfred with row of rib
bon, and go ft) to a ribbon belt. A
yoke of dainty must! a fill In th sack,
and over th sbonlders a rnffls of
dainty lace In gathered. Th arm are
bare from th eltow, snd en th wee
fee are bronae sllpfer with ribbon
bows. Th hafr hj worn off th fore
head aud faint ovsr ths should era In
weet llttl gtrl faatiton, and lot's try
to think that taa llttl woman to Areas.
d wlH stay tola way and not hurry to
grow np. Bat, a bm! She won't! Ac
cessories of drafts for llttl girls are very
few, though for th party ah may have
a fan, and she may akw bare an old
faatiloned handkerchief ring to which
her pretty handkerchief fasten. Bht
may have a party hood and cloak, and
aha may wear a little chain about ber
neck and perhaps one finger ring, but
Jewelry In profusion Is In the most
atrocious taste for children, and no
vulgarity can aorpasa the putting of
aarrlngn through a llttl gtrl ear.
Copyright, 1HM.
Davenport, Waab., baa eeforoad tfca
Run day closing tow to a Tory oxonkary
mafiner. A Dumber of slrworsi of tmtf
tow eaUofl aa all Qm aaaaoafcaapafi
fn sssvra!5lawe
"A It Was in th Fifties," by "Kim
Hilar," a ntory of a young Englishman'
unMUCcettful guest for fortune in Brit
ish Columbia, ha been published.
A little book, entitled "Ancestry," baa
been compiled by Eugene Zleber. It
net forth the objects and the require
ments for membership of the hered
itary societies and the military and
naval order of the United States, and
contains a transcript of the acts of Con
gress relating to the insignia of the
war-hereditary societies.
A new edition of Itobert Loula Ste
venson's "A Child's Garden of Verne"
has Just been Issued, with new Illus
trations by Charles Kobinson. The
versus are well known; many have read
them, not because they are good poetry,
but because Stevenson wrote tliem.
The Illustrations do not add to the
book; they are in Walter Crane's man
ner, but badly drawn.
How completely the Black Oat, Boa
ton's new 5 -cent magazine, has capti
vated the story-reading world 1 shown
by the fact that In three months It ha
already reached a sale of 100,000 copies.
And the favor It has found with the
press 1 equally well Indicated by the
editorial comment of loading papers
throughout the country. The New
York Mall and Express, for Instance,
refers to It as "the literary pet," while
the Louisville Commercial says: "We
predict that this delightfully original
and interesting magazine will have the
largest sale ever reached by any publi
cation. Its cleverly told stories of mys
tery, exciting detective tales, and thrill
ing stories of adventure render (he
Black Cat a delightful new departure
In story -telling."
Until the present day, the only occa
sion on which tlie Monroe doctrine was
actively asserted by the United State
was when Napoleon the Third and the
Austrian Maximilian attempted to
found aa empire in Mexico. It was
destined to fall, even without the Inter
vention of the United State, and Its
memory la kept green by the pathetic
fate of the Empreaa Oarlotta, Who to
now dying In the close confinement
meted only to the hopelessly mad. The
story of her affliction Is told anew In
th memoirs of the Baron de Malortia,
a gentleman of her court, which hat
Just been published In Paris. Much of
it is the narration of his own expe
rience, and what be did not see or hear
was dictated to him by Mme. del Bar
rio, a lady -In-waiting to Oarlotta, who
has remained with her Imperial mis
tress to the last It te a book of unus
ual interest, and presents some start
ling facts alwiit Napoleon's treatment of
Oarlotta.
Court eons Uinta.
Perhaps there Is no greater strata
upon "neighborly feeling" than living
next door to a poultryyard whose In
matca ar allowed to "run" making
exercise ground of the adjacent flower
and vegetable gardens. A San Diego
young lady who was subjected to this
annoyance politely asked ber neighbor
to keep his pets at home. She asked it
several times, and still no attention
was paid to her grievance. Finally ahe
hit upon an Ingenious method of pro
tecting herself.
She prepared grains of corn by tying
to them, with strong carpet thread,
amall cards bearing the words, "Please
keep your chickens at borne!" and dis
tributed the grain about her flower
bed. .
Th chicken came to feast aa usual,
aad greedily swallowed the corn, not
parcel ring th thread until too card
was against their Jawa. Then they
cooM neither swallow tho card nor rid
tbtulva of the swallowed corn.
Twenty or thirty of the marauder
ran borne, bearing the polite request
to tbotar culpabte owner, who, (truck
wtth th BMshod of tho bint, promatfy
oat tho thread and cooped up th
bird.
Tats was fordbW, bat a delicate blat
npoa a Ilk offense waa coo v eyed from
on aargrWvod rlatlv ts another
what atrongor mcaewe would bar
boon out of place. ).
Tb aafforlac vidian of hens was tak
oa 111, and tho perhaps wteonacloaa of
fas dor alow hht eh ol toot birds and aont
them to b Invalid. The Invalid feast
ad thereon, and ant back a miaaago of
thanks to tfao affott that fao fowl was
donrioua, and taotoa of her vtolets!
The riitt lawyer Lord Mayor.
It may bo of Intoroat to lawyer to
kaow that although tho ancient cere
mony of tb roaoptton of the Lord
Mayor of London naa taken placo regu
larly for tb hut 800 years, thle last U
tb first known caot In which a prac
ticing member of tho bar baa boon elect
ed aa Lord Mayor. Chief Justice Rus
oll made an address to too now Mayor,
la which ho called attention to th fact
that there Is no longer any roal ground
for complaint of tho law's dolayi In En-
gtaad.
Aa Kvaor.
"I wast to pay tida bill- ho aald to
has hoaal aiaih. "Boa I think van hove
aaa a aflfht oraoi aoo hi mj faiat.
ro booa taashhaj am too aaajma, hs
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