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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. U. 1882.
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Bitter.
KIB8IXQ BABY.
-O, lovelier than the rosebud
la my precious babykin:
And the nicest place for kissing him
Tbe aweetsst place is not bis face,
'Tis underneath bia cabs.
But, ah I It Is not every one
The pleasure that may win.
Of .kissing my dear baby
My pretty one, my darling- one
Just underneath his chin!
Wot it would never do, you know.
That practice to begin.
Of letting- everybody come
And have the bliss my babe to kiss
Bight underneath his chin!
Tor who, I pray, would stay away
If kinder I bad been,
And given to all people leave
To take a kiss so sweet us this
This underneath his chin?
What? so many little children
Wanting to come in
And kiss my precious treasure
My beauty bright, my heart's delight
Here underneath his chin?
Well. If you are clean and wholesome,
And dressed neat as a pin.
With no speck of dirt upon you.
You may come near and kiss him here.
Bight underneath his chin?
Though. If unkind and selfish
Or in-tempered you have been,
O, then, I could not have you come
So close as this, and then to kips
Dear baby under his chin!
Now comes papa with whistle and clap:
He thinks with all that din
That he will get yes, take j ust one
Two! three! O, fle! Why thos cost high!
Those underneath his chin I
Sure I must laugh ! Papa declares
He Is so near akin.
That he owns half that kissing place
That sweetest place, that ewldfeftt place
Under my baby's chin!
Mrs. A.M. Diaz, in YwiUCs Companion.
THE MISSING JEWELS.
"It has a plan, but no plot. Life hath none"
Futu.
Anne Bardulph was not very youthful,
mor was she particularly handsome; and
the was housekeeper for the ailing Mrs.
Dorman.
This invalid lady resided in a fine
wooden house of many rooms through
which ran a wide hall with walls of
Fompeiian red, and a gilt-edged ceiling
that was painted in some curious and
uncertain tint of paly, pinkish brown.
The floor was tessellated in brown and
red, and the dark carved doors opened
upon a columnar portico with broad
brown steps leading down upon a great
lawn flanked with thick trees of beech
and pine.
Across the greening lawn in the sweet
yellow April sunshine, walked Anne
Bardulph a slim, straight woman with
regular and severe features, and wonder
fully large eyes of darkest gray. She
had an abundance of neatly arranged
dark hair, and she was neatly attirea in
a serviceable suit of some clinging, dull
blue fabric, with collar and cutis of linen
white, prim and immaculate.
Two young men coming upon the
portico saw her an interesting and not
unlovely figure moving under the grim,
whispering pines.
"The new housekeeper of madame
pleases you her you admire perhaps,"
one remarked, rather quizzinglv.
"Would you suggest that Miss Bar
dulph may not merit admiration?" re
turned the other, evasively and with
ome perceptible irritation.
"I now do nothing suggest," was the
protesting sharp foreign accents. "I
here am come to see much, to much
think; but I nothing say until the how
ay you it? till the one exposure
grand."
Tony Dornian smoked thoughtfully
for several silent minutes. Finally he
tossed away his cigar and turned toward
his company.
"D1 Hazelly," he began, pleasantly;
'you are here ostensibly only as my
guest and intimate friend "
"On the what do you call, the osten
sible, I impose not," interrupted Louis
D'Razelly, quickly and proudly. "I but
the detective am the servitor hired of
madame to her diamonds of value find,
and the thief to discover."
"Yes, I know," interposed the young
gentleman; but I have become aware. of
your worth as a man, and. I really re
gard you as a friend. No friend will
Ter be more warmly welcomed to mv
home than you. If I did not feel like
this I should not be likely to confess to
Jou that I have been refused by Miss
iardulph for whom " he supplement
ed gently and with hesitation "I fancy
you, too, have a tender preference, even
though you would appear to disparage
The young Frenchman winced, and in
his bright black eyes was an expression
f trouble and distrust, as he gazed
steadily toward the stately pines that
loomed in sharp spires against the sweet
Uue April sky.
"It is so," he acknowledged, present
ly, a hot color reddening nis swarthy
face. "For her I have the one liking
that is very tender; but also have I the
doubt that it is much and not good.
Whatof this do you think?"
D'Razelly who had become a detect
ive only because he had an odd and
inborn fondness for what he considered
an exciting and most delectable vocation
opened what one would presume to be,
from its exterior appearance, a quaintly
bound book, and nothing more. It was,
however, a "detective camera," by
which he had shortly before obtained,
and without her knowledge, several
striking photographs of the woman of
whom ne had been speaking so dubi
ously. "What of this do you think?" he iter
ated, exhibiting a picture of Miss Bar
dulph. as she was standing in a curious
attitude of eaarer and fearful interest
beneath one of the great beech trees J
ucjumu me iixn u. ai ner ieer, nesiae a
pile of moss and stones, opened a small
cavity, over which she was bending,
while holding low in a loosening grasp,
what was quite surely a number of
jewelod ornaments.
"I do not know what to think," enun
ciated Mr. Dorman. in tones of dismay
"It would seem that my mother's jewels
have been secreted in that place; and I
should say that Anne has accidentally
discovered the depository."
"If that is so. why to you or to the
madame honored, she comes not all so
glad, so animate and tell the one dis
covery so hanpv and so not to be under
stood r D'liazdly demanded, with
emphasis.
"But good heavens, Louis! do you
mean that you suspect Miss Bardulph of
any wrong-doing?'1 was the pained ex
clamation. "I must absolutely refuse to
believe that Anne that ingenuous and
serious girl, with her pure eyes and
Innocent' brow is a thief? Although
there may be something indefinable and
mysterious about her, I could never
associate with the mystery of crime any
thing she might do."
She was but his mother's housekeeper;
she had refused his love, and the name
and station he would have given her;
yet was he a right loyal friend, and would
not listen unmoved or acquiescent to any
accusations made against her.
While D'Razelly, who professed for
her a tender liking, although he doubted
her much, shrugged his spruce shoulders,
sighed and looked vastly consequential
and melancholy, albeit he was not a sen
timentalist, and had determined to be
austerely practical, as befits a profes
sional of his kind.
"I nothing know of the mystery,
at evil, that you do men," he said im
petiently. And to me it does seem
hat the diamonds of much value must
aaw to the madame so disconsolate be
Mstored, aad the ways that so puzzling
axe, must to the custody go."
"But she never entered this house ua-
tll days after the diamonds were missed,"
remonstrated Tony Dorman, shuddaringj
I am decidedly mystified. What is your
explanation of it rill?"
"She the accomplice of one other is, I
do think," announced the detective, with
grandiloquence of manner. "She no
longer here will stay. She will an illness
feign, as it may be, and then to the oth
er, she will so away, the diamonds with
her taking, if her we not could prevent."
" That is all very plausible, returned
her defender, unconvinced. " But we
will at once secure my mother's precious
ornaments, and then I really must have
positive and irrefutable evidence against
Miss Bardulph before I shall allow you
to denounce her."
The early dusk had already suffused
the lawn with a purple haze. The cool
air was delicious with the fresh odors of
violets and hyacinths and sweet young
grasses. The new, rosy moon and a
great golden star giittered in the blue
western sky, and out among the gloomy,
complaining pines the night biros were
tunefully calling.
The two young men crossed the lawn
and entered the uim grove, full of resin
ous scents, strange, dreamy noises, and
uneasy aud fantastic shadows. Mutely
and with soundless steps, they followed
the grassy, winding walk that led to the
umbrageous beach of D'Razelly's singu
lar photograph.
Suddenly both started, and simultane
ously retreated around a curve of the
path where they stood as silent and mo
tionless as the shade in which they were
hidden. Beyond, in the pearly efful
gence of starlight and moonlight, they
saw the suspected young woman bend
ing over that odd'repository from which
she removed the moss and pebbles until
her intent watchers beheld the cold, in
extinguishable fire of the precious gems
gleaming within the dark, black mold.
"What think you now?" whispered
D'Razelly, excitedly. "The diamonds
she will take. See! is it not so?"
And before the other could silence or
restrain him, he leaped forward and
confronted Anne, who stood quite still,
and only lifted her comely head fearless
ly, smiling with calm defiance and some
ucassumed amusement.
"Hush!" she murmured, imperiously,
as he began to speak. "In another mo
ment the mystery of what you have pre
sumed to be a robbery will be elucidated
and precisely as I believed it would be.
Look!"
Down tho path, with an unsteady and
unnatural gait, came a surprising appa
rition the figure of a lady. Bare were
her feet, and her gray, drooping head
was uncovered, and her thin white robes
glistened with the damp night dews.
"Mother!" gasped Touy Dorman,
amazed, and glad for the accused Anne,
who was so curiously exonerated.
Straight on came the somnambulist.
Pausing at length before the treasures
she had secreted in her abnormal sleep,
and gazing with unseeing eyes upon the
priceless, sparkling things that she
touched lovingly with her withered
hands, and carefully again covered with
the thick, silky moss. Then she smiled
faintly, sighed with satisfaction, turned.
and slowly moved away.
The countenance of Louis D'Razelly
at that moment was not that of an indi
vidual conscious of superior discernment,
and the glance he ventured to vouchsafe
Anne was deprecatory.
"What I should say I know not," he
stammered. "What I did think what
I did do so very stupid was. Ah, if the
kind madamoisclle would me but par
don," he continued, with gallant en
treaty. Very demurely she assured him that
his suspicions were quite pardonable,
and perhaps creditable to his zeal as a
detector and denouncer of the un
righteous. Some time later, coming through the
handsome, brilliantly lighted hall, Anne
met the young master of the house.
'The tempting reward offered for the
recovery of Airs. Dorman' s diamonds in
duced me to come here as her house
keeper," she explained. "I had an in
explicable feeling that I might find the
missing jewels. I consulted no one no
one advised me. I was really ashamed
of my project, that I know was quixotic,
if not impracticable, and a failure would
have made me ridiculous. Shortly after
coming to Mrs. Dorman, I learned that
she had latterly been haunted by an ex
cessive and increasing fear of being
robbed; I learned, too, that she had
only recently manifested somnambulic
symptoms. The truth came to me as an
inspiration, but only by merest accident;
and only this morning while I was ex
ploring for gentian that 1 did not land.
did I espy the tiny, suggestive mound
of loose, dying moss, through which I
saw a single spark of something shining
like a glow-worm. So I waited and
watched, hoping she would visit her
buried treasure just as she did. The
discovery was very simple, and is now
clear to you all."
"And now you have won the reward,
yon will leave us, I suppose," he ob
served soberly.
"Yes," she gravely assented.
"O, Anne, if I could only persuade
you to stay?" he responded quickly and
imploringly. "Do you fear I cannot
make you a happy wife ?' '
"It is not that," she said, with a frank
serious manner that had always so pleased
him. "It is that I could not make
you a happy h usband. Do be reasonable
Mr. Dorman, for you must be well aware
that I am not at all the sort of person
whom you ought to marry. Andbeside,"
she added, with aquaint little laugh, "I
have a profession now, and I must not
wed one who knows nothing of the in
stincts and requirements of my calling."
The handsome young fellow was
somewhat agitated by her speech which
he considered 4qring and significant.
" Surely, my dear Anne," he faltered;
"you would not wish to become a pro-
fessional'deteqtive? nor would you in
timate that you have an affection for
Louis D'Razelly who so unjusHy accused
you, and who would willingly have
piaced you in custody?"
"My friend," she replied, sweetly, a
tear sparkling in each large eye, and a
lovely new color on each soft cheek
" we have just now had an understanding
Mr. D'Razelly and I. He regrets his
mistake; and he certainly is not soblam
able when he would only have acted con
scientiously" " Yours is the logic of love, Annie"
the young man answered, dryly. " And
who may understand tho heart of a wo
man. You will be Louis' wife one of
these days.
His prediction was verified. And so it
happened that a very happy and satis
factory marriage was effected by the
incident of Mrs. Dorman' s missing jew
els. A Sad Case.
"What makes you look so solemn?"
whispered a fashionable Austin lady to
another in church, just before the services
began.
"I've got good reasons to be mad,"
was the response.
"What is it?"
"I dressed myself up in this new
suit 1 ordered from New York, and went
to church to show it off."
"Well, what of it?" asked tha other
party.
"Our clock was a whole hour fast,
and I had to sit and sit in that empty
church without anybody to see my new
clothes, and they are so becoming to my
complexion. There was nobody to see
them for a whole hour. It made me so
mad that "
" The Lord is in His Holy Temple let
all the earth keep silence before Him,"
was tho opening remark of the preacher,
and the rest of the conversation was lost
to the reporter. Texas Silings.
Arkansas now has a weekly paper
called the Horse Shoe. Such a name
ought to kick its way into the world.
Detroit Post.
Fruits or the Rose Family.
The ultimate origin of the pulpiness in
plums and cherries was quite antecedent
to any particular adoption of their stocks
in the primitive orchards of early man.
So far as we can now tell, the roses do
not date back in time beyond the tertiary
period of geology. The very earliest
members of the family still extant are
little creeping herbs, like cinquefoil and
silver-weed, with yellow blossoms (all
primitive blossoms, indeed, are yellow)
and small, dry, inedible seeds. The
strawberry Is the lowest type of rose
above these very simple forms. It is
still a creeping herb, and its seeds are
still small, dry and inedible; but they are
imbedded in a juicy pulp which entices
birds to swallow them, and so aid in
dispersing them under circumstances
peculiarly favorable to their due germi
nation and growth. Next in order after
this earliest rude succulent type (nature's
first rough sketch of a fruit, so to speak;
and a very successful one, too, from the
human point of view at least) come the
blackberry and raspberry, where the in
dividual fruitlets grow soft, sweet and
pulpy, instead of remaining dry as in the
strawberry. And this change clearly
marks a step in advance; so that
blackberries and raspberries are en
abled to get along with fewer
seeds, and yet to thrive much better
in the struggle for life too seeing
that they have developed into stout
woody trailers, often forming consider
able thickets, and killing down all the
lesser vegetation beneath and between
them. Again, the dog-roses show still
higher development, alike in their erect
bushy form, in their large pink flowers,
and in their big scarlet nips which are
uneatable by us. it is true, but are great
favorites with birds in severe winters.
The haws of the whitethorn are even
more successful in attracting the robins
and other non-migratory allies; and the
whitethorn has been enabled, according
ly, to reduce its seeds to one or two,
each enclosed in a hard, bony, indigesti
ble nut Finally at the very summit of
the genealogical tree, we get the plum
tribe, highest of all the roses; growing
into considerable arborescent forms
(though in this respect inferior to pears
or apples), and producing large, lus
cious, pulpy fruits, with a single stony
seed, admirably adapted to the best
type of dispersion, and never wasting a
solitary germ unnecessarily, as must be
continually the case with its small dry
seeded congeners, the silver-weeds and
cinquufoils. Not, 'of course, that this
pedigree must be accepted in a lineal
sense (indeed, the roses early in theii
history broke up into at least three dis
tinct lines, which have evolved separ
ately on their own account, and have
culminated respectively in the plums,
the true roses and the apples) ; but it il
lustrates the general method of their de
velopment, and it shows the strong ten
dency which they all alike possess to
ward the production of sweet pulpy
fruits in one form or another.
If you look for a moment at a ripe
cherry by preference a red one, as be
ing less artificial than the pale white
hearts you will see how well it is fitted
to perform the functions for which the
tree has produced it. It has a bright
outer coat, to attract the eyes of birds,
and especially of southern birds, fox
England is near its northern limit, and
it is a big fruit for our native species tc
eat; rowan-berries, haws and bird-cherries
are rather their special food in our
northern latitudes. Then, again, it has
a sweet pulp to tempt their appetite;
sweetness and bright color in plants
being almost always directly traceable
to animal selection. But inside, its ac
tual seed is protected by a stony shell:
while its kernel is stored with rich food
stuffs for the young seedling, laid by in
its thick seed-leaves, which form the
tWQ lobes of the almond-like embryo.
The flower, it is true, has a pair of sep
arate ovules, which ought, under ordi
nary circumstances, to develop into two
seeds; but as the fruit ripens one
of them almost always atrophies.
Such dimunition in the number of seeds
invariably accompanies every advance
in specialization, or every fresh forward
steps in appliances for more certain dis
tribution. The little hard nuts on the
outside of the strawberry number fifty
or sixty; the nutlets of the raspberry
nambcr only some twenty or thirty, the
pips of the apple, relatively ill protected
by the leathery core, range from five to
ten; the stones of the haw, with their
bonier covering, aro only two; but in
the plum tribe, with their extreme adap
tation to animal dispersion, the
seeds have reached the minimum
irreducible of one. It is this highest
tribe of all, accordingly, that sup
plies us with what we call distinctively
our stone-fruits. The sloes of the com
mon blackthorn have grown, under cul
tivation, into our domestic plums; the
two wild cherries have grown into our
morellos and bigaroons; an Eastern bush
has been gradually developed into out
more delicate apricots. The old-fashioned
botanists nave thrust the peach
and nectarine into a separate genus, be
cause of their wrinkled stones; but com
mon sense will show any one that it
would be much easier to get a peach out
of an apricot than to get an apricot
out of a plum; and, indeed, these artifi
cial scientific distinctions are fast break
ing down at the present day, as we learn
more and more about the infinite plastic
ity of living forms under cultivation or
altered circumstances. Even the almond,
different as its nut appears from the
plum type of fruit, is really a plum by
origin; for in all other particulars of flow
er, leaf and habit, it closely resembles
the nectarine, from which it has diverged
only in the solitary specialty of a less
juiay fruit. We know how little trouble
it takes to turn a single white May blos
som into the double pink variety, or to
produce our distorted flowering almonds
and our big, many-petallcd roses from
the normal form; it takes very little
more trouble for nature to turn an apri
cot into a peach, or to produce a dry
shell-covered almond from a juicy nec
tarine. Only, since nature acts more
slowly, and since her conditions remain
approximately the same throughout, her
new species do not tend to relapse at once
into the parent form, as our artificial va
rieties mostly do the moment we relax
the stringent regimen under which they
have been produced. St. James Ga
zette. The Brain During Sleep.
Some curious experiments as to the
action of the brain during sleep have
lately been made upon himself by M.
Delauney. Working on the known fact
that the action of the brain causes a rise
of temperature in the cranium, the ex
perimenter found that the converse of
this was true, and that he was able, by
covering his forehead with wadding, to
stimulate the action of the brain.
Dreams which are naturally illogical
and absurd became under this treatment
quite rational and intelligent. He also
found that their character was much
modified by the position assumed during
sleep, wherebj the blood might be made
to now toward particular parts of the
bod, and thus increase their nutrition
and functional activity. These experi
ments have but slight value. Those
whose lives are spent in hard work,
either physical or mental, will prefer
their dreams to be as illogical and vague
as possible, so that the poor brain may
not go on working while the body is at
rest Chambers' Journal.
"Here is the last of old Ira Fletch
er," said a middle-aged man, as he sat
down on the steps of the Methodist
Church at East Greenwich, R. I., and
shot himself. Who Ira Fletcher was no
body knows. N. Y. Sun.
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Two Philadelphia wheelers arrived
at Saratoga, N. Y., the other day, having
traveled three hundred miles on bicycles.
Gted News Abeat the Shirt.
In the course of a confidential conver
tation with a friend who had recently
had two new shirts made, we learned
incidentally that the style of building
shirts had radically changed, and that
they were being made to button in the
front instead of at the back of the neck.
The news was so good that we could not
believe it until we had it directly from
ashirtmaker, who showed us the ground
plan and front elevation that had been
prepared by architects for the erection
of soma fine shirts for our best citizens,
and sure enough the old fashion of fold
ing doors in front instead of a storm door
between the shoulder blades in the back
was the fashion. We have never felt so
much like passing a resolution of thanks
to the shirtmakers and a resolution of
condolence to parties who have got to
wear the old ones,, in our life. Those
shirts that button in the back have been
the oause of more profanity than any
on thing. Shirts that button in
the back have been the cause of
crime. Religious societies can not
prosper as they should when the
male population has to reach over its
head and away around to the back of the
neck to button its shirt. Talk about
spending thousands of dollars to find
the north pole; if half the money spent
in that way was offered as a reward for
the detection of the man who invented
shirts that buttoned in the back, and he
could be turned loose among men who
have suffered for years by his devilish
contrivance, it would be well expended.
For fourteen years the men of this coun
try have been slaves to this absurd fash
ion, and more arms have been cramped,
shoulders dislocated and backs bent than
would be believed by those who have not
seen it The spectacle of a mild-mannered
man, after getting into his shirt,
making a contortionist of himself, an
acrobat, trying to get on the other
side of himself to button his shirt the
back way, is sad indeed. Statistics show
that the buttons on the back of a shirt
always come off the second week, and in
place of the thin, oyster-shell button that
comes with the shirt, the housewife
always sews on a big drawers button,
four sizes larger than the button-hole,
and if he gets the button in the hole the
hole has to be "bushed" or a washer
put on the button next time. Go through
our prisons, and you will find that the
criminals the bad men wear shirts
that button in the back. They have
beei driven to a life of crime by letting
their tempers get the best of them while
searching blindly for a button with one
hand and a button-hole with the other,
when their back was turned. They go
from home mad, and commit crime to
get even. Tho bare idea of having
shirts that open in front will give a feel
ing of rest to tired, back-aching human
ity. 'To stand up to the glass and button
a shirt and see what you are about will
be bliss indeed. The thought of a
generous slit in the bosom of a shirt,
where one's hand may wander, is
elysium. There are times we say it
advisedly there are times when the
best of us want to put a hand inside a
shirt bosom, but with the old shirt that
buttons in the back a man might as well
be in a burglar-proof safe, with the com
bination lost, as to try to get in. With
the old shirt it would be necessary to
hire a hand. A man's stomach has been
a sealed book for fifteen years, with the
old boiler-iron shirt-bosom, with no port
holes. Occasionally a man's heart aches,
and if he could put a hand on it without
going around the back way and sneak
ing in under the arm he could tell by the
feeling whether it was unrequitted affec
tion that ailed him or rheumatism.
With the new shirt an exploring expedi
tion can be sent to the seat of the disease
before it is everlastingly too late. Men
have been wounded, and before they
could be turned over and the entrance
to their shirt found they have bled to
death. The old back-action shirt is a
fraud, and the new one is a daisy. It
may be said by some that the new open
sesame shirt will show the world the
color of the undershirt It might, if
one was going to use his shirt-bosom for
a pillow; but few do that And even if
they did that is the only way that the
world can know that a man wears a silk
undershirt with a monogram on the
front We hail the new open winter
shirt with delight, and are sure the pub
lic will when they once get their hands
in. Pick's Sun.
A Clever Cheat.
Henry Keys, who left the Floseer
Park, Oakland, Cal., recently .played a
trick bv which he realized $65 for forty
fallons of water. Wishing to sell out,
e "doctored" a barrel so as to dispose
of it as full of pure whisky. He arranged
in the barrel a piece of hose two feet
long, with one end hermetically sealed.
He then filled the hose with a quart of
the finest whisky old, oily and rich.
He then fastened the unsealed end to the
faucet on the inside, headed up the
barrel, and filled it with water. Ready
was he for a purchaser for "forty gallons
of rare old whisky," and Max Marcuse
proved a willing customer. Marcuse
sampled the liquor drawn from the hose,
Eronounced it good, and bought the
orrel for $65. After drawing a few
drinks the supply in the hose gave out,
and an examination showed the decep
tion. In the meantime Keys had left
the town, and he has not been heard
from. Two warrants await him one
for obtaining money under false pre
tenses, and the other for disposing of
fixtures in the Pioneer Park which are
said to belong to the estate of Michael
Reese. Max Marcuse is figuring how
much to charge profit and loss in his
ledger for the purchase of one barrel,
two feet of hose, one quart of whisky,
and forty gallons of water. San Fran
cisco Alia.
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English Opinion ef Rasslaa Jews,
The efforts of the poor Jews in Russia
to emigrate to America is impeded by an
unexpected difficulty. It is the practice
of the Emigration Committee at New
York to find work for the immigrants,
and distribute them through the country
in the occupations with which they are
acquainted. They distribute hundreds
of thousands of persons every year in
this way, but they say they fail with
Jews. Either their employers send them
back making charges of idleness or in
competence, or the Jews themselves re
turn, declaring that "the work is too
hard." The Committee have, therefore
declined to receive any more Jews. The
truth seems to be that the Jews are ex
pected to do hard manual labor; and
that in America, as in everywhere else,
they refuse to do it except under the
Eressure of absolute necessity. Their
usiness in the world as they think, is
to distribute, taking a heavy toll upon
the articles distributed. That is a use
ful function but a colony can no more be
made up of distributors than a State can
be composed of tax-gatherers. Mr.
Oliphant hopes to settle all Jews in
Palestine, but he has omitted to say who
will plow the land, sow the seed and
cart the muck. The Jews will not
London Spectator.
Georgia has recently been manufac
turing miraculous stories similar to those
formerly owing their origin to the bound
less West Within the limits of a single
week a man's body disappeared com
pletely after his clothes had been torn off
by a revolving shaft, a boy fell head first
into an almost dry well sixty-five feet
deep and was presently drawn up in the
bucket unscratched, and a man who had
been bitten by a rattlesnake was snatched
out of the jaws of death by a celebrated
mad stone whose owner values it at
$1,000. These are not precisely the
events which make up a Nation's history,
but they serve to cheer a rather dull
summer. if. O. Picayunt.
The Bastilc.
It was on the 14th of July, 1789, ninety-three
years ago, that the Bastile was
captured and destroyed by the people
of Paris. Had the dull, leaden-minded
King, then sitting uneasily on the
French throne, been able to understand
and conform to the signs of the times,
or been able to separate himself from the
courtiers who urged him to resist the
rising tide of popular feeling, the awful
events that followed the capture of the
famous prison might have been averted,
and France and the world spared a
chapter of history the like of which was
never known before and has never been
known since. But Louis XVI. would
not, perhaps could not understand. Even
the taking of the Bastile was a warning
he failed to interpret aright. He and
the assembly were at Versailles engaged
in the game of demands and petitions
on one side and refusals or insincere
concessions on the other, which had
been protracted till the country was
weary of it. It was a time of painful
suspense and anxiety. Thecourtiers were
endeavoring to persuade the irresolute
King to let loose the army on the people.
The assembly wore in constant appre
hension of being arrested and thrown
behind the grim and pitiless walls of the
frowning fortress prison which stood at
the gate of St Antoine where &o many
a gallant spirit had been immured be
fore. There was no adjournment The
sessions were kept up day and night,
lest, if the assembly left the hall,
its doors would be closed and
the body dispersed. All communi
cation with Paris had been cut oft,
and the news of what was going on there
could not be brought, though the boom
ing of cannon heard through the day told
plainly that work, and warm work too,
was going on. It was not till night that
the King and the Assembly learned that
the people of Paris had seized the arms
in the arsenal and stormed and captured
the Bastile. The King was irritated. "It
is a revolt!" said he, resentfully. "Nay,
sire," replied one of his most frank at
tendants, " it is a revolution." And so
it was the beginning of that frightful
reckoning with the execrable misrule,
falsehoou had rotten pretence which for
a hundred years had been heaping up
wrath against the day of wrath till the
angry and menacing structure was top
pling over the head of the King and
court The impulse which brought the
exasperated populace of Paris against
the Bastile was an instinct As a French
historian remarks: "It was an act oi
faith." There was no re:ison in it. The
walls which connected the eight lofty
towers of the fortress were forty feet
thick at the bottom and ten feet thick
at the top, and nearly a hundred feet
high. It was absolutely safe against the
musket balls which flattened themselves
against its black and ancient front and
the shots from the two light pieces ol
cannon which merely dented the stones.
The garrison of eighty-two French and
forty Swiss soldiers, had they been dis
posed, might have held it easily against
the assault of the mob of 100,000 men
and women arrayed round it on that hot
July day. But the infuriated populace
were bent on making a beginning and
they acted more wisely than they thought
when with one consent they drew up
before tho embrasures of the hated
prison four hundred years old, fit type ol
the dismal and detestible regime they
were determined to overthrow. The
spirit of revolution had been at work in
the army and the French soldiers of the
garrison sympathized with the people
and refused to fire upon them. They
even went further. After the attack had
lasted for five hours without making an
impression the French soldiers hung
white flags in token of surrender along
the top of the walls and opened the gates
to the mob. "Properlyspeaking," says
Michelet, "the Bastile was not taken, it
surrendered. Troubled with a bad con
science, it went mad and lost all pres
ence of mind." The populace were
moderate in the hour of their triumph.
They cut off the head of Le Launey,
governor of the prison, and stuck it on a
pike, did the same for Flesselles, the
treacherous Mayor of the city, and
hanged two Swiss soldiers, who had
been active in firing: on the people, to a
lamp-post But it was a warning which,
unheeded, was to be followed by the cut
ting off of heads enough to make a
mountain and the shedding of blood
enough to form a river.
Attempt have been made to show that
the Bastile was not the awful abode of
torture, crime and despair the French
people held it to be that it was a very
respectable and properly conducted
prison. Be this as it may, the French
people have never ceased to regard it as
the symbol of the most unendurable mis
government of modern times and tc
celebrate its downfall as marking theii
deliverance from a detested regimt. St.
Louis Republican.
m
A California Cloud Burst.
A water-spout broke in the Tejon Can
yon yesto-day which occasioned great
destruction, as far as the effect is known.
This locality is the valley of Tejon Creek
which discharges into the southeastern
part of the Tulare Valley, on the lands
of General Beale, at a point about thirty
miles from this place. At the lower part
of the canyon a settlement remains ol
the Indians of the tribe which once
claimed the principal part of Kern and
Los Angeles Counties, living there by
suffrance and under the protection ol
General Beale. They had good huts,
farms, vine-yards and gardens, and were
living in plenty and comfort. Above
them the canyon is occupied by white
settlers who have good, well-improved
farms. About four p. m. a wall of water,
apparently twenty feet high, was seen
sweeping down upon the Indian settle
ment with irresistable force. Immedi
ately there was a scene of the wildest
confusion. Mothers and fathers snatched
up their little ones and endeavored to
escape to the high grounds. Those not
fortunate enough to do so were either
swept away or saved themselves by
clinging to the branches of trees. The
rush of water soon subsided, and when it
did so everything they had was either
swept away or ruined. The news of the
calamity was brought to-day by an In
dian. He could not give a very intelli
fible account When he left only two
ead bodies had been found, which had
been carried a long distance. If more
perished it cannot be known until an in
vestigation is held. Fourteen persons
are known to be badly injured, having
been struck by the drift brought down
on the crest of the flood. He came to
bring the news to a white man in whom
they have great confidence and are ac
customed to apply to for advice and as
sistance in emergencies. They returned
together. Nothing is known of what
occurred further up the canyon.
Bakersport (Cal.) Dispatch.
"When Tennyson first went to live
at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, it is said
that the aristocracy of that small island
would not call upon Mrs. Tennyson or
upon him. He was only a poet, and a
dingy, bearded, forbidding-looking ani
maf;"and probably did not take a sitting
at church. When the Queen came to
Osborne the first thing she did was to
call at the Tenuysons, and go in and sit
half an hour. This flew over the island,
and immediately "it snowed in his
house" of visiting cards, which, rumor
saith, he straightway and punctitiously
returned to Si the senders. Chicago
Tribune.
The pistol with which lawyer Cole,
of Cincinnati, killed himself and family
a few nights ago, served its apprentice
ship with Ned Stokes, who killed Jim
Fisk with it Detroit Post.
The. New York Sun thinks it a hoi
low mockery to swear the average wit
to xeu me truw.
SCHOOL AND CIIURCIL
Three students of a Canadian ool
Iege rescued two school-ma'ams from
watery graves. Canada can now, of
L-ourse, expect a double wedding, and
the suicide of the student who gets left
The Rev. W. McCann, Moderator of
the English Presbyterian Synod, alluding
to the question of Christian economies,
recently remarked that England spent
127.000.000 in drink, and only 2,000,
000 on missions.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of Ireland, after a long
and able debate on instrumental music,
voted against liberty to adopt it as an
accompaniment of public worship by a
majority vote of 360 against 345. The
majority of tho ministers voted for. and
tho majority of the elders against, liberty
to use organs and other instruments.
The Christian Register, of Boston,
says: "In one of the Episcopal churches
of Providence on a certain Sunday the
preacher, a stranger, defined the soul as
'the non-atonic center of psychic force,'
and throughout his discourse, when al
luding to the soul, used the phrase.
Fancy the improvement on the old read
ing, 'What is a man advantaged if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
non-atomic center of psychic force?"
The Fourth Presbyterian church ol
Chicago, Rev. Herrick'Julmson, pastor,
as appeared from his sermon June 1-1,
the second anniversary of his settlement
over it, has gained 85 members within
the year, 18 of them on confession of
faith. The church, which now has 437
members, gave ."$36,512 during the year,
818,032 of which was used For salaries
and other expense.8, and $18,610 to be
nevolent causes. Besides this, $3,000 or
$4,000 have been given by individual
members of the church to colleges, and
C. H. McCormick has given 75,000 to
the Theological Seminary in that city.
Last year the church contributed 329,885.
The son of a Barrie, Out, school
inspector abstracted from an express
package addressed to his father the list
of questions to be asked at the public
school examinations, and made a copy
thereof. Then, in partnership with an
other lad bearing the suggestive name
of Mainprise, he negotiated with the
scholars who were to undergo school ex
amination, and by selling copies of the
list under a promise of secrecy, reaped a
rich reward. The secret leaked out, the
perpetrators of the deed fled for parts
unknown, and the students who were to
have been asked the aforesaid questions
were admitted to examination only upon
oath that they knew nothing about the
fraud. Chicago Herald.
The Teltigu native preachers, says
the Rev. S. F. Burdett, of the American
Baptist Society, are born orators. Their
sermons are modelled after those of the
missionaries, with more of the Socratic
method. The preacher often makes his
point more effective by asking a question
to which the people give a ringing re
sponse. Sometimes he will address
some person in the congregation gen
erally a preacher who will reply and
a dirJogue will be carried on to which
the congregation will listen with great
attention. Illustration and parable are
much used, and also pantomime, which
sometimes becomes ludicrous.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
If your husband smokes, gentle
lady, treat him as you would a smoking
lamp. Don't put him out, but let him
down easy. Boston Transcript.
Cooked his own goose: "Mr. D.,
if you'll get my coat done by Saturdry I
shall be forever indebted to you." "If
that's your game it won't be done,"
said the tailor.
A fashion journal says: "June
brides are the sweetest." Maybe so; but
it is the general impression that those
who have the most "sugar" in their own
right are not sour, by any means. Chi
cago Herald.
The cause of the cyclone has been
ascertained. Out in the tornado-tossed
region there is a band composed of young
ladies who are learning to play the cor
net St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Some of the seaside fans this year
are large enough to cover one side of a
girl's face in case she blushes. Ar
rangements have been made to reDort a
blush by telegraph, if one occurs any
where. For the primer: See the men. One
of them is struggling. The others hold
him fast. He is a bank robber. Why
do the men hold him so fast? They are
taking him to a detective. Louisville
Courier Journal.
An Indiana farmer went to law
about two eggs. He paid his lawyer
$50, lost thirteen days' time, paid $8
witness fees and expense, and then got
beaten and had to foot $26 costs. That's
one way of securing revenge. Detroit
Free Press.
Reports of the revival of the national
fame of base ball are very encouraging,
ive deaths have already resulted from
it in this State this season. The more
life that is thrown into the game the
more deaths result therefrom. Iforris
toum Herald.
"Ha, ha!" shouted the young heir,
when he read the telegram informing
him of the death of a rich relation, "lam
now like the north star." "How so?"
queried his companion. "Pretty well
fixed, you know," replied he, with a
smile. And thereupon several "smiles"
succeeded each other with marvelous
rapidity.
A "minister was traveling along a
country road in Scotland one day
in winter, riding rather a long,
lean horse, and he himself dressed
in rather an odd-looking cap and
large camlet cloak, when a "gentle
man came along, riding a fine horse,
which scared at the preacher, and his
horse- "Well, sir" said the gentleman,
"ye wud scare the vera deel, sir." "That's
my business, sir," said the preacher.
Chicago Journal.
Fashionable lady: "Now, this Is
about the worst daub of the whole col
lection!" Distinguished academician
(of whose artistic profession his fair com
panion is ignorant); "I'm sorry you
should think so, for it's mine!" Fashion
able lady: "You don't mean to say that
you bought that?" Distinguished acade
mician: "No; but I painted it!" Fash
ionable lady: "O, oh, I am so sorry!
But you really mustn't mind what I say,
for Ira no critic at all. I I only repeat
what everybody says, you know a "
Punch.
The Softest Yet: A young gentle
man of Austin, of the lackadaisical
Oscar Wilde type of idiot, hung to a
sunflower, went into an Austin Avenue
restaurant one day recently to get some
breakfast, and, by the way, he has the
appetite of a Missouri journalist on an
excursion, and is gifted with the digest
ive organs of a boa-constrictor. "How
do you want your eggs biled?" asked
the waiter. "I want them soft" "How
soft?" "Very soft I want them to
match my voice." Texas Sitings.
Paste This in Your Hat
Sunstroke begins with a pain in the
head, or dizziness, quickly followed by
loss of eonsciouciess and complete pros
tration. Sometimes, however, the attack
is as sudden as a stroke of apoplexy.
The head is often burning hot, the face
dark and swollen, and breathing labored
and snoring, and the extremities cold.
With such cases proceed as follows:
Take the patient at once to a cool and
shady place, but don't carry him far to
a house or hospital. Loosen the clothes
thoroughly about the neck and waist
Lay him down with the head a little
raised. Apply wet cloths to the head
and mustard or turpentine to the calves
of the legs and soles of the feet Give
a little weak whisky and water if he can
swallow. Meantime let some one go for
a physician. N. Y. Dispatch.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE !
KENDALL'S)
THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL
REMEDY
EVER DISCOV
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From COL. L. T. FOSTER.
r u- i ii . ,- . . , , Youngstown, Ohio, May 10th, 1880.
K.J. KemlNll A Co., dents: I had a very valuable Hambletonian colt which I
prized very highly. In- had a large bone spavin on one joint and a small one on tha
other, winch made him very lame; I had him under the charge of two veterinary
surgeons who failed ti. cure him. I was one day reading the advertisement of Ken
dall s Spavin Cur.- m th. Chicago Express, I determined at once to try It, and got our
druggist here to send for it, they ordered three bottle. I took them all and thoufht
I would give it a f hon.uirh trial, I used It accordiug to directions and the fourth uay
the colt cea-cd to he lame, nnil the lumps had disappeared. I used but one bottle
.-nil the i-olts' Iinihs are as fre from lumps and as smooth as anv horse in the State
He U entirely cured. The cui. was so remarkable that I let two of my neighbors
have the remaining: two bottle- who are now using it.
Very respectfully, L. T. FOSTER.
FROM THE ONEONTA PRESS, N. Y.
ltlT tu.t .lllnhial
tuiuract luuime puiu'Mit'r? oi me fress
year settiriir tortb tbe m Tils ot JveudalPs
........ .... ........ ... ,... .v. u.cuuii , vyU., ui cuusuurga raus, i., made a
from the uim a quantity of book-, entitled Dr. Kendall's Treatise on the Horse and
his Dif ascs, which w- an; uivi . to advance paving subscribers to the Press as a
premium.
About tli time the advertisement first appeared in this paper Mr. I. G. Scher
merhorn. who refines near olliers, had a spavined horse He read the advertise
ment and concluded to te.-t t".e elllcaey of the remedy, although his friends laughed
at his credibility. He Ix.tighf a bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure and commenced using
it on the horse in accoidnmv with the directions, and he informed us this week that
It effected inch a complete cure that an expert horseman, who examined the animal
recently could lind no trace of the spavin or the place where It had been located. Mr
Schermerhorn has since secured a copy of Kendall's Treatise on the Horse aud his
Diseases, which he prizes very highly and would be loth to part with at any price
provided he could not obtain another copy. So much tor advertising reliable articles!
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
Columbiana, Ohio, Dec. 17th, 1880.
B.J. Kendall Co., Gents: You will find below a recommendation from our
expressman. "We sell Kondall's Spavin Cure and find all who use it are pleased with
it. You may send us more advertising matter, and a few nice cards with our names
on them. CONLEY & KING.
B. J. Kendall & Co., Gents: I am using your Spavin Cure for a bone spavin
(bought of Conley & King, Druggists, Columbiana, Ohio.) I tind it just the thing to
cure a spavin; the lameness has all left my mare, and by further use of the cure I
look for the lump to leave. The one bottle was worth to me ten times the cost
Yours truly, FRANK BELL.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
Horse and bis Diseases, l uae o.-tn using your Spavin Cure on one of niv horses for
bone spavin. One bottle entirely cured the lameiiei and removed most all the
bunch. Yours respectfully, LEEROY M. GRAHAM.
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 8th, 1881.
B. J. Kendall fe Co., Gents : 1 have the highest opinion of Kendall's Spavin Cure.
I find it equally good for many other troubles named by you, and particularly for
removing enlargements.
Yours very truly, C. F. BRADLEY.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
Kendall's Spavin Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it doei not
blister, yet it Is penetrating and powerful to reach any dejp seated pain or to re
move any bony growth or any other enlargement if used for several davs, such as
spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling, any lameuess and all enlargements of
the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man and for any purpose for which a liniment
is used for man or beast. It i- now known to be the best liniment for m m ever used,
acting mild yet certain in its effects. It i used in full strength with perfect saf.tv
at all seasons of the year.
Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, of its
virtues. No remedy has met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for
beast as well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $5.
ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you,
or it will be sent to any address on receipt of price, bv the proprietois,
18 Dr. B. J. KENDALL & CO, Enoaburg Falls, Vermont.
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