Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOURNAL.
-WEDNESDAY, XOV. 14, 1883.
Sitrii at tba rcrteflei, Cclsata:, list., j ie::ai
eta zittir. ,
TjSE milking hour.
Tou Rood old JJoes, stasd quietly now,
And don't be turning' your head this war.
You'relooklajrlpr J)onald. if pimia to see,
Bu(. be wonVbe hereto-day. .
nobgHir'.came with me, deer old Boss,
Mprea to carry my pail; for, you Bee,
SotMlCt gone whistling down the lane,
And. Donald is vexed with me.
Aiwau because of a trifling thing: - '""
B6 asked me a question, and I said Way.
I never, dreamed that he would not guess '
Itwas only a woman's way.
I Wonder if Donald has ever learned ' ,
"The motto of.Tryand try again."
I thlBk, if he had, it'migbt have been
He bad not leamedin vain.
And'fiiere needn't have 6trctched between us
'i.two, -i -
On this .fair evenlng.the meadow wide.
And 1 needn't hare miikod alone to-night,
With nobody at my side.
What was it he said to me yester eve.
Something about about my eyes?
Xl'c-strangc how clever that Donald can be;
That Js,-wb one ver he tries.
Now, JJdssy, old cow, you mustn't tell
That L've cried a little while milking you;
Fori don't" you see? it is nothing to me
What Donald may chooso to do.
If he chose to po whistling down the lane,
I chose to King gayly coming here.
But if s lonely without him, after all;
K6w isn't it Bossy dear?
I hark! who's that? Oh, Donald, it's you!
Did you speak? excuse me what did you
say?
"May you carry my pail" Well, yes; at least,
I suppose, if you try, you may. .
But, Donald, if I had answered So,
Do you think it would have occurred to you
NOt to be vexed at a woman's way.
But to try what coaxing would do?
Jtf. D. Brine, in llarpcr't Weekly.
' SPELLDiG-SCnOOL MASH.
'About the worst I was ever bothered
In. my life, boys," said old Jake Palmer,
as he leaned against his 'favorite lamp
post, surrounded by his favorite crowd
of listeners, "was the time I took Miran
dy Westbrook home from spelling
school. "Here he stopped and waited for a
solicitation to continue the story, for old
Jake was a man who wouldn't thrust
the stories of his outhf ul adventures
upon the public without being requested.
"Well, how was it?'' asked a by
stander. " "I'll tell you," said Jake. "You see
I hadn't ever gone with a girl before,
and I wouldn't Lave gone that time if
one of my chums hadn't asked her in
my place", first. Ike Walker, he asked
her if she wouldn't let Jake Palmer go
Home with her that night, and she said
ho would if he'd ask her himself, so
Ike, he came and told me what she said
and then there was no way for me to
get out of it. This happened at recess,
abd after recess was over I couldn't
hardly f pell, I trembled so. They give
m the word 'meaner' to spell and I
thought it was -Mirandy and it made
me blush fearfully; I thought it was a
Futf up job to make me spell her name,
thought Ike had given me away, and
I made up my mind to lick him after
geein' Mirandy safe home. I made a
pass at the word, for I knew I'd have it
to do sometime, and I might as well
commence first as last. I can't say just
"iow I did spoil it, but I know they
whooped and yelled for about live min
utes all over the house. I think I spelled
It 4M-i-r-a-double-n-d-a-y and then I
forgot and pronounced her whole name,
Mirandy Westbrook1. Great Caesar!
they liked to have split my cars with
their liollerin and yellin'. Well, I
spruced up and looked as bravo as I
could over it, and after a while we were
dismissed. Ike, he came over and said,
Bow's yer chance, Jake. She's standin'
all alone bv herself up yonder.' I
tvanted to hit him then, for I thought he
was to blame about that word, but I was
afraid to get into a rumpus for fear that
would spoil my chances for seein' Mi
randy home, so I shied up to her as easy
as I could and said, 'Ike Walker says
there's a chance forme to sec you home
to-night. How is it?"
" 'I told him you might go, if you'd
come and ask me about it yourself,' she
answered.
" 'Well, sez I, 'I've conic and asked
you, haven't I?' and she said I had, and
it was all right, but I must promise one
thing and that was never to let her pa
and ma know it, for they didn't 'low her
to have company, and her pa didn't like
me very well anyhow for throwin' a
stone and killm' one of his hogs the day
they got into our corn-field. I told her
that there wasn't any danger of me
callin' her pa up out of bed to tell him
about seein' his oldest girl home, so she
and I linked arms anustarted. If the
boys uid some tall hollerin' when I
missed that word, it was nothin' to the
terrific yellin they done when Mirandy
and me passed out of the door. It was
worse than the day of judgment. After
we had gone on a little ways Mirandy
eaid I'd get used to it after a-whilo and
wouldn't mind it. I s'pose she meant
the hollerin', but I'd sooner have sworn
off than gone through with it again.
After we got a good piece away from the
school house we'd have got along first
rate if ithadn't bean for some kids about
ten rears old that was goin' the same
road, and kept goin' over some rhyme
or other about me, such as
"'Mr. Palmer
You must not alarm her
By askin' her to marry
Such a poor farmer."
And
"Bandly-legged Jake
Stole a piece of cake
And was beaten with a stake,
And all such silly nonsensical rhymea
they kept botherin us with, till I turned
round and was goin' to ketch two of
them and bump their heads together,
butMirandy told me to come on and
Hot be such a calf as to mind them. I
hardly know what to think of that, but
I guess it was through her love for me
that she said it. she was so anxious to
have me stay with her all the time.
"Well, just when we got to old man
Wcstbrook's house it commenced raiuiu'
like blue blazes. I never saw it pour
so hard in my life. Mirandy went in to
lee if the old folks were gone to bed,
and came out again and said I'd be safe
enough to come in and wait till the rain
was. over if I kept mighty still, and if it
wasn't over yet when her brother came
home, I must hide some place, or he
Would tell on me. I went in and set
abwn at one corner of the lire-place and
Mirandy she set down in the other, and
we .set and looked at the fireand at
each other for a long time and listened
to the rain beatin' against the winders.
There was an empty chair setting
t'other side of Mirandy pretty close to
her, so I concluded I'd better go and
Bet down on that. It would be more
satisfaction to be pretty close, even if
wo couldn't talk. So 1'went across and
let down, never noticin' the rice puddin
that had been set on. the chair in a crock
to cool. The chair hadn't any bottom
In it, but bad a Iward across where the
bottom ought to 've been, and one end
was nearly off; and when I set down
in the rice puddin', which was pretty
warm yet, the end of the board
lid off one side of the chaic,
and me and the board and the
puddin1 went crashin' down through
and struck on the cat, which was layin'
under the chair takin a nap. The racket
all comin' on the cat's back waked her
np; andjshe set upsucb-ayowlin' that it
wakedtne dog and between thevowlin
of the cat and the howlin of the dog,
and my knockin' around and trin'
to get loose, and -Mirandv's Iaughin
the old folks came a 'rollin' into th
room like a thousand of brick and saw
me stickin' in 'the frame of that old
chair "with my toes rubbin' agin1 my
(ace, and the crock on the floor and me
Mttra1 in the crock, while the nice rice-
that they 'lowed to've had for dinner the
MXt day was splattered... all .around on
!tffoerand over the cat's bnck'anSrth
cl itMli wasn't feelin1 well after rtt
much, weight comin1 onto it at once."
'Well, how did you get out?" aakt4
one of the bystanders.
"Why, I had to stay there," said old
Jake, "till old man Westbrook went
over to our house and waked up my dad,
and borrowed a saw, and come back
and sawed me out, and .as soon asl
got loose I broke for home, right through
the rain without any umbreller,
for I was afraid, the old' man might g
for me for killin' his hog. Aid takin
his girl'home from the spellic ' '
"And how about the rice?" asked one
of his hearers.
"Oh, that was pretty much worked
off by the rain agin1 1 got home, but
every body found out about it anyhow.
Mirandy never could keep nothin',"
and with a melancholy air, old Jake
straightened himself up and walked
pensively away. Burlington Hawkeye.
How Railroads Make up Their Schedules.
One of the most laborious things con
nected with the management of a rail
road is the instituting of changes in the
time-table governing the running ol
trains. Instead of it being done with
pen and paper, as man' suppose, the
entire running arrangement of all pas
senger and freight trains, their crossing
of other tracks or passage of other
trains, their stops and lost time are cal
culated by simple, common pins and
spools of different colored threads. Be
fore a time-tablo or schedule is pre
pared the time chart is first perfected.
To prepare a time chart a large sheet of
drawing paper is first stretched on a
smooth surface and mounted on an
easel. The chart is ruled either for two,
five or ten minute time by horizontal
lines and perpendicular cross lines.
The "time" is marked above the hori
zontal line, and the distances, or sta
tions and terminals, down the first per
pendicular line. For illustration, 12
midnight is the mark on the first hori
zontal line, and each hour is marked
until the twenty-fourth, or the follow
ing mianirut nour is reacneu on ine
last horizontal line. Between the hour
lines the space is divided into minutes
and graduated as line as desired. On a
two-minute chart the space between the
hours is divided into ten minutes' time
and the ten minutes' time into two
minutes' time. Tho hour lines are
made heavy, and the lesser lines
are of a lighter shade to dis
tinguish them. The one terminus of
the road Milwaukee, for instance is
marked on the first lino beside the first
time-mark, 12 midnight The other
stations follow down the perpendicular
line until the other terminal is reached.
Then all i ready to prepare for the run
ning arrangement, provided the pins
anf thread are ready. A blue thread
means a passenger train, a red thread a
freight train, and if the trains of other
roads use part of the track they are
designated by a different colored thread.
It is calculated that the running time
shall be, say, twenty-live miles an hour,
and for the purpose of illustration the
tracing of one passenger train will an
swer the purpose of explaining them all.
A passenger train leaves Milwaukee at
eight a. m. A pin is placed on the hor
izontal line at the eight a. m. time-mark
and the end of the blue thread fastened
thereto. If the train runs without
stopping for fifty miles, the blue thread
is stretched over opposite to the station
at which the stop is made, and directly
under the ten a. m. time-mark another
pin is stuck and the blue thread wrapped
about it to keep it. taut. If this is a
stop, say of forty minutes, the blue
thread is stretched to the 10:40 a. m.
mark on a direct line with the samo sta
tion, and another pin stuck and the
blue thread wrapped. The train starts
and its entire course is thus timed and
distributed along tho road. If the rail
road has say forty or sixty passenger
and freight trains running daily, the
timo-chart, when it is completed, looks
like a great spider's web stretched out
with pins. But little work then remains
to transfcr-the time and stations to the
time-tablo and the schedule is ready for
tho printer. Milwaukee Sentinel.
Appearance of a Tornado.
As the tornado sweeps onward in its
course, it rises and falls with a series ol
bounds, and, with a swaying motion,
describes a zigzag course, now forming
a chain of loops, and again shooting off on
an obtuse angle, varying in the speed of
its forward motion. Avhich may be any
where from ten to thirty miles an hour.
At the samo time it is rapidly whirling
on its axis in the opposite direction from
a screw, or the hands of a clock, the air
revolving around the vortex necessarily
attaining a speed of several hundred
miles an hour. First widening, then
contracting, now bounding above the
tree-tops, and again descending to
sweep the earth Dare of every object
within its reach, the aerial monster
surges onward. The largest forest
trees, mere playthings in its grasp, are
ducked up by the roots, or snapped off
ike pipe-stems; substantial buildings
are first crushed like egg-shells, then
caught up in the votes and the debris
carried sometimes for miles, before it
is again thrown off by centrifugal force,
and falls by gravitation, anywhere,
everywhere, as soon as released from
the monster's grasp.
It is difficult to accurately describe
the tornado's appearance and work,
even for those who have been eye-witnesses,
or who have personally passed
through the horrors its coming brings.
While accounts differ as to its appear
ance and behavior, as witnessed from
different points of observation, and un
der different circumstances, all substan
tially agree that it is cone-shaped, its
motion rotary, that its apex resembles
fire and smoke, and that vivid lightning
and heavy rain-fall usually accompany
it. In rare instances, electricity, in the
form of St. Elmo's lire, will precede the
vortex, and a white, steam cloud will
follow. It will be observed that the
form of a tornado-cloud is nicely illus
trated by the "proof-plane" used in
teaching natural philosophy. The
small end of the plane is most heavily
charged with electricity, and, the nearer
it approaches to a perfect point, the
greater will be the accumulation; a high
tension is caused, and the electricity
must escape by some conductor. So,
in the tornado-cloud, tho smaller the
point or stem the greater the force ex
erted when it meets the earth. Oeorg
C. Smitk, in Popular Science Monthly.
m
Little Miss Mieklen's Adventure.
At dusk last evening a very little girl,
with golden hair and blue eyes, toddled
through Twenty-fourth street and sat
down on a stoop near the corner of
Sixth avenue. Her little red hat rested
on the back of her head and her cheeks
were tear stained. She was scarcely
three three years old. She pressed to
her breast a small white-and-black kit
ten which she had been carrying, and
said:
Tse 'faidwe'se lost, Pussie."
By and by she began to cry, and a
passing policeman trading that she had
strayed from home brought her and her
kitten to the Police Central Office, where
evrasplcedjn charge of MatroB
Webb. At nine o'clock an excited man
ran mto the Central Office and said hit
little daughter was lost. He was sent
to the lost children's department, where
he recognized his daughter. He said
his name was Elias Micklen and that he
lived at S5J Greenwich avenue. He had
neverseen thekitten before. N. Y. Sun.
If the Philadelphia Bulletin can he
believed, a young lady on leaving '
(nnccrt. recent! V. exnral 1,- a.i?Lk
with the excellent music, and seidshe
that
was particularly pleased with
piece from tnejLweirm ..Massachusetts,
Meaning Mozart's "Twelfth Mass."
Wheat Grewtaff Early Plowing.
An object gained by plowing early Is
atmospheric fertilization. That the at
mosphere adds to the fertility of
land: was first observed and demon
strated in England. For ages it had
been the practice to fallow land be
cause it brought better crops afterward.
But no one ever stopped to think .that
better'crops meant more plant food in
the soil, and that if fallowing increased
i the productiveness of land it must be
because the atmosphere and rams fer
tilized the soil. But when some one
did thiuk of this, many were ready to
verify it by experiments. Just how the
atmosphere fertilizes the soil is not
fully understood. Doubtless it adds to
its plant food directly; and indirectly
it increases its store of food by unlock
ing unavailable compounds and setting
their elements free. It is certain that
the efiect is tho result of direct contact
with the air; from which it must follow
that whatever increases the surface ex
posed to the air will increase the at
mospheric fertilization. Plowing does
this; it breaks the solid, continuous sur
face up into lumps, exposing a greater
surface to the air and leaving crevices
and openings for the free ingress and
egress of the atmosphere. The earlier
the ground is plowed the longer will be
the time for this process to go on; and
t':e longer it continues tho greater the
results. Early plowing gives a longer
period for the fertilization of the soil by
the comMaed action of sun, rain and
air. It must be remembered that it is
not the amount of plant food in the soil
that makes it fertile, butthe amount of
available plant food. 'Pulverizing the
soil makes the plant food available by
hastening solution. Sun, air and rain
disintegrate the soil, and thus by im
proving its mechanical texture, increase
its fertility and productiveness.
Early plowing aids in securing a firm
seed-bed. It may be proper to define
a iirm seed-bed: It is not a hard one
of dry, lifeless soil; it is composed of
fine earth thoroughly compacted. To
make it the first operation is to fine tho
soil, then to compact it.
A firm seed-bed is one of the essen
tials of a good crop of wheat. Wheat
can not ua raised with any certainty on
a coarse, louse bed. A fane, firm soil
best resists the action of frost in winter.
In s;u-h a bed seeds germinate most
quickly and plants grow most rapidly.
i-or reasons wnicri i snau give uere
after, Lite sowing is advisable; but
where the wheat is sown late it will not
attain to a sufficient growth before
winter sets in, unless it germinates and
grows rapidly. Hence the necessity of
a firm seed-bed. The reason of this is
that a firm seed bed, being composed of
fine, compact soil, is most nearly
homogeneous, and consequently its
moisture and temperature are uniform,
insuring spujdy and complete germina
tion and growtii. Again, plant food to
be available must be soluble, or in a
state of very fine division approaching
solubility, for it must be taken up by
the minute librillie. Fining the soil
a'ds solution, i. e., makes plant food
available and abundant, and thus in
sures a rapid growth.
The action of the elements tends con
stantly to reduce the soil to a
solid, hard mass from which it . is
difficult for plants to obtain food,
and in which cultivated plants
can
noi tunve. to correct mis
the farmer breaks up the ground
with his plow; this leaves it in large
masses; these masses must be reduced
to tine earth aud then compacted. This
the farmer can do (make a firm seed
bed) by liberally using the harrow,
drag ami roller. But if he can call in
the aid of the elements, all the better,
for they work without wages. Bow,
by plowing early the farmer can gain
the. iid of sun, fain and air in making
fine, compact soil of the lifeless lumps.
As I have already said in a former ar
ticle, by plowing early he will avoid
hard lumps. As soon as plowing breaks
the ground up into masses the elements
commence their work of disintegration
and solidifying, and this is just what
the farmerwants, for he wants a firm
seed-bed. The action of sun, air and
rain will crumble the clods; and as they
are reduced to a finely divided state,
these same agents will compact them.
These cheap and ever busv workers will
do the work better than the farmer can
with the very best implements and at
the same time save him much labor. A
good rain, a stiff breeze and a genial
sun will disintegrate clods when the
most that he could do with drag and
harrow would be to make a dozen clods
of that which before was only one. The
earlier the ground is plowed the greater
the opportunity for this work. And 1
care not how soon the ground is plowed
after harvest, the elements will not
overdo the matter unless it may be on
very low ground, in a wet season, for
the right sort of a seed bed for wheat is
a solid one. There is hardly a possi
bility of getting it too splid below when
the ground has been plowed after har
vest. The surface stratum to a depth
of two inches should be loose dirt; but
if the winds and rains make it solid the
farmer can soon loosen it with a sharp
toothed or disc harrow.
Perhaps no forward step in wheat
raising has led to greater results than
the change from a loose to a firm seed
bed. The old practice was to plow
shortly before seeding and to sow be
fore the ground had time to pack. It
was often noticed that when the ground
was "plowed out" so that the team
turned at the corners upon the plowed
land, tramping it down solid, the best
wheat was raised on the "turning row."
I remember that an old farmer and
very successful wheat-raiser, as long as
twenty years ago, turned all his farm
stock on his freshly plowed wheat
ground that they might tramp it down.
Wheat-raisers learned that the seed-bed
should be solid because nature taught
them so; but a stronger tenet of farm
ing was that wheat should be sown on
freshly plowed land. And thus for
many years after it was known that a
firm seed-bed was best, wheat was
sown on loose ground. More knowledge
has brought better methods, including
early plowing and a firm seed-bed.
The last advantage of early plowing
which I shall mention is. that it admits
of surface manuring. The old prac
tice was to haul the manure on the
land and plow afterward. It was said
that the manure must be buried, for if
it was left on the surface of the land,
exposed to the action of the sun, it
would lose all its strength. Men sup
posed that because the sun evaporated
the water from the barn-yard and stable
manure and made it dry and light, it
had lost all its valne. They rated
the value of manure in propor
tion to its weight. But we have
fortunately got beyond that. We have
learned that dry manure may be as
valuable as wet manure. That rains
may leach out manure and carry away
its substance; but the danger of this is
greater when the manure is spread
upon the unplowed land than when it
is spread after plowing. Manure
should not be left on the surface of the
land. Then it can be of little avail.
But when spread on the freshly-plowed
land the work with harrow and drag
necessary to fine and compact the
ground will thoroughly incorporate it
with the soil. Wheat should be sown
late; but it must make a certain growth
in the fall in order to resist the vicissi
tudes of winter. To make this neces
sary growth when sown late the plant
food of the soil and manure must be at
once available, while its root develop
ment has permeated only the upper
stratum of the soil. Applying the ma
nure to the surface of the plowed land
and working it in puts it, where the
wheat can reach it at this time, where
it will do the most good. But by the
old practice the manure was put eight
or ten inches below the surface where
the harrow could not reach it, where,
in consequence of this, it lay in lumps,
and where the wheat did not reach it by
its roots till its reason of greatest need
was past. No wonder farmers
then said that a dressing of manure
benefited the second crop more than the
first, for the second plowing brought it
to the surface. But in this day of agri
culture the farmer must have quick re
turns. The sharp competition, the
universal practice of better methods,
have made the profits of farming more
precarious, and the farmer cannot
afford to wait two j'ears for a return
from the manure he has applied. The
principle represented by the phrase
"nimble nickel" is as important to be
observed on the farm as in the store
and counting-room. Jolin Meloy, in
Prairie Farmer.
Mustaches Made to Order.
"Are you ever called upon to raise
mustaches for youngsters?" a Post
Dispatch reporter asked a professor
of hair culture who seems to have an
extensive following here.
"O, yes, indeed," was tho hair-com-peller's
reply. "I have many custo
mers from sixteen to twenty-one, and
even as high as twenty-five, whom I
treat specially for the growth of the
mustache. The youngest customers
are anxious to force the crop of hair on
their upper lip; the old ones iind the
growth too scanty and arc anxious to
increase its luxuriance. In the latter
instance the seed pores have not been
opened or life has disappeared from
the bulb before it got a chance to sprout
The easiest cases to handle, though,
are the young men, who want preco
cious mustaches. By feeding the hair
roots, keeping the soil moist and warm
and the pores open, I have found it
possible in three months to give a six
teen or seventeen-year-older a very
good-looking mustache before the rest
of their face is ready for the touch of a
razor."
"Are there many young men anxious
for this labial decoration?"
"You'd be surprised to know the
number. I have now under treatment
three young men from a local boarding
school, two boj's in one of the railroad
offices, the son of a prominent operator
on 'Change and a clergyman's boy.
Thev come here regularly every three
weeks to have the furze clipped from
their lips, which strengthens the hair.
No, I do not use the razor. It would
pull tho hair roots out in the tender con
dition in which the treatment leaves the
flesh. A fine sharp scissors does the
work."
"What do you charge them?"
"Five dollars a bottle for the wash
and a dollar for each clipping."
"Do any of the boys want side
whiskers?'
I never had but one call for them
since I went into the business. A young
fellow studying for the ministry came
in and asked me if I could produce a
pair of blonde side-boards on his face.
I said I could produce the hair, but it
might not be exactly blonde. The hair
of his head was red, and when I
wouldn't guarantee to decorate his jaws
with yellow tow he got up and left. O,
it s fun! of. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Sam Patch's Last Leap.
The fate of Captain Webb at the
rapids of Niagara having awakened a
melancholy interest in similar occur
rences, a correspondent of the Union
has been at the pains to furnish the fol
lowing in relation to Sam Patch's ex
ploits in this place, clipped from a city
paper of an early date:
We have often been requested by
travelers aud others to republish the
particulars of Sam Patch's last leap
from the falls, but not having in our
possession any newspaper files of that
year, we are unable to do so. In answer
to an inquiry in our daily yestordaj-,
Mr. Henry Scranton, of this city, has
furnished us from his private journal
the following: The first leap took
place on Friday, the 6th of November,
1829; distance, one hundred feet. He
went down in fine style and rose to tho
surface amid the huzzas of the multi
tude. The number of persons present
was estimated at 7,000 to 8,000. The
last and fatal leap, which took place
one week after, was advertised in the
Anti-Masonic Inquirer as follows:
"Some thing's can be done as well as others."
There's mo Mistake in Sam Patch. Of
the truth of this he will endeavor to convince
the good people of Rochester and vicinity
next Friday, November 13, at two o'clock p.
m. Being- determined to "astonish the
natives" of the west before ho returns to the
Jerseys, he will have a scaffold twenty-five
feet in height erected on the brink of Genesee
Falls, in this village, from which he will fear
lessly leap into the abyss below, a distance of
125 feet. Sam's bear (at three o'clock precise
ly) will make the same jump and follow his
master, thus showing conclusively that "some
things can be done as well as others." More
over, Sam hopes that all the good people who
attend this astonishing exhibition will con
tribute something toward remunerating him
for the seemingly hazardous experiment.
The following is the Anti-Masonic In
quirer's notice of the exploit:
"The ominous expression contained
in the reckless Patch's advertisement
has been fearfully vindicated. It was
indeed his 'last jump.' He jumped
from a staging twenty-live feet anovo
the brink of the falls into the abyss
below, from whence his bod has not
yet been recovered. A variety of rea
sons are given for the fatal termination
of this presumptious feat All, how
ever, concur in saying that Patch, from
some cause or other, did not retain the
position while descending or strike the
water as he did on tho former occasion.
It was a daring and useless exposure of
human life, which, having resulted dis
astrously, creates a train of painful
reflections. We would not dwell upon
this distressing scene, and yet we can
not banish it from our thoughts. Y e
still see the frail mortal standing, as it
proved, upon the brink of eternity!
The terrified imagination follows him
from the giddy height, through the thin
air, into the deep, dark chasm below!
It lingers but a few moments of breath
less and agonized suspense! The waters,
troubled a moment in swallowing their
victim, are at rest! The expiring bub
bles announce that the spirit has de
parted, leaving the body in the 'dark
bosom of the ocean buried!' The mul
titude shrink away abashed and re
buked!" Rochester (N. Y.) Union.
Trifling With His Health.
"How are you, old man? Got a
light? Thanks. You appear to be
rather hoarse this morning. You must
have caught a severe cold."
The party to whom these words were
addressed was a gentleman who is re
markable for being invariably short
of funds.
"Hoarse! Yes," was the reply, "I
have caught a dreadful cold. The fact
is, I am hoarse all over, but you can't
gujess how I caught such a cold if you
should try for a week."
"Perhaps you got caught in a draft"
"Well, you came nearer the mark
than I supposed you would. I got my
self into a perspiration asking people
to endorse my draft, and they all gave
me the cold shoulder, and that's what
gave me such a cold. I absorbed so
much cold from those cold shoulders
that if ithadn't beenfor the hot weather
I would have been down with rheumatic
pneumonia. Texas Siflinqs.
m
One of the most singular sentences
ever imposed was by Judge Krekel. of
of the United States" District Court, re
cently. An illiterate prisoner wai sen
tenced to jail until he could learn to
read and write, and another offender
was sentenced until he could teach the
former the art. In a little over threo
weeks the prisoner appeared, able to
write a fair letter at dictation, and both
men were discharged. St. Lcuit QUto.
A Husband's Fiendish Joke.
He came home with a serious face.
She, who .vas all love and smiles, saw
in an instant that something was the
matter. He turned his face away when
she attempted to plant tho warm kiss of
greeting on his lips. Her soul sank
within ber. It was the first time that
he had repulsed her. "George," she
said eagerly, "toll me what it is. Has
your love jrrown cold? Ticat me
frankly. It is better to know the truth
than to be kept in suspense." He kept
his heaJ averted a minute, his lip
trembled, rhen he said: "O, heavens!
Florence, haw can you wear that mask
of deceit when I know all?"
"All!" she repeated, as her face grew
white. "All what?"
"Spare me the sad recital," he con
tinued. "There are some things that
arc better left unsaid."
"I will not spare you. I insist upon
knowing what it is you mean. Tell me,
and at once. Some perjured villain has
abused your mind."
"Alas, no!" he said. "I was an eye
witness of it all. Do not add deceit to
your other crimes. I was there and
saw it"
"Saw what?" she cried. "What have
you seen? Are you mad?"
"Calm yourself, madame. I saw
you you. the wife of my bosom when
you did not think my eye was on you.
You were on Broadway, mingling with
the giddv throng. Hewas hurrying on.
You beckoned to him. You made tele
graphic signs until you attracted his
attention."
"Merciful powers !" she gasped.
"You see I know all," he continued.
"You did this on the public stivct. At
first he would have rone on and disre-
farded you, but j'ou were importunate,
ou caught his eye, you be koned. He
smiled, and you went down the thor
oughfare together."
'"Tis false, as false as "
"Madame, it is too true; I tell you I saw
it Let us have no nonsense about it."
Then she a:ik upon the sofa. Again
he turned his manly head to hide his
emotion. The diamond tears began to
come through her fingers. Helplessness,
indignation and shame were struggling
together in her soul.
Suddenly she looked up. " Perhaps,
sir, you will tell me who fie is."
"Certainly," replied the brute. "He
was the driver of a Madison Avenue
omnibus." Then he weut suddenly out
of the door as if fearful that one of
the statues would i!y after him. And
she dried her tears and said somebody
was a fool.
She was right, only she got the per
son wrong. iV. I". H'orW.
The Convict Camps in Alabama.
The condition and treatment of the
convicts employed in the phosphate
mines and upo the railroads in this
State, bad as they are, do not compare
in brutality with the record that has
been made by Alabama. In that State
convicts are employed in the coal mines,
and the report of the .State Health Ofii
cer which has just been published shows
that during the past six months the
death rate among these unfortunate
people has been most appalling. In one
of the mines the deatli rate during six
months aud a half reached 87.;" per
1,000. All of th convicts who died hi
this mine, weiv colored. In another
mine the death rate was even jrreater,
reaching, it is said, 1,'iOper 1,000 for live
months, which is equivalent to ""(JO per
1,000 per annum. "That is to say,"
the Health Officer remarks, "ifthesame
death rate was kept up they would all
die in less than three years." Instriking
contrast with this "dreadful mortality of
convicts in the coal mines is the fact
that during tho present year, among a
total of 246 convicts engaged in other
labors, mostly farming, 237 of them col
ored and nine white, there have been no
deaths at all.
The reasons alleged for the death
rate among the convicts employed in
the coal mines is that their quarters are
imperfectly ventilated and very much
overcrowded; that their clothing ami
bedding are extremely filthy; that the
means for ablution are inadequate, and
that the cooking arrangements are de
ficient. A large number of theconvicts
are physically unable to work" in the
mines. The excessive death rato
among the colored convicts is said to
result from their greater liability to
pulmonary diseases, and because of
their greater despondency and demorali
zation. They are kept at work when
in an enfeebled and sickly condition,
and owing to the imperfect ventilation
of the mines they are obliged to breathe
unwholesome gases, which completely
undermine the constitution and are
sure to result in the contraction of dis
eases from which there is no recovery.
In other words, the coal mines are
slaughter-pens into which the convicts
are driven and from which the- do not
escape, except when death speedily
comes to give them relief. It is said
that certain improvements are being
made in the discipline of coal-mining
camps which will insure the better
treatment of the convicts; but whatever
these improvements may be and what
ever good results they may secure,
there can be no justification for the
criminal neglect of the past.
The system of hiring out convicts is
a blot upon the civilization of the South,
whether the prisoners are penned up in
a coal mine or employed in digging
phosphate rock, or in building railroads.
It is cruel, inhuman and murderous. It
should be abolished, and the sooner the
better. Charleston (S. C.) Xeivs.
Sweet Sixteen and Sixty.
About six months ago, says tho Vic
toria Post, the steamship from San Fran
cisco brought a number of hands from
the railway works at Yale. Among the
number were two who seemed to be
much attached to each other. The
elder was a man about sixty, quite plain
in appearance, but evidently a well
educated gentleman. The younger ap
peared to be about sixteen years of age,
with a remarkably winning face. Wear
ing a large hat, drawn well over his
eves, small hands anil natty little foot.
With the party these two left Victoria
for Yale and immediately commenced
work on the road, the supposed boy
doing his share of the sawing and chop
ping with the rest and gaining many
friends by his gentle and unobtrusive
manners.
After a few days the elder of the two
became sick and he had to be removed
to the hospital, where he was followed
and nursed by his devoted little com
panion. The medical attendant soon
discovered that the supposed youth was
a young lady and the wife of the sick
man. She was immediately taken to
the house of a lady residing at Yale,
where, after discarding her masculine
attire and assuming more befitting gar
ments, she disclosed the fact that with
her husband she had eloped from San
Francisco, where her father and step
mother resided. They had objected to
her choice and wanted her to accept the
attentions of a man she disliked. Her
lover persuaded her to leave home, and
after being married they took the
steamer for Victoria the young wife
disguised as a boy in order to elude
pursuit
The enthusiasm and admiration of the
rough men with whom the young lady
rorked knew no bounds when they
earned that their quiet little companion
wbs a girl, and that she had endured
the hardships of a camp life in order
to be near her husband. The husband
returned to San Francisco a fortnight
ago, leaving his -wife with some kind
friends at Yale. Having secured a
house and furnished it, he wrote for his
'onng wife to come, and the brave little
ady sailed away from her new friends
to join her husband. ,
Fashion Itens.
A brilliant shade of plum color amd
another of rich dark blue havo quite
taken the place of strawberry and terra
cotta in popularity.
Coffee-colored lace, brought into favor
by the Princess of Wales, who wore it
recently upon a dress of ivory-white
satiu, is seen upon tho latest imported
evening dresses of cream-white satin and
pearl-white brocade.
Dresses of either silk or satin are
glowing beautifully less in numbers up
on the promenade, and in their place
are seen the more appropriate and sensi
ble costumes of serge, cheviot, tweed,
cashmere, and cloth the tailor-made
suits forming by far the leading styles.
It is almost impossible to distinguish
the new velveteen from real velvet, so
silky is its surface and so soft and even
its face. The dark colors of this materi
al are very handsome, and they make
both stylish and wear-defying walking
skirts, the new brand, it is claimed, be
ing proof against rain spots, and war
ranted never to fade.
Very long gauntletcd gloves of Suede
and wash leather will be worn this au
tumn for driving, shopping, and with
walking costumes. The handsomest are
not of the lately fashionable pale yellow
or tan shades, but come in dark green
bronze, olive, and other quiet colors,
slightly stitched with pale gold silk, and
having the gauntlets lined with the
same delicate tint.
Scarfs of velvet and satin, charming
ly twisted into grace aud shape over
jaunty little toque frames by artistic
French fingers, are sent to America this
autumn :is one of the leading models for
traveling use, and also to ue worn en
suite with rich costumes of satin and
velvet brocade. Short. Huffy ostrich
tips and expensive jeweled ornaments
in the shape of daggers, pins and
buckles are the only trimmings used
upon these toques.
Dark velvet bodices, which are so
fashionably worn just now over skirts
of veiling, silk aud other fabrics, may
be much heightened in effect for dressy
occasions by having the basque edge
cut in blocks falling over a lace ruffle
set underneath. The trimmings of the
sleeves and square neck are arranged
to match. For evening wear the sleeves
are sometimes of transparent silk, net
or lace, gold lace being used where a
gold-colored Spanish lace ruffle is set
underneath the basque.
For little girls' wear at the seaside or
in the country are sold pretty little
Babet jackets, jackets of dark fed vel
vet or cloth, braided with gold, to slip
on over light dresses when the days are
cool. There are also tiny, shoulder
capes of cardinal serge or cashmere,
embroidered in narrow vine patterns in
a deeper shade of silk, and lined to
match. Wide satin ribbon strings fasten
the cape, aud en suite are coquetish
little Moorish caps of cardinal, to be
perched upon the head, a little back', to
show the English bang falling over the
forehead.
One of the features of dress trim
mings this autumn is the cutting of the
edges of skirts, tunics and polonaises
into turrets, Vand .es and scallops a
fashion so popular last season in lighter
fabrics. Tweed dresses are made in
this manner with good success, the
blocks or points being lined with silk,
and turned back sometimes to show a
bright kilting underneath. Some of
the blocks are quite broad, and not only
trim the foot of the skirt and tunic, but
are set in full double rows around the
edge of the long pointed bodice in regu
lar Elizabethan style. A". Y. Post.
m -
Autumn Novelties.
The most pronounced novelty of the
season is the Crusader cloth, a beautiful
ly fine, but firm, warm fabric, woven in
many colors into broche figures of a
medirel character, shields, escutcheons,
helmets, battle-axes, swords, daggers
coats of mail, crests and heraldic devices
of all sorts. The Parisians are using
these clothes for jackets, with a hauberk
bodice and full pilgrim sleeves, or long,
loose Crusader cloaks, with sleeves a la
religieuse, or made up in the new Mo
liere coat, revived by Mme. Sarah Bern
hardt and called by her name. The
dramatic artists will welcome this nov
elty with enthusiasm. The Gobelin Ot
tomans, with their graceful designs in
subdued colors on dark, quiet grounds,
will be much worn by conservative
women of the best taste and with suffi
cient means to gratify the same. The
velvet broche serges and Ottomans, with
scattered figures aud blocks of velvet
chenille on wool grounds, will also be
favorites with this class of ladies. The
new chevoit effects, woven in stripes
and bars for one part of the costume and
plain for the other, will take the place
of the mixtures so admired last season
and which are not brought out this sea
son. Grecian cloth, a wool fabric, is
another high novelty. It is a broche
stuff, with Greek designs of a severely
classic style, which will be appreciated
by artists and theatrical people.
A new color that clamors for favor,
bwth in dress goods and millinery, is
known as "Judee," a deep purplish
shade of crushed strawberry. Xew
greens awaitingintroductions are "Cres
son," a water cress made of green, and
"Grenonville," a frog green. A number
of brown shades will be revived under
new names and the same may be said
for yellow. A fire-red hue, to be
launched on the public as soon as the
weather is cool enough to admit of it,
has been christened "Infernal."
All sorts of velvety materials will be
popular for bonnets, during the latter
part of the autumn season, heavy vel
vets, plain and figured plushes and
flowers in shaded velvet being among
the garnitures that promise the greatest
popularity, wall-flowers, dahlias, chrys
anthemums and dark velvety red and
orange colored nasturtiums taking the
lead. Philadelphia Times.
Farragut Conquering Himself.
Farragut's own story of his self-conquest
is exceedingly interesting. "When
1 was about ten years old," he says,
"when I accompanied my father as
cabin boy to Xew Orleans with the little
navy we then had to look after the
treason of Aaron Burr, I had some
qualities that I thought made a man of
me. I could swear like an old sailor. I
could drink as stiff a glass of grog as if
I had sailed round Cape Horn, and
could smoke like a locomotive. I was
great at cards, and fond of gambling In
ever' shape. At the close of the dinner
one day my father turned everybody
out of the cabin, locked the door, and
said to me: 'David, what do you mean
to be?" 'I mean to follow the sea.'
'Follow the sea! Yes, be a poor, miser
able, drunken sailor before the mast,
kicked and cuffed about the world, and
die in some fever hospital in a foreign
land.' 'No,' I said, 'I'll tread the
quarter-deck and command, as you do.'
'No, David, my boy; no boy ever trod
the quarter-deck with such principles
and habits asyou have. You'll have to
change your whole course of life if you
ever become a man.' My father left me
and went on deck. I was stunned by
the rebuke. A poor, miserable, drunken
sailor before the mast! kicked and cuffed
about the world, and to die in some fever
hospital! That's my fate, is it? I'll
change my life, and change it at onoe.
I will never utter another oath. I will
never drink another drop of intoxicating
liquors; I will never gamble; and, as
God is my witness, I have kept those
three resolutions to this hour,"
Governor Butler saydthey used xm
speak better English in Maasachusett
years ago than anywhere else on the
globe, and the habit continued, until it
was "debauched bv the newspapers."
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