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1 REMARKAJ5IP CMEER.
HOW A SLAVE ACQUIRED HIS FREE
DOM AND HIS WEALTH.
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Here is the story of the lifeof Solosson
Hsmphries, a most remarkable negro,
who lived in Macon during the pioneer
days of the town, and who was ia hit
any not only the wealthiest negro ia the
oath, bat commanded the respect and
esteem of all the white people.
Sol belonged to a rich planter, one of
the old time sort, who lived'in Jones
ooaBty, which adjoins this. Being al
lowed more privilege than the other
hands, and having more intelligence
than the average negro, Sol managed to
make an odd "thrip," and every one was
'laid up for the purpose of purchasing his
freedom.
This was done in 1825, two years after
Macon was made a town, and, with a
nest egg of money given to him by his
kind master, he came to Macon and open
ed a little store on the east side of the
river, that being really the town in those
days. Although he could neither read
nor write he was a natural mathema
tician, working his sums mentally. His
politeness, neatness and good business
habits soon began to have good effect,
and he became one of the largest mer
chants in the country.
"SOL" IN BUSINESS.
In those days there were no steam
boats here, and freight was brought up
the river on flat towboats from Darien,
then an important seaport. These boats
were manned by negroes, six on a aide,
who handled the oars with singular
skill. When they neared the bend in
the river near Macon these dozen hands
would strike up with a song, and on a
still clear night the musical strains from
these loud lunged singers came floating
over the water as sweetest music. They
would remain here a few days to unload
the goods for the merchants, and then
return to Darien with some four to five
hundred bags of cotton on each boat.
The bulk of the goods and cotton be
longed to Solomon Humphries.
After a few years of successful busi
neas Sol began to takelifeeasy. He pur
chased a place of ten acres near town
and erected thereon a fine home. The
gentlemen who went by on their hunt
ing trips never failed to stop and get
some of Sol's buttermilk. His house was
always open to his white friends, and
frequently be gave dinners that were
really royal feasts. At these dinners
Sol was never known to ait at the table.
The guests were seated ahd it was Sol's
pleasure to wait on the table. The dig
nitaries of the state broke bread with
him, and one who was the most frequent
vjsitor and enjoyed Sol's hospitality the
most was the late Governor Charles J.
McDonald, between whom and Sol a
great friendship existed. According to
the laws of Georgia a that time a free
negro was compelled to have a trustee,
and McDonald, who was then the first
solicitor general of this circuit, after
ward judge and then governor, held the
position of trustee for SoL
On one occasion, when Sol was on his
way north to jmrcliase goods, he was ar
rested in Charleston as a fugitive, and
was lodged in jail, in spite of his en
treaties, to wait until his trustee could
be communicated with. That was be
fore the days of telegraphy, and mails
, were slower than now. There was Sol,
whose credit was good in New York for
$50,000 and in Macon for as much more,
penned up in the jail at Charleston as a
runaway negro. Governor McDonald
lost no time in forwarding the proper
certificates and the message that if it
was necessary he would go on to Charles
ton and certify to his being free in per
son. He was then released and proceed
ed on his way to New York, being care
ful not to come back by way of Charles
ton. BECOMES VERY RICH AXD BUYS A WIFE.
Sol's trade grew larger and larger. In
1833, when steamboats began to run on
the Ocmulgee river, the consignments
to him were larger than those of any
other merchant. In 1838 he married. His
wife's name was "Patsey," and she was
also purchased by him. Shewasa mem
ber of the Presbyterian church in Macon,
and worshiped with the whites. So
great was the respect in which she was
held by the pastor and members that she
was admitted to the communion table,
and though she was a negro. Jiving in
the south where slavery was rampant,
she was shown every respect and kind
ness by her white friends. But with all
this there never was a time when "Pat
sey" or Sol attempted to overstep the
bounds. Sol became a member of the
church, and every Sunday morning the
pair could be seen in their pew in the
little church, presenting rather a strange
picture to the northerner who came
Sevaral citiaens of Macon,, both of
wealth and enterprise, attained their
early business education as clerks from
Sol Humphries. One of them became
the merchant prince of the state, one be
came president of a bank, afterward
president of a railroad, and now lives in
' Mew York, an old citiaen and wealthy;
and still another is a prominent merchant
of 8avannah. These gentlemen went
to work for him when they were boys.
Aa they grew up they went in business
on their own accounts.
In '1853 Sol's luck began to change,
Hjp wife died, parties for whom he had
indorsed failed, and soon his wealth
asked away. In 1856 he died, and
though he was then only in moderate
circumstances, no funeral of those times
was so largely attended. All citizens of
vary class turned out to pay the last
tribute to his memory, and a most im
pressive sermon waa delivered by the
pastor of the Presbyterian church.
Such is the story of a free negro m
times when the south knew nothing but
slavery. Macon (Ga.) Cor. New York
Herald.
CAPTURE OF A DEVIL FISH.
Travel wKk the
FeUew.
We are indebted to the Bev. W. a
r,R.N., chaplain to H.M.S.
in the West Indies, for the sketch
ef thk incident, accompanied by the fol
lowing account of it.
"As her majesty's ship lay at anchor
in English harbor. Antigua, the little
aarral ban buoy that marks the place of
the anchor, to which it ia fastened by a
fear inch rope, was observed to phage
( and splash, diving under tne water
Beporteof this un-
ly behavior of oar buoy ware con-
Itotha oaacera,who treated
.about six feat below the
-.with two good
. around one of his
ar call them for want eta
He
with n share hook
VMUCWMaaM Bad the RtaMIr
veyadtotne oaacera,who treated them
waft the xatkws suspicion that such aa
unKkely story seemed to deserve. By 1
'dsckia the afternoon, whan the buoy
Isad danced for an hour and a half and
aaentBdtoraamireaosne looting after, n
hart was iispstchedtomisssisrtnrw The
fsat. AhugedeTflnahhadgotfonlofthe
turns of tne
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of Beauty but an awe
of the deep. There lay the great nek,
like n riant black bat. with his
wina extended on tkadeck,
cross, from tip to tip, if fart 4 laches.
The other diaaanaiona ware: Breadth Of
mouth (boriaontaUy), t fart; length from
head to end' of tail, tt fart 8 inches;
length of tail alone, 6 fart. But it was a
puzxle at first to find out where his
auouthVas placed.
"I have it, air cried a blue jacket la
great glee; 'and, what is mora, he has a
flab ia it his dinner is there! As he
poke be opened a pair of great black
lips, rather to one aide or tne nan, i
thought, and below these lips waa a
white cavity, large enough to contain
one's bead. And there was a fish, aura
enough, inside it, but this little fish was
alive; he bounced out, a fish the eiae of a
pmll herring, and skipped furiously
about the deck between our feet. There
were more wonders presently, when an
other blue jacket found another mouth,
with another fish in it, alive and well,
and this fish, too, came out and skipped
on deck between our legs. Then it
dawned upon us that these small fishes
could never have been eaten by the big
devil fish; and further examination
showed that each of them had n flat
plate on the back of its head; it looked
as if they had held on to something by
this sucker, and it proved that so they
da We put them inn bucket of water,
and they hung on to the aides of it with
the back of their heads so vigorously
that the hardest pull could not
shift their position, much less dis
lodge them; though when the bucket was
emptied, theycameoff iteakteatatooch.
The small fishes had clung to the devil
fish as his parasites; not feeding on him,
for they left no mark behind, but using
him for their traveling habitation. The
cavities in which they lodged were his
nostrils. Meanwhile, we discovered the
real mouth of the devil flab, three feet
across, lying between these cavities. This
enormous mouth is quite toothless; the
devil fish sucks down his food aa one
would an oyster. What is his food I can
not tell, for after I had finished sketching
him, and before I had well begun dis
secting him, orders were given to heave
him overboard, as he was making the
deck filthy with the streamsof blood that
continued to flow from his dead body.
"Stories have been told of the devilfish
taking a luckless swimmer between his
great fins, folding him in a deadly em
brace and sinking with him to the depths
below; and this may be true enough, but
the Manta Diaboius, or Manta Birostris,
aa ho is scientifically called, is said to feed
only on sea weed. At the same time he
is troublesome and even dangerous, fond
of meddling with the mooring of fisher
men's boats, as he did with our moorings,
and setting them adrift, and when pur
sueda favorite pastime when they were
more plentiful at Port Royal turning
upon the boats, and, if not quickly dis
patched, capsizing them. I have often
seen these fish leap out of the water an
fliwrfng sight on the coast of Venezu
ela, where they arecommon and growto
the size of twenty feet broad. Illus
trated London News.
A rustled Porker.
Out on a Yolo county ranch a few
years ago a small band of hogs were
confined in a lot fenced in with logs. In
one part of the fence there was a hollow
log, shaped' something like a joint of
stovepipe, one opening being inside the
lot and the other outside. One day an
intelligent porker discovered this fact
and thereafter went out and returned at
his own pleasure. The owner of the
ranch happened to witness the mode of
egress of the hog one day and decided
to put up a job on him. By slewing the
log around a little he so contrived as to
place both openings of the log inside the
lot In a few moments the hog ran up
to his usual exit and passed through the
log. Imagine his surprise when he
walked out the other end of the log and
found himself still inside the lot. He
looked about in a puzzled way, scratched
his ear and tried again. Same result.
"Well, m be danged," grunted the hog.
Again he ran into the log and ran out
again with the same result. He became
wild with rage and dashed through the
log so often and so fast that the smoke
began to issue from the cracks. Then
he gave it up as a bad job, and, so the
owner of the hog says, never went near
the fence until the day of his death.
Woodland (Cal) Mail
Peer inastratteasT
I don't claim for myself any ability as
an artist, but I am familiar with history,
and with the characters so prominent
and picturesque during the chivalrous or
knightly age of French and English
history; and I charge it is a foul imposi
tion on trie rising generation for a school
board to accept an edition of-history or
other book of instruction in which the
illustrations are not as authentic and aa
scrupulously correct as the writings
themselves. I have seen a school history
with a picture representing Sir Walter
Baleigh "a paragon of proudest men"
attending court attired in a costume be
longing to a period 600 years before his
time. I refer to this by way of illustrat
ing my meaning; but this grotesqueneas
is not confined to history. It is to be
found in every school book, from the
primer up, and I know thaVthe evil thus
founded in beginning an education can
never be obliterated by after learning.
CL E. T. in Globe-Democrat.
Calfomia has n
dandelion. Some years ago'it ia said
that a citiaen imported from the east the
red nf ha M faahvwiArl dawAJfrwi, He
wanted something to remind him of his
early home. like the man who im
ported the sparrow, he did worse than
he knew. The sparrow ia everywhere,
o is the dandelion. The aeed drifts in
the wind like that of the thistle, the
down ia buHt into the nests of birds, and
every seed which gets a lodgement on a
lawn or grass plot will, in due time, pro
duce a million mora. Now the solitary
dandeuon is very attractive in bloom,
and hardly leas so when after the blos
som the gauze globe appears, and af em
day afterwasd goes Bailing off before the
wind like a small balloon. But the citi
aen who is forced to dig up bis lawn be
cause n million dandelion roots have
strangled the grass will utter no bene
diction over this rich golden blossoaa.--8an
Francisco Bulletin.
Pretty Daughter Papa, dear, what is
Father The art that enables a father
to smile over his daughter's drennaakera
bilk.
P. D. And psaniiiianiT
Father The ability on the part of n
woman to look supremely miserable in n
beeonung bonnet Pittsburg Bulletin.
He that hath a trade hath ai
and he that hath a calling hath
a place
ot pront and honor. A
his legs ia higher than i
hk knees. Ranklin.
Celery is said to have been
from France into England hi 17M
friend it later found to way to
harpoeasa; theism which waa sf
tanglMl was cut, and' swanjasaav,,
tawed alongside and waa hoisted on
"When he waa laid on the deck we had
an ample oWm lanky ; oTadaaMahar
art snportlons. He was not thing
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Window
art
He who
window is. making than
to
,and in
the position of
the best in the
this sort of work ia rarely to he
He must, be an artist,
weu versed in
Art window dressing ii
never had a tifgiaBing. It it stately
growth, the outcome of n atrnggle for
novelty and to excel one'a
competitor. A few years age there
ia New York city bat three or four large
dry goods Itousss. These had the naaaa,
the fame and the trade. Than there
were hundreds of amsll atoms and shops.
For the advancement of any one of these
the public eye must be attracted to it.
And it waa very largely window display
that accomplished this, that built np
rivals totheoMesrsMkAments, who had
attempted little of that sort of thing. At
first in these small shops is
clever and artistically inclined
behind the counter who spent n part of
his time in arranging the window.
As the businesa grew the window be
came the more important, and in the
newer and brgor stores of the new con
cerns entering with snooeni intoocaftpe
tition with the old establishmente, win
dows were bufit aped finally for show
purposes, and window dreanng
a department of itself. Winds
era began to be sent for from London
and Park, but the moat of them com
menced behind the counter, and in all
their window work have kept pace in
their ideas with the crowing demands
of their concerns. Some say that there
are only n doses Int. class window
dressers both in New York and Brook
lyn; others claim that there are not half
that number. Jurt what constitutes
good window dressing it k difficult to
find out, unless it k simply the power of
attracting the public eye. Professional
jealousy seems to be largely in im-fittnm
about another min'a possession of that
power.
"I can't explain howl dress a win
dow," said one of the best of the craft
the other day; 'my experience teUame
how to display goods and get certain
effects, and that' k all there k of it
There are no rules about it, although a
a window dresser told me once you could
team it all out of n book. But you cant
ft k n matter of Ions; oipsfifian By
study and practice you gain ideas to be
followed out Of course, yon aoost know
bow to put colors and stuffs together.
All the really good men at it have been
in the business fifteen or twenty years,
abroad and here; a man must have it in
lum at the start, and then he must begin
as a boy. He should have been behind
the counter, and know jurt how to han
dle and dispky goods. But there's no
rule about it Every man in the busi
ness goes to work differently.
In most of the large stores the win
dow dresser k autocrat in hk depart
ment, and baa hk own private room for
the keeping of hk framework and mate
rials. In Brooklyn this kespedally the
case. There the stores are newer, the
windows larger, and the display in gen
eral more elaborate. In the window
dresser's room of a store which displays
picture designs aa well aa goods, there k
much to be seen. A carpenter's bench
for he k his own carpenter frame
work of wood, pasteboard and brass
everywhere, standards for the draping
of dress goods, drawers and cabinets full
of stuffs, men's clothing and wax beads.
In the making up of "dummies' used
only the heads are bought, and a stock
of those are accumulated.
The bodies unclothed are curious af
fairsa wooden frame 2xlT feet square
and a couple of inches thick, slightly
stuffed and covered with whits cloth,
with two sticks to serve aa lower limbs
and entirely without upper ones; a abort
piece of wood upon which the waxen
head and neck is placed. Upon this
framework is the figure, by a judicious
stuffing, built "We fit the man to the
clothes," remarked afdoer of it, "not the
clothes to the man." In making np a
woman's figure no actually made drosses
are used. A consultation with the head
of the dressmaking department deter
mines just what patterns shall be shown.
Dress lengths of these are cut out and
draped upon the forma. Thus sven the
goods worn by the ky figures may be
sold directly from the window, and it
often happens that n buyer will want
jurt exactly what she had seen there.
There are twoscbookof winoW dress
ing. One believes its object merely the
displaying of the goods' themselves, the
other the attracting of attention to the
concern. The latter class are those who
make use of picture designs and wax
figures. "A dainty display of goods,"
they say, "a clsvsr Uending of colors,
will quickly catch a woman'a eye. But
the average man will never give it n mo
ment's look. Now our windows srs to
attract everybody. Put in it n group, a
figure, an odd design, and the men will
take immediate notice of it The goods
wM to displayed all the same. Now, n
man goingVirnefromhkbueincBicstchei
agumpseof our store front As he sits
down to the tea table he says to hk wife,
'Have you seen that new group in 'a
window? It k so and so.
There are no doubt a good many mar
ried women shout the city who havent
seen that window. Some of these, ws
calculate, will corns to the store the next
morning. Had there been merely an ar
rangement of auks or ribbons, the man
would hardly have given it a glance and
never a second thought
"It k not good," say ths experts, "to
ticket that is, price mark goods ia the
window. It k too com men, they say.
The arrangement titers k calculated to
be so very attractive that should any
thing strike the fancy of the panting wo
man, she k bound to come In and ask
Che salesman, "How much b that a
yardr New York Mail and Express.
WHAT TO DO IN EMERGENCIES.
In Case eg Asslis It U
Wnaftls'stBf
What to do in cases of euMrgeucyk
an important subject, and information
or else ao placed aa to be easOy avafl
able in time of need.
Burns of the eye bycakiBBn or lint
sra not very coassnon, yet kk'ssafulto
lcBowhowtotrertthss. In the
of lime getting into the eye or
the front of the eyelids itkweu to
.until the arrival of
that ia no case mart water be
will
be rumored by the use of a feather or
caaaeTs hair brush listly applied, or if
k at hand, by Kuan folded ton
Acuta htlssusBataBB
be looked for altar such aa noct
Even with immaaisrs medical aid
the eye may be much
without it ths organ bbbt
I would like to caQ ntssnticn to n
remedy which
M8PLAVS FOR CATCH-
PUwUC EYE.
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thai countrv
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and any fractaoBsllam nMw sfhnwarda
tberaaawtioBcwBntathBcunofaJaaost
all known wounds tan, k dnssrvns a
faaos in very sMBSshshL- It k cslkd
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: and wounds of all Made, Ite values n
na odor, which k theoaly oajsctionahie
tt, but for the sake of a
cure tbk can hetokrasad. Itfa
in all hinnilak thjonchoot the
nOOSBBBSSMSU sy UBS
in every land. It k
of afl nlofl
adaya. It k hart used in
with soans vehicle,
in the proportion. of one drassni of
iodoform to one and n half ounces of
It k wall to have kcarsfnny
narxea raaon, for
only." TTss K hi sMfndms
upon lint and bandage it to ths wound
twice a day. Whan removing and be
fore spplying a fresh bandage, wash ths
wound thoroughly with warm water and
As we are often placed in positions re
quiring assistance and, perhaps, thrown
upon our own resources, the following
may be impressed upon the mesaoty to
advantage:
If scalded, plunge the part in water.
Tbk relieves pain instantly and gives
time for thought and composure.
An insect in the ear may be drowned
out with tepid water or killed by a few
drops of sweet oiL
If anything hard gets into the ear,
double n stout horse hair, place the bead
on one aide and drop the loop into the
ear, move it about until it catches the
object and then draw it out
In cases of poisonous bite suck the
wound instantly, unless the mouth k
U the throat burns after swallowing a
poison.drink sweet oiL If you srs fall
ing' asleep from n poison drink half, a
glass of water into which his been srkred
a teaspoonful each of salt and common
table mustard, and, after vomttingj'drihk
the strongest coffee and keep in motion
until perfectly awake. After any poison
swallow one or two raw eggs.
If smoke k suffocating yon fall on the
floor and crawl out on your hands and
In cases of insensibility, in which there
k loud snoring, the parson k seised with
apoplexy. Bake the head, remove pres
inrs from the neck. If the face k pale
and the breathing very low, it k a case
of fainting. . Place the body perfectly
level and lower the bead. The patient
will promptly revive. Nothing else k
Always remember that if you have
health dent meddle with it, avoid doc
toring and drugs until a real necessity
for their use arises. Cos. New York
News.
DwelUaf
The characteristic Englkh dwelling k
described as n two story brick boots,
walled in, and with the best part of ths
bouse at the back; then are the drawing
and dining rooms, white the kitchen and
pantries are in front In suburban and
country houses ths rooms srs large and
are arranged around a hall; but the win
dowa and doora are amalL The outside
of the house k ahnostuniformly without
architectural decorations, and tbedull
nesa of the climate k seen in the somber
neas of the furniture and the adornments
of the house.
The interior k dull and uncheery.
There k little "sweetness and light" in
the colors, forms and expressions, except
in the dwellings of more recent building
and furnishing. Up to within n few
years the Inside finish waa all of dark
wood and the furnitusBwas mahogany,
of very heavy and fjamly construc
tion. But if you can dissociate the idea of
comfort from that of art, the English
home has n very marked spirit of com
fort The sofa k easy and big and the
chairs were made to use. The walk are
papered, never painted, the papers bains;
dark and of huge pattern. The dining
room k the living room of the. middle
class families. Such of the family as
remain at home ait in that room during
the forenoon and until after the noon
Were the color of the English house
less somber and the furniture less cum
brous; were the rooms more open and
teas separated from each other, it would
be the center of the most perfect ex
ternal comfort known to the domestic
life of tins world. As it is, the lhglih
house Is the home of sweet love, of
thoughtful civility and of unf orgetting
and undying loyalty. Good Housekeep
ing. JL DeuBte Dtaasr ta Bassla.
The Bussian eats on an average once
every two hours. Ths climate and cus
tom require such frequent meals, the di
gestion of which k aided by frequent
draughts of vodki and tea. Vodkikthe
Bussian whisky, made from potatoes and
rye. It k fiery and colorless, and k gen
erally flavored' with some extract like
vanilla or orange. It k drank from
small cupsthat bold perhaps half a gill.
Vodki and ten srs ths Inseparable ac
companiments of friendly aa well as of
business intercourse in the country of
the czar. Drunken men are rare.
Bussiaand Sweden are the only coun
tries in which the double dinner k the
rule. When you go to the house of a
Fnsokn, be he a friend or a stranger,
you are at ones invited to a aide table,
where salted meats, pickled eel, salted
cucumbers, and many other spicy and
appetizing viands are urged upon you
with an impressivrncss that knows no
refusal. This rep-irt k washed down
with frequent cups of vodki. Thatorer,
and when the visitor feek naif be had
eaten enough for twenty-four hours, ths
host mys, "And now to dinner." At the
dinner table the meal kstrvedin courses,
with wines grown in the Crimea and in
Dossarsbia, where excellent clarets and
Burgundies aro made and sold for from a
shilling to half n crown the bottio.
Boston Budget ...
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A Very Basest Dec.
"Now, my dog Laddte has got more
sense than moat men," said a veteran
breeder of sheep doge. "I never had to
train him anything. He just took it up
natural. One day when he was a pup I
called him down to the pasture to help
drive up the cowa. In lessthanaweek
be could fetch 'em to tho bouse by him
self. It got so pretty soon that when
ever ths cows beard me call Laddie
they'd start for borne fall tilt, without
waiting for the dog to come.
"Laddie can manage anything on the
farm but Molly, zty bay mare. He cant
drive Molly. When be- carraes her by
the tail she just stands and kicks at him
till be lets ga They are always quarrel
ing. She's afraid to wallow when he's
around, becsfne be creeps up and bites
her on the back. One day she caught
him asleep on ths front porch. I hap
pened to be attains; .out uwrs smoking,
where I could see tlM whole show. She
walked up aorter on bar tiptoes, aa qui
etly as I could have done it, and got
by taking n handful of hair and a
of akin out of hk aide with her
Laddie was the most astonished
dog I ever saw. He didst bark and he
didnt whine. He jurt got np aa quick
as hs could and sneaked under ths house:
Has meditating some revenge yet For
hard sense, give me a collie
Varv tall to very Dow legged
Great Scott! Did yon learn to walk too
yoBug.orwbat?
Bow Legged Man Stranger, I warped
Bay Irgs stooping down to avoid long
Utlrfwswspaskqueions. Judgs-
vwmmfs . ,u.n,'nnimRpHHan
AT CASTLE GARDEN.
.
ABOUT THE
GREATEST
WORLD.
OOOftWAY IN THE
TnsoldCastteOniwBB building k not
a pretty one. ft k sfcaaly an oh) fash-
stone fort;
of war have
forty years, and ta their
a few railings dividing the floor into
large cribe or pens into which ths sanl
grants srs herded almost Hks cattla.
But it k an amazingly mteneting build
ing. In itself it carries the mind back
to ths revolutionary period, when ths
city was in its babyhood a little village
clnsteringaround the Battery. Than one
recollects that after tbk it waa n fashion-
abls gathering place, n sort of
bouse, ths one in which Jenny Lmd
when she waa here. After that the in
terest in the old building ceased to be
local, and has become almost universal
rather than national, for winding through
its singfe-great apartment from the boato
on the river 'aide to the gates that face
the park has passed a flood of men and
women from every civilised land, num
bering 8,000,000 souk, snd building up
our population by a method unprecedent
ed in the world's history.
scAKmNQ a amp's load.
Two ship loads of greenhorns were
filing into the old fort as I stood looking
on into ths first pens from boats that
had brought them from ships lying out
in the harbor. Down the bay the health
officers had assured themselves that there
were no contagious diseases aboard, imt
at the water gate of the Castie wars
other doctors who narrowly scanned
every emigrant ss he or she tended, and
who every now and than touched one on
the shoulder and bade him stand aside.
It was their businesa to discover' any
such severe sufferers from illness as
might seem to be unable to make their
own way in thk country, all cilpplss
snd whatever young girte might happen
along who appeared to be on the verge
of motherhood without the accompani
ment of husbands. These smount to
very many every year. AU such were
afterward closely questioned, snd unless
there was somebody to guarantee that
they should not become a charge upon
the public they were sent back to Europe
by the steamer lines that brought them;
at no charge to them or the authorities,
. because it k the duty of the steamship
people to scrutinize all who apply for
passage on the other aide and to refuse
to bring emigrants of tbk sort
These people were all waiting their
turn to give their name, age, birthplace
and destination for the clerks to put on
record in the big books of the garden.
While they waited they smoked their
pipes, nursed their babies, bought un
palatable looking repasts at provision
counters, washed and tidied themselves,
sprawled out on the benches snd akpt;
and ao were obliged to spend the greater
part of tlie day until the boato from the
railroad depots should come up in the
afternoon to take them up town or over
to Jersey, and thence into the rapacious
maw of the great west Some of them
bad their money changed by brokers ap
pointed for the purpose, who doubtless
make a great deal of profit, but are under
bonds to charge no more than Wall street
rates of commission, and to change the
single silver piece of the poorest Italian
woman at the same rate aa the $1,000 of
one of the well to do.
rnOTKCTED FCOX SHAKPKBS.
The only money the emigrants can
part with in the garden now must go
for provisions or railroad tickets or to
tne very enterprising Darner wno baa -a
slum there snd seems in much demand.
Hk signs are peculiar. They are in
German, and they announce "Razoring,
fifteen cents; head washing, twenty
cents." The signs of the provision
dealers show that loaves of rye bread
fetch fifteen cents, or other bread ten
cents; that cheese goes for twenty cents
a pound, and that the other articles in
strong demand are ham, pumpernickel,
lager beer and pie, all of which are sold
at rates proportionate to the prices given
above.
Doubtless there k a good, deal of
swindling and extortion practiced among
the landlords who keep ths emigrants'
boarding house in the streets all around
Castie Garden, but it k ths emigrant's
fault if he suffers very badly, for n great
many of these places are licensed, are
reasonably well conducted, snd are re
sponsible for ths manner in which they
treat their guests.
But - thk k n very wicked city, snd
down about the Battery k n very wicked
part of it, so that, even if an emigrant
manages to get into a good house where
he k not charged more than twice as
much aa he ought 'to be, be cannot
safely venture a half a block away
from hk lodgings without being, ap
proached by some of the boldest and
most plausible and most ingenious ras
cals in town, who make it a business
to live upon these people. The bert plan,
after all, k for the emigrant not to leave
Castle Garden at all, but follow the
routine course of the majority of hk
fellow tnssengars, and start swsy by
railroad; withThk tickets looked after
and hk baggage carried free, on ths
afternoon ofthe day be lands. Julian
Ralph to Pittsburg Bulletin.
Battle with CM.
It knot often that n newspaper man
comes across two truesnakestoriesinons
day, but n reporter heard yesterday of
two which are well authenticated. Mr.
CyreainsHall, ths artist, has a suramer
borne at tele of Hope. Three weeks ago
Mrs. Hall, to encourage her bens to lay,
bought a half doaen china nert eggs and
placed them in their nests. On looking
for them a few dsyasfter they wars not
to be found, nor wars there any sugar
bowk or tea sets about to show that the
day test weak n ehteksn soaks waakilted
onMr. HslTa farm, and two china eggs
were found teside of it His snakeshlp
bad been doubtless suffering fromdys
pepate for asvaral wsasa.
Itr. Halls saakeeapertence did not end
with ths eggs, however. That gsatte
man has a large cat, which kssJdtobe
one of the bast and bravest of the feline
specks. A few nights sgo ths oat was
locked in the store room. During the
nkjMnterrino
ing from ths room, snd tt
that a
trying to put fc out. Mr.
Hall went to ths ptece and let the cat (or,
as hnsnpposed,two oats) out. In ths
n large, hssdtess, black ansks
fouiMltethestoreroom. It had evi
dently attacked the cat, snd, true to fas
it, but
N(
DeL, k proud In ths
of the Mkses Marine, two rs-
BiarkaesltttIeawBrfs,wbo
and reared (a that county.
MnsT ink, lacks three inches of
three feet tall, has a head in
to the rest of her body; k vary tetelli-
lBentlywith njlwkh
in cioBtect, Iniriiths
fact that stwwsiched snt fcrtyJrtr
on n
- T
tnsst sad SO tt Was stata Ths Jeasw
neks was heard essenat-
m m i - !
pasansf thBisnni, IHssaWawns
lBBWBMfart
wep wev eesBseSf weasBasBnasy
S2ft
"I have a saw saury; tokT by
CbL Oag nswaak has
failed to art ths table hi n roar
Ths editor OBsnsd n dro
and drew
csrryingnball
tares to the
"Do yoBwant ft
sraly, "or srs yon
going to taH itr Ths visitor turned pate;
"I thought yon Slight like to prist it," he
said feebly. "Shnkerr said ths editor,
joyously, as he replaced ths artilkry.
"writs it out and take it to tho foresann;
weuosvery gian to pruts st. uot any
BOD
Nathaniel Parker, of East Burke, Vt,
ths mill lumber to Folsom's Cross-
isg, runs the mail from Lyaaonvilte to
East Burke, runs the livery, runs the
hotel, runs ths Good TeasaJers lodge.
ths siasisv school, runs ths choir.
ant, ana solas smneetr ta readtasss to
,rw any other eteaartBBSBt of viMags in
dustry wlsioh; knot running lively si
ready. BostoBBraldL- :
. -
. tt'
ftwssstTosMfBhv- Tnsyouns; Count
dsT- i who wss serving ssa'private
in n hght infantry regbnent, had hk
skull fractured by n bulkt during an
it with ths macs-flags. He
up for dead, snd resaovedtothe
"He wont recover," said the
major; one can ass ths brain." At thk
word ths patient auddasny opened both
hk eyes.
''Yoocsnsesmyorainrheasked. "I
beseech you, saajor, write at once to ap
prise my father of the fact; he mads me
join the army because he pretended I
had no brains. "San Francisco Argo-
Probably no one thing has' caused
snch s general revival of trade at David
DoB'sdrsg store aa their giviBgswsy
to their metosners of so many free trial
bottles of Dr. Kings New Discovery for
consumption. Their trade k simply
enormous in thk vary vslnsbte srticle
from ths fact that itslwsys cures snd
never dianppoiats. Coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis, croup, and all throat
and lsag dnnsses qicUy cured. Yon
can tort it before buying by getting s
trial bottle free, large size $L Every
bottle warranted.
Frugality k found on the principle
that all riches have limits.
ABimtWi
.. 'The happiest women like the hap
piest nations have no history," says that
wonderful writer, George Eliot, but no
woman can be happy who k suffering
from the irregulsrities snd "weslmesses"
so common to her sex. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription will sooth nervous
troubles snd restore health and vigor
once more. The roses will bloom again
on those faded cheeks. It k s positive
cure for ths most complicated and ob
stinate esses of prolapus, weak, back,
"famsto weaknesses," ants-version, retro
version, ."besriBg down" sensations,
chronic congestion, inflammation and
steeration, inflammation, pain and ten
derness, snd kindred ailments.
Bare as true love is, true friendship k
still rarer.
Esseh.
The transition from long, lingering
and psinfal.aickneas to robust health
marks an epoch in the life of the individual.-
Snob a remsrkabte event k
treasured in thssaempryot ths sgenoy
whereby ths good health has been at
tended k gratefully btenwxL Hence it k
thataomnoh k heard in praise of Elec
tric Bitters. .So many foal they owe
their restoration to health, to ths use of
the great alterative and tonic If you
are troubled with any disesse of kidneys
Uverorstomaoh.of long or short stand
ing yon will surely find relief by use of
Electric Bittsrn8otd at COo andl a bot
tls at David Dowtys drug store.
Pnrebase not friends by gifts; when
thou ceacest to grre,'snch will cesse to
love. '
tMOO KewarS tS.OUC
For a better or more pleasant remedy
for the cure of consumption,' bronchial
troubles, cough, croup snd whooping
cough than SANTA ABIE, the Ciiifor
am king of consumption. Every bottle
warranted. If you would be enred of
that disgusting disease, catarrh, use
CALIFORNIA CAT-RJUBE, SI ajar;
by mail SXIQ. Saatt Abie 'and Cat-R-Cure
are aold and warranted by Dowty
JcBechsr.
Nothing more dangerous than a friend
without discretion; even s prudent
enemy k preferable.
Sarehr Cares.
To ran Enaen Please inform your
readers that I have a positive remedy
for. ths sbove named dteaase.. By .its
tnnsly nss thousands. ot hopeteaa esses
hsvs been permanently 'enred. " I shall
be gted to send two bottles of bit reme
dy nam to any of your readers who hare
ptwn if tney wUl aaad me their
ezsress and port onV3sad!dess. Bsansct
fally, T. A. Sutcut M. CL, 181 Tearl
rtreet. New York. 80y
I'.
Make not thy friends to cbean to thee,
nor thyself to thy frtend.
Care.
The OBIODIAL ABIETIME OBSFx
lONTk only put BpiakrgstWo-ouBee
tu'bosss,rsnd k an-assnnmBB entw tor
old sows, bums, wouada, ehSpsed hands
snd aU hinds of skin eraptiona. WiU
positively curs all kinds of pites. Ask f or
tUOrUOINALABITINEOINTMENT
Sold by DowtjrA Beehsr at aesnte par
nox oy mau aw e
msr7y
Ths youth of frisnonniu. k better than
iU old ace. -
's Aralea Salve.
The bast sarveln the world for cuts,
brakes, sores, sJosrs, salt rhsinn, fever
sores, tetter, cnapped haade, ehflbteins,
corns, snd all akin sraptkms, snd posi
tively cures piles, or no psy Tequired.
It m gnraateed to give perfect
tion, or mosey refsnded
perbox. FocsstebyBnvidlJowir. 3
Of no worldly snod on
be perfect, nslsss it ia shsrsd by n
1 .
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After a grocer, has introduced
"Mi bust wisiis row
To his trade, it is needless to offer him any other,
and the Drummer who tries to swindle him with
humbug soaps must stand the consequences.
ASK YOUR GROCER FOR SAMPLE.
-MAMOM.YBY-
ft. K. FAIR BANK CO.,
ST. LOINS.
P. S. IF YOU HAVE FRECKLES, USE FAIRY " SOAP.
SCOTTS
EMULSION
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Almost MMatabto as MMk.
So dlagulsr that It w be taken,
esseS. satd usalaaUatHI By the wmmSk
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SCOTT'S EMULSION k acknowledged by
PhysidatiS to be the finest snd Best praps
ration in ths world for the reli f and care ot
CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA,
CENIRAL DEBILITY, WASTIHQ
MSIASCftV EMACIATION,
COLDS nnd CHRONIC COUGHS.
Tht grtnt rtmedjf fur Gmatmolimt, end
WuUayinChiUrm. ikJd by atf2)resjtets.
Try the Cure
Ely'sCreamBalm
nnaiBBT tho TTs mil Ti mi 1 1 m Al
lays Inflajmnatkn. Heate the Bores.
Bsatoxes the Senses at Taste, Smell
and Hosriiig.
AsvittetofeaneMed
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