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; VOLUME XXVI.-NUMBER 17.
COttJMBtJS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. AtJGtTST 7, 1895.
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08E TEMPTATION.
HEN LEAXDER
Clarkr married M
"Jtel Thorpe he had
.no expectation of
ever being & rich
man. "but as his af
fairs appear. at the
present time he Is
-on the bread high
way .to. future
wealth. It all arose
from- the fact that
he took time by the
?P'
P
.forelock. ' the only way poor mortals
r " -have of ever setting even "with him of
'the scythe and hour-Iass.
. But it is this very thing that Is caus-
"".n him Buch a lot of mental anguish
;.-now. -making his nights sleepless and
threatening to undermine his domestic
- -.peace.
-. ".Mabel Thorpe laid no claims to social
- "distinction when Leander met her first
t some entertainment." where she ren-
tJered'selectlons .of classic music In such H
. i .masterly manner that he. being a
'. lover of -music." was Instantly attracted
- "to her side nd stayed there during the
evening. For the rest she wore glasses.
- - lielnp uear-sighted, and. having grad
uated from an eastern college, was
rather stifl" and pedantic in, her manner
a grateful change from the ordinary
frisky young -creatures with whom Le
"ander had been associated.
:. It takes all kinds pf people to make a
. 'world more's the pity and lave, goes
-where It-is sent.. Mabel had expected
- o. hecome one of that noble army of
"-martyrs, teachers, but when Leander
:-. proposed she reconsidered the matter
. nd thought she heard the voice of
-duty bfdding her answer "yes." and
without more ado she accepted him.
Now, Mabel Thorpe did not expect
-' her hero to Swim the Hellespont of life
-- with all his armor on. but she did de
mand from .him as she .had a rJsht to
io-a high moral standard, for she had
-not married hlin until she had seen, as
- she had ' believed, his-whole past life
. laid open "before her as a book. There
Is no rime when a man is as weakly
" sentimental and as religious as when he
Js trying to live up to the standard of
. pure young girl's ideal, and. Leander
beenme almost an" a.igel.
. . There, are very few of us capable of
making human angpls of ourselves.
- food .and" evil are as persistently pres
. -ent in .our moral nature as light and
darkness .are In our atmosphere, and
..-'. Tine serves" as the "complement of the
:' - )Jher. To banish night we use the light
: . .t: science, to counteract wrong we in-
- yoke- divine help, but so' largely is our
- wwrfdly nature Irt excels of our splrit--t:ai'
powers that we are constantly In
-thinner rf erring tp be forgiven in
. ' ether .words, sinning and repenting.
"- -.' MabI Thorpe believed in an Inflexi
ble uprightness. The command to do
evil that good may come was to her a
perverted text. She was not aware that
- ' there are sins -of omission, as well as of
- '-commission and that her uprighteous
- condemnation of sinners and her severe
Judgments were in themselves of a sin
ful nature. The self.righteous are often
harder "to live with than the sinner.
Leander Clarke had t-efcn a. good son
and he intended to be a good husband.
He was both proud and- fond of his
"wif but certainly regretted that he
.could not' give, her air Ihe luxuries that
"she could .appreciate -not even the
srand pian.o that her musical talent de
served. But he went to- work with a
will to- make her happy and hoped In
a.:fw years- to be able to add all other
-needful things.
Among the wedding presents of the
young couple w?s one that far out-
t-hone-all the" rest a superb set of dia-
. . mon'ds. sent by an uncle of Leander's
.,. who was near to death and gave the
FOUND HIM LYING ON THE
FLOOR.
resMue of a large estats in this extrava-
sant present.
"I neyer -was so pleased in my life."
. he s.id. "Diamonds represent tome the
"crystallization of everything beautiful
-.in art and nature. I never dreamed
.. that I should possess such " magnifi-
; cence."
" -"B.ut these- have .no associations,"
- said-, her husband. "They are not helr-
- looms."
. "They will be. All diamonds were
-new. at some time. And are they- not
associated with the dear old man who
'-. - av them?"
: -T.li'e dear old man had been a terror
""m the .'family and had only given the
" diamonds to Leander's wife because he
' "hated that nephew a little less than the
.other, whom he hoped to make hor
ribly jealous, and angry and had suc-teeded-
- .When Leander asked his wife to keep
- --'her. diamonds in the. bank she promptly
' .declined.
"But you surely wil. not wear them.
" ; dearF he suggested.
-.' ""Why -not?" she asked.
"It would injure our prospects and
not be consistent with our position."
."'Tlj'ey are a gift to. me. Surely I have
. the Tight to do as I please with my
own.". -
-." ""The right yes. but I thought- my
wife had more discretion. I did not
know- you cared for gew-gaws, Mabel."
- -So "the'first cloud came on the horizon
. of" their love, but Leander was goqd-
.... "tempered and .Mabel satisfied, and it
disappeared. The truth was that Le-
- ander had expected a handsome sum of
:" money -from this very uncle, who was
a bachelor and very eld. But age had
-."' not mellowed an ugly disposition to
.. -thwart his relarives, and after raising
;"; the.young man's hopes he took a ma-
-"-licious pleasure In disappointing them.
. " ' -The young couple began life in a
.pfe'tty furnished cottage on the .modern
-.plan of a chafing-dish and hand-paint-
-cd-china, and it worked like" a charm.
tf"hen Leander had a chance to buy
shares in -the "Little Catawba" Lum-
' :ber "company -and to make as much in
three-months as he would in a year by
his clerkship Mabel would not listen, to
the suggestion that the bank would ad-
vance .enough' on the diamonds to en-
Vable .him "to make the investment.
Then Leander discovered that his
wife could be a very obstinate woman,
.'--ft was ia Tain -that be laid before her
the .benefit, that would result from a
.'transient disposition of the gems.
". "I wish." be aaM te toaea of invect-
tve, "that targlan woaM set the hate
' ful.stoaea. Tfaey jnight at least be of
some goe fa them!"- "
It to aaM. that curs, like chickens.
' .come base to roost. After Leander had
" asked fergtvesjess for his rudeness and
exteaded the oMt
fS.
lltfi
branch of reconciliation he suggested
that she be doubly careful of her cher-
l Ished possessions.
The town is full of 'burglars and
they know the people who have fine
diamonds, and if they, once set out to
get them they'll succeed."
Mabel' did not sleep with the dia
monds in the same room. Womanlike,
she thought if she secreted them .in
some place where they would never be
detected they would be safe.
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One night there was a crash In the
'room below. -Mabel shook her sleeping
husband, and whispered in his ear:
"Burglars! Get your revolver and go
downstairs. The diamonds are In the
bottom of the clock."
Leander was startled and confused,
but as the noise continued he hurried
on his clothes, and. taking his revolver",
ran softly down the stairs. Mabel re
fear. There was a fearful commotion
mained where she w.-w. shlvenng with
below, the noise of falling furniture,
opening and closing of windows, and
the rapid firing of the revolver' after
some, flying roober. Then regard for
her husband's life compelled .Mabel to
hurry' to his assistance. She found him
lying on the floor grasping his revolver.
She did not faint nor shriek, but.
kneeling . beside him. bathed his face
and besought him to speak to her.
"Where am I?" he asked feebly as
he tried to raise himself. "Are the dia
monds safe?"
"Never mind the diamonds." said his
wife; "are you mortally wounded any
where?" "I don't know," answered Leander
feebly, and to her credit be it recorded,
Mrs. Leander assisted her husband to a
couch and sent off, or rather, called,
for assistance before she even thought
of her diamonds.
Then the open door of the clock told
the whole story the diamonds were
gone root and branch! And they were
the only things stolen
If Leander had been surprised at the
manner -of his wife on receiving the
jewels he was astonished at the calm
indifference with which she parted from
them. She allowed the usual course to
be taken to recover the thlefl or thieves,
to justice, but when no results followed
she said, she was glad of it; that the
gems hadTbeen like an evil eye to them,
and for her part she never wanted to
hear of them again.
"I wonder.' she said, "that I did not
see it In that light before. I will never
keep anything in my house again to
tempt the cupidity of the wicked or un
fortunate. To that extent am I my
brother's keeper."
But the effect upon her husband was
entirely different. Either he caught
cold on that night of the burglary or
his nervous system received a shock,
for he was almost ill from the effect of
his tussle with the burglar. And he
could not endure to have the subject
mentioned before him. Not even the
successs of the "Little Catawba." in
which a friend had invested for him.
gave him the peace and rest he craved.
A little incident that happened at
that time did. however, help to restore
him to his normal condition. His wife
received a small package, accompanied
by a soiled and delapldated note, which,
upon being opened, read:
"honored madam:
i gets no sleap sence 1 stoal yure
dimons I no yure Ialdy an I am a retch
if i giv them up pra fur me.
"an unnonefrend."
And-In the package Mabel found her
diamonds, exactly as she had last seen
them.
She was pleased where is the wom
an who would not have been? and she
at once showed her confidence in her
husband by placing the gems in his
hands for safe keeping in the bank.
"I wish I had taken your advice ear
lier." she said gracefully; "it would
have saved us so much trouble."
Leander murmured something about
all being well that ends well, and at
noon brought her a certificate of de
posit. There we leave them, on the way to
fortune and happiness if if Leander's
conscience does not upset the whole
scheme. He would give a great deal
to know, what no clairvoyant conld tell
him. how much or little Mabel has dis
covered. My own opinion Is that she
saw through It from the first and holds
herself equally guilty, as accessory
after the rime, and with that sweet
fickleness which even an upright -woman
employs she will make herself a
loving accomplice. For It is a foregone
conclusion that Leander Clarke was
his own burglar.
Saved by a Woman NVrvv.
A woman's nerve saved herself and
her husband from death at Middle
town, N. Y., the other afternoon. While
Mme. Da Coma was riding a bicycle"'on
.a wire suspended over the Walkill river
her husband sitting on a trapeze hung
from the bicycle, the guy wire gave
way and the main strand sank twenty
feet. Mme Da Coma remained in her
seat and plunged down the loop. The
rear wheel left the wire and the front
wheel started up the incline. The bi
cycle see-sawed several times- and final
ly stopped. When the electric launch
came under them the woman climbed
down, and her husband, hanging by
his feet, iowered her at arm's length
and she dropped into the launch. Da
Coma also reached the launch without
Injury.
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Indiana Danrinc for Rain.
The Sac and Fox Indians have adopt
ed a new method to get-rain. They "ap
pointed one day last week for all their
tribes to meet at Perry. Ok., to dance
for rain, and at the same time they in
vited several neighboring tribes to join
the festivity for the much-needed show
ers. Large numbers of. Indians met
and commenced dancing till Sunday's
flood came, and this so buoyed them up 1
that they still dance that rain may still
come. Before they commenced their
festivals, they moved their wigwams ,
from the bottoms to the nigh lands.
saying that the rains would flood the
low lands.
A Game with Stroojj Featnrr.
The onion sociable is the latest-innovation
in sociables. It is played as
.follows: The young ladies stand in a
row; one of them bites a. piece out of
an onion and the men pay 10 cents for.
the privilege of guessing 'who the biter
is. The successful guesser kisses the
other girls, and those who are unsuc
cessful kiss the girl who bit the onion.
The game is said to be a catchy one
and is not without its strong features.
Kotatia tHmkm.
"Charlie Van Braam has wheels in
his head!" exclaimed Amy to her friend,
the high school girl.
"Don't yon know that expression i
horrid slane?" asked Mildred.
t
"Ia itr replied Amy, innocently. '.
"It is."
"What should I say to express the
same idea?" .
"Sar that his cranium ts amnlw atia.
lied with routine disks."
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MISS ANTHONY'S ANNUITY.
Bach! Totter
Avery
Oa.
for Bi.r.
Few women have received a greater
tribute than did Susan B.. Anthony a
Atlanta, Ga.. a short time -ago, when
Miss Will Allen Drumgoole, the popular
Southern author, said in her address at
the Capital College;
"It is a great thing to be the mother
of a great cause. Tears, ago there
flashed upon. the world a woman; she
had no other .announcement than the
'wild scheme' she had mothered.
Wherever she went the hiss, the sneer,
the finger of scorn were to follow. Yet
she pushed right on; the implacable
enemy of slavery in vanity's dress the
mother of an unborn cause. To me she
stands majestic among women; to me
she is the grandest picture in -the book
of our time; to me, like the prayer of
my childhood, the name of Susan B.
Anthony holds something grandly,
solemnly, pathetically, magailcently
sacred. Whatever ntay have been her
blunders, whatever her faults, still she
fought for women. And since she
fought for women, in the name of wom
anhood, let no man cast a stone at her.
She is one of those who will never die;
her name will go thundering down the
ages long after you and I are forgotten,
while her cause the child for" which
she sacrificed so much that makes a
woman's life dear to her, will live, and
throb, and thrive, and flourish' long
after she has found refuge under moss
and marble. And her name shall out-,
wear the marble that shall cover her
great heart; posterity shall weave for
her a crown that old Time cannot touch.
You may refuse her a hearing" today,
deny her the rose and the laurel, but to
morrow 'shall avenge her; and already
tomorrow is dawning. Upon the West
ern slope where her sun goes down al
ready the rose of the new day is reflect
ing." Another woman who strongly ad
mires Miss Anthony is Mrs. Rachel
Foster Avery. She has not delivered
an eloquent eulogy upon .her "cause,"
but she has raised an annuity of $300 a
year for the great prophetess of the
suffragists.
A BAD BREAK.
Made
by aa Iaexaerleaeed Undertaker ,
at a Faaeral. I
ex-governor of Massachusetts
An
tells the following, illustrative of a call- i
ing for business: Two brothers had
for many years done an undertaking
business in a suburban town. The elder
had a son, Thomas, and desiring" to es
tablish him In life, obtained from his i
younger brother a promise that Thomas I
should be taken into the business when- t
ever he (the eldery . should die. The !
promise was obtained, m spite of a
feeling on the brother's part that Tom
had no calling for the business. The
elder soon died and Thomas became his
uncle's partner. He made good' pro
gress and was 'soon sent to arrange for
the funeral of a wealthy man who left
as his chief mourner a widow who had
already buried two husbands. The
young man returned, having made sat
isfactory arrangements as to carriages,
music, flowers, etc., much to his uncle's
joy. who now felt that he had mis
judged tne Doy. un tne following aay , escape, is quite suflicient to enable the
the uncle himself went to see that all sportsman to take aim and place a
was going smoothly and found Mrs. X, large, substantial bullet in a vital part
in high dudgeon. Expressing his re- I 0f the tiger's body,
gret and surprise, he told Mrs. X. that j At present," says the inventor of
Tom had returned on the previous day this system in a letter to the Scien
with everything arranged apparently tific American, "I use a battery of six
satisfactorily, and asked her what was ; iarge cejs giid with sal ammoniac. It
the matter. js very heavy and cumbersome and
"Well." she replied, "Tom did very ' the light only a five - candle power
well until we discussed the time at
which the services should be held. I
had not quite made up my mind, when
Tom. meaning to help me out, said:
At what time have" you been accus
tomed to bury your husbands, .ma
dam?' "
IN THE NEW COUNTRY.
M.viag Day Ha No Terror, .for Okla
homa Woarn.
Moving day in Oklahoma has none of
the terrors for the housekeeper that it j
brings to those who live in more con
servative places, for there, very often.
the house itself is carted away without j "At' about two yards" from the bat
even disturbing its mistress in her tery -.there is a connection. I think
household occupations. It seems a lit- , caiied a male switch. A short line of
tie queer to look out of the window and f w-rer aDOut 3 or 4 feet long, makes the
see a house-being taken along by trot- j connection to the fore end of my rifle;
ting horses, while a woman Is uncon- j at one end of this short length is' a fe
cernedly preparing the family meal ' ma-e swjtch to fit on to the above male
over a hot cooking stove, but it is not j 0ne, and at the other end two small
an unusual spectacle down there. When i r-nes are fastened bv two big-headed
nearby towns are laid out in new coun
tries there is sure to be a duel between
two of them, and one kills the other.
When a certain village becomes vic
torious the inhabitants of its opponent
put their houses on wheels, hitch teams
to them and join the enemy's forces,
without taking the trouble to. disturb
their good wives.
The Golden State.
California might be called the Golden
i -.,
State as much because of the gold of its
flowers as that of its mines. No one
will .dispute its claim to this title who
has seen its roadsides gay with orange
hued poppies, its meadows radiant with
yellow daisies and wild mustard and
its hillsides glowing with masses of
yellow bloom. During the month of
April in Southern California every tone
in the gamut of yellow color is struck.
Now and again, like an accented note.
a yellow hilltop lifts itself sharp
against the deep and clear blue of the
sky, and perhaps beyond comes a
glimpse of white breakers and a. white
beach. The foothills, mantled with the
vivid green of Spring, roll away to
where the snow mountains shine in the
distance. Over all. shed through an at
mosphere, of crystal purity, pours a
flood of sunlight, lending' to the land
scape that luminous quality which has
won for Southern California the name
of Our 'Italy.
Wife Yon told that centleman rnnM I
charge by the day for movin'-hisfur-1
niture. Why don't yon charge by the!
load like von naed to?
Husband (a farnitare over That
.
new horse is balky.
Hark- IWitore!
iBright - eyei Faaey, havering o'er..
: Scatters froai her pIctHr'd urn
( Thoughts that breathe and words that
. BETO.
NIMBOD'S LATEST.
APPLIED TO NOBLE SPORT
THE JUNGLES.'
IN
The Tiger Startled at Hi. Wortr F.
iag Wfifs the Light Is T.raed Oa.
It. Allow, the SporUmM to Take a
Dmdly Ala
LECTRICITY HAS
now been applied
t o tiger-hunting,
and the sportsman
in the Indian
Jungle before he
pulls the trigger of
his gun touches a
button, which
throws a flood of
light upon his prey.
This may rob tiger-
- hunting of milch of
"its romance, but it is effective and thus
far several large, well-developed tigers
have been gathered in as a result of
the clever arrangemenL
It has been found almost impossible
to draw tigers into the open during the
day near thickly settled parts of India,
but at night this is easily accomplished
by placing a dead carcass in some con
venient place,, where the hunter may lie
hidden in ambush. But after the tiger,
has scented the blood of the dead ani
mal and has begun to tear the carcass,
it is difficult for the hunter to take aim
without seeing him. -
This has now been obviated by hang
ing an electric light directly over the
carcass. At the instant that the light
is turned on the tiger is so startled by
its appearance that he does not move.
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HUNTING TIGERS AT NIGHT BY ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Tigers are not in the habit of looking
up and it takes several seconds before
the animal realizes where the new
strange light comes from. This pause,
which he. makes before endeavoring to
l lamp. Its recommendations are that
j the battery is good for the next ten
years and only wants an occasional fill
ing up of the cells with water and some
times a little fresh sal ammoniac. As
I can only go shooting during six
months of the year, this, is a great ad
vantage. The method of using is as
follows: From the box containing the
cells I have a line of wire (double of
course), say 30 to 40 feet long, slipped
onto each end of the box by butterfly
nuts, the lamn. which is tied to a
branch of a tree immediately over, say'
20 feet high, the baifbeing at the other
end.
screws to the bed of the connection. On
nearing the tiger at the kill, I aim as
nearly in the direction as I can, then a
slight pressure of the thumb makes the
electric connection and the light opens
right over the tiger."
This scientific sportsman also em
ployed accumulators, but they did not
seem to be adapted to such rough work.
He is now fitting himself with. a bat-
terv which mav be carried in the belt ,
- T 1
like cartridges.
Thirty such batteries carried in this
way would, It is estimated; be suflicient
to provide a sixteen-candle power light.
This system of night hunting, it has
been suggested, might well be em
ployed in hunting big game in the
Rockies.
Depew on the Soath.
" The great opportunities of our coun
try are in the -south. The flood of im
migration which has been pouring into
this country for fifty years has sought
the west, the north-west and the Paci
fic coast. In these southern states we
find, as nowhere else in the country,
the original stock which fought at Cow
pens and -King's mountain and York
town. The composite of all races which
has- developed the continent from the
great lakes to the Pacific has set a
standard of progress difficult to sur
pass. They had the advantage of vir
gin soil and uninhabited regions in
which to locate and build their Com
monwealths and found their cities.
The intelligent patriotism of the
80athera people in the last garter of
a centary has overcome difficulties
which seemed insurmountable. A
recsnition of the assimilating and ele-
vating power of education has created
(the new -South with its hospitable in
r vitation and boundless resources. The
young men of the south have no call
to tempt fortune in the crowded -cities
' of the north or the east. At their doors
and within their own states are their
missions and their cares. Chauacey M.
' Depew.
DEATH ON THE WHEEL.
Ow-ExcrtlM Is Oa. th.
the irtMitak Beghuier.
tflthin a week or two several xien
have died at the end of long bicycle
trips. That argues nothing against the
wheeL A man with a weak heart or a
weak system should be as chary of
hard exercise with his hands or arms
as with his .tegs. Men have died Of
exertion in walking, irk swimming, in
climbing; in dancing, in singing, in eat
ing. Nobody would caution us against
these practices because one person in a
couple of million, had found them fatal:
There Is an ever-present temptation in
wheeling to Overdd. The delight of
skimming over a good road is so keen
that the. traveler goes further than he
intended at the outset He gives no
thought to 'distance, he hears the birds
in the trees and tinkle of brooks across
the stones, he Inhales the fragrance tf
clover and honeysuckle and new-mown
hay, he bares his brow to the breeze
that is made by the progress of his ma
chine, aqd.he finds a joy in the smooth,
easy, graceful motion of the wheel.
Presently he- discovers that he is fif-
I-teen," twenty, thirty miles. from home.
ana mat nis atnner wm oe reaay in
.two hours. Then, with muscles al
ready strained and the best of the ride
over, he puts about and labors at a
speed he. is not disposed for, something
of worry being added to the work, and
-arrives, home in a fagged condition.
When a man is lightly dressed, has
a light wheel, and has gradually ac
quired facility in its management he
can do things that a man who rides
only for pleasure cannot do. The dif
ference in weight between a racing
wheel and a "roadster" is slight when
-
one lifts the two, but it tells severely
on the muscles in a day's run. When
the man on the heavy wheel, or the un-
practiced man. attempts to keep up
with a trained man on a light wheel he ! " 'My old father looked at me with an
is in the same position as the fat man ( expression of mingled pain and aston
who tries to run with an athlete. His ' ishment.
strength is soon exhausted, and in time. My son,' said he, 'would you'
he must suecumb to the strain. J -pardon me, father,' .1 interrupted:
'there can be no discussion of the mat-
Yoanc Rather Muhap. ter so far as I am concerned.' And I
Minnie Young, 12 years old, of Will- I immediately retired from the circle,
iamsburg, N. Y., while bathing in one . while consternation was undisguised en
of the free baths there, met with a sin- the face of every one presenL' I went
gular accident. She fastened her bath- j straight home, realizing that I had
ing suit with a three-inch darning ! made a doubtful success of my' ruse.
needle, and. as she was climbing out ' but unable to see what other course I
of the water on the steps, the needle') could have taken. I had scarcely seated
ran full length into her side. -Minnie i myself, however, humiliated over the
fainted. She was removed to a hospi- very peculiar chain of circumstances
tal. where it is said her condition is ' which had brought about my embar-
critical. rassment, when two members of the
'- party dashed- up in a carriage and
THE WILFUL WORLD.
Farmers in Cornelius. Ore., are sow- charm had been found on - the tray
ins tares of the scriptural sort for hay. which had been taken from the table
Gideon Strong, a Knox county, Tenn., by one of the waiters. Of course I went
man. fired a gun to drive a burglar l with them, and perhaps you can imag
away and scared his own daughter to ine n0w greatly I was relieved by the
d One' of the seven survivors of the de- ! UtCOme f th" affaIf'
fense of Fort Sumter is a man named I ' "There, was a multitude of apologies
Doran, who was in the fort on a visit from all. but none more profuse than
when the trouble began. r
Gold leaf of any thickness down to
one-four-millionth of an inch is now be
ing made by electrolysis, and, accord
ing to Invention, at -such rates as
threaten to extinguish the gold beater's
art
Some burglars In Fort Scott, Kan.,
after raiding a house, found a police
man who had evidently been overcome
by "that tired feeling." He was sitting
on a shaded stoop sound asleep. They
robbed him of his uniform and his boots
PRINTERS' INK.
One word mav make or mar an art
Some papers ha-e good circulations. I
and some PaDers hav sood circulation
Kara i
.
Too much shouting in advertisements ,
" I
may frighten people with money and
sensitive nerves.
The man who does not advertise In
summer is like the man who does not
sprinkle his lawn in dry weather.
Brevity in ad construction is effective, j
o and Yes are the -most moving, most ' .
pregnant words In our language.
The Washington Times offers a mar
riage license and a marriage ceremony
in exchange for a coupon cut from its
columns.
When a person is In need of an ar- '
tide, he goes and buys it. but he alSO f
often buys what he doesn't need, be
cause It Is attractively advertised.
It is a curious fact that the man who
thlnks "advertising doesn't pay" Is the
one who is most ready to talk' about a'
libel suit if a paper publishes something
he doesn t like.
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Have you ever noticed what a little
cause will start a crowd, and how
quickly it disperses after the cause is
removed? and how advertising draws a f
big crowd to a store, but the crowd
melts away when the advertising
tops?
The style and wording of an adver- (
tisement should be determined' upon af-
ter the medium, or class of media, in
which it Is to appear has been selected.
An advertisement that Is profitable In a
high-class publication can hardly be ex
pected to be sc in one o a very differ
ent class.-
Boston and Baltimore have about the
same population, yet Boston has M per
cent more daily papers than Baltimore;
San Francisco has SO per cent more
than Cincinnati, and Dayton. Ohio, has
twice the number in Atlanta, and three :
times the number In Memphis, although j
the relative population of the cities is '
about the same. Printer's Ink. I
TALE OF DOUBLOONS.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IS
NOT ALWAYS SAFE.
Aa Aaterlcaa mmta". Ti7uqf PrMflca
Mt While h a rriKa Laa4 HI.
Mhjaaat Ma WkH CatH itr
thiaff Wm lathtfactwrffcr
HE . MOST ESt-
barrasslag situa
tion I was ever
placed in was. I
think, when visit
ing my parents in
Munich, during my
sojourn in Europe,
in 1882," said Col.
George Gaston, to
a Kansas City Jour
nal reporter the
other day. "I was
sitting with my father anr a number ot
others, discussing one thing and an
other in a pleasant way over suitable
refreshments for such an occasion and
according to the custom of the place,
when the subject of ' money was
broached.. There was In the party ah
aged gentleman who wore suspended
from his watch guard a gold piece, a
Spanish doubloon, upon which had been
soldered a small ring. He disconnected
it from the chain and passed it around
for inspection, with considerable appa
rent pride, commenting upon the rarity
of the piece.
."Now it happened that I was in pos
session of a pendant of identically the
same kind, which had been given me by
Mr. .William Mulkey. of Kansas City.
The courtesy due to an elder, which is
strictly observed among well-bred peo
ple, particularly noticeable' in that part
of Europe, suggested that I should say
nothing about my possession, and to
make it .doubly sure that he retain the
undisputed ownership of a genuine cu
riosity, I quietly removed my own
doubloon and put it into my pockeL
"The conversation went on. and after
a time the old gentleman began fumb
ling about his pockets, searching the
table and looking from one to another
of the jarty with a pained expression
on his face. His doubloon was miss
ing. Everybody at once took a hand
in the search, but it could not be found.
- " 'Let everybody be searched.' blurt
ed out a younger member of .the party,
who was apparently fearful lest he
himself might be suspected of secret
ing the curiosity. 'And begin on this
side of the table and go 'rounfl,' he con
tinued, putting a hand carelessly on
my arm!"
I "I realized at once that -I was in a
trying position. You can readily sec
for what reason. Metaphorically I
1 sweat drops of blood. It would not do
that -my own donblopn should be
brought to light now, so. straightening
myself up. I assumed a look of stern
determination, and said:
" 'Gentlemen. I sincerely regret" the
necessity'of interposing an objection to
J tnat which may be a custom among
'gentlemen here; but I am an American
. and cannot submit to such an indignity
at a place where I am a guest.'
begged me to return with them .it
once, informing me fiat the missing
from the excitable individual who had i
suggested the search, and he was made.
to feel that he had committed an af- '
front to everybody else at the table, as
well as to myself.
"I was not willing to leave them in l
the false Impression that my extremely
dignified course was -altogether due to ,
a sense of cbivalric honor, so; asking
the old gentleman to allow me to sec
the recovered gold piece, I took my own
doubloon from my pocket and made a
full explanation of the circumstance
that prompted me to object to the hasty
proposition that came from the rather
excitable young man of the party. And
perhaps you can imagine the sense of
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& click muti-u a ujni icuu.
:
Paper Can.
Cans made of paper pulp are being
introduced to take the place of tin cans
for rnntaininer all kinds nf nrMprvprl
prodncts. The occasional cases ' of
. . , . .
poisoning from canned goods are due
to the contents becoming tainted
through the cans not being air tight.
Many millions of tin cans are used an
nually by canned -goods factories in
this country, and such cases of injury
frnm -taintPii ?nndo ar. enmnarari!
from tainted goods are comparatively
rare: hut because it is noasihle rhrnneh
slight defects in the solder, or minute
breaks in the ca'ns, for such danger -to
result, tne canners nave oeen looking
for a satisfactory substitute for tin. It
IS ueiieveu umj. mia naa ai last oeen
fonart in ne DaDer Duln can, Thpv ar.
is believed that this has at last been
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cot exPand or contract; and will stand '
as much rough usage in shipment as
tin cans, and perhaps more. . . t
The potato a a Reantifler.
You take a new potato and grate it
finely, and then use it instead of soap
to wash with. The juice of the potato,
raw, of course, contains some ingredi
ent that acts quickly and beneficially
! on the skin.
Who enters "not the lists, and is nc
sharer.
With swift contestants in life's best
pursuing. -How
shall he claim to be an honored
wearer
Of flawless crowns of doing.
A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
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' Among the most remarkable na
ture's wonders the subterranean pit at
Jean Nouveau. near Yaucluse. France.
whlci reaches a depth of 540 feet, while
nowhere more than 12 feet wide, has
only recently been explored. Tho
French Society of Speleology (cttv
study) erected a derrick at the mouth
of the pit. which begins with a funnel
15 feet wide at the top and narrows
down to 3 feet at a depth of about 20
feeL From here down the crevice in
the rock, for such It is. extends ver
tically, getting wider as it gets deeper,
until at a depth of about 475 feet it is
12 feet wide. At this point the shaft
opens into a roomy cave in which jnst
beneath the opening of the vertical pit
a thick layer of clay, containing re
mains of bones, both human and ani
mal, were foand. The explorers found
no evidence that the place had ever
been visited by man. bu tradition has
it that criminals were thrown into the
"bottomless pit," as it was popularly
called in the neighborhood, and the
remains in the cave just beneath the
shaft tend to corroborate this belief.
The descent made into the shaft was
exceedingly difficult; It established the
fact that there, must be a further cave
below- the one now known, but the
crevice through' which It is accessible,
is choked up with' debris and holders
so that it will be a very difficult mat
ter to penetrate further into the cave
than has been done. The deepest
point reached in this crevice is 593 feet
underground. Great quantities of wa
ter rush through the shaft every time
there is a storm, still no trace of water
was found in-the cave explored, which
proves that some other subterranean
exit must exist.
-AN UNUSUAL SIGHT.
Th .Wan Beat ia Revereat Prayer Re
fore a Window.
It was a singularly touching scene.
The busy crowds on Barclay street
stopped laughing, but lingered rever
entially, says New York Recorder. A
man stood before the window of one of
the big Catholic goods stor.s. Within
were several life-size figures of the
Saviour and in the center sat the Vir
gin Mary, with the Christ-child in her
arms. The man outside stood with his
head, bared and slightly bowed. His
hands 'hung, down by bis sides. In' one
he held his old cloth cap. His honest.
rugged face was full of homely intelli
gence. His clothes were poor. On his
feet he wore the heavy boots of the
street laborer. They were gray with
the ciay of the trench. But his posture
was noble. His was no ostentatious
worship, though he chose the crowded
street for his adoration. He did not
bend a knee. There was only a slight
inclination of the big. well-formed
head, just tinged with whitening hairs.
No muttered prayer passed bis lips. He
asked no favor of God or man. His
was the devout worship of an earnest
man unconscious of his surroundings.
And so he stood for full five minutes,
while the jostling crowds passed him
wonderingly by, surging gently -toward
the curb that they might not by rou3h
contact disturb bis solemn meditations
A Doable Cae of Shin.
A hunter near Petoskey. Mich.,
chased a bear cub up a tree. A moment
later the old mother bear hove in sight
roaring terrifically. The man. shinned
up the tree with alacrity only to finri
himself between a snarling cub and a
growling bear. He yelled lustily for
severai hours until help arrived.
TEXAS SIFTINGS.
The man who lends a hand too often
frequently finds himself without a leg to
stand on.
There has been no entirely successful
machines invented yet for setting typ
or settlnjr hens.
It's the man without much mind who
always "has a mind to do" something
and never does it.
How much easier It I? to tell others
how thoy ought to walk, than it is-to
stp right ourselves.
Advice Is like snow, the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the. deep
er it sinks Into "the mind.
After a young woman g"ts "to b 30
she stops calling attention to her birth
days by Riving parties.
If there has been n temptation,
there, can be no mrit: if t-hf-re lias been
no struggle, there can be no victory.
"I see most of your hair is gon" said
Brown to Burton. "Yes." replied Bur
ton, "it's left for Darts unknown."
Many people who claim to be wedd.l
to their art seem to have been overtaken
with divorce proceedings from the out
set. RELIGIOUS.
Fear nothing so much a- sin and your
moral heroism is complete. C.' Sim
mons. The Salvation Army does a vast
amount of charitable as well as relig
ious work.
The ruins of tne Church- of the Holy
Sepulchre at Jerusalem are now being
restored. at great cost.
It is estimated that the Protestant
churches of America. Great Britain and
Europe are represented in their work
for other lands by D.0OO missionaries.
A society har been organized in Lon
don called the. Police Court Mission, to
help in reclaiming person?, espedally
young men. who are arrested 'on com
paratively flight charges.
A promising missionary work in Chi
nese Tartary carried. on by Swedish mis
sionaries has been unmolested' by the
war. and receives the recognition of
both the English and Russian political
agents.
The Salvation Army continues to pen
etrate into the new countries and es
tablish" its banner there. Preparations
are now 'being made to open a head
oiarters in Iceland, and a native Ice
lander who has been trained In Winni
peg. Canada, is appointed to the com-mandership-
An interesting experiment is being,
tried in Rochdale. England. All the
young men of the congregation who
possess musical instruments, and can
play'them. have been invited to bring
them to the evening service, and to ac
company the singing. The result so
far has been satisfactory.
RevJ James A. Worden. D.D.. has
been presented by his Targe interde
nominational class ot Sabbath School
teachers and superintendents In Phila
delphia with a purse containing 11.060 In
gold. Dr. Worden, since the fall of 1885.
has been teaching the lesson of the next
day on Saturday afternoons to a Iarge
class, which ha? asked him to accept It
to defray the expenses of a proposed
Europeaa trip.
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