The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 05, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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HAPP^
J\feW
yteAfy
Hymn of the New Year.
New life &d<1 light! new rapture and new
joys!
New hopes, though all the6e fail, to light
mjr days.
Oh, tcJkn my heart's delight in these thy
gi/w;
My tbankn and praise, O Lord! my
thanks and praise!
Dusty the way has t>een, and long and
dark
Even now 1 scarce can hope, for hope be-
trays.
0 faithless heart, to him who cares for
thee,
Give now thy thanks and praise! *-hy
thaukH and praise!
Bureiy (be sun will shine throughout the
land;
Surely her miracle* will work the spring;
Life stands revealed where all seemed
drear and dead.
O heart! uiy heart! thou rnayst give
tnanks and sing.
Bing and rejoice! Ever give thanks and
sing!
Life rules! Death is not, though it
seem to be!
Love sleeps not! God is an eternal king!
His thought shall reach even to my
heart and me!
Why Santa Glaus' Beard Is
White.
A Lkgknd: BY M. A Bum.
IT R I N O T H K
babyhood of Santa
Claus — long, long-
ago — while still
many good aud
worthy folk be-
lieved wood-sprites
llived in the holes of
Litrees, witches in
eaves, and dwarfs
deep down under
earth, there lived in
ar Germany, on one of
he lesser mountains of
he Harz, a miner with
wife and seven children.
Jeep down in the bosom
of the mountains was the
Here the father had worked
beard, a suit# of the perfumed forest 1 and, smoothingolf the broad end,wrote
air, and the little man had vanished. I his location notice on it—rechristening
With glad feet the mother hurried on. the claim the "Bright Hop**"—and
Not a sound but the dropping of cones pV.vnted the stake firmly in the ground,
broke the stillness of the forest. Faster; thinking he would go into the tuu-
and thicker they seemed to fall at each nei anj "see how she looked," he took
onward step. A perfect storm <n cones. up hi* candle and pick and started iu.
They dropped upon her head; they fell | just as he did so he thought he
at her feet; they pelted her shoulders: heard a whistle. He stopped and lis-
they tilled her basket. Frightened, the toned; some one was coming up the
poor woman turned and fled, glancing trail whistling softly. Quickly dousing
neither to the right or left. Heavier the light, he crouched behind a big
and heavier the basket grew. Breath- boulder just at the mouth of the tun-
less and exhausted she reached her cot- m.| and drew his revolver.
tage door. ' i A few minutes later Pete stepped in
The mother entered and quickly j view, with a week's supplies in a sack
barred the door. ••Husband, husband, i slung over his shoulder.
think what has happened! On the Before he could put his burden down
edge of the holy forest 1 met a little Hank suddenly rose up before him with
man with snowy beard who told me j the muzzle of his pistel almost touch
where to gather the best, cones. I went jug the other's face.
to find them, but the farther 1 went "Hands up!" he criea. I've got the
the faster the cones fell from the firs. I drop on yer now.''
They came about my head as thick as Pete, seejng the other fellow had a
snow Hakes in midwinter; yet the trees full hand, promptly threw up his,
shook not. I was afraid and did not j while Hank deftly relieved him of his
stop to pick up one; but some fell in my firearms.
basket, and here they are." "'Taint worth fighting about, any-
"lti.it. wife! L>ok. look thou! They how," said Pete, carelessly. "There
are pure silver. It's the tiubich thou 1Lin't a pound of ore in the hull claim."
hast met." ! "Oh, come off!" said Hank. "How
Down the basket droppe 1. Around ;vh0ut an that ore you shipped last
it grouped the mother aud children, summer
GENERAL NEWS.
Condensed fr r the Convenience of Hor-
rled I(m Irri.
A dog show opeII'Ml Tuesday at Chi-
cago Five hundred cracks have been
entered by out-of-town owners.
Mitchell will train in Florida for
hia tijfht with Corbett. He will go
there the Int.er part of this month.
Professor Charles Michelet, the fam-
ous historian Of the tierman school of
philosophy, died at Berlin Saturday.
The employes of the Lehigh Valley
road were Tuesday notified that the
▲ P<|ht With Death.
Thousands of people have gone te
their deaths with Uright'a Diseaae of
the kidneys and Diabetes without
suspecting the nature of their trouble
until within a month or two of the
grave. It is now declared by one of
the most reputable Drug Associations
in the country that these kidney
troubles are the result of Uraemic
poisoning and that a certain cure has
been discovered. The majority of
people who ti ml health and strength
gradually falling either have 110 sus-
picion of the nature of tli* trouble or
having always been told that IJritfht's
Disease could never be cured have
wages of yard engineers and tiremen shrunk from the knowledge that they
were victims of it. Now that a cure
has been discovered however there
That was out of a pocket I struck
which petered out m'ffhty quick; but if
you don't believe me I'll go in the hole
and show you." and, taking a candle,
Pete started in the tunnel, Hank fol-
1 lowing, but keeping his hand within
easy reach of his gun.
j The breast of-the tunnel was soon
1 reach^ and Pete, holding his candle
up before it, said: "There now. what
but dead
each day from morn to night to feed,
even scantily, his wife and children.
At last came a season of great dearth.
fell sick. Sadly his wife
his leather work-
True, there lay the cones, silver every
one, gleaming in the fire-light as had
the beard of the little man in the gold-
en glow of the sun.
The morrow's sun had tipped the
grac'ful tirs with gold, when again
the mother stood at the t;dge of the
forest. In a moment the Gubich was
before her. "Good-morrow, good soul!
Founds't thou not beautiful cones
yester-eve?" And a latjgh rang through | d[jj j ten yer? It's nuthin
the forest. The mother struggled to rock „
speak. "Keep thy thanks,I wish them
not," continued thfc tiubich. "lie thou
only faithful to thy husband's words,
and each cold December give to me
and my dear fir, loving thought to
keep our hearts v .ir, \. Now hie thee
home."
Not more quickly speeds the wind
than the mother home again; not more
happy are the birds than ware the
hearts in the miner's home that day.
By night, nowhere a hungry soul on taking up his pick
the ' beautiful Hirchbichenstein." 1
Dear Santa Claus—ever since, thy
beard's been white as snow!
Dear Christmas joy—ever since,madly
the Harz maidens dance round the
graceful firs. |
The miner
burg out of sight
suit.
The cold winter with its cruel grasp
stole down from the mountain tops;
still the miner lay sick; still the dearth
of food throughout the little town; no-
where a mouthful to spare. The birds
in the trees lived and were merry.
Must the little children starve? Who
had done it? "1 tell you. it's the
Gubieh, king of dwarfs, who spoiled
the crops last year. 1 know his pranks,
curse him," said the oldest of the min-
ers. "Who in summer steals all
the raspberries and strawberries'
He never eats aught else, and
has lived like a prince, in his rocky
cavern up there among the holy firs,
ever since the old giant threw these
mountains out of his shoe because the
bit of sand hurt hiin. 1 tell you, the
Gubich can make us sick with a
glance, touch or breath. Save me
from goinft near his home! "V et they
say the cones off his trees are good to
eat, and can be made into wondrous
pretty things which sell well in the
town below us. Starve or touch them?
Starve, I say!"
"Dear husband," said the penitent
wife, ' thou knowest the holy firs; 1 go
to gather their cones. 1 will sell tliem
jnd buy thee food which will make
thee well. Children, care for thy
father while I am gone."
Quickly throwing a shawl over her
bead a .iking a basket on her arm.
out iut e gathering coldness of the
ht stepped the mother. The
: the alders at the cottage
.liey nodded and peeped at
the windows. It roughly rattled the
dried foliage the stately oaks, whose
sacredness to the gods the elements
were thought to respect, and then died
:lway among the pines in a soft, sad
music, that brought tears to the
mother's eves. It was like the moan
tlie bairns made for bread. The
t ars broke into a sob; half-blinded,
with a bent head, she reached the edge
of the holy forest.
Pityingly, out from his bed of clouds,
tile setting sun glanced warm and ten-
der. He shot his parting rays among
t e firs, and filled their deep shadows
with a cheerful glow. S .ddenly, into
the marked pathway of its light,
•.topped a little man with snowy beard,
who gravely doffed his leathern cap and
w ited for the sad mother to reach him.
"Good woman, what ail'st thou?
Why so sar broke upon her startled
ear.
"Oh, sir, I mean no harm. Mv chil-
dren starve; my husband never again
will be well. I cannot see them ask
each day for bread and give them none
I go to gather cones. Do let me pass
and fill my basket."
■I would harm tliee not, my friend."
said the little taian. "And knowest
thou where the best cones can be
found? Follow this path a hundred
feet, and there thty can be gathered
with"—but the mother was on her way.
\A knowing look, a caress of hia white
A Christmas Card.
I have no purse of gold, my dear.
With which to buy you dainty things ;
The purse is empty, and flse gold
Has flown away as if on wines;
So, sweetest wife in all the world,
Tbo' you possess the greater part,
I'll five to you on Christmas day
Another fraction of my heart.
Jumping a Claim.
coming
wind sJ.
door unt
T WAS N EW
Year's eve' in
the camp, and the j
Gold Nugget saloon
was doing a heavy
business all along j
the line. Drinks j
were being rapidly 1
dispensed over the J
counter, and in the
rear faro, roulette and
0 i draw - poker were
r" I flourishing.
"Pete" was in his high humor. He
had '"bucked the tiger" successfully to-
night, and had quite enough ahead to
work his claim in Corkscrew Gulch.
Hank too1' his candle and carefully
examined uie breast, roof and sides,
but not a trace of Inineral could be
seen.
"You're welcome to her." said Pete;
"I've blown in all the money I want
to; you can have a blast at her now. if
you want to."
Hank did not reply, but appeared to
be lost in thought. Finally he said:
"Hold my candle a minute, Pete." and
both hands, he
struck the breast a heavy blow, and
the rock and mud with which Pete had
plastered it to fool curious and unwel-
come visitors fell away, exposing
vein of glittering white metal.
Almost at the same instant there
was a deafening report, and Hank fell
to the ground with a bullet through
his heart.
Pete, with a smoking revolver in his:
hand, which lie had snatched from
Hank's belt as he struck the blow,
stood over him with a grim smile as
he muttered ' Another accident!"
Hut retribution was close at hand.
The reverberations of the shot had
hardly died away among the neighbor-
ing peaks when a rock, which had long
been loose, started by the sudden
shock, fell from the roof, bringing
tons of earth with it. and Pete and his
third victim were crushed into a shape-
less mass.
A Leap Year Christmas.
Frederick Charles Hunting had been
Amanda Dusenberry's shadow for three
years, to the exclusion of other young
j men who would have been attracted by
| the maiden's charms had Frederick
I Charles' unremitting attentions left
! them any opportunity. He was at the
I Dusenberry home two or three even-
j ings a week aud all of Sunday after-
; noon. This being the case, it was no
i wonder that he had the field to him-
True, he had not done his assessment an(j that other young men thought
work this year, and by law anybody i it useless to look in that direction,
could "jump" the "Lone Star" that j Hut the two were not engaged,
very day at midnight. Hut Pete was j There was nothing in the way of it ex-
not the man to be fooled with, as he cept Frederick Charles' inability to ask
already had two graves to his credit in Aj-da to marry l,m,He was no^a
Doc. Turner s ranch (the name applied dreaded to put tho question, and
to the cemetery in honor of a local doc- ( Amanda showed no indication of help-
tor), which contained the bodies of two \ jn„. him. Her idea was that if a girl
•tenderfeet" who had "differed" with j was not worth proposing to she was
him and were accidentally shot. So j not worth having.
the inhabitants of Galensville con- ! When the present year of grace ar-
eluded that he was a safe man to let j rived, being leap year, the diffident
t • " :h-! sssrvssisx*rxsis.
anybody would be so foolish as to com- i Irer0„atiTe, which comes every quad-
mit suicide, as he termed it, by at- renium. and propose to him. Hut up
tempting to jump his claim. ! the date of the incident about to be
The old year had but a few minutes j narrated, the hopes of Frederick
to live when Hank tied "up his horse | Charles had been disappointed
among the tall, snow-laden pine trees j The two were sitting before the fire
near the "Lone Star," and, loosening in the Dusenberry parlor one l'liurs-
thong. w,|l;h . p1?k „ jossRsrss - u™
his horse s saddle, and transferring a | *! . „ P .
couple of sticks of dynamite and
would be cut.
Polk Johnson, of Louisville has been
appoiuted special agent of the treas-
ury department, and will be assigned
to the charge of the Chicago division,
Henry (livens, colored, was lynched
near Henderson, Ky., Saturday morn-
ing. He was accused of poisoning
stock and with an intention of poison-
ing a slhool weli.
The board of directors of the Chi-
cago board of trade have rejected as
unsatisfactory Robert Lindblom's
Proposition to ertablish a new sort of
oard clearing house.
John Jacobs, a Fort Wayne, lnd.,
baker, became despondent because
unable to get work, and Saturday
seriously wo inded his wife and then
oommitted suicide.
Dynamite wus foun \ in a bag of
coffee that was shipp from Mexico
to New York. The New York author-
ities and the Mexican authorities will
investigate the matter.
The shaft of the Kohinooj* colliery
of Shenandoah, Pa., one of the Kenn-
ing company's largest mines is burn-
ing The miners all escuped. Klght.
hundred men and boys will be out of
employment.
Chief Harris of the Cherokee nation
has withdrawn all opposition to the
sale of the Cherokee bonds, and will
further their sale. The authorized
snouts will start east immediately to
sell the bonds.
Right Honorable T. H. Lyon, P. B.,
bishop of North Carolina, died Thurs-
day morning from heart failu e. Rish-
op Lyon served as a priest in Mary-
land, Pittsburg, Pa., Rome, Italy, and
San Francisco.
The authorities of the house of com-
mons are considering a proposition to
stretch a wire before the parts of the
houses of parliament which are open
to strangers, with a view to preventing
anarchist outrages.
2 Telephone communication between
Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle and be-
tween Brussels and Liege, for many
years prevented for political reasons,
lias just been consented to by the Ger-
man government.
Mrs. Pendergast, mother of the as-
sassin of Mayor Harrison, in the trial
at Chicago Saturday, testified that
there had been insanity in the family,
and that Pendergast's grandfather
had been confined in a lunatic asylum.
Albert Hrumen, receiving cashier of
the Rochester. N. Y., Savings bank,
committed suicide Tuesday morning
by shooting himself at his house. He
had been ill for three weeks, suffering
from an attack of la grippe, and it is
supposed that despondency prompted
the act.
OF INTEREST TO CONSUMPTIVES.
Dr. Amick Glvr* Advice as to a Change
of Climate.
Cincinnati, Dec. 18.—At a meeting
of physicians presenting the Amick
cure for consumption called to discuss
with the discoverer, at his home here,
his published assertion that change of
climate is unnecessary, Dr. Amick said
to-day: "A warm, dry climate is bene-
ficial if the patient stays in it perma-
nently, bnt harm always results from
a itay of a few weeks or months, when
the patient returns to a colder tem-
perature or lower altitude. I nless
patients desiring my treatment." he
said, "can go away to remain until
May, 1 advise them to take the medi-
cine in the comfort of their own homes,
but before they definitely abandon any
proposed trip, depending absolutely on
my discovery to cure them, 1 urge each
to first try the treatment free of ex-
pense and then decide for themselves.
1 therefore furnish free test medicines
for all having any lung trouble to en-
able both physician and patient to
judge by result."
Eudora is soon to have a new seven-
ty-five barrel flouring mill.
I be no hesitation in learning what
indicates the disease and each ease can
l>e tested at home by the one interested
without either expense or incon-
venience. Progressive physicians are
now agreed that for the several months
before child-birth all women are
especially subject to kidney troubles
and that tests should be made during
this time to determine whether sugar
or albumen indicate kidney disease.
The many cases of IJreamic convulsions
occasioning death at. or preceeding,
child-birth are due to this cause which
is too often overlooked and unsuspect-
ed. From ull this it would seem a
plain duty to take advantage of the J l,atJ 8(,RrP-
offer of The American Drug Assoeia one chance
tion whose address isCochnower Hldg., j
Cincinnati, Ohio. The offer is that to
eae.h person sending their address a
test outfit including full directions and
apparatus for the most accurate test i
for Hright's Disease and Diabetes will
be sent securely packed in a wood ease
free of cost. The Association is well
known to us andean be depended upon
to do just what they say.
J. H. McCartney has been appointed
chairman of townsite board No. 2.
It will soon be Christ-
some candles from his saddle-bag to
his pockets, shouldered the pick and
slowly mounted the tortuous trail.
He had long awaited this moment.
Four years ago he had owned the
• Lone Star" himself,but sickness came
and he could not work his assessment,
and when he had returned to the pros-
pect and found Pete, armed to
tho teeth, in possession, he had
accepted his hard luck with a
time is flying!
I mas."
i "Yes," he replied, ''and it will br
| leap year Christmas, too. Hy the way,
leap year will soon be gone."'
4'So it will," replied the girl, de-
murely.
"What would you like me to giv
, you this leap year Christmas?" asked
! Uie young man.
| "Why, Fred, I'd like you to give
me—"
i "Speak out Amanda! Don't be
plied Bunting, who began
1 E. H. Williams, a member of the
Iowa City Board of trade, who has
been missing for over a week, is said
%o be short $20,000 in his accounts.
Circuit court at Dexter, Mo., on
Tuesday sustained the Niagara Insur-
ance company in its refusal to pay a
firs loss, on the ground that the loser
hal not complied with a clause of the
policy requiring the assured to take
an annual invoice aud keep a cash ac-
count. depositing both in an iron safe.
George F. Elefson, a grocery man, of
Howard, Wis., who has a wife and
several children, and Mrs. Edward
Kollbreak, who leaves a husband and
three children, are fleeing towards
Washington state. Elefson first se-
cured 812.000 from his wife, and Mrs.
Kollbreak took #900 from her husband.
Trouble is expected on the Shoshone
reservation in Wyoming from the ef-
forts being made by Captain Ray. mil-
itary c-gent, to suppress polygamy
aAiong the Indians. The chiefs of the
Arapahoes and Shoshones who have
been ordered to dispense with all but
one wife refused, and if an attempt is
made to enforce the order, an out-
break of the Indians is certain.
Several chatte' mortgages have been
filed at Perry. It is beginning early.
Judge Dale's instructions to the
Perry grand jury will live as a classic.
If Utah is admitted before Oklaho-
ma Dennis Flynn is very likely to se-
cede from congress.
That was mighty good, sense Judge
Dale talked to the jurors, and it was
elegantly expressed.
Representative Hatch may not in-
troduce his anti-option bill in the na-
tional congress until after the holiday
recess.
L. B. Hill, for twenty years secre-
tary of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fel-
lows in Wisconsin, died at Madison
last evening, aged to.
The coming winter lias been select-
ed for a series of extensive Jl^t-rsian
army maneuvers in the deeply snow-
clad portions of Moscow,
A small coasting steamer foundered
off Kagohara, near Natsuye. Thirty-
five out of sixty-four passengers and
all the crew were saved
Mayor Smith of Chicago has issued
a proclamation calling upon the citi-
zens to aid in the efforts to alleviate
the sufferings of the poor
I Fourteen inches of snow fell in the
neighborhood of Indian River, Mich.,
Saturday night, and in consequence,
trains arc from two to eight hour®
late.
Dr. Edward Morwitz, proprietor of
the Philadelphia German Democrat,
oldest daily paper in the country, died
Thursday, after an illness of only six
days.
Fire caught in the rear part of the
Lcvine Bros.' clothing house, 110 and
111 West Superior Street, Duluth.
Minn., Thursday, and greatly in-
jured the stock and building.
The village jail of Stontsburg, Mo.,
was broken into Wednesday night, and
a large sum of money stolen from
John Williams, who had been arrested
for drunkenness.
P. P. Haldeinan, of Piedmont, W.
Va., superintendent of the Franklin
coal company, was robbed of the
money with which to pay the miners
Saturday moruing. The robbers
knocked him insensible with a saud-
bag and took $3,000 iu cash.
The Denver v-ines prints a story
that ex-City Treasurer Bliss and ex-
Deputy City Treasurer Hadley, who
are under indictment for forgery, lar-
ceny and embezzlement of Denver cjty
funds while in office four years ago.
have disappeared because of fear that
the case may be brought up again.
The Washington fire Insurance com-
pany of Marietta, O.. has assigned. It
was being vigorously at tacked by the
state insurance commissioner.
A dangerous gang of counterfeiters
has been located in Harrison county,
Mo. Edward Holmes and E. M. Ash-
ford were Saturday arrested by the
United States authorities. Holmes
had sets of dies for making nickels,
quarters, halves and dollars and a
large amount of spurious coin. Ash-
ford is a merchant and is charged
with passing the stuff.
A man named .lames Simmons died
suddenly and under mysterious cir-
cumstances last week. He was stop
ping with William Sliarp, who lives
near the territory line nine or te n
miles south of Chetopa. He had been
writing all day and in the evening
would eat no supper. Shortly aftei
dark he called for a drink of water,
but death had struck him before he
could drink and he fell over on the
floor dead. He was a man about 30
or 35 years old. No one knows anyj
thing about his relatives. He has
a team and some money. It issup]
posed that he had taken poison, lie
said the day he died the officers were
after him and had him in a tight
place because of some family troubles.
| CHANCES OF QETTINO KILLED
iin a Twenty-Four-Mile Railroad Rid*
They Are I te 1,401.010.
If a mail takes a ride tho aver-
i age length, which is twenty-four
j miles, in a railway train in this coun-
| try, what is his chance of getting
killed ? asks the Pittsburg Times.
According to tho interesting report
of the interstate ootnnierce commis-
sion, it is one chance in 1,491.910
If a younu man of 2). jiltod
by his sweethoart, should de-
termine to commit suicide without
sin by getting accidentally killed ia
a railway accident he might do it.
Certainly he might do it. If ho werf
to get on u train as a passenger imc.
ride, ride, ride at the rate of thirty,
five and one half miles an hour, day
and night, every hour of the day and
«.very day in tho yea.% if he had aver-
age luck he would eventually get sur-
cease from the gnawing pain at his
heart somewhere in the course of
passing over ,S5,o4!i, 'lit miles, for ac-
cording to these official figures, one
passenger is killed for every 85,542,-
L'rt2 miles that a passenger is carried.
According to the same he would bo
injured in some way eight and three-
quarters times, or eight times and a
1', Is a little hotter than
in three that he would
come to an untimely grave in conse-
quence of a collision, but if he pre-
ferred to have tho train run olT tho
track to kill him he would have only
one chance in nine to be satisfied.
His possible journey would hava
taken him around tills weary world
und past tho place where she wont
to housekeeping with the other fel-
low 1,421 tinioB, and would have cost
Aim, at tho rate of three cents a
mils and 5 i a night for a slosplng
berth, $1,087,016. 18. In this melan-
choly state of mind he wouldn't earn
how his shoos looked, and tho porter
needn't disturb his grief for a daily
quarter.
And when, after all his journeying
to his death, and glowering out of
the window at every unsympathetic
rock that might have fallon before
the engine,and cursing every vagrant
browsing cow that might have tres-
passed on tho track and didn't, he
finds at length "the goldon key that
opens the palace of eternity," it Is a
bigger chance than there aro figures
for that he will not be ready to go.
For the scenery of this world be-
comes interesting after awhilo. even
to one smitten with disappointment
and angry with all creation. There
are many pretty acquaintances to b9
picked up in the course of a long
journey, also, and time is a great
healer of love-sickness, even though
a alow one. Ho would be in his
l!i.5th year by the timo his desperate
purpose was achieved, and he would
have more sen-e than ho started
with. He would have had leisure to
reflect from tiino to timo on how his
false sweetheart's false toeth became
her now; how her rheumatism was,
whether gray hair and spoctaclos
changed her much, and how she
managed with those groat-grand-
children of hers.
afraid. , _
wood grace, but had "laid" for Pete ] to gi i courageous with the idea that
ver since. Hut now at last his oppor- at last he had about brought ier to
tunity had come, and he determined to '^^'frhri^nl^in. *
regain his property and defend it at the Sl j j llanlly like to."
risk of his life if necessary. i And the girl hung her head.
The tunnel was soon reached, and the ! "Don't be afraid! I'll give you a-ny-
moonlight, streaming against its black , thing you ask for," he declared in a
inouth, easily disclosed to his eyes I great burst of generosity.
Pete's location stake. j "Well, then, Fred, I wish you would
He looked at his watch. It marked ; give me— ' .
* "Out with it. Don't be backward,"
exactly midnight. _ , , he said, impatiently. "Give you what,
Reaching down, he fiereely wrenched
the stake from the ground and flung it
far from him down the mountain.
He then 1ft a candle and, finding a
board, quickly sharpened one end of it,
my dear?"
"Give me a chance to see something
of some other young men besides your-
self."
WlT.LIAM HKNRY SlVlTKB.
The banking house of Marquay,
Hooker & Co., of Rome, which sus-
pended payment on Monday, has
lodged balance sheet with the tribunal
of commerce, showing that its assets
exceed its liabilties by 1.320,000 lire. It
is stated that its creditors will not
lose anything.
The French chamber of deputies
will adopt regulations placing certain
restrictions upon all visitors admitted
to the gallery. Hufh persons will
have to present a letter of admission
from a deputy, and will have to give
their names and addresses. Ne\, spa-
per men will be kept under strict sur-
▼eilance. The senate will adopt like
measure!.
A large fire occurred at Morgan-
town, N. C,, Thursday morning. An
entire square in the business part of
town was destroyed, including a hotel
and several stores.
Andy Baird, of Chanute, Kan., a
brakeman on the Missouri Pacific, was
seriously injured Wednesday. He
was walking on the top of the oars
when the train gave a sudden lureh
and he was thrown to the ground,
striking on his head and shoulders.
At California, Mo., the large sale
stable of H. I/. Duwenick was ccn-
sullied by fire Thursday night with
eight valuable horses, harness, feed,
etc. The lost is estimated at llO.tOOk
I'mrt of lh«. Rorllul. *
Tennyson's wonderful poem, "The
Revenge," was first published iu the
Ninotoenth Century in 1878 or 1879.
On the eve of its publication, Tenny-
son invited between thirty and forty
of his most intimate frionds to his
house in Eaton Square, in order that
he might recite this patriotic piece
to them. As the poet proceeded in
his rich and sonorous tones, the
favored few hung upon his words.
When he reached the last linos—
"And the whole ne.i plunK'-'l uud fell on ths
shot shuttered navy of Spain,
And the I ttln Revenge hor..olf went down bj
the iglitud i-raes
To be lost evermore In the main "
the feelings of all present were
strung up into excitement and en-
thusiasm, when, to the amaze-
ment of all, the laureate added, with-
out the slightest pause and without
the least change Of tone in his voice,
"and the beggars only gave mo three
hundred pounds for it, when is was
worth at least five hundred pounds
or more.-Argonaut.
The Hut Wind* nt Egypt.
The most pornicious winds are the < (
samiels or hot winds of Egypt |
They come from the deserts to the j
southwest and bring with them in- j|
finite quantities of line dust, which
penetrates even the minutest crevice, y
The thomometer often rises to 125
during their continuance, and thou-
sands of human beings have been
known to perish from suffocation in
the fiery blast. It was one of these
samiels that destroyed the army of
Sennacherib. Alexander the Great
nearly lost his whole force in an-
other, and tho army of Cambyses was
utterly annihilated.
Reformation I" Myn« re.
The maharajah of Mysore has de-
cided, if possible, to put an end to
marriages between children, or
rather infants in his kingdom. He
issued an order recently forbidding
girls under 8 years and boys under
14 to marry. In the future no man
aged 50 or more dare wed a girl
under 14. The edict has aroused
much opposition in Mysore, but the
ruler is said to be an energetic man
and capable of executing regulations
which he is pleased to promulgate.
Sam Johnsing—Whar do debble
jou got dis cigar.' Hah, how it do
amell!
Jeems Webster—Dem cigars ia
n-erry good cigars but dey didn't
draw, so I soaked 'em in kerosene,
and how dey buqns fus' rate.—Texas
Sittings.
i'undid, Hut Cruel.
She—Am 1 the first girl you ever
proposed to, darling?
He, sincerely—Xo: but you are the
only girl who ever accepted me.—
Modern Society.
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