The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 31, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
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YOLUMB XV. I SUBSCR,pJ^tVADVANAcREOR*,“IF I DENISON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897.
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NUMBER 41.
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A ME0HANICT8 PLAINT.
A mechanic and an old citizen of
Denison said to a Gazetteer rep-
resentative the other day that he
heartily endorsed the position taken
by the paper in reference to itinerant
merchants who go from town to
town vending bankrupt stocks of
inferior goods to the detriment of
home dealers who pay taxes' and
otherwise contribute to the material
interests of the community in which
they live, but he said there was an-
other evil equally as detrimental
which should be corrected, and our
own people are responsible for it,
including some of our merchants.
He alluded to the employment of
mechanics from abroad tJ do work
which could be done just as well
and as cheap by home mechanics.
A man has a residence to build.
He will give the contract to an out-
aide party, and this party brings the
workmen with him. Then he ships
from northern factories certain
woodwork for inside finishing,
which could be gotten out for the
same money, and in just as good
style by the local home joiner, but
as the contractor has no interest in
the city’s interests be does not
trouble himself to inquire in regard
to the possibility of getting such
work done in the town. No doubt
this mechanic is in the main correct.
There is a great deal of money
spent abroad that ought to be kept at
home. And it is not alone the
mechanic that suffers. All branches
of business feel the effect of this
suicidal policy, but we see no wav
to correct the evil, until th& public
at large are educated to fully realize
that every individual in a commu-
nity is dependent upon the others,
and that the few cannot long pros-
per while the great majority are
impoverished. If we send away for
everything we need money will be
scarce, and a scarcity of money
makes dull times. If everybody
would make it a positive rule to
patronize only his home merchant
and employ only the home , mechan-
ic, the effect on the community
would be astonishing. It would
bring “good times” as certain as the
day follows the night. Now will
our people act lu accordance with
the suggestion ?
- The newspapers are clamoring
fw a law to compel the ladies to
remove their bats in public assem-
blies, and a bill of this nature has
been introduced into the Kansas
egislature. The Gazetteer has-
tens to call the attention to all ad-
vocates of measures of this kind
that such a law would be an en-
croachment upon the religious pe-
rogative of the fair aex. Paul says
emphatically that a Christian woman
must not appear in public with bead
uncovered, unless it is shaved, and
that he says would be shameful.
“If the woman be not covered, let her
also be shorn; but it h be a shame for a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be
covered. For a man Indeed ought not to
cover his head, forasmuch as he is the
image and glory of God; but the woman
is the glory of die man.”
Civil Service Examinations.
The Civil Service Commission
has recently issued a schedule of
examinations to be held in the coming
spring, together with instructions to
applicants. Examinations will be
held in this state at the following
times and places: San Antonio,
April 5th ; Fort Worth, April 2d;
Houston, April 7th; El Paso, April
19th. Certain special examinations
will be held on April 26th at Fort
Worth, Houston and San Antonio.
Examinations in certain branches,
except type-writing and stenogra-
phy, may also be taken at Laredo
April 5th, and Waco April 2d.
For details applications should be
made to the Civil Service commis-
sion, Washington, D. C. The clas-
sified service now embraces nearly
all offices under the government,
exclusive offthose to which appoint-
ments is made by the president,
with the consent of the senate.
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. W. F. Lyons is Assaulted by a Negro
Tramp.
Senator Woods, of Grayson, has the
nerve to offer a bill to stop Sunday base-
ball and football, and all the people of
Texas who have respect for the Sabbath
will uphold him in his good work.—Sher-
man Democrat.
Why should they uphold him?
Havn’t they the privilege of enjoy-
ing Sunday to their own liking ?
Then why should they seek to deny
to other citizens the same right?
In the first place Sunday is not the
Sabbath; and in the second place
the state has nothing to do with the
creating of Sabbath days, further
than to protect the people in the
right to worship in quiet on Sunday
if they want to, and in fact on any
day. It is the duly of the state to
guarantee to every citizen the privi-
lege of spending his time every day
of the week as best suits him; so
long as the rights of others are re-
spected, and in this right is included
that of enjoying himself his own
way. If preaching and prayer fill
the measure of his desires on Sun-
day, all right, let no man say nay ;
but if he prefer to stretch his mus-
cles and expand his lungs kicking .*
ball out in the open air, it is difficult
to see where the legislature gets any
constitutional or moral authority to
say he shan't do it.
The bill will never become a law
—itSSV r*fo many e**nc?t*J* 5,.'i
Doth branches of the legislature. A
similar bill passed the house, but i t
was reconsidered Tuesday last, an.d
killed as dead as a hern 8k Sena
tor Woods’ bill will new Hass th e
senate.
Mrs. W. F. Lyons, who resides
on Sears street near Rusk avenue,
had a thrilling experience last night
at an early hour. While the lady
was in the kitchen preparing supper
for her husband who had not yet
arrived home, she heard a knock at
the door. At first Mrs. Lyons paid
no attention, but when the knock
was repeated opened the door.
She was confronted by a negro
who said he wanted something
to eat, was cold and requested a
cup of coffee. Mrs. Lyons told
him to procure a can and she would
give him coffee and something to
eat. He remarked: “I am cold,
and want to warm,” and, with that,
marched boldly into the room and
turned the bolt to the door.
Mrs. Lyons retreated to the table
and grabbed a fork, standing on
the defensive. The negro said,
“give me your money,” threaten-
ing to kill the lady.
Mrs. Lyons attacked the negro
with the fork, who struck her on
the shoulder, knocking her to the
floor. She says that while prostrate
he kicked her in the stomach. Mrs.
Lyons promised to give what money
was in the house. Mrs. Lyons
proceeded to the front room, the
negro following. It was her in-
tention tojgive the fellow something.
When she opened the dresser
drawer she saw a pistol, she grab-
bed the weapon and quick as a
flash turned the weapon on the
negro who fled through the room to
make his exit through the
kitchen door. Mrs. Lyons fired
one shot, but owing to the excite-
ment of the moment her aim was
poor. After the departure of the
negro the alarm was given and
the officers notified. Mrs. Lyons
describes the negro as well dressed
in a check suit, wearing a black hat.
His complexion was what south-
ern people call “saddle color.”
Sheriff Hughes and several officers
went to the scene, but were unable
to get any clue.
Mrs. Lyons was injured, but
eYTghtty
Miss Maud Stalnaker, a young
lady of Washington, D. CM was
recently an applicant for a position
under the civil service rales, and
probably paased the most difficult
examination that has ever been pre-
pared by the civil service commis-
sion. She was the only one who
was able to pass the examination,
bnt the war department refuses to
appoint-her to the clerkship on the
ground that she is a woqihn. The
examination required translation
into English of technical military
works in French, German, Spanish
and Italian; typewriting in all these
languages, and ability to do proof-
reading and prepare manuscript
for the press; a knowledge of mod-
ern library methods; cataloguing,
indexing and of the English lan-
guage and literary ^composition.
The salary of the pos* ■ demand-
ing all these requirem <61,500
They are introducing of
in Chicago, and those who 1.
them in their employ are very we
pleased with them.. They say that
the office girl is superior to the of-
fice boy in many particulars. Id the
first place, she does not know how
to whistle, and she does not smoke
cigarettes. As a rule, she has abso-
lutely no taste for dime novels.
She is usually bright, quick, and
energetic, and ever so mi* cleaner
and neater than any boy can be.
Testimony upon this part is almost
unanimous, and most of those who
have tried office girls declare that
never again will they have any
office boy around the premises.
Isaac Pittman, of Bath, England,
the father of phonography, died a
few days ago at a ripe old age. He
invented the phonetic shorthand
which has taken the place of all the
old crude stenographies, for amen-
uensis and reporting use. His first
shorthand system which he called
stenographic sound-hand was pub-
lished in 1837, but it was a very
imperfect affair. He did ^not dis-
cover the existing arrangement, of
simple alphabetic characters until a
year later, when he changed the
name to phonography. Tne pres-
ent perfection of the art is due to a
great extent to the experience of
practical reporters in this country as
well as Great Britain.
LITERATURE
Samuel Gompers, being asked by
an inquisitive clergyman why so
many intelligent workingmen do not
attend church, bluntly replied that
it is because “the churches are no
longer in touch with the hopes an <1
aspirations of workingmen and are
out of sympathy with their miseries
and hardens”—because “the pas-
tors either do not know or have n<>t
the courage to declare from theiir
pulpits, the rights and wrongs lif
the toiling millions.”
Df alL^ -as to be found at Ells-
wortL s, 505 W. Main street. Also
the Standard Patterns. Prices of
patterns, 5c to 25c. 29tt
a year.
Parlor Meat Market.
The secretary of the interior has
issued a requisition on the treasury
for $13,150,000 for next month’s
quarterly payment of pensions sis
follows: Topeka, $3,875,000;
Philadelphia, $1,975,000; New
York, $1,779,000; Louisville, $iv-
025,000; Knoxville, $1,800,000;
Indianapolis, $2,700,000.
illy whe:
tered by the change. ‘Mr. .Aank
Wells will be glad to see you. You
cannot get better meat than at
Wells’.
A complete series of photographs
of the late Chinese-Japanese war,
taken on the spot, forms a feature of
the international photographic exhi-
bition now being held at Berlin, says
Wilson’s Photographic Magazine.
The collection has excited much in-
terest as the most comprehensive
photographic record of the war yet
shown.
STORAGE.
If leaving town store your fumi-
ure, household goods, pianos, etc.,
tt T. W. Robinson’s, 104 W.Wood-
ard street. Repairing,
national bank in T»xas which
’suspended about four weeks ago has
re opened its doors. Pro^ablv
many others of the banks recently
in trouble wilj do this also. The
trouble with most of them^it is like-
ly, was not really serious, but in
the general torpor in trade they went
down. Now that everybody sees
that the worst is over, and that bus-
iness is unmistakably improving,
the bank suspensions will probably
soon be fewer than tbe resumptions.
El Paso is steadily forging ahead
toward greater prosperity.—El Paso
Times.
This is indeed good news, coming
as it does from a radical sixteen-to-
one silver paper.
In reference to Sunday legislation
the Dallas Times-Herald offers this
advice to the lawmakers at Austin:
“Keep it up, gentlemen, and in a
little while some other crank will
be introducing a bill to prevent a
man kissing his wife on Sunday, or
the reading of a paper, or the cook-
ing of a dinner, or the building of a
fire on cold Sunday mornings or
nights, or to force us to read “Bax-
ter’s Saints Rest” all of the day,
or some other puritanical nonsense.
The taxpayers are asking for work
at your hands to help on prosperous
times and to put them to work, and
you are squandering their money in
consuming days to prevent Sunday
baseball playing and the like. Do
rise to tbe realization of the duties
you are paid to discharge and to the
dignity of the trust. And do get
through with all as rapidly as pos-
sible and return to your homes.
George Gould Predicts Better Times.
George J. Gould, in speaking of
the financial and commercial situa-
tion, said: “I feel greatly encour-
age.. We have undoubtedly seen
the worst, and from this improve-
ment, albeit slow at first, will be
conspicuous, and we may safely
look forward to a long period of
general activity and national pros-
perity. Liquidation has unquestion-
ably run its full course as far as the
security market is concerned. There
may be o$e or two weak spots, one
or two wepds to be pulled up, but
on the whole, I think it is
AN ASSAULT TO KILL.
OVERTON HARRIS IB WAfLAiU
WHILE GOING TO HIS HOME.
A Mystery Surrounds the Affair. Many
Conjectures. Was it Robbery or
Revenge? There Was Booty
In Sight, Bnt the Assas-
sin Took Only the
Store Keys.
Wednesday night Overton Harris,
a member of the firm of Dollarhide,
Maynard & Harris, was clubbed
over the head by an unknown party
and received injuries which may yet
terminate fatally. The assault is
one of the most mysterious events in
the criminal history of Denison.
Mysterious because Mr. Harris is
one of the most harmless and popu.
lar business men in tbe community.
Revenge was probably not the in-
centive, as Mr . Harris has no ene-
mies, in fact he is a gentleman who
attracts everyone to himself by his
lovable traits of character. It was
not robbery, as the gold watch and
chain and money on his person were
not disturbed. The only conclusion
that we can arrive at was that the
murderous assault was intended for
some other person, the man not
recognizing Mr. Harris in the dark.
But even that hypothesis is debata-
ble, for Mr. Harris received several
blows. There was plenty of light
by which the person could have
recognized his victim after the first
blow was delivered. It is said that
in a lucid moment Mr. Harris ex-
claimed, “I know who did it.”
That is merely report and is not
verified by either his wife or the
attending physician. Chief of
Police Hackney is working on a
clue, but it is very shadowy, but
Hackney is very persevering and
may clear up the mystery.
The particulars of tbe assault may
be briefly told as follows. Mr.
Maynard's statement is valuable:
Mr. Harris and myself closed
the store about 9:10 to 9:30, 1 am
not certain, not having looked at
my watch. He placed what little
money there was in the safe, locked
it up, and leaving tbe store, locked
the front door and put the keys in
his pocket. He carried a key to
the store and a key to the safe, to-
.tl.v. ..tit* .it.*.*, v>.* u:# ,
and so far as I know that is the only
thing missing from his person. The
keys he always carried. He rarely
carried money on his person and
last night had but thiry-five cents.
I saw him no more after bidding
him good night in front of the store,
kh going west on Main street and I
walked in the opposite direction,
until I was called to his house after
he was hurt.”
When Mr. Harris reached Mi -
rick avenue, near Woodard street,
he was assaulted. He probably fell
in his tracks at the first blow, as the
cudgel is a forminable weapon.
While lying on the ground he was
struck two or three times more.
No doubt murder was intended, but
the hour and locality in the shadow
of the Baptist church, the presence
of people on the street, frightened
the assassin from his murderous
work.
Here is another strange feature of
the affair; the keys to the store were
removed from the pocket of Mr.
Harris.
Shortly after the assault Mr. Har-
ris was discovered by pedestrians
and removed to his home on Wood-
ard street, a short distance from the
scene.
Dr. Nagle, who lives on adjoining
block, was summoned and gave the
wounded man prompt attention.
There was an ugly gash on the right
side of the head, another heavy
blow just across the back of tbe
head, just above the base of the
skull, and two other wounds on the
top of the head. The skull is not
fractured and there is more then an
even chance that Mr. Harris may
recover. At this writing, Friday,
he had brightened up and Dr.
Nagle is very hopeful of recovery.
Persons report the mysterious ap-
pearance of a party near the Harris
dwelling. A man was seen prowl-
ing around the yard of the Pender
residence. There is a class of people
who go loaded for just such occas-
sions, and of course they tell all
manner pf stories which are pure
invention. The invariable tall and
short man were seen, muffled up to
tbe throat, and to complete the
romance, fled at the approach of
footsteps.
The murderous assault has worked
the community up to a high pitch
of excitement, and universal sympa-
thy goes out to Mr. Harris. No
A OLEVER CAPTURE.
Chief of Police Hackney Walks Sixteen
Miles After a Coat Thief.
Chief of Police Henry Ilackney
made a very clever arrest Wednes-
day of a thief who had purloined an
overcoat from the front of the Red
Front clothing house and the Star
Store. Hackney, when notified of
the theft of the overcoat at the Red
Front, concluded at once that it
was the same party that hj»d oper-
ated at the Star Store two days
previous. With} the quick in-
tuition of an officer, the chief sought
the railroads for information that
might lead to the capture of the
thief. He was informed that a man
with two overcoats on his arm had
been seen leaving the city going
south along the right of way of
the T. & P. As it was impossible
to follow the railway on horaeback,
the chief decided to “hoof it,” and
this he put into execution at a lively
rate. About one mile this side of
the junction, Hackney espied his
man on the track. Not to excite
the suspicion, the chief made a cir-
cuit of the woods and got in ahead
of the thief, and when he came
along took him in and brought him
back to Denison. The overcoats
were recovered, and the theif, who
gave his name as Martin Maddin,
home St. Louis, was turned over to
the county officers. The chief
walked about sixteen miles, but
when seen by the Gazetteer re-
porter did not seem to be any the
worse for the long tramp. The ar-
rest reflects gTeat credit on Chief
Hackney, and is another feather in
his cap.
The U. S. civil service commis-
sion calls attention to the fact that
the supply of male eligibles in type-
writing and stenography is barely
equal to the demand, and male ap-
plicants proficient in these branches,
have better prospects for appoint-
ment, than other applicants. There
are shorthand writers without end,
but those who are really capable
are exceedingly tew.
All la Ended.
Tbe matrimonial troubles of Con-
ductor Martin, of the Katy, and
Miss Sue Marshall came to an end
last evening at 7 o’clock. Justice
Lewis Rogers was called to the res-
idence of Mrs. Haskell Cherry,
where the young lady was stopping,
and there in the presence of wit-
nesses pronounced a sure-enough
ceremony.
Martin had an examining trial
yesterday morning and his bond
fixed at $1200, which he gave in
the afternoon. Soon after he and
the young lady’s mother held a con-
ference and the marriage resulted.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin will leave
t|»8 morning for Denison, their fu-
ture home, and where Mr. Martin
will again assume his regular run as
conductor.—Gainesville Hesperian.
Martin was arrested on a charge
of having enticed the young lady
into a mock marriage.
thv goes
one in Denison is more highly es-
teemed, and his death would be an
irreparable loss to the community.
Mr. Harris has been here for the
past twelve years.
List of Patents
Granted to Texas inventors this
week. Reported by C. A. Snow &
Co., solicitois of American and for-
eign patents, opposite United States
patent office, Washington, D. C.:
W. A. Barnes, Lampasas, book
support; J. H. Cooley, San
Antonio, refrigerating apparatus;
D. C. Hayslip- Circleville, culti-
vator plow ; (? . S. Murphy, Sulphur
Springs, fa’ucet; J. C. Slaughter,
Dallas, steam engine; L. F. Wil-
liams, Clarksville, trap; W. L.
Betties, churn.
A GOOD MAN GONE.
The Death of Oity Jailor J. B. Turner.
Alter a two weeks' illness, City
Jailor J. B. Turner died of pneumo-
nia Tuesday at his residence on
Crawford street. The death of Mr.
Turner will cause profound regret
in the community, as he was univer-
sally esteemed. He was a gentle
and lovable man. As a neighbor the
latchstring of his door was always
out, and none in distress who ever
knocked there or entered there ever
went away empty-handed. As a
public man he pointed to a stainless
record, and boasted with pardona-
ble pride of duties faithfully per-
formed. He was the most humane
and efficient jailor that this city hss
ever had. The prisoners were al-
ways sounding his praises and ex-
tolling his kindness. The deceased
was a member of |the Woodmen of
the World and carried a $2,000 in-
surance. He was laid to rest Thuis-
day under the auspices of the order.
THE COMING BALL.
It 8tirs a Son of Erin to Patriotic Thought.
To the Editor of the Gazetteer:
Your correspondent, in passing
along Main street, dropped into the
Columbia hall, the headquarters of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians in
Denison. Through the kindness of
the hall manager I was given a short
interview and shown through the
magnificent hall. The hall is being
prepared for the second annual ball
of the society, and, judging from
the lovely decorations, will be the
social event of the season. The
walls are tastefully decorated with
Irish emblems between the pictures
of Ireland’s martyred patriots; the
columns and ceilings are profusely
furnished with bunting and Ameri-
can flags with large silver stars
interspersed. On the stage are
grooped Irish green flags, blended
with the stars and stripes, around
which cluster so many glorious
reminiscenaes of zeal, virtue and
patriotism of dear old Ireland.
That faith which binds nations
and men together in the bonds of
unity, love and true Christian charity,
is here beautifully blended among
the members of this society, a truly
representative body of sober, in-
telligent, sterling patriotic Irishmen,
whose influence and example as
practical Catholics, is, indeed, far-
reaching, shedding, as it does, a
glorious lustre and lasting honor
on the land of their birth in the
cherished home of their adoption.
Banded together as one man—for
one purpose; and that purpose is to
vindicate the honor of their man-
hood, of their religion, and of their
nationality, by means of the glori-
ous virtue of friendship, love and
true Christian charity. In this so-
ciety we find a collection of our
most progressive citizens, ever ready
to obey our laws and fufill all the
obligations of true and loyal citizen-
ship. A stock that is as purely
Irish as ever was that of Red Hugh
O’Neill, or Hugh O’Donall, as fiery
in temper as ever St. Colemb Kill
was, and he was'a true Irishman, as
proud as Lucifer, and as Catholic as
St. Paler.
X iidVb W bUtl^iM.wlMib itjCMJ AS rt
society, as the component element
of a largely spread association,
whose influence for good is gently
and continually diffused among our
citizens as a pure and ennobling
moral example. Our history shows
that Ireland, in times of peace and
war, placed in the foremost ranks
of America, men of magnificent
minds and heroic wills—that keen,
lofty, penetrative intelligence of
Ireland that have been bright stars
in the firmament of America; bright
magnificent stars, men who in the
very infancy of these states stood
forth and wrote their names in char-
acters that shall never perish upon
the' annals of the world’s history, as
statesmen,„ as soldiers, as sailors, as
philosophers and ss-poets; the mas-
ter passion of whose hearts after
the love they had for God, was the
love for Ireland, their native land,
as she was in all the vicissitudes of
her history; their native land, as
she is to-day, in all her* misery;
their native land, as she shall be
one day, when she shall proudly
take her place among the nations of
the earth.
Veritas,
_M. J. L,
26-inch percales at 5c a yard at
Madden, Graham & Co’s.
A SLUMP IN-
* il n
10 CTS. TO-DAY.
WhiteFront
WILL RECOVER. |
The condition of Overtor Harris was
1 evening. He
was rational,
confined to the
r several days. His recovery is
r
New ginghams, worth 15c, at 12
yards for $1 at;Madden, Graham &
Co’s.
Charity begins at home always,
but in weather as cold as the present
charity should spread from home to
cover the entire city. The family
must be poor itself which can not
assist the poor,
CERTIFICATE.
This is to certify that we deliver-
ed the White Front to-day one-half
car load of Pearl Kiln dried meal,
billed from Kansas City.
Respectfully,
TIM MURPHY.
P. S.—40c, bushel sack.
$500.00
Worth of counters, shelv-
ing*, bins, etc. for $100.
WflFFE FR0]W
CLOSING SALE.
$ 150.00
Worth of new show
cases go for
mao.
White Front
Closing Sal*.
COFFEE MILL
Largest in the State,
coat 9110, goes for
880.
White Front
Closing Sale.
1-4 Pound,
Battle Ax,
White Front
CLOSING SAL*.
Among the gentile Christians no
Sabbath was observed for several
centuries. The Jewish Christians
were circumcised and kept Satur-
day as a Sabbath, according to the
Mosaic law. In about a century
these primitive Christians have nearly
all disappeared and the followers of
Paul gradually gained the ascend-
ency. The Sunday rest day origi-
nated with Constantine in a royal
edict in the first quarter of the fourth
century. The Roman Catholic
church changed the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday, and the Prot-
estant reformers repudiated it as
being unscriptural. The observ-
ance of Sunday or any other weekday
as holy time is not taught anywhere
in the New Testament, and Paul
says distinctly that Sabbath days
were abolished, but left his follow-
ers to ohserve the day or not as
their conscience dictated, saying,
“let everyone be fully persuaded in
his own mind.’* It is a pity his
profound admirers here in Texas
are not willing to accord to their
neighbors a like privilege.
Ladies’ winter vests, worth 50c,
cut to 25c at Madden, Graham &
Co’s.
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Nsfaesi th* Wron* Beggar.
"I never refuse tbe plea of a beggar,”
says a leading member of congress.
“Ton most not use my name and adver-
tise me aa a philanthropist, for I am
not It is simply a matter of neoessity
with me. I am obliged to give some-
thing to every beggar, or I could not
sleep at night. I made a bad mistake
once, and 1 would rather give occasion-
ally to tbe unworthy than to ever deny
assistance to tbe worthy.
“Once upon a time I was in 8t- Louis
on butineas. It was winter, and yon
know bow oold that town can be when
it tries bard. I was out on tbe street at
11 o’clock one bitter nigbt when a obap
struck me for a dime. He waa poorly
dad, looked hungry and sick, and I
ought to have handed out tbe money at
once. I was just brute enough not to do
it He followed me 100 feet begging
and pleading, and I finally threatened
to have him arrested. He turned away
with a sob in his throat, and i went on
to tbe hotel.
"There was a big snowstorm that
nigbt, and next morning they found
him in g drift frraon and stiff*, 1
Mw U<Aaj uuu lOuglilMu i*> "Zuv
pale face waa pinched and drawn with
hunger and suffering, and tbe eyea woe
aa wide open as yours—great big bine
eyes, sunken book in their sockets and
staring at me in an awful way. Tea,
sir, they seemed to be fastened on me
alone and to follow me aa I moved.
When I beard oar drivers, draymen,
bootblacks and newsboys saying bow
gladly they would have given tbe poor
wretch a quarter to buy lodgings and
food, I sneaked away, feeling that I was
a murderer. It hurt me more than I
can tell you. I don’t wait now to be
asked for alma. I give to some who are,
no doubt undeserving, but I take my
chances on that That thing rests like a
murder on my conscience, and nothing
like it shall happen again.”—8t Paul
Globe. _
It was with especial interest that I
made my first examination of tbe streets
of Paris, for I remembered them as be-
ing in excellent condition in 1889 (ex-
position year).
After a oloae and careful examination
I should say that they are quite as well
swept as our streets, and that there is
nowhere to be found tbe defective pave-
ment, at wbiob we have so much. In tbe
matter at litter, however, I think that
New York is much better oared for, ex-
cept in tbe more frequented show streets,
and, to a certain extent even there, there
is more paper scattered, and in many
parts at tbe town much leas attention
seems to be paid to its collection and
removal. On tbe whole, I think we lose
nothing in tbe comparison. New York
is as clean and at least as tidy as Paris.
Tbe methods of work in tbe French cap-
ital are in many respects different from
what waa found in other cities and very
different from tbe methods here.
In 1868 tbe oleaning of the streets
was transferred from tbe prefecture de
police to tbe prefecture de la Seine, and
it waa then piaoad in tbe bands of tbe
engineering department. Tbe oost at
that time could not be learned, but the
oost in 1878 was 8,808,000 francs; in
1877 it was 4,618,000; in 1888 it was
6,680,000. It is now about 8,000,000
franca. Formerly it waa tbe duty at all
property owners to clean one-half of tbe
street if this did not exceed six meters
(80 feet). This work is now done by tbe
oity and is paid for by a special tax on
tbe property, wbiob, for this purpose, is
divided into three olsssos that occupied
(1) by buildings, (9) by walls or open
grounds, (4) by vacant lots. In no case
is tbe charge more than tbe actual cost
to tbe city. In some oases it is materially
less* Property holders must still remove
snow and ice from the sidewalks, ao-
oording to specific regulations.—Har-
per’s Weekly. /
Tbe Philadelphia Record thus ex-
plains tbe origin of tbe name Penn Yan.
N. V.: “It was built up oonjointly by
settlers from Pennsylvania and New
England, who were unable to agree up-
on a name for tbe new town until some
distorted brain suggested Penn Yan as
a combination of the words Pennsyl-
vania and Yankee. It was adopted aa a
compromise and it still attached to tbs
plaoa.”
Sunday sohdol tooktor *a mbjeto^Tbe
Lord lovetb a cheerful giver. ’’ She in-
quired If any om knew what it meant
when a tittle 4-year-old boy said:
“MIm L-, I know what that
“Well, George Edwin, what is it?”
“It means give a whole lot and don’t
try over it. ”—Troy Times.
The Serial Porittoa of Amen.
The time was in France when tbe 66-
tor bad no social position, and oertainly
no spiritual one. Special dispensation
waa neoeasary when tbe Oatbolio church
allowed a mass to be said for tbe repose
of an actor’s soul. In Tbe Cbautauquan
Professor Warren, describing tbe Mo-
liere period, writes:
Tbe social position of actors in Mo-
liere’s time was a low one. Not iron
any prejudice against tbe stags evi-
dently, since dramatists like Corneille
and Soarron were on tbe same footing
at tbe Hotel de Rambouillet and tbs
other salons of Paris as poets and esaay-
ists and were elected to tbe French
Academy aa readily. Indeed, it would
seem as though the composition of plays
was tbe shortest road to distinction in
tbe Pari* of Moliere, aa it is today, fiat
with tbe actors it was another question.
Their wandering, unsettled modes of
life bad evidently told against them.
They woe not admitted to society
whether tbeir conduct was good or had.
They were not even considered in tbe
light of literary persona. Moliere met
bis friends, Boileau, La Fontaine, Fu-
ly or bad incurred too much hostility on
tbe part of influential sets, the 1
through “Tartuffe,’
“Lee Femmes Sevan tea ” Aa aa actor
be was considered mi outcast with bis
class, and when, on bis deathbed, be
asked for spiritual consolation bis ap-
peal fell on deaf earn till it was too lata.
So that it waa with the greataat difficul-
ty that bis widow procured a bit of con-
secrated ground in wbiob to lay tbe re-
mains of the nnahrived 1
There was a trial before Mr. Jaatice
Cave recently which, if ocrrectly re-
ported, shows what is toe profit of toe
shareholders of Tbe Times. Mr. Adame
bought one-fourteenth of two-thirds of
one-ninth of two-sixteenths (or 1-1,618)
of The Times from Mr. Brodie for £868
on tbe aemranoe that this minats share
was worth about £36 per annua. Ac-
cording to him, after be had purchased
tbe share, be found it only to be worth
£17 a year. On this be asked for dam-
tee. The jury ameamd toe dsnmgto at
£66. Assuming thto
£18 per annum (which
average value), it is olear that the net
dividend on all aharea is £87,816. Mr.
Adams, believing it to
paid for it 14.1 yean’
jury valued it at £888. which, taking
tbe annual return at £18, would ha 16
yean’ purchase, making The Times
worth £486,456. This;
not quite correctly, I believe,
tbe value, for Mr. Walter, aa
derives a large profit on an aid c
This contract, in point of fact,
what may be called preferenoe shama.
while tboae of the ahsnilmlilms may he
termed ordinary share*, the value of The
Times being toe warn total at both,—
London Truth.
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The wasp is accepted aa*
of irritability and petty malignity, hot
even this much abused insect play* a
beneficial part in tbe work: of natures
A number of waq n tnta aeea by R. M.
Barrington of Bray, Ireland, bearing
about his oows. Closer inspection re-
vealed that they wen all busy catching
flies. One white cow drew mare waape
than any of tbe otben be runes tin mo-
ment a fly alighted it was ssea at cam
against tbe skin. When a wasp aatnhss
a fly, it immediately bitea off both
wings, sometimes a leg or two and oc-
casionally tbe head. Mr. Barrington
saw some of the/wasps, when laden with
one fly, catch another without letting
go tbe first and then fly away with both.
There was a resistant stream of wtapa
carrying away fliea, probably to teed tbe
larvtB in tbeir neeta, and returning again
to tbe oows to outob more. In about 80
minutes Mr. Barrington estimated that
between 800 and 400 flies were caught
on two oows lying close to
Franoisoo Argonaut.
1
The greatest region in tbe.(
fossil tracks of tbe reptiles wbiob 1
in tbe early days of the >
the vicinity of
those old to
shows that I
fully 18 fori in!
1
l to bet
—— birds, but of late the geologists
have token a different viewy declaring
them to be marks left by reptiles.—84.
Louis Republic.
Go to Ansley’s Gallery for finu-
photos. Cheapest and best.
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