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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
ESTABLISHED IN 1880.
SUCCESSOR TO THE RURAL CITIZEN.
Entered at the Post-Office at Jacksboro, as “second class matter.”
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VOLUME VIL NUMBER 46.
“A Government of the People, by the People, and for the People."
JACKSBORO, JACK COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1887.
Subscription $1.60 per an am in advanoe.
jjiggaMjs
Is The Besf
Ever Kale.
“BEHOLD ALSO THE SHIPS.”
The FISH BRAND SLICKER
in the hardest storm
--------------------- _t your storekeeper doe .
ueto A. J. TOWER. 20 Simmons St. Boston. Mass
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Attorney »t Law. Surveyor & Notary Public.
JSPOREE, SPILLER & EASTIN ,
Jacksboro, Texas
Jaeksboro Land and Collecting Agency,
Do a Genera) Exchange Business and Negotiate Loans,
Bny, Sell and Lease Lands and Ranches, locate certificates
and obtain patents, render lands and pay taxes in all parts of
the State, perfect titles and furnish abstracts; and adjust and
collect all claims, notes and accounts.
Litigation of all kinds promptly attended to.
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PHYSICIAN A SURGEON.
OPrtOE NORTH SIDE, oo QTJARE.
Residence N. E. of Public Square.
Jacksboro, Texas.
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4WQW0EYS
Lessons In Dramatic Action.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Russell gave an
amusing as well as instructive discourse ani
demonstration of dramatic action her a soma
mouths ago. She remarked very truly on
the manner in which children are usually
reprimanded for what they do badly or un-
gracefully, l>ut are rarely ever shown, with
care and kindness, the right way of accom-
plishing it more desirably; as she said, it re-
sembles the way most dramatic critics tender
their opinions.
She gave an illustration of the method to
be selected by those desirous of developing
their muscles in a moderate degree, by treat-
ing the hand, or lmnd and arm, as a sort of
pendulum, moving them with gradual rapid-
ity, and allowing them to be perfectly nerve-
REV. DR. TALMAGE’S SERM.ON TO
THE NAVAL POSTS.
Decoration Day Services in tlie Brooklyn
Tabernacle—Survivors of the Navy Ad-
vised to Take Admiral Farragut as
Their Exemplar.
Brooklyn, May 22.—As this is the time
for the decoration of the graves of those who
fell in the war, the naval posts invited the
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., to preach a
sermon at the Brooklyn tabernacle appropri-
ate to the occasion, as often* in the annual
commemoration but little bad been said of
those who served iu the navy. An American
flag adorned the pulpit, and the congregation
sang with great spirit:
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.
Dr. Talmage's text was from Janies iii, 4—
‘‘Behold also the ships.” He said:
If this exclamation was appropriate about
1S60 years ago, when it was written concern-
ing the crude Ashing smacks that sailed Lake
Galilee, how much more appropriate in an
age which has launched from the dry docks
for- purposes of peace the Arizona, of the
Guion line; the City of Richmond, of the lu-
man line; the Egypt, of the National line; the
Germanic, of the White Star line; the Circas-
sia, of the Anchor line; the Etruria, of the
Cunard line, and the Great Eastern, with
hull (580 feet long—not a failure, for it helped
lay the Atlantic cable, and that was enough
glory for one ship’s existence—and in an age
which for purposes of war has launched the
screw sloops like the Idaho, the Shenandoah,
the Ossipee, and our ironclads like the Kala-
mazoo, the Roanoke and the Dunderberg, and
those which lmve already been buried in the
deep like the Monitor, the Housatonic, the
Weebnwken and the Tecumseh, the tempests
ever since sounding a volley over their watery
sepulchers, and the scarred veterans of war
shipping like the Constitution, or the Alliance,
resses on all the coasts is the ocean when it
bombards a flotilla. In the cemeteries for
Federal and Confederate dead are the bodies
of most of those who fell on the land. But
where those are who went down in the
war vessels will not be known until
the sea gives up its dead. The Jack tars knew
that while loving arms might carry the men
wliq fell on the land and bury them with
solumn liturgy and the honors of war, for
the bodies of those ’rlio dropped from the rat-
lines Into the sea or went down with all on
board under the stroke of a gunboat there re-
mained the shark and the whale and the end-
less tossing of the sea which cannot rest. How
will you find their graves for this national
decoration? Nothing but the archangel’s
trumpet shall reach their lowly bed, A few
of them have been gathered into naval ceme-
teries of the land and you will garland the
sod that covers them, but who will put flow-
ers on the fallen crew of the exploded West-
field and Shawsheeu, and the sunken South-
field and the Winfield Scott? Bullets threat-
ening in front, bombs threatening f>om above,
torpedoes threatening from beneath and the
oceau with its reputation of 6,000 years for
shipwreck lying all around, am I not right in
saying it required a special courage for the
navy?
It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a
war vessel going out through the Narrows,
sailors iu new rig singing:
A life on the ocean wave,
A borne on the rolling deep!
the colors gracefully clipping to passing ships,
tho decks immaculately clean and the guns at
Quarantine firing a parting salute. But the
poetry is afl gone out of that ship as it comes
out of that engagement, its decks red with
human blood, wheelhouse gone, the cabins a
pile of shattered mirrors and destroyed fur-
niture, steering wheel broken, smokestack
crushed, a hundred pound Whitworth rifle
shot having left its mark from port to star-
board, the shrouds rant away, ladders splin-
tered and decks plowed up and smoke black-
ened and scalded corjwes lying among those ; you are now at least 48,
who are gasping their last gasp far away passed into the sixties
from home and kindred, whom they love as
much as we love wife and parents and c-hil-
commanded by Capt. Lawrence, whose
dying words were: “Don’t give up the ship;”
and the Niagara, of 1813, commanded by
Commodore Perry, who wrote on the back of
an old letter, resting on his navy cap: “We
have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Yonder is the flagship Wabash, Admiral
Dupont commanding; yonder, the flag-
ship Minnesota, Admiral Goldsborough
commanding; yonder, the flagship Phila-
delphia, Admiral Dahlgren command-
ing; yonder, the flagship San Jacinto,
Admiral Bailey commanding; yonder, the
flagship Black Hawk, Admiral Porter com-
manding: yonder, the flag steamer Benton,
Admiral Foote commanding; yonder, the flag-
ship Hartford, David Glascoe Farragut com-
manding. And now all the squadrons of
all departments, from smallest tugboat to
mightiest man of war, are in procession,
decks and rigging filled with the men
who fought on the sea for tbe old flag ever
since we were a nation. Grandest fleet the
world ever saw. Sail on before all agesl
Run up all the colors! Ring the bells! Yea,
open all the port holesl Unlimber tbe guns
and load and fire one great broadside that
shall shake the continents in honor of peace I
and the eternity of the American union!
But I lift my hand, and the scene has
vanished. Many of the ships lmve dropped
under the crystal pavement of *the deep, sea
monstera swimming in and out the forsaken
cabin, and other old cr&ft have swung into
the navy yards and many of the brave spirits
who trod their decks and gone up to the
Eternal fortress, from whose casements and
embrasures may we not hope they look down
to-day with joy upon a nation iu reunited
brotherhood ?
At this annual commemoration I bethink
that most of you who were in the naval ser-
vice during our late war are now in the
afternoon or evening of lifa With some of i
you it is 2 o’clock, 8 o’clock, 4 o’clock, 6
o’clock, and it will soon be sundown.
If you were of age when the war broke out
Many of you have
and the seventies; .
ODDS AND ENDS.
less and without any actual force of their : or the Constellation that have sw ung into the j dren. Not waiting until you are dead to put
own. She also indicated the different way:*
of gesticulating with the fingers; eaih pos-
sessing its characteristic significance; point-
ing with t lie thumb denoting force; with tho
first finger, the mind; with the second, inde-
cision and ignorance; with the third, useless-
ness and tenderness; with the fourth, sauci-
ness.—London Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
AT LAW.
Texas.
•V
JOjNEJS,
. ^ 4LiKD AGENT,
settle farmers and stock men
•^school or vacant land in Harde-
Cottle, and other
i along the line of the Fort
Denver R. R. Office at
ieman county. Cor-
icited.
A Kemarkable Diamond.
Henry Fera, the John street diamond man,
fias in his possession) a remarkable j*-w*L It:
js a diamond ip the rough, nearly round, ancj
Weights 3% carats. When the cutter tool;
j the stone to prepare it for the polisher, the
j first shf.rp blow divided the diamond into
two nearly equal parts. Upon examination
;t wus found that a perfect, natural din monel
crystal had lieen the nucleus about which the
layer stone had formed,* The nucleus is
perfect cube, and weighs apparently three-
fifths of a carat. One-half of the cub) pro-
jects above the face of the matrix. It is the
only specimen of diamond crystal ia thsi
world.—N. Y. Sun.
Henderson,
\R1AI. ARTIS
iniculturai, abscision
ical tripsis, also phre-
cutter &Dd hydropath-
Alj work phys-
executed.
HISTORICAL
—r-
PAINTING.
' Crucifixion
in .Chicago.
Being
A Prehistoric Citizen.
A curious relic was discovered a fendayu
ago near Phoenix, A. T., by a farmer while
digging a well on bis ranch. At about nine
feet below tbe surface he came upon tho skel-
eton of a man, the bones of which, however,,
fell to pieces when he attempted to move
them. He has no doubt that this prehistoric
citizen was a giant, as the thigh bone* were
nearly four feet long and the feet wera more
extensive than those of the proverbial St.
Louis girl. Under the body was a large and
heavy war club, made from mesquete or iron
wood, and this was in a state of perfect pres-
ervation. It is now on exhibition.—Clicago
Times. _
Tli ought It a Great Joke.
A party of excursionists from an eastern
city recently visited the town of El Pauo del
Norte, in Mexico. •‘They came into the t hop,”:
said a merchant of the town, “but that was’
all right Then the.first, thing -I knew they
naval yards to spend their last days, their
decks now all silent of the feet that trod them,
their rigging all silent of the hands that clung
to them, their port holes silent of the brazen
throats that once thundered out of them. If
in the first centui-y, when w ar vessels were
dependent on the oars that paddled at the side
of them for propulsion, my text was sug-
gestive, with how much more emphasis, and
meaning, ami overwhelming reminiscence we
can cry put, as we see the Kearsage lay
acrqss the bows of the Alabama and sink it,
teaching foreign nations they had better
keep them band off our American fight,
or as we see the ram Albemarle, of the Con-
federates, running out and in the Roanoke,
and up and down the coast, throwing every-
thing into confusion as no other craft ever
did, pursued by the Miami, the Ceres, the
Southfield, the Sassacus, the Mattabesett, the
Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, tbe Louis-
iana, the Minnesota and other armed vessels,
all trying in vain to catch her until Capt.
Cushing, 21 years of age, and his men blew
her up, himself and only one other escaping,
and as I see the flagship Hartford, and tbe
Richmond and the Monongahela, with other
gunboats, sweep past the batteries of Port
Hudson, and the Mississippi flows forever
free to all northern and southern craft, I cry
out with patriotic emotion that I cannot sup-
press, if I would, and would not if I could:
“Behold also the ships.”
At tho annual decoration of graves north
and south among Federals and Confederates
full justice has been done to the memory of
those who fought on the land in our sad con-
test, but not enough has been said of those
who on ship's deck dared and suffered all
things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea,
help me in this sermon! So, ye admirals, com-
modoi*es, commanders, captains, pilots, gun-
ners,boats wains, sail makers, surgeons, stokers,
messmates and seamen of all names, to use
your own parlance, we might as well get
under way and stand out toward sea. Let all
land lubliers go ashore. - Full speed:now!
Four bell)!
! Never si rice the sea fight of Lepanfo, where
great lights for your illumination—the ex-
ample of Christian admirals consecrated to
upon your graves a wreath of recognition, I CJhrist and their country—Admiral Foote and
this hour we put on your living brow the Admiral Farragut.
Ex-Khedive Ismail, of Egypt, is howling
with the gout.
The sultan has just had the ladies of the
seraglio vaccinated.
Nearly 50,000 farms have been opened up
in Kansas during the past season.
Dion Boucicault has an “r” in his nams,
but he hasn’t written it Bourcic&ult for many
years.
George Francis Train is about to begin suit
in Omaha to recover $10,000,000 worth of
property there.
A canal fifteen miles long, affording com-
munication between the Caspian and Baltic
seas, has just been opened in Russia.
Brooklyn bridge is to be painted to pre-
serve the metal, and 40,000 pounds of paint
wi 1 bo required to do it in the most econom-
ical manner.
The New York courts hold that the lives of
infants can not be insured, the ground being
thut only those accepting the obligation of
membership could be insured.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont contemplates
spending the summer in the west for the pur-
pose of writing an accurate history of the life
of Kit Carson, the famous scout, pathfinder
and explorer.
The communion table from which George
Wiishington received the sacrament on the
Sunday before his death has just been re-
stored to Christ church, Alexandria, by Miss
Sally Stuart, who received it from a near rel-
ative by bequest.
The Winnipeg Call complains that all the
European news Canadians get “comes
through American channels and is colored
to suit the tastes of American readers,” and
that the cable news is “uniformly anti-British
and pro-Irish.”
Mr. George Vanderbilt, the youngest son
of the late W. 1L Vanderbilt, gives much
time to the care of the Vanderbilt tomb on
Staten Island, and is having the twenty-three
therefore it ^ appropriate that”I h old t wo j acres surrounding it converted into a beauti-
of .Seventh walked back into oun living part bf: the house royal
present the and went to pulling, ovet* thing* and looking Minris&i
^hey weVe at It
to gq out. anc
(Emmie painthigs’yetexhibited ouly laughed aud thought it was a great joke Actium, tbii.y-onu jeers before Chrfet,
- --■n is the crucifixion pf the «t>n.iL!f i>«n>
being worked put oiia acaio
noon
is bring worked put on a scale
‘frith the importance of tho
a panorama, it will be
minting pf t'ue greatest
The jnnnense canvas,
i room for a breadth of treat?
artists are allowed. The
carefully done iu oil, with an
11* finish aud minutiae of detail not
| to a picture destined for tbe salon,
time choeen for representation is soon
afief the sixth hour. The place issoniedis-
taaeeto too west of the wall*. On the 1 tore,
bleafcJpioll stand the three crosses, with their
__; figure*. Thafto the right of
the ■*& p/o Spectator the sceha
fju5«* front, while that- bn the left is' turned
|uw*rd. toward tlie other two. Standing
ptomt tip* top of the knoll are the Roman
that Mexicans should have any feeliuijs.’Sr-
New York Tribune.
A Curious Experience.
A Buffalo lady bad a pnrious experience iq
traveling in New York lately. It was a
stormy Wight, and a high wind was blowing
in fierce grata. In )*asslng from one csr to
another a sudden blast wrapi»cd her ikirts
around tbe brake, and in freeing herself tho
cloth was badly rent. The pocket of the
dress was tom off, and her pocketbook, con-
taining money, tickets, keys and checks,
sailed off into the black night.
A l ady Editor’s Saiarv,
It is rejjort^d' the lnrges^‘sala:-y
ceived by any woman in this country for edi-
torial work is that paid by Harper Brothers
. to Miss Mary U graft: >8be is the editor oj
and fhe haughty high priest {n his j Hmqieira Bazar. |{er salary is said to b$
ofib-e, surrounded by bin attendants, j jts.nno, .die also receives a |iercaptage or
wfcfi# the bids and decliviti.-s right &nd left; the profits pf (be publication, -Mi*s Bo >th is
are covered by • countless throng, all garipg , j„ England on a six months’ vacation. She
toward the scene of earth’s deepest tragedy, lias been the leading spirit of The Bazar for
To thu rear of the knoll, with Its ghostly j nearly twenty years.—New York Tribune.
burdens, uud rising until its purpling summit _____
blackening clouds, is the Mount i A ro„* Landlord.
ar^r In ttiPfiTMi ^rWit tnrn* An oW l,nH fast died in Berlii who
^ .l. - * had occupied the position of landlord to a
i !“T;,
Facing tbe knoll across the val- j
which run* the road to l
to the left is the dusty trail
S down which the cara-
i treasures go. Over
gathering blackness,
rfggtai*,; uowfeyer, beyond
kTast««.^yoiiu the’,
even tbq'eatuermg shad-
iyery where tWp !<$ peppht,
Asiatics, Ethiopians, |5gyj>
aml during all that time be never warned out
or raised the rent on a tenant. Nor had he
ever given a written lease to any of hi»ten-
ants.—New York Tribune.
Augustus, with 20G ships, scattered the &-0
ships of Mark Antony and gained universal
dominion as the prize; yea, since the day
plien at ^qlamis the 12,000 galleys of the
Persians, maimed by 500,000 men, wera crushed
: by Greeks with less than a third of that force;
yea, never 6ince the time of Noah, the first
ship captain, has tho world seen such a mi-
raculous creation as that of the American
navy in 1861. There were about 200 avail-
able seamen in all the naval stations and re-
ceiving ships, and here ami there an old
' vessel. Yot orders were given to blockade
8,500 miles of sea coast, greater than the
whole coast of Europe, nnd beside that, the
Ohio.'Teqiifs^e, CniniierlanA, Mississippi and
other great rivei-s, covering an extent of
2.000 more miles, were to be patrplled. No
wonder the whole civilized world bd^t into
guffaw pf laughter at the seeming iiqpoaei
bility. But the wprk was dope, done almost
Immediately, done thoroughly, and done
with a «pee<\ and consummate skill that
eclipsed ail the history of naval architecture.
What brilliant achievements ora suggested
by the mere mention of the names of the
rear admirals! If all they did should tie
written, every one, I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain the books that
should lie written. But these names have
received the honors due. The most of them
went to their graves under the cannonade of
all the forts, navy yards and men of war, the
flags of all the shipping and capitals at half
mast
But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval
garland of a nation’s praise.
O, men of the Western Gulf squadron, of
the Eastern Gulf squadron, of the South Ati
lantie squadron, of the North Atlantic squad-
ron, pf tfie Mississippi..squadron, of the Pa-
cific squadron, of the West India squadron
and of the Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks!
Take the benediction of our churches. Ac-
cept the hospitalities of the nation. If we
had our way we would get you not ouly a
pension, but a home and a princely ward-
robe, and an equipage and a banquet while
you live, and after your departure a cata-
falque and a mausoleum of sculptured
marble, with a model of the ship in which
you won the day, It is considered a gallant
thing when in a naval fight the flagship with
its blue ensign goes ahead up a river or into a
bay, its admiral standing in the shrouds
watching and giving orders. But I have to
tell you, O veterans of the American navy!
if you are as loyal to Christ as you were to
the government there is a flagship sailing
ahead of you of which Christ is the admiral,
aud he watches from the shrouds, aud the
heavens are the blue ensign,' aud he leads you
towards tbe harbor, and all the broadsides of
earth and hell eanr.ot damage you, aud ye,
whose garments were once red with your
own blood, shall have a robe washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb. Then
strike eight bells! High noon in heaven!
With such anticipation, O veterans of the
American navy! I charge you bear up under
the aches and weaknesses that you still carry
from tbe war times. You are not as stalwart
as you would have been but for that nervous
strain and for that terrific exposure. Let
every ache and pftin, instead of depressing,
remind you of your fidelity. The, sinking pf
the Weehawken off Morris Island, Boo, 8,
1863, was a mystery. She was pot under
fire. The sea was not rough But Admiral
Dahlgren from the deck of the flag steamer
Philadelphia saw her gradually sinking, and
finally she struck the ground, but the flag
&i]l floated above tho wave in the sight of the
shipping. It was afterwards found that she
sank from weakness through injuries in
previous service. Her- plates bad been
knocked loose in previous times. So you have,
iii nerve anfi muscle and bone and dimmed
eyesight and difficult Clearing and shortness
of breath, many intimations that you are
gradually going down. It is tho service of
twenty-three years ago that is telling on you.
Bo of good clH'cr. We owo ycu just as much
as though your lifeblood had gurgled through
tho scuppers of tho ship in the Red river ex-
pedition or as though you bad gone down
with the Melville off Hntteras. Only keep
your flag flying as did the illustrious Wee-
hawken.
Good cheer, my boj>! The memory pf man
is poor, and all that talk about the country
never forgetting those who fought for it is
#ii pntruth. It does forget. Witness bow
the y.eteran sometimes had to turn the hand-
organs on the street to, get their fatuiiies a
Jiving. \Vitness how ruthlessly some of
them, have l^r. fumed out of office that
some plont pf a politician might take their
place. Witness the fact that there is not a
man or woman now under 80 years of age
who has any full appreciation of the four
years’ martyrdom of 1861 to 1865 inclusive.
But while men may forget, God never for-
gets. He remembers the swimming ham-
mock. Ho remembers the forecastle. He
fui park.
a-
Had the Christian religion been a cowardly
thing they would have had nothing to do
with it. In its faith they lived and died. In
our Brooklyn navy yard Admiral Foote held
prayer meetings and conducted a revival on
the receiving ship North Carolina, aud on
Sabbaths, far out at sea, followed the chap-
lain with religious exhortation. In early
life, on board the sloop of war Natchez,
impressed by the words of a Christian
sailor, he gave his spare time for two
weeks to the Bible, and at the end of that de-
clared openly: “Henceforth, under all cir-
cumstances, I will act for God.” His last
words, while dying at the Astor house, New
York, were: “I thank God for all his good-
ness to me. He has been very good to me.”
When he entered heaven he did not have to
run a blockade, for it was amid the cheers of
a great welcome. The other Christian ad-
miral will be honored until the day when the
fires from above shall lick up the waters from
beneath aud there shall be no more sea.
Oh, while old ocean's bYeast
Bears a white sail,
And God's soft stars to rest
Guide through the gale,
Men will him ne'er forget,
Old heart of oak,
Farragut! Farragut!
Thunderbolt stroke!
According to his own statement, Farragut
was very loose in his morals in early man-
hood, and practiced all kinds, of sin., Chie day
he was called into, the. cabin of his father, who
was a shipmaster. His father said: “David,
what; are yoy, going to be, anyhow?” He
answered: “I am going to follow the sea.”
“Fpllq\y the sea,” said the father, “and be
kicked about the world and die in a foreign
hospital?” “No,” said David; “I am going to
command, like you.” “No,” said the father;
“a boy of your habits will never command
anything,” and his father burst into, tear* and
left tho cabin. From that day David Farra-
gut stfp'fad on a new life. Capt. Penning-
ton, an honored elder of this church, was
with him in most of his battles and
had his intimate friendship, and he
confirms, what I had heard elsewhere,
that Farragut was good and a Chris-
tian. In every great crisis of life he asked
and obtalued the divine direction. When in
Mobile bay the monitor Tecumseh sank from
a torpedo aud the great war ship Brooklyn,
that was to lead the squadron, turned back
he said he was at a loss to know whether to
advauco or retreat, aud he says: “I prayed:
‘Oh, God, who created man and gave him
reason, direct mo what to do. Shall I go on P
And a voice commanded me: ‘Go on,’ and I
weut on.” Was there ever a more touching
Christian letter than that which he wrote to
his wife from his flagship Hartford? “My
dearest wife, I write and leave this letter to
you. I am going into Mobile bay in tho
morning, if God is my leader, and I hope he
is, and in him I place my trust. If lie thinks
it is the proper place for me todie I am ready
to submit to his will in that as all other
thiugs, God bl«>3 and preserve you, my
darling, and, my dear boy, if anything should
I happen to iue, may his blessings rest upon
you and your dear mother opd all your sis-
ters and their children.”
I Cheerful to the end, he said on board tbe
' Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took:
“It would lie well if I died now in harness.”
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never more appropriately read (ban Over
The Sailor and His Trousers.
“How do I keep my trousers from bagging
at 1 he knees?’’ echoed an old mau-who had
ser ved many years iu the British navy. “Why,
that’s one of the simplest things in the world
if a man only knows how and will put him-
self to a little trouble at first. Jack Tar’s
trousers, as you know, are very close reefed
ant built snug and taut all the way down un-
til near the bottom, where they are given
full sail and spread themselves well over the
boots. They are the very kind that are apt
to l iag at the knees, so that one of the first
things the young landlubber is taught when
he enters the navy is how to wear them. No
doubt you have often heard of the sailor tak-
ing a hitch in liis trousers every time he sits
dov n, and no doubt you thought he did it
merely as a sort of introduction to the yarn
he was about to spin.
“Yes, few people would imagine that the
hitch is what keeps the trousers straight; but
just, think a moment and you will recollect
tha: they fit very tight around the knee, and
tha; whenever you sit down and poke out
your knees you stretch the cloth. That’s
what makes the bagging. By taking a few
hitches in your trousers when you sit down
you leave plenty of slack for the knees to play
in, iind your clothes will wear out before they
will bag. After taking the hitch a few times it
will became almost second nature to you, and
you will do it unconsciously every time you
sit clown. The hitch may be simple, but it’s
worth more to a man than one of those patent
$5 trousers stretchers. As for the coat, not
one in a dozen knows howto button it so that
it will set well. The proper way is to begin
at Lie bottom button and go up. Not a day
passes but I have to laugh at people who say
they are going to button their coats up, and
then calmly proceed to button them down.”—
New York Sun*
remembers the frozen lopes of that January i casket, and well did all the forts in New
tempest. He remembers the amputation
without sufficient ether. He remembers the
Kiiadlftlt official Simplicity,
Borne persons are *keptiq^ ttbou$-«?eqpeqa-
rians, biit the English ccmpjissioners oi cus-
toms are upf. There was q plerk ii; their de-
partment whq retired on a pension forty-two
_____ _ ^ _ year* ago, The confiding board wei t on
thin*’ me* of torrf nation ou earth, covering | paying the annuity till last mouth, by which
**-- ----* us. - -w-u—. ♦i-i- I tjme tj,e annuitant was apparently 109 fears
old This abnormal longevity does not mem
to have induced the commissioners to make
inquiries. If they had done so they vouhl
have discovered that the nominal recipient of
the jienslou had l>ee» dead thirtj^flve years,
and that the |money was really going to his
lfspfesanLst4gft» Twfl I tot), f, morejunior of Tt*. .• It'is I pfcj
“ that fac frnuil< par ix-eiv fouha «Hifc, 4a^rli Wie
Pall Mali Gfffcfltte. It would bare* been inter-
esting to see how long the customs' Iioanl
would Jiayp on paying pension. Pfr-
haj*- al>t|ut or therealjou^s, ^ii«,’vihe
' «r would have been l>'4 years old, they
i like a moving blanket, their eyes
one point
painting is, however, far from
Two months more of steady work
artists engaged will be needed
ggtes win oe put to 40e cad-
is already bfrae
beaa con-
1 rfi 'fhjnlfai
■. i«r Jpnjienetf iiteB
the Holy* Land by'tiie
thousands pf
is<*u«us confusion phout
hang in picturesque
k coils.-rPilfngL
might have liegUn to gi
ton Herald.
-m-piciotiit. - -Q09-
horoes *rtio have not vet received appropriate
recognition. <■ “Rehftld plsq j,he phipi ” As we
Wifi never, know’ wliai pur national prosperity
fs worth until we realize what it cost, I recall
klie unrecited fact that the men of the navy
fan especial risks, They had not only the
human weaponry to contend with, but the
tides, the fog, the storm. Not like other ships
could they run into harbor at the approach
of an equinox, or a cyclone, or a hurricane,
because t he harbors were hostile. A miscal-
culation of a tide might bring them on a bar,
and a fog might overthrow all the plans of
wisest commodore-and admiral, and accident
might leave them; not on the l^riq teady for
«U {pnHplaiub, bltt at the txittoiu of the sea,
gs whet*tile torpedo blew up the TeCmnseli,
in Mobile bay, and 'nearly afi on board ^7-
ished. They were* nt tl;e, pytipy of the At-
lantic and pacific oceans, tvhicb have no
fnercY. Such tenq.ests as have wrecked *he
Spanish armada might any; daj «npyp upon
the squadron. *q biding behind the earth-
works. No digging in of cavalry spurs at the
totted pf retreat. Mightier than all the fort-
horrors of that deafening night when forts
from both sides lielclied on you their fury
and the heavens glowed with the ascending
and descending missiles of death, and your
ship f;uakcd under the recoil of tbp fiXk
pounder, while afi the gqnnera, ac-
cording fq 'pqminaud, stood on tiptoe,
W|tU mouth wide 0|>en, lest the concussion !
shatter benrp»g or brain. He remembers it
all lietter than you remember it, and in some
ehai>e reward wifi be given, God is the liost
uf all paymasters, and for those who do their
whole duty to him and tie world the pension
awarded is an everlasting heaven.
Sometimes off the coot of England the royal
family have inspected tbe British navy,
maneuvered before them for that purpose. In
the Baltic sea the czar and czarina have id-
tiewed the Bussiah navy ' To i>rfug lie fore
fhe American people ilia debt they owe to the
y'f go out with you on the Atlantic ocean,
York harbor thunder as his lxxiy was brqqgbt
to our wharf, and well did the piinute guns
sound anil tho bells toll as in a procession
having in its rftnksthe president of the United
States and his cabinet, and th'4 mighty men
of land and sea, the old admiral waa carried
amid hundreds of thousands of uncovered
heads on Broadway and laid on his pillow of
dust in beautiful Woodlawn, tiept. 80, amid
the pomp of our ant«mnul forests.
Ye'veterans who sailed and fought under
him, take your admiral’s God and Christ for
your God and Chiist. After a few more
conflicts you too will rest For the' fe\y re-
maining fights With bin, and, deqtb, &uq hell
make ready. Btrip|youiv\ysscl for the fray;
bring the sheet' chains oY^r the side. Bend*
' th& Uipgnllaut masts. Barricade the
iphrai. Rig hi the flying jib boom. iHeer
straight for the shining shore,, a»d hear the
shout qf the great Cornuyuuler of earth aixf
henv^q tvy lye. vrioa from the shrouds: “To
jjiwn, that pvereoineth. wifi \ give to cqt of
Growing Fast the Wrong Way.
By the recent census Manitoba has 106,&40
people. In 1881 the territories were found to
contain 48,362. Thus the total for population
of Manitoba and the northwest is 157,000. Xu
1883 the government estimated it at 203,152;
in 1884 at 248,102. These figures were based
on returns of the immigration department. It
appears, therefore, that 91,102 settlers have
beei lost, to say nothing of the increase that
should have occurred by birth.
By the census of 1881 Manitoba had 65,954,
tha territories were credited with 56,446, a
total, of 122,400 people. In six years Manitoba
has gained but 42,614, including what is
gained by extension of boundaries, aud a full
third of the total gain has been added to the
city of Winnipeg.—Toronto Globe.
Tlic Largest Circulation.
What volume printed in tho English lan-
guage has had the largest circulation next to
the Bible? Give it up? Well, it is Webster's
spelling book. Something over 50,000,000
copii-s of this book have l*-en published since
it was first brought out in Hartford, and the
royalties which old Noah "Webster received
on ii were sufficient to support his family
handsomely while he was compiling his big
dictionary. It is an instructive volume, and
we a lvise everybody to peruse it, altuough,
as somebody said of LLe dictionary, the story
is somewhat disconnected.—Boston, Herald,
A Submarine Tunnel.
Proposal^ have beep made to tho Govern-
ments of Denmark anil Sweden for construct-
ing a submarine tumiel for a railway under
tho Sound lietween Copenhagen and Malmo.
The tunnel, as planned, would have a total
length of between seven and eight tqrlvs. The
ground to be worked is repra-waited as closely
resembling that ;q ihe channel between
England and France, and is said to offer no
difficulty to the execution of the work. The
total cost of construction, it is estimated, will
not exceed 86,000,000.—New York Bun,
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. ^
Beues of Extinct Animals Found fa
Washington Territory—A Monstar. *
W. M. Lee, the well known fruit grower <*f
Tacoma, gives the particulars of a woi derfiul
discovery of bones of extinct animals tin
Washington territory which will attract the
attention of students of natural histoiyaziA
archaeology all over the world. In a letter to
The Ledger from Spokane Fklls he sayi:
“The face of the whole territory sho ws un-
mistakable evidence of great volcanio uj>*
heavals. On my trip through Sfokana
county I stopped at Latah, and in conversa-
tion with Mr. Coplen,of that place, regarding
the volcanic formation of that section, he in-
formed me that he had examined somt large
bones of great antiquity. Accompan led t>f
Mr. Coplen I went to the spring whe re the
relic8were dug out It is located on a low
strip of springy prairie. The excavation
around the spring is twelve to fifteen fet&
deep and thirty or forty across. The borne
were covered by several distinct layers.
“The first layer was ancient peat; then
gravel, then volcanic ashes, then & laj er of
coarse peat. From this spring were tat ea a#
less than nine mammoths, or elephants, of
different sizes; the remains of a cave bear,
and hyenas, extinct birds, and a sea turtle
The dimensions of some of tbe bones cf th»
larger mammoth were wonderful to lock at.
The horns were a sort of tusk and protruded
from the head just below the eyes, exte ading
downward below the jaws, then upward
over the head. By dropping the deid in
the act of feeding, the circles of the horns
that extended below the jaws partially
rested on the ground, giving support t>
the head, which is estimated to have weighed
a ton.
“The horns were worn away several inches
deep at the bottom of the turn, or half circle,
indicating constant use by rubbing oa the
ground or rooks. One of these horns was ten
feet and one inch long, and twentj -four
inches in circumference. It weighed 14>
pounds. One of the tusks measured t relvo
feet and nine inches in length and twenty-
seven inches around. It weighed 295 pounds.
The jaw weighed sixty-three pounds. Tho
molar teeth weighed eighteen pounds each.
Soraefof thefribs were eight feet long. The pel-
vic arch was six feet across, and an ord uary
man could walk erect through this ope oing,
This huge and antique monster was eig iteeu
feet aud six inches high and was estimated to
weigh twenty tons.”—Tacoma Ledger.
Meanest Man In the State.
The champion mean man of Shambtinii;
employed within 200 yards of Tbe DisjxLtckt
office. A premium will be paid for his e quel,
if one can be found in thirty-eight s ate*.
He is meaner than the man who didn’t cross
his t’s or dot his i’s to save ink, and fcesidft
him the fellow who stole the pennies from;
the eyes of his dead grandmother is a princt
of generosity.
Several days ago the champion mean mas
induced a little boy to buy two copies of Th«
Dispatch for one cent—the rate charged
newsboys. The champion mean man f jund
another bird something like himself wfac
agreed to pay one cent per week for the priv-
ilege of reading one of the papers and re urn-
ing it the next morning. After reading tbe
other copy himself the champion caused the
little boy to return the two papers to this
office and receive for them two more c spies
in exchange on the following day—as unsold
copies—the regular custom in all newspaper
offices. By this means the champion not only
secured his own reading free, every day, but
he made a cent every week in addition. En-
tries can be made from other states—Jersey
included—from now until rum and musi: gel
ou intimate terms agaiu.—Shamokin Dis-
patch. _____________
“The Southern Bivouac.*'
The publishers of The Century do not pro-
pose to continue the publication of The
Southern Bivouac, their recent purehas a, as
has been reported. The chief aim of the pur-
chase was the securing of some six or s sven
important war articles dealing with the 1 Con-
federate side, which The Century people ’rere
desirous of obtaining. These will be ir cor-
porated in their book of war articles shertiy
to be published. The Bivouac w as not a say-
ing institution at the time of the sale, its cir-
culation never having exceeded 12,000 co nes.
The failure of the managers to make their
periodical a success discouraged them, and
they made overtures to The Century f<r a
sale. The price asked, however, was too
large and The Century refused to entertain
It, whereupon they were solicited to nune
their own figure. This was so small that The
Bivouac people rebelled. Eventually, low-
over, a sum was accepted only a trifle in ea cess
of the original Century offer. The anxemt
finally accepted was a very small one. Were
it not for the war articles specially desired
by The Century the purchase would rn ver
have been effected.—New York Star.
where there is plenty of room, and iqtnu^ma- ifie tree of life which is in the midst of the
tL-vti oai'inw tlm urni* fchir.ntii'.r r.f fikit* t ! i»a ' %• r •» *1
tioii review the wqv V»f our three
great iqte‘, 1812 ami 1865, S\ving into
fine, all ye fri^fttefv, ironclads, fire raft*, giqi-
hoats and men of war ! TU*re they rtvow, all
sail set pud furnace* in full blast, sheaves
oi 9r.vs$a» tossing from their cutting prows.
That is the Jlela ware, an old revolutionary
commanded by Commodore Decatur.
Yonder goes the Constitution, Commodore
Hull 90iunuiudiu£- There i? the
paradise of
Advice to the Obese.
Those who suffer from oliesitv almost inva-
riably complain <>f shortnivs of breath. *Sueh
people should make it a practice each day of
walking on rising ground or climbiing gentle
bills by easy rtngv*. The exercise should bo
gradual**! aud rests taken when the heart
bourns to beat rapidly.
.. , . .. t
The Gypsies* Chariots..
Prince \\7ifiiajn, the itader of a baud of
Gyjisies uo.w encamped near Hartford, has
just received from a Fair Haven carriage
maker two wagons costing about $1,000
apiece. Tbe bodies are beautifully colored
with gold bronze and fanciful sylvan scenes,
the Ironwork is heavily plated with silver,
and all the appurtenances are expensive.
The wagons are for the sj>ecial use of lYince
William and family during tho coming sum-
mer.—New York Sun.
Emory Storrs’ Autographs.
Young Storm, son of the late Emory
Stores, of Chicago, is disposing of his father’s
valuable collection of autographs. He i*
Gelling them singly instead of by auction or
the collection as a whole. He recently sold
an autograph letter of Naj>oleon Bonaparte
when he was first consul for $15. The letter
is said by autograph collectors to be worth
hundreds of dollars.—Now York World.
Clubs of Chicago Sportsmen.
There are more than a dozen clubs modi tup
by Chicago sportsmen, and they control
probably between them 80,000 acres of tho
best shooting lands in Illinois, Indiana, M ich-
igan and Wisconsin. In the Peelee I&Und
club, the membership of which is limited to
twenty-five, the aggregate wealth tos keen
aver and over again figured at $00,000,' KXX
This would make the average over $2,000 000*
for each member in that aristocraticorgtni-
zation. They own the whole island. It is in
Canadian waters and famed rather for the
excellence of ste fishing than for its shooting-.
Field, FurtoMU*, Doane, Leiter, the Spragues,
and about a score of others go down tt ere-
with their families. Each member has his
room and furnishes it as best suits his c wn
taste. The pocket books are so nearly of a
size that all tho apartments are fumfcjed
with a magnificence that is unknown a a j-
wfiure else around that country.—Chicago
Mail.___
Sir John Capture* a Pickpocket,
An amusing episode took place at Epsom on
Tuesday. As Sir John Astley was going i ito
the paddock he was surrounded by a gang of
roughs, one of whom snatched at bis watch,
mid ran away with it. With au agility of
w hich one would lir.nlly have suspected h iu,
Sir John gave chase, and, having captu -ed
his man aud knocked him down, compelled
him by the application of gentle pressure to
the stomach to restore the stolen property.
Next, us there were, of course, no police
about, Sir John administered a little tap to
tbe culprit's right eye, not from any feeling
of ill will, but merely to make sure of know-
ing him again when requisite; and a police-
man eventually sauntering up, the rough vas
given mto custody, and was sentenced next
day to three months’bard lalx>r. in addition
to having had his stomach squeezed and tis
eye tapped.—Vanity Fair.
Years of tea tasting have finally made
blind the wealthiest tea merchant in Ibff
world, M. SJoIoLaaoff. a Russian.
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