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J. H. DAVIS,
MAtJJfAOTtJIIBn
-OP-
B00T8& SHOES.
Haad-Sewed work a speci-
alty. Repairing neatly and
promptly done.
Albany, Texas.
THE ALBANY NEWS.
J. S.McCOMB.
GROCERIES,
NO. 335.
ALBANY, SHACKELFORD COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1890.
VOL. 7, NO. 23.
CITY AND COUNTY
DinECTOHY.
COUNTY AND DISTRICT OFFIt. EltS
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W. A, KAHKAKI' - . .
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VKANL PALMER. Constable Prcct Na, 1,
T. V, uakeh CoaimlMloner I'rtuiuct No, I.
J, t'. ItKNNktCT CoiutuiftHloitcr Precinct No, J,
U, K. WAT ICR'S C'oinrunyloncr Prceinei No, 3.
F. M, AltXOLD Couiiuibslolier Precc .il No. 4,
District Ju»l|re.
I>l#trU't Attorney,
t'ouuty vuU 'Mairlct Clerk.
Count)' juuyc.
blierllf.
County Attorney.
Treasurer,
Assets^ •
Surveyor,
DISTICT COLiiT CONVENES
Twelfth After the ftttt Moiirt»y lit Februa-
ry, and fourteenth Alouila) Alter Uie first Monday
In Auguat,
COUNTY COURT CONVENES
Sc.-oii.l Monday» 111 March, June, September mud
X>«ceiubur.
COMMISSIONERS COURT
Regular meetings second Mondays In February,
May, August and Nov ember,
,1. P. COURT, PRECINCT NO. 1.
Meets last Monday In e »eli month.
ARRIVAL ANI) DEPARTURE OF
MAILS.
J A MPS C, TAYl.Olt P, M,
fly n, A T. 0, U, R, Leaves 6;35 A, M, arrives
8:40,
By Hack to Throckmorton, learcs tJ;00 A, M,
Aleves 6 ;«.0 P, M,
CH LUCES.
M. V.. South i\ C, A HM8TK0NG Pastor
Cumberland Presbyterian F K. LKKiJll Pastor,
lUpilat \\ g, CAPER I ON Pastor.
O. a. Presbyterian,
Christian.
SOCIETIES.
Albany Lodge, No. 482,
A. F, and A, M' ltegular
mee lugs Saturday night on or befor
the rull moon In each mouth.
N. ... HUKNS Jtaier. . MANK NOScc,),
Albany Coininaixl.y of K. T's
"* Regular meetings tirst i uesd.ky ill eaah
jn l. ha hi holomew, k. c
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viiouth.
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Albany Chapter, It. A. M No. lOS
Regular meetings ou the nrst »'»cj;,c
month. J.C- LYNCH* II. P.
J.C'I.YM
liayaril Lodze, No, SJO,
Knights o6 Pytltlus. Regular meeting
first and third Moudays In each month*
M. £• GOODING C. C.
TUE0DOIW MACK K. S.
UENEllAL MERCIIADISE.
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T. -\. 11AKEU.
DRY GOODS
CEN'lE.t A KKKNKH.
HARDWARE, FARM IMPLEMENTS,
WIRE, FURNITURE, HARNESS
AND SADDFLRY.
N.HUURNSACO.
HARDWARE AND GROCERIES,
j. k. colli ns jt son
fcltOCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
II. 0 McHlMMON.
^.S. Mc<;oMH;
DRUGS AND MEDICINS.
J. If. MANNXNW.
PHYSICIANS.
v. M. Pf>WEI.I..
W. C. MOOUY.
REAL ESTATE.
AVK.Ilt £ mix.
CAKI.Ibl.k & WI..KJNSOS.
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WAGON YARD.
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j. T. .tor MX.
O. A. UJUHLKT.
HARNESS SHOP.
CHAIiLES WELCH,
BOOT AND SHOE SHOPS.
a, ni.isK.
j. 1<. DAVIS.
LUMBER YARD.
M. T JOSES CO.
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. ALBANY MILLING CO.
H. C. CAMi'BE.X, Scc'y.
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ALBANY WATERWORKS.
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HOTELS.
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-———-Jl^AT MARKETS.
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fncKENttON 4 UlTIXEDOK.
CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS.
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aa,
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MIHIE.
JASIK." MELTON.
ilAltNEb.
LESTAUBANT AND BAKERY.
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stationery.
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-ham,
' M" PARLOR.
PROFESIONAL CARDS.
A. A. CLARKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Albany, * Texas.
W. C. MOQDY, M. D,
Having pormlnnntljr locati-d, offers his pjofen-
y.onal »«rvi(;es t(» tiit'.cltlzttiis of Albany aufl snr-
rounilln)!country. Special ftttf'lil 11 ii glviitto tin
practice of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
!uul Chlliliou. All bflls due the first of the
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J. R. MsCONNELL
ftt^onisy at Law
ALBANY,
TEXAS
Tiieodoue Mack,
Attorney at Law.
Special attention given to
preparation of abstracts
and opinions on Land Ti-
tlCH.
Ollice over isi, \ Bunk.
J. A. KING,
attorney at la j v
A.LBA.JSr-2". • • T13.-5CA.S.
Prompt Attention
Given to all Legal Bus-
iness
W. M. PO WiiLL.
Physician and Surgeon,
Albany, Texas.
Office hours, from 10 o'clock a m.
to 2 o'clock p. m.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
E. EARL'S
Elegant Barber Shop,
FIRST CLASS WORK ONLY.
nmfiMe SUP-tuu **< KWW;- * ■ - •
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Post Office Book Store.
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HA8TFIELB RESTIMIT,
And. Baltery.
Day Week mid Monthly Hoard Terms lions-
on able, call and see me.
R.JONES, : : . : I'ROI'T!
Albany, Texas.
J. E. DICKKNSOX. M. T. GUM.KIIGK.
DICKENSON & GULLEOGE,
PROPRIETORS
1
You can always get something nice at the
Central Market. KM
NEW CONFECTION Alt Y.
Robt. Fleetwood, Proprietor.
A full line of Candies,
Nuts, Cakes and Can goods
on hand. Lunch at all hours.
North side Square.
HARNESS&SADDlE
shop.
CH V8 WELl H Proprietor.
ALBANY. - - , - - TEXAS.
Hauil \rork ji Specinlty. Repairing
neatly done. Satisfaction guarintts<?d.
Give me a call. Shop with Davis the
Shoemaker.
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TWO PRAYERS.
I'm
A woman knelt in prayer nnd bowed ber bead
Ab to an nni;el passing by she «aid:
,4Ob, angel! tell me, have tae fate'ii abov«
DecreeJ tliut I'll Iw blessed in my lover
I lor© m> deai, and I fain would huvra
If he I love Until love mo in rettirn.1'
The nng 'l i>a;if»e I as lt« was paMiin.^ by,
And in 30ft, pitying tones ho made reply:
4,Kvcn as you love your iov<% so be loves tluvs,
Dnt fate decrees tliat you nitiit parted be."
Sue sighed, then said: "Oh, angel! still
blessed,
If he but loves me, I can bear the rest."
Another woman prayed with drooping bend:
'•Oh, angel! will my love love me?" site said;
Tbe ongel's tears fell fast like summer rain.
As soft he answered her: "T*y pra er U vain:
He loves another and can never be
More than a true and earnest friend to thee."
And then she slowly raised ber draping head.
And, smiling through ber tears, siie softly said:
"lie may not love me other than a frieud.
But I love him and will unto the end
Of time; aye, and for a!1 eternity;
And that alone U heaven enougii for me."
—Toronto Empire.
riding on snow shoes.
SLIDING
SUED
DOWN A MOUNTAIN PUR-
BY HUNGRY WOLVES.
CITY MEAT
market.
NANCE & MEYER, Proprietors.
Rquatter Sovereignty.
Ztini 1h Ihe largest Indian village in
this country. It stands on a circular
hill perhaps fifty feet high. The houses
are all of adobe clay, inteiW.xed with
pieces of shale rock an 1 clay. The ceil-
ings aro low, but the rooms are of good
size. If one man has a house on a par-
ticular site which another man wants
there is no question as to the rights or
ownership of real estate, for the second
builder'erects his house squarely on top
of the tirst, and 110 questions 81'« ever
asked. Then in turn .some one else likes
the location, and builds his house on top
of the second. From this plan of build-
ing it would seein that Zuni will soon
Ix- a lofty city, but the clement of lazi-
ness which is everywhere predominant
in Zuni precludes the possibility of this,
for the average buck will not climb
more than two ladder.?, no matter how
excellent a house rite he might have by
gf,ing up threp or four. .
Small doors open into the ground floor
houses, but the holes i'l the roofs are
used about as much as iUo Etroet doors
for ingress and egress. The ladders
used by the Znuis in aecoading and de-
scending to and from tho roofs certainly
are substantial. Two lo.ig spruce poles,
uot less than eight or ten inches ih diam-
eter at tho base, and folly twenty feet
in length, form tlio upright rails of their
ladders. For the rungs they uso stout
sticks of hardwood, and in. one or two
cases we found disused and bent rifle
barrels serving ns ttepn in a ladder.
These metal rungs were so hot from ex-
posure to the sun as almost to burn tho
h id, but the little Zuni children ran
up and down them with bared feet, ap-
parently oblivious to the heat.—Cor.
New York World.
Thrilling Kwape of a Very Careless West-
erner — Chased by Wild Ileasts, He
Trusts Himself to the Hough and
Wooded Mountain Side.
Perhaps not many people east of the
Rocky mountains have ever traveled on
Snow shoes. The Norwegian snow shoes,
or skees, are tho ones mostly used liore.
Going down a decline one goes ut such
a terrific rate of speed that one has to
use a brake—tluit is, "ride the pole,''
which is generally a stick some-eight
feet long, which is hold in front kn the
hands and then sat upon so it will
plow in the snow, thus lessening the
speed.
On the 17th of February I started from
Could Have Saved Lincoln's I.lfo.
The one tnan in the world who could
luve prevented tha assassination of
P/esident Lincoln is dead. John Fred- J
eriek Parker, born in Winchester, Va.,!
came to Washington some timo before
the firing upon Fort Sumter, and soon j
found employment upon tho metropoli-
tan police force. When, in 1863, it was
decided to strengthen tho regular force j
of doorkeepers and watchmen at tho j
White House with a squad of policemen
Parker was one of tho:;o selected. It!
thus happened that when President Liu-1
doln and party entered the old Ford the-
atre on the night of Good Friday, I860,
they were accompanied by Parker a,s j
guard. Ho took his position at tho door
to the private box from which President
Lincoln watched the performance, where
he was expected to remain and prevent
the entrance of every one except the
members of the party.
As the play proceeded Parker, from
his post, could hear just enough of what
A VERY OLD NEWSPAPER,
niy cabin at the foot of Storm mountain wa8 ^ ()U the t to J0 hi8 curi.
to make a trip to the top to see if the , ,t
Love and 15a!;1 Heads.
Baldheadednens does . >t impair a
roan's value in tho ordinary affairs of
life. He can buy or bl'11, insure, run a
bank or accept an office, with not enough
hair on his head .to rnako a first class
eyebrow; but when it comes to making
lovo to a girl it is very much in the way\
There is a great deal of capilliary at-
traction in love. Girls adore a hnnd-
some suit of glossy hair; it is lovely.
And when.v loverccues ti- woo her with
the top of his head fining like a greased
pumpkin, ho is at a disadvantage.
Just as tho words that glow and tho
thoughts that burn begin to awaken in
her bosom a sympathetic thrill, she may
happen to notice two it three flies prom-
enading over his phrenological organs
and all is ovor. Girls ■ re so frivolous.
She immediately becomes more inter-
ested in those flies than in all his lovely
language. While he i-< pouring out his
love and passion she is wondering how
the flies manage to hold on to such a
slippery surface.—Christian at Work.
Looking Out for the Ca!ce.
She was tho blackest and brightest of
little darky girls, a regular Topsy, only
12 years old, who washed tho dishes,
Bwept the floors and did all sorts of odd
jobs for n Maine household, and when
t'lie wasn't otherwise occupied caught
flies. One of the ladies had a cake in
the oven and cautioned the little wench
nrMo bang the doors as she had been
doing, telling her she would cause the
cake to fall. Shortly afterwards they
noticed that 'Ginny seemed to have lost
her voice and confined her talk to
whispers.
"Why in the world are you whisper-
ing at such a rate, 'Ginny? Why don't
you (--peak up?" asked the mistress.
"Cause I'se "fraid Ml3sy Ellon's caknTl
fall," the chick answered, as quick ad a
flash.— Lewiston Journal.
Nothing but the best of stock butch-
ered Everything about our shop neat
and clean. Give us a call at tho old
stand. 830
.ATI TXI33:0.IE!
stop at the first
BARBER SHOP
South of the Allmny House on Main t ect, it
you desire a good shave.
Razors Sharp
Towels clennnnd Barber ffrst class.
CISCO NURSERY.
C. G. GILLETT, IGKNT,
Albany, T/exas.
Jt has been reported by rival Nursery nion
that we do not have a lull lini; to sclent from,
and wo wind to say that we »ave every thing
that a iiei-son can ask for ffofn a first class
Nursery.
GIVE US A tRIAL,
-;1!< ran'
I {
The l olly of Me.it Work.
A groat many people think they econo-
mize time by working into the night. A
great mistake. In the morning the body
is so worn out that you cannot do your
work properly. This results even if the
sleep has been long, for it takes some time
for the body to recuperate after a strain,
if it ever wholly catches np. There is
never a loss when the body is consigned
to the tender mercies of sleep,—New
York Journal.
A Social Penalty.
Dennis—An" phat toirne did they ate
their dinner at the big liouw, me boy?
Patrick—Not till long aftl.er dark.
Dennis—An' be the powers! whin do
they ate their supper?
Patrick—Faith an' they doant ate till
next day, yez ignormanus!— Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Ancient llread.
Crackers are the oldest form of bread
known. In the ruins of the Swiss build-
ings which belonged to the neothelic
age fragments of unfermtmted calces
have been discovered which were not
very unlike our modern crackers,—Ex-
change.
Llk» to Like.
A pretty mulatto woman was once
asked how she could think of accepting
a negro for a lover, and her reply watt;
"Why not? Don't you see I'm in mourn-
ing. "—Almanach pour Rire.
Mrs. Grady, the widow of the south-
Mia. vainiAjt v
orn orator, is at
with her two •
manly-boy of IS.
littk Sri,
jg
;• -unger a pretty
hir bearing animals wore stiil out. It is
only about ten miles to tho top, and 1
reckoned that I could easily make there
and back in a day. Packing a slight
lunch 1 tied it to my belt and started.
When I had reached the top and looked
it over J was surprised to find tho sun
just going down. Darkness falls very
sudden in this country after sundown,
and 1 concluded to await the rising of
the moon, which I lmew would rise soon
after dark, as it v mid be dangerous
enowshoeing down the mountain side in
t^e dark, for one could not keep the trail
and would be liable to rush headlong
against a tree or go plunging over a
precipice.
SURROUNDED BY WOLVES.
Darkness fell as 1 liavo never seen it
before. Everything was obliterated. 1
sat on my snow shoes at the head of the
trail waiting for the light of the moon.
The silence was oppressive. All around
me I could se-- the dim outlines of the
snow capped peaks, dark and somber,
rearing their heads toward tho sky. I
must have fallen asleep, but 1 awoke
with a start at the cry of a panther com-
ing from a path of green timber a short
distance to the left. This was followed
by the cry of a timber wolf, which was
answered by another and another, until
the hills resounded with their weird
howls. Soon gaunt shadows flitted from
tree to tree all around me. Then the
awfnl thought burst upon me that I was
surrounded by wolves, which at this sea-
son of the year are very hungry and
fierce.
If I could keep them at bay until tho
moon rose 1 was safe, as 1 could easily
keep away from them. As one came
close I did a very foolish thing. Pulling
my revolver, I shot liiin through the
body. With a fearful yell he started to
run, the blood pouring from tile wound
in a Rtrenm. He was ponnoed upon in a
second and torn to pieces by his com-
panions. Crazed by a taste of blood the
whole yelping pack charged upon me.
It was growing light in the east where
the moon woflld soon rise, but was still
too dark to travel with safety; but I tar-
ried not.
Hastily slipping my feet in the leath-
ers of my snow shoes I started down the
steep incline as if shot from a catapult.
Down, down, down'!into the darkness 1
rushed at a headlofig rate. A gaunt
brute (Touching near a tree sprang at
my throat, but he had 'lot calculated on
my rate of speed and passed harmlessly
through tho air ten feet behind mo. On
catne the pack, but their cries became
fainter and fainter, and I soon began to
ride my pole and slacken ray rate of
speed, as I was passing close to the
brink of a precipice and soon had a turn
to .make, which one cannot easily do
with snow shoes twelve foet long. I
stopped at tho turn to await the rising of
the moon, which soon caino up, making
it as light as day.
FLYING DOWN. THE MOUNTAIN SIDR.
I believed that the wolves had left to
hunt some slower game, but that delu-
sion soon suffered a rude shock. Soon
the yelps- commenced with redoubled
fury as they scented me, and came closer
and closer. I got on my shoes and waited,
nothing loath to showing them again
how easy it was to give them the slip.
On they came, and as they got close I
started out once more, but was horrified
to find that jt this place the decline was
not great enough for the shoes to run
themselves. I had forgotten "until this
time about this place. There was a bench
about 500 yards long, and from there
the trail veered to the l ight and for half
a mile descended very nearly at an angle
of 43 degs.; then the angle was not quite
so much, but still very steep, down a
trail as straight an a string to my cabin,
seven miles below.
On came tho howling pack, and know-
ing it was life or death to get to the
steep decline before my pursuers I bent
every energy to reach it. As I reached
the turn I could hear their yelps right
behind me, and could even hear their
heavy breathing. While I was turning
my shoes one big brute in advance of the
rest reached mo, and with a fearful
snarl sprang at my head. 1 stooped, and
as he went over me 1 straightened my-
self on my shoes and started down the
steep hill. I plunged down with a
speed that no steam could give. Trees
flew like spectres; looking down the
narrow path it seemed like a plunge to
destruction.
My pojo snapped like a pipe stem un
der the heavy strain, and I bounded for-
ward with increased speed. The world
swam before my eyes; trees reeled back
from my course with a horrible night-
mare weirdness. I don't exactly re-
member what the next sensation was,
but I tried to peep out from under tho
brim of my hat, and it was all n blur—
, landscape were all blended
an UTidistiiiKiiishable mass,
age, but it was in fact but
few momeuls until my speed be-
•ase. The momenta in was
out onto the "mesa" (Indian
;.-y). 1 saw mv cabin clow by.
no pole 1 could not stop, so I
.■ y rwt from iu <t>.<w h«
oil into ;• drift and I't t!;'>
,.n I found fie.n V ' ■'
| osity, and it was not long before he left
the door and edged his way toward the
auditorium. He finally took a seat in
the orchestra or "pit," as it was then
called, where he had scarcely settled
himself when the whole audience was
surprised by the report of a pistol shot.
The assassin, Booth, had stealthily ap-
proacaed the door of the president's pri-
vate box, where, findiil|*»lo one to chal-
lenge him, he entered unannounced and
fired the fatal shot. There is no ques-
tion in the minds of those who are fa-
miliar with the details that had Parker
remained at his post Booth could never
have taken President Lincoln unawares.
—Washington Cor. Chicago News.
Insaulty With Consciousness.
In a discussion at one of the congress-
es held iu Paris on mental diseases Dr.
Fabret, a distinguished alienist, re-
marked upon the undoubted existeuce
of certain forms of mental alienation in
which patients perfectly recognize the
anomalous nature of the phenomena
which they experience, but without be-
ing able to disembarrass themselves
from them. Dr. Fubret dwelt on theso
intellectual obsessions as being emotive
or instinctive, or veritable morbid im-
pulsions, dominating the wiil, citing
amoug other examples the obstinate
search for words, tho fear of a knife, of
a window, the terror of open or closed
spaces, the necessity for repeating cer-
tain words or certain phrases, etc.
These are ordinarily hereditary, peri-
odical or remittent, and are accompanied
by anguish and a sort of interior strug-
gle, but never presenting hallucinations
and never ending in dementia. The in-
sanity of doubt is the most common ex-
pression of this psychical state, tho pa-
tients continually ruminating in their
minds over the same ideas and the same
acts, questioning themselves on every-
thing, and having senseless scruples in
regard to everything. If the patient is
a physician ho doubts the prescriptions
that he has just written, and frequently
sends to bring them back in the fear of
having committed some error. Another
class consists of timorous subjects, and
who are a prey to a sort of continued
"cerebral pruritis."—New York Tribune.
A Virginia Girl's Project.
Miss Sallie Holley. a Virginia girl, has
undertaken the education of the colored
girls of her state. The work is purely
philanthropic. Miss Holley has sent let-
ters to nearly all tlio women's clubs in
Union asking for a cash contribution or
a year's service from a member as teacher
in the south. Her method is the estab-
lishment of small schools throughout the
state, where the colored girl can loam
enough in a couple of years to make her
way in the world. Instead of the tom-
foolery with which the graded course
of public school training is padded
Miss Holley aims to teach the children
how to read, write and make accurate
change in one year. The fundamentals
of arithmotic will be mastered according
to the quickest methods and without
taxing the child with a single rule. The
newspaper is the preferred book, from
which it is thought sufficient geography,
spelling, history and the arts can be ob-
tained, and* together with this mental
training the colored girls will receive
practical lessons in industrial work by
•laming their own stockings, mending
the holes in their dresses, retrim.ning
their hats, altering old and making new
garments and cooking as many meals as
it is possible to provide. Miss Holley
has undertaken a most important mis-
sion and stands a good chance of making
her name famous.—Exchange.
A Dcl.c.oua Drink.
George Parsons Lathrop tolls of a de-
licious wimmer drink which may seem
new to many people, but is really more
of a revival of somothiug m vogue sever-
al years ago. It is the Santera© cup, and
is as satisfying to the thirst as milk and
water or oatmeal watjer, and withal,
more epienrian. You take equal parts
of Sauterne and Apollinaris water, and
put them in a clear crystal pitcher,,
sweetening with three lumps of sugar to
a quart, and adding a slice or two of
pineapple and a long paring of cucum-
ber rind. Let this filled pitcher stand
lor a few minutes in a vessel of ice, or
wrap around the pitch!r a towel of
cracked ice and salt. Unde^no circum-
stances put ice in the drink, for that
ivould injure the fine flavor. Just be-
ire the cup is served throw some bits of
nt upon the top.
Odor from Insects.
It is well known tliat moths and but-
terflies give off odors either from the
wings or tho hinder end of the boiy.
Certain moths, as the parent of the com-
mon red and black "bear" caterpillar,
and of the salt marsh caterpillar, have a
retractile organ, which, when thrust out,
j,m i:
throws off a strong odor, sopewhat like
im.. '£Ue othi
a white foruHle miller (Spilosotaa virgin-
laudanum.
her evening we caught
How Lloyd's List Was Started Two Hub*
dred Years Ago.
The oldest paper published in the En*
gliah language, except Tho London Ga-
zette, is Lloyd's List, which made its
first appearanco in a dingy littlo London
coffee house in 1092. There is no news-
paper more generally read by shippers
and marine merchants than Lloyd's, and
yet few of its readers know its very re-
markable history, or that of the great
commercial business that has grown up
with it.
About 1075 there was a coffee house in
Tower street, London, kept by one Ed-
ward Lloyd, where a knot of merchants
gathered at noon to discuss business and
gossip over the threatening Romanism
of James II. From this small beginning
has grown up ono of the greatest and
most powerful commercial organizations
in the world, not the least important
feature of which is an intelligence de-
partment, which for wideness of range
and efficient working has no parallel in
the history of privato entei priso.
Ab early as 1088 The London Gazette
contained a flattering notice of Lloyd's
shop, and four years later the propri.tor,
who seems to have been a rousing good
business man, moved his establishment
to Lombard street, then the center of
London's wealthy and influential mer-
chant populace. Tho astute coffee house
proprietor at this time began the publi-
cation of his News, a weekly paper filled
with oomniennal and shipping informa-
tion, and v-aie very popular with
those Seventeenth certVu-y men of trade.
It subsequently changed its nann to
Lloyd's List, and ever since that time
has enjoyed an uninterrupted publica- I
tion.
Throughout the greater part of the
Eighteenth century Lloyd's was tho most
popular place known to London mer-
chants and underwriters. Lloyd himself
probably died in the early part of the
Century, but his name and his paper had
ineffaceably marked the business of that
time, as it marks that of the present day.
London's great business of marine in-
surance owes its existence to the printed
form of policy issued by the Lloyd As-
sociation of Underwriters, an association
that has never been known by any other
name than that of the poor but i>opular
coffee house proprietor and editor. The
whole 8iii>erstrueture of marine insur-
ance rests upon The List, which for 200
years has embraced tho collection, pub-
lication and diffusion of every form of
intelligence with respect to shipping.—
New York Times.
Massachusetts Women In Huclnesst
A special from Boston says; "Part VII
of the annual report of the bureau of the
statistics of labor, relates to women in
industry as partners, stockholders and
employers. Of the 28,205 partners in
eighty-three industries, 1,700 aro wo-
men: of tho 42,731 stockholders, 11,752
are women, and women are found in
twenty industries, as follows; Artists,
authors, boarding house keepers, clair-
voyants, clerks, domestics, dressmakers,
hat and cap makers, milliners, operatives
(mill and factory), printers, operatives
(sewing machinc), physicians, seam-
stresses, shoemakers, storekeepers, straw
and palm leaf workers, tailoresses,
teachers, teachers (music). The figures
given and comparisons made show con-
clusively that the presence of women in
industry has not decreased the number
of births or marriages, nor increased the
number of deaths."
A Monarch's Powder Box.
A curious historical relic ou view at
this same house was the powder box
once belonging to the king of Portugal,
and manufactured fdr his majesty in
Paris in 1760 by Germain, goldsmith to
the king of France. It is a large round
box in silver gilt, and was not intended
to hold either gunpowder or face pow-
der. but the aristocratic and- at that
timo universally worn hair powder. Ac-
companying it is a largo clothes brush
mounted to match tho box, and in the
same precious metal, and made for the
purpose of brushing off the coat of tho
royal owner after tho powdering process
had been completed.—Paris Letter.
Burial Among the Zunls.
At night, all along the banks of tho
Zuni river, I saw Indian men and women
throwing handfuls of meal into tho wa-
ter and gesticulating with their hands.
They mumbled prayers incessantly, and
waved from left to right the long fleecy
plumes or flowers called by them the
prayer plume. A little later, at the
church yard, tho corpse was brought
forth from a house adjoining tho piazza
and deposited in the grave. It was car-
ried in a blanket by three men, and the
wail that went up at the grave from tho
members of the dead one's family was
pitiful in tho extreme.—New York
World. ______
"Tree Wool, or Wool Produced in NnU."
The hermits of India, in the oldest
mention of them, are reqnired to wear
clothes of yellow ocher color, all others
being free to wear any color of veatnre
they pleuse. When the Greeks with
Alexander arrived in India they noticed
that the garment worn by the people
was made of "tree wool," or "wool pro-
duced in nuts." Megatlienes saj s their
robes were worked in gold and orna-
mented with various stones, and that
they also wore flowered garments of the
finest muslins.—Dry Goods Chronicle.
ica), which, after rough handling, threw
off a very peculiar, strong odor, some-
what reminding ns of laudanum, and
which remained on the fingers for sev-)
eral hours. The moth did not dart out!
tiic rapngnr.tiriat in
*#!»'* u.-vliaaaikV'-.v York Invlt'-- V*.
A Fetch ins: Costume.
Cousin Tom—Yes, she's a darljng girl,
and she's going to be my wife.
Cousin Belle—What a sudden infatua-
tion!
C. T.—Yes, I fell in lovo with her
from the moment I saw her in her rid-
ing dress.
C. B.—Then you will marry her from
sheer force of habit.—Pittsburg Bulle-
tin.
He Forgot.
Speculator—Why, the boom in thi;
town is about over. sir. In you letter ti
me yon said the place was on the edgeoi"
a great, boom.
Bea! Estate Agent-rThafs all
i S'O tell - -
stisv, ,; DO'.wt Free
Happ&S '
I handle h first-clus* line Oi good
such us Groceries and Country I'.o-
duce, slid sell as cheap tss anybody.
My terms are strictly CASH. Goods
delivead free lo any part of the city.
Albanv, ------ Texas.
MAr.BL&ZlKfi PAPER'.
f)?xter«>ni Mntiipttlntloti of Hum Scnejfit^
the VI oris.
One of the funniest things that any-'
body ever imagined in this'World was'
the uolion of marbling paper. That i.<
the name applied to the sort of rod ami
vari-colored ornamentation oil the edge*
of nicely bound books, and on t heir
bindings, too, sometimes, Every onu'
has observed such markings, but it itr
safe to say that not one person out of
10.000 has ever taken the trouble to spec-
ulate at to how tho effect is produced.
There is nothing commonplace alxmt
the process. On the contrary it is a
marvel worthy of contei/plation by tho
aesthete and the sage. You can see thd
thing done any time you please at tho
government printing office if you earn'
to ask the privilege.
•There is a tree in S viegal, Africa, front
which exudes a gum, just as any other'
sort of gum exudes from a cherry or'
other kind of tree. The natives of Sem -
gal collect the gum from this peculiar'
tree and sell it to contractors, who sen.l
it all over tho world in tho shape of lit-
tle hard lumps. It is commercially
known as "gum Senegal." The most
important use for it is this one of mar-*
hling paper.
For this purpose a solution is made of
the gum in water. A tank, say f-mr foe®
long and two feet wide, is filled with the'
solution, and then the operation is read. '
to be performed. At the government
printing office you can see it done nil/
day; the courteous attendant in cliai.
will show you how ho does it.
To begin with, yon will eee
but a tank of a foot ,u-t:o in dentil n...
with a 6t especially tlescribabio.
On a shelr^fjose by are half a dozen
paint pots filled with most brilliant
water colors. The operator takes thtf
blue brush and sprinkle:, the surface of
the liquid in th • Van!: witj drops of that,
color. Then li;. ei™ •» the brush from
the vermilion pot and sprinkles a spat-
ter of bright red also. Next he reaches
for the green find distributes that. Final-
ly a sprinkling of yellow is employed t<r
wind up with.
Now the expert takes a long stick
armed with fine teeth like a comb, and
with it combs tho surface of the liqui J.
in the tank just once from one end t >'
the other. Then he gives it a V"'
comb crosswise. The result of thif N
most curious mingling of the biff'
milion, green and yellow. Next,
surface of tho fluid he carefully li^
sheet of white paper, and lifts it <3v,
again by one corner. Lo, the sheet, has
received a reproduction of tho water'
color pattern from the liquid most elab-
orate and most beautiful. To reproduce'
it, even imperfectly, by hand would take'
months of labor. Each color in tho pat-
tern is a.s distinct and brilliant as water
colors can possibly be.
Tins, however, is but a simple pattern.
The expert tokos a small comb with Vv'iri
teeth and makes a wiggle waggle over'
the surface of the mixture. He lay *
down another white sheet upon it, an. 1
behold, a lovely design resembling a col-
lection of conventionalized peacock's
feathers appears. Another wiggle wag-
gle of the wire comb and a sheet simi-
larly treated exhibits a series of gor-
geous arabesques altogether beyond de-
scription as to their brilliance and in'
tricacv. But this is not all.
The operator stirs up the liquid in tho
tank again, so that all the colqrs disiip-'
pear. Then he £hw«;!i.cUftir paints,
making green'the predominant ouo, anti-
sprinkles them over tho surface. As a
magician might exercise his wand over
a reflecting pool he disturbs tho smooth
solution with the wires, and weird and
fantastic designs spring into view upon
the white sheets tliat he floats for an in-
stant and then lifts from the fluid.
Giants, hobgoblins and monsters of r.lf
degrees pursue each other acroM the
paper with glaring eyes and contorted
attitudes.
When you were a little boy or girl per-
haps you liave rubbed with your slato
pencil upon your school slate, and then!
with a moistened finger spread the'
whitey substance over the wooden bound
stratum of plutonic mineral. You havo'
wondered then to see what astonishing
demons and creatures inconceivable
started out upon the slate, caught by the'
eye of your imagination. It is tho sam«r
way with the work of the artist ii*
marbling for books, though he does not
daro to produce such fantastic things to
jiieuso tlio popular taste. Only the com-
monplace sort of marbling does one'
find on books and such things; whatever'
extraordinary tho expert produces ho
keeps for himself. perhaj>s, to show what
wonderful result tho accidental mingling
of random tints on a solution of gum'
Senegal will bring forth.—Washington1
Star.
Tloiri of Modern «lti«lgc*.
"Almost every crime has its origin,-
more or less, in drinking."—Judge Gur -
ney. "Ninety-nine cases out of every
hundred aro caused by drinking."—
.Judge Erskine. "If it wera not for
drink, you (jnry)and I would have noth-
ing lo do."—Judge Pattisou. "If all
men could Ik* persuaded from the use of
intoxicating drinks, the office of judgn
Would lie a sinecure.'V*Jvtdgc Aldetftett.
"Three-fourths of the cases of evimo hav^r
thoir origin in,public house** mid beer
shops."—Judge Wightman. "Intemper-
ance has destroyed large numbers of
people, and will, at its present rate of in-
crease, in time destroy the country itself.''
•Justice Grove, "I can keep no term*
with u viW that fills our jails and des-
troys the comfort of homes and the peace
of families, and debases and brutalizes
the people of these islands."—-Chief Jus-
tice Coleridge.—Virginia Law Journal,
*
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1
Losing: Toe Its at Sea.
Those people, who may be unfortuned
enough to have taken to artificial teeth
should use exceeding rira»n*p<v.tu»t
when they go down to the sea. in -hips.
'What, a splendid dentist sea sickne■ h
m! 1 In! tlio whole of my teeth pulled
out at :ne vomit," ;-»it! a patient to tl.<»
Sector mo morning. Several dfiUM*
ivo stated tliat it IS by no UK-ijia an
for persons tv
;, ; • :r:-«
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