The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1888 Page: 1 of 6
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Albany,
Texai
Boots and shoes made to order and a n«at, »oiu
fortuhle lit guaranteed. Itepalnnt noatlj Hud
^ promptly doao. Give me &cail; shop, north
sid» square. ^
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whole no. 24
albany, texas, thijksday, dec. 0,1888.
MOORE & CULLUM,
livery:
A CANDIDATE'S SUPPER.
feed
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STABLE
w2°i 0?°a ?«fflrfey* Is our motto.
Texas.
1urms
-EKALEU IN-
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Hardware,
y tinware and crockery.
fThe First National Bank,
X N".
Authorized Capital, $200,000.
Surplus, - w 15,000.
T'332£:u3L©.
Paid up Capital, -
Capital and Surplus
$75,000.
00,000.
Geo. t, Reynolds, President.
W. D. REYNOLDS. Vice-President. N. L. BARTHOLOMEW, Cashier
' wm bnT "d ,eu s,,,m "d ■»*.
He Is Defeated) llttl ttie lioys Devour
Ills Goodies All tlie Smile.
ft Wasn't so tuanv years ago, savs
tlie Boston Transcript, that a candi-
date for mayor of Chelsea, having ac-
cepted the assurance of his heolers that
he was sure to be elected, prepared in
his house a nice spread,sufficient for a
largo number of tlie boys, to celebrate
Ids victory. There Were turkey sand-
,0 4 ^ , witches and several varieties of frost-
W?igon Yard with all Modern Conveniences att-iched KtahS*1 cako' and ice cream antl coffee- ami
v/unvciuences attached. to btable, possibly a drop of something else for
the inner circle. On election night the
candidato modestly remained at houie,
receiving advicts from time to time
from his supptnjters. Just as the polls
dosed ho was ejected "by a largo ma-
jority," of couifee; both candidates are
always elected by a large majority at
that sanguine joriod. But a little later
as the returns jame in from the dis-
tant wards, ani gains and losses were
figured up,it bo£an to be apparent that
the Vole was closer than the heelers
had expected. Then it began to bo
more dubious still; and at about nine
o'clock the boji began to see that the
democrat c candidate was going to be
beaten. They \ bethought themselves
of that spread over at the houso. Was
that elegant "Iby out" to bo lost? The
loys had just one chance for it ajjd
they took it. Over to the candidate's
houso they rtished with a groat shout.
There wasn't much in the shout hut
"Hooray!" but it was calculated to
convey the impression to the candidato
himself that ho was elected. "Hooray!'
I11 they poured and elbowed their way
if trie dining-room, "How has it
gone? How has it gone?'' asked the
candidate, anxiously. There was an-
other confused shout, drowning all
definite response, and—the boys were
ail at the vituals, devouring sandwiches
ice cream, frosted cakes and coffee.i n-
discriminutoly and eagerly. The can-
didato enjoyed one moment of exulta-
tion and then sent his sou around to
the headquarters to see what the result
was. hi a few minutes the youth re-
turned with a dejected countenance.
"You're beaten by seventy-nine plur-
ality, father."
it was too late, however, to save the
spread. The candidate was ind ued
to protest a little with one or two of
the leadors, but they told him, with a
grin that they thought the boys might
as well have the supper any way.
Hardwoods.
A writer on cabinet woods says: "A
handler of veneers thinks that birch
is not appreciated at its real merit.
For yeneors he considers birch noarly,
and he can almost say quite, as good
as cherry. Birch is coming to bo more
highly appreciated than it was, and
may not be surprised to see a boom in
it before long. When birch becomes
fashionable everybody will want it.
"I11 tho foreign-wood trade prima
vera, tho fnshionablo light mahogany,
is very scarce all over the country.
The principal foreign-wood house in
Chicago has a stock of only 3,000 feet
on hand, and out of this New York
orders are being supplied with tho
prospect that shortly not a plank will
bo left iu the sheds. It is a curious
fact that mahogany is being shipped
from tho depository in Chicago to New
York right along, when the same stock
was brought from the same seaboard
citv. A carload of mahogany was
lately shippod from that city to Ger-
many.
Without His - F's" and "K's."
A new paper in the western states
callod the Rocky Mountain Cyclone
oponed the first article of its first num-
ber as follows: "We begin the publi-
cation of the Ilochy Mountain Cyclone
with somo phew diphiculties in the
way. Tho type phonnder phrom whom
wso bought our outphit phor this print-
ing ophice phailed to supply us with
any ephs or cays, and it will lie pliour
or phive weeques before we can get
any. We liavo ordered tho missing
letters and will have to get along with-
out them until tbey come. Wo don't
liquo the loox ov this variety ov spell-
ing any better than our readers; but
niistaix will happen in the best ov
regulated phamilies, and, iph the ephs
and cays and ex«s and qiies hold out,
we shall ceep (eound the c hard) the
Cyclone whirling aphter a phashion
till the sorts arrive. It is no joque to
us; it is r serious aphair."—Boston
Home Journal.
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MEATIOir THIS PAPER.
W. M. POWELL,
Physician and Surgeon,
| , ALBANY, TEXAS.
Bills mlist be paid on discharge or on first o! th«
knouth. Office east side Main opposite Manning1!
old stand.
0 W. 0. MOODY. M. D.,
JNavlng permanently located, offers his profession-
al services to tho citizens of Albany and surround*
Ing eonntry. Special attention glren to the prac-
tice of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and
Children. All bills due the first of the month.
Office at Bruckner A Ooodlngs.
LIGE EARL,
Tlie old reliable
ALBANY.
TEXAS.
BUSINESS
COLLEGE,
The Central Collegs at Waco was awarded tho
diploma over all others at tho .last Dallas Fair
*nd BxpoKltlon for tho bent methods, largest
and heat display, which was the only honor
offered to business colleges. Our Dallas college,
like It. central sister, Is on the boom. Illua-
1 rated catalogues free. Address E. H. HILL,
President, Waco ov Dallas. Texas.
THE HAYTIEN REPUBLIC'S CREW
ARRIVED.
New York, Doc. 2.—Among the
,,Asengers who arrived to-day from
au Prince in the steamer Prins
Frederick Hendrika are Ciiief Officer
iith Chief Engineer Malcom and
Intv-two of the crow of the steamer
vtien Republic, sent homo by the
American consul at Port au Prince.
" "---m ton IP
American
re
„blic, died Nov. 14
ce of yellow fever.
a cyclone at sea.
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 2.—Capt
Chebut of the French steamship Pana
ma, at this port, reports that on Nov
26, the vessel was within 100 miles oJ
Delaware capes when she met the ter
rible cyclone which did so much dam
age to shipping along the coast. The
seas were mountainous and all effort!
to keep the vessel's head on were fruit
less as tho wind blew her around ir
the trough of the ocean. At times she
was completely enveloped. Carpeutei
J. Francois, who was at work aft, was
swept overboard by wavos which camc
up 011 the starboard side and was im
mediately swallowed up in the angry
sea. At 8 p. m. the same night thi
signals of a vessel in distress were seen
shooting up from a dark hulk which
was nearly level with the water. Capt.
Chebtit bore down on the craft as near
as possible but was unable to get close
enough to rescue the crew. He could
distinctly see a man clinging to the
after-house waving lights and begging
to be taken. He believes the vessel to
have been a full rigged ship. She was
deeply laden and doubtless foundered
with all on board. When he left there
they were waving torches, but after a
few momonts all lights died out.
Capt. Go nip ton still remains abroad his
ship with the American Hag flying., ^ ■ 1 1
vjoisen, a seaman of tho Ilaytien and when the former was purchased
I* -'I® - . v y « t T"1 ..J _ _. Hi A 1 n t f A11 4-^v
telegraph consolidation.
Galveston, Tex., Dec. 2.—The dis
patches of yesterday announced that a
rumor was current to the effect that
Jay Gould had gobbled the Santa Fe
telegraph system. A reporter investi-
gated the rumor and found it to be well
grounded. Already linemen are at
work in Galveston connecting the
Santa Fe lines with the local Western
Union office, and the transfer of the
lines and commercial business is ex-
pected to be completed Saturday. The
Santa Fe telegraph system embraces
the line along the railway system of
the two Santa Fe roads. It is a rem-
nant of wljjat was known as the Balti-
more and Ohio system, absorbed by
the Western Union some time ago.
The lines belonged not to the Balti-
more and Ohio, but to the Santa Fe
au
AN oklahoma COLONY.
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 2.—A special
from Oklahoma, I. T., says the settlers ullg 1UBU XJ ! U
held a meeting at that place yesterday j crime, pleaded guilty to the same of-
* t.n he lennwn 1 fARAft. Thev were criven two Vd&rs
the latter reverted to theirrcal owners.
FENCE CUTTERS CONVICTED.
Hamilton, Tex., Dee. 2.—District
court is in session. Amos Newlmg
was to-day convicted of wire fence cut-
ting. Post Pierce, his partner in the
and organized a colony to be know;j
as tho Oklahoma colony, for the piv.
Oklahoma
tcction of their rights
aud to let the
fense. "They were given two years
each in the penitentiary.
One night about four weeks ago these
two men cut over throe miles of wire
ide world know how they are pros- • fenen around iwwtnre of E 0. Pfl
np. They peti*inn6.1 tho president -a this county. Tho evidence against
t them make a ^ttomtiiifor thl
t herds which are held here illegally
ed up tlie frau'ls which
lie colony will locate all the
, fj oc of chargc.
them was entirely circumstautial.
While there has not been a greatdeal
of wire fence cutting in this eouaty,
.the good, citizens are determined there
eh all be l^ss of it.
Novel Swiiiming Dress.
At the last navali maneuvers before
Kiel an application of a swimming
dress was made in,the German navy
It resembles a divers dress made of
India rubber and double. On the
chest is a valve though which air ie
blown; tho whole boly ie covered, nnd
only the face bare. »,To prevent the
swimmer from being tossed about, the
space aronnd tho cheit is well filled
with air. About the) hips there is a
girdle whioh divides the dress into
two parts, to prevont ^ too groat loss
of ?.ir if it were torn afcut the logs and
consequent difficulty jn swimming.
The swi'Kmer wearsshes with leadon
soles to !wre his equilibrium, and for
his deiensc \ long knife's fastened to
his girdle. £hey will b<S,eiuployed for
the blowing tjo of mindi and hostilo
craft, and are provided ^th an explo-
•iv» hor; which tiioy hav?,to fasten to
the mine or craft and to set on lire.
Before the explosion ensife they are
out of reach pf dapj^r— London
Syortsinan,
\
VIRTUE REWARDED.
How 11 t anvaaaer for a Hellctous j'a,
por Captured a Jersey Town.
Benevolence beamed from his eyes.
His noso had piety in its straightuess
of contour. Over his lips language
geutlv trieklod as honey from au over-
full hive, lu short, he was a first-class
cauvasser for a religious newspaper,
and this is tho story he told the lopicat
talker of the Pittsburgh Dispatch:
"Last summer I was pushing a New
York rolig ous journal in the becalmed
villages of central New Jersey. One
afternoon I reached a little place which
can very appropriately be called
Sleepy ville. It was the drowsiest col-
lection of houses, human boinga nnd
cows, especially cows, that I had en-
countered all that summer. But it was
prosperity, plenty to oat and drink,
plenty of time to do both, which made
tho village closo its eyes half the day
and all night.
"I went straight to the minister's
house. Never think of going anywhere
else first, my boy, if you are canvassing
for a religious paper. Tho minister
was a nice follow, and I booked him
early in the day. He pressed me to
stay to supper. It was warm, the
minister was entertaining, li s quarters
comfortable, so I stayed. After supper
the minister had to go to prayer meet-
ing. He asked me to go along. It
was not my cue to refuse. I went.
"After there had beon some praying
done aud a hymn had been sung tho
minister rose and, looking at me, said:
'Wo will now ask Brother moan-
ing me, 'to lead in prayer.'
'•I thought mighty quick foi' about
ten seconds; my thinking flywheel
flew around. It was a question of
policy I was debating in that interval.
Then I said: 'For a reason which I
shall be very glad to explain after the
meeting; is over, I must beg to bo ex-
cused from leading the prayers.'
"Tho pastor accepted my declination
gracefully and called upon ^somebody
else. After the meeting was over I
went up to the minister and said: 'The
reason I did not accept your kind invi
tation to load in prayer was that I was
afraid my motives might be misunder
stood. You see my business is to ob-
tain subscriptions for a certain roligious
paper. If I had lead in prayer somo
members of your congregation would
have been sure to have suspected me
of trying to advertise my paper in
church. Neither 1 nor my employers
would telerate such a suspicion for
moment'
"The minister was profuse in his
praise of rny straightforward methods.
I think ho must have said something
about the matter to his congregation,
for with hardly au excoption they sub-
scribed for the paper. Verily virtue
has its own reward."
Living Facts.
There 3,004 languages in the world,
and its inhabitants profoss more than
1,000 religions.
The number of men is about equal
to tho number of women. The average
of life is about 33 years, One-quarter
<lio previous to the age of 17. To
every 1,COO persons only one reaches
103 years of life. To evory 100 only
six reach the age of 05, and not more
than one in 500 l.ves to 80 years of
age.
There are on earth 1,000,000,000 in-
habitants; of these 33,033,033 die every
year; 91,834 every day; 3,730 every
hour, and 61 every mniuto, or 1 every
socond.
The married are longer lived
than the singlo and, above all, those
who observe a sober and industrious
conduct. Tall men live longer than
short ones. Women have more chances
of life in their f>ivor previous to 60
years of ago than men have, but fewer
afterward.
The number of marriages is in tho
proportion of 75 to every 1,000 indi-
viduals. Marriages are more frequent
after equinoxes—that is, during the
months of Juno and Decomber.
Those born in spring are generally
of a moro robust constitution than
others. Births are more frequep.t by.
night than by day, ilso deaths,-
Qolden Argosy.
Vain of Her Eyes and Lost Them.
About a year ago one of tho most
lovely girls In tho stale lived at 40
Orange avenue, in this city. A pair of
largo, liquid bluo oyes sot off a face
that would put any picture to shame,
ami iter form was simply perfoct. Tho
young lady was highly educate! and
possessed all the qualities that go to
make up a society belle. Her parents
are well-io do and she has wanted for
nothing since sho was old enough to
prattle. But she has one fault and that
fault has proved her undoing. It is
called vanity. She fairly worshiped
her own oyes and did everything in hor
power to malto them more beautiful
than they wore. She used numerous
drugs before she fouud what she wanted.
This Inst drug made her eyes sparkle
like diamonds, and she used it to such
an extent that hor right eye began to
shrivel. This brought her to her son-
ses and tho family physician was called
in. But he cam 1 to late, pnd inforniod
the poor girl that she must lose one ol
r eyes sure and probably both. The'
right eye was taken out some time ago
and she litis lost all sight in tho loft and
will be blinded for life. It is one of the
saddest cases that was ever brought to
light-in this ciiy.Angeles Times,
A Strange Secret
It was late one night that I was sud-
denly summoned to atteud a stranger
who lay dying at a neighboring ian.
As sooa as I saw the lived, haggard
faco I knew there was no hope for
him. He had a swarthy face, like an
Italian, lit by dark, piercing eyes, and
his forohead painfully marKed with
rigid lines left by prolonged mental
sufferings.
I was about to administer an opiate,
when he thrust aside my hand impa-
tiently. "I want you to hear my con*
fession first," he exclaimed, 1 shall
detain you but a moment" "I am a
physician, not a clergyman," I answer-
ed, gently.
"Nevertheless, I bog you to hear
me," he presisted. "Quick! quick!
there is no time to lose!" his eyes
flashing with a fitful lurid lustre.
For one in his condition "humoring"
was the best treatment So, first see-
ing that the door was securely closed,
I sat down to wait till the delusion he
was under as to the nature of my office
had run its course.
"I shall not trouble you with a long
history" he began. In my early life I
was a soldier, and a brave one, I may
add without boasting; for had I not
vowed to win rank and fame for the
sako of one of the fairest of Italy's
fair daughters, who had secretly pledg-
ed mo her love? Such an incentive
would have inspired courage even in
a coward's breast; but the Castelles
wero never cowards!
At last I felt that 1 might without
blushing present mysolf before Giuli-
etta's relatives and oponly claim her
hand.
Impatient of every moment's delay I
flow to lay ray hard earned honors at
her feet; but, alas! what tidings await-
ed 1110! In my absence Giulietta's
family had forced her to marry a dis-
solute young noble, who coveted her
fortune, not herself. She survived the
cruelty hut a little seaison; for within
a month she drooped and died, the
victim, I doubt not, of a broken heart.
I would have hurried back to the
field and sought death there, but the
war was over. The church offered an-
other refuge from tho world, now
grown insupportable. I became a
priest, and iu timo an attache of one
of the great cathedrals.
One night 1 ontered a professional
facing ono of tho outer aisles, that I
might be rcadv to hear, as was my
custom, any clianco penitent who
ia ght come, as many did, to disburden
his conscience under cover of dark-
ness.
Several came aud went; and when,
at last, at a late hour, I was on the
point of retiring, believing my work
finished, a step approached nnd enter-
ed the compartment on the other side
of the lattice.
Of course my lips aro sealed against
reveal ng what I then heard. S At the
closo the penitent started to withdraw.
A quick movement brought mo to his
side. Seizing his arm I turned him
round suddenly to faco him. We
stood in the aisle, in the dim light of
0110 of I he large windows. I threw
back my cowl. Ho recoiled, shivering
us if he had soen a ghost
•Luigi Castello!' he gasped.
'Aye!—Luigi Caslollo I ochoed.
Is it your purpose to denounce me?'
he asked, in a voice tremulous with
terror.
'What I have heard, I have beard
uudor tho seal of my sacred office.' I
replied. 'I dare not disclose it'
Ho breathed more f reely.
'I have given you absolut'on,' I con-
tinued, as my eye, attracted by a
sparkling J*ght, fell on tho jowelled
hilt of a dagger at his girdle.
•I humbly thauk you, father,' he
muttered.
"As far as it lies in the power of the
church, you aro now prepared to die,'
I added.
'Heaven .grant it!' he replied.
'Amen!' 1 answered aud, snatching
tho dagger from his belt, I sheathed it
in his heart."
Tho last word was uttered almost iu
a shriek, and the siek stranger fell
back insensible.
The restoratives I administered only
brought a partial return of conscience-
lies?, and before tho sun bad set the
troubled spirit was at rest.
Somo years later, in travelling
through Italy, I was shown in one of
tho great cathedrals, the spot where
tho body of a nobleman hhd been
found ono morning pierced through
tho heart with his own stiletto.
"Ho was a very wickod man," said
the old guide, "suspected by many of
having poisoned his young wife,
whom ho married for her money."
The guide remembered, too, a
melancholy young priest who had dis-
appeared shortly after, nono knew
whither; but it was ovident the
circumstances had never been associat-
ed with the nobleman's death, which
was commonly attributed to suicide.—
New fork Journal.
A Moravian Freak.
Another edition of the Siamese
twins has just seen the light of the
world. The wife of a poor workman
at Misslitz, in Moravia, was delivered
of triplets, two of the babies grown
together by iho rib* nnd baring a
common breast bone. Tho rest of the
two bodies is perfectly developed in
every part.
The uin who 1* -wild ou the «ut)ject of
yachting ie an ullr* '
vol. 5. no. 36
UNDERGROUND OHAPEL.
InterestUijr Discovery In an Old
Mlno In Northern Mexico.
An interesting discovery has
been made in an old Spanish
mine on the property of the
Corralitos Cattle and Mining
Company,on the Casa Grande river,in
Northern Chihuahua, an immense es-
tate belonging to El Paso and New
York parties. The mine is called tho
San Pedro, and there is ou it an old
incline going into the mountain at an
angle of forty-live degrees and evi-
dently following the richest ore streak
in a zigzag manner. At the end of
this machine a subterranean chamber
was found which had beea fashioned
evidently with great labor and troubl
into a regular Catholic chapol. Th
chamber is somo thirty feet iu di-
ameter and about twenty feet high.
Soats have been cut Irom solid rock
running all around the chapel, aud so
has beeu an altar aud a pulpit The
whole was found neatly whitewashed,
and presents a peculiar and weird as-
pect The ancient chapel could be used
at a momeat's notice as a place of wor-
ship.
A tradition is found to exist among
the natives living in the beighborhood
that many years ago a regiment of
Spauish cavalry was stationed at the
presidio Janos, some twenty-five miles
distant from the mines, and that the
Indians disclosed the existence of the
mine to the priest, who was in spiritu-
al charge of the regiment. This priest
went into partnership with the colonel,
and they employed tho soldiers of the
command in the working mine, which
was found exceedingly riclm After a
whilo complaints wero made about
this onforced labor at headquarters in
Spain,and the colouol was called home
to answer the charge. Before leaving,
he and the priest d.vided the silver,and
the colonel's share was suflic ent to
load eighty mules, which lie took with
him across the country to Vera Cruz,
where he took ship for Spuin.
Tho whole country adjacent to the
Casa Grande and Santa Maria rivers
full of objects of intorest to the arch-
raologist and naturalist. Prehistoric
ruins are found everywhere, many of
them clearly trceablo to the Aztecs,but
others evidently autedato any authen-
tic record of history. A richer field of
exploration and investigat'on can not
be found anywhere in North America.
* A Bo ston Sight.
* The following incident of "diamond
cut diamond" occurred in a Boston
restaui'Ant the other day. An acquain-
tance of the writer was seated at one
of the tables enjoying his noonday
lunch. It was somewhat near the
closing part of the dinner liour, and,
as frequently is the case, some of the
articles of tho daily faro wero about ex-
hausted. A late customer entered the
restaurant and took a seat at the samo
table with the gentleman first noted.
This late arrival, evidently in some-
what of a hurry, gave his entire order
at the one time, but as soon as the
waiter had returned with the samo he
was chagrinned to see that cold bread
was served him instead of tho warm
biscuits he expected, the stock of the
latter having run out. However, not
to be deprived of the luxury dosircd,
he unceremoniously reached across the
domain of tho earlier diner, picked up
the solitary biscuit that yet remained
on the letter's plate, and commenced
to eat it, whereupon the other, not to
be outdone in tbo matter of a good
reach and the ability to employ it, ex-
tended his arm, gathered in the piece
of pie that belonged to the original
offender, and proceeded to regale him-
self. "That is my pie. sir!" came the
prompt protest. "That is my bis-
cuit!" was tho cool rejoinder. A silence
followed, only broken by the patter of
tho waiter's feot upon the tessellated
floor. It was a clear case of "diamond
cut diamond."
New Counterfeiting Scheme
"Here is ono of the cleverest coun-
terfeiting schemes I have ever scon,"
said E. L Lucas iu Captain Porter's
room in the Government Building, to
a Chicago Tribune reporter. "It hasn't
been worked in tho United States yet,
but it soon will be, and merchants
ought to be ou the lookout for it. You
see this Canadian $10 bill? Well, it
isn't a $10 bill at all. It is a $1 bill.
See here," and Mr. Lucas ran his
thumb nail under a little seam in the
bill and pulled It up as a postage stamp
would be pulled from an envelope. It
thus became manifest that tho end of a
$10 bill had beon pasted over a $1 bill.
"You don't seo how a |person could
mako any money at that," ropoated
Mr. Lucas in answer to a question.
"Well, it is easy enough when you
know that the end of the $10 bill is
counterfeit It is a clever one, too,
aad would deceive almost any one who
was not watching for it. You see it is
a good deal easier to only counterfeit
a portion than it would bo the whole.
A difficult point for the counterfeiter
to overcome is to preserve tho bal-
ance of tho parts in the case of coun-
terfeiting tho whole bill—that is, no
part caa bo more or less prominent
than the corresponding part of the
ori$ta*i h"' '"Tow h; ' ■ case .
simply a question of oouateifeithig a
small portion of a genuine bilL It is a
great scheme, and merchants can not
be too careful in nailing thu first man
who attempts to pass suak * hill io
(ihir*p-u "•
.firing Out Your Dead.
Dliving a lecture in New York (
for the benelit of Iho Jacksonville .* t-
ferers, which netted a very handsc
sum, George Francis Train rclaied ie
following concerning the yellow fe
epidemic in New Orleans fifty-
yoars ago: '
"It was dreadful," he said.
coffins there nor any hearse, or luni tal
or mourning. Only a ca''t and a boy
that stopped before the house and ('ill-
sd:
" 'Bring out— bring out — yoi r—
d-e-a-d!'
"I remember they took out my ii tie
sister Josephine. I remember 1 >w
they tossed the box over among n lot
of others. My father and mother uul
I went after it in a carryall. I reim-.n -
ber the rain and the water splash
about tlie wheels in the ceniett
Again in two days catno that cr,:
" ' Bring out — bring out— your —
d-e-a-d!'
""it was mv little sister Rub/, tlie.it>
How different from at Jacksonville,
where they do it up in style, with line
coffins, and money and help pouriiir
in from all ovor tho world. Yet agaf;»
we went to the graveyard and there
was loft only my little sister Ellen, a
weak, delicate little thing, gentlo and
mild, tho fairest flower that ever
bloomed. She had always been my
special playmate. A little fellow four
years old can't remember much, Hit
her face has been with 1110 all throi .h
my life aud I shall never forget it, 1 or
how ono day there eumo again that
cry:
" 'Bring out—bring out—your—
d-e-a-d!.'
"I clung to tho box, I remember,a id
struggled against tho r taking it awry.
After that went the servants,I remem-
ber,and the doctor,and then the nurf,
anil at last the/ showed me my mother
sick, and in a few days she, too, h i
gono. Tlion here came a letter from
my aunt, far away 111 Now England,
and it begged them to send ono—lit
George at any rate, before all we,©
dead. So niv father took roe to t ;
ship Wavorly.aud I remember how
walked from 0110 ship to another to £ t
on it. Ho tied a card about my ue
and 011 it wrote:
" 'This is George Francis Train, 1 1
only child. Consigned to John Clar
Jr., Dock square, Boston.
"'Take good earo of the little f
low; I10 is oulv 4 years old; all de
but one out of a family of eleven.'
"I remember that I floated out in
tho warm, pleasant gulf, aud aloi
and along day aficr day.floating iu t
sunshine, floating north, floating
last into the beautiful harbor of Be
Ion. And 1 seem to liavo been floati;
jver since."
Kules for Using Books.
Never hold a book near a fire.
Never drop a book upon tho floor.
Never turn leaves with the thumb
Never lean or rest upon an ope
book.
Never turn down the corners
leaves.
Never touch a book with damp 1
soiled hands.
Always keep your placo with a th ■
hook-mark.
Always place a largo book upon
table boforo opening it.
Always turn loaves from the tc
with tho middle or forefinger.
Never pull a book from a shelf 1
the binding at tho top, but by the bac
Never touch a book with a dan
sloth, nor witii a sponge in any fori
Never place another book or any
:liing else upon tho leaves of nn ope
aook.
Never rub dnst from books, b
jrush it off with a soft, dry cloth 1
luster.
Never close a book with a pencil,
»ad of papor or anything elso betwec
;he leaves.
Never opon a booiv further than
tiring both sides of tho cover into tin1
lame plane.
Always open a largo book from t! 1
middle, aud never from tho ends c
jover.
To avoid injuring tho leaves of bool
sever put a pencil mark in a librar
buok.
Always keep your books out of th
feach of small children, and in a clear
lry place.
Always keep any neatly bound, boi
•owed book covered witii paper whii
.11 your possossion.
Never attempt to dry a book ace
ientally wot by a lire, but wipe oil th
moisture with a soft, dry cloth.
Never write upon a paper laid upo
;lio leaves of au o|ien book, as tho pen
;il or pen point will either scratch 0
nit tho book leaves.
Never lend a borrowed book, but re
inrn it as soon as you are through will
it, so that tho owner may not be de
prived.of its use.
Never cut the leaves 0 a book o
magazine witii a sharp knife, as tlu
odgo is suro to run into the print, noi
with the linger, but with a paper-cut
ler or ordinary tablo knife.
Never hold a small book with tin
iliumb pressed into tho binding at tin
iower buck, but hold it with the thuiul
and little finger upon the leaves ant
three fingers upon the back.
Letting.
But there is one way of wasting timo,
all tho vilest, because it wastes, 1101
time oulv, but the iuterestand energi
Df your minds. Of all the ungentle
manly habits into which y ou can fall
the vilest is betting, or interesting
yourselves !n tho interests of betting.
If unites nearly every condition ol
folly and vico; you coucentrato youi
interest upon a matter of chance, in
stead of upon a subject of true know I
edge; aud you back opinions which you
have no grounds for forming, merely
because they are your own. All tho
insolenco of egotism is iu this; and so
far as tho love of excitement i3 compli-
cated with tho hope of winning money,
you turn yourselves into the basest
sort of trades aien—those who livo bi
speculation. Wero there 110 oihe,
ground for industry, this would be s
sufficient one; that it protected you
from tho temptation of so scandalous
a vice. Work faith' illy, and jjpu will
put yourself into '■ .ssossion of' a glo-
rious and enlarging happiness; not
«ueh as can be won by the speed of a
liorso, or marred by th» obliquity of n
ball. —John Raskins.
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ice: _ "Ah, by jom !
lid }* get,such-",iw~
Cholly: "Bawghtln
fellah—leads nie wi
nw—don't have the
wspons hiiiiy of we.moniberi
1 live, * Know."—i/Wc.
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