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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-1, Page 2MISCELLANEOUS READING (iBAYE .AND OTHERWISE, Leisure Moments eau Be Profitable Em. ployed In Carefully Reading These Interesting Selections. Why Jlw Forsook the Ministry, Ql jes' no count au' main) wins, �'1 long, 5%1.4144 loci nee' sofiT iuessee. All whiter lout; he d squat noun' The grocery down at 'Possum town An' toast his stuns an' caw an thaw, Au' spit upon the stove an' jaw 'Bout this an' t LOt an' t'otherr thing Tilt 'long nigh Menthe time hi sprung. When suddint 11s:e he'd limber up Ea part au frisky ez et pup, An"low ez how he'd. got a call Ter preach, an then light out till fall; Year in, year out, 'twos jos' the same,. tee plauthn' season came He'd leave his kids without their pap, An' leave his wife ter make the crap An' make his sneak, an' many a week Would bide or hair afore folks sex An' all the while he'd be await/ His wife was slavin' night an day A- lantin' earn, a-rakin' hay, A -di •gin'tatet'3, totem' wood Au' coin' work uo woman should, Ter keep a raft of children fed An' clothed an' svelter overhead. But when the harvestin' was through JI a ew, honghnrouu the store again, An' tell the souls he'd saved from sin, An' how- the houses all was trimmed, A r' how the mourners • bench was jammed, Aa' how they'd shout, an' this an' that, At towns whir ne'd been preachin' at. N iw, Huldy Jane war big an' strong An' patient ez the days were long— One of yer easy going kind That never growled nor jawed nor whined, Tear never was no one ez thuak Teat Huldy had a bit of spunk. Bat thin s went on from bad ter wuss An' got so clurned uion.atinuss I swa- 'twould driv an angel wild ; An' even Huldy Jane got riled. Says Jim liet'hee, one bright spring day, Ter Huldy : "I must go away An' leave you all a little while An' save poor errin' souls from hell ; I've got a call, may duty's plain, An'si giod-by.' But Huldy Jane In ea'm, firm, yernest tones, says she : "C kinder reckon, Jinn McPhee, That you've mistook 'bout this Iyer call, An' you won't git ter ga at all.' An' when he stomped aroun' an' shook His fist then Huldy gently took A. reef fist, James' sorrel hair, An' slammed him clown arrest a chair, An' banged his head ag'in' the door, Then rested up an' banged some more; An' when the lout began ter squall. She axed him, ''How about yer call 2" Right thar the Reverend James McPhee, He done forsook the ministry. "Oh, Huldy Jane, he meekly whined, "I've got no call of nary kind." "Now thar you lied," says Huldy Jane. "Ye've got a call—ger duty's plain"— An' here she gut/ his hair a jerk— An' Jim he melted ter like work." ax �� An' says, "I reckon the.n's the lacks." An' then she holps hint ter his feet An' says in accents soft an' sweet, A-givin' him a cheerful smile, "It's 'peered ter me a right smart while- "Ez how 'twos time the garden's made," An' showed him whar ter find the spare. Now you may travel far an' near, An' s arch the hull blamed hemisphere From north ter south if you're inclined, An nary busier man you'll rind Than Jim McPhee, of Tennessee. into your stomaCh. I suppose that you have no objection." Mr. Grogan sat down into a chair and said that the Doctor was at liberty to do anything lie wanted to da to his trouble- some esophagus. He held back his head and aided the dootor in inserting the silver gag which opened his mouth very wide. Then the medical man took hold of the silken cord and pulled. The cord grew taut, and for a lonely instant it looked as though the rubber tube didn't intend to leave the seclusion that a modern espohagus grants. But at last it yielded to the gentle pressure and began its jour- ney to the outer world. When Dr. Marks drew the tube from Grogan's. mouth and laid it an the table he picked tip another and a larger tube, which was already for insertion, To one end was tied the new silken cord, and in exactly forty-seven seconds after Dr, Marks be- gan the operation of introduction that three-inch tube was nestling in the place so long occupied by the old one. The string was fastened to Grogan's right ear, the silver gag was removed from his mouth and the„ operation was over. Twenty minutes later Grogan was down in his ward., shaking hands with his anxious wife and saying tender things to his youngest daughter, a dainty maid of seven, with nut -brown hair and wondrous big eyes. He told the pretty little creature that he could eat all the good things that she had. brought to him and hetoldhis wife that he had gained thirty pounds in weight, and that Dr. Marks was a trump. Medical men say that Grogan's steady improvement since the operation of French intubation was first performed on him is simply wonderful. Three weeks ago the man was dying from a can- cer of the throat. The channel of the esophagus, through which all food travels to the stomach was completely closed, and Grogan was literally starving to death. He weighed exactly ninety-seven pounds when that first tube was pushed into his esophagus. Now he weighs 127 pounds, and eats soft food of all kinds with a relish. in a day or a ,year, but the business would pay as ninth in the 'beginning and better in the end than many on w.hioh women are new existing.. I know a woman in New York now whose Singers are nimble and whose taste is exquisite, to whom three large firms have offered their patronage. She says she feels confident .of $75 a week from these three, should she have good talent at hand.. Even if a woman Bannob alone supply orders or suggestions, she can have a oorps of fashion artists, who may sell their work through her, she exacting commission. The large retail firms that make a specialty of ready-made gowns and bodices are the best to work for; they are kaleidoseopie in their rapid Changes, Prominent modistes are will- ing, frequently, to pay for good sugges- tions as well as the large furriers and eloakmakers, Taking it all in all, to quote again the business man, it should be a most profitable undertaking." A True Home. Parents frequently complain that they cannot keep their children: at hom', at- tributing the blame solely to the chil- dren. In many a house there is nothing to keep them, nothing to attract them. The father and mother are too busy to notice them, or if they do, it is only to find fault. The house is shut up and. the rooms are cold. and dark. What won- der that the children seek other and more cheerful places? Ali, parents, if you would keep your boys and girls at home you must make it indeed a home in the true sense of the word. Open the doors and windows and let in the air and the sunshine. Take an interest in what they are doing and teach them to confide in and love you. The home life will then grow so inexpressively delightful that the whole world will seem to be better. The children will be the first to recog- nize the change. "fo Skit To-morrer." When wo stopped in front of the dug- out uiout and cried "Hello ?" a girl about six- teen years of age, barefooted and hair flying, came out to see what was -wanted. While we waited for her we noticed an old mule a hunded feet away on the prairie with his legs braced wide apart and his head slowly moving from side to side. About as far away in the other di- rection was an old yellow horse that was walking backward in a circle and acting in acurious manner. The old covered wagon at the door was evidently there to be loaded with household furniture. "What ye whoopin' fur?" asked the girl as she got above ground. "Can we get anything to eat here?" "Neap., e "Any water for the horses ?" ,iVoape, "Can you tell us how far it is to the river?" "Noap." 10Ask your father to step out, please?" "Pop can't step. He's been drunk fur a week." "Is your mother home?" "Yep, but she's singing hymns. That's "Yee., tak' on down thar now." "What's the matter with that mule . out there ?" "Whiskey bran mash." "And that horse?" "Same thing." "What's going on here anyway ?" asked the colonel as the voice of a man who seemed to be delivering a speech welled up to us from the bowels of the dugout, "The hull of us is goin' to skit to-mor- rer and begin life over ag'in," answered the girl as she pulled at a burr in her hair. "Dad's goin' to stop at White Plains and sign the temperance pledge, main's goin' on to Cloverdale and jme the Salvashun Army, brotherBill's goin' up to Thompsonville and go into politics, and this is a sort 0' gineral celebrashun over Bustin' up, Sieh of us as han't drunk are feelin' happy and loadin''up the wagin." "But what's to become of you?" asked the colonel. "Me? Oh, my feller's down thar a- tunin' up his diddle to play the `Sweet Bineeby.' That's him you hear scrapin' away. We git married in the mornin' and sot up in a new dugout three miles away, and are goin' to make forty acres of sagebrush land git up an' dust or bust ourselves a-whoopin' ?" GIVEN A NEW TUBE. Conjurers Clothes. I suppose that everybody understands that a conjuror depends considerably on his costume for assistance in perform- ing many of his most mystifying tricks. The old-fashioned conjuror had an easy time of it. He was artful enough to ap- pear in some fancy costume which en- abled hien to conceal anything from a frying pan down to a five cent pieoe. But the modern public is too wide awake to stand that sorb of thing, and, nowa- days, up 10 date artists must appear in the conventional evening dress of civil- ization. Fortunately, the swallow _tail coat is so cut as to lend considerable as- sistance to one who has to hastily pro duce or conceal any article he may want at the moment, and, taking advantage of this, the conjuror provides himself with from nine to a dozen extra pockets. Two pockets are at the back of the trousers, on a level with the knuckles, these of course carefully hidden by the goat tails. The swallow tail is thus ser- viceable in e.ineealing watches, cards, handkerchiefs or anything it may be ne- cessary to pat away hastily. Tho tails of the coat themselves contain four little pockets ; the left flap of the breast coat contains a large pocket used for what is known as "loading" large objects, and such conjurors as still perform with live animals (an extremely cruel practice, by the way) conceal them here. The vanishing bird trick (which, I re- gret to say, kills a great number of can- aries) is performed by means of accessor- ies in which the costume plays a part. The bird cage itself is made to collapse into a cigar shaped tube. The centre of the cigar shape is naturally fatter than the ends, and, if the bird. is fortunate, it is secreted there and may come out of the ordeal alive. Should, however, the bird get at either end, it is crushed to death, or should the legs get through the bars they are almost certain to be broken. A conjurer once told me he had done the trick 200 times with one bird, but I should very much doubt it. What happens is this : The bird cage is rapidly hooked to the end of a piece of whipcord, which passes up the sleeve and across the body of the performer, and then down the other sleeve, where it is tied to the wrist. It will thus be seen that the cord is con- siderably shorter than will be required to stretch from each end of the arms if they are extended. The cage, being in the performer's hand, is rapidly com- pressed and made to assume its cigar shaped form, and is dragged up the arm at lightning speed by the simple process of extending the two arms. This very simple trick has puzzled millions of people. It is performed so rapidly that even if you closely watch the conjuror I doubt if you will know what he is doing. Afterward the conjuror pretends to find the bird among the audience. As a mat- ter of fact he takes another bird out of his pocket, and by one of the simple dodges of conjuring appears to take it from some one's neck or head, or some other convenient place. amounted to $26,000,000, but it is only about half that now. The , money set aside for reeoining is not intendedto pay for the post of minting, bub is required toreimburse the treasurer of the United States on account of the loss of weight which silver pieces have suffered by ab- rasion. The loss amounts to $30 on every $1,000, and it has to be made good in order to set: the treasurer's accounts straight. She Said "Grace." An Englishwoman of rank—a duchess —was very apt to forget to pay her bills. A. milliner, whose large bill had been re- peatedly ignored by the duchess, at last determine i to send her little girl, a pretty. child of ten years, to beg for the money which was so much needed. "Be sure to say 'your grace' to the duchess," said the anxious mother, and the child gravely promised to remember. When, after long -waiting, she was ushered into the duchess' presence, the little girl dropped a low courtesy, and then, folding her hands and closing her eyes, she said, softly : "For -#hat I am about to receive may the Lord make me truly thankful." As she opened her eyes and turned her wistful gaze on the duchess, that light- hearted person flushed very red, and, without delay, made out a cheek for the amount due the milliner. Another Successful Operation on/the Man Whose Life Depends on His Rubbed Illsophagns. Wolford Grogan has a new rubber tube in his much -talked -about esoghagus and thirty pounds of new, healthy flesh on his bones. The new tube was fixed in its place by Dr. Heine Marks Saturday afternoon, The new flesh has been gradually aceumulating ever since the eventful day, three weeks ago, that the first tube was into the esophagus. The story of how Dr. Heine Marks performed that tare and delicate operation has al- ready been told in the papers. The afternoon was an hour old when they brought Grogan from his ward in the city hospital into the operating room, He looked big and strong, and there was color in his cheeks. The end of the silken oord which had held the tube in place ever since it was first introduced protruded from the man's mouth and was tied around his right ear. "Grogan," said the Doctor, `we are doing to pull that old tube out of your threat and insert a new ono in its place. It will be. a larger and better one. It Will enable you to got more solid food His Pint Was Bettor Than a Pound. Old sayings are nearly always truth- ful, but they must be applied with due discretion, as a woman in a little store "down the neck" discovered to her. soi- row. An old darky called one morning to purchase a pound of shot. The store- keeper being out, his wife attempted to serve the customer. She could not find the weights, but being a good house- keeper she remembered an old saying of frequent use in egokery, "a pint's as good as a pound the world over." In her dilemma she quoted that saying to the darky, asking if he would be satis- fied to take a pint for a pound. The darky, with wide-awake cunning, snap- ped at the chance, got his shot, paid for it and hurried out of the store, The wo- man couldn't account for the sudden hurry of his departure until she, with pride, related to her husband her happy idea enabling her to get along without weights. A CHANCE FOR WOMEN. RECENT ANECDOTES. The Two Dumas. Of "Dumas le savant"' a good story is told. Nothing annoyed the great chemist so much as being mistaken tor the nove- list. On one occasion a lion -hunting Eng- lish laey, after praising him in the most effusive language, and observing that she knew every line of his writings, from "Mont ) Christo" to the "Mousquetaires," added, "I hope you will allow me to send you a card for my next soiree." "Ma- dame, I am in no way connected with the writer you allude to,"'said the savant, with a cold disdain that no asinine, snub - proof coat -of -mail could. resist. "Oh, T thought you were the great Ms. Dumas I" exclaimed the bewildered lady. Ideas Wanted by the Big Manufacturers of Ready -Made Gowns—The Work ofja Designer. " It is surprising," said the head of a large firm for supplying ready-made gowns wholesale, " that there are so few women designers in New York. One sees women struggling to squeeze into already overcrowded occupations, but never stopping to think of something new. Now, one with natural ability for artistic and practical dressmaking or de- signing could make a good living selling ideas to great houses. There are men who supply this need, but never a woman." " Does not each firm secure a design- er?" Iinquired. " No," he replied, " The retail firms generally buy from tht wholesale, and they copy or adopt foreign fashions, Some firms, of course, do employ women, and these can make anywhere from $35 to $75 a week, with a trip to Europe thrown in." He went on to say that if a woman was clever and had some capital she could open an office and make a success, An abundant patronage could be secured of large wholesale firms; retail ones, mod- istes, etc. She could make designs for all sorts and conditions of clothes, selling. them for as much as an illustrator re- ceives for single and double column drawings. If she could not sketch Well, let her make each model of colored tissue paper. There are a hundred things to be done in this line. New York is a tremendous fashion mill, grinding all the grist that is thrown into it, A mew collar or cuff, a shoulder arrangement, the manner of finishing the bottom of a gown, a new way to hook &bodice ---these are all minor details that are eagerly caught up by the stores. This patronage could not be won Anecdote of Artemus Ward. His compainions were a band of brilliant young Bohemiansfor whose kind the metropolis now contains no room. They wore the last of their kind, and most of them lived bat brief lives. They pro- duced much that was brilliant, but noth- ing that lasted. Artemus alone won en- dearing fame. The others were writers, act as and minstrels. The brothers Dan and Neil Bryant were eminent memders of the clan, t igether with Charles Daw- son ehanly, and a shining Bluster of young men about town. One of the latter, who lived to become a staid merchant, used to relate with glee how, on leaving the little theatre in Twenty-third street late one. evening in company with Artemus, Shanly, and Neil Bryant, the trio broke out in a joyous carol. The song was in- terrupted by one of the then despised metropolitan policemen, who roughly ordered them to stop the noise. At this rude interruption Artemus stopped his song, and, turning, throw himself upon the broad bosom of the astonished police- man, and gave way to a gush of passion- ate tears. His friends endeavored to calm him, and the embarrassed officer, half choked byhis.warm embrace, begged him to desist, whsch he did, with the de- claration that "The metropolitan police- man is the noblest work of God." This sentiment secured escape and a continu- ance of the song. Not Sure It Was His Own Hat. Gen. Wright, while in Now York on a recent trip, put up a big Broadway hotel, where they had one of those door boys at the entrance to the dining -room with a memory that is phenomenal. When Gen. Wright went into dinner upon his arrival the boy took his hat and put it in a rack with a couple of hundred others, many of them seemingly exactly like it. About three-quarters of an hour later, the Gene- ral strolled out and asked for his hat. Instead of picking over the entire lot in the rack, as the General more than half expected he would, the boy selected the General's hat as if by intuition and handed it to him. "How did you know that was ray hat asked Gen. Wright, his curiosity aroused. "I didn't know that was your hat, boss," said the boy, "but I knowed hit was the hat you gimme." Odd Things About Money. The amount of money, both metal and paper, that is loss by the people of the United States enters importantly into the financial calculations of the Govern= went. A few years ago it was reckoned by a Congressional committee ,; that of the unredeemed fractional cur- rency outstanding, $8,000,000 worth had been lost .or destroyed. Accordingly, this amount was subtracted from the $10,000,000 previously appropriated for the redemption of these small "shin- plasters," and was transferred td` the fund for the payment of pensions. It is now believed by treasury experts that not more than $1,000,000 worth of the frac- tional currency has been destroyed or lost. They are confident that of the $15,- 000,000 in such notes as yet outstanding, $14,000,000 is in the hands of persons who hold them as curiosities. Many are owned by collectors, but there are hund- reds of thousands of individuals who have retained specimens "just for fun." However, only a few dollars' worth of them are handed into the treasury every year, and Uncle Sam will doubtless re- main just so much ahead. Out of the $20,100,000 worth firstissued in 1863, $4,- 000000 remains outstanding. There were fcursubsequent issues, including three - cent and five -cent notes, which aggre- gated $4417,000,000. Of these $11,000,000 remains unredeemed. Of the eve -cent notes 45 per cent. are outstanding, of the ten -cent notes 30 per cent., of the twenty- five -cent notes 20 percent., and of the fifty -cent notes 11 per cent. Small cop- per coins are lost in such enormous num- bers that the Government is obliged to keep on coining cents at the rate of several millions of them every month. They change hands so often as to be sub- ject to a multitude of accidents, and ow- ing to their small value they are not taken care of. This is no cense of regret to Uncle: Sam, inasmuch as he buys the pennies in blank from a firm in Con- necticut at the rate of 1,000 for 81. • On ria chin ' tho mint in Philadel his whence all of them are issued, they have merely to be stamped. There are 119,- 000,000 old copper pennies somewhere. Nobody knows what has become of them, except that once in a while a single specimen turns tip in change. A. few years ago 4,500,000 bronze two -cent pieces were set afloat. Three millions of them are still outstanding, Three mil- lion three -cent nickel pieces are scattered over the United States, but it is very rarely that one is seen. Of 800,000 half - emits, which correspond in value to Eng- lish farthings, not one has been returned to the Government for reooinage or is hold by the treasury. Congress appro- priates from $100,000 to $150,000 yearly for recoining the uncurrent silver coins' now in possession of the ,treasury. These are mostly half -dollars, and are not circ ciliated 'because there is no demand for there, Not long ago the stook of them The Ambassador's Wit. Some years ago, in Paris, some people were discussing the discoveries of Colum- bus in the presence of the late Lord Lyt- ton, the British embassados. Colomb, I shall explain, is the French for Celumbus, and la oolombe is the French for "the dove." "It is very singular," some one observed, "that la Oolombe discovered the Old World and le Colomb discovered the New." "Yes," replied Lord Lytton, "but infinitely more curious is it that the one came from Noah and the other came from Genoa." Clever Underwriting, In the palmy days of the clipper service —long before the great insurance com- panies were founded—there lived in New Yord a wealthy banker, who did a thriv- ing business underwriting vessels for the Quaker merchants, who then lived on East Broadway. It came to pass that the late Joseph Barker had the ship Patience insured by this banker to a considerable sum, and the ship being overdue, he tried to get additional insurance. The banker asked so large a premium that Mr. Barker deferred receiving the overnight, to advise his partner in the matter, As a consequence of the conference of the owner of the Patience, Mr. Barker walked to this friend's counting -house on Pearl street the`next day—a beautiful summer morning—to cancel his order. The banker sat at his open window, and Mr. Barker called from the street: "Eriend M—, if thee has not made out those papers, never mind. We've heard from the ship." "Oh, they're all made out," the banker called back, and stooping at his desk, he added his signature, the one needful thing to make the papers legal. He hur- ried to the street and thrust the docu- ments into Mr. Barker's hand. The old Quaker read them carefully, noted the banker's signature still wet, folded the papers deliberately, and replied: "Yes, Friend M—, we've heard from the ship. She's lost." Not Particular. The story of a recent application made to Senator Blackburn by an old negro from Kentucky portrays the eagerness to secure something from the government, whatever form the prize may take. The Senator was one day informed that "Old Mose" nad arrived from Woodford county, Kentudky, and was waiting to consult him privately on "er 'portant mrttah." "Well, Moses," began Senator Black - smiling caller Black- burn, as the g was ushered into his presence, " What brings you. to Washington ?" "Mars Joe," replied Mose impressively, "I'se got 'portant business, sah. I wants er calico," "You want an orfice•S Why, Mose, what can you do?" "Do, Mars' Joe? What does every- body do dat's got an orfice ? Bless yer heart, Mars' Joe, yer don't un'erstand ole Mese. I ain't lookin' fo' work, sah, I only wants orfiee." Senator Blackburn, with a mu eh q"rionsness as he could command, assnred, Mose that he was powerless to assist to an "orfide," but that he might pro- vide employment in sono private concern. Old Mose's face fell but soon brightened. "Well,, Mars' Joe," he said hopefully, "et yerkain't got er orfice for me, sah, jes' bitistlo eroun' an'' gib me or pension. I ain't at all 'tickler, stili.'? Yaricocelo, Emissions, Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness, Aleut, Stricture, Syphilis, Unnatural Discharges, Self Abuse, Kidney and Bladder Diseases Positively Cured by TlieNew 111.et �o0TretMdntflWOMEN' • You can Deposit the Money In Your Bonk or with Your Posimgster to. be paid us after you are CURED under a written Guaranteel Eel?Abuse, Excesses and Blood Diseases have wrecked the lives of thoneands of young men and middle aged men. Tho farm, the workshop, the Sunday school, the office, the rofes- .ions --all have its viotims. Young man, if you have been indiscreet, beware of the futare. Middle aged men, you are growing prematurely weak and old both sexually and physically. Consult tie before too late. NO NAMES USED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT. 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