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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-5-3, Page 7itl '-f MAY 3, VV. mearaver-,serr:ra r arc.nerst.rwe^saseneas.:: i,iti.ili , op rant stony bill, and tilsep eareti m every direction to the interior of Okla. hotrstOu, the radlrund trach, when the signal fnr the at ret tees given, stood a lot of 'nen. Thet luted neir ws,ene mal' Iterses, but they ware let robbed to settle in 1rlrlahnma tell the dreg. Ir ii:' •ring their email ail hnn- ella , that. •r .,tut ie.ldiy eu fo.,t, Half an hour afterward the spot which only 't true 'o Ila Peepte--Helen esm id 1n(detente short time before had echoed the nolle and hustle of 4,000 people wan quid: and lonely again as the defied, and in the distance, toward the north, could be sexn the outlines of dust raised by the rapidly moving troop of cavalry under command of Lieutenant' Waite. At 1 o'clock there dashed past this spot a train of ton curs, each filled to its ex- treme capacity with a motley crowd of hu? milky. They stood in the cars closely packed together, on the platforms and on the atopa, on the tops of the cars, on the ea - gine on the tender, everywhere. Stopping for n moment et tiro border to take up a fow newspaper correspondents, it was off again to,, t•1Gnthrio. Guthrie was reached at 2o'clock, On the way, horsemen and wagons were soon doth• ing across the country in every direction. Hero and there a man was seen driving his stalked and turning the sod. This was art hour only after noon, and at least twelve miles beyond the border. How did these men get there? Perhapn they broke through Airf jA 1S INiIIABITED, 'I';;NG THOUSANDS CROSS THE LINE. An • . oenex Prairies or the coNState 0. the opening, The fuhtre historian of the State of Okla. home, itnmirth of material, Inc his work, will find in the records of the early period of the commonwealth full of striking episodes and picturesque incidents. Foremost among dress in Importance end historical interest will he the events of April 22, 1880. That day is destined to live long in the memory of the people who witnessed the birth of tho now State. It was a conspicuous landmark, too, in the annals of the whole country. Never before in the history of the United States have 10,000 people sat patiently around a piece of land, awaiting for menthe, years even, the day upon which they should receive pnrmissioti to talus possession. Never before hate so many people rushed simultaneously upon a given centre, Never before has thereboen so little land to ho dis- tributed nntong so many people. Never was the difference so marked between supply and demand. Why, according to a most moderato estimate, at least trots 5,000 to 5,000 people camped in Guilt vie :'rote. An equal author couggr egated at Oklahoma City. S,•u t ely less cart be the number of those who went to Kingfisher. 'These include the mar. dant:, the profesimad nue:, the speculators, as a rule. By far the greater number aro the actual eettiere, They cannot ntttnbor mach Ice, titan 12,000. liaif that many °rot et the railroad bridge at the watt Fork of pato Arkansas River the day before the terri- tory w•as opened up, and it is contteded that far larger crowds were awaiting the opening day at Purcell on the southern border of Oklahnma, then, This Sues ,rob take into account boomers who entered by other butlosapopnlar trails. Altogether, however, it Boerne a low oetimate which giros 25,000 as the number to which Oklahoma gave shelter on that memorable April night, Was there ever such sudden Tait FtltsT To nEACII mor, 10100. influx of o nlation in the days of the Cali- fornia geld fever, or during the greatest ox• citemeat of the discovery of oil in the fields of Pennsylvania? No; the case enema enique, the experiment a now one. Itis not likely over to be repeated, certainly nob on snob it scale. Punctually at noon a trumpeter sounded the, ''dinner call." It was the signal agreed upon for the start. Immediately there went up silents and cheers. A hundred pistols discharging their contents into the air but faintly echoed the joy, the enthusiasm, the feeling of relief in the part of the crowd that the supremo moment had arrived at last. Away dashed the horsemen in mad gallop, lashing their horses as if life depended upon reaching the hill yonder. They werefollow- ed closely by buggies, buckboards, and road wagons, and the roar was brought up by the heavy drays, all lashing up that steep in - aline. Clouds of dust obscured the fore- ground. Through it at times those who re- mained Lehind, caught glimpses of their friends an they galloped away. "There he is," cries an old woman, clap• Ping her hands, " there, do you see, on the white horse, there he goes." The white horse is the first to disappear behind the Greet of the hill, A s000nd only, and another rider is lost in the little cloud of dust raisod by the rider on the white 1 horse. "01, he can't beat our white mare," proudly exclaims tiro old woman. It is her son, the only child, who rides the mare, " Good luck to that son of yours " is the wish of the bystanders, as the old woman slowly climbs into her canvas -covered wagon, picks up the reins and urges the team of sleepy mules to strain and haul the creaking old wagon out of the ruts, and drag it with lug nttTltt--UIt°aelN(S TIDO CANADIAN DIVER. deliberation up the hill to follow the others. 2:lte mucl race continues. They aro all good horses, and they are .all mounted by fearless ridere, They jump the boulders and ditches. Titoy rush down an inline at breakneck speed, all tho time urging their anhmale with lash and Spur. hero one is overtaken, there one stumbles and falls ; but leis for a tnoment only That he is delayed. Up he pnlle the boast, and away ho goes again, Five minutes after tit, giving of rho signal not a single rider is to be seen on too north side of rho hill, In the meantime tho wagons wore ninth - ling at good speed up the hill, their tenors in many instances having no saddled horses and depending upon Welt in scouring good land. There wee no idea of keeping to the road any longer. Itaon behind blishes, out, of the ground tee it were, wagon after wagon mode its appearance. With the atm as their only vuiclo. thov ‘lashed .across Cha A I MOMO fAY0UT. the lines in the night, or they were soma of the old Payne boomers, who have been hid- ing in the woods of Oklahoma for a year or mom In either event they were there con- trary to law. But the worst offenders against tho late wore met with itt Guthrie. When the train arrived there, it found the land adjoining the station staked out and at least 500 people occupying it. These peo- ple had had a meeting in the morning, had adopted le town map, had decided upon the mimes of two streets, one running north and south to be named 1larrieon-ave„ in honor of the President, the other ivinmtord-ave., in honor of rho Editor of "The Kansas City Times," which has for many years made the cause of Oklahoma end the boomers its own. The crowd which jumped from the train longbofere it had stopped, and rushed wildly up the hill with stakes and flags and axes in their hands, ready to locate their claims, found not only corner lots, but whole streets and sections of the future capital of the Ter. ritory of Oklahoma ocoupiecl by people who had by some means or other ceenrml an en. try to Oklahoma. "r• The Oklahoma Netvs "P ublishod at Guthrie, though printod still in Winfield, Kan„ was Bold to a few curiosity and relic hunters from the top of a grocery box. Photographers wore busy in every direction, taking pictures of the crowds as they were being discharged by each succeeding train. The houses erected are as yet only "tents," but they spring up, like mushrooms, in a few hours. When the sunset, at least 800 tents covered the hillside and the plain be- yond, and a thoueand people probably with- out any covering except their blankets, and nothing to lie upon except the ground. Up to the present time the citizens of (Guthrie have had no opportunity to discuss the propriety of building au opera house, but a circus is already on its way and the con- etruction of a big hotel, the next best thing. to an opera hon e in the West, is understood to be in contemplation. . The general good behavior of the Kansas boomers has been marked, Under very try- ing oirntmstancee, they have carried them - salvos with a restraint and a coif.possession at variance with the absurdly sensational statements which have found their way into print from time to time, and which seem to imply that the boomers from Kansas were disorderly and dangerous, On the contrary they have born themselves good-humoredly and without violation of tho law. Tho sights and scenes incidental to the opening were picturesque, striking and not lacking in humor through which a touch of pathos sometimes showed. Ono ohi.fashion. ed "prarie schooner," that had evidently been on the move constantly during the pest quarter of a century, drifted through Kansan City en route for the promised land. It had the usual complement of three or four scrawny dogs, a big rooster, two or three kittens, several dirty faced children, and a lank couple representing the head of the family. It was an Oklahoma outfit, a duplicate of the "Pikes Peak or beat," aggregation that was picked off by Indiana not a score of years ago. The old man looked as if it was already a case of genuine "bust" with him, so far as money was con- cerned, and the semi-humaroue inserlption printed upon either aide of the "schooner" indicated is wets not a stranger to the lead. ing ,attractions of some of the Western States. In fact he had evidently tried them all and got the womb of it each timo, Those ' were the words, printed in largo black let- ters, thatpedestriana read .r c "Chinch Buged in Illinois, Cicloaned in Nebraska,. White eapad in Indiana, Bald knobed in ivlissoury, Pro- hibited in Kansas, Oklahomy or bust." Paper collars. The caprices of fashion order many thong. es in neon's apparel, but it is almost safe to say that the return to popularity of mho ono° all-provailing paper collar is about as probable as the return by the nineteenth century youth to the powdered wigs, cock. ed hate and knickerbockers of their colonial predecessors. Attd yet a decade and a half ago the paper collar, with its muslin foun. dation and ite glossy veneer, was almost universally worn, It is now stated, es a reminder, of the onetime popularity of this collar, that between the years 1860 and 1870 over 1,000,000 of the (oilers wore soil daily. The extent of yearly sales of thew collars nowadays amount to about )1.,0,000, It is scarcely memory to add that tho paper collar atilt reigns enpronto in the back- woods, and -that the circulation of this arti. ole of apparel is merely confined to the country places. It ie tlitdicult to persuade oneself that this collar was °eco the dear narticnlar"fact "of for vomit/ and old num .nn✓nf, .rot V rumetz, Ab Yrrvs first introduced to the favorable notate of the public by a wcll.knawn New Yorker, to young man about town who had the courage of Iris couviebions and hie taste. The dude," el that day wore as quick then as they are now to " cateh on" to a good thing, and the paper collar entered upon the long career of popularity. --N. Y. Tribune. THE VANDERBILTS• The Ruler 'Pastes and llnny (btitiullt'e er the Richest Aiaericene. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Mead of the Vanderbilt family, is as ordinary a looping man as you will Lind in a day's walk. fie look, like a wall -fed and prosperous banker, and to see hint pa,sing the plate tut fit. Bar- tholomew's Church on Sunday morning, no one would dream that lie could draw his check for Si50,000,000. Thorn ie nothing about him and his wife in the slightest de. area showy. They dress well, but never loudly. They give fortunes to charity every year, but never ostentatiously. 'fltoy give elaborate entertainments, but the facts never get into the newspapers except as s000nd bend. In a word, they are as modest, gentle and affable tt, any maple whose income is nob over $2,0(10 a year, It is interesting to Irnow that the entire family goes its fur religion, art and litera- ture, Even the children are rrtligiou in- clined, and there is not a boost sal.. of im- portance or an art stele er to briew.bree sale, where there it likely to be a t'at's piece of lace, embroidery or china, at which the Vnnri,rl•iles are not represented. Tho Indict of the family are accomplished tt'mtten. They embroider, paint, sing fairly well, are eleven in eneiteur tltemtriteals and recitations, and well reial and can perform en raeveral usical instruments. When they plea an enterta.nntent at their hoose they employ the best talent the metropolitan stage adonis, the best singers from the opera - house for their guests, and frequently artists of the ealiln•e of ('oquelin and Jane Heeling to recite for them. Their afternoon teas aro marvele of good taste. Guests comp and go as they please. There is no restraint, ane all the pretty so- ciety buds fined it advantageous 10 shelter under the wings of the daughters and wives of this wealthy family. Even for an after- noon reception the refreshments are of the most elaborate character. Yet there is no vulgar extravagance anywhere visible. There is nlways enough champagne to fill a hogs- head. The Vanderbilts have established the English fashion of decanting the cham- pagne into pitchers, and it is served with- out the froth, in regular Continental fash- ion. The wino and supper are always serv- ed separately. The family is never too gnv or too much occupied to pay strict attention to devotion- al exercises, and every Sunday morning they aro found in their pews at church. They walk to and fro. They believe in giv. i:1,, their horses a clay of rest. Tho aggre- gate Vanderbilt fortune is placed at $450,- 000,000. The family is the richest in the world, and it ie now indisputably at thehead of social Now York. The vest wealth, tho tact, the education and the good brooding of tact third and fourth generations have 00- complished their purpose. --Philadelphia Times. Gold lu'0-tinsva:il Republic. Tho gold discoveries in the Transvaal lie. public of South Africa arc now bringing the hone of the Dutch Boers into great repute. Very little is known here of that far away country except its name. The town of Johannesburg contains 15,000 habitants Two years ago it was a peaceful farm. There bre seventeen mining companies in the Trans- vaal, and the rise in tho value of their shares has been remarkable. The gold is found in a peculiar conglomerate rook resembling pudding stone, which is made up of quarts and pebbles cemented together by a highly fcrrouginous earth. The precious metal es in the cement not in the quartz, and is in particles so fine that it cannot bo discerned by the eye and will float on orator. The rock is crushed by machinery and the gold collootod by quicksilver. The machinery in noels manufactured in Chicago and England. Both coal and petroleum shale are found in quantities in combination with both lead and copper. Very extensive deposits of iron ore are found in the Transvaal. These were worked in a rude way by the natives Kafforo and Zulus before the country was occupied by Europeans. Tho area of this highly favored country is about 120,000 square miles. The Government is a Republic,and ie just now afflicted with a surplus arising from the tax on mining companies. The money will bo applied to internal improve. meats, much needed, which have bean im. possible of execution heretofore. The Trans. vent will be put in railway communication with both Capetown and Durham. At pre- sent there is 300 Hailes of stage travel from the former, and 207 from the latter to Joh- annesburg. Development or coal ix Canada. It is well known to geologists that in many ports of western Olinda there are ex- tensive coal deposits, the suocessful working of whioh must be of great importance in the development of the imperial tratic through the Dominion and on tiro Pacific. A largo block of land, in which are thick and ex- tensive seams of anthracite coal, has lately been worked by a Canadian company (the Canadian Anthracite Coal Company, Limit- ed), in the Caecado district of the Bow River Pass, and with excellent results. This land covers the cropping? of the veins, which dip from 32' to 60' in the side of the mountains, whioh rise from 500 feet or 600 feet, to 2,000 feet above the croppings. A tunnel 200 feet long has been driven, and this is 45foet above the water level and cuts through 22 seams pf coal, Three of these ,eamee aro being worked. The overlying loam mecum about 0 foot, of whioh 7 foot euro coal ; the middle seam has from 3 feet to 3 foot 6 inches of clean hard coal; and the underlying seam is aboub 5 feet 8 inches, w ith 10 htohes of elate near the 'centro of the seam. These are too only swung as yet practically tested, but from then about 15,000 tons of coal have been token mid shipped to the Pacific coast. The coal has been taken to San ]Francisco, whore it has boon graded as No, 1 free -burning white - :18h anthracite. As yob the work which the local Canadian company have been able to do has been more of a prospeoting ohmmeter than mining for the mnrkeb, and so an e ndeavor is being made to open we, the whole of this extensive Boal -field by the em- ployment of British capitol,—London Times. .1 Prose in With. Uncle Tont -"Get anything to do Loaner. mw, Jack 1" Jnek•—"V es ; I've got to go down town to try it wase." Uncle'.reu--" Then you've got a client at last?" ,lack._ "Ole ! this ease isn't in court ; it's at a wine merchant's," ---Life, • THE t1U -:iN T{' Ol`TLA1V, DONALD MORRISON WHO WAS RE' CZNTL.Y CAPTURED 15 QUEBEC. Thr litslery ora tfvpnte Veldeb cnlnda:lied' rte dllu..'•htd ..ml 0101r11 ha« Erigaged1 Me Attention of the idem real Pollee for menthe, • Donald Merriam, the megautic outlaw who wan recently captured near Springhill,) Quo., through the ihstrumettality of Detee•I Rye MuMahon of the Montreal police force, is described tie a blonde, pen fah• that at a little distance hie hair and mustache seem gray. The history of his ease is intet'eeting reading, The events which culminated in' the shooting of Laoius N. Warren by Morrf. son, originated years ago in a dispute about' the Morrison farm which culminated in 1883, at which time Morrison was in the North -I wast. At the request of hie father he came, Dtaat.0 ituitlI MON. (tome and found man n considerable debt against the farm. This he succeeded in payor off, and after remaining nearly two genre he wished to};n away again. Ile of- fered to resign alt(lalm on the farm if his father would pay him $$400, but the old man, unable to raise the amount, said he would give him 8100. Certain parties hav- ing tried to influence the father so that he night not make any arrangements to pay Donald for the money and labor lee had in- vested, the latter took action against his father for $900, rind as ho did not appear in court the ease went by default. Donald's' lawyer wrote the old man, demanding pay- ment of thg$900, and the letter;being shown to Major McAuley he offered to take a mortgage on the property for $1100. There, was at the time a mortgage on the farm held by Murdoch Morrison, Donald's brother. It was originally for some five hundred odd dollars, but Donald had reduced it to throe lundrod. When the other mortgage was taken by McAuley lee paid off this one of $300, gave $400 in cash and a promissory note for the balance of $400. On the margin of the note it wan stated that the amount when due was to be used to pay off in part: the new mortgage of $1100. It turned out that the )tote did not bear interest as agreed upon, and Morrison, when he learned thio, applied to the court, asking that the, mortgagebesetasideasfradulent, as he was afraihe would not receive the $000 hb claimed. The =ewes put into the hands of a Sherbrooke lawyer, but before it was deoid o ;Morrison P d 110 � )son utaP the farm at auction, it was sold in Sem ember, 1886. McAuley and was the purchaser, but he offered to let the Mor- risons have the property back, if they paid the amount he had given and the costs in- curred. This they refused to do, and as the farm was of little use to McAuley, he sold it to a French Cauadian named, Duquette. Disputes of one kind and another arose, Morrison advising Duquette to leave the place or there would be trouble, while Mc- Auley told him to stay and not to bother about Morrison,whom the ma could got put in aol Incr his threar said hoot. Shortly after thin opieode some one fired into the house Duquette was living in,.and later on the homestead and buildings were set on fire. Morrison being was as the incendiary, rad was a warrant t as issued for his arrest a given to a man named Ludes N. Vl'arren.' Morrison indignantly denied the charge of arson, and, it is said, threatened to shoot any one who attempted his arrest. Warren, on the other hand, -declared he would serve the warrant and capture Morrison dead or alive. Theconsoquencowas that when they met some time afterwards in the village of Lake Megantio, each of them recognized that he had to deal with a desperate character. Accounts differ greatly as to what occurred at the meeting, but the following is Refer as can be learned, the most accurate: Warren accosted Morrison on the street and said he had some business to transact with him. Morrison refused to listen to him and told him to keep out of the way. This was con- tinued for some time, until Warren, exaap°. rated at the other's conduct, chow his revol- ver Fran his pocket. In the opinion of some ho intended to shoot, while others think it was merely to compel Morrison to go with him that he produced his weapon. Morrison apparently inclined to the former opinion, for uo sooner did he see Warren's movement than he whipped out his own re- volver and "dropped" the unfortunate titan. Now that he is n prisoner tato question as to whether ho or Warren wtui to blame will be decided before the courts of justice. A Seerpias eulctdes. A writer in Nature maintains that brutes do sometimes commit intentional and wilful suicide, and in proof of the fact he narrates the following incident. At 1!ladras a scor. pion of enormous size was captured and con - tined in a glues box. In order to examine hie prisoner the reporter had the box re- moved into the sunlight, whereupon rho scorpion appeared to become greatly excited. The light and heat seemed to effect it pain- fully, and the reporter ]raving heard that a scorpion which had been surrounded with fire would kill itself, reeolvel to make an experiment somewhat of that sort. Tak- ing it lens, he concentrated the rays of the Mil upon the book of the unfortunate score pion. The effect wan instantaneous. The animal sprang wildly about, the box in which it was confined, whistling and spitting with rage, hour times the eruol a cperimont was renewed withottt further cheer, hub at tiro fifth, the sem:ppion raised its tail with the rapidity of llglntnfng, and plunged its sting foto ite own back. from the sting there waft ton emission of lurid; and in one half of a minute the poor secs pian was dead. Thio incident proves nob only that a brute may actually:mum:it suicide, but also the feat (which has been disputed) that a poisonous animal may die of its own ?hien. ;tit EngbWlt 0110.1 el' the Wide, '.Ciro realistic descriptions of the wonders of au American dude's toilette to which the New Yorlt papers hater given such prams. nonce Iwo oxoitod wonder and admiration in too breasts of :Englishmen. A dude hi his war -paint, says an itnglislt society paper, "is an object Worth looking et, A. waist- coat embroidered with seed.nen.rls. `t nova. of • ...,.,..,..,.......mitran o,tnictsznTM : tat om^o - T ^was geld running up his trousers, underclothing of pink silk, his manly boamn em. rased is a corset of apple.groen actin, he may well re. lord hiutself as a pereonilioation of the art , of dress in its highest development. Nor thea he aondescen:I to simplicity even when no ono is looking. Ifo sleeps the sleep of�^r�t a use ratan made perfect in u night-shirt of (D white China silk, with collar of cardinal red y and deliocttody embroidered cufre, the fronts artfully peewit with threads of geld. No wonder the young gentleman tends little time for polities. Like'Browning's pretty woman, ids own beauty must be his only duty ; all hope of grace beyond lies there.' CURIOSITIES OF RAILWAY HISTORY. 'Oddi 'emblems happening When 1111) Tram. Was 1'onng. It is curlew: to know that the first sure. enough railway in the world was laid he. tweet' Manchester and Liverpool in 1830, less than sixty years ago. It was twelve years later before the pro - donee of English ministers of stat° would permit their Severign to travel by rail. Prince Albert traveled frequently on the Great Western, and often at to tremendous rate of speed, though ho would sometimes say to the conductor, "not quite so fast next time, Mr. Conductor, if you please." But the lint Hine Queen Victoria took to railway trip toms "n the autiverssry of the battle of Wutertr. June 19t.h, 1712. ht f r n t Louis Philippe having dome to the con in i e thas a Ingo!,, rf a tel which w -,s ado enough - t bi t subje -tom. trot' safe enough for bin self, 11,11'110 t pa •pal train for a royal trip with hi:: family to hia nhateau at lltzy ; but was unexpectedly ride -tracked by a solemn resolution of his council of titin• fetters to the effect that the chief of the state ought not to the sit hazarcicmo to mode of conveyance. u) Smelters had no toleration on the early (jq English trains, ,1, certain foreign gentleaaa - man who presumed to sm',ko his cigar was warned to desist, but continaed to tate a sly cp whiff while the train was iu m"hton. An- other passenger, however, its an tluer coupe°, smolt the offensive odor, and complained to the guard that somebody on the train wan smoking, The guard failed to abate the nuisance; the testy passenger broughb suit, tend recovered damages against the com- pany. rOne of the most recent improvements in ailway management in England is the ap- plication of photography in many ways, such as the examination of bridges or tun- nels which conductors allege to be giving way. It is the photographer, and not rho engineer who makes the inspection, and it is found that what might escape the eye of rho engineer is never overlooked by the eye of the camera. Perhaps the oddest railway in the world is a oat -corps at a station in the London and North-Western where many thousands of sacks aro constantly lying. The cats era fed daily with milk only, and all appropria- tion is made for their support. The rats aro thus kept from destroying the sacks • and a number of women aro employed to „„ mend the holes which are made in the sacks 1 (j (,� by the rats which the cats of the company 1 don't catch. 0 0 laele i..L1 0 ANT PICKLES ARE GOOD. (mss N"1 Ipp 00 SUS a s n Birifne &ntslnrrrnan t'rita Hag :Eaten Thousands of Them. Shotdd a Maine lumberman find a stump or rotton log with thousands of big blank WAS inj it iso scoops the torpid insects from their winter domicile and fills his dinner pail withthem, says the Pltbaburg Dispatch. Whale be acts back to his cabiu at night he astshis pail in a cool place until his sup- per is ready, then brings it forth, and, while helping himself to pork and beans, helps himself also to ants. There is no account- ing for tastes, and he esteems a handful of ants a vvery choice morsel. Ants are said by those who have tasted them to have a peculiarly agreeable, strong- ly acid flavor. Tho woodsmen, whose food consists largely of salted meat, baked beans and similarly hearty victuals, naturally have a craving for something norm. " Ants aro the very best of pickles," said an "logger," tvho confessed to having de- t'ourec thousands of them. "They are °leanly insects, and there ie no reason why they should not be eaten if one can get over ,little squeamishness caused by the thought of taking such crawling things into hie stomach. There is nothing repulsive about them, and whoa a man has learned to eat the creatures as pickles he prefers them to any other kind." t3 �!a 0 w 1—'i r+ Ell 7f frfr 4�. Pass erit- li'tnte Could htit3. CD ;.rasa "Miss Laura," began the youth with a flushed face and n tremor in his voice, "I COMIC this evening to ask yon—" i "One moment please, Mr. Hankinson. Willie, you are makingwith those blocks, You'd better take them into too much noise the other room. "To ask you," resumed the man, coop - ping his "brow with a trembling band, ""if p�=., you— tt Willie, take those blocks instantly and go"If you have tried that new headache remedy you said the other evening yon were going to take, and if ib did you any good ? I am nearly wild with a headaehe to. night." "1 have forgotten alt eiroum0tances to which you allude, Mr. IIankin,on," chid hkfiis Kajonos, coldly. "Willie, you may remain if you wieb. "—True Flag, Realism In Jenrliallalil. "I don't want yor old paper no more, 'a yo may jest stop it to wunst,' "What's the natter?" "Any paper thet'll lie lilte your'n does ain't fit to place inter a refined and educated houeehold litre mine is." "Ras it been lying ?" "Hoz it I Well, I should say it had, rayth,r. Only last week it sod in too items from goer taown that Rev, Janes Po ram uv Bosticg filled the pulpit at the Linton, church in Birobville Deestrick." "Well, didn't he b" '"Ne, spree, he didn't. Why, he's a little light weight whipper snapper, woe doit'b weigh no more'n eighty-five pounds, and it would take 200 ay such as him for fill scut' pulpit or cum anywhere near it, Wove got a full grown pulpit, toot cat'tbe filletlby 00 one suoh boy ez he is,"--Uatvillc Breeze. I-� 0 0 t'tett' Thcy 010 11, Vo ksleire. There s a legend told in to gc:,,t Vc rkshiro town to too effect that, after several couple), had been sinntltaeouely married at the parish church, cue bride forum her bride- groom walking away with another lady on his arm. The curate, summoned to herald, remonstrated with the dofattlecr and be. sought hint to take) his proper partner. "Nay," said he, " a`v was married to this I 'un, and I ionto her t' best," There is no Tenon why this 'should not be sober truth. —The Cornbill kfageeine.