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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-23, Page 6Th lanestan latinenzLh his example, if emit a thing were necessary, he was aggressive, and he cordially believed Iteteerwer IN STAMPS. ' in leusale, where there's amanita in every might he tat:irth inaitating- If they felt tilts that his intereet in the Welfare of sows.4........ breath they arew, am treoizing him, they mild ,not, 0o so to outsiders and nominal insiders, was as good Some Itramons holatations ;Wade by Enthu. Where eaerYbeda naeanaese that alesest breaks much extent, something in his manner, ex. as the best. Many and many a time, with - eiSet1,0 OtalOO1S804114 where they double up the alphabet and rudely oePt +theta in Presence a the gide, putting emphasis, weetld he talk about thee: Six years ago a businees man in thie oity, your jive brook it off, etioll dsPortmdat in restraint. Every week, " If Allen Swinger know anything at all who had plenty el money, determined to AuYouYou ohanoe to Meet aesemble day he Waa tO 12e seenain leis plaie, home. about hisself, his own self, and if be don't, collect Et Magnificent assortment of foreign 'Tis there they receatlY arranged eCnne intlUeLl" plough made, h W e I hands o l"ni lt t i Pgr theOiothehon handstwhere eithweertrt the question arise who do, but if go be, I am Postage stamps. For six years he has done 'tg zial tadend the ,peesiogiv ot owor young, not aginst none of taeir poets' selvations, it little else than pursue this weoupation. He That everybodya got ehave„ ana ot to have it Work, they would only git tbeir consent@ to give became connected with all the leading bad, Already it leas fauna its way to lands beyona the • - e . male Or fOOLIalOo seemed. to afloat in no wise Up their mean ways, aria then git right dealers in the world, and left with them SIAS,the feeling of manhood a ,s thas homely straight IV and oome aright straight along orders to secure rare Verieties at any price. wain uhge—there ! Werehew i 1 kuew adheve clad, he kept at his work. Right often, as where everybody that can't a rotten a He has already expended $25,000, and tle4B th eneate. the girls :withtheir brothers, or one with blinded with predatoe is obleeged ,to see, new a colleetion of about 14,000 stampe, ' etattea ueli a stubborn thing—it's bound to him of the ether,' were tiaing past, he Plain as elem and shet, id the Way they got This may include all the " adhesives," as A sneeze is s The more you strive to hush it up tlee neore it return. their selutation, end, if happeaing only to fire but brimstone Sp r inkle d on top Occasionally you read, and so do I, of post. to foliar so they 'mayn't git conswieed not there ere about 8 000 of them in existence, veonld take off Lis broaa brimmed hat, have its way, has to say, It likes to catch you unawaree, at chureh. or to be near the fence, come forward at of tbat, which every scenoe I ben converted age stamp collections coataining millions 60M0 such Place neyeelf, like a bran' eaatohed from the of different etaraps. Suet, things are notice cif diapesitiou to linger for a brief And when yeied :Oak your SWeeteSt 4hQNS' it °hat- On Sanoeys when there was meeting bureau', 1 ben astonished that • anybody myths, unless they ooneist of in. wrinkles up yeur face t Ae'en the wain on beaded. knees an may to i" Horeb, a' mile or eo inland from the could ever be such a big fool as to think he numeralele duplicates. Perhaps deal. nd s prepare?,JoYnersa he put on his best, and looked the .could stand aryene, let alone both. Now ere and advanced collectors coneider Way (mite forget his piece the whilelte Tapes his equal of anybody there. Occasionally, asfor Henry Dawster, if he wasn't quite so the collection of M. Ferrari, son of sneezing wise, And 410 youhost, 'tiall in vain to try to look when one of the girls, had iidden there on thin skin, and if ,he could get his consents the Daehoes of Galatea, the finest oolltsotion r s at ease, horseback, accompanied by her brother, he to pitch in fouremaa•half (Ir. Swinger by of postage stamps in the world. It is said When ono is coming—there erenew / Great proposed to escort her home, and -bat not this phrase meant fore and aft) aginst to outrank even the famous Rothschild1 g heavena what a sneeze:- . often—acoepted the invitation to dinner worldlyans, and be more vigious ou them collodion, The Ferrari collection is worth And so this plague is coming, if 'tis not already whioh 11 was oastomary in eal country Babtisses, which if ,they ain't headed they a250,000, and its happy owner employe a here, neighborhoods to extend on such occa dons. gain' to take this whole country, same well-educated secretary who does nothing And while there's naught about it that the people . " Tora's a stirring fellow," said Will like the sand of Egyp', him and me together whatever bat attend to it. This seoretary need to fear, May to'llarriet one day, when, after some could git up rewivale WrOOSt a constant. classifies and pastes the stamps, and nor. It isn't kind in foreigners to on our people convers'ation with hiro as he eat up en his But I can't yit git him to make charges on responds with all the leading dealers of the spring, Whose time is so much °coupled, this hasty fence, they were paeeing on. 'em. That what I, call oomin' down out world, endeavoring to obtain what col. Bushin: thing, " Yes," she arieveered ; " I think Tom the pulpit and marehin' right on to 'em, lectors call " unobtainablee." The stamp' The people ou oppose ta amid -tare's soarcely any ..-, I./osier le a very. promising young uran ; right and lef t. Yit he's a good religions dealers frequently obtain speohnens of rare doubt That blow on blow they'll meet it till at last they handsome too, even in his homespun clothes. boy, same as a good Mettedia woman that stamp in queer ways. Not long a,go a It iuterieres with everything, and even lines like euspeet that he would have made a good la wyer." don't know how to be anything else, and I bookkeeper employed he' o Philadelphia these lova him ane 'ost a like he were my own merchant enteeed the office of the firm of wipe it out, I Are dull when intorrupted—theret Eerohew "Best as it is; indeed luoky, in my opin- child, and, in time, and spestual, when, he which Par. Hanes is a remitter, and throw - Another sneeze. ion. There's no good in a fellow tuba to git hisself a wife, I shall count on his ing a stamp on the counter asked whether rise too far above his raising. It's woll.for spreadin' hisself a000rdin' to his, talons, it was vvorth :anything. This was one of THE DOSTERS: Tom Doster that he could not go to the bar. which, jest betwix me and you, to go no the first stamps issued by, the oity He's proud enough, hard as he has to work, farder, he's got a plenty, more than any one more many years ago, and the bookkeeper of Balti-. and he cannot, if he ever tries, conceal his man's sheer, when we have the expennce to said he had found it on a letter of an old aspiring nature. I like Tom very well my- go along with 'ern." correspondent of the firm for which he ---.,_ AR0manee of Georgian Life self as a neighbor; but Hiram, especially Unlike as were these two, a friendship worked- Apparently the man did not of late, doesn't. Hiram &eye that Tom is amounting to affection united them. The think the stamp would briag more than 50 as proud as if he owned both our plantat• a,bsence of everything like envy in Mr. cents or a dollar. Yon can judge of his CHAP TERions and hilittle patch of I. ground besides." Swinger, instead the bounding pride he felt amazement, therefore, when he was offered s " I don't see why he might not feel as in Henry's superior gifts, and his eagerness a sum very far beyond this, and whioh The Joyners, besides fifty negroes, ownedproud es other people, brother Will.He's to help in such employment as he believed seemed to him fabulous. He parted with - a thousand acres of Ogeeohea bottom-land,young, handsom, intelligent, industrious, wonld develop and exhibit them to best the stamp gladly, and hurried out of the e extending southward to the Mays, who, withand of as good family as any, if they do advantage; on the other side, the young office as if he were afraid the money would as many slaves, paid taxes on over thirteenhave less property. I should not call pride man'smay performance of every service be asked back. Several days later this hundred acres. The mansion of the former, assigned, his confidence in the single-minded stamp was sold for 6260. One of the most the feeling that keeps him from looking np square, two -storied, with attic, was sitaateto those who are in more favored conditions. integrity with which Mr. Swinger deported famous collectors of the world is Mr. a few rods from the public thoroughfare lead -I should rather name it a sense of freedom, himself toward him, bound them, in not Tripling, an English member of Parliament. ing from Augusta on the Savannah, throughwhich every man who feels himself to be a long time, closely and fondly. in spite of He lives at Dulwich, not far from London. gentleman is bound to have." His collection, which is valued at a200,000, Gsteston, the county seat, to Milledgeville, his general sternness of manner and speech, then the capital of the etate. In a similar " Yes ; and that's just the way, as Hiram Mr. Swinger had much softness of spirit is mounted on cardboard and includes a house, with a somewhat more tastefulsasthat Ellen talks, and both of you are and considerable humor. The submission long het of what connoisseurs call the y, piazza, a mile below, a little removed fromrather imprudent in the way you treat Torn of a einner or any other kind of enemy " unobtainablee." Dozens and dozens of a neighborhood road extending down theDoster ; and I tell you now, Harriet, that would melt his ire to tenderness instantly. Par. Tapling's stamps are worth from $100 riverabaak to the Shoals, dwelt the Mays.Hiram especially doesn't like him." He could tell a joke with excellent effeot, to $150 apiece. Several weeks ago a very Equidistant, near the Gateston road, were"Oho He doesn't I nor do I and he would do so even when himself was small boy who has been selling stamps at 1 you, see. the Dosters, in their story-and-sehelf house, the brat of its ridicule, and his delight at intervals to a local dealer called upon him Well, Ellen and I meet amend our speech, who, with a dozen Orme and about three and be more circumspect in our behavior, such rehearsal was equal to his hearers' in with a United States stamp—I think it was hundred acres of land, rolling and much even if we cannot help oar tastes and the laughter thus provoked. He believed, one of the old" 80 cents "—and asked how thinner than their neighbors', were doingmanners." • and he so assured the young preacher often, much it was worth. This was a stamp t least as well as meld have been expecteThen she looked bo,ck with mock regret that he could Dever make important on. which sells readily for $10. But the lad ad.. The Joyners and Mays had been intimatelytoward Toro, who was working away as if tinned headway in hia profession as long as had never received more than 5 or 6 cents friendly always, and no neighbor had ever he had forgotten having seen and talked wiem." he remained single. His talks upon the apiece for his stampa before, and the dealer believed himth th self so dull a prophet as not to subject discovered some romance in his was afraid of frightening him at first by ome, Harriet,yon need'ttnpuon airs," being. mentioning a high value, so he told the boy have foreseen, long before : William and " CHit Harriet May and Hiram and Ellen Joyner "01 coarse not, before my brottier ,Vaill(To be Continued). , " It was a mighty good stamp." Then were old enough to be thinking about sweet- and especially before Hiram, of whose dis- offering $5 for it, he asked the lad whether hearts, thathose two families, like their pleasure he warns me. But," she added, What Americans Say of England. he would sell it at that figure. The boy t fine plantations, were destined in time to tease her brother, " they do say that Says Charles F. King, the American became soared, picked up the stamp, ran be United, and by a double bond. to Tom's cousin has grown to be handsomer educator : away and has never returned. He proba. The heads of both these Ninnies had de- even than him. I'll have to see for myself " The great commercial oeuntries to -day bly has an idea that it worth is a fabulous ceasedSo had that of the Dosters, the sun:a—Philadelphia News. last, besides his widow, leaving Thomas, before I can believe it." are, aocording to value, Great Britain, lately grown. to manhood, and two younger . " Wasn't that a pretty come off? He and United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Tom were to be two great lawyers, you Holland, Russia, Austria. Public Alen in Washington Who Were children. At the period in which occurred know; and their grand scheme has wound "The commerce of the British Empire, Born Under the British Flag. what this story is meant to tell, Hiram and up by Tom being, as his father before him including India, Canada and Austealia, is (Fred Perry Powers in Chicago America.) was, a conamon, hard-working farmer, and greater than the united trade ef France, William were about twenty-two, and Ellen There are fonr natives of England in his cousin a Methodiet preacher." Germany and the United States. The and Harriet nineteen and eighteen. Congress, and they are exactly divided But for the demise of Mr. Doster, " It wars rather strange. As for poor commerce of England to -day is about la between the two honses and the two parties. Tom, the disappointment was unavoidable, times as great as it was in 1800. Thar' Thomas would have had a better education. ee se es, of Nevada, Republican, and state college at the end of the junior year, cases, he has borne it not only patiently, increased sti sad, like a true man always will in each merce of France in the same time he Thie event made necessary his leaving the In Pasco, of Florida, Democrat; t ll more rapidly. Great Britain bat cheerfully. His cousin Henry, I doubt has the most trade with India, of all her Representative Crisp, of Georgia, Demo - in order to conduct the family business. To crat, and Representative Greenhalge, of not, is following what he believes to be the possessions- next comes Australia, and the necessity that called him away he yielded with more relactanoe because he line of his duty, and if so, that shows him then Canada. The United States imports Massachusetts, Republican, were born - in was to leave behind a very dear to be a true man also." only about half as much from Great England, but Mr. Crisp's parents were only cousin, with whom the expectation had been to "Everybody to his notion. Let us get . Britain now as in 1870, but she exports to visiting in Sheffield when he was born study and enter into a partnership for the on." They arged their horses to a brisker Great Britain nearly twice as much now as there; he dose not tell ns, however, ractice of law. Yet in this while he had pace, that soon brought them to the Joyn- in 1870. whether they were Americans, or from p era', where they tarried awhile before re- "England has over twenty thousand some other town in England. They brought learned quite as much of books as either of the yea:Ingle:ten his more favored neighbors, turning home. merchant vessels, manned by over two the young statesman here when he who after leaving the aaademy had been Henry Doeter was son of Tom's uncle, handred thousand seamen. Her commerce was under a year old. Senator Pane was two years at the University of Virginia, who dwelt several miles beyond Gateston, is protected by the largest navy in the brought to Blassachusette when quite where they had spent money to such fiures and whose estate was somewhat larger than world. She has established f ortified naval young, and was educated at Harvard. that their mothers readily assented togtheir that of his deceased brother. Everybody, depots for coal and provisions along Senator Jones was brought to this his parents, even himeelf, had been expect- the great ' routes of comment!. For ail country by his parents when he was less proposal to return home without academic than a year old, and Mr. Greenhalge was ing, ever since he first entered college, and example, in the Mediterranean are Gib - degrees. For three years past they had until just before he was to leave, that he ratter, Malta and Cypras ,• on the South' brought here early in childhood. Scotland been managing in some sort the goodly was to become a lawyer. But about a African route, St. Helena, Cape Town and has furnished us more members of this e,states left by their fathers ; but some said couple of months before graduation, at the Mauritius; on the East India route, Aden, Congress than any other foreign country. that but for their negro foreman the plant - head of hie class, during a revival meeting Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore and Hong Senator Beck, of. Kentucky, and Represent- ations would deteriorate faster. Much of atives Henderson and Kerr, of Iowa, and of the Methodist church in Athens, the Kong- Melbourne, eto., in Australia ; their time had been spent in fotahunting, •seat of the state university, he, who always Jauaaioa and Balize in the West Indices a' Farquhar and Leidlaw, of New York, were bird -hunting, and other fieldeports, in born in the land of Burns and oatmeal. had been piously inclined, became con- Halifax and Quebee in Canada. The sun horseback journeyings to Milledgeville and Senator Beak and Mr. Farquhar vinoed that he had a call to the sacred min- never sets on her jlag." Augusta, and in other ways which they re- received ao1demio educations before istry. His parents, not church members, Seal Ralph Waldo Emerson : garded their fortunes ample enough to allow. coming to this country. Col. Henderson but rather affiliating with the Baptists, " Eogland is anohored in the side of Each, however, had reasonably good moral came to this country at the age of six, and felt a double disappointment. Yet they Europe, and 'right in the heart of the character, and was frank enough to admit Mr. Kerr came here one year later. Mr. loved and reepected him too well to com- modern world. It has the best (trimmer - to his mother sometimes that, compared Laidlaw was a, dozen years old when his plain. He was as gentle as he was hand- dal position on the whole planet." with that of the Dosters, their place was parents brought him to the United States. some and gifted. While in college he had "Every natural deficiency is corapen- not kept up sufficiently, and that, uponIreland, fruitful mother of politicians, the good fortune to be popular both with sated by wonderful energy. The country, ground well knoven to be less produotive, the sends only four of her offspring faculty and students, Wrens° he deported though foggy and rainy, has furnished the Doster crops were better. Yet all along it to this Congress. Mr. McAdoo, of himself just as he ought before all. Of world with astronomical observations. Its had been hoped that after a while, partic• New Jersey, is one of the youngest olive complexion,browneyes and hair, his short rivers do not afford water -power, bat ularly when they had married and settled members of the House. He is only face on occasion would light into rednees as the land shakes under the thunder of the down to steady basiness, Hiram and thirty-six and is serving his fourth term in decided as aver painted the fairest cheek. mills. With no gold mines, there is more Williana would make good energetio, pros- Congress. Messrs. Clancey, Wiley and porous citizens like their fathers. When he was in animated declamation his gold in England than in all other oountries. Quinn are new members. Mr. Wiley was forrn of five feet ten swayed with a grace Woo far north for the vine, the wines of all The Maya were tall, slender, and fair- only four years old when hie parents more engaging because unstudied, even un- countries are in its dooks. 'No fruit ripens the JOynere of middle height, dark hairbrought him, and Mr. Clammy was brought conscious, and his voice, at all times sweet, in England but a biked apple,' says a and complexion • Ellen somewhat petite, here in childhood, but Mr. Quinn was rang sonorous and true as a clarion's. Hie French critic, but oranges and pineamples her brother stout and strongly set. The twenty•five or more when he came, and so college =tee had prophesied for him an are cheaper there than in tlie Mediter- girls were considered quite pretty after far as the biographies in the Congressional eminent career at the bar, and many felt remain" their separate styles', and their brothers Directory inform us he is the only man in regret more than surprise at the mamas • "A power," says Webster, "that has ' would have been slow to believe that Tom all hi t d d b l l l Jester, midway between them as to figure at, smiwhingy ae adieu o as as- keeping company with tthis Congressich, suddenly, as it named, he had re- dotted over the surface of the globe with Mr. Ginniwho required naturalization. e, of California, was born in ` „end complexion was considered by most eolved to pursue. At Commencement he her possessions and ' military posts, whose Newfoundland of Massachusetts parents // people rather be'tter looking than either, made his modest valedictory with much morning drum -beat following the sun and temporarily residing there. Mr. Grant, of / The education of the girls was exoellent for eche hours, oiroles Vermont, was born in the Province of / those times. It was only about a 'year sociates and acquaintances; then retarned the earth daily with one contintione and Q nebeci, of parents temporarily residing / back when they had come out of the female to his home, and went to preparing himself unbroken strain of the martial airs of Eng- there. Mr. Connell, of Nebraska, was born 7 academy at G-ateston, wherein they had for the solemn work that he was to ander- land." in Canada ; Senator McMillan, of Michi. spent all their years since very young girl- take. gen, in Ontario ; Par. Stephenson, of Wis- hood. This academy, founded and kept by CHAPTER II. The Greatest Lighthouse. , consin, in New Brunswick, and Mr. Caine, Rev. Mr. Wyman, a Baptist olergynaan, The t wo leading religious denomination; The new lighthouse at Honstholrn is the Mornaon delegate was born in the Isle native of Vermont, had, and most de- as now, were then nearly equally divided ie the most powerful in the world. The beam of Man and came to this country at the age servadly, a very high reputation, that had middle Georgie, the ascendency held by the is of 2,000,000 candle power, and shows of seventeen. • extended throughout the state and into Methodists in the towne and villages beins, clearly at Blokhns, a distance of thirty-five several ajoiniug.All branches taught in balanced by that of the Baptiste in thn ?Mies. It is produced by arc lamps, fed The Dust of Travel. Netv Ecgland seminaries, including music, rural districts, Not very many of the by De Meriten's dynamos, driven by steana d drawing, and painting, were in the course clergy of either had received a college edn. engines To prevent the extinction of the If you have been travelling any dietance on the oars don't wash your face in cold , which both the girls had made, not only cation, yet meffi any of them were very cient light through an twesident to the machinery water the moment yoa reach a washstand. with Betide:Alen, but high honors. Ellen preachers, and sonae eloquent to a high the latter is duplicated ; one at coming If played on the piano uncommonly well, and degree. The Methodists were well pleased into play ehonld the other fail. The ligyon want to remove all trace of dust and smoke rub your face well with vaseline or Markt, less skillful there, was a sweeter at the accession of a young man in whom is further supplemented in thick weather eagit off on a dry towel. er. The young men were (mite proud was etteh goodly promise. Brief prelimin- by two powerful skew. or fog tenixiltetra cold cream, and wipe The towel after the wiping will show you of theee accomplishments of their sisters, arias were required for the pulpit, and only worleing with compressed air. The fated, but for which it woe thought that they a few months after the time when Henry nation which a powerful light „exercises on where the dirt has gone. Then you may f might have exerted thenaselves more for Dosteza had coniated upon applying for wild birds is curiously illustrated by this wash your ace in hot water if you, will. There is nothing like hot, really hot, water their own developraent. As it was, they , adnaission to the bar he was preaching lighthotiee. It itil said fleet baeketftils of for the complexion. It keeps not only held to their fotainnting and other eaten, the gospel. So yorIng, and modest as dead snips, larke, starlings, etc. are pioked clean, but clear.—Boston Traveller. mute, each eatiefied apparently with the young, it was thciught well that for the up in the morning outside the tower. They thought that *lien the time should come for first year he should Work under the paid- kill themselves in dashingagainst the , It Might Become Useful. aubtraCting from the other's family be ance of one of the older and more pro. windows of the lantern. , ikiguf:. He—I terve you more than tongue can wOuld give in exchange a value regateded nonnced ended:terra Fortunate to both it venal to,that whieh he worild redeive, seentied that the Rev. Allen Swinger, a Example and Precept. .. , toll! e (thotightftilly)—Suppose you put it Thomas Doster had made it appear very a native of the ootaity, wag holding hie eietitt after leaving college that this move- Angry Vather—See here, Johnny, your headquarters' in Gaterston, and to him, rat mother tenet ate that you have been en:wk. in writing, George. Wient meant business. The vigor aria Goon- assistant in hie ' circuit,' Henay ; WAS Be- having won hiS Wife, ao the tradition went, take you into the vvoodehed and give you: a of fare): 1 "1"ermit me to eegltate' In the dorrelation of foreee it at a recognized pre- ..., -.......q.* itiMy With which he had Managed the farm signed. This gentleman, very tall and Intni- ing cigarettes. Waiter : " What will yeti have, Mies ? 'a . Frightened BoY—I em°k6a callY °he' sir' Customer (looking over the restaurant bill tadre Muth that in tinter?, years =MI6 had- et:Liar, had been in hia Youth d noted fighter, " Youamoked ono! I've a, gOod mind to beat toia up to perotiase two hundred more aortal end a familw Of negeowa For some by his conquest of a formidable rival, and fiegging," . perty Of atomid--" Waiter(ehouts tutees nOnsidetahle time Peolite had boon gaging he had not left behind all of his native , what a gyre young nian Tem limiter wen. oombativenees When he advanced upon a '‘‘‘ w1 71r, illdi do 11 aygoldi no° off father"tiiis time, m 0, seeing the 11611 to head server ; " Raked betena for ' . The INNite"f beleinghlg to the aarne church' whiligallthelsta lint:srergeTittodninatotialicif glisd that you pronaise not `to do it again. Bat. me." 'elated with the othet two asetilies, but not Theae are, it appears, 12,000 utiles of . hmriinecig Yintlekenl"pluiprelimeitncliget'obetqe°et gpoetiaoblid. eledtrie *tree now operated la the Neva nearly' faa often as thine with each other, against sinners in general, but prbnounced ., The yaing Mtn, particularly William May, epp.6nento Of illif o*h taidit Of the entire Smeking ofgavetto 1 The thought of it! " York sulaWaYa and 2,000 miles suslataided who wait of heartioe temPerartierit Chao certitude of which be never had felt a doubt ........................ from ntraotares of the eleveted reeds. girano, rather liked Torn, and in their own eincethe ao on whioh ha embraced it firet. ennt8he and teats will ham Ivo „roan The total qctent of wire in electric ..ervico ferhilies might go ad flit AO to admit that Yet heiwas, or he meant to be, as pious as of a t , in the City iri stated to be 35,000 miles, tt n. , THE ROWAN VOIOJE. ome Incidents wixich Go to Show Its Wonderful Influence Over Nan. 11 18 said by those who are competent to judge that an Engliehmen's voice indioates almost infallibly the social standing of its peesessor. Shalseepeare calls a " soft, gentle and low voice an " excellent thing in woman," and another observer, with is bappy knack at phrasing, says: A woman should never rain her voice above the singing of a kettle "; while another exclaines, " Let no one say it ie a matter ot indifference whet song is sung by a ohild's cradle. eft sounds through the whole life." There was a great thrill in a story that went the rounds of the papers some yeere ago because of its truthfulness to nature. A. brave New York fireman was climbing a ladder upon a blazing hoese, striving to reach a child who stood in the window of the fourth story. Tbe smoke became so blinding and the heat ao unendurable that the intrepid man wavered and paused. A shudder ran through the crowd, till an inspired wain called out, "Cheer him 1" Instantly the heavens were rent with a shout of paseionate enthusiasm that bore the sinking fireman upward on its breath, and the fainting ohild was soon in its mother's rime. We recall another instance : On the night of the ever to be deplored 15th of July, 1823, fire broke ont in the venerated basilica of St. Paul, in Rome. The terrified and lamenting populace gathered from all quarters around the tutored edifice, which had been filled from very early times With the most venerated religions relate, as well as v, ith the rioheat treasures of art. Paralyzed with fear and grief, the people stood in helpless awe, when a clarion voice rang out, "Save the arch, the gift of the fifth to the nineteenth century 1" The ory acted like an inspiration upon the crowd; every arm felt the thrill, and the etroh was saved. A still familiar instance of the power of the voice over a crowd is perhaps that whioh occurred at the raising of an obelisk in Rome, many years ago. For a long time no one could be found willing to attempt the work, but at length an aeohiteot, Do- menico Fontana, devised machinery by which to aocomplieh it. The risk was great. If the enterprise should miscarry, and the obelisk, partly raised, should fall to the earth, it might cause the death of hundreds, beside the destrnotion of the monument. A huge crowd assembled to watch the operation. To prevent confneion, an edict had been issued forbidding any one, on pain of death; to speak, or even make any noise. The !agnate to work and rest were to be given by the sound of trumpets. The silence of death reigned over the vast concourse as the first eignal sounded, and the machines began to work, and the levers to creak and bend under the great pressure. The obelisk rose steadily, surely. At first easily ; then with greater and greater difficulty, until it was within a few lines of the perpen- dicular. Men and beasts exerted themselves to the utmost, but the cables refused to work farther. It was a moment of despair. All seemed lost, when a brave sailor boy, perched aloft, risked his life and all by calling out in the deed silence, "Wet the ropss 1" Che word was an inspiration. The architect and master workmen saw it at once. Ae if the voioe of the eailor boy had electrified them, they wet the ropes, which contracted, and the obelisk was raised to the upright position it has held ever since. It is needless to add that the prayers of the people procured the pardon of the sailor.— Youth's Companion. Stimulants Between Neale. Although all persons who indulge in alco- holic stimulants well within the margin of actual drunkenness speak of themeelves as moderate drinkers, there are two special classes of them which bear no resemblance to eaoh other exeept in the solitary circum- stance that they never, at any time, take sufficient to intoxioete themselves. The one class is that whioh only partakes of stimulants while eating; the other in. dulges in them between meal times. To the latter habit is applied, in this country, the title of nipping, while in the east it is spoken of as "pegging." And this is the most pernicious of all forma of drinking, from the fact that stimulants taken without at the same time partaking of food, though only imbibed in small quantities at a time, have most deleterious effecton the inter- nal °roles. A man who habitaally in- dulges in a [single glass of sherry in the forenoon, a brandsoandsoda in the after• noon, and a glass of whiskey.and-water in the course of the evening does far more injury to hiseonstitution than one who par- takes of a larger quantity of alcoholic stimulants at meal times.—Popular Science Monthly. Measurements of the Great Lakes. The greatest length of Lake Superior is 335 miles ; its greatest breadth is 160 mike ; mean depth, 688 teat; elevation, 827 feet ; area, 82,000 equare miles. The greatest length of Lake Miohigan is 300 miles ; its greatest breadth, 108 miles; mean depth, 690 feet; elevation, 506 feet; area, 23,000 square miles. The greatest length of Lake Huron is 300 miles; its greatest breadth, 60 miles; mean depth, 600 feet ; elevation, 274 feet ; area, 20,000 square miles The greatest length of Lake Erie is 250 miles; its greatest breadth, 80 miles ; mean depth, 84 feet; elevation, 261 feet; area, 6,000 revere miles. The greatest length of Lake Ontario is 180 miles; its greatest breadth is 65 miles; ite mean depth is 500 feet; elevation, 261 feet; area, 6,000 square miles.—St. Louis Re. public. Both Suffered from Delay. " ely business is suffering from delayed MailS, remarked Gazzam. " Delayed males are very annoying," as. sented hie wife severely. " I waited for one last night all about 1 o'clock." Big Beat. "Here's something interesting," said the exchange editor to the paragraphic serf. "They hung a newspaper man out West for something he wrote." " Well," said the P. S., wearily," he had tolieesivtip,faction of getting the 00080 ex- 1 u---•--- —Buffalo Bill recently climbed Mount Vesuvius. He was pleased with the crater. A New York pool seller, who In order to (mope jury duty swore that he was not a portion of good moral character, was never- theless believed to have spoken the truth for once and he was excused. When a bashful young man finds him. Self in oonipany where there is a creamy infant of ten montha, the expression of his false, when the pawed mother threats Ilea tender offepring at him with the remark, "Baby, kiss the aloe gentlemen," May be imagined, but it could not be counterfeited. —" We all have our trials," said a tear- ful lady yeeterdala "The trouble With ine " said a young lawyer with an Eql/611), 0410U9 ftOW Of tOOrat that I haven't any." Ar,/lE(l.91.! Interesting Labor Notes gulled Froin Variv, 1U°m The first woolen rniIiiliensGreece was re4 cently established. A bovia of wood fibre is made in fialCOny,i It is water -tight and indestruotible. The &yea:liana of Findlay, 0., have in. creased the price of a vieit from 51. toSi 50. The bottomers in a tittverhill, shoeashop taro& against working by piece. The initiation fee of the San Promisee', Briele.Handlers' Union is $25. The Fall River cotton weevers get 19 cents a oat on work that formerly paid 21. 000:' Washington, D. O., Government com- positors want $4 a day and 60 cents per 1,000 ems. Eastern competition is ruining the boilermabing trade , in San Franciaco. Boilermakers get 53.50 per day out there. On the Hudson River alone 10,000 meni usually employed on the ice harvest aret idle. The blast farnexes of West Cumberland& Eng., are busier than at any time in the, history of the trade. At Albany, N.Y., the shoe laFsters, mould- ers and bakers have endorsed the eight. hoar movement. The Key West oigarmakers won the strike for an advance of $1 per 1,000, and the helpers got 10 cents advance. Under the eleven -hour law in Georgia Columbus mills will begin work at 6 anti stop at 5.30; 3.5000 Saturday. The Federation of Labor has ordered. some Pittsburg oarbon-setters to strike against non-union men, but they refused to go out. MoKeesport, Pa. undertakers have asked Contains so grant itinerate the right of way in all muses except the fire department and mail waggons. The Brooklyn Tin and Sheetiron Workerte Union defeated by one vote a motion to ex the initiation at $25. It was madet $10. The English miners have been granted the new advance of 10 per cent., making an increase of 30 per cent. over their wages of fifteen months ago. Planing -mill employees at Butler, Pa.. get $2 for a ten -hoar day and at Pittsburg the same class of men receive 52.75 for nine hours. The boy employees of a Steubenville, 0. glass works have struck for an advance gfreotra5464 to 65 per week. Pittsburg boya Women employed on the Volga River in Russia, work from 4 o'clock in the morning till sunset. They carry 140 pounds of freight up high ladders. Men get 22 cents per day, women la cents. San Francisco bakers get from 515 to $20 per week. Some helpers get 517, an a few chargers 524. Tha union has out the hours from ninety to eighty-four hours per week, and changed the monthly pay-day to each week, and in some cases abolished boarding at the shops. When the failure of Oliver Brothers, iron manufacturers, of Pittsburg, was an - flounced with $1,500,000 liabilitiee, the laborers offered to work for half wagea for a year, and their motion has placed the firm in its old place.- The works employ 4,000. The Denver Stone -cutters' Union haa 300 members and claims to be the largest in the country They get 57 cents per hour, and work eight and four on Setter - day. Two apprentices at a time are al- lowed to each employer. The Indianapolis carpenters have given notices that their work will coneist of eight hours per day after April 15th, and 35 cents per hoar the lowest wages. Double pay for Sunday work and other over time 50 per cent. over regular rate. So many people opmmit suicide at Monte Oario that the managers of the gambling tables there really ought to provide accom- modations for them. It is very shabby of them after raking in all a man's money ta leave him to invent methods of self de- struction. A suicide annex to that faehion. able resort would add greatly to its con- venience. A farmer who had been looking yestar day for men to grab and clear land was, complaining that it was impossible to get the work done for any figure he could afford to pay. Three years ago, he said, he could have had theland cleared for $25 per aore, now it will cost him from $70 10 590 per acre. Even the Chinese do not any longer care to contract for grabbing land. They used to out wood for 80 to 90 cents a oord. and now they want 51.50, and are very independent about working at all. The restriction aot does not snit every one.— Portland Oregonian. Young Lawyers Catching On. A young lawyer who comes to a big city to make his fortune must firet make him- self known. Without acqueintanoes he might as well try to manage a comic opera company on a desert island as to get oases of a desirable kind. The piece of advice that is first given the young lawyer by the older heads when he comes to St. Lords is, "Make yourself known !" There are dif- ferent ways of doing this. Some young fellows, if they have money, plunge into sooiety the very first thing. That's a good thing in its way, but I do not believe that it pays in the long run. Others join menet orders, attend meetings regularly, and in ta few weeks know several hundred people by sight and name. That is one of the best plane, and a very popular one. If you are familiar with the iseoret orgenizations of the city, just think how many of their officers are lawyers. Another plan whioh is employed with good result by many is to take board in a down town hotel, and spend a great part of the time, out of office hours, in the rotunda, meeting strangers and talking. One keeps himself in touch with all the news this way, and makes valuable acquaintances. The yonng lawyer who is fortunate enough to get a desk in the office of some established attorney, whose friends and clients he meets, is in the best position of them all, and will probably begin making money sooner than any of them. If, with this advantage, he will also put into execution one of those other plans, he will go ahead, rapidly.—One of Them in Si. Louis Globe - Democrat. The description of a missing rasa which was sent to the COlumbas (0.) police headquarters contained the statement th&t. he was 65 years old and small for hie age. --The mOuse in hie hole is safe beyond tt purr -adventure, What is sweeter than to have a friend you earl trust 2" askerSawkinS. " To have a friend who will trust yon," replied Dew. M. Rothschild has presented 520,000 to the city of Patio for the relief of the poor who are suffering from influenza in that plaee.