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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
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BRAVE KATE SHELLEY.

Oh. but the night was wild and dark, and the
wind blew fierce and high.
Oh, bat the lightning flashed and shot across
the inky sky.
While the hurting thunder cracked and rolled
TIL down the black clouds came,
An earth seemed nothing at all to sight but
w4ter, wind and flame.
Kate Shelley stands at her cottage door an
peers out into the night.
For she sees, slow creeping through the storm,
the pilot-engincs light,
And 1t must cross the trcstle-bridge above the
swollen creek:
II stops-t runs-then down it drops, with one
long fearsome shrek.
"Kate, stay!' the wailing mother cries; but
the young soul rose high
NAY, mother. mast try to help, though
should fail or die"
She finds the wreck. but cannot save, yet from
the deep below
A man shouts up two frightened words She
answers him: II know
The trainl the train! the swift express. the
crowded western traini
How shall she quickest reach the wires? By
Boone the hope is vain.
Butt Moin9onas but mile, and yet SO wild
and drear,
To brave it through the stormy night the
stouteSt heart might fear.
Torn by the undergrowth, and drepched. the
wind and rain delied.
She reached the raging Des Mones and the
bridge that spans IFS tide:
A bridge not built for human tread. but .sOnl'
her spirit cries
A bridge OF full four hundred feet, nothing
but rails and ties.
No plank the daring steps to hold, and If q
step should miss,
Down, fifty feet below her, rolls the watery
abyss.
30 OH her hands and knees she creeps, fight.
ing the wind and rain.
Staining the timbers with her blood, yet heed
ing not the pain.
Then on and on she bravely sped! Thick dark
ness round her lay,
Save when the vivid lightning made a still
more dreadful day;
Yet raging stream. and roaring wind, and
fercely beating rain
Delayed her not: one thought had she-to save
the coming train.
At length the bridge Is fairly crossed. Bleed
ing and out of breath,
She yet has half mile to run--a fearful race
with Death;
Ger fallen trees. DER rocks, through creeks
until-O blessed sight!
She sees the way-side statiOn-hOuse and lis one
giimmering light.
Then all forespent, with falling strength, she
pushes wide the door;
with cleaning eyes and parted lips, she stands
"Thci issilss dolvn; The engines ureche4i, Oh,
- stop the coming train
TIE man springs to the saving wircs-she has
not come in vain.
Then tendery they comfort her. They ask
"How did you Gomez"
And, hearing, lift their hearts and hats, and
are moment dumb.
No soul among them would have dared the
passa2e dark and wild:
All! but Gods angels had q charge TO keep
this noble child.
brave Kate Shelleyl though hard toll thy
daily portion be,
Mothers, with happy pride. now name their
daughters ufter thee;
And every child that hears thy tale shares In
thy noble strain,
And dares that perilous pass with thee to save
the coming train.
-Mdry A. Barr, in Hdrpsrs Young People.
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How to Get Rich.

There are two ways to get rich-the
right way and the wrong way; the easy
way and the impossible way; the COM
mon way and the rare way And OF
course the wrong and impossible way is
the common way.
To be rich is to have all the money
you want. is it not? And the common
way of trying to get rich is to try to get
money enough for ones wants. The
ineradical and unconquerable difficulty
in Hlls way is that the wants always
grow faster than the money pile. You
want to he rich enough to hire horse
and buggy; when you begin to hire YOU
want to own a horse; when you drive
your own horse. you want to own a
span; when you have span, You want
a pony for the children. A hundred
millions ought to be comfortable com.
petence; but MIR. Vanderbilt has lately
been large borrower of money. When
a man buys railroads as other men buy
horses. he may be in straitcned cir.
cumstances though he has fifty millions
in United States bonds. The more
money a poor man has the poorer he is,
if he has not learned to moderate his
desires rs well Us to accumulate his sup
plies. Baron Munchausen's horse, cut
in two by the descending gate as his
rider was escaping from the castle,
drank increasingly ut the spring by the
roadside. to the amazment of his rider,
till looking back he discovered that the
unfortunate beast was cut OFF just be
hind the saddle, and that the water he
tnly
ming out behind. An Unsuitable spirit
is worse than Baron Munchauscn' s
horse; the more it drinks the thirstier
it grows.
The only way to be rich is to keep
ones desires within his income. If
one wants what five cents can buy, and
he has ten cents, he is wealthy. A
bright dime to 4 street arab is greater
wealth than 4 thousand dollars to a
merchant prince. The right way to be
rich is never to want what you cannot
buy; then you always have as much
money as you want This is the easy
way. No man can regulate the con-
tents of his purse; every man can regu-
late the quality of his desires Capital
is not within every mans attainments;
contcntment is. He is wealthy who
has learned two arts: first, how to be
contented with what he can get; second,
how to use what he has. Abraham
Lincoln had better library in the
single cOyerless book which he read by
the light of the pitch-pine knots in the
Kentucky cabin than the man who has
lined the walls of what he ironically
calls his library with calfskin bindingS
at so much square foot. 1t is always
easy to have plenty Of money; spend
less than you earn. 1t is always easy
to have all the money you wani; want
less than you have. The cases of
actual suffering from cold. nakedness or
hunger are in this country very rare.
In all other cases Paurs PERSECUTION
for wealth is the best that was ever
devised; Having food and raim"nt,
let us be Herewith content" 1he
lesson he learned in prison in Rome s.
worth all the lessons taught in college
business or otherwise-sin the
world began: II have learned. in
whatsoever state I am. Herewith to be
content. "-Christian Union.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
THE MYSTERY OF THE VILLAGE.

in the southern part of Franco, about
seventy miles from the Mediterranean,
is q place called T. 1t is now
hardly more than a small town. and
possesses not above 4 thousand inhab-
itants; but in the latter part of the last
century it was more than ten times its
present size. and its church, now in
ruins, was then one of the most beau
tiful ever seen in that part of the coun-
try;
1895, and was, for q long time, the
great object of curiosity for miles
around. 1t was of the Gothic and
Romanesque style of architecture. and
was not only finely prOportiOned on
the interior. but had, within, a magnifi-
cence of decoration that astOnished
one more and more, the longer he gazed
upon it.
The church, unlike some of the older
ones standing at that time, had a mag
niticent organ. This had been paid
for by separate subscription, raised in
small sums by the common people. and,
having been built by skillful workmen
in Bordeaux, was at length set up in
the church amid considerable enthu-
eiasm and excitement.
But who should play this grand in
strument?
How should competent organist be
selectedp
The people were greatly interested in
the matter, and discussed it on the cor
ner of the rueS, in the brasssries, or
taverns, and for period of six Or eight
weeks you might be sure. if you saw
more than two people talking earnestly
together, that they were deliberating
upon the choice of an organist:
Since the people, both high and low.
had SO freely contributed for the pur-
chase of the organ, it was thought very
proper that they should be allowed to
choose a person to play it. And the
decision being thus left to the multi
tude, the most feasible plan that was
suggested was that all should 60, on an
appointed day. to the church, and
should then listen to the playing of the
various candidates.
There were. in all, nearly score Of
aspiring musicians in and near the
town, ard each of these, hoping for q
favorable decision for himself, gave no
end of little suppers and parties, so
that the influential ones among the
townsmen Jared sumptuously from all.
But out of the entire number there
were two, between whom the choice
really lay. These were Baptiste La
combe and Raoul Tegot.
The former of these had lived in the
town only five years. He had come
from Bruges. so he said, and although
he astonished everybody by his skill. he
had not been liked, from the first. He
was very reserved and parsimonious.
and his eye never met. frankly, the
person with whom he talked. But no
harm was known of him, and he found
in Tranteigue plenty of exercise for his
art
Raoul Tegot, on the contrary. was q
native of the town; and, together with
his young son. Francois, was beloved
BY all. He had married one of the vii
lage maidens, and had been SO incOn-
solable at her death, which occurred
when Francois was baby, that he nev-
er thought more of marriage; but de-
voted himself to his child and his art.
He was certainly very able musi-
eian. and. being so universally liked,
many people urged that o public per-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
Indian Names,

Nomenclature among the Indians II
apt to be exceedingly bewildering both
to themselves and everybody else,
from the fact that one name, whether
of q person or a thing, never has the
slightest distinct relation to another.
The uncivilized have evidently never
met with the necessity of permanently
Identifying members of the same
family; and in permitting the young
man, just warrior-grown, to choose .
name for himself, or compelling him
by persistency either to keep the
one he received before he knew it, or
to accept the cognomen chosen for him
by his associates, they are certainly
carrying their ideas of native freedom
to the utmost limit. To one unac-
quainted with the customs which
dictate these names, ridiculous and
and often apparently meaningless titles
seem absurd freaks: Of fancy. This
they often are, to be sure, but Is fre-
quently they have significance which
honors the man, if it does not
designate his family. Ordinarily, how
ever, the appellation he receives il
obtained at random. and is likely
W UO CuoASCu ouy tlu0 01L00I
by the wearer or his friends. i In
fact, it Is quite the thing for
warrior to change his name after each
exploit. always adopting sOmeidsscrip-
:ive and complimentary title; or per-
haps-unfortunately for him-in case
of failure in an expedition, cowartlice
or some evidence of weakness. he has
it changed for him by his frienda All
Indians, even great chiefs, seems TO
possess very remarkable fondness for
nick-naming; and while the leading
man in the tribe may insist on being
called by his own choice title, nothing
prevents his being known and sdesig-
mated by very different, and, perhaps
uncompliInentary, name. As deiormi-
ties, peculiarities Of character, or acci-
dents to limb or feature often Suggests
fit names, it is sometimes impossible to
know by the appellation whether the
warrior is in contempt or honor amongst
his associates. Strangely enough, too.
however far from Hattering the title Of
q warrior, he is sure to accept it sooner
or later. There is q single approach to
general custom in the naming Of sons
by their fathers and daughters by their
mothers. Daughters names are never
altered, and as married women do not
take their husbands names there u
nothing in the appellation to indicate
whether an Indian woman il married
or SINGLE. M0nkhlr.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
the animals. and, missing them. smash
iad his hrOthqr,a sku1l

the animals, and, missing them, smash.
led his brothers skull.
At st. Louis, Thomas j. Wharton,
Jr., took up large oyster, and said:
: This is the kind Of oyster Walter
Brooks choked to death on!' tried to
swallow it. and was choked to death.
At Louisville an old man aimed Q
kick at his wife, lost his balance, fell,
and was fatally injured.
AT Indianapolis the weight of cask
of water smashed the teeth of . "Man
with the Iron Jaw" and falling ON his
breast it crushed him to death.
At Dovercourt. England. a boy named
Boast swallowed the sting of . wasp
while eating some preserves. and died
while running to the doctors.
At Boston. Simeon Long, while play.
ing with the cat in his hallway, made Q
misstep. fell against the wall and broke
his neck. . '- ss
At Neodesha. Mimi, Albert Grant
was playing with . Newfoundland dog
and dragging it by the tail, when ft
jumped into the pond, pulling him in.
and he was drowned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
An exchange tells of two lovers

An exchange tells Of two lovers
who were permanently separated by
the interposition Of a "cold cloud Of
realism" Being freely iintsrprsted,
this means probably that they were not
kindred souls. The circumstance re-
calls the instance of romantic young
lady who had very fine head Of hair.
One evening, when her afiiaAcsd stood
gazing very inquisitiyely At II in tho
moonlight, she said. with much feeling:
"Johu, are you thinking that each one
of these hairs is like . golden cord
binding you to happinessp" "Well.
no." he answered. mechanically, III
was thinking what nice mosquito net
they would make"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
The Curious Way In Which Death
Sometimes Comes.

At Rock Castle, KY, as the Rev. Mr..
Petrey entered a house, a hen flew in
and perched ON hanging rifle; it fell,
and falling on the lock was discharged,
and killed the minister.
AT Kansas City, as man was sitting
on the balcony Of his house, steamboat
ran into it and crushed him to death.
(This was during the April hood.)
AT Baltimore, man who was being
shaved heard runaway. and. thinking
it was his team, jumped up and had
his nose nearly cut off.
At West Point, Lieutenant Archibald
Gibson, of St. Louis, could not, while
on parade, lift his hand to remove o
spider from his ear for a whole hour.
When parade was dismissed his ear
was full of blood. The insect was ONLY
taken out two days later, and Lieuten-
ant Gibson ultimately died of intlamma-
ton of the brain.
At Charlestown, Mass, Alfred An
derson crawled into q sand house he had
built. and it fell in on him and smoth-
cred him.
At Nanticoke, Pa, John Lafschuski
broke bottle OF whisky in his pocket,
saturatlng his clothes; when he subse-
quently lit match they took fire, and
he was fatally burned.
At Eastport, Me. sailor, wanting q
drink OF water and finding the cask-
pump frozen, poured hot water into it,
and. while attempting to suck drink
from it, inhaled the steam and was
scalded to death.
At Pittsburgh. Mike Maroney entered
a core-oven in foundry to warm him.
self, and another workman placed a
core ON the truck, ran it in, closed the
door, and roasted him alive.
At Rixford, Pa, Louis Gartwait low
cred forty-quart torpedo of nitro
glycerine into q we'll, when the we'll
made sudden flow, struck the torpe-
do, and blew him to pieces.
At Green Ridge, La, John Thomp-
son and his brother tried to stop dog
fight, and the latter threw q stone at
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17
Honey Cakes.-Three and one-half

Honey Cakes.-Three and one half
pounds of -four, one and one e-half pounds
of honey. one half pound of butter, one
half pound of sugar, half a nutmeg, one
tablespoonful of ginger. one teaspoon
full of soda; roll thin and cut in small
cakes; bake in quick oven. cover tight
and let stand till moist. They will keep
long time. This recipe has been used
in our family twenty-five years. Soft
ginger cake can be made with honey
instead of molasses, except that you use
some more honey and leave out the
eggs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

MIR. Archibald Macarthur, said to
be the oldest man in Scotland. died a
few days ago at Dunoon. He was born
on September 5, 1777, and was thus in
his 1O5th year. For many years he car
ried on eyangelistic work among the
Gaelic population.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

Wild geese "swarm like bees"
around Washoe Lake, Nevada. The
smokestack of passenger engine. the
other evening. knocked three fat old
ganders out of flock that was flying
across the track.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

Louise Montague, who has been
figuring in the street professions of .
circus as the most beautiful woman in
America, having been awarded. it ID
asserted. . prize of 10000. wa. in
jured lately in an accident on the Lou
isville & Nashville Railroad. and II now
suing for 5000. She alleges that her
neck is permanently dis6gured. Miss
Montague was formerly singer In the
Bowery variety shows.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

During the White Pine excitement
of 1868 Hamilton. New, had popula-
tion of thousands, two large daily news
papers and all evidences Of prosperity.
To-day it does not contain sixty souls.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-17

The tailor measures his customers
whenever he takes tit.-Detr0t Free
Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20
NOTHING BUT DEATH.
Four Bodies Found at a Railway Crossing
"A Driving Party Leave Anoka in High

Four Bodies Found at Railway Crossing
"A Driving Party Leave Anoka in High
spirits-None Left to Tell the Tale.
The number three passenger train which
left st. Paul Friday night at $40 o'clock for
Grand Forks, on the Manitoba road, was the
instrument which made that particularly un-
lucky Friday to q driving party at 1880
O'Clock, at a road crossing one mile east of
Anoka station. When the train stopped at
Anoka, the engineer awakened Mr.. Finn, the
station agent, aud said ne believed horse had
been struck a short distance down the track.
Mr.. Finn and the warehouseman took lanterns
and walked along the road, being desirous of
satisfying themselves as to whether
the horse had been slightly stunned or seri-
ously injured. Instead Of one horse they
found two-both dead. On the side of the
track opposite from the horses, they found to
their surprise and horror a shattered carriage
and four dead people, two ladies and two gen
temen. They hastened back to the station
where freight train was standing on the side
track, aEd returned with the locomotive and
caboose. The four dead bodies, which were
nOL much manglec, were taken to town and
placed in charge of the coroner. The remains
were readily recognized as of Jasper Cole,
VIM. Hackett, Miss Florence Parker
and Miss Libby Downer. All were residents
of Anoka, excepting the last named young
laoy, VINO Lived at Bethel. Miss Parker, who
was the niece Of Mr.. Cole, had been living
with her widowed mother, in Aneka. The
party had passed the first part of the evening
| IN sort OF theatrical show tent, and had
| taken carriage and started for Crooked lake
to finish the night at a ball. They were evil
IDENTIFY bent on pleasure, and must have been
II very gIddy state OF mind to attempt to
cross the track with the headlight of loco
motive glaring full in their faces, for the lay
OF the land is such as to afford q
view of the railroad and it can be seen for
over mile in either direction. The wagon
track approaches the railroad crossing at an
acute angle and in the direction from which
the train was coming. Many people, when
they see train coming, will whip up their
horses and try to beat the cars to the crossing.
IL is by some thought that spirit of bravado
prompted the young man who was driving to
cross ahead OF the engine IN order to frighten
the "gurls' and have some fun. Another
conjecture is that the horses baked
while standing across the track.
The truth will not be apt to
come out, since the night was dark and no
one happened to be near at the time, though
another driving party crossed the track and
met the luckless crowd shortly before the dis
aster.
The funeral services of all save Miss Downer
were held in Anoka yesterday. The remains
OF Miss Downer were forwarded to Bethel
The people In the towns and country round
about are shocked and saddened by the sud-
denness of the disaster and the strange mys-
tery which surrounds it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.
NICHOLSON DENIES.

WASHINGTON, Aug, 19.-Rear Admiral
Nicholson, commanding the European sta
tion, has written private letter to promi.
nent officer of the navy department, in which
he takes occasion to deny the statement that
when the bombardment of Alexandria began,
that he notified the Egyptians if they fred on
his vessels be would return their fire. He
also denied the statement that after the action
he steamed around the English feet and
cheered the vessels upon their work.
ANICE JgNKETING TRIP.
The select committee of the house of repre-
sentatives appointed to examine the work in
progress, the application of the appropriation,
etc., for the improvement of the Mississippi
river, intend to charter suitable vessel and
proceed down the river from Cairo to New Or.
leans, thence to the jetties at the south pass,
stopping at such places as will aid the mem
bers IN prosecuting the work to which they
are assigned. The work OF the committee will
begin about the middle of November.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20
YESTERDAYS BLAZES.
PIANO FIRE


New YORK. Aug. l9.-Fire this morning
destroyed the piano factory of Hartman,
Dawling & Peck, Tenth avenue and Fifty
seventh street. Loss estimated at 1915, 600;
upon which there is some Insurance, but not
enough 10 cover the loss The factory was q
brick structure, nine stories in height, and
well filled with seasoned lumber and inaam.
mable material The efforts of the firemen were
directed toward preventing q disastrous
spread OF the flames to adjoining tene-
ments. The entire brigade of the
upper district worked for three hours to
accomplish tnis end and stood their ground
6ravely. The four-story tenement No. $50
tenth avenue, caught fire repeatedly but the
fames were fought back. The headlong
Hight OF the occupants with those from ad-
joining tenements, made the scene one OF ter
ror and confusion but no accidents happened.
The fourth flour of the factory occupied by
Oakier q kettieg manufacturers of washing
machines, stock and machinery was des-
troyeG. Loss 100000, partially insured.
Later estimates place the loss at $3.50 600;
Insured. The firm employed 400 meu and from
l,2OO to 800 pianos were in process of manu-
facture.
BURNED TO CRISP.
CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-About 2 o'clock this
morning fire broke out in the Waltoa house,
East Washington street, not too reputable
locality, and from room Is where the smoke
was thickest, the agonized screams of a
woman were heard. The fremen broke into
the room and extinguished the flames, and
found Mrs. Frank Flynn lying in O bed,
burned out OF semblance to human form and
barely alive. She appeared TO have upset the
Kerosene lamp in an insane or drunken frenzy.
She was taken 10 the county hospital. Her
nesh was cooked and burned TO a crisp.
FIGURING MILL BURNED.
JEFFERsoNvILLE,, Ind, Aug. 19.-The
large Touring mill owned By NJ B. Cole &
Buler, in the town of Charleston, this county,
was burned yesterday morning. Three thous-
and bushels OF wheat and seventy-five barrels
OF -four were also consumed with the mill
Ihe original cost OF the mill was $1,000, and
had an insurance upon it of S., 1000. It is
supposed to be the work of az incendiary.
LEATHER FIRE.
QUEBEC, Aug. 19.-Fire in st. Roch's this
morning burDt Roy's soap and candle factory
also factory belonging to Richards, manu-
facturer of leather, kip, packing cases, etc.
and three private residences. Loss 1000.
Go to Lake Elmo this afternoon if you wist
TO keep cool. Special train at 3 o'clock