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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-04

and payment of taxes.
The new postal notes are proving very
advantageous TO the lottery companies aud
other corporations throughout the country
that are denied the privileges Of the money
order and registry systems. tooilshIy
nDugb, no provision was made for debari-
ing these often concerns from the priyil-
oges Of this latest postal convenience.
1 will relieve many whose apprehcusiOus
were excited at the proposed exhuma,ion
of Shakospcare's remains to learn that the
mayor aud corporation Of Stratrori-upoJ-
Avon have refused their assent to the act
of dosscration. The contemplated COM
parison OF the poets skull with the mouu-
mental bust that the world has b en-
taught to look upon as correct, mi hit
have gratided an idle literary curiosity,
but how it could subseryu any practical
good most people will fail to sec. Besides
the proposed investigation was in direct
violation of the warning inscribed on the
Bard of Avons " tomb not to disturb
the remains inferred therein, the dsre
gard of which INJUNCTION would have
been treachery to one oi the worlds ~ ",
| notable dead.
THE French republic is now passing
through Que Of its scverCst crises. The
Touquin trouble started the ball rolling
and the Count de Cham bord death a. ri
new embarrassment 10 the situatior hv
awakening in the people some Of q III
siumboTiUg devotion 70 royalty. Now
comes the latest complication caused by
the indiguity suffered by King Alfonso az
the hands Of the Paris rGHdiliC. for whose
| iN.advised conduct the French government
seems not to have been responsible. Added
to all this is the implacaOle hostility Of
| Germany which likes nothing better thar
the sight of its rival in hot water
uemmed in by monarchies on every side
the French republic is at a disadvantage
which the former are quick to appreciate
Should it succeed in riding the present
storm with safety aud honor, il will prove
that the republican form OF government,
even in mcnarchical lands, is abundantly
! able to take care Of itself 10 every emer.
gsncy that may arise.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-04

Cur it out and paste 1t In your hat that
Saturday is the last day for naturalization
and payment Of taxes.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
MIR. coopER,s SYMPATHY TO WOMAN.

Mrs. Susan N. Carter, the head of the
Womnn's Art School of the Cooper Institute
contributes an anecdotal paper TO the De-
cember Century, in which she says of Mr..
Cooper's aims a. All want, he said, is
that these poor women shall earn decent
and respectable livings, and especially that
they shall be kept from marrying bad hus-
bands
g This subject Of unhappy marriages
seemed to be II very prominent one in Mr.
Cooper's mind. That women were often
imposed upon, were ill-used and broken
down, he had lively conviction, and all
his chivalry and sense Of fatherly protection
were enlisted TO save them, 30 far as he
could, from these ordinary misfortunes
While the world is now occupied with the
question of what woman can be taught
their higher education, and many kindred
subjects, Mr.. Cooper's acute genius discov-
ered as by intuition, many years ago, the
relation of women Of the middle class Of
society, to industries, and the family. He
saw that many of them could not marry,
md he realized what must be the forlorn
position Of a number of elderly daughters
of a poor man. He had noted the danger
GUS likelihood of giddy, ignorant young girls
marryng anybody for home, even IL the
men they married were dissipatod or ineffi-
cicnt and he had the tenderest pity for
poor widows or deserted wives. He talked
many times, and at great length, on these
subjects, and all circumstances and any sort
of incident brought up this desire Of his
heart TO help women to be happy, indepen-
dent and virtuous.
g One of the last times lie was at the
school, and while celebrated New York
clergyman was giving a course of Lenten lee.
lures - women, Mr.. Cooper, with his face al
animated with his feeling abouti 1t, said sDr
-- is of the wealthy class, as he has
used to deal with wealthy women. The
world does not look like the same place to
him that it does to mo. II he could be in
my place for month, and read the letters
] get from poor end suffering women, he
would think that il would be best TO have
them taught anything which they could
learn to enable them TO lessen MI this
trouble"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
PUMPKIN PIE.

These nre the days of that glorious Ameri-
can institution, pumpkin pie. The hotel or
restaurant pumpkin pie is not the Simon
pure article. It has had too many foreign
airs added to II. It may be good, and it may
pass for what 1t is intended, but it can't
hold candle to the pumpkin pie our
mothers and grandmothers made. just look
at the difference in the two brands. Mothers
had a nice short crust with an edge about
an inch deep and in this was a plump meas
ure Of pumpkin pulp" mixed with nice
fresh eggs, milk and just enough spice to
give it flavor. II was a picture of a bloom
ing, healthy pie. 1t makes n mans mouth
water to think of 1t. The store kind of
pumpkin pie has sort Of sickly second
cousin countenance and is scarcely over an
eighth of an inch thick, with a crust on the
bottom that almost breaks q timers shears
to cut ii. As for tase, that has to be imag-
ined, rs II is sort Of go-as-y ou-please flavor
between tan-bark and cinnamon. Then
again, 100 store pies will be made out Of an
ordinary twenty-cent pumpkin. Each pie
is cut into eight pieces about the size of two
fingers, which sell for five cents each. This
brings forty cents for pie, or $40 for the
product of pumpkin. That leaves tho
store-keeper $3.50. so profit on his pumpkin,
and as the crust is thin, with no shortening
in it, eighty cents ought to cover his cost,
leaving an even $3a profit on the transac-
ton A slice of mothers pumpkin pie the
size of your two hands-that's the regular
cut in home made pie, and an inch and a
half thick--contains more real pie than a
dozen store pies, and there is no danger of
trouble from indigestion after eating it.
There should be some action taken by the
Legislature to prevent the degeneration of
this great American institution-the pump.
kin pie. II this is not done, future genera
tons will read in history of a dish now 90
highly priced by patriotic citizens and grieve
to think that the building Of the pumpkin
pie of their fore-fathers isu lost art. Peck's
Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
THE NATIVE cow.

Our native COW, which produces the
milk. butter, and cheese of the country,
deserves some recognition for its usefulness.
II is able to exist and make profit for its
owners, where the lauded high-bred cows
would perish II lives on the roughness of
the land--so to speak--while the high-bred
races, such as the Jerseys, get all the rich
est food. If we were to reverse the posi-
tons, our despised natives would do as
nobly as they favored races, while these
would not be able even to sustain them
selves. We should cherish our native COWS.
We owe them this for their birthright, and
not despise them on that account for the
sake of few foreign ones. We shouli.
cultivate them improve them by better
care, more liberal feeding, and more select
breeding and our American dairy cow would
be like our American trotter our American
merino our American people in fact, the
first Of their kind in the universe. And
why are they SO? Simply because all these
are mixture of the best bloods and the
best races in the world, and concentrate in
themselves the good qualities Of each. - The
Dai,y.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
CHARLEY AND HIS CASH.

For zl.sance, the crowd of us who used
10 hing around the Windsor Hotel in the
days of Leadyille's hectic prosperity always
said that If old Charley Hicks ever struck
IL rich" his fortune would do him somt
good and he would not go and fool hif
money away buclsing faro or squander 1t ut
the shrine Of Bacchus or Venus. He was
old and decrepit, and had been prospecting
SO long that the memory of man ran not to
the contrary, but without finding anything
except hard luck wrinkles and kind Of
grim philosophy that enabled him to accept
into many younger but less sturdy heart.
1t was really pitiful to see him como plod-
ding slowly in from the mountains after an
other unsuccessful tour, never complaining,
but always sanguine Of better luck next
time, while where he would eat that day
and sleep that night were unsolved prob
lens to him. "If poor old Charley would
only strike II now" we would say when the
news of piece of luck would come in |;
"what n mighty fine thing IL would be for
him."
One day, in the fall Of the year, old Char
ley did strike 1t and received $4,000 in
cold cash for prospect hole in the lineup
district. can see now the flush of honest
Joy In his warm old face rs he told me about
it, and went over and over again how he
would be comfortable in his old age and
shook hands many times and finally burst
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
IN THE SHOP.
What is that lady doing7

What is that lady doing?
She 10 shopping.
But she Just told that clerk who has been
Allowing her goods for the last half-hour
that she didn't intend buying. She only
came in to inquire about laces for friend.
Yes, they always say that.
But does the clerk believe her 7
Oh, yes the clerk believes everything
that the professional shopper tells him.
Professional shopper. What is that
It is lady who shops. She never buys.
But see, she has stopped at another ccun-
ter. She is looking at those beautiful floor
rugs
She will not buy.
You are wrong this time. hear her tell
the clerk to send three of them to her resi-
dence upon appreciation.
tell you she will not tuy.
She will If they suit her after careful in
spection.
You are very innocent. She is to have
company, party perhaps, at her house to-
night. She will send those rugs back TO-
morrow.
don't understand.
No, but the clerk does.
He is doing the rugs up for her.
Yes; it is better that he, should do that
than spend his whole day showing her
goods.
How pleasantly he bids her good day
Yes, IL is great pleasure to BID her good
Day BostoH I'ransofipt.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
VOICES FROM THE SEA.
How Inc Old Fisherman Knows the Fish
by Its Talk.


Near by is one of the best fishing spots in
this neighborhood, and daylight fonnd us
on the ground ready for the fray. Our
skipper baited up the ground with soft
clans, and as the vessel swung with the tide
we began operations. Lobster bait is used,
and each man has two lines, one on each
side of the dory. Nippers and two-round
blackfish come up thick and fast. Finally
q strong jerk tells of larger game, and after
ten minutes of hauling and being hauled we
sight fine cod. The gait is brought out
and skillfully inserted by the skipper in its
gill, who, with Tors has it aboard, fifteen
pounds to dot. Now sculpin is drawn
up, with mouth open, to be reviled, and
again cod, and 50 on until the sun is over
bead and the slack biting tell us of charge
of tide. Our naturalist never neglects an
opportunity to investigate, and the curious
sounds uttered by several different species
of sculpins that come up are declared by
him to be the voice of the fish, in other
words its method OF communication. The
subject is certainly one of interest and
q specimen is placed in water for later cleo.
trical experiments that will test the different
intonations Of its voice. Among the fishes
here that utter sounds are the dog6iih, the
Gunner, anfiler &c. The former, rs might
be expected, utters short bark, something
like that of dog. In all about fifty fishes
are known to have a language. Ourskipper
informs us that when he was "a whalin' he
has heard whales cry ont, and that blackfsh
utter a strange sound Is common belief
along the coast, but as these are mammals, il
might be expected. tits difiicultto determine
how the sound is made. In some it is due
to the action of the pneumatic duct and
swimming bladder, while in others il may
be made voluntarily by the lips Of the pha.
ryngeal orinter-maxillary bones. In the Gu
rious trigla that one Of the party landed the
openingand closing oft, producteda gentle,
murmuring sound. In the catfshes that
are noted " takers the sounds are producs
ed by their forcing air from the air-bladder
into the oesophagus. This is also the caso
with the eel, whose voice is said to be The
most musical of all,,fshes, having o metallic
trill to it. Perhaps the loudsst voiced fish
is the grunt--a fish of the genius hemuloa
their noise having been heard 200 Ell:
away. --McrJlelead Mass Correspondents
Philadslphia Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
HOW rRAlN ROBBERS WORK.
Fifteen Masked nIexicans Wreck Trail
and Rob IL of $4,000.


About seven O'Clock last night, as the
northbound passenger train from Saltillo,
on the Mexican National Road, reached q
point about three miles north of Lajorita,
station on the line dividing the States Of
New Leon and Tamaulipas, in our sister re-
public, the engine ran OF the track, falling
on its side in the ditch. Engineer MADAM
was seriously injured and brakeman Charles
Festler instantly Killed. Investigation prov
ed that the fish-piates had been removed
aud each rail set in enough so that the
hanges OF the engine wheels would run out
side Of them and thus cause wreck The
passengers by thus time had discovered that
something serious had happened and had
come down 20 examine. Together with
Uonduntor A. >. Burt IN charge, they re-
turned % me rear coach 20 consult, when
nfteen or twenty masked horsemen, didar-
emily dressed rushed out OF the bushes and
with drawn pistols and guns told them 70
GET into the cars quick. VI course little
time was lost IN complying with the order.
In q few minutes the robbers could be heard
cutting ana hammering IN the baggage car
After while they sent a man who called
out Burt meaning the conductor. he
answered; Here nm, gentleman; what
Will you have = They told him toget down
and go to the baggage-car. Accordingly he
started. On bis way he was accosted IN
good English by man riding large white
hcrse and who was evidently the leader OF
the party IN the Following language
CONDUCTOR, we want you to get into the
baggage car ana open that safe and II you
don't 90 ~ We VIII Kill every American on
TINS tram"
The conductor answered very cooliy
that he would try, and attempted TO get
into the side door OF the ear. In this he
Tailed and was assisted IN making his en-
trance by the robbers. After he had got
zen IN two OF the men were helped up and
one was stationed at each door with drawn
revolyers IN hand. Mr. Burt discovered
that the hinges aud knob of the safe which
Is burQlal-proof had been knocked off by
the robbers in their attempts to open it, and
that It was now impossible to get ut the con.
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We were all thinking our own thoughts,
and rowed on in silence. At last the island
was reached, the baskets set ashore, and we
began to roam about She limited space. One
of the young fishermen got out his rod the
other promised to teach Belle how to angle
and the professor was heard tapping his
hammer in little cave that opened on the
water. Suddenly he gave loud cry.
Come |" he cried Come II IN terrified
accents.
We all obeyed. The next moment the
men were in the cave, and we were peeping
into it The professor was safe and unharni-
ed. We saw that at glance. But what
was that lying ON the strip of sandy beach
A slender womans figure, its wet, white
garments clinging to it like the drapery of a
statue, flowers Enthusiastically wreathed about
its person, long hair afioat upon the water,
that lifted and swept it against the shoulders
"a drowned woman, in whose pale features
were still traces of great beauty ghost,
as we all screamed together
We stood above her, wondering. We're
oii siS oii sistilBe siorieS true i1uu the
spirit of the drowned woman appeared to
tell us of her fate AS we whispered to-
gether, growing chill with terror, another
boat was seen crossing the river. In it sat
two men with grave faces; behind them,
Mrs. Parnell, with her head bent on her
knees.
They've found her. reckoned the tide
would wash her in here" said the oldest
man. " 1t was her heard scream last night
l thought So"
Mrs. Parnell arose in the boat, showing
is her tear-wet face.
It's all over" she said, clinging to the
stump of an old tree. II was my poor girl
you saw, my dears. She was out of her
mind You see, week after she was mar.
ried her husbands first wife--his real wife
came after him. Billy is her boy. She
wasn't dangerous, but she thought she was
dead--a dead bride-and must always wear
white and flowers. Nights we used to go
out together She liked that. But last night
L oversight myself--and this is what came
of it, couldn't help it. 1t was to be. It's
better for her. but l kinder kept hoping
she'd get we'll and IL feel it.p
Then she sat down. The poor, dead girl
was laid in her arms, and the men rowcd
away up the river.-Ma,y Kyle Dallas.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
periious Inland Seas.

would rather cross the ocean twenty
times at this season of the year than make
one trip from the ST. Lawrence River to
Chicago on the lakes" said Captain Ira
Brown, an old Erie skipper. "The annual
loss of life and property ON the lakes Is pro-
portionately very much greater than It Is
on the Atlantic Ocean, and you may always
expect to hear of disasters on the great
lakes following tho reports Of every severe
storm. Lake shippers will take risks that
would appal the bravest ocean sailor.
They will start from port with vessels that
are hardly seaworthy in the calmest weather,
and moro Of them are ahoat during the
most dangerous part Of the year than dur.
ing any other time. This is becaues the
months of October and November are the
most profitable to vessel owners, cargoes
then being plenty and freight rates higher.
--CSncinnati Iimes-Star.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-12-26
COMIC COMMENTS.

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wor, - i'''e ~ vac N''''i s''0S = -
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nsi'nu rs 'ne mistress u 'ne seos' Dus
,I'e nsu'o.ous ioies.s ~ 'hiS ooull'iS i'a'e
'l'N. 'n,s'' ssS " ''ie Saws
ana what Is TINS animal calieo asked
.ie 'eachef OF class In natural history, as
:. - ~ Ps'1
- 49,. 80 "a 'No"'e1 ~ ouo' --'''9's
PROFESSOR q chemistry Inc substances
you see IN TINS wal is the most deadly Oh az
poisons' a single drop placed on me
tongue OF cat Is enough 70 kln tne strongest
''''s''' = : rig &c usf'''''
~ was nearly iatai, my gear, sala nAss.
na'nspo'nap. Inc poor man AWhiioweu
poison ~ mistake' pus to1eanaeeiy 'sle ue'-
aneopo'e' ana ne Bot AZ l'isnt rs an an
No, said the tramp mover meant
- ooi,'e nele s's"'n. : was n'ss'.s ~. ~
so"n ioi'y ni'ies ~. iIo'n neao Dus
NY oou'Se -, ~ lallwas la"p . ~ = ...s
uePo'' tnsy conciuaeu sl'a' ms eAeuse
"as sooo one anu is' nini so'
what remarkable nignf8owns were worn
IN the early days OF england Y Jones re-
.as,Asu Aa Nc s0'u',1su .ns e-A.o''
s'en.eso"nst eN0''i'ne. - saipAA'''
ss'u VINES wv IN ~
'Aey ws'e on'y pun On A'i'sn'S 1''''''-
"'V'' ~ ''0''
Matthew Arnold IS Of the opinion that we
40 no. pay enough attention 70 'ne eauca.
'lon Oh GU. S'omacns' OF 70 'ne sciencs "
eaeins' MT ninoia nus NOV ye' sis.seu aA
AnAes,0aa iA',wAs ee''ns nou'e ou''ns ''.e
pei.ou Wnen 'le'e a'e '0n '"'1us0' 'o' "
''eenlnon'''
Texas denating soeie'y ueoa.eu tne
question "nen o watermelon VINE runs
onto announcer mans iano, VINO Owls lne
MISSIONS Ao' "'se1 s''s s--o
ooiorea man VINO lives ABOUT mile and
half from the two farms owned the melons.
--Peck'e Sun.
Nilsson says PATHS voice holds out re-
markably we'll for woman of her age.
Patti only hopes she may be able to sing as
well as Nilsson when she is as old Gerster
remembers tho pleasure both these singers
gave her when she was little girl.
Orleans Picayune.
There are fish, scientific authorities tell
us, that live in great numbers in the ocean.
/ =. IL. n n nnn - ~ ~ :. = -
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A Public Avenser.

Some cranks have inspirations to murder,
and some hear whispered voice telling
them to go for the gas company. That sort
Of voice whispered to Michael Mcqueen,
of New York, and his mania has been to get
into empty houses and set every burner to
buzzing He wasted 5000 worth of gas for
one company before being arrested. A
peaceful calm will steal over lots of souls to
even read of it, rchonae.
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Consistency.

COnStNucy.
lie Said
And leaned as he spoke on the pasture bars,
That he vowed by the heavens blue
BY the silyery moon and the shining stars
To ever prove loyal and true.
"Men change, It's true. he said, but OIL
Relieve me, my own dear love,
Affection like mine, as time Will show,
Has strength that no power can mover
She Said
No fear or doubts, beloved, have 1,
For deep In this heart OF mine
Is love that will never dim and die,
But will last for aye--like thine ~
lie gave her a ring and n fond caress,
While her tears like Il torrent fell;
MS with faltring words and in sore distress,
He babe her long farewell
but the man In the moon, who had often viewed
such tender scenes, ] ween,
Winked knowingly then, as the lovers stood
Beneath, In the silver sheen.
Two summers with blossoms and buds are gone
Two winters with frost and SNOW;
Ana again the man in the moon looked down
On the whirllng world below.
Aud what did he seeg Why, the loyeK had wor
widow with wealth galore;
While the maiden had welded, that Tery morn,
TIE clerk of dry goods store.
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o strange, o sad perpiexity,
Blind groping through the night;
Faith family questioned can there be
An afterward Of night9
o heavy sorrow, grief and tears,
That all our hopes destroy
Say, shall there dawn in coming yeam
An afterward Of Joys
0 hopes that turn to gall and rue,
Sweet fruits that bitter prove;
Is there an afterward OF true
And everlasting lover
o WEAKNESS, within, without,
Vain longings for release;
Is there 20 inward fear and doubt
An afterward OF peaces
orestless wanderings TO and fro,
In vain and fruitless quest;
Where shall we ind above, below,
An afterward OF rest?
odeath, with whom we plead In vain
To stay thy fatal knife;
Is there beyond the reach OF pain
An afterward Of lifeg
All, yes; we know this seeming Ill,
When rightly understood,
In Gods own time and way fulnl
His afterward OF good.
Chambers Jo,aadi.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-09-07

There was o meeting hold last
F.i3ay, in Beat four. to sc'oct n man
10 run on tho opposition ticket for
Supervisor We understand that
Col. Jones, who rov represents
that Beat as Supervisor, preferred
ono West Ford, as his successor,
but the colorcd folks couldn't stand
Ford, ind ncminn ed n man OF their
own color, named Anderson Morrow
We understand the nomination can
SOS much regret among the machine
bosses, but the colored voters in that
Beat have the bosses by the wrist
and can dictate terms. We will Toe
what the outcome will be.