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Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17

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The other day tramp walked into Car
son yard and asked for days work trim
ming treees, assuring the man of the house
that an old paic of pants or a square meal
would be considered q sufficient equivalent
for the job. The man who owned the prem
ises was a phianthropic fellow aud fished up
an old pair of pants in few moments, at
the same time setting the stranger to work
mauIing the wood pile. While thus engaged
the children got around him ard were daz
zled with the pictures of some angels in red
and blue and lot of sheet anchors and mer-
maids tattooed Oh his arms. They soon
learned the stormy history of his life. He
had been a sailor in the Caribbean, Cas-
plan and Polar seas, AMI after giving a
graphic account of bis tiger hunts in India,
his wrestles with goril'as in Africa, and his
great catch as catch-can match, QueeDsber-
ry rules, with boa constructor in South
America, it is but just to add that he
commanded the entire respect and attention
of the audience. When the wood-plle had
been sufficiently splintered he announced
that the hospitality he had received called for
more work, and there seeming to be nothing
special in sight he EXPIRE ssed himself as un-
easy unless he was shown something more.
One of the children asked him if he could
put some pictures on her as he had on bis
arms He said he could. and in twinklin g
produced the necessary parGPhefnaua Inc
children we're simply delighted, and almost
had riot disputing over the first choice By
four O'Clock in the afternoon he had two
young boys, aged four and seven, and baby
all covered over with pictures of South
American scenery. hearts, sheet anchors and
italian sunsets, besides making engagements
with twelve of the neighbors' children and
enough prospective jobs to last him week
When last seen he was leaving the premises
in front of shotgun and bulldog.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17


I'm smarter man than Ferdinand
Ward" said a young business man down
town yesterday. my wife. who has got
more sene than q dozen men, heard about
the big profits that Grant & Ward paid their
customers and kept at me until put $500
into their government contracts. Pretty
and there came out 81, 800. Back that went
and out came 1000. This seemed like
picking blackberries. Back it went and out
it came again, just As natural, and so l sent
it back again, and it doubled-the whole
business doubled. It beat any game I ever
sa ", and have tried them all Why, if a
roasted pig with knife and fork stuck in its
back had come before q hungry man he
couldn't have been more surprised. put it
all in again, and the bigger it got the more it
seemed to grow. It was just like rolling off
log. All had to do was to put the money
back, and out it came increased every time.
Well it went along, and my wife and we're
tremendously excited. It was better than
horse race with the racers neck and neck on
the last quarter. At last my $500 had grown
to 80 500. Then my wife said: Take
out that $40, 900. It's my speculation and
claim that money. We will have brown
stone house before next Sunday" told her
she was crazy and was never SO mad at her
in my life. She insisted that We should take
o ,r profits and leave in the original capital.
There was level head for you. I see it all
now but felt very sheepish when called
on Grant & Ward for my $4,000. 1 told
Ward his business beat anything that human
brain ever conceived, and that was sorry I
had to take the money; that I thought my
wife was about the biggest goose that ever
lived that she didn't know the alphahet of
speculation, but that it couldn's De helped.
expressed my determination to leave in the
original capital, and promised him that I
would never draw it out until he said So"
HAS he ever said SO ?"
Not yet He still has got the original
capital, but I have been smart enough to
beat his game out of $4,000"
''And your wife 2"
aWel, she has got the brown-stone house"
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17

ment. It says: Wherever the German has q
fair chance he is a producer Of s'peace and
plenty" and in whatever he undertakes he
Is equal to the emergency, either in utilizing
| what is favorable to his work or eonquerinR
obstacles that discourage and defeat his less
Industrious and persevering American neigh
Dor. The German is q worker. There are
no exceptions to she rule-no drones in the
hive to consume unearned honey. And he
Is by Intuition and habit economical, prudent
and shrewd. An idling German is not often
seen, and If one happens to be out Of work it
is not his fault. He is never found In the
ranks of the loafers and gamblers who infest
and disgrace the streets of all Texas cities
and towns, and he is equally as scarce in the
jails and penitentiaries of the country.
Rev. DIR. Ecob who preached for several
years to the church in Augusta Of which Mr.
Blaine is a member has borne testimony to
the regularity with which Mr.. Blaine at
tends public worship A correspondent of
the Boston Herald thus writes from Aug usta
concerning MIR. Blaine's observance OF last
Sunday: MIR. Blaine and his family are con.
stant churchgoerG, and, Notwithstanding that
be is a candidate for the highest Office in the
gift of the American people. his observances
of the Sab bath, which have been enforced
under his roof for many years, have net
undergone any change by his candidacy. To-
day he and the members of his family were
driven by their colored ooachman in the fam
lily carriage, drawn by pair of sleek step
ping bays, to the granite sdifice where he
receives the teachings of the gospel. MIR.
Blaine has two pews well down in front as
you approach the pulpit, and they were
filled. The regular pastor of the church was
away on an exchange with the one who Off
ciated, who was from Bath. The preacher
was pale, intellectual looking young man,
some thirtY-one years of age. He was a
classmate in Yale college with Walker Blaine,
the Oldest son of Mr.. Blaine. The sermon
he preached was an able one, and knowing as
he did that Mr.. Blaine would be present was
probably his best effort. Mr.. Blaine did
him the honor to give his discourse close at
teOtiOn
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17
SournaI snO Courier.
SINGLE COPIES TWO CENTS.
Tuesday June IL, 1854.
THE SARATOGA CONVENTToN.

The politicians are very much interested
in what will take place at the New York
Democratic State convention, which meets at
Saratoga tomorrow, for the action of this
convention will have great deal to do with
the action of the Democratic national con-
vention- The Democratic. party adheres to
its ultra machine methods of constituting a
national convention 1t requires tvo-thirds
of all the delegates elected to the national
convention to nominate and the votes are re-.
quired to be cast by States. Every State
convention sending delegates to the national
convention seeks to bind its delegation by the
unit rule. The Saratoga convention will de-
tsrmine who Of tie Presidential candidates
will receive the support of the entire State
at Chicago, and may thus practically decide
who is to lead the Democratic hosts in the
campaign.
The main contest in the convention will
be between the friends of Governor Cleve-
land and those of Roswell P. Flower. A
correspondent of the New York Evening Post
thus gives what seems to be fair account of
the situation: Mr.. Flower has been at work
for months in every part of the State. His
methods have been by direct personal appeal
by correspondence, by placing favors of one
kind and another where they would do the
most good, by bolstering up Democratic
newspapers, and generally by working on
every known weakness of political human
nature. The old feud in the party has been
kept alive by his operations SO that it can be
used as sufficient excuse for refusals to sup
port Cleveland in places where the real cause
for such refusal would otherwise be too gIar-
ingly apparent. The Cleveland managers
show figures which give the Saratoga con
vention clearly and safely to their candidate,
but, on the other hand Mr.. Flowers friends
make equally fair exhibits. The Cleveland
side has the organization, however, thereby
being in position to eliminate il the pre-
hminary proceedings of the convention
some of the assistance which is counted on
for Mr.. Flower. If the latter's friends are
minded to carry the contest to extremes,
they will probably open the fight on the po-
sition of temporary organization. If they
do not do this. or, if undertaking it they are
beaten, Governor Cleveland will doubtless
have a walk-over for the New York delega-
tien.
One very Important factor in the contest
is the attitude of that high-minded political
called. ''for Short" Tammany
The Tammany men have demanded an equal
at the convention with what
IS known as the County Democracy, and it |
Is probable they will get it. AS Tammany is
opposed to Cleveland the fight will be a very
lively one.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17
EIlfIOlkIAL AOIsS.

The tremendous losses by fire in this ooun-
try have Attracted much attention lately
The insurance companies have been gather
ing some Interesting statistics in regard to
fire losses. The statistics show that about
i've per cent. of the annual number of fires
and three per cent. of the yearly fl re losses
are to be attribu ted to spontaneous combus-
tion. Carelessness is the cause of the great
er part of the fires.
An eminent official of the English mint,
who prides himself on his ability as coiner,
states that England at the present time is
losing million year on silver money, and
that the calling in of the condemned half
sovereign will cost her $3.50 600 a year for
some years. The recoining of old sovereigns
into new ones also entails heavy loss The
only paying department at the royal mint
is that from which the bronze coinage is is
sued, and that shows an annual profit of
$3.50, 900.
By vote which lacked only one of unan-
unity the Park commission of PHILADELPHIA
has decided to admit the performance of
music in the park on Sunday afternoons,
subject only to few simple and perfectly
proper conditions Chief Engineer Smedley
was the single dissentient, and ne was only
moved to take the stand he did by the idea
that as sacred concerts had been stopped
some years ago when announced in places of
amusement as being contrary to the law, the
commission might be exceeding its authority
to permit them in the park
Senator Fair positively denies that he has
any intention of remarry ing the wifs from
whom he was separated year ago. A SIN
gular feature of the case, and one which has
not been generally known, is that in addition
to the 100000 demanded by Mrs. Fair
upon that occasion, the Senator voluntarily
added fifth. At the conclusion of the legal
proceedings Mrs. Fair found herself utterly
at loss as to how to invest her large for
tune and in her dilemma applied for help to
her former husband. To this appeal he ct
once responded, and now, though separated
from Mrs. Fair, yet has entire charge of her
money affairs, investing her large capitl en-
tirely according to his own judgment. He
certainly treats her fairly.
company has been formed in New York
to try to make money out of the street
sweepings, which have heretofore been
dumped into the sea. The refuse is sifted
in great hoppers with movable Stats, by
which the fine ashes and dirt are separated
from the coal, and the bones, the rags and
paper, the shoes, and SO forth, are each
sorted out by themselves. About three hum
dred pounds of coal are obtained from each
load, and this, of course, is sold for fuel
The fine ashes are bought by brick makers,
the bones by sugar refners, who convert
them into animal charcoal, the rags and
paper go to the paper makers, the old shoes
to the makers of fertilizers. Each machine
will dispose Of two hundred loads of the
street refuse daily, and the profit derived
from the sale OF these various materials is
enough to pay fair interest on the capital
invested,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17
Some College Matters.

The Observatory TrOublea-The Medical
School-A Clear Statement of the S1tu-
alton.
To kha Ediknr Of fha Ior1pNAI AND GnuRIFR.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17
USPICIONS.

A Virginia girl asks, ''Why do girls mar
ry?" We suspect it is because they have more
sense than men.-Boston Post.
Time is money; but 1t is not the kind oi
money one ought to spend in barTooms and
it is not the kind the barkeeper waats.-New
Orleaus Picayuns.
Heard at the recent pound: ''Why are
those dro 8ned dogs like telegraph poles2''
Because they have lost their bark forever
New York journal.
The best three prize poems on the white
elephants have been published. The white
elephant possesses one great advantage over
human beings. The elephant can't read
Philadelphia Call
The most trying circumstances under
which boy can bes is when another boy is in
the alley winking at him. and his father is
offering him a nickel to carry in pile of
wood Texas Siftings.
My son, whisper it not to the marines, but
bear it in mind yourself, that a man never
gets half seas over unless he sails with the
crew. What crew? Corks crew, my son;
corks crew. Bottle that zp in yoar scrap
heap; it may work in handy some day
Burdette.
Said nervoas visitor to an Austin lady
at whose house she was making a call. care
you not afraid that some of your children
will fall into that cistern in your yard2" "Oh,
NO" was the complacent reply, ''anyhoW,
that's not the cistern We get our drinking
water from."-Texas Siftings.
MAY L leok at your debit ledgsr?" asked
the new editor of = society paper. 81 could
not permit you to do so," replied the fash
ionabIe tailor. But why do you make SO
strange a request2'' 'WelI, you see, I
haven't been in this town long, aud I'd kind
olike to find out who the leaders of society
are. "-Chicago News.
Mrs. Horace Greeley had an antipathy for
kid gloves; she would never put them on.
A correspondent remembers bout she had
with Margaret Fuller on this subject. We all
met on the street, and instead of saying
"Gosd morning" or some such human salu-
tation, Mrs. Greeley touched Margaret's hand
with a little shudder, and said, ''Skin of a
beast !" Why, what do you wear ?" in
quired the astonished maiden from Massa-
chusetts. ''Silk, " said Mrs. Greeley, reach
ing out her hand. Margaret just touched it
and shuddered, crying, ''Entrails of a worm!
Entrails of q worm"
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.
Now will straight reveal the strome of fate,
he surian oircuit of the oBmian swoil,
The mergic force and stremic cosmorate
That doth encompass the spenatic troll,
Tks mild georic Eh lei ard gsric sphone,
The mergio zurm are spurio as the suR
That erst in Ly ban desert derstly shons
Before the spurl its tpAnite begun.
Yet mindness beams in spurid firms apacs.
Nor ceases when the sordisl actual comes
Comes but to strait, yet cannot all eface
The ambian cycles of our carmeal race.
Thus do We learn that dormc life is germ,
And we bu5 atonfzs in bi- strimeal force
The hyosmotic gnoss of the Idle sterna,
And gain the knowledge of life's vital source.
w. 8. r, in New York World.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17
Price Two Cents
T TEL e
Warm Weather
BEING NOW HERE

We are prepared to show
as usual the finest line of
Summer Goods suitable for
the season. Silk and Silk
and Wool Grenadines, Her.
nanfs, AlbatrOs and Nuns
Yelling. A handsome line
of summer Silks i'm LOufsfne
and ChamSeabRe COHOrs.
FfguF> ed and Plain Linen
Lawns Persian Lawns
Victoria Lawns, Figured
Swiss and all kinds Of White
Goods for Dresses,
Wilcox 4 Company,
767 AND 7n
CHAPEL STREET,
HhBD THR WARNING.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17

The Cisco (Texas) Roundup pays fine
tribute to the character of class of immi-
grants that Is now in considerable numbers
selecting the Southwest as field for settle
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17
J5o
HRBD THE WARMING.

BY not needing the warnings Ct nature many per-
sons are laid up bed of sickness suffering for
weeks, months or years. There is hardly a disease
that attacks the system which is not preceded by
symptoms. Let these symptoms be attended to and
the disease will be nipped in the bud. Note the fol-
lowing:
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17

Variabls appetite, faint gnawing
= feeling at pit of stomach, bad taste
in the mouth, feeling of weight
} snd wind in the stomach, bad
breath. headache and constipation
Burdook Blood Bitters will posi-
= lively relieve any of above symp-
toms and cure dyspepsia.
+ Pain in small of back, cain In
loins, hushes of heat and chills
| with disordered stomach and bow
= els, headache, weakness, sc. In
fact Kioney Complaint appears in
30 many different ways, 1t is i'm
possible to name them all.
BURDOUK BLOOD BITTERS
has cured some of the most stub
born forms of Kidney Disease !;
in fact has never besn used with.
Tout good effect.
above symptoms is not sufficient to
and many PEI sons do not pay any
it'll the symptoms multiply and they
has made great inrosds, and possibly
d itself in the sysptem.
be signals of Nature
it fs too late. B9rdock
8itters will assist you.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-17

An anthropometrical laboratory has been
opened at the Health exhibition in London.
The laboratory has been organized by Mr..
Francis Cation, and it will be the means of
showing to the public at large how certain
personal facts may, with care, be measured
and recorded. Each person who enters will
be furnished with a pamphlet explanatory of
the objects of anthropometry, and included
in the pamphlet will be schedule with
blank spaces, which will be filed mp in the
course of the passage of the visitor through
the laboratory. The completed schedule will
contain record of name Cor initials). age,
aex, occupation, place of birth, color of hair
and eyes, height standing and sitting, weight,
length of span of arms, strength of squeeze
and pull, swiftness OF direct blow, capacity
of chest as measured by spirometer, acute
ness of vision as measured by test type,
conditions of color sense and acuity of hear
ing.
TI,a 0;sao TTexaa1 Round-TTn naya q f7na
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
cor FECTIONERY.

HENRY BEENGLE No. 129 King street, haa
made arrangements 10 supply tho PEOPLE
Of !.lcxandria during ALL SEASONS with the
bc. nn: cheapest goods in his line. lie offers all
tho ,clrarcs of the season. For years he has
catered Of the best to the people in Alexandria
ai.i the surrounding country, and tho past is his
wnrral. for the future.
PURE CANDIES, BRENGLES ICE CREAM
aud Dessert pics-specialtics; Black, Fruit
Pound. jelly and Fancy. Ornamental and Plain
Cakes. are sold cheaper than they can be manu-
featured at homc. Also Cream Puls Tarts and
Pastry i'anacs and Iatiy cf all kinds. Pics =
sp,ri@iiy. Fruits, Nuts, Cunfcciionerics, Caro-
n.cls an,i Su@arcd Fruits lie furnishes tho best.
art! r;tcra fer families. fairs. balls, aud entertain
mems dec1O
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-24
LIVING IN 4 WuIRL-

To-day We live in whirl. We cultivate
civilization at the expense Of mental health
Ii is one grand rush from the rising of the
sun TO the going down Of the same; a
scramble for riches, for fame, for place, for
power, for bare existence itself. We rush
t. catch trains and ferry-boats, and having
caught them rush 10 get cut. We walk
whc. We 90 walk-in a hurry, talk in 4
hurry, think in a hurry, are taken i'll in a
hurry, and die with scarcely time to say our
eravcrs. That this ABNORMAL condition Of
unrest pe:vades all classes of workers, par
ticularIy br.in.workcrs, is an admitted
fact. We have, as Il people, got into Il way
Of rushing things which it seems difficult TO
avoid. Competition has kept pace with
h-pressure desires, and now q man must
keep pace with the times, or sink out OF
sight. Instances are thick us leaves in
autumn OF persons in the prime of life
breaking down under the strain Of over
work and ovcrworry. The streets are filled
with men who carry about with them spots
on their brains-lhe victims of speculation,
oycrwoYk or extreme business cares. They
may be found at the bar, in the pulpit at
the editorial table in the banking house, the
Office, the studio aud the study.
English advices inform US that William
Black. the novelist, who is still a young man,
has already worn his nervous system
out; and that Sullivan, the brilliant
composer. is Il mental and physical
wreck. Such deplorable conditions could
undoubtedly have been avoided had
these t,vo men been content To grow
old slowly and gracefully, and to acquire
fame and fortune in 4 moderate and sensible
way. Life is worth living if q man will only
make il so. There is 4 time 10 work and
,;!uc TO play. IT is the true philosopher who
understands no" 10 make the best OF both.
Tie mcSt colossal fortune that was ever
alnasscd. the proudest name ever acquired,
are mol worth tie sacrifice OF health and
happiness. The humble shepherd on The
nil side, with his dog, "hs clean hearth
Stoiic. his thrifty wife SMILE" the man who
knows 40 nhysicai pain, no mental unrest,
iS = han,;rr being by far than the RothS
Child Who cannot sleep, or the Carlyle whose
fife WAS one long sorrow. Ambition Is all
- . s!imuiant: where il becomes craze Ii
i. :. paiscn Each human brain is ouly
capabic of accomplishing so much; ii should
make Il point Of studying just how much
that is. Every man should strive TO be-. as
far :.s lies in his power, :? philosopher.
Philosophy might tc1ci him that happiness
=! the heart is The trucst iaenial hygiene,
and that such happiness can only be obtain
ed hy doing the duty that lie" nearest, by
looisin.. upon ambition rs 3 means 10 an
esd. ~ !h> pursuit and enjoyment OF refined
uleasurcs by cultiyating domestic peace,
bv curbng the temper and by performing
kindly acts.-Nec York Hour.
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A MOTHER SUPPLY OF ARTIST MATERIAL
n received to-day consisting of Crayon Paper,
Academy Board Canvass, both on and of stretche4s'
Crayons, Studies, Oil and Water-Coor Stua'es'
''ic satSS I'D. H. LUNT
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FREQUENCY OF TORNADOES.

10 tie Editor Of tie NeIy York Herald:
"Nhy are tornadoes so much more tro-
quent in the United States than iormery?' p
This question, asked by a Georgia cores
pondent, appears in the Weekly Herald Of
the lst Of March 1t is leading question
il mctcsrology, and your answer is q repeti-
ton Of the tiogmatic solution of tho old pro-
Elcm.
Irh;t: "ihc removal Of Typographical OBJ
s:ruations, By facilitating & rapid coming
together ofpolar and equatorial wind cur
rents" may be Essential conditions Of the
birth 0; 4 tornado" do not deny. This is
the meteorological explanation of many
scientists, based on the denudation OF the
soil b, t;coTestiug The country. Its ration
ale hi, not satisfied me, nor, | think, has it
been clear and convincing 10 large class Of
readers and observers.
In the same number of the Weekly Her
ald are some editorial remarks on climatic
changes as q cause of the inundations in the
valley of the Ohio and its tributaries. You
say, Had the primeval forests Of the Ohio
basin been standing when the February
storms set in quite as much water might
have been carried off TO the sea-" How?
On reflection you must accept this OPINION
as Il mere dogma. My advanced age does
not allow me even to hope to see it. but
younger persons will, l firmly believe, live
to witness as an accepted truth an clectri-
cal cause for many of the abnormal meteor
illogical phenomena OF the last three dec
AIDES.
For more than twenty-five years | have
thought on this subject, have published my
conclusions both in New York and Virgin
ia. and have on file pages of notes tending
to show that the network annually increas-
ing of metallic rails and telegraphic wires
spread over the earths surface from the
| Atlantic TO The Pacific constitute the chief
factor in the frequency and duration of sum-
mer drouchts and the increasing frequency
and violence of floods, foundations, lorna
does. &C.. which have prevailed not only in
the United States, but the world over
wherever the placing of these electrical
AGENCIES has become the rule with scarcely
an execution in the civilized world.
JOHN r. PURDIE.
smithfeld, Isle of Wight county, Va.' Mar
| II, 1884.