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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-09
$1,000 %

The classes in the Normal Department annually increasing
aud nearly all the graduates make teaching their bust
Eess.
The entire management of the institution is emnenty Prae
tiea and earnestly recommend that the appropriation of
3o00O0 for each of the years 1892 1888 be continued for the
years 1884 1885.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-09

halance .s...' 'ssssss.
II is necessary also to deduct the Common School
Fund, Old Account, for the reason that the
constitutional provision under which il arose
has been amended 80 as to accomplish the pur-
ross Tor which il was raised in different and
mere edectual way .......... ..... ...... ......s
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-09

For proper arstandng Of hs the State it
necessary du,s from th abv5 s1,h dsb.s by their
terms permanent AMI never phil bat form the basis for
periodical interest payments, Wis
ChekaaAw School Fund ....... ...... SSIS700
eeminary Fund
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-09

EalAhccsssss
Frhn the balance must be deducted the amount
sf the Agricultural Land Scrip Fund, Bondh
due in January, 1895. because the fund BY its
tcrns is 70 b. perm inently funded d...... .......
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
A True Story of London.

The best stock story about London is
that one day In that modern Babylon
a merchant disappeared from his home,
leaving his wife and children. The
papers and the dead walls blurted forth
his description and the offer of a gen.
erous reward for his body, dead or
alive. At the expiration of the period
allotted by law his considerable estate
was turned into money, and other mer-
chants requited the widow for the right
to continue the prosperous mercantile
operations. No one that knew him
ever saw him again. The widow re-
mained in the home he left her, and
while her hair whitened with time her
children grew to manhood and woman
hood. and had children of their own. q
BY and by, when the memory of the
mysterious disappearance of the mer-
chant was fresh only in the mind of
the woman who had merged her life
into his, while to her children it had
become as mere something told to
them in childhood, the lawyers noti-
fed them that the merchant had died
leaving his property to another woman
and other children, and that if they de-
sired to contest his will the chance was
theirs. Then it turned out that when
the merchant disappeared he merely re-
moved around the corner where he set
up another household reared another
family behind windows through which
he could see his true wife and his legi-
innate children moving about his
old home. He had begun life anew.
built up another fortune and finished a
term of life without being recognized
by any one who had known him under
his true name. This story is true, and
is a matter of court record. 1t is told
to show how in big cities the details of
village or country life are swallowed
up in the greater concerns of the vast
body; how ones own little circle is the
most a city person is familiar with and
how, where there are so many people,
it is a possible for man to lose him
self and be overlooked as if he were in
a small boat.-EX.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
The Trainman.

A slim young man, wearing a fur
cap and a last years ulster, stood with
a lonesome look on his ace in the wait
ing room of the Polk street depot, Chi
cago, the other evening. He thought
fully measured with his eye the color
ed youth behind the lunch counter few
feet away. Then he climbed on high
stool by the counter and reached for a
sandwich. He winked at the colored
boy, and was instantly supplied with a
cup of coffee. Then he devoured a
turnover and two hard-boiled eggs.
Another cup of coffee and quarter of
a mince pie finished the meal. Then the
slim young man glided from his stool,
and said, carelessly:
"What's the film worth?'
Seventy cents, sah," replied the
waiter, promptly.
"N hat!" replied the slim young man,
"you mustn't charge me passenger rates
you know. I'm trainman, remem-
ber."
"What kline of a trainman ?" demand.
ed the colored youth, suspiciously.
Grand Trunk brakeman" responded
the slim young man.
"Got to IDENTIFY yo'sef," sullenly said
the waiter.
Don't think anyone knows me here
said the other, with hesitation.
"Show what yo' got in your pockets
den. Ebery trainman has car-key OF
train-hook. or somethin' else along tc
IDENTIFY bisself wid."
"Changed my clothes since the last
run" said the slim young man, grow
ing pale. "You'n have to take my
word for it"
"Yo' words no good" said the wait
er, contemptuously. I'll give yo' one
mo- chance. Call out de towns jus s il
dis was pass'n'g'r cab.
The slim young man threw back his
shoulders, clutched the counter anC
shouted:
Battle Creek"
Niagara FalIsl"
"MontrealT"
'Stop, sab; yo' is cheat. No brake
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
A Brave Woman.

The Montana Mountain says a
woman living near Glendive, Dawson
county, exhibited wonderful GOODNESS
and nerve few days age, and furnished
additional evidence that in times of
great danger woman is equal to
almost any emergency. She was the
owner of a pet dog, last which Thursday,
was playing in the yard with another
dog of about the same size and CON-
plexion. Suddenly the canine gave a
yelp of almost mortal terror as large
eagle, with wings of more ample pro-
portions than a blacksmith's apron,
swooped down from the blue empy-
rean of heaven and picked up the lit
tie cur in its muscular talons. Like
the true western woman, brought up
amid the dangers of rough border life,
and with no tlght-htting skirt to pre-
vent the free motion of her limbs, to
think is to act. On the instant this
noble representative of a noble sex,
flew into the kitchen where her hus-
band kept his trusty shotgun, with
which, In the early days when the
blood-thirsty Indians were rampant on
the plains, he had often gone out and
shot fool hens. She bounced out to the
front door, with gun in hand. In an
instant she directed her eagle eye into
the air, where, soaring about ten feet
distant, she discerned the carnivorous
emblem of our national liberties with
her yellow poodle grasped cOnvulsively
but firmly In its claws. For moment
she ran her trained eye along the bar
rel of the gun in the direction of the
larcenous bird, closed her liquid eyes
with shudder, and banged away. When
she opened them the eagle was pros
pecting interstaller space and the dog
lay scattered around in fragments all
over the yard. She wept bitter tears,
and as she picked up the broken pieces
and told the youngest boy to grease
the sausage machine. she swore In
broken Missouri. and with many sob,
vowed everlasting war on the shotgun
policy.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18

1t is a New Hampshire genius who is,
credited with using ,ougur pro6tably
at ball game. Hundreds of boys
found the view from an adjacent free
hill shut off by tight fence. There,
was wild search for cracks, but the
assures had been carefully battened..
To whlttle peep-hole would have
been an hours job. Then the Yankee,
drew an augur and quickly bored
through. An eager throng pressed
upon him with beseeching requests for
a loan of the tool. II wouldn't have
this augur dulled for anything" he'
said, "but I'd just as soon bore few
holes, though I've got to tax you six
cents per bore. Hand over nickel and
I'll punch the board, First come first
served. Here we are. Wher'ell you
have itP' The man took in something:
like two dollars before the demand for
his services ceased.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
NO. Al.

land until the fall of 1866. The third
was laid by the same company between
the same points. and was also complet-
ed in 1866. The fourth was laid by the
Societe du Cable TransatlantiQue, and
was completed in 1869 from Bresto to
st. Pierre and Duxbury. The fifth was
laid by the Anglo-Amerlcan Cable
company from Ireland to Newfound-
land, and was finished in 1873. The
sixth was laid between the same points
by the same company, and was finish
ed in 1874. The seventh was laid by
the Direct United States Cable COM
pany, and was finished in 1875. The
eighth was laid by the Comagnle Fran
caise dy Cable Translantique, and was
completed in 1879. The ninth and
tenth were lald by the American Tele-
graph and Gable company, and were
finished in 1881 and 1SS2.-N. Y. Sun.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
Preparation for Marriage.

"The wedding chest" was the name
given generation ago in Virginia and
Pennsylvania, to brides outfit of un-
der wear, table and bed-inen.
When girl passed her twelfth year,
and could use her needle with skill, she
began to prepare her own wedding
chest. Marvellous were the mysteries
of hem-stitching, fell, embroidery and
lace-work bestowed on these snow
white garments; each as it was finish
ed being laid aside for the far-off we'd
ding.
A common Christmas gift was a deli
cately fine set of table-cloths or towels,
for the "outft" of little girl in panta-
let's, who would not be allowed to
dream of lover for years. The bride
was looked upon as little bet
ter than a pauper who did not bring to
her husband enough linen of her own
making to furnish their home.
Her mother, generation earlier,
helped to spin her outfit, a custom
brought over from England by the ear
lier colonists in the south. Indeed, the
word "spinster" originally meant wo-
man who had spun and prepared her
marriage outfit.
Another custom among wealthy
families in the same section was stor-
ing of a certain amount of wine, on
the birth of daughter, to be opened
on her wedding day. More commend
able was the practice of putting a sum
out at compound interest, or the set
ting apart of certain number of cat
tie or sheep, whose increase was some
day to furnish the dowery for the lit.
tie newborn daughter.
The motive at the bottom of these
old-fashioned customs was, that wo
man from her birth was regarded as &
prospective wife and mother, and tht
duty of her parents was, according tC
these old predjuices, to make her ready
in purse, plenishlng, knowledge anC
housewifely skill, to be helpmate tt
her husband.
The daughter of the bonanza king
nowadays, whose trousseau is ordered
wholesale from Paris, and exhibited tt
reporters of the press for publication
ir the society column, is prepared fo
marriage on totally different basis O
theory and fact.
But'between these two classes ther,
are lnnumerable grades of young girl
who have as small means as the old
fashioned farmers daughter, but who's
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
The Art of Picture hanging.

How to hang pictures so as to pre-
vent their killing each other or being
killed by their surroundings has ever
been a difficult matter. In a collect
ion it is impossible that all the pictures
should be hung in row nearest the
natural range of light. Yet even hav-
ing this manifest advantage, killing is
frequently effected by adjacent con-
trast color. 1t is related of Turner that
he did not consider his labors over
when he had sent his pictures to the
exhibition; he would wait until the
hanging committee had done its work
and then on vanishing day would by
few magical touches so alter the tone
of his work that all the neighboring
canvasses look like foils carefully ar
ranged to set off this one particular
picture in the whole room. "He has
been here and fired off a gun," said
Constable on one occasion when he
found that the introduction at the last
moment of bit of scarlet into gray
sea-piece of Turner's had completely alb
sorbed the color of his own picture.
For home decoration great care is re-
quired in the purchase of pictures. In
selecting the purchaser must be guided
irSt by the size of the room. What
appears mellow and harmonious in the
great gallery will seem full of harsh
outlines and discordant blotches of
color when hung in the modest parior
where proper focal distance cannot be
obtained. The size of the room, and
the color of the room must not violent
| ly contrast with the color of the picture.
For instance, if painting rich in reds
and yellows of tropical sunset is hung
in a room lacking in bright color its
reds and yelows will glare with ter
rible fury; and picture which is sub
dued in tone will have all its depth of
color absorbed, leaving it gray and
chalky, if placed in position with
warm surroundings. Even if picture
and room are in complimentary tints'
there is an art in hanging so that the
painting may appear at its best. Gen
orally this effect is produced when it
is hung fiat against the wall on a line
nearest the natural range of the eye.
A second picture placed above this line
may be tilted. 1t is important, also,
that the light of day should fall on the
canvass at the same angle as the pct
canvass at the same angle as the pict-
ured lights, That is, If the light in the
picture appears to come from the right
hand side. Attention to these details
may appear trlding to one who knows
nothing and cares little for arts, but
the care extended will be amply repaid
to them in the restful effect gained,
while to the cultured, even mediocre
pictures may be made to bear charm
that will make their possession joy
forever.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
Woven Glass.

Glass that is so brittle and so easily
broken has been spun into long threads
or tilaments, and then woven into cloth.
The glass blowers sometimes seen at
work at fairs, make beautiful spun
glass, but all their work is coarse, and
of no particular value. Recently this
art Of spinning and weaving glass has
been taken up in this country by the
aid of machinery, beautiful fabrics in
the form of tablecloths. napkins and
towels, have been made wholly of
glass. The process is very interesting.
Two w0rkmen in the glass-house dip
their tongs into pot of liquid glass,
and draw out a lump of the pasty
mass, and then pullit apart by walk.
ing away from each other. The glass
draws out into long rope or rod OF
glass,and falls on the floor. Other work
men cut this up, while it is still soft
into sticks three feet long and about
half an inch in diameter. These rods of
glass, when cold, are taken to the spin.
ming room and set up on end between
two blow pipes. These blow-pipes
send long, slender flames of gas on the
tip of the glass rod, and in moment
it begins to melt away like candle.
In front Of the rod is large wooden
wheel, eight and one-half feet in diane
ter, and having rim, or face, of twelve
inches. A hot thread is pulled out
from the melting rod of glass and
fastened to the rim of the wheel, and
it is then driven at the rate of three
hundred turns in minute, by steam
engine. The wheel travels at about
one and one-third of mile in minute,
and spinning a thread as fine as the
finest silk, when the wheel is full, the
skein is taken off, and may then be
treated like any thread. In proper
loom it may be used just as if it was
so much silk, and may be woven into
beautiful fabrics that may be washed
ironed, cut and made into any shape
Just like so much cloth.
The glass is peculiar soft kind, made
with lead, and may be white or colored
TO suit the fancy.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18

Man that is married to woman is of
many days and full of trouble, In the
morning he draws his salary, and in.
the evening behold it is gone. 1t is a
tale that is told; 1t vanisheth and no
one knows whittier it goeth. He riseth
up clothed i'll the chilly garments of
the night and seeketh the somnam-
bulent paregoric wherewlth to sooth,
the collcy bowels of his infant pos
terity. He becometh as horse or OK
and draweth the chariot of his off
spring. He spendeth his shekels in the
purchase of fine linen to cover the bo-
som of his family, yet himself is seen
in the gates of the city with one sus-
pender. Yea, he is altogether wretch.
ed,
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18

From statistics recently published it
appears that there are In the world no
fewer than 3,9s5 paper mills, producing.
every year 959,O0O tons of paper from
all kinds of substances. including rags,
straw and alfalfa. About one-half is
printed upon; and of these 467 900 tons
of paper, nearly 100000 tons are used
by newspapers. The various govern
ments consume in official business 10O,-
900 tons; schools 10000 tons; commerce
10000; industry 10000 tons; private
correspondence another 10000. Includ-
ing women and children, the paper
trade employs 10000 hands.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18

The comet of 1912, which is said to
be flying towards the earth at rate Of
half million miles per day will soon
be visible to, the naked eye. 1t must
be looked for in the north within the
edge of the milky way" which 1T will
cross in its course. 1t is nothing liss'
as large as the comet of last year, but,
far more brilliant. At this date IL 10.
upward of one hundred and ten NIL
lions miles from the earth, or SOM
thing like eighteen million miles more
than the distance the sun is from thn
earth.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18

education, tastes and habits are the
same as though their fathers were
worth millions. No subject is so in
teresting to them as the preparation
for marriage. Let them look at these
two ways of making ready. and choose
which it would be wisest for them to
follOw.-YOuth's Companion.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
Ten Transatlantic Cables.

The first cable built by the Atlantic
Telegraph company from Ireland to
Newfoundland was completed on Aug
ust 9Th, 1858. The second was com
menced in 1865 by the Anglo-Americar
Telegraph company. but it broke wher
half LAID, and was not picked up anC
completed from Ireland to Newfound
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
Water as a Thirst Quencher.

"Did you ever suffer extreme hunger
or thirstp' was asked of a Kentucky
colonel who had been relating some
solid stories about himself.
"Well," he replied, al never suffered
what might be called extreme hunger.
but no man knows how to endure the
agonies of thirst better than l do"
Il remember the time WELL" he con-
tinued retrospectiyely. 81 was on a
fishing excursion and became lost in
the woods. For three days not a drop,
passed my lips. My heightened alb
sence finally caused alarm and party
was sent out in search of me. They
found me lying in an unconcious con-
dition on the bank of little trout
stream, and it was hours before any
hopes of saving me were entertained"
"Was the trout stream dryp" asked
one of the interested listeners.
"Dry2 Certainly not. How could l
catch fish if the stream was dryP"
"Well, l don't see how you could suf-
fer from thirst with stream of water
close at at hand"
water close at hand ?" retorted the
Kentucky colonel, "And what's water
got to do with mans being thirsty
Philadelphia Call.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18
man ebber call um dat way. Dis is wOt

man ebber call um dat way. Dis is wot
dose towns is:
"BricawicF
"NogowashT
"Noa-r-r-eall"
"Dere," concluded the waiter tri-
umphantly. "ef yo'd called um dat way
I'd let yo' off wild thutty-five cents,
Seventy cents, sab; an hurry up.-In-
ter Ocean.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-07-04
Probate Notice.

IN the Probate Court i'm and for Thurs.
i ton county, Washington Territory.
In the matter OF the estate of Daniel
NJ. Ward, an aged and nflrm person in
capable of managing his own affairs.
Notice is hereby given that the under.
signed, Frank G. Ward. guardian of the
person and estate of Daniel NJ. Ward, will,
ON Saturday, the 10Th day OF July, 1884, at
o'clock p. NJ, at the from. door of the
courthouse Of ThurstOn county, Washing
ton Territory, in the city of Olympia, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for
cash, United States gold coin. all of the
right. title and interest of Daniel NJ.
Ward of, in, and to. the following de.
scribed real estate situated in Thurston
county, Washington Territory, to wit: the
south half of the northeast quarter, the
northwest quarter of the northeast quar-.
ter and the northwest quarter of the south
east quarter of section twenty. elght (2S),
township sixteen (16), north Of range one
ID west, containing 16O acres.
Said sale is made in pursuance of an or
der of the above named Court made on
the 7th day of June, A. ID. 1884.
FKANk e. WARD,
Guardian of the person and estate Of
Daniel NJ. Ward.
Dated, Olympia, Washington Territory.
June Is, 1884.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-07-04

adjoining restaurant and the saloon,
purchased IA few months ago from
the Original town proprietor by Mr..
klcnappl'. |, Is one Of the finest
locations III the city and should be
covered with brick building.
Wspin, Museum, which exLib-
tied GA the r!a1. Monday and Tues
lay, possessed some curio-ities
"h.,h 1, We'll vo.th {, eng The
tuln"i buds performed Incredible
foa'- ni / manifested Al intelligence
almost human 1he strong man,
vito lifted "a cask Of water with two
men seated astrie. AZ ,reSsting over
! % pounds. with his teeth, was
,uo hcr feature Of great interest.
Inc Sr>nNhn has. duilng the past
~ Yeats, ""cn r'curung anniversary
Of American Independence, devoted
SPECIAL attention To the stirring
e,,n,n II the Revolution, but this
TIM" We propose to omit the custom,
aud ri'r our renders TO previous
nuInb,Is Ion fuel To tire the h III: Of
patriotism III@ probable that the
crackers will pop all the same, how
ever. aud Vcl! body have good
time
The programme for the celebration
here on TIE ! Ia includes salute of
lJ guns at sunrise, procession OF
horrIhes ut . O'Clock, procession of
citizen, nj II and exercises OH the
plaz, ut IL Miss Jones will read
the Declaration and Col. Thorne de-
liver the untlun. IL The afternoon
the Fno Department will drill, and
there vii he rrizes awarded for mil
itary aud fire drills, foot races and
various oth,r sports, TO close with q
ball.
II seems that tho recommendation
Of the Commissioner for the Govern.
mont to lease the upper story Of Mr.
Horns iire-proof building for the
Surveyor Generals Office has not vel
been acted upon, although the rooms
are ready for occupancy. 1t is sin
cerely hoped tha, the lease will bt
sanctioned, aud tie public records
placed where they will be safe from
the destroying element. The los.
and Inconvenience caused only few
months ago from the burning of thu
Surveyor Generals Office and record!
should impel prompt compliance
with the recommendation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-07-04
9elu Aduertis
Administrators Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given by the under
IN signed, Administrator of the above
named estate, to the creditors OF and all
persons having claims against said de-
ceased to exhibit the same with the neces-
sary vouchers within one year from the
fl rst publication of this notice, to the un-
dersigned, at Arcadia, Mason county, w.
T., or they will be barred.
Is. G. MORRILL,,
Administrator.
Dated, July 4, 1884.