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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-01
NEW ADy ERrIsEmESqs.

u'nE uE-T TiVE CEET havana CIGAR
i I'm the city. Manufactured by myself and
guaranteed to bO the tincst, at
IhisGMAS'S YELLOW FRONT CIGAR
STORE.
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OCtober.

In these still days Earth takes moments rest:
The bare brown fields lie placid in the sun;
They content, knowing their labor done.
There is no pleasant green place. every nest
Is empty now; the branches all bare
And the sweet singing birds no longer there.
The crisp brown leaves lie deep; we go in quest
OF ripe, full nuts that drop down laziiy
Into our laps from many loaded tree.
And after al sweet hours think these best;
And are so glad for fair October days,
When Earth is through gold and purple haze.
For of her bounty we have been the ssest
Through the pale spring through summers colder
prime
Through all the rich, hot days of autumn. time.
We've wept and laughed with her been sad and best
We've tried our love in every changeful mood
And with earth rest awhile and brood
For this years sun sinks grandly to its west,
Knowing how sweet and gracious all its ways,
How beautiful and fair its many days;
And sitting hand in hand. our love contest,
We calmly rest in still Octobef's calm,
Hearing in our own hearts low, glad psalm.
And knowing we have garnered all the best
The sweetest hours of love and that store
Is rich that life ask no more.
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A srATEsMAN's MARROW ESCAPE.
Ex-Governor Hendricks's Close Call from a !
Serious Accident

Ex-Governor Hendricks's Close Call from a
Serious Accident.
Louisville Courier Journal.
Governor Hendricks visit to the exposition
recalls an incident, which was of dramatic i'm
port, on the occasion of his visit in quiet way
to the old exposition of 1872 or 1873 One after
noon, in company with the late Captain Tom
Gibson, the famous lawyer, he entered the press
room of the exposition and introduced TO
the gentleman in charge. The pictures in the
press-room were briefly inspected and commented
upon during the familiar interchange of ideas
with the Governor and his old friend, Captain
Gibson when the pcess-room agent invited them
into his private room, where newspaper men and
other distinguished visitors were accustomed to
refresh themselves with such beverages as were
suited to their fancy. While discussing a glass
of wine Governor Hendricks was talking
pleasantly to the gentlemen present, with his
elbow resting on the window-sill, when clatter
on the floor aboveprec eded the fall of a huge
chisel which some workmen above hal careless
ly allowed to fall. The weapon imbedded itself
in the wooden sill, missing the Governors head
by an lnen A few minutes later while
chatting in the press room, the workman ap-
peared, and was accosted by the press agent
with the stern remark:
''You dropped big chisel from the upper
floor, didn't your"
Yes; it slipped out of my hand
well you came within one inch of killing
Gov. Hendricks
The workman, thinking there was some joke
IN his reception, sad IN a laughing way: well,
Governors are mighty scarce, and are not often
hit"
The press agent sad sternly: This is Gov.
Hendricks sitting here. Your carelessness near
ly cost him his life You should understand it.
There is everything but joke about the mat
ter"
Then the workman took look at the quiet
dignifed figure sitting in chair and when Cap
tain Gibson remarked calmly: This is Gov
ernor Hendricks, sir" he realized the peril in
which he had placed distinguished man. He
went to pieces, so to speak, and stammered out:
Ill voted for you, STRIP
There was such a ludicrous feature in the
mans real distress that both Governor Hendricks
and Captain Gibson assured him that no harm
had really been DONE and the man retired to the
private room to recover his chisel. When glass
of old liquor was handed him by the press agent
he remarked: Captain, | never felt the need of
drink so much before! My God! if that chisel
had killed Governor Hendricks" and, with nerv-
Gus distress on his face, he retired, while the
Governor and his friends chatted on ignoring
the "close call" made by plumber.
Said Captain Gibson, in his quiet way, to the
press agent, a few years later That was
mighty close call for a big man. 1t don't often
happen Please let me know when plumbers are
at work ever your Office when 1 bring my friends
around u
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wiped the tears from her eyes and went into the
library. Her mothers head was bowed upon the
table. Debby touched her gently
Why my dear, when did you come backf
did not hear you"
Il came back before tea. fell asleep in the
bay window. ~ and she threw herself into
her mothers arms.
My daughter, did you hear me talking to
Hugh an hour or two ago!'
Yes, mamma | am not very good you
know. 1t was hard battle but it is over now.
l am not going to Europe L want Hugh to have
the money and go back to Easton this year"
He will not take it. He thinks you need and
deserve year abroad, and so do we ALL Debby"
THAT is not all, mamma. Hugh may we'll
take the money for even if he does not l shall
not use it just now. | mean to stay with you,
and help you with the house and the children
until you are quite well and strong again. am
only eighteen, mamma and Europe will keep.
Deb and her mother chung close together, and
neither spoke for long time.
Hugh will do just as yod say mamma, and
you must make him take the money. He can
pay me back after while" So Hugh went
back to Easton, and the good ship City of Lyons
sailed without Deborah.
A week passed by and as the family were at
breakfast, the postman came again with letters
and papers.
Such IL nice letter from Hugh, said mamma,
everything going well and no end of love
and thanks to that prince Of good fellows, my
sister Deb" Then as she glanced at Mr.. Dana,
sis anything wrong fatherl No more of those
wretched bank failures, hope?"
"a dreadful collision at sea-" he read with
trembling lips, 1.-The City of Lyons has gone
down with all on board; not passenger saved
Mrs Dana came swiftly to Debbys side and
clasped her in her arms MY darling my dear,
unselfsh girl; that we have you here now is the
gain of loss"
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great friends House flies were his special DEL
icacy. Stealthily crawling up the painted wall,
clinging to the smooth surface with his little
disks, or suckers on his feet, he would draw
close up to his body first one leg and then the
other, and when within proper distance he
would swing head downward, his hind feet
firmly glued to the wall Then, attaching his
forefeet, he would move on in quest of another.
He never missed his aim, and he would quiz
city and calmly zigzag up and down the side
wall after every fly he saw there He became
quite accustomed to me- and would hop on my
hand and sit there looking at me with a grave
composure ludicrous to behold
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The Boy Romancer.

San Francisco Chronicle,
TELL me story" pipes little voice, and lit
tie girl of very tender years cuddles up to little
boy year or two older. The boy has no Eesita-
ton. He has not got cold or headache. He
does not beg to be excused. His child sweet
heart has absolute belief in him and he knows
it, He looks down at her for a moment.
"TAere was once mule" says the romancer,
and his listener looks up into his face with pro
focrd interest, knowing that something is com
ing.
''There was sage mule You know what
mule isl" and the reste girl mods He was
great big mule and he was always doing some
thing. He kicked little girl G>a day and they
punished him by putting him in to draTs great
big-horse car'-suggested by passing car.
There is a moments pause and the listener
waits patiently without being at all disturbed,
as the average audience does not do. The story
teller has got it. He goes on.
''And he fell down and broke his leg"
The little girl starts with positive pain.
II went up to the mule and lifted him up
An expression of grateful appreciation comes
across the ehild's face
And put the two broken bits together and
fixed them up" Another pause.
What did you fix them up With" asks the in
noeent voice.
This is poser. He is not prepared for such
analytical question. But it is only for another
moment.
"a fixed them up with chocolate
The girl fairly beams with pleasure.
''Is that all"
mo. When the mule got home the mules
papa spanked him."
10 the child mind the climax is reached. The
mule naturally was sent to bed. Then the story
teller, like many grown-up men, proud of a
clever point, says: Wasn't l cute to fix the
mules leg with chocolates"
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he WANTED A WESTERN DRINK.

The Terror from Dead Mans GuIch Is
Obliged to show His Hand and Gets Left.
Philadelphia News
Hit me with little vitriol mixed with broken
glass, said man, who might have been taken
for the worst man in the West to an Eight
eenth-street bartender yesterday morning;
and fire in few rattlesnake bites along with
it. I'm from Dead Mans Guch, am"
That's Western order, sir l don't under
stand it. " was the reply
Don't you know what vitriol iss'
Don't you know what glass is''
YES"
Don't you know what rattlesnake stings is!'
mo"
well, throw in little red pepper 1t Will
make weak drink for me, but I'll have to go
you. It's mean section Of the country, this"
The ferocious style of the man had terrorized
half dozen listeners in the bar-room, and when
he lit a rankapee cigar with whole box OF
matches the lookers-o on were amazed. The ter
ror spit over the head of the nearest man to him
and shouted Come a running with that wash;
you've been long enough to clean out camp or
break bank"
A boy, who had been dispatched by the bar,
man to a drug store, came hurrying just at that
time and the sound of crushing glass made the
scowling Westerner look up quickly. Suddenly
the bar man was before him with large tumbler.
full of vitriol broken glass and red pepper
rs the rattlesnake stings in thar" asked the
terror, with less ferociousness than character
lied his former speech.
ITS what you ordered, firmly replied the sa-
loonist.
II don't want it without the bites, replied the-
bad man as ne sided toward the door. A club
SGoved from its position behind the bar, and the
wich-s4 man stopped.
PAY for thai or go to the hospital said the
barman, with determination
How much is it," ashS3 the dangerous MAUI
Three dollars
The money was paid and the terror sseaked,
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The Tree Frog.
st. Nicholas.

One sultry night in Indiana I sat busy
writing up stairs. close to an open window. My
lamp, placed upon my desk attracted countless
numbers of the insect world that come out to
see their friends only after dark. There was a
constant buzz around the lamp, and many a
scorched victim, falling on its back, vainly
kicked its little legs in air.
Suddenly clear low whistle sounded from
the window-a whistle somewhat like the sound
made when a boy blows into the orifice of a
trunk-key. Startled for moment, turned my
chair and beheld on the window-sill little tree
frog gravely looking at me- His skin-of an ex-
lamp-light Fearful that l might frighten him
away sat motionless in the chair. watching
him intently. Presently he gave another little
whistle, clear and sharp as a bird note
He was evidently making up his mind that
] was to be trusted, a confidence not misplaced
and soon he gave an easy spring and was on the
desk before me. hardly dared to breathe lest
he should be alarmed. He looked at me care
fully for few minutes and then, hopping un-
der the lamp, he began a slaughter Of the insect
creation such as l had never before witnessed
He captured in a fash any careless fly or moth
that came near him, declining to touch the dead
ones that had cremated themselves.
After half an hours enjoyment Of this kind
my apple green friend hoped rather lazily
across the desk repeated the whistle with which
he had entered, as if to say good night, and
went out into the dark. | proceeded with my
work and soon forgot my visitor. But judge my
surprise when, on the next night, he again APP
peared, again signaled his coming with his mu-
steal cry, and again took up his position under
my lamp.
For nearly three weeks did my small friend
visit my room nightly and he and became
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BLEACHED VEAL.
How Animals are Made to Suffer TO Written
Their Flesh.
The money was paid
out.

How Animals are Made to Suffer TO Written
Their Flesh.
New York Truth.
We have all heard of 'bleaehed blondes and
bieached clothes, but it may surprise our read
ers to know that there is now in market an arti-
Gle of food known as 'bleached veal" and the
chances are that it will never become popular
According to Superintendent Hawkinson, of
Mr.. Bergh's society about ten per cent of tho
veal in this market is beached. Monday Mr.
Hawkinson arrested William McGiu and Will
lam Vogel. of Railroad avenue, Jersey city, for
bleaching veal They were arraigned before
Justice Kilbreth, and McGill was fined 500 for
cruelty to animals.
McGill said it was a common thing in Jersey
City to bleach calves, and he said he didn't think
it was against the law. Judge Kibreth thought
differently.
The manner in which the place where the
calves were beached was discovered by Super,
intendent Hawkinson as follows On Sunday
he and Officer Evans We're riding in Jersey, and
in certain place they heard calf bleat They
stopped and made an investigation.
The spot an isolated one, and no doubt Sc
iected on that account, and there the arrests
were made. The calf is thrown down, its feet
tied and lance stuck into one of the veins Of
the neck The calf is allowed to bleed about if
teen minutes. when further flow of blood is stop
ped by staunching the wound. The calf is then
put in pen and fed on salt water The next
day 1t is again bled and given more salt water,
and the next day it is killed for market.
Bleaching makes the meat white, and the GUS
toners think it is a superior article when IN
reality, all of the substance having been taken
from the meat, it is very tough. 1t sells for no
higher price than dark meat, but customers pre-
fer it, and so animals are made to suffer.
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The Tragedy of Life.

Iheard sound of wang in the night
Throughout the air IN feeble quavers won,
The warning notes that told another fight
For life had just begun.
H.
saw child stand by pallid form
Within whose veins life's tide no longer pulsed,
And tears poured down in torrential storm
Ger features grief-convulsed
] saw youth whom Innocence had fed,
Whose steps towards lfe's lowest depths were bent
Still daily into deeper darkness led
By his environment
heard a sound of sliding bolts and bars,
And saw the changing doors shut out the day
And hide from sight the crne-engrayen stars
OF one who lost his way.
lsaw the last faint light of hope forsake
LAGOON, within the deathly coil
Of hunger's folds he had not strength to break
So worn was he with toll.
saw form that famine ne 'er had sought,
ROBBED from the rarest looms with costly CLOTH
The summing up of all whose life nought
Through rust and utter sloth.
saw the mixed and moving throng of trade,
dervish-dance within the market gates,
Where they who whirled the shrieking piper paid
In coin of petty hates.
Isaw sombre curtain downward 90
To tangled cords with harmony at strife,
Ard fade the iacll-o lantern lights that show
The Tragedy of Life.
Ben D. House, in The Current.
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THE wEALTHIEST WOMAN.
Miss Mary oEsrrett Probably the Richest I'm
maTricd Lady Living.


Washington Special.
If any of the estimates, exen the lowest,
placed upon the valae of the estate-af the late
John W. Garrett, the great railroad eSrsident,
prove to be correct, his only daughter, MIS-
Mary Elizabeth Garrett, will be the richest I'M
married lady in this country. The estimates
run all the way from $l5, GEO. 900 to $40 600 600,
and the latter is quite as likely to be correct as
the former. With the CARROTS dollar always
means at least 100 cents. There has never been
anything like water" in any of their securities,
the aim of their work being to make actual and
not apparent value for everything they own.
Miss Garrett receives as her share of the
estate the elegant and costly residence at the
corner Of Monument and Cathedral streets,
with all the plate, furniture and pictures it con
tains. This property is Just now undergoing
extensive improvements, and will, when com
pleted be one Of the finest structures in the
city. The picture gallery alone will be worth
large fortune, and she was also
to be the owner of Monte Bello, one of
the finest and most extensive of pieces of prop
erty owned by Mr.. Garrett and of the beautiful
Garrett cottage at Deer Park, where her father
died In addition to this property, Miss Garrett
will also come i'll for her third Of the personal
estate.
Miss Wolff, of New York, has until now been
considered the wealthiest unmarried lady in
America, but Miss CARROTS fortune will be even
greater than hers. Miss Wolff is a maiden over
fifty years of age who has devoted her years to
deeds of charity.
Miss Garrett is only twenty eight, but has had
more experience than probably any lady Of her
years in the country. AS her fathers confiden-
tial secretary, she had ample opportunity to
study his affairs, and during the latter days Of
his life she transacted much of his business,
1t is stated of her that on several occasions she
noted the expressions made by great railroad
magnates while conversing with her father and
afterward committed them to paper for future
reference Miss Garrett is an expert stenog-
apher, and her knowledge of this art has
proven very useful to both her father and her
all
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Autumnal Musings of a Lawver.

Autumnal Musings of Lawyer.
I'm bold and fragrant imitation of Henry P. Brow
nell.
Whereas, from certain boughs and sprays,
Now numerous leaves are seen TO drop,
And sundry fruits, in various ways,
Bespeak the ripe autumnal crop;
Whereas, by diverse ways and means,
The year seems drawing to a close,
And, for mans use and sole behoof,
The pumpkin supersedes the rose.
Whereas, the aforesaid pumpkins seen
Escorted to the annual fair,
And aforesaid crops on creaking vain,
Are given conveyance, here and there;
Whereas, the nights have heightened been,
And thus abridged the term of day,
Tie testimony amply shows
That summers laws are fled away
therefore state, as thus deduced,
From these premises, one and all,
My inference clear that autuuln's here.
May it please the court, all hal. o fall.
All hail! o season of divorce
When NATURES bonds are growing frail,
Well may the legal voice be heard,
To greet said advent. Autumn, hail!
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i Am a Woman.

i am a woman-therefore l may not
Call to him, cry to him,
Fly to him,
Pray to him delay mott
And when he comes to me must sit quiet;
Still as a stone,
Harder and colder.
If my heart riot,
Crush and defy i'll
Should grow holder
Say one dear thing to him,
Cling to him
What-to atone is
Enough for my winningl
This were the cost to me,
This were my winning
That he were lost to mel
Not as lover at last if he part from me
Tearing my heart from me
Hurt beyond cure
Calm and demure,
Then, my behavior,
Showing no sign to him
BY look of mine to him
What he has been to me.
Pity mclean to me,
Christ o my Saviourl
From an old magazine, author unknown,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-05
The Swallows Lesson.

They sit upon the barn-yard fence,
The baby swallows, in a row,
Four little dusky, silken things
With soft bright eyes and close-shut wings.
Their mother futters to and fro;
The golden rod is all aglow,
The maple shows one scarlet leaf;
The time to stay is growing brief;
They must beready. For Jhcir sakes
A constant twittering she makes.
.'I'ry, try my downy darlings; try
To spread your little wings and fly"
They sit unheeding ON the fence,
The baby swallows, IN row;
They see no cause of haste at all,
They look so innocent and SMALL
What will befan them when they goa
How much they have to learn to know!
All the strange mystery of fight,
Above the sea, in storm and night;
And all its rapture, eirchng round
a sky with sunset roses crowned;
What swallow hopes and fears, and cares,
And loves and dangers will be theil s.
But never more within the nest
They'll feel their mothers sheltering breast.
Yet still that mother, for their sakes
This constant, troubled tyvittering makes:
TRY, try, my downy darlings; try
To spread your little wings and n.y."
Marian Douglas
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The Utility of Grumbling.

Stumble, grumble, grumble on!
Old habits you easily can't lay by;
Nevertheless, old Farmer John,
read the truth in your bright brown eye.
Weather and markets have all gone wrong,
Year upon year you heaped complaint
Your past produced but dolefu song
Your faith in the future, alas is faint.
o, Farmer John you're a truthful type
OF the land you live in and love much
Your smile cannot make the crops grow ripe,
Or send up the markets to such and such.
o, serious serious Farmer Johnl
IT'S that old deep feeling of discomfort
That through plenty and famine has moved US on
For grunbling brings good government.
London Society.
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The Dream of Thee.

If ever unto mortal it were given
To pass one glorious hour in paradise,
Thereafter all his dreams would be of heaven,
And this for lifelong dreaming would suffice.
Yet in each life there is some Joy so great
That though it bides with US for but one hour
Its going cannot leave us desolate,
For dreams give back delight with magic power
SO, lady though you may no longer smile,
Though, far away cannot your fr0wn,
To know you loved me for little while
Is greater Joy than riches or renown;
Nor time, change, can take for me
Life's dearest boon-the blessed dream Of thee.
E, P. Ryder.
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A Church Built with One Tree.
Santa Rosa tCal) Republican.

A redwood tree cut in this county furnished
all the timber for the Baptist Church in Santa
Rosa, one of the largest church edifces in the
county. The interior Of the building is finished
in wood, there being no plastered walls. Sixty
thousand shingles were made from the tree after
enough was taken for the church Anoth-
er redwood tree, cut near Murphy's MILL
IN this county, about ten years ago
furnished shingles that required the
constant labor of two industrious men for two
years before the tree was used up. The above
statements ouched for as true by Super
visor T. j. Proctor, Of Santa Rosa
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The Moan of the Civilized.
Philadelphia Record,

fnllauelphla NeVoIH'
Amid all the desperately confusing and per
petually deranged paraphernalia of civilization,
a man may be paidoned a wish for simplicity
and peace. At times it seems as though more
happiness might be- obtained in two-roomed
board shsTnty, with a chimney of home made
hubble of rocks and mortar and doors and
windows enough to give light and ventilation,
than in ediices supposed to have the latest con
veniences, but somehow always breaking into
some inconvenience Peace from the plumber
would alone be worth the sacrifice Of many
modern comforts