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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
were walking down Broadway" q
full-rigged METROPOLITAN belle.

| were walking down Broadway" q
full-rigged metropolitan belle.
So on we rolled into the depot, and !
placed myself on the other car, oppo-
site the stranger, who with a portman-
teau. in his hand, descended and was
standing on the lowest step ready to
jump to the platform.
looked from his face to the faces of
the people before us, but saw no sign
of recognition. Suddenly he cried:
There they are"
Then he laughed outright, but in a
hysterical way, as he looked over the
crowd. l followed his eye, and saw
some distance back, as if crowded out
and shouldered away by the we'll
dressed and elbowing throng. a little
woman in faded dress, and we'll
worn hat, with face almost painful in
its intense but hopeful expression,
glancing rapidly from window to win
dow as the coaches rapidly glided in.
She had not seen the stranger, but q
moment after she caught his eye. and
in another instant he had jumped to
the platform with his two portman-
teaus, and making hole in the crowd,
pushing one here and another there,
and running one of his bundles plump
into the well-deyeloped stomach of a
venerable-looking old gentleman in
spectacles, he rushed toward the place
where she was standing. l think l
never saw face assume so many diff
erent expressions in so short time as
did that of the little woman while her
husband was 81 his way to her.
She didn't look pretty-on the con-
trary, she looked very plain; but some
how l felt big lump rise in my throat
as l watched her. She was trying to
laugh, but, God bless her, how COM
pletely she failed in the attempt! Her
mouth got into position, but it never
moved after that save to draw down at
the corners and quiver, while she
blinked her eyes SO fast that expect
she only caught occasional glimpses of
the broad-shouldered man pushing his
way so rapidly toward her. And, then,
as he drew close and dropped those
everlasting portmanteaus, she Just
turned completely round, with her
back toward him, and covered her face
with her hands. And thus she was
when the strong man gathered her up
in his arms as if she had been baby,
and held her sobbing to his breast.
There were enough gaping at them,
heaven knows, and l turned my eyes
away for a moment, and then / saw
two boys in threadbare, roundabouts
standing near. wiping their eyes and
noses on their little coat sleeves, and
bursting out anew at every demonstra-
ton on the part of their mother.
When looked at the stranger again,
he had his hat drawn over his eyes; but
his wife was looking up at him, and it
seemed as if the pent-up tears of those
weary months of waiting were stream
ing through her eyelids.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
A Broken.Hearted Bird.

A correspondent thus writes: Nearly
twenty years ago / owned pair Of
beautiful canaries male being
fine fellow, with rich musical note.
Having furnished them with the out
side rough form of nest in straw.
leaving them to complete its comforts
with bits of soft wool, down, and small
feathers. they were shortly in the happy
possession of four eggs. In due course
four young ones presented themselves,
to the evident delight of the parents,
who fed them from daylight to dark,
their favorite food being the yolk of
hard-boiled eggs. Time brought round
the period when, instead ofraw, naked,
helpless creatures always "asking for
MORE" four full-fedged young birds
frisked about the cage like so many
pretty yellow balls Of fine soft wool.
They grew to be very fine birds; and
first one friend and then another
coveted them, until all had gone but
one little youngling, which remained
as the only solace of the parents. The
last of the family was the delight OF
their hearts; they fondled it, and
played with it as we have seen an atfec-
tionate mother do with her child, and
seemed to exert themselves to amuse it
in every way their fancy prompted.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
A Breach Of Promise Case Fails.

A young woman in California recent
ly sued the young man she had been
engaged to for breach of promise.
Everything went on well. Her attor-
ney read the usual letters;read the gush
for the amusement of the audience in
the courtroom, gave the amatory
statistics-the usual nuember of times
he used darling" the number of times
he wanted to kiss her," '.look in her
dear eyes," and '.hold her in his arms
in a fond embrace" The lawyer was
sure that he had ''caught on" to every
man on the jury. The defendant was
an amateur photographer. His sole re-
sponse was a photograph of the young
woman sitting on a sofa with another
fellows arm about her waist. This
was unexpected. The amateur photo
grapher, suspecting all was not right,
pretended to go out of town one even
ing, leaving his instrument properly
arranged with clock-work for taking a
picture in the girls house. Verdict for
the defendant.-Detroit Free Press.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
No Place to Court.

No, downy-lipped youth with the
twirling stick, you cannot court her in
the street car without being detected.
You may try to conceal it, but the side
glance, and the nestle, and the little
attention, and the whispered word,
and the struggled gaze of Indifference
as you pay for two do not hide the fact
that your heart is tuning up and that
you are thinking about pair of doves
on one nest. You put your hands on
your knees and try to hold them there
your hands, not your knees-but
pretty soon one of them gets loose and
begins to play in the fur on her seal
skin, and if she hasn't sealskin it gets
mixed up in the fringe of her shawl
and kind O. gets into her muff, and your
other hand looks as lonesome as cali
without its mother, and the first thing
you know everybody is giggling and
you begin to turn red in the face.
Can't you attend to this little business
at the house? Depend upon it there
are always people in the car who have
been there and they can tell what's the
matter with you. Don't do it. A
street car is no place to court.-Chicago
Herald
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
The March Of The Workers.

What is this. the sound and rumor? What is
this that all men hear
Like the wind in hollow valleys when the
storm is drawing near,
Like the rolling on of ocean in the cvetide OF
fear:
"Tis the people marching on.
Whittier go they, and whence come theyr
What are these of whom We tell?
In what country are they dwelling 'twixt the
gates of Heaven and He'll?
Are they mine or thine for money? viii they
serve a master well?
Still the rumor's marching on.
Chorus-Hark the rolling of the thunder!
Lo. the sun! and 10, hereunder
Riseth wrath, and hope. and won-
And the host comes marching on.
Forth they some from grief and torment; on
they wend toward health and mirth;
All the wide world is their dwelling, every
corner of the earth.
Buy them, sell them for the servicel Try the
bargain what It's worth.
For the days are marching on.
These are they who build thy houses, weave
thy raiment win thy wheat,
Smooth the rugged, I'LL the barren, turn the
bitter into sweet.
All for thee this day-and ever. What reward
for them is meet?
Many a hundred years. passed over. have they
labored. deaf and blind;
Never tidings reached their sorrow, never
Now at last they've heard and hear II, and
their cry comes down the wind:
And their feet are marching on.
O, ye rich men, hear and tremble! for with
words the sound is rife:
''Once for you and death we labored; changed
henceforward is the strife.
We are men, and we shall battle for the world
of men and life:
And our host is marching on.
"Is it war, then? VIII ye perish as the dry
wood in the f1ref
is it pcacef Then be ye Of us; let your hope
be our desire.
Come and live; for life awaketh, and the world
shall never tire:
And hope is marching on.
On we march, then we the workers. and the
rumors that ye reach
Is the blended sound of battle and the deliver
ance drawing near:
For the hope of every creature is the banner
that we bear"
And the world is marching on.
Chorus-Hark the rolling of the thunderl
Lo, the sun? and 10, hereunder
Riseth wrath and hope, and won
der,
rs And the host comes marching on.
p William Morris.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
The Chicago Girls Consideration.

Away off by himself in some humble
corner of the globe sits the man who
first said the Chicago girl had big feet,
looking at the immense mountain his
original mole-hill of lie has grown in
to. The origin of this slander upon the
fair girls of the Garden City is curious.
A young lady of Chicago was about to
be visited by school-mate friend from
St. Louis. '.Mah," she said, '.you
know how sensitive Julia is, like all St.
Louis girls?" '.You refer to their
large feet, Eleanorp' quietly said her
mother. '.Yes. And you know they
look SO enormous alongside of ours
that thought I'd order up case of
25s from St. Louis, and give them
around among the girls Julia will meet
here" ut would be delicate kind
ness on your part, Eleanor" replied
the mother, and the noble-hearted
Chicago girl did so. When the st.
Louis girl arrived at her friends in
Chicago she exclaimed: "Why, dear.
your girls have just as big feet as we
have!" and Immediately telegraphed
the fact home. This is how it or GIN
ated.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
A CRUEL WINTER.
The Wholesale Drummer's Last Trip
Closing Out a Job Lot.

A great, gruff-looking>oman stepped
into a wholesale house on Michigan
avenue and threw open his coat that
was made of buffalo robe. You're
the boss of this here shebang, amt
youp" he asked of one who was doing
over his market reports. Il am one Of
the firm; yes, sir. Who is it you
want?"
'.Ef you're the man you say you are
reckon you're the one want. came
in to tell you some news. am from
sixty-nine miles t'other side of the cold
est spot in Dakoty. l left there thir-
teen days ago in the blindest blizzard
you ever see, and hev come here to tell
you some news"
'.Are You country merchant?"
'.No; l amt nothin' to bank on. I'm
just plain mountaineer. But must
tell you the news. You he'd a man
travelin' for your shebang, or firm, l
believe you call it. His name was
Henry-somethin'. have it here as
he wrote it,"
The big, rough hand went into a
pocket and out came a bundle that was
wrapped with cord. This was undone
and several papers were unwrapped
until a small fragment was taken out
on which was the name. He handed
it to the member of the firm, vino said:
"Yes, that's his name; he is one of our
travelling men and one of the best on
the road. We haven't heard from him
since the blockade. Are you friend
of his?"
Il can't say that am that" said the
great rough-looking man. ..Nor 1
amt his enemy. I'm g;ad to hear you
say that he We're a good man on the
road, though, cause think he thought
you thought that. But IN bettin' he is
jest as good man off the road. l
won't keep you waiting. One night
when the wolves an the wind an the
blizzard all got mixed up, as they do
whar come from, l thought l heard
somethin' that was louder than the
wind, somethin' that was hungrier than
the VOLTS cry, an somethin' solemner
than the blizzard. And l went out ov
the cabin and went looking around to
see what it was. ! found him a-lyin'
in drift ov snow an sand an a-pray-
in to somebody to let him git in his
last order. picked him up. an his
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

into the roller skating business. 1t
makes more victims now than ever So
he sails right in among the contortion-
lists with a siX-inch smile, and goes
about eight feet, while those skates
soar up with yearning for high lati-
tude and reach away up toward the
roof, and slaps his neck on the hard
floor like barber straps razor.
None for sale: '.My son." said the
old man, as he wiped his spectacles on
his coat-tail, .'start right when you
start in. If you haven't any money to
begin on you must plan to be appoint
ed assignee or receiver. Ii you have
money, be careful how you invest it.
Telegraph and railroad stocks are good
enough to trade in, and gold mines
and silver diggings give man GER
tain standing in the commercial world,
but" but what?" IF YOU want
fat dividends, and want 'em regularly,
and want 'em in clean cash, put your
money into gas stock; the Treasurer
never runs away, the stock never falls
below par, and, though consumers ever
kick, they always come down with their
cash h.'-WaH Street Daily NeUs.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

Probably happier little family
never existed. But, alas! the spoiler
came. Another friend coveted the last
of the little flock, and it was taken
away. And from that moment the
joyous song of the male bird gave place
to a painfully feeble little chirp. He
sat on the perch with Il dropping heart
broken, spiritless aspect; his wings
hung down as if all power and vitality
had left him; and within twenty-four
hours from the time of his bereave-
ment he fell dead from the perch. The
aflectionate creature had evidently
died of grief for the loss of his lone
eve lamb The cage was given away
with theremaining bird; and no induce
ments could tempt me again to run
the risk of perhaps unconsciously be-
ing the cause of so much unhappiness
and misery.- Chambers Journal.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

Mrs. Speedy, in her ''Wanderings in
the Soudan," relates the following
curious episode: '.After long days
march she was just settling herself
down to sleep when her host, an Arab
telegraph clerk, separated from her
only by thin partition, began to say
his prayers in loud, sing-song chant.
She demonstrated: for time there was
silence; she was falling asleep when the
clerk began his prayers again. Again
she demonstrated, again there was a
brief silence, to be broken, alas! too
soon by the indefatigable clerk, who
once more began saying his prayers
de capo,' this time faster than ever.
1t was like speaking by machinery; the
whirr and buzz was terrific. We learn
ed next morning that our host belong
edtoa sect which obliged him to repeat
his prayers aloud, and which also en-
joved as one of its most stringent rules
that the voice of either woman, a
donkey or dog, if heard at any time
during the service, made it necessary
that the whole of the prayers should be
reDeated
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
1.-THE Aristocracy of the Dollar"
Andrew Carnegie. before the Nil

Andrew Carnegie. before the Nine
teenth Century Club, of New York:
How was he born? is of the past.
What man owns? is already subordi-
nate, in America, to what he knows;
but in the final aristocracy the question
will not be either of these, but what has
he done for his fellows? Where has he
shown generosity and .self-abnegationi
When has he been a father to the father.
less; and the cause of the poor-where
has he searched that out? How be has
worshipped God will not be asked in
that day, but how has he served manp
Which of the two divisions of the
Anglo-Saxon race is sooner to reach
something akin to this ideal is not so
easily answered as one might suppose
from looking at the respective positions
of the mother and child lands to-day.
Certainly the Republic has a clear lead
at the start. She has never been cursed
by an aristocracy of birth; and is in
stalling the aristocracy of intellect and
not of the dollar. But it is not always
the best starter which wins the race.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
A Remedy for Indigestion.

Salisbury steak appears to be giving
remarkably good results as diet for
people troubled with weak or disorder
ed digestion, but who require the sup
porting power of animal food. Tho
manner OF preparing it is described by
DIR. Hepburn in the Philadelphia Medi-
cal and Surgical Reporter. The surface
of round steak is chopped with dull
knife, the object being not to cut but to
pound the meat. As the meat pulp
comes to the top it is scraped off, while
the tough and tibrous portion gradually
reaches the bottom of the trough. The
pulp is then made into cakes and light
ly and quickly broiled. SO as to leave it
almost raw inside. The diet is some
times used exclusively in chronic cases.
and as rule no drugs are employed
with it except tonics.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

Vanderbilt possesses the only real
memorials of the First Napoleon in
New York-a set of solid gold spoons
and forks that were secreted and car
ried away from the Tuileries by Jer-
ONE Bonaparte. Their highest value.
apart from their history. is found in the
adornment which graces their handles.
They are oval, and in the spoons each
contains an exquisite miniature of the
Queens of France. The handles of the
forks each display an enameled minia-
turc of the Kings of France of equally
exquisite finish. They were made by
the court jeweler for the Empress
Josephine, and were only used on state
occasions at the TuilerieS,
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
Losing Three Millions at Sitting.

..Steve j. made the largest winning
at one poker sitting that saw on the
Comstock; on which occasion he pock-
eted a good $4,000. Bill Gibson lost
in two nights at poker Just $1,000
S9,400 the first night and $500 the
next. The work of those two nights,
by the way, cost him huge fortune.
He had just got a sure pointer on Crown
Point, which was then selling at 81 or
So, and had started downtown to give
an order for as much as his $1,000
cash in hand would cover. On his way
he stepped into his house and found
the boys waiting for him to open a
poker game. The result was that he
sat down to play with them for q little
while, took header in bad luck, and
dropped his cash, entirely forgetting
the pointer that had been given him.
Crown Point went up to $1,000, SO that
Gibson, if he had carried out his origi-
nal intention, would have cleared any
where between $4,000 and $4,000
600. .n-SdR francisco Call.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

Since 1880 the increase of railway
mileage In this country has been mora
man 4o per cent, while the increase of
.ne gram crops, on which the railroads
SO largely depend for business, has
been put 5 per cent
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

When a baby Eskimo's mother
makes the hood for her reindeer suit,
she stretches it into long sack or bag,
that hangs down behind and is sup
ported by her shoulders, and this bag
of reindeer's skin is his cradle and
home, where he lives until he knows
how to walk, when he gets his own first
suit of clothing.
This. however, is while the baby
Eskimo is out-of-doors or his mother is
making social visit. When at his
own home, in order not to trouble his
mother while she is sewing or cooking
or doing such other work, the little
baby is allowed to roll around almost
without clothing, among the reindeer
skins that make the bed, where it
amuses itself with anything it can lay
its hands on, from q hatchet to q snow
stick.
You doubtless think little Boreas
should have a nice time rolling around
to his hearts content on the soft, warm
reindeer skins; but when l tell you
more about his little home, you may
not then think so. For his Uinter home
is built of SnoU.
'.But won't the snow melt and the
house tumble in ?" you will ask. OF
course it will, if you get it warmer than
just the coldness at which water freezes;
but during the greater part of the year
it is so cold that the snow will not melt,
even when the Eskimo burn fires in
their stone lamps inside these snow
houses; so by closely regulating the
amount of the fire, they can just keep
the snow from melting. In short, it
must always be cold enough in their
home to freeze.
So you can see that the little Eskimo
cannot have such a very nice time, and
you can't see how in the world he can
be almost naked nearly all day long
when it is so cold. But suchis the fact.
Yet, in spite of all this, the little
fellow really enjoys himself He gets
used to the cold. and has great fun
frolicking around "- he reindeer skins
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15

Mexican chamber "maids" are, it u
said, invariably Indian boys.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-15
The Good Old Mothers.

God bless all the good old mothers.
l never see an old lady sitting in the
armchair at her ease but / think what
storms have pelted into the CHEEKY face
without souring it. 1t may be that q
man can go through more exertion than
a woman, but at least it remains true
that he cannot without losing his laugh
ter, his good cheer, his gentleness and
his love and trust in mankind or God.
Yet how rarely do you find frail old
mother whose spirit has been worn
threadbare and unlovely by what she
has endured. A sweet old mother is
common; a sweet old father is not so
common. As thy day SO thy strength
of love, thy riches of an inexhaustible
benevolence and hope and faith. This
is more apt to be woman's history than
q man s.-B0St0n Home Journal.
EskimO Raby.I,ife.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-30
SEEKING SUBJECTS.

In their trips out in the country the
amateurs have a fashion of making
what artists call "studies.' A fence
corner, an arching oak; a tangle offerns
a cloud-capped mountain, a scrambling
litter of little black pigs, friendly calf,
or frightened hen with her chicks. a
plodding farmer-all these and dozens
of other such subjects are taken and
finished. Some of the amateurs follow
peculiar lines of subjects. One pays al
most exclusive attention to interiors,
and his friends are melted to the most
artistic arrangement of their parlors,
libraries. bed rooms and dining rooms
by his passion for photographing them.
Another has a craze for cloud and fog
effects, and many of his pictures would
be identified by San .Franciscans if
accidently seen in Egypt. Another
pays close attention to details of trees
and shrubbery, and his work is also
charmingly characteristic of California.
1t is the general testimony of the anna
tours that the desire of the average
human being to be Gin" a picture is
only equaled by his desire TO see fin
ished picture an instant after it is taken
1t takes a day to properly finish and
mount photograph from the negative,
yet the spectator of the amateur at
work invariably expresses disappoint-
ment that the picture cannot be shown
as soon as taken.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-30
LOTs ZOE SIZE.

1000. 4 3xs rod Lot, with right OE
way, south front and fine neighborhOod.
1000. Choice building Lot, Eisnteeai =
ward, }zx10 rods, south front.
LOO. Corner Lot; choice location
water; terms to suit.
600. Three BY 20 rods, convenient 70 esz
line, Eleventh ward.
$50. Must be sold within thirty days.
10 5xl0, on car line; pay half down Il you
ike balance on time.
500. Lot, 3x10 rods, south front. See
me for terms.
1900. fine building Lot, 4z1O, SOUTH
1900. Building Lot, close by Ten per
cent discount II bought during this month
800. Fun Lot, Nineteenth ward, or VIII
sell half at same rate.
100 per rod for building Lots. not far
from business centre. viii be sold on the
instalment plan
$500 Choice building Lot, 5x20 rods.
convenient to business centre.
1000. East front building Lot, 81 rods
frontage, with right of alley Retired loea-
ton and yet not far from business.
500. Corner Lot, 5xle rods, Twenty
first ward
|. 200. Full Lot, Twenty irst ward. Chance
for q saboring man.
$50, East front building lot, xlO reds,
Tenth Ward and close TO car int
1000. Choice baiI1ing lOi. 'xIO rods
near Eagle Gate Nice location, EydranE
water and close 10 business. are seine OF the
points which >hoGld attract atteI IN 20 this-
lot