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The Millionaire Mourners.

Almost every day the papers have
something to say about the sorrows
of Senator Leland Stanford and wife,
of California. Their case is pitiful, in
deed. Worth fifty million dollars.
they go about their great house, cry
ing and wringing their hands. They
had Il boy, an only child, and he died.
1t is hard to give up an only child,
under such a terrible intliction. The
man worth fifty million dollars, how
ever, cannot see how his immense
wealth could not have saved the boy.
He would have given a million dollars
a minute for the boys life, but money
can never be of use in such cases. eX-
cept to alleviate suffering for a time.
1t cannot save a life that is doomed.
And the millionaire mourners do not
know what to do with their money.
They never expect to enjoy a moments
happiness again, and can see no way
in which they can ever enjoy n smile.
Nothing looks bright to them, and I'M
less they brace up and do something
to take their minds off their sor.
rows and troubles they will both die
maniacs from grief. The Sun could
point out a way in which they could
both be happy yet. if they have hearts
in them. 1t would be to distribute
forty-nine of their fifty millions, where
it would do good. Let them take a
million dollars for a starter and pro-
vide a building where poor children
can be educated and clothed and fed.
Let Stanford go around among the
poor of his W city and meet the mo-
theirs of beautiful and bright children
who are in rags and suffering from
hunger, and say to the mothers, 'tHere,
mother, you take this fifty dollar note
and go buy clothes for yourself and
the little ones, and send them to nv
school, and l will board them till they
graduate" Suppose he had a thou
sand children in San Francisco
being happily educated, and low
ing him, and praying for him.
Could he see one Of their happy
faces without a thrill of pleasure
that would be the next thing to happi-
ness? Could he watch their growing
up to manhood Q L womanhood without
feeling that his life was far from being
a wreck, even though his brave boy
vas gone to heaven? Stanford might
have a hundred thousand children that
would otherwise be of no account,
growing up noble and educated, in
different cities OF the Union, and not
feel it. He could become a man who
would be 50 loved by the whole people
of this country that he could not
walk a block in the whole land with
out feeling that all eyes were bright
ened at the sight of him. and all hearts
jumped with pleasure when he passed.
AS he wanders around now, there is
pity and contempt expressed towards
him, pity for the loss OF his child, and
contempt for his dirty millions. Money
in such quantities is beginning to he
looked upon as a disgrace. The only
value that money has is its power Of
doing good and making people happy.
Ii Mr.. Stanford has got no family left
to be made happy, and cannot be made
happy himself with his money, let
him shed it. make Others happy, and
then he is bound to he happy himself.
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A Scrap of Carpet History.

In 1855 English Administers were
first made. But it was not until 1749
that a loom was constructed which
would produce a Brussels carpet, and
just here is an exceedingly interesting
anecdote, which has been handed down
from father to son as an inviolable
truth: During 1870 and 1875 John
Broom travelled through Tourney and
Brussels studying the stitch which was
then known as Brussels stitch. In
Brussels particularly, weavers were at
the time making q carpet named after
tina town-the Brussels carpet. Broom
studied with much ~earnestness the mys-
terry of the manufacture, and finally
made the acquaintance in Tourney of a
weaver understanding the secret. He
and this weaver Immediately repaired
to England. and near Mount Skipet,
Kidderminister, they put up the first
Brussels loom, 1749. They operated
in absolute secrecy, but IN time their
inodus operAndi was exposed. Broom
and his Belgian workman labored night
an6 Gay, and it being known where their
operations were conducted, some enter
prising fellow climbed to the window,
and night after night, from his perilous
perch outside, he studied the operations
Of the mechanism within, until he was
able to carry away in his mind o model
of the Brussels loom. Then q second
firm and several others soon came into
the field, and in 1853 Kidderminister
was doing considerable in the way of
Brussels. To-day there is hardly any
thing else but Brussels made in Kidder-
Observation-Disclosures Carpet Trade
Journal.
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An Ashantee Gentleman.
From the Chronicle of No Mans Land.
The Ashantee gentleman has neitl

From the Chronicle of No Mans Land.
The Ashantee gentleman has neither
q hat nose nor thick lips nor ebony
skin. To take Bossoonoga as aspect.
men, he is not darker than many Span
iards, has features Of the European
cast and an eye that protrudes in the
manner admired by French people and
called a luer de tete. His dress, even
when a prisoner, as I SAY him, is a mir
acle of taste, unequaled since the Ro-
man toga vanished. One single piece
OF "cloth" it is, q cotton print, home
spun and home dyed. Your native
gentleman, whether from East or West,
would not condescend to wear Man
chester stuffs. and he is conspicuously
right. To see B~ossoonoga was to see
a picture of antique grace. It was a
marvel how he kept so clean that sheet
of cotton, adorned with blue arabesques
and flowers on a white ground. Moth
ing else did he wear by day except the
"breech-clout,' fringed with silk, the
ends of which fell below his knees. At
night he rolled it round him, and so
slept, but the %stiffening never went ont
of it, and its folds were always statues
que. He looked q swell, every inch,
bright and wholesome, and courteous,
though tied by his wrist, and trudging
barefoot through the mud.
When permitted the use of a carriage
hammock (instead of walking chained
to a commo soldier Bossoonoga step
ped into his conveyance with a courte-
Gus bow toward the marine. Through
my interpreter he expressed regret that
circumstances over which he had no
control forbade him to reward Private
Smith for his uniform and considera-
tion," etc. "The face of that gallant
soldier when he thoroughly mastered
this parting shaft Of politeness did one
good to see. ''Why-why!" he said,
''this nigger-he-oh, blowlt!" Words
would not come to him fitting to de-
scribe his sentiments. I saw him again
two days later, with his remaining cap
tives still in town. Private Smith had
changed into a thoughtful man; the
sublilnity of Ashantee manners had
overpowered him.
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errors son, but his friend. Her lover
was worse, had suffered n relapse, and
Erminie's heart straightway became q
plummet in the depths of despair. A
day Or two after Arthur Weldon came
himself to bring her news of his CON
dition. ind this was the second OF a Sc
ries of visits, ostensibly made to keep
her advised of the illness of the Govern
or's son and Ills tardy convalesence, but
in reality that he might sit in her pres
ence, look upon her fair face and listen
to her sweet voice. Not that he came
unlimited, for she was glad to find so
direct n ar of hearing from
the youth with whose relapse or i'm
proyement fuctuated her misery and
her Joy.
One night Arthur came and told her
that the crisis was past and that he
would recover, and the next time he
came brought still better news saying
that she would SEQ him on o certain dar.
close at hand.
"Then," he added, ST must cease nv
visits, for you will be more pleasantly
engaged"
The words themselves were cold, but
his voice vibrated with feeling, and on
looking up she saw that his lips were
quivering and his form trembling with
strong emotion, and his eyes met hers
with such a world of love and longing
shining in them that all at once she
understood his heart and her own, and
realized how hard it would be to lose him
and slipping her hand in his she muir
INJURED:
You have been welcomed for his
sake; be welcome now foryour own"
His eyes frightened, his face was ir-
radiated with the light Of hope, but still
he said:
"Bnt you will prefer his company
now; you will no longer find pleasure in
mine"
Would it matter so much to you2"
she questioned softly.
ut is everything to me The answered
in a choking voice, $50 Much that I can
not live without you, so much that my
life is yours to keep or to throw away
as you may please, 80 much, that I will
not care to see the morrow's dawn, if you
refuse it."
"Live for my sake" she said. And
SO the love-test ended, for the Gov
ernor's son Ind not been i'll at all, but
had only desired to throw temptation
in her way in the form of his handsome
friend.
Mrs. Arthur Weldon is a fair and
stately matron now, with sons and
daughters growing mp around her, and
the happiness of her welded lifo is pro-
verbal among her friends. But who
can say, if i'll winter twilights, when
the snow is falling, she is not haunted
by the memory Of dark aud flashing eyes,
for she keeps locked away in an inlaid
box q boquet Of withered roses, some
old letters and q little curl of raven
hair.
The Governors son is q successful
lawyer in a distant city, far from the
scene of his early love. He has lever
married, and is an avowed woman hater,
and few who know him would believe
that the stern man treasures among his
belongings q long tress Of soft blonde
hair tied with a faded blue ribbon and
the crumbling ashes Of q dead white
rose.
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Backbone,

When a person compliments another
by SAYING he has 3 good deal OF back
bone," he ZONES very near stating a
scientific truth without knowing it,
perhaps. At least, so remarked a
naval medical officer to a reporter
of the Star the other day, as the
latter stopped to chat in the room of
the Naval Examining Board. .Step
up here a moment continued the
officer. conducting the reporter to a
measuring-rod which stood in one
corner of the room. This rod, besides
having the movable arms with which
a mans height is gagged, had another
intermediate arm below, by which the
length of his legs is determined. The
difference between these measure
ments of ourse shows the length of
his body and head, or the length of
his spinal column, including his head.
There" said the officer, after the re-
porter had subjected himself to the
measuring process, ''you are 69s
inches tall, your legs are 3ss inches
~long-pretty good legs-and that
leaves a length of body of IS inches.
That's pretty good-above the aver
age"
..Well, what does it all mean?' ask
ed the reporter.
Boiler power" remarked an Of
fetal who was standing near"
The medical officer, charging on
the figure thus suggested, proceeded:
That's it. You see Quitting his
hand on his head), here'sth governor.
Here" he continued, lowering his
hands to his chest. sis the boiler. The
lungs and the heart are here, and be-
low are the abdominal organs or
viscera. Your mouth and nostrils are
bowers, You shovel in coal-take
food-in your mouth. 1t is turned in
to steam-blood-and goes out in
every direction, you see, towards the
surface. Now the man with 4 long
body las a great deal of boiler surface
''Then the ma with considerable
backbone is stronger than the one who
has notp"
"Well, that is one circumstance to
be considered with others of course.
The man with backbone is apt to have
greater power of resistance. He can
endure more toll and resist disease
longer. Why were there no men in
war so good for q long march as your
duck-legged fellows with long bodies?
The long-leggged men could not stand
it. Gen. Sheridan is a good specimen
of a man with a long body-long grasp
on lifc-and Gen. Grant is another"
"There was a case here not long
ago." continued the officer (which
would indicate that a mans backbone
had Il great deal to do with his general
character. An officer who was ex-
amined for promotion was found to be
physically, mentally and professional
ly unit, and also morally unfit. He
was dropped from the service. When
we came to take his measurement we
found he had the shortest backbone of
any maj in the navy who had ever
been examined. He did not have great
physical power of resistance, you see.
When he graduated at the Naval
Academy he stood very high. When
he had to do duty it is probable that
his strength failed him and he resort
ed to stimulants. The taking of stimu-
lants became a habit. and gradually
affected his intellectual powers. HIS
mind being weakened. his morals were
soon undermined. All of this, you
see,' laughed the officer. ''came, Of
course, from having 4 short back
bone. "-NeW Yor6 STR.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
x11 Old, OLD sroRx.

BY IVA KGERY DYE
81 At M 80 West.' long, long ago,
An agsd patriarch said,
And from tho Asian table-lands
To- reece his people led.
us go West!n the Greek exclaimed,
And Piled the sparkling oar,
His rayished eyes before.
let us 80. West!!n said Rome, and spread
Her cOnquests into Spain,
And up 10 Briton's ivied isle
Her galleys rode the main.
sLlst MS 50 West!s and Spain set forth,
And England westward bent,
Till 10 they found beyond the sea
A glorious 0ccident
Oct IN 20 westi', and his OF team
The restless Yankee urged,
Where far beyond the tracklesE woods
The wild Ohio surged
q .et ns go Westi" and chick and child
We're gathered MP en- masse,
And prairie schooners ceaseless ploughed
Tides Of !Nebraskan grass.
s'Latu Ms 80 westi' and plains are LOTT
And mountains fade behind,
And west till islands in the seA
Tho putting steamers ind
Till Occident and Orient
The self-same breezes fan,
And oldest time with youngest time
Locks hands across Japan.
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The BurrO.

Apart from the Indians and the
M%eXicans, these animals are the most
characteristic and ubiquitous objects
in New Mexico. The shaggy little
brutes range from the size of a small
Newfoundland to that of a six-months
old heifer. II is practically impossi-
BILE to overload them. They will car
ry all that can be piled on their backs.
1 have frequently seen a solid heap of
wood gliding my%steriously into town,
with no apparent motive power, but L
knew that somewhere underneath the
pile there was hidden a burro. When
released from their burdens they will
Immediately set to work with diligence
and gusto picking up a living in the
midst of stones and dry cactus, where
any other animal would starve to
death. Joe proceeded to attach them,
by a wonderful series of knots, to the
supporting posts under the house. I
watched him %curiously as he tied knot
after knot, and at length ventured to
inquire whether burros usually en-
ployed their spare time in performing
Juggling tricks.
Joe regarded me with q smile which
was compounded Of one part of good
ratured contempt, two of superior
knowledge, and three of genuine
amusement.
'.Wa'al," he said, .'.you are summat
of a tenderfoot; that's so. Why, a
burro is q born devil"
"Do you mean to say that q burro
can undo one of those knots with his
teethP' | asked.
~ don't purfess to say what he does
it with. He may do it with his tail for
! nj! know, but if you will learn me a
knot that a burro can't undo, if you
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28
Northwest Indian Tribes.

The Indian tribes Of the Nor,bvos
british territories number about "a
ooo: There are Chippewas and Crees.
l7.l29; Crees of the plains and woods.
S,l37; Blackfeet. 6;673: Sioux, 1000
There are also about 10000 in the re-
malnder ofthe Hudson Bay Companyis
territory. The Crees are a trouble
some lot and gave our frontier posts
IN Montana some trouble last sun.
mer.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28

give him time enough, l will tell you
thanks. Why, the father of all evil Il
rot q patch on an old jack burro fu7
Internal cleverness and mischief. =
Birae Harrison, in Ha,pe''s Magas1
In,. Nm -
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-28

The altar is thing Of yesterday, the cradle
of to-day, and the grave OF tomb-horror.-
v, itehaR Times.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
Free Speech and Free Ballot.

1t has been charged by John Sherman,
Logan. and others, that in Virginia and the
South men were not free to exercise their
political rights, whether in advocacy of their
political opinions or the use of the elective
franchife. Perhaps no better illustration of
the falsity of such statements can be given
than the fact that Judge Foraker, Logan,
Sherman, and others from other States,
come into Virginia and speak, after all the
vituperation they have cast upon the people
here. Mahone's canvassers have met with
no difficulty in addressing those who gath
er to bear them. Though their words have
been at times violent and we'll calculated to
disturb the peace of communities, they have
conducted the canvass in their own way
Would a Democrat from Virginia have been
allowed by Republicans in Ohio the same
license given to either Sherman or Logan
in Virginia?
But what are the evidences as regards q
free ballot IN Virginia? The record shows
that all of the possible vote, both white and
cOlOred, S5 per cent, was cast at the cleo
tion last fall. We know that we speak moth
ing but truth when we say that if the color
ed people could be allowed to cast their bal
lots as they wish in this county this fall one
third, at least, of these ballots would De for
the Democr tic ticket.
Look at Henry county, where a colored
voter is shot down because he was a men,
ber of Democratic club and wished to vote
the Democratic ticket. Agents of Malone
we're sent into this county, to Halifax, to
MeckIenburg, and other counties, to break
up Democratic clubs, to influence Demo
cratic colored voters. If the colored peo-
pie were not free to vote it was because they
we're bulldozed by their captains of ten."
A system of espionage and terrorism was set
over them by their Republican leaders and
''masters." We hope to live to see the day
when the colored people will be as free to
vote the Democratic ticket as the Republi-
can, and when it will not be thought neces-
sary by Republican leaders to fabricate false
hoods against those who differ with them
in politics. Charlotte Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
Troubles of WOman's Life.

Whether last years fall dress will an
swer this winter.
How much the woman across the street
pa for her bonnet.
What is the best disposition to make cf
small boys on beau nights.
Whether to put a parrot or pigeon on
their winter bonnet.
Why the people they meet in real life are
so unlike the real ones they read of in nov
els.
How much cloth, 'scut on the bias" it
will take to trim a dress with seventeen
ruffles.
Why it is that man of forty-horse brain
power is so insanely stupid when asked to
match worsted
Whether it is wiser to marry a homely
man with big fortune, or handsome fell
low without a cent.
Why it is so much more tiresome to
sweep five-foot room than to take five
mile tramp after autumn-leaves.
Whether sky blue, Paris green OF old
gold ribbon is most becoming round steel
gray poodle's neck.
If Edison couldn't get mp some sort of q
patent kitchen machine to run things while
the cook is on strike.
Which is the way Of getting at the right
side of her husbands pocket-book for LEI
winter supply OF wealabl,s.
How some girls can contrive to get mar
ried after one seasons .uitship, and some
others can't after half dozen.
If it will pay to run a back parIor stove
and extra gas bill this winter for the same
chap who enjoyed those privileges last
year.
Whether it was wise, after all, to sell
that overcoat last summer for the plaster
image that got broken 30 easily.
| Why is it that the man you set your car
| for walks off with some other woman, while
you marry the man you took no trouble tt
win.
| Why the man who wouldn't let them car
ry their gloves or fan before marriage will
let them lug coal to third-story fiat 81
soon after.
Why the woman who is best fitted by ma
ture and grace to head a household, boss
husband and engineer children, never get
married.
/ Whether three-week's Irritation at III,
seaside in the summer, or new seal-skil
sacaue in the winter, is the better returl
for the same investment, when you can
lhave both.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
MY FSTH ER's WAY.

I must look to the sheep in the fold,
Gee the cattle are fed and warm;
o JACK, tell mother to wrap you we'll
You my 90 with me over the farm.
Though the snow is deep and the weather cold,
Ton are not babe at six years DID,"
rwo feet Of snow on the hillside lay,
But the sky was as blue as June;
And father and n came laughing home
When dinner was ready at noon
knocking the snow from their weary feet,
Rosy and hungry and longing TO cat.
"The snow was so deep" the farmer said.
THAT feared could scarce get through"
The mother turned with pleasant smile,
Then what could little lad do?'
Il trod in my fathers steps," said Jack
wherever he went kept his track"
rhe mother look ed In the fathers face,
And q solemn thought was there;
The words bad gone like lightning flash
To the seat OF nObler care
"If he tread in my steps, then day by day
How carefully must choose my way!"
For the child will do as the father does,
And the track that leave behind,
Iflt be firm, and clear, and straight,
The feet ofmy son will find.
he will tread in his fathers steps. and say,
Il am right, for this was my fathers way"
Oh, fathers. treading in life's hard road,
Be sure OF the steps you take;
Then the sons you love, when gray haired
men,
Will tread in them still for your sake,
When gray-haired men to their sons will say,
I'VE tread in our fathers steps to-day"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25

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nlarl1 '85-1Y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
Democratic Growth.
Democratic gains.

The Democratic gains in the States that
have voted this fall are about as follows
over the Blaine vote of 1884:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
Total.

That is a good showing, and tells the
story that the people are not dissatisfied
with Democratic control. Cleveland Piai,
De0ler.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-11-25
Ayers Sarsaparilla

has had in his case. I think his blood must
have contained the humor for at least ten
years but it did not show, except in the form
OF scrofulous sore on the wrist until about
five years ago. From few spots which ap-
peared at that time, it gradually spread 50 az
to cover his entire body. I assure you he was
terribly afflicted, and an object of pity, when
he began using your medicine. Now, there are
few men of his age who enjoy as good health
as he has. could easily name fifty persons.
Eho would teetify to the facts in his case.
Yours truly, W. N. PHILLIPS"