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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
ELECTRIC THIEVES.
How Some Shrewd New Workers Obtain
Their supply of Light.

How Some Shrewd New Workers Obtain
Their supply of Light.
Edison has encountered novel form
of theft in conducting his electric bust
ness in New York. 1t was found that
numerous unprincipled persons had
availed themselves of the opportunity
to steal electricity, and use it for oper-
ating motors and for induction coils
The method of filching the electricity
was by boring through the iron pipe
surrounding the insulating compound,
and then further into one of the copper
leads. A set screw fixed into the oritice
formed one connection and the earth
the other. OF course this connection
was made beyond the electric meter.
1t was hardly worth while to maintain
the continued espionage necessary to
detect and punish these pilfcrers, but
the superintendent of the station (Mr.
Chamberlain) coupled in extra dyna-
mos and threw rs great an increase of
current over the system as the safety
catches would permit at various times
for about one second; while this cur,
rent was passing the incandescence
lamps would give an unwOnted glow,
and every induction coil and motor
surreptitiously attached to the system
would receive an extra current de-
signed to burn it. In this manner the
system is occasionally cleared Of al
trespassers.- Y. Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEBT.

-.
"YOu Never Said So Before. John PA.
thetic Scene at Mothers Death Bed.
A venerable clergyman of Virginia
said lately: "Men of my profession see
much of the tragic side Of life. Beside
q death-bcd the secret passions, the
hidden evils as we'll as the good in hui
man nature, are very often dragged to
the light. l have seen men die in bat
tic. children and young wives in their
husbands arms, but no death ever
seemed so pathetic to me as that OF an
old woman, a member of my church.
ii knew her first as a young girl,
beautiful gay. full of spirit and vigor'
She married and had four children
her husband died and left her PENN
less She taught school she painted.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
A ROMANCE.
The Story of . Lonesome Little Cat and
Lonesome Little Girl.

The Story of Lonesome Little Cat and
Lonesome Little Girl.
Once on time there was little
girl, and there was little cat. and they
lived five miles from each other, and
the little girl had never heard of the
little cat, and the little cat had never
heard of the little girl.
The little girls name was Nell, and
she lived with her grandparents, and
she was lonesome because she was all
the young small little person there was
in the house. The little cats name
was Capertoes, and he was lonesome
because he was a barn-cat and great
hunter" Now, cats like to catch rats
and mice; but they like other things
too-such things rs fires and rugs, and
gentle words, and the touch of gentle
hand. -.
Now Capertoes had grown sick of
the barn, and of rats and mice. and
one night he left the barn and set out
"to seek his fortune" 1t was long,
cold, snowy road, and Capertoes went,
and went. and went, all night. But at
the end of the night. and at the end of
the road, he found his fortune.
As he was passing house, little
girl with brown eyes and brown hair
opened a window, and called to him:
kitty, kitty!"
Capertoes stopped, and after looking
at her minute, he went up to the
window. The little girl told him her
name was Nell, and asked him what
his was; and when he had heard her
talk bit, he liked the sound of her
voice, and the touch of her hand was
soft and gentle; and presently, when
she asked him if he would not like to
be her cat, he jumped in and staid and
was her cat always afterwards BIZ,
his name there was Velvetcoat, not
Capertoes. Sara h. Farnaan, in Our
Little Men and Women. es ..+.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
Oh peARI

Katy at the window. looking down,
Wrinkles up her forehead in frOwu.
Says half-pouting: Il would like to 30
The little giIl there In the street see!
She doesn't have to study hours aud hours
Away from all the birds and bees and
flowers:
She wears her Oldest dresses every day,
And when she wants to can go out and play
She never has 70 cit still IN char,
30 that she will not tumble up her hair!
..... Oh dear!
Kitty on the Sidewalk, passing by,
Chances up and gives little sigh.
THINKS. half-sadly: II wish l was there
Sitting In that nice. soft-cushioned chair.
Amt her curls real pretty-and her dress?
she doesn't wear old patched-up ones,
guess.
And she has all the bread she wants to EFT.
l know she does-and cakes, and candy
sweet.
And pretty things to play with. Deary mo
How 4 would like that tile girl to be!
Oh dear!"
-yOiith's Ct,w1Gniou
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

she sewed; she gave herself scarcely
time to eat or sleep. Every thought
was for her children, to educate them.
to give them the same chaDee which
their father would have done.
"She succeeded; sent the bOys to col
lege, and the girls to schools. When
they came home, pretty, refined girls
and strong young men, abreast with
all the new ideas and tastes of their
time. she was . WORKOUT. common
place old woman. They had their own
pursuits and companions. She fingered
among them for two or three years and
then died. of some sudden failure in the
bEain. The shock woke them to con-
seriousness of the truth. They hung
over her. as she lay unconscious, in an
agony of grief. The Oldest son. as he
acid her in his arms, cried:
You have been good mother to
u.s.
Her face colOrcd again. her eyes
kindled into a smile, and she whis-
pered: You never said so before.
john Then the light died out and
she was gone.
How many men AID women sacrifice
their own hopes and ambitions, thsi,
strength, Iheir life itself, 70 :hti1 chill.
.iren, who receive it as matter OF
course. and begrudge caress, worn
OF gratitude, in payment for all that
has been given them.
Boys. when you come back from col
lege. don't consider that your only re-
lation to your father is to ''get as much
money as the governor will stand
Look at his gray hair, his unsteady
step, his dim eyes and remember in
whose service he has grown old. You
can never pay him the debt you owe,
but at least acknowledge it before it is
too ate Youths Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

ing. and burning with shame and woe.
Every child is a bundle of tremendous
possibilities: and whether that child shall
come forth to life. its heart attuned to the
eternal harmonies, and after a life
Of usefulness on earth go to life
of JOY in Heaven. or whether across il
shall jar eternal discords. and after life
of wrong doing on earth it shall go to q
home of impenetrahle darkness and an
abyss Of Unreasonable plunge, is being
decided by nursery song and Sabbath les
son, and evening prayer, and walk, and
ride, and look, and frown and smile. Oh
how many children in glory, crowding al
the battlements. and lifting a million
voiced hosanna, brought TO God through
Christian parentage!
One hundred and. twenty clergymen
were together, and they were telling their
experience and their ancestry; apdyof the
$50 clergymen, how many Of them, Do you
suppose, assigned as the means Of their
conversion the influence of q Christian
mother! One hundred out of the 100
Phillip Doddridgs ~ beoukht 70 God By
the Scripture lesson on the Dutch tiles OF
a chimney fireplace. The mother thinks
she rs only rocking . child. but at the same
time she may be rocking the fate of ma
tons, rocking the gloriesof Heaven. The
same maternal power that may lift the
child up may press child down. b
A daughter came to worldly mother
and said she was anxious about her sins
and she had been praying all night. The
mother said: "OA. stop prayings DOM
believe in praying. Get svvr III these 70.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
OLD COTTON.
Two Bales Received in the Year 1853 re.
Gently Put on the Market.
Ipook xl;I, "a ~ IJnuoa,

Two Bales Received in the Year 1853 ne.
Gently Put on the Market.
Rock Hill Is. C.) Herald.]
On Tuesday last Mr.. r. E. Guthrie, adj.
ministrator of the estate of the late j. Har.
vey Williamson, of Bethesda township,
sold two bales of cotton on this market
which was raised by slave labor on Mr..
Williamson's plantation in 1862, nearly a
quarter of century ago. On account Of
the war there was no satisfactory market
for cotton, and of the crop raised that
year Mr.. Williamson stored several bales
under his house until the times might i'm.
prove. After the war had ended, Mr..
Williamson snapped three bales of the
cotton with the late D. r. 8. Blake for .
mule. The remainder was retained. AT.
terward Mr.. Williamson brought samples
to Rock Mill, and Mr.. d. C. Roddey, who
was then in business here, offered him 50
1-3 cents per pound in gold for it, but
the offer was rejected and the cot.
ton still, retained. At that time
gold was at . premium Of SO per cent,
hence Mr. Roddey's offer was equivalent
" " CohtS pei Pouuu III CuITouCy
Strangely enough, Mr.. Williamson, in face
Of this extraordinary price, determined to
hold the cotton, and his death last fall
found it still unsold. Why he kept it SO
long is mystery that lies buried in the
grave with him.
The cotton was packed before iron ties
came into use and in the days when there
was no roping TO be had. Hickory withes
were used instead, and the original bind
ings still hold the bales firmly together,
and are In . good state of preservation.
The lint is - good - when thu crop was
sgasAsrsd in 1862, and classed middling.
The cotton was bought by Messrs. w. L.
Roddey & Co., at eight and one-fourth
cents per pound. A remarkable circum.
stance is that on the day that the cotton
was finally sold the price was lower than
it had been since it was grown.
Beyond . doubt this is the Oldest cotton
in the world. At any rate, II is certainly
the only cotton in existence that wa,
raised by Southern slave labor and baled
in the rude manner peculiar 10 ~ hard
times Of the late wae.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

s. aAtained standard OF excellence which
ldntto q no superior.
ID coutxins every Improvement that inventive
Bsuaus, skill and money can produce.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03
The EIOquence of Breckinridge.

Mr.. Breckenridge, in his speech on
the Pension bill, spoke of the great love
he always had for his brothers who
fought on the Union side. l am told
those brothers ffeemains fei as strong as be-
tween those who foug ght for the same
cause. l quote from this remarkable
speech, which was miserably reported
at the time:
sOf the two grown men who are dear
est to me one served four years in the
Confederate army; one four years in
the Federal army; sucked at the same
breast, instructed at the same knee, in
early boyhood becoming motherless,
between the three there is only conf
dence and affection. There was a fourth,
for whom the mother gave her life, and
who seemed to grow up with the sunny
lovingness that made that mother dear
to all with whom she came in contact.
In the early flush of his young manhood
he laid his life, a Federal soldier, upon
the altar of his duty, and he lies at the
feet of venerable man whose earnest,
intense and able devotion to the Union
of the States is we'll known among the
people from the home came Again
he said:
standing by those graves and look
ing across the blue grass sward, can be
seen in concentric circles the headstones
of the Federal dead, and not far off on
the slope of a beautiful hillside, under
the shade of forest trees, stands the st.
Anthony's cross, draped with the furled
banner on the broken flagstaff of a dead
Confederacy, guarding in its white puri-
ty the graves of those who gave their
lives for that flag. Scattered all over
that beautiful cemetery are fathers and
sons and brothers who served in oppos-
ing armies; and in the adjoining city,
and through all the adjacent country,
are those who loved those dead heroes,
and live now in sweet accord. forgetful
of all that was harsh and bitter, remem-
bering with grateful piety only that
which was brave and kindly and heroic. ;
Representative Breckenridge is man
of deep religious convictions. l heard
him speaking of the observance of Sun
day not long since: Il do not hesitate
to say he said, shat system of truths,
of which the Sunday and all that word
implies forms part, is the prime cause
of the glory and the hapefnlnesS of this
civilization
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03
Resting After Meals.

A friend of the writer's, who has suf-
fered from dyspepsia during almost her
entire life, considers the suggestions in
the following extracts from an article in
recent issue of zAe /OnrnaI Of Health
to be the most in accord with her own
experience of anything on the subject
lately published.
Hurried eating of meals, followed
Immediately by some employment that
occupies the whole attention and takes
up all, or nearly all, of the physical en-.
ergies, is sure to result in dyspepsia in
one form or another. Sometimes it
shows itself in excessive irritability, a
sure indication that nerve force has been
exhausted; the double draught in order
to digest the food and carry on the
business has been more than nature
could stand without being thrown out
of balance. In another case, the person
is exceedingly dull as soon as he has a
few minutes of leisure. The mind seems
dead blank and can only move in its
accustomed channels, and then only
when compelled. This, also, is an in
diCation OF nervous exhaustion. Others
will have decided pains in the stomach,
or sense of weight, as if a heavy bur-
den was inside. Others, again, will be
able to eat nothing that will agree with
them; everything that is put inside the
stomach is made the subject of violent
protest on the part of that organ, and
the person suffers untold agonies in con-
sequence. Others suffer from constant
hunger. They may eat all they can,
and feel hungry still. If they feel satis-
fed for little time, the least unusual
exertion brings on the hungry feeling,
and they can do no more until some
thing is eaten. 1t is almost needless to
say that this condition is not hunger,
but inflammation ofthe stomach. Scarce
ly any two persons are affected exactly
in the same way, the disordered condi-
tion manifesting itself according to tenn
perament and occupation, employments
that call for mental work, and those
whose scene of action lies indoors, af-
fecting persons more seriously than those
carried on in the open air and those
which are merely mechanical and do
not engage the mind
All, or nearly all, of these difficulties
of digestion might have never been
known by the sufferers had they left
their business behind them and rested a
short time after eating, instead of rush.
ing off to work Immediately after hastily
swallowing their food.
Nature does not do two things at
time and do both well, as rule. All
know that when force is divided, it is
weakened. If the meal were eaten slow
ly, without pre-occupation of the mind,
and the stomach allowed at least half
an hours chance to get its work we'll
undertaken before the nervous force is
turned in another direction, patients
suffering from dyspepsia would be few.
A physician once said: 1T does not
so much matter what we eat as how we
eat it,. While. this is only .pattlX true.
full food hurriedly eaten, and Immediate
ly followed by work which engages the
entire available physical and mental
forces, is much worse than a meal of
poor food eaten leisurely and followed
by an interval of rest.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03
The Reasoning Power of Fishes.

Seth Green, an American Agricutturist
In the winter of 184o l hunted deer
and fished for salmon trout in and around
Bonaparte Lake, Lewis Co., N. Y. l
fished by putting down 100 hooks
through holes in the ice about four rods
apart. These were baited with good
sized minnows hooked through the back
in such manner as not to kill them.
After the lines had been down the first
night l took from them in the morning
twenty-five good-sized salmon trout.
Each successive morning thereafter l
got less and less number, until on the
eighth day the number had diminished
to about seven or eight. But the aston
ishing part of it was, that the bait was
gone from every hook just the same as
it was on the first morning, when l
made the big catch. 1 knew that the
trout were not all caught out, but it was
very apparent that I could not catch
any more without removing to new
ground and cutting new set of holes,
which l accordingly did, about a quar-
ter of mile from my former grounds.
There my results were the same as be-
fore, and after fishing seven or eight
days, | found it would be necessary for
me to move again. One day 1 ran a
line of hooks in such a direction, that
one of them came over rocky bar
where there was open water. l saw
there was an opportunity for an expert
ment, which l at once decided to try.
1 fastened the upper end of the line to
an overhanging piece of brush, SO that
nothing could interfere with the bait
below without decidedly moving the
brush. Then l laid down on the ice
with coat over my head, so that ]
could look down through the clear water
and watch developments. Presently a
large, fine trout came along and began
manoeuvring with the minnow attached
to the hook, and operated in the follow
ing manner: He kept as close to the
minnow as possible, and repeatedly
snapped at it very cautiously, reopen
ing his mouth before he had fairly clos
Gu IL, 81 dS W prevent SClllhS dlly tilhS
in his mouth he did not want. When
the lively minnow had swan away as
far as the line would permit, the trout
made more forcible snap at it SO as to
cut it entirely from the hook. The
minnow sank to the bottom, and the
trout went after it and soon had it stor-
ed away. I then discovered why had
to move so often. l Immediately bait
ed the hook with another minnow and
lowered it down; the trout came for it
again and snapped at it as before. l
let it sink to the bottom, where the trout
went after it and swallowed bait, hook,
and all, and l never missed another one
where saw the trout working at it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03

Some call it luck, dear Brother Jim,
Some call it common sense;
While others still, with equal vim,
Pronounce it Providence.
But believe, in spite of all,
Fate, Providence, or wit,
Bull headed luck or brazen gall,
The proper name is grit.
IT'S well, for those dear Brother Jim,
With time and cash to spare,
To lift their hands and hearts to Him,
In everlasting prayer.
But prayer alone won't win the fight,
In spite of Holy Writ;
'Tis acts that tell, or wrong or right,
And actions call for "grit."
I've seen in trial tests Of speed
The horse that balks or breaks,
Although he sometimes takes the lead,
He never takes the stakes.
While "Sure and steady. on-the-strife,"
Though slower on the bit,
Is often on the winning side,
Because he's got the "grit."
I've seen some fellows in my time,
Good, noble men, and strong,
With hearts less human than divine,
Who couldn't get along.
NJ matter where you placed them, Jim,
They didn't seem to fit;
They couldn't win or sink or swim,
They didn't have the "grit."
Amid the countless ills oflife,
Its pleasures and its woes,
The strongest factors in the strife,
Are steady licks and blows;
And though we may not always win,
We never will submit,
But still wade in, dear Brother Jim,
And die like men of "grit."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03
HARRIET LANE.

SASos o"SSthSoo VI NioPSoA@AOA e@A>A iAAoNii
sociability.
HARRIET LANE.
Harriet Lane, the niece of James
Buchanan, was Pennsylvania by birth,
and was educated with great care. Tall
and commanding, with perfectly mold
ed form, faultless head, finely poised
and crowned with a mass of golden
brown hair, with large, dark blue eyes,
finely cut features, the mouth particu-
larly lovely, and skin of milk and
roses, her beauty and her happiness took
all hearts by storm. Before she left the
White House the flames of civil war had
burst forth.
MARY TODD LINCOLN.
Mary Todd Lincoln, who began a
career in the White House with the civil
war, was of Kentucky birth and educa-
tion, and made the acquaintance of her
husband while visiting sister of Illi-
noiS.
ELIZA NJ 'CARDLE JOHNSON.
Eliza M'Cardle Johnson, the next
occupant of the White House, was mar
ried in her eighteenth year to young
Johnson; the apprentice, whom she
taught to write and whose lessons she
heard. Her health was bad, and she
was seen downstairs but once, and that
on the occasion of children's party.
MARTHA PATTERSON.
All entertainments as we'll as house.
hold cases developed upon her daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Martha Patterson and Mrs
Slower. Mrs. Patterson was remarka.
BILE woman, keeping not only her faith
er's house, but caring for her own fam
lily, and attending to the duties of State
quietly, modestly, and with perfect
dignity.
JULIA DENT GRANT.
Mrs. Grant was Julia Dent before her
marriage with the young officer who be-
came Commander-in- Chief, and her
family were people of weight in their
own community. She was we'll educa-
ted; her manners are those of finished
lady, and as wife and mother she is
faultlesS.
LUCY WEBB HAYES.
Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes was daugh-
ter of DIR. James Webb, of Chillicothe,
Ohio, and grand. daughter of Lieut.. Col.
Cook, of the Revolutionary army. Her
beauty, culture and refinement made a
fitting successor to the illustrious women
who have filled the exalted position to
which she was called.
LUCY RANDOLPH GARFIELD.
Mrs. Garfield was Lucy Randolph,
the daughter of a Maryland farmer. She
is lady of many accomplishments and
attractions, and, what is vastly more
important, has proved herself a devoted
wife and faithful mother.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03

B9-The appellation of gentleman is
never to be affixed to a mans circum-
stances, but to his behavior in them.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03

bgrIt was of case in the United
States District Court at Albany many
years ago. A. patent right suit was
brought on before Judge Nelson. VIM.
H. Seward was counsel on one side. In
summing up he occupied whole day.
Peter Cagger came in while he was talk,
ing, and after listening an hour turned
to a learned lawyer and inquired:
'What the deuce is 'Bill' Seward talking
about?' The counsel on the other side
made a long speech, and the judge
charged the jury. After the jury had
been out about two hours they came in
court, and the foreman said: your
Honor, the jury would like to ask a
question: You can proceed. well,
your Honor, we would like to know
what this suit is about2'