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Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
FIFTY SPOKEN,
How Samuel BOwles, the Great Editor,
Managed His STAFF.

managed HIS Stan
Mr.. Merriam, in his Life of Samuel
Bowles," shows how the famous editor
used to manage his staff. The disci-
pline of apprentices was sometimes
hard for the boy, but not bad for the
man into whom the boy was to develop.
The ways of the office can be seen from
this:
A man would often work for weeks,
or even months, without any word OF
notice, and then would come terse
command, hitting the weak point, or
heartening him with praise. One
youngster, who had not fully mastered
the department assigned him, as ne was
whistling at his desk, heard the words
thrown over his shoulder, as the chief
went by:
"You needn't think you're doing that
work very we'll"
..He didn't whistle again for week!
Yet Just afterward Mr.. Bowles wrote to
some inquirer generous commenda-
ton of him.
Aman whose hours of work had been
somewhat irregular found on his desk
the message:
Goodnight at ten. sharp. Good
morning at nine. sharp. "-fonh s COM
pd,aio7s.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

President Garrett, of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company, is said to
work more hours than any employe on
the rolls.
"A young woman of Jamaica Plains,
Mass, was made seriously i'll by re-
ceiving anonymous letters prophesying
her death.
There is man in Georgia who can
write without knowing the alphabet,
Sr being able to read anything except
bis own letters.-Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Dennis E. Murphy, official
stenographer of the United States Sem
ate, receives twenty-five thousand dol
lars per annum for reporting the de-
bates, but out of that he pays for all
assistance.
Miss Smith, a wealthy old lady
who died at Chapel Hill, N. c., re-
Gently. remembered her old slaves iii
the distribution of her property, willing
to each one hundred acres of land and
one hundred and twenty-five dollars in
money.
-Lanty Cong's Prayer: 1.-The giver
of the feast, that rale ould Irish gintle-
man, Misther Bernard McCafferty, and
may he live till he climbs to Paradise
on the shoulders of his good deeds,
an the prayers av thin he's done 'em
to. Lord be good to himr'-N. Y. IN
dependent.
In formally putting out his shingle
in Boston, a genuine Chinese physician
believes he has adopted the descriptive
,.hroco in va
lightened portion of his contemporar-
les. His sign reads: 'Dr. Lee Sing
Sung. Can cure diseases where all
others fail
The richest woman il. South Amer.
lea is Isadora Cousino, of Santiago,
Chill. The people call her the Countess
of Monte Cristo, and she traces her an
cestry back to the days of the conquest.
She inherited from her husband mil.
lions of acres, millions of money, fochs
and herds, copper, silver and coal
mines, q fleet Of iron steamships, smelt-
ing works and railroad, all yielding
her an income of several millions a
year. Chicago Journal.
In the memoirs of Gustav Dore
some interesting statistics are given
with regard to his earnings. 1t is est..
mated that between 1850 and 1870 his
Illustrations brought him one million,
four hundred thousand dollars. A
mornings work has been known to
realize two thousand dollars. But it
was the number of his works quite as
much as the unprecedentedly high rate
of remuneration which he commanded,
that made his earnings so large.
-.Jay Cooke drives a great deal
along the wagon roads out beyond the
Quaker City. One would hardly think
the old man, with white hair and whis-
kers, whether seen upon the country
road, behind his slowly moving horse,
or walking leisurely along Wall street,
to be the famous Jay Cooke, who came
from near Sandusky, o., to Washing
ton about the opening of the rebellion,
to startle the country with his financial
exploits. He is the one example of a
business man who failed when he was
old, and grew rich again in less than
ten years.-Philadelp7tia Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
A NlCKEL'S TALE.
The Joy and Sorrow, Poverty and Wealth
Seen in Nine Days.

The Joy and Sorrow, Poverty and Wealth
Seen in Nine Days.
II have only been coined nine days"
said Nickel to a Penny lying in box
beside it in a locked drawer. "a fine
time of life to be hustled into the dark
like thisn'
II have been in this box since the
day I left the mint, replied the Penny,
"but you must have travelled.
81 have" laconically answered the
Nickel
"Tell me something about it, urged
the Penny; and as all the other coins
locked in the box, gold, silver and cop
per, chinked out loudly, "Yes, tell,
the Nickel began:
ga banker got me at the mint, with
nineteen of my brothers, for we were
wrapped in a dollar roll. In my new
masters purse lay with golden twen-
ty-dollar pieces, some silver and two or
three pennies. I was spent that night
for newspaper, and went into the
dirty pocket of a ragged little boy, who
kept fumbling me, With several of my
relations and some coppers, with his
greasy fingers. He paid me out for
five sticks of candy. and soon dropped
into the clean till of little shop in a
poor part of the city. l would have
been very we'll content to stay there,
for we had light, the rest of the dimes
and nickels and myself, from a crack
in the drawer. But it was not to be. A
tramp got me, as part payment for
carrying in coal, and he spent me for
drink of rum, so Twas thrown by red
headed saloon-keeper into beer-smell-
ing drawer. There remained until l
was paid to a match boy for a box of
matches.
Il thought l should be crushed out of
shape, for the boy put me in his
breeches pocket, and at once l fell
down below some heavy marbles, two
iron weights, knife and piece of
brick. Grinding, in terrible friction,
in the midst of this oppressive heat, l
just managed to keep from crying out
until the next day, when was given in
change to fine lady, who put me in
her purse with plenty of silver and gold
pieces.
This was relief, but the lady rode
home in her carriage to great house,
where a little child lay dying in a
white crib. 1t was her child, and she
sat by # crying, while the father and
older brothers and sisters. with the
physicians, crowded around the little
crib, all very silent; but, alas! they
could do nothing. l could see all this
through the meshes of the purse, for
the lady placed it on table near the
sick baby. One of the physicians, after
the others spoke with him softly, wrote
something on bit of white paper. 1t
was given to the maid servant. who
took up the purse, where we all lay,
and was given for some medicine to
druggist, who put me in this dark box
with the rest of you, and here l am. -
Philadelphia NeaOs.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
POPOCAiEPETl..
The Ancient Volcano Transported Into the
Halls of Litigation.

The Ancient Volcano Transported Into the
Halls of Litigation.
The ancient volcano Popocatepetl has
got into the courts. Not that it has
been bodily transported into the halls Of
litigation, but it is the subject of novel
suit at law. For many years General
Ochoa has been the owner of the volcano,
the highest point of land in North
America, together with all its appur
tenances. The crater contains a fine
quality Of sulphur, which the General
has been extracting, giving employment
to Indians who cared to stay down in
the vaporous old crater. The property
was at one time fairly profitable, but
now it appears that the volcano was,
some time ago, mortgaged to Carlos
Recamier. who brings suit of foreclosure.
The papers have been joking about the
matter, some asking what Recamier in
tends to do with his volcano when he
gets legal possession. He has been SOL
emnly warned that the law forbids the
carrying out of the country ancient
monuments and objects of historic inter
est.-MeGico Cor. Boston Herald.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
PEDIGREES.
Why They Are Valuable to the Breeding
Interests of the Country.

Why They Are Valuable to the Breeding
Interests of the Country.
Because occasionally, at some peri
DDS, perhaps frequently, men have been
found ready to pay foolish, extrava-
giant prices for fashionable pedigree
unsupported by individual excellence
or weakened by defects of constitution,
it has become fashionable among a
certain class of breeders to, we might
almost say, decry the value of pedi-
gree. 1t is certainly a curious thing to
hear breeders enunciate views which
would tend to well-nigh put back the
science of breeding to where it was a
hundred years ago. To get good cat
tie, as some breeders urge, practically
regardless of pedigree, and breed from
them with the expectation of ultimate
success, has certain ring of what
people are fond of calling common
sense principles, but while, no doubt,
the ultimate result would be satisfac-
tory, who can tell how far off that ulti-
mate result would be? Why throw
away the many years of good breeding
done Tor us by our predecessors
Why not begin where Others have left
off, and be thankful that they have
done so much to help us along on the
road to the goal. success. He would
be foolish man indeed who should re-
Ject good, well-i..d foundations, exactly
suitable for the building he proposes to
erect, and, because he had the material
at his hand, should persist in preparing
foundation of his own, thereby under
taking vast amount of expense and
labor which he might have avoided.
Indeed, his short-sightedness could
only be exceeded by that of him who,
to save expense and time, would seek
to utilize a foundation containing
flaw which is liable to depreciate the
value. if not to jeopardize the life OF
his structure National Live Stock
Journal.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
STEVENS IN sERvlA.
The Noted Bicyclist's Opinion Of Serviap
Institutions.

The Noted Bicyclist's Opinion Of Servian
Institutions.
My ride through Servia, save over
the Balkans, has been most enjoyable,
and the roads, l am agreeably surprised
to have to record, have averaged as
any country in Europe, save England
and France; though being for the most
part unmacadamized, with wet weather
they would scarcely show to such ad-
vantage. My impression of the Ser
vians is most favorable; they are evi.
IDENTIFY a warm-hearted, hospitable,
and, withal, patriotic people, loving
their little country and appreciating
their independence as only people who
have but recently had their dream OF
self-government realized know how to
appreciate it; they even paint the wood
work of their bridges and public build
ings with the national colors. am as
sured that the Servians have progressed
wonderfully since acquiring their full
independence; but as one journeys
down the beautiful and fertile valley
of the Morava, where Improvements
would naturally be seen, if anywhere,
one falls to wondering where they can
possibly have come in. Some of their
methods would, indeed, seem to indi-
cate most deplorable lack of practica-
bility; one of the most ridiculous, to
the writer's mind, is the erection OF
small, long sheds, substantially built OF
heavy hewn timber supports and thick
homemade tiles, over ordinary plank
fences and gates to protect them from
the weather, when good coating OF
tar or paint would answer the
purpose of preservation much bet
ter. These structures give one
the impression of a dollar placed
over penny to protect the latter from
harm. Every peasant owns few acres
of land, and if he produces anything
above his own wants, he hauls 1T to
market in an ox-wagcH with roughly
hewn wheels without tires, and whose
creaking can plainly be heard a mile
away. At present the Servian tills his
little freehold with the clumsiest OF
implements, some his own rude handi-
work, and the best imperfectly fash.
ioned and forged on native anvils. His
plow is chiefly the forked limb of a
tree, pointed with iron sufficiently to
enable him to root around in the sur
face soil. One would think the coun-
try might offer a promising field for
some enterprising manufacturer Of
such implements as hoes, scythes, hay
forks, small, strong plows, cUltivators.
etc.
These people are industrious, espe-
cially the women. have frequently
met Servian peasant woman return
ing homew.ard in the evening from her
labor in the fields, carrying a fat,
heavy baby, clumsy hoe not much
lighter than the youngster, and an
earthenware water-pitcher, and at the
same time industriously spinning wool
with small hand-spindle. And yet
some people argue about the impossi-
bility of doing two things at once!
Whether these poor women have been
hoeing potatoes, carrying the infant
and spinning wool at the same time
all day, am unable to say, not having
been an eyewitness, though I really
should not be much astonished if they
had.-I'hoDaas SteUens, IN Outing.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
"A LITTLE NONSENSE"

-"My business is on the boom," is
what the sailor remarked, as he was
furling sail one stormy night.-Sonser-
ytlLe Journal.
-"What are the seven ages of
man, Henry?" Luggage, garbage,
mortgage, postage, shrinkage and dot
age" He went right up to the foot
Burdette.
-"'He is utterly unscrupulous, E"
writes an Irish editor of political op-
ponent; land his memory is so poor
that he frequently forgets one minute
what he says the next"
Mamma" said Johnnie, who had
Just been reading the war news. II am
afraid we are short of sauce for sup
per. Hadn't you better call out the
preserves.-N. Y. Independent.
Mr.. Featherly (making an evening
calD-"Robby, won't you come and
Sit on my kneep" Robby (accepting
the -proffered seat)-"All right, Mr.
Featherly. Pa told me to-day that you
ought to be sat down on once in
awhile. ~ Y San.
Woman trouble
It makes the average woman shout
And dance and Jump and shrek
-. When she finds the note
In her husbands coat
Thst she gave him to post, and he carried
In his pocket for more than week.
Puck.
--'.Don't be a fool, my DEAR" re-
monstrated husband to his wife, who
was letting her jaw swing loose in the
breeze. II wont, Mr.. Jenkins, l
WON'T" she answered, "people woald-
nj. know us apart if I did," He went
right down Cincinnati Merchant
IrdUeler.
An old woman was caught by a
big policeman on Sunday evening COM
ing out of saloon with pint OF IL
legal beer concealed under her shawl.
What have you got there" said he,
prodding the protuberance with his
club, ''a tumorp" mo, a can sir. y
N. Y. Herald.
"A near-sighted Boston man was
lately riding in street car, when a
lady opposite bowed to him. He re-
turned the bow, raised his hat, smiled
sweetly, and was just wondering who
she was, when she came over and whis-
pered in his ear: .'Oh, I'll fix you
for this, old man, Then he knew it
was his wife.-Boston Globe.
Entered as second-class matter" :"
read very particular lady who lives
in brown stone front, the other day,
looking over new periodical. 81 am
trying to find something to read that is
tirst-class, but haven't succeeded yet
and will never have anything that is
second-class come into my house. No.
/ will not subscribe. shall wait till
find something entered as frst-olass
matter. ''-EIchange.
.-Brown-''Then you have given uE
the. idea of becoming writer?" Rob
inson-"Yes." B.-..But I thought
you had all your plans matured; shat
you were going to avoid prolixity-to
write nothing but short, sharp, senten-
tious sentences, IN short, that you were
going to be regular condenser?"
R.-"Yes, that was my plan, and ]
attempted to carry it OUT B.
..Well?" R.-"We1l, l set out to
write, but I'm blessed if l could think
pf anything to ccndense, ~ Chicago
Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
Worth $1,000,

L had a severe at
tack Of catarrh, and be-
came so deaf 1 could
not hear common con-
Yersation. I suffered
terribly from roaring
tp nv head. I procured
Sbottle OF Ely's Cream
Balm, and In three
weeks could hear as
well as I ever could,
and now I can say 10
all who are afflicted
with the worst of dis
eases, catarrh, take one
bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm ard be cured. 1t
is'worth 1900 to any
man. woman or child
suffering from catarrh.
"A. E. NEWMAN, Gray
ling, Mich.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

Prof. d. L. Phares, of Mississippi.
enumerates $50 species of grasses and
other foliage plants in the Southern
States.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
ONLY twenty-five cents
Red Star Cough Cure.
No opiates or poison.

LITTLE girl to uncle-How do you make
q Maltese cross? Uncle-Step on her tail.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

The Vaaberbilts keep their bonds,
stocks, diamonds and gold and silver
plate in steel box, fotlr feet lonr BY
eighteen inches broad, that is set in the
wall of the vault in the Lincoln Ma
tional Bank, New York.-Trou Times
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

HOOPS HOUSEHOLD CALENDAR is the hand
soonest and most convenient ever issued.
Send six cents for one to G. l. HOOD & Co.,
Lowell Mass.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

For sick and nervous headaches, consti-
patton and liver troubles, take Ayers Pills.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

PIso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable
to use. 1t is not a liquid or snuff. SOC.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DROPS curein minute, 25c
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

PEOPLE we must put up with-Pawn-
brokers.-Ranlbler.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

IT is difficult job to set hen or good
example.-Boston Bulletin.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

INvIGoRATE, renew and beautify the hail
by the use of Halls Hair Renewer.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

A Boston boy calls himself Compass be-
cause he is boxed so often.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

A REAL corn taxa tight shoe -Bosto,
Beacon
Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

THE original balkin' affair-The mule
N. Y Morning Journal.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-12
us ewes Dent down upon the ground.

mis- eyes bent down upon the ground.
The old gentleman, having made an end Of
his rebuke, gazed at him ixedly for several
moments, and then, bidding him @step with
him into his study" wheeled about and went
into the house.
The boys, left to themselves, fell to their
sports again with an uproar that took a new
edge from its short suppression.
The doctor seated himself in a crimson
velvet armchair, and motioned to the other
to sit. Then, crossing his legs, and nursing
his knee with plump hands, on the forefinger
of one of which was a great signet ring, no
fixed his eyes on his companion with a gaze
which, for severity and keenness, should have
bored his mind through and through.
"Cuthbert," said he, speaking in a clear,
firm voice, not, perhaps, destitute Of a touch
of suavity, II have long had it on my mind
to bring you to book with a plain question.
Living under my eye as you do, do you con-
ceive it possible, sir, that the remarkable
change your character has undergone should
have escaped me: Come, I will speak intelli-
gibly. It strikes me that you grow weary of
your apprenticeship. Understand me. You
would rather not be a schoolmaster. Is that
it, Look at me full in the eyes, man, and re-
member that your father abhors a lie."
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-12

NOW, am 1 to suppose that this holiday up
set you? Come, come, you are not a yokel,
that you cannot walk London streets with
out your ambition taking fire from every
print shop"
He paused, his hand with the pinch of snuff
in it suspended, and a light of angry triumph
in his eyes, as though he should say, "The
secret cannot clude ME, but l hate the dis
covery."
Cuthbert rose and walked to the window,
and looked out upon the green swell of cliff
and the blue faint space Of sea beyond.
That there was. a secret in his mind might
be known by the pain in his eyes and a con-
traction of brow which told of a sudden in
ward wrestle.
But these signs faded, leaving him not
paler than he was before, and with a tran
quill smile, sweet with the melancholy and
| docility in it, he turned to his father and
said:
"Nothing is amiss with me in the way you
suppose. Give me a day or two for reflec-
ton. I shall then lave something to tell
| you, and God knows what indulgence you
shall show me-"
The doctor arched his eyebrows, and, with
a stiffening of his back, made his frill project
fercely.
Idon't like your strong expressions, sir.
And pray, what have you done, that you
should hesitate to avow itY"
And he stuck his head back until the hol-
low of his throat showed above his white
neckerchief.
But if DR.. Shaw could be angry, SO, too,
could Cuthbert. his son, be obstinate; and the
touch of the mule that is in the composition
of most men shows nowhere more trans
p~arently than in a handsome face.
"Give me your permission to leave you,
sir" said Cuthbert.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-12
JENNY.

In the embrace of a curvature of this noble
island of Britain, where the coast beheld by
the passing mariner shines before his eyes
with the pearly gloss and delicate simmer
of marble; where the land shoots out into
the sea, scorning, with its iron heel stanchly
planted, the thunderous shocks of the hurri-
cane or the more deadly tooth of the Tipping
calm, and bearing on high at night its flaming
beacon, like the tabled giant defying the
stars with uplifted torch, stands a town
wherein no man with a mind into which soft
thoughts may enter readily can gaze without
stopping to reflect.
In this little town, time and the handi-
work of man nave wrought lovingly together.
And generous nature has backed them,
glorifying the land around with calm enrich
ment Of intermingling trees, and broad fields
which pour their green or golden fruits
down the hillsides and along the vigorous
plains.
Beheld from a distance, this little town
seems to dwell with something of the
shadowiness of an ancient picture upon the
English seashore.
Shadowiness one seeks as an element in pic
lures of a day which time has made dim.
Greystone, in our own age, has this artistic
condition in perfection. 1t is a ready made
vignette to adorn the little social legend
which the gossips have handed down through
the century.
AS this little town is now, l say, so, with
scarcely a change of note to name-counting
the laying of gas pipes and the ejectment, in
1874, Of Tobias Pipes, the town crier, as moth
ing-was it in that year of grace, war, ra-
pine and high prices-to wit, Ammo 1906.
There goes now, and there went then, a
narrow pass up to the westward of the town,
out of the waste of silver sand which the
water never covered, unless driven to it by
a conspiracy of moon and gale.
By two walls of rock, spanned for the
footpath along the cliffs edge by a rude
bridge, looking from below, to rule the sky
with a slim and giddy flament; by great
protuberances of stone and rugged lunches
Of chalk intermitting q sandy, rushy herb
age, with yellow grass in places and a moist,
faint colored moss of the hue of the jelly
fish when it slowly oozes to the surface of
green salt water-you passed into a verdant
lane, and the moan of the surf sounded hol-
low behind you through the echoing ravine.
Along this lane, that broadened presently
out of the shadow Of trees and the intercept
ton of hedgerows into q fair open road, you
wound your steps toward the town, in the
ripe summer time always losing the track
hundred yards ahead Of you behind the tai
crops of the fields; and when the roofs and
chimneys of the town were showing ovel
harvest crops to the right, and the square
turret of Holy Trinity, with its gilt crosl
standing like a flame of fire against the sky
levelled its gray top with the green swell Of
the adjacent clif-until you came to a house