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Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
a Royal Theatrical Performance.

VIENNA, April 13.-Emperor Francis Jo-
seph and the imperial court attended soiree
held Wednesday evening for charitable pur-
poses at Prince Lichtenstein's palace. The
Princess Metternich, assisted by fifty MEN,
hers of the aristocracy, gave theatrical
performance, comedy and pantomime, which
was greatly applauded. The seats at this
display brought fifty 1orins each, and the
performance will be repeated twice at half
that price
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
Indicat' ons Good.

New YORK, April i3.-Dr Anderton
came from the sick room at LEO p m. He
aid that Mr.. Conkling was sleeping quietly,
md had been asleep since II o'clock. Mr..
Conkling and her daughter had been at his
bedside. Indications are favorable.
Judge Shipgnan came from the sick cham
Der at 2:20 p. m. He said that MIR. Conkling
was still asleep and that Dr. Anderson said
there was no change in his condition,
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
Quick Work.

Messrs. Burns q Dunnington rugged
up swinging scaffold on the front of
Messrs Allison, Adams & Echols' drug
store yesterday and applied to the build
ing an honest coat of paint.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
A FIOater Found.

CINCINNATI, April IA foater was
caught at 1870 m, in the river at Flem-
ming's coal landing in Ludlow The body
was evidently tlat of a laborer, had been in
the water long time, and was badly de-
composed. 1t had on it vest, shirt and old
pair of pants Black hair and chin whiskers
are on thp face
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Lord Salisbury's Opinion.

LONDON. April 12.-Lord Salisbury, the
British premier, in a speech at Carnarvon
Tuesday said: 81 believe that all the rulers
of Europe are struggling to prevent race
war;" That is, Russia claims right Of pro
tectorate over the Slav populations of the
Balkan states The French hate the Ger
MANS SO do the Russians. The Poles hat,
both Russians and Germans, and the Hun
Carian Magyars and Boheuians are in /
Jealous alliance with German Austria. The
are not happy family on the continent.
Believes New Regime Has Commenced.
DUBLIN, April l2.-At the opening of the
general synod of the Church of Ireland Tues
day in this city, the primate in behaif OF
the synod expressed his abhorrence at the or
ganized and wicked conspiracy against life,
property and law, which had blackened Ire
lands name He believed, however, that a
reign of law and order had now com
menced.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

The House finds it more congenial
to waste time in "dead- lock- than
to serve the people by passing the
Blair bill. Well, the willy politicians
will wake up to the fact that there is
a hereafter.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

THE latest news from the sick couch OF
Mr.. Conkling is of nature that is cheer
ing to his friends. His physicians now
have strong hopes of his ultimate recov>
ery
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
A Nine-Year-OId Murderer.

COLUMBIA, S. G., April 12.-Laney
Walker a boy nine years old, and Libbie
Ashe, girl of twelve, had a fight Monday
in Union county, during which Walker
plunged knife into the girls breast killing
her Instantly.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Roll calls take up the the time of
the House Of Representatives from
day to day. 7 his is costly amuse-
ment.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
Proclamation foR Alsaef- Lorraine

BERLIN, April 12.-Fredericks amnesty
proclamation for A,sace- Lorraine is copy
Of that for Russia, and pardons all persons
sentenced for uttering selitious cries, dis
playing sedtious emblems or infringing
French press laws still in force
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Resisted Eviction.

DUBLIN, April IA desperate resistance
to eviction was made at White Church,
County Wexford. A battel1ng ram was
worked for several hours before an entranc'
was effected to the house. Two Of the in
mates were arrested Bail was refused.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

I Colorado is preparing to observe
Gen. Grants birth day, April q, as
Arbor Day.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
Russia Increases Her Force.

LONDON, April 13-The Times st. Peters
burg correspondent telegraphs that Russia is
energetically increasing her forces A recent
imperial order adds four battalions of Co.'S
sacks to the army.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Ohio, it is said, will stand As solid
in the National Republican Con
vention, for Sherman.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Only one month to the meeting OF
the Republican State Convention.
Every county should be represent
ed
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

IT is well that the deadlock has been
broken by postponement of the vote
on the Direct Tax Bill till next Decem-
her
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
.ctors of the Union Pacific.
Government Direci
A NetronoIitan Dividend

WASHINGTON, April 1a.-The comptroller
of the currency to-day declared dividend
Of 100 per cent. for the payment of the full
claims against the Metropolitan National
hank Of CINCINNATI
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
Troubles in Ireland.

DUBLIN, April l2.-Tne troubles in Ireland
are unabated, and although league meetings
are promptly suppressed, the leaguers are az
Dersistent as ever.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

The people would be glad to get a
part of the money which the House
is spending for roll calls, to educate
their children.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
BROKEN BY SURRENDER.
The Nine Days Deadlock in & g House OF
Representatives Ind Il.


Representatives Ind Il.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The house met
at IL: AS in continuation of the session of
Wednesday, Atm of April.
Mr.. Reed, of Maine, instantly demanded
the regular order.
Mr.. Randall Of Pennsylvania, asked unan-
imous consent to make statement, but was
shut off by shouts for the regular order from
the Republican side.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, moved to adjourn.
At the demand of Mr.. Reed, the yeas and
nays we're ordered on this motion.
The house by vote of l30 to 1888 has re-
fused to adjourn and the legislative day of
Wednesday, April 4, still continues The an
nouncement was received with loud cheers
from the Republicans.
For moment the Democrats were taken
aback, but Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee, soon
moved call of the house to compel the at
tendance of absentees
Mr.. Reed attempted to make a point of
order against the motion, but the speaker
decided against him.
On viva voce vote the demand for call
was defeated, and on the standing vote the
Democrats suddenly changed tactics, and
voted against their own motion in order to
allow another vote on adjournment, which
was moved by Mr.. Cox, in the hope
that stragglers enough had come into the
house since the first vote to change the re-
suit.
The vote resulted: Yeas, 1a6; nays, 1877
so the house was declared adjourned. The
Democrats in their turn made the hall echo
with their applause to celebrate the break
ng of the great deadlock in its ninth day.
Adjourned.
Government Directors of the Union Pacific.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The president
has appointed Freperick r. Condert, of New
York; Franklin McVeagh, of Illinois; Alex
ander G. Haskell, of South Carolina; M A.
Hanna, of Ohio, and James w. Sa- age. of
Nebraska, as Cover lment directors of te
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

IT is reported that the bill forthe Ten
nessee & Coosa bridge at Guntersville
has passed the Senate.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
SATURDAY, APRIL 14th 1888.
Down with Jud ge Lynch.

The political cauldron is heating
up in Alabama.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Delegates from the people should
be sent to Montgomery.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Louisiana Republicans expect to
carry that state with big majority.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

Blaine's family physician pro
nounces the reports Of his illness
false.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14

THE Alabama Dental Association are
in session at Selma.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
THE MASTER AND THE REAPERS.

The master called to his reapers:
snake scythe and sickle keen,
And bring me the grain from the uplands,
And the grass from the meadows green
And from off the mist-clad marshes,
Where the salt waves fret and foam,
Ye shall gather the rustling sedges
To furnish the harvest home"
Then the laborers cried ooh, master,
We will bring thee the yellow grain
That waves on the windy hillside,
And the tender grass from the plain;
But that which springs on the marshes
Is dry and harsh and thin,
Unlike the sweet field grasses,
So we will not gather it IN"
But the master said: 80 foolish!
For many weary day,
Through storm and drought, We have Ia
bored
For the grain and the fragrant hay.
The generous earth is fruitful,
And breezes of summer blow
Where these, in the sun and dews of
heaven,
Have ripened soft and slow.
''But out on the wide, bleak marshland
Hath never a plow been set,
And with rapine and rage of hungry waves
The shivering soil is wet.
There flower the pale green sedges,
And the tides that ebb and flow,
And the biting breath of the sea wind,
Are the only care they know.
"They have drunken of bitter waters,
Their food hath been sharp sea sand,
And yet they have yielded harvest
Unto the masters hand.
So shall We all, o reapers,
Honor them now the more.
And garner in gladness, with songs OF
praise,
The grass from the desolate shore"
Zoe Dana Underhin.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
CHAPTER xxi.

HARRY LEARNS A NEW WORD.
Beatrice had very large credit balance
in the hands of the family bankers, Messrs.
Furlong Stephens, turlong, Seymour,
and FurlOng, an establishment which for
the sake OF brevity, and OH account of its
anti ,uity, was commonly known as the
Blacktown Old Bank. 1t was q very
large balance, so large that it annoyed
Horace and Herbert to think of its lying
at the bankers. With their praiseworthy
regularity the trustees had every half-year
paid their niece's income TO her account
at Messrs. Furlong S, and as Beatrice did
not spend one-ffth of II, the money bred
with its proverbial fecundity.
Until their niece came TO stay with
them the Talberts had, without even con-
sulting her, invested surplus income
In good dlvidend-paylng preference or
debenture sto ks. chosen because they
only paid four per cent--no well-advised
borrower should think Of Offering more
than four per cent Doing so creates mis-
trust During the last year Beatrice had
asked them to let the money lie at the
bank. So at the bank IL was, as Horace
said, not Learning traction Of interest
IL vexed him To see such waste.
Only at Christmas he had demonstrated
with her. "You are simply making your
friends''-several members of the elon-
gated firm lived in the neighborhood-''a
handsome yearly present Paying one Of
their clerk salaries, In fact"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
For Amateur Journalists.

First DO sure that you have nothing
to say. and then sit down and sag it
Don't bother about ideas. or about
sense, if you havn't any. Make up
for the absence of both ny grandilo
quent words and many Of then es-
pecially If you are writing for space.
Enlarge upon your topic; II shows fer
tllity; to ensmall upon it indicates pau
city.
Write on paper foolscap size. or on
wall paper # it is more handy. 1t
creases so beautifully when YOU cram
it into the envelope. Then, too, you
will please the compositor; he likes the
sheet of Ms. to cover his upper case"
indeed, the more it covers 1t the better
he likes it. He shows his delight by his
well-sustained profanity.
Use pale blue ink and don't aim at
legibility. The editor is fond of de-
ciphering hieroglyphics. 1t is likely
that he'll guess at far better word
than the word YOU really used. If you
have no blue ink. black ink that has
frozen and thawed out four or five
times will do as we'll.
When your article is finished don't
revise it. Above all don't prune it;
that might strengthen it, but it will al
SO shorten it. anu quantity goes farther
than quality.
Show it 10 friends who are incompe-
tent TO judge of its merits. If they
praise it then it is ready 10 fire at the
editor.
lfyou show it TO II competent friend
he will hesitate TO tell you. out of re-
gard for your feelings, that it is "rot'
and that you are not called to write.
You see ii he tells you the truth, you II
not send the MS; the editor Will be de-
prIved of the pleasure of declining it,
and you of the delight of getting it
back. or of thinking kindly OF the ed
| itor for years because he kept it and
the stamps you sent him.
You needn't send sufficient stamps
for the return of your Ms. 1t can't be
explained why it is so, but it costs less
postage from him TO you than it does
from you TO him. An, how. the aver
age literary tyro seems to think that it
1oes.
II your article is excessively funny
send it to the Homeietic .HOHthLy
If it is excessively dull and heaYy
send it to Puck.
If it is on theology send it to the
Scientific AnsericlH; If on science, to
the ChrtstIatI at Work.
There's a great deal in sending the
article to the journal for whc CHI it isn't
at all adapted.
Wait at least two days before you
write to inquire why you haven heard
about the article.
If you live near the publication of
Zee don't send your MS, bat take il
yourself Read 1t to- the editor; read
It boisterously, so that others within
hearing may enjoy it. They may
doubt the massiveness of your brain.
but not tho capacity of your lungs.
Get into the editor lap. if possible;
walk all over him, tguratively speak
ing. He enjoys such visitors hugely;
the d appointment of his life is that
they do not come in squadrons.
Should the editor. through dementia
Or the idiotic fortuity of circumstances
accept your article, send him another
;Ight Oft In fact keep sending them.
Load them in Gatlin gun. Make
target of him. Other writer's have 40
bus ness to expect q hearing. They
ought to fall back upon more plebean
calling. -Ihs Epoct.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
Some National Debts.

il a national debt is a national blessing,
France is the most blessed country on
earth. The latest computation OF the
French debt places it at about IS, SOC, So, =
600. to which must be added S431, 900, OOJ
in life annuities, which will expire with
the lives Of their owners. The funded
debt is composed # s.. 300, 600, 900 of per-
petual per cents, 81, $50, 600, 900 of per-
petual - per ceuts and S9,7, 906. 200 OF
redeemable bonds. The floating debt is
about $500, coo, 900 and the balance is
made up Of annuitieS to companies and
corporations. The annual charge for in
terests, annuities and sinking fund is
S25S, Ia, 0S3.
OF the other | urOp. an nations the debt
of Russia is the greatest amounting to
So, COS, 800, 900. But Russia has popu-
lationof so. 900, 900, while France has but
little more than 80, 900 600. The per cap
tia debt of Russia is less than $50, while
that Of France is nearly $500. The hng-
lish debt is next IN gross amount, being
81, 500, 500, 600. Italy owes 81, 226, GOO, =
600; Austria, 81, Sj7. 500, 600; Spain, 81.
EOS, 400, 900; Prussia. s062, 500, 900 and
Hungary, $685., 600, 030. None of these
countries except England and Prussia
have permanent revenue sufficiently
large to guarantee interest and sinking
fund charges from year TO year, and the
financial policy of each is made up of
make-shift eXpedients that usually fail to
prevent the rapid increase of government
Indebtedness. This is especially the case
with france, the debt of which has iu-
creased with marvellous rapidity during
the last quarter of century. Fhiladel-
phia Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04

ment theory and began to look for an
other. al WONDER" he said sadly, and
after a long pause, al wonder Ii we have
misunderstood Beatrice's charact r?'
Il am almost raid 1t Is so. said Hor-
ace.
''she seemed so quiet and contented, "
sighed Herbert True tina. affair about
those people and the boy upset her.
Now, said Horace, ~ believe you
are gett ng nearer the mark. Can 1t be
POSSIBLE that any fear hat the child
would be taken from her induced her to
make this foolish Eight can call it
nothing else?"
At last Horace rose. something must
be done, he said decisively.
ayes, assented Herbert lnQuiringly.
ave are, 1t appears to me, placed in a
most unfortunate position. This myster-
ious flight involves The mot grievous
consequences. We must do something
which | feel sure will be repugnant to
both of us"
"You will not employ any one 10 trace
herr"
Ger ainly not. She Is her own mis-
tress, and can 90 where she chooses. !
am thinking more aboIt ourselves. Life
will become intOerable il the matter gets
bruited abroad.
GLOW can we help it, All the house
hold knows that Beatrice has gone, and
gone withou any luggage
THAT said Horace, with mild tri-
umph, Il have thought out. He rang
the bell, and asked for the paror maid.
"Jane, he said. "Miss Clauson has
been called to London. Will you be good
enough to get such things packed in her
/ trunk as she is likely to want for a
lengthy visit, also pack the nurses box
and the child's things.
They took the boxes and wCrehoused
them in Blacktown. "Iou see," said
Horace, as he turned the horses heads
homeward. Beatrice has gone to London.
She means to make lengthy stay. She
must want her things. Any woman
would >
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
The Governors Only Joke.

''rhe only time" said Mr. HamlIn,
that Gov. Edward Kent was known
TO make a joke was one winter day,
just as no left Seavey's Hotel. at Unity.
in Waldo county. On getting into the
sleigh he found he had forgotten to
take q cigar. aud he called the bar boy
and said: please get me cigar 1t
was before the day of lucifer matches.
The bar boy hurried away and pretty
soon came back putting brand ne W
cigar. and pulling 1t out Of his mouth,
handed it to Gov. Kent We'll, said
his Excelleney i suppose could
stand that easy enough before election.
but it's little too much after election. ,
The boy went back, and finally the
governor drove of with cigar OF his
own ded cation. "-Letoiston Journal.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
Don't Put On So Much Backing.

A cobbler says: "One-half OF the re-
pairing of shoe uppers tat come to me is
made necessary by the excessive use of
blacking. The ordinary backing COM
pounds are injurious to lea her, even when
used sparingly, and when the lea.l er is
dosed he effect must be disastrous. Shoes
would wear much longer IL the backing
were applied better. In some places the
excessive use Of backing grow out Of
the excessive dust After thick coating
of backing and good olish have been
put tn shoes it is nothing unusual to have
1t spoiled by dust in walking block. In
such cases, ten chances to one the wearer
will daub on lot more backing, giving
the leather an unnecessary layer OF 1t.
All This can be avoided by he use of q
moist sponge, which dampens The black
ing already oil he leather and does not
make necessary another application. With
the sponge several shines can be got out
OF single application of backing, and at
the same time dust will he wiped off and
the leather generally cleansed effectively
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
.:fark Twain Out West.

Another distinguished gentleman in
whose career the people of Keokuk
take a good deal of interest is Samuel
L. Clemens, better known as Mark
Twain. who lived here as a boy and
here grew mp TO be man.
1t was in this neighborhood, just
Rcr oss the Missouri line, that the
scenes of his stories of Tom SAWYER
and Huckleberry Finn were laid, and
the people who lived there insisted
that many of the incidents i'm the ex-
perience of the former were drawn
from his own life. When he was 90
or % years old Clemens and his
brother Orien had printing Office
here and did job-work. and l was
shown an old directory of Keokuk in
which his name appears as Samuel l..
Clemens. antiquarian; residence,
Billings House" The gentleman who
Showed it to me remarked the author
claimed the profession of antiquar an
because of his researches among the
ancient and venerable bugs of the
hotel in which he boarded. Mark
Twain's brother. the same who was
his partner in the printing business.
resides here still. and is practicing
LAWYER. His mother lives with him,
and the author comes out every year
to make her a visit She prefers to
remain here among old friends than 10
go amid new surroundings with her
son in the east, but he provides nicely
for her. and she enjoys existence in
cottage on the bluff with II grand view
of the valley of the Mississippi and the
prairies of Illinois - Witiidnl Il. curtis
tn The CHICAGO NeWS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04

Russia is about to construct a railroad
through the basin of two Siberian rivers,
the Obi and the Yenesei, besides connect
ing the natural waterways by canal. 1t
is strange that country so eager for
commerce al development should not real
lie how greatly it would be strengthened
by the adoption OF form of constitutional
government. Its immense agricultural
wealth, and the communication which it
enjoys with European ports and with the
rich districts Of central Asia, ought to
make Russia the leading commerce al ma
ton OF Europe.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
fro DE CONTINUED.
How Thread is Numbered.

Every body knows the sizes of thread.
Every seamstress knows whether she wants
No. or 60 or 130, and knows, when she
hears that number, about what size is the
strand referred 20; but how the numbers
hal pen to be what they are, and Just
what they mean, not one person in a
thousand knows, And yet il is simple
matter to explain, was tie information
accorded q reporter by an employe of one
OF the largest spool cotton manufactures
in the [ nited States. When $40 yards OF
yarn weigh :, 600 grains, pound ofcotton
the yarn is No. /. II l,6S0 yards weigh a
pound 1t will he Nc. yarn. For No. 20
yarn it would take fifty multiplied by $40
yards to weigh a pound. This is the
whole OF the yarn my aSurement. The
early manufactured thread was three-cord-
and he thread took its number from the
number OF the yarn from which it was
made No. 80 yarn made No. 90 thread
though IN point of fact the actual caliber
of No. go thread would equal No. 20 yarn,
Icing three 0 strands.
When the sewing machine came into
the market as the great consumer, un-
reasoning in its work and memorable in
its demands for mechanical accuracy, six
cord cotton had to be made as a smoother
product. AS thread numbers were already
established, they were II altered for the
new article, and No GO six, ord and No.
60 three-corl are Identical In size as well
as in number. To effect this the siX-cord
has to be made Of yarn twice as firm as
that demapded by the three cord. The
No. co six-cord would be six strands of
No. 10 yarn, Three-cord spool cotton is
the same number as the yarn is made of.
SIX cord spool cotton is double its number.
As simple thing as thread is, there are
., 600 different kinds made.-New York
Mail and Express
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04

Mr.. Gladstone has received the large
book of autographs set down by Americans
under strong Endorsement of his work in
the cause of home rule. He writes thus
to DR.. Van Bokkolen and J. J. Mcbride
OF Buffalo, who prepared and forwarded
the box: This new proof of American
sentiment was in no way required for my
personal satisfaction, but it may serve to
con inee the incredulous, If such there be,
that your great country has an immovable
conviction of the justice of the Irish
cause.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04

Few of the crowned heads of Europe
Christian of Denmark. One of his daugh-
tiers is Empress Of Russia, and another is
likely to be the future Queen of England,
while one Of his sons is King of Greece
and the other is the husband of the only
daughter and heir of the King of Sweden.
And now his grandson, the crown prince
of Greece, is tomarry the Princess Sophie,
sister Of Emperor William. If dynastic
alliances could assure peace between ma
tons, such widespread marital relation
ships would surely afford the necessary
guarantee.