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, 1888-11-22
A VERY CONTENTED MAN.
He Differed from His wife on Religion
but Still Was Happy.

He Differed from His wife on Religion
but still Was Happy.
A physician while strolling through the
woods near Jacksonville heard d peculiar
noise, and looking about him discovered
an old negro sitting on log, humminR a
tune. The physician approached the ne
gro and said:
"You seem to be happy, old manP''
"Well, sab, amt got nuthin' ter plain
erbout."
"Do you know that yellow fever is rag.
irg all around you?'
"Oughter know it, sab, when 1 dun
buried my wife yistidy."
Then how can you sit around here and
sing?"
"Dis yer is Gods worl. amt it?"
81 suppose So"
AM belongs to God, doan' II"
Yes"
"Well, eff de Lawd put it in my heart
ter sing. doan see why oughter keep
my mouf shut. " -,
ver?"
Whats de usen bein, erfeered? Ef
de Lawd wants me ter take it, will, an
if be doan' | amt, dat's all an sides that
] amt ewine to take no quicker eff sings.
| lay you mer 80 round dat town now, and
you'll fin mos O. de folks what's got the
feber didn't sing er tall"
81 don't see," said the amused physi-
clan, ''how you can feel disposed to sing
when your wife was buried only yester-
day."
'.No, sab; case you didn't know dat lady
as did"
Didn't you get along we'll together?
Didn't get erlong tergether as well as
we did apart, sah."
''Old man, do you want job Of work ~
''No. sab, can't say dat does"
Isn't your name Reuben WhiteP"
Oats my nomination, sah"
Didn't see you some time ago going
around asking for work."
"You mout: yes sah."
"Why did you want work thep?"
Had to work den to git suthin' to
eat"
"Well, but don't you have to eat now ?''
'Yes, but doan' wuck for IL. Look
yere, you reckon l'se ewine to wuck when
de folks all ober de country is sendin'
hams, an -four. an all sorts O. visions
down here! Is er cat gwine to war her
self out scratchin' 'ronnd after mice. wen
dere's big piece er mat lyin' eide her ?
Look yere. man, wha. sort OF fosipher is
you, nohow?"
, 1888-11-22

box. We will say to the buyer: Here's
a package of spinach. IL amt barrel.
though you may think it is. 1t looks like
@ barrel, but it's only package, and we
don't know or care what it weighs. There
it stands and III sell it to you for so
much i sell IL, of course, you see. at the
regulas barrel price, and II it's short he
can't have me hned for didn't sell 1t for
barrel. We'll probably all combine on
that scheme, and the farmers and specu-
lators will soon catch on, and things will
90 on just as usual"
The public Is not directly interested, as
II was in the associations first movement
The passage of the ordinance will not re-
suit in the sale Of green groceries by
weight over the counter. Editor Elisha
Winter, however, champions this as the
first step only. The next will be a state
law, he says, and gradually he hopes that
they will succeed in substituting weight
for measure in all departments of the
trade
, 1888-11-22
a Subsidy for Nothing.

Intelligent citizens of the Dominion are
anxious to ascertain what the $15, ,OOO. 600
recently voted to the Canada Pacific was
paid for. When the government proposed
this handsome raj lway subsidy it was sup
posed that the exclusive claims Of the cor
poration to the right Of way in Manitoba
had been purchased. The people of that
province we're in a state verging upon po-
litical insurrection on account of the
refusal of the Canada Pacific and the do
minion government TO permit the construc-
tion of competing railway to American
territory. The guarantee of $l5, 900 900
was apparently voted by the Canadian
parliament for The purpose of removing
the difficulty connected with the question
of monopoly. As the Canadian Pacific is
resisting to this day the building of the
Red River Valley road, and has stationed
a large force OF men at the proposed cross
idg to prevent active work by track.layers,
the inference to be drawn Is that the mon.
ey went for nothing.
The renewal of this railway controversy
will greatly increase the Dissatisfaction
already felt in the dominion over the re-
suits of government on wheels. In Man
itoba the provincial population will con-
slider itself to have been imposed upon by
unscrupulous ministers and railway sharks
at Ottawa. The people want direct COM
munications by competing railway lines
with their nearest markets in Minnesota.
and these they are determined to
have. If the Canadian Pacific,
after receiving guarantee for fifty
years of the payment of Sl5 900, 900 Of
land grant bonds ut 31s per cent, refuses
to waive its monopoly right and continues
to appeal to the courts and TO obstruct the
completion of the Red River Valley line.
powerful impulse will be impaired to the
annexation movement, already strong in
that section Public opinion in the older
provinces in a like manner will be embit-
tered. The treasury will have been plum
dered without the settlement of vexatious
controversy which is threatening to take
one of the provinces out of the confedera-
tion.-New York Tribune.
, 1888-11-22
Too Funny for AnYihinn.

A correspondent of the Boston Journal
writes: ! was much amused at conver-
sation heard between two young ladies,
pupils in two of cultivated Boston's high
schools.
M.-You had just ought to have heard
our teacher to-day. She made me laugh
right out loud.
What was it about?
M.-Oh! The yum.yum of gravity, and
the yum-yum OF adhesion. She said
everything in the room and all about
her, by the what-you may-call-it of grav-
ity, was trying to pull her apart but that
the what.you-may- -call-it of adhesion kept
her together. Oh! it was just too funny
for anything.
, 1888-11-22
Hiphwaymen I'm seatt,e.

well authenticated case of "hold up"
occurred last night on Jackson street, OPP
posite the Washington Iron Works. Mr..
Hall, the milkman, whose veracity is I'M
questioned, recounted the occurrence to a
Times reporter, He says friend of his.
Mr.. John Richards, who had left him but
a few minutes previously, was passing the
little fruit stand on the opposits side Of the
stree from the foundry when he was sud-
denly set upon by two men, one of whom
caught him in yise.like grip while the
other riiled his pockets, taking $3.50 in
change, all that Richards possessed. He
was then released and the highwaymen
made off into the darkness. The whole
thing transpired so quickly that Richards
was not fully aware of HE situation until
he was released
Mr.. Hall says Richards is not drinking
man, and that there is no doubt as to the
facts in the case Seattle Times.
, 1888-11-22
The Danish Royalties.

At Copenhagen the king and queen,
with the prince royal and Prince Valda'
mar and their families, inhabit the ANAL
lenbnrg Palace, and in summer they live
at the Chateau of Bernstoff; but when
there are large family gatherings they are
obliged to go to the Fredericksburg palace,
which is large enough to accommodate,
on pinch. all the royal children and
grandchildren. Situated on Lake Esrom
this princely "Cchateau of Peace" is the
most attractive spot. The building, which
consists OF central pavilion and two
wings, is very plainly furnished, but has
some masterpieces in its gallery.
In the kings reception room there is a
magnificent white bsarskin given him by
the car, and in his study the most promi-
, 1888-11-22
TWO NEGATIVES.

Two negatives, I've, heard, sweet maid.
Make an affirmative,
Pray is 1t true or is 1t notP
An answer quickly give,
For you are teacher of a school,
And certainly should know
All that relates to grammar, and
She answered. "It is So"
He pressed the tiny hand and gazed
Upon the lovely miss,
And said, pray you let me take
From those sweet lips kiss;
Those lips on which the rose you kissed
Has left its crimson glow,
She blushed, she sighed, she hung her head
And answered him, mo, no."
, 1888-11-22
The Fabian Policy,

A correspondent writes the Statesman
to ask the meaning of the "Fabian Poll
cy." 1t was policy adopted by the Ro-
man consul, Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.
BIC. 233, when the Romans we're contend
ing against Hannibal. His tactics were
simply mastery inactivity" to wear out
the enemy by standing them off, rs it
were, so they could gain no advantage. If
the enemy made a move towefd him or
demanded that he should perform his
promise, he very readily promised more
still, and kept on promising, but never
performed anything. Finally he wore
them clean out and he became victorious.
There is hut one parallel in modern histo.
ry, and that Is the Walla Walla water
company y.--Walla Walla Statesman.
, 1888-11-22

Begin with the heron's dagger of bill;
it is six inches long. Feel the tip and its
serrated edges. Look at the cape he has.
Pass your hand down his neck to the
shoulders; there is muscle there. Press
the eyelids back with the finer tip and
look at his keen, hawklike eye. Notice
the bend oe the wing from the shoulder
and feel the muscles that move his broad
WINS in flight. Grand wings they are.
Take the tip of one flight feather and
stretch the wings; or, better still, hold
them out in front of you with your hands.
You will be surprised at their length and
width. Now finish with their legs and
feet. Wonderful feet they are, and
the same may be said Of the 9TH
er members of his tribe. Surely the
stills of the marshmen, with the fiat pieces
sticking in the soft surface of the marshes,
had their origin in the first instance in
close examination of the heron's legs and
feet. Feel his long toes. How 1.-THE they
are! You can bend them at your will, up
and down and sideways. So could the
bird when alive, and in twenty different
directions to your one; for he could climb
and cling to anything With them, perch
on trees, step about as gingerly as cat,
wade anywhere, and; when he thought
tit, swim also. He is bird of
varied accomplishments, and they are all
useful to him, serving his purpose each
one in its turn. which Is more than can be
said of the accomplishments of some mem
bers of the human family. Take him for
all in all, he is no feathered moss-trooper
Luxuriously as he fares in summer, In
winter, his tune is changed. No more lazy
fappings over the marsh from pool to pool
and from one dixie to another through an
atmosphere bathed in the soft. hazy,
golden light of sunset-bird and sky, land
rays. How often have | gazed on such a
scene in my old marshland home! A few
more years and it will be a rare sight, for
the marshes have been drained In many
counties, and where the heron had his
home you will soon see cornfields and fruit
orchards. The Cornhill Magazine.
, 1888-11-22
Two Stories OF Crocodiles.

The accident which happened to Peron-
net, the crocodile tanner" at Bona, in
Aluiers. will be Il capital advertiser mt
for the poor fellow in France. 1t appears
that rs he was mounted on the back of
one of the animals, and engaged in feed
ing them raw meat, he suddenly turned
his head round in order to reach out his
hand for more food, when the most
ferocious of the Saurians seized him
by. the stomach. Peronnet beat the
animal with his stick, but he
would have been devoured had not an
assistant Of his mena0erie, as well as
some spectators, prodded the reptile with
iron spikes and made it relinquish its
hold on the victim. The occurrance re.
calls tragic affair which happened in
Suez in 1869, when the Empress Eugene
was out there for the inauguration of
the Suez canal. Under her majesty 3
windows in the Palace of Ghezireh was
u tank containing an enormous croco.
, 1888-11-22

nent object is a large photograph Of the
empress of Russia. who Ia her fathers pre-
ferred child. The princes of Wales is her
mothers favorite, and both being fine mu.
sicians pass hours together at the piano.
The civil list of the Danish king is not
large, and when Princess Alexandria
complains each year about the same old
instrument upon which she used to drum
In her eirihood days. Queen Louise smil.
inRy tells her that with such large fami.
ly she has been obliged to be very econom.
ical in the way Of lnxnries The Echo.
, 1888-11-22
A Royal House Keeper.

Mrs. Henderson, who has been the
Queens house-keeper for twenty-five
years, died last week. The vacant appoint
ment is one of the best in the queens s
gift. for there is not only an adequate sal
airy. but excellent apartments in the castle,
valuable perquisites and numerous priv
ileges. When royal personages from
abroad visit the queen at Windsor. a
handsome present to the house-keeser is
a matter of course. The Emperor Nicho.
las gave the house-keeper at the time of
his visit. el000. and the Emperor Napo-
leon gave pair Of splendid diamond
bracelets, The late use-keeper had no
doubt harvest Of perquisites sbowered
on her during her occupation of the Office,
especially during tie jubilee year. The
late king of the Belgians, the queens
uncle, was constant visitor to the castle
and the servants were always Rlad to see
the kind, genial countenance Of King Leo
pold around. although the perquisites
from him were not on 30 magnificent a
scale as from his brothers of Russia and
France.-Victorian
, 1888-11-22

,ron ,-on, .nu ,o,, - ,h;s hro.d larl de.
a;.;n hoos,aaS os ho,oas,sader or az
s'fing nomes,eau as s,;a,iu no,nesa ;, ~ ,ns NJ
tass;non, ju' th;s ,'.,en oess apS ,hsn eo on,
,',,o, "m &c T ,%a Ia I'D ;nvoIved In this nro.
capodn" pvdI ~S ond nj attemnt 10 make a Homestead
~ far,,, co. tha n,,rnose of farm;nup
carta;ui, d., DO nnt hei;aye that be wonla.
4" nnt be,;avs that an~ nract;caj man
Nv ,no,iS AZ t.Ls a,,ob Sasnerats chances--look
wou'u ' t"nI saho. suon ad ;s;nni,v IN the face
81 '~o,,lJ 10 '"v, no.,, ,noh ;noI;,ed 10 the be.
,;.s.So " ,,,',IS ~ nnt Nth tbe ;dea nj
heasood;, tuae n ~oud and W.; a,;Iv la octnated
~, AZ ;Jan * ao,,,,;r;nm tIo t;rher n
oy .hs ,uGa g. a.dunn Az .. on 20 ~nI,;uat;na -
.;o,ho. ,onJ. % tLos, h.ov;ly t;mhereS
a;a..;n.a ".n,n.o tho hai;st tHat ths ma :.
;ns;tn os thasa ho,,astood dors ara actnated
ormo,,, homoataa ad;nn for tha nnrnose of
ma.,;nyy, ~ .ha t;r'her apd don't haley.
shat 49, n,an 90 n l;s,en ;nnart;aliv IN tbis
tas,;nonynr and not come to that conolu.
o"S s;on """ NV '''
'''"'
POLICY oF THE LAW
As to the policy OF the law, we have
nothing TO DO win ,hat ~ Is .rue 'nat
mi; .n1 ;n". &c" .ho ona thsn wb;Ie en tbe
nthar r. on so,,arrrent vnu un,,id col eA00 n
ia not oood business nol;cv- bnt as have
aa;d we bava nothing IN do with that at
th;s ,;me az Last
hai;evs then that II ia nract;callv i'm.
noss;bie for n sattler to an ;mnrove one Of
thosa n,arter sect;ons ma in this case and
maize MAKE = living on IL. and tbe evidence will
;nst;fu mo fn1lv in that helief He wonId
he nretend;no n Homestead simplv for the
nnrnose of aceonir;no t;mbe claims That
Il cartainiv ent;relv wrong and that idea
and that cor nstr,,ct;or of The law ongbt no
Ionaer n~ src ~ 'I ba nnrsned JnSgn,ent in tb;s
% case and decree will he for he defendant
meant to have added that 7 have very
tboromnblv az least in INV own Judgment.
stndied this law and / ind that in appli.
cations Of this kind tne annlioant must
Give a descr; nt;on of the land bv legal snb.
d;vis;ons. II must he nosted for sixty davs.
n ,nnst hs nrhi;.bed in n newsnaner and
IL \; at ATTN the "a and Of sixtv davs satisfactory evi.
donoo hos Laay nra:antad 10 tho re9;ster
and Sniu nnbl;sbed that this law has been
committed with and that this land ia chiefly
valnahie Cor it, tfmber and ia not a0ricni.
tnrai in anv sense tbe annlcation ia on.
tertained and later a natept ia issued.
',,s
, 1888-11-22
sMACKING A CHINESE BRIDE.
Judge Catlin Tied the Nuptial Knot and
why Nom Does the kissing,

=" ny Doeb INC hISblnRs
A marriage license was granted yester.
and evidently pretty "wel fixed" China.
man of 30, and Sam Yok, a plump, good.
looking, finely featured Chinese damsel
about five years younger.
After 7. Cupid" Powell had drawn up
the marriage license, accompanied by Pou
Long, who certified that there was no legal
impediment to the intended marriage,
they betook themselves to County Judge
Catlin's private office to have the nuptial
bonds welded forever and aye. As both
the principals we're quite intelligent types
OF their race. the ceremony was speedily
completed amid the smiles of the groom
bride.
While the marriage certificate was be-.
ing made out it occurred to one of the few
persons in the Office that the bride had not
been smacked. as required by the conven-
tionalities of unwritten law and it was
suggested that this pleasing operation be
performed,
Judge Catlin was named as the proper
person TO do the smacking, but he declined
in favor of the groom, who seemed SINH
larly indisposed. Why Nom and Sam
Yok exchanged loving glances. both looked
at Pom Long, and then, as If attracted to-
ward a center of gravity or magnetic
pole, all eyes were turned to Bailiff Char
les Buckenmeytr as the official smacker in
view of the declination of the court Some
one said that Mr. Buckenmeyer would be
unable to oficiate. because of a soreness in
his left arm due to vaccination, whereupon
the bailitf lauRhingly remarked that he
was not in the habit of smacking brides
with his hands.
why Nom, kiss the bride for me"
said Judge Ca'lin
Why Nom, who had been listlessly fill.
ing a chair, plunged his hands deeper into
his pockets than they had been, shrugged
his shoulders and lost his grip on a smile
which enveloped his big face from ear to
ear. His bride was all smiles and bushes,
and once. detecting a movement on the
part OF her husband, poised her rosy lips
for the attack. but Why Nom was not
there. he was busy trying to control his
mirth.
kiss her, kiss her." urged those in the
room.
Thus importuned Why Nom slowly drew
his hands from his pockets, then grinned
to his hearts content, and after feinting
once or twice, moved toward his bride and
smacked her up fairly and squarely on the
chubby lips.
"Oh, how sweet" exclaimed Bailiif
Buckenmeyer as the bridal party bowed
themselves out of the room
, 1888-11-22
Minister to Spain.

WASHINGTON. Nov. II. 7.--Representative
Perry Belmont of the first New York dis
trict, has been rendered and has accepted
the appointment of United States minister
to Spain, to succeed j. L. nj. Curry, re-
signed. Belmont will 90 at once to the
governor of New York and resign his Office
as representative in order that his place
nay be filled by special election. His
:esignation AS a member OF the house will
ause vacancy in the committee on for
Sign affairs, of which he il chairman.
, 1888-11-22
ISOLATED INDIANS.
People Who Know Nothing of the World
Beyond Their Own Territory.

beyonu Hhelr OWn TerrftOry.
The great table land of Matto Crosse in
the Western part of Brazil, is still one of
the least known portions of South Ameri-
ca. When DIR. Clause and DR.. Won den
Steinen penetrated it several years ago,
and followed the large Xingu river from
its head waters to the Amazon. they float
ed down about 1000 miles before they
reached the known portion of the river.
They did not have time to adequately
study the strange and unheard of Indian
tribes they met amid these dense forests
and barren uplands, and for the purpose of
making further researches among them,
DR.. Won den Steiner returned to the upper
Xingu last year. He visited the villages
of nine of these tribes, and in recent
lecture in Rio de Janerio ne gave the inter-
esting results of his studies.
There is hardly corner of the earth
whose people have not had some inkling
of the great world beyond them. But
these primitive natives of the upper Xin9u
had apparently never seen scrap of trade
goods. or heard that fuman beings existed
outside their little circle of observation.
They use no metal implements. but fell
trees with stone axes to clear the ground
for their plantations Of Indian corn, cot.
ton and tobacco. Wearing shell orna-
ments, they use hammers and nails of
stone 10 perTOraJe tnem. lneV make
knives out of shells and the sharp teeth of
certain fish. and with these poor tools
they carve their rudely ornamented tools
and weapons.
Dogs and fowls are found in all parts of
the Amazon valley that have been visited
by traders, but these Xingu tribes have
never heard of them. Neither have they
any knowledge of the banana, sugar cane
and rice, with which natives of the tropi-
cal zone are generally familiar. They
have net the slightest conception of God.
but they believe they will again live after
death. Their most important myth re.
lates to the creation of the world. which.
in their view, consists wholly of the head
waters OF the Upper Xingu and Tapajos
rivers.
From the languages and pottery of all
but one of these tribes the exp plorer derived
the idea that these isolated peoples are
allied to the original stock of the once
powerful Caribs, who journeyed from the
south to the sea. One tribe differed 30
greatly from all Others that he was unable
to trace it's relation to any other people.
These peoples are almost wholly isolated
even from each other, and their languages,
though of the same derivation, are so dis.
similar that the tribes cannot understand
each other. Few people exist to-day who
are so primitive in their ideas and so low
in the social scale as these new.found In.
dians of South America.
, 1888-11-22

If all people were 10 vote az they
pray" it wouldn't take long to count the
ballots. Lincoln Journal.
, 1888-11-22
Football Match.

PRINCETON, N. j., Nov. l7.-Princeton
to-day. defeated Harvard in an exciting
football match. Score l8 to 8.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-08
In the Superior Court

OF THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES.
" State of California. Victor Dessery.
plaintiff; Julia st. P. Dessery, defendant.
Order for publication of sum mons, Upon
reading and filing the affidavit of Victor
Dessery, and it satisfactorily appearing
resident Of this State. and cannot after due
diligence be found within this State, and it
also appearing from the verified complaint
on file herein that good cause of action
exists in this action in favor of the
plaintiff therein and against the said de-
fendant, and that the said defendant is a
necessary and proper party defendant there
to- and it further appearing that summons
has been duly issued out of said Court in
this action, aud that personal service OF the
same cannot be made upon the said defen-
dant, Julia st. p. Dessery, for the reasons
hereinbef0re contained, and by the said affi-
daVlt made TO appear; on motion of John E.
Costello Esq, attorney for the plaintiff. il is
ordered that the service of the summons in
this action be made upon the defendant
Julia ST. p. Dessery, by publication thereof
In the Los Angeles DAILY HERALD, news
paper published in the City of Los Angeles,
State of California, hereby designated as the
newspaper most likely togive notice to said
defendants that said publication be made
at least once week for two months.
And it further in like manner satisfac.
torily appearing to me that the residence of
said defendant is at White Sulphur Springs,
in the Territory of Montana, it is ordered
and directed that a copy of the summons
and complaint in this suit be forthwith de-
posted in the United States post-office, post
paid, directed to said defendant at her said
place of residence
Dated April 9th, 1888.
A. w. HUTTON,
a2s-sat lot Superior Judge.