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The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
Praise Whenever You Can.

There was a little boy known 10 US whose naturally sullen disposition ard ungovernabla fits of temper were eh- tirely eradicated by judicious system of commendation and approval When ever he was good his mother would notice 1t. and express her pleasure ia it, and tell him that he was her good boy, and she always expected him t.o be good like that And when his naughty fits came on she would put her >aIms around him, and tell him that was not like her good boy, and sbe knew he did not want 10 do it, and she loved him, and it made her 50 happy to have him good. He could nevfr resist this loving treatment, and be- came, while still very little fellow. just the sweet-tempered, good little boy his mother had led him to think she expected him to be- How often il child. in utter Encouragement at the continual blame which meets it on every side. has said in his heart: Well. it is of no use; they always toll me am naughty, anyhow. and guess I can't be good. so wos't try -'r--Ar- thurs Home Magazine
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
THE PITT DIAMOND.
It Was Originally Bought for an Amount
 Equivalent to ~I9O.OOO.


 Equivalent to &I2O,O00.
 Pitt heard of prodigious stone weighing 42O carats, and the price asked for it was equally prodigious, being no less than 20O0O0 pagodas Ca pagoda equals about l0s). The offer evidently had it7 attraction for Pitt, and he transmitted model of the stone, with description of it, to His English agent Sir stephen Evance. But the magnitude of the proposed pur- chase alarmed Evance. 'Wec arc now" he writes in reply, "gott in warr. The French King has his hand and heart full. soc hc can't buy such stone There is noe Prince in Europe can buy itt Soc wuld advise YOU not to meddle with it." But Pitt still kept UP negotiations with the owner, Jaur- chund, who came in person to Fort St. George to tempt the Governor. The price asked, however, was so excessive that Pitt despaircd of becoming pos scssed Of the prize, and more in wan tonncss than with any intention of making a serious bid he offered 3O, 1000 pagodas for it. This broke off the ne .otiations for the time; but with that persistence with which Easterns al- ways show in money transactions, Jaurchuud, after an interval of some weeks, returned to the charge. This time he Hrofcsscd himself willing 10 take 100, ,OOO pagodas, and al d subse- qucnt meeting, after much haggling. Pitt beat him down to 55,0OO But even this was moro by 10000 pagodas than Pitt had determined to give, and again Jaurchund took his leave mot for long, however, for in an hour he sent in word 10 say that he would take 5O,000. Upon this Pitt offered to split the difference. But though an Orient an will submit to De beaten down in his price time after time, he likes, at the close of the bargain, to think that the yielding has not been altogether on his side Pitt offered r, 800. No, said Jaurchund nothing would induce him Co take less than 4S, OOO Knowing his man and the ways of Eastern trad CTS, Pitt gave in to this demand, and became possessed Of lhe largest known diamond in the world for sum which was about equivalent to 92l,00O. - Blacllwood's 's Magazine.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
--< , t---------- THE HUMAN APPETITE.
Why It Can Not Be Regulated According
 to Popular Medical Rules.

Why It Can Not Be Regulated According to Popular Medical Rules.
 Doctors disagree, and always have disagreed, as to the quantity of food q day required by nature for the support of the human system. A French physioogist says six bounds of solid and liquid food is tho golden mean be- tween excess and improper abstinence; and another, who agrees with him, the proportion of solids should be about two pounds. An eminent Amer ican authority puts tho total at five and half pounds, of which two and a half pounds should be solids They all state the kind and qualities of food which they consider most nutri- tiOus.
 1t should be borne in mind, however. that these learned professors eXperi- mented upon themselves, and, there fore, if it be true that what is one mans meat is another mans poison, N ' neither their quantitative nor their ! qualitative directions arc of universal \ appllcdllou- " lS our own OplHlOn l0dI every stomach, like every heart best '.knows its own burden, and that the Y burden it can carry without incon- venience is the true gage of it's healthy requirements
 There can be little doubt that mo- notonous diet, whatever the kind of nutriment used may bc, is injurious. It is only necessary to look into the mouth of a human being to sec that be is by nature both carnivorous and herbivorous teeth show it-and if, in spite of his teeth, he confines him. self either to bran bread and squashes, or beefsteal, he outrages the laws of health, and will assuredly suffer for 1t in some way or other.
 The quantity of food that may De beneticially taken into the stomach can not be regulated by fixed rules. It depends upon tho size and vigor of the organ. the occupation and habits of the individual, and other conditions, and can only be ascertained bY indi- yidual experiment. N. I, Ledger
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
SCIENCE AS A DETECTIVE
An Effective Ally of Society in tho strus
 gle Against Crime.


 Recent events make this a ilt tune tor calling attention to the degree lu which modern science has become an ally of society in the struggle oi the latter to defend itself against crime On Bunker Hill Day in Charleston ST feet company of Brooklyn pickpockets were gathered into the focus oi de- tective camera. Chemical science has become so exact that when hu- man being has met his death Dy poison, the deadly drug can bc traced even in single drop of blood. ne microscope has increased manifoldly the difficulty of committing forgery that shall escape discovery. ne electric light flashes its intense bright ness into unfrcquented streets, into narrow alleys, and into regions oi great cities where dangerous classes swarm, so that deeds of darkness can no longer be committed with tho inn punity Of former times. While the absconding criminal is travelling by steam, tho message asking for his ap- prehension is flying literally with lightning speed.
 Great as arc the services now con- stantly rendered by science in the pre- vcntion, detection and punishment of crime, those which seem likely to be rendered in the future will. if realized, De greater still If may not Do long ere the phonOgraph is brought into court as an unimpeachablc witness, 10 repeat the exact tones Of cOnspiratOrs guilty of planning bribery or burglary. The French savant did not utt,r any absurdity who predicted that eventual Nv instruments would be devised of such exquisite perfection that they could transfer from the rctina of d murdered persons eve picture of the awful ob- iect on which tho victims last agon- ized gaze was fixed. Ii does not need flight of fancy to foretoll great tresults in aid of the police that are possible from further developments of such marvellous powers as were possessed by the late ''mind-rcadcr, Mr. W. l. Bishop.
 The theme is an absorbing one, and might be much further expanded Perhaps it has not heretofore been sufficiently dwclt upon. There is danger lest we look too exclusively on the utilitarian side of science. N will De well if we bear in mind that in many ways, including such as have been hinted at above, the astonishing progress made in this century toward unlocking tho secrets of matter and mind is tending not only to make men better acquainted with natural laws but also to make thcm more obcdient to civil laws. -B0ston Advertiser
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
Migrations of the Swordfish.

Swordfsh meat is firm and it's flavor superior to that of the halibut, and it is entirely fresh and above reproach. It is a mystery that New York should so fail to appreciate a good thing The coming of the swordtish is always an interesting fact, with no little mystery about it. too. They are not here and then they are here. Nobody knows where they come from and no one ever saw a young one on the American coast. They are raised in the Mediter- ranean sea, and the old folks, leaving the little ones behind, spend their sum mers along our shore, and chiefly about Block Island 1t takes pretty smart fish to lay his course from Gibraltar tc Block Island every year without failr and the movements and migration oi the swordfish are noteworthy lllustra- tion of the strange and clever ways ol fishes. Hartford Conrant
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
VESSELS ON WHEELS.
The Chignecto Marine Railway to Rival
 Cantain Eads' Project

The ChigneCto Marine Railway to Rival Cantain Eads' Project.
 Across the narrow neck Of land con- nccting the maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia a work IS now being constructed which, if sue cess, will cause Eiffel to look to his laurels if he expects to establish the claim he has made for his tower as being the eighth wonder of tho world. This marvel of modern engineering Is the Chignecto and Marine or Ship railway, work which in prospectus has been before tho people of this country for the last fifteen O. twenty years. Grit and Tory have alike hoot- ed and advocated the scheme, as they happened to be in or out of power. NO- body believed that the idea would ever be successfully carried out, but all scoffcrs were silcnccd by the arrival at Amherst in September last of tho con- tractors. Mcssrs. Dawson, Symmes and Usher. These gentlemen at once began to push tho work in busincss-likc manner, and will this summer find em- plOymcnt for about fve thousand men. Dawson & Co. arc well and favorably known in Canada and the United States as wealthy and successful cOptractors, one of their last operations being the construction of the Poughkccpsic bridge.
 The promoter of the scheme is II. G. C. Ketchum, whose pluck has at last brought its own reward. Mr. Ketchum will very probably be knighted N his railway proves success.
 The little isthmus across which the line is being constructed from the Bay of Fundy to Northumberland straits, distance of seventeen and one-hall miles, is historic ground. Here, with in stone's throw, are the old forts ot Beausejaur Chow, Fort Cumberland) by, Nergaur, with his regulars anC Acadians, his habitans and Indians struggled for colonial supremacy witt Moncton and his brave New England CTS, with Lawrence and his Britisl troops. Here the loyal New England States generously poured out thel blood and gold in an effort to add one more jewel to the British crown.
 The contractors are under agree ment to complete the work in tive years from September, 1888, and als' to operate it for one year after its com pletion. It will be built in the strong est possible manner, enabling it t carry the largest vessel or steamer
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
CARE OF HOUSE-PLANTS.
Flowers Not Much Trouble When Con rared With the IleAsmre They Give.

Flowers Not Much Trouble When Com
 pared With the Pleasure They Give.
 In order to succeed with house. plants. care must be taken to keep the red spider, aphs and white earth worrS~ away, or you will have no blooms For the first, spray liberally with water Set the plant in q large pan or tub and wash thoroughly an the leaves. For the second, use insect powder with small bellows, or sul- phur fumes For earth worms, a tea spoonful of ammonia 10 a half q gallon of water. iS sad to kill them.
 I always take slips of Gerauiums, and all plants wanted for winter blooming the next year in February or March. start them in soil kept in the cellar for that purpose during the win- ter, using a small box three inches higher at the back than in front and covered with pane of glass When we'll rooted, I transfer them to small pots. A five-inch pot is plenty large enough for gcraniums to bloom in. Keep the buds pinched off all summer, and also pinch out the tops 10 make them bushy.
 Chinese priYf0ses do best for me raised from seed planted in Apfll or May They will bloom nicely the following winter. It is quite a study to plant and raise them properly.
 My window was lovely last winter. l had hyaciuths in bloom after Decem- Der l5-pink, white, dark and light purple. l think they are the ricest things for an amateur that l have yet found, and are so easy to grow. ] ob- tained mine the first of November, planted them in good soil with the crown of the bulb just below the sur face put them down cellar ou a swing ing shelf, and left them there just a month Then l brought them 10 the sitting-room few at a time, in order to secure a succession of bloom. The white Romans bloom first, then the double ones. had quite as gord sue cess with the double as with single varieties
 To make my roses bloom, uto 5oot tea on them once a week. Care must be taken not to usc 1t too strong. Inc water ought to bo just colored with il, Wash them at least twice week NAcn they arc kept in a sitting-room winaoW, and always keep water on the stoFc In cold weather. When they havo bloomod cnt off the flower stem and a oOOd-SiZcd slip with it, put the cutting in your slip box to root. and in this way in- crease your stock. Roses must always be pruned, as they flower only on new wood.
 If you have no flowers, by all means get a few. They are not much trouble, as compared with the amount of pleas- ure they give. Helen Deane, in Min- neapolis Housekeeper
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
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BY THE BALLOON ROUTE.
How swindiing Aeronaut snapped Hi
 Fingers at His Creditors

how swindting Aeronaut snapped His
 Fingers at His Creditors.
 Some time ago Adolph Wever be- gan advertising himself in Vienna as Senor Jabw, the great South Ameri- can eronaut." He put notices in all the dailles and on all the bill-boards that on June he would ascend to some fabulous height in balloon and drop back to earth under para chute. About q week before the date Of the proposed ascension Senor Jabw, alias Wever, began to live eXtraordi- narily high He bought great quanti- ties of jewelry, laces and silks for his wife, and wines and cigars galore for himself. He ate at the best hotels and ordered clothes of the most fashion able tailors He paid for nothing. however. He told the jeweler and the tailor and the dress-maker and the liquor dealer that he would settle ac- counts with them immediately after the balloon ascension, from which he expected to realize much money. With the credulity characteristic of COnti- mental German tradesmon, they be- lieved him. They sold him all he wanted on credit and tried to sell him more.
 On June l Senor Jabw invited the city officials of Vienna to observe his final rehearsal before the exhibition. In the presence of the mayor and the city council he and Sonora Jabw, alias Frau Wever, and the parachute, as cended in balloon, as high as a hun dred- foot rope, made fast to tree and the balloon car would allow. After bobbing aboat over the official heads of Vienna for couple of minutes Senor Jabw cut the rope tEut held him to Austrian soil and blew away. That is the last that Vienna and it's city council and it's tradcsmcn have seen of Senor Jabw
 Warrants were sworn out by his creditors for his arrest on the after noon of his departure. Photographic instructions to detain him were sent out by the Niennese police to the po- lice of all other Austrian cities The chief of the detectives in st. Pccltcn replied that the balloon had already passed the city From Linz came similar report. Dispatches from north eastern towns announced eventually that the fugitive balloon was over the Bavarian boundary, where Austrian policemen and Austrian warrants were pOwerless
 The bills of the crcdulous Vicnncso tradcsmen against Jahw-Wcvcr were a dead loss to their holders, The Hro- naut and his wife had smugglod out of Vienna all their belongings several days before their flight The officers, who went to their apartments to attach the articles they had never paid for, found there only bare floors and bare walls. IN r. Sun.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
"HULLO.''

Wen you see a man in woe. Walk right up and say "hullo" Say "hullo, an how dye dor "IIow's the world a-usin your Slap the fellow on his back, Bring yer han down with whack; Waltz right up, an don't go slow, Grin an shake an say "hullo.' Is he clothed in rags? o sho, Walk rightn an say "hullo" Rags is but cotton roll Jest for wroppin' up a soul; An a soul is worth true, Hale an hearty how dye don' Don t wait for the crowd to go, Walk right up and say 'hullo" When big vessels meet, they say, They saloot an sail away. Jest the same are you an me, Lonesome ships upon sea; Each one sailing hIs own jog For port beyond the fog. Let yer speaKin' trumpet blow, Lift yer horn an cry '.hullow Say "hullo," an' "how dive do" other folks are good as you w en yer leave yer house of clay, Wandeun' in the Far-Away, W cn you travel through the strange Country t'othcr side the range, Then the souls you ve cheered will know Who ye be, an' say "hulo"
 -S W. Foss, in Yankee Blade
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
TRAPPING A RHIlOCEROS.
Sport That Requires an rniimlted Amount Of CoOlness and Comrage.

Sport That Requires an Tniimlted
 Amount of Goodness and Courage.
 A traveller with three Dutch hunters had some exciting adventures in the Transvaal country, a fow months ago, in attempting to capture rhinOcerOs. They came upon big two-horned fcI- low suddenly one morning and had to 'climb a treen to escape lis horns
 The animal made for the tent of the party, a short distance away, but a system of simple defense, oi wire brush, foiied him, and he made off.
 A Dit was dug in the swamp, and nice, fat native, which i5 calculated to make almost any rhinoccros hungry, sent out to decoy the prey. Soon after they heard the shrill notes of the so- called rhinoceros bird, which IS luva- riably found in the company ot the beast
 It is asserted that the bird cOnsti- tutes himself the sentinel of the ium- boring behemoth, and that its cries are uttered to warn him that danger is near.
 Tho native came through the clear ing with the old fellow in tow The native had about thirty feet tho start, and when they passed our mound he had lost five feet of that although run ming like an express train.
 The rhiuoccro5 was a big ono un- usually black, and he ran with his J l., cheered the native 10 encourage him, and away the two went up the trail We had tempered with.
 Had the race been ten yards longer, the native would have had to leave tAc path to avoid death As he ueared the pit, he ran along lhe riGht-hand edge of it, while the rhinoceros murdered along the center.
 He was within twelve feet of the heels of the runner, when his feet let go of solid earth and plunged him head first into the pit. We heard him grunt from where we stood, and it was plain that his tumble had knocked the breath out of him.
 As he strucl, he rolled over on his right side, and when we reached tue pit he was helpless.
 When he got it through his thick head that he had been fooled, ho was the maddest beast in all Africa but it was too late for action.
 We had come prepared for just such lob as we now had on hand. The huge animal must be got aboard the barge but we were in no hurry to 1e- gin.
 We got our ropes and chains ashore, drove stout stakes where they would be wanted, and moved the barge to the lower end of the bluff. By this time it vas dark and we tied the old fellows hind legs together and left him.
 After breakfast next morning we first hobblod our prisoner, and then hoisted him out of the pit. Tho first thing he did was to make a rush, but it was a failure.
 We got purchase tackles on him, and led them away to trees and sta ples, and by these means We checked him up or warped him along as wiIled. All we had to do was to keep clear of his wicked horns.
 By noon We had him safe aboard tho barge, ono-half of which was given him. We had managed lis capture without inaicting an injury.
 He was landed in Hamburg without ni.pa 0f skin rubba6 oT and is no doubt alive at this writing. His age was estimated at thirty years when captured, and he vas considered good for fifty or sixty years more. Golden ' DaNS
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
A Blue Beard and His Wives.

A Boston paper tells of an old burying ground in southern New Hampshire town where there is an in teresting group of seven tOmbstones- Each of six of them marks d little strip of earth where rest the remains of one of the wives of one man, and the seventh is the grave of the Blue Beard himself. The epitaphs of the wives are short and simple enough, but the fifth begins underneath the name and record of the woman's birth and death. these words: 'The Peace maker" One can only speculate as to what the circumstances were under which she exercised her benevolent art; but no doubt she had to be a pcacemaker to enable her husband to get along in any sort of comfort with all his deceased wives relations But the epitaph on the husbands tomb stone is gem. threads thus: Rest, Weary Pilgrim. "
The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
A DRAYMANiS LUCK.
How stephen Girard Helped Poor Man
 to Make a Fortune.

How stephen Gir9rd Helped a Poor Man
 to Make a Fortune.
 Seeing a story about old stephen Girard the other day reminded me of an incident that shows one of his pe- culiarities. Girard had a drayman who was q decidedly poor man. One day tho draymun, who was an industrious, bright fellow, with a good many mouths to fill at home, was heard to remark that he wished he was rich. What's that?" sharply said Girard, who heard the grumblc. Oh said the man, II was only wishing 1 was rich. Well. why don't you get rich?" said the millionaire, harshly. T don't know how without money" returned the drayman. You don'tnoed money,n said Girard "WclI, if you will tell mo how 10 get rich without money 1 won't let tho grass grow before trying it, Y returned the other. There is going to be ship load of coniiscated tea sold at auction tomorrow at the wharf; go down there and buy it in and then come to me-" The man laughed, Fl have no money to buy a ship load of tea with, " he said, You don't need any money, 1 tell you, snapped tho old man. Go down and bid on the whole cargo and then como to me- The next day the drayman went down to the sale. A large crowd of retailers were present, and the auc- tioncer said that those bidding would have the privilege of taking one case or the whole ship load, and that the bidding would be on the pound. He then began tho sale. A re- tail grocer started tho bid- ding and tho drayman raised him. On seeing this the crowd gazcd with no small amount of surprise. When the case was knocked down to the drayman the auctioncer said he supposed the buyer only desired the one case. "Ill take the whole ship load,n coolly returned the successful bidder. The auctioneer was astonish- cd, but on some one whispering to him that it was Girards man who was tho speaker, his manner changed, and he said he supposed it was all right. The news soon spread that Girard was buy ing tea in large quantities, and the next day the price rose several cents. "Go and sell your tea," said Girard to the drayman the next day The dray- man was shrcwd, and he went out and made contracts with several brokers to take the stock at shade below the market price, thereby making a quick sale Ii few hours he was worth $50, 900. St. Louis Globe-Democrat