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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
697-DECAPITATIoN.

Total is a deadly sin,
Treachery vile but Turks therein;
Down with traitorsi is the cry,
Better that all such should die.
Ahi but like the famous 10"
Who. when dead. is good, you know,
Headless make the wicked one,
And better life's begun:
Motive" principle" and sense"
He has now, without pretense.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
696-SQUARE.

l. E1uded. 2 Persuasive [Rarel. & A pri.
vate box. 4 Having certain qualities-such as
obstinacy. etc. 8. Kinds Of altered iolite. g
Dost smooth. 7. Hates bitterly.
R. o. CHESTER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

brows and tried to think of the task which
laid before him.
1t was while he lay back in this attitude
Of deep thought that a strange feeling OF
some mysterious presence on the other side
Of the partition or in the dim lit hallway
beyond caused him to look slowly over to-
ward the door that led into the hall. The
door opened gently and there entered a
man. young, 1.-THE, beautifully manly in
every line OF limb and head, with long hair
that looked as though dyed in sepia, lus-
trous brownish black, eyes as deep and blue
as the waters of some northern lake, a COM
plexion fit for the brush of an old Dutch
artist to paint from and just the daintiest
mustache to match in color the long curl
ing hair.
A STRANGE RAIMENT.
Strangesr of all was his dress, which
could not, in matter of cut, belong to any
period of history which the artist remem-
bered having seen, while in the matter of
material it was simply indescribable, con-
which, while it covered the form, failed to
destroy or conceal the lines of the mans
figure.
There was certain air of undisturbed
coolness about his strange figure and pc
culiar odor, a suggestion of sea air, of the
kind of atmosphere one might find in some
fragrant pine forest near our wild Northern
coast.
II came on a mission that will occupy but
a few seconds; put on your hat and follow
me-" said the stranger.
Mechanically the artist arose from his
seat, and, turning off the electric light bulb
above his desk, took up his hat and fol-
lowed after the rapidly moving figure. The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
The Dog School of Cynics.

The most useless, the most unworthy of all
the ancient PHILOSOPHERS was the cynic. The
founder Of this school, Anrithsines, was a
proud, stern. unfeeling man, whose temper
was SO snarling that he was named "dog." and
his school "the dog school," He paraded in
public clad in q threadbare suit; for which
Socrates rebuked him, saying: "Your pride
speaks through the holes in your clothes" His
disciple, Dicgenes, surpassed him in contempt
for human nature-was an incarnate sneer.
Those men who live to dispraise, who delight
to traduce, who esteem it the mark of a supe-
rior mind to question the reality of virtue,
honor and truth-are cynics. Thus cynicism,
in its deepest definition, is the negation of
morality. Its patron saintis Mephistopheles.
Its text book is universal skepticism. Its schol-
ars in all ages have been the destructives never
the constructors: tine sneerers never the helm
ers.
Cynicism is not to be confounded with satire.
Satire is legitimate weapon. 1t Is, or may be,
welded by the most earnest and honest men.
1t turns that to ridicule which can other
wise De so properly dealt with. Many hoary
abuse has been laughed to death which could
not SO well have been argued into the grave.
feudalism out of Europe. But cynicism has
no earnestnessi it merely snarls and scorns.
without moral discrimination, it denies the
very existence Of goodness. The most emf
nent satirlsts have set limits to themselves
like Pope, who says:
''Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck and tilt at all meet"
The cynics on the contrary, stick at nothing,
and stab right and left with blind fury. The
name describes them. They are (mad) dog
philosophers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
698-RIDDLE.

Come riddle, ccme riddle. and answer me trua
What Is it / willingly tender to you,
And ask you for nought in rerurn1
What is 1t lose, and yet never complaint
Never ask where it is. never seek it again:
W hat is it the miser will give to the poorf
WHAT'S it the dead can retain evermore?
JOE AMoRx.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

freezing to death stole across him-his head
seemed to be slowly contracting his eyes
looked out through icy windows The world
what he could see of it-grew whittier and
whittier, as IL covered all over with hoar frost.
The night was changing to day and the morn
ing had no sun with il.
Great icebergs floated down the river: Prince
Folly and his ebon hued crew were slowly grow
ing indistinct and seemed to move further from
him. He attempted to call to them-to implore
tPem for Heavens sake to stop the deal by
some means or other, but his lips would not
m0ye-they were frozen together!
The Prince and his men were fading entirely
out OF sight. and strangely hideous laugh,
which seemed frozen like everything else,
rang out on his ears. -.
A CHILLY CLIMAX.
Twas their answer to his entreaty, and his
brain had frozen, and that evil white frost line
was within an inch of his heart. All hope was
gone the world around was ice, the sky of ice
above, the river frozen solid to the bottom be-
neath, and he had turned to ice except within
death would come
All It was approaching 1T last. There was
tnat emily nip on the bottom OF his heart. He
kneWit- he had felt it first on his finger tips
ana knew It's result too well by this time.
Golng! Gonel Dead! All over now, and un-
able longer 20 hold an uprighs position he fell
over and the artist awoke.
Awoke with q terrible lump almost falling
from MS chair. found his clock pointing to the
ngure = and the shower which had come up
ouIing tne night beating in over his face. head
ana nanos; discovered, too. that for three NOR
sai hours his head had fallen back under the
Gripping iancet Of the water cooler, that this
aione Win the peltin9 rain bad induced him to
uream Oh roiiy OF Fanalon. JUNG JAEGER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
A CHILLY CLIMAX.

Mrs Cushman has been elected to the
ofice Of District Clerk and Miss Cushman TO
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
rwRIrTKN FOR THK DIsPArcH.l

HEN Johns father
married his second
n wife it was a very
ny sad day for John
w and his sister Alice,
D because at that time
. commenced all their
troubles and sorrows. The
children's mother had al
ways been kind and in
dulgent with them, but
the new mother, the step
mother, hated the two
little mites and whenever
the woman had an op-
portunity she would vent
her angry mood on her
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
ANSWERS.

6S2-
Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them SO;
Let bears and lions growl and fight
For it's their nature to.
But. children, you should never lee
Your angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each others eyes.
6S3-Style.'
6S4-Dog- g-Latin.
625-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
NOTABLE NovELIsrs.

At Mrs. Sherwood's I met Mr.. william
Henry Bishop, the novelist, who has also
after spending several months in this city.
has jast left rs, mot for home, however, but
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
The Joys of Young and Old.


In the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,"
Oliver Wendell Holmes pictures a man beyond
middle life in the midst of home joys but who. as
he contemplates the carelessness of the youth
around his hearthstone, exclaims:
80 for one year of youthful joyI
Give back my twentieth springl
I'D rather laugh, bright haired boy,
Than reign gray-haired king"
Whereupon an angel says to him: How about
that wife whom in your youth you welded, and
to whom, by ties Of affection, you are joined?n
"Oh." he answers, II wouldn't lose my wife -
Then
'The angel took sapphire pen,
And wrote, in rainbow dew.
The man would be q boy again
And be q husband, tooi'f ,
But" pursues the angel, "how about your
children?'
"Oh," he replies. II can't lose the children
Again
The angel took a sapphire pen,
And wrote, in rainbow dew,
The man would be q boy again
And be father. too. ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

Several other solutions are possible.
6S6-Hearth.
6S7-Twine. twin. wine, win, tie, tin
6SS- BA G-G-A GE
BA N-E-FUL
BA RON EFT
CA P-RrI CE
A-G-R AM
CA REF UL
IL L-W-I LII
CA R-A-vAN
COWS LIP
WI Tho UT
s o LI-CIr
FU R-N-A ICE
XII N-G-DoM
CA R-T-R UT
DI SOB EY
CAR-N-A GE
6s9-Proper-ties (properties).
690-Mild.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
FOLLY OF FANALON.
A Remarkable Midnight Excursion
Down the Ohio River.
THE LEGEND OF FANALON ISLAND.
Spotless South Sea Sponge to be the Univer-
sal Raiment.
AN ARTISTS MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM
WRITTEN FOR THE prsrATcH.I

OMEWHERE. be-
tween the hours oi
II and IL on a hot
midsummer night,
when the sweltering
masses had ceased
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

the tramp, tramp upon the
streets far below and nothing
disturbed the stiffness of the
tiny little Office on one of the
top floors of a big newspaper
building, a tired artist tilted
his chair back against the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11

What's the frightful tree? the willing treef
The trees that are cheerful and sadf
The lightest trees? the luscious treef
The tree that is warmly cladf
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
The Scheme Didn't Work.

A Bru ssels lace merchant had re
ceived from Belgian, residing in
Paris, an order for a quantity of
Malines lace. The goods were care
fully packed in a lead coffin, which
was dispatched to the Paris address
as containing a corpse. The Paris
merchant had to wait SO long for the
arrival of the 'body'' that he at
length complained to the manager of
the Northern Railway, who informed
him that the coffin had been detained
at the frontier owing to- the NON
compliance with certain prescribed
formalities relating to the transmits.
sion of corpses. The merchant at.
once took a train to Quievrain,
dressed in solemn black and with a.
mourning band round his hat, and
wearing an expression of profound
sadness. But in spite of his enlphat-
ic protest against such am act of des--
ecration the officials insisted on open
ing the coffin. when the truth came
to light and the ingenious smuggl Ter
was taken into custody.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
.eeping. would be Of inestimable VAL

keeping. would be Of inestimable val
ue to her as the mistress ola house.
Not only was she to have the entire
care Oft, but she was to take it
every morning to the cellar, the
kitchen and the stable, and to re-
main with it in each place for three
minutes. After the lapse of three
years the father was to send the key
that the secret OF the talisman might
be discovered. Directions we're fol
lowed the key sent and the casket
opened, when it was found to con-
tain an old parchment, upon which
was written, 1.-THE eye of the mistress
is worth hundred pairs ofseryants'
hands,. The wise father knew that
a practice OF inspection, followed
faithfully for a period of three years,
with such results as we may reason
ably believe followed, would be per-
petuated-that the casket and hid
den charms would have accomplish
ed their mission.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
Brief Chapter on Relishes.

The relishes are of two classes.
First those which depend mainly on
one or more piquantsubstances such
as pepper, mustard, ginger, horse
radish, cinnamon and the various
spices. These are combined with
some one or more generally with
several of the following vegetables as
a base: tomatoes, usually green;
onions, cabbage, cucumbers, pears,
peaches, currants, berries, grapes.
Secondly, those which depend
mainly on sugar, combined with the
Juices of various fruits, or with the
pulp, as in the case Of marmalade.
Now the question arises, are these
and similar relishes conducive to
health?
A normal, vigorous appetite needs
no such aid. It is sufficient of itself.
The lower animals need nothing of
the kind. The cows green grass, the
horses dry hay, and the dogs bone
with a little meat on it, are doubtless
eaten with a relish that our pamper-
ed stomachs know little of.
Unfortunately, all people have not
high health. Some are in feeble
condition, with little or no APP
petite. A sensitive appetite
and yet theirrecovery depends mainly
on the food they take. In such cases
some simple relish is not merely
greately desirable; it is necessary.
Many persons in this driving age
co1neto their meals with little appetite.
quickens and increases the castle
secretions. In such cases, therefore,
some piquant relish is really helpful.
Probably even the strongestis not
injurious, if used with moderation;
but relishes are greately pernicious,
if used to encourage over-eating, or
to cause one to eat when the stoma-
che is already exhausted from previ-
GUS repletion. Youths Companion.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
Still a Point or Two Off.

In the primary department Of ONE
Of the city schools tine other day a
patient teacher was endeavoring to-
impress on the minds Of the young
sters the principal products Of Ohio.
The teacher had ia view the corn
crop Of the Buckeye state, but the
little ones were rather dull of COM
prehension. When the question:
what do the Ohio farmers raise?'
had been asked many times and in
many ways, one of the brightest re-
piled at a venture. They raise
hogs. Yes, Z the patient peda-
gogue rejoined with an encouraging
smile, and what do they raise to
feed the hogs2'' sSwilll' exclaimed
one of the young Americans, whose
ather keeps a pig. Albany ] Journal.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
ssStoop, Stoop.

Benjamin Franklin, when a lad Of
eighteen, had bit of advice literally
beat into his head" He went, at
one time, to call upon Rev. Cotton,
Mather, who received him in his,
library, but when his guest left
showed him a shorter way out of
the house through a narroW passage,
which was crossed by q beam over
head. They were busily engaged i'm
conversation, when the minister sud-.
denly cried out, 'sStoop, stoopD Not,
understanding what was MEANT.
Franklin bumped his head against.
the beam. Mr.. Mather never missed
a chance for moral instructions SO he.
said to the boy, you are young,
and have the world before yous
go through it, and you will miss
many hard thumps !" Franklin was
often reminded, il after years, Of the
advice SO forcibly given, and said
that it did him good service. Con-
gregatiOnalist.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09

oh, nothing dear; only j had the
nightmare, that was all # III lat nince.
pie 1 ate for suppe prett ~ near gave.
me the jim-jjams."
He walked over and kissed his.
astonished babies ahalfa dozen times
apiece, lit another cigar, and with a
sigh of relief, sat down and smoked
and gazed into the fire.
{ By the way, Mary" he said at.
last, turning to his wife, have you
anything particular to do tomorrow
night?'
No, DEAR she answered; why
Oh, nothing; only forgot to tell
you that bought couple
OF tickets for the orphans ball to-
morrow evening, and want you to
GO
Which fb the recording angel un-
doubtedly forgave; for the next
! he astonished the friend he
had 50 curtly refused to buy a ticket
of the night before by saying:
ooh, by the way, Tom, I changed
my mind about going to the orphans
ball tonight; here's a twenty Give
me two tickets, will you? Change?
On, that's all right, put it in the or
phan's fund. 2
Oh, you who have enough and to
spare ofthis worlds goods, as God
has prospered you, give Of your
largg,ness unto those on whom the
heavy hand of want is laid. What is
but mite to you may mean great
happiness, yea, perchance, even life
itself, unto Gods wards, the orphan
poor. As thou Woulds' t have men do
to those dear ones whose arms cling
lovingly around thy neck, if thou
vert dead, in the name Of Him who
said, Suffer little children to come
unto me, for OF such is the kingdom
of heaven do thou this unto those
whose infant hearts are heavy with
the weight Of want and woe.
For verify [ say unto you, s:Char-
ity covereth a multitude Of sins. -
Detroit Echo.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
One Of Sothern's Jokes.

London Life.
This is a story of Sothern which
was told to Mr.. Toole by Mrs. John
Wood. neday the famous practical
joker went with Mrs. Wood into an
ironmonger's shop and asked for a
copy of Macaulay's "History of En-
gland" eve do not sell books, SIR
said the assistent. "This is an iron
monger's shop" "Well, Pm not
particular" said Sothern, pretending
to be deaf: II don't care whether it
is bound in calf or Russia ''But
this is not a booksellers" shouted
the assistant. 'All right said
Sothern; wrap it up neatly. Iwant
to have it sent down to the. hotel.
It'ssfor present wish to make to
relative eve don't keep it,
shouted the assistant, getting red in
the face. 'sDo it up as if it were for
your own mother don't wantany-
thing better than that said Soth-
ern. Il would like to write my name
ON the fy-leaf.' Sir bawled! the
assistant at the top of his voice.
cant you see we do not keep, books?"
Every WE'LL" said Sothern, quite
undisturbed, 81 will wait for it, .
The man appealed to hismaster; and
said he thought the customer must
be off his head. What is lit, sire
What do you desire" be said to
Sothern. q want to, buy a file, y
replied the actor; A plain file four
or five inches long, Certainly
said the master, casting a whitening
glance at his assistant.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
A Sleeping Car Episode.
BILL NYE.

/ b. y h ( {. : .
On board a sleeping-car at a late
hour the other evening going south
from Washington, an odd thing oc-
Cured, as such things are apt to,
especially on board a sleeping car.
Most Of the berths were made up for
the night and the berth marks att
tached to them by the porter SO that
Inscriptions people would not get
into the erroneous berth. A party
OF us, however, sat in a section on
one side Of the car waiting for our
turn to come when the porter would
drive Us. out and make our beds.
All at once, on the opposite side of
the car, a slender foot and ankle
clothed only in Isle thread stocking
and pink garter shot out from be-
tween the curtains as we rounded a
curve. Fearing that another lurch
might throw the proprietor of said
limb clear out of the berth, [ looked
out OF the window for some little time,
but looked back again directly, hop
ing yet fearing.
You cannot understand how the
silence fell upon u.s. We broke off in
the middle of a story and no
one spoke. The road was very
rough and we all waited for another
violent lurch Of the train. Evidently
the owner of the limb was asleep, for
we could hear a regular breathing in
that berth which indicated slumber.
1t was a trying time. / claimed that
something ought to be done, and
spoke to the conductor about it, but
he said he didn't think it deserved
the large amount Of attention it was
receiving.
But middle-aged lady took the
matter in hand on behalf of her sex.
Men in the car had quit reading and
playing cards, and were more wake
full than they had been before. So
she slipped across the aisle silently
and touched the extended foot very
gently, but it didn trecoil Then she
took hold of it with the idea of re-
placing it inside the curtains, | pre-
sumo. Anyway at that moment the
car gave a wild twist, which Jared
the teeth in my head and knocked
everybody off his or her pins, as the
case might be. 1t threw strangers
together in q friendly way and mixed
up people SO that the porter had to
come and indentify them by their
berth checks and strawberry marks
1t was ut this moment the middle
aged and kind hearted old woman,
whose name | did not know, sat
down in my lap, and in her hand she
held a beautiful cork leg, with the
straps OF which she involuntarily
Welted me over the head.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
A Texas Editor Reioices

Though the swine parteth the
hoof and cheWeth not the ead,n yet
verify it's backbones ana ribs are
splendid grub. Joe Sherman killed
a hog. and knowing ne did not be
long to the synagogue, and that our
name was not Isaac, generously
divided the ribs with us and gave US
all of it's backbone. If the swine is
unclean and don't chew tobacco like
an infdel Turk, still it is all right
when it is dead and in proper trim
for digestion Crosby County News.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
In the Fashion.

White linen and not colored is now
the style this season. Plush and
velvet as table decorators have seen
their day, and housekeepers are
again delighting in the smooth sat
my white linen Of their mothers day,
burt ar5 has come to stay but not in
colors. The art table cloth of the
season although white and satiny
has Spanish or oriental design en-
broidered in white silk floss or Hoselle
in an art stitch all over the linen.
Milk-White linen silver and crystal
begins new reign, and colored glass,
is on the Wane. Coiored cloths, how
ever, are as popular asever for lunch
con, and in fact the important linens
for lunchs and teas are in every tint
which modern art furnishes Sea-
green, buff and straw, however, are
more stylish than reds or blues.