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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
slowly out INTO the binding sunlight
and the deafening roar Of the streets
-Argonaut
A SUGGESTIVE NICKNAME.
Tho Jerseyman Who Was to Much for
the Postal Clerk.

The Jerseyman Who Was to Much for.
the Postal Clerk.
'Philadelphia's queer town. said
the drummer at the Cadillac one even
ing to the usual crowd of listeners.
'Of course the grass doesn't grow
knee deep on Chestnut street, as New
Workers would have you believe but
all the same it is a fearfully quiet
place. if you've been used to hustling.
| was there on my last trip, and had
to go to the postoffice for letter /
was expecting. There was a zap evil
IDENTIFY from Jersey at the general de-
livery window, and / had to wait for
him. He was having dispute with
very saucy young clerk. who was
doing his best to queer the Jerseyman.
Ibid you say inquired the clerk.
adelphia Pickling?"
Yes" said the yap i said Phil
adelphy Picklin'.
The clerk took out pile of letters.
ran over them and tossed one onto the
window sill.
.'Is that right?" he asked.
Course replied the man study.
ing the address moment. is that
alp
Course mimicked the clerk
You don't want the earth do youp'
eyes, ef I can get it, said the
other unexpectedly. Got any more
questions to ask?'
":Well, yes, have. said the clerk
slowly. Will you tell me if .Phila-
delphia' is that lady's real name. or is
it nickname? I never heard of such
a name for anybody
"It's her nickname
"'And what in thunder did they
give her such name as that for?'
"'Cause she's so doggoned quiet
that folks don't know half the time
whether she's dead or asleep
'As he got out to let me to the win
dow he grinned till the back of his
neck showed through, and the clerks
face was study. Detroit Free
Press.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
THANKSGIVING.

The year decays. November's blast
Through leafess boughs pipes shrill and
drear
With warmer love the home clasps fast
The hands, the hearts, the friends most
dear,
On many seas men sail the feet
Ofhopes as fruitless as the foam;
They roam the world with restless feet,
But find no sweeter spot than home.
To-day with quickened hearts they hear
Old times, old voices chime and call:
The dreams many vanished year
Sit by them at this festival
Though hearts that warmed them once are
cold,
Though heads are hoar with winter frost
That once were bright with tangled gold
Thanks for the blessings kept or lost.
Thanks for the strong free wind of life.
However it change or veer;
Fer the love of mother and sister and wife;
Clear stars that to haven steer;
For the quenchless lamps of changeless
love
That burn in the night of the Dead
For the life that is, for the hope above,
BE thanksgiving by all hearts said.
New York Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
DOWN. BY THE LANE.

There dwells maid across the street
Alas! alack and welladay!
And once our optics CHANGED to meet
Oh, bitter, bitter was the dayl
For /, the hour to beguile-
The maid was very fair to see
Did meekly venture on smile
Oh, woe is me! oh, woe is me!
And, thinking that the maid smiled back
For am very near of sight
I seized the pen from off the rack,
And large upon sheet did write:
Meet me at eight, down by the lane
Where l at eight did swift repair.
Alas! me- er shall walk again
1t was her father met me therei
Boston Courier.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
A Sheriff at the Feast.

Among the letters found in the ef-
fects of the late Emery A. Storrs, the
Chicago lawyer, was one from Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew asking for an account
of the dinner Storrs gave the Lord
Chief-Justice Coleridge, of England.
The dinner referred to is one that be-
came famous in Chicago because OF
the presence of remarkable skeleton
at the feast in the person of a con-
stable sent by one of Storrs' creditors
to stop the festivities until his claim
should be paid. The presence of the
man of law caused CONSERVATION at
the banquet. Storrs had no money
and ruin stared him in the face until
several of the guests got together and
became security for the debt.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
A MOVING MOUNTAIN.
A Railway Pushed Eight Feet Out by Il
in Few Years.

in Few Years.
a travelling mountain is found in
the cascades of the Columbia. It is a
triple-peaked mass of dark brown
basalt six or eight miles in length
where it fronts the river and rises to
height of almost two thousand feet
above the water That it is in motion
is the last thought which would be
likely to suggest itself to the mind of
any one passing it, yet it is a well
established fact that this entire mcun-
tain is moving slowly but steadily
down to the river. as if it had DELHI
crate purpose some time in the future
to dam the Columbia and form great
lake from the cascades to the Dalles.
The Indian traditions indicate i'm
mense movements of the mountains in
that region long before white men
came to Oregon. and the early settlers.
immigrants many of them from New
England-gave the above-described
mountainous ridge the name Of
travelling or sliding" mountain.
In its forward and downward move
ment the forests along the base of the
ridge have become submerged in the
river. Large tree stumps can be seen
standing deep in the water on this
shore. The railway engineers and the
brakemen find that the line of the
railway which skirts the foot of the
mountain is being continually forced
out of place. At certain points the per-
manent way and rails have been push
ed eight or ten feet out of line in a
few years. Biologists attribute this
strange phenomenon to the fact that
the basalt which constitutes the bulk
OF the mountain, rests on substratum
of conglomerate or Of soft sandstone,
which the deep. swift current Of the
mighty river is constantly wearing
away, or that this softer subrock is Of
itself yielding 1T great depths to the
enormous weight Of the harder Ertasral
above.-Chicago News.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
Old and Young.

There is no surer antidote for the ef-
feet which time has over us all, in
making our age evident, than a young
heart.
81 should like to live to be as old as
you are, grandmamma," said little
Helen, "but 1 don't want to be as old
as Aunt Susan, ever!"
"Why, Why" said grandmamma,
looking ovel her spectacles, "what do
you mean, my dear child? Your Aunt
Susan is great many years younger
than | amP'
ri don't see how that can be-" said
Helen, much perplexed. "You always
remember the plays you had when you
were a little girl; but when l asked
Aunt Susan one day, she said, For
PHYS sake, child, you don't expect
me to remember any of the games I
had as a little girl. It's so long ago
I've forgotten whether 1 ever played
anvil"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

4NdiHeS ". N" ID. LII lA,I II
5! Of o. Of Of o.
At home l never was trusted to
play, but often better players could
not afford the time or money to visit
other places, and so 1 who had both
leisure and funds, was frequently en-
abled to crafty the darling ambition
OF all the young men of Wapanseh
and figure in the nine.
The fourth of July had almost been
reached; and we were engaged to play
a match at the town of Somerville,
some hundred and twenty miles away.
Somerville boastsd Of it's club, of
village in the country that has not
its baseball club and literary society.
1t was famous club, and players
almost with awe of it's members, who
had graduated into professional mines
andwere winning-and selling-historic
games daily in sight of all men. And
had it not been recorded in the World
that once the Actives of Somerville
had defeated the mighty Mutuals by
3 to 2? We had often played with this
club, but never defeated it, though
once or twice victory had barely elud-
ed Our grasp at the supreme moment
thanks to me whom the irate Excel
siors would certainly have lynched
had not their disgust been too excess
sive for deeds as well as words
The eve of the great match had ar
rived and I was sitting gloomily in my
bedroom. The door was locked, for
it was nearly midnight and l was
about to retire. A heavy thunder
storm, with fitful dashes of rain, was
raging without. I was meditating, I
need hardly say, of next days game.
"Just my luck, of course, y said, half
aloud; "the biggest match we ever
played in. and have no chance of
playing. But" I continued, bitterly,
eff / played l should only play badly.
Upon my word, l think I'd give my
soul to be a crack player for one
year."
There was at that instant fearful
crash of thunder and a blaze of light
ming so intensely vivid that for a few
seconds 1 was blinded. The little
clock on the mantelpiece tinkled IL.
At that moment heard voice say
ing Excuse me-" and felt hand laid
lightly on my shoulder. Looking
around, saw q stranger.
He was a quiet, elderly man, grave
of aspect, soberly dressed in black. l
noticed that he had two club feet, but
gave this no more than momentary
attention. He had long paper-cov-
cred parcel in his hand
excuse me-" he repeated; II knock
ed twice. but you must have been deep
in thought; possibly, too, that last
peal of thunder drowned my tap"
was too much surprised at his
sudden appearance to speakfor mo-
ment, and he continued:
Thinking that probably you might
want something IN my line, I have
ventured to call ON my way through
your town." So saying he removed
the wrappings from the parcel in his
hand and disclosed to my view a base
ball bat
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04

had not come to that yet-but an
amateur nine that used to visit neigh
boring towns and villages on Satur-
days and there engage in play with an
equal number of maniacs similarly af-
fected, beating and being beaten. The
members of the Excelsior club-all
amateur clubs are called either Ex-
celsiors or Unions-were proud Of their
record, proud of their uniform, proud
OF their village, and their village was
proud of them. Indeed, think that
when one of our number had put on
his white fannels and colored stock
ings and star-bedecked cap, and had
slung bat carelessly over his shout
der, what with the admiring glances Of
the women and the audible enthusiasm
OF the awe-smitten small boys, the
heart that beat under the big E on his
breast throbbed so proudly that he
would not have exchanged his position
say at second base-for that of al
derman or chief marshal of the fourth
OF July procession-and any one who
has ever lived in country town
knows what that means.
say "of our number" because l
was a member of the club, at times of
the nine-an unworthy member, never
a brilliant player, and at all critical
stages OF close games a nervous one.
II were playing a base I was sure to
muff ball at the wrong moment; if
fielding, my performance was hailed
by derisive cry of "Butter-fingers!"
and on the score-sheet my record gen.
orally looked like this:
EXCELSIOR.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-04
THE DEMON BAT.

UR town had
the baseball
fever. So had
/.
Of course we
had a nine.
Not a PROBES
sional nlne-we
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-08-31
Chipping.

THE AUSTRALIA AND ZEALANDIA
Leave Honolulu at IL Nj. Tuesdays.
The Through Steamers Leave San Fran
cisco and Honolulu Thursdays.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-08-31

Draw Exchange on the principal psrp sh'
world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
cRr-EL TREATMENT OF ORPHANS.

Dublin Oct o5-SOme startling testimony was gwen
,odsy at the trial Of the Rev. samuel Vo'ton' d
rector at Carnogh, County Kildare. who was chsrgeu
with criminal neglect and nltreatment OF the chdIeh
IN the Carnogl Orpllanace. Mr. Cotton. who has been
in charge of the orphange for many years, has oi'e
appealed TO the public for financial aid. and has re
ceiyed large sums Of money for the maintenance OF
the Institution. Numerous complaints having been
made IN regard to the orph0nage the Society Tor the
Protection OF Children recently made an investigation
The agents Of the society discovered that The children
Of the Tphanagc were I'm an emaclateo. nlthy ana
ragged condition In the kitchen was found baby
I weeks old covered with dirty and dying OF cold
Other children were found in the same apartment,
erouched around small fire, almost frozen and hall
starved. All Of them were weak and sickly. The
sanitary condition Of the whole establishment was found
10 be horrible. Some OF the beds used by the I'M
fortunate children were merely old boxes and packing
eesss hled with stale hay. 1t was also shown that
all the children kept in a perpetual state Of
terror BY the Rev. Mr. Cotton.
Inc clergyman was committed for trial. bail, how
ever being allowed in order to enable him 10 attend
Der. - ' ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
ARRESTED on TINE WAY TO HIS WEDDING.

William Brady and Frank c. Hunt arrested at
Summit, Y. j., Tuesday night by detective named
Edward b. Kelly tbs nsPiciOn Of having stolen
from in front Of the First Reformed Church OF
Ncshanic horse and buggy belonging 10 Isaac
Stryker, OF that place. Both men sad they were
innocent, and that Brady with his horse was on
his way to Hunts house in Waverly. where he was
going 10 be married yesterday 10 Hunts slsterinlaw
Martha. On his way he met unknown man with
q buggy and a horse with whom he got into a con
versation about the merits OF their respective horses
The stranger proposed swap horses. and the trad,
seemed favorable TO Rrady that he at once jumped
at the chance, especially when the stranger gave a
COW 10 boot. The horse In possession Of Brady was
identified by Stryker - being his property. Their
story was generally believed. The men were locked
locked up in the SOmcrvillc jail for all examination
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
STOLE THE SAFE OUT OF THE TRAIN.

Atchlson Kan, Oct. os.-The express car of the
Central Branch Railway train No. 403 was robbed at
Ieonora Just after midnight this morning George
Garner the express messenger, runs from Downes
TO Leonora. When the train arrives at Leonora lie
periorms the duties Of brakeman and helps the crew
i'm switching the conductor usually remaining in the
express car. When the train arrived at LconOra at
IL 20 this morning Garner hurried out TO help switch
the train leaving the conductor in the car. As the
car passed the station the conductor aghted 10 trans
act some business there and the car was then left
alone When the train was readyo proceed on is way
again. the express messenger discovered that the safe
was missing Ii was In its place all right when lie
left the car he says and the conductor says the same
IL is supposed that willie the was being switched
robbers entered II and threw out the safe carried II
a wagon which they had In waiting and made on
with il. The safe Is supposed 10 have contained "a
large amount Of money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
ST PiUI, BEII~FST4TB DEALERS FAIL.

st. Paul, oct 2sA-The assignment of bushnell Is
Bushnell, real.estate dealers filed in the District
Court today o. q. Cullen being assignee. The assign
ment includes that Of the standard Investment Com
pany Of ST. Paul, Of which W. VI. Bushnell
was president f. Treasure president. a. r..
Bushnell secretary and treasurer, and omar
Bushnell attorney and counsel w. VI. Bush
nell said We expect to go with our business and
10 pay all our liabilities" statement issued by the
firm shows liabilities OF from $45O,OOO TO 100000
and assets from $3.50 900 to 100000 A small part
of the liabilities are held by the st. Paul banks, the
larger creditors all being I'm the East. The failure
grows out of two suits 5000 each recently brought
against them in the courts here and the punishment
IL their hnnk accnnntS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
GETTING FORGED CHECKS FROM coLoRlD DO.

Tire checks for SLIGO, $500 and $3.50 drawn upon
the Pat hoguc L. L. rank and signed r. A. Strong we've
forwarded Pachoguc different dates during The last
fourteen day. by the German American Elnk Of Denver
Col fog collection All Of them boar the indo,cmcnt n
w H. Gcef o former resident Of that place though dawn
in favor Of other men Who Inducements also upon
them. the checks bears forged certheaton with
the sgnart \. Oyeron the cashier o. the Pdtchoeuc
pank No such person H. 4. Strong Ia, al account
with the Pab,hogue bank. the checks have not been
Maid Cieor whose Endorsement appears the checks
went TO Pdtchogue last fall and remained until house
he WAS erecting at Center Morlches completed.
Durng las sumner he and his were prominent figures
I'm Center Moriches society. In September he went to
Denver lie took with him number Of letters Of intro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
THE ASSETS AND CASH All RIGHT.
RESULT OF EXAMINING THE ADAMS EXPRESS
cos BOOKS.


cos. BOOKS.
The managers Of the adams Express Company met
yesterday TO receive the report Of Frcderck LoVeloy
and William T. DinsmOre, the committee appointed 70
examine the condition Of the assets and cash Of the
company. The report Officially given out reads as
follows: That they have made o thorough examine
ton OF all the securities in the trustees SAFE ana
find them to correspond with the entries on tile com
panys books. They have also examined the loans III
charge the treasurer and find that they are IN ac
cordance with the amount stated on the treasurer
books, and that the securities also as stated They
further examined the accounts Of the cashier and ma
that the cash and cash items correspond with inc
balance as shown on his books"
Tho board of managers appointed President Henry
Sanford. Frederick LoyeIGy apd Clarence A. Seward
committee with Instructions TO devise and report To tho
board at IFS next meeting plan or system BY which
the custody, possession control aud disbursements OF
the property and moneys Of the association
should be more securely and safely guarded for Its
shareholders, and by which the possibility Of theft,
speculation, personal msappropriaton. breaches Of
trust and appropriations for unauthorized expenditures
hereom should hereafter be rendered as absolutely I'M
possible IL could he made
Mr.. seward has been made a trustee of the CON-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
CARDINAL GIBBONS AND TIE PAPACy.

Rome oct. ga recent article from the pen OF
sgnor Cesare In one of the principal Liberal organs
has made stir in ecclesiastical circles Signor Cesare
who is Liberal writer of some note, and who has
made special study OF ecclesiastical questions, con
tends that Austria, in the name OF the Triple Alliance,
ought TO dominate the future Concave. The point OF
interest o Americans i'm the article is the vigorous
ouposltion to the candidacy of Cardinal Gibbons Tor
the succession TO the PaLal chair Among other
things Sgnor Cesare declares that under Cardinal
GIBBONS the church would cease 10 be Roman
This attack on Cardinal Gibbons is regarded at the
Vatican as the expression of the fear OF the Liberals
that Cardinal Gibbons may be elected at the next
COncl3Ve
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
SURFACE RAILRoAD EMPLOYEs MEET.

The annual convention Of Ns;lonel T-ade District
No. 22G Of the knights OF Labor composed OF surface
railroad employees, began here yesterday Delegates
present from local and district assemble, in this
city, Philadelphia Boston. Albany. Troy, Roche. ter
Dunkrk, Syracuse. BinglnmtOn Emra Cleveland
Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo Dayton, Newark Jeis
city. Chelsea, Lynn, Chicago 81. Louis. Omaha, Mil
waulee Buffalo, Minneapolis Denver and other cities
John W. Ross. Of Chicago elected chairman, and
+. c. Lewis, Of Lynn, secretary Of the convention
The morning for the most part taken up with the
inspection Of credentials. The rest OF the day
spent in discussing the question OF Organilsuo A
few of the delegates present wanted 10 withdraw from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
TIE LATE PROFESSOR TIFFANY.

TO the Editor Of he TIL bune
Sir: notice with regret that in your BRIEF sketch Oh
The late Dr. .. H. Tiffany no mention Is made OF a
ueriod in his early life which most Of his OLD fnends
think of with peculiar pleasure Very soon al'er MS
graduation from Dickinson College, in 1o45, he Was
hose nrofessor OF Greek in his alma mater and few
wears later professor Of mathematics and engineering
Here he remained for eight years impessng his strong
intellectual personality upon the students ana gllng
himself by unceasng study thorough preparation I0r
The work OF the ministry in which he attained wen,
deserved eminence. Thousands Of old students ahd
friends OF DfckiusOn have followed his career as pulpit
orator with pride but them the great Doctor Iihany
hos always been second in affection TO their beloved
Professor Tiffany. Dl'hINSoNiA''
NorL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-29
TIE CANADIAN PUBLIC WORKS SCANDAL.

CONTRACTOR CONNOLLY CHARGED WITH CON
sPIRACY- WARRANTS OUT FOR OTHER MEN.
Ottawa. oct os-MIchael Connolly. q member of
the firm OF Larkin, Connolly d Co., contractors was
served at midnight last night with summons oAerin@
him TO appear before Police Magistrate o'GaTa al 'he
Ottawa Police Court. on Wednesday. November 4, 10
answer to charge of conspiracy to defraud the Public
Works Department. Similar summonSes have peeh IS
sued to owen +. Murphy. Thomas McGreevF' houer'
Henry McCTgeevy, Nicholas Connolly ana ra'i'N hllh
Michael Connolly pretends 10 treat the matter lightly
He saws he is prepared for anything the Government
may do.
The serving of the warrants upon Connolly gives
confirmation to certain Tmors which nave Deeh cur
rent in the city to the effect that the Government
action in proceeding against all the parties ihpcteu
by the evidence given before the ParlamenlaIy 'oh
mitfee,s last session would not be long delayed