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Evening journal., 1891-11-03

TAnoR-"How wide collar shall /
put on your overcoat, sirY" Customer
Make It 50 wide that when | pass you
on the street I can turn il up 50 you
won't recognize me "--ClOthier and Fur
Risher.
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get that boss Of yours fust rate. I've
got the perfect image of him up to my
house, and I want to mate him tho
wust kind I'll tell you what I'll do
with yer. Now, here's boss that is
worth IN even hundred dollars more'n
your'n. But If you want to give me
twenty-five dollars to boot you can
drive my boss off with You and I'll
drive your'n off with me-.
"'But this horse doesn't belong to mo,
] tell you said, somewhat angrily, it
belongs to Mr.. Carroll over at Hyde
Park
"'Is that Hi Carroll's hosp demand
cd the man, appearing to be very much
pleased by the discovery. why, Hi
Carroll's been trying to git this boss of
mine for year back. lie offered me
two hundred dollars cash for him last
week, but wouldn't look ct it, an by
gosh, now that come to get little
higher, I'll be switched if that hain't
old Molasses that you're hitched up to-
"'On my word Carroll offered me fif-
ty dollars to boot between my boss and
old Molasses only day before yesterday,
but hadn't never seen him hitched up
and didn't know what q good match
he was for mine. Of course, I'm TWEEN
ty-five dollars out tradin' on these
terms but if you say she's go, she's
go. My name is Deacon Smith, of
Smithville, and whenever say thing
stick to it. Only reckon Iii Carroll
will be the ticlllcdcst man you ever see
when he gets this boss of mine for
twenty-five dollars and old Molasses.'
"Well, 1 made the trade. Carroll was
business man l reclloned. and would
be very glad to get Deacon Smiths
horse twenty-five dollars cheaper than
he had over hoped to get it. The dea-
con agreed with me and SO did my wife.
"'This is something like said to my
wife as we drove off, the new horse
travelling magnifccntly. continued
to think well Of the horse throughout
our drive, and it was with perfect conf
dcncc that | should receive some very
warm words of thanks from Mr.. Carroll
that drove into the stable on nv re-
turn to Hyde Park. My wife was with
me; She said that she wanted to hear
what Mr.. Carroll had to say.
But Mr.. Carroll was not at home.
That's too bad said my wife, and I
agreed with her. But told the hostler
to unharncss the now horse and to put
him into n stall, and he set at work to
do it.
'''Good-loolsing hoss,' he said, rs he
unlocked the traces
. Yes said l, and he is just as good
as he looks
Did you get some spcctaclcs to go
with him.? the hostlcr asked moment
later, looking at me with lccr.
II knew ut once that Deacon Smiths
horse was blind and was tremendous
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ly startled by the knowledge But
didn't propose to let the hostler bother
Inc. SO answered back bravcly enough:
oh. well, that's nothing. He travels
just as well as he ever did,
OF course said the hostlcr, seeing
that was on my dignity, Il don't know
but what I'd just as lief have blind
horse as any other kind. I've some
times thought there wasn't any sense
in putting eyes into horses, anyway
"'Why, Alfred said my wife, you
don't mean to say that that horse is
blind?'
Certainly he is, my dear. Didn't
you know it?' answered. why, YOU
couldn't buy that horse for one thou
sand dollars if he had two good eyes,
THAT silenced my wife.
Meanwhile the hostler had gone on
unbucl1ling the straps. He had taken
off the headstall and the breastplate
and hung them up on hook. Then he
came to the horse and gave strong
pull at the saddle. The saddle came off,
but the cruppcr stuck fast. So the
hostler gave another pull, but still the
cruppcr kept its place. Then the host
Ter got angry and exerted all of his
strength. You could have hung an ul-
ster on each one Of my eyes when saw
that crupper come off and the horses
tail with it.
You brute!" I exclaimed, rushing
up to the hostler, you deserve to be shot
for such cruelty
"Thc host!er leaned back against a
post and laughed as though he would
burst.
"'You think it a joke, do you, you
miserable villain, shouted in a rage,
TO pull Il horses tail Off
"Still he laughed
81 took off my coat, having made ND
my mind to give that man the worst
thrashing he ever had in his life, when
suddenly my wife dropped to the floor
as the novelists say, with a dull, sick
ening thud, and l was compelled to
leave the hostler TO go to her.
Take me awayr my wife en-
claimed as soon a she had recovered
consciousness, and started away with
her.
"I'll attend to your case later
Kissed at the hostler as left the sta
BILE.
Say boss said the hostler, follow
Ing me for step or two, do you think
1 would pull the tail off horse? Not
much l wouldn't. That horse hain't
had no tail for ten years. That thing l
pulled off hain't nothing but bunch of
hair strapped on for looks sake and
tradin' purposes.
II paid Mr.. Carroll just an even one
hundred dollars before could get
receipt in full ont OF hiia."-N. Y.
Times.
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MAYORS COURT.

The following cases were disposed of
by Mayor Evans in his court yesterday
morning:
Fannie Craig, drunk and disordcrly
on Railroad avenue: fined SIS.
Archie. Banks, drunk on Salem avenue;
$3.50.
Fred Albright and j. +. Johnson,
sleeping in an open box car; fined 81
each.
Charles Cannon, Bette Edwards,
Rachel Cham bers and Mamie Bell, dis
turbing the qniet and good order of the
city by fighting and getting into gen
eral row on Bunker Hill; all fined So
each except BETTE Edwards, who was
dismissed.
Albert Wills, using threading langu-
age to Officer Rigney, dismissed.
John Trout, drunk and down; fined go.
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LEMON ELIXIR.
Pleasant, Elegant, Reliable.

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For fevers, chjlls and malaria, take
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For sleeplessness, nervousness and
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For indigestion and foul stomach,
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For all sick and nervous headaches,
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Ladies, for natural and thorough or.
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DIR. Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not
fail you in any of the above-named dis.
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Prepared only by DR.. II. MozELY,
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soc and 81 per bottle, at druggists.
LEMON HOT DROPS
Cures all Coughs, Colds, IIoarseness,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, IIemorrhage
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THE NEW BOY IN SCHOOL.

II cat should chance into q strange CARROT.
They say 1t feels awkward and quito out OF
place;
So tho new boy In school oft makes his debut =
With sensations tho same as in Grmalkin's
Around him he secs an expanse OF strange
faces,
Sizing him up with an cye-searching quiz;
And knows that hos being slowly dLssected.
All the way from his feet clear up TO his
PHIL
Just three seats away there sits the school
bully,
With n round bullct-head and u iaunty snub
nose;
His mocling grin says: I'll see you a. re.
Which means q forced fight and n uo,lev of
blows.
The new boy darts back hook OF defiance,
To the round-headcd bully's insolcnt lccr:
For tho debutant knows 1t won't do for mo-
To let the CHAP think hos acquainted with
fear.
In tho school he came from perhaps ho was
leader
In studies, i'll sports. or In tricks that are
vain;''
But mere he feels humbled and quito small
potatoes"
And signs to be back to his old school again.
He knows that for him the practical j6kers
VIII cudgcl their brains with schemes to
annoy,
And for days to come the chances nre certain
That troubles and trials will bcsct the new
boy.
Don't pity him. reader A year hence, I'll
warrant,
Hail. fellow we'll mct!" the new boy will be-
And that both he and the round eaded bully
In oil worldly matters will swectly agree;
While, In less than that time, the teacher
might say
Though this is by no means always tho
rule
With sigh and just the faintcst OF smiles:
That the new boy Is now the "Old Boy" In
school
p. c. Fossctt In Golden Days.
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ton, and we were delightfully."- situated
in great house upon the top of a big
hill. From our windows we could see
no end of beautiful country, and of
course we wanted to ride over it all.
We hired our horses of the Village
hveryman, and sometimes we had rood
ones and sometimes we got stuck
Zone day we were given the worst
horse that ever drove lie was all right
as far as looks were concerned, but he
wouldn't go worth a cent chirruped
at him, l gaddcd him, but he kept on
with steady four-nilc gait, absolutely
unaffected by any thing that did 1
tried to scare the old fellow, but he was
Drawer than Ethan Allen, and wouldn't
culver nor twist an ear, nor make any
other movement indicative of alarm
even when | shot off both barrels of nv
gun right over his back. 4 understand
now said to my wife, why this horse
is called Molasses.'
We'll, we logged along until we came
to fork i'll the road. Which way.to go
was more than knew. Let the horse
take his own course said my wife.
I've often heard that horses know
where to take people when the people
themselves are entirely lost l acted
upon my wifc's suggestion at once
Any thing was better than waiting. I
threw the lines down over the DASH
board and said: Get up, Molasses.'
The first thing knew the horse was
dragging us home at his regulation
four-mile-an-hour gait. 1t took all nv
strength to stop him and turn him
about.
"Of course we went back to the fork
OF the road and began to wait again.
You're all right in your place. 1 said
to my wife, but you needn't attempt to
run this picnic again.
II reckon that we waited quarter
OF an hour before anybody came along,
and then the one who came came with a
rush, great rafting of wheels herald
ing his coming. 1 stopped the man
when he came alongside, and asked
him which road to take to get to the
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place I was headed for. He told me
and thanked him, and was Just start
ing off when he spoke up and said:
That's good-lookin' boss you've got
there, Mister
"'Well, yes said, and that's about
all you can say for him. He can't
travel, or won't, don't know which it
is.
Don't you want to trade for good
hoss?' asked the man
81 would in q minute, but this old
fellow doesn't belong to me. He be-
longs to a man over at Hyde Park
replied.
lido you know said the Traa, os-
cunning C confidential cir, I'd like to
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TAUGHT BY A YANKEE.
a New York Mans Experience as
a Horse Trader.
NEW YORKER

NEW YORKER
who spent u
portion of the
summer in Yer
mont says that
he | C IL + n G d
something up
there which he
considers worth
n great deal of
m o n C y. lie
certainly tells
an entertaining
story about the
matter.
ut was up at
Hyde Park" he
says, that we
put in our yaca-
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WOOL GROWING VIRGINIA.


What One Successful Farmer Did Last
Season.
Vice-President Eddy of the Norfolk
and Western railroad. has received the
following letter from A. L. St. John.
showing that successful sheep raising is
practicable in Virginia.
CHIIIIOwIE, Va, Nav 81, 1901.
Chas. e. Eddy, Vice-President Norfolk
and Western railroad, Roanoke. Va.
DEAR SIR:-Your circular letter from
+. j. Huling in reference to sheep is be-
fore me. Allow me, by way of showing
possibilities along this line, to give you
the operations of my near neighbor, Mr..
Jno. L.. Sanders, during the past season.
Value of 1874 ewes still on
hand. ................ S $50
40 of these ewes dropped SO
lambs in October, 1890,
worth the 1st of May, by
weight. so each. .. 80
Same 40 ewes dropped 60
lambs in April, 1891; will
bring by lst of August,
1891, SIS each. ...... 500
so lambs dropped January
and February; worth by
the 18th Of June, 1891, IS
each ....... 400
Clips from sheep for 1901. l4O
140 ewes, valued at 81 each. 8 $40
100 bushels of corn fed dur
ing winter. ......... -
Grazing during the season. 25O
Losses from various causes, 81
Interest on investment. a.
Mr.. Sanders profit, not de-
Quoting anything for at
tcntlOn. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50
1otals 81 Cos 81 Cos
Forty of these ewes brought lambs
in October and again in April, or lis
during tho season. Mr.. S. thinks sheen
will pay much better on our blue grass
lands, worth $40 to $50 per acre, than on
land worth IS to $40. as mentioned in
circular lie also advises that the best
Shropshire Down bucks be crossed on
our mountain sheep He has quite re-
Gently purchased some of the best
tboroughbreds of this kind that he
could find in Virginia. He attributes
much of his success to close personal
attention.
Thanking you for your interest in
this, as well as every interest that per.
talns to the developments Of Virginia.
| am very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. Il. ST JOIN.
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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21

judiced. 1t is their business to tx-
anime the quality Of the different iood
prOduc s, aud to suppress the sale If
those found impure and unwboles me
aud all will admit that they have per-
formed their duties without fear Cr
favor.
AT a recent examination by a legis-
lative committee to determine the
qualities Ofthe various baking powders
sold in Minnesota state cnenist aud
analyst TO the food and dairy .comnis-
stones. DR.. Benjamin r. Drew, gave
the following evidence:
Qu s.-Dr. Dew, / SEE 10y lbe report
of the cary aud food con. mission Of
th sta,e that in Inskiug analysis "a
the various baking powders Of his
country you report Is re-ult 81 Jour
wci tlat Tie Royal Baking Powder
contains and gives of H. Taking a
greater per cent If caruouic acid gas
(ieaveniog gasJ than any olhsr baking
powder made; l. that Irue?
Abs.-1es, cir, that IL a fact.
Que-.-DOctOT, you also found from
expe' iueut tnat the Royal Baking
Powder viii keep logger and retain its
qualities better than any olhsr powder
made, did you not?
Ans.-Y,s, sir, think u d e.
Ques.-NOw the two mCst desirable
qualities Ia baking powder are the
amount Of cirbonic aciG gas 1t contains
and gives of and the length of time it
will keep, are they not?
Ans.-Yes, sir.
Ques.-Then the Royal Baking
Pow der, possessing the-e qualities, ID
tue best made, is It not?
Ans.-Well. that would be the natu-
raj conclusion.
Qu,s Well, Il at is the fact. is il
MT?
Aus.-Yes, think it is. considar
it one ofthe best taking powders made.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21
CHINESE cLoTHIERs.


They Are Teaching an UnweIcome Les
son to Tailors in san Francisco.
The clothing manufacturers of this
city are learning the lesson which the
Chinese taught the fruit Gamers long
ago
A gentleman whose name is well
known in society circles, and whose
hatred Of the Chinese is also well
known. called upon a Market street
tailor one Saturday night for a suit
which be had ordered early in the
week.
1T Is not done yet said the tailor.
But you said it would be finished
this morning
Yes, cd, and the tailor who is
sewing the suit promised to have it
here. but he has not kept his word III
send boy for it now"
mo. III go for it myself Give me
the mans address"
MY dear sir. would not trouble
you for all the world. Ill send the
boy"
Il tell you l will go for it myself;
you have had time enough to send
your boy Give me the address"
He was given the address of a Chinese
tailor on Clay street.
do you mean to say'-and the face
of the society man flush red with wrath
that my clothes are handled by
filthy ChineseP'
my dear sir, Chinese make half the
clothes that are made in the city"
"But / see women at work in the
shops. Can't you find enough of them
TO do your work.
"Oh, most of the women are en-
ployed for show. They attract Gus
TONERS. but they do little work. Go
around to one of these places late at
night, and If you don't find a China
man loading a wagon with cloth ready
cut for the sewers am not in the busi-
ness"
Then" said the gentleman, ''yOu
are simply a commission man. l pay
you so much to have my clothes made
by Chinese. l think | will save the
commission hereafter"
There was more truth then poetry in
the statement which the clothier made
to his customer. The Chinese clothier
is fiourishing apace. Chinese tailors
who make garments for American Gus
toners exclusively have opened three
shops on Clay street, two on CONNER
cial. one on Pacific. three on Dupont
and five on Stockton, and a contract
was given recently for the erection of a
large factory in which a Chinaman is
TO employ Chinese to manufacture
clothing A few years ago he was max
ing clothes for a white tailor for less
than they could be made by white
man or woman. In a few months he
win be selling clothes for less than a
white man can sell them.-San Fran
{ cisco Call.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21
She staid on the shady side.

The following scene occurred in the
Brass City one afternoon; A very neat,
gray haired colored woman, sixty-five
or so, got into a car in which there
were a number of persons. She located
herself on the shady side. Presently
two women came TO get in and bade her
move up. She very quietly replied that
she preferred to keep her seat Then.
with angry looks and words truly in
sulting to the well behaved auntie, they
took a seat in front, one of them being
in the SUM They kept up a most sar
castle manner until she reached her
destination and then exclaimed: Now.
look out for your fine complexion, OF
you'll spoil it. She tossed her head
and good naturedly replied ''Nevah
mindi Use paid my five cents and had
a right to the shady sidei" She was
the nearest TO being a lady. Water
bury American
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21
A Man Who Abhor. womankind.

On a cross street unning south from
the Base Line road, a short distance be
yond W. s. Ladd's farm. is a house
which is not q Trappist mOnastry, but
Of which, nevertheless. il is said no
woman has ever been allowed to set
foot The proprietor is a stout. solid
looking man, probably about forty
years of age, who lives alone. The
house is a neat structure. quite fanci-
fully painted, and everything around
it in good order. but il has a lonely.
deserted look withal.
II is not known what this occupants
grudge against womankind Is. but il IS
evidently deep seated one, as it is re-
ported that the property has been
willed TO a man on the condition that
he never allows a woman to come on
the place, and in case he does it is to
escheat to the state. The neighbors
look askance at the place as they go by
and whisper with bated breath, That
is the house In which a woman has
never set foot" Ii is safe to bet that
notwithstanding the viii il wiz not be
long after the present owner has va
Gated the premises till women folks are
ruling the roost there. Portland Ore
QOnian
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21

PORTLAND, Or, Oct. l9-Thirteen
smugglers were captured ou san Juan
island by the revenue Guitar WOlcOtt.
Captain Tozier sent a steam launch 10
guard the island a week ago. Several
men were sent from the launch, dis
guised ss shlpwrecked sailors. Thew
went to a cabin OF the smugglers, and
asked for shelter. After being there
for two days, and having secured sVf-
ticient evidence against the smugglers
they sent for the sutter. Friday
night the Wolcott went to the island,
captured thirteen Of the gang, and cut
of the escape OF the others. Marines
are guarding the island, and it is ex-
pecttd thar the entire gang will be
captured. The smuRglers are said T.
be well organized and their operations
extend over a largI territory.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21

Already there are evidences Of re-
newsd activity among the heirs, claims
ants and lawyers in the Davis will
contest. Unless compromise is ef-
feeted the esse will be called for lis
,econd trial next month, says the Butte
Miner. As to the probability Of a
compromise there h much speculation.
The Miner hss It from some gentle
men prominently identified with the
case that In all probability the contest
will never again be taken into court,
while others Of equal prominence say
that there will be no compromise. and
that the case win be fought 10 the Bit
ter end.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21
A Man OF business.

An incident occurred, during the
Journey of the Duke of Meiningen
through the country about Hamburg.
which gave his highness much mprri-
ment. One of the officials of a town
was received by the duke. who spoke
faniliarly to him. One of his ques-
tions was, Il suppose you have not
necessarily to return to the office TO.
dayf' NO answered the official
''the day is anyhow spoiled San
Francisco Argonaut
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21

An English lawyer says: The mo-
ment a man has twenty pounds clear
to leave be viii begin spending money
on testansntary disposition. | have
even known a small farmer whose saw
ings, after the realization of his proper
ty and the payment of his just debts,
could not have exceeded a ten pound
note. spend three or four pounds year
over a course of thirty years In having
fresh wills drawn up. As a matter ct
fact. when he died at last a viii was in
force identically the same as the first
one l had drawn up for him thirty
years before II he had saved the
money he spent with me. and bad put
il out at compound interest, he would
have had a very snug sum-well On
toward four figures--to add to his e.
tate
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21
why Venus !. Morning and EvsnlnE star.

why Venus Is Morning and Evening Star.
Venus is both morning and an even
star because she always accompanies
the sun, never receding from him be
yond certain limits. while the rest OF
the planets, with the exception of Mer-
curry. are seen at all possible angular
distances from the sun. When Venus
Is to the west of the sun she rises before
him and Is a morning star. but when
she Is 10 the east Of the sun she rises
after him and is an evening star
Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21
Not Long for This Life.

BALTIMORE. Oct. l5.-Ex-ULite
States Senator Wade Hampton, who
is visiting here, in an intervi ~, sa:d;
The f.rmers' alliance is rapidly dis
integrating in the South, and within
the next lour years it will entirely
disappear. The people are rapidly
aN akening to the Rbsurdity Of the de-
mand- the Orgaizalion has promul-
gated -
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21

Readers of periodicals often complain
because the leaves are uncut, but pub
fishers have been driven to this back
ward step because when magazines are
sent out with cut leaves a great many
are returned after having been partly
read. Stationers and booksellers per
NIT regular customers to glance through
the pages of a book OF magazine so
long as it remains unchanged, and
thousands of periodicals are returned
by stationers after the choice articles
have thus been read Philadelphia
Ledger.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-21

LONDON, Oct. lS.-The hurricane
which has prevailed on the west coast
Of Ireland for several days past is pro-
nounced 10 be the worst storm known
in that part Of the coCntry IN twenty
years. The river SYannOn OveTfi Nv
I'd it, banks aud submerged large
gu antities OF land n its vicinity,
drowning q considerable number ul
cattle and sheep, aud destroying sew
eral houses and many barns and other
building-.