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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-26

a., nc Hgn position sttalneo and the universal acceptance
,gypseyA o. the pleasant liquid fruit remedy syrup
IL N The most excellent Laxative known illustrate
80 ste Of the qualities vhich is Is based
cens oundsntly gratifying to the California Zig Syrup
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In addition TO the fastest train In the world. thu
New Central has also three great Hunted trains 70
the West and Southwest every day In the year. "a
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OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.
BIDS TO BE OPENED TO-DAY.
rsr rKLsexArH TO THE TRIBUNE

ROUTES AND CONDITIONS UNDER THE NEW
LAW.
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PlTH AND POINT.

Driven Out by Rudeness.-s"why
did the soprano leave?" ''She said the
preaching interrupted her conversation
with the tenor.-"N. Y. sun.
Judging from Results.-"Does your
daughter play on the piano?" WAL,
she says she does; but kinder thinks
she works on it."-Fort Worth Gazette.
Have you ever observed that when
woman is buying cheap quality of
any thing, or a small quantity of it, she
generally "buyes it for a friend?'-
Boston Traveller.
He cares not to know who wrote "Beautl.
full snow
Nor what may have caused him to do IL;
With his ear in sling, he desires but one
thing
The name of the rascal who threw il.
Washington Post
you say dealer in amateur pho
tographers' goods has failed. / don't
believe it. The profits are immense.
How did it happen?" "IIe was an
amateur photographer himself. Chi
cago Tribune.
You say that all dreams are due 10
something influencing the sleeper al
that particular moment. How do you
account for my dreaming the other
night that | was dead? Probably the
room was too hot. Indianapolis Jour
nal.
-'Iave YOU noticed what vast
quantity of information old Simple has
acquired during the last several days?'
"Yes. 1t is easily accounted for. His
fifteen-year-old son returned from
boarding school last week for a short
visit. "-Norristown Herald.
Times ges.-Brown-''So you
could never understand woman"
Cobwigger-''No. Before marriage
occupied my time in making myself out
worse than | was; now it takes me
every minute of my time to make my
self out better than | am. Epoch.
-Ethel-''I am so anxious about my
new dressi | shall insist on having my
dress-malSer make it fit me. 1t will then
be sure to look we'll" Maud-''Yes;
but wouldn't it look better if you in
sisted on having the dress-maller make
you fit it instead?"-IIarper's Bazaar.
Medical science threatens to circum-
vent all the ills that flesh is heir to, and
as in time there will be no such thing
as death the earth will soon become
crowded. Therefore hold on to your
real estate. 1t can not help going up
several hundred per cent.-Boston
Transcript.
-Finnegan listening to the clock as
Il strikes) - Whats that? Eliven,
twelve, thirtane, fourt-Bad cess t i'll
Bye gorra, the diyils in it, TEX that,
me foine timepiece, an thatr' Mrs.
Finnegan - "Wusha, hivin save us,
Phelim, fwhat did yez smash the clock
fur? It's tn ownly wan we havr
Finnegan-''Oi don't give contynintal
The clock sthruck furrst!' - Boston
Traveller.
BY Proxy.-''John," said Rev. Mr..
Goodman to the hired man, fare you
Christian?" ''Why-er-no, sir" re-
piled John. "Do you ever swear?"
'I-I'm sometimes little keerless like
in my talk" 81 am sorry, john" re-
joined Mr. Goodman. But we will
converse about this some other time.
! wish you would take this money and
settle this bill of 81 for thawing out a
waterpipe, and talk to the man in a
careless kind of way as if it were your
own bill. Chicago Tribune.
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CAMPAIGN THUNDER.
How Candidate was Crushed by Pen
Liner.

How "a Candidate was Crushed by a Pen
ny-a-Liner.
AS about eight out of ten men one
meets nowadays are up for the Lcgisla-
ture, county sheriff or some thing, il is
not surprising that large proportion
of these politicians are of the self-made
variety that could not deliver an intel.
ligible speech if they were to be hanged.
The result is that the hard-up penny-a-
liners are turning an honest penny by
supplying these tongue-tied statesmen
with ready-made campaign thunder
The other night there was a most en-
thusiastic primary meeting at Petaluma,
during which an aspirant for county
clerk was Introduced.
The gentle man laid unanimously.
written speech on the desk and started
in. He had only got as far as Fellow
citizens" when a hungry-looking party
in a week-before-last shirt, and whose
whole appearance denoted restitution,
stood up in the front row and whis.
pered:
'How about that little amount?"
The orator coughed, colored, looked
fixedly at the gallery, and strove to con.
tinue.
81 say" continued the interrupter,
more loudly, you know what told
you-cash down or no sale"
"Ill-Ill see you in the morning.
gasped the mortified politician.
Morning don't go" replied the cred.
itor, doggedly. you can't play the
morning dodge on me; I'm dead on &c
you fellows, am. You've got to put
up or shut up. Pungle out that SlE
right here, or nary an crate"
II haven't got that amount with me,
murmured the distinguished speaker.
fumbling in his clothes. "Just-just
sit down, and I'll see you later"
Later be bowed" growled the
pencil parer, and reaching up he trans.
ferred the manuscript to his coat-tail
pocket and walked out The crushed
nominee took a back seat on the plat.
form and wept like child, while the
band filed in its time by Listen to the
Mocking Bird" with variations-Sa
Francisco Newsletter.
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Maho gany Packing-Cases.

There are few instruments or pieces
of apparatus more delicate and fragile
than many of the costly and intricate
productions of mechanical skill in gen
eral use to-day by electrical companies
for the purposes of refined electrical
measurement, and it can easily be un-
derstood that the difficulty of shipping
these expensive and easily deranged in
struments from place to place without
risk of damage from careless handling
in transit is perplexing question both
to manufacturers and users. A famous
English electrician says that he early
adopted plan which proved SO success
full that he has adhered to it ever since.
Finding that careful packing and con
spicuous labels stating the contents 70
be glass, with great care" were not
always sufficient to prevent breakage
and damage to delicate parts, he hit on
the idea of sending out all his instru-
ments in beautifully polished mahogany
cases, with brass handles and mount
ings. The exquisite appearance of the
cases appealed successfully even to the
callous natures of porters and dock
hands: they positively had not the heart
to scratch the immaculate polish by
rough handling, and the freedom of the
instruments from damage amply repaid
the extra cost of the luxurious cases.
Chicago Daily News.
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THE ORCHARD SITE.

A Northern slope Is Preferable to a
Southern One.
For the orchard site avoid barren hill
sides, says a writer. Yes, avoid barren
lands of all kinds. Any good corn land
will answer. If not naturally well
drained, tile to the depth of at least four
feet. A northern slope is preferable to
a southern one, the above writer says.
Plow and harrow the ground thorough
ly. Level land should, by repeated
plowings, be thrown into ridges upon
which plant the trees, two rods apart,
in the spring of the year. In digging,
trees lose portion of their roots; this
should be balanced by judicious prun-
ing of the top. Cut away all forl1ed and
close-growing branches, leaving one up
right shoot for the leader, and cut the
ends of all branches back few inches.
Make all cuts close and smooth.
Never leave any stubs, and cut all
bruised and broken roots back to the
sound wood. Plant in holes large
enough to permit each root being
Strengthened out in natural position,
setting the tree about two inches deep
err than it formerly stood and lean
ing about fifteen degrees to the south
west. Cultivate corn among the
young trees for five or six years. Then
seed TO clover, letting it remain on the
ground as a mulch; never permit a
dense grass sod to take possession of
your orchard. Protect your trees
against rabbits, mice and borers by
wrapping the stems with burlap, wire
screen or something of the sort. Keep
up the fertility of the soil by an occa-
sional top dressing of well-rotted
barnyard manure. Keep your trees
free from worthless branches and dead
twigs. Prune during mild weather,
from November to March.-Western
Rural
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WHEN THE TeA-kETTLe HUNS.

Hey for the days 81 the silver and aznre.
Gold in the tree tops and fame in the
hedges
Each thistle and milkweed uacurtains a treas
ure
OF tIay white planets with silken-soft edges;
They nit and they hutter. now here. and now
yOader,
They catch in the goldthreaded Ioc.,s of the
corn.
On wings Of the zephyr they waver and wan
der.
As light as the vapor that floats in the morn.
Hey, for the days when the odor % apples
Blows up ana down the great orchards ex-
panse,
And the feathery amber o. golden rod dappies
The tangled green waves where the tassel-
weeds dance
The sweep Of the vest wind is fresaer and
wider:
Win deepest OF crimson the LEAKAGE Is laced;
Belated and lonely. the fraiI harvest spider
ScIds OF through the c0rn-neld with timOr-
Gus haste
Hey, for the days Of the frosty-white morn
fnvs-
The blaze on the hearthstOne thas gIaddens
our eyes,
When We hear In the chimney the Autumn
OF raiu-munied landscape and tOg-hidden
skies
When the cold. clinging moisture the window
Is bIurring.
The picture inside il by contrast mere fair;
The tea kettle huns and the kitten Is purring.
Csiled c0zily down in the old rocking chair.
Hey for the days OF the wintry- crisp edges.
And noOntides as sultry as June in her splen-
dor.
Bronze in the tree tops aud gray in the
hedges
And the nights that are ind-Iu!Ied sid starry
and tender
Hattie whitney, in Good Housekeeping.
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and they saw Jesse as soon as he saw
them They were in little hollow,
and the position and place Jesse was in
made it a dangerous spot either for an
attack on the bears or for defense
against them. Arkansas b had crept
% JeSse's side before the latter could
tell him what was ahead. lie took in
the situation at once and Jlnped back
Before Jesse could follow linn the old
bear. her blood being up. made 4 rush
for him Jesse fired and broke the
bears shoulder. Then he jumped
aside. bIt the bear was tooclose to him.
and she caught him in the side. Both
went down in heap. the bear falling
ON top. ut Arkansas Bills feet The
bear closed her great jaws IN JesSe's
side. Her upper teeth were buried in
the flesh. cracking three ribs like pipe
stems Fortunately her under teeth
struck heavy leather bullet pouch that
Jesse carried slunF over his shoulder by
a strap. That prevented the enormous
jaws from closing together in JeSse's
side, and tearing large portion of il
sway. All that Jesse could do was TO
give the bear tremendous kick in the
stomach. At the same instant Arkan-
SIS Bin fired AZ the bear. The ball en-
tered hack 81 her shoulder.
The bear evidently thought the pain
from the bullet was the result Of
Jesse's kick. for she turned and caught
his foot Just below the ankle and
crushed i with one savage bite Not
satisfied with that She bit and cheyved
at the foot and leg and tore away the
flesh at every bite. while Jesse was
struggling to get his revolver ont of his
belt All this time Arkansas Bill was
lOadisC his rifle. hrcech-loaders not
yet having come in usc out in that
country .leSse's struggles u urn and
get his revolver caused the bear to
wheel about again. She made a grab
for JeSse'S head Bill had his gun
loaded BY this time. and sent another
bullet IN the tough old bear This toy
pied Fcr over, and Je>se raised partially
70 his feet and got his revolver in his
leit hand The bear recovered herself
and struck jesse a blow with her paw
on the head and face that knocked him
Gown again He held on TO his re
v0lyS-5 and put ball into the bears
BODY. Before he could shoot again the
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bear Sc zed his arm between her teeth
and crunched it lear through the bone.
Jesse now lay so that Bill could not fire
without endangering his life. Bill
shouted TO him to move his
head Jesse did 50, but the in
slant he moved il the bear snapped
at it quickly, as jesse lay half
face upward, and closed down ON his
head clea< TO the upper jaw. Jesse, in
describing this situation afterward
said that I've could look right down the
bears throat But Arkansas Bill was
equal to the occasion. and placing the
muzzle Of his rifle at the bears ear,
fired. The bear sPrang back. She did
not take the trouble, though. to loosen
her hold on JesSe's head and face, and
tore away the upper jaw, part of the
nose, one cheek. and a piece of the
scalp nine inches long and five wide.
The bear fell over against Arkansas
Bin dead. Her great body carried him
down with her and pinned him fast by
both legs. He extricated himself with
difficulty and limped to the aid of his
companion Jesse was sitting up, a
CHASTITY spectacle. His jaw was hang
ing by a strip of flesh to his cheek. Bill
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Had No Use for a Cab.

A sad-faced young man, whose per
sonal appearance indicated that he was
accustomed to rubbing against the rough
edges of the world, stopped in front of
the City Hall one afternoon and entered
into conversation with man who was
standing on one of the stone steps. a
cab-driver, with an eye ever watchful
for chance to turn a wheel, observed
that the man on the steps seemed to be
trying To direct the sad-faced young ma
to some place in the eastern part of the
city.
Waiting until the young man turned
10 leave, the cab-driver approached him
and said:
''Have a cab; take you to any part OF
the city?'
mo" said the young man, feebly,
but with smile. I'm looking for the
office of the poor commissioner, but
guess III walk. Detroit Free Press.
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JAPANESE WOMEN SMOKERS.
They Use a Very Small Pipe and Load It
ReppafetIiy.

Repeatedly.
Railway ears have always been con-
sidcred good places for studying the
manners and customs of natives, and
japanese ears, as may be imagined. are
no exceptions 10 the rule. If some of
the Japanese ears have n separate com
partment for non-smokers this is a mere
cOncessi n TO foreigners. for Japanese
women are almost as invariably adj
dicted to the use of tobacco as the men.
and one of the most novel sights To be
witnessed in these ears is that of a
woman. young or old. taking a smoke.
japanese pipes. as used by both men
and women. are not as large as a Thin
ble-about the size of Chinese opium
pipe. anJ hold about as much tobacco
as a pinch of snuff The woman fills
her pipe. takes three or four whiffs, and
then knocks the bowl against her wood
en- shoes or clogs. 50 that the glowing
ashes fall in a lump on the floor. She
Immediately refills the pipe. but does
not relight 1t with a match: she tries to
pick up the lump Of glowing ashes with
the howl, which requires skill and prac-
tee. But after few attempts she gen
orally succeeds. whereupOn she has
three orfOur more whiffs; and this proc
esS Is repeated several times before the
pipe and pouch are put away 70 rest foI
an hossr. The men smoke in the same
way. but many of them have lately got
into the habit of smoking cigarettes
and cigars, mostly imitation goods done
mp under foreign labels, although here
i no gocd reason for this, As some very
good tobacco Is raised in japan. Or,
ange Judd Farmer.
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/ had put it there after started, so il
wouldn't get crumpled and had forgot
ten all about it. l hadn't used the atlas
the day before, because we only have
map-questions twice week
took the valentine home and gave it
to Cousin Zoe, and she burnt it up.
She has got two new silk dresses
lately, and she gave me the scraps from
both of them, and 10 Hazard gave me a
pretty work box with silver thimble,
ito pay for his valentine" he said, and
to use in making my crazy-quilt.
Last night, when l came home from
school, found grandma and Cousin Zoe
had tackled down a new carpet in the
parlor, and were putting up some new
curtains to the windows.
asked grandma what they were fix
ing mp so nice for, but she only said
schoolgirls mustn't ask questions. But
/ think l can guess what it's for.
10 Hazard comes here oftener than he
ever did, and Zoe wears a brand-new
gold ring on her finger. And, besides,
saw her reading recipe for wedding
cake, the other day.-IIelen Whitney
Clark, in Golden Days.
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cut it loose. While he was dressing
Jesse's torn. scalp the yearling bear,
which, with the two cubs, had been
silent spectators of the fight, concluded
to take it up where the odd bear had
been forced to leave il off. and made
savage rush upon the two hunters. Ar
kansas Bill had a lively tussle with the
young silyer-tip before he managed to
kill il with his six-shoOter. every cham
Der being emptied before the bear gave
up.
Jesse waited without a groan or
a word until Bill had finished the young
bear and returned to the dressing of his
wounds Having fixed them up the
best he could with the means at hand.
Bill took Jesse on his back and started
for camp. 1t was late in the afternoon.
and it was important that camp should
be reached before dark. for black
wolves were numerous in the hills, and
both Jesse and Bill knew that they
would follow their trail if darkness
overlook them Some idea of Arkan-
sas Bills capacity may be had when it
is known that Jesse Bell was man six
feet four in his stocking feet, and made
in proportion. The camp was eight
miles away. and the way was extremely
rough Bill reached the camp with his
burden short time after dark, and was
not any too soon, for behind them. and
not far away. they began to hear the
cries of pursuing wolves.
when they reached camp Bill found
their cabin occupied by prospectOr
who had stumbled in the shelter and
entered. He was a timely visitor. To
gether Bill and the stranger fixed up a
bed of buckslin and fur on two tepee
poles, which they fastened to pony,
Indian fashion, and, placing Jesse on
the drag. started at once for the nearest
place where medical and surgical aid
could be had, Fort Bridgcr. one hundred
and twenty miles away, through
rough and unbrol1en wilderness. They
travelled day and night, stopping only
To battle JeSse's wounds at the rivers
and creeks they had to cross. They ate
as they travelled, and on the afternoon
of the third day they came into Fort
Bridger with their terribly wounded
charge. On all that memorable jour
ney Jesse Bell never once complained
of suffering either from pain or hard
ship. He was placed in the hospital,
and the surgeon told Arkansas Bill that
he could never survive his injuries. But
he did and was out in a month. sadly
and permanently disfigured. but the
same tough and intrepid mountaineer
that he was Jcfore his great bear fight
N " sun
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WASTED FOOD.
A Frenchman's Impressions on American
Hotels


Hotels.
The thing which. perhaps. strikes
me most disagreeably in the American
hotel dining-room is the sight of the
tremendous waste of food that goes on
at every meal. No European. / sup
pose. can fail to be struck with this;
but 20 Frenchman it would naturally
be most reHarlla BILE. In France, where.
venture To say, people live as well as
anywhere else. if not better. there is a
perfect horror of any thing like waste
of good food. IL is to me, therefore, a
repulsive thing to see the waDton man
ner in which some Americans will
waste at one meal enough to feed sew
eral hungry fellow creatures. In the
large hotels. conducted on the American
plan, there are rarely fewer than fifty
different dishes on the menu at dinner
time. Every day and at every meal you
may see the people order three or four
times as much of this food as they could
under any circumstances eat, and, picking
at and spelling one dish after another,
send the bulk away uneaten. | am
bound to say that this practice is not
only observed in hotels where the
charge Is so much a day. but in those
conducted on the European plan-that
Is TO say. where You pay for every thing
you order. There | notice that the peo-
pie proceed in much the same wasteful
fashion. II is evidently not a desire TO
have more than is paid for, but simply
bad aud ugly habit. | hold that
about five hundred hungry people could
be fed out of the waste that is going on
at such large hotels as the Palmer
House and the Grand Pacific Hotel of
ChicagO-ald | have no doubt such five
hundred hungry people could easily be
found in ChicaS1 every day.-Max
O'Rell, in North American Review.
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No one doubts that DR.

No one doubts that DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy really
cures Catarrh, whether the
disease be recent or of long
standing, because the makers
of it clinch their faith in it
with a $500 guarantee, which
isn't a mere newspaper guar
antee, but son call " in a
moment.
That moment is when you
prove that its makers can't
cure you.
The reason for their faith
is this:
DIR. Sage's remedy has
proved itself the right cure
for ninety nine out of one
hundred cases of Catarrh in
the Head, and the Worlds
Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton can afford to take the
risk of your being the one
hundredth.
The only question is-are
you willing to make the test,
if the makers are willing to
take the risk?
If SO, the rest is easy. You
pay your druggist so cents
and the trial begins.
If you're wanting the $500
you'll get something better
q clYe :
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WI AND WISDOM.

Resignation is an invaluable treas
ure which can not, by the most violent
evils, be taken from us.
Learning is a good thing for man TO
have in his upper story if he has common
sense on the ground floor.
Let us be of good cheer, remember
ing that the misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never come.
-Passenger-W Which of the fool ques-
tons you hear every day tires you the
most? Conductor-That one.-Indian-
apolis Journal.
II can't find where that plumber
did any thing to this heater" Neither
could /. / told the man, but he said
we'd certainly find it in the bill. Phil
delphia Times.
-He-What do you think of the idea
that 16, 200 years hence we will be here
Just the same as now? She-From pres
ent indications it seems quite plausible.
indianapolis Journal.
"A Sure Scheme-''At last have it."
said the poor but honest man who
knows it all. II shall advertise for pu-
pills, incorporate myself into a univer-
sity, and wait for some rich man to en-
dow me. IN. Y. sun.
Every thing is at stand-still with
u.s." said the dear old Philadelphia mat
ron. 80 have observed" replied the
major. "Your daughter, / hear, is still
twenty-three, just as she was ten years
ago. -I.arpers Bazaar.
what was the secret of the power
of the ancient Greeks?' Slow Scholar
(dcsperately)-It came from their
knowledge of Greek. People who are
able to l.arn that language could ac-
complish any thing. = Philadelphia
Times.
I'm willing to bet any thing that
that young lady has just graduated from
some seminary" Eyes, so am II Isn't
she refined-lool1ing, modest and cultured
in her pehavior?" ''Pshawl / don't
mean her. l mean the gushing, gum
chewing girl with her, who is using so
much slang. Boston Traveller.
Never be discouraged because good
things 90 on slowly here, and never fail
daily to do that good which lies next to
your hand. Do not be in hurry, but be
dilieent. Enter into the sublime view of
it. God can afford to wait, why can not
we, since we have him to fall back up
on?--Geo Macdonald.