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SWITZERLAND AND VERMONT.

One Has Good Roads and Prosperity, the
Other Bad Roads and Adversely.
Nothing more clearly indicates wheth-
er a country or locality is prosperous or
not than the emigration statistics. If
the house you live in is damp, or cold,
or tooss1nall, or otherwise announcement,
you move out of it and hunt up another.
1t is precisely the same with a country.
If its inhabitants find that they cannot
make good living in it by reasonable
expenditure of labor, they will pack up
their pots and kettles, their beds and
bedding and go elsewhere if they can.
Since the opening upof Americas vas,
territories and resources the dissatisfied
of all countries have focked hither. If
no people come to America from any
given country, it Is safe to suppose that
yerysfew.- people emigrate from that
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Would Make q Good Wife.

81 was thinking, sir" he said, as he
hesitated at the door of the old gentle
mans private Office, ''that perhaps I'd
like to marry your daughter"
ga noble girl" said the old gentle
man refectively. 81 don't know how ]
can spare her, but suppose I'll have to
some time"
eyes, sir; quite right, sir, and I'd like
to have her, except-except-you know
I'm not rich, sir"
II know it," replied the old gentle
man, .but you are drawing q fair salary,
and don't require wealth."
81 am glad of that, sir, but was sort
of thinking that-that she isn't expert
enced III household Iuatters."
"She isn't" said the old gentleman,
"but she's a wonderfully observing
girl"
eyes, sir, and I think great deal OF
her, but if take her to home of her
own, I'm afraid, sir-Pm afraid it would
be hard, very hard. She was educated
for a rich mans wife and wouldn't
know
"You're partly right" interrupted the
Olu gentleman. DuI Leu INC Ioll you
something about that girl. She went to
my closet couple of days ago to get
something that was there, and there was
a pair of trousers hanging near the
door,"
eyes; what Of it?'
Zone of the suspender buttons was
gone"
"And she-she"- The young man
was so agitated he could not finish the
sentence.
'She noticed it," said the old gentle
man.
Noticed it herself"
mo one had said word to her about
it."
"But she-she didn't
Eyes. she did. She sewed that but
ton on"
"Please, sir, say Yes" pleaded the
young man, "and--and if she'll have me
let us name the day in the near future.
And grant me one other favor?"
"What is it?'
"Don't, please don't let any other
young man know about that button
until after the wedding. don't want
to take any chances. Chicago Tribune.
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Lived 100 Year. without medicine.

Old Aunt Pattie Bird died recently
after having lived between 100 and Ill
years. No one knows her age exactly.
She lived and never took dose of medi-
cine in her life, and was able to cut and
carry wood until about year ago. She
was stout and hearty until only few
days before her death. Aunt Ratie was
born in South Carolina and lived there
until she was about twenty years old,
and then she moved to Georgia and set
tied in Hall county, where she lived un-
til 1888, and then moved 10 Forsyth
county, near Mount Tabor Church, where
she has since lived without ever being
ten miles from home. She was a mem
Der of the Baptist church and lived
Christian hfe.-Cor. Atlanta Constitu-
tion
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work. TneaKenEroang Fare -KepSHup &C
the joint expense international govern
ment'and the prefectures, leach paying
one-haf. The village roadsare paid for
by local taxation, but theework is done
untterthe supervision. of. the authorities
fsthepenectures. OneR need know lit
ltieaabouts Japan'to see how comprehen-
lsfyeighas been, this3 subdivision of the
roads escountrysan how effectively
I1tsculd be an1ade to work by energetic
ADMINISTRATIONS who-were Jealous road
builders. Every part Cd. American COM
mon road methods is weak, but it is
weakest after all, in my opinion, in its
Imefhod. of administration. We need to
ltaketat least two classes Of roads out Of
lthesh hands Of the local authorities, and
!evenswith the ,roadsAoff the third class
lsee that.the money,raised to build and
maintain them is, not wasted or even
worse than wasted.
Two an MED Crrrp n u
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2netfIal.
MY LOVE.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from afar,
beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near.
Great feelings hath she of her own.
Which lesser souls may never know;
God giveth them to her alone.
And sweet they are as any tone
WhereWith the wind may choose to blow.
Yet in herself she dweleth not,
Although no home were half so fair;
No simple duty is forgot,
Life hath no dim and lowly spot
That doth not in her sunshine share.
She doeth little kindnesses,
Which most leave undone or deSpise;
For naught that sets one heart at ease,
And giyeth happiness and peace,
Is loW-esteemed i'll her eyes.
She hath no scorn of common things,
And, though she seem OF other birth,
Round us her heart entwines and clings,
And patiently she folds her wings
10 tread the humble paths of earth.
Blessing she is; God made her so,
And deeds of weekday holiness
Fall from her noiSeleSS as the snow,
Nor hath she ever CHANGED to know
That aught was easier than to bless.
She is most fair, and thereunto
Her life doth rightly harmonize;
Feeling, nor thought that was not true
Ne 'er made less beautiful the blue
Unclouded heaven of her eyes.
She is woman; one in whom
The springtime of her childish years
Hath never lost its fresh perfume,
Though knowing we'll that lite hath room
For many blights and many tears.
love her with love as still
As broad rivers peaceful might
Which, by high tower and lowIy mill,
Goes wandering at its own sweet will,
And yet doth ever flow Alright.
And on its full, deep breast serene,
Like quiet isles my duties lie;
1t flows around them and between,
And makes them fresh and fair and gre, n,
Sweet homes wherein to live and die.
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Tracing a railroad Car.

One of the best jobs in car tracing that
was ever done in this country was COM
pleted about three. weeks ago by car
tracer of the New York Central. That
road had lost a car, and sent out the
tracer to look it up. He followed it west
to Pittsburg, then to Cincinnati, then to
Chicago and from there to St. Louis.
Here he lost track of it, but after some
search found it had been in an accident
and had been repainted. By some over
sight the number had been changed, but
taking the new number, he chased the
car to Kansas City, where he found it
had been loaded and sent on to Calves
ton. To Galveston he went, and there
found that, after taking fresh load, the
car had gone to San Francisco. He went
after it, but on reaching San Francisco
found the car had gone back to Calves
ston. By this time his blood was up
and he made up his mind to find that
car if it took the balance of his natural
life.
So he went back to Galveston, and, to
make long story short, followed that
car to New Orleans, to Mobile, to At
lanta, to half dozen places in Florida,
then back to New Orleans, to Galveston
again, and thence to Kansas City, and
from there to Chicago. He had now
been on the hunt for over three months,
but had got so close to the runaway that
just as he came into Chicago by one road
the car left it over another on its way to
Buffalo. Its load was consigned to that
point, and when Ire ascertained the fact
he telegraphed on to have the car held,
and took the next train for the east. At
Buffalo he came up with the car and
caught his first sight of it. He had
travelled almost constantly for oven
thirteen weeks, traversing distance of
10000 or Il, 900 miles.-Interyiew in st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
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AnrODOR.

The bill season is at hand, and a GER
tain booksellers correspondent will find
many imitators in spirit, though they
may lack his logic. This especial debtor
acknowledged his bill in this wise, 81
never ordered the book; if did, you
didn't send it; if you sent it, I never got
it; if got it, paid for it; if I didn't, |
won't" Yet they do say that even that
decisive note failed to bring the irate
writer his receipted bill!-Boston Com
monwealth.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-08

LII goIo rings chased bands, usually
with small incised border, are intended
for children. These usually have plain
disk on top intended for the initial.
Comedy and tragedy appear to be fav-
orite designs in stickpins. Sometimes
they are represented by two hooks in
pink shell, and again by a single laugh
ing face pierced by a gold dagger.
The latest novelty in bracelets SUPER
sedes knife settings, with ornamental
forms, in which the larger jewels have
eramp setting and the smaller jewels
have gypsy setting. This places them
- 5:G--.-t sl:sea-JaWalars' Circular.
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rhe rrade Rats of Arizona.

A miner near the Senator recently had
rather singular experience with trade
rats, known also as mountain rats. As
the nights were cold the miner took his
ore sack to replenish his rather hard bed.
Having neglected to come to town for
several weeks his supply of beans had
given out, and he had come down to
diet Of straight bacon. Considerably
out Of humor, he started in to pull his
bed to pieces one morning, and IN re-
moving the sacks was agreeably sur
prised to find three pounds of beans,
with little coffee mixed, which the
trade rats had brought from the Senator
and stored in his bed.
The rats are native Americans, and
very different from their imported Nor
way cousins. They are called trade rats
because they generally leave some ar
ticle in exchange for what they take
away.-Prescott "a. To- Courier.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

At recent auction sale Of odds and
ends in Paris woman bought an old
mattressin which she found Il, 600 francs
in gold.
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Christmas.

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The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19

mists contributed. He was elected in
1890 professor of political and munic-
ipal institutions and international law
by Cornell university, having frequently
declined most fattering invitations from
other institutions.
He did not accept the call to Cornell,
but was induced by Mr.. w. 7. Stead,
the eminent London journalist, to found
The American Review of Reviews, to be
published and edited in close association
with Mr.. Stead's English magazine of
the same name. The new Review ap-
peared in 1891, edited by Mr.. Shaw in
New York, and in a years time had
gained circulation of 200 copies, a
most unprecedented triumph in serious
periodical literature, and it goes with
out saying that Mr.. Shaw is entitled to
large share Of the credit for it's re-
markable success.
He still holds lectureships at Johns
Hopkins and the Winconsin State uni
versity's school of historical and politi-
cal science, and frequently lectures on
his favorite topics in other institutions.
He contributes to leading periodicals
and does a large amount of work every
month for his own magazine. Mr.. Shaw
is unmarried, and seems welded to his
aspirations and work for reform and
progress. MEL r. COLQUITT.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
DIR. ALBERT SHAW.
The Brilliant Young Editor of The Re
view of Reviews.

The Brilliant Young Editor of The Re-
view of Reviews.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Nov. 10. DIR. Albert
Shaw, who has scored such brilliant
success as editor of, The Review OF Re
views, was born in Butler county, o.,
July %, 1867. He was graduated from
Iowa college, Grinnell, Ia, in 1879.
Soon after leaving college he entered
local journalism in Iowa for the pur-
pose of learning the mechanical and
business branches.
His strongest tastes being for political
and economic sciences, he took long
leaves from his newspaper work to go to
Johns Hopkins universit for post grad
uate study in history and political sci
ence. In 1883 he did editorial writing
on the Minneapolis Daily Tribune, but
returned to Johns Hopkins to complete
his course there and received in 1884 the
degree Of Phi. D., having accomplished
work of high order in constitutional
history, international law and political
economy.
He returned to Minneapolis as chief Of
the editorial staff of The Tribune, hold
ing that position until the close of 1880
with the interval of over year spent
in Europe. In the meantime he had
earned a distinguished reputation by his
contributions to The Contemporary Re-
view and Fortnightly Review in Eng
land, treating of various phases of west
ern constitutional and legislative expert
ence.
His stay in Europe in 1883 and 1889
was spent in the study of municipal gov
eminent in Great Britain and in the
large cities of the continent, and in
study of European constitutional systems
and general political conditions. When
he returned he resumed editorial charge
of the Minneapolis Tribune and gave
lectures at Johns Hopkins, Cornell and
Michigan universities upon municipal
government in Europe. He also wrote,
by invitation from The Century, num-
Der of articles on the government of the
principal cities of Europe, which are to
be published in book form.
The Chautauqua Magazine printed a
series of interesting and instructive arti-
cles from his pen on the political and
social conditions Of the Servians, Turks,
Bulgarians, Greeks and other nations
the result of his travels and researches.
During his residence in Minneapolis he
wrote monograph called Cooperation
in Western City"-afterward enlarged
and reprinted as part of the History
of Cooperation in the United States
which excited admiring attention both
at home and abroad. His thesis in 1884
at Johns Hopkins was entitled s'Icaria:
A Study of Communistic History aft
erward translated and published in Ger
many.
In the year 1883 he edited volume
entitled "The National Revenues" to
which q large number of leading econo
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
Poet RiIex,s Practical Jokes.

Many amusing stories are told of the
practical jokes the celebrated poet James
Whitcomb Riley used to play on stran-
gers to draw them out. One was to enter
town as blind painter, led by boy,
and do sign painting that amazed the
natives. The blindness part of it was
only half a joke, for without powerful
glasses Mr.. Riley's vision is mostly
limited to few rods. He says that
if he detects any signs of apathy in an
audience he simply takes off his glasses,
and then he sees no audience-''they
may be enthusin like all possessed for
all | know
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
F. L. STANTON.


uted many spicy paragraphs to the local
paper at Smithville, Ga. But the tend
ency of increasing years is to turn the
writer from the humorous toward the
sentimental, and it is fact not often
noticed that Of the lads who give early
promise Of becoming humorists at least
nine out of ten become serious or senti-
nation Mr.. Stanton seems to be under
going, as shown in this his latest pub
lished production:
If you should leave, kissing me good night,
And 1 should know that sweet kiss meant
goodby,
Iwould not give the world my tears nor
sigh
My sorrow in its loveliness and light.
But should say, Somewhere the day dawns
bright,
And beautiful Gods morning draweth nigh
Where rarer rainbows span the stormless
sky
And rarer smiles have made the darkness
white!''
And some day, dreaming in your home above,
Where there's never dark or storm gloom.
Your lips would feel the last kiss that they
knew,
w nile mine WOulQ say 1afCu udu IOr Inc no
love.
It was SO lonely in the light and bloom
That through the gates of death came to
you'll"
The advance of the nation is paralleled
by that of the individual, but our ma
ton alone has reached maturity in the
years of an individual, and the new
south has advanced even faster still.
Of all this the changes from year to
year in Mr.. Stanton's productions are a
striking illustration. From The News
of Smithville, to The Tribune, Of Rome,
seemed quite an advance in Georgia
but it was not till Mr.. Stanton took an
editorial position on the Atlanta Consti-
tuition that the outside world began to
take note of him.
From the new north comes peer for
Mr.. Stanton, curiously like and unlike
him, a product of the very highest cul-
ture and representative of three OF
four generations of literary people. This
is John Kendrick Bangs, who was born
at Yonkers, N. Y, in May, 1862, and in
1888 became managing editor Of all the
humorous business in Harper's publica-
lions, chief of which are the drawer
in the Magazine and the "Facetiae
in the Bazaar.
He has written a novel, two dramas
and volume of satirica1 social com
ments. The following playful lines ex-
hibit his style:
My shaving brush is missing, my shoehorn
can't be found,
My comb and brush l cannot see. my cane is
nowhere round,
My tall silk hat is ruffled up. my pens have
gone astray,
But all this woe is naught to me, for baby's had
his way.
What though my shoes are minus strings, my
manuscript awry?
know that this betokens babes been spared a
heartfelt cry.
What though the floor is ever strewn with
toys by night and day?
Is there not pleasure in the thought that
baby's had his way?
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
TWO POETS OF TO-DAY.
One is a Southerner, the Other a
Nativeef the East.

Both Have Done Good WORK, ana Facn
Has Yet TO Reach the High Water Mark
of His Literary Powers-An Estimate of
Stanton and Bangs.
The rising generation of Americans
bids fair to add to our national reputa-
ton for humor and at least sustain the
standard in poetry. In humorous and
especially in dialect poetry, therefore,
it might be expected that we should lead
the world, and such is indeed the case.
In both lines the new south now prom
Uses to take the lead, and very new
representative of the new south is Frank
Libby Stanton.
He was born in Charleston, but
taken to Georgia at very early age.
He began to write what schoolboys call
mighty good compositions at the age
of nine, and while a mere lad contrib
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19

games at a. m.
Are not just suited to my mind, but John is
fond of them,
And after all it seems to me no man can well
gainsay
That there is lots and lots of fun when baby
has his way.
So, son and heir, continue on thy happy, blest
career;
Meier shall thy daddy interpose to raise the
scalding tear.
Whate'er discomfort comes to me, cease not
thy joyous play;
As far as TIA concerned, my boy, go in and
have thy way. -
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
An Earthquake Shock Near Philadelphia

DR.. John Guiteras, of west Philadel-
phia, who personally experienced the
memorable earthquake at Charleston,
writes that at 9:40 o'clock on Monday
evening he felt the shock which about
the same time startled the residents
along an imaginary line running in a
southwesterly direction through Chester
and Wilmington. The shock of earth
quake was also felt at Shawmont station
on the Reading railroad.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
Matches Made of Com pressed Peat.

In consequence of the growing diff
Guilty of procuring wood suitable for the
manufacture of matches, German fac
tories are now making them Of COM
pressed peat, which is said to be an ex-
cellent substitute.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19

In Southport, England there is an un-
usual preponderance of females, the
proportion being IA females to each 100
males.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
No Dinner. No Drink.

By liquor law recently put in force
in Cape Colony no traveller can be sup
piled with drink unless with bona tide
dinner or luncheon.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19

The PRESS is delivered mornings in Portland
and Woodfords at so cents month.
The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19

A Daily Paper is an Unrivalled Educator
have the PRESS at 80 cents a month.