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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-15

MIR. l.. Lee, OF Woodruff, Rich
county, who was appointed a few
days ago for Woodruff precinct, being
unable 10 serve, tho commission this
morning substituted the name OF DC.
CufuiO
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-02-25
Elephant with Expensive Tastes.

The London courts will be called
upon soon to decide one of the most
curious cases that ever puzzled legal
brains A lady was seated a few
weeks ago in the Geological gardens,
and for security's sake removed from
her pocket to her lap purse contain
ing six sovereigns. The show elephant
shortly nfterward came on its rounds,
and, mistaking the brown purse for
bun. gratefully transferred it to his
trunk and thence into its stomach.
The management of the gardens were
at once appealed to, and emetics were
applied, but no more than two of the
sovereigns and munched bills of the
purse were recovered. The solicitors
for the lady are now, therefore, suing
the Geological society for the missing
four sovereigns, and, seeing that the
society possesses the elephant, and the
elephant possesses the sovereigns, the
plaintiff claims To have a clear case.
London Chronicle.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-02-25
DAINTY GIFT cooks.
Pretty and inexpensive Holiday Token
For Your Friends.

Pretty and inexpensive Holiday Tokens
For Your Friends.
Where it is advisable to give some
small token, rather more than Just a
card of greeting and yet nothing elab-
crate nor expensive, it is good plan to
buy little gift books with suitable
poems or words, such as may be pur-
chased in any quantity at this season,
carefully selecting them, as they vary
greatly in artistic and literary merit,
and then to cover them with white silk.
writing on the title with gold lettering
artistically rendered. A number of these
might be suitable presents for class of
children, or to be given in guild or So
clety, where each member receives some
little memento of the season from the
teacher or presiding officer. A beauti
ful gift could be rendered labor of
love for one who would appreciate it in
the following manner: Choose num-
ber OF unmounted photographs of the
pictures of famous artists, illustrating
step by step the story of Christmas, and
make them either into little book, or
else paste them on cards joined together
SO as to open screen fashion. The
method of arranging them must be a
question Of individual taste They may
be enriched by suitable borders, letter
Ing and other devices. Texts of Script
ure, or appropriate lines of verse,
should be written beneath them, and
the establishments made as simple.
artistic and suggestive as possible. The
cards on which the photographs are
mounted must be thick enough not to
wrinkle when they are laid on. Ladies'
Home journal
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

President Jordan, of Leland Stana,s
ford, jr, university, receives a salary of
s15, 900 a year.
Pennsylvania will soon throw open alls
its departments to women.
1t is vain to think we can take any
delight in being with Christ hereafter, I
if we care not how little we are in His
company here.-Adam.
"A wooden building costing s5,00O,;
and accommodating 5000 people, was
built expressly for the meetings held by
Mr. Moody in Dublin, Ireland. y
1t is said that there is not an infidel
book published in the Welsh language.
The Welsh are greater Bible readers
than any other race of people.
Mr.. II. A. Massey, of Toronto has
given $4,000 toward the building fund
OF Wesley college, the new Methodist
institution to be erected in Winnipeg!
The watchful Christian is one who
would not be over-surprised if he found
Christ coming at once; he would not
have something to do first, something
to get ready.-Newman.
The students of the department OF
industrial and fine arts at Pratt insti-
tute, Brooklyn, have established a
Charles Pratt memorial fund for the aid
OF pupils wishing to pursue an extended
art course in the department
Greek letter fraternities have been
recommended by the faculty to be for
hidden to freshmen in the Chicago uni
versity, but upper class men may join
them under certain restrictions. Final
decision in the matter rests with the
trustees
Bishop Nicholson, of Milwaukee,
has received a check from New York
millionaire, who requests that his name
be kept from the public The money is
for Nashotah seminary. The donor is
believed to be the same man who gave
$780, 900 to Bishop Potter for the pro-
posed New York cathedral few days
ago.
The question of making the en-
trance examinations in English harder
than at present at Harvard university
is being discussed with much interest
The matter has been forcibly brought
to public attention by report of the
committee on composition and rhetoric
appointed by the board of overseers
This committee consists of Charles
Francis Adams, E. L. Godkin and Jo-
siah Quincy.
Yes, God has his eternal decrees-a
purpose, an end for which he is work
ing, not blindly or haphazard, but in
telligently and according to fixed plans
Does this impair human freedom? Not
at all, for this freedom is part of his
fixed plan and enters into all his work.
Does it interfere and hinder your sal
walton? BY no means, for it is his sure
and fixed decree that every one who be-
lieves on the Lord Jesus shall be saved.
Limited PRESBYTERIAN.
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Caught the Thief.

A farm editor received the following
story and sent it to the curio column
collector, who returned 1t because he
knew it stated facts and not fiction. A
horticulturist had missed many apples
every night. Finally he set watch,
expecting to trap his neighbors' boys.
In the dim night light he saw the limbs
OF the apple trees shaking and then he
heard the fruit falling. He had seen
no one enter the orchard. Nonplussed,
he crept up to the shaking tree. He
saw hedgehog descend from the tree,
roll over on the apples until its back
was laden with the fruit attached by
the quills and wabble off. The farm
editor didn't doubt the story, but won
dered what an insect-eating animal
wanted with the apples. "For the
worms" triumphantly explained the
curio man.-Indianapolis News.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-02-25
Medicine Taken by Dial Time.

Mrs. John Rose Magruder, daugh-
ter OF the late Henry d. Cooke, the
banker, has made her home for the last
ten yearsin Mexico, where her husband
has mining interests. During the
greater portion of the time she is the
only woman in camp, and on this ac-
count, as well as in order to be of aid
in case OF illness, she has acquired con-
siderable knowledge OF medicine. A
clever device adopted to show the igno.
rant native women when certain pow
ders OF pills should be administered
was to make a little sketch of the coun.
try in that immediate vicinity and mark
off on the mountainside the different
stages OF the sun from early morning
to evening at which the medicine was
to be administered. d.-Washington.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-02-25
Young Girls and Jewels.

1t is in America alone that the matter
OF jewels would be likely to come up
for consideration in young girls tot
let. Excepting a string of small pearls,
or some dainty brooch miniature affixed
to band of velvet around the throat,
ornament of the kind is almost anseen
in full dress among the really we'll bred
people heretofore alluded to. Indeed,
it has been recently fashion amount
ing to fad among girls fortunate in
round, white, well-covered necks and
throats, to omit every vestige of Jewell
ry on the person land to have no orna-
ment in the hair, if a tiny bend or bow
OF ribbon be not suffered to nestle in
those silken solitudes). Cheap iewelry.
masquerading in the guise of real; the
thousand and one bow-knots and Rhine
stone pins, and false-enamel trinkets
that now glitter in the shop windows
and their adoption among maidservants
and shop-girls-are no doubt respon.
sible for the forsaking of much that is
fascinating and appropriate for wear in
the goldsmith's art.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
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READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY,
Thrifty Maine Couple Who Experienced
Setback.


Setback.
"They hain't no convention nor moth
in in town, is they?" asked a long
haired man who, with an elderly lady
carrying an enormous reticule, stepped
falteringly up to a counter in a Lewis
ton hotel the other evening and looked
the proprietor fair in his weather eye.
mot that l know Of" said the pro-
prietor: "What kind of a convention,
mister, were you looking for?"
'Wa-al Baptis'. Baptis' is my first
pick. I'm Baptis'. Hesty, here" nod
ding at his wife, "she's got Meth'dis'
leanin', but 'twouldn't matter much
either way, would it?" he replied, smil-
ing at his modest partner.
Did you come to town expecting a
convention?" inquired the proprietor
mo! o no! Not's know on. We're
both Y. NJ. G. A., ye see, and she's tenn
p'rance, and Pm considerable in the
grange, and she's a Rebekah, and I'm
one OF the G. A. R. post up in my town.
We come visitin,' but the folks is away
We'd orter let 'em know, but we didn't
We've allus had good luck conven
tlonin'; allus staid a good while and had
plenty to eat and a mighty good time,
and it hain't never cost us nothin' We
generally intend to do most O. our visit
in in strange places as delegates. but
here we be, and the folks we was goin'
to visit has gone away, and thoughts 1,
If there's a convention in town its
mighty slim show, butPd be one of the
bretherin and she'd be sister in less n
two minutes after we seen headeuar-
ters. | thought I'd ask the question.
No harm, ye know. Eff there was a
convention O any kind-republican or
democrat, Unitarian, Congregationalist,
old school Baptis', good templar, sons o
temperance, temple er honor, patrons
O husbandry, P. U. O. w. f., G. A. r.,
sons O veterans, or anything of the
kind-you'd know it, wouldn't your
"There is no convention of any
kind"
"Come on then, Hesty," said he,
wearily; well have to stay here and
settle"
"Sam," said the landlord, "give this
couple the bridal chamber" ."-Lewiston
journal
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BUSINESS WAS SECONDARY.
The Peddler That Was Paid for Gettiu
Off His Speech,


Off His Speech.
81 will detain you, ma'am," said
the peddler opening his pack, "only
'But I don't want to buy anything, A"
she interrupted
Moment or two" he went on, talk
ing out a cake of reddish transparent
soap. my object in calling"
II told you didn't want anythingr'
SIS to introduce to your notice SUI
perior brand Of
I've got no time to listen to- you,
STRIP
"Sassafras soap. 1 guarantee this
soap, madam, to remove grease spots
from a rag carpet or lace curtain
without particle of injury to either.
As "a"
"How many more times have got to
tell you," said the woman, raising her
voice, chat don't want anything!'
Shaving soap," persisted the peddler,
raising his voice also, 81 can recon-
mended it as the best in use. 1t makes
a beautiful"
'Of all the bold, impudent creatures
l ever saw you are the boldestY
Creamy lather, that does not dry on
the face. Used according to directions
it will cure chaps, remove freckles, OBJ
literate tan and unburn, and -"
Take it somewhere else! l don't
want it!'' she vociferated, shutting the
door in his face.
''Wash stains out of marble and fur.
niture," yelled the peddler, without
leaving mark of any kind on their
polished surface. To introduce the
soap into this neighborhood am sell
ing it at ten cents cake, and don't
care pinch of salt whether you buy or
not, ma'am! Do you hear that? Pm
paid by the day to go round and get off
this speech, and when strike house."
he continued, in a voice that Jared the
windows "rm going to get it off if ]
have to howl it down the chimney!
That's all I've got to say this time,
ma'am, and I'll be around here again in
exactly thirty daysr'
He turned on his heel, wiped the per-
spiration from his face, took chew of
tobacco, and moved on toward the next
Louse.-Chicago Tribune.
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Horace Porter,s Airy Flight.

Gen. Horace Porter says that, being
called upon to speak at public ban
quet in London soon after he had ar
rived IN that city. he made playful al
lusion to the ocean lane" referring
to the main route of the steamers, and
said that the passengers beguiled the
tedium of the voyage by gathering the
flowers that grew beside it and listen
ing to the songs of birds in the over
arching elms. The remark was re-
ceived with silence, and after he had
taken his seat he heard one solemn
Englishman say to another solemn
Englishman: Picking flowers along
the ocean lane! Now, did you ever
hear of such thing as that? What
liars these Americans arer-N. Y. Sun,
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that you and Susie are going to?'' in a
joking manner, as he turns it over to
her, luckily intact
They go back into the sitting-room
once more and then I lay my head
upon the table and sob bitterly.
Don't" says Jennie, with her small
arm around my neck. "Don't cry!
The pension money will be here in a
day or two, and the rings safe, and
he" meaning our guest, didn't under
stand" for Jennie is old for her years
and dimly compreh ends my feelings.
l bathe my hot eyes and 60 out to bid
our guest good by.
He is coming soon again. says
father, cheerfnlly; ''he's particularly
interested in" Then they are off and
l shut the door with feeling of in
tense relief.
1t is three days later, the pension
check has been cashed, and am has
tening to the pawnbroker's for nv
precious ring. There is slight rain
falling and have no umbrella; do no.
possess one that is good enough to be
Of any service.
Somebody hurriedly passes, pauses
suddenly. lifts his hat then with a
smile holds his umbrella over my un-
lucky head. 1t is Mr. Smith.
Miss Susie, for you see / remember
you quite well, the shower is growing
worse, you are likely to get wet. Won't
You take my umbrella-or let me walk
your way-I believe / prefer the lat
ter" with friendly laugh.
Here is a nice predicament! Almost
at the door of the pawn shop, and this
very kind and obliging young man
waiting most cheerfully to dance
attendance upon me even in rain
storm.
For an instant stand helplessly be-
fore him, my cheeks afame, then
manage to say:
III you could take car and-and-''
Certainly" he said, coldly, handing
me the UNI brella.
You can call for it, you know" I
add, blushing most dreadfully.
He turns an instant, wondering ex-
preston on his face, bows, and is in the
passing car and gone.
"Oh,' l say with gasp, "what girl
he must think me-and then that I
begged him to call for this umbrella!
I'D like TO toss it in the river. I'd
rather have gotten wet through than
to have met him today just here"
\ They are busy in the pawn shop; it is
many minutes before / receive my
precious ring and slip it ioYfully upon
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-02-25
SELFISH OR UNSELFiSH.
The Difference Between True and Falls,
Economy.

The Difference Between True and a False
Economy.
1t is to be regretted that the terms
meanness and economy are not infre-
quently considered as synonymous and
interchangeable; and that the indi-
vidual who gives thought to saving a
dime, quarter, or dollar is thereby
considered as Less generous. less con-
siderate, than he who spends profusely,
yet a second thought may show that it
is thougntless and lavish expenditure
which is selfish, and a reasonable re-
gard for economy which is unselfish;
that there may be a spending which is
merely idle waste and saving which
has its object in spending-in a way to
represent higher needs than the caprice
of the moment.
Take, for example, the fad of the day
that is more polite in the city to send
notes and letters to friends by special
messenger rather than by post. TO pay
from fifteen to fifty cents for messen-
ger service would be no great matter as
an occasional or exceptional thing; but,
when this is multiplied every day, and
perhaps several times in one day, it be-
comes during the season sum large
enough to have purchased symphony
rehearsal ticket for friend who could
not obtain one; or an invalid's chair to
meet need; or to pay girls board in
college; or to make some one happy
with gifts of books or subscriptions to
magazines.
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child was eminent
for her genuine thoughtfulness-t that
saved on the non-essentials to spend for
essentials Her personal economies
were untiring and extremely scrupu-
lous; but when contributions were
needed for noble purposes, she had al
ways something to give.
There are few people who, whatever
their resource S, do not all the time see
about them needs they would gladly
meet were their means commensurate
with their desires; and one aid toward
giving ones self this privilege is the
habit of small savings, which, in the
aggregate, amount to sum that repre-
sent something of Importance.
There is a refinement in economy
that is not inherit in lavish and reckless
spending. The individual who is
thoughtful, generous and considerate
is not one to throw away money in the
ways of self-indulgence. Money is
representative. We spend our money
for that which we like, and we are like
that for which we spend our money!
Boston Budget
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BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1898.
my finger, the only article of the kind

my finger, the only article of the kind
| have ever possessed-and then the
memory of from whence it came, of the
sea that parted us, of the bigger sea
that now must forever roll between,
causes a tear TO roll slowly down my
cheek.
take my handkerchief and wipe it
away, raise the borrowed umbrella
carefully and 60 out into the storm.
Somebody is rushing by, somebody
who it seems did not care to take that
car, since his own business must have
compelled him to return to the neigh
borhood.
1t is all over now; he has seen me
come out of that dreadful place; he
understands now to whom that pawn
ticket belonged. But he little dreams
that for his sake was the sacrifice
made.
Then, three days later, he calls for
that unlucky umbrella-at least call
it unlucky. 1t is evening; 1 am all
alone, for father and little Jennie are
| out walking.
He looks particularly well and partic-
ularly handsome, I think, giving him,
my hand, shyly, for the memory of all
that has been does not help to render
me calm and cool.
He talks easily of poor old father and
his dreams; of little needless Jennie,
and then talks Of me, of myself, trying
to draw me out, and before know il
l am telling him much of the life of
trials and privations, and wind up
with the history of my ring. 1 don't
know why tell it, but do. and then
and then, somehow, before the re-
turn of father and Jennie, discover
that Mr.. Smith has not called for his
umbrella, but wholly and entirely to
see me.
He does not say as much in words,
but know. And l think, as he holds
my hand and watches my face with
those dark eyes, he reads Alright the
reason of the bushes that come and 20.
Later on he tells me so gently and
SO fondly how he knew all about those
dreadful happenings and how he pitied
me and wanted to help me.
And then laugh and tell him that
pity is akin to love, and he might have
known his danger.
But he says he fails to see the dan
ger. "-Abbie G. McKeever, in Yankee
Blade.
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WIT AND WISDOM,

Keep true to the dreams of thy
youth-Schiller
The tip of tipsy man isn't
straight tip. Rochester Democrat. q
The time when it makes man the
maddest to call him liar is when he
knows you tell the truth. RAMS Horn.
We are born to be sociable to one
another; therefore either reform the
world, or bear with it.-Marcus
Aurelius.
-Passenger-"What's the matter
with the east-bound train---has it
changed again?" Agent-"YesSj W.; it's
snow-bound now."-Inter Ocean. St
The Term Defined Mabel - Papa,
what is meant by the higher criticism?
Her Father.-Cracking jokes about the
jewels in the prima donna's hair.-Jew-
eler's Weekly
Little Tommy-What is that man
cutting the trees for, papa? Tommy's
papa-He is pruning them, my boy.
Little Tommy-How soon will the
prunes be ripe?-Philadelph Record.
The Application of It.
He wrote book on "How to Get Rich"
Which really was snorter
Last week he met me on the street,
And wanted to borrow quarter.
Detroit Free Press.
--Agnes-Really, Helen has improved
in her music wonderfully since she
went abroad. Edith-In what wav?
Agnes-Why, she never plays ANYTHING
now that sounds the least BIT like a
tune.--Inter Ocean.
He was Hungry The Court--It has
been proven that you snatched this
mans stud, wrenched the gem from the
setting and swallowed it.. Wayward
Wigley-Yis, yer honor, I've been towld
that man can live on paste.-Jewel-
er's Weekly.
The Close of the Discussion. m
Peck-rd have you know, madam, that
/ have as much right to ventilate nv
opinions as you have. Mrs. Peck-But,
my dear, your opinions don't need ven
tilating. They're all wind, anyway.
Indianapolis Journal.
"A significant commentary on the
old-style tombstone epitaph is credited
to little boy in West Philadelphia,
who was recently taken for walk
Though Woodlands cemetery He was
greatly interested in the inscriptions.
and that evening at the tea-table he
was unusually quiet for a while, and
then said: Papa, where are all the bad
people buried?"
II have no doubt you still love me,
Henry" said his wife, "but you never
take me on your knee now as you used
to do, and yet you promised to do so at
the altar" promised to take you on
my kneer exclaimed the husband in
astonishment swell, as good as that
II don't remember saying any such
thing" "You said, to have and to
hold. IN. Y. Press 81
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him." nothing more; and he died, they
said. OF some fever, the handsome,
dark-eyed boy, and my ring was all l
had of what might have been"
II don't know Of anything else," re-
peated Jennie, heartlessly.
"Nor /, either" I say, slipping ii
from my finger. Then / write down a
few Items OF things the child is to get,
give her the ring in my little worn
purse and send her forth. / could not
go myself, and she is equal to it.
It Is a passable dinner. We manage
to get through somehow. but as hand
father his second cup of coffee, he does
see the very thing least desire him to
notice-the ringless hand.
"Why. Susie. pet, have you lost your
ring?"
In vain try to stop him, perhaps the
sorrow In my face makes his question
the more pointed.
IL put it away" say by this time.
Il have been washing, you know"
"Oh, yes," says father, entirely salts
fed, but the shame of the little subter-
fuge, the loss Of my ring, render me
anything but sociable hostess.
am congratulating myself that it is
to end well. after all, when again
fathers usually all unseeing eyes no
tice small bit of paper on the floor;
he stoops down and picks it up.
SIS it yours?" he asks, handing it to
our guest, when, oh, horrors! see it
is pawn ticket. the ticket undoubted-
~ for my precious ring, that needless
Jennie has forgotten to give mo.
Our guest smiles and says:
"Oh, no, not mine"
MY eyes are not as young as they
were once" continues father placidly,
beginning to twist the old ticket in his
fingers, and going on with his story
for father always has story in prog.
ress. aAd doesn't seem to mind inter
ruptions-but the ticket is likely to be
torn into atoms when the interest
grows stronger. What can do? am
in agony. The very unobservant guest
has completed his pie, the quiet smile
about his lips betrsying nothing. Once
more turn to Jennie for help. / tell
her as plainly as eyes can tell, to save
my ring, at least save me the chance
of once more possessing it, Jennie is
child of resources, but not always the
most prudent.
Pop, she whispers, slipping up be.
hind him, gimme that ticket"
"Hey!" says father, not understand.
ing her, what is it, dear? show ticket