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DOWN A CREASED RUNWAY.
Many Wrecks of Fast Living and
disappointed Hopes Found In
Warrington.

Many Wrecks of Fast Living and
Washington.
Around the city Of Washington, and
Its public places and corners are many
wrecks of disappointed ambition, fast
living. and unslaked thirst for Office
says the Washington Post. These rel
les of q by-gone time, who breathe
in the present and live in the past,
have their places Of meeting and nc
customed haunts just as have their
more prosperous brethren. A certain
redness of nose and looseness of attire
and sadly boastful talk distinguish
them from other men so strongly that
they may be told at Il glance. Forced
by incomes Strengthened to meannesS
to live in squalid fashion, with never
dollar to spare from the stern neces-
stiles Of bread and bed, such dissipation
us they are able to compass is obtained
from the pockets Of young men willing
to buy them liquor for the sake Of
hearing "reminiscences of things that
happened III years long dead. Some of
them have achieved smaller places in
the departments and exc out an ex-
istcnce upon salaries that in the old
times would not have settled Il week S
cigar bill Several are in the treasury.
| Unable to work, they are Kept upon
the rolls in memory of what they once
were They are looked up to in GER
! t,tt nv
bles are forgiven because they have
grown old without honor.
! A prominent figure among them is
man who is nOminally messenger.
His pay is $50 month. He has no
family md manages to live. No one
knows what part of the union saw ms
birth, but he was many years III inc
south during the reconstruction times.
He is OF the genus ''carpet-bagger' and
he made it pay. Ousted from office
in the early '70s, he came to Washing
ton. On the night of his arrival he de
posted with the proprietor OF one OF
the best-known hotels the neat sum OF
$4,000. 1t was Il part of his plumber,
not much more than half of it. with
the manners of a gentleman and wide
acquaintance, he became at once
powerful member of the winc-drinkine
and card-playing lobby OF those days
No game was too steep for his entry
His money was soon gone ana ms
schemes failed. He went from cham
payne to whisky and began to grow
shabby and fall into disrepute. Iht
descent to Avernus was easy ana rap
id. Two or three government places
secured for him by his former boor
companions in congressional life were
lost through hnbitual inebriety. Ambi
ton left him and he has long been
stranger to hope. Yet Mt the age OF
sixty years, when swallow after swal
low of fiery liquor has sent the Inn
blood coursing through his swollei
veins, flashes of the old wit come from
him, and his cracked voice recovers
something OF the mellow tones tia
used to make him hidden guest Il
the tables of the great
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practiced half of the winter acquiring
various little graces that make her so
enchanting. She has studied getting
In ana out of II hammock hung in her
boudoir, in crinolin.d irt, and has
sighed more than ONE at her awk-
wardncss II would wobblc about
not the hammock, bu. the horsehair-
lined pettico t-and show too much on
too little of slender ankle than was
to her taste. or do someth ng el-c
equally vcxing when she first began
thinking OF il and her hammock to-
gcther, and many we've the long weary
hours of patient toll and study that
She expended in tryn g to reconcile
them. But She has dne SO with great
credit to herself, and a lot of other
things beside.
She has practiced smoking as n fine
art, not in the amateur way but as 1t
is done in Newport, a though it was
something kccnly enjycd. She now
holds her cigarette tilted upward n
bit, between her pearl teeth, of which
she condesccnds to give an occasional
glimpse, and with he'd thrown back
can affect the grand Idly air to per-
lection.
She also can do the rural, as the
girls do at cheap boalling-houses in
the GuJsKiiIs, SIT btt upright, Win
her hands clasped aipund one knee,
while one foot danglfs over the ham
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est interest. In the exhibit OF the
patent office is shown the approved
gun of the model of February Fl, 1893.
The gun is of tn rty caliber, sighted
for 1900 yards, and adapted to the use
of smokeless powder. The barrel is
thin, it having been found unneces-
sary to use the cooling jacket that was
formerly thought necessary. The
breech block has double motion and
| can be removed and thrown away on
pressing the trigger fully home, SO
that the piece can be rendered useless,
ii its owner is obliged to discard it.
The clip, or repeating reservoir,
holds five cartridges. From a repeater
the gun can instantly be converted
into single shot weapon. The new
model has several improvements over
the older style of krag-Jorgenson as
used abroad. Patent rights will be
secured for the use of the United
States government and the guns man
ufactured here. Smolteless powder, it
is said, is complete success
Springfield rifle is shown, caliber
| thirty, with thirty-siX and one-half
grains of powder, penetration at twenty
yards was nineteen and a half inches
in an oak block, crossing the grain.
and twentyfour and n half inches
gong WIN tue gram. L nc = pTiHS ieiu
rife was selected for the test, to prove
that guns now in use can be converted
and used without danger from the
rapid ignition of the powder. The
most recent models OF European coun-
tries are all of the same general type
as that of the gun approved for use in
the country. Smokeless powder is IA
vored, the use of small calibers, and
the loading clip entering the lock
from side or bottom appearing in all
the rifles
! OF modern ordnance there are many
examples. Noticeable are the rapid
firing guns. OF these the most
numerous are of the Hotchliiss type.
Guns of this make are calibcred for
balls running from eight pounds to
thirty-three pounds, fitting four
inch caliber. For the field there is a
piece throwing a ball weighing 1879
pounds 5000 yards with charge of
smokeless powder, the initial velocity
being 1890 feet per second. For naval
use fine rifle is made to throw
three-inch ffteen-pound shell 5000
yards. There are hydraulic cylinders
to take up the rccoil and Il shoulder
whereby the gunner can aim and dis
charge his piece. From ten to twelve
shots per minute can be fired Small
pieces are made for use in mountain
warfare, so arranged that they can be
carried on pack animals. They are
shown in the War Department
mounted on mules. Some of the
Hotchkiss guns are exhibited on the
man-of-war on the lake shore east of
, the government building, while the
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great twelve-inch rifle. insignificant,
when viewed with but passing
glance. Yet any one of them could
tell, We're its mouth gifted with
speech, more of the glory and sorrow,
the pomp and horror, the pride and
despair, of war, than all the fine new
ornaments of the nations.
Sometimes one of the girls at the
cartridge machine will stop her work
to call the attention of visitor to
these silent memorials. Comparatively
few, however, seem to care for what
war was, because of interest in what
war will be should it come. The vet
Grams hunt up their old comrades, how
ever, and fraternize with them, for
these old guns and u stand of battered
muskets are full of interest to men
with memories of thirty years ago.
AT the southwestern corner of the
Enclosure is seen the gun that fired the
first shot at Fort sumter. Most peo-
pie regard this as being the first shot
fred during the war. Even if, as is
said, some one down in Texas burnt
powder previously, this old cannon
opened active hostilities 1t is four
FOUNDER, marked with a brass or
bronze eagle in the center. 1t is I'M
mounted. AS companion piece to
last shot against the Confederate
forces. This is wrought-iron rifle of
three-inch bore. Its weight is SIS
pounds. Its record is that it fred the
last shot ut the battle of Appomattox
Court House, prior to he surrender of
Lees army in 1865. 1t was the left
piece of Elders Battery, Battery Il,
First United States Artillery.
OF the other old cannon, one is n
bronze English flint lock with three
inch bore.
There is Chinese breech loader of
the fourteeath century, n standing
monument of the adage, "There is
nothing new under he sun" There
is dip aged also "A veteran of the Mex
lean war n bronze siN-pDunder. The
bronze French gun LAT yelte pre-
scented to the United State, is also N
the eNh Bit. and o hers, inciu ing Il
gun the British rces surrendered at
Yorktown. A novelty is an olt-
fashioned Colts revolving cannon,
with six shots, the caliber being two
inches
Relies from bat lefields are not
numerous, but wha ever there is
u ssesses interest. There is the stump
of an oak tree q at was cut down by
musket balls during the battle of
Spottsylvania Courthouse, May IL,
1864. A wheel is shown with its war
record in detail. Other relics of the
rebellion are shown in stand of bent
shattered and rusted muskets, gathered
from many battlefelds. Several have
bullets imbedded in the metal of the
barrels. There are specimens of the
balls fired from Fort Sumter on April
10. 1871.
To mark clearly the difference be-
tween what is thought warlike to-day
and the weapons of the past, an ex-
hibit OF modern arms is made in close
proximity to the old guns just
described. In an upright case are
models OF most of the famous European
makes; not all, however, of the latest
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The latest news from the Egyptian
Museum at Ghizeh is that there is such
II glut of mummified humanity there,
owing to the quantity of Priests of
Ammon discovered short while ago
in Upper Egypt, that the Egyptian
government has proposed to the
museums of London, PARIS, Berlin,
Vienna, st. Petersburg and Rome to
take them off its hands. They are
to be divided into lots, which are to be
drawn for by the accepting parties.
But at present one and all are some
what reluctant to take them: so there
is still chance that the poor priests
NAV follow in the wake of the sacred
cats whose mummified remains were
shipped to Liverpool as a fertilizer for
the fiel is,
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Asbury Park, she would prefer to don
the feather attire OF Kanakas
maiden. and adorn her head with three
Prince of Wales plumes. or pile her
glossy dark hair up in two huge pyra-
mids on each side of her head and
pierce it with small Japanese fans, a,
they do in the land of the Mikado
wearing n gown of flowery brocaf
with wide sleeves, and little gold
brodered slippers. Anything NO
be preferable, even giving up her
loved hammock itself and lolIing
the rocks, as they do at Narragan.,
Pier, than caring tho kilt and iersc
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the Ocean

arctic and n box of candy enjoyed in
her beloved hammoclS the acme of
human happiness.
A hammock, swinging under cool,
shady trees, was ler dream on hot
summer days when porting over some
difficult lesson, and since school is left
behind now, she ID determined that
this one at least shall not be made of
ing called lazy she will accomplish
this noble purpose, and to this end has
The Meeker herald., 1893-07-29

"Yes,n said congressman at Washington,
were all in favor OF Browns appointment TO
the consulate"
"Arc his qualifications especially highr'
was asked.
"Quallfications ~ he roared. at Isn't n
question of qualifications. The simple fact f.,
Brown is so hard up that nobody on earth
knows what will become of him If he doesn't
get this otiice.n
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company has special exhibit in the
transportation building. Here is
shown a stand OF shells. with card
board limitations of the new smokeless
powder. One of the best of the naval
guns fires seventy pound sholiS
per minute.
The big twelve-inch rifle receives
much attention from visitors. This
gun weighs fifty-two tons, fires a pro-
jectile weighing l.uOo pounds, the
charge of powder being 450 pounds.
Its length is thirty-siN and hatf feet
and it cost The government So, 900. 1t
was manufactured at the Watervliet
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Hell suppose you know / have writ.
ton nm American comedy?
She-Yes. l have heard of it,
And what have you heard abou:
TT"
Nothing but tho highest praise"
"Ah! / am glad to hear that. Who
Was it that praised 1t SC highlyf'
You. yourself"
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A man was tried for theft at the OK
ford assizes. Tho foreman of the jury,
when giving the verdict, made mis-
take and said mot guilty" instead of
guilty" Though he wished TO recti-
fy the mistake he could not do SO, and
the man was released from custody.
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WHEN TRAVELLING

Whether on pleasure bent, or business,
take on every trip q bottle of Syrup of
Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and eff
fectively on the kidneys, liver and bow
els, preventing fevers, headaches and
other forms of sickness. For sale in so
cents and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists.
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Very few people eau observe another soar
above them without feeling sore themselves,
That's one o: the reasons Why European po
tentatcs do not like Uncle sam.
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A succe,sfuI Operation.

A patient in Paris, having lost por-
ton of her skull through an operation
for tumor, has had piece of dogs
skull successfully grated on to her
own, and is now quite well.
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Indueement. for world. Fair Visitors

are offered by the fast evening trains Of the
Union Pacific Railway. Travelling by night
you reach Chicago in the morning; only one
day on the road.
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1t is said to be getting the iashioi
to address and stamp envelopes on tn
folds, the letter cannot be opened b
an unauthorized person without Ia.
fact being detected.
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coveryn is known TO medical science. The
diseases that 1t cures come from torpid
liver, or from impure blood For everything
of this nature, it is the only guaranteed
remedy. In Dyspepsia, Biliousness all
Bronchial, Throat and Lung affections; ev-
cry form OF Scrofula, even Consumption Tor
Iung-scrofula) in its earlier stages, and in
the most stubborn Skin and Scalp Diseases
If it ever fails TO benefit or cure, you have
your money back.
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arsenal at West Troy, n. Y. This is
the largest gun made in America.
There is also United States eight
inch breech loading steel rifle on serv-
ice carriage.
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German
Syrup

Just bad cold, and a hacking
cough. We all suffer that way some
times. How to get rid of them is
the study. Listen am a Ranch
man and Stock Raiser. My life is
cough and exposed. 1 meet all
weathers i'll the Colorado mountains.
sometimes take colds. Often they
are severe. I have used German
Syrup five years for these. a few
doses will cure them at any stage.
The last one had was stopped in
I'd hours. 1t is infallible." James
A. Lee, Jefferson, Col. q
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The olllce-holder who contributes nothing
TO campaign funds is simply putting political
economy into practice.
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The worse your Catarrh, the more you
need DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its
proprietors offer $500 cash for a case OF
Catarrh in the Head which they canno,
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BIcYcI.E.-Wanted in every town and VII
lage In the West practical Bicycle Rider to
take the agency for a well-known high grade
bicycle Liberal commission. No capital
whatever is required, and wheels arc sold on
long time. but applicant must furnish salts
factory references as to character.
Address, SYDNEY II. Percy,
Z. o, Box 1914.
Denver. Colo,
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There is nothing like cool wave for max
Ing the proprietor OF a seaside hotel feel as II
Ills spinal column was being rubbed with
chunk Of ice.
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THE HAMMOCK GIRL.
HOW SHE ENJOYS HERSELF ON
SUMNER DAYS.
Some Timely Pen Pictures From tho
Leading Summer Resorts of the East
Drinking Life-GivinG Brcezes from
the Ocean.

II i II A NJ NJ OC Il
girl is the same the
world over, wheth
err in Newport, AS
bury Park or Green
land, swinging in Q
bcarskin hung be
tween two glaciers,
a dear, sweet, ador,
able creature, W he
thinks idleness the
best thing in life,
and who believes
tint n novel . .ip.
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BEEcHAM's PILLS cure bilious and nervous
Illness. Beecham's Pills sell well because
they cure. p cents box.
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Every one sings acclrllug 20 his ability
and marrles according to Ills luck.
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\ chnlce OF Noutc 10 the World'. Galr

Don't worry about the cholera, The man
who borrows trouble viii suiIer from that
which he hath not
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cirS-au nts stopped free ~ m. kliNE's slf,1
,tl,t DrsIoBER. NJ NJ snrT first day usc MAI
,,leu, cures Treatise a. 90 trial bottle tre 10 ~
oas,s send to Dr Kline. J3t rru s. philadelphia 8.
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He who stumbles twice over the came stone
Is not far from breaking his head.
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The plowcd field OF good farmer is fur
rowed with care
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Coney Island saloonist has intrCouced
the "Rockct Punch The name is a misno-
mer. Rocket Punch goes down, NOT up.
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When boy grasps toy pistol he seize
hold OF the butt end OF an accident.
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MACHINES OF WAR,
THE GREAT MUSEUM OF WAR;
FARE AT CHICAGO.
Guns Fired at Bunker Hill, yorktown
and Fort Sumter and the Ones That
Are Yet to BE Fired for Cause-NIar-
niiiccnt Weapons.

NCIRCLING THE
central division of
the space occupied
by the War Depart
ment in the Gov
eminent building
at the Worlds Fair,
is Il fringe of old
guns. All are black
with age, or red
dened with rust.
Puny weapons are
they when con-
trasted with the
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Many keep their regulations polished only
that they may outshlne their neiEhbors.
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DIR. Pierce's Colder
medical Discovery
And when you heal
that 1t cures so many
diseases, perhaps you
think :" its too good
TO be true
But it's only res.
sonable. AS a blood.
cleanser, hcsh-huilder,
md strength-restorer,
nothing like the " Dis
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any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY * Co, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known +, j.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tons and financially able to carry out any oh
legations made by their firm.
WEST ~ TRuAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.: WALpING, kINSAS y MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c. per bottle Sold by all Druggists.
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early in the morning is what you accomplish
by taking the Union Pacific's fast evening
trains,
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lie who gets into war, the chase, or in love,
Will not get out Of 1t Just when he please-.
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OF keeping quiet one never repents; of talk
Ing he always does.
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"Hauson's Magic Corn SAW"
warranted cure, or money refunded Atb
veuT dFuxG1pt for It Price Is cent?.
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TO POPuLIST PRESS AND PEOPLE.

take pleasure in announcing that
] have made arrangements on behalf
0 the National Reform Press Associa-
IN. whereby plates and readyprints
containing Populst matter officially
approved and recommended by the Ma,
tioual Reform Press Association and
Chairman Taubeneck, in quantity de-
eired, will be furnished by
The WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION
Write to the Western Newspaper
Union for samples and prices: No
other house furnishes authorized mat
ter. w. S. MORGAN, Sec. National
Reform Press Association.
Address
Western Newspaper Union,
DENVER. COLO.
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He who has neither mothcr-in-law or sister
,n-law is well married.
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business Mems Excursion to the Worlds
Eal
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COOI".t NOut" 7" INV W VFIWH INIT
Take the fast evening tralu OF the Union Pa
ciic Railway, arriving early in the morning
in Chicago. Only one day on the train.
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There is no more dangerous water than tina
which makes no noise.
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IT COVERS A GOOD DEAL OF GRouN1

Envy Is an acknowledgment OF the good
fortune of other.
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II the baby L. Cutting Teeth.
BE sure and use that old and wel;ricd remedy, Mas
wrs,Lov's soorntsG sYEur for Children Teething,
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Better Dead than Alive.

BUTCHERS FLY KILLER is sure death Every
sheet will XII a quart OF nies. insuring peace while
Won eat and the comforts OF nap In the morning.
insist upon catcher, and secure best results.
FsEpK BUTCHER naua Co., ST. Adams, VI.
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MN u Denver. voi.X. No. bI9.-3O.
when wri Ing 10 advertisers please say tha'l o =
saw The ndysr tisemsnt In this pspsn
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HARNESS LOWEST PHICIs ~ COlD
II AlaAN lDSto RADIO. Harness and Saddles
Catalogne FREQ. FtED MUELLER. llll Iarimar
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SILVER-LEAD sfkHF Mft Fstn sis:
Ing Ma hinery. COIDRADO lR N WORKS.
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' s1.s sys.. s s.s Thompson's Eye Water

- Watches, Guns. pur-ie., Har.~sA,
ayDlNN s~~ar Msshin-s, Ora ms. HI ,elsa
TIk1.E Farm Tools, Safes. etc, Lei iktH
III a vtOO CHICAGO SCALE co.. Chi-axo, III.
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HARDWARE, T 1859 . Ms srFPItEs'
J. VI. MOORES SONS. Ffftsenth md Maxes, st..
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SfUnnI FURNITURE and Supplies.
NIlbvI Write for Catalogue Agent.
wanted Iamos Mcconnell, % Good Block.
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Denver Directory.

..CnME DAZZLING, COM :" order this new
'o.I u. Popul tr Song from the smissaert
Mnslc Co. rnh... lssl Chhmna. CltallGue free.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-09-15
Up 1t Went.

The announcement of the balloon ascep-
sion at Chapel Point on Sunday drew larve|
crowd, for the like of such sight had never
before been in this county. The colored folks
in particular evinced the most iuteres, in ~,
won 1ertul exhibition, and they gathered at
the place in large numbers. There was dis
appointment as to the hour ter the ascension.
instead of being at 2 O'Clock as published
the airship did not begin its heavenwara as.
cent until O'Clock. The whole performance
lasted two minutes by the watch. 1t started
from the center of the new city without a
house), with the aeronaut swinging to its bot.
tom, 6oated upwards about 800 feet and
drifted over toward the creek. When over
the same the aerouaut jumped from his chair
attached TO the balloon and at the same time
the parachute spread out its wings and the
decent begun, ending in few seconds. The
seronaut lit IN the creek and swum ashore
The performance created quite CONSERVATION
The moment the vessel began to rise. a stan.
pede ensued and the frightened crowd 900,
tered in every direction; some even wanted n
know if he was dead. The scene wa, ms,
amusing. The generous proprietor N,
Heistand, was happy and lavish in furnishing
ms friends with liquor and refreshments anS
he lahd-lAdy was in reverse turn of nina
md ''growled a slew" at the loss of her bona
iful dinner prepared which but few persons
on -en:ed to eat.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-09-15
Cut Down the Weeds

fast now, aud enough are growing on oe slO very
every iarm TO seed half dozen farms. The
road side the fence corner, AMI out.Of.,bs-
way places are full of them. Make raid
upon them whenever possible. If you en-,
down one obnoxious weed before the sssd
natures you prevent hundreds from .ron';s 49,
next year, to sap your soil, iniure von, o "as
and increase your labor. A high agrion,,
raj authority asserts that the ipiurv - ~
pastures and meadows of the Unit.d So. 'ue
from weeds alone, is one hui dred milIion ~,
lars year We don't know how the s,a,,o so'
found that out but We are glad he did W.
hope he will tell US how much weed. go.
corn and other crops how much s,r.rs,,
they abstract from the soil, and ub., ~
DOT is worth that is employed in keeping ,ha .
n subsection -Ex. '"ea