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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
SEPTILlBER.
A Mystifying Game for an Evenings
Amusement in the Parlor.

Amusement in the Parior.
One of the most entertaining and
mystifying parlor games, with which
Septiliber. 1t is so called, suppose,
because seven books are employed in
playing it, though, as matter Of fact,
neither the use of seven as q number
nor books as implements is at all arbi-
trary. Six or eight or more of any
thing else will do quite as we'll.
These are arranged in row along
the floor in front of the performer, who
holds in his hand a stick, to be used as
a pointer. One of the party is now
sent out of the room. while those in
side agree upon a certain book in the
row, as the one touched. She is now
called in, and the performer, pointing
to one after the other asks as he does
so: rs this the one?" If she knows
the secret and has her wits about her,
she will readily guess Alright, and this
may be repeated again and again with
out the uninitiated being able to tell
correctly how it is accomplished
The way it is done is as follows: Let
us suppose that the fourth book has
been agreed upon and the player who
went outside has returned. The per-
former points at, say, number three
and asks the usual question. mo" is
the answer. He then points at five
NO" then at one-''No;" then at four
Yes" which is, of course, correct.
At this juncture, very likely, some
one, with semi scornful, superior sort
of expression, will volunteer to go out.
Let him go. | have seen many of him
and much of his defeat. Likely
he will have theory plausible enough
but altogether wrong. That is where
the fun comes in. Half dozen appar-
ent solutions will readily suggest
themselves to the clever mind, but the
real one scarcely ever.
The whole secret is this: The person
with the pointer is careful to touch
the fourth book at the fourth ques-
ton, and the preceding ones out of or
der. The higher the number of the
book the more difficult it is for the
two performers; thus, if the sixth
book had been agreed upon,
the pointer would touch five in the row
out of order; that is to say, the third
book at the first question, the first at
question two, the second at three, the
fifth at four, the fourth at five, and then
the sixth at question six, being the one
selected. If not cautious, it would be
very easy for him to touch, say, three
at question three, and thus lead the
player to guess the wrong one.
The game may be made the more in
teresting if the performer cleverly
practices little deceptive ruses, such as
manipulating his fingers in holding the
pointer, as as to lead the spectators to
think that therein lies the secret. !
have seen many persons, disappointed
in this way, put on most ludicrous eX-
presSions of countenancc imaginable.
! Then, too, the number of books or
articles may be increased to almost any
extent, but the higher the number OF
/ the one touched, OF course the greater
will be the demand upon the memory
and the wits of the players. -George II.
Westley, in Christian Union.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21

Jaffa, Jauna, near Lake el-Huleh, and
also on the Philistine plain; while at
Jerusalem are at least 1000 who have
come within the last ten years. The
plain of Esdraelon is very fertile. The
plain of Sharon is exceedingly rich,
while the Philistine plain, or the Shep.
helah, reminds one of the Illinois
prairies.
The Turkish government is not
friendly to western ideas and is great
incubus upon all progress. 1t must,
however, succumb to the inevitable; it
will at least be certain that the Mo-
hammedan will yield to the argument
which appeals to his love of money.
When he sees that the railway means
rise of values and better markets his
objections will break down.
The railway in Syria is very sig
nificant fact, which every thoughtful
person marks with intense interest.
Along the Nile and across the Nile
delta flies the express train. In the
near future the steel rail will unite
Egypt and Palestine, and ere long we
shall have a line from Damascus
through to the Euphrates valley.
Couder was of the opinion that the
Carmel-Damascus railway would be the
first in operation on account of the
difficulty which the Jaffa-Jerusalem
railway would have inpassing through
the mountains of Judea; but these diff
ficulties have not been so great as he
prophesied. He has some interesting
observations concerning the Damas
cus-Carmel railway: "In the first-place
it's construction would render yet more
probable, in case of war, conflict on the
old battlefield of Megiddo or Arranged
don. The possession of the only rail.
way in the country would become the
inevitable, and single objective of the
strategist. Supposing Damascus tc
have fallen, or to be besieged, and a
relieving force to be landed under Car
mel, the main contest would be for the
passage of the Jordan, and on the Jor
dan passage, Megiddo, and the Har
Megiddon, or mountain of Megiddo,
look down. The defense of southern
Palestine from a Scythian invasion
would be more easily accomplished
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
Oratory Still Powerful,

The orator and the audience occupy
the same relative positions they did in
the earliest age. If Demosthenes and
Cicero were alive now they would sway
men as they did in the old time. Web
ster and Clay retained their hold till
the day of their death, less than fifty
years ago, and could they be supposed
as living now with undiminished pow
ers they would still convince and per-
suadc. If Patrick Henry were alive
now with that wonderful voice with
which in his old age he amused him.
self, he would make mems eyes glisten
and fill even as he did in old st. Johns
in Richmond. A gift of God is never
lost. nor, does it ever cease to be val.
ued.-Kansas City Star.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
SOLOMON'S VIEW.
The Recipe for Sweet, Wholesome, Hon
orable Human Life.

Inc Recipe Tor sweet, w nOlesOme, HON
orable Human Life.
Throughout the book of Proverbs
we find by the side of maxims relating
to secular business, that would adorn
the walls of any counting-room or stock
exchange, others that touch the Utmost
details of private life. At step, as
we read these terse and brilliant sem
fences, we seem to pass from the throng-
ing eastern market place to the domes-
tic circle and to the interior life of men
and .women and children. The writer
of the Proverbs appears to have been
blind to the distinction between public
and private virtue that party newspa-
pers draw when man with dubious
personal history is a candidate for office.
He appears to have thought that man
who was good husband and father
would be u good neighbor and an honest
business man; and that virtuous wife
was exceedingly apt to be prudent with
her tongue and skillful in the manage
Eleut of domestic affairs. His reason
i,r his holding this position was that
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
MODERN PALESTINE.
Facts About the Jeffa g. Jerusa-
lem Railway,
An American Citizen Was the First to
Suggest the Feasibility of undermining
the Holy Land by the Building
of Railroads.
Lsnecial Jerusalem Letter.l

The traveller of the future is to hear
the shrill whistle of the locomotive
among the hills of Judea and along
the valley Of the ancient Kishon. That
oldest city in the world, Damascus, is
TO be a railroad center, a dignity to
which Jerusalem attained last Septem-
Der. 1t almost takes ones breath away
10 make such a record and to contem-
plate the possibility of this slow, easy
going, donkey-driving, camel-riding
civilization being shaken up by the
force of steam and electricity. Yet
steam as motive power has been for
several years in use. Last spring l
was housed in the house belonging to
the proprietor of a grist-mill in the an
cicnt village of Ashdod, way down on
the Philistine plains. was much sur
prised to hear the familiar puff of
steam and to know that here was a
steam flour-mill in the very country of
the Philistines where ages ago the
blind Sampson was made to toll, turn
ing the rude mill for grinding their
corn.
Yes, last August ten thousand peo-
pie for the first time in their lives saw
q railroad and train of cars. Last April
rode for twelve miles along the
tracks of this road, on the plain of
Sharon, from Jaffa to Lud, the ancient
LYDIA. And now trains are running
regularly clear through from the sea-
port Jaffa to Jerusalem, distance of
tifty-three miles. This road has been
talked Of as possible for the last
forty years, but it is only within the
last thirty years that any serious
movement has been made. A man by
the name of Charles F. Zimpel, Prus-
sian by birth, but naturalized Ameri-
can citizen, in 1S60-'63 surveyed the dis
ferent routes carefully. He died with
out seeing his project commenced.
Many condemned it as the fancy of a
fanatic, but when the French capital
lists came to lay out the road they fol
lowed almost infinitely the route laid
down by Zimpel. And now the tourist
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21

along this line than by any other; and
for military reasons alone the Turks
should be glad to have this line made
to the capital, and should discourage
the making of any further north, un.
less, indeed, they connected Aleppc
with the sea, and defended the passage
of the Euphrates on the old battlefield
of Carchcmish." TO the tourist who
wishes in few days to fly from one
sacred site to another the railway is a
welcome innovation.
AMOS w. PATTEy.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
BITS OF TRUTH.
Some of the Figs and Thistles" of the
RAMS Horn.

Rams Horn.
God hates short yardstick.
Praise is prayer set to music.
A well-worn Bible needs no COM
mentary.
Religion without love is the cross
with no Christ upon it.
The man who believes that God loves
him will respect himself.
People who worry forget that God
still has control of everything.
Every hypocrite in the church makes
some outside sinner feel safer.
The religion of Christ is the only one
whose cornerstone is love.
Christ had more to say against hy-
pocrisy than He had against stealing.
Believing the devil makes us like
him, but believing Christ saves us from
him.
No Christian has any business to have
any business that is not Gods business.
The devil never knows exactly what
to do with the man he can not discour-
age.
Men who are the most devilish are
devil.
The salvation of men is the only
thing God has ever been in hurry
about
The man who is able to say, God is
my strength, never finds load he can
not lift.
The more we know about the good
go II 10 10 -
Heaven open.
The man who makes his own Goo
always makes one that never gives him
an hours rest.
1t is much harder to be successful
hypocrite than it is to be faithful
Christian.
All that has ever been written for
infdelity has never yet made one dis
honest man honest.
Endeavoring to be religious two hours
in the week is the FOOLS way of trying
to get to Heaven.
The voice of the Comforter can not be
heard while the commandments of
Christ are being broken.
All Christians are expected to be
preachers of Righteousness but only
few are sent into the pulpit.
One taste of living water will make
n man dissatisfied forever with the
green stuff in the devils ponds,
In the angel of Gods vision very
small sins cast very long shadows.
If our hearts are full of love to God,
/ It-ac h II H-,I far ;,, ig suht h
er we please anybody else or net.
You can not always tell by appear
ances who is the richest. Paul in his
prison was much richer man than
Nero in his palace.
No man can pray the Lords Prayer
with his heart without becoming more
in earnest for God than he was before
! he did it.
There is not mansion in Heaven
that would not be thousand times
hotter for the sinner than the lowest
place in the pit.
If no preaching were done outside of
the pulpit angels would almost stop
hoping that the world would ever be
brought to Christ.
Nothing is easier than to live
Christian life if we make it the first
business of life. Nothing is harder if
we make it the second.
Some people pray for dying grace,
when what they need most is grace to
make them live within their means and
pay their debts.
You can't tell by the length of a
mans life how much his soul will
weigh in Heaven. Methuselah lived
nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and
yet nothing good is said of him.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21

-Clergyman-''You say you are going
to marry again. You surprise me. III :
will make the fourth husband. will il
not?" Shelves; and as you performed
the ceremonies each time. called tc
see if | couldn't make some arrange.
ments with you a bout gettihga discount
on the marriage fee through taking .
quantity. "-TitBitA
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
"A STORY, PLEASE"

The dearest boy l ever knew
Wears a sailor suit Of blue:
You wouldn't think he'd teasel
And yet, when he gets in my lap,
Or just before he takes nap,
He's sure to say,
In his sweet way,
TELL me story, please"
~, now and then, try TO rest,
The little boy that l like best
Hurries his chance to seize;
CHow many know this boy in blueO
"Say, Auntie dear. now couldn't you,~
He's sure to say,
In his sweet way,
"Tell me story, please:"
Helen NJ. Winslow in Our Little and Men
Women.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
Heard in the Garden.

"When do you bloom?" inquired the
Crocus, who had three flowers out, of a
tiny spray that had just appeared.
Il never bloom" retorted the spray,
"but I'm the champion Splinter of the
garden. I'm Running-vine, and made
twenty feet last year in eight weeks
-Tlarpcr's Young People.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21

A Little Red Lizard lived in a spring
Close by frog that was learning to sing.
"Such discordant struggles to get up to c.
Said the Little Red Lizard, are too much for
me-"
Wide Awake
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
And the Thermometer Fell.

"I've got an awful cold," said the
Weather.
What are you taking for it," asked
the Wind.
"A drop of mercury every hour. -.
Puck.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
A GREAT COWBOY RACE
To be Run From Chadron to Chicago in May
Next.

Much interest is taken in this sec
tion of the northwest in the approach
ing cowboy race from Chadron (Neb.)
to the Worlds Fair grounds at Chi
cago, says a Chamberlain Is. d.
special. 1t has been decided to start
from Chadron May Is. A meeting for
the adoption OF rules to govern the
con, est will be held in Chadron early
in February. The probabilities are
that each rider will be allowed string
of three horses, and that no hard rid
ing will be INDUCED in until the last
fifty or hundred miles is reached 1t
is well known that cowboys are in the
habit of saving the best horses in
their string for use when they know
they have a '.long circle" This will
probably be the policy in the Chadron-
Chicago race. They will jog along to-
gether at the rate of seventy-miles per
day until within comparatively
short distance of the Worlds Fair
city, when the best horses will be sad
died and grand rush made. 1t is be-
lieved that fully three hundred cow
boys will take part in the race. There
will be no trouble in securing good
horses to ride, as the people of Chicago
will be glad to pay a high figure for
any horse which participates in the
marvellous one thousand mile race.
The noted Doc Middleton will be one
OF the conspicuous figures i'll the affair.
A large number of noted range riders
from Nebraska, Wyoming and Mon
tana are expected to enter.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
The Kansas Situation.

TOPEKA, Kan, January 29.-The
Republicans have given upthe hope oi
electing a United States Senator.
They were unable to get enough DEM
ocrats to form a quorum, and after
appointing a committee to prepare a
statement of the facts concerning the
election of Martin and to protest
against his admission to the senate.
adjourned their joint convention sine
die. The task OF keeping Martin out
of the senate now rests on Senator
Perkins. Republicans will claim nc
election and Perkins should be allowed
to hold over until the expiration oi
Senator Plumb's term. Senator Per
kin's telegraphs he will fight to re
tain his seat. Martin goes to Wash
ington on Sunday with the certificate
of election. He will confer with tn,
Democratic steering committee there
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
They swapped Stories.

"I saw a fellow shot clean through
the body by a grapnell shell within an
inch of his head" he said. "The shell
came out behind and killed a mule,
but the poor fellow that was struck
only gasped little for air then he
kept on fighting just as fresh as ever"
The room became very quiet and seye-
raj looked toward Tangle, who was
present.
Tangle arose and looked medi-
tatively around. ~ saw something
of the same kind as that, "he BEGAN.
''It was in one of the first engagements
we had when We went to the front
There was a soldier who stood right
beside me struck square in the head
with a twelve-pound cannon ball, and,
gentlemen, he never knew it," The
old soldier who had told it looked a
little sheepish, and several laughed
little.
But" some one thought to in
quire, didn't it kill him?" Tangle
looked up. a little bit surprised. "Oh,
yes; cereainly it killed him." he re-
piled. "But then, maybe it was all
for the best. He might have lived to
tell the story. It's probably just as
WELL" he added, looking at the old
soldier.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
DEATH OF JOHN A. DAVIS.
He Fell Over the Balustrade of the Driard
Hotel at Victoria, B. C.

VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 25.-In the city
police court room this morning was
held an inquest on the body of John
A. Davis, five times a millionaire, OF
Butte city, who came here in search
OF health and pleasure and met an
agonizing death. The circumstances
of the accident were given in evidence
at the inquest and and the verdict rem
dered was accidental death. Davis
had been a guest at the Driard hotel
for a fortnight, the party being COM
posed of himself, his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. A. J. Davis, her mother, Mrs.
Gaylord, and her child. On Tuesday
morning Davis left his room on the
second floor for breakfast, and instead
of taking the elevator started down
the stairway. A moment later a fall
was heard and attaches of the house
picked Davis up unconscious on the
floor of the rotunda. The supposi-
ton is that he was seized with a tit OF
dizziness and leaned against the bal
ustrade for support, overbalanced and
fell headlong on the marble pavement.
When the doctors arrived, scarcely
five minutes later, they found a COM
pound fracture of the skull had been
sustained, one arm had been broken
in two places, and all the ribs on one
side were crushed. DIR. David, re-
garded as one of the finest surgeons
in Canada, was then summoned and
heroic measures adopted in the hope
of prolonging the sufferers life. The
hope was vain, and having never re-
gained consciousness, his sufferings
ceased at $50 the same evening
Three surgeons were the chief wit.
nesses at the testimony agreed that
the case was hopeless. Davis vital.
ity, his age being sixty flour, was insult
ficient to meet the shock, even il bis
injuries had not been necessarily fatal
The post mortem, made by DIR. Jones
of the royal navy, was also corrobor
ative, fixing the severe shock as the
immediate cause of death.
Shortly after the accident telegram.
we're sent to the deceased's son al
Butte and to Mr.. Gaylord, and boil
gentlemen are expected tomorrow
On their arrival the body, which ha
, been embalmed, will be removed TO
interment.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
ABSOLUTELY PURE
oUR Ex-PREsIpENrs.
What We Shall Do With Our Ex-Presidents
Solving Itself.

The question what we shall do with
our ex-presidents seems to be solving
itself. Mr.. Cleveland is now the only
living ex-president, and that distinc-
tion will soon pass from him to Mr..
Harrison.
For the first fifty-two years of our
existence under the federal constitu-
ton no president died in Office. Dur
ing the second period of 6fty-two
years, now about to close, four presi-
dents have died in Office, two of them
by assipation. The two who died of
disease-Harrison and Taylor-were
men who were elected in consequence of
services rendered the country as mill
tary leaders.
General Washington lived less than
three years after the close of his
second term, but his immediate sue
cessors passed a considerable length
OF time as ex-presidents. At the close
of the first year of the term of John
Quincy Adams, thirty-seven years
after the accession of the first presi-
dent, all the ex-presidents except the
first were aliYe. John Adams and
Jefferson died July 4, 1876. Madison
lived ten years and Monroe five years
longer. Immediately after the death
of Madison, John Quincy Adams was
the only ex-president, and he lived till
lS4S, nineteen years after he had
quilted the Office. jackson was ex-
president for eight years. VanBuren
lved twenty-one years after the ex-
piration of his term, and was twice a
candidate for reelection. Tyler was
an ex-president for seventeen years.
Polk died a few months after the
inauguration OF his successor. Fill
more was ex-president twenty-five
years, Pierce twelve years and
Buchanan seven years.
Since the inauguration OF Mr.. Lin
coin, thirty-two years ago, a sort OF
fatality seems to have followed our
presidents. Two have been assassi-
mated, and most of the others have
died within short time after the
close OF their terms. Johnson lived
six years after the close OF his term
and Grant eight. Arthur died in the
year following that in which be quit
ted office. Hayes lived twelve years
as an ex-president. the longest period
of any since Franklin Pierce.
Oh the presidents John Adams at
tained the greatest age, dying at
ninety-one. Madison died at eighty
six, Jefferson at eighty-three, and
John Quincy Adams at eiehty-one.
Garfield was the only man who died
under fifty, and he lacked two months
to a day OF fhaving lived hall a century.
Polk died at tifty-four, Lincoln and
Arthur at fifty-six. All the Others
lived more than sixty years, and all
but General Grant more than sixty
| five years. General Grant died at
sixty-three and Washington at sixty
seven. Grant became president at
at forty-seven, being the youngest
man to attain that great office.
Grover Cleveland came next; he
lacked two weeks of being fortyeight
at his inauguration. General William
Henry Harrison was older at his
inauguration than any other presi-
dent, having attained the age of sixty
eight years. BENJAMIN Harrison was
inaugurated in his fifty-sixth year,
and is now in his sIxtieth. Cleveland
will not be fifty-six until March 10,
two weeks after his second inaugura-
ton
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-02-02
Cleveland Talks Tariff.

Grover Cleveland, returning from
the funeral of ex-President Hayes,
passed through Syracuse, n. Y, and
at the station the following dialogue
with a reporter took place:
do you believe a repeal o. the sill
yer law will be passed."
II hope So"
"Do you oppose free coinage?"
al have nothing to say on that
qestion."
"Have you anything to offer the
public on the tariff? Will the Nc
Kinley tariff law be repealed"
"I'd like to know what else we ar,
n power for"