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National Baptist world., 1894-09-14
IN OFFICE s;lxTY-FOUR YEARS.
The Record of an Octogenarian Postmas-
ter In the Ruckeye State.

The Record of an Octogenarian Postmas-
ter In the Ruckeye State.
Postmaster General Bissell has found
a man in the postal service whose OK
perience has interested him SO greatly
that he contemplates making use 81 y
recent letter written by this rnau n
preparing his annual report, says q
writer in the New York Times. ". K,
Wallace, Sr., postmaster at HammOnds-
Vile, o., now eighty-two years OF age,
wrote two fair pages of letter paper
recently without noticeable error CT
composition and in good, firm hand, to
give the secretary his experience in
brief. He has been sixty-four years ii
.iae postal service, having held ohice
under thirty postmaster generals LIE
began when he was still boy, and he's
been the postmaster at HammOndsVille
many years. When he was first post
master and the charge for letters was
TWENTY-FIVE cents for four hundred
miles or over, he had taken two bush
els of oats, or two bushels of potatoes.
or five dozen Of eggs, or four pounds CT
butter, or twO-thirds of busheI ~
wheat. or one and one-third pounds OF
common wool as a fair compensation
IN kind for the postage. The postage
on thirtv-t77s, such letters, he says,
would be about equivalent to LIE
price of good milch COW. The post
masters were expected to look out that
letters were written on one sheet of pa
per; if they were on two sheets the
postage was to be double. Mr.. Wal
lace gives some entertaining accounts
cf his many long trips over the noun
tains before the railroads were con-
structed. indicating that he was q
travelled man many years before there
was much travelling between the tar'
and the west That he is prrt.1S
capable citizen at his age is plain from
the fact that, besides being postmaster
he is the station agent for the Penn
sylvania railroad at Hammondsville.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-14
LARGEST ROSE BUSH.
Mobile Has the Honor of Having Thr
Beautiful Mountain of Flowers.

Beautiful Mountain OF Flowers.
1.-THE largest rose bush in the United
States is in Mobile, Ala.," said citizen
of New Orleans to reporter for the
St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat. lit belongs
to the species which, in common par
lance, is known as the cluster musk
rose. and blossoms so luXur5nnsly that
during the season from three to four
bushels of roses have been gathered IN
one week, and when shedding its
petals the ground beneath is complete
" covered with it's fragrant blossoms.
It's trunk for five feet from the
ground, is nearly a foot in circumfer-
ence, and it has been estimated that II
It's branches grew on one continuous
vine it would exceed a mile in length.
These branches have entirely covered
the side of the house near which the
bush grows, and have extended to the
neighboring trees surrounding 1T, 90
that when it is in bloom it forms per-
feet bower of roses"
National Baptist world., 1894-09-14
HOW TO KILL CROCODILES.
Shoot Them or Catch Them on Line and
Take an AK.

Shoot Them or Catch Them on a Line ano
Take an Ak.
There are two ways of killing croco
diles. writes an ex-resident of India.
One is by shooting with rifle, but the
most satisfactory way of dealing with
them, besides being iar the most sport
ing. is to bait good large hook with Q
bird or small animal and fasten it by
chain to good long rope, the end o.
which is firmly picketed, the rope be-
ing coiled and the bait lain in shallow
water. There must be lots Of slack
line, as the crocodile does not swallow
ANYTHING at once, but seizes it and
takes it into deep water to gorge. A
number of lines may De laid and looked
ND in the morning or cool Of the even
ing.
When hooked it will take good
MANY men to haul crocodile out, and
as he resents the operation and can use
his tail as we'll as his jaws, one or two
snortsmen will and considerable enter
tainment in dispatching him with
spears.
Some crocodiles grow to enormous
siza and their maws always contain
round white stones and often trinkets.
the relics of inside passengers The
writer assisted &C the death of a not
extraordinarily large "snubnose which
had six women's rings In heA
National Baptist world., 1894-09-14
AN ARMLESS NlMROD.
Bags More Game Than Any Other Hunter
In the Same County.

Bags More Game IMAM ANY OLh1A
in the Same County.
An armless NimrOd is the wonder OF
the people and the envy of the sports
men of Bucks county, says the Phlla-
delphia Record. He is John Simon, OF
Zion Hill, and his prowess is some
thing marvellous. Simon's arms were
ground off above the elbows in ma
chinery few years ago, but his love
of hunting spurred his ingenuity, and
he overcame his seeming insurmounta'
BILE obstacle. He straps his single-bar'
rel, breech-loading hammerless gun to
his right arm, and when he sights
game he swings the piece over the
stump Of his left arm, takes quick aim
and fires, generally with telling effect.
His mode of loading is as uniqe as his
shooting. He carries the shells in his
hat, and when he wants one bows low,
drops his hat on the ground, pulls out
the empty shell with his teeth and in q
similar manner loads, then pushing
his head into his hat to recover his
head Despite his affiiction, Simon
has done some of the best shooting in
Bucks county the past year, his record
standing: Sixteen opossums, five
pheasants, five dozen blackbirds, thirty
seven rabbits and twenty-One quail.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-14
On the Safe Side.

A well-known lawyer on circuit D
the north of England, curious to know
how a certain juryman arrived at hls
verdict, meeting him one day, ventured
to ask. "Well," replied he, I'm
plain man, and l like to be fair tc
everyone l don't go by what the wit
nesses say, and l don't go by what the
lawyers say, and | don't go by what
the judge says; but looks at the man
in the dock, and l says: He must have
done something or he wouldn't be
there SO | brings 'em all in guilty.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-14
Tramoing for a Purpose.

An amusing story is told of the late
Prof Henry Morley. Some years age
when the ''slumming" boom was occu'
pying general attention he was ac
costed one day by a peculiarly emaciat
ed and ragged individual, who solicited
aid in moving terms. Prof. Morley
who was never proof against such Pc
titions, responded with silver coin.
'Thanl you, Prof. Morley; I'm much
obliged" said the man. "You know
me, eh?'' Eyes, attended your lee
lures at Kings College in 1860" Dear,
dear, I'm sorry to see you in this state. !"
Not at all, my dear professor, | am
doing some articles for my paper, and
the editor insists on my making my re-
searche5 in character. Will you dine
with me to-night?" and he handed
card bearing well-l1nown name.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30

The congressman's daughter was re-
celvlng a young mar whom her father
had no earthly use for, and he was kick
ing on it as hard as he could, but the
girl was serene.
Daughter, he said the other morn
ing, wasn't that young squirt here
again last night?"
mo, sir, she responded promptly.
II know better. l saw him as l came
in"
where did you see him?' she asked
as cool as may be.
II saw him in the parlor talking to
you"
But he was not there, I tell you,"
she insisted.
The father was greatly shocked.
my dear child" he said, II can
hardly say it, but must, and l say you
are deliberately lying to me-"
The girl never even so much as
changed color.
1T does look that way, doesn't it?''
she smiled, land l used to think that
sort of thing was lying myself, but I've
been up to the house of representatives
a great deal in the last month or two,
and I've seen you a lot of times sitting
there while they We're trying to get a
quorum, and practically heard you say
you were not there, though l saw you
there, and so did everybody else, and it
went. Now, Charlie and I are running
u business on the same principles, and
SO while you may see him here he is
constructively absent, and we'd like to
now what you are going to do about it.
See?"
The interview ended at that point,
and that evening Charlie was promptly
not present, just as he had been for
many consecutive nights. detroit Free
Press.
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the hole, and it came out like a shot
from a cannon. The quarryman had
such a tight grip ON the IRON that he
was carried up with it like a skyrocket
for a distance of 100 feet or more.
Up, up he went till he could look
over the city and see the winding Mis-
sissippi in the distance.
He was conscious all the time and
realized when he had reached the high
est point and was about to descend.
Then he began to fear that the fall would
kill him.
Unlike Mark Twain's hero, he did
not drop down over the old hole and go
to work to make up for lost time, but he
fell with a dull thud and was picked up
unconscious. 1t was a close call for him,
but a skillful surgeon saved his life.
After his recovery he was asked why
he held Oh to the bar when the blast
went off.
why" said he, eff l had let that
bar go, it would have been blown into
the state of Minnesota, and 1 would
never have found it again. "-Peck's
Sun.
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But There Seemed to Be,

The gentleman living in the suburbs
had a goat for the children's pleasure,
and 1t was that kind of a goat which
might well be called rambunctious, for
1t took possession of the place early and
showed little disposition to vacate. One
morning the goat walked into the chill
dren's playhouse, and as the gentleman
was starting down town he told the man
about the place to drive it out and shut
1t up i'll the stable. The man promised,
and the master proceeded to his office.
At noon the MAJ came to the office on
an errand.
by the way, John, said the master,
did you put that goat in the stable, as
| told you?'
John began to hedge.
II was busy, sir, and"--
BUSY nothing" interrupted the
master, Il told you to put it in the
stable, and that's what l wanted you to
do"
Yes, sir" parleyed John, "but''-
There's no butts about it. p
"Oh, but there is, sir" INTERRUPTED
John this time. eff you don't believe
me, sir, you just tackle thu goat your
self, sir, and you'll see how it is. "-Ex.
change.
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How 1t Was Done,

The most persistent man at the Eng
lish bar is a newly created @. C. named
Oswald, who enjoyed a large practice
as a Junior and is likely to increase it
as "a silk"
About a year ago Mr.. Oswald was be-
ore h court of appeals arguing in favor
of a new trial for an important civil
case, which the lower court was unwill-
ing to have retired. The judges had init
mated more than once that they agreed
with the learned counsel, and that he
was entitled to a new trial, but MI. Os-
valid still continued to argue. At last
Lord Esther, the president of the court,
said, Mr.. Oswald, why did you not
urge these arguments in the court be-
low" Nh. Oswald, II did, my lord,
but their lordships stopped me-" Lord
Esther, surprised that anybody could
stop this learned counsel, said: "They
stopped you, did they? Pray how did
they manage to do it?' Mr. Oswald
(who always will have the last word\
by fraudulently pretending to agree
with me, my lord. Green Bag.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30
Notice to

John w. Tattan. A. H. Bell or Aaron II. Bell,
George II. Maddox. Henry c: Tillinghast and
Charles F. Grey, assignee for Henry c. Tilline-
hast and W. H.. Emery, composing the firm Of
H. q. Tillinghast and company.
You and each of your heirs. representatives
and assigns are hereby ~severally notified that l
Harry b.. Hill. your cO-owner. whose postOfice
address is Great Falls, Montana, and my grant
ors, have in accordance with the provisions of
section No. 1924 of the revised statutes of the
United States expended in work and improve
ments upon the Queen of the Hills lode mining
claim, which is located in Barker unorganized)
mining district, Meagher county, Montana. one
hundred Q00) dollars, annual repres~ entation in
each of the years, 1881. 1882. 1883, 1884. 1885. 1885.
1857. 1883. 1889. 1890, 1891 and 1889. for the pur-
pose of holding said claim according to law, and
you are hereby notified that unless you and each
of you. your heirs or assigns, contribute your
proportion of such expenditures for each of
above years, together with the interest and costs.
within ninety days after Incomplete service of
this notice by publication. all Your right, title
and interest, estate, claim and demand in and to
the above named mining claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your "
who has performed the work and made the re
quired expenditures.
2l-33 HARRY b HILL.
Date of first publication April 81. 1894.
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Not Up to Modern Methods.

Dealer-You say you used to be in
the shoe business. What do you think of
these?
Customer Cooking at the sample)-I
can't say. You see, they only made
shoes out of leather in my time. IN
dianapoliS- Journal.
Would Not Sound Well.
Clara-The paper says that in Italy
they have begun to number the
clocks from 1 to "a, beginning at /
o'clock in the morning.
Dora-That's horrid. Just imagine
how pa would look if we had to tell
him that Arthur and Gus staid until
" o'clock New York Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30

water and towels, and no one ever
thought of being S rude as to say:
Good morning. Have you used What's
his-name's soap!"
But n day the first soprano hurried
back to get her veil after choir practice,
and after that the poor organist was dis
charged.
He will not mind it now if he should
see his name here? He will not feel hurt
if | tell it? No.
Ortogga, for that was not his name.
was very, very neat and handsome, and
as a little child his mother used to like
to take his little dimpled carcass on her
Bingham apron and polish him off with
a sponge and What's-his-name's soap.
Then afterward he grew to be the
child who was pictured in the magazine
as a Smelling's food child.
Later on, when he grew to be a young
man, he was still neat and clean, and you
can still see his picture before and after
he used cutis-kura.
But he lost his place as the organist of
Christ church because he was so neat.
He had no good bathing facilities at his
hall bedroom, and SO after the choir re-
hearsal on that warm spring afternoon,
when the soprano came back for her
veil, Ortogga had removed his 1S cents
worth Of clothes and was taking a swim
i'll the large baptismal tank under the
pulpit.
Kicking up his heels in the midst of
the cool baptistry and now and then
digging up from the bottom with his toes
a few old sins that had settled down
there. he seemed to give himself up to
general JOY.
He was discharged, but years after
ward, when the soprano was his wife
and he was a great musician, he forgave
her for telling the pastor about it.
But Ortogga has hot and cold water in
his own house now and he keeps a dog
that eats more every day than an old
woman's home. He is greatly beloved
by every one, and you would never be-
lieve that he once bathed in the baptis-
try of Christ church and was BETRAYED
by the soprano.
When one is successful, we forget his
peculiarities of early life, but if he fails
Trousers is his name.
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HE WAS
If One Scheme Doesn't Work, Another \
Says Jeremiah Virgins.

If One Scheme Doesn't Work, Another Will,
Says Jeremiah Virgins.
He was leading a vicious looking mas
tiff by a leather leash when his friend
stopped him with the remark:
Il thought you didn't like dogs"
II DON'T" he replied.
"Well, you've got about as big and
vicious a N as you could we'll find"
II know it, and I'm glad of it. I'm
going to make 1t mighty interesting for
some people up my way. You see" he
explained, Everybody in the neigh
borhood has a dog, and some of them
have two OF three. There's every kind
OF a dog from a pug to a greyhound, and
about half of them use my yard as a
meeting place. I fall wei them when 1
go home at night, and l step on them
when l come out in the morning. One
or more of them generally howl all night
and some of them are such all fired
fine watchdogs that they not only try to
keep people out of their masters houses
but out OF every house in the neighbor-
hood. [ had a half hours argument
with one a few nights ago before he
would let me get into my own house"
"Now, I don't like dogs anyway, so
l demonstrated with some of the owners,
but they told me that a dog was mans
best friend, and that I had better go off
somewhere and die. Well, that made
me mad, SO I up and poisoned one of
the dogs, thinking they wouldn't know
who did it. But they jumped at conclu-
sions, and I was nearly mobbed. Then
l tried a new plan. I began to take all
interest in dogs. I told the neighbors
that, after all, I guessed they were better
than night watchmen and were exceed
ingly companionable. I expressed my
intention of buying one myself, and
I've got him, !" he said, chuckling. ''I've
got one that is warranted to chew up
anything Oh four legs that crosses his
path, and the neighbors can't say a
word. They have their favorite dogs,
and l have mine, and there's going to
be great sport. Come up and see it.
II reckon there'll be one dead dog a
day around there, and when everything
else is cleaned out I'll kill my dog.
Maybe they think they can run this
neighborhood on a dog basis, but I'll
bet they can't"
But what will your wife say?'
"1don't care what she a I'm run
ming that place"
How about your children?"
"Hey?"
eff you turn that vicious brute loose,
what's to prevent his taking a snap at
them when he feels ugly?"
well, soak me if 1 ever thought of
that looking sharply at the dog and
shaking his head. "Say! Those asinine
dog Il have got the best of me yet,
haven't they? But I'll fix EN- yet! See
if l don't! I'll steal the license tag off
of every II OF those internal pups and
then put the dog catcher II That's
what I'll do! There's no internal dog
owner ever lived that can down Jere-
miah Virgins. You don't know any
II who wants to buy a mastiff, do
you? No? Well, 1 reckon I'll have to
kill him and call it all a dead loss. But
I'll have those license tags! You can
bet on that!'-Chicago Tribune.
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He Was

Il suppose you frequently go to the
capital to See congress in session." said
the young man who is visiting Cholly.
mot fwequently. I went once. 1t is
an experwience I shall nevah fohget.
Nevah, nevah!' And his emotion al
most overcame him.
"Was it exciting?"
1T was horwible. l chawnced to
dwop in during a night session. 1t must
have been severwal houahs aftah 6
O'Clock, and-would you believe it?-not
n OF those congwessmen was in even
ing dress! 1t was the most immodest &C.
casion l evan witnessed. 1t was veal
lyH'-Washington Star.
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THE T

when n uvos b,n1od 70 =, u 4
,,,L 3d. - - n
e"hh' ouu cheerful up as L reau IL. III
was as follows, barring tho signature
aud date line:
SIxTY-FIFTH STREET AND ELI AVENUE
nn. NJ, April H. 1884.
come over tomorrn,v ornr mo an% a aid G ~ YOU 70
Ing up a little racket with some friends of
miner nave kept Lent by living alta boarding
neat "N1 u" "e"ie so'ns nave something
I've hardly had any real fun since Charles
was snatched away by the grim hand of death,
n oud R 1olhorro o rom ana Elizabeth and Hoke
going to- hid dnn nara b up w .n and naa' aha We're
We may trip the light bombastic toe a few
trips, and Hoke and Tom will play elephant.
- shn tiu un i"uen ao od one d my temperament
song and dance when / am vet So yonne an nd
have yet so much of life to live.
ISN'T that So colonel
but as for me- aire na iih oma, nr o crave gaeth;
trust you will be on hand, for | shall omen
case of canned goods and try to take the taste
Ok r Lena ana bereavement out OF my mouth.
tell you right now that I'm losing 1s,Dt the n pa. Of !
some dandy party dresses for evening that
were made before poor Charities most untime-
~ VIII NiI a sax : o,o death,
80 - = w " hSoL
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No. 3449.
Application for Patent,
U. s. Land Office, Helena, Mont,

U. $. Land Office, Helena, Mont,
June 5 1894.
Notice is hereby given that Harry b. Hill of
Great rails, Montana has this day filed appli-
cation for a patent under the mining laws of
Congress for 6o4. 3 linear feet of the EQUATOR
Lode with surface ground designated as Sur
vey number 1918 situated in Barker Iunorgan-
izedl mining district, Meagher county, Montana,
IN unsurveyed township Is north range s east,
which claim is recorded in the office of the re.
ccorder of Meagher county at White Sulphur
Springs, Montana, and described as follows:
Said Survey number 1913 beginning at corner
number l from which the Barker Initial Point
for mineral survers, bears south 10 degrees IL
east 1925 feet; thence north 81 degrees
70 minutes east 239 feet; thence north Is degrees
lO minutes west %! feet; thence north Is degrees
10 minutes west N4.5 IT; thence south Is degrees
~ minutes east 33S feet; thence south 48 degrees
~ minutes east 44O feet to corner number i, the
place of beginning, embracing 4.12 acres, upon
when a notice of saio application was posted
the 4th day of April, 1894.
The adjoining claims to these premises are
Surveys number 9S4 and 1856 of the Barker and
Edwards Lode claims on the south.
1898 W. E. cox,
Register.
Date of first publication June 16, 1884.
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A Sanitary Suggestion.

The young man had staid so long
that sweet spring night that he talked
every subject out except his health, and
finally he got around to that.
Il don't know" he said, "why it is,
but l am beginning to have that tired
feeling we read of in the ADVERTISE
ments."
$50 am l." she responded rather
heavily.
mop he exclaimed rapturously at
the thought of a feeling in common. 81
wonder why it is?"
He looked at her tenderly.
Really" she murmured, 1T can't
say, but have you noticed the clock?'-
Detroit Free Press.
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A Human

There is a man living in La Crosse
who is known as the human skyrocket.
He is a quarryman by occupation and
spends his life i'll the stone quarries in
the bluffs back of the city and is consid-
cred an expert in getting out rock.
But he had an experience some time
ago which came very near putting all
end to his career. He was working in
the quarry one day, engaged in putting
in a heavy blast. The charge had been
placed in the hole, and he was tamping
it with a large iron bar when the iron
struck a spark and the charge exploded.
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witch at noon, and at eventide he hoped
that some n would ask him to drop
around and take a family dinner.
He was a very neat young man, was
this organist. Though his cuffs were
fringed with tattered threads and rough
to the skin, they were very white and
clean, and he, too, was we'll shaven, and
his skin glistened from the use of hot
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30

He had put the fatal question to her
on the grandstand at the races, and she
answered no.
"Is there no chance of your ever low
ing me?" he pleaded.
1.-The odds are a thousand to one
against it." vas the pitiless reply.
He sighed, then braced himself up.
Its a long shot" he said at last,
but with nothing else in the field I'll
take it!'-Exchange.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-06-30
He Knew the Right Way,

Young Cittiman-I trust, uncle, that
you did not tuck your napkin in under
your chin last night when you dined at
the Swellhedde hotel?
Uncle Jere Gust from Waytack)r
Cert'nly not, my boy, cert'nly not. I
tied it back of my neck by the corners
Just as nice as you please .-Chicago
Record.