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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-26
Ny SMeeiheart.

Twas a quaint rhyme scrawled in a spehins
book,
And handed to me with bashful look,
by the blueeyed sweetheart so fondly true,
In the dear old schooldays SO long ago
''If you love me as love you
No knife can cut our lovein two"
That SANDERS speller," so tattered and
torn.
Has always a balo Of romance worn,
And never poet with honeyed pen
Has written 50 preeions rhyme since then
'lf you love me as 1 love you,
Ah. dear, you know did do.
I've kept it safely for many year
This dogs-eared, shabby old spelling book,
dear.
And now, as hold it within my hand,
Again in the sghoolroom / seem to stand
Reading once more with rapture new
III you love me as l love you.
How some foolish saying from out the past
Like a rose branch is over the pathway east,
And the time Of flowers we still remember,
Till winds blow cod in the bleak December,
God grant if always may be t,ue-
THAT you love me as / love you
Carolyn L. Bacon, in Buffalo Express.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-26

Huzoor, she is dead she died from
picking flowers. A vain thing. II
was at the turn beyond the murg.
Huzoor, half way between Chuohchu's
hut and Goloo's drying stage. There
is big rhododendron tree hanging
over the cliff, and she fell down. 1t
must be three years gone. "
Three years; thenit must have hap
pened almost Immediately after / left
the valley. The idea upset me;
know not why. 1t seemed to dim the
sunshine. The murg without that
Powerful Life nodding and beckon-
ing felt empty. l was glad that had
arranged not to remain there for the
night, but to push on to another mea
dow, some six miles further up the
river. To do so, however, | required
fresh relay of coolies, and while my
shikari was arranging for this in the
village I made my way by a cross-eut
to the promontory. with its patches Of
iris.
Deaths are rare in these small com.
munities, and there were but two or
three new graves-all but one too re-
cent to be poor Phooli-jan's. That,
then, must be hers. with its still clear
ly defined oblong of iris, already a
mass of pale purple and white.
sat down on rock, and began,
unromantically, TO eat my lunch, fin
ishing up with pull at my flask, and
thus providentially fortified, stoop-
ed, ere leaving, to pick one or two Of
the blossoms from the grave, intend
ing TO paint them round the sketch Of
the girls head which had with me.
Great Heavens what was that?
turned positively sick with horror
and doubt. Was it hand? 1t wac
some time before could force myself
to set aside the sheathing leaves and
settle the point. Something it was
something which, even as | parted the
stems, fell to- pieces, as the skeleton
OF beckoning hand might have done.
| did not stay to see more; | let the
flowers close in over it whatever it
was-and made nay way back to the
village. My baggage, having chang
ed shoulders, was streaming out over
the plank bridge again, and in the two
first bearers, carrying my. cook room
pots fnd Pans, | recognized Goloo
and Chuchchu. They had both grown
stouter, and wore huga. banohes Of red
i5sasas,ss'sa. 5sasa ~. = Line Ii; no,s
friends.
l have not seen the turquoise set in
diamonds since, but l 1often think OF
it, and wonder what it was 1 saw
among the iris And then | seem to
see Phooli-ian sitting among the flow
ers, nodding her head and saying,
They are at my beck and call. +"
If I were Goloo or Chuchchu, l
would be buried somewhere else.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-26

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r-.u,.ua;nor tol5o,, Woa1;,,..
nn "a = ~ II, - " 0'''-''
III fenh' 4gaIlla'
aeFser
Both Parents OF Tof the Coup
pie Very afA7nt.
ng Z
A "coldon woil 1,oeAAs a notable
affair under anv.siz. btances. but
when the parent-.....&her Of the
celebrants are pr,i siiY,4the event is Of
rare interest.
A few DAYS ago rsedstono, Favettc
County, Penn, leh an event oe-
urred, no less Il five generations
being gathered ID kelebrate the half
century nnixSssasenisih. the marriage
Of Mr.. aud Mrs. III. H. Wakefield.
The formers fath.r, aud mother, the
Rev. samuel wakefelI and wife. and
seven Of their solis and daughters.
were present. Til. old couple nre
ninety-six and ninety-three years old,
respectively. Ih4 heY Mr.. Wake
field is widely kl.o"n and one year
ago, ne and ms WIG celebrated thelr
diamond weddints having travelled
for seyenty-five years through tins
vale Of life hand IL hand. At the
golden wedding q Their son both ap-
peared as hate andl hearty as they dld
year ago.
David L. Waketeld is seveaty-t"o
years old and his wife is seventy,
though they scarcely look to be over
sixty. Mr.. Wakeftel lsaretired fruit
grower and owns 100 acres of valuable
land.in this county. HIS descendants
are scattefed IN an quarters of the
globe, and nearly eighty OF them at
tended the celebsttion, bringing with
them golden pyeEents Of all descrip-
tions from al cliff
The Rev Sam'ti Wakefield, D. d.,
his father i one 81 the most wonder
fal men Of the present century. His
entire life has beer one Of activity.
lie has been minister, author, tailor,
farmer and representative of his dis
trict IN the State senate. At the age
OF nlnety-fourt published a work on
the Art ct PrWhlng He still oe-
cuples fhe pnlpsts Of tha Methodist
Episcopal ehurca Of western Pennsyl-
yapia On s3seia iseasions. DIR. Ell
ward Everst years ago recog-
It. baeals 80 ! !. ability and COM
~ ~ 60 ~ ohs
,,o,,naaa w eafiiess ex-
d;at -, :. '"e 4ne.no-
-, ~. : 1Ni5l,1a' ,. - !" es-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-26
She Was Out.
els your mistress ln?"

els your mistress ln?"
Maid-"Did you see her at the vja
dow as you came up the walk?'
No.
Make-"Well, she said If yaa
hadn't seen her, to say that she 0as
out. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-26
Contains Every Lelter.

The following sentence eoatn3et
every letter of the alphabet
John P. Brady gave me a black w.
nut box of quite a small SIZE,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
WILHELM AS DRfLLMASTER.

Severe Ordeal Imposed Upon One of the
Officers OF the Dragon Guards.
The other day, says the London Daily
News. Emperor William had the sec
ond regiment Of dragoon guards called
out suddenly on to the Tempelhof
common. He then called an officer.
Count Won Wedel, known to be good
rider, and handed him a message for
the king of Saxony with the order to
ride at once to Dresden and give it to
him. Count Won Wedel set out imne-
6iately, attended by a sergeant, and
arrived after a twenty-five hours ride
at Dresden.
The ride took so long a time, firstly.
on account of the severe cold and the
slippery state OF the roads, and, Sec
ondly. because Count Won Wedel was
not allowed to ride on the high road
from Berlin to Dresden. but had to take
roundabout ways, the supposition be-
ing that hostile army had occupied
the territory between the two capitals,
and that the rider had TO p,ss unno-
ticed through the enemy's lines. Count
Won Wedel arrived in a very exhausted
state at the royal castle, and. immedi-
etely after the audience with the king,
tainted away. He was taken into an
adjoining apartment, where he soon
recovered. His horse was also very
fatigued, though the attending SER
geant and his animal were not much
worse for the ride. At the kings re-
quest Count von Wedel did not return
to Berlin on horseback. but by rail
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
LACQUER Work in japan.

japanese lacquer is ready-made
product of nature. being prepared from
the sap of the lacquer tree, which.
when hardened, is of mirror.like
smoothness, unaffected by either acids
or hot water. 1t is of great durabili-
ty. never splitting or cracking. The
industrial Importance of lacquer work
is far above its art value in Japan,
where it is employed for an infinite
variety of uses, even for such objects
as acid tanks, ship keels and pho
tographic tablets, not to speak of the
objects of domestic use. The unique
superiority of Japanese lacquer work
is due not only to the special merit of
the material, but also to the care and
skill shown by japanese in the manip-
ulation of the material. The art lac
quer of Japan is essentially'individua
1t is not merely bric-a-brac There is
as wide a distinction between the or
dinary lacquer tray or cabinet of COM
merce and the exquisite lacs by the
great Japanese artists as between a
street placard and canvas of Raphael
Each of the great masters of laquer
created a style of his own and found
ed school, of which the traditions
were kept alive b. his successors 70.
centuries.-N. Y. Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
THE "GENTlE WORk-OxeN."
Some Of the Excitements of Agrieuiture In
Mexico.

At the Casa Camadra are two log
houses, and in them live some squalid,
yellow-hided humans who are to farm
little stretch of bottom-Eand this
year. They require work-steers 20 do
their plowing and Mr.. Bell has brought
up half dozen vicious old "'stags. 4"
which are both truculent and swift of
foot The Mexicans insist that they
are not able TO handle them; and Mr..
Bell orders his punchers into action
! strolled out TO the corrals To see the
bulls ''gentled-" After lot Of riding
and yelling they were herded and
dragged into the inciosure, where
they huddled while seven punchers sat
On their ponies at the gate. I was
standing az ono corner of the corral.
near the men, when on. from the
midst of the steers walked a big black
bull, which raised Its head and gazed
directly at ne. The bull had
never before in his stupid life
observed a man on foot, and
/ comprehended Immediately what
he would do next, so ! lied out for
the casa at rate OF speed which the
boys afterwards never grew weary Of
commanding. No spspgled torero Of
the tull-ring ever put more hear. and
soul into his running than did in my
great-cost and long hunting spurs.
The bull made ''florn hope" for the
gate. and the gailsn. p1nchers melted
away before the charge.
The diversion Of the uuuef,ers made
the retreat Of the infantry possible.
aud from an iDtrenched position ! saw
the bulls tear over the hill. with the
puncsers rolling their tails" behind
After an hour o. swearing and hasI-
ing and believing. the SIN cattle wers
lngged back 20 the pea. and The bars
put up The ps41chers came around 90
congratulate me on ny rapid recovery
from sDrsined ankle. when they hap
Psned 10 observe the cattle again
securing o- for the op>n cosn-
tgy. Thea there wzs granting os
oonie. a. the spurs went In. sonzs
hoars~ osshs. and for the third time
they tore away after the gentle work-
oxen The steers had taken the bzrx
in their STRIDE Another hoars ena.~.
AMI this tine the animals were thrown
down. trss.ed rp like farx~ys fs4 The
baking. ard tied 20 po<ts. where ihe~
az 70 kick and h-sIo-z the niyhs
.nrorEh "a szpetsnf rag. The punch |
rs oc.Isd their ropes. ht their esx1r- /
siis4 Esd roes q "a ;ss gSsasyssg
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
ATE IT'S OWN TAIL
The Absurd Trick OF One of the CsnfrN1
American Chsmeieons-

American Chsmeieons-
A traveller from Central America
recently told rather an amusing story
Down in my country" he said. emo
of the first things you get acquainted
with is n small, bright green lizard.
They are quite tame. harmless and
very lively. When caught by the tail
they have peculiar fashion Of slip
ping away, leaving that sPpendaga
behind them.
''One afternoon I was sitting on my
doorstep watching one of these little
creatures darting about for flies. IL
became quite bold. and in one of lie
quick movements jumped on nay foot.
! made a sudden grab and caught il by
the tail With wriggle it was Off.
leaving that portion of its body still Ia
my haad. =.
''As | had no particular use for 70, Z
threw il on the ground. Ia few min,
utes noticed that lot of ants had
discovered .he piece OF tail, and wero
dragging il OF as fast as they could "a
their hole close by. When they had
arrived almost 10 their destination !
noticed the lizard. few inches away
intcnty watching the ants and hiA
missing property.
Just rs the ss.ts were making 4
final pull 20 their nest the lizard Dart
cd out among them, and. seizing his
bit of tail. swallowed it with evident
relish -
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
ELoQUENCE OF THE INDIAN.
Ffowery DictiOn Of tho Rude Cntutore
Son Of the Eoreat

Fiowery DictiOn of tho Rude Cntutore6
Son of the Forest.
A delegation of Snake Indians visited
the red men on the Umatilla Reserva-
ton during the holidays. When they
started for home Young Chief delivered
the following eloquent farewell address
to his visitors:
I'VE part tonight. Not as before.
For once hate was between us Now
there is love. Once war; now peace
Once we swung the tomahawk and
aimed the deadly rife at each others
hearts Now the pipe of peace we
smoke to show that the past is past
and buried. In other ways it is diff
ferent. There was time when some
of US lay in ambush against the whites
But we have all put aside the imple-
Uents of war and cultivate the arts of
peace. Our fathers swore eternal VEN
geance on the palefeces- This was be-
cause of the tradition handed us by
them of an invasion of trappers and
traders who valued not the Indians
life. They went to the sea, and found
their friends at Astoria By the great
water, and left some to mourn their
Indian dead. But we live side by side
with him now, and from the rising to
the setting sun we know no foe for
whom we would put on the war paint
and ride forth. to return with scalps
hanging at our belts- Our ponies no
more carry us to bloody attack We
own the great father at Washington az
our great chief. Him we obey. The
past is forgotten. Major Jim, go to
your people and say Young Chief sends
them peace and good will. Portland
OTegonian.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
FOUGHT A DUEL WITH A BOA.
The Rash Wager of an Engineer Which
Nearly Cost Him His Life.


Nearly Cost Him His Life.
A Newark IN j. engineer who
served on the engineering corps en-
ploved in the construction of the Mic
aragua canal, and was home on a sort
of furlough. recently told story of
a duel with boa constructor by fell
low engineer. Life in the canal coun-
try is dreary, and various schemes are
resorted to in order to relieve the
monotony. One OF the party stated
one evening that he could kill boa
single-handed The rest of the crowd
tried to convince him that he was
wrong, but he stuck to the assertion.
Finally, handsome bet was made
that he could not dispatch boa alone
If the deadly reptile was in its natural
condition. The young engineer
promptly accepted the terms OF the
wager. The next day a gang of
natives were sent into the for
est to find a boa They contIn-
ued their search for some time
and finally came upcn just the
article they were looking for. 1t was
a weli-grown specimen of the boa
species, fully fifteen feet long. II had
eaten heartily few days be fore j; was
discovered. and was therefore .orp;-.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
mepmsro1aEIEs IN cANAoAy


0oo S0PefSUSsooo q sno reoeootfy 49,
HI Aanaszs end CussOms
In the legendary lore Of Canada IT,
devil plays prominent part. He doc
not appear - the strong angel, WI
fell through pride, The enemy of Go1j
bat as the medieval devil of mouh3
ish legend, the petty prosecutor a
man. says writer in Popular Sciene4
Monthly. In the rural districts a
Canada Satan Is supposed to be verN
active His company may be locke
for on all occasions. The accidental
appearance of little child in the room
often betrays the presence Of the evil
spirit, as the poor innocent Is sure to
bewail itself vigorously. The Primes
Of Darkness may be met at ball IN
the guise of . handsome young man
who excels all the rustic gallants in
appearance. He wears gloves 70 con,
ceai his claws, and disregards the
tranamels of feonventionality BY keeping
his hat on his head 70 hide his horns
He selects the prettiest girl In the
room as his partner. but his choice il
usually the village coquette. whose
vanity or levity has exposed her TO thc
evil influence. In the midst Of thS
gsyety piercing cry Is heard A
strong odor of birthstone becomes per,
ceptible, and the attractive cavalis0
Is waited out of the window. carryinG
with him some useful domestic utensil,
as, for instance, a stove or the fryine
pan. The girl may escape with a SHARP
scratch of claw, particularly II she
should happen 70 have . cross or .
crucifx.
Canadian rustics never answer ''Ens
trez" when a knock is heard at the
door; they invariably respondt
''0uvez-" This is founded upon the
old legend of young woman who 70.
piled 'Entrez" TO such summonat
when the devil came in and carried hea
of
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

THIS poor one thing ] db-irstcad Of
rcpining at its lowness or its hardness,
] will make it glorious by my supreme
loyalty to It's demand--0annets-
ONLY from the solid ground of sone
clear creed hare men done good strong
work IN the world Only out of cer-
taiaty comes Phillips Brooks
Do soT drudge like a galley slave.
nor 90 business in such a laborious
Eaz.Eer. as IL you had . mind To be
pi,.ed or wondered at-IAreus Az
rel.us-
soxE persons follow the dictates Of
their conscience only in the same sense
n which . coaehnsn may be said 10
follow the horses which be Is driving.
-Whzteley.
We do DO; like cur friends the worse
because they sometimes give Us the oP-
poTtuni;y 70 rail 4; them heartily.
Their fa1lts reconcile - 30 tscir VIZ
taeslHszliti -->->-S-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The London fire brigade received
absut 5000 calls during last year,
against 4.449 in 1892. Over LOCO of the
calls proved to be false. although the
magistrates have the power of lnfiict-
ing tine of $40 on anyone found mali
ciously tampering with the fire alarms.
"A strange avenue of trees is owned
BY the duke Of Argyll. and it is year
by year growing longer. Each of the
trees has been planted by some notable
person, ard brass plate is fastened to
the iron fencing surrounding in the
tree. signifying by whom it was plant
ed.
-Th ere are now twenty women
members of the British medical asso-
citation, all of whom are fully qualified
medical practitioners. At the last an
nual meeting of the British association
for the advancement of science il was
decided that the medical section Of the
society should be thrown open to
feminine membership. This resolu-
tion was seconded by Mrs. Garrett An
derson. who was herself member be-
fore 1876.
Hon. Robert Reid, minister Of de.
fense of the Australian colony of Vic
toria, arrived in London recently on an
important mission in England. Canada
and this country. In England he will,
among other matters. make investiga-
tions concerning a Pacific cable These
will be continued in Canada. He is en-
route to the United States with the
special object of inquiring into the
working of American railroads, "to
see if any lessons can be Learned" and
to arrange reciprocal trade relations
with the United States.
The caprice of the moment in Paris
is Chinese soup. In this sharks fins
are the chief ingredient. Only the high
class grocers have them, and put up as
they are, beaded on pink wool, in little
glass boxes, they look at first glance
like some goodie from the confec-
toners. Another dish seen now at
fashionable dinners in the French capi-
tai is young roast peacock. served with
truffles, and the m ost affected ice for
the same feasts is favored with hazel
nuts and called ''Bombe Avelane"-a
souvenir of the recently visiting Rus
slams, who, though lost to sight, are
still evidently to memory dear.
In the effort to prevent the supply.
!ng of firearms to natives of the Pacific
islands regulations have just been
made by the British high commissioner
for the western Pacific prohibiting
British. vessels from carrvino, mora
than one rifle and one pistol for each
mem Der of the crew and each bona fide
passenger not a native. 1t has also
been made an offense, punishable by
fine and imprisonment, for any person
TO supply firearms, ammunition, explo-
sives or intoxicating liquors to the ma
tives of any of the Pacific islands under
British control or protection. Unscru-
pulous traders have recently supplied
the natives of several of these islands
with Winchester rifles and ammuni-
ton, with the result that the natives so /
armed have made raids on neighborinc
Islands and slaughtered the inhabi-
tants- A British war vessel on a recent
tour of the islands found that party |
Of these armed marauders. notorious |
cannibals. had visited a nearby island i
and butchered the inha bitents of a /
arge village, leaving every evidence of /
,u bsequent horrible cannibaliEtic prac- !
ices
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
California

California ros esses a delightful winter
climate. Almost every day is balmy and
full, of sunshine. To live IN such air II few
months may save you a big doctor bill 1t
doesn't cost much TO try. The Frisco line
and Santa Fe route will carry you to Los
Angeles, San Diego or San Francisco any
day, on fast ssstibuled express train, in
Pullman or tourist sleeper. The Journey
is through New Mexico and Arizona.
where heavy snowfalls seldom come II is
short, quick and comforfable-straigh
across. not roundabout. Once a week
personally-conducted excursions are run
TO the Pacific coast in tourist sieepers
Competent porters and agents in charge.
Second class tickets hopored. and good
care taken OF ladies and children without
escort. Very cheap rates for one way or
round trip, now in effect. Write to d.
Wlshart, q. p. A. Frisco line, St. Louis,
No. for copy of California excursion leaf
let and handsomely illustrated book
entitled "To California and Back" Near
est local agent OF Frisco line or Santa Fe
route will be glad to name ticket rates aud
furnish desired information about the trim.
Don't oe afraid TO ask questions
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-24
A japanese Gi1i Of the Period.

Another incontestable proof, of the
rapid advance of the japanese in civil
ization of the west is the following
advertisement, which appeared in .
Toxic paper recently: "A young lady
wishes 70 get married. She is very
beautiful. has a rosy face, which is sur
rounded by dark curly hair. Her eye
brows show the form of the half moon.
and the mouth is small and pretty.
She is also very rich, well read enough
to admire the flowers in the daytime
at the side of a life companion, or at
night TO sing TO the stars in heaven.
The man whom she viii choose mus.
also be young. handsome and well ei-
ucated. and be ready to share the same
grave with her"