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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22
IN THE AMPHlTHEATER.
4 Contcs: Before King Herod and Pom
titus Piiatus In Jerusalem.

ContcS: Before King Herod and Pom
titus Pilatus In Jerusalem.
On one Of those days he went to the
amphithcatcr, the circus which Herod
the Great had built. at some distance
from the city. He paid for seat in one
of the upper galleries. On the tiers of
seats below him We're all sorts Of people,
and far away, ON the opposite side of the
vast arena, the sandy level i'll the mid
die, he saw, in the lower tier. a canopied
place that was furnished magnificently.
In il there We're throne seats, and ON
them sat King Herod Antipas. Pontius
PilatuS. the Roman governor, two Ro-
man generals, with other distinguished
men, and Il number Of richly dressed
women, some of whom wore brilliant
tiaras or curonets upon their heads. He
stared ut them for few minutes and at
the tremendous throng Of people, but
after that he thought only Of what was
going on i'll the arena.
There We're chariot races, and Cyril
could not help being intensely excited by
the mad rush Of the conteading teams.
while all the thousands who looked ON
shouted and raved. After the races,
however, came scenes some of which
made him shudder. There We're foot races
and boxing matches. but these were soon
over, and then there were contests be-
tween pairs Of swordsmen, spearmen,
clubmen, and the like, in which the
fight Went on until one cf the combat
ants was slain. Close upon the last of
these duels, bands of gladiators marched
in from opposite sides of the arena and
charged each other like detachments of
soldiers upon real battlefield.
The fighting was furious and desper-
ate. but one side was soon beaten, for
the parties had not been equal. One
party had been trained warriors, pro-
feSsional gladiators. and the other only
common men, captives taken in recent
raid of Pilatus' soldiers upon a wild
tribe beyond the Dead sea. They were
brave enough. but they were put there
only TO be killed for the amusement of
the great men and of the multitude. So
were the poor victims with whom the
days exhibition closed, for they We're
driven into the arena, half armed, TO
contend rs best they could with num-
Der Of hungry lions, tigers. leopards and
hyenas. which We're loosed upon them
from their dens under the tiers of seats.
w. o. Stoddard i'll ST. Nicholas.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22
when Railroads Were Young.

They tell a good story about the Chicago
and Alton ut the time when the company
was so poor that il could pay its men
only once in five or six months The men
stuck To- the road. however because they
had nothing better in the way of "a voca-
tion in sight. Governor Mathews WAS
then president of the read, and one day u
big, Strapping fellow who had been tamp-
ing ties for four months went down To
Bloomington. and, hunting up Mathews
showed him his shoes. which wcrc com
plctely worn out, snd addressed him rs
follows:
''Govcrnnr. | must have some money. as
/ can't work without shoes | need other
things, but would try to get along if had
pair uf boots =
The governor lu-'kcd AT the mans half
naked feet, ard ;hSn spoke gru'lly:
How long havS you been working ON
the road
Seven months altogether and ON the
section five months, was the answer
We'll, sir, said She president, you
will have to give ur your job. We have
no money, and an' about 90 issue orders
that hereafter no m.u must he hired who
does not possess new pair of boots
The big fellow left In despair and went
back To- work again. and after that no one
went Ia the governor after money with the
excuse that he needed new boots.-Pitts-
L,.-.. u..ss
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22
THE JESUIT FATHER IN CHINA.
= FcarcuiIy Narrow. Barren Life and Its
Mental Effects.


Mental Effects.
Up summer and winter before sunrise.
he reads the mathis ard his days work
is often done. says Blackwood'S Maga-
zine Sometimes he reads the angelus
and vesperS usually they are undertaken
by the native catechisi. Perhaps i'll the
course Of the long morning All San or
All ii Will present himself and pour
forth complaint about buffalo and a
irampled padi field; or he may be called
20 adjudica;c i'll what should be an nc
tion for "A q vorce Sometimes of morn
ing he sallic; forth. his yellow pigtail
coiled arnund his head and an enormous
satchel slung across his back. with u
store If iron shot and wadding for his
rickety muZzlc loader, and if he is lucky
will bring back pigeon or two. or even
pheasant, TO supplement the inevi-
table pork or fowl and rice.
The mail comes in once fortnight
and day slips by unnnticed, thanks to
home letters and II dozen numbers of
La CroiX. where. squeezed between the
latest miracle and the life Of some
worthy saint, the dongs Of the outer
world may he found recorded i'll ten
line notice On "a i Etranger.
Sometimes an afternoon is whiled
away in curing the rank tobacco of the
place or III brewing rice wine or malt
beer--because ten years of solitude have
taught him to do things for himself
and when he has no such pastime on
hand, he gets through the day absorbed
rs one hopes i'll his little medieval Ii
brary Of religious books-lives of the
saints and sermons and essays.
Then is it wonderful that even a mind
as broad and gentle as his shonld i'll con-
stant journeyings ON the one road have
Worn rut for itself. deep sunk and
gloomy as the traffic channeled paths of
the loess land in the north. till. when Il
rare glimpse Of the outside world does
break upon his view, his dazzled eyes can
SEQ nothing but trees walking. schis-
MATES and FreemaSonS. Jews and athe-
lists. spiritualism and table turning.
with the fiend himself in fiery cloud
over all:
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22
NEW WOMAN IN LITERATURE.
Je.nnctte Glider Gives Her Ideas Concern
ing the Talked of Creature.

The new woman Of the novelist is
merely one Of DR. Max Nordau's degen-
crates. She is the creation of writer
who Is hystorical and degenerate, and
the world takes her as something that
really exists. TObe sure thGsa are plenty
Of wumtn with "pasts" and with
'yearnings," and there always have
been and pro hahly always will be. but
doubt If any woman outside Of an insane
asylum talks the rubbish about spiritual
impacts, tells that I'VE are tones Of one
chord. AID about the vile slavery"
of marriage. as do the women of Miss
rendered and Mr. Grant Allen. Writers
of this sort do not represent the women
of the day any more than the painted
women Of the streets represent the wom-
en- Of good society.
The jarndiccd writers of 1.-THE Vel
low Book cannot be expected To givo
Us pictures If healthy lives. Their tastes
run to worm eaten fruit They have no
liking for that which is red with the
hue Of health. They prefer the yellow
hue Of decay. DIR. Nordau Is quite right
when lie calls it disease The heroines
Of The yellow Book. " Of "Discords''
and If 'Wreckagc" might have been
taken from Lombroso's study of the fc-
male offender. If they exist outside of
their creators brains, their cases will be
found recorded i'll scientific studies of
criminology or in the ordinary police re
ports.
The new woman rs | find her outside
Of the pages Of fiction is an induStriour,
healthy minded, healthy bodied young
person, with Il certain amount Of indie
pendcnce, who cares more for out Of door
sports than for indoor follies, and who
if She has work to do does it and does
not waste her time i'll telling about it.
Her spirits run high over the adventures
Of A Gentleman # France = She laughs
and cries by turns over ..Trilby" and
thinks "The Dolly Dialogues great
fun, but for yellow Discords" and the
like she las 10 use.
am happy to say that little of the
hySterical literature cf the day originates
III this country. II is almost entirely Of
English crigin. Some Of our younger
writers have tried thcir hands at it. hut
they do not take to IL naturally. and it
is fast going out Of fashion.
There always will he IA handful Ct
people who like erc;ica. but think
there has been Il turn i'll tho tide which
even at its highest never Swamped the
writers Of IErer fiction. Rudyard Kip
ling ard l!g>. Humphry Ward have
many more readers than Grant Allen
and Mary L. Pendored, and i'll this
country our writers of clean fiction are
the most pular -.Ieannettc Glider.
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Sot n Fairyland.

Robert Perry, a Chicago contractor who
has been spending two months in Iohan'
ncShurg, Sua,h Africa. says:
II want To warn Americans TO kecT
away from that part of the world. There
Is nothing Ia go there for. The climate is
unhcaithiul, living Is oxorbitantly high,
and the people who are there are almost
in a starving condition.
"\cgrucS do all the work In the mines,
which are ali owned by Barnato and
Rhodes. The plac. is desert where
scarcely anything grows, and there is a
water famine most of the time. Every
imaginable thing is taxed heavily. Even
Pretoria : own paper has printed warn.
ing to the world To keep away from the
PLACE. The clple who have lived there IL
or 10 years arc away behind the times.
When told !hem about the motorcycle and
tho kaleidoscope, they thought was tell
ing fairy tales and would not believe me -
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22
a coNJURER'S TALE OF WOE.


CaIi Hertz, tie illusianist. was talk
ing oi some Of the accidents that some
times poll the art of the conjuror
= Il was in Nashville, he said, "fhat
{ experienced IL real knock down blow.
| was performing the well known trick
Of passing "A marked coin into the center
of al uncut orange; al least that's what
good many people thought | was do
ing | used silver dollar. and empha-
sized tho trick by passing the coin into
the pocket of some boy whom had en-
ticed on 10 the stage.
Il viii openly confess that the boy
had 10 lie Il confederate, and that the
marked dollar had its fellow in one pre-
viou>ly prepared by me One night, as /
was entering the theater. looked around
for likely youth to aid me in my dou-
BE dealing. | picked Il boy and prom
iscd TO PASS him III if he would follow
my instructions.
= "m conjurer. l said. i want
you to put this dollar i'll your right hand
trousers pocket. III get you seat in
the front row. When / ask for some
body to come on the stage, you must
come. Then will ask you to produce
the dollar
The boy promised everything, and,
after making arrangements for him at
the door | left him. When was ready
for the dollar trick, saw my young
confederate sitting open mouthed in the
from; row. | had prevailed upon another
member Gf the audience to lend me a
dollar marked exactly as was that | had
| given To the boy
passed that borrowed dollar into
the orange. cut the fruit open. and ont
dropped the coin. Then / went on:
And now. ladies and gentlemen, l
will perfCrEi Il still more difficult feat.
have passed that dollar into an orange
Now ! will ask some member of the au-
dieucc ia step on the stage and. without
going anywhere near him. will pass
the same collar, marked. as you have
seen. into hi> !Ght hand trousers pocket
True - hS bargain. the hoy stepped
to the Stage. ls;epped opposite him and
asked:
New. sir. have you ever seen me
befor,:'
40, sir. was the answer.
have here dollar. | continued.
i am gu!rs TO pass it into your right
hand trousers pocket. One-two-three
got
. made the proper magician's pass
and smiled confidently upon my audi
encC.
80 Now said TO my assistant, put
your hand into your right hand trousers
/ pockC and give me the dollar
II hc hoy looked bit Sheepish. but
he divCd his fist down. Then, to my un-
utterah!c horror, he produced handful
of silver and said:
1--WE only got 30 cents Of it left, sir.
. went out in a hurry and took
/ drink New York Times.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22

Tho Rev. Robert Mac Donald is one Of
Boston 5 clergymen who may be describ-
ed as sympathetic preachers. He has an
easy presence i'll the pulpit and face
whose character denotes sympathy.
When i'll the midst Of warm passage of
his sermon, his words pour ont in a tor
rent and by the very impetuosity with
which be himself seems carried away he
heldS his hearers and puts his thoughts
into the minds Of those whom he has
brought into sympathy with him. -Bos-
ton Traveller
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A nAN FOR AN EMERGENCY.
Surprising Experience In n Car of n To
Who Was Headstrong.

A.Aperhncc In 70 lar OF n hoy
Who Was Headstrong.
\ poorly dressed woman with boy
about . years cid boarded one of the
Union Trolley company'S ears in White
Plains avenue recently. There was no
vacant seat, and she grabbed strap in
front Of Young man and prepared to
hang on. The young man got up and
tipped his hat to her. Quick as flash
the boy dropped her hand and leaped in
TO the seat On his knees taking care to
wipe his muddy feet ON the clothing of
the passengers ON either side. The young
man looked first at the woman, for
whom he intended the seat. and then at
the boy. The woman shook her head
and said:
Poor boyl Iguess he's tired. He can
have it, sir. =
The young man looked from one to
the other again. He shifted about un-
easily for Il moment. The other passen-
gers i'll TIE car giggled. That decided
him. Holding to strap with one hand,
he reached for the boy with the other
and got him by the nape of the neck
He lifted him clear of the seat and held
him dangling and kicking i'll the air.
The woman was about TO protest. Then
she thought better of it and sat down in
the vacant seat.
Madam, said the Young man.
throwing the boy at her. here is your
boy. D"
THANK you, sir. she said He is
bit headstrong. it's true. sir. y
The boy looked astonished. He whim-
pered a little. The woman patted him
on the head, and there wasn't peep
heard from him from that time until
the Harlem t,idge was reached and the
crowd got ont-New York sun.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-22

An amusing instance of an orator nm
able to resist neat paradox was pre-
sented in 4 speech made at a banquet
gwen wien President Hayes and his
cabinet were III Omaha. Evaris was de-
livering moi eloquent eulogy Of the
west ANA nclcded ene If his famous
III crn in;.h.c so..; uccS il these words
Il like the west like her self made
mon, and the more | travel west. the
more meet with her public men, the
more am atiSfied of the truthfulness
of the Bible statement that the wise
men n-carlc-from the east !'-EXchange
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$l.00 A YEAR.
WOMAN.

Oh woman with thu hluny eyes
That shine like star n midnight skies
B-for, the break ~ lauru.
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That lies within thrn-ey.ry hour.
Tho>o eyes 81 soft and brighti
Oh. woman with the glossy hair.
Do you. who arr - frail and iair.
Fer pause 10 think with scorn
That You can cham Us To your side
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Are but for your delight
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M. ldsccr in Womankind.
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First Ncs,ryman-It must make a
Clergyman feel very unhappy to discover
that he has outlivod his usefulness in a
parish.
Second NeStryman-Not 50 unhappy
as II makes the people when he doesn't
discover il. New York Tribune.
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The well known saving. First catch
your hare. is generally credited to
Mrs. Glass Cook Book, j." written by
DR.. John Hill III the eighteenth ,ntuTy.
But i'll an early edition of the book the
reading of the sentence is. First case
lthat is. skim your hare. =
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Artificial Eggs Barred.

Il wish to say. shouted that eminent
tragedian. Mr. Barnes former, that
the fiend who threw that china egg and
knocked me brcathlesS Is nothing but n
brute, with the instincts Of an assassin.
nm Injured tn ordinary expressions of
disapproval. but this il more than flesh
end blood can bear r'--lndianapolis
Jonrnnl
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weather According to Foster.

Fosters last bulletin gave forecasts
OF the storm waves to cross the con-
tinent from January 31st to Febru-
ary 4th, and February 9th to 10th.
He predicts third disturbance OF
February will reach the Pacific coast
about the 11th, cross the west of the
Rockies country by close of the 18th,
great central valleys 18th to 10th,
eastern states 10th.
The warm wave, he says will cross
the west of the Rockies country
about the 18th, the great central val
leys 18th, eastern states 10Th. The
cool wave will cross the west OF the
Rockies country about the 14th,
great central valleys 10th, eastern
states 18th.
Foster predicts that the center of
this storm will take more southern
route than usual and the storm will
be of very considerable force in the
eastern states about the 10th, while
the cool wave, will about the same
time, be of unusual force in the great
central valleys, particularly in the
upper Mississippi and Missouri val
leys. Extensive SHOWS will fall in
northern portion of the United
States.
The storms of the middle part of
February will be unusually severe
and cause very unpleasant weather,
especially in the northern states.
Weather will be too cold for early
gardening along the gulf and south
Atlantic states of the southern states.