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Tombstone prospector., 1896-07-24
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Tombstone prospector., 1896-07-24

The wavering position occupied by some of the delegates now m St Louis would indicate that the sack was there with the strings united. St. Louis is the battle ground and now is the time for the gold men to get in their fine work.
Tombstone prospector., 1896-07-24

According to the Denver News in the event of the election of Mckinley, there will not be enough republicans left in Colorado to i'll the appoint. ments as postmssters.
Tombstone prospector., 1896-07-24

With silver st Sl29 an ounce, Ari- iona would be one of the most pros- porous sections of the grea: Ameri- can union, brysns election will do this.
Tombstone prospector., 1896-07-24

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Tombstone prospector., 1896-07-24

We demand the Hmm sdiste restoration . sf tbe Tree and nnl.nsited coinage sf gold and silver as the present legal ratio sf is ts |. withcsa waiting fer the aid CT cement sf any other Rasisp. We demand that the standard .ilver dollar shall he a fall legal tender, equally with gold. for all dests, paSlie and private and favor sach lexis. sss.sa ss ~sM prevent she decentralization sf any kIa4 ef legal tender money hy private sntraes.-Democratie National Silver Platform.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

AN Undetermined Suicide - "Be
lisy, Pat, and you've bruk the lookin.
glassl How did yez do it2' "Shure,
IN tried to shoot myself in che glass,
IN bad luck to 1t, I missed myself -
sydney Bulletin.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the
celebrated trick mule Dot" said the
clown, as the beast was being led into
the ring. "After many years of effort,
| am able TO say can make him do any
thing he wants to."-Tit-Bits.
Talk about me not being Of for
giving nature" remarked Chalkey as
he erased the score of the baseball
game from the blackboard; "here am
every day doing nothing but wiping out
cid scores. "-RoXbury Gazette.
First Summer Girl-"You know
that fellow l was engaged to last sum
mer? He came down on n wheel, you
know" Second Summer Girl-"Ycs;
he is here again this year?" First Sum.
mer Girl-"Ycs: | saw him this morn.
ing. He had four wheels this time
They were on baby carriage. Dos
ton Transcript.
NO." said the rural voter, 81 must
say don't take stock in no schemes to
make money out o nothin'." But you
must admit that money is very hard
to get" Eyes. Moneys mighty shifty.
Es the old sayin' goes: Riches hez
wings But some o. these schemes
seems ter me like trytn' ter ketch IL
by putin salt on it's tail."-Washing-
ton Star.
They don't have the melons now
that they did when you and l were
young" said the lnndlady to the Cheer
full Idiot, and the Cheerful Idiot, who
always resents any remarks about
his approaching middle age, said
sadly. II guess they don't have the
same INelons now, but l do think they
have the same butter."-Indianap
Journal.
How He Explained It.-IIe wasvery
defcrental. but he was a deacon in the
church, and he felt that he had a right
to criticise. 81 hope you'll pardon me"
he said, "if I suggest that your SER
mons are-ah--" TOO prosy, l sup
pose" suggested the minister. "Oh, no;
not that. But too long" But You
mustn't blame me for that" returned
the minister, pleasantly. IF you knew
a little more, I woIldn't have to tell
YOU so much. Chicago Post.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
GREAT BRlTAlN's CHEEKINEss.
EnglIshmen Themselves Seem to Partially
Realize 1t.

Englishmen Themselves Seem to Partially
Realize 1t.
We English go our own way, so far as
we can see, with very little regard for
anybody's susceptibilities and we must
suffer other powers to go theirs, inter
fcring only when the injury becomes
serious enough to require something
more dignified than shrill remon-
STRANGE. The other powers suspect us
at least as holly as WE suspect them
and with this extra Justification that,
as they see quite clearly, our power
reaches everywhere, our broad road is
always open and though we protest
that, except as regards ships, we are
feeble folk, yet whenever need arises in
Europe, Asia or Africa there are the
troops ready to march forward and, as
a rule, execute their orders with the
kind of precision that generals admire
We are not little Englanders by any
means. On the contrary, we hold that
the future of the world depends greatly
upon the strength of the British empire
aud its ability TO take leading part in
ontrolling and guiding Africa and Asia;
but if we are to carry out such ideas as
we are now carrying out in eastern Az
RIGA we must suffer the equal powers of
Europe to carry out theirs. 1t is folly
TO claim East Africa, as we are prac-
tically doing, from Alexandria to the
cape, and at the same time worry about
France on the Niger or Russia in north
ern China and Mazanderan. We are get
ting into position in which we seem to
our neighbors to lie around the world
like the serpent of the Morse mythol.
ogy, and then we are angry because they
watch us jealousy and try 20 do little
enterprises on their own account.
1t is like quarrel among neighbors
about foot paths, and we cannot hon
estly say that il is we who display either
the patience or the fearlessness of the
best caste, much less the tranquility
of those who are sure alike of their
rights and of their power to enforce
them. Fancy Great Britain on one day
summoning Silks to garrison Suakin
and on the next screaming around be-
cause Russian ship-owning company
has bought some swampy land at Che
Foo and stopped or not stopped some
English owners access 10 the ca..-Lon-
don Spectator.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
Tng HOME CALLING.

Far on the hills are calling where fair the
conntry shines.
kld the brown thrush pipes his treble in
the tangle OF the vines;
ht.fr tlsr dews a-faliing where the meadow
daisies foam,
And hills and streams are calling; Come
home-come home--come home"'
hear It in the blowing OF the wild winds
DER the dells-
rhc singing of the mocking birds, the ring
ing OF the bells;
o. twilight shadows falling on fields l
loved to roam
Nat low, sweet calling--calling: Come
home-come hcme-come home!
tinkles In the fountains-that message
sweet to me;
e. echoes Ger the mountains and sings
across the sea;
The bee is in the blossom, the lark files
Ger the loan.
And love with yearning bosom calls still:
Come home-come home'
'.Come homew The sad winds sing it
across the rippled rills
rcome homer The glad bells ring It:
''The night is on the hills!
Some home The lights are shining TO
guide the feet that roam"
And on loves breast reclining In dreams
nv heart goes home!
@-Frank l.. Stanton, in Chicago Times
Herald.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29

" mansion which had been her child
hoods home, with death on her young
brow, despair in her broken heart and
a son in her poor, frail arms to hold up
as peace offering to her only parent
left, her stern old father. The mother
died dnring the first year of her daugh-
ter's absence.
But Leonard d'Orville (Which was
the boys sole Inheritance from a worth
less father-a high-souhding nancy was
"inclined to be Wild" and these inclina-
tions had been crystallized into set
forms of as much callow wickedness
as the sleepy old village could furnish,
by the undue severity of his GRANDPA
Their. So the time came when Leonard
flung on his back parcel containing a
change of clothing, his little savings
bank, his mothers picture and bundle
of notes written in a girlish hand, with.
among them, long tress of ripping
brown hair cut from his sweetheart 5
head. Bidding his implacuble enemy
land grandfather) merry good-by, he
took his way along the highway where
on travel set its tide citywdrd.
But before leaving, he spent an hour
beside brook which chartered away
in the rear of Dame Roses kitchen gar
den. Nor was he alone; for a fair
haired girl with long and ripping curls
sat near him, and their hands were close
ly clasped, and more than once, as the
lads eyes darkened with the overpower-
ing forcthought of the coming years
and their loneliness, the tender heart
of his companion would prompt her TO
lean still nearer and meet, and return
the kiss he turned to give. And as they
passed through the garden in the brood
ing twilight, the pale buds of the rose,
newly lowered. caught Leonard's eyes.
Pucking one, he held it against the
flowing sweep of the girls soft hair,
looking Greamily at the pure curves of
the check, turned to hide the brim-
ming eyes; at the tip of the small car
that pecped from the abundant curls,
and at the fair bud cleaning like a star
against the brown waves. Then his
voice jcepened to manhood's earnest
ness, as he whispered;
"Somc day, F1oribel, my sweet Flori-
bel, I'll send you a bunch of these pale
roses, and then I'll follow soon-soOn
enough tor them to be still fresh for our
wedding"
The lad had a world of latent romance
in his heart, and it all welled out in his
love for this sweetheart of his boyish
days.
"And =" Floribel had whispered, will
never wear a bride rose until YOU come
TO me-"
swear it. Floribel. swear it," and he
would rot leave her until her gentle
eyes were lifted and her rose-red lips
vowed TO wear no bridal flower, save at
her wedding with he? lover, Leonard.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
Good substItuts for Putty.

\ cheap and effective substitute for
putty to stop cracks in woodwork is
made by soaking newspapers in paste
made by boiling a pound of flour in
three quarts of water and adding a
teaspoonful of alum. The mixture
should be of about the same consistency
as putty, and should be forced into the
cracks with a case knife. 1t will harden
like papier mache, and when dry may
be painted or stained to match ITS sur
roundinCs, when it will be almost i'm
perceptible.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
ADAPTATION OF PLANTS.
No Place In the World Where Vegetation
Does Not Exist.

No Place In the World Where Vegetation
Does Not Exist.
No matter where plaats grow, how
unfavorable the soil or atmosphere,
they always manage to adapt them
selves to circumstances. Excepting the
greatest ocean depths, there is no place
in the world where vegetable life does
not exist. Off Terra del Fuego, where
the tremendous breakers roar and
crash against the rocks they wear
away, there floats on the surface OF this
turmoil of waters acres Of a marine
plant which rises from ~ depth of 200
or more feet, it's roots imbedded in the
ocean bottom. No force shakes it loose.
It's stem is never an inch through, and is
round and slippery, yet few Vt them
will support an immense weight.
Darwin, in writing of the sensitiveness
of the tip ends of the roots Of plant,
says they are so susceptible to external
impressions that they are, in reality,
brains, and direct the movements of tho
other parts of the plant, There is
plant which, by the opening and closing
of it's leaves, foretells rainy weather;
the compass plant of New Mexico has
leaves so sensitive to magnetic currents
that the bewildered traveller can tell
from the way it arranges its leaves
which way is north. Great fields of the
sensitiva plant in Brazil will. at the
tramp of horses hoofs, SILVER and
close up. the circles and waves over the
field while this is going on being very
curious. The Venus fly-trap is wen
known; the leaves are divided by the
midrib into two halves, which are set
with bristles, and if a fly or insect alfghts
on the surface the two halves instantly
clap together and hold the fly prisoner
for life. While these movements arc
automatic; there are plants which seem
to move whenever they take notion
to do so. A IegUminous plant Of tho
East indies puzzles spectators by NOV
ing it's leaves up and down whenever
IL takes notion to do so. The sundew
is another remarkable plant. The leaves
are covered with hairs, in reality glands,
euch tipped with a sticky fluid looking
like a drop of dew. Flies, attracted by
the bright red color of the glands, and
the seeming water, alight for drink
and m~et a sad fate, the sticky fluid
pouring forth, enveloping them and
digesting them.-Chicago News.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29


The pearl Is the one gem that comes to
us perfect from the hands of nature,
and to this its great antiquity as gem is
largely due. Precious stones whose
beauty and brilliance depend on polish
ing and cutting would naturally be dis
covered and utilized later. The dis
covery of the diamond, for instance,
probably dates within historic times.
Though known earlier, ii was not gem
orally included among the gem treas
ures % royalty even as late rs the
seventh century. The modern cutting
Of diamonds in regular facets was IN
vented as recently as 1856. Indeed, ii Is
quite probable that the pearl was the
first gem known and treasured by pre-
historic men--since the search for food
must have been the first occupation OF
the earliest of the race, and the shining
pearl would thus have been discovered
in riv,.l mussels IL not in marine oysters.
Certain T. is that the Old Testament and
the ancient written histories allude 70
pearls, and that remoter evidence Is
found in the tombs and eXcavated cities
of still earlier eras. The Egyptians,
Babyloninns, and Assyrians held the
pearl II. an esteem verging on reverence
--Applcton's Popular Sentence Monthly
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29

fruit room and laundry. The doors are
. feet inches by Z feet by 12s inches
thick. Building paper is placed be-
tween siding and sheathing. The first
story is 0 feet 6 inches high, the sec
ond, o feet; basement, feet. The en-
tire house is piped for gas and furnace.
The exterior of the house is painted
three coats, the body being sea green,
with white trimmings. The roof is
painted two coats, olive green color,
printing to be. done with linseed oil and
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29

Gentle hands were about her, but she
murmured, and one leaned down to lis
ten:
: MY rosebud My beautiful sowerl
May l not carry it with me?'
And she SMILED contentedly as her
small, fevered hand clasped the long,
fleNile stem.
Beside the long table in the brilliant.
ly-lighted room stood several men, one,
made prominent by the lofty grace OF
his bearing and the grave beauty of Ais
thoughtful face. This was the sur.
geon who had consented to come from
a distance that a mysterious aliment
might be penetrated and its 1auses laid
bare.
How tenderly he leaned over the
small, pale face ere yet the anaesthetio
had been administered; how deep and
thrilling the tones of his voice as he
spoke words of encouragement TO the
sufferer. STOPPING in the presence of
the assembled students and bearded
men of the resident medical faculty,
he laid his lips in light kiss on the
fair forehead of the child. AS he leaned
above her his eye caught the CLEAN of
the pearly-petaled bud that lay upon
the childish breast. And did he start,
or was it a flicker of one of the myriad
lightsP Very gently he lifted the bud,
his. hand encountering a strip of paper
tied about the long stems as he did so;
and, turning, he laid it down with the
gloves, which he had dotted upon enter
ing the hall.
All was over, and we'll over. The
child had rallied, and was sleeping
quietly. Beside her watched skilled
nurses, and within reach of her waking
hand stood a great bowl of choicest
bloom, but the creamy bud was gone.
These had come in it's stead.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
III.

Alone in the room assigned him in the
hotel sits the surgeon. In vase before
him droops the pale bud, and the deli
cate fragrance from its heart seems to
mount to his brain, for he rises from
his chair, to pace with restless feet the.
narrow room. He holds in his hand q
slip of paper, and thousand times has
he read and reread its simple legend:
"In memory of Leonard"
Was the tale tattled to him by en-.
vious tongues of a desolate home. a
ruined and blighted life, misplaced and
too ardent affections a lie? And nave
his feet trodden the weary round of
endless search after forgetfulness, only
to return and lind himself the one in err
ror and his little love still faithful 10 a
childish dream?
Leonard d'Orville, the man, was al
most as much a creature of impulse as
ever was Leonard d'Orville. the boy.
Rising swiftly to his feet, with a
look of resolution on his dark face. he
dGshes out into the night In box of
long, pale buds, buried deep in their en-
erald foliage, he places letter, and it
reads:
"FlorIbel: have trodden the whole Of
earth TO find forgetfulness, only to learn
that hava fled from the cup OF happiness
that waited near my lips. Your message
and your rosebud have found me. Here
are our bridal roses. II you had been che
wife of another your little messenger would
never have left your loyal hand. / will wait
here. II you do not desire me to come -
you, vTcTd will Danish me. If / hear moth
ing, and a weary time il will SEEM within
the next four days, | shall know that you
are willing l should come. Should your
heart call out across the years, as does
rly own. send but a word, bud from our
bride rose tree, and the mission of a flower
could come to no sadder heart or lonlier
life! love you dear. l have always loved
YOU have tried to become the man on
whom you could bestow the priceless treas
ure of yourself. God bless you-whethcr
| am to be, or not, your own
LEONARD"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
Now Cure for the. Snakes" -.

4 new soporific, to which the name
Nllotin has been given, has been dis
covered in Mexican cactus called an
halonium. The native Mexicans eat
slices of the plant, which they call
"rellote." It's hypnotic alkaloid has
been separated by DIR. Hefter, OF Leip'
sic. One grain of pellotiR is equal in
its effects TO 1874 grains of triOnal and
u grains of hydrate of choral. II is
effective in quoting deIirium tremens
only in large doses.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29
Wonderful Power.

The power of imagination is amusing
Is illustrated in the story told of an old
lady who had never heard the celebret-
ed violinist, Paganini, play, and one
day obtained permission to attend a re-
hcarsal of one of his concerts. 1t so
happened that Paganini did not take
his violin with him to the rehearsal that
day. but borrowed one from a member
Of the orchestra, and instead of play
ing as usual, simply kept up kind OF
pizzicato accompaniment. After the
rehearsal the old lady went up TO MI
Cooke, the musical director, and said
in a burst of enthusiasm: "Oh, dear!
Mr.. Cooke, what a wonderful man he is!
declare never knew what music was
capable of till this morning" Indeed,
madam, he is truly a marvellous man,
assented Mr.. Cooke. with n smile; 'but
this morning you are indebted rather
10 your Imagination than your ears for
the delight you have had. for Paganini
has not really played at all. He has not
even touched bow" well" said the
old lady, after a moments astounded
silence. recovering herself, then all j
can say is. he's even more remarkable
than I thought he vast For if he car
affect me in such a manner without
playing, what should do, ho@ SSoYi'
I feel. when he really did play ~
Youths Companion.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29

No jokes are better appreciated than
those that are made unwittingly by
sober-minded men. An English journal
relates a case in point, the sober-minded
man being Mr.. John Burns, very seri-
GUS member of the house OF commons
He was speaking in pessimistic strain
about what he felt to be a great follinp
of in the character and standing OF
that august body. "Since | came into
this house, four years ago." he said
"the confidence OF the public in IL has
much diminished."-Youth's Compan
lon.
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! I.

And year after year, as the girl saw
the thriving rose tree begin to bud,wopld
her innocent thoughts cluster about the
possibilities that her immediate future
might hold. And year after year the
spring passed and the summer came and
went, and there wGs no break in the
quiet munotony of her secluded life.
Time. the merciful, had smoothed away
those craven lines of remembrance, and
her life began to be filled with other in
terests. and the memory of her boyish
love remained only as an evanescent
odor, that came and went with the
flowers or those long, pearly buds that
grew beside the cottage door.
Waves of the doings Of the great
danes of fashion and of form bad even
widened their circle TO take in the mod
est cluster of houses and the one street
of public shops called Rosedale (after
Miss Floribers father, and the Society
for the Comfort of the Poor" had for
many years been a thriving institution,
with Miss Floribel for president. AS
spring came in, huge crates Of flowers
would leave the nearest station as con-
tributions from country TO city, sent di-
rectly to a sister society for distribution
to the members.
In this part of her useful life Miss
Floribel had contrived TO weave the
memory of her early romance. First
must tell you, that beyond few float
ing rumors as TO his whereabouts nc
word had ever come TO her, over the
weary years, of the lad who had prom.
ised such fealty. But each year there
would go from the hand of the lonely
woman a little token of remembrance
In the packing of the blossoms, over
which Miss Floribel always presided
there would go the fairest and most per
feet of the buds of the bride rose tree
bearing a tiny slip Of paper, inscribed
'In memory of Leonard A harmless
bit of romance, INDUCED in secretly by q
woman whose heart was as pure as the
bud she touched. At first, tears were
the dew of the blossom; but now the
deed was only done as an act of gentle
remembrance, as we lay a flower upor
the sod that years have won to ripened
greenness.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-08-29

And Floribel Rose became Froribel
G'Orville; and, at their marriage, above
them swayed to and fro canopy of
pale, emerald foliage, with here and
there an oval bud of purest white. For
there were but few buds left when Miss
Floribel leaned to pluck the one she
sent TO the city in answer to Leonard's
love letter, for most of them had gone
to comfort the sick and the sorrowful
ones OF earth.-N. o. Times-Democrat.