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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-13
WAGES IN SILVER COUNTRIES

India is one of the great silver coun-
tries. Here is some information
concerning wages paid to working
men in that>eountry, given under the
authority of United States Consul
General Polk at Calcutta. which
American workingmen will do well
to ponder:
Wages for unskilled labor, as truck
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-13

If should see
A brother languishing in sore distress,
And should turn and leave him COM
fortress,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
The Policy of Worry.

If great government is intent on
some project of Importance and is re-
sisted by another great government, it
tries to make itself unpleasant to that
government in every quarter of the
world, threatens its rival s plans, abuses
its rivals agents, and even condescends
to irritate its statesmen by otherwise
purposeless delays.
One state displeased with another will
try to prevent the subjects of the other
from obtaining concessions, or will
put on annoying little additions to its
tariff, or will try to defeat it at some
third court in obtaining some trife upon
which its heart is supposed to be set. 1t
will raise embarrassing questions purely
for the sake of embarrassment. Will
forward arms to rebels or savages mere
ly in order to make its opponents ex-
petition more sanguinary or expensive,
or will stir up some small outlying
power to plead claims Of which it had
never previously thought.
Above all, an irritated government in
these days will turn on sort Of press
tap, and while it's accredited agents re-
main as impassive as before, will,
through "semiofficial organs" utter
menaces which 40 years ago would have
been considered preludes to war, and
would have drawn from a man like
Lord Palmerston the toughest of re-
Dukes. In plain English, the govern
ments, like Irish Nationalist, have
learned to regard worrying as part OF
their stock in trade. London Spectator.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
A Farewell to the Old Friends.

Soldier, soldier of the legion, die no longer in
Algiers.
You are not appreciated as you were in for
mer years.
NOW no more your comrade, bending, sees
the battle moonlight shine;
Old time things must have an ending. Fare.
well, "Bingen on the Rhine!"
Moore (Sir john, no longer let them with
no carven line or stone.
Leave you while the foe Is firing in your
glory all alone.
Once no mortal could the pathos of your
funeral resist,
But the clock strikes for retiring. You're on
the retired list
Curfew, thrill no more the tower where the
maiden swung serene.
They have failed to feel your power. She is
forgotten queen.
Well you swayed us In the past time, when
our youthful days were bright,
But we've heard you for the last time.
"Curfew shall not ring tonight"
Boy upon the deck triumphant, where the
frenzed FLAMES rolled on"
Call no longer on thy father. He is dead
and thou art gone.
All that now of thee remaineth is a fading
memory,
And the winds that wall around us with no
fragments strew the sea-"
Gone the old time boys and speeches. Now
the straight laced pupils speak
(Standing collars-broadcloth breeches) ago
nizing yards of Greek.
Therefore. "soldier of the legion" now no
more our souls are stirred,
Curfew rings not at his funeral where not
even "a drum was heard.
Gone! But, oh, once more to wander mid
the honeysuckle vines
To the schoolhouse rising Wonder in the
shadow of the pines
But the windows-they are darkened; there
the gray owls dream and dwell.
Soldier of the legion-curfe w-Mary's little
lamb-fare WE'LL
-[Atlanta Constitution.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
The Home of Delight.

The "Home of Delight" which has
just been opened in Philadelphia, is to
be for the enlightenment, uplifting and
betterment of the so called "slum"
jewellers of Philadelphia. 1t is four
story brick structure, about 95 feet wide,
and the first floor contains the large lee
ture hall and two game rooms, the latter
being equipped with table bagatelle,
checkers, lotto and other games. The
second story contains the library OF
1000 volumes, and reading room ad-
joining. Back of these rooms is the
printing room, whence weekly paper
called Our World and Work will be is
sued in a short time. On the third floor
are committee room and game
room, while the remainder Of the house
is occupied by the superintendent and
his wife. New York Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
On the Killing of African Wives.

An African chief explained the other
day to me that now the consul was put
ting down the killing~of wives and
slaves at funerals, chiefs life was
not worth five minutes purchase, be-
cause dissatisfied wife or vindictive
slave would now put poison in his food,
thing they were less inclined to do
when the danger of being killed them
selves at the ensuing funeral was be-
fore their eyes. 1t was also told by a
well educated native Christian minister
from the Gold Coast that the govern
ments were practically preserving YER
min in preserving witches. 1t seems
the Gold Coast witch lives by sucking
the blood of young children.
In old days this was risky for the
witch. Now that the governments say
witchcraft is silly superstition, and
you must not 60 out and kill people be-
cause of it, the witch, feeling safe,
blackmails and terrorizes over anxious
parents, threatening to suck their chill
dren's blood unless they are bought off.
Every one says it is all nonsense, but
unless the witch is bought off the child
withers away and dies, case of poison
again, perhaps, but both of these cases
illustrate the strange element of COM
mon sense in apparently rank supersti.
tious folly, and save in the inexphcable
trick certain tribes have Of killing twin
children, I have always found, in every
Ju-ju superstition, this common sense
element. Whether it or the superstition
mixed now with it came first into the
negro mind l cannot say, but there il
always is, and l am sure, even in the
twin case, it is there, and hope some
day in the Hinterland to find it out. -
National Review.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
Was Adam the First Man?

About the middle of the seventeenth
century an audacious attempt was made
to rob Adam of the honor of having
been the first man. Isaac de la Peyrere,
in an odd little volume entitled ''The
Pre-Adamites, attempted to prove that
there were two creations of men-the
first on the sixth day of the week of
creation, when "God created man male
and female" The rabbis interpret the
above passage of holy writ as meaning
that the first race of human beings were
creatures in which both sexes were unit
ed in the same individual. According
to De la Peyrere, Adam was the result
Of the second creation-the "male and
female" being having been the progen-
itor of the Gentiles, Adam the father of
the Jews.
A great many people fell in with the
views of De la Peyrere, and he was the
lion of the hour. His followers were
called "Pre- Adamites, and they in
creased in numbers rapidly, until finally
the movement became SO strong that the
founder of the sect was compelled to 60
to Rome and abjure his doctrine at the
feet of Pope Alexander VIL-St. Louis
Republic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

The two last and concluding volumes
of Barras' own memoirs reveal Barras,
an epicurean to the core, brave, witty,
a lover of pleasure, cool headed, q judge
of men and women, unsaupulous, frank
of speech, but with rare depth of re-
serve, good natured where his interests
were not touched, dignifed in outward
behavior, thoroughly selfish, a Mach
iavelian without faith, noble of the
eighteenth century, even Of the ancient
regime. Talleyrand he despised so heart
ily that he denied his abilities, holding
him a mere rascal Table piebot, harm
full, simply because no one took the trou-
BILE to crush him. Fouche to his eyes
was a mere criminal, le Talleyrand de
la canaille, a gutter scoundrel, only al
lowed to live because he was always
ready to do any dirty work those in
power might require.
As for the women, Barras judges them
in true La Clos STYLE He will not allow
Nine. Grand good looks; he is indeli-
cately frank over Josephine's weaknesses
and frailties; he speaks of the sisters of
Napoleon as vulgar, dissolute bour-
geoises .,,o
One dismisses the man, worthless self
seeker as he is, without disgust He Is
superior to persons like Barere and TAI
leyrand. He played the game with a
sole view to his own interest and sue
ceeded in winning all he cared for
money, ease, pleasure security. Pail
Mall Gazette.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

The objective Of railway policy has
been in all cases the gold fields Of the
Rand. AS glance at the map will
show, there are three main routes to the
Transvaal-one via Cape Town and the
Cape railways, second via Port Natal
and the Durham Charlestown line, a
third via Delagoa bay and Portuguese
territory and so along the Netherlands
railway-Paul Kruger's pet creation.
OF these routes, that by Table bay,
while it avoids the storms Of Cape
Agulhas and the rough waters Of the
south coast, involves by far the longest
railway journey after Decentralization (;
that by Delagoa the shortest.
1t is 396 miles by rail between Della
goa bay and Johannesburg and lob
miles by rail between Cape Town and
johannesburg Whatever passengers
may do in the matter of choosing rail
way routes, it is clear that for goods
traffic, in these days of cheap water
transit, Delagoa bay must in the long
run, when good management has sue
ceeded to bad, be preferred from econom-
ical reasons alone to Table bay.
AS the merchants of Venice were
forced to whistle in idleness ON the his
toric quays of the Adriatic when their
command of the eastern trade route had
disappeared after the successful voyages
of Diaz and Vasco da CANA, SO may it
be with the merchants of Cape Town.
They must cease to be the forwarding
agents of the bulk of the South African
trade, and they must be supplanted by
their rivals of Natal and of Delagoa
bay. Geography is against them as well
as the stern facts of economy, for rail
way can hardly compete mile per mile
with a steamer. -Blackwood's Maya
zine
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
The Race Question In South Africa.

Hitherto the most interesting features
in the history of South Africa have been
the relations to one another Of the races
that originally inhabited or have re-
Gently occupied it, and the most difficult
problems which its future presents arise
from the relations of these races. Three
races are native, four are European.
The cases Of contact or conflict between
European and aboriginal races, which
have been numerous during the last
four centuries, include those where the
native race, though perhaps numerous,
is comparatively weak and unable to
assimilate European civilization, or to
thrive under European rule, a rule
which has often been harsh, or even to
survive in the presence of European
population occupying its country. Those
where Europeans have conquered q
country already filled by more or less
civilized population, which is SO numer-
GUS and so prolific as to maintain itself
in their presence, and those in which
the native race is numerous and strong
enough to maintain itself in the face of
Europeans, while, on the other hand,
there is plenty of room left for large
European population to press in. This
is what has happened in South Africa.
The Dutch and the English settlers dc
not mix their blood with that of the
natives. So far as can be predicted, both
whites and natives will go. on increas-
ing, but not blending. We shall pres.
emily see how grave are the problems to
which this fact must in the future give
rise. flames Bryce in Century.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
Her Only Friends.

Mamma, asked the little 4-year-old,
chow do you spell 'ginger?' "
"Put away your book, dear. 1t is
time for you to go to bed. '"
"Papa, how do you"-
Don bother me, Katie.
"What does it mean when it says"--
Didn't you hear your mother?"
Katie threw the book on the floor.
II don't believe there's anybody that
loves me-" she burst forth, 'cept
grandpa and God. Grandpa, he's in
Michigan, an I don't know where God
is p'-Exchange
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
A Fayorite of Swift's.

The story of Mrs. Letitia Pilking-
toms introduction to Dean Swift as told
afterward by herself is full of humorous
entertainment. Is this poor little child
married." was Swift's first remark.
"God help her!' In the evening Swift
made her read to him his own ANNALS
of the Four Last Years Of Queen Anne"
asking her most particularly whether
she understood every word; for, said he,
II would have it Ineligible to the
meanest capacity; and if you compre-
bend it, tits possible everybody may.
For time she was undoubtedly great
favorite of Swift, and her sprightly
"reminiscences, in spite Of the disdain
with which they are treated by some Of
Bwift's biographers, constitute one Of
the chief sources of authority as to
Swift's later years 1t is Mrs. Pilking-
ton who tells of Swift's personal habits,
Of his manners with his servants, of his
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
The Fish She Wanted.

A lady entered south end fish mar
ket and asked for two pounds Of head
acke. She meant paddock, but she pro-
nounced the word wrong. While there
she said that the fish in this country
contained more bones than those in the
old country. This may be considered a
"fish" story, but it isn't. New Bed
ford Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

The heather mythology not only was
not true, but was not even supported as
true. 1t not only deserved no faith, but
1t demanded none. -Whately.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

dealings with roguish workmen, Of his
memory Of "Hudibras," so accurate
that he could repeat every line from be-
ginning to end.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

question or time as
l could not be cured.
l gradually grew
worse, very weak.
and completely dis
couraged, until I
lived, propped half
up in bed, because 1
couldn't lie dOtCn
nor sit up. Think
ing my time had
come | told my fam
lily what l wanted
6Ona whom I tUac
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17
LEART DISEASE, like

\ have taken hold Of the system,
Oever gets better of its own accord, but
Constantly OrO,Ds sUOrse. There are
thousands who know they have q defective
heart, but will not admit the fact. They
don't want their friends to worry, and
Don,t kn0sO WI,at to take for it, as
thew have been told time and again that
heart disease was incurable. Such was the
ease of Mr.. silas Farley Of Dyesville, Ohio
Who writes June 49, 1894, as follows:
~ had heart disease for 23 gears,
nv heart hurting me almost continually.
The first IS years / doctored all the time,
irving several physicians and remedies,
until my last doctor told me it was only a
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

gone. But on the first day OF March on
the recommendation OF Mrs. Fannie Jones,
OF Anderson, Ind, 1 commenced taking
DR.. Miles Neto Cure for the Heart
and wonderful to tell, in ten days I was
working at light work and on March 10 COM
menced framing a barn, which Is heavy
work, and hav'nt lost day SINCE am So
years old 6 TT. Az inches and weigh 25Olbs.
L beIieUe L am fully cured, and
am now only anxious that everyone shall
know OF your wonderful remedies"
Dyesville, Ohio. SILAs FARLEY.
DR.. Miles Heart Cure is sold on a positive
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All druggists sell it at 81 bottles for S. or
1t will be sent, prepaid on receipt Of price
BY the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
DR.. Miles Heart Cure
Restores Health
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-17

It is stated by some authorities that
the wood of the American poplar makes
the best variety Of wood paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19

been a hard-hard life-hs finished now-goou-
by" Then the weary eyes closed forever on
this world AS a faint huttering breath CAM
through the blistered lips. Il great sea s'iuch
the ship and burst over the skylghts above
with a roar and rush OF foam; the mao racing
of the engines shook her from stem to stern
and then when the din died away. men knew
that the boiler maker had passed TO ms rest.
There Is little more to be told. win s,eai"
from both boilers The Corona was able TO Keep
head until the gale broke ana ia'nt
waterv sunlight streamed down between lines
of whirling clouds and shone across ,he ioa Dali
ing ridges below. When he clumsy tank roiieo
slowly past I'shant. and 50 safely out OF inc
bay with smashed Lighthouses and splintereu
boats the chief engineer lay Wrlthihe III HIS
bunk In an agony Of PAIN while al mat ~,
manned Of the man who saved the snip lhy coiu
and still beneath the crimson folds or the req
ensign At eight bells the engines stopped ior u
few minutes. and the solemn WORDS, we
therefore commit his body to the deep. III sur e
and certain hope of the resurrection To eleihai
life" sounded clearly above the gurgle ana
swish of water along the plates of the pungihS
ship the stern grating was tipped up-ah uho'o
was a heavy splash In the sea
Then q silence fell over the bareheaded crew
and they turned softly away, a navy idea III
each mans heart-for Jack is not Hucn given
Ia sentiment and rarely express n''iisciI
clearlv-that whatever the boiler-inaker pas,
life may have been, he had AT least maui IL So
ond and possibly also a vague pride IN announcer
nroof-although he has proved 1t over ana over
ayain-that even the drunken sailorniah cah
OCCASIONALLY die in manner or whlch MS 'o"i'
trymen have cause to he ashaiheu. -
Though he could never put 1t into words poo.
Jack has got the feeling In MN WHICH IL p'e'
has expressed:
Rut once I'm a while can iinsh In style
For the ehus Vi wv '' ~ Temple Bar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19

was pumped out with one egg IN f.. The who.
thing then cleaned out by means u a ore
wire and a mass X green moss lay on ne ground
by the pump That same evening foIrih neS
came 70 grief being pumped oui az tae evening
watering.
Next morning April IS a hf;h nest began 20 b
pumped out When the head gardener found thai,
the little creature still persisted 10 ordered rs
pumping 10 be stopped ard came 20 give ne hs
whole history. II WAS. Of course. arranged that
the pump-handle should b. 81 once l-ier-i Up, ant
drouth or no drOu'h IN" bird b. lef' To .eace. s.
there she sat til her eggs We're hatrnef and never
minded the curious eyes that 80 often peerei ioaa
through the tiny hoe AZ the Top Wfrf,e ne oss
head shining In the dim gliwrertrE ligh' tArouga
the spout, might be dscern--l. Flr The asst fer
visible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19

,,, for tho nlens to go in and out ust where th't
hoIe IS few can tell until after brood mas Del, Del,
- a,d The way has been made plain by the CON
80. ming md going If one IL not In possession
of the secret he had better not try to discover IL IN
less he wishes to destroy the nest lor mv ~. 49,
koly N lose patience and perhaps to thrust hhge
through the wall. 70 . - ,,,a,,,,. zoo, II
- naari,, an inch across: but In the new Nests IN
spanJ Of leading directly 10 the inside IKE sinpe
,indou, there is wide shelf SILL whlcn projects
~, inward but inward and slopes sleepy upward,
90 ,bat the wrerls when entering must mrs. 20 up
~ ,ban down The inside which IS as big as one $
90. a. is comfortably lined with feathers ana on
this bed Of down may be found in June am July
H. % chocolate drops and In number from nve 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19
THE MARSH VREN'S HOME.
From Our Animal Friends.

Tho nest OF the long-biled marsh-wren Is probably
the stranst thing about II, ana another surprise -
~, store for the student OF their ways VINO mas
ca,,ght one OF the mlges suspicious,y near gT4t-
structure of reeds and grasses az big as cocoanut
a nd SUSPENDED in the fraiest way among me r--iS
or bu shea several feet from the ground n Is wholly
out Of proportion the $40 Of The bird but no ms
could he more substantially put togctle'' ,r' :
materials are coarse rushes and grasses wound
round and round in g!'buar form me ends o,ins
,onrh ,hatch perfectly dry and Jess than an nch
nick with hoe somewh in the side near the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19
~ THE VALLEY.

Mary A. Marks In The Argos!
II ghost may indeed come pack'
And wander once more
Along the familiar track,
To the old house door,
AT full OF the moon shall come
To the garien-gate, ..
And summer wears late. 80,
l shall stand In the moonbeams chill,
When mists wrap the dale. 80,
shall watch whore the steep or the NH
Hide the white roaG-trail;
AT full OF the moon shall hear.
AS watch and walt.
Shall | hear step draw near
To the garden-gate?
And out OF the shadowy gloom
or the great elm tree,
VIII my old lover once moro come
To keep tryst with me?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19
BEOTE4THTNG BRiINS TO SCfFNCB
SOCIETY At CORNELL TO ENcol RAGE
THE PRACTICE RESULTS To
BE GAINED


The following form o. Request can b oo'ai--d ~
an,,lvinr 70 Professor Burt q MlIer. Co-r--l rni.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19

The following form o. Request can Be oo'ai--d ~
apolving 10 Professor Burt -. wider. Cornell INT
vers.ty Ithaca. y Y.
/ now Of STUDENT oi lornri
University from ---- 70 ana gidll-
a.ei in --- recognizing me need ~ -.tiNne
the brains OF educated persons rather than ihose o,
the ignorant. criminal and insane. ~ order 70 ie-
terniue their weight form AMI hssifal iattefD 10
correlaiions with bodily ana mental powers - Niri'
Gus kinds and degrees AMI the influences x s-x,
ace and ifhertanOe. hereby declare my wish. thsi
az nv death my bra shall BE- inruStei 70 me Cor
nell Bra IN Association Wnen mat il ofsan.:-D ~
(erdn its orgauzatiOUl 10 the curator o. ~" COZ.
lection Of human brains IN the museum OF cornell
University for scientific ana FOR preserN a'lo.
as a whole or n part AS may %, uholsht u'sr !.
IS NV hope that my family ana friends may not
oI,pose this my earnest wish
-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19
4 PERSISTENT BIRD.
From The London Spectator.

From The London Spectator
The following Instance OF blue tit' determination
to get it, way has taken place In the garden
here There Is small pump under yew-tree
which April 10 was used In watering The gar
deners then pumped out a messy nest and did not
use the pump again until April -. when a second
nest-this time with eggs In twas again pumped
out. Early on the morning Of April q . third nest