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The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
Don Cameron,s weakness.

J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who is just retiring from the Senate, was carefully trained in the art of poli- tics by his father, Lincoln's famous Secretary of War. In the days when Cameron ruled Pennsylvania with ab- solute power one of its faithful hench- men was calling upon Simon Cameron, and in the course of the conversation he remarked:
 Senator, why is 1t that Don has never made much of success of poli- tics? He seems to have talent, and he has all the advantages of your pres tige and influence"
 Well, Don is a likely fellow" re- piled the old man. Don will get on all right. You must remember I started in life with big advantage over Don"
 "What was that?" asked the visitor
 Poverty"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
AN EASY BET TO WIN.
1t Took Only . Short Time to Coilec,
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AG TOOK Only Q Short Time to Coi1ect
 "More Than Twenty" Fools.
 They stepped to the edge of the side walk and looked long and earnestly iu the direction of the cornice of one of the big buildings Of course under the circumstances the man who had been standing in the doorway felt impelled to join them. He could not see anything extraordinary at the top of the building, but he kept his eyes upturned because they did.
 A man who was hurrying along saw the three. and he at once forgot where he was going and what he had to do, and joined them.
 "I told you so," said the man who had first cast his eyes in that direction, and he made motion as if to point out something to his companion.
 Four men who were passing saw the gesture and stopped to investigate, and before they had fairly fixed their gaze upon the cornice three others joined them.
 "You may be right" returned the companion of the man who had first spoken. "but you said 20. you know"
 Six more people, including two wom- CD, were now straining their eyes to see what was wrong with the cornice, and 8 rumor was in circulation that some one had tried to throw @ child out of one of the windows. This was promptly denied by the man who knows it all and who is always present on such an occa- sion. He said that gang of counter feiters had been found on the top floor and had taken refuge on the roof, where they were preparing to do battle with the officers who had been sent to arrest them.
 Meanwhile the little group at the edge of the sidewalk had swelled to crowd of over hundred.
 "Well, are you satisfied now?" asked the man who had first stopped.
 "Yes,'' replied his companion. "There are more than 20.
 "More than 90 whatf" anxiously in- quired several of those nearest the two
 "Fools," returned the first speaker promptly, inspired idiots. You see, we had dispute as to the number of fools to be seen on the streets of a great city, and bet him we could gather 20 around us in ten minutes by simply standing out here and looking up at the cornice. Gentlemen, there are more than 90 of you here, and I win. .'
 Then hundred or more solemn look ing men, and a few women, went on about their business, and they all felt like kicking themselves without inter- mission for period of not less than two hours. Chicago Post.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
Glad to Get Back.

Judge James H. Mulligan, United States consul to Samoa, who returned to his home in Lexington, Ky, re- gently, was given a banquet. At the banquet he made an address, the most remarkable part of which was the fol- lowing:
 When I was away off on that little speck of land in the Pacific ocean and looked across the vast stretches of sea to the storms that were agitating this country, could see no Democrats and no Republicans. It was America. The English, the Germans and all the oth- CTS are against America, no matter what the diplomats may say. I feel that l have learned more in the last two years than have learned before. have borne my part in the battles of politics, have spoken bitter words, but when I stood under that mighty crag on that far-away speck in the ocean and helped to lay him to rest whom I had learned to love, and who I believe had learned to love me-Robert Louis Stevenson-I felt that if I ever got back home, I would not speak in an unkind word to fellow-countryman but would do all could to bind up any wounds that may have caused"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

Prominent among the New England men whose brains and energy have helped to make the western states rich and powerful is General David T. Beals, president of the Union National Bank of Kansas City. Suc- cessful in his many enterprises, he lives today in a fine mansion at the corner of Independence and Wabash ayes.
 The work and the responsibility incum- bent on the president of so important a banking institution as the Union National would endanger the sturdlest health. Gen. Beals' clear-headedness and good sense were as manifest in the choice of remedy as in his business enterprises. He strength ened his tired nervous system by the use of Paine's celery compound. Itsinvigorating, health-giving effects justified his expecta- tions, and showed in his own case the re- markable power of this uch-discussed remedy for thoroughly restoring and strengthening the rundown" system.
 "I found Paine's celery compound an agreeable tonic and soothing to the nerves" says General Beals.
 These are the concise words of commenda- tion characteristic of the conservative busi- ness man and the influential tanker. who has learned to weigh we'll his words.
 The scanty sunlight and the stagnant, used-up air of living rooms during the win ter reduces the strength and nervous en-
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
His Mistake.

The New York Recorder gives a story of young lawyer who evidently did not consider the well-known' learn ing of the judge a sufficient reason for emitting evidence of his own attain mentS.
 The judge was compelled to listen to case that had been appealed from one of the police courts. The young practitioner who appeared for the appel. lant was long and tedious; he brought in all of the elementary textbooks, and quoted the fundamental propositions of the law.
 At last the judge thought 1t was time to make an effort to close the argu- ment.
 "Can we not assume" he said pomp- ously, "that the court knows a little about law itself?'
 That's the very mistake I made in the other court" answered the young orator, "and I don't want to let it de feat me twice"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

Composer Who Gave It to the World
 Is Now Dying in Poverty. Frederick Nicholas Crouch, the com poser of Kathleen Mavourneen," is dying in Baltimore in poverty. The old mans mind is gone and he raves about the coronation of William ", the cu- pidity of music publishers, his old tri- umphs and troubles. Hundreds of thou sands of people who have been moved to tears by the recital of his famous song will be amazed to learn that its composer is alive. For it is an old song and is involuntarily referred back to years long since dead. But it was a classic before it had become old and will remain living power in the realm of feeling until human nature is essential ly changed. The poem itself was not written by MT. Crouch. It was first published in an English magazine. Here it was that Crouch saw it. That was in 1887, when the musician was but 19 years of age. These are the verses: Kathleen Mavourneenl The gray dawn
 is breaking,
 The horn of the hunter is heard on the
 hill;
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 Kathleen Mavourneeni What! Slum-
 bering still? Oh, hast thou forgotten how soon we must
 sever?
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 must part 1t may be for years and it may be forever. Oh, why art thou silent, thou voice of
 my heart?
 Kathleen Mavourneen! Awake from thy
 slumbers!
 The blue mountains glow in the suns
 golden light: Ahi Where is the spell that once hung
 on my numbers?
 Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my
 nightl
 Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears
 are falling,
 To think that from Erin and thee I
 must part; It may be for years and 1t may be forever, Then why art thou silent, thou voice of
 my heart?
 Crouch wrote out his melody and of fered 1t to firm of music sellers, who
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
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 'The way in which Mir. Quay does the little-in fact, most trivHal-things indicates the shrewtiness and unique ness of his personality" remarked a Senate employe the other day.
 For instance, any man that comes to Washington to see Mir. Quay, and whom Mir. Quay wants to see-and there are hundreds of them-will go di- rectly to his room, that of the Com mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and never ask a question of any kind. Not so with the friends of other Senators, for, while they may have been told how to reach their diff ferent rooms, they have, as a rule, to make inquiry for their location. I was amused the other day, when the call- CTS for MT. Quay were unusually large, to see how they went directly to his room, notwithstanding the circuitous route necessary to get to it. When I asked one of them how he knew where to find the room he showed me a card. It told the story. It contained very minute directions as to how to reach the Senator, and just what. to do."- Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

ergy, especially of persons employed con- stantly indoors. The need-the absolute necessity-of genuine invigorator at this spring season has impressed itself on the attention of all thinking people.
 In the famous laboratory of Dartmouth Medical School Prof. Edward E. Phelps, Nj. D., u. D., discovered the formula of Paine's celery compound, remedy that has become the standard nerve JestOrer, blood purifier, and strengthener from one end of the country to the other, a prepar- ation that stands unrivalled as the medicine that makes people well.
 It is fact much commented upon that men. land women of national reputation and prominence, like Gen. Beals, State Treas. Colvin of New York, MT. Cariisle's private secretary, Mayor McShane of Montreal, Rev. Fr. Ouellet, Com. Howell, ex-Minister to Austria John NJ. Francis, and host of others who are careful what they employ when sick, and have the amplest opportu- mites for finding out what is best, have of their own accord sent letters describing fully their permanent recovery from rheu- matism, heart weakness, sleeplessness, de- bility, kidney troubles, and diseases of the stomach and liver. In all these cases .Paine's celery compound was the one rem edy that was able to completely and per- manently bring back health, make poor blood again rich and pure, and regulate and build up the nervous system when weak ened and deranged.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
The Life of a Salmon.

Entering rivers to spawn, going down
 to the sea and re-entering the rivers
 constitutes shortly the life history of the salmon. Speaking generally, 1t feeds but little in fresh water, and loses weight. In the sea it feeds ravenously and increases at most remarkable rate. One British killed salmon has at- tained to 70 pounds in weight and AZ feet in length. This fish was taken in the Fay, and a cast of it is now in the Buckland museum. Although this was a monster fish, almost without prece- dent, yet 40 pound salmon are not at all uncommon. In rivers the food of the salmon consists mainly of ephemer@ and their larve, worms, and the spawn and fry of various fresh water fishes In the sea it's food is more varied and abundant. Salmon are invariably found in the proximity of shrimp grounds, and they devour enormous quantities of sand cells. That, however, upon which they most depend for sustenance is the myriad fry of the coarser sea fish.
 Salmon seem to swim in the sea in comparatively small droves, probably of from 20 to 100, and it is certain that they are much given to hugging the coast line. They stay lorg on banks or in channels, where favorite food is to be had. and are only driven off by re- ceding tides. In spring and summer they do not inhabit deep water, but keep more to the banks, usually in only few fathoms of water. At this time the sand launce is much fed upon, as is the sea urchin in its earlier stages Huxley asserts-and his assertion stands almost alone-that the salmon's food chiefly consists of a numerous class of small creatures found in semisolid masses upon the surface of deep water; in short, that the salmon swims in a species of animal soup, in which it has merely to open its mouth and swallow what enters it.-Cornhill Magazine.
 "After that" remarked the young slim who had been telling an inane ghost story, "my mind was a blank" ''That accounts for it," commended a sharp young woman, and there was an interregnum of profound silence Truth.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
Women at the Helm.

Among the curiosities of the Russian dominions is a group of communes in the government of Smolensk, surround ing the convent of Besjukow, where not only do women vote, but where they practically do all the voting and office holding.
 As the returns from agriculture are very meager in the district, and there are large towns not far away, the male inhabitants of the BesJukow neighbor- hood emigrate to these towns early in spring to find work, leaving few but women and children at home, and not coming home to attend to the little mat ter of voting.
 Inasmuch as the women have to do all the farm work as well as the house. work in this singular community, it does not seem strange that they rather insist upon holding the offices, and not assigning them to such old men as may be about. Furthermore, 1t is said that they have for a period of several years managed all the public affairs of the Besjukow district so we'll that the men are quite content to abandon the tedi- ous work of government to them.
 Sometimes, when the ''head woman" of the joint communes is presiding over public assembly of women to pass upon important financial and other con- cerns, certain of the men have been known to come home for the purpose of merely looking on and admiring the method of procedure-or else of hearti- Iy felicitating themselves upon being rid of so bothersome duty.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
The New Photographx.
Oh. Roentgen, then the news is true,
 

Oh. Roentgen, then the news is true, And not trick of idle rumor, That bids us each beware of you And of your grim and graveyard humor We do not want, like Dr. Swift, To take our flesh off and to pose in Our bones or show each little rift And joint for you to poke your nose in. We only crave to contemplate Each others usual full dress photo. Your worse than altogether" state Of portraiture we bar in toto. The fondest swain would scarcely prize A picture of his lady's framework. To gaze on this with yearning eyes Would probably be voted tame work. No. Keep them for your epitaph. These tombstone souvenirs unpleasant, Or go away and photograph
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 London Punch.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
In the Stocks.

Early in the present century, in 1895, my father and mother were enjoying their honeymoon in the country. My father was 23, his bride only 20. One day in their wanderings they came to the village stocks. He sat down on the bench, just to try how it felt, and placed his feet in the semicircular holes; she in girlish fun shut down the top board, when, to her horror, she found that it closed with spring and that she had made her husband fast in the stocks. She had no idea to whom to apply to undo the spring; she had to leave her beloved one and run to the village in search of rescuer. We can scarcely, in these days, imagine the difficulties that lay in her way. Any yillager she met would receive her tale with jeers instead of sympathy, and then hasten to the spot to gaze on the unhappy occupier of the place of punishment. The bride was very pretty girl, with softest nut brown eyes, and in her white embroidered gown and straw hat with simple ribbons she must have looked little like the wife or vagrant. do not know how she fared in her quest of the person who kept the key of the stocks. but at last she found the right man, probably the village constable, and persuaded him to come to her aid. He tried her patience greatly as he hobbled along, grumbling at the trouble she was giving him, and at last, when she came in sight of her husband, shefound some of the villagers had assembled there, delighted to see gentleman in the stocks, and imagining, or pretending to imagine, that he had been placed there for poaching or rob ping the squire's henroost, or stealing "turmit.
 Luckily there were no rotten eggs at hand to destroy the beauty of the blue coat with it's large gold buttons, or the shirt front with its broad plaited frill. At length the old constable contrived to turn the cruel lock, and the victim was free.-Temple Bar.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
,Instgnia or H,eb Rank.

In feudal days the sword was the insignia of rank. Worn as a part of a gentleman's ordinary dress, it was the outward and visible sign of superiority over the masses. Early in the eigh- teenth century 1t began to be laid aside, partly because it was cumbrous and partly because it led to mischief, not only in the chivalric form of ex- temporized duels between equals, but in cold-blooded murders of interiors by gentlemen" The noisy, drunken and bloodthirsty young ruffians of rank who at the beginning of the eighteenth century banded themselves together under the title of Mohocks increased the popular disgust against sword wearing. When Beau Nash, in the de cade between 1730 and 1740, organized the fashionable society of England at Bath, he discouraged the wearing of swords as contrary to the repose and security of the water drinking, dancing and gambling world. From that time the fashion was doomed. Yet 1t lin. gered on, not only in England, but in America, until the close of the eigh- teenth century. The French revolution put an end to it in France at the same period. Yet traces of the old fashion survive even to this day in the irrel- evant and useless buttons which still figure at the backs of gentlemen's coats, originally placed there to support the sword belt, and in the ungainly outline of the modern dress coat, which is the outcome of the habit Of turning back the skirt of the full dress coat of the last century so as to conceal the great CT part of the sword.-New York Her. ald
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
POT ROLLING.

From the running of the maple trough in the Spring to the boiling of the apple butter pot in the fall and all household boiling be- tween times, there are thousand chances of very severe scalds and burns. In all household work, winter and summer, in great factories and in nurseries, where care less children play with matches, there is need of something to be always on hand in such emergencies, and St. Jacobs Oil fills that want to the letter. With careful att tention to directions for use, there is noth- ing more soothing, healing and curative than this great remedy for pain. It cures promptly, and, making new surface, by the use of the Oil is immediate and sure
 He-So they were married at home, eh? What did you think of the service? She-Not much Itwas marked sterling, but I'm sure it was plate.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
Try Germea for Breakfast.

MT. Andrew McNally, of the great Chicago publishing house. has pur- chased 4000-acre tract of land, six. teen miles from Los Angeles, and is planting a millionaire colony. It is on the Santa Fe road near La Mirada station. Each purchaser is required to make improvements of the value of $25, 900, to establish his home.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
The Vastness of the Oceans.

The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles; taking the whole surface of the globe at 197,000,- 900, and its greatest depth supposed to be equal to that of the highest noun tain, or four miles. The Pacific ocean covers 7S,O00,000 square miles, the At lantic 25,000,000, the Mediterranean, 100000.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

Out in Kansas judge has ruled that eff man calls on a girl several times and escorts her to entertainments occa- sionally he is legally engaged to marry her." That judge evidently is suscepti- ble to outside influences. If an old maid asked him to do so he probably would issue an injunction to prevent the rising of the moon or would cheer fully declare unconstitutional the laws of nature.