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The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
Andrew JacksOn's Way.

Although the government pays the rank and file of Its employees greater salaries than they would be likely to command in private business, with shorter hours and easier work on an average, the days of the impecunious clerk in Washington are by no means ended. So writes Companion core spondent, who goes on to say:
 The cabinet officers take the ground that the departments cannot be used as debt-collecting agencies, but at the same time they see to 1t that employ ment shall not be given to those who can. but will not, pay their bills. An old gentleman said to your correspondent the other day that he recalled very in- teresting incident which occurred in Jacksou's administration.
 Among the clerks in the Treasury Department aJ t4at ,l41e was d young man who had d chronic diSinclinatiOn to pay his board bill His landlady was q widow Ia needy circumstances. but was unable to get cent out of him. He gave his notes with Micawber-uke cheerfulneSs, and they went to protest with clock-like regularity. Finally she went one day to the White House and called upon the President.
 She told her story, and as she pro ceeded JackSon's eyes began to snap in a dangerous manner. He told her that she ought to be paid, and request ed her to get the clerks note for the amount. The lady replied that she was unable to pay the costs of the protest, but the President assured her that this time there would be no such expense.
 She went over to the Treasury, and had no difficulty in getting the young I fellows note for thirty days for the ! full amount of the indebtedness. Then she carried it to the White House. The President glanced at it and wrote on the back, Andrew Jackson"
 "Now, madam" said he, put that in the bank, and we will see which one of us will have to pay you the money"
 The note was deposited for cnllec- ton. and it is needless to add, was paid by the clerk, who afterward went tc see President Jackson, apologlzed, and promised to mend his ways.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
Her Reason.

Maria" said Mir, Dawson. "why do you always keep the window shades down? The house looks like dungeon to me-"
 'I want to he able to say" his wife replied. "that my neighbors have called on me. You don't suppose that any of them would come if they could see from the outside what we've got, do youY- Cleveland Leader.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

kept tS an old gentleman who denghts In have all his plants labelled with highsounding ''botanical names II does not matter in the least what; ana so some of his more learned frlend' have helped him to distinguish appel lations.
 He has. for instance, bank or roses the plants in which bear these labels: Nux vomica, Nisi prius, Ipecacuanha peruviana, Particeps crimlnlnls.
 It is easy to see to what professions the friends belonged who supplied the worthy gardener with these emlneh'!v scientific names. The gardener IS proud of them, and they undouDteulV answer every purpose of the plahteI;
 They remind one of the story oI thF Rev. Sydney Smith and the ne"-ricn '.l- lady of Kensington. She was qui't ignorant of either Latin or botany put she had a fine conservatory, anu one considered it a proof of her own cui tivation to know the botanlcal ndhie' of all plants.
 These names she committed carer ui- ly to memory, and one day, Wnen MI Smith called, she took him to the con servatory and reeled them all OH to him. She showed him the Pelargonlum ouercifoIium and the Cheiranthus ican- us and the Mezembryanthemum ana the Amygdalus persica, and scores or other such high-sounding names which were. after all, but common flowers and fruits.
 Sydney Smith listened until he was tired. and then, turning to the iady, asked:
 Madam, have you the Ruheoln 222- bilIsT
 The lady stopped short. What in the world might the Rubeola mOrbillis be: She had not the slightest idea. But she did not wish to display her ignor- ance. It might be something familiar of which she had not learned the name-and the name was pretty, any way. So she put on bold face and re- piled:
 Not just now; but I had 1t last year, and gave it to as many of my nelgn- bors as I could"
 "Ah! Did you, indeed? said the great clergyman, and left her lgnor- ant of the fact that he had simply asked if she had had the measles!
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
MOTOR AND MISERY.

Compressed air as a motive power for street railways will in time supersede cleo tric wires and the trolley. Necessity and in- vention make rapid changes, butsome old, sure, unfailing methods will hold good for all time. The nerves are the electric wines of the human system, aud ofien ''j ingle out of tune 1" as when neuralgia slips the trolley of the systeni and it grinds and groans with pain. The old motor for ti cure of pam, St. Jacobs Oil, will always act as electric in- f1uence on the pain stricken nerves, and VIII send a current of cure through tGe dlsor- dered wires, and briug about a perfect resto- ration. Nothing new can improve upon v-het is known 10 be the best and surest in the treatment of painful diseases.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
POETRY.
What It Is and What It Appears to Be
 at Varying Ages.

What It Is and What It Appears to Be
 at Varying Ages.
 Ask the first half dozen people you meet "WhaJ is poetry?" and the result will be something like this Five out of the six will look hurt at your springing such a question upon them and say lamely. "Oh, it's when the lines rhyme. you know!' and the sixth will be an- noyed because, for the life of him, he can't say what it is and is afraid you'll think he doesn't know. As to the rhvm- ing definition, beware how you accept 1t, innocent and simple as it looks. Ap- piled, it will inevitably lead you to the conclusion that Hamlet and ''Evan- geline" aren't poetry, but that "Little Jack Horner" is.
 The meaning of the word "poetry" varies, too. with our own age. Five year-old thinks "Sing a Song O Six pence" and Simple Simon" the great est masterpieces of poetic thought; 15 won't look at either, but pores over the "Ingoldsby Legends" the Ancient Mariner, and, for change, the cheer ful Burial of Sir John Moore;" 20 dreams away Sunday afternoons over Maud" and privately determines to be a Tennyson, too, some day, while 20 "hasn't time to read poetry"
 There are two we'll known poems that always seem to me deserving of our greatest pity - "The Village Black smith and "Casatianca W5 give them all the little disagreeablo jobs to do-all the kicks fall to their share, and vo~r of -No holfro-"o
 If a comic paper man is hard up for a joke, he falls back upon one or other of them, while the way they are both hacked and mangled and tortured in the schoolroom alone is positively cruel, and, outside it's four walls. all the re- ward they get is general disfavor, to say nothing of social oblivion and derision.
 But long after school has been left be- hind the boy of the burning deck and the smith with the brawny arms turn round upon us and take their revenge for allthe obloquy and hard work heaped upon them.
 They haunt us and bring in their train thoughts we would rather not think. We don't so much mind the memories of dingy schoolrooms and ink and tears and smudged copies that they force upon us, or even of half holidays spent in durance vile, but it is not of these alone that they remind us. No. They hint at the sad and foolish ignoble days and the long dead loves and hopes and aspirations that have filled our lives since, and we find ourselves contrasting what we are with what we were-too often, alas, bitter thought!
 After all, the greatest and best poetry is unwritten and will ever remain so. Our sweetest love songs come rippling over the meadows with the breeze that rocks the grasses ill the long, scft sum- mer evenings; our saddest dirges moan through the woods in the dark Novem- Der days. when damp mist hangs gray and pall-like over the hills and the dead leaves rustic as though swept by the feet of ghostly funeral train, while for thrilling dramas and great, grand epics we need but to look round us into the faces and lives of living men and wom- en. Exchange.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
How Grant Got the Name of Ulysses


 The story was curious As related by the father afterward, it appeared that the common difficulty Of choosing g name for the babe arose. Mulhtudes oi suggestions only confused the young parents the more, until at fast It was proposed to cast the names into hat. This was done. 4 romantic aunt sug- gested Theodore. The mother favored Albert, in honor Of Albert Gallatln- Grandfather Simpson voted for Hiram, because he considered it handsome name. The drawing resulted n two names. Hiram and Ulysses.
 Ulysses, iU IS said, was cast into the hat by Grandmother Simpson, who had been reading a translation of Fene- Ions ''Telemachus' ard had heen much impressed by the description Of Ulysses given by Mentor to Telemachus He was gentle of speech, bsnefceat of mind " The most patient Cf men. "
 -.-.-.-, -- ,ruEu. li. ...ya nothing GaI is false, bat when 1t is necessary he comedies what is true His wisdom Is a seal upon his lips, which l; never broken save for an important pur- pose, ''-Hamlin Garland in Mcclure s
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
Two Billions for Pensions.

One of the most striking facts in the report of the Interior Department IS that during the last thirty-one years, or since the close of the civil war in 1S6o, the government has paid out for pen sions, including the cost of distributing them, the enormous sum of $2,O34, ,SlI,- 769.
 The amount paid last year, $13S,214,- 761.94, was nearly $600,OOO less than that of the previous year, and far below that of 1893. Still, once more the pro- digious annual sum of $141, ,OOO,OOO, which is more than double the average of the thirty-one years, is required, that being the estimate for the twelve months beginning July l, 1897. It is, therefore, absolutely certain that the aggregate pension outlay since the war will, within three or four years, have exceeded the amount of the whole in- terest-bearing public debt, when at it's climax. In fact. two and a half years more at the present rate of appropria- tions will put the pension expenditures at the top.
 How is it that, nearly d generation after the close of the war, the pension dozen years after the war? For in lS75 it was if we have the correct figures. only $29, ,456212; the next year, $2S, ,257 ,396; the year following, S21,= 963, 752; the year after that, $27, ,137, ,O19. The causes are three, one being the introduction of the policy of paying ar- rears of pensions to those who were put | on the roll, as established under Hayes; | a second, the opening of the rolls to new classes of pensioners, scores or hun ! dreds of thousands strong, as, for eX- ample, in the dependent pension act; finally, the raising of the rates of pen siOns, which is constant process, Sec. retary D. R. Francis, in his annual re- port, proposing to increase by 50 per cent one such class.
 Commissioner Lochren long ago esti- mated that, in the ordinary course, the pension roll would be decreasing in number by the year 1895. But here is 1897 at hand, and ebb tide has not yet set in. There are now more pensioners than ever before. The latest figures give us 970,67S names on the roll; and, if a table before us is correct, the num- Der for last year was 970,524; for the preceding year, 969,544; for the year before that, 966, ,012.-New York Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
nRotanicaI Names"

Some people whose botanical learning is not very deep are passing fond of using Latin names for plants and flow CTS. A London journal tells of a gar den in Brixton, near that city, which is
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

The miter worn by the Jewish high priest was a kind of diadem, resembling a turban in shape. On the front was a gold plate, fastened by blue ribbon and engraved with the inscription. "Holiness to the Lord. y
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
THE LIVERY OF BILIOUsNEss

Is a pronounced yellow It is visible in the couutenauce and eyeball. It is accompanied with uneaSiness beneath the right ribs and shoulder blade. sick headache, nausea an irregularity of the bowels. To the removal of each and all of these discomtorts, as well as their cause Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is admirably adapted. This pre- eminent family medicine also remedies malsrial rheumatic and kidney complaint, nervous less and de- bility It promotes appetite and sleep.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
TURNED HIS HAIR GRAY.
4 SAN FRANCISCO DRUMMER'S s
 CLOSE CALL.
George K. Hendrickson, Well-knOwn Travelling Man, Describes Never tO-be-forgOtten Experience Thought He Was Going to
 be Launched Into
 Eternity.
From the Chronicle, San Franci. co, Cal.


 George R. Hendrickson, of 5O6 Mar ket Street, San Francisco, Cal, is one of the best known commercial travel CTS on the Pacific Coast Mir. Hen- drickson has grown gray in the service, but his frosted hair and patriarchial beard are due more to an experience he had about three years ago, than to age.
 "There was not much to hope for" sad the old-time traveller when relat- ing his experience yesterday, ''and never expected to take an order again. It is not pleasant thing to contem- plate, when walking along the street, to be seized with sinking spell and think you are about to be launched into eternity. That was the condition of my existence for about six months. The doctors told me that was suffering from nervous prostration. We'll, guess I was. 1 had had an attack of the grippe. and my complaint was the result of that diseass. 1 consulted the best physicians in the town and took +77c;- -4.odiUine, -.sss.-----.-----.---5ss-. My stomach went back on me and suffered all the ills that accompany nervous disorders.
 While under the care of the doctors r I never knew what peace of mind was. The least sound coming unexpectedly threw me into a cold sweat, and caused chills to run up and down my back. I was subject to vertigo and every time I had an attack I feared that I woud drop to the sidewalk a corpse. I began to think I would be better off if dead, when I came across Dr. Williams Pink Pills down in Los Gatos. I have studied medicine and recognized the value of the pills very readily. threw my last bottle of medicine over the bridge at Los Gatos and began to take the pills. At once my condition began to improve. got relief from the start and I determined to give the pills all the chance in the world. I went home and stayed there for three months, at the end of which time was a new man, my health being completely restored. ,
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain, in condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of hea lth to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, over- work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk at 90 cents a box or six boxes for $2. 90, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schen- ectady, N. '.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
A Possibility.

Marguerite-Mayi is engaged to that millionaire. She won't have to worry about money any more.
 Marie-NO. But he may.-Truth.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20
Reasons for It,

'De Simbe is very polished"
 'Yes; you see he has rubbed up against the best people. le."-Philadelphia North American.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

"Nothing," says Scribb,er, is more dis heartening to man than the discovery that he has married woman who loves to keep his writing table in order.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

She-And did your friend take tSe doctor s advice He-Ceriaiuly. And did he pay for it?" Well, should rather say he did! He's deadi
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Lash's Kidney and Liver Bitters tones the stomach and digestive organs; cures dyspeTsia, biliOusness, sick headache, and all ills produced by disordered stomach.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Pimples, blOiches boils, black-heads, moth patches and scrofulous sores disappear never to return by using Lash's Kidney and Liver Biiters.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

From Penang to New York a letter requires 8 days tn make the journey,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

For Lung and chest diseases, Piso's Cure TC tho -T' J. L Northcott. Windsor, Ont, Canada
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

maIaria and Grip positively cured. also all other Medical and Su gIcai cases guaranteed cure or no charge. Reasonable terms; call or write; confidential. DR. CRAIG X CO, Medi- cal Institute, 1346 Market St.. San Francisco, Cal
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Shattered nerves, weak stomach, impaired di- gestiOn and bility to sleep all disappear when Lashs Kidney and Liver BitteIs are used.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

i .;LnId Horness Co.,, ITO McAIlIster St., San kSiutIu Francisco. Buy your Harness at whole sale from the Manufacturers. Send for catalogue
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Fs s5's's ss $. sassd E5EE4E< cared; no pay Ae until cured; send for book. DRs. M MANsFIELD & PoETERFiELD, S}S Market St. san Francisco.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Attend StehS Ths R,sIYEs IE ssa @Tsi
 Market St., San Francisco. Write for Free Book
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Pacific Academy E1anesco Bd z En 'ish training. Virginia Patehett and Helen NJ
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

p, z Fg ga For tracing and locating Cold oI -i.vor a e sS e FOWLER. Box 337. s"uthington. Conn
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

NinkY AeEgnY H. B. H0smer, Carries f9il
 N.DhA AcIEuI line of Photographic Goods, Dev eloping Printing specially. 53S Market StSF.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

FAIRNESS hHD SGDBLERY GHRapksF RKsT aNp P C. L. Haskell. 5l1 Market St., San Francisco, Cal,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

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The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Rssv EccccCc MAZE MONEY, PRESSING
 EM k%hkOoEo HAS, Write I. J. Truman & Co.,, ts San Francisco, Cal, fer particulars.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

Y-VpcynITcl Ss MimeOgrsph Supplies for all
 s tTEHni Cn machines. Send for catalogues. United Typewriter d Supplies Co. 663 Markt StS.F.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

gGD gg%,,T;. TS.t; ca1 aImGst5 ssore at II44Is Front St. San Francisco. "HOme Circle" free
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

DALEY. PORTER & CO.,, Miners and AssayeTs D Dealers in Mining Properties. Refer. Selby Smelling dE I'd Co.,, 4151z Montgomery Street, $. +
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

TrrEWpITCEc Remington,ss5; Caligra aph. $2O
 ltTEKhIlcnO Smith. $50; Yost. S25; send for sample wt rk Scott x Bannan, 333 Monty St,S.F.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-20

oakland Business College
 OAKLAND, CAL. Send for the College Journal.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-21
SOME pOsTsCRIpTs.


In Holland the average product for COW,
Is eighty pounds of butter and $50 mounds
OF cheese per annuIn.
The Jersey cattle were imnorted ,r,o,t,t-
country in considerable numbers o,riy in
tho present century. 90
1t Ia believed that butter was Gre, usod
by the Arabs. who made 1t from the min,
Of the goat ar sheep
Augusta, Mic, boasts Of one woman ,ro
voted for Mckinley. She lived In ColornJn
at the time, though,
a peuobscot. Me. man who annlied for
divorce last week gave as one nj M.
grievances that his wife called him n
farmer. ''''"
The United States FISH commission will
devote considerable time and money his
Maine waters.
Elizabeth, city Of some $1,000 people
furnishes larger contingent of New
York commuters than any other place on
the Jersey Ccutral road.
y hen that matches lizards is Che.
heaSne Me, curiosity The egg was
broken aud It's only contents was a lizard
about two inches in length
The children in the Chicago schools ara
induced to sign bird pledge. in whIah
lhey promise not to rob the nests m, n
wear INC plnmago OF birds,
Last season $500 head OF sheen vera
sheared at aud around Casper. Nyo. ANA !,
Is estimated hat 500 900 win be shroro3 IN
tho same territory this year. -
The latest horror TO afflicted Maine is
d, sous entitled Kelly the Murderer"
with which Two men and woman rorentiv
descended on a peaceful Maine hamlet
II is estimated that the United King.
aoA pfodne(s somehing like 500 900 900
what is used on the farms for rc 1%5ng
calves, etc. ''"''hs
The Roman Catholic archbishop of pos.
,op ana his 10 priests have Joined in the
IN any public park or pleasure rrernd IN
the State e'N'"N IN
an Augusta Me, dentist is cat con.
~ no's ss ana nov has no less than thirteen
Of the ieiines, for which he conlempiotos
me erection OF an asylum especially se-
signed for their comfort. ee-
W, H. Hale Of Maehias. Me. has sey.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-21

The death. just in the prime Of lie Of
any man of character and warm heart is
sad enough and too often passes beyond
all the limits OF our philosophy Of life
when We seek it's explanation It IS not
strange, then, that we should say that the
death ot J. i Watson brugs peculiar
sorrow ana regret. and not only coniounds
philosophy but strains the cords OF faith.
70 strong. high character hc added pc
GUITAR talents OF mind, he raract'y for
Norh and the power OF achievement and
by these and by his own strength alone
pc cut clear, straight path for lis feet
u led him through his early career with
honorable distinction and in mis- llfework 10
d success that was large and ever becoming
largo. With The stlonE moral and mental
hotr OF his life was the iracery Of pleasan,
Wlt ami the color and warmth of large
heart Ready sympathies made friends
HsilF ard fidelity held them close. These
aud other things thai are SAID q J. l.,
watson now were felt and said whom he
Nns alive II was impossible for those
VINO knew him no, 20 say and feel such
things Of him, for they We're ali too true,
and that Is why his death seems so sadly
unimely, 30 Impossible to explain.
peace 10 the just mans memoyy--ict 1t
grow
Greener with years. and blossom through
Tho iight
OF ages ~ The mimic canvas show
HIS ealm, benevolent features; let the
light
Stream on his deeds of love- that Stunned
the sight
OF all but hcayen. and In the hack Of
fame,
And hold ii np 10 men. aud bid them
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-21
Youthful Couple Murr,.,

AVN Texas, May 2o.-Jack Richardson
and Miss Ora Carter are the son ana ,hn
11uN"''r' respectively, Of Mr.. s. N. Rich
a'a>'n ana Mr. L. D. Carter two proml.
nen' citizens of Alvin, Both young people
re- q's,, ''i,iinsrs OF the class that graduated
,tJm she high school This spring and each
71y,iS M, lheir l7lh birthday his spriag'
spitc " 49,, 1910 20 get married and aid SO lu
1 c the marriage license for than, IN
""i.eslon and Yesterday they wore 'V dri,, IN
e, %, A,rela.a. where a justice of he ne, ,c.
r rnaae mem one The couple are now r 80
,hl al me farm OF Major Durant vhors
'he groom has employment. "Hp'e