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The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
HE HAD CONFIDENCE.
His Conviction Became Settled Upon
VeriHcation of the
Account. ~. =

1t was a country store, with trim
little miss behind the counter, whe
would have been much more at home
in city drawing-room. She was
visiting in the little country town, and
more for amusement than anything
else she would assume the responsible
,ities of keeping shop. An old negro
ambled into the store with troubled
look on his face. He took a respect
full pull at his battered hat as he came
to the counter and said:
"Mornin', Miss Catings. Ny OF oman
kinder had de expression dat dis yere
count of ourn don't zackly signify, an
I'm g,vine to put you to de discon-
venience to sorter see by de book whar
Use been doin' de figirin'"
The little miss looked frightened at
first, but as the old man laid his charge
book down on the counter her face
frightened.
GAIL right, uncle, we will compare
the books" she said.
The day book of the little store was
brought out, and as she called off the
articles charged against the old negro
he checked them off in his book, from
time to time giving grunts of aston
ishment and satisfaction, This con-
tinued until the last item was called
out and duly checked, when the old
man picked up his book, and, with
broad smile, said:
"Miss Catings, I always told my ole
oman dat dis was de bes' place to deal,
an when de books zackly petrify dat
proves it."-N, o, Timeg-Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
THE LATE-STAYING CALLER.
He Absolutely Forces Host and Host
ess to Utter FaIsehOOds and
Things UncompIimentary.

Friend Staylate makes a call in the
evening. Conversation blithe and joy
Gus, and repeated requests for him to
remain yet little while. lead him, not
at all unwilling, to prolong his visit,
writes Robert j. Burdette, in Ladies
Home Journal. He looks at his watch
with gasp of genuine dismay, and
hurries away slowly at last with pro-
fuse apologies for keeping us up until
such an hour. ooh, indeed, MOI" cho
ruses the entire family. "This is early
for US! We never think of going to our
rooms until an hour later than this"
Friend Staylate loiters moment after
he gets outside the gate. Slam goes
the door; bang wang! slam! go the
shutters, calling harshly to each 9TH
er: Thought that fellow never would
go!" Bang! "Why didn't he stay all
night?" Slam! And the rattle of the
chain cries: Gone at last!" The dark
ness of the dungeon settles down on
the house; the family has gone to bed,
having relieved its mind by doors and
shutters that are ready to tell the truth
any time they are given chance.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The very finest brand of Havana
cigars fetches $500 a thousand III
Paris.
In Mexico the family of dead duelist
can claim support from the person
who shot him.
Chinese streets are supposed TO be
the narrowest in the world. Some or
them are only eight feet wide.
A collection OF 136 letters written by
Charles Dickens to various CORE
spondents was sold in London lately
fer $745
The Virginia Bar association has
recommended that judicial robes be
worn by the judges of the supreme
court of the state.
Philadelphia is to have an inspector
of gas meters, who will receive 5000
year for his services in seeing that
the citizens are not oyercharged.
The German army at present com
prises 23,176 officers, 7s,207 noncom-
missioned officers, 479,229 privates,
2,103 surgeons and 9s,o5s horses.
The shovel fish is so called because it
uses its nose to turn over TIE a ud at
the bottom of the sea, in quest of the
worms and small shellfish on which it
feeds.
Russia has 6o,ooO0GO sheep, of which
one-fourth are merinos, averaging six
pounds of wool each and $50 wooden
mills of European Russia employ $4,000
workmen and produce goods valued at
45 100000 roubles.
1t is common Asiatic custom for
the bridegroom to give chase to the
bride, either on foot, on horseback or
in canoe. If the bridegroom catches
the fugitive he claims her as his wife,
otherwise the match is broken off.
| AT the sale of the Morrison canoes
in London Greek gold ring set with
an intaglio of .Bacchus from Tarsus
was sold for $1,150, another ring with
a figure of Bacchus for 1925, the signet
of Asander, king of the Bosporus, from
Kertch for $4,000, the Sessa ring for
$725, an da fine intaglio bust OF, Do
militia for $420.
In the Roman hospital recently ex-
cavated at Baden in Switzerland many
medical instruments and utensils have
been found, among them probes, tubes.
pincers, cauterizirg instruments, safe
ty fins, medicine spoons of bone, silver
measuring vessels, jars and pots for
medicines, some containing traces of
ointment. There were IA rooms in the
! building
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
LOVE MAKING.
In These Days Is Done i'm the Open
without Amy AIRY and 'Arriet
Business,

Billing and cooing are as much a
part of summer time diversions as eat
ing ice cream or drinking soda water,
but billing and cooling ''in evidence"
are confined to social strata in which
the fashionable maid and man have not
the slightest concern, says the Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
In fact, ultra-smart romancers ro-
nance so elegantly that unsympathet-
ic DAVIS find little chance to peck at
their hearts.
Climb as high as you may the
heights of common sense and you will
fail to discover wandering in the dale
of amatory foolishness single couple
belonging to really good socifsy will
ing to afford the slightest chance to
the curious for funmaking.
Sentimentalists gaze in amazement
at the latest victims of loves dream.
There is a blissful maid, an enamored
lover The pair eschew shadowy cor
ners. They court electric lights. They
are the center of the gayest midsum
mer groups.
Why? Because shying away from
friends and relatives, watching fever
ishly for a chance to look into each
others eyes, hold each others hands
and whisper silly nothings into each
others ears has too much of 'Arriet
and AIRY mannerisms to suit these
modish young people.
This late century love-making is de-
lightful to those who must fill the un-
enviable position of onlookers. There
is no greater misery than being
obliged to put up with the selfshness
of a spoony pair blind or Indifferent to
their duties to polite society.
The new order of affairs may well
cause interested people to rejoice. A
reserve so excessive that match may
be made and the wedding arrange
ments completed without anybody be-
ing the wiser brings distinct blessing
to all parties concerned.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
wASHINGTON'S INFLUENCE,
Confidence I'm the First President
Preserved Harmony Among
the People. e

AS tree is known by its fruits, so
may political policy be known from
the character of its supporters.
Shortly after the federal constitu-
tion had been adopted at Philadel-
phia, Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer
of the Declaration of independence.
was at the courthouse of Westmore-
land county, Va, and some one asked
his opinion of it.
81 do not" replied Mr.. Lee. "pre-
tend to be a judge of an organic law
of such Importance, but one fact in
clines me to support it. Gen. Wash
ington is in favor of it, and John War
den is against it."
Warden was "a Scotch lawyer of the
county who had been speaking in pub
lie against the ratification of the new
constitution.
Mr.. Lees willing submission to Wash
ington's judgment was initiated all
through the country. Trust in Wash
ington brought about the adoption Of
the new constitution by Virginia; and
without the ratification by that state.
then the largest in the union, the con-
stitution would never have gone into
effect
"Be assured Washington's influence
carried this government" wrote Mon
roe to Jefferson, after the Virginia
convention had voted for the consti-
tuition. "The country was an instru-
ment with 13 strings, and the only
master who could bring out all their
harmonious thought was Washing
on.'-Youth's Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
HAvANA's SANITATION. -
Yellow Fever:-QuestionsW Which
Confront Our Congress-

Probably the only reason why yellow
fever has not established itself perma-
nently at any one of our southern sea-
port cities is because the winter tenn
perature is too low TO preserve the vi
tality and favor the multiplication of
the germ. 1t therefore dies out DUR
ing the winter, or, according to the
popular idea, is killed by the first frost.
This being the case, we must not be too
ready to assume that if we had posses
sion of Havana this pestilential mall
ady would be promptly stamped out
by the sanitary improvements which
we would make. For, as a matter of
fact. we have not accomplished this in
yellow fever is introduced into one of
these cities during the season favorable
for its prevalence. history shows that
it extends, with more or less rapidity,
until the epidemic is terminated by
the cool weather of autumn; and all
efforts to arrest its progress by the
sanitation have heretofore been at
tended with very unsatisfactory de-
gree of success. Why, then, should we
yana if the task were thrown upon
us by effecting the sanitary regenera-
tion of that city to such an extent as to
make it immune from the disease un-
der consideration. Two questions pre-
sent themselves: 1. Could the govern
ment of the United States effect the
sanitary regeneration of Havana, if we
had possession of that city? 2. Would
the congress of the United States ap-
Fropriate. the money necessary to ac-
complish this result?
Without attempting to answer the
second question, 1 may remark that
congress has not heretofore appropri-
ated money for the sanitary improve
ment of cities within the limits of the
United States, and each municipality
has had unlimited authority to be as
dirty as it pleased. Questions relating
to water supply, disposal of sewage.
paving of streets, etc, are disposed of
by each city according to its own pleas
1ire, and it would be a new departure
for the general government to appro-
pirate large sum of money for these
purposes.
That it is practicable to put the city
of Havana in such sanitary condition
that it would be exempt from yellow
fever 1 fully believe. But that this is
an undertaking of considerable mag
pitude, involving the expenditure of
large sums of money, and requiring
much time, will be apparent when We
have taken account Of the nature of
the sanitary improvements necessary
FOR the accomplishment of the desired
esult--George NJ. Sternberg, Surgeon
Seneral, U. S. A, in Century.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
PROFITS IN LUNCH CARTS.
How the Business Originated in The
East and How 1t Has Been
BgiIt Up.

The announcement that the Night
Lunch Cart company, in which Worees-
/ ter people are the chief stock
holders, has just declared dividend
of IS per cent. on a capital stock Of
S25, 900, while it may seem astonishing
to some people. is really pretty small
profit in comparison with those made
bysome of the lunch carts in Worcester
in the early days of the industry.
Three or four hundred per cent. on the
investment was not at all uncommon
One of the pioneers in the lunch cart
line in this city at one time boasted
! that he started without any capital,
and made over $4,000 in a few years
time. He was sorry afterward he
made the boast, as it induced great
many other people to go into the bust
ness in competition with him, and thus
cut down his profits materially in the
next few years. Another local lunch
cart man says that before the coming
of the hard times in 1893 he frequently
took in as much as $50 a night from
one cart, and on Saturday nights he
| has done from $40 to $25 better than
that. During the hard times there
were a good many nights when cart
occupying the same stand took in less
than seven dollars, and $40 or SIP was
considered an exceptionally good
night. The number of lunch carts do
ing business in Worcester decreased
during the hard times, and there have
never since been so many carts on the
street
The night lunch cart business orig
! mated in Providence, r. l., was perfect
ed and developed in Worcester, and
now there is chain of lunch carts eX-
tending from Bangor, Me-, to Denver,
Col. A man named Scott originated
the night luncn cart. He had at one
time been in the restaurant business
and had accumulated modest for
tune, which was swept away in the
Vineland IN. J.) real estate specula-
tion bubble. Returning to Providence
almost pennilcss, he started in to build
up his fortune anew by peddling
I lunches on the streets at night. Then
; he got a secondhand bakers wagon
! and a horse and used to drive about
selling lunches from the cart. By de-
grees the bakers wagon evolved into
a cart that resembled a small freight
car, with windows in it, as much as
anything else. Sam Jones brought the
idea to Worcester, and little later
took it to Springfield, and in the course
Of few years there was hardly town
of any size in New England that did
not have one or more night wagons do
ing business in the streets.-Worceste
(Mass.) Gazette.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
Cold Ten for GnIIiers.

Now that alcohol has been tabooed
in the army and navy of some of the
leading nations of the world, the ques-
ton has arisen what is the best drink
with which the soldier can quench
his thirst? Many distinguished Indian
commanders nave testified in favor Of
tea as thirst-allayer when on long
march in equatorial lands. The men
under the leadership of Sir Herbert
Kitchener during the recent cam
paign inthe Soudan, who were allowed
no alcoholic stimulants whatever, per-
formed their long journey through the
desert on cold tea, and fought splendid
ly at the end cf it. Tiger hunters in
India, who are often subjected to in
tense heat in the thick jungles, in
variably use cold tea as a drink. 1t is
now proposed that our army in Cuba
should be allowed to follow the exam
pie Of their British brethren in arms
in India and Egypt. and fill their can
Teens with tea instead of water.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
WAR LEVELS ALL RANKS.
A Little Story About Young Private
That Is Not Too Good
to Be True.

Like love, war levels all ranks. Tn
like love, it substitutes other ranks Of
its own making, says the Chicago Jour
nal. In company of southern volun-
teers is a private who, by virtue both
of pedigree and pence, is, socially, a
very well-known man in his part of the
country. He would be recognized any
where as gentle bred. Having enlisted
merely as private, however, his duties
are those of the common soldier, and,
while it is nothing to his credit that he
does these without hesitation, such
work is certainly novel to him. His
regiment has not yet left for active
service, but as home guard occupies
the army post of its neighborhood.
The regiments colonel and the
coloners family of daughters are warm
personal friends of the private, yet
since the war they have never met
upon the old common level. The other
day the private was ordered to do
police duty around the coloneFs
grounds, which, being interpreted.
meant that he was to pick up all the
rubbish he might find there. What was
the horror of the colonel's wife few
minutes later, therefore, to see this
highly eligible young man down on his
hands and knees before her house pick
ing up stray banana peels and vagrant
bits of paper!
"Of course it couldn't be helped" she
said, in recounting the incident later.
UCtilI did what 7 could IN snare his
feelings. called to the girls to run
quick to the back of the house and not
to dare to go near a window for fear
they'd catch sight of young Blank po-
Icing the lawn"
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
TILTING THE EARTH.
a Matter Which May BE of Scientific
Interest If Not of Prac-
ticaI Value.

NJ. Fouche, the vice president of the
French Astronomical society, has in
vented a way of altering the present
inclination of the earth's axis to the
elliptic. What he wants to do it for is
not very clear. Perhaps, however, he
doesn't want to do it, and merely
puts forward his method as one pas
sessing purely academic interest. At
ali events, it is worthy of the attention
of company promoters.
All that has to be done, as described
by Invention, is to dig an enormous
circular ditch, say in Africa, or South
America Gts center must be on the
equator), and to fill it with sea water.
Fresh water will do if you can get
enough of it, but as the radius of the
ditch is TO be few hundred miles that
is hardly likely. Having got your
ditch full OF sea water, nothing re-
mains but to make it race round and
round in the trench, whereupon the
earth's axis will begin to point toward
different quarters of the heavens from
those it Indicates at present. The
amount OF deviation will depend on the
radius Of the ditch, the amount of
water it holds, the speed at which the
latter moves and the time during
which the motion is kept up.
We may suggest to Mr.. Fouche, adds
Invention, that when a sufficient
sphere of French influence has been Sc
cured in Africa he might have trench
dug, and then by its use get all the
ice melted rouDd each of the DreSent I
poles. French explorers could then
discover than, whereupon the action
of the trench would be stopped and the
present climatic conditions restored.
France could then remain as long as
she wished the only nation to have
reached the celebrated points on the
.earth's surface. AS the digging of the
ditch will be very expensive, we make
no charge for this suggestion.-Phila-
delDhia Times,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
DAuDEr DETEsTED ANIMALS.
Fled from Amy House Where He Saw
Lap Dog.

Lap Dog.
Daudet had lurking kindness for
sinners. He pitied them, for he could
not see how in the long run they could
succeed in anything, says London
Truth. But the self-righteous were
more offensive to him. | think he was
right in saying that men and women
who passed for never having sinned are
unpleasant companions, and, from the
day of judgment standard, perhaps the
worst sinners of all. The sensibiiity
shown in Jack" and other works did
not extend to animals. Daudet though
Cigalier, was deaf to the chirp of the
grasshopper and cricket. Birds have
no place in his rural sketches. He could
not understand the touching beauty of
the 'last friend" at the poor mans fu-
neral.
Animals were simply brutes to Dau-
det. At best they were warnings to hu-
man beings not to live merely to eat,
sleep and leave posterity behind them
They sometimes were vice incarnate.
Such were the fox, the serpent, the
scorpion. What a selfish, heartless
thing the ant was. 1t had head if you
will, but it was the sort of head that
organizes labor in sooty factory towns
The dog was the beastliest beast of
any. Daudet fed from every drawing
room where he saw lap dog,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
The Tendency of Morality.

The tendency of morality is to hu-
MAMIE the struggle for existence, to
minimize the suffering of those who
lose the game, and to offer the prizes
to the qualities which are advantageous
to all rather than to those which in
crease and intensity the bitterness of
the conflict. This implies the growth
of foresight, which enables men to
adapt themselves to the future, and to
learn from the past. 1t implies still
more the development of the sympathy
which makes every man feel for the
hurts of all, and extends his interests
beyond his own private needs.-Leisure
Hours,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
A Woman Crayedigger.

4 woman as a gravedigger! The
idea seems almost impossible, but in the
town of Lewes, England, says Tit-Bits,
there is lady who fills the Office of
sexton. Everybody knows her, and
until recently she dug all the graves
in Lewes cemetery. Now, at the age of
GO, she contents herself with filling
them up and attending to the mounds
and flowers, Mrs. Steel, the name of
the sextoness, if one can use such
term-is a very healthy old lady, and
she has been heard to say that she will
never leave her post until tits her turn
to have a grave dug for her, May the
time be far distant! 1t is wonderful
sight to witness the old lady use the
spade.-N. Y. Herald,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
You Can't Always Tell.

"Mrs. Wendricks must be very fond
of her husband"
"Why?"
"She's so careful about his health
always seems to be worrying for fear
he'll sit in a draft"
'Oh, that's no sign that she's par
ticularly fond of him. Maybe she hates
to hear him swear when he catches
cold."- ."-Cleveland. Leader.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
Exercise and Nervous Exhaustion.

There is no better preventive of nerv-
Gus exhaustion than regular, unhurried
muscular exercise. If we could only
moderate the hurry and rush of our
lives, lessen our worry, relax the ten
sion and increase our open air exercise,
a large proportion of nervous diseases
would be abolished. For those who
cannot get sufficient holiday, the
best substitute is an occasional day in
bed, and many whose nerves are con-
stantly strained in their daily voca-
tions have experienced the benefits OF
this rest. If we cannot avoid frequent
agitation we ought, if possible, to give
the nervous system time to recover itself
between the shocks. Even an hours Sc
clusion after a good lunch will de-
prive a hurried, anxious day OF much
Of its injury. The nerves can often be
overcome by stategem when they re-
fuse to be controlled by strength OF
Wjll.-N. y. Ledger.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
Cords of Dollars.

A clerk in the treasury department
who has had fer many years to do with
the vaults in which are stored Uncle
Sam's wealth, or that part of it in
Washington, has figured out that the
silver dollars coined by the govern
ment under the Bland-Allison act of
1878 and the Sherman act of 1890, if
piled together, would make a bulk
equal to that of 1882 cords of wood, or
144.se6 cubic feet.-N. Y. Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
N.nnleon,s Physician.

The present war has brought tolight
The fact that DR.. Antommarchi' VINO
attended Napoleon during his last Ill
pessat ST. Helena, is buried at Santiago
de Cuba. where he gave his services
free to the poor for EaHy years
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
Wanted to Preach.

Mr.. Gladstone's ardent desire as a
young man was to be allowed to take
holy orders. There exists, according to
Rev. Harry Drew, letter, written to
his father when he was just leaving the
university, in which he set forth a most
urgent appeal to be allowed to become
clergyman.-N. Y. Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-17
Torpedo Boats Lost speed.

After spending $4,000 in repairing
the torpedo boat destroyer Thrasher,
which recently ran ashore on the Cor
nish coast, the British admiralty finds
that it can make only "a knots an hour
instead of the 30 knots it made before
the accident.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-03-18
A GLANCE AT THE PAST.

Apropos Of the new spider silk,
Philadelphia manufacturer has discov-
cred, in an old book on color, dated
1914, an account of attempts TO promote
spider silk culture, which failed be-
cause the spiders, when brought to-
gcther, fought to the death, down to the
last survivor. .. ..o.. .s.. d..
The foundation of the families of
about 400 barons in the British house of
lords dates back to 14o0, the earliest be-
ing 1861. The oldest family in the Brit
ish lies is the Mar family, of Scotland,
1903. The Campbclls of Argyll date
from 100, and the Grosvenor family
from 1906. ,'..' ."- ... ,. .
In thereign of Edward III. there were
atBristol, England, three bro, ners, who
were eminent clothiers and wooden
aaeavers,r and whose family name was
Blanket. They were the first persons
who manufactured that comfortable
material which has ever since been
called by their name, and which was
then used for peasants clothing. g