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The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
The Way It Was Spelled.

A lady who buys provisions regular ly of dealer in Boston was little pug zled over one of the items in her month Iy bill. The item was as follows: "To 3 ID. psalmOn, 90 cents."
 It suddenly occurred to the lady that she had purchased three pounds of salmon on the date given, and the meaning of the mysteriously spelled word was apparent to her.
 Greatly amused, and feeling well enough acquainted with the provision dealer to tell him of the little laugh she had enjoyed at his expense, she said, when she went to pay the bill:
 MT. Blank, had quite a laugh over the way some one in your establish ment spells salmon"
 When the item had been pointed out to him, Mir. Blank said, in a tone of contempt for such ignorance:
 That's the work of a new bookkeeper have. I'm ashamed to have such bills sent out, and I shall have to speak to him about it. He is a good book keeper, but he's got to learn to spell if he stays in my employ. Let me correct the bill."
 Taking pen, Mir. Blank drew several lines across the word and wrote above 1t:
 "SammOn."
 "There, ma'am," he said, complacent- ly, handing back the bill. "Tll teach that bookkeeper how to spell salmon when he comes in, or tell him to find a new place."-Tit-Bits
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
THE SUDAN SPIDERS.
To Live Happily Tn the Sudan One Mus
 Get Used to the Insects.

To Live Happily Tn the Sudan One Must
 Get Used to the Insects.
 If one wants to live happily in the Sudan, one must get used to spiders. They crawl into your dressing bag or come upon the table while you are wash ing, taking great interest i'll soap and tooth powder and all toilet requisites. Disturbed, they retire into your sponge md remain there till they are drowned out One must also become accustomed to sand CT dust stC1ms, for they are fre- quent and terrible disturbers of your comfort. They come upon you suddenly when you are quite unaware of their close proximity, just as express trains at busy junction surprise the passenger uninitiated in the mysteries of signal ing. There is distinct sound like the coming of a train, then rush by and the after draft. Palms sway and bow their rustling fronds to the earth, and eddies of dust buffet you on all sides, lifting you from your feet. Tents are turned inside out, scattering their con- tents to the winds, or rything is in- crusted with an impalpable powder, which seals up one's eyes, plugs One's nose and ears or chokes one with the nauseating sweepings of foul camping ground. AS 1 am writing this dust hurricane which has been making life miserable for the last three days is still blowing.
 The fierce blast of the wind makes metal so hot that the heat from the nib carrying the ink to paper dries up the fluid before line can we'll be penned. The sweat of the hand. too, mixed with the layer of dust on the paper, so soils the manuscript that one feels loGth to send it. The flies, seeking your tent for shelter from the cruel blast without, cling to your nose and eyelids with a tenacity which is almost maddening. At meals each dish is covered with grit before 1t can be consumed, and one has to nurse odd corners of the tent to shield ones cup from the puffs of dust beating up from under the canvas before one can get drink that is not absolutely mud Standard
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Her Mothers Spirit.

4 young married woman was obliged to remain alone overnight in St. Louis. hotel few years ago, her husband be- ing detained by business in neighbor- ing town. In the dead of night the wo- man was awakened out of sound sleep by tremendous noise in the wardrobe. It was such a sudden and unearthly up- roar that the woman, sensible and prac- tical though she was, was frightened. The noise ceased, then returned. The woman jumped up, lighted the gas, looked at her watch and found it was just midnight and made 8 thorough search both of the wardrobe and the room. There was nothing, so far as the evidence of the senses went which could account for the racket. The woman put cut the light and went back to bed. The noise was not repeated either that night Lr any other.
 Six months afterward, however, the woman was in San Francisco, and for the first time in her life and solely out of curiosity she attended spiritualistic meeting Almost immediately the me- dium, a perfect stranger, turned to her and said, "The spirit of your mother is present, madam, and she says that six months ago (naming the precise date) she tried to communicate with you by means of the wardrobe in the Blank hotel, St. Louis" The woman's prac- tical good sense did not desert her. "Well, you just tell my mother" she said, "that the next time she wants to communicate with me not to make such an awful racket in the dead of night and frighten me half out of my senses" New York Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

for their franchises. Lynching is pop ular in certain sections. The lynchers are not necessarily roughs or men with out influence. They are frequently prominent citizens. men of substance Is 1t to be wondered at that judiciary which is elected is not jealous to bring about the conviction of the electors :? Here and there a judge may rise su- perior to the influence of the desire for continued office, but if he does, he is made of stronger stuff than the major ity of his fellows. An elective judi ciary must be in sympathy with the electors, if its members are to keep their bread and butter long. We be- Iieve that study of the gloomy statis- tics of Iynching would show that mob murder has fourished most in States where the judiciary is least independ- ent of popular caprices or prejudices. Massachusetts has had no lynching; and Massachusetts has judiciary that is appointive.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
RIP VAN TWINKLE.
Jefferson Discovers Something Incongru-
 Ous About His Celebrated Play.

Jefferson Discovers Something Incongru-
 ous About His Celebrated Play.
 Joe Jefferson calls attention to an in- teresting fact regarding Rip Van Win. kle. He says:
 "There is one incongruity in Rip Van Wrinkle which is seldom criticised. Possibly none of you ever noticed it. Indeed, will confess that until recent ly the fact never occurred to me with any force. We'll, you could never guess, so l will tell you. It is this: Rip Van Wrinkle is the only person in the play who speaks English with slightly broken Dutch accent. All of the other characters are obliged to content them selves with ordinary English.
 ''It heightens the effect for Rip to speak as he does ill broken accents, but if all the other characters were to at tempt a dialect there would be such a variety of accent that the effect would be incOngruous and ridiculous. All the feeling and sentiment of the play would be lost ill this polyglot attempt at dia- lect
 Several years ago a man engaged to play Nick Vedder came on at rehearsal and commenced to talk in the broadest low Dutch accent. l stopped him at once, but i'll his own defense ke ex- claimed:
 But Nick Vedder would talk that way, wouldn't he, if Rip Van Wrinkle did?'
 "'Yes, I replied, he would, but you mustn't And no douht the man
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

A Madrid cablegram states on the au- thority of Spanish newspaper that the last two descendants of Christopher Columbus are now occupants of poor house at Cadiz. There seems to be a sort of historic fitness In the fact that the last descendants of the discoverer of America should be closing their lives in a poorhouse, while the feeble sur vIval of the once powerful Spanish en- pire is hastening toward bankruptcy in a vain effort to retain one small island out of its once vast possessions in the western hemisphere.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
A RETRIEVE.


1 when they parted, seeing only in tha insult a small reprieve from his society
 When their silent dinner was dis i patched Sir Richard turned to his wife and said, 'I am going out; you can amuse yourself in the drawing-room. reading the fashions in year-old ladies' papers, or" he whispered, '"in lettino the tears gush forth from those some thinged silly eyes of yours' And he went forth to join his friend of the journey, and in the fullness- very fullness-Of time returned to the hotel, where he was informed that a gentleman wished to see him.
 "At thish hourp' he hiccoughed. Where is he?"
 The gentleman who wished to see Sir Richard was ushered into the room. In appearance he was strictly profession al, but his somewhat stern expression was tempered by look which men as- sume when they have some exceeding ly unpleasant duty to perform.
 ''Sir Richard Fenwick," he began.
 70, geralong," said the gentleman ad- dressed.
 ''You will be surprised to hear, Sir Richard, that Lady Fenwick is no long CT in this hotel-''
 Fenwick's intoXication seemed to vanish by entertainment, and he glare6 at his visitor, who continued to explain. '-she is, indeed. with my wife, and in perfect safety"
 And who the deuce" began Fen wick.
 Il am the head of the firm of Hughie. Acres & Doublecheek, London agents of Messrs. Courtly & Stock, regal advts- CTS or Che Misses Lane."
 By what authority have you had the - impertinence to take my wife out of my charger" asked the outraged husband. "As man of law you must know that-'
 Il am quite aware of the position in which stand" placidly continued the lawyer, "and my justifcatio is con- tained in these telegrams from the lady's guardians authorizing me to act as 1 think fit. have also had several communications with, the police"
 'The police gasped Sir Richard.
 Calm yourself, my good sir; no harm is done, and everything will arrange it. self for the best. It appears that for some time the police have been looking for a certain Frank Fenton, a weIl-edu- cated young man, whose career marks him as a criminal of the highest abiI- ity."
 'I never heard of the name," asserted Sir Richard, loftily.
 No; for professional uses he general ly found 1t convenient to adopt other names and other guises. For instance, during the last few months this in- geniOus youth has posed as a brick layer, an actor, a soldier, a lawyer, a liftman, and-a curate. He is, in fact the very curate who married you this morning. The impOStOr was arrested on his way to the station with bag containing the gold plate belonging to the church and all moneys for aims and from collections that he could lay his hands on. The criminal being a lay man, and unauthorized to perform the wedding ceremony, your marriage is therefore illegal-yOu are, in fact, not married; but, of course, the marriage can be performed immediately duly licensed clergyman can be obtained 70 perform it at Heston. cum -WOld-that is" he added, with a dry smile, "if both OartinS ora still ui1liDUO
 Dick Fenwick's reply is not written. Pick-Me-Up.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

We have had lately many proofs of the infieXible nature of British justice. Oscar Wilde, a sprig of nobility, per son of much literary repute, having q powerful family pull, was sent to pris- on, condemned to hard labor, and he went and he served out his time; so will Lord Nevill. It Is but few months since countess was released from prison, where she had served her time for criminal libel. When the Prince of Wales became mixed into the Tranby Croft baccarat scandal and got into court as a witness no deference was shown him that would not be shown any well-dressed man who bore about him the outward seeming of gentIlity.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Wanderers of the Sea.

Nearly all of the old-time pirates have
 disappeared from the seas, but there
 are yet many ocean marauders that
 are almost as much dreaded as these
 outlaws of the black flag. Oftentimes
 when a ship goes down at sea it Is de- serted by its crew and left at the mercy of the waves. If 1t is a wooden ship and turns over in just the proper way or fails to fill entirely, 1t will sometimes float for years, the sport of every storm. It Is then known as a derelict, and ev- cry seaman fears it, for should he steer his craft into 1t on some dark night 1t might stave a hole in his prov, and derelict and ship go down together. There Is no chart that can place these wanderers, no telling just where they may be, and they are therefore doubly dangerous. OftentimeS a derelict will remain wandering about the ocean for many years. It will get into the gulf stream and be swept across the Allan tic, and up to the coast of England; then it will sweep down the shores of Europe in the vast ocean eddy, recross the Atlantic and go northward again in the gulf stream. Every mariner that sights 1t reports to the naval authori- ties and it is marked on the monthly charts so that ship captains may look out for 1t. Sometimes, if 1t Is a big dere- lict, a gunboat is sent out on a chase to look for 1t, and if 1t is found the sailors charge it with dynamite and 1t Is blown off the face of the seas forever.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Lewis Carroll" who was a great mathematician as we'll as the author of the delightful Alice" books, once published a series of propositions ing was one of them: "A discussion may be raised upon any point at any distance from that point" This con- venient but time-consuming principle seems to be in high favor in our vari- ous legislative bodies.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

The presidents of two important New England universities agree that flew college men really go wrong" Few college men are excusable for not go- Ing right. There is no excuse for a college man to come out of college un- educated: and one of the results of edu- cation Is ability to see the folly, to say nothing of the sin, of wrong-dOing. Purely as matter of policy, the col lege-bred man, if anybody, should avoid going wrong.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

A member of the New York bar in- sists that not more than one-half of the witnesses before judicial tribunals tell the truth under oath, and that the oth- CT half are conscious and deliberate per jurers. Other lawyers who have spok- en on the subject agree with his general statement, although they do not place the number so high, and all of them say that this lack of veracity Is a compara- lively recent weakness.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Convenient.

In the commune of Monceau-sur- Disc, not far from Paris, a little village of only two hundred and fifty inhabitants, the streets are lighted by electricity, electric lights are found in the church, in all the houses, and even in the sta bles: and the farm buildings in the neighborhood of the village are illu- minated in the same manner. More than this, the commune possesses a large threshing machine driven by cleo tric power and capable of threshing nine hundred sheaves of grain per hour; besides turnip-cutters, crushers, sOr- ters, pumps, and other agricultural ma chinery, all set in motion by electricity. The power is derived from a water fall, and by combining their interests the inhabitants of the commune have made science illuminate their streets and houses at night and drive their ma chimes by day more cheaply than these things could be done by the old meth ods.
 Almost every one holds an old piece of paper or silver money which he
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Mistakes of the "Publisher's Reader

l was speaking of some of my experi- ences as a publishers reader, " few years ago, in a recent conversation with friend, who told me that MT. John Morley had read "Mr. Isaacs" for Messrs. Macmillan and had advised against it's publication on the ground that while it would be most creditable book to have on their list, there would be no sale for it. In the light of subse- quent events this is rather amusing, but it only proves that even so astute crit ic as MT. Morley is not infallible-in other words, that he is human.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Kaiser William has found employ ment for his army at last. He Is said to have 2,000 men and officers at work on his game preserves at Rominten making war upon the caterpillars, with which the forests are infested. And thus it is that his majesty is conquer ing nature at home as we'll as adding to his dominions abroad.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

A special dispatch from New York says that the latest fad in the exclus- i've circles of Gotham society is "get- ting up family trees and tracing ances- try back as far as possible" Some of those exclusive Gothamites, however, probably will prefer to keep their fam fly trees shady.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

The Atchison Globe is trying to figure out the relation of domestic surround lngs to patriotism. It says: 'The first Atchison man to express a thirst for Spanish gore is keeping his mOther-in- law and three aunts."
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

A New Jersey farmer shot the i'm ported fox which some Anglomaniacs were hunting across his fields. In or der to properly conduct the sport of fox hunting in this country our rural classes will have to be set back about two centuries in their education.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

thought me very unreasonable. But this only illustrates the point that many things apparently illogical must be done on the stage to secure effect by inspir-
 Ing the imagination. Absolute realism would be fatal. Under certain condi- tiUns it is the necessity of dramatic art to make the impossible seem real. "-
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

A Utah contemporary tells of resi- dent out there who recently died full of years and honor" but a close read Ing of the obituary notice proves that list
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Letters other name is Joseph. In this connection 1t will be remembered that what might be considered the first grain corner on record was managed by a person of that name.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Whisky or Water.

It is said that when whisky is used instead of water in making glue the mixture will remain unaltered for years will remain perfectly liquid and is ready for use without heating
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Docs Not Grnw Wild.

Tobacco is indigenous to the Western Hemisphere, but, curiously enough, has never been found growing wild. The Indian tribes which first produced 1t were those living in Virginia, the Caro- linas and the Southern Appalachian region.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Perhaps the very fact that the peo-
 pie elect the judiciary is at the foun- dation of the immunity which lynchers and lynching have enjoyed. An elect I've judiciary always wishes to be re- elected, and must appeal to the people
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

New Jersey proposes to tax bachelors g year. That bill evidently has been introduced by some henpecked hus- band, who has mistaken a misfortune for luxury.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Perhaps it's because they are where they are that in the present excitement over the Maine those at the Klondike at least are keeping cool.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Young Thomas A. Edison says he in- tends to devote his attention hencefOrth exclusively to inventing an air ship. We're afraid it's all up with him, then.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

"AIl the poets of my acquaintance" remakrs Hamlin Garland, "are short" As a financial fact that statement Is almost automatic.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

One of the big nail works has ordered a wage cut of 15 per cent. That is a style of cut nail industry not appreciat- ed by the wage worker.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

If you want to sell an article to tho women, and not to the men, announce that 1t Is good for you"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

The Chemical National Bank of New York has a new cashier, with bald head. who is warranted to be proof against hypnotism.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

4 Yale man has given the recipe for A famous jam as follows: Tomatoes, anIline dye and hayseed." This is prob ably jam lie.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

The news that the earth has two moons instead of one is not surprising. Many men have seen them.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Talk isn't cheap when you lire law. yer to do 1t for YOU
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Zola evidently picked up the poker by the hot end.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
ST. JOHNS HERALD
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Incorporated-..-- April 21' 1897
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

Almost every one holds an old piece of paper or silver money which he hopes some day to "get something for"
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DEFENSE SCORES A POINT
In the Martin Trial. and the Judge
Lectures RcpOrters.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. Hundreds of
persons anxious to hear what action
Judge Woodward would take in reference
to the sensational outbreak on Saturday
between Attorneys Garman and Lenahan,
opposing counsel in the Lattimer case,
thronged the court room today.
Judge Woodward spoke of the incident
Of Saturday, saying that after he had
left the bench and before court adjourned
an alteration had arisen between two Of
the lawyers engaged in the trial which
the court did not fully hear nor realize
until they were seen in the newspapers
Had we heard" said the judge. what
was said. We should have dealt with the
lawyers in a summary manner, as the at
fair so deserved, and If there is a repiti-
ton Of it we shall punish the guilty par
ties for contempt of court"
Then came a severe denunciation Of the
sensationalism OF certain newspapers in
endeavoring. as the court said, to pre-
vent justice by an exaggeration OF the
facts and Incidents OF the trial. He
would, he said. rot mention any names a.
present. "but # the astounding falsehoods
and Interpretations continue. the rep
resentatives OF the press viii find the
doors Of the court closed TO them"
The first witness OF the day was Silas
Jones, justice Of the peace, Of West Ha-
zle;on- He stated that he ha6 seen the
meeting q the deputies and strikers at
West Hazleton and followed them 70
Lattimer. he saw Sheriff Martin al
vance toward them with a paper IN his
hand Some Of them surrounded him and
an alteration occurred but the witness
could rot see exactly how the alteration
commenced Or how 81 terminated He
heard couple II shots and then a vol
ley. and saw several men fan Two who
fer rear him were desd- He was asked
what the SPECTATORS said after the shoot
Ing TIE deferse objected
After listening 20 al The arguments. TIE
court sustained thc obsertion. thVs shut
ting cat The s~e6.-ca- This Is regarded as
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