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HE DAILY EXAMINER.
“This is true Liberty, wisn Free Born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free,”—Euripides.
RCH 20, 1896.
Single Oopies Two Ocnts
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d fall of latest news. i exe ace ea | a . house, which is still in a stats of excellent ‘ preservation. in spite of its years of hard | ee eee ene ee | BRING THE BOYS !—We are offering an exceptional attraction in Boys’ Two minisconces of that byxone time, “ana and @hree Piece Suits. Ff you are in the least bi. of a mood to be tempt: from the funds iteontained, Te “| better come carly. You will find this the gala occasion of the season for gettir g some of tho house,and thitteen in my uncles | of the wearables that boys always require about now. to that I CO good deal to provide us| Bays’ Suits for lads 4 to 10 years, a good wearin
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a little more money maiters
than was considered necessary by my father or anyone acquainted with our affairs; so I have heard since. In thosa
days the chidren of both families know by instinct that my father was the person to whom an appeal for some desired bit of finery or what we called “unnevessaries’ had better be made; the ‘common purse’ seemed to have greater powers of exten- sion in his hand s than in my uncles’.
“I well remember my pretty Cousin Myra dancing with delight when she was on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, ‘I’m to have a piano after all, Jennie: she cried, giving me a hug; ‘father was very doubtful sbout it. but Uncle Amos me not to worry, for if father couldn't afford to give it to me, he could!
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A Long Tarewell.
The Frenchman's politeness sometimes serves him in good stead to point a re- buke. A Frenchman who was Staying at a hotel in Edinburgh asked, at the cashier’s desk, how much his bill was, and was astonished to find how great an amount he had been chargait.
He felt that he had been plundered, but he paid the bill, and then asked to see the proprietor. Presently the | down in response to the call, all beami: gs with smiles. The Frenchman rushed up to him exclaiming:
“Ah, let me embrace you! kees you!”’
‘But whe do you want to embrace me, sir? I—I don’t understand.”
“Ah, saire, but look at zees beel!’’
“Your bili? Yes; but what of it’’
“Vot of it? Vy it mean zat I s’all Hevaire, Nevaire see you again, saire!’’
Let me
Not Afraid of Burglars.
A short time age a gentleman, whose “sister Was staying with him, came in late from a party, and was surprised beyond measure on observing a white figure prowling about the back of the house. On going to investigate he discovered his sister standing outside the back door with
a cocked revolver in her hand. As she was explaining to him that there was a burglar within the door opened anda
man emerged carrying a sack over his shoulders. The man, the girl and the revolver speedily mads him prisoner and he was conifortably ensconced in jail.
When the man came home he said to his sister: “‘Why on earth didn’t you go down through the kitchen?’
“‘How stupid,"’ the brave girl replied, “don't you know the kitchen's full of \mice?'’—Pearscn's Weekly.
The Goliath ef Big Basin.
In Dig Basin, Santa Cruzcounty, Cal., there are thousands of giant redwoods that will measure from 10 to 23 feet in diameter. But the Titan of them all isa giant known far and near as “the Goliath of Big Basin.” This monstrous vegeta- ble growth is 23 fest in diameter at the
made, for $1.50.
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ground and is perfectly solid, a fact noted as a rarity in these colossi of the forest. Goliath 3s a fraction over 200 feet in height, the lower 100 feet of the trunk being free from branches or unsightly excrescences. Experienced woodmen de- clare that the tree would weigh more than 100,000 tons and that it would “cut” 1,500,000 feet of clear board measure lumber, besides 100 cords of wood that could be gotten out of the limbs and waste.—St. Louis Republic.
Astounding Memories.
Horace Vernet is the best example of visual memory. He could paint a strik- ing portrait of a man, life size, after havy- ing once looked at his model. Mozart had a great musical memory. Having heard twice the ‘‘Miserere” in the Sis- tine chapel, he wrote down the full score of it. There are soloists who during 24 hours can play the composition of other masters without ever skipping a note.— M. Binet in Revue des Deux Mondes,
Streets Versus Presidents,
A little Buffalo miss, when asked by her schoolteacher to name the presi- dents of the United States in order, be- gan glibly,“‘Washington, Jefferson, Mad- ison, Monroe, Adams, Watson, Emslie”— Here she was checked by the teacher, who remarked that she seemed more fae wiliar with the streets of her native city than with the presidents of her country. —New York Times.
THE McCORD His Disease Pronounced Biabetes and curable—Given up by Himself and Friends—Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills
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Ricuwoxp, March 16. (Special)—-The talk of farmers and others in town is mostly about the astonishing cure of Wm. McCord, a faimer near here. His presence made assurance visible, and he sa:id—
“After the doctors pronounced my trouble Diabetes no one thought recovery possible.
J was partially paralyzed, was nine months in bed and I ran down until J was amere shell. When I commenced taking Dodd’s« Kidney Pills I stuck close to directions. One box helped me and nine boxes cared me. Am sixty years old and bave lived here 40 years.” Dedd’-
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A BATTLE STRANGELY WON,
An Army Put to Flight by One Man asd With the Loss of Only One,
It 4vas probably one of the most re- markable battles that was ever fought. The advance had been well planned by the attacking force, the idea being to surprise the enemy at the dead of night. Every detail had been carefully consid- ered. The advance would be hidden by a wood, and the first the enemy would know of it would be when the troops swept out of the wood and carried the camp by storm. There were apparently no pickets in the wood, and there seemed to be no possibility of a failure,
The colonel in command was gloating over his expected victory, when one of his officers called his attention to a bright light some distance to the left of the advancing column,
‘“What is it?” asked the colonel anx- iously.
“I don’t know,” replied the officer. “Tt flashed up there only a minute ago.”
“Well, if any one suspected we were here he wouldn’t go along swinging a lantern to make a target of himself,” as- serted the colonel.
The column had barely begun to move again when a light appeared on the right and a little to the rear of the one that had just disappeared. Another halt was made, and the colonel was tempted to order avolley in the direction of the light, but of course that would betray the exact whereabouts of the column and would be almost suicidal.
“Weare being surrounded!” exclaimed one of the officers excitedly.
Then a light appeared in the shrubbery immediately ahead of the retreating col- umn. The first man yelled ‘Rifle pit!” and cleared the whole thing at one bound. The second man was not so for- tunate. He stumbled and fell, and as he fell he instinctively made a reach for the light. He was the only man killed, but his death completed the panic. Ranks were broken, and the retreat became a wild race to get out of the wood.
And the lights seemed to dance here and there, appearing at the most unex- pected points and adding to the confu- sion.
When the excitement was at its height, a man climbed outof a pit some distance in the rear of the retreating force. He stretched himself and peered after the fleeing soldiers.
“Hanged if I wasn’t cramped in that hole,” he said. “I suppose I might as well turn a cannon or two loose just to
| wake the boys up and scare those foot
racers a little more.”
He lay down on the ground at theedge of the pit, reached his hand down to some keys on a sort of switchboard, and in an instant cannon boomed out. Then he raised himself to a sitting posture, lit a pipe and chuckled to himself,
Two or three men rushed up and breathlessly inquired what the trouble was.
“Oh, I had a little brush with the ene- my,” replied the man with the pipe calmly. ‘They tried to surprise the camp.”
“And you beat them?”
“Why, they’re running yet.”
Quite a crowd from the camp had gathered by this time, and one of them cried, “Three cheers for the electrician!” but the man with the pipe raised his hand to stop them.
“The credit is not all mine,” he said. “Remember my able force of linemen who ran wires through this wood and made it possible for me to win this vic- tory.”
Just then some of the men who had gone into the wood after the retreating enemy returned with the news that one nan had been killed.
‘‘What!” cried the electrician, jump- ing up. He hurried to the place where the body lay.
“Too bad! Too bad!” he said regret- fully, ‘‘but then accidents will happen, even in a battle. He had no business to catch hold of a live wire.”
“Oh, well, there’s no use feeling bad about it,” put in one of the officers. “A victory has been won, and only one life has been lost.”
“But why have one lost?’ asked the electrician. “Of course it was tiresome work in that pit, and when I got them on the retreat I was glad of it, but I never supposed any one was going to grab hold of the light. It’s too bad!”
And the man who had won the victory could not beconsoled.—Chicago Tribune.
- Seed Wheat.
Campbell’s White Chaff and White Rus- sian, grown one year from Imported Seed on the “ Warren Farm.”
JOHN NEWSON.
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A Lie Told In School,
It has always been father’s purpose to sive his children a fair education, but as the family increased in size and numbers ind father’s salary would not grow in the same proportion, he found it necessary to cut down some of the avenues of ex- penditure. One of his first thoughts was that of the shoe bill for the family. Said he, “I'll be the cobbler when any shoes aeed repairing after this.” Unfortunate- ly my shoes gave out first, and the next day was set for repair day. Father brought from the shop where he was working some of the old belting that had been laid by, This leather was thorough- ly saturated with oil, and as I entered the schoolroom next day with new taps on my shoes the oil would form a mark on the floor, just like a footprint on the newly fallen snow, and what good ex- cuse to tell I couldn't think of,
It becaine an eyesore to the whole school, and | was wishing somehow I might take a vacation. Finally the teacher noticed it. I was called up to the desk, leaving my track all the way, and asked to explain. Shaking like a leaf, I told the story. My brother Jack and I had got to fighting the other day in the cellar, and he threw me in a pan of grease that was near by cooling. That lie settled the teacher, but the other element of the school were not satisfied until they stood me on my head and looked at my shoes.—Cor. New York Recorder.
In a City Restaurant.
A trifling incident noted not long ago in a city restaurant tells its own story and needs no spoken moral. Two girls, possibly attendants in a shop, were sit- ting together eating their luncheon, and one was holding forth to her companion on an experience which had just befallen her.
“Icame in here,” said she, ‘‘and got this seat, but wan’t long before an old lady came in and sat next tome, She took off one pair of glasses and put on another. Then she stared and stared at the bill of fare and laid it down. I thought first she couldn’t read a word Then she turned around to me.
“« “Will you let me sit next to the win- dow? says she,
“I didn’t take any notice, and in a min- ute she said it again. -Then I answered her:
‘“« ‘No,’ says I, ‘this is my seat, and I’m going to keep it.’
“She turned ’way round in her chair then and looked me all over. Then she looked away. But I guess she knew I'd got the best of her, for she did have the manners to say:
“ *T beg your pardon.’
“She spoke real low, and I noticed she looked kind of surprised.” —-Youth’s Com- panion, é
Sticks In Mercantile Life.
Many young men choose a mercantile position for the present only without thought or intention of making it a per- manent business. The result is that of- tentimes we find these men at 30 years receiving no more pay than they did when only 18.
There is an army of this class of young men behind counters today. They are an aimless, pitiable class. They stand listlessly in their departments and are as unobservant of what's going on around them as are the inanimate figures which one sees at the entrance of clothing estab- lishments.
Many of them let slip grand opportu- nitiesof becoming great business factors in the commercial world and have doomed themselves to the treadmill of common drudgery. Singleness of pur- pose implies self reliance, withont which a young business man is not thoroughly furnished for a successful business career. —Dry Goods Economist.
Pleasure In the Heavens.
There is a satisfaction in learning the names and positions of the stars thet does not belong to the study of the planets. The stars apparently never change so far as their position relative to each other is concerned. The planets are always moving, and to those who de not waich the heavens with particnler attention itisacause of surprise very often to find a ‘new star” adorning a certain section of the heavens. If. how- ever, this newcomer be curefully ob- served from night to night. it will be found to change its distance from the fixed stars, and the observer will discover
pect on each succeeding season.—New York Times.
_ its jmproper methods of preparation
He surely is in want of another’s pa- , tience whe has none of his own.—Laveter. and $1, at all drug stoves.
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Vast Property In Receivers’ Hands.
More than $1,200,000,000 of railway property in this country is estimated to be in the hands of receivers. It is an imposing total well calculated to give some notion of the vastness of the trans- portation interests. Five great systems uader receivers—the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, Philadelphia and Reading, Erie and Richmond Terminal —represent close to 25,000 miles of road, with an aggregate capitalization of $416,724,711, assets of $1,174,312,- 871 and funded debts of $517,028,556. On stock exchange valuation the stocks of these roads are worth about 12 per cent on the dollar, or say a total of about $50,000,000.—Railway Times.
When to Wind Your Watch.
Daring the night your watch is quiet, as it were—that is, it hangs in your vest without motion or touch. If you don’t wind it at night, the mainspring is then relaxed. instead of being in that condition during the day. By winding itin the morning the mainspring re- mains close and tight all day. It keeps the movement steady at a time when you are handling it, ranning about the city attending to vour daily affairs. A relaxed mainspring at this time accounts fer fine watches varying slightly.—In- dustrial World.
A Deserter.
Melancholy Milton—Say, I struck er snag last week over in dat corner house, Wandering Willie—How was dat?
Melancholy Milton—Why, you see, I went up an tried ter work de ole wo- man for a meal an——
Wandering Willie (interruptingy— Yer tried ter work, did yer. An you called yerself a gent. (Weeps.)—Prince- ton Tiger.
A merchant at Nagoya, China, has earned the title of **King Henry VILI”’ among his countrymen by recently mar- rying his twenty-seventh wife. He had resolved when he was young to marry 380 women and is delighted that he hag now only three more to marry to keep his vow.
The autograph letters and historical documents of the late Dr. J. S. Fogg of Boston have been willed to the Maine Historical society. His will also calls for the establishment of a free public library in the town of Eliot, Me.
In the days of William the Conqueror it was more dangerous to kill a rabbit than aman. A murderer could escape
Was put to death.
In Canada positions in the civil serv- ice are obtainable after examination and are held during good behavior, which, as a rule, means life.
The monster water wheel at the Cal- amet and Hecla copper mine, Lake Su- perior region, weighs 200 tons.
let them obey that know not how to rule—Shakespeare.
Yon grey lines, that fret the clouds, are messengers of day — Shakespeare.
If a man is endued with a genercus mind, this is the best kiad of nobility — Plato.
The passions, like heavy bodies down steep hills, once in motior, move them- selves, and know no ground but the bot- tom.—F uller.
Mecical Testimony
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A LITTLE BOOK. c A -'‘!e book, with here and there a leaf at tome tonder passage! how it
Sur ned seeras le speek to me, to fill my soul with dreams Sveet as first love, and beautiful as brie?! lLiere was her glory, on this page her grief, For tears have stained it: here the eunlighkt streams, And there the stars withheld from her theit beams And sorrow seught her white soul like a thief.
And here her name, and as 1 breathe the svilaubles, a presence in the room
Sieds a rare radiance, but I may not look. yellowed leaves are fluttering at my feet,
Soft
ihe l ght is gene, and IJ, lost in the gloom, Veecp Lko a woman o'er this little book! ~Frank L.
Stantou in Atlanta Constitution,
The Cost of Carelessness.
Familiarity with danger seems to
trecd, if not a contempt for it, an utter carelessness. We have seen the -*Mo- hawk Dutchinan,”’ the celebrated ex- tt with a band scroll saw, rub the liiof his thumb in dirty grease and rem cat the grease off with the rap- <Gly ranning saw as clean as could he one With soap and water,
We have scen a man put his finger nder a powerful triphammer in mo
mm just to show how he could manage
simachine. Many other foolish things
1¢ just to “show off.’’ But most f the accidents happen throngh a care- ssuess resulting from familiarity. So ng as an operator is afraid of his ma- vhine he is not apt to get hurt. Many uuman minds are so constituted that they cannot bear a sustained effort in one direction—that is, cannot be al- vays equally on the alert in regard to a certain contingency,
A train dispatcher or switch tender may holda place for years without ever naking a mistake and at last make a terrible one, from some cause he could ot explain. The only way to lessea *he number of casualties—they cannot avoided entirely—is to take all pre-
iitions. This is required of the own- rs if they wish to escape costly damage nits, but when all possible precautions aye been taken one can then only trust uo luck.—Chattunooga Tradesman,
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An Elastic Appetite.
‘yhe American black bear has an ap- refite that may be appropriately term- «@ elastic. He will kill a thousand
wmid steer or capture the tiny field cuerse fora meal with equal indiffer- if w pig or a sheep is not handy reach, he will dine on a colony of quite or a nest of wood grubs. a
Hewstll feast on dainty birds’ eggs or svteet stores of wild honey and on the -oulest.carrion with like gusto. He will
ish for ‘ike savory trout, but at the aine time snap any warty toad or slimy izard that may happen along that way. He will seek the Iuscious wild plum when it has ripened or the wild grape among the branches where the vine clambers and bears its fruit, but will not miss the opportunity to make food of any snake that nay jie in.ambush there for birds that come toe peck at the plums or grapes. The bear has a comprehen- There is scarcely a thing in the animal or vegetable kingdom that will not tickle it.—New York Her- ais.
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. DECOYING FISH. =}
SKILLFUL INDIANS OF THE NORTH HAVE QUEER METHODS.
They Cut a Hole In the Ice, Balld a Hat Over the Hole and Let Down a Decoy Through the Ice— Fooling Innocent Crea- tures of the Deep Lakes.
“You have heard of shooting game by means of decoy birds often enough no doubt,” said an old sportman the other day, “‘but I doubt if you ever heard of fishing by means of a decoy fish, where the decoy was not used for bait. I never saw it done myself till I visited Geor- gian bay, a part of Lake Huron, in Can- ada, one winter. There I found that the half breed Indians erected huts on the frozen bay and fished through holes eut in the ice by means of a queer decoy.
“In order to facilitate matters, some of them had little stoves in their huts to keep them warm while they fished. The huts had only one opening, a door, and when the fisherman had entered and closed the door no light entered the hut except what came up through the floor, reflected through the ice outside and the water underneath it. This made it pos- sible for the fisherman to see deep down into the water and difficult for fish te see him in his dark hut. The fisherman hasa chair or bench to sit upon, food and drink to keep life in him during his long watch and a little stove to prevent chill. Now comes the decoy business. “The half breed takes out of his kit a queer looking stick, painted and shaped roughly to look like a fish, he avers, though it would hardly be breaking the second commandment to worship it, for it is the likeness of nothing in the heav- ens above, or on the earth beneath, on in the water under the earth; but if the fish think it is the main object is accom- plished. This wooden counterfeit of a fish is loaded with lead, so that it sinks and lies in the water the right way when suspeuded from the middle of the back by a string attached to a short fishing pole. The Indian lets this decoy down into the water and by means of the string gives it a series of short, sharp jerks, which make it a dart hither and thither in a remarkably lifelike manner, al- though, of course, its range is exceeding- iy limited, about a yard in any direction.
“The thing is provided with tin fins and tail and is weighted with lead most heavily at the head. The string is at- tached nearer the head than the tail, upon the back, and the skill with which these fishermen make the queer thing shoot about in a triangle under their feet, through a hole in the ice, is truly remarkable. I did not succeed in ae- quiring the art myself. I shonld say from trying it that it is rather more dif- ficult to learn than fly casting.
“Presently a few fish, noticing this decoy darting about as if in active pur- suit of his food, swim that way to see if there is not something there for them also. They may be fresh water herring, salmon, trout, whitefish or less valuable game; but none of them, big or little, is refused by the half breed. Fine fish he sells; the coarse ones he or his dogs or his children or his squaw eat readily.
“Pulling up his decoy, the fisherman Jets down a baited hook and tries his luck on the newcomers, seldom in vain. These men fish with all sorts of queer bait. I saw one man make a splendid haul one day, using for bait only a big white bone button without any hook. The fish swallowed it greedily, and he would jerk them out of the water before they could get it out of their throats, By and by a pike or dogfish, seeing the shoal of fish around the pole, darts after them. They scatter in a hurry, and the fisherman lets down his decoy again to attract the pike.
“Now all the skill at his command must be employed # make the decoy work well, for if it in the water long enouga for the 6 to suspect its genuineness he will turn away in dis- gust. If the decoy deceives the wily pike he dashes at it, and the fisherman jerks it away before the pike can grab it in his strong jaws. The pike turns to pursue, and as he haits to turn the fisheg- man drives at him with along forked spear. If his aim is gccurate, the pike is transfixed and is brought bleeding to the surface in a jiffy.
“These men are skilled hunters and know many curious habits of the crea- tures they pursue. They say that musk- rats, for instance, are able to swim long distances under the ice in this manner: Taking a long breath, the muskrat dives from his pursuer and swims as far as he cam. When he can go no longer without a fresh breath, he comes up under the ice, and pressing his nose against it breathes out all the air in his lungs. This forms a big bubble under the ice, and the Indiarrs say that the ice has the power of making that bubble of air fresh again, oxygenizes it in fact, and that the little fellow then breathes it in again and dives once more. This ne can do half a dozen times, the Indians say, before the air he took with him becomes so foal that the ice cannot freshen it again.
“Whether this property of the ice is true or not I casmot say, but the Jndiang firmly believe it, and J know that musk- rats can travel a long way under the ice, and I have seen them come up under the ice, press their noses to it awhile and then dive again. Perhaps some scientist might explain the case."—New York Tribune.
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