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TUB dxttmdacli H*ros. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -AT- ^ it. REGI» FALLS, FRAlf IUN COUNTY, N. Y. • ZBMB-tl.OO FES TEAR, STRICTLY IN ADVANC1. imanlcstleai to laoald be a4> LU tetters and coaimiAio Sresfei L ROW ELL, Editor and Publisher, «t. Jtnr/s fait: N. r. A ~>? VftON^ A ~v VOL. I. J Devoted to Local News •mm and Horn© Interests. ST. REGIS FALLS,'X, Y>, SATURDAY, MAY 21, TJBLEj < •• = ALL KntDftjOF JOB PRINTING SUCH Cards, Letter-Meads, \ Note-Heads, BwA Statements, Mnvelopes, HandbtU*, Pesters, me., ITIATLT A1TD FBOMrTLT CXBCOTID AT THE LOWEST LIVIH0 PEICM TOR CAM. 4- < Ir^Now York City there are five colored [1-iwyors who enjoy a lucrative 1 practice. I'11 icy seldom appear in court to argue a isc, their business being chiefly in real [••state, titles, proparing briefs, advising clients, etc. Ninoty per cent, of their Mients are white people. The three signs of a counterfeit coin >ro not often heeded by a catclcss public. X bad piece of silver has a hollow riug >r a light weight or an imperfect rim. If these characteristics wcro fully leurned ounterfcitcrs would soon y bc discouraged in trying to pass imperfect money. Those who suffer from' obesity almost invariably complain of shortness of >reath. Such people, the Boston Jlerald says, shdUlo! maV§ HTa practice each day M walking on rising ground or climbing entle hills by easy stages. The exer- cise should be graduated and rests taken when thje heart begins to beat rapidly. Ostrich farming is prospering in Cali- fornia. The feathers arc equal to the best grown, in Africa. Tho ostrich weighs from 300 to 500 pounds. Every seven months, after it is four years old, its plumagej is ready for the market, yield- ing twenty-five fine feather?, and a num- ber of less valuable ones. They arc cut off with shears. The longest and finest whito feathers sell at four dollars each. It requires a good deal of capital to run an ostrich farm. An ostrich in a hurry tan make forty miles an hour. A* Maino paper brings out the fact that since capital punishment has been abol- ished, t,h(W are thirteen other crimes, the punishment for which,. under the laws of Maine, may be the same at wilful murder, tin : Murder in the second de- gree, arson of dwelling in the night time, ^arson of dwelling in the day time, if a person is therein; trcafton, obstructing railroad, if lifo is .destroyed; robbery with arms or with a confederate, abduc- tion, rape, arson endangering dwellingy- burglary, forgery, and altering public securities. For tho seven last named crimes tho court may sentenco the con- vict for lifo or for a term of years. A MODERN RALLYINO CRY. Wake the world to new conditions, Frecyfrom moss-grown superstitions, Free from old, decayed traditions. Bound the reveille!. Hail the morn foretold in story! Souls awake to deeds of glory! Leave old fancies, dim and hoary. Sound the reveille 1 These tho (Jays for noble- doing, High ideals und thoughts pursuing, Noblest inspirations wooing. . . Bound the reveille! <• V «ke, to meet the calls of duty; V ake to progress and tys boauty; Harvests wait you, full and fruity. Sound the reveille! This the age when thought 14 growing, ' Fires of noble purpose glowing, Streams of knowledge strongly flowing. % Sound tho revoillel Dally not with fools and factions, Soft allurements, vain distractions; i March close linked in thoughts to actions. Souiid the rovoille! Shun poor baubles, gty or varnished, I*t your heads and hearts ,be garnished Rich with honor, pure, untarnished. Sound the roveillel I Ours the world's pathflnding nation Ours al 1 people's inspi ration; j Stong in faith and consecration.\ , > Sound the rcviellel \ Scqrn mere words and idlo tattle, Poniagoguos with empty rattle; Deeds, not words, win ovory battle. Sound! the roveillel On! Ful All tho dreams of ages, .Genius wroto on wisdom's pages, Prophecies of bards and sages. Sound the reveille! ' Liberty has crowded our nation; Ours the van, the honored station; Sound aloud God's proclamation. Sound the rovoille! Wrong breaks ranks, and right is tacling; God commands^and progress pleading; Sleep riot—on, unstirred, unheeding. I Sound tie reveille! Up! Awake! Tho hours are fleeting! Friends advancing, foes retreating. Forward, march! Tho drums are beating Sound the reveille! —/ Edgar Jones, in Chicago Times. ^~- The sixteen members of tho English Cabinet reccivo salaries amouuting to $430,000 per annum, $200,000 of which goes to tho eight peers, and $170,000 to tho eight commoners. The thirty-one members of tho outer ministry draw sal- aries aggregating $818,029* tho five pceri j getting $30,000,^110 of the House of Commons $244,025, and the seven non-members $74,000. The eighteen household salaries amount to ,^$06,240, fourteen peers receiving $80,- 000, thrco commoners $13,000, and the peeress taking $2,500 of that^sum. The* salary of the sixty-five ofiicers taken to- gether is $844,805, $370,080 of which is paid to peers, $398,285 to thirty/mem- bers of tho House of-Commons, aria $70,- 500 to the eight appointees unprovided with scats in either House. In the center of tho tobacco ware- houses at tho London docks thcao, is an immense kiln, which is kept continually burning, day and night, uud goes by the name of tho Queen's tobacco pipe. The English Government has a different way of treating confiscated articles in use in this country, one of th to utilizo them as fuel for what tho Queen's smoking. Whenever mer- chandise is seized for non-payment of duty, or because it is considered under the law as in a damaged or unsalablo con- dition, it is taken to this great kiln and burned there, tho owners having no remedy. Tho only utiliwition that is mado of these- seizures is from the sale of tho ashes from the furnace, which, to tho amount of a great many tons a month, aro sold by auction to chemical works, and to farmers and others to be used in enriching tho soil. Thero is a similar but smaller Queen's tob icco pipe In tho Governmout tobacco warehouses at Liverpool, thoso two forming tho points of destruction for all confiscated merchan- dise in tho United Kingdom. Markletiam's Mistake During the recent exercises in memory of General Grant in Hartford, tho follow- ing curious statistics, in regard to tho manufacture of tho \Personal Memoirs'of Genoral Grant,\ were read: In binding tho cloth books there were 44,350 square yUrds of cloth used, or if put in one piece U would make a strip ono yard wido and twenty-fivo antl onc-fiftjimtlcs long. The gfeld usod in stamping, lettering, etc., on all styles of binding, if cqincd, would mako $15,440.47. tho prlco paid tho gold beaters for this gold was $21,030.50. There wcro 270 barrels ofg binder paste used, weighing about 00,000 pounds. Thero woro 27,882 sheepskins used, 7,221 goatskins ami 188 calfskins. As none of these sk^ns wero split, it represents, of course, the killing of an. equal number of animals. There about U0$,210 reams of paper used in tho printing, which weighed about 1,813,880 pounds or OOUfr tons. This put into ono ideco would make a strip ^two feet wido and 1,082| miles long. If tho books wcro piled up in one row tho narrowest way, that is, the snmo as they would stand in a book caw, it would take a shelf 10& miles long to hold them. If tho pages of tho books wcro joined togothcr it would make a strip of paper six inchos wido and 0,7214 miles long. ( Forty-ono steam prow* were working day and night ;j>vcr 1,000 opera- tives we're employed; and over 0,000 agents engaged in distributing the book. To these latter—who wero mainly old soldiers and the widows of soldiers, was paid in commissions for the selling of the book considerably more than $ I, W0,000 in cash. (' For ten years Hugh Marklcham had been a wanderer upou the face of thej earth. Financially speaking he had been successful, but for all that period ofl time he had Oeen literally poinclcss.* Now he was proceeding to a home of his own., * I \The first road to the left beyond the nineteen members ' bridge,\ miucd Mr. Marklcham to hiin- ! selfj \and the first house you come to is the one. The directions arc plain enough, I am sure.\ And he rcpocketeill his memorandum book, wherein Mr. Moses Gibbs, the house agent, had jotted down sundry item* regarding his new purchase, ant once more resiimcd his plodding, way. Hugh Marklcham had clear ha'zel eyes, a profusion of dark hair and a set, of dazt zling white teeth, while his figure wai straight and stalwart as that of ft back] woodsman. I He paused half hesitatingly in front of a low wicket gate, hanging by onelhinge from which a shrub-grown path' Wound up through untrirnmed wootis to a one- story dwelling. , j '•Nonsense!\ he muttered to himself; \it can't be that shod of a place. % desirable cottago' was what Gibbs saidL 'situated in tho mid.it of charming grounds.' And, by Jupiter, this is the very spot I\ i He swung open the gildeel iron gate ojf a pretty little inclosure, whore tho gravl- eled paths shone whltely in tho twilight, and evergreens skirted tho' path like tall old monks wrapped in green scrgxj cloaks. Here and there a rustic scat qf twisted cedar boughs stood beneath tluo leafless branches of elms or maples, and tho c/ottngo beyond—a low-caved, pic- turosquu affair, with verandas on every side—exactly met our hero's prceor- cclved ideas of the \desirablo country residence\ painted in sucty glowing tern s by \Moses (Jibbs, Esq., ijcal cstato and insurance ugent.\. j '•Yes, yes,\ soliloquized Mr. Marklc- ham, as ho strodo up the p*th, \I shall be as comfortable as possible here.. I al- ways did'faney sylvan solitudes, Wl— But what's this/ A firo burningias.I live! Well, this is thoughtful of Gibbs \ His countenance expanded into broad smiles as he pushed open tho doot and entered a pretty room on tho left o' tho inain entrance 1mlI, carpeted in green Brussels and curtained to correspond, while a glowing tire of anthracito coal cast ruddv reflections through the whale room, and a cushioned arm-chair stoid close to the velvet rug. ' \Gibbs told mo there was some furni- ture in tlfc house, and an old woman left i ban that ?m being tcrmod expanding eery\ blu/c; Buch snug , thero ( is in charge,\ thought Marklcham, sitting (Town iu the easy chair, an/ his chilled lingers to the (1 \but I hadn't any idea of quarters us this. Well, w< something in'n home of one's own, after all. Tinled walls- plants on a stand with a tea rose iu bloom.\ And ho paused an Infant to snuff up the subtle fragrance oxlwled'by the one royal blosnom, aiit nodded on its slonfler stem. \And I < e- clarc, newspapers and books on the tab e! Gibbs is a jewel among men I Ho told mo I should likethc place, and I beliovo life's determined to make mo fall in lovo with it at flrHtsight.'* | Mr. Marklcham leaned liixuriouuly baek among the cushions, and, strangely enough, his thoughts went back to ten ycurs ago, to the days when he wan a preux chevalier arnong tho pretty girii in Carristown. \IVhaw!\ ho ejaculated aloud. \What a true saying it is that there is no fpol like an old fool! I do believe there's something suggestive of matrimony in this comfortable little room, with Jho rose, and tho pink walls, and the fire- light ! Why, I*m over forty, if I'm a day!\} , | As Mr, Markleliam sat tbere, basking in'the warmth and coziness of tho sce(ne, the door of an adjoining room opened and two ladies came in, their dimpled faces glowing with the frosty [wind, and their eyes sparkling liko four stars that ihat had somehow wandered from thejr sidereal sphores, und taken refuge be- neath nut-brown hishes. * j j ; \Why Lizzie! <lied the shorter 6ne, Stoppiug suddenly in the very act of, lay iug her fur hordcrjd hood ou the tjible, \there is sotneboui iuthe parlor!\ \Nonsense!\ slid Lizzie, who though she was eight or nine and twenty was exceedingly rosy and fair to looli upon, with a ripe red berry of a mouth and a little saucy nose slightly turned uj dt the extreme point. \The cat andthf crickets may be there, bu; who on eartl bosh le ? Sue, you're a go >se 1\ \But I tell you I saw him,\ said Sue, gripping her cousin's arm with a sort of nervous terror, j \A great big tall man ic your easy chair, sitting staring at the urc.\ f , \Fiddlesticks 1\ cried Lizzie. \There let go of my ar,m. I'll go and see foi myself. It's somo mistake, I dare say.' And she marched' courageously into tho room where sut our hero. Lizzie W^man had expected ,to behold nothing more than, a shadow, or at best a stray dog, who had crept in out of the wintry cold of tho twilipht air. Seeing a Veritable specimen of the genus homo, si c pautfed a littlo abruptly, and stared ati the now corner. Mr. Markieham stared equally hard at her. Mos|es Gibbs, Esq., real estate and insurance Jigcnt, had men- tioned an old woman. 1 lis ideas of old age must have been sinj ular in tho ex- ti )mo. \I suppose you're Marj Ann,\ said he, affably. ' 'No, sir,\ said Miss Wy man, ptill sorely puzzled. \I'm Lizzie.\ \Oh Lizzie, eh? Wei, it's just the same I dare say you didn't exmet mo just yet?\ N ; \No sir, I certainly lid not,\ said Lizzie, beginning to wonder whether or not she was dreaming. ; j \It's-all right, no doubt,\ said Mr. Markieham. \Things look very nice and cimfortablcherc, Lizzie my girl, and now the best thing that you can do will be to t<)ss me a littlo bit of supper, and be quick abont it, for I'm half famished. And, Lizzie, you might send the othei gjirl out for any littlo trifle *you want in the culinary department. Of course, though,\ ho added, as he drew out a bill and extended it, grand soignour fashion, toward tho astonished dnmsel« \I shan't ecnoet to keen two gills as a regular t linjjf, although I must h mt up a man to tfrkc care of the horses. Now run along and makp haste.\ I Lizzie Wyman, retreated back upon Sue Baring, with the money in her hand, scarlet with suppressed rmrth. ^'Sue,\ she cried, tho instant the door was safely closed, \I sec t all I\ \The man is an escaped lunatic, isn he? Dear, dear, we shall al bo murdered cried Sue, growing hysterical. , \Nothing of the sort \ said Lizzio, energetically. \Ho has only made a dreadful blunder. Can't you see, Sue, it's the old bachelor 'who has taken the rtlace next door?\ i \Oh-h-h!\ aspirated Sue, with the fijparklo of amusemont beginning to come imto |ier eyes. \But lfizzie, what aro you going to do?\ , t , 1 \To cook him the nicest supper I can, Hnd afterward explain ;o him his mis- take, in the politest ^manner possible. Poor fellow, lie is rather handsome, I think.\ \What fun!\ cried Sue gleefully, lapping her hands together. \And . iizzie, I'll make the coffee after Monsfcur ! )uval's French fashion; and I'll prepare iin omelette while you urc broiling tho i teak; and those dear lititle vol-au-vents vo made this morning—they'll como in ust right, won't they?\ % .wj And tho two girls bustled about; while 'Mr. Markieham sa£ viewing tho fire, and vondering what Gibbs could possibly iave meant by talking about \an old vomanl\ '^Vhy she has got checks like peaches, i md hair as thick and brown and glossy •as my own 1\ he told hinjsclf. \Old in- deed 1 It won't bo such ibad fun to have a servant girl like that flitting about the house. Sne ought to have extra wages on account of her good looks.\ Ten minutes; aftcrwarji he found hlm- uclf seated before a table, whereupon was upload n rich repast. .\This is very nice indeed, Lizzie 1\ (aid Mr. Marklcham patronizingly. \I iiih glad to ice that you aro such a good oook.\ . • . I And he straight way proceeded to do he best of practical justice to her efforts; or tho long walk had jjriven additional '.est to an nppotito whicli was not poor at uny time. Lizzfo W^man, from her •ornor, composedly watched him tho while. • i I ' 'A very nice suppci', Lizzie!\ mid Mr. Marklcham, refolding his napkin, and placing it on the table oro ho drew cut a •igar from his pocket-case. \I'm glad you liko it, sir,\ said Liz- ?|r, smiling, \and I hope that when you Dccomc my neighbor al Laurel Cottage, you will often drop in to such anothor.\ \Eh?\ cried Mr. Matklehom, starting Imck.. \Ain't this Laurel Cottage? Am [ not in my own house?\ , \No sir,\ Miss Wyman answered, de- murely. \You aro in my house 1 , and I am Klizabcth Wyman, your future neigh- bor, very happy to mako your acquaint- ancej even after this rather unusual fashion.\ ' \I—I beg your pardon, Miss Wyman,\ f fasped our hero, turning scarlet and palo n a breath. \I don't sec how I ever came to mako sijich a ridiculous mistake! What an egregious donkey you must have taken me for!\ And a cold perspiration broke out round tho roots of his hair as he recalled the off-hand manner in whioh he had ad- dressed his supposed domestic. , 'Til go,\ he uttered, making a dive townra his hat, and dropping tho un- smokejd cigar on tho fl< or, with a coun- tenance of such misery t^int Lizzio Wy- man's womanly pity camjc to the rescue. vYmi will do no such a thing, Mr. Markieham,\ she said. \My brother will bo here presently, and you shall stay and spend the evening with us, and learn to laugh at your own mistake\. Ho Mr. Marklcham stayed lintil Tom Wyman came home from tho city on tho evening train; and as ho afterward said, when Lizzio Wyman became Mrs. Marklc- ham, ' iio never spent a pleasanter evening in his lifo!\— Kew YorkNcm, Clouds and Rain. . A communication to tho London Me- teorological Society, by Captain Toynbee, states ns his conclusion, that clouds of not les* than two thousand feci in thick- ness arc seldom accompanied by rain, or, ii they are, it is very gentle, consisting of minute drops; with a thickness of be- tween (wo thousand r rid four thousand feet, tho size, of tho drops is moderate;, with increasing thickness of the clouds^ comes an increasing size of the drops, and at the same time the dogrco of tempera- ture becomes lowered. ; When the thick- ness amounts to more than six thousand feet, hail is produced. \THE. TOMBS.\ J- A DAILY THRONG OF VISITOR TO NEW \OKK'8 PRISON. ' Fraudulent Callers Refused Adm«s •ion—Feeding the Inmates—A Varying Census—The Daily; Mull-The \Illack Maria. 4 ' A New York letter to the St. L<Uis Globe-Democrat snys: There» is a liitle hallway in this city about thirty feet long by ten wide which will furnish more food for thought and the study of human nature \every day In the week than al- most any place of its size in America. It is situated on the ground floor of the Tombs prison, and runs from the big iron gateway on Franklin street, past an iron railing, which \shuts off Warden Walsh's office, to the Keeper's desk, limn which rests tho visitors' register.. 1 he celling is low and arched, and the Walls are whitewashed.. At the entrance of the gate stands! an old grav-haircd keeper in 'a naval oflicci's cap and blue uniform. He carries a big brass key with which he locks and un- locks the iron gate hundreds of times in a day. His duty is to admit; prisoners and visitors, to size up imprsfitors, take • fei TOM in let out on their way to trim? well's Island. There are few* men or women in the criminal classes of New York whose fa<es are not well known to the old gatekeeper. And he is acquainted with all their friends, too. The hand- some young keeper who puts down the names and addresses, of all visitors in his big book and who examines their passes, is also well up in th£ physiognomy of city crooks. From 10 A. M. until 2 p. M. every day, except Sundays, he stands at his little desk and scrutinizes tho fapds of those who bring little paste board opei- sesumes from the Board of Charities an 1 Correction, at Thin! avenucand Khivcnth street. Then 1ic quizzes thciu in> this fashion: , I \WhodijcrwantterW?\ \WluUsycr- name;'' \Whcredyerlivc?\ If these questions are answered ,to his satisfaction he opens a little iron gate and says: \Stepinside.\ * I The men he searches for concealed weapons and liquor. Any one carrying intoxicating liquor' into the tombs is liable to a line of $250 and imprisonment of one year, but the law is. practically a dead \let tor, us it is never enforce L The keeper rarely takes more than twjo *c> onds to search a vistior. . He passes his hands rapidly around the man'swaist and over his pockets in the most oft-hand and careless way imaginable, but if there are any contraband goods on the sqarcheo fhey don't get through, ^ometiirjes the Aceper makes n Visitor remove his hat, and the other day he pulled a bottle of Santa Cruz rum fiom under the shining tile of a well-known gambler who Wanted to see an incarcerated pal. ., I * \But the greatest smugglers 4 r0 tne woman,\ said the keeper. \They're all fho time trying to get liquor into the prison. Y'ou sec it is easier for them to accrete everything of the kind, but the matron in that room to the righti gener- ally manages to collar the stuff before it gets through. The women visiters out- number the men two to one. T|hcy tell mc they want to see their brothers and cousins, bttt it's more often their lovers they want to call on.\ . An old woman cam^ out frpm tho prison as the keeper spoke. Her hair was white and her face scarred with 'w.riukle*. 8he held a handkerchief to her eyes and sobbed convulsively its she I A flourishing mill in Oregon pays an adjacent saw mill $50 a day for its saw- dust, which it uses for fuel in its big furnaces/ Their fuel costs them $101/ a dny before they found that they cofild lAirn what most Western saw mills throw a!- *\\av, THE PRISONERS FRIENDi walked slowly by. She went ofer to the railing by tho wardeu's office arid leaned on it, crying as if her heart was breaking. A keeper touched her gently; on the snoutaer, ana after a minute she dried her eyes and went out into thje street. She had just bid good-by to her darling boy, who had been sentenced I to Sing Bing for ten years.for burglary. He was her only son, and, according to the keeper, a hard character, but it tore the mother's heart-strings to part with him. A smooth-faced man with , picrcin; black eyes and a brown wig under at the back of his neck, hfmsclf at the little desk and mild tone if he could sec John M. Knowl- edge, who was in for swindling, • \No sir!\ t-ries the smooth-faced man. \I am his lawyer.\ \You'll have to get a pass, keeper, gruffly. \Hut my clear sir, is it not tmtomnry for a prisoner to' be allowed o see his counsel at all timer' \Yes answered tlje krerer; \but Vou'll have t^ get a puss p st tie same.\ •* The mild iuaii|ici<d man expres^d »s- tonishmcul and^Hllidiew. 1 \lie's no lawyer,\ remarked the keeper. icrcing tliat curled i, presented asked in a said the \He's one of the same gang that Knowl- edge belongs to. I'll have him in here before long, I guess, and he'll come on a Judge's pass that hasn't any return cou- pon.\ [ A middle-aged woman in black with a veil over her face came down the passage hesitatingly and presented a pass. \Lift your veil, madam,\ said the Iceepcr, \it's one of the rules, you know. You 'must keep it raised all the time you're here.\ . The woman slowly lifted her veil and showed a handsome, but catcworn face which showed signs of rcccut tears. She took her ticket and passed in.; The male visitors arc given green ticket* when thej enter, and the women get red ones. Thcjfc; always receive the injunction not to lose their tickets as they will need them to get out. , From seventy-five to two hundred noo- Dlc tr#e registered us visitors every day. Long beflpro 10 o'clock they gather in the corridor waiting to «;et in. They arc of every nation and condition, as is shown by their appearance. Many Italian women iu gaudy, jbut cheap, dresses, and wearing no head coveving, are always there, triicre arc few Italians in the Tombs who do not receive from oncto half a dozen- visitors a d«y« Flashy-lookTnV men with big watcli-cllains; timid, shvmung girls reading' matter. Taken altogether, the | Tomb* is not half so bad a place as it* gloomy exterior would indicate. In the upper stories, it is almost cheerful—to 'visitors. The prisoners would rather view the place from the outside, despito its forbidding appearance \Art Opening for Young Men\—(In Florida.) . MOTI1EJI AND SON. who iry to avoid contact with the crowd; brazen women who talk loudly and try to get up flirtations with any. man whose notice they attract; rough-looking, broad shouldered men, with bloated faces and the indescribable something which stamps them as Bowery toughs; gray-haired old gentlemen and ladies coining to sec an erring son or daughter, are all there every day. These are the principal types, but there arc others who arc not so often seen. Sometimes a grand old lady will drive up in her carriage, and going hur- riedly through the little entry, will pass in a dainty basket full of delicacies for pome prisoner inside. Curiosity-seekers come by the score. It is quijc the thing to make up a party to \do the Tomb's\ on the same plan as the \slumming par- ties\ which were so much in vogue A year or^so ago. Warden Walsh frowns on thede attempts to make a dime museum of the old Egyptian bastile and discour- ages them all heJcan. r The prison inside is as neat as a pin and is kept so by some twenty or thirty \self-committed\ prisonors or vagrants, who do the work for their foaA and lodg- ing. The cells in the main ^ prison arc arranged on each side of long hallways in four tiers. The lower tier to for the worst criminals, and it is here that \Mur- derer's Row\ is situated. The convicted men arc all on the fir^t tier. As the cells get higher up the\$lcgrccB of crime of tho inmates become less and less. There arc generally from 250 to 5J00 men and women iu the main prison at a time. The \Ten Day House,\ which was erected in 1885, will accommodate about 20Q more. On a slato hanging up in the first corridor is marked the census. It seldom remains tho ramo for an hour at a time during the day. The prisoners aro fed oh something better than tho regular prison fare of the Penitentiaries. They were eating a good dinner of vegetable soup, nicu whiti bread and coffee the other day whci journalistic visitor called, and seemed to enjoy it thorough soup and the collcc were shjmid about •the chrridors in hugfe >ifon buckets mounted on wheels. \The feeding was clone by the self-commit ted men, super- intended by a kecneiC Each prisoner got a big tin cirpiHl of soup, another of muddy coffer and a huge \hunk\ of bread. They swore at the food, but de- voured it eagerly just the sajne. Thero were three or four men in some of the (fella, and they quarreled a good deal when the keeper's back was turned. \It isn't otten that any serious fights 'Occur,\ said an intelligent-looking ton- viet from behind kis barred door, \but sometimes a bully will get. into a-ccll with some weaker men, and make their lives miserable without really hurting tbcm much. If he has money and tips the keeper to get him 'extras' no amount SERVINO TIIE sorr. of complaining will cvfr cause him to be hauled up for it. A uian with cash in this place has a big pjill, and can live like a lighting-cock unt(l he is sentenced. Ti en tlie jig's up and jie must get along on prfron grub until his timers served.\ '1 lie Tombs has five \Black Marias\ to take prisoners to the foot of East Fifty- sfcnnd street, where thev are transferred to th/< loot for Black well's Island. The Marias make two trips every clay and are always well loaded.. The Sheriff has another Maria running tyetween the courts and the prison. _ • Inmates of the Tombs arc allowed to receive their mail upopened, but the postman's bag is nevepnueh heavier^ be- fore l.e reaches the prison than after he leaves it. The correspondence of War- t!e;» Walsh's boarders (s never very vol- uminous; vThey gettjif daily newhpapcrs when some friend is Hind enough to scud i!i. iu in uud uro all^wftd si I kinds of TEMPERANCE. —Life. I omo Decorations. ood old days of our grand- fathers it was considered necessary bp have in the hall a comfortable scat for visitors to rest in whi'c waiting. Very often it was the old* oaken chest, the I AN OLD-KASIIIOKED HALL SEAT. Tustic scit, or some other home-made article which was not only ornamental, but added greatly.to the appearance of the hall. Here is a design to take their place. The seat,., is made out of good strong 1^-inch board and is very easy to construct. First get a back i>iccc and saw it 4mt with a fancy end and bottom for leg!. Then take a piece of board about i inches longer tlian the back piece and na 1 it firmly to the back and saw out tho sides and the legs for the front support. The drawer in front can be omitted if desired; but if put in will make a handy place for mittens, scarfs and other articles that arc only wanted for out-door use. Beneath the drawer is a place for brushes and between the two front legs arc two strips. On them qm beset shoes] and rubbers. This kpefra them off the floor and allows the keepiug of the floor clean. The whole^Snould be neatly stained and pnihte>r some dark color. It.has lately become^The fashion to or- nament the chimn<*y piece and mwntel, and it is xeallv^sfirprising what a change can bo mado^in the appearance of a room by a litt^le^bistc and ingenuity in this di- A MODKKN MAXTKLriKCR. ijectioo. The cost of this ovvr mantel* ijs shown in the cut, is very small, and a Carpenter ought to make (t for alwmt $5, flot including the glass in the center. If 'you follow the sketch exactly it is neces- sary to procure narrow, beaded, tongued- and-grooved boards. Home must be set up and down, and the corner one at an angle of about, forty-five degrees. Over these set the framework with a bevelled edge. If tho boarding at the back is .The Temrieraiice Banner. [Tnx following p >em, written by Rev. Dr. Peter Stryker a sec ro of years ago, has been so. changed in man ' places that we reprint it aa originally writfc n:] Unfurl the t wiperance banner And fling j b to the breese, And let the | lad hosanha Rwerp ove * land and sons. To God bo al I the glory For what' re now bohoU, And lot tho ] 'leasing story In every c ir bo told. The drunks] d may not perish In alcohol < domain, But wife at* i children cherisk' Within hi i home again. With sober : oen, repenting, ? He bows 11 Jesus' feet, His iron hen rt relenting Before the mercy-seat , The blaze is brightly burning ~ In this aa i every land. And multitudes are turrtmg To Join our temperance band. The light ot God comes shining To many i soul unbkmt: ) Era long its beams combining ' With stre im from east to west. Soon will a brighter morrow Succeed t ail glorious day, When drttn tennsss and Borrow <, Far dista it fly away- Then lift th B temperance banner And fling it to tho broeze, And let the glad hosannp' ttweep ov er land and seas. ) The Fight \gainst/th© Saloon. The movement against the saloon gathers strength as it pre seeds. Everywhere through- out the Union-— I orth, East, West, and South —the people aw rising in rebellion against the-rule of rum. 1 Lestrietive legislation in vari- ous forms and a •nstitutiOual prohibition are the principal lin ?s along whicli the warfare E -oeeeds. During the present season the Legis- tures of no less than twenty-one States have* been called upoi. to consider the drink tevil and take action toward its suppression. In nearly every on > of these States something has been done t :> check the growth of the saloon and curt ul its power. High license laws, local optic n, and prohibitory amend- ments aro the order of the day. Never be- fore in tho histoi y of the temperance cause has the feeling a gainst the liquor traffic been so deep, so v ide-spread, so earnest, so determined as nc W. That most powerful ot agencies, the pu >lic press, has at last arrayed itself against tht traffic; many of the leading secular journals of the country have adopted a tone of bitter 1 ostility to the grog shop, and are attacking it daily with all the force and ability they nay e at command. No stronger or more effective arguments against the saloon can be fo jnd anywhwe than those put forward in the editorial columns of some of the New York d ailies. The gain for temper- ance in this direction has heen of the most significant and promising character. Publics men, too, men pf affairs, judges, statesmen, political leaders, who have hitherto held themselves alocif from the discussion of tem- perance, aro now taking sides in the conflict, and many of th* ablest and best of them have openly declared against \the business of manufacturing drunkards.\ The lines are being more and more sharply drawn every day between th 5 adherents of the rum-shop and the friends of peace, order and sobriety. The hour is at 1 ana when every man must make a deeisior in this matter. And when it comes fo this issue everywhere we cannot doubt where th e majority will stand. The sentiment of Ihc country is overwhelming against a continuance of saloon domination. There can bo r o mistaking this fact. Tho present movem ant is not dependent upon a wave of populir excitement; it is not born of a passing yen Lhusiasm. It is the outcome of years ot wn »ng and suffering induced 1 by the cursed drinftc traffic; it is a revolt of the [people against \ power whose reign of out- rage, vice, and ci ime has become too terrible to he longer en lured.—*V. Y. Ob»erver. Taltnage on ^Prohibition, The Rev. EH . T. De Wilt Talmage, since his return lrOm a two-weeks' tour in the* West, has given his impression of the work- ings of pro nbi tioi as follows: k 'I give as my deliberate opin on that an honest mai cannot r ?t a drink oi' ntoxicants in Kansas or lows- say an honest man. I saw not one intoxi- cated man in t IOSO St ites, nor met one on whose breath vas the odoi* of ram. No liquor was sold there. The rum-shops are all'closed. In order to c et intoxicating liquor a man must go to a a *ug store and take solejnn oath before Gol tlu t lie is sick and requires it as a medicine, and there are but very few men who are willin g to commit perjury. It the druggist trifle»with the law aud sells to a man without such i assurance, or provo himself an evader of tho kiw, he IOSM his certificate of phxrmacy ana is pat out of th ? drug busi- ness. A clergyuutu told m? that in his city in Kansas ho lad se^n but two intoxicated men in fifteen months, and th^y had rum- lugs they had brought with them from the Host. AM r>ar train of car.* started out of Kaii-ts City, Ma, to cross into Kalis is, thi port-r of tho dining-car oaxn* through undated the passengers if we would lik*> to order somo oxjr. «'What do you mt'R'i :' IsiiiL Unanswered: 'We can't sell any l>c r aLti-r we crowi into Kansas I 1 I tall you prohibtion do,* proiiinit. Ami all the talk you t ear to the contrary is dishonest talk. More<: vei\ prohibition has come there to stay. The young men of tlioio States are proiid to \>e -ailed i'rohrbitionistM. In their common HC1)6 <)U the uhildivn arc taught the evil inilucii'-el of strong drink, an 1 all voung men i:i Kunsapor Iowa aro either Prohibition-^, isto or loafer>4 Ono reason for the j**csent inv niigiation ofj gwsl families to thos\States is that thero nfe fewer temptations for young people. >'at ikerH aud mothers h ivc l>e; bought tbeniielves What a grand thing it would be to rear the^lj families owny from the ever- lasting stmnclf of rum, with which so-many of our cities nr* accurst). Th. puuwrisni, the •TrTini \ the vngraucy of thos.» .Stiuw are less and 1 -.»;. Nopn their criiniual courts will be disbnndod, alhd their jails wdl be empty. Stale by JStfto prohibition will be adopted, and then wekliaJl have Nation il prohibition. Th •» stronger (States will help the weakr r. Kan- sas wilt help hew York. The l.\ongre«iiic*n and SenatoiM ut Washington WHO are a(*rai I of the rum .trjiHic wdl Ihially bo '•outvoted bv Congressmen and Senators who are not afraid. The couatlyjdistri ts will be lieurd from, and thoy alwaysjstaud for so iriety. 1 he mighty domin.on of (alcoholism will to broken. The evil wi.l licet) ne s> great that an indignant nation will ijis' an 1 stamp it out of existence. Do no- be despondent because-the work is te- dious aid pitoira -tod. It is considered a great thing ilVn rja 1 train under full headway can be stopp d st a distance twice its length. Re- memU'i* UialdruiiKcnut»s* with its long tra.n of di^isturs pas'been uirk-r tu;h heu iw.«y lor ceiitu.'ies, oiid n > deeid xl effort has becannde to arrest it nntil within seventy years. If it sto;> within la. century it will slop in IJSS than lnl; t ie Uigth oi* its rushing and uomning devastations. I interviewed all the rei>orters. and H!1 tne clergymen, and all tho doctors, and all the merahatus, and ail the mechanics, and all tl.e farmers wnom 1 met. and the unani- mous testimony is that in Kansas and lows Srohibition|irouib.t<. The only way to get a rink of rum in those Staves to-day is through rerjury.\ * THE HEART OF MAN. A marvolous loom is the hfcman heart As it weaves and weaves through sunny daya^ It takes the flower by the mountain stream. The tint of dawn and the globe of dew, The forest-leaf and the moonlight gleam, And it weaves a web ojf roseate hue: And man looks down at thje fabric's sheen And says, O the world is fair, I ween- To live is joy ^or me. A marvelous loom is the hhjnan heart. As it- weaves and weaves through dreary days; , It takes the branch of a withered tree And the pallid gray qf tba shimmering ' rain, \ The thunder-pall and the; frozen lea, * And weaves a web witfc many a stein: ^v < , \Ah by Jove, Gus, what a splendid neck for a standing collar!\— Golden Aryony. • • *——————A— | The Journal of Education says: \Never allow a child to use a short pencil, lead or slate. It spoils the hand writing.\ *> f And man looks down with And says, O the world is a a cry of despair round oi care- To live is a sorrow for me. A marvelous loom is the htiman heart .As it weaves and weaves, though under Use mould; . | For out of the moisture, *nd, out of the earth, And out of the s-ed-gtrms nestling near r It weaves, in spite of itsjown life-dearth, A web of meaning abcjve its bier: And the lightrwinged somito a*far dawn flies While the heart speaks onlto unsaeing eyes— •• -. To die is yet tp liv^j. A marvelous loom is the numaii heart, For it weaves and weavesi throtuth the world of thought; In joy and sorrow, in lil o, in death, An intricate cipher fo man to know; From his early smile to lis latest breath He holds the key for h is use uzlow, But rarely wise is the one who learns: What the heart has taken, the heart rettorns. Till the cycle < »f God is done. -Kate E. C7ar«r. ~T% 'i PlTHASbPOlXT. Close quarters—the lhuhdry. •• A trim creature—thej milliner. ^Always open to ccxiliction—the pris- oner. Man wants but litte Here below, and ho generally gets it.— Lift. ^/ A crow bar-^-Puttin£ a muzzle on a Shanghai rooster. — Tokdo American. What is the difference between a tramp and a dishonest clerk? \ One lies outdoors all nigbt, and the othet lies in the store all day.— Dannille Brekfr Brown—\Who's umlrella is this? It looks like one I lost.\ Smith—\I don't sec how it can, for I acfaped the handle and alered it generally — Life Tricycle riding is recommended as a remedy for rheumatism. *'It is more ex- citing than carrying a chestnut in your pocket,\ says the Albatoy ArguB. Force of Habit.—Ijtad (in grocery gtore)—\Let mc have & pound of Dutter, please.\ Clerk (who iWed to be in a cigar \Mild or strong V'—Earper'i Ba- V .y ithex have left un- jour friend O'Leary 'emperaneo Xotca. **Alcohol ireduces its subject first to a child then to a brute.\' The W. (1 T. T T . of Emporia, Kan., walked to the City jClerk's oJHoo in a body and wero register**!. , Thei*e were ninety of them. The annukl meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence [Union of America will be held in Philadelphia, commencing August 8, 1847. The Worhan's Temperance Union of Ham- burg. N. Y., have sout a formal letterV>f thanks to Mrs. Cleveland for drinking noth- i ig butcol4 water at the diplomatic dinner. A recent analysis of forty-seven samples of \tonics\' advertised to \invigorate the sys- tem\ and f'ifrec from alcoholic stimulants** reveals the .fact that thev contain from seven to fifty per c*nt. of alcohol, They are fre quently caljled \temperance drinks.\ There ars fifty-three subordinate divisions of the Order o'( Sons of: Temperance in the city of Philadelphia^ one of them owning $40,000 wof th of property,and in two of them the receiptor of the year amounted to $8,000 each. I Th« Voifa says: \To ask the public to de- stroy the saloon, and then to build up the public reveiius on the profits of,the saloon, as a step towf rd its destruction, i* as wildly in* aaneas it nould be to place a man on the very limb you vfer* trying to induce hiui to saw off.\ store)- ear. Things one would said. \By the, way, dined with mo last nifht. What a dull dog he is I\ \Oh that depends on what _ company he is in V'Pv$ch. A soldier once foufcht in Ky., In a manner exo ledingly ply.; \Though I rank a a Col., 11 He wrote in his , ol., ; \If I live through t ais war, I am ly. , — Lift. Young man (in Park Bow coffee and cake saloon)—\Waitcfr I want a beef- steak, unpeclcd j>otatcies, and a couple of eggs fried on one sic^e only.\ Waiter (vociferously)—\Slaughter in the pan,'V (| \a Murphy with his foat on,\ an 1 \two: white wings with the; sunny side up.\— Puck. • « Professor Max Mul er rejoices in more titles of scholarship aid literary societies than any other living man. lie can affix *^ to his name forty-one different titles. If *f* he will come, to Washington and sUnd in * r front of Willard's tot a season or. so, we * will guarantee him tlje additional title of Colonel.— Washington, Hatchet. -4 i The Bishop Equal to^the Occasion./ M?. Laboucherc rnlafes this story of Bishop Wilberforce, which has not yet before, he thinks, bjecn rprinted: The s Bishop was riding in: one of the old-fash- ioned broad gauge railway carriages, and was seated at one ind of it, when he heard a truculeut vo|cc at the other #nd exclaim: .+n would dearly like to meet the Bishop of Oxferd. I will be bound I would puzzle kim.\ \Very well,\ re- plied the Bishop to l he speaker, who had not perceived him, \now is your time, for I am that per on.\ The man waa j-athet taken back, jut quickly recover- ing, said: \Well nSy lord, can you tell a plain man a plain way to get to heaven?\ \Certaitly replied the . Bishop; \nothing is more easy. You » have only to turn a^ once to the right, aid go straight forward.\ A High Old (Celebration. Perhaps the most Juniquc celebration oi the German Emperor William's birthday /\ was that which Ux>k place 7,000 feet high on the southern summit ofthe Ba- varian Alps. Two mountaineers—Stanzi and Walch by name-Wcended to this ehiva^ion, and then kiudled a bonfire, the materials for'which they had laboriously drugged with them. They had intended climbing to the very summit u^rr«»Watz- mann, but deep snow prevptvtcu this, and the bonfire of wood and,petroleum was lit on the Fnlzkopfl. The ascent of the mountain often brought the climber* up to the shoulders in snow, but they were determined to jx-rfonn the feat, and they did it. 1 Wkl Origin of Two Phrases. \A bee in his bonnet\ is an expression of Scottish origin, signifying that one has new and startling ideas on some subject, which are being meditated and carefully considered. * \A feather in your cap\ is of the same origin. The illusion is to the custom of the Scottish sportsmen who wear in their caps a feather from the wing of the first .woodcock shot by them. The barba- rians also have a custom of placing a feather in their head decorations for each, enemy killed.— Dttroit Fret Prm. When the Year Is Tonus;.. Jn the spring a thinner shadow Haunts the young man's pocketbook And he casts upon each nickel A much longer, fonder look. In the spring a livelier yellow Comes upon the but&erine; And the J^oarder much suspects that Things are not just what they seem. In the spring the jolly fisher- Man doth hie him fer a worm; And with, joy doth place the first one On his hook to see it •quirm. In the spring a young guT* fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of cream Andner \tender blue eyes sparkle With a Juvely ten-oent gWm. —Volumbu* DitjxttcA
