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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES. SATliiOAV J ULY 12, 181M). T be was "reporhng Wall street." Astran- - fnhner'h.a8 88 "chchanceof seeing Baptist as of seeing Jay Gould! Ihe public do not even know office where hi, If v0Uflnd that out. and go here, you will find it impossible even to team whether he is in or not, and Mr. Ixould would as soon think of giving a ganger a million dollars as of giving a five minute interview. Russell Sage is very different. If von fT. "! ffl!'aoa Eroad way, next dapj-- j uua.ujaru, you will be told he busy, and one or two of his clerks will try hard to learn the nature of your errand. If they fail, and you persist in your purpose, you will be permitted to wait in the outsido room until Mr. Sage has a moment's leisure, when he will come out and talk with you. Roswell P. Flower, the congressman and banker, follows Mr. Claflin's plan. He has a suite of parlors in his bank, and if you want to see him in business hours all you have to do is to walk into the first of these parlors aud sit down. No body will stop you, and as soon as Mr. Flower has a moment to spore he will give you attention. The great lawyers are usually very ac-cessible. Senator Conkling, even when he was busiest with his enormous law practice, would always find time to see almost everybody who had business with him. Senator Evarts is an exception. If it is possible for one of his partners or clerks to act for him, a stranger has no chance of seeing him. Among clergymen, Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. John Hall are the only two that I ever had any difficulty in see-ing, and with Mr. Beecher it was simply a question of the limitation of time. He was ready enough to see as many per-sons as he could find time to see. Dr. Hall, however, doe not like to be inter-rupte- d by strangers at any time. David A. Curtis. MTO WAT Till. Jusy Meu of New Tork aud their Door-keepers Impossible to Pass Some of the Latter. THEY ABE ALWAYS ON WATCH. Many Doorkeepers, However. Exercise Only Proper Caution in Ad-mitting Strangers- - YoitK, July C.-- like to know how to reach of the busy men of New in case you had occasion Newdo so? don't mean the editors, I the busy men. knows that editors have very little to do. They just, lit in an office aud read newspapers and write a few columns a day of their re-jections on matters of interest, nud look over tneir man ana answer tetters ana attend to the make up of their papers, tad the reporters and printers and book-keepers and other fellows do all the work. If you don't know what the make up is just call on the nearest editor about the timo when he is making an, and ask him. He will be only too pleased to show you all about it and ex-plain it as he goes along. An editor is always glad to receive calls. You can drop in any time and help him read his exchanges, and he will give you a cigar aud a drink of good whisky and chat pleasantly nil the afternoon. And you can tell him while you are there how to improve his paper. But I mean the busy men men who run railroads and great commercial: en-terprises, and banks, and city govern-ment and tilings. Men like these are apt to put on a pretense of superiority, and try to refuse the ordinary citizen the privilege of a little friendly conver-sation, especially when the citizen is a stranger, and they cannot make any money out of him. So they go to great expense and trouble to fit up inner of-fices, and maintain great, numbers of secretaries and clerks and office boys solely for the purpose of preventing a eociable man, who may call to make their acquaintance, from getting access to them. I should say the two Rockefellers, John D. and William, and Eenry M. Flagler are the hardest men now in New York for a frtranger to get at. They are the principal men in the great Standard Oil combination, and. when tlwy are in the city, are daily at the palatial offices in the Standard Oil building near the foot of Broadway. The r to this build-ing is received with the utmost suavity and courtwy, and every attention will b given to him if he goes on business; but though he can without difficulty see the secretaries of the millionaires named, he may' go a thousand times without ever being able to see either one of the three. It is a little strange that they should be o very averse to seeing strangers, un-less they are afraid of being imposed upon, for all three of them are excep-t:enal- ly liberal men ontside of business transactions. John D. Rockefeller's fa-vorite line of beneficence, seems to be giving checks to churches and other re-ligious institutions, while Mr. Flagler has a great fondness for reforming drunkards. It is said that he has taken scores of these unfortunate creatures in hand and provided them with money and employment, making men of them after the usual discouragements. How they manage to get in communication with him, though, is more than I have ever been able to find out. In sharp contrast with their habits of seclusion is the simplicity with which John Claflin, dry goods merchant, con-ducts his business. Any respectable looking man may walk into his private office at any time during business hours, without even the formality of inquiring whether ho is in. Hia enormous store stands a block off Broadway and has only ouo small entrance for the public. Passing in at this narrow door the stranger may walk unchallenged half way down the room, which is more than two hundred feet long, where he will find a door with a sign beside it, read-ing, "To the counting room.". Thread-ing his way through narrow passage-ways, among the thousands .of cases of goods that are piled on the floor, and dodging the scores of little hand trucks that are used in collecting the goods for individual orders, the visitor may pass through this door, up a narrow flight of stairs to the enormous counting room, where forty or fifty bookkeepers are keeping the accounts of the house, and turning sharply to the right may pass the various clerks, and the desks of the jnnior partners, into the little room where Mr. Claflin sits alone. No one will even ask his business, and Mr. Claf-lin will give him time enough to explain it, without fuss or ceremony of any kind. Many men with only a small fraction of his cares and responsibilities would consider it impossible to transact business on such a plan, but Mr. Claflin demonstrates that it is entirely feasible. Chauncey M. Depew is another very ac-cessible man, though he does intrench himself behind a double barrier of door-keeper and private secretary. The appli-cant for an interview will be politely asked by the doorkeeper what the nature of hia business is. And, by the way, you may form a tolerably fair notion of the manners of any public man by noticing those of his personal attendants. I have never known a really polite man to have rude doorkeepers. I have known many rude doorkeepers. If you are not inclined to tell this one what your business is, he will, still with perfect politeness, either ask you to be seated, or show you into the next room, where Mr. Du Val, the prince of private secretaries, wiU ask you gain. If you are wise you will tell m. Du Val what you want. If he can, he will attend to your business, and save Mr. Depew the trouble. If it is really essential that vou should seethe great man himself, you will be shown into nis r.xm as soon as he is disengaged, inere is no fuss and no flummery about it whatever. . . There are men who enjoy the privi-lege, such aa it ie. of seeing Mr. Jay Gould whenever they call on him even in business hours. One such w aiat very clever newspaper man, Howard lmg Smith. We used to call him Cocktail Smith, in camp wl tbe Swenta regiment "w at PeckskiU, because to ever ready laugh was so iwjg". the morning. How he won , he conM ff4:an , favor fdon t know, but interview every rime be wtforyr?-nt:-a j A Tree That I Put to Mj I u-- . Tb camanba is certainly a wonderful tree, according to report made to the state department by Consul Burke, of Bahia. It grows in the northern state of Brazil near the Amazon river. Every part of it root, rootlet.branchand trunk is available; it is indispensable for the natives in building and roofing their huta, making fences, etc., while the article. rnmln f it liivlll Wuu rood, light and medicine. It is a specie of palm tree and grows in dry, sandy soil. The bulb(,the sir.3 depending upon the aizo of the tree) is strongly farinaceous, and when dried and ground produces a kind of farischa used for food by the natives, while the rootlets of the bulb are nsed for medicine, possessing strong cathar-tic property. The trunk, while the tree is young, contains a soft oleaginous substance, something like marrow: this is guod food for cattle, sheep, goats and hogs. After the tree attains a growth of several years the trunk becomes very hard and eon then be used for building purposes. The lower part of the branches, which grow to a length of 8 to lOor 12 feet, are chiefly used for fences. They are wide aud flat at the bottom and tapering toward the top, with short, hard and very sharp thorns at the edges, in appearance not unlike the mouth of a saw fish. The fence made from this material is very strong. The leafy part of the branch, when cut and sun dried, gives an exudation which appears on the fan like leaf or blade. It is a tenacious substance pos-sessing properties very similar to bees-wax. This wax is extensively used for making candles. The leaf or blado has a fiber from which hats, mats, baskets, rope, brooms, dusters, etc., are made. When the exudation is scraped from the blados of palm the branches are used for roofing huts and small houses and for protecting brick walls from the fierce rays of the sun, as well as from the rain. The fruit of the tree is sweet and palata-ble. The kernel or seed is pounded to powder and nsed in infusion in place of coffee, Chicago Herald. F. Auerbach & Bro. 144, 146 & 148 Main Street. GRAND SBMI-ANNAU- L Muslin Underwear Sale! Wlj Stitcb, Croak Your Backs and Ioiite Diseases This hot tveaturxvun xott tan buy Your Cht'tt and Your Chit' iircn's Muslin I'tuUnvear at the tvst (f the Matt rial and Trimmings. The sale consists of Lames' Gowns, Chemises, Drawers, Corskt Covers, Hrjpai. Sets, Skirts, Aprons and Chil-dren's Dresses, Children's Slips, Drawers, Etc., Etc AT THE FOLLOW IXO TRICES; i.v, - 2,y, - 4(v - av, v, si.oo, - $i.r, - si.50. The ouly conditions of the sale are that only Thrr plnee of each kind and price will be sold to one customer. There will be no deviation from this rulu. Tke.e rihmU are m an u fart ureal during the dull season and cannot U errurrd Kin during 10. Ho cooMt early and secure the best wade, best tttttng gixxla ever offend la that line. Our Summer Merino and Gauze Underwear Is lein; closed out at t ost and Mow cost with this salo as wc must nuke room for fall stock. pmce iiv, ik '2.v. :iv,:ot nv, 7.v, ooc kacil Children's Wash Kilt Suits. Ages aj to 5, at cost Children's Wash Skirts COc, worth 31 500 pieces French, English and American Satinet at 9c, 12 o. 15c, 20o ltd 25c . By all odds the Boat Styles and Qualities offered in this oitj. MANY OTHER BARGAINS Will pay you to visit our Mammoth Sale. ONE PRICE TO ALL. -:- - ESTABLISHED 1864. WE AKK NEVEIt UNDERSOLD. F. AUERBACH & BRO. r23BP MEXRY KIITE & CO., My fS.fijr MANUFACTURERS OF ift'Kh Tents, Flags, n$7 jj Wagon Covers, L-- 'i --A Etc. Wc carry ihc largest Ktnc k in the; wt-s- t and compete with all lustcrn Trices. IVfi wan itfnrfur? alf good ihat we aril and ran heat Hi cm all in prices. It i in the in le rent nf nil dealers tn jet our prices hffore hnyinsf. No. 60 Bant Second Bouth, Salt Lak City. Pabst Brewing Co! (Formerly PHILIP BEST) 3IITT2iLXrC, 'WTO., Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Ribbon Keg and Bottled Beers shipped Immediately upon order. THE FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED FREt DELIVERYl TELEPHONE MS! B. K. BLOCH aCo., 1 OMMEBCIAL 8T. .A-cront-a. HEALED I'KOrOHALR T1IX BK HK('KIVK1 IIY T1IK t.'NUKK- - T hlKllfll lllltll llfo'lilH S ll'Hill Julv IS, INK), for atomism) cuhl yards of portlnutl witmnt tmuvMi lot lining Opltol Hill rciwrvolr. HHMilletliins fnr the work rati im swti at the otll'e of the city eniftowr. mom 17. city ball. (imp. M Hmrrt, Marir. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS MYRTLE NO. 1, WILL MEET AT G-- s, --aA- US- - Sail, Kvery Tuesday until further Notice. ALL KNIGHTS INVITED. K. M. WADE, C. C H. A. CANDIUAN. STCAVl GRINDER j Acd dtub--r ia Uaiberi' hopplie. Oir rarlll'im for tnndin atui trm-- 1 eivif Kazors. CUpprrs, Hbear aad Kalt-v- a;e ucsurviu). j CUISA bbCOHATOHH. kii K, FirM Sotk Bunt, It?,,,! j Halt Lak t. CM Unit, W. C. EDWARDS, Tat t:! f (Shi Kou WUt esamln sod rvrt m nilo. In shjr part of taw W-- t. j F;fttn Ttifs Practical Expeheoce. nrA Idr-.- tt care THE TIMES. J. F. Marks, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER- - Artesian, Salt or WeIN DrllM. . FrottpMt fortoal and XlnftaN. Fit ik,ntt, Well a Spwlaltj. iiH Montana Maciery Coipi C. P. MASON. Manager. Headquarters for all Glasses of Machinery. ' Ewrin and Boilers from yvmer anl opwards la sloe forlatai ''diate delivery fam I'umpa, Injector. Hon Whim. Hoiatiaa; Eagiae Breaker, Wall'. Holla, lurmU Air Compressors anl.Dnil, Lubri Sn"e O.ii. Mm, Mill awl FwUrr Suppl., Silver, 01 ai Cooesotm lg MilU er tcJ nl la running order. ; Maine Dice and fareroesi 259 S. Mail M, Sal! Lak 0. S. j AGENCY. BUTTE. MONTANA. SOI SOUND ADVICE. Typewriting and Literature A Word for Those Who Wish to Make Good Impressions Upon Editors. il uw vi m.On BLAH I), Secret of Being Charming to Others A Pasteboard Camera A Word on Legal Tender. "No, I cannot use the typewriter," re-marked a literary man the other day, "nor can 1 dictate witi any aarisf action. And there are a good many othor people in the same boat with me. I heard one well known writer My not long ago that, while ho could get along well enough with his correspondence on the type-writer, he conld do nothing at all in j the way of literary work. As for diet- - j tion, it was simply an impossibility for him. He had tried it repeatedly, but had never been able to succeed, it was the more singular in Ids case because he was formerly a public speaker and was in the habit of speaking without a man-uscript; and he is noted as a talker, be-ing fluent, ready and rapid. He even said that he could not dictate a correc- - j tion in typewritten copy. The only sat- - j isfactory thing for him to do was to take j the copyhimself and write in thechange. "Then there is ; he must be mak- - ' ing something like $300 a week from his literary work in all directions. One would think that he would be almost compelled to employ a stenographer, but I understand he does all his work with his own hand. I have heard of a very prolific editor who was induced by his friends to lighten his labors by employing a sten-- ographer and typewriter. In his case it worked very curiously. He had no trouble about dictating, but he found that by this means he was enabled to do a great deal more work than he had done previously that is, a great deal mre writing and so, instead of diminishing his labors, he really increased them. "In my own case I can dictate a letter fairly well, and I conld do a piece of journalistic work in that way or by type-writing it; but anything that is to have the literary touch , must be carefully worked out with the pen. And I do not believe that it is simply a matter of prac-tice; though to be sure it is possible that it may be. That is, if one were trained from a child to use the type-writer instead of the pen or pencil, the art of composition might come naturally to him when lingering the keys. But I greatly doubt whether it can be learned late in life. Take the case of . I feel confident that the notable decadence of his style in recent years, which is un-mistakably very marked, is the result of his use of the typewriter. Formerly he was most fastidious in his style, but now he is Blovenly and careless. The change is really wonderful to one who has read him closely for years, as I have. "So I am far from thinking the type-writer an unmixed blessing. At the same time I believe that every manu-script offered for publication ought to be typewritten. I believe that would-b- e authors would find it to their advantage to go to the small expense which the copying of their efforts by the typewriter would entail. Editors, I find, are much more willing to examine such manu-scripts than those which are written in scrawling, crabbed and uneven hands, even if there be some individuality about these. It is not individuality that the average editor is looking for, it is some-thing fresh and striking and original, and he is loath to take the trouble to de-cipher bad chirography on the bare chance of finding something worth his while. So my advice to the young men and young women who add so much to the government's postal receipts year after year is to have their productions typewritten. They will save postage, of course, as a typewritten manuscript is less bulky than one done by hand. And in case of several rejections and reat-temp- ts they may save in postage the coat of the typewriting." New York Trib-une. , Salt Lake County Liberal Coa'riilln". N.'li t. horoliT lvto f.w at.lhrraj rnuntv mn etttton frtiie nomination i( the follow-oftW- r : rierkof the county court, county iMv,in1tr. selectman. a.wr. rmtnty pnxx ultuti attor tier, hertn. ronmrr. county surveyor oiiuiy treasurer, ami the election i'f a county com mltttw for lh uimitut er, rompoeed of live mrainriH. lll be held at the SU ljsae thea-ter, In Salt Lakeclt v. at I o'clock noon, oa thetflxtitavof Julv. A t.. !!. Frlniartra tor tiio lH tlon of tleUwate In this convention will b hel.t In tbe different Pnytncu-- Suit take litjrtKt-ftHHity-.- tiio 1Mb l" of Jul', commencing at S o'clock p.m., aa follows: rtltST PHKviHiTSAl.Tt.ARt CITT. CTAIt. First wanl-T- hrt deletratea; primary a'W at KtiKt w iinl hchoolhouiw. wan- t- Thee .1eteatt: primary held at Syoiul wurl cholhoiis Third ward- Su primary ' at Third anl whoolhoiw. , KlRhth ward-.Mx- tou delifataii; primary held at Klitbthwaril whooihon. Ninth rd -- Seven r' tin; primary held nt Ninth ward c ioolhou.--. Ten-- ward -- Niu d legates; primary held at Tenth ward choolluu. ritKiMT HALT UltS CITT, CTAII. Fourth wrd.-F- 1v dela atas; primary held at Fourth want achool house. Firth wird-Fo- ur deleitaten; primary held at Filth wnr.t m!v ollioii.-- o. Sixth ward- - S, delegate: primary held at Sixth WHid whoclhoiiMi. Seventh een deleiratea: primary held at Seventh want h xilhouse. Fourteenth ward Thuty-neve- n delegatea; primary held at Koueteetith ward echoulhou. Fifteenth ward Twenty-nin- delegate) primary held at Flfti-ent- ward waoulhouee. TIIIHll PRKCINlT AI.T LAKK tiTT, ITTAH. Sixteenth want-Klc- ht deleiatea: primary held at Sixteenth waid evhuol bon.-- Seventeenth ward- - Seen delegate: pri-ma y hold at Seventeenth ward achool ho ie. N.i ete nth n del tiie: primary held ut old Nineteenth ward achool houae. Tnei'tv-Kecoin- l ward KIriiI delegaten; four to lie elected hv the l.tl e 'al lldi a north nf Sixth North utreet ; primary to be lie d at Me. rhiinlrs' hotel; four to In el n te I by Idberala llvlnii Mimh of Sixth North Btn-et- ; tirlmary to l tiiid at Niuoteeulh ward arhuol houae. rofRTW Pllat' INlT-SA- l.T Ijkkl I'tTV, ITAB. Klghteeiitli ward Seven deloualea; primary held at Kairle Cate achoot-houne- . Twentieth ward- - Seven delegtet; primary held at Twentieth wan! maool boue. Twenty llmt ward -- Teu deleitalet: ptimaiy held at twenty Hist wail actaiKil-huune- . nrrH pawntiT-sa- lt citt, ttab. F.leventh want Mlxteen delenatea; primary held at Kievemh ward m hixd oime. Twelfth primary te'd at Twelfth waid Thltteenlli wr.l-'I'ht- rty i'lx deletratea; pri-mary held at Thirteenth ward a hiHilhoiKe. I.lttle Cottonwood delegate: primary held at ach"olhuua. Sandy jiree n 't -- Five delrifatea; primary held al Kchooihouiui. S nith Cottouwood pracluct Ten delegates; primary held at at'hoolltoune. Hlni;ham tirec delegated; primary held at Brooklyn nvue.al which aavea ilelefiate will be elected: one held at Duiican Mclilunla' old store, where eeven delegaten will be elected, and one held In Miller's hall. In the town of liliiKham. at which seven delegate will lie elected, making twenty-on- lu all for Hlnuham precinct. Hunter precinct One delegate; primary held at achcNilhouHe. Went Jordan precinct Four delegates; pri-mary held at ichoollioime. Mill Creek precinct Four delegates; pri-mary held at arhoolhouiie. Fast Mill Creek precinct One delegate; pri-mary held at nchoolhmme. Blfver preclnrt-T- wo delegates; primary DHld at scltoolhoiine. Big 1'ottonwo.Hl pieelnct One delegate; pri-mary held at Bchoolhoune, 1'nlou nreolnrt Two delegates! primary held st school hi nine. Butler precluct-o- ue delegate; primary beld kt miioollinuiie. Sugar Hiiune preiinct-Thr- ee delegates; pri-mary held at schiKilhoiiMe. North Jordan precinct-O- ne delegate; pri-mary held at achiHilhouxe. Brighton precinct-O- ne delegate ; primary held at achoolhoune. Mountatu Uell One delegate; pri-mary helil at srhoolhotiMi. Farmers prmMnct Two delegates! primary held at schoolhoime. (Irunlte pre rltict One delegate; primary held at schoolhouiie. tlranger precinct One delegate; primary held at echoulhouae. Urnier pniclurt-O- ne delegate; primary held at sclionlluiUHe. South Jordan delegate; pri-mary held at whoolhoiixe. Fort lleniinau ptwinct One delegate; pri-mary held at schoolhouee. Bluff Dale product-O- ne delegate; primary held at Hchoolhoiiite, The conduct of the primaries shall be as fol-lows: The meeting shall courene at S o'clock p.m. at the place designated, and In the nty the meeting eh ill lie called to order by the presi-dent of the ward, and In the country by the chairman of the precinct. A board of three ludges of primary election shall then Iw e ected; they shall at once open the polls and maintain them open for two hours, receiving In the meaiitlinn all the votes proper to Iw polled for delegates. T'pon the lioaliigof the polls they shall count the vote, announce the result, and certify the election lu writing of the NUcoensfut candidates, which eert-tnca- Khali he their credential to the county con-vention. There shall also ha nominated In each precinct, one Justice of the peane and mis constable to serve during the ensiling two years, as follows: Flist precinct, Second preclnt. Third pre-cinct, Fourth precinct and Fifth precinct of Salt Lake fitly. Farmer's precinct. Houih Cot-tonwood precinct, t'nlon precinct, (Iraulte pre-cinct. San ly precinct. Draper precluii. South Jordan pn o net. Fort llerrluiau pre o net. West Jordan prerlnut. North Jordan precinct, Hrlghton P'cctnrt, Hunter precinct. North 1'olut precinct. Pleasant Or en precmct, Mountain Uell precinct. Ilrtgham precinct, Little Cottonwiol precinct. Silver precinct, and a justice, of tne l'ewe In the fallowing pre-cincts: Fast Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood and U ranger. It Is recommended that the de!fllnns from 'he several preiinrts In Salt Lake (Dty ron-n- Immediately after the adjournment of the county convention, and nominate their justices and constables for their respective precincts, aud that In the precincts lying out-side of the city, the nominations for these be made at the time the primaries are held. By order of the Halt Lake County Liberal committee. II. H. Mi'C'Al.Miat. Chairman. B. Y. I'oi.iiohw. Rerretary, Salt Laks City, Utah, July lu, iwu. One Leg Nearly as Good as Two. The ease with which Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, gets about on one leg and two crutches surprises almost every one who meets him. In reply to a query onrois point the general tells a story. f'A classmate of mine at Jefferson col- - lege loBt an arm while fighting in the southern army. At a reunion of our class at the end of the war I was the first member on hand. After engaging a room at a Canonsburg hotel I saun-tered around the old college buildings waiting for the rest of the boys of the class of 'Goto turn up. The first one to put in an appearance had an empty coat sleeve. While a Confederate shell had taken my leg, a Union ball had torn away his arm. I invited him up to my room, and he was with me that night. I noticed that he had no difficulty at all in arranging his clothing and in doing pretty nearly everything else that a man with two arms finds neceesary to do. I said to him that the loss of an arm did not seem to incommode him. 'Well, do you know, Jim,' he replied, 'tliat since I lost my other arm and find that every-thing I want to do can be done with one arm instead of two, I often wonder what reason the good Lord had for making a man with two arms.' Now, in my case," the general concluded, "I won't put the thing as strongly as my maimed class-mate did, but one leg seems to answer me very well." Chicago Herald. An Extraordinary Irishman, Dion Boncicault, who is aa clever aa he is erratic, is now in his 88th year, though he says that he haa lived at least ten centuries. It is thirty-seve- n years since he came to this country, ad dur-ing that period has, it is said, become citizen of the United States four times, returning after each naturalization to Great Britain to renew his loyalty to the queen. Up to date the number of pieces he has written, translated and for the stage is about 180. Although it has been customary to speak of him as an inimitable plagiarist, he has done a great deal of original work, notably in such dramas aa "London Assurance," "Old Heads aud Youug Hearts," "The Octoroon," "Arrau nah Pogue," "The Rapparee" and "The Shaughraun." On the other hand, for him to call himself the author of "Used Up," "Louis XI," "The Corsican Brothers," "Faust and Marguerite," when the originals are so well known, is a degree of astonishing impudence that might be styled Bouci-caultibi- n. It used to be asked, wheu it was men-tioned that Boucionult had written a new play, "Whose play haa he written?" and not without a modicum of justice. If he borrows liberally, if he appropriate wholesale, it is hot becbtire he lacks in-vention and ingenuity, of which he baa abindance, but liocanse he wants to make money. He haa gained half a dozen fortunes, and lost them all. New York Commercial Advertiser. Indian Lions Dying Out. The lions of India appear to be going the way of the great bustard and the dodo, and the reason is found in the ex-tension of railways, for the monarch of the forest shares with Mr. Ruskin a mor-tal antipathy to the smoke and screams of locomotives. Withn the memory of many persons lions were common enough in Rajputana, and even now the roar of one may be heard occasionally in the wildest parts of Central India; but the new railway from Nagpur is now being constructed through this country, and this is practically a notice to quit served upon the few remaining lions in the cen-tral provinces. Practically the only li-ons now remaining that are worth men-tioning seem to be the race existing in Kattywar, which was visited by Prince Albert Victor the other day. Their num-ber remains, it is believed, pretty sta-tionary. It is strictly forbidden to shoot them, save by way of the grand sport; but many conditions are unfavorable to their multiplication, and even the Kat-tywar lions are clearly doomed ere long to disappear. London News. Philosophy of Dining. One of the old Greek philosophers was once approached with tre question as to the hour of the day at which one should take his dinner. The answer was char-acteristic. "If you are rich," said the wise man, "you will d'ne whenever you please; if you are poor, whenever you have anything to eat." This same phil-osophy seems to lie accepted by the Turks of the present time, judging by what Mr. Barkley says of the practice of this people. Thoreisa peculiarity about Turkish cooking. Wherever you are, and at whatever time of the day you ssk, "When will dinner be ready?" the answer is always the same. "In ten minutes," and yet I have had all aorta of dishes on the table at the same time. I don't know how it is managed, but I think it is an improvement on our English plan of hav-ing to keep to a fixed hour. If no order is given dinner is served aa a matter of course at sundown, and this habit is usual among all classes. We were somewhat surprised one day at Ojanthe, our Greek cook, asking, "Please, sare, what time yon eat your dinner today?' We answered, "When we are hungry." "Vera good, sare, 'cos me get one booful dinner ros bif, sare. One buffalo he fall over cliff last night and break hira neck!" Youth's Companion. Secret of Being Charming- - to Other. The world today is filled with half morbid young people wishing they only knew how to make themselves more in-teresting and attractive to others. It is not a desire to be blamed, bnt one to be encouraged. The only trouble is that they get their attention concentrated on themselves, and the more they think of themselves the less do people want to look at the object they propose shall be attractive. No one ever fails to be de-lighted with a person who, having spent several summers in some enchanting spot in the mountains, takes in hand him, a stranger there, and leads him to the most poetic cascades or the sublimest points of outlook the whole region offers. Here, then, lies the secret of proving charming to others. It is by serving as guide and interpreter to something more inspiring than would be either of the two left to himself, and so bringing on an experience in which each loses bis mere individual life to find it in a fuller uni-versal life. Boston Herald. About Balking- - Bones. Horses know nothing about balking until they are forced into it by bad management. When a horse balks in har-ness it is generally from some misman-agement, excitement, confusion, or from not knowing how to pull, bnt seldom from any unwillingness to perform all that he understands. A free horse in a team may be so anxious to go that when he hears the word he will start with a jump which will not move the load, but give him so severe a jerk on the shoul-ders that he will fly back and stop the other horse. Next will come the slash-ing and cracking of the whip and hal-looing of the driver, until something is broken or the driver is through with his course of treatment. But what a mis-take the driver makes in whipping his horse for this act! Reason and common sense should teach him that the horse was willing and anxious to go but did not know how to start the load.-N- ew York Times. ' '. Hardships of Minister's Life. The folks who think preachers flourish on the fat of the land are respectfully requested to read the following extract from a letter received at thi office from a Virginia Baptist preacher: "I have not a bushel of corn, a peck of flour nor five pounds of meat in the world, and I hava not a dollar to buy with, and my churches are not able to pay me for my work." He does not ak for hfilp noth-ing waa further from hia thought but if anybody desires to brighten hia life we will undertake to see that the sun-shine falls upon his home. Richmond Herald. The First Railroad Accident. The first great railroad accident oc-curred on the Great Western road of England in 1841. A train was rushing along when a mass of earth and stones fell from the embankment and obstruct-ed the way. Eight persons were killed and many wounded. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of "accidental death to all cases and a deodand of 1,000, an ensine, tender and carriages." The old common law provided that when any personal chattel was the cause of death should be forfeited to the king. Part of this act waa not enforced in later fine was imposed ort rears, but a heavy the owners of any chattel doing personal iniurvto the kings subjects. This law was observed as late as 1847. when par-liament abolished the practice.-Det- roit Free Press. The American Glutton. The average American, aitiongh a colossal eater, doe not at present know how to dine. This is a home truth which he resents extremely, and contradict with vigor; indeed, he i apt to introduce comparisons between the restaurants of hia own and other lands which invariably leave a large balance in favor of 6tiU, spite of an occasional exception, the American born gastro-nome is as rare a bird aa the American born chef of any serious preteneinns. CornbJU MaTagim. A Pasteboard Camera. . The enthusiastic student of photog-raphy may obtain a good deal of amuse-ment, and not a little knowledge, by ex-periment with the "pasteboard camera," as it has been called. Take a long cigar box and blacken the inside. Make a pin hole in the centre of one of the ends, and place a sheet of carbonic paper beneath the lid and jam it down. If a 4 by 5 dry plate is placed at the end opposite the pin hole, with the sensitive aide toward the latter, the lid jammed down and the box taken from the dark room to an open window, where there is a view of some building or other object, a very fair pict-ure will be obtained on returning the box to the dark room and developing the plate at the end of half an hour'a expos-- ! ure. By interposing a meniscus lens the aperture of the pin hole may be greatly enlarged, and the taking of the picture much quickened. New York Evening ' Sun. ' (.antradlctory Orders. Patrol Duty Adjntaut How oftm have I told you that the duties of a officer consist in implicit obedience to orient. For instance, if I were to fay, Corporal, take your men rjp to the top of tliat tree don't ask "How?" Imt i it like a il&b of light-ning, even if it taks you all day. Pick Me Cp. A Fourteen Dajr Baa. The longest run by conductors on rec-ord is undoubtedly that of the Pullman conductors whose trip extends from Washington, D. C. to Mobile, Ala., thence back to Philadelphia, thence to Sew Orleans and thence back to Wash-ineto-n. Fourteen days are consumed in blowing the conductor to reach the run, hi. home oulv twice a month, althougu ftinclwlwa --lay off' at the diffemt terminal.. Of conn, this is an excep-fjon- al arrangement of runs. -C-hicago Railwav Aa-e-. Except for the legal tenders and some unimportant commercial work steel en-- ! graving haa almost fallen into dismc ' owing to it great cost and tho slow and expensive methods of printing the plate?. Portraits for the finer grades of books are still done on steel, but wood ecgrav-- I ing haa largely ttkea the place of the other art, aa it ia printed more cheaply acd reyilly. i a ' "How polish! are my layr war--' mar- -i the poet. ! "Ye." ra V!ed the hn ; "fcu yss " t fci twiry c.ota a doin for m." Eax-- per r, |