Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1885, Page 7

— ——— NEBRASKA OITY. I i ~ Bteady Growth in Bailding and Gen- eral Business Enterprise—Po- Iitical and Other Events Nueraska Crry, Neb,, April 20—Two casos of lllegal voting came up on elec- tion day, one an old colored man who “didn’t know he was doln’ nuffin’ weong” the other a bartender in one of our saloons who had been s resident of the clty but a fow aags. Tho Iatter skipped; the former now langalshes In our city jall for the space of thirty days with the pleasant adjanct of & $50 fine thrown in. Oh It costs something to bb a voter In this groat republic of ours! Oar polics court has been pretty lively of late, Judge White's time belng almest entirely taken up with criminalities of varlous descriptions. We shall soon be as motropolitan as Omaha at the present rate of increase In the criminal business. Our olty will boast of a bran new forry boat before many days ehall pass, Capt. Butts, for a long time connected with the B, & M. transfer boat, an old river man, will be proprietor and Nelse Pinny of the old ferry boat, captaln. ARBOR DAY will be approprlately observed In this oity. All the schools will be closed and the scholars therefrom will form i pro- cesslon and march to the opera house, where exerolses ot a plesalng and appro— riate character will be conducted by the Eonrd of educatlon. The addraes will be dellvered by Hon. J. Sterling Morton, the orlglnator of “‘Arbor Day.” Joe Emmet showed here Wednexday evening toa crowded house. This is the first thing In the amusement line our ¢lty has seen thls several week and It was a consolation to know It was a good one. Several other troupes of lesser note have been billed for here of late, but all have invarlably cancelled thelr dates by reason of the high waters and bust-ups before reaching here. Among the NEW BUSINESS ENTERPRISES we can mentlon ths Boston Upholstery company which has just opened up, hav- ing moved down from dear old Platts- mouth, J. E. Smith & Bro., of Oil City, Pa , have also settled among us and are fitting up a bullding for the manufacture of candy of all kinds. They will also do & jobbing business In fralts and nuts. A new grocery is to be started by a gentle- man from Alton, Ill., whose name we have not learned. A new hardware store fs also talked of, other new enter- prises aro on foot, but untll somethlng inore definite 1s known we will not men- fon them. The distillery has been the means of bringlog many new porsons to our city. Gen. B. M. Ford and Geo. L. Woulsey, who are the princlpal stockholders of the distillery company, have fitted up elegant residences and are now to bs classed among tho cit'zens of Nebraska City. The distillery s now closad for several days awaiting the arrival of a new fly- wheel to replace the old one which flew to pieces last week by reason of the belt slipping off the goveracr. It la strange that no one was hurt, as the full working forze was in the building at the tlme of the accident. In view of the.shortness cf the tlme— July 1st——when the “‘timber clalm act’ ceases, a great many of our citizens are rushing off to westera Nebreska and northern Kansas after claims, Dr. Qaion, who has been the manager of the Singer sewlng machine agency in this clty for the past year, skipped out a fow weeks a go and upon investigatin of his books by a spacial agent be waa found to be a defsultsr to the company of about $2,000, besides owing many of our mer- chanta various sums, Pcker are sald to be the cause of his downfall. A banquet in honor of HON. C. H, VAN WYCK, was on the tapls on his return from Washington, but the general, hearlng of the sAme, sent a letter of hearty thanks to the committee, at the same time de- clining the proffored banquet Tho total bonded debt «f this county April 1st was $472,012,50; this, of courze, includes the interest on the above. S. 8. Fletcher, of Sioux City, Iowa, is the new agent for the Singor Manu. facturing c>mpuny, in place of Quian, who abscooded. The grand jury, which kas just com- pleted its work, found indictmen s against Nichol, tho forger, who trisd to work Chinn & Now, of your city, and W. G. R. Davis, the ox-justice of peaca of Syracage, who ia charged with mis- appropria’ion of fuads. Our clty is now enjoylng a temper- ance revival, mainly turough tho efforts of Col. Wocdford, of Iowa. The colonel was groeted with jammed houses during hls weeks’ stay in this city. His eflorts wero followed by Mrs, Folsom, of the the W. C. T. U,, but little or no en- thuslasm was added to the latter peraon’s work. The BARB WIRE BUSIN ESS still hangs fire, A recelver has been ap- polnted to keep his eye on things while are progressing in tho courts. d that Fish has now cast hls op tic on Omaha ss & boss place to start s large company and meuufagture barb wire on a large ecale. The Omaha cap- itallsts had better awalt the outcome of affairs here before they rash blindly into the “‘Col, Sellers’ spaculation” as vividly pictured by Fish, the patentes of the new machines, The PORK PACKING ESTABLISHMENT 1s now closed down for a few weeks to enable them to carry on the general ren- ovating necessary before the summer's wock, They will .then, if their ice sup- ply holds out, slaughter the innocents all through the summer months, “Eve Ser,” e ——— Deserving of Confidence,—There is no article which 80 richly deserves the entire confidence of the community as BROWN'S BroNcHIAL TRocHES, Those suffering from Asthmatic and Bronohlal diseases, Coughs and Colds, should try them, Price 25 cents, o —— CAPITAL AND LABOR, The Universa! P'eace Unlon's Address on Their Relations to Each Other, Philadelphia Call. ial committee of the Universal Peace Union on the relatlons of labor and capltal, conaisting of Henry 8. Clabb, Alfred H, Love, Sarah T. Rogers, M.D,, J. M, Washburn, Thomas J. Whitney, Mrs, A. L. Waskburn and Thomas E Longehore, hay prepared the followlog ‘‘address to the people of the Unitsd States. The Univeraal Peace Unlon, derirour of promoting peace by removing a'l postl- ble causes of dlscontent among the peo ple, sppeals to all cit'zsos end residents of the United States to use calm and Im- d to the rela- 0 a8 to obtatn oulties, afford & rellef from present distressos, and secure justios to all n & manner creditable alike to the Intelligence and forbearance of the partial judgment In tlons of labor and capital a solatlon of pendlng di Amerloan people. Certaln principles seem essential to success in the relatlons of capltal and Iabor, and these should be conceded by both sides: 1. The employer should have the right of selecting, without dictation, the per sons he employs. 2. The person seeking employment should have the right of sesking it wherever he belleves his services will be best approciated and remunerated. 3, Whether employer or employe be- long to any particalar organization should be no obstacle to formlag a labor contract, 4 Employers should not be requlred to ablde by regulations or laws In_the conatruction of which they have had no volce. 6. Due notloe of any change of regula- tions, prices of labor, cessation of or dis- charge from employment should be glven by the employer to the employed. 6. Dus notice of leaving employment should be given to the employer by the employed. 7. Misundersiandings, not otherwise adjustable, should be submitted to a tri- bunal of arbiteation, and each contract should contain a clause providing there- for. The first requisite of success where dificaltles exist is a personal mecting to arrango the affalr, and, failing jn that, to invite the mediation of a disinterested, dlssreet person, or to refor the matter to impartisl, Intelligent arbltrators, whose decision shoald be final. Even in cases whore it was supposed to be Impossible to arrlve at an understanding, difficalties have been overcome and the happlest results followed mediation without ap- pealing to arbitrators, ARBITRATION ADVOCATED. The address then quctes the case of the shoa manufacturers of Philadelphia and the happy resulta of following the above course. Thomas Hughes, M. P., speaks very atrongly In favor of arbitation, and Bays: “‘Disputes 88 to the rates of wages can never cease until the development of assoclation has made the interast of employer and employed 1dentified. When that time comes trades unions will dis- appear.” We are, however, awara that there are many difficulties exfsting which may require radical changas In the relation of labor to capital, in order to prevent in- justice or serlous consequences. It s a fact that large accumulatious of capital by employers and, in some caser, a want of adequate provislon for the health, comfort and educatlon of the employes and their familles, lead to feelings of jealousy and diseatlefactlon. Those who 1abor, seefng thelr employers wealthy and prosperous and their own families In penury or on the verge of pauparlsm, quite paturally bacome dlesatisfiod and e0 eaily influenced by thoss who use such comparisons to beget dlscontent; then discontent not Infrequeutly leads to vlolence. This is human nature. But however unfortanate the relations of la- bor to capltal may bs ia this country,and however much Ipjustice may exist, there are better and surer remedles for the evils than a resort to vlolence in avy form, The {dea that working people,the moat numerous part ef the community, cannot obtain justice in a country where the saf- frage i s> extensive as in the Uni'ed States In an impeashment of republican {nstitations, Even in England, where political power has naver been 85 widely diffusad was & Brattleboro, Vt., stamp of the pri- vate lssue I hav> referred to. They have been considered perhaps the rarest stamps In exlstence; but there Is now good reason to belleve that a small town in Maesachusstts issned stamps ocontem. poraneously with Brattleboro, If {hla is #0, they will probably be of even greater valne, especially to amateurs. I beliave they are genuine, bat it Is bard to tell— there are many tricks In the trade, 1 have sold stamps myself for from £50 to 8100 each, and onoe #old four United States envelopes, iswued In 1860, for £400. 1 do not know of any others like them in existence.” ““What are the most valuable collec- tlons worth?” “I have heard of one of them sold In London for £3,000; there is one In Bos- ton now that is probably worth as much, and there are soveral others in the coun- tey of about equal value, A Belgian dealer has recently issued a catalogne which Inclades nearly every stamp— postage, telegraph, revenue, oto.—i in the world. It has 1,100 octavo pages, 4,000 evgravings, and describes 43,138 stamps. The United States takes the lead in the number of stamps, having 5222—including the many private, pro- prietary and match stamps lesued daring the war aod abolished about two years ago. Some of British Guiapa, Sand- wich islands and Moldavian stamps are very valuable, and I have sold a Russlan local for $80. Many stamps that are of great value if unused are of little value 1f cancelled. Some collect both kinds, while othera collect only those that have not been used, Age hasbut little to do wizh the value of a stamp. For example, the marketable value of the one penny blank, Great Britain, lesued in 1849, fe three cents, while numerous stamps {s- sued the past two yeara are worth §10 or more, each. This 13 easily accounted for. There were millions of the former {ssued, and but few of the latter—by some little state, perhaps, that suddenly changed its government. Stamps of tho same lssue too, often differ in value. There Is a three-penny Canadian stamp worth but ten cents, whereas the twelve penny of the same issue has been sold for $50. There is a popular falacy, by the way, that the gatherer of 1,000,000 stamps is to be rewarded ia some way —by a college educatlon, or something of that kind. People get this idea fron items that are constantly appearing In the newspapera. They come in and say: ‘“‘Here are 30,- 000 or 40,000 stamps. Iunderstand that some one I8 collecting them for the man- ufacture of papier mache, or something equally absurd. The fact is these state- ments have thelr basls in a demand for fraudulent purposes—some parties buy- ing them in larga quantitios and cleaning them with acids. They are worth no more than old paper except for fraudulent purposes. They are not worth the trou- ble of gathering, and I throw thousands into the paper basket every month.” “‘Are stamps ofton counterfeited?” Yes, nearly every stamp that has ever been made has bsen counterfeited, and the counterfelts have been sold by dealers, who have more ragard for profit than reputatlen, They deceive boys and beginners, bat are easily detected by any one famillar with the business. Many United States stumps have been coun- terfolted in Europe. The collecting of stamps had a severs set-back in the crez3 for collecting fancy cards, which swept tho country a few yoars ago, but that having died a natural death it is again on the Increase. I have sold as many stamp albums In the pas’ year as I did fn four years previous. Nothing elonld indicate the incresse better then that, 5 e — * % % * Rupture radically cured, also plle tumors and fistulas. Pamphlets of particolars two letter stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Assoctation, Buffalo, a8 in the United States, the capital and [N, Y Iabor problem is gradually meeting a s>- lutlon without violence and in a manner sat'sfactory both to operatives and capit:1- ists. ADVANTAGES OF CO-OPERATION, ‘The co-operation manufacturing com- paies of Oldham, Eangland, sre then given ag ssmples of the advantages to be derlved from that style of labor, and the pertinent question geked: May not what is practical in conserva- tive England bo also practical in tho United States, where whstever legiela- tlon may bo nec:ssary to placa such cc operative manufactories on asurs and snfe legal batis can be 8o easily secured? The fear that the laborers would ba too poor toinveet anything in the business is met by the fect that in no city in the United States are the working people so poor a8 they were in Oldham prior to the establishmont of these mills, .The address conoludes by an sppesl to the honest, Industrious people of this country to dlrest their energles to some such pacific moasure rather than give their time to listening to the echemes of thoee who are soeking to effect changes by physical force, which, after yoars of anarchy, suffering and desolation, would probably end In establishing a govern- ment lesy favorable to industry than that under whish the people enjoy ro small amount of polltical and soclal privileges —— STAMPS AND THEIR COLLECTORS, A Talk With a Franklin Street Dealer ‘Who Has Been Many Years in the Rusiness, “Stamps are of more modern origin then many imagine,” said s Franklin street dealer and collector, “‘The firat stamps used wero lssued in They were in the shape of prepaid envelopes, designed by W, Mulready, and engraved by John Prepaid letter sheets were Great Britain in 1840, Thompson, issued at about the ssme time, there be Ing two .denominations, one penoy and two penny, of both these and the en: e post oflice, and the common, collected upon delivery, system worked so well that it was soon adopted by other coantrles, Finland and Brazil being among the first to fall Into line, The United States first used stamps in 1847, but two yesrs previous the post- masters of New York, 8t. Louls, Baltl- more, Brattleboro and other places had for corvenience issued stamps of their own,jwithout the sanction of ths govern- men', The first counsry, by the way to adopt postal cards was Austria, In 1860, They were so well recelved that they were almost immedlately adopted by countriee, the United States falling into line in May, '73.” *'When did the custom of collecting s'amps begin?" *‘It 18 not known exsotly, but it was undoubtedly of spontaneous growth, peo- ple naturally preserving what is odd and steange, It was at its helghs in tl s country about 1865, at which time nearly everybody was cogsged in it, though not At that time cents was @ high ' a rule, solentifically. twenty five or fift, orice for a stamp, knowh one sold as ut since then I hav bigh as $200. I or to this time postage was mp affixed, or, what was more The ——— A Crashof Mauter and & Wreck. New York Tribune, ‘I shan’t never forgat the nlght when one of them things run into us,” sald the conducter, as a fire engine thundered down a side strest. ¢*When was that,” asked the reporter. ¢“Poward the last part of the presiden— tial campnign,” raplied the condactor, as he shoved a dime into his pocket with one hand and rang up two fares with the other. “We were coming up on the ‘runin’ in trip’ about 1 o'clock in the morning On the runnin’ in trip,’ you know, if we don’t got mor'n ten fires wo can run in when wo get to the etablo. 8o we were just & flyin’ along Centre streat, without lookin’ ¢ither to the right or left. There was a young feller an’ nis girl a settin’ in the front yight hand corner, & spoonin’ away for dear lifs, Just before wo got t) Grand street they changed theic seat and got on the other eide of the car to thercar. The movement eaved their livee; for just a3 we wore balf way round the curve, {uto Grand streef, goin’ at u good cight-milo gait, there camo & most awful crash, and the next thing I knew I was plokin’ myself up out of the gutter and feelin’ around fur my cap, while ons o them fire engines was & tesrin’ up the strest withont even droppin’ a men to sce whether we were dead or living', ‘*‘Giosh, that was rough, warn't iti” said Jim, the driver, as he eat up on the curbstone, an’ felt of his ribs to see if they were all there yet. “*‘Well, rather,” sald I for there was that car with the whole of one slde of it clean Fme. soatterad up along the street for half a block, while the hcsses were all mixed up in & heap, on the sldewalk, Well, eir, we warn't hart, either of us, Nelther were the hosses. So we just loaded up the wreck with all the kindlin' wood we could pick up around, and star- ted up the Bowery, @ never found the ‘oleck,’ 80 I was a dezon faces ir, Bot yer life I didu’lo )k for 1t very long! When we got to the stable they all swore we mu t have been drank or asleep, I and tell him about it, “ ‘What s the matter!' sald he, pukin' his head out of his chamber window, ! 350 oars smashed up,’ “ ‘Who did it1" sa'd be. 9T did, sayn 1 “ Well, you 1 hava to pay for it,’ siys he. “64ATl tight,’ says 1, ‘charge it up.’ ¢ ‘Wo ost ten days’ work while they were qu zzln us and investigatin’ the matter, but the cily pald for it. The fireman owoed up, it was his fault, It * | was late, you eee, and not expecting to meet anything they didn't ring the gong, because the horses run better without it.” “‘What become of the young couplel” asked the reporter. “Danno, Never seen 'em afterwerd,"” replied the conductor, helping a lady up the step. ‘‘Guess they walked tae rest of the way,” o — Horsford's Acid Phosphate IN DEBILITY FROM OVERWORK, Dr. G, W. Corums, Tipton, Ind., says: ‘I used it in nervous debllity brought on ¢ | by overwork in warm weather, with good t | results.” had to go aud ring up the superinten lent b THE DAILY BEE-~-THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1885, RATTLESNAKE OIL, An Cld.Time Industry Killed—The Lite of Rattleanake Town and Its Lesson, Blossburg, Pa,, Cor. N, Y. Sun, The land of Tisdaghton, once the prop- erty of the Six Nations, but since the year 1784 owned and controlled by the atate of Pennsylvania, and now known a8 the Plne Oreek Reglon, was for many years after its acquisition by Pennayl- vanla the ocentre of a thriving Industiy and commeroial prosperity. It was fish- ing for rattlesnakes, extracting the ofl from their slimy oarcasses, and market- ing the same. The Pine Oreek region waa the very hotbed of rattlesnakes, and the locallty produced them by ths mil- lion, The mountains which lift thelr heads a thousand feet or more above Tiadaghton or Pine Creek, were peculiarly adapted to the cultivation and propagation of these reptiles. The business of lumber- ing waa also carried on at the same time, and the timber and lumber ratts which at evory freshet were borne upon the watera of the Tiadaghton to the west branch of the Suequehanna, and thence to the Chesapeake Bay, were gencrally loaded with huge cans or barrels of rat- tle snake oil, extracted by the natlve Pine Creekers, in their rude bat econo- mnical way by lassooing, skinning and hanging the reptiles up by their tales upon poles In long rows in the sun, with wooden troughs undernerth to catch and receive the oleaginous substances, Every snake farmer had his hotbed or den, to which ho could repair yearly in June, July and August and harvest the crop. The product of this harvect (rattle- snake oil) was either sold for cash to the Iumberman or shipped on commission, or bartered for whisky. There were rattle- snake kings, autocrate and monopollsts in the snake farming business then, as there are now in the petroleum, railroad, and mining Industry. Complaints were then made In relation to discrimination in freights, and corners in rattlesnake ofl as there are now in petroleum, corn, oats, wheat, pork, butter, lard, cheese and oleomargarine. Rattlesnako Tom, or Snakey Tom, a wiley and scheming old monopolist, bond- holder and rattlesnake stock jobber,early in the development of the industry se- cured valuable franchises, which ulti- mately made him the Jay Gould or Stan- dard Oil company of that reglon, and for years he monopolized the catching of the snakes, extraction of the oll and the mar- keting of the same. He was usnally dressed in rattlesnako sklos from head to foot while skulking about in search of some fearless poacher who had Invaded his premises or trespassed upon hissnake- dom. To see him gliding along stealthi- Jy and sinuously over the rocks and mountain sides a thousand feet above the waters of the Tiadaghton, wearing moc- caelvs made of tho skinsof the yellow and black rattlesnakes, his brecches,vest, coat and chapeau made of the same ma- terial, each garment festooned and trimmed with rattles taken from the snakes, with a sash of snake ekins enclr- cling his waist and over his shoulders, after the manner of a modern brigadier, and careying a strong oaken rod in his hand, to which wasattached a linen lasso, he certainly made the Impression upon the nutives that he was a monarch in his pro- fession and a terror to all evil doars in the rattlesnake farming business, His ranch, or shipping yard, was about a mile below where Marsh Cresk empties its waters into the Tladaghton, while his plactations or enakerles were on the enst and west sides of the stream, and covered an area of several thousand acres, the beat adapted to the natural and artificial propagation of rattlesnakes of any terrl- tory in northern Peonsylvaria, Origlnally this large tract was owned by some fifteen or twenty snake farmers, who became involved in contracting for more oil than they could deliver, and wero caught short. Tom discoanted thelr paper snd advanced them whisky. Not wishing to do without that necsesary article in thelr buainers, they pledged thelr snakerles to Tom for an advance, ‘When they least expected it Tom entered up a Pennsylvania tight note against them and closed their concerns, There were no preferred creditors in those days, nor receivers appointed, .o Tom had abolute control of thelr effects snd wrested their snakerles from them. They were, however, wedded to the businees, and could not, or would not, pursue any other vocation, and became the tenants of Tom, working the anakeries on shares, To provent those tenanta from diverting the preducts from their ligitimato channel and kelllng to a rlval monopolist whose plantation was located some cighteen or twenty miles below upon the Tiadaghton, was the reason that euch an unwearied vigllance |, wes required by Rattlernake Tom, In June the buslnees was most brisk. Then the enakes came forth of thelr own accord in the greatest numbers, and were lassoed by the snskers, What snakes wera not attractsd by tho genial rays of the sun from thelr dens wero shakea from their rocky beds by the thousand by the violent claps of thunder which oc- curred in thismonth. The tendency was then toward over-production, and made the month of June a busy season at the snakeries. During this month Rattle- saake Tom never undressed hlmself, and scarcely slept an hour out of the twenty- four, ~ having his headquarters in the saddle, More definltely speaking, he trled to diffase himself over his valuable suakedom, and be at every polnt where the business was mostjbrisk at one and the sama tlme, keeping his vigilant eye upon his crafty and dlshon. est tevantry. In Jaly the work would go down to & raasonable workiog basls, but during the latter part of the dog deys, when the enakes were bliad, busl- nesy would revive agaln, and sometimes keep actlve untll the middle of Septem- or. Rattlesnake Tom owned a lice of boats which plied between his shipplog dock and Nortbumberland, touching at Jersey Shore, Williamsport, Muncy, and inter- mediate polnts. These, of course, were craft suitable for the trade. When buel- ness was brisk they were kept busy transporting whisky into the camps of those employed at the snakeries, and in taking rattlesnake oil down to Willlame- port or soms other seaport, and banking the proceeds. Tom's credit was A No, 1, snd he was rated high In business sgen- cies, his drafts always being honored by the liquor desalers'down the river. He would occaslonally suffer from dishonest sea - captaive, who would forge his paper, having learned in & clandestine manner how many enake rattles Tom usually sent Instead of greenbacks to represent an order for & barrel of whisky. =~ When such dishon- csty was dlscovered, the whole of Tom'’s tenantry would suffer. An embargo for the space of twenty-four hours was ls- sued by Tom, and no snaker could get a drapof whisky for that spice of ume. This was indeed severe and capital pun- lshment, Tom was honest with the l'quor deal- ers, and settled punctually every yesr 7 when the rattlesnake season had clesod and the books were posted. Although not skilled In the art of reading and writing and the manner of keeplng books, no man eould tell any better than he, learned or unlearned, how many snakes it required to make a cord or how much oll could be extracted from them. By long experlence he was enabled to cast his eye over a mlscellaneous squirm- ing mass of five or ten thousand snakes and estimate the number with mathematical precislon, a8 he could detect any at- tempt upon the part of his tenantry to withhold the true simon pure snake ofl nd substitute for It the baser oils, such 8 racooon, skunk, bear, or woodchuck oll. His goods were always stralght and unadulterated, monopolist ofl prince though he was. The bullding of the Jersey Shore and Pine Creek rallroad by Magee, Sherwood, Wallace, and Wanderbilt destroyed Tom's shipplng and wrecked his business just ata time when rattlesnake oil Is worth from a dollar toa dollar and fifty ocents per ounce. Alas! such Is the fate of some of our most _profitable old-time industries§ such the fate of individuals, states, and natlons. Rattlesnake Tom is no more, The march of clvilization and the Invasion of his territory by the locomotive, the frolght, passenger and parlor car wounded his native pride. Forlorn and disheart- ened, he sought his beloved mountains, and died of efther hunger, chagrln, or mortification. ———— Billousness Is very prevalent at this sesson, the symptoms belng bitter taste, offansive breath. coated tongue, sick headache, drowsiness, dizzlness, loss of appetite. 1f this condition is allowed to continue, eorlous consequences may follow. By promptly taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, a fever may be avolded or prematnre death prevented. It Isa positive cure for billlousness. Sold by all drugglats. | —————— OPTIVAL ILLUSIONS. strange FPhenomena of the Death Bed. Philadelphia North American, Many people,” wrlt pondent from Newark, ‘‘are decelved by optical illuslons. On a recent morning I looked into my brother’s room, and eaw him standing at his dressing cass. Then I remembered that I had heard him go down stalrs, and I said to myself: ‘This is an optical {llusion.” Knowing that it was such I looked at the figure untll it elowly faded away. Lot me add that 1 am in good bodily health, cheerful, believe sound inmind. A friend wh lately eaid in her last hours, when ently she was rational, that she saw her dead parents In her room. She exclalmed lady oorres- addreasing the friends who stood at her beside: ‘Thero they are, right there, Can’t you see them?™ I repeat thar, as far as a8 _anyone could judge, she was thoroughly consslous. But we will pass over her case, for it Is not exceptional and while we cannot say she was delirl- ous, neither can we aflirm positively that she had her sentes. “‘But here, I think, {s an unusual form of optical illusion, if it was an illusion at all. A few days ago a well-known busi- ness man of New York passed away. His widow is a cloar-minded and educated lady, without any morbid or superstitious talnt In her vature, or any bellef in sp!rlt. uallsm. While bending over her husband ehortly beforo his death she observed that the expratslon ¢n his face was changing, and the next moment saw there, Instead, the dead face of her brother. The two men were entirely unlike in appearance, one being light and having & blond beard, and the other very dark. Shortly after- ward tho lady eaw on her husband's facs the expression of a deceated friend, and a little later that of a third, Her morbld and unwrought tancy deceived her, some one says. Could two persons ba deceived at the sasme time and In the eame way? I ask this because three years ago this lady aud her sister watched beside a dy- ing child of the later. face suddenly changed. ladles saw that the other obs:rved this and eaid: « Emily, who was it? ¢ ¢Adelnide,’ was the answer. ‘¢ Yes, Adelatde.’ “The two ladles have told me that they saw unmistakably the face of thelr dead coutin, a woman, shining out through the T offer no ex- planation of the phenomena, and prosent them only because to me they seer very face of the dylng ohild. intercsting. e — Angostura Bitters is known as the great regulator of t igestive organs all over the world, Have it in house, Ask your rticle, man: grocer or druggist for th & Sons, ufactured by Dr. J. G Gl gy Relating to the Annals. M. M. 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