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VU In the Lonely Back Pew. Tha sermon was long and the preacher was prosy. The cusbion was soft and the corner w" oozy; And, musing. I knew By my side in the pew Was a dear little face tiat was dimpled and rosy. A stray bit of lace and the curl of a feather Lay close to my cheek. and I didn't care whether The service was long. Or flirting was wrong In a loaely back pew, as we knelt down to gether. In reading the prayers we had one book be tween us; So sweet was her smile that, had nobody seen UL While bent on our knees (Oh how Cupid did teasel1 Iha Wen akiss with the prayer lbook tc screen us. In theoriel window the sunlight was gleam ing. In my drowsy old brain I felt love fancies teeming: Then my heart gave a thump But my head got ft bump On the back of the pew-I had only been dreaming. -Life. A SOCIETY LADY. How the Demands of Fashion Are Sat Isfied. Errot -tie Morning Bath to the Evening Reception. A LIFE OF LUXtRY. A little French gilt timepiece ticking away the minutes in an upper room of one of Murrav hill's fine residences struck the half-hour beyond 9 o'clock on a recent morning, and while its deep cathedral note yet echoed upon the air there was a sudden movement among the lace hangings of a brass bedstead standino in a recess of the same apart ment, and a woman's face looked forth. The room was full of pretty things, warm with the blaze of a hickory fire, and brilliant with the dazzling winter sunshine, which, filtering through the draperies of the broad windows, lay in patches of light on floor and furnsh ings, but there was nothing one-half so pretty. so warm, or so brilhant, no pict ure so sunny or dazzling within the four walls, as that made by this same face, the face of a young and lovely woman. which, flushed from the pillow's downy caress, the eyes dewy with sleep. and the rumpled chestnut hair framing the whole in sweet confusion looked out to see what had awakened its owner. "Oh, it's you, vou chattering little clock." as hei eye 'fell upon the telltale hands, then, before she sank back into her nest, she leaned out to touch an electric button within easy reach. A moment and a soft knock prefaced the entrance of a nest-looking middle-aged woman in cap and apron. "Good mornin, Barker," came from the pillows. s-3y bath, please;" and rfarker opened a second door and dis appeared. In three minutes she was back standing at the bedside with a bath gown of thick, soft flannel and a pair of low shoes, warm and woolly. The young woman got up, suffered the flannel garment to be thrown over her lace and cambric night dress, thrust two white feet into the wadded shoes, and crossed to the bath-room. Barker only waited to take from various drawers and presses an outfit of feminine apparel, finished with an em broidered muslin combing gown whose ribbons were of the same pale-pink hue as tinted the silken stockings, before .she vanished a second time, and the room was left to the clock and the fire, with occasional mufflied splashings from the naiad in her tub. But not for lono'. The hall door uin closed again to amit a tall old negress, black a, Erebus, her head bound in a brilliant bandana. She shuffled to the door of the bath-room and knocked. "Ez you ready, honey?" "In a moment, mammy," sounded from within; then: "You may come now," and once more the fire and clock had it nil their own way in the outer apartment. Next Barker reappeared be'aring a silver tray, on whieh~ was a cup of bouil lon with 'some wafer-like crackers.__She had scarcely placed her tray upon a stand and wheeled a luxurious Turkish chair before the crackling fire when the inner door was flung wide open and, fresh from her plunge and glowing with mammy's vigorous massage, Beauty came out, her flannel gown wrapped warmlyv about her and her beautiful hair still closely snooded in its oilskin *he sank with supple grace into her waiting chair, the stand with its light refreshment quickly lifted to her side; then, as the lire gleamed too ardently on the soft, clear skin, Barker inter posed a glass screen. which tempered the flame's fervor, while it took nothing from its cheerful light. While the bouillon was sipped and the crackers munched manmmy broug~ht a low hassock. upon which she dIrew her voting mistress' feet. and with gentle, caressing touch p)ut aside the wadded shoes and incased each slender ankle and arched instep in its silken covering. using a silver shoe-horn of exquisite workmanship to spring the little satin slipper to its place. Then mademoiselle stood up while the black hands went deftly on with the task they loved so well. "You'~s jest like ez if you was a baby yet, honey," the old woman said. pat ting the 'lovely shoulders which rose smooth and dimpled above the cobweb chemise; and. -'D~eed, I wish you was, as she slipped the clinging petticoat of kitted silk over her charge's head. Mademoiselle laughed, and the dress ing went on till, the last ribbon of the muslin gown tied. mammy was forced reluctantly enough to resign her nurs .ling to another's care. For-Barker had not been idle during the robing process. The bouillon tray and stand were gone: a low dressing table whose beveled mirror was the per fection of reflective excellence had been turned to catch the proper light, an :armlei's chair placed before it, and now, flanked by her implements of office rows of silver-mounted brushes and combs, steel pins. pomades, and per .fumed water-the priestess of the hair dressing cereimonial awaited her victim. Mademoiselle seated herself, Barker slipped off the oilskin cap, loosened some pins, letting the veil of. chestnut hair fall in wavy richness quite to the fioor, and begizn her work. As the tire woman labored her mistress let her eves .stray idly before her, and her glance lelun- a little crystal vase upon the dressing-table whiieh lieit' a single fading rose. What did she see in its rusty petals and crumpled leaf to call up that curious half-tender light to her face, and why should this expression die slowly away and the proud lines of the exquisite mouth obtrusively show in its stead? -Barker," codly, --don't keep flowers about that are not fresh." "No, miss," said Barker respectfuly, but wonderinglv: then her eve, too. fell upon the condemned Marechal Niel. -I left the rose, miss, because you had it in your hand last night when you came in, and there was a bit of water in the vase where you put it, so I thought you would not vish it disturbed." Did a faint blush mantle that smooth white brow, or was it the wanton fire light which filled the room? "Very well, Barker; it is of no further value." And now the hair is done and the muslin gown is doffed for a robe of pale iis cashmere ined throughout with quilted satin and trimmed from neck to hem and at throat and wrists with cost ly fur. Then Barker hands a bit of embroidered cambrie exhaling a faint spicy fragrance, and draws aside a heavy portiere, through which made- I moiselle passes to a moring-room be yond. a beautiful, cozy apartment full of bric-a-brac and objects of art, an open upright piano in one corner, with a banjo, the latest craze, tilting its flat sphere against one leg. A sea-coal fire lows in the burnished grate, a tiger 6kin rug sprawls before it, and a break fast service of transparent china and old silver is set out upon a claw-legged mahogany table near the center of the room. As mademoisell enters. a beautiful collie leaps forward. fawn-ing against hit r and thrusting his nose under her caressing hand. His mistress pats him a little absently and moves on to the table. where at her plate is piled the morning mail. Letters. notes, cards of invitation, one or two black-edged funeral announcements, for death moves in the best society, too-she looks them all over without great eagerness, though her eves brighten when she opens one to read that a prominent man of fashion begs the honor of leading a coming nich-talked-of cotillon vwith her, nor do they dull when the next note informs her that her presence is desired among a small select party which an aristo cratic society matron is arranging to take to her eo'mntrv-house for a winter's lark. She goes on thro-ugh her letters while a servant brings the breakfast fruit, chocolate, a pair of reed birds, with potatoes a la creme, with an omelette aux confitures. Mademoiselle cats with relish and appetite, while the dog, on his haunches by her side, his forefeet on the floor, niakes with his head in the air a long. silky, inclined plane of his back, which ends effectively in a brush of waving fur. His eyes follow every movement of the fair eater, but his dumb entreaty gains him naught till the meal is done. One letter of her many that morning she has not yet opened. She takes this now, and as she breaks the seal the same fleeting look which the dying rose 'ad evolved co-rs back. The note is short, a half dozen lines: "I found my orders awaiting me last night. I leave to-night.' May I call late this afternoon to say grood-bv?" The letter drops from'her hand. The dog sees her cessation from writing and comes over to her feet. "Yes, Sultan," she says, stroking his head, "he may come to say good-by. and then we will think no more of this charming young officer with his small pay and slow promotion. and his tempt ing suggestion oi frontier barracks life." One more letter is quickly added to the number waiting to be sent, then mademoiselle hurres to her room, where Barker already awaits her. Twenty minu tes' later, perfectly dressed in a costume of cloth and fur, whose elegant simplicity equaled its ex travagant cost, gloved like a French woman and shod like an English peer ess, mademoiselle enters her carriage, and the tall footman holding the dloor bends to receive her initial order. She drives to' her tailor's where she mounts a wooden horse to have a new habit adjusted, to the jeweler's to select a present for a fashionable wedding; at a forist's she orders a funeral piece sent to a society house of mourning; she leaves her carriage for live minutes at a picture-gallery to glance at a canvas which her world is discussing; she1 shows herself at a business ieetmg~ of a charitable organization of which she is a member lone enough to say that she will stand at t ec Russian tab~le in a coming festival; she drives to the fur-I rier's to choose her sables, and to her bootmaker's for censultation over bot tines a la St. Petersburg, and she hurries finally imto the boudoir of her dearest friena: "Just to hope, dear, that you are go ing down to'Oakcliff' with 31rs. L. on the 21st. No? So sorry. And, oh, Nell, will you kindly lend~ me that little book on tigures for the ger'man your brother sent out from 'Vienna last month? 31r. R. and I want sonme novel ties for the Worthington ball." "That is the hist,'~ she says to herself thankfully when she has kissed her friend good-by, and "Hlome.'' is the word the footmnan takes as he climbs to the coachman's side. It is 2:3' when Barker is getting her out of her outdoor wraps, and lunceon is served, she is told. That meal ovecr, she must give her maid ten minutes' confab over t he evening's dresses and twenty more to criticise an arrangemnent her dressmaker has sent for inspection. Then a few moments to loll amnong the cushions of her divan skimming the chapters of the last novel before another toilet is in order. At 5 she is again in the carriage in a s'umptuous reception dress, rolling to an --ate'ruooa.- Two are down on her tablets for that day~, and by nice calculation she get~s the cream of both before. shortly after 6. she stands once more in her own hall and learns fronm the servant in attend ance that a gentleman is waiting to be received in the green parlor. In all the bravery of brilliant dress. dropping only the~ fur-lined carriage wrap, sie crosses the hall. Fifteen, twenty minutes pass. then the portiere of the green parlor is put aside and a young man comes out. His face is pale and lIis lips are compressed, but his bearing is erect and soldierly, and there i. aglem of .omathin in hijs kindfln ,ve which i.:i . :'. fli: s.orn when ,fiat mp of a -u--sh cleared anguidly. lie re.m =- rii i..ith warm.1th and i-h.: d on t.:. );--d is pread an iin dr- . : Md ilken sheen. briel% ) enxrtam and dinuer ;-; noit ui aie "1ep mce off wi'h tit-! thinu *: 'iv;n a loose gown :nd - :- -ere before the in- . "Your floo.-. it o- -u- 'he maid. ansv.....mdomi:h ring halt an hru:' lar. b):I, tix.h VunZ girl scarcely giati et th ;'.r npt -I shA! b'! 1:1 . IBa -rkef. - "make ha:!. to drusm n-. There are two ho::rs (. diinnr and three hours of lill )i thron,.h with bn fore ndm! .' v day -. and the lwt:en * - h, h'r a canonied con-i. T world h.- n at h'er e-. :Ini i ~ I'Ic.n of triunph and p r dov, io't wNht): l-ave the perfect fCee,mn after the fringed lids are elo.wd and the -t.swe.-: lreath coles reg~lary through th. ju parted linz.- -. '. Tms Jumbo on a Tear. Jumbo is a o.te chinipanzee and has received a Christian education. Visitors at th.- munum will have noticed him IS lie occupied a cage in the third story of the mum, and was very vivaciI-is : r'i- -,howig great stren-gth n shaking :eht avy iroi bar and swming"n wt " ienn enhnice on the fi ing trapoe. "Ju" is a charae ter and his exploits recntly showed him to be a schemer of no meani order. The fastenings of his enyre were thought secure. his keeper Lowanida, always tak ing the precaution to carefully padlock the bars; but woc alas to carelessness! A ker was left in the lock and his worthy monkeyship proceeded with great cau tion and subtlety to unfasten his lock and liberate himself from the dreary confines of the cage. Once out Jumbo. like all true revolutionists, made license of liberty and commenced to free the birds by running across to the other cages; letting out the coeatoos, parrots and other rare birds, and stirring them up with a club, as various marks found on the aforesaid birds would indicate. There is a large glass cage in the mu seum. and on the same floor. in which are kept several snakes of the constrict or species. A Bunson burner, connected with tubing and lighted to warm the occupants, was burning, and the Gallic looking chimpanzee thought he would investigate. How it occurred the keeper could not tell, but coming up-stairs, he 'beard the unusual chatter of the feath ered tribe, and then suddenly a fiendish yell, that indicated something unusually interesting, and startling. Bounding up stairs a strange sight met his gaze. The monkey had just leaped out of the snake den and a large constrictor was drag ging after him. his fangs fastened in the unhappy Jum's stump of a tail. At the sight of the keeper the howling mon key made for the stairs, the snake still clinging to him, sweeping a dozen sleeping parrots out of the way, who set up a perfect pandemonium of screeches at the disturbance. Lowanda says it was worth a man's life to see that chim panzee go down the stairs and thump ine the constrictor after him, who like a ull-dog never let up. Hastily closing the snake den and extinguishing the light, Lowanda ran down to the second floor and then began the chase. Over the freak stages, upsetting chairs and smashing medicine and photographs in a way that was a caution; then crossing the hall, leaping the iron grating that separates the crowds from the theater, the monkey went at a headlong gait, leaving his~ snakeship stranded" high and dry on the wire grating-a wiser if not thoroughly awakened snake. Down into the darkness of the pasage went "Jum," and at the bottom of the stairs he collided with a colored girl who was working about the buildng, and the now thoroughly frightened monkey, chattering and jibbering, clung with miht anal main to his friend "in need." fowanda says he appeared at the top of the landing just as they rolled over, and that the chimpanzee had a lot of bangs and frizzes of African fashion and cut in his paws; howsoever be it, "Jum" was captured and taken back to his den, docile and wheezing slightly from his exertions. When a reporter saw him he was esconsced demurely on his haunches, and at the approach of the newspaper man he cocked his eye and scratched his chinchilla whiskers as much as to say. "Old chappie, it's a cold day when we get left."-St. PauC Goe. She Was in Trouble. A young woman, befurred and eye-. glassed, sat near the stove weeping. It was not a hearty, yard-wide weep, but a furtive dropping of half-repressed tears upon the corper of a scented hand kerchief-merely a bit of a thaw in a cold wind. "In trouble, miss?" queried the gray haired and sympatlhetic passenger. "Ye-yes," was the sniveling reply. "May I inquire the nature of your woe, young lady? Possibly I can com fort vou." And for answer she snuffled up two or three times in her nose, reached into her dress pocket and pulled out a crum pled telegram. saying: "Read that." The sympathetic passensrer adjusted his specetacles, hemmed and hawed, turned half round in his scat, and can tiouly held the ominous missive to the light.~ He rea:d: -Conme home at once. Your doggie is sick."--Chicago ficrald. There is a certain man about townI whose generosity is not unbounded. Ho is uiti ready to accept, and even to ask for favors, but is not so often known to rcirocate. There come to him, how ever. aus to all men sooner or later, oc casions when it is impossible to avoid the semblance of hospitality anJd gener osit. even if he possesses it not. A for muau of his for suach dire necessity, I hear runs in this wvay: (Moderat) 'ld invite you to dinnyr to-day (an dante) lbut Eve are to have codfish to lay (allegro anid staccato. without wait ing for 'a dreaded acceprtance) and I kno, yon don't lUke eodti.'h."-Bostonl The Model for a Marble Hand. After the restoration of Louis Philippe to the French throne, many of Napol eon's soldiers were left in comparative poverty. One of them, a famous Gen eral, had a beautiful daughter whom he wished to marry rich, but who fell in love with a poor young man-an under secretary or something of that kind. She married at her father's request a rich Count. but refus-ed at the weddin& ceremony to allow the ring to be place upon her left hand, upon which she wore a ruby, put there by her lover. Her jealous husband was not long in finding out what was the matter, and, intercepting a letter in which the ardent young lover claimed Matilda's hand as his, he determined upon an awful re venge. One night as the celebrated surgeon Lisfrance was returning from a profes sional visit, he was captured by a party of men, blindfolded and taken to a dis tant palace, and led through a labyrinth of passages and rooms, At length his conductor, stopping, said: "Doctor, we have arrived; remove your bandage." The doctor, whose fears had given place to a restless curiosity and a vague ap prehension, obeyed. and found himself in a small chaniber furnished with re markable luxury, and half lit by an alabaster lamp hung from the ceing. The windows were hermetically sealend as well as the curtains of an alcove at the end of the room. Here the doctor found himself alone with one of his abductors. He was a man of imposing height and command ing air, and his whoe exterior of the most aristocratic stamp. His black eyes gleamed through the half mask that covered the upper part of his face, and a nervous agitation shook his color less lips, and the thick black beard that inframed the lower. "Doctor," said he, in an abrupt, loud voice, "prepare for your work-an amputation." "Where is the patient?" asked the doo tor, turning toward the alcove. The curtains moved slightly, and he heard a stifled sigh. 'Prepare, sir," said the man convulsively. "But. sir, I must see the patient." -You will see only the hand you are to cut off." The doc tor, folding his arms and looking firmly at the other, said: "Sir you brought me here by force. If you need my profes sional assistance I shall do my duty without caring for that or troubling my self about your secrets; but if you wish to commit a crime you can not force me to be your accomplice." "Be content, sir," replied the other, "there is no crime in this," and leading him to the alcove he drew from the curtains a band. "It is this you are to cut off." The doctor took the hand in his; his finers trembled at the touch. It was a lad's hand, small, beautifully molded an( its pure white set off by a magnifi cent rubv encircled with diamonds. "But," cried the doctor, "there is no need of amputation; nothing is-" "And 1, sir! I say," thundered the other, "if you refuse I will do it myself," and, seizing a hatchet, he drew the hand toward a small table and seemed about to strike. The doctor arrested his arm. -Do vour duty then, doctor." "Oh, but this is an atrocious act," said the urgeon. "What is that to you? It ust be done. I wish it; madam wishes it also; if necessary she will demand it herself. Come, 'madam, request the doctor to do you this service." The doctor, nouplused, and almost fainting under the torture of his feeling<. hearI from the alcove, in a hail-expiring voice and an inexpressible ac'cent of de spair and resignation: "Sir, since you are a surgeon-yes-I entreat you-let it be you and notz-Oh, yes; you! you! in merev" "Well, doctor," said the man:0, -you or 1."' The resolution of this man was so frightful. the prayer of tihe poor lady so full of en:n-iaty and desp~air, .that the doctor feit that even humanity com manded of him compliance with the appeal of the victim. He took his in struments with a hiust imploring look at the unknown, who oniy pointed to the hand, and then with at sinking heatrt began the opecration. For the first time in his experience his hand trembled; but the kxiife was doing its work. There was a err from the alcove, and then alt was silenit. Nothing was heard but the horrid sound of the operation till the haind and the saw fell together on the floor. Lisfrance wore the ruby upon his watch-chain, where it was seen by the young lover on his return to Paris, and out of it grew a duel that led to the dis closure of the infamous crime. The morning after the young lover' s arrival at the capital lhe was presented by a man in livery withi an ebony box. Opening it he discovered a bleeding hand, Matilda's, and on it a paper with these words: "See how the Count of -- keeps his oath." After the duel the young man fleed to Brussels, where the bleedmng hand was transferred to can vas. Hart seeing the painting copied it in marble.-Lexingtonl (Ky.) 1.eter to Cincinnati Enquirer. An Extra Quarter.-A peddler of tin. ware in one of the mountain counties of this State called at a farm-house the other day, where the woman wanted to sell him a bear skin. " 'Tain't worth no great shakes," said the peddler after looking it over. "The b'ar was killed two months too early."~ "How much?" asked the woman. 'About 75 cents." Se here, stranger," she continuedl as she gave the skin a rub, "when I tell you that this 'ere b'ar clawed my hus band to death less'n two months ago, and that I'm still a grievin' widder-wo man, can't you make the price a dol lar?" Beinge a nmn of sentiment and tinware comnbined he said he could. Wall Street News. General Longstr'eet thinks that his unl'. William Longstreet, of Augusta, Ga., should share with Robert Felton the laurels of the inventor of steam' boats. T1his ingenious Georgian was big with the idea as early as 1788, but it was not until 1808 that lhe succesf:ully ran a boat byv steam" in the Savamnah. --P'ap." said lttie Ja1cobi, kinking ui from his Sundayv-sch'ool paper. "here i' a piece that say'-.er v'ersus Whisky. Shall I read it-" '"T'row dat paber im de sechtove. Shaky. Innv mans vot say' beer is vorse as visky ain't lit for nlod ings except kindling-rood."-- fling GAMUBLER RANSUM. How Ile Saved a Man from Ruln and Nade a Family Iappy. "I couid relate lundreds of stories about his life." .aid a shining light of the N. Y. Athleti Clu b speaking to a re I porter of the N. Y. Mil & Expre.s about the well-known sporting man Charley Ransom, who dict recently. "There is one story about him which the papers have not publizhed yet. Charley and I made the acquaintance of what we thought to be a very wev'lthv man at the Monmouth Beach racP-course two years I ago last summer. le was introduced to us by a prominient official of police headquarters. .After the races were over, all three went over to Long Branch. Charley and I came up to this city on an early train, leaving our new acluaintance bhind. I never saw him after that, but Charley one day met him on Broadway, near Twentv-third street. They went to the Fifth Avenue hotel to get a drink. I don't know exactly how it was, but that same night both sat down in the room of a neigrhboring ho tel to play draw-poker. 7 do not wish to disclose the gentleman's name. be cause he is a good father now and be cause such indiscreetness on my part might hurt his present fair chances; but he was a confounded ass for his own sake. Charley was an honest fellow, however, and he played a square game. Our new friend dropped $375 that night, all he had in his possession. He made an appointment for the next evening in the hope of getting even. but he again quit a loser. This time he threw up his hands to the tune of $1,200. They kept playing every odd night until the mid dle of the following Dccember. Our gay friend by that time was minus, ac cording to hiq own calculation $18.900. Charley wanted him to give up poker half a dozen times before he lost this amount, but in each instance he refused I The fellow commenced to drink like a' fish and Charley confidentially told me he'd be hanged before he'd 'sit down with him again. He never did play af ter that, although the fellow accused him of being afraid to render satisfac tion. 'One mornin about 10 oclock Char Icy fell in wit the would-be sport on Sixth avenue. He was partly intoxicat ed, and his dissipated appearance de noted he had not seen a bed for several nights. Charley endeavored to get away from him on the plea of business. but it was useless. Our friend held on to the lapel of his overcoat and insisted that they repair to a room and indulge in a game. But the devil could not have altered Charley's fixed determina tion and he said so.' While both were talking a little boy of about 12 years and touched the leg of Char Iey's foolish friend. There "was a little snow on the ground, and the little fel low's feet protruded from a broker. pair - of boots. He had neither overcoat nor mittens on, and he really looked the picture of misery. Turning around, our friend saw the boy, and Charley often told me he turned deadly white. 'What are you doing here?' he finally asked the lad. 'Oh, papa,' stammered the boy, moving backward, as if he was afraid, -I have been looking all over for you. Aunt and mamma sent me to find you.' This drove the fellow almost mad, and lie broke out with frightfnl oaths, winding up by bidding the boy to get home or he would kick him all over the street. The lad departed with out a word, but before going lie cast a most signiticant but affectionate look at the mian he called father. "Charlev had had enough, and break ing away from the man's grasp he walked in the opp)osite direction to that taken by the boy. The father, after a moment's hesitation, went into a gin mill. When Charley saw him disappear from view he turned on hi.s hee~l and with a qutick gait startedl after 'he lad. He overtook him at Twenty-iiftl street. The bor' would not talk for so ne time, but finally he broke dlownz and told all; informed~ him how his fatther was fast ruining a good business down town; how he had mortgaged! the house they lived in. on-well, never mind what street, how mother, sister, and self were being neglected. :tbused, and starved, and how their once comfortable home was faist going to pieces. Well, the end of that business~ was that a sober man entered his home that night, and a weeping wife em braced hi m. They were tears of joy. I assure you. 'Ine mortgage was paid off the next day, a good business wa~s revived, and a man who not long before wished to be a sport. sat down to dinner with his fami ly in his cozy dining-room. No matter how the thing was managed. I promi ised a dead friend I would never tell any cue about it, but I could not keep a secret, for lie was a good fellow. HeI may have been a sporting man; may have earned a living by cards, and may have associated with sonic rough per sons, but I'll warrant there never walked along the path of life a better man than Charley~ Ransom. No P'. sw for the Creditor. 'iR.uiher a strange thing occurred the other dlay," said a jewelry drummer, as he lighted a match on his pantaloons; "I went to a town out ir hwa to settle up an account with a firm there that had been running behind on their pay ients. The firm, composed of two brothers, wvas one of the largest in the town. and I had no fear of trouble, but when I arrived there I found that they had dissolved p~artniership and closed business." "Didn't iose anything, did vo'i?" "Lose anything? Shiould say we did. One brother- took alt the stock and skip ped cast, and the other took all the cash and lit out for the west. What show has a poor creditor mot coming in on the shank end of suc71 a dissolution of co-partner-hip as that?"'-Thicago Hecr ald. A Mat' 1'treetmrh.p a rad and pre'pared I iliimself to "'npy it wito hs eustomers. Aliong iu** ~thnrnoo tie wife of ani artist came i n i - Ied it at on'e. -'h Mr. l." -h a'. -h'sa ha ndsomenu t''ur' 'm yv~ wm cal t orelf, i do . 'ou"r.tts excellent,"'pursuete lay--n 1m lad to sec ai love of art dere(loipig m commercial circles. What is the figure - -Hbe" O, no, ma'am: it's phistar paris"-.Merchant Tran'cr THE LITTLE SCL L;O A - . "Speakin' of the rural regions," said an old chap at the end of a bar, who had trouble in raising a glass of beer to his mouth with his right arm, "I might be indooced to relate a leetle adventure which happened to me in Injiany." He was earnestly advised to free his conscience of its burdens. and be con tinued: "Well, I had been hangin' around In dianapolis for several weeks. and finally the police judge advised me to leave town. I never argy with a police judge. When they come right (own to fatherly advice I accept it and git. I left the town inside of two hours, and it didn't take me over three hours to reach a mile-post ten miles away. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a I was restin' beside the highwav. a schoohna'am passed. She was a ehipper leetle body, weighin' about ninety pounds, and white-faced, and vhen I sort o' riz up to ax her if she didn't have a bite to eat in her basket she uttered a womanish yelp and started off on a dead run. I lidn't her my swaller-tail coat and standin' collar on that day, and I guess she took me fur a tramp. "Now, gents, when a feller is ragged, hungry, and out o' rhino, what does he do? He makes a break, in course. I walks along fur about a mile, and when I comes to a farm-house with a look of comfort about it I iln and asks if a poor man who has lost his hll family in the great Chicago lire can git a bite to eat, to brace him up as he journeys toward the settin' sun. The motherly old soul of a farmer's wife would hey set out a square meal for me, but that leetle schoolma'am was there to prevent. I heard 'em whisperin' together in the next room, and by and by the old lady came back and give me the bounce. A tramp as has beionged to the purfesh fur fifteen %-ears hadn't orter lire up over sich a tritle as that. but it hit me like a blow below the helt, and I determined on revenge. "I went into the orchard and stole some apples, and then laid around to watch. I found out afore dark that the farmer was an old man, and that there was only three of 'em in the house. Long 'nuti' fore tile lights were out I had arranged with mvself to break in. There was a chance ofi plunder, and I inteided to scare that leetle sehoolma'amn out of a year's growth. I don't say as I would hev laid hands on her, but that very thing might hev happened, you know. "Well, about half an hour after mid night I begins operations by creepin' up to the back door. It was shut, but not locked, and I crept in, struck a light, and found my way to the pantry. Tuere was cold meat, pumpkin pie. and bread and butter, and it tok me a good half an hour to till up. i might hvr got out then, but I wanted soIethin' else. There was nobody sleepin' down :,tairs, and after pocketin' a watch I crept up-stairs into the old folks' bed room. They was sleepin' as sound as you please, and the moon shinin' in furnished all tie light needed. I went through a bureau and got a wallet, and was searchin' the old man's pants, when I heard a step at the door an a voice cried out: 'Surrender or I'll shoot!' "It was that leetle hclioohnia'am. She stood in the door in her night-dress, a revolver pointed full at me, and I could see her eyes blaze. I made a rush to seize -her, when 'crack! crack! went the revolver, and one bullet struck me in the right shoulder and another in the side. I went down as if shot through the head, and up jumps the old man and piles on to m like a ton of briek. The little schoolma'anm went down stairs after a rope, and then helped tie me hand and foot. More'n that, she kept guard over me while the old man went otl' for an otlieer, and every time I fetched a groan she had that revolver readyv to shoot. 'lin conclusion, gents, permit me to remark that the court give me five years for that little all'air, while the plucky leetle schoolma'amn received a public purse of $200. Sometimes I've felt as if it was my dooty to hunt her up and marry her. "-New Tork Sunl. Forcing the American Hog on Europe. Among the bills introduced in the Senate last week and appropr;iately r'e ferred was one by Senator Edwmnds, "providing for the inspection of mueats for exportationi, prohibliing the im portationl of adulterated articles ol ood anid di'rik, and authorizing the Presidenit to make proclamation in certain cases." Senator Edmunds said that this bill adi been r'eported last year from *.he committee on foreign relations. Be sides providing f'or the, inspection .of por'k, &c., tor' exportation, it contain ed, lie said, a section giving the Presi dent authority, whenever he was eon vinced that unjust uji-crimi nation wa, made against the admission of' Ameri can products into other countn'es, to pi ohibit thle intr'oductioni ot such articles as lie thought fit for the pro tetion of the just interests of the United States. In view of what he (Edmnunds) saw in the newspapers about current events in other countries touchmi g Amierican pr'otucts on t he theory that they were supposed to be disealed, when'the fact was obviou that the object was to exclude them under any consider'ation, he (Ed munds) thought it clear that it was time to introduce this bill again. CAtN'T BE BEATS rBE DRIVEN WELL MAKES IT EASY to ge' wvater. No Well CleanIng. ('heap I Durable! CALL ON ' T. C. Scafe, SUMTER, S. C. JACOBI HOUSE, FLORlENCE .9. C. M. JTACoBL AGT gt'L ver stb'e in ece-:;Ie F.' e5 INSURANCE AGLai, MANNING, S, C. Wm. Sepherd & Co., 128 MEETING STREET, CHARLESTON, SO. CA. STOVES, STOVES STOVES -AT WHOLESLE AND RETAIL -o Tinwares, House Furnishing Goods, Potware, Kitchen and Stove Utemsils. 12 Send for Price List and Ciren lars. i C. H. CLAUSSEN & C0,, SIBam Upl ud Cady FacItl', CHARLESTON, 8.C. W. A. Reckling, .A.R TIS T, 110i MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. Portraits, Photographs, Ste reoscopes, Etc. OLD PTCTURES COPIED AND ENLARGED. bept 16 EDEL BROS., RICHMOND, VA., )anafacturers of Tobacco & Cigars, And Wholesale Liquor Dealers. GRAND CENTRALE HOT EL, Cluza1bia. S. C. U. HI. FISHER, Prop'r. NOTICE TO. FARMERS. I respectfully call to the attention of tGw Farmers o1 Clarendon the fact that I hnr. secured the Agenry for tns Corbin 1'-.i Harrow, Planet .J r. H orset Hoe and Cc> vaor, Johnson Harvester and the C.: nental teap--r. I have one of each of the. intrutnns for display at my stables, : will take pleasure in ahowing and ex1ini - ing their utility. No progressive ?arnL.e. can afford to do without these itapiluen. W. K. BELL, &gt , Apr15 Manning, S. 1. Notice I I desire to call to the attention of the MUi. Men andt Cotion Planiers of Clarendo~n, that I have secured the agency for thi. County. for the DAN! EL PRATT R&~ VOLVING H EAD GIN. Having use-d tils Giu r or several years I can recommenu it as t he be.'t Gin now in use. Any infor rnation in regard to the Gin will be cheer tlly given. I camn also supply the peopi.: o Giarendon with any other machine;y which they may ne-ed, at the lowest prie( -s. Parties n i~liir:g to purchase gins will tid it to t ber inte r, s- to) .,ivetheir ord--rs ear'.y. 'u. SCO3IT IT A I:VN, May 5 MaLnag: C. W. F. B.Evsw~amn, SutS.. HAYNS WORT H & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAWS MAN ING. S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, MANNING, S. C, jant 3. E. SCOTT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, MANNING,. .C. e ff~ advertiser to con R~.._..J.nce or oherwise. ofth cos of aydertsn .1h eadverie wh fomation Ite renu res. -whleforhim ho wil meet his every xrqiremnent, or can be made *espn*c.*d1j49 editCns ave en Isned. Sent, pst-pai to any address for 10 cents. WiE t G EO.P OEL C.