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VOL. VII. NO. 19.
BARNWELL, C. H., S. 0... THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1884.
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PICTURE.
{•ee Ur now—Ulfc falroH thing
Inuurapi
TU» mm mocked man'* picturFng,
I pictnroUr a» on« who drew
Arid* fife'* oar tain and looked through
The mist* of all 1(1#’* myitery
A* from a wood to open sea.
The *oft, wide ryaa of wonderment
That tmsting looked yon through and
The iwtti, arched month, a bow pew bent,
That *ent k>T»’* arrow «wift and traa.
TUt sweet arched me nth! The Orient
Hath not mch peat]* in ail her store*;
Not all her storied spiee-aet shores
Hare fragrance snob as it hath spent,
Ypictare her as one who knew
How rare is troth to be antroe-
As one wh^jumw the awful sign*
OfdaattwaTiife, of the divine
Sweat pity, of all loves, all hates,....
Bensstfa the iron-footed fates. ~ : 7*
I ptotnre her as seeking peace,
And olive leaves and vine-set land ;
While strife stood by on either hand,
And wrong her tears like rosaries
I picture her in passing rbyms
As of, yet not a part of, these
A woman born above her time;
A woman waiting in her place,
With patient pity on her face.
Her face, her earnest, baby face ;
Her young face, so uncommon wise—
The tender love-light in her eyes—
’fwo stars of Heaven out'of place. ~
Two stars that sang as stsrs^of old
Thtlr silent eloquence of song, '
From aides of glory and Of gold.
Where Ood in pnrple paaaed along—
That patient, baby face of hers
That wOn a thousand worshiper s!
That silent, pleading face ; among
Ten thoesend faces jnst the one
I still shall love when all is done,
And life lies by, s harp unstrung.
That face, like shining sheaves among
That face half hid, ’mid sheaves of gold
That face that never can grow old ;
And yet has never been quite yonng.
Josquro Miller.
ROMANCE OF LOS ANGELES
S
“Of all Don Antonio’s graphic narra
tive* of the olden times, none is more in
teresting than those which describe his
adventures daring the days of this con
test. On one of the first approaches
made bj the Americana to Los Angeles,
he went out with his little haphazard
company of men and boys to meet
them. He had bat one cannon, a small
ooe, tied by ropes on a cart axle. He
'had bat one small keg of powder which
was good for anything; all the rest was
bad; would merely go off ‘poof, pouf,’
fii<f sfenbra said, and the ball would pop
down user the month of the cannon.
With this bad powder he fired his first
shots. The Americans laughed; this is
child’s play, they said, and pushed on
closer. Then came a good shot, with the
good powder, tearing into their ranks
and knocking them aght and left; an
other, and another. ’Then the Ameri
cans began to think, these are no poof
balls; and when a few more were killed,
they ran away and left their flag behind
them. And if they had only known it,
the Californians had only one more
gfiarge left of the good powder, and the
next minute it would have been the Cali-
fornians that would have had to run
sway themselves,’ merrily laughed the
■enora as she v told the tale.
^"This captured flag, with important
papers, were intrusted to Don Antonio
to canry—to—the- Mexican—head
quarters at Sonora. He aet off with an
escort of soldiers, his hone decked with
silver trappings, his sword, pistols—all
of the finest; ^ prond beginning of a
journey destined to end in a different
fashion. It was in winter time; odd
rains were felling; by night he was
drenched to the skin, and stopped at a
friendly Indian’s tent to change his
clothes. Hardly had he got them off
when the sound of hones’ hoofs was
heard. The Indian flnng himself down,
put his ear to the ground and exclaimed,
’Americanos! Americanos!’ Almost in
the same second they were at the tent’s
door. Aa they halted, Don Antonio,
clad only in his drawers and stockings,
crawled out at the beck of the tent, and
creeping on all fours reached a tree, up
which he climbed, and sat safe Udden
in the darkneaa among its brandies lis
tening, while his puranera cross-ques
tioned the Indian, and at last rode away
with his hone. Luckily, he had carried
into the tent the precious papers and the
captured flag; these he intrusted to" an
Indian to take to Sonora, it being evi
dently of no nse for him to try to cross
the country thus closely pursued by his
enemies.
thickets can realise the desperateness
of this act But it succeeded. The
Indian threw over the old cactus plants
an old blanket and some refuse stalks
and reeds; and there once more, within
hearing of all his baffled pursuers said,
the hunted man lay, safe, thanks to
Indian friendship. The crafty Indian
assented to all the Americans proposed,-
•aid that Don Antonio would be safe to
be caught in a few days, advised them
to search in a certain ranoheria which
he described, a few miles off, and in an
opposite direction from the way in
which ho intended to guide Don Anto
nio. As soon as the Americans had
gone, he bound np Antonio’s feet in
stripe of raw hide, gave him a blanket
And an old tattered hat, the beet his
stores afforded, and then led him by a
long and diffionlt trail to a spot high np
in the mountains where the old women
of the band were gathering acorns. By
the time they reached this place, blood
was trickling from Antonio's feet and
legs, and he was well-nigh fainting with
fatigue and excitement Tmts rolled
down the did women’s cheeks when they
saw him. Some of them had been ser
vants in his father’s house and loved
him. One bronght gruel; another
bathed his feet; others ran in search of
healing leaves of different sorts. Brnis
ing these in a stone mortar, they .robbed
him bom head to foot with the wet
fiber. All his pain and weariness van
ished as by magic. His wounds healed,
and in a day he was ready to set off for
home. There was bnt one pony in the
old women’s camp. This was old,
vicions, blind of one eye, and with one
ear cropped short; bnt it looked to Don
Antonio far more beantifnl than the gay
steed on which he had ridden away
from Los Angeles three days before.
There was one pair of ragged shoes of
enormous size among the old women’s
possessions. These were strapped on
his feet by leather thongs, and a bit of
old sheepskin was tied around the pony’s
body. Thus accoutered and mounted,
shivering in his drawers'nnder his single
blanket, the captain and flag-bearer
turned his face homeward. At the first
friend's honse he reached he stopped
and begged for food. Some dried meat
was given to him, and a stool on the
porch offered to him. It was the honse
of a dear friend, and the friend's sister
was his sweetheart. As he sat there
eating his meat the women eyed him
curiously. One said to tha other, 'How
much he looks like Antonio !’
“At last the sweetheart, coming nearer,
asked him if he were ‘any relation of
Don Antonio ?’
“ ‘No,’ he said.
“Jnst at that moment his friend rode
np, gave one glance at the pitiful beggar
sitting on his porch, shonted his name,
dashed toward him, and seized him in
his arms. Then was a great, laughing
and half weeping, for it had been ru
mored that he had been taken prisoner
by the Americans.
“From this friend he received a wel
come gift of a pair of trowsers, many
HEAL DOW GROWN SARCASTIC.
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
inchee^too short for his legs.- At the
next honse his friend was as mnoh too
tall, and his second pair of gift trowsers
had to be rolled np in thick folds around
his ankles.
“Finally, he reached Los Angeles in
lafety. Halting in a grove ontside the
town, he waited till' twilight before en
tering. Having disguised himself in the
rags which he had worn from the Indian
village, he rode boldly np to the porch
of his father’s honse, and in an impudent
tone called for brandy. The terrified
women began to scream; bnt his young
est sister, fixing one piercing glance on
bis face, laughed ont gladly, and cried!:
“ ‘Ton can’t fool me, you are Anto
nio.’ "—The Century.
Dishonest Pension Claim Agents.
-“All night he lay hidden; {Le next
day he walked twelve miles across the
mountains to an Indian village where be
hoped to get a hone. It was dark when
he reached it Cautiously he opened
the door of the hut of one whom he
knew well The Indian was preparing
poisoned arrows; fixing one on the
string end aiming at the door, he called
cut, angrily, ‘Who is there f
^ Tt is I, Antonio.’
“‘Don’t make a sound,’ whispered
the ladtan, throwing down his arrow,
springing to the door, coming out and
closing it softly. He then ptooe^led to.
tell him that the Americans had offered
a reward lor his hsad, and that some of
the Indiana in the ranoheria were ready
to betray or kill Mm. Whila they were
yet talking, again came the sound of
the Americana’ horses’ hooli galloping
in the distance. This time there
a a spied no escape. Suddenly Don Anto-
nto, throwing Uawelf on Us stomaefc
wriggled into a cactus patch near b;
Only on* who imp mu
X
District Attorney Oorkhill in Wash
ington has written a letter to Secretary
Teller on the frandnlent transactions of
certain pension claim agents, in which
he proposes to make a thorough inves
tigation of the charges made by those
who have been. the sufferers. He say*
he has become satisfied tost the Grand
Jury of the District should give theee
complaints a thorough investigation, so
that innocent men may not be subject
to unjust imputations and the guilty
maybe brought to answer them. He
ihinfia the character of the enormous
frauds which are being perpetrated upon
applicants for pensions by certain claim
agents of Washington will, if the alle
gations made are sustained by the evi
dence, surprise the public. In conclud
ing the letter the District Attorney
says:—
"The
Kxtrmete Wma aa llliaala Letter
Father ef (he Mmlae Law.
the
Neel Dow writes as follows :—In Il
linois, as in all the West, the burning
question jnst now is: “What shall we
do,with the saloons?” The politicians
here, as in other States, look at It care
fully on all jddes, very mnch as s child
would examine a porenpine with quills
erect and defiance in its eye. With
them (the politicians) it is s study how
not to touch it, being sore to be pricked
which ever way they may take it. In
this State it is “high hoenae,” the lair
providing that no saloon shall be per
mitted for a less sum than $600 a year,
bnt the municipalities may increase this
sum indefinitely. In Decatur the talk
•s to raise the saloon fee to $1,500,
which it is said the saloons can very well
afford to pay,' since the “business” is
amazingly profitable in many ways. No
grocers are allowed to sell ’ liquors of
any kind, and the saloons are run on
the most scientific plan and with a great
deal of skill and enterprise, such as is
displayed in other branches of trade,
with a view of expanding it and making
the most of it. The sneoess has been
very great in this line. A gentleman
told me, by way of illustration, of three
large estates in a town here that
went into liquidation within three or
four years after the saloons turned their
attention to them. The proprietors died
one of them leaving a son of 21 yean,
the only heir, the others leaving two
sons each. The saloons cultivated the
acquaintance of these young men so suc
cessfully that within five yean their
estates had changed ownen, the saloons
being so mnch the richer, while the nice
yonng men were stripped of every pen
ny. The young man who was sole heir
to his father’s large property died at 25
yean of age at the house of an uncle
where he had been sheltered for a year,
the nncle paying the funeral expenses.
The saloons can very well afford to pay
$1,500 a year for the permission and
protection of law in carrying on their
most respectable' business. It is highly
respectable, because no one is allowed to
engage in it without a certificate that he
is a man of most respectable and excel
lent character. Tom, Dick, and Harry
may sell flour, shoes, cloth or hardware,
but they cannot keep a saloon—none
bnt the beat men are allowed to do that,
the purpose of the law being to make
the trade respeoUble and honorable, as
it is useful.
rhe HetctK ef 410 Feet Already Ai
u4 140 Fee* te be A44e4 Tfce
el Other Lefty Tewera aa4
The Washington ssonoment is finished
to a heightof tiOlssi^ akwhioh it will
remain till the work is resumed in the
spring. There is yet to be added 140
feet before the shaft is completed,but
even now the smooth white pHilar is the
loftiest artificial elevation on this conti
nent, and, with twelve or thirteen ex
ceptions, on this planet When com
peted it will be the highest structure of
inman hands in the world. Washing
ton will then be not only first in war,
first in peses, and first to the hearts of
his countrymen, but also first in the
might of his monument.
Since the column has grown to such
an altitude it his attracted visitors in
crowds, who besiege Ool. Casey for
to enable them to ascend the
elevator that hoistatke blocks of marbU.
To the greet delight of the sightseers
and the hindrance sad vexation of the
masons, such passes are issued. Among
the visitors recently was a group consist
ing of a learned mathematician, two
tubes, and a reporter of The Sun.
When the party argitad at the foot of
the monument ita noble proportions
persons defrauded are poor
and comparatively helpless and form s
class to whom the country owes special
protection. If the representations made
to me concerning the devices used to de
fraud them ef their little earnings are
true, they rival in cunning the artifices
of the meat experienced swindlers who
practice three-card monte and similar
games. If nothing else were scoot
plished by the investigation it would at
least warn soldiers and their widows and
orphans of their danger and prevent in
future their being swindled of their
money, and tt wilt vindicate honest
agents from unjust s—ptekm.”
A
bis
only
is an imesti
that is, a conscience not
to dlaemn what is evil, bnt
to ahan it, aolbo eyelid eloieo
FORTUNES OUT OF THE EARTH.
Alkaay Faralefclae the Saa4 lar MUIIaaa at
MaMa.
A large proportion of the molding
sand consumed in the foundries of the
United States is dog ont of the hills of
Albany oonnty. It is said that every
thing in soluble metal, from a Kmpp
gun to a heel plate for a lady’s shoe, has
lieen cast in Albany sand. Quantities
of it have been exported as ballast. The
annual shipment of sand obtained here
abouts from this city is estimated at
from 75,000 to 100,000 tons, the price
paid for it, delivered-mx-board the cars
or boats, being about $1.25 per ton,
making a business involving an annual
revenue of $100,000. Two-thirds of the
Whole product goes out of Albany by
water, the sloop* which bring stone and
lumber to this port usually returning
with a cargo of sand. There is a demand
for the sand which can scarcely be sup
plied, the beds in other sections of the
country from which the consumers have
drawn for yean having become ex-
hsusted. The sand excavated in Albany
has, too, a reputation which no other
possesses. It has what molders call
“ life,’’ a quality which adapts itself to
all climates and conditions. It is also
cleaner and finer than most other sands.
Castings turned out of it need compara
tively little dressing.
It is found below the surface usually,
at the depth of three or four feei It
lias in strata avenging from two to
eight inches in thickness? one above the
other. Property on which sand veins
are known to exist sells at from $125 to
$500 per sere. The soil after the sand is
removed does not depreciate for
agricultural usee. Dealers more fre
quently buy the privilege of excavating
the sand at a stipulated price, leaving;
the owner the property really undis
turbed at the end. The proeess of re
moving the sand is very simple. Section
by section the asad is taken out from
beneath the superficial soil, which is
then allowed to drop until the whole
field has been lowered to e depth corre
sponding to the thickness of the layers
gf soiL The sand diggers extract the
materiel is dexterously as e clever boy
will scoop the apples out of the crust of
e pie. Hundreds end hundreds of sores
in this county have undergone this pro
cess without apparent injury to the
value of the land for other purposes.—
Alban!/Journal.
Faxhib B. Ward warns from Saltillo
that at whatever hour e person dies in
Mexico, it is customary to appoint the
funesal-just twenty-four hours later, am
that s» the mortality is greatest all over
the world at night the most of the funer
al ceremonies in Mexico ere performed
et night, no women being permitted to
attend. The poor hire the coAn
in which Jfclir deed are borne to the
that
Hr Locm girls cousnlain thi
Qhenpan 1 # Up* tew* to?**
TKIF TOTHS TO*OF TUB LOFTIEST
STSrCTtTSS IN AMSK1CA.
J
the Flh-Hhe-fab, et Booehow, is below
us at about 260 feet. Now we ere pese-
ing the campanile et Florence, 292, and
here comes the top of the Oapttol, 807
feet” , ~
“Why, how very interesting,” re
marked the young ladies, aHnging
tighter than ever to the blocks of mar
ble There was a little shaking of the
platform, and one of the blithe young
men declared that it was caused by the
trembUng of the other young man, but
this he denied with s painful effort et
hilarity.
“Oh, we’re almost there,” exclaimed
one of the ladies looking up.
“Tea,” replied one of the young men,
glancing over the edge, “but it’s a deep
hole down to the bottom.” This was a
most superfluous remark, and dispelled
at once the cheerfulness of the group.
The scientist alone was unmoved.
“Eight minutes: Milan Cathedral.
855; the Bhoemadco pagoda at Pegu,
861; BA Paul’s, 865; Hotel de Villa,
Brussels, 870; Lubeek Cathedral, 895.
Here we are, Antwerp Cathedral, 402;
Washington monument at present, 4HX ’
"Oh I oh!” exclaimed the young
ladies, springing off the oar and getting
at once in the way of (he workmen.
The views ware, indeed, novel end
grand. The peculiarity of the outlook'
as compared with others from s similar
height et once became apparent, and im
pressed every visitor. This is the entire
absence of anything to break the preei-
POOR LITTLE DAISY.
Aa laeMaas mi the Streat#.
THE HUMOROUS PAPB&
were seen in their full impressiveness.
One does not comprehend the towering
leight of the marble till he stands at the
base and glances npwatd. Then it looks
its foil altitude, and the visitor begins
to understand the journey about to be
made in the platform oar.
The mathematician, as we stood at
the base, explained the nature of the
trip. “We shall be,” he said, “nine
minutes going np, or forty-five feet to
the minnte. We can thus easily deter
mine ss we go up the height of rival ele
vations.”
The car presently came in sight,
slowly descending with a load of sight
sees who looked much relieved as they
stepped off the platform and separated.
Twer empty freight oars were then
shnnted off on a tiny side track, and in
their plaoe two other trucks loaded with
massive blocks of marble were rolled
upon the platform. The vial tors hud
dled about them while the conductor
collected the pamae. Then he gpve e
sign.
"Oh, we are moving!” cried one of
the ladies, grasping one of the blocks
very firmly.
All of the party seemed a little nerv
ous, for we were in for it now. ITiny-
thing broke in the next ten minutes
jhm wnpld he no help for ns. One or
pice that folk in one sheer plunge to the
ground. It k a test of the nerves to
look down over the edge, and we were
all thankful for the wide net rigged
around the sides.
All were admiring the scene when the
admiring exclamations were broken in
upon by the calm voice of the Professor:
“There are still higher towers,” he
said, “snob ss the chimney of the
chemical works at Glasgow and the
great pyramid, each 450 feet; St. Peter's,
455; and the Cologne Cathedral, 511.'
“Indeed I” exclaimed the young
ladies, bnt their attention was now dis
tracted by the beauties of nature and
the statistics fell on deaf ears. They
therefore turned their backs on the
mathematician and let live frivolous
yonng men point out the various objects
of interest while he retired from the
edge and interrupted the busy superin-
tendeut to ascertain the distance of the
horizon and the pressure of the monu
ment per square foot bn the beee.
Dm day had been chilly and damp,
and as it became darker, it linnama mom
chilly and mom damp. Umbrellas of |
•very known shape and aiaa and of in
finite variety of color flitted past The
poor waifs who wander about the streets
of a large city betook themselves with
the instinct of dumb animak to places
where they could be sheltered from the I
wind and rain—squalid heaps of rags
huddled closely for warmth on chill door
steps or in sheltered close-ways, wham
they remained, looking out on the rain
drops, thinking on goodness only knows |
what
Btill the rain came down, making every
one and everything wet and miserable
except a few consumptive ducks, which
had, with commendable efforts, mads np |
their minds to maintain life on offkl
found in the reeking haunts of xm
Still the rain fell, washing the filthy air |
and besotted pavement from all impuri
ties, and carrying streams of muddy water I
to the drains, which made a gushing [
noise, as if exalting in thus oonferring a
boon OD
I was standing in a sheltered ooraer
when a little girl came running up. - She
had her skirt drawn over her head to keep
oat the rain, and a small bundle of news
papers under her arm—the papers being I
placed in snob a position as to catch as
little rain as possible. She had intended
to shelter where I wsa; but seeing some I
one them, she was hurrying away, when ]
I sailed her back. She came up timidly,
took down her primitive umbrella, and
stood beside me.
‘Have you not sold all your papers,’
I asked, glancing at her little bundle
' 'No, air, it was so wet, ” she answered,
looking down and biting the corners ofi
WBAT
FINE IN
nor cmrrs Ann a
flkrs k s silver dim#, su son t
Looks Bh# lead, it Isbtsrimaed so;
Not a bit Mk# tho ” ‘ '
I dropped in my pocket a week i
Dingy? Yes. Don’t;
lyoatbiaktti
Itshenid loss,MsshmteasT
Would von like to know how earn# tWatesags
For the worm to s brand-new rifcnr IIsm?
rrA
■
told,
'AIM oaass is simple sad easily
■at ky it to heart, 0 soa of
So# if it doM not a moral hold
For a bright, brare boy with a wish to
I draw from my pocket a copper <
: the silver dk|Sk
8##, there is the secret:
Dropped in this pocket by
Has robbed against copper all
dad the cent is never a wMt more wMIs
Nor improved at all by its company,
While the silver dime come* oat leas bright
And its vahM is qaeetioned, as yon as*.
Now the moral for boys ia very dear.
Too see it, my eon ? Well, ky it to has
nd see, I« “
And the <
1 copper there; kt
TRS SOT'S SOULOqVT.
Oh, yes, the moral k dear as day,
Hot I thought I w»s going te
He girea me the moral—tkaTs
And pockets the money every tiass.
ax Atrcmrr afoul.
New Yorker—“Talking about old
hones, tho oldest one in Am erica Uvea
in mj State.”
Fhtladvlphian—“What k his ago?’
Now Yorkar—“It can bo mlfebfy
placed at forty-three yean; an ax
urer of Richmond county says ho
lioves the animal’s age k not ante for-
ty-flyqjsan.”
PhifiBphian—“You don’t
I shotfBnte to see that home. WM
street-car Una is ns on Y'—Philadelphia
Call.
the papers, “that my customers didn’t
mind afi, but all seemed a-going homo aa
futas they was able. It was so wet t” she
•aid again, this time taking courage to
glance at me.
“What’a your name, little girl?” I
asked, with a patronising smile.
“I don’t know as ’ow I ’eve one, but
tiio folks k alius a-ealling me Daisy, sad
the boys alios ask me if I ever sto a
daisy a-growing in toe gutter.”
“But, Daisy, they don’t always do
Fetor Cooper’s Sympathy.
“No,” she answered, promptly, “they
don’t when Jack’s thers, ’oauae he lot’a
xaooonsBD it.
Just previous to the
of a late meeting of the
Kiln Club tho Keeper of'the
Relies invited all present to
museum and gaaa open a retie jnst an-
estved from Meridian, Mks., in the
shape of aa okl-time plantation hoe.
Nearly every member of the club tiled
hk beat to recognise the hoe as “Aa
one” he esed to week with thirty
ago, had mote than one we*
affected to teen. The gentl—an who
so kindly presented the retie has the
thanks of theolub.—Detrott Three JPrem.
THB PALLS n WILL 00 TO.
“Hello, Beaky T said yonng Yens! to
his friend Orimsonbaak, mssting at tho
two of the young men affected levity,
bnt it was no baldly artificial that tt in
creased the thoughtfulness of the others.
The mathematician alone maintained hk
composure. * He had braeod himself
against one of the uprights of the shale
ton elevator, and was holding hk watch
in one hand and in the other a card he
had prepared giving the heights of vari
ous structures. Ajar, a nervous start,
Mrs. Susan N. Garter, the head of the
Woman’s Art School of the Cooper In
stitute, contributes an anecdotal paper
to the December Century, in which she
says of Mr. Cooper’s aims: “ ‘All I want,’
he said, ’is, that these poor women shall
earn decent and respectable livings, and
especially that they shall be kept from
marrying bad husbands.’
chib the othsr evening “Ain vo* eo-
And who’s Jack ?” was my next qnea- Ting to any of the balk this wisAseV”
•«
3on.
or c«sl«a»s niPYe»ent would h*ve pre
cipitated him into the abyss. But to
thk quiet man of science the accidental
surroundings save aa they bore on the
subject under investigation were of no
consequence.
We had been passing smoothly and
noiselessly upward for two minutes.
The frivolous young man hhd relapsed
into silence; the young ladies clung to
the blocks and the reporter elung to the
young ladies. Nothing was heard but
the dripping of the moisture aa it oozed
down the clammy walls. It becarhs
dark, and the air was sepulchral Alto
gether, it was an uncanny ride.
Suddenly the savant broke the
silence. In a dry, dear, composed
voice he remarked:
“We have scarcely begun our trip,
but we are now ninety feet high, or
above all the houses in town. In
another moment we shall be among the
steeplee.” 4
“Indeed I” remarked one of the young
ladies, trying to look interested, but re
laxing her hold on the marble.
“How high ia Trinity Choreh
steeple?” saked one of the
young men, subdued into docility and
respectful modesty by hk surroundinge.
“We will come to that in time,” said
the orderly man of sdono* “The first
station on our psrpendieulai railroad k
Pise. Hero we an; Imaping tower of
Pies, 179 feet
“I guess I’ll get out hero,
of the empty-headed young
“Can’t stop, thk k a through train,”
•aid the conductor of the elevator,
gravely.
The ladies laughed uneasily at thk
by-play while the platfbrm ear moved
on ita skyward way and ths professor
scanned his cord for the next elevation,
“Hero are a group of stations. You
will be obliged to look quick as we pass
to see them at all: Montreal—Notro
Dune eathadpl 220; Bunker Hill
monument, 221; Notro Dame Aa Pule,
224.”
“Indeed I” exclaimed the young
ladies, after which silence settled on the
group for another very long minnte.
The company began to be afraid that
the savant had forgotten Ms notes or
had tumbled oft But at the right in-
skat hk oahfi votes was heard again.
“Six minutes. We have just passed
over the tfawnt toastie on the Vortbrnn
Pacific, 2M feet, and are at the Minsrot
“Thk subject of unhappy marriages
seemed to be a very prominent one in
Mr. Cooper’s mind. That women were
often imposed upon, were ill-used and
broken down, he had a lively conviction;
and all hk oUvalry and aenae of fatherly
protection were enlisted to save them,
solar an he could, from theee ordinary
misfortunes. While the world k now
occupied with ^fee question of what
women can be ijBfcht, their liigher ed
ucation,’ and mKy kindred subjects,
Mr. Cooper’s acute genios discovered, as
by intuition, many years ago, the rela
tion of women of the middle olaas to so
ciety, to industries, and the family. He
saw that many of them could not marry,
and he realised what most be the forlorn
position of a number ef elderly danyh-
ters of a poor* man. He had noted the
dangerous likelihood of giddy, ignorant
young girk marrying anybody for a
home, even if the men they married
were dissipated or inefficient; and he had
the tenderest pity for poor widows or
deserted wives. He talked many times,
and at great length, on these subjects,
and all cmramstanoes and any sort of
incident brought up thk desire of hk
heart, to help women to be happy, in-
dependent and virtuous.
“One of the lest times he was at the
school, and while a celebrated New York
clergyman was giving a course of Lenten
lectures to women, Mr, Cooper, with
his face all animated with hie feeling
about it, said: ‘Dr. -— k of the wealthy
olasa, and he hse been owd to deal with
wealthy women. The world does not
look like the same plaoe to him that it
does to me. If he could be in my place
for a month, and read the letters I get
from peer and suffering women, he
would think that it would be hart to
hare these taught anything which they
eould learn to enable them to lees an all
thk trouble.’”
Pretty little Daisy, she didn’t
but she showed by her silence and con
fusion that Cupid’s dart had even pierced
tost thin shawl
“Is Jack your brother ?” I again naked,
by way of drawing her out on
jeot.
“No,” ahejiaid, evading my quesMoft;
“I have no brother or rioter, no father
ither. sj. lives with Betsy; but As
looks arter me no more nor U I
a dog, but Jaek does.” #
“Well, yer a nice ’un, too 1” said a I
lagged something, emerging from the
darkness and dripping with rein. “Hero
I’ve been e-looking for ye the ’ole night
Won’t yer catch it from Betsy! Oh, no T
‘Well, Jaekr it was so wet that I
couldn't get none sold. Won’t yer speak
for me, Jack ?”—and she placed her
hand so lovingly bn hk shoulder.
‘Well, yer a nice ’un, too!" said Jaek,
twisting hk fingers through her natural
cork. “Look ’ere, my pretty Weoua,
she won’t so much as put her little Au
ger on yer!”
I Mskted them out of their difficulty,
much to the astonishment of Jaek, who
seen any one “as would give
money for nnffln.”
Away they went, with happy hearts,
•ad left me goring at the sloppy sidewalk
and thinking on toeir future happinem.
“Oh, yea, I expect to,*
Orimsonbeok, taking fate friend by the
i you going tor e«m-
''Which one*
tinned Yeast.
“Well, if the present stale of myeu-
Bontinuee,” replied CMmou-
ik, noticing the dilapidated MgdMisu
of hk slothes, “I expect to go to the
three gilt balk.”-Forterer
“Imv. Matilda,” snarled Mr.
'eau’t you i
to study the fashion jour
nal?”
“WsU, yea,’’ answered Mm Pomgran-
ete, “I was just thfakiag that I eould do
' “And whet k it, prey r
“I will dress according to tt, if
will allow me the money.”
"I have already made euougl
•ness for your vanity and frivolity,” was
the brutal reply of the Austin famtemA
■Austin Si/Uny*.
“How stupid I mu,” arid BtoAie Ife*
Hennepin, languidly, executing at the
> time quite a respeetable yawn aet,
‘That’s true,” remarked Owe De-
Smith, rather impokhrety.
“Birr exeirimed Bfrdie, “you are
Bareu Stoabeu’s Anecdote.
accustomed
On some occasions he
to dine with Washington,
guests were present, and among them
Robert Morris, who had oomeup to con
sult with Washington about the state of
the fineness. During the dinner he
•poke very bitterly of the bankrupt con
dition of the treasury, and hk utter in
ability to replenish it, when Steuben
•aid:
“Why, are you not financier ? Why
do you not create funds?”
“I have done all I con,” replied Mor
ris, “and it k impossible for me to do
“But
that you
yeumelf just
stupid.”
1 only said so without
arid Birdie, petulently.
“Yes, and up to the time you q»k* I
bed only thought so without saying it”
Hang crape ou the door of Mbs BMk.
Another lover seratefaed off th* Ikt of
ooe of the Austin bellae.—Thcue Atyi-
hnge.
- s
ana am
“What k this?”
It ns cuhcaixlt no nan thing to be a
“chef.” Leading men eooka in New
York dty receive very satisfactory emo
lument. One large hotel pays $8,800 a
to the heed of the kitchen, and
leading house $8,000, end theee
re in addition to board, lodging
wine, while one large hotel not oply
pays $3,000 yearly to the “ehet,” but
•Iso provides hk clothes, made by a first-
rat* tailor. Two thousand dollars k the
least ram ever accepted by s recognised
‘.‘chef," sad assistant eoefcs, wbo, peer
fellows, do moat ef flm work, reei
$85 to $125 per mouth without
“What!” said the baron; “you remain
financier without financea? Then I do
not think yon as honest a man mi my
cook. He earn* to maoue day at Talley
TUrge, and Mid: ’ Baron, I am your eook,
and you have nothing to eook but a
piece of thin beef, which k hong up by
|„a string before the fire Tour wagoner
Mum the string and do m well m I
You have promised me $10 a month;
but, as jn have nothing to eook, I wtoh
to be dkeharged and not longer be
chargeable to you.’ That k an bnunri
fellow, Morris.”
Morris did not join vary heartily fa
the laugh that followed. _
“Thk, my deer, k a sta
“Why does ha throw hk i
rir, and then slap Ms hips with M* hmA
Mifl *fty, ’Me heart to brokMi’r*
“Oh, that k merely the phty.”
’ “Thee hk heart k not bsohan ?"
"Not quite.”
“Why dose he soy ‘me heart’teslead
of ‘my heart’ ?”
eMM-
tive and
“Shall I my
‘see (loves’r ' ^
“If yon oo, my dear, I shall tern* to
ftogyou.'*
ThkkaH ri$ht,
win mA
to b* to
loTtM*
Ecffoodarf
IN order that your husband may not
to bring in coal, place ths hod
the door wham he eannot fad to
fall osar tt. the ehsnres are,by all]
hods, that he’ll mA toy to scuttle out |
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