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Roan ©ate 'f, !• la wrftftif id this ofl ■*j**7» flT* J9av auM - v K J. v-., i , 1 Bulaen letton and Uona to W pablUhed thoald be written «» WjP«nta abenU, and the object of each aeariy Indicated by necesMury note when Wfitoad. I. Artidee for piblication ehonld be written in a dear, legible hand, and on only one ride of the page. 4, All ehancea in adTertiaemen^i mu t ratbna rn Frbdr. YOL, VII. NO. 84. BARNWELL C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1884. 12.00 a Year. ■MM rnoit Tub cradle to the qua vx. i ■ There lie* mkm* the mother - * knee. And gathered in her hand, A little robe of puff* end lace, t With an embroider'd hand. I *ec her amile, I hear her sing A low; sweet lullaby; And oft I ere a thought of Joy Light up her bright blue oye ; It ie a robe for her dear child To be chriaten’d in ! There lies across the mother's knee, And gather'd in her hand, A silken robe, with puffs of lice. And an embroidered band. 'Tie white, end like a cloud at ere, That floats aorors the sky. But oh, I hear the mother give An oft-repeated sigh. It is a robe for her dear child, To be wedded iu. There lies across the mother's knee, And gathered in her hand, A robe of softest wool; but it Has no embroidered band. And on her cheeks so wan and palo, The mother’s tears I see' And bear her pray, Lord, give me strength ! Oh, give Thy strength to me ! It is a robe for her dear child, w* 1 . . — ■ . Ethers Husband Ethel Vano wae n young beauty of eighteen—a beauty of the most mluut blonde type, with eyoa that seemed like liquid wells of blue light, wavy hair of spun gold, and a complexion like a freshly-opened oleander. She had a neat little fortune in her own right, and she had a very clear and well-defined idea of doing what she pleased with it. Miss Endocia Eamcs was a middle- aged pecond cousin, who had more gen tility than income, and who eked out the latter by acting in the capacity of chaperon and companion to the saucy beauty, giving advice which Ethel never took, and objecting on principle to every gentleman whom Ethel fancied. But one day Miaa Vane entered her relative’s presence with very rosy cheeks and a deep sparkle in her eyes which Eudocia had never seen there before. "Miss Eudocia,” she said, "I am en gaged to be married.” ‘‘Are you?" said Miss Eudocia, with a little gasp, as if «he were swallowing castor oil. "To Mr. Harold North." "My goodness !" cried Miss Eudocia. "Why, it isu’t three weeks sines you were first introchiaed to him.” "Oh, that’s nothing," said saucy Ethel. "I made up my mind that I liked him in three days.” "I think you are running a great risk, Ethel,” said Endocia Karnes. "I should never marry a man that I didn't know all about.” "Is that what has kept you from matri mony all those years ?" said Ethel Vane, mischievously. Miss Eames tossed her head, and the tips of her cheek-bones and the end of her nose became a degree more roseate than usual. "Well," said she, “of course you know your own business best; and I only hope you will never Eve ta regret this precipi tancy." But Ethel maiVled Harold North in leaa than six weeks more. "I never could reconcile myself to such a rash step,” saidjlips Eames. "Oh, well,” said Ethel, J'thero seems to l>e no occasion that you should.” “You’ll live to repent it,**.lp«rBisted Mias Eames, waxing vcnomdM finder the barbed sting of her pretty young cousin’s words. "Oh, no; I shall not,” laughed Ethel. But in spite of this war of words, the young people had aauaAy settled down after the honeymoon, before Miss Eames came to visit thorn, with a fearful array of Saratoga trunks, bandboxes, and par cel* strapped up in brown paper. Ethel ran to the gate to welcome her. "I am so glad you come just now, dear Miss Eudocia,” said she, brightly. "The roses are all in bloom, and Eden Villa is at its best Wasn’t it nice of Harold to engage it ready furnished for the season—servants, v carriages, horses and all? And he can go in and out of tM city every day, and I’m working a pair of slippers for him on the sly; and there's each a. delicious little cascade down in the ravine, and a fernery among the rocks, and a little lilao-and-gold boat on the river—that I can row my self—hardly bigger than a scallop shell. Do ceune in, and I’ll ring for some tea, and you’ll have time for a nice long nap Jxtfore Harold oomes home.” ftvd the bride led Miss Eudocia E imcs triumphantly into a pretty little apartment, all paneled rose and silver, with a white velvet carpet, windows draped with muslin and pink ribbons, and * tiny oonservatory opening oat of it. "And are you happy?" said Miss Eames, interrogatively. "Oh, 1 am the happiest girl in all the wide world 1” said Ethel. Mr. North osme home to dinner, presently—a dark-browed, corssir-lo6k- ing man, with one of those mysteriously handsome faces which inspire all school girls with the idem that there must, be some secret chapter in bis life. But he mode himself very agreeable, and Miss Endocia began to relenOh her opinion of him. The next day she was beginning on elaborate pieoe of wonted work in the pink-and-silver drawing-room, when the maid knocked at the dood.- "Please, ma'am,” said Phebe^in a perturbed marowr^tthewfll eome in. 1 And she won’t send up her card! And she won’t wait in the little green recep tion-room for me to go up to my mis tress ! And please, ma'am, here she is on the stairs now 1” ‘Thebe,” said Miss Eames, "what on earth do you mean ?” At the same minute Ethel North came softly in from an opposite door, and found herself faced by a tall apparition in black, with a dusty orape veil, hog* gnrd eyes, and hair originally black as a raveu's wing, but now thickly streaked with silver. "Ah I” said she, as Ethel looked at her with surprised blue eyes, "so it’s you, is it, that have married my hus band ?” "Married your husband!” Ethel could only gasp out the words after her in breathless amazement. ‘ Yes!” uttered the other woman, with a chuckle of malicious satisfaction. "But don’t think that you are to keep him, in spite of your blue eyes, and yellow Loir, and pretty pink cheeks. I was pretty once, in tho days that aro past. I have the first right to him, and I mean to Imvo him. I’ve followed him half over the world, and I’ve traced him out at last Where is he ? I say, where is he?” M i, Ethel looked at Miss Eudocia, and shrank behind her like a frightened doer. "H4 is in the city," said Miss Endo cia, bewildered and hesitating. "Ho has not-returned yet.” "Thon here I wait until ho does re turn,” said the woman, sealing herself upon one of tho pink damask chairs. "Yes, you may well stare at my rags; but it is his fault, He can dress you, you pitiful doll-faced thing,” with a jerk of her bead toward Ethel, "in silks and jewels, while I am shabby and neglected. But never mind; we shall sec what the law says to this. A man can't have two wives. I’ll wait—yee, I’ll wait" She laughed derisively as she spoke. Ethel caught at Miss Eudocia’s hand, "Oh, come away I” sire faltered, with trembling voice and changing color. "I — I am afraid of that woman.” And together they took refuge iu the library beyond, locking tho door to bar themselves effectually from all intru sion. "Miss Eudocia,” whispered Ethel, as pale ns a ghost, "what does it mean?” “It means, my poor child, that you have been ch< at d ami deceived !” groaned Miss Eudocia. "Didn’t I tell 3 on so ? Didn’t I say you would live to regret your rash precipitancy ? Oh, Erin 1, I never lilted that man’s face ! I always knew fliat there was a dark mys tery in his life.” "What shall I do? Oh, dear! what can I do?" gasped I^thel; and Miss Endocia could feel that her hands were as cold as ice. "Get your things 1” said the old maid. "Como homo with mo 1 Leave him for ever !" "But I lovo him !’’ wailed Ethel. "More fool, yon !" cried Miss Eudocia, faiily losing patience. "What! after he has trifled with you—deceived you— blighted your whole life? Come homo with me, I say ! Don’t let him gloat over the ruin he has wrought 1” IB ut cveu as Miss Eudocia pleaded with the young wife, who sat there pale and drooping as a broken lily, tho blinds of the open window back of them were cautiously raised and * rubicund face looked in*— .4; "Ladies," said the owner of the rubi cund face, in a whisper, "don’t be alolfted. There ain’t no ocoasion. But is she hero?” "Who ?” exclaimed Miss Eudocia, who was the first to recover her self-posses sion. "Mrs, Nokes I Eacaped from tho Private Lunatic Asylum, three miles down the river, this evening. Tall lady, in black. Talks about her husband, as she thinks is married to another wo man !” "Yes,” cried Ethel, springing to her feet. "Oh, yes—she is hero. She is in the other room.” And she fell, hysterically laughing and sobbing, into Miss Eudocin’s arms. "Mum’s the word, then,” said the man with the rubicund countenance, disap pearing from the window as miraculously as he appeared. And presently they saw him escorting the tall lady in black down the carriage drive, talking to her, as they went, in the most persuasive manner possible. "Oh, yea’m,” said he. "He’s at Doctor Filching’s, waitin’ for you. He's been there this long time, and we couldn’t think where you was gone. He’s thrown all the other wives overboard and come back to you. Oh, it’s all right” Ethel North looked at Miaa Eudocia. Miss Eudocia looked at Ethel North. “What geese we have been 1” cried Ethel, radiantly. “But cironmstanoee did look rather suspicious,” laid Mias Eames, blankly. “I believe you’re sorry yet that you can’t lay, 'I told you so,’” laughed Ethel, as gleeful ttf a child. “No, I’m aet, my dear,” said Miss Eudocia, bursting into tears. And she reaDy anff actually meant it; te Miss Eudocia, old maid though she imi, bad not a bad heart.—Popular Monlhly. "Yts, Augustus, I Uwe you. Now you must go sod ace fathft.” “No, dovie, not yet; that is father than I want to go iusi at A NATIONAL DISASTER THK FOOT AND MOTTIl K ANNAS. D1SKAMK IN Aa IntrroMln* Hkrtrh < >■<*»• ot the WrM- nre Kepi. if lh« C«Ulf> Bu>l- Uew the I'atilv To appreciate the imminence of the danger that threatens the cattle-growing industry of the West, tho differences in ' the systems at handling cattle in Kansas, and their movements must be understood. These systems are the natural outgrowth of the climate of that State. Imagine the 100th meridiau to be a sinuous line, winding southward in great bends across (he State, at one point approaching the 99th meridian, at another pushing west close to the 101st. That imaginary line would divide the State into two zones. To the east lies the agricultural land; westward the great plains stretch to tho foot hills of the Rocky Mountains. On these plains no agriculture, unless tho lands are irrigated, is successful. They lie within the arid zone. The wheat lands of Kansas begin at the eastern edge of the groat plains, and extend eastward to about St Mary’s on the Kan sas Pacific Railroad. From there to the Missouri river lie tho corn lands State. The liottom lands of Uio wheat belt aro productive com lauds, hut the uplands are strictly small-graiu lands. Thronghout the corn'lands, cattle that are generally driven from the Western cattle ranges are fat toned for the Eastern markets during the winter. During the rummer such cattle as are held iu the corn belt are close herded or are in closed in pastures. In the wheat grow ing districts the cattle are herded in the summer. During the winter they run to straw stacks, feed on the dry grass standing on the unbroken prairie, or graze on the wheat fields when tho ground is dry. West of the 100th meri dian the cattle roam at will Kansas is on tho border of the great plains, known among the cattle growers aa "The Range.”i H ‘ The movement of young cattle in tho Htatos bordering on the Range is toward tho west. The native caitle move to tho east. In eastern Kansas, where culti vate grasses are grown and enormous crops of com secured, the business of breeding high grade and thoroughbred calves nas Been added to tn&i of fatten ing the cattle coming from thosRongo for market. There are many breeding herds in that portion of the State Young bulls, singly, in pairs, and in car loads, are constantly being shipped to the cattle range of the plains to replace the loases incurred during Arctio-likc winters. Many men are busy during the early fall and winter, in the eastern portion of the State, gathering young females into herds preparatory to driv- ing them to the straw stacks of central Kansas, or to the great plains. There is a ceaseless movement of cattle to and fra in Kansas—fat cattle going east, young cattle going west In New Mexi co, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, in fact, everywhere on the Range, young cattle from Kansas are to be found. When spring opens in the southern portion of the cattle range, the shipment of young bulls begins. Then the drive of the young females, that have been gathered into herds, sets in. The breaking out of the foot and mouth disease, which is a highly conta gious and generally fatal disorder, in a Slate from which cattle aro distributor! broadcast throughout the cattle region, is a disaster that may become national If tho disease makes its appearance in any herd on the Range the industry of cattle growing will be well nigh ruined. There the cattle wander at will. A dis eased animal might not be discovered for weeks. It would walk for miles, poison ing tho earth at every step. It would infect thousands of cattle, and thev. roaming at pleasure from valley to valley, from plain to plain, would communicate the disease to other thou sands. These half wild, diseased, fever ish cattle could not be prevented from rouderiog. The disease, if controlled at all, has got to be stamped out in K&n- *ns. Once it spreads westward beyond the land of inclosed pastures and close herding, it will be beyond the control of human agency. The alarm felt by the stock growers who hold their cattle in tho great plains is plainly indicated by the meeting of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Associa tion who will take immediate steps to quarantine their range. Many of their herds are over 1,000 miles from tho cen ter of the disease in Kansas, bnt they are jnatifiablj alarmed. They realize that enormous loaeea would speedily fol low the walking of ^single diseased ani mal over their range. The great danger of the spread of the disease lies in the fact that men owning cattle that are dangerously near the in fected herds, and that may be diaeaaed but have not reached tho febrile stage of the disorder, will endeavor to protect their property by driving them weat- wardor by shipping ffcom to Esatern markets. The KaOaar LegilWsnro should take prompt and heroic action pi once. There is no known cure for the disease. All infected animals should be killed and burned. The ground tliey have been feeding on should be burned over, and plowed. If Kansas is unable to cope with the disease through a lack of money the national aid should be ex tended. If this disrsae is not speedily stamped out in Kanesp it will probably spread to the great plains, and will also be carried to the stock yards at Kansas City, and from there distributed through out the eastern Mississippi States. This disease may easily become a national disaster, and money should not be spared in tho efforts now to be made to control it. Fbamk Wilxrsox. Notes of a Sermon. “Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you,” (Acts, l, 8) was Dr. Hall’s text Sunday morn ing. Among tho notable sentences of the sermon were: “There are questions which it is wise for us to put off, as far as an an swer is concerned. ” "Original ;>ower belongs to God, but there are forms of power which His creatures can call into action.” "You would all agree that the minis ter should preach tho word with all boldness, but are there not some of you who think your religion is a matter be tween your Maker and yourself, and the less you say about it the better ? If you think this is a matter of divine teaching I say to you, No.” « "Tho servants of God aro equal to tho burdens laid upon them. OCR GREAT NAGS* flaw * Uarspeaa KSItar TarasS the Table* •a Larry Jeraate. When Mr. Larry Jerome waa in Nice some years ago he didn’t confine himself to painting the town red and astonish ing the natives. Among the Americans who were in the oily at the same time were Mr. Mackey, the representative American millionaire, and the talented proprietor~-of—« famous newspaper. While looking around for a target for one of his practical jokes Mr. Jerome’s eagle eye espied a piece of cheap jewelry in a shop window. He paid a franc for it, put it into a handsome case and sent it to tho newspaper editor with the com pliments of Mr. Mackey. "Here’s a nice affair I” exclaimed his friend as Jerome met him an hour later. ^ "What’s the matter?” inquired the joker. “Anybody dead ?’’ "Dead I No, but somebody will be, if I am to be insulted in this way. Just look at tills jewel that Mackey has sent me. He wants to subsidize me by offer ing me bribes.” Mr. Jerome took up the jewel,- and immediately uttered an exclamation of surprise. "Goodness gracious 1” said he. *a&. T2B FROTLK, iCLAfta “If you bare been teal, bright to «££> wist disciplrsbip you will always be hungry for more truth.” “Wo Protestants agree in stigmatizing the unscriptnnil op tit operatum teach ings of Romanists, but I put it to you if we ProtcBtauts are not in danger of fall ing into an ojtwt operatum doctrine in our own line that is just as mischievous? You say you hear a sermon every Sun day, and I say to you, what of it? What have you gained ?” "Real healthy appetite does not lead a man ta turn away from food because food of tne same kind has been served to him before. What if you have heard a sermon of the same kind before ?” "Church fellowship has been abused and counterfeited. Men have even taken the ministry as a means of making a liv ing and getting on in the world; but in that an argument in favor of the right use of church fellowship ?’’ "I wonder if there have not been church members who have taken and have been known to take downward steps one after another, and have gone to ruin? Who can a—a* bfcr never once spoke a kindly word of warn ing.’’ "Reactions commonly go a little too far. Iu tho reaction against various doctrines we, as Protestants, have liecn apt to make too little of the sacra ment#.” "Most of you have been baptized, You would not rob a fellow man. Do yon rob God of what you have solemnly vowed to render to Him from day to day?” "No man con be sure that he ia not in danger of morbid feeling in some direc tion^ pr- —-- "Divine power ia always ready to bo pat into operation if we will keep the channels ready,” “Yon may take a sheet of paper and fill it with line* of ciphen, bnt they amount to nothing till Jon pat the one at the beginning. Nnmbers in a church arc idle unlees the spirit of God loads them.” “The use of great quantities of quack medicines is proof of widespread disease or apprehension of evil” "Ask yourselves if yon have not been living below yonr privileges.” The Nisero’s Captive Crew. The captain of the steamer Nisero has arrived in London, and will have an au dience with Earl Granville. The Kajah of Tenom asks £62,000 ransom for the crew, the banishment of the rival and the declaration that Tenom is free from the Dutch. The Nisero was wrecked on the west coast of Acheen, Sumatra, on Nov. 12, while on a voyage from Sourobaya to Singapore. The vessel was looted by the subjects of the Rajah of Tenom, and the crew, constat ing of twenty-five men, among whom #as an Amerttin, were taken captive. Late in November the British gunboat Pegasus visited the Aeheen coast to give aid to the captive crew; bnt it withdrew when the Bajah announced that he would put all the captives to death if the gunboat fired a single shot. In De cember the Dutch sent out an expedi tion from Padang to rescue the crew. The expedition effected a landing at Tenom on Jan. 7, and the land and naval forces bombarded and burned the Rajah’s capital and destroyed several But the captives had een remo the interior, and the Rajah refused all the proffers of ransom made by the Patch. There was believed to be little prospect that the lives of the crew would be spared; but it seems the Rajah has been holding them with tho hope of exacting ad exorbitant ransom, A xortro Indiana woman was “fright ened into convulsions by going into a ing I conld bny ! How fortneato yon are, old boy. Mackey must think an awful lot of you to send you sooh a valu able present.” "I’ll send it back to him,” said his friend. "No man can purchase mo, and I'll let him know it.” "My dear boy,” urged Jerome, "that would never do. Mr. Maekey ia a very kindly gentleman, and I am sure that lie was actnated to this jiriucely generosity by his disinterested regard for you. Don’t send the jmrel back, for you will only hurt hk tailings." Mr. Jerome’s eloquence prevailed, and it was not until the editor met Mr. Mackey and thanked him (or his mag nificent gift that the joke leaked out The editor determined upon revenge, and the opportunity soon presented it self. A number of French navsl officers had shown Mr. Jerome marked atten tion, and as an evidence of his apprecia- ation he purchased a case of the finest Turkish tobacco and a number of deli- oatoly carved meerschaums and dis patched the nonasome presents to the man-of-war, which lay in the harbor. The editor intercepted the box on its journey by bribing the expressman, and after removing the contents, filled it With the rankest tobacco purchasable, and threw in a number of old clay pipes. Mr. Jerome was never able to explain tbe matter, and to this day is an object of integMebatred to every officer in the French teory who baa been told the story of his supposed outrageous conduct. — New York Journal. Horace Greeley a .Boyhood. LOST IN fi BL1XXARD. A Hal Tra«s4r si Wtaur Uls la One oi the saddest of this wmaers storm tragedies, says a Dakota corre spondent, waa that which rcaul ted in the death of the Nelson family, who lived near Sanborn. They had' not been in the Territory long, and they knew com paratively little about tho fierceness of the blizzards. They were poor and had made bnt scant provision for the winter. Running oat of fuel, they bad been burning straw, and aa the consumption of this article waa enormous dnring the severe weather, it was found almost im possible to keep enough of it on hand to last more than a few 1 louts. When tbe last getet Mszard swept over the coun try, the Nelsons found themselves with only a little straw near at hand end their necessities very groat. The nearest tdodk was only half a mile from their howto, bat they tawed to brave the storm in an effort tonoak it £ Hoping that the tempest would toon rpend ita force, they economized the fuel they had at hand aa beat they ooukt Doling out the straw sparingly, they mansged to keep their hovel tolerably warm, and to cook such food as they were supplied with. Economies! aa they were wlttl the straw, however, it was spent before the storm showed any signs of abating, and aa the cold grew more intense it became a question of securing more fuel or freezing to death. It is lie- llcvod that they realized the desperate situation they were in and the possibility that if they once ventured out in the blinding gale they might not ratnrn. None of them wishing to remain in tho cheerless home, the father and bia two children started out. It ia known that they reached the straw stack, and each, having secured a load, started bock; but in changing their course they lost their way, and wandered aimleesly about un til, exhausted and benumbed with cold, they could go no farther. The father then appears to have dag a cave in a huge snow drift at a point as little ex posed as possible, into which be put the children. He then started oat in search of asuetanoo, bat finding none he sac- cumbea to tbe snow and the cold. Be coming tired of waiting for him, and probably crazed by her suffering one of the girls left her retreat and wandered aiuiinisij aiA/u* ure'|mmiael x*f» -|<—*• tailed. A searching party found tbe body of one little one in the cave, and that of the other »few rods away, and that of the father about half a mile from biff ^Almost every blizzard that sweeps over this section causes similar cases of suffering and death. They will continue until people coming here to settle under stand in advance that they are braving an Arotie climate in winter, and that when the blizzard rolls about their habi tations they most stay in doors and wait . (or clearing skies. THE JOKER’S BUDGET. WHAT raruu Whan f bed of tO» QMs, Mot so sweUiifc ttmT rsa *T. O, M*3beta m***. tool sees, thea the —t*a tistsaadsMsswin brains oto tbs of tbs ofct dm who so with tore was that very daring dauyhtr ■biped Higher Water. She dt beet t > *ave mm from a watery gn to hksonl 1 did her level frost a watery grave. Peeee No store he’ll roast upon the yellow foam; no nose hell hear the porker* rqueal; he'll hhow no more of woe or weal; for Heaven wlllallhtaMiTOW* heal ! »«n** ov A "I am • director in tbe company, ” said timdMMn a newspaper odtos. "You don’t say so?” i “Y«s, it’s tnm.” * "What arp the director’s duties ?” "To direct wrappers, of* Merchant Trmeller. a xamn Reporter—"I snapoae yog feel pretty [ailoreuf ye “ bed over the failure gf your Lasker i hittpn to reach the ReMkstag?" Ochiltree—“Well, I don’t mind that so much, bat there is one thing that make* dm sorry I Introdoesd it.” Reporter—"What is that T" Ochiltree—"It has given mnch prominence.* village*, moved to dimly lighted room which she thought unoccupied and there seeing a young man- el the family throwing his arms wildly about in tho effort to put on hia over coat.” The eontertioua of the average Indiana man while patting on a coat would frighten a railroad train off onto the first switch it ooukffiad. ' It ts stated that Mr. Barnum tz hav ing a sign painted which will read.: ‘This elephant is white,” Ben. P. Poore, in hta Reminiscences, thus speaks of Horace Greeley: Horace Greeley’s personal appearance waa always a subject of remark from hia boyhood. Rollin C. Mallary, a member of Congress from Vermont, who was an able champion of the American System, used to narrate a visit of hia to the printing office of a country newspaper at Poultney, Vt, hta place of residence. His attention was attracted to a young compositor, who was rather awkwardly "stieking types,” and who, though fail grown, was evidently the youngest ap prentice in the office. Hta legs ran a good deal mere than ‘ ‘a feet” through hta pantaloons, tbe sleeves of his ooei scarcely reached below hta elbows, his hair was very white and flaxen, and he wae, on the whole, MPthe aggregate, taken separately and together, the greenest looking specimen of humanity we ever looked at, and this is saying a good deal, for “we keeps a looking- glass.” "That bov Mr, Mallory, “will make a iiiuisjrpittn man; 1 can’t hold an argument teiifcjEmn on Masonry or anything eke connected with politics." As Mr. Mailary was eonsidered one of the ablest men in Congress, his remark caused me some surprise; and we not only “made a note of, but took another look at tbe “devil”,(printer’a we mean), and oonld not bnt trace in the expansive forehead “a mind formed in nature’s finest monld and wrought for immor tality.” It waa years afterward that we became aware of tho fact that that boy was Horace Greeley. ~W * " A Yost Enterprise. It is now proposed to connect the railway system of America with those ol Ast* and Europe by means of a ferry conveying locomotives and cars across Behring’* Strait. The project is to ex tend the Canadisa Pacific, now being ooasirncted through Manitoba, by build, ing a branch to Alaska until it reaches Behring’s Strait. There it woald meet with the railroad tracks to be oonstruotad in Siberia, which of course live their direct relations with the railway system of Russia and Europe. A line to Pekin is talked oL This having been done it requires not much farther stretch of the imagination to see with the mind’s eye the long rails stretching out under the shadows of the Himalayas until they make oonnectione with the line in tho Jordan Valley, and thence with the European system. This seem wild, bnt stranger things have happened in this won'lurfal im store The Ytriable Wind. One blowing day last week, when the Sidewalks were re slippery re glare, a woman stood in front of a door on Clif ford street, and strewed some ashes from a pan she held on the icy walk. As she did so, the wind blew the cool dost rather freely over her, and a man going past ■aid: “ If you will turn your back to the wind it will Mow the ashes from yon in stead of over jam,*' The women thanked him with her eyes, bat did not move. Indeed, she could not without losing her balaneo and the ashes both. W "Let me show yon,” said the mad, ktaljy, as he removed a fta glove end gfliped with a determined grip the well filled ash-pan. “You eaotethrow them over the walk in this way, and not be liable to put yonr eyes out. It’s aa easy aa rotting off a log,” and he braced hia back against the wind and gave a gener- oos flop to tbe ash-pan. The woman went into the house to get the ashes out of her hair and eyes mid re cover her health. When the police had dusted the man off and identified him they took him home. The only remark he mode was: "Yon can’t most always tell from what quarter the wind will blow when yon af* tempt to give advice about emptying an ash-pan.” Which it is so. —Detroit Free Prat*. IF QP COULD DO ROTHIHO At a Lake Eric pleasure summer, s certain small party of young adies were out for a sail The yacht was managed by a handsome boatman, who unconsciously mash on the jolly girls. "Bhall I hug tbe shore?" sailor. yf , “WeU^yea—if that’s th' bsat you can do," was the replv of one of the girls.—The ITootler. TOOK. CABV ov Tift Passenger—-How long hare you here employed Hi the street-oar* ? Drive*-Fifteen year—bonin' whin I was sick. Psssenger—You most be a greet favor* ’Driver—H*Mm 1 haf—D’ye are tbat'^nrld gray mare Pm dhririn’ ? Well, we both fell gjok together at warel last winter; They aint for a doethsr lor the home” and they aint me me i lion. me a kiss T said ^ THS TSTTZ "Will yon grant General Sherman to a ygry lady in Sh Itoftk. "No.’^tajhlhe blushing reply. "Ah, ‘nonMone ‘yea’," eeid to eral, with much manner, end he himself to a couple of ktoeea A few momenta tofeT M he was a candidate tor the end he blnahingly Evening Call. •Bu."— war cm cawvot lot* a The feminine mind early sttaiwe to the consideration of the ethke ef fibs aflee* tioua. In a city school the other day the class in English gramyifewa dis cussing the dUferenoe between toe words ‘‘like”and “love.” *Tre^**laid the teacher, “we een like e tosneto, but ia jt proper to say we 1 een love to>” “No, it is not,” eeld a f miss; “one cannot love a Why not?” inquired toe tceehlf. "Be cause, you know, yoodtffcbt—you eatt’l —well, you can’t hag a tomato.” vtrmmcn nr tools. . Men may dig digr months an’fine del dc gol’ aiift dar, bnt when de wood pecker digs a hole in de tree he eljps takes out e worm. It ain’t aBus ret" silcht man dat’s de smartea’. De aheap dpefi make, ex much fere ez de deg; but ne-Are’Apt nigh an much areas. II takre rer good pint taer man tor show np zander. Wkldqtde eld^ good toed de fine blood wouldn’ show nigh so plain in er hors. De odycated foot It was desi de one what ain’t odycated, tar theedy- eated one spiles a good piece o’ yro^k, rsrharee de osiodyeated one doan un’ertake a thing x$et he kabt’t Arkansaw Traveler. world of oarz. —Demortol t Monthly, Seawthtoff About Gunpowder. Aa a matter of faet, says a manufac turer of powder, much more powdei burned in times of peace than in timtedf war. Tbe average daily consumption of powder in tbe United States is 100 tons. In a bottle in which 60,000 men fired 40 rounds each, leas than one-quarter of an ordinary day’s quota of powder would be used. In the construction of the Hooaac Tonnel more powder was exploded then in the war of the rebettien, soda single large cool mine will uae almost ad much. Gunpowder and the finest quality of .blreting powder are made of three parts of saltpetre and one part of oharooal end brimstone in equal quantities. In the cheaper grades of blasting powdar, nitrate of soda ie substituted for salt petre. The largest beds of saltpetre are in HLnilndtai, end for a long tune the JEagliah had complete control over the saltpetre market Thre principal de posits of nitrate of reds dre in Ohi^, near the boundaries of Peru,. Jn the m*OB- faetore of powder Pennsylvania stonfi first, Now Yutk eeoood, endGhfo thtsto ! In Germany, are very etriet, and any ia promptly punished. The a holy terror el >hs low. men happened to meet f| the following “Have yon about Miller F* "No, what is tt?” « "He was in a boat in tom fell overboard, and Wat® wre b “Didn’ft ■•Swim! Dent sons are T in the river f-