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VOL. VII. NO. 88.
BARNWELL C. H., 8. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1884.
UNA WN BLASK.
Tlw paaakmata grief beudu th« dying bad;
The paaaionate lunging for the Tanishec
bliaa;
The pewionata yearning for the glory fled;
Of each we aak, “Can life bear worae that
♦Me r
flye—enewer weary lipe and tired eyea,
Te eioienl ebwwwe eokee Natwre grante;
Worae than the world’* rapremeet agoniea
Are all tta empty blank*—ita hopeleaa want*
When virid lightning* flame and thnnden
eraah.
When the fierce wind* laah the fierce e*a k
We ece the beacon* by the hirki flaah,
Tlie towing apray-cloud* glittering rainbowt
form;
But when below the eallea drip of rain
The water* aob along the hollow ahore,
Tii hard to think the ran can ahine again,
The doll wave* gleam to liring light oner
more.
When time mp* slowly strength and hop*
away,
And the black gulf yawns by the lonely path
When the dumb night creeps on the empty
day,
And the one clew of all is held by death, '
Look not to faded Joy or lingering lore
To wake the powers youth and faith hat
giren;
Thk* patiently the lot we all must prove,
Till the great bar swing* back and shows n«
—heaven.
A. Doctor’s Boy.
BT ZDMtTND LYONS.
Years flew over both of our heads be
fore I called him by any other n.m.
than the Doctor’s Boy. The Tillage
knew that ha waa a foundling, becanae
h« had been left at the door of old Dr.
Bart's boose one cold Ohristmas-eve,
hot it was divided in opinion as to
whether he waa a bad boy or a good one.
Some tbooght he waa the latter, some
the former. I waa perfectly eatisfled
tfiat he was a wretchedly iniquitous
youth, and I told him so. He bant into
tears, and said I would change
opinion of him some day.
But at JJiwt he certainly gave me no
lesson to do aa He compounded for
me a dose once to care a headache (for
Dr. Hart was not above keeping drugs
and making «p his own prsseriptiona)
that brought me to death’s door, and
the old doctor waa put to his wits’ end
to cure me. But the Boy went to my
mother and told her that it was his fixed
intention to become a great doctor and
chemist, and I had given him his first
opportunity to lest his knowledge of
medicine. He had given me the wrong
drug, he acknowledged; hut it was all
in the interest of science, and he
promised never to do so any more. So
my
my mother forgave him, and persuaded
Dr. Hart to retain him in hie service.
It oertamly wee aot on account of the
Boy’s good looks that his first misad
venture resulted harmlessly to bin*. He
wee an angular Boy. He was a red-
haired Boy. He was a freckled Boy.
But he was a frank Boy (at least my
mother said so), end for two yean more
he was allowed to go about the village
distributing the doctor’s nostrums, and
making himself, as I thought, vary ob
jectionable. - -v; ' '
Dr. Hart had no partieular liking for
the Boy. He said the Boy was a Christ
mas gilt, and, like all such presents,
called for aomethieg in return. Thus
be had been obliged to board and clothe
the led for seventeen yearn, and he al
ways protested that ha waa not worth
the outlay. Still, those who knew the
doctor beet were well —eared of the fact
that if the Boy feed net earned hie board,
clothing, and lodging he would not have
received them. He w— called, in later
years, Ebeneser Dorking, though what
right he had to that name nobody in the
village knew.
At last the Doctor’s Boy disappeared.
He stole quietly away in the night-time,
leaving not a line of writing behind him
to say where he had gone; to Bn. Hart
suggested that he had robbed the till in
the drag-store. A search w— at ones
made, and the fact waa deteleped that
not only bad no money been token from
the drawer, but that a new —top flve-
dollar bill had been e*** to ili con
tents ! There seamed to be no doubt
that the Doctor's Boy had placed it
(here, and the matter waa a nine days'
wonder for the nUag* Then the doctor
hired another boy, who Interested no
body, end he waa aoon discharged.
I suppose it w— doe to the subject-
matter of con venation famished by the
Boy's departure that I found mjsell
mom frequently than before in the doc
tor’s sitting-room. Ago— Heyt w—
beautiful girt, about six tom yearn o4
age, end she laughed so merrily at my
totof eftheeooentrfeitlmof fheBoythatl
aaa afraid I ax^ganind them a Utile; bat
by dsgre— the recollection of the fugi
tive seamed tops— ont of our lives, and
when, four years later, a torrent of war
spept Over the eountry. I tom not think
ing of fee Doctor's Boy wImii I took
Ago— Hart’s hand to my good-by
before going to the tomt; bat I un
thinking very tenderly of Ago— h smelt,
and I believe sba wm thinking in much
the same strain of me. A handled times
during the pest two yean I had been on
the verge of ***fng her thg momentous
question, bat bed deoidqg In wait until
my position in fee world ‘tike bettor ee-
aurod. And now that fee eonahry fat. her
extremity was eelHng for fee beat ear-
i ef her eons, would it have
hr «
to ana
I thought not; but — I watched her face
when we were parting, and imagined I
—w what I longed for written there, 1
determined to aak her to be my wife
when the war w— over.
Oh, the wretched yean of strife that
followed I I thougbt they would never
tad. Bntatj—ttheelosiag scenes bed
come, and the good fortune that had
followed me through a score of engage
ments, bearing me unbanned while
others want down by thousands, forsook
me in a measure at last. I was hit by a
Spent ball on the knee* and a moment
afterward ridden over by the charging
cavalry.
"Your case is not a very aerioos one,”
said the doctor, — he bent over me
while I lay that night on a blanket on
the field, where the hospital tentr had
not yet been erected. "There ate others
&ere more in need of my services—this
boy beside you, for instance; I most at
tend to him. He seems to be badly
hurl Let me examine you, my lad.”
"Ob, there to not much fee matter
with me, sir,” said the lad. "I was bit
in the aide at the 1—t Are; but it is only
a trifling wound. You see, I was a doc
tor’s boy before‘I Joined the —my, and
I know something about snob things.”
"Indeed!” said the doctor, smiling.
"Well, we ought to be good friends. J
waa a doctor’s boy myself before I be
came a doctor. But let me look at your
wound. Phew ! this is no trifle. The
sooner we get. you under cover the bet
ter. You are in for a siege of a couple
of months of it at least, my lad.”
The boy wm very much disheartened
at this intelligence; arid the next morn
ing, when we were all nnder canvas, the
doctor, having finished his immediate
duties, sat by his bedside, and I heard
him tell his patient how when be Was a
doctor's boy he had not learned much of
medicine; and how in making an experi
ment he had nearly dosed to death a
boy a little older than himself. When
he was about to leave the tent I said :
"Doctor, I am the boy whom you near
ly doted to death. What have you been
doing through all these yean ?”
I had recognized him on the preceding
night, but he had not known me, and he
wm m ton tided when I accosted him. He
had certainly improved both in appear
auce and manners, and I found after
ward that he was a great favorite with
the command to which he wm attached.
We soon became very good friends—far
better, indeed, than we had ever been in
the old days when I so candidly ex
pressed mv opinion of him. His sucoecs
wm due simply to common-sense and in
dustry. On leaving Dr. Hart’s service
be had hired himself to another doctor,
who gave him fairer play than his
former principal, and he was enabled to
study medicine, attend the necessary
lectures, and finally to obtain his di-
pkxna.
At last I asked him why he hod left
the ftve-dollar bill in the drawer when
he wm leaving. He laughed.
"It .wm the only money,” he said,
"that Dr. Hart ever gave ms. He
handed it to me, grudgingly enough,
about a ye— before I left, and I never
changed it. Yon will think it, perhaps,
s strange sentiment for s doctor's boy;
but when I wm running away without
giving him any notice, I thought I had
forfeited all claim to compensation fot
my services; so I returned his money.
By-tke-wsy, bow is the old doctor now f
I had heard of Dr. Hart sinoe I left
tbe village, and I w— able to give Dr.
.Dorking (for ap he w— called) a good
deal of information about him, and,
with the rest, I told him that ha wm
anxious to sell his practice.
‘‘Oh, indeed,” said Dorking, quietly.
"Then I think 1 will go and buy it”
And then, in answer to my look of sur
prise, he added: "I have saved some
money, and I don’t see how I can em
ploy it better than in settling down in
the old village.”
As the weeks went past, my wouna
did not improve, and Docking wm often
with an The Anal scenes of the war
closed without our presence. In tbe
conversations we had I suppose I told
him enough to give him some inkling of
my old affection for Ago— Hast, for I
, noticed that — I spoke of her he grew
very thoughtful, and looked furtively at
me. My love, perhape, w— not very
deep, but It w— aj first love, and did not
easily din As I lay on my couch, teas
ing el fen— fro— aids to aids, matter
ing in a low fever, I saw always that
jw—t young face before —e, and ba the
days ef my con vale—enoe I resolved, —
soon — I could travel, to start for the
old village and ask her to be my wifn
At last Dr. Dorking left me, going
beck, he said, to try to secure Dr. Hart’s
practice, and I passed three very dreary
weekn alone. All sorts of mtegivinga
troubled urn Oh, why had I not east
sentiment to fee winds, and naked Ag
nes for fee promise of her hand before I
joined the army?
It did not take me long to reach the
village after I had once started, And my
heart w— beating very fast — I stood
before fee old doctor’s ho—n Thb
honeysuckles still twined around the
poets speech side of the door, and fee
tour yean that had passed stoee I w—
the— 1—i did not seem to have made
eBange in the quiet old boa
The plate on the door bearing
of ‘‘Doctor Hart,” w— p
n Utile rustier than formerly, baft
me into the front parlor with a "Hem I
Oaptain Dongl— I" and I —w feet there
were two perso— in the veo—. How I
—a not p—tioukriy quick of epi—hett-
akm, but I knew precisely fee aitnation
betw—n fee—two tha moasent I—tered.
Agnes rose, while her companion, who
w—.seated vary do— to bar, wmsined
in his chair, and the blash— that flew to
the fair face of my old sweetheart were
dearly not for me.
"You see, Dongl—said Dorking,
half an hour later, "Agnes had promised
to be my wife long before I left fee doe-
tor’s house. I could never have ofiered
her a home had I remained here, and
that w— fee reason I ran away. She
h— known all my movements, for we
have corresponded regularly ever since.”
So it waa j—t — well that I had not
proposed for Agnes before tha fighting
began. Even then tbe Doctor’s Boy
had woo the dootor’a daughter.—J/ar-
ver’e Bazar
8tMU—4 or Cooked Feed, Profitable,
Mr. B. J, Stone, Weetboro, Mass.,
h— for twdve years fed steamed food to
his herd of forty-five animals, from early
fall until pasturing tints the following
spring. He k— a twelve-horse power
boiler in the basement of an L adjoin
ing the barn, over which is a six-hone
power-engine, e plunge pomp that
rate— water into the boil—, and a tank
new fee steam box end mixing trough.
In the story above there is a large power
cutter, that cute all the ooru-fodder,
straw, and second quality of bay used.
It te cot into one inch lengths. To
three hundred lbs. of this cut fodder,
cue hundred lbs. of grain, four qts. of
salt, and enough water to moisten it are
added, and milted in lots of eighty lbs.
each to insure thorough mixing. This
provender te pitobed into the steam-box,
which holds enough for one day’s feed
ing. The first feeding te at seven p. m.,
the aeooud at —van the following morn
ing. At hoon the animals are watered,
then fed cue hundred and twenty-five
lbs. beat quality of dry hay. The water
which setttas under the false bottom of
tha steam-box, from about eighty gal
lons used at a steaming, te eonverted
into a hay tea. This te mixed with suf
ficient wheat bran to make a mash, and
te fed to milch eowe and young calves.
This flood being well ae—coed, te very
palatable, readily eaten, and quickly di
gested. The warm food, togefe— with
the warm stable, k—p np the animal
beat, and a large flow of milk te the re
sult. The cause of so many fail urea In
food is, in part, dua to not
using any grain, and allowing the steam
to come in oonhet with the feed direct
from the boiler. H—e the steam te let
into the bottom of the steam-box, and
softens the whole ms—. The cooked
grain te taken into the stomach of the
animal, mastijated with the end, and
nearly all of its nutriment thereby ex
tracted. Below te an estimate of the
daily coat p— head. One-half of the
fuel consumed, has been deducted and
charged to fee bourn, — this —me
boiler supplies steam, and heata sixteen
rooms.
SOD lb*, bay, « 110.00 per ton... .01 .SO
m “ # ao.oo “ .... i.»s
100 “ grain, # ASflO ** .... 1.50
75 " bran, # XO.'O " 75
135 “ coal, # 1.40 " 40
el
that w—all
tAto
Forty-five animate at five dollars and
forty cento daily, gives twelve eente per
heed a day.—America* Agriculturist,
Checked Too Mack.
At Macon I became acquainted with
a commercial tourist He toured for a
Philadelphia haraem house, and ha had
two trunks. Aa soon — I found that bs
bad two trunks I dteooversd why became
np to me in the reading-room of the
hotel, reached ont the friendly hand, and
said that he had carried my photograph
next to his heart foe the last seven
years. He wanted me to check one of
the tranks on my ticket — we went np
to Atlanta, and fens save him expense
on extra baggage.
Well, I Agreed. It te seldom that I
try to beat k railroad, bat one mast do
something for hte fellow-man now and
then in this up-hill road through life. It
so happened feat I had a pern around to
Montgom—y via Atlanta, and I handed
It to the baggage-check— without a
thought of whaft might follow. As a
eoueeqnen—, while the bane—-house
tourist dropped off eft Atlanta wife tears
in hte eyes for my disinterestedness,
only one of hte tranks dropped off with
him. The oth— continued the ride with
me for 160 miles, and aft— oonsid—abk
telegraphing it went back to Atlanta by
express. Just how much it cost him to
fall in lova with me I don’t know, bat I
assure him on my honor that wti—sv— I
can go oat of my way again to oblige
him 1 shall cheerfully do aa
M. Quad.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Thu tAUjM or m neat cattle aob-
atottog on the natural gtomao along the
slope of the Rocky Mountains from fee
British poascerions to Mexico is placed
eft 1600,000,000.
Mb. Jik—0. Bunin racmv—mohr
cents a volume royalty for his book. It
te said that about 100,000 volumee have
been ordered already, so that fee writ—
te sue of |80,000 for hte year’s work.
Ton Indians or Alaska are said to
have used in making salmon nets fee
balk of 900 miles of telegraph wire,
which wm laid by the Overland Telegraph
Company many yean ago at a cost of
<8,000,000.
In ran fiscal txab kndxd Jane 30,
the United States government’s dis
bursements for pensions reached a sum
which exceeds by six millions of dollars
the dtebnrsrmente for all purposes in
the ye— 1860.
A man in Philadklphia w— paid by
mistake at the Kennington National
Bank $1,168 on a check of $468 and kept
the money. He wm arrested and looked
np over night, bat retaining the $700
overdrawn he wm liberated.
Tun roLLownrs m—oltmoN was
adopted by the miners of Alene, Dakota,
and posted np all ov— tha place:—
“Not a Chinaman shall ever ent— the
diggings nolens be climbs a tree, with
One end of a lariat over a limb.”
Hum is thb wax a Philadelphia pap-
raps New York ov— the knack lea:—
Vanderbilt te worth $200,000,000, Jay
Could $100,000,000 and Cyras W. Field
te worth $50,000,000. The Bartholdi
pedestal can be put up for $800,000.
Jay Gocld ia said to be a much hap
pier man than Mr. Vanderbilt. Aa tha
latter te worth $200,000,000 and the
form— only $100,000,000, it can be
easily seen, says the Evening Call, tbit
wealth alone does not constitute happi
m
A ditch to an cut in the Arkans—
Valley in Colorado will take so much
water out of the Arkansas River that the
stream will not cause much trouble here
after in the way of floods. It te to be
sixty-five feat wide at the bottom and
sixty-five mil— long.
Thb Dxnvbb Republican finds, on
summing np the list, that ov— one hun
died liv— have been 1—t there this year
by means of snowsltd— alone, without
counting diass ten of this nature that
were either too alight or too remote to
command prompt and extensive notice.
Charles L. Kuna, bditob of thb
Gringo and Greater> at Manlano, New
Mexico, who wm saaaaainated by nnknowv
men who shot him through n window,
wm a harum scarum sort of a fellow
always in trouble. While a resident ot
of Leadville he made ov— $100,000.
whtflh he soqfti—1» —
Twxnty ykans aqo a newspaper cor
respondent attended a Country school
in Wisconsin, where the teacher, a
minister’s wife, punished gum ohewers
by foreiqg them to spit out the gum and
chew ashes, white whispering and other
delinquenci— entailed the —tallowing, of
liberal doe— of castor oil.
Dunnia ran past tbn years Unde
Sam expended nearly $70,000,000 in
oaring for tbe Indians. The total num
ber of Indians attached to agenci— te
only 246.000, and of the— 60,000 in
Indian Territory, 7,700 in Wisconsin,
and 6,000 in New York are supposed to
be at least partially self-supporting.
Tn Blub Ridqb og Went Virginia te
believed by the State Geologist to con
tain s slumbering volcano. There te one
place of about an acre in extent where
the ground never frees— and tbe snow
always melts. Vegetation is always a
month in advance of the season. The
volcano ia believed to be below this spot,
Over n CaMn-LM.
■ II.
"She—w— a good—wife—to
A good wife, God bte— b— !"
The words ware spoken in trembling
aoosnte ov— fl coffin-lid. Tbe wobmti
■sleep there had borne tha heat and
harden of life’s long day, and no one
had SV— heard her murmur; h— hand
wm quick - to reach out in a helping
grasp to th—e who fell by tha wayside,
and her feet were swift on —rands of
mercy; the heart of h— husband had
trusted In her; be had left her to long
hoars of solitude, while he smased him
self in seen— in which she had no part.
When boon companions deserted him
when fickle affection selfishly departed,
when pleasure palled, he want home and
found b— waiting for him.
“Come from your long, long roving,
On life’* aes ao bleak and rough,
Come to me tender and loving
And I ahall be bleat enough. ”
That had been her love-song-always
on her lipe or in her heart. Children
had been born to them. She had reared
.hem aim—t alone—they were gone I
S— hand had ted them to the uttermoet
tdge of the morning that h— no noon.
Then she had comforted him, and sent
lim out strong and whole-hearted while
the stayed at home and—cried. What
can a woman do but cry ?—and trust f
Well, she te at rest now. But she
oonld not die until he had promised to
‘bear np,” not to fret, but to remember
how happy they had been. They? Yea,
U te even so. For abe wm
mg, and be in receiving,
equal partnership aft— all I
Oh, man I man I Why not have told
her so, when h— ears ware not dulled
by death ? Why wait to say the—words
ov— a coffin wherein li— a wasted,
veary, gray-haired woman, who— ey—
save ao long held that pathetic story of
lo— and *n flaring and patient yearning,
which ao many women's ey— reveal—to
those who read. Why not have made
the wild—n—a in h— heart blossom like
ha rose with the prodigality of your
love? Now yon would give worlds—
were they yours to give—to a— the tears
3f joy your words would have on—
oanaed, bejeweling fee closed windows
of her soul. It te too late.
Wshsvs careful thoughts for the stronger,
And Miles for the eoeaetime gueef—
Bat oft for oar own
The bitter teae
Though «m love our own IKe beet.
Detroit Free, Preet
10 MORI riORTIIR.
Bill Nresa the
bleat in giv-
It
The Better Mss.
He quit U.
One day a gentleman addicted to hard
drinking w— a—ted in the—toking-room
of an English hotel, when a dog walked
in. The drink— gave a violent start and
shrank back in hte chaf^ open which a
wait— whispered to him reassuringly,
"Don’t be afraid, sir; it's a real one.”
This story w— related to Dr. Farraa,
and gave him, it te —id, an ntt— loath
ing f— strong drinks whioh can destroy
the mind end convert n man into s
palsied soft. It need searoatybe
that fee drink- in fee
WMS&ictod Vi*
i New Reason.
The temperance question has been so
thoroughly threshed out of late that it
loaroely seems possible to find a new
argument on the one side or the oth—.
Bat a certain Dr. Troth, of Perth, Boot-
land, recently delivered a lecture in
which be advaao— some exceedingly
original propositions:
"The drinking of aloohoBfc beveng— te
a necessary evil, and te not likely ev—
to be discontinued. It te like cholera,
plague, or war—one of the wise dtepen-
sations of Providence for preventing an
undue increase of mankind. It pro vents
the aocomulation ot all fee property of
the nation in fee haute' of a few * * *
By ita means the son scatters the —v-
ings of hte father's lifetime in n tew
months, enabling anofth— man to fill hte
position, creates a ete— of drunken
tradesmen to neglect their business, so
that energetic men may succeed where
they fail .* * * In short, it benefits
directly — indirectly everybody baft
tho—who drink it, and if they are fools
enough to saorifloo themeelv— and their
familt— for the good of the sob— and
industrious, why should tea interfa
with feemf”
There te, —yt fee How, really
certain amount of sound sea— In the
Malthnsian selfish— of this ingenious
doctor.
Whbn a man and hte wile sngflged in
a debate, fee oth— night, and the dog
got np and snrsfnhsd to be let eat of the
ttWNtfetftofltop
V
There m—t have been ten of ns sit
ting on our tranks In s dismal passen
ger station in Arksn—ft, waiting for the
inevitable night train. Some of the
dnutmers tried to toll funny stori—, bat
it w— no go, saff fee— who were not
nodding and doning were mad enough
to fight, when anegroeamein and flung
a lot of wet coal on the lire, extinguish
ing the little we had been shivering ov—.
"8— here, you Infernal nigger, yon
onght to be shot!" growled a man in the
county map Unsine—.
"Who’s a ’fernal nigger?”
"Yon are I”
"Better look ont, white man! Pm •
better man than you te 1”
The prospect of anofth— civil war
woke everybody np ia a second, and it
didn’t seem — if the clock had ticked
fifteen tim— before the map man had
hte coat and v—t off and hte cars work
ing for business.
"What you gwine to do, sah ?” asked
the negro — he stood gaeing aft him.
"I’m going to see who te the best
! Boys, look ont for splinters!”
"Hole on, sah! Hole on, sah f” called
tbe oth—. "Ise de bettah man, an’ 7
kin prove it! Bee heah, sah!”
He pulled from the pocket of hte old
scat a fair-si rod eoeoannt, the bark of
which w— highly polished np, and
opened hte mouth and tossed the not
into the cavity, rattled’ it around over
his back teeth and than dropped it into
his hand with the remark:
"White man, come to taw t If you
am de bettah man let’s see yon etretea-
locute dat ookernut orouu’ in your meal
like I did 1”
The proposed bloody straggle ended
right th—e. The map man put on hte
garments, the whole crowd rose np, and
daring the rext twenty minutes that
"nigg—” scooped in ninety-five cents
by rattling feat eoeoannt end adding to
it any bunch— of keys — pocket-kuiv—
tbe boys oonld hunt np and hand ov—.
M. Quad.
Par ef Officers.
Senator Hawley reported favorably to
tbe U. & Senate, fro— the Com mitt-
on Military Affairs, the bill introduced
by him to provide that section of fee
set approved March 9,1866, making ap-
'propriatfama for fee support of fee
Amy, which provided theft all
jf volunteers then ha
the xaa^ of Brignaterteftad, who
should otntinua in fee iron—y
to fee elo— of fee war, ahould be
titled to receive, open being
out, three moutho’ pay prop-, be so
oonsftrapd so—to entitle the heirs or
legal reffr—sntativM of snob officers who
were killed or died in the service be
tween March $,1865, and April 10, of
fee —a ye—, to teesive the: three
pay to
Tha system of buildiBg railroads into
the wild—ne— and tbm allowing the
wildcrna— to develop aft—ward, b—
knocked the csewitial joy out of the life
of the pkme—. At bite time fee hardy
hew— of wood and draw— of water gave
hte life willingly that hte son aright ride
in the "varnished earn.” Now the Pull
man palace oar tab— the New York— to
tbe tbr—hold of the a— or to the bound
ary line between the United Stai— and
the British possessions.
It h— driven out the long-handled
frying-pan and the flapjack of twenty
yean ago, and introduced the eoodenoed
milk and canned fruit of commerce.
Along the highways, where on— the
hopeful hundreds marched with long-
handled shovel and pick and pan, cook
ing by the way thin salt pork and flap*
jacks and slningullion, now tbs road te
lined with empty be— bottlee and peach
eaus that have outlived their usefulness.
No landscape can be pictnreaqne with
an empty peach can in the foreground,
any more than a lion would look grand
in a red monogram hone blanket and
false teeth.
The modern camp te not the eampjof
the wilderness. It wean tbe holf-dvfl-
teed and shabby genteel garments of a
sawed-off town. You know th— if you
ride a day yon will be whore you can
fee daily payen and rend them under
the electric light. That robs the old
canyons of their solemn isolation and
peoples each gulch wife the odor of
codfish balls and civilisation. Civilisa
tion is not to blame for all this, sod yet
it seems sad.
Civilisation oonld not have done fete
all alone. It had to call to its aid the in
fernal fruit can th— now deoolat— the
mo— obscure trail in the heart of tbe
aaonntaina. You waft ov— the eh ana
when the "hydranbe” h— plowed np
the valley like a eotrrul—on, —yon tread
the yielding path across the *
damp, and on all rides the rusty,
leetod and humiliated empty tin
star— — you with its monotonous, dude-
[ilrm gtaTfl
An old-timer onee said to me: "I’ve
about decided, BUI, th- the West te a
m—t—of history. When we cooked our
grub ov— a sage-brush file we could get
frt sad fight India—, hut now we fill
our digesters wife the cold pi sen and
pewter of fee canned peach; we go to a
big tavern and stick a towel nnder our
shins and —t pie with a fork end heat
ap oar oarkioses wife antichrist eoffi, and
what do we amount to ? Nothin I I
—ed to ohft—Indiana all day and cat raw
■alt pork at night, beku I d—otbuild
a firs, and still I felt better than I do
now wife a wad of tin-can sodd— In my
stommiek end a homesick fading in
weath—-beaten bee—t
"No, we don’t have the fuq we
to. Wa have more swarr—s rod octet
and one bloomin’ thing end fltofepr
feat kind, hot we don’t get one
pore air and appetite tee yew. They’re
bringin’ in their blamed telephones now
and malaria and aignejad old aledge,
and fnn might — well skip out There
ain’t no frouti— any mors. All we’ve
got left te the old-fashioned trantl— jo—
and rhnmstisof ’49. ”
Behind the red squaw’s cayuse pint
Th# hand-car roan aad raves,
And pis-pkat pica or* now produced
Above the Indian graves.
I hear the oethe of pte—er.
The csoeweyettote,
The tint low ham where eooo will cdtae
The fussy bumble bee.
„ Till Nyb.
QUAKER CITY HUMOU
A rKW TtllWi* ACPI OKNTAXXT OTBU*
HRABO BY THR MULAMLMUA
“KVKNIM4 CALt.”
AT nm SUITBB TABU.
"Wbeft, anofth— eup of tea, Mr. Dear
tayr oidalmcd fee landlady, - he
paa—d hte cup tor the third time. "I
am delighted to see th- you are enjoy,
teg year snpp—
mtiVyAaA Damley. "I w—
quite hungry to-night, and the teattyp—
■n—natty good. —— — ——"—
"Not very complimentary to me,”
went on fee landlady, with n sort ei
Meood-cla— genteel little laugh. "I
generally make the toe
night I w— busy about
and the oook made ii I'
she could have pdt in it.”
"Well,” responded Donley, « he
stirred it gently wife hte apoou, "I
should judge from the
most have put some tea te ift.”
A PLEASANT DAT »
"My dear,” said a We-erafls—rfta
hte wife - hi geft out of bed, "wffl you
look and see what kind of n day ift tef*
"Wall,” she replied, gssiiy out of fee
Window, "Mr. Smith’s hart aero- the
way te being blown Into fee Sent lot,
but—” »
"Not bis new briek barn ?*
"No, fee old wooden one, and it took*
m if the rdbf ef hte hou— will hava to
go, but I don’t bslieve there will be very
tench of a storm.” .
"Probably not,” replied the husband,
"bat still we can hardly expect settled
weAer - this seeeoo of the ye-. I
guess I had better drive to lowe to-day
instead of waiting until Saturday. It
might storm, then.”
SUMKBB BOARDON! BAT
Stronger—"Wh— do you charge for
those rooms for tim season?”
Landlady—"Loft me see. Yea —id
something about being — Newport nil
te- susam—, did yon not?
"Yea."
"My terms are $10 a day.”
"My gracious 1 I can’t afford to pay
(hut.”
’It te cheaper than going to New*
port"
‘‘But I meant Newport, Pa. I w—— a
farm-howe near there, and paid $6 n
"Oh I exewe*aet In that
ton— will be $6.50 n week.’
■J
AFPnoPmiATB PBONUNOTATIOH.
Jonce—"That w— a terriable djr-na-
mite exploricu, wasn’t it?"
gotith—"w— anybody killed T
"No, b— fee reverb—ation w— Ml
tor miles.”
"In th— eo— yon should not eal it
• dy-namito explosion. Nobody died
von know.”
“Wb—ahould I call it?"
"A dyn-emite explosion—made a big
din, you know.”
<ns' Bxcrn. ^
Editor—"Ho. your Honor Jt s— no*
sick, but I should like to be F—a—d
from jury duty all the same.” *
Judge—"For wb— reason?'”
"I have e very important article to
write tor the next toflM of the Bap—
""Vary important, te it? May-1 ash
wh— te tbe subject ?”
"The jury sy—em.’
"Ah I And what ground do J*te ’
taka V'
"Th— all the evils of the system
would be removed if reputable eiti—M
would consent to I
The English In Egypt
The prestige th— onee surrounded tbe
European in Upper Egypt, and wm
worth more to ns than fifty thousand
bayonets, te departed, says aa English
rosgq«i«k The horning of Alexandria,
(he temporary triumph of Arab!, tbe be
lief th— our fleet and army were de
stroyed by him, and that tbe Khedive
and not England w— bte conqueror;
finally, the eouvietkm th— the defeats
in the Soudan were raftered by fee
English and not by fee Egyptians, have
all combined to shatter it, end it will be
very long before it em again be re-nred.
Not Out fee European in Upp- Egypt
te exposed to any danger so long -
things remain quiet in Low— Egypt
The reepeet dne to the hope of
bakshith i« - strong — ev—, flnd the
fellah is too cowardly to start any move
ment in whioh he te not quite sure of
being backed bj nperfor for—. More
over, fee educated part of the popula
tion, which knows the real state of affaire,
te naturally concerned to maintain order;
while the "Copts” have dteeo—red tb—
their own safety tod interests are inti
mately bound np wife tho— of the
EnropeeiM. But the mo- unobservant
travel— eannot but notice n certain in-
iolenoe fat the bearing of fee n—tv— to
ward him which would
possible only two ^wn ago. It te noth,
ing in itself; - n symptom, how—, it
» s sad notfnoT.
"I see by the papoffi th- fee
can Association of Umptfl*
ed to fine pitchers l
the batsman wife fee hnOL”
"Ob, I gness th— can’t be 1
"Bat I know it is. You ecn rely ao
It”
"It is r—Hy loo bed. Be— to X—
the country te going to the dogs.”
“How so f”
"The only national gams wb ho— it
be—ball, and now th— te to be deprived
ita ohief attraction.”
rent and do aB
too man bunt.
"Whet did yea —y the rent of theft
doable dwelling ter aekad n ‘
bunt— of n We— 1
"Eighty dollars a i
fee tenant to pey
the repairing.”
"H’m; do you 1—both i
for toy 1ms r .
"No, it pays a- better to te* —qk
ride alone.”
"Well, I gne- ift will pay
too,” and he walked away.
"Are you going out tide —teg?”
-kedn Mormon lady of
“Yea," he replied. “I aWI oaH
Mty ' I
«I owe Mtea floaith a <
I
Pa—idunt’s C—ldbuh.—■
w— childless; Adnamte favorite boydted
by suicide; Monroe had no son;
son no child; Vsu Boren’s
went to to aeylnm; Pi—’n only chfld
wm kilted to • railway; Poft bad nu
and