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BARNWELL C. Jl.. S. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1884.
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d/AWG'JT^JJirA’^ PLATST.
Mv love lift* ont in the vtde, v idft,.world,
Wiihont farenell to we earing;
Oh. f*ir jvnng einger ! my heart’s dell htl
Oil sun tiat made my life so bright,
For thee I an ever praying.
’ . i. 'fi
Scarcely had time to look in hit eyes,
And now the sweet dream u ended ;
Oh. love, why makest tiiv dameH so sweet?
Oh, low, why makest the heart so to beat?
Jf it lireak—it cannot be mended.
" : e lias he gone The world is so wide—
T« full of deceptions and stiangers;
Ah, me, to Italy lie hath hied,
'"litre wunitn aie fair and false beside,
G«1 oUM'd him amid all dangers.
Victor Vos BcHarrau
MY FRIEND’S STORY.
“Mnuy years (Vgo," said my friend,
“in an idle moment, I went into the Old
Halley, whenPit scene of more than ex
traordinary interest was about to take
place in tiiat t^atreol t ,T1 f tt misery
and dogradation,
“Tito prisoner »t the b*r won t young
man of about twendy-fonr yean of age,
tall, of a dignified and prepoesessing
air; his dark hair hanging disorderly on
Ins shoulders and about his brow, gare
a singularly wild and monrnful expres
sion to features that seemed to indicate
feelings such as felons never possess.
“Th* huhrtWM'Qt wn* Midi ft WM-
I Mined nrf (ideourii of a most atrocious
eiiuie, committed under circumstances
of ingratitude that deepened its horror.
He was, it appeared, a young Scotch
man, the son of a mtufstor; he had dis
tinguished himself in the University of
Glasgow .by his talents and acquire
ments. ami kad bemi0td|ia§4 a
of the Gospel. VVliilo at college he ha<l
formed an acquaintance with the son of
a Highland laird, of nearly the same
age, and of an amiable and cultivated
mind. The father of this youth, a man
of largo property, had lieen so pleased
with the friend his son hail made, that
he had obtained for him a church in the
Highlands, on condition that he should
previously accompany his sou in his
tr.iv» !s over the Continent.
“They had accordingly gone to Lon
don, and, having there received large
remittance* for their proposed journey,
were just going to set off, when one
night the youth was found murdered in
his bed, and appearances seemed to
point out the prisoner as the perpetra
tor of the deed. They were briefly
these:
“Some days liefore they had been
heard talking in their room in a very
loud and angry tone of voice. The sub
ject of the dispute was, it was supposed,
a l.uly, whose name was mentioned. The
words ‘jealousy’ and ‘revenge’ were dis
tinctly heard; a visible coolness was ob
served for some days after, til] the even
ing of the murder, when they gave an
entertainment at their lodgings to frienda
who hod come to bid them farewelL An
evident change hail taken place in the
behavior of the prisoner, who affected to
lie obsequiously attentive to his friend.
But the principal witness for the prose
cution wns an oid game-keeper who for
many yean had been in the employ of
the deceased, and who seemed almost
overpowered with grief. He stated that
on the fatal night, while sitting in the
kitchen smoking his pipe, in company
with a woman who acted as charwoman
in the lodging-house, he heard a noise
in bis master’s room, as if two persons
were struggling. He alarmed the land
lord, entered the room, which was open;
n light was on the floor and still smok
ing, and the prisoner was found hanging
over the bed—a blcody knife, which waa
known to belong to him, by hia aide, hia
Imnds bloody, his face pale, and batray-
ing all the marks of a guilty and dis
turbed mind. The prisoner was skilled
in anatomy; he had been heard to de-
soribe the quickest and aureat way of
destroying life; and tbe plaee of tbe
wound corresponded with the descrip
tion. Morovcr, some notes paid by a
banker to the deceased were produced in
court by a woman, whom the prisoner
bad been seen to visit, from all which
proofs it satisfactorily appeared that
this unhappy youth, corrupted by vicious
ror.qftuy, had, by feelings of jealousy
and the temptation of matey, been In
stigated to murder his friend.
“While this melancholy detail waa
given, the prisoner appeared almost
sinking under contrition and ahamo.
When the ease hod been dosed for the
proMceutte^, tile judge, in the most im
pressive manner, coiled upon him for his
defense. 1 Ha .atoed wps and, after &
short but violeaft aflat to conquer his
feelings, ho addressed the bench with a
voice at first weak and tremulQus, but
afterward cofredteit attd hill! 1 .
“‘My Lord and Jury: You call upon
me for my defense; I bavc nrfne to make,
yet I am not guilty. You have just
beard a etrcnmatabtial account of an
utrooions crime, supported by a weight
of evidence which, f fear, will leave up
on your minds no doubt of my guilt.
But it is all wrong. The woman who
ap|>e<tred In evtfanee nefer received the
money from me; it was my fear of the
dtp^gmoua jqflueijj^e whjph aMh|had ab-
qufrvj over Id* t flat WuthwcSu* of;
teuqorary coldness of my friend, and
which hia better feelings, and his confi
dence in tbe purity of car intentions en
abled him to conquer. My visits to the
woman had no other object but to pre
vail upon her to break a^ > her eonaeo-
tion with him. As to that horrible ifight,
I will state ail I know of it I war
awakened by a none in my friend’s room,
which was next to mine. I listened,
and all was still. Then I heard whktnmst
have been my poor friend’s last dying
ery, bnt which I thought was only tha
involuntary moan of distnrbed sleep; still,
a vague but irresistible feeling of alarm
impelled mb to the room. By a light
that was dimly burning, I discovered cay
friend in the condition you have heard
described,’ Here his voice faltered. ‘I
have no recollection of what followed.
When I came to myself the room was
full of people, but I saw no one; I sav
only him who lay in that bed.
“ ‘Yon have here a plain, unvarnished
»clo. I have no hopes that it will bear
down the mass of evidence against me.
I know I am the only one who can be
charged with the crime. Still I muat
say: Pause, beware of shedding inno
cent blood. May the Lord, in His un
erring wisdom, move yonr minds as
seemeth best to Him: for in Him is all
my trust—man cannot save me.’
“The jury, after half an hour’s consul-
iation, returned the verdict—guilty. He
heard it respectfully, but unmoved.
Sentence was pronnneed in the most
impressive manner by the judgei in a
long and pathetic address, often inter
rupted by his emotion. He expressed
no doubt of the prisoner’s guilt, and
lamented the abuse of talents, the oor-
roption of a mind once innocent, and
cunicslly recommended the unfortunate
youth to confess his guilt, rather than
rashly jierMst in protestations of inno
cence which oould no longer save hia
life, and which precluded all access to
divine mercy.
“The prisoner then arose, and never
did I see a more expressive and com
manding countenance. It was no longer
tile despondency of fear and the gloom
of hopelessness, but the triumphant, yet
calm and modest look of one about to
receive the crown of msrtyrdom.
“ T bow with snbmission,’said he, ‘to
the judgment of my country, and,
though I die innocent, I return thanks
to the venerable judge who has just pro
nounced the awful sentence for the
ObriMian tenderness with which he has
treated one seemingly so deeply involved
Ml guilt as I am; the jury, as men,
could have returned no other verdict;
Hr be it from mo to murmur against
lhim; my doom was sealed in heaven.
May the Hscnflee of my Me atoae, if not
for n crime of which I am innocent, at
least for the many faults I have com
mitted. It is impossible not to recog-
oize in this the hmjd of (he Supreme
Disposer of evenflw I did at first cling
to life, and cherish fond hope* that 1
might yet be saved and restored to my
beloved father and the esteem of good
men ; but I think I am now resigned to
die, with a firm Lope that, if my dajs
are ont short in their prime, if my hoix a
of happiness and honor have been
blasted, and an ignominious death is to
l* my lot, it is wisely and mercifully de
creed, in order to redeem me from the
errors into which I have fallen, to purify
my soul from those feeling* of self-ap
plause and pride which had ■ede me
seek human praise rather than peace
with God. ’ ~
“Daring 4Mr effccHng adflfees the
hall wae hushed to perfect stillness, and
it was scarcely concluded when toe deep,
solemn silence was broken by these
words: ‘I thank Thoe, Oh, God, he is
innocent!’ This exclamation, which
struck upon the hearts of all, proceeded
from in old man who sat not far from
mo, and who had fallen on his knees in
on attitude of prayer, hia handa convul
sively clasped together; his lips were
moving, but his eyes were shut It was
his father. A young and beautiful girl
had thrown her arms round the old
man’s neck, and hung on his breast,
pale and motionless. The prisoner,
started at the well-known voice, and in
stinctively sprang forward toward them;
but he recollected hia position, and, with
• look which went to my heart, sat
down, and a flood of tears came to his
relief. It would be difficult to paint the
effect which so melancholy a sight had
on the assembly; tears flowed from every
eye. Even the jailers, who came to lead
the youth tq the condemned cell, ap
peared affected.
“The execution was to take place the
following Monday. My late and re
spected uncle, whose life’s work was to
visit the gloomy dungeon and shed at
the still deeper gloom of benighted
souls fhe beams of Christian truth, was
unremitting in his attentions to the
young Scotchman. But he ; me
that he went there not to administer bnt
to receive, and that the edifying l>e-
havior, the simplicity and resignation
*f the interesting youth, left no doubts
of his innocence to all who visited him.
Effort* were made, Imt too late, to save
him. The day came. My nude took
toe with him to the prison.^ At that
time I was young and very thoughtless,
but I received there an impression which
■either years, nor sorrow, nor joy have
effaced, and which will remain to my
dying hour,
“Ou reaching the scaffold the con
demned man ascended the platform with
a firm step, supporting, rather than sup
ported by his father.^ He addressed a
few words to tbe crowd, told them he
was innocent, that be hoped bis inno
cence would CM <i\y appear, hot that he
wae resigned to die, trusting to the
mercy of Him who died ter all men. Af
ter thU his father and be kneeled flown
in silent prayer—no words could have
feelings of their souk;
executioner was adjust-
THE KATHHUL HANKS. \
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A Washington dispatch say*: The
severest condemnation was expressed be
members of both jartica on a resolution
offered in the House by Mr. Broadhead,
of Missouri, authorizing an investigation
of the national banks of New York city.
Hia request for unanimous consent to its
immediate consideration was objected to
by Mr. Hewitt, and the resolution was
promptly referred to the Banking and
Ourrenoy Committee where it will be
bnried forever.
Mr. Hewitt says he objected to the
consideration of this resolution, because
he knew that such a measure was only
cal cola ted to create distrust, unsettle
IwsineM and preoipitftte trouble upon
innocent business men. “Even if an in
vestigatioh wns necessary,” said Mr.
Hewitt, “a Congressional Commutoe is
the very last body tiist should be en
trusted with such a mission. The
soundest bank oould not stand the ex-
l itemenf which would follow.” He had
no criticism to make regarding Mr.
broad head’s action, for he believed Dim
to be only Actuated liy the purest mo
tives. Yet ho certainly made a great
mistake and must have been badly ad
vised. j , i
Mr. Potter, of the Banking and Cur
rency Committee, said he was astonished
that Hr. Broadhead should offer such a
resolution at a time whan the banks
were safely over their trouble* and there
was no -reason to swspeet that any of
them were opsonncL From what he had
heard, however, he believed that Mr.
Broadhead had been deceived by de
signing people. He felt very much
pleased that Mr. Hewitt had made an
objection, and, for one, he would do all
in his power to see that the resolution
wae never reported; even if reported,
though, that would not help it now, as
it was not a privileged matter and would
THE LIMEKILN CLUB.
A Jaaltar OTh* !«(• Trsubln by Nst At-
leniflng to Ilia Own BnoliM'iw.
expressed the
then, while the
ing the rope and hovering hi* eyes, they , m
MDg A psaim ««*»: to Ih. m „i| “"” D “
heart-rending accents. The crowd was
stiirWmtKTMa fioHufljnirasTieard but
these last asppKeatians’ off toe old man
and his son mournfully ascending on high.
The song ceased—the living mast below
heaved back with a simultaneous motion
of horror—the happy soul had fled.
“A few days after, while the poor
father was yet too weak to bear' the fa
tigue of a journey, the seizure of a house
breaker led to the detection of one of th«
darkest plots that was ever contrived by
guilty man. The ruffian, knowing there
was no heip for him, confessed that he
bad been introduced into the house by
the oh! game-keeper, and committed the
murder according to his directions. The
father heard this account with Bttleemo-
tiou. ’I knew,’ said he, ‘that he was in
nocent—1 shall soon be v«|0ini ff«n,
I am glad for his sister’s fiflte, that the
world knows it; but it ooffid not appre-
ate, it oould not feel, the dignity of in«
ocenoe.’
“This calamity excited universal sym
pathy. Government offered to settle a
pension on the man. He rejected it with
disdain. ‘Shall I take the price of my
•on’* Wood?’ said he. They felt for him,
respected his sorrow, and pressed him
no further. A simple and elegant moi*
nmeut erected over the bodies of the
two victinu, recorded in a few words their
miserable end. The old man returned
to Scotland where be died not long after
his arrival, and his daughter soon after
fallowed him to his tomb.”
have to go on the calendar.
It is known bake that iatereated par
ties in New York write aware that this
resolution would be offered and that they
have been on tha lookout for it for
several days in order to benefit by tha
effect it was expected to produce in un
settling tkfc stock market. Its reference
to committee, however, killed the schem<
completely,
A LttU* Accoust
An occupant of one of the affloes in
the city building 19 Jiuijand told, ,Friday
evening, a little anecdote that toe repro
duce. “The first part of the story took
place thirteen years before the main
event that I am going to tell yon about.
I waa a young fellow and was taking a
girl to ride. We drove into Greene to a
party in winter. We got ont at the
house where th<mie«ta| wreto be, playe<?
games for half an fltfito need the girls,
perhaps, and then'wWf^d np and
drove home. Well, sir, thirteen year*
afterward, a number of years ago, a
man dropped into my afore. He paid:
‘How iTjte do/'and so did I. He said:
Said
‘you
party,
’Yes, sir, and had a
Tour name’s R
I, ‘Yes.’' ’Let’s
was ont to my
—.ain’t it?’
sec, ’ said be
house to a
warn't you, ouoo ?’
good time,’ said L Than the old fellow
drew a piece of paper out of jjis pocket
and pAtoscd it to me.
little bill, don't you ?
ou the paper. ’ The paper was a 1)111 of
forty cents for baiting the horse, thir
teen years before. I made him sit down
and recl^ou interest before I paid him,
aud, ttiet* I IqM hhu to get right out. of
the stose."—JiuAarrt ( Vt.y^Airald.
A Stratford, Qoul, woman dreamed
that she aaw her husband ki—*
neighbor’* wife. She awoke and atrnck
him in the face, breaking his none. He
must have thought that tea hod been
kicked by a night-mare.
[From the Detroit Free Press. J
A few days ago A cigar firm forwarded
to the Lime-Kiln Clnb several sample
brands of cigars to J»e smofced at the
next annual election. The Secretary
returned the vote ot thnnks tendered,
mid Brother Gardner carefully laid the
cigars away on the sl||lf occupied by the
bust of the late Julius C.-emr. All of a
sudden the lot turned Up missing. Sam
uel Shin was quietly spotted, but no
questions asked. Some more cigars
were laid on the shelf, and this time the
thief lietrayed himself Samuel .was the
man. He came down to make ready for
the meeting, and seeing the cigars he
took possession. He was gamboling
nrountT Paradise Hall, a smoker in his
teeth and a broom in his hand, when
something happened.’ The cigar went
off. So did Shin. Elder Toots who had
arrived, found the Janitor lying under
seven benches and thtoteen chair*. He
had lost all bis front teeth. His tongue
wns half roasted. His eyebrows looked
like Decamber foliage, and one of hia
peepers was closed so tight thst it
couldn’t be pried opes with a crow-bar.
fe brief, Samuel was a gone-up, used-up
specimen of the African race—not quite
dead, but far enough gone for a medical
college to want to steal his body. He
was hauled out into the ante room and
deposited upon a heap of scrap-iron, and
as the memtiers came in each one inlui-
tively reasoned that something bad hap
pened, wli.if’h would be explained in due
'ime. Broker Gardner felt of Samuel’s
pulse, tickled hia left ear, and then
opened the meeting and said:
“De man who mind|i his own biznesa
has got all de work bat should be out
out for one pussou. De man whoee 1
Angers itch to pick up artioles he hasn’t I
|)oid for will sooner or later make a mis-
take and burn his fingers. It um unffln
tome who gits drnnk nor who keeps
sober, so long as neither one damages
me. 1 doan’ keer a straw to know how J
de nayber on my left libs widout work
or position, an’ it am hone of my biznesa
bow de We on my JiAfr spends de ten
kdlars he tfrns each week.
“Gemyen, Samuel Shin was ’pinted 1
janitor of hall under de impreshun :
dot be wae strictly honest. It has bin
oonehirively proved dst he am an em- I
besalsr. Had be taken all nnr money 1
it would have bin in order to call Mm
sharp an’ keen an’ be satiafled to git |
half of it back an’ let him go free. As de 1
sum total am only a few shillings justice
yells fur vengeance. Samuel owm a j
mule. Bcfo’ leavin’ dis place to-night ,
he muat gin us a bill of sale of de ani
mal. We must have a chattel mortgage .
ou his cook stork If he has any wages |
due him we must serve a garnishee. Dar ,
mtsit be no let np—no unworthy feelin’s ]
of mercy. Samuel Shin am deposed '
tote hi* position as janitor, an’ de
tranrfail Cadaver Blossoms am ’pfnted
to fill Mt dennexpired remainder of de
term.) Jadge Ooboots, Kyann Johnson
aud Porus Davis am nominated a com*
mittoe to remote de body on a cheap
cart to its home on Grove street, an’ dh
reg’lar hiiitmu da*has called os together
to-night wili netepcDoeodto begin.”
lemnnrc of a Humorist
mumaa anrix/xvxw.
“How do your di+mooda
with the genuine T” ——
“Put them ride by side and youcan,t J
tell them apart Let me show you
some samples,” and the dealer turned
to his iron safe and got ont a box of on
set “ diamonds ” of about three cants
each. Handing the scribe a dainty pair
of tweezers he requested him to examine
the stones before the light. The report
er picked up one of the gem* as careful
ly as though it were a $20,000 atone,
and held it before his optica. It spark
led brilliantly, was otil perfectly, and
anybody but an expert would suppose it
to l>c a genuine diamond. The reporter
was tempted to slip the stone np his
sleeve, until he asked the price of it,
when, getting the reply, “One dollar,”
he dropped it os though it wns poison
ous.
“ Hare are some thirty beautiful spec
imens,” remarked the merchant as he un
folded another paper and laid before the
scrit>e half a dozen stones about the size
of a door-knob. These are worn prin
cipally i>y gamblers on account of their
extraordinary size. “They come •
great deal higher than those others 1
have showu you. I sell these at $2.60
apiece, or a pair of them for a serio-com
ic singer's earrings at $4.25. They are
exceedingly brilliant, you see, and at
night shine like a locomotive headlight.
Here are a lot of little diamonds that sell
from*!i5 to 75 cents each.” “ Are those
made of paste or flshaeale« ?” " Oh, no;
I never deal in paste goods. These
atone* come from the Sierra Nevada
mountains, and ore cut aud polished ia
New York; aud some are even sent to
Paris to be cut and are then returned to
this country. They are the best imitm
turn of the diamond made, and retain
their brlliancy forever. Not being ae
hard as the diamond, care lias to lie
taken in not getting them scratched.”
“ Yon remarked Indore that the trade
was simply immense. I suppose that
the second or middle class of society are
the greatest purchasvrs of these imita
tions ?” * ‘ That’s a In re you’re wrong.
The principal buyers and wearers of
‘Hindu’ diamonds are. thone jrho move in
the highest soefet^ and I’ll tell yon the
reason why. lad a lady who counts heu-
weolth by the hundreds of thousands ap
pear in public with a pair of six or eight
carat ‘diamond’ earrings, and the people
never suspect that they are ‘snide.’ Hiey
iaiogiuo that liecausc the wuarer is
wealthy she would never degrade herself
by wearing $2 diamonds, but such is the
case. H nndreds of times have I matched
genuine diamouds for high-tooed
ladies, and it was actually impossible to
tell them apart You see, when a per
son of {wealth wears ‘snide’ diamonds,
yon can hardly make people believe that
they are anything else than genuine;
white, on the other band, let a person ia
more reduced eircumatanoea wear genu-
iae diamonds, and everybody they meet
will tom up thar noees Itnd remark that
they ore ‘snide.’ 80 thaf is the reus on
the people of wealth can throw on so
aach style with very little expense.”
, —CHnciunati Titnettfiar.
Is a
CMKMVIMMYOMpt LA WE
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New VwU Jttlaa*
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[From Mae Xsw York HsrskL]
la reUtiou to the mixed condition of
tire divorce lew* of the several States, a
case of interest was submitted to Judge
Andrews, in Supreme Court, Special
The suit wse brought by William
Jones against Lola Y. Jones.
The parties were married in Jum. 1875,
and separated in 1877, the wife tearing
h*> hnabsnd cm the ground ef cruelty,
and going with bar father, Ward H.
Wakefield, to Camp county, Texas,
where tha latter had purchased a planta
tion. After a residence of two yearn in
Texas the wife commenced a salt lor
divorce in that State on the ground of
cruelty, and obtained a suit in her favor
on May 9, 1889.
Tbe husband had appeared and de
fended the anil, sad daring that period,
the wife alleged, the cruelties on his
pert were repeated. When the decree
was given against him tbe husband ap
pealed and carried the case to the high
est court of the State, where it was
affirmed in an opinion in which the prin
cipal set of cruelty—that of an unfounded
charge of adultery against the wife—was
characterised as one to which no vir
tuous and refined woman should be com
pelled kf "submit without redress from
the courts. In the msantteM the hus
band brought the suit in this State,
which was still ponding at tha time hia
wife got her decree in Texas, and white
was only then reached for trial After
the decree was rendered Judge Andrews
granted permission to the wife to plead
it in the salt of her husband here as a
part of her defence.
On the trial counsel for (be wile
offered in evidence s certificate of the
proceedings of the Texas court, includ
ing tbe decree; and claimed that the hus
band having appealed and 00c tooted
that suit tbe judgment therein formed
an absolute bar to the present sulk
The introduction of the decree waa
opposed by counsel for the husband,
who claimed that the record showed the
wife had remained just kag enough tn
Texan to eoam within the requirements
of the statute so to reridsuos; that she
never had test her residence la thte
State, and that as tha soil woe based on
sate of oruotty aUegadJe
mittodin ttria Blafc K
HUMOROUS PAPERS.
TMff*f tee
WBBK.
WOUMI
go cot ix saidumm.
Tbe employees of a Mtolhgaa railroad
had beep trembling to ihafr boots over a
threatened reduction of wages, when an
agent dispatched from headquarter*
passed akmg tbe Uae end sold to the vn-
court Sad a
right to inquire into the jurisdiotiou ef
the Takas court sad to reject the doeros
if it thoofkt
sa important one, la view of the present
of tbs divotee laws, «T
Hon a Hank was flared.
now ROKFTvT J. rtriAttk wooVT> awl
WOW “HRR Lira.* SBRaKK HIOHNRSH.”
“I saved a bank from bursting ones
myself,” remarked a seedy hooking old
chap, as he laid down a morning P*P* r
ihich ho bad perused second-banded.
‘T admit I ain't very wealthy anw, but
years ago, before my troubles otlme on
mo, I bed large intereoti in BumoStetan
ing *nd backing. I woe prnaidoat uf ~
the bank in oat town whoa there was a
Utile panic atd the people
Carrie Burdette, wife of Robert J.
Burdette, who recently died at Ardmore,
Penn., was an invalid from her marriage
and the great humorist cared for her as
he woftld a babe, giving her every phs- I went in te tee bow
sible comfort. Mrs. Bnrddtte was the
daughter of Anren Garrett, of Peoria,
and Wtil married to Burdette fifteen jeers
ago. Her father was opposed to Bob,
and he made the oonrse of true love any
thing but smooth. Bob wah a clerk in
the post office at that^ time and Oarrie
was a beautiful yonng lady; hat with a
will of har own that more than matched
that of her father. >
One day the ojd man oonomapded hei
to placard Boh. Bhe fefusod, and e vio
lent altercation ensued. Carrie had An
undefined trouble with her heart that ont tbe cheeks in e harry, and weren’t
this precipitated ShOwas stricken <Wn 1 over-particular about losing say
wittj a spasm. They sent for Bob and figuring out odd sente. Well, mj
be foifnd her-pale andlifeless on the sofa. | hundred and more men ruebed ft
Here she managed to express a wish that | beak, eat fcy the time the
they might be married before sbe Jlied i had heard of tbe ran
a dergyfcan was sent for. “foie mte- } toerq was e Mg line k front ef 'em. It
riage of the great humortri ikkfeeltere- | took three houe to pay off. my
along, just ee the
then I found*they couldn’t stead tt un
til the close of bankiag hours. The di
rectors wanted fc) suspend, but I ob
jected. I told 'em to leave it to see.
Happened it was pay-day at my shop.
Hustled np there, pat a flea in the en
gineer's ear, add in five minntes the en
gine broke down, lac men were glad
to grit a holiday, but wanted their
money. I told ‘em we didn't haw
currency ready, bat would give
checks on the bank. My oletes
ted amid tears and sigh*, the orange
blossom* absent and only the pallor of
the dying face looking 6ut from the heap
of pillows. Strange to say, *be immedi
ately began to recover and she soon re-
, gained her former strength. With it,
however, was an unaccountable malady,
Ton owe me a which in time caused hot deatou—ltoca-
It’s all writ down (wr Republican. »'
with currency from my safe at the
shop, which I carried in the back door
of the bank. In that three hour* ire
raised enough money to pay every dol
lar due to our depositdre, and the beak
was saved.”—Chicago Herald.
Bte Swan.
“I am happy to Inform yoa that there
wfll be ac'eutla arieriee.'^iffey
“Good. My salary few maall that I
oould hardly stand a cut of 5 per cent,”
“The rood is not making say money,
bat the President feels that every em
ployee is earning hfe sal ary,and that per
haps the Tall bust rues may bring ns out
| all right Put your name down for what
you can afford.”
“Oa what r
“Why, on this paper. It is e subeerip-
tioa to tray the President a $2,000 silver
tea-setae e token of the esteem of the
employes*. Let’s see? You get $(100
per year. If you put your name down
for $60 you will be giving ail you nan af
ford. Best easy, Mr. Blank, there wilf
be no cut k salaries. ”
now ran kaxoaboo aotud.
“Bo you went to the circa*, Mery ?’
“Oh, yes, and enjoyed myself very
ranch.”
“Did you see tbe kangaroo in the me
nagerie f” ~ frW’i
"I did, and felt sorry lot it Poor
thing, it is dykg, isn’t it 7"
“Why, no. Whet pat that into yonr
hand r
“The way it acted. When I sew it it
teemed k be ou its last legs.”—Sotnu -
mtdil* fcfW'agfl f
e-ws-T s^rewsw
DO OBT OFT.
Here's a Mt of conversation between
Belle, six yean, and Frank, five years :
Belle—“Frank, do got off that sofa
with your feet Mamma paid a hundred
thousand do!lore for that sofa, or a great
deal of money, anyway.”
Frank— “Oh, yes ! get off that sofa
’eanse she paid money for it Get on tt
floor; sH on the carpet; she paid
far the carpet Go ont. ou the 1
that cost money to plant it, toe. ewup
, the ground; the paid for that, too,didn't
she.? Hang yourself in air; that’s the
<adj thing roun^here you can da” ' All
this k owe string, sa aaresifite arwoK-
ribk
A BAD, SAD OWE
Bill Bfappsou and Jifn Dafpon are two
Austin society young men, who have
heretofore lived h^ their wits; they
Sim reeuey ef ^dlr own, but man-
gge to live by borrowing mad gambling.
Hot long ■toes Bill Bkspsen’s rich unele
dUd and jfeft him f fortune. Shortly
ritonrard be met hfe old team Dobson,
“What has eome ord^jrou, BUI l Be-
ffereyou eeasg kto pnawati—of all that
joiHast fallow k
keatr yea
Anofte, always ha a good Uamor and foil
<f fte, but BOW that you are risk yon sit
wound te M yoa ted the fiotheebe.
you, anyhow ?”
death
widow lonely
bright, mealy
pnysioai wi^por|
growing into noble manhood.
The Iset time I sew Hwilrt Late k
the streets of BeltbaoN grief had wore
deep lines k that heateoaie ttee that
seemed so attractive and so dignified
under its crown at
One of her chief
hae been the
8teeager-“I eey, te- teaft a ticke'
lor wbatP*
firet-clans pm
1 deal want k go to Europe,
ypa hunying
• “Oh! beg
egret, Hid I thought
you mart ben beak president.”*
Mite Pert to yoreig Oneoftheboy*, who
a feffie red had a
■reins nil Joseph Kayrer, who bee
been investigating snake poisoning, says
that to him one of the greatent mysteries
is that a poisonous snake cannot poison
, one of its species, scarcely its own con
gener*, and only »lightly *>>7 venomous
sntke; but H kills knooeat makes
quickly. A vigorous cobra em kill
several dogs, or from a donen to trifenty
fowls before its Mte hennaare impotent,
aud then the immunity is of brief dura
tion, for the virus is rapidly re secreted
The Ottumwa (lows) JDamoarmt tefis
this story: Bob Swan, of this place, who
served M captain k tea Thirtieth In
diana Infantry, applied far a penrion,
which was gtrekd, wite fiiJM
pay. *0 reteftak tea ynri kta dte-
oharge papers were needed, hut ritar a
search in tea reeorfs they Could not be
found, wteahieoaMdod Bab teat at
time hie company was nrartreod oat he
was on detailed daty afeewhene n
evidently Inrgnttaa Inarerete m he
986,000 « eeptek’e pay.