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VOL. VII. NO. 47
BARNWELL C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1884.
12.00 a Year.
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SUNBISJS AMONG THE HILL'S.
••Hlii merclM art new erery morning and Hla com
paaaiona Ml not. ”
Ilia merciea are new every morning,
Heavy and long is the night.
The ic* moans m blaekneaa of darkness—
There may be a wreck era the light.
Lo ! sodden—a gleam on the mountains—
The shadow* are fleeing away;
viwa touches the clouds with sen-fingers
And opens the gates of the day.
Hi* mercies are new every morning,
And oh, His compassions ne'er fail,
To the timid sheep cropping the herbage,
The mariner breasting the gale;
The child, born to love and to langhter, ^
Ihe sinner, whom tears cannot shrive,
The mourner left “sleeping for sorrow.”
The sick man who wakes up alive 1
“Hs mercies are new every morning !" —^
In the Joy of our youth-time we sang;
Hi* mercies are new every morning !”
We sing y«t with faltering tongue.
And we 11 sing it till bursts the grand music
That all earth’s faint anthem stills,
- And we see She liay-et*r arising
Above the eternal hill*.
Ihttah Unlock Oraik, in Congrcgationalist.
Too I3usy.
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A MOTHEH 8 CON FE88ION.
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“Mother I mother I” cried my little
Willy , coming in npon me, ns I sat busily
‘ work, ‘T ve lost my arrow in the grass
can’t find it”
He was just ready to burst into tears
from grief at his mishap. “I’m sorry,
dear,” I said calmly, as I went on with
my work. 4
“Won’t yon go and find it with mo,
mother?” he asked with a quivering lip,
as he laid hold on my arm.
“I’m too busy, dtar,” I replied,
gently shaking him off. “Go and tell
Jane to find it for you."
“Jane can’t find it,” said the little
fellow* in a choking voice.
“Tell her to go and look again.”
“She has looked all nvar, and can’t
find it. Won’t you come, mother, and
find it for me ?”
The tears were now rolling over his
face. Bnt I was too busy to attend to
Willy. I was embroidering the edge of
a little linen sack that I was making for
Rim, and that, for the moment, seemed
of mote importanoe than the happiness
of my child.
“No—no,** I replied. ‘Tm too busy
to go down stairs. You must take better
oare of your arrows. Go and ask Ellen
to find it for you.”
“Ellen aaya she won’t look for it."
Willy was now crying outright.
“There 1 there 1 don’t be so foolish os
te cry at the loss of such a little thing
aa an arrow," said I, in a reproving voice
“I’m aahamed of you !”
“Won’t you go and find it for me,
mother 7" he urged, still crying.
“No indaed, Willy. I’m too busy now.
Go and look for it again yourself. ”
“But I can't find it. I have looked. ’
“Then go and look again,” aaid I,
firmly.
Willy went crying down stairs, and I
heard him orying about the yard-for
ten minutes, until my patience
to give oni
'Bach a to-do about an arrow I I wish
d never bought him the bow-arrow !”
■aid I, moving uneasily in my chair.
-“Ellen, won’t you make me another
arrow f Here is a stick,” I heard him
aak of the cook, in a pleading voice.
But Ellen replied rudely—
“No jpdped, I shall not 1 I’ve got
something else to do besides making ar
^mbogan to
The child’* crying was renewed. I
felt vezld at Ellen. “She might have
made him the arrow," I said. “If 1
waan’t so busy I would go down and
make him one myself. But I moat get
this sack dime.”
And 1 sewed away more rapidly than
before. The crying went on. Willy
had lost hie arrow, end hie heart wee al
most broken. Unfortunately, I wee not
in a mood to empathize with him. An
arrow, to me, wae a very little thing,
and it worried me to henr him crying aa
if his heart would break over a loes so
trifling os that of an arrow.
“Willy 1” t at length aaid, calling out
of the window, “you must stop that cry
ing.”
“I can’t find my arrow, and nobody
will make me another,” replied the little
fellow. * .
“That’s nothing to make such a dis
turbance about I” I said. “Gtf and find
something else to play with.”
“I want my arrow. Won’t you come
and find it for me, mother ?” r
^‘No, not iio#. I’m too busy.
The crying went on again as before,
and I soon lost all my patience. Lay
ing aside my work, *I~w«nt to the head
of the#teirway and called down—
“Come, now. Sir ! There's been
enough of this orying, and yon must
■top iC" .
“I can’t flpd my arrow,” returned
Wfily. * '
“Wall, suppose you can’t; will crying
# ring it? Ton must take better care of
our things. Little boys must look the
way thqyshooi”
Tdid look, but I cant And
* “Go and look again, then.”
“I haw looked, but it ain’t there.”
And then the crying went on again.
To Willy tike loss of bis arrow was a real
grief, and ha was too young to have for-
titnda to bear Mb trouble patiently. But
I was not M estate «f mind toleel with
baa.
rr eeid I.
again upon
■yeafit “1 won’t have aaeh e name in
But my words had no effect; they did
not produce the arrow. Willy cried
cm.
Unable longer to endure the sound,
and also thinking it wrong to let him in
dulge the habit of crying, I laid my
work aside, and going down stairs, took
hold of him resolutely, saying aa I did
so—
“Now, stop this instantly I”
The child looked up to ms with a
most distressed countenance, while the
tears covered his face.
“I can’t find my arrow,” said he with
quivering lip.
“I’m sorry—but crying won’t find it.
Gome up stairs with me.” Willy as
cended to my room,
“Now don’t let me hear one word
more of this. The next time you get an
arrow take better care of it.”
There was no sympathy in my tone;
for I felt none. I did not think of his
loss, but of the evil and annoyance of
crying. The little fellow stifled his
grief, or rather the utterance of it, as
best he could, and throwing himself at
full length upon the floor, sighed and
sobbed for some ten minutes. A sigh,
longer and more flattering than usual,
aroused my attention, and then I be
came aware that he had fallen asleep.
How instantly do our feelings change
toward a child when we find that it is
asleep. If we have been angry or of
fended, we are so no longer. Tender
ness comes in the place of sterner emo
tions. I laid aside my work, and taking
Willy in my arms, lifted him from the
floor, and laid him upon my bed. An
other long, fluttering sigh, agitated his
l>osem as his head touched the pillow.
How reprovingly came the sound upon
my ears I How sadly did it echo and
•e-ocho in my heart 1
“Poor child 1” I murmured. “To him
the loss of an arrow was a great thing.
It has diaturl>ed him to the very centre
of his little being. I wish, now, that I
had put by my work for a few minutes
until I could have found his arrow, or
made him a new one. I would have lost
no more time in doing so than I have al
ready ioet. And, after all, what is a lit-y
tie lime taken from my work to th^
happiness of my child ? Ah, me 1 I
wish I could learn to think right at the
right time. Dear little fellow I He was
so happy with his bow and arrow. But
all was destroyed by the untimely loss,
which I could have restored in a few
moments. Unfeeling—unnatural mo
ther ! Is this the way you show your
love for your child ?”
I stood for nearly five minutes over
my sleeping boy. When 11tuned away,
1 did not resume my sewing, for I had
no heart to work upon the little gar
ment. I went down into the yard, and
the first object that met my eye was the
lost arrow, partly concealed behind a
rose-bush, where it had fallen.
“So easily found!” said L “How
much would a minute given at the right
time have saved t Ah, me I We learn
too late, and repent when repentance is
of little avaiL”
It was on hour before the deep sleep
into which my Willy had fallen, waa
broken. I had, in the meantime, re
sumed my sewing, after having lost
fully half an hour in consequence of
being unwilling to lose a few minutes for
the sake of attending to my child, and
relieving him of the trouble that had
come upon him. The first notice I re
ceived of hla being a awake, waa his
gratified exclamation at finding his lost
arrow beside him. All his past grief
was forgotten. In a few minutes he
was down in the yard, shooting his
arrow again, and aa happy aa before. No
trace of his recent grief remained.
But I could not forget it With me
the droamstanoe was not aa the morn
ing cloud and the early daw. The sun
shine that came afterward did not dis
sipate instantly the one, nor drink np
the other. I was sober for many hoars
afterward; for the consciousness of hav
ing done wrong, as well as having been
the occasion of grief to my child, lay
with a heavy pressure upon my feelings,
—T. 8. Arthur
A Heavy Cannonading.
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The Fredericksburg Standard says;
John Bussell, colored, was engaged in
plowing near Alum Spring, on Saturday,
and had to set fire to the stubble so
it would burn off. While the fire was
burning near the bank of Hazel run, he
says it occurred to him that he ought to
unhitch his horse and shelter himself
behind a tree near by from some danger
he knew not of at the time. This
thonght so impressed itself upon him
that he did unhitch and took a stand
near the tree. He had been them bnt a
few minutes when a loud explosion took
place, followed by another and another
in rapid succession until the eleventh
one had taken place. John says he was
terribly frightened, and for some time
pieoes of shells and balls, etc., fell all
PRINCELY ECCENTRICITIES
TI1B WAT TBS
QUBHTH
CKIVBO.
WEBB RE-
New Yerfcer Dtepeaeetf ins
Heepballty.
[Tram the New York Times.]
Mr. Henry Havemeyer, whom sanity
is to be inquired into by a commission,
has long been known to a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances as a jolly good
fellow and a princely host, and to this
circle the announcement of his unfor
tunate mental condition, If it does not
come wholly as a surprise, will at least'
be received with unfeigned regret, Mr.
Havemeyer entertained freely at his
house in New York city, but it Is chiefly
on his entertainments at his country
scat that his fame for hospitality rests.
His country seat is on an islet known
as Havemeyer’s Island, in the Great
South Bay, on the Atlantic shore of
Long fhland. Upon this property,
which "Mr. Havemeyer obtained by pur
chase a number of years ago, he sot up
a model country establishment and insti
tuted a princely and in many respects
unique system of entertainment. Com
munication with New York is h^id chiefly
by way of Babylon and the Long Island
Railroad, and for the conveyance of his
gneets between the island and Babylon
Mr. Havemeyer provided himself with
a fine steam launch. He frequently en
tertained parties of ladies and gentlemen,
hut “stag parties" were his particular
delight When a stag party appi oached
the island iu the steam launch its mem
bers were astonished, not to saystartlad,
by a salvo of artillery from a masked
battery near the lauding. The surprise
of the guests was inorossed on lauding
to find a corps of tormentors attired as
United States Custom House officers,
rushing for their baggage, and insisting
on the formality of a rigid examination
of portmanteaux and bandboxes. Be
ing finally, and after all the delay ordi
narily experienced by New Yorkers re
turned from a European trip, acquitted
of attempted smuggling, the guests pro
ceeded to Mr. Havemeyer’s residence,
and were struck speechless at the aight
of uniformed and armed sentries pacing
before the entrance.
If the arrival did not take place near
his dinner hour, the party was beguiled,
as it elected, during the intervening
time, with a sailing or fishing excursion,
or some other out-door amusement. It
was at the dinner hour, however, that
the farcial climax was reached. The
guests were ushered into the dining hall
with great formality by Mr. Havemeyer
himself. When all were seated the host
placed himself at the head of the table
and tapped a silver bell Instantly doors
flew open on different sides of the room,
and in filed what seemed to be an im
posing visitation of military command
ers, bnt really waiters bedecked in the
grndy uniforms of Austrian and Prnaian
Generals, French Marshak, and offloera
of other effete European monarehlas.
The semblance waa complete down to
the smallest particulars. The mimic
officers were helmeted and plumed,
sparred, beswarded, and «p*uUfod_
Bnt to heighten the caricature each gen
eralissimo bore aloft upon his gloved and
uplifted hands a dish of sumptuous and
savory viands.
Bnt there the farce ended. There was
no caricature about the cuitine. Those
who have had the good fortune to sit at
Mr. Havemeyer’s hospitable board would
have to go (ar to find a more sumptuous
table. The peculiar features with which
he encompassed his hospitality wars re
garded at the time as the taaotment of
a clever satire on foreign pomposity and
certain existing domes tty^om toms.
A quarter of a Omtary.
At the meeting of the Beciety of the
Army of the PqUwao Gen. Horace For
ter, in his address aaid:
“It is nearly a qoarter ef a century
sfcMeftMftntgUlwnf ftmA OD Sumter,
hot a lend nport, hot it was the
elgnfftnul shot
t'&i*
frenStya*
verberations did
reached to f<
whole world
werat war.
afcd child
ifi the cause
K>nL TM
from
awoke a
used to the
>le; its re-
tbey had
told the
Republic
man.
around him.
of shells
and
fire
nlodod.
that a pile
g the war
TERY YOUNG MASON*
Bt«fct Rather MstteuwaS Raj* Lmd MM
f»l4*4 lata L* Blaeerit* LeSe*
A oobbmpordbbt writes: WO) yob
please inform me whea atcaw. Jutty can
be worn without exciting comment ?
Certeinly. Straw hats ban be worn with
out < xciting comment when they are
worn on the head. Bn^when they are
worn cavorting along the street in a gale
of wind yon must expect a remark or
twa.—J*kitmdrtpkim (MU.
woman
s a worker
the nation’s
ighty gathering
of that ymfi anqft'v The doors of Am
workshepB were timed, the fields waee
descried. Armed men poured down
fromthe hill tope and surged up from
the Yallepa. The whole land became
one vast military camp, and man fell
that!^ lived again in the heroic ages.
“burke once aaid no war ever left a
nation where it found it. It was emi
nently so with oar war. It found sla
very; it left freedom. It found treason;
K w*. M'kfl loyalty. It found the leprosy of
when this ® oe * e > on ; left a redeemed and regen-
all
American citizen a byword and
proach in the world; it left the name
** American citizen the proudest passport
that man can carry throughout the na
tions of the earth. 'The great lessons of
the war are ever present with or The
record of its battles has passed into his
tory and the serafl tm which that history
is written bee been aeemety lodged in
ef the temple of
The ceremony of Masonic baptism
end adoption of childm was performed
in the Grand Lodgs room by Am French
lodge La Sinoerits, of New York. This
ceremony has rarely bean performed in
pnblie in this country, and (he great
hall was crowded with invited guests of
the lodge, including many ladies and
gentleman in evening drees. A local
paper thus describes the affair :
The members of the lodge formed
open rank in the centre aisle with
crossed swords held high, while, at a
given signal, eight boys were bronght
in blindfolded, led by their parents,
their ages ranging ftom three years to
ten. Some of the boys looked a little
frightened, and grasped their parents’
hands rather tightly. Brother Herdet
received them at the top of the steps,
and at a given signal the bandages
were removed from the youngsters’
eyes, evidently much to their relief.
They looked about in a dazed way, and
timidly walked upon the platform. The
youngest, to the great amusement of
the audienoe, stoutly reskted being pot
in the place where he wm expected to
stand. His mother was obliged to go
npon the platform and asrist in the cere
monies.
The sponsors of the children took the
solemn obligation to aid the children to
the utmost in performing the duties of
Masonry. Then the children were in
turn taken to the font and baptized by
washing of their hands, and thence to
the altar, whereon was a blazing fire,
and where they knelt. The youngest
of the eight kept up his reputation, and
continued to amuse the audience by
stoutly resisting, and hie mother was
obliged to join the circle at the altar.
Next the members of La Sinoerits Lodge
took the solemn vow binding them to
accept the children, which wee duly
confirmed, the members ef the lodge
rising and (dapping their hands in oaf-
son at a signal -
tThe children were then jpveeted with
the aprons and jewels of Masonry, all of
them but thA jfoungent jhstug highly
pleased with their regalia. The young
est, however, was again obstreperous
end had to be persuaded by hie mother,
and poeafhty by stureptitipus candy. Fi
nally the youngsters were all settled.
Then they were all crmeecraled, and the
orator of the lodge, Brother Lellemand,
made hn address. Brother Charles T.
McClenachan explained in English that
La Sinoerite Lodge had pledged itself
to guard and protect these little children
and see that they were educated in Free
Masonry, to restrain them from vice and
keep them from the snaref that snrround
the young. The ceremony of the wwh-
ing of hands was not intended to inter
fere in the slightest degree with any re
ligious faith, bat was symbolic of ap
proaching the throne of divine grace
with pure hearts.
Manuring Pear Trees.
THE PANAMA CAftAL
BOW
TUB CONTI DENCB OF
T17BI.1C Wax SBUKBD.
TBB
t>Mk* Msec ke Bent at Beta
Dlceh.
Most people are under the impression
that tbs entrances to the Panama canal
are to be open to the eoa, without any
looks or other hindrance*. This, indeed,
may have been the primitive intention
of the originators of the scheme, bnt s
more thorough etndy of the question
hss shown that, though it would be pos
sible to construct the canal under those
conditions, there are forcible reasons for
closing the canal with a look chamber
at the extremity where it will join the
Pacific ocean. It has been ascertained
that the tides in the Atlantic and Pacifie
differ very materially. At Colon, on the
Atlantic, the difference between high
and low water mark is not more than
fifty-eight centimetres, whereas at
Panama, on the Pacific, the average va
riation in the height of the water is four
metres, and is sometimes not less than
six. Moreover, high water at Colon i*
about nine hours later than at Panama
The maximum difference which could
exist between the level of the water* of
the two oceans would therefore be eqnal
to half the height to which the tide
rises at Panama, on the Pacific. As re
gards the above-mentioned difference in
the tides at Colon and Panama, all the
above-stated facts have been well known
for the past half a century. Fifty yean
ago Col. Lloyd, who ran a line of levels
from sea to sea, made known to the en
gineering world the above facts, and
they must have been known, or should
have been known, by the French engi
neers who made the preliminary survey,
for Count de Ijeaseps some four yean or
more ago. Since Cel. Lloyd’s survey,
the American engineer who laid the line
of the Panama railroad must certainly
have rediscovered these facts in regard
to the levels of the Atlantic and Psciflc
oceans. However that may be, the pres
ent engineers of the canal company
have only very recently discovered that
they cannot make this an absolutely
“sea level canal” That k a natural im
possibility. They have greatly abused
the confidence of the public and the in-
nooent subecribera to the capital stock of
the “Interooeanic Canal Company,” by
promising an open, unlocked “*e*
level” canal, at a certain (and compara
tively cheap) cost, which promise served
as a basis to catch contributions for the
■hares.
The Marshall Statue.
I
Pear trees often suffer tot lack of J
proper fertilizers. The correct way to
manage pear trees is to apply each au
tumn a dressing of well decomposed
stable manure, leaf mould, a little gyp-
Btun or lime and muck; this to be forked
in around the extremities of the roots.
Of coarse, on rich soils this compost is
not necessary, but on poo lands a dress
ing of well rotted compost two inches
(tap Till prove of value. Avoid fer
menting manures for fruit trees. Also ’j, tribunal
avoid Am common error of permitting
Am trees to degenerate for want of plant
food for several years and then apply an
immense quantity. This plan induces
an unnatural growth which ie liable to
be seized with disease. By Am way, a
good plan when manors is required is tc
apply the compost one year and wood
ashes or ground bone the next.”
Pear blight remains more or lees of a
mystery to hortioultoriete. Treee grown
on over-moist or too rich sofl that stimu
lates to a late second growth are liable
to blight, Avoid damp soil for pear
trees and do not apply sommer top-dress
ing that is liable to stimulate too late
growth. Eastern hortieultarieta say to
graft or bad the Kieffer on pear stock;
it does not thrive when grafted on
quince stock.
It is half a century lacking a year since
the movement Was started to erect in
Washington a monument to commemo
rate the services of Chief Justice Mar
shall The memorial has taken the
form of a statue by Story, which
lately unveiled with appropriate
monies. Hereafter visitors to the na
tional capital may view the striking fea
tures of Am great Chief Jus tics, bnt
not all will res Use how original and
unique ie hie title to the honor now paid
him. It is not simply because he wm a
profound ls#yer or a great judge, but
because of his achievements in a field of
public service which, when he entered
it, wee aa new aa it waa important, He
became Chief Justice when, for the first
time in modern history at least, the
fundamental law of a nation had been
embodied in a written eonstitation, and
hence when, toe the first time, a judicial
• called upon to expound
each an instnunenh The ecienoe of
constitutional interpretation then had
its origin, and Marshall waa its founder.
Without the aid of guiding authority or
precedent he laid Ihe foundation on
which the body of our conatitntincal law
aa sinoe judicially developed has been
built up. The work of Marshall, there
fore, differs from that of any other
judge, American or foreign, for the rea
son that he was the great pioneer in a
new department of judicial labor. His
greatness lies in the extent, the import
ance and the sneoesa of his services in
this field
A Washington Crank.
Jr
Am highest
The Philadelphia Pret* says: That
remarkable crank, Maurice PinehoveT,
who has haunted the halls of the Capi
tol at Washington so long end to whom
Ben Perley Poore gave a national fame
by patting his picture in the Centmrf jmpef when the collector m
Magamne, is dying in ea insane asylum ^ them, averting that they had
at Washington. His pet delusion was
that some member of Congress, usually
the Speaker, had swindled him out of
millione of acres of land. How often he
has come storming around the Hones of
Representatives, and been forced out no
body but the police can tell Until lately
he was never more violent than to pound
with the big tin ease in which he carried
the title deeds to Me fictitious
whoever ventared to dieagree with
Then hie eranhiem took a mm
one turn and for fear that ha aright do
harm ha waa onenmltted to the asylam
in which he wfffc probably take imve of
life. He is ea mtoreetii^ mental wreak.
Nobody knows anything of Me antaee-
» but it ie evident from hti talk ia
moments that ha has bean a high
ty *
No Paper Next Week.
BDITOB WHO DOBS MOT BABB TBB
BA MX MI8TAXX TW1CR
SEVENTY TEARS OF PROGRESS.
Mr. Beecher Olree the Beetle* Ceafereece
Heaie Menerlce el Hie LAI*.
At the Baptist Conference held in
New York, Henry Ward Beecher said:
“During my journey from Am he; at to
Boston, after graduating and while oa
my way to Ohio, the driver on the ata|s
pointed out to me a bank of earth, and
■aid: ‘That’s a railroad, I guees they call
it.’ That waa the Boston and Worcester
Railway, and it waa the flffet I believe,
with the exception of a small railway
between Quincy and Boston, that had
ever been constructed. It took me ten
days to go from New York to Cincinnati
I rode from Albany to Schenectady with
Martin Van Boren, and as soon as it
was known that we were on board we
were saluted with salvos of artillery
from every place that we passed, and
that will account for the fact that I have
b~en making a noise ever since.
“Looking at our railway system for
hundreds and thousanda of miles, I
think that this iron road has been,
under God, the means of changing the
civilisation of this country, both socially
and politically, and it has had gseat in
fluence aside from its other aaeocutiona
in war and in peace.
“The most important applications ot
steam have been in my time, and to-day
the rivers are miserable democrats,
looked down npon by the aristocratic
steam road everywhere. Then the
whole telegraphic system has been in
my day, and the telephone, which I
don’t yet believe in. Although faith is
the evidence of things not seen, thing*
beard and not seen require more faith.
Then the development of the electrical
machinery, which has been the post-boy
over land and under the sea, and is now
coming to bring light everywhere.
Thin, when I was in college and had
some love letter to write, I could write
on a sheet as big as a newspaper, but if
I put in a bit of paper as large as my
little finger they charged me doable
price. It was first 26 cents, then 18)
cents, then 12$ cents, and it was a great
triumph when we could send a letter for
10 cents or five cents. So J have seen
the problem of cheap postage solved in
my time.
“The discoveries of Dagnetre have
been of great benefit in science and art
In my own case I don't know whether,
from the representations of my own face
taken when a boy, I am glad or not, but
T would give all I am worth if the dis
covery had been made in my mother'a
time. Every minister should preach to
his congregation that it is their duty to
have the photograph of eaoh child taken
once a year until it is twenty-one, and
then the children will take oare of the
matter themcelves.”
Soapstone Fleur.
In Congressman Green’s meant speech
before the U. S. House on the adultera
tion of food and drugs he miotioned
some of the doctored articles that am of
fered for human oonenmptton. They in
cluded gluoooe syrup, soapstone flow,
ooooanut-shell end red lead pepper and
so on. Among these the floor aaid to be
made largely of steatite or eoepetoue
seems specially queer, and Mr. Green
spoke of it in this fashion;
“Now, sir, what would be your infer
ence, if told by the proprietor of one of
these saponaceous quarries, as I have
been, that he finds a ready sale for all
the soapstone flour that he ean grind.
■And who am your customera T ‘Chiefly
commercial millers and sugar
But at least it is ooneolitig to
says a Washington oorraspandant, that
at the meant pries of grain it mast have
become a somewhat lose lucrative invest
ment to mix even pulverised stone will
flour.
What Caused a Disaster.
[From Carl Pretzel’* Weekly.]
We h||S no desire to brush the down
off the peach, but it becomes necessary
sometimes. Occasions am not rare when
citlaens request aa, personally, to place
their names on oar subaeription list.
Ooeaskma am not mm whan come of
positively mfam to pay for the
when the collector calls upon
never or-
teed it cent to them. An instance of
this kind happened last week, when an
aldermen requested aa, personally, to
•end him the paper. We not only did
that, but gave hie busineee a alight in
troduction to our readers who live in
hi* vicinity, not a thousand miles from
Fourth avenue and Hatriaon street The
col lector called upon him end he de
clared that he knew nothing about it
sod had never ordered H, yet admitted
that he had mad Am article with a great
deal of relish. Tbs alderman, who, by
Am way, does not represent the ward in
which hie branch store is located, w%
get no paper this week, yet we do not
consider that we have wasted any sweet
sees on the desert afo, lor ^ the future
AMta who orte the w ^ wUl pay toe
it when they tel go.
The explosion in the Poeahontee Mine
in Southweet Virginia, by which so many
men lost their lives, is now Attributed to
the presence of a great deal of fine coal
and coal dost on the (loon of the Brine.
This dust mingled with air constitutes
an explosive mixture which ean be fired
by the approach of a flame «f any kind.
In the Pocahontas mine, where this duet
was very abundant, them waa no lack of
opportunities for the introduction of
flame, as it was customary to use a great
deal of powder in Masting out the coal
Borne of the powder was undoubtedly
wasted by the inexperienced miners and
mingled with the fine coal, thus adding
to the danger. A locomotive with an
open fire was also being constantly ran
into the mine. It is considered certain
that there was no fire damp.
Not That Knro or a Bot.—A couple
of pretty tourists came down the lake in
the steamer Vermont the other day,
and while promenading the deck one d
them suddenly exclaimed: “Oh, Nelly,
there’s a buoy f” “Wbem-wbem 7” ex
claimed the other, ex; rr Watty and gaa-
iog around among Am scattered passen
gers. “Them-out on tge water; just
to Am right of the steanMr** bow. “O
pshaw I” was the disappointed reply.
“I thought you meant a real hve,
smart, good-looking New England boy.
Pve seen all Am wooden boys I want to
in New York this winte.*
THE HUMUBOUS.PAPEB&
*i
WBAT WH FIHB 1M
“Papa, what Is the tart*?”
a Ooagmasman’a Httte boy.
at tt
the father replied:
“My eon, I cannot tali a He. I do
not know. ”—Buffalo Eaeprtm.
a srunroB mrr worn.
A golden-haired SUeBee put He head
in at a door.
“Did you send for me 7”
“Of course I didn't,” mplhin wan
in a long apren.
“A messenger boy arid somebody
along here wanted to sat am”
“Well, ’twa’n’t me; Pm a barber.
Maybe it wae the marohaot nest door.
I heard him say he waa going to quit
advertising.”—Chicago Ainas.
OOMMBBOIAL eZAIMROB.
A young gentlemen of
finances were not in the I
and whoee reputation lor
sobriety wae not much better,
to an Austin rnsrehant for a position eg
salesman. He bed hardly had time fcf
get fairly into the office, when fe'esBM
oat very abruptly.
"Did the boos him youaeaakemaBF'
asked a friend who waa standing outride,
“No, but he wanted me to trawl"—
Austin Sifting*.
a
di-
5^3
A guest entering hurriedly
man and wife flashed, tnrttgnent
•bevelled.
“What's tha matterr ha sahu
Husband (triumphantly)—"We aq|
settling as to who ii bom 1"
Guest—"Have you eetUefHt 7"
Wife— (viotorkmety)—"We have r
Quest—“Whtoh fottr
Both—“Me r—fffiWefor's Jfa—dm.
Burnley wae making an evmdag sail
nice littiahapaf the faarity had
la rim i In up a little late
“Ms,” he said, during a
lul Jg tha HOnveraatiao, “eaa whisky
talkfjj. “Osrtaimly not," arid ma;
It that absurd notion into yew
f “Well,” he replied, “I heard you
say to pa that whisky was tsIUag anMr.
Burnley and I wanted te knew what ft
said.”—Chicago IHhnne.
Whan Gan. B.
man, two gtris,
busrding-houee, i
love with him. Bothladte
in tha parier ena awning and Hi
making violent low 2o one of
mash to the chagrin of te
flounced to Am piano and aam,
Ages” at tha top * tar wto^leyMg
particular straw on te Has: “Simply
to thy orors-ey* sting.”—-
MUTUAli
A young gen
whfie calling on
bar band and tawt, and
He toM her ha had
mind for a tag time, bnt
would gat mad. Sha
what it was than, and ho
Erssx part of the
any large ores of
through dieetphne.
soul, if iH
Saw he:
promise not to gqt
“I haw two
Mary."
*110111
Eflstnm. Be onrffls (Ma.) ffbjrih
"Yasj ha
tote fat teawttpg
Instead ot stoyttig
“But Us
“Oh I of k ft
w* *
decee, but I knew a ]
off which nobody ewg thinks of
ing. Baoould tew slipped intemi
^rJtet plaee do yon rater
“To s store kept by ft ftitqt af Mr
Eao’s in te nsit streak"i
^torer Why pould he be ate
iromuteovery there r
The proprietor does not advertise.’
-ten** Chflr'jTp '
SHOULD OU>
“Did you know papa
boy reeked a
mother,
down of
“Why, vfeeta
tainly not I didn’t
until he #a* a
you ask r
“Oh, ’causa l
•ft*