The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, March 17, 1883, Image 1
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION
WINNSBORO. S. C.. MARCH 17. 1883
ESTABLISHED 1848
ODD SAYING*.
As blunt hh a beetle.
As sharp as a lance,
As grave as preaching,
As gay as a dance,
As late as the gleamin',
As like as two peas,
As crook'd as aram s horn,
As round as a cheese.
As flat as a flounder,
As sticky as gum,
As wide as a common,
As tight as a arum,
As white as a miller,
As black as a crow,
As lean as a greyhound,
As bent as a bow.
As trail as a bandbox,
As stout as an oak,
As queer as a Quaker, •
As game as a cock,
As cute as a lawyer,
As square as a die,
As keen as a razor,
As warm as a pie.
As drunk as a piper,
As sober as a Judge,
As clean as a shaving,
As filthy as smudge.
As swift as an arrow,
As slow as a snail,
As blithe as a linnet,
As right as the mail
SAVED IN SEEEl’.
A clear, sweet voice was singing a
senseless ditty, with many mocking
variations, and operatic trills.
A young man swinging indolently in
a hammock, underneath the open win
dow. laid aside his book and tossed
away his unfinished cigar, as he listen-
edito the merry trills and quavers.
He has come down to posterity a
model of wisdom; the cure was as suc
cessful and complete as it was unique.
“I,” said he, “will arise and do like
wise.”
He arose slowly; the voice and its
lovely owner had uprooted settled pre
judices, and overthrown firm convictions.
Moreover, an underlying fear that he
was about to commit the second great
folly of his life caused his heart to trem
ble and his feet to lag.
Nevertheless, straight as the needle
to the pole, tended his steps towards
that upper room, and he musical dis
turber of his peace.
She was minding Mrs. Latrobe’s
baby, as usual.
Mrs. Latrobe was a presumably young
widow, somewhat wan and faded as to
beauty, which must once have been re
markable—somewhat scrimped as to
worldly posses lions, yet strongly bent
upon making the most of her second
chance in life.
In pursuance of which design she
displayed the vigor ami tirelessness of
sixteen leaving her infant, meanwhile,
either locked up in the profound slum
ber born of sootliiug syrups, or to the
tender mercies of some obliging fellow-
boarder.
It may have been the latent mother
liness in her nature, or something she
saw in the pitiful drug-darkened eyes of
the child, which made Marie Devoll
often care for the neglected little one
during the absence of its mother;
Harry Raymond was not the man,
having made up his mind, to brook any
unnecessary delay.
He went straight to the side of the
surprised singer, who had supposed
him a dozen miles distant* and the,
baby being somewhat in his way, caught
it from the arms of its surprised foster-
mother, and, with a dexterous fling,
sent it flying through the air into the
very middle of a great, soft Persian rug,
lying before the window. •
Miss Devoll uttered a startled cry of
protest.
The child, contrary to all precedent,
alighted from his airy flight, shrieking
with laughter, and lay clutching at the
sunbeams, a jewel of a baby, in a golden
setting.
“Miss Devoll,” said Harry earnestly,
“you know, as do all my friends, the
story of my early folly.
“Years ago, 1 loved an unworthy
object, and ever since I have walked the
earth blind to all womanly goodness,
purity and truth
“Through a beautiful woman I lost
my sight; through a beautiful woman I
found it again.
“Tell me, Marie,” hie voice trem
bling with eameotness, “if this love is
to be the crown and glory of my life, or
its second folly?
“1 wish that I might bring you clean
hands and a pure heart.
“I can only offer you an unworthy
one, but full of a love that is true and
abiding—that shall last for ever,”
There was no need of words; he read
his answer in her sweet, downcast face,
and tender eyes; he sealed it on her
quivering crimson lips, and was con
tent.
The baby laughed, and with a great
crash of wheels, and flutter of silks,
the baby’s mother returned.
So these two, as needs must, came
back to an everyday world, that looked
all the brighter and better to them for
their brief journey into the beautiful
land of love.
Marie Devoll settled her face in un
breakable calm, and Harry lounged
about with even more than his usual
nonchalance.
Nevertheless, the widow, who was
wise in her day and generation, saw more
than they supposed, and picking up
her neglected off-spring, left the room,
with a sigh for the dreams of a lost
youth.
She had returned from her drive be
trothed but instead of the raptures and
radiance of first love, her soul was filled
with vague doubts—an uncertainty as
to whether she might not, by longer
waiting, have done even better for her
self.
But no such doubts disturbed the
youthful lovers.
Their days passed as a happy dream;
the course of true love ran smoothly
towards the delightful consummation
of an early marriage in the fall.
One night Harry, grown sixong in his
new love, determined to destroy CTery
reminder of that first mad passion of
his youth, so letters burning with ar
dent devotion, costly keepsakes and
trinkets ware ruthlessly destroyed.
Baying once belonged to that false wo
man, they were unworthy, and their
value could not save them.
With a pleasant consciousness of
well-doing, he slept the sleep of the
just, and wakened in time for a long
early walk with his betrothed, from
which they returned, radiant and glow
ing as the dawn, yet truth to tell, some
what damp and draggled
In the doorway they met a woman,
a new arrival, a gloriously beautiful
woman, not an everyday pretty woman,
but a living, breathing dream of per
fection.
At sight of her Harry stopped, and
grew white to the very lips, then quickly
recovering himself, greeted her with
manly dignity, presenting at the same
time his companion.
“I must be a fond of sympathy be
tween you two,” said he, with a sudden
dash of bravado, “for this,” with a
courtly bow towards the fair wonderful
woman, “is one of my earliest friends,
and this is my betrothed.”
It would have been perfect, only he
rather overdid the thing.
However, the beauty flushed with
vexation.
She was not used to having her vic
tims flaunt their freedom in her face,
and to make it worse, Marie, who was
only a woman, although an exceedingly
nice one, could not help laughing a
little as she sped away, and her laugh
had in it more of malice than she was in
any wise aware of.
The days passed on.
The beautiful woman, who, besides
her natural charms, had the added grace
of widowhood, trailed her sombre splen
dor all over the great country house,
making ether women look faded and
common place by comparison.
Mrs. Latrobe and her unpleasant baby
were well-nigh annihilated.
Even pretty Marie Devoll seemed like
a wan field flower beside this gorgeous
Eastern lily.
Hany, to do him justice, shut his
eyes persistently.
He was blind and deaf; but one night,
when Marie was indisposed, the widow
captured him.
It was in the great garden.
The moonlight was entrancing, and
the red-hearted roses hung heavy with
dew.
Perfume, and night, and the wonder
ful woman held him spellbound, while
the perfect lips told him a secret; a
little story—a something that changed
the current of his being.
The mad love of his youth—fought
against, dead, buried, was in that hour
revived into a sadden and vigorous life.
The woman he haft loved and hated
stood before him—tearful spotless, a
victim of uncontrollable circumstances.
A sufferer like himself—lik*^ himself,
wronged, deceived, betrayed
For bis sake she had be me nncom-
plainly the burden of un'.oving wife
hood.
Reconciliation had been the dream of
her widowhood, and he had met her
with scorn almost insult.
The man cried ont against fate in
that hour.
This woman, who had been sll the
world to him in the old days of his
honest youth, was more than that now.
In the flood of that terrible reaction
he would have sacrificed honor, truth,
life itself, for her, but she would have
naught of him.
She had suttered, and in her heart and
life suffering had wrought its perfect
work of patience and contentment.
Now that she stood clean in his eyes
her desire was accomplished.
No other woman’s heart should bleed
as hers had done—no other woman’s
life through her be blighted.
Beautiful dissembler!
Perhaps tie sight of Marie might
have been a safeguard to him in those
days, but she was quite ill, confined to
her room, and with the perversity of
fate, steadily refused to see him, and
meanwhile the evil love grew and flour
ished.
One evening he and the widow were
alone in the room that opened out of a
tiny conservatory.
He tl rew honor to the winds, and the
woman, whether she would or no, was
forced to hear burning words of passion
and mad love,, and in the midst of the
resistless torrent of his woe the door
opened and a man entered.
He was tall, massive, and grandly
bearded—a Saxon giant, of herculean
monld.
He took in the scene in a moment, and
laughed.
“Oh Lura, Lura!
“Will you never have done with your
folly?”
A great light flamed into her face.
A sudaen beauty flashed over it.
A smile *ike that might pave the way
to death for any man, and he walk glad
ly in it.
“Oh, Roy, Roy!” she cried, and rush
ing to the stranger, flung her perfect
arms about his neck.
“This is my husband,” she cried,
“my dear husband 1”
She loved this man.
You could not look in her radiant face
and doubt it.
“Mr. Raymond,” said she. “I was
only rtdrensing old wrongs, and opening
blinded eyes.
“Never think agaih to fight a woman
with her own weapons.
“My husband and I will leave you
now, to make your peace with your
betrothed.
“She is in the conservatory.
“I made sure of that before I played
this little farce.”
The stranger struck off the cliuging
arms of his wife, and stepped to the
side of the d8»jd unhappy man.
“I will not offer you my hand,” said
be, “because 1 know that you had much
rather throttle me than grasp it.
“I cannot ask you to forgive my wife,
for I know that she must have done you
a great wrong.
“It is not the first time, it will most
likely not be the last, and yet I love
her.
“Suffer as you may, young man, you
do not suffer alone.”
Then he was gone, and his fair false
wife followed.
Mechanically Harry stepped through
the half-open uoor into the conservatory.
A bowed, crushed figure leaned agaius
a half-opened window.
A drooping golden head, a covered
face.
That was the woman he had promised
to love and cherish until death.
He could not speak.
Softly, and as though he touched the
dead, he stooped, and kissed her bright
hair and so he left her.
Early in the morning the married
widow and her husband went away.
He breathed more freely, feeling that
she was no longer under the same roof.
During the forenoon he received a
message from Mrs. Devoll.
Mario desired to see him.
Like a culprit he went to the meeting.
He had no hope of a reconciliation.
Mane was too much of a woman to
ever overlook the utter humiliation into
which he had fallen.
She rceiyed him with a wan smile.
He hardly knew her, crimson-nosed
watery-eyed, and swollen-faced, as she
appeared.
“I told mamma this morning that it
was my duty to see you,” said she, in
muffled tones.
“You must know before it is too late
what a hideous being even a slight cold
will make of me.
“I went downstairs last night, think
ing to give you a pleasant surprise.
“I went into the conservatory, and
the heat and perfume so overpowered
me, that I opened a window, and like a
careless girl, fell fast asleep beside it.
“Look at me, Harry! Look at me
will.
“Do you think that your love could
survive many B uch attacks?”
Marie had been asleep, actually asleep.
A great flood of gratitude roiled over
his soul, as, with a rapturous cry of
“My darlingl” he caught her in his
arms.
He covered her swollen face with pas
sionate kisses of thankfulness and af
fection.
“What devotion” sighed Mrs. Devoll,
whose own married lite had been some
thing of a mistake.
“Was ever girl so blessed?” thought
Mario, little dreaming what that sleep
had saved her, little knowing that the
cold which she deplored was a blessing in
disguise, for Harry, grateful and repent
ant, yet believed—‘ where ignorance is
bliss, it is folly to be wise.”
The Youth from Yale.
Was there ever, asks a writer a more
remarkable creature than the young
man of to-day? He is a study. I do not
wonder at him when he wears hats so
low as to be almost flat and shoes so
sharp as to be simply tragic, bat it is
when he talks that 1 find myself most
amazed. I had the pleasure of sitting
in a car on the west side elevated road
in New York, recently, when a youth
from Yale strode in and discovered an
acquaintance in the person of a young
New Yorker who sat opposite me,
“Well, for charity’s sake!” yelled the
youth from Yale, “when d’ you blow
in?” He was tall, was the youth from
Yale, with a sharp nose, very tight
trousers, a microscopic mustache, a'very
short coat, and an English hat. “£onie
one’s left the door open,” he continued,
looking around with a broad and com
prehensive smile at the passengers,
“and this curiosity has blown in.”
This brilliant sally was received by
the New York young man with a grin of
delight. He retorted with epigramma
tic brilliancy:
“Ah, go chase yourself around your
feet!”
Vpon this they shook hands warmly,
made furtiye blows at each other’s ribs
and sat down together. They both
stared at the passengers for some time,
expecting them to go into transports of
merriment, bat somehow the passengers
did not look joyful, but gaz^d at each
other sadly and with apprehension.
“Oh, you coy darling!” piped the
New Yorker in a voice supposed to mim
ic femininity. “Why have you not
written me? Morn, noon, and eve have
I longed for a word from thee, gentle
Joe.”
“Yob, an' you got left Orlando.”
“When d’ yu cum down?'’
“Last eve. Qot on an awful bat with
the boys, and went to bed at 14 o’ clock
A. M., with a head the size of a balloon
jib on a nobleman’s yacht. When I
tell oat of bed for breakfast this morn
ing what do you s’pose I got? ’
“Qot left.”
“No, no deal son; I got a note from
a gay deceiver asking me to call around
an’ take her tin’ her mamma to the polo
ground to see the foot-baii match.”
“D’ you take her?”
“Hat cher sweet life I d’ m’t. bent
note savin’ ‘I’m no hog. JH take you,
but 1 draw the line at the old woman. ”
“Nothin’mean about you, if you are
beaudlul.”
"Well, she mutt think I’m a bloom
in’ chump to lug the entire domestic
establishment to the game. By the
way. Rosalind, get onto this hat, will
you?”
Eight Follies.
To think that the more a man eats
the fatter and stronger he will be
come.
To believe that the more honrs chil
dren study at school the faster they
will learn.
To conclude that if exercise is health
ful, the more*violent and exhaustive it is
the more good is done.
To imagine that every Hour token
from sleep is an hour gained.
To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep iu.
To argue that whatever remedy makes
you feel immediately better is good for
thejsystem, without regard to ulterior
effects.
To commit an act which is felt in
itself to be prejudicai hoping that some
how or other it may be done in your
case with impunity.
To eat a hearty supper for the pleas
ure experienced during the, brief time
it is passing down the throat, at the
expense of a whole night of disturbed
sleep and a weary waking in the mom-
A 0«hi> irate Gambler.
Protection fir the Han<i«.
I
Me lUHliked t yon all Privilege!*.
An occurence has Istely transpired
at Nice, France, which is near Monaea,
the great gambling centre of Europe.
A notorious habitue of the Casino who
had made his money principally there,
had set np an English vehicle, a pair of
horses “tiger” ipid all, and cut quite a
swell driving through the neighborhuod.
One day he was ridirg in the environs
of town upon the fine roads, his serv
ant sitting npc n the raised box behind,
who has been feeling somewhat uneasy
at not receiving his wages for some
time, seeing his master quite alone
ventured to ask him tbrougn the back
window if he would not make it conve
nient to pay him. The master was in
a good humor, aud asked.
“How much is it, La FIciu?”
‘•One hundred aud twenty flvelivres,
may it please you, monsieur.”
“Very well, hore it is, said the mas
ter, spreading the sum in paper curren
cy upon the seat of the vehicle. “Now,
La Fleur, have you a pack of cards with
you?”
“Certainly,” answergd the obsequi
ous lackey, “I always carry them, mon
sieur,” producing the cards at once.
“That is well- Now I will be banker
and you shall play against me. I will
take the front seat, the back one shall
serve for our table, you cau look
through this back wmdow.
The lackey assented to this, amused
at his master’s condescension. Luck
was rather on the master’s side, but
both men became quite eager in the
game thinking of that and that onlp.
Little by little the footman’s money
was going until all that was left of his
wages was live livres. He began to
feel anxious when luck turned and he
won the whole sum back with every
sou his master had about him.
Piqued at his loss the master wagered
a norse, which the lackey won, then its
mate next the harness, and lastly the
carriage itseit. Luck ran ail one way,
and the servant. La Fleur, won every
thing. The master took out his watch
aud put it dowu against a given sum.
The cards were shuffled, the lackey
won.
“I have nothing more, La Fleur; you
have cleaned me out,’’ said the half-
desperate gambler.
The servant was in high spirits at his
strange run of luck.
“Here are a hundred livres, monsieur,
I stake them against your position, if
you win they are yours. It you lose
we change seats. ”
“Agreed.”
Then the cards were shuffled and La
Fleur won. The vehicle returned to
Nice with his former master sitting in
the servants box behind, La Fleur in
side.
. ' - .
A Cairene Brlrto.
On alighting from our carriage,
says a correspondent who is writing
of a v'sit to Cairo, we were hastily con
ducted across a large covered court, iu
which tables were spread and hired mu
sicians were perfonqing, and were shown
up to the women’s apartments, passing
through a number of narrow, winding pas
sages—it was, I was told, a real old-fash
ioned Turkish interior—and traversing a
number of rooms furnished with a curious
mixture of the splendid and the tawdry,
until we came to the room where the bride
sat to receive the final compliments of her
her friends. She was smalt-framed, deli
cate-looking person, with fairly regular
features and beautiful eyes and teeth, but
the former, notwithstanding that her face
was thickly painted white, showed traces
of tears, and she looked and evidently was
tired to death. “She has been crying all
day,” whispered the French governess to
us confidentially; ‘‘she has never seen
him, of course, and has got an idea that
she shan’t like him; the fact is, she aid
not want to be married at all,but of course
her family would not refuse Pasha’s
alliance.” The new bride’s apartments
have been refurnished in her honor, and
were bestrewn wth yellow satm chairs
and fautemls, which most of the women
carefully avoided, prefering to sit com
fortably on the carpet or on the lowest
foot-stool they could find. The bride sat
like a little image on a chair raised on two
steps in one corner of the room; her hands,
incased in tight white kid gloves, were
croLSed on* her lap, and she never moved
at all, except that she acknowledged our
courtesies, as strangers, with & slight,
grave inclination of the head. The other
women kept up a pretense that if was all
very delightful, and occasionally stroked
her dress smilsng in passing, or rearranged
the heavy gold fringes of the veil, bhe
had put off a magnificent bridal dress of
white satin on entering the house of this
husband whom she “bad never seen,” and
was now arrayed in pink satin heavily em
broidered with gold, having on her head a
veil of tulle and gold ornamented with
tlowera and diamonds,wbile large diamond
brooches and bracelets glittered on her
dress ami wrists. The long train of her
dreass, made in European fashion, wts
spread ostentatiously halt across the floor.
Those of her relations who had come with
her were also very smart and very modern.
Her sister, in addition to a pair of high-
heeled shoes, had advanced to the civilized
length of wearing tight stays.
A Little Mure,
Oue of the stockholders of a new Wes
tern railroad was a farmer who had ac
cumulated his money by hard toil, and
when he had put in appearance at the
meeting to elect a Board of Directors he
felt it his duty to remark:
''Gentlemen, as I understand this thing
we elect the Board and the Board elects
the officers.”
Borne one said be was right, and he con
tinued:
“I don’t go a cent on high salaries, and
I want that understood, I sm in favor of
paying our President a good living salary,
and no more.”
“How much do you call a good living
galaxy I ” asked one of the crowd.
“Well, I? a day is the going wager,
but "
Here the meeting began to roar, and it
was two or three minutes before the orator
had a chance to conclude:
-“But of course we want a man who can
run an engine, switch a train, handle
freight, keep books and lick anybody who
want pay fare, and so I shall not object to
$2.00 a day.”
It is exceedingly disagreeable to have
the hands rough, swollen and sore, es
pecially if one wishes to write or sew ;
yet I never could wear gloves success
fully about my house-work, as many
house-keepers do. Even when doing
cold, rough work in which mittens or
gloves seem indispensable, I often find
myself casting them impatiently aside
as I murmur to myself the time-worn
proverb about a cat in gloves. They
seem clumsy and in the way. Neither
can I spare my bands by use of the
•‘dish mop” so landed by an occassional
pen. It may possibly be owing to the
force of long-continued habit that I
can not wash my dishes satisfactorily
with other than a linen or other soft,
easily-wrung aud easily-kept clean dish
cloth.
There are a few tasks in which I find
mittens or gloves a veritable necessity,
and one of these is the blacking of
stoves. Not only is the blacking itself
difficult to remove, but it actually seems
to poison the flesh. Old, cast-off gloves
will not answer, as they are always
more or less out at the finger-ends, as
well as short in the wrist. Gloves or
mittens about as good as any for this
purposed may be made of coarse, thick
cotton cloth ; or canton flannel may be
used, but this does not wash so easily.
They should be made to tit tne bands
comfortably, with long wrists, to come
well up over the sleeves. Thus pre
pared, with a big apron from top to toe,
a thick tnrban over your hair, a brush
for putting on the blacking, and another
long-handled one for polishing, the
blacking of stoves is not the most disa
greeable work in the world. Still, it
is better to turn it over to the men ot
your household if } ou cau. They will
doit in half the time, and, the proba
bilities are, with more satisfactory re
sults.
Another thing for which mittens or
gloves are important is the hanging out
of clothes in cold or frosty weather.
They will save much aching of fingers,
if not, indeed, some colds and sore
throats also. A pair should be kept ex
clusively tor this purpose, for if allowed
to be used in other ways they are sure
when wanted to be so soiled as to spot
and blacken the clothes. If you can
knit or crochet, gloves or mittens of
tine white yarn are very desirable,
though a pair made either of fine canton
or real flannel will answer every pur
pose. The seams should be stitched on
the machine; then pressed open, and
“oat-stitched” down by hind.
But most important of all are gloves
or mittens for handling wood and keep
ing winter tires, and especially when
stoves are used for burning chunks or
wood, which oftqp has to go m at
the top. If the hands are at all deli-'
cate or sensitive they will, unless pro
tected, be continually rough aud sore,
not only from contact with the rough
wood, but also from the action of the
undue heat upon the flesh. Mittens of
yam, or any woolen material, scorch
too easily and not suitable. Mittens of
stout canton flannel will answer, though
a pair of small-sized men’s gloves of
some soft, stout leather, with deep
gauntlet wrists, are best. The ex
pense is not great, and they will more
than pay for themselves in one season,
if you have many fires to build, in the
greater comfortableness and smooth
ness of your hands.
The Oattle Plague’!: Gout.
Until recently little has been postively
known of the origin or true diagnosis of
the cattle plague, which Is necessary to
its successful treatment and eradication.
It appears from the records of tbc Agricul
tural Department that attention was first
called to the existence of this disease in a
dangerous or epidemic form during 186#,
and tbat during that year the danger to be
apprehended from its spread from conta
gion was recognized and measures adopted
to meet the contingency.' By references
to the reports of the Commissioner of
Agriculture it is found that an appropria
tion was recommended by the Commis
sioner, and adopted by Congress, for the
expenditure of a sum that seemed adequate
for the occasion, and a commission, whose
duly it was to report upon its nature and
extent, was appointed to investigate the
cause and recommend measures for its
treatment. During that and the succeed
ing years of 1870 and 1871 the sum of
$12.605 60 was expended in a careful
manner in these investigations with re
sults that are of great importance when
viewed in connection with the vast inter
est involved in its consideration. A recent
estimate places the losses occurring an
nually from the cattle plague at from two
to three millions of dollars at the present
time, which, if esttma.ed at five per cent,
makes a total of from $40,000,000 to
$60,000,000, which Is imperiled by the
consequences, with a prospective increase
of many millions.
Emaucijiated Turkloli Women.
One result of the British occupation
of Cyprus, according to an American
observer, has been to revolutionize the
status of Turkish w^men in the island.
The emancipated Turkish woman, he
says, is not only to be found in Cyprus,
but she has been emancipated so rapidly
that, in his opinion, the harem system
will not long survive in Egypt or any
other country where a British garrison
Is stationed. In Cyprus, according to
his account, the Moslem woman “has
openly thrown off the yoke and claimed
her independence, and with a vengeance
too. Tarnish husbands, fathers,
brothers and friends are frantic with
despair at the turn affairs have taken,
and should a Turk come here from any
other part of Island he would not be
lieve his own eyes.” The women go
about unveiled, walk arm-in-arm with
the infidel, give coffee parties to Eng
lishmen, attend cafes chan touts, and in
some case have even taken to drinking.
The Woman's Suffrage Society should
lose no time in starting a branch in Cy
prus, for if drunkenness and the can
can are the first fruits of female eman
cipation iu the island, there is certain
to be a severe reaction before long, in
which the Turkish husband _i likely to
come to his own again unless due pre
cautions are taken by the liberators of
the other sex.
The other day a lank young man from
the country, accompanied by a good-look
ing young woman, arrived in the ci'y and
stopped at our largest hotel. “1 want you
to do the best you ken for us,” said the
young man to the clerk. “We’ve just
got married, and want to splurge a little.
Down in my country I’m the boss. I ken
lift agin any man in the community, and
1 ken iplit more rails in a day than any
body sepenter knock-keed Bill, the old
Guinea nigger what works on the Ligc
Sanders place. Tell us where our room
is, please. But I reckon we’ll take the
range ot the big room whar all them big
lookin’ glasses is a shinin’.”
“Do you mean the parlor ?” asked tbe
clerk, twisting one of his diamond shirt
studs.
“Yes, the pcrlur.”
“Certainly, sir.”
The young man and his wife followed a
grinning negro and ascended to the parlor.
Shortly afterward the clerk, while passing
the parlor door, saw Rube throw his arms
around his bride aud kiss her.
“Here,'’ said the official, “none of that.
If you stay in this room you’ve got to be
have yourselves."
“Ain’t I got a right to kiss her?' 1 asked
the young man.
“Yes, but not here.”
“I’ve got a right to kiss her here or any
whar else. She’s mine, ain’t you Jule ?”
“Yes, Rube.”
“Didn’t the Justice of the Peace say
that you must cling to me ?”
i'Yes, Rube.”
“And you are goin’ to chug, ain’t
you?”
“Youknow i am R ibe.”
“ 1 hat settles it. Put her thar,” aud
puckering up his mouth he received a loud
resounding smack. “The law ot Arkan
saw says you can put her thar, aud put
her thar agin, Jule. Now mister man—”
but the clerk had vanished, and Rube,
turninsr to his wife, said: “Arter a while
you’ll find out that I m a hero and a boss.
Put her thar sgin, Jule,”
How Apple* areSold tu Kuulaii*.
There are five auctioneers iu the busi
ness in Liverpool, and all the apples re
ceived are sold by them. The sale is
held in a large amphitheatre, iu the
centre of which is a large table, on
which a barrel of each mark is poured
out as a sample. Each auctioneer sells
for three-quarters of an hour at a time,
and the sales continue, if necessary, till
10 o'clock at night. Apples are sold iu
lots of twenty barrels each. The un
derstanding is that the app es shall be
perfectly tight iu the barrel, when such
bring 25 shillings per barrel: “shakers, ”
or those not tightly packed, will bring
4 shillings less. The next grade is “wet
and wasted,” which brings only half
the price of the best. The Baldwin is
the only variety sold to any amount ;
it is the only oue which can be obtained
in sufficient qnanty to sell by the
thousand barrels. Retail Jots and odds
and ends are not wanted. Bales are
held three days in a week. The tradg
dates from about ten years ago. When
it became apparent that New England
could raise apples enough for its own
consumptiou, the New York growers
began to ship, in packing, a basket of
high-colored aud medium-sized speci
mens are placed in the bottom of the
barrel as close ns possible, with the
stems all down, and the barrel is shaken
as often as a basketful is put in. It is
filled half an inch above the chimes,
the head is pressed in by means of a
screw, and the barrel is then turned
over and marked on the face head, so
that when opened it shows an even and
uniform surface. Apples thus faced
will oriug from twenty-five to fifty cents
more than those not faced. There is
very little demand for sweet apples.
Apples are sometimes shipped success-
fnliy in warm weather, when later ship
ments, m cooler weather, will decay.
Facts Worth Knowlmc.
A book account can be assigned so
that the assignee can sue thereon in his
own name.
A master may recover the value of
the apprentice’s service for the unex
pired term from one who abducts him.
The owner of lands is responsible for
damages arising from au area unpro
tected opening into a public footway.
Tearing off the seals of a mortgage
or even its entire destruction, by an
unauthorized person will not cancel it.
An assignment of rent after it is due
will not convey any right of suit to the
assignee, nor divest the lessor of his rigid.
Untying and removing a horse from a
public hitching post, when done by any
one without authority amounts to trespass.
If a person intoxicated fell asleep in bis
wagon and his horse ran away, he would
be liable to all damages arising therefrom.
it is a debatable point of law, whether
striking a horse attached to a carnage in
which a person is sitting is an assault on
the person.
A female cannot be arrested in a civil
suit in this Btate for fraud, but she may
be attached for contempt for non-payment
of costa
A person whose goods are unlawfully
distrained for rent does not forfeit or
waive any legal nght by not claiming the
goods when the distress is made.
The owner of a steam boiler, which he
hao in use on his o *vn property, ip not re
sponsible in the absence of negligence for
the damage done by its bursting.
A bank is not liable for loss by the bur
glary of valuables deposited in tbe vault
of the ba-ik, and no compensation $&id
Iherefoit, when the effects of the bank
are kip: in tuc same vault.
Tue itrorae Age-
During the excavations in the Fiazza
Vittorio Emauueli. in Rome, the work •
men have fonnd a sepulchre of the
bronze age. It is a hole dug in the tufa
and lined with rongh stones, the whole
bung six feet long and three feet wide.
No ashes were found, and the other
remains proved it to belong to the
transition period between the stone age
and the bronze age. The whole space
between the Via Meruiana and the
railway station is coyered with similar
graves lying deep under the ancient
Esquilue. considering the number of
remains discovered during the last
twelve years, and those recorded by
old waters, it is probable that a town
was founded on the site in the bronze
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
—Her husband aud baby traveled
with Madame Albani.
—Missouri is sending acorns to
Europe to improve the forests.
—A negro who is alleged to be 138
years old lives ia Warren county, Miss.
—The salaries of tbe officials of all
the bonanza mines have been reduced.
—Nearly 46,000 immigrants came to
the United States in the month of Oc
tober
—Feng Yiug Wang was the name of
tbe person who introduced printing-in-
to China.
—The total cost of the new capital
of the state of New York to date has
been $14,222,993.
The number of small pox patients
under treatment at Baltimore is 463, in
a population of 400,000.
—Wm. F. Cody, better known as
“Buffalo Bill,” is sutfering from penu-
monia at Newburg, N. Y.
—The Young Men’s Curisti m Associa
tion of New Jersey gained 2226 new
members during the post year.
—There are 69,000 colored Baptists in
Tennessee, with 150 churches.
—There have been 2,400 divorces
decreed iu Maine during five years,
making a ratio of one separation in ten
marriages.
—Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, son of
the “Little Giant,” has beeh au invalid
in Chicago several mouths, but is now
able to ride out.
—Lieutenant Colonel McDougall, of
Guelph, has been selected 10 command
the Canadian artillery team at Shoebury •
ness during the coming season.
- British architects appear to concede
that plumbing and other sanitary ar
rangements ot American houses are far
better thnn those of the English.
—Mrs. John Jacob Astor is said to
be tbe only lady iu New York, or any
other city, wUose earthly possessions
include a dinner service of solid gold.
—Oue of the passengers on the trial
trip of Fulton’s steamboat, Mrs. Sally
Smith, died not long since at Edgar-
town, Massachusetts, aged niuety-two.
— Out of nearly 37,000,000 of people-
in the United States above ten years of
age, 5,000,000 are reported unable to
read, aud over 6,000,000 unable to
writs.
— A Marine and Mechanical Exhibi
tion will be opened in London next
July, and it will contain practical ex
amples of gas, hydraulic aud electric
engineering.
—The Princess Louise has sent to
Kideau Hall, Ottawa, a large number
of Indian and Ctnneso curosities pur
chased by her during her tour through
British Columbia.
—Professor Robinson, whose alleged
heresies mode such commotion in the
ecclesiastical circles of Scotland, has
accepted the professorship of Arabic in
Cambridge, England.
—The yield of wheat for the year
1879, 1881 and 1882 in the United States
is given as follows : 1879, 459, 479, 505
bushels ; 1881, 380, 280, 000 bushels ;
1882, 502, 798, 600 bushels.
—A bonfire, Which has communicated
with a bed of cool beneath, is said to
be still burning on a hill near Troy,
New York, having been lighted to cele
brate General Garfield’s election.
—Nancy UcComb, a very aged col
ored woman, who died, a week or two
since, in Milledgeyille, Georgia, was
the cook who pn. parefl General Lafa
yette’s dinner when he visited thai city.
—Louis Blanc left 20,000 francs to
Parisian children who have bepn deser
ted by their parents. The deserving
of each year arc to receive savings bank
books with 100 francs set down lo their
credit.
—In the Khoyra district, India, which
comprises a considerable portion of the
Bunderbunds, more than fitly people—
timber-cutting aud collecting in the
jungle-wore killed by tigers dunng the
last official year.
—Water for domestic uses is so scarce
in Augusta, Mo., that many families
are having ice iu large blocks hauled
from the river to their doors and melt
ing the ice for drinkiug, washing and
cnlinaiy purposes.
—The London Fire Brigade has but
fifty steam engines and 500 firemen.
The estimated value of the property to
be protected is $6,000,000,000, aud
Londoners pay an insurance premium
of 120th part of 1 per cent,
— The bright yellow tint of many
Japanese vases has never been succss-
fuily imitated by European artisans. Its
popularity in Japan is no doubt owing
to the fact that from time immemorial
safiron tint has been considered lack/.
—John G. Whittier recently received
from a Chicago lady 200 engraved visi
ting cards with a request to write his
illustrious name on each of them, as
the writer was to give a reception to
her friends and desired to present them
with some memento of the event.
—A piece of Plymouth Rook, eight
inches long, throe inches wide and four
thick, has been forwarded to the Rev.
Henry Alton, of Mission Chapel, Isling
ton, London, to be built into the front
of the chapel pulpit, by the Pilgrim
Society of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
—According to the Journal den Fab-
ricantt dc Sucre, the production of
beet-root sugar in Europe this year
amounts to 1,920,000 tons, an increase
of 137,500 tons over last year. Germany
is still the greatest producer, heading
the list with 675,000 tons ; Austrian
Hungary ranks next with 450,000 tons ;
France third, with 410.000 tons; Polish
Russia fourth, 27i,G00 tons.
—Krnpp’s works, at Essen, now em
ploy some 439 steam boilers : 456 steam
engines, with au aggregate horse power
cf 18,500; 88 steam hammers, varying
in weight from 200 pounds to 50 tons;
21 rolling mills ; machines for making
tools, 1,622; xurnaoes, 1,556. of which
fourteen are high furnaces; 25 locomo
tives, and five propellers, with a tonnage
of about 8,000. Annual production,
300,000 tons steel and 26,000 tons iron.