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w^''' - ifes / lllf^5'' - ^gsjgH " tf- jj ? - WINNSBORO^" C., WEDNESlto, NOVEMBER 19. 1884. * ' . - 3 A Woman's Wish. j no: to spoon, thov fiiction upon nic were jvjnjr in r. i'.eld of clover. questions and lo Orelcverccofat d soft. and >oftand sw^et, 0f qUecrpiac over. 8 m P " D2Ilt'iDgu Anybody that v A .id scented silence at my head and feet, my torture would Just for one ho^r to slip the leash of Worry, j^'L In eajrer bas;e, J rem Thought's impatient plan for CH'CUffiye] neck. such I deemed the And iv?:cn its cour>ir.er. in its I.eedJess hurry . m . o.Wih Disdaining' Wisdom's call or Duty's beck! course, raj adoiao looked lovely in 1 Ah I it were sweet, where clover clumps aro color she greatly a ' Andda/sies hfdinjr, so to hide and rest: won No sound except my own heart's sturdj-beat- examination for _ in*? . ... , ^ I managed the n Bocun* jtscir to s.ccp wu ?ettin<r _ Aaeia .in Jast to lie there, filed with the deeper crowd just before breathing- home, and having i so?TCS JiSten5n* t0 a ^2M blrd s what to do, felt fh: Oar soul requires ct times this full unsheath- myself with my om ... . ., .. , 4? 1 led her up All swords v.-iU rust if scabbard-kept too , , : seated ourselves o * . she protesting all And I am tired? so tired of rigr'd duty. nncrht to <m in <5Pi' So tired of all my tired hands 3nd to do! ]?o e I yearn, I faint, for seme of life's free beau- Ox course, not mea; ty. \ , she said?women Its ;oose besds with no straight string running through! *now. 1 could nave lu Ay, laugh, if laugh you wilJ, at my crude . sr*"eh; delicious sp But women sometimes die of such a greed, turf made so nice Die *rench,C Soy* hcM hGyond thcil ious balmy air co? And the aysuranccthey have all they need! yellow gorse formi 11 for the eyes to dwi A FIT OF THE BLUES. , I pressed my da: looked languishing orooose, whenune "JNow, it lucres one iinug uivio uau ? another I cnjov, it is a race?of course us co>-'1 *-? s^art 10 I mean a boat race, not the race hu- stood an aged don caan, for the latter has caused me so on|7 a P: many disappointments that I don't burst into a merry quite lake to its members, excepting vvhicn I, pcrforc the softer portion of it?the fair sex? from tnat day to ti bless their pretty little hearts?that is, donkeys, lui when they have ?rot any?ahem!" Of course I, 1 This was the substance of a soliloquy expressed great c one bright August morning, about five covered tnat my a. m., at which iime the clouds were creil71- de" leaden-hued and the weather inclined to JourTsm ' be spitefully unpropitious. lsra. * was t0 A knock at the door. . perience. "Come in," says I, and Mary Swivel io mako a lon^ wit-h i ninknote. sav- ! soled my adored UU n 4U4A ?? v? *?? >. jjjp.. ot the oest sea; '"Please, sir, this was left late last h'Ckiiv Papn& ?|5: nisrht, with instructions to deliver it at "ie *irSt , oncc; but, as you had gone to bed, I darling'some sner kept it till this morning." upset by an ac How my heart palpitated, at the nesse"? sight of the elegant missive, and how I , ^"as a roadsii longed to kiss?not Marv-but it-be- j?ush m? *a>'thrc I cause mv adorable Adela Poynter had ??,t waat rc<lu; written it. out - decrees, as "All right, Mary," I said, assuming ?e"t0 heaven, wh an air of nonchalance I was tar from over m-' ?JCS? am feeling; "its from Smith, I suppose. A o^er-gentle pat cup of chocolate, please, and a few bis- bead. ,, T cents." Naturally I put When Marv left I kissed the billet ^e,c5 s-a^er v doux ranturouslv. exclaiming: . thought no more < ^ I ntnr rvn My darling! I holti vou to my lips. My own precious!" ?purse, watch and LSo elated was I that I danced cleverly cle around the room in an insane wav, r v.:i'u:. making the glasses chink on the side- 1 his was the lis board, and nearly dislodging the pic- f f0' ,so tures, owin^r to the wall bein?r made of breast tlie m! lath and plaster. r<i1adcr- 1 Wlh Tenderly, gently I undid the en- adventures, velope?coaxing it open?not tearing it , iiaving Dreakfa ruthlesslv across as ii it were a biil ;? ,smart' act* from a dunning tailor. board. P-v steau The epistle ran thus: everything was re P ' Tkp?As soon as the snops iu . ??aey riu^c^js ?llJKte?,*^Hi^quet ! way to Sr. Paulas Mm me-not 'n'tr J'"lueilT %V1UI plenty, of forget-i jj 'Very.?Grryv?ii "Of course, your steam hunch will beTrf"?e x^0p,maD' ' V waiting at Putney. I can find my way on *ffL have c F board. inougu, ana cxi "Sly cousin?Major O'Gardy?will cicer- merit. Picasc tai one me. jjiy precious pel ".Mind, I particularly want that color.' t - t f f TOiatever you do, don't make a fiasco of establishment i w the clay (as you did ac the last Derby) or hearing that I dar I'll never forgive you. Yours ever, for fear of incurri: Adela." To save time, 1 Somehow I thdu'1 iike the akusionto hansom and drov( the major. and heartily wished Market, where 11 that she had not deputed, me to under- finest bouquets tl take the task she has assigned me. money, blue for* But what was I to do? If Adeia had the chief feature ii oce fault it was imperiousness; im- It was very late plicit obedience to her slightest wish Putney, only to fi was a sixc qua non and no one more allowed to pass o^ than I knew this, as I hud been race was a very i snubbed repeated.}' by her for short tended by great ci coinings in that respect. In vain I ar<juec "Thank goodness!" I murmured, that, being a ligh "he's only a cousin?I'm not afraid of Qre ran no danger him cutting mc out. He's a regular He was inexor veteran, no doubt, with only one eye, pocketed my half half a leg, and a stump of an arm.- I that made me feel don't fear him as a rival?no, not L" age. Hereupon I began humming, in a I looked througl sarcastic war, '\Let me like a scldier aEd saw the fall," and, somehow, my hand clenched launch, and distin it self mechanically, as "if to suit the by whose side wa< action of the word" on the person of the aot at all a vet< absent major. making himself v< Fiasco, indeed!" I grunted, not ing by the way sh( liking the allusion to the last Derby. I pocketed the te Especially as Adcla might in one of great bi^ D, ana i her playful moods relate it to the boat. But as ill 1 major?how I began to hate all military they were all at t > r men!?who, of course, being my rival? river. I felt a presentiment that he was? By dint of j'uad would twit -me about the unfortunate pocket-hanc^erchic contretemps. ticulatioart'I at las Having taken you, gentle reader, aid. /' n into my confidence so ' far, it is only 'IV coalman pi right I should open my heart to vou, another Richard; I and allow you to judge at the little in- P^ :l kingdom for cident to which my adorable Adeia re- / was. so eager was ferred. j aovuu. I was in the seventh heaven of do- j ^ sl.?.otf on ^,e ! light when she consented to go to the ! you think I saw? Derby with me, thinking, of course, another bow, and that we were to have a tete-a-tcte drive, bouquet. and talk of love, and so forth, like all The gallant O'C lovers do, or at least should under anger to welcome e 3^i similar circumstances. [ said to Adela: But imagine my disgust when she "My darling, I-hr sailed into my room, accompanied by a want." I think I de: maiden aunt in green goggles, and a And, eager to she do<r, and her two sisters. ______ ua joldiga Of course I exa>r&gycti~nrrdeTIgnTat love^a^s- conccrne* "' v the "hilhix to our psfty, tissed her before r and- mounting the box of my drag, next moment I w gave a silent sign to Adela, unoo- and thrown overbc served, I hoped, to take a seat by my words ringing in m side. The horses were a little mettle- "You scoundrel, some, and requested my utmost atten- mv wife?" tion at the moment. Dear reader, can How my heart fluttered with delight whenever I am invi at the rustle of a lady's dress, and, on the river, havin: looking around with a tender smile have "a fit of the b full of the light of love, what was my m horror to find that it was the ancient in goggles, and not ray darling Adela. Pnuosopr How long the road appeared to me, ,, hi , t ||y|> although we went over the ground at a the d aad ;w0 t0 WW t f - bundles. I want t WZ%T In vain I tried to enter into conver, - , cueaper. Uat tiiey sation with uxv angelic Adeia; my neck T . ? ri was nearly twisted in the attempt, da; th ? maj while my face got as red as a peony i aD-oce> Vnich they woth exertion. | seventy-five cents Ihc rude remarks tnat some of tho u b' the 10Q lhe lower order made?the gentry who | gav and some of drove in donkey carts and ^reen j liorht But it is al grocers vans-were quite shocking T?ev are wa:chin? all having reference to the elderly iQcr *tbem> It is tg spinster at iuv siue. _ i canitai no-amst iaD< "Twig the old uns' gig-lamps!" said ha all trades. You one facetious costermonger. i jn a bundie, but v ' Another bawled out: | blades iu a'baud. . "How kind of that 'eer gent to bring lhem or his granny out for a hairiug!" pav-. l'Ve"hired cc L<uekiiy for Miss Askew, she was rjlCV c;m very deaf, and didn't hear the uncom- a p;;ck of hounds piimentary remarks, which, 1 am sor- r;^? through it a ry to say, provoked sounds of sup- ^air. Bill Zlrp in . pressed merriment from the ruby lips * *" __ of my Adela and her two sisters." i In vain I sought for an opportunity | Land at bar Har of ten minutes alone with my aariing. ] been-bought sixtee Her aunt and sister haunted us, and, j or acre n01 as they came ont to enjoy the day, and it0 $8,000 per acre. Ight it was IK) in- ! A % ; ;N v ; \:; r!C?.'YC.5i. ! The to pester me with * " be eiceroued to all Men "Wlio Tiin:: foisc":!! T/i.-ir j 7t is not lor es- -j Aso by Tliei:- Hair | salicn that Ai vanted two uoses of . sivo fondness be more than covct- There is on?v one person in thy nni- calrulv answe le brain hit upon a verse who can compel as mneii alter.- part of the inc ating the enemy, for tion from those who do not know him well known "! ladies?excepting, of as a man who wears a wig. and ^that Gladstone. T1 ie Adcla, who really 5s the man who dyes his hair./ His life l:iy, Wiliiam ler blue silk, which js a prolonged ovation. Wherever he Samr.ei Tayic ffected, owing to her roams lie creates interest. Everybody n_'c Landor ai ? at the Cambridge looks at him; everybody thinks about and as an offs dies. him; many talk about him. a double nam ? ?1 '1 ,1 lin V-.o-KcViTV>7?n S U1CUU.1UAJ Ujr . ?ut llll? iiav/uiiWu ** * v, vw?. . ia)U^411J d myseif lost in a should not bt; charged up to either his* acc Greeley, i the time for going assertivencss or vanity. He is usual.'y ham Lincoln instructed my groom a modest m.-m and always an unsuspi- thaniel Haw :it now I could eujov cious one. Ho is serenely unconscious lists could bi rn precious pet. of tiie figure in; cuts; tirely unaware tended, until, the downs, and we of the distinction he ciij jys. come evident in a grassy mound, Wrapped in the comiortable halluci- exclusive clai the while that we nation that the world can never discov- and thus far t :ch of our party, but, er his little secret, ho floats through ]3nt, driven f] ning a word of what life on flowery beds of bliss. lie fan- without numi are so artful, you cies he has cheated old time complete- Yates and Tr lv. In his own opinion he has baffled the middle in lgered on forever in age in the mo?t ingenious manner. ed Americani iOt, where fragrant Whether the poison of the dye lias told of such < a seat, and a uelic- softened his brain, or the belief that he Fleabody, the :>led the heat, while has sliced twenty or more years from novels, vast e cd a prettv picture his apparent age without any one guess- the middle iii -11 * in<t it hi< imstit his mind, none will . The eu&toir en upon. - - j rliao-'s hand, sillied, ever know; but mental soundness the middle le < , and was about to seems to depart when hair dye t::kes easion strike; arthly sounds caused its place amor.;: his toilet accessories. as very absu our" feet, and there Under the influence of nitrate of silver Americans h key braying piteous- or any eombinat'on of lead ami su!- the British in ices behind/ Adela phur Cfcsars become simpletons, Xapo- American or: peal of laughter, in leons nothings. ^ crn type has e* had to join; but i Look at the of tiie man with the abused initial his I have-religiously j dyed-hair as ii-j sits in happv uncon- hero "Mortin iman or otherwise. * ' sciousness of tin: fact thai he is the cy- XV. Grandicoi lynocrite that I was, nosure of ail eyes. I's expression is even ask if f oncern when we dis- j one of chiidiiice sanoi.Iieauon. lie is Xapoleon V. dra<y was ' one?se- ' at peace with the world and blind to found himsell fjhted; but"\Be sure the absurdity of his appearance. lie Bat what il you out" vt"s a tru- never dreams that his little dodge can to have slight ustrate by bitter ex- I be detected clear across the street. Ilis and undispu j mental sturdiness has got out of the ; some extent, r story short, 1 con- ! way of the smell of sulphur, and keeps | must be remc I nnt of the war. | the middle in ?LUdtb U i j T- ? Ls on a" hired <Jra<r, , He never notices that when he visits it, and the n: : fares in advance. ' at the homes of his friends they open mercial clas I had to procure my I all the windows. It never occurs to when, from : rv, she was so much ! him when ladies who sit next to him in number of n cident she had wit- street cars fan vigorously that his hair initial is used dye is responsible. A great flourish of direct eviden de inn, and I had to perfumed handkerchiefs when he ap- 1868, Ministe nigh a dense crowd, pears never alarms him. It takes a testimonial w red, and was coming man of a very trustful nature to dye it had scvcut j lawvers are said to his hair and go through life with an twenty-three en my hat was tilted undisturbed mind. _ twenty were 1 I received a not If the color he forced his locks to surname, tw< on the back of mv take on at all resembled anything in names apiecc I nature his serenity of mind could be nine distin;* my hand up to save I understood. Frequently it is a curi- used the mid rith-its green vail and ous, unclassified blue, so unlike any the first initi :>f the 'accident till a | respectable hue under the sun that you name?a cus wi.nn T missed mv. I can't keep your eyes oil' it to save your called_au An chain; in fact, I had life. This peculiar tinge is arrived at tlnir r. Sta aned out of all mv after long application, anil expresses Spencqir JL V )lc.s. * the abused hair's refusal to absorb any cote, Thomas .sco mv dear Aucla more poison. Sometimes when nitrate Murchison in ,viu^ made a cle:'.n of silver is the article which does vio- would seem ' ;itter 10 yon, gentle lence to nature, the hair turns a dull, elusive right: on with "my further gritty red, about as becoming to any tial.?iVI j face as a wig made of red willows sted I made myself would be. A f made my wav on Sometimes a deep, deep black is ar1 launch to see" that rived at. No hair ever grew on a white ^ Everybody ;adv for the reception man's head as black as it is. ?To ra- Sirozer. Pet [took the.train from ven's wing could hold a' candle to it. years before itiivu. ...v..7.. ,..y pA'o TnTT'ah eonld riv.il it. The blackest drug Store he churchyard. ) dog that ever howled or trod a wizard's 1 carrier boy a: r," s-aid an extremely circle would look dull and dim beside News and" A* 'but wc haven't any it This is the hue that gives its victim was taught t< irdered more ribbon, tho highest satisfaction." lie is, if pos- the only difi iect it in every mo- sible, happier than the blue haired the father of :e a seat." man, the drab, o:* even the Russia- .immortal G. ; had named the-very leather red. uot tell a lie.' as in so often in my There is a striking and painful dis- would, tu<"^e ' * *--- ' . i - 1 ii e not go lo any other crepancy oetween me aeep .unes in n:s rupuK.^.- ? ng her displeasure. face and the extravagantly youthful Jcfr th- Xcios < iowever, I hailed a darkness of bis hair, which he never jfh'hasdop:: i to Covent Garden sees and nobody else can heip seeing received whih >urchased one of the He refuses to sec any other intimation servativc" in lat could be had for of old age than gray hairs. That is ti^ attributed to < *et-me-nots forming only thing that scares him. His ,e}~ went to roll in,; i it. ? tlea figure, his heavy gait, his <:-VGP^7 ' i>l!t to Lilt? s> when I got back to lined face and reedv voice ? d over- tells-. nd that no one was looked, though they tell llr ta^e of his Chan Jones er the bridge, as the earthly pilgrimage beyoru the power the other day, mDorlant regatta at- of hair dye to contrad.'-^* . ter of a circun owds. If he is sixty he^lfy beiieves he witnessed wil I with the policeman Dasses for forty. ^he thosgbt makes which, after < t weight, the struct- him so gay at fc^art that he effervesces Cuan. Jig proc from my crossing it. into boyish #^shnoss of manner, sad- "You know *able, although" he 1.7 incompatible with his figure and to :-e at Paini} -crown with o-rin face. ^is intimate frionds begin to "Yes," said more than half sav- \ apoVS>ze for him, and strangers find "Well, sir, themselves exchanging ridicule for pity me and anotl i my opera "-lasses, . v^hen they look upon him. ' creek down be Fairy," my" s?aip ( He is so sure of the perfect success of we sav,' a cat s - - - -u: ~ nf rhn watnr n ctlv made outrideuisjusu uiaun; piaiutu mv u.voi? ui ? > a handsome n*an, removing his hat wheir he is in horse- - while he wci jran, and' evidently cars, and flatters himself that women then came ba ivy agreeable judg- think him handsome. Sometimes he pine bark in h 5 smiled. secs some other imbecile who has him to see wh: dl-t^'e glasses with a taken the same plan to defeat the ene- and, sir, first 1 ivest in search of a my, Time, and laughs in his sleeve at the bark in tin ock would have it, the glaring failure. Everybody is fal- on it, hoisted 0 Surrey side of the lible on hair dye but himself. Unen- went sailing ai lightened as to his own groiesrjueness, sailed across s ry signs, waving of he travels the rest of life's journey in ever saw," ;i's and violent ges- the unadulterated bliss of ignorance, a "But, Peter, 1 brought one to my creature that should move the hardest ulous listener, of us to mercy.?Louisville Courier- big creek, an led it on; but like -Journal. swift just belo would have swap- , : r"Well, I dor a liorsc. like the ? T"? Amer.ca.n-s Endnrance of Cold. be could have >1 to get to my be- t +i ~ i. hind feet, coul > Lieut. Grcely is of_ the opinion that usetalki^. it, , , , , . , his men, if.well provisioned, conlil not c_.v .v!r], =' ivfaju have'continued to live sit Fort Cc*i<rcr * ,1 y-hetkc W\v Ade:a wearing more than live years. Theconstituiipn " A h' } carrying a line ^ avcra<re American is not capable * / of prolonged continuous adjustment to " xardy.held out a " more than zero cold, and such accli- r?euralgi le; but, ignoringit, realization could only come about af- , . ter a series of generation's where the tve brought all you law of survival of the fittest shouMr^b. acam^e it ofte* serve a kiss." crate, and. a tions of school w thcjuaiar^W>-X^--^c-^ ' cnango -in organisation, m .. _ii ?"?th3 valiant where which. nutritive and muscular develop- s usuaiiy I'l^xes?actually ment should predominate over cerebral Powcr throug: lis very eyes. The development; in other words, nature ment? over-ana as lifted up bodily has shown us in the mentally dwarfed ???u lausjn or ard, with the awful but physically hardy Esquimaux, the usually cure it years: . type of organization best fitted for liv- j 1 , "how dare vou kiss in"- in those septentrional latitudes. It, ,?, ae, lS a however, is no less a matter of fact that ^ fch ufervo' you 'wonder that the inhabitants of mcridianal climes njLCnCf ted to any boat race admirably adapt themselves te'mporari- ^ se u') 3< lost my Adela, I ly to the most extreme cold. Iu the ?,ornL- nu organ lues?" retreat from Moscow, in 1812. the Ital- tor any wornr >. ueuralsria is a ian regiments sioou inecom ueucruum ^ ier Stamped. tlie Germans, and notably belter than mca^s that wl; the Russians, who were aceustomed to wori-^ living. on to pull fodder by the climate. The Turks presented the t0 wo.r^> ^ ^CI pull by the hundred same relative immunity v.l the sieixe of *? cn3?y aQ}"th .0 see which is the Sebastopol. Longet, from whom these R.arcoiics and , get me anyhow, and facts are taken, remarks that the apti- ^cjson and so Ihev pull by the tu ie to resist inclement temperature is "crj?elf subject ce 150 good bundles acquired nnd lost in turn; that people ?iaco c"_angc b ought to make at nurtured in temperate or cold climates, strong in body a day, and if thev who go to the torrid zone to iive, arc ti0n with iiiy make over 200 a much less sensitive to the cold for a lnus^ be a hca them are mighty time after their return to their native seated their 1 right, I reckon, country, though this lessened suscepti- uca'^ ^rs mo: me and lam watch- i bility disappears after a year or two.? er 00re . "1C j 3 same old storv? ! Medical liccord. j evor piotiuced or. There are tricks ? 1 * great worics 01 can count the bands j Boston Maid: "JJ0. m7 paternal pro- I ?gc gives a ch ou can't count the 1 genitor is not in." Caller?"I am one j ucation of gi 1 j,;c hm].- w]5;c}1 j j comes very ne md so they make j Ui LUe ucpsuwa ^ ~?, _ at according to the ! ^nc* has suspended payment. Canyon f we ncedfor th rdwood cut ~by the I te^ me where your father is?" "The j agree with bir pack it so loose that j authorities became cognizant of consid- j fui women ancan follow a fox i crable rehypothecation on his part and j old age. The .nd never touch a conveyed him to a protoplasm.1' "A handsomeat! Atlanta Constitution, what?" "A protoplasm," "What in j Dio Lewis' J/o t ? the name of Webster is that?" "If j w tw 1,0^ you will glance at Worcester you will An ea?rlc s a~4?o?for ? ? v brings from ?4,000 Of the 60.000 Jew's 7n New York city, ten:P"Caught -? - not one of them is a bartender. Denmark, 179 3Ii itll*- ]tiitial." SjWSTttZMi FOIZ ISABIZvs. I ?, ijr *!"<*- English accu- AnjJj-kifejic That Sn^osicd a I><?pu- An c\!raon 11 en cans have an cxciu- '^,-^ouiediAn's.Xcwest S;?:i^. w.,?. ,.V for a triple name was Snaviii"\* t> red by an allusion, on the to know how I crime to tor" i'"oV Ji-nantpatriots, to "those oll?" sail1 Wl J- Scan- lino nf P,?nU! fankees, William Ewart }aa*|^c?orter of The Free Press who countrv -Vo-i :omas Babington Macau- "aa rccerr$d\i hiat.of some pretty in- flnw-V / Makepeace Tliackerav, cidelt in that connection. 'Til tell >r Coievi^c, Walter Sar- jot* ' ^ n ?' ad Percy ByssheShelley"; ' *fh$t Cbm'rmas week I was playin* K t ;et to the English claim of aa jjjtetfgej&ent at Hj&yerly's Theater? seen for "si., e, to "those well-known Bre^yn. Oa Christmas day there stream from ~ Wfishincton. Irvinsr. Hor- wii?i heavy scow storm and the thca- The'rockv for .. ? o- ? (JGeorge Bancroft, Abra- ter#;' were- coniDarativelv deserted ,, v .Edwin Booth and Na- Wife.on tiy way to thehotelaftc"S TcZlT? thornc." Each of these mafeee^ny;attention was attracted by n!,loT = almost indefinitely ex- nliKgirlaW 6 years of a^e, who i vc, , certainly, it would be- gleaning against a city lamp-oost, JJL 1 that Americans have no socyng as if her heart would "break. tw m upon the. triple name, Jasi.atrthtit .moment the lamolic-hter Th ;hc satire loses its point.- liglM^filamp'and passed on! = oftw?P?S rom these points, satirists even police Mm. jer, and such novelists as Th^ic&re jjrill ever linger in my v oilope, began to ridicule mh^tfis^sligTit, childish" figor? ltial letter, as an undoucri- sc^ttUy^ckff^th; the snow falling oft ,?? *?? ?? V sm. We were continually dim "light on" b-r ' characters as Olivia Q. th^p^^^nflstmas dar. Jf~?t ' dortr?S3'*? one Spskedf 'What safe S "whWn monasis being attached to TCk.^"iDg-aBesfl^'. " v> wnicn n Sci.X ? w u ^ be lower than titial. uuwyciuu ucuveuii ixmj. suuo, dq accounted l of writing and speaking- crying because Santa Ciaus didn't body, before a tter on .every possible oc- ?lidn't?come. , to cur house last tion began, w > an educated Englishman - something un. rd, and, as a rule, some understood it all?poverty and no it above the p ave reluctantly accepted S$*ta Ciaus. ^ t . rested. The. ipeachment of this taste. i^Well, don't, cry,, little one. He may usually the c; r esqne of the free West- The day is not over yet.1 flowing over i seized unon this much t'Vhatau expression of joy lit up her elements have [ and makes its novelist f?Beas'?fcc quicklyreplied, 'Oh, sir! tent, but if it < ler J. Brown," or "Peter ;dj^ou think he will?' ^ a genuine foss IK." Wt jt tempted to JgW am sure 01 n-wnere uo jeu certain^ a su ,rge J.Washington or W_ cannot believe ?>onaparte would nothave Just around tne corner, sir.' Nature The fhandicappod for life. ^1-took her hand and said, 'Come; I g^'ul] with so : this satire should prove ^go .with you.' semblance, se t ioundation, *nd this last our way I asked, 'Have von any its beimr nnkted Amcrican:>m were, to **#ers or brothers?' " fn]i 1an Anglicism alsr>? It -^'Yes, sir! I've got a little sister I know thiinbered that the use of Anie, she's only 4, and Tonv, he's 2, thin?-for peon itial is a commercial fcab- Pta the baby. Annie and me hun?- up this to nii?k m imes of the English coij8BStir~Stockings last night, but .Santa the forms of * ses should be studiea^5?wis didn't come!' And bursting into but I have nei all we can learn, a large^ears she aadec: 'Ob, sir! Wasn't he shape of a f umes in which the middleman?'- blance to a h L would appear. But more 4'.'There, don't cry, my child. I this It was ce is at hand. When, iidpow Santa Ciaus and I'll toll him to loose dirt on t r Adams left London Spring you something nice to-night.' only a few fee 'as presented to him .amp .."She stopped and said: 'This is when it attr y-two signatures, of whici$rhere I live, sir.' She led me through features were were lirm names or titles^ 4n alleyway, to a rear tenement house, outlines of a r of one given name ad Sjp three flights of stairs, opened the ]av some dista jnty-nine were of thra* door and:Ifollowed her into the room, persons entire Lastly, of these twenty^: "Tiiere-was tiic pale-faced mother i?d mnst nf uished Englishmen, nijp&4th her child in her arms. ^-ence have ?( die initial, and three iised:j "I explained to her privately -*rhat ao-ree'that it r .u f?n hnnoeried and what I wanted to J,*,,? fsh-ill ill UiV lUil j?? ?.-"X" 1 \ -- - ..___ torn ivhich has also bdlo. o. During our conversation she told been investiga lericanism. We haveir-: ae that her .husband was a coal-heaver have writteiTr nlev, George J. Goscapft,;>n one of the ocean steamers, and that iin<niished sci v'alpole, Stafford H. NoJtli-:ahe expected him home in a few days, no answer, an 3 2s\ Hunt and Rocfc ?/l gathered tho little ones around me, the medium oi . the list; and reailj-h'and seated with the baby on my kuee brins this lii that America had no^exti told them to go and irang up their Cherokee City \ i over this intercating,,in7 vstockings and I would see Santa Ciaus Uviir. i^^jrtand tell him to till them. In an instant RemarlcabI <=^.-01 tr5&fcp|ofr went shoes and stockings, and the squirrel Story. ' i-JPs^lrildxen darted into the other room to About fifty them up. at Stapleton* J in Albany knows ?eter ^ "As soon as they were out of hear- suddenly see er is a good ag I said to the woman: 'Leave the group. The 1 he went jo. .f~/other door op?i.n and keep the children danger, cxcen " served" in 'this-ro&ni'liBiiii t not hear tiic ad printers' 35 ai*?v?creu: ? ?"? "W* uicss | uuacu una '. dvertiscr offie^*^ro ne ' y??? 91T--Twltir- I Its white bel! ) always tmlh?V "I went to a toy store near by, filled when it was a crence l/etw&i him and^ a basket with toys, candies and pop- the young ma his coantiywintf that the COrn. . 1 then stopped at corner gro- of his danger W, as wc-<ire-told, "could eery and liiled another basket with pro- wharf, It loo "while Petes'couid if he visions and the largest turkey I couid surely reach wouldn't. Such was the lind. Then loaded down I returned to out of the 1 at Peter horc when he the coal-heaver's home. I slipped into Ivoehler were unci JLdx.wtiscr office, and the front room, filled the stockings, pier, and amc ricd from the training he placed the basket on the lloor, and was John I : learning the "art pre- passing through the hail knocked at Taylor hastil his iarly youth it must bo the door of the room where I had left sheath knife a ;v'i associations since he the mother and children. tho pier in the ; P/lls. "As soon as I entered the little ones it came nearcj quirrel story which Peter crowded around me. was a monstc " 'Did you teil Santa Claus?1 long, and one i was tcllinz a bis: yam ? 'Yes/sro au'd look at your stock- Taylor is a la ami that reminded Pe- jno-s. He must have been here by this swimmer. _ As .istance which he says he time.' - was rushmg :h his own eyes, and "Off they scampered, the mother fol- sprang from t >btaining the floor from lowing with the baby. knife in _ his r ceded to toll, as follows: "Such a merry shout of laughter about eight . where the old mill used greeted my cars; oven the baby water, and 1 rra?" _ screamed with delight. In they came, shark. Ihe v a bjstander. the children with stockings in hand and Tiuno-cd as he once, a ong ims ago, mouths fail of candv and popcorn and the shark's sto ler fellow were on the ?. i nnfl nrm tnesnarkssto low the mill a "niece and *w,omra,Wl1^ lJlc tJikey ??L?nc "rm arm, the wate io ne m a piece, ana and the baby on the other. The poor ' hidden a^othTsil Tth,er- *"* "T ia '"WP -de a teS "toff intoStashes and ; resJ? S??d' S,r' Jmt to stomaeb, ck with a big piece of ? ?Mv name?"Peek-a-Boo " ' feet of Koehlei is mouth. We watched rceK a ?>0. in the deep s muuiu. >vu waiuieu "'That's a fnnnv name, sir?write it - at lie was sroiEf to do, . ?V t ?7i , , , asnore wiuiui Jiing wo knew-he laid hi cbmes? back" sticking in th, 2 edge of the water, got comes Dack. carcass will I his tail for a sail, and , <4 S+?' i n -r* n c? t PUl,e days. When a cross the creek. He just j -vm ?' Clans, which it has tj is pretty as anything you 44T^?,n;, T ?. +1 ? cannot turn i r J J ?J "And the child I met on the street the eyes arc ur " interrupted an iucred- "swered: Tel! him he'si awfulI good, s0 Iong as a "the Kinehafoone is a SIr- and V>a Sood' t0%?'r!? i tMd M<1 "oc d the current is pretty cause you made him come. There I taiL j cut . w the old miiL" knew he would bring something for the most 0M fo, l't care if it is. I reckon a?AeSv,? 1+ , , 0 cnrnp deep."? X. T. steered with one of his tli' happy thought struck me?some dn't he? There ain't uo thing for the babi-s-a good title for a How Sh, si fact crcntlernen I new son?* 1I,,oied at my watch. It own eyes,? audit's"the -^6 ?'?Iock- I bade the mothc* ghc was aT >r , ,11 ?* and "ttle oces good-bye and hurried to ,lrnsse(L and i (Ga.) News. hotel. It was nearing theater time. I "V,";"', . , ?a. - - I had only half an hour to eat mv din- roIled a,bout h a and Headache. ?r. bat I opjoyed my Christmas tur- hot .. - rwirTa^r^y'erG nea- , . manj fair loci "onTa doubt the girls He Studied Kaihau^ toat morning 1 enough by the condi- "To'don't want 3*0'berf made up was warinTn^ life. Headaches in a ylt, does you?" inquired the porter of were rattling mean exhausted nerve j middle aged passenger, "yo' mos' al- were l6ts of'Hi 1 overwork, orer-excite- ways has nudder cigar'bout this time e<i her i: aety or bad air. Rest, a 3]j ebenin'. De sniokin' room's pleased to not a country walk Wiu aigh empty now, sah." - bled and hov readily enough, to be- The gentleman addressed had al- girl, and only to become suoject to ready smoked two or three cigars since beside her wa very serious matter, and jupper, and a few minutes before had by the little pc lis diseases have a nasty remarked that he was sleepy, but in tientlv brushes " ' I thov i: cur, lo uccome pwiuui* ivc minutes lie was again in^ue jj- thc'eonciusion - the same causes, to be- in<r room, puffing avvav. cu-xosuy a? tic habit of the body, to the meaning of the porter's strange in to become liable to conduct led to inquiry. mm hc-n most terrible thing. It -Well, yo' mustn't give it away, but, die it lasts life is not that's one of the tricks of the fesnun. anfi"xell reolit It paralyses the power [ makes a pint tcr 'member somethm niorse,-..i , * es >rivcs her of the power about every gemmen dat travels on my , in<r; it tempts the use of ;ah. If ho drinks a little* liquor I jok- - \ stimulants. So says Dr. naly outs him in mind ob it de nex -* 1 say I. A girl who finds ,rip. "'Nother one may be partic la ; to neuralgia should at bout de vent'lashun, an' 111 ax him if 1 3 . er habits, if but to grow [c temDtuah Suits him, telling him I ' * /> . Of what use is educa- [member how 'ticlai* he is. I teLs 1 __ _ health? A liappy girl n0re than one gemincn da: ho smokes ,lthy one. The Greeks ic bes1 cigahs ever burned in my cah. skirls physically; wo ed- ^.ny little peculiarity or whim, an'bout , ntallv. The Greek moth- very man has one or mo , I 'member * 5nest children the world ,nd humor him in it, yo' see. I try to ?ot uuow . Dr. IIolbrook in his flake ebery man b'lieve I know him, oul,? 13 a marriage and parent- in' de plainer I can make dat fack ap- band aoter on the Grecian ed- ,eah so de oder passengers will see an' j we noJaCkeep rls. He claims that it ieah de better I like it. Talk'bout de not know, lie ar to the education that adies likin' flattery, dey ain't no com- loomwnen tn< iem to-dav, and we quite ^ar'son to de o-emmen. D-i' ain't no jou pica -? fere*0P?^ beauti- nan libin'what don't like to be treated water is i 1 their beauty lasted till lg jf jjC ^.nS a 'soer'enced traveler an' ! hour." "Let 1 beautiful Helen was as omebody of importance. Da' 'mem- j replied Sirs, ifty^as at sweet fifteen. ,sl. ms dc mawnin', too, boss. Bet ' longer it boils n'-h1lJ- _ make $100 a monf jus' by studyin' ! ?Tevqs Si/iin< f.uman nachah."? Chicaao fferald < hot in Lapland had at- 'Train Ta " | Elizabeth Ca a tin. box containing a | ?: ?b>?<=- j plea for a nei iment on which was wit- Cooperage consumes over ?33,000,000 C0mm0R ?T of and set free in ia^s-ad, , {y0rth 0f ^-0od annually in the prose- w?in:i3,, 2* ^ 3ution of thai business. - raa.caucL : I -? r-Ii; * * iiu.-.rv fossil?if fossii it is The following is liie substance) ;:n by me on tiie banks of conversation of an "ojd trader clc, in the Indian Terri- tween Queensland and some of miles from the west Polynesian groups: Xhere might i County, Arkansas. The soa2e fvort7 schooners go out on an igh v/hich the Snayina'w erage in the course of a year to s ouirh. In manv places Part or other of the southern s ri.se to a considerable Money is not yet understood by mo: :r side, and sometimes on the islanders, though they are be ?iTrowi h;ii= thit hp niu2 to take particular notice of ; on" either side flank the What they generally get is toba its source to its mouth, pipes, calico, American axes, kni' mation seems to be flint e^c- Sometimes, too, I fancy ' - * - ^ ?- 1?3 1 ^4.1 . The bed of the creek J "ooys" we get are sum to us uy vu of solid rock in some w^? ^ave captured them, and are ? ry coarse gravel in oth- to get something fpr them. In a ter is clear and limpid,al- instances we pick !&p people who . pleasant in the hottest running awav izow? enemies. Th tier. not common, but^feirmember one c ed fossil is about the size ^he boats wer^iy|&gv off an islan [nut. The features of the the usual way,first close by eyes, nose, mouth, fore- beach with the ^Tsoyer" boat a li ancj. chin?may all be behind it, when a beautiful yo: course not readily .ana woman plunged-off a point of rock jvery one, but still they *ke surf, and, $fter diving under impwhaf, distorted, it is heavy breakers^ reached the smc lakes one eye appear to wale of the first - boat .aht?'%prno< the other. Bi^t this may hoard., in Tjcraie and shape she -for by the fact that the 0110 finest specimens of the md at the time petrifica- man race I have ever seen; her f as lying on one side with ures small and exceedingly regu der the head, thus raising ker eyes almost black, with lc lane on 'which the body black lashes, and she had beaut lower jaw is fallen, as is hands and feet Her hair was ise alter death. Water shaved, with the exception of one tand other action of the l?ng on the crown of the he i defaced it to some ex- which" was rolled? "-tip- tight in a 'si loes not prove itself to be tuft. . She was^inv'a perfect stati iil of a human head it is nudity, and as she j^at there unabasl rprising imitation, and I with" her hands raised to her head i that it is a mere freak of ranging her-taft, "she was then sutures or seams in the graceful creature I ever saw. many other points of re- While sitiing in the stern sheet em to preclude all idea of boat, which was fast distancing a freak, and vet Nature snore, sue was - casting anxious io back to tne spot from which sne . Lt it is a vcfv common leaped, and of a sudden her e .Is in rouMi countries like brightened up, and there was a sm > curious specimens in that had some sort of devilment ir various sorts of stones, playing over her face, caused by rer seen anvthinc- in the having caught sight of her pursu ossil bearing any resem- threc in number, with bow- and ar: umau head so small as hand. The foiemost of them w hin<r half buried in the down 011 Ilis riSht knec' and ^< lie uank of the creek, and motioned the men to look out, and t from the water's ed^c, fore he could tase his aim the bo: acted nr.* notice. Tne sail was run ^alf way up the mast,: turned up, showing the a protection for all in the b< luman face although it The sail had not been more than a: !nce from me.* None but minutes_ up before several arr< lv ignorant of "colo^v, pierced it, and struck there. This 1 them cf limited inteiii- a boat's crew to S( ;en it, vet most of them ultu~ woe* l"c *"=>" = oust bo a fossil human - caused the first man to roll oyer ; not be satisfied till it has the olhers instantly took to the bt ited bv scientific men. I ,andno moJe see? ,of th?-1 aore than once to a dis- 1:inded our fugitive safely on the sh: pntisr but hive received and shc was supplied with ck d aow hopo that tbrougb ^ ??>? at. homo with other t the Sun I may at last male ^cruits on ooard.?Fall Mail Ltie stone into notice.? ze^e (Ark.) Liter to N. Y. Sun. ir -t ^ Cruelly Misunderstood. o Bravo, y o> a Diver. , Qaite too cruelly misunderstood, s youn<r men were bathing j Clara Belle in the Cincinnati Enqui 5. I., when a shark was was a friend ol luihc who look n making toward the white hands, and the tools that m >r.ther.s were soonoiiof them, to Saratoga. She had a tr f T'.w.l,!/,.. Imlf filled witli thesifmanii?nrAnten.< o -t i?uc. ixvv/i.na, iTiiv uiu ?- ? - ? ? -?????? ? _??. : warninc. The shark together with a great lot of mixture started toward Koehlcr. pots and bottles. She had been ly Hashed in the water acute suffurer from tho mania for be few yards distant from tifying the hands, you comprehend, a, who had been informed these were the consciences, as ami was making for the ranged on the bureau in her h ked as if the shark would room: A pot of .powder for oolisl him before he could get the nails, a bottle of nquiu ivater. The shark and ing them, a file for trimming them, on opposite sides of the emer}' board for beveling them, an >ng those on the wharf salve for tinting them pink: a po aylor, formerly a diver, cream for softening the hands, a : y borrowed a sailor's cial cake for washing them, and a i nd ran out to the end of of scissors for cutting off hang-nr i path of the shark. As Imagine the sort of array these thi the crowd saw that it made. They made tho room look! :r more than eight feet the office of. a physician and surge of the shovel-nose species. Sue had a call from tho landlord, rgc man and an 'expert Very afternoon that she arrived, j the shark swept u? and said that he really begged her par toward Koehler, Taylor for seeming uncivil, but the fact ^ he nier with the sheath j t-iat a hotel was exceedingly tick ight'hand. Ke jumped property?so liable to become unfc feet beforo striking the ionable for slight reasons, and req andod just besid<T the ing the most delicate management, rhole weight of his body for himself, he would have r.o earl on the knife, which he objection to letting her carry on h 5 touched the water into ness under his roof, b"t ho was so macti. Instantly Taylor's to decide that it would beprejudici: r and the shark were al- his business. in blood. The shark "What in the name of common sc .0 plunge, rolled over on are you talking about?" the girl and when within three claimcd. r turned and disappeared "Why, these things," said he < water. Taylor swam turing toward the beautifying app: it the knife. "I left it tus. "Are you not a doctress?" 3 cuss," he said. "The Then she sat down in a chair and i ic found in a couple of some hysterics of laughter previous shark turns on its back, explaining what the things . were o do to bite anything, it and then, when she came to thin! ts course easily because over, she got mad as hops, packed ider. There is no danger the implements, and moved to anoi man jumps behind the hotel. ><; nnf. <va? struck bv tho Sneaking of hands, let me in a gash in that fellow al- kindliest spirit advise all girls to av Dt long and sis inches a certain new notion as to the wav Tribune. shake hands with a man. It cons ? in hollowing the hand rigidly when ; Curled Her Hair. clasps it, so that the knuckles fee him about like the back of an an cry pretty girl, tastefully cat, and the concaved palm is on ler brown hair curled and contact with^is. Believe me, a fel er low white forehead in had as lief grip a corn-husk as the f is entrancing, consider- est hand thus distorted. Don't d< iie weather was, and now dear girls. is that had beca curled _ ^ T TT were hanging in straight Catch E:n oy Electricity. rJ:l _A tall delicate, pale-faced yoi , , rnr HQCH2, illi vlLl ff in GVerv sea. eie s-0od nervously twirling a bundle s but people seat- . . hi g d ^ ? . nmediale vicinity were K ? ; , ^ ='Ma ice that thev all assem- ^ ^ ? ' ercd around the pretty .5 " j& . j toe young man who sat ,, ? J?d theJmnio. "kindl= ? s troubled occasionally it?h ; - h ^h can istorers that she impa- be ht bv eleitrici. ^ iied i from her face when b ,JU t hI ,( - ,,, ? nf1f?a^J!"nTnS' -f' major. -rou sec," continued the b of the semcc Ue pretty tnrn;ng t0 a rcporlor, "I am ?cp< th? meeting on a machine that will mi v'^;,,'ppj UDj7 fishing one of the easiest things in Hocxciaim, -Dy George! w?rM= . a ??? ??? =I,?j . 50 Ss' *?u?" hivoTmodoi or ^ ^ Iri m- ^ re" made, and it works perfectly. I h: : ' D.d you notice them, a re I shall never try that Pf; ' ?A .1 ..... J , outline or tne way it works is tr imyhanrwitnsugarnnd Tou tato your b,5t Mi throw it b n nS. And then the the water, The line is attached by 1 their departing victim switcb t0 a ma2n0t.. Whcn tho \ idTl .,l an. ?""?? bites the line switches the current her. Itdocsnt do for ilectrioity il;t0 th0 and , jm to be too ilr. Provir magnet pulls n pin out o??a siot. T L causes a long lever lo fly up and liar ... tho fish. 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