The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, November 25, 1885, Image 1
VOL. XLII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1885. NO. 17.
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VGil'is.
* 01:, World-God, give me Wealth!" the "Egyptian
cried.
His prayer was granted. High as heaven, behold
Pulaco and pyramid: the brimimnsrtidc
Of 'avish Xii." wa?he?l al! his land with sold.
. A i tiiiesnf s nves Toiled ant-wise at his feet,
p V>'- i !d-cirel n. ir:-fflc roared thiouirh mart and
^ .*?r-ft.
His wriest* were irode. his fD.'ce-baimed kings
. enshrined,
| Set death at naught in rock-ribbed charnels
^ deep.
Seek Pharaoh's race to-day and ye shall find
Ku.*t and the moth, silence and dusty sleep.
jCm* "Oh. World-God, give ine Beauty!" cried the
>. G reek.
H -s prayer was sranted. All the earth be
came
P .;-tic nnd vocal to his sense: each peak.
I jrrove, ^ach stream, quick with Prome^
thean flame.
I' : pled the world with imaged grace and
light.
T lyre was and his the breathing might
O -.he immortal marble, his the play
, O. diamond-pointed thought and golden
tonsrue.
G seek the sunshine-race, ye find to-day
A broken column and a lute unstrung.
"0'?. World-God. give me power!" the Roman
* cried.
H - pruyrr warranted. The vast world was
chained *
A captive to the chariot of his pride.
The blood < t myriad provinces was drained
To feed that fierce, insatiable r( d heart.
7n vulnerably bulwarked every part.
V. ith serried legions ar.d with close-mesbed
Code.
Within, the burrowing wo tin bad gnawed its
home.
A r< ( flfRs ruin stands where once abode
1 ho imperial race of everlasting- Rome.
"Oh, Godhead, give me Tru^h!" the Hebrew
cried.
K s prayer was granted; he became the slave
. O; tlie Idea, a piiarritn far and wide,
* Curwd, hated, spurned, and scourged with
none to save.
Ti c Pharaohs kftew him, and when Greece
ttche'd. i~ i
His wisdom worathe hoary crown of Eld.
livauty he hath forsworn and wealth and
jK-.wer.
s Sv?.-k him to-day. and find In every land.
lire consumes him. neither floods devour,
IpomortaLthroTiiffh the lamp within his hand.
I. ?Emma L??trtw. in November Century.
, ?: hat 3i n r."
Eugene Sylvestrc. tail, well proportioned,
blonde, and mustached, stood
with watchful, albeit rather sleepylooking,
eves near a crowded corner
N , of Stale street In our busy, bustling,
well-bcpraiscd city. He was leaning,
with a languid gracc, peculiar to bis
kind, against one of those aesthetic
j posts impressed of late years into tho
postal service of our country, and as
I c leaned there he softly hummed a
verse of-which the only audible words
1 were "good ui^ht, ladies."
The young and talented gentleman
here introduced was a gentleman,
courteous, brave, and kind, and one of
fortune's favorite sons. He was also
the city editor of 'Jhe Morning .-coop
v anup. mosi brilliant and influential ol
our city journals. and he was in that
k particular place at this particular time
in patient search after that tiiiug which
his soul loved?an item. ?
The sun was shining with almost
southern intensity, and Sylvestre, who,
1 I should have told you, was of south
- ern birth, had only to close his eye^>; ;
, little more than usual and stand neai^ J
one of Italia's palatial pomologicafc
- - -
emporiums 10 ue iraaspuneu, Aiauuialike,
to bis childhood's home, had h#&
so willed it.
In the throng of pedestrians and the
v hurrying of vehicles this cynical young
sjjr man saw nothing that to his intelligent
eye was more than an oit-told
tale. He continued his observations^'
from force of habit, or, rather, from
^ that instinct bom with the rightful j
. - member of ihe fourth estate. He stood t
"as PJ35 who slept and dreamed; all J
^ things to a:m unreai seemed," when,
lo! one of those fortunes that favor the
t . brave. A rustling of silks, a tapping ,
o: tiny boot-heels, a gay but subdued
- . cuime of charming laughter, a bewildering
glimpse of scarlet lips and eyes
that suggested black velvet and black
* fvfl /% !? /v f kivt/wa
L _ uiuiiuo, au- tuvoc uiouawnug tuxu^a
in fact that have disturbed the peace
l* ' of mon since LUith, first beloved,
k dawned on Adam. It was but a moment,
and the vision had passed him
: before our hero had fairly opened his
eyes. His mind was for once rippled,
and like some "inspired idiot" it
feeble intermixed girls and houris and
- ' * 1 M ?-!_ __ TT- J
other mythological aosuramcs. nau
ie, the ubiquitous' reporter for long,
long days aud weeks, who had worn
-out innumerable pairs of shoes tramp'*
" "5ng the city from end to end until his
' present dignity was fairly won?could.
he have dwelt within knowledge of
that thing of loveliness and failed to
make her his by right of discovery?
Out with the thought She must be a
stranger, perhaps a Peri from the gate;
of Eden wandering disconsolate.
In fact, the passers-by were two very'
good-looking Chicago girls (they'
Kaon roro AfQA*
nuuiu uaio uwu
^ where), but, by the bow of Cupid, one
l had he seen, and only one, and she
had fired his southern souL He
f started forward in time to catch the
last glimmer of silk as she passed into
the dry-goods palace on the . corner,
then with a sigh was sinking back into
, * * his old, restful position (Sylvestre was
born tired), when, oh, rapture! there
at his feet lay a dainty kid mitten!
"'Sdeath!" ('Sdeath, oh, uninitiated
"ifito the mysteries of newspaperdom,
.iis the customary ejaculatory utterance
, of t&e well-formed newspaper man of
:the nineteenth century.)"
"'Sdeath!" he ejaculated. It was
;hers. Instinct told him that. He
^seized it with even more avidity than
it had been an item, and, with heart
exultinglj beating, he hastily followed
the ladies into the busy hive, where
people were paecea ".use. piciues ia a
jar. Upstairs and in the basement,
glowering at the cash-boys and forgetting
to smile on the lady clerks, from
aisle to aisle, ho pursued his fruitless
search, forgetful of the fact that it was
a corner store with doors on two
streets. Exhausted with such labors
and the heat of the day, he muttered
' ' vocabulary word, and reluctantly
aban&j^ed the search, pocketed his
t precious .'.'find," and betook himself to
his office, iLexp to seek forgetfulness in
his accustomed way.
The next morniij"z, the columns of the
' paper whose staff he so brilliantly
ornamented, appeared conspicuously
this, legend:
WANTED?The lady who yesterday lost
v on State stree:, near ?, a red-stitched, fur
.trimmed, fleece-lined kid mitt, will confer
a favor'on th" finder by sending the other
vOn.> to X Go, Daily Scoopcmup.
* * -X- -x- ? it
Pretty Miss Alice Ringham in her
own especial room next morniug, sitting
bolt upright, with a. stare of astonishment
read the above modest re
Aiico was a child of wealth,
fashion, and refinement, but she had a
brother, and in her moment of surprise,
we regret to say, her language
in nf fhic nonr rr*l;i?
live. She said, with emphasis, too:
"Well, he has a gail!" Suddenly she
leaned bacK in her chair, and peal
after peal of laughter floated musically
1 i i l -?TJ~?,
mOUUti IICX ucuuuiu: i wui. jav tr o uv/~
cessfully this fair lisiier of men had
baited her hook and caught her fish
will be seen further ou. Having
laughed to her heart's content, she
% mused a mbrn-nt, then rose, attired i
% herself to go forth conquering and to 1
conauer, and went, as she said, "to
i beard the lion in his very den."
An hour later Mr. Sylvestres' unmanageable
heart thumped more fiercely
than ever, and he felt more limp and
feeble than in all his life before, as he
was eonfrouted in his sanctum by yesterday's
vision of beauty. H > oow.ui
Ueepi? and presented ner a eh:;ir.
smiied sweetly and accepted it. Tlieu
a pause. He with expectant look, trying
to appear at ease, heard his heart
beating like muffled thunder, and was
positive she did. His cheeks were
aflame, and his hand shook as he
fumbled aimlessly among the papers
? ? f? _ < i.. :
on n?s uesK. one was me ii.ua.gu ui
high-bred repose. It seerucd to him
that years of silence were intervening;
in fact only, the proper interval had
elapsed when she said in her cattiest
tone:
"There was a very extraordinary
article in your paper this morning."
"Advertisement," he corrected; then
flushed to the temples at his asinine
rudeness, and indiscretion. If he had
betrayed himself, however, she did not
appear to sec it. She inuocently at- I
tri'outed his knowledge of her meaning
liic noirsnnnor nprsniefu;itr. Ho I
"v "?T"x I r j
felt the perspiration running down his
back and wilting up Ins celluloid collar,
but she was as cool as the biggest
one in a "lodge of cucumbers."
"Yes, the advertisement," she meekly
assented; "did you not think it a
very strange one?''
Yes, he did.
"I was on State street yesterday,"
she continued in her soft tone, looking
straight at him, "and i ciroppeu me
'mitt1 referred to; at least, this one
bears a resemblance to that as described."
She laid it before him.
"Yes, that is its mate!" he exclaimed,
when?
"How do you know?" she asked,
looking suspiciously at him; but this
tim^ he was prepared, and had his
little lie quite ready, if necessary, :ts it
was.
"Oh, I saw the other when the fellow
came last night."
"The fellow? it was a man, then."
"Ye?yes?oh?yes. Some fellow
picked it up. I saw it when ho came
in ruhhinc his rhin rintl lookino* anv
* " ""t ***e ' * o *
where but at her. v
"O yes,-of course you would see it
then. How stupid I am!" with a
smile; then, as he deprecated such
self-slander:
"O yes, I am. [ sometimes do the
tuost ridiculous things. You could
scarcely believe then'. As I don't wish
to shock you, though. I won't enlighten
you," -looking innocently at hini and
reading his silly, adoring soul as if it
were the page of an open book. He
l ?t ~
uujjhh to s;iy soiuuLuuig, hucii sue
agj^.ajKtket
"Paiifratfis the qstttlelt it with you?"
I can get it for
vou." At^; tlRs moment it was
lying; - fairly:, scSSeS"1 with perspiration
as he couid
framing
, ^meoi.d<^^.wj6ll; " say; de'vintio'iis'from
truth. Syivestre had never
reiiizbd .until yesterdaj-Jfiit fye had a
He^P^ibat now he hatT^rcal' serious
thtIpgkisi as to whether ft might not
junij>.ont of his throat,.where it was
at present' chiefly located? he thought,
aa^foliow her departing: footsteps.
3Jo:c, of their talk we1 need not repeat-'
Hail cho^ men in-, town and all
the girls can fiti it out satisfactorily.
She ifirbsfettf deltefet, iTnd save him
gr::c16iis!y her 6ar<!;Tbr h&vras to come
and "report progress." He sat down
and lost himself in a blissful reverie,
and she went home, "walking on air,"
and all that warm day. went singing
and "carrying on" about the house
until she made her mother "actually
nervous with her lidgeting."
O O
* * * * * * *
Six months later, after a brilliant
and fashionable wedding at a brilliant
and fashionable church, and a charminrr
wnrMinor innrnov Mr. finrl Mrs.
"*n " v?.-j j J,
Eugene Sylvestre, comfortably ensconced
in their own luxurious home
on Michigan avenue, once more hold
sweet converse anent "lhat mitt"?
that fortunate "mitt." He, after the
manner of men, has been telling her,
perhaps for the hundredth time," how
fortunate it was that that fellow who
found "that mitt" had co'me to The
* coopemup to advertise it. and so given
him the precious opportunity. Here
we will draw the curtain kindly, and
resume farther on.
Mrs. Sylvestre, loquitur: "And
dear, Nearest Eugene, do let me say
further that it ivas a mitten, not a
'mit.' None but a man would have
called it so.> And still more, my dear
Eugene, didNit never occur to you that
a 'fur-trimmed, fleece-lined kid mitt'
wrnwony -fr\y
noc >WUU^14UWJ " Uk ua ?? VU4 AVA. a uvu
summer's day?
Did it not, dear Eugene," with a
mocking tone impossible to imitate,
"ever seem possible that, a lady might
by accident have had such a mitten in
her shopping-bag and chosen to drop,
not the handkerchief?that is tho
Sultan's privilege, dear Eugene,?but
the mitten, to tne man of her choice;
enter a store by one door and leave it
by another to prcveut pursuit, and?
but listen while I tell you a little fable
with an application: A young fox was
onco. roving hither and thither, when
she saw a goose. Her heart longed
for that goose exceedingly, and she
planned with subtiety to capture it.
She "
"You don't mean. Alice" he began.
a curious expression dawning all
over his face.
"Yes, I do," laughingly defiant; "I
wanted Mr. Sylvestre, and " 1
"You dropped that mitt purposely?"
"With a iixed and settled purpose,
sir!" with a flashing but somewhat
tearful eye and sweeping courtesy.
"Well"?a silence; then: "Woman
is fearfully, and -w?"
"Unfathomable, dear Eugene, unt
UM* tlfTvo ( tiAM AA>nmr?
lULUUUiiiU'iC iJL , IU&U WlUiU^
nearer, dropping her head on his
shoulder,' and raisi ng her eyes as girls
can, she whispered: "It teas wrong,
and I am drcadfuily ashamed, but are
you sorry?"
"Xever! never!" But before these
ungrammatically impetuous young
people we will a second time kindly
draw the curtain.
He couldn't have been very sorry,
for that was a month ago or more, and
Justice Foote hasn't been called on
yet, though they do live in Chicago.?
Lucy M. Fox in Chicago Times.
There is a wide difference as to customs
and the unwritten rules of the
printer's trade, in Iowa copy is numbered
on the buck instead of on the
front; in .Boston "takes on a daily
newspaper are entered on a schedule
book, so that the copy desk knows
where every portion ot ati article may
be.
a rauaacipaia way says mat it you
will trim your fingernails every Friday
you will never have the toothache.
She has practiced it for over twenty
years, and it has never failed.
THE DARKY AN"I) ills DOGS.
Trying to t In* Question as to Which
O io Ht! Woiihi l'art With.
I was stoppin-r :it the house of a
youn<r "laniLT, who owned a very fine
ileum!, but :is hi* was no hunter lie hud
no ction for his ?mnd. wnich was
over-fond of spending ids time in the
woods instead <>( ivnsainin r at bwue to
please his master. An o:d darky on
tlie olautation owned four cur doffs.
and the young planter, 'thinking ho
would be belter pleased with a big,
bob-tailed "yailcr" tlojr than he was
with his line hound.decided to go down
to "Uncle Henry's c -.bit: :tnd make a
trade, bein^r fuiiy convinced that "Uncle"
Henry, who was quite a hunter,
would jump at the chauce of gettiug a
genuine burning dog for one of his
curs. I accepted an invitation to go
along and witness the trade.
We found "Uncle" Henrv in his
1 i_i. >> ...u,,K*?
"iruus. pilkVU, uujuiuiu^ mu U-JU^V,
leaning 0:1 his hoe to see what his
doirs were barking at when wc arrived.
"Unclc Henry,1' said the owner of
the hound. "I have come down to give
you a good dog trade," and as one of
the dogs, ;t simou-puro cur, came up
wagging his ^tub tail, he added: "I
will give you my line hound for this
dog, as 1 uon't need a hunting dog.and
oniy want a dog to lay around tho yard
to frighten trumps."
"Well, Mar's 13iliy. I'se allers ready
forn trade, and wiliin' to obiige you,"
said Uncle Henry; "but I'se gwine to
tell yer poin'dly dat bit be many a day
oefore Uuele Henry and dat dog parts,
unless some one knocks one oi us on
ilc iiead. Why, Mar's Billy, bo's my
main coon dog."
"But, Uncie Henry," said he, "you
have three otners. Besides, this hound
ot miue will make a better hunting aog
th..u either of your four." Pointing to
one of the others he said: "Well, 1 will
trade for that one."
"i couldn't think of letting that one
go, cause lie s my main possum dog,
and, besides, he's got such a frcnly
sort of way wid him. I sorter feel like
uu's some Kin to us. Do ole woman
neber would quit calling me all sorter
Hard names if 1 let dat dog go out ob
de family."
"i uou't want your eoon dog nor
your 'possum dog," said the planter;
1 just want a dog to lay about liie
house, and i don't caro if he is good
ivi iiuu o. aiu Willing IU
yo;i u good, young houmi for your
poorest dog. Trade mc that one," he
said, pointing lo onu of the others.
"Now I spec's dat houn' am mighty
peert, an' 1 declar I would like to hab
him, but dat dog you looking at
wouldn't be no i;ood 10 you anyuow,
for he wou't hunt nor do uufiin' but
some sort of meanness. He'll steal the
hoi meat on ten de pot or do bread often
tin: tabie ebery chance he gets, au' de
ole woman anil ebery one else dat
comes about here done abuse him so
much hit looks like I'm tie only freu'
iiu s got icic. i gus awiui mail wuen i
sees him a toting oil" a iioi piece of
bacon de o;c woman cooked for my
supper, but when dey ail beat him au'
lie comes up to me to befren' him, I
caA't help likiugium with 'all his mean*
ness. i reckon i'se de oniy fren' he's
got in de wor.d.and I knows it he goes
up to your house he an' de missus
gwine to.hub trouble, au' de poor dog
will git killed."
"Well. Uncic Henry," said the
planter, ">\hy not trade for the other
one?"
"Mar's Billy," said Uncle Henry, "I
neber would a believed you'd or ax me
to part wid dat ole dog. Why, he's
a f fn.ivj aIa .onil il an^t
iii?U umv uvtuv \ v.ng Uivy t^uu uuu u
you rocoliect when you was a boy and
Uuclc Henry was straighter and a heap
younger 'en what he is now, dc happy
days aud nights me and dat old dog
used to spend down in de bottom? Part
wid dat oie dog? Why, Mar's Billy, if
eber I git to be so mean I hopes do
spercts ob de coons and de 'possums
dat ole dog has cotchcd for mc won't
ict me steep. You mought as well
talk about parting me and de ole woman
as to talk about partin<r me and
dat ole dog. As long as dere's a little
meal and bacon in tie cabin dar am
three of us what will divide hit, an'
dats me an' de ole woman an' de ole
dog."?American Field.
AH Hash to H.m.
The daughter of a Boston merchant
of great wealth, wide mercantile connections,
and boundless hospitality
was lately married. The western agent
of the mcrchaut happened to be in
towu, and, as the proud father was in crlfin/*
okr-mf- ovorvlmr?v fri liis Hnilch
""u6 **vv"" -- ? ???eater's
wedding, he invited the westerner
too.
The westerner came. He was uneasy,
and shifted about from place to
place in the house as if he were hunting
for spots that suited, him better
than those he had been in. He put
his hands nonchalantly on things aud.
touk (hem off :igai:i suddenly, as if he
found them hot, and grinned familiarly
at people ho had never seen before,
and then suddenly drew his features
back with a ghastly solemnity. It
seeii a 10 uc an ocuasiuu oi great aim
overwhelming novelty to him.
Wiien the refreshments came around
he was inclined to light shy of pretty
nearly everything, it was as if he" proposed
to take (.n a little Boston formality,
now that he was in Boston, and
require an introduction to every dish.
His host saw that he wasn't eating
much, and came arouud to sec about
it.
"Why, you aru't eating anything,
Mr. West," he said, "can't I help you
to something"
"No, I thauk you,"said, tiic westerner,
"I ain't very hungry to-night I
reckon l'Te eat enough."
Just then a waiter came along with
some croquettes.
"Mr. West, take one of those croquettes,
I think you'll like them; take
one, take one."
The westerner took one. He punched
it with his fork, laid it open a bit
and examined it critically. Then ho
tasted it and exclaimed:
"Gosh! Hash!"? tioston llccord.
"A Hindoo Lady" who wrote a letter
to the Times of India on infant
marriage has sent another remarkable
communication to the same paper on
the subject of enforced widowhood.
She writes bitterly of what she describes
as the "brutalized human nature"
that could lose sight of the dif- i
ference between aciiildwidow of 6 and
a matron widow of 69; and provide for
-I.--. i:r~ 1
me innocent mim uuu iue ut misery
which is the invariable lot of the
Hindoo widow. Siic tells how diroctly
after the husband's death the widow's
hair is cut off aud hvr ornaments are
taken away; how she must thenceforth
wear the coarsest clothcs and cat the
most unsavory food. Her presence is
eKnnnft/l miJ chi? hAAft'mAS flirt lpiip.l*
OiiVlUUU'l VhUX* VVVVU4WW *"v
of society, doomed to pass iier lilc in
seclusion.
A True Sfot-y. . %
"Let mc tell you' a hide story?a
true, sweet little- story?about our- old
farm," said the passenger from Indiana.
"On our farm we have a big
barn, full to the rafters with tbe fragrant
hay, aud buck of the barn is a
fragrant horse-pond. My father? noble
old man, with a gray beard, kindly
eyes, a pleasant word to every body, ana
one suspender supporting a pair of
baggy breeches patched with red?my
deaf old father, with his watchful eye
for the economies of agriculture, con-eluded
that the fragrant horse-pond
"that glistened in the sunlight and)
studied toward heaven would be a1
good place to raise geese. So he bought,
a goose of a neighbor and set her on a.
dozen eggs. It happened that one of.
these eggs was a hen's c?g, and it!
hutched out a rooster. Tijis young!
rooster survived the oerils of infancy?
imimps, chicken cholera, rats, stones,
and loo big a dinner of potato bugs
and paris green, and srew to manhood's
estate a buruptious, crowing, >
ambitious young rooster. His haJfJ
sisters just loved him, and the talc of
family affection which I now tell you
is tiie prettiest thing 1 ever saw in naturo;
with till her wondrous examples
for men. This young rooster got to
feeling very well one day. He thought .
he was about seven feet high, and that
he could lick the best rooster that ever
walked a dunghill in that township. <
Ho crew on the manure pile, and he
crew on the corncrib, and he crew on
me cowshed, and he asked one of his
sisters to feel his muscle. Then > he
started in tne direction ox a neiguuur,
where he had heard a young rooster
Iiltiug up his voico. He found that
j oung rooster, and they called each
other names, and made faces at each
other, and questioned each other's maternity
and integrity for a few minutes,
when tiicy jumped up into the air and
came togetucr. The birds twittered iti
the tree-tops and nodded in their nests, :
the bumble bee hummed toward bis
home, the sun sank alow-down in the
red west, and the boss cows told' the
?l:- r?,
siucrs Liijs was UJU uuiu iu aucu.
those gallant young roosters fought on.
Feathers flew and blood spattered, and
combs and gills disappeared, but still
the battle raged, tioailv one poor
young rooster was seen emerging from
the smoke of battle.. There was a .
dazed look* in his eyes. What there
was 'eft of his tail drooped in the dust. He
walked as if Ire were tired, and 'left
a trail of blood behind iiim. It was our
young rooster, auti tuo other rooster
was alter him. He, too, had blood on
his gills, but there was also blood in
his eye. He meant business,but stopped
to crow,
"Then it was, sir, t--t those fowls of
the barnyard gave me an illustration
of the fact that kindness knows no
lcind_ iind that the tenderness of'the.
female is confined by no limits of breed,
Two of those sweet young goslings
woObled up to their beaten and bruised
half-brother and gave him succor. One
got on one side ot the sucker, and the
other on the other, and they braced
him up ami pushed him along toward
iiouic. Oiiu-r sweet half-sisters came
out aud guarded the rear of the retreating
column. They jumped upon
that victorious rooster, told him Jio
should take somebody of his size, and
tnat he ought to be ashamed of himself,
ami threatened to olab to his fath
er. Our young rooster was brought
home, washed in the horse-pond and
put to sleep under a manger. Every
word of this is true. 1 saw the whole
thing witli my own eyes, and the lust
man thai called me a liar is still in the
hospital. Have you got a cigar about
your clothes?"?Lhtcago IIcruLd.
He "Was H< w5i?i?j Glad.
Love is a good deal like the car cable.
remarks a writer in the San Francisco
thron e'c. It is endiess, it goes
on ail tiii time, but it doesn't matter a
cent what .ar it is drawing. You've
always got to pay fare, too, but whatever
you put iyto the box is gone.
There was a man in Oakland who had
a sweetheart. I suppose there are
several men in Oakland who have
sweethearts,several who have the same
sweetheart, several who have several
cwoutlioirtj Rut. ihia nmn had one
sweetheart whom he adored, as only a
man who finds it hard to get a sweetheart
and does not feel sure of her
then, cau adore". He wanted something
precious to keep for her sake.
So he got permission of tho Central
Pacific railroad and came over to San
Francisco one afternoon. Afriond of
his was going to Dresden and a happy
tnougnt strucK mc lover.
"I want you to do something delicate
for me," he said to his friend.
"What is it?"
He took out of his pocket a photograph
and a lock of hair.
"Look at this. Isn't she lovely?"
Well, she was about 45, broad-faced,
with a chunky nose and the faintest
sensation of a cross-eye. The lock of
Hair was rea. i am uescnoiag a woman
who eould not by any possibility
exist in Oakland. I do not want to
offend that city, I may want to live
there some day.
"Y-e-e-s. She's good looking."
"When yon go to Dresden I want
you to have a painting of her made on
porcelain, a daisy. 1 don't care what
it costs."
"All right, old man, I'll do it"
"Take caro of it wou't you??the lock
of hair, I mean."
"Certainl}*. Do you want to insure
it?"
The friend went to Europe and came
back. In Dresden he bad made inquiries,
and found what was required
would cost $50. He made up his mind
that anybody who wanted that girl
painted and was willing to pay $50 for
it was an idiot. So he came "back without
the porcelain. He had been back
some time, when he met the Oakland
man on the street. Strangely enough
the Oakland man avoided him, but he
was cornered.
vriuno: iroi duck., now uia you enjoy
yourself/"
Not a word about the commission.
At last the 'Frisco man spoke up.
By the wa}\ I priced those porcelain
paintings in Dresden,and I thought
you would not care to pay $50 for one,
so I-"
The Oakland man gave a jump of
joy. He seized on the 'Frisco man's
^ 1 - ? i _ " 1- _
nana ana snoot it neany on.
"I'm so howling glad von didn't?
so howling glad. I've got another
girl now, and there would have been
tne devil to pay. Come and have a
bottle of champagne."
Young man?"I came in answer to
the advertisement." Dentist?"Are
you of a ch^erlul disposition?" "Sir,
I could laugh at a funeral and play
> i-i o rrr*> c-jvcnrfl " ?'T think I
iu i* gi n i vj v.. ?
you'll do. I want a young man of
good address to issue forth from the
operaiing-room at ten-minute intervals,
looking as if he enjoyed it I;
think it will tend to encourage the real ';
victims."?Philadelphia Call.
GETTING COLDER.
A Prospect for Lojjj; Winters and Short
Summers.
That the climate of more than one
region near or within ihc Arctic Cir
ib ?iu>vm^ rnuiu ;iuu muic julitis*
pitable, is indicated by "jwral circumstances.
For several years past there
has been a considerable immigration
of the people of Iceland in to that part
of North Atnorioa which lies iust north
of Minnesota. If the winters of that
: hyperborean section are more merciful
than those of their own country, it can
be no cause for wonder licit the people
of Iceland are so easrorto qu;t tiieir native
land. For a thousand yt-ars their
aucestors had liv<;d ?.n that lonely
northern isle, and got along comfortably,
so far as is known; but the increasing
rigors of the climate :or the past
twenty or thirty years appear to have
disheartened even the nativu Icelanders.
Dr. Kane speaks of a similar
state of things existing among the Esquimaux
along the shores ol Baffin's
)&j.and Smithy Sound; -he says these
"Jfoor people are rapidly and surely dyinsr
out, and will soon be exterminated.
A.. . ,1 - 1. ' *_
v^ace uicro were iiiousnmis wncra
there are uow but a few scores. The
same tiling seems to be killing off, or
driving oil* tho people of the Labrador
coast. These poor fishermen, whoso
huts are perched among the rocus on
the desolate northern shore of the Gulf
of St. Lawrence, iiave suffered a scrie?
of years of famine. Every spring, for
rsome years past, the report has come
that thev were dying of starvation.
Their fisheries have failed. On these
they have relied for subsistence, since
. the cold and rocky shore, with its summer
frosts, affords no chance for farms
and gardens. The lish (mostly cod
and muasarci) scorn -to have oeen
driven out o! that part of the gulf by
.the increasing coldness of the water;
at all events they have disappeared,
and the fisheries have failed miserably
this year. People are obiiged io beg
for a living, of the few who have the
means to give. A government steamer
left Quebec last Saturday, loaded with
fuel and flour to alleviate the sufferings
of the poor fishermen and their
families on the Labrador coast. It is
a fearful region?as gloomy and .forbidding
as the shores of Greenland,
thoufjlTin summer without their snow.
Xn Greenland itself the climate is
known to be far more severe than it
was when the Northmen discovered
>nd named that country for verdure
^.nd its Tines. That, to be sure, was
ip tho south part of that vast island;
but, even there, all now is desolation.
As to the poor people of Labrador, a
Onnhpf rli?r>nfr?h sivs!
"Their supply of flour has been entirely
exhausted, and, to add to their
sufferings and privations, scurvy has
made its appearance, and many have
died of it. The ' sufferings of women
and children beggar description. Little
ones are dying in the arms of their
mothers, who nave no nourishment to
give them."
New England lies far enough to the
north for winter habitation. That
angle of 23$ degrees which called
me oonquity or tne ecliptic gives us
about all' the winter we want?and a
litclc more than is always agreeable.
After the- son has left our Northern
hemisphere, it is pleasaator to think
of isles and shores that he stiil will
brighten and warm, even when these
Northern lands are dark in shadow
and buried in snow, or shivering in
polar blasts. The climatic changes we
have referred to do not seem to be limited
to the far Northern regions; they
affect the more temperate parts of the
globe. It is known that the climate gf
nnAinnf colli ?
UiiWicUb it ao -Lia.ivi-i luviv/ k)u>iv*~
brious 2,500 years ago than it is now;
aud the same thing seems to be true of
many other countries. Is the planet
slowly entering udou another of its
cold cycles??Harlfort Times.
"Wall Street Bears and Their Operations.
Brokers and operators are "bears"
when tney have sold stock, and particularly
stock that they did not own,
contracting to deliver it at some future
time. They are then "short of the
market" The disposition of the bear
is to pull things down. The Wall
street bear is often found "gunning a
stock" by putting forth all his strength
and craft to break down the price, and
especially when aware that a certain
house is heavily loaded and can not
resist his attack. He "buys in" by.
purchasing stock to meet, a "short"
contract, or to return borrowed stock;
"covers," or "covers his shorts, " by
buying stock to fulfill his contract on
the day of delivery. This is a selfprotective
measure, and is called
"covering short sales." A "drop" in
the price of a stock is to a bear the
next best thing to a "break." He rejoices
in an "off" market when prices
fall He "sells out" a man by forcing
down the price of a stock that the person
is carrying so low that ho is
obliged to let it go, and perhaps to
fail. He groan's liiiiily when the bulls
get a "twist on the shorts" by artificially
raising prices, and "squeezing,"
or compelling the. bears to settle at
TT-nrinnc rfltpsL "NTfiitKer "bull" nor
"bear" is an altogether safe "critter."
The latter, however, is reputed to be
about four times as mischievous as the
former, inasmuch as ho rudely sells
another man's property, whereas the
bull contents himself with carrying his
own.
The bear occasionally finds himself
in a "corner," where it is impossible '
to bay the stocfc of wnicu ne is
"short," and which he must deliver at
a specified time. He growls aDd begs,
but must pay what the holders of his
contracts arc willing to accept. Some
relief is afforded by a "let up," or the
withdrawal from the market of the 1
"clique," or "pool," or combination
of operators that cornered him. A
"squeal ia-the pool" is the revelation j
of its secrets7 Dion's;:of its members, ; i
and-'a "leakin the pool" is when one <
of the ;pOTiIes: sells out: Lis^iiiterest i
without.ther knowledge of the .others. I
Either form of defection yields some
mitigation to the bear's smieriDgs. ?
li. WheaUey, m llarjpcr's Magazine for
November
1.T ^i' i-Tv '1 " '. . ? '
A WashrRjrlon bookseller says Secretary
Bayj&d loncU heavy books* The
only work the President is known to nave
purchased lately is that of. the Hon.
James G.'Btaine." Secretary Whitney
reads a great ideal. He doesn't coniine
himself, however, to pontics, history,
-or philosophy. He is very fond
of novels abd reads many. - Some are
the best and some are the lightest He
is fond of Hiight-onway, Miss Murfree,
and. Mrs. Alexander's w&rks. He
reads" such novels as '-The Vagrant
Wife," "Tnc Tinted Venus," "Called
Back," "Struck Down,"-etc. Secretary
Endicctt reads novels, too. But
he never buys anything in English.
Ho always gets French novc:s, and
reads a -great mauy?o? -them. Other
members of the CiLrinet appear to read
little, or at leasf to buy few booki
A Box at Every Stroke.
In the recent parade of the tradesunions
there were several banners
bearing such inscriptions as: "Use No
Goods Put Up in Machine-Made
Boxes!" and "Boycott Machine-Made
Boxes, or Let Good Men Starve!1 T
fip.orcrA Rlnir tlir? cnn.inlist atritator and
boxmaker, was asked yesterday what
grounds there was for opposition to
machine-made boxes.
"About ten years ago," he replied,
there was no such thing as a machinemade
box. Nowadays, in some trades,
there is no such thing as a hand-made
box. Formerly the knocking together
of small boxes for soap, oil; etc., was a
trade by itself, at which nearly five
hundred men in this city made fair
wages. The wood was cut out by machinery
and the workmen nailed the
pieces together. About 1874 some man
improved considerably upon a machine*
which hammered in at one blow all the
nails on one side of the box. Since then
improvement has followed improve
menc, uuui now yoa pour a *eg vi
nails at the top of the machine,. and a
boy feeds the wood in at the bottom.
Airthat the boy does is to put in the
right pieces and in proper order, the
machine doing all the.rest.
"The machine works so well and so
fast that the men have been driven ont
of the business by boys, the price of
such work having dwindled until no
man can support himself at it In 1873
the Standard, uu company paid $>3 lor
knocking together one hundred boxes.
Thanks to the machine it. now gets the
same work done for 21 cents: The
work of nailing the boxes together
costs less than the nails used- The
boxe3 I speak of are used to put oil
cans in, and many measure twenty inches
in length, ten inches in height,
and fourteen inches in width. The
Standard Oil company saves a fortune
every year by the use of these machines,
and so it is with soap boxes,
some starch boxes, etc.; in fact, every
sort of box that is made in very lanje
quantities of one particular size, in
me meantime the men who used to
look upon boxmaking as their business
want to know what they are going to
do."
"Are the hand-made boxes much ,
batter than those made by machinery?"
"Certainly; but-the difference is not
great enough to offset the cheapness of
uiachine-mado goods. In nailing a box
together a man will not send the nail
.1 -V - I ~ u,?. I
luruugu ;i &uut ui iiiiu u iuhcu uiu
The machine knows no better. Still,
as 1 say, the difference in price is tremendous,
and the machine is bound to
make further inroads into the business.
My class of work does not require it
yet, but it may some day. By asking
consumers to boycott goods that are
put up in machine-made boxes they
nope to delay the day. when every com
t : I ... ? t... mnAkin ^
UiUU UUi W1U UU IUIUCU UUli UJ UlilWllUery.
I confess that whiie I sympathize
with the men, ana realizo that the introduction
of the machinc is taking
bread and butter out of their mouths,
1 do not see how ttiey can tight against
it any more than against any other lauor-savitig
maehiuery. But the five
huudred boxuiakers now out of work
f>ici so badiy used that they can not
I' -- f a rf A f o
LI''. I jj UllUUUg OWiiiW OU lb V/l ?* ww v*
even tiiousiu they Know it is .useless,"
?X i. bun.
?
I
Railroad Building During the War. i
From General Grant's article on the '
Chattanooga campaign, in the Govern
bcr Century, we quote the following !
description of the means employed to 1
open a second line ot supplies ?unng
the siege: "General Dodgy, besides I
being a most capable soldier, was an j
experienced railroad bulkier. He had j
no tools to work with but those of tiie
pioneers?axes, picks, and spades.
With tbese he was able to intrench his
meu, and protect them against surprises
by small parties of the enemy.
As he had no baso of supplies until the
road could be completed back to Nashville,
the first matter to consider, after
protecting his men, was the getting in
nf frwiri .md fontoe from the surround
ing country. He hud his men and
teams bring in all the grain they could
lind, or all they needed, and all tiio
cattle for beef, and such other food us
could be found. Millers were detailed
from the rauks to run the mills along
the line of the army. When these were
not near enough to the troops for protection,
they were taken down and
moved up to the line of the road.
Blacksmith shops, with all the iron
and stool found in them, were moved
ud in like maimer. Blacksmiths were
detailed and set to work making tho
tools accessary iu railroad and bridge
building. Axemen were put to work
getting out timber for bridges, and
cutting fuel for the locomotives wiieu
the road was completed; car-builders
were set to work repairing the locomotives
and cars. Thus every branch of
railroad buiiding, making tools- to
wort with, and supplying tho workmen
with food, was ail going on at
once, and without the aid: of a mechanic
or laborer except what the command
itself furnished. But raiis and
cars the men could not make without
material, and there was not enough
rolling stock to keep the road wo already
had worked to its full capacity.
There wuro no rails except those iu
use. To supply these deficiencies 1
ordered eight'of the ten engines General
McFiierson had at Vicksburg to
bo sent to Nashville, and all the cars
he had, except ten. I also ordered the
troops iu West Tennessee to points oq
the river aud the Memphis atyiCkarieston
road, and the cars, locomotives.
- ? -J Iw/vtti* nttinr riilrtwila fn hia
it LIU. UUU A4\SU4 V HMV4, vwvtu ww wv
sent to the samo destination. Tin)
military manager of raiiroads also was
directed to furnish more rolling stock,
and as ?ar;as ho could, bridge material.
General Dodge had the work assigned
him fiaisiiod within forty; days after
receiving his order. The number of
bridges to rebuild; was one hand red
and eighty-two, many of.Jihem oyer
deep and wide chasms The length ?f
road repaired was one hundred and
two miles."
Getting M xl'CL
"Bruder Slebinson," said Parson
Grubbs. "I doan want yer ter taKo
saekrement in my church no mo'."
"Why so, sail?"
"Wall, dc folks doan like ycr style."
"I doan un'orstau' yer."
"Wail, I'll tell vtir; tuther day when
yer conu icr de 'munion tabic yer
acted like yer wuz starbed ter dei.
Yer grabbed db bread an' when da
banded yur de wine yer drunk it alL"
'Cose I did. Do bruder said:
'Drink ye all o' it,' and I tilted her up j
an' let her slide."
"D.it wau't uo way ter do." J
"Wall, den, -yer Keu count mc out. j
I doan un'erstau' deso heah folks whut (
tells yer ter do er thing an' den make
er monf ef yer does it. Yas, jesv mark
n' Pftnrn, 1
lljy XKIULKJ UUUU UUtiJ UWU.. V v?... .
'Ligua is giltin' so mixed up or pussori
kain' ua'erstun' it"? Arkunsaw Trayeler.
' .
LITERARY NEW YORK.
How Visitors to the As tor Library Arc
Tr??at<*d.
The Astor Library is constructed
and managed on tho principle that ail
persons suaii De consiuerea as tmeves
until they h:-ve proved themselves
honest, aDd its fundamental presumption
is that all persous who seek library
privileges are especially to be regarded
as suspicious characters. Any
one who has ever run a gauntlet of insults
offered in this extraordinary instifntinn
will rw? finite nrAnnmr! fn rrru
preciate the felicity of Mr. W. JUL F.
Round of this city, who in a letter to
the Traveler a year or two a<ro, alluded
to a visit he had m:ide in Boston and
the exhilaration he experienced on being
abie to visit a library without being
searched before he was allowed to depart!
It was a state of things that he
appeared to believe was indigenous to
fcricfnn T nr-jc- rntninr'nW /"if ?jll this
yesterday., Let mc premise that I
never cross the portals of the Aslor
library without an inward protest
against the meanness and the sfnpidf;
ty of its conduct That it is allowed to
stand argues that cither New Yorkers
are $n amiable race or else that they
never go near it. !Not a book ean be
taken away from it. It is only open
between nine and four. Its accomoda?(
.I;-?-.,,.
LLVJLU} %JL UllSlt^O Ulv*i *11 U uu ?* \ii9gi?iw
folly niggardly scale. The chairs are
enough to give oae lite-long dislocation
of the spine. The heating arrangements
arc one of the worst features.
It is needless to pursue details, but in
every possible respect, of particular
and general management, the Astor
Liurary is a disgrace to civilization.
All the same, I went in on Saturday.
There are always a set of absurd ruies
placarded about, aud it seems the last
one is to the efiect that no printed book
can be carried with one into the libra
:r ^ i X
ry, or, u ausouuui^ neuucu iui lexeieuce,
its contents must be examined
and noted by the umurella-checi man,
who haunts the lower corridor, and
compared with bis certilied notes of it,
as one comes out, (I know this sounds
incredible, but it is true.) However, 1
tripped up stairs without read.ng bis
riuicuious mandate, and it ch ineed
that I held in my right hand a Iitiie
art catalogue in pamphlet loruj. As
T noma Hi-xnrn thi? rvitnniilot r?->n<r!?r
the eye of the umbreila-mau. Like a
true employe of the Astor, he knew at
once that in all probauility Inad iclonoasiy
abstracted that pamphlet from
the Astor archives.
"Hare you a printed book in your
hands?" he questioned severely.
"1 have," 1 replied, with an iutonation
intended to convey my recognition
of an impertinence and a due contempt
for it.
"Did you carry thai book into the
library?" resumed the umbrella man.
"I did," and I moved toward the
door, ignoring him further. This confirmed
his foreshadov/iuv that he had
before liim a suspicious character.
. "Did you read that rule?" he vociferated,
pointing totheaosurd placard.
I gave it my attention. Evideutly this
was a serious business. 1 read the rule,
aud I waited out ox the Astor Library.
It was then that i recalled Mr. Jiounu's
felicity when he discovered that in
Boston peopie could go m and out of
the libraries witnout being searched,
or even detaiued hy an uiuorella man
on strong suspicion of being a thief
and a disreputable character in general.
L\ew JLorii. is &traugm\ [iuot m jiunuj
facilities. Tiie Ljuox is merely a highly
ornamental institution which opens
its doors to a restricted list of wealthy
patrons two mornings eacu week. The
Mercantile library is in an unpleasant
location, and its rooms arc very badty
kept, and the Astor is constructed on
the strict basis of offering as many
tacit insuits as possible in a given time
to the persons who enter it.?N. J.
Cor. of the Boston Traveler.
An American Westminster' Abb^y.
The conditions which made, and
make, Westminster Abbey arc wholly
lacking in this country, and will be
forever lacking.
In the lirst place, wo ought to have
a single Loudon, instead of six or
seven, each vociferously claiming to be
the only original genuine London, the
one bright particular spot upon which
the national mausoleum should be
ArnrtfA/? T r\ cn^ATI/^ nlor?n n
institution should be under the regis of
a great established church, in default
of which our Pantheon would ultimately
become the reccptacle of extinct
pugilists and those local statesmen
who prepare themselves behind
b:ir-room counters for the toils (and
sdo'iIs^ of oublic life. With each ciianse
of the administration there would be a
revolution in the management of the
Pantheon, and a cry to "Turn the
rascals out!" With "the straight Republicans
in office, no horrible Mugwump,
however distinguished, would
be allowed sanctuary there; with the
Democrats in power, the gates .would
be pitilessly slammed on the noses of
defunct "offensive partisans." In the
third piace, the tomb at Mount Vernon
and the romancer's grave 0:1 the
hillside in Sleepy Hollow (to mention
no other shrines) are very well where
they are, and no sensible uerson wauts
? 1 T_ J - ~
meui reuiuvuu. iu iu^uu iv wiyuutics
who may hereafter pass away?and
here comes in a perplexing contingency?it
is by no means certain that their
families would look with favor on the
Pantheon. They might prefer some
base ball ground, or Jones' Wood, or
the Point of Pines.
There is something very impressive
and touching in the idea of a Poet's
Corner, where the sweet singers and
sober historians and realistic novelists
are peacefully brought together (however
little they may have agreed with
one another in the llesh), and lluttered
with sta.tucs and mural tablets; but 11
the nation really wishes to honor that
class of its unprotected but faithful children,
and at the same lime do honor to
itself, let the nation make an equitable
copyright treat}' with England,
and the literary fellers will provide
their own headstones. Such a treaty
would cost less than an attempt at an
American Westminster Abbey, and
would be greatly preferable to that
amusing but, fortunately, impracticable
piece of architecture.
A man of letters wants so many
things before he wants to be buried?3
comfortable income while living is so
much more satisfactory than a sculptured
monument when dead?that this
talk about a national Pantheon, in the
absence of an international copyright :
law, is, so far as he is concerned, a j
little exasperating. It fails coldly on >
his ear when be reflects how he is pillaged
by foreign puolishers, and tuat
sven his native land gives him only a
few years' proprietorship in the work j
of his own hand and brain.?November i
Atlantic.
? ?
A western editor says of Homy j
James that the international writer is
about as much of an American novelist i
"as a wart on the tail of a tadpoie is a
whole frog-pond.'' '
THE NEWS OF THE STATE.'
-ome of the Latest Sayings and Doings in
Sonth Carolina.
Cf T nl-nlc. T C V, V.
UU Jiuau O JUUUtViaU V^/JLIlLl KsLl O.L
Prosperity, Newberry county, lias 325
communicants.
?The Orangeburg Baptists want the
State Baptist Convention to meet there
next year.
?Judge "Wallace has decided that
one partner cannot bind another by a.
sealed note.
?Quite a number of Northern guests
haue arrived at Aiken, many of whom
[ have rented houses or rooms for the
winter.
?Several unknown bodies have
been found on the islands adjacent
to Charleston during the past few
weeks,
| The barn, 000 bushels corn and
400 bales hay, belonging to A. D.
Atkinson, of Aiken, was burnt by an
incendiary fire.
?John Gainev and Primus Ware, /
colored, of Aike'u, had a cutting scrape r
in which the latter was daugerously
hurt in the neck.
?Five persons (two white and
three colored,) have been sent to the
asylum from Colleton county during
the past six months-.
?Tho Florence graded school has
opened with every evidence of success
Over one hundred pupils were registered.
?Consideaable cotton is being held
on hand by farmers of Orangeburg
county in hopes that the price will go
up.
? Charles S. Harllee, a son of Gen.
W. W. Harllee, of Marion, died in
Austin, Texas, last Saturday. The
cause of his death is unknown.
? J. B. Holly, of Edgefield county,
while serenading on the night of the
12th inst., burst his gun, tearing off
his left hand.
?P. L. Moody, the great evangelist,
has been invited an will piobablv
accept the invitation, to conduct a revival
in Charleston this winter.
?The commucation road tax law in
Greenville county does not seem to
work well. Only forty-eight dollars
have been received on account of road
tax.
?A free trade meeting will be held
in Sumter Conrthonse on December 7,
to elect delegates to the free trade convention
which will meet in Columbia
in Dacember.
?A meetiug of the survivors of com
panv B. 24th regiment South Carolina
volunteers in Marlboro couutv, will be
held at Smyrna church on" Friday.
November 27, at 11 o'clock.
?Mr, Lee Bond, a train hand on
the South Carolina Railroad, was killed
at the railway wharves iu Charleston,
while attempting to shift some
cars.
?Mr. A. F. Ravenel, of Charleston,
has been elected President of the
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, in
place of Major B. D. Townsend, deceased.
?Company C, First South Carolina
Volunteers, had a reunion at Aiken
on the 12th, at which Mr. Jas. Aldrich
delivered a verg interesting address
and several letters were read from
absent comrades.
?The Confederate survivors of Colleton
county* had a reunion at Walterboro
on the 17th. There was an immense
attendance and speeches were
delivered by Gen. Ellison Capers and
Congressmen Dibble and Tillman. A
survivors' association was formed.
?While three men named Lide, Ras
and Williamson were out hunting in
Darlington county last week, a covey
of partridges were flushed and Lide
fired at them. He did not hit the birds
bn? hp severely injured both of his
companions.
?im; ouuiiei vuuit last wucn
Sam Boatwright, colored, got a verdict
of $2,000 against the Wilmington,
Columbia & Augusta Railroad for the
loss of an arm. Paul Coleman, colored,
got a verdict against the same
road for $1,500 for the breaking of a
leg.
?The Rev. Mr. "Wilson, of Colleton
county, died on Saturday night, November
7. on previous night
Mrs. Jesse Herodon^ a near neighbor
went to sit up with the sick man.
Some time during the night she coinp'ained
of pain in the head and in a
fe^r minutes expired.
?The Mormon missionaries do not
find mmch comfort iu Greenville county.
After being induced to leave the
fJroonrillo noicrhhnrhnnr} crtrriA fimp
ago, they tried the Highland section,
and have recently been preaching
there. As soon as "the scope and purpose
of their preaching was fully understood
a party of men called on
them with a polite request that they
deprive the community of their presence
forthwith. They left?wisely,
judiciously and uuostentaneously.
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Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
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*
?During a performance at Amusement
Hall at Uillidgeville, a large rat
ieu li uui uic gaiiery 10 inc cemre circle,
and such a "get up and git"
among the females was seldom seen.
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The most important Discovery is
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An End to Bone Scraping.
Edward Sheppard, of Barrisburg,
Til Aftvp Ullnt'ltwo CA miT?l?
JL4X .j o . ljiav 111^ i vva;! ? vu ov uiuvu
brtiefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it
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instead, three oouiesoi n,iectrici5irters
and seven boxes Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, and my leg is now sound and
well."
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents
a bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica Salve
at twenty five cents per box by McMaster,
Brice & Ketchin. *