The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, July 11, 1888, Image 1
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I YOL, XLfV, WINNSBOBO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1888. . . NO. 50.
fe fk Brother's Keeper.
1WS W0M 6FL0YE iSD DUTY.
f ST XAXT SAETWZLL CATSSRWOOD,
Ucsao* or "Gbaqcv-o' doom," "Stzjphzh
. Gdtkbus," "&bx Lose mast's
| - {-' . oiwb?w jls? Otsbs. Stobtss.
* ~ A prolonged score from Hose covered the
plimar of this story. Adam dragged him
op blinking like an owl.
Twhoo-oo!" imitated Adam. "Wake up,
-tiiickan-ester. The story's told and the
molasres is a waxin'. Ton. help me sling off
&68fe- kittles." l
"You meant let each back-acbey,
gruesome yarns get into your head, Miss
rhaebe," oai/1 I'om Holmes. "It isn't
Wealthy. Life's not a tug; it's pretty much
SS oae masts u~ .acre s xtnuici ?yu wo
follow. He could, be living like a decent
Christian, but shuts himself up like a wolf.
JFhat if things haven't gone to suit him? A
L man can't boss' the world. A man expects
to be trod on once in awhile, but let him
&ke it with & good grace and kick back if
tw Oca, and If he can't, grin about it."
People who are out of the water can give
Rich lucid instructions how to escape
Irowning," retorted Gurley. "You've always
had a good time yourself."
Ti^re was some bustle in taking off the
fcettle* and helping the sugar- the party
about, talking. When Gurley
Brought Phoebe White her saucer of sugar,
ibe said to him:
' I wonder what that hermit is doing
rioross the Hollow? May be he's sitting before
Us fire with his heart all bitter." .
"Perhaps he is," said Gurley, smiling iniulgontly.
"I've been down in the mouth,
lay self When I was lonesome."
Tom Holmes looked at her with the
imused contempt which experienced people.
j| ktways bestow on visionaries.
"Go over and invite Painter to join us,
* **v ?uWvawvu
uPd like to t?o and carry him some sugar,
just to let him know there were human beings
in the world who could take a thought,
tor him."
"Do it," said Tom. "I'm curious to know,
low he'll receive yoa."
"I will," returned Phoebe White, neftled,
~if some one pleases to show me the path.
i?ose, ou forfeited your hat. Redeem it by {
joing across Black Hollow with me."
"I don't care nothin' about that old hat,"
raplied Mose, slouching into the- lodge with
_____ . I jarful of the grained sugar.
."What'll you be up to nextl" disapproved
Bandy.
"Hobody will go with her," said McArdle,
isaoity. "it is too absurd."
"Not at all absurd," said Gurley, ready
afth another saucer of sugar. "Will you
.fekemy arm, Miss White? I know every
tfepping-stone in the Black Hollow.''
"Jntinter will shoot you both," said Torn
**ViXB CP, CHZCXKX-BATSS I"
?gofacea, chaofcHng. "You are a pretty pair
lock's errand." i"WfceR
they rferrwjyr, -Vfe^-^Iled as sooa
better Ifcnp back here fasti yor.what's
left of you. Camp's breakin j
I ipaadthe horspittle amb'lance isa-startfc'.V
. ^Yoa didn't stay long," remarked Holmes,
rtgndbgby his democrat wagon, which bad
^istarrired'to take his party home.
Ifioee sfered at the adventurers, sus5?Sdiag
hza business of washing out the
"Wfcs* did Painter do?"
took th? sugar from Miss White end
cos soma of it in his mouth," replied
"And than ho threw the rest of it at your
bead," said Holmes.
"But what's he got in his house?' in|ttfc?d
Bandy.
"Bottled snakes," said Gurley; "Chemical
and a furnace. I had the merest
mPr fdmps* before he shut the door on us. But
fea J?ve a man of science over the Black.
Fjp&ow; parhaps-an inventor: one who has
it any rate fooled everybody as to his
fttMoter and pursuits."
_ ain't footed nobody in his looks," asttctedUo^.
. Fhcebe White was shivering close by the
?ro. fee had not spoken a word since reggmlnf
gcArqto approached and talked
i&to&t and she turned her face toward him
< to2stao With apparent effort.
iJastey was waiting to hand her into the
. gmsoontf wagon whgre Randy Thompson
Jwadv sat wraooed up like a sausage.
i.fterfchCBbe ha^ up her scarlet"
- Slap and fastened it more snugly around:
i80Ptosrlba"iide, Gurley saw her take a
" ?a&by portemonnaie from her pocket and
pM3 * arisp green note swiftly to Mc^So
MoAx^^borrcws money of her," the'
^ ptmgmsn thought, "with scorn, as he can-'
iauA heme utter they had separated.
a sort 9i tributary chapel of her'
iimeschpoi-house, to swell the church's do*
* nittgnt Iffopgoae h6 iateoda to marry her
ted sponge off her the rest of his life. O
. that 1 had my will of him I" v
* Psyche Fawcett rode over to return Mrs.
Holmes' call, and she handed in a card for
l&ss Phoebe Whit*, also. Miss Fawcett
would not be taken into the room of state,
. tot snuggled to the sitting-room Are of
togs which was always kept burning there
until the heated season put it out.
"This is a sight feat warms one's soul,
YV?**ac>*?* ? ceM 7T) V QAlll
Mini fir' I vwvk
*?ais IS X SIGHT THAT WAEM3 0>"E'S SOCL-"
^as been, in a shiver ever since we came
*- ? n
BDHBO*"'"
"There is not much of you except your
joul to stiver, ray dear," laughed Mrs.
. gotmea.
44I thought I had-grown vastly corpulent.
But Cupid says I hare wasted away. For
ta? society."
She idea of calling Jack Grriey Cupid!
it always annoyed him; it made him so
r ielpless with fury?a big bluff fellow to he
jsiled Psyche's Cupid, especially when he
lysaabout sistoenj andallkauckies and feeL
' Is that your baby looking through the
ioor f' Said Miss Fawcett, twirling a willow
twig which she had snapped off during her
ride. "The g^eat monster! how he has add-,
jd to himself. Come here, Thomas Holmes,
junior, and see your aunt."
Toddles slyly shut the door and patted
away. The vision was too wonderful for
tiim. Miss Fawcett was exceedingly slight,
and tremblingly alive: She had a low"
orpwed face, clear as alabaster, and the
2olor of her eyes varied from yellow to vioist,
according to their expression. They
followed every speaker with change and
sparkle, and her playful nostril and round-,
3d cheek and chin spoke in unison with
iham. Phcebe White thought her the moat
beautiful woman in the world, as ehe heN
. self passed inside the door to be introduced.
Miss.Fawcett stirred "in response-to the introduction,
and sent through the .room a
current 01 rose iragrance rraai tne Dunca.
of yellow roses at her belt.
"Yes, I came on Saturday so I should be
jure of seeing you," she exclaimed. "Mr.
Burley has been telling me about you."
Mrs. Holmes lifted her eyebrows.
"I'm very glad he ha3," said Phoebe, so
innocently pleased by the sight of Miss
Fawcett that the young lady laughed.
"I believe we aren't going to be a bit
strange. I always hate or adore people on
sight. Madam Drusie here was a big girl
at school when I was a little girl, but i
pinned to her and have hung on ever since.
I hardly let her be courted in peace.. To
I tins day I believe Tom Holmes considers me
a long-legged girl to whom he must perforce
offer his other arm if he wants a min-*
ute with Drusie."
"You forget how early Cupid began his
siege of you," said Mrs. Holmes.
"Siege! I don't call it a siege when cur
people made the engagement and t&rew us
at each other. You should have seen
the way that fellow used to glower
when his mother made him dance with me
at children's parties, Miss White. He trod
:>n my feet, too. I never forgave him."
"But he has improved," laughed Mrs.
Holmes.
"Vrrn imnrnxrp o-Anrlpv ThA old
Irish is too strong in them. Can you both
jome and ride with me ? I know this is a
busy morning with you, Drusie, but I always
made it a point to interfere with your
affairs."
Mrs. Holmes excused herself on many
accounts, so Phoebe White only went with
Miss Fawcett behind her ponies.
"Where do you want to go's" inquired
iliss Fawcett, as her low phaeton entered
the road. 'That is, after we have driven
through Greensburg main streets. They
are smooth, even at this time Of the year,
when other roads ere full of ruts."
"Anywhere," said Phcebe. "I loye to be
3Ut-doors in this humid air without having
to feel the ground moist under jay feet.
Spring weather makes one f^&Srnew."
She thought suddenly of "ffiorney, chop- |
pingc wood across the Black Hollow, and half
regretted being at ease herself and in the
company of this untroubled girl.
Miss Fawcett observed her closely from
time to time as they poked along the fencesorners.
"I've been abroad several years," she
said, "and dropped all my old strings. The
girls are changed about. In a school-town
so many of one's intimates are transients.
We used to have the house full. Now it is
xuucauurc iui JUV. x u JVUWW <
myself. Someti-?3s I think I never can set- !
tie myself. You jcdow my aunt lives with
me, of course. But we don't get on. She's
30 set on having her own way. She's
mamma's sister: j?y~iather had no sister.
Only a brother who went off and died, or
he would have had half the property. It
was real .convenient of him. Besides he
was so ugly, poor man, with a deformed
mouth so he couldn't speak plain; and I
know it would have torn me all to pieces. I
can't even remember him. Mr. Gurloy says
you have no relations." .
" I have a brother," said Phcebe.
" Pd like a sister," said Psyche. "An
older sister who would take all the care and
leave .me nothing to do but spend money.
How nice it must be for you 1 You can live
just as Bohemian a life as you want to."
"I don't think I like a Bohemian life," said j
nmnfii *
I "Oh, I do! I've sdways wanted to be a
boot-black or an actress or a wandering
poet"
"When you have your beautifol home?"
"Beautiful cage! who wanta to be tied by
her foot to a perch 1" ^
"I should love every stick and every blade
' of grass on my homestead," exclaimed
Phoebe. "It tears me up by the roots tc
Change from one place to another. I should
think you would be so happy tojtxave your
tome and all sorts of ties provided for you.
'
i r*q sltiub, lie? uuwx uckllluji uu l.o. .
brother depending on jour undisciplined
brains."
"Is your brother half-witted? How ammusIng
he must be. And it Vrould be perfectly
delightful to me if I did not know what was
coming to-morrow and the next day and the
next."
I "You wouldn't like," said Phoebe, forcibly,
"to be dogged by an evil fate, to have
your best wishes crossed, to run like a fugitive
through the world."
es, I should, said Miss Fawcett," watching
her with interest. "I should dote cn it.
Zbcra would be some variety in. that, X
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TEE BOOB WAS. OPENED. '
though she was so uncomely, her dress
looked lull of snuggling places^ foe cbil
urea's neaatSj ananer large .snouiuer UKe
pillow lor the forlorn. '
" Now, take off-your things, and be comfortable,"
she -said, .-fi was afraid you
couldn^t come this evening, the weather's
jo raw." - - =
" I don't mind the WjatBer^' said
Phoebe, " when I am asked to supper with
you. Here you are shut in princess-like,
with a red-hot forest stacked in your fireplace,
the woods outside breathing, and the
kitchen kettle singing. I wish Thorney and
[ were set up in a log-house life."
"How is Thorney?" inquired Mrs. Barker.
u He is welL He is so stout and brawny."
She looked at the hearth without
brightening, " I am glad he has muscles,
anyhow."
. "Mr. Barker's late to-night," said the
schoolmaster's -vile. "Jlia school is so fulL
Ee's fitting some of the young men for college,
and often helps them after hours."
She hung up her guest's wraps on deer,
antlers. Several doors of various heights
jpened from this general room. Beyond
Due the kitchen showed its burnished stove,
uid tin vessels; another, stooping down-^
ward a step, gave entrance to a bedroom,
where Mrs. Barker's best finery hung on
the loj? wall protected by a muslin curtain,
rwo more doors just like it probably opened
on similar state-rooms. But the master's
library was a bolder conception, cast out
like a dormer-window from the main pile,
to be entered by a pine archway hung with
curtains of chintz calico. The shelves were
very full Rudely carved pyramids of
pomegranates supported the master's row
of Greek authors. His study-chair was a
gnarly stump, chopped into shape and cushioned.
A long clock in a cherry case filled one
oorner beside the fire-place, its yellow dial
marked in Arabic figures. One iron haad
pointed to five,'and with a deliberate, rasping
voice, it told the hour.
Phoebe stood on the hearth to warm her
hands, while Mrs. Barker drew a table from
the wall and set up its leaves on extra legs.
The broad-boarded floor showed the many
grooves this table had made in its many
journeys. The master's wife spread a cloth
of unbleached linen, exactly balancing the
ample folds at each table corner, and put
her blue-edged dishes and horn-handled
knives and forks in array upon it. Her
talk with her truest was as brisk and con
Btantas the flfm leather pat of her foot|
steps on the naked floor.. She brought jama
f and fifiHTly SCenrtcd cako -front her storo- room.
The master's chair was dragged
from his library to preside at the foot of the
table like a throne over two splhit-bottomed
seats and one wooden chair with gilding on
the back The hostess'sewing-rocker stood
near the fire for Phoebe's use.
[ "I told Mr. Baker if he saw your brother
to a?k him to supper along with you."
"Thorney would be too shy to come," said
; Phoebe, wistfully. ;
"You 'oca* very different to me," remarked
M*s. Bsfkec, candidly, as s&e set'
down the maple sirup in * gless dish and
; arranged in a pcblet the silver spoons she
i had bought with her own first savings, before
sh'e-^a&rried Mr. Barker. "I always
tell girls," sa&.thft master's wife, standing
back and admiring "the first thing
they ought to do is to get-aset '
rake some of your earnings and buy 'em
whether you're thinking or going to housekeeping
or not Then you have 'em."
"Thorney and I can hardly afford silver
when we set up our house," said Phcebe.
'Merely to begin it will be a great undertaking.
But we have saved more than a
hundred dollars betweeD us, Mrs. Barker."
"Well, that does first-rate for two orphans.
And I hope you've put it out safe."
"I?loaned a little of mine," said Phoebe,
hesitating. "The rest I keep by me; to
be always ready."
"Mercy I you oughtn't to keep such a big
sum in the house. You bear the spools in
mind," urged the master's wife, laughing.
"You ain't going to keep old maid's hall
with Thorney for ever.''
"I hope I am. It would be almost too
much to have a snug log-pile like this, and
be sheltered up among trees, and never
tormented by anybody. Thorney is a good
boy, and I have only him. it would be
nice," said Phoebe, locking her fingers, "if I
could be proud of him; if he were bright
and handsome, like such young men as Mr.
Gurley, and could direct and advise me instead
of my having to direct and advise him.
But he can't help it, you know, and I must
just cover up his weakness as well as I can
and take him for his good qualities."
"You dear child!" said the master's wife.
"He's my brother," explained Phoebe,
sincerely. "And even if he appeared dis
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for me to own to myself that I found him so.
Other people do not know the best of him."
"Does he favor the father's or mother's'
side?" inquired the master's wife.
"I don't know," said Phoebe.
"But your kinfolks could tell."
"I don't know any of them," reip0hde?
Phoebe, briefly, and a great stamping outside
the door broke through this conversation.
The aaaster entered with a second and
smaller self at his heels, excepting that he
was gray and stout and his son was lightlocked
and chubby. He wore a' blue army
overcoat, and the boy one of similar cut and
color.
"Well, here you are, Ogre," said Mrs.
Barker.
"The Ogre's late to-night," he responded,
in a great bas3. "He had five stupid fools
to eat up. And here's Miss Phoebe." He
advanced his square paw and shook her
hand.
'Am win cninc to eat me for another
fool, Mr. Barker?"
"I hope not. But we'll see how you have
your German. Orcutt Barker, take oft your
hat, sir, when you come under a roof, and
speak to Hiss Phoebe."
"I was waiting till you gave me a chance,
sir," responded Orcutt, boldly, with the appearance
of enjoying skirmishes with his
burry^ther.
"Mind your tongue, sir, mind your
tongue," growled the master, rolling his
son's head between his palm3. Neither of
them could resist a tousling romp, which
lasted until the elder felt sufficiently relaxed
from his day's toil, when he at once
resumed his mastiff-like demeanor, and
Orcutt gravely shook hands with Phoebe and
hung up their wraps.
"Well, Miss Phoebe," said the master,
planting Lis feet on the hearth and gathering
his coat-tails under his arms, "what is
the height of a tree on the opposite side of
the river, which formfc one aide of a triangle,
the hypotenuse being "
"Please, no, Mr. Barker. Try me with
the German."
"What's the hypotenuse, pat" inquired
Orcutt, immediately bringing slate and
pencil.
"There is nothing in the world," said tho
master, "so beneficial and strengthening to
the mind as that same science of mathematics."
"What's the hypotenuse, pal" repeated
Qrcutt, importunately, twitchmgj^Jfr^or^
trousers.
The master turned and drew a long
iwitch off the mantel, where, from a limber:
indjucy shoot it had dried in disuse to ,
frrittleness, and suggestively measured the i
distance between his outstretched hand and
His son's fat legs.
"That's the hypotenuse," threatened the
master. The son set down giggling to solve
jther imaginary problems. ,
Supper was- coming upon the table.
Mr. Barker's basso seemed to reverberate
imong the dark joists.
"Now, Miss Phoebe, let us have that verb
sonjugated before we blunt our minds with
sating."
Phoebe therefore plunged into German
injunction and afterwards produced her
jxercise from her pocket; he examined it
frowning.
"What's this! This is too ambitious. A
good student keeps his eye on the structure
jtthe language; he doesn't run after sentiment^'
u .
"It's the last part of Schiller's 'Diver,'
inrt is familiar enousrh to everv bodv blifc
oie," said Phoebe. "I did enjoy it. The
jense of much of it came to me without the
dictionary."
"Yes, I don't doubt it I" commented themaster,
dissentingly snorting. "Let me'
iAir you pronounce now."
' It bears one along," pleaded Phcebe, ;
"even the foolhardines's which toak him."
ander the water a second time *iter he had
brought up the cup in safety once." * :
The master listened to her reading, giving f
rent to gutteral corrections, while she took
her momentary stand in his book alcove."
The sash there was not so deeply imbedded ?
in logs as were the other windows, and such'
late light as still straggled across the clea^
in g illuminated her and her German text.
Mrs. Barker drew backher own chair from
the iable and announced with housewifely
formality that supper was ready. Orcott,
having suspended his .ciphering to- hear
Phcfbe's aBtercise, now briskly hjid aside
hM slate; and the master was willing to
postpone further drill until he had filled the
plates on the table.
"Come, Miss Phcebe," said ha "Some
day, with constant practice and the chance
Df conversing with intelligent Germafia, 1
you may get a fair grip of the language.1'
.""What's the matter, child!" exclaimed
Mrs. Barker. "What do you see out there!"
" Oh, nothing, nothing," replied Phoebe,
coming swiftly away from the window. ;
1 ^ 1 I
"May be I fancied o^ie of the diver's mon?
sters bad come up out of^fi ^hy^pol_pj*L.
into s?me place and be bid and qniiet tee
ever."
She pat her hands over her face, bat not
la time to 8top s stray cob.
iEra. Barker put her aria aro?id PhcBhe
and petted the girl's head against her shoulder.
The master,, with his fists clasped, the
thumbs pointing upwards, one at each side
of the pile of plates, glared sternly at his
pupiL
"You've been worried out," he pronounced.
"The" children of that whole district
need killing. I've said so repeatedly.
They're a noisy, scandalous aet.f> .
"Oh, no," said Phcsbe. ' ' 6
"Yes, they do. Sbme of them ought to be
skinned slowly and hung up in the sun to
dry, Adam and KAJ. *
~SndT Mose Guy ain't children,"
piped Orcutt, "and they don't go to school
any more."
"They used to," maintained the master.
??I can't control myself t^ry well," pleaded
Phoebe, drying her face. "But nobody is
to blame."
"She has to carry too old a head," said
Mrs. Barker, putting her guest in the giltbacked
chair and spreading her napkin.
"She ought to be thinking of young folks
and a good time, and here she is worrying
to save money, and studying Dutch between
whiles. Next time you come, Mr. Barker
aVa?UVa1i3 r? ?rt/fl AvommefiAn attoh tw\ti I)
DUOU bliuiu O 3V/UUVJ> VTV*. J vu>
"Do let him! How little I shall ever know
if Mr. Barker does not train me. And I
have been seeing young people."
She began to tell about Psyche Fawcett,
and talked rapidly while the meal lasted.
After supper the master and his son went
into the twilight, chopped wood and
kindling, fed the pij?, and carried fodder to
and milked the cow. In the midst of these
homely cares, and while the mastei's bass
reverberated among solemn trees with Old
Hundred, Phoebe's voice and presence
broke into his hymn. She was standing
Wrapped in her scarlet shawL ready to go
home."
" Good-night, Mr. Barker. I must hurry
this evening."
44 But you are not going home now. You
are going to spend the evening1#and may be
stay all night."
"I must go," said Phoebe.
"Wait till I've milked the strippings,
then," commanded the master. 44 You can't
go alone, it's ausK."
But repeating good-night," Phoebe was
already on the path through the woods when
Mrs. Barker ran out of the cabin after her.
However, the master had scarcely carried
his frothing pails into the house when Mrs.
Barker came back, drawing her shawl to
a focus over her nose.
. "She wouldn't let me go a piece with
her," said the master's wife. "I don't
know what possesses that child to-night."
She looked anxious as she hung her wrap
on the deer-antler.
"I'll just step outi and overtake her,"
said Mr. Barker.
"Don't."
"But she oughtn't to go alone through
the woods, ought she?"
" She isn't alone, Ogre, dear. A man met
her just out of the clearing. That's why I
turned back. I saw she wanted me to."
" May be it was her brother, or one of the
neighbors' boys."
"It was a stranger. I took a good look at
him, and enough worse looking he is than
her poor simple brother. I don't like it.
And her getting so excite4 before supoer,
as if she saw something out of the window
?and all."
"I don't like it either," said the master,
rubbing hi3 grizzly head.
("TO BE CONTiNUJCi'j
Effect# of Kentucky Whisky.
Louisville, Ky., July 2.?Near Pine
vile lust right Ja?. MeGorge and Bill
Smith, special %henff deputies, shot each
Other to death. They weie seat to arrest
some violators of the local whisky laws.
Keturning they stopped at a floating saloon
on the Cumberland river, and while drinking
there they got into a wrangle over a
pistol taken from a prisoner." Smith had
the pistol and in the scuffle to keep it, shot
AIcGorge througn me nsca.. juwui^c
drew his own pistol and shot three times
wildly as he fell. One shot struck Smi?h
in the head, killing him instantly, and the
! other two woundea Bill Boskins and an1
other bystander. McGorge will die. The
people were much excited over the affair,
and the owner of the boat abandoned it and
is hiding.
?
A woman of polish?the laundress.
WHAT THEY THINK.
A Variety of Opinions from Many Sources
?The Republican Ticket as Viewed from
Various Standpoints. :Secretary
Yilaa?"Cleveland will be
re-elected."
The Times will give Cleveland and
Thurman its hearty enpport.
James G. Blaine: "It is a good nomination."
Don Dickinson?"That temperance
plank in the twelfth hour defeated
them."
Nashville American: The nomination
of Harrison and Morton means a fight
for both Indiana and Sfew York.
' Senator Vance (Dem.) of North Carolina?-"I
am a Democrat and it suits me.
Well beat him so badly his mama won't
recognize liim." - .
Senator Vest (Dem.) of Missouri,?
"Admiration shudders and shrinks into
the ooattail pocket of chagrin in the
presence oJ; Harrison. We will beat him
easily.
: New York Times-(lad.): Albeit not a
great man, General Harrison is a citizen
nf thft "Rfitmhlin. who has dnnA wnrthilv
such share of public work as has devolved
upon him.* * *
Senator Wade Hampton?It is the
very best nomination that could be
made for tie Democratic party. It is
"the weakest nomination the Bepnblioans
oonld have made.
Representative Bynum (Dem.) of Indiana:
"The best they could make. Bat
we will carry Indiana. The Pacific coast
is lost to tlie Republicans. '
Secretary Bayard?"I don't see why
Harrison should have been selected. He
is a man ol! fair abilities, against who.n
nothing cz a be said, but still, it seems
to me like a surprising nomination."
New Ycrk Tribune (Rep.): In his
whole career as soldier and statesman
Benjamin Harrison has displayed a
sound judgment, a well-balanced mind,
and a character of the highest merit
Baltimore Sun (Dem.): While not a
man of commanding intellect^ or heretofore
a recognized leader of his* party
in or out of the Senate, General Harrison
has nevertheless been regarded as a
gentleman of excellent parts and of irreproachable*
privaie-life.
Savannah News: The Republicans
have nominated Benjamin Harrison, a
TJCOtCiTii JiOWJW- OUU UUlikLUlrkU, 1UI
President, and Levi P. Morton, a New
York bonier, and politician, for Vicepresident.
It cannot be said that these
gentlemen jnake a strong ticket.
Atlanta Journal: We cannot regard
'this ticket as an exceptionally strong one
for the Republicans, and we are inclined
to the belief that it would have been a
stronger one if the positions of the nominees
had been reversed.
Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal (Dem.)
The nominee for the first place on the
Republican Presidential ticket seems to
have been selected more on account of
his availability as the favorite son of the
doubtful State than for any individual
merit of his own.
_ Indianapolis Journal Jjtep*) "H his
nomination were not so clearly the result
of human wisdom, we could call it
inspiration."
The Sentinel (Dem.) says: ' 'General
Harrison's nomination is not in any
sense n strong one."
Macon Telegraph: Democrats should
not mi ike the mistake of believing that,
though the Republican candidates are
Commonplace men and their platform a
'thoroughly bad one, their own candidates^
ian be easily elected.
Sam Douglass, State secretary of the
Gieepback party says: "There are 20,000
voters in Indiana, r^iaaja^jQjUthft.
parEyj^who will vote
solidly against Harrison. The policy of
the present administration has been ac
ceptable to the Greenback party."
Representative ^Burrows (Rep.) of
Michigan: "Harrison can carry every
State that Blaine carried in He
will sweep Indiana, New Jersey and
Connecticut will fall in line under the
banner of protection. The soldiers will
support him enthusiastically."
The Atlanta Constitution says in one
of its leading editorials:
"There is one fact that need not be
disguised, and that is that Harrison will
be a stronger man before the- country
than 21aine would have been. He is a
man of high character, and appears to
have conducted himself as decently during
his political career as any Republican
could be expected to do.
A. K. McClure, in Philadeljr' ia Times
(Ind.): It is just fair to say that General
Harrison is a clean, creditable Presidential
candidate, and his nomination in?
ill MT>
ViWiO liUO UUILUUJ IAJ l>UiU uvui ituv
fiendish jackals of low grade politics to
soberly consider and decide the grave
national issues which are to be decided
by the American people in November
next.
The Way Girls Do.
"Oh, Kitty! I've something the beet to
tell yon !,s
"No?"
"Oh, but I have, though 1"
. "Do tell me, quick!"
"YouH never lisp it to anyone?" ,
"No, indeed!"
"I wouldn't have you breathe it fox i
the world!"
"Oh, I won't"
"Not to any one, remember."
"No?hope to die if do."
"Well, then?oh, it seems so funny J"
"0hs do hurry up and tell me."
"I'm afraid you'll teiL"
"Oh, indeed, indeed, I won't"
"I'd never forgive you if you did."
"Well, but I won't"
"He might not like it you know."
"Who's he?"
"Oh, I forgot! How foolish I am!"
"Are you ever going to tell me?"
"Yes; yes?I said to myself right away
that I'd tell you anyhow."
"Well, do, then."
"Well, then?oh, you will be awfully
surprised!"
"Oh, do hurry and tell."
"Well?I?I'm engaged!"
"No?"
"Yes!"
"Well, who to?"
"To Charlie Lawson."
"Why?Lol?Brigham!"
"I am!"
"Tee, hee, hee!" i
"T'u't it funny?"
' Why, jou old darling!"
"Don't you congratulate me?"
"Of course I do. Charlie's perfectly
lovely. I'm awfully glad for you both.
"Oh~ thanks!"?Detroit Free Press.
A Railroad Wreck in Montana.
St. Paul, Minn., July 3.?A Helena
(Montana) special says: "An east-bound
Northern Pacific passenger train jumped
the tracfc oa tfunoay nignt at woia urees,
fifty miles west of here, the day coach,
dining and Pullman cars rolling into a
ditch. "Wfaa Nelson, of Riley & Wood's
Theatrical Company, and Mr. Ulin, of
Missoula, Montana, were seriously injured.
Many others were injured, but not dangerously.
*
GEORGIA'S MONSTER SNAKES.
Stories of Them Revived by Attacks on
Horses and Cattle.
(Philadelphia Times Correspoa "ent.j
Athens, July 2.?H. H. Carlton, the
Representative from the Eighth Congressional
district of Georgia, has a
magnificent i tub urban home in sonthern
i Athens, to which is added an admirably
agnipped farm. Mr. Carlton takes
especial pride in ids horses, of -which he
has" a large and valuable stock, but
which during his residence in Washington
spencLmost of their time in a rich
pasture at some little distance from the
house.
A few days ago two of the Congressman's
horses became afflicted with an
ailment which baffled veterinary skill.
They came up from the pasture limping,
with inflamed and running sores on
their legs. Their eye-sight, too, appeared
to be affected, while a heavy discharge
of mucus from the mouth and
nostrils gave indications of lung fever.
Medicine was copiously administered,
but both the animals died. Others of
Mr. Carlton's stock were taken sick in a
similar manner, find in a short time the
disease broke out) among the fine blooded
stock of several gentlemen residing
near by, and several of the animala have
died. The matter was, of course thoroughly
investigated, but without result,
until it was givesi wide publicity.There
are living in and around
Athens several o'! the early pioneers of
Wilkes and Madison counties, who near
ly fifty years ago were actively engaged .
in agrioolture there. When the nevra of
the trouble with the horses became
known these old people unanimously
declared it to be caused by the bite of a
species of monster serpent known as the
"horned" or "brill" snake. Fifty years
ago, they declared?and their statements
have been verified?this section
of the country was overrun by these
reptiles, and. so desperate was their warfare
againf>t cattle that it was only with
the greatest of care that any stock at all
oould be preserved from them. It was
not until parties of hunters rid the i
country of these reptiles that cattle could
be raised here.
To describe these venomous reptiles
almost necessitates one laying himself
open to the imputation of writing a <
"snake story." Your correspondent has
never seen one of them alive, but he has
seen the preserved skin of one, a mon- i
ster some five feot in length and of unproporticnately
huge girth, which was <
killed near this city about ten years ago. <
The color is dark brown, and on the end
of its tail is a spur or horn of about I
three inches in length, somewhat re- 1
Li.*- - xi_ ? ^ c A
semDiuig uiu spur uu uw um vi a
scorpion, although, of course; very much ,
larger. All thia I can positively vouch
for and prove, if necessary.
But I'can only give you tradition as ;
to the way in which this now almost
extinct snake carries on its warfare
against cattle. The old settlers state
that the snake would strike Athair foee
by throwing their tail foremost, and, |
with the horny appendage described, dealing
a deadly wound.. As is the case j
with the rattlesnake, they can thus project
themselves, albeit tut foremost, for several
feet. These old people were j
shown some of the wounds on the legs
of the cattle, and are persistent in declaring
them to have been caused by a j
bull snake. Farmers now living in i
Madison county, hard by Athens, have <
often bpen brought into contact with
these monsters, and unqualifiedly express
themselves in a similar manner.
Thia story would be hardly complete ]
were no mention made of a statement t
given your correspondent bv_ag^ohLu
lady, Mrs. Qlarissa EvanSj^Pthia city,
and con?borate<^feij feer children?now
'JTCiSfen. Mrs. ?vans says that
on her farm in Madison county she and
her husband once encountered one of
these snakes in a sapling thicket Her
husband struck at the serpent with a
fence rail, and the serpent simultaneously
struck at him with its tail. Mr.
Evans dodged the blow, and the serpent's
horn grazed the bark of a poplar
sapling. This happened about noon.
By night the leaves of the tree were entirely
withered and by morning were
black, dry and shriveled.
The Joint Summer Meeting.
On the occasion of the meeting of this
Society daring the Grange Encampment
at Spartanburg, August 6th to 11th, the
8th of August nas been assigned the Society
on which day to hold its annual
summer meeting. The meeting will convene
at 11 o'clock a. m., when the following
order of business will be observed
at the morning session and the
following eesiys read:
Test of the parity and vitality of
seeds, by Prof. JR. H. Loughridge.
T-w 1_" _t
iJiYersuitaj juuuuauriea ae uiumuuvo ui
agricultural prosperity, by Hon. Samuel
Dibble.
The natoro- and treatment of contaS'oua
diseases of stock, by Dr. B.
clnnee, Y. S.
The ideal farm, by Hon. John S.
Yerner.
YiticultuKi, to be assigned.
The South era dairy, to be assigned.
This annuj d igathenng of our people
from all sections of the State at the close
of the cultiviUions of the crops, to compare
notes as to the best modes in the
preparation of the soil for seeding, the
kind of manure, hop much used and the
cultivation cf the various crops, and the
results obtained,, is a pleasing and
profitable occasion for the meeting of
the farmers of the State. Besides the
pleasing intercourse of our people, the
subjects for essays are practical, and the
essayists are gentlemen peculiarly fitted
io treat tut) buujwus tuxugucu.
The discussion on eaon et-say is another
pleasing feature of the occasion, furnishing
much, useful information to
those whom intended to benefit. All
things considered, it would seem of the
highest importance that there should be
a full turnout of our people at Spartanburg
during the seoond meeting of the
Inter-State Farmers' Summer Encampment.'
Guardin g Against Falsehood.
Dunn was an -English farmer who em*
ployed*a laborer named PauL Mr.
Dtun one day asked Paul to take luncheon,
and Paul refused; .but afterwards
the workman repented, and went to ask
for the food.
"No," was Mr. Dunn's answer; "vou
i^aid you would not eat, said I never allow
any ues WJ u a w_uu ux IUJ uuodo.
"So," Baid Panl; "I lost my dinner."
Next week Panl returned to his work,
the thought of his lost meal still rankling
in his mind. Mr. Dunn asked him again
whether he would take some luncheon,
and, determined this t'\n. enot to be done,
Paul said, "Yes."
| A huge Cheshire cheese was set before
him uncut, aad Paul inquired, ''Where
-hall I cut it?"
"Just where you please," said Mr.
J>nnn.
"Then," said Paul, "I'll cut it at
home, and?you won't have any lies told
in your house, -you know."
A pocket-book is paradoxical. The
smaller the size the greater the sighs. *
THE NEW FIKST READER.
SImple Lessons, Not D?*igaed for Children,
but Adapted for the Delectation of Elders.
(From the Detroit Free Press )
Leeson L?"Do you see the machine?"
"Yes,-, I see it; it is a strange thing.
What is it for?a brickyard?"
"Oh, no; it is called a staffer."
"To stuff sausages."
"No; to stuff school children. Come
and exmine it You put a child from 10
to 14 years of age into this end, and into
the other you place thirteen examples in
fractions, three pages of history, two of
grammar, three of orthography, an hour
of writting and a yard of algebra, and
then all is ready to loosen this spring,
and the child is duly stuffed."
"It must be very nice."
"It* is. The schooling of the average
pupil can be shortened up several years
by this process, much to the honor and
ored&of the teacher."
X/UV UVU V VMUUAViA VUv UiiUOl UUC
stnffin?"
"Lots of them, bat it is laid to a too
active brain."
"Are there many staffers in nse?"
"There is an average of one to every
school in town, and some have two- Yon
may now ran up and down four pairs of
staia&to expand your longs."
Lesson IL?"What has Charles
found?"
"It is a bumble bee."
. "Does he know what it is?"
"He doee not. He is too young and.
unsophisticated for that. He thinks it
is a Waterbury watch some millionaire
has had the msifortune to lose."
"And he will try to wind the watch up?"
"He wilL Let us move on. It promises
to be a harrowing scene, and we had
best be as far away as possible."
Lesson IIL?"Do you see the man?"
"Yes, I see him. He is swinging in a
hammock under the trees. He must be
rich to take Ms ease while other men
work. How many millions is he worth?"
<He will never have the tenth part of
a million cents."
"Bat he is not at work."
"Oh, yes, he is. He is a sidewalk inspector
for the city, and is now -putting
in time."
"Can he inspect sidewalks while lying
in a hammock?"
"He can. He wag selected on account
of his great brasn power to do such
things."
"Will I ever know enough to become
a sidewalk inspector?"
"It is barely possible, and much
depends on your making your solid with
!tex&n city officials. Be commencing at
your tender age to developed into a ward
briker yon may in time get there, although
the field is always crowded." '
Lesson IV.?"Ah! here comes a poor,
old man, leaning heavily on his cane.
You may give him a penny if you wish."
"It is sad to see one so old and poor.
Do you know him?"
"I do. His name is Goneooon."
"That is a funny name. Why is he so
poor?"
"Because he lost his job. He used to
be the city gas inspector."
"And did he live in a h.fuimook and
inspect gas?"
Some of tho time, but his -favorite
method was ta sit in & saloon with hie
feet on a beer table."
"Was the gas all right?"
"Oh, yes. No one ever heard of the
gas inspector finding anything wrong
with the gas. The gas was all right?so
eras the inspector."
"Then why did they bounc^rtem?"
"It was the work of tfco'newspapers,
rhey were jealous or the great brain
power it to^krWnold a saloon chair down
sndj^ra^'$1,600 a year. The aldermen
kt&d his placi for him for several years,
but at last the public kicked so hard1 he
had to go."
'And didn't he find another job?"
"No, my eon. It broke his heart in
two, and he gave up all hope after that"
?Detroit Free Press.
AS AMAZON IN OREGON.
An Invitation to Dinner and a Surprise
for a Party on Horseback.
The jar of heavy feet was heard. Some
young horsetf came down a steep hill at
full run. Behind was a reckless, rapid
rider. The loose stock dashed past.
The horse that bore the rider was tossing
its head madly and slinging white foam
in flakes from his mouth.' He was a
rearing, restless, heavy built, regulation
broncho, but it was remarked that he
waa well under control, for he seemed
to be fairly rifted from side to side by
t&e reins at the will of the rider, who
drew up to our ressing place. We started
in a way that was not mannerly, even in
the wilds of Oregon. The rider of the
restless pony was a young girl. She
waited with embarrassment for us to tell
our errand.
"Who lives here?" we asked.
"I do," she replied, in a tone that did
not make us feel any more at home.
<aWhose garden is this?" was the next
question.
"Mine."
- -V . .33.3.
Artex a pause sac aaueu:
"Can 1 do anything for yon, gentlemen?"
-"Well, well, no," was about the only
intelligible answer at command.
"Will you come to the house?" she
added; "it is near dinner time,"
As she rode before we looked upon a
graceful rider, a well-rounded, neat
figure, a brunette, with the languid
beauty so much admired in the Oastillmn
women, clad in coarse, strong, short
skirts, below which showed a small boot
and a keen, bright spur. Her rich saddle
was new, strong and double rigged.
Her horse had not stopped at the gate
till she sprang to the ground. My
companion stepped forward with a
Chesterfield bow, but too late to assist
her. She asked us to go to the house
while she led her horse to the^ stable.
When we were within a rod of tfie door
we both started with surprise. A repulsive,
sullen, scowling Indian was at
each window.
We were greatly surprised tj learn
that our hostess was u half-breed. In
her features or actions we had observed
notonetraoe of the Indian. Her de^
mean or was modest, while at the same
time she was fully "imbued with that
Wflctarn lfKar Ji that allnno nn man tn
pass without an invitation to partake of
a meal or night's lodging. We bade her
good-bye reluctantly, and continued our
hunt, thinking ho& much more appropriate
such grace and such wealth would
be in the circles of society than on the
back of a broncho.?San Francis oe
Chronicle. *
Maxwell Will Surely Hang-.
St. Louis, July 4.?Governor Morehouse
was in the city yesterday, and questioned
as to his action upon the Maxwell
petition for a commutation of the death
sentence. The Governor refuses to express
himself upon the subject to newspaper
men, but to others he said positively that
he would not Interfere' with the course of
the law. Yesterday the doomed man's
mother and sister paid him another visit at
the Four Courts. They were much more
cheerful in appearance .than on their pre
vious visit. Maxwell'si attorney saja that
his mother and sister will probably await
the result of his argutaent before the Governor
on the petition :for clemency before
they make a last appeal
fS.
FRESH MUMMIES FOR ALL.
Bill Nye Regrets The Decadence of Real
Old Relics.
(From the New York World.)
Among the many letters of inquiry recieved
during the past week is tbi following:
"Last year I made a trip abrcard,
and among o?ier trophies of my visit to
the Old World I secured a fine specimen
of a mummy, for which I paid seventyfive
scudi. While showing it to a friend
last week I discovered that the air of
Illinois is detrimental to it and that disintegration
is taking place. Can yon tell
me what is the cause and what I had
better do in order to preserve the specimen
intact?"
You have no doubt paid at last seventyfour
scudi too much for your mummy,
as nfammies go. Nothing is more dieheartening
than the discovery-that ooe'a
mummy is not standing onr harsh
American climate. But the chances are
that you have the modem style? of
mummy, made especially for Americans
by the trade. He is not an antique, and
before August you will have to decide
whether to cast him aside or let him run
the house. The genuine mummy' haa
been ground up for fertilizing purposes
during the past twenty yeairto such an
extent that we are running short, and
gpurious mummies made of coarse people
who have died recently are flooding the
market. A friend of mine purchased a
varnished king, supposed to be over
2,000 years old, for wnioe he gave lfO
ecudi and a silk umbrella. In May of
last year he began to assert himself?the .
king did?and to enter more and more
into the home life of his owner till it was
decided to have a coat of shellac put on
him. A house, sign and carriage painted
came up to the house, and while refitting
and refurnishing the royal relics diecovei- "
ed on the forearm a dark blue Goddess
of liberty in India ink and the legand,
"Richard TVfaginnis, Yaipariso, Ind.,
1853." A mummy that has to be kepis
the refrigerator is a bitter, bitter disappointment,
and no doubt yours is of
that class. The modern methods of preserving
people do not in all cases prove
satisfactory, and I do not know of anymAM
ifiil s\y ITIAM krimiliflfrnrt
4iiiniig mwo |/nuiu vx Auvnw wiiiniiwiTii^
than while explaining your mammj to a
coterie of friends in the' library to have
him explode on your hands and and re*
veal his true identity. Should diafattgr&tdon
continue in the case of your own
mummy, a private funeral is the best _
thing I could suggest. Let it be a plain
affair, opening with a select reading or
recitation, followed by a vocal solo and
a a set-to between some good -artisc and
i the piano. You could charge a email
! admission fee, perhaps, which would go
toward defraying expenses, and close
with a parade and torrent of grief at the
grave. '
The wanton destruction of mummies ,
and their wholesale importation to this
country were they have been ground up
and used as fertilizers, is going to make
good mummies scarce and high. When
a nation becomes so haughty and exacting
that it demands rhubarb pies, stimulated
by the gentleman who furnished com to
Joseph dursng the dry spell, and expects
, to promote its asparagus by means of
dead monarchs and thejdust of heirs pre- j&k
sumptive to the "throne of Egypt, you ju
can safely predict that mumihjee"
mnmrniw before snow fiierarajj^rPou
can't eat your cake ag^ggepit, too.
Neither ca^>^?rkturaotit a mummy in
<j?3aiScticut in two days which will take
[the place of the real thing* A judge of
I those things will tell youat once that the
I bouquet is different There is not the
aamenut brown flavor and odor of poorly
ventilated lineage about the Connecticut
made mommy that there is about the
Egyptian job. The Egyptianshed a way
of oaring their people a good deal the
same as our physicians have now, vis ^
by filling them with high priced' drugs.
Our physicians, however, begin on a
man before he dies, while the Egyptaasujinstead
of printing bulletins about, thin
people, showing what their respiration
and temperature were, and a large
amount of sick room gossip, which a man
hates to read after he has recovered, just
waited around until the gentleman bad
been permitted to die quietly in his own
way, surrounded by his family, and then
they came in and cured him, so that 09
the morning of the resurrection a tooth
brush and a Turkish bath would make
him look like a new man.
The American bison and the Egyptian
mummy are fading away. The day will
soon come when those who have slaugl>
tered whole herds of buffalo for their
tongues and fertilized their timothy sod
with the dost of dynasties will go hungry.
WAtnatr ttiinV that ?n "F.inmtriftTk rtfim AtPrv
has no bottom to it and that a true fissure
vein of theee^people is practically inexhaustible,
but some day the foreman
working on lower level will come to the
surface and state in hoarse accents that
the pay streak has pinched out. .The
difference between a gas well, for instance,
and a deposit ot emperors, is that
the latter is not sfelf-susteining. A gas
weil may continue to give down-or give
up, as the case may be, for hundreds ox
years, but you cannot dig up kings and
queens forever. Some day you are certain
to dig below their set and strike
another strata of society. -Embalming
is a process worth of the
dark ages. It is expensive, foolish, useless
and highly "injurious to the com5lesion.
I am bitterly opposed to it.
[y own nothing about it is that the man
who embalms me will have to climb over
my dead body to do so.
a rMCACTOAlie milDTU
n uign^invwg rwunin>
A Grand Stand Falls at Water Valley,
311m., with TenlLIe Results.
New Orleans, June 5.?A special from
Water Valley, Miss., says: "Our little city,
which until noon yesterday was one- continuous
round of enjoyment, was in mourning
in the evening. The Yallabusha Fire
Association had made the usual preparations
for their annual Fourth of July meeting,
and an immense crowd from the
neighboring towns and villages had assemble?
to witness the day's sport. At 1
o'clock, when about 400 had taken seats on
the grand stand the building gave way and
fell with a crash, burying in its ruins men,
women and children. Indescribable excitement
and confusion followed. Strong
men turned pale at the scene; mothers
screamed for their lost children, and whole
families were pinioned, as it were, in a
solid mass under the debris. Those who
were so fortunate as to be on the outside
rushed to the lescue and in a short time
the imprisoned victims were released.
Something near fifty people were taken out
with broken arms and limbs, bruised
bodies and almost every conceivable wound;
hut it sn hftnihened that no one was killed
outright. At this time it is impossible to
give a list of the wounded, some of
whom it is thought cannot live. One member
of the band had an arm broken, another
a leg broken and a third was slightly
wounded.
An Electric Storm in Iowa.
Mason City, Iowa, July 5.?A very
heavy storm swjept over the north part of
this county yesterday. Corn h&lds were
levelled, a number of houses were unroofed
and small grain was badly damaged, fiain
and wind were accompanied by the heaviest
electric storm known bere for years. Many
horses and cattle in pastures stsnding near
fences were killed*
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