The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 11, 1883, Image 1
DEVOTED TO FOLITIC', RORALI1Y, EDUCITION AND TO T".'E OENERIL INTEREMr OF THE COUNTItY,
By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11.18 vn n
TIl ONLY i1l1itIVn1t'rs MTOKLY OF
TUlE FA3M4SUP FEAT.
Why s t mt,cjrr wait Sla o- and Slow
st"N Mallasged to go Tbsr.ar;.
The story of the tamous passage of the
Maud of the Mist, istold by Dewitt C. Mo
Murtry, the only one cf her passengers
on that occasion now living. The old
man's story r as follows!
"I think it was in 1851 that James W.
Bnobanan, of Toronto, Can. went to live
F1usensIrdeo. ']he orignal
ttJnt . Istbaet
Boe. , whNls
tho6ght tit It would be a good idea to
build a new one, better than the other
and more durable. She was 150x16 feet
over all. Buchanan's money held out
only until the tine came to place the
engines and boiler in the boat. Hii
t plans were too expensive. Captain Joel
Robinson, who was to command the
boat, remonstrated ,against - using old
maohinery bocausa it was not powerful
enough. :Mr. B3xio1anan went to Buffalo
and. borrowd su cient money from
td Judge Addington to complete the
"it, and a' mortgage on it for $7.000
gitven -to him. The cld judge
-bt his venture was perfectly safe,
did every one else. One outlet
tpe was blocked by the great eat.
.nd the >ther by the boisterous
ol rapids, supposed to he impas
11uchanan paid his interest reg
a time, but finally failed to
'no. He was on the verge of
'that juncture some people in
o,wati.ed a pleasure boat to
i Kingston and IPrescott
$25,000 for the Maid, the
elivered at the dock in
the Canada side. Then
-d the. idea. of running
ado the mortgage and
q fortund. ' Captain
ic ant exp '~1 the
-at through it't
,0 apiece to you
' Jones was the
ing it a while
rein the risk.
orable trip was
.all never forget
pressure was 130
rip we set the ball
w off at 2213 pounds.
he afternoon Robin.
o the wheel-housie.
c down into the the.
were battened down
at off. she was lying
.ent, and had to make
.urn, which she just fin.
tick the currei.t. The
.0 working full head, the
nuarly red-hot and steam
g in tlhe blow-off. The current
rapids is forty- five miles an hour;
..Ad we know that if eweoould not make
some headway inl it, so the craft would
mind the helm. nothing ,lut an interpo.
sition of Providence could save us. I
am the only man now living who ever
passed through those rapids, and I'll
me ver try again."
"Had you no fear at all ?"
"I had no fear at the start, but after
we got into those rapids I would have
given worlds to get ashore. Had I been
able to make land after the first two or
three plunges that boat made, all the
money in the whole United States would
have been no temptation to me to go
aboard again. The rirk was too great,
and I tremble now as in memory I live
the scenes of that day over again. It
was simply a case of nature against na
ture. I tell you, sir, that nothing but
the intervention of Providence put us
through' safely. 'We shot through with
frightful velocity. Of the speed you can
form some idea when I tell you that from
the lower Maidl of the Mist landing,
where we started, Queenston w~harf is
just flve miles and we traveled the dis
tance in seven minutes and forty-flive
seconds. The rap ids themselves are a
mile in length and two minutes was the
time of the passage.
"That is pretty fast traveling through
a current:sixty feet higher in midstream
than at the sidesa, in an unnavigated
channel. From the time we left the
landing until we made fast at Queenston
every mom'en.t was one of expectation
of death.' . expected every second to
see tl e hull rent in pieces b)y the rocks
and fnd myself tossed about by the cur
rernt and beaten to death by the great
waves. I Iived my life over again times
innume.rable, and incidents which took
years to'enant arose in my vision instan
taneously, and with a realism that makes
or 0 shudder. We felt that we were on
the verge of death. When we struck
the first rapid our boat plunged down.
ward maybe thirty feet. - Then wvith
greatly added impetus' she was thrown
out of the water. Through the heavy
glass port-holes and by the ditTeremi
working of the engines I could tell when
the wheels were in or out of water.
Down would go the boat until it seemedl
she would never stop, when quickly she
would right herself, and with a leap
which. seemed almost human, go clear
out of the water. We were tossed about
in the hold, Jones and I, until it seemed
as if the quick succession of shocks
CAR LETON
PLAIN -LD AV
--uoai Enio inten
Reai henmn+
would kill us. I felt my strength oozing
away, and I clung to tne hand-rails for
dear life. There was barely time to
catch one's breath between the concus
sions, and the force felt inside the close
ly-fastened fire-hole was so great that
escape seemed impossible. Our course
was in the center as near as we could
make it. We got through the whirlpool
rapids all right o_tough, but the boat
was wrenched and racked so that she
took water freely, and when I climbed
out of the hold at Queenston the water
was waist high. I suppose you want to
know how we avoided the whirlpool.
At the entrance the Maid's stern ground
ed lightly on a rcek, she swung round
and shot down the stream instead of fol.
lowing the current into. the whiripool. It
all happened quicker than I can tell it."
Fifty 'Nears Ago.
Edward H. Ludlow, an auctioneer and
real estate broker in New York since
1836, testified before the Senate Com
mittee that twenty years ago money
loaned on mortgage easily commanded 7
per cent., while now the large corpora
tions are content with 4 to 4; per cent.
Decrease in the value of money ought
to prodiue decrease in rents, but it has
not.
"Will you compare the social state of
long ago with that of to-day?" asked
Senator Blair.
"I guess I am prejudiced, Senator,
the witness said, "for you know that we
old fellows think the old times were a
great deal the best. There were not so
many paupers then as now, and the poor
were more comfortably housed. One
hundred thousand dollars made a very
rich man then, for the Dutch-English
population were very conservative, and
did not like to venture on the ice much.
People who lived in 1825 were happier
than now, more social, everybody knew
everybody, and individuals were appre
ciated as woll as known.
"The general comforts and pleasures
of life were greater than now. There
was less emulation, and.more simplicity.
People dressed more for comfort and
wore home-made clothes. Ladies usc
to be satisfied with two or three muslin
dresses and one silk gown. Some old
Knickerbocker families still live as in
the good old days, but they are very
few. Ladies nowadays wear nothing
but silks and satins, and every woman
must wear an ostrich feather and be
dreaped like a Fifth avenue belle. Mil
lionaires vie with one anot her in seeking
to display their wealth and show their
foreign manners. Love of show is car
ried beyond common sense. Emulation
makes the well-to-do seek to pattern af.
ter our millionaires, and the poor strive
in their turn to equal the well to-do.
Every class is cursed by this evil spiril
of vanity and emulation."
B1asTr.s.--The most valuable bristlev
Used in brush making are white, and the
breed of hogs that produces them is
every year growing scarcer. The best
bristles come from Kamtchatka, the
next in grade from Russia and Germany.
They sometimes reach a length of nearly
ten inches, and cost' as high as four dol.
lars and a half a pound. Nothing yet
in use wholly takes the place of bristles
A Cimwr.-Ex-Mayor Hall says lhe
once heard Thurlow Weed descr-ibe the
system of lobbying by likonunm it to the
construct ion of railroadsa. First, vou
acquire and survey your territory' (this
is the Legislature and its neighbor
hood(). Next you employ ditch~ diggers
who are not afraid of dirty work. Th en
come the graders. Then you must lay
your ties. Then the rails. Curves must
be0 nicely adjusted. Contractors must
be paid and divided with. And over al)
must be an Engineer in chief.
"Mr CAsE is just her e," said a citi-sen
to a lawvyer, "'The plaintiff will swecai
that I hit him. I wvill swear that I did
niot. Nowv, what can you lawvyers make
out~ of that if we go to trial?" ''A hun.
drndl dollars ear~y." was the reply.
IE01\T WORuHs
STMILS 'OTNGNSadPE
ill Supis UHS UOAI
reurn stay,rlibe ad ecno
WorkmTen.l ENagIES, MrIE,
Woke. Cage modeate
A COUNTRY'S PEOPLE.
Some intere,utina Sntlatles From the
C(ensus Bureau.
In twenty years the foreign born pop
Illation of Massachusetts increased from
260,106 to 448,491. North Caroliug has
the snallcst foreign born population of
any, the proportion being, natives.
1,396,008; foreign, 3,744.
New York has the largest proportion of
foreigners, 1,211,379, against 8,871,492
natives. The States where the German
element is strongest are Iowa, with a
foreign born population cf 204,692;
Michigan, 268,010; Minnesota, 160,697;
Ohio, 394,943; Illinois, 583,576; Wiscon
sin,364,499; Pennsylvania, 587,829.
The civilized Indians number, all told,
66,407, Califoinia having 16,277, Arizona
3 493, Massachusetts as many as 7,249,
New York 819, New Mexico 9,772,
Washington 4,405, Wisconsin 9,161, and
Minnesota 2,300.
The Southern States have but a scanty
proportion of foreigners. Alabama
stands 1,252,771 natives to 9,784 for
eigners; Arkauisas, 792,175 to 10,350;
Florida, 259,584 to 9,909; Georgia, 1,
531,616; to 10,564; K. ntuckv, 1,589,178
to 59,517; South Carolina, '987,891 to
7,686; Texas, 1,477,133 to 114,616; Vir
ginia, 1,497,869 to 14,696.
The Chinese flourish in California to
the number of 75,132. Next comes
Oregon, where the pigtails muster9,510
strong, then Nevada, 5,416; Washington
Territory, 3,18G; Idahoe 3,379; Montana
1,765; Utah, 501;-Wyoming, 914; Arizona,
1,630; Dakota, 238; Massachusetts, 229;
New York, 909; Colorado, 612; Louisana,
489. In the other States of the Union
the Chinese are but very few. The
total is 105.465, and of Japanese 148, of
whom 86 live in California, 8 in Massa
chusetts, 8 in Pennsylvania, 6 in Con
necticut, and 17 in New York.
In 1790 one-thirtieth of the population
of the United States lived in cities of
8,000 inhabitants and over : in 1800, on,
twenty-fifth ; in 1810 and also in 1820,
one-twentieth ; in 18:30, one-sixteenth ;
in 1840, one-twelfth ; in 1850, one
eighth ; in 1860, one-sixth, and in 1870
a little over one-fifth. At the last (late
the inhabitants of cities numbered, in
all, 8,071,875. It is estimated that in
1880 as many as 12,000,000 persons were
living in cities, or a quarter of the
whole population.
Of natives over twenty who cannot
read and write New York has 26,163, of
foreigners, 95,715; Pennsylvania, 44,930
natives and 36,585 foreigners; North
Carolina, 74,877 natives and only 100
foreigners.
In the single State of Illinois there is
a larger foreign born population than in
all the Southern States put together.
A Curious Claim.
"You don't know how many curious
claims against the Government are re
ceived," said the chief clerk of one of
the department offices at Washington.
"Here," he continued, holding up a good
sized package, "are all these papers just
about one man's body."
"How's that ?" asked the reporter.
"'Well, in 1862 an undertaker in Alton,
Ill., buried an army oflicer in his vault
in the cemetery there. In 1876 ho
wrote the department stating that fact
and saying that we could have the re
mains upon the payment of vaultage at
the rate of $5 per month for the time the
oflicer had been buried. That amounted
to $840."
"Did he get the money ?"
"Not much. We wrote him that we
were not buying, and the body might
remain where it was. He then Lgreed
to take half the amount, but we declined
to pay anything. Now we have been
iinformed that the uindertaker has (died
and thaLt the vault has come into the
possession of the cemetery company,
who desire to remove it to make some
improvements, and they wish to know if
the Government will remove the body to
the military cemetery. This we will dlo."
"Does tho company say anything
ab)out vaultage ?"
"No, not at all; and they will probably
make no claim. It would not be allowed
if they shoul,"
.A mmma~yc-uousu in Minnesota be
ecame so infested with bedbugs that the
congregation had to take a vacation
wvhile the sexton burned up the carpets
cushions and pulpit. This shows the
'vil eff'ect of Rleeping in church,
SALES ROOMS.
elpwe.Ti is the simls
TIlE J VY. t
Pushing the olods of earth aside, 1
Leaving the dark where foul things hide,
Spreading its leaves to the summer sun,
Bondago ended, freedom won;
So, my soul, like the ivy be,
Iise, for the sunshino calls for thee I
Climbing up as the seasons go, e
Looking down upon things below,
Twining itself in the branches high, i
As if the frail thing owned the sky; I
So, my soul, like the ivy be, t
Heaven, not earth, is the place for thee. e
Wrapping itself round the giant oak,
Hiding itself from the tempest's stroke;
Strong and bravo is the fragile thing,
For it knows one secret, how to cling;
So, my soul, there's strength for thee,
Hear the Mighty One, "Lean on Me I"
Green are its leaves whon the world is white, t
For the ivy sings through the frosty night; 1
Keeping the hearts of oak awake, f
Till the flowers shall bloom and the spring t
shall break; e
So, my soul, through the winter's rain, t
Sing the sunshine back again.
Open its green and fluttering breast,
Giving the timid birds a nest;
Coming out from the winter wild,
To make a wreath for the Holy Child;
po let my life like the ivy be,
A help to man and a wreath for Thee !
IENRY Bun-oN.
Mar tha's Experiment
t
"One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, l
three cups of flour and four eggs. Do t
you remember teaching me that rule for
making coke when I was ten years old, s
grandma ?"
"Did I? Well, it is a good rule- i
one you can remember casily. Are you t
baking coke this morning ?" I
"Yes; am all done now but this one
cke. I have worked fast, for I want to 11
he ready to visit with cousin Martha. n
She said she would come over early. k
Uncle and aunt will wait till afternoon.
There she is I" l
Cousia Martha had returned home a
only the day before, and had not yet a
seen her grandmother, who had come I
from her Eastern home to spend the
summer with her two sons and their t
families in Town.
"So you really have a farm of your I
own in Dakota," said grandma to Martha, a
when the two girls were seated by her e
in the parlor after dinner.
"Yes; I made a claim next to Ned's t
when we first went out there together, I
and took up a timber claim. After we v
had pre-empted them we took up our
homesteads, and are now living on d
them." U
"You talk of pre-empting like a man. v
Did you live in a shanty of your own ?" i
"Of course I did; I have as good h a
shanty as Ned's, and we lived in it part t
of the time, until we were ready to pre- v
empt. Now we live on our homesteads." t
Busie's fingers flew with her crochet- t
work, and she bent her head to hide the e
amused look in her eyes as grandma a
ventured another question.
"What did you have to do to pre- I
empt ?"
"When we Prat went there wb filed a i
notice of our intentions to have and a
hold those p-trticular quarter-sections of
land, and after a six months' residence s
on them we went to the land office and 1
proved that we had complied with all 1
the requirements of the law, paid our l:
two hundred dollars each, and took our l
deeds. We had selected our home- t
steads, and now paid the fee of fourteen
dollars each on them, which secures them
to us without further p)aymenlt if we eon- I
tinuo to live on them five years. The
timber claims are the same. If we shall
at the end of eight year.s have ten acresi
of growing timb)er, with six hundred and
seventy-five trees to the acre the land is r
ours."
"Well, I 'don't see what your father
and mother were thinking of to lot you
do it."
Possibly Martha thought it a little :
hard that the&y and all avoided telling|
grandma about her plans anld wvork in I
the two weeks she had been with them
before her arrival home, knowing her
p)rejudhice, and that her ideas oni such
subjecta differed so enterely from theirs;
hut she was too glad to be wvith them
again to be easily annoyed, and went on
pleasantly explaining to her whatevert
she thought would interest her about it.
"Why, grandma, I am going to make
me a farm ini Dakota as soon as I am 0k1(1
enough,"' laughed Susie; ''won't I
father?''"
"Silas Hartwell, I hope you and Sybil
won't enc'ourage that child ini any such
uinladylike schenme. I am surp)rised ,
that you, .James and Alma, should have
allowved Martha to do it.."o
"'I'll tell you, mother," rep)liedl Silas,
''the land wiill be all taken up in that '[
part of D)akota before this young lady ai
of ours will arrive ar the mature age ofI h
y ounger, wimll net aid and abet her as a,
Nedl has Martha." hn
"Perhaps some other girl's b,rother
may," said Martha, peeping rognuie.bly b<
into her littie cousin's face. She was y
surprised to see the color mount in rosy v
flushes to her face for an instant, asH she a
rep)lied to her father without appearing T
to notice her banter. 0
"'I shall be twenty soon; old enough or
to aspire to a ihanty of my own in one h
year more, Yell took uip government el
land when you esme to Iowa, didnl't you, fa
father ?"
''Yes ; we have the deeds of our homes th
here from government. We were amnit g in
the pioneers of our county her'e, and he- p
cause we prospered here is proubly the
reason why our chuildren are so rad.iy to y
do pioneer work ferther on. You re
memb)er, mother, tiis was a long way fhi
from home when we 'ame here, thirty or
years ago, in our Hioorier wagom 5. You
hardly expected then te ever 'isit us b)y y'
taking a two days' ride and ilnd us surl- mf
rounded with so many comfortsq, did an
yell ?"
''No ; I muust say it turned out bet ter at
thani I expected, andI it does not lookrl W
b)adly to see thme chuildrenl going fau thmer wV
out to nlew places, as things ale no'w, 01
but I must sa~y it .loes look out of place. Ou
for a girl liko Makrthyl to take up such th
mannish ways" of
"usa~w Anniallolland when Mhej wa,s is
here laat week, how tirod and worn out oil
-00ked'." 4aidSi, "Shalft hoa
wo years ago to teach in a city school. i
don't believe she has onjoyed it half as 0
tell as Martha has her work. Do you, t
ather?" '1'
"She does not look as well, certainily," 1
ie answered; "but seriously, mother. it
9 easier for girls to make money that a
vay than to be confined to teaching or
ewing, especially when they have iii
vays lived on a farm and know how to
uanage. Tastes differ, of course, and,
>esides, every girl would not have thet
equisite knowledge to make such ia
oheme successful.
"I know," said Susie, "but most girls .
ould if they would. Cousin Martha
old us of two girls who took up claims
ear them last summer. One had mtconev
nough to pay for her claim, the other
tad only money enough to pay expenses. y
aut her brother promised to advance bei
he money when she was ready to prove
ip. They built their shanties together
nd lived together. After paying for i
heir claims they sold them for a thou. c
and dollars apiece. Pretty good for
hem, wasn't it, grandma?"
"Yes; 1 am glad they made so much. i
home women do have a hard time earn- I
ng their own living."
"There are Helen Marston and Philip I
iffany coming up the walk," said Susan. i
'They will be pleased to aco you, Martha.
suppose Helen wants to hear about
led."
They were soon seated in the parlor,
nd naturally the conversation turned
pon the subject of Daketa farming.
?hilip said he wished to ask eome ques
ions before ho could decide to go there.
To was anxious to go, but not quite cer
ain that it would be best to do so.
"You want to know how largo a home
tead you can hold," said Susan.
''Yes ; something like that. You all
now my means are limited, and I need
o be reasonably .mre it will pay before
make an investment."
They all knew his life had been one of
ard work and rigid economy, and that
naly by his assistance had his parents
eeu able to keep their home and edu
ate their children. His younger
rothers were now able to fill his plae',
nd he was free to make a home for hin
elf ; perhaps some day for a certain
right-eved young lady. Who knew ?
"Ned and I v:eilt up there in May,
wo years ago," said Mar, ha. "Father
:ave us two hundred dollars apiece, but
ed was two years older than I, and lhad
aved five hundred for himself. We I
ach bought us a good strong team of i
rork horses, wagon and harness for t
hree hundred dollars. Together we
ought a good breaking plow,
hat furniture we should need, and a i
ood supply of provisions, for one hni- j
red and fifty more. We saved ear fyre -
y having good oil-cloth covers over our
ragons, and, packing our outfit snugly
Qside, drove our teams through. Father Ia
nd uncle know how to arrange it, for y
lay moved to this State in the same"
ray, only they camped out and slept i t t
heir wagons. We did not care to dot
hat, preferring to stop nights with farm- 1
rs along the way. We had an oil-stovia
nd prepared our own dinners."
"You drove a team from here to 1)a
.ota ?" said grandma.
"Certainly I did, and enjoyed it, too. t
hon we arrived at the place Ned had I
elected for our home, I stayed, with on ly ]
neighbor's little girl for company and a
lept in one of the wagons, or rather i
vagon-boxes, while Ned went after hun
er to build our first shanty with. h'le(
ttle girl's father helped him take the
Oxes off and pack the goods snugly on
lie ground, then drove one team for him
oing after the lumber."
"Oh, my !" said Helen, "I wouldn't
owe stayed th'ere for anything. Didn't
'on feel afraid ''
'"No, I think not., though I must say
t was lonely. We slept wvell. We wer'e
avored with di(ry weather until we land a
ocof to cover us."
"DIidn't you feel like Rohinson
i3ruso)e ?" aisked Helen. ''How nacar
eie your neighbors ?"
''Two miles the nearest, and it was
wenaty miles to town i."
''Did you put in any crop~s that year ?"
nquired Phi lip.
"'Yes, as soon as we were comnfortablly
atetled, Nedl commiiecd breaiking n'y
ny claim, for the shianity was ona his, ad
te wanted to get in hais crops beofore
tiaking other imnprovemna ts. Hie b raoke
wenty acres and plianted ('orn ont it. On
lie next ten lhe lanted potato''s; t hena
en maore lie sowedl to flax. J tendled f
lhe garden, ad we land plenty of vege
ables for our use, I forgot to say fat lher
ave us a cow, some henis anda two) little
igs. In August Nedl boaughat a mower
ndl hireda a man for a nmonth, TIhaey put a
I' sixty tons of lay, besides digging a I
'elI." a
"DI id you have that much hay on your a
wna land ?'' caked Philip.
"'I adon't think lhe cut it all on our land. 'n
here is g:ooud hay on peart of it, but b
acre wais soi much noielaimaned lanai thlen,
e could go wvhere he fonnud the be'st cut- w
tag. TLhiis year lie land to atay oni our ta
,vn landa, but t here waas as much haay as hi
a cared to cut." H.
''You did nmot get your land all in one
>dy, did you, eveni going as early as .
m did ?''
"'No; we madue our first claims together t
tal took a timbaher claim adljoiing. [
bcre enin be onlhy one timber claim on
to sectioni. In November we paidi for
ir claims and onr homesteads in the i
st placo we couhld find where a timber b
rim could join them. That b)rings our Il
rmns in goodl shape-three quairters to- g
flier in each one. thou gh they arc"
roe miles apairt. We moved our bulihld
gs all over to the haomesteadls, and are ,
at ting all ouar ii! provements there now''
"How much didl yeau vaise the first
ari on thae forty acres ?"
''We had two huandred busl,l of corn,
re hundraied bushels of patattes and ir
ae hun:dre-l bushels of flax seed.''t
"[It must 1.ave been dreary enoulgh faor m,
mn thei e ina winter; one neighbor ini two tha
iles; I thitnk I'd see myself livinag in ga
oh a p)laace," said Helen. W
"It was very differenit from living here
home, buit we hoad our compensations.
c hadl plenty of time for readling, anal
studied Glermamn. We had our mail in
eo ai week, anal Su.adays we met with It
r neiglhbors for religious services. In t
e 8pring neigh bors e uno on every side of
us, and now every quarter near na
occupied and' there is a good-sized "
y t wo miles from our home. Our ul
)P the next asa anlnaaana o
lost, sanguine expectations. Ned sowed
ats on the old breaking and broke
weity acres more for corn and potatoes.
'hen he bought fencing and inclosed a
asture of twenty acres."
"Plety of room for our little Jersey
iid her calf, I should say," said Susie.
''As if she didn't know all about it,"
aid Martuha, patting affectionately the
lould< r of her favorite.
"She came with father to visit us at
hat tine. and stayed with me while
tther went with Ned to buy calves.
le bottght twenty. They, with our pet
ersev and her calf, make our farm look
lit tle more like home. Ned was par
enlar, in taking pi) our homesteads, to
ndi a p!lace with a creek ru.ning
:romg:h it. That makes our pasturt
cry line."
"You certainly have done well, but you
;ent" before there were many settlers,
mid coul(d choose your location. Now
t would be 1 iobson's choice for me if I
lecide to go, wouldn't it ?" said Philin.
''You wouldn't evtv have that in our
lciglelorlood, but not more than twenty
niles from us you can get as good a
>Aaeo as ours.'
"Then I'll go," said he, rising to hi4
eet. "'Many thanks for your kindness
n answering my questions."
-'Are. you ready, Helen ? You know we
promised to help arrange the tables for
hletestival this evening. I nearly for
10t. about. it."'
''Yes, we must go; we shall see vYs
li this evening; till then, good-by."'
Grandma toolt up her knitting-w.
mid kit very itst for a few minot.
hen said: "It'I I'ilip can go thiere
1o as well ats you and Ned have de.
thall he glad for him. He is a worth y
moug man11. ?
''One thing I would like to inquire,
;aid Susie, "how you are going to mnti
ige when you want to divide up. 11
vould not do for either of you to leIavi
le homestead before your five years iir
11p, would it ? that is, supposing yont
hould wish to marry."
"Ol, you matchmaker I Tie war is
asy. Either of us could pay for *om
and any time we wish to and get the
iced. but what scheme have you it
1"ocur head fiat makes yout so mlnel inter
'sted in the ways and means, I would
Ikn to know ? If Ned was some oi<
'Ise I should suspect you of having (
4igns on our peaceful home."
''You need have no fear in thait direc'
ion. Ned is too goodt a cousitt to .s:o
11 any such way as you suggest. l'i
c'll y'ot1 some time what I was tlhinkin g
f." said the sauiey girl.
One week later Susan came hon
rom a day's visit with Cousin -L::th,t.
ust as thi lamps were lighted a.t-:l the
amily gathered in tle sitting-ro-"l.
"'What is it, Susie ? You loc?, like a
Ih ntric ball. fairly ablaze wit i news,
.nal ready to explode at any uomeni,"
aid her fat her.
'You'll not wonder when I tell you,'
he returned. "Consin Mart ha is going
o be married to P1thilip ';Itlny. She
ins told me all about it, and it is jus
that I wanted her to lo."
Hier mother regarded her closely t
nomenit, while anii expression of telief
'anme over her features. She hlad sonie
ines feared that her daughlter's af ee
ions might i coie too interested in
Philip, for though she would have con
'onted willingly to her marriage with him
'ather than grieve her petted child with
:e word of refusal, she felt that the fu
ture held in store something letter for
her darling than a life of farm-work ini a
new coutitrv.
The father had no thought of that,
but he, too, had his secret. le held
the promise of a young merchant in a
neighborinig city that lie would make no
offer of marriage to their dalrlinig child
unitil shie arrTived iat the atge of twenty.
"Th'ley are to lie married t.wo weeks
from to-morrow," she cont iinued. ''Cou
sin Martha said slie promised Ned s'he
woulld refturni in four' weeks, andl woul
noct dIisappiloint him, for he will he all
readly for wo'~rk on the inow house.
Philip is a carpeniter, andl can go right
to work, They can all live together till
Ned finds himi a wife. That is whiat I
was thinking of thle ofther day, only I w'as
afraid Philip would never ask her, he is
so sensitive; f hardly believe lie did,
[low."
"'Why, Susan Hiartwell I You don't|
hink she would ask him, do you ?
hioughi if woul bo off fronm a piceo with
he rest of her work if she (did." said
"'I donil't kniow, bueh am1 susp1icious
tat she intfrodnieed fthe subject. She~
Sonblnii't tel how it camie about, and I
oni't. car, so long as the arrangement
miade. Still, it looks 0(dd, don1't it, for
er to comne home on a visit, marry, andl
ihe her hiusbandl back with her to her
''Yes, it is odd; I doin't like it at all,''
did grandma. "'Martha is a good gir'l,
att she does do) very untladylike things."
''Aller iall, gramihnia, why is it any
(orso for her t hain it would be for Ned
come home and ide-a wife back withI
imn ? No one would think anything
ranige otflhat."
"I doii't know as there is anything really
rang abhout it, but it is dhifferonit fronk
iie uisual couirse oif evenits. We old
tople are iipt to 1(ook critically at such
niovat ions 02n estalhishied cuistonas."
"W~ell, I hope they will lie happy a
vers mi a story botok. I'll make the
st. wedding cake(( I can for them and(
ro w an ol shoe aIfter them when they
A irrra fellow, somne four or five
mirs old ndl whio nad never seen a nio.
o, was greatly pierplexed one day when
io camiie b y wher. lie andl his faither
are. The youngster eyed thle strangera
spiciously till lie had passed, and then
ked his fat her: "P~a, who painted
at man aill so bilack ?'' ''00d dtid, my
ni," replied tie father. " Well,' said
a little one, still looking aftetr the no
a, "'I shounldn't have thought hIe
mhld have held still.''
BE\:v1t!.--The extent of the disasiter
Mlininesota's tornado-swept, city of
checster may bo judged from the fact
att even thie cemetery in which several
the victimus of the storm were buried
H ad" as Or(prr tlgr '
[rom the Ar w "{
Colorel Nucklin whose ' :
came r b rden, declare4 at t
diet ma 1f. f
"WUny," he said to bis wfte
on this way I'll soon be as6a'*
Lambert. It all cornes of 7
much, and I eat too much in giel
the demands of an enormous a
Now, a man can't be a free man 4
low his appetite to control him ; so, >
Mary, fix me a little dry toast and a w
grits after this. I'll be hanged if
roi nga around town puffing like an eu.
gine."
i,ur several days the colonel lived on
us toast and grits. He would dream of
uicy beefstakes and chops of tempting
en derness, and once, on his way down
own, he unconsciously stopped in front
>f a eat-fish restaurant to watch a hungry
iegro eat boiled cabbage. Every news
mper he took up spoke of great dinners
md "'hat certain men ate, and, stopping
)mIe. he mechanically took up a pieoe of
paper that fluttered toward him, and
%rushed it. when he discovered that it
,vas a bill of fare. The first Sunday
ight after the beginning of his trials he
ittended church, where, he declared,
me could sit free from suggestions of
omething to eat. He looked round at
he fat men and wondered if they were
mngry, and his mouth watered when he
uddenly remembered having seen a
-oast klg somewhere during the day.
he minister aroce and began to talk
ibout the Lord's Supper. He was im
iginative, and had the table stocked
with all the delicacies of the season.
EIe spoke of the venison stew into which
lie betirayer supped with his master.
mtd he turned the cold roast around so
he colonel could see it. Then he ex
iibited a baked duck, and taking up a
iandful of Saratoga potatoes, he scat
ered them over the table.
"I'll be Billy be John Browned if I can
itand tnis," the colonel said to his wife,
md he turned away. At supper he ate
bis toast, which lie declared was not
nough to ticklo his throat, and lie ac
rused his wife for making no allowance
in nearing the end of the loaf. He was
determined, though, for every one who
knew of his fast spoke of how rapidly be
was "going down."
"Oh, I'll stick it out.," he would say.
"I would," said an acquaintance "you
ire somewhat literary in your turn,
Colonel, and I sulpose you derive com
fort from Byron's trials."
''Yes," the colonel replied, although
he knew no more of Byron than a quar
antine '1loer does of the yellow fever
germ.
"Byron was .iot very fat, which, to
gether with the 'qd condition of his feet,
made him an object cf pity, but when lie
iegan to diet himself his llesi went down
gradually and became firm, wbile his in.
te'llect became bright. So, y,n see, you
have two aims to accomplish, .iot saying
that your mind needs brighte.iing. '
"Oh, no," the colonel said. 'vatching
a boy who passed with a string of fish.
Thus the struggle was kept up. One
morning when the colonel sat i' his C
office a lank tramp entered and said:
"Will you please give me the price of
a meal? I'm so hungry that I am near
ing starvation."
"I'm a devilish sight hungrier than
you are," the colonel replied.
"Why don't you ea, . '
"Because I want to reduce my flesh."
''That's all foolishness," the tramp re
)lied. "Some time ago I was on a cor
>ner's jury and we heldl an inquest over
u man whlo hadl sharved to death. Oh,
bumt lie was a whopper, as fat as lie could
wallow. Thoi neighbors said that lie
was trying to reducu his Ileshi and-"
"Aro those facts that you are stat
ing ?"
"Yes, sir ; facts as solemn as the west
4ide of ai sepulchre when the sun is in
the east."
The colonel gave his hell a vigorous.
ring, and wheni the p)orter app)eared he
"Go to the nearest restaurant and
order meals fo six men."
"Six meni!" exclaimed the tramp).
"Yes, sir, for I suippose you are as
hungry as two men, and I know mighty
well I'm as hungry as four."
E.NOOH AnDEN's TR STORY.
WVhen Enochi Arden camle home after
that memorable andl disastrous voyage,
which shipwrecked hi~m andl his hopes,
he erept up the street to his old home,
as Tenmyson informs us, and looked in
the window. There lie saw Philip Rlay
and Annie, his wife, and their child, all
seated around the hearth cracking wal
nuts.
The whole bitter truth camne upon him
with te'rriblhe force. Annie, supposing
Enoch to beo dead, had married Philip,
so as to have a home for herself and
a man about the house in case of tramps.
It was a sad coming back for Enoch,
and lhe wvas mad about it. Not so much
because Philip had married his wife, for
there were plenty moro wives to be0 had
iiot because his child hasd learned to call
aiiothier man "pa," though that was a
bitter pill, inasmuch as the child looked
5 little like Philip any how.
Neither of these things worried him
half so much as to note that Philip was
wearing his (Enochi's) clothes. With a
iunincig gesture Enoeh was just about
o dash inito thne house and aninihiliate
:lhemn, whieni suddenly the anger in his
soiuntenmance was supiplansted by a 1look of
:(error anid lie sluink iaway as silently as
so had come. Hie had caught sight of
Aninie's mother, who durinig Enioch's
ihseneoe had bsrokeni up hiouss-keepiung
umd come over to live with her daughter,
aund had become a fixture there.
Enoch told some of the boys after.
wvard that it was the narrowest escape
of his life, and that he would rather bo
shipwrecked every five minutes than to
enico,unter his mothier-in-law.--.Saturday
Night.
The Thirdh Time.
Captain Webb's death at Niagara re
'alls the similar fate of a man ini Sicily,
umst onie hundred y'ears ago. Nicholas,
urnamed ''the hiver'," on accounit of
is manny wonderf ul exp)loits, undertook
a the presence of thousands of speeta
.)rs, to dive to the bottom of the Sicil
in Gulf, where there is a dangerous
vhirlpool, and bring up somethiig
vhiich had beeni thrown ini. He made
lie attempt and succeeded. Again
onmethiing more preciouis was thrown in
mdi again lie succeded. Finiding that in
he second at tempt lie encounterod some
uhmarine ditliciulties which he had not
'xpected, he declined to make' ansother
Lttempt, hut a Sicilian noble throwing
ni a gold cupI studd(ed with brilliants as
he prize, lie (lived into the gulf and waa
oever again seen.
Poo-r's wife remarked to him, as they
tarted out the other night to take sup
er with the Browns, that she expected
irs. B. would have a stunning coiffure.
'WVell, I'm sure I hope so," grumbled
Moots, "I haven't had anything good to
at ano the last time we wero at
noter'"~Lheur,m