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-- V TE TO2 3 -L TI W -MORA1,1Y FDUC 17' N YAND) TO TPIE GENE f&AL INTEREST OF T lE; C UUN11IY , yF . BRADLEY- p00.OQ PITC K VN, S, C. TURSDAY OCTFOBE R , 2.88I.3N., -nl -D -, I1' eSsngtet Department. On and efter Sept..16th, 1888, Pao eager Trai service on the A. & 0. Air Line. DIvison will be as follows: NORTHWARP.. Lpri~ il. No. 51 No. 53 Daily. Daily. Lv Atlanta......... 2 55pm 4 20an Ar Gainesville ...... 0 5 " 6 23 " Lula..... ..A.. 6 84 't 650 " " RsbunGap JnB.. 6 07 " 7 84 " Toccoa...;.'.... 6 47w' 8 11" " &deca .......D.. 8 20 " 9 24" ".Greenville... E.. 10 15 " 11 10" "Spartanburg. ..F.. 11 34 " 12 25pu " Gastonia .....G.. 1 49am 2 80 " Cbarlotto .IH. d d'6 V " 3340t" SOUTHWARD. Express Mail. .No. 50 No. 52 Daily. Daily Lv Charlotte........ 18am 1 4 pm Ar Gastonia ........ 225 " 238 " " Ppartanburg. 4 39 " 4 30 " Greenville ......5 48 " 5 38 " Seneca...........747 715 "Tocoa ...........917" S43c " Rabun Gap Junct. 10 00 " 9 27 * Luls............10 33 ''10 05 "Uainesville .., ., . 1 0 03 "Atlanta........ 1 30pm 1 4pm Accom.modalion 7rain.--Air"Iiine Belle. Leave A't'anta ...........)00m Gaine2vil2e......"...0 8 pm Accomm iodation Train ,-A ir-Linc Belle. Going Soul/h. " Leave Gainesville............6 35 am ArriveAtlanta ............8 40 am Suoulay M&lule,-A ir~-Line Bdlle. Going 8 "or5h. Leave Atlanta............ f0 pm Arrive Gainesville..........7 (8 p" Sunday, Sche'dulr, -A ir. Line Belle. Going &etJh. Leave Gainesville......... 8 0 a Arriv Atlanta............ 10 30 am No. 18--Local Frright, Going Suth. Leave Charlotte...... ..6 10 am Arrive Gaffnev's.............11 25 am " Splartanhlu r;;.........1 30 pmn " Greenvillen. -Air-Ln4 55 pm " Central .............8 05 pm No. 1 7-Loca Triht, (Going North. Leave Central...... .....4 5 am Arrive Greenville..........7 47 am cc partanhurg.........10 4R am Gaflne'.s...........51 40 pm Charlotte............ .7 30 pm All freight trains on this road carry passenGrers. All passenger trains run through to Danville an 1 Richmond itahit chanire, c"mnev.ing at Danville writh V. Atidlar d .ilway, to all east. emn cities, and at A :lanta wvith all hues diverging. No. .51 leaves R~ich:mond af 12 50 pm, and 51 arrivcs there at 3 .33 pm. 52 leaves Rimord 1 20 am. .53 arriv there 30 am. The local frights etop at above stations 20 to 30 10intes. Pullman 8Seepinhr ar . itll t Charg3 . On'trains Non. 50 and 51, New York & MontomeCrv. via ashington and Dan ville, Raleigh and Old Fort. On t.rains Nos. 52 and 53, Richmond and Danville and'., ....n n and Aa "ut, n Chrlotte ...... 7o30m. All reigh tinks on this rat car lotten:ree.vll, nenger tanhru' S awthrogaievil toDalle iranticmntd Soith.Suchwne,t onectind at.nil with th MidaE' Raily to a frmAt erncits and at A'.ltan from all ie 12-50pm, nnd Ai rrine, ther ad from Epm.to an leavecr d 120 . 5 arrithere R3idmge loctan fromht PuIlla. Sl&c. fasWtou hr Monthey vi Wnshing,to and from Neller, alsh anOd Colut. andDanillea, and shinto and C u gusta, and frtt-endoneltomery Glwtte, eenvill, enoirR , toaranur arom Chiesviele Yokalle mpant Dallas. SuhwiothweC1vst.ot andC East. A--it R, tE Rn fr. toandborom Aeih enc. B-ih N AE. SuperinandenomTa 4 littlewithrl A ir-Lintoe oeeg, and o onlberon ak me and fcervi,e makigsa hBluc RigeR, t aondt fom Whbaske. &c. ' oucthit~hi E--wiethoe ough R" e,xclaed r Newberry,n A"so, anded Clmia.nt, h F-swred Aand gut an grandothr Rtan furom Hnderonville mArieon vog--wirl Chste,LnoRR to aalhr'bond &c.. DOw L A N ShLIotE ALbrgE Bitl irLsn tSAge omILLgS, and; o heay bEackM steme and fean, OILS,et FIE, tog and Gxlie erM Lnwrd I'vte gdother purpdoher. Aruomtic whoghad inrrhed m vngar g r epusairs bal hermpeton a WGE RIN,o Stleam and andntt RjJUM4JJ~ lifl'8DY1JIO I., E,. iiv'31r. go.UJtuel June 25th, 1883. For fhe Information of the Public. NO, 53 UP I41SEN(iIt. Leiae Coltdtnbia (A) I1 4?7 am Alston 12 52 pm Newberry 2 00 pin Ninety Six 3 26 pm Hodges 4 35 pm Belton 5 45 pm Arrive Greenville at 7 15 pm NO. 52 DOWN PASSENGER. Leave Greenville at a 10 50 am Belton :;, 712 15 pm Hodges - ". .1 88 pm Nioety, Six 2 28 pm Newbery -:'&'',. 4 19 pm Alston 5 25 pm Arrive Columbia (F) 6 30 pm NO'. 4 UP PASSENGER. Leave Newberry 4 48 pm Arrive Helena 4 50 pm NO. DOWN I'ASSENGER. Leave I elenh 12 35 pm Arrive Newbery 12 40 pm Spartanburg, Union and Co lumbia Railroad. NO. 53 UP PASSENGER. Leave Alston 12 55 pm Strother 1 34 pm Shelton 2 00 pm Santuc 2 36 pm Union 3 02 pm Spartanbig S. U. & C depot (B) 4 50 pm Spartanb'g R. & D. depot (E) 5 00 pm No. 52 DOWN PASMENGEIt. Leave S. H. & D. depot (H) 1 00 pm S. U. & C. depot (0) 1 17 pm Union 2 48 pm Arrive Alston 5 20 pm I,AUlRENS RAILROA D NO. 1 Leave Helena 4 27 pm Arrive Laurens C 11 7 10 pm No. 2. Leave Lnurens t 50 am Arrive Newbery 12 45 pm No. 3. Leave Helena 4 50 pm Araive Laurens 8 25 pm No. 4. Leave Laurens 8 55 am Arrive Helena 12 32 pm ABBEVII.LE BRANCI. Leave Hodges 4 45 pm .urive Abbeville 5 45 pm Leave Albbeville 12 30 pm Arrive Hodges 1 30 pm BLUE RIO GE t'AILROAD AND AN DERSON BRANCH. Leave Belton 5 49 pm Anderson 6 24 pm Pendleton 7 03 pm seneca (C) 8 00 pm Arrive Walhalla 8 23 pm DOWN I'ASSEN(E,. Leave Walhall - 9 30 am Seneca (1)) 9 57 am Pendleton 10 47 am Anderson 11 34 am Arrive Belton 12 13 pm Throuilh coach for Hendersonville will be run from Columbia daily. CONNECTIONS. A-with S C Railroad from ( harles ton; with Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad from Wilmington and all points North thereof ; with C C & A Railread from Charlotte and points North thereof. B.-with Asheville and Spartnnburg Railroad for points in Western North Carolina. C- with Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway for Atlanta and all points Sou th and West. 1)-with Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway from Atlanta andl beyon 1. E-with Richmond & Danville R. R. F-with South Carolina Railroad for Charleston ; with Wilmington, Co'um bia andl Augusta Railroad for WVilming' ton and the North ; with Charlotte, Columbia and Auigusta Railroad for Charlotte and the North. 0-with Asheville and Spartanburg; Railroadl from- Henderson villfo, 11-with Atlanta and Charlotte Div. R & D Railroad from Charlotte and beyond. Standlard Time used in Washington, D). C.. which is fifteen minutes fasite than Columbia. J. W. FRY, Superintendent. M. SLAhUGHITEtR, (len. Pass. Agt. D. CARD WELL, A sa't Gen. Pass. Agt. IRON WORKSH & VT LLS,CTONGNAndPES PUMPS, PORTABLE FORGES and BI 11 Supplies. HUGHES' AUTOMATIC ( equiring steady, reliable and economic Lrket. Workmen. Charges moderate. -pa-'WeLI. The' Large Poi'ciee that are Carried by & Mom Rich Mteni. Fal Not very long ago the British life in surance companies were called ulon, within the short space of one year, to pny the enormous sum of $6,250,000 on pol- er icies on the lives of th roc heavily insured p< noblemen, viz., the Duke of Newcastle, a the Marquis of Anglesea, and the Earl el of Fife; and shortly afterward the same to companies paid $1,250,000 insurance on aF the lives of two noblemen, making an m aggregate sum of $7,500,000 insurarico w paid' on five lives. About fifteeli years y( ago the heirs of Sir Robert Clifton re- in ceived from the life insurance companies oN of Great Britain $1,250,000, that being cc the amount of insuronce which ie car- qi ried. King Umberto, of Italy, is mak- si ing efforts to obtain 3nanrance on his own in life for $600,000. The Italian insurance ti companies refused to take the risk, and di apphcation was made to English com panies with no better success. King Umberto has comparatively impover ished himrclf by paying his father's debts, c Dom Pedro II., the Emperor of Brazil, 1 carries a large life insurance in foreign " companies. Napoleon III. had an in surance of $600,000 on his life., and this t was the chief reliance of the Empress c Eugenie after his death. One Englislt l Earl has his life insured for $1,000,000 partly in American companies. The largest life insurance written for any American prince is that of W. K. w Anderson, the "oil prince." of Titusville, ro Pa., who is insured for $140,000. The rn late James Park, Jr., of Pittsburgh, had his life insured for $350,000. Among i Americans insured for 8300,000 or more - are Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, e John Howe, of St. Louis, W. 11. Lang- te Iy, of Galleopolis, Ohio; and J. 1. te Stettson, of Philadelphia, Pa. Other " large insurers are Pierre Lorillard, of C1 New York, $255,000; F. W. Devoe, New W York, $250,000; Cyrus W. Field, New h York, $240,000; Frank Jones, Ports mouth, N. H., $205.000; Amos Whitney, " Springfield, 0., $200.000: B. F. Sturte vant, Boston, $200,000; F. B. R1oberts Now York, $200,000; E. P. Allis. Mil- reu waukee, $170,000; John Gibb, New York, $170,000; Charles Pratt, New York, $165,000; 11. B. Hyde, New York. $105,- nhe 000; E. A. Mocn, New York, $151,000; Io, E. D. C. McKay, New York, 8143,000 and W. P. Clyde, of Now York. $143,000. the J. B. Cornell, W. H. Belknap and John "f Sinclair, of New York, have policies of ne $125,000 each; DeWitt C. Wheeler is " insured for $110.000; Rufus Hatch, $76 - 00 ; William Fullerton, $75,000; and f'P H. B. Clatlin, $75,000. s The famous Col. Dwight., whose heirs to claimed $263,000 insurance on his life co asserting that he died at Binghamton, tw N. Y., in 1878, sought to obtain even ' knl larger amount. They got about $50 - as 000, and have lawsuits pending for the di remainder. - set ONE OF THE MOST famous of English I,iy hangmen has yielded up his breath to m the great executioneer. Marwood- has wh died, however, in the wane of his repu- 1i1 tation. He had lately been accused of bth tippling, then of professional careless ness, and finally his ill-omened visage was-found in the gallery of the House of tw, Commons, where he was complained of rul as an impudent intruder. In England a the business of legal strangling is prose- o cuted more dbftly in general than here, wit so that one botch on Marwood's part, -op which in America would have been col- Pd( sidered a trifling percentage of errors, as nearly ruined the reputation of a life- sor time, Marwood and Cailcraft, his pr decessor, have acquired a celebrity aII greater than that of mainy statesmen, or -all philosophers, or pot. of MrtcrrED.--A letter was received a~ few lli days ago at the oflice' of a Boston hose- tra rr.iroad company fromn a mani in Euag- tO. :and who wrote that his coniscience hc troubled him and ho wanted to confess. ram He said he was, about eight or 'n years t ago, a coniduetor on thlat road, andl had nv stolen sums aggregating between $200 grs and $300. Hie had 1no money to imake f restitution, but lhe thought that confes- " 51i1n woulld 1be good for his soul. Refer- co once to the books of thne companly showed tit that ho had bseen "'spotted" and dis- chi chlarged for stealing. 01r 3ALES ROM. or< ti in n an - a so alpwreri,stesipet t Ro: tho -UT O <F FL O'I.ET., Elcti A 1'ELEGRAPI OPEATfORS. MI(UE GI.MaPSM AT TUIEIRI EVE(Y- ] DAY 1.iE. mcinntion of the %'Ires-Ueintive (npn btllflem of ien sinl Vomnen-A Celetbratee Trantp Operator. " To become an expert telegraph op ator," said an olil telegrapher to a re >rter, "it is absolutely necessary that person should enter the lmsine s at an rly age. Most of the first class olora rs went into the budincss at about the e of fourteen. I have never known a an to become even a fair telegrapher ho attempted to learn after twenty airs of age. Operators generally start as oflice boys, and gradually master cry detail of the business. A good 'mnon school education is a necessary talilication. Boys mostly 'learn in aall towns and become fair operators two or three years, although some of em never master the mysteries of the ts and dashes. HARD WOnK. "As salaries are low in small towns," 'ntinued the reporter's informant, ''the nwly fledged operator hies himself to Ine large city, where there is always a mand for good operators. Instead of e $25 or e30 per month which ho uld earn at home he probably receives e 5 or IFS O, and is elated accordingly. it working in a city like New York is t > play. 'The 1best operators are put f ion the (lnadruplex circuits, which are f rked to all the large cities and in the f og of the profession, are a 'steady i ist.' From three to four h undred'd 'ssages a (lay is considered good work. send these almost half a million dis et motions of the batal and wrist aro ressary. This causnes a great. strain the nerves aid in many eases leads to 1 egrapher's paratlysis. I have known " n1 to 'lose their grip' through this b iso and become uIan,ble to send a rd. They generally manage, how- C ,r, to learn to work with their left R sd and overcome the dilliculty. Nu. t rols physicians have studied this pe- c' iar efl'eet upon the nerves of operators I t so far none of them have found a hedy." I A sTiIANOR FAscINATION 'Why are there so few gray haired n ini the business ?" asked the re- I eter. "'That is because few operators adopt 1bisiness as a life occupation. Most theml intend to use it as a means of tiiig something better. Very few re .i in it after reaching thirty-five years. mi leave it, but gra(lnally drift hack c iin to the famil-ar 'click, click.' There t fascination about it which is hard resist... To he able to sit down and verse with friends thousands of miles ny is very captivating. Operators w each. other's touch upon the key accurately ".s a person can distinguish t rerent. handwritig. Although all d by the same alphabet yet each has ay of making it which is distinctively own. The female operators are stly well educated, intelligent. wonen, o honor the proftssiont. They cannot the heavy work which men perform are very capal.le on wires where iness is somewhat lighter." A CONTRAST. 'There is a world of differeneo bo "en tho young man who works a (luad ilex itistrument in a large city and t railroad telegraph opc'rator. Te mer is a well dressed prsolin, who sits his chair and rattles off messages hout, aparent elTort. But the railroad 'rator's life is not a happy one. In lition to his duties as operator lie acts ticket agent, handls freight and netimes turns the switch. His salary also less than that of his city brother. e wonder is that mo,re accidents do occur on1 roads where onie man11 has these duties to attend'to. Thonsands lives are daily entiusted to his care, c I the emission oif a few clicks from birass soundieir miight send scores of velers t(i a horrilet deiath. In simall v'ns the mangeir of the telegrapih of I is an inmportant personiage. HeI ks with the lawyer andi. the dictor ini est4.em of his townsfolks. The ar al of a green operator is a source of at amusement in some oflices. The11 test sender in the vicinity gets a wspaper and scnds the new arrival umins of imaginary 'specials.' Ficti - us5 Chinuese cal es resembiliniig wa sh zeks are given to tihe novice, with lers to 'rush it.' THE TRIAMP OPERATORl. 'A few years ago there were many amp' operatoirs, lbut owing to the in-2 base oif business they have almost dis plearedi. Perhaps the best repiresen-. ive of that class is "fank Bogardus, lose name11 is knownu iln telegiaphice '(eICs fromi the Atlant ic to thle Pac itih.. 'ver working more than a month in e place lhe is constanitlyv on thle mo vi, I l to-day may he in Portland, M~e., d next week in Utah, Hanik toiok yhit report in OmahAk a few years ago, d1 (ono night wals overcome 1by sleep< d mjissedi t lie whole mat ter, Hie awokedo out. daylighit and realizsing the situao i left the celebiratedl meSssage for th Ii ' i(ing the boCys. It walS-'Cap.: I works more. I resignis. Haniuk.' lHe was xt hieard (of in Canada. But that styli opierator has gradually died out, andl l ~ramp I telegrapher is a rarity, A Yourrnmri PntomovI. Levi Jundkins, son oif Georgo ,Juii is, opler-itor at thle Western U nin ii ice inl Claremont , N. Hi., 1began to rid antd receive d ispatches whl eni hue r is seven years ohld, opieratinug ('n Cly biy soiuntd with the Morse stem. Ini 1877, when Levi was hth years old, lie wias referred to in the i urnal of/hc TJ'r/cyraph/, oif May' 1, as robialy the youngest telegraph op itor in the country, hieing a good ider and able1 to receive readily by md anld writing a good hand for a hoy hiis ago."t Air. Hluntoon, the mainager at White ver Junctionl, seint for Levi, pirevioius the str'ike, to wo'rk a month Ior six oks as lie was short of men, Hie wventi are, and1( during his stay at White j vor Junction, aiftei thle strike hadi ten place, uipinitendent Gates, ofh Fourth district, who resides thiere, iire<t to transfer him to Hostoni, where a had already pilace'd a dozeni (if his op utors, bunt the neeCd of his help at tremont during the vacation of ihn nainger compelled him to return, after Ioikiig about three weeks at White ,ivor Junction. Hist duty at Whito Wiver Junction was o work the New York wiro, upon wlic'lh K relayed all the through husiness for he mointain hotels and places onl the Inc of tho l'sunpsic and Ceutratl Ver nont railroads as far as MIontpelier. 11 Man setd with either hand and recordl the imo of transmission with the hand ithtt nay be idle equally well. He takes alt ress reports, and a year since receivt d dl the election retturns at. the Claremnti tlice. It scoms very peculiar to not ic in leave his game of niarles and t-tk - ng lis scat at theo wiro receive by) souinl he ffstest sending without a break. Jevi is -m.ill, and when perched upon 'is stool one would little suspect him of >ossessing such remarkable talent. He vill enter the Stevens Migh School, in J1arenout,- in September, to pursue ia scientific course of study. Sunken Cilles. JUIIIOUS LEOENDS OF TIHE 5UnMSiaED CITIES OF HILIAND. There are numerous legends of sunk ,n cities scattered through Jreland, ome of which are of a most romantic rigin. Thus the space now covered by lie Lake of Inchliquin is reported in ormer days to have been a poputlolis and lourishHlg city; but for sonic dread ill and unabsolved crimte, tradition says, was burie I beneath the deep waters, lie ''dark spirit" of its King still re ides in one of the caverns which border lie lake, and onco every seven years, at idnight, lie issues forth, moiinted on is white charger, and nutles tle Comu lel circuit of the lake, a In-rfornuce hich ho is to continue until the silver onfs of his siteid are worn ont, 'lien the curse will be removed and the ity reappear once mnre in all its by One condition. The peasantry afliriu bat even nt..cv on a calm night one may learly see the towers and spires glenii ig through the clear water. With this "g'"nd weo n ay compare on told by birtot in his "1istory of Treland." ' "In Iiis'ti is a lake 30,000 paces Iong nd 15,(11(1 Iroad, out of which ariseth he noble river callid 1ann. It is lbe eved by the inhalitants that they were )rnerly wicke d, vicious people who vel in this place; and there was an old rophecy in everyone's mouth t hit henever a well, which was therein and ;as continually covered and locked up arefuilly, should be left open, so great quauity of water would issue thercout a would forthwith overflow the whole djacent country. It happened that an Id heldame, coining to feteh water, card her child cry, upon which, run ing away in haste, she forgot to cover he spring, andth, coming back to it, the tnd was so.overrun that it was 1"a;t her e1p; and at, length she, her child, and Il the territoi y was drowned, whiih aused this pool,' which remains to this ay."o Oiradus ('ambrensis, too, notices the radition of Lough Neagh having- once cen a fountala which overflowed the hlu,ln eoniitry. to which Moore thus al it ions, is und eriiing the cintrieter of hiousainds who ighzt oitheriwisei Iec me opi es of ftrashyv inpers are pub i shl veek(ly ini this 'o1ntry, besides which here are nilIlionis 0of "yeltlow covers loiatinig abouit. Luther thirewI his inkh ottle at whait lie suipposed to lbt flit evil. Ho missed his mrk, but thle evil took the hint and is hutrlinig bactk ritr's iink witlh dteadly tT'et. ITh siiruirtieiet if thei NewI Y(ok ewvish isy bunii says tliat seven-'ightlhs of hit yiouthis sent tio that refornmi:tory ow* hiiir downfall tii trashy~ notvelIs. Th'Ie vii, too, o)fteni lhas its 5(ourceh ini the ouste. TIhen wtorst thinp "daily'' is tkeni iinto the fainiiiy. to theo extlusiion f soundit literatir Few tvten tof Cis k inu famiheits try to have a fuil fresh sup ,1y of re'adiing for the faii y circh,.. ~intil there is a regular eriside antd ret rumatioii ini behialf of our boys we must t wonder if they are rough, tough and iIklessu. As wie nui..t remembetitr timt bily deserve frtmuii 1 mioie'- .ympathyi ban e'ensure. Is it thiKr fauilt if thirouigh ock of hit traiininig thety who art rteser oirs of rapidly developing IIiwters, with mlgings tto lead heroie hives, fail into iso rthers ? Wimthou1t a (hart litow can nty hope tto steer thiir wvay satfelyv lrtughi thte tempijestiuouis bollows (of fte? Ltet us, tlIuin, syin pat iizeit withi ibem aiid tdo our best toli hl them." M ur.:-"It's the Trish that does an iviiitinig ini the(se days, sure.'" Jotnat,.an -"'irish he dained !tt Thei Irish don' ivenit anyt hinig to speak of. Americans iveiit everytinig."' Mike--"' Thini pe apls yez. can tell me why the I rishmnan's ameit, Pat, is always next to the tdate on I thle new invintitns. D)ivil an Ani mi niana~ can yez thud on one, at all, E all I"' TE' B\1) BOY ANI) HIS PA. 10 I' TIM liO1' TIIEM TO PLAY PROD10AI, A aoN- h 1 tendt of a F-nttet ('nif lle (.ets Kirked ; willh I.ondced ('uif-'.khln, [From the Mliwalutec Sun.l ."HIella' y rack again, have you?" said the groceryniun to the had boy, a19 he came in the store looking tired, with hits el thes soiled, and a general appear aie of having i'en sleeping in freight 1 cars with eat tie. 'Your pa1l tohl me he ex 1 ected1 you had run away for good andi t that you might not come back. Where You been ?" "Chicago," said the boy, as he took " out a toad stabber knife ilnd proceeded n to take the ulster off a smoked herring 1 '"Reen playing Prodigal Son in two acts But tiunes have changed since that young I fellow in the Bible went off on a tear " and came back ai(l the old folks killed ai y<oung cow for him to eat, and fell on i his shirt collar and cried down the back t of his neck. ''hey don't receive plrodl. gal sons that way in our ward. They fill a prodigal son's coat tails full of boot's and he cant find cold veal enough in the house to make a salndwicl.'' "i thoiuglht your folks were pious and would ho iiclined to overlook anything, I t said the grocerynan, as he charged the I herring and crackers to the had hov's father. "You don't. mean to tell me they vent back on the teachings of the goo'd book, and warmed your jacket ?" "You have guessed it the first time ?" said the hoy. "T''his prodigal son busi ness is all right in theory, hut in prac tice it's a de<l failure. You se', at Mt- 1 day school I he lesson was about the I ro igal son, ii(l the iniiister told ts all 3 about how the boy took all the money ho could scrape uip and went away to it I distant country and painted the towna N red, and spent his money like a count.ry- C man at a circus, and how he took in all r tho sights, and got broke, anid got hutii gry and took a job at the stock vards feeding pigs, and he was so hungry he used to help the pig eat their rations, and finally lie thought- of his home, where tlwy had pie and lh went home exweting to he fired out, it his pa was I tickled to see him, and set up a free i lunch of calf on the half shall, aid h h (ugge the boy and made him feel C bully. When we got. homiie pa and nit i talked about the lessoni, and pa sai( it 2 WIts 0110 of the im1ost. t(uclhing itings hle 0 ever heard, and t.dI me to think of it hi and( it wioiil do mec goid. Well, the <l more I thought of it the more I felt like h trying the prodigal i lisil0ess oi, and I told my chum iaiout it, aid he said he a hiadn't had any vica(tion and he would \ go oil prodigaling with me if I would go 11 and we could see the country, an(t nav i a good time and ('iilm' iack anl he re- 0 ceived with open arriis. Well, we got ti all our money together and a brakeman . on a freight train that goes to our church, I cause his wife" sings in the choir, he hid t us in the (ahose, and1 we wient to Chi- 1 eago. Oh, niy ! hut we had a good C Iine. I never saw money wither the,a way it did with us. We at' about twenty h imes a day, the first two days, and theui d l't appetites left us, hecause we didn't a Iv,' tny inorc noney. 'T'Ie first two hi ,!]Its we slept. i it two sliilling lodging t >,e, the third night we walked around R d the fourth night, we slept ill the po- y1 t sationt. When our money was ft lne half the riin was gone. If a felloy a n1 walk around with money in hi,* 1 .likt, he feels good, even if lie don't 1 ut, to buy anything, but when the t :imey is gone, he feels bad, atnd wants huy lots of thi,gs. We waited two t .ys for ou' birakeiimn, and wheni wi i on htis train lie 1imt us ini a cattle car., dl it waus v'ile. I trai:h-d niy collar- 0' itton fo a po st al te:tid, and wrote to pa it thle pirodigal wiiinhl puit ini an ap ;iranice at 9 p. mi., at for hiim to pie ire to fill i n my neck, and to send >wn iito the mact mi:iikeit for a biimid gravy. Youl woiuihin't bl'ieive it, bunt i ul to wvalk homenit. I coultd Ihave t crlooked tha:t, if t hiir' huad hieen any ing to (eat wihen I got to thei hous'e, t0 thre wasn't tenouigh ftor a ('anartiy -d. IPai was thei(re, hoi wever', antd I was ,t ging ti hiohl ti liy in-ek tfor pia to i n to' wieep, when lie grabbed'i it ntin toi play' the loss dlrumin il fll iihes with his feet. I ne(verl wtas so noedi all my life, hoinestly. It was pect, after they ha:d tilid me abiout the prodiil so~ n tif anicienit ltmes. As qunick as T toul catch my bireath I asked pa wha:t lie though t thle pr'odigal son of thle. Bible tiies wonuhdliiave th oiughit if his pa hadl maiuledt hiim when'i hei camic hiome, and what kiind of it storiy it wouild have miadei, if it hail tol abtout the tlhl man tiking him biy the neck and kicking him all over te r'oomii iinstead4 of falling tiii hiis netck and i wteepin ig, aiit giving him n a veal pi t pi'. lil said lit wasni't runnliling f anyv ibl b aek inumber ~'i prodligatl sonls, adl lhe thoiuughit his way wits the lust., itndt he sent mie to bedt without any suipper. Thlat settles thet pro'tdigatl busilicss wvithi ftiiiinery. Nt. morei~ fittled enlf for hank, e, " Well, how~ diid your chium ctimo J onuI ?"' asked the gr'ocery muan, wvithI mucih v ierestiM . r1 "Oh, lit lutanu't come out yet. l[e is fu thei lockup,'' sidi thet bioy. "' His ma 'j staltion for' it tr'ampi. I thlink we have f both dtemioist ramted thrt this climate i doeis inot agreeu wi Ih thet priodigal biusi- ,u ness5, iand hioiwe'ver' much thie3 may try toi teachi ui fth bauftes tif such stolries, i they dho not (expretC us to try andt imitate them.n When I go to Chicago after this * I shall go ini a parlor car, wvith lunch: (enouigh to last me, and a returin ticket.1 I dtii't uniderstand it at all. Now I diti nott do liutf the men things in Chiicagt that thle Prtidigatl son of old did in thit far (ill coiunltry, and1( yet he got ftfy whien lie got hiome, and I got my spine broke. It may be all right, but they do things,dicfferent in the oldl country, you~ "'If 1 understand the kiind of a Prodi gal son yoiu aire," saitd the grocery man,' as lie sprinkled the floor from a wash bas$in. urouiaratorv to tlm -,u ..-a ;sweeping oat, YQous+ treatment. Thtis, t A sgjgest anything' for,d f but from,. what I kuo* count is evened tu bef right?" + f= ,r , " Well, IseiddTd t+ma; who thinks I oannot rese ,ult, makes a mistake as to'"th prodigal son I am. We'had dinnier to-day, and pa fr al*ays element when we hive compan prides himself on his carving. e a roast of beef, and before it dad' he table I took the steel that t.ara p. ns the carving knife on, and made two oles right through the roast, and then took a rawhide whip that pa basted me rith once, cut it 'it'r1; aid run piece f the rawhide in theioles of the beef. 'a began carving : with a smile, and >ked the minister If he would ave,his ef rare, or an outside piece. a was earing gently on the carving knife hen the knife struck the rawhide and wouldn't go any further. Pa smiled id said he guessed he had struck a arh>ed wire fence, and he turz)ed the )ast aronud and cut again, and he struck to rawhide. The minister drummed ith his fork and spoke to ma and said we had a splendid meeting Wednesday ilit,' and ma said It was perfectly r>rgeous, and pa began to perspire and irn red in the face, and he said some ords that would sound better in a rewery, and he tried to gouge off some - eat, but it wouldn't come, and the iinister said, ' Brother, you seem to be aving a monkey and a parrot. time with iat roast,' and that made pa mad and e said he could carve his own meat "ithout any sky pilot's interference, and to said, ' \Vhy, pa, you should not be np>udent,' and pa said he could whip lie butcher that sold him that piece of ork ox, and he sent the beef out to bie kitchen and the company ate cold ver. The girl set the meat in the ice bie't, and pretty soon I went down eel ir, 'Cause I didn't like cold liver, and ulled out the rawhide, and I had all lie fatted calf I wanted. and I gave the est to that lamle (log you se me have tere a spell ago. Oh, ia boy can get 'mongh to eat if lie has got any origi ilHity about him. I think if pa would ;hw a Christian spirit, and wear slip s s when he kicks me, I would (10 any. lung to make it pleasant for him, but vhen a man wears out hunting boots on 11S own dear little prodigal. I think the ioitigal is apt to. get hard. Don't ',1n ?" Tlho grocery man admitted that per aps the boy was right; and he raised neih a dust sweeping out that the boy outghed, tonk a few peaches off the top f a basket, and wont out whistling, ' Home again, f:om a foreign shore." A Quaint Old Village. A correspondent writing from York arbor, Mte., speaks of the villnge, Iere the store, the post oflice, the Icksmith shop, the two churches-. engregational and Methodist-stand close proximity to a quaintly-built )0- ear old jail and a cemetery equally ,1, "where the rude forefathers of the luilet sleep." There rest many whose ite of birth is well back in the sixteen muireds; one, an LL.D., graduate of irvard, wh )80 name is found in the ri-inal charter of the colony, granted by illiam and Mary. We see many quaint lsome absurd iniscriptionas graven in wmossy slabs, all of whioh are more r I 'es illegibile. An infant dead at one iy old, 1705, has an elaborate epitaph, H- ting forth the bielief of the sorrowing arients that "'this infant would ride at bie last day, an inmmortal, corporeal, piritual body, like unto Christ and heir f eternal life." Another, 1785, attracts ttentioni from being marked by a huge oulder, at least seven feet long, placed irectly upon the grave; the ideoa irre stily conveyed to the nad of the be older is that it waIs so Idacedl to prevent ie oceupant from gettinig up. This is lid to be the grave of a reported witch, hIieh did not pirevent the mourning -iends from putting upi a labi enmer ting the virtues of the departed-this ossibly to p)rop)itialte the spirit of the 'itch should it over get out from under Ie biouldier. Close by, upon a great rock, stands Ie old1 jail. Two hundred years, they sy, has it braved the storms of the Newv ',gland coast. An oh(l cronoe occupjies few rooms in the builing, andi for a rof fifteen cents for two persons shows to visitors. We see the deep, darkc uingeoni with double oaken doors at -nst a foot in thickness, whlero without ray of light or any ventilation, except hlen twice eachi day the narrowv iron rred wiindow wais oponed0( to pass ini sI, the murderer was confined, and wr must lie often have expiated his rimle in this life. An iron ring in the ortells it.s own story. Above, with luxury of fire-places and windows, :taily barered(, it is true, the debtors mguish out the weary (days. All the ours are of heavy oak, clamped with m,, and the bolts so malissive that only strong man co'uld move them. The isitor is espiecially d1esi,od to notice the reat stack of chimucys in the centre of it' building. Pawninug f'ension Certificates. A pawnburoker had a hearing before baited States Commissioner Edmunds Il'htiladeclphian on the charge of loaning i'oiey on a pension certificate in viola 'it of the law. James Lafferty, a nniebbhaek and a cripple from rhouma smt, said lie was in receipt of $24 a ionth pension, and was in the habit of awning thle certificate frequently with Inmbierg & Co. He p)awned it J'une 7 >r* 82. 50; received $10) on ,June 9, and on Aug. 31, and wvhen lhe drew his m:ni y lie was handed $12. This made o itlerest on the loans, aggregating 17.50, $t2.5). On several occasions h-n the paiwnbhroker ca:hit not accom : iy hima to the pen'Isionl office to draw is moniey lie left his daughter, a girl of 5, as security, and she was released 'lhen 1he brought back the cortificate. 'his fact the witness spoke of as if it e"e in the usual routine of buisiness. lie daughter, Ellen Eugene Lafferty, biright girl, said that her father and ither always spent the pension money ir druik, and she ob,tained 1no benofit rem it. Sho had been used as security everal times, and dlid noet seem to look t1)on it as a hardship. Once when her aither handecd her over to Hamberg to >e locked uip unItil lhe returned, he said: 'Now you are in prison, you know." In1 mb)erg was held in $500 bail to answer it tio~ next term of court. I r is estimated that atileast ten brAike non are killed, and double that number njered, in the United States every day. Il'hs fact has suggested the conundrum: Why commit suicide when it is so easy teo get a position a brakeman'" A FORITUNE awaits tile man who will uvenalt a peniholder that you can't stick