The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, September 18, 1884, Image 1
VOL. XIII. PICKENS, S. C., THURSD A Y, SEPTEMBER 18, 18 N0 ,.!
,OL 1884. NO.KE 51.U,TUST P M
Made to be Painted, Not to be Kissed.
"Mado to be painted"-a Millias might givo w
A fortune to steady that exquisite face
The face is a fortuno-aLawrenco might live
Anow in each lino of that figure's still th
grace. l.
Tho pose is perfection, a tnodel each liub, Ch
From the delicate foot to the classical
I head; or
But the almond-bluo eyes, with their smiling,
look din,
And lips to be loved want a trifle more red. w
Statuesquo? No, a ' yehe, tot's say, in re- a
pose
A Psycho whose Cupiel beseeches in Vain-- to
We sigh as the nightingalo sighs to the rose
That declines (it's averred) to give sighs de
back again, * * *
ty
If the wind shook the rose? Then a showor fr
would fall
Of swoot-scented petals to gather who list; 4
if a sigh shook my Psycho? She'd yawn that pr
is all,
She's mado to be painted, and not to be
kissed. en
sc
NANCY'S DEVICE. we
A daintily shaped "little head, over- c(
running with curls," onshrouding a
fg, wFnsome face of perfect oval-, that si
8.fmed made for siiles and laughter In
only, and generally fulfilled the expec- h:
-tations it aroused; but on the present of
occasion it must bo confessed that the t:
prevailing expression of hetty Blako's ti(
features was very cross indeed, as she d.
sat in the wido windJow sill, swinging hi
her pretty little feet and pouting a pair
of exquisitely-curved scarlet lips, as
she plaited and unplaited the strings of o
her broad-rimmed gips y hat. pI
"I don't care," said Miss Hetty. "1 in
don't love Mr. Meredith! And I don't
want to marry him. So there now." st
And she nibbled at the hat strings st
and frowned under her level brown o
- brows, like a pretty rebel as she was. ci
"letty, hold your tongue," said La
vinia, her elder sister.
- "You don't know what you're talk- y
ing bout," severely uttered Mrs. h
Blakt who was mixing up a batch of y
breaC. at the kitchen table. "Mr. Mer- c
edith has a house and farm worth ten w
thousands pounds. And it's a groat d
compliment for him to speak to your in
father about marrying you." h
"Then I wish he'd keel) his compli- h,
ments to himself," said the incorrigible
letty. "Look here, Lavinia, why s:
won't you marry him?"
Lavinia, overcome with indignation, c
dealt her roguish little sister 'i box on II
the ear, which Hotty narrowly escaped d,
by a sudden depression of her head. w
"No, but it would suit so exactly," ti
said Hotty. "Lavinia is just that sort h%
of person!" t
"letty, don't be a fool!" said Mrs. d
Blake. "You should thank Providence
that Mr. Meredith is pleased to marry ul
you, aid put all nonsensical ideas ti
about Harry Waite out of your head at
once!" il
But Hotty frowned and pouted more g
and more, and tried resolutely to keep n
the big, bright tears from falling an o
her hands. v
"What shall I do?" said Hotty to
herself. "For 1 never, never can mar- t:
ry that bald-headed old man who talks
through his nose and carries a yellow a
silk pocket-handkerchief! And I'm m
sure Harry would shoot himself when a
lie heard of it!" p
But all Hotty Blake's tears and lain- w
entations availed nothing. Her father
was a practical man of the world. Her d
mother understood the full meaning of o
money, and so the match was to be j
hurried v, regardless of the feelings
of the brile-clect.
But P.ovidenec interfered-that kind- p
ly Providence which has the interests of in
.trio lovers ever under its care. yi
Mr. and Mrs. Blake had gono to at- lii
tend a '.apel meeting twenty miles
away, iw -' Lavinia in their train.
hletty, deing "unregenerate,'' wasp
left att home to miedlitate over a volnumo te
of sermons. tI:
''Now be sure, H etty, you loo1k wvell.
after the house," said Mrs,. Blake, 1)p1
-"and see that Nancy feeds the young -si
calves regularly, and cares for the gos- at
lings and the chickens. And lock up bi
the house at ten o'clock~ every night,
and be sure you don't let in ny tram ps ai
nor peddlers.'' in
4 "I'll be very careful,'' said Hoetty.
"WVe shall be back on Friday,'' said ci
Mrs. Blake, "without fail; and if you w
have any leisure time you can turn the 01
sheets in th~ wvash-basket, andl darn the tc
thin pl1aces in the back-parlor carpet, te
and (do any other useful odd jobs about ut
the house."
So Mrs. Blake climbed into the cart, sc
where her husband and Lavinia wore ty
already seated, and (drove awvay, call- th
'1 ming out directions to Hletty as long as hi
the house was in sight. A
Trhe heads of the family hind not been at
gone for more than two hours, when alF
Hetty came flying out to thme kitchen, N
whore Nancy wats making softsoap.
''Oh, Nancy, what shall I doP" or
cried she. ''hero's Mr. Meredith, get- to
ting out of a one-horse chaise at the gW
door." Sc
* '"Why, go up anid sco him of course,'' of
saidl Nancy, who was one 11 of the old1
famiily servants, ",hIo are becoming, as w
a race, extinct in England. ty
''Can't I tell him that father and(
* lu~othler are gone away?P" plea3fded( Hotty. cl
''Nonsense!" said Nancy, stirring at
desperately away at her monster kot- of
tie. "You don't Supposo05 it's your
father and mother thmat ho conies to see, dr
do you? Oh, (dear'; and there isn't a bc
scrap) of fresh meat in the house. 1 lo
thought boiled eggs and cold ham
would (10 for our noon bite." itu
"So It will," said Hlotty. "If we make ai
things too agreable for him, ac
he'l stay too long.'' 'any M
Nancy looked round in amiazenment. '
"And don't you wan't him to stay?P" tum
saidl she. gi
"No!" cried Miss Hoetty, with a
startled look, as some unseen umbrolla- "a
handle rapped smartly on the door be. dIe
yond. "1 can't, eondulre him, Nancy. an
I--I hate him!' it!
And then she burst into a storm of
teatrs. a
Nancy comprehended in an instant. WI
-' "Poor dear!" said she. "So that's
the way tihe wvind blows, is it? ..It is a rIl
ahame! Never mind, Miss Hoetty; we'll M
- ettle him." ta
"Settle him P" vaguely rep)eated the be
girl. to
"Hush!" said brisk Nancy. "(Go and *
let him in. I know the man. My cou
aIn, Mary Ann Potts, lived as house- ty.
keeper to him for a year. lie's one of dr
these people that want everything to go ge
smooth. Never woul let liary Ann
whitewash a ceiling or scrub off a floor "P
"th sand and soapauds. And of all av
ings in the world ho' abaminatos
muse-cleaning. We'll 'clean house
bile he's here, Hotty, ohP"
The girl's brilliant oyes sparkled
rough her quickly-dried tears; a
voly carmine color mounted into her
teoks.
"Nancy," she cried, "you are a sec
id Talloyrand!"
"Go along with yopl" said Nancy,
Ith a chuckle, not at all knowing who
lloyrand was, but quite sensible that
compliment of some kind was in
nded by the comparison.
Mr. Meredith was standing on the
for-stop all greasy smiles, w'hen Hot
came to the door, with her brown
izzes tied up in a pocket-handkerchief
Ld a huge bib-apron eclipsing her
etty figure.
"My dear Miss Hotty, how are you?"
id Mr. Morodith. "Your father was
good as to invito me to come hero
honover it was convenient; so, as my
)usekeoper is gono for a week, I have
included-"
"Oh, yes, very glad to see you, I'm
re!"said Hotty, hurriedly. "Walk
. Father. and mother, and Lavinia
wvo gone to Hereford to the opening
tho now chapel that has been built
ore for U.'lclo Jared by his congrega
n, and they won't be back until the
ty after to-morrrow. But Nancy is
ire. Nancy and I are cleaning house."
Mr. Meredith's face elongated itself.
''Cleaning house." he repeated, dol
ously. "But that's all nonsense. No
-operly kept house over needs clean
lie camo on slowly. A step-ladder
nod at the end of the hall-hurriedly
irred-up nails of wiitewash foamed
e cither side, while P'ancy, in a faded
.lico dress, :dvancel.
"Walk in, Mr. Meredith," said she
walk right in. We'll try and make
u as comfortable as we can. I told
[iss Hotty, says I, 'Just as certain as
lu pull up the things and go to house
caning, company'll come. They al
ays (10,' says 1. But Miss Ietty, she
Des set so much store by house-clean
ig. She says she's going to clean
Duso once a month whlon she has a
ouso of her own."
Mr. Meredith simply gasped, and
Lid nothing.
"Oh, yes," said Ilotty, artlessly,
asping her hands. "Cleanliness is
ext to godliness, you know. And I
so delight in - soapSuds and white
ashing, and floor-scrubbing, and all
at sort of thing. That's right, Mr.
[eredith, sit yourself down. We shan't
ar this room to pieces until after
inner.'
"I'm very glad of that," dejectedly
ttered the middle-aged swain. "I
link myself that house-cleaning-"
',And I'll Lot the dinner at once,"
iterruptcd Nancy. "Hetty is a queer
irl. She don't like to cook; she says
hon she's married she's going to roast
boil once a week, and livo off cold
etuals the rest of the time."
"But it seems to me that is a mis
ken idea," argued Mr. Meredith.
My mother was a famous cook. She
ways baked pies fresh every day, and
ado hot rolls for breakfast; and I've
recipo of hors for chicken and ham
o that I wouldn't exchangoe for its
eight in gold."
"I des1pise cooking!" said Hetty, in
florently. ''And I don't mean to slave
rer the kiteken-grate, to suit the pre
dice of any nan living."
Mr. Meredith stared at her once
ore, and in default of any pitying re
y, opened and closed his fat mouth
a fishy way; even Iletty's cightoen
uar old beauty could har(lly reconcile
im to such heretical opinions as these.
Dinner was served.
Boiled eggs, cold bacon cut in thin,
uk shavings, bread and butter, anid
a, weaik almost to inanation, formed
e bill 'A fare.
Mr. Meredith ate with a knife of one
ttern and a fork of another, and
rootoned- his tea with brown sugar, on
count of the white variety having
en mislaid.
"Nothing matters much when von
oe cleaning house," said Hetty, r~ad
But M. Meredith, wvho fully appre
lted all the creature comforts of' this
orld, entertained a very dlifferent
>inion. After this rather unsatisfac
ry meal, Hletty set her elderly lover
beating a hearth-rug wvhich was
r'etched over a cl othes-line.
"'I'm sure you'dl rather bo doinn'
mething than sittino' still,'' said Hoet
as sho put a long ilazel sapling into
o hands of Mir. Meredith, and adjuredl
m ''to beat the thin places carefully.
'id after you've finished this,'' she
(led, with a gr'acious smile, ''you
all get upon tihe ladder and help
uney with tihe ce[iing."
Mr. Meredith wvorked like a (lay lab
or until the friendly dIarkness camoe
his aidh. Eveni then lie was set to
tting nails out of a carpet with a
rowdriver, on his knees, by the light
a sluttor'ing oil-lamp.
"'We are getting along so splendidly
thm time house-cloaning!"' chir'ped Hot
with an exultant laugh.
Mr. Merediith supp1ed off' bread-and
ceso and beer, and slept on a bed
ad1( which occuied aL desolate waste
newly-scrubbed ilooi'.
Hie woke up, the next morning, with
rting rheumatic pains ini all is
nes, and( caime dmywn stairs with a
wering b)row.
hietty was there, in the highest spir
,with her head ailreadiy tied up in an
roil.
"Yuare just the person we want,
r. Meredith,'' said she. "'Nancy
mats all time bureaus and heavy furni
'0 moved ouitside, so than weI can be
1 to clean the p)arlor' at once.''
"Thicn,'' said Mr. Meredith, irately,
lie will have to get someone else to
it for her. I hato house-cleaning
4 I'll havo nothing more to do wvith
"I1 won't marry any man who won't
ow me to clean hmotiso as often as I
mt," said Hetty, wvithi spirit.
"I shall not ask you to make the sac
lco for me, Miss Hotty," said Mr.
3rodith. "I seo too plainly th at our
stos are not congenial. And havinig
thm our interests at heart, I must bog
be released from the engagement I
is foolish enough to contract."
"With all my heart," assentedl Hot
and making a low courtesy, she
ow thme engagement ring off her fin
r and handed It to him.
There was anm end, matrimonially
caking, of Mr. Meredith. He wont
Mo had had.
"Sho would havo scrubbed and
cleaned tho wholo establishment into
the workhouse in a year," said he.
"I'm well out of the business. Ono can
discharge a housokeoor if she don't
suit, but not a wife.'
So Mr. Meredith adhered to the stand
ard of old bachelordom, and pretty
Hetty married Mr. Waite after all.
But strange to say, Mr. Waite never
complained of his wife's addiction to
houso-cleaning rites. And he never
conld understand why it was that Mr.
Meredith always cast such pitying
glances upon him when they met.
For Hetty and her faithful confeder
ate, Nancy, had kept their secret well.
When Abe 1Bttt'ord Scalped a Man.
In the sprini of 1854 or 1855 1 ran
up to Lexington to attend the rr.ces at
the center of Eden's garden, and, of
course, General Ate and Colonel 'Tom
Buford'were t ere with their invincible
thoroughbreds. Colonel Tiom, from a
sudden quarrel that grew out of the
excitement uf the raco course one af
tornoc n, played a duet ol pistols with
an adversary whoso namo I cannot now
recall.
General Abe, his brother, and I wore
standing about forty or fifty feet oft
when the fusillade began, and remain
od apparently unconcerned, for, tl1ough
his brother was hotly engaged. the old
hero was willing, according to tho
rules of Kentucky chivalry, to see a
fair fight and let the best man win.
Colonel Ton struck his adversary once
or twice in several shots, not seriously
wounding him. \ iheu all the chambers
of his enemy's pistol were emptied a
friend who stood near, and not having
the fear of brother Abe before his eyes,
ran up and thrust a fresh weapon into
the hands of 'T'om Buford's assailant.
General Abe, believing too firmly in
"fair play" to thus p(:rlit two men to
combine against one, and that one
"Brother Tom," at once jerked out a
knife of glittering blade and made a
rush for the too busy interloper. More
quickly than it takes to tell it, General
Abe, with one hand had seized the poor
fellow by the hair, and, like a flash of
lightning and with the dexterity of an
Indian, made a circular incision on the
crown of his head, and, giving the hair
a sudden twist, lifted off' as neat a scalp
as one would go a day's rido to see.
"Now d-n you," said General Abe,
as he coolly tossed his Indian trophy
to one side and released his victim
"now go, d-n you! I guess a hair res
torative won't bring out the wool on
your head again soon." Tihe frigiten
ed fellow, never having exporienced
that kind of warfare, gathered his
head in both hands and ran off yelling
as if Captain Jack and all the Modocs
were close upon his heels.
I was horrified-it being the first
scalp [ had over seen taken-and ridinm
home that evening I asked Genorial
Buford how he could do such a bar
barous thing.
"He ought to have attended to his
own. business,'' ho replied; '' was
willing, though my brother was engagg
ed, to keep hands off and let 'em figit
it out, and when he ran up and handed
his friend a pistol to kill Tom with I
would havo been justified in killing
him."-Nashtvillc World.
Wild Dogs.
About eight miles from Poughkeep
sie is the most remarkable breed of
wild dogs, or rather half dog and hal'
wild beast. According to the storiis
of the farmers in that vicinity, a fo'alo
Newfoundland dog, a few years ago,
gave birth to a litter in the woods. The
dog.s g'rew upl wil' adit seems took
to runtning with foxes and animals of
like kind, which resutlted in another
breed of animtals, part dog and part
fox, which are the terror of that part
of the country. fTere are about fifty
in all, as near as they cani judge, and
they run from the size of a Newfound
'and diog downt to a small fox dog.
TIhey run in cotipanies, and it is
extremely dangerous for a man to come
across them, for they are ferocious.
Besides they have the 'xmning of the
fox added to thte hiSr Intelligence of
the domestic do;., which is such an
assistanico t'n ihem that it seems almnost
impt1ossible to kill one of them, unless
a man goes alone, and thon, although
lie may shtoot one, the rest of the pack
will matke short, work of htim. I1lun.
ters would mutch rathor rutn across a
p)ack of wolves thtan these dlogs, for in
this wooded dlistrict they come upon
them unawares, kill their hunting
(logs, and if the htunters do not beat
an immedliate retreat will attack them.
In.several cases hunters have been in
this plight, and forced to climb trees
in order to save their lives, Many
stories are told of the remarkable cun
ninig of thiesoanuimals. ]nstoad of euna
nting, perhaups, a better word would be
"'intelligenice.'' Whten a party of hun
ters undertake to hunt thteso wild dogs,
they are never able to find them, for
scenmingly thtey kntow very well their
own strcngrth, andh though they may be
a match for one or two mien, thtey cani
not cope with a dozen.--Kingston (N.
Y.) Freeman.
Thle Argonaut, of San Francisco, hits
oft' one phirase of mnoderni journalism
In this way: "'If a barn shtould blow
dlown," it says, there will be a diagram
of the premises; view of the barn be
fore bcing blown down; view of the
barn while being blown doewn; vieiv of
the ruins; interview with the hired
man, who sahl he always knowod it
wsgigto blow down; interviow
view' with Professor Ml7igwum'p, the
dlistingutishtedi Chicago savant, with his
views as to the reason why barns blow
down rather titan uip; comp)arative ta
ble of barn mortalityv int this and other
states for the last fort,y years, showing
percentno of barns blowing down
compared with the illiterate vote; his
tory of loss from theo earliest times to
the presentt; statemnent of loss-$500."
A new out, door game for ladies alnd
gentlemen cal led enchantmet, is b)e
coiming fashionable in England. It is
played with small, light hop,thrown
whith wands, soniethitng after the man
ner of grace htoops5, though the wand
ne of a novel construction, involving a
peciuliar' methtod of casting the htoop.
A moderately large picce of ground is
aninhle.
A Mysterious Sense.
Some thirty-two years ago, in North
ern Indiana, with a company of per
haps a half-dozen men and boys, I was
on a hot August forenoon binding a
small piece of grain that had lain sev
oral days in swath to dry after being
cradlod. At that season the mas
sasauga (the small brown and white
rattlesnake of the region) is said to be
blind, and does not rattle when ap
proached. The snakes are quito apt to
crawl under swaths of hay and grain,
and to lie there a long time if not dis
turbed. For some reason-perhaps it
looked like rain-all hands wero set to
bind and shock this little patch, and as
something was the mattor.with oqo of
my hands so that I could not bind, I
raked up the bundles for two others to
bind.
Having heard of the propensity of
the massasauga to hide under swaths
at this season and to keep quiet, I was
careful In rolling up the swath into a
bundle, always to rake the bundle off
the swath before leaving it, lest a
binder should gather up a snake in his
arms.
As we wore finishing the last of the
patch the two who were binding after
me began to race, and it was almost
impossible to get a bundle raked up
and off the swath before the binder
would be ready for it. Still I managed
until the last, and was very strongly
impressed that I must not lot the bind
er-who was jumping to get it and
bind it before the other finished his
catch it up beforo I raked it quite off
the ground: Ho had his band all
made and was just stooping, when I
said: "Hold on, JimmyI . There's a
snake under this!" "Nonsense I" said
he, and gave me a shove so that he
could pick up the bundle. But so
sure was I that there was a snake
thoro-althotigh we had not met one in
the field-that I struggled with him,
each shoving the other, until I got a
chance to reach out my rake and pull
the bundle off the swath. There lay
coiled a massasauga about thre feet
long, with his head up and ready for
business, "and saying not a word!"
A few steps away in a corn field was
a hoe, the snake's head was quickly se
vered from the body, and my cousin,
the owner of the field, picked the snako
up by the tail to pull off the rattles,
which, by their number, showed that
the reptile was seven years old. The
moment h began to pull the bleeding
heck flew up as quieL as a flash and
struck him on the under side of the
wrist. Had the hoad been there the
poison fangs would probably have
been buried in one of the veins of the
wrist. My cousin dropped the body,
and was so faint with fright that he
had to lean against a tree.
Some interesting questions sugo"st
themselves: First, why .had I suel a
certainty that there was a snake under
that last end of the last swath, al
though we had foudfd no other in the
field? Was there anything like the
telepathy of which our English friendi
are beginning to talk?
Second, what was the mysterious
sense of direction that made that
headless neck strike so swift and
straight, just as it would had the head
been on it? Is there a less necessary
connection between the brain and the
rist of the nervous system in cold
b'looded animals than in other verte
uratos P-N. Y Post.
Fishing With Dynamite.
In England the use--or r:ther the
abuse-of dynamite at sea preceded its
abuse on land; and several years be
fore tile worsipors at the shrine of
O'Donovan RossaL had forced the Eng-1
lishl parliament to p)rohibit the clandes- I
tine muanufacture andl possession of ex-1
plosive, an act had been passedl for-.
bidding the use of dyuamite as a
"modo of fishing." In Spain, on the
conltrary, the idea of blowing up fishI
appears to have dawned upon~the poeo
1)10 as a development of the practice of I
exploding boimbs in the p)ub lie streets. 1
At any rate, the "employment of
dynamite ill fishing operations," to
adopt tile euphIemlism of the Spanish<
government, has become so g;onoral off
the coast of the Iborian p)enmnsula that I
a law is about to be passed to pult an C
end to it. Whethler the food supply of
tile sea is "'inexhlaustiblo"' or nlet, thile
use of dynamite is most certainily not a I
legitimate mode of fishing. The ex
plosion absolutel;y destroys more fishil
than it enables the fishlermon to se
cure, waiile tiioso that are cap)tured are
rendered unfit for food. in the ovi
doence given before the commissioners,I
applointcd to inquire into this practice in
England, six or seven years ago, it was
statedl tihat the fish1 in tile immediate
neighborhood are so shattered and
bruised by tihe violence of the shock
that thley are rendered flavorless and
rapidly putrify; while those further j
away hlavo their air-bladders brokeni,r
andi strugglo away to die a lingering a
'leatil. In tile ease of gregarious fish t
like tihe mackerel and herring, the of- i
feet of an explosion is to break up the c
shoal and effecttially drive the fish off s
tile coast. A few days of unrestricted s
'"dynamiting'' may spoil the fishing 'j
for weeks afterward.--Bl. Jumcs's Gua- c
zcltc.
The Honeymoon.
Doelighted Young Husband- "What
a treasure you are, my love. I thought ~
you were so bound up~ ini music andi
p)ainiting and embroidery and sulch
things that you wouldl not think of giv
ing attention to such unpoetic things y
as meals, but here you have one of the
most delicious plu1m puddings I have t
ever eaten."
Blushing Bride-"Oh, I (10 not forget a
that yelu atlways liked nlico things to I
eat."
"But getting 1m1 such a delicacy
must have taken you considerable
time."'t
"WVoll, it (1id; but that was because
neither Blridget nor I knew how to get
it open."
"Got what open, love?"S
"'Why, the can the pudding came in.
-~Philadelphia Call.
The city of Hamburg is about to eroot
a museum of natuaal i story at an es
tinmated cost of 900,000 marks. Plans
in competition have been solicitedl
from archlitoets, and1 upward of 100 aro
likne to bo receive,. o
Hot Weather Precautions.
Now that the hot weather has set in,
and it is time for the reappearance of
that largo class of amiable people who
yan never moot without telling you
trankly "what one ought to do," it may
not bo of out place to quoto tho"rogula
tions" which wero published by the
ffoniteur de l' Armee as official advioe
to French troops going to Canton in
L859. The Times gives the following
translation of them, which I have come
apon accidentally; the rules are cor
tainly amusing, and scem just as ap
plicable to America as Asia..
1. Havo warm clothing in winter.
2. Never remain in damp or wet
elothes, unless you are at work.
3. In summer wear light clothing of
soft wool. Be careful to wash this
3lothing when it is soaked with pers
piration.
4. Wear flannel both as a waistcoat
ind round the abdomen. Never leave
it off.
5. Never sleep on the bare ground.
Put a plank under your foot when you
stand still.
6. In summer put a little straw upon
tour plank.
7. Never drink water, always ton.
8. Clarify your water when muddy
with rock alum.
9. Drink in moderation the spirits of
the country, taking care to warm them
first.
10. Eat moderately.
11. Never cat ducks.
12. Eat but sparingly of sweets and
[ruits. The sugar-cane is almost the
)nly wholesome sweet thing. All
>thers are either too heating or set cold
:n the stomach.
13. As soon as you arrive in the
3ountry, acquire the habit. of eating
ice as the natives cook it.
14. When you smoke, spit as little
s possible.
15. At night take care to cover your
head well, and more particularly your
3yes.
16. In hot weather avoid cold places;
Iraughts arc always dangerous.
17. In spring and autumn take care
never to get wet-footed in the morning.
18. Never take a nap in the day
time.
Not bad advice on the whole, and
worth following at the present time.
when we are on the eve of the Coney
Island season, the fall campaign, and
:thor risky experinents.-Cor. N. Y.
Post.
To Beautif'y the Fair Sex.
"One of Dan Bryant's jokes, and one
hat always brought down the house,
vas his prize con'indrum 'What is a
voman?' But were lie living now I do
iot believe he would propound it. No
ody could guess it. All would have to
ivo it up," and with an inward chuckle
ho photographer, for he it was who
'ouclisafed the above to a reporter for
['he 1Ncw York Mail and Express, turned
mco more to his nitrate of silver bath
ind collodion.
"I should imagine from your actions
md statements, however, that you
1ould answer the question?"
"Once I could-but now-well times
ire not what they once were. Why, a
ady caino in here to-day to sit for her
)hotograph, and, do you believe me,
he had false lips."
"WhatP"
"'Ton my honor. And that was not
l. She had false eyelashes, and an
rtificial neck and throat."
"Oh, you must be mistaken."
"So I thought until I was convinced.
Cho beautiful tinted shells, skins, or
overs, whatever you may call them,
or arms, face throat, and neck are
nade of very thin rubber. Th'le neck
tnd bust is fitted closely over the
iatural neck, and the edges made tip
mfter the manner of the actors p)ainting
>ut their wigs. When the false front,
should call it, fits under the chin a
)lack velvet ribbon is wvorn over it.
['le proper (degree of roundness is given
o0 the improvement after adljustment
>y inflating it with air.''
"Well, that may all be so, but the
ips5 and eye brows you spoak about I
~an not believe."
"No; then I will pr~ovo it to you."
lere lie took from a case a small dci
ate-lookiug little bit of rubber that
adt more the applearanicc of the fing~er
>fa surgeon's post mortem glove than
nything else. "Here, you see, is a
uil red under-lip. It was given to me
y the lady who had the sitting to-day.
ho is the agent for these improve
nouts. If you notice, the fullness is
n the center. TLoward the corners the
ip is merely a filmy skin of gutta
>orchia. This is cap)able of being held
n its position by the tightness of its
Iges."
Protecting Dogs anid Cats.
TIho great vivisectionist, D)r. Claude
lernard was marriedl to a young we
aan who was extremely fond of dogrs
ad eats. As may easily be imagined,
lie doctor andi his wife did nlot agree.
)riven to the wall, the poor (looter was
bliged to choose betwoor the wife and
cience. Hoe chose the latter, and a
oparation from his wife followed.
'hoencoforward Mine. Born ard gather
d togothier all theohomeless and friend.
ass dogs an d cats that she could find.
singular idiea moved the wife of the
lustrious apostle of vivisection in this
eculiarity. She wished to p)rotet as
iany clogs andl cats as her husband
illed, so that when she would meet
im in the other world she could dis
lay the superiority of her wvork. Af
~r the death of her hiusbatnd Mmec.
ernard continued her labor of love.
he retired to Bois-Colombes, and shel
red in her house all the vagrant dovs
ad cats of the neighbhorhiood. Tilo
eighbors were highly amusedl at first,
ut finially they began to think the
uing was a nuisance. They comp)lain
Ito the Mayor, who ordered the lady
close her establishmnent. This she
afusod to do. T1hien she was brought
ito a pol ice court and finedl five francs
ir a violation of a town ordinance.
hio appoalod to a higher court, but the
idgment of the court below was con
rmied, and all her clogs and cats wore
irnedt out upon the cold and cruel
orld.
A doctor, writing to a New York pa
or, deprecates the pubilishing by the
ross of eases of hydrophobia, as, lie
aid, In nIne eases out of ten the fear
I the disneane hrnn,htit n.
Uncle Abe Recovers His Pullet.
"Wall," began the old man, "I had
my 'spiolons 'bout dis here chicken,
but I ain't say much. I jis' lio low and
watch do case. Tinks I, Bruddor Dick
bin a poworful han' on do stealing
question, and I don't see as how his
'ligion dun 'prove him any, so I jis'
koop my eye on his motions. Jis' now,
as I was a passin' his house I hoar a
mighty singing and patting ob de foot,
like Bruddor Dick focl monstrous hap
py. Don I peops fro' do crack, and
dar, bross God, I seed do old shnnor jis'
a taring do fedders outon dat pullet.
Don I walked back a few steps and sot
up a signal, too; and when I gets to
his house I hollers out: 'Bruddor Dick,
is you darP'
"Don he answers up, skeort like:
'Iso hero, Bruddor Abe. What's yor
pledger?'
"I'so cumin' in to sit awhile,' says I,
and I shuffies about like there is a
powerful site o' mud on my foot, kaso I
was boun' fur to hab a lootlo fun, and
I wanted to gib do olo man time to
hido do pullet.
"When I goos in Brudder Dick was
jis' a shovin a basket ob fodders under
do bed. 'Hab a cheer, brudder,' says
he, powerful perlito; 'I'so sure glad for
ter soo yor. Bring dat choer nigher to
do fiah.'
"Don we talks and talks, and while
I was lookin' roun' I sees a piece ob
dat pullet a stickin' outon his pocket.
"'Bruddor Dick,' says I, 'dus you
carry a rabbit foot for good luckP' And
gin a grab fur do chicken, but no,
bross de Lord, the olo man was too
peart for me, and he clap he han' on
his pocket and he holler out: 'Don't
touch my rabbit foot, kaso you'll spilo
all my luck.'
'Dat's the truff,' says I; den I sot
to t'inking how I was gwino to got dat
pullet outon dat pocket.
"Artor awhile says I: 'Brudder
I)ick I'so dun los' dat fine Plymouth
Rock pullet what I sot so much store
by.'
"'You ain't tell me so,' he 'plies,
innercent like as a dove; 'how dot dun
happen, brudderP'
"'I can't in no wiso tell,' says I,
'but I bross do niggah what cats dat
chicken, kaso I is dun put do obil spell
on it, and it is conjured clar to do back
bone. I is shuro soon dat pullot aforo
now stan' on its head and walk on its
tail.'
"'You ain't say so,' ho 'solaims, and
his eyes look like (icy wus gwino to
pop outen hiu head, and I so him
hitch back b's coat like lho was skeort
fur (10 pocket to touch him. Tinks I,
olo man, you'io all right now, and I
tolls him goon nito an loabs.
"Den I hides behind a tree fur to seo
what he, gwine fur to do nex', and
bimeby he comes to the door and poop
out; he ain't seen nobody and he gin a
run and flung the chicken inter my
yard. Den I hear he say to hisself, 'If
dat doro chicken is conjured I is dun
fixed uj ole man Abe's dog, kaso Cash
is boun fur to oat it afore mornin'.'
Don ho slips in do house and I gets to
dat pullot in a hurry and hero it is,
now ready for do cooking, olo 'oman.
I-la! ha! ha!" laughed the negro. "I is
cunnin' as a coon; it is hard to kotch
up wid dis iiggah."-Philadelphia
'imcs.
Liti at Cannes.
All the world drives about in the
afternoon-the carriage either follow
ing the winding coast roads to east or
west or climbing the surrounding hills
by a succession of sweeps and zigzags,
each of them opening up fresh glimpses
of the sconery-puilling up In somec
rugged gorge or some quiet sylvan val
ley. Thence you may scramble up
the steop banks by narrow foot-tracks,
winding through the thickets of fra
grant scrub that growvs breastiigh, or
through the thick fir wvoods that clotho
the sides of the rocky dells, with the
streamilets murmuring somewhere out
of sight in the bottom, and hero and
there coming out into light and evi
dence, where they fall in tiny shoots of
silver over the faces of the lichen-coy
Oredi cliffs. Trhien, emerging from the
thickets of fir, where the dwarfed trees
have begun to struggle and die down,
you come on some b)rownhill-shoulder,
which shows you a broad panorama of
thfe rollinig ranges of hill and (hale that
sink into shadowy plains in the middle
dlistance before they rise into the blue
black mountains agirtinig the northern
horizon. But of all the objects that fiii
the foregrounda of the views, Cannes
itself is the most strikino~ and original.
You see fine scenery eisewhorc-you
may see loose agrglomerations of hand
some houses in their gardens-but
nowhere on this side of the Atlantic,
nor, indooed, as we believe, on the
other, do you see such a collection of
enormous hotels monop)olizing the most
commanding situations. T1hoy certain
ly do not run to the p)roportions of the
monster establishments ini Newport or
Saratoga, yet time biggest are big
enougn in all conscience, and there are
many more of them. There are over
sixty of thomi now--thore woro only
two small p)osting-hiousos when Lord
Brough am discovered Cannes - of
which a third or so are saidl to be
first rate; all have sprung u~ p In the
last hive-and-twenty years, and all a
said to be fairly prosperous.-Black-.
wood's Magazine.
T1heo present average of sp)eaki ng in
the United States Senate Is about 150
wvords per minute, though there are
several speakers who utter more than
'200. Among the fastest speakers at
present are Senators Beck, Hawley,
1l umb, and Morgan. Beck leads tho
list. Senator George, of Mississippi,
is p)erhaps the slowest. Dan oh
Webster was a very slow talker, and ho I
would not average over 100 wordis a1
minute. Henry Clay spoke much
faster, rolling out about 150 words ar
miinute. Calhoun was also slow until c
lie bcamo roused up with enthusiasm
of his subject, when his wordls would t
flow more rapidly.--N. 0. Times Demo- t
crat.C
Every one has hoard of condensed |c
milk, but condensed, or rather solidi- ti
fled, drinks of a more potent nature ti
are a novelty. An ingenious French o
chemist has discovered a method by ti
which any wino, spirit or malt liqunor n
can be solidified Into a cake, like choo
elate, and so conveniently carried in II
the pokot of thme thirsty.
GLEANINGS.
Tom Green county, Texas, has a
now town called Dameight.
A now kind of boor is made from
rico in a Bavarian brewery.
Talmago has been made a D. D. by
the University of Tennessee.
The old Garfield Memorial Churoh
at Washington has been sold for $182.
Nearly 5,000 women are employed in
the various government of ces ia En
gland.
Queen Victoria was instrumental in
causing women to be employed in tele
graph offices.
A convict from Clark county, in the
Ohio Penitentiary, cut off two fingers
to keep from work.
Georgo Augustus Sala says that he
has written during his journalistic
career of 35 years more than 7,000
newspaper essays.
James Watts' workshop at Heath
field Hall is preserved just as he last
went out of it-oven to the leather
apron thrown across the vise.
Out of Japan's total population of
30,000,000 there are only 10,050 paup
eru, and of these moro than 1,000 are
at Tokio, in the work-house.
The forests of Europe are estimated
to cover 500,000,000 acres, or nearly 20
per cent of the surface of the contin
ont.
Turkeys are in demand among the
vine-growers of Fresno, Cal., who
want them to range the vineyards and
catch the slugs that are now attacking
the vines.
There is a concerted movement
among actors in "combinations" to so
cure the abolition of the Wednesday
matinee, which they seem to hold in
special detestation.
Pretty little baskets for sending
flowers by post are the latest novelty
in England. They fasten with a pad
lock, the person sending and the per
son recuiving each having a key.
Croquet threatens to como again
into fashion in England, lawn tennis
being objected to as making ladied
dreadfully flushed, and as too rapid in
its movements for adequate flirtation.
In the eightonth century the growth
of population in Denmark was so small
as to be scarcely noticeable. During
the present century the population has
increased from one million to nearly
two.
A man in Arizona is suing a local
paper because it announced that he
was the father of a thieving boy a week
old. The editor meant to say "thriv
ing," but fate and the type-setter
ordored otherwise.
There is a fortune in so small a
thing as a device for fastening a neck
tie. One of the patents in that line
has just boon sold to a company for
$1,000,000 in cash, and royalties that
may amount to as much more.
Baron Tennyson very properly refus
os to be bored. He announces ofli.
cially through the London Times that
he will not answer the multitudinous
letters sent to him, will not look at
manuscripts nor even return them.
Johannes Scherr, the German critic,
Insists that "in the wide world there
are perhaps hardly three women who
know, honor and love Shakespeare.
Why?P Because ho calls things by
their name; because ho is natural,
like nature."
Coal is cheaper in Boston, 864 miles
from the coal fields, than it is at Phila
delphia, only 90 miles from the fields.
Blostonians pay $5.25 per ton of 2,000
pounds and Philadelphians $6.60 per
Lena ton of 2,240 pounds, or $6.90 for
4 00 pounds.
The story of a North Carolina rubyr
[s thus set forth by the Asheville Csts
lon: "Mr. Daniel Solford found a
r~uby in Clay county which he sold for
$16. It next sold for $3,000, then for
*6,000, and a lapidary bought it, and
tfter working upon it, sold it for $18,
300."
A peculiar reptile is the horned
rattlesnake now on exhibition in Los
Angeles. It is about fifteen inehos in
Length, and has two horns which pro
oect from Its head just above the eyes.
ehas only five rattlos and a button,
and was captured at Indio Station, on
the Colorado Desert.
Between the ages of fifteen and .
forty-five a woman can grow abo' i
seven crops of hair. It averages rdiubia
four ounces to the crop, and T
the prevailing popular color sa,
handsome price. The toti 1 62 p in
crop is estimated at 100 tons, 4 02 p in
from 800,000 heads. 'et 6 80 p in
The most successful countj" 6 40p y
tho dime Is said to be made o:a,
anixed with some base meta,'1 66 a in
Process unknown to ordinary wor. 15 a a
in metal and glass. The counterf0Op i.
Leeks exactly like the genuine 10-cen p in
)ioco, but on being struck with a ham
nor it is crushed to pieces.
The Mormon bill should be extended
io as to include Kentucky, or at the
cory least to include Dr.'Hirschberg, of
oulsville, in that state. He has mar
led, successively, a German, a
ronch girl, an Irish maiden, a mu
atress, andi six young American
Lamsols. Ho is now, very propery
n the cold embrace of a jail.
In Queensland, immunity from pun.
shment induces the white men tot
hink nothing of taking the lives of
iatives, and the latter are killed for
'tealing a few pieces of tobacco, as tras
he case with a skipper at Dufaure
Ireland. For a trifling theft lhe shot
hreo men whom ho suspected.
The amount of the deposits in the
Coglish postal savings banks last year
ras $200,000,000, and that of the
~rcnch banks was a little lower. The
ate of Interest in England is 2j per
ent., and doposits of a shilling and
pward draw fnterest. By this system
he poorest depositor has a stake in
No Integrity and prosperity of the
~overnment.
In a certain cometery in a town in
onnecticut can be found a lot don.
ining five graves-one in the center,
ocothoe near by at the four point.
the compass. The inscriptions on
0 latter read, respectively qfter the
rmno of the deceased: "M L. Wife,"
fM II. Wife," "My III- Wife," "My
If. Wife," while the center stone
tars the brief but eloqueneprso,
Dur Huban,i"t tepeao