The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 23, 1884, Image 1
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!I-1 ICKENS, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBE~R23184
Unmade flay.
We know by the clouds to tho castw.trd
It wits going to ralin that day,
And there was the wholo of thio mea-1w lot
All spiead with the fragrant. hay.
And the elouds grow darker and larger
As tho wind the tree tops ioseed,
ALdrd t uwhI t+wpprkl.
. 1, i )lt' 1ahofaY vas lot
M y fari was a,stall and poor one,
An1 0 hay cros wits till I had,
And I could not tfford to hiro gpan,
,+or the U.IniOMvas du 11 npid tm .
At Ant hftter' werd ioking d tcury
For me that, sutntner doy,
WlqI hea ia sweet voico behInd me:
"I wlll hole you-got it the hay I"
- ti ro tcr iolly,
And soft wus thelightof her downcast eyes,
Aid he blush tot ke .pphpk tbkt'g owed.
b 1 0 orou in a friendly way,
And there b my sIde that atternoon
-If 39 p. 9 0no gt gtt9ttQ.,hy;t..;
81h0 was no fine itly foebl
Tit g c ry4 p{uinp in<d whit,
And e it O all dns or me, row for row,
Till tho fail of thu sutnmner it iulit;
And then, who we uoased our labo-i,
And the hay \vns store<d awa ",
From the deptits of in eart litned her
- or ier,lindne to idt tt yc y,
And 1 took her hono to her cottage,
utIddnot p iIo sp wQo;
A nbd Jo tor1 Inarriago,
Which I know she thought l'd do.
1 left, herj,urcostlIloI';tttvuWiy,
13Acth thb:ral at*. tbrmownm,
And frbt her look<s 1 know sho was
'-119 inadd(<tF girl in tow).:
--Puck.
M IDNIGII'' IN A 1) EAU)-IOUSE
We we<.'e sitting alone in the twiligit
leisuroly ptflu'ing. at our cigars whent one
of the hospit:l nurses cn1ame out and
whispered to the dootor that Sailot
John was "anoin.." The p:at:sing away
of t mortal is :ti ovent abott wlhich
there is alw:tys sonethin,g of the mys
terious, aniid so we walkt'd down the
long corridor..aud entered Ward 12.
The nurse was right. John was
"agoin." Like an alto relievo, out of
WhogrumpJed;pfio-reot r V face that
v:t ?Iimtt hr is rugged tittline, and
even tho - pinched - nose, sunken eyes
and coii issd lips did not obliterate
the likentess to some of those historic
busts dug up atmong 1te ruins of early
Italy. A student said it looked like
Seneca, and.truly there was much to
recall the old philosopher in the wrin
kled features.
The man .in, Ied 27, restless with
fever, turned over so as to face the
conch of the dying man, and with wihl
staring eyes watched every sinkino
respiration of the olt sailor.
An awkward plethorih beetle buzzed
itround the gas jet in an irre';ular or.
bit, its hum being the only sound to
bleak tihe silence which the f~aint breath
ing*,%)f the sufferer softly punctuated.
1he d c:or lifted the sheet'and felt tI.
pc.se o' the patientt. "it's aboult over.,
.ho roanIWtked;!ld ho laid down hie
'litese tas a 1attl6 in the throat, a
long-drawn sigh, as if p11 tho. sorroavs
of a lifetie i\'eN rol oved as it died
away, and then tho oyes opened. They
looked into t(fi doctor's, and seeming
to find comfort in the returning glance
of compassion, thuy closed slowly.
Then there was a twitching of the mus
cles around the mouth, atnd in a su
preme climax of vfl'urt tho lips moved
andi faintly catmo forth,' ''Hard it port it
is, sir." A slight tremor shook his
frame, and all was over.
John had re;tched harbor.
Then'there was a tread of feet in the
corridor and the earriers of the dead
came in, and John was taken out to the
7 dead-house and laid beside other storm
tossed barks that had that day found a
last uooi&'r-place, whither the whole
armada of htluutnity .drift at 1:ast. Tme
hospital' bell -gave. on stroke to an
notunce the dep:rtturo of another soul,
and1( then thle nutirses hooked ov'er thc
wartd book to sedt who next shotild re
ceive his tdose of medicine, amnd hos
pital life restiumed its qjelet etiuent.
Wo0 went? back to the~ por'tico anad re
sumedci our11 tigars. ''A cturiotus fellow,
that,'' said the doctor; this is lhis fift'h
visit here, and he knew it wotild bo his
*at lIt. was alway f>eg ,incm to bo
itt hiis side wheni thle endimte, anud by
g ooi Iluiak Ii hnnyted here to-li i-ht.
"Strange as it, may seem to yotu, this
same muan wats onco at kiing. You
smile, but, ncyertholess, it is true. Hie
was cast away in the Pacific anid
4 ~ reached one of the small islands ott
there, wherd hib liVod -anmdi becamo the
ruite of a little kingdom. Hie longed
for white society and abdicated and
weont baclyp the sea.
"'But that; is not what I wvanted to
sp)eak about,'' the doctor went on,
light,ing a fresh cigar. "'It's his cur
ious ideas of his ability to come back
from the other world. IIe has talked
to me by time hotir ont this subiject until
4 1~ pult him diown as a spir'itualist of the
most orthmodox king. ~Io has promised
me to inake hils presenco known on the
night of his nativity, June 30, and has
excited my curiosity:not a littlo.''
"'If lie could only do thatt,'' said I,
"'it would be the solvingo of all otir
- doubts."'
'"Yes,'' repliedi the dioctor, "'rio mes
sago ever came from beyond t,he Styx,
and gootd sailor as Join wvas, lie can
not, I believe, recross that inky flood."
Thedbovatio 01p1sode liappeneq in
* the Charity hospital about thie middeil
of May, 1869, anti time ietor spoken of
*was one knowin and beloved through
out time city and state. It is bt a little
over a year since ho, too, crossed the
Lothioan'stream, btut before his death
h le told the writer the facets given be
A low, speaking of them as a cturious co
incidonce, and not for a mom'ont look
. (hmin. a sumperstitms light.
' o was a mnanof remalrkab)lo nervd,
was as bravo as Couir tie Leon anti
would, be as .litt.lo daunted by the
appearance of a simon-pu)tro ghost
as hte would by the appr)toach of an 14d
friendl. It was but a short, time boSoe
histagt.ftmd wpdl.t U%tnal street was
pindomnoniumm o'f soundi, andi htorns
antd firecrackers wereom akng Christ
mans Eve hideotus, that, sotodet it lisa
office, t) o conversation tumrnedi on
things s ,rnatutral. Tfhe trep)idations
of youth or sp)ooks and thme fears qt
'the superstitious of older growth wYore
laughed at, anti it wa:s not till after the
sutbject drVifted.to hospital lifd that the
doctor.exclaimhod:
-''That's a fact; I don't bieliev'e I ever
toltd y9u my experience in the dead
hodsd of the Yiospital after Shilor Johmn's
*death. ' I never cnrod about saying
* anything regardino (It, for if [ have to
confoBs 1t, for the 1I rst tIme in my life I
was a littln wak.,
"X ou know tho dead-houso--t Char
ity hospital and its InteriorP Well, I
had had a case of aniui'T1m that puz
zled all of us, and, being a young phys
ician then, 1 had a natural prido in my
diagnosis, which did not agree with
that of the other surgeons. So I do
termined that when the patient died,
as he was sure to do, I would hold an
autopsy myself. Well, the poor follow
succumbed at-last. and, as 1 had boon
busy all day, I could not got back to
the hospital until 11 o'clock on the
nightWf Juno 30. I remember the date
well. Illuminating the inside room of
the dead-house, there was but a single
gas burner alight. Rigid on one of the
dissecting tables was my subject, await
ing ,e.
.J" p eddn't tell you that, after all of
my student life at the hospital, going
out there alone at that time of night
produced not the slightest impression
upon mne. We were too used to such
things to notice them. In fact, so
great was my desire to provo my diag
nosis correct as against that of other
physicianls, I thought only of the case,
and nothing else.
"It was anything but a pleasant
night. I may say that I cannot re
meinber a more disagreeable one. A
blustering iorther was blowing and a
heavy rain falling. The wind moaned
around the eaves of the hospital as if
hundreds of sufferers were in agony,
and the gurgle of water in the gutters
leading to the cistern was anything but
musical. Once in a while ~a ilash of
lightniug threw out in relief the bodies
lving on other tables awaitin< burial.
Certainly it was a night of nigSits for a
Visit to a dead-hetise.
"Well, I tuck oil my oil-cloth coat,
opene my dissectling case. and started
to work. The wind stole in through
cre i:c :ioi flareI the gas so that I
was deltyed in my investigation con
siderably. But after an hour's labor I
approachd the solution of the problem
over which I had so long studied. So
full of anxiety was I my hand trembled,
and seeing this I stopped, filled my
pipe, an ; began smoking to conquer
my eagerness.
'"T1he face of the dead man was
ashen in its lale.ess, and his flrsh was
as cold as marble. Looking back at
the picture now, I don't think v
saw a more spectral corpso than
The eyes were open, atni in the a
of de:th the muscles of the mouti
co-ntracted, so that in the rigor n1
Ie had a sardonic griln that was I
ble in its leer.
"The patter of the rain on tih
was incessant, but it sounded plcr
for it seemoned company to one.
did not drown all other soumi
niw and again above the storm
cane from the female ward a w
anguish fromt a poor sufferer i
lirium11.
"It took but a few minutes' sm
to recover my steadiness of ham
I resumed the work.
"While bending over the bodN
just at a moment when the gr
deliency of operation was requi
curious noise from one corner o
dead-house startledI me. It w:
like a foot-step, but was somewh:
a shuflhing of feet.
"Instinctively I looked in that
tion, and noticed for the first
some four or live skulls on the fl
a partial state of preparation.
younger students had been at
preparing them for their cabinets
grinnin(g faces looked as if to cli
for worIing on such a night, bit
I was too anxious about my c
miss my opportunity.
''Applying myself again to m
ject, I was soon lost in the peculi
Veloplments my eye discovertd
momenit, whetn I was again an
by a distinct sound1( from the corr
"Glancing ini that dlirection, it
be confessed I was not ai lit]
pInedl to see Otto of the skulls mn
slowly towvard mec alotng the fIa
of the floor. I rubbedi my eve
looketd again. TIhtere it was--tli
less sockets of the eyes gazing a
theo unievent, jagged teeoth giV.
gniast.l,v grin to the mlouthi.
'"it 13 a little dillicult for mc I
exactly wvhat wero tmy feolinigs.
they were pculiar I frankly adni.
fell to st udtying about the cause o)1
mot.ionl on tho part of thle sku!l
examtined closely to see whether
thero was a string attached
studtent playing one of his p)ranlk
''Butt no. In the light I could
ly (discern that thetre was n
attached to this relic of hiun
'Ten whIiat, miovedi it?
''Still entgrossed with my end
to solve this myistery, I ditd no
ity eye-; off t his skutlI.
"'Slowly, stealthily and stea,
c:nne 01n direct-ly towvardsj whert
sit ting otn a hiigh stool. Thio i
produticed a dull, gratinig so-u
some1 sIha:rp p)rotulberanes of
scratched on the marble slabs.
"'After it hiad advanced about
feet it stopipedl.
''I latid downi my pip e, still kt
Inty eyes on the unnlileasant tob)ljt
,tiled to lawt h away' the mkorbidj
met'.I. that, and nowv began i to rist
mi init. I whlisperedt to mlyseli
much I wvould hiavo raile til
*brother physician shiould Ito hat'
ing of ntervotisnhess uinder sinJli:
eumstances. Even the Studlents
havo ret a iled the affair. as an in ld
of miy efieinntiey had they kno
burely therot wereO mechia Iiical
to produlce these resul ts. I knern
tion to I the subs)tainil. M\yn ii -
phit,losophly told meit that there mt ist lho
arebPt at wtork to impeh)l that grinm
trag~itmnt of ai hiumain frania t9ward
1u0, )Yeb what:t force was. itP
SVI dterned no to,enV\e mty seat
to attep ls npectin feariin'v
1( be rewatrdedc by thet lautghter of thloso
wiho wtieiieneavormig to astontishi me.
Ilhtie dreary mnottono of the ra in
and the.unearthly sobbing of the wvind
turned my reflections to a moro sombro
color, andt some things came back to
oa I had reatd in Robher tJDalo Owen's
Footprints on the Boundaries of
Another WVorld' -- curious thiings,
aunthentlcatedi by nflldavlts and all the
solemmity of oaths of remalirkaiblo re
visitants from the grave. WVhile dIwell
log on those subjects I recalled tho
many contversations I had had with my
patient., now (lead andl burled some
three weeks, Sailor John, and lisa er
sistent asseveatns ofe possbiltie
of the intellectual spirit returning to
this world of the flesh.
"There! The skull moved agai.
On it came, still sliding along in a dl..
root lino toward me. I
"Do what I would I could not shako m
off a fooling of uneasiness and disquiet. h
I did not like the situation-that about
expressed It. 0
"E-c-c-eks," grated the skull's I
bony points on the floor, the sound K
tingling my nerves as when one w
scratches the finger-nail on brick or F
a rough surface. oe
"My pulso grow more frequent. T ex- of
porienced a chilly sensation down my 0
back, and a cold perspiration dampen- 0
od my forehead. ii
"Around me the corpses lay, the gas- t
light making thom saffron yellow.
"They at least did not move.
"1 could stand this strain no long r. t
It was unbearable. I was becomig
the victim of a weakness for whibh I
would have reprimanded a child. I d
felt pale, if that is nossible, for it
seemed as if all my bl~ded had rushed
to my heart.
"With a bound I sprang toward the e
skull, and stooping, grasped it with 4y
hands. I lifted it from the floor P
"Out jumped a large rat and ran
scampering away. I cannot describo v
m q feelings when I saw the cause of
' v discomfiture. At first I laughed, e
and then became angry with myself a
for, even for a moment, allowing such a
an incident to disturb my equilibrium. I
"Examining the skull I saw how it
had occurred. The rat had entered
the cavity in which the brain had been
through the foramen magnum or aper
turo tTrough which the nerve matter of
the spinal column communicates with
the brain. ''he skull turned over, im
prisoning the body of the creature,
and permitted the use of his feet only
through this foramen. Ho could move
the skull, but while it was on the floor
he could not get his body out.
"Pasted across the whitened brow
was a slip of papor, and on it a stu
dent's name-'inry J. Stubbs'-'-and
below 'Skull of Sailor John, a King of I
one of the Polynesian islands; Aied
May 12, 1869. Charity Hospital.'
"In an instant I remembered the day
of the month. It wns June 30, the
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Battery P'arK, "" -- - 01843, e
whenC1 alteration)s were m--.ho iin the
park, and the statue warsd6d at public t
auction for $260. It was boug ht by I
Mr. Jaques, a gatherer of rolics, and
removed to South Norwalk, Conn.
When Mr. Jaiques (died In 1860 the t
statuo was suhi to A. D)ecora to, q
New York, for $300. On Tucsdlai
was again sold at auiction for' $30 to
D)avid ,J. Schiff, a tobacco dealer at 278 a
West One Hundred and1 Twenty-flfth j
street, who will erect it in front ofL hir
store as a sign.0
lr. Ernest Hart has been vi sitlu
N:aphe-s atnd describes It In the BJriUti
MEl (/ uarnal ais the dlirtiest, ragged
e'st and mluost squalid city In Eu rop%f
isi but 50.uo plersons out of a total
1n11mh ..r Of cn on , s].
How Clay Took His Defeat.
'he .,fol owin . interost pg incident
as related ian oears .ngo b" Mrs.
obert Todd, o Kentuoky, the step
Lother of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and
as never before been printed:
Tho Toddi. and Clays wqeg olways
intimato terms, and in 1844 were
ving near each other in Lexington,
y. Henry Clay and James K. Polk
ore then rival candidates for the
residency, the chances, as was goner
ily supposed, being strongly in favor
E tkgreat Whig to er. As it turnod
at, howev , the cbit bI, Was much
Loser than had been anticipated, and
nally advices from other States showed
iat the result hin d gpon the vote of
ow York. Th'oo *atho telegraph in
ioso days, and news had to come by
ie slow course of mails. The New
k inil*a5 d4iP'fexi ton about
o elock In the evening a certain
ay, and it was known would tell the
tory of victory or defeat. As it hap
oned, a young lady relative of Mr.
'lay was to be married on the same
veuing,.and insisted upon his prosenceo
ough under ,t rumstnces ho
ould much vat e 'av' rem.ained at
onib.' Mr. and Mrts. Todd attended
his memorablo wedding party, which
ras not large, and composed almost
xclusively of the family connections
nd intimato friehds-.-Mibkdent Whigs,
nd of course deeply interested in the
ending political event.
As tha hour for t#o a al of the mail
pproached Mrs. To d saw two or
hroo gentlemen quietly leave the room,
nd knowing .their errand watehed
agerly for their return. When they
aho in ejxo know by ke c pression of
ach oouhtepanca that New York had
ione -omoowatio, ThT bearers of the
)ad tidings consulted together a mo
nont in a corner, and then one of
hem advanced to Mr. Clay, who was
itanding in the center of a group, and
tanded him a papor. Mrs. Todd, aware
)f whab'it contained. fastened her eyes
ipon him. He opened the paper, and,
is he read the paragraph which sound.
id the death-knoll of his political hopes
ind life-long ambition, she saw a dis
inet blue shade begin at the roots of
As hair, pass slowly over his face liko
i cloud, and then disappear.' Without
aying a word upon the subject which
nusthave monopolized all his thoughts,
io laid down the paper, and, turning
o a table, filled a glass with wine, and,
aising it to his lips with a pleasant
mile, said: "I drink to the health
nd happiness of all assembled hero."
letting down the glass, he -resumed
he conversation as if nothing had
ecurrod, and was, as usual. the life
nd light of the company. But Mrs.
'odd said. that as soon as the contents
f the paper were known, "a wet
lanket fil1 upon everybody," and in
alf an hour all the guests had depart
d with heavy hearts- feoling that
allant "Harry of the West' had
aught his last Presideutal battle and
:st the prize forever. -St. Louis Globe
)cmocrat.
Jones Goes On An Excursion.
We met our dear old friend Jones
ho morningr after the excursion and ho
)oked mad. We asked him the roa
Dn, and he told us he had been to the
xcursion, but would be-if lie ever
rent to another. He gave us the fol
wing reasons:
Because Maria, she's my wife, would
]sist on me oetting up at four o'clock
nd holding the baby while she dressed
erself.
Because Maria hurried me off with
ut any breakfast because she was sure
re wore late for the train, made me run
11 the way to the depot with the baby
1 my arms, only to find we were a full
our ahead of time. Because while
raiting, for the train the baby got
ramps in its stomach and it cost me
fty cents to get 'em out of it.
Becau~se when [ grumbled, Maria,
leaning mie,said some men are just too
ioan to live.
Because when I 'wanted to go and
et a drink Maria would insist on my
iking the baby with me.
Because when Tom c arneo along
ith his girl, and he sawv me with the
aby in my arms and the twins leaning
p promiscuously against me, and the
illain laug'hed, an d, p9inting to me,
uid something to the girl, and she
oughed, too.
Because when a very important g ar
ient peculiar to babies sipped dowvn
[aria would insist on straightening it
p before everybody and making me
old the pins while sho did so.
Because all the boys caught on to it
ud laughed.
Because when the conductor came
)und (or the tickets Maria tried to
rowd the twins down so 'thai they
iighc only pay half fare, but tile con
uctor Insisted on unraveling them out
ud make me pay full fare fQr them.
Because when I wanted to slip away
see a fellow Afaria Would in ast on
ipping with me, and when I pniidly
bjected she began to cry, and said it
'as just like me.
Because I hdd to stand in the cars
uo wh,ole way home and most of the
me hold the baby.
Because I hate excursions.-- Winni.
eg Siftings.
"Johnnyl" Qriea a mother to her
oy, whlo 'was y'cllingo with the peculiar
itensity of a small boy with the thirot
to wide op)en. ''Oh, J~ohnmny! I' 'Yes,
a'aim." "For heaven's sake what are
ou yelling at that way?"' "Ma'am?''
'I suid what are you yelling at?'' ''I'm
olhing at the top of my voice.I
bought you kniowed."'---Mrcha'nt T1rav
icr.
Mr Pimnpertonm. who hias accompanied
he family of his naianiced to Long
tranch, stands on thte beach contem
lating ber as she emerges from tho
illows. 'Groat haanVus, Mary! Is
atyou? You never relnindied in so
mch .f sug~ar *ts yeu dto eiow" "Be
ause I look swvecter thanm ever?" she
sked, uncbly. 9$; because one-half
f you aJpoars to have b)een (dissolved
Mioden ernterprise far surpasses that
t ti,e palmy'days #f anclopt Babylon.
merican showmnen are now exhibIt
ig threo separate and distinct skohotens
! Guiteau--his skeleton whenm he wasi
boy, his skeleton wvhen lhe shot Gar-|
sld, and his skeleton after ho was
snged. -The man who secures the
colotonm of his ,host will make a for
me...... 1"v. OU.,w(d
Chimneys.
Two gentlemen wore walking
through the manufacturing district
along the North river above Fourteenth
street the other day, when their atten
tion was called to a tall brick chimney
of an unused factory. Tho chimney
was more than 150 in height and stood
apart from the building to which it was
connected by an iron flue about six
foot from the ground, but the fluo had
boon taken away. Under the hole
where the flub entered the chimney
was a pilo of brick and stone. The hole
itself was apparently open, but a sec
ond look showed that heavy coffee
sacking hung over it on the inside of
the chimney wall, which seemed to be
about twenty inches thick. When the
men first looked at it a boy of 13 years
was climbing through the hole into the
chimney.
"The boys have a den in there, I
presume," said the elder of the two
men. "It is warm and dry and very
like the caves they read about in their
dimo stories, 'black as a wolf's mouth,'
you know."
"Don't the light shine in at the top
of the chimney?" inquired the young
man.
"Yes, but it does not reach them.
Let me tell you something about chin
noys. That pile of brick is twenty feet
square, and whero that boy went in it
is 20 inches thick. Then conies a space
that is more than three feet across and
then a twelve inch wall - surrounds ia
flue that is about seven feet on a side.
That vacant space between the inner
and the outer walls makes a fine cave
for the boys. The chimnev is ,hick for
its size. 'horo is one in Lawrence,
Mass., 234 feet high, and is no larger on
the base than this one. Down town
near the North river ferries is the larg
est chimney in the world. Tho inside
of the flue is 27 foot 10 inches long by
foot 4 inches wide. It is 221 foot high.
It takes the smoke from four tiers of
boilers, 32 in all, in which 1,000 tons of
coal are burned in a (lay.
"There are some very queer chim
neys in the world. I have road of one
in a Mexican factory which was made
of sun dried bricks that were ten inches
long and seven wide, and three thick.
There is a chimney in Pennsylvania
that is made of old iron rails that does
good service. Queer, isn't it?"
"Yes," said the young man. "The
house that Christine 'ilsson was born
in was made of unhown logs piled up
with mud chinked into the cracks. The
chimney is said to be of wood also.
Long flat pieces were split out of the
logs and laid up as were the logs of the
house, but into the shape of a fireplace,
tavering ol' into a flue where smaller
sticks were used. Inside of the fire
placo a wall of round stones was piled
up and thickly plastered with mud, as
was the inside of the wooden flue above.
When, as occasionally happened, the
mud fell off, her father climbed up in
side and plastered more on. Whether
that chimney was mado so or not,
plenty of others are in the West and
SOuth.''
"Speaking about firopiaces," said the
older man, "reminds me of a very sin
gular place where they were formerly
used. One hundred and fifty years ago
stoves wero unknown. The fishing
smacks that sailed out of Gloucester in
those days were small afi'irs of from
twenty to forty tons, but they had to
carry a fire, of course. In the fore
cuddy they built a brick fireplace, with
a brick flue running up through the
dock. I never heard that any of themr
burned, either, though the back log
must have been well shaken utp when
they got into a chop sea on the George's
bank. The Willow, the Blaney, and
the Squirrel were 'pinkerys' whlenx thiey
fitted out in that wa:y between 1720 andt
1730. Tradition says that the ilues
were good p)laces to smoke herring,
and that the fishermen wecre aibou' as
badly smokged in the enxddy as the her
ring wecro in the flue.- N. Y. Hun.
A BeofuddliocI Gr'oom.
A verdant looking couple, evidently
from the far interior, called at the City
Clerk's ofice the other day, ev idently
'on a delicate errand. It was qjuite easy
to see from the lentiful whito ribbons
that bedecked the bonnet of tho girl,
and the white gloves in which her
hands wvero encased, thant she was a
prospective bride. The youno man
was very bashful, and, nlotwitlistand..
Ing several nudges and( whispered
promptings from h is ladiy lOVo,hle couild
not muster up1 courage to state his er
rand. But the genxial clerk helped him
over his dileinma, and asked:
"D)o you wish a marriage license?"
"WV (do,"' resp1ondedQ( the miaideni.
The necessary blankc forms were pro
duced, and the clerk asked the usual
questions concerning the geneal>gy'
pad family hjstory of the candidates
for matrinony. TIhxo young man, not
equal to this ordeal, slipped away to
a seat i thme ("orner, while the bride-to
be gavo t he requiredl information.
"Thie maiden name of the groomx' s
mother?'" queried the clerk.
This wvas too much.. She was not
"up")' in the intricacies of the faraily
history of her intended husband.
"'Samwvell ! Samuwell!'' she called.
"What was your mother's maiden
name?"
''flow shold I know anything about
it?'" resp)ondied SamwellI. "'She dlied a
great many years before I wa:s born1."'
-Boston P ost.
The nunmber' of shocks in an earth-l
quake varies indefinitely, as does the
length of intervals b)etween thxemi.
Sometimes thu whole earthquake only
lasts a few seconds. Thus, tihe city of
Carac'ons nw d~(ostroyedl ini about hlxxf a
minu .e, 100,000s lives being lost in that
time. Lisbon was overthrownx in five
or six innutes, whlilIe a success1in of
shocks many conxtinujo for hours, (lays,
weeks or month s. TIhe CaliIa brian eart b-l
quake, wvh ich begun in F"ebruaxry, 1783,
continued through IL series of shocks
for nearly four years, unxtil (lhe end of
1786. The area shaken b)y an1 earthi
quake varies with the intensity of the
shock, from a mere local tract, where a
silenxt trembling is experienced, up to
such catastrophes us .that at sis bon,
which convulsed not only thme l'or'tu
latid on the oue hand and into A frica
en tihe other, agitated lamkcs, rivers and
springs in Great Britain, amid catised
Loch Lo)mondh to rise andl subside with
startlinry suddeirnes
A Woman's Fault.
They were lovers. All the romance
and sentiment of the world was theirs.
There is something unfathomable In
this thing called love. It tyrannizes
over body and soul as no other fooling
can. It creates happiness from the
greatest sorrow, light from the deepest
darkness.
Through her tears as they parted
shone such a light of love that ho al
most dared call her wife. She knew
that she was loved in return, and that
knowledge created a faith in her heart
which was to endure oven to the gates
of Heaven and beyond.
"In a year!" ho whispered as ho left
her.
And sho answered:
"1 will wait a year-a lifetime!"
When a year had passed and no
word came from him they tried to
shako her faith by creating doubts.
Mien had no constancy, they sneered
men would wring a woman's heart and
have no pity. 'Tears cate to her brown
eyes. but again she answered:
''lie will come back to me!"
When the one year had become five
the old sailors in the taverns and lofts
shook their heads and said to each
other that the ship had surely been
lost and that her young captain would
never bo heard of more. Wives felt a
pity for the heart longing and waiting
through such uncertainty, and they
wtisp)ered that it would be no sin to
love again.
"1 shall seo him again-ho will surely
return!" was the answer of Faith, with
her sorrowful face and aching heart.
Thto five years becano ten. The
brown hair was streaked with gray,
and the girl's fair face had become the
face of ai woman who carries asobbing,
waihing misery in her heart. Men
showed their cruelty by seeking to
awalken i new love; women exhibited
their bitterness of heart towards their
own sex by ridiculing her faith. But
the light of a never-dying hcroism
burned in her eyes as she answered
them:
"lo gave 1110 his, promnise-I am
watching for his ship!"
And the ten year:; becamo twenty.
Mlen and won'i Ii:1l gone to their last
rest ontil senrcely oet( w:a left who re
meinbored when the los, shtit sailed or
who was her captain. Biut thero were
children who h:l heard the story, and
fts they sioothed down the gray hairs
with their soft hiands they whispered:
"It is so s:at! And he was lost at
sen?"
"-Lost!" she answered. "Aye! even
thoiih the whole worli told me so I
shonlbl wait ani watch for him!"
And the twenty years became thirty.
On. night wiheni the storm-vexed sea
lashed the shore in fury and men utter
ed brief prayers to (Ot't -.s they turned
their fa:'es ilpoii the snips niakinlg a
brave light for life, Faith 13 dying.
lhe end had comie. A hiunan heart,
trttbiled aid bruised and acarrod by
waiting in vain-by hoping, to bo ever
disappoited-was about to be stilled.
For a mnoineint tihe storm lulled, just as
a ma i draws a long breath before dash
ing iiito soie great peril. As it
screamed and roared again in its ven
go:ico Faith lifted her thin hand and
whispered:
111e is coming back to ie! I shall
see hiin again and hear his voice once
more!''
Thio il so iovOd nearer and wlis
peroil kind words, but Faith waved her
aside and cried out:
'')o not como between us! I hear
his footsteps-he is here! I loved him,
and my reward has coie at, last! Let
me casp his iaind- -let, o look into his
eyes!"
And agalill thie stormi lulled, urntil the
galo d ied to sobs~ ani I whlispers, and tilo
rear of the siurf sounided miles away.
Biefore the futry galtheredI itself for a
fresh attack two'( spirits p)assedl out of
the 011d house handt ini handii and1 wvcro
af:ir on the path to l leaveni. She had
listeiied, ami1' his footfalls htad at last
echoed iniI hei earts. She had1( watched3(,
and her gIlazed eyes had at. last been
oladdened.i Shze hiad waited, and( ho
Cnd iimI to be with hier through the
perils oif the dark valley.
Your (w sivsteri ma SOmI(en as'
M:u lyv young 0 tn arc always very
reay onceplt inivitationis to other
pe's hiomie cir'es. They~ iare very
mu'(l ch oe aittenttive to o(ther people's
sisters than1 thliir owni! A -young 1man1
shouIldl be fomioil in his hiome, and
spend suittiienit timi) thieie for his in
tGuee to tell upor0 lie family and for
him to cultivate manly disp)ositions
t hat, will be at lessing to) huim in years
to con'iie.
AlI:u y youn menJb- are like crows
theuy comu~ eoac to their nests to roost,
cnd at the dawn of dayv thtey hiaste to
youri b)rains ini aniybody's complany
whencu yen ouight to he in yotur family
ciroh-, ini the house of your father and1
moether. I think it is a duity aund obli
gaion thiiat yout sh ould be attetIive to
tbe rIoluiremn(its andiu needs of your
sister3. Wh ly not somtiimes take y our
sister (out?P take hter for a walk? Why
nt 1somnet ies Inake hiet to a concert?
Whyi ntut someet imies brinzg home pres
ents nud give themu to l'vr? Why, when
you1 (come hiomet, shiouihl you he stillen,
and silentl and10( morosce, as though somo
body had1( been t read inig on your corns
all day. Why not come home and tell
thioset wh lihiave beeni shiuit up all dlay
somii of the iniicietso that have hap)
peineid durinig the dlay, and1 lie bright,
tiuih merry andii cheerful, anud so con
tr-ibuoto your1 shiaro to the fiamily joy
:and4 yon will have it all eack agaitn tn
A:ow:i:ii is)4ay is i'O longer pro
veewh," '-s Eidgar 'Yawoott, the
niovezis:. "People (Zm's to us fronm
European ou a:s :.i( ld arvel at tIle
scale of min i:lleence on which our
revelries are confdte~d. We are
foreign an 0( nitative only in our snob
hery. .eul -might 1 add-u ot;r immor
ality." -
A colored childl hud- aw falls from a
secomd stoky window th< .othoe day,
anId his mother in relaing theQ Incident
at the grocery store said': "Doro (dat
cild( wvas a-comni' don'i feet fest, wid
every chance of bimng killed, when the
a.wd Ho turnedd him- over, the child
struck 01n his hiead, and there wasn't
so mntch 11. 11 l,,t-OI o"
WIT AND Mi.J,
When you go flahi g whse th
mosquitoos are the io eet TtIo
never be troubled to get a bite.
"Called Back" is the title of a new
meloudrama. It Is probably a sequel to
"Forgot to pay for hisdrink."
A Montana girl has been kidnapped
by a bear. Sho probably got one _ug
from the animal and followed It of
A Burlington girl has a diary devoted
entirely to notfug down the visits of her
beaux. She calls it her court docket.
As they passed a gentleman whose'
optics wore terribly on the bias, little
Dot. murmured: "Ma, he's got one eye
that non't go."
VVassar College girls are not allowed
to receivo calls from men, but we be
lieve there is no objection made to wo
men, children and dudes.
"The pootiest woman In all Bpstoa,"
said Micky Muldoon on his retuM from
the Hub to his home in Kensingfon,
"lives in Philadelphia."
The fly to be almost invariably found
in the restaurant bowl of turtle soup is
not supposed to have been placed there
as seasoning by the cook, but to be a
genuine case of accidental drowning.
At great heights, Pq;"ziar Science
Aonthly says, dogs lose their power of
barkmng. It is a fine scheme the1, to
keep your dog in the garret, or tio him
up to the swaying limb of a tall and
lonely tree.
"Did you water the whisky in that
barrel of common yet this morning?"
asked the grocery man of his boy. '-Ne
sir; 1 put a bucketful in it Saturday."
"Oh, well, that's all evaporated by this
time. P'ut in another bucketful.'
"No, she is not what you would call
a pretty girl," said a young man to his
companion, "but she is beautiful to me
because she has a lovely soul." . "I
never thought to look at her feet," said
the other. "Perhaps you are right."
It is said that an applicant for the
vacancy in the state board of fish com
missioners based his qualifications for
the position on the fact that he sold
salt mackerel and codfish for fifteen
years. He was certainly more familiar
with the duties of the ofilee than the
average member of a board of ish
commissioners, and should have been
appointed by the governor.
Big feet are now the proper caper
and the larger a man or woman's feet
are the more fashionable they are.
Looking reflectively at ours as they re
Po in all their native grandeur up on
top of the desk, we are satisfied that
we will never be compelled to pad them
out to make them conform to the rules
of fashion. Wo will be able to lead the
giddy throng in this city.-Evansille
Argus.
"Wife and I quarrel awfully!" said
a Burlington man confidentially to a
riend. "I am very sorry." was thq
reply. "Now nr wife and I'have been
married eight years and not a single
unploasant word has passed between
us. ' "How can that be possibleP" was
the astonished exclamation. "Oh, my
wife lives with her father's folks in
San Francisco."--Burlinglon Free
Press.
"I hear you intod to send your two
sons to college?" said Alpha to O>noga.
"Yes," replhed Omega; "I have en
tered them at X - college." "Why,
gracious man!" almost shrieked Alpha;
'you might as well throw your money
away! X- collego is only a fourth
class institution. "it has never won a
boat race in the whole course of its ex
,tence, and cannot boast of a base
ball nine!"
Theebawv, King of Burmah, became
seized with an irresistible impulse, the
other day, to marry. The fact that his
wife was living didn't prove much of
an obstacle in the way of the fulfill
momnt of his desires. lie poisoned the
Queen and her mother and married the
Queen's sister. He said said that was
cheaper than a Chicago divoree, and
dioosn't leave him with a mother-in
law on his hands to foment trouble.
How his new wife must love him!
Norr'istown Herald.
The Medical Summary recommends
the external application of buttermilk
to ladies who are marred with freckfes.
There is a woman In this city who
wvould require about fourteen churn
Ings a day for about forty years for th-....
successful removal of the freckles on
ber person. She is so freckled that a
man who found her g athering black
berries shot at her, believing her (o be
in escaped leopard, but the bullet
itruck a modest little freckle on 'her
ioso and glanced off, killing a cowr in
,neigh boring p)asture.--Boston Coutier.
Jim Kee, a Philadelphia washerman,
ut In a tough year of it with. an I~sh
>ridoe, llridhget McNulty by name. ~hn
he fled from him, after rollingj u dry
reeds bills aggregating 49 cents. Jim
(eo hasn't taken to whiskey, or done
m~ything equally rash, but -he has, In.
totd a notice in the papers th~at hi.
vifo must not bo trusted on his 'ao
3ount, adding,. in a foot-note, theI re
luest that all who see the same will
iave their shirts washed at 1117 Ridge
Lvenue. Thus does the moon-eyed
ifongolian imp rove oxn the methods of
ho haughty Caucaslan.--Bugalo Ez
ress.
On Sunday afternoon the storm raged
uriously and heaven's.artillery flashed
>f ten to the ,consternation of mapy a
voman. After thie storm had obased
5aroy Robertg, colored, Went to the
itablo to feed his mule.' Re saw the
nule standing on its fore, feet and rest.
ng on itsbhaunches, as if in the set of
ising, and said: "BIl,[]e u. 'uRt
Bill1 listened not to his *ds.' Sup.
posing the mule was too laasy to rise
so shook Bill's head, but there no~st
movement on Bll's part, ltIs
tail wvas twisted in vain--Bill wd
The lightning had killed tte
the act of rising, and ther'e, stdtf4Sm
it stood on its fore foet. Billhasslw
his last furrow and now, aoWqE ite
with poor rchy1
* Thei authorities 6f'Norlitre' t9nlg
tile pavenments for.the'qtreefse, The
tiles are molded int biQoks.7,4 ,Iphes
square and 8,9 in0 J.io th1ok. pd gy
pirognatedi ' With bitumiieu' ragt
upi to 20 per cenit oftei ous.
Teo are laid on Goncrete .sa ibah
filled wih t *ottar. 0