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gumdV0MSi Hqiattmcut. h Doubtful Compliment.?An Irish bar-1 rister named Bethel was rather proud of writing pamphlets. Meeting a witty acquain- j tance some days after the publication of one ' of these, Bethel was asked by him why he bad not been informed of its appearance, j "I wonder you didn't tell me you'd written 11 it, Bethel," said the witty acquaintance; "I j < never saw it until yesterday, and then only , | by the merest accident." !. "Well, how did you like it?" asked Beth- j. el. "How did I like it ?" repeated the other.!' "Why, it contained some of the best things j( I ever saw in a pamphlet on any subject!" "I am very proud to hear you say so," j' said Bethel, "very proud indeed! And? 1 ah?what were the things that pleased you ' so much ?" "Mince pies," said the other. "What?" cried Bethel, his face turning 1 purple. 1 "Mince pies," repeated the other. "I saw ' a girl coming out of a pastry shop, and she ' had three steaming hot mince pies wrapped ( up in your pamphlet. They were fine!" ! j < An Ugly Little Man.?A school inspector was examining a class in grammar and J trying to elucidate the complex relations of adjectives and nouns, by a telling example. , "Now, for instance," said he, "what am , I?" That was an easy question, and all the children shouted : "A man !" and then looked around triumphantly, as much as to say: "Ask another." , "Yes, but what else?" said the inspector. J This was not so easy ; but, after a pause, a , boy ventured to suggest: "A little man." "Yes, but there is something more than that." This was a poser; but at last an infant phenomenon almost leaped from his seat in his eagerness, and cried : "Please, sir, I know, sir?an ugly little man." An Obedient Child.?"Now, Johnnie," said Mrs. Bunting to her little boy, who was going to a party, "you musn't eat everything on the table, or you'll be sick. Now promise me." The promise was given, and the little fellow departed in high glee over the prospect < of a good time. When he returned, his j mamma asked him: ] "Johnnie, did you remember your promise 1 about eating?" i "Yes'm ; I didn't eat near everything on < the table. I remembered what you said, j and I didn't eat a bit of bread and butter, , nor meat, nor milk, but just mince pie, and ] ice-cream, and pickles, and nuts, and cake, ?.j.. ? 1 cauujj auu Johnnie didn't finish. His mother had j fallen otf her chair in a dead faint. ( Inexpensive Charity.?A wholesale gro- 1 cer stood in the doorway of his store, when ! up came a poor woman with a baby in her arms. She begged for something. 1 "Yes," said he, "I think it right to give to | God's poor." J So he took two potatoes from the top of each of the five barrels (to be sold under i commission), and gave them to her, saying: j "My good woman, I'm not giving to you; I'm giving to God." "Taters is good," she said. Then, as he turned to his partner, he said : 1 "John, I have just done a good deed. ' Whosoever buys them potatoes won't miss 1 two from a barrel." ' t I Mostly a Native.?"Are you a native ! of this parish ?" asked a Scotch sheriff of a ] witness who was summoned to testify in a case of illicit distilling. "Maistly, yer honor," was the reply. "I mean were you born \ in this parish?" "Na. I wasna born in J this parish; but I'm maist a native for a ' that." You came here when you were a' J child, I suppose you mean ?" said the sher- .1 iff, "No, sir, I'm here about sax year noo." J "Then how do you come to be nearly a na- 1 tive of the parish ?" "Weel, ye see, whan I cam' here sax year sin', I jist weighed eight ' stane, and I'm seventeen stane noo, sae you 1 see that about nine stane o' me belongs to this parish, and the ither eight comes from Camloche." A Beau Gets Even With a Belle.? She wasn't very young, but she had money. He didn't want the earth. "Dearest," he began ; but she stopped him. "I anticipate what you are about to say, Mr. Sampson," she said, "and I would spare your feelings, for it can never, never be. I esteem you highly, and will be a sister to?" "I have four sisters already," he replied bitterly, "four grown sisters and life is a hideous burdeu. But, oh, Clara," he went on passionately, "if you cannot be my wife will you not give me a mother's protecting love? I'm an orphan." tST"A Scotch mason and an Irish laborer often met in the early morning, going opposite ways to their work. Pat was always the first to hail his fellow-workmau with, "The top ov the morning to you, me bhoy!" leaving Sandy a very lame reply or a nod. Thinking to he up sides with Pat, Sandy one morning took the first word, and shouted out, "The top of the moruiug to you, Pat!" "Och, sure," said Pat, "the rest ofj the day to yourself, me bhoy !" A Case ok Necessity.?A shop-keeper, I who had stuck up a notice in glaring capi- j tals, "Selling off! Must close on Saturday!" was asked by a friend : "What! Are you selling off?" "Yes; all the shop-keepers are selling off, ain't they?" "But you say, 'Must close on Saturday.' " "To be sure; would you have me keep open on Sunday ?" fl?" An old Scotch lady, who had no relish for modern church music, was expressing her dislike on the singiug of an anthem in her own church one day, when a neighbor said: "Why, that is a very old anthem ! j David sang that anthem to Saul." To this the old lady replied : "Weel, weel! I 1100 for the first time understan' why Saul threw his javelin at David when the lad sang for him." 8&F "Are you going to be an old maid now, Ethel ?" asked the young lady's tenyear old sister. "Why, certainly not, you ! silly child," she replied. "I shall marry Mr. Spooner, of course." "But you can't now." "Why not?" "Isn't he a bachelor?" "Yes." "And he joined the church this "* ' ?) 11 4 ...1 l.? i mormug. "i kuow u. -Aim iu- ??.->. confirmed." "I know that, also." "Well, doesn't that make him a confirmed hache-1 lor?" #GT Maud?Ned is a clever fellow. When ' the gas shares went down the other day he j took advantage of the opportunity afforded i him, and cleared a good round sum. Marie? ! Well, I don't think he is very bright. He did not know enough to take advantage of the 1 opportunity afforded him the other night when our gas went down. 8&T Pompous Maiden Lady (engaging servaut, who has taken the liberty to sit down without being asked)?Do you know that it is a great breach of etiquette for any one to sit down in the presence of their superiors? Bridget?Lor', yes, mum : but kape your sate; I don't belave in them ancient superstitions. taT" Bridegroom (after the ceremony)? i_ 1 r n .uauue, you uuu 1 uic uuc, nun. u >v maius to be decided which is the one. I tried to win you, didn't I ?" "Yes, Harold.'' | "And I won. That seems to settle it." "Not quite, Harold. You tried to win me. You succeeded. Then you are the winner, are you not ?" "Yes, dear." "And I'm the won." A Connubial Rktokt.?They were having a heated argument. He said : "Stop your quarreling. People will think we are crazy." "No they won't, my dear," she replied. "They will think one of us is crazy." "Ah !" he responded, "there's your egotism again." W8F It's pretty damp for a person with the rheumatism to be prowling around, I'ncle Josh." "Mebbe, boss, but it's der doctor's advice." "Do you meau to tell me the doctor advised you to be out nights?" "Not 'zactly dat way?but he said I must have chicken brof." jjrtlistrUancous grading. CURIOSITIES ABOUT SUGAR. Sugar, the modern commodity, which we [ e elass among the indispensable necessaries, ivas wholly unknown to the ancient nations, ; ^ The word "sticcharum" occurs but once in [he Latin translation of the Bible, and the equivalent for our word "sugar" is first used j ay Pliny, whose writings are almost con-: temporaneous with the ministry of Christ. ( Ke calls it "honey collected in (from) reeds," ind says that the Romans first became ac- r ,,c<i in Arabia Polix. luullllcu ?'< " ?? - Statins, in his account of the old Saturna-, ]( lia ceremonies, mentions "vegetable honey" j is being used, and winds up his account by j j saying that "this same honey is boiled from ( Klosian reeds." Pioscorides, the Greek physician who ? flourished in the First or Second century of the Christian era, and whose great work, 'Pe Materia Medica" treats of all the then * known medicinal substances and their prop- s srties, says that "the name of sugar has heen ^iven to the honey which is produced by q reeds without bees," and Strabo, writing s concerning it, says: "They (the people of Arabia Felix) made honey without bees a from reeds and it sometimes resembles salt." j Arrian, in his "Circuit of the Ked Sea," alludes to the sap which "flows from reeds, s thickens like honey, and is sweet to the a taste." Seneca, whom Chambers' Encyclopedia says was "born at Corduba a few years B. C.," writes Concerning the use of ^ "burned sugar" among the people of India, ^ and concludes by adding: "In ray opinion the use of sugar spoils the teeth." Nearehus says that sugar cane was first made known to the Western countries by the couquests of Alexander the Great. The first of ^ the sugar canes were brought from the East a to Sicily in the year 1148, and two years later were introduced into Spain. In 1S0S o the Spaniards brought some of the seeds or t plants to the West Indies, and from these the present sugar industry has grown. Ac- fi cording to the London Economist, 5,107,000 j< tons of sugar were consumed by the inhabitants of the world in 1893. a f) Cutting an Elephant's Nail.?Three " * 1 ~nn alnnhmU rnilQt linvft * times a yeur, icuav, an uv.|/uu.<w ?. - iy his toes trimmed into good shape; ouce in the f, spring, once when traveling with the circus in the summer, and once more when the G huge beast has returned to winter quarters. ? The sole of the elephant's foot becomes gradually covered during the year with a substance resembling horn, much like his three P great toe nails. This, if allowed to grow too v dense, is apt to crack and make the beast lame. s Accordingly, one of the keepers stations v the elephant in the ring aud bids him balance himself on three legs while he stretches h out the other leg behind him, resting it on a t biock of wood or a box. With a carpeuter's drawing knife the hoof is then attacked, aud v shaved quickly down. Sometimes pieces of n the bony substauce, five or six inches long a and nearly as thick, are cut otf without the elephant's feeling any pain whatever, or the a knife taking too much from the sole. ^ Frequently pieces of glass, nails, splinters, u and the like, are found embedded in the growth, and these it is very important to have extracted, lest they should work their IS way upward and fester in the foot. When the first rough going over is com- ' pleted, the keeper, with a smaller knife, , trims each nail into shape?its cleanliness * and new color quite improving the animal's 11 appearance?covers any small wounds with " tar, and dismisseses the patient. It takes six hours to do this curious job in a proper f< manner. t: Limit of Employers' Liability.?An employe of the Buffalo Car company was in- b jured four years ago by the breaking of a P belt on a planing machine, one eye being h destroyed. He sued for damages in the supreme court before Judge Childs, in 1S90, and ii the case was dismissed without the defense c being heard. A new trial was granted by li the general term. This was held before Tiiafir.p Ward in 181)2. and resulted in a ver- 1 diet of $3,000 for the injured man. The car I s company appealed and the judgment was | j sustained. The case was then carried to the i court of appeals, which has just decided in ? favor of the car company. lathe review of j, the case this statement is made : "The master does not guarantee the safety of his servants. He is not bound to furnish them au absolutely safe place to work in, but is bound simply to use reasonable s care and prudence in providing such a place. He is not bound to furnish the best known appliances, but only such as are reasonably }' fit and safe. He satisfies the requirements 11 of the law if, in the selection of machinery s and appliances, he uses that degree of care which a man of ordinary care would use, v having regard to his own safety, if he were o supplying them for his own personal use. It h is culpable negligence which makes the master liable, not a mere error of judgment."? a Scientific American. j o "There Were Giants in Those Days."? j Turner, the naturalist, declares that he once | a saw, upon the coast of Brazil, a race of gi-1 e gantic savages whose average height was j r over 10 feet, some individuals exceeding 121 j a feet. M. Thevet, of France, in his deserip-! tion of America, which was published in j f Paris, in 1575, says that he was once present! <" when the skeleton of a South American sav-' n age, 11 feet and 2 inches in height, was disin- j terred. The Chinese have a record of sever- | al giants between 12 and 1(5 feet in height v which have lived in the Flowery kingdom c within the last 300 years. Josephus men-; ( tions a Jew who was 10 feet 2 inches, and t Pliny was well acquainted with Gabara, the Arabian giant, who was 9 feet 9 inches in j. height. Coming down to modern times, we t find that John Middleton, who lived in the ! time of James I, was 9 feet 3 inches, and had | a hand 17 inches long by 81 broad. Murphy, one of the celebrated trio of "Irish Giants" (Charles Byrne and O'Brien being the other two), was 8 feet 10 inches, while j' woe S fi?pt 4 iiiclice !i1111 O'Krimi t\VO ' "J ? I. inches taller. There are several so-called 1 giants now on exhibition, Chang, the long Celestial, being among the number, but it is ' doubtful if there is a man living today who ' exceeds 7 feet (?inches in height. j * ? - ? ? 4 Shar "The old town of Appomattox is en-;' tirely destroyed with the exception of live or six families, of whom only one, that of a I Methodist clergyman, is white. A syndicate ] bought up all the property a few years ago as J > a speculation, and when the owners got their < money and signed their deeds, they moved < away leaving their houses empty. The court house was burned about the same time, 1 and a new one was erected at the railroad < station, about three miles distant, where a i consiberable town sprung up. The McLean | house, iu which the articles of surrender i wer written and signed, was purchased by i the syndicate and taken down, brick by | brick, for removal to the World's L'air, but j for some reason the plan was not carried j out, and the bricks and tinfbers are still < stored in the vacant houses in the neighbor- < hood." I flfe?r "I have a new remedy for insomnia," ( said the nervous member, as he entered the , club room this morning. "If it is good, tell usaboutit." It is very simple. Just goto , bed and take the most comfortable position j for sleeping. Then slowly open and close ( your eyes. If, after 40 winks, you are not , asleep, then try 40 more. The great dilli\ cully with victims of insomonia is that they ;' almost always fall to thinking of the events j' of the day. This may he prevented by per sistcnt counting, but that is itseit a mental effort, and wakes one up. Not so, however,! with winking. I defy any of* you to think of anything else while you are engaged in I his simple exercise." A net k.vr Pkkskkvation ok thk Dkad.? j ! Herodotus gives a good description of the! manner in which the early Ethiopians pre- ' ! served their dead. Having thoroughly dried ! the corpse, they plastered it over with a I paste made of gypsum and then painted t lie j face and exposed parts so as to make them look as natural as possible. Dead bodies served in this manner remained intact for : hundreds of years. 1 It is to he noted that the various nr- j mies of the unemployed do not include any , ! considerable number of farmers. Such a j | consideration, The Ploughman thinks,should . | cause the you tig man to hesitate before leav-1 ing the farm for one of these other oecupaj tions which have felt the times so severely, j j The farmer does not become rich in a day, nor dues lie often become a tramp 01 a pauper. I ^iuisulc Gatherings. BSy (lood railroad tires are expected to last ight years. gfcaT London bridge is crossed by 200,000 ieople daily. Bfey India has 131,000 lepers according to he last census. BST No woman is too silly not to have a enius for spite. fiST" A kind "no" is often more agreeable hail a rough "yes." AS?" When times are hard, nobody can easonably expect to have a soft time of it. 8@T As much as $2,500,000 is expended for ?ad pencils in the United States every year. B&T Don't rein up the plow horse. Make im as comfortable in every way as possible. 8?*" If you would increase your happiness nd prolong your life, forget your neighbor's uilts. ?aT" Generally the more aimless a hoy is he better he likes to run around with a hotgun. fiST" The best way to manage a church uarrel, or any other kind of a quarrel, is to top quarreling. 80?" More than one hundred and fifty flags re a necessary part of the outfit of every American warship. 8?" Common-sense does not ask an imposible chess-board, but takes the one before it, nd plays the game. 8?? A Cincinnati chemist has invented a irocess of milk making which reduces the irice to live cents a gallon. 8?* A two-thousand-acre farm near the )elaware Water Gap is devoted entirely to he cultivation of celery. fiGsT Speaking of the widow's mite, a single ndy says it is just like a widow to attract 11 the attention to herself. BST It is estimated that there are .100,000,000 f sheep in the world of which about one* enth are in North America. 8ST" There are now 74 survivors of the xmous Balaklava charge, so far as the Urit>h army authorities can trace. 8ST" Remember that horses sutler from heat s much as humans ; therefore, neither overbed, nor needlessly expose them. 8ST The highest mountain in the world is Iount Everest, in the Himalayas?29,000 jet, or five and three-fourths miles. H)5B~ The reports show that there are 4G tnte banks now doing business in North 'arolina, There are 28 national banks. We have always had an idea that the hilosopher who takes everything as it comes, without swearing, has a hard time of it, 8?" "You look so much like your brother," aid Dennis to Phelim, "'that I could tell yez ras brothers if I'd never seen aither av yez." 86T" According to careful estimates, three ours of close study wear out the body more ban a whole day of hard physical exertion. 8?" The royal library of Nebuchadnezzar, ecently unearthed at Babylon, contains inumerable tax lists and records of taxes paid ud unpaid. 86T" The German emperor recently issued n order that no sermon preached before im by a court chaplain must exceed 1.1 inintes in delivery. One of the new rifles used by the Ital111 soldiers sends a ball with force enough to o through live inches of solid oak at a dis[ince of 4,000 feet. 8&" For croup, while you are waiting for lie doctor, put lard on a cloth, sprinkle with lustard, and apply to the chest. Give also r\cr%a r\f ctrmn nf inf?f>5lP AV. .v AST" A New England dictionary oflers the allowing definitions : "Bicycle : Pleasure's readmill. Ink : a black fluid often used to lake black seem white." Powdered charcoal, if laid thick on a urn, causes the immediate abatement of the ain. A superficial burn can thus be ealed in about an hour. 8?aT The United States manufacture more ron, steel, copper, and lead than any other ountry on the globe, Great Britain being a ittle ahead on zinc and tin. flaT* Pekin, China, has an estimated popuution of 1,300,000, and 15,000 police, who ignal from station to station by yelling until he news reaches headquarters. 06?*The expressions "Hallelujah" and Amen" are said to have been introduced uto Christian worship by St. Jerome, some ime about the year A. I). 390. fiST A very good authority gives a very imple remedy for hiccough?a lump of sugar aturated with vinegar. In 10 cases, tried as n experiment, it stopped hiccough in 9. SSf Sponging the window-panes and sills rith strong carbolic acid is said to kill flies ii a few minutes. Apply the acid when the un shines and the Hies are most numerous. Quito, Ecuador, is the only city in the rorld in which the sun rises and sets at (1 i'clock the year round. The reason of this $ that it is situated exactly on the equator. fiaT" "The House of David" is the name ol . Western saloon. Beware of the "slings" " - i - ---- ii.. i?~i:??j it mat Jiouse, iur me snug ui x/uvm ??.uta! to one man, ami he, too, was a giant. fiST "I wish a fellow could borrow money s easily as he can borrow trouble." "If you ould make money as easily as you can aake trouble, you wouldn't need to borrow my." BSaT A Florida farmer, after ridding his own arm of snakes by turning loose among them a Irovc of razor-back hogs, now rents out the mimals to his neighbors for a similar pur>ose. AST Red denotes courage; blue, truth; vhite,purity; green, jealousy; yellow, inonstaney ; black, mourning: brown, melan:holy; gray, remembrance; violet, sympaby. fiiST There is a wild-flower in Turkey thai s an exact floral image of a humming bird, he breast is green, the wings arc a deep rose lolor, the throat yellow, the head and beak dmost black. 6?" Obliterate everything disagreeable rom yesterday, start out with a clean sliccl or today, and write upon it for sweet memo y's sake only those things which are lovely md lovable. fitaT" The patents applied for in Washingtoi ast year numbered 40,00(1. The total num >er of patents outstanding on Jan. 1 was 545, J00. The receipts of the patent oflicc art ibout $1,200,000 a year, and the expense.' ?150,000 less. 1S?}F A single match requires from a llOOtli ,o 1200th of a grain of phosphorus for ib production, yet the consumption of matche? s so large that it is estimated that the total )f 1,200 tons is less than the amount consum h1 in Europe in their manufacture. She was a lawyer's daughter, but lit xissed her. "Sir," she exclaimed, "how lare you ! Don't yon know I can have yoi ndicted for larceny?" "All right," here [died, "if you do, I'll have you charged will receiving stolen property." JST" Customer?It's no good, Isaacs. ] tell you for the tenth time you haven't a coat in vmir Klinn to suit me. I don't want ; plum-colored coat: I want a brown coat 'Mine, friendt, I assure you on the word of i dientIonian dis coat I hold in my hand wil fade brown.'' tiki?" Twenty-four carat gold is all gold ; 2: carat gold has 22 parts of gold, 1 of silve and 1 of copper; IS carat gold has l! parts of pure gold and parts each of silve and copper in its composition ; 12 carat gob is half gold, the remainder being made u] of :U parts of silver and N.l parts of copper UMtSf Indignant Customer?Say, when yoi sold me that horse you told me that he ha< as much sense as a man had. 1 find that tin women around the house can't manage hin at all. Dealer?Well, that not only prove that he has a< much sense as a man, but thu be has even more. Ilk#" When the forest-haunting hermit Tho reau lay on his death-bed, a Calvinistii friend called to make inuuirv regarding hi soul. "Henry," he said, anxiously, "hav< you made your peace with (Sod?" John,' replied the dying naturalist, iu a whisper "1 did'nt know that (iod and myself hat quarreled!"' iiirtr Mr. l'rohib? Just think what can In done with water. Put a few barrels of it ii a locomotive, and see what a load it \yil carry for thou? Mr. Kentucky?Yas, sah It's very good law mechanical purposes, sah Hut, sail, when a man, sah, wants the satis faction of carrying a good load, he mustn' mix much vvntah with it, sah. He came home from his daily grind a the ollice, and falling into a chair, said "What have you got to read? I'm just ii the mood to read something sensationa and startling?something that will make mi hair stand on end." To which his othe half responded sweetly, "Here's the hill fo my spring dress, darling." 1 ?he Jdfltjt ?cllev. SCRAGS, THE NEWSBOY. "Scrags!" Lots of your readers will re , member Scrags. He was a newsboy, and lias sold thousands of copies of Chicago daily I papers. But that was years agd, before the | big fire. I had a peculiar interest in Scrags. I'll [ tell you why. It was because I started him ; in business. That is, I furnished the capital i that bought his first installment of papers. : I was coming down Clark street one even- j i ing in the winter of 1809. It was snowing j at the time. As I crossed Monroe street I s | felt some one touch me on the arm. I lookI ed down, and there stood Scrags. He was 1 covered all over with snow, and was crying 1 bitterly. "What is it, boy ?" said I. 1 "Please, sir, a dime, to buy bread for 1 mother," he said, "for she and the baby are starving." "Starving!" said I. "Oh, no! People can't starve in Chicago ; but where is your father ?" "He got killed in a 'splosion," said Scrags, "and mother and the baby are starving." "Come over here under the gaslight," I said, "and let me look at you." i *? " i 1. it. l 1 i ne was ioriorn luujuug cnuu^n. jie uuu on a coat that must have belonged to his father, for the skirts of it, where he walked along, left a trail in the snow. His face was clean, but his features were pinched, and the shoes he had on were much too i large for his feet. "How old are you, and what is your name?" I asked. "I'm nine years old, and they calls me Scrags; because they says I look so scraggy ; but my name's Jimmy Daniels, I'lease, sir, give me the dime," "What good will the dime do you, my boy ? Tomorrow it will be gone, and then you will have to beg for another. You must get something to do." "I can't," said Scrags; "peopledon't want a boy like me. I hain't got no friends ; but will you give me the dime? If not, I'll have to beg, if the police don't catch and run me in," and the boy oommenoed to ory again." I was on my way to the theater, but I had j heard so much of professional beggars in I Chicago that I determined to see if this was j one, so I said : "Scrags, where do you live?" "Over on Randolph street, on the west side," he replied. "Well, come on, I'm going home with you ; we will take a oar at Madison." "That'll coBt you a dime," said Scrags, "and if you'll give me the dime, I'll run all the way home; besides its no placo for a gentleman." "Never tniud that, Scrags, I'm going homo with you, just the same," and we mounted a j Randolph car. We got olf at May street j and Scrags tried to run on ahead, but I kept up with him. I didn't know but what he ' trvinir to dodtre me. He stonncd in "%,w *' j --*r? *- o - k front of a two-story frame building; there was a barroom below and the building was old and dilapidated, "You' better not go up, mister, we are aw? fully poor," "Is this the place ?" "Yes, up in a little back room. We pays a dollar a week for it. 1 begs the money." "Is there no light in the hall?" "No, people, what live in such as this can't 'ford no light. We ain't got no light in our room." "Not a lamp ? Not a candle ?" "No, mister; I bought a bucket of coal this morning with 10 cents I got for cleaning i off snow. If that ain't all gone, perhaps you can see a little." "Well, go on ; I will see for myself," Hcrags hurried up the squeaky stairs, through the dark hall, and to the very hack of the building. Here he halted and opened 1 , a door: "Mother!" "Dimmie! Dimmie!" It was the voice of a sobbing child. "Mother!" cried Scrags in a startled voice, and he hastened in the direction from which the child's voice had sounded. "Mamma tant peak, Dimmie. I's so told ; I's so hundry." "Mother !" shrieked Scrags. "She's dead," he screamed, and I heard him fall 011 his knees beside her. "Is there no one in these other rooms," said I, of whom I can procure a light." "No, they got put out," said Scrags, be! tween his sobs; "they could not pay the rent." I stepped forward and lighted a match, i What I saw, was a mattress lying on the 1 ! floor in one corner of the room ; the face of a dead woman and that of a little girl of 1 j three years of age huddled up against her, ; with her arms around her, and Scrags 011 his j 1 kuees, with his face pressed against that of; J his dead mother. A sadder scene I have h never seen since. I never expect to ugain. i No light, no fire, and death. "I will have a light in a moment, Scrags;" j j and I hastened down stairs and across the j i! street. In a grocery I bought a lamp which ; I had filled with oil. In a restaurant I or-! dcred provisions, ready cooked, sent over at I once. Close at hand, from a small dealer, I. bought a basket of coal, and returned to the j I room of death. II The mother must have been dead an hour L or more. !, An old broken cook stove and a couple of boxes, which were used as substitutes for j chairs, comprised the furniture of the room. ; 11 built a fire in the old stove and soon had j the cold room warm. I lifted Jennie from the mattress, and ' seated her on a box before the lire. A waitter brought in the provisions, and I gave him ; a half dollar to find a woman that I could , i employ for the night and to send me an un! dertakcr. : "Come, Jitnmie, you must eat now. Your i mother has gone beyond the reach of aid." ; "She died of hunger and cold, mister." > "There are plenty," said I, "who would . j have given of their means to rescue her, had p | they known of her condition." "They didn't want to know, mister. I'eo, j pie wouldn't believe me. And if I asked for I help on the street, and the police saw me, they'd run me in. Only Monday, one arrest. i ed me for vagrancy, because I asked a rich, j looking man for a dime. I bad 90 cents and i wanted 10 more, to pay a week's room rent. 1 The policeman took it away from me and ' i ],? imnnla mn lioM lni'L' , j 1,11111 luu nmc no v?n.h..i ...v, .. ' me up." I Jennie, unconscious of her loss, was busily engaged on the leg of a chicken, and I soon had Scrags similarly employed. The woman and undertaker soon came. } "Now, Scrags," said I, "I have arranged ' for the burial of your mother. This woman 1 will remain here until she is borne away. ' This is a poor place for little Jennie. I will 1 j take her to my mother, on the south side, and bring her back tomorrow at o'clock, I , when your mother will be laid at rest." tj "Tome, mamma ! tome, mamma?" 1 j I glanced around. Jennie had hold of her mother's cold dead hand. * j "Tome, mamma! Nice fire, mamma, and II chiten, mamma, chiten !" The tears sprang to my eyes. I could 2 not restrain them. rj "Come, little Jennie, you will go home < with me tonight. Your mamma has gone to r heaven, now." l! "Done to heaven? No. Dere mamma." d "Hut she is dead, my child. Come with . me, and see my mamma." . I "Jimtnie do too ? j j "No, not now. We will leave Jimtnie B here till tomorrow." "I tiss mamma and Jimtnie good-bye," and , she pressed a kiss to the lips of her dead j j mother. "Oh, mamma, you so told." Then she ran to Jimtnie. The poor hoy clasped her in his arms, while the tears ran down ~! his cheeks. "(iood night, little Jennie. You're the * only one left to kiss Scrags, now." , As the clock struck 10, Jennie and I entered the home of my mother, on Wabash avenue. ! "Why, who have we here?" she asked. I told her all about it. Jennie was asleep in my arms. j j "My son, you have acted nobly and ' right." And she soon had her tucked* away ' in bed. j In the morning she was seated in mother's " lap when I entered the dining room. 1 "Dear little thing," said mother. "Your mother has gone. Hut I'm your mamma t now. Will you love your new mamma?" : J "I love you now," lisped Jennie. 1 j At H o'clock I took her back to bid her 1 i mother a last farewell, and we laid her at , ! rest in the cemetery. 1 carried Jimmie home r with me, and the next day took him down r (own and invested $10 in clothing for him. i i " b: . ?? ??f *???* onJ llio ?um? unit <1aii. | i'llll'l Ilir> IItil i tin inm uiv tawvv ouav *?v.? | lied, Scruggs presented quite a different ap pearance. My lather hud been dead some years and : I was engaged in 110 regular business, so bad ! nothing for Scrags to do, and we could hardly undertake the care of them both. In fact we had not room for Scrags, having but a small flat, so I rented a room for him at #1 a I week, not far from our home, where he would be comfortable, and told him that each Sunday he should spend the day with us. That evening I gave him a dollar, and the next morning his voice was heard on one of the : downtown street corners: "Morning paper ? Here's your morning paper ! "The next Sunday we carried Scrags to I church with us. After the services a eollec- | tion was taken up to aid the suffering poor j of Europe. "Mr. Randall," said Scrags, when we had left the church, "probably if we'd lived in Europe, mother wouldn't have died. Looks like they would rather help people across the sea than those at home." It was tnany weeks before we could induce : Scrags to attend church again, though lie ! would attend services at the newsboy's home, i Scrags prospered as a newsboy. He always j looked neat and clean, and no boy was on j the street earlier, or worked harder to sell his papers. I have been told that he sold ! more papers while lie was a newsboy, than any other boy of his time. At the end of three months he came to me one day and handed me a little book. "It's my bank book," said he. It was a book showing his deposits at a dime savings bank down town, where newsboys deposit their savings. It showed $41 to the credit of Scrags. "I want you to take it all but one dollar," said lie, "to pay back ttie *10 lor my clothes and to pay on the funeral expenses of mother. When I make more I will pay the balance, and I want to put up a headstone at mother's grave." "Never mind paying me now, Scrags," said I, "wait till you're a man. Only keep on as you have commenced. Never eontract bad habits. Never drink whiskey and you will yet be more than Scrags." "I shall never drink, sir. I promised mother." Throe months after that, one Sunday he was anxious to take Jennie to the cemetery, so mother and I accompanied them. We found a neat marble slab erected at his mother's grave, bearing her name, and the date of her birth and death. "How did you know the date of your mother's birth ?" "From this Bible," and he produced a well-worn testament from his pocket. It bore her name and date of her birth. The next spring I went to Europe to pur- j sue my studies, those of an artist, and it was seven years before I was in Chicago aguin. I found my dear mother well, and dear little Jennie a girl of eleven years of age and the sunshine of our home. After greeting them both I inquired for Scrags. "Oh, he'll be in at supper time," said mother. "He lives with us now. We couldn't get along without him. He's a reporter on one of the leading dailies now." "Why," said I, "I did not know he was competent for a position of the kind." "Competent," said mother; there never was a boy like him. I tell you these night J schools work wonders, and Jennie?you I should hear her play. She is quite a musician already, and very forward in her studies." Soon Scrags came in. He was wonderfully changed. Seventeen years of age, and a bright, smart, industrious young man. "I owe it all to you, Mr. Randall. Yes, and to your dear mother !" "If your mother?was alive now, Scrags? or Jimmie " He smiled. "Never mind, Mr. Randall, occasionally some one calls me Scrags, yet." "How proud she would he of you and , Jennie," "And how thankful to you," added Scrags. "Do you attend church now ?" I asked. "No, Mr. Randall, I teach in the newshoys' home evenings when my business will let me, and have a class there Sundays." I remained home three years, at the end of which time I returned to Europe. I remained there live years. It was the night of the 17th of December, 1SS5, when I rang our door bell again. The door was opened by a handsome young lady of nineteen. "Who was it ?" It was Jennie. Was I not proud of her? j I found silver threads beginning to appear! amid mother's hair. "My son ! My son!" and I was clasped in her arms, "You must not leave us again. Remember I am sixty-four years of age now." "No, mother, I shall not go abroad again. | I have material and sketches which to perfect will take a lifetime. But where is Scrags?" "You passed him on the ocean," said mother. "He left here a Week ago as London correspondent of the Associated l'ress. He received the appointment the first of the month. He is a model young man and 25 years of age now, you know." I purchased a home on the north side, near Lincoln park, to which we removed, and titted up my studio in the house. I found ready sale for all my work at large prices. Mother said to me one day : "My son, shall you never marry? You are getting to he an old luichelor. You are I 35 now." "I have never thought of it till recently," I replied. Since you came home?" she asked. "Yes, mother, since I returned. "Perhaps," said mother, "the charming | young lady you met at the door, my Jennie, [ brought it to your mind. How would you I like for your wife the Httlc girl you brought that stormy night, l(i yeais ago, in your! arms, to your mother?" I | "Mother, I love Jennie, but the difference | is too great. I am Hi years older than she." "Age is nothing," said mother, "where love 1 exists. Jennie has loved you always. She. looked as anxious for you letters as did I.i She blushes when you kiss her, and your old ; mother don't. Trust me, my son, Jennie ! I loves you dearly, and no other. Marry her, j ! and you will have a loving wife?one whom j i you rescued when a child, and who will love j you till death." In the spring we were married. I did take j one more trip to Europe. Mother went j with us. Arrived in London, I procured j rooms in a hotel and hunted up Scrags. "Come, Jimmic, 1 want to introduce you i to my wife. I'm married now." "But when did you arrive? How did you leave your mother and Jennie?" "We arrived today?my mother and wife and I. I left Jennie well." "Did you marry your wife in England?" "Oh, no; I brought her with me from I Chicago." "I did not know you had a sweetheart I there," said he. I "I found one there," I replied, "when I ! arrived home the last time." j By this time we were at the hotel. My mother was in the parlor, and they were ; overjoyed to see each other. I open .-d a I j door and led from another room my bride. I i A long veil, fastened in her wavy hair, ex| tended to her waist, hiding her face. "My wife, Jimmie. My own sweet wife." He stepped forward, but looked surprised. I "You must raise the veil vourself," said if. j | He hesitated, but did so, and my wife was ! in the arms of Scrags. nam. littln toiiiiin I)i>!ir Scraps. T love j them both. We're back home now, and lmvc a lovely j little girl, named for my mother, Fannie. Scrags is still Chicago press correspondent at London. | Happy? My wife and I ? Our home's a | paradise. ?? ??? ! i m. Lrsswrft.>#? I __ , y , mi vrr?#w m Absolutely /tyre A cream of tartar baking powi der. Highest of all in leavening strength.?La lest I'm ted States j (loveranient Food Report., Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall Street, N. Y. 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(liven under my hand and seal, this 4th day j of June, in the year of our Lord one thou-! sand eight hundred and ninety-four, and in the 11sth vearof American Independence. W. II. McCOKK LIC, I'rohatu iTiulf;o of York County. Juno l! 2.! lit W. W. LliWIS, arri-<)hn i:v arr j,a \v, Yorkvillo, S. C\ A 1.1. lU'SINKSS <il VKN I'IMM I'T AND CAKKITL ATI'KNTHIX. J lino ti Si ly BHBBBBBBO for Infants ; " < iiHt or la is so well adapted to children that 1 recoiimiciid it assii|K.'riortoany prescription l.nou'ii tonic." ][. A. Anon Kit, >1. ! ., lit So. oxford St., llrooklyn, N. Y. "The u a' of '('.ustoria it so universal and i.s merits so well known Iliut it seems a work f sn;M-rero^ation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep ('listeria \. i! hill easy reaeh." c.uiuis mautvn, 1). i>., New York City. The Pentacr ( GAUltY IRON RO Manufactures all kinds of IKON HOOFING, CKIMl'KI) ANDCOKKirOATKD.SiniNG, Iron Tile or Shingle, FIKE I'ltOOK noons, SIIUTTKIIS, AC., | THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS ( fi-ir Orders received l?y L. M. GRIST. YOUR FflTHEl WKRK, no doiild, very good farmers in tlioi tin1 same principle thai their ancestors h tongue plow, etc., and raising everything that w moving. It made no difference to them how 1 bundles of fodder, mow a meadow, cut and hint and they eared very little for large yields. Just gers" everything was right. Is the foregoing cor When you commenced farming after the wa plan, but had no "free" labor. You paid good Kverything went smoothly for a time, but final the same plan as to mode of cultivation and ainot raise 7 cents cotton on exactly the same plan as costs about the same per acre to cultivate, but yoi few years you have been raising corn, wheat, < so heavy. You are to be congratulated on seei your being able to give the time business the cold You, However, Have That you are losing money every year by stick tion, cultivation, harvesting and preparing yoi thcless. Is it possible to get your eyes open? and great is their satisfaction with the new way. Here arc some facts that can't be turned dov You can't allbrd to raise 7 cents cotton on cents for it, when you can reduce the cost of pre] use of the Corbin Disk Harrow for preparing the or the Western Tripple Harrow lbr cultivating tl You can't all'ord to pull fodder when you ca mow and house a better quality of forage at al pounds, by the use of a Corbin Disk Harrow,! Chieftain Horse Rake. You can't atford to cut your wheat and oats two bushels of the grain per acre, when within 1 from fifteen to twenty acres a day and not wash satisfactorily on land on which an old-fashioned You can't afford to gin your cotton on an < from five to ten per cent, of the lint on the seed a one-fourth of a cent per pound, when by the i lint and make a sample that will bring the toj Grove say that cotton ginned on Pratt (tins bri that ginned on any other make of gin. You can't afford to thresh your wheat, or al dilapidated thresher that will leave 25 per cent, o who does your work, should haveaCardwell Tin The James Leflfel Engine stands at the head power. Tt don't take a fortune to buy one, eithe The Oliver Chilled is the best turning plow o The Farmers' Friend Grain Drill is without a I am agent for each of the above mentionci lutely the best of their kind on the market, am satisfaction. I DON'T SELL EXPERIMENT i > ,?3(3 Captain J. Wilson Marshall A* Son are in Mowers, Corbin Disk Harrows and Thomas and m "Mil" U? IIII HIM. IMPROVED, HIGH ARM, PERFECTED. Shipped on Approval and Guaranteed to Give Entire Satisfaction, and if Not Satisfactory after a Test of TWENTY DAYS in Your Home, the Machine Will he Taken Hack and Your Money Refunded. i'jms//! ;/> /.v O.I A' o/f ii.i i.s t r . I .V /> <?' I'A IC.I .M KI-.lt run #/ ?.? .......... This Kleganf Machine Delivered, Freight Paid, at any Railroad Station Fast of the Koeky Mountains, for $2:1.00. THE ENlM'IRKR lias sent out a large limnher of the best grades of Sewing Machines in the past live years, anil in view of the fact that the business has grown to such proportions as to warrant it, we have recently perfected an arrangement for the manufacture of Til 10 KXtJt'IKKK SKWINO MACHINE, and we are now prepared to furnish them to all who wish to buy a tirst class high grade Sewing Machine at less than half the price at which such a machine is usually sold by peddlers and dealers. A Few Facts About The Enquirer Machine. The accompanying engraving gives a correct idea of the machine. It is as near perfection as any machine on the market. Any kind of work can be done on it that any other machine will do. All wearing parts are case liardcn d steel, and arc fitted so accurately that these machines are as absolutely noiseless and easy running as line adjustment and best mechanical skill are possible to produce. No expense or time is spared to make them perfect in every respect. The balance-wheel and many of the line parts are nickel plated, with other parts finely enameled and ornamented, giving it a rich appearance. The machine is lilted with the Improved Automatic Dobbin Winder. It also has a self-setting needle and self-threading cylinder shuttle. The simplicity of the automatic tensions, sewing from Nos. 40 to KM) thread without altering, recommends it not only to every beginner, hilt to ai.i.. Kneh machine is in perfect working order when shipped, and is accompanied with printed intructions and a complete set of tools and all necessary attachments, in a handsome plush lined case. The attachments are the best. now to <:i:r the matiiixe. I WI'O IIT. I XT /.V h OII M A TI O .V. The price of the Machine isSjiSitJ. We deliver it at your nearest railroad station free of freight charges, provided you live east of the Rocky Mountains. THE ENtjl'IHER will be sent free for one year to every purchaser of a machine. The cash must accompany the order. Send money by Express, Money Order, Registered Letter or New York Exchange. WAR RANTED FOR TEN YEARS. The usual warrantee by which we replace any defective part or any part that breaks or wears out through the fault of the machine, except shuttles, needles and bobbins, goes with every Machine. Alter the Machine has been received, you have the privilege <>i returning u niuun TWKNTV davs, if not satisfactory. Is that fair? ISO VARIATION. Wo have endeavored to say here all that we could say in a letter. There can he no change of terms. Do not ask for any variation. Machines are shipped direct from the factory, and are not on exhibition at our nlliee. We know you will he pleased with the machine when you get it, and you know if it should happen to lie unsatisfactory, you can send it hack within TWKNTY DAYS and get your$?1.00. Address LEWIS M. Lit 1ST, Yorkvillc, S. C. PLEASE IIKAK IN MIND fTMlAT I can ('lean and Repair your Sewing 1. Machine, and furnish you with Shuttles, Dobbins, Needles, etc. If you need anything in this line, I should be pleased to serve you. A. M. UK 1ST. May l!3 ill tf A "^H ^ff BaEMSEHBMBBM^SBKaEaBS and Children. Caxtorln cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Knictation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes digestion, Without injurious medication. "For several years I have recommended your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results." Edwin F. Pardee, M. 1)., , 125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City. ,'ompany, 77 Murray Street, New York City. OFING COMPANY, IRON ORB PAINT Kflk And Ccmcnl. 1 ;>2 TO l.r>8 M K RW1N ST., C'levclnnd, O. and Price List No. 7f>. )F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. ^ % KIM All#* R 1 AND MI5> ffl r day and generation. Tliey farmed exactly <>n ad done, and ley the use of slave labor, the bull as used on the farm, they were enabled to keep ong it took to hoe an acre of cotton, pull 1 ,(MK> 1 a grain crop, sow an acre of wheat or oats, etc., so enough was made to feed and clothe the "nigreet ? Now, be honest. r, I don't know how long, you adopted the old I wages and raised lots of high priced cotton. ly prices dropped "way down." You continued . mt of labor and the year 1NP4 linds you trying to that in vogue twenty-live years ago. Your crop i can't sec where the trouble is. During the past >ats and hogs, and the grocery hill has not been ng the advantage of this course, and I rejoice in I shoulder. Not .Iteen Able to See ing to the old ante-bellum methods of preparair crops for market, but such isa FACT, never- " Some of your neighbors have had theirs opened vn : the same expense as when you received 12 to 1"> [Miration and cultivation at least one-third by the t land and the Kvans Steel Frame Lever Harrow le crop. u sow your stubble land with peas or millet and limit one-fourth of the cost of the fodder per 1(1) a New Light Buckeye Mower and a Thomas or with a cradle, waste from a bushel and a half to hickoye Franieless Binder you can cut and bind i* a half-bushel of your entire crop. It will work Reaper CANNOT be used. The price is $140. ait of date, run down, rattle trap (tin and leave nil injure the staple to the extent of not less than use of a Daniel 1'ratt (tin you can get ALL the [> of the market. The cotton buyers at Hickory ngs one-fourth of a cent more per pound than How somebody else to th rcsh it, on a run down f your grain on the straw, but you, or the man resher, which is the simplest ami best, for simplicity, durability and steam generating r. * n the market. It's great, peer, and WILL drill rust proof oats. 1 implements and machines, and they areabso1 each of tlieni is sold under a guarantee to give s. SA3I M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. iy authorized agents at Rock Hill for Buckeye Chieftain Horse Rakes. CHESTER AID LIIOIKIG. RAILROAD. Schedules in Effect from and Alter March 25, 1894. G. W. F. Harper, President. (IOINO NOKTII. | NolO. | No tjOl ? Lease Chester (I 40 a in 0 00 a m Leave I.owrysvllle 7 07 a in 0 35 a in Leave MeConncllsvilie 7 20 a ni 10 08 am l/eave (iuthrlesville 7 33 a m 10 15 a in i Leave Yorkville 7 57 a m 11 00 a m Leave Clover 8 :I0 a ill II 4:1 pm Leave (iastonia 0 OS a in 1 20 pm Leave Lineoliiton 10 10 am 2 45 pin Leave Newton II 12 am I 15 pm la-.ive Hickory 12 20 pm (I 20 pin Arrive Lenoir 1 :iO pm SOOpm coinu sol'Til. | No til. | No 0. Leave Lenoir 5 :tt) a m 2 15 p ill Leave Hickory 7 01 a m 4 40 p m Leave Newton S 20 a m 5 IS j> m Leave I.lneolnton 10 10 a m it 12 pm Leave (iastonia 12 50 pm 7 :t0 pm Leave Clover 1 50 pm SOU pm I,eave Yorkville :t 05 pm s 42 pm 1.1'HVe itiunru'sviiif >. i'in ? ?- ,' Lwive MeConnellsvillP '! 45 j> 111 !l 12 pin I,wive I.owrysville 4 12 pin H XI pin I Arrive Chester I >> pin 10 0:1 pm Trains Nos. !i and 10 are first-class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nns. no and 01 carry passengers and also run daily except Sun day. There is good connection at Chester with the G. C. ?V N? and the A A.; also at Uastonia with the A. A C. A. li.; at Lineolnton with the C. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with the \V. N. C. I.. T. NICHOLS, Superintendent. II. II. BEARD, Oeneral Passenger Agent. March lis 0 tl* MONTYALE STOCK FA KM, Itlacksliiirg, S. C. REGISTERED JERSEYS, WELCH AND SHETLAND PONIES. (Iniporteil stock.) ESSEX AND UEOISTERKD CHESHIRE PIUS. Bred and for sale. Ol lt .JERSEYS are all of the celebrated Victor and Stoke Rogis strains, which have attracted so much attention throughout the : North. BI LL CALVES FOR SALE AT FARMERS' PRICES. If you are thinking ot starting a dairy herd don't overlook the Jerseys. Tliev are the best dairy cows known to the world. We guarantee our ponies to he perfectly safe for ladies and children to drive. CAN SELL SHETLAND PONIES AS CHEAP AS ANY BREEDERS IN THE SOl'TH. Write for what you want. Address, Dr. J. U. BLACK, Blackshurg, S. C. IIMIKHTAKINC. 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