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-w ^ ,,/.vt ' V. >. '- ! ' ' '. '1^'" ' -,? ? ? >-*? j, _ . ? BE JUST AND PEAE NOT. TWO DOLLARS A VEAn. VOL. XI. CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1883. NO. 1 $erst/aw fwrttf. THE PEOPLES PAPER. PUBLIMliBU AT CAI10K\, H. FRANK P. BEARD. Publisher T? CorrespoudeBtik AM eomamuJ cation* for iliU > |"'r jjwwU baac 1 ? i ? itwj.hr Um uoiilo of ?ho author, ua< necoa ?Tlly for publication, l>ul us ill nUMiaiot gi?Hl Mtt Ml tb* part of -tlta wrttor. \\W? only on one ?Ma of tha papor. D<j particularly careful in giving MM u4 dates to lia?? th? lot jot* plain aud Jl? The Gazette Job Printing Office * # > ? ? la bktteu prepared than aojr other oOm la town, to execute In tteiuont attract! veal; tea ?T?rr dee?rl|r tlou of J oh Priming. mch as P?a>t>hle*a, 1)111 llaada, letter and Note He.vlt. Law Brlafa, 1'ortcrs, IKkIj^ts, Circular*, Haud 1U1U, WtiMUf, VliCtlugai'd AddivasCVtU, 1'uslnea* Cards. T alula JU. AVork done In Hronre, Ued, lllueaad Ulaok The public must remember that the beet la alwaj* the chva|HM>t. Wo do work at Charleston Prlcoa, and guarantee entire satisfaction tu our patrons, M'e keep constantly ou hand the largest stock o I JPapers :?nd Cards In town. SOMKTIMK. "Sometime," tbo bluo-oyed maiden cried, " Bomotlnie Til bo a rich man's brido, 111 have his gold when he la old, And grandly in a coach I'll rido." " Sometime, " tho brown-eyed maiden cried, And blushing turned hor face aside, " God grant it me I I'll marriod bo To him whom heavon shall provldo." The btaM) )d maiden had her way: 8he marriod ono both rich and gray, And when he died she took his pride, But that Is all she took? thoy say. A hsndsomo lover camo ono day Aud bore tho brown-oyod maid away ; Ha was h??r life and sho? his wlfo; What more is then; to ask or say? John Gregory's Wife. One evening a man rode briskly through a mountain pass in Colorado, d rectify toward the blazing light of a camp lire. On a nearer view a party of rough-looking men in miners' clothes oould be seen seated around this j tire, whose dancing, uncertain light gave a something weird and gypsy-l.ko 1 to their appearance, while tho moon, ust rising slowly over tho dark hills n the distance, revealed a duster of rude log-shanties and a few sturdy horses lazily nibbling the short grass. "Well, Gregory!' exclaimed one of the mt>n, as tho newcomer in silenco* flung hltnself off his horse and camo up to the flre. " Well, Gregory, what's the news up to Jefferson?" " I havo no news for anybody but myself, and that's nobody's businesj but my own 1" was tho ill-natured re joinder. " Get out, you brute !" lie added, in another minute to a magnifi cent Newfoundland who was iump ing joyfully about him, and the words were accompanied by a violent klsk that sent the poor animal howl ing into one of the cabins. The men looked ourlously at each other, and then Jake Sawyer spoke again. '* Here, boys, pass along that whisky bottle. All John needs is a mug of hot toddy to make him feel all right again, I guess." "And who says I don't feel all right?" retorted John. " I don't want your whisky !" and he led his horse away without further comment. " Well, I swar J" ejaculated 8awyer. " If Gentleman John ain't in a fight ing mood, though, for once in his lifo I Always labored under the impression that he was that mild-spoken kind of a chap what butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, but you can't never be saro of nothing in this world 1" ,Tn thta itttarnrf in a hicrh pitched, nasal twang, the men re sponded by a unanimous "You bet 1" aocompanled by a loud chorus of laughter. Then tho bottle went the rounds again. Meanwhile John Grfgory entertnl his own particular shanty, closed tho door ana drew tho wooden bolt to guard against intrusion, nnd then lit a tallow candlo that was thrust into an empty bottle, in lieu < f candlestick. This done, his attention was attracted by a low whine from the corner where his bed stood, and thero crouched his dog, a dejected looking animal enough, gazing beseechingly over at his master. In another instant the man was down beside the dog, ono arm thrown around the creature's neck. "There, Duke 1 Toor old fellow I" he muttered, patting him. "Forgive me, oty dog ! I think I must havo beien crazy to treat you like that, the best friend I have 1" and Duke looked sympathizlngly up into his master's face, and licke 1 his hand, nnd rubbed against him until the man's eyes, that had been no hard and desperate be fore, softened, and filled with blinding tears. Then there seemed to rise before him a sweet, fair face looking at him with a pair of dancing blue eyes out of a vale of pale gold hair. A nd as he looked those blue eyes seemed to grow tun of a \vorwl or trig sorrow and re* proach, until he could bear it no longer, but started up from hh seat, exclaim ing, passionately: " No, she could not have done it t I was wrong? wrong, to think suoh a thing of my darling 1" But even as he said it his faoe ohanged again, and with a sudden movement he drew from his pocket a crumpled letter, and held It up to the dim candlelight. "MvDsab Johw," he roc, d, for the twentieth tlmoihit day, "I fool it my duty, being o ?huroh^nionibor, nntl^ nlt>o having onoe^on mind, t j nvuum that Satan^ia epr on whom your earthly affections nre ?et. "One afternoon, one month from to-day, yon wife was resm goinrr away on n Boston train la compimy with a young man with a light mnnt iolio, whoso general appenranoo marked him aa given over to the world. She remained away tint II yostordny, when I mot Mr retiming from the station with tho samo man. and she evaded my question mi*h arable oonfusion? ns 1 idoed she has of nil her neighbor* over since - pT^m me ai aoon as poeel oiro mitonoea it ie not at i?U pooplo will Wk, and I in Grow*/, to ooroe hoite t#r wife, ? lcn-1 and well-wisher, "A**nr?st Btntiait." He k&ew his old school-teacher's chara&ter well enough to know that sheliad warned him from really oon selsntlous motives, and beside, none ooold possibly wish to ia;?re his sweet tempered, gentlo llttio wife. Sweet ? tempered, was she? a Ah. yes I That was the way with thes? plausible, low volocd little things. Thov could smile :: upon you, and play the wife so oharm Ingly when you were with them, and forget you, and all your claims upon them when you wiiro away. Pah ! such a woman as that did not merit a word from him, Ue would not glvo her a ohanoe to soften him with her pretty excuses, arid twine herself round his heart again. No, her con | duofc should receive the Contemptuous silence it deserved, and he would crush heir memory out of his heart for Here he tore a leaf from his note book and scrawled hastily upon it : "MAOAHa^lfcmr favor of the 19th inst he thrust it into an envelope ed it to "Ml^AtethusaSMp lhope, Connecticut" Then the door and called, loudly: " Jake I Come here a minute, won't you?" " All right, boss !" was the reply, as Jake's long, angular figure came slouching leisurely forward. " Any thing I ken do for you, John ?" "?esl" Gregory an wered hur riedly. "You said you were going over to Jefferson to-morrow, didn't you?" " You bet I To-morrow morning, early." " We'l, then, please take this letter over witli you und mail it, and I'll be much obliged. Good-night I" and John unceremoniously bolted himself in again. * ? * * * ? * One afternoon in early summer two yeara later a tall sunburned man walked down the moin street of Stan hope, and pau ed before the principal store of the village, which was also the postotflce. The afternoon mail was just in, and a motley collection of peo plo wero waiting about on the broad porch and on the plank sidewalk out Bide for the contents of the bags to be sorted. Here was f? party of school j children with lunch ooxes and books, regaling themselves on penny sticks of candy, and there a young farmer from a distance was leaning down from his j high farm-wagon to laugh and joke with a group t)f pretty girls. Insido the storo the village doctor rested his portly form against the counter, while he amused himself by a chat with the justice of the peace and the tavern-keeper on the subject of local politics. "They glance I carelessly at the stranger as ho ontered, then paid no further heed to him. lie, on his part, stood regarding them for some ' time In silence, tho stern lines about his mouth seeming to grow deeper, and a smile that was more liko a sneer showing Itself under his heavy brown mustache. " Well, my friends," he said, at last. " So this Is a sample of how well my old neighbors remember me, is it? Perhaps by this time you have for- j gotten that such a fellow as John Gregory existed. " "John Gregory I" Every man of them sprang from his lounging position ns if electrified, and old I)r. Mason graspod John's hand heartily, exclaiming, in his bluiF, base voice : "Why, bless my soul, John, we all thought you were dead, sir I" " Well, I declare 1" Smith, tho store keeper, said, leaving hlo heap of un assorted letters and coming round to join tho exclte.l group. " You're that changed that I'd never a-known you ; but welcome homi, my lad ? welcome homo 1" wringing Gregory's hand till he winced, while tho others crowded w\u rwl "llore, now, you fellows! Clear the way there!" cried the doctor, playfully cracking his riding whip. "You can all talk to John alter ward, but now I want to have a word in his private oar," and he led John off Into the back of tho store, where they could talk un heard. "Now, sir," said he, wiping tho perspiration from his broad fore head, "now, sir, I want you to ex plain yourself. What do you mean by deserting that pretty wife of yours for two years and then suddenly turning up when wo had all glvon you up for dead ?" "I should say (he dosertion was all on her Bido, doctor," returned John, grimly. "Well, how is my wlfo?" In what a hard, b'.tter tone ho said ?my wife"! "On her side? Confound it, sir, what are you talking about?" bins tore! the old man, growing red in the face with indignation. " Why, man, she oonfessed to me with tear.- ? tears, sir ? the other day, that sho had not received a single lino from you for tho last two years, though sho had written again and again. And In spite of all I could say, she still clung to tho hope that you were alive, and she made me promise to do my utmost to llnd out your whereabouts. So I wrote to you, Was that what put it into your head to come home, sir?" "Weil, scarcely, because I nover re ceived it," said John. "I loft the old 'diggings a year and a half ago, and went ovor tho mountains into Call fomia. I don't know what made me oome home, I'm dure, unlass It was tho longing that took hold of me to seo some of tho old faces. As for my wife, I think if you only know tho real facts of the oaso you would consider me only too well justided in doing as I have done. Just read this letter, please. I have kept that irk my pocket all these two years, so that I might always be able to ostimate my wife at her true worth." The doctor read Miss Shlpman's let ter through; then, to John's intense astonishment, burst out laughing. " Well, I must say I can't under stand what thore is to laugh at I" ex claimed the young man, angrily. "You are right, John," replied the doctor, sobering instantly. "It is a farce, to be sure, but it came near be ing a tragedy. 80 you believed this letter?" '* Certainly. Miss Shipman Is a lady of undoubted veracity," with intense dignity. " Heaven forbid that I should say a word against Miss Shipman ? she dlod, poor woman, just aftor this was written?but she probably onjoyed a good gossip as much as most ladies, and her Imagination eould oarry her a long way. As for the young man she talks about, he wasonly MollV's cousin, Wi 1 Thaxton, you know, and he camo on here to biing the news of his mother's illness, and ask Molly to help them. #0 tha went baok with him to Boston, and nursed her aunt until she died, just as If she had been her own daughter, but as poor Mrs. Thaxton died under very painful circumstances of some kind, Molly very naturally felt unwilling to say mnch about it among the people here. Showed a very proper feeling about ft, I'm sure, sir. jiut she told my wife and me about It, and wrote it all to you." "Good heaven! And 1 burnt unread both the letters 1 received before I left Colorado! Oh, Molly 1 Molly I What a fool I have been I" cried John, a pallor settling over his sunburnt " Yes, that von are, sir, and worse, not to have nad more trust in that poor little wemsn, who has never breathed a word of reproach against TOU all this time, though she has been ? working her Kngors ofT to suppor herself and her child." < v#r ?klld I You don't mean ' '? Yea, I do, John. on are a father as well as a husband, ' said the old man, with glistening ovc.w. John sat down and buried his face in his hands. " And now I have c<>mo back rich " he murmure I at last. ? Hut what is the use? Slie will never forgive me " with an accent of wr!d, despairing self-roproach in his voice. * "\V,aitI'' interrupted tlie doctor, touching him suddenly on the .shoul der. Get behind those boxes, John. Hero comes your wife." a{,2!ith r ?otk'n totll? others to koep silence, John moved back bjhind a pile hiuOXOi\ ancl .looke(l out from his niding-place, with a mist coming over his eyes as ho looked at his wife. Hut ? wife? Xo, t hero was the pretty golden hair and groat blue eyes, wiriaii 8 ?urve8 ftnd dimples J f11 un(l she looked ten y?ars older in hor severely plain black dress, hev f ace ?f paticnt 311 Bering on **11 walked straight up to the post master and raised her eyes, full of a. hungry longing, to his face. "Is there anything lor me?" Good Mr. -Smith looked confused for an Instant, but ho soon recoverod him self and replied, with a knowing wink at the others: " There ain't no letters for vou Mis' ne*F?r^ ' ^nt I've novvs 01 John for you all the same." J Sho tried to ask him what it was n,?fiCOl!l? ??V 1,11,1 8,10 tumbled so vio lently that sho had to lean against tho counter for support. Mr. Smith looked rather alarmed, and hastono.l to say '?Come now, Mis' Grog., ry, cheer up. I iJ^J118 wa>* homo no?', and I shouldr i t wonder if you'd see him this same afternoon !" What a radiant color flashed into her race then and how her eyes t-hono ! it eeomed almost as if her lust girlhood wore given back to her again, as sho came forward and grasped Mr. Smith's big horny hand in both her small while ones. " Oh, thank you for telling mo !" sho cried, in the pretty, impulsive way John remembored so well. "I I_l" hut hurriA^'n V<>i,'? V:,oke in H0l)O? ?n 1 she !p. uv'l>' without another word. ln!|gH (0 (!ll0 t,,r blew hi* 11080 80 loud that it resoundol through tho 2SPi .ftn.(l ru,)bL'cl h>3 fi>co furiously with lis huge rod silk handkorchief. TnhJ r?vOW' S'r ' '10 0ried OUt to woman ,7l'r Bily "?a,n t,mt th?t woman don t caro lor vou. You're a Joul rft T1 1 ! \ 8V"l Why? bless my Hill nil/ tV 1 nUo disappeared silently. Ilo was walking rapidly along tho road, just keeping in sight a to havo wings on 'her foot," alio sped along so swiftly. p Suddenly she turned aside from tho road, where tho bars of an old rail ronce had been left down, and walked in a crosswiso fashion across tho fields. John looked after her a fow minutes in a dazed way. arid then plodded s.owly on down the road. He came as far as tho cottage gate, then paused awe-s(rio ;on, and sud denly stepjped out of night behind the neag<>, lor Molly herself came out of the htnso with the baby in her arms. She camo over to the old apple tree undor which John and sho had so often sat together in tho old days, she with hor sowing, and he on tho grass at her feet. Would those sweet home Joys over be his again, ho asked him self, as with sad, aching eyes he de voured tho scene beforo nim. Molly had soated herself upon the soft grass, and had unbound her heavy braids t o that they fell liko fallen sun bca ns on her black dress as she bent over hor child. '* Jacky I Jacky 1 darling I" she cried, with a joyful thrill in her voice, " your dear papa is coming homo ? to you and me, Jacky !" And theohubby littlo follow laughed and crowed, and jumped morrlly up and down In his mother's arms as If he perfectly understood hor meaning and rejoiced with her. But before long he nestled up to her, one tiny, dimpled hand cuddled in her neck, and closed two sleepy eyos that wero wonderfully liko Molly's own. And it was tin n that Molly? look ing suddenly up, she scarce know why saw hor husband's tall figure rtnnd'ing close besido her, gazing down at her with quivoring lips, and tendor, plead ing eyes. Tor ono glad moment his eyes hold her motionless, unablo to speak or move from excess of joy, and then John held out his arms and drew wife and child close up to hts heart. Tho noxt morning Doctor Mason happened to pns? tho Gregorys' cottage on his roundi} for the day, and there under the old npplo tree ho saw John and his wife ? she in tho freshest of morning cambrics, with a blue bow In her hair, and they wero leaning agnlnst each other, laughing as thoy watchcd little Jaok tumbling about among tho dalslos In an ambitious attempt to walk. When Molly caught sight of her old friend she waved her hand to him gayly, and, catching up Jaoky, came running down to tho gato. "So, so, my dear," said the old man, smiling, as he looked at hor standing there breathless, with shining eyes and cheeks that matched the rosos on the porch ? "sv, my dear, you've got your truant back again, I seo." " Yes," sho answered, laughing back at her husband, who had followed her. "And ho Is novor going away from me again as long as ho lives. 1 mad > him promise." "And that when sho knows I don't desorve to Imvo hor sp?a'< to moi" Added John, vehemently. " Ta'k about coals ?f liro! Why she ? " "Now, John, be quiet!" commanded his little wife. " Here, Ja-ky, my pot, kl<<s pajia, and toll him not to say su<h naughty thing*." And sho ho d tho baby up for him to kiss. "Well, welll" mused tho do tor, nn he jogged along, " thero's an angel for youl John is a lucky dog, and no mistake!" , "u ".'iH'sii-1..' 11 1 1 ? The Egyptian census glve? the total population at 6,798,280 of whom iUWfr,. 918 are males and8,40i,8l2 females. It is estimated that over 27,000 lives nave been loet slnco January 1, l?H;)4 by casualties and epidemics. HUMOBOUS SKETCHES, Engaced. j A traveling man, noticing a pretty i girl alone in the oir, went over in her ; direction, and smilingly asked : "Is this seat engaged, miss?'* "No, sir, but 1 am, and he is going to get on at the next station." " Oh ? ah ? indeed ? thanks ? beg par don ? " and ho picked up his feet, after stumbling ovor thtra, and went into the smoking-car to be alone awhile. ? Merchan t-Tra celer. What Struck Ifllm. "So you've bacn to the city?" said one countryman to another, " Yes, I took her in." "Pretty big thing?" "You bet." "Lots of people, lots of houses, lots of rush anu hurry anil wagons and teams and things V" " Lots of 'em." "What struck you li rat after you had got. .-traiglitened out for your sight-seeing." "Oh, nothing, only a brick a ma?on let fall oil' a house while I was loaflng around below see ng how city folks do their work." Sublime Check. Tho other day, during a rainstorm, Colonel Monroe met a chap on the street who accosted him with : " I t ay, old feliow, give us a match." The colonel went down in his pocket and produced thrc e matches, which the man took with profuse thanks. The coloncl then turned, to go away, and had gone a few feet when tho man again hallooed to him. " 1 say; Bee hero, my 'steemed friend V" " " Well," said the colonel, " what do you want?" " My 'steemed friend," said the other, " I say (hlc) I am all wet, you know, now just rais-j your leg and let me scratch this match on it." ? Kingston Freeman. Overworked^ " My gracious, old fellow," said the Slice of Lemon Peel to tho Oyster, "you look mighty palo." "Pale!" oxclaimed the other, "and why wouldn't I? I've been up, night after night, attending church socials, church choir oyster suppers and so on, and I'm about playod out. Mo and two more were engaged to furnish tho stews at tho IJliin street Motho.listtwo nights ago; next evening tho Wea leyan choir borrowed me for their blow-out. All the work cc.mo on my shoulders, and I asked myself, as I wandered about tho stew, looking for a chum: ' Ob, Solitude, where art tli jr Btope? TouMo mrfflrtn^tffoitkra that great tureen." " Musi have been," the other agreed, " but you'll get a rest now, eh ?" "Rest? Not much," answered the Oyster, sitting dow.i exhausted. " I'vo got to play a l<>ne hand at tho Congre gational school-teachers' oyster supper to-night. Thoy borrowed mo for tho occasion." "It's stew bad," said tho Lemon, sympathizingly; "but you aro no worse oil' than I am. I, all {done, fur nished lemonade for 565 scholars at tho Sunday-school picnio two weeks ago. and since that I'vo dono duty in two saloons, and I rockon I'vo made fully 1,600 lemonades." "My goodness, old man, you'ro as badly oft ns 1 am," said tho Oyster. "It's a lemoncholy business, ain't it?" "You bet," repliel the Slice, "but I must be olf and sour up for another gallon of lemonade; tra-la." " By-by." Ho Nnvod 'JTli??ni. lie was a young man with a forty dollar suit of clothea on, and ho had made arrangements to take his girl and her mother down to Put-In-Bay. He left them on the boat while he ran uptown to get some oigars, and scarcely had he disappeared when a man with a hatchet face and a red goatee ap proached the ladies and inquired of the mother ; "Going down to the Pay?" "Yes, sir." ?'Nevor seasick in a gale, oh?" "Gale I Is it going to blow?" she asked in alarm. " Flag Is up, and that means wind, you know ? Madame, the- the young man who just loft hero is ? you know ? that is, ho lovos your charming daughter." "lie waits upon her, sir." "Ah! exactly, if you want him for a son-in-law don't you go on this (rln I" " Sir 1" " I'm tell'ng you honest, malame. You* daughter will be neaslck first. Sho will call for a lemon and some pickles, and sho will sigh and groan, and her hair will come clown, and her bows skew around, and in half an hour you won't know her. Bho'U bo a faded blossom- a crushed flower. The Oman won't know whether it is irllng or a bundle of rumpled muslin/' ??Dear me I but I'm alarmed I" "And then you'll begin to hato the thought of baked potatoes and rib roasts, and ten minutes later you'll thump down on a sofa and clutch and oling and groan and lament." "Hut George will be kind to us." 44 Madame, (Jeorge will have plenty of business on hand. ( haps with his set of ears and full faco are apt to be very Bick. JJefore ho cat* get a lemon for Melvlna and a pickle for you he'll flep down and oall himself names and wonder how he was ever struck on Melvlna or why he ever wanted you for a mothor-ln-law. llo'll heave up and he'll heavo down, and he'll wish you and Melvlna in Halifax and himself in Mexico, and the upshot will be no wedding? no cards ? no cottage with a clematis trail ing ovor the frontdoor. Madame, 1 am a stranger to you, but I warn you from a heart filled with the milk of human kindness. Tho only woman I ever loveJ went with me on a Roaslck excursion. My love was turned to gal), and I gave her the shake." He then left. In - three minutes mother and daughter wero on the wharf. In thrco more they were two blocks away, and an they met George and turned him back his countenance had the color of boiler iron and his voire betrayed a cruel determination at he said: " I'll see you on the car, and then 111 And and lick that man if he weighs fifteen tons I" ? Frc Press. KECUUITS FOit HIE ARMY. Tbo StrtB(? I/<! that Drift Into the Nn? York RecrnUlnjc OOloei. "Men wanted for the U. S, Army" la the legend which llles, tacked on t ) the end of the Stars and stripe*, from the window of each of the three re cruiting station^ in this city. The in vitation looks so general an 1 all-em bracing, standing as it does without qualilication of any kind, that it is not to bo wondered at that the ri sronao . come from men of all kin Is and lrom almost every class of life. All day long a sergeant ltes in wait at the o:iico to secure the queer iishes that drop in one by one attracted by the bait out side, and when the captain comes down in the morning he llnds a day's catch of from live to llve-and-twenty men ? a miraculous draught drawn from all the nationalities that go to make up 2s' ow York. Unfortunately, however, it is much easier to gftt men than to get good ones; and though the placard outsldo is so generously catholic, there are various small formalit.es to be gono through beforo a recruit can bo ac cepted, which re.su t at the best of times in the rejection of four cand dates out of every five. It is not only that a man has to bo between certain limits of ago and height and weight to be lit for sorvice; but almost every superlluous incumbrance, lrom a wife to a tooth ache, sfUhces to disqualify him. lie 8ide, moreover, passing through a searching medical ox am nation (for re cruits have to go to all kinds of cli mates), he must have had, so far as is ascertainable, a respectable past. Hut though tho captains and sergeants (and above all the examining do. tor) have by long experience become ex pert detective*, many queer characters pass through the o.llcos and succeed in keeping their past a mystery. Each of cour.-e assigns a profession, trade or employment to himself with a great show of candor, and in tho official lists almost all are formally labeled as com ing from this or that craft Thus out of the 7,700 and odd recruits last year over 2,000 aro accredited with being laborers, a quarter that number farm ers ? and so on through every calling, however sedentary and unmartial, till tho talo winds up'wlth ono sailmaker and ono calker. After tho most care ful sifting, however, there still re mains a residus of 445 "miscella neous" ? from whom might probably bo culled as odd a collection of biog raphies as ever novelists invonted. Now and again young fellows of un mistakably good birth and breeding foicy Kte ? m&flih &1 W HSflVnl few days ago ono of the captains found waiting S r him among a motley com pany of ne'er-do-weels a young Ken tuuklan of good family and well dressed, who ha I run through his money on a visit t.> Now York and was ashamed to apply to ids relatives for moro to return home with. The captain advised him to take a few days moro to think about enlisting ? which ho did, and has not come back to the olllce. A largo number of the applicants however, tako up the sorvico from de liberate choice, and have every honest intention of doing their duty in it. llut more numerous than theso nre those who come from the inexhaustible class of loafers ? men who havo tried most ways of living and found they all involvo too much hard work. As a last resourco they enlist, for there is a common fallacy afloat that a soldior's lifo in these piping times is chleiiy one of idloness. And to this delusion may probably bo as rlbed the otherwise in explicable number of desertions ? ? which run up to as many au a thousand annually. Many are doubtless tempt ed away by tho positions on the farms anu in tho mines which they see open to tbcm when they are sent out West, i from which even the penalty of two ?years' imprisonment does not sutllee to keep them baok. On some of the most invetorato loafers, indeed, the Imprisonment seems to act rather as an inducement than other wise, an 1 convictod deserters have been known to write "from Loaven worth prison exhoitlng their former comrades to do likewise and not to go on toiling at drill and guard-mounting whon the easy life or a jail-bird was wltbin their rcaoh. Not a few, how ever, do not even wait to see what tho life is like, but disappear mysteriously the very day after applying ? so forcing unoa the officers tho melancholv con viotlon that they have been hoaxed and that the whole process of applica tion and modlcnl examination was gone through merely with a view to seouring the one night's lodging and a meal. Every morning, too, as regular ly as the doctor's visit, the drunken applicant appears. Sometimes he oomes in tipsy ; more frequently he has only been tipsy over night and is comparatively sober in the morning ; and sometimes he looks so quiet and even dignified that only the doctor's skillful eye can see in him the traces of the regular toper. Anyway he is not the man the army wants. Hut thrust ing, as h? sometimes does, three or four of himself in during the morning, ho makos no small item in the officer's work ; and mixed up as he is with a miscellaneous collection of men of all sorts and nationalities, he helps to make these strange morning receptions at the reoruiting stations still moro strange. ? New York Tribune. She Had Something for Them. Miss Middy Morgan, the livo-stock reporter of tho Now York Time*, hap pened t<> lie left in charge of a cottage in a ow Jorfloy village where she was visiting. To her appeared two villain ouH-luoking tramps. ?? Well, have you anything for us, old wo nan?" atked ou<' of the fellows. " Oh, yes," was the answer; "just wait and I'll bring it down." MIks Morgan wont quickly upstairs and In half a minute returned with a seven-shooter firmly grasped in hor hand. " This is what 1 have for you," raid she. "How do you like It?" -The tramps did not wait to answer the question, but got out as fast as their legs could carry them. Seven years ago shad were intro duced to the Pacific coast. This year they have sold at twenty-five cents per 100. JUDGE JEREMIAH S. BLACK. Intereatlng l{?iu'a ncenroi of the Dead Jurltt-lIU Pmonal Appearance nn(| Habits. The late Judge Jere S. Black will be missed from Washington, where he has beeu such a familiar figure for so many years. He has been in all the great scenes at Washington, either as a distinguished spectator or as an ac tive participant. As attorney-general of the I nited Statts, as adviser in all critical periods of tho leaders of the Democratic party, as counsel lor defense of Andrew John son and Belknap, prominent in nearly all tho leading casoi of the I'nite I states supreme court, Judge Black has become 1 e'ttcr known to the people of Washington than any members of Congress except tho oldest and nu sk prom n -nt. lie has always lived at tho Ebbitt house, llis wife was nearly always with him. Sometimes he would have his marr ed daughter with him as additional company. Ho was very fi>n ! of the society of the ladies. He used to Fay he had rather talk to the dullest la ly than to bo obliged to en dure tho brightest of men. But this was only a passing remark, for the judge was very fond of talking with p.blic men. When ho had finished his dinner at the Ebbltt house ho used to go around from table to table chatting with his lady acquaintances. He was so well known th \t when he sat down at a table ho never neodod any intro duction. A pretty face or a pair of sparkling eyes were id ways enough to make his face light up with p'oasure. Tie was a tall, broad-shouldere I man, with a de^p chest and a heavy figure. He used to dress in rjugh black cloths, w.th his coat cut in tho style of a walking coat, with huge pockets cov ered with fiaps on tho hips. Ho al wavs had in his left hand a silver to bacco box. In making a speech or an argumont ho would bo as lo.-t without this box as Georgo F. Hoar would be without his bunch of keys. His face resembled, in a certain degree, that of Chiof Justice' liyan, of Wisconsin, llis eyes were a keen blue, small, half-hid den under a pair of white, sharply pointed, fiercely-twisted eyebrows. His nose was a largo, curved beak, squaro and blunt at tho en 1. His mouth was large, and curved downward in its lines. His smooth shaven chin was double. He hnd no hair on his head. The loss was supplied by a sandy-col ored, curling wig. Indeed, tho only hair upon Ik s face or head that could really be said to be his own was in h s rigorous, not to say savago oyobrows. He used to wear his wig as most peoplo would a hat. Sometimes it would bo pushed boldly ba<;k, and then in moments of excitement it would ear. fie rarely loo1culV* ofT'ln" public, but he pushed it about in such aroekhss manner as to forbid any al lusions concerning it by tho most credulous. Ills favorlto hat was a silk hat made ton years ago. Before going out the judgo would brush tho silk of this hat a 1 tho wrong way, put it on wrong side before and then ho would bo ready to wander up and down tho lobby of the Ebbitt house, twirling his BUver box, munching his tobacco, and go-wiping with every acquaintance he might meet. Like most men who have been in public life for any length of time, ho was very fond of gossip. lie would sit up all night to swap news when thoro was anything going, though, liko many old lawyers, he could keep a * ecret as well an any ono. Ho used to bo a great tobacco cliewer. It is related of him that ono of the nights when he was preparing a speoch ror the dofonso of Andy John son ho walked up and down in his room, fairly eating tobacco. In a lit of aba nee of mind bo mistook his silk lint, startling on tlio floor, for a cus pador, and nearly tilled it by morning. Air. Black was fond of telling storios to illustrate hi* points. I once called upon him to learn something about the chara ter of a certain appointment made from hi1* State ? Pennsylvaia. " I can best answer you, paid Mr. Hlack, " by tolling you a story. Several years iigo I was driving out near York, my home, when I came to a vory steep down-grade. T was alone. My horse steadied the wagon down beautifully. As we came near the bottom tho hold backs broke, and the wagon came right down upon my goo 1 horso. IIo nover broko or kicked, but continued to steady tho wagon down until it was stopped at the foot of tho hill. Tho road ran right along a very stoon de cline and waB narrow. If my horse had kicked I should certainly havo been killed. A farmer friend of mine was in his wagon at tho bottom of the hill, waiting to see how I was going to get out of the scrape. When lie saw my old horse so faithful ho just got out, and without a word of congratulation to me he said: " Jorenilro, that air critter air a critter into which you can put your confidence into, ain't it?' " Mr. Black concluded by saying the man was like hi t old horRe, or maro, ??Into whom you could put your con fidence into." One day Judgo JUak was made the lubject of a r.d oulous scene, from which he flod with tho gr >atest do moraltoatlon when ho discovered it. Two years ago he was at the Ebbltt house for the season. Ono winter night Dr. Mary Walker oallel upon him and sent up a card of Dr. Walkor simply. The judge is near-sighted. He came down and met Dr. Mary In one of the front parlors. Ite thought she wan some young man, and when she began to outline a cn#o where sho desired legal advice, he began to listen with tho mostnrofoun I attention. Ho pulle 1 his hat tlown over his eyes, nettled back ir\to the Cornor of tho sofa, half closed his oyon, and became partially oblivious to his surrounding as Dr. Mary, leaning toward him, talko I with a smooth, even flow, her voice hardly rising or falling. Dr. Mary is always a curiosity at the Washington hotels where so many strangers stop. Word wan passed about the hotol of Dr. Marv's Interview with .)ere Black. Lnaleecame running from everv direction and blocked un one ond or the parlor, the hall, and all the doorway*. Two windows of the narlor looked directly upon the street. Here a colored boy had -at first stopped, and then others had followed, until gleaming eyeballs and teeth and black faces sh.ning with rapturous amuse ment filled the windows nearly to the ? " v ? ' : ? ; top. For fully five minutes the crowd ga-ed, then the shuttling of heavy feet of those in the back-gruund striving to get totho front awakened the judge, lie looked up, and, seeing the great crowd, he said, wiih a gasp : ?' Y oung man, who aro you ':" , 14 I)r. Alary Walker." "Oh, my (Jod I" was tlu> reply, and he startod and just ran out of the room pursued by tho laughter of those about, who wore much amused at his discomfiture. ? Chicago Ntirs. Englo Against (iamo Cocks. A line specimen of the American eag'e, cau^iit 011 one of tho islands near ?(Santa llarbara .*ome time ago. has b.en kept tie. I up in the yard of liirabent's hotel for some time, await ing a purchaser. This noble bird was s ild Friday, anil was to nporariiy plaet d in the yard of a game fowl fan cier, who smiled s gnitieantly when warned that the lautle might hurt his fowls. The grim-lookinu bird In I not been in the yard long before the game cocks begnn to crow and strut up and down in lrontof the strange visit* r. The eagle sat quietly in the eent -r of the yard, apparently unconscious of tho presence of the noisy gam cocks, until suddenly me of them tlew at him and stiv.ek him upon one of his wings. lie looke I upon thelittlei hautieleer with a curious, inquisitive glaneo. as I much as to inquire what was the mat ter. Then another bravo game fowl I sti u k him in the breast, while num ber one hit him 011 the neck. The noble bird now opened his wings with a lazy, leisurely swing, erected his chest feathers and h'.s eyes seemed to blaze ike coals of lire. The American eaglo was beco ning interested in the business and rather angry. Again ono of the golden pheasant fowls dashed recklessly at the eagle, grasping a bunch of feathers in its attack, he fore it could recover fro 11 its charire the eagle had extended ono of its tal ons and seized tho gamecock by its neck, an l by a dexterous lling laid it fluttering and quivering beneath its left foot. The second game fowl then clmrued upon the huge stranger, whoso wings woro now half opened, and lazily rising and falling. As the gamecock struck it was met with a blow from tho eagle's wing, and as it fell was caught in tho open talons of the captive foe and laid struggling and dying upon the ground. The vi tor did not appear to bo tlm least excited, and after thus dis posing of its troublesome adversaries, la/ily stepped to one side and seemed to relapse into a state of meditative rci evtion, every once in a while lo k ing down indifferently upon the bloody trophies of its power ly ng doad at its ' ' -"i?-barg ( Cat .) Pl 'SS. Tlio Trottor'a Speed. Certain mathematical scientists are engaged in calculations of the speed that a trotting horso may finally at tain, basing their computations upon the alleged fa?*t that in lvb} the fast est timo made wai 2:-.0 in a singlo in stance. Starting from this point l'io fcssor W. 11. Uremen, of Connecticut, has prepared a table exhibiting the p -ogress achieved. During tho de cade following 1843 the num' or of horses that had tr. tted a mile in 2:30 or better had increas d to fourteen; in ISO'S there woro fifty-nine, in 1873, 377, and by the close of t'ie season of 1H82 thero were 1,(U8. Tim table shows further that up to 18*2 495 bonus had tr tte I a mile in 2:15 or better; 275 in 2:23 or better; 15b in 2:21 or better; sixty in 2:1 'J or better; eighteen in 2:17 or better, and eight in 2:15 or better. At this p ?int along comes a Mr. Nipher, who carries the problem of increasing speed to the conclusion that in the year 2220, or 337 yours hence, the record should get down to 1:31. The augmentation of speod must go on by flower and slower degrees until the extremest physical limit of equine enlurance shall have been reached. It has been easier to bring tho record d >wn from 2:30 to 2:14 tlia i it will bejjo oj sixteen seconds n ore. Ulnfrt for Flooring. In many of tho business houses in Paris, and especially In those of whloh tho collars are used as oifices, glass is now being extensively employed In stead of boards for llooring. At the headquarters of the Credit Lyonnais, on tho Jloulovard do Italions, tho whole of tho ground lloor is paved with largo squaros of rougiened glass imbedded in a strong i< on frame, and in tho cellars beneath there is, on even dull day s suflleient light to enable tho clerks to work without gas. Tim largo central hall at the otllces of tho Comp tolr d'Escompto has lately beon pro vided with a similar llooring; and it is Raid that although its primo cost is considerably greater than that of boards, glass Is in the long run far cheaper, owing to its almost unlimited durability. Tn? material is cast in slabs about eighteen inches square by an inch and a half thick, and transmits a bluish light. ? fit. James' Gazette.. A iHan with 1)84 Living Descendants. A correspondent at South Washing ton, Pender county, N. gives us somo particulars in reforonio to a somewliat romarkablo fain ly In that county. Ho says ho met Mr. \V Hoy Mooro, the head of this singularly pro lific family. Ho has been married twlco, Is now olglity-sevon years old and says ho istho lather of twenty seven ch Idren. About thr< e years ago 1)0 had tho census of his family takon and found the number up to that dato to be .'(Hi, including children, grand children, gr? at and great-great grand children, and at lasta;c mnts the nlrths in tho family averaged about three a weok. Its representatives are scat tered from tho Mississippi river to tho A tlantlc ocean. Mr Mooro is still ha!o and heaity and was able to ho In at tendance upon the last superior court. Caspar Cross, wljo was killed by a train in Illinois, belonged to a family singularly unfortunate in unnatural deaths. His oldest brother froze to death in Napoleon's retreat fro n Mos cow in 1812, one was drowned In tho Khino, one was gored to death by a bull, one dropped dead in a g aveyard, while attending the funeral of a neigh ln?r, and a sister was run over by horses and killed. DRESSED FOR MEFTINO. See my pretty ruffl (1 drees I * 800 my tieuty locket I '8i>ectu I'm moet a lady now,^ 'Causo I've got a pocket. Those down hero aro my new shoes That I walks my feet In, Courso it wouldn't do to wear Copper toes to meetin'. Soo my picture hankerfust, Sunday days I has 1! , I can blow n nose in church Most like jvxjmi docs it. Pupa's hitchiu' Jack and Gray, An' they keep a prancin1; Horses don't wear Sunday clothee ? They don't kuow thoy're daucin'. Grandpa used to go with us, Now he's gono to heaven; Guess ho's at tho angel church, Up whero God is Uvin'. I don't tnko 110 cako with 1110 ? Novor think of eatin';" , Don't you want a nico clean kiss, 'Tore wo go to mootiu'f ? A. II. Poe. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A shell race ? Oysters. Ranks high ? Old butter. According to Josh liillings waiting to he whipped is tho most uninterest ing period in a boy's life. Nobody ever thought it necessary to urge a pawnbroker to take moro inter est in his business. ? Boston Transcript. " Break, break, break, Ou thy coid gray ntonos, O soa!" Broke, bruUo. broke? That's what tho matter with mo. " Wake up, husband, tho day ie breaking," said tho fond wife. "Let it break. It don't owo mo a cent!" growls the heavy sleeper. Thert's a pretty girl in Covington .who becomes deathly sick if shoeats, ice cream, and tho number of summer beaux that girl basis something awful to contemplate. "When Fogg was asked regarding tho latest additions to tho English language, he said he would ask his wife. Site always had tho liist word. ? Bos ton Transcript. " Dear lady, ploaso help an unfortu nate man. 1 ;.in't had no work at my trade since In t winter." ?' J 'our man ! What Ih your trade V" "Shovelin* snow, mum." ? Life. " I meant to have told you of that hole," said a gentleman to bis friend, who, walking in his gardon, stumbled into a pit of water. -"No natter," said tho friend, " I have found it." A young man who went into the kitchen, whero his girl was baking, and inadvertently sat down on a hot piojust from tue oven, now boasts that The latter class of people ? those who have a proper r -spoct for them selves and their surrounding 1 ? will have nothing to do with watermelons, > because tiiey aru always so seedy. ? Lochtster Post. It Is estimated that thoro aro about 2,500,0i,0 stammeicrs in the world. This, we presume, docs not include the young men who only stammer when the* attempt to pop the question. ? / ornhtoum lit raid. .NJinnio Palmer burst into tears bo cause tlio Edinburgh studmts insisted on joining in her songs wlien she sung them on thu stage. >\u wonder. We should think it would make anybody cry to hear a party of Scotch student? sing a funny song. ? Hawkey v. An Englishman was boasting to an American that they had a book in the British, museum which was once owned by Cicero. "Oh, that's nothing" re torted the American. "In Hosting they've got tho lead pencil that Noan used to check off the animals that went Into tho ark." AN IDYIi. When I bog tho lilion growing, HuiUIiiik noar a monsy brink ; Wlion I boo their patnl* opening, CJre.uny lit e of blaflh nnd pink, Thon n olmrm I trace methlnkn, Liko unto my Jalin'H inollow ? Ah, horo tho comes. ? Capricious minx I I'd liko to punch that other fellow. ?Life. Tho Glory of Washington, Tho visitor at this time realize* that the glory of Wadiington is in Its trees, ways a letter from the national capital. Every street and avenue is lined with tho n; they fha.lo the parks nnd little triangles and ' squares of green which the pec uliar conformation of the city places at almost every itreet com r. Washington, with more than a hundroil miles of troes in its Btreets ? not including those in tho parks? surely sets a good oxamplo to other American cities, so many of which havo allowed their trees to die out and bo crowded out, until their streets look liko tunnels In brown-stono quarries or brickyards. It is fortunate, too, in another re spect as a city of residence. Having no commerce and no heavy trafllo in its streets, it can maintain t^o smooth asphalt i avements and make carriage driving here easior than on a well-kept, country road. In one .partloular it is still far boldnd tho metropolitan stand nrd. The detestable brick sidewalks still exist In almost all parts of the city, and with their bulges and hollows wrench the feet so badly that It is a common thing for pedestrians to take to the stroots, whl h aro much better adapted for walking than the side walks. The squares, circles and other parks alluded to are a spoolal feature of tho capital. Many aro beautified with beds of flowors sot out from the government gardens and thoroughly eared for. They furnish delightful outlooks for the houses grouped about them, and aro a continual pleasure to tho eyo of tho passer-by. Many of thu public buildings aro surrounded with slopes of wcll-tende.l grass, dotted with bods of flowers. The stcamor 8t. Paul, which docked at Han Fran isco recently, on her re turn from tho hunting grounds of the Alaska Kur o >mpany, discharged 6H,0<)0 s -siskins valued at $1,R00,000, the duty of which duo tho government In $ 40 000. The fklns are being Mil I'd and paoked in barrels containing about sixty each. The barrels are thon made tight, snd when ready will be ihippedjio London, where the afclns Will bJrproperly cured, then ahipped