The Kershaw gazette. (Camden, Kershaw Co., S.C.) 1873-1887, December 06, 1883, Image 1
FRANK P. BEARD, Publisher.
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iDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1883
ftt a nicl'aitcholy tone, "Tm
getting quite discouraged oVor this
dourr' ?quoth' I,
pausing i? my musical effort. "You
; surprise me 1 ,Whe*v you, view that
?. (jhero I took an oratorical
' zfy attitude oh the ^hearth-fug amfc-waxed
^ tragical in 'Voico and gesturdjl Vou
should feel tho joy that acatn^treMcs feel
g?r?.nnoU?c?a,
hen difficulties get too obtrusive and
generally looks like a rather solemn
I'll tell you^ what ^ve decided on,"
:d a momont lateiV poking my head
vwo door, "that "we get married I I
?shall go down to tho Metropolitan bazaar
Smx*
y.Wss
g "Donl I
?lns aim
very
I'll go for
said1
broken
^ *t. ;
aw thai 'would have been reassuring,
bat th*L instead of going, he gazed at
his hand on which there was a Bleeding
out about a quarter of an inch long, and
raurmufing something about the sight of
blood always making him sick, sank into
a chair with as, pallid 'a face as his com
panion.
" Oh, mother, mother 1'?- cried I, rush
ing through tho hall and opening thd
Chris, " said
around; "Were
husbands?"
"Yes, I was," I
thom both down.
racket you made coming in,
B^erry, without looking
you
tho other has swooned."
"What is the matter?
dragging in our
'u
"I knocked
ours is dead, and
What does the
child mean? " cried the two at once, but
without waiting for a? 1 ?***'
I drew thom down
ny further
the bfflp and thrust
them into the parlor to see for themselves.
Merry is a born niireO, and Boon she. was
flying around with bandages and pitchers
of Water, while tho physician (who I
believe only came home with me because
he thought me raving mad and to bo re
,r with,
ondering if
?nd all
of it all.tovpd around theidtckon,
all the doprs tightly closed, wonder
"t could have killed them both, as
the while almost distracted by a silly
rhyme Will Clare had warbled to us tho
night bofo?p. Over and over it went in
my mind: ' jpSBbI?
laying violent
for mon
44 The Q rand Marnh'jah of- Calcutta,
&'saiaa>sw?.,,',,sutu'
"Oh. Mcrrv said I.
hands on her as she came for mdre water,
"is he Acad? Havo I, like Lamech,
'slain a young man to my wounding,
and?'" ? ?
" How can you laugh t" ub began, re
proachfully. " Why, you're crying I"
"I should 'think I might," I said,
heavily. "I never killed auy one be
and tho other li
Poor fellow I he's just had a
in his hotel with a broken arm, anc
it's broken again, I'm afriM," ^^mg
And so it wasj and a low, nervous fever
accompanying, ho didn't leavo mother's
kind care. It wasn't likely sho was going
to sond him to his hotel and tho caro *>f
hirelings alone whon hOr daughter had
caused it all.
Q jL aA^ .
r * do tixB wnvio
itself to tho new state
physician cumo regularly, a trained nur$o
glided around with potions of all kinds,
and Frank Oakley ran in afad out, bring*
ing to his suffering friend all sorts of
delicacies that . he couldn't eat,
and exhibiting through jt all' a
cheerfulness thnt I considered heart
less, while Merry Bald it was
best to be cheerful in a sick room. I
believo " Roy," as the rost used to call
Wild that it required two or tbreeto give
him ahything ho did not want. $o
mother and Merry used to rwisist . tho
nurso, make ministering calls and lave
his fevered brow, but I, novor. ;
It was enough for mo to be haunted by
the remembrance of hi* ghastly faco upon
sofarpillow As I had seen it
last, add then, too, how could I be sure
but that there was method in his mad
ness, and ho might greet mo with Mr.
George Sampson's sublimo reproach :
" Demon, ^wltli oil rcspect for you, behold
But thero was an end put tq that*
One fa^ed day I was prowling around
mny; listening to his ravings when
%ith >he , dreadful
havo mo Conla and
HmSF7 iBa
JPdP
help ine givevhhn
is taklnga |S
hands off
? - Bute enou,
witiii: that
vdor. Tho nurse
Merry out ridid|
riend under the
momont
frenzied
" Mabel." From tlfc bottom ot lttyhoart
I ochoed their fervency. ;How I wished
Mabel would appearand tako my place*
then, of my bowildcttteWii *
ifc
I LI put a s;
sand said, soo
Pita is, and sho's
1 to help your poor
ed his mouth for that agitated
meekly as a lamb, and, after
g to me that ho was *0 glad I
uo/he couldn't trust? one of these
'oiks, fell into a t* ubled ale
AwthtmoLlHm
niHWfav
jlore me nc*. to leave him, Mother
med to think this a fortunate whim,
to mo It was Intently embarrassing.
??[ aii the sweet
othor young
I told you
Sho was his
Iforyeara,"
soberly fc* i
hall after
meant
sehd tot Mahol.
relatives.
hair that nil
once when
to marry and
^"SartaUy'P
?UggHng with an Obstl
ton until I was b]
Merry, thought
out her beautiful
do you remember
laconically,
shoe but
mm
"unless, as usual,
blunders by^conaoling that poor
downstairs,
It occurred to
^finished 1
it I popped <
had
hut
asleep
not
mo aftotward that Merry
her remarks that time,
out tho Hght aftd was
o minutos*|^nyway, sho
Offered to consots our poor
to do that myself and
dnlualonl
b," bo wall
W for a
but those
[ ooeddered that the youth was out of hla
I Mind, but after "reason resumed her
?we j* the hallucination remained all
through the long, Blow convalescence
that lcould sheke up pillows more sci
entifically than any one else, compound
more delicious drinks, and was an extra"
Ordinarily good nurse generally.
I must say that Merry bore my exalta
tion to her particular office with remark
able composure, and I tried not to grow
vain but carry my honors meekly. But
it was good to be to appreciated, even if
! I was conscious that it was but a delusion
to which there must come an end. 'It
was good to care for jentlean invalid,
one so wonderfully grateful for the least
attention. And so the winter wore .away,
and the leaves Were swelling in- their
Stooiifci
" ltow lovely it is to-night!" said my
patient, trirmng slowly away from the
window at my stern command. . "I will
not bo tyrannized over so any longer,
Hiss Ohrissio. ? I'm nearly woll, and the
frerhair seems so good. It's so long since
I've been' outdoors. ' Why, it was show
ing that day. and now its Bpringtimel" -
Nearly well I Bo he was, aud would be
["going away. Strange I had not thought
of tnat before. It didn't -^matter, of
course. If only that boy outside would
stop that dreary whistling and go away? |
"Oh, t dare say," I remarked, turning
nes8.^3fff , !!SHSS
"Miss Chrissie, you must not spe&kin ]
that way. Don't knock that fire entirely
to pieces. Come here ; I want to tell you
something."
That waq pretty good, wasn't it! After I
I had ordered him around for so longana ,|
had never been used to minding any one.
But I went, though I etill kept the tongs
that I might clatter them if the "some
thing" should be, of an exciting nature.
But somehow I lorgot to clattcr them.
Would I, could i take this that was
offered to mot Only the old home?
wouldn't they miss naughty Chris? and
hadn't I promised Merry never to leave
her?
" What is it ?" said 1/ UgMly, looking
stonily at the outstretched hands. . " Oh,
the tongs ! Yea* you can have them."
So he took the proffored tongs and the,
trembling fingers that held them, request
ing me at the santijfjtnoment to "be seri
ous a moment, my?"
"Oh, don't you aak mo to be serious.
I never could, 1 don't wish to," I broke
in, hurriedly. "Hear Merry and Mr.
Oakley laugh 1 They areb't sorioue. I'm
going over there. tSook out. you'll drop
the tongs I" and I ran quickly across the
hall to the parlor door. -
* speared, without doubling him
h? Mia'
"Is it you,, sister Chrissie ! MetMhas
been telling ipe the object of your 6$jj>e
dition.on that day I first had the pleasure
of beholding you. It wa* kind In you to
take so much trouble for Hoy, but you'll
mind, I'll forgiyo you/' You may come
'and kiss if. you like." t ? , . '? m t'Wm
blushing like a sweet blush-roso. j HOW
haypy tnoy were J how horribly cheer
ful i * v.- 'V.
And through the half-oloscd door
across tho lm!l I could sea the firelight
gleaming on tho bent head supported by
| ono thin, ywhito hand. Turning swiftly,
I went and, entering tho room
holselefcbly, kholt beside the motionless
figure, laying my check against the thin
hand lying so still on the chair arm.
"An It please you, I've cOmo back," I
whispered, laughingly, with quivering
ftps, " and I feel horribly sorious. May
I stay?"
Now this is R4 far as this *tory is going', J
for, iff you don' t soo how Merry began it,
you never will. Merry says that, after
rafting at stories. I have ended this by
? >?arr i env|wfj|(ke|
ut I don't think that
I've observed that
to mention two girlB w.:
never to marry. Never I o
A
Bi^fceW~3t6ck Trrintn/) correspondent
describes tho waiters at the Yellowstone
Parte hotel in this way: The men who
wait on the tables have never done
similar service, before.* They m-0 taken
from the stabled, ffom the sawmill, from
tfo mines, f^qm God knows where, and
they seem to perform tho service witha
co only eqyaled by the freedom
M-zir^h.tharra?iissj
led, It seems, and are quick to re
sent any insult, fancied or otherwise, ' to
theMjonso of maohoo&| 6uoh,<;crtainly, i
was tho experience of one of our friend^
a peace-loving, inoffensive Dutch mer
chant la tho India trade, who happened
id arouse in a father curious mannor tho
or fifteen minutc?, |?tietotly waiting for
Bomd ono to remove the dishes which had
accumulated lh front of him, In order to
reach some dessert which lay hlddon
underneath a pllo of plates. Innocently
enough, snd with the best intention, I
am sure, he placed some of the dfshos on
the floor at hi* tide, ate his pudding, or
whatever It was, drank his coffee ami de
parted, content with himself snd At ,
p$ace with alVthe world* fa At this crltf
eal moment the waiter arrived upon the
scene. You ought to have seen the
anger and disgust depicted In his face as
he oeheld the plates at his feet. The
foreigners who saw him, I dare say, fully
expected him then and thoro to draw a
revolver from his pocket and avenge the
indignity offered to his person in the
blood of tho poor Hollander* Who was
Jutt then enjoying a quiet smoke on the
plana outside, littlo8ii*]>eetlng the storm
1 raised Within. Tho waiter gen
re to do anything violent,
himself by muttering In a
loud enough fbr everybody
feet of him to hoar, Tib he
the dishes: " If I was a Dutch
prince rd have banners, blamed if I<
wouldn't; Just feel like hitting him in
the jaw. with a.platet"(^ v "!?.
1 ; Cotton ^ California
The first cotton factory in California is
to be erected in AUmodif? county,
company's capital is 1600,000- Most of
from
Call
CAPTTJBB OP JEFFEB
D??crlb?>d brthelYTntaSrcrelarroll
the Coulfderoto frwrtiwii.
Buxton N. Harrison, Jefferson Davis'
private secretary, was an eyo-witnesa of
the Confederate president's capture: and
describea.it in the Century aa follows:
4i We were taken by surprise, and" not
ono of ua exchanged a shot with the ene
my. Colonel Johnson tells mo that he
was the first prisoner taken. In a mo
ment Colonel Pritchanl rodo directly to
me, and pointing across tho creek Md :
'What does that mean? Have yoU; any
men with you?' Bnpposing the Wiring
was done by our teamsters, I replied :
1 Of course we have ? don't you heat tho
firing?' He seemed to be nottfod at the
reply, cave tho order, 'Charge,* and
boldly led tho way himself across tho
creek, nearly every man in his comniand |
following. ' Our camp was thus left de- j
sorted for a fow minuses, oxcept by one I
mounted soldier near Mrs. Davia* tent |
(who was afterward said, to havo been ;
stationed thero by Colonel Pritcliard
in passing) and bv the tfowf
troopers who stopped to ptun-l
dor our wagons. I had been sleep
ing upon tho samo side of tho road J
with the tent occupied by Mrs. Davis,
nud was then standing very ncatf it.
Looking there I saw her come out 4nd
heard her say something to the soldier
mentioned; perceiving she wanted
to move off, I approached and actually |
perauaded.thc fellow to move away. As
tho 'soldier moved into the road, and I
walked beside his horse, tho president I
emerged for the first timo from tho wit. j
at the side farther from us, and w?n'
away into the woods to tho eastward, And
at right arigles to the road.
*? Presently, looking arqpnd and ob- .
serving somebody had come out of the
tent, .the soldier turned his horse's head |
and, reguphiog the ppot he had first <
again
approached bjr;
id him incpnvc
one or pbrhapatwo'pl
either had lagged. I
and weft Apt Oomir
had atiihftt moment
the other (tho west) , "
them had itilah to P
stefcd, instead oharging
creek. Thoy remained 04
back) and soon became, violent
language with Mw. Davis. . >""*
to Hial t'- was called out . by one <
to the president. It was not obeyed,
was ouiokly repeated in> lout"
several times, it least OP* of tt
then threatened to flro^^flMjiil
(Mlrbino at tho president. "
Mrs. Davis, overcomo with.
out in apprehension, and tho
(who haq now walked sixty or
paces away into the unobstructed w<
turned around and came 'hack rapidlv
hit wife rttfar the tent. .. At least 6no of |
t^i. ' soldiers continued his violent lan
guage to Mm. Davis, and tho president re
proaohod him for such conduct toi her,
When one of them, seeing the faoe of the
president, as he stood near and was talk
ing, Sftid: 'Mr. Davis, surrender! Ire
cognize you, sir.' Pictures of the presl- i
dent were so comiribn that nearly 6r
ulte every man in both armies knew his
?c?, , '
"It witfs, ad yet. scarcely daylight.
" The president had on a waterproof |
oltrtk. He had used it, when riding, as
a protection- against tho rain during the
night and morning preceding that last
halt: and he had probably been Sleeping I
in that cloak at tho moment when the
camp was attaokod.
"While all theso things jjero happen
ing, Miss Howell and* tft chlM.cn
remained within the otWr tent. Tho
gentlomon of qur party had, with the
single exception of Captain Mood^, all
slept on the west side or the road and in
or near the wagons. They wore, hq far
as I know, paying no attention to What
was going on at tho tents, I have since
talked with Johnston, Wood and Lub
bock) and with others, about these mat-?
tote; and t have not found there Was
any one except Mrs. Davis, tho single
trooper at her tent, and myself,' Wl^o saw
all that octfafrod and heard all that was
said at tho time. Any ono else who'
give* an account of it hashed to isly
upon hearsay or hlsjmaglnation fgjjjMfr
l*17" ,? ??
The Bage fot Old BuWfcr Shoos. .
'Another singular object of interest1)
^gtolorw.g
MMi6 of ftnd mrlty, ta olfl .guw
shoes; not the gum shoe as knows
tho pyosent generation, but the gum i. ? , .
*ir4*?Oitroduc6d and1 Woib . hy, our
fathers and mother^. Perhaps nWo
ten ths of tho living of to day in tho Uni
ted States never Baw.oijo of them. They I
ci pally from Ilrn7.il, ancl'Jyere i
tho Indians, casting tho fluid
")cr jin clav molds shaped Something like
a foot* Tho outside was then fcorcd in
some way with all torts of fantastic de
signs, the shoe smoked tilt it yas blaek,
These
than
, to get
thcin
rvrever,
4$ cut
when |
boilod,
was then fit for expo
shoes were doubly, of moil
thoso of to
them on ahd a Worse lal
off. They were much
by tho boys, who foun
nicoly into thin tWpe,
wound into balls'and rolL
made 4' bouncers" that far exceeded the
primitive sturgeon's nose with yarn wrap
pings. These old-fashioned india'rnbbor |
shoes are now nearly aa scarce as the
fabled hen's teeth, but aw yet to be
found at rare intervals, stowed away in
lofts or forgotten rubbish holes in houses
In the seaboard cities. A pnir found re
cently in the wino vault of ftn old man
sion on Front street, above Lombard,
after passing through the hands of sev- 1
eral persons Ignorant of their commer
cial value, were Anally picked up at 4
trlflo by a dealer in bric-a-btao, who sold
thorn for $60 to a well-known banker,
and they now aid to decorate the draw
ing room of one of the costliest, and
most richly furnished mansions in WestJ
Philadelphia. ? Philadelphia OdU .
Nothlrtf in II
h Tho Spanish h<ivo a proverb: "The
man who stumbles tWlee on thb Hne
stone is a fool." There may be some
thing very profound in that, but wo fail
to seo It. We can't see why one good
Atone, that will outlast a dozen lifetimes,
isn't just as good fv?r a man to do all his
stumbling over a* a groat expensive col
lection of miscellaneous stones, so widely I
scattered that a lost car agont couldn't ]
keep track of half of them. The Span
, lards ate a well-meaning People, but you
can't expect very much of a people who
spell ?' Hortay" with a "i?~D*rUngton
VmuUtit. .j ^ I
The north cent
to elevated platea
*" ove *
. .. . .
A Family of Headsmen.
M. Delbler, the French executioner, If
a man of forty-eight years, -with an ener
getic face, mustache ana thick beard.
Ho looks like a peasant in a great cost.
M. Deibler succeeded his father-in-law,
the celebrated Rooh, who died a few
years ago. He began his work in
Algeria, when he married; then he was
executioner in Brittany, but now since
he succeeded M.Roch he attends to all
'tne wOrkin Trance. Fortunately for
him and for the criminals he has very
little to do, for President Grevy is op
posed to capital punishment, and during
the past five years he has signed only
eight death-warrants, In 1871-72 and *78
bis predecessor "operated" forty-three
times. Formerly the French executioner
was paid $1,000 a year, but the pay has
now peen reduced to $1,800. . When, by
chance, M. Delbler operates ho is allowed
so much a mite for traveling expenses
and a perquisite of $40. lie has two
aids ana a third laborer, who is specially
charged to see that the guillotine is kept
clean. He is called " the washer." An
other perquisite for the headsman is that
Us oldest son is exempt from military
duty. . . wtikv,
l - M. Deibler lives in onslfttf the popu
lous quarters of Pur is. near the Saint
Louis hospital. This nouse, in the Rue
Yicq-d'Azir, adjoins the police headquar
ters of the tenth arrondissement. "Mon
sieur de Paris," as -he is' called, lives on
,the second floor in a small and modestly
furnished apartment. The servant who
opens the door with a timid air, is th?
of One of the headsman's aids. At
comer of the chimney place sits the
other-in-law, a small and shriveled old
lAdy Of ninety-one years. Then oomes
Mme. Deibler, a buxom woman of forty,
with an open and attractive countenance,
and who must have been Very pretty in
her. younger days. /We have said that
sho was H. Koch'a daughter*, all ths
headsmen belonging to the samo family
by succession or by alliance, fathers: ana
sons, always marrying inaldo the famjly,'
S, as not to allow the family inheritance
escape from , their hands,-^se<o? Ga
ulle. i '
.wA'U ""I'''1*#,
Shot
The followingjile one of the most affect
ing incidents in*t?e history of the tole
graph:
" Howard An go, an operator pKWfi
sixth corps line, met With a partiouiarly
sad fate in tho Shenandoah valley in Au
gust, 1604," writes J. D. Cluindlcr in the
Washington Pott. " General Sheridan
had taken command and moved whead
quartera from Harper'? Ferry to Gharlea
ton. The sixth cojgDft was out on the
Berryvillo road above Halltown^vhere
tho two roads and lines met. Arapv had
been stationed with his wagon and in
m - enemy*
be near, and wagons and troops were
constantly, passing; therefore no guard
was left with the operator. Ono warm,
drowsy afternoon the operator at Sheri
dan's headquarters was receiving a mes- .
sage. from tnq sixth corps through Ango.
Suddenly the instrument stopped. Then
it went on a half minuto spasmodically \j
and incoherently. A short pause again ;
then it slowly but olearly spoiled oui
?S ? h ? o? t.'
V ' Good heavens!' cried the head
quarters operator, ? poor Ange is shot.*
, " A How do you know ?' demanded an
aide who was near.
" ' Becailife his instrument has said so
md stopped.*
''fifcfrift horsemen quickly leaped over
the four miles to the place. They found
Ange's wagon ? standing Quietly in tl|0
shade. Tho/ looked in and saw tne
oporator sitting dead, with the nerveless
hand which had. sent its last messago
still upon tho' Jay. HO- had been shot
through thd breast bV?non vylio fired
through the cover of the wagon and
escaped.'
Apart, from the startling character . of
tho fatality itself just described, and the
sublimity of ,a sudden fall at the 'post of
man's last word uttored distinctly a dis
tance of four hdjes. ? YotUhU Companion,
wl
BlWTT"' ~ *
morning;, it will
day, turn sorrcfw
hold business
S Along more
the one who*
f t6 the on o
?
WW
? Speak kindl;
kindly at-the even hou*, for ti!|
bhat -before dawn of ' inothor day
Tho following dftHSlbns ftro given for
the preservation of fiOWSW in their form ,
and color; Insert fholr stems in water |
in which twentyrfive grains ofvaipmonl*
urn dhloride (Sal ammonia) have been dis
solved. Flowers- can be preserved in
this way from fifteen to thirty days. ?
To preserve them permanently for
sovoral months, dtp them Into perfectly
llmgtt gum water, and then allow them
The gum forms a Complete coating on
tho stems and petals, and preserves their
shape and oolor long aftor they have be
come dry.
? ? - '
? - : A Green Ann. M
A remarkable phenomenon has been
observed lately at several places in the
Madras and Bombay presidencies, and
has oaused much interest ? (ihe Indian
correspondent of the T%m*t says), min
gled with not a little alarm among tho
Hupertftitious. For some days the sun
presented a distinctly green color. Sev
eral explanations have been put forward,
of which the most plausiblo appears to
be that offered by the government astron
omer?that It Is due to the passago aorosi
Southern India of clouds of. sulphuroui
vapor from tho Java volcano.
From tfie point where the Sfeloe enter*
Paris at BorCy until It leave? tho oitj
limits again near Auntenil, i distatieo oi
about eight miles, both its banks art
bordered by a Continuous line of quals;
well paved l^i out stOne, and its wateri
are spapnod by ho fewer than twenty
eight bridges, {he newest of which w??
only recently completed, at a cost of
about $*50,000.
RISs&H. ? ij n ii Mii i i'f ir ii ri .? ?
k'AA factory In Savannah, ?a., Is making
fourths a day of wrapping paper ont oi
h( Oats ire ***? *'?" * ** "**????? ? that tivilL.
V*.ds/ '
>1!: "'V. A ' '?/
mw 3Eht % *? * : %'
A. Feathered Shepherd.
In South America there ia a very
beautiful bird called the agami, or
the golden-breasted trumpeter. It la
about an large in body u one of our
common barnyard fowl, but aa it hits
longer lege and a longer neck it seems
much larger. Its general color is black,
but the plumage on the breast ia beautiful
beyond. description, being what might be
called' iridescent, changing, as it con
tinually does, from a stcel-bluo to a rod
gold, and glittering with a metallic
luster.
In its wild state the agami is not pe
culiar for anything but its beauty, its ex
traordinary cry, which has given it tho
name of trumpeter, and for an odd habit
of leaping with comical antics into tho
air, apparently for its own amusement.
When tamed, however? and it soon
learns to abandon ita wild ways ? it usu
ally conceives a violent attachment for
ita master, and, though very jealous of
his affection, endeavors to please him by
a solicitude for the woll-being of all that
belongs to him, which may fairly bo
termed benevolence.
It is never shut up at night as the
other fowl are, but, with a weu-desorved
liberty, is y rmitt ed to take up ita quar
ters where it pleases. ? In the momlng, it
drives the duckajjg* tho water and the
chickens to their feeding-ground ; >#nd
if any should presume to wander they
are quickly brought to a sense of duty by
a sharp reminder from the stroma; beak of
the vigilant agami. At night jpe iaith
ful guardian drives its charge home
again.
Sometimes it is given tho care of a
flock of sheep; ana, though it may seem
too piiny for such a task, it 'is in fact'
Suite equal to H. The misguided sheep
lat tries to trifle with tho agami soon
has cause to repent the ' experiment; for,
with a swiftness unrivaled by any dog,
the. feathered shepherd darts after the
runaway, and with wings and beak drives
it back to its placo, not forgetting to im
press upon tho olfender a sense of its
error by pecks with its beaks.
?" Should a dog think to tako advantage
of the seemingly unguarded condition of
the sheep ana approach them with evil
design the agam&makes no hesitation
about rusliiug at him and giving combat.
And it must be a. good dog that will
overcomo,the brave Bird. Indeed, most
dogs are so awed by tho fierce onset of
tho agami, accompanied by its strango
cries, that they incontinently turn about
and run, fortunate If they escape un
wounded from tho indignant creature.
At moal-times it walks into the house
and takes its position near its mastor,
seeming to ask for his caresses. It will
not permit the presence of any other pet
in fhe room, ana even resents tho intru
sion of any servants not belonging there,
driving oi^t all others before it will be
contented^ Like a well brod dog, it
does not clamor for food, but waits with
dignity until lis wants have been satis
fied. ? St. Nicholas v ,
Thrown Into the Potomac.
A Washington letter to tho Cincinnat
Commercial Gem ita says: It is believed
by man&,that tho dredgers now at work
in tho Potomac river improving the flats
may find the marblo block presented to
this country by Popo Pius IX, for the
Washinprton monument, which was stolen
during the Know Nothing excitement in
18J54, and' thrown overboard. . The Pott
prints the following account of the affair,
as related by ono of three survivors of
the nino who mado away with the stone :
"Nino of us did tho job on Sunday
night, Maroh 5, 1904. Wo attended a
meeting of the Know Nothing order, to
which we all belonged, on the Tuesday
.night previous. There was a good deal
of speaking going -on about the shame of.
having, a stone. from any Hing or1 poten
tate inserted in the monument of a man
who had fought, against royal tyrafiny,
and finally it was agreed that ni$6 men
should be selected * Dy lot to destroy the
stone. I got ono of the pritosv Bc
tweoj* 12 and 2 O'clook on tho
Sufaday nightJ'tf following! ; we
went over to the monument. It if as
pretty dark* but t wo of u* Were blacked
in the faoe. and' detailed to look after >
the watchtnatf %i the box. One of the
men'WeM tip to .tho box, looked in, and
found the watchman reading by a lamp.
He rammed his nistptin the hole, ahd
told hinTto keoplUfNjeat and he Would
not be harmed. The otftfir man i tied a
irope around the box. The' mata with
the pistol stayed there until our return.
Tho other one helped u? in the work of
*'hg the stone away. It was about
feet by one and a half foot in size,
a peculiar kind 6t ,white looking
Iftatfile, striped, and with* Latin in scrip,
tion, in gilt letters, on it. With soriio
ekids, bars and blocks, which wo fpund
On' ' the grounds, ?? we rolled it
from where it. was, lying in an
Old shod at the foot of the monUv
ment, down the^ill, t? a ?co\y that was
moored in tho canal bAsin, now known
aa ?Babcock's Lake.' After some little
troublowogot it safely oh board and
started out of fhe basin and idto tho
river and down the Washington channel
until within about fifteen yards of the
Long Bridge draw. While on tho way
down we chopped a piece off one corner
of the stono, about the *lze of two bricks,
with A slodgo hammer, each taking a small
pleco. When we got near the bridge a
cehfedorato gave us a signal that all was
0. K. by swinging a red lantern from tho
bridge. We then eased the stone over
tho side of the scow, and away it Went
with a splash to tho bottom of the river.
We then went back in a scow to the i
monument, relieved the man who wm
standing guard over the watchman, out
the rope around the watoh box quietly,
and scattered in different directions for
our homes. That's i he true story of the
Khole transaction. The stono has never
ton found to .this day, but I guue? the
dredges will get It when they commence
to deepen that part of tho river."
Southern loftgevlty. ?
.Southern longevity should famish a
good field for tho lifo companies, .if cen
tenarians are any evidence of average
longevity. A correspondent of the Mobile
(Ala.) writing from Baldwin
county, says: just thiuk of a county con
taining threo living beings whose ages
aggregate 886 years. Their names aro:
Sylvia Lambert, 118 years; Mary English
110 years; and Peter Hall, 118 years. I
obtained the ages from the judge of pro
bate for Baldwin oounty. a man of un
doubtod integrity, who. by the way, is a
remark ablo man himself, being upward
of eighty years of age, and still croct
and aetive. He thinks nothing of riding
thirty-six miles on horseback to marry a
couple, aba then fettirn to Howards in
time for mpper. Again, there is Howard
HOW MAILS ARE LANDED.
??' ' r y
*?>? Tiny craft that Ce-Operntc* V l(h
the Ocean Carrier*.
A Now York Telegram man recently \
sauntered down tho wharf o? tho Cuuartl j
lino. The big steamer had been reported |
carY on tho provioua evening, and her .
mail had already boon distributed '
throughout the city. Tho reporter ox- !
pected to find the ship snugly docked I
and tho passengers disembarking at the i
hour of 10 a. m., but such was not tho i
caso. At tho end of tho wharf was lying tho
William Fletcher, that ubiquitous steam- I
boat met at steamship arrivals, depart
ures, regattas, excursions, fires, wrecks, I
etc. In tho pilot house that ho has filled j
for nearly fourteen years sat Captain J.
G. Emmons, and him tho reporter ac- '
coeted :
" Where is tho steamer ?
"Outsldo tho bar."
" Why is sho not in ?"
"Tho tide was too low when sho
arrived there, and when it roso tho foe
shut lfbr out. "
"But her mail is up ?"
"Oh, yes; we brought it from her near
tho lightship and landed it hero at 9
o'clock last ovenlng."
And then tho captain explained that
tho European mail was brought to town '
and placod in the hands of readers while j
yet the stoamor that brought it was far j
out at sea.
* 'When a eteamor is due," said tho
captain, " we aro ordered to be at the
wharf of tho company, to which tho
telegraphic report 'rom Flro Island or
Sandy Hopk is immediately eont. We
must have steam up and tho crow on
board when lying for a steamer at night,
as tho competition is so great between
?tho fast mail linos that they will broolr
ho delay. Bo you soo that lam virtually
a prisoner here much of my timo.
"We start immediatclyi no matter
what tho weather? ice, anow, gales, fog
?wo must at least ui&ko an attempt.
But. wo soldom fail to get tho mail up
ahead of tho stoamor if tho telegraph
gives us prompt notice of arrival. Thoy I
do not always do this, howovcr.
"Our first stop is at tho bargo offico, I
whore wo tako on board an officer of cus- j
toms to see that nothing but mail is
takon from tho ship. Then wo mako all
ha8to toward tho ship, mooting hor at
quarantine of beyond tho bar, as tho case ?
may be. If a gale is blowing wo tako
tho windward shore for smooth water, j
If tho ice is runrJng we try to avoid it ; !
if we cannot got around it wo crash
through it. I was onco about two hours j
getting from tho Battery to tho Cunard
dock with a mail on board. If it is
foggy we proceed at half speed by com
pass, sounding tho whistlo frequently, !
listening for bolls, horns and whistles, j
and occasionally using tho lead. I had J
* qtieor experience once in tho fog. I '
, towed a vessel to sea safely and loft her ,
off tho lightship. Wo then groped our i
way back to tho Hook and steered for a j
steamer's anchor boll in tho lower bay. I
It proved to be tho Parthia, for which we I
were to wait that night. Tho officers 1
thought we camo down to look 'for them
and congratulated us upon our skill in
a fog. Vvo put tho mail 'on board and
found our way to the city before tho fog
lifted. But sometimes wo go to quaran
tine or sea upon a falso report. Occa
sionally wo find tho stoamor aground or
disabled when we reach Her, and so aro
able flfo render immediato assistance.
Yes: wo frequently tako off tho mail
outflido in a heavy sea. I nevor lost a
bag of mail matter.
" Aftor tho mail is all on board and
Bnugly stowed away out of tho wot wo
take an officer of tho steamer on board
and mako all hasto for tho city. The
mails aro taken ashore and loaded in
Hugo trucks and rattled away to tho post
offlco. Wo havo or many as 800 bags at
onco. Tho ordinary number now is 800
to 400 bags. When I first wont into tho
mail business in tho Goorgo Birj^back,
twenty years ago, $horo was not so large
a number. J'hon tho steamer would
anchor in the stream, fire a gun, and we
would -go for her. Wo would take tho
dozen bags or more to the old barge
office." throw thom into an express wagon,
and, if no horso was ready, run them to
tho postoffico ourselves. Tho Australian
and Now Zealand mails usually doublo
tho ; quantity of bags. Sometimes wo
take these malls out to a stoamor bound
for Europe," _
~T ? ? .
A Barefooted Groom.
About twenty years ago a young fol
low named Johnson, In the wilds ef tho
Cheat motfn tains In West Virginia, made
up his mind to bo married.
"But you have not a penny," remon
strated Ilia fricrul H. ? ' I havo my hands.
A man wa* given hands? one to scratch
for himself, the other for his wife," he
?aid. '
v On the day of the wedding Johnson
appeared in a whole coat ana trousers,
but; barefooted. ,
"TWf la' hardly doctfhy said the cler
gyman. "J will lend you a pair of
?hoes.". ? ?
"No," said Johnson; "when I can
buy shoes I will wear thorn? not before."
And he stood up to bo married with
out any. thought of his feet.
The same sturdy oonduot showed it
self In his future courso. What he had
not monoy to pay for ho did without.
Ho hired himsolf to a farmer for a year's
work. With tho monoy he saved ho
bought a couple of acres of timber land
and apair of sheep, built himsolf ? a hut,
and 'went to work on his grouqd?
His sheep increased. As time flow by
ho bought more,' then ho sold of! the
cheaper kind and Invostod In Southdown
?. ? merino. His neighbors
lived by turns raising cattle, horses,
or gave their attention to experimental
fanning.
Johnson, having once found that
sheep-raising in his district brought a
handsomo profit, stuck to. It. Ho had
that shrewdness In seeing the bwt way
and that dogged ponrlstattoe lp following
it which aro the surest elemotit* of suc
cess.
Btook-huyers froT> the Eastern mar
ket found that Johnson's fleeces wore
tho finest and his mutton the sweetest on
tho CJhoat. He never allowed their rep
utation to fall; the end of which couwo
is, the man who married barefooted is
now worth a largo property.
The story is an absolutely true one, and
may i>oint a moral for tho hordes of stout,
able-bodied men who crowd tho cities,
complaining that thoy must starve for
want of work.
. x.: ! ijf ; '
total *feA of German empirt la
?! totA* populations
nn"vmI rtvenrie about $165,
000,000 ; nnntial expenditure about
'?% H n
Soven now hotels, .four with i.ooo
tooma oach, ate being built in Tendon.
tawfe? /
The Gazette
Job Printing Office
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tomidWU tt*nxeet?tti*etlviet?lee#vwf ?wwHf
Moo or Job PrtaMof. tucta m FwphleU, I
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Work ton* In BrooM, Bad, BbMUOlM
The public nuit remember U?t the bMt l? ?lwv?
tb? CftMpK.
We do work ?t Cherlirton Wwi, mad rumata*
entire ?attstactiou to our petrous. . ~ .
We keep coustaatiy oo hud fee l?HS*t i>ai> o?
l^pera aoil 0?n'?lu tonu.
WAIT* '*,? .?
Tho winter scaroe is o\ er, (
Borne snowflakes tarried yet;
When in a garden oorner
A little root I set
The friend who seat it promised
That it would surely bring:
To me bodm" fragrant treasures
Boforo the flight of spring.
And patiently I waited,
A a April came and went,
And May taught all the aong bird*
A song of sweet content.
But bonny spring de-parted,
And Juno tho roses brought,
And, savo two tender green loaves,
Tho rootlets gave mo naught.
* 4
An'd so my m?m'ry lost it,
And summer a'so passed,
When in tho garden oorner,
One day I found, at last,
A very pearl of lilies?
A snow-white flower gem
Wit h conscious beauty trembling
Upon a graceful stem.
Oh I weary hearts, tako courage,
With Faith and Fationcu wait ;
Though sown to blossom early,
Full many joys bloom late.
The blessings due iu spring-timo
May lingor on the way,
And, liko my pearl of lilies,
Make sweat an autumn day, , ?
? Margaret Eylinge.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
Used up-? A -weather vane.
Church music is not difficult to ?
choir.
Not leveled by love ? The rank o ? an
onion.
The . for putting the } has , again. ?
Boston Star.
The balloon that wilt not go up la not
good for ascent.
A stitch in Time must make the ol4
chap feel sow-bow. "
bhut up for a season ? Tho pepper-box?
? New York Journal
Takes tho cako? tho tramp'. ' He also
takes anything else ho can fasten hia
talons on, from tho hon-house to the
clothes-line. }
A million bats arooaid to live in the
dome of tho court-houso at Brenham, Qa.
What a bonanza for a baseball club.?
Oil City Bliezard.
Darwin says that tho monkoy can
blush. IIo certainly ought to when he
sees tho way his descendants are cutting
tip. ? Burlington Free Pre*".
It is Said thero aro 20,000 Bpurious
sovereigns In circulation in England.
France has hud Bcvcral, but most of them
have died oil. ? Loicell Courier.
The baseball season is over, but, thank'
ncavon, we can kcop up our supply of
cripples bo long as the banana remains
in tho market. ? New York Dispatch.
A Georgia woman has finished ft bed
quilt containing 1,000 yafds of thread
and 2,400 patches. Tho quilt has also
just about finished the woman. ? Hawk
eye.
"Thoro was a great deal of floating
capital at tho sonside reBortalaBt fummer,"
said a Wall street man. 4 'Do.' you mean
millionaires' cash ?" "No, sir; I moan
tho hieiroPSC9 in bathing." '
Ilerr Fleiszig wanted to leavo tho city
by tho last tram; not knowing, when it
left ho sent his servant to seo, saving:
"John, go down to tho depot and see
when the last train goes, and hurry back
and toll mo." . John went off, and did
not return for ' more than two houss,
when ho rushod back into tho rootaj all
out of breath. " Whero in tho namo of
Gambrinus have you been all this timet1'
demanded tho master. "Train Just loft,
sir ? this vory minute, " waa John's
brokon reply. ? New York Neioa,
A White Mountain Joke.
During the past summer a handsome
young man and a mischievous, young lady
were among tho guests at a White Moun
tain hotol. The young man was teased
by his frionds on account of his hablt^f
lunching just before going to bed. One
evening he found a large paper bag of
crackers on his table. Ilasnly [jumping
to tho conclusion that the mischievous
yonng lady had made him tne gift, he
went on tiptoe to the door 6t tier room
and tossed a cracker through' the open
transom. Tho room was dtttkj but the
crackor's fall was followed ; by a slight
scuffling. Ho pausod a moment, ana
then threw a second and a.^hlrq* Kach
time a rustling was heard, r but no one
spoke. Having tossed tno entire con
tents of the bdg into the'room, the young
man stole away, and as/ to 'left the
corridor mot the young ladv coming to
her room. Troubled In his, mind, he
made inquiries the next morning as to
the effeot of his bombardment, and
learfiod to his horror that the first craoker
.^hrown had landed on the head of the
foung lady's grandmother, an infirm old
lady of noarly eighty, who . wa% at tho
moment kneeling by her bedside engaged
In her devotions. Much alarmed, sho
had risen to hor feet, only to t'ecoive a
second shot. She had then retreated to *,
a corner; ^ut being further assailed, and
not being able to form any idea of the
nature and origin of the mysterious
missiles, . she had finally crept under the
bed, where sho was discovered in aforlorn
contWtlOft'hy her astonished grandchild.
?Bfnton AdurtUer.
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Seeing with a Rabbit's Byes.
A remarkable operation was perform**
by Dr. Eugene Smith yesterday, like
subject was Fred Meyers, aged nineteen.
Who had been totally Wind for several
years on account; of An inflammation
which cattsed thd lowor lid of eaoh eye
to grOw over the, ball and pxipil. Dr.
Smith's operatfift" yesterday consisted
first of dlaseotlHV%Way the overgrown
lid, In dping this tho , conjunctiva, or
mucous membrane, necessarily camo away
with it, leaving tho oycball unprotected.
The patient was under tho influence of
chloroform, attd a livo rabbit had been
procured and also piaccd under an an
aesthetic. Skillfully removing the con
junctiva from ono of tho rabbit's eyes
Dr. Smith piaccd It over the bait of the
patient's eyo and sowed* it Into plftoe.
The operation sfcetned cntifoly successful,
and after Meyers has recovered and ia
able to use the ?ye the ofh6r will be
operated upon in a similar manner. The
transplanting of tho conjunctiva* or 1
mucuous membrane, from the oyo of an
animal to that of a human Ming has
been successfully performed in a few
rare case* In. Europe, but yesterday's
operation Was the first of the kind
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