The Kershaw gazette. (Camden, Kershaw Co., S.C.) 1873-1887, August 21, 1884, Image 1
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Hour tho bo Vu siouti "Lot tho port batek
I ir'Myp ^ ,UH. Mkm
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mala rteet fl'J? wtth tbe ms6 momoon,
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fhriok from tbo for'ard peak,
~ pp|6#^>|wd
Then obaer^matos, obcor, as tho good ship
Anil a sohooncr of boor has passed,
Iltura for tho stlipl Hurra for tho crowl
A?l?Aino^ttW?5?For the glow,eg
wnt
l"y f^r ? ?.* ? . mmmmmmmmmmm - .. .'* . re*
1,(, BATHE'S HATBEP. v ; |
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r/to my olbows, hair In anything but
graceful disorder, washing iho parlor
yrtytdowa, and itngng as loudly as my
oreiwntQ,NbJ^Sranre]
Wrighu'fl haven't Sbcn him In (four
'i*Kte&k **"?# "?w!f'
justf ^dtangrooablo oooog^ to oompU
mont me on my imprdvod looks, glauoo
ittiScIously at my^tim^lod looks and
wot gown, whllo I Stood lookl
about as largo as ;your llttlo
3?m$i
B.iuK wi my glo>??. ?jqj,
lod at Our honso a; short
_ie mentioned bolnor here," . i
peated. "Did he give you a graphlo
deMriptlpn, o! my appearanoeP Wb?t
did hdi sayP"
yod rather ,
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I#
opor never negloots hor
__ _ Je," I ur&od, "one oanhot
inilfflir* w" ttt lUo11 ,hMU,ital
linttlo, I remarked, "whatever your
forenoon appearanoe may have been."
VOb, yoal1 ahe replied. "As Unolo
B John say t?af tor the horse was stolen
I looked the barnlV
''Well," said I, '?play me something
by way of forgetting yonr unfortunate
^UuS6' plAyod oxqulsltlvoly. She
;<* Sr,*a<r
ltes when Frank. Wright qamo ln. Hat
tlo noddod,. and dWPftndod petulantly
whel^erbewas as^ oh armed with her
playing as ho had beon with her sing
ing.
"?More so," Mn Wright had the can
not
nlder me tho ewootost singer in the
1
m&jn
dor,
gsfpr
& oon
questioned.
rnmBmi&smM, mttmgi
e in bis letters
vrlten baok m
wreauung his leeturea,: :?]W: .
' "You navo learned nothing new, I
presume,j^fr. Wright," ah* said. "But
there b a oertalu adago about oavee
dropper* that I woola recommend to
your I6i*ure. Beaidee when you enter
a room where people are talking about
what you ought not to hear, pleaso
cough, clour your throat, or give other
Indlofttibne of your august presence."
And she aauolly tossed her hoad."
"My dear Miss mil," said ?Vaok,
advancing toward her, "Iaballoertaln
ly strivo to tiroflt by yonr counsel;
neither ahall 1 regret having heard
your exprossod dislike of myself, slnoe
I trust ft may toach me how l may ren
der my suit leas repulalvo, to you,' For,
believe me," he added, intones intend
ed for her ear only, "I cannot tell you
how muoh I regret this singular abhor
renoe you have ever manifested. Can
jrott not point out some method by
whloh I may yot hope to stand better
In your rogardf"
I did not hoar tho reply aa I waa
summoned to tho kitolien at that mo
ment. But I lmvo Just foundations for
believing that she did point out a way
by whloh her osteom might bo won; for
not long ago I saw her end. Frank
standing in oloso proximity, while a
vonorablo looking man propounded
dfertain momentous quostiona whloh
Frank answered frankly and distinctly,
,%nd' Hattlo's replies, though low, were
qplto satisfactory^ - V '
. Tho Mulo and tho Bull.
I ro(to onco with some cattlc-buyers
through the stook ranges of Nevada.
My pony?It was called Bob?driftod
into Nevada Utah, and waS known as a
buffalo hunter. Bob was as mean
looking aa a sheared sheep, and as bul
let-headed as a political opponent
However, Bob and I got along vory
well the ilrst day o! our acquamtanqp;
ng, in fnot, about fifty Nevada
whioh 1 have carefully estimated
* he oqual to fixty-fire Christian
miles. The next day Bob was tired, or
cross, or borod. Ilo regarded the
wastes of sago-brush disdainfully,
while I throodod my whip upon him,
and lunohed off tho sage-brush while I
wore out my spurs on his Ahaggy sldos.
Then I led him a fow milos, and ho re*
garded mo in big-eyed, meditation.
When I remountod, Which I did only
when my shoos wore worn out, Bob ap
f oared so broken pp that I folt sorry,
determined to go no further that day
than the ranoh-houso wo wore ap
T did ^H/vOm
fore we reabhed tho house, a herd of
pro aching, for I dlijiiotwant BobV
life oharged to my oruolty. Just bo
oattle reaohod us. A big bull, tho big
gest and wildest I romember ever to
ave boou, soloctccl Bob and mo for a
target ? .
. Considering Bob's condition, Fvpiur
about toVdismount, and take my chanc
es afoot, when Bob started. I boliove
he thought he was entorod for the Der
by. You nover saw such a rato of
speed attained by such a remarkable
gait Bob would alternately roll him
?elf op In a ball, and stretoh out to
threo times his normal length; his head
would get out of sight into his shoul
der*, and thongot put of sight in the
dlstanoe. Suddenly Bob stopped?
very suddenly?so /mddenly that it un
aeatod my dignity and'pose. Looking
about I dlscovorod tho cause'to bo that
the bull had stopped. Juft as sudden
ly the bull began charging tbo other
way, and Bob?that fool of a Bob
began oharging after tho bull. If tho
bull had been a peok of oats Bob oould
not have displayed more oarnestnoas
in the ohase.
Between my anxiety lest Bob ahould
catch tho bull, and not knowing what
to do with it and my uncertainty ad to
my seat, I was vorry unhappy. Bob,
howovoror, appoared to bo having a
real good time. Tho ohaso was kopt
up for miles, and until tho bull sudden
ly stopped short and swung his big
horned hoad around at Bob and mo as
we oamo along. Both dodged beauti
fully, and then the bull ohased us
awhile. That thing was kept up for
hours." If the bullwouldn't ohase us
Bob would ohaso the bull} it, was all
tho same to him-r-just as muoh fun for
one ar another. Xrookon we chalod
each other?Bob and the bull and I?
About fifty miles, when we happenod
upon a littlo oasis and Bob ohd; the troll
began browsing tho unexpected grass
together In the most friendly mannen
I Excused myself and walkod baokto
the ranoh.?Ban Francitno Oall
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Taking Care of DroMM.
Thoro Is an old ] provorb whioh save
a lady is always known by he* boots
and gloves. Quito as crnolal a test is
the faculty of takinggood oaro of her
oostumes, and ono that quite as dis
tinctly marks the well bred Jady. Any
one can buy an VOlogfknt wardrobo "t?
she have .pionoy enough, buff] to tako
the requisite oaro to keep it fresh and
dainty requires something moro than a
ohook book. Of keeping nioe dresses,
a lady writes: "Each dross should have
Its own wrap or oover to keep it fr6m
chaffing or fading. Tako fino, firm
qotton cloth, something ovor a yard
Wide^cut if into squares, thon hem add
Sash- the squares. They should be
ie, take no room, and woighMfoUtf
firm, to keep away from dusti hemmed,
^at you may keep the same side next
ie silk, and washed, to do aWay with
bio aching ohemloals, Which ate lia~
to change the eolor of the silk.
Id the bottom of the train back and
The bottom being all together, you
will oover it with a small cloth or to*
el to koep the dusty train from rubbing
against ttte oleaner parte of the robe|
roll the whole dress loosoly to the sifce
and shapo of tho box it is to go in, lay
it upon a white cloth and fold the oor
of the same over the top of the
{o and place In the bo*. NOw
the roil ind adjust it to its spaon
delioato or easily
le dresa?as Medio!
? W'&a
"" to the thin.spots.
" ? robe shako
""Mi
ttA
so it oannot Jut
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or
and os
lelat.
Btorjr By ? JForiy-Nlnor. |
??I tell yon what. slr"-lt was an old
?there ain't no lifo on God s earth as
OOMMOP to mtol#'-, lo?tw .. -noUto
ain't throo mon ouistuo mu "uu^u.?
and saloon-keepers as have got a dollar
iU ,4?Bnt 8*s th?fasolnation of It Lor'
man, when you've 8tf?0^ ,it. Pf?uy
rloh.and oan seo yer gold r^t ln ^ut
of yon; when you ro piling it up every
half houif b' tho day, with anuggotnow
and aiWn as big as a bullot to oheer
you, and then when tho ovonln conies
and you count It up and find a btui"
dred odd dollars Just picked ontotho
earth that day?well, there ^ * B*th
in' like it Then when you don t strike
it rich you always think you're goln to
next day, and It's lust as exoltln^
hoarln' other men toll In the cventa
what they pulled out as It 1* oountin
ovor your own- Why, I've boon throe
and four months at a timo without
making a dollar and without a cent in
my pocket; but Goowhlttakorl tho o*?
cltoment of it don't give a man 'vwiea
to think how hard up ho is.
- "But there are times * hon a man
don't kndw how to kick himself hard
enough; you hot ho ? don't It , was
down on tho Stanislaus onoe, I was
monkeying round with a pard?Long
Gus we colled him?an I pioked np a
clod to throw at him, Just a lump of
earth that was jyin' handy. Woil. It
just wont to oho side o I^ng Gus, and
no sortor reaohed out his hand to catch
it an' it all broke in. pieces loajju
some In his hand. Iemooted lX d
throw it baofcat me; but he dldn t^He
Jus thonged it over in his hand careless
like, and then said we'd had enough
loolin'. So we walked on again. Next
mornln* Gus didn't say a word to me,
but he Just went off with his ..outfit to
theplaoe whoro I'd thrown that clod at
him, an' took $250 out tho first dar.
An' I don't know how many thousands
ho took out boforo he'd dono wlth that
claim. As the clod broke in his hand
it laid b?ro a small .nugget, maybe,as
largo as a poar?he showod it to mo
afterward?an' ho said It startled him
so he very nigh oalled out an gave
hlsself away, as itobody supposed there
was any gold left just there. It was
all thought to be worked out but tho
darnedTools had gone right by tho
riohest part of It f wish Jie had oallod
out I know, but you bet I never felt
more like kicking myself into,,the
rivor'n I did then.. Wny, if Id only
turned the oussed thing over, or broken
it in two?it was % sight too largo to
throw at onoe, as I thought, when I
threw it bnt " ?! ' ?
4'But there was another time when I
felt liko hurting myself, too?hurting
myself right bad?and so did all the
othor boys,* a oan tell you. There were
some two hundred of us in It "Ir- An
we wore aU fools. It was one Fourth
of July; down to Mokelumne, an' we
wanted to dv su'thin' to celebrate, w*'
we wore'pretty badly fixed '<* Wjat to
do. Well, after rakin' round ? bit we
settled on an old tyoe?one o tlioso
sugar pines. Tho gold, ye know, used
to lie all along the bottom of tho
oulohee?or so we usod to'think?and
nobody ever thought of going up tho
hillside to look for It but Just kep' on
working blong the gulches. An -this
sugar plhe was some three hundred
feet up the bllblde, right away from
whew tho gold was. It was a fine
tree, as straight as whisky for 100 foot
or more without a bough jor a leaf on
it and then tho boughs began all of a
sudden. It stood out there all by itsolf
like, an' we settled we'd ttow.it up. So
we gets a twenty-five pound kog o'
blastln' powder !?) and haulod it up tho
hill, an' set to;Work to dig a hole under
thetreo. Wo got as far under as w^
could for the tap-root and then stowr
tho keg ttftfty, an' Jdst hoaved roo
and onrth- onto it and beat It dowi
hard; lit the fuse an^
sorfttnbled ^HBS|S fast as we oould.
Well, .you it wo scattered
lookout fqi
went all' i
didn't blow tt ?
a cent It jott fttqod thero as If noth
ing had happened, 'oept that the trunk
was split open som* tyrot^iy feot or so.
HoweW, we ill chared and hollered,
an* felt we'd, done suthln' to oolebrate,
and then we wont Wok and 'rahed
around the oamp.
??That as l*vo said, Was on tho 4th
of July. Along to tho end of Septem
ber, It might be, it rained?rained
quito a sight that year. too. Well*
never WMbod ont a dollar. UonSstly in
bis life?ohanood to oomo ovo? that hUl
on his way to' bamp, an l>?"cd right j
by thls/ero plntf wo. trlod to blow
op. tfono of d? Wad never boon up to
the durned tree agnlu, but, s olp me
jaaksjifi
powdor'd 'ktoked up. nn' this Cellar
Harris Just pioked up *00 us ho stood
theret that proved one of tho riohest I
loads In the wholo Mokelumne, an'(
here had wo boon washing aW<y in
tfulches an* Bayln' as thoro warn't no
fold ^p tho hillside. Wn't there!
Chls foller Harris got rloli out o that
008 ' " """"
rest
ftr $I. ?
know. "But I tell you ?------- ,
of us 900 m wouldn't havo token It
kindly. fihWme one 'ad kicked Mm well
When we first heard o' what we 4
dono."?N> 7. tribune. WKM
, i? iim^i >
[v Fatm notea: fteafc and freedom from
ahnoyanoo Are OMontial toanimalatha*
?re bolng fattened lor' market. tfar
mor? ihottnt" nevor aHndo tto family
earea whllo feeding the pig*. Nice
froth egg* to bo offered in next Win
ter's market., ought to be limed now.
The word "fresh" written in load pen*'!
oil on tho iholi wHl Mftdlly diatingulafcl
them from the pretiotia romoA's. A
bookkeeper aav? that, by feeding nitrow l
genons food, the qneen oan bo fadnoed
to lay *t *?y time. If tliore is any kind
Of food that will indueo quioaeenoo In
the bualneaa mem bora of the hire, we
ahall be glad to publish it
;.A ?? 1 mi 1 i? i?i t, I
A gontleman vialtod the house of
Henry Ward Beoeher and waa aurjpflaed
M the araell of tobtooo atnbko in the
lbrary. Turniig to M* lloooher he
libAil lvl?. U L- ? ? Mm..
aaked him if he amoked^vThe reply
waei "No, but my aona do. ?| oannot
?eat to mo by my father. ?
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V I"' ? < AlJlnSj
The Society NovcL
J Darius the liast few years the
??A new society novel, by r?-SM oot
with enh>glstIoadjectlvea of va:
degrees of Intensify, has appeared with
remarkable frequency in the advertise*
monts of book publlshors, until. ali
the conclusion is forced upon one .
this style of fiction almost monOpol
the talents of our story-writers. f.e?
haps, however, ??story-writers" does
not accurately doscrlbo those who load
the shelves of circulating libraries with
this sort of reading matter. For, as a
goneral rule, the books whioh the
American school of novelists prodtfoes
oannot be olassed as stories. They
are rather photographs of different
6bases of social lift. Of plot thero is
ttle or none. The writer does not
exert himself in the loast to oreato an
oloment of suspense as to the probable
fate of his horo or heroine. He ignores
incidents as muoh as possible. His
characters seldom do anything that
has any bearing oh the development of
tho sketch. The catastrophe,- such a^f
it is, excites only' lanqold interest,
unlets the. author, impelled by a
desire to appear "original," discards
the good old method of bringing his
young men and maidens safely out of
thoir troubles, and, instead,.gives us a
conclusion that is odd, disappointing,
irritating.
Tho plea that is urgod in dofonso of
the society novel ana the soolal' study
is that the age is one of introspection,
that the critical spirit is abroad and
that the analysis of oharaotor is the
truo reflootlou of that spirit, that, men
are more oonoorned with motives than
with deeds, and that tho world has
outgrown thenovol of incident, adven
ture, action. And what a change lias
been brought about! Instead oflisten
ing (with how much pleasure I)' to the
songs and jokes that, with pipes apd
brandy-and-wator mako the night
merry in the Gave of Harmony, we sip'
our onampagno and talk philosophy or |
stocks at Dolmonloo's. Dora's tribula
tions are6ld?fashloned; wearo interest
ed now In Miss Bosebud's flirtation at
Nowport Who cares whether or not
Bols-Gullbert's .advancos aro rolected
by -BebecoaP Qur horo of to-day is
not a brute. Listen to-him as ho urges
his suit Is he not refined, as beffts
the temper of tho timosP And is not
Jacob Harvard^ playing tennis or load
ing a german, a~muoh"moro agreeable
book-oompanion than Pendonnls, mak- J
ing love to Fanny Bolton at. VauxhallP
Alas, that wo should havo failed upon
evil d*y* when Olevorness, refinement,
over-elaboration and oyniolsm take the
plaoe of the strong, simple, direct,
dramatic qualities that willkeop the
notels of Scott, Thackeray and DjelfthZ
alive scores ol years after the soolal
studies of tho present day aro burlod
in oblivion.
The allurements that this field of
fioton offer to tho olovor writer of a*
metaphysical or dosorlptive tarn of
mind aro many and well nigh irresisti
ble. But if the soolety novollsts in
oroase in numbers in the next ton years
as they have in the last deoade, thoy
may eoho tho cry of the shrewd but
Illiterate Hebrew who, commenting
the other day of tho depression in the
dry* goods trade, suihmarifced the Situa
tion with the words: "The produo
tionists product too muoh, the oon
sumptlonlsts don't take it, and finanolal
matters is in a bad way." Too muoh
of this style of fiotion will Inevitably
bring about a reaction in favor of
something moro nearly akin to the
novels of the old sohooL Yet there
will always exist a demand for tho
well-written sooiety novel that shall be
a faithful reflex of life in oiroles from
whioh the groat bulk of the pooplo aro
exoludod. For the oountry girl who
longs CVorv Summer to go to Newport
to see for her- self the polo matches,
the lawn parties, the drags and what
not?the things, in a wor d, that engage
tho attention of *'sooiety," .as she
understands it?a novel describing
these affairs of moment has to servo
as a substitute. And the prevalence of
this curiosity to know how those who
are 'fa sooiety" look, talk, dress and
behave is recognised by Our younger
writers, the more aoonrate they are In
detail the more valuble thoy are sup*
posed to bo.
But what is their real worthP How
Aro they to sttfad' the test of tlmeP
Will'thoy be found side by side with
Popys' Diary two hundred years hettoe,
Mid will they be roforrod to as of the
tiighost valuo of their plotures of mon
und manners as they existetfMlt^mw
the Civil WarP We oan, see the
historian, antiquary or oritlo of the
[utoro as ho stumbles upon a dozen or
10 -of those American sooiety novel*
fcn^pmros ongorly ovor tho mildewed.
_ ?
uggles with tho
i tho lands by
?o#nhablt it*
Bonoftth a sign, over tho (foot of Otto
of tty busiest establishments in LeW|s
ton, a roonss In tho wall has formed
ono of the snurtrest retreats for a bird
6r beast Imaginable. As winter storms
ba^t down tho reoess 1ft the wall has
been seoure In Its protection. Tho
rains trouble not Its quiet, and the sun
oan look In lik sprlfcgtlme. A soore or
mote of nests of birds have beon bt?llt
there. ^ orogeny of English sparrows
has, nf tor Tinoounted struggles wl ~
original dwellors, WOrt 4 "
right of conquest, and
?m^. ,ho:teiS
tho windows oz an oflloe< Uno sits by
the open windows and sees all the
doitigs of tho entire family of birds.
Their battle, of oohquest was lately
fotighb ^'Hastings bloody field was
partially re-onooted. It wits about 10
o'oloek. A sparrow or two were loaf
IIng around tho house, when a dozen or
more intruders sottled down on the
Iron rods of the awnings and sign*,
and began to make trouble. They
woro running things when ro-enforco
monli of the home birds began to
arrivs. The aggressive, tbtok-beaded
English sparrows plmn<%hls f fMg
ancl all the sickening details of
lowed. Tbo uproar called the
tori/to tho window.S Tho h
fought off the Intruders. >'1
down In Inereasod numbers,
invaders fiod. Two Mrds In tho thlok
est of the fight flew up and down, and
up and down agalm A gentleman on
the walk below holS out his hands, au'l
the birds sottled In his outstrotohed
palmsafid fought still. After the In
truders had beon rontod there were ex*
presstons of Joy. In tho nest Tho En
glish sparrow Is nothing I' not a fltfht
er.?lAwittown Journal.
?1 r ? , i..? mm * *?? r 'H. I
A Brooklyn man who hit whoat for a
few thousand dollars last week, rushod
around and routed a brown-stono front,
and then sought tbo servloes of ? fur
niture motor. "I'll take it by the Job
and do the fair thing btf you," repllot
tho moreT.v. -Well, how fair?" *T1
say fifty dollars for the twa" "Wha
two*0 "Why *1*6 moving this wook
into tho brown stone, and the moving
Sray^gsia& %
^fcb the two motes together la th*
of * grain *poouiator(w*0^?
wn%dBws&una^i.iA^, y ntm
1? Litfr Growing linger?
be told that under proper condi
we ought to lhre one hundred
and that tho discouraging doc
ie,of the influence of'he
irtehing life is oMy true in
it iutoros "
mi -?
suraucot.bat x&uoh may bo
.yet to prolong our llroik, Awe
Wfunlogons topios were given in #
rccont Icoture by Dr. John lost^r, of
Bradford, England, read at tbe Febru
ary mooting of the Medloo-ChlrugiOsl
society: 4,Tbo late Dr. Farr in hi? do
aeripuon of the jmaroh through llfo of a
million ohildren, has given the follow
tov Ur0t yodP| oJ|VvU in tno sccond yoftfj
*^.000 in the tbifd year, and less tban
XX) in tho thirteenth yoar. At the
of sUfty yoars 870,000 will still be living;
fjjgfag inning of olghty years, 90,
O'hty-flvo yoara 88,000}atnlno-i
? lio years, 2,100. ;At'tho boginning
of 100 yoars thoro will bo 228, and
at 108 years 1. Tho mean lifotime of
both soxes in England was calculated
yoars,
1860, tho moan ago at death was 48.66
(females 46.8), boing a gain of nearly
2} year*. This within twenty yoars,
notwithstanding an -inoroasod birth
ra$, density of population, and tho un
sanitary oonditlon of towns suddenly
grown large, more tban 2J yoarst h*vo
boen added to tho lifo of ovory inhabit*
WI"The'Spectator asksY ?'frliat is the
kind of |ifo which jg increasing? Ayo
wo young longor, or mature longer* or
old4ongorP Do wo livo longor, or aro
wo only a littlo slower in dying?' I
am bound to admit that somo of the gain
in early life is lost in middle1 life; that
while tbo expootatlon of lifo at birth is
25 or more, the expectation' from 86 to
I 60 it a fraction loss. But notwithstand
ing1,lhf< slight increase of mortality at
85 and upward, a large portion of tho
additional survivors Jive on tpthehigh*
er ftjjew. Of 1,000 bofyo, the additional
numlber of survivors U 86 at tbo age of
46, 26 at 65, 9 at, 05, 8S atv 75,land 1 at
85. ; Tho .inprpaso is .muoh greater
among females. ' By fir the groater
troportion of tho inorerisod duration of
umAn life ih England is lived be^weon
20 aad 80." It is interesting to as
certain what is tho natural limit of ex
istence. / Dr. Farr says the natural life
time of a man is a century. Thati is
aL- * no tho body will livo under the
favorablo oohdUioms. Another
intoros'ting quostion is: "When
Id? ago oommenceP" DP. Farr.
1 life as follows; Boyhood, 10 to
15.yo^rs; youth 15 to 26; manhood, 26
to 061 maturity, 65 to 76; ripeness, 76
to 85,i and old ngo 85 and upward.
In faking tho period of 65 to 75, and
> still following tho fortunos of tho mill
ion ohildren born, we And that 809,029
enter this ago and 161,124 leave it
. alivo. j/Dlsoases of the brain, lungs and
' heart bre tho moatoommon; 81,400 diod
of old ago. The numbor that enter tho
next doconnial?75 to 86?aro 161,124,
and Oft numbor that leavos ft. alivo
88,665- About 122,600 die ohiefly of
lung, hoart, brain and othor local dis
eases. Nearly 60,000 die'of atrophy,
debility, and old age. Some wrltor
says he has m6t few or no oases of
death from old age, everybody dying
of somo rooognizod disoaao. It is true
that symptoms of disoaso are obsoured
in old age, many oases of pneumonia
and other inflammations escaping rec
ognition. But it is also true that many
doaths attributed to disoaso are mainly
duo to old ago; alight injuries, cold,
heat, want> or attaoks which in early
years would have been shaken off. Of
the million with which wo started,
2,185 lito to tho age. of 95?228 to 100.
Finally, at tho ago of 108, ono solitary
life dies,?New York Bun.
' vA. :?-<! ' LJ.--11 !-i ?< 1,1.
.A Remarkable Storjr.
An Inoiclont dlrootly connootod with
the lute rebellion hM just oomo to light
horo, says n, Dayton apodal to the
Cleveland leader. Twenty yoars ago,
when Judah P. Benjamin, impovorinh-*
od by tho war, was about leaving tho
then conquered i-obol Btntos to seek a
home in England, a wealthy personal
friend named Reynolds, living in? Mis
sissippi, loaned him $200,000 without
security and without taking a scratch
of a pen* The aot was prompted sole
ly b/ sympathy for his noody. ffieqd,
Mr. Reynolds knowing that if Mr. Ben
Jamb ever became. abfc ho would re
pay the loan, and if not the money
would afford ? tho relief he desired to
givohtm.'
For fifteen years past Mr. Reynolds
has been a resident of Huffman Hill,
ono of the most beautiful suburbs of
Dayton, and ts One of the wealthiest
men in this vicinity, and rfr6Ufcbiy has
more ready money at his command
than any othor person here. He is en
gagod In banking' nrnl is largely inter
ested in insurant uompanios and othor
oxtenllve enterprises in this and othof
cities. >-!lt is. net known qortainlft
whother Mr.' BonjAmin ever repaid Mtfr,
Roynolds'tho dobt, but it t* Altogether
probable, as tho .money ' had onftbled
him to at Onoe establish himself in Lon
don, as * result of which ho seeured a
busihess from whloh, la the late yonrn
of his life, ho roooived an income of
$900,000 per annum.It Is Equally oer
tain, however, that Mr. Reynolds nevor
broaohod the subjoot to him or ever
gavo much thought to tho matter, oth
er than tho satisfaction ol having boon
able to holp his frlond In the hour of
distreis. This inoident has novor bo
foro boon told to the world, but there
is little doubt of Its truth.
A Florae Buttle tfo* lilft),
On laqfc JfrldMr a combat betweon a
ten-foot man-cator shark and a seven
foot alligator was witnessed at East
pass, near Pilot oove. Whon his shark
ship Spio?l tho alligator he wottfnkr
hlm at a lively rate, oloavlrig the wator
with inoredlble rapidity. Tho alligator
stood his ground, and waited theon
slanght with blinking oyes and open
mouth. Soolng his antagonist prepared
for him tho wily shark made only 4
Rooming attempt at attack, and rushed
bv his 'gatorship with inorettd veldoltv.
Whon a fow feet only ihtorvoned the
ihark. by a turn kfcown only to the
flsb, wheolod with lightning rapidity
and pounced upon, his enemy; Qulok
as tho movomnntwas It did notatfocood.
As tho saurian and tho fish oamo
togother thoro was a terrible ohurnlhg
of tho phosphorescent Waters for 2
mometil?*nd then tho shark darted off
a fow foot, turned onoe more qufokly
upon its stomaoh and his ponderous, '
Jaws closed upon the saurian'* middles
Thore'thon was a crushing of holies
and flesh for a second, tho water was
dypd with the salitlan's life-blood* and
then one-half of the dofoated fos was
seen to disappear down the oavornous
throat of tho shark.--Appalachktla
Tribune. & ? ?;. * ' " ,? >,. \ S
:yp,:?}>'? -H eimpeiy Womee. 4
" " .
A stay maker, asked by ft reporter It
he ovor thought of studying women's
figure* with respoct to their nationali
ties, delivered himself of the following!
"Yob the study Is en interesting one*
English womon, when they, are young,
have the noblost figure, ho far as I havo
k observed," said the manufacturor, after
a pause, "hut thoy get corpulent and
dowager-llko after., marriage, much
Mooner than American women, after
which they may be said to have no
fljrtu0 at all. Kngllsh womon, as a
rule, aro less aihamed of their figures,
when stout, than most othor fashion
ables, and seldom resort to tight lao
ing. Mrs, Langtry is a superbly shaped
woman, say what thoy will, and is a
flno specimen of English women in
general, though I believe she is only
half English, after all. Among fash
ionables the Frenoh ladies are apt to
spare the sorawniuess, but they have
a natural talent for. making up and
conooallng their defeots that It Is hard
to judge of them. Thero aro somo pret
ty figures among the Cuban and other
West Indian womo^, but thoy aro
short, age rapidly, 1 and soon grow
dumpy 1 yet such as have boon Frenoh
maids manago to make up woll. Bo- 1
flnod German and Irish laaios have fine
figures on> an avoroge. So do tho
Italian ladies. The few Holland and
Bolgium ladles I have soon, are rotund
an<Tessentially built. Tho bust slmpccl
woman, In overy rospeot, who oomos
into this store, is a Hungarian, wife of
a musician in one of our theater ? or
chestras. Her waist, bust, and shoul
der* are, llko sculpture. Sho Is tall,
< willowy,'and statuesque, and hor walk
itf the molody of motion. Sho doosn't
walk at all, In the ordinary sense, but
floats over the ground. Her natural
waist measure Is twenty-eight, and sho
does not lace down an inon .below It
HowoVor, .English figures avorago
> bOSt." , ' >:
"You have not said anything about
tho Amorioan ladies," said tho re
porter.
, ? "I reserved them for the last, for, aa
a nationality, thero Is most to bo said
i against them. Amorioan fashionable
w&non. though inclined to fragility, a*
a rulo, havo naturally oxoellent figures,
but there aro no other women who so
persistently doform and destroy what
naturo has givon thorn, through tight
lacing and gonoral slavish Obediono to
tho abshrdost freak of fashion. Amori
oan womod are tho most unoonsolon
ablo laoors in the world. But, every
thing said and soon, the British fern
inino figures are the bost models.''
li ,/ Marrlagoof a roc toss.
j. Tho marriage of Miss Ella Whoeler
has given tho witling* somothingpto
write about, andf we may expeot to boo
agood deal of ooarse humor printed
about an ovont whioh it seems to us
should bo treated with that delloaoy
with which respootablo people are in a
habit of disoussing affairs to whioh a
lady is a party. I'ho fact that Miss
(Wheeler is tho author of considorablo
lurid pootry affords no excuse for the
.Indecent rldiculo to which shohas boon
subjeo^od, and which has brokon out
'ftfrosh ainoc.tho announcement of her
mnrrJago to Mr. Wilcox! a vory ustima
blo young gontloman from New Eu
glaud. It it, quitp likely that somo who
avo basoly misoonstruod tho senti
mont of Miss Wheolor's verso imagino
that she id devoid of that refinement* rfu
rlty and delloaoy of feeling whioh oon
sUtuto tho highost beauty of intellectual
womanhood rtheso persons are grievous*
ly at fault* Nono but a woman of tho so
verost purity and dollcacy of feeling
could write such pooms as Miss Wheol
or has givon us; nono olso would daro
to^dO BO. Wo rogrot tho rudo josts
whioh aro omittod at this gontlo lady's
exponso, but wo fool that sho is too fnr
above thorn to bo postorod by their
f tings or ,to suffer thoir ovil odors to in
terrupt the flow of her vivid but grace
ful muse.?Chicago News.
Borgh's Sympathy fbr tho Mnlo.
Mark Twain tolls this story of Mr.
Borgh: A Indy was tnlklng with Mr.
Borgh ono day and chanced to apeak
of amend ol hors who had lately beon
travollng out west In orossing tho
frontier it boonmo' neoossary that tho
father, mother, nml throo chlldron
should cross a somewhat swollen ford.
Tnelr only beast of burden was a mule.
! So the fathor placed two of the chil
dren on its b*ok, then plunged in and
led tho boast with him. It swam obedi
ently behind him, and all reaohod tho
Other shoro in safety At tho man's
bidding tho Intelligent muTe roturnod
U> whoro tho mother atd child wore
waiting to oroSs. Tho mother, fearing
to put too heavy a burden on the aE
rtady tlrod animal, put only tho child
tipOu it# baok, bado him hold fast, And.
With a praytir, led tho anlftal to. the
.Water's edge. Tney plunged In, swam
bravoly for a time, and then wore
ravoly for a time, and the* woro soen
> sttngglo And go down.
"Ob, think, Mr. Bergb," said the ex
ited and pitying lady, "Just think
what must; have been tho foolings of
that mother as sho saw her, darling
child lost in tho depths of that blaok
WateeF"-v... . > .>>? '
"True; oh, too true," sighed Mr.
Bergb. "But did you ever think my,
dear lady,.what mult havd been tho
fOolingA of tho muloP"-?-Boston Letter.
'ill. /
Saranel Shin Removed from Oflloe*
"00 man who minds his own bfaness
has got all do work dat should be out
out for one pusson.- Do mate whoso
Angora l(oh to piok up artlolo* ho hasn't
paid for will soonor oP later make m
mistake and burn his finger* It am
nuflin to mo who gets drunk nor who
koops sober, 10 long as noither one
damages mo. I doan' koor a straw'JA
know now do nolghbor on my leff libe
widout work or position, ah* Item none
Of my biftness how do one ott my right
spends de $10 ho elms eaoh week. ,?*'i
"GonVlon, 8anm?T Shin was Jplntod
Janitor of dls hall undor de impreshhn
dat ho was striotly honest.*,- It has bin
ooholusively proved dat he am an em*
bofcaler. Had ho takon all our money
it would have bin in order to oall him
sharpen, keen an* be satisfied to git
half of It baok au' let nlm go frtd. Aft
owns a mule. Jlnfo? lavin' dig blaoo
lo-nlght l.o must gin ne ft bill of sale of
do animal. Wo must htlvn a ohattle
mortgage on his oook stove. If ho hae
arfy wages due htm Wo^murt sorvo ?
The Moon Inhabited.
A% the astronomical observatory oI
Berlin, says a translation from Nya
Preston Htlringfor, a discovory baa
lately beon made, which, without
doubt, win oause tho groaUst gousatioa
not only among the adopts In sclonco,
but oven among tho moat Warned.
Professor Blendmann, in that city, has
fooi^d,. .beyond a doubt, that oar old
friend, tho moon. Is not a mero lantern
which kindly furnlshs light for the tar
ing youth and gas companies of our
planet, but the abode of living, intelll
Snt beings, for which ho is preparod
furnish proofs most convincing. "
This question has agitated humanity
from timo immemorial, and has boon
tho obioct of tho groatest iutorost. But
the opinions havo always difforod vory
widoly, and no two minds hold ono
and tho same. Already in anciont
timos tho boliof provailod that tho moon
was inhabited with Bomo higher or
ganized, intelligent boings, somewhat
resembling man, and in order to com<
munioato with thom tho oarthly enthu
siasts plantod rows of treos several
milos in longth so as to form tho figuro
of tho Pythagorean theorem. Tho oole*
brated astronomer Schroder, in the be
ginning of the present century, faneiod
tnat ho could dotect places oy tho sur
face of tbo moon which periodically
grew lighter aud darkor, and from this
fact ho derived the conclusion that tho
phenomenon was a proof of oxisting
vogotation. During tho last fow do
oados, howover, the idea of life on the
moon has beon hold up to ridiculo, and
totally soornod by men of learning.
But, novertholoss, it has now boon
provod to bo corroct.
By acoldont Dr. Blondmann found
thaftho observations of tho moon gavo
but vory unsatisfactory rosults, owing
to tho intensity of tho light powor of
tho moon's atmosphoro, which is that
strong that it afleots tho correctnoss of
the observations in a vory high dogroo.
Ho then ooncolvcd the idoa to make
tho object-glass of tho rofraotor less
sensitive to tho rays of light, and for
that purpose he darkened It with the
?moko of oamplior. It took months of
experimenting boforo he succoodod in
finding his right dogroo of obscurity of
,tho glass, and whon finally found ho
then with tho rofraotor took a very ao<
curate photo of tho moon's surfaoe.
iThis he plaoed in a sun mloroscopo,
iwhloh gavo tho ploture a diamoter of
66$ foot. Tho rovolation was most
startling.. It porfootlv overturned all
hithorto entortainod idoasof tho moon's
surfaoo. Those level plains which for
morly woro hold to bo ocoans of watdr
proved to bo vordant fields, and what
formerly was oonBidored mountains
turned out as doserts >of sand and
ooeans of water, Towns and habita
tions of all kluds wero plainly discorn
ablo, as well as sigus of industry and
trafllo. Tho loarned professor's study
and observations of old Luna will bio
repoatod ovory full moon whon tho sky
is cloar, and-wo venture to'prodiot that
the timo is not far olF whon wo shall
know more about the man in tho moon
than as boing an agent in English
politics.
Working-Girls In Gotham.
Tho opening of what Is cnllod the
Easter season lias given groot activity
to the retail trado, suyi a New York
letter, and thoro has boon an increasod
domand for1" clorks. Many young
women from tho country lmvo oome
hithor seeking this kind of employ
ment. This is to bu regretted, as thoro
aro alway rnoro of thi* cIhss horo than
tho domand rcquirus. To bo more ox-'
plioit, I would suy that young womon
aro generally paid one-',i.ird less than
mon for tho same Airvicv. A good
saleswoman can oavn $G a wuok, and In
some instances if 10. There aro a fow
who, boing .very export, recoivo $12,
but suoh instanoos are rare. A first
olass oashior in a largo establishment
is somotlmos paid $16, but this roquiros
groat ability and oxporlonco, and, per
haps, soourlty. Thoro aro many wo
men book-keopors who, aftor long
practloe, earn from $8 to $10 a wook,
out suoh situations. aro not ^asily ob
tained. A fow of this olnss oarn $12,
and thoro is ono caso montlonod whoro
n woman of extraordinary ability has
$20 a wook, but if a man porformod
these very dntios ho would have one
third moro. An inquiry m^de at the
Christian association brought tno roply
that $16 per week is tho highost pay
any woman can hopo for, oithor as
toaohor or book-keeper. The best pay
is earned by a few oxpdtlonood book
keepers, who are in the servlOo of tho
rioh families and recoivo $1,000 a year
with board. . Somo artlfiolal flowor
makers earn $18porw?ekatthls season
ot tho year, but there are hundreds of
weU-tralned women who would bo glad
to ewfn from $8 to $10 per weok, while
there are thousands whoso earning are
fronl $8 to $0. The holiday activity, of
course, helps this class, but there are
so many ready for an opening that
there Is no encouragement for country
folks.
Speaking of womon it may bo said
thai Iff# York has more than its sharo
ot working-girls. This rosults from the
vast number of poor people living here,
the number being estimated At a half
million. All tho daughters of this por
tion of the community must oarn their
living, and in many instances poverty
Is aggravated by Intemperanoc. Tho
appearanoo of those Worklng-glrll Is
to*j distressing. I see groups of thom
going in the morning to tholr places of
employment clad In that homely rai
ment whlqh indicates nood?and yet an
occasional flower will show a little
taste. Their oountenanftft* are uncul
tivated and genoiWly have a ooarse ex
pression, wliteh one does not find even
in the poorest parts of the o6untry:
Thpre wo see simplicity, but hbro is
degradation. These poor oroatures
toll patlontly wherever they may And
employment, hardly making a bare liv
ing, And often going at last to the low-'
est haunts of vloe. It Is a sad sight
but must always characterise a great
?,? ; ^?? ?
Mr. Oharles O'Conor had a habit at
Want * "
aiai
ids thrust in po,olet5T anil his hat
dov^n on the brnk of nls head,
ought!
walks a visitor to
i place ohanood to wsndcf down the
wharf, and was dtaWn' Into conversa
tion by the oelebratOd lawyer. Mr.
f>*Conor spoke W his sttaohmnnt to the
Island Ott account of tho wonderful
tohio eff#)t of the alt upon him i?nd his
decision to mske the piano his homo.
During the conversation the suggestion
was made that It vlras strange ho was
Hot lonoly In so qf?l*ta plies after suoh
a bosy life ft m Slty. Mr. O'Conor
Y replied) "I do not despise so
but I eould be happy on the
oMyn^Fernsndeg?even wlth
a'
City contains more thin
(*bqV? 80 Mi high. J
3J35RIP? 13a't s' & . AjfTyM' uJW*
WIT AND HUMOR.
a* im iu.. .
Ob, what la tho tm TTjgTIUiii UujiL
And wby Oo moix act as If theft's a rout?
do moi
As If every broker's a aklDoer?
ST.SWeKSSt,0.'?
? , With a sieve ]
Always laugh at vour own iok?F*kjfF ~.
you want anything dono well, do it
yourself. < i ?
*^-|???dod girl# aro not from the'
w??t, but thoy all havo a oolor roddy
style about tliom. >
??r r?Ra.0U vhy dhere m so many
big tools in dor world, vas booause
oforybody dluks ho vas a Solomon. ,
# K?ntor yrit08? asking tho ronowal
"ayf' "Wo *** lo ? horrl
tto dS'?'" * ,Iok 011,1 lo
Livos of grdat mon all romind ub that
wo havo got to v/atah out vory caroful
ly if wo oxpoot to loavo any rospoct-.
ablo foot-prints. ?
Novor trust with a soorot a marrlod
man who loves his wifo, for ho will toll
hor, and she will toll hor sistor, and hor
sistor will tell ovoryhody.
"Did Mr. Yoast over striko you as bo
ing a man of groat forooP" said a com
panion to young Crlmsonbcak, tho
othor day at tho club.
A municipal candidate whoso prin
cipal supporters?ftto^?tavorn-koopors
and shoomakors, proudly alludos to
thorn as members of tho bar and bonoh.
A suburban correspondent writos to
inqulro tho host mothod of raising,
calvos. It ovidontly novor occurred to
him to ask his mothor.-r-I'bHjfcers States
man.
"Just go ovor that sohomo again,"
said tho bank cashier to a spooulator,
adding: "Never mind that old codgor
who has iust come in. Ho's only a
director.1f
Tho following quostion is to bo
wrostlod with by a country dobating
sooioty at its next session: If tho Mor
mon who bas oight wivos burlos one of
them^ how muoh of a widowor doos ho
boQomo, if anyP
"So you say your husband lovosyou,
MaryP " "Oh, ho dotos wildly upon
mo.' "Indood; but ho'll soon got ovor
that." "What makos you think soP"
"Uocauso mon gonorally soon got ovor
sowing thoir wild dotos."
"Wo oannot," writos a shrowd con
tompory, "impress too strongly upon
all corrospondonts, when in doubt
wbothor.tho postago of a lottor is a
ponny or twoponco, tho forco of tho old
provorb, Two hoads aro bettor than
one.' "
Conversation .botwoon a Yalo sonlor ^
and an Oborlin senior: Y. S.: "Do you
play with tops at OborlinP" O. S.;
"No." Y. S.: "MarblosP" O. S.:
"No." Y. S.: "What do you play?'*.
O. S.: "Copouhagon."
Husband (airily, thoy had just ro
turnod from thoir wodding trip)rr-??If
I'm not homo froni tho olub by?ah
>0, love, you won't wait?** Wifo
(quiotlv)?"No, doar"?(but with ap
palling llrmnoss?"I'll como for youF'
Ho was bauk at 9:45 sharp.
If a man is gottlng shavod in a bar
bor-shop, and a fly alights on his noso.l
and he givos ills head a twitoh to ro- ?
movo a fly, during whioh the barber ro-'
movos a slico of tno man's oar, who is
to biamo?tho man, or tho barbor, or
tho'fly, or tho oar, or tho jrazorP
A lady reader writes to say that sho'
has boon losing hor hair recently, and
wants to know what she shall do to $
provont it Either koop your bureau
drawor lockod, or elso dlsohargo tho
hirod girl and got anothor of a com
ploxion difl'eront from yours.
Iu Now York a woman is paid six
conts for making a shift, and the
pors sj)oak of it as au outrage.:
noro in Vormont a woman' not
loosn't-gut a cent for makip
but thinks horsolf mighty hi
husband doesn't swear lisc
tlio way it Jit*. >&:
Tho organ of tho
rlod to flnd out wl
spend six woeki
hor dress that dpi
ever got a glimp
about tho nolghbo
wrappor without ,,
othor button b^ni
Leaving homo '
ofllco, wo kissod
old good-bv, savin
boy to-day!" Ho
us by saylugi 4,J,
papa." Suro ono\
nood the oxhortatl
As thoy woro
school a 6-yuur-old
her companion, A 1
"Wero yoy ovor nfl.
tlguity of ii rodontP'
horepllod; "I foar no
tion of tho oroaturo
hounds go out, a sorffennt-at-law asked
Chlof-Justice X whether thore would
be any harm If . thoy were allowed to
do so with a plooe of crape rtnnd thtlr
neoks. "I oan hardly think, -said the
Ghiof-Jnstlco, "th*t a pieoo of '
nooessary; It will surely suflloo
are in full ory." ? ?
Little Fioronco 0
fathor to tako her 1
mother, who lived i
To get rid of h*r it
"It costs $10 overy
grandma, Floren
on oynry bush.W , , ||?,||, ,
"sfeirk, ?.'
ginning "I li:ivo found out Sprinjrs se
cret." Now wo know that tfST H."
doos writo most boatWful things, And
wo always did and do admiro her po6- ^
try, but we havon't read, past tho first
lino oMftils poora. It begin* too muoh
liko an advertisement \>f & new \ blood*i
Rdriller. Wcfve been fooled too many
mos on that sort of thing.?^Stirling*
ton Hatoktye.
??George, donr," said a swoet young
wife to hor husband, "I've had it talk
with the servants this mofnlng, and
have agrood (o raise their wages. They
said everything was Jo dear now root
wM high, and the price of moat iM
butter nwl. risen to su
everything?1 though!.
able, booausu I'vo so o<?*jh
complain of (lie same thin#.'
^ I I ?'(UK
????
A Ohaptor on I*g?. , ^ v
Ctomr had short legs.
Nixpoloon was lx)w-lOff?od. . ,
Lord Palmorstonhattoarloatoro lo^B
nn.l SO (lid
Alexander Popt fni humpbaeknd
nndhfcd aorln?lo>slopes ?o did CovfUfl^i ^j
Plutaroh tolm ,thal^lexaml?tfrT<>ft
Ug WM badly out of lfamb.MUn*\)fh\
had notoriously M# hpdfc, and wan
knook-kneod. . I
Cicero was vary splndls-shankml,
and i)emosjhones Is said to have had a
i
m
M