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VOL. XXXVII. CAMDEN, S. C., .FEBRUARY 20, 1879. NO. 31,
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That's Mj Boy I
Big bine oyee with roguish twinkle;
Dimples ever running riot;
Busy tongue that's never quiet;
. "Forehead fair, with ne'?. a wrinkle;
Olust'ring hair of sonny hue;
Nose a little snub, 'tis true?
That's my boy!
Fnn and mischief never stopping;
Teasing now for " pants and boots.
And a truly gnn that shoots,"
Kisses on my cheek fast dropping?
Then away with shoot and hop?
Till I cry: "Oh mercy, stop !"
Thai's my boy !
Never ending, still beginning;
Po ckets foil of dirt and crumbs;
Crazy over horns and drums;
Noise in all things ever winning;
Bragging ho of "Jim" is master,
WhJ'e I run for white court-plaster?
Tbat'B my boy !
Do you hear a fearful noise ?
Do you Boent a burning smell ?
Do you hear a curdling yell
Loud enough for twenty boys?
Do you hear wbiie at your praj ers,
Some oue tumbling down the stairs ?
That's my boy!
Bo it goes -some pain, some pleasure. <
TTUUUCI X. fcWiAl WCU Biivt D4UI1V,
Will it b6 thus all the while?
Joyfand grief in equal measure?
Shall I cry, in bitter sorrow,
In some dread, far-off tc-morrow,
That's my boy ?
Ah, no, no! Mothers' eyes look far ahead.
And mine see, with tender pride,
By a 3 ray-haired woman's side
One whom, now that years have sped,
Brave, yet gentle, is her stay;
One of whom Bhe'll proudly say,
That's my boy!
Cora K Campbell Siberry.
TEN DAYS IN LOVE.
It was a oold night in January. Peo-1
1 : -1 rv. 1
pio wire uurrjmg aiuug tuiuu^u wa*
blindiDg snow-storm, battling with the
wind that bowled and moaned out by
turns its story of woe.
Huge Remington and his friend Wil
Hams, glad to be oat of the storm, hao
settled themselves in gown and slippers
for a quiet evening at home. The shatters
were olo6ed and the curtains drawn,
and on either side of the hearth was,
piaoed tbr> favorite chair of each. These
friends had lived together in their
bachelor quarters for more than two
# years. Everything in the apartment
.showed refined taste and wealth. Sonje (
said that it all belonged to Hagb, ami
" that he mate 2ft. floine for his friend. No
one, however, knew this to be trae.
Hagh was quiet and reserved, seldom (
spoke of his affairs to any one, never i
laid any special claim to anything, bnt
allowed it to appear that all things were
equally shared. After the evening papers !
had been read and discussed, the two J
sat talking of days gone by, of littltepisodes
in their lives. Hngh was in a
talking mood, and had told several good !
stories of his past life; stopping end- .
denly, he exclaimed:
" Did I ever tell yo* of my love for 1
the widow ?"
" No," replied Williams. " Let's 1
have it." 1
" Well," said Hugh, taking another
cigar and looking very serious as he '
leaned back in his great easy-ohair, " I
met her in Paris."
" Met who?"
" Ob, never mind who. Be content '
that I am tviling you the story, and <
don't ask for names. I thought of her i
as ' the widow.' It is a suffloient title."
"Well, I won't interrupt. Goon."
So Hugh continued:
"Iwas calling upon my old friend 1
Mrs. Lee, and while waiting for the 1
servant to take her my card, an odd .
piece of brie a-brae standing in the j
corner of the room attracted my atten
tion. 1 got np and went over* to ex- ?
amine it. Wiiile thus engaged, the
door opened. I turned, thinking that ]
it was Mrs. Lee, when, oh! what a '
beauty met my sight f?so small that 1
the looked like a child, large deep blue '
eyes that came out from under a mass t
of light golden curls, a small nose, and <
a rosebud of a mouth. She was dressed
in deep mourning, and I thought, as I ]
looked at her,-that I bad never seen a i
more beautiful picture. She didn't see i
me until I made a slight movement, i
whioh startled her. Coming forward, I i
said: i
" I frightened you, did I not?"
"Yes; I was not aware that there
was any one in the room. You are waiting
for Mrs. Lee ?" And Bhe gave me
the sweetest of smileB, showing a most
perfect row of treth.
" Before I could answer, Mrs. Lee
appeared, and introduced us. Mrs.
was making Mrs. Lee a short visit prior
to her departure for America. I was
glad of that, as I should then have the
pleasure of seeing her again.
"The evening passed only too quickly,
and I arose with au apology for staying
so late. Mrs. Lee invited me to
dine with them informally the next day.
She said her friend preferred being
quiet, bo they should be qpite alone.
You may be sure that ^accepted the invitation,
and was there promptly at the
hour. The widow was more oharming
than on the previous evening. I longed
-to stop the hours from rolling on. Having
been in the habit of dropping in at
Mrs. Lee's at all hours, my frequentalmost
daily?visits were not noticed as
anything strange or unusual. Mrs. Lee
thanked me for ooming to- them in their
? ? -?1?? A mi/^Anr menU W A
OUOilUCOO) PL1U UJJO WtUUW TT? U1U
me one of her sweet smiles, and I was
thankful in my inmost heart that they
were lonely, and that it fell to my lot to
cheer tbem. So the weeks passed, until
the time came for the departure of Mrs.
Lee's friend.
" Now I had intended passing a month
or two in England before coming home,
but when I found that the widow was to
return in ten days, I began to think that
my duty called me back to my business.
The more I thought of it, the more im
portanfc it seemed to me to go.
"'Do you know of any one going on
the 15th?' the widow asked me one
evening, in her dove-like way.
" No one but myself,' I answered.
Business Las called me sooner than I
expected.'
" How delightful!' from the widow ;
while Mrs. Lee exclaimed, 'Oh, Mr.
Remington, I am so glad! I couldn't
bear the idea of my friend going entirely
alone, and you of all others will know
best how to take care of her.'
"We then began to make our plans.
Mrs. intended miking a visit of a
few days to some friends in London. I
was going direct to Liverpool. Mrs.
Lee and I drove down to see our friend
off, and I looked forward to the pleasure
of meeting her on board the steamer.
My last day in Pars were spent in saying
' good-bye' to old friends, and buying
presents for sister Nell and the children.
I got every nouveaute that I
nnnld find, and felt well pleased with
mj selection. At last I was on the
steamer, and stood looking at the ship
move away. By my side was the widow,
and I tbonght that I had never seen her
look bo lovely. I exulted in the knowledge
that she* knew no one board. I
was her only friend, consequently I
should have her all to myself; this was
(so I said to myself) what I had for
weeks been longing for. Was I in love?
That' question had not occurred to me.
.1 felt supremely happy, and thought
the situation delightful. I was ready to
do anything for this fair creature. She
had only to command; I was all eagerness
to obey. I soon had opportunities
of showing my devotion.
"The following morning I eame ont
on deck very early, and was surprised
to find my little lady already there. She
looked very miserable and very pretty.
The morning salutations over, I asked
her how she had slept.
" I haven't slept at all," she said, in
a fretful, childish way, which I thought
charming. 'Such a noise all night,'
she continued, ' I could not get to sleep;
? jh 11- -? t
siju uie b luc j18 iuc d11lijjij uicouiiu, a i
mast have another room. I'd rather
sit tip here all night tban sleep in that
horrid place again. Don't yon think,
Mr. Remington, if yon asked the captain
9t somebody, he wonld give me
another stateroom ?' and her big eyes
looked inquiringly into mine.
" Oertainly,-' I said. *1 will goat
once and see about it, and if there is no
other, yon shall change with me. Take
my room, which is a good one, and as I
don't mind either noise 01 smells, yonr
room will suit me well enough.'"
Here Hugh leaned over his chair to
knock the ashes off his cigar, and said to
his friend: "X must have had it pretty
bad?eh, Williams??to have said that,
for yon know that I can't endure either
a bad odor or a loud noise. But I forgot
everything when under the influenoeof
those eyes, and .when she exclaimed,
'Oh, no; I couldn't lot yon do that,'!
felt that my fate was sealed, and that 1
should take the noise and the smells.
" The next thingr that I discovered wjip
that my lady had no sea chair. There
was only one left, and tnat naa net u
spoken for; but I paid donble the amoun*
and the chair was mine.
" You are eo kind, Mr. Remington,'
she said. ' I don't know what I should
have done without you. I am not fit to
travel alone,' she added,in ohildish tones.
" I longed to press her to my heart
and tell of my love; and if Bhe would
but let me, it would be the joy of my
life to care for her. I looked all this; I
am sure I did. But there were toe j
many people around for me to speak.
She sat with her hands folded is her lap, |
and looked divinely unconsoious.
" The third day out the weather be
same bitterly cold.
"'I am almost frozen,'said Mrs.
. ' What shall I do ? I hove nothing
to wrap around me, and shall have
to stay below, and, oh dear! it is so unoomfortable
there!' The face tamed
ap to mine was that of a Bpoiled child.
" Now I had a fine English rug, which
I had used at night, for you know everything
at sea is so horribly damp. It had
been a great comfort to me, and I knew
that I should miss it. But what of that ?
I couldn't see the woman I loved suffer.
3o I got it, and tucked her all up in it.
Her delicious smile repaid me fcr the
sacrifice.
"4Oh, how nice!' she said, as she
put her hands under the warm rug. 4 It
3eems to me, Mr. Remington, that you
bave everything to make one comfortible.
I never heard of Buch a man. I
sm so glad that I came under your
?re.'
" I was so love-stricken that I did not
reflect upon her apparent unconscious
cess of the fact that I had deprived myself
of these comforts in order th t she
9hould be made comfortable. She
seemed to take it for granted that I was
a sort of traveling missionary, with
extra wraps, staterooms, chairs, and
anything else that one might need ; and
I was each a slave to her fascinatioDS
that, had she asked me to do the impossible,
I should have attempted it.
'Every day I had it upon my lips to
tell her of my love. Each day courage
forsook me. "We walked the deck day
after day. She would put her little
soft hand on my arm in the most confiding
way, look up from under her
curls, laugh her low, sweet laugh, and
ask the most childish, 'innocent questions.
"We were walking this way on the
sixth day oul;, I had carefully rehearsed
my part, and was about to tell my story.
Her conversation seemed to lead to it,
for she said:
' 'You will come to Bee me when you
are in New York, won't you, Mr. Remington
?'
"'Nothing,' I said, 'would give me
greater pleasure.'
'' You will oome often ? Promise to
dine at our house once a week. You
won't forget me?' and the blue eyes
sought mine.
"I looked into them, and my look
told what my tongue had refused to say.
I pressed the little hand close to my
heart, and after a pause said, below my
breath, ' Forget you I* and I was about
to pour forth my love when she gave a
little scream, and cried, ' Oh, my vail!'
There, sure enough, was the confounded
hlne thine sailinc before the wind, and
all the passengers, it seemed to me.
after it Of oourse I had to go too, and
make believe to capture it I never
bated anything so much as I did that
yard of bine gauze. I couldn't go back
and continue my story from where it
was broken off, and indeed Jthe widow
seemed quite shy of me.
" The incident had given the passen
gers an opportunity to speak to her, and
when I joined her (without the vail, for I
it had, I hope, struck bottom) she was :
surrounded by a group of people. I <
had no chnnoe that day,?nor the next, to i
get her to myself. I tried to think of t
something that Ioould door show her that J
would amuse and detain her. It seemed i
as though I had exhausted all my resources,
when at last a brilliant idea !
occurred to me; I would show her !
the presents I had brought for sister i
Nell. They were all in my little sea i
trunk, and I knew that she couldn't re- i
sist their attractions. She oame up on
i deck bright and D^ontuu i as ever. j
"'Isn't it delightful,' she said, 'to <
think that to-morrow we shall be at
home ? I can hardly wait for the time <
to oome; and yet*?and heir voioe dropped
into the dearly-loved soft tone?'the
voyage has been a most charming one,
owing to your kindness,' she added,
brightly.
"I longed to launch forth my tale of
lore, but thinking it more prudent to '
wait until I had secured her wholly to
myself, I asked her, in the most o.rdi- 1
nary manner, if she wouldn't enjoy looking
at some little trinkets that I Iliad *
picked np in Paris. Her eyes sparkled. 1
"'Yes, indeed,' she said. 'Nothing
oonld be more delightful than to get a <
glimpse of Paris while at sea.' i
" I went below and got all my pre tty I
nouveautea, and brought them up to her.
Placing a chair in a quiet oorner, and well
hid from the other people, then i
drawing mine np beside her, I begun 1
showing, one by one, my oollection of 1
odd things. j
"' Where (fid you get te em, mr. .Remington?
I hunted all over Paris, laid
found nothing half so pretty. What exquisite
porte bonheurs!' and she slip]>ed
one after another of my oarefally-chosen <
bracelets on to her little plump wrists,
and turned them first on one side and
then on the other. '
"I knew Nell's taste, and had .
searched for something uncommon, and
was well pleased with what I had
< bought Put Nell and everything were y
forgotten with this bewitching creature j
by my side, and when Bhe made a move j
to take them off, I said, ^laughingly, of r
course, * Oh, don't disturb them; they '
look so well where they ars, and it is so J
pleasant, you know, to get a glimpse of *
Paris while at sea.'
1 '* She kept them on, and 1 opened (
the other boxes. There were rings, ,
crosses, medallions, chatelaines and
many other ornaments oi ourious de- f
sign. The widow deoked herself, and (
was in high glee. A child oould not (
have enjoyed it more. I watched her ,
with loving eyes, told her where each
one came from, and helped fasten them ,
on. ' j
"' I feel like an Indian princess,' she i
( ot??1 nnoht to linvA a t,hron? and a i
i ?.? ?a-- - ?- - .
[ crowd- of luisahng courfeeK?,'-afce?the?<
picture would be complete.'
"'Can't you imagine a throne?' I
sfiid,' and take me for kneeling courtiers
Wouldn't my love compensate for the
admiring crowd?'
"She looked up quickly, and was
about to answer, when cne of those eternal
old bores that, no matter when you
cross, are always to be found on shipboard,
came up, and began telling of
his early reminiscences; what these a
was twenty years ago?as though the
sea bad ever changed?and how, when
he had first crossed, his friends never
expeoted to see him again. He had
made his will, and they parted as
though he were to be forever lost to
them. I assure you that I silently
wished in my heart that he had never
turned up again. Without saying a 1
word, I got up, took my boxes, and left '
my Indian princess. I was thoroughly 1
angry with the old fellow for interrupt 1
ing our tete-a-tete, and seriously annoy- 1
ed with Mrs. for listening to and
nnswerinc him. I made un mv mind 5
that that game had been played long
enough. I would ask her the simple
question the first chance I got, and
know my fate at once. Bat the chance
did not come as soon as I expected it
would.
"She went to her room with a sick
headache, so she said, and I paced the '
deck alone. We were along way up the
harbor when she made her appearance
the following day. She said that she had
hurried with her packing, thinking that
we were nearer than we really were to ]
the city. I
" ' Oh, Mr. Remington, I had no op- <
portunity of returning your jewelry, 1
and so I paeked them with my things. ]
But you are eoming, you know, to dine
with me on Snturday, and I will then
give them to you.' ' <
"'Certainly,' I said. 'There is no '
time for us to ohange them now. Wear 1
them until I see yon again.' <
If 1" hn/1 Inllv ma/In nn mvr tlinf 1
as I had been baffled so often, Iwould (
now wait until I had seen her in her own <
home before I opened my heart to her, I
or rather before I asked her my fate. 1
She already knew my heart. There was
no time to talk ; all was exoitement; we 1
were rapidly approaching; handker- 1
chiefs were waving from the docks. The |
widow was straining her eyes, and suddenly
leaving me and going further
forward, I saw her throw a kiss. How I
longed to oatch it I I looked with jealous
eyes to see who would take it up and
answer it. Foremost among the crowd
was a great big man?six feet, and broad
in proportion, It was he who was returning
her kisses. Gould it be her
brother, or was it a friend, and this i
merely a pleasant greeting from a
distenoe?
"I watched him come on board, and
what did the big idiot do but catch her
up in his arms?my sweet one, whom,
though loving, I had never dared to
touch?and kiss her over and over again !
I could have knocked him down.
" On drawing near to them, 1 saw
that neither of them noticed me. She
had forgotten my existence. With a
hftart-sink fAolinc I tnrned awav. Was
this to be the end ? Why had I oome
home? I could hear them talking,
though too miserable to listen. They
came nearer, and the same soft voice
that I loved so dearly Baid: 'Mr. Remington,
I have been talking about you,
telling how good and kind you have been
and how utterly forlorn I should have
been had you not always looked out for
my oomfort. I have come to thank you,
and my husband wants to thank you
too.'
" Her husband 1 treat heavons !
iv . ;..i
And I thought she wan a "widow, nod
made loye to her I.. I listened an though
in a dream, and*denoed unpleasant
one it wail, too. I believe he thanked
me, and she praised, and he thanked
again, and then they urged me to oome i
to see them, and she said: ' Don't forget
Saturday/
" Whether 1 said anything,or whether
I reaiaihed mnte, is more than I can telh
C was like a man asleep, and had to giye i
mysdlf a good*shake, to oome oat of the <
nightmare that I Was in. When I looked :
uronnd. she- -they were gone."
Here Hash stopped as though he had
finished; b it bis friend Williams,whose
yoriosity was aroused, asked.
" Did you dine/with her on Saturlay?"
"No; I sent a regret" . i
" Have you eveaeeen her since ?"
" No; never."
" What became of your nouveautes de (
Paris T* "* j
"Nell went without them, as 1 went i
without my English robe." I
"Ton don't mean that uhe never sent
hem to you ?"
"I never gave her my address, and
>he was not supposed to know where I
ivas." " i
Williams didn't like to ask any more <
questions, and Hugh remained quiet for
i time. Then rousing himself and get- i
ing out of his ohair, he said:
" I have never made hive since, and " 1
UJHaw laviAlt CI IP al mowfl orm'/l 1
? Wildl a U1HK71 IB Ugu ,14. UITHJU W f V*V?
vomen in deep mourning. And now as
;he fire has gone out wilih my story, I
dusk we had better go to bed."?
Warper's Weekly.
"The Highland Beauty."
In an article on ''Coasting," by 0. A.
Stephens, in Youth's Companion, a deKsription
is, riven 6t^ the different kinds .
>f sleds used in this winbiir sport. The
vriter describes one sled in particular,
ihus:
Probably the finest double-runner I
iver seen in thisootmtry, or any ormntry,
vas rnado by Dr. Fowler, of Boston
Highlands, and ia, now tli.e property of ;
Mr. Francis Alger, of South Boston, '
rhe construction o'this really beautiful .
deasttre carriage (tor it seems hardly
prope r to oall it a Sled) has occupied its .
nakei's leisure time for three aud a <
lalf years. It waaplaoed on exhibition ,
U the reoent mechanic's fair in Boston,
sherd it attracted much attention.
It is oyer thirteen feet in length, will
ieat ten persons, ant weighs three hun
"nil fltl-rr nAn>,4i Vaf if mnvM g/1
UOU uuu U4VJ *V? ?* MAVtVH "w
easily that two or tliree boys can readily
Iraw it np hill. J
The materials oif^rhich it is made are ,
vhite oak, white Jralnut, steel, gun
netal and bronze. *hough highly ornanented,
it ia built T the very strongest ,
manner, and wi!LJi|doj'-^_-t*nd yearn !
. ;?l it .1 ii pet
wonderfully,5 tJRng, steel-shod and t
tteel-braced sledi .lapport the elegant ,
"seat-board," vhi K, with its foot-rail
in each side andjr ftshed hand-rods, is
strongly trussed^ Band cushioned in
green velvet oveeiiKtie rubber tubing. ,
At the forwarffiuA of the seat-board
ire the steering-diAel, the lanterns and
the foot-break. The Bteering-wheel, '
whiob resembles the plated brake of a 1
Irawing-room car, turns the forward
ded upon a rocker, provided with what
h termed a " universal joint," while by
means of a foot-brake and chain, two '
strong steel points wording insiae me
runners of the hind sled, are plunged ,
into the road-bed, thns arresting the ,
speed at will.
At the rear end of the onshioned seat
ihere is a low "knee-board" for a ;
footman, whose business it maybe to
start off the vehiole when the silvery
stroke of a gong shall give the signal to
jo. f
Taken altogether, this double-runner (
s a remarkable piece of work, not only
for oostliness and strength, but for symmetry
and elegance. It has evidently
t>een made by a man who has devoted
himself to the task con amore. It does
the eye good to look at it, and it has
been very happily christened "The
Highland Beauty." The oost is said to
have been about a thousand dollars.
His First ani Las'; Case.
I studied law onoe in the Wasltington
law school. In faol;, I was admitted to
the bar. I shall never forget my firtt
case. Neither will my client I was
called upon to defend a young man for
passing counterfeit money. I knew the
young man was innooent, because I gave
him the money to paBS. Well, th are was
i hard feeling against the young man in
the county, and I pleaded for a change
cf vanue. I made a great plea for it I
can remember, even now, how fine it
was. It was filled with ohoioe rhetoric
and passionate oratory. I quoted Sent,
and Blackntone, and Littleton, and oited
precedent after preoedent from the
digest of State reports. I wound np
with a tremendous argument, an Lid the
applause of all the younger members of
the bar. Then, sanguine of success, I
stood and awaited the judge's decision.
It soon came. The judge looked me
full in the faoe and said:
"Your argument is good, Mr. Perkins,
very good, and I've beau deeply
interested in it; and when a case comes
up that year argument fits, I shall give
your remarks all the consideration that
they merit* Sit down 1"
XXII8 IS Wily X gave up uie law wiu resorted
to writing for the newspapers.?
Eli Perkins.
\ Strange Bequest.
Mr. John R. Reed is the gas man and
captain of the supernumeraries at the
Walnut street theater in Philadelphia,
where he has served for fifty-four years
withont being absent from one performance.
He has made a will in whioh is
this provision: "My head shall be
severed from my body, and my body
shall be placed in a vault, but the head
ehall be brought to the Walnut street
theater, there to be used as the skull in
'Hamlet,' and I do bequeath my head
to the said Walnut street theater for that
purpose." When asked bis reason^for
making such a bequest, he said: " Well,
I love the theater, and when the bad
Hamlets oome 'round 111 prompt (hem
on the grave scene. But, seriously, I
want my head to stay on this stage,
where it has. with my hands, done *er ice
for over naif a century."
\
TIMELY TOP&S.
The Journal of Chemistry says that
qo European nation is so advanced as
Italy in its methods of teaching agriculture.
Matrimony and love-making through
the columns of the newspapers are on
the rise in Germany and Austria. Vienna
and Berlin newspapers hare agencies
for such purposes, and the business,
reported to be profitable, is carried
out on a cash basis.
Mrs. Mary Holbrook, who died in
Massachusetts a few days ago, aged
ninety-three years, was a remarkable
woman. When seventy-five years old
she began the manufacture of tidies,
whioh found ready sale in Boston, and
were so much sought for thai she was
nhlicmd f-r< fimnlrw Rflveral old ladies to
do the ooarser work, while she filled in
the finer parts with her own hands. In
this way, np to her ninetieth year, she
netted $6,000 from her sales.
The Oity of Jfexioo is a lazy plaoe, according
to a Chicago Times correspondent,
who aooompanied the visiting
committee from the United States.
"The hotels are languid," he says; "so
are the restaurants, the theaters, the
pnblio offices and the barber shops.
Ihe business houses have an air of perpetual
waiting upon Providenoe. The
olerkB act like weary anglers looking
patiently for a 1 rise.' A generation of
American enterprise might revolutionize
all this and rouse the metropolis
from her tranoe."
Chief Joseph, of the Nez Peroes Indians,
when in Washington, was asked
what, of all the works of civilization
seen in his first trip to the East, had
impressed him the most. It was exAUAI
V? A twAnlrl nam A f.V?A rtflm'f/ll
i/wwu vuav uv itviuvi uimmw
but h 3 replied, without a moment's hesitation,
that the most wonderful thing
he had ever seen or dreamed of was the
bridge over the Mississippi river at St.
Louis. He oould build a mountain of
stone like the capitol, he eaid, but he
oould not build a spider's web chat
would stand alone in the air. He was
afraid to cro6s it; but he saw that the
pale faces were not afraid, so he wrapped
his blanket around him and trembled as
the train went over.
This story is told in a Borne letter to
a French journal: One morning Leo
XIII. was about to eat some raw eggs,
ssis his wont every morning, and requested
Commander Sterbini, the gentleman
serving him, to bring some salt
to take with them. Sterbini, presenting
the salt cellar on a solid silver tray,
accidentally let it slip from his
hauls, and the salt fell?but only on the
tabl^. _Tl^e pope, rose immediately,
jaretully "looking to se6 whether any of he
grains had reached the ground.
" Only see," he said, " the salt is upset,
and had it fallen on the ground I believe
I should not have got over to day."
He then took out a pocketbook and
noted the fact, observing at the same
Lime that "we shall see whether we
shall not have the loss of some beloved
cardinal to daplore before long." Nine
days after, the sad news of Oardinal
Asqnini's death reached the Vatican,
ind the pope, handing to Sterbini his
pocketbook, requested him to read
iloud to those around the note he had
made nine davs before. Then breaking
the silence, he said, "Had the salt
been scattered on the floor instead of
npon the table, as was the case, verily
[ believe I should be standing now before
the judgment seat!"
A Dog Thawed Back to Life.
A family residing in the southern port
mfv C.n/1 a riof After and A A. id doff
\Jl UUO U1WJ UHU H ?wOI ? c
was provided with all the comforts his
canine nature required. Bnt one day
during the late cold visitation he had
got out of doors without its being discovered
for some time, and then he was
found on his back and frozen stiff in
death, as was naturally supposed. The
lady of the house, on ascertaining the
pet's condition, and satisfied of his
death, directed her little son to throw
the body over the fence, when the boy
suggested that they should place it by
the fire and try to thaw it back to life ;
aud, placing the apparently defunct
dog on a rug, the little son oommenced
chafing the paws, aud nose. The mother,
forcing open the dog's mouth sufficient
ly, poured down hifl throat some hot
whisky, and signs of returning animation
began to be manifested, and in due
time the little animal was on his legs
again, and is now, it is elaimed, as suooessful
a live dog as can be found anywhere.
This may seem rather a tough
story, but the head of this family, a gentleman
well known on 'change and of
undoubted veracity, says it is a faot,?
St, Louis Republican.
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An Eagle -arries Off a Pig.
For several days past the resident
farmers in the northwestern portion of
this oounty have marked the presence
of an eagle skimming the heights in
their neighborhood, and a Mr. Stringer,
a Tarrant oounty knight of the ran, anxious
to capture this king of birds, shouldered
his fowling-piece yesterday morning
and laid for the bird on the open
prairie, at a point about two miles northwest
of the town, where a small herd of
young pigs were innocently grazing on
the green sward. The bird came soaring
along, and when a point had been
reached nearly perpendicular to the head
of the swine, as it were, the old 44 National
" swooped down and around the
surface of an inverted imaginary pyramid,
and. sinking its talons deep into
the interior composition of a thirtypound
pig, started heavenward. The
asoension was tedious aud slow, and
gave ample time for Stringer to draw ?
bead, and when a height of thirty or
forty feet had been reaohed he banged
away and bored a noie clean tnrougn
our American monstrosity. The pig and
eagle tumbled tolerably well together to
the surface?both dead.?Fort Worth
(Texas) Democrat.
A lawyer, badgering a witness, said
sternly: *" I believe, sir, you have served
a sentence in the State prison ?" " Yes,"
was the unconcerned reply, "I was in
the State prison, and I had the misfortune
to ocoupy the cell your brother had
bad."
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California's Latest Marvel.
The Tuolumne (Cal.) Independent
says: " A. Gardner has dieoovered a
mammoth cave in the dividing ridge
between the south branch and mam
Stanislaus rivers, two miles above the
junction and one mile northerly from
Pine Log, at an elevation of about 1,800
feet above the river. The disoovery was
made under the following very peculiar
ciroumstanoes, in which an insignificant
squirfel figures very conspicuously: On
the 1st of December, 1878, Gardner says
he was engaged in working his plaoer
claim, which is distant 300 feet from the
entrance of the eave. A squirrel perched
itself upon a tree near by, and commenced
to chatter and spit acorn shucks
at him. This he considered a challenge
to fight it out on that line. So he repaired
to his cabin, armed himself with .
a double-barreled shotgun, marched oat
and faoed his diminutive antagonist.
The fight opened with a spirited skirmish
of both parties, and ended after
Gardner had fired seven rounds at his
sqnirrelahip?the seventh jnat as his
little tormentor was disappearing in the
dark recesses of a crevice in the ledge
above his olaim. ' He pHrsned it to its
retreat, and then oommenoed searching
in the crevice to disoover, if possible,
the hiding-place of his vanquished foe,
bnt failed. The search, however, resulted
in the discovery of the greatest
natural wonder ip the county, and perhaps
in the State, as future develope
ments in that direction may prove, in its
olass. So doses the history of itsdisoovery.
It is adorned with decorations
of dazzling beauty, unsurpassed in character
on the Pacific slope. The entranoto
the cave is situated at the base of a
bluff, aud eighty feet above the gulob,
and access is had through a crevice in
the ledge, three feet in width by six feet
in length. Descending by ladder ten
feet, you reach the floor of an inclined
archway, dipping at an angle of thirtyfive
degrees, from twenty to thirty feet
in height by thirty feet in width. Descending
the incline, which is 100 feet
in length, we reach the floor of the
grand archway, from forty to sixty feet
in beiirht. varvine in width from twenty
to thirty feet, from which radiate scores
of similar arohways, leading to spacious
chambers, with their lofty ceilings
draped with brilliant stalactites, that
glitter and sparkle in the light of a lamp
like gems of ocean waves of which we
read. The floors and walls of this subterraneous
hall are entirely coated with
stalagmites, pure crjatalizationi We
can best describe this crystal formation
in this wise: For instanoe, it resembles
in makeup and appears to the vision
like a sheet of snow lying loosely in
large flakes on a pane of glass. We
visited, under guidanoe of the discoverer,
many large chambers, of which the
grandeur aid brilliancy baffledescription^
4?Qr rambles through the subterraneous
archways continued" Tor four
hours."
Theories Regarding a Fire.
The other day when a house on Fifth
street took fire and was saved by the
firemen in a damaged condition, they set
aKnnf fr wirier In rHfirtnver thfl Cause OI the
aocident, and in so doing questioned
varions inmates of the family. The head
of the house had his theory all ready.
" It is my opinion," he began, " that
some enemy of mine climbed to the roof
and emptied coals on the Bhingles."
The idea was laughed at and the wife
said:
"Well, there was a lamp up stairs, but
it was not lighted. Now if the rats got
hold of matches and tried to light that
lamp they would just as quiok throw a
lighted matoh on the bed as to blow it
out. I don't say tbey set the house a-fire
on purpose, but you know how careless
rats are."
That theory didn't hold with the firemen
and the oldest daughter was called
upon.
"I expect it was spontaneous combustion,"
she began. V You see in my
room up stairs, whore the fire broke out,
wu; T 9i
mere was a noie in ine cmmnt>y. ? muu t
like the smoke coming in my room and
so I staffed, the hole fall of straw. It
may be that the straw and the mortar
and the brioks caused spontaneous combustion."
The firemen were about to accept her
theory when the small boy of the family
came up and said:
"I know all about it. Te see, Bill
Smith he was on the shed a-heavin'
snowballs at dogs. Tom, the feller with
one arm, was in the barn playin' with
my goat. That Tarner gal she was on
the fence ont there callin' us names, and
her mother had the olothes line and was
tryin* to lasso a stick of wood off a wagon
in the alley. I went down oellar to see
if my mud-turtle bad got away, and I was
jest tiyin* to set the cat on him when I
heard father fall down stairs and mother
give a yell, and that's how the house got
a-fire, and now I won't have to go to
school for "six weeks."?Detroit Free
Press.
A Temperance Movement in New York.
The immense extent of intemperanoe
among our business ranks, says a New
York correspondent, has Btartled thinking
men with deep alarm. The habit
has reached such an extreme as to
threaten general destruction, and hence
the present deep consciousness of the
need of reform. To place a young maD,
indeed, in the New York business community,
is to subject him to fearful
tomptation, since the motto of the day
seems to be "everybody drinks." The
' flmnamriAfl mnvAmAnt is intflndfid
to meet this appalling danger. Hence
the pledge is not to drink during business
hours, and also neither to give nor
accept "treate." It is also proposed
anma Ainntra Ho nmvided which are
not of an intoxicating natnre. This
recalls the fact that there was a time
when the word " ooflfee-honse" was
a reality. At present, however, it is
synonymous with barroom. Perhaps
New York business men, like the merchants
and wits of London in old times,
may eventually limit themselves to coffee
and tea, but before this can be done
the fieroe excitement which marks their
operations must be abated.
A Nevada woman scolded her Chinese
servant for not properly oleaning a fish,
and going into the kitchen soon after
found him energetically waahing it with
brown soap. . !
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ADVERTISING RATESt
Time. 1 in. % col. K ??i- 1~coT
1 Week 9 1.00 $ 6.00 $ 0.00 $16.00
2 ?. 1.76 7.80 12-06 20.00
o ? 2.00 9.00 15.26 24.00
4 * 300 10.50 18no 27.50
5 ? 3.50 11.75 20.50 81.00
r. - .. .. 4.00 12-60 22.75 34.00
7 " 4 60 18.25 24.75 S7.n0
8 " 5.00 14.00 26.00 40 00
3 months. 6.50 17.00 82.00 50.00
4 " 7.60 19.00 89.50 59.00
6 " a50 24.00 4a00 84.00
9 " 9 50 80.00 59 00 105.00 .
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<ST Transient advertisements most be aocom
p&nied with the cash to insure insertion.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
Twins are the parapets of a house. y
Home stretoh?Over a mother's knee.
Dress reform?Turning a silk dress.
A fare proposition?" Ticket, please.'
Boston's population is given at 878,810.
It is safer'to bear a hng than to hng a
bear.
Oapt. Exam Saint is a i .ember of the
legislature of Indiana.
Dr. Carver, the marksman, and his
wife, have gone to England.
In Japan the landlord reoeives onesixth
the produce of the land. s
More men worry and fret themselves
crazy over taxes than over love.
Some wasps sting twenty-four hours
after they have been out in two. ?~??
Science enumerates 558 species of organic
forms in the air we breathe.
Laborers' wages during the thirteenth
oentury were fifty cents per week.
Opticians are well-behaved men and
never make spectacles of themselves.
The gradual mode of seasoning is the
most favorable to the strength and dura
bility of timber.
" Postponed on account of the wether,' m
as the boy said when the ram chased him J[I
out of the orohard.
The Arkansas wild grapevine is gathered
and shipped to France to be used .
for grafting Btook.
Felicity is not acquired with facility.
Neither is a foothold on the outside of a
slippery pavement.
What is the difference between a crim
inal and windfall fruit ? One is a iaion
and the other fell off.
It is well to remember that repeated
shooks of^alectricity will revive a person
dying from an overdose of chloroform.
What is the differenoe between a successful
lover and his rival. The one
kisses his miss, and the other misses
his kiss.
The most stupendous canal in the
world is in China, which is over 2,000
miles long, and passes through forty
two cities.
The leg of a " Granther Gray beard "
(whioh is a specios of spider) retains its
vitality one or two days after being sev
ered from the body.
The Atlanta Constitution estimates
that during the past two seasons the
farmers of Georgia have paid out
$8,000,000 for mules.
There was a young man of Palmyra,
Sat down alongside of his Myra ;
They had jaet doused the glim
When the parent oame in,
And the young man achieved his hegira.
?Burlington Eaxckrye.
During the year 1878 the business
transacted at the Oil City (Fa.) oil exchsnpe
ap"/rc (^.7^ 4^0
The average price was $1.17} pWOHSjch
which would make the value of thetcHWB?
transactions 889,450,000. .
The Butcher Boj and the Baker's tiirl
It was down in the veast part of the
oity. He was a burly butcher boy?she
was the pie-oua daughter of a German
baker next door, with eyes like currants
and her yellow hair twisted on the back
of her head l'ke a huge cruller. They
leaned toward each other over the backbone
of the separating railing. He was
casting sheep's eyes at her, while hers
turned to him with a provocating rolL
" Meat me to-night beef-fore quarter
to ten," he said.
"Oh, doughnut ask it," said she.
" I make no bones about it," said he.
4' You're not well-bread," said she. fl
44 Only sweet bread," said he.
" Don't egg me on," said she.
"I never sausage a girl Don't keep ^
me on tender-hooks I" said he, quite \
chopfallen.
" Why don't you wear the dear flour
I gave you ? asked she.
"Pc?*V.nnni V asked he.
" Oh, knead I say ?" asked she. M
. "That don't suet me," said he. 1
"You're crusty. I only wanted to
cracker joke," 6aid she.
" You gave me a cut ? the cold
ahoulder," said he.
" Ah, you don't loaf me 1" sighed she.
" Veal see. I cleave to you and no
mis-steak?if you have money," said he.
"I can make a-bun-danoe," said she.
"Then no more lamb-entations,"said
he. You shall be my rib 1"
" Well done I" said she.
And their arms embraced like a
pretzel. So his cake was not all dough;
she likes a man of bis kidney; and being
good livers, they will no doubt live
on the fat of the land. This world is a
queer jumble, but love seems "bread
in the bone."
The Labor of Catting Leaves.
One of the minor miseries of human -4
life is the necessity that is laid upon the
readers of magazines, and of divers
weekly, monthly and other journals, of
cutting the leaves thereof. The amount
of time consumed in this searoh after
hidden treasure, and of force expended
therein, is no mean consideration in
these utilitarian days. The literature
of the world in all the classes which we
have mentioned, reducing quarterlies,
bi-monthlies and weeklies to monthlies,
cannot be less than 2,000,000 oopies a
month. Not less than ten leaves to a
oopy may be deemed a fair average.
The cutting of each of these 2,000,000
publications requires at least five minutes.
This, as a simple calculation will
show, is something like twenty years for
each month, or 240 years in each year.
In cutting the leaves of the ordinary
magazine, the hand travels at least
twenty feet. For 2,000,000 magazines
this is 40,000,000 feet, nearly 8,000
miles a month, and 96,000 miles a year
?four times around the globe?a diftannA
m-eater than the railroad mileage
of the United States. Prof. Ralfe says ?that
" the ordinary external mechanical
, work" done by an adult weighing 160
pounds amounts to 300 foot tons (SCO tons
lifted one foot) daily. In pile-driving a
man lifts the equivalent of 312 foot tons
in eight hours; in turning a wrench, 874
foot tons. But this magazine-cutting
necessitates an expenditure of 240 years,
or 87,600 days, which at 300 foot tons a
day, make6 26,280,000?a sum total that
makes the tonnage of the Erie canal and
the trunk lines sink into Insignificance.
?Rrooklyn Union-Argut.