The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, October 23, 1879, Image 6
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E. G. ALEXANDER, Proprietor.
.MY MORNING RIDE.
by j. 8. mcdoe.
Hie thee on, my noble Gipsy;
As the mountain path we raise,
Let thy * inging feet, bo briskly,
Beat the time to merry lays.
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Quick Tonr fcar to ca&h the chiming
Of the herdsman's morning bells,
ADd the echoes p? -the rhyming r 1
Glancing down fho foreit dells.
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Swell thy nostril sr happy |>ony;
Let thy1 eqhifle strokes move trne; . '
Nimbly climb, though rolgh and stony,
Up the pass youbeor my through.
Ah! what beauty seems to issue ? ?.' ^ \
As the frescoed tnoOntapis lieAmber
streaks", with goldct tissue,
Sparkling up the eastern sky.
"_T M7 Iff | / j How
the forest, gently swjpying,
Lends a magic to the vftw, ,
And the sen, in fancyplarfing,
Bound the globes of sparkling dew.
81ack yot? spesfi, toy metfled pony; H
Let your Iron-bo'una ho&fs bo still, - |
While the echoes die oft lonely,
Circling round fr$m hill to hyj. .
Drink we In this morning pleasure,
As the mertyimo'untam birds,
When they meet In chorus measure.
Gyp 1 those ears speak more than words. t
- \ it .i i Whoa,
my boy, be otfm, bo steady;
Do not pull so hard_thefcein, ''"V .
bparou moment and be r>ady. {CvlviJ '
We may hear that song again.
Down aslant the blooming" meadows,-^ i OI
Where the heath In beauty turla;'
there the mistyniornlng shadows j.
Bathe:the cheeks of rogtflsh giels. -. j J(
There, bedecked with labor's duty,
MeiTy with their happy Jot,
Sang they sweet and with such beauty, .
Who will gness my morpihe plot? *J I
,r. y 7 Fj Ji :'i 7
Cupid, wild and roguish rover, 1
With a steed mory sleek abd fleet, . <
Crossed the meads and new-blown clover,
Ana his journey was complete. j |
Lyons, Ohio., ,, ,j vr. |
SLOW, BUT SURE. " I
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BY ?. B. W. ,
ST/ IT ' ?'' j '
"How on earth, Simpsbn," 6aid 1' thfej
other day to a rural friend of mine whom
I was visiting-"how op earth did a
backward, diffident fellow like you ever
manage to say, 'Will you? ' to a witty,
saucy, self-poised woman like youf
Wife?" 1
I really was curious to tnow. Simpson
was such a slow, sedate person, and his
wife was such a little firafly, that there
always seemed to me something funnily
ncongruous in their unibn'."""^*'""*"1""
Simpson made his usual deliberate
pause before answering. "Well, I
reckon"?my friend is a Hoosier?"I
reckon it was queer I ever asked her,
and the way it happened was queerer
till."
We had cnrriodr*fcn? chjaizs oti t infb M
the front yard, in orde^tQ aiabkeiMn *
greater comfort;- and Inow- filteid mine:
back against a tree, knowing that the
story that was brewing in my friend's ?
mind would not.be over in a hunw. _ I
condense it for tho benefit of those *
readers who may not have as mubh i
leisure and patience as I had:
"You see," he began, slowly clearing
his throat and crossing his legs, "I was (
always rather soft-like about Susie, from j
the time I used to sit by her dn school '
and work her-sums. She hadn't* par- j
tide of head for figures, and I had, so t
we suited pretty well as long as school ^
lasted; and Susie, though she laughed j
at me more than any of the girls, liked j
me a little, too; for it< isn't in human
nature not to like the person that works j
your sums. I know, because that was ?
about all the way I had of making ,
friends, when I was. a boy, and I madq.a. ^
good many. !But when our School days \
were oyer most of then;.' forgot, but ,
Susie never did. She wasih'e prettiest (
and most popular girl in the country, j
and had no end of beaux, but she al- ?
way6 had, God bless her 1 as bright a (
smile for slow Ben as any of them. I
knew I wasn't as brisk and lively as the
V>ncf n? t.Vipm nnd wlipn T raw fliqf rTia
didn't make any difference, it went right
though a^d^through me, and I'd haye J
died for hei ihy minutebut I couldn't '
tell her-'sb. v Seemed like I was slower'
and dumber with her than anybody else.
" For this reason I didn't often call
on her or ask her company to parties
and the like; but when I did she was
always so kind and pleasant-like that
I was happy for a month afterwards.
" Well, there was a party one night at
'Squire Coon's; and, as it wasn't far,
and Susie would only have to be bored
with me going and coming, I asked her
to go with me, and she said ' Certainly,'
and smiled'as if it was the greatest treat
in the world. ?: - .
" As the 'Squire's was only half a mile
from Susie's home, and there was a
nicejidxy path through the woods,-we ]
walked. It was about the. niidcUqof.. 1
October, 'and* the path we tookwas 1
heaped with dry* loaV^s fthatnttBde a 1
pleasant rustle under our feet. A 1
watery moon and a slijn turnout of 1
stara^are just light enough to make 3
the tree trunks on either, aide of .the
path look like anything" else but What 1
they were.
" The only remark I remember to '
have made on the way to the 'Squire's
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"was mat it was going to rain ueiure
morning, and that I hoped it would. I 1
little thought how muc^j^fioj^ha^
"i don't recollect rnucn aoouc sue 1
party, except that I sat most of the time
in a particnlp corner, aij.il watched.Susie
as muqh j j
" When the p5rty Lacl broken" up^ i
and we were starting home, I noticed
that the skyw#j tidokly clouded and
the night darc.'VfTie7'Sqntfe; wno wasf
sitting on the front porch smoking a
late pipe, caUed after us: ' Better stay
all night, Bbnjy, it's goin'to rain.' -JBut
we thought not. When we gotintp. tip '
woods, however, we began to find'' out1 ''
that it was dark aud 110 mistake. The
farther we went, the deeper became the
darkness. I knew the path we ha^ to
follow, every crook- ana' cuxve'ih- it,. \'
imt tue carpet 01 aeaa leaves Dome\>ed
me. I iiad to stop two or three t-"lU1es,
and grope about on either side.t 0 make j
sure that I was in the right tr ack; and"
the last time I found I was uot in it
and. what was worse, could n't find it.
"I kept up the search *\s long as possible,
(Sending to tell Susie of the stu- j
rvi'J blunder T had committed But the i
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train bha io come-onc m nun, aihu.??
to make matters really serious, it began
to rain?a dull, pattering fall, that would
probably last till daylight, and
6usie exposed r?to it. Shev- trif 1 to
fts- fire rain camemore ana more steadily,
6he became frightened and nervous. I
found her the best shelter I could at the
roots of a great tree, but the rain reached
her even there. She had notmng round
her but a light shawl?for the evening
had been unusually warm for the season
??b<I I knew she would soon be rfhor-j
oughly chilled; so, being very tough
myself, and used to all sorts oi exposure,
T just took off my coat and begged
her to wrap it round her shoulders, but
she would hear to nothing of the sort,
and bade me quite brusquely to put on
my^pat. But the rain increased, and
the bight grew damper and colder. , I
resolved to take matters into my own
Hands. "Without saving a T
wrapped tne coat arouna ner snouioers
myself, and, for fear she wouldn't.take
it, ? said, by way of apology, you see,
' I'd give my life for you any minute,
Susie,/and it don't stand to reason I
shouldn't give you my ooat.'
"She kept as mute as a mouse while I
was- fixing the ooat; but, when I was
done, she took my hand in both of hers,
an$, says she, 'JDo you think so very
much of me, Ben?rand, says I,'More
than I can tell, or you can think, I
r^k'om'HC AJL I
"And, says she, Why did you never
toil me so before ?'
- ' *' Well,1 says I,' yon know I'm rather
slow of speeeh; and, besides, I reckoned
yon wouldn't' care to hear the like
from me.' \ ViTIJE'i'
"She didn't say nothiiig after that for
a rood loner spell, till I began to be
afraid she was oSended;; then gays she,
1 Ton may sit down here beside me, if
you like, Ben.')
"I did so, and then, after another
good long spell, says she, stroking my
band with one of hers, ' You're the best
ind kindest man in the world, Ben;
md I like you better than any of them.'
" My 6hirt-sleeves were by this time
wet Enough to wring, and the chill gusts
ihat every now and then swept down
[fonrth^.tijee-topswere enough to make
i Newfoundland dog shiver; but I rifever
:'elt w^mer or more comfortable in my
Sfe tbfen when Susie saifi that. I never
felt my slowness of speofch more in ipy
ifej though it seemed as if I couldn't
;liiiik of any word that meant enough.
5o I had to sit and listed to Sukie with-'
iutiieing abla te say a word myself, but
she didn't appear to mind it a bit.
" Well, the ilrst thing I knew it had
itopped raining, and the moon was
peeping ~ clown through a drift in the
jlouds. I found the path in no time;
md Susie made me put on my coat
" When we got Ijiome to*t>nsiefls, her
'athaM&s just .t.uxhing out to' look for
is, and met uifatrne yaragace.
"' Soaked but smiling,' says he.
What on earth has happened to make
,'ou look so, pleasant, when jm arc hoth
is 'wet as a <^>jipl6of drotmed-kitten's?' ?
Se had a lantern, yon see, and flashed
t right in our faces. We didn't tell him
inything then, but he found out about
i month after when I came to ask for
Susie.?. ,
Just at this moment, we ;weje inter npted
b^ a pret^ficohtii^g VoiCtf-*from
he house, exclaiming, " Why, Ben, you
rill catch your death of cold, sitting out
here without your coat when the dew
s falling."
Simpson had been over an hour tellng
his story. Our pipes had gone out
ind the sun had gone down, but there
vas ftill light enough to mark the placid
apresrioao&delight that came over his
ace at the^ere sound of his wife's'
roioe; and I thought I saw plainer than
iVer before how it had happened that
he lively little Susie had married my
ilow friend, and had done wisely in so
lUJJJg.
The Man with a Glass Eye.
As a train on the Kansas Pacific
pulled away from the Sixteenth street
depot, a few mornings since, a tall, angular
specimen of hV.ihauity took arseat',
apposite a lady passenger, and, to all appearances,
was intently engaged in
studying her face, At first the lady
treated the rudeness with good-natured
indifference. But at last it began to
tell on her nerves. It was a peculiar
and astonishing jriece of impertinence.
He apparently had the faoulty of looking
two ways at once. One of his eyes
was restless, excited and roved in all
directions. The other, fixed and sfony,Eastened
on her with ah undeyiatang
stare. She turned her head away, ,but
it intercepted her vision. She tried to
hide behind a paper, but she felt
that cruel eye piercing through the
screen, and creeping with a stony look
ill over her features. It seemed" to be
picking them np ope by.one, and examining
them with care. The thing became
nnondnvaKIp and clip nriprl rrnf tn liim
LiUVM?mHW4v; ??? v*?v v.?v%? v?? ?
fiercely: r. ?.,.>...
"Sir, why do yon look at mesopernstently?"
' *. <.% o"Me,
madam, why, bless my soull I
liaven't been looking at yon."
"You hare, sir?lor a half hour or
nore your eye has been absolutely rivetjd
upon my face."
"I beg sour pardon,, madam, but it's
his ey6j is it noil' Jiffefiighis finger to
lis left optic. "
" Yes, sir, it's that eye."
"Well, madam, that eye won't <k> you
my harm. It generally ,toots any way
i pleases?it gives ' ?? Vgood deal of
rouble. A great many complain of it.
It lirafc I thought they were making fun
)f me, but I've fonfid out differently
low. I've been knocked down two or
liree times fov the impertinence of that
>ye. J woMd leave it out altogether
jut'fbr tl\e looks of" the thing. " It's rt
lass eyV madam?otily a> glass eye; I.
lope 'you'll excuse it. But, upon my
rrt.o t'i? that, even a class
>via*5 J, JLil uuv 9iU|mcv%. %?? _ . w
?ye should feel interested in so pretty a
Tt-oman,'' and lie brought his other eye
to bear upon her in undisguised admiration.
The lady laughingly accepted the explanation,
and the rest of the journey
was passed very pleasantly to both of
them.?Rocky 3/ou n iainXeivs.'
DeSh"^olsteamers have
been unusually numerous of lave.
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A TRUE STOKJOP THE 1YVH.
Gen. Gordon and Oof. Morrow at the Battle
of Gettysburg.
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[Yrona the Washington sancay i icraiu.j
While conversing with' CoLBachel'
der, the historian of the;mttl<e 'of XJete
tybhucg, a few eveninge ago, at one of
the leading hotels, ie fenufcied: "This
jostling crowd little realise that those
two gentlcmeu-H* pleasant <con.yers|tion
yonder, pointing to Senator of
Georgia, and ueci. df * the
United States ?rmv, were prominent
actors on opposite sides at the battle of
Gettysburg." AaA, as tbean'gentlemen
oomiaue tliejr oonversatior, and the
erowdUjame and wont, wedaew from his
never-ending fund of Gettysburg -incident
the felio wing atoryu "The officer
. conversing with Senator Oordon ie
Gen. Morrow, now eittiugCB the Army
. Equipment Board fin this -city. He was
among die wounded Union efficcrsrcaptared
at G;efctysbwg when that .place
fell into the1 hands of the Confederate
troops ?u the evening of the first dayis
battle. Col. Morrow commanded the
Twenty-fourth Michigan Volunteers,
which teioiig*! to the famous iron
Brigade,* coiripesed of ^Wisconsin, Michigan.
and Indiana troops, and formed a
part of the diviaou that opened the battle,
and it was with this brigade that
Gen. Reynolds was killed. And it was
also Col. reginent which enveloped
the ilank of Artfher'c brigade,
compelling the surrender of Gen.
Archer with & large number of his men.
"CoL Morrow's regiment wenccnto the
engagement with 498 officers and men
Its casualties on the first day tfeie 22
offioers killed or wounded out of 23, and
22 non-comissioned officers and 49 privates
killed, and 41 non-commisshned
inga grand totaTof^iS placed luxsde
combat oat of 496. The sanguinary
character of the engagement of these
troops will be better realized wheniit is:
known that this regiment lost slvon
color-bearers in killed and wounded and
all its color-guArd^ after which CoL
Morrow loot the'ffag'to rally the regiment
, and waa himself wounded virile
carrying it, and-'Obliged to leave the
field. He was struck on the top o:f the
head by a mfnie ball, producing a serious
scalp wound, from which the Hood
flowed freely, completely covering his
face; while engaged in washing it wray
the Union forces fell back through the
town, followed by. the victorious jfoe,
and Col. Morrow found his retreal cut
off. On the morning of the 2d, when the
Union prisoners wfcre'about to bVsarted
for Richmond, the.Cqnfederatepurgeon,
who had examined iris woundjminanely
suggested .thQt- it wmild.endanger
Ms life to make such a trb in
the heat of tho summer, which bang 1
communicated to Col. French, Fifte^ith
Virginia, cavalry, he sent Cok l^oijow J
into the village, detailing a guard tcac- '
company him to see that he was lot
molested. And to the kindness of tfese :
officers he believes he oweB his life. A 1
night's rest, with gpod surgical <rare so ;
far restored him that he was able tcbe
out the next day and mingle with he
troops, U'om wnose converaauuu no learned
the movements of the armes,
and how the battle progressed. Atihe J
commencement of the groat <
ade on the third day he went to he <
cnpalo oi the Court House, from wbch 1
he saw the grand adtafice of Lag street's
assault as it swept across he *
plains, saw the lines tremble, water, 1
recoil, and break in confusion uder *
the withering fire of the Union traps. 1
It wais after this that he learned liat E
the Union wounded of the first dy's t
battle had not been attended to,ind ^
he determined to relieve them if ?ossible.
Acting upon the suggeaon ?
of the wife of Judge Wills, whose gest
he was, he allowed ^her to tie a gpen ^
scarf (the insignia of a surgeon) aout i
liim. He then sallied out, and soornet b
jen. Gordon and staff. Approacang
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turn witn tne customary samte ne uu; *
' General, I am informed that our "v
wounded of the first day's battlf lie
uncared-for on the field where tlie^ell, 1
and I ask your assistance in being
them attended to.' 'You astoniahne; *
it cannot be,' answered the Generalnd, a
' turning to a surgeon, he said: ' Ishis
so; and if so, why if it?' The suteou <3
assured him that the wounded of oth
armies had been cared for alikdmt ?
that they had been unable to visithafc
extreme part of the field. Turnip to
Col, Morrow, Gen. Gordon 6aid: doctor.
I irill give you a detail of abu- .
Ianoes this evening to bring in jour f
wounded. They will be in the citral
ut T n'oWl:' flnl TMorrovwas
OVjUlUV MW W %rv?> ??
promptly on hand, and at nift?all
started with a train of twelve abn- ^
lances, with Confederate driverand
t> tic teller bearers^ for that part c the ?
Held where the battle opened. Itasa ^
weird sight, that long train of-my
hearses, as, by the fitful light of aalf- Av
clouded rn'oon. made more obscu bv J.1
rne iunterns tney Dore, tms party tE>ao
ed its way among the blaclteoeiaad "
swollen. corpses, which lay wherehey ^
they had fellen twb days before,.atthe 6
moans and cries of the wounded f as:- ^
sistance, and their supplication for "
water were heartrending.; Some-ere n
delirious, and talked of homeand ''
j friends, and wondered that thejkeg- T>
I leoted . them, so ..Ijiig; while _oth?, in &
their wild delufum, cheered on aen comratlen,
ftfc they fought over agi in e:
imagination the 'terrible battle in lich 11
they fell. But by midnight thejere h
all tenderly borne away to recersthe C(
care they so much needed, audhus V1
many a valuable life was eayed. iCol. w
- A A- lfrtv fm Vio
I Morrow was aouut iu ? j
| was casually, told by a guard thatieie
: were five more wounded at the artery
quarters which had better be reived p
! early in the morning, as orders hrueen
I received to.Xall back. The Ooloi re,
turned to town; and when Tie awo the
next day the Confederate troopVeie ^
i moving out, and he was soon ;e to ^
, join liis command on Gulp's hill.' j
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A man was found dead at Feen- ci
Mile bayou, near St. Francis riveAxk. tl
A jury.lield an inquest, and broqt in o:
a verdict in accordance with thacts.-. p
after wrliich the 'Squire, noticing pis- tl
tol on the person of the deacban, tl
again called the jury togetherwho ei
found him guilty of carrying coihled f(
weaponjf and fined him $25, anome S
stock of the dead man was then ift tef ii
' pay the fine. n
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How Distance Militates Our Horror at
. . a Calamity. .
Imagination ministers lopt grudgingly
to the feeling of sympathy between
: man and man. "We need to see the
ghastly spectacle oi mangled remains,
to hear the ground of agony and the
elirieks of despair, to have some menace
of loss or danger brought home to
ourselves or .those with whom we have
spme boDd of connection closer than
that of the uni.versil brotherhood, in
order to realize the horror of a great
disaster and feel for its: victims. The
. touoli of nature that makes the whole
world kin is one of. universal selfishness.
Perhaps it is a benefleent provi41.
..X t. XI X " ' ;
oiuii bunt ?uvc& ua iruiu me trcruiii upon
our sympathies, -which -would make life
miserable if we were forced -to share in
all the sufferings-and. - calamities of th? .
. rice. r. ji. g i
- j The appalling disaster that overtook
the Hungarian city of Szegediu was
full of mrilti^li(M horrors, hhd Had it
taken place, on the Passaic river it
would have filled the columns of our
newspapers almost to the exclusion of
everything else, blanched every cheek
with a sense of awe, filled every heart
uith pity and dread, and made every
task but that of succoring the hapless
victims almost impossible. But it is
5,000 miles a.way. It touches not us. '
We read of it with a sort of. listless
wonder at the magnitude of the calamity,
hut the most sympathetic nature
fails to be at all deeply or keenly affected
by the recital. And yet human
life is as precious in Hungary asL? New tYork.
Death and bereavement are as '
pitiful there as anywhere j loss of home,
of friends, of relatives, and of the11
means whereby men do Eve, brings the" '
same pangs of suffering, the same desolation,
and the same blight upon life.
A- city of 70,000 inhabitants is overwhelmed
in the tremendous flood of
waters, as the dikes that held the swollen :1
EUAIX Dbiag?llll? XX VCX WXbXXXXX X I/O l/WiXi-llXC^O
give "way, it 8 o'clock in' the morning.
Nearly 10,000 houses are swept into
ruin, nundreds ttpdif'hundreds of their
occupants ani:di?wried, and the rest
are driven out in the cold winter night
in terror nmi-dismay, to seek refuge
from the pitiless flood. The neighboring
coufliay-iB submerged, 2,000 fattg
houses are swept away, and a season's
crops-well-nigh destroyed.' There is
pitiful suffering from, lack of shelter,
from;.wanfc <rf food, from death in fearful
forms, <pnd time ohhnot repair .the
con sequent is of the terrible misfortune.
Yes, we say, it is awful'; but We
do not fee't'ife?we cannotreahae-it.- t**
A Drunkard's Body After Death. .
A posi-rwrtevi examination of nearly
seven^pOrjions who had died from the
Sicessrre x?e of ardent spirits showed
1. Congestion of the scalp and of the'
membranes of the brain, with much. "
serous (watery) effusion; the substance 0
of the brain .white and firm, as if it had ?
lain in alcohol for one or two hours. 11
2.- The lungs not always, butfrequent- 11
ly, congested or'inflamed.
8. The heart flabby, enlarged, di s'
lated, and loaded -with fat on the st
mtade. the blood in it of cherry-red
:olor, and with no tendency to coagn- yLate.
fc
1.. The stomach perfectly white, and
Lhickened in soma cases;' in others,
laving patches of chronic inflammaion;
-In the worst cases the large por- b<
ion of the stomach covered with that T
ipecies of inflammation which causes ?
he blood to be ponred from the minute k]
reins.
5. The.Eyer enlarged?in old drunh- ^
6. The -Omentum?a sort of apron 01
rhioh irhmediately covers the abdonen
in f&pt?loaded with a gray, t0
lushy fat. ' !, v ' v yc
7. The kidneys enlarged, flabby, and
nfiltrated in numerous spots with a
whitish matter. .l-gZ ??
8. The. vsmifll intestines' filled witli .
lile and'coatelf with tenacious mupu'sj
9. The bJoodin a very.fluidconditfoni .
laving bttte Stile- flbrine, - but iiucq !n
Ibumen and falw- ir . -;? ! |n
10. The whole body, except the brain) *.r<
lecomposing very rapidly. ,
Ia ft a'wonder that" "a drunkard J.K
lbs woes?'',','Mt*lir,,? a 'l
.Ttg ?Tat I, - .'I / 'ni! t IS
, . an
I gave $20,000 for' 'her>aim sold * ber
a about a year?in TO-^fot $35,000. It fo:
s bard to say what'she would have" ~Fi
roughfc at her best. She- has 'been
ikon from the turf. She will have a
ol t this month. "Who is the colt by .
!y Gen. AVashington, a young stallion
f perfect form, great vigor, and fine vri
lood. He has the blood of old Lady sai
'home and Gen. Kent in his veins, and ev
as selected as the l)cst partner for the aw
larc that could be found in the world. H;
'he colt will be worth $10,000 in gold "i
ic day it is dropped. Of course, it will Bi
d valuable; the world wili look with us
reat interest to the performance of the io'
dmiug horse. If there is anything ir. fiv
unAlltixr Wr* will lir* trrtvtvfarfaf Tf TTrtS I Vi-r
ot knor,n whether the AT.iid would aneed
or not, as she is 22 Jeurs oiil^uit. tli<
hen she was taken from the track^a "an
iitieman offeredlo give ?1,000 for the ha
bance of her lireeding, and pay all fier fe<
tpensee.(.,vMr. Smith. However, deter-; pe
lined to Qtrn the. colt himsel/, and had gii
er'put on his own breeding farm. The he
jit will bo born this month. She ie as te:
igorous, healthy and active as she ever mi
U.?Bud Doljle. , thi
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Mute Animals. I l*1
In his lecture on Claude Bernard, M. j
aul Bert narrated a singular stratagem ! t
hich was invented by Bernard during j tja
ie late Fruneo;German war. It was _
roposed to revietnul Paris, .whioh was '
arictly blockaded by German forces. ^
. large number of cattle bad been col;cted,
waiting for an opportunity to- %
ross the German lines. But a ^
alty was to silence these animals, as ,
leir cries would attract the attention
f the enemy. Claude Bernard pro- x
osed to practice upon them the section of j
ie nerve which enables tliem to emit j '
leir usual ones, xiie operation is ^
asy lliat it could be executed in a sta
jw seconds by an ordinary butcher. t an
fono of the animals appeared to suffer 1 wa
i any way by the mutilation whiclxJxad I th<
iade them mute,?Nature. 'tat
1
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7?~7^r IT
THE LUMBER CROP.
ImmniM Destruction of Pine Forests.
JFroea the Cincinnati Commercial.] -?
The catting season in the pone JQF
Bo successful hay? the loggers been thf^
the lumber-dealers, wfio/"Himng ?ne
past winter have been wearing long
faces and predicting a shortage, have
brightened tip and Are 'expecting an improved
business. Comparatively little
snow. fell, in the, pineries of Wisconsin,
and it was .thought that, a^.a result, y*e
yield would.not. be.up to the average;
but, by means of ice'roads and railroads,
the loggers have been enabltd to bring
in about as large a crop as usual. In
Michigan there was an abundance of
snow, and the yield in all quarters, is
equal to,' and in some places exceed^,
that of former years. The' amount of
lumber cut is almost inconceivably
large. It is estimated by well-infarmed
persons to. be about as follows: , - L'
District. Lumber. Feet.
Flint river .' M.000,000
TittabawaBsee and tributaries 4W.UOO.OOOBifle
river... S?,000,000
Kawkawlln river 1S.9fiti.0w
Bad river..., 27.000,000
Caes arid Pigeon ri vers .' 13.S0O.110
Swan creek and Bay shore............... 27,000.000
Angreg and shpre... 80,760,000
Huron shore, including An Sable, .
Thunder bay and Olieboygan 486.260,000'
West sho^e, including Manistee flat.
Muskegon, Pen t water, Pare Mar*
quette. White and Grand rivers and
tributaries.. .... 7...............1,15". 460,270
Menominee river.k 21Q.O<J0,000*
Cedar river 13.0UO.OQQ
Fordriv<r ;.... 20.080,008
Flat Hock river .fijpOO.OOO'
Mooastlqu'e river..'. 22.D00.CuJ
Sturgeon bay. Big and Little Sturgeon. 15,000,01X1
Point St. Ignace and Black river, near
JIac^n?w..>,t.;v.A, lljWX0,000
Mississippi river and tributaries 1,350.000,00>i
WoMhv*r..T.. i* 8RW?.000;
Big Sasmicc riyer &.OOU.OOO
Little8uainfco .... ...V....1. 7,000,00#
Penaaukee................ ......;v.r..... 0,000,000.
Oconto.i 60.000.0"0
Peshtigo 70,000,000 :
Total 4.334,210,220
It would Jbe interesting to know how
long the pine forests of these States mil
endure sncJi enormous demands' uponthem.
Many lumbermen think that the
supply is so large that it is well-nigh
inexhaustible, and that a century hence
thero will scarcely be a perceptible de:
urease. One gentleman has stated that
ilong the Menominee rivet alone, even
if as mrtch'fs pdt every' year as last, the
mpply will hold out over eighty years.
He,-like many others, is deceived! All
vho thini; our forests to bo inexhansti->f
de have only to. visit the older and
nore-settled States, which have in no
ess than half a century, been nearly en;ire1y
denuded, of trees.
Steps should be taken In the pine
jroducrog States to replant the cleared I
erritory with young troe$ so that;by I
he time the original forests have en- '
iiely disappeared others! will have stained
sufficient size to he fit for use.,
! '.ttofl- ' ' " "J l>'i" .1 b .
~v lire Patent"Buffer;*
It was a reporter on a live daily who
ad glued his lynx eye to the keyhole
f a Baldwin Hotel room the other day,
hen he was disgusted to find, on look)gup,
that the occupant of the apartlent
was beaming .benevolently down
a him from the transom. "Day, day I"
tid the guest, cheerfully, "guess you've
ruck the wrong number. ThG man
ispected of a forgery and being a poli
? "* .3 i.1 '11
cian is next aoor, ana tne man witu
mr wives is just across the hall."
"I?really?mus' excuse," stammered
te for-once abashed special.
"Not all; don't mention it," pnt in the
carder, jumping down and pulling the
lilldriver into the room. "Fact is, I
as just laying for one of you fellows;
aew you'd be along.presently."
"Want to be interviewed?"
"No. ,1 want to show you press genemeu
a little invention of mine that
lght to be in the possession of every
porter in the country, and it will be,
o. I expect to sell no end of 'em to '
mr paper alone."
"Do, eh?" : - <
"Certainly. I call it the reporters
itent combined spiral spring and In.a-rubber
nose-buffer. Xoubave often,, 1
the fulfillment of your duties, had 1
e door through whidjr you were look-. '
g opened most unexpectedly, infliotv j
g a severe blow upon the nasal ex- L
amity. This sometimes leads to in
immation, especially where the key>le
is brass'; gangrene sets in, lockjaw,
rath! Now, all you fallows have to do 1
to carry a patent buffer, put up in <
le of these elegant morocco cases, '
id?" 1
But the newspaper man made a dash <
r the elevator and escaped.? San '
ancisco Post. ' ' .?
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'
Just Before Dawn. ]
"Ah! Heaven does indeed temper the ]
nd to the shorn lamb," pathetically i
id old Mrs. Diffendorfer the other *
enitier at a tea flurht, after putting 1
ay her twenty-eighth cup of Young <
rson. "Why, what do you mean?" J
ou know that young widow, Mrs. >
ffen, who lives across the street from^ ^
? Well, she has had nothing but sor-* 1
w, trouble and distress for. the past J
e years. First her father was killed J
a'burglar ; tliea her mother married '
nigger-minstrel; after tlrnt she had
e yellow feveruud'ihh'all-pox together;
d next hep husband failed, and she
d to take"in'washing. It was per:tly
dreadful. The poor woman
arly went crazy. She was just be- .
ming to bear up a little again, when
r brother was sent up to the peni- J
itiarv for life; and, finally, last
jnth her husband died in a fit, and f
e very next day her baby ohoked to 1
ath on a gum-drop." "Gracious! the 1
or thing!" ' "Wasn't it just terrible? !
erybody believed she'd commit suile
then; and she would have done so, *
5. but last week somebody providen- *
ily coaxed her to go to a church-railie \
and what do you all suppose hap- .
ued?" "What, for heaven's jsake, 1
int?M "Why, she won a seal-skin c
xine!" "You don't mean it?" "She (
1, though?perfectly splendid?came j
thin an inch of the floor. The dark- '
: hour is just before dawn?after all 1
>w, isn't it?"?San Francisco Post |
1
J
Mrs. Myra Clark Gai>~es, notwith ^
mdiug her 71 years, has long, dark, }
d abundant hair, falling below her f
ist. She says that an aunt lived to j
b age of .116, and she proposes to imi- f
e her example. "11
>
The weigh of the hog-dresser is lard.
s* SoMETfflHQ ^rffce*looked in\o?A.
,j mirror.^. : 'junto f&mdoan'i
if PayhIN* the piper-^Beffcling *ith toe
1 gas-fittd#4 *{ ?*?" *> **'*' ' '"1 ,Tr
Dead men tell no tales, bat dead
walls are well posted. ;
"Flat Jatrr," obttmanded Edison, bnfc
jLux somowhaf^ftifigt'iBini. ' ")1:
; The married above bis station
was a railroad conductor.
Chiioiot-swbbpikg must be a good
;; business; it soots everybody who tries
? . -mi ii. ' ,vi *
>lt ik i" llo ' l>Patience
is taught by a fish rod and
line having a wormt-'afc. one end and a
man at .the other*:.. alia*.;
To be interesting.a speaker should be
full of his subject1, unless he happens to
be speaking aguiOT liquor.
A sociable man is one who, when he
has ten minutes to spare, goes and
botherifsdnSeBody'whd hasn't.
| X"prima-donna, according to a Cockney
i is naturally a timid creature, for
her art is always in her throat.
The fcutomer hotel clerk is now trying
to borrow a dollar to take his dia;
mond shirt-stud out of pawn.
A eashion authority says the ladies
will wear'lawn more this summer. A
good lawn mower costs $15.
' <' It is the opinion of the editor of the
Stillwater Lumberman that "Whom
tie gods Jove eat cucumbers."
Says a sententious writer. "No man
is born wise." Just so. If he were wise,
he wouldn't care to be bom, probably.
The amount of pin-money required
by the married woman depends on
whether she uses diamond pins or rolling-pins.
, .
Etiquette says a call should not be
less than fifteen minutes in length.
Book agents have been known to remain
longer.
" I've got a frightful cold," some one
said to "Cham," "and I don't know
; what to do to arrest it." " Swallow a
policeman."?PaWs paper.
7 When you observe a family sitting
about the dinner-table, each member
bathed in tears, remember .that the
'horseradish season is upon us.
4 There are some things that are as
well kept'dark. It isn't policy to throw
lignr upon sucn a euoject as an open
barrel erf guupowder, for instance.
A. Canadian couple, on their way to
Dakota to settle, weigh 614 pounds; the
man ^.O^DomuJa, and tho wife 304.
, pounds! Let us hope that they will be
careful what they settle on.
IN THE SPUING.
In tho spring, tho female fancy
Lightly turns to thought of bonnet,
With a maze of gimp and ribbons
And a bunch of fea here on it.
?St. Louis Times.
It is now announce^11 the authority
of an "eminent physician" that it is not
healthy to rise before 8 o'clock in the
morning. This applies only to men.
Wives, it is said, can rise at 7 and start
the fire as heretofore.
tirf: ether day the professor of German
asked an unregenerate Junior what ,
thpivOf>nflpr of ft oortftin norm wn.fi. Tho
Junior quickly replied: "I think it fe- V
neuter, sir; at any rate, it is neu ter
me." ^
That was a ghastly joke that a sinful ^
townsman played on a stranger whom
he promised to introduce to a rich .
planter, and then took him around and
presented him to the leading undertaker.?Yonker8
Gazette. '
A lady engaged to be married, and
getting sick of her bargain, applied to
a friend to help her untie the knot before
it was too late. "Oh, certainly
she replied. "It is very easy to untie
it now while it is only a beau knot."
Calling the waiter to him, he remarked
in an insinuating tone, " The
strawberries in this are a great deal
shoytcc than the cake, and my purse is
much shorter than the whole affair.
Couldn't you drop off 75 cents on your
sheek?"- New Haven Register.
tf&E retiring pastor of a chnrch in
Worcester, in a prayer before his farewell
sermon, after having prayed for
avery member of the church, the choir,.
Drganist, sexton, and ushers, finallyprayed
for the "one who, although hidlen
from sight, yet contributes so much
to the musical part of our worship,"
Hiding, " 0, Lord, I mean the bey who
blows the organ I" '
Hawk-Eye: All of one long, happy
hour mamma had been reading to thelittle
ones, Sunday afternoon, and talking
to them about heaven and the
mgels, and showing them pictures of
mgels, with their snowy wings. Sudlenly
Jaok shouted, "Mother! When
1 t i. ?
I'm an anger jl wum w uc uuauguu?
Shocked silence on the part of the
ipmily circle, followed by the explanapry
clause by Jack, "Feathers on my
J.9R iknojv I" . Mother dismissed
coqgrelation without the
?mi... . : . .
I fT(i%2 lO l \
. A. Hint at ? ^historic ^Tptery.
Jteeentljtft^i^nd . excavated on.
;he farm of Mr. Benbow/five miles from
A Mnnl fioiiie six feet wide
UUWVU^v. *
jras dug from the oriter base fo the eenfer^
a distance of about forty feet, and '
lo'me twelve feet- at the center. NothngVaS
discovered to tell who, Or what
ace of people, were buried there, nor
be date of their burial, but it must
aave been a long time ago, inasmuch as
i chestnut tree stood on the very top of
;he mound, sixty-five years ago, that
neasured nearly six feet in diameter.
tVe found numerous human bones and
;eeth under layers of a sort of cemented
:rust all the way through the whole
listance, which dissolved into dust soon
liter being dug up. Many people beieve
it to have been an ancient burial
dace for Indians, but they nevei possessed
tools to execute the tine carvings
lpon the hardest rock that have been Ji
slowed up in the immediate neighboriiood
of the mound for the last sixty
rears, nor had they fire-arms to scatter
lie bullets all ever the surrounding
ields, and the mystery of who or what
ace of people lived.and died here bebra
Columbus discraered America still
retnains.?GreerfoinfciAla.) Advocate.