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VOL. VIII. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1884. Educational CottPtabJ; She wm • Bovton maMen, and *he’< •ceroely poMod eighteen. And as lovely as an hourl, bat ofgTave and sober mien; A sweet eecyelopedia of every Un of lore. Though love looked coyly behind he glasses that she wore. She sat beside her lover, with h his knee, And dreamily she gazed upon th< summer sea, ke the Until be broke the silence, Minerva, deer, Inform me of the meaning of the of the Here. elbow on lumb’rlng saylfe: “Pray, Thingness "I know you’re Just from Concord where the lights of wisdom be. Tour bead crammed full of bur ting, love, with their philosophy— Those hoary-headed sages and nftlds of ho siery blue— Then solve me the ednundrum, put to you." smiled a dreamy smile, and 1 the Here and et ar- Bbe Thingness of Is that which is not past rived, my dear; Indeed” the maid continued, w'tt a calm, un ruffled brow, “The Thingness of the Here is jt it Thlsness of the Now.” A smile illumined the lover's foe , then with- out any haste He slid n manly arm around t e maiden’s waist, And on her cherry lips impressed t warm and loving kiss. And said: “Love, this Is what I ciU the New ness of the This.” ONLY A GOVERNESS. ear own tho She was only a governess! in (Jcorgo Wilbraham’s house. A pretty, lady like, quiet, little creature,{whom his two motherless children d*rly loved, and before long their fathlr was in danger of following their eiqmplo. Mrs. Vane saw that. She was a widow; handsome, poor, and with eyes that were unusually ketn for all that concerned the wealthy widower. For he was her cousin, an<j she had pt house for him since his wife’s oath with the intention of ultimately consoling him for his beroav >mont. •’That girl is dangerous,” s e thought. "She must bo got rid of ato ce.” More easily said than don< however. The children loved their gei Lie friend and play-fellow, and thejr f: her made no secret of the pleasures he presence and sweet compunionshi] afforded him. While as for Lily—t ough she 1 was “only a governess”—it was plain , that an unwonted sense of/happmess made her blue eyes more fright and | her smiles more frequent- \fus it since Mr. Wilbraham returned? Wcli, yes— everything was surely pleasanter under the master’s sway. He wa| so good, so kind. And he, surely hb life was lonely. She wondered how would ho ever— And at that thought she 4ooped and kissed a red rosebud that, she held, and which he had given hec That instant a voice fell (ki her and a firm hand grasped hef arm. “Do you kiss the flower ftf its sake?” asked the voice, “<k‘ for giver's?” Poor Lily started guiltily. - "Thu—the givet, madam I*’ she falt ered. “1 do not understand ” “Mr. Wilbraham gave yoi that rose. Ho is my betrothed husba|d. I will never give him up. His faucy for you can only result in your dishonor; for though you may steal his Icart from me, you cannot win his hant. 'Hint Is engaged to me, and 1 will claim it” - Lily, with white faoo and great, dilated eyes, now, suddenly, with one sharp cry of pain, fell down fainting at her enemy’s feet. “Oh, madam, what must you think of me” she cried, with a burst of pas sionate sorrow. “Ob, 1 must leave this place! Oh, let me go at once!” “I shall place no constraint upon you, my dear,” she said, “i see that I can trust your honor.” Mr. Wilbraham had said that he should not bo home that night, and tho poor girl’s one anxiety was to leave without again seeing him. So, when her preparations were done, sho stole down lac garden to bid the place where she had creamed such happv dreams a last good-bye. It was but .3 o’clock. As she stood near the rose bushes, brushing away the fast-coming tears, Mrs. Vane joined her hurriedly. “Miss Dean,” she said, “my cousin ’s returning. I saw him from my win dow slowly riding up tho lane. You must not meet him. You can slip out by the back way as he enters at tho front. You can walk to the statiou^-it is not more than a mile.” (It was more than two miles, but Mrs. Vane was not trammelled by anv painful reverence for the truth. ^ “llere is your money, and to-morrojir I will send your trunk. Will you do this, or”—with a look of insulting suspicion—“will you stay and try and steal from me my hus band?* The young girl’s fair and she threw back her proud gesture. “Yon insult me, madam,” she said, with dignity. “I have shown no in clination to do you wrong.” Then she hastened away. j. Little Anpie was playifag by the garden gate. She caught her in her arms and kissed her. “Good-bye, little darling!” she cried and set her down again. Next minnte the gate swung to and tho governess had gone. Meantime Mrs. Vane, in her rival’s empty room, was rejoicing over her departure. “The game is inmjrown hands now,” •he thought, “and I shall win the prize.” The sound of a horse’s hoofs nnder the window startled her. She sprang to ascertain the cause, and fell back as if she had received a blow. George Wilbraham was riding away to the station at fall speed. “He suspects me—be will find her and learn all,” sho thought, and sat down conquered and despairing. The game was lost indeed. A letter from her cousin apprised hor that ho had found Lily in London, and there married her. He requested Mrs. Vane ; to leave his house before he brought his young bride home. She obeyed, too humbled and defeat ed to utter a complaint, and Lily came buck to bo mistress and queen of tho homo whore sho had once been “only a governess.” To Young Men. Now that you have attained that age which brings with it tho physical en durance and the mental powers of man hood, you will find that you aro enter ing into the real battle of life. Tho past, with its memories of school days, tho petty trials of boyhood andthohon- i est dreams and colored romances of youth, has been but play compared j with tho solid work before you. You will meet people whose habits are not your habits, whose views aro not your ; views, and whose opinions are not tho i opinions that you hitherto have in- : dulged. i Somo of these people will tell you that life is not so rosy and tliat its work is not so easy as you would wish. And j yet, if tho truth were consulted, it is a fact that life is. taken altogether, a beautiful existence. Do not, therefore, bring to the new work a heart lacking in the belief of the good and the truth; do not forgot that the strongest mus cles of your body, the best impulses of vour soul, aro those which constitute a young and healthy ambition and an in spiring hopefulness of tho future. Tho only honest words that the old fogies utter are the reference to life’s brevitv. Yon will find, indeed, with the rest of us, that life is short. But j that is no reason why we should not i make the most of it, enjoy it, and bo j grateful for the bountiful privilege to which we owe tho right of participa- i lion in the joys and sorrows of man- j kind. Put your best foot forward, and whether fortune frown or smile, make the best of life. Those sour souls whoso days aro gone and wasted will try to blacken tho greSt picture of your future; but let not your ardor be damp ened; leap into the sea and swim for ward with a strong, sure stroke. Sum mon to your work tho best passious of your manhood, and recollect that the successful life is not the one thakaqiUe mnlutes vast wealth and possessions, but that which enjoys its possibilities as God and nature have endowed the man with power and equipment to do the work. We aro all, each and every one of us, cogs in the great wheel of life; each vocation fits into tho other, and when one falls out another is ready to take tho place of the missing one. It is only when we aspire to do too much, when wo grow dissatisfied and want to bo a whole wheel instead of a useful little cog, that our endeavors fail of the ef fort and we are relegated to tho idle shelf of uselessness or repair. To have bright hopes and to bo satisfied with doing a little of tho great work, this is the greatest honor for a young man.— Williamsport Breakfast Table. A WONDERFUL ISLAND. The Cariosities to Be Seen on Queen ’ Clihrlottes Island. faced head flushed with a “Without an explanation!” Mr. Wilbraham said. “I canpot under stand it, Helen. Surely sho told you wh: “* hyp" •*8oi mething about a lovettl believe,’ w- Thurman's Fish Story. Onco upon a time, when crowded about his presidential aspirations, Mr. Thurman replied: “I really have no ambition in that direction.” A look et incredulity on every face was tho only response. Tho Judge took in those looks and related a little story. Said he: *Gnc summer I was at the Oakland house, Maryland, spending a little va cation up in the cool mountain region. We got to telling fishing stories. I re lated something of my own experience when I was present and saw caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds. When I told tho weight there was a general laugh, and I was humorously awarded the prize for telling fish stories. I qui etly remarked to my incredulous lis teners that I hoped soon to convince them of the truth of my story that in western waters there were catfish that weighed ninety pounds. When I re turned to Columbus I went to a leading restaurateur and instructed him to pro cure for me tho largest catfish he could possibly secure. He reported in a few days that he had one. I walked over and found an excellent specimen weigh ing seventy-five pounds. I had him boxed and carefully packed in ice, and ied him * — 1 - Aland. Probably no other group in tho wide world carries more curiosities, natural and artificial, than Queen Charlotte Island; few, I think, have as many in the same extent of country. Tho geol ogist, tho mineralogist, tho botanist, tho artist, and tho agriculturalist may each of them find a wide field for re search, while tho antiquarian, the the- ologist, and others of that ilk would be highly interested. In their strange and wonderful sea margins, in their not less wonderful caverns, in which nature's mark in long past ages is written as plainly as on the pages of a book; in their rocks, whose vo.onnie contortions smite tho 'beholder with amazement; in their ^lells, which as fossils aro found deep , oown in the scams of its antliraeito | coai, while near Cape Ball tho same i sort are found alive in tho sands of the seashore; ot these the geologist can I write volumes. In their quarts lodges, which have been traced from shore to shore, in | which gold is plainly visible in coal measures and other materials, a wide field may yet be found for tho mineral ogist. Tho various kinds of plants belong ing to these islands, tho tiny flowers in their natural beauty peeping out from behind tho melting snow-drift on tho : lonely mountains, the modest lupins ami tho luscious itrawberries, nature’s gift to men, and even tho broad-leaved s bush grass—ali these, us they follow in the wake of the receding waters of Queen Charlotte’s siormy seas, would yield an ample store for the botanist. Among the snow-clad mountains, by I the wild torrent and tho gentle river, by tho lights and shades reflected by ttieir sunset hills in autumn’s shorten- jflg days, a boundless range is oflerod Tfor the pencil’s magic skill, while tho broad acres of rich alluvial bottoms and tho unlimited extent of lands whose nutritious grasses, waving in the breeze, would lead the farmer to say: “Oh, if these lands were mine.and i my flocks and herds ranged over the plenty they afford!” To the.antiquari an, the ethnologist, and other scien tists, the rich carvings on the columns, and the quaint old legends they depict, and the legendary loro of tho people, would afford a va'-t untrodden field. To the piscatorial disciples of Izaak Walton an unlimited amount of sport is furnished by tho streams, in tnem they can find the silver salmon and the dainty little trout of the mountain rill If tired of these and, wishing larger sport, let them go to the greater depths of tho ocean, down to whore the stormy depths of winter are never felt, to where, deep in ocean’s caves, ho will find a myriad throng of those denizen* of the deep—the black cod. On these islands eve’n the moralist will find something in his line. Let him seek tho deserted villages and lin ger in their ruined halls and study the works now crumbling to ruin, left bo- hfrid by their aimient inhabitants. The ttfll, carved colimn, pointing heaven wards, with its mystical hieroglyphic* from bottom to top. Hero is one whose elaborate carving b^rs tho imago of a man on top wearing a storied head dress. It is three circles in height, and eacli circle is twelve inches above the otiier. These circles show tho ruins to have been tho dwelling of a chief. Having reached tho house let him de scend tiio half-rotten stair down into the body of tho house among the intru sive eider bushes, and note what he secs. Pded in one corner is a heap of iron, the remains of one unfortunate ship. What aro those boxes, mildewed and moss covered, piled in the corner? These are family boxes. Somo held the oil and others tho food they used, while others held tlioir clothes. Theso lie will find, hut where aro tho people? Where are tho women whom Captain Dixon writes of as fair, when they are washed, os English milkmaids? Where are they or their descendants? Call them and echo, through their deserted hall-, in wailful, mournful numbers, replies: "All aro gone.” Ask those mortuary columns on every hand, and the answer is still the same: “Ali are gone.” Ask the Indians who may be along with you, and their answer Is: “All are dead.” Look among tho emp ty bottles scattered in large number* all over tho floors of tho deserted houses, among tho long grass, and to tho boxes on posts among tho green bushes, and you will find the mummi fied remains of all that is left of the people. — Victoria (B. C.) Chronicle. shipped him to my disbelieving friends at Oakland. From tho restaurateur got all the rocipos I ~ in said Mrs. Vane, indifferen(tly. “You know she xtas a very pretty girl and joung.” { Mr. Wilbraham turned a Way with a clouded brow and sauntereA into the garden. J “I could have sworn shei oared for me," he muttered, ‘Htnd a&the while •he was engaged tOAome 1 night I should havAsked xe. Curse soeh false and he stumbled against m the grass. “HuHo! what's Annie, his own ’little Annie, seemingly quite and in tears. “Oh, papa,” she sobbed, him, "she's dorn. Mies # He took the little one iq and soothed ••Why did Miss Lily iow. This to be my nettei!” ng on year-old hearted I could for catfish chowder, catfish steak, stuffed catfish, roast, etc., and sent them on by mail. I telegraphed as follows: ‘Skin your fish before you cook him, ’ a catfish's skin being so rank as to spoil the flesh when cooked with it on. They got my telegram and were puzzled. When the box arrived, dripping from the molted ice, they were more puzzled. Tho let ter, which arrived by tho same train as the fish, explained all. They hod a fine feast, and it was formally organ ised with a president and secretary, and passed the following resolution, which was sent me: " ‘Resolved, That the truth of Allen G. Thurman’s statements should never be questioned; that his fish stories are always absolutely true, especially his catfish stories.’ ’’—R—•• Gathering Rubber hi BrauU. Writing about the production end export of rubber in Brasil, Consul General Andrews says: "The rubber tree requires a growth of twenty to twenty-five years before it begins' to prodnoe, hence little or nothing hee been done for ita propagation. The milky sap which forms rubber is taken from the wild tree, which grows scattered through the forests of the Amazon and many ot its affluents. Tho indnstry. being principally in the hands of an uneducated and half-civil- ised nomad population of Indian mixtnre, is of a etude character. Noth ing has been obne to improve tho system of labor. ▲ wasteful and ex haustive system of labor has been fol lowed for half a century, and the con sequence is that millions of robber trees have been destroyed and many others abandoned from premature and excessive use. There aro instances of groves of trees which, by careful use, and by ’not permitting them to bo tapped in the months of August and September, in which they change their leaves, have been yielding for thirty years, and still are in good producing condition; but the common practice is so wasteful that many well-informed people apprehend that, unless some remedy is applied, this rich resource will before long suffer a serious and perhaps fatal decline. ‘‘The rubber tree thrives only on soil which is annually overflowed to a depth of three or more feet, and pre fers the lowest and most recent river deposit. The raptor gatherers are temporary squatters, and their dwell ing is a hut with low root ot palms, beneath one end of which there is a raised floor or framework of lath, one or two yards from tho ground, to which tho occupants retreat at high water.” The following description of tho process of gathering rubber was writ ten by Mr. Frans Keller: “Narrow paths lead from tho gatherer’s but through donso underwood to each seperato tree, and as soon as the dry season sots in he betakes himself with his hatchet to the tree to cut little holes in the bark. Tho milkwhite sap immediately begins to exude into f iioces of bamboo tied below and hav- ng their ends in the little clay cups set under the gashes to prevent its trick ling down the stem. Ho travels thus from tree to tree. On tho return visit he pours the contents of tho bamboo into a largo earthen vessel provided with straps, which ho empties at home into a large turtle-shell. Without de lay ho sets to work to coagulate it with smoke of palm mtts, and poors a little of the milk evenly on a light wooden ■hovel, which he throws into the thick smoko issuing from a little narrow chimney made by tho neck of an earth en bottle. He moves the shovel sev eral times—to Rntf fra with great rapidity, when the milk is seen to con solidate and to take a grayish-yellow tinge. •Thus he puts layer upon layer, nntil at last the rubber on both sides of the wood has reached a thickness of two or three centimeters. Cutting on one side, he takes it off the shovel and hangs it in the sun to dry. A good workman can thus prepare five or six ounds of solid rubber in an hour, rom its initial color of clear silver gray it turns shortly into a yellow, and finally becomes the well-known dark brown of the rubber, such as is export ed. The more uniform, the denser and freer of bubbles tho whole mass is, the higher the price it brings. Almost double the value is obtained for the first-rate article over that of the most inferior quality, which is nothing but tho drops collected at tho foot of the trees. ” HIS WEDDING TRIP. Die Traaemlgrattone of <ms Anecdote Illustrated by a Bright Example. There is a story about a wedding trip hat has been knocking about the toon try for somo time. Wo have tried to keep it out of the “Drawer,” but it is of no use to kick against it any longer. It was first told to the “Draw er” editor in October, 1883, by a clergyman of strict temperance prin- oioles and high character—in foot, a total abstainer—who had It from a friend of hia, first-hand, who had just returned from the west. This friend, mind you, saw and heard what he re lated, and he was a person of undoubt ed veracity, though perhaps as an ab stainer, when traveling, not so total as the clergyman. It was, in brief, to this effect: In the oar on a train from Toledo to Chicago was a man who sat alone, looking absently oat of the win dow and appearing dejected. During the passage an accident happened to a newsboy and the generous passengers passed round tho hat for him. The solitary man alone of all the car full refused to contribute anything, not even a quarter. Somebody remarked audibly upon his stinginess, when he turned round and said: “Gentlemen, it may appear strange to you that I'I stance, _ | give nothing; but I haven’t a cent of jp ipo *k7 brokVor interrupUdthe money. The fact is, I was married alar knowledge of the war to on yesterday, and I am on my wedding trip, and I hadn’t money enough to bring my wife along.”* In December following the editor of Whether iron #osoe olive of health, or front man distinctly prefers h gratify tola fancy pnta himoalf anA hfc womankind oil over the world to tho trouble of daily oophism Svmt •bread” is eaten hot by tho majority of mankind-toe ase of brood whtoh will keep well being n Uoalarlty; and very few ally eat any hot food is unattainable or They like their rloe orthotar their wheoteafcea, gf ‘ or their meat, just as lire. As this practice inveives Im mense additional expenditure too firing —which in most places Is one of tho heavy burdens on too poor >nd the loss of at least six borne labor o week, this of itself might be hold to prove that a taste for pleasant food is eniver* sal Among toe immense majority of miD^ind nch hon—hold cooks for It* seiCnto werk (Oiling mainly on tho wife, who is never taught except by hor he most traditional ‘ i 'Srsr, an* I*C XboneeN The wholol mother, and in the way. Improvement, if any is made, is exceedingly slow; and amzmg I to the bodh some people popular oookery hoe pro£ Telegraph! ably retrograded, owing in this In- i "Undo i itrograded, owing to toe chasm of years which, oq ledge ot tho way ley found fresh maul prepare aiffioult -Cleveland Press. Tho Emperor of Anam uses a largo and deep pond of water as a safe for money and valuables. The money not intended for use is placed in the h<Hlow- od ont trunks of trees, which Ore thrown into the wator. To keep away thieves and prevent the Sing himself froqpi be ing teifapted to draw upon the reserve fund without sufficient cause, a number of croocdiles are kept in toe water, their presence and the certainty of be. ing Sates alive acting as a wholesome restrainw and: insuring toe eeenrity of ton royal tnobjfrel* * Broken or Fractured? “Is the bone broken, or only frac tured, doctor?” is an anxious question often asked apropos of an injured limb. Broken and fractured are synonymous terms in surgery, my dear madam—ft is always a lady who asks this—but I think I know what yon mean. A fully- developed bone is partly cracked— nearly always it snaps-in two pieces— but the soft cartilageinous bones of children sometimes sustain what is called a "green-stiok fracture,” a name which almost explains itself, meanini that the bone is broken throngh p of its thickness, bat not separated, as happens with the green bongh of a tree. Many people have a totally erro- neons idea, when On arm or , leg is badly bruised only, that it would be better if it were broken. ‘•Right across toe muscle, too!” implies that an in jury has been received across thfenpper arm in the region of the biceps, that being the only "muscle” which is hon ored by general pnbllc recognition. How many people know that what they call their flesh and the lean part of meat is nothing but muscle, the pul leys by which every action of the body is performed? Common mistakes \v» In trying to "walk off” rheumatism, sprains, and other things which shoakl be kept entirely at rest, and in squeez ing collections of matter which have burst or been lanoed with a view to hasten their healing by the more speedy emptying ol their contents.—Chambers’ Journal. Fr A Long Pneumatic Tube. A company is getting ready to bnild a pneumatic tube for carrying letters and small packages from Ciucago to New York. The idea at first seems im practicable, but on examination it turns out to be feasible. Two tubes are to be made of brass, which will ran side by side, althoagh it is said one tube will be tried first A powerful engine wfth an exhaust wheel is to be stationed at one end. It is said that if the tube is properly made and planted no air will escape. The right of way it is believed can be secured for nothing, or at a nom inal expense, and the main dost will be the tubes, the engines and stations. A letter, a sample of grain, or package of any kind which is to be sent, is en closed in a leather bail A ball pre sents the least friction as a rolling ob- { ect, and the leather is to be stiff and icavy. A continuous current of air is assfng through tho tube constantly. tbo "Drawer” was seated with two other gentlemen in a library in New York. One of them said: *‘I heard a good story the other day from a friend of mine who has just returned from Europe. Going down tho Danube from Pesth last summer ho noticed the steamboat a melancholy-looking man, who did not appear to core much for the scenery, but leaned over the guards and vacantly regarded the river. Fall ing into conversation with him he as certained that the man was a Prussian. Remarking that tho journey did not seem to interest him, the Prussian said: ‘No; I’m rather lonesome. The truth is I’m on my wedding tour, and I could not afford to bring my wife.’ ” The editor of the "Drnwor” said that it wae a good story, and that he began to think it was true, as it was confirmed by so many independent witnesses. Thereupon he took from his pocket a letter which he had re ceived that morning from Paris. In it the writer, a gentleman of culture and travel, said that a curious incident happened to him last summer. He and his wife were on a Rhine steamer, when they noticed a melancholy passenger whom all the beauties of the scenery failed to rouse from his dejec tion. He was an object of interest to them all the morning, and at length kis wife’s sympathy was 'so much ex cited that she proposed to go and speak to the melancnoly stranger and find out the cause of his sadness. The husband said that wonld be a foolish thing to do, and she might get into trouble. But the wife insisted (for though American women havo little cariosity, they have warm hearts), and crossed over to where too stranger stood, and accosted him, and they en gaged in conversation. In a few mo ments tho lady returned, laughing. "What is it?” asked the husband. "Why, the man is on his wedding trip and couldn’t afford to bring his wifew". The editor then related the original true story as it was told him by toe T. A clergyman. So it appeared, on un impeachable testimony, that the same strange incident happened in the expe rience of three persons toe same year —one near Chicago, one on the Rhine, the other on the Danube. Did it hap pen to any one of these veracious peo ple? When the editor hod raised this question, the third member of the party, who had been sileut ond had not Interfered with the story in any way, said: "I can tell yon the real original of that story. Several years ago, in a well known wholesale house in this city, an old bachelor book-keeper, who had been many years with the firm, suddenly announced that he was to be married. Tho partner! gave him a week’s holiday, and his fellow-clerks raised a little parse and presented it to pay the expenses of his wedding trip. A couple of days afterward one of the members of too firm went down to Newport, and there, lounging about the Ocean house, and apparently en joying himself immenselv, he saw his recently-married old book-keeper—but alone. ‘Where’s your wife?’ ‘She’s at home.*! ‘Bat I thought you had meat They to procure, and foiled to baud 4ew> toe needful instruction for ita prepara tion. Half mankind at least knows nothing of boiling; of those who do know, another half will eat their vege tables in a sodden condition, hmaom the races who eat meat only * ttmltad percentage of persons try to make meat tender; we believe the fiseh-sefr ing Mongolds form on exception to this rule, and among topee who oat grain there is a distinct preference for tho under-cooking alike of flour, riee and millet from a belief that such food is more fully latisfylng. , But cooking does not advance. A I "Undo EbSsr than ang a year and ] From the Laugh* 11a: •*! the! now article of diet is ooeaskmallv add ed, like toe potato or a new condiment like pepper; hot it may be doubted if a European laborer’s dinner is mode a bit more palatable than the dinner of an Israelite was when the lawgiver promulgated the ourious notion that roast meat was more acceptable to the superior powera than meat boiled at ■tewed. Indeed, the way to make n kibab, which is known to the hniahjest in Asia, has been lost here; end only toe gypsies are aware that meat cover ed with damp elay and placed among the hot ashes is not only ddlrioos bm much more nourish lag than mens either baked or boiled. The natural way with civilized people, if they odred for aide food, would be to entrust the prepay ation of it to professionals, who wooed learn that trade by incessantly improve; hut; except! cany and South France, this M hardly j done anywhere, though it ought to M toe easiest of arrangements, file only] in the making of bread that men eei bine; and they have only just began to I do that in Europe, and do not do it Ja | Asia, or we beiMVe, in meet parte North America—the Western worn making bread for her household as the j Mexican woman makes her thin enken Yet the world everywhere in order to’ get its drinks, end toe thlngC it drink* radually bat qnitc steadily Improve, onsohold brewing is, by the merey of Providence, dying out; end nobody In Germany, America, or England wonld now swallow the horrible stuff whtoh our 'ancestors called bo Spectator. Thai A farmer, Abraham Levan by name, if Berks coaaty, Pa., whp was stone blind for sfatjy yearn, died recently. In nrimnf Ue afUockm he w» always shin to do wall every Mud at barm nert, even |hto efmpAltflfftip.'ffftfliflf #231 1 7 l money given you for a wedding trip?* ‘So I did, bat I didn’t understand that it was intended to inoinde her.” Now we ore not saying that this is an unwise way of taking what is really one of toe most perilous journeys in life—a wedding tour. But what could have induced ali these different re spectable people * to appropriate this particular instance to their own person al observation? It sometimes seems as if people are not what they should be. —Harper'» Magazine. On » Bob-Tail Car. R! - - With one pipe tho plan is to reverse toe engine every hoar—the first hoar forcing the air into it at Chicago and ■ending packages to New York, the next hoar exhausting tho air at Cbioa- go and drawing the packages as quick ly back. The men who have it in charge do not say how long it will take to send a package this way, bat claim to be able to dolt in less than a min ute. Stations will be established at the important cities on the route. It is expected to pay a large profit, and to do the business of the telegraph com panies, express companies and the mail. They say the scheme of sending crude petroli tances, as is now done, was laughed at at first, and that this one is more prac ticable, if possible, and not nearly so costly, as the pipes are to be small and can go around curves and over hills as well as, on level.—N. Y. Graphic. j I •«"' ^ t mm ^ He had just graduated, and they were strolling about the campus while he explained to her’ the exeroises and related toe various exploit# in which he had been engaged daring his coarse. A bright idea seemed suddenly to strike him as he turned, end with a happy light dancing in his eyes, asked: "Why do they coll It commencement, do yon suppose, when it comes at the end in- •tood'af the beginning of the eouneP” “I don’t know,” she answered thought fully, “unless it is because you’ll here to commence at that time to leant Something or get Mb" And as she looked np the happy light hod vanished from his eyes.—Joefim Pool Y "^2uT'jLI—LJ W will >.3 ere< Mvsk MoOerthFn PhJtoeopby. cold An dame up fornist ye afore ] tbit, but a haythen -arks.-.* .•p S' . “Sometimes a countryman cornea into the car and drops some money into the box, expecting that the con ductor will take it ont and give him change. They do not know there is an aperture for change in toe door. Some of toenx are so ashamed of the ignorance tha| they subside when they find ont what a bad break they have made. Often on this cor gold pieces have bden put in ae fare in that way. A granger once come in and threw a fonr-bit piece in the box He continued standing and looking at me for a block or so, and then had the door opened. He said that he wanted his change. I tried to explain matters to him, and told him to go to the office. He would not have that ‘Yoa needn’t take me for a sucker, ’ ke said in a load voice: T know as much as you do, and I won't stand any of your little fame#.’ He commenced to get violent and so I proposed that he should take hi* change i* tickets, in order to pacify htan. To this he agreed, end him a half deeen tmMferttokets he ooald rndv nee that day. He raefcar, hut he took those ttaho tom oqt an’ a biseekle wml | *e|eobe~ rhlnMt toon goes beyont yea like n i] he da Wan (bine nuasgirl a lodin* two kids I wid the two hands av her wnl kaaoJ more honest paple behint her on wo strata than a funeral wid forty. ka ‘ an’ a wagonfal of swote fieworn so wuL The doods drap their rain on* •nn may hide hisseif ahlnt 'em, hot I whin the parin' stones at the bees white an'dhry loike there wnl hem a picnle the neixt day, or ma boom isn’t Bridget Me byeTDanyel, hem a pollytUhnneA he bees, an’ sea he wnl be in fnr havin’ on orfis after a bit I ground him mesolf an’hev kep him till ■inosL^on' divil a thing have he got batfhff o' headache, till yH, an’ no loikee av it ’Tis toe lost drop av beer is the swat- est an’ poor people wid small com know the taste av It best Chairs wid rockers wnl do for Wo rich, but people as worko sit down to rest—Boston Globe. What a Young Woman Wrote. The Columbus (Ga.) Sentinel pub lished too doilowiug model letter: GbobgktowwGa 8-90-84.—Mr Dxab Honxt: I have lust laid aside my work and have taken my poo in hand to show you that 1 do think about yon in fact the trouble is to keep from thinking of you all the time this after noon just before oommeueing dinner I felt so lonely that I didn’t know whel to do now as I never had such feeling before 1 met yoa I eon not help bat think 1 must be in love well if 1 am in love with you I am sure I have no need to be ashamed of it you see when I get toe potatoes and was about to have them for dinner I just thought how nice it wonld be if I was just doing that for your dinner and mine only fi our snug Httle hones when are yen going to get your license I think yon are so long about it I aint in a Imre but then I would like to get married flf wo are going to do it at ell and not ho fooling away all these shart snmmnr evenings as everyoor PAflUWh A lawyer at Fortlood, Orsu* hoe i the mayor of that piaoe for the] - of a bill thus itenrized: For imttnr wtteh ChaoaMUi Es&ssr&oijom W: ~V'P v by emi t 0 hum IgWHo,.