The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 30, 1884, Image 1
VOL. Vfll.
COMPETITION BOUNCED.
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Made to be Fsinted, Not to be Kissed.
“Made to bo painted”—o MIUIm nil#lit ptvo
A fortune to rtrady that exquisite face—
Tbe fuce is nfortune—aLawrenco mipM livo
Anew in oacli line of that Ugufo** stilt
grace. ~
The pose is perfection, a model eilch limb,
SVom the delicti to foot to the clast-lcol
i lieadt >
Out the altuonU-bluo oyos, with their smiling,
look dim.
And lips to be loved want alriile more red.
StatucsqucT No, a Psyche, let's soy, in re
pose—
A Psyche whoso Cupid bcacechos in vaiu—
Wo sign as the nlirbtiiiralo sighs to tbe rose
That declines (it’s averred) to give siglis
buck again, * * *
If the wind shook the rose? Then n shower
would fail
Of sweet-scented pctalato gntl'cr who list:
If a sigh shook my Psjchc? She’d yawn that
is alt. ^
She’s made to be painteil, and not to bo
kissed.
NANCY’S DEVICE.
Jas. W. Turley’s
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•dispose of my Stock of Goods at the smallest profits.
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FXJR.1SIITXJR.E !
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A daintily shaped “little head, oyer-
running with curls,” enshrouding a
fair, winsome face of perfect oval, that
seemed made for smiles and laughter
only, and generally fulfilled the expec
tations it aroused; but on the present
occasion it must be confessed that the
prevailing expression of Hetty Blake's
features was very cross indeed, as she
sat in the wide window sill, swinging
her pretty little'fect and pouting a pair
of exquisitely-curved scarlet lips, as
she plaited and unplaitod the strings of
her broad-rimmed gipsy hat.
— M I don’t cure,” said Miss Hetty. “1
don’t love Mr. Meredith! And 1 don’t
want to marry him. So there now.”
And she nibbled at the hat strings
and frowned under her level brown
brows, like a pretty rebel as she was.
“Hetty, hold your tongue,” said La-
vinia, her elder sister. Aw
“You don’t know what you’re talU*
ing about,” severely uttered Mrs.
Blake, who was mixing up a batch of
bfead at the kitchen table. “Mr. Mer
edith has a house and farm worth ten
thousands pounds. And it’s a great
compliment for him to speak to your
father about marrying yon.”
“Then I wish he’d keep his compli
ments to himself,” said the incorrigible
Hetty. "Look here, Lavinia, why
won’t you marry him?”
Lavinia, overcome with indignation,
dealt her roguish little sister a box on
the ear, which Hetty narrowly escaped
by a sudden depression of her head.
“No, but it.would suit so exactly,”
said Hetty. “Lavinia is just that sort
of person!”
“Hetty, don’t be a fool!” said Mrs.
Blake. “You should thank Frovidenco
that Mr. Meredith is pleased to marry
you, and put all nonsensical ideas
about Harry Waite out of your head at
once!”
But Hetty frowned and pouted more
and more, and tried resolutely to keep
the big, bright tears from falling on
her hands,
“What shall I do?” said Hetty to
herself. “For 1 never, never can mar
ry that bald-headed old man who talks
through his uOsc and carries a yellow
silk pocket-handkerchief! And I'm
sure Harry would shoot himself when
bo heard of it!”
But all Hetty Blake’s tears and lam
entations availed nothing. Her father
was a practical man of the world. Her
mother understood the fall meaning of
money, and so the match was to be
hurried on. regardless of the feelings
of the bride-elect.
But Providence interfered—that kind
ly Providence'which has the interests of
true lovers ever under its care.
Mr. and Mrs. Blake had gone to at-
teqb a chapel meeting twenty miles
away, with Lavinia in their train.
Hetty, being "unrcgoncrate,” was
left at home to meditate over a volume
of sermons.
“Now be sure, Hetty, you look well
after the bouse,” said Mrs. Blake;
“and see that Nancy feeds the young
calves regularly, and cares for the gos
lings and the chickens. And lock up
the house at ton o’clock every night,
and be sure you don’t lot inr.uy tramps
nor peddlers."
‘Til be very careful,” said Hetty.
“We shall bo back on Friday,” said
Mrs. Blake, “without fail; and if you
have any leisure time you can turn the
sheets in the wash-basket, and darn the
thin places In the back-parlor carpet,
and do any other useful odd jobs about
the house.”
So Mrs. Blake climbed into tho cart,
whore her husband and Lavinia were
already seated, and droye away, call
ing out directions to Hetty as long os
the houso was in sight
The heads of tho family had not been
S me for more than two hours, when
etty came flying put to the kitchen,
where Nancy was making softsoap.
“Oh, Nancy, what shall I do?”
cried shd. “Hero’s Mr. Meredith, get
ting out of a one-horso chaiso at the
door.”
“Why, go up and see him of course,”
said Nancy, who was one of the old
family servants, who are becoming, as
a race, extinct in England.
“Can’t I tell him that father and
mother are gone away?” pleaded Hetty.
“Nonsense!” said Nancy, stirring
desperately away at her monster ket
tle. “You don’t suppose it’s your
father and mother that ne comes to see,
do you? Oh, dear; and there isn’t a
scrap of fresh meat in the house. I
thought boiled eggs and cold ham
would do for our noon bite.”
“So it will,” said Hetty. “If we make
things too agreeable for him, Nancy,
he’ll stay too long.”
Nancy looked found in amazement.
“And don’t you wau’t him to stay?”
said she.
“No!” mied Miss Hetty, with a
startled look, as some unseen umbrella-
handle rapped smartly on the door be
yond, “I can’t endure him, Nancy.
I-I hate him!”
And then she burst into a storm of
tears.
Nancy comprehended in an instant
“Poor dear!” said she. "So that’s
the war tbe wind blows. Is itP It is a
shame! Never mind. Miss Hetty; we’ll
settle him.”
“Settle hlmP” vaguely repeated the
girl
“Hush!” said brisk Nancy. “Go and
let him in. I know the man. My cou
sin, Mary Ann Potts, lived as house
keeper to him for a year. He’s one of
those people that want everything to go
smooth. Never would let Mmry Ann
whitewash a culling or scrub off a door
with sind ami soapsuds. And ot all
Abominates
things in the world
boase-deanlng. We'll
while he’s hero, Hetty,
The girl’s brilliant #ee Apuckled
through her quickly-djjed tears; •
lovely carmine color moimted late her
cheeks.
“Nancy,” she cried, “yottsrea seo-
bnd Talleyrand 1”
“Go along with you!” said Nancy,
with a chuckle, not at ail knowing who <
Talleyrand was, but quite sensible thnl
a compliment of some kind was
tended by tho comparison.
Mr. Meredith was standing on the
door-stop all greasy smiles, wu<
ty came to the door, with her
frizzes tied up in a pockct-handkerchis#
and a huge bib-apron eclipsing her !
pretty figure. . 4'-
“My dear Mtro Hetty.- how are yout'*’"
said Mr. Meredith. “Your father was
so good as to invito me to eomo here
whenever it was convenient; so, as my
housekeeper is- gone for a Week, I have
concluded-” *
“Oh, yes, very glad to see you, Pm
sure!”said Hetty, hurriedly. “Walk
in. Father, and mother, and Lavinia
have gone to Hereford to the opening
of the new chapel that has been tuilt
there for Uaclo Jared by his congrega
tion, and they won’t bo back until tho
day after to-morrrow. But Nancy is
here. Nancy and I arc cleaning house.”
Mr. Meredith's face elongated itself.
“Cleaning house!” he repeated, dol
orously. "But that’s all nonsense. No
propefly kept house ever needs clean
ing.”
Ho came on sloV ly. A step-ladder
stood at tho end of the hall—hurriedly
stirred-up nnils of whitewash foamed
on either side, >vhi> Nancy, in a faded
calico dross, nd viuhmvI.
“Walk iii, Mr. Meredith,” said she—
“walk right in. We’ll try and make
you as comfortable as we can. I told
Miss Hetty, says I, ‘Just as certain as,
you pull up the things and go to house-
cleaning, company’ll come. They al
ways do,’ says I. But Miss*Hetty, she
does set so much store by house-clean
ing. She says she’s going to clean
house once a month when she has a
house of her own.”
Mr. Meredith simply gasped, and
said nothing.
“Oh, yes,” said Hetty, artlessly,
clasping her hands. “Cleanlliress is
next to^rodliness, you know-.’ And I
do so delight in soapsuds and white-
washin?, and floor-scrubbing, and all
that sort of thing. That’s right, Mr.
Meredith, sit yourself down. We shan’t
tear this room to pieces until after
dinner.”
“I’m very glad of that,” delectedly
uttered the middle-aged swain. "I
think myself that house-cleaning—”
’.And I’ll got tho dinner at once,”
- ijn
bad ,
•Shi would havq scrubbed and,
cloanad the whole establishment fatfR
1 the wdtkhonse Jo a year,” said n% '
“i’m well eat of the bustnecs. On* can
discharge «biMekecper if she don't
•alt, bat nit • DifeY
So Ur. Meredith adhered to tho stand
ard of old baohoiordom. and pretty
Betty married Mr. Waite after aU.
Bat string* to say, Mr. Waite Mver
complained of hie wife’s addletim to
hoowtofeauing rites. And ho sever
eoqld understand why it wae that Mr.
Meredith always cast such pitying
cos upon him when they mot.
For Hetty tad kef fiMTttT-'febtafeder.
ate, Nancy, bod kept thoir secret well.
A Myntcriou* ftanse.
SCme thirly-two years ago,
era Indiana, with a company of per
haps s half-dozen men and boys, I was
on a hot August forenoon binding a
small pieco of grain that had lain sev
eral days in swath to dry after being
bradled. At that scasoh tho mns-
| sasauga (the small brown and white
rattlcsnako of tho region) is said to be
blind, and does noU rattlo when ap-
1 proached. The snakes arc quito apt to
crawl under swaths'of hay and grain,
and to lie thcro a long time if not dis
turbed. For some reason—perhapo it
, looked like rain—ail hands wero set t*
bind and shock this little patch, and as
something was tho matter with 090 of
my hands so that I could not bind, I
rakod up the bundles for two others to
bind.
the old
’spiolons ’'bout die
11 ain’t say pinch, t
watch 4o ease. Hake
bin • powerful bo*’ m
keep my ey* on his motion*, Jlo’ BO#,
as I was * passin’ his house I beta •
mighty .inglng and patting *b 4* Rob
UkwBruddcr Dick fool monstrous bap- -T—n
py. Don I peep* <ro> de crook, BW
dar, brew God, I*eed 4oold sinner j
a taring de fodders onten doe pulW —u— ,
Den I walked back a fow slope and eot L
up neignal, too; and when 1 gate til-
his house I holler* out: •BrudderDick,
is ytm dorr bei* wae wi
“Be* ho fewer* • wpr
‘Iso bore, Bruddor Aba. What’* yet
and I shuffles about like there la a Is
powerful site o’ mad on my feet, kaeeJ
was boun’ fnr to hab a loetl* ton, mt
I wanted to gib do olo mao time H
hide do pullet.
“Whe* I goes la 6rudder Dick wai
Jls’ a shovin’ a basket ob tedders under
do bed. *Hab * choer, bruddeiv* says
he, powerful perlite; Tse sure glad fer
tor see yer. Bring dot cheer nigher to
de fiah.
“Don we talks and talks, and while
I was lookin’ roun’ I soos a piece ob
dat pullet a slickin’ outon his pocket
“‘Brudder Dick,’says L ’dus you
carry a rabbit foot for good luckf And
Having heard of tho propensity of <!? < j hlckon * but “°-
e mrnYm-ra to hide under «w,oh, br0M “ L ° rd * tbo Y®, “ a , n 100
cart for me, and ho clap ho han
the massasauga to hido under swaths
at this season and to keep quiet, I was
careful in rolling up tho swath into a
I bundle, always to rako tho Lundlo off
rtho swath before leaving it, lest a
binder should gather up a snake in his
term*.
As wo wore tmishing tho last of tho
, patch the two who wero binding after
me began to race, and it was almost
impossible to get a bundle raked up
and off' tho swath before the binder
would bo ready for it. Still I managed
until the last, and was very strongly
: impressed that I must not let tho bind
er—who was jumping to get it and
; bind it before tho other finished his—
I catch iTup before I raked it quite off
tho ground. Ho had his band all
made and was just stooping, when I
said: “Hold on, Jimmy! There’s a
snake under thisl” "Nonsense!” said
ho, and gave mo a shove so that ho
, could pick up tho bundle. But so
sure was I that there was a snake
there—although we had not met one in
tho field—that 1 struggled with him,
each shoving tho other, until 1 got a
chance to reach out my rako and pull
1 the bundle off tho swath. There lay
coiled a massasauga about three feet
interrupted Nancy. “Hetty is a queer
girl. She don t like to cookj. she 8 ; ‘y 9 long, with his head up and ready for
when she s married she s going to roast hn-inM. JfJ « w„r,id’
or boil once a week, and livo off cold
victuals the rest of the time.”
“But it seems to mo that Is
a mis
taken idea,” argued Mr. Meredith.
“My mother was a famous c^>k. She
always baked pies fresh every day, and
made hot rolls for breakfast; and 1’vo
a recipe of hers for chicken and ham
pie that I wouldn’t exchange for its
weight in gold.”
“I despise cooking!” said Hetty, in
differently. “And 1 don’t mean to slave
over tho kiteken-grate, to suit tho pre
judice of any man living."
Mr. Meredith stared at her once
more, and in default of any pitying re
ply, opened and closed his fat mouth
in a fishy way; oven Hetty’s eigilleen-
ear old beauty could hardly reconcile
f
hi
im to such heretical opinions as these.
Dinner was served.
Boiled eggs, cold bacon cut in thin,
pink shavings, broad and butter, and
tea, weak almost to inanation, formed
tho bill of fare.
Mr. Meredith ate with a knife of one
pattern and a fork of another, and
sweetened his tea with brown sugar, on
account of tho white variety having
been mislaid.
“Nothing matters much when you
are cleaning house,” said Hetty, rad
iantly.
But Mr. Meredith, who fully appre
ciated all the creature comforts of this
world, entertained a very different
opinion. After this rather unsatisfac
tory meal, Hetty set her elderly loyer
to beating a hearth-rug which was
stretched over a clothcs-nno.
•Tm sure you’d rather be doing
something than sitting still,” said Het
ty, as she put a long hazel sapling Into
the hands of Mr. Meredith, and adjured
him “to Eeat tlie thm places carefully.
And after you’ve finished this,” she
added, with a gracious smile, "you
shall get upon tho ladder and help
Nancy with the ceiling.”
'■ Mr. Meredith worked like a day lab
orer until tbe friendly darkness came
to his aid. Even then ho was set to
getting nails out of a carpet with a
screwdriver, on his knees, by tho light
of a spluttering oil-lamp.
“We are getting along so splqpdidlyi
with tho house-cleaning!” chirped Het
ty, with an exultant laugh.
Mr. Meredith supped off bread-and-
cheese and beer, and slept on a bed
stead which occupied a desolate waste
of newly-scrubbed floor.
He woke up, the next morning, with
darting rheumatio pains in all hie
bones, and came down stairs with- a
lowering brow.
Hetty was there, in the highest spir
its, with her head already tied up in an
apron.
“You arc just the person we want,
Mr. Meredith,” said she. “Nancy
wants all the bureaus and heavy furni
ture moved outside, so than wo can be
gin to clean the parlor at once.”
“Then,” said Mr. Meredith, irately,
“she will have to get someone else to
do it for her. I hate house-cleaning—
and I’ll have nothing more to de
it!” • -
“1 won’t marry any man who won’t
allow mo to clean house as often a* I
want,” said Hetty, with spirit.
“I shall not ask you to make the sac
rifice for mo, Mies Hetty,” said Mr.
Meredith. “1 see too plainly that our
tastes are not congenial And having
both our interests at heart, I must beg
to be released front the engagement 1
was foolish enough to contract.”
“With all iny heart, ” assented Het-
5 r, and making a low courtesy, she
row the engagement ring off her fin
ger and handed it to him.
There wae an end, matrimonially
•peaking, of Mr. Meredith. He went
away thanking hie stars for the escape
business, “and saying not a word.
•j * A few bIopa nway in a com fiijld was
a hoe, tho snake’s head was quickly so-
j verod from the body, and my cousin,
tho owner of tho field, picked the snake
up by the tail to pull off the rattles,
which, by thoir number, showed that
the reptile was seven years old. Tho
moment ho began to pnll the bleeding
neck How up as quick as a flash and
struck him on the under side of tho
wrist. Had tho head been there tho
poison fangs would probably have
been buried in one of tho veins of tho
wrist. My cousin dropped tho body,
and was so faint with fright that ho
had to loan against a tree.
Some interesting questions suggest
themselves: First, why had I such a
certainty that there was a snake under
that~Tast end of the last swath, al
though wo hod found no other in the
lieldi? Was there anything like the
peari mr me, anu no clap no nan’' on
his pocket and ho holler out: ‘Don’t
touch my rabbit foot, kaso you’ll spile
ail my luck.’
‘“Dat’s the truff,’says I; den I sot
to Pinking how 1 was gwine to get dat
pullet odlon dat pocket
“Artcr awhilo says I: ‘Brudder
Dick I’se dun los’ dat fine Plymouth
Rock pullet what 1 sot so moon store
by.’
“‘You ain’t toll me so,’ he ’plies,
iuncrccnt like as a dove; ‘how dot dun
happen, bnnfifer?’
“ *1 can’t in no wise tell/ e»ye I.
‘but I hress do niggali what eata dat
c^jckcn. kaso 1 is dun pat do ebil spell
on it, and it is conjured clar to de back
bone. I is shuro seen dat pullet afore
now stan’ on its head and walk on its
tail.’
“ ‘You ain’t say so,’ ho ’sclaims, and
hie eyes look like doy wus gwine to
|H>p oulen his head, and I see him
hitch back his coat like he was skeert
fur de pocket to touch him. Tinke I,
ole man, you’so all right now, and I
tells him good nUe and leabe.
“Den 1 hides behind a tree fur to see
what ho gwino^ur to «lo uex’, and
bimoby he comes to the door and peep
out; he ain’t scon nobody aqd be gin*
run and (lung the chicken Inter my
yard. Den 1 hear he rtr to hlsseJT, •Bf
dat dere chicken is t oonjured I is dun
fixed up olo man Abe’s dog, kase Casn
is boun’ fur to oat it afore mornln’..’
Den ho slips in do house and 1 gels to
dat pullet In a hurry and here it is,
now ready for do cooking, olo ’oman.
Ha! ha! ha!” laughed tho negro. “lie
cunnin’ us a coon; It is hard to ketch
up wia dis niggak."—fkilackipkia
Time*.
Hot Weather Precaution*.
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ran up end U
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combine aga
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knife of glltt
rush fof the
quickly than
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lightning an
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crown of hie
a sudden twi
as one wouh
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as he cooUy
to one ekm
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your head *
ed fellow,
that kind <
head in botl
as if Captai
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Buford how
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ed, to aeop
it out, had
hie friend 1
would hav
him.”—Nd
Ffcdfl
In Engli
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fore tho w
O’Donovan
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plosive, an
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exploding
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dynamite
adopt the
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a law is al
end to it
the sea is
use of dyn
telepathy of which our English friends
arc beginning to talk?
Second, what was tho mysterious
senso of direction that made that
headless neck siriko so swift and
straight, just as it would had tho head
been on it? Is thcro a less necoeeary
connection •between tho brain and the
rest of tho nervous system in cold
blooded animals than in other verte
brates?—N. Y. Tost.
Anew When the RrUlo wo* Born*
A rather curious incident occurred
lately at the Recorder’s office. An old,
white-haired darky, leaning on his
cane, poked his head in the door of
tho marriage license department and,
taking, off his hat, said:
"Scuso me, boss, but I’so looking
for de place whar doy git a license to
Now that tho hot weather has set in,
and it is time for tho reappearance of
that large class of amiable people who
can never meet without telling you
frankly "what one ought to do,” Itnmy i tw 4tf THn '^
not be Of f m place to quote the“regule, ^, ion ab
lions which wore published by the
MoniUur de P Armct as official* advice
to French troops going to Canton in
1859. Tho Times gives tho following
translation of them, which 1 hav* OOOM
upon accidentally; tho rnles are OOT-
tainly amusing, and seem just a* ap
plicable to America as Asia.
1. Have warm clothing in winter.
2. Never remain in damp or w*4
clothes, unless you are at work.
3. In summer wear light cloi
soft wool. Be careful to wash
clothing when it is soaked with pers
piration.
4. .Wear flannel both a4 a waistcoat
and found tho abdomen. Never leayo'
It off.
5. Never sleep on tho bare ground.
marry.”
•‘Como in, then,” replied tho clerk;
“you’ve struck it the first timo.”^
“Como on hyar, chillcn,” the old
man said, beckoning to some one on
thp outside. “Those ’ere two wants to
get married, boss, and I came Tong
wid’em kaso this gal ain’t got no father
nor mother ’ceptin’ me.”
“How old is she?” asked the clerk.
“She’s berry nigh nineteen.”
“Where’s her father?”
“Dead, bos*. ”
“And her mother?”
“Dead, too.”
"How do you know she is nineteen?
She looks younger.^
“How’d I know? I know kase I
brung her up.”
“Where was she born?”
“Now, lemmo sec; her father died
befo’ do war, and she was born just
after Mnrst’ Lincoln was shot.”
“Why, that wae four years after her
father’s death!”
“I know it, dat’s right, boss, she was
born four years after her father died.”
“Oh, that can’t be!” ..
“Buf-Tftell you boss, I knows it
Her mother war living’ wid my folks
at do time, and it war just four years
after her old man died.”
The clerk was stumped, so ho called
with I np Recorder Farrell/to know what he
should da The old darky failed to bd
shaken in his statement, and as it was
certain that she had a father at some
limo tho license was granted and the’
three sailed out to find a preacher.—
&L Louis Post-Dispatch. -
A now out door game for ladies and
gentlemen called enchantment, is be
coming fashionable in England. It is
played with small, light hoops, thrown
with wands, something after tho man
ner of grace hoops, though tho wand
(• of a novel construction. Involving *
peculiar method of casting the hoop.
A moderately large piece of ground is
suitable
Put a plank under your feet when you
stand still.
6. In summer put a little straw open
your plank.
7. Never drink water, always tea.
& Clarify your water when muddy
with rock alum.
9. Drink in moderation tho spirits of
tho country, taking care to warm them
first *
10. Eat moderately.
11. Never eat ducks.
12. Eat but sparingly of sweets and
fruits. Tho sngar-cano is almost the
only wholesome sweet thing. All
others are either too heating or set cold
on the stomach. * ,
13. As soon as you arrive in the
country, acquire the habit of eating
rioo as the nativea cook it.
14. When you smoko, spit as little
as possible.
15. At night take care to cover yonr
head well, and more particularly your
eyes.
16. In hot weather avoid cold pl*06S;
draughts are always dangerous. *• i
H. In spring and autnmn take on*
never to get wet-footed in the morning.
18. Never take a nap in the day
time. ,
Not bad advice on the whole, and
worth following at the present time,
when wo are on the eve of the Coney
Island season, the fail campaign, and
other risky experiments.—Gw. N. Y.
PosL
The proeent average of speaking in
the Unitod States Senate is about IM
words per minute, though there are
several speakers who utter more than
200. Among tho fastest speakers at
? resent are Senators Beck, Hawley,
lumb, and Morgan. Book leads the
list Senator George, of Mississippi,
is perhaps the slowest Daniel
debater was a very alow talker, and be
would not average over 100 words a
minute. Henry Clay spoke nsneh
faster, rolling out about IM words u
minute. Caiaoua was also alow until
be became roused up with enthusiasm
of his subject, when his words would
flow more rapidly-—N. O. Timm
craL
than it en
cure, whil
rendered
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appointed
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