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101 Mar Tall Alont Mr
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885.
. •••
JKoaeph Cook to KlacaHu
*<•'1 7T- ■■
Akout-tkro* laaolty mt
Wellsley C9lVjRp fc ptyi»loh Nr*. Joseph Cook
was In eartr j-cm an ftMtfuotrasa. wrote to
the Her. Josuph Cook eshlea for aa auto-
gruph sentliucut to pjafle anonv the vafued
archives of the college. He responded with
the following which has ntnur before been
prieted: «-
When Bomo fell, where wort thou, ooloesat
fall?
In slow M-ccoslon thou hast wandered back:
These miles <Jf secthlnjr chasm were thy track;
When lost Atlantia sunk, when) didst thou
- call • 1 ‘
To thv vexed jin'clplcee? What If all
Thy dates stood ou thy oliffs, from the storied
suck
Of Jii-ey to the dohigci green and UHick,
Hnw <-
<4oqu< nt wore thy storied WaiU
When Hr*l in thoc was dipped the avrsllow’i
wlinr?
When ln'cnlVt thou first the shy brown wood-
thrush sing?
When thou uud man first met, hast thou for
got/
Where wert thou In thy youth; when man
was not?
Speak, dateless roar! for thou art old and
wise; {*•
TVof memories are uosouiiding majesties 1
FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ VtlRNlSIR
ING GOODS, BUT
ri
oar the thttnrtoroui thim, tho mufflod
roar;
I see the blindtn wheeling, smiting mists.
The grt-eus and grays, purples und arao-
thysU;
From Oort's wid<- palia thy frighteaed cat*-
raelg pour;
Ami I look up beneath them and adore.
Al'ore me haisg ehaln liebtiiing on the mists
Oi suuiuior tetuueate. lu the awei-ome lists
Of contest urr the thunders and thy abore.
Hen. nth thy qutvonnjrtiTcn rocks i Htn
And gale Into tho lightnings and tho sky,
Hut 1 hear only the*'.and feel and see
A hand that upderydrts Immensity.
Thou si<e«keet muCT>, but most thou s:>cak'st
of UJm'
God. (HM Mrt watery ftm.
1. L. STAN,SELL,
Ut BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Ciih get nwny with them till in the way of FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND
GENTS’ h t RNISFIING GOODS for this Fuji ami Winter in the rerv Latest
Styles ami at I*i ices that astoni'h ever\ IkkIv tha! looks at"lliem.
H»' moans lo outsell them all. Give liim a trial ami you will go home the
l*est pleased man in the State. [V Don’t forget the p
ace.
A SKASIPB MONSTER.
I. L. R T ^ JsT S E X_i L,
“I can’t toe what you can want run
ning off to the seaside for, Edwin; you
had nearly a week at Dwrby only last
Easter,” * grumbled Miss Holland.
‘ Young people think of nothing nowa
days, hut gadding about and holiday
making. When I was young wc
thought a (juiet visit to- our relations
once in two years quite change enough;
but, now ”
‘Thorp, don’t bo cross. Aunt Mary;
I can’t be mewed np in London during
this hot August weather, and you must
confess that I stick close ejiough to
business to deserve my holiday when 1
get one. I went to Derby on business,
you know, " said Edwin, a bright, good-
natured, gentlemanly young fellow as
I ever bore w ith tho whims ami humored
1 the fancies of two old maids. “You'd
' better go with me. Aunt Mary,” ho
continued; tho change would do you
A.
46 MR OAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORG
PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO ALL.
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J~OEIISr IT.
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Clocks and
Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga.
GEANDYS & ZOEN,
ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER.
Contractors and Bnibleis, Manufacturers ami Dealers in all kinds of Lum-
1>cr ami Building Material. Wc are prepared to take contracts or give esti
mates on all kinds of buildings. Our Saw and Planing Mills are at
‘•Gramlvs," S. ('., postotfice Windsor, S. C.
Wc also keep in stock at our yard on corner of Watkins and Twiggs Sts.,
Augusta, G.i., a.I kinds of material as above stated. All orders sent to either
place will be promptly attended to. We are, respectfully,
GRANDYS & ZORN.
•las. W. Turley’s
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO SENSIBLE PEOPLE.
nir'y* a-00ids.
Knowing full well that our people in general are economizing, yet desiring
First Class Dry Goods, and seeing thev know how to appreciate them, I have
determined to give them the full bcncfll of my extraordinary purchase#, and
dis{>08C of my Stock of Goods at the smallest profits.
GRAND DISPLAY OF FALL AND WINTER IMPORTATIONS
OF DRESS GOODS!!
Embracing the very Latest Novelties in Fabric Colors, and intermixtures
of colorings of the most pronouncqjl ami
RELIABLE STYLES AT POPULAR PRICES,
In Plaids, Brocades, and Solid Colors, from 10 cents per yard up to the finest.
nrTHE NEWEST SHADES IN SILKS AND SATINS.^J
A handsome line of Velvets and Velveteens, oomprising all the new and*
pretty shades from 50 ccuts to the finest Silk Velvet.
An elegant line of Black and Colored Gros Grain Silks from 50 cents per
jMurd up to the finest quality; also a complete stock of Black and Colored
Cashmeres, a celebrated make.
Jacket*, Ulaterettcs, Pelises, New Markets, Circulars, Jersey#.
Handsome Jackets from $2.25 up to $15.00.
Shoulder Shawls, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c. Large Shawls, 2 yards square, $1 and
#1.50 each. Large Wool Shawls, black and colored, $2, #3, $3.50.
Ladies’ Cloth and Flannel Skirts, 50c. to $2 each.
White Blankets, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00 to $10.00 per pair.
11 Department can be found one of the largest 1
epartment can be found one of the largest as well as the
Kentucky Jeans, Kerseys, Cashmeres, Repellants, Water
Iji our Woolen
tiest assortments of
Proofs, Diagonals, Broadcloths, &c. - , all at bottom prices.’
Piain Rctl and White Flannels from 15c. per yard up. An extra good
quality in Red Twilled at 25c, 35c, 40c. and 60c. Opera Flannels in all
shades; also Basket Flannels, in the new Fall colors. Dark, Gray and Bine
Gray Skirt Flannels. Bleached and Unbleached Cotton Flannels
lowest prices np to the very heaviest quality.
Thousands of docent Ladic
t>om th$
Hose at 10c. up
lies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fancy
to the finest, and fresh stock.
The South Carolina Seamless Hosiery, in Men's Half Hose, New Fall Mix
tures; also Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, in Fall colors.
_ A visit of inspection is desired. No trouble to show goods.
JAMES W. TURLEYgSOS Broad St., A
Lagneta, da.
zixmm is ahead nr folitcs,
-BUT WE LEAD IN-
wnnrai 1 ueue !
OUR MOTTO, like his, is “Reform”—Old High Prices must get out of the
way and give way to the New Low Prices. We buy for Cash, hence arc able to
get the Bottom, as onr Prices will prove. Read Sind wonder.
/SOLID WALNUT MARBLE TOP SUITES, WITH TOILET
SHi
JVASHSTJND, TEN PIECES, FOR FIFTY DOLLARS,
This Is what Cash docs. We have Suites from this up to #500. Wc arc now
'dttfog tp two Hotels, who bought ** cheap from os as they could buy from
the fiutmries, and a little cheapdr. Wtf defy atf eompetltion. Call and 1
Ef r> AH goods packed and shipped free of charge.
J. i,JB
eee as.
j
& CO.
Md MMAB STBXrr, AtmmfA, cmbbcua.
and Aunt Becky more good titan all the
doctors’ stuff.
“Nonsense!” snapped the old lady.
“Change, indeed! That’s just what we
both hate, and what causes more than
half the people’s illness—leaving their
own homes, where everything is well
looked after, to go and sleep iu damp,
dirty beds, and to eat half-cooked food,
to be robbed right and left—they call
that a holiday!”
“And besides that, which does not
matter to a young fellow like you as it
would to old folks like us,’’ put in
Aunt Becky, solemnly, “there is tho
much greater danger of making bad
companions.’’
“Or of some designing, painted crea
ture getting hold of you, and making
you marry her whether you will or
not,’ said Miss Holland.
“1 will promise you no one will get
hold of me: so be i|iiito content and
ilon t worry yourself, ai.nt," answered
the object of their doubtj anti fears.
“1 dpn t intend to marry for many
years yet—1 like my liberty too well,
and you make me too comfortable.”
And with this soothing conclusion
Edwin Holland escaped, and, his prep
arations being soon made, a few days
after ho was strolling on the beach at
Swanseombe—a very pretty but quiet
seaside town on the south coast.
* • • • •
“I am. afraid you must make your
self contented indoors this morning,
Katie; you know Martha and Ellon are
making the preserves, and I expect my
brother and his wife to lunch, so that I
really have my hands so full I cannot
go out.” said Mrs. Gray to her niece,
who was staying ou a visit with her at
her villa on the Swanseombe cliffs.
“Very well, auntie, I will stay and
help you,” answered the girl cheerfully.
But by twelve o'clock Mrs. Gray's
preparations were completed. Lunch
eon was not fill two, but the visitors
might arrive at any moment, so she sat
down contentedly in tho cool dining
room with her knitting. Then Katin
looked out at the waves gently rippling
in the August sunshine, at the boats
gliding_on them with their white sails
spreatWtnd she envied the people who
were able to be out iu the sweet, cool
sea-air, and grew restless and discon
tented.
“Might I just take one little run,
aunt—just to the Cove and backP I
would not stay out too long,” she ven
tured to ask presently.
“My dear, I womd gladly let you
go; but you know how very strict were
your mother's injunctions to me Ah no
account to let you stray about by your
self.”
“I know, aunt, and it is nonsense for
mamma treating! Jae like a griulpnni n
up’fcaby,” jpJtK&ti%|bulignantIyg
"But you know, dear, being heronly
daughter, she is naturally more anxious
about you,” answered Mrs. Gray.
“Then I wish I had half-a-dozen sis
ters, aunt. I am tired of being UOten
about, and watched and worried over,”
was Kate’s ungracious reply. “What
can mamma possibly see of danger in
my taking a walk by myself in this quiet
placeP”
“There Me, always monsters of some
kind lying it' Wait for the young and
pretty, my dear; it is of these your
mamma is fearful,” answered Mrs.
Gray, trying to speak seriously, Mt un
able to repress a merry twinkle in her
eye., ’ -- -
“Oh! I know what you mean, aunt;
but mamma need not fear—I have too
much pride to allow any gentleman to
speak to me who has not Men properly
Introduced. I shall never do as poor,
■illy Mattie Veto did—ran away with a
man she met at Scarborough, and then
find she had married her unele’a clerk,”
and the stately boee of Katie’s head as
•be spoke would have befitted ,t dutb-
ess at least. *
“I believe you, my dear Katie. You
will never, I am sure, break your moth
er’s heart by any foolish enoapade."
“Then snow your trust in
lowing me a little liberty now and
dear auntie. Yon often go out when
you would prefer remaining ifi, I know.
by aL
itheu.
Let me go out this!
• . »
8,sii>aflfc£L NLa- . ; -
sterner
le go
my worn of honor no
to me, and I will speak to no
Aunts need to be made of
•tuff than Mht. Gray was composed of
to withstand the pleading of such a
pretty winsome gin as Kate Leigh.
Ten minutes alter, she was walking
merrily along the Parade, alone, and
rejoicing in the unaccustomed sense of
freedom.
About hslfwn hour’s walk brought
her to some sequestered spot midway
between the town and a small fishing
village. Here she sat down to rest for
awhile in a natural grotto in the rooks,
whence she had s good view of the sea.
Then she fixed her sunshade in front of
her to keep off the eua’s rays, and, pro
ducing a novel from her pocket, she
prepared to enjoy herself for half an
hotir, at the end of which time the most
return to be in time for lunoheon.
About live minutes elapsed, and Ka
tie was deep in the interest of a thril
ling tale, when “Whew!” came a sud
den-gust of wind, and away wont ker
sunshade tumbling over, and careering
gaily down the rocks. She rose, with
a little cry, to rescue it, when another
little squall took the book from her
hand.
In desperation she prepared to de
scend the rocks.
“Pray do not move! You might fall
and seriously injure yourself. I will
endeavor to recover your stolen prop
erty for you, ' v tried mvoi Aand look
ing round in pergfexed Katie
perceived a young man Scrambling
down the rocks after b&r sunshade.
Had she not 1 een so immersed in her
story, she might have been aware that
he had been watching her for the last
minute or so, thinking what a pretty
picture she made sitting there.
“How awful provoking!” tho
Katie, instantly recognising one
“monsters” of her aunt's t&te oonver-
tation. “What shall I do? I must
say 'thank you’ if he brings it to me. I
almost wish he may not get itl Shall I
go straight on and not wait for it? No!
that would look too fooliah.”
While she was still discussing the dif
ficulties of her position, the young gen
tleman returned, flushed and panting
with his exertions, and restored her the
tansh&de and her missing leaves.
Ho would have offered to carry them
for her, but to his astonishment, she
took them from him without even 4
smile, and the stiffest possible “thanx
Vou!”
She turned her back on him, and
walked rapidly away.
“What a queer girl! Her manners
certainly does not match her looks,”
thought the young man. who was no
other than our good-natured friend—
Edwin Holland. Ho had been struck
with such a keen sense of admiration
for Miss Katie, that her abnipt manner
of receiving his little service oonsidera-
bought
of the
bly disconcerted him.
ty di
Nei
ext evening he was walking on tk$
Pier when ho saw her again, walkings
with an older lady. He would have
passed on without the slightest sign
that ho recognized her, but Mrs. Gray
stopped him, and said, courteous!:
"I n:
7 :
must thank you very sincerely for
tho service you rendered my niece, yes
terday. It was extremely kind of you
to take so much trouble.”
“Oh, pray don’t! It was nothing-
nothing at all," answered Edwin, con
fused at the unexpected meeting, and
feeling, with muon vexation, that the
capacity for intelligent conversation
hall deserted him.
The ladies bowed (Kate with a pretty
smile that made her look prettier than
ever) and passed on their way.
From that day Edwin haunted them
like a shadow; ho was nuyclly in love
with Kate, bat could find no opportuni
ty to make her acquaintance.
Sometimes he wished that she would
fall \pto the sea, that he might plunge
in and poll her ont, or that a terrible
storm would come on and frighten her.
so that she would gladly accept his pro
tection. But nothing of the kind hap-
ned. Things went on in a provox-
gly even and matter-of-fact way,
while his holiday was swift It expiring,
and he knew that he would leave ms
heart behind him when he left Swans-
combe.
And Kate? Ah! proudly as she had
kept to her resolve, she ooold not help
feeling a strange interest in the hand
some young fellow with the good, earn
est face, who seemed instinctively to
know where she would be, yet whoee
kept him from
gentlemanly instincts
the slightest intrusion.
Mrs. Gray watched the affair with se
cret amusement; she wanted to see her
pretty niece marry well, and she had
ascertained that this young “monster,”
who had thus appeared on Kate’s very
first walk alone, was the junior partner
in a well-know London firm; if, there
fore he had taken more than a passing
e a capital
tion of two of Katie’s other admirers,
who were ready to knock him down
when Mrs. Leigh asked hiss with much
sweetness (having heard from her hus
band of his unmistakably good position)
to take Katie down to din net;.
That was a’very kappy evening, and
Yer Eke it.
1 wrote
Mrs. Grai
was followed by many' another
V
by many
’ Soon after Edwin wrote a
letter to Mrs. Gray, infonntni
his engagement to Katie and
feet happiness.
When they were married in tho au
tumn, his stmts were obliged to confess
that his bride was not one of the paint
ed creatures who alone, existed in their
imaginations, as denisena of the sea
side.
Bat Mrs. Gray often laughs when
Edwin and Katio visit her, and tells
him that, after all her mother’s warn
ings, it was very sad that the naughty
girl should have found a monster and
should have found a monster
Insisted on making a pet of him.
Amusing Printers’ Errors.
The unlucky poet who wrote:
Soe the pals martyr ts his sheet of flrcl
must have been completely crushed
when the lino appeared as:
Bee the pale martyr In his shirt of fire I
We can sympathize also with the poet
who, writing of his love, asserted that
he had “kissed her under the silent
stars,” and found the oompoeitor made
him state that he “kicked ner under the
eellar stairs.” Trfie, has been doubt
ed if these two poets ever existed; bat
others, of less mythologic fame, have
suffered as badly at the bauds of tho
printer. Burns, in a cheap edition of
his works, is made to say:
O, «1n my love were yon red noee.
A well-known temperance lecturer was
indignant at finding the sentiment as
sert bod to him that “Drunkenness was
jolly,” whereas he had declared that it
was “folly.”
Much surprise was occasioned by Sir
Archibald Alison, in his “History of
Europe,” including among the persons
present at the funeral of the Duke of
Wellington the name of
•Sir Per
irogrii
Pickle/’ There can bo little doubt
ne
that the author had made an uncon
scious slip, intending to name Sir Per
egrine Acton. Sir Thomas Brasscv
having referred in a speech to the “Gol-
Tr
den Treasury of Songs and Lyrics,”
the compositor transformed the title
Into the “Golden Treasury of Soups
and Cynics.” A report in s Manches
ter paper of a recent dramatic perfor
mance mentioned the well-known farce
of “No. 1 Hound the Corner” under the
amusing and suggestive title of “No
One Round the Corner.”
fancy to her neioe, it would be
thing for the girl.
On the very last day. of his stay at
Swanseombe, feeling desperate, Edwin
called on Mrs. Gray, though he turned
hot and cold as he stood on the steps,
and felt a relief he could hardly analyse
when he sa#VMHbedady sNk akfoe Uk
the drawing-room.** • ^
He went away triumphant and victo
rious, and returned to town with a face
so bright and manner so cheery, that
his aunts were forced to confess that
the air at Swanseombe had evidently
agreed with him.
Mrs. Gray said not a word to her
niece of her admirer’s visit, and she
saw with satisfaction that Katie missed
him when they went out, and that
did not now show
go out by herself.
The autumn was over, winter had set
in, and Katie was at home again.
“Hare another plate laid this even
ing, my dear; I have invited a young
mend to dine here,” said Mr. Leigh to
his wife as he went oat one morning.
There was a small dinner-party at
the Leighs that evening, and Katio'
so much anxiety to
1 was
in the drawing-room, trying to enliven
mg-roo!
her friends In that trying time just be
fore dinner is annoonoed, when her
father entered with the now goeet
“Katie, my dear, this U Mr. Holland:
I’ll leave yon to ampse him lor awhile.’’
Mr. Leigh tiumeff to Us other
and Katie looked up with a
•mile to behold her unknown cavalier sf
Swanseombe.
It was Katie who was tongue-tied
and stupid now with astonishment; bet
It dkf not matter, as Biwtrfpood plea*
ty to icy, end talked away a« tf they
old friends, to the wet lodjfns-
In tho following instance it was no
doubt a bachelor compositor who, in
setting up the toast, “Woman, without
her man would bo a savage!" got the
comma in the wrong place and made
the sentence read, “Woman, without
her man, would be a savage!"
The deplorable state of the press in
Field’s time may be realized from the
fact that Bishop Usher, on his way to
preach at Paul s Cross, asked at s sta
tioner's for s copy of the Bible, and on
examining it found to his astonishment
that the text from which he was about
to preach was not in the book! The
well-known “Vinegar Bib!e” was pub
lished in 1717, aud obtains its name
from the Parable of the Vineyard beiug
K rinted as the Parable of tho Vinegar.
'ne of the most willful alterations of
the text, and one which coet its perpe
trator her life, was committed by the
widow of a German printer. One night.
lan pi
while an edition of the Bible was being
printed in her boose, she took the op-
of altering the word Herr
verse read,
i thy fool,” instead of “He
shall be thy lord.”
A Glasgow divine, and one d her
portunity of altering the
Into “Narr,” making the
“He shall be thy fool,” ins
Majesty’s chaplains in Scotland, was
irted as
lately reported as saying that “person
ally he violated the Lord’s Day as
mochas any member of the- court.’-’
“Venerated” was probably the word
actually used by the reverend gentle
man.—Chamber*' Journal.
The Good Woman’s Logie.
Dr. Kimball, of Saoo, Me., who is
one of the oldest and most widely
known praotitionen in York county,
tells n good story of himself. He hind
attended an old gentiemkn daring n
lingering illness, and about a year af
ter his decease sent in his bill, which
amounted to a considerable sum, to the
widow. He repeated the process three
met without eliciting a reply, and
lien called. He was put off from time
to time, until patience ceased to be a
virtue, and then he again called with
determination in his character.
%
grim
•W"V\nn
‘Come, my good woman,” said he,
delmque
when the
waited
fhquent appeared, “I have
long enough, and must have
ney. Fixing
my money.” Fixing upon him a look
of withering contempt and brandishini
apt an
her broom ~in his face, she rep]
'‘You've been here three times for that
money, but I'll pay my honest debts,
I thank ye, before I pay my doctor’s
bills/' The good physician was so
Wflllyleneed with the logic of his debt-
4Pkathe receipted the bill on the
■pot—ffosfon Courier.
When Mae. Toodles was Young.
The method of conducting the auc
tion sales twenty-five or thirty yean
ago was peculiar. Previous to the sale
each person desirous of purchasing fur
nished the auctioneer with the name
trader which he ooold bid. Thus, John
Smith, of Pittsburg, bid not as John
Smith, bat as “Pittsburg.” The books
were put up in lots and the auctioneer
proceeded to obtain bids. Haring elic
ited the highest possible figure. If the
find bidder did not desire the entire lot
any other person could take the re
mainder at the same price. Should
tide not be the ease, the remaining
hooka were then put np and the bidding
leoommenoed Of fifty volumes of
Shakspeare "Pittsburgh might take
ten. - The reply was prompt, “Lancas
ter ten,” “Easton five,” “Norristown
two,” “Hartford tan,” and so on. In
this way half a million dollars worth of
books weald sometimes be worked off
in a week.—Pkiladelpki* Nam*.
Boston has an apple mission which
ifetribntes 4,000 or 6,000 bushels of
•ppies among the poor every year.
Comparison with this scheme ought to
wake the average traet society go off
‘ ‘ tomir * * *
CREOLE LOYE-MAKIHa
efVew
1 m the 1
trap the unsuspecting youth,
to depict for our Nonhem frl
peculiar phase of creole ehi
Down in the old French portion of
Hew Orleans it is highly nasals for
young unmarried men to veutare alone,
writes a correspondent. The black,
eyed beauties are only too glad of the
ehaaee to capture an Ammcaa, and
will resort to all sorts of devices to ea-
In order
friends tau
peculiar phase of creole eharaotar, I
will relate the true story of the exper-
ieaee of my friend. Jack Inflaaoa, who
fell a victim to creole strategy not long
ago.
Jack met the beautiful Melanie at a
soiree dansante on the Hoe Bon Ea-
fants. Being n good dancer and also
a first-class waiter, he was Mile. Me
lanie’s partner for many figures, and
by a judicious use of cream and eaka
gained the good will of Melanie’* mam
ma. An invitation to call next Sunday
was accepted, and the visitor entreated
to “call again.” Jack did so upon the
Sunday following, and was so cordially
received that he repeated his visit a
third time. For my friend Jack was
an innocent soul, totally ignorant of
creole customs, and he walked right
Into the snare. On his third call Me
lanie’s papa tapped him on the shoul
der and said:
“M’sieu Laflance, I would lak to' ace
you one minute,” and led him to the
dining-room. Suspecting nothing,
Jack followed him. Once there tile old
gentleman prodnoed a decanter and
said:
“Mon ami, tek some cognac Yon
will fin’ it ver’ fine. My fodder buy it
from Cavaroe, Ah! you lak it, eh?
Tek cigar—nevah min', thass a real
Havaua, shuah. Now, fren’
you lak fo' know fo’ w’at I want
you—eh bien? M’sieu Lafianoe, I have
notiz yo’ attentions at my daughter”—
here the luckless Jack began to protect.
“O, I am not displease’, my de’ young
man. My fam’ly, seh, is one of the
bes’ in the city. Yes, aah, we are
twenty-firs’ coozin with Jean Baptiste
St. Louis de Lonne; whoso gran'fodder
slap that Spanish canaille, O’Reilly, 00
the ckik a hondred year ago, as yoS
fin’ wrote down in Gayar re. Bat, my
fren’, whose these Yankee r-r-raseau
and Sen
end days in 1
through tito]
There was L
the pert *f
reoeiv ______
Among those
rand Mai
widow efaboal
sjhmD f
ownedi
•be wee not
right off ebe
an til seer ‘
“Thsi’t
of my oows, bat Yve-fot to
ey,” she said.
“Itwfflimt bo m hofti
aglne”replied Maf. Caevei
will be a heap week 1
from the locomotive will set!
haystacks. Bit
law. I reckon I'll have
ht of way.
bet M
thatyoewflM
>T don’t think
tnrbed as much as you
“I never expeet to get
of sleep at nights for
Jost know my
I’ll he in my grave
hand ont yer handt __
a whack. I’ll do it on
children. Whet 1
her own flash end
Major Convene
money and the
nmeat
‘Devon
r?” 1
badtyl
folded up the 1
his pocket
“Kswa
worst in Che
mer, I believe they <
every time he eon
last time he wee I
gaaeUa, and
Knee, but I told
wanted mn M
SFtffc’
attentions.”
“And hs's going to HI
about two “
tek ou' plantations an' ou* nigroes, seh,
place.
we was force’ to leave ou
an’ come ych an’ work, yes.
ami Laflance, I do not objec’ to
daughtah choose yo' to' husbaa’. no.
Hera tho unfortunate Jack broke la
with: "But, my dear sir, you are mis-
takon. I did not make love to your
daughter.” The old gentleman bristled
up. “My de’ seh, I love my fam’ly.
Thass my h'only thing yoh on eartn.
You have visit Melanie Sunday after
Sunday. You have talk with her,
dance with her, sing with her. You
have compromise my daughter, seh I
There is no otheh oo'se lef a man of
honah, seh, than to ma’y her; yes, seh,
to ma’y her."
“But, sir,” blurted out Jack, “I am
only a poor clerk with #50 a month,
and could not support a wife even if
wanted one.”
“Ah, mon cher, thass all ’ight—
the ruonnaie W nothing. Yon don’t
catch motch, thass true. But fo*
that I don’ keh me. You come live
yeh, yes. Then, afteh w’ile, when yo*
patron he got fo’ lak you mo’ and give
you r-r-raise to seventy-fi’ dollah. we
will do ver’ well, yes. So thass stt fix,
eh ? Come, you tek some mo’ cognac.
Ah! mon cher Lafianoe, you don’t Know
w’at it is to be a feddsr, I suppose?
Then you can’t nevah on’stan* ’ow
E lease I feel when a young man lak yon
ask me fo’ my daojhtakl Yea, aah,
youtire the only young man w’at 1
would rat tab have my daughtah
moa’ anybody w’atovah,
“So we will some hack to tlw
w ell 1 will udl to Melanie I have grant
demand. M’sieu I.uflaaee, ah, to
ragged edge of
don't cneoerage h
and listless. It may I
with me unless I lo
am
know hew 1
reliable"
“Yes, I understand,
lend him the ms
“Not mash I’i
any
Anton* tc
new silk
oing to hdve a 1
uilt, and If I ain’t!
tide of three
fault”
“Do you realty tore
Maj. Convene.
“NupITl never lane afrifc
so kiadtotha ohiktan, «at
children need a proteeter an
I’m reedy he make any m
don’t think we 1
feelings into
welfare of oar riffkprtng fe
Do you know who
iafka J
The present'
exceedingly
y°.
toll you the trot’, yen did not tok me by
sop prise, no. Ah, a fodder can see
w en his daughtah love a young man!
An’ Melanie, she love you, ah! aho
dream of you all night yea. Ah, aah,
w’en a St Louis de Lorme lorn she
lOfiKKK
\
ITiiiiiW
nevah let go, no, but she, lak the
kan, she die firs’.
"Thass all ’Hghh ami Jack, I
will see Fere le Core, an* we
will mek the announcement next
Sunday. Yon can get one It’ll
ring, yes, an’ Melanie will be ready
for next monk I know yon don’t want
to wait long. Allons, let ns tell them
w’st we have arrange.” And off Jade
was hustled to the parlor before he
could say Jack Robinson. And though,
as it happened, Melanie has proven an
excellent wife, there are many who are
not Melanies, and it is to pnt onr visit
ing friends next winter upon their
guard against the wiles of designing
creole papas that I am constrained to
publish tills true story of Jack Lafiaaoe’s
courtship.
A Racy Rat Story.
A large number of rat* established
isefre
themselves in a hay-loft, about
between the floor and the top
hay. The owner of the ptetnlaia>
hearing a continuous squealing noi—
in the Toft, took a fork and removed
the hay from the place whence the
noise proceeded and uncovered a
of about twenty rats. Several of
ran and were caught by the do& but e
bundle of sixteen full-grown ai‘ '
remained on the spot; their tafia
plaited together, something after tito
fashion of a whip-001" ~
one of them the rest
not be shaken apart
by person* who saw
to avoid the cold the rat occupying the
top of the pile eought a warmer
by creeping underneath, bat not
tag room to draw hie toil after- him it
It was snppeeod
was left sticking ont; the next rat did
the same, and so on nntfl as had
ohaaged their position and every indi
vidual rat’s tail wae entwined mto the
curious knot that held them together.
If they had not been dtaeovnaed and
killed they meet have atamd, as they
could not have separated.
James Gordon
French paper thj
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