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BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1885.
COMPETITION BOUNCED.
PADGETT LEADS ALL OTHERS!
WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, 10 PIECES, $42.50,
A NICE BEDROOM SUITE $18.00
cr EVERY KIND AND -EVERY VARIETY OF FURNITURE. JB
COOKING STOVES AT ALL PRICES.
Padgett's furniture and stove house.
1110 and 1112 BROAD STREET - - - AUGUSTA, GA
ETRefer you to the Editor of this paper.
BE FORGOT.
Importer of and Wliolcsale and Retail Dealer in Fine Cigars, Smoking and
Chewing Tobacco, Wines, Brandies, Whiskies, Gin, Ale, Porter, &c.
037 and 639 BROAD STREET _ _ _ AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
HP* Country orders accompanied with the cash promptly attemled to.
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FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ FURNISH
ING GOODS, BUT
L L. STANSELL.
746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Can gel away with them all in the way of FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND
GENTS’ It RNISI1ING GOODS for this Fall and Winter in the very Latest
Styles ami at Prices that astonish everybody that looks at“thern.
He means to outsell them all. Give him a trial and yon will go home the
best pleased man in the State, nr Don’t forget the place.
I. Tj. RTJLjNTSEILL,
746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO ALL
WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING AND FULL LINE OF GOODS.
iTOTITST EE. IF’IE-A.IR/Ttr,
Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, 729 Broad Street,
, Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga.
GRANDYS & ZORN,
ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER.
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Contractors and Bnildcrs, Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Luin-
!>er and Building Material. Wc arc prepared to take contracts or give esti
mates on all kinds of buildings. Our Saw and Planing Mills are at
“Grandyg,” S. C., postolBce Windsor, S. C.
Wc also keep in stock at our yard on corner of Watkins and Twiggs Sts.,
Augusta, Ga., ad kinds of material as above slated. All orders sent to cither
place will be promptly attended to. We are, respectfully,
GltANDYS & ZORN.
A Mad Poet.
•las. W. Turley’s
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO SENSIBLE PEOPLE.
Q-OODS.
Knowing full well that our people in general are economizing, yet desiring
First Class Dry Goods, and seeing they know how to appreciate them, I have
determined to give them t^>e full benefit of my extraorainary purchases, and
dispose 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 intcrmixtnres
Of TOforings of the most pronounced and
RELIABLE STYLES AT POPULAR PRICES,
In Plaids, Brocades, and Solid Colors, trom 10 cent* per yard up to the finest.
CyTHE NEWEST SHADES IN SILKS AND SATINS.^J
A handsome line of Velvets and Velveteens, comprising all the new and
pretty shades from 50 cents to the fincat Silk Velvet.
An elegant line of Black and Colored Gros Grain Silks from 50 cents per
yard up to the finest quality; also a complete stock of Black and Colored
K. D. Cashmeres, a celebrated make.
Jackets, Ulsterettes, Pelises, New Markets, Circulars, Jerseys.
Handsome Jackets from $2.25 up to $15.00.
Shoulder Shawls, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c. Large Shawls, 2 yards square, $1 and
tl .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.
In our Woolen Department can be found one of the largest as well as the
best assortments of Kentucky Jeans, Kerseys, Cashmeres, Rcpcllants, Water
Proofs, Diagonals, Broadcloths, &c., all at bottom prices.
Plain Ren and White Flannels from 15c. per yard up. An extra good
quality in Red Twilled at 25c, 35c, 40c. and 60c. Opera Flannels in ail
shades: «l«n Basket Flannels, in the new Fall colors. Dark, Gray and Blue
Gray Skirt F snnels. Bleached and Unbleached Cotton Flannels from the
lowest prioM up t» the very heaviest quality.
Thousanus oicLzcns Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fancy Hose at 10c. up
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.
iy A visit of inspection is desired. No trouble to show goods.
JAMES W. TURLEY, AOS BroiHl St., Anguata, Ga.
CLEVELAND IS AHEAD IN FOLITCS,
BUT WE LEAD IN -
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fiSB MB OB MB CSfi (fiM ■BSaflB a
FURMITURES!
OUR MOTTO, like his, is “Reform”—Old High Prices must get out of the
way and give way to the New Low Price*. We bay for Caah, hence are able to
get the Bottom, as onr Prices will prove. Read and wonder.
SOLID WALNUT MARBLE TOP SUITES, WITH TOILET
WASH8TAND, TEN PIECES, FOR FIFTY DOLLARS.
**
Tbit is what Cash docs. Wo have Suites from this up to $500. We are now
fitting up two Hotels, who bought as cheap from ns as they could buy from
the factories, and a little cheaper. We defy all competition. Call aud see ns.
All goods packed and shipped free of charge.
J. L, BOWLES & CO.,
940 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Te flcdjrcUnjr hard, that fain on downy wtn* *
Would try with touyher oullla to itoar and Kin* 1
young lark*. «m whom too cage door ne'er has
slummed, 1
To lock you la, “all silent and all damned 1“
these poets emoted rreat In other davs.
In writing now, would have to mend their
ways.
Fhey thought too much, and, on their 'kinking
■*>ent.
With plain heroic couplets were content.
But woe to him who rashly now reraats
rbe measure of a Goldsmith or 11 Keats 1
One form, aud only one, could serve him
worse—
Let no livo poet venture on blank verae.
tf you’ve originality disguise It:
Be suiw that Aristarchus would despise It.
Keep off the grass! Kcmeinber poor old Walt?
Uc liulgniHcant, and shun tils fault.
Boei.mi rophlMticute, audtre’er reveal
Aught of emotion you may chance to feel;
Tl" cxi-rnrtrv form, 'tts most til-bred:
lonj comes not from thddioart, but from the
bead.
;-itto Christmas verses In the month of June;
wi January ring a summer tune:
^hmit elegies before the vietiin's dead-
tor magosl nes want verse six months ahead
fben following my advice, you've conquered
fame,
Fall not to sign In full your middle name.
My lot in til!" record w as very sad;
I hud no middle nami—they thought me mad.
• —Nat Lee in the Century.
EARNING THE RIGHT.
Kite was voting and delicate, and fair
with the fairness of purity.
Mark Mannering stood' bv her side, a
world-woru man of thirty-hvo; not neo-
| essarily a tnau whom the world had
taught her cruel ways, but a man who
had buffeted fortune, who had earned
his living from boyhood by close appli
cation to work, that had left him no
time to become a pet of society.
Yet for all ”Brutus was an honor
able man.” he felt so far the inferior of
the graceful girl beside him that he
could not snmmou sufficient nerve to
tell her how dear she was to him,
and how ho wished to marry her and
show the worhl this fresh ereaturo,
with her frank, speaking eyes, as the
bright fairy who was to lead him np-
warti and onward through all the fu
ture.
•’Mcrmelle!” called a high treble
voice, and the golden opportunity
lost.
Mcrmelle entered the sitting-room
whose pleasant whito-curtainoq win
dows opened upon the honeysuckle-
embowered veranda upon which they
had been standing. She entered to
meet a young, attractive man advanc
ing toward her.
”Mr. Tremnor, my dear, is not ac
quainted with Mr. Mannering,” said
her mother softly, ‘’so 1 thought I had
better call you.’
Mermellc turned back to the piazza
with her graceful, frank air.
“Mr. Mannering, let me introduce
you to Mr. Tremnor.”
The men bowed, but Mark Manner-
ing stood for a moment, then began
making his adieu.
The young man had vyed him with a
look bordering on dislike, and was
doubtless only too wall pleased when
the tirst caller took his departure.
Theodore Tremnor was ev.dually a
favorite with Mrs. Chesborough, and
of this he was doubtless aware, since
her marked preference for the young
man as a visitor at her hou o was open
ly admitted by th mother.
Young Tremnor knew why his at-
tent ons to Mrs. Che.,borough's daugh
ter were encouraged.
His father had recently died, md he
was reputed to be worth property to
the amount of near y half a million.
The (Jhesboroughs were also wealthy
and of a good family.
Two weeks passed away, and n that
time M rk Mannering left the field
clear for h s rnal, for ho abstained
from agaiu visiting the girl he loved
because he knew so well her mother
dest ned her fo a wealthy marriage,
and he k i. w his chan c- with Mer-
melle w re lcs< ned should his atten
tion- becoiiK) too frequent and assidu
ous.
The gay season was at its he ght,
when one night a party had hem form
ed, comprising young Tremnor, Mrs.
Chesborough, and Mormelle, to attend
the opera.
Mrs. Chesborough, at the last min
ute, found herself unable to join them,
and Tremnor, promising to call and
take au aunt of his with him in her
stead, the mother at last consented to
allow Mcrmelle to accompany him.
But his worthy aunt, as Tremnor
was well aware, was a large body who
not only moved slowly, but rarely.
Her opera days were well over, and
though her nephew made a feint of
urging her chaperonagc, he knew well,
before entering her abode, that nothing
wonld induce her to leave her warm
fireside on this cold night.
The exclusive life of the old lady
(Tromnor’s only relative in the city)
prevented her from hearing the many
rumors current about her nephew.
That he was leading the life of a fash
ionable young man she was well aware;
hat that rumor accredited him with
large wealth she did not know.
Had any one whispered the word
“money” in connection with her neph
ew she would have looked aghast
“Money! Don’t speak to me of Ids
money!" would have been her emphat
ic rejoinder. “He ran throngh the
small property his father left him
speedily enongh, and now the debts
his fashion and folly have led him into
have made him a disgrace to his fami
ly. What his wild course will lead him
to is only too plain. Never metation
his name again to me. His position in
fashionable society is bought with dis
honor ”
Bnt the indignation of this frank-
spoken lady ditf not reach the outside
world, so Mrs. Chesborough was not
alone in believing Theodore Tremnor a
young man of fortune.
It was the fashion for the party,
when, of course, as on previous occas
ions, it had included a chaperon, to re
sort to a select dining-saloon for sup
per when the performance was over.
To-night, as usual, young Tremnor
drove to their selected refort
At first his companion hesitated, but
her escort took it so much as a matter
of course that she found herself seated
amid the lights and company of the
dining-hall almost before she had time
to think.
As usual, wine waa served, and pres
ently they were again whirling over the
stones of the city.
But an unconquerable drowsiness
had taken possession of Mcrmelle, and
conscious that she was yielding to a
kind of sleep, yet utterly unable to
throw it off, she at Iqst lay back in the
carriage in a state of complete uncon
sciousness.
• • 3' • . • •
The moon Hooded fields and woods
with .ts o: aline sea of 1 ght.
In lucent spl ndor the ocean rocked
to and fro upon the beach, while its
monnings died away in the distance,
and left a s lence unbroken and per
fect.
Not far from this bleak shore, w.th
its t:ill rained lighthouse, might I are
been seen a boat out upon the waters.
Slowly it neared a point of land
about which some fisherm n’s huts
were {gathered, and where a few -a 1-
boats lay rocking upon the waters.
To reach this point, however, the
boatman must pass the promontory
where stood the old tower like struc
ture wc have descr bed.
As he drew near something ILo a
faint cry reached his ear. He listened;
it came again, and seemed te emanate
from the lighthouse.
Then a small flame l ! t up the h gh
window; it flashed, then fluttered down
—down the rugged old gray wall to tlie
ground.
He made all speed to land at the
nearest . oint of safety, : nd made his
way at once to the lighthouse.
As he reached the s- ot, he again
keard a woma ’s scream, and ,t was
plain th t some one was calling for
heln at t..e -ummit of the edifice.
He »pra 'g up the broken stairway..
Darker anil darker it grew, lit only by
the oce:i ionul glo m from a slit-lik*
window. Ho stiu k m Lho> to ight
his way.
Suddenly he beard just ahead of him
other feet treading the winding stair
way. They halt d, but the man from
the boat persevered, and presently
stood facing a fashionably-attired young
man.
His face was white as chalk. lie at
tempted bravado, however, as he saw
determination upon tho face of his pur
suer.
“Mr. Theodore Tremnor, what does
this mean?”
“It means that you're a cursed fool,
and you’d better turn back and go
about your business.”
“Not until I find out who is in dis
tress in this building at such an hour,”
said the other.
As he spoke he attempted to pass the
man. who now completely barred his
passage upward.
As he took a stop forward, tho other
snatched from his pocket a revolver,
and took aim.
Anticipating this, his companion
dashed, with one blow against Trom-
nor's shoulder, himself and his weapon
several steps below him. It was the
work of a moment, and the next he
was rushing up the stairs.
Tremnor, struggling to his feet, scud
ded down tho stairs, and fled through
foot-path and field, till he reached a
point where stood a carriage nud driv
er.
“Drive like mad—stop for nothing—
to Station. You will bo well
paid!”
And tho nex4 train which left for
London carried away Theodore Trem
nor on his way to tho continent
Meanwhile, Mermclle Chesborough
looked up from the rotten planks where
she had lain, hearing naught but tho
waves and the scuttle of rats near si
hand, to encounter with a shudder the
face, not of the one she most dreaded
and expected, but that of a deliverer
—the face of her friend, Mark Manncr-
ing.
How he came she did not ask. Brief
ly she told him of the evening’s per
formance—of the circumstances which
had placed her in Tremnor’s power.
“I knew nothing since we left the
restaurant till I opened my eyes to find
myself alone here. Yet, I recall the
circumstancM, and gue*se4 at the rest.
I was dnigged^-dragged ah(l brought
here. Hark—what is that? He may
come at any moment Where can he
have gone?”
“I met him on the stahway on his
way up. But ho will not come now.
Fear nothing; ho is but too well pleas
ed to floe after meeting mo. Come
with me—Mcrmelle—Miss Chesborough
—my boat is near. I will get you safe
home to your mother.”
Mcrmelle broke into wild sobs of re
lief.
“Ob, what kind fate was it that sent
you to my deliverance ?”
She rose, and attempted to feel her
way, with Mannering for a guide, down
•tairs.
But Mannering placed a strong arm
about her, and bore her below as he
Would a child.
Mrs. Chesborough was in a condition
impossible to describe when her daugh
ter, with Mark Mannering for a com
panion, made her way into the house
at four o’clock in the morning.
Almost frenzied, the motner could
not for some time comprehend the cir
cumstances. When at last she did so,
the rose and seized Mark by the hand.
“What—what great thing,” she
cried, “can I ever do to thank you for
this?” v
“There is one thing,” said Mark,
modestly, “and it is a great thing, and
it is this: I love your daughter dearly,
and if I cannot give her great wealth, 1
can give her the protection that an
honorable man can bestow. Will you
give her to my care? Will you consent
to her becoming my wife?”
Mrs. Chesborough hesitated but a
minute.
She saw that Mermclle wasmot to be
questioned. She had already con
sented. «
Without a word she took the hand of
her daughter and placed it within that
of Mark Mannering.
“You have earned the right,” she
•aid, “and she is yours.”
Sierra Valley, Sierra county, Cal., is
?ne of the prettiest but Boost isolated
places in the State. It has no telegraph
ic commuhication with the rest of the
world, and can only be reached by a
difficult stage ride of twenty-five
milM.
COL. HARKEY*8 REVENGE.
The Prince of Wales is only forty-five.
But if you count his age on the kittle
darkey’s plan, by the fun he’s had, he’d
be most three hundred, says the Boston
QloU.
“Nad Bunt Hut-V Itcinliilm r ur -« of th«
Hr ml not* War.
When the massacre of tho Caloosa-
hatchie ended tho truce which had for
a brief time suspended <>|>crntions
against the Seminolos, writes “Ned
Buntline” in the New York World, the
war opened with renewed activity. The
naval force on tho coast—to which the
writer hereof, then a midshipman, act
ing as lieutenant, was attached—con
sisted ai tho topsail schooner Flirt,
Wave, and Otsego, commanded re-
speotivelv by Lieutenant Commanding
J. T. McLaughlin, Lieutenant John
Rodgers (late admiral) and Passed
Midshipman Edmund Templar Shu-
briek, about whom I w'ill shortly write
a tragic h -story. The army force con
sisted of the 3d art llery, 6lh infantry,
2d dragoons, and a part of the 7th in
fantry. The 8th infantry came later,
under command of Col. Worth, who
soon after was promoted, and, reliev
ing Gen. Zachary Tnvlor, pushed ac
tive operations until tfio war was prac
tically ended. 1 am thus particular
now because in these papers all these
oarties will have a place.
Col. Harney was raging rnad when
he reached Key Biscaync on our schoon
er, swearing the bitterest vengeance on
the red murderers of I.is bravo men
For it was murder in the broadest
sense. The men fell not as soldiers in
battle, bnt were surprised in lied, shot
down, slain and seabed, with no
chance for resistance. On the island
which forms Cape Florida there were
several companies of tho 3d artillery
and two companies of the 3d dragoons.
Harney as lieutenant colonel ranked nil
the othcers at the post, and the naval
men having a la’ge number of cypress
canoes that had been made expressly
for our use in following the Indians up
the river, lagoons, and bays along the
coast, made ills plans easy of accom
plishment.
Calling for volunteers to go on the
expedition, the brave Harney soon had
200 picked men, sailors and aoldicrs,
ready for a start. I forget just now
the names of all the ofliccrs who went
along. I am almost sure that General
Sherman, now retired, was one—for ho
was at tho post, a lieutenant. 1 know
that the late Gen. Ord was there, as
will bo seen in later lines in this sketch.
Lieut. Rodney, of Delaware, a gallant
dragoon, also ('apt Fulton, ef tho same
regimont, Franeis Key Murray, John
Coutoe, and Lieut. Roger) were in the
naval contingent
“Young man,” said Harney to mo
when we were fitting out the canoes,
“have vou any small, strong rope on
board of tho Otsego?”
“Yes, colonel. Here is a coil of
deep-sea lead-1 no, which will hold a
strain of 5'.0 pounds, and It is small, as
you see!”
“It is the very thing! Send tho soil
of rope to my boat. I'll make good use
of it before we get back!” he answered,
clinching his remark with one of his
usual bitter oaths against tho “murder-
with smoldering fires around and amorfg
them, and a horrible yell and a scatter*
ing fire from the startled redskins greet
us as we rnsMn, firing as we go. It
was the quickest bit of work I ever saw,
yet the surprise was so complete that it
was hajdly like a fight. Fifteen or
twenty shots on their side, a full volley
on ours, and we had nothing more to
shoot at, for all who were not down,
doad or wounded, fell to the aarth in
submission, except four or fire, who
fled off in tho darkness among the trees
and shrubbery. Among these was seen
the gigantic Chikika, dropping his rifle
from a broken arm as he ran. A brave
private in the 2d dragoons—his name
was Hull, and he was made a sergeant
soon after—saw Ckikikl as he ran, and
followed, carbine in hand. He never
lost sight of the chief, tut kept o& until
he could get a sure shot. Wounded
and bleeding Chikika found he could
not es6ape. He halted, threw up his
left uninjured hand, and cried out in
his broken English:
“No shoot! me good Injuh—heap
good! No shoot!”
“Take thst for Caloosahatchie!”
shouted Hal), as he sent a ball through
tho chiefs heart. An instant later ho
tore the scalp from Chikika’s head, and
then ran back to tho village to present
it to Col. Harney. The colonel was
standing by some wounded officers and
men of tho command looking sternly at
the group of terrified prisoners and a
small t lie of dead and dying Indian*.
“Bring that coil of rope from my
boat!”’ he cried out to one of his men;
“and be quick about it Wo’ll
nave a hanging-bee before sunrise!”
Woman’s Devotion.
in^ red niggers.”
make the story short, we got
awny just after dark, provisioned for
ten days, but armed and munitioned
for a week's steady fighting, if it came
to that. Wo had thirty boats and ca
noes, averaging about seven men in
each. We paddled as silent’y as possi
ble up to old Fort D.illus, at the mouth
of the Little Miami river, and entorini’’
it pushed rapidly up into tho ever
glades. Everything depended on our
taking the Indians by surprise. The
strieteit ord rs were given not to fire a
K««». or even give an order in a loud
tone. An experienced guide was in the
first canoe, and the others followed in
line as close as one could bo kept to
another.
It took all n ght to pass up th) shal
low, sinuous stream and get fairly into
the glades. Then, fearing to be d s-
co\cred, we lay all day close on a little
island, watch'ng through our glasses
for smoke or rigns of occupation on
distant islands in sight of ours. Our
vigilance and care Wore rewarded. Wo
saw on one of the large t islands evident
sign* of Occupation, but no sign of
alarm to show that our presence in tho
S 'adea had been discovered. We knew
at we were near the haunts of “Sam
Jones,” or Arp aka, the oldest chief in
the Seminole nation, and of Chikiki,
tho giant fishing chie', who was sup
posed to be at the head of the party
that committed the mas acre wc were
now to avenge.
All day, resting andsleep ng as much
as wc could, we laid by, eating cooked
provisions, making no fire, anil waiting
for night to cover our further move
ments. And right gl^d we were when
it came, and just cloudy enough—not
too dark—to cover our approach to the
island, which wc knew was occupied.
Every man was now on the alert. Arms
were inspected, orders given to keep
in line until close to the island. Then
certain detailed boats were to lay off
around it to cut off escape, while throe
Undinff i:..i ties were to advance and
surprise the enemy, not a shot to be
fire ’, uritil we were discovered by the
Indians. “Then,” said Harney, with a
bitter oath, “go n for work. Kill or
capture all you sec—young or old, he
or she. Spare them only as they spar
ed my poor boys over on the Caloosa
hatchie!"’
On, slowly and steadily, muffled pad
dles rising and falling with measured
cadence, we pushed through shallow
water and stiff taw-grass. It was not
more than six or seicn miles, appar
ently that we had to go, yet we were
till near midoight getting into poeition
for action, elose up to the tree-covered
island. We had so far beard no sound
except the occasional yelp of some In
dian dog oq the island. But now, un
derstanding their orders, the officers of
each detachment moved forward.
Harney and his dragoons, with car
bines, took the center, the artillerymen,
armed with muskets, the right; the na
vy men the left, supplied with United
States Yager rifles.
Soon the landing parties were on
shore. Yet no sound of alarm. “For
ward” came the order, passed in whis
pers from oflic r to man, along the
line. On—and soon a scent of smoke
greets our nostrils. . Still onward, and
a chorus of yelpijpg curs break the still
ness of the night
“Forward— oublequick!”
Then in a few seconds we burst into
4 village of palm-thatched houses,
My son, I am pained to learn that
you arc becoming somewhat cynical in
your views concerning the natural tend
encies and qualities of womankind in
general. IvPmcmber your mother was
a woman. Tho only thing I cam recol
lect at all derogatory to her blessed
memory is that she was too coy with
rod and household boot-jack. The nat
ural consequence is, you are rapidly
running to seed, aud "fast becoming a
fit subject for condemnation by all
members of yonr mother’s sox. Your
mother was a good woman, but she
i just escaped being a perfect mother
I when she held her hand aloof frqm the
bump of your self-esteem.
It is a wonder to mo that the Lord
don't permit the spirits of departed
mothers to come back to this realm just
to shake the nonsense out of their off
spring. or naddlo them with the pro
verbial golden slipper.
You snccringlv remark, in the casual
manner akin to yonr class, that wo
man’s devotion is a sham. You also
add that tho greatest^devotion of wo
man is laid upon the shrine of fashion.
Now, my young limb of the sidewalk
posture, your mother was a lady of
fashion. I cannot say that she wore
out your father's patieflee teasing tor
a sealskin sacque and a forty-dollar
bonnet. I have no recollection of this;
still, she may have done so.
Once, I well remember, you got into
a street fracas and had your Grecian
nose demolished of its pristine lino of
beauty. You ran to youf mother; she
applied a twenty-dollar laeo handker
chief to staunch your life blood, when
a ten-cent towel would have sufficed.
She didn’t ^top to ouestion the cause
of tho fracas. No; out she ruined that
elegant bit of laeo in tho utter aban
donment of maternal instinctand moth
erly devotion. The genuine cause of
your nesal organ's msaster waa—you
tried to walk over a poor little street
Arab, who proceeded to do yon up af
ter tho style set down in the volume
known as “Tho Manly Art of Self De
fence.”
That, my son,is a sample of woman’s
devotion; a specimen of effect without
going behind the returns to get ai the
cause.
While you are burning the midnight
gas, busily eagaged with the hemis
pherical ivories on a green-baize table,
there’s a light in • sensible girl’s par
lor not burning for thee. One of tnese
days you will open yonr eyes to the
fact that the lusty-limbed mechanic got
the deadwood on you, also got the girl
you thought you had, sure pop. After
he’s gone ana married her, yoa’ll lu
around a big lump of misantnropy an
twear that woman’s devotion is all a
myth.
Boy, you’ve got to come down from
your perch. There are too many of the
prime articles, homo sum, floating
around this part of tho globe, for wo
men to yearn after such game as yon
are. Yon must drop this vapid ignis
fatuus of yonr foolish brain and buckle
down to biz, else you'll get left when
the cake of domestic bliss is passed.
A woman’s heart Just gushes foun
tains of pure devolion. I? yon don’t
receive some of the pellucki drops it’s
because you are proving by your daily
comings and goings that you are only
worthy of an existence which is envir
oned by the cold walls und chilly sheets
of a poor old bachelor’s proscription.—
U. 8. Keller, in Cambridge Tribune.
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Terra-Cotta for House-Fronts.
So far as my experience goes, the pub
lic generally ajro unaware of the real
advantages and merits of terra-cotta
for facing street fronts. When proper
ly burned, it is absolutely inpervious to
smoke, and is unaffected by acid fumes
of any description; it is abont half the
weight of the lightest buildidmUmms,
and its resistance, when burned in sol
id blocks in compression, Is nearly one
third greater than that of Portland
stone; It is not absorbent—a great de
side rat am when damp has to be con
sidered—it is easily melded into any
shape, for strings, cornices, or wimtow*
sills and architraves, and can be easily
molded for figure or other enrichment
It ran bo got In good warm yellow or
red color, and, when glazed, can be
produced in almost any tones of soft
browns, greens, reds, or yellows; and
its strength, durability,and impervk>as-
ness to all the destructive influences tf
town atmospheres, to my mind, re
commend it as the building material
most adapted for facing street front-
\gcs. —Popular Science Monthly for Jan-
« l *ry.
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A learned professor claims that he
las discovered lately that “Nystag
mus, or oscillation of the eyeballs, is
an epileptiform affection of the
jellular oculomotorial centers.”
MALTESE AND
lonthtas: Sfc«e* a Ourtmt \
£
“Is it possible,”
“that Maltese And i
taking the place tf
It b said that fas W<
out shopping taking w
cats fastened with gilt
girdles.’
“Well, I don't know
will ever supplant
tf the ladies, laugb _-„
geon B. G. Dovey, as he set U Ms
where both dogs sad cats
and under medical and
tnehf; T 4mt'there b no
Maltese and Angora rats have
_ cat favorites. Stag there
rr demand for the former than there c
was three years ago. The Angora eat
has probably increased in popular fa
vor, and now, on any fine day one may
sec ladies driving in Central paifc Aria
the beautiful creatures in tnehr lap*.
The Maltese, too, are often taken for a
drive, and both they and the AnMftn
seem to enjoy the fresh air fully as
much ns their mistresses da. No^eats
arc not often taken out walking. A
cat is not fond of long walks
there are no fences to cliiabt and
may be encountered, but the lazy
ury of a carriage seems to suit t
The Maltese aim Angora eats are vary
docile and affectionate. The Maltese,
probat Iv, can be more easily and thor
oughly domesticated than any other tf
the feline tribe. They are lees espew-
tive than the peerless Aagora, bnt Vtfll
they come pretty high. T can MU a
full-grown male for about $11, and
maleYRten* for from $8 to $1Q each.
The females are cheaper, being worth
about $2 each. A well-grown Matose
cat should weigh about twelva pounds
They are long-lived, and. if properly
treated, should attain a score tf
A perfect Maltese < at should be
get her Hate-colored, without a
of white. Most of them have
and very largo feet, I nt they may he
pure-bred and have small feet
five toes. They came originally from
the island of Malta, but to-day *"
lea, or even New York state,
more Maltese cats than Malta
“The Maltese cats, as a rale,
hardy, bnt they are usually kept so
closely confined to the hones, aMtfleu
feed so injudiciously, that thgy aw
liable to f.ct indigestion, torpid UWr,
and fit". When Urn fits appear derth
is likely to be doee Fshtad They aw
brought to me often when there b no
time to treat them. Sometimes I aw
called upon to attend
with what the owner thinks b an
scsor a tumor, but which fi
proves to b • a cancer,
ran help them except an
if the disease has not ma<£s very fwnft
progress I can generally operate «
cessfully. With don cancer b UM
more common, and 1 often haw %:
move It Sometimes t ~ ^ *
times not, ns
but I can save .its far more
than surgeons who treat j
Rents.
“A litter of Maltese Utte
from three to seven. They grow quick
ly. »nd are very playful and tntswntlWf
1 he Angora cat is as dlffnrent ns poadr
ble from the Maltese. My wife^he.
exclusive charge tf our stock, and bw -
devoted to them aa though they were
children. The .Angora name, and,
comes yet, from Persia, bnt we raiMa
good many in this ^
A various colors—para irkits lilmrkr
white and black, yellow
gray and white, steel and i
mottled—but all aw alike oeawnsus. .
Their hair Is very abundant, bag, lum
and stft as silk. Their thfle «f» “ ^
bushy as those of fona. Theb
are small and far apart, and their
are large, sagacious, and of
slive color. They Uvufroa
fo thirty yean, la pries
for male kittens $40, and for
uXBlfJE VlDtTi EOT
for full-grown Jemales
rora cat i«, 1 think,
small animal that Brail”—N.
’♦v
Advantages of Limited **-Tr»tasi
The value tf every collectioa intended
for scientific purposes and nnbtte use—'
books, natural-science objects, ethnn
graphical specimens, it matters nat?
what—does not depend opou qnanMy
or variety, but the ©omp:«4|rt»crs of br
classes or their subdiv:* ȴ< A letab
enoe library for inetam-o, that eewtaAm
ed every publication of —t ’gnsami riU;
latlng to the MUsiseippl YaUey, wow$.
be preferable to one more numeremfy
supplied with books on American Me*
tory, but wanting many in eyery de
partment; or an ar lueo;<
abb to show all that;
the flint inipicr
States, but little else IxvJdes, is of a „
higher order than one in which there'
are mow and varied sj mriuMWb * ‘
every class incomplete. Wf
enghness is to the iaicUccf.
ness is to a n useum; urn, an
knowledge of whatever the mind
(esses specially to occupy itself
its parts and its rolatioos;
the possession tf Ml the
and varieties in fulness, or
go to make np one or more
this view b correct, its.
once may be insisted upon;
oorporated into a museum ui
not aa a theory but wkatvht
alized, it would, by keeping 1
definite and fixed l'~
efforts into proper
and . check 4**
(hear W. ColUJL, im
Monthly for Jan.
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The following story b
iger Lsfdy Lytton:
at the house tf an
the ‘ ‘
Duke of WelUugtan, tho
naturally tom
following day
were evperted
streets.
ly. Lady Lytton,
mestion,” uyon
the procession. .
on'
towm*g»ai
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