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, . gpr ;V 7« . I L' t'l ' '■ 1 : ’ T ipl VOL. VIII. m BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1885. COMPETITIOIT BOTOCEB. Spliced. Kh. 'ittrrnn l t» «it »t one's on** » own wife M one'K •l<Ie, A thnwinv bor whwt ah* ouarht to PADGETT LEADS ALL OTHERS! door wtl know-how « a ^blp^hap* ane* U tied: Bee the rofxv be eijually rantened, laaa. A wisp the weaker low ft protracted submission of his part to rules or customs. He msy for ft time. f.pfty obser- afiio it in the and a cable won't splice; For t <> eni »s neat * >u may. will pl-e In - vi-m WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, io PIECES, $42.50. A NICE BEDROOM SUITE $18.00 VT EVERY KIND AND EVERY VARIETY OF FURNITURE. COOKING STOVES AT ALL PRICES. m aOGETT’S PflRNTTimiE A9D 8TbVll MOUSE. 11 lo *..« 1112 BROAD STREET - - - - AUGUSTA, GA IVRefer you to fhe Editor of this paper. Ygo Ma; Tali Ain four FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ FURNISH ING GOODS, BUT 1. L. STANSELL, - • 1 ' 740 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Caii yci a way with them all in the way of FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS for this Fall and Winter in the rcry Latest Styles ami at Prices that astonish everybody that looks at'thcm. He mean* to outsell them all. Give iiim a trial and you will go home the best pleased man in (lie State. iy Don’t forget the place. I. L. F5 TWISTS ELL, 740 1IROAI) STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. PLEA£URK A ND PROFIT TO ALL. WAT( II AND .IEWELRY REPAIRING AND FULL LINE OF GOODS. TOILlSr H. - Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, 729 Broad Street, Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga. GRANDYS & ZORN, ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER. Contractors and Builders, Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Lum ber and Building Material. Wc are prepared to take contracts or give esti mates on all kinds of buildings. Our Saw and Planing Mills are at ‘•O rand vs," S. C., postoifioe Windsor, S. C. Wo also keep in stock at our yard on corner of Watkins and Twiggs Sts., Augusta, Ca. t a,l kinds of material as above stated. All orders sent to cither place will bo promptly attended to. We are, respectfully, GRANDYS & ZORN. Now twist ’vm mil iwlrl ’em—»ik1 there! low my band euy love—but auk how but What, oonliln't you follow my hand? Btrurcc! how ItV easy to do what B not to lUHti rstend t ’Twi.b 1 our fnllina In we did It, and whyt Ton may answer (for women are clever!) I can t tell you. not II Tobacco Smoko. Soothing a Nervous Man. 1 as pi rnal saw medical journal Iho resulls of a long series of experiments made by him both upon human beings and ani mals with a view of verifying the phys iological effects of tobaceo smoke. Ho found in the first place that it is a dis tinct poison, even in small doses. Up on men its action is very slight when not inhaled in large quantities, but it would soon b< cumo powerful if the smoker got into the habit of “swallow ing smoke,” a d Dr. Zuiinski ascertain ed that this toxical property is not due ex clusively to the nicotine, but it contains a second toxical principal called colidene, and also oxide of carbon and hydrocy anic acid. The effects produced by to bacco depend, ho says, to a great ex tent upon the nature of the tobacco and the way in which it is smoked. The cigar-smoker absorbs more poison than the cigarette-smoker, and the latter in turn than those who smoke pipes, while the smoker who takes the precaution of using a nargile, or any other apparatus that conducts the smoke through water, reduces the smoke through deleterious, effects of tobacco to a medium. As a rule, the light colored tobaccos are sup posed to bo the mildest, but Dr. Zu- linski says that a great many of the tobaccos are artificially lightened by the aid of chemical agents which are not always free from danger. He adds that several light tobaccos are open to the objection of emitting a burning smoke, owing to a large proportion of wooden fibers which they contain, not ably the French “enporal” and the English bird’s-eye, and that the smoke of these tobaccos is of such a high tem perature as often to cause slight inflam- atiou of the tongue, which with peo ple of mature age is not unlikely to lead to 1 ancer. The dark tobaccos are oft en adulterated, too, but Dr. Zuiinski thinks that upon the whole they are less dangerous. The Friday Superstition. “This superstition about Friday bein an unlucky day is all bosh,” observe an elderly passenger 16 the middle- aged lady whose acquaintance ho had formed. “I don’t take no stock in in these superstitions, anyway. Now, I know something about Friday from my own experience. It was-on Thurs day tnat my iirsi wife died, and on Fri day I married my present wife.” “You wretch!” exclaimed the lady by his side. “How dare you sit down beside a respectable woman and talk so shamelessly. It’s disgraceful, and I wonder that your neighbors didn’t tar ami feather you. What a mean thing a man can be, anyhow. The idea of a wife dying Thursday and the widower Friday.” Barbers ought not to make them selves too agreeable to their customers. One of this ilk. who is a wonderful con- varsationalist, and can operate with his own chin and on the chin of his vi tim at the same time, told a refresh ing story to his victim. ’Ihe victim was a nervous man, and was always afraid that some dreadful accident would happen to his jugular vein when the reckless razor wa< rushing wildly over his countenance. The aflable bar ber saw the condition of affairs and tried to soothe the poor fellow with a atory. “Sir,” ho said, in sepuchrai tones, “the changes that happens in life is awful. Last Wednesday, sir, a man about your size was settin’ in this very chair, and I was sharin' him. And would you believe it, sir, I saw him on Saturday afternoon, yes, sir, ou Satur day afternoon, a regular corpse, sir.” The lathered man leaped from that chair with a gash in his face, and with a hasty expression of opinion, left the shojx Yes, Ch erful conversation does assist a nervous mau to get over the rough places in life, without a doubt. The Secret Out at Last. madam. You are c *. marrying again on “But, hold up, excised. It—” • Now, don’t try to d smooth U over. Don’t say a word about it. Yon’ll make a bad matter worse. The old ex cuse about children to bo taken care of, 1 suppose. T think a man— ••Bat, madam, yon are wild. True, my first wife died on Thursday and I married my second on Friday, but three years intervened between the two events.” “Ohr A bill is pending before the Alabama Legislature compelling persons carry- lag concealed deadly w eapons to dastg> .Mto the fset on their persons by ;a badge inscribed ”1 am When Kate Castle ton. the actress, carried San Francisco by storm, Spreckles and De Young were both de voted to her, and the race for the time seemed to be about even, although Sprcckl es really had the advantage. After the battle for the heart had pro gressed for some time, it is stated that Spreckles partially gave up the fight and then publicly declared on the street that it cost De Young $1,000 worth of diamonds for the smiles of the charming Kate, which were be stowed oh him for nothing. This com ing to the ears of De Young, he set to work to secure a number of love letters that Spyeckles had written, and he sent word to the young sugar king that he proposed to publish them. At that time the Chtvniclc began its bitter war on the sugar monopoly, and Spreckles, thinking the love letters would soon be published, shot at and attempted to kill De Young, in order to put an end to the entire war. w The Prince Consort’s Mausoleum. The mausoleum from the outside, though imposing, gives no indication that the large sum of £200,000 was spent by the queen in its construction. The visitor, however, from the moment he passes beyond the monolithic col- nmns of the porch, with its ceiling of Venetian mosaic by Salvfati, can under stand how superlative is the art work comprised within the limits of the in terior. The ground plan is in the form sf a Greek cross. Tne dome, lighted by eight stained-glass windows in the clerestory, is colored blue, with gold stars. Lines of angels between each window converge towards the center. From this height of seventy feet to the sxquisite floor of inlaid marble there is xot an inch of space without the adorn ment of the best decorative art. Tha marble paneling of the walls, the bas- reliefs, the urns and statues, the fresco paintings of saints and incidents of scripture history—the painting in the ceiling of the eastern transept, “Tha Glorification of the Saints,” was from a sketch by the pria'oess royal of Eng land—are bn« and all worthy ef the careful stady.—Lomiam Vs*» npc* are aplioed, Crermr ’em nr Hrtwr end. If the knot !><• riifht and the ropea be octind, • her'' »i!| Ij" noKltp nor rend; TCrm alii Is 1 , kb tr trere. one -rope,- - >tr< npir i.ci au,e It's two. Ar«l tlmt n tl>c "uj It's to always bo, my Katie, with me and you! The tu; s will come. Ids*, sure os life, ere out younsrdiiYB puss away. •nrtes. drnmm-p.. and mmihors will flock i’in und < ur little cottajro jr»y; . t Tii Ln<rt4» n tliem at every chance; I'll lnq u doir and non. . jit 1 11 c** the kneta are awfully strained, lliviO il U no c sda of fun. THE AMERICAN TYPE. T o typical American is always rich. He may not be able to produce title deeds and bank at; mints, or other tan gible evkk-m-e* of weatt ,l>ut ho « born heir (o innumerable quarter-sections in a i .ml of pro 1 ise not always accessible to tiio ordinary voyager, but ihrough -1: :;le-li which ho roams continually in quest of tlii' jj mine, specula!ion, vvliic him a rapid l.leit 1 at in n I. the bonanza volition, the Itic ky “hall open up to ran si i route to allliience. Just at the pro 0:11 moment lie may find himself a litt.e cramped, but there isn better day coming, a day quite near at hand when he shall burst this piuching clirvsalid shard, and soar aloft upon auriferous wing, the free and brilliant butterfly destiny intends him to be come. Ja the meantime, as far as his puree will allow, he forestalls fortune. Born an heir, it h in umbont upon him to live on a scale commensurate with his expectation*. To-day he has only the l-dfid of twelve hundred dollars to spend, but as to-morrow he may have that amount multiplied by an indefi nite factor, to save any of it would be ’.he height of parsimonious folly. No genuine American ever believes lie will die poor, or suffer irreparable loss or misfortune of any kind. Nay, even when such loss or iiiisfnrliine has overtaken him, he will refuse to give it the counlenance <.f hi* recognition, and will expend his last breath in unfolding some scheme for tho bettering of for tunes already past all earthly mend ing. The American ia fond of splendid undertaking*. He revels in schemes for building gigantic roads and mam moth bridge-;, for digging impossible canals tied inland seas. But such mat ters must bo taken in hsnd speedily, and pushed with energy - , or he ia soon tired of iheiu. Affairs th it move slow ly, uo imt m-.vo at all for him. Hi' feiho mpelus of Uir age upon him, and to say of any project. “It will take lime, it will take time,” is to rcleg le it to some unknown limbo, quite beyond tho sphere of his consid eration. Hu loves to play the role of priuee and patron of enterprise. Or he will be thu brain*;, if von will; the sinews— never. 11 ■< to glorify the work, to talk it up. write it up, to drum for it at a good salarv. toqiersiiade others with a ing splendor. He ence, portents of change do not ap pall him. Knowing that the old things must pass away,in order that all things may become new, change moans to him, not ruin, but regeneration.— Marion A. Baker, in The Current. Society and the Girl. large e .penditure of eloquent breath, to invest hard dolhirs in it; but that he should wield a spade, or trundle a wheelbarrow! why whr.t a waste of brain-p'iwer were that! Bnvu-p ’\ver! that is the shibiioleth of the Amcricaii; the totem wuich ha blazons not upon the “grave posts,”- but upon his own forehead; the potent charm with which he expects to conjure fortune And by brain-powcr.be it understood, he does not mean the power e.cried by a thoroughly informed, broadly culti vated intelligence; for the typical Amer ican is not a close student. The distaste for continued appliev tion and routine, which marks his ef forts in fields of material labor, pursues him into the intellectual fields. He believes devoutly,though secretly, in inspirational knowledge, a sort ol atmospheric influence, as it were,which accomplishes for him all the results attained only by hard study on the part of the routine-ridden European. Brain-power with him means nothing more than a certain intellectual alert ness, a readiness in grasping the salient features of the situation, a facility for summarizing and utilising the kuow- ledge of others. / He has no time hifnself to go into a subject exhaustively. What he wants is results, conclusions, canned, so to speak, like his peaches and peas. A notable lack of local attachment characterizes the typical Atheric&n. His country is so large, that he cannot concentrate his affection apon any par ticular valley or mountain-side. It is all America, and it is all his. Biding farewell to his birth-place upon the Atlantic slope, he will trans fer himself and bis belongings to the shores of the Pacific, with all the ease and gayety of heart that would attend a holiday excursion among a more staple people. To him nostolgiais an unknown emo tion, of at most, a passing sensation, quiduy dispelled; and the immigrant, sieg with longing for Fatherland,, he clashes in his mind under the head of unusual and unaccountable phenomena. He will follow the HM of a new rail- road,pitching a temporary tent at every station, and settle dowa at last at some point half a continent distant from his starting place, influenced ia his choice ef locality by no more Weighty consid eration than that of an advantageous opening for real estate investment Bat even when settled, be is by no means fixed; his home being often little more than pied-a-terre, where he keeps wife and cbUdren, and other non-portable property, and to which he reUrns at intervals, for brief snatches of rest and recuperation. The typical American is always an indiridnaJ, and strongly bent upon re maining an indWidoaL Ha does not lead himself readily to organisations, nor blend with smooth uniformity into tb* Lcigtr when and solely to please himself, vanee to convention, and ruf courts of fashion; bnt even such modi fied subserviency soon becomes hateful to him, and he is apt to throw off, with fierce and scornful vehemence, the yoke ho voluntarily assumed. 1,0 religion and politics also he may give in a qualified and temporary alle giance to teachers and leaders, reserv ing to himself tho right to criticise, doubt and cavil, at win, but Lo is very jealous of his reputation as an inde pendent thinker, and often adopt* an eccentricity, apparently for no other reason than to create a difference be tween bmtself and hw neigh bo is. On the {esthetic side, the American is still something like his own wilder nesses, rough and 1; "kempt, yet to one who studies him u un eye not too severe, full of ric , . ..wise. Musically, he has not progressed much beyond the fouducst for noise, shared by all living creatures. The strains of the fife and drum still have power to stir him deeply, and his har monic yearnings find ample expression iu thu clamor of a brass band. In other branches of the line arts, he is hardly more developed. He has not had time in the hurry and bustle of get ting a continent into living order, to adjust his ideas upon painting and sculpture, but he is conscious of 1 o.s- jcssing such ideas, still i 1 a somewnat nascent state, somewhere iu the in ter rier recnsi-e-i of his being. On one point, how ever, lie is quite clear, and that R that American art, when it do-s arise. I be no l ime imi- tal.on nt l.n (jre.fk and Ronu.u. Hu Ls a liitm 11 red 01 me tireuk and Roman. They liava been thrust upon him witli irate iteration, through so many decades of contemptuous snub bing. that be experiences a sense of inward revolt against even their calm and unaggrexsivu domi ation. Hu is clear-sighted enough, too, to perceive that art must bu native to the soil. Greek art looks too cold and white un der otir vi.id skies. Beauiifitl it may be, but tiic passion from which it sprung has long ceased to throb in living veins. The dust of tlm tomb .a upon it. The free and aboundmg life of his new world, must find fresher and w arn er expression than the empty shell of an outlived past. In nothing, perhaps, is the American more distinct from other nationality g than in the quality of Ids patriotism. Without reverence for the past, or strong attachment to any single fea ture in the present phase of the nation al development, he is yet passionately patriotic. He lo es his country not for what it is, or has been, but for what it shall become. There is no looking ba< k with him, no sighing over antique glo ries. He views the past witli a curious and amused smile. It is interesting by way of contrast, but not so good as his present, and utterly insignificant in comparison with the future. When he fights, it is not to preserve traditions. Away with traditions! They are cobwebs! They are rust! Men may cry out sacrilege. He does not know the meaning of the word. All that was sacred in the past of hu man etlort, lives actively in the present. Why should he burden himself with a mass of dead matter? W'ornout gar ments, crumbling walls, dusty and fa ded record.*, these things oppress him, and he hates oppression. It is not that he undervalues the sac rifices of the patriots, or wishes to be little the work they achieved, but that he and his generation havo imbibed to thoroughly the inspiration of their deeds, that ho feels himself one with them. All that they did, he and his generation could and would do, should occasion demand. This is the foundation of his quench less faith in the stability of free institu tions,a f&ith so calm as to seem at times more like indifference. Far from being indifferent,he regards his country with a proud and patroniz ing affection. He takes immeasurable delight in its rastness, its wealth, its beauty; be fondles it in his thought os If he had made it It seems to him the predestined home of a people emancipated from every form of tyranny, the land where tho lost fetter of prejudice must fall away, and the human race attain its culminat- A young woman in St. Louis who re cently ran away from home to enter upon a life of shame gave as an ex cuse for her conduct that she could not earn a living as a music teacher and she was too proud to earn her bread with the labor of her hands in a town in whose society she had lived os ft lady. It is evident that something is wrong with society or with the girl, or with both. A pride which revolts at manual labor and willingly embraces disgraoe is something altogether too common in this day, though ft is very rare that we find any one who confesses to ite pos session. A great many m’fcn have been brought to ruin in tha same way, taking different paths it tuav be, but bringing up at the sam# place. The l works too stroftfty in Ms Mood *> ftHloriaf tMkOa E irl In question appears lo have chosen egrodation with a great deal of delib eration, aftd it is probable that in her weak and disordered intellect she found justification for her conduct Her foolish and shAmefal misstep is not to be palliated/ but responsibility does not rest with her alone* She ia ft victim of the opuy idolfttrv of riches sod contempt of honest toil which have become enthroned in “society.” When society becomes a more rations! th than it now is and when money 1 not post current-in it unless fortified by common sense and merit we wUl have fewer such escapades by silly girls and money-getting men. Society needs ft reorgsaiaatioo. -- Chicago Her- •id. » y : The Philadelphia Ledger is the moet profitable newspaper proper ia Ameri ca. Iu proflu are $450,000 a year. *' “ " l UVM Monkey Shines. Monkeys soon make friends with other anira&is, and are cunning enough to make other animals do them a ser vice. They resemble man in this re spect, whatever else may be iftid about the likeness. And we tec from what Uncle Bob has told us that a monkey can bo taught to do almost an and if at all kindly-Treated con trained much more quickly than any other creature. There is a story of one that used to walk hand in hand with iU master within a mouth after it came into his possession. It would answer his call tike a servant. It was honored as a guest and had a seat at the table. 44 wmdd drink tea or milk out of a. cup, and help itself to an egg or to bread or meat, and it lifted what it wanted with the right hand. A F. encu traveler named La Yail- l*ot, who went through Africa became interested in a chacma monkey, one of the taboon species, that he got at the Cape, and which was very useful to him iu his wanderings. He made this mon key, which he called Kees, a sort of “taster.” That is to say, when he came to a place where there were nuts and berries of a kind he had not seen before, he offered them to Kees. If tho monkey ate them the travelorwould do the same, and anything the monkey would not loach, the traveler, unless when he knew better, would avoid poison. Keos was of value also during the night as well as at meal times. Ho was the sentinel of the camp. He was alert and gave the alarm at the slight est sign of dagger. Even the uogs trusted to the monkey’s watchfulness. When the party began its journoyings it was tho duty of the dogs to give warfiing when there was any trouble; but in time they put such confidence iu Kees that they went soundly to sleep at every resting place. With monkeys, os with men, “one good turn deserves an other,” and so Rees, tired out with walking, would uow and again leap on the back of one of the doga and get carried in this way for miles at a stretch. All the dogs did not like thia There was one of them that would not on any accoant be made a horse of; and this one took a very cunning way of getting freed from his rider. He could not prevent Kees jumping on his bft«k, but he could do this—he could refuse to move. As soon as the monkey leap ed on him he stood perfectly still. The camp being; in motion the dog and his would-be nder were speedily Jeft be hind. Kees would keep his seat, think ing, no doubt, that the dog would change his mind and trot afterbisoom- anions before they had disappeared, at the dog knew better. As long as he felt himself burdened he woald not move an inch, and it was always Kees that hod to give in. When this took place the two animals would set off at their beat speed to evertake the travel ing party. It was like a race between the two, bat the dog took care to Leap second place, so that th# monkey might not again hava the ekaaoe of jumping on kis back. There is a very pretty story of the monkey in an ancient Hindoo poem. The nipnkeys, we ore told, were once employed in a great contest in India, between good and evil powers; and it is something to know that the monkeys were on the right side in the dispute. In the end the good powers won. Now, during the struggle the ehief monkey performed what may seem at first sight a very courageous act. He made his way into the gardenof a very terri ble giant, and took therefrom tne fo- motu mango tree and gave it to India Supposing such on * set hod been the work of s human being, we could not think of doing too much to reward the hero of it for his pluck and bravery. But the poem does not look at the mat ter in thu way. The monkey stole the tree, and although what was dons was of benefit to the land, it wts a cMme .and a sin and it had to be punished. Jp to this period the monkey nad clean lands and a clean face, but because of hi^ offense in robbing the giant his hands and his face were blackened, and blaftk they remain to this day. 3 Tipping tho South Caroline Darky, As we got into South Carolina we wei-e joined by a judge from Pittsbnrg. I forget just what court he was judge of, but he hod been traveling South for his health, and had jost figured up that he had paid out $2^in fees in waiters, and was mad all the way throngh. He vowed by his baldness that he wouldn’t pay out another red cent, and we en couraged him a* hard m we could. When we went up to the hotel the landlord gave us a nig room with three bods in it. A big negro brought the trunks up, and when be was ready to go the Judge called to him and began: “Colored person, stand np! Now I- want to say to you that I shall expect E rompt service without fees. You nave rought up my trunk; that’s all right— it was your bn«'ness to. I shall water, and I may want a fire, afid I shall probably ask you to go of errands, but if you even look fees at me I’ll throw yon ont of the window!” We were there two days, and the waiter was sigilsnt, humble and will ing, but as we made ready to depart tho morning of the third in oomes a constable with a warrant to arrest the Judge for threats of - persona} violence. It had been sworn ont before a justice ten miles away, and the complainant was the negro waiter. It took tne two of us to hold the Judge down on his back during hia first paroxysm, aed when he had cooled off a little the negro slipped into the room and said: “White man, stand up! Now I want to say to you dat a $0 Mil will aettle dis yer ease Jist as I feel now, bat if ou goes to callin’ names or pallin’ nir or kickin’ I’ll stick fur $25! Dat E itice am my own brodder, an’ he’s t achin’ to send some white man tor 1 far six months!” We sst on the Judge again for about twenty minutes, at the end of which time he handed over the amount and wae pronounced sene. A Paris photographer worried him self nearly to death taking an instan taneous negative of a railway train ia motion, only to discover that he .might juet aa well have taken bis time to H and photographed a train standing still, as appearance of the negative wee precisely the same. Aa Old Cavalry Horae OtfieCte to Baggy Riding. When at the closing of the war we were stationed at San Antonio, having little to do, we determined to enjoy a buggy ride. We had a great big, gdbd- natured horse that had followed os from far Alabama, a dapple grey, with flowing mane and tall, and it did seem as though ho would handle a buggy like a joy forever. The hone had never .been hitched to a buggy before, but be behaved himself the best he knew how. He looked around at the buggy and at the man in it as much as to say: “Boss, this may be all right, but it is a mean trick to play on a cavalry horse. How ever. if yon can toll me what jouwant me to do. I’ll do it or bust a trace,” He didn’t understand the pull ef the reins, and we had to gat out to turn him around. He rubbed his nose on our shoulder and looked out of his eyes as though he would ask if he had done right so far and seemed to say: “I have been prepared for anything unco I left the Confederate service from a thousand mile raid on short rstions, to ft race with a Quartermaster’s mule, but I hsd never expected to come to this,” and a tear seemed to linger on his eyelid os he put his nose in his masters shirt- bosom and snorted some of his foam there. On returning to the town a company as of cavalry were drilling on the plaza, and just then an idiot with a bogle be gan to blow a call and the cavaliTmen started across the plaza in company front That settled the buggy ride. ‘General Grierson” started off on a run, buggy and all, and wheeled in front of the third platoon, three paces in front right where be knew there ought to be a Second Lieutenant end turned his eye to the right to dress on the other platoon commanders. The rear of the buggy was breaking up the ranks of the platoon, and we were never so embarrassed in the world. The Captain yelled to us Vo get out of the #iy, an orderly rode an and took the c44 grey by the bit, ana then it oc curred to the he in the wet pieces. were kicked over into the platoon, and ho was Inst pulverizing the running gear and bofc when a doeen men grab- beet him and we crawled out froth under the wreck, and when we got ont the horse had turned around facing vm, with the shafts still hitched to him, and ho was trying in bis horse-sense way, to toll us what he thought of a caval ryman that would appear on dnty in such a way, and bring reproach on a good, honest, well-brought-up horse. The company stopped drill fig to laugh, broke ranks, and wepF’Jnto the Monger House at our expense, the liv ery-man took his htiffg? oeck on adrmy and the writer paid for the buggy, put on the Saddle again end rode away, and the old hone, when we got into the road turned hie head and nibbled the rider’s boot-leg and winked as much as to say: “There, boss, this is something like it. This is the way we used to do in tho Confederacy. Buggy riding makes me sick.—Ad’s Sun. Little DatiMir My little boy, Dae, eseay last week. The school which he atteeriL- _ tost) believes la UtiJe lMLG aays so that when ^ 1 •* and have to write letters they win kaow hflwt Dan’s turn came taldar to me and said; “Pa, subject for Vei moment and then perienoes of my „ hard it was to write poritione In my time, 1 anMt “Dan, if yon will go Bp ig. ret In the lower diawer« resn you irfll ftad wrote when f was a I ou can learn something' >on’t copy, my eon, belt them and rend state the ids I thought f said no more about the ah, the cyclone was balefcfc^ Yesterdsy I received a encr. ^sd^dwasT Dan’s teacf It Mr. Daniel Smith, art ii And on essay wblch your SOS wssfc. I read no farther, bet larger paper, wondering if; be inheritod, and if the “ 1 to continue famous I read: TUs Is the most hattfelMs veer. You son mow mo 1 that to why Umv put a Bun the word, the hood 1 sow. the hors Is the oow bat wlmln kadlntot to for teaahln as asen. My wunse who had fair ‘ — rtaas t on a woodts how she could lye. but llhe patrtek I "live me llburty “sale "than stoner tsr&SvffiSY henry whe gees ml y or civ* me Mir ■Btooeeeleen” tboeaMpersamn** It continued: ■ . the horse that the buggy was y, and he be&an to kick it to The cross bar and dashboard 1 smiled, and essay into of the letter, throngh. I here tarn to the _ apotoffaM for the essay. It had all oot had evidently gone file of eeaays and ah rate letter*, and t And his tooohe cal woman about wheals so sarcastically to a What to doT 1 gallons were ef I could not be to another 1 position day < and paper an say and does net bti father. Well, signed know* it Dair*i.1 The deeliaf eifdble out of fsrtitou if the t point occurred the city editor cf a ^roat nai er U day and appointed an ial corps Us ore fink reporter requested m. to attend to a certain refused, saying ih business, not hie. blow wae struck, a 1 they were parted, temporary editor, 1 Napoheonie 1 reporter a p one thdt leaves fhsteiffof one of unices or it The challenged 1 mone southern the wrong i felt so, and aStf” 0- S' Our Semi-Acquaintance. There are our acquaintances whose names we do not know; the many per sons with whom we are more or lees concerned, day after day, week after week, or even year after year, jet ia whose plaoes in the great oirele of humanity we have not sufficient inters est, ever for a moment to hare consid ered by what names they are known. Let any man reflect a little and le will become conscious that a goodly propoiv tion of all those witli whom he is upon nodding or speaking terms belong to this category or but just escape it. We here all of us our strong likre and dislikes in regard to countenances which arh familiar, yet really are those of absolute strangers. We , ride day after day }n the can with a man whom we would gladly order to execution •imply frekn the objectionability of his personal i|ppearance; or we pass on the street every afternoon a woman whosh physiognomy entitles her, in our opin-, (on, to caaonization. In either case the sentiment in regard to the face is so de finite and genuine as to exerois^ an in fluence upon her character.Aad tem perament, yet we in reality^ know no thing whatever concerning these peo ple who thus change odr lives. A third class of deml-aoquaintanoe are the many peopjd whom we know, more or less well; throngh report; of whom we have/bcard anecdotes, inci dents find fopts of different sorts, and for whom wd have built up a character from a single characteristic, as a 00m- S iv/anatomist constructs a skele- pm a single bone. This host of is pretty largely imaginary, yet l:h there H something of truth and which binds him to earth and aHsus.htm with mortals. The human family is large, bat each of us is ex- poses to in fldonce from all the other members of it—Boston Courier. A Turkey Trick In Iowa. Late Friday afternoon a whose appearance indicated that he not live on fat of the land (-very day, and that his household knew little about purple and tine linen; entered a grocery store on Brady tftreot, holdii a fine large turkey by the lege. He walked up to the ahowcase, saying: Td like a cigar, please," and one waa banded him with a lighted match. “By the way,” said he, suddenly, “would you oblige me with a ptene of lighted paper to wrap around this turkey—it doesn't look well to cany tt>. t* the streets in this way.” A clerk took the turkey, wrapped k up artistically in paper, which waa lied so that it would stay. “Thank yon, sir,'” said the stranger politely, as he turned and walked out with his turkey. Ha had not been gone a minute, whan a neighbor from aeroes the street hurried Into the store with: “Say, did that faL low who want mtf.frem hare just pay for that torkeyF”' to turkey P—no, why should heP* “Wefl, he picked H op from the bench in sa he entered your store!”—. i