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BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1885.
COMPETITIOIT BOTOCEB.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!”—.
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