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vol. vni. Wtatav Viol eta. Y««Mk Mwkr ar 9TM are tiled with tMM. Whme'er I Meet the noieta ofSe Bprin»? Tea eaa eot tell what thoochu of bygone yeate Thoae elmple Bowen hare narer failed to teiar I bad a brother once; hie groTe i« green. And long ago wae oarred the headatone'a ■n| freah hie memoir etlU—I hare not . One like him, einoe he left me deeolate. Vbr we wore twine, and bound by ttaaeo It iMnicd^at neither could exist apart; Tet he oraa taken—Ah! what memo; throng K‘en to thia day, on my be reared heart. ■a faded from u» in the Winter time. When all the «un'a warmth from hla raya de- pana; Sometimes we fancy a more genial clime Might hare restored him to our anxious haarta. My mother prayed him tell her waa there aught That gold oookl purchase, or that loro could Which be desired; so tenderly she sought To bring back smiles upon the hollow cheek. “Are there no rlolets yetf' he answered low. W» sent out messengers the country round s In rain, la rain, the hills were deep with snow, And cruel frost lay on the lerel ground. “WOinot the rlolets come before the Spring?" How plnintlre came the question—day by Moos could be found; It only (erred to wring Our lortng hearts to answer always “Nay. 9 At last oae day be ’woke rerlred from sleep And smiling thankod us for them; but we It was a dream, for sUU the snow lay deep. Mot e'ea a snowdrop dared to lift Its head. Tet he errrred their perfume Oiled the air!— “How could he doubt It?—sure the flowers were nigh!" I we knew no rlolets could be there— Tet seemed they present to his ferrld eye. ■•spake he. till he slept—he'woke no more; ■west brother, was It worthy of regrets, That the next morn, from distant parts they boro To our sad hoese, the longed-for violets? Was he by fancy happily deed red? Or were Ida dying senses rare fled. And actual knowledge blissfully achieved. Tasting the fragrance sake softly died? I wept while bending o’er his oofflned rest. Hashing ay anguish for s last caress; I rtrew'd the violets on his pallid breast— Perhaps still conscious of their loveliness. CONGRESS. of the House In Besalon- The Etiqaette of the Assert ess Parliament. Tbs national house of representa tives! How few people in the United States hare seen it, writes a corre spondent to the Cleveland leader, and bow different is their idea of it from the reality. It is now S o’clock in the after noon. The bouse ia in the midst of Ita daily aesaion, and a din like that of n boiler-factory surrounds me as I sit in the press fallacy and write as nearly as I can a photograph of the scenes be fore me. It ia an i umense room, this boose chamber. It is the largest leg islative hall in the world. Its floor covers nearly one-fifth of an mere, and its height from floor to roof la thirtr-aix foct. It looks the •malier for tbe hundreds that are in it It ia composed of a great central pit about fifteen feet deep, with deep gal leries rising from its top and going up ward by five graduated lines o? benches until the fifth row strikes the buff and green paper of the outer wall. Those galleries will seat 2.500 people, and the •aats within them look down upon the bear garden of the arena in the same way as does those from which the spectators watch a Spanish bull-fight. The walla of thia pit are paneled in pink and velvety flowered buff, and around each panel ia a gilt frame fine enough to blind a Raphael or a Van- dyck. In two of these panels are pict- tores of historic scenes by Bier*tadt, and on either side of the speaker*! desk are •pictures of Washington by Vanderlyn and of Lafayette by Ary Scheffer. In thia wall, opening out'bf the con gressional-pit, are archod door-holes all ornamented with carring and gold. Some of these lead to cloak rooms, others to the barber shops of the eapt- tol, one to the house library, and six to the ontside corridors, where the lobbriats and other bores hare to wait until their friends come out to see them. Sitting in the press gallery too can took into the cloak rooms and barber shops. Judge Reagan, of Texaa, is in the oarber's chair at this moment, and his swarthy face shines out at me from the midst of white lather. There are a crowd of congressmen in the cloak rooms, and among them I see Tom Ochiltree’s red face wreathed in smoke, and Judge Poland's royal countenance oonrnbed with laughter. The 325 overcoats and hats of the little great men who are performing below me hang ia those cloak rooms. Some of them are vary seedy-looking, indeed, and not oae oat of ten would be worth stalling. The doors leading oat of the house into the corridors are double. Thia is to keep the outs out and the ins ia. Each is also guarded by two doorkeepers, able-bodied men who hold tbrnr chairs down in those well- warmed halls for 91,200 per annum. Each of the gallery doors also has a doorkeeper, though there is little ne- oeaalty for it, and the offioers of the house, one thinks from their numbers, an mors numerous than the mem- ben. Bat to ntarn to the bear pH. The prom gallery is tbs central one at the Mflk. h ie shat off from the other gal leries In a win lattice work, and is dorolsa to oomspoodents solely. Tif* m galleries' is the Itfill 115 feet long by 97 fool wide. If you could take the seats out too woald see that it ie made op of six aalf-moons of rostrums, run- ■tag ah out a space as wide ae the front af — —diaaty oily hrmee, ou which the dork’s desks an loeat- i rising by a gradation of four aatil it reaches the last half whan a iat door fo the walla, fa the center af this half moon, at ■I the hall, is the speaker’s This ie a series of throe white eoe above Ike oth- thne foot high, is tof ooagnea. who ■st 95,000 yearly. The tops of their Saaks an eorond with navy-bios bains, ihogaay drawsn la si, aad rising t lushes, natfllt W SafoJkfoST of them an the rriillug elsrhs of the honse, snobbish young men with metallic voices, and above them on a higher rostrum of white marble cut in and out like an elaborately-carved pul- it sits the speaker. This to-day is Carlisle, a dark-faced, rough-fea tured man, with no whiskers, who con tinually chews tobacco as he sits on his spine and presides over the house. His chair is a swinging walnut one. He has an ivory hammer or mallet in his hand, and this he uses with energy to keep the noisy crowd below him in order. Beside the speaker’s desk, on a pe destal of Vermont marble, stands the mace, or insignia of the speaker’s royal ty. It is a bundle of lictor's rods t>ound with silver cords, mounted on a silver globe and crowned with an American eagle. The members of the house sit on six half-moons of seats, rising and growing larger as they go backward, in front or the speaker. These seats are ranged on little ranges of rostnms, and the edges of these rostrums are bound with shining brass, and arc, as in the whole floor, carpeted with a rich carpet of red Brussels, on which are flowered figures of blue and yellow. On each range is a row of seats and desks. The desks are small affairs of white wood, having lids covered with blue baize, which are raised whenever the owner gets at the f 125 worth of stationery he is allowed annually. Behind each row of desks is a row of white cane-seatcd office chairs, each on a swivel and each so fixed on springs that the sitter can lean back and put his feet on his desk if he will. This is a favorite pos ture with some congressmen, and I bavo seen certain sleepy ones snore away so for hours at a time. Half of the chairs are os the average empty, end some of them have been known to continue so for an entire congressional session. The owners arc paid $5,000 a year to fill them. They draw the mon ey and leave the chairs empty. The seventh and last half moon of chairs backs up against curtains or fire-screens of blue baiso on frames of bright brass rods. Back of these screens there is room to walk about the house, and in the two corners at either end, where the grate tires are, arc half a dozen sofas which are generally filled by lounging, sleeping, and smoking con gressmen. Do congressmen smoke during ses sion? Why. bless you, yes! I have seen ladies grow sick in the galleries from the vile odors of the tobacco which rose from the two-for-t cent ci gars glowing in the mouths of the so- called gentlemanly congressmen be neath. I have seen members smoking in their very seats, and have watched through the wreaths of smoke to catch the eye of the members behind them. They chew, too. These godlike con gressmen do chew! They spit! and every desk has a spitoon of pink and f ;old chinl beside it to catch the filth rom the statesman's mouth. It costs at least $400 a year to care for the spittings of the house, and your aver age congressman will disregard the spittoon and spit upon the floor. They arc a neat sat! The house at this moment is littered with seraos of paper like a garret. In front of the speaker’s desk are scraps of letters, torn ro*spai>ers, and other litters, and and under the desks of most of the members are heaps of the same nature. There is a spittoon beside the chair of the speaker, for Mr. Carlisle is an in veterate chewer of tobacco, and his heavy jaws caress the cud as joyfully as they do free-trade statistics. As far as order in tl>« house is con cerned, there is none. If an ordinary member has the floors bedlam straight way rises. His fellow-members talk out loud to each other, and each goes on with his business as if he was alone. Dozens of members are jrriting letters; others are mailing documents to their constituents; otherssre reading news papers; some will be sleeping, and many will be talking and laughing. If s member wants to cross the hall tic does not hesitate to rush between the congressman speaking and the speaker, and if another wants a page, no matter if his brother congressman speaking beside him is in the midst of his finest period, be.will clap his hands like the shot of a pistol. I have seen members sleeping when their next-seal member was speaking, and it ia no uncommon thing for s member to be talking with not a single fellow-member listening to him. The speaker generally pays attention, but not always. He favors whom he pleases to a certain extent, and has the opportunity to display considerable power. Tho ceiling of the house chamber is a wonderful structure, made of glass and cast-iron. Through this the house is lighted—in the davtime by the light of day, and daring the evening by fif teen hundred gas-jets, which are light ed by electricity. '1 his ceiling is made in panels, and these are painted and gilded, and each bears the coat of arms of one of tho states of the union. Just over the entrance door of the house is a large, round-faced clock, which regulates the time of opening the session and which limits the time allowed to each speaker. It is a sober, udicial-looking old clock, and its face a terror to the average long-winded congressman. Just over the speaker's desk and oj posite this clock under the press g lery is a gold eagle looking out over the speaker's head, and apparently ready to fly. -On each side of it hangs s dingy American flag, covered with dust and discolored with age. The two doors in the walte at the side of the speaker lead to the mem bers’ retiring-rooms, in which are hung crayon portraits of all the speakers since um organisation of congress. They coet the’ government 950 apiece, and some of them sre fairly good like nesses. This room is well-famished, (this a number of sofas and easy ihatrs, with two doorkeepers at an ex pense of a couple of thousand a year to keep tne barbarous public out of them. Snch is s brief desoription of our na tional boose of representatives. It is a fine structure, and 1 sometimes think far too good for the men who have the right to seats in it. 'rhe old honse was in the hall of the statutes, as it is now called, which lies betweea this bon*c chamber aad the dome. It was ia ' that all of oar L" z greatest efforts at oratory were made, whore Clay, Calhoun, and" Webster fought their forensic battles, and where for thirty-two years history was made. It accommodated seats for 232 mem bers, aad its galleries seated about 700 spectator*. The members' desks were of mahogany, and each had. an arm chair. The reporters to the extent of twenty were accommodated with sofas and desks, and tho speaker had a dra] ery of rich crimson at his back, was in 1857 that tho house was moved into its present quarters, and in 1864 the old bouse was dedicated to its pres ent use as a statuary h&lL J he average congressman considers himself a great man, but he is only a clerk after all. He is paid by the country to come here and apportion out the public funds to tho running of the government. Other men decide how much the government needs, and they furnish the congressmen the fig ures. The average member knows nothing about it, and the beet member for the country perhaps is he who knows the least. We merely pay them to divide our money for us. The gov ernment is already organised. We have all the laws we need, and the United States, if it were not for the necessity of the formality of passing tho appropriations, oouid do hotter without congress than with it. Still we have it, and we have to pay for it. We pay well, too. Tho estimate for the legislative expenses for the current year is put at more than three million and a half of dollars, and the house of representative* alone will cost nearly two and oue-haif millons. It takes $413,000 a year to pay the salaries of our senators. $1,800,000 to pay the mileage and salaries of the representa tives, and the understrappers about the house and senate get salaries of $7»)0,000 and more at each congression al session. The Witching Weed. Cigars were not known until atxrat 1815. Previous to that time pipes were used exclusively. (’bowing had been in vogue to a lim ited extent for some time, while snuff ing dates back almest a* far as smok ing. The first package sent to Catherine de Medici was in fine powder. She found that smelling it in tho box affect ed her similarly to smoking, which led h*r to fill one of her smelling-bottles with the dust Her courtiers adopteff the habit of snuffing small portions of it up the nostrils, and as the precious stuff became more plentiful the snuffing habit became more general, until at last a man or a woman was not consid ered ns in proper form unless they snuffed. The custom became so common in Eagland that a snuff-box was no longer a sign of rank. Then it was the law prohibiting the culture of the plant, ex cept for medicine, was passed. About the same time a heavy tariff waa placed on tho imported article, thereby prac tically placing it beyond the reach of the common nerd and giving royalty a complete monopoly. Since it first began to be used aa a luxury thM*e have been conflicting opin ions in regard to ita effucta. The Rom ish church once forbade ita useffand the Church of England declaimed against it. The Wesleys opposed it hotly, and at one time it was considered so nnelean as to unfit men for membership in the Methodist ghurch. Baptist and Presbyterian ministers preached against it, and societies were organized to oppose the spread of the habit, but all to no purpose. Parents disowned and disinherited their chil dren because they used it.aud husbands divorced their wives ou account of their having contracted the habit of smok- ing. It is singular that when women get into the habit of smoking a pipe they prefer a strong one. There are few men who have nerve enough to smoke a pipe such as a wo man Tikes'when she has become a con firmed smoker. When they first begin puffing cigars they prefer them very mild, out it is not long until they want them black and strong and lots of them. —l\U»burg Dispatch. Succeeded Too Well. “Now,” said tho bride, “Henry, I want you to understand distinctly that I do not wish to be taken for a bride. I am going to behave exactly as if I was an old married woman. So, dear est, do not think mo cold and unloving if I treat you very practically when there is anybody by.” “I don’t believe I can pass for an old married man. I am so fond of you that I am bound to show it. 1 am sura to give the snap away.” “No, you mustn’t It’s easy enough. And I insist that you behave just like all old married men da Do yon hear?” “Well, darling. I’ll try, but I know I will not sacoeed.” The first evening of their arrival the bride retired to her chamber and the groom fell in with a poker party, with whom he sat playing carda until 4 o’clock in the morning. His wife spent the weary hours weeping. At last he turned up and met his grief-stricken' bride with the hilarious question: “Well, ain’t I doing the old married man like a daisy?” She never referred to the subjeet again, and everybody knew after that that they had just been married.—Saw Francisco Chronicle. The water of a small lake near the month of the Sutro Tunnel, in Nevada, is kept continuously warm by the hot water which flows , into it from the mines. Recently the mine superin tendent sent to Florida for two alliga tors. When they arrived at the plane the temperature of the place was 12 de grees below zero and the alligators were barely alive. Upon being pat in to the warm lake, however, they reviv ed and are now growing rapidly. The proportion of those who attend ublic worship to the bulk of the popn- following four European 20,000, population 1,000,000; Hamburg 5,000, populalios 400,090; Loodoa 5,000,000, population 4,000.000; Glasgow 500,000, 700,00a P lation in the cities is: Berlin There are about 5,000 Snake or Shoebone Indians now extant, the S eater part being in Utah and Nevada, ough there is a reservation in Idaho and another in Wyoming. Tbs Sboshoue Indian u reluctant to accept of civilization on the European plan. Ho prefers the ruder customs which have been handed down from father to son along with other hair- tooms. I dm the word heirlooms in its broadest sense. There are the Shoshones proper and the Utes and Utahs, to which have been added by some authorities the Comanches, and Moouis of New Mexico and Arizona, the Netelas and other tribes of California. The Sho shone, wherever found, is clothed in buckskin and blanket in winter, but dressed more lightly in summer, wear ing nothing but an air of intense gloom in August To this he adds on holi days a necklace made from the store teeth of the hardy pioneer. The Snake or Shoshone Indian is passionately foiid of tho game known as poker among us, and which, I learn, is played with'cards. It is a game of chance, though skill and a thorough knowledge of firearms are of great use. The Indians enter into this game with great zeal and lend to it the wonderful energy which they have preserved from year to year by abstaining from the delibitating effects of manual labor. All day long the red warrior sits in his skin boudoir, nursing the sickly and reluctant “flu>h,” patient, silent and hopeful. Through tho cold of winter, in the desolate mountain.*, he continues to “Hope on, hope rrer." That he will "draw to fill” Far away up the canyon be bears the sturdy blows of his wife's tomahawk as she slaughters the grease wood and the sage brush for the fire in his gilded hell where he sits and woos the lazy Goddess of Fortune. With the Shoshone, poker is not alone a relaxation, the game wherewith to wear out a long and listless eveuiug, but it is a passion, a duty and a devo tion. He nas a face designed especial ly for poker. It never show* a sign of good or evil fortune. You mignt as well try to win a smile from a railroad right of way. The full hand, the fours, throes, pairs and bobtail flushes art all the same to him, if you judge by his face. When ho gets hungry be cinches himself a little tighter and continues to “rastle” with Ute. You look at his smoky, old copper cent of a face and you see no change. You watch him as he coins the last buckshot of his tribe and later on when be goes forth a pau- C er, and the corners of his famine- reeding mouth have never moved. His little 'black, smoke-inflamed eyes have never lighted with triumph or joy. He is the great aboriginal stoic and sylvan dude. He does not smile. He does not weep. It certainly must be intensely pleasant to be a wild, free, lawless, irresponsible, natural born fool. The Shoshones proper include the Bannocks, which are again subdivided Into the Koobitakara, or Buffalo Eaters, on Wind River, the Tookarika or Mountain Sheep Eaters, on Salmon and Suabe Rivers, the Shoehooas or White Knives, sometimes called Dig ger*, of the Humboldt River and the Great Salt Lake basin. Probably the Hokandikaht, Yabooekins and the Wablpapes are subdivisions of tbs Dig ger tribe. I am not sure of this, but I shall not suspend my busineu till I can find out about it If I cannot get at a great truth right off I wait patient ly nud go rip ht on drawing my salary. The Shoshones live on the govern ment and other small game. They will eat anything when hungry, from s bu.lalo down to a woodtick. The Shoshone does not despise small things, rie lores insects in any form. He loves to make puts of them and to study their habits in his home life. Formerly, when a great Shoshone warrior died, they killed his favorite wife over his grave so that she could to the happy nunting grounds with i, but it is not so customary now. I tried to impress on an old Shoshone brave once that they ought not to do that I tried to show him that it would encourage celibacy and destroy domes tic ties in his tripe. S nce that there has been quite a stride toward reform among them. Instead of killing the widow on the death of her husband, the husband takes such good care of his health and avoids all kinds of in tellectual strain or physical fatigue, that late years there are no widows, bat widowers just seem to swarm in the Shoshone tribe. The woods are full of them. Now, if they would only kill the widower over the grave at the wife, the Indian’s future would assume a more definite shape. — ■■■• 1 ta » ta Lucrative Positions. . I find that one of the most serious ob jection to living out of town lies in the difficulty experienced in catching the early morning train by which 1 must reach the city and my business. It is by no means a pleasant matter, under any circumstances, to have one’s move ment regulated by a time-table, and to be obliged to rise to breakfast and to leave home at a certain honr, no mat ter how strong the temptation to delay may be. But sometimes the horrible punctuality of the train is pro ductive of absolute suffering. For in stance: I look at my wsten when I get out of bed. and find that I have apparently plenty of time, so I dress leisurely and sit down to the morning meal in a frame of mind which is calm and serene. Just as I crack my first egg I hear the down train from Wil mington. I start in alarm; and taking out my watch I compare it with the clock and find that it is eleven minutes ■low, and that I have only five m nutes left in which to get to the depot. Just as I get to the gate I find that 1 have forgotten my duster and the bun dle my wife wanted me to take up to the city to her sunt. Charging back I snatch them up and tear down the gravel walk io a frenzy. I do not like to run through the village; it is undig nified and it attracts attention; but I walk furiously. 1 go faster and faster as I get away from tho main street When half the distance is accomplished I actually do hear the whistle; there can be no doubt about it this lime. I long to run, but I know that if I do I will excite that abominable speckled dog sitting by the sidewalk a little dis tance ahead of me. Thou I really see tho train coming around the curve close by the depot, and I feel that I must make better time; and I do. Tho dog immediately manifests an interest in my movements. He tears after mo oinod by five or six 7 and is speedily jt other doj^s, which frolic about my legs and bark furious))’. Sundry small boys, as I go plunging past, contribute to the excitement by whistling with their fingers, and the men who are at work upon the new meeting house stop to look at me and exchange jocular re marks with each other. I do feel ridic ulous, but I must catch that train at all hazards. I become desperate wh«u I have to slacken my pace until two or three wo men who are standing on the sidewalk discussing the infamous price of butter, scatter to let me pas*. I arrive within a few yard* of the station with my duster fling iu the wind, with my coat tails in a horizontal position, and with the speckled dog nipping at my heels, just as the train begins to move. I pat on sn extra pressure, resolving to get the train or perish, and I reach it just as the last car is going by I seise the hand-rail, I am jerked violently around, but finally, after a desperate effort, I get upon the step with my knees, and am hauled in by the brakeman, hot, dusty, and mad, with my trousers torn across the knees, my legs bruised, and three ribs of my umbrella broken. Just as I reach a comfortable teat in the car the train stops and then backs up ou the siding, Where it remains for half an hour while tho engineer repairs a dislocated valve. The Anger which burns in my bosom as I reflect now upon what has proved to have been the folly of that race, is increased as I look out of the window and observe the speck led dog engaged with bis companions in an altercation over a bone. A man who permits his dog to roam about the streets nipping tho legs of pvery one who happens to go at a more rapid gait than a walk, is unfit for associating with civilized beings. He oupht to be placed on a desert Island in mld-oosan, and be compelled to stay there.—Jfoz Adder, in Exchange. ~ A Raid on Rattlesnake*. Vanderbilt is determined that his sons-in-law shall become business-men. As soon as young Twombley married his daughter he gave him the iob of loading and unloading the freight in New York. This is really an extensive department in the railway system and requires s laege force of clerks and la borers, and also a number of steamers and barges. The profit from thia spec ialty is estimated at $30,000 a year, and this puts Twombley on an indepMident basis. The two other sona-ln-law (Shepard and Sloan) art both able and prosperous business-mens the former having a lucrative law practice, while the latter is one of the moat extensive carpet-dealers in the eonntry. Dr. Seward Webb, who married the young est of the daughters, has never made medical practice a soooess?'' and his father-in-law has been desirous of pro viding for him out of that vast railway patronage Which be still controls. The recent resignation of TUlinghast, Presi dent of the sleeping-car company, has afforded a suitable opening, and the doctor now abandons his profession ia favor of a sinecure berth worth $10,000 a year. There are few men that can make each rich provision foe those who marry into the family. A calf with five legs is oae of ths curiosities to fcp seen at Dalton, Ga. Occasionally says a Colorado Cow boy in the Boston Commercial Bulletin, by the hard-baked mound of a prairie- dog’s hole, the sunlight woula strike witn s dull glitter on the back of a rattlesnake, and then the boys were never in too great a harry to stop and kill the “varmint” with the loaded end of a auirt. The snakes were arrant cowards, always making every effort to run away from an attack; as, how ever, tbelr very best time was never faster than a lazy man could walk, they never were allowed to escape. They were easily killed, a small blow from a quirt, or the knotted end of a lariat, stretching them out motionless but for a faint movement of the tail, which the cowboys claim will not die until sundown. Unless killed by the first blow s rattlesnake becomes roused to savage fury, desperately coiling it self for sn attack; bat it is an unequal fight, and the snake is easily defeated. One Billy insisted upon stopping and skinning one peculiarly sleek and shining specimen. He said that a snake skin worn around the hat would al ways ward off headache and toothache from the wearer, and he considered it an esper-i.idy prudent plan to assume this s.tuple preventative at the begin- niug of a round-up. I may remark, in passing, that the odors that presently began to emanate from the dying skin, increasing in volume and intensity day by day, might have afflicted a sensitive person more than the combined mala dies it was supposed to kftej> at bay. Billy farther assured us that s bite into the back of a live rattlesnake would insure a person good teeth for the rest of hia life. He was not abso- lutely certain about that, although he owned that he “alien, somehow, felt agin tryin’himself.” Billy’s “pud,” Bam, seemed to express the general sentiments of the party when he re marked that there was “lota of enrioos- ness .about snakes. ’ * Sun said he always carried a piece of blue vitriol iiflhis pocket at a round-up for snake bitea. If he was bitten he had only to spit on the vitriol and rub it on the spot to draw out all the poi son at once. But the rest of the party were disposed to hoot in derision at this remedy, reliance on ■be bad changed her mind. What fa lowed is on the word of the store own- preferring to place their good whisky. Sam had proper retpect for this remedy too, bat he agreed with much naivete: whisky is hard to keep ready.” •Good Victoria according to an of* ouncement, baa sever eaten a piece of cake. called last night,” said the 3 o had changed her raifid, “aad r arffi by other company came in, and ter awhile somebody Suggested a lit tle game, and *e made up a board— ante five, ten to come in, and twenty- five limit. We played tHl 10, and I was 10 cents out, and I felt jsst awfnl. Some one said; ‘Play one jack pot for a half and quit.’ Everybody agreed. There were $5 in the pot before anyone opened. Jack opened for a half, the mean thing, and all I had to draw to was a monkey flush. Wasn't that aw ful? Well, everybody came in, and I made np my mind I wasn't going to be ■cared, and so I chipped along. Jack only took two cards. All the rest took three. I threw mine all away and took five. Wasn’t 1 horrible? Jack bet a half. Everybody else saw him. I looked at my hand and raised this bet a half more. There were $8 in the pot Jack says, ‘What, on a five-card draw?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ Then he saw me and raised another half. All the rest drop ped out the mean things. I took an other peep at my band and raised Mr. Jack another half. 'See here, Jenny,' he said, ‘if it was any one else I’d think they were giving me a bluff, but I guess you've got the beating of me, and so I won’t invest any more. Take the pot I opened on three aces.’ eaid Jack, showing 'em down, and I drew in the money. Wasn’t it sweet in Jack to think I wouldn’t bluff him?” "Perfectly sweet," exclaimed the fair companion. “What did you hold?” “I only had one little pair of deuces, Ailie,” said the innocent manipulator of the jack-pot. “Wasn't It just too lovely for any thing? So I thought I'd come over and buy the rood* to-day. Isn’t ita bargain?”—oocirfy column of a Boston paper. richer classes there is foe i Ity of numbers, and there tiered from the neeeeeity for their daily bread hays some occupation, sofD to relieve tne tedium existence. Some pnwne plsnanre i ly, though this soon palls i petite; others taka to ah ■nits, doing, pirchaaes, an eonal amount of good and of ■fodrisl These whose tastes land them to artisticpursnitssre perhaps the! unhappy. That a rednndanay af ml* married women exists ia trident; hntit, must not be regarded aa eanaad wholly or mainly by a disparity in the noadtar of the sexes. This dUforeoee does Ml at the most amount to six par awh# whereas the number of anmanfod Wo men in England amounts not In ■tx.hnl actually to thirty per cent --font is In aay, only two out of every three woman sre ever married. i Wae No! She was craay about palmistry. Ihe had bought half a dosea hooka aad studied the lines aad the mounts and Reaching for the Public. "Talk about hard times!” he scoffed as he leaned back in his chair at one o the down town restaur&nta. “Why, gentlemen, it's all in knowing how to reach the public. 4 * “You used to speculate in grain, I believe?” observed the man at hia right. “I did, and I lost money. I was in a bole eleven months in a rear and hard np the remainder. I didn’t know how to reach the public.” “And now?” “Well, I am on the road exhibiting a fat woman who weighs 370 pounds— admission 15 cents. Ihave no margins to put up, dividends are declared with the most annoying regularity, and if anybody disputes her weight she has a lead corset weighing 210 pounds to bring her up to tne mark.”—Wall Street Fetes. Miss Constance Edgar, the grand daughter of the late Madame Bona parte, who is about to beoosM a nun, ia also a great-granddaughter of Daniel Webster. the islands aad the stars, aad she had read her fortune time aad again. So hei took to read 1 her hand one wUiwm her help. “Thia ia my heart Una, said, aa she traced with across the palm. “Yes; your heart Una.” “Yon see how well deflned MOtreM it la?” “Yes, beloved, hat It la M|fMte straight, and this book says those ftttjjo lines running out of it are eridsMas of previous affections.” “Oh, but this great Mg break It mourn ” you. “Then, there’s my hand Una.” “Yes, darling, fl your heart ware as level as your head istry—I would not be so [ “But you musa't read it What are you looking farf” He was anxiously sreiulug and the band. "Dearest, I love you. Too bare a magnificent life lias aad a heart line aad a level "Well?” “I am poor, and if you show me the kitchen fine would be oae unbroken "—San On Friday morning aa Taflaa a large eougar He found the animal lying ea a mwd* bar in wait for a deer aad at tho Aral apod a dk t forty foot, a ho killod! shot it jump stops, about? times before he killed it the animal as being high and six or seven from ths tip af its boss to tho oad of ita tall, aad aura it was not foil grown, either—JhH* lemd Oreaonian. coMFmrra botoced. PADGETT LEADS ALL OTHERS! WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, io PIECES, $43.50. A NICE BEDROOM SUITE $i&oo CT EVERY KIND AND EVERY VARIETY OF FURNITURE. Jtt COOKING STOVES AT ALL PRICES. ijsDGETTS FURNITURE AND STOVE HOUSE. lllo *.u 11*2 BROAD STREET - AUGUSTA, GA HTRefer yon to the Editor of this paper. You May Tall Aloit Ytnr FINE CLOTHING, hats and gents* furnish ing GOODS, BUT I. L. STANSELL, ; 746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Can get away with them all in the way of FINE CLOTHING, RATS JQID GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS for this Fall and Wtafor hi the v Styles and at Prices that astonish everybody that looks at£them. He means to outsell them all. Give him a trial aad you will go bestfpleased man in the State. 9* Don’t forget.tho place. X. L. ST^XTSB31.Xj, 746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. PLEA8UKE AND PROFIT TO ALL. WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING AND FULL LINE OF 00000. CTOHCXT H. WmAJEtTr, Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks aad Jewelry, 719 Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Qa. GRANDYS & ZORN, ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER. Contractors and Bolldcrs, Manuftctnran aad Prelaw ia aB bar and Bnilding Material. Wa are prepared to f * mates on all kinds of 'bulldlnfs. Oar Saw 1 “Grandee,” 8. C., postofooe Wtodaorjk C. We also knap In stock at our yard ea sonar of , Augusta, Ga., ail kinds of matoriai as abevo.Stated, place will be promptly attended fo. Nfo are, .■Ty i