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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.
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