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BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1885.
At Niche.
I. s'
Hark! how the Winter’* wind doth whittle
■in 11
And 'tralnct the fro«ty pane doth sharp 1m-
pel
His warlike mimicry of shot and shell
with all the Btreiiifth of an unoonquered wllL
The fcttth’ry pines with glitt'ring store are
bright.
And all along the maples' slender limb*
Hun veins of silver—suddenly there gleams
Through a cloud-rift—one fair, faint beam of
light.
The thwarted sur s good-night. Now drops
night's psdi.
' ina win
far.
Hear the lo
m
And once mom Alice found herself
repelled.
Aunt Froderica came daily to the
boose, and sat solemnly la Judgment
on the bride’s new theories of house
hold management Miss
ed in and out like a shadow,
herself markedly to Cherry.
Darling gild*
tw, attaching
aiy
There was a decided counter-current
in the house, which Alice could feel
rather than sec; and, as the days went
by, she began vaguely to fancy that
even her husband was different from
what he had been.
One morning, sitting st the window,
she saw a carriage loaded with trunks
drive up.
“Dear Felix,” she cried, running to
where her husband sat in the library,
“have you invited company^”
Colonel Fountain reddened a little.
“Company!” repeated be. •Oh yas,
I see. I intended to have mentioned it
before. The fact ia, dear, my sister
Frederica is coming heie for a few
months. You are so young and inex
perienced that I thought, perhaps, it
would be better for her to take charge
of the housekeeping, for the present, at
least.”
Alice’s damask-rose complexion deep
ened into scarlet
“Have I in any way failed to
your wishes, Felix?’ said she,
stilled voice.
“No, no; but Frederica though
“Ido not want to hear what
erica thought,” said Mrs. Fountain
quickly.
“And Cherry is getting so lawless,
and Willie is positively ungovernable,
and Frederica says that the house needs
a firmer hand to rule it,” went on Col
onel Fountain.
“Do you think so, Felix?”
••I? Well, no. not exactly; but yon
know pet, that you are voung to be at
the head of a household like tnis.”
A1 ice bit her lip.
“Why did yon not think of that be
fore you married me?’*said she.
“Now vou are getting childish. Al-
said her husband gravely. "I
Frederica is
I wind swirling from ice-fields
And io! bchi.ft out-twlnkllhg, star on star.
The lights of homr far shine with rays all
magical.
How blest beyond alt knowledge, love, were
wo
If but one light might glow for thee and me.
II.
Unheeded then should be the storm-swept sky,
Unheard the wind, the rattling of the sleet
Against the pane, for oh! thy presence
sweet.
Thy hand—thy voice—thy fond, approving
eye
Wonld make for me « May In mid-December.
I should not mind the landscape bleak and
chill.
The shrouded plain, the drift-encumbered
hill.
I should forget the Winter to remember.
Alas! Alas! that bliss may never be;
The Winter with Its gloom will puss away,
And here, before this window, llow'rets gay.
By south winds kissed, upleap—but oh! for
me,
Inth e snd Winter of love's discontent
I must lorever dwell in languishment.
—Ada Iddiiips Gu!c, In The Current.
THE NEW WIFE.
‘•‘Miss Cherry, Miss Cherry, it is time
to come in!”
The old stable-clock struck six as
Nurse Nancy stood with her hand
shading her eyes—the sun was sinking
behind the fringe of willows that out
lined the river, and the dead leaves
iliittcred to and fro upon the brick-
paved walk that extended beneath the
csimlier of pear-trees.
And Cherry Fountain, sitting in a
low rustic chair on the river-bank, nev
er stirred.
"Mi.-s Cherry,” reiterated the old
nurse; cold yourself, you might have
sonic consideration for Master Wil
fred.”
"Nancy, don't interrupt,” cried
Cherry, petulantly; “we are happy
here. Willie and 1. Why can't you let
us alone?”
“Dut your papa is asking for you,
Miss Cherry. Ho lias come home, he
and your mamma.”
“He and his new wife, you mean,"
said Cherry with a enrl of her lip.
Hut little Wilfred jumped up and
pulled eagerly at ids sisters dress.
“Lot's go in. Cherry,” said ho; "I
love papa. And 1 want to see my new
mamma.”
Cherry rose slowly and reluctantly,
but before she could pick up her books
and shawl, a light ligure, dressed in
some glistening white material, came
running out to the river shore.
"Where are the children?” said a
soft voice; “I want to see the child
ren.”
Willie, an affectionate little fellow of
eight years old. run into the arms of
ids young stepmother, and overwhelm
ed her vyth kis>os, which were most
cordially received, but Cherry hung
back with defiant glances.
“Come here, darling,” said Mrs.
Fountain. “Why. yon are nearly as
tali as 1 am. Papa,” turning archly to
the bridegroom, who had followed
more slowly her flying footsteps, "you
never told us that tins Cherry of ours
was almost ayoun^ lady. ”
“Because I didn't realize it myself,”
said Colonel Fountain, caressing one of
Cherry’s long brown curls, and think
ing, even at that inauspicious moment,
how much like her dead mother she
was growing. “Cherry, this is your
new mamma. You must be great
friends witii her!”
The tears brimmed info Cherry’s
eyes—her lips quivered.
Mrs. Fountain’s quick eye saw it all,
but she had too much tact to interfere.
She only kissed Cherry and clasped
her hand tenderly, and then began to
talk about the beauty of the river, all
reddened in the sunset,glow.
“They arc beaut.fit!children” shesaid
to her husband that night. “I am
sure I shall love them if only they will
let me!”
“I don’t think there will bo any
trouble aliout that, darling.” said the
colonel fondly.
Nor would there have been, if Cher
ry’s frank, generous soul had been left
to its own impulses. But the neigh
bors had condoled with her too sym
pathetically. Miss Darling, who would
herself have been glad to console the
handsome widower, had said plaintivo-
“You, dear Cherry, must remember
your mother's memory, although your
father seems to have forgotten it.”
And Aunt Frederica, tne elder sister
of the deceased lady, had ostentatiously
come to the house to remove all the
personal belongings of the late Mrs.
Fountain, during the absence of the
colonel on his wedding-tour.
“I dare say your new ma will be for
flinging all these in the fire.” said she.
“I only hope she will be kind to Willie,
poor 6hild!” **
“If she is not,” flashed Cherry, “she
wHl have me to settle with.”
But Aunt Ftederica, only groaned
and shook her head.
And it was in this spirit that Cherry
was prepared to meet her father’s sec
ond wife. Small wonder that Alice
Fountain found it well-nigh impossible
lo win her love.
“This was your dear mamma’s favor
ite flower-bod. Cherry,’ said the bride
one morning. “Willie told me aa You
and I most make it our care to keep,
the place always bright and loyely ”
Cherry blushed « little as she glano-
ed down at the weed-grown parterre.
“There is no occasion for troubling
yon,” said she. “1 can take care of it
1 shooktUkie toMelpyou, dear,
I am so fond of gardening.” T
to do it myself,” said Cher-
prefer!
^‘Mrs. fountain looked at her wistful-
S , hsflUeaid apthing sure joat then. In
«afternoon she earn# to the little
“ thinks i etmU
rntth-yo* end
“Mamma is always right.” echoed
Cherry and Willie, showering caresses on
their recovered treasure.
For, by some magic spell, Alice had
contrived to convert the whole family
at last It was never “my stepmoth
er” again, it was always “Mamma
Alice. ’
What Is a SavageT
No one wonld call the ancient Brah-
meet
in a
Fred-
man’s savages, and yet writing was un
known to them before the third century
B. C. Homer, quite apart from hw
blindness, was certainly unacquainted
with writing for literary purposes. The
ancient inhabitants of Germany, as de
scribed by Tacitus, were equally ignor
ant of the art of writing as a vehicle of
literature; yet, for all that, we could
not say with Gibbon, that with them
the nobler faculties of the mind had
lost their powers, the judgment had
become feeble, and the imagination
languid. And we find that the use of let
ters is by no means an indispensible ele
ment to true civilization, we should ar
rive at the same conclusion in examin
ing almost ever}’ discovery which has
been pointed out as a situ qua non of
civilized life. Every generation is apt
to consider the measure of comfort
wbicli it lias readied as indispensable
to civilized life, but very often, in small
as well as great things, what is called
civilized to-day may be called barbar
ous to-morrow. Races who abstain
from eatinj' the flesh of auimals are apt
to look on carnivorous people as sav
ages; people who abstain from intoxi
cating drinks naturally despise a na
tion in which drunkenness is preva
lent. What should we say if we enter
ed a town in which the streets were
neither paved nor lighted, and in which
the windows were without glass; where
we saw no carriages in any of the thor-
onghfares, and where,inside the houses,
ladies and gentlemen might be seen
eating without forks and wearing gar
ments that had never been washed?
And yet even in Paris no street was
; pavsd before 11H6. In London Hol-
! born was tirst paved in 1417 and Smith-
; field in 1614, while Berlin was without
; paved streets far into the seventeenth
century. No houses had windows of
f 'l&ss before the twelfth ccntnry, and as
ate as the fourteenth century anything
might be thrown out of the windows at
Pam after three times calling out
“Gare 1’eau!” Shirt* wore an inven
tion of the Crusades, and the tine dress
es which ladies and gentlemen wore
during the Middle Ages were hardly
ever washed, but only refreshed from
tine to time with precious scents. In
ice,
shall begin to believe that
right about your temper!”
Mrs. Fountain could endure no more.
She turned aud left the room.
Colonel Fountain looked earnestly
after her.
Like most men, he hated scenes, but
nevertheless, his conscience pricked
him a little. He half rose, as if to fol
low her. and then he sat down again.
“Frederica says 1 ought not to give
way to her in everything," said lie.
"And perhaps she is right. Frederic*
tlduks the children should receive a
little more of my attention. I’ll g©,,,,„ ,.
and walk through the garden w u h , J, 650 aro L ther * in
them now. Of course the poor j 1 M -1 * b o “p™ than cenriages
liuifs ought not to be neglected because on ^.. on ? !,, Jf Queen, the other
I have ninrriod aernin ” I Diane Poitiers, and the third to
Rene de Laval. In England coaches
iso called from the Hungarian kossi)
date from 1580, though whirlicotcs
I have married again.
Half an hour later Alice looked out
of the casement and saw her husband
coining out of the greenhouses with
Cherry fondly clinging to his arm, Wil
lie trotting on before, and Aunt Fred
erica following with both hands full of
the rare white grapes which the old
gardener partca with so reluctantly.
“ 1 hey are happy enough without
me," she said lo herself, with a sharp
sudden pang at her heart; "I am only
an intrudornere.”
When Colonel Fountain came up
stairs to dress for dinner, he fouijd the
room empty, but a little note lay ou
the bureau.
“I>i auksr Fklix,” was what lie read on
tearing it open,— ‘1 hope vou will not blame
me lor leaving your house. But I have de
oiled that 1 cannot live whore 1 sin not
loved and trusted thoroughly, if you and
Cherry can be happier with Miss Frederica
than with me, 1 cheerfully abdicate In her
fa\or. One tiling Is certain—there cannot
be two niistrestn-s in a home. And I will
try to he as happy as possible with mv Uncle
Wiiloinrhby in tne meantime.—And please
do not forget that 1 am still your loving
Alice.”
Colonel Fountain's first impression
was that of hot anger, bis second a dull
despair. But Auut Frederica pursed
up her lips.
“Depend upon it, Felix,” said she,
“the girl is tired of you. I do despise
these chits that never know their own
mind!”
“Be silent,” said Fountain hoarsely.
"You have ruined me! Is not that
enough?”
A week of Aunt Frederica's rule com
pletely discdchanted the whole family.
Cherry burst into tears one day when
the old lady was especially exacting.
“I wish I had my mamma back
again,” said she impetuously.
“Your sainted mother, dear child,”
groaned Miss Frederica, “is iu heav
en.”
“But I mean my mamma Alice,"
sobbed Cherry. “I do miss her so
dreadfully! 1 believe she really loved
me. And—and 1 do love her, and I
wish 1 hadn't behaved so horridly to
her. There!”
“Can't wo bring her home?” shouted
Willie. “Nobody remembers to help
me with my sums, or to cut out paper
ships for me, ’bow that mamma is
gone!”
“We will bring her home,” said the
Colonel, who was just then particularly
exasperated at discovering that Miss
Frederica had been transforming Alice's
boudoir Into a bedroom for some fourth
cousin who was contemplating an ua-
invited sojourn at the house.
And Alice, sitting solitary atid alone,
like “Mariana In the Moated Grange,”
was astonished that very day by the
unexpected vision of Cherry herself.
“Mamma,” said the girl, half bash
ful, half eager, “dearest mamma, will
irt
back to the fourteenth century. So far
as we know, neither Dante nor Be
atrice used forks in eating, and yet we
should hardly class them as savages. —
Max Muller, in Uu KxneUentk Century.
said she. * /
Kald
kaipvTMKiayoor
vou forgive us all, and particularly me?
Will you come home to us again? W«
are so lonely without you, and papa
lays ”
But Alice had sprung to her feet and
dlaspcd hertfepentnut stepdaughter iu
her arms.
“Will you really love me, dearest?”
said she. “Oh, Cherry, Cherry, if yon
could bpt know bow I have pined for
ydurlover’
Bo she came home again, this than In
An undivided kingdom, for Mies Fred
erica and her sisters had politely been
tnraed out of doors: the boodhtr was
ttsslf again, and Colonel Fountain eras
waiting on the threshold to wsleo—
her hack.
“My dear,” said he, 1 have made a
tool of mynelt 1 see it aU now. ft,
shall not happen asnoond time,”
•‘Did 1 do righi Feiixrsbe
t«t, oM> was so
Professional Dlgnltj.
Doctors are fond of talking about the
dignity of the profession, and do their
best to uphold it. An eminent London
physician once told me, in conversa
tion, that he makes a point of never
thanking his patients for his fee when
he takes it, but simply pockets it as a
matter of course as his due. I presume
he would similarly disdain to ask for it
should the patient depart without of
fering to pay. They sometimes do
this. A friend of the writer, who was
once treated thus by a lady richly at
tired. stopped her just os she was mak
ing her exit, and in tln» blandest of
terms begged to be allowed to look at
the prescription again for a moment,
lie looked at it for a few seconds, and
then, tearing it across, threw it into
the tire. “Ladies ip silks and satins,”
he said, “call generally afford to pay,”
and calmly rang his bell for his servant
to nsher in the next patient.
Doctors occasionally get the worst of
it, though, when they stand too much
on their dignity with patients. A local
ractitioner in a country town was one
ay sent for to visit a child in the fam
ily of one of his patients. On arrival
he found his little patient had been ail
ing for some days, and asked wby he
had not been called in before. “Oh,”
said the mother, “we have been giving
it a bottle of E——’s stuff,” mentioning
a patent medicine prepared by a veteri
nary surgeon well known in the coun
try, and a bottle of which she had ob
tained at the chemist’s. “What!” ex
claimed the doctor, “expect me to at
tend after a horse doctor?” and he
marched off in great indignation. The
father of the child was a baker, and
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Is Slowly Writing; lllmortf to
for His ComrtltiMsnta.
supplied the doctor’s family with bread.
Next day no bread was delivered at
the doctor's house. The doctor's wife
put on her bonnet and shawl and went
out to call on the baker, respecting the
omission. On entering the shop she
saw the baker’s better-hall, and polite
ly intimated that she had called to sav
that no bread had been left as usual,
and shs wonld b» glad to have some
sent. “Oh, no," was the reply, “your
husband won’t attend us as a doctor, so
we sha’n’t supply him with bread,” and
thev didn’t The doctor was forced to
deal with another and Inlerjor baker,
as similarly the baker had on the previ
ous day been forced to send for another
doctor.
v. I— • •
A Cleveland (0.1 machine company
has the first and only auger ever
manufactured that will bore a square
hole. lt| application is ordinary and
works on the same principle as ronnd-
hole angers. Its end, instead of having
a screw or a bit, has a cam motion
which oscillates a cutter mounted on a
steel rocking-knife which cuts on both
sides. In order to prevent the splint-
ering of the wood the ends of the cut
ter are provided with small semicircu
lar-shaped sawe which help ia cutting
out penectly square corners. It is es
timated that this new proems will
save the labor of three men who work
with chisels. An Ohio mu was the
Inventor. _
A Moatana man comes to the front
with a story about finding a save fall
■Tt petfCfiod rattlswahas Whan tho
4 whiskymake* a fellow see'em petrified,
jtauethunf a ohrnBtor atmjHjr awful.
CMw(AsA>
“It isn’t nil tlm norfume of flowers
and the sm > m „( fair women to be a
member <» i-i i-ress. We don’t feed on
locusts and vv Ud honey and sleep on
down,” n-ii,) a weary member as he
tilted back in his chair and brushed
aside th>- h tip of letters piled upon his
desk. 11c had a haggard look in his
eye, and hi* right hand hung limp at
his side with a pin between his fingers.
“If anybody thinks it's clover, let him
try it! I started out with the idea that
it was mv dutv to answer every letter I
got. Wall. I liaxe involved myself in a
problem rof geometrical progression,”
aad he t ointed in a despairing sort of
way at the desk before him, the adipic
waste basket by his side and the floor
about him—ail full of letters. “They
are accumulating every day. Everv
oq,e I answer brings two more, and 1
answer them all. Just think of it! It
makes my head swim. When I first
came here 1 used to go out a little. I
went to the theater occasionally, or to
an entertainment, or to a reception, or
to see a frieud. Now I go nowhere.
Each year I am more closely confined.
The walls are closing in around me,
and, like the man in the Tron Shroud,’
lam waiting for them to close and crush
me. I’ve stopped going oiU- I leave
my oommilteo-room at the capitol only
to go to mv desk at home. I swallow
my dinner whole, as it were. I write
late at night—later each night. The
progression is working out, and my
mail’s bigger each day. Presently I
shall have to ait up all night; then re
duce my meal* to five minutes; give up
smoking. Write, write, write! Oh—
weli—think! ’Tis a terrible doom;
slowly to write one’s self to death.
The pile of letters is up to my n;ck.
Soon it'll he over my head -daylight
will he shut out—and—then —!
“No, sir: wo don't live in clover.”
And he drew in a long breath and
settled himself down in his chair as if
resigned to his impending doom.
“Why, it started this way—it always
h is a start; any member will tell you—
it started tiiis way: As soon as I gut
to congress I got a letter from one of
my constituents congratulating me
upou my election, and saying that he
knew now there would be some legis
lation; the constitution should not be
violated; I must introduce a bill iu the
house to prohibit fishing in mv dis
trict witii three hooks to one line—
’twas unconstitutional. 1 answered
that letter, bewailing the utter disre
gard of congress for the national fish
eries. and explaining the utter useless
ness of attempting class legislation.
1 got four letters from that neighbor
hood by returning mail, and they kept
on increasing until tho entire popula
tion was represented by autograph let
ters. My promptness to answer any
and all fetters was heralded all over
the country, And I was asked to pass
all sorts of bills, from one to regulate
the length of prayers to one for the
suppression of kissing at pound parties.
One man wanted to Know whether the
rope Guitcan was hung with was hemp
or cotton. I referred this letter to the
department of justice. The attorney
general indorsed it to the warden of
the jail, who returned it to me with a
minute official description of the rope
—the material, length, and manner of
make. This contributed largely to in
crease my correspondence. Everybody
wiio had something to write about
that no one cDe would notice was told
my address, with the assurance that 1
loved to write letters. A large num
ber of my letter* now are applicants
for places under the new administra
tion. One man want d a place that
would take him to Canada. He did
at par;:cuiar place.
His
not know w
doctor toid him that it would benefit
his heiritn to iivu there, and if 1 would
just look around and tiod a place there
for him with it pretty good salary at
tached lie would like it. But, by tb*
way lie had children just growing up.
I might take this into couaider&tiou,
and get him located where there were
good free schools.
“Another fellow wrote that he would
leave it to me to ulck out his place for
him, but I mustn't get the salary be
low $1,300. He thought I’d be a bet
ter judge of good places than be was.
“Some men may refer these letters
to the waste basket, but it don’t do.
They must be answered. I must write;
good-by. I mustn’t waste more time
talking. I’ll have to sit up late to
make up for it I must write. The
walls are dosing around me.”
“Well, mv good fellow, what can I
do for you?” and he turned to a sup
pliant m soldier clothes, who stood at
his elbow with persistence in his face
and a glased cap in his band.
“I’m an American by adoption. In
’59 I married an American woman with
a mule—her grandfather left it to—”
But at this point the petitioner was
thrust aside by a Mexican pensioner,
who wore three medals and bad been
a personal friend of Win Scot*’
wanted his pension increase^.
ington Star. ^
Cuffs and Collars in the Weet.
CHAMOIS.
SoaMthlaS Afcsnt Hm Alptns Ants top*.
That chamois are capable of passing
places that even a eat would hesitate
at is well known to every one who has
wandered much among the high Alps.
A few months ago l was in the -wild and
desolate region of Pis Vail red. where it
overhangs the great Grialetsch Glacier
in the Canton des Grisons. From thu
glacier I traced chamoia-tracks, high
up over some very steep snow slopes, to
where the slopes ended, at an absolute
ly vertical wall of rock. This wall pro
jected like a buttres*. and was proba
bly fifty or sixty feet broad, and 400
feet to its base, while all al'ove was
nothing but overhanging cliffs. On ti a
oilier side of the buttress the snow-slotie
was continued, and here the tracks
recommenced exactly on a level with
the other one*. How had the chamois
passed that wall? That they had pass
ed it was certain. If it was by a leap
it must have been a terrific one, and in
their flight they would have bad to de
scribe a horizontal curve like a bow.
The more likely explanation is they
found cracks in the face of the rock,
for their wonderful feet, though even
with the aid of a good field-glass I was
unable to detect the presence of the
slightest lodge in the precipice at that
spot In spite of their surefooted ness,
however, these animals do sometimes
come to grief. Mr. Why super, in his
“Ascent of the Matterhorn,” relates
how he found a chamois in the neigh
borhood of the Stockje, at the head of
tho Zmutt Glacier. The animal had
slipped on the upper rocks, rolled over
and over, down a slope of debris, with
out being able to regain its feet; and,
its horns catching in a notch in the
rock, it xvas unable to free itself, and
had starved to death.
Recently I met a hunter with a cha
mois of forty pounds over his back,
toiling painfully down the lower slopes
of the Aiguille Y'ert, near Chamounix.
He had been on thu mountain for two
days, the result being tho one animal,
which lie had only recovered with great
difficulty after he hud shot it, as it had
fallen over tho precipice. This is a
common occurrence, but it is seldom a
hunter will leave ills quarry behind
him. Three years ago some Germans
mountaineering iu the Bernese <Iber
ian d found tho decomposed body of a
chamois rostlug on a lodge of rock
about fifty feet below them; aad a few
moments later they were horrified to
observe the body ot a man on a grass
slope several hundred feet lower down.
By making a detour they managed to
reach the spot. The poor follow was
Iving on his back, bis gun-barrel bent
(fouble, and the stock smashed to splin
ters. His body was terribly mutilated,
and the face was decomposed beyond
all recognition. flis bony hand still
grasped the lock of his gun. The posi
tion he was lying in, and the chamois
up above, told their own story. He
had shot the chamois. It bad rolled
over on to the ledge, and in endeavor
ing to recover it he had lost his footing
and moat have been lying for many
weeks where he was found.
If once the sentinel buck of a herd of
chamois catches sight of a man, all
hope of coming up with them that day
is at an end. Under such circumstan
ces a hunter will often follow the tracks
over snow and ice all day, pass the
night in the shelter of some rock, take
up the trail again on the following
morning, when possibly patience and
perseverance may bo rewarded.
One of the number is alwavs in ad
vance, and another one soma little dis
tance in the rear. These are the ad
vance and rear guards. Occasional
they stop, sniff the air, and aean the
mountains, and at the eiightest indica
tion of danger they give the signal and
tho whole lot go bounding away as if
they had been caught up by a whirl
wind. If they happen to be on a gla
cier or snow-flela whon startled they
almost invariably make for tho roc ho.
This is probably the result of some in*
stinct which teaches them that theft
tawny color renders them less liable tc
be seen amongst the dark rocks than
on the snow.—London Graphic.
The San of • Woman’s Lifts.
“Don’t talk to me of the West,” ex
claimed ayoung man on an East-bound
train. “Tne West makes me sick, and
I’m getting back to Boston as fast as I
can go. No more of the boundless,
blooming West in mine, if I can help
it, and 1 think I can.”
“What’s the matter with the West?”
“Matter enough. Have last come
from a Rule town in Western Nebraska.
Had a store ont there. Laid in a big
stock, and fixed things np nice. Ex
pected a booming trade. If I do say it
myself, I had the nioe>t store in the
county. The people osme in to set
bat wouldn’t buy. The few that did
buy anything would eye me suspiciously
and never come back. Couldn’t sell
$fi worth’of foods a day, and had to
make an assignment. And all this be
cause—guess it if you sab.”
“GH» It m.”
“Because I wore cuts and a staod-
oellar. Ike man that wears suck
togs can’t da business behind n
counter out in that country. They
won’t stand H, He might as well ex-
peet to stop a kilaeara with i
finao.” —'
Oaring a CeM In the
The commonest type of cold is that
ct-llcd “cold in the hesd,’’ to distin
guish it from “cold on the chest.” This
“cold in the bead” has certain well-
marked symptoms—a feeling of jrtner-
al inalatH ts- exporicnoed. often ac
companied by a slight feverish sickness.
Then comes a sensation of fnlness in
the head, there is snoozing, a profuse
flow of tears, an irritating and copious
discharge from tho nose. This means
thst tho mucous membrane of the nose
is inflamed, and if this spreads down
the back of the throat, the sufferer be
come.* hoarse. The best way to treat
this troublesome complaint is to take a
“hot drink.” An orange sliced and
put into a large cup with a little sugar
sprinkled over it. and boiling water'
poured tipo i it, and then drunk as hot
a* possible, is both pleasant and bene
ficial. Tho feet should bo put into hot
water, with or without a little mastard.
Tho foot-bath should be taken at the
bed-side; tho patient should be well
wrapped up, and a blanket placed
across his knees should be drawn out
side the bath, so as to confine the
steam. After keeping the feet iu the
water for from five to ten minntea, .the
pationt should lose no timo in getting
into bed, where he will probably derive
great benefit from the general feeling
of warmth, and from the flow of per
spiration which has been induced. If
possible, at this stage, the patient
should remain in bed for two days,
with a fire in his room, which should
be n ell made up at night, so ns to keep
alight till morning. But keeping iu
bed will do little good if the patient
persists in holding a newspaper or a
book to read, for thereby he is more
dangerously exposed to the cold than if
he were up, dressed and going about as
usual. The main point is to keep
thoroughly wrapped up and constantly
warm. Even an uncomfortable de
gree of heat may be beneficial.
A small piece of camphor chewed
and sucked, is very good. So is the
inhalation of sulphurous acid gas—«
remedy which was fouad to be in con
stant use by tho weavers of Kircaldy,
who had it among the materials of their
work. Buy two ounces of snlpharoos
ncid (dilute) from a chemist, and then
take out the cork and inhale— through
the nostrils only, of oourse—the pun
gent gas which Is given off. Some use
Furrier’s snuff, and find benefit there
from ; but it must be used cautiously,
as it contains a powerful drug—to-wft:
morph a. Ten or twelve grates of
Dover's powder taken in gruel at bed
time is good for an adult, but should
not be administered to chlldrea, as it
contains opinm, which should sever be
given to them without a doctor’s pro
scription. To avoid an unpleasant
excoriation of the noee end upper Up
during the course of a cold is the beau,
thev should bo often washed thoroughly
with soap and lukewarm water, and a
little vaseline should be applied. If the
throat feels sore, a chlorate of potash
lozenge should be suoked oeoasionslly.
— The Family Doctor in Household
Words.
Au occasional personage in toolety
is the young woman who does not In
the least care for the oompanionthip of
other women. To her an afternoon
tea or a “hen lanch” is like soup with
out salt It does not at all matter that
the women may be bright and clever,
leaders of fashion or notables in a
worldly wav; after all they are but wo
men, and all the bright talk, all the
ready smUes, all the grace and charm
of manner that are current coin at
such gatherings, are but awful wastes
of raw material. If she is a person
decking in refinement she does not
nearly disguise her impatience, her sb-
soiqte weariness, her conviction that
hourt spent with them are lost And
even if she is tactfnl it is often appar
ent that her Mode and manner intend
gnurious patronage, and the gentle en-
dunnoe of a boredom that she cannot
am*, dtfhen the men come in it it
ko the theatre by elec
tricity. All the dimly guessed at femi
nine attractions flash into view. There
are smiles, laughter comes readily, re
partee is ouick, and archness most
arch. To this young woman the mac
is as a glass of champagne He is Ut*
erally and figuratively the sun of her
existence,—Acw Orleans Times-Demo-
ml. *
mm m ■ , —
Hanging Makes the Masclee Rigid.
The htiycl
r**r
Co.,
last
wKk no
South CwwihM
the I
Catholic Knights ot.
in New Yoct tort wt
Tenetr rep remits I
-At Qrayeen.
the exploeton of gl
stove works, three
kfHed and two were bedtyr t
—▲ apodal from
‘‘The levee -at Woodiaum fM
DOOW DCTwp MM PWMBf MM v
tation and pert ot femrat M»
merged.”
—A reduced
Statue of liberty'
World has been fbcneilj
the Amerieaft resldeete
capital to the i
—The President has appal
C. Tanner, of South CaMti
Consul of the United States
nit*. Tanner was a CooMi
under Hampton, and insitaii ■H
dier.
—A disastrous ira occurred at 1
trace, Tenn., on Ttieeday ntgtl
•tores and their con toots
Two persons alooplwff in poo
•tores are missing. Loos Sous
to $40,000.
—Some negroes ia
relied over a game ot eardto<
ensued ia which kitivee n
were freely need. It ia i*M
fire of the party wan kUMd^
are wowadadi
Khartonm, is, aeaarflag te~
reived by aouse of
Vienna, stfll alive and a
El Mahdi’s heads.
—Owing to
Great Falla aa
near Hoekii
». C., will
Two hundred i
be tfa row e-oat
—Nearly every one
crofters erfao oattioi
Richmond eooattaa.
have returuod to fhi
change ot ettawfea a
done of lift aroiooj
—In Pika
last, white
elope with
tered Frhakl
the melee «fc
stabbed
—Ou
ta(l einetroU
crushing tfie i
V •S v
» spirts
wflTbe
Honor* to tlie Dead In *
When a man dio*, the first Care ot Us
friends I* to place at the door ot the
house a cup of cold wntof, a custom for
which no satisfactory reason is
ed. Then a suit of reuMy good ol<
must bj burned, together with moot df
the de.id man’s wardrobe—his
and shoe*, bed aud beddin
pipe, horses, houses, sedan chair,' aad
any other possessions which he la likely
to oare to have with-trim, tor be Wffl
require all thess things la die
world, and his reception there
nonsMerabiy better if he entree well
clothed than it would be should, ha
appear in beggarly want It la con
sidered that genuine artfoies should be
sacrificed for i-is original outfit, though
paper representotloet are equally dto
cr.cious later. For the same reason It
is most Important that all funeral
arrangement* should be the vary
that ean be procured; and the survijppe
often impoverish themed res for yeans
to provide what I* considered a decent
burial. The eorfwe mast be arrayed hi
new clothes, witii a cap and matin
(nucha dress as the docraied would
have hired for (he day had bo been gm
ing to attend a feast.) Tbs ooflin, tub,
mast bo handsome and expensive, This,
however, is so very important that per
sons who oan posstbly afford it pur
chase their coffins dnring their life; and
the most acceptable gift which a duti
ful son oan offer to his parents is a fiat
solid set of “longevity boards,” that
they may have tho satisfaction of super
intending the making and varnishing
of their own coffins! In like manner
the provident Chinaman iikee to secure
bis grave and that of his family during
hi* lifetime. 8o e ftoomaneer is em
ployed, at a high rate of pay, to ascer
tain at what spot the Fang Shut is nosh
favorable, and there land is
vaults are prepared, aad a a
the shape of a horseshoe lb erected
above each grave. It k of the utmost
importance to secure a spot weH shield
ed from the baneful, lighting iafiuencee
of the north, but fully exposed to aff
skeet influences from the south. Booh
a grave is so well pleasing to the dead
family bold-
assured.—
Quarterly Review.
-Thu i
can Tl
Yoek
volutoes
y*»by
trust
«o^
flsusnl
teat
r a
a grave is so wen picanng u
that the prosperitv ot She fa
ing such ground la almost
The British Quarterly Revies
It is strange bow a little steady prase-
ore on the windpipe tffeots people. Ot
course It chokes them, bnt that is no
reason why they shouldn't be able to
move their limbs. They seem to las'
all control over their muscles and give
right In. I remember a ease that oc
othred In Brookville, Mm, when 1 was
a young man. A woman, the wife of a
wealthy sea captain, threw a skein of
yin ovwr the top of an open door one day
and sticking her hem) through the
bight that hang down doubled op her
knees so her feet oould not touch and
remained In that position notil she
choked to death. Oae woeM 'natural
ly think that when she became m-
eeosckms her muscle* would relax sad
allow her foot to drop to the floor, ha)
tot thb case, Hanging Ot
Iff ftftfcfeA ’MMr
as iron.—fltofeu OJefe.
A romantic young waiter-girl at a
hotel ia Ontario,Caa., came bear lesfaff
her life the other day by trying a footitii
experiment She haa heard an old say
ing that any girl who swallowed, a
chicken's heart raw would have for a
husband the first male person the shook
hands with, and, believing the proverb,
attempted to swallow a chicken’s raw
heart, bnt failed. Tt-e heart Vtttsk in
her throat and would at* move cither
way, down or up. A doctor was ealfed
by choking.
Some of oar
adopted the new
ciety news” ask
to Mrs. Attar's
looked la fit Mm.
etc.,
let’s tea and so
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