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Vol. XI f 1 •4- BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C M JULY 10, 1890. / FRANCIS F. CARROLL, fa Attorneyhat-Law, BAMBERG, S. C. „ pfflco over II. p. Folk 4 Go.'^ sfcQFe. fnar *20-1 A. HOWARD PATTERSON, ATTORN K \T- A.T-L* A W. BARNWELL C; H,, S. C. Will giyQ piQmpt attention to all bus- ^nojiK opYriisted to his care. January 9th, 1896. <3. M. 6REEN. . <P _ ' — ATTORNEY-AT-LAW! iJAU.NWKL,L CJ. Will practice in the State and United States Courts and give promp* atten tion to all business entrusted^ ^is care jan 16-ly A. T. WOODWARD, Attorney^at-Law BARNWELL, U. ;L. S. C. •Olflec over p<Mt ottuw. joet 18-1 y * Riphard-A. Ellis, ArrORNE Y AT / | W. BARNWELL C. p. vWlli {•rai-tkt' In all the* ('otirtn of the Sty^* ^nd trirr pionna atteation to all tMxinutf eu- Inietof to littir—■ L*y"Ofllct* over ToUd'm Drug 8Bore. iiiMfiZJLv T8IAKIBBEN7 Coroner’s Notice. AH Justices are directed here after to hold no inquests in this County unless s|»c,ciairy instructed by me. I can be found at niy olliee at Barn well every day prepared tq attend to the duties of my Office. 8. L. PEACOCK, Coroner Barnwell County.' ~~ r MONEY TO LEND The biuinofs of money lendkig here tofore conducted by Col. W. it. Duncan will be continued by tip; undersigned, atliie same place over the Bank of Barn well. Terms made easy, ai d Loans effected yith promptness and dispatch. W1 LL18 J. nU^CAN, J. J. BROWN. ' — ~ J7unary 9th, 18tH). .. 1 LEAN DOWN AND KISS ME. Going to Savannah. Hi HER GO» FA.IR NOTIG E. I Colored Excursion from RoU- JAan down and klas me, 0 vaj love, my own; The dajKta near when thy food heart will miss ^me; ' When o'er my low jreen bed, with bitter moan. Thou wilt lean down, hut canat not clasp or kh* roa, How strange It la that I, so loving thee And knowing we must part, perchance tomor row, Can comfort find, thinking how peat wilt be Thy lonely desolation* and tby borrow. t Apd then, and then, O mine own other port, Why should I grudge thee souie surcease of weeping? * , Why cob 1 not rojoleo that In thy heart Sweet love will bloom again when l am sleep lug? Nay, make no promise; I would piece no ban Uppn thy future, oven wouldst thou let me; Thtai hast iiiast truly loved me, like a man. And, like a man, thou wilt, indeed, forget me. Why should I enro—so irt*ar the Infinite— Why should I care that Uiou w ilt cease to misi me? ' ‘ Ah. me! these earthly ties are knit so tight; Quick, quick, lean lower, O my lore, and kiss IDO I —George Newell Lovejoy In New York Ledger. breatib, and looks Ukp a black cat with fiery eyes.” ; “Is that bo?” said old Zapf. “Does it come to you like.a black cat? When it contcs to me, it looks quite different I assure you.” “Tell me about it, neighbor,” I “ ‘Ob,’ she answered wjth a laugh, ‘through the keyhole,’and at the sumo ti.mq she showed her little pearly teeth, till my-head was completely turned. Then she continued^. *1 hayo left my situation and am going back where I came from, and as, 1 was passing by UNAPPHCCIVITD FEET. m l :■ TRUE bogged, and Mr. Zapf, after a sip of i your house, 1 saw you sitting hem, and came in. * “ ‘You are not offended, are you? 1 only came to bid yon farewell.’ “‘To bid me farewell?’ I cried, grasping her hand. ‘That shall never the-brandy, began: “I was Working for a master shoe maker in this place and* was a healthy young fellow. One night | the nightmare came to me, and i when I told the master and appren- i tices about it the next morning, the master said i ‘Don’t eat so many pota* j toes for supper, and drink a little less , hole.’ beer, and the nightmare will let yo* alone.’ The others laughed, and I was si lent, for-an-appreni.ice must not con--“ Expericnca of a PliitaUcIplila Girl Who TrtoU to Startlu L ugtantl. English women, says The Shoe maker, have large feet and know it. They live up to thdm seroucly. aud wear great boots and ^ioe$, square toed, broad, flat heeled, with a nuiv- ette that amus“s and scaml.tlizos their American cousins. They don’t care tuppence for foot, hi tho great tide of An.erican girls th it rushed across thq be. You am Daipc, and mine you Khali Atlantic, last spring to rvvel in a Lon- always bo. And I will take care that j don Season tliwo was a gay little l^uila- you do not c^cape nuxliiixmv h 4be key* i-.6ciph.iuu, bright as a brand new dollar. Having sjx)kcn. 1 li us, 1 s prune 'otty, clover, but, a las! accounted to wan! the doyr ami p.; hed a tightly the-contest t>fb canty in rolled wad of nevvspu|K r into, the key irole=— THE NIGIITMAfiE. tradict thn master**. Now among the ^ounteynieu was a very olfi man, who seldom stayed long with any one mas ter, and had spent half Ins life on the- road from one place to another. He had traveled about the world a good bins and a/1 stations on the Tort Royal aud Augusts JMiioftd to Bavanumli,- Ga., on EridaTT A ugusLl’Dtb, "1890. A very grand time is anticipated in this modern'city with its many interesting scenery. It is certainly a rare opixir- tunity, espeeinlly to persons that were ^ever in tin* city of Savannah before. The best of order will be kept. Come and go. Don’t forget’the day, 29th of August. A ,L 8. M. CARTER. | gardetr 157 A: ATTORNEYbpAT-LAW. BARNWELLu. JI., S. C. * ,\Vi1l give prompt attention to aM bus- 4 ne** e a trusted |ji^ care, april i-S'J tho house in which I spent my childhood years was a large,* wild garden, stretching as far as tho crum- bling Jvy cohered city wall, and was called the convent garden. Probably the piece of ground had an owner, but I did not know him. I considered the “Then she was impvi,sotu*d.” “And what then, v h.-t then?” 1 urged. But tho old man pricked up his oars,-hastily seized tho brandy bottle and pushed it into his pocket. “Hush, she is coming,” ho said apprehensively. The door ojiencd and in pushed the | broad form of Mrs. Zapf. She threw j a heavy bundle of washing on 1 the ! in her native laud* decidedly-' plain. One good “point, indeed,* -nh^ possessed beyond question, and that w&sTier feet. They were simply bewitching. Small—she wore No. I -^slender, with an instop arched l|kh a Spanish son onus; they were things of beauty and joys forever, ft** j unp ''' J chased the rose bugs, w'Uich swarmed about tbe elderberry bushes, and w ith 5 ! a net captured swallow tail butterflies, which sunned themselves on the bios somiug onion stalks. _ But there was something more that garden. praliams Graded School GrP^hams* S- C» deal and had advice to give for every tiling. One evening he said to me: “ ‘If you want to bo free from the nightmare, you must stop up the key- 1 floor, making tho house tremble, and hole of your chamber door before you * lifted her nose suiflWg the air. „ “l! i go to sleep, for the nightmare comet ! smells of cooking hero,” she said. through tho keyhole .and has to go out j.. “It wan only a pair of poor litlk j tho same way. If she is outside whmi j gold hammora,” explained the puuter j you fasten up tho door slie will have | to remain outside, but if she is already tn tbe room, she will* become visible. I knewof sornebo<ly w!k> had a strange experience with the nightmare, aud ! tlm sbiry is true, for it has fxrtm print- ^ qf^the house, timidly. “Indeed?” continued the %woman.! “While I am out at work and drudg ing till the blood bursts from unde? my nails, the' old good for nothing sits at home idle, cooking birds and living ^.•KO W.CXOKT, Aikeu.“B: C. J. If. B;. kck iialtkk, | Ijariiwell, 8. JtVj Croft A Burckhaft % -A.'lTOUNRVlW A.T l.A B^^NWELL C. U. t S. £. ‘ -WRi in sll the Court* of State and in tin* United Staten Court*. Mr. Croft will altond the Court* of Barn well Comity and all matters of im. )N»rt«nee will rereivo tlic personal at- leniion «»f each memher of the tlrin. ittav 29-tf J lli v Day, Fir*t A**b*»ni» ^ J. Tvi.ku Sooond Afeistant aud Penman. « Miss E. A. McBavpa, Mutic. Fourth annual Kcssiou begins rtfst , Monday In 8eptem1x*r. Tuition|l*>, {I7.'»9 n V d SN) |x*r ses- ; sion of ten mouth*, according,to grade, i Music, $7 per month. , « i lie rd, $6,50 to $8 persunuth. Teaebc^* experienced, course of study l thorough and slAitdard of school high. I Write Superintendent atouce for cat- ] alogucsand particular*, j uj yJ-tf— Machinery. T. B. ELLIS. Jr., * ■ # .Surveyor and Civil Engineer. 8ls-iHaF»rt»*ntH»n "iron to Jte eonqmtation f ol *uU*r-i«o#er*<, l«'Vt-!iiiv and drainage. A |*0">tal rani addrv’*«i-d to me ai Martiux, 3. C., *111 n*eeive prompt attention. «s t lo sa.lv r Frank M. Mixson, AURYIYOK AMO ROTARY fOILIO. BLACKY ILLK, vS. C. J.aud Surveying In all if* ■btoac^es. Conveyancing a specialty.’ tiov Si-8* _ Winthrop Training School. Ames’ Engines and Boiler*. Elliott Dougins Cotton (tin. Witi*hip t 'otum Iiin. Bos* (’oium Uress (for steam or w atcr |x*wcr. i Band I\»w©r (Uutoit Press. 8aw Mills. (I.tddeH variable feed and I ordinary friction feed.) -—I -A Duplex Feed Mil! fgrind* corn and! cob in slunk (.ml any kind of stock feed. „ Cot ton. Kclh! Crusher. Osborne Reapers and Mowers. Buckeye Riding aud Walking CoULl vat/rs. ‘ * ^K rmaii Boil v r * \vth*.r (one hninlle.) j ! Khafting, Pulley*, Belting, Brass Fit- ! ; tings. t.«iii Bristles, (iiii Ribi?, Endless < ’ (fin Belt*. RtirWe order-' Engine#, Gins and j 1*re s«-j by the car load and give our pa- I trohs the hem tit of low rate* of freight, j Try our price*, w rite for catalogue* and look into the merfU of our ruaehiu- cry. r— >TONE S CAVAN Al GII, Cotton Factor* and Machinery, Cor. Reynolds and Jackson Sts. „ Augusta, (ieorgla. julvd . , 4'OK TEACHERS, < MBI A, 8. C.y - drew mo 4b tlio convent Ifcaning against the city wrall,»an4 glucxl to it Hko a cTumnoy iwallow’t nest, was a Httlo dilapidated house. The mortar had fallen away from the walls hero and thore, ihowiag the t , . framework. House leeks grew on tb$ ! . roof, and on tho ijtalls hung wire cagea, iu which finches sang their plaintive wood songs and big cross bills climbed restlessly up and down. In front of the house a magpie, which had lost-its toil feathers, was usually hopping aliont. In this'fyule house lived the old Zipf, and the old Zapf and 1 had struck up a friendship. Who was old Zapf? Projierly speaking ho was a shoe maker, but ho hud not worked at bis trade for a long time. Having become poor and needy, ho trained bullfinches, linnets and'other birds, made wire cages and prepared bird lime. But that brought him only a sorry profit; anJ if it had not been for bis wife he would have been obliged tp go hungry oftoner than ho ed. Because this lie rson was frequent- liken prince! Of course,everything j ly troubled by the nightmare, he had is eaten up but the tames. Qh, you ! fiHM up tits keyhole and really caught glutton! And you,” turning to me, j her; 8he ws formed like a bwuttfill "" A *Tmi'Tirw TW^mi ttyiTiWnff "of ’ » maiden and Utey stayed together Hand lived . happily^ w'ith one an other for a long time. One day i the man was tormented with curi osity. Was it possible, he thought, a woman could come and go through a keyhole? lie drew the wadding out of tho keyhole and what happened? The woman grow smaller and smaller and finally floated like a feather in tho air. Tho man tries to catch tho feather, but she escaped him. and like a cloud 'of smoke slipped through the keyhole. Then he had to sit down and quietly swallow his dis appointment.’ “This was the old Journeyman’s story. But I followed his mhrice and stopped up tho keyhole, and from that time 1 hod no more trouble.** “And is that the whole storyf* 1 asked. “No, this is only the lieginning. “Listen and I will tell you the reek “One Sunday afternoon I was alone in the workshop. “When the master and tho journey man went for their beer and to tho poring ovea your selmoi books, you; are idling with Uia old lasy bonei and listening to his lying stories. No giKxJ will ever comp of you; remember now what I say P “Wife,” said tho old man pacifying !y, “see here, whut he has brought) ua.” And with these words he handl'd j- her tho little Mini of money winch 11 had given him as a birthday present. 1 Then Mrs. Zapf grow more ntild v j Rho muttered something that sounded j like “Thank you kindly.” Thou *!,* ibosop; frieud. U» is always your bosom took a market basket aud went out te Ipnnd ~ wha aioks dn»ugro«tbi« m&ke some purclmscs for tho lion so- bona.) ' ■ V.v Good Advlro •" J eollod ««| _ Giving advice ing tho effects of hai quite another thing, fl Eichberg, tho well know? say* that ho once hod a* promising little fellow of ) who would not study. As the about to set out with bis famHy country, whero they were top summer, Mr. Eichberg asked 1 ho should do there. •‘Oil,” said Use boy* “I shall and pick (lowers and have ft time.” * '4- -•--•H-, r “Vest-but suppose you mode your mind to get Up an hour eftfi every morning to practice? ton would stilHravo Umo for sport, and in I the fall you would be able to Ptof tliosc yonatas ytni mlrniro,^ . , ,. j The result of tho conversation was and tho young womnn u> whom they that OiU» flung himself upon th« neck thdunged squauderod her s ib.unco hi of taw-teacher, irf whom lie was vote silk su>cki11gs- sin! -ravwhin r j shoes fond, and pixmiisod-to do what waft" when she was on thopoiut of starting \ asktHl of him. for England. j A few weeks later, as Mr. Each berg— “There,” sho Kigltcd~Ao herself, in ! was driving" through the mountains rapturous anticipation, “I shall ly ap- ! witfi hi* family, ho was one day do- preciated. My feet. Will probably ere- I layed, so that the hotel where they ate a furor, and, 1 should think, ought were to pass Ute night was reached aA to sectrrrtmrati ear) at least, 1 won- a late hour c>f tho nighL der if her -majesty will mention them , when I am (tgp*onted? It is my golden . opportunity; Iho chance of my lifo- ' timo i’*'-—r—~ —— She cama tanck to Newport in Aug- j ust a sadder and a wiser girl—without the ear], “It’s all a snaro and a deDrsforT,” she i poutod at tatm*iT—'tt? or trr-r-rm-*r—* frieiida “Those English -.rU .;avo feet Uiat are simply enormous-^UOl 1 - j mousi 1 only suw one who wore a smaller boot than 'seven. But they , havo no refiuonaent of feeling, no ar | italic sensitiveness at atL Not a soul over mentioned mine! Not a single soul i 1 kept them displayed as artless ly and prominently as I could wher ever 1 went, aiuL not one living hu man being spoke of thorn.*’ “Not tho queen?” suggested her The-accomodations were pom*, and the night was warm, and it was neat morning before tho travelers fairly got lo sleep, and it seemed to M*. Eichberg that he scarcely closed his eyes before he was aroused by tbe doleful aooinj of a violin in a room ovef-)if*iul, wtav* roafly did. Mrsr-Zapf was in great) , i* . ,, » - . , i . x* u i u j 1 bowurfg alley 1 preferred to stay at demand. Nobody in the city could do . t „ ” , , *. . ,» ,, / ... ^ i T. • i homo and stretch myself on the stove lino washing as well as she. Besides' . ^ , i m » i* . # „ , 6 i | . . ! bench, while I read a storv t*f some sho cleansed gloves and removed grease spots from wearing apparel | with a fluid of her own invention. Sho ' was a strong woman, with broad hips, a very iiko a Turk. But one did not notice robbery or else an instructive book, and'this was what I was doing that afternoon. But while reading I fell hold with tho money. “And now you will tell mo tho ond of thft story,” I bogged, when LliO dta- ! agreeable woman had gone. “That is all there is,” said old Znpf. 1 “But what became of tho nightmare you imprisoned? Did aho afterword get nwny from you? Mr. Zapf shook his head sadly, i “No,” ho said, “alio never has gone 1 away from me, sho stayed with me, and always will stay with mo till I am in my grave. You havo jiibtsoon ami heard my nightmare.” 1 remained silent and old Zapf too ! rclaiwod into silence. At last I cleared my throat and said: ^ * “Do you know, neighbor, what 1 would have done iu your place! J “-The queen r reputed the Philadel phian. “My dears," her vutioe sank to an impressive whisper, “my dears, 1 IG v<i ymi my word, whoa 1 saw her she had on low black slipjier*, some thing like auk to tics, and crowded into them her fat foe}, iu whito stockings! That’s the sort of tiling they odmu|L' over itierc!”—Ubetoft Herald. _ ^ i ,i *wl^cp, ami really tho nightmare came should have taken the wadding out ol! u “‘> ,H ™- w '' 1 , ' lj0 could s< ■ ol,, ! •- tn. win. anH sh a look..) lllto n i the Who),,.train." I Wmmm&te; NxnuwaU'ini me you hot? j*nrctiec in best nu*tliO(ta of teauhfiigt*— Are You Hungry? to girl* over IS years old. Session hegins Soptouiber I'J. * Crpduati * secure «;*Sih1 (Misitions. Each’comity i* given qwos«-lmlarsl»ip*;onchy Woi th jfL*) and one by the sc^pol wprih # $.M). j . If cither or both go straight to I 4 Athlress ]>. B. Jouxsov,' tpJpcrtaHvp- ( deiit, C’oloinbia, 8. C. ’ jun 12-Im Talbott & Sons, JEngiiaCs and 13oi.ler«* SAW MILL8 AND GRI8T MILLS, ^are acknowledged to beJ!; ever gold in this State. M lien you buy,one you arc jaitisftetl tlTat you havomado no mistake tVrite for our prices. Cotton Gin* and Cotton Presses ... d*ottoni figure.s. 7——— —- I can $ave you money. ** at »Y. C. BAPHAM, Ci XUNJSItAE A 4 OjKlSIX, * COLUMBIA, S. r C. R.L WILLIAMS & CO. '— * ■ ' # - Clark Street, Blackville, »S, (’. JCE. ICE. ICE, A von/'ant supply of the purest ice 1 Zapf looked out of the window, beck- that, for, as has already been said, alio wo* a clever woman. Sho worked early and late, but htlll there was often enough a very scanty supply of fo(Jd in the house, and tho poor old Zapf had few happy days. My mother occ.tsionally would send 1: ini eomethttrg ^roTTrtho~pantry ( imd at such times I was tho l>carcr. Then I would sit down in a rickety wooden chair, and tho old man would bring out one of his trained birds, or tell mo a ghost story, which 1 liked .still bet ter. What lent to these ghost stories a peculiar charm was the fact that the narrator had experienced them all himself. But if I should write down the tenth pail of thorn, it would make a book larger than the Bible. One day, in the latte autumn, old to me again, and she pretty buxom lassie. I aroused myself and rubbed my oyes, but the night mare did not disappear, but began to speak! ‘Will you not bo so kind aa to put a patch on my shoe?’ “ ‘With pleasure,’ I answered. ‘To bo sure- it is omsday, but it shall bo done. * ... “And then I looked at tho maiden. “Oh, but sho was pretty as a pict ure, aljout twenty years old, and when she looked at mo with her great black eyes—but you can’t understand about that, neighbor. “Rho took off her shoe, and I went to work; Then she told me that she had como from tho metropolis ond “Oh, you old saucebox!” said Mr. Zapf. “1 wits as clever as you are, and only fourteen days after 1 im* prisoned tho nightmare, but it wus o! no use. And besides, lutor on, after we were married, »I began to doubt whether my wife really wus a night j JOinra—Fur then she actually brought j- with her her certificate of baptism, and a true ghost has neither baptismal [ certificate nor any other pajKirs. And ; besides, some .of her relatives, as long ! as 1 was prospered, camo to visit me \ off and on. In short, I doubt whether | sho can go in uud out through key- | holes. But at .any rate it is well to ; take precaution, and if. as it is to be i*y wife, I shall kept on band for prices. [kstahu^uicp 1879.1 £ MOORE <& CO., WIlOLgeAL^T—r- FftUIT ANl/PRODli£E mrnBsmwwmGia nw, font High St. and 00 Nortk Market J’Uiee SPRINGFIELD, OHIO '’PURS: AVo cpll your stten- tir our market on Mijionj: attd lostly thgt you give it a active eaperience tf over f » in the trade We re vve.fi rip l y market to be ofue of the best Ohio, apd jvc being at the >f the trade vvill givae your.^hip- our prompt and personal attau- .insuring you the highest market Prompt returns and.the mar- -wire when raguestoff. Please r wire tor market* reports, sten- shipping in form ption. f * * ' KcitRectfuHy, OR El tional Bank, er*& Co., dOrR. MOORE it CO, iVst Nati It 8 a , 0h% M r . M. Efishei^, 'Uhi at live and let live oneii to mo and said: “If you did but know it, neighbor, today is my seven tieth birthday; but daii’Lleil a human being”—;whereupon I ran straight to my mother to tell her the news. My . , . , . good mother smiled, and a little later . fl JmK 1 t h r- vin ? A , ‘ rou f J h ta EKESII MEATS- i’he best Beef, Pork and Mutton that, can be obtaineil in this section, and worked in a linen establishment, tlrat ; hoped, I die before sho did npt know anybody in the city, j ask 8t. Peter for tho privilege of stop and ro forth, and so forth. ! ping up the keyhole of tho heavenly “The hole in tho shoe was soon ’ gate. Perhaps that will he of sonic mended, and when Aho found I would ! avail, and I shall be able to enjoy eter- take no pay, she smiled like ?Jay sun- j nal bliss without my nightmare.”— ! shine, pressed my baud and away she ; Translated for “Short Stories” from w ^ n L j the German of Rudolph Baurnbach by “Tho affair turned mv head, and ! Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole. Tho City Noat to Mow York. A story nliout Riq; rose illative Stahl- iK*cker which has born going the con grci ssioual rounds recently U it* la tod by hinu A-lf. He wus on u western train not lung ago w heu ho WHaaddressod by one of his companions as “Mr. Mayor.” A curious stranger with whom ha hud bctMi talking iu the smoking room leaned over and said; * “Excuse me, sir, but of what city arc you mayorf’ Mr. Stahlnccker replied quickly t “Of Hie next city lo New York." “ouroly,” said thaMmnger, “you do not mean Philadelphia?” '“No,”said Mr. Htaiilnccker. “No** lioitou,” Mud iIki stranger. “1 know tho muyor of Boston,” * Ko,*’ saO Mr. Stuhlueckcr."" “Well, then, what city do you mean?” “Probably, if you had been better acquainted with the geography of New Y’ork statp you would havo known that I meant Yonkers,” said Mr. Stahl- necker. “Yonkers, I belief^, is the city next to New York.—Gor. Now York Tribune. for the people must be fed. .Poultry uiid E^fgs- - TL3 luvt pitiu for 'Chickemt, Tiii Koys, Dm-ks. (i('**s(> and Guinea*. Don't sliip them off to strangers, but sell to ? R. L. AV1LUAMS A CO., Purveyor* for the Public, . - Blackvilie, 8. C. jM^Eggs wanted all the time. ’ ■' • , j unci 9 A FEW WORDS. 4Ijtving discontinued the sale of 1.1- qitors since the New Y?:ir BEIT DAVIES UAS been pusy [n selectin lecting a stock of GKNK ; ■' and col- AL MER- CHANiGSE that will' suit’th^ people by its I'tfiiipletencss and please thetr. pockets bv the moderation of its prices. The pindie generally and the ladies particularly are invited to call, ex amine goods and compare price;, \pilk those quoted elsewhere. > ^ - v ‘ ■' V'- ...» A.nd donT^’pii fprgct ','\ That you may be liappy yoi. If you bity.at BKN DA V1E8Store, .Where you’ll surely get U101 !® Gfiods for your money than at establish-; menu* that promise a heap and perform 'nothtRff ttorth talking about. BEX DAVIES, Barnwell C. H., 8. C. garden toward the old mam's house, laden with a loaf of bread, a little bot tle of cl terry brandy, a package of to- bacco and a little sum of money. Tho old man scolded me smilingly on account of my tattling, tasted tho drink, nodded his gray head with sat isfaction and turned to Ids workgain. That consisted in plucking some gold hammers whose necks ho had wrung. “Really,” he said, “it is a sin to take a singing bird's life, bat this one is a very common'* nuisance, so there is no harm in it. When he no longer finds anything to eat In the fields, be flics to the barns screaming: ‘Hire me! hire me!’ And after be has spent the whole winter long fattening with the farmers, and spring comes, then he flies away, crying: ‘Parmer, keep your wages.’ ^ So f have^o scruples about wringing the mean little crea ture’s neck, and besides the fellow tastes very good. Bull need a little butter or fat for broiling them. How would it do, neighbor, if you were to f o to your mother and ask her for a fctle butter.; she would not deny you ?” I brougfit what was required; the birds were broiled and a half hour later we sat opposite one another at the fes tival meal and Were in high spirits. “Don’t eat too much brown bread 1” admonished the old man. “It is too heavy for your delicate stomach, and ii you should overload trthe hight 1 mare would come and oppress you. Do you know it?" “Of course I do. When you are ly ing In bed asleep, it Grouches on your • eett. » Out yqgjMgl gt joui my tho next week I did not miss a single dance, for I hoped to meet the strange oung woman again, but I did not boo her anywhere. An extraordinary thought camo into my mind. What if after all she was the nightmare, I thought “Soon after a little property fell to me, so that t |was able to become & master shoemakers I established a work shop In the shoemakers’ street, and when I had everything in order I invited tho masters of tho art to a din ner. We had a high time. We had beer soup and roast' pig with vegeta bles in abundance. Besides wo had Bavarian beer to drink, and at last when we were all right merry I placed before my guests—there were eleven of them, and I made the twelfth—two bottles of wine. Then their eyes grew as big as saucers. ” Herejdr. Zapf stopped,in his kccount and took a swallow of brandy. “Go on,” I urged, “go on.’ f ^ “When the shoemaker^ had gone,” continued the narrator, “I sat down in ray easy chair, to rest from the ex citement and fell asleep.” “Aha 1” I exclaim excitedly, “I know now comes,the nightmare.” “Quite right,” affirmed Zapf. “Sud denly there stood before me, as if she had grown up ont of the floor, the otse of whom I had constantly thought in my waking and my sleepy moments. “She carried a bundle in her hand and said; . __ “ Don't take it amiss, master, that I give you a call* “ ’But miss,’ I asked, and my heart was beating Ilka a fire balL ‘how did yw> get inf- liespcct for Ills Flint Wife. A wayfaring couple canto to the home of a prominent uptown clergy man and asked to have the marriage ceremony performed. The bridegroom, a boyish looking fellow, was in deep est mourning from tho hat band, whose breadth entirely covered the shiny silkiness of his tile, down to his black gloves. . s During tho conduct of t he usual pre liminaries to tho service, thehlergy- man, partly from mild professional interest and partly to relieve the strain of the situation to the bridegroom, said: “You are in mourning, I see; is it for some one very near?” “Sr—well—yes, doctor,” stammered the man, “you see, I’m a widower, and my black is for my first wife.” “But bless my soul,' man, why didn’t you leave off black for your first wife before you came to, be married to a second?” asked the startled clergyman, pausing in the act of transcribing: “Ago of the bride, 23.” “Well, doctor?” h# - explained, “I wanted to do what was right by my first wife. ‘ She ain’t been dead quite a year yet, and I thought it was only de cent to keep on my black till the year I was up, you know.” — New Yorkj Evening Sun. An Authority, Stranger (in western newspaper of fice)—Beg pardon, sir, but myself and friends need help tp “decidera bet. Have rod a copy of Hoyle?.. Old Importer—No; don’t need If the dispute is a;mai;*g about go into (but room acroM tbe hall r T - f*— i'*** **• ; •?♦?£*«* Tho Stone* Furnished the Clew. Out iu Jtao wild west a mail bag emptied of vaXBble coijUsnta by parties unknown and filled with stones. The loss was not discovered until tbe bag reached its destination, aud no one had any notion where the theft was committed within a thousand miles of the journey. But a petrologist was shown the rocks, aud ho said at once that there was only one place in "the United States where such were to bo found. Ho told where the place was," and a detective going there—it was 450 miles away—found two Chinamen ut work iu an isolated spot, where, it was subsequently remdmberod, the robbed train had stopped for water, lie promptly charged them with the crime, anti they were so taken by sur prise that they confessed it. So-much discovered for rocks.—Pittsburg Dispatch. some one was at work upon an witk which tlie Hsttaier wwrm&g; too familiar. • “JTorAnlhternunable hour ho about, hoping tlpU the noise cease; then ho rote and drawed luisicuod to tho office of the hotel t6 proton. “ * “ . ' “Yea, itiseomethinf of a nuisance,* 1 tbo clerk answered, coolly, “but we are used to it here. The boy has played every moruing this summer, aud i| was in tho bargain when they took thft rooms that ho should be allowed to do it.’* H was evidently of no 3 plain to the clerk, and ' relieved his mind by should at least like to mm < the violin. “Oh, you can see him If to," the clork raid. “lie Has! downstairs. You will find side there." Away hurried tbe guest, tbe morp irritated by tho way in which bis ro- moustraiKH) hod been received, and be fore the door on the lawn stood a trim little lad with his face turned away. ' “Are you tho boy," demaiKled Mr. Eichberg, sternly, “that has been mak ing such u poise on the violin for an hour?” * The boy turned and looked at Uni! at first with an expreaeioo of frightt then, with a cry of ioyoue reoogiiiuoo, little Otto flung himself impulsively into his teacher’s anna “Oh, my dear Mr. Eichberg," be cried; “I am so glad to see you I I hava got up and played every morning just as I promised !"'~Yfouth1| Companion. HU Memory DeealvoU Him. A man who' w«s accused of uijgjj| UP. ft plea vL Insanity, hoping to elude punishment. Professor Meu- dol, of Berlin, was deputed to examine the prisoner and report on the Mote of his mmd. He found the man lying ia bed. To all the questions that he put, such as how old lie was, where ha lived, what he was called, the potieul ' invariably replied: * ‘ “I don’t know." Then Professor M took sixpence out of his purse and asked again how much it was. don’t know," was tho answer, an. before. I‘ Tho doctor then asked for the pri* oner’s purse, out of which he took a shilling, and once more the man de clared he didn,t know its value; whereupon Professor M—put the sixpence into the prisoner’s purae while - transferring thexbilling to ids own, Here the patient interfered, saying: “Why, doctor, ypu’ve made a mis take.” The imposture was laid bare.—Bre mer Courier. v'l- ■ _ ■ ' t 7 Tlio Right lliuil of a [><,*&©. A New York doctor &ays that the | great majority of phyricians. prescribe too large dpues, aud that the gi'eat mar jority of patients' take at least one- fourth more for a dose than directed. The bettor way would seem to be lo make yourself a tonic? of burdock and molasses and leave it down cellar in a cool place.—Detroit Free Press. A Cu*e of IngrarttnU*. “If ' I saw a woman drowning 1 wouldn’t try to save her,” bald Jcuks. ‘‘They are seldom grateful. Isaved a Woman’s* life mice aud—weiA, now she -irniy wife. "• • ' ... “Do you call that ingraUtudef* >■ ;"5 “Gh, put you she often tells nM she wishes I had let her drown. PhUadciphia Times. ^ “Johnny is very popular with kit teachers." / - -.v. - > • ; Flecrliqf Buffalo ISII1. i: - BuffaJo Bill’s first performance ip Naples was pretty well attendod,but, ok counting up the receipts, the cashier' that over two thousand francs in spurious bank notes liad been "paid in at the ticket office for which change Imd been given in good, genu ine, hard cash. Col. Cody hunrte4 off to the prefecture in great excite* . moot to lodge his complaint, P* ■ civil functionary, after listening to his grievances, could ftml nothing bet- «; ter to say than, “Che gran popoiof* 1 [Just like tboao ltaltanst What a ’ grand nation!].—Exchange. In Iho. Gtummmr SahouL Teacher-Freddy, you may go to tho principal's room aini see if ho is in, aud t hen coma and teH me. Freddy (on his return)^ Uiela. Teacher Freddy went it out,- A* gratifying.* They norm 9 o'clock.* j* 1 < :; " ■ Itjss * *r» ■ .i. 1<4U — - ’■ tfi