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1 ATTOftNCY-AT-LAW,
DarnwHl, S. C.
to k*Tut oft farm*.—•
Town kits nnd loipnmyf farm
•ifor salH. Hill nvirti*hO0
| sates of cleared and ttrobff
• ; lands and buy school and < ‘
! ty claim*.
BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., MAY 21,1891.
No. 38
mm
WHEftp MAMIE DIED.
When Mrjnio died, tho bousb was hushed and
still,
A nameless presence seemed to enter there,
A Rpectro wo could neither nee nor hear,
When Jlumio died. ' ■
When Mamie died the birds forf^ot to sin".
And nature sympathized in toars of rain;
it »c“ou-cd its if our hearts were rent in twain
When Mamie died. ,
When Mamie died we could not understand.
We bowed in yrief, the children round useru cf:
Hut now we know the tlear Lord took her baud
When Mamie die L
—Moses Gage Shirley in Yankee Blade.
ANA’S DOLL
[f tliii Rtory, dear muler, were the
work of my i main nation, I should hesi- |
tab* to write it. It would seem too im-
ludicrous, but I can assure you that, .os
far tvs the f;icts ndatiug to Anaji doll go; Ai -
it is entirely true.
Ana WS8 Woe in the service of ja ffiend
of mine, and her present position, lier
'houae_and husband, are ns I repn'sent
them* If I have failed to. do justice to
/my one, it is to the doll, whoso beauty i
great judges declare to have been inde- 1
ecribable. But Ana had no doll when
this story logins. She was a rosy cheeked
girl .with flaxen braids wound about her
head, and big blue eyes that s- i 11 seemed
staling at th 1 w ( »rl 1 with infantile aston
ishment. She was but seventeen,* bnt
even then Itetroihed to a,certain young
Hans who liad placed himself with a
grocer—a youth as red checked, round
eyed and baby faced as Ana herself.
They were very fond of each other and
wry true to each other, but they haTl
prudent souls, and had s.-t before them-
•elves tla; fact that a CYrtain wiuu must
Ik? 8av«*d lK‘fi>re they married. It was a
ctmtfortable sum, to !*<» made by
iuaAd.aervai^^iMl-a.vavi«i*^ , -s..44«Hrk ia.a t
hurry; Ifn, as Ana confided to her mis- ,
tre«s, ‘•Veil no me p**o|«b*s gets ma»nel
togeder, right away com* s <l<vsb<rhildr* n,
nud ciW deni much moniw’. It is Uetw-r
“Ahf I have tio children to give a dolt
to,” said IlaiMvin his native language;
but be went back to tho toy table and
took tho parcel that was Handed to him.
“I will take it,” saicTAna.
Shacapried it homo in her arms, say
ing to Haris every now arid then:
“This is heavy—heavy % as areal baby,
as large aj^l seg’^^s if it were alive,”
When they«*e*ched homo she lighted
fit liglbt.'Utid sittmg^.tVwn began to un
wrap tl/e folds of muslin and pamr, and
shortly looked upon one of the moet
beautiful objects they had ever seen. •
It was one of those wonderfnll)' fine
imported dolls that aro really artistic.
Its face was as sweet as a cherub s, its
waxen anms and slu-iulders bud . dimples
m them, its flaxen hair curled about its
temples. It had the face of a little child
of two years old x and was as large as a
baby of-si v monrlis. When it was ■held
up its eyes opened; when it was laid
upon its hack they clos'd. Ana stared
at it solemnly, and suddenly, uttered a
cry of rapture. Then Hans, all this time
attentive but remote; stepi»ed forward
arid knelt down beside his wife. He
.timidly touched the doll with Ins linger.
“•Kiss it. then, my behoved,” said Ana.
He obeyed. . ,
“This is no common doll,” paid his
wife. “This is a doll child. The dear
Lord has sent it to ns to compensate.’’
Then they ki.-st d it. That night it lay
bctweffi.Hv m foLL .l in •>
TO SLEEP.
T.» Sleep! to sle*p! The lon^ brlffit dny Isdono,
Aud dai kucss riser, from the falieu sun.
Tot Jeep! to bleep!
WhateVr thy joys, they vanish with the daj':
Whulo'er thy '.rivfs; ia sleep they fade away.—
To .-Jeep! to sleep!
Sleep, mournful heart, and let the pnst he past)
Sleep, happy bouJ! all life will sleep at last,
To sloep! to sleep! •* -
—Lord Ttnnyson'iu New York Truth.
THE GOLD NUGGET.
It was given to CfTie to take care of.
It was not a great -prize, for it weighed
r
yards distant from it, hidden anfnng tho
trees, was a high mossgrown rock, at tbs
base of which Effle had discovered the
smallest and sweetest of natural springs.
Thither the child ran—looking back
often to see that no One apprtvaici\e(l the
hut in her utrsence—to SaBia her face.
> r~- - r _
In a few minutes she ref urged, urNung
her face in her apron and shaking her
wet hair in tho sun. No.one had come;
but King Billy was now awake, ami was
slouching lazily otT toward the bush.
Effle laughed as sin?, saw him—his great
head bent forward, and bis thin, narrow
shoulders bowed. Sbe laughed to think
of his laziness, and that he should look
bo tired after such a very little wood
J-chopping.
next dav tho nei:
hit *1 in a
hi ►ora w< r
iawi. The
riot don* peojdes wait until d -y
tnoney once already.”
No one ever eontmdtete 1 Ana
to di-ba.wie her from le-r pur
Ilans ever mid *nv
dut
)i»*r p
hirig to an; i*
n*
>111!
lie w
Iht
economic
li<>n.v-1 pa
vel from
■ iiia»l<* a
.d si'»w 1
, which seem**! mdikely^X
long L oir, wit * at
Ana oifl Simday t-v
ways went t > s**.'
tncourag.-tl in his
At all events this
lover# never sw.*
Kvery mor.th the
Mvings bai.K, a
turned to <
eagles, and the eagle* b
total o( tbu marri ;g
•lowly, **01110 sweethe i
farwieil, but II"
th.-ir souls with p
For years each
'him arrive at th-
m rviee pl w dr. .• 1
and wearing a red g#
his but tonic !-. Noin
c!mrch tog >1 her ha
they not l>ctr»'th*sl
/grinned neither If
fendM. He Iwiigut It r jvip
|K'ni)int dn*p- und *stH k> rla
| W4MlM
king, even
s, when lie
if
sit
to
al-
< astouisin a
by .seeing a cradle carried into Ana’s
house. Curiosity leading them to call,
they found Ana sitting, in* her parlor
sewing and softly upckiug the*’doll, which
D>oke.l..v though alive. She was making
a niglitg >wn for it. No one dared to
laugh—somehow no one wanted to laugh,
fui Ana jcpuued wdenudy a Crernian
phras-k which can pnly l>» translated
thus, *Tt is by the love of HikI gvvA-n.”
"* Jt' i etUlflU ’ Tyrik hutrilFTiHrm’
such as the y fell when they Looked at
holy shrines in the church on Christinas
night, po*b . M-d them, and Ana played
tUeino’i.' r lv» her dc*tt Til I'Cace. She
Jn 'sed it a* aha. would have drcs«f *Lhcr
own la’, y. hel.f’it on her knee, f< Ided it
in U< r arms and bade it ki.-s Hans on his
return Anne at night, and actually in a
very little while there apjK ar. d in the
pponahiv
i! intentions,
r of (.j**nn*in
tle ir object,
dep* wit in a
t!
»r<. and th ■ d >1L
the
iN.ni. .u
s would
Ana i >s
m xtid
i*. m »*.
Sun-la >
hitch-'
• d in
’ll:
inues
r* to
slllit
-vrv
have
entry of tho liUh* house a j
in which Hans and Ana to<
ride evt ry Sunday aftern
other pturiits took tiicir fN
Ju>t ha ejiii -t’v ,(s tin v I.
tlt-irL'iig engai: unnt t:s**
up chiidnei cam**d cn the
being p.ir. nts, an 1 th-* tiiii<
cviised to inter* *t tho m ig!
save when they told it to i
stranger.
A lad who could h?
•ram
ti t lit
at ex
at*
•llv
a
tw
ir i
>r.
to
as
ic*.
rit-l out
u gi **wn
nn e of
winder
in time,
une
only result of a strong man's toil for
many weeks, an<L as nuggets go it was
consDkredTiy no lAeans a ba*l ‘‘iiud
/John Archer decided that the nugget
would be safer in bis little daughter’s
keeping than in his own. There were
thieves and lawless men at this new
gold rush, as at all new gold rushes, am)
they would know of his prize. They
would probably try to annex it.
They would search all sorts of cunning
hiding places in the neighborhood of his
tent; they might even cr**ep into the hut
at night, to f* el under his pillow and
among his rough bedding for the yellow
earth that folk hated each other for. If
I lie caught the thief he would shoot him,
but letter not to run the risk of loring
; his treasure, ami so he gave it to Efh** to
put in her old »vorkl*ox. The thieves of
| the T diggings would be too cunning
j to think of examining such an
i ble hiding place.^
“You must take great care of it, flar- j
1 Jiug,” sai l John Archer. “It is for yyur |
mother.” And Effle stowed .the little
nugget away in a corner of 4be <*1*1 work
| Ikix—which ha*l been her ’mother's— : nni- i
t^ike t^a-oTLm Mn l W^s ,
darning for her father. 8V f>dt duly j
: weigh to* 1 vrtrh flie ro-pousibility. She j
knew that this yellow elrt h was of great
value, fur her father, leaving her mother, f
who was very delicate, with Home friends
in BrtsKanc, liad com© a long; weary way j
to find it, and she had seen Ins Borrow, i
his despair, ns day after day ho had
eagerly w >rk<*d wi^a pick ami spade :
s wiihout finding wha^w* sfatgut. f
Having hid b*:i tS»«> little nugget away, j
Elbe came out of the hut to l*K>k ronnd
! and if any one wJL* near who might !
have N*en b* r. No. No one was m ar j
! who might hare «e<*n her—pnly Billy tho
A WINTER NIGHT STORM.
Wounding tho hongh* that have no leave*,
The northeast blast asKanits tlie»a> eaves,,
Whe.n at in tlrotul 1 hold my breath.
As though I heard tho Volco of Louth.'
ft'i ho Btodd
proceedings.
iu tho cart and v tewed tho
And Wath tho rlond strewn tort*)red sky,
- NVhcro yet a moon’* ghost wamlors by,
Tho pinos form, on yon hilLidu lone.
As ’twero, itn arc of some strange zone,
—-ggtt*-Roemcht of pome eirrle vast
From mysteries of glt-om upoatd-.
Hero only visible to sight
LMid tho teuuKJKt’s evoking might.
Hush! I* my p.-Uo lamirlistening k
To secret* that these wind (lends bring?
* A speech 1 know not, yet rah P ar.
A* close it whispers to mine car!
— William Strutiu-raTn Boston Transcript.
■*1
improba-
SHe wlTs stiH laughing at King Billy
as she opened the old workbox b> tak<
another peep4U the yellow .trea sure, and
to make ijiuk' nuro 1 that the htett hadn't
molted it away. Aud it was (prite slow- |
ly that tliediMigh died from the pretty
eyes and tmwUli—quite slowly, bw.use
of tho moments it took to realize and ac- i
cept a misfortune so terrible—when she
lifted the cirar.se socks and looked and
saw no little gold nugget—saw nothing. .
Then horror and great fear grew in thq.l
blue eyes, and pale agony crept Over the
childish face and .mad; if (1*1, and the
poor little heart seemed to stop beating.
Effle s aid nothing and hiadu no cry,
bnt she vies***! her ey**s tightly f*>r a .
moment, and looked in the box again.
No, it was no illusion; the little nugget
was not t)lore—the lir^t gold her father
had found, which had lx«*n intrusted t<> *
her care, which was tojhave l)een taken
to her mother—it was, gone. She prit
down the box <juite (piietly and w:Uke*l
out into the day, bnt the sun was shin
ing very strangely and mistily now, and i
the blue sky h/id grown black, und the ,
tre^s seemed to move weirdly, and the
locusts h mb ceased humming from fear,
1 W ;s - »tn-*wTi( re
near shrieking brokenly: “What will
father say? What will father say?*'
But as tho child stood'!here, despaiir 1 ,
ing, her sight grow clean*r, and aha saw
a black figure among th** trees an«l she
was conscious of a pair of dusky rye?
watching her through the leaves. Tuen
only Aie rciucinbered, nn*l she knew who
ha<Ud*»ne this cruel thing. King Billy!
And- she ha*l b'*e'n kin*l to him. Effle
nly burst into fassionate sobbing
tek fl'-r’in} still h-*v**r**l among
>s, often changing its podium,
dusky «*yr:i still peered tlirougii
NAUTICAL OXEN.
' f
.ii
b!.K*k—Kinj
arch, who 1
who was ch
King Billv evident
Billy, the alK.rigirtal inon*
v<*d rum and tobacco, an 1
jiping firewood for her.
v luk-l imt Ri*oTi, f*»r.
luo b
the tr
Mid th
the lc
flew (]
laogb*
a, and t ho 1 »i:g!ring jack.
the eld
> madly
'a trust-
tr»*e again, and
than before—
-at Billy's giati-
nftera
i'sir •
ti
ii
iutTi b
,i*s th*
11*1
111
1?—»and
iris n->r
a i
sm saw
f Ana's
cloth**
s<>rn in
w*«ut to
1*—were
any one
a ; *,*:* * f
-‘f I ’ P-
* f tiitTv.
ners of
w
8h«' knitt** 1 him rd wor.*>teds*omf**rters,
and blue ii Uteris, und yellow wri.-n fets,
nn.l H'lnctiuuM they read thyir liymn
Isioks nud som- iim-s tln*ir 1*ink!***.*'■<,
re|<)icin;,'wiwu tin* iuoiu*y gath* re l in
terest, until nt last tD'*r** cuiiie* a day
when Ana reveal* d to her. mi .tr*‘ss that
the money had Ik-tr ncrnmulated aud
that tin* w* l*liug was at hand.
Meanwhile Ana's ch- ks l ad fa VT
nn*l Ana’s eyes w* re not so 1 lu<>, ju.,1
little puckers w**r** to U* s- n «t t!'.*- cop-
h r Hr. -Ililn arvt^rLon
iiich ba 1
Ln**s cr<*ss* urn r for.-b I,
Ix'eiiji smooth as ivory on her la-trotha!
tls y.
Hans, bail chaiige*! from a round,
curly headed boy to a stocky man, with
n bald sp< t on the top *.>f bis h.'ad, and
both of them had L>.>t sundry teeth,
which they wi re far to > economical to
geek to have replaced by .**. *l.*n;i.-,i.
Still they* wi re as foiul of each other
ns ever, and verv hap]>y in the little
frame h*>u;e, with a small garden about
jt, which they bought and furnished
from their savings. Hans was aL-o prom
ised a pariiTershfp in the grocery, and it
seemed as though their good angels had
looked favorably u;*on those humble and
h<*nest lovers. Tin ir house shorn* with
cleanliness. In tlieir little parlor were
the brightest carpet, the whitest cur
tains and the most hi riily colored re
ligions pictures to be bfinght. A dock
set in a Swiss cottage of carved wood ■
ticked away be*ween, a German cldna j
shepherd and shepherdess. Then* was an |
escritoire in which the bankbooks were !
locked up, and the usual number of
chairs ami a table, also an enlarge*l phofo-
gpaph of Hans and Ana, band in hand,
taken in their early courting days. Ba-
ored indeed we.s tliisapartiucnt, but the
other rooms were/just as tidy, and for
a while Ann seemed jierfcd ly happy.
There came a time, however, when she
peerriefl to her LdtT inistr*-ss to have
grown graver—to be anxious alxmt some
thing. / She sighed, and when questioned
answered;
“Yes, I have some (Troubles.”
X Pressed to say what they were, she
shortly added:
“I vait now a good vile for do good
Lord to send dose lectio childrens, and
dose lectio childrens did not come. And
- Hans, he vaita too. ^ .
. But children did not come to thorn*
One day Hans, having been, as in duty
bound, to the chnrch fair with hrrwife
on hbs arm and his money in his ]>ockct,
had bought several pretty and use*
.things, and taken chances in somekning
on the toy table—Tie hardly knew what
because that wortny lt«)y^t,he pastor’s
Bister, had requested hnu to do so. Hans
was economical, h«Tto spend money at
a chnrch fairwris a religions duty in his
eyes end ^kria s. It was the last day of
the fair; and just as he was about to
leave the building the pastor's sister
touched him on the arm and-said:
. “Well, lions, don’t go without vour
doll.” *
“My doll?” said Hans.
“You drew tho doll,” said the pastor's
fcjs' bkal-j.”
play wool
vo though
d cud trim
that
•allt?
Ana,
at h
s ctu*
»ntri\
it
shoveled nn*l ii»-
krfs iu Jn* re*s
1 her utterance,
[ to say:
droubks—great
droubteH dot can
lad]
d ha;
kill, fearing
d.
* I i
lain
e like mine
any - more -
! Oh!
all is
*<1 for an explanation.
>my dear, Go*
h** wm» wield ing tho ax with quito ex- j
coptmnal vieor; and if Billy had wen it j
wouldn't have mattered very much, for i
Effle trnrte*! him,
Th<) little girl’s feoMii for trusting
King Billy, the black, was somewhat j
straugt*, arid is worthy *»f lieing r»x*orded. '
t-ho trust**! him becausu sho had been
kind to him. *
But Effl«* Was only twelve.
A* the child stood in the brea*l light, j
h-r tnmblcl hay lined hair kissed and
illumined by the bold rays (>f tlie sun.
an«l h**r round, trustful blue eyes shaded I
fran the glare by two little brown 1
hands, watching King Billy at his work,
a flock of laughing jackasses alighted in
a neighboring gum tri*e, and set up a de- I
inonioc caehimitiqn. What made the
ill omened l» rds .*■ » ma*lly merry? What
was the joke? Efli *’s trust? Billy'sgrati- J
tufle? They failed to explain, but their)
amusement was huge And sardonic.
“Drive them away, Billy,” cried Effle, !
and the obedient king dropped his ax
and threw a faggot of wood at the tree, i
*1 the laughter and dispensed
*wn to
1 more
laughed at Effli 1
tudel.
It was 10 o'clock, and darkness and
qui**t reigned in John Archer’s hut
Over among th** tents la hind the wattle
gums a few gamblers «hd heavy drink
ers were still awake, and their voices,
raised in anger or ribald merriment,
might occasionally have been faintly
heard from the hut. But Archer,, who
had sown his wild oats, was a true
worker; and he had his little daughter,
f<*r whose sake he bad built the hut away
from the noisy camp.
Archer had come home lat**and weary,
as usual, had eaten his RuJTjTFr 4od gone
to rest without, to Etlie'a into.is*.* relief,
speaking of the little gold nugget The
child waa afraid to speak irf the loss, nml
the was not without vagrt>* h opt ns that a
beneficent providence would restore the
nugget during the darknass and save her
from this great trouble.
For this she prayed very earnestly l»e-
fore she lay down to sleep, Ur di/1 she
sleep at h!1 that night? S51:o never quite
kneW. But she thinks that it was then
timi sh-. first exiK>iienc*:'l that t**rnble,
Amnug his ntnghivrrs Job
xmsidored a pretty fair sort of a man.
Ho had settled in the little town in the
southern part of Kansas, where he lived
as an immugrant from New Hampshire,
ami ho brought; his Yankee sharpness
with him, but as ho dealt fair and at
tended to his own busim-ss ho passed.
Tho only me;ril»er of t!io family besides
Job and his wife was Ike, a nephew
whom Job had taken to bring up, as he
had no children of his own. Iko was a
typical New England boy about fifteen
years old. He had boon brought up in
one of the coast villages of Maine, and
had a great love for the r,r*a.
Job, like the majority of Yankee fann
ers,-was a-firm believer in cattle, aud
did most of his work with oxen. One
day he said to Ik**; “Ike, if you'll take
{hat pair of yearling steers aii*l break
them to work yoi
waa exceedingly
an«l at once assumed charge of his new
possessions. If ever a jKiijr, of yonpj>
oxen were well taken ciueoT (m y were.
Ho groomol them as carefully as the
horses, so that their sleek coats shone as
gloesy ns silk, and be was so kind with
them that they were as g- ntlo ns sheep.
He named them Jack and Billy.
In his western home Ike never forgot
the far off oee in. It had b**en the one
hopo of hi* life to la* a sailor, but bis
lK*iiig sent west had destroyed it. WJj* n
bis undo gave him tho st«**n to break,
the*idea came to him that though In*
could never txjx'ct to tread the deck of
his own sliip, he could us<j ship phrmes
in the (slucatbni *>( Ids oxen, and thus
always lie tvimi.dad. t.f hie own liom© l*e-
ritle thu act*. Tbn i it was that Jack and
They’re broke well enough,” replied
/ob, n.tlier nettled, “but I’m strange to
them; nobody but Iko ever drove.them.”
. “Well, turn them about,’* said tho
deacon.
But they paid no lieed to any com
mand, and finally, exarqkwgsjwl,' Job
struck them both witli the goad, and
they started at a full run down the pond,
lllattery bang! the cart went, and both
Job and tho deacon were compelled to
hold on the cart stakes to prevent being
bounded out of iJhe cart.
“Stop ’em! Stop ’em!” shouted the
deacon. “I want to gut out. Whoa!
- t-whoa! wlmtv!-, y.o. vannintsDl Hut „tho
oxen only tossed their heads ana ran the
fierier. “Stop 'em, can’t ye?”
Job was downright mad by this time.
“Stnp ’em yonrsrtf, yt
snapped he; ^ ou know as much hoWTo
’em as 1 do.”
“We’ll bo, chucked ont and kill***!!”
shouted the deacon, as tho cart banged
over a stone.
Tho oxen were now thoroughly fright
ened and runniug*away for fair, and
bcdTi rnen wi*re badly scared and holding
on for dear life.. All. at once an idea
st ruck Job.
“Say, deacon, can’t yon talk some ?en
SYRIAN CHATTELS.
<*an have th**m.” Ike
Well pleased at that,
talk to ’em? That’s what I’vo nller.-t
heard Iko talk to ’em,*’ he galled out as
the cart humped along.
“Brother Haines, such ?ea talk r.3 I’ve
i heard ain’t proper for a pillar of tho
church to repeat, and I’ll call ineetin' on
yon f* v this if wo ;pt out alive,” replied
the denoen, with «as in itch «lignity as ho
- could assume while holding to the stake.
1 “Do try, deacon!” shouted tho terrified
Jol*; “it'may save onr lives.” •
Jnst.then the cart gave a fearful lurch,
fnd tho deacon banged his bead against
( he.stake he was holding to wjth consid-
f.-ges. This l.i ide' 111 Ml I.Kiil
ina*l in joldition to his fear. “Splice tho
; main brace! Shiver mjt tirnT»erh! rijio
all hands to grog!” and then, ns that
hod no effect ou tho frantic team, “Boat
> ahoy!” and t!c*n hiring all control ef
him.**<*lf, “AJUoy! Ahoyt dnfc ye, lye
hkuikefyrtdank brtftcar and tho deacon
let out such n string of profaqity that
Job turned a shndo or two jialeri
Wliilo this was going on tho oxen ha*l
gotten over conshl' rable ground. Tho
js*oplo along the roa*l gaa***l in op*n
moiithM a.ri«*ni.sh*n**nt to seo two Mich
»o furiously
a:
Billv wetv educat 'd to v.’orl
•hr.
m
totally Ignorant of the usual couimaiidu
liy which oxen aro managed. “Gee”
and “haw,” “git up” and “whoa” h«*l
no meaning for them whatever. It wan
“haul away” and “port” and “star
board” and “l*elny.” “Stern all,” Was
back. T he oxen grew and waxed strong,
and his uncle often remarked that he
never saw a team that could do more
work than those oxen und Ike. No ono
bnt Ike ever thought of handling them.
Tho ueare.-t neighbor to tho Haines’
was Deacon Mur win, a good man and
pillar of the church. Tho good deacon
saw that Ike’s yoke of oxen were work
ers, and a desire c.unc over him to pos-
rinid citizens goi
with an ox team, and woro terribly
scandalized at their npparvut hilunty.
Ii:**, totally nncou.-cious of wliat was
going ou at home, was plodding dong
toward his chain's, when he heard a
fearful clatter coming behind him. He
turned, and could hardly believe his
eyes. There crime his pets Jack atul
BiHy »t it furious pare, and his uncle
and th.* de-tcon iu tho cart.
“. y top ’em, Iko! stop’omr shouted his
uncle when ho saw Ika
Ilio st«*pped to ono side of the road,
and ns the cattle dashed np called ont,
“Belay, JackI Briay, Billy!” At tho
sound of tho familiar voice and com
mand they stopjied at once, and went
quietly up to thoir young rnarier.
“i'll have the law of you for tuis. Job
pari* r wre till vrs
mwg*i<*t friend Gtvte’u
band mul 1 r kvtl**
ell i
OH
IKKUlig,
Home
r.r*d .1
link
say:
“ ‘Yen.* g*vs flat bri'l d<'
“ 'Oh!’ I ray, *lio plays
“I virii to In* JM'lite, but
still, veu comes
u mid her Tma~
dog. und make
. und'we drinks
1 links noding and Hans
but all do while Urcithen
tfio merry uinkers. i *
1 I i t»rr!* Ini^r^rTir* —rlitmu KMoti V* Kr^44*oe.
ttlmr. -'to., mm* V-orifAlratv .v.L.l,- ,ior -1-T-.''•'» >> th* u»ly
an*l lie i>->inuvl nSnlt of his laW i a ," il u ‘! ,,a «o weary .-noim-h to brill*
.1,
tnb]<
on*nigh, thank you.
Til give you boiii?
never unud. 1
die >ay:
“ *Yen ho is like dot still he does mis-
chief d li
“So von, ve laughs und eat hvtle
cakea und drink coffee a long tim<* dey
go away, und she calls do dog mul he
comes
“ T like Hot dot dog's looks,’friend
say. Tie has updo Honiediug. If you
have got some meat put avay for bivak-
fa,ri )on find it ik>t..’
“ Oh, l guess all right,’ I say. But de
U;etle dog lick so on his mouth, und she
‘say:
“ ‘All wrong, I am sure.’
“So I laugh, und vo all shakes bands
und go, und vo goes in und locks up,
und l says: *
“ ‘Now I get my.doll child, and goes
straight avay to bed,’und I, goes into!
dot parlor door mit a caudle, und I see
my child lying doat und bitten und !
eaten by dot dug on dot floor, und I falls '
down und knows noddings.”
As soon as she could quiet Ana a little !
the sympathizing lady went with her to ;
her house. • -
There in the^cradle lay a very dead
doll • indeed, The dog had eaten
wax head and arms and chewed tl
body into tatters. There was^uo possi
bility of repair or reuovatiprf; but after
a while it occurred torttm lady to sug
gest a means of coiid^t. and she said:
“After a whilo^you can buy another
doll, Aim, Qh6 as pretty will cost some
thing, hpt^you won’t grudge that. 1
will tptfyou where, and you can dress it
e same clothes, and forget all that
happened.”
At these words the mourning Ana
ceased her sobs and turned upon her with
flashing eyes. ’
“Buy a doll! J am not a fool!" said
site. *“You do not den know dot dere is
like dis lost one no oder?* Dis was by de
dear God given to me, because so much
I wanted a child. No. my doll child ta
dead, and de woMd goes untcr.”
And from tha|jtitm> to thi« Ana and
Hans have i>ecn sad and ummiling. Hid
in their little garden is a little mound
covered with turf and decorated as are
the graves of G> rman children. Here
he the tatter? ct
ilory ISjlo in F in.?! 4c ComyaUv-a.
“Yi s, that will Ik
You’re a good boy.
tobacco." —* n
“Billy’s thirsty.”
“Then you shalHtave some tea."
“Not* a. Rum.” >
“No, Billy. Riim isn’t good for you.
“Good for miners; good f- r Billy.”
“No*, it's not good for miners,” said j
Effle < mphaticaliy; “it makes them fight l
and say wicked things.”
“Mai./ s Hack feller feel good.” de
clared Billy, rolling Ids dusky eyes.
This last argument was effective. Effle
Went into her hut—her fatheic had re-
tnraed to his work—and poure*l a little
spirits from John Archer's flask into a
“prinnikitj.” Billy drank the spirits with
rolling eyes, smacked his lips, and then
lay down i:i tlio shadow of tho hut to
sleep.
The long afternoon parsed very slowly
.for Effle. Her few trifling duties as
housekeeper were soon done. Tho little
hut waa- tidied and the simple evening
meal prepared, «qnd some hours nurri
pass beforoffler father returned^How
could she pass the time? Sheuad only
two books—a Bible aptN a volumo of
stories for littlo girbC which she had
won as a prizorit school hi Brisbane.
But she wa^rtoo young to appreciate the
first, espmally as th.o tyj*e lining very
siimLL it was difflcnlt reading, and she
tvd grown beyond appreciating the
stories for littlo girls, having known
them by heart three years before. Bhe
wouM like to have slept.
Everything around her suggested and
invited the siesta—the steady beat; the
brightness of the light without the hut;
the disLmt murmur of miners’ voices,
which came from beyond yonder belt of
wattle gums; the monotonous hum of
the locusts in the forest; the occasional
fretful ery-of a strange bird, and the
regular shores of the fallen king, who
slumbered in the shade of the hut. Even
the buzs of tho annoying flies assisted
the general effect aud brought drowsi
ness.
To remain still for a few minutes
would havo meant inevitably/falling
asleep. Eifle felt this, and remembered
the little gold jmgget. If she slept,
some thief might come aiid take il.
And so she put on her hat, and, forsak
ing the seductive cool aud shade of the
link went ont into the brightness aud
lah. ' ;; %
Aivher’s.fcut stood cm the edge of the
rral times,bnt Job always said that they
belonged to Ike and were not foj* gale.
The deacon asked Ike if lie would sell
them, but met with such i.n indignant
refusal that he fylt angered, bnt did not
give np the idea of.pa^essmg tho cuttle
Finally lie went to Job and said:
• “Neighbor Haines, if them cattle'll
work good ••very way EH give you )j !00
for ’em. They're too much projK*rty f ir
a lioy like Ik(» to have, and it is apt to
create in him a l«id Hp*-rrit an-Lmake
ffTtn* I ’ n 0r ^TJrrS i ! fyFT’rf
“Well, I don't know, deacon. The
boy sets a deal • by them cattle, and a
promise u a promise. I gave them to
him if ho would break ’em, nud ho has,
so I’m bound to keep my part. 1
• “That’e all true enough, ntigJiDor
Haines, but Ike’s only a boy, awl then,
remember, 5 UK) ain’t offerpdevery day
for a yoke of cattle. Why not sell me
those and give IAh another pair to
break; that ’ud doTitm list as well.”
The deaooy/3 $!00 and ]*crsuasior»s
finally weakened Job's scruples, and he
gave ip; The d< a*-ou was to try them,
it they worked all right was to have
hem for f 100. How to tell Ike what ho
had done was a poser to Jus uncle. Ilia
z , aunt declared it a downright mean piece
from her father’s moved near tInbound | 0 f business, and told Job plainly what
bulged slightly toward would | K be thought of him.
l)e curious to see. aiid^be day still. | It was'finally decided not to say any-
Froin under the cnrtpffl seemed to come | thing to Iko until after tho sale Had been
a tain arm, amlshrivly, cautiously, after ■ made and the cattle gone. In order that
the arm, a l>rta with a great shoe!; of j ike might not bo on hand to see his pels
- luiKi/]beams just touched . gold lie was given a holiday, and sent to
think t.ioy,kissed it, though it ! spend the day at a neighbor’s, a couple
wsh them. Hg-ffll«n.*d to buy them sev-i i HaineR,” snarlcl the deacon, as be i»aiu-
the profound Hlinq) which they rtxjiure.
but which the brain is Ls* overladen*|
and too cmelly aVtive to allow; when '
dreams seem realities and realities 1
dreams. It must havo been a dream !
when she saw something small and yel- j
low float through the tiny window on :
tho ghostly silver moonbeams. And I
yet, when, having closed her eyes, she j
opened them again, it was still there j
hovering about in the darkness—less !
bright now, and with a pale yellow ha’o,
But it faded (piito away; it w;is a criiol
mocking dream.
Then was it a dream when the old cn
tain which divided her corner of thedfut
Ai
hair
a faopr' i
black, for they found in a black
hand the littlo yellow object which had
floated in the first dream.
It was all so real, so' beautiful, that,
the child lay still, scarce (laying- to 1
Mv'Uthe lest the vision should welt away,
and when in her dream came tho voice
of her father, with tho words, “Speak
or I’ll firer’ her lips refused to open.
But it was no dream w hen tho shot
Came, and the Black King rolled over on
the earth, dead, with the littlo gpid nug
get ho had come to'restpre pressed in the
death agony against his heart, where,
rtoo, was a little gold.
Aud the laughing birdrin tho old tree,
startled from theiy sleep by the slxvt,
laughed once more, wildly and madly,
at Billy’s honesty; bnt there waa bitter
ness iu their merriment, for their mas
ter, the devil, had been cheated of the
eon! of a Black King.—C. Hadden Cham
bers iu Oak Bough and Wattle Blossom.
A Oueei- giiperMitlon.
“My father believes in divining rods,’'
said one urchin solemnly to another.
“No; henest?”
“Yep. Every time he wants mq^to
fees up he takes the rod to me. i guess
that incut be a divining rod.”—St. Joseph
New*.
Papa** O'.d Coats.
“My father gave mo fits this morning,”
said Jimpaey.
• “I wish mine would give me some/
said Georgia, who wears trousers made
their adored dell.— valley, over agamic the foul ot the blue, pfre-m tne paternal sleeves. “All I get is
Lcuvjly limbered hills. Ahcut fifty misfifr."—HorpeFs ^ ^
miles away, where Hutro was a hoy of
his age who was sort of a chum of his.
The next morning Ike was off bright
and early, ami the deacon was on hand
shortly after. It would not b? fair to
Job to say that he did not have any mis
givings. Ho would have backed out ofc
the bargain at tho least chance, and he
Really hoped that the deacon would not
be satisfied with them. Tho oxen were
brought out and yoked to the cart with
out difficulty, though tho deacon re
marked that they did mem “kinder
stoopid.” Job and tho deacon climbed
up into the cart,
“Gee up!”
The oxen turned their Uig eyes round
inquiringly. “Gee up, there!” repeated
Job; but they did not move a hoof.
“That don’t api*ear like good break
ing," remarked the deacon.
“They're broke all right,” replied Job.
“Come, gee up, there!” at the same time
he gave feach a prod with the goad. In
response to the prodding the cattle
walked off toward the open gate, in
which direction their heads happened to
be turned. Job did not want them to go
in tho road, so he shouted out, “Hoy!
hoyl” to turn them around; but the oxen
had no idea what “hoy” meant, and so
kept going straight ahead. Job shouted
louder and struck Billy witli the goad.
They quickened their gait into at rot and
turned otfi‘,iato tho rood. Then Job
shouted, “Whoa! wheal” but they did
not mind that either.
“They don't appear to be as well,broke
MI reckoned ou." rc^giui the dcocoq.
fully descended from, the cart.
“And IT1 call chtffeh on youl” retorted
Job art ho rubbed his bruises. “I won’t
I ail on g to any church with a .man that
kin swear like you kin. A party deacon
you be!”
“If I had a brut like that I'd skin him
alive!” roared tho deacon as he glarcdat
the bewildered iko.
‘ “Dane, take them cattje^bomo at
once,” said his nnclo./^As for this
wicked man hen*, I shall never notice
j 1 - ——— -
Ike took the cattle home. His uncle
walked. /His aunt told him about the
contemplated sale, and though ho ex-
pj^se*! commiseration for his uncle it is
'doubtful if he felt any. Ilis aunt said it
served them just right. Ike kept his
oxen.—Texas Siftings.
Not Host, but cimnj;** of Occupation.
As for the feeling that wo need rest,
rest, rest, it is often a fallacious ono. It
is action which makes muscle. ®JTn)
| spirit of life outers intb us when wo take
i a vital part in today. Often we suffer
; from rest. A change of occupation is
what we most need, as a rule, and’ tho
.relief hours of an active person turn out
to bo very intelligent. We must rest,
but wo need not lose our electricity,
which tho will, the thought, can com
mand at all times, and which ought to
be 4 on guard, like an orderly, to summon
m when we should become alert.
Headaches evaporate if we must exert
ourselves for those we love, cr we almost
forget the pain, which is tho same thing,
and* ill temper cannot flourish unless we
have idleness in which to reflect npon
the motes l*Tohging to some one eke.
With energy leading the way, ennui
lifts from the horizon, and we see color
aci distance again. There r.\-e women
who labor day by day in hunger and
despair. It seems as if others might la
bor in comfort and health, instead of
silting down to lassitude and sighs,—
Harper's Bazar.
Orient*! Scrfn Who Aro Il*al!jr In ItoiwN
»C« lo rn«trtm<Mi In Thht Country.
The Syrian m<*n, women and chil lrcn
who patrol thh public thorouglffer*** of
this city laden with religiottaetnblenM*
mid trinkets of Rotni barbarons design
are, with few exceptions, the victim* of a
social condition which can be bardly.de- *
fined from slavery.
They arc thq human chattels of a claM
of importers of foreign birth who havo
ih<*ir agents and established headquar
ters in every city <J prominence on tho
Pacific coast as well as in' eastern cen
ters.
Three hu jpan chattels, whc^-Ttaim to
fry TniUTtu HinattflfltliyquvBlfrpf tlwig -
personality in the eyes of the purchasing
public, are Hie sqnm of Syria, Armenia, ,
t*M fwl!** Greece anddtaly. ‘ ■ ' '"Y , _ :v ''
There are several tlmusand of 1\r*0
?Krfs employed by their s^oney making
fellow conntrymen in the United States,
^nndreda are annually added to the
number already employed. Ignorant of
their legal' rights and but porirly vcr*od
in the language of tho _country they
tarn el]? submitto their exacting master,
receiving onH* their food, lodging and
scanty clothing.
TUeso serfs sell thenmelyes to the!#
masters, hoping that in a new country
they will better their condition and bo
at least relieved of tho pangs of hunger
which l)C8t*t th**m in their native lan*bi.
Pledged to work either for life or fot
yearn f* r those who provide them with
transportation to the new land of prom-
bo, they aro sent on their arrival in the
United,States to tla? cities where their
labors will prove tho most remunerative.
They havo lately encroached upon
what to them is a virgin field—tho Pn-
?ifuj coast —and nnmbcn are fTeqnentlv
being sent hither to thoruu^hl^ coves
every profltabb? point.
There have been as many as forty o<
fifty ef theoo human chattel*—men,
women.and youths—en..tnged in making
street salea in tills city, but they havo
decreased until only twelve or fifteen
cover the t rade of San Franciaco. Seattle,
Tacoma aud Washington generally in
clude fifteen or twenty in their bounda-'
fits. Lo« Ang**le»t U favored with thji
presence of ten or twelve, while Oregon
—which, according to their statements,
is proving to lx* the more remunerative
field—has from thirty to fifty of tlieso
serfs catering to tlio (lHraan*ls of their
pcctUur line of trade. The state of Ne
vada harbors ten or fifteen, while thu
progress of Utah is marked by having
twenty or thirty.
Their residence nt any place is not
permanent, bnt, like tho monadic Arab
of tho desert, tbe« slnre* silently fold
their tents and steal away at the will of
th-rir mastenii which varica with the vo*
i iations of tlurtnvlo. One of the placed
in t’.iix city where n *uij**lic serfs receive
Ur tr snppliei and render their accounts
ia iu Minna Rtr(*<ft. It i* a supply depot,
and ii con<1 acted under tho name of
Joseph Sharbcl A Co. There, in a room
crowded with Syrians of both gcxc% of
ail rizes and ages, is a largo stock
trinkets and religions articloe stored"in
pa&tcljoard l>oxes of various sites dis
play c< 1 on shelve* which puh about the
room.
ITtis fipartmcr.tjPdhtalnR two bods and
a lounge, undjtho lack of other fnrniah-
iuga is m^de compulsory by the rpoco
takennp by the immentto stock which ia
iffllcu out to be sold by the street peddlers
n this city and neighboring towns. Joe »
stph Slmrbel himself is a brouxed and -
brawny Syrian, lunch past tho years of
middle life. IleT-s the pmlronc who direct*'
tho actions and labors of the dozen ot
composite nationalities of both bc-xos and
vowoua aifiwr who- were gathered "hi Urn
room. . Ho waa rather reticent when
questioned by a reporter, and while
claiming to 1)0 unacquainted with others
engaged in the same lino of bnsiness he
displayed a knowledge* regarding the lo
cation of branch agencies and number
of his countrymen and women engaged
in tho trade that was remarkable. Borne
of fho supply depots in this city remit
regularly from £1,000 to $1,000 a week to
the cast and Europe as payments for
shipments and invoices of goods.—Bun
F rancifcco A’hron icl e.
Tho Sun ax s*n Artist.
In a summer holiday every one’s face
and hands are more or loss tanned by
the sun. Aud the same artist is all the
time active among the tenants of the
orchard and tho garden. A snow apple,
ripening on its stem in October, shows
this plainly. The sunward side takes on
a vivid scarlet, while tha treewurd half
remains a pale pink Sometimes a leaf,
blown down in a storm, will lodge near
an apple stalk. Cemented with adittle
moistened dust, it clings to the fruit
long enough to leave the record of its
stay in an outline of its crumpled form.
Where the leaf came between the ap
ple and the sun, the coloring touch of
tho solar beam was securely kept off.
Young people in Prance and Germany
imitate this stray work of the leaf with
very pretty effect An anchor, a heart,
a shield or an initial ia cat in paper and
gnmutod to a ripening peach, apple or
pear. The fruit is plucked in due sev
wa, and when the bit of paper ia re
moved its oatline is disebwed in hoes
much fainter than those of ihesurround-
m r^-Votjths Cocipw* -
Lawrein*** Barrett** Head.
A review of Lawrence Barrett's career
a lesson to all who basely betray
golden opportunities. Think of this
man as born of bumble Irish parents—a
seven months’ child, so frail in physique
that for the first five years of his life ho
could not lift his head! When later he
went to school iL was his fond mother
who carried him in her hard worked
arms. He undoubtedly inherited from
both parents the seeds of the disease
which has taken him away in his prime;
and on top of a weak body nature placed
an enormous hood, which made the bat
tle for existence all t he harder.
Lawrence Barrett, the man, cculdE
wear no hat not made to order, though
on,one occasion he succeeded in finding
a tolerable fit in John FifflteV when this
clever but absent minded philosopher
walked off from Olo Bull’s house in Cam
bridge with Barrett’a brand now beaver,
leaving a Inss enticing headgear in its
place. Tho tragedian remained housed
until his own hat was forthcoming.—
Kate Field’s Washington.
Apple# Are Lastly Digretedr
Chemically tho apple is conspoccd of
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum,
malic acid, chlorophyll, gallic acid, lime,
and much water; yet, for all thb rather
imposing lot of ingredients, a good, npe,
raw apple is ono of the easiest of all the
vegetable substances with which the
too often abused stomach has to deal;
for, after it has been eaten, the whola
process of digestion is completed within
the incredibly short space of eighty-fiv*
minutes’ time.—Detroit Free Prcaa,
In His Pr*pcr Place;
*?lt was only a lark, sir,
vouthful delinquent,!
foolish trick he b^d played on
friend.
“Only a lark, ehT said the
for