The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 09, 1911, Page 2, Image 2
ADVENTURE IN A CAVE.
Stranded
Hunter Battles with a Big
Seal.
It was in the autumn of 1892,
awhile on a visit to the Outer Hebrides,
off the west coast of Scotland,
that I met with the following adventure.
The coast along the west side
of the Long Island, as it is called, is
i dotted with innumerable small
Ks
rocky islands, which, during the fishing
season swarm with wild geese,
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flocks of the hundred and one varieties
of the diver species. Stalking
geese, however, is exceedingly trying
work. Crawling along on hands and
fcnees over rough, sharp rocks, you,
perhaps, get within a yard of a particular
ridge, where you know you
I , - can get a shot, only to find that a
curlew or plover has been stalking
you, and, thinking you have gone far
I enough, gives his warning signal,
which is instantaneously followed by
the whir of wings?the geese have
gone for the day. He is a lucky
eportsman who, after nearly a night's
vigil, brings home a brace in the
morning. On the other hand, he
may have the time of his life and bag
a. score or more.
It was on an expedition of this sort
that I left the Bay of Berneray, on
fcoard a fishing boat, one autumn
morning, bound for the celebrated
Seven Hunters Islands, which lie
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.20 miles or so west of that bay. We
got there late in the afternoon, and
"while the three men and a boy who
composed the crew were securing the
boat and preparing somfc fishing
lines, I got into the dinghy which
-was towing behind and went off to
have a look around. It was a calm,
still evening, and, having rowed
Tound to the opposite of the largest
island of the group, at which we had
anchored, I lay on my oars and looked
about for signs of life. Suddenly
a flock of bluerocks appeared and,
- -circling about for a time, entered a
<cave, or, rather, a fissure, low down
gfo. in the face of the cliff, which at this
spot rose sheer out of the sea to a
ps' height of 200 feet or more. Not havBp&v.
ing noticed the opening in the rock
Bp-'-;until now, I rowed in to investigate,
and found that as the tide was out,
g|8f and the floor of the cave therefore
dry, it would perhaps be an easy matIll;?-.
ter to catch one or two young birds
to send to a friend in England, to
gr8v' "whom I had promised a pair. This
was an opportunity not to be lost,
jjfef When landing on a rough shore of
Bgpg this sort a special kind of mooring
is used. A rope of about five fathoms
gfH i or so in length is coiled do6n in the
I bows, and to one end there is fastened
a stone heavy enough to act as an
anchor This stone is thrown ashore
or into shallow water, as the case
may be, and on landing the boat is
.given a sharp push, which carries it
out and away from any danger of
'being stove in on the rocks. All this
I. did and then stepped into the cave.
1 found it to be about 60 feet in
1 length, 20 in height and of an average
of five feet in width, but, with
walls so polished and smooth, except
up above, where the birds roosted,
that getting at the pigCons was out of
the question. The floor sloped upward
from the entrance, so that the
, bigh water mark was nine or ten
feet short of the extreme end. Here
were piled up shingle, seaweed, driftwood,
decaying fish and all the odds
and ends incoming, tides usually
Making my way out again, after
a leisurely survey, I stooped down to
pick up my stone anchor, which was
now covered with water, as the tide
bad risen in the interval. I was preparing
to haul when, to my utter
amazement, I found that there was
no boat on the end of the line.
Looking seaward I saw tile dinghy a
quarter of a mile off, floating on the
tide. It afterward appeared that the
man who had put the mooring on
hoard had forgotten or had not troubled
to fasten it, so that when I
pushed the boat away from the landing
place the line simply ran out and
left the craft free.
I was in a tight fix now if ever
any one was. However, there was
nothing for it but to put the best
face on matters and hope that the
dinghy would be seen from the smack
and that they would set out to search
for me It would only mean a night
spent on that heap of decaying seaweed
and fish, I thought. On the
other hand, if the wind got up and
a surf came on, I should be drowned
like a rat in a trap.
Gradually I was driven back by
the rising water to the gloom of the
inner end of the cave; and although
at this time of the year the sun
scarcely dips below the horizon in
these latitudes, and there is little or
no night, still the cavern was soon
buried in Stygian darkness.
It would be as near as I could
guess between 1 and 2 in the morning
when I was awakened from an
uncomfortable doze by an unearthly
noise. The echo was so loud that a
tiny pebble dropping from where the
birds roosted sounded like distant
volleys of musketry, but this noise
seemed to make the very shingle rattle.
The cause of it, I soon ascer
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SERVED THEM JUST RIGHT.
Two Mashers in Atlanta Got What
They Deserved.
Two would-be mashers in Atlanta,
Alonzo Drake and Arthur Hanner,
had their faces beaten into a pulp
by the husky brother of a young
shop-girl whom they had followed
home through the streets in the hope
of starting a flirtation. The two
boys dogged the girl's footsteps for
several blocks, trying to engage her
in a conversation and went to the
very gate of her home.
She told her brother, a member of
Via lAaal flro Honsrtmont who h AT>
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pened to be at home, and he immediately
rushed out, took the fellows,
one by one, before they realized what
was happening, and administered to
each a severe drubbing. By a strange
coincidence the boys went into a
nearby engine house to wash the
blood from their faces.
The sympathetic firemen asked
them how they had been hurt, and
they said: "In a railroad wreck."
About that time the brother of the
girl followed them in, told the true
story, and they were held there until
the police arrived when they were
sent to the station house.
Sang at His Own Funeral.
We hear now and then of a man
reading his own obituary in the papers,
but it is a rare thing for a
dead man to sing at his own funeral
Pietro Ficco, a shoemaker and amateur
musician, had a very great fond
Lie53 lui cue puuuugiapu,
He purchased a good many records
and occasionally sang into his own
phonograph and kept records of the
songs. He was taken seriously ill. He
realized that he could not recover,
and being a poor man and unable to
get up much of a funeral he requested
that they use his phonograph to
furnish the music for the funeral services.
He picked out the 41 Angel's Serenade"
and Gounod's "Ave Maria,"
sung by himself, and these were
used, and thus the dead man took
an important part at his own funeral
service. He instructed that his phonograph
and 72 records, a number of
them his own, should be sent to his
mother in Italy.?Christian Herald.
tained, was some animal, indistinguishable
in the darkness, which
had entered the cave shaking itself
like a dog before quite leaving the
water. In the light of the resulting
phosphorescence, which shone marvelously
brilliant, it looked to be j
some huge, weird mammoth of another
age. The sudden appearance of
| such a monster, under such circumstances,
unnerved me for a few moments,
but on remembering that my
chance of life in any case was very
small, and that I might as well die
game, I got ready my only weapon,
a strong, single-bladed pocket-knife,
and prepared for eventualities.
The creature was now rapidly approaching
me, its glaring yellow eyes <
being the only part visible, while its
gruntings and breathing reverberated
from side to s^de to the roof of the
cave, returning a thousand time intensified,
until it sounded like one
continual roar. I must have moved,
or else it saw me, for with a snarling
sort of bark, it seemed to raise
itself up as if to pounce on me.
Knowing that it was now or never, I :
struck for all I was worth at the
nearest eye, burying my knife to the i
handle in it. With a wrench that
nearly tore my arm out of the socket, <
I was flung to the ground* losing at <
the same time my hold of the knife, j
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draw.
I have no clear recollection of what
happened after that. I remember
being for a time part and parcel of.
a terriffic whirlwind, in which I was
mixed up with stones, seaweed, and
other things; and the next thing 1
recollect is coming to my senses,
with the faint light of dawn creeping
into the cave. When I attempted
to get up I found I was unable to
move, and the effort I made caused
.me great agony. Some time after I
heard the welcome sound of oars and
voices, and, fearing lest the rowers
might pass the cave, I gave two or
three shrill whistles on my fingers,
which were immediately answered
by the crew of the smack, as the row
ers proved to De.
They found me with the dea'd body
of a large male grey seal lying across
my legs, his teeth buried in a heavy
log of wood, and my knife, the blade
of which had pierced the brain, still
sticking in his head. He measured
eight feet ten inshes from tip to tip.
tip.
I had escaped lightly, so all my
friends assured me. My left arm was
broken in two places, three ribs were
fractured, and I had numerous injuries,
but youth and a sound constitution
soon pulled me through, and inside
of three months I was as sound
as ever. I need hardly say that I
gave up the pastime of catching blue
rocks for friends, and that my respect
for Halichaerus gryphus has
since that day immeasurably increased.?Wide
Wrorld Magazine.
BEGGING AN ART.
In Jerusalem Books are Kept and
Shrewd Men Employed.
A curious account of the wealthy
organizations of 15,000 Jerusalem
beggars is given in the Jerusalem
"Truth," a weekly journal published
in English.
These beggars, it is said, "thrive
and wax fat upon the systematic imposture,
practiced upon the benevolent
and simple-minded of every
country on the face of the globe."
They "have made begging a fine art
?a science?a perfect study; they
constantly invent new stratagems,
novel contrivances, and ingenious
tricks how to ensnare the credulous
into their traps." Their transactions
are conducted upon strictly business
lines, with well appointed offices,
double bookkeeping, copying presses
and typewriters.
The organizations employ wellpaid
agents who travel all over the
world collecting the names of all
who are likely to extend their sympathies
to the poor and suffering of
the Holy City. Millions of addresses
are thus received, with minute discriptions
of the nature of each individual,
so that the petitions may
be drawn up to touch the right chord
in the compassionate soul of the recipient.
The petitions are generally accompanied
by some paltry souvenir of
the Holy Land?dried flowers supposed
to be gathered from the Mount
of Olives, Bethlehem or Gethsemane
or cheap olive wood articles purporting
to be from the branches of trees'
growing in historic places. In reality
many of these articles are imported
from Marseilles.
The nefarious business flourishes
in -spite of all revelations and warnings
and a large proportion of the
begging letters sent out are generally
responded to, often with a prayer
that in return the donor should be
remembered at the Wailing Wall,
Rachel's Tomb and Machpelah. It
is estimated that these beggars send
out about 50,000,000 letters a year.
The Coldest City on Earth.
The coldest inhabited place in the
world, according to Harper's Weekly,
is undoubtedly Verkoyansk, In
northeastern Siberia with a mean
annual temperature of less than
three degrees above zero, Fahrenheit
and.a winter minimum of 85
below.
Verkhoyansk is in north latitude
67 degrees, in the great Arctic plain,
scarcely more than 150 feet above ;
the level of the sea. Probably there
would be no town there if it were
not necessary to Russian governmental
purpose to have an administrative
center for a region where
many thrifty Yakuts, the fur trad- ;
ers, carry on their operations.
The average temperature of the
winter in Verkhoyansk is 53 degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit. The river
freezes to the bottom, and the small
trees have been known to snap and
split from the force of the frost.
Yet, with all this, Verkhoyansk is,. :
it is claimed, not a disagreeable <
place of residence, and is preferred i
by the Russian* officials to many
more southern and warmer posts.
Its atmosphere in winter is always 1
clear, and for the little time the sun
is above the horizon its beams are
unobstructed. The air is still, too; :
no blizzards or drifting snowstorms 1
make life a burden to the inhabitants.
The Siberian dress completes the i
comfort of the citizens of this Arctic
city. It consists of two suits of fur, i
an outer suit and an inner suit. The
inner suit is worn the fur inward,
the outer fur side outward. With
his hood down, and just enough !
space left to see out of and to
breathe through, the Varkhoyansker
is yastly more comfortable in a temperature
of 80 below than many an '
American, in his cloth overcoat, in a 1
temperature of five above zero. 1
The wihter indeed is more enjoyable
than the summer, which is hotter
than might be expected. The
average temperature of July in
Verkhoyansk is 59 above zero, and
very hot days are not uncommon.
The earth becomes green and vegetation
thrives, though only the surface
of the ground is thawed. At
Yakuask, which is farther south than
Verkhoyansk, but not much warmer
in winter, the mercury rises in July
to 100 degrees.
Leaves $21,000 to Churches.
The will of John Keitt Wannamaker,
who died recently at his home
near St. Matthews, was recorded last
week. His splendid real estate holdings
were known of all men, but his
cash stored away in banks, was a
great surprise to the general public,
and leaves his fortune at a considerably
larger figure than was anticipated.
His only son, of course, will
get the bulk of his property. Besides
minor bequests the Methodist church
of St. Matthews gets $20,000 and the
Baptist church $1,000. He talked
his business to no one and made no
pretentions to wealth during life, except
the indulgence in fine horses
and mules, which was his hobby.
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RETURNS TO THE CIRCUS.
After Visiting Her People Martha (
Cain Goes Back.
Martha Cain, after a pleasant
visit to her home and people, has <
returned to her work with the cir- ]
cus people, with whom she has a con- i
tract for some time. It will be re- ]
membered that she was stolen on ,
the streets of Orangeburg 30 years I
ago, wnen sne was live years uiu,
and it was by accident that she
learned her real name. Her circus
name is Lizzie Lewis, but Martha
has no special hankering after that
cognomen.
The Robinson circus in wintering
in Cincinnati, but those connected
with it are rehearsing in Springfield,
Mo., and it is there that she has
gone. Martha Cain says she intends
to follow the circus as long as she
is able. "What else can I do?" she
asked in reply to a question as to
whether she intended to be a circuswoman
as long as she lives. That is
very true. Having been brought up
to that life, she knows no other. Besides
it pays her well.
The Columbia correspondent of
the Charleston Post says it is interesting
to note that the management
of the Robinson shows are respectors
of the wishes of Southern audiences
in one respect. . When .showing in
the South Martha Cain is a sideshow
performer, but when showing
in the North and West she is a member
of the big sbow. Her specialty is
aerial performances, and she is said
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to De a nne actress, ine xvuumsuua ?
are very much attached to her.
The Bubonic Plague.
The terrible bubonic plague, which
appeared in Hongkong in 1894,
spread from there to Bombay, and in
the next 12 years carried off more
than 6,000,000 victims, has been almost
' quiescent for the past few
years; but in 1910 it appeared in a
virulent form in Harbin, has since
spread to other cities, and is now a <
world-wide menace.
More alarming than the reappearance
of the disease in Manchuria is
the discovery of the disease in the
eastern coastwise counties of Eng- ]
land, where several deaths have oc- c
curred. Investigation has shown the (
rats over a large area to be infected, j
Until 1906 little was known re- i
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this terrible disease, although the :
disease itself is as old as history. In i
1906 the Indian Plague Research ]
Commission definitely traced the
spread of the epidemic to the fleas on <
the black rats of the country. The ;
rats themselves have the disease; a i
flea which sucks the blood of the rat ]
takes the germs into its stomach. If \
the flea bites a human being within ]
a period of three weeks, the germs ]
are transferred, and the human he- ]
ing contracts the disease. 1
Until recently it had been supposed
that only the black rat is susceptible
to the plague, and that only the flea
known as Pulex cheopis could transfer
it. Later discoveries, however, (
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nave snown tnai me uumiiiuu uiuwu,
or Norway rat, is also liable to the
disease, and that it may be transferred
by the ordinary rat flea.
Still another matter of great interest
has been disclosed by the cases
in England, which are not the bubonic,
but the even more deadly and
more dangerous pneumoniae plague.
The bubonic form, in which the
lymphatic glands swell and suppurate,
is transferable only through
some such medium as the rat and the
flea. The pneumonic form, on the
other hand, is directly infectious.
WHY I BUY AT HOME. ,
Some Reasons Given That are Simply
Unanswerable.
Many people who make their living
out of a town send off to New York,
Chicago, or some other big Northern
or Western city and buy many of the
things they could buy at home. In a
recent issue of the Tradesman a farmer
gave some mighty good advice
on this subject, which all of us
should heed. The farmer gives the
fnllnwfnor rOQQAno fnr hnvinor Vile,
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goods in his home market:
Because my interests are here.
Because the community that is 4
good enough for me to live in is (
good enough for me to buy in.
Because I believe in transacting (
business with my friends.
Because I want to see the goods.
Because I want to get what I buy
when I pay for it.
Because my home dealer "carries"
me when I am run short.
Because every dollar I spend at
home stays at home and helps work ,
for the welfare of the city. l
Because the man I buy from stands
back of the goods.
Because I sell what I produce here ^
at home.
Because the man I buy from pays
his part of the town, county and city
taxes.
Because the man I buy from gives ^
value received always.
Because the man I buy from helps
support my school, my church, my <
lodge, my home. t
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FREE FROM BOGUS BARON.
7ourt Annuls Marriage of Daughter
of Gen. Ewen to an Ex-Convict.
Justice Garretson in the Queens
county Superior Court handed down
recently a decision annulling the
narriage of M. Louise Ewen von
Koenitz, a daughter of the late Gen. <
Tohn Ewen who inherited from her
'ather more than $250,000, and Otto ,
ron Koenitz, who posed as a German
oaron. (
When the action was tried before ,
Fustice Garretson several weeks ago ,
:he plaintifT told of the courtship by <
:he bogus baron and how she was de- (
reived by his stories about the ]
'schloss Koenitz" in Germany. Von ,
Koenitz was then about 30 years ]
5ld and she was nearly 50. Despite
the opposition of her sisters, Miss
Caroline Ewen and Miss Elize Ewen,
who lived with her at 23 West
Eighty-sixth street, Manhattan, she
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mamcu uiui uu i>uv*?ixiucr &o, xjjvo.
Previous to the marriage he had obtained
about $15,000 from his intended
bride in order to meet pressing
needs pending the arrival of
funds from Germany. After the
marriage she gave him about $50,
D00 more. A trip they had planned
to the Mediterranean was reduced
:o a trip to St. Augustine, Fla.
After she had quit the bogus barDn
she learned that he was an ex;onvict,
having served a term in the
State prison in Trenton, N. J., for
?rand larceny and had also been confined
in the Essex county jail in New
Fersey. *
The annulment of the marriage
was asked on the grounds that it
had never been consummated, that
the bride's consent was obtained
through fraudulent representations,
:hat the defendant instead of being
jf a noble family was of bad reputation,
that he had been convicted
3f blackmail and grand larceny and
served terms in prison and that he
obtained his livelihood by dishonest
md questionable practices.?N. Y.
Sun.
Wanted for Murder.
Atlanta, Ga., March 2.?It was
[earned to-night that Gov.. Brown
several day's ago issued a requisition
5n the governor of Virginia for the
return to Georgia of Edgar Stribling,
wanted in 'Harris county as an escaped
murderer, who for the last five
rears has been chief of police of Danville,
Va., under the name of R. E.
Morris.
Stribling is wanted for the murder
Df W. J. Cornell on September 4,
1897. At his trial Stribling confessed
to shooting Cornell, declaring the
latter had insulted his wife and sister.
He was sentenced ot life Imprisonment,
but while waiting in the
Harris county jail for transfer to the
penitentiary he escaped. He has
Peen at liberty more than 14 years.
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Brown is Acquitted.
Darlingtonfi March 2.?Court was
pccupied to-day with the trial of J. A. '
Brown, charged with the murder of
3ary Kelly, his son-in-law, last November.
After about 30 minutes deliberation
the jury returned a verlict
of not guilty.
According to the testimony of
ECelly, who was living in Darlington
it the time, met Brown, the defending
on the street the day of the tiling
and after some words had passed
petween them Kelly violently threatened
Brown's life.
The latter left him immediately in
prder to avoid trouble and though
le was to wait for Kelly until later
n the day and carry him home with
iim, he got in his buggy and left
town at once. About night, Kelly
Irove up to his father-in-law's gate
and continued to make threats.
Cleveland Brown, a son of the defendant,
was sent out to persuade
Kelly to leave the premises, which
le did for about half an hour.
He returned, however, and this
^ime Brown went out and asked him
;o leave and claimed that Kelly pulled
his pistol and was in the act of
firing it when he knocked it from
lis hand and shot him twice. At the
:ime of the killing Brown was armed
vith a Winchester rifle and a pistol.
Kelly and his wife did not get
ilong very well and were separated
in several occasions. On the night
tfhen he was killed, she, with their
children, were at the home of her
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Irinking heavily at times and was
aearly drunk when killed.
Do Away with Trestles.
Columbia, March 2.?All the rail*oads
operating in this State must, as
rapidly as possible fill in all trestles
which may practically be so filled
with dirt or other substantial matrial,
reporting their progress to the
railroad commission and must finish
^his work within six years, accordng
to a resolution passed by the commission.
A great deal of such work has been
ione recently and much is projected
'or the near future.
If your business demands printing
)f the better class, give your work
:o The Herald office.
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TWELVE YEAR OLD BRO^^BHR
With Parents Consent She Weds Boy
of Eighteen. V
The youngest bride ever led to the '
altar in Cincinnati was Sarmelia Altinnari,
a girl of 12, who became the ^
bride of Frank Stone, a youth of 18.
rhe license to wed was obtained by
the parents of the children in Newport,
Ky., and the ceremony was pier- Y?
formed by Father James McNerny, %
of the Church of the Immaculate 1|
Conception, of Cincinnati. At drat
Clerk J. L. Bryan, of the Kentucky j|
Court refused to issue the license be- %
cause of the age of the bride-elect, 1
but the father of the girl showed him |
that he was obliged, under Kentucky
laws, to comply with such a request |
from the fathers of the contracting
parties. Both fathers were pretext *
when the license was secured.
No Trace of Missing Man. . ;f|
Newberry, March 2.?No definite ;. ,
clue has been found to the disap- - f
earance of Thomas Aughtry HdWr % |
kins, who disappeared mysteriously
last Friday from his home on the*
Broad river side of the county. The v|j|
last seen of him was the afternoon
of that day, when he carried three Sj
negroes, Will Young, Catherine Me- '
Clerky and her 12-year-old brother, ._ '.??!
across Broad river at the mouth of
the Tyger from Shelton to which
place he had carried them by boat
that morning.
There is slight evidence of some
unpleasantness between Young and mm
Hawkins, and the impression f?
strong among the people of the p
neighborhood that there has been
foul play. The boat was found a day
or two after Mr. Hawkins' disappear- * ;
ance about two miles down the river, '
with an empty gun shell in the bottorn,
and his hat was found a little
farther down.?both boat and hat"
lodged against the rocks in the river.
The negroes had a single barrel shot^i^S
gun with them when they were
ried across the river. They say thaf ^gP&B
the last they saw of Mr. Hawkins
was that he was returning from
Newberry side and had just
about thd Tyger part of the streamv,;;^^M
Will Young is about 30; the negro Rgsns
woman is 18. They live together,
The sheriff has been to the scene :
and has questioned.the negroes apart ; ^
from one another, but could get no
clue, their stories agreeing in substantial
points. It is likely that there
may be arrests made soon.
Parties have been searching the-; _ ?
river for the body. Tuesday a larjgfl^ .. .
party went down , the Broad front*M:'
Shelton, expecting to go all the
to Columbia unless they could fiaftrd||?Si
the body sooner; but they had
Mr. Hawkins is about 25 or.
years of age and te unmarried. Dr.-f^ ' v
LeGrand Guerry, of Columbia,
brotherrin-law and Thomas B. Aughtry,
of Columbia, is an uncle.
Saving It.
An old Yankee farmer lay on his ^ ':fi?
deathbed. He was so far gone
the doctor told his daughter that
could indulge him in anything
might crave in the matter of food, to ?
the end of making him vhappjr
possible, as nothing could delay the.
end or really haeten it. The daugbter
asked her father if there was any t V^3B
particular thing his appetite fancied.
"Yes," whispered the old man, "a
bit of fine cake with lots of nuts and currants
in it."1
A woman neighbor, who heard the'
old fellow express his desire, had ?g|
fine fruit cake made, -rich enough to '
produce an attack of acute indigos?
tion in a wooden Indian. The doctor
heard of it and was not pleased. ;
with the old man's choice, but, hav
ing given nis permisaiun, ue uiquirou . . :
the next day when he called how It ,- ? J?|
suited the patient \ and how he enjoyed
it.
"Well, sir," the daughter replied,
"to tell you the honest truth, father \
hasn't had a taste of the cake."
"And why not?" the doctor wantp * w
ed to know.
"Well, sir," said she, "it was such/;-^^-'?^
a perfectly beautiful cake that we 1-pkr
hadn't the heart to cut into it, and *
so we are just keeping it for the
funeral."?Metropolitan.
Repartee of a Night. <d
"Get my supper!" he said, gruffly. S'rM
"Get it yourself," she replied. f;;j .
"You didn't marry a cook." r
Late that night she heard a noise. ' ?p-'V
"John," she said, "there's a robber
in the house. Get up!"
"Get up yourself," he answered,
sleepily. "You didn't marry a policeman."
v
Finally, however, John with a re- ' : t|?g
volver and his wife wiin a canaie,
traced a noise to the kitchen range.
John bravely opened the range door ^
and a huge rat jumped out. John
pointed the revolver at the animal,
but didn't shoot.
"Why didn't you shoot it?" -<*ked 'c&jjg
his wife. v
"I couldn't," he replied, smiling
grimly; "it was out of my range."
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