The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, May 12, 1881, Image 1
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alw«y« giya your name mud Poat office
■ddim.
?. Businest iettvn *n<f cimmunlcr-
tiona to bs published should be writlen
on raparat) aheeta, and the o> j ?ct o' each
iy iadicated by necessary note when
clear!
required.
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3. Articles for publication should be
written in a o'ear, legible iiand, and on
only one side of the p»g<\
4 All changes in adveitiremenlis must
reach at on Friday. i
There lived, in days not very long ghne.by—
I oould not tell yon where, Jf I should try—
K lady, who was worthy, kind and good.
And all domestic arts well understood;
Her cooking, always tempting to the Uste,
Hie took great'prtde In doing, free from waste;
Bhe’d set a dinner fit for any King, ' ' x ‘
From ham and egg^, oraonm auch simple thing;
She had a way, peculiarly -tier own, »
Of always doing well whatVer she done;
Bhe took great pride in always being neat,
Aa well as spreading toothsome viands to eat.
Her favorite hobny^all tlirough life, bad been
TOkSip'JiafBoUMJU ihlfilftg U tJtUL' *- •
“ A very model,’" she at length was termed,
And alT her ways were patterned, taught
learned .. — „» “•
“ A place for everything," she’d say with grace,
“And avery thing exactly in its place.”
and
Hut all in rain her systematic’ piao,
Hiuoe she was welded to a careless man;
He’d tell his wife, *itn blandly smiling face
That he for everything had special place, 'l
The only trouUe being, that he forgot
And ne’er again could recollect the spot.
Hep scatter helter-skelter, here and then,
And leave hia traps a lying avery where.
At 'rngth she hit upon a happy plan
Uy which ahe though", to cure a carries# man;
Bhe kept a bag of moat capacious site, a >
Hung in a certain spot, bukfrom hia eyes, j
And in it dropped hia littleLdds and ends,
A^be would tors them to tue careless winds.
And thought, foraooth, St-amne euavamant time,
Hhc’d empty opt, end ahaina h'm of his crinex
Hut he, more running than at a d ever thought,
Had watched the woman well, till ha found oat
When she, aa stealthily as ahy ret.
Had earned off and hidden thia or tint
“ AUaV said be, “ this system suits me well;
I'M not he bothered any more to tall
Where any thing mar bs I cham'e to r|neat,
For here 1 had my lady a hi ldru inaR 1”
And any articl# he chanced to lack,
Ife'd go and g> id.is It fn >u out the w k.
The upshot <4 her system, wo %re hdd,
Was, bring left »t*b just the lag to hold.
cut for n long time, but the troiihle was,
the only orchard on the old miui’a place
whs a wild gooseberry bush, and there
were no apples In the old man’d collar.
He raised some potatoes and a little
buckwheat and managed to fatten a pig
every fall, but how they could give an
apple-e:it on Such product!|_of the soil
■ sv Al s a w% « A T« . . s£ A 1 a^ 1 1 - .
was something that neithef Sal nor the
old folks oould wrestle with aud get the
upper holt. But one lucky day KitlV
lad was ovet/To tbcT trills, and who
should be there but some Jersey man
who had s bag of apples that he was
willing to trade off for buckwheat. If
Bobby Layton didn’t freeze to that ba&,
then a snapping turtle won’t snap. He
took it home aud put it in his side-hill
cellar, and the invitations were given for
the apple-cut. As I remarked, Sid and
myself got- the grand go-by. But we
kept mum.
" About three mfles from Sal’s then
lived a couple of girls that Sid and I
used to go and set onoe in a while.
Aliont a week before Sal’s dad got the
apples these girls had a quilting bee,
and didn’t invite Sal. So Sal got back
at them Ivy slighting them in the apple-
cut Sul and I went up to see the girls
one night, and we made it up to have a
little apple-cut of our own. Their old
man didn't have any apples, either. Ap
ples were scarcer that winter than scahw
on a catfish, anyhow. Bo we fallows
agreed to skirmish around and get the
fruit for our rind festivity. We ou>-
ol tided to bars our party on thsssm*
night that Sal had hen, and, the night
l>cfore the apple-cut, Sid and I hitched
SAL LA rTON’S APPLE-CUT.
up to a aled and took a ride. We didn’t
I have much trouble in getting all the ap-
" They don’t hare a|>ple-ente nowa
days, like they did twenty yean or ao
ago, * said the Sheriff, aa ho peeled a
tag greening with hia jack-knife and
threw the fowling on the stove.
** Apple-euU,' said Coeie Lra. •• They
don't have apple-ewte a<ir anything else
aa-iunMc them- day a If the young fel
lows that runs things now can only nock
a fur cap <* Uieir boats sad got s suit
t>f plaid elothevk, th«-y re happy, and
<loa*t care for such thing* as a|>p)c •-uU.
I'nlese it’s the juioe uf the apple," <*«•
tinned I'ln’le Lra, slier a pauw. *' And
that cute souk* of ’em up prvtty bad,
wfu-nar than sgood for '(lu.**
** We uaiy bee Ually good tames to
them apple-cuts, Hhentf," said the Old
Nfuite. “ftsrep «H utgfrt. eure, untf
lialf Ute nest day if tfie thIdler held
out"
*• I gut-aa I never told you about Hal
Isiyton’a app'e-cut, did If" aak< .1 die
Hh. nff, dropping the core of ha apple
in the sleepy dog Cossr’a ear.
'* Humph I" grunted Daole lra.
'* Hoard you tell it more'n a hundred
times, and you've tuhl it so much that
I’m blamed if I don't tluak you believe
it yourself, g
"That story'a a cast-iruo IWi,” aaul
the Sheriff, "and too good to be lust
1’il tell it again.
“ If there wsau’t snap in the boys of
twenty-five years ago, this court d«ai't
know itself,” the Sheriff went on. •• Wc
never calculated to get left wheu there
was any fun going on, and M wo did
yon can make no your mind that on
tliat day the thermometer was very low.
We were always ready for a fight or a
dance or a singing school, and came out
particular strong on protracted meet
ings. There was a dance about every
night from the time cold weather set in
until the canal opened in the spring
and we used to make the Pike county
woods just bowk There waa a family
named Layton lived up in the bills lack
o’ Lackawaek. The old man bad pried
s piece of ground out from under the
atones that protected the soil in that
garden Bitot of the township, and stuck
a shanty in one corner of it. The house
was founded on a rock. That rock, I
believe as much as - can be. fiad an out
cropping in China. Owing to this rock,
Layton had to bnihl his cellar a!tout
forty rods away, by scooping a bole in a
side hill and putting a door of hemlock
slalts to it.
•*8al Layton was a nice girl She
"wna the old man’s only daughter, and
could cook a slapjack or butcher a pig
with skill and grace. Sal had a big
plea we wanted, and we had a roaring
util time at our apple-ouk
"The uest day I met out of the fal
lows who had been to SaTa party.
"'WaU,' aaya I, 'bow’d you enjoy
yourselves last night f*
"' Wa boated up u a fight,’ be aaya
" • Fight r 1 aaya. * • How a thatf*
"' Well,’ says be, ‘ afn t we all got to
H.tTa and bad m4 there a s|**Il, talkin’
an' laughin', Hal says to the old man ;
" ' "Pap.” aaysal*% “I guraa ye better
go an' fetch in the applea ao’ we'd git to
lituiiMMa. Oh, wait till ye see them pip-
ptus,” any* ahe. " They‘m good ’ana,
an* they’a plenty ou ’em,” says ahe.
” * So Hubby gone out aa’ fetobea ia
the t<eg. Hal had got a big tab an* wd
it m tint rnnhlle o' the flutw to put the
nppKw m. Bobby come a luggin' the
b.<g m on hia shoulder, aa' we all juled
around the tab to see the }U|iptaa. The
old man on lied the t«g an’ dumpal her.
Way I hope to die ef Botdty dwln’t dump
fh»t t ih full o tuniqa ! Two tnnUtcL o'
tbuiMl>-nu‘ big fist turnips, aa' not the
vmi'll «<f a pipiun I*
“ I bail lo Uy ilowu in the road and
l.oi-;li,” said tile Shi-riff.
'Turnipe,' 1 say#, after a apt It.
’ N ’t turnip* ?'
"' Y-a-a-s, turn11wt!’ snorted the fel
low. ‘An that wau't Uie fun o’ the
thing. Y*>u know Stub Wagner wm
there, nn' it’s only a umaih ago that h«
sum k> U'hctl coinin' out c* Decker's ptuv-
h’r with one o’ fJeckcr's sheep. Well,
when the turni|vs was tumbled in the
tub, Hal lookt*l at her old man, an’ the
old man looked at Hal. If an earth
quake had a fell in that plane they
couldn’t a looked scarcter. Nobody
said a word for about a minute. Tlicu
i’.jbliy woke up.
'* *" 1 kin lick the hide out’n any aheep
at# ■ »— 1
tlncf as has gone an’ busted thia apple-
rut ! ” he hollered.
" * The old,man didn’t have no more
reference fo Stub \\ agner than he did to
the man in the moon, but Htub peeled
h use If an’ howled :
" *“1 wouldn’t let my own father call
mo a aheep thiefhe yelled. "An
no bushwhacker as tries to put turnips
oil on me for pippins kin do it an’ not
fight 1”
“ ‘He swep’ the old man around that
kitchen like a house-lire Indore wo oould
git him loose. Kube Calkins chucked
Stub out through a winder, and I got
out o’ the back door au’ clum on the
fence. In less’n two minutes the party
was filin’ out o’ that shanty an’ makin’
fur hum. Sal’s apple-cut were Imsted,
, . , „ -v r w —r— an’ if I ever find out who done it I’ll
gawk of a fellowvty tlie name of Kube i , , . ,,
rvn.;^ tt« » mHke 0111 BWeat!
“ Well, sir,’’ said the Sheriff, “ do you
Calkins. He was terrible mussy—pne
of these lick-mv-weight-in-wildcata sort
of fellows who always want to clean out
bar-rooms whenever they get outside of
three drinks of court-week whisky. I
had a side partner named Reeves—Sid
Reeves. Ee was a team. He never
walked his shoes off to get where there
w as a fight, bat if he thought one would
be likely to come his way he’d wait all
day for it
“There was a ball at the Narrows one
night Sid was there with Rulx', and
Hid and I had our girls. Robe primed
himself with the beet the bar afforded,
and, as tunal, swore ha-would never be
happy until he bod ‘ cleaned oat’ every
man in the bar-room. • Well, ilia upshot
of it waa that Hid bad to drop him out
of the window. This mad* a titda hard
l^fitug batwaaa Baba and Hid, and
whoa Hal made op bar mind to fire
dymg tagtre aa
know that Sal always kind o’ tnoug
that Sid and I played that on her ? But
nobody ever found out who did take thq
apples, and I believe my mother is won-
dering to this day who in the world ever
carried off that bag of nioa white tur
nips aha had out in the woodshed.
DORKIlftr JOKE.
"Tva got another, my dear," said Hi
Dorkins, as ha harried into the house.
"If you were on the top of Trinity
Charch spire on the back of a gooae,
bow would you gat down f " Mrs. Dor
kina thought she'd jump down, slide
down the lightning-rod, fly down on the
gooae, fall down, and thaa gave It
“ Why, if you wanted to
oould park h off the gooou," aid Ms
Dark’aa.
“The greatest diarmtif ttsmgUration
should be its pointed simplicity,” said
the carpenter as ho started a mortise.
“ True,” suitl, the apprentice, sowing
into a nni^’“so gimtofcus lutyo apitw0.T
“You rip-saw the dangers-of -republi
can simplicity on the minds of the peo
ple,” remarked the journeyman, “and,
the effete -monarchies framed their
coronations with imposiug ceremonies.”
“ A gotitT (Teal ol it,” assented the boss
earpontei^ “ and I opine it is knot-plane,
or at least it is knot a first clear, why
the same formalities should be dried in
our Go vertiment. ”
“Sea, son?" the journeyman asked
the apprHftfeJB’C , •
And the apprentice said, "Ob, yes,
I19 saw.”
“ You must, wat chisel lustrations
very sliarply,” said the journeyman, "or
you can’t at hatchets proper to
each one.”
" It axes my screw tiny very keenly, in-
leed,” said the apprentice, “to follow
the thread of his keel mafks. ”
“ Your mind wanders,” said the boea,
“the rolling grindstone catctarno
worm*,”
“All Wnrk-lvetxh and no play,”swid
the apprentice apologetically, "make*
Jackplane a doll boy.”
“But," spoke the journeyman, “Jack-
plane Is always a playin'." 'x
“Not when its aye dull,” persisted
t lie suprentice, sawing half way through
an old hinge. '
“I advoe you to brace np e bit,"
said the carpenter, "and when I say
that, remember that a wink a as good
aa a kick to e blind saw horse."
“ Somethin’ nails me to-day,” the ap
prentice said, ea be pounded lua thumb
with a lathing hatchet, and he turned
nte to utter malletdirtioua ou the
hatchet ami the man who mad* H
“I d hoid you so," aatd the journey-
man, conanlingly, a* ha showed the ap
prentice how to gnep the hatchet, “ aud
I’d hammer Uua way,” and he showed
hue how strike.
But the apprentice said the hot part
■ •f the leeeon was entirely
Tbia do our loKwtag
the current political rvaota
n-1 (actual
y
Tht TVrtn B»|m
Crawling #rd walking,
Jahlttrlng and talking.
Hiding and peeping,
Running and leaping,
Rtumbling and fatUng, >
Crjlng and aqualllng,
Fighting and (uaaing.
Hugging and bnaalngt
Sulking and pouting,
laughing and Hhouting,
Coming and going,
Ringing and orewlag;
Flajing the men a 1th papa’s old
Riding the dt*(* and teaeltg the'
Then alu-ulifg ai'Jd wtlh^
• 1 mSnniaand |Afik|isnni#
T he nmlhaft alive to all their j'.jra.
Quickly nw|v>ndi to her darling W>>a
i trial p.
pen
Now jnpa, won't you lay down
And ake a look at your tittle men
Why, mother, are tbeaa out IMa
That ate the candy and broke tbs toyaT
Hut now I am them riding their hnrsss,
Acting the men and playing tba boaaaa.
ir “vaidrtf^ ^ ^- r
Thr*|t*ua41«nj<t Ifi
wustaiaohiathea —
That bring ao much Joy aa wail aa ears I
lint ao the Lord d-'th wisely ordain ,
lu mingle pleasure along with pain.
1 lien let ua | raj that our noisy bnya
May lighten our rare#, halghtsa our Joys,
May pro'» our rtaf and comfort thn-ugh Ufa,
Then amoolh our |itUnwa In death, dear wife.
And
w»a^
[(I
Sion/ejy’a Urrmi
Tli* great journey of Mr. Henry M.
Si.ail 'T, in which he rnjna^d the c mti-
acat of Africa, was tnath the longest and
the must iiii|M>rtant journey that nay
African traveler baa mmbv Both Dr.
Livingat<«* ami Commander Cameron
had kln-ady crosaed Airie*, but they
•roeaed it by a more nuiheriy and much
•hortwr path than that taken by (he
Amcrirea travrk r. Thtf ssfierii a
KT.-st deal from (ever and pearinaM ami
Die teniiil* beat; but Mt. Stanley, ia
ilditam to three minify wm oous-
|n lied to fiffat his way throwgb tribe
after triLi* of blood-thirety
and to fnllow the cunrus of a
river, full of rapid*, ia a ftaai bool M
a ahmit a nureeil that ha ever bred la
, reach the ctrtluod world, and. had h#
not been mm jwmlewt sad skfittnf m he
Then they gwarmed around him, ycll-
pg and flourishing their dpba and
jsiK'ars. Many of them took aim at
startley with tbelr hrrows; 1>ul he told
his men to speak gonfly to them, and to
convince them tliat they were friends.
: They demanded calico and beads, and
Stanley gave them ail they asked. Then
they seized'the boat’s oars, and earried
them off; hut still the traveler made no
resistance. The crowd constantly w#
creased nntil there were at least 800 of
the savages, all armed and painted for
tattle. They abused Stanley and his
men, telling them they were cowards,
fkflil 111 Fit fJljkV tajssrua tsoiitre 1st Iftli #}»*>*«*
<»ij<u w»re% y wv-ir» wy Rill llirili,
and twenty tlmaa Mr. Stanley thought
his last moment had come. Finally he
told one of his men to go a little distance
away from the boat, and to engage
the attention of the savages, wtulr
the rret of them should take hold of
the boat on each side, and, at the
word of command, try to launch it They
did so; but the savage* saw the 1x41
moving, and rushed to tbe water* edge
just aa ah* glided into the lake. The
man who bed tried to attract the atten
tion of the wretches while the boat wm
launched sprang into the water after
her, and a savage wm just on ths point
ef spearing him, when Stanley fired and
saved his follower's Uf« by shooting the
spearman. Hi* men now climbed into
Uve boat, and, tearing up the bottom
byagri*. toed to fiaAU* with them
ftrefi U* *0fifi HUfti* ftireatondl
the aarefus with hia gun, and tor a few
at a distance. They
"'MOTHKM Off* »CBTl
Three yean ago Detroit, says the /Vet
IVrM, had about fifty amateur werkli**
ut lull bleak On* by pus they have
succumbed to Hi* chicken-po*.
wbonjung cough and bard
the nnmher yet alive can now he count
ed on the fiagen ef the left hand. Tba
lateet fail a re occurred yesterday just
after the belle had struck 19 o'clock.
An amUtinoa, persevering boy of 13 had
sstaMiahed the TVrlfqjAf in a little eeo-
ood-floor back room beyond the parks
on Woodward avenue. In hie oeue of
twenty-three oopiee in the forenoon oc
curred the following item:
"Notmu—tHhera ie A Reed-heded
WOman in IbiH Sitty who LickS her
t'hihlern witH the atOvu handel. LRt
her beWair or We SHaU pnBlaH Her
naim.”
Tli* editor of the TtrUigitf wax seatail
in his sanctum at the hour named, when
a female entered. She hadn’t come to
sutteeribe. She wasn’t there to have a
funeral notice published. She didn’t
look like the President of a female sew
ing society. No one could read her
errand nntil she had locked the door.
Then she kicked tbe prees over, npeet
the standing-galley, knocked the legs
from nnder the editorial table, and laid
hands on the editor. Being taken by
surprise, he did not realize what was
going.on nntil he hod been shaken out
of his lioots and jammed into the wood;
lxix head first, and ere he had regained
his editorial composure the assailant
hail fled. Ruin and deeolation brooded
there. Havoc and disaster sailed around
the room. The red-headed woman who
ef
/term,
ire-arc more, than 43,000 poetoAcca
n Uio'Tfinled Stab s, and the whimsi
calities of the American people are
nowhere more strongly illnstrated than
in their selection of names therefor. The
Southern and Western States especially
furnish many ridiculous inutances of ah-
miisvI •#> ovv4## 1 faMMalrm-Jua fijkasi mktaMMfitaft-. .JCftkA.
flit Tii intmTm irmnrt in in in i xnv
following names, taken from ttie United
Htab's Ofltrial Postal Guide for January,
1881, display at boat a remarkable
variety of taate
In Alaliama we find Blowhorn, Buck-
NDurt, Gi, Gnatville, Lubbub, Quid
Nunc, Rawhide and Sliinl*onc. In Ari-
spnngiug into their
after the Lady Alice,
ZdT and Mr.
from hia
nlM
would have finished his journey.
Mr. Ml an try alerted from
town nn tbe reet raamt of Africa—in Ifo-
vemlre, TWT4. with dire* ywepf Eagfidi (
mrs and Jj8 uaUvw Afrireuk Only a
tew uf these were armed with rifies, ft*
most of them wore povtaca. Ia Africa
•alien and bead| are used luff |apowy, I
A»1 fiaitaM* Ml* jtata
the** with him be hM to employ a great
many pnrtcra. You will aak why he
dor* hot have horeea or oxen to carry 1
his gixxla. The rraaoo ia that the** ie
an t—ert in Africa, called the
bite of which kills all anunala of
it that traveler* have In hire natives to
earry all tbsu proprety ou Hair head*.
Stanley marched first to Lake 7*40-
ria—a lake discovered by Oapt ftpeke
in 1888, and which is ou* of ths souresn
of Uie Nil*. After sailing all around the
lake in a boat which was made for hioq
in Bnglaad, wd wnnbaiHaethnliteoukl
be taken apart and carried by the port
ers, he went to another great lake, dia-
ttfi, and
Lady AHoe.
o^fiff 4> *%* mi Airtfig
a taaey ftas afi ths uuut day utal
all the next night, in imminent peril of
•inking, brought he# exhausted crew to
an MiuhaNtad Ulan.I aeventy-mx hnu**
after the fight. Inetoad of showing a
to fire on Um
7a>ua, BttmLtle Bee, Snow Low, Tip Top
and Tombstone. In Arkansas, Oil Trough,
Sub Bosa and Tomahawk. In California,
Bogus, Unci* Bam, Yankee Jim’s nod
Zem Kem. Colorado boasts of Gveeo-
tiorn, O. Z., You Bet and Troubleeom*.
Baby Mine and TendorfocA are in Da
kota. Florida rejoice* in Padlock,
Scrub and Bopchoppy, Georgia has in
her bordrea Alligator, Cheap, flianh—
Crackling, Crane Eater, Dark Comer,
Dirt Town, Doboy, Hot House, Iceberg,
Pureiminou, Pistol, Rock Pile sad Ty
Ty. Illinois turns out with Fish Hook,
Half Day, Pre-emotim, School and
Zif. Indiana adorns the list with
litoneom, Bigfix.t, Bookakm, Dios, Nogo,
Polk Patch, Packer Brush,
and Zulu. Odd, Unique, What
Yankee end Zero are in Iowa. <
furnishes Free Will, Haphaxard. Off.
Rattlesnake, Terrapin and Zenith. Ken
tucky prodaora Eighty eight. Seventy-
tax, Backlxme, Marrowbone, Devtkkaad,
Headquarters, Humpy, Jambnrsa, No
bob, Pig, Hcrabbla,
away and Tiptop.
Happy Jack and Jump
ia ia Main*. T. B. and Gun powder in
Dab be, Forty aighfi U
IKDUBTMlAh MROBEtB. , ,, ,
Car ancestors bad litU* faith, ia pat
ent laws to protoot their rights in iqrsn- .
tiona. What they diacorered or invent
ed, they concealed.
Workmen werl* put upon in oath
•over to reveal tbe prooehl used by their 1
employer*, uoofi were Kepi cioiwa,
artisans going out were searched, visit- ’
on were rigoroualy excluded from ad-
ami Ldxa operations hliadnd
Um workmen tUemaalvea.
The myatories of every craft were
lu-dged in by thick-set fence* of em-
pyrical pretensions and judicial affirm- ”
atioh. The rbjyal manufactories of per-
cclsin, for example, wftre carried on fit
Europe with a spirit of jealous suin- -
Hiveuess. .. v. ,a- -a • ? J ,■ A,<J
His Majesty of Saxony wm especially
I’ircumapeci. Not content with the r
oath of secrecy imposed upon his work-
|xx>plt>, he would not abate his kingly
snxpicion in favor of -admAber monarch.
Neither King nor King's delegates
might enter the tabooed walls of Msinssn. i
What ia erroneously called the Dres
den porcelain —that exquiait* pottery ef
which tbs world has never seen its like— ,
wm produeed for 200 yean by a proessi
ao secret tliat neither the bribery of,
prince* nor the garrulity of the opera- '
Uve# revealed it " * *- l “—
Other diacoveriM ' bare been Ism sue-
iwfrtfly guarded, fortunately for «h*
of tinware ia
J-B
licks her children with the stove-handls
had played smash and left nothing to
begin anew or*. No insurance and n<
more Twilight.
DUTIES or A LEGISLATOR.
The following humorous sketch of the
duties of a legislator points out several
.evils which would sol exist if all legiela-
tors were conscientious:
The I limekiln Club Committee on Ju
diciary, who had been asked to investi
gate and report on the query from To
ledo, " What is the duty of a member of
the State Legislature ? ” reported aa fol-
lov
1. To taka a free peas from ebery rail
road in de State. Dis puts him in a po>
sishun to wot* agin railroad monopolies
an’ subsidies.
2. To be absent often an’ as much ashs
kin, an’ to draw hia salary with prompt-
*a’ dispatch. *
3. To push (row bills favorin' de inter
its of himself an' frismta.
4. To spin out d* asahnm m kmg m
to '
ft. To
asLfeasttarr&ir
circumnavigated in hia boat, and discov
ered that it had no onUek West of
Lake Tanganyika Dr. Livingston* had
discovered a great river, which he
thought might be the Conga Com
mander Cameron had also seen this
river, and both of them wanted to de
scend it to its mouth, but they thought
it would be impossible to make their
way through the fierce savages who live
on its banks
When Stanley reached thia great riv
er, two of the young Englishmen that
had started with him, Fred Barton and
Edward Pocock, had already died of the
deadly African fever, and ao many of his
other men had died, or deserted, or been
killed, that he had only one white man,
Frank Pocock, and 149 natives—some of
whom were women—who were willing to
join him in a voyage down the river.
He bought a number of canoes, and
with these and his English boat, the
Lady Alice, began his voyage. He had
to fight almost oonstpet Amttles with
(he natives, am the ^reat river, with Its
swift current, that swept many of hie
canoes over the rapids, wn almost as j a
dangerous as the savages. In one of
these rapids poor Frank Pocock was
drowned, and when, after suffering the
most terrible hardships, Stanley reached
the Portuguese settlement near the
mouth of the Congo, he had only 115
followers left, end these, like himself,
were nearly deed from starvation, dis
ease and hardship.
One day Mr. Stanley waa tailing on
Lake Victoria in the Lady Alice, with
nnhven, and, being out of pro-
end very hungry, they rowed to-
tWbla.SU.lry
tal aeff enntrel,
• lien h* ha<l to rhooa* Ivtwcrai tiring
kilbtl, to—th»e with hU ia«a, and firing
u* in* brutal fuse.
Tli. greater jort <4 Manley's tmltlre
vsxr longht yrtak descending the CW-
■ta Btaariofi-1 tfv native* cunw* out in
'(mass 1 rod totaAud tifci •« the nver,
and time-tunes they attacked I urn while
he wm ramping on the atewe. Onou
hflyrtto -am-, taafcfttg »l hvol
A.U0U mm, were aurora*!'illy beafc«
rif in a sharp little. At night the
camp had to bs iwotnAcd t>y a atockib-
ma-te of (•nath-W'x>d, and <4ten tin- tired
attai’ks of the •■neiuj. Honirtinir#, wheu
tliey were dragging tl*e conoia through
(he forest rtrtoad I lua, raffia, tfi«raati|h
ahiihl andilenly be alive with oanuilwla
nrhA had hem Mhn ta sabuah. An** <i
with chilis and spean and iwiioceil
snows, they would noli on Stanley and
his handful of-men, shouting tliat they
would eat the atrangerx tor dinner, But
whether there were 100 or 1,000 of them
Stanley always managed to drive them
beck. It was his cool courage, quite
h# much m the rifies of bis men, whish
gave him the victory. Hod he not
boon a man Ixirn to command, he could
never have insjiired his men with cour
age to face such swarms of srvsgcs;
bad ha not been aa brave a man aa
eVt* five«i, he conlunbvcr haVSTonght
hand to ifaml with a score of hungry
oannibala all at once and driven them
back to terror of the dauntless white
man.
Mr. Stanley haa fumialied. * splendid
example of what putiepee, perseverance
and courage can accomplish io the Sbe
of tli* most formidable obstacles, and
he wiRalwayH la celebrated as one of
the greatest explorers the world has
.ever known.—Harjier's Yovnu People.
.tmJmimi
Trap. AntiquMytata Olita; flhoo VlyH
In Iowa, also to North Carotin*; fllispy
Eye ia to Miansrota, mi WWta Awukn
in No*|>oh. H. to Mtoto
gan. Mix to A late ran, lint ta Nortii
haaes to Iowa.
to b* I
Un ware is * imply Uua iron plated with
Un l»y bsiag dipped into
mt* till
I« theory, it is au aeev matter to i
tbe auafta's nf linn, ito Atoto hi
Hmostoped wean *
sit vary el W> s ptaes Is* enUfron. In
istannf
the ran* difitonU to tfcs l_ ^
gereded hhre fhkfiHA7-
ihntf Ui
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1
-to. r» MtoweAsKU
Ltje to he promptly saluted by a
from Manitou county, Kick
county, Mian., boesta of its (Asm Grit,
white Bay oovaty, Mitot, show* n White
Feather. Blue Eye, Cteppu
Protem, Tribulation and Zig
aouri. Fair Chance ia to Peongylvauta.
Fair Dsaliag ia in Ksntnoky, but aha
finally pknda guilty to a Triektnn, and
ao does Georgia, Now York and Indi
an* each have a Big Indian, white Ne
vada has nothing bottes than a Bhoep-
bend. North (terolina bra a Day Book,
i Hanging Dog, a Meat Camp, Old Hun-
ired. Bandy, Mush, Shoo Heel, Short
A MAINE SBAKR BTORT.
towT in U4m» :
astariato
farmers went oat haying
with them a jog of oider,
put in the shadoof a tree.
totendbf to tend
About 200 rev
some
and carried
which they
While they
were at work a snake swallowed a toad,
which swelled him greatly. He then
crawled near to the jug, which waa
tipped over on the ground, end espied
another toad on the other side. Seeing
the quickest way, the snake stuck his
bead through the handle of the jog and
quietly swallowed the poor toad. Now,
to the snake’s amazement, h* couldn’t
MV# tithe/ way, aa bo had swallowed .
tend ou either tods ef the handle. In
that peculiar position he was captured
TTfR CITY ON BOSTON.
B<>«U>n waa the fiisi solid bit of
ground in the universe. The more in
telligent and highly organized animals
of the Miocene and Pliocene peruxl*
lived at Boston. Here the Pterodactyl
■muted over the past, aud the Mega-
Therinm pondered the future. The
first man wa# a Boston man. He was
developed from spore* out of BoHton
mud. He took oat a patent for himself
w> that he could not be imitatod. Bos
ton was vaguely known to the Greeks.
It is the real site of the fabled Atlantis
Moses would have got to Boeton had not
the Israelites been so stupid and obsti
nate. King Solomon always had an as
piration to get to Boston. Plato died
longing to visit the neighboring groves
of Concord, and hold sweet communion
with the Cotteotdiftnz. Galileo involun-
of ktores, Ft* got
Oh, grvw ms track my
tarily turned the first telescope in the
direction of Boston. The Egyptians
built ths' Fyramids, hoping to see Bos
ton from their summits. Diogenes w
rolling his tub toward Boeton when
death overtook him.—Aiftc York
Graphic.
Dr. Hardiho says : "The assertion
that American women are fpebler than
foreign women ia known to be false by
any who has employed foreigners as
domestics. The foreign 'helps’ are
putted up by watery vegetables and
roan* bread, and look strong, but they
have headache*, bad teeth, son eyes,
tad they
ucw teatea I went you to turn over b*
hi rh# ni >n>tng to Ware my pupaff I was*
you to f*mmbrr that R (a to be aboSud
oprauag in the aUW
I hare IcA word at ths offia* shout fifty
hot you instot o* throwing ihau
the front ktepR, H 3jM psrttat to this
IH mske hash of you sonw
»
• • There # sncUisr trifle 1 ’
to. Why on earth cant ydU <
her* without trying to rake the dead?
Yoa are not hirejl J^o slsm gates, stoo#
igs, sheas cate or whitete. louprvwt
lisp; >y nnteae you wuke up half pour
petosM, but Pta a patron w/km
stood it any longer. The '
yon com* along here with that infernal
Hally Water*,’ or whatever bar cog
nomen is, I’m going to jump out of bed
and take after you, and five minutes af
ter I have got hold of your hair you’ll
take rank with the baldest bald-head
America. ■■ «: ■ y -cS* tntfv
"And, by the way, how oftao ere you
going to skip me tbia year ? Your ex
cuses are altogether too thin. Don't
try that on me thia year I I’m kind- -
hearted and long-suffering, but there ia
a limit to all things. The very first time
I miss my daily I’m going to hire a
field-piece, load it to the mnxxle with
powder, nails, glsaa and broken atones,
and tie yon where you will get the foil
force of the discharge right bcttaW jfci
eyeei
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yours at home. ^Tm laying for that
cur 1 When you can’t set him ou our
cat you manage to meet some carrier
with another canine end get np e fight
and raise a neighborhood hnbbuk Ok I
I’ve had my eye* on you, young man,
and you’xs got to step high tor to# next
S65 day* t Tee, I know it’s oold, ad
you have to get up early, and it’* a long
and loneaare* route, but yon must afro
respect my feeling*. Here’s |1 far yen,
and I want you to brace up and drop
your mean It Ute tricks. No ra—ou why
you shouldn’t aaa* day be Pii ilat if
you begin right. That’s all,
you want a new" pair i
tan rauremy ktart tree's hate* ■ year, of war *Am 1
rad yet I hep* "Oafi Mare tot toe rnffteoteta f> baft in
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