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d, All c'langai in adTartlao aaonta maat
loach ua on Friadr. ^ •
DR. J. H. f. MILHOUS,
DENTAL SURGEON,'
BLACKVFLLE, 8. O.
Officenear hi* reaiderce on R R. Atenue.
Fatiaata will And it more comfortable ta
baT* their work dona at the oflee, aa ha baa
a good Dental Chair, good livfct and tha
naoat improTad appliance*. He .hould ba
infonned aareral data preriona to theircob-
lac (o prevent any diaaprointment—tboach
will f anarally be fonnd at hia office oa Bat-
nrdaya.
He wtH atill conlinoa to attend ealle
throagbout Barnwell and adjoining eon*-
Dfl. B. J. QUATTlEtAUM,
SURGEON DENTIST,:
WILLISFON, 8. G: -
^^*i f Ter Kennedy’* ator*
Oalla attended tbrou(|hout Ba-nwe’
and adjacentenunliea. Patientawi'l find
it to their adyantatagea td hay* »oik
one at his office. aeplM_
DK. J. RYERSON SMITH,
Opritive ud Mcrbaiif-al Dentist.
WIIJ ISTON, 8. C.
Will attend ralla throughout thia and ai*.
jaceot countiea.
Operatioaa can be more aatiafactorily par*
■*"«<* « hif P«rimy, which me a^ied
epprored appliance#, than
at tha reaidaneaa of patianta.
Topreyent diaappointmanta, patient, in
tending to yiait him at Williatoa are re-
anaated to cerreapond by mail bafora leay-
i*g boma. [##pUf
YOL VI. NO. 30.
BARNWELL. C.
UNFINISHED TOKM BF BEY-
ANT.
The reader of Mr. Oryant'. poern* will n- id|.
Iy rcmotnlx-r tae tnany verso* inldre <«e«110 h 9
,®® l 'h u* "<>h fair st or ihe Uurui
Maid*,” written about tho I mo of the r inor-
rhino; “The Future Life,” Hpe uhiting as to
the un on of their »p rlt* in the worlo too >nie:
"Mck-Ded," doaoriblnir an illnooi; “The
life Th t la,” n-J long In recovery: “'Ihe
Tw< nt»-* Tenth of March,” tho b nth-lay of
Mr*, lirvaut: “Oetobcr, IMHit," d. .ertptivo
he-death and bur al; and ‘Mav I- vetilnn,” a
gentle referent e to her loaa. Itut In addtlori
to theac. na we b am from Mr. Godwin'* orlh
« m ng bloyr.ttihy of the poet a rraymens wm
found am h * paper*, wh eh foe l's hot
memory In a very tender wav, go t n yem*
after her death. The Hue* we u. tin r. ^bisl
and unc irrected; but wo t annot r.-lriMti fr'im
• viag them aa they wane written—datwrl "Ho*
!j'n, WTtj: ’
The morn ha'b not the glory that It wore. *
Nor doth the day go beautifully die.
“'"c 0 • win call thee to my aide no more,
Toya/.o u|-on the gky.
For thy dear hand, with oa< h return of gprln-r.
1 gougbt in gunny nooks the tlow.-rg ghe
1 *< ok
f' .
ok them gtlll, and gorrowfully br.ng
bo eboiceat to thy grave.
Here, wh -ro 1 tdt alone. Ig sometime* heard,
l-nim the great world, a whisper of
ninne.
Joined, bnyly, to gome k nd, commending
Ily tboa- whose pral«e ig (aino.
And th-n. hs If I thought thou atili wert n gh
1 turn me half forgett'ng thou art dead,
Tor nd the gentle gladnesi i i thine eje
That onoo 1 might haw read.
I turn, but geo thee n-|t: liefoi-o my eyes
The Image of a hill-sid" mound appear)
Where all of tt.t>e that passtsl not to ttn: sk'os
Was laid w th tiitter t urg.
And I, wh<'8e th< urhts go back to liapp or
i.yo;
my
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238 King Street,
Opposite Academy of Music,
CHARLESTON, 8. C.
Boom, to let at .M) cenfa a Bight. Maela
at all hour.—Oyster, in every atyl*.
Alee, Winre, Liquor*, Hegar»,-Ac.[mar.V)ly
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Wholeeala and Retail JD^dar ta
Fi»i. 6anf. Ubtltn, Tirtlw, Terri^iig,
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CHARLESTON, 8. 0.
All order* promptly attended to.
Term* Cash or City Acceptance.
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J. A. PATTERSON,
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Office at the Barnwell Court Hoiur.
Patient* waited on at residence if de
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of Barnwell and Hampton countiea.
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AH Uim , u . - , p .ve or fame and praise
For onesw.-et look ot thine.
Thus, ever, when I road of gone mu* deeds,
fuch word* u* thou didst ooi'*» delight
~b»iir.
My heatt ig wrung w th angu-sh us It bleed*
To think thou art n it near.
to
And now that 1 can talk no more with thro
Of nocii nt fricn t* nml d tys too u r to lust,
A b tt<-rn»*s blond< wlih thememory
•Jf all that happy past.
Ob, when t
-Centum VnQntln*.
THE ENGINEER’S STORY,
Business hail brought me to the litllo,
town of D——. amon.'the Now IIrunp-
sh re hills, and here, much aga wst my
Will. 1 was deta tied for several davs,
wh le waiting for instructions from mv
emplovcrs. The nearest | or odi- nl
store \va* twelve milesawav, and. wi h-
out or papers, time hung heavy
on my hantls.
The only break in my monotonous
life wa) the arrival of tho trains twice a
day. anti in the d ai calm of my exist
ence this little ripple of exc tement l>o-
came as much to me a* the opera under
more fa orable circumstances. It was
while lounging upon the platform that
I became acquainted with (Iconic t-ea-
forth, engineer on the 1'-. C. A- M. Kail-
road. lie was a man about thirty-five
years of age, Not what would be called
an educated man but sensible and
clear-headed. II s homo was in Con-
cord, where he had :i wife ttnd 'wo chil
dren. He ra"n from < on ord to 1)— ,
and for t wo- hpuFsT while wrJt ng for
the "down tram,” he was in I)——.
The acquajiitart -e at first begun to
while away an jd'c hour, tm mv pa t,
at least, grew to a strong liking, and to
day there is no one among mj’acquaint
ances for who n 1 feel a gre iter respect,
and esteem than 'or < corge Sea'orth.
He had been on the cars since he wa*
si'teen, first a* train-1 ov. then as brake-
roan, fireman, and for the lost ten yeais
as engineer.
“You must have had some strange
adventures in that time,” I said one
day, as wc sat upon tho platform of the
little station, watting for the train.
trange adventures ” he repeated,
taking his pipe from hirTBouth. anti
looking mediiatively acr W* the g eon
: elds. '‘Strange adventures You may
well say that, sir. We train mm are
alwa\8 having adventures.”
t “Suppo eyou tell me son eof them.”
I suggested.
"Well,” looking at his waUh, “as
there’s plenty of tTmo, l don't mind I ell-
ing-you of one queer one I hod six years
ago, c >me all, though 1 don’t orten
speak o it; for you see when a man’s
been 'ace to face with death, he can’t
talk of it very well.”
I sol tied myself on the rough bench
that did dutv as a chair, as comfortably
:;s I could, took a fresh cigar, and ho
beian:
“It happened in Inis way. I was run
ning the old l.ion from Lee to Fa r;o \ n.
If you know anything about New^ En
gland, you know that Se t tember’s a
gre t month fpr fairs, and this particu
lar September was no exception to tho
general tule. We had lots of extra
work to do, but, as we had extra pay.
there was no grumbl ng. It was toward
Ihe last of the month that the lair at
M came oT. Two or three extras
were put on, timed so as to run between
the regular trains. Jim Turn r lire t or
i e then. Jim was as good a fellow aa
ever lived, with but one fault lie
would go off on ‘a time’ once i i a
while. He didn’t do it very of:on. and
as he’d do more work than any other
man on the road, the company kept
him. But Jim had been pretty sober
lately. I believe he hadn t drunk any
thing for as much as s x months; so I
k no of got out of the habit of watching
h m, and he wenLand came pretty much
as he chose. —;
‘ Well, we got along all right th's
time, till e’most night we stooped at
U--— for wood and water. Wnile wo
were waiting, March, the depot-master,
came along, and sa}a he: ‘Seatonh. I
want you to do me a favor.”
“ • What is itr’” says I, for March
and I were pretty good friends.
“ • Well.’ savs he, ‘there’s a young
woman here wh > wants to go to Fair-
town, and she hasn’t a cent of money.
She came here to get work, and she’s
lost her pocket-book, and hasn’t any
way to get back home. I don’t feel at
liberty to piss her over the road,
(they’d been making a row about free
passes', and she a v u’t the kind that
you'd feel like offering money to. So
1 thought may be you’d let her ride on
the engine.’
“Well, I didn’t like to refuse March,
for. ae I said before, be and I were
good friends, and be had done me
ninny • mod tarn; bat 1 mart say the
idea of baviiura woman in the cab all
the way to Fairtown wa’n’t very
pleasant, and I said so to March, but
h sr along. She cable out upon the
platform, a little, pale faced thing, who
looked at mo with great, frigli ened
eyes, as though she thought I w.ts a
bear, and would eat her up as soon as
we loft tne station. March introdu ed
her as Miss Lord, and seemed to ex
pect me to say something to make her
feel at home, but l was all out of sorts,
and I only nodded in a surly sort of
Way. I saw tho tears come into her
eyes, and you b Iter believe I felt kind
of mean, but I didn't say anyth ng,
and March helped her on the engine.”
I saw her put out a litt’e white hand,
not much b gjrer’n a child’s, and lay it
on drt» nrm, awslre sa’dr
“ ‘God bless.you, Mr. March.’
“And then I went off to look for Jim,
who wa* late.
“ 1 found him the other side of the
depot, with a two-gallon can of kerosene
in his hand.
t ‘ ‘ You see,’ he said, as I asked rath
er sharply where he’d been. ‘Ic’ngit
this a good deal cheaper here than at
Fairtown, an’ my wife thinks it’s asight
better, too.’
“•Well, come a’ong,’ 1 said," ‘for
we’re two minutes behind time now.’
“ When we got back to tho engine
March had gone, and Miss Lord sat there
alone.
Jim stared, but I said;
“ ‘ This \oung woman’s going to ride
on the engine to Fairtown. She is a
fr.end of A r. March.’ tio he put down
his kero «nc, and took his place on tho
cab
“I heard the conductor's ‘ All aboard,’
a-j fj-’ Vf' ,
"I wa-; busy wnn »«v«iu and valves,
for a man who drives a train holds the
lives ot hundreds in h s hand, and one
eare'es* motion mav send them a'l into
eternity. So you see I hadn’t much
time to think of anything but n y ma
chine, but 1 noticed that Jim was
pretty ta laTve. At I rst I thought
it v\ as because wo na., a woman
aboard, but by and by 1 began
to suspect it was something worse
titan that. His voice grew thick
and his movements un ertan. and at
last I could no longer hide from nr. self
the fact .that he had been Urinkiiig.
Still I antieiuated no trouble. \Ve
were already more than ha f way tc
Fairtown. ami I thought he would keep
up till we got there.
“At A — tlie station master handed
the conductor a telegram. He read it,
nn I then handed it to n e. It ordered
u.s to go on to N to meet the special.
I liad expected to stop at the next sta
tion, ami N was ten miles beyond,
but orders are orders and m ist
I e obeyo I. So 1 told .Jim to pile
on the woo i. and 1 put on all the steam
I dared, and we went Spinning over the
road at a rate that artist have astonished
the passengers; *
“ We had gone a little more than half
way. and 1 \vi& begi-ning to think we
ini lit ma e tho distance without much
trouble, when Jim sat right down on
the I'oor of tho cab, anil l>cgan to
wiiirnper.
'“Get up, you fool, and go to work,’
I cried.
“•I can’t,’ he whimpered.' ‘Tm
tiled, an’ mus’ go er sleep.’
“‘Got up,-you rascal!’ 1 shouted.
‘Don’t you know we’ve got to get to
N— in ten minutes, or meet the
Bpcc'nl tra il?
-‘“I can’t help it, lot thcr ol’ train
come. I tell ye I’m tired. Now, look
here, Sen'orth,’ nodding h : s head with
drunken g avity. ‘You're workin’
too hard. Why, man. _ypu won’t
live out half your days, if you don’t
take some rest. I tell ye what ’t is you'd
better take things easy. I rngoin' to,
any wav.
nd he laid down on the floor of the
cab. and shut his eyes, mutter ng:
‘‘J ako it easy, easy. Jim' 11 take it easy.’
‘ 1 suppose 1 must have acted like a
wild man, for I knew that before I could
let the conductor know the fix that wt
w re in, and get help, it would be too
late to save the train, and I’m afraid 1
use I fonr 1 pretty strong words, as a
man is apt to when he gets in a tight
place. Not tha* the wonts help him out
o it. 1 suppose they o dy let off some
of the extra steam, and make him th nk
quicker. So I stormed away there, all
the t me trying to do my work . nd
Jin’s, and knowing ever moment that
we were losing ground. The steam was
going down, and the engine slowing up,
spite of all I could do.
“ 1 tell you.” ami he passed his hand
o er his forehead, “ it ma os the sweat
start on m^ now. when I think of that
run. It seems to me that 1 lived a life
time in those few minut *. It’s an
awful thing to have so many lives de
pen ling on you In the ears behinJ me
were hundreds of human bo ngs, and
the other train had hundreds more, and
only a s’ep between them and eternity.
All this time, the girl M reh had put on
th - engine had been sitting perfectly
still, watching everyth ng that went on,
an 1 now, when.everything seemed lost.
she threw o V her shawl, and stepped in
to Jim’s place, say ng qu etly:
“Til take that man’s place, Mr.
See'orth.’
“ ‘You?’ and I looked at the slight,
almost girlish, figure in astonishment.
“ ^T. s,’ she saiii. ‘I am stronger
than I look, and I've been watching the
man. so I know 1 can do his work.”
“It was a forlorn hope, but our only
one. and. afte.- one brief moment of
hesitation. I said:
“ ‘Very well, you can but try, and if
you fail’ —
“I d d not finish the sentence, for, rt
the thought of failure, the terrible pict
ure of mangled, heeding bodies,
crushed out of all semblance of human
ity. rose be ore me, and I turned awav
with a groan. A slight shudder parsed
over the gir', and she seemed to grow
paler, but, without a word, she took
her place, throwing on the wood as I
directed, and doing so well. that, spite
of my anxiety, I could not hut not.ee
the dexterity with which she handled
heavy sticks. The strength o a half-a-
dozen men seemed concentrated in tier
slender arms, but. spite of her efforts,
we hardly seemed to gain ground.
“I looked at my watch, and fairly
groaned aloud as I saw that it wanted
ten minutes of six, and at six we were
expected to pose tha extra at N .
There was no tun* to put back, and no
chcnoe to stop till we reaoi-ed N .
There was nothing for us to do but
to go straight oh, though I felt that w*
were going to destruction. As the bends
turning to atont. W. il. if you’ll believe
me, that girl, instead of making a row,
as most wotnen would have done, never
sa d a single word, though she seemed
to know jnst how things were going,
but, afu r one look at my face-—snd i
Suppose I must have looked pretty bad
—almost by inspiration it seemed to m*
she did one of those things a man won
never have thought of. R ght bch nd
her Was the oil-can Jim had. got at
D—• With a steady hand she lifted
the heavy can, and poured hah' its con
tents on the wood, then she threw the
wood upon the fire, and it bbued up
with a quick, fierce heat, that St,at th ■
caghra -llyiag over tfip Tftlls et a rate
that fairly ma h* one dizzy. StiH abe
piled on tn oiled wood, ami r.iill w r e w nt
on faster, and faster. The train rocked
from side to s de, and the ongit.e
seemed hardly to touch 'he rail-. 1
looked at my watch, and then an ionsly <
In the direction of N . It wanted
th’ee minutes of dxi Oh, i' there
might be some delay, sometliing tomnk*
the other train e en o - ie minute late.
But no, away in the distance I could see
a fa nt line of smoke coming nearer and
nearer. The girl saw it too, and
reached for the oil-can.
** 4?* of no use.’1 said. ‘We can’I
get there, and we’ve all the steam w#
can safely carry now.’
“‘Are you sure it won’t bear an«
mire? 1 she asked, anxiously.
* J shook my head
“ Tm afraid not,’ I said.
" ‘But it's possible that it may?’ she
asked again.
“ ‘Yes, possible, but not probable,’ I
Mnwered
“She asked the questions in a calm,
even voice, and I think I answered in
much the same tone, for, now that tho
danger 1 had feared wa.s really upon us,
I seemed to have lost all fear, and I
watched the line of smoke nearing us
so last with a sort of vague wonder as
to what the engmecr of the other train
would do when he saw us coming, too
late to save his tra : n. I was roused
from this sort of'stupor ihTo which l
seemed in danger of falling, by seeing
the g rl again reach for the oil-can. 1
shook my head.
‘“It won’t do,’ I said. ‘It may bo
death.’
“■•But,’ she said, ‘it is death if I
don't.’
“I nodded, and, without a
ttyord, she . poured the remainder
of the oil upon the wood, and thr w
it into the fire. YYe were
close to the station now. and I could see
people running aen.s* the p’atform, and
hear the women scream as they saw our
danger; for right in front of us was he
extra, so near that it seemed as if noth
ing but a miracle could sate us I
looked at Misi Lotd. With that tart ef
fort her strength seemed to leave her,
and she sank upon the seat, covering
her face with her hands, waiting for tho
death that seemed so near.
“ There was a moment of awfu sus
pense, and thenAve were safe upon the
side track, just as the e tra train went
thundering by, so near that s< areely an
inch separated the engine from the
hindmost ear The brakes were put
on, and the long line of ears came to a
stand still justbeiond the station, and
then slowly ran back to where tho
crowd of alarmed and curious men
stood watching us. At the shrill sound
of the escaping steam. Miss Lord raised
her head, and looked anxiously around,
then, seeming to rca i/.e that we wi re
safe, she tried to say something, but
the words died away in a murmur, and
the next moment she fell on the t oor
of the cab like a dead woman. But be
fore I eou d call any one to help her. for
I was pretty well shaken imse'f, one
of the airectors, who was on the tra h?
came along in a fearful passion. He
wanted to i now what I meant by run
ning the risk that 1 had done.
“ • Haven't you any brains? and don’t
you care nnv more for human life than
a donkey?’ he blustere L
“I handed him the telegram I had
received at A , snd which, fortu
nately for myseif, l had put into my
pocket, and then I pointed to the f’o -r
of the cab. where Jim lay in a drunken
sleep, and Miss Lord in a dead fainq
and I told the story as well as 1 could.
I tell you there was pretty lively times
there Tor a iew minutes. Tho passen
gers found out that something was tho
■natter, and they c. me pouring out of
the rare, and crowded round the en
gine, and I had to tell my story over
and over to them. Well, some of th#
men carried Jim oT to the station, and
dumped him down on the fioor, and
M ss Lord was taken into one of the
drawing-room cars, and fussed over as
though she was one of the greatest
ladies in the land. and. before she came
to herself enough to sit up, th re was a
purse made up for her, of more dollars
th n Hie’ ever had in her life, and that
wa’n’t all. for Mr. Runals—the director
that was aboa d the tra;a—found that
she knew soa.ething of telegraph). and
put her in the office at C for awhjle.
ami in a ew months gave her a steady
job. So you see it wa'n’t a bad ride for
ner. a ter all.”
* But what became of her? ’ I asked.
“Is she still in the o 1 ce?”
“Oh, bless you, no, sir. f- be did what
most all the women do, soom-r or later
—get married.”
“Well,” .‘aid I.“such a womtm de
serve I a good husband; I hope she got
one.”
“Well, I don’t know; pr tty middling,
I guess,” and then he nodded, with a
laugh: “She seems to be satisfied, so I
suppose there's no occasion for any one
else to find fault.”
. u-t then there was a whistle, and
the down train came into view, and,
putt ng his pipe in his pocket, the en
gineer made ready for his homeward
trip, saying, with a sly smile, as he
sprang on the engine and said good-by:
‘ “If ever you oome to Concord I shall
be glad to see you, and von can ask my
wie what she thinks of the husband
Mias Ford got.”—Ballou'* Monthly.
Tree Lore.
Do yoh know what it is so to live up
on a person who is present with yon
that your eres follow hie; that you read
hie soul; tort yon see the changes in
hie countenance; that yon anticipate
hie wishes: that yon smile in hia smile,
end are sad in hie sadness, and ere down-
cert whan he is vexed, sq4 rejoiced in
Raising Poultry for the Market.
Raising poultry for the market can be
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the profit can be made very small or be
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chickens for market it makes a groat
differenoe whether they attain a good
■ize and are sent in early in the season
when poultry is scarce and high, or are.
marketed late when there is plenty of
poultry offered at low prices. The
prices of chickens in August and Sep
tember are usually fifty to one hundred
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tuce are best, but young and tender
grass is good. Shade is needful in the
yard to afford the birds a chance to re
treat from the hot rays of the sun in
summer. F'ruit trees may advanta
geously be placed in the vard They
will afford tho needed nhaile, and the
presence of the fowls will help to pro
tect the trees from insects and insure
their thriftiness and fruitfulness. Poultry
yards ere generally too small. If the
i ard is large enough the fowls will keep
ealthy. A New York hotel-keeper a
few years ago had a poultry yard Which
contained fifteen acres, in which he kept
large nnmbers of turkeys, dneks and
fowls. T hey had the range of the lot
and during the summer obtained a Ikrge
part of their food from the yard, and
were free from diseases usually incident
to poultry. The owner was wont to de
clare that he could raise a thousand
pounds of poultry as easily and as
cheaply as he could a thousand pounds
oLlreef, mutton or pork. Under good
management It is probably true that a
thousand pouuds of poultry can be pro
duced as cheaply as a thousand pounds
of beef, mutton or pork. The fact that
poultry usually sells at two or three
times the price of beef, mutton or pork,
sufficiently indicates how much greater
the profit must be in poultry raising
than in raising beef, mutton or pork.
In raising poultry for the market the
importance of having the chickens
hatched early should be insisted upon.
Next in importance is the feeding of
them to insure their rapid and continu
ous growth. The food for the young
chicks should be such as is adapted to
S romote growth, and should be abun-
ant in quantity. Skimmed milk,either
sweet or sour, is an excellent article to
feed young chicks, along with Indian
meal or oat meal cr bread made of
these articles. The chickens should be
given about all the food they wdFeat so
as to keep them growing thriftily, all
the time. Many allow their young
chickens to be only about half fed for
the first three or four months and then
by extra feeding endeavor to bring
them into condition for the market. By
feeding well froffi the first the chickens
are hastened to maturity, kept in good
condition and are ready for tne market
at en early age. If poultrv can be
brought to maturity early in tlie season
and sent to market when there is a
scarcity of poultry offered, a high price
will be obtained for it. The quicker
poultry can be grown ready for market,
the cheaper can it be produced. A cer
tain amount of food daily is required to
supply the waste of the system, main
tain animal heat and so forth, and what
is consumed in excess of that amount
increases growth and flesh. If a flock
of chickens can be brought to maturity
ready for the market in four munth*
instead of six, the cost of keeping them
alive or simply maintaining their con
dition for two months will be saved
The more the chickens can be made to
eat and digest the faster they will grow
and the less will be the cost of maturing
them. Neglect to feed ge*erously is
the cause of many failures in raising
E poultry for the market. The greatest
rofit is obtained only by feeding all the
irds can eat, while the least profit is
obtained by keeping them about half
starved. Generous feeding afid profit
go together and that fact should lie suf
ficient inducement to secure good treat
ment of poultry.—Practical Farmer.
Reserved Seat*.
In traveling, one meets with many
selfish people ; among them countless
women who insist on monopolizing two
seats in a railway car unaer tlie pre
tense that one of them is engaged by an
attendant gentleman, supposedly in the
smoking-car for a brief interval. We
saw two women of thia sort lightly
served daring a summer trip. For fifty
miles they succeeded in warding off
traveler* who sought the shady side of
the car, and the seat in front of them
was tlie convenient receptacle of their
baggage. Finally, however, an ancon th-
lodking individual quickly removed the
baggage and turned the seat The
astonished ladies paused in their con
versation to each other and raised their
hands as if in remonstrance, but it was
too latefc; the thing was quietly and
quickly'accomplished, and the two for
eigners who were seated there seemed
to understand no words or gestures.
Public opinion, in that car, rt least,
sided with them. On another occasion,
when onr party entered a car, not a seat
was available. One person was guard
ing four, othefh one and two; tlie aisle
was uncomfortably crowded. “ This
said the conductor, “room in the
car for those who are standing. ”
le engaged seats were at a discount
(plenty of room now), bnt the conductor
insisted that they should be retained by
their occupant*, and all were made com
fortable. "Do aa you would be d<ne
by,” la a good rule when traveling aa
eWwhere.
—New Enrteod sometime* boerta el
tta influence In Chicago, but It kas only
about one-flfih es muy representatives
; there as Germany, end a Utile (rear *
third aa many as Ireland,
ft** Twifp
wa
.ce and anow are unknown; yet strnne*
u it may seem, on tha last day of the
fear, suddenly, without warning, we
were treated to n genuine snow-storm.
Hurrah* from thousands dt boyish
voices filled the eir as the feathery
anowflakes fell swiftly, and when they
continued to fall, hour after hour, cov
ering the earth with a snowy mantle,
boyish enthusiasm knew no bounds;
such snowballing, Mich coasting on im
provised sleds, such giant ball*, such
•now men, such forts I They knew
what to do with it, our California boys,
though nnless they had been out of the
State they had never scon snow before.
They tried to cram the fun and frolic of
* #hole winter Into one day. Nor were
the girls less wild; quiet, sedate maid
ens romped; they greeted the passing
stranger, the family milkman, their
friends young and old, with snowballs;
dignity was thrown aside; young ladies
forgot they were grown up, dandies
threw away their canes, put their gloves
in their pockets,'to return the bells
thrown from every side. Such a anow
carnival was never seen. As for th*
old folks, why we were as bad as the
yoqng. The snow-storm came to us like
an old friend, bringing to many of us
happy memories of our childhood’s
home. Many a dear grandma let the
snow settle on her cap as she stood on
the sidewalk regardless ol the pelting of
a roguish grandson. Papa snd mamma
threw balls at each other. We all for
got it was Sunday. It was not so funny
when the Sunday-schools were out,
soon after the storm began, that the
children should shout, scream and
roll in the snow, as it was, about
two hours la’er when the churches
Were out, and the grown people acted
like children. Coming out of one of
the largest churches in town, a grave,
sedate member slipped and fell; before
be was allowed to rise, other sedate
members had rolled him in the snow.
Every one, old and young, rich and
poor—was in tho streets; we can give
f ’ou but a faint idea of the wild Irolics
udulged in. They were yoang ladies
and gentlemen, not bad boys, who put
a big snowball on the track, making the
car-driver get off of his clt to roll it
away, and, when a policeman appeared,
snowballing him so he bad to run.
Standing in onr dummy cars, the -en
gineer proved so tempting a target be
tlie print
stead of
was maid before.
A
that its candidate for
mort efoqnent fipcf i
▲ dowk-towk phyddkaa
ness “ terribly doll coartch
ot the markets.**—-A?j«0s6n*
Tm bhaar *ow*4 ti* aoi
And saaad tka fwrmrt‘1
With her a cfcwMias
. For mum giie’d *e4* wtm, ...
I* la asud that Ohio whiai
own houses ork. Now, that 1*
of an no hire idea w* like.-
Stateeman.
Hahoock's father wanted
liter's trade. Had be done so. In-
being a Wert Painter he might
have been a setter.
Tie sweet to dye far thcee we love,"’
exclaimed a young man when hie heel
girl asked hue way be didn't wear *
black instead of a light mustache
The animal carries Ma tail at
pneite extremity ffoaa Ma heed; a
carries hia tale In his mouth,
does many a man make both
It is learned from the Belt lake jETomlcf
that Galileo discovered Limbagwr eliaaae
floating through space in 1000, and made
an entry in his diary at the time Ait he
thought it in a vary poor state ot ye*-
acrvatioQ.
Smith aaya: " My wffia, who ba* fort
reed that 'it takes a Japeneeegirl thir
teen hoars to draaa for a party,’be* eeeO
to Japan to know how she dm* it She
can't occupy more than four, for tiaahfe
of her.”
As theyvfere about to hang en Irielh-
man in London, one of Me friends who'
hadoometowitneasthe ceremony, cried:
“ I always told you you Would oome to
thia!" "And yon hare always Bed I I
have notoosne—I wee brought!"
A omreuMAM who
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Poor fellows, they could not stand it,
the oars stopped running. People on
top of high houses would make im
mense balls, letting them fall on unsus
pecting pedestrians. Many silk hats-
were made unfit for New Year’s calling.
The few Chinamen who ventured out
had a hard time. Our China-boy stand
ing on the step*, asked: "What for him
boys heap laugh? cold very bad?’’ He
had reason to think so before the end of
the day; some boys caught him, buried
him in tbe snow till tie was nearly
smothered, and sent him home crying
like a baby. We lived many years in
the East, but never saw a snow-storm
like thi-, for there all the trees (but tbe
evergreens) are bare, the rose bushes
are covered with brown branches,
bushes and plants are dark and with
ered ; but here everything was different
—the grass, trees, bushes all green.
Many rose bushes covered with buds
and roses, the climbing fuchsias red with
flowers, the A bullion gay with its swing
ing bells. In our garden we had smOax.
heliotrope, geraniums, fuchsias and
rosea. \Ve picked our New Year bou
quet after the storm began. Think of
picking beautiful tea-roses and whit*
rosebuds in a snow-storm!—Cbr. Baton
Trantcrtpf.
A Lang Nay.
tion rat tobacco pouch, thought
enjoy the nervous shook at a friend fay
placlngit where hia frieod’sey# would aa#
it suddenly. He was much mortified whea
the friend ((uletly took it up, hripedhiafc'
self, and then paea edit about tiUtheeSu-
tenta were gone.
"William, you have again eomanp
unprepared!" "Tee, air. "But from
what causef* “Larin***, air." " John
son, give William a good merit for me*
rightness.” “Bates, yonpremed.” *1
have not prepared, too, rir. “
“From levin sea, d
d mark for
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give Bates * bed mark i
Tn young Positivist# are multip^yfof,
Passing a group of children tb* aftir
evening, we heard a little gjriof u dwlertie
turn of mind remark toe tittle boy per
suaaively, “ Now. you ere a bed afopel,
aren’t youT ‘fNo/’wa# tile ilnKHieti*
rejoinder, " I ain’t a bed angel andT rint
a good angel There’# no such things as
angels, anyway." ~ ' .
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A recent dispatch from Buffalo says:
A very peculiar and remarkable case
has just oome to light iu this city, but
has not aa yet, strange to say, attracted
the notice of the local press. The State
Tom for the Insane W located here
la one of the largest and finest In
stitutions of this kino in the world. It
contains at present about 260 patients,
the most remarkable case among them
being that of a man of German descent,
who nails from a large town in southern
Ohio. He was found lying in a street
here one day over a year ago, and waa
taken to the police station by an ignor
ant policeman whs believed him to
be intoxicated. There his real condi
tion was discovered by a physician, and
he was hurried away to the insane
Asylum. The man has spoken but once
during the time he has been au inmate
of the Asylum. Then he declared inco
herently that the "Lord had commanded
him to sleep” and that he "would be
awakened by the Lord when it suited
His pleasure,” or words to the same
effect. The ma» is insane, hia peculiar
delusion being that he must sleep, and
aleep he certainly does, for he is utterly I
unconscious, and has been for over a
year, being fed on liquid food jnst as an
infant would be. Hia eyes never open,
end when raised up in bed, if his sup
port ia withdrawn, he will sink down ae
limp as a dead person. Various devices
have been resorted to in the vain en- ]
deavor to arouse him from his lethargic
condition, including electricity, shower
baths, trickery, etc. In presence of the
writer, Dr. Granger, one of th* attend
ing physicians, pinched the patient’s
flesh in sensitive parts, but not a muscle
moved or quivered, vet when the head-
hoard of his bedstead was soundly
rapped upon with a brass key, tbe
patient’s face twitched con refovely.
The man ha* excellent family con
nections, and a brother rt his declares
that no insanity was ever noticed in his
brother previous to his coming to Buf
falo on a visit, when he was overtaken
by his .present great misfortune. Dr.
Granger states that the oaae is a rare
one, only one or two such being oa
record. He also states that the patient
la liable to arise at any momeat, either
a perfectly aeo* man or a combative,
destruetire, raving maniac. He'
Mm to be oogniaaotrt ail Utattr
to hia pres sea*. Harir thirty yeersef
Th* Malice rt Inanimate TMag*.
A certain young man iKtMs city enn
never be argued out rt n belief m tae
total depravity of Inanimate things,
which has been impressed upon him m
a singular and foreHtie manner. Last
Saturday night he came boma very tot*
from the dab—although that met i*
neither here nor there. On
sleeping apartment he
drew according to aa
into which he had faUerf.
his ooat and vist and bung them over
the back rt a chair. Then he sat dowft
and took off his shoe*. He ttafb time?
off a certain other garmeet—toehoft, Ml
trousers—in one pocket rt wMefc he wne :
accustomed to carry a peri
key to hia office daak. On
heard the knife fail upoa t
It up, he pieced
id and flniahed
the morning be arose
resuming hU' trousers, discovered
his key was misting. He
over the floor looking after
out effect, end aht
and low, could find
stormed that day and the
bad he pot oa n pair ef 1
which he worn in day, i
•gain on Monday morning,
he tried all manner rt keys «
but, owing to the diehoBeel
rt tbe ioekmaker, none would
on Monday he got a loek-atith
■p, who. after a long trial ptaked thi
look,and at bis order made Mm two keys,
■o thai no such calamity ee he ’
dared should again fallapoa M
these two keys in Ua pocket 1
home Monday night to prepare
theater, and on putting on the
•hoes he had worn ettheetoh 1
misting key in the toe rt one rt
The language that he need at
•overy was rt a somewhat lurid
actor, but it seemed to do hhu
And he swears and affirm* that the
lamped into the shoe
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