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VSVXR THU TIMM AND THU PLACE
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
This path—how soft to pace I
Thi* May—what magic weather!
Where is the loved one’* face ?
In a dream, that loved one’* face meets mine,
Bat the houm is narrow, the place is bleak
Where, outside, rain and wind combine.
With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak,
With a hostile eye at my flushing cheek,
With a malice that maaks each word, each sign!
O, enemy sly and serpentine,
Uncoil thee from the waking man I
Do I behold the paat
Thus firm, and fast,
Yet doubt if the future hold I can?
This path, so soft to pace, shall lead
Thro’ the magic of May to herself indeed !
Or narrow if need* the honse must ^e,
Outside are the storm and strangers; we—
Oh. dose, safe, warm, sleep I and she,
—I and she. > Bhownino. ‘
BARNWELL 0. IL, 8. C„ THURSDAY. JULY 5, 1883.
DID HE LOVE HER?
Georgette was bom with a silver spoon
in her mouth; indeed, if I mistake not,
it was a gold spoon, richly enenuted
with jewels and bearing in its bowl a
monstrous lump of good fortune.
In the first place, she was one of the
loveliest girls I ever saw, both in soul and
l>ody. Her l>eauty was of a dark, mag
nificent type, which suggested to me the
diminutive name of “Jet,” by which 1
always called her. _ .
She was barely twenty, and heiress - it"
fairly takes my breath away to write it
—heiress to £60,000. left her by her
unde, a German of high rank, but sin
gularly destitute of kindred.
Georgette’s mother had l>een an Ameri-
ean girl who had met young Rudolph
Schubert during a summer tour in the
Rhineland.
They had married against the wishes
of Rudolph’s family, who were greatly
•hocked at what they regarded as a mi-
inllianer. It was only after the lapse of
years, when death seemed striving to ex
terminate the Schuberts, that the old
Herr Uncle, as he was called, q|>em>d his
hqart to the orphan cliild of his dead
brother. - . ‘
Georgette had been Ixjtrn in the United
States, and she was an American to the
heart’s core. I remember having thought,
-that afternoon when we sat out on the
lawn together under the pink awning—
that there wasn't’the slightest I race of
her father's nationality about her.
She was sitting in a camp-chair with a
bit of delicate embroidery Tii her hands.
There was a table near by on which
“ high tea ” was to be served when Ralph
Dearing and his. mother aniv. d. Jet
bad invited them; but I should have
-known they were coming if she h td not
told me, for when (lid her eyes, ever
shine so brightly, or when were -her
cheeks so rich a crimson, ns whoa tliis
penniless barrister was near at bad ?
Yes, Georgette was in love wt!+i hitn;
I saw it very plainly, and it made me
uneasy. If I had only tiren sure of_
Ralph I h aring it wuiil^dt hnve Ijothered
me an instant. Bnt though it seemed
most unlikely that he should not love
her, I was haunted by a mortal fear that
her money had something to do with his
levotion.
Loving Jet, as only a solitary old maid
knows how to love, it was torture to me
catch in her breath, “that has troubled
me, too. It Would kill me if t wore to
find it out. ”
“No.” I answered; “not unless you
found it out too late to avert the conse
quences.”
* “But I oonld not give him np,” she
cried. "I wish I were poor, then I
would know whether he loved me for
myself.”
The tears started in her eyes, and her
red lips quivered. v '
“Hush!” I said wamingly. "They
are coming—Mr. Hearing and his moth
er, Jet.”
She regained her composure in an in
stant. When she gave her hand to Ralph
her face was wreathed in t miles.
He looked so handsome that afternoon
that I would have given anything to
have l>een able to Irust him.
Within the sound of his musical
voice some of my doubts did vanish and,
knowing that he had to go away on the
morrow, I had the grace to beguile his
mother indoors, while ho and Jet went
down to the lake after water-lilies—
at least that is what they said they were
going for. ^ - ' * 7
"I can hardly realize that I am going
away to-morrow,” he said, with an
audible tremor in his voice,
there was no occasion for me to
I suppose iR’s an old story tq yon, Miss
"I wish
do so.
Georgette, to hear a man say that hw* • .•■’V.'J’-vuJL ,clnw,<‘ ’ 111
Georgette. She had been ill, and though
the doctor said she had pratioally ire-
it before,” she said wredp »hs did not seem to gain a par
ticle of strength from day. to day. It
would like to spend his life in your
society ?”
“I have heard
slowly; “but 1 have not believed it
always." |' ' —
His face hushed for an instant, and
7io made a sudden gesture, but he liit
his lip a moment after and turned his
head away.
‘ ‘Yon know that I love yon, ” he said,
iu n low tone. “When I go away to
morrow, I will leave all my happiness
liehind me.” ,.7 ■ y
“One never knows when tobelieveyou
men," Georgette said with affected care-
lesSness.
“ I suppose it doesn’t make much'dif
ference whether you believe us or not,”
Ubanswered in a piqued tone.
“ Excuse ine,” she said quickly, “ but
it makes all the difference in the world to
me—more difference, infinitely more
than it ever could moke to another wo
man.'"
ii How -* — . r- -y 4 ,
She paused a moment.
“My position is so pecujjar,” she said
presently. “If I accepted in good faith
any protestations that might be made to
me, I would be called upon .to subject
them to a trying ordeal—a tfet of sin
cerity perhaps stronger than they could
lear.” '
man husband, and if I married a for-
to think of my darling as the virt .m to- signer T was to
the grovelling passion of a moivt'miry "
man. _I had never hinted to her the
drift of my thoughts, but I Iwd made up
oiy mind to do so, attd.l tried it that
nf ter noon. Jet opened the way for me,
]>ist as though she had known what I
meant to say.
“ Emily,” she said, “ what would you
say if I were to get married ? ” #
“ God bless yon,” Tiin-swered prompt
ly. “That is, of course, provided the
match was all that it should be.”
What—what doyou—think of Ralph
Denring?"
She was bonding low over her-iaprk,.
bnt I saw that-she was blushing. ^ \
" Are yon going to marry him, Jet ?”
asked qnickly.
“No—0—that is—I don’t know. To
tell the truth, he hasn’t asked me. But
1 thinks Ik* means to."
“Of course.”
"If he were to, what would you do
about it V’
“I looked up in snprise, for I knew
that she loved him with her whole
generous soul. 1 , '
“I think I would try to find oat his
motive,” I said blnntly.
“He loves me—at least he has told
me so,” she answered softly. “And—
and I think I can trust him I”
J “He told you he loved you, and yet
went no farther I” I cried. “That was
nnmanly, Jet; I hope you did not listen
to him.”
She blushed still more deeply.
"He would ask me if he dared,” she
said, defending him net only by winds
but by expression. ‘‘Bnt he—he thinks
—I know he feels there is s difference
in our positions. ” * ‘
“Decidedly,” I said laconically, for
what she had told me gave me livery
unfortunate impression.
"He is very proud and sensitive,”
she added, and would have said more,
but I took her hand and spoke to her
with great gravity.
“Jet,” I said tenderly, -“yon know
that I have no other wish than to see
you happy. Forgive me, then, if what I
say wounds you, but I cannot help feel
ing that Ralph Dealing may .' have
thought quits aa much of your fortune
« of yonraelf.”
listen to my suit is nothing more than
presumption on my part,”
She gave me this with a sarcastic
smile.
“What does lie moan abotlt yottr
itjfclng- your fortune?” I asked when I
lind read it.
" I told him that my nude's will was
mode iu my favor conditionally, atid that
if I failed to marry a German I would
forfeit my fortune.”
* “You never told me that I ” I cried.
“No? I never cared to speak of it.
I cannot l>car to have questions of in
terest and matrimony so closely con
nected.” ———
“But,” I ventured to observe, “in
that case it would h’aW been folly for
you to marry Ralph Dearing. He has
his mother to support, and he hasn’t a
penny in the world.”
“ Do you think I would have oared
for that!” she said, with a passionate
burst of tears, *‘ If he had loved me I
would have gone with him t<> the ends
of the earth and lived upon bread and
water. ” — —
1 laid my hand gently an her glossy
hair.
“ Dear iittkylot! ” I murmured, and
I felt that I could have killed Ralph
Dealing.
Three months passed and there came
“"You
mav
“ As for.you, Mr. Dearing,” she intef-
nipted hastily, “ I know of old yonr gal
lant speeches,^so I do not take'them for
more than they arc meant But fancy
my position if some day I were to take
a man at his word and entangle him in a
matrimonial engagemi-Jii t—Perhaps yon
did not know, Mr. Dearing, that my nn-
cle only bequeathed his fortune to me
conditionally ? If I marry an American
it is to revert tq a distant cousin. My
uncle was bent upon me having a Ger-
to
was with terrible agony that ,J saw at
last that if there were not a speedy im -
provemeut her days on earth were uum
bered.
One morning when we were out driv
ing under the doctor’s" orders she' re
quested to be taken to the office of Mr.
Fanshaw.
“ I am going to make my will, Emily,”
she said calmly, and I conld not answer
her. - * ’ .
When we called at the lawyer’s office
we were shown into the little room where
a gentleman was seated writing. It was
too late to retreat when I saw that it was
Ralph Dearing.
He greeted us affably,’ but I saw a look
of horror on his face as he noted Jet’s
altered appearanoe.
“ Mr. Fanshaw is in his private oflice,
Mias Schubert,” he said, opening the
door for her; “ walk in.”
“ I will call you presently/’ she, said,
and then left me alone with Ralph Deal-
ing.
As the door closed after her he turned
quickly and strode toward me, grasping
me fiercely by the arm.
“What is the matter witn her?" In.
asked in nJibarsi' voice.
I shook off his hand rudely and
answered with great biffernoHH :
“ A broken heart, Mr. Dearing.”
I could not refrain from saying it,
Though I knew Jet would be angry.
Ralph Dearing had paled suddenly,
and he caught at the branch of a tall
shrub ns though he songht its support.
’ ‘What a very absurd proposition?” he
exclaimed. "It is no wonder. Miss
Schubert, that you have resisted the
pleading of so many suitors. A fortune
like yours is not to be thrown away for a
passing fancy. I was not aware that
you held it conditionally. If I were
only a German nobleman, now! But,
alas! I am only a poor barrister and a
free-born American.”
He laughed ; bnt there was something
in his voice that made Georgette’s heart
strings vibrate with pain.
He did not know, and she would nol
have had him know, that her money
would have been as nothing in the bal-
ance against his love had she only been
sure of it
“Shall we
go out on the lake?” he
asked, changing the subject so quickly
that her heart gave a despairing quiver.
It was only her money, then, after all,
t hat he had oonrted so assiduously.
“No," she answered, shivering slight
ly. “I think it is too damp this even
ing. Besides, the lilies are^ closing. 1
will get some in the morning. ”
When they came into the house I b*W
by her face that something had hap
pened.
That night, after Ralph and his moth
er had gone,- she came into my room
and said simply:
‘ ‘ There is no room for doubt. I have
weighed him in the balance and found
him wiuilugc*——v " .—^ “■
Three days later she reoeived a letter
from Ralph Dearing, from which this is
an extract.
“ I love yqu with my whole heart,
Georgette; but 1 am neither foolish nor
selfish enough to ask you to marry me
when I know what you would sacrifice
by so doing. —
"At first I was afraid toaak you be
cause I feared you might misconstrue
my motives, and my love for you caused
me to shrink from the imputation that
might have fallen upon me.
“Then when I learned that by marry
ing me you wolud lose the fortone you
were bora to enjoy, I saw how wrong it
would be for me to expect or aak R,
“ When I marry you I lose half my for
tune, but there is still a goodly portion
left to me. I would not have any of it,
though, Ralph, if I had to live without
you/'
Real tears started to his eyes and he
gathered her close to his h^art.
When I came in after awhile Jet wt^
seated on the sofa and he was seabV
dose lieside her.
Her cheeks were crimson and her eye*
shone like stars.
“I don’t know what the doctor will
say to this,”I said, shaking my head du
biously. N
“We won't need any doctor now, Miss
Emily,” Ralph said with a joyous laugh.
“ I have taken the contract off his
hands.”
He fulfilled it, too; ’’•three months
later, when Jot was married her health
was licfter than it hail ever been before.
The inscription in her wedding-ring
was iu Hebrew, and somewhat different
from the judgment which Belshazzar
saw written on the wall.
It signified in onr language :
“Thou hast been weighed in the bal
and found true.”
What He Meant
$2 a Year.
YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER.
THE PEOPLE,
Barnwsil 0. 0.. 8. O.
THE MILK MERCHANT.
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RKMARKABMC WKATHKtt
YEA KM AUO.
NOME «t
Tfc® Mlart al the PbrniiMrasI Wratherlhat
FallaweA a faW *1 rlna la 1810.
In a suit before a Detroit Justice the
other day the defendant desired to prove
that his tin uncial standing wm solid,
and when his witness had token the
stand aud testified that the defendant'
enjoyed the reputation of promptly pay
ing liis debts, the opposing counsel
asked:
“Mr, Blank, you say you consider Mr.
White perfectly good ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“If he owed you 950 you’d expect to
receive it when due ?”
- “Yes, sir.”. T
“If he should ask you for the loan of
925 you'd hand it right out ?”
“Y-yes, sir."
"Very well—very well. Mr. White*
ask the witness for a loan of 925."
‘Mr. Blank, loan me the sum named,”
said the defendant, as he reached out his
hand. *
Mr. Blank grew red and pale by tarns,
hitched around like a boy on a carpet
tack, and finally replied: t
“What I meant to say was that I'd
lend you 925 on a first mortgage on
al>out 92,(XX) worth of real estate ! Make
out your papers !”—Detroit Free Prcu.
The Nature of Diptheria.
“ What do you mean?’’,
He seenred to be choking with his own
> >
words.
“Ought you to ask such a question ?’’
I said pointedly. , ^
“For God’s sake !” he cried passion,
ately, “have done with this. You know
—you saw that I loved her—worshiped
Die grbiiM she trod on. I would give
my life for her this instant Whatis lhq
matter, Miss Emily?
UDo you mean what yon say, Ralph
ho
‘Dotom kaov,” 8^8 add, with a though that you Mould
.Dearing ?”
“As heaven is above us, I do.”
“Then,” I said joyously, “it is all a
hideous mlaunderstaudingT Georgette
loves you. It It that that is killing
her.” . - .- _ ,
If ever a face was. transfigured with
rapture, his was that instant
“Areyou telling mo the truth?”
iried.
“Yes, I am,” I answered; “but gc
away before she cames out; she cannot
bear to see you now. I will prepare her
for your coming to-night,”
'Mr obeyed me, and it was not until
evening that Jet saw him in her own
little sitting-room. When she came in,
Ibbking so frail, yet so lovely, Ralph
could not utter a word. He simply
opened his arms, and thj} next instant
her head was on his breast.
“Darting,” he whispered, “I told you
the truth. Your fortune was nothing to
me; but how could I ask you to give it
up for the sake of sharing my poverty ?”
“Your poverty was nothing to me,”
she said, in a voice that thrilled with
happiness; ‘‘but yon never gave me a
chance of saying *0.”
“And will you—can you—oh, Georg
ette, my darling I it will be a terrible
sacrifice !” I ■■ • ' , ^
’ “You say kv?” she cried reproach
fully, “yet you profess to love me 1
Tell me, Ralph, if it were ten times as
much, would not you give it up gladly
if you were in my position ?”
“Dearest,” he said, kissing her with
tender reverence, “I would give up the
world for you 1”
7 “Besides,” she added, with an en
chanting smile. “ I told a white lie,
Ralph. Can you forgive me for it ? I
was trying to weigh your love in the
balance with my money, and how sadly
I miscalculated the result I Bnt—it is
only half of my fortune that I forfeit in
marrying you. I think we can still
manage to live on half. Don’t yon
think we can, Ralph ? ”
He looked at her in a kind of delirium.
“ What-^what ” — he stammered.
“Don’t you underetandf” aha said
putting both bar
Dr. H. 0. Wood, professor ef experi
mental pathology in the University of
Pennsylvania, a member of the commis
sion appointed by the United States
Government to make researches into the
nature of diptheria, after h iving spent
several years iu the work, recently gave
the results of his investigation in a lec
ture in Pennsylvania. He said that dip
theria, croup aud gangrene are identical
diseases; that diptheria is by no means
limited to what we see in the pharynx;
ns any abraded surface may lie trans
formed with a genuine case of diptheria.
Daring a cold spring, like that which
is just now drawing to an end, people
generally console themselves with the
reflection that the snn will eventually
get the victory, and that summer will
certainly come at last, though its coming
may be delayed. Uncertain as the
weather is, the genera! features of the
seasons recur with a regularity which
warrants the confidence thus reposed in
the annual return of seed time and har-
vest; but there are instances on record
iu which even the suiisons seem to have
lost their characteristic 'features, aa if
the ordinary laws of meteorology had
l>een temporarily suspended. A remark
able case of thia kind, and one which the
long-continued cold weather of thia
spring makes particularly iutercating
just now, is that of the year 1816, which
lias lieen called “the Jear without a sum
mer.” A communication printed in the
CongrcgoUnnaliet gives the following
summary of the weather of this remark-
aide year:
January and February were mild;
March was cold; April t>cgan warm, but
ended ih snow and ice. Ice formed an
inch thick in May, and fields were
I limited over and over again till it W8I
too late to replant. June was the cold
est ever known in this latitude; frost and
ice were common. Almost every green
thing was killed; fruit nearly all de
stroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten
iuchea in Vermont, seven in Maine, three
iu the interior of New York and also in
Massachusetts. There were a few warm
days. It was called a dry season. Bnt
little rain fell. The wind blew steadily
bom the north, cold and fierce. Moth
ers knit extra socks and mittens for the
children in the spring, aud woodpiles
that nsoaUy disappeared daring the
warm spell in front of the hoases were
si*eedily built up again. Planting and
shivering were done together, and the
farmers who worked out their taxes on
he country roads wore overcoats and
mittens. In a town in Vermont a flock
of sheep belonging to a farmer had been
sent as usual to their pasture. On the
17th of June a heavy snow fell in New
England. The cold was intense.
A farmer who had a large field of com
in Tewksbury, built fires around it at
-night to ward off the frost; many an
evening he and his neighliors took tnrns
watching them. He was rewarded with
the only-crop of corn in the neighbor
hood. Considerable damage was done
in New Orleans iu consequence of the
rapid rise of the Mississippi River.
Fears were entertaineiTthat the son was
coyling.Qfl, and throughout New England
A young Moslem Arab from the Gulf
of Persia, same to Bombay to make hia
fortune. He maAgcd in the ancient
trade of selling milk. Now, London or
Melbourne, Bombay or York, 88 far
as the sale of milk is concernsd, is the
same place. . Onr Moslem frisnd, af
ter saying bis morning prayers And
bowing ddvontedly to the East, relig
iously watered his- milk, putting in as
much water as there was milk. By dint
of perseverance, frugal living, devtml
praying, and watering the milk, he aooo-
mnlated fifty Turkish, or say English,
pounds. He then resolved to return to
his native Arabia Felix, bay goats and
(heep and live happily.^ Changing his
money into gold, he secreted his Httit
bag of treasure about him, and went on
board one of the many native Arab crafts
that ply between Romliay and the Gull
of Persia. The happy young Arab oc
casionally went to a lonely place on the
craft, told and retold his treasure, play
fully tossed his savings np in the sir,
caught them again, and felt himaelf in
an earthly Paradise.
Now, there happened to be a playful
but mischievous monkey on board, the
pet of the Arab captain and his crew.
Tliis little imp hiul often observed the
young Arab’s occupation, and felt an
irresistible desire to have a little ploy
with the opia. Watching his opportun
ity, the monkey snatched the little bag
of gold from tho unlucky Arab, and ran
that*it is a local and not a constitutional
disease; that any sore throat may become
diptheritio without any contagion; that
diptheritic, poison injected into the blood
is perfectly harmless, it first being neo-
ess ry to make a wound and keep it in a
state of irritation Indore diptheritic poi
son introduced into it could produce the
desired, effect; that the disease altonnds
i t low, swampy places; that diptheria
a.i(t micrococci, minute vogetable fungi,
are inseparably associated—“no micro-
cocSi, no diptheria”—said the doctor;
that the diptheritic poison cannot, affect
a healthy person; there must be an
abraded surface, and- no healthy child
can get it unless it has a sore throat al
ready; that, in his opinion, micrococci
do not produce the initial lesion; that
any sore throat may end in diptheria,
and the line cannot be drawn where sore
throat ends and diptheria begins; and
finally, that diptheria is a spoutaneous
disease, and not infections, strictly
•peaking.
An India*’View of White Politics.
all pionios were strictly prohibited.
ice. Indian coni was nearly all de-
stoyed; some favorably situated fields
escaped. August was more cheerless,
if possible, than the summer months
which preceded it. Ice was formed half
an inch in thickness. Indian earn was
so frozen that the greater port was cut
dUwn and dried for fodder. Almost
every green thing was destroyed in this
country and in Europe. On the 80th
anow fell at Barnet, forty n>iU» from
London. Very little corn ripened in
New England and the Middle States
Fanners supplied themselvdh from corn
produced nr IfilfJTor seed tn the spring
of 1817. It sold at from 94 to 95 per
-UusheL
September famished about two weeks
of the pleasantest weather of the season,
bnt in the latter port of the month ice
formed an inch thick. October had
more than its share of cold weather.
November was cold and snowy. Deoem-
ber was comfortable, and the winter fol-
1 owing was mild Very little vegetation
him, to the top gallant most head. The
frantic cries of the Arab brought the
whole crew to his aid. But alsa I the
monkey kept tossing the coin in the air,
and, not able to catch it, it either fell
overboard or on deck. At last the
monkey got tired of tossing the coin,
and dropped the bag with but a few
sovereigns ih it. After s diligent saareh
the aufortonate Arab found that all his .
earthly wealth had dwindled down to
just half its original amount. The
other half had been tossed overboard
by tho monkey. With streaming eyea
and a heart l>owed down in sorrow, the
Arab tnrned bis. head to the East and
said: “Oh ! Allah, all thy ways are just.
An hour ago my whole worldly posses
sion was exactly tbs combination of hall
milk sad half water. Thy retribution
hits overtaken me. What was repre
sented by milk I still have, and what
was represented by water has gone bock'
to water. Blessed is the name of
Allah r
Oil Region Remlalscenees.
When Roberts’s glycerine factory at
Titusville, Penn., blew up, away bock
somewhere in the up-creek excitement
of the sixties, a hole was left in the
ground large enough to bury the largest
church in Youngstown, 0. The shock
prostrated pedestrians who were two
mile* distant, and the report was plainly
heard forty miles sway. It will never be
known just what caused the accident, as
the four workmen .TO.m»ver, fpund.
In an illustrated article on the Fran
ciscan Missions of California, in the
June Century, one effect of white exam
ple upon the Indian is described thus:
“ In a curious pamphlet left by one of
the old friars, Father Bosoana, is told a
droll story of the logic*! inferences some,
of them drew from the political situa
tions among their supposed betters. It
was a band of San Diego Indians. When
they heard that the Spanish viceroy in
ths city of Mexico had been killed, and
a Mexican mads emperor in his place,
they forthwith made • great feast,
burned up their chief, and elected s new
one in Us stead. To the stringent re
proofs (rf tha_ horrible friars thsy made
•newer: 'Have yon not done the same
in Mexico? Ton say year king was
not good, and yon killed him. Well,
oar caption was not geodt and vs burned
him. If the new one tarns out bad, we
will burn him, too,’—-a memorable in
stance of ths superiority of example to
precept.”
A tocno city fellow, dressed in s fault
leas suit and s pair of shoes that tapeted
to a point in the most modern style, was
visiting in a rural district. A bright
little boy looked him all over until hia
eyes rested on those shoes. He looked
at his own chubby feet and then at his
visitor’s, and then looking up, said:
“Mister, is all your toes eat off but
one ? "—LouitviUe Journal, , ^
was matured in the Eastern And Middl
mates, 'me suns rays seemed to lx
destitute of heat during the summer ; all
nature was clod in a sable hoe; and men
exhibited no little anxiety concerning
the future of this life.
The average price of flour during the
year in the New York market was 913 per
barrel. The average price of wheat in
England was 97 shillings per quarter.
Bread riots occurred throughout Great
Britain iu 1817, in consequence of the
high price of the staff of life.
A Peris Tragedy.
A tragedy which has caused s great
sensation was enacted in Paris on the
Rue Saint-Denis. While a marriage
party was proceeding along that thor
oughfare on the way to the church where
ine marriage was to be solemnized a ri
val of the bridegroom suddenly api»eared
on the scene and, to the horror of the
party, shot aad killed him. The assas
sin poisoned himself instantly after firing
tha fatal shot.
A Temperate Place.—Bill Nye says
that Greeley, Colorado, it apparently an
oasis in tha desert It looks like s fer
tile island dropped down from heaven in
a boundless stretch of buffalo grass, saga
hens and cunning little prairie dogs.
And jet you conld not come bare as a
stranger and witliin the colonial barbed
wire fence, procure a bit of cold rum if
yon were President of the United States
with s rattlesnake bite os large as an
egg soaoeaJsijUtot your
’Ihe most remarkable feature of thia ex
plosion was this: Every loose or semi-
buried pebble and rock that lay in the
fields surronnding the factory was lifted
from its resting place sod shifted exactly
eight inche* eastward. .
In the year 1878 a nitro-glyeerine msg-
azine exploded near Bradford, Peon.,
and to this day it is not known whether
five men or seven were killed. In those
days “moon-lighten” abounded, and as
they did all their work under oo*9r of
darkneas in order to keep screened boas
the eyes of Roberta’s paid “spotters/
time. One night a couple of gentry
thought they would steal enough glycer
ine to “shoot” a well, and they repaired
to the above mentioned magaame 00
Tuna Creek. They tried to bunt tha
door by exploding a small portion of the
stuff in the lock, bnt from some cause
the explosion did not take place. Whih
they werfl atill at work trying to burglar
ize the place, one Of the ownentof the
along. As they advanced tha would-be
burglars retreated, and in a minute or
two the explosion occurred, probably 00
account of the action of. tha key In the
lock that had been filled with the explo
sive material A few •craps of flash
were found, bnt nothing that ’
soy clew to the identity of the 1
nate parties. A day or two afterword
the trank of a man’s body was found 900
yards away, beyond a hill seven hundred
feet high, showing that the body hod
been carried up into the air probably s
thousand feat, foiling at the qihtg aide
of the mountain. There were’ sevural
men missing about that, time, hut the
exact number that perished
determined.
A DOUBLE DISOOPIIT.
The Richmond, Ya., Religioxu Bar*
aid, says: We heard Brother Hoboes of
Savannah, Go., tell * good joke on a
Richmond hotel man. He raid that
when Dr. Price, of Wales, waa attaudmg
our June meetings, some yean ago, ha
stopped at Ford’s Hotel and when ha
asked for hia bill, Ford said: “We
knock off ^olf the pries, aa you non
minister.” Dr. Fries thanked Mbs, and
saked': “ What do you taka efte aft.
tore?” " One half for editors, too/’ww
the prompt reply. “Weil,”
the doctor. “I am editor an
preacher; so I am antitied
halvas, and'
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