The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, September 13, 1883, Image 1
all
SHE DIED OF MORTGAGE
We worked through spring and winter,.
y rammer and through (all.
But the mortgage worked the hardest and
steadiest of them all;
It worked on nighta and Sunday!; it
each holiday; _
It settled down among na, and It nerer £nt
away.
Whatever we kept from it eeemed alm^
bad ai theft;
It watched u» every minute, and it
right and left
Fhe ruet and blight were with ue aom^nee,
and sometimes not;
The dark-browned bcowling mortgage wj for
ever op the spot
The tree/viTand the out-worm, they wen* well
aa came;
The mortgage stayed forever, eating hefty
the same. I
It nailed up every window, stood guard every
door,
And happiness and sunshine made tig home
with us no more, • I
Till -with failing .crops and sieknefwe got
*- ^ stalled upon the grade.
And there came a dark day on ua w* the in
terest wasn't paid;
And (here came a sharp foreclosure >d I kind
o’lost my ltold, 1 *
- And grew weary and discouraged, aftho farm
wan cheaply sold.
The children left and scalteredjhen they
hardly yet were grown;
^ My wife ahe pined and perished, i’ I found
imsclf alone.
What she died of was “a myatery’V the doo-
' tor’s never know,
Bnt 1 knew ahe dtod of" mortgag^uat aa well
as I wanted to.
If to trace a hidden Borrow wefwithin the
doctor's
- Tlfry'd ha’ found a mqytgage ng on that
woman's broken heart.
Worm or beetle, drouglitor tewf, on a fann
er’s land may fall,
But for first class ruination tn a mortgage
'gainst them alt , ,
—Will Cabltox.
Finding a Trail.
Here in the shadow/ - this grim
mountain is a camp of caij—200 men
in faded and ragged Ae uniforms,
every face snnlmrne<|tnd bronzed,
every sabre and carbi showing long
use, every horse lifting head from the
grass at short intervals a swift glance
up and down the valle]
Here, at the foot of mountain, the
Apacho trail, which 1 been followed -t^yesopen to discover any pass leading
for three days, has gri cold. Aye, it ' llf » " *
It is s| the white men
has been lost
bad followed a patWiich suddenly
. ended at a predpic^’rom this point
' the red demons took |gs, and the old
est trailer is at fault. |
Thu men on piej looked up and
down the narrow \fy with anxious
faces. Down the vnl a mile away, a
solitary wild horse jijand prances and
utters shrill neighs vouderment and
alarm. Up the valjs a long stretch
of green grass, thofth as level as a
floor, and no visib ?U8 of life. The
pines and shrubs ai cks on the moun
tain sid* might 1 ten. thousand In
dians, but there ot the slightest
movement to yon uspicion. It is a
still, hot day. Nflbird chirps, not a
branch waves. Ttyc of a lynx could
detect nothing be;
meats of the lone
u valley, and the
| the erratic move-
horse adown the
r flight of an eagle
so high in the iV>at the proud bird
seemed no larger a sparrow.
For an hour ev nan and horse has
looked for- “sigi but nothing has
t>een jliaoovered nd what has been
described. It”i*oet trSI” There is
'Use suspicion as
'en miles away the
something in
well as annoy:
trail was as plaii^ country highway
and the Indians no suspicion of pftr
suit Five mile ck tfiere were signs
pf commotion, e, in the centre of
the valley, ever tprist suddenly dia.
appears.
Look, now ! rgeant with grizzly
locks and fighti »w rides down, the
valley followed ve troopers. They
are to soont fop lost trail. Every
man has unalum carbine, every sad
dle-girth has t tightened, and every
man of the sh a over the camp as
he rides out as > had been told that
be was biddin st farewell to com
rades. They t a slow gallop. Each
irnm casts swi noes along the monn-
tain side to hist—along the monn-
tain side to h: —»t the green grass
under his hoi set. r -y
What’s tha ar np the slops to the
right someth ares to and fro for a
moment, I' np the signal is
answered. . i the valley on the
other slope it iwered again. Down
the valley, a ro miles beyond where
the wild hor r stands a Agirre
of stone, an: re the valley sweeps
to the right be sudden turn of the
river, the si< i caught up and 200
Apaches, ea txeited and mounted,
draw back i s fringe at the base of
the mounts wait
The little! gallop straight down
upon the Jporse. Now they are
half • mils | end his breath comes
quick and litrils quiver as he stands
and stares i strange spectacle. A
little neare his muscles twitch and
quiver and isrp-pointed ears work
faster. Oi hty rods now, and with
a flares sn alarm and defiance he
resrs up a sbont like a top, and is
off down tfey like an arrow sent
The sight Huqr thrill,
in or asaa the pace of
lbs men •se ethe
1g before them, but the
Id their eyes more tjum
right—to ths left—
the
)
kiattMtl
r"— w
spot, for s broken twig—fora sign how
ever insignificant to prove that men have
passed that way. They find nothing.
The signals np the mountain side were
visible only for seconds.
After the first wild burst of speed
the lone hone looks back. He sees that
he is not being poshed, and he recovers
courage. He no longer runs in a straight
ine, bnt he sweeps away to the left-
swerves away to the right, and changes
his gait to a trot When he heara the
shouts of pursuit and the lender thump
of the hoof-beats he will straighten away
and show Hue pursuers a gait which noth
ing but a whirl wind can equal.
Look I It is only a quarter of a mile
now to the torn in the valley. The lone
hone had suddenly stopped to sniff the
air. His ean are pointed straight ahead,
»is eyes grow larger and take on a
frightened look and he half wheels as if
he would gallop back to those who have
seenungl/ punned. Five, eight, ten
seconds, and with a snort of alarm he
breaks into a terrific ran, takes the ex
treme left of the valley, arid goes tearing
out of sight as if followed bv lions.
“Halt!" ‘
The grim sergeant sees “signs” in the
lotions of the horse. Every trooper is
ooking ahead and to the right The
green valley mns into the fringe, the
the fringe into dense thicket, the thicket
into rock and pine and mountain slope
No eye can penetrate that fringe. The
Indians may be ip ambush there, or th
horse may have scented wolf or grizzly.
“Forward!"
No man knows what danger lurks in
the fringe, but the order was to scon
lieyomi the bend. To disobey is igno
miny and disgrace ; to ride forward is—
wait! There is no air stirring in the val
ey. Every limb and boogh is as still as
f made of iron. There is a silence which
weighs like a heavy burden, and the
harsh note fit hawk or bozzard would be
a relief.
Here is the bend. The valley con
tinues as before—no wider—nofiarrower
—level and unbroken. The wild horse
was out of sight long ago, and the six
troopers see nothing but the grass as
their eyes sweep the valley from aide
to aide.
“Turn the bend and ride down tin
valley for a mile or so and keep your
out.
“HaH r - /
It it more than a mile beyond flic
bend. No pass has been discovered
No signs of a trail have been picked
np. The sergeant has raised himself np
tor a long and easeful scrutiny, whbh ai
xclamatiou causes him to turn his fuc
tip the valley. Out from the fringe ri-1
the demons who have been lurking to
drink blood. Five—ten—twenty—fifty
—the line has no end. It stretches clear
across the valley before a word has been
spoken. Then it faces to the right and
20Q Indians in war paint face the grim
old sergeant and his five troopers.
“Into line—right dress."
It is the sergeant who whispers the
order. Six to 200; bnt he will face the
danger. To retreat down the vaUey-is
to be overtaken one by one and shot
from the saddle or reserved for torture.
Down the valley there is no hope; up the
valley is the camp and rescue. The two
lines face etch other for a moment with
out a movement.
“Now, men, one volley—sling carbines
-^draw-sabers-andieharae-l^
A sheet of flame—a roar—a cloud oi
smoke, and the six horses spring for
ward. Then there is a general yell, a
lush by every horse and rider, and a
whirlpool begins to circle. Sabers flash
and clang—arrows whistle—revolvers
pop—voices shout and scream, anfl then
thfr ^whirlpool critse*. ' ir'ul not three
minutes since the first carbine was fired,
bnt the tragedy has ended. Every
trooper is down 'and scalped, half a
dozen redskins are dead or dying, a
dozen horses are straggling or stagger
ing, and turning the bend at a mad gal
lop is the sergeant’s riderless horse. He
carries on arrow in his shoulder, and
there is blood on the saddle. In five
minutes he will be in camp, and the
notes of the.bugle will prove that the
lost trail has been found.—Detroit Fret
J'rfM. ' '
A MIDNIGHT HIDE.
A MYHTERIOirs ADTKNTURS IN TBS
HOUTflWBST.
A Physician la Aiimaaa la AraaaaS at
alcht, HlladtaMeS and Compelled to Ac
company Two Nirangero aa a Joarnoy to
a Waaaded Man.
six feet tall and heavy feet in proportion,
but every pound of weight seemed to ]
be muscle," said Doctor Bishop. “I
knelt down beside him and found
the wound was immediately over the
heart, and that it ha| been made by a
large-siaed revolver.’*'.
CONFIDENCE BOOKSELLING.
INTO FROM AN EXPERT ABOUT A
WOOD STANDARD SWINDLE.
/
A Beautiful Girl.
A lady correspondent of Meriwether’s
(Memphis) Weekly saw in the asylum
for the insane at Sacramento, Cal., a
very handsome girl, with whom she lie-
came well acquainted: “I used to take
walks with her, and would almost forget
myintaToundings and circumstances un
til my companion wonlcFrelease my arn
with the remark, *1 most go now, m)
spell is coming on.’ This beautiful gin
was really -two beings, now sensible,
modest, amiable, a companion to me,
suddenly, by some wonderful process,
she was transformed to a writhing, con
torted lonatic. She always new When
this change was approaching, 'and re
tired to her room to remain until thy
paroxysm had passed. Whan my visit
was over, and I was taking my leawe of
the asylum, this little friend shook
hands witlotears in her eyes. ‘If you
think of me at all’, she said, ‘only re
member me as we walked together—
friend* and happy. Please don't, don’t
think of me os that other girl, raving
and crazy^ j
Too heavy to carry—“Bah Jove!"
exclaimed young Dudiboi, "the weathal
i - getting so hot, yer know, that I mast
nave the ferrule takec^aff myoane. It’s
u» beaaUy 1* » WMK *7. &
_ [From tha Albuquerque Journal.]
Williams, Arizona, is on the line of
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, at the
foot of Bill Williams’s Mountain. New
ly opposite the depot is Dr. Bishop's 1
office. It was in that office that a strange
adventure began.
“About the middle ol last November,”
said Dir Bishop, “on a very dark and
chilly night, after reading until quite
late, I turned down the light and was
soon asleep. It must have been II
o’clock when I was awakened by a knock
at my front office door. I asked what
was wanted. The answer came that a
man had Wen badly hurt and required
my presence at once. After lighting a
candle the door was opened, and in
stepped two gentlemen, both, well
dressed, and both indicating by their
faces that their education bad been in no
wise neglected. In fact, they were East
ern born and Eastern bred.
“The spokesman, who was the tallest
of the two, and who, by the way, was a
splendid type of manhood, urged upon
me the necessity of being somewhat in a
hurry about making my. preparation;
•for,’ said he, ‘you most go with us, and
we .have a long ride to take before morn
ing.’ ” The Doctor demurred at going
at all, and said that it was certainly a
very strange proceeding to ask a man of
fifty years of age to go out on such a
night,, and especially with two men of
whom he knew nothing whatever.
“It doesn’t make a particle of differ
ence who we are,' what we arp, or where
we are from, ” remarked the tall stranger.
“You have got to go with us, and the
quicker you make up your mind to do
so the pleasanter it will be for all con
cerned.”
“How was the man hurt?" inquired
ihe doctor.
“He was shot,” was the answer.
Arguments based on the age and
icalth of physicians were of no avail,
and so it oamd that hurried preparations
were made, and the party were oat in
the cool, damp air of the night. It took
bnt a few moments for the strangers to
find their horses and to point out a
splendid big chestnut, whose every
motion proved him to be ' a thorough
bred, as the animal upon which our
friend, the Doctor, was to make the on-
known journey.
“That is your horse, Doctor,’’said the
stranger. “He is a'good one, and aa
sure-footodja-any man in Arizona. Yon
need never be afraifi-of him for a mo
ment; he’s as gentle as a kitten.”
Into the saddle went the now thor
oughly mystified man of medicine, and
thetwo strangers mounted two horses
nearly, if not quite, the equals of the
chestnut stallion. The party had hardly
got clear of the few midnight lamps at
Williams when a halt was called, and
our M. D., was informed that it would
be necessary to blindfold him, as his
companion had no idea of allowini
-tlMLfaiutent conecptiuu of the'Tfireciion
In which the trio were traveling.
The Doctor, of course objected to this
kind of treatment, bnt he was qaickly
voted down and compelled to submit
himself to the inevitable. A sack,
which one of the party carried, was
quick ly drawn qyer ius. Jiaad, and then
they were again ready to advance.
The horses were given the spur with the
admonition to the Doctor to “give a free
rein,” and away the band dashed. On
they rode hour after hoar, np hill and
down hill,now crossing a narrow stream,
now a broader one, into and across ax-
royss, through what seemed to be dense
forests, and out again on the satady
plains, never onoe stopping, not even
speaking a load word, the whole ides
being bent on the early arrival at some
specified point. Night began to break
into morning and morning into broader
day, the sun came up in all its Western
Splendor, and yet onr travelers never
once spoke of stopping. It must have
been eight o’clock when all a( onoe the
rein of the chestnut stallion was grasped
and a halt called. And now, for the
first time since midnight, Dr. Bishpp
was allowed to look around him, his
forced blindness having been removed
by his guides.
They bad halted immediately in front
of a small bnt neat appearing log house,
the door of which stood open. Only
three persons were in sight, the two
strangers, companions in the night’s
ride, and another man whom the Doctor
had not seen before, “Go down to the
brook, Doctor, takes drink of water and
refreshing bath, and by that time break
fast will be ready.” • -
“I did as directed,” said the Doctor,
“and I don’t believe there is another
snch stream of water in Arionua I can
assure yon it was to me the giandest
bath I aver took."
As yet the surgeon had not seen his
patient, bnt breakfast
The preliminary
few questions elici
though s 45-calibre
yet it was by no mi
-ball was probed for
patient never ottering a complaint The
wound was bandaged Rp, an application
tion and a
the fact that al-
was still inside,
dangerous. The
extracted, the
prepared for its
geon’s mission was <
the first part of the
at the camp, and
again saddled, and i
and the snr-
All day and |
ening waa spent
the hones were
ride homeward
only a repetition of the night be
fore, including the blindfolding of the
Doctor.
“We arrived at Williams ati a. m.,
before anybody was moving,” said Dr.
Bishop, “and I was landed in my little
home here none the worse for my thirty-
six hours’ experience.. The tall stranger,
without asking me M to my charges,
immediately counted oat $50, and,
handing it to me, remarked that they
were a little hard upfnst now, bnt wonld
pav me folly in a sheirt time.”
The Doctor went oil to state that the
strangest part of ths whole affair hap
pened only a few days ago. “The
wonnded man came ov&r to my office
just before the train foiled ont, and lay
ing $100 on my desk, remarked that I
ought to consider myself paid. Bosh
ing ont, he just caught the train, and
that is the lost I hare ever heard of any
of the trio. I
CIVIL SERYICK REFORM.
*
A Few ol ihe Qnratlaaa of tha Applicant*
lar the Lower GraSe af Ofltoea.
The following questions were asked
of the lower or £900 grade applicants
for positions under the United States
Government:
Fill ont blank form of application
for position, stating age, place of birth,
legal residence, postoffloe address, and
experience in business and Government
service.
Then followed several examples in
addition, multiplication, and division of
simple numbers, and others involving
the use of decimals. -> ' -
Que-fifth of a barrel of flour contain
ing 198J pounds Was lost, one-third was
given away, and two-thirds of remain-
[der was sold for $7.59. What did it
bring per pound ? *
A clerk in on office has his salary
raised 20 per cent,, but in a short-time
is reduced 20 per cent, which fixes
his salary at $648. What was the <wigi-
nal salary? _ .
A man holdiug a note of $950 has it
cashed for $800. What rate per cent,
(hseonnt dfrYhepsy? ~ r-
Reduce £468 17s. 6d. to United States
State
an:
currency, pound sterling being 4.8566.
Dictation of section 11 from civil-ser
vice rales and regulations, to write and
punctuate. _ ' : —
Copy section 5 of the same.
Write two sentences of not less than
ten words, one to contain a transative
and one an in transative verb.
Write a letter to the Governor of your
inning hiia-ot-joiu wjaatfnir
the town in which yon reside.
Name fifteen States and fifteen cities
of the United States. ^ ~
Name fifteen principal rivers and the
cities on each. .
; Name three principal ranges of moun
tains and the principal States and Terri
tories in which they Ue.
Name six principal American generals
in the Revolutionary War and as many
popular statesmen at the time.
What Presidents have been generals
in time of war and in what Wars were
they engaged?
What does “confederation" mean and
what States constituted it?
When was the Constitution of the Uni
ted States signed? •
Name particulars of territory added to
the United States since the Revolution
ary War?
In what manner are the Supreme
Judges chosen ?
A man purchase# $625 Worth of goods,
giving his note on December 23,1882,
interest 7 per oeni, payable in fifteen
days; paid the same on second day of
grace. What amount did he pay, and on
what day? •
Barprteia* Raral Atfaata with RalaaS Can*
alaaaieBta af MhaSdy Talaaias-Tbe HanL
hank Racket - Ceavaatent “ Bank-
raster.”
[From the New York Sun.] ,
“For a steady, all-the-year-ronnd
game, my friend,” said a good-natured
Bleecker street swindler to a reporter of
The Sun, “yon must go into books.”
“Book making at the races ?"
The deUcate features of the swindler
assumed an expression of disdain. “I’m
no sport, thank yon. I do not mean
anything of the kind. I refer to book
publishing—the cheap press, my son, is
onr standby. The first thing is to get a
book to publish. The most important
part of the book is its name. Something
like ‘Ten Thousand Hints for Farmers,’
or, ‘Information for Common People,’ is
what yon want The book can be com
piled from the hundred and one similar
works by legitimate authors that have
gone before it. Having the mame and
the compiled volume, we tako the man
uscript to some rat printing office to get
it printed. You would be astonished ta
see what s large bound book we can get
np for twenty-five cents a copy on large
editions. When yon see them on. ihe
shelf or in a )>ox they do not Iqok at all
bad. The paper is soft, the type is old,
and the stitching doesn’t count for much,
bnt we have a few samples put together
in bettorTbape.
“The selling is the easiest part of the
business. The printing we usually pay
for; it takes too much time to hunt up
printing offices. To get rid of onr stock
which we always call the fifth edition,
we send out onr commercial traveler
and an assistant. , Yon wonld call the
traveler a steerer in a less dignified busi
ness. H« is a gentleman, every inch of
him. He has a knowledge of the world,
of the farming community, of human na
ture in general. He also has a suave
manner and a little cash. He seeks the
village hotel and gains the acquaintance
of the crowd that gathers there. Among
them he finds the man of wealth who
thinks he knows s good thing when he
sees it. The man of wealth is cantious.
The commercial traveler has discounted
that in advance. Wc do not wish to sell
oar Itooks to him for cash. We want to
introduce them. We want **maa of in
fluence to look after onr interests in that
town. Onr book is exhibited to him,
and it is explained to him jnst how easy
it will be to shove the book on his inno-
sent and confiding neighbors st fl2 a
volume. To him ihe price will be 50
per cent off. To start him we say we
will consign him one dozeiu-on commis
sion. He has an idea that when goods
are ‘consigned’ they are to be paid for
after they are sold. He will try one
dozen on these terms. Then we produce
tfie little blank order book. Half the
blanks have apparently been used in
neighboring counties. We take care
that he observes that The following is
the blank:
,$.... ** 188
Messrs. O. Piums A Co.,
New York
QsxtlzxuiYou will please MafljM
toztn oryour work entitud
“That doesn’t seem to be a ’
stake for profit, after alL”
“No, not very large, bnt we avenge two !
sales a week by working two adjoining I
villages at once. It isn’t a bed 1
considering that it verges OH honesfl
trade.”' —• ->
• “Any other dodges in the book
lino?"
“Plenty, my sen, plenty of then, pot
they are not so safe as this. Perhaps
the next best play is the herd book. We
work that uqw and then. We start oat
to make a beYd book by seeaviag from
country postmasters the names of all
the owners of good stock in their neigh
borhood. Then we send oat e . drooler
setting forth the advantages of having
stock registered in the herd )tx>ok. We
say that we intend to pnt tab book in
the reach of all We will insert the ped
igree of one animal and give the book
free for $2. By urging that honest ped
igrees Ire gi Yen we obtain a certain credit
for honest dealing. As e clincher, we
write, to each farmer a personal letter.
We say we know that he has standing in
the community, -and- that to Mike the
work popular in his neighborhood we
will register his stock for $1 for each an
imal, provided he won’t mention the
price, bnt will recommend the book.
Sometimes we get as much as $6 from
one man. When wehaYegathered in the
boodle we get a few peges of the book
set, and then onr firm fails. A notice
of the bankraptcy is sent to eeeh of the
victims. It is all regular.
“One of onr fellows was arrested for
the game in Buffalo. The charge was
using the mails to defrand. The ease
come on before the United Stotee Oom-
missioner, and he was acquitted. He
showed that he had signed a contract
with a firm of printers to get out the
work, and that the book had been com
menced. He said he intended to com
plete the book as ’soon as possible.
That cleared him. Ill health censed his
failure, of course. Change of nltmata r».
stored his health.
THE SPONGE.
m BMMUIRV Utt MZ
is AT Heals
USB OF DIFFBRRNT YAROnOS.
Infi
atlas Ahant tu C«
Raw It la Seat ta MarfcnC.
So soon as the sponge fishers hove
filled their boats they go to some mart
of trade, writes a correspondent from
Florida. On reaching it the bunches
are placed on shore to dry and
thnranghly and then add to
ehantman. I wss surprised that they
received from $3 to (8.50 each for these
bnnehes of sheep-wool sponges. So
when they have “good luck,” as they
call it, they often net $150 per, week for
their work. Knowing that the
of Nassau and the Bahamas were fall of
sponge bearing rocks I asked my Jack
Alick why he did not sponge there. He
said “the sponge is not so good there,”
and when they took their bnnehes ashore
there the merchants wroatfl take them
and pay their own price, while at Key
West and CedaT Key Be could trade
fairly. Of the varieties of sponge fottnd
off the West Indies and along
the “sheep’s wool’’ seems to bring the
highest price. It is large, soft and
tough, although not of the fipest fibre.
It is the kind usually need for bath pur
poses and for cleaning flue eaniagea.
The spoilges need in
Tbi dressmakers of aity
have straok. They say their -fet is m
eieptiouaDy hard one. They eleim that
on an sv« reM the yeer rouBd a mb
cannot earn atom then five or dz doUms
a week, ea&p urem
tofoor. iwyreee
represented see good workman—d
neeted with e hags firm te Franklin
street, produced Us book and showed _2
that during busy times be received only
from six to seven dollars weekly.
Another working for a Broadway boose
showed that he and hie slater togethu
received from fonF dollars end a half je
seven dollars for doing nine days’Mtrt.
“I tell you truly, we ere the poorest
paid class in the world,” said e mass-
be. of the Union. ,r Wb have to work
from eight o’clock in Itte *»g
until six o’clock in the. eveniag, with
hardly twenty- minntas for ottir taek. -
There are men in this room who oennot
afford to boy proper food and nourish
ment, and I ask you to look about and
see the thin faces. Yon will noi nee a
room looUBg-Jn the lasst ’
stoat,” end snob was the fact. One
young man exclaimed: “Look at me. 1
am only 18 yean old, bat I have bed tc
struggle so hard to feed myself and others
Jnat it has made me look more like 25.”
It was explained by the
the bosses, when the str&e
thought they could get all
done by eontraetors, who hire people to
work so cheaply that they ere forced to
labor from 5 o’clock in the morning 'tilt
10 at night to earn an existene*
Thousands of eiroolan, printed in
English, German sod Hebrew, were dis-
tnbated throughout the eiiy by the Xx-
ecative Committee of the strikers, in
which they my: “The hemtlamnsm oi
employers has worked it so far \het a
workingmen is obliged to work for f$ a
week. This cannot remain so;
fore, tello#-workingmea end
call ob * iyti to join ns and declare every
body a traitor to our oenae who contin
ues to work under those
-New York Star.
-gfo 1
She Welted in Tain.
Thai
one of the nldost msmbws ef
Island bar set in bis
deavoring to eateh a little rest from the
trying labors of the day, the door slowly
openedrend e negro woman, for foam be
ing comely and well-favored, and with
a shrill, ear-piercing voice, walked into
the room end inquired fail
meiit: __ \ ‘
fi ire you Marne
“Thetis my nemo, ms dam,”
he; "what con I do for yoo?”
I want ter know ffla yar one ting,
minister ob de gospel forgUa
of, the bacon and the beans being de
voured with a relish, and then the
patient was disclosed lying upon a pile
of Navajo blankets in on* corner of the
log building. N " -***•
“He most hare been t jama 80 yaaa
of ana. bleak hrir. Uask nvaa. kadfifit
.W FWlf
The latest rxpokt of the British
Consul-General at Havana expresses the
opinion that although the definite aboli
tion of slavery in Cub* will not be ac
complished until 1888, slavery will hare
practically ceased to exist before the
end of 1885. In 1880 more then 6,000
were freed, in 1881 more than 10,000,
and In 1882 about 17,000. The Autono
mists, general opponents of Bpeniah
rale, and the active humanitarian olsos
eageiVy watch for abuses committed by
slave-owners, finding therein a fertile
source of attack against the Government
Nor, says the Consul-General’s report
are bona fide cases of fU-naafe alone re
lied open to stir np an agitation against
the alare-’bolders. Cases have occurred
soon disposed I whelre braises have bse£ .simulated by
ESuB?' #££■ 2 -
means of vegetable* juice robbed into
the skin of the slave, and as braises are
accepted by the Court as e aaffident
evidence of ill-treatment the device bee
been successful in enabling the man so
discolored tq obtain e deeree of emanci-
as well re to bring
EJXXt fall liltw.
“Tea Thousand Hints for Fsrmsrs.'
I agree to tak« them frorn ’the express office
as soon as notified that they have arrived, and
to pay all charges. I agree to recommend them
to mv neighbors, end to ase my best endeavors
to sell them. I will not sell any one of them
for le:iM than $2.
Signed, *
- --- - ..... sr .v r ,,r,.-rt8^1
“The blank ‘$ ’ is not filled in. A
figure 1 is written in at the left side of
the blank before the word dozen. It is
very simple. Jnst an order for a dozen
books on commission. -
. “Bnt the skill is required in handling
that blank. The assistant, who keep*
in the back-ground usually brings in a
word jnst at ths right time. He may
say, for instance, that it is only s matter
of form, anyhow, for it’s a transaction
among friends. Then the gentlemanly
salesman brings ont a fountain pen, and
his new-fonnd friend tries the new
fangled notion for the first time in his
life. The assistant signs as witness.
The blank onoe signed, we always stand
treat We set ’em np to the success o 1
the new enterprise. We invite np all the
boys to drink with us. We tell them
that our man of wealth has a good
thing. We agree to advertise for the
man of wealth. We get a notice in the
village paper that he has the exclusive
agency'for that towq.
“Then we raise the order from one
dozen to (me gross by inserting a figure
2 after the little 1 inine blank. The
$ blank we fill in to read $144. We
send on the books after every one knows
that the man of wealth has the agency.
He takes the box home from the express
office), wondering why it is so big. He
flncU that he has more books than he ex
pected. One collector happens around
about the time that the books arrive.
He presents the contract for twelve doz-
ru books and asks for the money. He is
very polite. He is not angered by rough
language. He Mill accept a note if the
man of wealth has not ihe ready cash.
He mentions thfiL notice in the village
paper, end say* that folks Mill think the
man of wealth an innocent if he"tries to
back out of a fair bargain. floBietinwa a
lawyer is engaged to clinch the argoment
iu an obstinate com, but that
uot (ffton necessary. We slwavs get the
nursery are gotten from the Mediterra
nean. The iriend of Oelymnos is Che
greatest mart of trade in these, bat they
are taken at greqf depths and by diver*
and bring immense prices. For the
unscientific reader I may say the word
sponge is derived from e Greek word
signifying “to squeeze,” and indicates
the nse to which it was applied in that
far-off day when'its momenclatnre was
given. Homer, wha wrote eight hundred
years before Christ, describes Vnl can as
“spongingbis visage, arms and brawny
neck” after the labors at the forge. The
ancients lined their brazen helmets
with it, not only because it was soft and
elastic, bnt, being slightly moistened
with water, it protected the soldier’s
head from the fierce heat of the ran, it
was long supposed to be s soophite, a
combination of plant and animal, and
while perhaps Huxley or Haeckel would
like still to adhere to this cloaoiflcation
we now know it to be a very interesting
marine animal, possessing nearly all ths
fnutions of animal life. They are sus
tained by taking in and ejecting the see
water by a system of pores and rereela,
through which it passes with all the ap
pearance of the regular circulation of
fluids in animal bodies, and thna if eon-
veyed to itself the animaleoto of the eea
as food. Under the magnifying glass
cau be seen the cells of the polyp and
the glittering internal viscera, with every
individual tentacle. In the spring there
are engendered germs, yellowish white,
which,"bursting, sends forth embryos.
These have the vibratile dlie en
to swim about. Finally, losing 1
cilia, they become gelatinous discs,
apting themselves to rook or eon
shore, develop into the sponge of
lone, and
might not remember th* entire
women stood:
the reply, and finally 1
-intense excitement, re 1
“Brio’ God,
promise me.
jined to collared wench last]
nigger head ob it, an’ghB jort
on her dnde ah’ went to dot wsddhT all
riled np re' moanin' mieskiif, yer bet
yer swept life, jest der same. I jeet got
near dst ooapie, aa’I wailed fog dfttifcht
time to stop dor wsddin’. De mfofofot
married dam after ‘ Tisoopel style,’ an*
I was jest wailin’ tor beer dai foodbrod-
der my 'Ef enny man kin show jest eoMe
why dey may not krfnllj be jined to
gether, let him now speak or
after for ebar hold his peace.’
Maasa, J went dare to break npdeshoM,
an’ dat minister dene gone forgifc patiab
lb eldMoiu^
-
- \ -
■ai
de servis, hi’ H seems to die
dat she kin prerent dat deoeitfal chap
from Ubin’ Mid dat wench. What am
•yer adrioo?” '
The lawyer quietly explained to hit
that the clergyman had obeerved all the
proper forme of the service, and that she
most make up her mind to dwell a little
longer in single blemednem, adding a
word or two shout “m good fish,” eta.
Tteiroro temd. ud
mattered something ebonl “wantin’ del
deceivin’ nigger’s heart,” whereat the
lawyer soggeated that ah* might bring
^ ji • M 1—*_ YA. t A M
.A. «-i* ’
meree.
Members or the English PABUARBnr
are uot by reason of the
sarily recognized by the
One of them complaint
when he begged the La
to invite him to e
was an insulting
claims, “who
el