The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, October 11, 1883, Image 4
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a* li lhl«>« \t * riilT <>t r*f 1 —-*
AaIshIdm It ao wA ud isotL
■•r «7Mlntohia wr«|
Bye. erw •• fUthful to him,
Aaiba tklaki II Um alwdovy *wUl»ht
HN^pnhM U»«n ao (tnaf* tad din.
■ar pra*«y faoa taroa toward him;
Ah, whoa did har faoa tarn away?
dad haihiaka it tha allrarj moonlight
That nakao it ao fai*tand gray.
Oh, apirit that Ungara aad faltera,
- Taka oonraga and whlapor M aood-bya. r
A Ufa?—why a Ufa ia nothing^
Whaa mtUioaa each mitote die.
With nUUona aaeh nfiaiita dying.
What mattara ona Ufa or death ?
One fragile aad tender exiateiioe?
Ona tremolona paaiiD| breath ?
A life? Why a Ufa ia nothing!
What matter* tho' one burn dim ?
Alaa for the folly of reaaon— *
Ona Ufa ia tha world to Urn I
That New Dress
' “8nch a lately aaah I Oh, mothdr I
itheemi aa if that in jnat what I need for
my tww aijk dram. Sneh a beautiful
ahadat It would match my dreaa ex
actly t H V, '
“Tea, Florence, it ia alf aa yon aay.
Bat, my dear, ycnr dreaa haa already
coat a third more than we calculated,
and I don’t ace how we can afford any
men. Tear father lacked eober this
morning wben i told him you would { flngar, only Myinf:
need new laaea t» wear with it; and if I
tell him you need a aaah beaidaa, I am
*3 afraid he will apanly refaaa.” „
“But, mother, erwryooe will wear a
aa»h, and mine wil look ahabby beaide
my new idlk.” '--I * *
Mr*. Footer made no reply. It was
hard to rafqfe the pretty pleader any-
thing; but the aaah would coat lire dol-
lara, and that wag' a large aum to
add to a dreaa which had already ower-
run ita calculation! one-third.
“Can’t we manage it somehow,
mother?" eortinued tb* dnughto*, “it
really eaena^ pity te apoil the auB with
my old ahabby aaah.'’
“Tat your aaah waa new laat apring,
Florence," letmwed the mother, “and
coat Man three doUaaa.”
“I lrnow; hut Fre worn it ewer ao
many timea/’aaid the young girl, “and
J —and X want'the new one ao had. Can’t
wa out off expenaes somewhere, mamma ?
You’re each a manager about every
thing, awoly you can aee sotne way of
aoapa." ««
Mm. Footer shook her head donb|ing-
ly. ffirptmeoa wore already l>eiug run
oa a eloae scale. Appearanoea must be
kept up at whatewar cost
“I don’t know of any way, unlean we
ask Mias Fitagarald to wait for her pay,"
she said, after a few momenta’ heeita-
“The very thing, mamma I" cried the
girl eegerly. “Miaa Fitzgerald couldn’t
object, I know. Why, ever ao many
dressmakers wait for their pay. Jennie
—told EM only laat week that they
paid thair dressmaker only quarterly."
"Perhaps things are different with dlf-
> ferent people, Florence. Your father
objeeta to bills, you know. ”
"But this would not ba aa account,
You could aettle with Mias
Fitagarald soon,” said the young girl,
eagerly; “and, anyhow, I think Miss
^ Fitagerald hardly expects her money an
soon aa the dram ia done."
“Why do you think ao?” asked her
mother.
* ‘ 'Onlybeeanae—because well, almost
everyone, nowadays, makes people wait.”
“So much the worse. I think if you
were employed anywhere, you would ex
pect your wagae when the work waa done.
But since you have ao set your mind on
tha aaah, dear, 1 will try what can be
gOMk" T"' .
lees dignified
Ita front door opened directly on the
attest outside and into a large, empty,
dirty hall inside. Up. thf rickety stairs
wuse "room*,” occupied by a type of in-
habitants that have ho steady abiding
phase.
In one of liase rooms aat a young
girl. An invalid lecUndN on a couch,
and handing over the table was a little
girl ef perhaps seven years. Both tha
invalid and the child were watching tha
aiander, nimble flngnra of the young
girl, aa they darted in and out of the
folds of da elegant dreaa, which waa ap
parently in the last stagee of completion.
“Ia it almost done, Annie?”
the child, touching softly the rich
rial *
“Almost, deary," 1 'replied the young
gill, looking op with a amfla. *1 know
of mors than one who will be happy
when the last stitch is taken. Don’t
you?"
The child smiled brightly and held out
her slender foot, with its well-worn shoe,
aa she said;
, “Igueea Til he glad; for you have
promised me some new shoes.
'•And what for mamma?" whispered
the young girl, softly; aad the child aa
softly returned:^
"Some slipper* and some wins and a
day at the seashore,’’
The invalid from hty couch had seen
the whispering, but had not heard the
words^o aheamiled and lifted her wasted
elder’s, and Bothie, without a word, mil
her disappointment, “remember maim
e e • r * e
“There ia Flomaoe Foster.
mas exquisite?"
The lady
e •
Isn’t har
her eye-
A BPRNiyg MADHPPSE.
Or. BeyO, ream* fer tee
“Bui, we moat not wait.
Tha aaah may ba acid, and I could not
get another that matched my dreaa ao
wall. If I have it at Ml I moat have it
at omaa. Toaeaa aeanaj
momma. Ask Miaa Fitagerald to wait
f am aura it la no more than other people
you know yon like to do aa
do," aha added, laughing, and
patting har mother.
Thua flattered and coaxed by this ir
^ imlatfhle platter. Mrs. Foster reluctantly
yielded, and Florenoa waa soon on hrr
way to purchase the eovuted aaah. ~
~ She waa a pretty young girl of seven
teen. LUe had held out to her its
brightest side. The only child of in
diligent parents, she had been eccua
tamed to;have every light wish gratified.
Aa yearn inereaaed, her wants increas'd
with them; hut not her father’s meant).
.Be was only a bookkeeper, on a comfort-
ahlaaaltyj, hut Florence had always
bean aa well dressed as the daughters of
her father’s employer while they were
schoolgirls together, aad she could not
thitik of having aay leas now. The new
Iraqi had bean bought to wear to a party
given hi honor of tha birthday , of a mil
ttopube’s daughter, and it must be as
rich in material and as elegant in design
fftflfcof her Mead. It bid already
emt bar father s whole month's salary,
i the and waa not yet. But, uufor-
i hid not been educated
Her ao»
girls with liberal
aad trhoas constant
the coat of
4Bm unmt dress aa well
the aooial scale. So
thought, rad Fkw-
ra-
the
_ _ M
Wf!
ia our onty ohfld. It’s a
abe must go ahaMby flidlara Mtf
■ trionds, for if a girl doaraY
j-'r
MHWHW— _ . r
usually
“Ho
“ Dona at laat t" aoU the varay dreae-
maker, holding np tha elegant garment.
“Dona at laat; and iant it beautiful,
mother?"
“»It fll for the President’s daugh
ter,” replied the invalid, a little pettish-
ly. “ It qegpm to ay that the graters
are poorly prepared to dress their dough •
ter in such extravagant elothea. Fool
ish, foolish,” she aramured.
“What matters it to ns, mother
mine,"said the young girl, " only so we
get me money lor maxing tv r*
“Howmuch will it be, AnnieF’ the
mother inquired.
" Ten dollars!”
. “And you have worked a whole week.
Madame D would have charged
twenty dollars, and it would have been
no better made,’’said the invalid fret
fully.
“Yes, I know,” replied Annie,wearily,
“but Madam D—- must charge some
thing for tiie name of it, yon know.
I am satisfied, mot bar dear, if I only get
my money. And I have no doobt of
that. Mra. Foster is hard at a bargain,
but she is prompt pay, ‘ Now I wfll take
it home I may not be book very soon,
as there may be some altars Han* needed.
Good-bye, mamma. New shoes, new
slippers, some wine, and a whole day at
the beaoh," she whispered, nodding
gayly, aa she dosed the door behind
her.
Bothie laughed an she watched her
■ister down the street.
a • • • J« • *-
“ It flta beautifully, Florence," said
Mrs. Foster, eyeing with pride her
pretty young daughter arrayed in the
new dreaa. “Step Into the sitting
room, deer, and let year father aee,”
giving Flocamoe a knowing look.
" I eln very so«y," she began, as soon
aa they were alone, “but I have not the
money by me tonight to pay you.
If you will call by tha tenth of next
mot^h I will aettle with yon,” aaid Mra.
Foster. «l(yhnsbaad is rather hard ran
at pmarat, aad if it will not hu too to
ommoiant I must aaky0w to -*aiA I
presame you have to dosooeouaionally,”
she adfisd, a little tinge ef reiityse pierc
ing her heart aa she noticed a shade of
iliaappnintraent in Miaa Fitzgerald's face.
But that lady opty aaid:
• “I must yWd to yonr inconvenience,
I suppose, Mrs. Foster. I am glad the
dreaa anils you."
"Oh I it ia lovoly, lovely 1” replied
Mrs. Foster, wainily, gUd in her heart
that Mias Fitagarald had not made e
"fuss,” and that the mattached been so
well disposed of. Aoeoaapanying Miss
Fitagerald to the door, she gave her a
cordial good evening and returned to the
Fitting-room. tAtV-
"Did Mm ray anything because she
didn't get her pay?” asked Florence.
“No, but I fancy she waa disap
pointed."
“Oh ! of course.! Jto*, mamma, how
awfMty awful this old aaah would look
with tida,’’ a*d *hr hell op tim new
dram eloae to the oldrazh>
“Yet, I suppose it woul^ look badly;
but somehow I feel a little queer. I sup
pose it's because I am not in the habit
of con tree ting debts."
“Oh t you wiB soon pay it. If Miaa
Fitagerald had needed the money badly,
she would havwmade sene objections.”
“I dare say aha would,” and ao easing
her conscience, Mrs. Foster laid the
qaatter by. .
With a sad and heavy heart Miaa Fita
gerald retraced her steps. How could
she meet tittie Bothie’a eager, hopeful
looks? How could aha tall them that
May most waftfar tbs coftforts she had
promised them? For herself, she could
bear it; but it was hard to know these
wars watting her return with joyful an
ticipations only to be met with disap
pointment Oh I it was hard! She
grew hitter oa she thought of it all
Ruthie was at the door waiting in the
darkness with the hopefulness of child
hood har sister's return. Annie's heart
04* the Bhild’s eager, np
. aad beard her aay, with
the eooAdactcaof youth: “Tmell reedy,
is mating, and told me
‘goto the atom if
tag through the room.
“Yes;itfeftt«or aprioeora,” she re
plied. “Indeed, I doobt if efthertf the
daughters of the Wnoees of Wales owna
meh a rich eottum* Who if she?”
• "The ootyeUUlof aboqkkMpqh."waa
the whispered answer.
“I should ba afraid for my husband’s
business if his bookkeeper’s daughter
dreaaad like that,” was the sharp retort.
Then, quickly changing the subject, the
lady aaid: “I eame acroaa »pitiable case
of misery to-day. Too will pardon me
lor'mentioning anything so aad at sneh
a gay scene as this, but really it made
each an impmasiou on my mind that I
cannot shake it oft"
“Please be free to tel 1 me,” pleaded
“I had aa errand in ti building
known oa tha Eagle Hotel While there
my attention woe attracted by the cries
of a child, end the women with whom
I wee cod versing told me that the mother
of the little gin had jnat died about an
hour before. She further stated that
she wee afraid the family was badly afl,
but that they were cbeadfully proud and
did not associate witkeny of the neigh-
bora. Bo I atepped across the hall and
entered the room. On a bod in an ad
joining room lay a shrouded body,
and in the room this aids waa the
weeping child and a young lady, her
rietor. I explained why I hadoome and
caked what I could’do for them. At
first the young lady kindly thanked me,
and said the did not know that I could*
help them in ouy way. I soon saw thft
they needed some one, ao I began to
talk with them, sytnpathizktgwith t
in their trouble, end a* length I re
moved my bonnet and cloak, and told
them I wanted to stay with them and
comfort them, mis act opened the flood
gates, and the yeung lady wept as she
told me how they had some down from
comfort and happinesa to such poverty
and despair. ‘I work hard,’ aaid she,
'but wages are ao Ibw that it is all I can
do to keep body and soul together, aad
even that failed. If mother oould,
only have had the tilings she needed
to give her strength, I feel sure abe
would not have died. Two nights ago
I carried home a dreaa which had token
a whole week’s steady work to make. I
had been ao happy aa I worked over it
aad thought of the comforts its pay
would buy. I started out full of high
hopes, but was doomed to meet with
disappointment. It was beeutifnlly
made, the fit waa perfect, but would I lie
so kind aa to wait until next month for
my pay? 'O madam !’ she added, with
streaming eyes, 'how little people think
how hard it ia for the poor to wait for
their money.’ How I pitied her! She
was so hopeless, and she was fitir and
ira«u*g aa thorn hors to-ni*hi. “ I did
what I could for them and promised to
attend to the funeral to-morrow.”
“A very aad ease, indeed,” replied the
other, m her eyes wandered over the gay
company. “I was just wondering,” ahe
added, “if it is possible for that draw to
be here tonight.”
__ “Quite poqsiblc," wra the rejoinder.—
Arthur't Magazine. ,
Southall Pat, which lx' adjas*" ' w
the Great Wemra -tine, leu -‘ ,M ,rom
Paddington, we meant V toe scene of a
terrible fin. ^ri'Ste lunatic asylum,
kept by Dr. B«S,wm totally deafroyed,
and the proprftor, Wa sou, two patients
and a cook loaikeii lives, while three or
four other inmtespera efriously in
jured. Mr. K. iojl, being in a room
with a spring lick jumped out of .the
window, thus woafng with a broken
thigh and a put face
Dr. Boyd aaw biMaughtew rafely on
to the lawn,
means of a fire
manently at the
ing; and with
afraid they do
danger," he re
A aenrant who
they attained by
that stood per-
and of the build-
“I am
and the real
into the house,
soya that anfaae
A DUBIOUS LIFE.
‘The friendly night bid the tsars that
raQai dawn Annie’s ehaaks, but aha an-
rauat go up to nararaa, deary;)
wraM to talk with her first-"
'Dtflt you get the ra«ay, sister ?’
aaked the ehiM, whose fthfipmeeptionii
already half i rap rated tha truth.
Huh, darting: No. But ysu must
Vhp jitfig htrafi rMssifi Mi ho*4 cb thi
ik'i ■,
What a curious life journalism opens
to tla devotees 1-Borne follows Mt quietly
in their effiera from 8 o’clock at night
until 1 in the morning doing nothing bat
rending what other people haws writ tec,
striking out hers, putting in there,
knowing abaolntety nothing of the world
except that which they road of, sleeping
the better pert of it at home, giving to
their families not morn than three or
four waking hours, rarely if ever going
to places of public amusement, avoiding
as far as passible all individual responsi-
bilities, n urn drumming through life,
buy. active, uaafnl, but uninformed out
of certain grooves. Others devote
themselves to special ties, in which they
beoome proaoient, aside from which they
know no more than the ordinary mer
chant or broker. Others, againpara im
mersed in politics, writing upon no ether
subject. Borne deal with conventions
exclusively. Writers on art, whether
it be dramatic, lyrie oT tha work oftyhe
painter, are of no special ase aa general
newspaperman, butzazirrad find
paid aaqaloyaaent upon graat nswspapeb
which can afford
Then there is the oorreapoodent, here
to-day, there tomorrow, and somewhere
Mae ail the net of the time. With his
eyes open he has it in his power to know
everything knowable—in a superfloisl
way. Ha meets tha great men of the
country and the tittle cnee, and ia known
to them by name and eight He ia al
ways welcomed, because be has ti in his
power to serve. If he wate to be stricken
blind, or with paralysis, or fife laid up
beyond the possibility of oonvakeeanoe
and recuperation, they would see him in
Hades before they would put their
hands in their pockets to the extent of
fl for him or him.
Oomapondants, by the way, an di-
quently Dr. Boyd ad his son appeared
to be following her Word a window, btat
they never appewedthere.
It is supposed t|d Dr. Boyd went
beck into the hotsej either la solicitude
for the safety ol^klp whole of the to
mates, or, beingasgred of their safety,
to aMUrotoae vMmbl* doenmenta, and
hi# son aaeemjMoyng Mm, they both
perished. When tie inhabitants of tb#
adjoining village.apused by the screams
of toTfomstoT gd to Sou tb all Park
about three •’clock they found flames
ttautfil from alm<zi every window sj the
front of the aitrifiit mansion. The
■creams are said c have been frightful
Aa a gentleman who witnessed the scene
observed, “Whe* you hear the screams
of an insane'person in a state of panic
you don’t (wsily ftn|et li" __
fireman st&Tex that tn the reflection
canoed by the fhe just as the brigade
was about to start fee, fhe conflagration
a newspaper might have been road at
Harwell, a mile and a half away. When
thn Hatrweil voluxteer fire brigade,
which was the flrstto reach the place,
arrived in the peric about four clock,
the mansion was enveloped in one great
blaze, while the fljrosa were at the same
time playing havoc Hong the wings.
"It wm a fearful blaae,” was the de
scription of a flrenum. Mr. Webber, a
tamer, two sons of Mr. Abbott, the
famous bee keeper, the resident consta
ble and other inhabitants had
> over by five o'clock.
SOLDIERING DTANNAM.
niAT ia
Tha SL Jomet'i Qatette give* au inter
aattzg deseriptfon of the anty. at the dto
poaal of the King of trmaia It ia reck
oned officially at 300,000 men. Of these
40,000 garrison the capital, and half that
unbar ia aaMgned to Hanoi and the
surrounding fen it 1 eases Nam Dinh,
Ninh Bfnh, Bach Ninh, and
her plaoaa in' Tooquin. The
root an odinarOyf diaguiaad in oivil-
B attire, and sro not to be dletinguiehed
from harmless agriculturists. ‘ When a
an ia dreaaed in tiro ooatomary vest
ments of a Madras coast coolie—a hand
kerchief and a bit of string—it ia difficult
at the firpt blnah to determine his pro-
ORANGE CODNTY/ONIONS.
a mY MumAMLM i^baiiwro.
A Blah Mmt+mjt
NCfTfisilfi)
nrilk and
it tooocne in
thriving tittle
In
however, the matter is
comparatively simple. The
laVia, from every three men one reeruit.
Ezcepk however, in eearo «f eztrwordi-
nary pubho noeeasity this rale ia not
acted up to; cna assn from every seven
or eight ia nseror tha average. The se
lection of the rooruits is left entirely to
the local aaihorities, and the Tillage
mandarins make a good thing out of tha
annual levies.
THB DULL.
In default of squad drill the Annameae
recruits are put through a variety of on-
pleeaant experiences designed to teal
their courage. Physical courage and
endurance aroauppoaod to be the pri-
flneatparta^ t
ogMtoral region
g^ltrodged butter wi
days of yon. From
town of Monroe ho the east to thecou-
aervutito hamlet of Hpwella on the west*
the eye of the traraBr over thoErie ia
meted with a rinmatnnl anaeamkzi ef
mradott land waving to luxurirat groan,
fielfb of tameUad sank rank potato vinaa
and orchards of apples, j)eara, paaefraa,
and other fruto At ftoquea* httarvola
hozM of cattle pasturiag in deep aftorw
mwa rae seen, —“"g them tha' belted
Dutch, Ayrshire, and Jersey. The
farm-houses are neatly painted, with
large barns, giving evidence of the
general prosperity of the owners. The
roads are fine, and the “£urn-oats"hand'
•omM. , , , -
But there ia one section of this county
which, at this season, attracts tha attsn
tion of the traveler through the sense of
the olfactories as w4fi as the eye. It is
the Cheater onion raeedowa. Here 700
aroes of land, lying on both aidra of the
»«!; u> <*•>*» h •»!
in growing onions. The land is level,
and stretches far away in the valley.
me ana ouuw uu»u*-u» J fro. peroonal expeiene
,hil. Ua ’ „ hnrt , ^ct^OpemtiOMboni
bv attempts to rearae the inmates. .. , , , , ... .. \
mravnm.
Heartrending aeeaea were witnessed
in the wings devoted to the patients. In
an upper window tbs Abbotts and others
engaged in rosone work saw a cluster of
soared faces. The flames woe stealing
rapidly in their direction, and those who
were possessed of reason cried piercingly
for help, while those who were patients
stared mutely at the destruction around,
making no effort for. their release. They
vrorw gtodeWu fiy'iWtSU* of laddam, tbs
Abbotts handing them down; but it was
only by the exercise of force that some
of them were got out alive. t ..
While the patients were being got out
of the wings greater acenes of horror
were transpiring at Che mansion. High
up, and on the very, top of the weatern
tower, two women could be disfin
guiahed in the fitful light of the^/lames,
which were makfrg greedy passage
toward them. Tfihtr. doom appeared
oertain. From tho windows below them
the Are belched fifth, smoke curled up
to fhefr vrayJrat tod a light east wind
fanned theblaM fiat was gliding along
the roof.
Beneath Meza every avenue of escape
was cut off, and there they stood oo t
piece of niraznrylha supports of which
they could aw wfire btong ooBsztned.
The situation asjfaafr hopelezs. The
fifemsu hud not then axrivud; thoro was
rorag to hand tha appazatoa-lra am ing
life; ths only thing available was a hdr
der, and that only reached the height of They
the lower fiing. *
Women wept, azd men run aimlessly
hither and thither in their distraction.
A bright glare from the ignited roof oi
the main building told that aid mast be
on the instant, if at all. The bsphw
girls, in their poftian of mortal peril,
mary requisites of a soldier, sad after that
the knowledge ef how to lead mid let off
a gun. It ia pleasantly assured by the
military officers that the meZ chosen for
the army are the wont of the populo-
tioau. The mandarins are supposed to
keep their districts quiet by drafting all
tiro mttmoaU njeU into the tmraal levy.
There is, accordingly the leu compunc
tion in patting them throufh the pre
scribed testa. The first of tbcee is to
assault the row recruit viotatly with a
sabre. i
The sabre is a wooden am, certainly;
bat the drill sergeant hit hard, and
expeienoe where
meneeon
the back and end with blowton the head.
The recruit who stands batering about
the head for u matter of five minutes
without uttering a groan « flinching,
even involuntary, is hailed is a finished
soldier and excased farthei "drilL ” To
shrink, or even to moan, vhen beaten
on the head with the wotden sabre is
considered pardonable, aM the victim
is noted down os sn "ordnary” soldier,
inatead of an "able IxkIm!” one.
iainBaznaHDq^~"^
havp noses for hews end nothing else.
They scent ms item from afar. Othsra
are enterprising in the last degree.
They not only know a good thing when
they see it, but they aaa it before any
body else ia aware afjta existence and
understand howto utilize it Mr the ben
efit of their employers. There are goo-
sip writers, men who know nothing ex
cept stories about tide, that and the
otnerzaunorwozaara If the gossip can
have an unpleasant flavor to H, all tha
of communities, people who ore shunned
by reputable and thoughtful men, chief
ly because it is uanafo to talk intbeix
presence, men who do not hesitate to re
peat private conversations, to violate
the sanctities of confidential communi
cations, who would steal an idea from a
tolegraph wire, or reafi aa opened letter
oca a fmnd s desk without the slightest
—Jo. Howabd.
clung together anfitfarned to look agiioa.:
at their approaching fate. 1
From the obscurity of the surrounding
fields they could he seen from afar, out
lined, in their white clothing and die
hevetied hair, against the sky. They
flung forth their, arms, and asked, in
wQi and hyflhrio4 tones, for mercy,
w* mzscon.
Aid was at hand. Webber, the far
mer, and Doughkn, the constable, vol
unteered to aeetpA the tower, and they
did ao in the onty way that was open
to them. They got on to the roof
of the lower wfeW which, happily still
held good, and, drawing the htiUhr np
after them, with the exercise of great per
sonal strength, they placed it gainst the
tower, Mating the bottom of.the uprights
In tirolead^ao thatthrau aright be one
Zaore chance for them should the roof
beneath give way. ‘ So exciting was the
moment that the spectators of the daring
act held their breath.
Only the roar of the fire disturbed
the silence of the night Through the
black aad eddytog smoke Webber, with
Doughton, nude his way, now lost to
the sight and anon disclosed to it by a
^ bunt of light
Ka*i-ro •. a* » . »*
Bnt the recruit who erils out when he
is hit cm the body or onfesses .by s
wriggle that the axeroiseti painful is re
ported for punishment and then pat
through a new course of instruction.
The punishment usual!; consists in a
oertain number of blow*from a bamboo
on the upper pArt of th< thighs, «o that,
except for the dignitr of the things
there is a eloae reseutlanoe between
punishment and miltary discipline.
The military mandarinadefend the sya-
tem on the ground tikt it is very an-
aient, nnd that His nnijne in tiro mili
tary exercises of the Vorld—the latter
assertion being ineoutnjrortible.
Energetic officers a the army fre
quently invent fantastk tests of a simi
lar character in adcHtfitt to the regula
tion exercises, k storj at Hue ia related
of a beau tabreur oi fie Tay-aon rebel
lion, wHMbad a ditch <£ig and filled the
bottom with swords acl pikes stuck into
the ground point upvard. He then
eelled upon his men t> engage in drill
rare to fling thimeelves into ths
ditch. The most stdoal of the “able-
bodied” shrunk from ftiis novel addition
to the manual of exeroisea. Only one
man was found to d# H. Hn went in
with a rash, and theswords and pikes
collapsed before him They hod bean
kept in position by tie most slender of
threads.
A- xnrae-zouaz in Mlmimoti be
came so infested with bedbugs that the
congregation had to take a vacation
while the •axfoo burned feg the carpets
aaahkM and pulpit Thia shows the
nUSNtoidMftaia ohxroh,
sinewy brown arms were seen to eocirols
CM of the torty and plooe her oa the
ladder. W descended two or * three
steps, raid, whether she was stifled by
ths araoheet whether her nerves failed
her is not known, but she loci her bold
end fell ftfih a eraeMtn the Mof below.
A riclS&araeelttm pervaded the
crowdm the^beard her wail out, “I
am dying.” The second giri wra get
down in satyty^itt Is filar was lowered,
and in thehaxtmmate both ware handed
down to solid larth aarii heartfft
ohesra. The cflbtta of tha firemen wafh
directyd to the saitog ff the wings, but
these era much gVMd.
A good Moirr or iHxit.
A certain hotel ou Long Island has
long beft famous for its superior din
ners, the proprietor being an excellent
caterer. He ( is also a Am sportsman,
and daring tha shoofing season the hotel
• allowed to run itself. Of late yean
he has beoome quite deaf, and this af
fliction eras ths occasion of a funny in
cident.
Ha bed shot quite a number of golden
plover, and waa in his office stroking the
birds and arranging the feathers' pre
paratory to sending them aaa present
to,a worthy friend. While thus occu
pied a certain doctor arrived by the
stage from the train, and stepping into
the office, thus interviewed the proprie
tor of the hotel:
1 “dan I get a room?"
"Fins birds,” Mid the hotel man, in
tent on his employment
“Oan I get a aooeo ?” inquired the
would-be guest
“Golden plover they*r«paUed—golden
plover, "ws# the reply.
“Well ynutorat be a eonfoundedi foel r
aaid the now impatient doctor.
“Yes; good many of them about hen
now—good many ef them about here
now I” was the prompt and rather start
ling roply.
Tiro doctor “smelt a mice” by this
time, Secured a room, and before be left
told firis story, which the hotel
laughed over ae heartily as anyone.
-The
in Minnesota's tornado-swept city of
finchaetaFuMj be Ridged from ffie fact
that even toeferngtery in which several
of the victiraact ^e storm were buried
with pnViio earamuoisa was greatly dam-
agud by the wind.
At a not very remote day thia land waa
covered with water-a small inland lake.
Later it became a bog-meadow, covered
with almost useless wild hay. For years
ths owners of this lend ware ready to
sell it at almost any price. It waa not
supposed that my crop could be profita
bly cultivated thefton, and no attempt
waa made to do so. —*
—A quarter of a century ago Mr. Wil
liam Conklin, the owner of a large tract
of the meadows, attempted to grow
onions in a' small patch. Ths venture
proved so successful that he gradually
increased the acreage year after year.
In time the few other owners of this
wikHand followed tbs example of Mr.
Conklin; the onion crop began to grow
profitable; the land became more valu
able and found ready purchasers at con
stantly increasing prises; and to-day
there is no farm land in Orange county
worth as much as these seme Chester
onion meadows, which not many yean
ago were considered almost valueless.
Of these 700 acres, over 850 are used
exclusively in the cultivation of onion*.
The ground is a black soil and very rich,
but it is found to do best by mixing with
it upland earth, eoal ashes and manure.
The crop this year will be very large,
the season having been a favorable one.
An average yieM ia 150 barrels to the
sere, end the yield this year will proba
bly be 200 barrels. This will give a
total of 70,000 barrels.
It is expecMfi that the price will range
from fifty oenroto $3 per barrel, with on
average pf $1.50 per barrel, making the
total value of the crop N106,000—e valu
able 850 acres of farming land, it mnat
be admitted. At present the price of
native onions is low. This is said to be
in consequence of the shipping to the
market some time ago of green onions-
that ia, thorn which had not matured,
and which do not look weBin the market,
The onions are now looking well, and
these. meadows will in a few weeks
be covered with busy workers, hurriedly
gathering the odoriferous crop, the scent
of which now salutes all who come With
in half uu^ils of the fields.
Dr
npon'
now stoiide was n
fa the etztszn tsnMrara of
aniPacific Railroad. That
in hooor ef the Duke of
and toe old town, old a
called todiaiegntth It from 1
Albuquerque, i
Ifcif distant, was <roaof the*
tab* settlements. The proper
elation H Attrakerkay, but the BSttfeea
and the people of this part of the oorin-
try call it Albukirk. No town is the
West, except Leadville, has developed
more rapidly. Tha country has 8,000,-
000 sheep, tod in 1882 Albuquerque
shipped 2,500,000 pounds of wool
It Sams Nzz awd Wim, Moyt fifing
and Dock, and MohTom, toe five China
men imprisoned in Now Jersey, ,who
Maim that the catting off of their queues
whtn they were admitted into*the jafl
waa illegally severing them frotttteligi-
ooa privileges, could maintsin this poinh
in their suit, there mig^t be queer
change* in prison management, My* the
New York AWi. We should, perhaps,
find some convict* professing Quakes
proclivities who would inrist ou wearing
their hats when they pleased, and Shakes
burglars needing to dance religious jigs.
Anti-organ Presbyterians might cry
aloud for a chaplain who would preach
to them against -organ murio, while the
Seventh Day B*pti»U would probably
sweep the penitentiaries by a tremendous
’1
A Biff Lsufo
An Arafifotopieutenant oaoro upon
two private soldier-, one of whom wm
lying deed drunk on the ground, while
his comrade was standing asar the ine
briate, apparently in a quandary as to
what to do. w—- ;Vv *
“Ts the man unconscious ?” asked the
Lieutenant.
The soldier saluted and replied :
“ No, Lieutenant; he ha* only been
drinking a little too much,”
“Then why don’t you make him move
wi?” -
“ Beg pardon, but nobody eon move
on who ia m drunk m he is. Yon
oouldn ’ move on, Lieutenant,.!! -you
were, neither could a Major if he waa
that far gone. I really don’t believe,
Lieutenant, that the Colonel of the reg
iment himself could get up if lie had as
big a load m that private soldier has oo
ooard.”—Austin Sifting*.
y
using the poor
train wm four
the man wm
ig that H wm
Everybody had been
old conductor becanse
boon behind time,
nearly worn out
not his (anil
“It’s a shame,” ex
gentleman, at length. |‘Cond
any one eke flnds faolt with you, yon
can call mess a trifuMs that you did tbs
beat you could. ” \
“Thanks,” murmured the conductor,
brightening up at the prospect of one
friend on the train. **- ,
“I think we are getting on fast enough,”
continued the old genttslbafi, turning to
the most obstreperous ef the passengers.
“You travel on a pass, don’t you?”
growled the passenger.
“I do,” replied the old gentleman.
v “f}ood for sixty days, isn’t
raieefed the passenger again. .
“It is," responded the old gentleman.
‘ No wonder yon are in no hurry,”
grumbled the other msu. “I have only
got a trip ticket that expires in thirty
days, and I haven’t any money for an
other if we don’t get there before my
ticket runs ont. That's all.”—IVavei-
*r«' Magazine.
A political view of the situation—" A
pretty time of night to come home.
John," said a young bride, pointing to
the Mock, which stood at 1:10 a^ht
'* and you but just married, too. Ugh f"
41 Mary, my dear," said John, pompous
ly and somewhat thickly in sfroeeh, " I
am a liberal, you ore evidently conserv
ative. Let us neither now nor hanet-
fortb discuss politic*; it will make hotib
unhappy,"
motor would develop ooosoientious
scruples against working on Saturday.
A whiter oxscRnms thx peon system
of Mexico. The Mexicans, he mys, es
pecially the less favored classes, are in
veterate gamblers, who risk nearly
every cent they can get in games of
wbanea This failing results in many of
them becoming virtually serf*. A
borrows a small sum—My $3 or
with which to try his luck at the gam
ing table. He loses and is nnsble to re
pay the money. He is arraigned, the
debt is proved, and he is sentenced to
work for the lender till the amount of
bis obligation is paid. By the time he
has liquidated the original debt, he hss^
contracted three or four others, and he
belongs to his creditor almost as modi
as the creditor’s hone or cow. His
death does not canoe! his debts; his wife
or his children must labor till the money
is returned. This is said to be the rea
son why peons do not run away after
contracting debts. .■
A coHRMPONDEHT wxii*s that Alaska
is a Territory in name only. The only
civil- authorities vested with authority
are the Collector of Customs in Sitka
and his two deputies. If * trader is
caught selling liqnor to Indians, he is
taken to Ban Fiauatooe for trial, if tried
at all. If convicted, he may be fined
$500; bnt the expenses of securing his
conviction are three or four times that
amount. A lawyer once aaid: “They
bring a ten-cent Indian down to Ban
Francisco and give him a thousand-dob
lar trial, all for doing the Tenitocy a
favor by killing the worst white man in
it.” The people of Alaska have asked
for a better system of government. They
■ay that man-of-war government stay
have done well enough for the lint few
years after the transfer from Bnaras, but
their needa are for greeter n6w.
Nhithzb ths pkhai/tt of expulsion
recently inflicted for hazing at West
Point nor the eqfizl severity With which
ibis offence has in foraqra ysara been
treated at Annapolis has wholly eradi
cated it among the naval cadets. The
Constellation and Dale, on their return
from their practice trips, bring back a
number of midshipaMe charged with the
offence. The stupid and often harbor-
oos custom of baaing seems to be kept
olive at the two academies mainly by
the notion that it is incumbent on oadets
of the present day to do os their prede
cessors'liaye done. It is a cowardly
practice, olmoet invariably involving the
-attaek of many upon one.
In ths island or Jamaica vessels are
loaded with bauanM by negroes march
ing in single file, each with a bnnch on
his head. The lines often number a
hundred men and women. Aa they go
to and from the Vessel a negro, with a
load, melodious voice, sita on deek and
colls off the telly in a singing, drawling
tone, asfolldws: “Banana da one, one,
one; banana <14 two, two, two; banana
da free, free, free; marked me down
foeh, foah, fo; five and tally, fire, five;
banana da five; five, five; banana da live,
five, five, five, and tally five, five.”
They oan count only np to five; so a
white man of superior attainments sris
near and keeps the tally by fives while
the negro repeats his count.
Thh Yzllowstonh National Pahs
ia larger than Delaware and Bhods
Island combined—being 65 mites wide
by 65 long, and embracing 8,675 square
(piles. It lies mainly in the northwest
ern corner of Wyoming, but includes a
thin strip of Idaho oo the weal and
Montana ou the west and north. The
body of it is between 110 and Ijl de
grees west longitude, and 44«nd 45 de
grees north latitude. The lowest sieve-
tion in the park is 6,0 0 (set above see
level, and its highest mountain peak
from 10,000 to 12,000 feet. It is an im
mense table land, with a surfzsi broken
Into mountain range*, gorges, oanyona
and volleys. 1 '
Whin you set a boy with the pockets
of his pantaloons bulging out until he
looks like a great humble bee laden for
the hive, while he walks along tryfeg to
look aa thin as split lath, and wearing a
profound expression of supernatural ia-
uooenoe, yon know, without refarrinj to.
hisoode of tignala, that boy has haan
lingering in somebody's orchard, and
doesn’t care to have undue publicity
(ton to fasfc that only aonearohiffi p«f*
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