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SISTER TO HIM. f*M In* Um ■Urligbt dim, Im'mwwm • round, dull »ky; th»t twinkled looked to him Ob* phospltor gleMii* ot the ilro-fly, moon hong in au awkward rhape Orooked and bent like the horn of a • Mplee aeemed hnng with orape garden gdte banged to with a alam.^ over the allmy etonaa r ant pool* in the meadow raarah; along with plaintive moani, long of the wbii>-i>oor-will waa riba on the olninxy atile, at pilch graa tha du»ky lane; a Ugf ennred in a bitter amile, treeda with a apiteful cane. aid long waa the way, dull and the earth waa cold, Wight and lie dreaded the day, ■eemed a hundred centarica dirge of hit i I «igb w ho pondereth 1 halia timed Un tread, —bitter thinga; °Oly whiapered, with drooping head, • heart thaltwondercd -“Kiokerl by tloRKnT J. Boaorrn. Tolu iSTetlin. A **oxx or *ablV urs l.t AltKANSAW, | if he had not worn th« life-protecting deriae. Thia waa why he had el war* reqneated his antagonists to aim at hie heart. The bolleta of the two broi hen- had struck in the same place, “indent ing” the iron into the flesh. This was tL^Wo of hia fall. He soon revived, ano w ,u )U 4 dawned npon him that the hia courage had beeat' die- oo\. lA, he attempted to fbeak away, but INlweU stopped him, and turning to the astonished spootators said: - ~ “Dontlemeu, what shall we do wMli this red-handed murderer ? For years he has been segarded as the bravest man in Arkansaw; hia very cowardice—aim at my heart—being taken for the resig nation of cool and calculating bravery. I do not think that any punishmtwt in severe enough. I see a justice of the peace tmong you. Rather a strange place for him, btft he is here, never the less. I now move that the justiee al once orgauiae a court, and that by the consent of the citizens here assembled, he hnvo power to enforce the extreme pen alty of the law, and that if the death sentence be pronounced, a committee of live shall decide as to the mode of ad ministering the demands of the sentence. ” , The motion was unanimously carried, ami the old magistrate hxik his pluci in-hind a. stump, called for erder, and said: £ * * % Mgasdod Tom Notlin as one of the 6 ^**w*%men in Arkansaw. Tom’s repu- 'tattoh, though, waa not confined to the district alone, but nearly every man in the giate had heard of his peculiar brnv- <*7. ''He was A duelist of a most singu- l** pattern. He always managed to lie challenged and then ho never failed to '•kill his adversary. He waa a man of ■CUte education, but anyone could see j *het 'he waa vidona and brutal. His whole aim in life seemed to be blood shed. He talked of nothing but flght- and whenever he heard of a man distinguished himself by any geous act, be would seek a quarrel provoke a challenge and end by killing him. On one oc- involved in a quarrel vast, while the Unnagera were v-mi;,,. t>f iafbrmation and advice that luigw, have saved the Democratic par.y its hu> " . initiating defeat. The purpoee of the . lutioaal committee is to secure co-opem > tkio flhMp all the Slates, and when the pawera and duties ot the whole are dele Ml ted to a few, there can be but oue re- enh. We have so doubt that the exec- | titivo committee llborcd faithfully during ' the last campaign, but it usurped fuuc- ‘ flHNataf wbteb Mvdid aot stand possessed. d—»mT> « she said, after a few momen vest me with strong an’ peculiar powers. Individuals make' communities, commu nities make counties, counties mnki States, an' States make governments, s< I shall therefore consider that I am le gally appointed to the important place. Bein’ ’vested with so much power, I feel that—hold the prisoner, thar—I hive the right to say how this trial shall be conducted. Thar ain’t no use of a jury, ’cause all of you'' air intelligent men. No sarcasm on oar institutions intended, but it is a mighty hard matter to form « jury out of sensible timber; therefore 1 will take this case in chancery an’ pro ecetl at once to begin Vbe trial. Hold the prisoner. Thia pmi,'-or I will say tliis here pretense of s man, has lived amongst us with no other thought than to l»c known .O' a desperate character. He wanted blood for breakfast, human life for dinnpr, an’ a cotnhiuatiou of tin wo, a sort of cold mini roost, us it wort I gjpper. • 0 wet Hejgears *we- have l>een tryin’ to Tl,. net Kdl«r., taw ^ Thirty weddings ('harleaton between Tear’a day. NOTES ANDOOMMENTS. A ruurr-cuASs summer resort Is cm at which the cottagers will not apeelT to the hotel guests. A second-class resort The W« It waa the Southern wpmen more than the provost marshals who checked de- tertian and make the offenoO odfims. , J The Confederate who left the front i. one at which the hotel gueato will no* wuu .pe.k 10 th. o-tugm A turt^wl ‘ e V* of hia owmtfamily. He who come home ne at which ever goodw time. — h every one trios to Philadelphia 1 miU w on the tapis Jo now aud New ’ WMhvtlNsa end Mil r * • heawnad other ranaoos I Vort For I and ssksa by We also the propo- Jol. J. O’, ional erm t fe.el that nU rigiit, e conduct es, and the ndact the VuusUnl sagacity and pru impending interests are n ever before, but the people t if the leaders ere rigku t- * !•* the conference be called 9* ■III Arp** Tsilk. the girt* teed some watching t dfc moat too lest now * days. Toe fash roe, sad U>*y read too much The o^l fashioned retiring mod- Itjjt of chareeter is at a dhtconnt. -They at wait for the boys tocjme now, limy fi) ifter ’em, they marry in haft* sad re /|*Ht at laiaure, they rud round in tiwir J1.0W tmhibned eight grans and call it a Mother HubUrd party. The newspa pen have rot up a sensation about the asm dutch.- "Well I dbn’f see any dif- fareoce between that dutoh and aay nth er dutch- The wal yhaud daueos is just - They are ail immodest ■ good mother io the land that ^proves ,«if tBHii. A girl who goes to a proiuis ummuaus dx to be talked abouk by the wludee, *nd rakes, and fkst Avbohatre eacuole# her w< wjbotM ftevW WahFwKh a There are four grog shops to every church In AuieriOM.andaiabar-tiMMlcra to evvry mimutt-r. *4 A Cure for wasp atinge coo rao^rnt fa-i asm be foumf lying «mUi ,»• * ’ lure it baa moUe.^ Oharisy Floyd of Newbejrry um WtrJ dugs, L.^. W«>od teu on the tlagir by a rat a few weeks 1 Buford a Brldck ago, and last week It was fbiind'oecee sary to amputatw his flngvr. Ha la irf a critical coaditiou. A pear o&hnrd In Thomas county Os., was sokl five years «»<> (or *UbO. It was mat sold (or *1,800, the *060 having been received irom cutiinge in tha meantime. A montu afterward **,800 was offered for it, and now it couid not be bought for *25.000, On Tom Holmes's plantation in Edge- field county, Friday morulug, a wi^ue boy by the uaine of W. M. Oieun aQd a negro boy oumed Qua Week were nut la the field at wort; but naA atopped to play cards aud had scmtfMrda and a sotfllx ensued, when Glenn chi* the negro iu the back of the bead, causing death In a few minute*. Went Lad about hte£0cki-t.- Glenn look peak resort is one have a Chronicle. . The popular belief that the aonoen* trio rings {n the cross-section of a tree -thow its age need not shaken by a re sent argument to the contrary, according io an Ohio lawyer's letter oh th* sub- “In the trial of a large number lacd grant/wies,” ha says, “it very fre<|uatfly became important to show the date ofjarrey. This was shown by the Wwloneuant on the document, and cor- roberated by an examination of the on the line and corner trees of the survey. JThcee hacks invariably left a soar; whieh* to the practical surveyor, was readily detected, even after the lapse of sixty years. By ‘blocking’ the tree ind counting from the hock made by 1 he surveyor to the outaide of the tree, it invariably corresponded witlAho dates is they appeared upon the ^turris by t|ie surveyor." ** > A Pabis joubeal tells that a New Yorker, whom it names, on edmiug into die possession of five thousand 'dollars, from the estate of a dead uncle, de voted it to playing baccarat; that he en joyed a most wonderful ran of good luck; that lie broke hank after bank in the French capital until the doors of those (hat remained insolvent were closed de fensively agoiusthim, and that a year of this prosperous gambling made him the oossessor of half a million. He returned to N. Y. city, and todk fine quarters in a leading hotel. A year passed, and he lid nothing but spend money lavishly. He went back to Paris last winter, and -nade a fresh onslaught on the gambling liells. This time the conditions % ifick verc reversed. His waa bad, and the gamblers* was good. He lost as Rapidly and steadily a^jweviously he had won, mid now he is without anything. A Troy editob went into the tafior- iug estaldishment of a German to order a suit of clothes. After the aioth haff been selected and the measure taken, the tailor demanded a deposit as a guar antee that the customer would come for the goods. To this the editor demurred, saying that he did not know the tailor ijny better than the latter knew him. Y^ 441 ® conversation the Ger- Blaekvllle-fir 11 the de I K>8lt - ^ Wine, J. c. WfllfHt&x. Wben our B puiftl Grahams—C. D. Brown l ,wb (lown der, L. 8. Matthews. ’ delighted McNab, fi. out and * iti W * *V Chl I -11 ®- editor of Mlxsou'e Mill—H. O W ! ? ’ ! IhUes, F. W. W«,tf»e,,bee W | 0tdnuk; ^Syfarm.re-A. .bb^ on ond r* JOmSaiSa.. BAthe t, EC'W-. Allied: ^ Alieodale—O. H. Kttkhujd.J. Wlk de VN fUiaina, C. (J. Jones. Robbk#-James Cochran, J. B. 8ta! *. Js. Wood. Brldc^—* , D. a Wu*. c. Bash, w U aud.fiid? A North Carolina correspondent tells how the moonshiners sell ilik’it whla toy: “On the roadside a big horn le bung to a tree. You blow a blast, a gul steps out ami l< Us you to put yuur hand into her ptH*ket. You cum >u drop so the money end take oat your iu tha bottle and 0 wwwa.av ■»«!' sp. Flirting la at your petit, for a six f*ot uiooiiabluef ia iu p«>int blank MUge with Ms band on the trigger ol U* persuader.*' . — — — Meld Vrutally act upon and unoien leaten by two young negro gitia Aaod 12 years of age respectively, the th* The nou. un.»d ..IlM. jroond will fro- , wa . r 0U¥ ^, Uu8 luwcuou* fe lows pufej herself ia a pro* pDtj lk ppj| e ^ v ll 8t | c j t {blaek wretches were arrested fdwfawk of bail sent to JuM f«4 ; i«i / the next, term of the Ctrcul* For a pciuhin/rebuke by authority, and with a wound to at test hia bravery in action, waa ••hero until duty compelled his retain. No man ever eaw a night so wild that a Southern woman wonld not face it to carry news to Confederate soldiers. Every woman was a scout and a spy. If the mother oonld. not go the daughter waa sent. If there waa no daughter a dispatch or message was harried off by a negro or a signal waa made. They came to accurately estimate the strength of marching columns, to identify one make of gun from another in the batteries, and where soouts and spies could not go the women-could. It was (the women who saved Moeby again and again. It was a woman who told General Jackson the exact strength of the Federal force at Front Royal before he fell upon it iu carrying out hit valley ewnpaign. It was a woman who told Early just how Sheridan’s army was distributed at Cedar Creek, and there was scarcely a battle on Virginia’s soil with which women had not something t* do as the hfarera of iu formation. Once enlisted in the cause they did not know what despair was. They scut their bedding to the hospitals, their provisions lb the army, and their jewelry to a buyer of Confederate arms in Europe. When the Confederate Government could not furnish rations the Confederate women did. I have asked hundreds of Confederate soldiers how they made a start after the war, and in nearly every instance the answer began with: “Well, my wife, yon know—” * . His wife had been the power to brace him up for the new start in life.— The home was iu ashes, the farm grown up to briers and the country overran with outlaws, b* the wife’s words of hope and encouragement set the returned soldier to work. With any other class of women the Sonth would have built up*by the inch instead of the foot. As they were enthnsiasts in war, so also are they heroines in peace. In the real Sonthcm woman’s heart ttiore is no hatred of Northerns. There is not even distrust or .suspicion. In her parlor may hang portraits through which Sheridan’s men thrust bayonets, bnt her ploasAhtest letters are mailed to and re ceived from friands in the North. The war as a war is buried and forgotten, or if bitter memories force themselves to the surface there is HO heartburning for vengeance.—M. Quap. A Minnesota Tornado. -’tf. Med Brabbaflv T. Fed Fi Gee re*’* Creek—0, PCave, WlUte Hay. ’ Etirhardt’s Mlll-F. J.Kearee, \F l S e * Hesse, Jacob Ehrbardt. 10 ^ Midway—W. M. Williams, A P. Iff with W. R. Msy. terms. FerrlM’s Store—G. M Hunre 0 f ] iust Smith. J. B Hunter. notices Millene-J. B. Bales, P" , W J. Barker ® re ca l* 0< a out BhUIoc-m! M. Oalho* rioters ro- C. F. Calhoun. ^Thursday, whoa Uawbrtf-N. Z F«l 0 wofthe Gov- ** H«>(final*. <on tjj 0 day. We r — g*T8 and will meet Bl tbe Hungarian Clerk of the Uouit b'ingem in other 30, U day of Goto bet t that they have ballot boxes. .troops. We pre- Jn*r will end in the would aqt hs ’ Sander ia ycryneka beat’ 9? young ladiea, and . beriuy uho eaeape it- The Mbit aot all slander; H>*i« of 4is thJkdfct olden time wfceu folks gei. juMthey ereyedmarried, bn now ere fell of divorces sol tU4— . uJHfkud with gnu widows M>d m^nm- aye lousahold there ie a bidden grWf • daughter'* ah (br the gMs te /oar will Jroatinn language .in j . *Ooro - y .. —#oxe fact which is particu- Ar^sting, since it shows that few .Id be lost in tornadoes if only warning were given. All who «e to do so took refug^ in cellam, . herever this was done not a single was lost The Governrfeht weather /ateliers aay they are unable wo furnish predictions of particular tornafoes; they •Won only give general warningnr! J Atmospheric conditions over 4 certain J*jrritory indioate that the fornjidinn of ike lP*docs is imminent them, ^But the All bitants of districts whertf tlgdadoes Rsrnwat. frequent occurrence, it would Nainh to b® able to devise a sys- lami* of p.arnings for themselves. A tor- ofW.D.ties its work with tremendous isMIrs. A correspondent of the Boston Globe, writing from Minnesota descrilies a tor- l *' in that section as Mfiffiti.— ipiH'iUim*!4lho W ebb Suddenly it split, and lietweoflA the two black trains ex panded the n^Krfearful, dismal sky«I ever saw. Thclo|l<'r was green—gray— yellogf, and it dUieued the sun so it l>e- came as twilighOxThe carpenters had gathered together wifth us on the porch. “This must be a Vhailstonn,” one of them said; “new we'- will pretty soon hear of disasters J’ \ Suddenly the cleft widened lietween the two black cloud wiugy, w^d the up per one came with a terrible spccwi^ flur rying back toward us. “Let us walk in,” I said. “‘Usee: as if we, too, shall get a taste of it.” We went in, and our parlor look quit© dark. We had scarcely locked door before Wo heard the roaring of storm coming. Ig a moment w* were surrounded a white cloud, and the wind and lashed the house, which groaneti. shivered. It was not rain^ jfFas furi ous torrents of water mixecLWflth heavy hail, which poured dowA ncm heaven. The storm tried to liwst open the door, but five men pruned against A with all their fhight. The wall sdemed to give way, and stood in a bow; the building shook as iu convulsions. I fe4 * tight ening of my heart every time the house seemed to be lifted from the ground and A novel exposition was given recently in this city, says a Boston letter writer, by a chap who permitted | rook to be broken on him by a sledge hammer. The fpat had nothing in it requiring the slightest skill. Ole lay flat on hh back cm the Stage, m “Thia here geflL” Mr. Hill annomdfed in a load voice, “will have oip of these ’ere rooks-busted h’upon ’is tgeast” The promise was false, eltemesavage expectation that the perfortner would be hurt—and that hope was all that ex cited any interest jmight have been re alized. The stone was hard, about flVe inches thick, and their was no snob trick as breaking it before hand and sticking it together. It will therefore be seen that a blow sufficient to oraok it would inevitably fracture the strongest breast bone that oonld be put underneath. So the stone was not laid on the man’s breast but on hia abdomen, where there were no bones to break and only the danger of injury to ’some vital organ. How great this peril wqs at leaat physi cians will oomprehpnd. The poor fool was thin and without the muscular (Ve- velopment to fit him for the ordeal. The broad and heavy stone alone seemed likely to crash him. A six-foot and 200 pound athlete swung the sledge aloft and brought it down with a genuinely heavy blow. The performer granted under the impact, but the stone did not break. A second, third, fourth and fifth stroke also failed to prodnee the desired frac ture. The assembly, rather apathetic at first, grew somewhat excited. The man was manifestly nervous and fatigued. Who knew but he would himself be broken ) But with th® sixth blow the stone cracked and fell into two parts. How was that for a diverting sight in a civil ized city f_ y A City of Small Economies. Cheaper tetter Postage. A New York exchange gives th* fol lowing respecting th* new “postal ■otes” and the redaction hi lette^-P 06 * dipped down again. A Washington oqnrepondent says:— There is no such tbing-aa extravagance in Washington—-that ia, New York or even Philadelphia extravagance. Wash ington is a city of small incomes, small outgoes and small economies. Some* of the latter are very funny. There is my friend the prosperous lawyer, who pays a hotel news-stand five cents a day for the privilege of reading all the morning newspapers. If he takes one ho pays the newsman another nickel. There is my friend his wife, who always secures a dednetion on the medicine she buys by promising to return the bottle. Tliis lady is also one of a number who sell their old dresses and what not of fixings to a shrewd old colored aunty in a smart red and yellow bandsfea, who in turn sells them “on time” to well-to-do ser visits. A prosperous merchant, whom I know, thinks nothing of paying his own fare when he takes a party of ladies down-town in the street car and letting each of his fair companions do the same. A street railway^ r . r ‘ ,H i‘1r" t “ifr- ”TRcTThe,' rr and the President of a stF on boat line did, and I think does, save board by riding np and down the Poto mac on one of his steamers. This is town where the leaders in politics, fi nance and journalism lunch on milk and pie in a dairy, ride in threc-eent cars, drink five-eent soda water, and patronize borliers who shave for ten cents, where men of all sorts of prosperity dine for a quarter, and refresh their minds in the evenings at -{he hospitable newspaj»er correspondent's ofiioes, which stand open fro"* snnaet to almost sunrise. I sup pose everybody within 500 miles of Washington know all this until I saw that poor Senor Barca was charged with extravagance, fcenor Barca would have fqpnd great difficulty in getting the pat ent medicine millionaires of the East or the pork and lard kings of the West-to his modest entertainments had he not l>een a representative of “royalty.” He lived like a Wushinglqn gentleman on his twenty thousand a year. He could not have lived as a New York gentleman on any such sum. A • (Met After October 1st, 1883, letter postage in this country will -fee only two o»ts tor each half ounce. There is also n reduction In the charge for poatal money orders, fc which the charge on orders o^der ftO |l eight cents; above *10 the old rates are maintained. I „ Che old law allows the issue of no jilooey order fqrmore than *50, addition al orders being required for greater sums. The limit is raised to *100, and the charge for a one hundred dollar or der is forty-five cents. A very convenient device for mail re mittances of small snms of money has been provided by law anthorising the issue of three cent postal notes. The notes are in effect certificates of deposit, and may pass from hand to hand like notes or check*. The notea will resemble a national bank note. In the centre of the face appears the name of the isaning offic* and of the office to which it is sent. The names of the twelve moitlis and the date* of twelve years, from 1883 to 1894, are printed at one end, and at the other, columns of figures representing dollars, dimes, and cents. The notes are to be issued for all sums under *5. The charge is three cents for all de nominations. The applicant buys the notes as he would postage stamps. The postmaster punches the date by year and month, and ajso punches the figures indicating its value in dollars, dimes, and cents, up to *4-99. The three cent postal note is made payable to the bearer any time within three months from the last day of the month from its issue, and the signature of the payee is affixed at the office of payment. J* — The notes will be reac^y for issue os soon as they can be prepared. They will be extremely convenient for the transmission by mail of small sums for subscription to newspajiers, for books and all articles of less value than $5. Newspaper publishers will derive great practical benefit from this new system of cheap money orders. The postal note can scarcely fail to be a popular form of currency, * A Dollar Saved. Disasters ^ to ‘rteCmen. The Supervising Inspector-General of Steam Vessels reports that during the fiscal year ended June 80,1883, the total number of accidents resulting in loss of life was 34, or 7 less Than in 1882. Of these 12 were from explosions, 5 from fire, 11 froareolliaions, and G from snogs wrecks and sinking. The total number of lives lost by jioqidents from various causes during thd ycar was 284, or 79 more than in 188?. Of these 69 were due to explosions or the accidental es cape of sh am, 82 to collisions, 45 to fires, 50 to wrecks, 33 to accidental drowning, Twain .. SAVaWltQ I. flair an&h«u it is once fujly developed 1 laad* aCMre. paranc0 Q f the sky always is taxable indentions of t«0 tract*, gitg, and watchers oonld be aarnum, tire card of Hot^JataT Good*, of tli^luio, lVf*r|ioc to Habone, U a. ^ v - ttMtisrptece. It oaem%Aa ** speech , "•«ee**e duty should be to give receot'y mad* by Mobfife, b* «took oc-1- *— 5 * caslOn to Vaduce th ' * Goode, bt'l bis seat lb redo in! v is not than they jlfrobiHg Md , racter of Mr. ertlog tliat he had held oogrre* by fraudulent votes and wh* therefore, a cheat.— Goode nays In reply: "Who 1* this man that inidd|aa me in my absence ? Profwwlug to bin Democrat bn made a corrupt bargdu with Repubttcana, 1 by which bn beffwod bU coantltueots red sold for * Ffoe the people who nril honored Mia efth a represents* tfotroefc Pr*tWKttretobhfthe< Term*, Cash. I* 0. Dt he approach of a tornado fn tarts along its wioe we had these terrible shocks; then in a moment house, men, furniture were hurled through the air one hundred feet away. I do not rememnfr anything till I found mysel^on the ground crawl ing among the ruiis of my home. The first I discovered wap my wife, with a child in each arm, lyn|g at my side. Men and children were scattered around among lumlier andftidings, whether alive or dead nobody canid tell. A table and aptaircase came flying through th* air; dome men met them o*t!88w inhaW eir oeh their oenars. tbalwilltdi r * Imre (pt a rent n<Nr aad my <•&» “ hare* % Uaaoidtob. jT KttWtaxid witba quick . Anybody oonld tell that _ a tab of •p tire floors Washes tfc* dishes lb* milk and the to re* Children.— Hut* and 4* of tb* biscuit d Foster asosOy lobe what might «f it all * a 0 e • the Foa- •fcred a kcg*. old, from* mm brew a hotM, bat 4 into tb* ebam- dow* more to end ruin the toy other 0 her soil, the mate* «re baa bank- railroads, r, to AUys pock- for b«M •JmaJi'r-geMirtffWti^OoDreJtSfcc ar my, be gate a vo* m the OcoaVe by which be attenxptd to write the word •ua'ii rj upon the^ tw of ev«r/ cW federate living aultbe grave of •very ConffidtfAUwdUtd. Oiatining to b* a v Ik-d code of honor, •rehead the brand * placed■ PioooPtbe people he debatrb public mo good ikaM 0 f the Stat man whthss ever 11 Frotreti(% ol* devoi rial Inreraw rapted om ^ hvr taking care, I eta with enor w»l«bh’l •Her. Boast ii State of Sootb Carolina—DiIkV Gorman of By virtaa of a pawvr OMtaif °t pick up tala ■Mnigagv axaeutad on tha XL ground a May, 1882, by Jet boroh to W. A. ^ nnte . sad iadoxad 00 tba 284 day of May. IA. . ’ tiia oflioe of Uo Clark of tbe Cirouit r ae ' for Bara wall oouaty I wifi toll at Ban an d Court House oa Saiwrday, the Sd day of; at vnaber aext, at 11 e’eleet A. M., one boy horse, about 15 years old, described .. the amd mortgage. Terms fash. * WILLIAM LARD, * Agent fur Mortgage*. and pushed them kill my wife an and roof whirled impossible to re: crawled and ran the forest. Aa there, we were 01 * farmer, hafl one his arms, my wifi my sons clung te i the feet of the chili I hadmysel! ten ran with my the eldest and y< perhaps, or lying** ruins, and It was i them. The h iy, so they did not drenr hits of wall ris; hare it was W* crept and our lives down to found each other six; a friend of ours, "'til* small girls in er, and one of Bat where were ? <me of the carpen- ~ little girl—but boy? Killed, tilated among the ible to look for Mechanics, artisans and laborers must learn that it is not the *9 or the *30 per week that we receive and spend that counts in sickness or old ago, bnt the *1 that we save. As evidence I will name a few instances in Davenport^, I could name many of the dollar-saving people. Some years ago Mr. Keyset, a Swede, a rongh carpenter, with a family, came to Davenport with *4 on hand. He worked for a small capitalist with a large credit, who built for himself to rent or leU. Mr. Kcyser at first received *1.75 a which was in time increased. His em- ployer assisted him in purchasing * home; he saved and built several small honses, and within eleven years sold out and purchased a large and well-stocked farm in Kansas for *8,000 cash. During the same period a Prussian laborer, John occurred m ac cidents caused by collisions, 48 lives be ing lost in excess of 1882. The next greatest increase was by shipwreck, the loss being 44 more than in the previous year. The increase by explosions was 18. The loss of life by fires, accidental drowning and other causes was less than during the previous year. The most serious single acoident of tb® year was caused by the collision of the steamers Sciotu and John Lomas, which occurred on the Ohio river, near Mingo Junction, on July 4, and resulted in the loss of 58 lives. A and reflection in connection with the loss of life on the Bciota is the fact that, notwithstanding the sinking of that vessel, very few lives need necessarily have been lost, as the saloon deck of the steamer, where meet of the passengits were* waa only sub merged to a depth probably not exceod- | ing 24 feet, while the hurricane deck was from four to five feet above the water's edge. The great loss incurred must, therefore, be attributed to fright and panic, natural‘in such accidents, and causing pnssengc:rs to throw them selves overboard. • The skill, daring, and the ear* whieh Bkobeleff took of Ms aoldfare hare brea dwelt npon by sevenl “ ‘ ^ war and special can poly And space ] dotes of a personal Russians. His soldiers looking on him ss a < “One Id his soldier* pectedly w the crowd the street opposite 1 where Skobeleff ‘Why thip crowd?’ Skobeleff is dead!’ plied the simple veteran,^ not dead. He would not i is impossible. ’ And so cernedly went hi* way, confident his beloved general was still alive. ” He was in the habit, without ever compromising bis dignity, qf mixing familiarly with his men: “He nsed to eat with then with the common spoon out of the camp kettles, aud no one wss ever more oorqfol to see that the camp kettle was hi tts place. It was not only the superb military genius which they admired, but his sympa thy, his affection, his homely brotherli- □ess. There was no pride in him—with the poorest he was as friendly as with the most powerful” With his money he was most lavish, giving away the whole of his pay to the soldiers and those of his offioers who were in need The following tale will serve as proof of the devotion of his men: Skqbeleff went to visit a transport of soldiers badly wounded. One of tbe moribnnds recognized him. ‘Oh.’ said he, ‘there is our own one, ourSkooelaff.’ The others heard the name. 'Hurrah, hurrah !’ they tried to cry out; so weak and wavering were their voices, it re minded one of dc a th more than life. One €f the wounded soldiers trho had to lie operated on hod both legs and an annAo lie amputated. Chloroform was of fered. ‘Why do you object ?’ exclaimed ^ the doctors. T cannot,’replied the man; ‘rather let me smoke a pipe daring the operation. I cannot take ant chloro form. I tell you I am a Skobelevets’— belonging to Bkobeleff's division.” Kind as he was to his soldiers, he could be stern enough when necessary. Once a working party in the trenches, assailed by a murderous fire from the Turks, fell back and sought shelter in the trenches; Skobeleff exclaimed: “‘Yonare frightendfl. * * * Your comrades arc working, and you are frightened. Form in rank.’ . They olieyed. ‘March back to your work, and that at once. If not, God be my witness if I do not make you go through your drill before the Turkish trenches. You know me. It is enough.’ They re- sumed work without hesitation. His daring exposure was not due* to recklessness or vanity, but a desire 1* set an example and inspire confidence. rJhoiigli. however he exposed himself, 'AManFsc. Poor Jack Colefwho was engineer of the ill-fated Arctic steamer Jcarmclle, and who is now confined at the Government Insane Asylum, recently made a savage assanlt upon a fellow-inmate, says a Washington paper. Jack was standing at the iron bars which enclose his ward peering through when a lady, accom panied by a pretty little girl, came np to the ban^fo see the unfortunates, who were pacing back and forth, mvttreing incoherent sentenoesand making strange motions with their bands. At the sight off the little girl with golden tressea and •*-Vf- * “ he songni iu rpmr the hres ol others: “Once he went to the front, and, turning round, perceived a group of his officers. ‘Why are you Ape ?’ he cried. ‘You are not necessary.* ‘We will not let you die alone,’ they said. He under stood their strategem, smiled, and re turned to another spot.” A Priceless Diamond. ▼ .. Y - ."iT,, . sparkling blue eyes Jack’s face lighted litze, mhed ..th h» luml; of fl™ mi ' Th ku ^, hi. ho^ lor “ a fo. dolUn. H. went to work Io. th. ^ Bomo^Ud to »-tt a- . * - * Li T mo- - -T ■P” P 00 * fellow to his own bonnie daughter or to his old home, and his head bent aorrqw. fully to 1 his breast. The next instant he 1 standing erect gazing at the child, while a big tear drop ran down hi*J weather-beaten cjieek and mingled with I a good-nalaied smile. Then, as if by ■ret go tarn the with her fltat “Difa*t you get the aasBey, sister ? asked the ohild, whose qukk preoeptioac already half aaepretad the truth. “Hash, darttaf. Fa Fut you moat not COTTONSEED! COTTON SEED I J will pay (15c.) fifteen cents cash rer Bushel for 10,1)00 Bushels Sound Dry Cottca Seed, delivered to me at this *»u me orand j place before tha first ol next November. si-ra Will exchange Cotton Seed Meal for „ .1 Cotton RmrA N. WOOD, would have swept us away as sooiraa we had moved from the wood. The only thing to do was to the children ta oa and give them mueh shelter agjfe could with our backs. Tbaioitt soffhail lashed Jhe oak shn^iierereMown flat to U-ound, an * ndsb Tt» vm Mm* rein* Mi W4 OR ft* | ouahioea and pulpit This shows pyj! efrotoff ilreyiuy te ohnoh, Hmbs struck our whjp*. & 69LpiOSiOQ off an in the works off at Hunter's destroyed, barrels and thou- The tere te *s- *qrel men were same capitalist, and’ls now working on hia twenty-eighth year with his first em ployer, who purchased for him the half block on Ripley and Thirteenth streets, where he has two flue dwellings, and one of Davenport’s best physicians is his tenant. He has raised his family and is clear of debt, and *10,000 will pur chase John Litze’s possessions. The question te, did those workingmen build up the capitalist nr did the capitalist build up the workingmen to independ ence ? Or, were the benefits mutual ? In no other country on the globe could those man have settled and reached their present independent posiAon.—Daven port (/o&fc) Gazette. * One Sunday the Asylum H31 Church in Hartford ifts abort a deacon, and the late Governor Jewell took one of the eontributioiLplates and passed it around. When the services were over a citizen said: “Governor, I envy you the ooufldeno* these people repose in you. Now, •owl a* I hare owned a pew here and bean a member hj brevet, I don’t believe they would trust ae to take up a collection." “Oh, yee, they would, Mark,-1 am sure . m — o —--w/* rev uto (uae, (hey would—if yon hod » bell-punch. ’ | nuked up at this juncture, aud led th* •nin - Mr. Porter Rhodes, the fortunate owner of the priceless diamond that bears his name, is at pireent in Parte awaiting the result of a competition be tween two millionaires desirous ot possessing the jewel The stone was found in his mine at Kimberley, South Africa, in the beginning of 1880, and made a great sensation anfong the dig gers when the discovery was made known about four months later, Mr. Porter Rhodes was obliged to satisfy their curi osity by exhibiting the diamond. Ac cordingly he placed it in a friend's office, charged a sovereign for admission, and in this way received £100 within the first two horn. Altogether he made by the exhibition £500, which he gave to the local hospital. On his arrival in England he was honored with an invitation to. Osborne, in order that Her Majesty might inspect the stone. He was afterward taken to' Osborne Cottage and bad an interview with the Empress Eugenie. Mr. Porter Rhodes considers that his diamond as for surpasses the Kohinoor in purity as does in weight, the Indian stone weighing 106) carats, the Cap* diamond* al>ont 150 carats. ' He said to bl* inter viewer: “I shall have at least fulfilled on* mis- ’ sion—I shall have convinced the"worid - that the Cape diamonds are as radian pure and blue^white ye the Dresden jjrop and the Braganza. I shall thus upset one popular delusion.” >> A Long March. “■Pravtr," \—. - - ~ ~«f some magic power, hj^ clear tenor voice broke forth Into a weird sea-song, be ginning : We sre bounding awsy O’er tbe rolling malty, And my bonnie nreJt lass is behind. As he was beginning the Moond verse, the little girl, gaaing into hfi face with a look of mute pleasure, one Iff’the in mates of the ward, a tall, low-browed man, who te oqpajdered a dangerous sub ject, crept up behind Jack, and said to him: “If I only hod aJpnfe and a rope I would fix that* Baby," pointing to the little girl. - The smile on J*k’e face fled inatantigi and a look of hate took its piece. Wheel ing about he dealk the m*niao a terri ble blow with hir fist, knocking him several yards, although he wss nearly twice as large as Jack. The attendonts, who were preparing dinner at the Hnyy — -*• *•»-«- *- - ■ When the clerks employed in the Pen sion Bureau at Washington went to their work on a recent.morning, they found on the steps a man, hie wile, and their three children. Parents and chil dren were in rags and covered with dust. The man said that he had been a private in the First Infantry, etationed at Fori Scott; that he was discharged some two yean ago and had filed a claim for a pension, but was not satisfied with the proceedings of his lawyer; and that h^ with his wife and children, had ooree oa foqt from the Black Hills in the hope oG getting tha money which he believed was due him. The Acting Commissioner promised to leare as quickly aa poesibk whether th* man waa entitled to a pen sion. He said that he had known cl men walking (ram places in Oregon and other paints ss remote, to learn that they had been deoetead and that they had ne just claims stmuri th* Government deoetead and that tin sa agtjnst th* Govern Tunis such#thisg ae downright bad luck, and acres people seem to be continually entniAd in it. If they fsIL backward, says Wa old saw, they iff pipetPtpert tblbtfbwi'