Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Special R«cjuests. 1- lB^Hth«tet|lioflM<aibosi •iwsy« give four mm Mid Vm ci addna J. Batieea )«it«re and oommunici- tkaa to b$ paWiucd aboald be written 0® rerante thttif, mid the object ofeeeh ekerif indieeted by neoemry note when required. S. Artieie* kr pablieetlon ebonki be written in s clear, legible bend, and on oaly one aide of the pege; V AH change* in adTerUaementa niibt lacb na on JVady. A MOTHERS LOVE i 'V _ » T -f VOL. VII. NO. 9. BARNWELL. C. H., S. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER L 1883. Bom* day, ** When othen braid yonr thielrbrown hair And drape ^our form in silk and lace, Whan oiheraoall you “dear” and “fair,” And hold your bands and kiss your face. YouH not forget that far above All others is a mother's love. Borne day, ’Mong strangers in far distant lands, In your new home beyond the sea. When at your lips are baby hands And children playing at your knee— O, then, as at your side they grow, How I have loved you, you will know! Bonsadsy, When you must fed love's heavy loss, You will remember other years When I, too, bent beneath the cross. And mix my memory with thy tears In such dark hoars be not afrail; Within their shadows I have prayed. Some day, * Your daughter’s voice, or smile, or eyes My faee will suddenly recall. Then you will smile in sweet surprise And your soul unto mine will call In that dear unforgotten prayer Which we at evening; used to share. Borne d^y, A flower, a song, a word may be A link between ns strong and sweet; Ah, then, dear child, remember me! And let your heart to “mother" beat. My leva is with you everywhere— You oannot get beyond my prayer. Borne day, At longest it can not be long. I shall with glad irapaticne j wait, Amid the glory and the song For you before ths Golden Gate. After earth's parting and earth's pain, Never part! Never again ! —Delaware CouiUy Repultlican. ■. j A. Genuine Victory. BY DO. DIO LKWIB. A colored man of sixty-four years came to me with a sore heart. The ' Old Woman” was his torment. His rheuma tism was awful, but not a “smndgia” of of liniment wcmld she mb on it.. He had stood it as long as he could, ami now he was determined to bring her down. He hud heard of divorces, and would have one if it cost five dollars. Ujx)n inquiry I found that ho couid not work, and that his wife supported him by washing mul house-cleaning. He admitted that if he left her he must go to the poor house, but he didn’t care if he went to prison, he wouldn’t bear that miserable creature another day. I asked for a bill of particulars. In the first place she was that hateful that she would not give him a mouthful of breakfast unless he got up and ate when she did, and ha sometimes was so bad with rheumatism he could not get up so early. In the second place the doctor had told him that salt pork was poison to his joints, and that he must eat fresh meat, bnt she would get noth-, lug but th* very saitest pork. In the next place he had a perfect cure for his rheumatism, but she would not rub it on. Then what right had a wife anyway to dictate to bar husband—the head of the house. This last he repeated so often, it was dearly a case of wotmded dignity. I advised that h* tried once mors to fetch her to terms. “Would yon not like to bring her to her knees,?" I asked. “Ton bet, Boss; but how oaa I do it ? She weighs more’n 300; is as strong os a horse, and quick as a cat. Ton see, Boss, I only weigh 115, and my old bones is full of rheumatism.” “Heap coals of fire on her head,” I suggested. ' "I tried biling water wnnst, bnt, Lordy Massy; She Ticked me e'en a'most to death for it. I shouldn’t dare to try coals. I aint no more’n a baby in her hands. No, Boas, coals wouldn't work no how.** Our conversation brought out the fact that they belonged to the same church, that thefcninister had tried to show her that she was the weaker vessel, and that In the marriage ceremony she had prom ised to obey. It seem* that at the men tion of “the weaker vessel” she had stretched out her immenaa arms and laughed derisively. “I tell you. Boss, she pratends to Ire a scripture wefthan, but she done forgets all her marriage vows, and treats m, like x was a dog. Boss, I haint told you all. I’m real ’shamed to tell you that rhe keeps a whip, and has licked me lots o’times.” “And now you would like to bring tar to her knees?” ^Wouldn't I, Bow ! If I oonld bring her down I would give my life.” I asked 'him to tell Amanda that I wished to see tar, but not to mention that we had spoken of their quarrel. She came, and I was not surprised that ■he had whipped her husband. She waa a splendid, great animal, evidently of the fiercest. Matt dropped in soon to see if I could eocnfort him. I told him that his esse seemed unpromising. “Ton see now," said he, “that coals of fire won’t Work." I had helped to untie many domestic knots, but I saw little hope in this ease. I asked if he would manage exactly as I should advise. He would do anything, if ha oonld only fetch her down. “Who prepares the kindling wood for her fine ?” ‘*1 used to, and would now, U she would treat we decent." “Who hnilil» tar fires in the morn* iflf !* W wf py tism is bad, and then I won’t anyway, she treats me so mean.” “What else did you used to do for her that you don’t do now ?" “I used to take her oiothes home, and do lots of things, bnt I won’t do a thing for her now.” “Will you do as I advise?" “I will, if it is anything I can da” “If you will do what I advise, I agree to help you through with your troubles.” “If you will help me fetch her down, [ will do everything,” '“I am afraid you will not have cour age. ” “Don’t be afraid, I will do all you say.” “Go home, prepare a large quantity of kindlings, get up to-morrow morning early, build the fire, keep it going, think over all the things you used to do for her, and do every one of them just as well as you can. Keep it up two days and then come again. Ton see we must have powerful proof that she is unrea sonable and cruel, and that you do ev erything for her.” I waited for Matt's return with much i-uriosity. When he came again, a few days later, I was struck with his puzzled md embarrassed manner. He was al most disinclined to conversation, which was in strong contrast with his volubility ■« our previous interview. I saw the situation, and simply said to him, after learning that he had kept iris prom he; “Now I wish you to go on in this way. do everything you can think of for her, and to-morrow morning, after you have got the fire built, say to ner: “ 'Amanda, I have not done for you what I ought to do, and I am sorry. You have done a great deal of hard work for me, and I don’t ask you to do it any longer. I have got the rheumatism, am getting old, and won’t stay in your way another day.’ You must say it just as lovingly as you can, for you know we must be able to show that while you are affectionate, and do everything for her comfort and happiness, she is cruel and hard. Just as you are coming away, say to her: ‘Amanda, if you get sick *nt any time, and yon will let me come, I will do all I cau for you.’ Now if you will do all this very heartily, and she is still hard and cruel, we shall have a good case against her.” Poor Matt seemed less talkative than in our previous interviews, and I thought I understood it. But I pretended no) to see, and urged him to go on gently, lovingly. He promised, and disappeared. The next evening lie did not come, but I met him in the street a lews days later and was nmnsed with his embarrassment I urged him to step into my carriage, and on the way to my office he told me that he had not come to see me as he had promised, because he was too busy, etc.—the usual fibs. I laughed, and seizing his hand, said: “Oome now, Matt, tell me all about it” Thus challenged, he said; “Well, Boss, the truth is, before I got throngh saying what you told me to say, Amanda put tar big arms around me and took me right.into her lap, and ever sense she has treated mo like I was her real husband. Boss, I wns never so happy in all my life, and my rheuma tism is all gone. But, Boss, I must go home right away, ’cause 1 am afraid she will want something. ” Onoe, a year or two later, Matt aired his dignity as the head of the honse and there was a little trouble, bnt for years, and until the old man’s death, he was vety happy in his domestic life; and when he died Amanda gave him a nice funeral, and sincerely mourned his ab sence.—ZHo Lewis'* Monthly. A DEN OF 8EA LIONS. HOW A BOT WRESTLED WITH A CUB AKHCAFA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA. ON A Legend of Cologne. Adelheid Richmodus, wife of one of the medieval senators who swayed the destinies of Cologne, died, to all ap pearance, and was buried in the vaults of the neighboring Apostel-Kirota, It fared to was said that a valuable ring could not be removed from her band, and was consequently interred with her. This excited the cupidity of the sexton, who came at night to steal, and failing in his efforts to loosen the ring, tried to sever, the finger. Blood flowed; the lady re vived and aat np in her coffin, to the horror of the thief. After the first par alysing shook of finding where she was, she passed throngh the gates he left open in his flight, and, still wrapped in her winding-fcheet, knocked at her husband's door. The servants, on look ing ont, recognized her, and rushed ter rified to their master to say that they had seen her ghoat; but on calmer re flection, Adelheid continuing to knock and tag plaintively lor admission, they concluded she waa-alive, and said sa Richmodus declared the whole a trick of their imagination, and said he would aa soon believe his horses were transported to the attics as that his wife lived. As he spoke, the clatter of hoofs above proved hia incredulity rebuked by amir sole. The door wae opened to. the shivering lady, who told her story and waa affectionately received, becoming “the joyful mother of children,” and dying in reality at an advanced age. The hones’ heads carved in wood, painted one ^laak and one gray, still look from the top window to convince tito skeptic; sod the next street, Buffi- Bodetraase, is named after the mnob miltuiu Mninii — In among the ragged rocks, over which the waters lazily lashed themselves into froth and foam, Larco rowed ns. We looked np in awe and wonder at the dark black rocks, upon whose highest points could be distinctly seen the nests and the maternal portion of the eagle families who-reside there. Through s narrow pass between those rocks and we are now in a rock enclosed basin, almost beneath the precipitons cliffs of the main island. A pile of smootly-washed stones afforded a landing place and we were at the month of a large cavern and near a tunnel worn by the waters throngh a mass of rock. A lailroad train coaid pass throngh this tnnnel at low tide; at high tide it is sacred to the wild waves and breakers. To the right there is a den, and such a den, too. Here were seen at least two hundred little sea lion pups or cubs rolling and tumbling over the rocks, wholly unconscious of our presence. It was not until a shot had been fired and rocks thrown at them that the largo sea lions became alarmed. They were not brave gnd marie no at tempt to protect their young. On the CHAITER ON MEERSCHAUM. INTKKBMTINn FACTS AlipUY A POPU LAR ARTICLE. Where It Ceaiee Free*, What It Csat% Where It le HeltL aaS Hew It Is CelereS. “Meerschaum goods,” said Mr. Leo pold Dietmann to a reporter, “aa yet are not as popular here in the West aa they are in New Tork. The finest piece of work I have ever done was a pipe at Weiss’, in New York, which was s pres ent to a rabbi from his congregation. It had heavy gold mountings, and cost $250.” “Will yon describe to me how meer schaum is worked before it gets to Mr final shape ?" was asked. ‘‘Certainly. Ton see, (he meerschaum comes in boxes from Turkish Asia, from the boreers of the Red Sea, and even from farther inland, from Arabia, Persia and the Caspian Sea. These boxes— here are a few of them—cost from $40 to $160 each, and they contain all the way from a dozen to 1,000 pieces. Meerschaum is sold according to quality and size, and not according to weight. This fine, even-grained, snow-white meerschaum yon see here is A No. 1, the ooaUatfjUaa. wann .aattay-sow^e teokiny- AoeBtrqualitvttare irturttW irifl'rd. Tho in their nursery they gave loud barks, snorts or roars, and dived deep into tho water, which rose and fell in foamy breakers at the mouth of the cave. A hundred could have been caught with case, so stupid did they appear to be. A second visit made to the den by other members of the party resulted in the capture of two of the young sea lions or seals. A little boy, ten years of age, named Ernest Whitehead, ambitious to own a sea lion cub, followed Mr. Seely, of Goleta, into the den. He at once threw himself upon a young cub al most as large as himself, wrestled with it in on attempt to force it into a sack, and, as he rolled into the water with his finny antagonist, he cried lustily for help and a larger sock. With the as sistance of Mr. Seely the little fellow se cured a captive cub and brought it to die sloop, where he shed his wet clothes and lay basking on the sunny deck until hia clothes dried. He had got his sea lion pup. A Wife’s Strange Story. Mrs. Hester Wilson, or Jacobs, a young woman of pleasing--appearance, told Superintendent Walling, of the New York police, a somewhat strange story. She said that in 1879 she was married in the Oity Hall, to a man named WUliataa Wilson, who wns also known as Jacobs. Upon the birth of their child, two yean ago her husband deserted her. Her husband, she said had written tar sev eral letters, stating that he was doing well, bnt he did not ask her to join him, nor had heT ever sent her any money. On Monday she received from Boston an envelope, the address of which was in her haaband’s writing, enclosing one large and two small cards. Th* large card was an invitation by Mr. and Mrs. Smith to the wedding ol their daughter, which waa to take place at 5 o’clock in the New Era Hall, Tro- moat street, Boston, and on the smaller cards were the names “William Jacobs" and “Emma Smith. Mrs. Jacobs, feeling sore that hei husband was about fo marry a young girl and thus ruin her for life, called on the Superintendent and asked him to telegraph to the Boston police to stop the wedding. Mr. Walling thought he had no right to interfere in the matter, and advised the young woman to tele graph to the parents of the bride and then go to Boston and confront her husband. She sent s dispatch to the janitor of tho* New Era Hall asking him to inform the clergyman who was to marry Miss Smith that Jacobs had a wife living, and received in answer a dispatch stating the janitor did not know the person i>- Wounds In War. and Missouri they buy straight, bent and bowl pipes, in fact, every kind. In that region the bull pqies are very much in favor. In fact, we cannot make enort&h of them to supply the demand, I mean, of course, carving of bull's heads, or of the vffiole beast, on the pipe, or around the opening of the pipe. Ii's their favorite animal, it seems. In Mon tana, Arizona and Nevada, they only want the finest kind of goods. * Yon wonder at that. Well, the cowboys ahd the laborers even invest their first few dollars in a fine meerschaum pipe ont in that region. They know what solid comfort js. And, as for the miners, nothing is too good for them. Some of the finest monograms we have ever cut have gone ont to the miners and ranch men.”—Chicago Herald. A Chimney’s Hidden Treasure. Some interesting statistics have been published regarding the wounds in flic ted upon men in battle, from which it ap pears that during the Crimean war, ont of a total of 7,660 British wounded, 2,396, or 31.2 per cent, received their wonnds in the lower extremities. Among the French troops the ratio was a little higher. The percentage in the Franco-German war was 30.5, or 7,360 wonnds of the lower extremities ont of a total of 24,7^ wounded. The following record of wounds received in foreign battles is given: Crimean war, 34,306 wounded, 11,878 wounds lower extremities; ratio, 34.6. Italian war of 1859, 19,672 wonnded, 7,704 wounds in lower extremities; ratio, 89.1. Danish warof 1864,1,907 wounded, 553 wounds lower extremities; ratio, 28.9. Franco-German war, 34,788 wonnded, 7,550 wonnds lower extremi ties; ratio, 3tf5. This show* a ratio, of 38.4, or 35,519 Wonnds of the lower extremities in a total of 106,303 wonnded. The conclusion is that the relative frequency of shot wonnds of the lower extremities does not exceed that of wonnds of the npper limbs to the extant that might be antioipatad from the greater rise cl the lower limbs. .This is doubtless due to the fact that, in fight ing in intrenched positions, the lower portoMta pma*} 1 itsatlniuoPt ' coarser and heavier kinds are much cheaper. 'Well, then, we take a big lump of it, and saw it into pieces of the size required. These at* soaked in wa ter until they get thoroughly moist and are considerably softened When suffi ciently wet they are cut with the knife in the rough, and then they "’“e worked into whatever shape may be required ol) the turning engine. “This leaves the meerschaum in a rather rough and crude looking state, bnt all the uueveu pieces and blemishes are re moved during this operation. Then the piece is dried, which takes from six hoars to six days, according to the de gree of heat it is expos ted to, and to the state of weather. The drying process most be done in the open air and not where it is damp or musty; because that would spoil the taste of the meerschaum. When it is dry it is nibbed off smooth with these little swamp brushes, a spec ies of reed, and then it is pat in wax. The wax must be pnrfc and’ white. It is melted on a stove in an enameled vessel, and when it is liquid the pipe or holder is immersed in it, and kept in the boil ing wax for the space of ten minutes or longer, according to porosity of the meerschaum. Then it is polished. This is done with whiting, which is rubbed in wet with a little rag, until a perfect polish is obtained. Than the amber month piecoa aro pat 1*^-except ing, of course, those pipes of bowl shape, and into the opening of which cherry wood or other stems xrerInserted. The amber is first chipped off with the chisel. Ton see, it comes in pieces varyiiig in length between one and six inches, and costs from $1.50 to $20 per pound. “There are some more expensive kinds, as, for instance, ths sea-green va riety, which is the rarest of a'l. The different shades ont no figure in the price, unless it b* a very fine and rare oxe. Bnt in picking the pieces ont, of coarse, the flner ones are taken for the more expensive pipes and holders. After tlie piece of amber has been chiseled ont it is worked upon with a file, and thehit is fraised on the bench and the neces sary openings bored into it Amber is very brittle, especially tlmvery light and clear kinds, and arreat care has to be ex ercised in boring. Then it is polished. All those little bits that are cut off in wording the meerschaum, and which are probably more than one half of the en tire volume of the raw material, have to be thrown away. In Vienna they make imitation goods with them. They grind up the chips and pressilinto shape, and sell at prices one-tenth to one-twentieth as low as the genuine goods. Of course, that stuff can’t be made 6) color. The rases in which ths finished goods are put are made here in the city. I pay from $6 per dozen upward.” “It would bs impossible,” skid the bookkeeper of nnottat Jinn, “to giv< ron an idea of the variet^uf meerschaum pipes and cigar-holders we deal in. They run from |l to $fjA and upward, and the price depends a good deal on the kind of moon ting, whether they I ^ have straight or bent amber, wkethorftaa they have fine carvings, monograms, etc., and whether precious metals are made use of on them in any way. By taking a look around here there and going np-stairs into the factory yon will ■es every grade of meenchanm goods, from the cheapest and aimpleet to the most expensive and artistic. The aver age pipe, though, runs from $36 to $60 a dozen. We supply the market all over the West and Northwest, as fan east as Ohio and Indiana, and aa far west as Montana, New Mexico and Texas. Out West they want osdy the beat goods, and when they get that they are not particular about the price. “We sell some of oar finest goods oat that way. The price, I forgot to men tion, depends also a good deal on the length of the pips. One eight inches long, for instance, will he about 916, while a ten-inch one will be 91$ at 915, This & Ytama maastue, which is a trifle shorter than the Amerjdan. In Wisoop.- riu and Minnesota they boy nothing bqt . atraigUt tfl**, *a4 *U through the mia- l in« tta iNM kiad art the In the summer of 1879 a stranger ap peared at the farm of Solon Brace, near Choektowaga, N. Y., for work. His hair was cropped dose and his face was for bidding. Ho gave his name to the far mer, and told him plainly that he had Wen discharged from Sing Sing only a short time, where he had Wen serving a sentence of two years for burglary. Ho <MJl«,mth#KOUa...uf. leading an honest life, and referred tho farmer to the prison authorities. Mr. Bruce was struck with the man’s apparent true re pentance and told him he might remain at thefarin nntrHtnrprigrm officers were heard from, and that if their report was good he would W given work. Tho re port was good, and tlie man was put to work on tho farm. He remaiuod in the seuice pf Mr. Brnoe until lost fall, hav ing been during- ”Jl that time a faithful and industrious employee. He went by the name of Wilson, and gjiid that he had lieen brought up as a pickpocket and thief from childhood. Last fall he irodo up his mind to go South. Nothing was heard from him until a few days ago, when Mr. Bruce received a letter from him. He was in Texas. Ho said in his letter that, ns ho might never oome to Mr. Bruce's place again, if Mr. Bruce would make a search in his chimney ho would find several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry which the writer had taken fro^ people iu the strict ia.yeura past, and which he could not restore, ns the identity of the owners could not be known. Ho told Mr. Bruce to dispose of it as he thought Wst. Tho farmer searched in the chimney, and found at least $1,000 worth of gold rings, pins, watches, and other valuable jewelry. Not wishing to have anything to do with the stolen property, ho shipped it by ex press to Wilson. What pozzies the far mer is to know where and when his late employee obtaiued the jewelry, as it is not likely that he oonld have oome from the prison with it on his persou. It looks as if the reformed thief had tacn plying his former trade during visits which he made occasionally to Buffalo, Lockport, and other neighboring towns and cities while he was working on the farm. THE HUMOROUS PAPERS. WUAT WX FIND IN Til KM TO MUL* OVKR THIS WXJUL ns Aa BxtraordlMtr Battle. FXBoarrr of bxks in carryino on BATTLE FOB TWELVE HOURST A remarkable instance of the ferocity of bees under certain conditions has just been afforded. A couple of days since the Topsham Horticultural and Cottage ' Garden Society held its annnal exhibi tion at The Retreat, near Exeter, Eng land. One of the tents was oocnpied by the Devon and Exeter Bee-keeper's As sociation and among its exhibits wns one which excited a very great deal of in terest This was a case containing sev eral thousand dead drones which had lost their lives in a sanguinary battle a couple of days previously. A well known aparian was visiting a friend’s house a day or two previously and on coming to one of the bee hives it was found that there was great uproar inside. Close inspection showed the ground be low the hive to be covered with several hundred dead dronefl and hosts of them were still being brought to the entrance and bundled out by the workers, gener ally by being seized behind the head and dragged along tqtta exit, where, as a kind of farewell, a sting was given to them. Examination of the slain revealed fact Jbat they tad been severely ndled. Many were headless, Others had lost legs or wing* oj both and all bore evidence of rough usage. That the b$es were very much the superior force was shown by the fact that only about fifty of them bad fallen in the fray, a remark able disproportion to the nmnher slain of the enemy. The battle had raged from about seven in the tyofning to the same honFm the evening and seemed then to end only with the utter annihi lation of the d roues. Peculiar Sutoim.—A Russian girl named Mary Lcftschtz, nineteen years old, was token to Bellevue Hospital, New York, suffering from ppjaoning. The woman ha* been in thi* sonutry •boat two years and has bsa* smploved in an east aide tailor . atajh ^Bhe con ceived an ardent admiration for a young Russian who failed to reciproaste her affection. In a fit of despondency she soaked a quantity of matches in water and drank the solatkua At thatamtaL ita qsaal remedies wore prescribed; bn* WAS NOT A ROTLOCX. A day or two ago a man who was st the Central d(«pot to take a train sud- lenly cried out that some one had stolen his valise, and he l>egaa such a hullaba loo that everylnxly had to lie interested. “I sot that ’ere satchel right down tlwir and stcp]>ed to tho door,” he ex plained to Officer Button, “and whim I returned it was gone." “Well, you should have been careful. Wo are not responsible for snob losses.” “You ain’t, eh? Whar’s the Presi dent?” “Out of the city, sir.” “Whnr's the Gineral Manager?” “He’s sick abed.” 4 “Whar’s the Superintendent ?” “Won’t he here till-four o’clock." “Wall, now, somelKtdy’s got to make good that loss or about a dozen men will go to tho hospital for six months apiece I” “What wns the value?” “Fifty dollars and not a cent less 1” . “What were the contents?” “I hud twelve shirts, a new suit of clothes, an overcoat, and lots of other things.” “Was It a carpet ssek?” “She was.” “One handle gone and the lock broken?” “Yes, one handle was gone, and I had her lied with a string." “Is this it?” asked the officer, aa be took the baggage, off a bench not six feet away. “Great snakes ! that’s her,” chuckled the owner. In handing it to him the string broke, the bag flew open, and out rolled two old shirts, a pair of socks, and five or six paper opllars—all there was in it. “Then these aTe the duds yon wanted $50 for ?” queried tho'bfflce.r. “No, sir!” was the indigntliL.reply. “I should have taken the money for lOML. seteri of time and damage to my feelings. I’m no Shylook, sir 1"—Detroit Free Pnss. GLITTER!NO PUISMATIO U0HTR. Much can bo fonnd to interest a stran ger in Albany, N. Y. There’s the Greenbnsh bridge, tor instance. One evening last week . I sat near a young conpla. The sixteen year old miss was a Greenbnsh lily and the male escort an Albany tight-ponts, silver-headed oane and an abbreviated-coat young man. From their conversation I judged the Greenbnsh lily had no soul for a ro mance. Tight-pants was fall of it—he longed to .qnload a ton ia the lily’s ear. “Do yotf*see tlttii glittering prismatic lights on the sparkling waters,” he asked so load that the bridgtfman snickered. “Well, I guess,” she replied in an iCe cream voice. • ‘ ‘How romantic they sparkle aa each billow tosses them idly abont on the moonlit rivet,” he gushingly speaketb. “Gorgeous*? Quite romantiqne 1 al most all but, Fred.” “Yea, Laura, that prismatio vision ia called the danger signals on the hind end of four ooal barges.” * There was a- touch ol irony in tar voice when she replied. “I knew what they were before yon commenced. Wasn’t I two years on e canal boat when father commanded the Sarah Jane Wallace?” Silence reigned on that seat, and the bridge man mattered aside: “I thought she'd make him sick.”—Albany Argus. A DEGREE OF INTOfAOT. r Mrs. Richesse, whose money enables her to live in s swell suburban neighbor hood, but does not give her the entree to the best society, was away for the qpmm«r mid met aqyaral know all tbe best people. One day a lady asked Mrs. R.: “Mrs. Richesse, do yon know the Elans?” “Not personally,though quite well by reputation.” * “They are lovely people and yoa should meet them. And the Browns, do yon know them ?” , “They are our next door neighbors. “Indeed. Then yon know them in timately?” “Well, no, not exactly. Oar families can hardly be said to be very intimate, and Mrs. B. has never callq^, bat their coachman is imaged to oor liired girl, and the degree of intimacy existing ia sufficient to permit his coming over to onr honse seven eights in tbe *eek end wearing all the paint off the back steps.” A SOFT ANSWER. “Good mdrning, Farmer Farrow," said the old deacon, as he leaned over the fence to have a friendly flhat. “Moroin*, * deacon," nodded the- farmer. “How is that siek pig, this morn* mg 1” . “Oh, that’s gettln’ along right smart, I reckon,’’ the granger cheerfully re plied. “And how la the real of year folks T Continued ttadnsoon. -The farmer said nothing bqt down, picked qp aa over-: fired it rfjpll at t^e “There,” he exfliffine^; “by the ii a man iHp keep it tfirembe- “It's twenty years,” arid a lealer, “now since I began to bacoo, and in that time I have studied the character of my forming my oon clarions from the Mad of company they keep. I mean by dm kind of cigars they smoke, I oaa always tell. An even-tempered, quiet fallow never goes to an extreme in choosing * tobacco; a nervous man wants something strong and furious; a mild man,some thing that smokes and nothing, More. Then there is a great deal in ftaway men handle their cigars. If a smokes hie eigar only enough 1 lighted, and relishes taki tween hia llpe to east a wH^Pf omfi eg bine smoke into the air, seT as an easy going fellow, who for how the world goes and no himself. He has keen perceptions and delicate sensibilities. He will not areata trouble, bnt is apt to mi H ont it is onoe begun. Bewaeq «( ihe who never releaees the cigar bom the grip of his teeth, and ia indifferent of whether it bnpu or diet. He fa eoqL calculating, and exacting. He fa seldqjp energetic, physically, bnt litre “ * 1 hose who perform the labor. A who smokea a bit, noli a bit, and hies the eigarmgre or fare, fa apMnta easily affected by irirmmntsnnea. He may be energetic, oaretah generoae,and courageons, bnt ta ja vacillating and liable to change on a moment’s netioa. If tbe cigar gore oat frequently th* man lias awhole-sonled disposition, fa adevfl- may-care sort of fellow, with a Hvalj brain and a glib tongue, and generally a fine fond of aneodotee and yarna. To bold half of tbe cigar in the month red smoke indifferently fa a lazy man's tabB. They arq geneaally of tittle fores, and their characters are not of the highest strata. A nervous man, or ooe gwdor exciting inflnenoea, fumbles hk eigar a ^ great deal. He fa a kind of popinjay among men. Holding ths cigar con stantly between the teeth, chewing fa occasionally, and hot earing whether or notit has beeq lighted at all, are char acteristics of men with tho tenacity of logs. They never forget anything, a hold, fta fop release end afver stands his pcrieaoedsmol * or almas# coarse. "—Chicago Dirt Baton “Y<m my they ate dirt eaten?” “Yea, air; and I mean it to itsMteral To* know the French I Macroix, who fxploeed the the River Amazon, found a tribe of 1 diuns so infernally eaten np all the fonr-fodled aatmafa 6 their reach, including phnpfa and i k*rs,*nakre and reantx live solely a There Ottoman tiM is high and 1 of nnotnoo* clay of a 1 be finds upon bank* of soft to the touch, like petty, natural state it fa of a color, bnt whan tali fire it assumes a i the ootid* of Iron thit i “Js It nourishing ?” “Nette ttalonat. Iti produce* a satiety and, pangs of banger. I have chemist* and medi analyzed the little 1 roil H to afore awfy that it nothing nonriahtog, simply alumina, with 8 or 4' He calls there taffs them np into Title" ] cannon balb are] ball ia three or j When: ereitbyj a day. eating habit wbieh craving for iL Ido' habit ia confined exclusively i tomaos, but believe tfafa it i known among the Indfana of I I have heard of a poor ale living in North Omolina vta, ‘ by hanger, eat the mad daab- that hide the ehtokato their eabfaa." —Cincinnati Enquirer, A Detrrsriaed A California tan, while gaged with tar brood of diately established roond tar flock ai elaaght, whereupon tho rat, obecked by ths bold front preaantsd 1 hia antagonist, awatafi * and then mege a dart chicks. In an instant the old tan < her cackle battery tie. She flew aths him with tarMfl,{_ back and threw him to rat mom down with a I walk, hat before ta feet the hen repealed and kept it np until ahto to smwi away n in dfagraea. After fallen foa far a few hqn called her brood fr walked s*. them ’ere aoeda oti o’ yor tat ‘“‘“"tgjWk Utmjmv-fht % Death bat fret pot lageof Bofa ' of * ■ jt.