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VOL VII. NO. 12. BARNWELL, C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1883.
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THE SKEIN WE WIND.
tf yoaaadl, to-day
Bhovld atop aad lay
Oar Ufa work down, aad lat our bauds fall
whore thsy win-
fall down to Ue quite etiU—
Aad if aone other hand ehould come aad
atooptotad
The threads wo carried, so that it could wind
Beginaiaf where we stopped; if it shonld
some to keep
Our life work going, seek
Tq carry on the goou design,
Distinctirely made yours or mine,
What would it find ?
Some work we mnst be doing, true or false;
Some threads we wind; some purpose so exalts
Itself that we look np to It, or down,
As to a crown
To bow before, and we wears threads
Of different length and thickness—souse more
shreds—
And wind them round
TUI all the skein of life is bound,
Bemetimee forgetting at the time
To ask
The ralue of the threads, or choose
Strong stuff to use. >
ft
No hand but winds some thread;
It cannot stand quite stilt tin it is dead
But what it spins and winds a little skein.
God made each hand for work—not toil-stain
Is required, but eeery band
Spins, though but ropes of sand.
If lore should come,
Stooping above when wo are done,
To And bright threads
That we hare held, that it may spin them
longer—find but shreds
That break when tonched-rhow cold,
Sad, shirering, portionless, tbe hand will bold
The broken strands, and know
_>_.r Fresh cause for more.
—Hatolayf.
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The "Wish. Ring.
A young fanner who waa rery unlucky'
ant on kia plow a moment to reet, and
jnat then an old woman crept paat and
cried: “Whydo you goon drudging day
and night without reward ? Walk two
days till yon come to a great fir-tree that
etands air alone in the forcet and orer-
topa all other tree*. If yon can hew it
down, you will make your fortune. ”
Not waiting lo hare the adriee re
peated, the farmer ahonldered his ax and
atarted on big jonruey. Bare enough,
after tram {ring two days, he came to the
fir-tree, whieh he instantly prepared to
cut down. Just as the tree swayed, and
before it fell with a crash, there dropped
out of its branches a neat containing
two eggs. The eggs rolled to the ground
and broke, and there darted out of one
a young eagle and out of the other
rolled a gold ring. -The eagle grew
larger, as if by enchantment, and when
it reached the sixe of a man, it spread
its wings a# if to try their strength,
then, soaring upward, it cried: .
“Ion hare rescued me; take as a re
ward the ting that lay in the other egg;
it is a wiah-ring. Turn it on your finger
twbe, and whatever your wish m, it
shall be fnlfilied. Bat remember there
is but a tingle with in the ring. No
sooner is that granted than it loses its
power sod Is only an ordinary ring.
Therefore, consider well what yon desire,
so that you may never hare reason to re
pent jour choice.” Bo speaking, the
eagle soared high in the air, circled over
the farmer’s head a few timei, then
darted, like an arrow, toward the east
The farmer took the ring, placed it on
kia finger, and turned on hie waj home
ward. Toward evening, he reached a
town where a jeweler eat in his shop be
hind a counter on which laj manj oostlj
rings for sale. The fanner showed his
own, and asked the merchant its value.
"It isn’t worth a straw,” the jeweler
answered.
Upon that, the farmer laughed very
heartily, and told the man that it was a
wiah-ring, and of greater value than all
the rings In the shop together.
The jeweler was a wicked, designing
man, and so be Invited the fanner to re
main ae his guest over night, “For,”
he explained, “onlj to shelter a man"
who owns a wish-ring mnst bring lock.”
So he treated his guest to wine aad
fair words; and that night, as the farmer
laj sound asleep, the wicked man stole
the magic ring from him finger, and
slipped on, in its place, a common one
which he had made to reeemble the
wiah-ring.
The next morning the jeweler wae all
impathaoe to here the farmar begone.
He akrpkened him at eoek-orow, and
■aid: “Ton bed better go, for jon here
atOl e long journey before you.”
As soon as the farmer had departed
the jeweler eloeed his shop, pat up the
■butters, so that no one could peep in,
bolted the doer behind him, and, stand
ing in the middle of the room, he turned
the ring and oried: “I wish instantly to
poesssa a mfilion gold pieeea 1”
No sooner said than the greet, shining
gold pieces came pouring down upon
him in a golden torrent over hie head,
■honldsw and arms. Pitifully he oried
for mecej, aad triad to reach and unbar
the door, hat before he moeseded he
landfall bleeding to the ground.
AslorfkecoUanrein.it
tfll
fie l|e cellar. The goU still
kfffl the refltton wee oom-
jewelep laj deed in the
hoofter, alarmed the
toree
kill.” Afterward, the heirs came and
divided the property.
In the meantime the farmer reached
home in high spirits and showed the ring
to his wife,
- “Henceforth we shall never more be
in want, deer wife,” he said. “Our for
tune is made. Only we must be very
careful to consider well just what we
ought to wish.”
The farmer’s wife, of course, proffered
advice. “Suppose,” said she, “that we
,vish for that bit of land that lies be
tween our two fields?”
“That isn’t worth while,” her hnsbaud
replied. “If we work hard for a year
we’ll earn enough money to buy it. ! ’
So the two worked very hard, and arf
harvest time they had never raised such
a crop before. They hod earned money
enough to buy the coveted strip of land
and still have a bit to spare. “See.’’
said the man, “we have the land and the
wish as well.” t-
The farmer’s wife then suggested that
they had better wish for a cow and a
Horse. ' Hut the man replied^- “Wife
why waste our wish on such trifles? The
horse and oow we’ll get anyway.”
Sore enough, in • year’s time the
money for the horse and cow had been
earned. Joyfnlly the man rubbed bin
hands. “The wish is saved again this
year, and yet we have wiiat we desire.
How lucky we are !”.
But now lux wife serionsly adjured
him to wish for something at last. “Now
that you have a wish to be granted,” she
•aid, “you slave and toil, and are-con
tent with everything. You might be
king, emperor, boron, even a gentleman
farmer, with chests overflowing with
gold; but yon don’t know what yon
want”
“We are yonng, and life is long,” he
answered. “There is only one wish hi
the riqg, and that is easily said. Who
knows but some time we may sorely
need this wish ? Are wo in want of any-
tiling ? Havb we not prospered, to all
people’s astonishment, since we pos
sessed this ring? Be reasonable and
patient for a while. In the meantime,
consider what we really ought to wish
for.”
And that was the end of the matter.
It really seemed as if the ring liad
brought a blessing into the house.
Granaries and barns were filled to over
flowing, and in the course of a few
^rears the poor farmer became a rich and
portly perron, who worked with hia men
afield‘during the day, as if he, too, had
to earn his doily bread; lint after sup
per he liked to sit in his porch, con
tented and comfortable, and return the
kindly greeting of the folk who passed
and who wished him a respectful good
evening.
Bo the years went by. Sometimes,-
when they were alone, the former’s wife
would remind her haslmnd of the magic
ring, and suggest many plans. Bnt as
he always answered that they had
plenty of time, and that the best
WESTERN ROMANCE
AN OFFICER HE1.IJI HIM CHII.O TO
MATE HIMMBI.F FllO.1I OIMOBUE.
A DecrarfeS Mather’a aieetlac With Her
Only Child.
While talking over the good old times
of Fort Concho with one of the first set
tlers, says a newspaper correspondent,
I learned a romance that is inseparably
connected with the history of the place.
“What became of old Buffalo Jo?” I
asked.
L '8he»deajl, also,” he answered, and
tfeen added: “It was sadly pathetic.”
I pricked up my ears and bent closer.
“I knew Buffalo Jo,” he said, “away
back in the fifties, when she first come
to Fort Concho. You remember her
only as a hardened woman, steeped in
vice. I saw her when she was a fresh-
faced, modest girl. You know that she
was a woman of great intelligence. She
was as refined and gentle as she was
learned. Her father was old Colonel
Debo, and in the happy days when she
presided at the head of her father’s
house was, as Miss Josephine Debo, Hie
acknowledged belle of the pod. I think
she was about seventeen when she lliul
met Major Doyle. Ho was nearly forty,
a man disliked by his brother officers
and hated by the common soldiers. He
w’as crnel and tyrannical, mean, selfish
and. revengeful,. I tfon’t know at the
time what subtle influence he -exerted
over that gen He girl, but auy way (ho
whole post was very much surprised
when it became known that they were
to be married.
“In those days the oflicers played for
heavy stakes, and it came out alter old
Colonel Debo's death—he dietl abont a
mouth after the wedding and while Un
couple were spending their honeymoon
in the States—that he had lost thousands
of dollars to Major Doyle, and to save
himself from disgrace hail sold his pure
and innocent daughter, body and soul,
to a mau who had no mercy.
“Cue day the Major, returning sud
denly from a scout after Indians, found
a handsome lieutenant in company with
his wife. Hot words passed between the
two men and the lieutenant struck his
superior officer. The latter, mud with
passion, drew his pistol and laid the
young man at his feet dead. It was then
that his wife’s long slumbering passion
was aroused. She threw herself on the
!>ody of her murdered lover with pierc
ing screams, and when the major at
tempted to raise her she shrank from
him with loathing.
_ “ ‘I hate you !’ she cried, and her .eyes
blazed. ' ‘I hate you—I have always
hated you T You bought me, and for
love of my poor faj^er and tu-save him
from ruin and disgrace I consented to
the sacrifice. Yon have murdered the
only man I ever loved;—Henceforth I
home. She drank no more whisky that
day, and about midnight the post snr-
econ was called in to attend her. She
was violently 111 and sinking very mind
ly. . After examining her case very criti
cally the surgeon declared that all hope
of her recovery was past.
“ ‘She will die before morning,’ he
said.
“ ‘What’s that?’ cried Jo, starting np.
‘Leave the room, all of yon,’ she cried.
‘I have something to say to the doctor.’
“The crowd filed slowly out and the
dying woman held a few minutes’ whin
pored conversation with the doctor. At
its close he hurried to the post and Jc
sank back on the bed exhausted. Wheifc
the doctor returned he was accompanied
by Milfuie Doyle, and when they entered
the room Jo started up with a glad cry.
“ ‘Minnie! My daughter 1’ she cried
and held out her arms.
“ ‘Mother !’ answered the girl through
her tears, and, springing forward, clasped
the wretched creature in her arms.
“ ‘Thank God !’ whispered Jo, faintly,
and with a new and almost beatific light
shining in her eyes fell back dead.”
An Arizona Cloudburst.
many as
waa very
ring, and twirled it about as
twenty times a day; bnt *he
careful never to wish. —
After thirty or forty years had passed
swxy. snd tfigtafmer and his wife had
grown old and .white-haired, and their
wish was still unasked, then was God
rery good to them, and on the same
night they died peacefully and happily.
Weeping children and grandchildren
surrounded the two coffins; and as one
wished to remove the ring from the still
hand as a remembrance, the oldest sou
■aid: “Let our father take his ring into
the grave. Thaw was always a mystery
■boat it; perhaps it waa some dear re
membrance. Our mother, too, so often
looked at the ring—she may have given
it to him when they were yonng.”
- So the old farmer was buried with the
ring, which had been supposed to be a
wish-ring, and was not; yet it brought
as mnch good fortune into the house os
heart could desire—St. Nicholat for
October.
go my way and you go yours.’
“Colonel Doyle was court-martialled
for the shooting, but the commission ex-
thoughts come last, she more aud more
rarely mentioned the ring, and at last
the good woman ceased speaking of it
altogether.
To be sure, the farmer lookedTt fSef 01 *”** 0 * 1 !
separation Colonel Doyle was transferred
to a post in one of the northern Terri
tories acd husband and wife never met
Ag*in. Mrs. Doyle remained at the
peat-, and to drown sorrow she began to
drink. She Install her modesty and in
the rough life she led on the rifle range
all traces of tender womanhood disap
peared. It was while on the range
where, as you know, she did her share
of the killing, skinning and rendering
with llu rest of - man, that she ac
quired the name of Buffalo Jo, by which
she was known down to the day of her
death. She would hunt ail day ami
gamble all night.
“Doyle died in the spring of 1880, and
Jo disappeared shortly after the newt
reached ns. She did not turn up at the
post again until after the Victoria raid
in the fall of 1880. One day she came
in on the overland aud was swaggering
along, when three young girls passed
her. Two of them were officers’ daugh
ters and the third a friend who was pay
ring them a visit. Jo leered at them hor
ribly and the three girls turned and rail,
•creaming with fright Jo followed
them, yelling wildly.
“During the chase she tripped and
fell, catting a deep gash in her head on
s sharp stone. She lay there speechless
and without motion. The two oflicers’
daughters continued their flight, but
their companion retraced her steps and
knelt beside the prostrate woman. She
wiped away the blood with her dainh
handkerchief and laid her soft whit,
hand on the depraved woman's face.
“ ‘Thankee,’ she said, and wonld have
passed on, bat the girl detained her.
“ ‘I am very sorry that it occurred
and I would like to do. something for you
—that is, if you will let me.’
“ ‘Wbat’s your name ?’ was Jo’s ques
tion. ^
V ‘Minnie Doyle,’ was the answer.
“She did not notice the snddqn look
of pain which shot across Jo’s fad*, and
she failed to hear the ooiivnlsive sob
which rose to the fallen woman’s lips.
“ 'Minnie Doyle!’ repeated Jo me
chanically, and then paused. ‘Will you
tire me?’ ~
“ ‘Tea,’ was the brave answer, and the
yonng lips, as yet unstained and unpol
luted, were upraked and just touched
Jo’s swollen and repnisive mouth.
“The gitl repressed a shudder and Jo
turned abruptly away and walked straight
to tiio UttU iaoal whoro sho her
NO BELIEF THEBE.
The Chairman of the Committee on
the Sick, of the Lime-Kiln Club, reported
that Brother Wholesale Baker, a local
member, waa confined to hia house
with sickness, and had asked for relief.
The committee had paid him a visit of
inspection and had found his feet cold,
his syss set back and his mind wander-
ing. As near as they could leant from
Us wife he had been taken with a chill
while buying a. squash for seven cents
at a grocery.
“ De committee needn’t bvdder ober
de ease any longer.” replied the Presi
dent “ I happened to be up on Gratiot
avenue de odder daj when Bradder
Baker bet half a d< liar dat he could eat
thirty hard-biled Aigs in eleven minits.
I doan know whed. r he lost or won, bnt
his eyes kin stay sot and bis mind kin
wander all ober de kintry fur all de aid
he wilj receive from us.”—Detroit Free
A ooLLEoroB ot a gas company pre
sented a hill for payment the other day
aad was met with the response: “Are
joe sure this bill is fight? I mnst have
burned more gas than that.” The col
lector tamed white with jear, and hast-
Hy making his way down stairs told a
polieemaa that a maniac was n£ hi. tbs
third story and something had better be
Done About it right away, *
The Tucson Ci'iztn says: Ou Sunday
Judge It. D. Ferguson was returning
from a trip to Hie nouthern part of the
county. At 10 o’clock he put up at
Brown’s Station, to await dinner and
avoid the heat of the day. The sky was
cl udless, except a thunder storm that
was observed traveling the summits ol
Santa Cstalinas and disappearing over
the Rincons in the northeast. Other
wise not a cloud or a vapor was to he
seen.
At 3 o’clock Judge Fergasou resumed
his journey toward Tucson. He had
come about five miles when his attention
w m attract©.! by a roaring and crackling
toward the west, sad looking up he saw
a river of water as big as the Santa
Cruz when it runs through Warner’s mill
tail race, aud coming toward him. Tell
ing his driver to halt, they stopped ou
top of a little knoll and watched the
waters as they violently plowed the
desert, tearing up stones and brush.
They had evidently spent their force.
After the flood had passed by, the face
of the country was disfigured, and n
large gutter had been cut across the val
ley. The current came down off a small
range of low, rolling hills to the west
Although the judge and his companion
strained their eyes in the direction from
which the water came, not a cloud whs
to be seen. ---
After the water had subsided suf
ficiently to let them pass, they went on.
They had hardly gone half a mile when,
to their utter astonishment, here was
another stream equally as largo as the
first one. Again they i>eered toward the
west, as if in hopes to find-some indica
tion of its source. Passing on their as
tonishment was doubled to find another
stream, and in this manner fivp succes
sive raging currents were crossed,
ail their reserve waa called forth when,
four miles from where they struck the
lfi^'%ffoam r -iKey 'discovered a sixth
one, os large ns all the others com-
An officer on board the British schooner
U.ndine, employed in suppressing the
slave trade in Mozambique channel,
writing under date of July 16, says:
We are having a lively time, I can as-
But,-sure yov, with one hundred and three
poor, miserable, half-starved wretches
m—hoaid. .fjiglilff otlhem women and
bined. Its WgFy ~WhT^~ were~waving
and hissing, as if maddened at the re
sistance they met on their way from the
hills down to thp desert. This river
was uufordable, anil to cross it was im
possible, so they halted ou a knoll, and
watched it for two or thtfifiJhoura ns it
boiled and sizzed and cut a bed for it
self, in some places os deep as 15 feet
and over 200 yards wide. It was not
till after sundown that they dared to at.
" What renders it so curious is that no
one at Brown’s Station saw the clouds.
It may be possible that some hidden
springs were uncorked by eome earth
quake/
The Rat.
A woman in Hong Kong, who bears
the nickname of “The Great Rat,” was
arrested for kidnapping not long ago.
The Chinese populace, hearing that
“The Great Rat” was at last caught,
mistook the meaning of the phrase, and
thought that a veritable rat was meant.
In consequence the court and its en
trances were crowded with a largo mul
titude of people eager to see the mon
strosity. When it was explained that a
woman was meant, they were incrodo-
lons, and the police had hard work to
disperse them.
A “ Retainer” Explained.
The following aneodote ia related w
Daniel Webster:
“When Webster waa at the zenith of
his career one day a gentleman waited
upon him to engage him for the defense
in an important case at law—the amount
at stake in the salt being f80,000. Hav
ing stated the case from his point of
view Mr. Webster said he waa willing
to take jt; but the client could not tell
exactly when the case would come on.
“ ‘Very well,’ said Webster, ‘if yon
retain me for the defense I will hold my
self in readiness and not engage for the
plaintiff.’
“The gentleman asked what the re
taining fee would be.
“ ‘A thonsand dollar^ * . *
“ ‘A thousand dollars?* exclaimed
the gentleman.
“ ‘Yes. Only think for a moment
what I engage to do, sir. I do not only
hold myself at your service in the mat
ter, perhaps for a mouth or more, but I
debar myself from accepting any offer,
no matter how large, from the plaintiff. ’
“The applicant was satisfied with the
explanation, wrote out a check for the
amount and gave it to ihe great ex-
pomuler, who, after he had put it in hi
|)oeket said: ‘I will now give you a bit
of advice, gratis. If you- can oompro-
mbe this business upon fair terms with
the plaintiff yon had lietter do so.’
“The client acknowledged his thanks
ami took his leave; In a few days after
the gentleman called upon Mr.- Webster
agaimund told-him that a compromise
had effected, and the matter was
jteljkfactot ily settled. Mr. Webster duly
congratulated his visitor on the result,
and would have turned to other business,
but the visitor seemed to have some
thing further on his mind.
“ ‘Of course,’ he ventured, after n
pause, ‘I shall not require your services,
Mi*. Webster.’ v.
“ ‘Certainly not, sir,’
“ ‘And—and h<5w about the $1,000 I
paid you?’ faintly asked the gentleman,
who was not quite reconciled to paying
such a snm for services which went
never to be rendered.
“ ‘Oh, ah !’ responded Daniel, with a
bland smile, ‘yon don’t seem to under-
itaud. It is very simple. That was n
■etaiuing fee, called in law a retainer.
By virtue of that contract, I also lie-
cbmo a retainer. What should I retain,
if not my fee?’
“The gentleman went away, it uTsaid,
horoughly instructed, if not quite sat-
sfied, with this practical illustration o'
i ‘retainer.’ ”
The African Slave Trade.
OLD-TIME DIVERS.
Haw
MMK«el Mmu I .mi HU
Walrria* BrMs*.
Mia mu
In view of the recent tragic death of
Captain Webb, the following, published
in the Ixmdon Telegraph, June 10,
1879, may be of interest:—
“A more appalling leap than waa taken
successfully in 1829 by Sam Patch has
lately been made by a Canadian named
Harmon Peer, from one of the £wo ana-
l>ension bridges which spans the gulf
into which the Niagara falls, * * •
At the same time it is impossible to
deny that American divers have hereto
fore prepared ns for the possibility of
descending with safety into the water
from great heights, and there are many
still living in this metropolis who can
remember the feats performed in 1841
by an American swimmer named Scott,
who was in the habit of diving from
Waterloo bridge into the Thames—a fall
of about 40 feet. Scott had accustomed
himself to go throngh many fantastic
tricks before throwing himself into the
river, and for this purpose be had caused
a scaffolding to be erected immediately
over the second arch of Waterloo bridge,
ou the Somerset Home side.
’ “la order to increase the sensational
features ol his Exhibition, Scott was in
tlie habit of thrusting his neck into the
noose of the rope, and suspending him
self after the manner of a man who is
being hanged by the neck. On thelltb
of January, 1841, he ascended the scaf.
fold as usual, and seizing the rope,
placed it around his neck, exclaiming at
the top of his voice, ‘Now, I’ll show yon
once more how to dance upon air before
I dive.’ With hia head in the rnnning
noose he let himself down to the ex
tremity of the rape, and hang there for
three or four mjnntes. One of the spec-
tntevs, who was intimate with the ex
hibitor, shouted out that his friend had
hanged himself in reality, and • loud
cry of ‘Cut him down’ ascended from
the errwd. Some momenta elapsed be-
fern a knife WM forthcoming,* and when
the unfortunate man WM reached, it waa
/<mnd that animation waa suspended, ^
“He was carried with all possible
speed to Oharing Grom Hospital, and,
although life was not entirely extinct,
the ntmoat efforts of the surgeon in at
tendance were nnable to save him. The
jugular vein was opened and he was
placed in a warm bath, but before many
minutes had passed it wss discovered
that he was dead. Since that day Lou-
ilonere have seen other divers throw
themselves safely from the bridgeu of
our metropolitan river anc} pff the mast
heads of vessels moored in the stream,
but no snch leap as those taken by Baa
Fatok and Hannon Peer have ever been
attempted in this country.”
Not exactly—For the last fortnight a
band of seven or eight Bohemian musi
cians have been discoursing music from
their horns and taking up street collec
tions. Yesterday morning they were np
Cass avenae, and as they finished play
ing a tone in front of a residence the
owner came ont on the steps and said:
“Gentlemen, I thank you for this testi
monial of respect. It has always been
.” At this juncture a chamber win
dow was opened, and the wife looked out
and called: “Hnsbaud, don’t you know
anything ! That’s « street band playing
for money I” “Ah! eh 1 Well, they
don’t get g cent out of me—not one
blessed copper 1” growled the statesman
a* he backed out of sight.—Defroif
SWe Prft*.
It la eertsin cither that wise bearing
or ignorant carriage ia caught as men
take diseases one of another; therefore,
let then take heed of their company.
children, and for the most part children
from eighteen months-to ten years old,
and one only four days old. The
dhow that they came to Johanna in
was sixty-three tons, so they were
packed like sardines. She was oanght
by our boat that was left behind for
ninety-six days, and I am sorry to say
that one of our poor fellows died of
fever in her. These slaves were kid
napped alxmt two hundred miles sooth
of Mozambique, brought down to the
coast, , and shipped off to Johanna as a
speculation, as the sugar crop is jnst
coming on. Some of the children have
l>een taken care of by the women. Two
little chape the men look after, are
-housed in a biscuit box, and they cry
lustily if takeu out of it. They eat all
day mid nearly all night. One old wo-
mau became insane after she was taken
ont of the dhow, and she has a baby
with her. The poor old woman ia tied
down to prevent her going overboard in
a fit, of which she has had several
Every morning all are stripped and the
fire hose played on them indiscrimi
nately, and don’t they want it 1 The
smell is something too bad to be talked
about. Luckily we have beantiful
weather this trip, and a strong, fair
wind. Some wonld be certain to die if
we had a spell of bad weather, as we
have only the npper deck for them to
lie on. The night we took them on
board they were so cramped and weak
that only about twenty could walk. The
rest were passed in one after the other,
and then stowed in rows for the night.
One hundred and twenty pounds of rice,
treacle, and sweet potatoes were cooked
at onoe. When they saw it they went
hands and feet into it, and fought and
bit, and each did everything that could
be done to get a little more than another.
Tt was really a most distressing sight
We shonld, I think, capture three times
as many if we had some more boats and
a steam cutter, as there is not a shadow
of doubt that large numbers are run
here every year, aud especially about
this time.—Pall Mall Gatclle.
If yon are passionate and irritable you
moat get a good grip cm yourself or you
will pretty soon run away with yourself
and break something.
To speak, bnt saj nothing,
three people out of four to
they think.
for
all
CONTEMPT OF OOUBT.
In the days gone bj a citizen of Detroit
who has lately beengathered tohis fathers
waa a Justice of the Peace fw one of the
townships of this county. One day as-
Le sat Th his offioe with nothing to do a
friend came along with a young hone.
The Sqnar’ waa somewhat conceited on
the hone question, and when informed
that the equine before him wonld let no
man rids him he at once determined to
accomplish the feat. A crowd gathered,
saddle waa brought, and hia Honor
presently found himself astride of the
beast The nett thing ha knew he was
lying in a muddy ditch, and a dozen
men were laughing to kill
“I declare this court in session!”
yelled hia Honor as-he atruggtad i
At this there was a fresh bunt of
laughter, and he con tinned:
“And each and every one of yon is
lined $3 for contempt of court!”
They laughed harder than ever, bnt
the fines were recorded and collected;
and- for yean after it wae understood
ibat court waa in session except when
the Sqnar’ was in bed and asleep.—Z>e-
troit Free Free*.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tm mill nr Dalton, Mam., in
which the paper for the United States
paper currency ia made, is described by
the Boston Herald: “Eighteen of
twenty Treasury girls, who earn $8 a
day, count the sheets, examining each
one closely and rejecting all imperfect
ones. An automatic register at the end ’
of the machine registers every sheet m
it ia cat off and laid down. The register
man takes them away in even hundreds
and they are immediately counted in the
drying-room. In all the various pro
cesses of finishing every sheet ia
counted, and they are again counted on
their receipt at the Treasury Depart
ment in Washington. The great pro
tection of the Government against
counterfeiting lies in the paper here
made. The distinctive feature ia the in
troduction of colored silk threads into
the body of the paper while it is in the
process of manufacture. They are in
troduced while tbs paper is in the pulp,
and are carried along with it to the end
of the machine, where it is delivered ae
actual paper. This has been more fatal
than anything eloe to the profeMional
counterfeiter*.”
A member of a maxiYactusixo firm
that employs five hundred men told the
Senate investigating committee that the
knowledge he poaaeaaed he got ly read
ing the newspapers, and not from hooks,
and that by reading the papers he kept
himself informed on the literature
and current events of the day.
Thousands of other prOnfinent bus
iness men would make the
acknowledgment if questioned on the
subject. The tendency of all literatnre
is toward expansion, so the most iadus-
triooa reader of books can scarcely in a
lifetime ’become well informed; neuu-
papere, ou the contrary, condense nearly
every thing into aa few words m possi
ble. Were a student to attempt to give
the political, social, religion and literary
history of the world for a day he might
do it in far more elegant style than the
newspapers, but his story would oooupy
ft»je*4er’» time for at least a week.
The newapcittF iff true Ameri
can university.
\
Gelt biohtkun HuxoRSDOopieBof the
new pension lists are to be printed, and
the sheets are now under look and key
to prevent the pennon claim agents from
obtaining copies ifi advance, so that they
may not deleft the pensioners with
their circulars. It isdifficnlt to see how
these hats can prevent fraud, as they
will have but very Untiled Circulation
The New York Harold very sensibly sag-
grete that it would have been far batter
to provide for publiahiog at stated in
tervals, in at least one paper in aaob
county of the country, a list of all who,
residing in that county, were drawing
pensions. The coat of this pnbtioatioa
would have been less then that ot print
ing the books, aad would mors satisfac
torily have accomplished the end qpoght
for.
A W
aoMuranro was non.
In the last days of the war, a oitisen
of Indiana made his way to Boston and
had an interview with a former acquain
tance, who hid left his Hoosier home for
the “Hub” and goirioh.
“Daniel, the war ia coming to a dose
and I haven't made a dollar out of it.”
“Is that possible ? Didn’t you have
any scrub hogs or lean cattle to sell ?”
“No,” ’
“No baled hay for the army?”
“Not a pound. ”
' “Can’t you get a contract for supply
ing the army with something or other?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Got a farm, naven’t you ?”
- “Yes, but it’s almost aT lake.”
“Lake? Hurrah ! you’re saved!
.lever mind an army contract 1 -Come
with me to a map publisher, and before
twenty-four hours have passed we shall
have organized the ‘Great Inland Navi
gation Company,’ sleeted yon ae Presi
dent, and I will have the stock on the
market! All we want ia a map of the
lake and a cat of a steamboat going
fourteen miles an Hour I Saved served
—where’s my hatf’— Wall Street Newt.
uxchahob celia how the
‘Sunset” became attached
to the name of Congressman Samuel H.
Cox, of New York. At the time the dis
tinguished gentleman waa a-writerenn
Columbus (Ohio) paper. It wae late in
the afternoon, end the eon wee just
dipping below the horizon. Suddenly
Oox rushed into the room. “Boys,” he
said, “did you ever see that sunset?
It’s the most beautiful thing I ever
the proof press end!
poring stone, he wrote the
picture that gave him the life-long
sobriquet of “Sunset” Ook. The article
was taken by the compositors and put
in type piece by piece, and it appeared
in the next number of the neper. From
that day it waa “Sunset” Cox.
Tn DAILY fafAs nux mas tub largest
circulation in the world ia the Petit
Journal, of Park, a small sheet about
half the sise of the Now York Sun, Its
circulation, whieh is more than half a
million copies daily, extends all over
France. The amount of news that it
gives ia very limited, and tie editorial
articles are mere paragraphs, and taw at
that; but they axe pointed and senribie.
U publishes daily a portion of aa orig
inal romance, aad one ia sore to find in
its pages a complete report, sent often
by telegraph and at coosidarabie ex
pense, of the most interesting criminal
trial that ia going on in the ooontryr
In the death of * Boar Admiral
Joshua R. Banda, whieh occurred lately,
one of the few links that have united
the personnel of the navy of to-day
with that of the last
Britain ia broken. A native of
York, he was appointed aa sating
attipman on the 18th of Jane, If
that hia connection with the
tended throngh more than
years. The name of Admiral I
for yean headed the retired i
list, and has recalled by “
pended to it th# era of
PaAonciNe.—Incited by Buflrio Bill’s
exhibitions, Willie Crump, of ~
Pa., practiced with thOkeso.
caught aa empty oar sf n pm
tram, and as the rops was
hia body he wee dragged until, lorta-
^telj^therope oanght ^
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