The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, December 13, 1883, Image 4
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rj» DEPOT A T SClIEyECTAD Y.
rtohhiiJhbvoV primer»l. It* (hirerthg
board* and it* framrwork,
Yellow with auAin farmrul* liegrtmed, jret
distinct in the twilight.
Stand like • tramp at old, with croaking* muI
and asthmatic;
Stand a* a toper doth xtand, with tromhling tor
want of a E'aiuifnl;
4 Load it their great exultation the deep-Toired ‘
neighboriug cities
Speak, and In (Ooent* aarcastic derideSchcuec-
tady’* depot.
Thi* is the depot pritnevsl ; bnt where arc Uie
hearti Miat beneath it
Leaped like the roc, as they beard the toot ot
' ’ Ha engine ?
Wheie are the gablc-roofod house s, Die olden
home* of the Dntchmen?
Men who«e live* glided on like trains on the
track of the Central,
Glirl<d like steam car* iin|w llod by the genii of
railroads
Waste arc those pleasant bonu s anti the Dutch
men forever departed!
Scattered, a* are the pledged word* of the rail
road chief* of the Central—
(Promued, writ down, torn up, and toned in
the dr*place).
Naught bat the depot remain* of the gable-
e roofed eitr of Dorp.
Still elands the depot primers!; but under the
■hade of it* doorways
l‘*s*ee a new generation, with new-fashioned
bonnets and hat* on.
Only a few of the Dutchmen remain, and oft-
times they gather
And speak of the ghost* of the promises tha’
nightly stalk through this building.
In the baggageman's room the sumrliers and
checkers still labor;
The agent* of ticket* still smile from out their
old quarters;
Maidene and men still meet and part'neath
Me arches.
flaring and wondering, and ofttime* telling its
•lory,
While in their great exnltatlnn the deep-voiced
neighboring cites
Bpeak, and in accents sarcastic, deride Schenec
tady’s depot. S. M. II.
LITTLE FRECKLE FACE.
Nearly everybody in the neip;lil>nrliood
tlrepiacd Littlo Freckle Face. Hho was
vicious and (liaiionent. Whenever any
depredation waa committed, or any tri
fling article leftont of doors was iniflaiiig,
Little Freekle Face was at onco sus
pected. No one know her right name.
She waa found on the roadside after n
pary of immigrants had passed along.
When asked concerning her name, she
made some childish reply which no one
could nnderatautL A poor blacksmith
took her home with Hm, and partly ow
ing to hie limited rosowrees—having lieen
hard mu in iiiuiiug n«ni< s eulhciont for
hia own children—and partly on aeconnt
of the innumerable freckles which the
child wore like a speckled mask, she was
called Little Fn“okle Face. The black
smith'a wife, at whose instance the waif
had fonnd a home, sneh ns it was, soon
died and her own children were taken
by numerous relatives leaving Littlo
Freekle Face with the “son of the
forgo.” He parted from his children
Without regret, and ho would gladly
have given up Little Freekle Face, but
no one who was willing to take her could
be found. F noared for and never more
than half-clothed, the child grew to be
eight or nine years old. 8ho was sent
tAuchool, but she was soon driven away
on account of the sad. havoc she rroat(>d
among the dinner bucket*. This was
borne with until the teacher found his
turnip greens lfl>erally sprinkled with
sand. Ho knew immediately who had
committed the outrage, and declaring
that ho oonld stand great imposition,-
but that no one, male or female, could
receive instruction from him after
“tampering” with his greens, a dish of
which he was particularly fond, com
manded Littlo Freckle Face to go away
and never to come bock again.
Tbare waa but one human l>ebig for
whom Little Freckle-Faco had any love,
and that was a very small boy in short
dresses, the son of the school master.
She would stand for hours at the yard
fence and amuse him, bat she was not
allowed to cross the fence, and even any
oommonioation whatever with the £ttlc
fellow was forbidden.
“I want yon to go away from bercand
leave say child alone," said the school
master, one day when ho came home
from school and found Little Freckle
Face at the fence.
"Mister, I won’t hurt him,” she said,
“But I don't want you to talk to him.
feu are too bad.”
“I ain’t bad to him. I love him.”
"‘And another thing I want you to
understand, X don't want you to steal any
more frnit and bring it hero to him. Go
on away now, and if I catch yon poking
around my house again I shall he se
riously tempted to whip you."
She turned away, weeping, and catch
ing np a stone she was about to throw it
at the school-master, but suddenly drop
ping it the said :
“If I wasn’t afraid of hitting Willie
I’d throw it at you. Yon are as mean as
a dog, that's what yon are. How can I
be good like everybody else, when I’m
picked on all the time ? I wish I was
dead."
“Never mind what you wish. Move
on away. 1 ’
Tha next day Little Freekle Face, de-
sjwte the threat of the school-master,
stood at the fence and began talking to
the boy who was playing, inside the
yard.
“West'sthat you’ve got?" she asked,
arid as the boy held up,a match she
added: ^
• '“Ob, throw that away. Jfou might
bprnyouraelf up with it.’*"'
Tha child huurhad and ulavfnliv struck
tils match on thenbottom of his shoe.
In a moment his little dress was on fire,
and with a shriek and a strange agility,
liMla Freekle Face climbed the fence,
seised the boy and tore his' clothes from
him, but her own clothing, a miserable
oottdta dress, took ftn » and in a moment
Severn! man sod the achool-maater, who
~ to be neor, raa to her aaeist-
They took her into
kid her on e bed. Her
■ «> tidfr burned could
1^4 ses, h«l when she heard, thetoboot-' humiliating rejoinder.
master speak, she raised hfw hands and
exolaimeu:
“Oh, you won’t whip me, will you ?”
“ No, my God I ” wae all the school
mauler could niter.
The doctor came, bnt he said that he
could not ba ef any service. “ She can
not live bnt a few hours," he said
"‘u'uL 1 f V r *>‘ ,r wool?-",, ,. *
w She lias no people, said some one.
“ She wo* fonnd on the roadside after an
immigrant wagon bad passed.”
" Whore ? ” asked tbs school-master.
“ A few miles from here She was too
young to toil her name. Wo afterward
heard that she waa ntolcn near Smith
field.” Tlio school-master and his wife
stared at eaeh other in speecldess horror.
“ Hlje w as fonnd years before you came
to the neighborhood. x Why, what is the
matter?” .
“ Great God," exclaimed the school
miTstcr, “she is my daughter. We al-
ways thoupbt she was drowned, bnt the
mystery is now explained. May the Lord
in heaven forgive—”
“ Is the little boy hurt?” asked the dy
ing girl.
“No, my darling,” said the school-
THE LIME-KILN' (MB. /
VORBW *r WUNROm VROMRARADINR
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master, while Ins wile with a’sob buried
her face in the bed clothes. Little
Freckle Face started.
"Who called me darling? I have
heard other people called that, but no
one ever called me darling before.”
“My dear child, I am yonr father,
and here is your mother. Wo did not
know it till now. You were stolen from
u«,«h*u you wore a little child.”
“When I ran away and played by the
river, she said in a soft voice, and not
even the ravages of the fire could hide
I ho peaceful expression that settled on
her face. “God will love a little girl
I hat was etol« from her mother,” she
said. "I have heard about Him, bnt I
don’t know whether He knows me or
not, hut if he is good to'lhe girls that
had good clothes and Munebody to love
whnt they wasn't afraid to love, Ho will
bo good to mo for Ho will feel sorry-7-”
Hhe was dead.
The father nnd mother have never re
covered from the effects of their girl’s
death, and as a constant reminder of her-
sad life, this epitaph is inscribed oh her
tomb;
“Litilf. FiiSi ki.k Face,
I UsfisKn"* 1
is
Line, hot Loved
IS I>r.ATII.”' ’
—Arkansaw Traveler.
The Cliestnnt.
The chestnut tree is valuable tor sev
eral .purposes, says a newspaper writer,
and now that there is considerable in
terest arising in the planting of timber,
it may bo worth while to learn something
of this tret*. Hy reference to the mar
ket reports of lumber, it will be found
that chestnut timber is worth $40 per
1,000 feet. Counting the sawing at $4
to $0 per 1,000 feet, it leaves the value
of an ordinary-sized chestnut tree to lie
alKiut £18, allowing only 500 feet of tim
ber to each one. As it is eaa^ for forty
trees to grow upon an acre, winch would
liriiig them 33 feet apart, an aero of
fairly-grown chestnut timber would l>e
worth, sUiudiiig, $720, for the limbs and
tops alone W( uld be worth for firewood
as much as the cost of felling and*iaw-
ing the tree, and the $720 would repre
sent the actual value of the logs. Bnt
this is not the whole, hy any means. A
chestnut tree begins to bear at the age
of 8 years, and every year will pay in its
fruit the interest on the land at the rate
of $200 per acre at seven per cent in
terest. The nuts just now are worth glO
per bushel. They ore scarce and high
tlii* year, but the average pricols quite
$3 per bushel. Allowing half a peck,
only to a tree properly attended to and ,
growing in groves at a distance of 33
feet apart, this would give five bushels
per acre and a yearly income of $15
without cost more than picking up the
nuts. By a little care in killing off the
chestnut moth, which injures the fruit
by tlejiositing its eggs in iVand producing
the worms which bore the fruit, a higher
price oonld bo procured for the unta,
for which there is an extensive demand.
80 that the tree will liogin 5 to pay a
yearly income after eight years, and
this will gradually increase as the tree
groww larger and will finally yield a
handsome sum of money when but 20
years old. If intended to Ik* out at that
time they may bo planted 20 feet apart,
ami a hundred trees may he grown upon
an acre. No replanting is necessary.
Tlie trees sprout trom the stump very
freely, and a considerable sum may lie
made after five or six years from the
poles which con be thinned oat Is
there any more valuable tree than this
for the farmer who has land out of culti
vation to plant for profit ?
What Brother UarAcer he* te So} AhMM
the I.***! Prefeeslee.
■ j p tfnmi tli* petMt Free Pr***.1
“A few months tyo I hgd occasion to
Wer to de lawyeja,” -begjn Brother
Gardner as he oaff^ t!#' meeting to
order. “I now wiidt -W >Bfer to ’em
again. Tn de Ink* ttftfNr^lftonths dor’
has bin mo’ shootiiiV sfebbin’, throafr
cuttin’, rohbin’and tBlovfu’ in dia kaa*
try dan any one li»r taw fur ym btAef i
Who am primarily ,|o Idamo fur die
state of sooiety ? Du laVycrs.
“A young mad am shot down in cold
blood in Detroit ^ Dor’ am no clue to
de murderer. Ettery, editor, merchant,
linker, tailor, Shoemaker an* laborin’
tmwHn de city am anxiously wonderin’
if the murderer will be arrested. Ebery
lawyer in the dty am anxiously wonder
in’ how de fiend kin be cleared in oase
he am arrested.
“A policeman am shot down by a
thief on de street De one who fires de'
shot escapes, bnt a companion am ar
rested. While de police am anxious to
hold him until some clue kin be ob
tained. de lawyers am anxious to'get
him out for de sake of a paltry fee.
'‘Let a man plan a murder an’ he
plans de ohances of bein’ cleared of de
chmrge by a lawyer: It was - a lawyer
who first cooked up de plea of -insanity.
It am de lawyer who pleads kleptoma
nia, softenin’ of de brain, fits, frenzy,
an’ any odder excuse to soften crime.
Do lawyer who hasn’t a repntashun fnr
heatin’ de law am no good. Let it be-
known dat he am successful in clearin’
criminals an’ his office am thronged.
“What does a bank casbier reason
when he robs? Why, dat his lawyer
kin make a settlement for half de
plunder.
“What does a merchant reason when
he tries to beat his creditors ? Why,
dat his lawyer will see him frew.
“What does a trusted official reason
when he pockets tie people’s cash?
Why, dat a tenth of his stenlin’s will
pay a lawyer to prove him innocent.
“De lawyer takps de statute books of
his State an* sots down to diskiver loop
holes. It isn’t how he kin enforce de
law, but how ho kin evade it. It isn’t
how he kin see justice done to an honest
feller-citizen, but how ho kin turn a vil
lain hack inter society.
“Dar* am not a law on do statute
hooks of Michigan which a lawyer did
uot help to make. Kin you say dar’ am
a single law which de lawyers can nof
break.
“Pass a law to keep de Bablmth day
holy an’ de lawyer will try to break it.
Pass a law to elevate de moral standin’
of any class, an’ he lawyer wifi begin to
study to see bow it kin l>c evaded. A
ten dollar bill will buy him to fight de
cause of do widow and the orphan. He
defends the grave-robber wid twice de
zeal that he displays in defendin' a civil
ukshuu. Ebery cosh of murder, arson
an’ robbery am so much cash for de law
yers. The day has come when mo’
money kin be made by a burglar dan by
a whosesnle grocer, an’ widout much
mo’ risk. Eliery new batch of lawyers
turned loose on de kentry am a bid fnr
a new batch of crimiyals, an’ some of
you will lib to see de day when it will be
safer to lie a criminal dau it will be to
pursue an honest business.’’ J-
WHAT BHHTK HAY DO.
A Mterr •! BmU Lift la a Larft* CUjr*
+Alocfas cf Hie jegraiathm and brutal
ity of men who drink a great deal of
liquor are so numerous that the tender-
eat heart beoomee more or leoa callous to
them. Occasionally, however, there is
jicard or read a narrative that gives
point to all that reformers have ever
said about the cone of rum. Such a
story is published in the New York
papers. A man of respectable birth, a
husband and lathe#, is said not to have
]i^1* Mbejr.d»l in jix joar4; his family
has frequently been on the verge of
starvation whenever his wife was una
ble to earn food. and. he has, to obtain
money with whkh te buy rum, beaten
the woman whom he had sworn to love,
cherish and protect Finally, while his
wife was in the severest physical stress
to which woman is subject, the drunk
ard, with a cruel taunt, threw himself
upon the bed and body of the sufferer.
Within a moment or two a little stranger
came into the world and died. The
brutal husband bus since been com mi t-
ed to prison for ftis rnoniha, hot
his punishment will not undo any
of the harm he has inflicted upon
his wif%. and children. .Compared
with such a brute aJpiroJerM tfpms a
petty offender. Sudden death would be
a delightful substitute Jor the prolonged
agony that tlrnrixsWls* fafltfHei MflWor
“This is the mote extraordinary and
inhuman Case that ne bean brought be
fore me dnring my entire career as a
Police Magistrate," said JostioB Morgan,
as he looked at the 'prisoner. “The
charge against you is only for being
drunk and disorderly. On this I will
fine you $10, but I will also hold you in
the sum of $1,000 to keep the peace for
six montlis, in default of which you go
to the Island for six months. There is
just where you belong, and by right
ought to.have been tent long ago, and
lam very sorry that the law prevents
mo from sending you there for a longer
period. This is the most brutal outrage
I ever hoard, of. ’’
“I am glad he has been sent away
to the Island,” the brute’s wife said.
“He cannot harm me now or injure my
children. I have lived in constant ter
ror of my life for years past, but now it
is over and I can rest. Drink has made
him insane, I know, and I wish he might
be sent where he could be 1 rented for
that fearful malady. My friends will
try to obtain a separation for me, and I
des ; rc it, for I cannot live with him any
longer. Little hy little ho has gone
dowr, until now no one respect* us, and
I and my children are forever disgraced.
His people have demo all they could fur
him, but it was of no use. He lost one
position of trust after another, until now
he cannot obtain work anywhere. •> I
Lave kept starvation from the door for
ns all until I was taken sick, but now I
don’t know what will become of us."
THE PANAMA CANAL
AttfcBICAN JUMUNU ABOUT TO BE.
OIN WOBK.
rroarMs te
Bloat.
-Maehlaes la Fal
Pike County Folks.
Love and the Mails.
A LIFE-LOXO Dr.DAUOn.
•'No, I’m obliged to yon, I d.m’t
liink,” replied Judge Gibbous, of Lnu-
suder, Pa., in the barn om < f the Girard
douse. “ I am sixty-three years old and
nave never used tobacco in any form,
lever have tasted malt or spirituous
tquors, never have been at a horse raco
or attended a circus or a theatre."
“ Yours has been an exemplary life,
judge.”
“Well, I don’t know that it has," con-
.inued the judge, sadly. “ I am, after
ill, no better than other men; for the
past fortj-eight years I have been the
1 bjeot slave to one ungovernable appo
site. This indjjgenoe has gained such
al *olnte controT of me that I cannot
exist four or five boon without gratify-
i»g it, In the streets, at churflh, during
family prayers, it torments mo. I strug
gle against it. I resolve and re-resolve
to break it off, but I am weak—very
weak—and finally yield. I cannot go
half a day without it. No, I darer t
travel where I can’t obtain it. It ia
killing me. Twenty years ago I weighed
220 pounds. Now I wei^h 120l It is
destroying my lile, slowly but sorely. J
ef
The Memphis Avalanche tells this
little story; A pretty little romance waa
outlined, .before Judge Hammond on
his recent trip to Jaekson, where ho
held court for about a week. It illus
trates the fact that young love ia usually
blind, and that the lover of tender years
is really a very daring fellow, who fan
sir,
Cies himself like Joey B- “Sly,^
devilish sly.” A handsome nnd high-
spirited young fellow named J. T. Wil
iams has a very pretty sweetheart liv
ing near Jackson, to whom he wished
to scud a handsome boquet. The
choicest flowers in the field were secured
by him, and a feagtaut. tfad beautiful
bouquet, such as would awakes the ten-
derest emotions in a young girl's breast^
was the result. He sent the bouquet
through the mails ns merchandise or
-fourth-class matter;-but, alas 1 he made
one fatal mistake. Concealed among
the roses he placed a note, which was
written in a way not intended for any
eyes but those of the young- bufy. Tha
flowers of course pesAed through tha
hands of a Satanic poatmaator. Notn-
rally he was attracted by their' beauty
and hi* senses were lulled by their deli
cious odor. While bo was eriticaliy ex
amining Flora’s beautiful oflerings he
noticed the end of the letter peeping
out from its bed of roses. He pulled it
from its hiding plaoe, opened U and de
voured its contents. Now, instead ef
keeping the secret with himself, that
diabolical United States official forgot
the romance of his youth and the care
lessness of love's young dreaifi,.and«aw
nothing in the oiroumstaaoes but a vio
lation of the postal laws, which provide
that no writing of any kind shall be **inj
.with merchandise. Accordingly ke liai
young Williams arrested, and while
Judge Hammoud was in Jackson the
trial came off. It is said that the hand
some Federal Judge, who ia not without
a touch of romance in his composition,
had a hard time wrestling with the judi
cial problem before hira, This was
something novel in the law, nd all Ate
native sympathies were wit^Mte bey.
Williams pleaded, gwlty, andtete Judge
picked out the very lowest floe pro*
scribed by the statute, namely #10, and
m posed it This is the firft instance
on record of a lover bavihe ta pay a fine
for concealing a letter m •'bouquet
Young Williams said he
paying postage or the ten deOan fine,
but he disliked in tensely to lures hi*
letter reed. The ores wsuMd great in-
terete in Jackson, sad Hie general aenti-
, ment there was that Prusidaut Arthur
“Mnah and nulk , ”wafi thc solemnaad j lHlg ht to bounce Hut! postmaster in.
rtantly. *
W.ftt form does tnis deadly dissipa
tion taka?” asked the reporter, in amass
ment, prepared for an appalling confes
sion.
A Milford, Pa., correspondent qf Hie
New York Sun, writing of (be arrebt
ferry Greening, charged with Giootiug
Annie Cheovcr, gives the following inci
dents in the career of the prisoner w ho
can’t write his name.
During the first draft made for -sol
diers in the war of the rebellion old
Jerry Greening was drafted. The nnbev-
of the fact was served upon him and ex
plained. His reply jsaa that if the gov
ernment wanted him Tl would have to
come and take him. He barricaded his
house and prepared to defend himself.
Soldiers were sent to arrest him, and he
opened fire upon tliem. He "held the
tort” for several days, but was finally
surprised by a corporal’s guard and
taken prisoner. He was taken to Phila
delphia, and would have suffered the
full penalty of notary law but for the
interference of am influential citizen of
Philadelphia, Alltel Cuthbert, Esq. He
was a gentleman who had enjoyed the
hospitality of Greening’s honsc on visi!s
to Pike county, and, having great iuilu-
cBoe "with the amreriimeht, he secured
Greening’s pardon and release.
An idea may be had of the character
of old Jerry Greening from astory which
he relates himself with great gusto. A
few years ago he sad young Jerry were
banting shingle Decs along the Rattle
snake Creek, nnd the latter came to a
hollow treo whieit he thought was in
habited by a coon. Ho began tapping
it with his ax, and suddenly a large bear
crawled out of tha hollow plaoe and
showed fight Young Jerry raised his
*x to strike the liter, and 01d| Jerry in
terfered oa behalf of the boor because
it bad a valuable akin, and if the ax was
used the skin might be mined! But
Young Jerry got in one blow with the
back port of the ax on the bear’s head,
which felled the animal to the ground..
Old Jerry then took the ax, and stood
by while the “boy" fought the bear on
the ground with bis fists and heavy
boots. His cries for the ax were of no
avail, for the old man said ho wouldn’t
risk the spoiling ot the skin. The bear
and Young Jerry Anally rolled down a
steep hill, and the bear struck against a
tree at the bottom and was so stunned
that Young Jerry soon finished it
A
The progress of the work on the Pan
ama Canal te shown by the folk)wing
stoteibent:—
“The total length ot the eanal te
seventy-four kilometres, from Hie Atlan
tic to its mouth in the Pacific, at the
islands Naas and Flamenco. It te di
vided into twelve sections, the most im
portant of which are those of Colon,
Gorgona, Obispo, Emperador, Oulebra,
and Pandso. These united sections em
ploy daily thirty fleam excavators,
forty looomotivea and 800 tip wagons.
There are 90,000,000 cubic feet to be ex
cavated.
The grand cutting, abont two-thirds
of which has already been excavated, is
the cutting between Obispo and Paraiao.
The force employed upon the work is
npward of ten thousand men, and the
excavation up to the 15th. of October
amounted to 2,600,000 cubic metres.
During these latter months of the bad
season the excavations have amounted to
aliout 350,000 metres per mouth. This
figure will be quintupled during the fine
season, which commences in December,
and next year mostly all the necessary
machinery will be at work, and the ex
cavations will amount to 4,000,000
metres pej month. The working force
will be augmented,' and will form a total
of 15,000 men.,
At Colon the pert works are nearly
complete. The Terra Plein, with the
breakwater, destined to lessen the effect
of the heavy sens at the entranoe of the
canal, is finished. An entire town has
appeared there with a collection of work
shops, warehonses, and connecting rail
ways for the reception and distribution
of the material. The earth for the Terre
Plein was taken from Monkey Hill,
where a great cutting has been specially
opened with the object of filling np the
lagoons at the bottom of the Bay of
Colon to improve the sanitary condition.
The first of the 120-horso power ma
chines between Colon and Gatun, a dis
tance of nine kilometres, is in full blast
and is able to excavate the enormous
quantity of 6,000 metres per diem, to be
paid at the rate of one franc per fifty
cubic metres. The Pacific opening be
tween tbo month of the Rio Grande nnd
Paraiao is contracted for by the Frauco-
Amcricau Trading Company.
The first machine of the American
system will commence work in a few
days and will be suplemented by others,
which will be necessary to finish this
part of the canal in two yean as a max
imum from Oatnn to Bahia Soldado.
On the Atlantic side the company are
working two machines, famishing a
minimum of 4,000 cnbio metres per
diem.
HE UEYITA11LE 1XVE\TOR.
He rinsin'* 1 he Very Lite Out *1
Ills I’nllrnt Pssr Wile.'
nut oak
thres^sard monte
i Ib WaoMngton,
ijteL “Washington,”
place where they
’■Why, do you
i New York? II •
ia a monte or
man
was igtervtevad
said h* “is the
ma
know how they
man IflMB his
bunoa Joint Umm
fire hiteBBt
makteSrow
polio* lor
Then they must have the protection
ot the detec tires sad police ?” interjected
the reporter.
■ “Ob, ym do bfltioeee with
theni^gnd^hey fCM« rowd
and get their whack."
“Bappoee the man who te fleeced
oompfaitee to the pgttoe, after befaic or-
rested, that ha has been swindled aaXtt
his money, whte AhcB-?"
He don’t get any sympathy for being
that’s ate#
father, or the relative who gives lier
away, to precede the bridemaids; the
bride is in her turn preceded by two
small boys, who walk np the aisle with
slow step and important air, a> if say
ing, “Make way for the bride.”
These little fellows are dressed in Con-
^ Jinental suits of black velvet, with long no *~_ ^ ut ^ ^ tch you what
white satin embroidered waistcoats, with * ** J 00 ^olf interest in
embroidered mnslin or loco collars, ne88 - r-l!hilSdc!j>h<a OalU
knee-breeches, long black silk stockings,
and pumps with glittering buckles.
They stand at the head of the wist e dur- n sw
iog the ceremony, and os. the bride de
ecends from the chancel they turn with
the precision of soldiers, and march be
fore her down the aisle, thus forming a
diversion for the audience, which is a re
lief to the bride. _
Another caprice is that of having an
uneven number of bridemaids, either
three or five, having' the odd one con
sidered as maid-of-honor, and this maid
» i '
walks alone to tho altar just in front of
the bride, and assists her during the
ceremony in taking care of her book or
bouquet, and with her glove if she re
moves it, or in opening a finger of th&
glove to receive the wedding ring.
White brocaded velvet forms part of
moat bridal dresses this season, but is
often confined to the front and side
breadths, while the basque front and
priucesse back with its flowing train is
of sheeny satin. A vertugadin puff of
satin, with many loops and forked end*
of white satin ribbon, te a handsome’
finish for (he top of the velvet breadths,
while thickly clustered loops resting on
lace are acrcM the foot.
Bridemaids will wear short dresses,
and white China crepe, ottoman silt, and
embroidered mull are the favorite ma
terials for these. Golden brown bonnets
of sheer orape, drawn on cords and
trimmed with a white panache and
aigrette, were recently worn by the four
bridemaids at a Grace Church wedding
and the gloves.were Suede kid of lighter
brown or tan shade. At another pretty
wedding the maids wore whits lace poke
bonnets with Titian red velvet poffii on
the edge, and a rosette of the velvet
with an aigrette in the centre for trim
ming. Ushers are again wearing white
scarfs, and these are usually
adorned with a pin given by the groom;
glovfes arti not worn by ushers, nor are
they seen on gentlemen when in full
evening dress. .
- ACilg «b
I arrived te Barlett, D. T., about the
middle of Hm afternoon of a beautiful
day, says a newspaper correspondent.
I found acme stir and activity, among
the people of the city, bnt it seemed to
be the excitement incident to the emi
gration of S dty on wheels. The people
generally had abandoned all hope of the
city, and moved their houses bodily to
Devil’s Lake and other places. The
houses were first lifted on to large lim
iters of sufficient rise sad strength to
bear the weight of tee house. These
timbers were then suspended under two
monstrous freight wagons on either side
of the building; four large horses or
oxen were then bitched to the wagon
on each ride, and, the road to Devil’s
Lake being across a smooth prairie, the
teams were able to move along easily
with a fair-sised building.
Some of them,with the teams attached,
presented to my mind sights most mag
nificent. Itwas th&flmttime that I hud
ever seen a city moving on wheels. I
had aeen people moving on a large scale
in their so-called “prairie-schooner*,”
but the sight waa tame compared with
this. I thought of a remark I once
heard to the effect th,nt “the approach
of a train of cars drawn by a powerful
engine was a magnificent sight to be
hold,’’ and I thought to myself a road
lined with two-story honaee, moving to
the music of the steady tread of teams
of eight powerful oxen, was a right
equally magnificent. And snch was the
ate of the once prond city of Bartlelt.
Black Furs.
■Saeques of Persian lamb-skin, of flos
sy black closely curled fleece, Harper’s
liazar tells ns, are made in the shape of
seal skin saeques, partly fitted, double-
breasted, and without borders. This
fnr is too tender to be used for tight-
fitting jackets; It will, however, be very
fashionable for pelerines, capes, cape,
mnffs, and above all for trimming cloth
dresses and cloaks. -The Astrakhan
skins are also closely curled, but have
less silky lustre than the Persian just
noted. Russian lamb-skin has very long
wavy fleece, with more Instrethan Astra
khan; all these fnrs find their best use
as trimmings, not for black garments
alone, but also for colored cloths, espec
ially for green a>ol blue cloth suits; they
may be only two incbes Wtde. of they
may be six inches in width, and they
cost from $2.50 to $12 a yard, according
to their quality and width. Black fox
fnr is well known lor its long telky
fleece, and will be much used in capes,
collars, muffs, and trimmings, and there
are qnrintly shaped turbans of this fur
with merely a round crown for tho
Foundation, and the long fleece falling
-over its edge as a brim. Three inches
on tho pt It is a good width for this fur
when used as a trimming. Black mar-
’ten is still in great favor, as it is now
thoroughly deodorized, and is one of the
strongest furs; it is used in capes, col
lars, and muffs, and as a border for
4ome of the finest seal or velvet cloaks.
The Thick Russian bare is the prettiest
inexpensive fur border, as it may be had
in narrow widths at #1,10 ft yard, and
there are warm and useful capes of this
fnr for #6 .00, and mnffs to match for
S3.50.
well,.*
saufBilly Birch, speaking of the mini,
strel who died in jail it Canajoh*ne\
lately. “He was a fine bah jo player
and a good singer years ago, and we em
ployed him while toi_ waca st^Na585
op him.
Biade a
improved
feroacjway, New York,-*)
mkde it impossible t
He hod tnlem, *
good deal of
hia teumoea, 1
“Lew B
New York
in ay
last.
Autumn Weddings.
Parisian brides do uot wear gloves
dnring the wedding ceremony. Harper’s
liazar tells us, and there is a feeling
here, especially among High ! Churcli
brides, that it is more reverential to ap
proach the altar witnoilt gloves. A
prayer-book covered with ivory or wile
pearl is carried by the bride instead of a
bouquet. Another innovation in wed- ^ Yo»x reporter applied to the
ding processions is for the bride and hew J*oP r *tor ot his paper for an advance in
- - - - -*• wages. “Let mo see," said the proprie
tor. “What is yonr salary?’.’ “Ten
dollars a week,” replied the reporter.
"Well,” replied Uie proprietor, “ten dol-
Jars a week is not very much, but the
recent redaction to two cents will pre
clude the possibility of an advance just
I can do.
the bnsi-
etixg Roots ix WnrrxB.—Para-
jnred by hard teoeteag; all othsn.
ba stored fog tea winter, and assJJoteat
supply of the hardy kinds should also be
taken tip. If tbe cellar te not too warn.
• supply for the present use may, be
kept in boxea, or -barrels, and covered
• with earth, to prevent shrivelling. .
“It is all very well to talk abont work
ing for the heathen," said one, as the
ladies put up their sewing, “but I’d
like to have some one tell me what I
am to do with my husband,”
a “What is the matter with him ?” asked
a sympathetic old lady.
1! William te a good man,” non tinned
the first, waving her glasses in an argu
mentative way, “bnt William will in
vent. He goes ronrd from morning till
night, and I have no peace or comfort.
I didn’t object when ho invented a fire
escape, but 1 did remo:istrate when hq
wantea me to crawl out of the window
one night last winter to see how tt
worked. Then he originated a lock for
the door that wouldn’t open from mid
night until morning, so os to keep burg
lars out. The first time he tried it he
caught his coat tail in it, and I had to
walk around him with a pan of hot coals
all night to keep him from freezing.’*
“Why didn't ne take his coat off?"
“I wanted him to, bnt he stood around
till the thing opened itself, trying to in
vent some way of unfastening it. That’s
William's trouble. He will invent. A little
while ago he got up a cabinet bedstead
that wonld shut and open without hand
ling. It went by clockwork. William
got into it and up it went. Bless your
heart, be stayed in there from Saturday
afternoon till Sunday night, when it flew
E arn! disclosed William with the
1 and specifications of a patent wash
bowl that would tip over when it got so
full. The result was that I lost all my
rings and breastpins down the waste pipe.
Then he made a crutch for a man that
canid also be used as an opera glass.
Whenever the man leaned on it np it
went,*and when he put it to bis eye to
find William, it flew out into a crutch
and almost broke the top of his head off.
Once he invented a rope ladJer-to be
worn as a guard chain and lengthened
out with a spring. He put it round his
neck, but the spring cot loose and
turned it into a ladder ana almost choked
him to death. Then he invented a
patent boot heel to crack nuts with, bnt
he mashed his thumb with it and gave it
np. Why, be has a wash tub fall of in-
Tsntians. One of them ia a prayer bock
that always opens at the right place.
We tried it one morning at oharob, but
that the sexton took WilLam by the
colter and told him to leave jite fire en
gines at home when he came to worship.
The other day I saw him going up the
street with e model of a grain elava tor
sticking out of his hip pocket, and he ia
fixing np an improved shot tower te cor
bedroom."
fast appearance In
ady Speacer,-“»n»
the Bowery te Jane
aw wa« bor* in Oooperetowu for
ty-two yeate ago, and ctenote NewTfora
in 1861. jtBMBR pc#!* ’ wb« heard
him when he. was banjo soloist at Henry
Wood’s minsttel.H at No, 614 Broadway,
there is but one opinion. Ho was the
beet banjo ptejer in tliB oouMry. Ho
could draw wonderful mUsic from the
banjo up to the last. But if you hired
him ou Saturday fpr a Monday evening
engngemeilt in New York, he was aa
likely to bo in Pittsburgh on Mond y
as hero." , , .
“1 remember,” ^aid an actor, “that
when Lew Brimmer was with tne San
Franciscos, Backus was summoned to
Rochester by the sudi^u illuetH of a rel
ative, and Bernard said; *Mr, Brimmer,
I want yoh to play the end.’ ‘I came
hereto “plunketv* r (pick the banjo),
Lew answered. ‘Well,’ Bernard says,
■this is a ease of “must,’’ and yon have
got to play the cud.’ Ik rehearsed in
splendid sliaije, but at 7j ^clock iu tbe
evening be had not appeared. Bernard
sent all over for him. 'At 7:50 o’clock
he came stumbling in, peculiarly jolly.
There was no time for a change, and
they knew he had good nerve, so he
went ou with the rest, but be was too
hilarious for the stock jokes, and, Ijc-
rides that,Tic wnsTh "’Backus clothes,
which would go twice around him, and
was the most ludicrous object you can
imagine. ‘Now the trouble begins,’ he
said, ns they took their scuts, and Hint
bronght the house down. The Fan
Franciscos have that phrase yet at the
top of their bills. ‘How do yon feel,
Mr. Brimmer?’ Wambold-said. T feel
like a hired man,’ Brimmer replied, and
his comical apjioaranoo, and the absence
of Backus, made tl c remark so aprojHW
that the house wen! w ild. But his pl*y
with tho San Franciscos wns short.
One night he went out to sing ‘Old Zip
Coon’ in a frightful condition. Wnm-
bold tried to call him olf tho stage, bnt
he wouldn’t come. Then they rang the
curtain down.. Before he went homo
that night they handed him his envelop")
with a notice of hifl discharge. Uo
looked at it and tore it up. On Monday
he was on hand for rehearsal ns usual.
Birch looked at Wambold and Wambol I
looked at Backus, ‘Hasn't lie got his
notice ?’Wambold snidT -‘Of course he
haa/lBackus replied, T saw Billy writ
ing it. Well, give him another week
and then we’ll serve the notice on him.’
When the second nofTco was served he
tore it np and came on again on Monday
as before. The partners called him in
again and told him ho must know _h<>
was discharged. ‘Do yon mean this?’
lie said. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Well, a joke’s a
joke,’with great eaniestiies«, ‘bnHf you
do that again, I’ll quit.’”
“I got acquainted with him and hi-*
homely stub-tailed dog iu California,”
said a variety actor. “The dog used to
go with tho boys when they went out
for a time. When the dog was intoxi
cated he wonld go off and hide himself
until ho was.sober.”
“1 was with him in Massachusetts,"
said another, “traveling wiih a provin
cial company, when he came that joke
on Mie young—English actor. There
were not many dressing rooms, mid the
young Englishman was dressing behind
the wood front with which tho stage*
was set. Just ns the fellow was in the
midst of his toilet, standing with his
back to the audience, Brimmer blew the
whistle and the slides were run buck.
The audience cheered tremendously,
but the olidoB were hurried together
again. The Englishman hail never
looked aronud or noticed anything. •
“ ‘Excuse me,’ he s ud to Brimmer a
moment afterward, ibut that fellow that
was just on made a mighty good hit.’"
“John Toppin, treasurer of Harry
Miner's new theatre, of New York.”
srid another. **faact « characteristic ex/
perienee two or three years ago with
Brimmer. He found him on a tramp iu
Connecticut, took him to a hotel, reno
vated him, and brought him to New
York. Toppin hired a theatre for u
benefit for Lew, and finally sold the
whole house. On the day of the perform
ance Brimmer began drinking, and
when evening came was in an awful
condition. Aa he saw the crowds press
ing into tlie theatre he said- to an **«-
quaiutanee. ‘J. hope they Tl have a g<*«d
time.’ An hour after he took a trai.i for
the West. It wa- two afterward
that Toppin found him in a wretched
plight wanning himself behind a stove
in Sandy Spencer’s ‘Live andiLet L’ve,’
and fixed him up again.”
Slavery.
Tho pleasing notion tliat there is no
such thing as slavery in England^ re
marks the London Trulh, is rather
rudely shaken by an extraordinary story
which was told tlm other day in the
Croydon Police Court. A lodging house
keeper applied for a summons agamst
one of the lodgers for touteumticklly ill
treating a little negro boy, whoso
screams she had often heard through the
floor. Tha boy had l>cen purchased in
Africa as a seevunt. ami when the la ly
remonstrated with her lodger for his
cruelly, he replied: ‘ Oh I he te only a
colored child; nnd. bosidca, he belongs
to my brother,” The landlady’s inter-
ferenee seemed to have been visited on
the little boy, who had his wrists tied
together, and was hung up to a hook on
the wall of the room.
WOULDHT BB HTTW OVER.
Ttfftt tbe calf looae,” demanded a
white man of a negro who had invaded
his premtees. "Wbte are yon doing
here, anyhow? I’ll have yon arrested
for trying to steal that mill, you ras-
cal.
“Whose tryin’ ter steal a call?*’
“You are, and 111 hav« you sent to
prison.”
“I ain’t been tryin’ ter steal a cili
boss. Yislody while I was a walkin’
along de street out dar. dat ole cow.
slipped up on me an’ hooked me an
tore my clothes wid her horns. I tola
her I was gwine ter hab ’venge, an’ jea*
now I oomeober heah an’ ootch her eslf
ter make her sorry fur de way she had
treated iso. I won’t study in’ ’boat steal-
QaIT SEmfl Ia—4^11 M , ,, . w
. t4 nw r um tnsme w?il yw. 1
amt a gwte# ter let nooow run ober
me. —-Arkantat Traveler.
on
A COBXBTHT iU ABBOOte WM string
rhe hand by a hornet while ho was play-
- - Ins cornet in ehamh loot Sunday. A
.ccdu rose np and thsaknd tho hornet
Jloeton