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YOL, VII. NO. 84.
BARNWELL C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1884.
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rnoit Tub cradle to the qua vx.
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There lie* mkm* the mother - * knee.
And gathered in her hand,
A little robe of puff* end lace, t
With an embroider'd hand.
I *ec her amile, I hear her sing
A low; sweet lullaby;
And oft I ere a thought of Joy
Light up her bright blue oye ;
It ie a robe for her dear child
To be chriaten’d in !
There lies across the mother's knee,
And gather'd in her hand,
A silken robe, with puffs of lice.
And an embroidered band.
'Tie white, end like a cloud at ere,
That floats aorors the sky.
But oh, I hear the mother give
An oft-repeated sigh.
It is a robe for her dear child,
To be wedded iu.
There lies across the mother's knee,
And gathered in her hand,
A robe of softest wool; but it
Has no embroidered band.
And on her cheeks so wan and palo,
The mother’s tears I see'
And bear her pray, Lord, give me strength !
Oh, give Thy strength to me !
It is a robe for her dear child,
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Ethers Husband
Ethel Vano wae n young beauty of
eighteen—a beauty of the most mluut
blonde type, with eyoa that seemed like
liquid wells of blue light, wavy hair of
spun gold, and a complexion like a
freshly-opened oleander. She had a
neat little fortune in her own right, and
she had a very clear and well-defined
idea of doing what she pleased with it.
Miss Endocia Eamcs was a middle-
aged pecond cousin, who had more gen
tility than income, and who eked out
the latter by acting in the capacity of
chaperon and companion to the saucy
beauty, giving advice which Ethel never
took, and objecting on principle to every
gentleman whom Ethel fancied.
But one day Miaa Vane entered her
relative’s presence with very rosy cheeks
and a deep sparkle in her eyes which
Eudocia had never seen there before.
"Miss Eudocia,” she said, "I am en
gaged to be married.”
‘‘Are you?" said Miss Eudocia, with a
little gasp, as if «he were swallowing
castor oil.
"To Mr. Harold North."
"My goodness !" cried Miss Eudocia.
"Why, it isu’t three weeks sines you
were first introchiaed to him.”
"Oh, that’s nothing," said saucy
Ethel. "I made up my mind that I
liked him in three days.”
"I think you are running a great risk,
Ethel,” said Endocia Karnes. "I should
never marry a man that I didn't know
all about.”
"Is that what has kept you from matri
mony all those years ?" said Ethel Vane,
mischievously.
Miss Eames tossed her head, and the
tips of her cheek-bones and the end of
her nose became a degree more roseate
than usual.
"Well," said she, “of course you know
your own business best; and I only hope
you will never Eve ta regret this precipi
tancy."
But Ethel maiVled Harold North in
leaa than six weeks more.
"I never could reconcile myself to
such a rash step,” saidjlips Eames.
"Oh, well,” said Ethel, J'thero seems
to l>e no occasion that you should.”
“You’ll live to repent it,**.lp«rBisted
Mias Eames, waxing vcnomdM finder
the barbed sting of her pretty young
cousin’s words.
"Oh, no; I shall not,” laughed Ethel.
But in spite of this war of words, the
young people had aauaAy settled down
after the honeymoon, before Miss Eames
came to visit thorn, with a fearful array
of Saratoga trunks, bandboxes, and par
cel* strapped up in brown paper. Ethel
ran to the gate to welcome her.
"I am so glad you come just now,
dear Miss Eudocia,” said she, brightly.
"The roses are all in bloom, and Eden
Villa is at its best Wasn’t it nice of
Harold to engage it ready furnished for
the season—servants, v carriages, horses
and all? And he can go in and out of
tM city every day, and I’m working a
pair of slippers for him on the sly; and
there's each a. delicious little cascade
down in the ravine, and a fernery among
the rocks, and a little lilao-and-gold
boat on the river—that I can row my
self—hardly bigger than a scallop shell.
Do ceune in, and I’ll ring for some tea,
and you’ll have time for a nice long nap
Jxtfore Harold oomes home.”
ftvd the bride led Miss Eudocia
E imcs triumphantly into a pretty little
apartment, all paneled rose and silver,
with a white velvet carpet, windows
draped with muslin and pink ribbons,
and * tiny oonservatory opening oat of
it.
"And are you happy?" said Miss
Eames, interrogatively.
"Oh, 1 am the happiest girl in all the
wide world 1” said Ethel.
Mr. North osme home to dinner,
presently—a dark-browed, corssir-lo6k-
ing man, with one of those mysteriously
handsome faces which inspire all school
girls with the idem that there must, be
some secret chapter in bis life. But he
mode himself very agreeable, and Miss
Endocia began to relenOh her opinion
of him.
The next day she was beginning on
elaborate pieoe of wonted work in the
pink-and-silver drawing-room, when the
maid knocked at the dood.-
"Please, ma'am,” said Phebe^in a
perturbed marowr^tthewfll eome in. 1
And she won’t send up her card! And
she won’t wait in the little green recep
tion-room for me to go up to my mis
tress ! And please, ma'am, here she is
on the stairs now 1”
‘Thebe,” said Miss Eames, "what on
earth do you mean ?”
At the same minute Ethel North came
softly in from an opposite door, and
found herself faced by a tall apparition
in black, with a dusty orape veil, hog*
gnrd eyes, and hair originally black as a
raveu's wing, but now thickly streaked
with silver.
"Ah I” said she, as Ethel looked at
her with surprised blue eyes, "so it’s
you, is it, that have married my hus
band ?”
"Married your husband!”
Ethel could only gasp out the words
after her in breathless amazement.
‘ Yes!” uttered the other woman,
with a chuckle of malicious satisfaction.
"But don’t think that you are to keep
him, in spite of your blue eyes, and
yellow Loir, and pretty pink cheeks. I
was pretty once, in tho days that aro
past. I have the first right to him, and
I mean to Imvo him. I’ve followed him
half over the world, and I’ve traced him
out at last Where is he ? I say, where
is he?” M i,
Ethel looked at Miss Eudocia, and
shrank behind her like a frightened
doer.
"H4 is in the city," said Miss Endo
cia, bewildered and hesitating. "Ho
has not-returned yet.”
"Thon here I wait until ho does re
turn,” said the woman, sealing herself
upon one of tho pink damask chairs.
"Yes, you may well stare at my rags;
but it is his fault, He can dress you,
you pitiful doll-faced thing,” with a jerk
of her bead toward Ethel, "in silks and
jewels, while I am shabby and neglected.
But never mind; we shall sec what the
law says to this. A man can't have
two wives. I’ll wait—yee, I’ll wait"
She laughed derisively as she spoke.
Ethel caught at Miss Eudocia’s hand,
"Oh, come away I” sire faltered, with
trembling voice and changing color. "I
— I am afraid of that woman.”
And together they took refuge iu the
library beyond, locking tho door to bar
themselves effectually from all intru
sion.
"Miss Eudocia,” whispered Ethel, as
pale ns a ghost, "what does it mean?”
“It means, my poor child, that you
have been ch< at d ami deceived !”
groaned Miss Eudocia. "Didn’t I tell
3 on so ? Didn’t I say you would live
to regret your rash precipitancy ? Oh,
Erin 1, I never lilted that man’s face ! I
always knew fliat there was a dark mys
tery in his life.”
"What shall I do? Oh, dear! what
can I do?" gasped I^thel; and Miss
Endocia could feel that her hands were
as cold as ice.
"Get your things 1” said the old maid.
"Como homo with mo 1 Leave him for
ever !"
"But I lovo him !’’ wailed Ethel.
"More fool, yon !" cried Miss Eudocia,
faiily losing patience. "What! after
he has trifled with you—deceived you—
blighted your whole life? Come homo
with me, I say ! Don’t let him gloat
over the ruin he has wrought 1”
IB ut cveu as Miss Eudocia pleaded
with the young wife, who sat there pale
and drooping as a broken lily, tho blinds
of the open window back of them were
cautiously raised and * rubicund face
looked in*— .4;
"Ladies," said the owner of the rubi
cund face, in a whisper, "don’t be
alolfted. There ain’t no ocoasion. But
is she hero?”
"Who ?” exclaimed Miss Eudocia, who
was the first to recover her self-posses
sion.
"Mrs, Nokes I Eacaped from tho
Private Lunatic Asylum, three miles
down the river, this evening. Tall lady,
in black. Talks about her husband, as
she thinks is married to another wo
man !”
"Yes,” cried Ethel, springing to her
feet. "Oh, yes—she is hero. She is in
the other room.”
And she fell, hysterically laughing
and sobbing, into Miss Eudocin’s arms.
"Mum’s the word, then,” said the man
with the rubicund countenance, disap
pearing from the window as miraculously
as he appeared.
And presently they saw him escorting
the tall lady in black down the carriage
drive, talking to her, as they went, in the
most persuasive manner possible.
"Oh, yea’m,” said he. "He’s at
Doctor Filching’s, waitin’ for you. He's
been there this long time, and we
couldn’t think where you was gone. He’s
thrown all the other wives overboard and
come back to you. Oh, it’s all right”
Ethel North looked at Miaa Eudocia.
Miss Eudocia looked at Ethel North.
“What geese we have been 1” cried
Ethel, radiantly.
“But cironmstanoee did look rather
suspicious,” laid Mias Eames, blankly.
“I believe you’re sorry yet that you
can’t lay, 'I told you so,’” laughed
Ethel, as gleeful ttf a child.
“No, I’m aet, my dear,” said Miss
Eudocia, bursting into tears.
And she reaDy anff actually meant it;
te Miss Eudocia, old maid though she
imi, bad not a bad heart.—Popular
Monlhly.
"Yts, Augustus, I Uwe you. Now you
must go sod ace fathft.” “No, dovie,
not yet; that is father than I want to go
iusi at
A NATIONAL DISASTER
THK FOOT
AND MOTTIl
K ANNAS.
D1SKAMK IN
Aa IntrroMln* Hkrtrh <
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nre Kepi.
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Uew the I'atilv
To appreciate the imminence of the
danger that threatens the cattle-growing
industry of the West, tho differences in
' the systems at handling cattle in Kansas,
and their movements must be understood.
These systems are the natural outgrowth
of the climate of that State. Imagine
the 100th meridiau to be a sinuous line,
winding southward in great bends across
(he State, at one point approaching the
99th meridian, at another pushing west
close to the 101st. That imaginary line
would divide the State into two zones.
To the east lies the agricultural land;
westward the great plains stretch to tho
foot hills of the Rocky Mountains. On
these plains no agriculture, unless tho
lands are irrigated, is successful. They
lie within the arid zone. The wheat
lands of Kansas begin at the eastern
edge of the groat plains, and extend
eastward to about St Mary’s on the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad. From there to the
Missouri river lie tho corn lands
State. The liottom lands of Uio wheat
belt aro productive com lauds, hut the
uplands are strictly small-graiu lands.
Thronghout the corn'lands, cattle that
are generally driven from the Western
cattle ranges are fat toned for the Eastern
markets during the winter. During the
rummer such cattle as are held iu the
corn belt are close herded or are in
closed in pastures. In the wheat grow
ing districts the cattle are herded in the
summer. During the winter they run
to straw stacks, feed on the dry grass
standing on the unbroken prairie, or
graze on the wheat fields when tho
ground is dry. West of the 100th meri
dian the cattle roam at will Kansas is
on tho border of the great plains,
known among the cattle growers aa
"The Range.”i H ‘
The movement of young cattle in tho
Htatos bordering on the Range is toward
tho west. The native caitle move to tho
east. In eastern Kansas, where culti
vate grasses are grown and enormous
crops of com secured, the business of
breeding high grade and thoroughbred
calves nas Been added to tn&i of fatten
ing the cattle coming from thosRongo
for market. There are many breeding
herds in that portion of the State
Young bulls, singly, in pairs, and in car
loads, are constantly being shipped to
the cattle range of the plains to replace
the loases incurred during Arctio-likc
winters. Many men are busy during
the early fall and winter, in the eastern
portion of the State, gathering young
females into herds preparatory to driv-
ing them to the straw stacks of central
Kansas, or to the great plains. There
is a ceaseless movement of cattle to and
fra in Kansas—fat cattle going east,
young cattle going west In New Mexi
co, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, in fact,
everywhere on the Range, young cattle
from Kansas are to be found. When
spring opens in the southern portion of
the cattle range, the shipment of young
bulls begins. Then the drive of the
young females, that have been gathered
into herds, sets in.
The breaking out of the foot and
mouth disease, which is a highly conta
gious and generally fatal disorder, in a
Slate from which cattle aro distributor!
broadcast throughout the cattle region,
is a disaster that may become national
If tho disease makes its appearance in
any herd on the Range the industry of
cattle growing will be well nigh ruined.
There the cattle wander at will. A dis
eased animal might not be discovered for
weeks. It would walk for miles, poison
ing tho earth at every step. It would
infect thousands of cattle, and thev.
roaming at pleasure from valley
to valley, from plain to plain, would
communicate the disease to other thou
sands. These half wild, diseased, fever
ish cattle could not be prevented from
rouderiog. The disease, if controlled
at all, has got to be stamped out in K&n-
*ns. Once it spreads westward beyond
the land of inclosed pastures and close
herding, it will be beyond the control of
human agency.
The alarm felt by the stock growers
who hold their cattle in tho great plains
is plainly indicated by the meeting of
the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Associa
tion who will take immediate steps to
quarantine their range. Many of their
herds are over 1,000 miles from tho cen
ter of the disease in Kansas, bnt they
are jnatifiablj alarmed. They realize
that enormous loaeea would speedily fol
low the walking of ^single diseased ani
mal over their range.
The great danger of the spread of the
disease lies in the fact that men owning
cattle that are dangerously near the in
fected herds, and that may be diaeaaed
but have not reached tho febrile stage of
the disorder, will endeavor to protect
their property by driving them weat-
wardor by shipping ffcom to Esatern
markets. The KaOaar LegilWsnro
should take prompt and heroic action pi
once. There is no known cure for the
disease. All infected animals should be
killed and burned. The ground tliey
have been feeding on should be burned
over, and plowed. If Kansas is unable
to cope with the disease through a lack
of money the national aid should be ex
tended. If this disrsae is not speedily
stamped out in Kanesp it will probably
spread to the great plains, and will also
be carried to the stock yards at Kansas
City, and from there distributed through
out the eastern Mississippi States. This
disease may easily become a national
disaster, and money should not be
spared in tho efforts now to be made to
control it. Fbamk Wilxrsox.
Notes of a Sermon.
“Ye shall receive power, after that the
Holy Ghost is come upon you,” (Acts,
l, 8) was Dr. Hall’s text Sunday morn
ing. Among tho notable sentences of
the sermon were:
“There are questions which it is
wise for us to put off, as far as an an
swer is concerned. ”
"Original ;>ower belongs to God, but
there are forms of power which His
creatures can call into action.”
"You would all agree that the minis
ter should preach tho word with all
boldness, but are there not some of you
who think your religion is a matter be
tween your Maker and yourself, and the
less you say about it the better ? If you
think this is a matter of divine teaching
I say to you, No.” «
"Tho servants of God aro equal to
tho burdens laid upon them.
OCR GREAT NAGS*
flaw * Uarspeaa KSItar TarasS the Table*
•a Larry Jeraate.
When Mr. Larry Jerome waa in Nice
some years ago he didn’t confine himself
to painting the town red and astonish
ing the natives. Among the Americans
who were in the oily at the same time
were Mr. Mackey, the representative
American millionaire, and the talented
proprietor~-of—« famous newspaper.
While looking around for a target for
one of his practical jokes Mr. Jerome’s
eagle eye espied a piece of cheap jewelry
in a shop window. He paid a franc for
it, put it into a handsome case and sent
it to tho newspaper editor with the com
pliments of Mr. Mackey.
"Here’s a nice affair I” exclaimed his
friend as Jerome met him an hour later.
^ "What’s the matter?” inquired the
joker. “Anybody dead ?’’
"Dead I No, but somebody will be,
if I am to be insulted in this way. Just
look at tills jewel that Mackey has sent
me. He wants to subsidize me by offer
ing me bribes.”
Mr. Jerome took up the jewel,- and
immediately uttered an exclamation of
surprise.
"Goodness gracious 1” said he.
*a&.
T2B FROTLK,
iCLAfta
“If you bare been teal, bright to «££> wist
disciplrsbip you will always be hungry
for more truth.”
“Wo Protestants agree in stigmatizing
the unscriptnnil op tit operatum teach
ings of Romanists, but I put it to you if
we ProtcBtauts are not in danger of fall
ing into an ojtwt operatum doctrine in
our own line that is just as mischievous?
You say you hear a sermon every Sun
day, and I say to you, what of it?
What have you gained ?”
"Real healthy appetite does not lead
a man ta turn away from food because
food of tne same kind has been served
to him before. What if you have heard
a sermon of the same kind before ?”
"Church fellowship has been abused
and counterfeited. Men have even taken
the ministry as a means of making a liv
ing and getting on in the world; but in
that an argument in favor of the right
use of church fellowship ?’’
"I wonder if there have not been
church members who have taken and
have been known to take downward
steps one after another, and have gone
to ruin? Who can a—a* bfcr
never once spoke a kindly word of warn
ing.’’
"Reactions commonly go a little too
far. Iu tho reaction against various
doctrines we, as Protestants, have liecn
apt to make too little of the sacra
ment#.”
"Most of you have been baptized,
You would not rob a fellow man. Do
yon rob God of what you have solemnly
vowed to render to Him from day to
day?”
"No man con be sure that he ia not in
danger of morbid feeling in some direc
tion^ pr- —--
"Divine power ia always ready to bo
pat into operation if we will keep the
channels ready,”
“Yon may take a sheet of paper and
fill it with line* of ciphen, bnt they
amount to nothing till Jon pat the one
at the beginning. Nnmbers in a church
arc idle unlees the spirit of God loads
them.”
“The use of great quantities of quack
medicines is proof of widespread disease
or apprehension of evil”
"Ask yourselves if yon have not been
living below yonr privileges.”
The Nisero’s Captive Crew.
The captain of the steamer Nisero has
arrived in London, and will have an au
dience with Earl Granville. The Kajah
of Tenom asks £62,000 ransom for the
crew, the banishment of the rival
and the declaration that Tenom is free
from the Dutch. The Nisero was
wrecked on the west coast of Acheen,
Sumatra, on Nov. 12, while on a voyage
from Sourobaya to Singapore. The
vessel was looted by the subjects of the
Rajah of Tenom, and the crew, constat
ing of twenty-five men, among whom
#as an Amerttin, were taken captive.
Late in November the British gunboat
Pegasus visited the Aeheen coast to give
aid to the captive crew; bnt it withdrew
when the Bajah announced that he
would put all the captives to death if
the gunboat fired a single shot. In De
cember the Dutch sent out an expedi
tion from Padang to rescue the crew.
The expedition effected a landing at
Tenom on Jan. 7, and the land and naval
forces bombarded and burned the Rajah’s
capital and destroyed several
But the captives had een remo
the interior, and the Rajah refused
all the proffers of ransom made by the
Patch. There was believed to be little
prospect that the lives of the crew would
be spared; but it seems the Rajah has
been holding them with tho hope of
exacting ad exorbitant ransom,
A xortro Indiana woman was “fright
ened into convulsions by going into a
ing I conld bny ! How fortneato yon
are, old boy. Mackey must think an
awful lot of you to send you sooh a valu
able present.”
"I’ll send it back to him,” said his
friend. "No man can purchase mo, and
I'll let him know it.”
"My dear boy,” urged Jerome, "that
would never do. Mr. Maekey ia a very
kindly gentleman, and I am sure that lie
was actnated to this jiriucely generosity
by his disinterested regard for you.
Don’t send the jmrel back, for you will
only hurt hk tailings."
Mr. Jerome’s eloquence prevailed, and
it was not until the editor met Mr.
Mackey and thanked him (or his mag
nificent gift that the joke leaked out
The editor determined upon revenge,
and the opportunity soon presented it
self. A number of French navsl officers
had shown Mr. Jerome marked atten
tion, and as an evidence of his apprecia-
ation he purchased a case of the finest
Turkish tobacco and a number of deli-
oatoly carved meerschaums and dis
patched the nonasome presents to the
man-of-war, which lay in the harbor.
The editor intercepted the box on its
journey by bribing the expressman, and
after removing the contents, filled it
With the rankest tobacco purchasable,
and threw in a number of old clay pipes.
Mr. Jerome was never able to explain
tbe matter, and to this day is an object
of integMebatred to every officer in the
French teory who baa been told the story
of his supposed outrageous conduct. —
New York Journal.
Horace Greeley a .Boyhood.
LOST IN fi BL1XXARD.
A Hal Tra«s4r si Wtaur Uls la
One oi the saddest of this wmaers
storm tragedies, says a Dakota corre
spondent, waa that which rcaul ted in the
death of the Nelson family, who lived
near Sanborn. They had' not been in
the Territory long, and they knew com
paratively little about tho fierceness of
the blizzards. They were poor and had
made bnt scant provision for the winter.
Running oat of fuel, they bad been
burning straw, and aa the consumption
of this article waa enormous dnring the
severe weather, it was found almost im
possible to keep enough of it on hand to
last more than a few 1 louts. When tbe
last getet Mszard swept over the coun
try, the Nelsons found themselves with
only a little straw near at hand end their
necessities very groat. The nearest tdodk
was only half a mile from their howto,
bat they tawed to brave the storm in an
effort tonoak it £
Hoping that the tempest would toon
rpend ita force, they economized the fuel
they had at hand aa beat they ooukt
Doling out the straw sparingly, they
mansged to keep their hovel tolerably
warm, and to cook such food as they
were supplied with. Economies! aa they
were wlttl the straw, however, it was
spent before the storm showed any signs
of abating, and aa the cold grew more
intense it became a question of securing
more fuel or freezing to death. It is lie-
llcvod that they realized the desperate
situation they were in and the possibility
that if they once ventured out in the
blinding gale they might not ratnrn.
None of them wishing to remain in tho
cheerless home, the father and bia two
children started out. It ia known that
they reached the straw stack, and each,
having secured a load, started bock; but
in changing their course they lost their
way, and wandered aimleesly about un
til, exhausted and benumbed with cold,
they could go no farther. The father
then appears to have dag a cave in a
huge snow drift at a point as little ex
posed as possible, into which be put the
children. He then started oat in search
of asuetanoo, bat finding none he sac-
cumbea to tbe snow and the cold. Be
coming tired of waiting for him, and
probably crazed by her suffering one of
the girls left her retreat and wandered
aiuiinisij aiA/u* ure'|mmiael x*f» -|<—*•
tailed. A searching party found tbe body
of one little one in the cave, and that
of the other »few rods away, and that of
the father about half a mile from biff
^Almost every blizzard that sweeps
over this section causes similar cases of
suffering and death. They will continue
until people coming here to settle under
stand in advance that they are braving
an Arotie climate in winter, and that
when the blizzard rolls about their habi
tations they most stay in doors and wait
. (or clearing skies.
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT
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bed of tO» QMs, Mot
so sweUiifc ttmT rsa
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tool sees, thea the —t*a
tistsaadsMsswin
brains oto tbs
of tbs ofct
dm who so with tore was
that very daring dauyhtr
■biped Higher Water. She dt
beet t > *ave mm from a watery gn
to hksonl 1
did her level
frost a watery grave. Peeee
No store he’ll roast upon the
yellow foam; no nose hell hear the
porker* rqueal; he'll hhow no more of
woe or weal; for Heaven
wlllallhtaMiTOW* heal !
»«n** ov A
"I am • director in tbe company, ”
said timdMMn a newspaper odtos.
"You don’t say so?”
i “Y«s, it’s tnm.” *
"What arp the director’s duties ?”
"To direct wrappers, of*
Merchant Trmeller.
a xamn
Reporter—"I snapoae yog feel pretty
[ailoreuf ye “
bed over the failure gf your Lasker i
hittpn to reach the ReMkstag?"
Ochiltree—“Well, I don’t mind that
so much, bat there is one thing that
make* dm sorry I Introdoesd it.”
Reporter—"What is that T"
Ochiltree—"It has given
mnch prominence.*
village*,
moved to
dimly lighted room which she thought
unoccupied and there seeing a young man-
el the family throwing his arms wildly
about in tho effort to put on hia over
coat.” The eontertioua of the average
Indiana man while patting on a coat
would frighten a railroad train off onto
the first switch it ooukffiad.
' It ts stated that Mr. Barnum tz hav
ing a sign painted which will read.:
‘This elephant is white,”
Ben. P. Poore, in hta Reminiscences,
thus speaks of Horace Greeley: Horace
Greeley’s personal appearance waa
always a subject of remark from hia
boyhood. Rollin C. Mallary, a member
of Congress from Vermont, who was an
able champion of the American System,
used to narrate a visit of hia to the
printing office of a country newspaper
at Poultney, Vt, hta place of residence.
His attention was attracted to a young
compositor, who was rather awkwardly
"stieking types,” and who, though fail
grown, was evidently the youngest ap
prentice in the office. Hta legs ran a
good deal mere than ‘ ‘a feet” through
hta pantaloons, tbe sleeves of his ooei
scarcely reached below hta elbows, his
hair was very white and flaxen, and he
wae, on the whole, MPthe aggregate,
taken separately and together, the
greenest looking specimen of humanity
we ever looked at, and this is saying a
good deal, for “we keeps a looking-
glass.” "That bov Mr, Mallory,
“will make a iiiuisjrpittn man; 1 can’t
hold an argument teiifcjEmn on Masonry
or anything eke connected with politics."
As Mr. Mailary was eonsidered one of
the ablest men in Congress, his remark
caused me some surprise; and we not
only “made a note of, but took another
look at tbe “devil”,(printer’a we mean),
and oonld not bnt trace in the expansive
forehead “a mind formed in nature’s
finest monld and wrought for immor
tality.” It waa years afterward that we
became aware of tho fact that that boy
was Horace Greeley.
~W * "
A Yost Enterprise.
It is now proposed to connect the
railway system of America with those ol
Ast* and Europe by means of a ferry
conveying locomotives and cars across
Behring’* Strait. The project is to ex
tend the Canadisa Pacific, now being
ooasirncted through Manitoba, by build,
ing a branch to Alaska until it reaches
Behring’s Strait. There it woald meet
with the railroad tracks to be oonstruotad
in Siberia, which of course live their
direct relations with the railway system
of Russia and Europe. A line to Pekin
is talked oL This having been done it
requires not much farther stretch of
the imagination to see with the mind’s
eye the long rails stretching out under
the shadows of the Himalayas until they
make oonnectione with the
line in tho Jordan Valley, and thence
with the European system. This
seem wild, bnt stranger things have
happened in this won'lurfal im store
The Ytriable Wind.
One blowing day last week, when the
Sidewalks were re slippery re glare, a
woman stood in front of a door on Clif
ford street, and strewed some ashes from
a pan she held on the icy walk. As she
did so, the wind blew the cool dost rather
freely over her, and a man going past
■aid:
“ If you will turn your back to the
wind it will Mow the ashes from yon in
stead of over jam,*'
The women thanked him with her
eyes, bat did not move. Indeed, she
could not without losing her balaneo and
the ashes both. W
"Let me show yon,” said the mad,
ktaljy, as he removed a fta glove end
gfliped with a determined grip the well
filled ash-pan. “You eaotethrow them
over the walk in this way, and not be
liable to put yonr eyes out. It’s aa easy
aa rotting off a log,” and he braced hia
back against the wind and gave a gener-
oos flop to tbe ash-pan.
The woman went into the house to get
the ashes out of her hair and eyes mid re
cover her health. When the police had
dusted the man off and identified him
they took him home. The only remark
he mode was:
"Yon can’t most always tell from what
quarter the wind will blow when yon af*
tempt to give advice about emptying an
ash-pan.”
Which it is so. —Detroit Free Prat*.
IF QP COULD DO ROTHIHO
At a Lake Eric pleasure
summer, s certain small party of young
adies were out for a sail The yacht
was managed by a handsome
boatman, who unconsciously
mash on the jolly girls.
"Bhall I hug tbe shore?"
sailor. yf
, “WeU^yea—if that’s th' bsat you
can do," was the replv of one of the
girls.—The ITootler.
TOOK. CABV ov Tift
Passenger—-How long hare you here
employed Hi the street-oar* ?
Drive*-Fifteen year—bonin' whin I
was sick.
Psssenger—You most be a greet favor*
’Driver—H*Mm 1 haf—D’ye are
tbat'^nrld gray mare Pm dhririn’ ?
Well, we both fell gjok together at warel
last winter; They aint for a doethsr lor
the home” and they aint me me i
lion.
me a kiss T said
^ THS TSTTZ
"Will yon grant
General Sherman to a ygry
lady in Sh Itoftk.
"No.’^tajhlhe blushing reply.
"Ah, ‘nonMone ‘yea’," eeid to
eral, with much manner, end he
himself to a couple of ktoeea
A few momenta tofeT M
he was a candidate tor the
end he blnahingly
Evening Call.
•Bu."—
war cm cawvot lot* a
The feminine mind early sttaiwe to the
consideration of the ethke ef fibs aflee*
tioua. In a city school the other day
the class in English gramyifewa dis
cussing the dUferenoe between toe
words ‘‘like”and “love.” *Tre^**laid
the teacher, “we een like e tosneto, but
ia jt proper to say we 1 een love
to>” “No, it is not,” eeld a f
miss; “one cannot love a
Why not?” inquired toe tceehlf. "Be
cause, you know, yoodtffcbt—you eatt’l
—well, you can’t hag a tomato.”
vtrmmcn nr tools.
. Men may dig digr months an’fine del
dc gol’ aiift dar, bnt when de wood
pecker digs a hole in de tree he eljps
takes out e worm. It ain’t aBus ret"
silcht man dat’s de smartea’. De aheap
dpefi make, ex much fere ez de deg; but
ne-Are’Apt nigh an much areas. II
takre rer good pint taer man tor show
np zander. Wkldqtde eld^ good toed
de fine blood wouldn’ show nigh so plain
in er hors. De odycated foot It was desi
de one what ain’t odycated, tar theedy-
eated one spiles a good piece o’ yro^k,
rsrharee de osiodyeated one doan
un’ertake a thing x$et he kabt’t
Arkansaw Traveler.
world of oarz. —Demortol t Monthly,
Seawthtoff About Gunpowder.
Aa a matter of faet, says a manufac
turer of powder, much more powdei
burned in times of peace than in timtedf
war. Tbe average daily consumption of
powder in tbe United States is 100 tons.
In a bottle in which 60,000 men fired 40
rounds each, leas than one-quarter of an
ordinary day’s quota of powder would be
used. In the construction of the Hooaac
Tonnel more powder was exploded then
in the war of the rebettien, soda single
large cool mine will uae almost ad much.
Gunpowder and the finest quality of
.blreting powder are made of three parts
of saltpetre and one part of oharooal end
brimstone in equal quantities. In the
cheaper grades of blasting powdar,
nitrate of soda ie substituted for salt
petre. The largest beds of saltpetre are
in HLnilndtai, end for a long tune the
JEagliah had complete control over the
saltpetre market Thre principal de
posits of nitrate of reds dre in Ohi^, near
the boundaries of Peru,. Jn the m*OB-
faetore of powder Pennsylvania stonfi
first, Now Yutk eeoood, endGhfo thtsto !
In Germany,
are very etriet, and any
ia promptly punished. The
a holy terror el >hs low.
men happened to meet f|
the following
“Have yon
about Miller F*
"No, what is tt?” «
"He was in a boat in tom
fell overboard, and
Wat® wre b
“Didn’ft
■•Swim! Dent
sons are T
in the river f-