University of South Carolina Libraries
# ■iwfv' HELD UP BY HER LOVER. li A niglnvaynian Losm b Itri^e Through Uor Pluck a> a Stage Driver. "Of course you've heard innumer able romances of women stage driv ers," said F. C. Olcutt of Cheyenne to a reporter. "So have I, and most of them are fiction, too, I have no doubt, but I know of one in which every word is true. The heroine of my story was not the regular driver of the coach which I have in mind, but dur ing the trip I speak of she was a ^substitute for her brother, who was a farmer, and having been reared.on the farm she was noted for feats more tusual to men than women. For in stance, she was an excellent horse woman, could ride almost any horse, was a first rate shot and was not afraid of anything. Often she had driven the coach for her brother, when from any cause he wanted to have a day off. She did it well, too; perfectly, in .fact, and she was the pride of all the people roundabout. "Now she had a lover, which was perfectly natural and quite commend able. Her lover lived with his par- ' puts on a neighboring farm. Ho lacked a grout’ deal of being a model for a Y. M. C. A. superintendent, but yet his infractions of the ordinary amenities of life wore not so fla grant and glaring as to give him a no torious character. Still, he was shift less and inclined to wildness. He would often go to town, bo absent throe or four days and return very reticent as to where ho had been or M to what he had been doing. This morning my heroine cracked the whip over the stage horses for her 00 mile drive. William—she called him that, though the rest of the people thereabouts called him Wild Bill— was absent from home, supposedly in Cheyenne. "The coach was n mail coach, of course, and aside from the revenue derived from the government for carry ug the mail had a good pas senger traific, for 10 years ago rail roads were scarce in that country. The coach left at 0 o’clock in the morning and was due at its destina tion at 8 o’clock in the evening. Ev erything went well, the passengers were very merry until about 4 o’clock in the evening. At just about that hom- tivo men jumped out from behind u bowlder in front of tho coach and demanded ‘Hands up!’ The nervy little woman on tho box didn't ‘hands up’ worth a cent. In stead, she dropi*ed her lines, grabbed a winchester and was pouring a fu sillade of bullets into tho robbers be fore they, in their amazement, could comprehend what was going on. "She so completely astonished them that they for a second or two didn’t know ‘straight up,’ as tho say ing goes. Her example inspired the passengers to courage, and they, too, opened fire. Tho result was that all the robbers save one tied ingloriously. The exception was one who hud dropped at the first shot with a wound in his right shoulder. Well, after tho others had lied, the girl came down from tho box to look at the wounded man. She stooped over him and pulled off tho mask, revealing to her astonished eyes the features of Wild Bill, her lover. No, she didn’t marry him, but she took him into town, had his wound attended to, and never revealed to the authorities what had occurred. That’s a true story."—Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette. Alma-Ta«l«tun'a Early Efforts. Mr. Alma-Tadema is ruthless in do- | stroying results that do not seem to him to lie satisfactory. I hare of 1 <*a seen him wipe from his canvas a beautiful figure,or a lovely object when bo thought that by doing so the lino of bis composition would bo improved or that greater simplicity would be gained by tho sacrifice. I have heard Mr. Alma-Tadema toll a story of tho fate of two unsuccess- ; ful pictures of his student days. One of them was returned unsold by the committee of the Brussels exhibition in 1859. The subject, I believe, was of a house on fire, with people rescu ing tho victims. His fellow students were asked into the studio of the re jected painter and were invited to jump through tho canvas, the owner of it leading tho way by leaping, head first, through the oily flames. The other story was of a large sized, square picture which came back, hopelessly, again and again, to tho easel of its creator, until at last it was cut out of its frame and was given to an old woman to use it as a table cover, and who remarked that it "was much better than those com mon oilcloth things that always let the water through, for this one of Mr. Tadema’s making was a good, thick one, with plenty of paint on it.”—Mrs. E. Gossc in Century. THE TERRORS OF BALLOONING. TU« Capital of WUconitiu. Four Lakes was Madison’s original name. That was 00 years and more ago. In IhllO there was a struggle of di fierceness over the location of j territorial capital among the cit ies ambitious to bo known as such, these being Milwaukee, Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, Janesville and a dozen more. Governor Doty started from Green Bay on horseback, ao- •ompanied by a surveyor. The ter ritorial governor was provided with a green blanket and a shotgun, the surveyor with a chain and compass. In eight days they reached what was then called Four Lakes, and the governor had the surveyor make a plat of tho place, whose sole occupant was tho owner of a log cabin. Ho named the place Madison, in honor of the president of that name, pro ceeded on to Belmont, where the leg islature was in session, and entered the future city of Madison as a can didate for capital honors. To the astonishment of competing cities, Madison was chosen. It was claimed at the time that when the legislature adjourned nearly every member of that body carried home with him the deed to a corner lot in the new town. —Milwaukee Sentinel. Wl.ut IMil He Menu? The black eyed widow look<*d un usually meditative, and one of tho other widows offered her a penny for her thoughts. "I was pondering," she said, “a re mark that a bachelor made to me this morning and wondering whether to accept it as consolatory or tho con trary.” "What was the remark?” asked the other widows with one voice. "Well,” the black eyed widow con tinued, "a theater party was made ’up in our house hist night, and at breakfast tho bachelor asked me why I was not of it. I repli«*d that I was not invited—that I feared I was no longer attractive and suspected my self to be possee. The bachelor aeized my hand respectfully, turned 16 gently toward the light, inspect- * mo curiously and then exclaimed a solemn tone, ‘Madam, go up lirs and thank your M •Wf” "The horrid thing!” cried all the ier widows in a breath. “What earth did ho mean f New York Id. A I.onig Lived 1*1 ke. Ithe museum at Mannheim there I skeleton of a pike which moos- 119 foot and had a ring around Ith this inscription in Greek: “I \o fish which was first of all put [the lake by the handy of the fie universe, Frederick iober, mo.” Tho fish, fciugUt in 1497, was W ►/ondon Hup. A Description. "Can you describe the man you saw hnngingabout the house thoday before the robbery?” inquired tho de tective. The Perkins Junction strfrcheaper, whoso place of business had-been bro ken into and robl d of a considera ble quantity of plug tobacco, canne 1 tomatoes and dried peaches, together with tho entire contents of the ca-li drawer, amounting to £1.5/, roll ted a moment and then asked, "D’you know Bill Quinn ?” “I don’t think I do.” "Lives down in the Wallick neigh borhood.” "I don’t know him." Tho merchant shifted his quid to the other cheek, chewed it thought fully awhile and said: “Know Si Roberts?” "No.” "Auctioneer. Hang; round Thom p son's a good deal.” “Never hoard of him. But as to this man you saw loafing about here before the robbery took place- I would like to have you describe him as .well as you can.” Again the storekeeper reflected. "Well,” ho said at last, "he looks some like Bill Quinn and some like Si Roberts.”—Chicago Tribune. Coinpoultion Under Dlfllcultie*. Aletter from tho Archduke Joseph, tho only member of the imperial family who resides permanently in Hungary, which has just been pub lished, gives a pleasant pic ture of the relations between himself and Urn it/, Jokai. It incidentally mentions that it was on the suggestion of the great Hungarian author that the mvhduke published his own work on the gypsy language. While Moritz Jokai was staying at the archduke’s country house the latter remarked that his guest was in the habit of constantly jotting down notes on separate sibn of paper, whether at home, out walk ing, talking, watching the dancers, or in tho vineyard—in short, every where. This excited the curiosity of his host, who was not a little surpr's. 1 to hear in reply to his inquiry that all these fragments were part of a novel he was then writing and were sent off direct to tho press. Arch duke Joseph says that ho read the Work with social interest, looking attentively for any indications of the manner in which it had been com posed, but could not find the slightest trace of discontinuity:—Vienna Cor. Loudon Times. The SprliiK on Mount Mlteli«-ll. One of tho most singular springs I ever saw is on the top of Mount Mitchell. It is on the summit and is clear and cold. It has never been known to go dry and is seemingly without a bottom, as lines have been dropped down to a great depth. As Mount Mitchell is the highest peck on the Alleglianios a.id the nearest mountain of greater altitude is in Colorado, about 2,000 miles distant, the query naturally arises as to the source of this spring. Tho only conclusion is that it is a siphon spring, but if so the water flows at least 2,000 miles and under innumerable rivers and streams, un der prairies and under mountains, until it reaches the peak, where it forces its way through a fissure to the top. The water is remarkably clear and pure and shows no trace of , its having encountered any minerals ! during its long journey, although minerals arc found on every side of the place where it rises to the sur- i face. I have never heard any satis factory explanation of tho phenom ena.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Sporting Pnge Cure. "To a patient afflicted with a cer tain phase of melancholia I onco gave an unusual piece of advice,” said an Arch street physician. “l asked him if he ever took any inter est in the sporting intelligence pr *- sonted in tho daily pajjors. He re plied in the negative and added that sjiorts of any kind were distasteful to him, and some even abhorrent to tho principles instilhsl into him from early youth. 1 then told him he was suffering from t’.j effects of dwell ing too long on tho grave concerns and problems of life, and that if he wished to prolong his years ho must take hold of lighter things, and that I knew of no mental diversion so ef fectual as to take a positive interest in tho sporting events of the day—an interest which he might easily create by a little persistent reading of this entertaining branch of news. He followe£ 0 'Ynpd'lt|!'ioe, his morose and suspiqljfbecuJic w.is gradually sub- tluo fionaUe a i uL? ^ c ^ ieer ful and a* I ever A Woman’s KxcitlinvFall Tlirougli Space and l>c»pi' r rom Death. Mrs. Carl E. Myers, the parachute jumper, told of an exciting experience of hers at the fairgrounds at Ottawa that, as she said, "began like a com edy and nearly ended in a tragedy: “It was the narrowest escape I’ve ever hqd, and incidentally and acci dentally Ihe first parachute descent ever made in America. It wasn't a regular parachute either, but 111 tell you about that when I come to it. The occasion was a big fair, and tho grounds were packed with people, the biggest and most uncontrollable crowd I have over seen. Wo had a funny time getting the balloon to tho place. It was brought up on the other side of the river in tow of a lo comotive and was to bo towed across by a lino of canoes paddled by In dians. We got it fastened to the ca noes, and it lifted tho first three into the air, spilling their occupants out. That was too much, even for aborig inal stolidity. The other Indians de camped in haste. "They afterward said that if they had to go upward to tho Great Spirit they preferred to die first and have the benefit of decent burial. Tho next move was to fasten the balloon's guy rope to the stern of a small steam tug. The tug started up, a puff of wind lift ’d the balloon a little, and iq* e. Mie the stern of tho boat out of tin water. The tug kept on puffing, the serew revolved wildly, and the crowd howled with laughter. It was too ridiculous! It reminded mo of a kitten held up in the air by the tail and wildly scratching to get a foot hold on the floor beneath. “Finally, a bigger boat got the big gas l ag over safely, but so densely packed was the crowd that I had to walk on the shoulders of the people to the balloon. In their eagerness to get up close the people broke the concentrating ring, which gathers tho balloon ropes before they are fasten ed to the basket, and also tore a big hole in the bag. In view of this, Mr. Myers wanted me to give up the trip, biit 1 insisted on going, and finally fastened the ropes to the basket. The rapidity with which I shot up was alarming, and I was three miles high befi a- • 1 stopped. Then I began to drop pretty fast, but I know I could stop that when I wanted to, and I felt better. Suddenly I heard a tre mendous ripping and tearing sound. Tie’ airptvs.ong up as I fell had start ed the hole made by the crowd and had loi n three great rents clear to the top of the bag. “1 began to drop with frightful rapidity, and for a minute I gavemy- self up for lost and sank down in the basket, been it flashed into my mind hat I s‘ 11 had a chance if I could so turn tl.e balloon as to bring tho torn pa it m i: denieath, and thus keep some of tho in the bag. It was a case of working against time, for every second was bringing me nearer to a terrible death. In tho one glance that 1 took downward I could see tho earth leaping up, as it seemed, to meet me. I quickly shifted all my sand bags, and to my joy the balloon turned so as to form a sort of para chute, and the sliced was greatly de creased. 1 was still dropping at a dang< rous rate, however. "Looking down below, I saw not far distant a patch of spruce trees. Toward this I directed my fall and managed to land there. Right through the .ves I wont, breaking every branch that I touched, but tho trees saved mo, for I landed on the ground badly shaken, but unhurt. I had traveled an actual distance of 111 inili s horizontally and three miles downward in five minutes. My fall had lieen slanting. That was tho only time that I ever gave up hope even for a moment.”—New York Hun. I n-omaminry uf Triulo. Tho Freemasonry of trade appears to bo extending all round this jolly eroth. The time may come when it will be possible tahuvo one’s apparel, purehasi ' l in New York, put in order free wherever one may happen to bo. Hero i s a hatter who announces that his silk hats can bo ironed free of charge in f 'ff cities located in 27 Amer ican stall s and territories and three foreign countries. There does not npp ; -ar to bo any good reason why a man i' uld not huvo a button sewed on bis New York shoe in Kalamazoo or Timbuctoo, and it is by no means improbable that ho may one day have his metropolitan coat pressed fivi- of charge in Yokohama or in Mellnurno, to say nothing of Cou- stantinopk) and Canandaigua.—New York Sun. A Candled Tale. "Here,” said a Lewiston detective, "is a queer thing to convict a man of burglary with,” and he held up the head of a hammer which he had kept iu a drawer in his table It was an ordinary hammer head, only the striking end of it was battered in a strange and peculiar way. One side of it was broken off. "A break was made in a Lewiston home during the winter, and besides a small lot of jewelry a bundle of papers was canned away. The pa pers were of a private nature and such that the owner desired as much to recover them as ho did the jewelry. The robber had entered tho house through the kitchen and while pick ing the lock had set a hammer down in a pan of molasses candy that had been put into the back entry to cool during the night. When he took up the hammer, it had left the imprint of its head in tho candy. I saved that j)an and kept it on ice all sum mer in an up town icehouse. The next winter I was in a local junk store and found this hammer in the pocket of a coat in the pile of old clothes. I knew it by the head of it to bo the one dropped into the candy pan. " ‘Whom did you buy this of?’ I asked. "The dealer happened to remem ber, and I took the hammer head and went to the man’. Jouse. There I found that ho had died during the summer, but his widow recognized the hammer. I asked if her husband had left any old letters or papers, and she brought out the lost bundle. She knew nothing alxmt any jewelry, but her husband had left £J()0. I took the papers to their owner and told him tho thief was dead.”—Lewiston Journal. A VOICE FROM THE TOMB. Plain Stun ley's Eulhnr. Bishop Stanley, tho dean’s father, was disappointed in bis wish to be a sailor, for which he was admirably fitted. He ruled Alderloy exactly os a captain rules bis ship. He gave premiums or prizes for cleanliness and punished parishioners by good naturedly declining to enter a house it it was not tidy, and turned away, saying bo would "come back when it was clean.” He oven got tho keepers of the inns to p ‘ up placards in their parlors and bars in commendation of temperance. I^cgrd. A Clian^fn Self. A young girl who was dissatisfied with her homo life and always talk ing of her grievances and allowing her di: content in voice, look and manner surprised a friend whom she mot one day by her quick step and bright smile and happy voice. "How are things at home?” the friend asked, thinking that some good nows had made tho change. "Oh, everything is jiir t the sumo, but I am different,’’ was tho reply.—Rum’s Horn. The expense of each individual telephone instr ument is larger in a larger circuit than in a smaller one, because the switchboard and other connections increase in geometrical ratio as the number of instruments ' increase. That is why rentals are higher in u iurgfc city than irra small one. | •— .VI ( Their Rplnttl Stair«ase. A most estimable ana well known west end lady has been made tho butt in times past of numerous well known but not estimable stories touching her unfamiliarity with the queen’s English. She is reported to have spoken of an invalid daughter as indelicate, and of another, upon whose education much money had l>oeii lavished, as the most costive of all her children. It has also been re lated that most of tho members of her family have lieen accustomed to ride to Baltimore on communion tickets. I have steadily refused to chronicle any of these yarns, be cause they have not really related to this good lady. They have been pure inventions, fastened upon her by malicious scandal mongel’s. Nor does tho following relate to her: A well known society woman of the west end, similarly unfamiliar with the niceties of the English lan guage, spoke at one of the delightful teas of a spinal staircase of great beauty which had been constructed in tho house of a neighlior. There was a bright girl near by who heard this architectural or anatomical reference. She said aside, and it was very mean of her: “Perhaps the lady refers to her neighbor’s back stairs.”—Washington Capital. Cow roiili’* In th« Emit. A good many of these ponies are brought east to 1h» used as polo ponies. They are as tough as whalebone and as plucky ns a squaw. They show great intelligence and will follow a polo ball with less training than any horse known, not even excepting those bred in England especially for polo purposes. This fact lias Im-ci »me generally known among polo enthu siasts in the east, and if you will ex amine the ponies used either at New port, Cedarhurst or any of tho other crack clubs, you will find that almost all of them bear tho brands which arc to bo found in the registry books of Colorado and Texas. Tho value of these ponies increases at a rapid rate. A fast one that costs £18 or £20 in Texas, after six weeks polo work at Colorado Springs or up at Glen wood, is often sold in the New York market at anywhere from £75 to £275, though tho cost of sending east a carload holding 15 is only alKiut £250. Personally, I do not see why there is not a good chance for hoi’scinen to make money in this branch of their business. Western ponies make nice driving horses for light work.—New York Mail and Ex press. How He Ticratne ‘’Private” Alien. Allen of Mississippi is everywhere known as "Private” Allen, but it Is not as generally known how he ob tained this title. It was when ho first ran for congress. • Ho stumptxl tho district with his competitor, a General Tucker, who opened tho campaign with a rhetorical rhapsody in which he alluded to his war serv ices and particularly described a bat tle in which ho had commanded the Confederate side, beginning, "Fel low citizens, I slept one night iu a tent on the mountain side awaiting the battle on the morrow.” When he had finished, Allen got «p and said: "Friends and fellow citizens—What General Tucker told you about his sleeping in the tent that night before the battle is true. I know, for I was guarding that tent all night long in tho cold and wet. Now, I want to say to all of you who were generals in the war and slept at night in your guarded tents, vote for him. But all you fellows that guarded the generals’ tents in wet and cold, like me, you vote for Pri vate Allen.” Allen was triumphantly elected and has been "Private" since. —Boston. Advertiser. Growing blackberries and mush rooms, by law, are not private prop erty in England. Ono may be pros ecuted for trespass on land where they grow, but not for theft in taking them. "Well, no,” remarked a bare,brown trw, shivering in its box on New Year’s eve, ‘Til not turn over a new loaf now, but in tho spring I shall." II Spoke In » Dream end Told a Tale of Gliastly Horror. The Rev. Mr. Partridge was once the vicar of a parish in tho suburbs of London. He had tho misfortune to lose a favorite son, whoso body was interred in a vault in the church. Two nights after the interment Mr. Partridge dreamed that he saw his son, habited in a shroud spotted with blood, the expression of his counte nance being that of a person endur ing some paroxysm of acute pain. "Father, father,” he cried, "come and defend me! They will not let mo rest quiet in my coffin.” The apparition was so vivid that the dreamer awoke, trembling from excitement. He argued with him self that it was the result of the grief he felt on account of his son's death, and after awhile managed to over come his agitation and go tc sleep again. But it seemed to him that he scarcely lost consciousness when the vision reappeared, beseeching more piteously than before that his father would come to his aid, as they were "mangling his body at that instant.” The tortured man slept no more that night, and at the break of day re paired to the clerk’s house, where the keys of the vault were kept. Here he was informed that the key to tho main door had been broken and the clerk’s son had gone to the smith’s to have a new one made. Impelled by the worst misgivings, tho vicar pro cured a crowbar, by means of which the hinges of the door were wrenched off. The sight that greeted him caused the father to fall fainting to the floor. His son’s coffin hnd been lift ed from the recess and placed on tho brick pavement. Tho lid lay loose on the top. Tho body, enveloped in its shroud, on which were several spots of blood below tho chin, was exposed to view. The broad ribbon had been removed from below tho jaw, which hung down with a most ghastly horror of expression, and ev ery tooth in tho bead bad been drawn. Tho youth while living had possosHod a beautiful set of teeth. The clerk's son, who was l>otli a barber and a dentist, had obtained possession of the vault keys for tho purpose of extracting tho teeth for uso in his business. — Now York Times. The Mlnlstei-’n Diary. The following are extracts from a diary kept by the Rev. Mr. Emerson of the town of Conway in 1799 and 1800: Jan. 1, 1800—Had much company. In the evening married a couple. Fee, £1.25. Had a cheese give n me. Value about £1. Deacon Ware a present of beef, value about 20 cents. Jan. 4—Attended to study. Bottle rum, 50 cents. Jan. 23—Married tliii e couple. Fee, £0.25. Feb. 4—Paid a woman tailor for one day 25 cents. July 5—Bot. rum at Bardwell’s store, 50 cents. Aug. 12—Two quarts rum Wil liams’store, £1.50. Paid for killing hog, 17 cents. Oct. 20—Put in tho cellar for win ter use 38 barrels of cider. Value, £32. Deo. 29 —Lord’s day. Preached from Samuel i, 27, “How aro tho mighty fallen.” — North Adams (Mass.) Democrat. Puwn1>rnk<*iV Methotlfi. "Have you ever noticed,” said Du Broke, "that pawnbrokers will never answer tho question, ‘What can I get on this?’ They always make ono tell what ho wants to borrow, and then no matter how low one places tho amount, tho broker will always go him £1 or $2 lower. I knew of fel low in an office who was pretty j. on for a pawnbroker, but who 1 :d learned this first principle. "I had a beautiful solitaire ring, and I needed just a fiver. So I thought, for fuu, I would seo if this fellow would actually try to go me one lower on the ring. "I asked for £G, and as lie looked at the ring he smiled sarcastically and said curtly, ‘£5.’ But I was ob stinate, and slipping the ring on my finger wont out. "I easily got 10 plunkers on it from another money lender.”—Philadel phia Call. Time ami Klchea. "What arc you doing now?” asked Willie Wibble’s father. "Killing time,” replied tho young man languidly. "It seems to mo that you spend a good deal of money at it.” "Perhaps. You see, fathah, it’s this way. Time flies, doesn’t it?” ‘T’ve heard so." "And riches have wings?” "I’m sure of that." "Well, the only way I know of killing time is to chase it with mon ey.”—Washington Stn”. » THE CURTAIN. IIKVOUI A duke/ Duke y* lord/ ’ *tyl , r an( ded .lis grace, the and addressed as my your grace, , Fourteen Nice I.Ktle Feet. Tlie great importance of children being properly shod has been fully recognized by the German emperor and empress, who have been most particular that their children should only wear hygienic boots and shoes, sufficiently wide for the toes to have proper development, and in conse quence the six young princes and their sister have perfectly normal feet and will therefore l»e spared the suffering from corns, bunions and faulty nails to which most of man kind are subject.—Lady’s Pictorial. A Moot I’ulnt, First Bello — Then both TIorr Schulze and Herr Lehmann had her an offer of marriage—which was the lucky man ? Second Ditto—Herr Schulze. Herr Lehmann married her.—Olierlaudor Bote. The English sovereign’s sons and grandsons, when created peers, &fo entitled to seats ip the house of tarda at the left of the throne, but when, by the death of their father, they be come only collaterally related to th< sovereign, they ait among the dukes. **• A thrill pf raptu root applause From every row ascend in*. The actor gives a gracious pause. To those before Tow bemling. Adinireilof all Ihe lailics rare, What compliments they utter! How many hearts amid the fair Are now set in a lluttor! T|)0 play goes on. The curtain falls t?non the act of splendor. Each heart emotional recalls Its incidents so tender. Oh, sweet the glamor of the scene. With nothing coarse to break ill Imagination rules serene, Ami fancy’s what wc make it. DKH1XD. Tho leading lady, just deceased. Has got a fit of laughter. The leading man, from toil released, A sandwich has sent after. The pasteboard rocks are put aside, The lovely sylphs are yawning. The dancing girls in plain clot lies hide Ivo beaux around them fawning. The funny men are scowling now. And he who gold dust scattered Upon the scene, with happy brow. Looks doleful now and shattered. And so it Is throughout, the days Of this our life uncertain. To view it truly, you must ga/.o On bgtU sides of the curtain. —New York Clipper. A Question of Letters. Mr. Labouckero gives publicity to tho grievance of some lady who had occasion to consult by letter a Lon don specialist who had several times attended her. She was much an noyed on hearing a few days later that in tho medico’s absence from home her letters had been opened by his wife in tho ordinary course, of business. Mr. Labouchero thinks that doctors have no right to hand over their correspondence to third parties, even their wives, whom their patients may not desire to take into their confidence. • Well, there are two sides to tho question, says a London paper. It is quite right that doctors should be as inscrutable as the Sphinx with re gard to the privacy of their patients’ affairs, and if it were known that a man was addicted to babbling ho would rightly be placed under taboo. But when a man goes away from homo for a few days, as go be must occasionally, his letters have to re ceive attention. It is quite conceivable that in urgent cases tho delay in forwarding a communication to tho absents might entail serious consequences, which could be obviated if the letter were opened on receipt, and who, pray, is there more likely to lie dis creet than tho wife of the medico? An Old Compliment. One of tho neatest and most adroit compliments ever turned out was probably that of Croesus to Camby- ses. That harebrained monarch once, when the Persians and Croesus were sitting with him, asked what sort of a man they thought him compared with his father Cyrus. The Persian^ of course, like g<Vxl courtiers, replied that he was better than his father, for be had all Cyrus’ possessions and Egypt and the sea as well. Thus spoke the Egyptians. Croesus, how ever, not being pleased with their opinion, spoke as follows: "Now, to me, O son of Cyrus, you do not seem equal to your father, for you have not such a son ns ho left behind him in you.”—Westminster Review. llarlier Shop* ami Coimumptloa. The report of a case of tuberculosis of the bearded face will direct atten tion to the danger of transmission of tuberculosis through the intermedia tion of the instruments used by tho barljer. To prevent such an ocfcur- rouce, each individual should have a separate brush and cup and napkin and razor. If ono razor is used in common, it should not again be used before having been placed for a short time in boiling water and dried, while persons who present themselves to the barber with diseases of the beard ed skin should bo advised to consult medical men.—Medical News. Tho SplICil (if Si:fiM). Hirseh proved that a touch on the face was recognized by the brain and responded to by a manual signal in the one seventh part of a second. The scientist i .o found that the,speed of sense dift’i red for < arent organs, the sense of i t aring ), ig responded to in the on. ixth of ,\ eond, while that of sight required only one fifth of a second to be recognized and sig naled. In all three cases the distance traversed was about tho same, so the natural inference is that the image travels more slowly than sound or touch.—St. Louis Republic. Sinn anil C’lainw. A native once came to Bombay loaded with GOO pounds of chains. Ho said that ho had been a very wicked young man and as a punishment hud chained himself up from sin. His plan did not work, however, and he had been adding to his chains con stantly. When he traveled by train, ho was charged partly as passenger and partly as freight. — Bombay Times. A female drunkard at the Welling ton police court, New Zealand, was recently discharged on account of her exemplary condir ?* when sober. The prisoner was 70 yeatu of age, and the evidence showed that she was the sole support of her father and moth er, aged respectively 98 and 96 years. A reader informs tho Worcester j Gazette that the popular notion about funerals is a great mistake. I To meet a funeral going in the oppo site direction is a sign of good luck, and to see two funerals going in op posite directions is better still. i ho title lieutenant comes from a wo! I signifying "holding the place.” A lieutenant colonel holds the place of a colonel in tho absence of the lat ter; a lieutenant holds tho place of a captain. If the Hollar take to dr item ^actually under- 9, the first monster 10,000. CANAL TO CROSS MICHIGAN. Capitalists Said to be Considering a Big Western Project. Fiiic too.—A stupendous canal pro ject. which, if successful, will entire ly revolutionize the t raffle of the great lakes. Is said to he in contemplation by a number of capitalists in Chicago, New York, Boston and London. The proposed canal is designed to render unnecessary Die present long route between Eastern and North western points through the Straits of Macki naw, Lake Huron, St. Clair River and Lake, and thence down the Detriotto Lake Erie. The plan said to he under contem plation is to construct a canal direct ly across Mhdiigan from the western shore to either Detroit or Toledo. O. Capitalists are said to stand ready to hack the project to the extent of loO, (KKl.000, and it is also said that Eng lish capitalists interested in the Can adian Pacific road have shown a dis position to render financial aid. Worth Two of Henry. [By George R. Scott.] The celebrated Bill Xye informs the public that his son Henry has re turned home from college, and that ns far as usefulness is concerned he has a colored boy, named Bud Watson, who works for £11 per month, and who " is worth two of Henry at any thing I ever put him at,” on the farm. Mr. Xye claims that Henry is not “totally worthless,” but he is a "non-dividcnd-declaring block of stock.” He is ready to swap for “range cattle or nightblooming Angora goats.” CARROLL & STACY, Transact a General Banking Business. Careful attention to collections on all points. Safety Deposit Boxes Inside. Fire Proof Vault for Rent. Your patronage Solicited. L. BAKER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. 1>KAUKJ* IX Sash, * Blinds, * Doors, and all kinds of Building Materials. Plans and specifications for build- in) s made on short notice. Livery and Feed Stables. Headquarters for drivers and Farm ers, who want to buy.sell or exchange. I make a Specie'! ' reeding Stock. First-class tin reasonable rates. <-’.it! !e and Hogs bought and sold. J. G. Spencer, Pproprietor. Having just purchased a HERRING-HALL-MARVIN BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE —w,r:<— Automatic Bolt Work — AND— Time Lock and Safety Deposit Boxes, I will he hetter prepared than ever to take " care of my customers funds. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate, rent. County claims bought. , Exchange bought and sold. jy. is. wooi>, DA % KICK, Gaffney, - - S. C. J. E. WEBSTER, iYtt ornoy-A. t> lvtiw 9 Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in ail the courts. Gnlltc lions a specialty. , .,,q