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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C„ JANUARY 16, 1896. DOWN by PANTHER. Mighty “Gonfusionment” Ov© Ono Lost Man. till tho tii('n coubl ; in; him in nnd put TT^ WILL BE SETTLED. bimsolf to Mr. Cloreland’s policy. I him to hod. T Li i. iiliu facts in the i ; don’t liko that. I have never seen Mr. ca<*o didn’t h ak • u' till the next day. i Olnoy, but his picture in tho last Re but ul.. nth n, V. d d ;Mt started it Arp Interested in the Disputo Over view of Itoviows looks bellifforent. He CHAPTER ON DISEASES. Aant Newton ‘'Sprradln of the News"—I.lao KuiuifW Drunk nmi Down for ( liristinii.—Th* Wltdkins Itoy* A1h(1i‘ Doll liagi mid (.au I’ntchin Out of llin Hrreclics—X«w Tear Hesnlutlon*. (Copyriglit, 1^98.) On the third day of January, Some- Spheres aloiitf in the shank of theevenin. 1 was down to tho lot flddliu and fool in fcround amonpst tha stock, when lo and behold I he ard £ ' '' 1 c ti. i 4 Ti A-va- - >—■ »- Spread 1 Ice i Hr.' in th<* piney woods before a liitrii wind in M arch. “T th mighty and hound lo b u’c out. Rufus, and I never could se(* \\i, r"in it ousflat tc htirl an; ,** sa N mey as sha went down into h< r thanky bajf and came forth \vi h u::■ h r pipe load ol smokin to a co. ‘•’i h jdain truth ll th.it tw of ti c \V. .Icins i.oys had like- i ■ to town tho day before Venezuelan Boundary. nm Stadlet G«<i(rapliy —Mr Find* That Great Britain I* a Very Great Country. Bat Will Submit to Arbitration. C11 r i s; 11 Mil a very familious fuss and caddin poi n on at tho house. And in the midst of the pem-ral confu- sionment I like wise also caught the smell of a pipe -strony and clear and sear chin. I Could tell from a distance off that it was one of these old clay pipes what you read about, and not right new and fresh by a whole tremeudius big lot. “Aunt X iney Newton, by tho twelve epistles,” says 1 to mys'-lf, and then presently when I returned back to the house bless gracious Aunt Nancy »Uw was there. \ th oy leniv s. A pass that u retu;nin i found old : down aloii as I can r been boys : i blessed bit At any a mount' d Hid tiiere and 11 they woiii'i I/Ige li nu did and m. A out of old in. what tho in ust ol all aioun out a: 1:1 uid -1 other things - t i.iio new pocket d on t!.:; day It come to il - t t.i \\ l.nns boys was i : home from town they drunk and moil t' in i it a! n •'Sprr.oUii of th* News." "I am now about tho most idlest Woman in the round created world per haps,” says Aunt Nancy to mo and mother that night afti r supper. I had built on a roarin big fire—a rog- lar shin-roaster, you understand—and with her p.pe runuin on full time the dear old lady warmed up to the subject powerful. “Tho hog.: are killed and tho lard fried out and the sausi rigors st uffod and the meat hung up. Christmas is over with and it’s most too soon for gard- run, So I took my pipe and thanky bag and put on my bonnet and lit out. Whereas I am now jest naturally on tho pad, Rufus—visit.n aroiiid and spreadin of" the news. I ain't nu tell tale tattler, and you will never retie m >er the day when Nancy Newton wnt trap>in through tho country pr !dli 11 out srandalations. Rut I am a wo uan—a plain female woman—and in u.l of your born days you never saw one of them sort that didn't love to hear the news and tell it. “And tha 's 1 turn up mis-dti :;i coniusiomii' at , Wln u be c me 11 light the n xt i many rents in hi travcilin along 1 fit t "ii to go home, down there in the struck < amp. N < ; been r g ttier i the sc 1:1 eiii' iit h .d hiinti d liiiii d ,wn. have seen u yseif ll: fill goo I pair of smooth cut throi 'i with ev ry ii.r ad v . and till m i r ,ji.c the Wad .iris 1: s li their new pe ,.i t . Ligi ’s bre 'lies. “And th t’s itov. r for tin ■ d and how com ii w , ■ i ; till in got.. v.. Lig< di iu’t u w I have jost received a letter from the editor of The Australian Agriculturist, that is published at Sydney, in that far distant land. This letter has traveled more than half around the world for 5 cents and is worth 85 to me, for there is comfort in It. I had never heard of him, but aotnehow or other he has been heating from me through the press, and So far back say. be just felt like responding out of undented, the abundance of his goodwill for the South. *T am an Engli.hman," says he, “but all my heart was with your people in their great struggle. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were my heroes. I was living in England then and I made a Confederate flag and hung It over the mantle, and when your final surrender came I draped the fiag with crape and it is still hanging where 1 left it." Well, of course, my unknown friend wrote this letter beforo tho late rup ture, but I hope there will ho no war just for bis sake. His long letter is full of information about that wonderful country, and even tells how they whipped the rabbit fight and now make the pest profitable by shipping the meat in refrigerator chambers built in tho vessels. The pelt is also transported to foreign ports. U u n n road. ;.\s 1, vc always W . ik . cs ain’t a i other people. W , icins beys dis- n light then and f • d notion that me fun out of old ::t ' o work they : u a patch in i cues. From d ::m say, they .i; ‘ ay window. .;. ti rally took .a .".ion* at tb. ,y come old Lige to r s >;;ch a ternblo .. St. t ie neighbors. n •'s about day- rn.n t. ere was too i: for h i in to bo n. He want “Tho main 3t news that ha bi.ig in the tc 'k pltcn in the way of Ranther Creek settleip- nt in durin the Christ mas so far as 1 know was the scandlous scrape which old man Ligo Runnels backed his fool sell' into. It can't do us no harm f n* me to give out the facts up hero I reckon, cause everybody down there has heard about it, and even to tho children they are spreadin of tho news. “Anyhow, old man Lige he went to town the day before Christiuis. and naturally o ch;i a he w idl'd ri.'tit .n and got drunk. T at night he come up missiu. and tie r-'uiained missin for three whole days and nights hand run- nln. Now as to old man Lige, you all know him, and 1 don't havi to eome all the way up hero to t'dl you that ho ain't worth his room in this world nor in tho future hereafter. Rut his folks can’t help that, and the people in the settlement got sorry for them in tie-ir great trouble and worriment on account of tho old man turnin up lost. Nobody didn't know what had went with him. People In town saw him when he started off towards home, which fie had then climbed up around more hustbead wnis- ky than he could tote without wobblin considerable. R'-n Chris Weaver met him over there at tho Wolf Creek bridge, which at that writin it took his level best to stay on his mule, and about first dusk the mule raeked up to tho lot gate with tho saddle and bridlo on. Rut old man Lige he h..d fell off somewberes by io wayside and come up missin.” rV Ito i tilt* Loot VVilrt Found* Liiex' day i a- Christmas day. certainly everybody was too yv bavin a good time to ; •onceruin Lige Runnels, lowin day after that it io third day the old and the settle- got powerful had iti on. All the jut in to burn till they goodness, iafoot in for that women is place IwAdder i lie v. Table pis, so after consi i( . n that t i n * * what moil That Panther '■ to tell y Nancy L.. The l' 1 arn com t"jet day night, that was ii follow in .V Resol ved. arid ft ilow- geu ra 1 • n t iv . ii hacked out Since receiving his letter we have P<ro fii ket and been studying geography and tho cydo- .:) e would of i if the la.n in irned out and from what I i takes a pow.»- s to make a .. made jean. . w ; rp and woof . r i - how come try :!io mettle of :u.i , on old m.n u • he* old man lost and that’, tat n hack horn. . n. Old man . i !■ a .,'d out i. ■ the devil- :. mad about .ry papers y i arrested, t week, and at home by ..'■ep up with pass.” a we got from ’ .inid take a book '.s that Aua! rs' Ciui •n MjlV C gOO l ' lit' Ii ,!vi fo ll- and got | but nor l Re of toil tongue. ally a b ReSO, WOll 1(1 the gonebyI lot. Resolved, T'oit ernnient will ht do pur level hi :i (]uestion of In a i Re:.oh( 1, . ii • corn ai.d le .ad Res dv. A. A t soi> •: ind vii happy. TIP3 A CJ A monnr lit tot man (colored) \ ill more. It is not ;r r ml wife of Sir i a ' > ttnibar i.dor ii ( ; lad v ■.IiU• l.. Td mr folk- went on Tds and drov lich was lost, w a ks got together at tu to com fort an! i onsole wit and the oriili..nt.s. an ■ wui* f< “The sun l i; w , swingin 1 low down ' ov*... di i'., stern! to speak, when the men oine ha the mule and wagin. They Lad found old man Lige bid out in a pme Ihii'Ri.t, in th" old fields down there on th.s sido of Wolf Cre It, iiat from what thiv they couldn't hr ng him on homo with out a wagin to h ,ul him in. I n 0 jj j t on myself to g • oui amongst tiie n l( . n folks and ask Ren Chr s Weaver if ^ ( , was well or sick. crip;iled or dead. |t,. n Ciiris ri spoiidei hack to me that ho was well, an i neither sick nor cripnb d Iut dead. Rut at the -am- time they couldn't firm r him tion o witliout ijj•• wagin. 8* trey hook<dupthe mule t 0 the w. n aid pilled out, leav n tip. and t fie rest of tin v. m n folks in outOp dirkness as to what was what and wli^ Was who, “It was j st about sundown when, they conn b c.. and old man Lige v.as sottiu up there ;u tin* w.iglli as liig a* 1 life and cuHsin mor ■ o rrildo tlian a stage driver rua-.iii somebody we Couidu'i t« ll who, for everything bo Could lav li is tongue to. The \v rn n folk* then hid out on tho hack porch i Thor V.i pedia* about England and her posses ion*. Compared with Or at Britain’s dominions tho United States is a small affair. Australia is as largo as our whole country. Then, there are hun dred. of islands in the Ihicific Ocean that belong to her and she has territory away down in the antarctic regions. Site owns ibig slice off of South Africa, where the gold and diamonds abound. She virtually owns Egypt and the Nubian country. She lias about as much territory in North America as we have— and she controls the commerce of sev eral South American States. H r mer chant aariae is more than that of all other notions put tog<'ther, and yet tho powers that goveru and direct it all at London make but little noise about it and don't brag half as mu li a. wo do. Tha British can’t whip i;> over her ', of course. They have tried it twice and foiled. Neith' r could we whip England over there, but they are a won derful people and make the w .rld pay tribute. No wonder they have got so much money. They own abou: oite- silth of the land area of the world and half the oommerce of these.is. They have 160,009,000 subjects in India alone—four tlaoo as man/ as we have people n tho Ctited States. And over ml tie's • coun tries .lid Island* and ^overiitnent- they appoint Englishmen to fill ail the ufli- 000 wnd foitrn ou the s;,oil,. It 1. well enough for ns all to stoly geography ag aln and reft'i'Sii ourselves about England. Our b-st ait" •.*::•/ came taom there and wc have r assu to he proud of it. Weareproul of our own country a»d our re| ubiican gov rument aod our wonderful progress, but some how or other we t av • not yc. been able logetaloegwithouiKu. sii money. Not only our government ho id ; go there for tho cash but all our great railroads Lave hod to get the mom y from Fugland to •Id in their construed in. So it ir*, in Mexico aad Ouatemila and Rrazil. England 1. our cb ef banker and tho New York bank - ar<- otiiy her brokers. Now wo do not su; pos • th it England will goto far as to fig .• f r • at land in Veaeouola, but will in;uaily submit to arbitration. This is ,.ivory repeat- lag iti-olf. Wo had a long quarrel with her about our northeast rn boundary and both .id* s male a b g how of fight a»d perhaps would have f ght hut for the eounaol and high < ii.ir «!(•:• of Ran'iel Web.tor. He and Lord Ashi.urton s-t- tlod it awd the jingoegon net:; sides bad to hush up and ai quiesce. I reinetnh. r well when dur.ng Picsident I’o k's day We had another rupture about the line through Oregon. We cia med all that coontry, including Vancouver island, .nd the political w ar cry was ‘'54-40 or is the fight." But we dident figbi, nei ■tier did .1 as Violet wo get up to that i n.' by several inin- dred miles. Mr. McLane and Lord a survivor of Aberdeen settled it at forty-nine. There • i r de. Lib y ore gem rally two sid( a to all such qm s- i > ister, is tlons and th" sober-thinking old men looks smart, but if he was a dog lie would bite. Maybe ho has been impru dent in his correspondence. At all events tho sober, reflective people of these United States are not going to ho carried away by a war cry. They an: going to discuss the matter calmly. The argument is not exhausted. But what’s tho matter with The Mail and Express? What made it flop so suddenly? It has been our most viru lent and spiteful enemy for years, and now all of a sudden wants one of our patriotic ex-Confederates on the com mission, and names Gordon and Morgan and Hampton and Daniel and others. It uses adjectives on us and call* us patriotic and speaks of the valor of the Southern Con federacy. What is going to happen? The New York Sun slided into praise and compliment by degrees. It wa* a month or two on the road, but The Mail and Express got ahead of Dana in one day. That’s all right if it sticks. Tho New York Press moves very slow in that direction. Its editor says wo needn’t feel that we deserve to have our disabilities removed, for our crime is just as heinous and traitorous today as it was when we committed it, and it is only out of grace that we have been civilly pardoned. Ho cautions us to be humble and thankful. How is that as a peacemaker? But wc still have hope. Let them come over ono by one if they can’t all come at once. “While the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return.” Now. let us go to work and build up our navy and fortify our coasts. Let us dig that great canal at Nicaragua and fortify it like a Gibraltar. Let the whole nation s.ttJ© down and quit quar reling. 1 wish that tho constitution was changed so that the president could hold office for ten con veutivo years and so a tariff, when it was fixed, should stay fixed for twenty years. The nation is tired of these changes and political agitations. They ar.- fun to the poli ticians but death to the people.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. Jost What They Wnnfefl. The editor of the Chump Book haughtily waved his hand. *T tell you we do not care for it,” he repeated in a lofty tone. Thoy Aro of Two Kind', :hr> Phys ical aud tho Montal. Sam ,tones Think* the Majority of Web Are Suffering from III* of the l.att* Order—No .Sympathy for tb* Hypochondriac. COPYRIGHT. 18y« Man is wonderfully and fearful ly made. Somebody has said it is straaige that a harp of a thou sand strings would stay in tunc so long. But after all sonic of the strings are always out of tuue iu the mental or physical man, and sometimes the worst deformities are apparent in the moral man. I know not how many diseases afflict men, as to their number or viru- lency. Most men think that unless they are attacked by cholera, yellow fever, typhoid fever or small pox, their cHances for life are pretty good. But did one ever think how few of the race, comparatively, die with either or all of these diseases? Epidemics of these diseases car ry off a few hundred, but it is sel dom that an epidemic breaks out in any community, and then it is coufined largely to a community. 1 heard a gentleman say to his wife the other day that site had studied the almanac with special reference to the peculiar diseases that afflict mortals, and that she had come deliberately to the conclusion that she had them all; and 1 have no doubt but that many of the physical ills in life are traceable to the knowledge of diseases given by the pages of a patent medicine almanac. I have seen a few people who seemed to enjoy their infirmities and look upon their martyrdom as deserving a crown. Their infirmities seemed to be their strength, and their weaknesses their (tower. Very few men or women we meet these days tell us in answer to our ques tion “How is your health,” ”! am per fectly well.” Almost everybody has something, and something seems to have almost everybody, either by hoof or horn, snout or tail. I believe that assafortida is the (test ivmedy for a large majority of the ills of life. I know some persons whom I think ought to take a pound a day on an average. Woe be to a man the day he finds out he has got a liver! He will “But,sir.” ph aded the (>oor but strug- i j l, ntp on it with both feet and pound the faithful, effective doctor i. not only necessary but ofttimes able to cure the trouble. After all, I believe in the faith cure. Many a fellow has tried the doctor for years and got no better and then determined to try the faith cure and quit taking patent medicines and decoctions of all sorts, and his system rallied under the new regime and he got well. If this is not the faith cure, what is it? It was his faith in his faith that stopped him from taking the de coctions, and the stopping of the taking of the decoctions cured him. When an old hypochondriac is settled and con firmed in his troubles, if he is ready to go it will be a blessing to his friends to see him off. When a fellow makes up his mind that he is so terribly dis eased that he never can be well any more the sooner he goes to a public hospital and puts up, or gets his wings aud leaves the world, the better it will be. I sympathize with the sick who are really sick, but having been an hypochondriac once myself I have nothing but ridicule, confirmed, for them. The only remedy for an hpyo- choudriac is common sense, and some of them haven’t got the remedy; there fore they will never get well of the dis ease. To every fellow that has been diseased for years and hasn’t died, my advice to that class is: Quit taking medicine and do well a year and see if you won’t enjoy it. But 1 doubt if they will. The Bible says: “The spirit of a maa Mistaineth his infirmity.” Homer said: “Death shall overtake the cow ardly-hearted." Shakespeare said: “Cowards die many times before their death, but the valiant never taste of death but once.” Sam P. Jones. PRINCESS METTERNICH. glitig author, "if you do not accept my article then iiriced 1 ant lost, fora! ready it has been rejected by every ®thcr publication in the country.” "Is that so?” cried the editor with awakened interest; “then let me have it instantly!" Whereupon it appeared in the very •ext issue of the Chump Book, necom punied by two hid! tinguishable illus trations by Weirds ley. the celebrated •oatortionkst.—N. Y. Recorder. . tti' nllirlon*. iif Ro"ky Creak ••tin Satur- busines. ii il up th. i litmus: plain folks - nd let the . f fit can. h'i: all right <>;>;<■ that have ■ poor kinnery, h" feed bills ■ baby. ;iy-!iandeJ son i as tho borny- mst. in geoer- '.'.rrncr that <> politician is 1 m the whole noral gov- •.vn u- it's we will ■ ■t the great in it. •ill raise mors honest and (jit ntially S \nunits. !of a tt-ifiivay Tratn. boy who was brought up flret A count*; In a remote region of Scotland bad oc casion to a company his father to a village near which a branch line of railway pansc;; The morning after h!n arrival, when sauntering in the garden behind the house in which they were staying, he beheld w ith wond. ring eyes a train go by. For a moment he stood staring at it with astonishment and then, running into the house, he said: “Fayther, fay titer, come oot! There’s a smiddy ran off wi’ a row o’ houses, an’ its awa’ doon by the back o’ the town.”—London Telegraph. An t'i:manly New Woman. “What do you think?” exclaimed on* tmaucipaled woman. “I don’t know!” was the startled rs- jolnder of another. “What do 1 ?” “Our president. Miss Tomnsa Buoy, has taken to smoking cigarettes,” “What! We must impeach her at once life out ®f it. ami die at laxt from old age and exhaustion. Heart troubles are coming in for their share these days. Everybody that has palpitation of the heart from over- eating. oversmoking or overdrinking or overexertion conclude they have or ganic heart trouble and are liable to dropoff any minute. I know some peo- p!e who have been expecting to die hourly for nearly a hundred years, and yet they still live, a nuisance in their families and the laughing stock of the community, (t is not very honorable for men to die with heart trouble. I.very old burnt-out whisky sot that has died in the last 1.'; years from al coholism. if lie dies with good clothes on and belongs to a respectable family, his disease is labeled “li "rt trouble," without any reference tc thingtbat made itis heart fail. Kidney trouble is multiplying these hitter days, and it doesn’t take the 'h'tiin long to persuade himself that he bus a genuine ease of Bright’s dis ease. and lie dies many times before his deal It. Uatar, It. pleurisy, corns, sw lnneyand "blind staggers” take off not a few of our race, but they take them slowly. Christian scientists tell us that it is all in the mind—that if we think we are well we are well. 1 suppose it is true on the other sideof the question, that if we tbiuk we are sick we are tick. How much the mind acts on the A hop Way- •u d in Baltt- >w n that the i lie BritisR • t The idea of Iter doing anything body ’and the body counteracts on the mind is a question which scientists have not settled. But we know that hypochondriacs have multiplied and hysteria itself is a disease. Like the balance of mortals, I have suffered with hypochondria, and have died many times, and yet I am still living and a-kicking. I have suffered from nervous dyspepsia, insomnia, feebleness of mind and body both for many years, and yet I weigh more to day and w ork more than at any age of my life. Rut all these things make a living for a large and honorable profession known as doctors of medicine. Home so unmanly!”—Washington fcitar in a ItecGiurnnt. “Look here, waiter, this plcc* •! Cheese is moldy.” The waiter looked at the piece of cheese and perceived that it was really green and blue on top, and did not look nice. Taking it in his hand he turned It upside down on the plate, so that th« good ride was uppermost, and re marked: “There, that’s the way It belongs. There is nothing the matter with it new*, is there?”—Texas Siftings. Smclltuif Gunpowder, .Professor—Why, in making gun- | "ict, have been made millionaires out of :il is in good ••'/lured) died tin bouse • : -i' of 104 that visinitf : <z near Me- c.n’t be earned off on a patriotic omo- tlo*. We were all jingo‘s when wo were young, butag" and ( xp< ricnce has modified and niollith d our i isbness. It was not the old men who got swamped !• New York the oilier day when tho war panic shook up Wall S:n et. It was the young and tim d ami in- xpi ricneed. i* j 11 * 1 Tie old men knew that panic woqjd soon pass away. It was the young poo- are ;i it it Y children, 14 ! considered that M etion. ii. hns a big y. lie is quite 1 among his in- uicnt on the ion trunk &ad !s, ; !n •ical dlreetar, j ; tnnasiuu g", Lave tarr fi in engwf- ing matches, r more likel/ - I, f il. 1 t, lecture* a iiquary. On. t bat “he * aJ- • H m on Dart- mi wbd lour- : got ten doml- • Id : > e the rqal i oh register, .at, uoout it by pie who got panic-stricken in the Rtlti- tnore theater the other night and wre crushed to death. Wtu n I was young I shouted “54-40 or fi*iit," aad hurrahed for Polk and that shibboleth elected hint, and now 1 don’t propose to hurrah fof a fight until there is more reason for it than I see now. In the first pluoo powder, is saltpeter used as a cosa- (toneut part? Tom Aujerry—To make it smell bad, I reckon, so the soldiers can say that they smelt gunpowder. Pa is always 1 iragging abou 11he gun po\vd( r he smelt during the war.—Texas Siftings. Alas! For a l.a*v. Alas! I’m in love and would marry: I'm ready unite anxious to vfd. And sinpl" no longer I'd ixrry, I lontr to be double Instead. But the oaths throuifh which Cupid has led me Have burdened my heart with reRret, The gfj ls whom I’d have will not wed me. Whil* I don’t want the ones I cun get. —L. A. W. Bulletin. Just His Lack. “There’s no doubt that Jon"* killed himself?” “None whatever." “\Vliat caused him to do it?” "Be got a divorce from his wife on „ there are some very eminent men who Tuesday and on Thursday she fell L«ir humanit" would feel better in a week patent medicine. The world has been drugged and dosed and dosed and drugged until half of humanity cannot live without both. I have been then* myself. For 15 years of my life I ibought if I didn’t take alteratives, and ; so on. I would have a bilious attack; and | have kept my system out of good . working order two-thirds of the time ’ Irving to prevent the very thing that I was bringing about. 1 said good-by to medicines several years ago. and I find cither total abstinence front eat ing, or a very mild diet for a day or ♦ wo, is the best medicine a fellow ever look for the common ills of life, lam sorry for a fellow who has to take a (till after each meal, or a solution or j decoction of some sort every few hours. | ills life is a burden, and he is a fool. If cv« ry man would be his own doctor and take as little medicine as the av erage doctor gives himself the world of declare that this is n«t a case where the Monroe doctrine applies. Professor Wolsey stands pre-eminent for bis learning and he declares th* Monroe doctrine La* qqtbing to do with such a case, Whether it does or not I canless tint my impulses are to take Veneamda’s parr (<n gc»"ral prin ciples. It is human nature to be for the little dog in a fight—and my boys are all fighting mad with England. It look* to me though like tbi* commis sion business was already cut and dried and that no man will b" put on the com- uaissioa who Las not already committed to $*150,000!”—Chicago Record, Another Controversy Hrcakd Got. The Ear of Corn—When 1 get down lo 15 cent:; a bushel I'm worth sout"- tliing for fuel, uud you ain't. The PotaUi—No. I’m only good for food. They burn you in one part of flic stove in order to bake me in the oilier.—Chicago Tribune. Sonirwhat I'liiiliMrniHBln*. The tryLirest time fora mar., I ween. And trials arc always a plenty, Is when Introductioi s must pass between lii.s second wife who Is seventeen Ai.d his daughter who Is twenty. I heard one of the oldest physicians in my community say once that he ’uuln't taken a dose of medicine in !10 years, nit bough lie hud given thousands of dose.s to others. I asked him what he did when he got sick. Be. said: “I quit eating.” A horse will do that; a ling will do that. "The ox knoweth bis owner and the ass his master’s quid, but my (ample do not know; they will not consider." said the Lord. That there are really sick folks in the world I readily assent.where skilled phvsjcianH and wise diagnosis and right remedies are effective. In fevers. .JTifc A: W ‘ BuRcUa. j iu caaes oi pneumonia, and so on, the Sh* Copied the Manner* of tlx* MMl® Hull*. In the Princes* Metternich was an inexplicable mixture of innate high breeding and acquired tastes of lower degree. When she appeared in society, at hei - very entrance there could be no mistake; from bead to foot she was the high-born lady — the “grande dame.” Yet she had tin extraordinary inclination for walking on the edges of moral quagmires, and peeping into them, with a proud conviction that her foot could never slip. There are sto ries of her imprudent adventures; but she escaped unscathed, and had no other motive in seeking them than curiosity—foolish, morbid curiosity— as to people aud matters which should never have been ever mentioned in her presence. She acted with a degree of rashness and folly which would have ruined most women, yet no one ever really attacked her roputatidn; all al lowed that, according to the expression of a lady of the court, “site had never crossed the Rubicon." Notwithstanding all her follies, the Princess Metternich v: s far from be ing silly; on the eontr. ry, she had con siderable wit and great sharpness of repartee. As she did t ot care for any thing she said, her retorts were often very clever and amusing, but too free to be easily repeated. She delighted in singing songs from music halls and inferior theaters. Haughty as she was. she invited to her dinner table a singer of equivocal celebrity at ’hat time, whom no one else would have dared to receive; and even took lessons from her, so as to sing her songs with duly pointed emphasis. The mischief done by the example of'Princess Metternich is indescribable. Site threw down the barrier which hitll- erto had separated respectable women front those who were not, aud led the way to a liberty of speech and liberty of action which were unknown before. She was much attached to her husband, and. in essentials, was a good wife; others less favorably situated may not have escaped as she did from the nat ural consequences of looking too close ly over the frontier of the Debatable Land. It is not unlikely that the ex cessive pride of the Princess .Metter nich may have led her to imagine that in Paris she might do anything with out compromising her dignity. For instance, she was intimate with a lady who, although received everywhere in Parisian society, did not seem to be sufficiently her equal in rank to become her friend. To a remark on the sub ject she carelessly answered: “Oh. it is all very well here; of course I could not see her in Vienna." She is reported to have made si more impertinent speech while on a visit at Compiegne. The short, looped-up skirts were just beginning to be worn; the empress had not yet adopted them, and the Princess Metternich had been urging her to do so. against the opinion of her ladies. When the empress left the room one of the ladies in waiting said to the princess: “WonI I you give the same advice to your empress?" “Oh, no." replied the princess; “but the ease is quite different—tho Empress Elizabeth is a real empress.” I have no positive 'nformaGcu as to the absolute reliability of this report; but it is not unlike the style of Princess Metternich. and was currently re peated. On another occasion at Compiegne, in the presence of the empress, on a rainy day which had brought som% dullness into the circle. Princess Met- ternieh, by way of diversion, suddenly seized one of the ladies in waiting, tripped her up in schoolboy fashion and laid her fiat on her back, pros trate on the floor. This was told to me by an eye-witness of the scene, which shocked everyone present, and the more so because the victim chosen (Comtesse de M ) was particularly ladylike, quiet and unoffending.—Anna L. Bick- nell, in Century. Slow Itorovery. “Were you ‘much benefited this year by your stay at Saratoga?” ' “1 don’t think 1 am benefited much. My health is so bad. and the improve- ment 1 obtain each year is so small that 1 am afraid I’ll die of old age be fore 1 recover entirely."—Texas Sift* l ings. \