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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 4, 1896 3 CYCLONE STREAK. Tho Sago of Rooky Greek cf tho News." "Tellin I- ' ' Plenty of Wildcat 8tiU« and Ererybody Kin to Everybody El,e—lilack Jack Changed 111* llreath — Deacon Joiner"* Callantry. If you want to see the most lovelSeat ktrip of country ou the broad bosom of jf the earth per haps — if you would love to live forever and then turn to somethin good to eat, you will please re member that Rocky Creek is still runnin down stream and ain’t gone nowheres. ^ r No doubts you have likewise also heard tell of thepi pleasant places Ip regards to Which I have sometimes spoke—Possum T’rot, and Huckleberry Ridge, and Weaver's Woodgarden, and Tucker’s Mill, and the Panther Creek settlement. Rut when the crops are laid by and the fish won’t bite, if you want to take a few days off and make the time pass quick and pleasant pack up your duds and rome with me and wo will go over into Cyclone fitreak. Plenty of \Yl!dcnt Stills, Po far as 1 know, and so for bock U* the records run, nothin very good ban ever come out of Cyclone Streak, unless it inought be a few grout gobs of fun. It is a wild and rough and reckless wqjm* of country, with u strange and penurious people. The woods are full «•/ wildcat stills, and they make moon- irtilnc whisky in them parts even unto the third and fourth generations. It would seem like everybody is kin to everybody clee in Cyclone Rtrfnk. It would seem like the revenue officers got in there amongst cm and found u big copper still and two or three barrels of “white ink," a« Aunty Lucas were wont to say. They t^r? up the still and emptied the barrels^^ht there on the he meantime they hn illy Rledsoe and two or three unkins boys runnin the thing end hours of night—caught em ct. as it were. So consequential- spot In on I of the In the In the l.v JiTiHy Rledsoe and the Hankins boys 1 now gone to jail in reply to papers of coinpcllmcnt from the general gov ernment. Rut from what they say about It neither one of the gang kuowod any thing for certain about the still to start with. They had started on a camp lish that night and jest happened to stumble up on the “d-ng thing"’ ove.r there in the swamp Under the eircum- ftrencc-of the surrounding they didn’t think it was any harm to shove up th'f chunks and take a drin^c in jittsJjh. That is the way they sung Uu* song at first, but (lie revenue ' officers 'yfefe on the trail, and t|iey Ijet j.li<> ground so hot upjler the troys |l{! tliey mid to change tlip time. T* ,e P pujied pp to running the {?F that one ro(indj but (hey fqyqru the tjiing l>elonged to old prinn ptovp Rankins, i he imcje of the Hankips boys. j|gw "old jr.an Hteye swears h‘* pevcp hppru teij of thp poncerp before. To jppr hini tejj it, hppevordiflgeebpt finp pi|dea( stil| in all pf his bprP dayn, nml thpt t.do nged ty. pkl Rpck Ridley, Bipee writ in the above Lpke Rlcdrot', o iwcont cousin to Rllly, rul by to tell pip that old man Bteve Hunklna 1* eow tulkin through u different hat, .Tb* nevenue men come down on him lust Saturday and called on him for the his tory of that still. Whereas old man Bteve wept over there In the swamp and examined the shattered fragments of the thing ayd then swore by the llvln and the dead that It was the prop erty of old Ruck Ridley—the same one which he had borrowed to make i run 13 years ego this summer.* Neverthe less, old man Breve had td back up & hiv*' hi * , , \ i. . ., • T iu at n K v qlrty inuls and go to jail. 1 i?v tills time things PR* ^vprmlp cpn^kicriible qyef ther^' ln' fyplonk pin ak. T aui Joqkip ever^ pay tp hcaf fl’oip old Ruck Ridley, whiph, pccorfRp to tire evldepce ip thp cua«, he is the ipuii which own# the sRH at the presem wrlRp Rot when you get the pent paws 1 will bet the best mule op the place that old man Ruck never owned ,ic* wildcat £tlll. Raley I don’t reckon he would know one if he was to jiieet it In the gig road. As everybody khows there are •stills and stills—plenty of stills over there in Cyclone* Streak. Rut it would seem like they don't belong to anybody in particular. Rllly Bledsoe and the llankirs boys got caught run- nln the machinery and cllmbin up around the producementa thereof, but they Jest happed to find the “ding Rung." If it didn't jest naturally grow Itp there out of the ground, 1 reckon jfie just cyeUiue pxust of bjowed If in fhAirsoiut wiiekes tip in tfie hill country It nifty be that the revenue men thin’.: they have got a dead ojien-und-shu tease for the government but they don'tknov* RjC petite of Cyclope Ktreap. Thi'K jnay break u /ewklndfe^ ties. and ]jrlng p|i a general fnpiliy disturjiance, qnd pjpw ip u whole Iqt of Rpie anti piopey Rpf fipnljy at last they will OT! Rjat that, wildcat stIH has hejonped jq avsrybiMly in Cyclone Streak more or less, but to nobody for certain. “But onct upon a time—It.was Christ mas eve and the weather as cold as flugius—me and Will Tom Pickens started to a breakdown dance some- whores up there in the hill country, and on the way we had to pass through Cy clone Streak. Presently we both run dry and then we drawed straws as to who would replenish five stock. Will Tom won and I lose. So I took the bottle and went down Into a dark and lone some sway, laid the bottle on a log, cov ered it with four bits, gave one loud, keen whoop and left it there. We waited a little while, and when I went back down the swamp my money was gone and the bottle was full of spirits. “Well, me and Will Tom we bit off two or three little chunks as we driv on to the party, and when we got there by gatlins we had to stay out in the cold wind two hours in orderment to cool off and brace up. We didn’t fake any mere that night. We didn’t need any more. We had took two or three little nibbles and they lasted till next mornin. Rut we passed the bottle around amongst the boys one time only, and to my own personal knowledge our bottle of spirits from Cyclone Streak brnng on five variegated cases of drunk that night. And then, by gracious, when we started off on our return back home next mornin there was six or seven drinks left. “Drivin along way on down there this side of Deer Creek we met up with Lige Runnels, and he made out like he was rnvln cra/.y for a drink. We pulled tho bottle from Cyclone Streak on him and the old man bit off a tremendous big plug of it. Then we driv on, but some of the Runnels boys told me after that that old man Lige didn’t show up at home till about daylight the next morn- lit, and didn’t look natural and right for three days. When we struck Into the old stage road up there at Hunk Weatherford’s Bunk he hailed and wanted to know what was what. Hy this time there was about four or five drinks in the bottle and we delivered the goods to Hunk. As to me and Will Tom, we didn’t need no more. It com.e to pass that day that Bunk took one strong nibble at the bot tle and thm^Ug^FtrnTifnd Ifflde a big, e l?R no Sf;.-^!^nsequpntially the doctor vits over there at the Weatherford place the next day, and by fast and furious work he brought the family thiough without a funeral. That was years and years ago, Rufe, but I never will live long enough to for get that Ixjttle of white ink from Cy clone Streak.” THE BILL AEP LETTER.! They beg for these places and get them, . | but why women should not be paid as Speaks of the Movement to Give Shop Girls Rest aji* mul The Hard Life of Women Employe* la Mercantile Hou*e*—Soelal Insincerity— tteaponalbility of the Employer- Look on the Height Side. Let the good work go on. The shop girls of Atlanta are now allowed to sit and rest their weary limbs for a brief time when not waiting on customers, and their working time is out at si': o’clock in the evening. This is a reform that means much to them, and our sympathetic people will all thank the Chamberlin house for starting it. Tho girls have not demanded it, nor have they uttered a word of complaint, but we know that they get tired, very tired, and sometimes they are sick, and some of them have work to do when they get home. Rut they never strike—no, they had rather suffer end endure and always look cheery and try to be happy and content ed. I have wondered why they did not organize and choose their lenders and sometimes get on a strike and walk out and make demands on their employers like the men do. No, they will not do that. It is not their nature, and for that reason, if no other, those who employ them should be all the more consider- ntc. Every shop girl and every shop woman has nn individual history, and could tell a tale of sorrow or misfor tune, and some of them would be in tensely sad and pathetic, if written and published. Many of them belong to that class who have seen better days- - many are orphana^-some have a wid owed mother or an invalid sister to sup port. All are dependent and have no bright prospects of bettering their con dition In the years to come. Some of them are not strong, and often go to their work with a headache ora heart ache, but they must not complain—sad faces or sick faces or very homely ones not wanted. 1 know four sisters not understand. My information is that they are paid about half and the employer’s excuse is that competition is very grent and ns others cut rates they must do so, too, for labor is worth only what it will bring—and a woman’s labor can be had cheaper than a mar’s. That is not a good excuse. It is not to the interest of the employer to get labor on such terms. Twenty dollars n mont h will not keep a young woman in good health and good clothes and leave any thing tor a sick mother nr a child, or for a doctor's bill. A big-henrted, gen erous man will inquire into the condi tion of every female employe he has, and ns far ns possible make it his own loncern. The}' are, as it were, his wards for the time, and he cannot es cape the responsibility. Before the war there were no shop girls, but for 30 years this greet transition has been going on, and now the south, like the north, is full of work ing girls. The children and grand children of those who once were proud and independent are now forced to be poLmcs-RELiifrm Bam Jones Tells of a D. D. Demooratlo Convention. IVh«t Became of a Mon-rartlaan Temper ance Proposition He Wan Delegated to Present—Alaska Not a Good Coun try for Grape Growing. Somebody said religion is religion ind business is business. 1 reckon if ihat is ttue it is’equally os true that, politics is politics and religion is re- ; Jgion. If either is true, then the logic! of the situation is you cannot mix them. There was an episode in one of; 3ur democratic conventions the other lay when a doctor of divinity was in-! troduced to the democratic conven tion, who came as the representative; 3f 300 or 400 respectable men of his itate, and said: “Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizen* 3f the State of Tennessee: I thank j'ou rery much for the courtesy you have shown me In allowing < me to appear before you at this busy time, and I shall hungry and sleepy all at the same Too tired to eat, too hungry to and too sick to want anything, old Tennessee, poor old D. D.I Ni planks adopted by the convention, yet the only plank worth adopting the platform they were requested Adopt by'the 400 and the dear D. was left clear out In the cold. I hove seen the D. D. since the convention, guess he has backslidden a little, as la a Methodist D. D., in his feality to i grand old party that whistled at h: Rut he said he had heard whistling fore. I expect he has done some hli self when he was a boy going by a grave yard. But they didn’t whistle at convention for the same reason that boy whistles when he goes by a gr*’ yard, for the boy going by the gw yard whistles Jo keep from running, It is run or whistle with him. But I suppose the dear brethren of the D, in convention assembled whistled let him know where they stood, not hi they were running. And yet this D. : and all his kith and kin are wTiti: and preaching about putting the p> ■ pit into i-olittcs and warning the bw ren of the danger of so doing. I do ; is no exception for them. It is daily food for daily labor. The rich are growing richer by short cuts and ques tionable means, all of which in their last analysis come from the earnings of the toilers and grind the faces of the poor. Widows and orphans whose husbands and fathers left them stock or bonds In n great railroad, have lived to see it wrecked by unscrupulous schemers and by the time the wreckers had done with It their stock and their bonds were wort hless. Daniel Webster got ti fee of $10,000 for making a sjieech in the Myra Clark Gaines case, and it was noised by the press as an enormous fee, but now a common law yer gets $30,000 for bring ing the money of a wrecked railroad in to court. An incorporated company accumulates n million dollars surplus and asks the court what to do with it. There was no fight, no contest, but the lawyers who took the decree are nwurd- who are shop'girls at different places. , ed $75,000 for bringing the money into The el^lnst is only 10. They have neither court. Receivers and lawyers prey upon '““‘"nr norinoolRr.jJ^bPother, but they the carcasses of corporations like buz- live together and work by drris upon the carcasses of brutes, and fort each other by night. ’ 1 W. little is left for creditors or stock- Some merchants are hard task mas- | holders. Thes^ are that fill ters; “only a shop girl" is their motto and their service is worth what it will bring—that much and no more. They come their own bread-winners. There ; ®how my appreciation by being very, j know’ whether this D. D. took the pul< brief and by refraining from any utter-j vnee that would be the least improper an such on occasion. In the course! of a somewhat checkered life I have, aeen In a great many places, but this is the first time I ever had to face a whole convention of unterrified demo- j trots. [Applause.] You wdll allow me to say, however, that I feel somewhat j it home, for first and last I have been I middling good democrat myself, n believer in local self-government and a tariff for revenue only and the free and unlimited coinage of the right sort af money. j “A convention of 300or 400 representa tive and respectable Tenesseenns met In this hall on the 30th day of Inst ! month in the interest of a non-partisan 'temperance movement in the state of Tennessee. That convention did nol, nominate any candidate for office. It; ore He Cliansrcd III* Brcaih. That brings to mind one day last fall when Block Jack Wiggins, from Cyclone Streak, changed his breath on me. We struck up together in town that day and nothin would do Black Jack but 1 must write out a speech for him on free sil ver at sixteen to one. But in the main time Black Jack hqd smoked his old pipe and et jxirch^d., "age? tq the same amount.. goobers and drunk corn whisky till hg ** ’ * l * ° ' didn't know anything for certain qnd his breath was iretnendius bad. lip put his arm around my neck qir! talked so dost and confidential like till I naturally eouldu't stand it. “J am 10 hapd« high, I weigh 187 pounds, 1 wear a number leven shoe, my name is Black Jack Wiggins and I hail from Cyclone Btreak,” says he with hi^ mouth In three Inches of niy face, “That perfectly all right with me, Mr, Wiggins, as tq the size of your shoe and what you weigh and where you eomo from,’’ says J, “but for the love of our common country and the great cause of free silver at sixteen to one. go and do something to change your breath—eat a raw onion if you can’t do no better.’’ And then, long-sufferin reader, what do you reckon come to pass betw een me and Black Jack Wiggins, from Cyclone Btrenk? Dad blame him, he got ft raw' onion and et it to change his breath, took another drink, come back ami locked arms with me and preached free silver at sixteen to one for three mortal hours. One Buttle of Horry Good*. “Tnlkin about the troubles in Cyclone Streak.” fays Andy Lucas to me the other day,” that make* me think of the time w hen me and Will Toni Rickens got jiqlt of the onlyesi bottle of rale nql-py goods I have evef saw. j never did r^ 1 it-ry deep on (he still busipess, yqu (V jrstand, Uufc. but I don't lur and tell you that J havp aged to clumber up arc of white ink andjrt in. It Jest naturally n of the Lucui fuinily- runnins of the eofn. tier and'bfeit The Lady from Cyclone; Streak. Bu| it was given unto Reacop .loiner tq bring on thp piost gppcbyyst pop: tpsionpiept you pver heard tc]l of with a Ipdy from Cyclone Streak. It would seem like the lady w as gpip tq a place sopiew hems up the railroad op a visit to her kippery, and she hud wppi from Cyclone Streak over to the station to take the train. She had a baby with her, uud likewise u shotgun which she was tnkin to some of the men folks o£ the family. / It also came to pass that Deacbn Joiner was also over at the station that day, and if any man loves the w omen better than the deacon, he w ill have to eat a few to prove It. So when the train blowed the deacon he sidled up to the lady from Cyclone Streak and told her he would be pleased to take the baby and the gun and help her on the cars. The lady was more than w illin. But In the main time it turned out that the lady never had seen the railropd Rain before, upd when it dashed up to the station she made u break and dashed off down the road towards Cyelcono Streak. The deacon he took after her at full Hjieed, with the baby in one hand and the shqtgqn ip the other, hollerip' fit everybody tq stop that lady! Rut the luejy didn't have any shotguns ppcl babies to tote and she leff the deacon in RpR race like he was hitched ton jiost. Abqut R'ftt- tipift the high sheriff coinoriilin upt tie road. He saw the lady runnin and heard her screamin. Be saw the deacon after her wit h a baby in one hand and a shotgun In the other. He arrested the deacon for assault with fntciiHons of murder, and before he could git the facts straight the lady wap t-we miles down the road pnd turnip the wind for Cyclone Streak. But tho •heriff then got on his horse and wept nr*l brought tJu»||iidy back. Rbe took inpdp fix the price and keep it there. There is no promotion in wages. I know one who kept ». girl down to $20 a month. She was refined, diligent, conscientious and popular, and hud been reared a lady In all respects, but she was only q sdp\p girl, and out of meager wpgfes pms> pay for her board and clothing. Xvd an hour dty she pver lose—but by npd by she was offered $30 by anothci h6u§e, arid then, and not till then, did her employers propose to increase her Why did ! they npt do it before? I know another I large, wealthy hopse tlipt kept » young inpn fpp th r «® years* promising at Ip- j tervRls tG raise his wages, but it win only q promise, At lost he quit and sought other business, and then they offered him nearly double what he had beep getting if he would come buck That is what the prophet calls “‘grind ing the faces of the poor.” Why wear poor girl’s life and health away by feeding her on hope until it turns to de spair? Only « shop girl! A young lady who had once been independent was forced by the common calamity of these hard times to become n shop girl—and she told me that the hardest thing to bear was the stately coldness of her former friends—the lack of familiar so cial recognition; when they traded al the counter they hardly knew her— they said good morning, but not in the sweet old way. After Job had lost bis property, he said: “But now they that are younger than I hold me In ^Ip- rlson—whose fathers I woqld have {tig dalned to se^ w Rh ihe Jogs of piy. flock,*’ \\ tty; liainc tyd »t .. ; y of social lib ftycprlty. A map pevpr kuo\vp w ho arc hi* fr'vpde pntil misfortune overtake* hipi. Thank heaven! there are some exceptions tq this rule, piifl these shop girls do sopictinifs find somebody to jovp them and share their sorrows. There li nothing more unbecoming to woman than her disposition to rule money into her social set and rule pov erty out. Xo real, well-bn d lady will' do it. My observation is that this fool ish vanity is generally indulged in by the shoddy aristocrats—those who have nothing el$e *o their credit except money—those whose fathers got rich by questionable means. Peachtree is lined with many pudr, and so are the fashionable quarters of nil cities. This folly Is mainly a feminine one; the men are not glveh to it, no man dares to snub another because of his poverty, or his humble origin. With men there Is no aristocracy except that of intel lect. If Is related that when Douglas and Lincoln pi<*t for the first time on the hustings Dougins, vj’ho was a grant aristocrat, said he had not had the honor of an acquaintance with his op^ ponent, and. In fact, had wen him but once, and that was when he wrh sell ing Yvhiffky behipd thp bpr ip a cross roads saloon. When old Abe rose to reply, he smiled from par to ear, it* he repiarked; “That’s so, my fellow Htl- sens, That is the only time J ever saw Uipi until now. He was on one side of the bur and I was on the other. He took a drink and I took the money. We are about even on thakscore.” What’s the difference? A nice, sweet, well- mannered girl or young woman wflo waits on the customers In a large dry goods house is op ppe side of the coun ter pnd a *"iph aristocratic lady Is ou the oth«*r. One hqd money, the other had goods and they exchanged—that’s alb Which is ahead in tire comedy of life and which will lie ahead when the play is ended and final judgment isren- d? With one life is a fa-shiomibic with the other a struggle fpr “Give u* this day our daily is her morning prayer. tlon of these working girls one at best, but kind words wages soften it do the jieople with distf and paralyze industry and intlm! capital. I knew a lady, and she is ting near me now, whose father left her $1(5,000 of stock in a railroad In Ala- | bamn. It was good stock and had good prospects, but the schemers got it into court and had a Receiver appointed anj ty was wrecked and “he lost everything bpi the certificate, Whop she comes across it now amogng her archives I heap her humming that sweet old song) “This world k pH a fleeting show,” But let the wprkipg gifk cheer up and al ways look on the bright side. If they cjip’t get piarricd let. them look around and see how much misery marriage brings—how few women are happily mated. Encourage a cheerful disposi tion, and if you can’t be happy, be n*i happy as you can. Trust in the Lord and do good. It is not all of life to live ncr all of death to die. There are many | bb-ssings that cost us nothing. I never pass my neighbor Mrs. Field’s front yard, that is radiant with beautiful flowers, but what I think how cheap they are to me. It is a good idea tc sometimes think of that poor little boy ; whose mother covered him with straw i one bitter night and put an old window . shutter on the straw to hold it down. “Mother,’’ said he, “it isn’t every little : boy that has a shutter to hold down his had no opinion whatever to express in regard to the tariff, currency, or any jthcr opinion. It did not array itself in any way, shape or manner against any political organization, and it dulged in no threats of any sort as to: ivhnt it proposed to do. Having only view, it absolutely ignored exclu- SB uo SJwtb that thing, and that one Thing was the passage of a local op- 4 Don law for incorporated towns in tho state of Tennessee, and appointed me to wait on this convention and ask you to inc, -oornte into your platform a promise to give us such a law. IVe jo not ask you (whistle from the nudl 9»co)— That is all right, 1 have heard whistling before. (President culls for order) I can make myself heard, I, think. I have been accustomed to, preach at camp-meetings during my; time. We do not ask you to make any i announcement in regard to prohibition. We know the democrats of Tennessee too well for that. A majority of then arc in the condition of the old North’ Carolinian w-ho said that n little of it for mechanical uses tastes mighty well.’ We do not ask you to make any deliv erance in favor of temi>ersince, but we do come and ask you as a party that! is always against centralization and in favor of self-government to give us a law in Tennessee that will enable every community to determine for itself, whether it shall lx* subject to the con tinued doininancy cf the saloons or not If this is not democracy, then I don't know what democracy Is.” When the D. I). had concluded a mem ber of the convention moved that the re* pit with him to the convention, he was cither out of his pulpit that day or else he had his pulpit in a bad place. I hftd as soon go to Alaska fop grapes, or to the mo6». for cheese, to hell lor water as to go to B'Jei crntlc convention for temperance Intion. I don’t think our D. D. wa* I bad man. I think his trouble could 1 , located above the eyes. I have been a democrat a little of my life and a pro- ! hlbitionlst ever since I was a Christian, but I never saw the day since I was ten .! years ok! that four hundred rc-spectablo gentleman could hire me to play the fool In that way. I am some rort a fool, but I am not all sorts of a fc ( I don’t go to a goat’s house for nor to a desert for water, nor to ( , for pineapples. I find out whored grows and stays, and go there Whenever free silver and free llq® both are dominant measures of a o vention they will whistle down an j gine, much less a D. D. j,' Hut the D. D. said he had no views' In* express on the financial question, ex cept that he wanted all the money sight, or words to that effect. But < dear D. D. needs the sympathy of brethren. He ought to be rewarded! straw-is it?” And there Is some com, | of the D j,. ^ fom>tl to the rsian proverb that says: , sonunStt4 , e on platfonn> | Th! „ w08 <!Ur . “Blessed are they who have but little, ! ^ unttnhlim L, y> nnd ,o.nethw car- request pilttco on platform somewhere so that It was never heard cf ttgaln. This same D. 1). has for years Wen parading h'mself as a ilrmocratJc preacher. This makes his |>osition be fore *hl* democratic brethren pitiful when he sttinds Wfore the democratic fort in a I’mlnn proverb thnt “J'j j Jvmmlttee on plntfonn.* r TT nrelieyjl, 0 hnve butltile, M unaI , h „ ou ,| . 01t „, h ,„ K or they .hn , uot be envle<l."-Ii.ll Arp. |e(| , hl , „ „ J , , n ,. , ’ conl . In Atlanta ConRRtvtlon, STARS and distances. feme WellnKuewu Astronomical Facta ol Interest. in all the heavens, with the excep tion of passing meteors or meteorites, not one body owupie« u position closei 1 rnob that booted and yelled and whis- to earth than the moon, which is some ( tied ami howled in the state capitol e ta,000 miles away. Very' far, of course, 1 where He was making his request n r (cr side by side with any earthly distances, 1 telling the grcnC democratic eonven- but a mere fraction side by side with | lion: “I feel at home, for first and lust other astronomical distances. Next to J have Wen a middling good democrat the moon, our nearest occasional neigh- , myself.” Middling gocxl Cotton means bor is Venus, and then Mars. Roth ' way above the ordinary. This mid- Venus and Mars, however, arc often ' dling good democratic I). 1). came ns (ty*. further away from us than the sun, 1 representative of 300 or 400 ^*nre>eatu- which remains always at somewhere about the same distance,, roughly at from 00,000,000 to 93,000,000 miles. This dividing space Wtwceri sun and live and respectably TyRncwenna In requesting hli} pflfly to put a local op tion plank ip thelf platform. They' whistled at him and raised such n con- earth Is of great importance In think- | fusion that the chairman had to come to lug about the stars, and it should W ' the rescue ami call for order. Th he was ns smart asj He way by any’ well-regulat honor, and pull a* or Wat the drui not written theaST the old brother said way of parenthesis, but In nil parties Interested well, and with! I wish you good-night. 8am P. Jones. MOCCASIN'S STIFLING ODOR. Hasardoua Encounter of a Maine Mas with m Virginia Reptile. “When I was a young fellow,” says a now aged Maine man, “I went into soutWrn Virginia for u time. I hara lived in Maine and Massachusetts, ami consequently had no fear of snakes. I luul formed n habit of picking up byr the tail such snakes as came across my; ' path and of giving them a quick snap to^ break- their necks. Boon after T went to the south, in the road one day I sat n small snake, a couple of feet k j>erhaj>s, and of a yellowish color, wi gling across the path. Without thiol ing of harm I jumped for him, put j foot on his neck, and, catching hh by the tail, swung him to give snap. Some people were near they yelled to me like wUd,jn$ that snake. “1 stopped n moment, while 1 wriggled, and then I snapped due and ancient form. Mark the suit. In less'thon ten minutes I came drowsy and insensible, and re-i 1 mained so for several hours, in spite. ' of the efforts of those who had warne<| j ! me to rouse my dormant senses. I dk not know that the snake bit mo us i way, and do not now W(Wxo he • The ■ a!r._ bail a suffoctttlwg. ' smell, on odor thrq^l offl I think, anj Vcv«rthing that me. Ttyf. snake, I was told, wo mojrquota, one of the most venoinot! the whole t ribe of crawlers. Since i day snapping snakes has afforded no fun.”--Lewiston Journal. ing aboi clearly impressed upon theinipd-. Next to the sun in point of iieafpess come the more distant ptypet*—Jupiter, which is aWut five tlinen for from the sun ns our earth is; Saturn, nearly twice as far as Jupiter; Uranus, nearly twice ns far as Saturn; and Neptune, nearly three times us fur iu» Saturn. AH thesy planets belong to our sun, ail are pu’MB hers oi his family, all are part of the Hilar system. Tho six** of the solar sys tem as a whole, consisting thus of the sun and his planets, including our^arth, may be fairly well grasped by anyone taking the trouble to master two sim ple facts. They are these: That our earth is roughly about 92,000,000 mile* a\v ay from the sun, and that Neptune, the outmost planet of the solar system, is nearly 30 times as far distant from the sun us our earth is, — Chambers’ Jour nal KiubarrsMiueat* of EnglUh. “I’m too well educated for the bicycle business,” the young man said, sadly. “What’s the matter?” “I lost a customer to-day because 1 Insisted on her making it clear to me whether she was after a ‘nineteen- pound lady’s wheel or a Indy’s nineteen- pound wheel.’ "—Washington Star. Ill* Trouble. Friend—You play the cornet excel lently; did you have much trouble in learning it? Rloyer—I laid a good deal of trouble (he resem r and call for order. They whistled at the 1). I). and spat on his rf quest, and the committee on platform brought in 19 planks covering every thing from silver coinage tq Clay Evan’s “cow pony store,” apd yet there was not even a mi pur ity report on the I) . D.’s request hum his 400. “Into the Jaws of hell marched the jrnllnut 4C0,” and yet the dear dpetor remains a democrat. Be flattered his brother democrats by telling them that they were the daddy of tin* four-mile law. He was a little mistaken about that, however. The old wholesale liquor dealers were the daddy of the four-mile law and the democrats its champions. Thus they bring the liquor business into the cities where the wholesale liquor dealer* can handle it hotter and concentrate their force*, thereby shutting out the little lrre*pon- •ible crosr-road* liquor dealer*. If the dear D. D- thinks that the four-mile law fa any state is nn evidence of the tem perance sentiment of his dear old whisky-soaked party he is n* Innocent or. he is pitiful. Just think of it, a J) . I), introduced by the president of the convention, the representative of a previous convention composed of 400 representative and respectable dele gates, non-partisan democrats who did not fight anything! Representing In his ministerial robes the great cuuso of tenijierance and think of his^own brethren whistling at bi n and spitting DU hi* request! Oh, the times, the times! Sometimea £ get sick, tired, BOWS They No TO THE FRONT, Buck Longer Adm-u the Woiucji's Neeks. The bow which erstwhile spread, loops across the buck of milady’s col has v ha aged Its position. Nowadays occupies ull the available space be! her chin, it is planted firmly in fn and extends far out on to the should In the back the collars are unod The collars are of various mate) j They have one feature in po: namely, that they are not like I they accompany. On frocks of they are of satin ribbon, and they like magnified double “bow”^ cnM They do not have ends, but are of loops on each side of a knot, whi fustenwi down with a buckle. On frocks of silk, chiffon and nje< selino de sole are used. The these are very large. Indeed. A c« of yards of the filmy stuff are tied I a great butterfly bow beneath the < The buckles worn withJhcse are d< jeweled affairs, while those which company the satin collars ore ones of silv er or gold. Another novelty in collars Is Medici or Eliw'jethnn niff, wt the back rises up to mret^he ii£h\ whiloJ it dwindles to u tiny IneeJffH | n ’ Rather heavy vuricttymf •hice are for these rutWin order to give them the necessary *Uffue**. fcilvrn then need "ire to hold them tlie back.—N. Y. Jouruul T Getting a Rent, “What make* Reopcuk look so] to-day?” “His wife has sue] »k a word.