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‘ v < 1 ♦ * ♦ > THE LEDCJEK: GAFFNEY", S. C., APRIL 8, 1897. OX PATSALAGY 1UDGE. When Rufus Sandora and His Best | Girl Turned Out •'DiUtcd tt Ills Campmortln irlth Fine Clothes and Fancy Trimming” —lint n Rcmnlncd Over” Till Show "Was Oat. Hit is the gonebj^est most strangest thing in this round createdAvorld tome •what a txemendius big lot of devil ment one mortal man can do single- handed and alone under the sun. The meanness w h i c h vain and fleetin man docs is more than probable to live after him, ■whilst the good deeds done and the whisky he drinks is sometimes buried with his bones. Raley and truly, I didn’t mean to do it, but oncst upon a time—in my young and mngnolicmsdays—when I was feel- in my . eed and gall in around right plen tiful and promiscus like—I busted up a whole campmeetin. And oncst upon another time I busted up the biggestsort of a woddin match, when I wouldn’t of done it a-purpose for the finest young mule in the settlement. Who Should and Who Shoaldn't That was years and years ago, be fore me and mother ever took up a Lo tion to walk together in the ten com mandments and work in double harness for better or for worse. It was way down in the old Panther Creek settle ment, where the Sanders generation, of people had made theirelearins and built their eabbins in the first settlement of the country. Campmeetins was all the go in them good old days, and indurin that partic- lar pununer everybody—Methodists, Baptists and all— went in ke: snooks to gether and got up one of the biggest campmeetins you ever heard tell of. They struck camp in a big shady grove over on I’atsalagy ridge, and the people they c me for miles and miles around —conn in wagonsand on horseback and afoot- till it did look to me like every body .’as there. No\ in that day and generation most every x>dy had to live at home and board at tl » same place. They' made their meat nd bread and raiments at home, and ven to the highristocraey of the land most in generally wore homespun clothes in summer and winter and the whole year round. And as for us boys, it took our level blamedest to climb up in a suit of store-bought clothes oncst a year. But, aslwasgoinon to say, right about that time I was keepin clost company with Miss Susy Ann Stringer and eut- .tin the pigeon wing around her every’ Sunday’ the Lord sent, and two or three nights in the week for good measure. At the same time my fellow servant, Bunk Weatherford, he was payin his Inof-t fervent regards to Miss Rosebud r CbGtleberry reglar and constant. Well, if you have ever traveled along that road you can see how it was. It did raiey seem to me like I was about the finest Jookin youngster in the settlement and I felt certain that Miss Susy’ Ann was way yonder t he most loveliest girl in the whole created human rare. Naturally of course Bunk Weatherford had took about the same sort of fool notions in re gards to Miss Rosebud and himself. So in the fullness of time — between the two pairs—we bad worked up a fu rious big rivalment as to who could and who couldn’t—who should and who shouldn’t. Now, to tell the gospel truth, Bunk and Miss Rosebud they’ had got the bulge on me and Miss Susy Ana along in the spring of the year. By some shift or turn Bunk had managed so as to buy him a bran-spankin new suit of store-bought clothes, and Miss Rosebud she had likewise broke, out in a fresh place with two or three white muslins and poker-dot calico frocks, with hat and ribbins and plenty of fancy’ fixments to match. They’ then took in all the picnics and barbecues and big meetins together, and cut such a high and mighty swell everywhere they went till they laid me and Miss Susy Ann, and everything else for miles around, way back in the shade. next monrun I went to work settin up the trap*. Old man Eph Simpkins was then way yonder LHc most richest man in the set tlement. He kept store over at the Cross Roads—owned two or three good plantations, and, accordin to common talk, he was plum lousy with money. So in the next place I went o^r to see Uncle Eph that day, laid all my plans and schemes before him, and asked him if he wouldn’t stand by me till I could wean Bunk Weatherford, or either make him Elck on the milk. “You see that horse, bridle and sad dle, Uncle Eph?” says I. “Well, they are mine and paid for. How much money wedM you say I have got buckled up there together?” *T would ywt the figgex at $150,” says he. “When ate you goin down to New Or leans to lay in your fall stock, Uncle Eph?” say® J. “I lowed to start for the river landin to-morrow," says he. “Well now. Uncle Eph,” says L com- in right dowai to business, “when you git to New Orleans I want you to spend $150 for spend it exactly like I tell you—*ynd then take a waverly note on tluit. hearse, bridle and saddle to make your money dead safe.” “I will let you have the money, Rufe,” says Uncle Eph, “or I will spend it for you and spend it exactly' like you say, providin you will give me all the pints of your game as you go on with it— provklim you will let me be there at the milkin and the weanin.” ‘‘You are traded with on the spot,” says I, “and now, Uncle Eph, let me tell you how to spend the money. In the first outset I want you to git the finest and prlttiest dress that money can buy’ for Miss Susy Ann—no poker dots, no muslin and no calico. Undo Eph, but the finest of silks and satins— somethin that will rustle and whistle at every step she takes. And don’t go and git no jrale and sober and serious lookiu colors. Uncle Eph, but pink and red and yallrr buff—somethin gay and gorgeous-like nnd flashy. Then buy her the finest hat and the shinyest slippers y ou can find, and fling in plenty of rib- bins and laces for trimmins and good measure. “Then for my own riggins, I want a navy blue broadcloth suit of clothes, calfskin, spike-toed boots and a bell- crown silk hat, which the same like our congressman wears when he ain’t out huntin for votes. And I don’t want no sawed-off, high-water coat, neither —kt it be a double-breasted calf-wiper. Uncle Eph. Then I wa nt a ruffle-bosom shirt, and if the pile ain’t clean gone by that time you can fetch me a heavy gold watch chain. I wouldn’t give a durn for no watch. Uncle Eph, but I mought maybe need the chain in my business.” Of all the hustlin and bustlin, and flut- tcrin and gigglin and gaziu that ever went on at one time in this world, it j was right over there on I’atsalagy ridge ! that Sunday mornin. Tarcctly the preacher sung out and stud, with a loud voice: “Let the congregation come to or der. Re seated and behave yourselves. It’s nobody but that rattlen, harum- scarum Rufe Sanders nnd Susy' Ann Stringer.” Then there was a spell of screamin amongst t he women folks, and when old Mises Stringer found out that itwas no body butme. and herown dear Susy’ Ann, she throwed up her hands and keeled over and went off in a dead faint. So instid of broakin up the performajHSe the preacher only made it worse and still more of it. Things wen ton at that lick till Mises Stringer come to, and •then the leaders of the flock come to the conclusion that it mought be best to take out for tw elve and feed. But the people couldn’t eat any dinner to spetik of for lookin at me and Miss Susy Ann and the fineries we had on us. After dinner the elders blowed the horn and the preachers tried to go on with the meetin. But it was all jnhiperfcct vanity and vexation. The proeeedins wouldn’t proceed worth a hardly. A few of the amen corner members went back to the big arbor, but the mainest part of the crow d w as busy follow in’around after me and Miss Susy Ann like a passleof sghool boys at a Punch and Judy sliow. AKP’S COTTON SPIN. Southern Staple Continues to Bo King of AIL How It AVna First Span—Dili's Mother I'sed to I*iek Seed from the Lint —Then Caine the Gin and Spin ning Jenny. Something Had to Happen. If you had went to most any’ sort of a big meetin anywheres in the surround- in country’ that summer you would of met up with me and Miss Susy’ Ann and a whole passle more of the young peo ple. But from the general way ir. w hich t he talk was carried on you never would of thought there was any young people on the grounds exceptin Bunk Weather ford and Miss Rosebud Castleberry, They flew so infernal high and skimmed so blame light, and everybody had somethin to say about how sweet and pretty’ she was and how smart and fine lookin he was. To be certainly I kno.ved golnation well that it was no.bin but their extra frills and fineries and fancy trimmins, but at the same time the general circumfer ence was pow’erful diggin and hurtin to me. Bunk jest simply took the day and swept everything before him, whilst I had to fall back and hang on oround the edges as best I could. “This thing has now gone on jest a leetle bit further than I can stand and take it, and I will be everlastinly dad- smashed if it aint got to stop!” saya I to myself that night. “Bunk Weather ford thinks there aint nobody’ in this country that can wear clothes exceptin him and his onlyest own, but by the liv- in and the dead, I have never yet seen a colt so fiery or so fine but what begot brought to bis milk and weaned by and by. I hate to do it. Bunk—honest to Cod, I do mortally hat* to do it—bat somethin will have to happen.” “Flala tfc* Triggers.” So consequentially I fixed the trig gers that night, and bright and early •*JIe Fetched the Fixments.” Now, in them plain old days we didn’t have the railroads and telegrams to make quick trips on, and it was nearly two weeks before Uncle Eph re turned bark home. But when he did come, he fetched the fixments with him. It was then along in the first part of August ajid the camp meetin was comin off about the middle of Sep tember. I managed some way to blip the riggio* we. had got for Miss Susy Ann over to her house, and she had plenty time enough to set up of nights and put them together unbeknowauce to the old folks. The plan was for both of us to hnd and bloom ar»d bust out suddent and surprisin like and take all the shine off of Bunk and M i<-s Rose bud the ier>’ first lick. The big camp meet hi opened up on a Sunday. Wc didn't lia .e many bug gies then, and when the young peo ple went about they had to ride horse back, or either take it afoot and w alk. I was to give the old folks time to git off to meetin and then ride fey after Miss Susy Ann. And I do wish in my soul that you could of seen me when I got into my new clothes and come out in full bloom that Sunday mornin. My navy blue coat bad a velvet collar and brass buttons on it. It was not only a calf-wiper, friends and fellow citi zens—it was a double-breasted ankle- knocker. And that bell-crown bat which I wore. My, my, my! It was a wind splitter and a sky scraper. Then with my ruffle-bosom shirt aud spike- toed boots on, and a heavy gold watch cliain danglin from the brow band of my breeches—dadbiame it, I felt like I wouldn’t give more than half of the road to a governor or a president. When I got over t lie re to the Stringer place Miss Susy Ann’s horse was stand- in hitched to the rack in front of the gate. I rid up and liailed with a grand salute. Presently here come Miss Susy Ann skippin and flutterin out of the house. Man, sir, there was a sight which was worth livin a long life time to see. Her pink sMk dress was put together and built up accordin to the latest fashions, with tucks and flounces, and laces and ribbins and beads and other fancy trimmins, from her milk- white throat to her high-heel slippers. It didn’t raiey seem to me like she was walkin human fashion, but sorter skim- min over the earth like a bird, and blamed if her riggins didn't screak and whistle as she went like a high wind in a canebralte. I helped her to mount, and away we went till we rid into the camp grounds with a wide sweep a mighty swash. The “Terrible Cemfaaienoiemt.” But then, when we marched hand in Land through the crowd and up under the big hreah arbor, we did raise the dadblamdest flutter and flurry that had ever come to pass in all that skirt of the woods. The show was wide open then and the gonebyest most terriblest oongurionment you ever read about was goin on around there presently. The preacher had Jest got into a weavin way with a powerful and atirrin sermont, but he had to givo it up and turn loose to catch hin breath. On the first flush soma of the people thought I must bo Goa. George Washington, or King deems, or some other royal monarchy, with n queen tor a wife by his sU* Late that even in the preachers and the deacons and the elders got together and helt a little private confabulation. Then they sent a committee to soe if I want willin to take Miss Susy Ann and go on home, and let the meetin proceed. Now Uncle Eph Simpkins was there accordin to our private understandin, and be had already laughed and laughed till I raiey don’t think there was a button left on his breeches. He saw what was goin on, and callin me off to one side, lie went on to pay: “Don’t you do it, Rufe. This is a free country, and if you and Miss Susy Ann want to wear good clothes, it is no body's business. Bunk Weatherford and Miss Rosebud couldn’t stand the shine you all put on. They lit out from here and left the grounds before dinner. It will never do for you to run up the white feather row. Never retreat un der fire, my boy—never retreat under fire.” So I made the committee own up that me and Miss Susy Aim liaun’t done a blessed thing but went to the meetin with our own clothes on, behavin otrr- .selves as best \ye could, and then I give it out. that we would holt our ground and remain over and seethe show out. Well, I didn’t think aboutdoiu anything that was wrong and wicked, and I knowed that Miss Susy Ann didn’t mean it that way, but bless gracious the nest news wc got seem like we Lad busted the earn]) meetin higher than a kite. That night the preacher prayed to the good Lord to “have mercy upon that wild and wayward Rufe Sanders and the giddy young thing with him.” And then the meetin adjourned for good and all. Uncle Eph lowed to me afterwards that he wouldn’t take three hundred dollars for the sights he saw and the fun he had that day. “You can keep your horse, bridle and caddie, and also your new clothes, Rufe,” says he. *T have lost that durn waverly note anyhow, and I will give you a hundred years to settle in.” Uncle Eph Simpkins he died and was gathered up to his fathers in the usual run of time, and somehow me and Miss Susy Ann. never did git married. But by gatlins. we weaned I’.unk Weather ford and Miss Rosebud Castleberry,and we weaned ’em good. nrrrs panders. LAFAYETTE’S COURTESY. Ilia Act of HoniaRc to an American "Woman. The visit of Lafayette to America, as the nation’s guest, is graphically re called by Jean Fraley Hallowed, who writes of “When I>afayette Rode into Philadelphia,” one of the notable series of articles on “Great Personal Events.” I The welcome given Lafayette in Phila- I delphia is said to have exceeded in its warmth and enthusiasm that extended to the distinguished visitor in any other ( city. In connection with his riding into Philadelphia, the central figure of j g resplendent pageant, an interesting | incident is thus recalled: “Lafayette’s barouche was passing, on Eleventh . street, the house where dwelt the wid ow of Robert Morris, financier of the | revolution, a sister of Rev. Bishop White. Mrs. Morris was at her win- | dow, and, recognizing her after many years, Lafayette rose up in his carriage ; and bowed to her. The rare courtesy [ was instantly discerned by the thou- I sands congregated at this point, and it seemed as if the people would go mad. with enthusiasm. The recognition of ^ Mrs. Morris seemed to set them aflame. Even Lafayette seemed surprised that | the simple act should evoke such a wave | of frantic huzzas. Shout after shout rent the air; women vied with men in their efforts to show to Lafayette that his graceful act touched them. So great was the furore that the hero had to rise again and again in his carriage, and it was several minutes before the wonderful enthusiasm had abated. But if the applause subsided at the special point where it had been waited into a flame, it was rekindled again and again, and carried along the entire route of inarch. By a simple act he had aroused the people, and the fruits of it remained with him all through his visit in the Quaker city.”—Ladies’ Home Journal. •esrtss Perfumevr« Plutarch mentions a visit paid by a Spartan lady to Bernice, the wife of Derotsrus. tetrarch of Galatia. This lady smelled so strongly of sweet oint ment and Bernice of butter that they could not endure each other's pres ence.—-Chicago Chronicle. The mean temperature of Greece is 64 degrees Fahr. “Cotton is king!” I don’t know who first said that, but it is a fact. It is the most useful and most important prod uct in thu world aud has the most in fluence on its commerce. I was rumi- natiPg about this because of some let ters of inquiry’ tliat from time to time I have received concerning cotton. The last one from an old friend, Col. Saxon, says he cannot learn from the depart ment at Washington when cotton cloth was first imported to this country. And so I will venture a few remarks on this subject in general, for it is full of remarkable facts and illustrates the kindness of Providence to His crea tures. Providence is always kind and whenever we need anything lie unlocks another door of His treasury and says here it is. There is no doubt at all that the cot ton plant was created “in the oegin- ning,” and with n. design for the use and benefit of mankind when it should be needed. Attention was attracted to it away back in. the centuries. Four hundred and fifty years before the Christian era Herodotus wrote about it os a plant bearing fleeces more deli cate and lieautiful than those of sheep and of the Indians using it for the man ufacture of cloth. From India it was introduced into Greece and Rome, and Caesar used it for his army tents amt covered the forum with it. The cotton fabrics of the Hindoos have been ex celled only by the most perfect ma chinery of modern times. We read of a Hindoo princess who came into n court reception and the king said: “Go lionnu—go home, my child—you are not decently covered.” And she replied: “Father, I have seven suits on.” But they were of cotton muslin so thin and delicate that the king could see through them. The famous muslins of Decea, in Calcutta, were called “webs of woven wind,” and when a piece vas laid upon the dew-covered grass it was not dis- ‘cernible. Imagine the wonder of these fabrics when there was not a spindle, but the distaff and only a loom that the weaver carried alx>ut with him, setting it up under a tree and digging a hole in the ground for his feet to work the treadle. But the manufacture of cotton for the common people was smothered during all these centuries and only wool and flax were used for elotliing. The an cient Egyptians used it to some extent, spinning it with tlie distaff aud weav ing it with the primitive looms, but the plant was not cultivated. It was indigenous to that country and the fleece was gathered from the wild stocks. It was not until the tenth cen tury that the cultivation began, and that was by the Moors in Spain. The Venetians engaged in it in the four teenth century’ and the English in the early part of the eighteenth. But its use was very limited, for the seed were in the way. But now comes the evolution of cot- ton; the revolution that in a few years made it king. Nothing so wonderful has ever .transpired in Commerce and manufacture. There was a conjunc tion of tlie three tilings that were neces sary to bring about this revolution: The cotton gin by Whitney in 1703, the spinning jenny by Arkwright in 1787 aud the power loom by Cartwright in 1789, all startled the world about the same time and gave an impulse to the growth and use and manufacture of cotton tliat was pregnant with great results. One of tliese results was the fixing of salary as an institution upon the southern states. Up to that time it was not considered either safe or profitable to encourage their importa tion from the northern states. But of course, it took several years for these inventions to become generally intro duced. My mother told me t hat os late as ISIS she used to spend most of thu winter evenings picking the seed from the cotton by hand—with half a dozen or more of the family servants sitting in a circle around the fire. She vied with them in trying to excel in tlie quantity seeded. This was in Liberty county in this state, and the cotton was probably the long staple variety. Whitney became involved in inter minable law’ suits and his gin, which was for only the short staple cotton, was not in general use for many years after it was invented. My father put up the first gin in Gwinnett county in 1828, and seed cotton was hauled to it from all the adjacent country. Previ ous to the use of the gin it w as cou- ridered a fair day’s work to seed enough to make a pound of link But the gin with two attendants picked 400 pounds in a day. At that time the old-fashioned spinning wheel was in general use and a day’s work for the spinner was six cuts—a cut being 140 rounds on the reel, but the first spinning jenny with one attendant did 80 times as much and did it better. Later on it did 2,000 times as much. The saving in weaving by the power loom was in similar pro portion and hence it suddenly came about that ten men could do the work of 10,000. No wonder that Hargroves and Arkwright were driven from their homes by the spinners and the spin sters. Excuse me for telling the girls just here that a spinster is the feminine for spinner, and used to mean a mar riageable girl who had made herself eligible and fitten to be married by spinning and wearing enough cloth for her own trousseau, and sheets and cov erlets for the bed and table cloths and napkins tor the table. This was the dowry she brought her husband. But these inventors went to Nottingham and pat up their mills and made a mo nopoly of the business. They and their associates grew rich so fast that they determined to exclude all mankind from acquiring a knowledge of thch* Inven tions. The doon* were kept locked and the operatives sworn to secrecy. New England trial in vain, to buy tlie right and could not compete with English yarns. But deliverance was not far off. Sam uel and John Slater, who had worked for Arkwright in England for seven years, saw large money on this side of the water. They came and brought with them a full knowledge of all three of the inventiens, and how to use them and bow to build a factory. Of course t hey met with a warm reception, and in 1S0G they erected a mill and plant ed a town and named it Slaters- ville. They soon mad© a fortune. 'When John died fie left his mil lions to his son, and when John Jr. got ready te lie he bequeathed a million to our Dr. laygood in trust'for the edu cation of the negroes of the south. It was a gif t fit to be made, tor the fathers and mothers of these negroes grew the cotton tliat made the Slaters rich. The Slaters not only spun tljeir yarns, but wove them, and the cloth was called homespun, because it was woven at home and not brought from England. But, although cotton woe now king commercially, it was ranked socially by other fabrics. It was not so beau tiful as silk nor so strong os flax oor so warm as wool, and henoc for years It was woven, only into the common fab rics for the common people. Thecal ieoes that were imported from Calicut in Tur key were spun with the distaff and, woven with the old-fashioned hand loom. The nankeen cloth that came from Nankin in China was made by a similar process. I remember that my father, who was a merchant, bought some of that nankeen when I was a lad, and my mother made me o pair of pants and a round jacket out of it, and I was proud and yellow. It was not until the 40’s when the finer fabrics, such as musins and lawns, were (made of cotton. In 1842 a machine was in vented of so delicate a nature that a single pound of cotton was spun, to a length of 1,100 miles, and hi 1851 some cloth of exquisite fineness was woven! expressly for a dress for the queen of England, and was exhibited at the Crystal Palace fair in Loudon in that year. But it is still asserted that no machinery has ever surpassed the bond work of the Hindoos, and that Montezu ma presented Cortez with robes of cot ton interwoven with feather work that rivaled the delicacy of the finest paint ing. But notwithstanding the inventions of the spinning jenny and the power loom, our country people continued for years to spin and to weave their own cloth, and the female slaves were made to do so by their masters. The spin ning wheel was the first to surrender, end the factory yarn, or “spun truck,” as it was called, came into general use along in the 40's. In a few years more the homemade loom had to go, and since the war the wheel and the loom haue ceased their music in the homes of our people. It was not until after the close of the war of 1812 that even the northern peo ple bought any cloth from England. Until about 1816 England had none to sell or export, but from that time until 1824 its exportation increased very rap idly and almost paralyzed our New England mills. But in that year and in 1828 and 1832 congress placed a duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem on all Eng lish cotton goods, and this protection greatly revived our own. manufactures. This tariff was reduced in 1840 and the outside world given a fairer chance to compete. But cotton is etill king 1 —king in the southern fields and in the factories aud in the carrying trade of the ocean and in Liverpool'and other great markets of the world. Whether we make large crops or small ones, it is still the great est factor in the world’s comfort and prosperity. Long live the king.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.. HIS ROMANCE. KING OF THE Mi. This Title Now Belongs Fitzsimmou:-. rhe FlfrhtlngCnrrcr <>f t ■ - «*«1 Corn lull muu Who Out Jumea J. C«>j ... Carson, Xev. Robert Fitzsimmons, v ! . i , **• «» ing James Corbett at C.ii> ,i . ' \ March 17, won the title -.t ■ i ^ heavyweight pugilist of tl . v born at ilelstou. Cornu;:,;. : a»v June 4. 1862. “Bob” is i heritance, his fatherliav::, . ' nized as one of the best d. ••• it u country famous for its wrc:~ - ; :■» a,, i pugilists. “Bob’s” brothi rs w a." >r natural fighters. “F ; tz” n. _t. n-u v* • b his family to New Zealnnu. .ctic. fi took up the horseshoe ing •. X art of boxing was first tang! t i.iiu his brother Jairet. His first ai ; « in the ring was at “Jer.;" M.a - ru. tear tournament, held at T i: V.-. Zealand, in the fall of 1" a. but a lad of 19 years. ”Bcb ’ ••?v out four men that night, thus v. . . tlie amateur championship of Mi v. //- • land. Since that time Fitzsimi ons . • *t • almost every fighter of r' ii' ::i ll. .-1* and the United States. !:>t _rr ' meeting before the Carscn *v : • ■*" ' that with Tom Shark* y. r h. " •>.. y lad,” late in 1896. Refer* 1 .' that fight to Sharitey on . f'.in •!» has been, and always wik . lie i u a on os a robbery. Fit/.-.--s' J the case in court in San I- nin : sr> * there received his first ».• Sharkey was allowed to r -’ain '. c St 000 stake, which it is com e<! *! If/ ?! never fairly won. Fitz Is the son of Irish ami I': • k-v His height is 5 it-.-: Ilk. stretch of arms ( > i* i u . In fighting style he :.s. ■ A tl S- 14 rounds with Corbet’ • .*<* clusively, the typical kmx kom hitte"* of the ring. His averaa- 'tk. .* weight is 165 pounds. !I ’.i. : ’V . earnings of battle, if he -p ,■ allowing him, should be i.i';u :y " i.‘ v ? It Illaatratea the Ficklenciis of Man an Well an Wausau. “Of course there’s romance in my life,” assented Fromer, when it was intimated that there was nothing of sentiment in his composition. “ T felt when I saw her, ’tis she or none on earth,’ is w hat Schiller wrote in his ‘Hride of Messina.’ That is exactly what I felt w hen I met the woman of my romance. Nobody can describe a woman. You can rave about her clas sic features, her speaking eyes, her neck like a pillar of marble touched with life, the graceful Psyche knot that she twists to a crown of beauty and all that kind of rant, but after it is done you can meet the woman and not know’ her. When I can picture a soul IT] go into the business. “Of course I was young when I met her. Otherwise I would hav* shown some slight imitation of sense and sur rendered by degrees. Love at first sight is not uncommon, but it is restrained by a sense of propriety, by pride or by some other modifying influence. Every force in my being was coopera tive. There was no check, and I fell to the very depths. “She refused me very prettily and very properly. I asked her if I could cherish no hope, intimating that to de prive me of hope would be immediately fatal. She gave me a very scant allow ance. Then I went proudly away to win a fortune that I might lay it at her feet as an additional inducement. In tour years I returned. The woman was there just as I had left her, but not my ideal. While I was trying for moral strength enough to recall my vows, she was mustering courage sufficient to tell me she was engaged to another man. She spoke first. Then I was so mad at the other fellow, whom I should have blessed, that I insisted she had broken my heart."—SL Louis Republic. starve to Death. “No man should marry until he is able to support a wife.” “In that esse lots of men would starve to death.”—North American. ROBERT FITZSIMMONS The following is a cond-:;.-ed historv of his fighting record, wiii- .-kould Ik* saved for future reference: 1SS0. Won lightweight compotit.nr.. yro:rote^ by Jem Mace, defeating four • T;:narv.. New Zealand. 18S1. Wos same competition, !• t n: ‘'Y" J- - ’ Mace, defeating five men. 1^3. Jem Crawford. 3 rounds: I :ii knvin. T- “Starlight,” 9. ISM. Arthur Cooper, 3 rounds: Jack k. .. 8: Jack Greentree, 3. iSVklSSS. Jim Brimsstead, 3 rounds Di i: .SaataiS- 4: Prof. West, 1: “Pablo” Frank. 2. J&cL. Riddle. 4: J. W. Eager. 2. 1S8:. D!cl: E!!!s, 3 round*. T tu ■ Queensland and Now Sou:' which he claims to have put 1 :t " i liK*. Jim Hall, 4 rounds. Sydney. " ku. . Fitz lost and came to AmerPa: FMly '.*<*- Carthy, 9 rounds, San Francisco, a: thur Upham, 5 rounds. New otc ar;< 1891. Jack Dempsey, 13 rounds, N>j»v Orf this was for the middleweight "hem; vi- ship, and brought Fitzsiminoi.. ,nto s-t prominence. Failed to knc. 1: on’ :xe- “Black Pearl,” 4 rounds, St. ."au!. k : " fiasco with Jim Hall, St. Paul. Mi:..:. 1892. Peter Maher, 32 rounds. * .r.. • -.Ti*: . J New Orleans, which brought Fita-"v* ! into the heavyweight field: Jack -e. . i 2 rounds, Jersey City, N. J.: Jim F.i- rounds, Newark. N. J.; Jo.- <3od:r t round, Philadelphia: Jerry Sk 1 ”. j. t! rounds. New Y'ork. 1893. Jim Hall, 4 rounds. Crescent City ji ile.- letlc club. New Orleans: for :h*..» met' > *V"• men were promised a purse of ?! v got but a small portion of It. Wk! .■ rounds, Chicago; Louis Warner. " >v4i Baltimore; Jack Hickey, 3 round .-. ?.* w ark, N. J. 1894. Joe Choynski, 5 roun is, police ,.n eflce and draw declared, the No*" "be ater, Boston, Mass.; Frank Kellaw. rounds. Buffalo, N. Y.: Dan Oret'ti -J. . rounds, Olympic club. New Orlcar..;. G*:- Kiordan, hit In. an exhibition with Yitx. t. proved fatal, and Fitz was arrested-'.rim?., aad acquitted. 1895 ■m.1 Alllch, 3 rounds, and Mike- Cor.i:oi”«. 3 round, Jacob's theater. New York; tra v eled about the country with a variety slr-iw* 1896. Peter Maher, 1 round (time, 1 minut/- otjol 35 seconds), Coahulla, Mexico; Paddy Fr.-s- nan and Peter Maher, 3 rounds each. • je* hlbltlon In Madison Square garden, ktew York; no decisions; accused of assaulttryr a street car conductor and a tailor: •atltotl for England, remaining three months^witU no money-making success; gave a bn:;*;".* v to sporting writers In New York. cbvJ lenging Jim Corbett: Tom Sharkey. V rounds, Mechanics' pavilion, San Francis co, Cal.; Fitzsimmons lost, Sharkey sea ting the decision on the referee’s declara tion of a foul: the limit set was ten ruur>#s> An Electric Rat Trap. An electric wire with a bit of ctuwMr on the end U the latest rat trap, rise- rat or mouse stands upon a small rurra* plate aa he takes the bait, and taxlsaw body becomes the medium for cum pleting the electric circuit. He is elec trocuted before he has dore more ttocir. smell the cheese. Something Kew In Sonp. It is said that a French- chemist Smr made a blue soap which will render- aa necessary the bluing in the lauudbyt la ordinary soap he incorporates a mm- lotion of aniline green in strong aerter add. The alkali of the soap convewn. the green into blue. )>