The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 03, 1897, Image 3
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C.. JUNE 3, 1807.
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THE HUMAN MOUTH.
V7r.it Maclo Mostly to Eat and
' Whiatlo With.
■\\h«-n Silence Wn* Gulden In the
.Matter <>f Politic 4—'l he ••1’ino
l.ool.in Voiinu' Idiot
from Kalntucky."
“lUifns. my boy, your mouth tvns
made mostly to cut uiul whistle with.
llemember t hat ami
don’t talk. Natur
ally ,of course, w hea
you don't see wl lilt
you want if y o u
want it i th* bad \ on
must ask for it. J’ut
don’t t a 1 k o n 1 y
when the freneral
ciicumferen e e o f
the surro u n dins
brink's i t o n. I f
they push you info the jam and hem
you up in a rale dost jilaee and crowd
you b .• your answer you c.tii say yes or
no. Fait don’t talk, biifus, jest simply
because the j_ood Lord, in tlie fullness
of His <naee and mercy, .'.’i.v you some
thin that you can talk with.
•‘( liin music is cheap, ilufus—mon
strous cheap—and too infernal mueh of
it makes the man cheap. Keep your
eyes open and your mouth shet. That
is the mainest tiling.”
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P<> around and tend all the meet!ns,
with a padlock on Sim I’eevy’s mouth
and the key in my pocket. At the last
tinal ralliiication w hich was holt on the
old picnic grounds down there at Mur
der Creek bridge. Dick Mason made a
fine speech and the crowd roared and
screamed for Peevy, till by gracious I
thought some of them would split their
throats w ide open, but 1 was right there,
and Sim lie didn’t do nothin but keep
silent and look smart.
"So by and by, Kufus. when the. old
cat bunched her feet she jumped our
w ay like a shot, and Him Peevy win his
race for county judge in a dog w alk.”
Same Smart Silence.
Thus and so my good old grandfathe r
took his text one pleasant summer day
as w e ill i\ alongthe old I\deral road on
our way to tow n. And from that t< xt
he went on and preached forth a ;;..-r-
mont on the human mouth, the like of
w hich 1 have new r since heard from a
mortal man’s lips.
"The world always will have fa me
right serious doubt:',, Kufus, in regards
to the man which has been alliictcd
w ith a rale bad ease of breakin out at
the mouth. If you want people to
stop and listen at what \ u have got to
say you will have to uke your time
and pick your chances and say it right
<|uiek. The world is busy and the
people arc busy—too almighty busy
to stop and set down and listen
to a man if lie lets ids tongue
sliji the i ridle ui.d makes his mouth
common ]-roperty.
".\'ow 1 recollect as iresh and clear as
if it was but only yesterday bow 1
pulhd Him Peevy through the cam
paign in his first race for county judgi.
To tell the living gospel truth, Kufus,
Sim Peevy was only fair to iniddliu
xvlien it come to brains. Well, he had
common sense enough to keep the
office straight and do what was right,
and that was all satisfaetunl with me.
You understand, in the maintime, me
and Kim's father, old man Idem J'ccwy,
bad come out here together in the first
settlement of the country. W’e had
made our eh arius and built our cab-
bins and lit the w ild Indians and killed
bearf together. And then in the years
to (Z m, w hen his son Sim had grow d up
to fly a man and took up the notion that
lie niouglit as well to run for county
judge as not, 1 couldn’t do a thing but
throw my hand and my heart into the
fight with him. I did finally at last
pull the boy through by the hair of his
head and the skin of his teeth, ns it
were, but h t me tell you, Kufus, it
took some hard pulliu and dost watch-,
in to do it.
v “The mainest great trouble with Sim
Peevy war. his mouth, lie was ruthc-r
dull at talldn anyhow, and up to that
time he had maintained a large and
lovely silence, so to speak. He stood
six feet in his socks, tilted the beam up
at 180 pounds, and w as one of the most
likeliest and smartest lookin men in
forty miles around, and it was on them
general grounds that the people took
To him. Hut he got into the race, and
the next thing 1 known! somebody laid
put the fool notion into bis bead that
polities meant talkin, and blamed if he
didn’t come mighty nigh fallin down
with his basket of eggs on the very
first heat. He went down there to a
rallifiention in Old Tueker’s Mill Peat,
and thought he would make a speech.
That was all. He* didn't make no
speech. Hut he turned his month
loose and tried his level hlanicdcst for
three-quarters of an hour. I never did
find out w hat he said. He didn’t know,
find nobody else couldn't tell me. Put
anyhow, heneeforv.aids and forc er
after that the Peevy rid e v. :s all
dough in Tucker’s Mill Peat.
"The other man in tin* famous raee
for county judge was Pick Mason--
which Dick he was m quick and smart
as a streak of pn: ,d lightnin. He
could turn more siaident tri< ks in one
campaign than any livin man T ever
saw.• Soon ns I heard about the orfn!
bad talkin scrape v.l idi Kim JV-vy laid
got into down at Tucker': Mill I lowed
that Da k Mason was at the bottoi i of
it, ur. l it didn’t take me but one day
’n;.d night to find out fur certain that
the Mason side was the very men that
had screamed the luade.st a d 1 mg' : t
for Peevy to make a speech, (’ou-
souiul ’em, they 1 moved good and v eil
if they ever got my man on his Jcet
before a crowd he would go lame and
bust his jug and : pill the molasses be
fore he quit.
"So the next ineetin was Ik It over
thereat Park Log. and soon ns ever the
crowd got together they set upn ronrin
big y )1 for Peevy and a speech. Put in
the maintime I had saw their trick,
and. dadblame ’em. I was thereon the
grounds my own ii dividually self to
scotch the game, peforc the meet in
opened 1 had took Sim off down un-
dt r the kill and learnt him his letters.
‘“Mix and mingle with the crowd
as free and proiniseus as you please,
Simeon,’ says 1, ‘but don’t do any talldn
to speak of. You can shake hands w ith
the voters, and smile upon the women
folks, and kiss the habh s, Simeon, my
boy, but let the other aide make all the
speeches. Pc pleas .nt with every
body aval look as smart ns you possibly
con, biM don’t talk, Simeon—-don’t talk.’
‘T'piWi then on through the campaign
I didn't' have a blame tiling to do but
The SMI! »'l« ntxi The Milk.
“Kemeinl er likewise also, Ilufus, my
son, that it is the still pig which gives
the most milk. You can hav » most
anything you want in this great big
world if you will but only work and
watch and w ait and be silent, but-every
body is jtihiiiH of a man when he talks
too infernal mueh with ids mouth. He
i - :o pruned and probable to say some
thin that ain’t so, or somethin that
will hurt even if it is so. If ain’t no
sign of brains to see a man forever run-
n:n over at the mouth, and if you are
raiey smart, the world will find it out
by and by, whether you tell it or not.
Sposin you are smart enough for con
gress. soon as you light out and pitch
in and try to tell everybody about it,
some people wouldn’t believe it to save
your life.
"Pless the Lord, Kufus, I am livin
right now on borried time,” grandfa
ther went on, in his meek and lowly
voice, "but if i was to live? right on for
f;0 years to come, I never would for-
git tin' day and time when 1 sawayoung
man fall down at courtin and miss his
mainest chance to mix clothes for life
with a lovely littie woman.
"That was two or three years after
Piily Pradsdiaw died—which Hilly was
way yonder the best fixed and most
richest young man in the settlement.
.Now, in tiie maintime lie had got mar
ried to Miss Doily Travis -which I do
know she was the prettiest and most
sweetest lookin young woman 1 had
ever saw in my natural life. Ko Hiily
had ieit her a w elder -young and fresh
and handsome—-with only one baby and
the finest plantation on Pig Wolf creek.
And Dolly was just as good as she w as
sweet. Put then, to be certainly, of
course, human nature is human nature,
and in the due fullness of time it seems
like the little v.idder she got kinder
I lonesome over there on that big planta
tion. \\ hen three years had went by I
could she- one eye and see that Dolly
was willin to risk her life onest more
in the hands of some man person.
“in them days and about that time
it come t » pass that a young man
' moved hito the .settlement from snn.c-
wheres over in Kaiutueky by the name
of Claighorn—John Henry ( laighorn
was his li 11 and proper name. 1 have
! no doubts, Kufus, but what he was one
| of the most handsomest men that ever
run a re 1 or jumped a jig in the whole
. entire country, and 1 couldn't help
from thinkin if him and Dolly Prad-
| s haw was hook< d up together in double
j harness what a snntcliin line pair they
I would make. Nothing would do then
> out I must put my hand into the game
j and see if I couldn’t shulile and cut
the cards so as to win out on that
line. All the young women in the
somethin to say. Put I w ill live on and
an a poor lone widder till the chickens
cut teeth and the evenin stars sing to
gether before l will ever marry a man
with no better sense than to suppose
lie has got the onlyest mouth in the
world.’
“In the fall of that year Polly Brad
shaw married herself oil' with Dan
Kogers, whilst the young man Claig
horn packed his little wallet and re
turned back to Kaiutueky. There
ain’t no tedlin v, hat ever went with him,
but if he had used his mouth more for
eatin and whistlin and not so scandal
ous much for talkin purposes right
now lie would be gra/.i.i on the finest
pastures in the land.”
FIDO ATE THE CHICKEN.
settlement looked I'k*- th' v would go
r ii crazy about Miste/ ( laighorn,
ajm one day 1 made it convenient to
vide around by the Pitnbhavv planta
tion and find out what the little wid
der thought in regards to the young
man from Kaiutueky. She wouldn’t
say so in tiiat many words, but 1 could
see that she was dead gone, heels over
appetite, in love with Misti r t laighorn.
Khc tried her level blamedest to hide
the facts, but 1 bad traveled along the
same road before and she couldn’t
throw no sand in my eyes. When I
•.vent to leave I told her to look out
the next followin Hunday, as I was
goin to bring the young man by to
scrape up acquaintance with her. She
didn’t say yea and she didn’t say nay,
but bless the heavens. Kufus, if I
couldn’t see her heart flutterm way up
in her throat.
iti;!r*ntt<;7i In Pin Mouth.
"In the i.« xt place I went and told
the young man ( laighorn about Dol
ly Pradshavv—-how poor Lilly had died
all of a suddent like a d left her as
a Ir'iuh oiue young wi lder, with only
one baby and the finest plantation on
Pig Wolf creek. He lowed he would
he more than happy to meet up with
tier. Then 1 told him To come over to
: my house the neat foliowin Sunday
and we would ride down there ami
1 see what we could see.
"it was one of them broad, bright,
! mellow day.-, along In the spring of the
| year, Kufus, and when we got there
the little widder was primped and
dressed clean out of sight and lookin
plum magnolions. Ko I went in with
him, .put till the wheel bands on and
started the machinery, and then let na
ture tal <: her < oursc w l.iist J i id down
on tiie crook lookin around at the crops.
When 1 got back and as me and the
young man rid on back home I thought
Loin the way he talked that him and
Dolly would soon work out the sum
vvh 'rein you add two together and git
: only one for the answer. Put the next
time I saw her 1 soon found out that
the fine-lookin young idiot from Kain-
tueky had talked his fool self down
j and out.
I “‘He talks too cverlastin mueh to
I suit me,’ says Doily, when the eoine
t * give in her expel ienee. ‘’Taint what
he said, von umleistand. If he said
| anything worth tellin I raiey can't rc-
I member what it was. Put he tried
to tell me every Uessed tiling he ever
knew or saw or dreamt or heard tell
of. I was lookin every minnit for him
to tell me how mnny plugs he had
in his teeth and what sort of socks he
had on, when you got back mid saved
I im the trouble. You can tell Mister
Claighorn he needn't bother about
combi back hen* any more. I like the
men folks, and ! do love to hear n man
talk onest in awhile when he has got
An IncidAnt That Shows tho Sa
gacity of Oiio Dog.
WISE CROW IS DICK.
“.Savin Suticy" Lout.
"In plain United States language
I can t. Il you, Kufus, how it comes to
pass that Miss Sukey Seilers (Savin
Suekey as tkc boys now call her) lost
the ho t and 1 reckon the onlyest
chance she ever had to mate off with
a man person and fulfill the Scrip
tures. Like all tiie rest of the female
creation, no doubts Miss Sukey is
good and sw eet and n great comfort to
1 he old folks, but from general ap
pear. a n.ls it would seem like when tiie
good Lord was rainin down beauty and
brains on the human race she was un
der the cowshed or ridin in a covered
wagon.
‘‘j’ut when Jerry lost his first wife
he was left with nine ( hildren to fetch
up and four cows to milk, and narry
woman on the place. Well, the next
tiling we knovved Jerry he was courtin
Mhi,’ Sukey to beat six bits and onest
more the settlement was threatened
with fiddlin and dam in and another
vveddin match. Nobody eoudn't blame
Jerry, and I was raiey glad to bear the
news, so fur as Miss Sukey was con-
eerm d. I was jmnehin up the chunks
us best I could and lookin for the < oni-
inittee to report ev< ry day when, dad-
bknne it. Miss Sukey took and throvved
all the fat in the fire.
‘‘Onest iii on a time—way back there
in his young days—Jerry Piggers hud's
g-.t into tin courts about soim thin or
otle r in regards to another man’s
watch. Somehow it would seem like
the wabh had kinder took up with
Jerry. The other man swore that
Jerry stole the watch, but n heap of
people didn’t believe it, and when the
trial eome of! Jerry was cleared and
turned la.ise. Put it hurt him mighty
bad, and forever after that he neverdkl
love to talk about that watch, or any
other watch, or anything which would
put him in mind of a watch. I thought
everybody in the country had heard all
about Jerry’s trouble with the watch.
Put as it turned out Miss Sukey was the
onlyest person which hadn’t heard the
news and didn’t knov*thnt Jerry was
techy on the subject of watches. And
one day .after they* had made all their
arrangements to come on across as man
and w ife Jerry rid by the Sellers place
on bis w ay to town. Miss Sukey caught
sight of him, and she was so restless
for fenr he wouldn’t stop in passin tiil
die had to switch out on the front
porch and hail him.
“ ‘Oli, Jerry!’ says she, ‘what time of
day is it by your watch?’
“Kight there, Kufus, she broke all
the eggs in one pile. Then Jerry rid
on down the road. He didu’t respond
back to cay :} ’Ignm thir^j, nml t;o fiy-
as he is concerned Miss Sukey don’t
know fill yet what time of day it was.
"The human mouth, Kufus, my son,
is the gonebyest most marvelsome and
risky thing in all creation. But re
member it was made mostly to eat anti
whistle with. Don’t talk, Kufus—don’t
you talk."
r.UFUS SANDBRS.
How tiie Cnnine Goornmml Deprived
a IMcjijio .Man WJio WorRed
I.i.te lit Miilit of IJIm Toofli-
Mome Lunelieon.
If there is anything' that appeals to
the palate of a hungry man along
toward midnight it is a j kite of hot
chicken. It .may also be remarked that
there is nothing that appeals more di
rectly to the palate of a dog. Another
proof of the acquired tastes of man s
best friend, perhaps, but there is the
fact—dogs are.fond of chicken.
On Ol io strei t. not far from Clark,
says the Chicago News, lives a man who
revels in hot chicken. His profession
makes him toil in darksome hours, and
he usually readies his doorway at ul-
most exactly 11 o’clock each night. At
10:SO o’clock u curtain sandwich cart
man goes past Hie hungo and tiie late
worker and the man of sandwiches some
time ago struck a mutually advanta
geous bargain. The sandwich peddler
agreed, each night, to heat a platclui
of ' liieken to a scorching degree, and,
as he passed the other’s abode, to leave
the same, wrapped in paper, in the
vestibule. When the late worker ar
rived at his home lie simply picked up
Lis chicken anil took it to ids loom, li
it still retained its heat, ail right—
he ate it there and tlien—if it had grow n
cold, he had ways and means of making
it piping hot In short order. The sand
wich man was to call and collect every
Saturday.
This arrangement worked well for
some weeks, and everybody was happy.
Then the man who lives two rooms on
from tiie late w orker got a dug. and now
a splendid business arrangement him
gone to smash, two men are mutually
certain that the other fellow is a sw in
dler, and all that, has bee n defh itely set
tled is that canine sagacity is a wonder
ful thing.
The first i ight after acquiring the
dog the beast’s owner came in at lOt-i.j
o’clock ten minutes after the snud-
vvich man bad left bis nightly feast of
chicken in the vestibule. As the dog’s
owner stooped to turn Ids key he heard
Hetnrr.cd a Stolen Itlnir When
Threntened with Death.
Mrs. James 1). Martin, of North Ben
nington, Yt.. has a crow that is a born
humorist. It is continually playing
pranks on the different members of the
Martin household. The bird’s name is
"Dick.”
"Dick" has a strong love for jewel
ry, and he never allows an opportunity
to steal a ring or other ornament to
pass. Keccntly Mrs. Martin mis: cd a
plain goid ring. Khe at once suspected
the crow of being the thief.
“ ‘Dick,’ ” she said, “w here Is the ring
you stole?”
"Dick" cocked Ids head pertly tonne
side and then looked at Ids mistress
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SuJIoetited by Flower I'ctuls.
The ancients, in order to enjoy the
scent of rescs at meals, had an abund
ance of the fragrant petals rained down
upon the guests. Heligubalus, in Ids
folly, carried the matter so far that the
clouds of blossoms he ordered shaken
dow n after one of his banquets actually
sulTocated som; of Ids friends. The
Komans, during Their meals, leclined
on cushions stulTed with rose leaves or
made a couch of the leaves themselves.
The floor, too, was strewn with lovely
blossoms. Cleopatra, at an. enormous
expense, procured roses for a feast,
which she prepared for Antony; they
were laid two cubits thick on the floor
of the banquet room, and nets were
then spread over the fragrant bed to
give an elastic footing. — Chicago
Chronicle.
Rhenaiutis:!! 1m InteetloiiM,
Dr. Jaccond, a Drench authority, be
lieves that acute rheumatism is infec
tious. that the pharynx, ton: ils and any
tissue showing a lesion may allow the
organism to enter. A ease is quoted iu
which a wound in the foot was blamed
for admitting the disease. A person
suffering from tonsilitis is in great
danger of contracting rheumatism if
expo; ed. The child of a mother who
had the dmease in an acute form, in
i” hours from birth developed pyrexia
with [lain and swelling of the joints,
ail of which gave way to salicylate of
soda by tin* end of a week. This, the
doctor thinks, shows strongly the in
fectious nntureof rheumaliifm.
Cleverly Ttir:u**l.
An amusing story Is told of how the
late Lord Fitzgerald discomfited a
treasury ofilcial who was sent over
from Kugkind to complain of the ex
cessive expenditure for coal in the lord
chief justice’s court. He received the
man and listened gravely and formally
while the latter stated his errand and
enlarged upon the Importance of econ
omy in the matter of fuel. At the ton-
clusiou of the discourse he rang the
bell, and, when tin* servant appeared,
said: "loll Mary that the man hascomc
about tho coals.” — Kan Francisco
Chronicle.
Above the Averrur.
Khc—1 see by This paper that the av-
t n:go person speaks IL'.OOO words a day.
He—Yes; but you're ’way above the
average,person, dear.—Yonkcr.* Ktates-
mau.
HEARD A CRUNCHING SOUND.
a crunching sound beside him, and looL• ,,
ing around saw the dog engaged in de
vouring that chicken. With a few sub-
diu’<] cljvqkk s over the feelings which
would probably psnneale the late work
er when he came home and found his
chicken missing, the man called the dog
into the house and retired.
Tho late worker concluded that the
samlvvieh man must have been ill and
taken a night off, and merely sighed ns
In* wended his way to the nearest restau
rant. On the following night the dog
and his master eamo home just ns the
sandwich man w as bringing the ehieken
ii]) the steps. 'J he dog waited till tin:
peddler was well away and then dis-
patehed that meal in 1? seconds.
“That sandwich guy must Ik- pretty
sick,” concluded the late worker, when
he reached his door.
On the third night dog and owner
were home all evening. At 10:?.'o’clock
footfalls were heard on the s‘.“ps. The
dog pricked up his cars, looked at the
dock, w agged his tail and shot out of
the room like an arrow, lie was back
in a moment, w ith a breastbone stick
ing in his incisors.
After that, for four sun-c: sivc nights,
tiie d. g went downstairs and ate ti nt,
chicken at exactly 10:'.7 o’clock, lie
always allowed two minutes for the
sandv. ich man to get uv.ay. 'i he peddler
called to collect on Haturday. There
was much dialogue and ardent discus
sion. The late worker and the peddler
laid a heated controversy in the hall nml
the dog stood gravely on the upper
landing, winked a doggish wink aud
then went into his owner’s room and
rolled about on tho rug, harking like a
dog taken suddenly insane w ith joy.
Hull FlaliUna
Manuel Uareiu, a Mexican toreador,
recently felt himself in need of a big
ad. in order to raise his name and fame
from obscurity to that of chief espadu.
Ko he announced, on llaming posters,
that he won! I kill the most savage bull
in existence from Ids seat on a bicycle.
Mexico turned out to see tins brave
cyclist. .Manuel appouml in the arena,
brilliantly clad, and the air was rent
with thunderous applause as hi* w heeled
round the barricade. Put the hull would
nut allow the glorious traditions of the
past to hu upset, no bicycle w:fs going
fo do the trick for him. so he put his
horns in the wheels and hurled Manuel
A'o yards into space. Manm 1 has ex
pressed the opinion that the bicycle is
a thundering fraud.
A I'ooUntril)' Fcc.t,
A French cyclist named (Inrnud, a
plumber by trade, recently rode around
the coping stone of a house in course of
construction fora wager. The coifing
stone was barely two feet w ide. and w us
about iO feet from the ground.
New Style cf Advertlalntf.
A Birmingham (Fug.) tradesman hoa
turned loose in the streets a pair of
herons with'advertisements attached
to them.
IYMm Hir'd:
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P! r ’K LOOKING WISE.
from the corners of little beady eyes,
lie shook his black head violently and
then liew out the open window to the
limb of a near-by tree.
"There’s no nne trying todoanything
with that crow, said Mrs. Marl in. "The
rase.il has hidden it somewhere, nml
we will never find it again. 1 know
what I'll do. I'll just have the men kill
that crow."
"Dick” evidently had overheard every
wort!, for he pee re 1 into the room anx
iously, even in a manner betokening
fright. When Airs. Martin entered tiie
room an hour or so later she found the
ring lying on a table. "Dick” was de
murely perched on tiie back of a chair.
’ Ko you did bring the ring hack - , did
vou?'’ said Mrs. Martin, sharply eying
the bird.
"Dick” looked nt her for a moment,
and then, hopping from the chair to
;he 11:.or, tried iu a manner that was ex-,
trcnicly ludicrous to beg her pardon.
“It's all right this time, ‘Dick,’ but if
you ever steal a ring again I’ll have you
shot,” said Mrs. Martin, warningly.
“Dick” was so glad that ho did a
double shulile on the floor. Then he
flew out of the window to the tree again
and chirped so noisily that ho attracted
the attention of all tiie other birds in
the neighborhood.
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HER QUEER REMARK. ^
V. us It a SIl|» of tlio Tonune op Dltl
Mio It t
"Several ;ears ago,” said a bright
club woman at a luncheon, "1 w as going
to my old home in New York, and way
detained half a day in Cincinnati. On
the train I had made tho acquaintance
of a very pleasant and interesting wom
an, also going east, but by another
route than mine. She did not make as
close connection ns had been expected,
so, being congenial and both being
alone, w e agreed to spend the afternoon
together. After a luncheon, we took the
ears to the Zoological gardens, and
there had a delightful time with the
animals and birds. The monkeys ami
few
kl
ill
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‘•GOOD-BY, MRS. LORING."
chimpanzees we found c: peeially divert
ing', and ,»turned np:ke nrd again to
watch their droll gambols ai d alma t
human antics. At dusk we returned to
the city, ate our suppers together, and
then separated forour respective trains.
And when I parted from tiiat nice little
woman what do you think ^!.e said?
She held on to my hand, pattingit witli
feminine affection, and exclaimed, ear
nestly: ‘Hood-by, Mrs. Loring, good-
by. I'm so glad I met you - and, as
long as I live, whenever I see a monkey
I’ll think of vou.”’
Coll with Fve
Mr. J ames Blair, a farmer living south
of College Corner, <).. is owner of a dun
mare aged 23 years, which a few days
ago foaled a line, well-developed colt
having five legs. The extra appendage
is an outgrowth in the pastern joint on
the right front leg. The foot proper
is turned half around, and possesses i
but little strength. When the colt !
moves around it goes with a kind of a I
hop-step-and-jump gait. Mr. Plair will !
endeavor to raise the little equestrian
curiosity.
ItoufTl) on flic Firemen.
A New York police justice inis fined
a fireman who had no time olT forcoort-
ing five dollars for kissing Ids sweet
heart in the public s’reels.
To Foil 1 mbrelSa Thieves.
A Salon, (Mass.) man has invented a
collapsable umbrella, which one may
carry in his pocket when folded.
NELLIE’S KEEN SCENT.
Dog at tho Cook County Jail Find*
Nolay Inmates.
OatltrcaU* nt Nlfsht Froinpd)- Locate*^
hy the SaauctoiU) Animal—Ualet
Now Reigns U Fere Much.
Kaekct Prevailed. 7j
Koine had its geese, Troy itk wooden
horse and Paslian ils bull, but the Chi
cago county jail has its clog. And this
is no ordinary dog. either, says the Chi
cago Chronicle. There is no other dog
quite like it, either in or out of jail. At
the start it should be explained that tho
deg is not serving out a terra for cur
rying concealed weapons or violating
tiie Sunday closing ordinance. Her
servitude is voluntary, as she is tho
property of "Buff” Calder, the night
jailer. But it is owing to the rare de
tective qualities Nellie has developed
that she is famous.
Over at tiie jail the guests of Jailer
Whitman are not the quietest or be^t
behaved people one might find. The
early education of nufliy of them was
sadly neglected and their later training
was not calculated to make them ex
hibit those finer qualities of mind anil
graces of manner which distinguish tho
gentleman. They are inclined to bo
noisy and loud-mouthed, to shout and
sing at most inopportune times and, in
short, as Bindley Murray used to put it,
they are rough w orkers.
All this does notsuit Jailer Whitman.
He has a desire to enforce a certain
discipline which galls upon his guests.
He wants things fairly quiet and order
ly and the boys in the cells do not tako
kindly to ihe idea. But he does not
worry very much over hurting their feel
ings and when one of them breaks out
real loud from his cell and sends his
voice echoing through the corridor, a
jail guard chases along the gallery and
if he can locate the offender there is
trouble. At night mor < .-peeialh' does
this happen. Then more than ever tho
jailer wants his big bastile quiet, anil it
is just then that the unruly spirits want
to break loose veil things to ono
another. They do it principally to tan
talize the guards a; d watch them fran
tically rushing about the galk l ies seek
ing the man with the deep voice.
But such are the peculiar acoustic
properties of the old jail building that
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NELLIE TRACES TIIE CULPRIT.
it is very hard to determine just where
sounds come from. Indeed, when a yell
of derision or defiance rings out in the
night the guards cannot tell even from
which gallery it comes, to say nothing
of locating the cell. And it is right
here that Nellie, the little fox terrier,
comes in handy. She has been in the
jail a year and a half, sleeping in the
daytime and roaming around at night
with her master, the ni^lit jailer. In
that time she has learned that cries and
yells are not the proper thing; that the
guards always try to locate them, and,
more than that, she has learned how to
locate them herself. In this she is al
most infallible. No sooner does a dis-
turbar.ee arise than Nellie springs from
the mat on which she may be curled up
and rushes madly up the stairs to the
gallery and along the iron footway to
the cell from which the noise came.
There she stands like u pointer until tlus
guard arrives.
How the little terrier learned this is
a mystery, it is supposed that from
following the guards around ut night
she managed to observe tiiat they al
ways sprung np w hen a noise was heard
and at once searched for it. In time
she too became interested in these
noises of the night and evolved some
scheme of her own for locating them.
Now the guards rely upon her solely,
and the old-timers in the jail are very
quiet at nightfall. If she is awake dur
ing the day and hears a cry or a yell
from a cell, an occurrence very common,
she barks loudly, but makes no attempt
to ferret out the offender. Only at
night, when everything is still, doe/
Nellie show how good a detective slw
is. If she improves with time she may
be placed on the force and provided
with a star.
TrouMe Ox er ii Rnb>'m 8 a me.
A report of u queer lawsuit cornea
from Fast kill, n hamlet in the heart of
ttie C’atskill mountains. The plaintiff
ia Ole Halverson, a Swede, who culti
vates a small farm on the mountain
side. He is suing Kcv. J. (j. Kenierton,
a German Lutheran minister, for dam
ages for christening his baby by a
name which w as not to his liking. Hal
verson is a patriotic Swede and wanted
the child named after King Oscar. Tho
minister claims tiiat he christened tho
baby according to the wishes of its
mother.
KunMita Idea of n Toan.
A Kansas paper complains because in
a recent church entertainment “an em
broidered nightgown was worn to rep
resent a Koman toga.”
Fruuil of Dm Hearse.
Andover, Me., voted to buy a hearse,
and thinks it ”n good move and in th«
right direction.” i