The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 24, 1897, Image 3
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., .TUNE 24, 1897.
OLD MACK AND ME. '■
Tho Sage of Rocky Crook and His
Varmint Dog.
A PnrloaH Fight in tho Old Spring
Ilrnm-h— Do C'utN Have IVinr
1,1 von f—An Alabama
Lie.
When I \vns only \vhat you inonyht
call a sliirt waist boy J used to have a
famous fine deg—
which I called his
name Mack, llo
was about one-
third hound and
one-third cur, and
then so fur as I
know, and as To 113*
Stringer wore al
wa3's wont to sa3',
the other third was
“jest dog." And 1113'
old dog Mnek ho was a great and furi
ous hunter. He was good for possum
and coon and other wild varmints, and
particular rough on eats.
One Saturda\ - eveuin along in the fall
of flic 3'car me and Mack put out, we
did, and went oil down the old spring
branch for a rabbit hunt. We didn’t go
so veiy far before 1 heard the dog squall
and then go off on a red-hot trail. I fol
lowed the music as fast as I could and
1 was right dost in behind the chase
when Mack put his meat up a tree. Hut
it want a rabbit, it want a possum and
it want no coon. It was a cat—a big
ring-streaked and striped scoundrel
beast—biltong a plain house cat. And
that want all. It was the old kul3’
Stouden,ire’s pet eat, and she was Jil
in then, jest over the creek a mile and
a half, or maybe a little better, from
our house.
Through a OoS«l Sweat.
With the wild and v.at wnrd nature
of a bo3’, nothin would do then but 1
must dam that tree and make the oat
jump out and let m3' dog Mack put tiie
final fixments of death upon him. .N"o-
bod}’ couldn’t see us, and nobo<l3'
wouldn’t never know it. There was
only jest us two—Mack and me—and
Mack couldn’t toll no stories out of
school if he wanted to.
By this time me and m3' dog to
gether had caught and killed most
everything that ranged the woods
except a ring-streaked and striped
house eat. In the main tinm the old
people had told me more than onest
that a eat had nine lives, which of
course I only believed 1113 pro rata share
of that.
So consequentially I cut mo a des
perate and warlike hickory stick and
tip that tree I went. I bullragged and
crowded the eat till present^- she
bunched her feet and made a dark
streak through the native air. When
she hit the ground ok! Mack he ties
right there with her. The committee on
credentials had made their report and
til® convention was now reedy for busi-
riesV 1 hurriedlv* hacked down out of
the tree so as to get in on the ground
floor and witness the proeeedins.
Well, old Mack and the cet thev had
it—tip and down and c.or and under—
whilst the blood spurted and the fur
flew like dust and dead leaves in a
whirlwind. For a little while it was
hal'd to tell for certain who would and
who wouldn’t—who could and who
couldn’t. Sometimes it seems to me
as if the eat would take the chijis, and
sometimes it would look like old Mack
held four aces, with flushes barred.
As time wore off and the fight went
on fast and furious I got monstrous
sick and tired of the job. I was raley
sorry then that me and Mack hud ever
opened the pot, but bein as w e had got
into the game I felt like we must win
out, or die. Onest in awhile, from all
the general signs and appearments of
the case, 1 would think old Mack had
killed the cat. Lut, dad'olame her, she
wouldn’t sta3' dead. Hhe would catch
her foreath and come again, and evoiy
time she i iz a squullin and fightin to
beat six bits. I thought in rr.y soul it
must be true about a cat bavin nine
lives, and maybe more than that.
B03' like and fool like I wept and
prayed in fear and tremblin—which
I do reckon I prayed the most out-
pr.-yine-st prayer that a white bo\' ever
sent up to the throne of grace prayin
the good Lord to help old Muck and
let him whip that fight and kill the
cat, if He thought that would be fair,
or at an\' rates not to help tin* cat an3'
to speak of. But J still had my doubts
as to who won id take the gate money,
and no finally at last I thought about
my warlike stick—which I took that
and waded into the fight. By-and-by
me and Mack win out ahead and put
th£ cold and cverlastin fixments on the
cat.
In the general scrap and scrimmage
old Mack had lost one eye, whilst he
got a sw allow fork in his right oar and
an under bit in his left—which t he same
1 had to 1 \plain when I returned back
home. But to a boy of m3' general
shape and talents explanations come as
natural and oas3’ as tallin off of a wet
leg. All I had to do was It) make a tre-
ineudius big mammy coon out of old
Mises Stoudonmire’s house eat, and
onest more all was lovely at the con
fluence of the streams.
scream, and see the bltKxl spurt and
the fur 113'.
Before midnight I do reckon I lind
went through with everything in the
way of mortal pain and sufferin, from a
cold sweat to a buck r.gor, and from a
nightmare to a dead faint. And then I
felt like I couldn’t stand it no longer.
Under the painful circumference of the
awful surroundins, I couldn’t think of
anything better for me to do than to
take a rale bad case of the earache. I
had traveled the road before and I
knowed good ami well Unit nothin
would touch Am t Liza’s heart so quick
and deep as the moans ami groans of a
suiYerin bo3'. She will strike a light,
sa3 s I to mv self, and come and work
w i*h me ami wait on me till the s}>ell
passes off.
And so she did. When she heard 1113’
moans and groans and sobs and sighs,
she struck n light and here she comes.
With laudanum and warm water, and
spin its of turpentine and hot flannels,
she doctored me through the dark and
wearv hours of the night. But I
didn’t have aiyv serious notion of sfav*-
in out there in that shed room by nyv
lone self, and so instid of the usual
speedy r. eoveiy, gradually !>}' degrees
I got worse and worse. When at last
daylight come so Aunt Liza could go
out and find a live J?ets3' bug, pull its
head off and Jet the onlvest drop of
blood fall in my ear, m\' sufferin 3'ield-
cd to the treatment and I got well.
Now then, so fur as I know, old Misci
Stoudenrnirc’s ring - streaked and
striped eat is dead till yet. My old flog
Mack lived on thn ugh many 3'ears, a
holy terror to every wild varmint that
ranged the woods. But as for me and
him, one house «;nf was a largo and
gracious plenty.
Only u Freak of \atare.
“Jist between us gals, as it were,
Uufe. there are but blame few things
in this world v hi *h I know for cer
tain. But if I have to tell it on 1113'
own triflin self, I do know a most
hellatious plenty about two or three
things- men and horses amongst the.
rest. Now I would love for some of
tin se durn litenaw fellcf?, that have
went off to school and picked up a lit
tle smatterin of everything, to tell mo
v by it is that a man like Andy Lucas
' can stick to the cold facts all along the
line till it eon.es to horsis, and then
couldn’t tell the truth with a deed,
rest
“The hands and the stock Lein Ire-*
niendius bus\ - hi3 in b\' corn, 1 had cut
me a fast three-3'car-old walk in stick
and lit out and went over to spend tho
| dav with my old friend and fellow serv
ant, Bunk Weatherford. And when ho
brum lied off on the freaks of human
nature I told him he would have to
eome at me w ith somethin a littie more,
easier.
“You must recollect, Bufe, that I was
swappin horses often and on, more or
less, before A1HI3' Lucas was ever
horned and brnng forth into this world.
Horse tradin ain’t 1113' roglar business,
3on understand, and I don’t make no
sulfurious big brags about what 1 can
do in those regards. But it gives me a
eomin appetite to spit w hen J see a man
like And\', which makes it his busi
ness to trade, and trade for the stuff
he can squeeze out of it, tryin to throw-
sand in my 031*8 and do the swappin
for both of us. I nun’ have all the
marks and appearments of a native-
born idiot, and I ma3' have m3' lucid
; intervals, as the doctors call cm, but
I’ll bedndburned if 1 have overset saw
tin* da\' when 1 was fool enough to let
\ml3' Lucas swap my horse for his,
, without n>3' knowledge or consent, and
me not even lookin on when he made
i the trade.
was settin for Andy and ever}' time he
would ask me almut the big sorrel I re
sponded back that the big sorrel want
gone nowheres.
“Along in the 1. st cool days of Sep
tember I went to town one Saturda3'.
The big sorrel w as lookin’ to be in line
fix, and the minut And3' clapped eyes
on him I could see that m3' time had
cOtne to win out even. I let on like I
didn’t have my tradin stock with me
that dav, but And}' wanted the big
sorrel. He followed me around town
and then followed me half vva}- home.
At last he got my horse and I got a tol
erable good plug mule and six dollars—
’twas all he had—to boot. Andy then
lit out to make a three-dnv's’ trip over
in the hill country, and when he re
turned back home the big sorrel was
thin in flesh and dead on his legs onest
more. In the next place And}* had to
sell him to a poor travelin preacher for
•■BiO on a credit, and in less than a month
lie was as dead as they ever make ’em.
“Anvhow, Rufe, I am even now. In
fact, I ruther think I am alvend of the
game. And I do hope and trust by
this time. And}' Lucas has got forgive
ness for that 22-inch Alubuinadk',”
TIME AS A DOCTOE
Arp Saye That Pationco Will Erica'
All Things.
Settlement »vvh.
Jule NhIkts and his wife have got
one of the onlvest boys in the settle
ment—which the}’ call his name iXm.
Somebody told Dan if he* would swal
low a few fish bladders it wouldn’t be
no trouble for him to swim. Jule
lie went fishing the ether da}' and
caught a fine* string—cat and perch and
suckers-—and Dan didn’t do a blamo
thing but sail in and swallow 35 fish
bladders, fresh and raw.
The}* sent, for the doctor that night..
Jule thinks his boy Dan will recover
in health, though he is still feeble In
mind. Dan sa}s if he ever gets up
from there he will tackle the biggest
and deejiest wash hole on the creek. I
nither hope he will. Then fish blad
ders wouldn’t save him from u water}’
gra ve.
RUFUS RAN PURS.
MUSTAPHA GOES TO SCHOOL.
Oirlows Procession Thnt Attends n
Moorish Hoy on the First Day.
[Copyright, 1S97.]
Until Mustafa was five years old,
lie had lived with his mamma, with
the two other wives and with their
Jvlnck slaves and attendants, in the
harem, or woman’s part, of Ids father’s
big house in Tangier.
We would hardlv' call it a house at
all, sinc£ H js all out of doors. Build
a high wall on four”sides cf C*
and a two-story piazza all round the ^ per biu:iirt»j:ny at £1 a hundred, corn
square on the inside, and you have a at 50 cents, sweet potatoes nt 7j cents.
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It Dents n Politician--Rnrtovv Man
Declares That Hotter Times
Are Now in
SlKht.
••Watchman, tell us of the night.”
It has been often said that “old Father
Time is a good doctor.” 1 believe that
lie is about to cure the countr}' of hard
times. Certain it is that neither politi
cians nor legislation has done an}'
good. The disease was not even diag
nosed, but the patient is getting well.
Neither Cleveland nor anti-Cleveland
nor McKink*}' nor the tariff', nor pop
ulism has ainthing to do with it.
Time is the medicine, and when time
cures a patient he stays cured a goc/d,
long period. I had rheumatism several
years and the doctors worked on me
until the}' got tired and quit, but old
Dr. Time came along, and after awhile
the rheumatism just trot tired and quit
me and went away of its own accord.
For six years we have all been eussin’
and fussin’ and diseussln’ about the
disease that afflicted the countr}'.
Ever}' politician had a remedy, but
somehow the people have lest confi
dence in our so-called statesmen and
their medicine won’t sta}' on the stom
ach. A first-class politician can argue
the legs off' an iron pot or the spots off a
leopard. I hoard Aleck Stephens make
a great speech away back in the ’4')’s
and he proved that the democratic
part}- was responsible for all the calam
ities that had befallen the country for
2D v'earx, even to the high price of cof
fee and the low price of cotton and the
yellow fever in Savannah.
I was ruminating about this because
I have been traveling around a good
•leal of late, and if the tin.es are not
Ix-tter then all signs deceive me. Farm
ing is claimed to be the foundation of
all prosperity the mudsills of the
building—and if so, then I know the
times an* improving, for the diligent
farmer is prospering evcrv'when* in the
sunny south outside of Hoods and cy
clones. The crops in South Carolina
; are well advanced and promising.
Harvest is at hand in north Georgia
' and Tennessee, and was never better,
Kvervthing the farmer grows corn-
mauds a fair price and everything he
has to buy is cheap. The price of
! wheat and corn sad hav is better than
! . ■* t. - .
• jt vr.s fictn io«0 to Is DO—wheat at
prett}' fair idea of a Moorish house.
The high wall keeps the wind away,
and the sua rhinos down into the
Sqi
A NTRlit of Terror*.
\ That night was my regular time to
go over the creek and see Aunt Liza
Itaiborn. As usual when bedtime
Lome she took me out in the little shed
room which she kept for us boys and
tucked me away for the night. But
to save my life I couldn’t sleep narr}*
blosied lick for thinkin about old
Mim s Stoudemuire’s ring-streaked and
slnpcd eat, which me and Mack had
ifft for dead down in the spring
launch. I knowed tremendius well
ttiat me and the dog together had
•tipped the fight and killed the cut,
btr I ijidn’t know for certain that she
would .sta}' dead and remain fcocre.
I had Vome monstrous serious and
chilly diuibts in regards to that. Every
time I shut my eyes I could hear a cat
An Alultania Lit*.
“Onest upon a time—seven v ears ago
this summer—Andy made his first pass
at me for a hoist* trade, and I didn’t
do u blessed thing but stand there with
ni}' finger in m} - mouth and let hjjn
swap the ver} socks ofen me, as it were.
He was ridin of a big high-headed sor
rel horse and I had a good plug of a
mule, both of which hud shed their
baby teeth man} - } curs before. I didn’t
have but precious little tosa}' about the
mule from the simple fact that sluj
hadn’t been lookin to me for her corn
and fodder but a few days and I didn’t
know much to tell.
“ There’s the mule, Andy, and if we
trade you must take her like the hair
stands,’ says I.
“But from the way Andy talked a
stranger couldn’t tell but w hat he had
raised the sorrel from a colt. Natural-
13' 1 had to put a little salt on his ram-
blin remarks, but be looked me so full
and straight in the face tiil I thought
he mought b}' mere accident tell me
the truth soinewheres along the line.
Hut in less than three days it come to
pass that Andy hadn't told me* a blame
thing ulxiut the horse which was so. I
didn’t ask him no questions and he
didn’t have to tell me no lies. He Lad
done it from (he force of habit or a
freak of nature and I can’t say which.
“Amdiigst other things Ami}' told me
—and lowed he would kiss the Bible on
it—that the big sorrel was the bullicst
plow horse that ever peeped through a
collar, ami that he hud been pullin a
22-inch Alabama sweep for three weeks
hand runnin which in the fullness of
time that turned out to be the 22-inch
Alabama lie.
“That was along in the last «!a\'s of
June and I was in a scandalous big
push to scrape through my ••orn for the
last time. Well, the big sorrel was now
foragin in my lot, and I lowed he
mought as well be lookin through a set
of plow gear for me. So eom-equential-
1}' I hooked him up and swung him In
the next mornin. He belt out till about
noon and then turned up with a roarin
bud eaw of the thumps. From that he
we!it slap to pieces and was dead on his
legs for two weeks.
“W Isit did I <lo? What could I do, but
stand still and take my medicine like
a man? But from then on I didn't do a
eonUncntial thing to the big sorrel bu*
feed mm on green stuff and pile up soft
fat on his hones. In the main time I
all day long, and the birds splash their
w ings in tin* spray. Hinging it over the
beautiful tiled floor, and the orange
trees scent the air; so that it is not
such an unpleasant place after all.
When it was cold or rain}', Mustafa,
like everyone else in the house, simpl}'
put on more clothing, so that he looked
like a small round ball of cloth, w ith a
baby head peering out of the folds at
the top.
Mustafa w as a pure-blooded Moor, as
proud of his long line of ancestors as
an}' American or European boy could
lie. And as none of these ancestors
had ever been negroes or, indeed, any
thing but Moors, he was as white and
fair of complexion as an}' boy with
black hair ever is in any countr} . His
sisters had beautiful fair fares, too,
but because the}' w ere girls their finger
nails were airead}', at three and four
3'ears old, dyed red; and their hair was
colored with henna so that it
rich golden brown.
But Mustafa El Hadri, son of Mus
tafa, was not to see so much of his sis
ters hereafter, for he was now live
3curs old and the time had come when,
by old Moorish custom, he was 14> go to
school. B.v old custom, too, tin* first
day in school was made a great cele
bration. It was quite an impressive
day to Mustafa, and one that he will
long remember.
Earl} in tin* morning he was arrayed
in his finest gel aba, or hooded robe,
and after a breakfast of coffVc, sweet
biscuits and dates was lifted to the
back of a splendid!}' ornamented horse,
whose embroidered saddle cloth ainms-t
swept the ground. Quite a little pro
fession was then formed. A number
of the sultan’s soldiers laid been hired
for the ceremony, and they, too, were
all dressed in their best clean white
; gowns and turbans. A few of the sol-
1 diers led the procession; Mustafa came
next, his fat little legsstiekingstralght
out on each side, his pudgy lists grasp-
1 ing tin.* high pommel of the saddle, ; t j ie That is one gfxjd thing
which wan covered in the Moorish
fashion with red cloth. Behind, in a
long line- for the street was narrow’
came Mustafa's father and a large num
ber of his friends, .the principal in**:-
chants utid officers of the town. The
rest of the soldiers brought up the
rear.
shouting at the top of his voice. Finni-
l} - the}' came to the great open market
pliMfi Just outside the southern gate, of
flic town, and there the soldiers drew
up in two long lines and ha/1 a uois}*
sham battle, spurring their horse* wild-
]}• toward each other, shouting fierce
cries and firing their guns with reck
less waste of powder. Finally the
whole procession drew up at the door of
the school, adjoining a mosque, and
Mustafa wan lift/'d down from his horse
and taken in.
After that day Mustafa went tosehool
In ver}' much the same way as other
lxi}'s do, but he did not have the same
lessons that American boy* Burn. He
seems to have spent most of his time
sitting cross-legged fiaton thetloor and
singing tin* verses of the Koran till lie
had learnt man}' of thotn by heart; but
ns no Christian is ever allowed to go
into a Mohammedan school, it is not
easy to say what rise is or is not taught
there.
Irish potatoes at t’.u; chickens from la
to 20 cents and wood at .11.50 a cord,
■m mines down into the 1 What is the matter ..iUi* the farmer?
;C court where fh? fountain plays 1 Suppose his cotton is down to seven
cents, lie can make money on it at that.
A man at Union, S. told me he had
made last year sno bales on 800 acres,
and cleared $3,0C0. How isthat? When
[ was a young merchant cotton aver
ag'd about eight cents a j>ound; corn
•!0 cents a bushel; wheat 75 cents, j#o-
tatoes 25. wood a cord. Shirting and
calico were 12Vi cents a yard, sugar
and coffee 12V8 cents a pound. Iron
was five cents, and steel 75 cents and
nails eight cents. Now all ' v ese
things except coffee are half prn id
all that the farmer grows for sale is
25 per cent, higher except cotton. But
still he is not. happy. Up north, of
course, it is different, for it takes all
they can make in six months’ summer
to support them the six winter months.
I am sorry for those people, that is
for all the clever ones, and wish they
could sell out to the fanat i<-H and fools
and eome down here to this blessed land,
was a Thrir laboring class who have no land
and work about for wages say they lire
riot coming, for Hw*y can get $25 u
month up there, and we pay our ne
groes only ten dollars. That’s so.
That’s the way it’s put down in the hast
census. But the census didn't toll how
the farm laborer up there is wanted
only three months, end the other nine
he jobs around for little or nothing,
and it takes hi.-' last nick**! to keep from
freezing to death. And the •'ensus
don't ti ll how onr negro laborers on
the farms get their w ages all th** year
round and get a comfortable cabin rent
free and have no firew ood to buy, and
every family has a garden and they
raise chickens and eggs and a pig or
two and have scraps enough from their
table to support two hound dogs and a
lice. Besides all this, they bait holes
in the creek and catch suckers by
night and hunt rabbits on Sunday.*
Talk about our cheap labor. There isn’t
a respectable negro man in Bartow
county who isn’t better off and hap
pier than the average farm laborer at
the negro has done for the south, lie
has intimidated the northern scurf
and the f<*r>*ign scurf and kept them
away. 1 saw in the columns of the
Constitution not long ago a statement
in figures that was taken from a Boston
pajH*r showing that since 1S50 the for
eign population, inclusive of their chil
li) this order Mustafa and his escort • (p-en born since their arrival, has in-
mde through all the principal streets | 4 . rons ,. ( j j,,.,. i„ New England,
of the town, everyone singing and while the natives have increased but six
A
per cent, in all that time. The exact
figures were given. Isn’t that awful?
New* England had Just as well give up
their time-honored and historic coun
try. religion and all, to three foreigners.
When I was in Nashville the other <lay
I locked wBh pride at the exhibits of
our southern industry that greeted me
everywhere. In a former letter I made
sjiecial mention of the magnificent dis
play of the Nashville & Chattanooga
railroad; that includes the Western Al
Atjgutic railroad of our state, but our
1/southern roods arc emulating
Maj. Thomas' example, eap<>clallv the
Jeorgia railroad, whose exhibit makes
every Georgian feel proud. Besides
tho beautiful lisovv of grain, fresh from
the harvest fields, there are minerals
of almost every kind, from the granitp
f Stone mountain to the gold mid pre
cious stones of Hull county. Just imag
ine a solid granite c'vllsk split out In
the rough and uuhe.wn that Is 4b feet
high and fr. c feet square at the base
and that weighs 70,000 pounds. Then
there is the Louisville & Nashville, and
the Flant system, and the Seaboard Air-
Line that the wondering visitor will not
fail to see.
Well, now,of course, everybody knows
that every uum and corporation and
state will show up the very best they
have got, for that is just human. Any
good old country woman will put the
cleanest eggs and the finest apples on
top of the basket when slie goes to town.
Hut if the average products of our in
dustry and resources are nearly as
good as those exhibits there, we have
a wonderful country. Let a stranger
look from a ear window as lie ride<*
along, and he will not be surprised
when he gets to Nashville, for just now
it is harvest time, and the scenery is as
pretty as a picture. I remember that
1 doubted the propriety of the Atlanta
exposition, but it proved itself a wise ed
ucational measure, and now the Ten
nessee centennial is alrt*ac!y a grand
success anel will grow into greater im
portance as the weeks roll on. Soon
the fa rmers will have more leisure, and
at the low rates of travel will avail
thenis<*lves of this great privilegi—this
kindergarten for their wives and chil
dren. And my faith is that if al! classes,
the fanner is tne best able to go, and
will reap the greatest profit from his
visit. Jnst think what is thrown in
free to delight the* senses—what beau
tiful grounds and shady walks; what
Inanity of architecture, what wonderful
paintings and works of the sculptor’s
art, and what grand fireworks by night,
and what delicious music by day!
Where else can we hear Sousa and Innes
with their orchestra without going l.tES)
miles—and where that sweetest of all
music, the piano, when it is touched by
a master’s hand? Away back in the
40’s I thought my wife could charm
even the anirrls when she touched the
chords of her old-fashioned piano, and
subdued men to her will and wish vvitii
| the jH>wer of music. But I was des
perately in love with her then, and 1
reckon would have married Ir r anyhow,
music or no musie -t hat is. if she w ould
have had me, and I rcekon she would.
Honors were easy. But “music hath
I charms to soothe the savage breast,"
and she soothed mine. “Oh, music!
what is it and where does it dwell?” M v
wife still plays when feeling sad, and
cR”-’t tell why. 0 r, <? of our daughters
has r; eeiitly Bought a baby grand, a d
any wife plays on it a good deal, fur
her fingers, though not as angelic as
they used to be, have not lost their
magic touch, and she declares that if
she had on/! like that in the house it
j would renew her youth.
I M’elL it is coi ifortmg to feel as-
, sure*/ 1 , that after all oar troubles and ap
prehensions, the south is again on top.
As my friend Co!. Killebrevv says: “She
is on top—and if there is any higher
pinnacle, she will be on top of that.”
— Hill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
Col. Simvv’* S*lsl<*r.
The dedication of the Shaw monu
ment at Hoston has recalled ai anec-
! dote published man} veals ago about
Mrs. Min turn, one of Col. Shaw \s sisters.
| In the days just after the war she was
I riding in a street car, and among the
I passengers there happened to be a rich-
! ly-dressod woman whose bearing was
j marked by a somewhat trying air of
: self-appreciation. 'The ear stopped for
\ another passenger, who proved to be a
' colored woman, clad in calico and hum
ble respectability. The only vacant
seat was one next to the impressive per-
5 nonage in silk, and this, after a mo-
l meat’s hesitation, the newcomer took.
; The fashionably-dressed woman edged
away a.s far as she could, with open
| looks of contempt and disgust. Hres-
1 ently a passenger seated by Mrs. Min-
tnrn left the ear. The fashionubly-
I dressed woman rose with an air, swept
1 her skirts away from the colored wem-
! tin, crossed the aisle, and sat down by
Mrs. Mint urn. Immediately Mrs. Min-
j turn arose, with an exactly similar air,
swept her own skirts aside, < rossed the
j aisle, and sat dov.-p by the colored wom
an. Thus was the affront to the latter
1 avenged in a manner at once effective
j an/I delight fully feminine, quite worthy
. of a sister of the man under whose lead-
j ership negroes Lad so well demons?rai-
i **zl their right to respect,— N. Y. Times.
A I^***on of Self-Control.
An eminent Scotch divine was in his
: jouth regarded by the villagers where
i he was brought up as a "gay, wild lad.”
One day In* jumped into an old woman's
garden and commenced to pluck the
berries off the bushes. The old wom
an gave chase, whereupon he leaped
th. dyke, and was soon scudding up the
ioa/1, the old woman yelling after him:
“Ye lang-lcpged deevil! I'll sort ye for
this yet." Years after lie took the de
gree of LL. J)., and, preaching in his na
tive village, he observed the old lady in
the congregation. At the close of the
service he sent the beadle to say he de
sired to speak to her. After some talk
she inquired the meaning of the “LL.
D.” after Ids name. *'Oh,” said lie, with
a waggish look in his eye, “do you not
remember dubbing me that yourself on
tli/* day I plundered your garden?" The
w oixls came back to the old woman’s
mind, and with a gleam of horror on
her face, she retired, exclaiming: “Well,
I never!” and mentally resolved she
would be more guarded with her t/nigue
In the future.- London Telegraph.
C*»nini«n-Sen*e Ileauty Lint.
An authority on physical training for
women gives the following directions
for securing the best results, which
naturally must be modified by indi
vidual characteristics and circum
stances'. “Sleep nine hours out of the
21. bathe in cold water, exercise five
minutes daily with light dumbbells,
drink a cup of hot liquid before break
fast. spend haW an hour every day in
outdoor exercise, make the best of bad
bargains, and always keep your tem
per.”
On tlio Oftier Foot.
"Your minister doesn’t jump at his
conclusions?”
"No, he just yells and the congrega
tion Jumps."—N. Y. Truth.
DIDN’T LIKE TEE CITY.
Country Cow Makes Lots of
Trouble for Mr. Beauchamp.
I n foreseen 01>*tucle* to Lending
tiie OliKtinate Creature Quickly
TSiroutfli tiie Quiet St recta of
Atluutu at Nisht.
There are a great many different
kinds of trouble in this world, but, says
the Atlanta Constitution, J. B. Beau
champ, a well-known citizen, had an ex
perience with a cow the other night
which puts him in the category with
the modern Jobs. Beauchamp bought
a cow in Gwinnett count}' and under
took to get her to his home in Atlanta,
which is out on Marietta street, near
Collins’ brickyard. The cow never be
fore having seen the sights in a great
city became unruly as soon ns she
reached the limits. Then it was that
Beauchamp struck upon the happy
thought of leading his cow through the
city aft/'r dark. There was no help for
it. He had to pass right through the
heart of the city, which he approached
from Decatur street, and Lis route lay
down that thoroughfare and out Mari
etta street. The cow would not pass
electric ears and the rumbling wagons
in daytime, and Beauchamp thought
everything would be all right when tiie
shades of night fell and Atlanta was
resting after the excitement of the
busy day.
Beauchamp waited until about one.
o'clock at night, when there was not
n street car or vehicle on the streets,
and then he started up Decatur street
with his cow. He had r,.>t gone n ariv
squares before a watchful poMee officer
hailed him and asked him vv here he got
the cow and why he was driving it
through the city at such an unusual
hour of the night. Beauchamp compli
mented the officer on Lis vigilance and
Atlanta on having such watchful guard
ians of the jieaee. and explained the
situation. It was some trouble, be
muse the cow would not stand still, and
he was in a profuse perspiration, lie
was at last permitted to proceed on his
way after having lost 15 minutes. But
he was an honest citizen, and did not
wish to rest under any suspicion.
lie had not gone two squares farther
before he was stopped by another po
liceman, end he again explained tiie
situation as pa'ienf.'y as he could un
der the cirsumstanccs. Another 15
Hi
—Js,
_ 4
HAILED BY HIS COI’SHIP.
minutes were lost. It chanced that the
very hour Beauchamp had selected for
his night trip through the city vva*
when the watches of the police force had
just been changed, and he began to en
counter ail the 50 or 00 policemen who
were on their way home. Nearly every
one of them stopped him and he was
obliged to explain himself and his
cow. He was getting mad, but he
would, not show it. Finally he reached
the city barracks, where (’apt. Thomp
son and several other officers were sit
ting out on the sidewalk. They hailed
him, and Capt. Thompson asked:
"What will you take for that cow,
mister?”
Beauehnmp mopped his dripping
brow as he replied: "I know you want
to ask me what I am doing out on the
streets at this time of night with a cow.
So just ask it."
“Well, that’s what I will do." replied
the police captain. And Beauchamp for
about the fortieth time explained the
situation.
“I don’t think you w ill ever get that
cow home," remarked ('apt. Thompson,
gravely, “for you will have to p. - ^ four
or five more policemen on Marietta
street.”
“Good T/ord!” exclaimed Beauchamp.
“I’ve a good notion to give the blamed
row away. She has already cost me
more trouble than she is worth. It has
got so that she stops every time she
sees a policeman.”
He was allowed to proceed on his w ay,
and in about ten minutes there came a
ring at the telephone. The call officer
answered the ring, and turning to Capt.
Thompson he said:
“An officer has found a strange man
driving 11 cow through tin* street.”
"T1 int’s Beauohflinp in more trouble.”
the captain said; "just tell the officer
that the stranger has a passport.”
It is presumed that Beauchamp and
his cow got home nil right some time
before breakfast. But be will doubtless
never undertake to drive another cow
through Atlanta at night.
Nome Ilnri Importation*.
Englishmen introduced the rabbit
to Australia, where it ruined vast area*
of valuable land. Weasles sent to cor
rect the mistake found ground birds*
good eating and let the rabbits alone.
Scotsmen bestowed the thistle upon
New Zealand, and then wished thejr
>f w hich
hadn't. A pretty water weed of
Englishmen are fond was plansplanted
to New Zealand, and throve so that it
/lams broad rivers. The mongoose
sent to Jamaica to kill off the cane rata
exterminated them and developed &
fine liking for poultry.
Affrie«ltar« I* Rnaaln.
Tbree-fourth of the total population:
of Russia are engaged in cultivating
the eoih ^