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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JULY 15, 1897. OUIt AUNT NANCY. i Tho Plain O.d Pomal3 Lady with a Mouth. TcIIh t!ie Sotrn from Down I’an tbt*r t:roek — She Found a Man Cndcr the Bed. on a man—providin I could find the ri^ht sort, and find him nt the right lime in the right place. Hut I’ll be blessed if I have ever vet thought about lonliin under the bed for one. “Them stories which you have told in regards to the weather prayer meet- ins over there in the hill country, iltifus, put me in mind of the furious hard times old man Simps Corley had along that time,” says Aunt .Nancy Newton to me that night after supp.r. "You have saw people be fore now, 1 reckon, that seem like they had plenty of re ligion, but never could make it count np for anything. Or at any rates, if you never did 1 have noticed plenty of that sort, liiYd and last. S 4! \ \ lie t aed I!in Ketisfen. "Oncst upon a time when they had a l ig distracted nu -t.n goin on down there c.t old Pilgrim’s licst there was a mighty revivement in the church and i< gracious outpourin for all. Some 1.' or hi) come out from the lost and mint world am! got over on the right side. And old man Simps Corley was in amongst the rest. "Now, u,p to that time, as everybody knows, if you had burnt the woods and sifted the ashes in the hopes of findin a more reckless and wickeder man than Simps Corley—well, Rufus, the thing jest simply couldn’t be did. Hut beneeforwards after tiiat the old man was way yonder different, and I do raley think he was tryin his levelest to walk upright and faithful in the ten commandments to the best of his ability. “Hit was along in the next foilowin spring ami summer when a tremendi- us long and hot dry drought swept over the country. All the rain signs 1 ailed and failed and failed—the crops looked like they would naturally take fire ami burn up—and from general appear- ments it seems as if the country was on the highway to the pluperfect ruina tion. "At that time old man Simps was livin over there on the IMdge, tannin it on that thin red land, and the dry drought was bearin down partielar hard on him, l.’p to then, from what he told me with his own month, the old man never had used his religion any to speak of—that is to say, Rufus, he was keepin it as somethin that would do to die by, but he never had made it /•emit for anything in this life so fur A as he could recollect. And now, in that terrifole bad case of pusheney, he towed he mought as well to see if he couldn’t put it to some good use. So, consequentially, he put in and went to prayin for rain, and he kept it up for two days and nights hand-runnin, off and on. Then jest before daybreak the seeont night a storm riz and passed over the ridge. Hut it fetched more wind than water—only a light sprink- lin of rain and a whole passle of wind. I’I css gracious, it blowed down the old man’s ginhouse and blowed two miles of his fences down. It blowed his corn down to a dead level with the earth, and all but took the roof olTen the Jwellin house over his head. “Next mornin old mn Simps come by onr house after Andrew Jim. to go and help him put up the fences and save the scatterin remains of his crop, lie up and told us all allhut the prayer meetins he had licit and the storm which riz the night licfore. "’Reckon there must of been a mis take somewheres along the line, Aunt Nancy,’ says he, lookin powerful bad puzzled and pestered about it. ’Dad- blame the luck, 1 want prayin for wind —I was prayin for water.’ Stic Found Him r.t I.ast. “You recollect the Callinses, don’t you, Rufus?" Aunt Nancy went on its r he scratched a match on the seat of her chair and lit her pipe for the third time. “And of course at any rate you recollect Miss Mittie ('allins. the old maid of the generation. Now, while Miss Mittie never has mated off and got married, through many long and weary years she has been lookin for •> man. Kerry night the good Lord seat since she come grown she has looked under the bed for a man. Well it does raley look to me like if I was hunt in ? or a man I wouldn’t have much hopes of findiu one under the bed. Hut it would seem as if Miss Mittie was borned to live in hopes if she •lied an old maid. As reglar as the nights rolled around she would say her prayers and then look under the bed for a man. And one night about three weeks ago bless the heavens if she lidn’t find him—found him under the Dcd, too. From the news I ruther think Mis Mittie was sorry she found what she was lookin for—so suddint and sur- pri: in’ like. She screamed and fainted ind fell over in it. Hy the time the old lady and the boys got to her room the man was gone. He is gone till yet—no body knows where. “That is all I know, Rufus. And that s about all Miss Mittie knows. She •fon’t know whether he was a young man or an old mr.n—ugly or tine lookin, or only middlin . She didn’t even know for certain whether he was white or black. Hut she knows that w hereas she was lookin for a man and she found one, and found him under the bed. “Ilencefonvards since then Miss Mit tie has quit lookin for men, but she makes the hoys go to her room every night and strike a light and see if they ban find a man under the bed before she ^dl risk herself inside the door. “Now. as to me, Rufus, I don't make Rat like 1 would break ami run from a man person. And I don’t try to make people think I wouldn’t love to find me Willing; to Iletorn Visits. “Some people have set your old friend and fellow servant Tom Dick Simpkins down as one of the men which had took their seats way back by the doer that day. w hen they was pnssin around the brains to the human family. Hut that ain't right. Rufus. Tom Die!; ain't as smart as the man which writ the first bocks. I know. Yet still, if I had to take your old army musket and start out to kill the native born fools and idiots in this country, Tom Dick Simp kins mought live a right smart whet before it come bis time todie. “Along indurin of the spring one of Tom Dick’s little boys had a long sick spell. They fe . the little thing on sul phur ami molasses, and snake-root tea, and wormy fuge and the like till they saw that wouldn’t fetch him through. Then they sent for old Dr. Crowder. For about three weeks the doctor was there r.l least oncst a day and some times every night tendin on the child. Finally at last the little bay took a turn and got better. When the doctor quit the ease he made out his bill ind handed it to Tom Dick. lie charged so much for the medicines and so much for the visits lie had made. The medicines didn’t run up only three dollars, but the sundry and numerous visits stacked no somethin over $?t). Tom Dick looked at the paper and handed the doctor three dollars. “ ‘That’s all right, doctor.’ says he. ‘1 will pay you spot cash for your medi cines. and if I live I will return your visits.’ JAILED BY PROXY. I.rnn Woman Incarcerated In n Fat ; Friend's ('ell. Etta White, weighing 125 pounds, | fiaytv the Chicago Kecord, \va.> found i.i j the brideweil Thursday as a substitute ; for Susan Wanslow. w ho tips the acale.? at something over 5k0 pounds. Asa rt- j suit of the discovery a habeas corpus i writ was issued by Judge Hurke order- 1 ing the release of the \\ bite woman, i Hoth women are colored. Policemen Tommy a id O’Mai a. of the Harrison street police station, were^ given a warrant Mar 21 for the nrres' of Susan Wanslow. charring her with disturbing the peace. The woman liven >< )_?> rfn! ' ' \ II K A THANKLESS TASK. Ks iiericnce of n Man Who Ilcfereed a llorNc Trade. “Don’t ever referee a horse trade! I’d rather umpire a baseball game, decide a prize fight or interfere in a family row.” It was Clem Creveling who made this sweeping statement to a St. Louis Ke- puhlic man. "Ten years ago I had two particular friends, both of them horse fanciers.” Clem went on to say. “One of them had a light bay colt, and the other had a black eolt of the same age. One lived in Missouri and the other in Illinois. The Missouri man didn’t like the color of his eolt, and the Illinoisan would fvVo GREENER THAN GRASS. fToosler Fanner ESacortcd Oat of Cbl- c:>tto l>y a Policeman. John Skidmore, a Hoosicr farmer on mute to a Missouri plantation, was re lieved of a disorderly conduct charge by Justice Martin, of Chicago, after the agriculturist had told of Ids woes in a great city. The prisoner said he had never seen a great municipality before. His first desire upon arriving at Chicago was to read one of the big dailies. He pur chased a paper, giving the newsboy a dollar. Then he waited an hour for Ids change, which never cams. After ARP ON THE NEGRO. 3 D3cl2,ro3 lhat Hia Dcat Friouda Aro in tho South. Van Lem Do Not l.lLe Him—Durtowr’a PhiloNonlicr Hr j* tile Colored 3!Mn Should Be Sutinlled witli iliii Lot. ••Unpin I.nJjc’H" 3*1’iioNo-iIiy. “The very next time you git up w rong end foremost in the niondn, and start out for a gret fret and swivel, Rufus, I want you to recollect what Labe Wal ler—Lispin Labe, as all the boys are wont to eall him—told his st..ic keeper one day last spring, and let tho other man lose the sleep. "To start with Lube aint no great big shakes as a farmer nohow, lie works hard, but he trades eo reckless and heavy. In that way he has been drop- pin behind considerable and runnin ids store account up considerable from time to time and from year to I year. One day late in the spring he ! went to Hob Willis, his store keeper, and put in Ids claims for another turn of fertilize. Mind you now, Rufus, he had already got five turns and laid in a whole lot of groceries, and Hob was ruther nervous for fear he would wade in so deep till lie never could touch bottom no more. “ ‘Looks to me like you mought pull through on w hat you have already got, Labe,’ says Bob. ’If I was you I wouldn't wade too deep in debt. Aint you sheered it will pile up so as to give you too much worriment? Seems to me like if I owed as much as you do, and had no more to show out with, it would break into my rest and make me lose sleep.’ "‘Now, Misther Wiilith, don’t you pesther your mind about that. You never will hear tell of! Labe Waller lothin any thcep in regards to his store account. No, thin, no. thir! You are the man to loth tdl the theep, Misther Wiilith. Yeth, thir, yeth. thir. It aint my time of year for lothin theep. No, thir. no. thir! And I must have another turn of fertilize. Yeth, thir, yeth, thir.’” And now Aunt Nancy Newton—may the tribe increase—has returned back home to the old T’antl.er Creek .settle ment. Haley and truly I do wish that near, delightful old soul—tlianky bag. pipe and all—could live forever and a few days ove r. And at any rates, when her time comes, I hope she may be in Heaven two weeks before the old Devil ever finds out that she is dead. RUFFB SANDERS. CHANGE OF CLIMATE. Very On fi In Injarloua Battier 'I'Ij ::i tleififdl to tt'.c U!cL. At the American Climatological asso ciation a number of papers were read. Dr. E. F. ingals, president, of the usno- rintion, believes that patients should not be sent from borne unless their financial and social position is such as to render ike jourijey and sojourn easy and agreeable. In the first stage of pulmona ry t ubereti! os is patients should a high a!iitud‘\ as a rule, where the atmosphere is as warm as practica ble; in the second stage to a medium iltitudc; in the third stage, if any where, to a low altitude, and in most instances, a drv atmosphere. Dr. J.M. Taylor caliod attention to the "dis tinct harm wrought upon a highly sen sitive organization thrown out of b.:l- tnee by u prolomfed residence on the ■enennst or in eigii mountain legions.” Abo to the tit!favorable results front •‘rushing from place to pinee." Dr. •sang‘f Drow n said: "In debilitated dates of Hie nervoua system, attention .vith such disturbances of functions as dmple melancholia, ue'.irm.tl.enia, neu ralgia. ins,omnia and hysteria, a high iltitudc a ml the seashore art* contra indicated, and while g- no rally in such eases a clear, cold climate is most bene ficial. a few eases do better in a mild climate. After a certain degree of im provement has taken place this may frequently be advanced by sea or even mountain air.” The ‘ ‘ et of climatology is being nil vow, ted us a part cl the eurrieiiliim of medical schools. At present sdu- lents are left to educate th.emselve* In this particular ns best they can. Many valuable lives have been lest and healths ruined by persona going - to climates unsuitable to their constitu tions. It is hop d that before long a patient may be able to consult with liD loetor on his choice of a country with lorneeonlidenee.- Chicago inter Ocean The first southern state which has passed a bill permitting women law yers is Alabama. \ < "WHY NOT TAKE THIS GIRL?” in Clark street, below Hoik. When the ol’ieers saw her they were surprised to find that she was of immense propor tions. A eousultation was held. "We ean't get her through the door, ft) I guess we had better take her out the w indow," suggested O’Mara. They were about to remove the >::sh. when iheir prisoner called them to her side a; d said she wanted to make a sugges tion. "Why not take this girl here?’’ she asked, pointing out Etta White, who is about onc-iifth the size of the Wane- low wonin!!, and w hose complexion be lies her name. “You won’t have any trouble getting her out of the door.and eke • •ill go in my stead, 'nyhow.l’m Kiel:, and if you take me I v.iil sue you for damages.” Another consultation was held by the two oflicersand they decided to ac cept the proposition. Etta White was. 1 lien arrested and taken before Justice Martin, answering to the natry* of Susan Wanslow. The •justice imposed a line of $15, which was not forthcoming, and Etta White was rent to the bridewell to serve days. Wednesday a friend called at the* house to see her. nud. hearing that she was in the bridewell, started out to investigate. He learned the facts r.r.d engaged ar. attorney to begin habeas corpus proceedings. Thursday Judge Burhe was told of ti c affair and he ordered the officers into court. They explained that the woman could not he taken through the door, and, fearing she might bring a damage suit, they supposed it would be all right to tai;? Ettr. Whit? in he: stead. The judge at ore'' ordered the r dnrr ' cf the woman, and. turning to the offi cers. sai l: “In all my career I have never heard of a case of this kind. I suppose if you men were given u war rant for a man six feet tall and 1 wo fee* wide you would let him. pass and arrest ’.he fir:;t small man you ran across. Your c use of fearing a damage sub .is too thin. As the matter now stands Etta' White lias good grounds to gel after you. Your n< lion certainly wa - i :ost ridiculous, and besides making fools of yourselves yon hold the entire police force up to ridicule. Heh'sse thi woman and go and arrest the woman culled for in the warrant as quickly ns possible.” TWO-HEADED TURTLE. Wonderful Freak of Tintirre Discov ered In Florida. A wonderful freak of nature is owned by Dr. A. J. Hannah, of Final ilia. Fla. --a t vvo-lieaded gopher, or two gophers. f .V X ' ■ 1 C.; / .t-rfr, w%m Y-T •fi* A FI/ORIDA FREAK. in one shell. There are two heads, four single legs and one leg with two feet, all inside of one shell, the double foot growing Lot worn Hie beads. Either head can control the double foot, but only its own side feet, and unless both heads are of one mind neither enn mov'e the shell. Both heads must be fed. which shown that there are two stom achs. Its habits are similar to those of all laud turtles, and it is in its liveliest mood between the hours of eleven and one in the morning. MrrndlnB < • ('rlitilunls. In the reign of William III. of Eng land all child-id*alera apprehended were branded with a red-hot K. for rogue, on the shoulders. A big Nt on the right hand signified manslaughter, while a 'I' was burned into the left hand for thief. A llnimtn Needle < anc. Twenty-one cniubric needles hare been taken from the wrist of a young woman in Mount C'irmcl, Pa. She con fessed that she haJ placed than there herself. ■ ‘Nft.*//vV'/\ .ji TO. MVii; V v w. ^4 T Fi i/ij : < HE HAD NO APPETITE. have preferred a light bay to a black. They both happened to write to me within the same week, eacli asking me to look about for a trade. 1 went io see both of the well-bred youngsters. The two men left the terms of the deal to me. ami 1 decided that an even swap would be fair. “It was not long till the Missouri man wrote me. making a kick so big that it took two postage stamps to deliver it. He insinuated that I had never seen the eolt sent to him. If I had overlooked to <!o that, he regretted exceedingly not hav ing sent his little son to adv ise with me. After the most careful and con scientious investigation he found ab solutely nothing in the colt that would recommend it. “1 hadn’t quite gotten over this at tack when a bulky letter came from the Illinois man asking whether it were possible that anyone could have worked in a ringer on him while the colt was being transferred. The ani mal he had received looked more like a giraffe than a horse. He had no ap petite. was thick-headed, thick-winded, and game in his off hind leg. He would be glad to get rid of him at 50 cents on the dollar. 1 wrote th6m both, de fending my notion, and got back a rather sarcastic reply from each man. They said that they hoped the other fel low had given me a good round fee, for 1 certainly deserved it. I have met them both a number of times since, but they always profess not to see me. NYhn they get together each one claims to have gallon the hot end of the bar- fe r um” ATTACKED BY RATS. A/ W 77 ■'"V ' ••• ' )•• i M ms ---V .y ?! ^ * —»C*. ’ \ ” - ' . - ' Lv f JOHN BUYS A PAPER. this he bought a cigar for half a dollar, and nearly died from *ts effects. Later he was induced to try some Clark street whisky, after which he slept long and soundly. When he awoke lie found lie was short about $15, w hile his brund-nevv shoes had been ex changed for a pair of old rubbers. While searching for a shoe store he met a stranger who offered to guide him to a place, after which he loaned his guide five dollars. The shoes he pureha.-.*d were second-hand, but he got them cheap at three dollars for the pair. He decided to have them shined. A bootblack polished one of (he shoes, but refused to finish the job unless he was. given 50 cents. The money w as paid over, and the boy ran away. After sliding down a pair cf trick stairs in a (juiney street saloon tiie man trom Indiana collided with the fatuous hueki::g goat on Pacific avenue. Dur ing the encounter he found himself in the arms of a policeman. Aii officer of the* law was detailed to take Skidmore to a train for Missouri, and see him safely out of thecitv. Frnak ’.Yus AwuLeixwl When They (Inavvcd HI.h I.!,.h r.iitl Kara. Word reached Toledo. ()., from Maple Shade, a small hamlet two miles east of | that city and in the northern part of Ottawa county, that Frank Rubrusku was attacked by a swarm of hungry rats while he slept in a shanty on the banks of Crane creak, and was severely bitten. He was awakened by a sharp pain in his upper lip and'left ear. The room was dark, but as he leaped m> with a cry of alarm he felt that his assailants were rata. One lug fellow hung to bis (ii./j I Hi '77, ' Ml t ' BEATING OFF HIS TORMENTORS. lip and another to his ear. He beat them with his hands, but they held on, and the ilesh was severely lacerated, lie finally beat them off, but they had tasted blood, and they returned to the attack. They were driven away after a hard fight. When he awoke the bed was covered with rats, but all except two scampered away mid did not offer to attack the occupant. Owing to tin* fact tiiat the Crane creek district is infested with the copperhead snake the hunters and backwoodsmen always have a supply of liniments and fire-water on hand to uae in case of a happening of this kind. Il'.it Few Like Them. Tw o men called upon the mayor of Liudsborg. Kan., t lie other day and paid him one dollar, the sum which the city had paid for their lodging one night in July last, when they were caught short there. They explained that they had reached a condition in life which made it practicable to pay what they con sidered a debt. AN INDIAN SCORCHER. Chief Nan:a Illplc I.i Very Fond of Kin Xew Bicycle. Even into the rese rvation of the red man has the bicycle penetrated. The Indian brave is no lo: w inseparable from ids mustang. De is non equally at home on his wheel. One of the most promising Indian wheelmen is Chief Niirna Hi pic, of Ne- vf-da, ’ o ?•• idYng S:;:: -.cis co, ..hire I.i i riding hr..; c'-chcd gen eral admiration. He is a graduate cf the Carson Indian schorl, and was taught last year to ride a bicycle. He has since been engaged in encouraging the use of tho wived among Ids tribe. The Indian quickly becomes expert in l ioycle riding, as he does in all athletic: sports, lie is very apt to scorch, am! as at present the Indian reservations have no ordinances against that prac tice he can indulge his inclination to r-r* m f. /?44 % J'' ''/fe ‘ //\i f YD 'v'v A 1 - THE CHIEF ON IIUI WHEEL. hi*, heart’s content. The Indians are likely bei'ore long to produce some very ; < od racers. 1'robubly (he bicycle habit will have its eiVect on these pictur- sqae Indian names. instead of Lone Wolf, Red Shirt and s> on, vve '-'hall have Wheds-Lihe-tb.e-Wind, Fecl-on-the-llandlebara and Loud Stockings. It is not believed that any Indian woman has yet been allowed to ride the bicycle. Iiinucn .a Haellll Hie Hnrd. Dr. Limlcnthal, in Klinische Woi Tu n- schrift, states that bacteriological in- v* sHgations show that the sputnm of persons who have suffered from in- lluen/.a, < pceinlly those who are also the subject of pneumonia, hr.a sorao 1 i.nes been found to contain influenza lirellli several montliH after the clinical symptoms of the disi-ase had disap peared. Sin'!) p«u'.HO"s may infect sus- eeptible imlividuals and the ease be con sidered as spontaneous. In eight cares of influenza associated with pneumonia, examinations showed that the bron; h. Those “Boston Yankees” already have big money in cotton i '.ills in South Car olina. Three-fe.nrths of th.e capital in ! Spartanslmrg is New England money, , and they have never yet even suggest ed the employment of negro opera tives. indeed, it is a new departure if B Miton has suddenly fallen in love with the negro, for all the genuine Yankees that I know or have known had little u. e for him, except as a base of political operations. The new t itle city of Fitzgerald, that is made up of Illinois Yankees, won’t even allow him a domicile in the e;.rp; ration. I know a Y’anl.ee lady who was taken sick here and she wouldn’t cat anything they cooked, and liked to have perished to deatli duri. g her ha g d’.ae s. Kind neighbors took nice tilings to her. but had to tell her they were cooked by ne groes. It is * iibws how they don’t mix things up north. In one hotel you will find all colored waiters and in an other all whites. There are hotels in Florida where all the waiters are New England girls. In the northwest no colored barbers are allowed. They w ould lyr.c#. one just as soon as he put up his striped pole. There is really less prejudice against the negro at the south than at the north. There are more trades and occupations open to him. Hut all this has been raid and re- said for 30 years. “Oh, you lynch him.” they say, and the New York Her- ild keens account ag: in t us—over :;G() in the last 12 months. If it was 3.000 we would still ask, like Gov. Oates: “What are you going to do about it ?” Lynching for tiiat crime is the law of nature, and will go on. When juriesare organized to try hyenas and wolves and gorillas, maybe these brutes in human form w ill be tried, but not before. The argument is exhaust ed. and vve stand by onr wives and chil dren. If the brute who was burned at Dallas had had as many lives as a eat. I would have burned them all. The fateof that poor little child has haunted | me ever since. And so let the negro \ bishops and preachers and editors stop bewailing the lynchings and go to de- i nouneing the outrages and teach to , their people the enormity of the crime and its sw ift and sure punishment. The emotions of the human heart are the same at Urbana us at Dallas. Hot Anglo-Saxon fears are aroused prematurely. No white children have yet been displaced that I have heard of. The papers say that some wealthy negroes are about to build a cotton mill in Alabama. That is till right, of course, and they will employ negro labor. Mr. Anglo-Saxon can’t com plain about that, but he charges that lion. Hoke Smith in 1893 wrote an arti cle far the American Review advocat ing the employment of negro labor in our cotton mills as a means of compet ing with the Chinaman. Well, I don’t believe Mr. Smith wrote any such thing, for vve have no Chinamen in that busi ness and if we had, how could the ne gro compete any better than the white race? I know cf no trade or occupa tion in which the negro excels the white man, either in skill or cheapness. Hut this man. is very mad with us and actually abuses Frank Stanton for writing poetry about mules and water melons and violets and daisies while the white pcopleare threatened w ith the direst calamity of 30 years. Stop, Stan ton. stop, and write a poem about the black cotton mills that loom up in the distance. J Hut while on the subject of the dusky rr.ee, my attention was called by my wife to a photograph and n sketch of Ouern Lil, that appears in the July number of the Puritan. The photo graph indicates a handsome woman of light Moorish complexion and feature* quite t;s English as Queen Victoria’s. The sketch gives her praise for her manners and her lavish entertainments and her modesty of deportment. It closes with these words: ‘‘.Die is really a queenly woman. Her hearing is dig- abied. her manner gracious, her lan guage perfect, and one leaves her pres ence echoing the sentence: ‘Once a queen, alwv.vs a que* n.* ” Now that dethroned woman has been the butt of hundreds of cruel jokes and •landers and for what was it? For po litical schemes that are now about to mature in the annexation of Hawaii. Dr am I too suspicious of our American politicians? May the good Lord help us all a. d keep us from stealing, espe cially from a woman. PILL ARP. I*. S.—Allow me to thank all those kind friends, far and near, who have sent me tin: poem I asked for. “Man Wants Little Here Below," by J. Q. Adams. It gratifies me to learn tiiat *o many are Letter versed in literature thr u 1 am, and 1 thank th"in for fheir I.In 1 eonslderation < f my ignorance.— 15. A., in \tlanta Constitution. were offeeted. the blood. No bacilli were found In Paner ((ullla for (hr Poor. Paper quilts are coming into general •is»* among the poorer chiHses abroad They arc made of sheets of white paper sewed together and perforated all orer •( ft distance of an inch or two smart. Clilld in r.n Eaglr’a Talons. While playing in the jard the other day a large gray eagle swooped down upon a three-year-old child of Samuel Jackson, a farmer residing east of Youngstown, O. The bird sunk It* talon* Into the child and was attempt ing to carry It uway when two farm- Land* appeared and clubbed It off. A Light Supyrr Indeed. A f’.prlrglicld (Mass.) gentleman who is fond of playing practical jokes upon his wife, no matter who is present, gave a little party the other night, asking Jiis wife to provide a light sup per. In due time the guests were • '•tier'd to fli» di.iing-roc.n. to find on :he table simply n dozen keroseno lumps, brilliantly burn'ng. The joker is not yo ford of “light refreshment^* lie was. v • Kriskv at Seventy. L. I». Matthew*, age seventy and Mrs. Klezabatli Wilkie, aged sixty- live, were united In the holy bond* of matrimony on Sunday night by the Rev. J. W. Walker. They have been kept busy since their union re ceiving tho congratulations of their friends. i, _ J. ...