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1 1 .7 " '9 - - l T RI WEEKLY EDITIy - - WINNSBORO. S.C.. MARCH 13. 1900, - - -. CONFESSIONAL, - "Onoof the best war poems which have ppeared' in England during the present etruggle with the Boers was published over tbe Initials "I. II. F." We cite it from the teadem y:] io'rd'God, whom we besought so late, MTiowouldst not suffer us forgot 4TVirne and our weak human state - Have:patience, Lord, u little yet. To-day no pomp of empire fills The wintry land; amazed and awed Weayatch Thy slowly grinding Mills 3ete out to us our just reward. 'oTaay,. by foemen sore beset, Dismayed we draw our destined Lot, We prayed to Thee "Lest we forget," Andgeven as we prayed, forgot. - With foolish, rash, vainglorious words nd sorry self-suieiency aWe bo:sted, girding on our swords, As those who laid tLeir.armor by. 1 Wherefore the curse upon us lies' Oi warriors all unready found, Of braggarts blinded to despise Their foe before the trumpet's sound. Humbly we call upon Thy Name, Ere sounds once more the grim assault, We do confess, 0 Lord, with shame, Our fault, our very grievous fault. Give back our fathers' stern disdain Of id brag and empty boast, - o.sball we stand erect again And face unmoved the hostile host. HOME AGAIN. Far down t1,e lane & window-pane shines'miil the trees thr.augh night and rain; The weeds are dense Through which a fence Sprawls out, one sees not where nor whenue; And there the soring-house, indistinct of line, O'er-roofeli and tangled with a trumpet -" vint. No thing is heard, -No beast or bird. Only the ra.in by waheii are stirred The draining leavet. And trickling en ves Of crib and barn one sc:ireo p:rceives: And gardens where old-fashioned flow'rs han:. wet, The phlox, the candytuft, and mignonette. Why should I wait? - The hour is late: - * She has not heard me at the gate. Upon the roof The rain was prn.nt ,Against -my horse's hurrying isoof. And when the old gate with its a eight and I chain Creaks, she will think it but the wind and rain. Along I steal With cautious heel, And.by the lamp-lit window kneel. And there she sits, And rocks and knits Withia the shadowy light that flits , s. On face and hair, so sweetly sad and gray, p; - freigh The door flings and she's at -y raiw felioter nd es St .~de tttn Dear motter! and, bac; fron the war, hr tutin Risses her face all streaming wet with joy. I Thi --Madison Cawein, in Harper's Bazar. straits 0and a can to LOVE STORY, ea o -- -have o "Janet's Iione Coming.r 0 Fitted t they c v ?3 } r3 "'Cirt T i. it'. ' l'of thei] HERE wa s unconor four e ea1 eda curiosity in card bo Hobson's P oc ke t Wha .'when Delafield Dean ture is - brought his y~ c un g men w: bride over the Divide aboard to occupy the shack are to - Eo had put p ine pows : Hill. To hear talk of music and of books .winters to get back into the atmosphere of the ranging polite world, moiidby thesroudgesb ings and by the innocent bohemianism rices we of the lady, was a pleasure indeed to Ifield, these bxiles. And to lookinoteaud eyes of a lovely and high-bred womano ice and to feel the kindly infiuence of her her. A ideals insidiously yet palpably elevat. course, ing the tone of the place was a privi- each da; lege beyond mere pleasure, attempt. At any rate, that was what John Iashore i * Crane thought. He was one of those and sui wh6,-.in coming to Colorado and the a long, i life of a miner, had burned all his frequent bridges behind him. He liked the idark-hui adventairo and even the uncertaintv|the shor of the life; he enjoyed, with a keen j the foras sense of humer, the idiosyneracies of to their his friends, and ho Ioved1, with a deep i tervals o and abiding love, the majestic soili-|Mahgazin .tde of the mountain roadz, the wind swept passes and the canyons where Aia the.stars shone in midday. To set his Three foct on a place virgin to the tread of a letter t man was the greatest joy he had ever of Michi known up to the time that he had met p jortant o Janet-lean. ito exist Aftd '.hat his greatest pleasure asState, to g' a r pleasure. At first his aer- said, ro vicg her- consisted of nothing more jover the tha-u attempts to keep her from home- Imoose, ge sickneso. were to The timeo came, however, when the founder o -service he was able to rendor her was ccpt tho of a vastly different sort. He la from Mic - nero ss the doorstep of her house evejy many aniu mnght fo: two weeks, with pistols i? fth t his belt loaded and a rifle on his arm, generailly while the cries of drunken and angry "ot L minher al no great distance announced us who sp tefact that 2jL0 defrauded men had cities, and much more t'han half a mind to e re- once in tw venged upon Delafield Dean's prop- the woods. erty and person for the fact that he the people had "miscalculated"' and inv-olved Ia quarter them in the miscalculation, within its. As a matter of fact, Delafield Dean to call mor had fled the town and left his yong them by na wife behind him to the mercy" of "a opportunit; *drunken mob. Free Press The day came when she sold all of her household goods, her riding horse, fMrs. Fli1 saddle, jewels and a part of her ward-eswa e rob by auction, paid up all bills not iMr. Flig . relating inmediately to the mine and |"Oh! Agaib the miii, and made her way back to Buller to k4 the East, wh3re her husband, deep in limits of L club and social life and full of new lease all i schemes, had already grown phi[o- Otis and hi: 6ophio about his Western losses, and gave bi * * * * * Ilosses were Ten years passed. Janet Dean dred and fif Iiv ed her life bravely. She h-eld her dred and -social place, won celebrity as a wit, slaughtered did her shars in a benevolent way, Mrs, Fligt worked ome in ibe .lMb,. re n ;il w. -eret not her own, and all the tim wore a bravo front over a weary heart. It happened quite unexpectedly that Delafield Dean left his wife free -without taking the trouble to die. The details are not pleasant, and, anyway, they do not matter. Let it suffice that Janet took her liberty as she had servitude, with dignity. She went away to a new town to earn her living, and, being a woman with a special talent, she had little trouble in doing it. One month after she had started upon this new career a tall, severe, deep-voiced man paid her a formal -call. He had traveled 500 miles. to do it, and, having done it, he took the train back to the mountains again. He did this once a month for a year. At the end of that period he announced the fact that he, John Crane, was going to marry her. She wept. She said it was not in accord ance with her principles. She de clared that she would always live alone, always work for her own bread, always lament her ruined happiness But just the same one day in mid winter John Crane went westward with the woman he loved by his side, and if she had lost some of her en thusiasms, he had not. After the mountains were reached at every station he dashed out on the platform and brought in men to meet his wife. Half the town was down at the depot to see John Crane come home. There was a mountain coach with six gray horses jangling bell-laden harnesses to take them up the hill. Every one seemed to think this was quite the thing.. John thought so, too. His standards had come to be those of his neighbors. The path to the house door was dug between snow banks as high as Janet's head. And when the door was opened, what sho beheld was her old writing desk against the wall; her familiar old books on the shelves; her riding saddle and blankets on the wall; the well-remembered mountain lion skin upon the floor before the fire of pine. Then, for the first time, her heart went out in tenderness to this patient knight. "My love," she sobbed, "you have served a long time." "I have my reward," he said, soberly, "I have my Rachel."-Chi cago Tribune. Ice-Crushing Steamers. The great and powerful :ce-crushing stea o r ut ex whole trains of: e r t cars froiu one termin l of a onl3 y line to the other thus consti- I fore an importuant link where her ,s would be impracticable. Tl es ice challenging ferries ply the I hold of Mackinac, the Detroit River quic ross Lake Erie from the Ameri- Filil the Canadian shore. They are at tb 3teel-shod craft weighing sev- from ousana tons, and some of them took cost more than $350,000 each. empt with propellers at either end, reloa rumble the ice by the pressure leys , great bulk as though its three him, feet were but a thickness of eleva and. - bash tever else is wanting. adi-en- man~ not lacking in the lives of the a thi io spend the months of snow the s the majestic monsters which shatt he lake tracks what the snow. launc re to the railroad lines. A few serge since, with the thermometer three from eighteen to thirty de- O' ~low zero, one of the car far- enied s caught in an immense ice isL the n Lake Erie, and floated bolted for months with a great mass standi piled mountains high around boat. portion of the crew was, ofgrs obliged to remain aboard, and iguns. r a couple of the men made an The -not always successful-to go of sue] s order to secure provisions them plies. Ofttimes this meant Iheroes reary trip across the ice, and As tl y, when a yawning chasm of Iriver, a water intervened between the lati and the edge of the icefield, ing cat ers were not able to return the firi mprisoned comrades for in- been af several days.--Self Culture jmight The i out, on lia That Have Disappeared-. rats in ~enturies ago, Cadillac wrote ceased, lling of some of the animals the bani ran. Many of the most im- Thee these have long since ceased strictly within the borders of the warfare 'or instance, the buffalo, he ture an Lined in enormous droves|f onists' peninsula. The elk, the Ithey wo ese and swans unnumbered IChico tc be found, according to the failed, b~ iDetroit. All of these, ex- quarteri moose, have disappeared higan, but there are still i n! 2als in the fields and forests As kn :e; more, indeed, than we i have sur realize. Many of them are rane, for ;een, especially by those of a few da; sua most of our lives in the Hi dIon who only once a year, or done in > or three years, really see and the Perhaps five-sevenths of tell the I of Michigan do not know :Willie of the animals that live ,mother, imits, and would be unable evening i e than that proportion of Cora, twc me if they should -have the ; ,go, too, r of doing so. -ADetroit ais they ci their hou: While nnlihtening Her, store the ~hty-"Well, what the lat- walk. ~s, dear?" "Look! ty (behind his paper)-- the baby aldo has warned General Istreet to 1 ~ep his forces within the jwho was dysmith, or he will re- .Willie gla e prisoners at Pratoria. |for a hear brigade moved on Sulu troliey ca tile to Gain Paul. The Jgrade, Wa: euormous-over six hun- He dart, ty Tagals and nine bun- Ihis sister two Kaffia-Boers were track. H<I his childis ty (shudderingly)--"Is'nt b irt that n STALE$ OF PLUCK Gallantry in the Philippines. N October Major Howard, of the United States forces now in the Philippines, took the Oceania down to Arayat, in Luzon, and from there started to slowly struggle up str'am against the swift current, with two great cascos of supplies. It should be remembered that this boat was unarmored. She had one Norden feldt five-barrel rapid-firs gun on her, which constantly jammed, and which the insurgents had learned was in effective when they had fired upon her several times in the lower eourses of the river. There were two as in trepid white men in charge of her as ever fired a gun-Sergeant Harris in command and Engineer O'Neil, who had been one of Young's souts. The rest of the crew, five in number, were Filipinos. With Major Howard i was his civilian clerk, Chamberlain, and two civilian blacksmiths, who were going up to report to the cavalry regiment. The cascos were furnished with a guard of twenty-armed soldiers, but, unfortunately enough, they were all beneath the; heavy bowed mats which cover this class of boat-invisible, and useless in the event of an attack. The boat whistled as she rounded the great bend at the mouth of the Rio Chico, which stretches off toward Tarlac, as a warning to the Oeste, less than a quarter of a mile above. Major Howard sat in a chair at the bow of the boat; Chamberlain sat near him, but toward the right, and slightly screened by the awning from the high river bank on the left, only seventy-five yards away, and was talking to one of the b'acksmiths. There was a blinding volley from the nodding grass on shore. Four men in the boat fell-Major Howard, shoi through the great artery near the heart; Chamberlain, through the shoulder and arm; the blacksmith, through the back and abdomen, and the pilot, in the forearm. Every man in sight at the time had been hit. Major Howard staggered to his feet, ghostly white and gasping. He moved toward Chamberlain, who.lay paralyzed by shock on t eck, but cr, you are shot?' The Major's e answer, as he fell to lie silent comi ver; was "For God's sake, keep were going, whatever you do!" with ie Filipino pilot dived into the pani . Sergeant Harris rushed for the took k-firing gun, grabbing another she >ino on the way and placing him carec e wheel. He fired one volley Anni the gun; then it jammed. He in Ul off the feed cases, pulled the y cartridges with a hand-ejector, At ded it by hand and fired two vol- Chro throngh' the canvas awning above the f as that was the only way he could whos to sufficiently.to reach the am ad enemy. The second steers-' The vas shot through the back, andree d one was forced to the wheel by chieft argeant; then the wheel itself was ase tred by a bullet; but still the land L1 forged ahead, ana the brave touc mt fired two parting volleys at ctoeca hundred yards. crf veil, as soon as he got his fright- yunc Ei!inio firemen and assista0ntswhc Hry engine room straightened out, isisr on deck, grabbed a rifle, and crisis ng exposed on the stern of themae ared shot after shot where the staasnd vas lit up with the flashes 'of sehar gallantry of these two men was theatri a remarkable nature as to place chiefs well within the category or th eint wst iey rounded the bend of the I way to nud came in sight of the Oeste, swoard, :er opened up with her revolv- breast non in the general direction ofwol og. Lieutenant Simmons had there a raid to fire earlier for fear he tere ai strike the Oceania. eje t guard on the cascos clambered wontd a by one, through a hole, like theys trap, before the firing entirely siy su and answered the fire from Nix, nemy had made a clever move, sa-a within the limits of civilized they had attempted to cap- I"Tr armed launch and their antag. the only subsistence supplies, which said an aId have poled up the Rio Ithe trac] a point near Tarlac. They |you; to ut they killed one of the best Isave hin insters in the army. gine go his life alitly Deed of a Boy xrero- perience ightly a deed as minstrels lifetime. g was that of Willie Coch- "It's 3 r years old, who gave his life an old m. is ago to save his baby sister. I Iwas rit ghity deed of chivalry was never mi a crowded Brooklyn street, As good hospital and police reports an bo,c ale, steel, hat went to market with his Ia hold-us Mrs. Alfred Cochrane, as Jim was a ras falling. His little sister Iand made years old, had clamored to stop. T] and Willie held her hand front of h ossed Myrtle avenue from wvas clear, se, at No. 26:3.- right ahet Mrs. Cochrane went into a clump of children stood on the side- golden-ha: the enginE .There's auntie!" crowed i tant, and ;ister, and trotted across the dropped Ii 2eet Mrs. Cochrane's sister, before he approaching the house. But he col aced up the street anti stood ing but he :-beat's time in horror. A hair flutte r, rushing down the steep out from t almost upon little Cora. just got of dL ike a football player to to the secc wuo was already on the never to be pushed her aside with all was found ui strength. She was safe, i - oment the fender, with a Russian otWrmau strugglig l)ehlind I handkerchi iek him, i Willie's body was hurled high i1 the air and fell at one side of the track: The car rushed ahead for q block before the brakes could work. Mrs. Cochrane, running wild-eyed :- m the store, saw ;ier eldest baby bleeding in the street. One of his legs was terribly crushed and his face was bleeding, disfigured by many cuts. The mother-she -is only twen" ty-one years old-fainted at the sight. Willie was in the Brooklyn Hospital when she recovered. Then they told her she was wantec at the hospital. The boy's leg must be taken off, they told her, and her presence was necessary. Nerving'her., self for a new ordeal she haste.ned.. to the place. A nurse met her at the door. "Your bra?' . darling ' siaf, fer no more, she told the striatke mother. "He is dead." The shock was too much, and Mrs. Cochrane was carried unconscious to. another bed in the ward where her son lay. "You will be proud, for all your sorrow, to be the mother of that bay," said the house surgeon, to rouse her, But this was her hour of lamentation' when heroic thoughts do not comfort. Raced Two iles to Save a Worai,. George Deuble, trackman on the Hudson River Railroad, whose home is in Poughkeepsie, saved a woman's life recently in a heroic manner. He was at work on the tracks at Low. Point when he saw a neatly dressed middle-aged wcman start to cross the river on the ice. The steamer Trem per '-had ? just passed south, plowing thro'ugh the chopped i.e in the chan nel. The woman walked directly to ward the channel, as if she meant to try and cross it on the cakes of ice. Deuble watched her until he saw her walk into the channel and sink, clinging to the ice floes. He ran down the track to where a train stood on the old Troy switch. He uncoupled the, engine and started down the track to where he could get a row boat. This he got about a mile south of where he saw the woman straggling in the ice choked channel. He induced a man who was walking the track to accompany him out to the channel. Together they shoved the boat over the ice until the channel was reached. Looking up the river, they saw the woman apparently cling ing to the ice and being swept along { with the current.. The men hastened to her ass tance. and managed to lift,her into the $t. in which they soon brought. ice.. with col lac cut and -'..a the ice. . fire c n, whose name arm, penet the wonan to ere self u was put to be ad pale, [for. She sai . turne Bedford, and tha er home wk peare4 ster County. 'eto.a Averted a Samr War, iran this moment, says the London blund -icle, the following anecdote of splash amous Sir Harry Smith, after them wife the town of Ladysmith is Ield. I, may not be without interest, affirs had shown a tendency to "E and Sir Harry summoned the oasE to a conference, and arranged teS ~ch about the greatness of Eng At a proper place he was to thn. the spring of a galvanic battery rtrng Ily connected with some kegs of "etr .wder placed under a wagonn was to be blown to pieces. Sir new pc commenced his speech. The them o arrived. The connection wa walked but, unfortunatelf, the wagon 'night c ely tilted on end. Notwith-' e a g the failure of the carefully Weh ~ed drama, the interview did hrse, me to an end without a real nticed cal performance. One of the src ventured to express a doubto easem ntions of the British. Thi the sho much for Sir Harry. Carried ful of 'y- a iit of rage, he drew his . tp sece and, presenting it at the -naked'th Whrs of the savage, he swore' he the firt tin him through if he did not she,a d then take an oath of obedi- Whby, the Government. The as- ptretche [chiefs were cowed by the un-amoe ->utbreak. One after another large en -scribed the requtired submis- ot,A ud Sir Harry's wrath-Ir. It was fi he traveler, who tells the story, auch a si erted a Kaffr war. iborn da~ ma whc Told by an Enaineer- "No, an over a man--perhaps that's ,friend v. thing of all that shakes me." 'thought engineer. "To see him on! ,provised within ten or twent-' feet o!! any shoe know that you can't stop to | them to: .; to feel the wheels of the en- as t hey a -ver his bedly, crunching out delphia I -a man doesn't want to ex that more than once in a -"Mamn ~orse with a child. There was migrant ~to of mine in the West, when the .1:arg~ ling in the U.nion Pacific-- "It is, ad his name, he's dead now. American no -egne- as ever stood in answered, olas the devil, nerve like Iclerks ru been through three wrecks, The bo2 and a fire. Well, one day kept silen little behind his schedule, a wvhispei like anything for the next Americ.a? crc was a crossing right in "Hush; in. He saw that everything "If iti as he thought, and went people w, d, when all at once, out of a Lominico trees, there ran a little the Ameri red fairy right in front of our feet at It was all over in one in- sides. Is wvhen the train stopped Jim "If a t kena log. It was two months Itrue; but I crept back again to work. "If it'r ild never come to that cross- -walk head - saw the little girl with her1 "Hush, ing in the wind, running York Comrt re trees., And one day he - his engine, turned it over Carr nd man and walked away, -The spec seen' again, until his body sian emper in the river." German ti things, two oldiers are supplied wita little prince es at the expense of the I Fresh food AN OFFICER'S FIRST BATTLE. A Subject That. 1any Are Unwilling to Go Into Too Closely. What are the feelings of an officer when for the first time he leads his men into battle? This is a question wlch the soldier himself alone can an swer, and we suspect that a good many would be unwilling to go too closely into the subject. The hum of a ride bullet, the shriek of a shell, the rush of a cannop shot must be, and always has been, exceedingly trying to the inexperienced warrior. A certain Brit ish officer, who prefers on this occa sion to be nameless, has frankly de-' seribed his first experience in battle: "We were advancing to the scene of operations," he says. "On entering a strio of wood it occurred to me that my men, being raw recruits, would not fight well on horseback, so I or dered them tc dismount. This, of course, stopped the whole body of the army behind the regiment. While the men were leisurely tying their horses an officer came up at a furious gait and asked peremptorily: 'What have you stopped here for and blocked the whole roa:1?' I saw the point in a moment, and bade my men move out of the wood. In the meantime my scabbard got itself hopelessly entan gled in a bush, and 'the more I tried to get it loose the more it stuck the faster.' So I told my men to form at the edge of the wood and wait for me. Then I cut the straps and left my broken scabbard in the bush, while, with naked blade flashing in hand, I rushed to the front. Not a man could I find. They were anxious to see the fun, and had run over the brow of the hill and scattered along the whole length of the line. After infinite difficulty, many words and more temper, I got them together again. "We were barely in position when I heard a distant cannon, and at the same instant saw the ball high in the air. As near as I could calculate, it was going to strike exactly where I stood, and I dismounted with remark able agility, only to see the missle of war pass sixty feet overhead. I felt rather foolish as I looked at my men, but a good deal relieved when I saw that they, too, had all squatted on the ground, and none of them were looking at me. I quickly mounted and commanded them to 'stand up.' We were ordered to charge soon after, and the enemy easily gave way before us, for which I was most devoutly thankful. We.passed some dead and wounded, the first sad results of real ever seen. At night ell a -aets ho ever +a camd>p mla 1J to:light up' the im rable gloom. I stretched my pon the soaked ground. The' rigid faces that I had seen i up in the evening sun ap I before ime as I tried in vain ield my own from the driving and as the bjgryof-a comraue, )ring -around in the darkness, ed my eyes full of mud, I closed, n my first sleep upon a battle Y - Way to Stretch shoes. L..y to stretch a shoe with asked a surburban friend of unterer recently.Wo' who -ever heard of such aWo Why, what do you mean?" d the Saunterer. -.olu 11, you know, I bought a nice ir of shoes last week. I put The a the day I got them, and good about until night, and the avhen] 1e almost killed me. That The thought of a brilliant scheme. n , is just got in some oats for the kers S tna one of the bags got wet. I how the oats swelled, so it ne it would be a good way to "My shee. So that night I packed with m full of new oats, poured it'"W vater, and lasher down the "By brely-.akn nawoke the next min khenha thing I did was to look for the japolis ,1 d what do you think I saw? . that miserable thing had . i and stretched, until, from cids number seven it had become -cildn ugh to hold an elephan t's ;huh d it had not stretched evenly. stand ti tII of knots and bunches, and me ,how ght you never saw in all your We .Iamlooking no or a author, se feet will fit the two shoes. -hl ir," concluded the suburban ith a mournful air, as he Lilian :>ver his overproductive im ng on, stretcher, "next time I have basn't h to enlarge I'll ei.her take Lucy shoemnaker,or wear 'em jus5. Lilian. :e,in spite of corns."--Phila- tions are aquirer.- Luy ler First JImpressions. ylie na,"' said a ten-year-old im- 'proposin boy in the detention pen of of his ye office, "is this Ameri a?" rier. my son; but keep still; the gendarmes are angry-," she pointing at the blue-coated | "You I aning in and out of the pen. Iwinter." clung to her skirts and "Yes," t. After a little he said in kins with "Mamma, is it really lot of wor have had it is. Hush!-' vants. 'T America, why don't the got angry ik upside dow-r? Cousin charged ti says his teacher says that theonly t. ains is under us, and that their after d their feet are on opposite other neig it trite, mamma?" -rose eacher says so, it must be "Papa insh, my child." .course in true, then they ought tot "Yes, d lownward, mamma." iscience.' my child; hush!"-N ew "Whe2n iere'al Advertiser. Jieft side o secow. WCvit hh them. . the right al tainin wichthe us- ass ever r traveled in his recent "7es." ip carried, rmiong othe J"Then w cows to supply the three top and bot sses with pure, fresh milk. Iwy" foi these cows wa br al' TE MERRY SIUEU.1F' LE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Unnecessary-The Voiice of Experience Evidence of Courage-Not Forgotten Quite Surprising-Out For His Daily Bread-The Light of Love, Etc., Etc. Men are apt to fret and worry, But what's the n- e? When too late they always hurry, But what's the use? Just to keep business boomin' Men do lots of things inhuman Even argue with a woman, Bit what's the use? -Chicago News. The Voice of Experience. Young Wife-"Tom presented me with a lovely pair of diamond earrings this mornirg." Her Mother-"Indeed! I wonder what he's been up to now? Evidence of Courage. "That photographer is a brave, heroic man, Clara." "What do you mean, David?" "Why, he told you to look pleasant -and I never dare to. "-Detroit Free Pres3. Not F ttn. "Did your grand emember you in her will?" "Yes, she had a clause in there in structing the executcrs to collect all the loans she had made me."-Balti more News. Qulte Surprising. Delbette-"You are the only girl I ever loved!" ' Miss Haddum-"I don't believe 1ou!" Delbette-"That's funny! the rest of 'em did."-Pack. Out For His Daily Bread. Mr. Bansby-"If that young man's coming here to see you every day in the week, you had better give him a hint to come after supper." Miss Bunsby-"I don't think it's necessary, Pa. That's what he comes after." The Light of Love. "Omed," whispered the dark, ro. mantic maiden, "what is the light of love?" "The light of love," murmured Omed, with a faraway look, "is gen erally the gas turned down to a mere blue spark." The Lat Straw. traud $a ~ ! -trq~ -I lamp pro 3rly at's the matter, old man? it, pn he king laugh at your jokes?"' low, rse than that! He expects me "er a at his."-New York yournal, 3tride Change in Games. ps Old Ons-"There used to be a Y ork leal more kicking in football I was a boy than there is now." Young One-"Well, the 'kick- -~ ii done in baseball now."-You. I erat.L atesmn. !the vo -aeran Iin 186 hea W7eary, Weary Sleeper. Ithe re wife seldom eats breakfast had b 5." and to. y i3 that?" . school1 he time she has succeeded in homei me get up she is so worn out Ifession to go back to bed."-Indian. Iton on] ournal._____Ito a W The Secret Out. facts,ra wonderful how you catch the Gnerhe rit in your stories," said the ThethE ser. "You seem to undera e child nature perfectly. Teli of soldi you do it." of ayer. ,you know," replied the great he accr "I was a child once myself." tenacne eiphia North American. - teas aquestloned Seriousness. up to tl -"Mr. Waverly has been call. ~ou regularly for some time, Why' ?" . Bed -"Yes, indeed!" jthe bod -"Do you think his inten- reduced serious?" jWhen y -"Serious? Why, I never ten stro ~ed anything more serious in Iyou sta he doesn't seem any nearer hundred now than on the occasion Therefoi y first visit. "-Boston Cou- usually : rest, yo Behind Their Backs. thousan ave moved three times this ounces. lifts thir answered young Mrs. Tor- in the ni a sigh. "It was a dreadial day. N k, but we had to do it. We your,wai so much trouble with ser- pulat~ion, hen I discharged them they maucn ma and when Charlecy dis- twhen yor eam they just langhcd. So Jost ifn t. ling to do was to wait till ge suppi noons out andI move to an. pwers. hborhood." A Enquisitive Younaaters. - The oca you took the scientific pteamers ~ollege, didn't you?" Jregular 1, ear; I spent two years on wherever foreign fk you look in a mirror tho Stars and your face appears to bo eign-built side, and the right side in the ne e the left. The looking, chant ma es it, doesn't it?" American The "tr L~doesn't it reverse the an impor tom of your face the same merce, an. reason wh r..ah!"M-'rsined Ege to a latge The Result of an Attempt by Packers to Corner the Market. One of the most peculiar situations in regard to the egg supply ever known exists in the United States to day. The situation is the result of storing eggs in an attempt to c'ntrol the market. There are liable to be two results. One is that the people of the country will have cold storage eggs foisted upon them as the newly laid product. The other is that the people who attempted to "corner" the market will suffer heavy losses. The beginning of the "cornering" effort dates back to last summer. At that time, it is said, the -Chicago packers evolved the scheme of'buying up all the eggs that could possibly be gathered together and storing them until the supply became scarce. As. is usual in schemes, it was anticipated 'that the scarcity would send the price sky high. Then the stored eggs ,vere to be unloaded on the market and a fortune was to be made for the packers. It is figured that 7,000,000 (ases, each case containing thirty dozen eggs, were stored away. To thbe indusftious hen, who:e -capacity s one egg a day, this . an exceed ingly large amouat ' Tegehee yo control market Teithrough. There waso the stored eggs an-1 the ackers beg ..: $o lieawake o'vjghtsthinking. Atpres pnt thehenr'.re beginning to lay fresh eggs. T2.ese are coming into the: market L.nd no one w.ats the stored eggs. A little figuring will show how er.ormous- the. loss will be. There are 7,000,000 cases of eggs, or 210, 000,000 dozen, stored throughout the country. These were bought up at ^ fifteen cents a dozen. The present' - . price of eggs a dozen outside of Cleve land is on an average four cents less a dozen than the price at which the stored eggs were bought.: This will1 mean a loss of about $8,400,000 tothe packers. It is conjectured that there, are 6000 cases of the stored eggs int = this city. The loss here will also be' very large. It is reported that the 'packers in. this vicinity have a way out of the dilemma. It is said that next sum er when eggs are shipped here from; utlying towns, the stored eggs wf e mixed with fresh ones and:that hat way the old product will e de unsuspecting - lq-Oo>~ and Plain Dealer. Ung thronglLthea lots to do. _ Mus?e eep you busy, ehl" - :. . : ep; an' it'a short da " "ort day? mn, urn. Got to go to --ary so Imnust ligitthelm "-He unshniik hs ed.it againstalanN ln ned ,out the light,Tca ) threw the laddrover hzshu sin and resumed liishie4~' " ."Got to light 'emal?st - '" two. Wed!, so . ong."-Nsw-' )ommercial Advertiser. ~ .awton once rLeft the Arm. not generally known that Geni awton after his discharge from tunteer service in the Civil:War 5, was offered s' commission in galar. army, but refused it. HeP ecome tired of a' sohliei>s life - >ka course at'the Harvaillaw , after, which he went to his - n Indiana-to practice.that pro-; A classmate of GeneralLaw-. y a few daysl-ago wrote a letter' ishington paper stating these: nd saying that he had asked [ Lawton why he did.not-stay~ army when he had a chance. neral replied that he was ired ering, and wanled to bet law seems thas he soon wearied fessional life also, for in 1867~ pted an appointment as a lieu n the regular army and by his and boldness worked his way *e head. ron Want an Extra aat. ~overing i.t in ed to r the warmt hat is lost by circulation of the blood. mn lie down your heart makes ces a minute less than when> ad upright. This means six strokes in sixty minutes..'' e, in the eight hours you. pend in taking your night's .. ir heart is saved nearly five strokes. As it pumps six f blood with each stroke it ythousand ounces less.blood ,ht than it would during the w, you are dependent. for mth on the vigor of your cir and, as the blood flows so re slowly through your veins are lying down, the warmth ie reduced circulation must. ed by extra covering.-An rican Ocean "rramps." an "tramps," as .the-feight ~re called that belong to no _ ne, and pick up cargoes they can, are: mostly under gs. The.few that carry thei Stripes are, as a ruie,e for craft. But now,sit appearsM w development. of our mer 'ine, there is a denindfor "tramps." amp" steamers have q~uite tant place in. ocean 'coin I there seema to:be norgoc~ y' they should notabe:bnlt