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T RI WEEKLY EDITIy - - WINNSBORO. S.C.. MARCH 13. 1900, -
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"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