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m- 5 J l A SOCIETY MAN. OLD MAN MOSES AND HIS WIFE MOTE TO TOWN. They Trade Their Ranch for a Second-Hand Piano and Fast Their Lot In Bine Sqnaw Ciuich, [From Penusylvauia Grit-] Blue Squaw Gulch, Col.—We live in u town now—sold our claim—traded our improvements ou a second-hand piano. You see, Bet sey went over to visit her brother in Blue Squaw Gulch, and everything was booming so briskly there, and ' town property was shooting up in price as rapidly as the valuation of a new born kid. Everybody in Blue Squaw Gulch owns a piano, or have, at least a $15 payment made on one, intending to pay the balance by degrees, the same as the temperature changes when a young fellow is sitting up with his best girl and her pa comes in and sits down to read the papers with a determination of sitting up until the young chap goes home. We rented a house with two rooms—one for the piano and one for us to live in. 1 Know lots and lots of families here who had one room in their house before they bought a piano, but after getting the musici l instrument they would build a lean-to for the family to live in, and give the piano forte the freedom of the original part of the domicile. That’s Western style for you. When a craze strikes Blue Squaw Gulch it doesn’t make any difference how poor or how rich you are. A craze is no respecter of persons out here, not by a durn sight. It will strike a man with one suspender and the elbows out cf his coat and trou sers just as readily as it will strike a man with a paying mine. Wky, last winter a dancing pro fessor came here and fired the town with a dancing craze, and lots and lots of people who couldn’t afford meat or coffee or sugar or milk on the table would borrow $10 to take a course in dancing, even if they had to Wear one boot and one shoe, and a Jong tailed coat to hide an aperture in tne rear townships of their anato- - toy—fact That’s the sort of town Betsey and I live in now, and it beats playing S ioneer all to blazes. Everybody is i debt, or getting in debt or wanting and trying to get in debt, but nobody is trying to get out of debt A man is looked up to in propor tion to the amount of his debts and the uncertainty of him ever paying them, Blue Squaw Gulch is cosmopoli tan if there ever was a cosmopolitan town on the face of nature. We hate people here from every hind S ttartar of. the globe, and some pro- ibitionists. We have had all sorts of people here except the organ grinder. Railroad rates are too high lor that luxury. In fact, every bad thing is laid to railroad rates. Molasses is $1.50 a gallon, and the store-keeper will tell yotsitf on account of the outrageous rail* oaa rates; hair cut 40 cents, and all on account of railroad rates; beer 15 cents a glass, shine your boots for 85 cents, hold your horse for a quar ter of a dollar, doctors set a broken leg for $75—and all on account of .the high railroad rates. When you live in a place like this yon wish the government owned the railroads and the devil owned all the ‘ ‘corporations. I do wish in my heart wa could make such a happy ex- .change. Bnt I said we were cosmopolitan. We^have people here from all over thfe world,- and from New Jersey. People come out here to win a for- tuneyand, of course, most of them are poor people—people who held ou inferior position- in society where they hailed from- simply because they had no money. Well, when these people all get settled in one town, and find them selves on equal footing with all the other citizens, they all be^in to think at once that society ought to be divided—that there ought to be an “upper ten,” or “400” of the very best and most stylish, and that some of the poorest ought to drop down to a nSone inferior position, and thus gi^ the society of Blue (Squaw Gnlch • dark oack ground of plebian color, oausing the select-few to shine with more luster and give their veins a bluish tint. , Good lauds of goat pens in the • TJarforj the craze to' be' one of the “upper ten” struck all the women ir. town on- the same day and in the same Spot aud a dealer in piano fortes took advantage of the situation and y ' '%ld eveff Wottian a piano oh the in stallment plan, and all the one room houses iu town bad a leau-to built before night, and a piano in the original room, and all were again on the same social level, no odds whether the owner could pay a tune or not. That’s the condition we found in Bint Squaw Gulch when Betsey and I came in,f[«pU-h£. raqcj), so you oattt ftapie its for foUoqdng the cus- tom-ina getting, a piano ami pug dog the very hour we struck the tQiyn. ■wBefcfejWt play a phmo any more (ban a cow can tie a dude’s necktie, ..flui neither can ! spme more ditto, k Vnd there are Over half the people of Blue Sqpaw Gulch iu the same bles- Att'lfote othappy, blissful ignorance. I even know one old miner whq has byear prospecting down in the Henry mountains, who when he came home aud found a piano in the house /calked V* ho could tramp the bhzzardly thing learn to dance right off, even before we had time to go to the Methodist church and get converted. The same old miner who wanted to tramp the music out of lus wife’s piano—he and his wife took dancing lessons at the same ti r.e and Betsey and 1 tackled the operation, and Betsey was always isi a dread for fear she would fall and set some of his revolvers off and shoot the fid dler. I’ve tackled a good many hard jobs, ranging from shovel-plowing new ground down to taking a dose of dead shot for worms, but learning to dance beats all the other hard jobs, and produces about two small pails of perspiration to every honest drop of sweat generated by following the shovel plow. The old miner gets drunk before he tackles the mazurka or minuet or tryadoonfandango,- while Betsey wont allow me to take a drop of stimulat ing-stuff, and thus the old miner has got the advantage of me, and also gets twice as much fuu out of the affair. A mau of my age, who will dance half the night in a perfectly sober state, ought have his back broke. There is some excuse for a man if he is drunk, hut to dance in a sober state—bah! A man ought to be, at least, about two-thirds drunk before he attempts to dance, or else man age to stupefy his common sense in some other way. Dancing is heathen ish—especially when the old miner and 1 produce the mazurka. It is truly rich, and dripping with a big fat moral, to sec people who condemned the foolish customs and antics of the wealthy only a few months ago, now, that they have a chance to shine in sweet society, just give up the whole world of com mon sense and good morals, and sail into pleasure and excesses of all description, like brainless dudes and witless maidens who never saw a hard day’s washing. Aud our society does shine, too. Everybody, aud especially the ladies, wear the most shiney ap parel. Nothing goes here that doesn’t shine. (My bald head is right in it, so to speak.) Everybody can shine here, for the gob of hope that has spread over the town gives the most humble a chance to buy on tick, and the sort of peo ple who drift into a Western town have no compunctions about getting all the credit possible. But it doesn’t require a prophet to forecast the state of society iu Blue Squaw Guleh 10 years hence. Peo ple who are equals now, will then be separated by a gulf of aristocratic ideas aud dollars, aud even brothers and sisters will be separated by a stream of fortune aud one will cat fried ham and eggs on the one side, while the other will be in rags and hunger on the opposite bank of the mysterious stream. Let us dance on now aud hug the wives of our future millionaires, while tho millionaires of the future now hug the washerwomen of 10 years hence. Let us have a good sociable time now, for when the lucky few strik? a rich vein of precious mineral aud the dollars accumulate around their door, all those who have found no pay dirt dare never cross the threshold of the fortunate, except in the role of a plebian. Ah, good lauds of tettering on the jack pine slab of fortune, when money boosts one man up iu the world it always lowers the man ou the opposite end of the plank. Even brothers go up on one end of fortune’s teetiug board, aud caro nothing for the unfortunate sisters going down on the other end. I dunuo, I dunuo; when dollars come between—when the golden wedge slips iu between the few on top and the millions on the bottom, the “upper ten” are elevated in spite of all laws of gravitation, while the lower millions sink deeper into pov erty and want in spite of all pre tended beauties of mode, n civiliza tion. Ab, bed fellows make strange miseries! Last night I danced with the dear old Irish lady who did our last week’s washing, and perhaps in 10 years I will be obliged to wear leather specs to behold her in all her dazzling glory, for it was reported this morning that her husband struck “a rich lead” up on the Mesa. Men go up and men go down—in the estimation of those who are up, But good lauds of anticipation, before you cut the green watermelon, men going up are not half so happy as the men going down imagine they are. Betsey and 1 were far more happy out on the ranch, where we got enough sleep, than we are in town, where we are obliged to stay up until 2 o’clock a. m., and break every rule and law of poetry aud grace iu our attempts to dance like the other idiot*. But good lauds of new tinware, the way that woman loves to shine is a caution to bald-heads at tho leg show. She says it is the first chance she ever had iu her life to mingle with “Irishtocracy,” and she’s determined to mingle while our credit is good at the store. She reminds me of Jack O’Meara at tho time of his mother -'u-law’s funeral. Jack lives in this own, and so did his mother-in-law, u t to within a few days of the presidential elec tion, when "ho suddenly died, aud was buried .,o days after election day. Well, Jack was a vociferous silver Democrat, and the silver carried everything in Colorado, on the very day of the funeral mainders ready for planting that he knew nothing of the festival until the funeral procession was passing the rink, when lie read the big sign over the door: “Free whisky for every Free Silver mau in Blue Squaw Gulch.” Well, Jack felt just like Betsey does, aud he acted on the impulse, too. He crawled out of the carriage the moment his eye caught the notice over the door, with the cold-blooded remark: “Bedad, her’s the first opporchun- ity oi’ve had in a long whoile to put me mug iu free whnsky, an’ begob, oi’in goin’ to embrace it, an’ let ye an’ the mournin’ friends plant the ould leddy widout me presiuce.” And that’s about the condition with the majority of fashionable ladies in town to-day; they’d slide out of a funeral procession to attend a dance, simply because its the first chance they over had to shine in society. By the way, Jack O’Meara is one of the leading society men, and he never has much trouble to corral a partner for the mazy dance. He’s in demand, he is, among the dear ladies of Blue Squaw Gulch, and he is the owner of a $300 house and a $500 piano. He’s sassiety, Jack O’Meara is, and so’s his leddy. They arc in the saloon business. Faraway Moses. AN OCEAN YARN. 11 right, my man,’ said I, ‘you o. I’ll send the ship’s doctor «nd< malic out of it were holding a grand festival and ns whiskey-drinkin rink, aud Jac ki jubilee in the as been so An Old Soa Captain Relates a Thril ling Experience. One of the most interesting stories about ocean steamships was told by James Bayne a number of years ago. It appoard in a series of short sketches, which arenot now iu general circula tion. The narrator was brought in con tact with the captain of a noted liner, aud, seeking to learn of bis adventures on the sea, was foolish enough to sug gest shipwrecks as a channel for his recollection. “Sir!” said the caption, drawing himself up aud getting very red iu the face, “what do we know about shipwrecks?” After the other’s apology the cap tain added benignly that there was one occasion when he thought his company’s good record was about to be broken, aud that he was the mau who was to break it. “It was six years or so ago,” began the captain,“that the ship was mak ing her voyage out. The whole way the sea had b?en like a duck pond. When about 100 miles from land we picked up a jailing boat with only one man in it. x “About half an hour after the in cident I was informed that one of the passengers wished to speak with me in private upon a very important mat ter. “ ‘Well, my man, what is it?’ said I,severely; ‘we shall soon sight land; I have no time to throw away.’ “ ‘That is very true, captain,’ he answered; ‘but your time will be even shorter than you imagine unless you listen to what I have got to say to you. You will never see land, much less make it, if you are not pre pared to act at once on the informa tion I am about to give you. “ ‘Neglect it and your ship will be at the bottom of the sea iu’—lie looked at his watch—‘yes, in exactly au hour aud a half.’ “‘All may go. to look at you;’ for of course, I thought- he was wandering in his wits. “Then what had seemed like anx iety iu his face became mortal fear- genuine, abject terror, such as no ac tor could have imitated. He threw himself upon his knees, and, clasping his hands together, besought me not to treat his word: with incredulity. “ ‘Then why, sir,’ 1 replied ‘do you talk such nonsense about my ship?’ “ ‘Because it’s true, captain,’ he groaned. ‘There’s dynamite on board, and clock work machinery connected with it. As I am a living man, if the thing is not at once looked to, the ship and all on board of her will be blown to atoms within the time I have mentioned. “ ‘Good heavens,man, tell me all! I cried, ‘and quickly.’ “ ‘Nay, bnt I daren’t and I can’t,’ he pleaded, ‘unless I have your sol emn promise that you will never be tray me.’ “‘Well,’said I, T promise. Now, where is this cursed dynamite?’ “‘One moment, captain. This °bip is insured in London—never mind where, and now—for a huge sum, and I have been employed to sink her. “T brought the machinery, set to this very day, in a small portmanteau, which was scut on board the night before she sailed. But i swear to you, no sooner did I touch the deck than I repented.’ “ ‘Come up on deck, you scoun drel!’ cried I, ‘and identify this in fernal thing.’ “I set 20 men to work ut once to bring up the luggage ou deck. “• ‘Quick, quick, my good fellows! There will be extra grog for you,’ 1 said, ‘if you turn things out within the hour. “ ‘Thai blessed portmanteau, as it happened, was at the very bottom of all —a mangy, ill-looking thing enough, and, though small, as heavy us lead. ‘Now just throw that overboard, my fiuc fellows,’ said 1, will you, and be careful not to knock it against the bulwarks. “Nobody of course questioned the orders of n ship’s captain when at sea, mid over it went with a splash, but 1 saw the first mute Took at the second old; with an expression that conveyed He’* mud' us clearly as if he had free men and they A Leader. Since its first introduction, Electric hitters lias gained rapidly in popular favor, until now it is (dearly in the lead among pure medicinal tonii-s and altera tives—containing nothing wind 1 per mits its use as a beverage or intoxicant, if is recognized as the best and purest medicine for nil ailments of Stomach, Liver or Kidneys.—If will cure Sick headache, indigestion, constipation, aud drive malaria from the system. Satisfac tion guaranteed with each liottle or the money will be refunded. Price only 50c. per bottle. Sold at Willcox’s drug store. (2) amite was overboard, thank heaven; we were nearing land, and I hud other things to think about “When we were still some way from the harbor we were met by a police boat, the chief officer of which demanded to be taken on board to speak with me. “Hullo! I said, ‘There is no mur dering Englishmen among my passen gers is there? “ ‘Well, no,’ he answered; ‘but I’ve reasons to believe there’s a citizen of the United States who would neither stick at murder nor anything else. “Then I thought of the dynamite of course and rejoiced that the vil lain had been discovered without any betrayal of his secret on my part. “You have a warrant for his ap prehension, I conclude?” •‘ ‘Well, no, captain, that’s just my difficulty, for I don’t know which man it is; but I’ve au order to search the baggage. Information has come by wire that a whole plant for forg ing American bank notes is being imported by your ship; it will not be down below of course, but in the man’s personal luggage in his cabin.’ “Of course the officer didn’t find that portmanteau among the ‘per sonal luggage,’ though 1 ant bound to say that be looked for it very- careful y. “As to the owner of the article in question, he slipped out of the ship at the first opportunity. He had intended to keep the thing iu his cabin, only the steward had objected and caused it to be taken below-. “That information had been tele graphed front England to the New York police was known to his con federate, who had come out to warn him, and they would no doubt have saved me all trouble by dropping the portmanteau over board themselves, only it was among the other luggage. “How to get it out and dispose of it without discovery was the problem they had to solve, which they ac complished by means of a dynamite story. Send twelve cents iu postage stamps to 3'J Corcoran Building, Washington, D.C.,aitd you will re ceive four copies of Kate Field’s Washington, containing matter of special interest. Give name and address, and say whe.-e yon saw this advertisement. Life, Health and Strength. Apalachicola,Fla., Feb 17 1885. Messrs. Lippean Bros., Savannah, Ga.: Dear Sirs—I will write to inform you that I was afflicted with Blood Disease. I tried one bottle of * * ’' and it gave me no relief. I was in bed seven months.1 tried prominent physicians, and they could noc do me any good. I saw your advertisement of P. P. P. iu the Apalachicola Times, and thought I would try it. The bottle I got to-night makes seven or eight, and, oh, how good I feel. I have been up ever since and at my business, lumber inspector. You may publish this if you desire. 1 have informed my friends that P. P. P. is life, health aud strength. M. P. BOLDEN. Sold by all Druggists and general stores. Lippman Bros., Proprietors and Druggists, Savannah, Ga. ! ^ KARL’S CLOVER ROOT, the great Blood Purifier gives freshness and clearness to the complexion and cures constipation, 25c., 50c. Mrs. T. 8. Hawkins, Chattanooga. Tenu., says: “Shiloh’s Vitilizer ‘SAVED MY LIFE.’ 1 consider it the best remedy for a debilitated system I ever used.” For Dyspep sia Liver or Kidney trouble it excels. Price 75 cts. For Malaria, Liver T.co ble,or Indigest ion, O: BROWN'S IRON BITTER litickleii'n Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world tot bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, e i- sores, tetter, eUappeti uatiUs, e.ol i>. .. corns, and alt sain eruptions, au i i >u. : lively cures piles, ui no pay reip n<. . 1 isguaiaiii e> adtoKiv , i u i.i or money reluuoe.. iV,. z5 , . bottle. For sale at Wilcox’sdro^ sum Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla. Wniu Ulifjj '1.1S eles, V.« feUve ‘ ■ i e'lt'-UVlX When she w as a Child, fche cried for Castor!*. When she became Hiss, she clung to Castorta. When she hsd Children, she gave them CaatorU. Deserving i’rnise. We desire’to say to our citizens, tiiat for years we have been st-llim' Dr Kiiuf’s New Discovery for Consumption, Dr. King’s New Life Pills, Hueklon’s Arnica Halve ami Electric Bitters, ami have never handled remedies th..t sell as well, or that letve given such miivental sutia- faction. AVe do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we Maud ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory results do not folow their use. These An Observing Boy. “Papa,” said the son of a railroad conductor who was accompanying his father on a short run “who is that thin, sickly looking man in the front of the car?” “He’s agent for a patent medicine that is warren ted to cure every dis ease that was ever known and restore anybody to perfect health.” “Who is that big, fat, jolly looking fellow- in the seat behind him?” “lie s an undertaker.” “Oh! What does that little bit of a fellow with the duster on do? “He’s going to play Macbeth in the next town.” “Who is that man with the sad eyes and the lonely look on his face? Hasn’t he got any friends?” “Not many; he writes funny things for the newspapers.” Japanese Liver Pellets are small but great in their effects; no griping; 50 doses 25 cts. Sold at Dr. J. A. Boyd’s. Ayer’s Hair Vigor restores natural color to the hair, by stimulating a healthy action of the scalp. The preparation also produces a vigorous growth of the hair, and gives it a beautiful lustre and youthful appear ance. Recommended by physicians, clergymen and scientists. for Infants and Children. ‘' Cactovi a is so well adapted to children that I Castorla cores Colic, Constipation, t recommend it as superior to any prescription I Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, mown to me." H. A. Ancnm, M. D.. I * ,ves Bl “P- “ d P romot *" < U - ’ll So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. Tn* Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. « m: o rv nr e it, e y.” “Longevity? I should say long evity did run in the family,” said Mrs. Higgins. “Why, John was six two, Bill was six foot four, and George had more longevity than any man 1 see. lie was six foot seven if he was a foot. Monterey as made by the Mission Fathers of California A. D. 1760 to 1845. A purely vegetable extract. It cures all forms of Indigestion, Biliousness, Nervous Affections, Malaria and Dysentery. It regulates the bowels, purifies the blood, tones the stomach. A great restorative after any form ru-u _ . of wasting sickness. Invaluable in the cure of excesses in drink or nar- Lhlldren Lry for Pitcher’s Castoria. cotics. An appetizer and a digestive. A full wine glass thrice daily. Ask Your Dealer For It. MONTEREY COMPANY, Proprietors and Manufacturers, FLORENCE, S. C. MERCURIAL Mr. J.C. Jones,of Fulton, Ark.,says of ■3K3SS “About ten years ago I con- HEfiEBa tracted a severe case of blood poison. Leading physicians prescribed medicine after medicine, winch I took without any relief. I also tried mercu rial and potash remedies, with unsuo- RHEUMATISM cessf ul results, but which brought on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that made my life one of agony. After ent ering four years I gave up all remedies and commenced using S. S. S. 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