The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 09, 1883, Image 1
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The requests for ad
ire trembHngly sade' ; th e ai>
t are elwrV'sharp and decisive.
?ere is no appeal from the dread
judgments Jbf! these autocrats of the
poor. ? . ./ & ' -
^uiey?r??r^wo feather pillows is
?enttr,Wv
roy husband was my husband
/^Ye^^-fi^^la^r l don't want
them,*^ was the clinching reply.
"This ring cost me $80," says a
woman of betier apparel than her
neighbors.
"Fifteen dollars/' was the laconic
answer?
'Please, sir, I will take this oat,'
said the woman from Fourteenth
street, laying down her bright silver
dollar and a ticket. r
^*0&, yoshare hero again after that
j?eture, are you? Let me see, yon
had twenty-five cents on it-four
and storage, sixty
ing^back the
1 ?U?? mjk?iat u re o? a chi i d
tim?fthat wemao-nad that thing in/
coat in ned the pawnbroker to one of
the othe*a^ 'I-suppos? you. would
rather ?et 3Sa? out ltban eat; eh ?'
'Oh, sir, I piize it very, highly. It
ia alUJiave left of Jiappy days." p
^"f?i?bt, w ?o?bt f lym have
{beennLspami lady if y jut time I dare
say-ha l ba&-a grand lady I' /and
those who no Ly et been wai tod ou
?o?ii^M^;%e^r?i? IVngV:. *The
woman's thin fingers &?8?d^ ever the
^tf?e^lcto?;aHo! Rerlnr TOwed cheeks
were moistened with bitter memories,
though the tear faucet* were almost
fdry.
Oat of the door, still creaking,
j through the crowded streets to the
[spot wSere ye first>aw her went the
unfortunate, wrapping her scanty d ra?
yo?? 11 moto * ?eluscly ?wbeqt-*ber ami
shiver???w?^ tbe enid.
A ^concert garden !*- ^
Very little 'concert,' a great deal of
light and noise and strong drink.
Jaunty l?ge clerks, with tight trou?
sers and pointed shoes, smoking ciga?
rettes, drinking beer and geering at ?
lot of women who sat around. To?
bacco smoke , everywhere, and the
isound ofj?ie 'concert* almost unheed:
ed amid the clink of glasses and the
f echo of ribald daughter. .Surely a
pleasant place for young meu;to tpeud
ihe evening beifore going home to
their mothers and sisie. s.
At a table sai ? young woman evi?
dently not altogether of the same class
as her neighbors. She wore warm
and "rich ctothing,' and in her ears
sparkfed tire price ofJ?ity. For she
^j^Hn^BBj-U&?y-irtf
SSjng ixe telltale Hues on her
and the heavy sensual con?
teur of her mouth. The ??ppTWws of
all others seemed to be with her to*,
for she laughed and talked gay?y wini*
her companion,
j "Nine o'clock, let ns go/ said the
man with a yawn. 'I de not like .it,
anyhow ; it is too noisy. V Slowly the
girl drew on her gloves and wrapped
herself about with her furs. Slowly
4hey approached the eutiauce. The
doors opened, ?nd with a flood of
light and warmtn accompanying them
they passed into lite streets. The
shop giris harrying home looked at
?he s?fc? and jewels and sighed, the
policeman looked and shrugg d his
great ?uoulders. A brave sight was
thia handsome, gallant pair.
^The^w^??a w*th-the minial ure ap?
proached au?i scanned the girl's face,
aa sneJtad done to hundreds for hears..
Her knees bent under her, her eyes
"and her hand went out to
??jft?vr^eavy cloak. The girl
?ri^ba?lrwltli appeherrsion, - awff
her escort tossed a ten-cent piece to*
ward the ^NPf? % ffctiBol.dd ^Into the,
gutter unheeded; >*?
.Julie ! Julie ! at last I have found
yon !' said that weak voice. ; 4at last !
[ atlast' But theconple moved on. The
woman pursued, and this time suo
j ceeded in.catching 4 he cloak. The
i girl ^vea?rtt?t? ScreaTir and - -the ma?
j turned fiercely. 'What more do you
! want woman T I have already given
fyou money.'
j e What do I want ? Merciful God !
i can my. child. stand by and hear that
I question j Oh, J alie i Julie ! it is so
i long since i have seen you ; but I am
i happy now my dari i ne:, 1 am uot cold
I now/
j? 'Ja the woman a crank V asked the j
mar., tu ri ling to his companion. But j
the girl said nothing, lier eyes were
half closed, ber hand? clinched, her j
face paie. Impatiently the man stood j
looking from one to the other. Sod-1
deftly the girl leaus over and fiercely
whispers :
'Mother. I ?ras told yon were dead.
Ton will min me if you persist now!
Meet me here to morrow night, at
wine o'clock, and I will make every?
thing strait.* Theu turning-to her
companion-'She seems a harmless
old thing. Let u* go.' The two
passed on. Crouching on the side?
walk the womau remained. A police?
man saw her. 'Come, old woman/ he ,
cries, get ont of this ! Why, hallo ! i
you have dropped 5'our money ! Come,
gel along, or I will have to run yon j
is, and 1 don't want to go to Court j
to-morrow morning with anybody.'
The woman rose aud tottered feebly
away.
A garret in Mjnnetta lane !
Xo fire, no stove to make it in, and
nothing to barn if there 'was. A
lodging %use of the cheap 'furnished
room' 8ort^ith a very small, very
fussy and ve% shrewd mistress, to
whom every womoa who paid her
board was a 'lady' and every one who
did not waa a 'hussy'.' Want of the
most pinching character was every?
where discernible-the very walls ]
had an odor of poverty. Wearily the
woman with the miniature dragged
lerseif up the stairs to the room that
been hers. The door was locked,
landlady stood in the hall,
yon your rent V
?>ut 1 will have plenty
ht.' -
night you will have
ou t You dirty hussy, !
I keep this house for
and don't show up
Tliere was no us? of rem onstra
There was nothing in the roor
bera ; everything bad been paw
Wearily she webfoot the way sh<
come-oot into the cold and dark
And as she walked she smiled,
was it not a gladsome Christina
her ? Had she -not seen and spok<
hei chit?:? ?i^lectric lights
gred as brightly, on^te^great ave
ik?hey ?aSwbijie she waited,
cro wds jostled and pushed liere
there, ?oaghj&oasands bad ,
home. ^Sp^fora these sights c
the side streets the poor sou 1
dered. Her steps v. ere more
more unsteady as she progre?
-Prom tike to time she5 would lot
the picture and -smile, for she tho
her darlings were with her. 3
troe one was dead and the other
turned from her, bot she- would
them soon slietbought. Away d
the sileut streets toward the N
River she went, growing weakei
she walked. The light of pies
homes beamed on her, and she
-through the U?cuctaiued wiudowi
-figures of men a^ di worner and
dreii^ofad is^rm ^apparel and
%sogry. On the great clocks t
^.was nothing to step her advance,
a pojjc?m.?n'^w;^ejr -^and_ folloi
Away to tltekncrs?? went, where
dark waters7 of the river gar
against ^ihe bulkheads. There
sWdowi? and, being; over-weary
w.eak^≪ into fte water, [ There
loud: hallooingand the rush of
hard by ?nd the men were celebra
the Christinas" season in their
.way;- vT5
.'This is a terrible hight, woma?
take a man into the water/ said
policeman as, all drippings he laid
senseless burden or the boards.
A ward tri the hospital !
. A great room, with scores of be
plain, white walls, with now and a?
a Scripture text on them GA one
was the woman with the port
her eyes ^were half open and
j breathed,but faintly ; but she was i
scions. Then she roused a little
talked, and the sweetness of her vo
ttiongh but feeble, attracted the
tendon of the orderlies and they
tewed. Presently the doctor c;
and stood by the beside and loo
at Uer.
'She: cannot live, .'Jeffry " he ?
to the orderly. 'She will die of sh
and starvation.'
'But, sir, she had forty cents in
pocket when she came in and cc
have bought something to eat 1
'That may be, but she has b
slowly starving for days and im]
per?y clad, and the want of food
exposure to the weather has brou
bel du wji._-Ihj&-forty ceuts wo
have doife her but little good, thot
if taken in hand forty-eight hours ;
she might have been saved.'
4She has. talked very queer,
!^>i?y^^e^me fn^uot at ail like m
'Did sheV
'That she did. indeed. She I
something on her mind about
daughter She talked a good deal
nonsense, it seemed to me, ab?
horses and carriages^ attdL, ser var
but from what I eau understand i
most at one time been pretty well
-according to her own story. ?
called'Julie* ? number of time6 a
told somebody to tuck the robes ca
fully about her, as she was not us
to this cold climate, and then 6hesa
'Oh, he xs dead : lie is dead/ and 1
gan to cry.' ... "
'Areyou talking about me? Y
are thc doctor, are y ou not, and I i
in a hospital, am I not V asked a l(
voice from the bed.
'Yes, madam, you are in the hos]
?mV rep?etl- the physician, with
start, 'and you must keep very qui
i? J deed in order to get well.'
'Yes, doctor.; bul I am not going
get well, and I want lo tell you som
thing about myself before I die, ar
1 want you to send for my Julie, n
daughter ; 6he-God in heaven ;
don't know where to find her.' Ar
the low tones died away in a wa
that almost frightened the watchms
in the hall ?uto a fit, albeit he is a
cu8tomed to such things. Then the
gave her a soothing draught, and st
became easier and told the doctor h(
story, asking him the while to kee
the appointment her daughter ha
made. She was a Southern wornai
she said, and before the war her pe<
pie were all powerful in their sectior
j At its close lier husband had gathere
j what little fortune he could and the
j went abroad. Business matters di
j not prosper, and after awhile the
j came back to Philadelphia. He
husband went to gambling and fror
j that to drinking. One day he wa
? brought home dead. An acciden
had occurred on the river and he ha?
J been mortally wounded, dying befon
he reached home. Brain fever seize?
I her and she was ill for many month;
she thought (the doctor and the nurs<
looked at each other significantly.
While she was ill her little daughtei
disappeared. She was seventeen yean
i of age, and that was two years ago
She hunted for the girl without sue
cess, though she was told that sh?
had plunged headlong into a life o
dissipation. The mother came tc
New York lier money was gone
and she lived on the proceeds of what
she could pawn. Then she heard
that dissipated women frequented
concert saloons of a certain character,
and night after night she watched at
the doors, being too poorly clad to be
allowed admittance. She grew thin
! ncr and paler and weaker, but the
hope of finding her 'Juli*?' buoyed
her up. She did not expect to be
repulsed, she said, for her daughter,
though a wayward child. had never
been unkind to her, and she had faith
nov? that there was some goo i reason
for it. She did not believe that her
child had gone wrong. All that
could be explained the next day when
the doctor saw her.
i Midnight.
I The woman with the miniature lay
silent on her cot. A smile was on
j her countenance and the th itt lips
were parted slightlyggs if receiving
the impress of tte baby face in the
picture. The cold and hunger were
forgotten; tue misery of ber life Was
over. She was dead.
'Will yon keep the appointment
doctor V asked the nurse.
'How can I distinguish the girl
from hundreds like her?' he an?
swered.-2T: F. Herald.
Wants to Be a Bird.
An Iowa girl poet sends ns a poem,
the first line of which is as follows :
"I woald I were a bird."
That settled her hash. No birds
need apply. What in the wide world
a decent-looking, healthy girl wants
to be a bird for, is more than we can
imagine. Granting that an Iowa girl
poet is as handsome as a statute, how
like thunder she would look as a bird,
sitting on ? rail fence on one leg,
scratching hier feathers with one claw,
or hopping down under a goosberry
bush scratching for angleworms with
her bare toe nails. If the girl poet
bird should find an angleworm she
should run away and scream. But
maybe it is not that kind of a bird she
wants to be. There is no kind of a
bird that can have so much fun as a
girl. As a girl she can go to all
places of amusement, dance and flirt
and get mashed, but as a bird, with
nothing on but feathers, she would
catch cold. Imagine a girl poet fly?
ing around in tire trees, hopping from
limb to limb. She would have the
whole town watching her, and making
remarks. Think how a girl poet
would feel if she was a bird, and
should be moulting. She would
watch every feather that dropped off,
and wonder how long the feathers
were going to hold ont. And thee if
the girl poet was a bird she would
have to set, if she was that kind of a
poet, or a bird, and the setting would
commence just when there was the
roost going on in society, and she
would have to stay right by regard?
less, and after the poet bird got off
of the nest she would look sick and
it would take her six weeks to recruit
up so as to make a decent appearance
in bird society. If a girl poet desires
to be a bird in order to get out of the
duties of life, so as to have a high old
time chirruping around, stealing cher?
ries, and singing the livelong day, she
makes a mistake. Birds may seem to
be free from care, and to have a soft
thing, but they have a heap of trou?
ble. There is the same jealousy and
back-bitiug among birds that there si
among human heings, and a good
looking, well dressed bird, who has
any style about her, and is a trifle in?
dependent and jolly, will find that she
I will get her feathers rumpled, and be
I called names, and she wilj wish some
j boy with a bean snapper would fire a
j load of beans right through her. Our
j Iowa poet dees not say what kind of
i a bird that she would like to be, but
we can't think of any kind of bird that
would be as good as a girl. Ofcourse
she wouldn't want to be a canary bird,
j or a mocking-bird in^?J^age^JUldiia^
'jt3v?f?i|fk>r?i?mp^s?ed and mocking*
j bird food, ami look out for cats. She
1 would probably waut to be a wild,
out-door, go-as-you-please so rt ofbiid.
Weil, there is none of that kind that
are perfectly safe, and who always
have a good time. If our girl poet
bird was a duck or wild goose, she
might be flying along some day when
lhere would be a puff of smoke under
her, and she would feel as though she
had a hot box, and would go off and
j sit on a muskrat house ail night pick?
ing No. 6 shot out of her meat, or the
j second joint or elsewhere as the case
j might be. There wouldn't be much
! fun in that. If she was a pigeon she
j would be caught in a trap and have
her neck wrung. And whatever kind
our poet might be, she would have to
scratch gravel for a living, and eat
worms. The outlook would only be
first class. The only bird she could
be, and be a success, would be a hen,
and have a rooster scratch for her,
and then and there would be the draw?
back of having to share the worms
her own darling -rooster might find
j with a whole flock of hens. If our
! Iowa girl poet has got a fair job in
I her business, aud can have any sort
of au extra dress to wear to parties
and can catch on to a felTow once in
; a while, and does not want the earth,
j she should cease repining, let this
j bird scheme go, and be contented as
j a girl. A girl can discount all thc
j birds in the woods, and be in no
j danger of being shot by boys with
slings.-Peck's Sun.
Pedigree of Cows.
j Pedigree is a very essential element
j in the value of cows. But it is also
I truc'aud no lessimportant to know that
j grade animals in a well-managed dairy
j can be made, as a rule, quite as pro
I ductive as thorough-breds, and often
i rrore so. Yet this does not at all im?
ply tbat the latter can be dispensed
with, for we can not have a good quali
I ty of grades without a good strain of
I blood to start from. While it is con
i ceded that pedigree is one of the factors
j in the value of a good cow, it is not by
j any mesas the only factor. Maximum
results in the dairy are not thc sole out
! come of any single condition. They
1 depend not merely on the capacity and
j breed of the cow, but also and equally
1 on the intelligence and good manage
I ment of the owner ; aud what is equally
true, but seldom considered, even the
? capacity of the cow is itself to a large
! extent the product of humao skill.
i harper s Magazine.
; Worms Rained from the Sky.
I There has been a shower of worms in
j this part of Indiana. The worms arc
! described as being about a quarter of an
j inch in length, of dark color and about
i the size of a needle. They were pro
! vided with a hard head, with which
. they were diligently burrowing away
i down in thc snow when discovered. The
I abundance of the shower is remarkable.
I A quarter of an acre of ground was
j covered, and in low places they were
? lying to the depth of a quarter of an
! inch. The fact that they did not come
! from the ground is proven from the fact
{bat the number was so great and also
i that many of them were floating on top
j of water under which iee wu formed,
I Huntington Herald.
The Fossil Footprints.
America seems to be the land of foot?
prints. It is true that fossil tracks have
been found iu England, Scotland, and
Germany, but nowhere have they been
discovered in such abundance and va?
riety as in the estuary muds of the con?
necticut hardened into sandstone.
Pennsylvania also has supplied her foot
tracks of the carboniferous period, and
here aud there a stray fossil print has
beeu found in other places. Some
magnificent collections adorn otlr cabi?
nets, of which that made by Dr. Hitch?
cock, for Amherst College, is the chief.
America has just supplied a new foot?
print, which promises to eclipse in in?
terest all that have gone before.
It is said and believed to be that of
man, and is found in a tertiary sand?
stone of the latest date, that of the last
glacial period, probably, in Carson,
Nevada. Accompanying it are tracks of
the madstodon and other animals of the
period. They are found in quarrying
what was the bed of an ancient estuary,
and occur in regular series.. To the
superficial observer the tracks appear to
be unmistakably human. They are
clearly lights and lefts, turn outward,
are of about the right length and stride,
and seem unmistakably made by a
biped. They are remarkable, however,
as showing no toe-prints and as show?
ing an unexpected straddle from right
to left, as the mao, if such it was,
walked. If it be a human track, the
foot was clothed in large aud wide raw?
hide or wooden sandals, which com?
pelled tue wearer to carry bis feet wide
apart, which tendency might be in?
creased by walking in deep mud. Pro?
fessor Le Conte a conservative geologist
of the first rank, who bas carefully ex?
amined casts of the tracks, cannot ex?
plain them io any other way than by
supposing them to be human, but still
prefers to hold bis conclusion in suspense
unf.il other tracks have been opened in
the quarry. The only other possible
supposition is that the tracks were made
by a quadruped whose hind foot covered
the track of his forefoot. But Professor
Le Conte says that he knows only two
animals that could make a track at all
resembling these--namely 4 the bear
and the mylodon. a gigantic ground
sloth, and it is difficult to regard them
as made by either of these animals, be?
cause of the absence of claw-marks.
He prefers to await more evidence be?
fore coming to a conclusion.
And so do we. This is not, however,
the first evidence we have of geological
man in America. Thc discoveries of
flint implements near Trenton, N. J..,
in gravel of the same glacial period as
mentioned in M. Dawkins presidential
paper on the antiquity of man, which
we publish this week, would render
such a discovery as the present ju
probable. If, however, tho^^pnnts at
Carson should proyeJ^^Je gcuuiuely
human, the^rj^jfcrg^ a0 evidence of
tbja^ntiquity of man of the highest
value, as there can be no question either
of fraud or that they were contempo?
raneous with the sandstone rocks. A
great difficulty hitherto with remai?s
found in caves and gravel bas been to
convince doubters that they were not
introduced at some late period. We
can hardly doubt that it will be found
worth while to make very extensive ex?
plorations of the locality. A single
track a little ont of line might show thc
mark of a forefoot not quite covered by
the hind foot, which would prove thc
animal which made it to be a quadruped
and not be biped.-lydependent.
Tacks.
A tack is a simple, unpretending
sort of a young nail, noted for its keen
repartee wheo pressed for a reply, aim
possessing the peculiar power when
standing on its bead, of causing the
cold shivers to run down the back of a
man in mere anticipation of what might
be.
Tacks are in season all the year
round, but the early spring is usually
the time selected by them for a grand
combined effort, and then they flourish
everywhere for at least a month. Since
the inauguration of the time-honored
ceremonies of house-cleaning, every
thorough housekeeper, with long expe?
rience in the line of duty, so takes up
the carpet as to retain all the tacks in
their original places, thus preventing it
slipping from the shaker's hands, unless
the tack breaks or his fingers give out.
But the triumph of the tack is not com
! plete at this early stage; it patiently
' abides its time, and on the relaying of
the carpet issues fort with double force.
After searching the entire house for a
paper of tacks, without success, the un?
fortunate man drops on his hands and
I knees to begin, and immediately dis?
covers four tacks at least, and as he
rolls over and sits down to extract
these, finds the rest of the paper direct?
ly under biro, and then unless he is a
man accustomed to put up stoves and
join stove-pipe the chances of laying
the carpet on that evening are slight.
In selecting tacks from a saucer he
always inspects the points with his fore?
finger; as thc tack instantly loses its
head when they come to blows. In
j argument the tack is sharp and poiuted,
but the display of either or both, de?
pends largely on the amount of pres?
sure employed by its opponent. In
direct contrast to a good joke the
amusement generally begins before you
see the point, and this fact is ea>ily de?
monstrated by walking the floor in your
stocking feet, a well-kept room on such
an occasion averaging two tacks the
square foot.
The future of the tack gives great
promise of more extended usefulness
and unlimited possibilities, as several of
our most eminent college professors
having carefully studied the effect of a
sharp tack of reasonable length placed
properly in a chair or under a cot, arc
about to introduce tacks, and do away
with spring-boards in our college gym?
nasiums.-Detroit Free Press.
i- -??*? mum - --
An Irishman tried to shoot a little
chirping bird with an old Queen Anne
musket. He fired. The bird with a
chirrup or two, flew away unconcerned
in the foreground, and Pat was swiftly
and noiselessly laid on his spine in the
background. Picking himself up and
shaking his fist at the bird, ho exclaim?
ed, 'Bejabers, ye wouldn't a chirruped
if ye'd been st this end of the gun P
'Why don't y?rWaug1!- motherV
said a little three-ye?M^'daughter,
as her mother, with rathe>Sglouded
countenance, was dressing tb^?k^le
coes. The earnest tone of ifl Bj
provoked the wished for taujB
the little heart was happy.
And, mothers, I fear we do not
laugh enough. The housekeeping is
so onerous, the children so often try
! ing the nerves and temper, the ser?
vants most exasperating, and even
John, kind, good husband as he is,
cannot understand all our vexations
and discouragements, and so wearied
and worried, we often feel that it is
too mach for the household to depend
on us, in addition to all our cares, for
social sunshine as well. Yet the
household does, and it must. Father
may be bright and cherry, his laugh
ring out, but if mother's laugh fails,
even the father's cheerfulness seem?
to lose much of its infection. In the
sad but forcible lines of one of Joanna
Baillie's dramas
He little child had caught the trick of grief,
And sighed amid its playthings
we ma}r catch a glimpse of the stern
repressed life at Bothwell Manse,
where 'the repression of all emotions,
even the gentlest, seems to have been
the constant lesson/ I remembei
well hearing a lady say: 'When a
child, I used to wish so often that my
mother would look cheerful.'
Then laugh, mother, even if you do
feel almost too weary to exert the
facial muscles, and you have to make
a pitiful effort, which comes nigh
bringing tears instead of a laugh.
You will feel better for the effort, and
so will the children. The little ones,
unconsciously to you and to them?
selves, are catching the very phases of
countenance which will go far to
brighten or cloud some future home.
Then laugh, mother-parlor, nur?
sery and kitchen all feel the effect of
your smile or frown. The cherry
laugh of a mother goes down through
generations, as well as her frown.
And when the mother eyes are closed,
and lips and hands are forever still,
there is no sweeter epitaph which
children and friends can give than,
She was always bright and cheerful
at home.'-Christian Intelligencer.
A Case of Mitigated Afflic?
tion.
Not long since Wakefield Starkey, of
Austin, while crcssiug thc track of thc
luterna ioual and Great Northern Rail?
road on a valuable mule, 'roc ?^B?rtty
the locomotive zg?0S?&&^^P[&m u!c
w*^Jg^P^r?a?nto eternity. Wake
?HP??farkey, although a perfect gentle?
man on the street, was a domestic ty?
rant of the deepest dye. Without aoy
provocation whatever, he used to beat
his wife and lock her up in the ward?
robe ; hence, when she heard of bis
death, it was not so much a case of
heavy bercavment as it was of migitatcd
affliction. As the engineer of the loco?
motive was clearly to blame for the acci?
dent, it was suggested to the widow
that she bring suit for damages. She
resolved to do so, and calied at the
office of the railway company. The
proper official happened to be in. The
widow had such a clear case against the
company that it was deemed advisable
to compromise the matter.
'Notv, madam,' said the official, after
the widow bad thrown back her veil atid
stated her business, 'wc are willing to
do what is fair in this matter. There
is really no occasion to go to law. It is
a delicate subject to discuss ; so I think
without going into the merits of it, I
will teudcr you a check for ?3,000, and
you will sign a paper releasing'the
company from all further demands.
The widow started, and asked: 'How
much Y
*I am authorized to pay you ?3.000.
'I accept,' she said, very much agita?
ted.
The check was handed over, the pa?
pers signed, and the widow walked out
in the street io a bewildered frame of
mind. As she cashed her check, she
said to herself confidentially: 'I didn't
expect to get more than ?50. I reckon
that railroad fellow didn't know how old
the mule was.'
It had never occurred to her that she
had sustained any loss in the death of
her husband. On the other hand, the
railroad official said to one of the clerks :
.The company is getting off dirt cheap.
We usually have to pay ?5,000 for run?
ning over h us ba ods.'
It did not occur to him that the
widow had sustained any loss whatever
io the death of the valuable mule.
Texas Siftings.
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Twenty-Three Years in the
Mails.
In 1859 a package containing a da?
guerreotype of a young lady was sent
to Miss Fannie Hubbard,, care of Eber
Hubbard, Chicago, 111 On November
7, 1850, the package came to the dead
letter office, after fruitless search of the
postal authorities to find the person to
whom thc picture was addressed. The
package remained in the dead-letter
office until a few days ago, when Mr.
Mocbler, a clerk in the office, translated
tho 'Eber' to he 'Ebenezer,' and sent a
postal card reciting the above facts to
Mr. Ebenezer Hubbard-, Chicago. A
prompt reply was received, in which
j Mr. Hubbard stated that his daughter
! was no longer Miss Fannie, but was
1 married, and added that if the package
was sent to him he would forward it
It was forthwith mailed, and the mis?
sing picture has thus reached the per?
son to whom it was mailed twenty-three
years ago.
Sturgeon fishing in the waters around
Georgetown, S. G , has become a large
and profitable industry. About one
huDdrcd men are employed in thc busi
ness, aud large quantities of sturgeon
meat arc .^hipped to Charleston in kegs
every week.
Eli Perkins and Sojourner Truth
met the other day for the first time.
Eli was quite overcome, aud remarked :
'Is it possible that you have lived to be
100 years old and never met me before ?
Where could 1 have bceo V Wander?
ing in paths where truth is never found,
I reckon !' pointedly returned the cen?
tenarian.
wily me ^uiueuerau? oui
dier Failed.
Thc following interesting and troth
j ful sketch of the difficulties and dangers
; with which the Confederate soldier had
^contend, and thc cause of his final
f'10m- Mc(Jart?y"s 'Soi
IRer Lire^ktbe Army of Northern
Virginia.' Iri* ol* ?-ore interest than
anything we col?lfc?Wrochic3, and we
give it the space : ^^^^^^
'The Confederate soldier opfW?jd im?
mense odds. In the 'Seven Dtps'
Battles' -around Richmond, 80.&&J
drove to the James River 145,000 OT
the enemy. At Fredericksburg, ?o
1862, 78,000 of them routed 110,000
Federal troops At Chancellorsville, in
1863, 57,000 under Lee and Jackson
whipped, and but for the death of Jack?
son, would have annihilated, an army
132,000 meu-more than double their
own number. At Gettysburg, 62,000
? of them assailed the heights manned by
j 112,000 At the Wilderness, in 1861,
63,000. met and successfully resisted
141,000 of the eucmy. At Appomatox,
in 1865, 8,,000 of them surrendered to
the host commanded by Grant. The
United States Government, afc the end
of thc war, mustered out of service
1.000,000 of men, and had in the field,
from first to last, 2,600.000 If the
Confederate soldier had then had ooly
this disparity of numbers to contend
with, he would have driven every inva?
der from the soil of Virginia.
'But the Confederate soldier fought,
in addition to these odds, (he facilities
for the transportation and conceu'ration
of troops and supplies afforded by the
network of railways in the country north
of him, all of which was subject to the
control of the Government, and backed
by a treasury which was turning out
money by the ton, one dollar of which
was equal to sixty Confederate dol?
lars.
'It should be remembered also that,
while the South was restricted to its
own territory for supplies, and its own
people for men, the.North drew on the
world for material, and on every nation
of the earth for men.
'The arms aud ammunition of the
Federal soldiers were abundant and
good-so abundant and so good that
they supplied both armies, and were
greatly preferred by Confederate offi?
cers. The equipment of the Federal
armies was well nigh perfect. The fa?
cilities for manufacture were simply
unlimited, and the nation thought no
expenditure of; treasure too great, if
only the country, the Union ? could be
saved. The factory and the foundry
chimneys made a pillar of smoke byduj
aud of fire by night. TheJpfa?f*^f?
provements were hurnecMo^-th? -front,
and adopted by both armies almost
simultaneously; for hardly had the Fed?
eral bought when the Confederates
captured aod used the very latest.
'Commissary t-tores were piled up all
over Virginia, for the use-of the invad?
ing armies. They had more than they
could protect, and their loss was gain to
the hungry defenders of thc soil.
'The Confederate soldier fought a
host of ills occasioned by the depriva?
tion of chloroform and morphia, which
were excluded from the Confederacy by
the blockade, as contraband of war. The
man who has submitted to amputation
without chloroform, orfossed on a
couch of agony for a night and a day,
without sleep, for the want of a dose of
morphia, may possibly be able to esti?
mate the advantages which resulted
from the possession, by the Federal sur?
geons, of an unlimited supply of these.
'The Confederate soldier fought boun?
ties and regular monthly pay ; the
'Stars and Stripes,' the 'Star Spangled
Banner,' 'Hail Columbia.' 'Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp,' 'John Brown's Body,'
.Rally Round the Flag,' and all the
fury and fanaticism which skilled minds
could create-opposing this grand array
with thc modest and homely refrain of
'Dixie,* supported by: a mild solution of
'Maryland, Maryland.' He fought good
wagons, fat horses, and tons of quarter?
master's stores, pontoon tr^ns, of splen?
did material and construction, by the
mile; gunboats, wooden and iron, aud
men-of-war ; illustrated papers, to cheer
the 'Boys in BlueJ with sketches of the
glorious deeds they did not do ; Bibles
by the car load, and tracts by the mil?
lion-the first, to prepare them for
death ; and the second, to urge upon
them the duty of dying.
'The Confederate soldier fought the
'Sanitary Commission.' whose members,
armed with every facility and conve?
nience, quickly carried the sick and
wounded of the Federal army to com?
fortable quarters, removed the bloody
garments, laid tho sufferer on a clean
and dry couch, clothed him in clean
hings, and fed him on the best the
world could afford and money buy.'
Idabo Meann?ss.
'Don't you go there !' he said, as he
turned around on the passenger who
aunouueed that he was going through
to Idaho. 'They are the most selfish
people you ever saw.' 'How V 'Well,
take my case. I ran a wildcat under a
school-house and discovered a rich miue,
and yet they wouldn't let me do any
blasting under there during school
hours for fear of disturbing the chil?
dren. I had to work at. nights alto?
gether, and they even chargea me
thirty cents for breaking the windows.'
.Indeed !' 'And in another case where
I staked out a claim and three men
jumped it the governor refused to issue
ammunition or let tue sheriff move; and
do you know what ? had to do? I had
to dig a canal from a river, three miles
away, and let the water ia to drive the
jumpers out, and even the coroner who
sat on thc bodies made me pay for thc
coffins and chargixi me ?12 for a funeral
sermon only seven minutes long I Don't
go beyoud Colorado if you want to be
used well.'-San Fmcisco Exchange. !
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A correspondent of the Coonee, Ga.,
Monitor thus soliloquizes : 'I heard an
old lady say she wished the good old
time would return. I suppose she had
reference to the good old times when
we used to haul cotton, packed in round
bales altogether, to Augusta, and sold it
for four cents, and paid 25 cents a yard
for calico, * and 60 cents a pound for
coffee, wheo no one would venture into
debt. We all lived on what we made at
borne.
?J-'tLLLUia-l 1?VCU1UWB2
Saced Tlwough the Skin and Warrant
ed to Last for Years.
At a certain factory yesterday a num?
ber of young wooten were working a(|
small tables, each table covered w;
little instruments and things, tbe 1&<
of which 1 had never seen before? . At
one table two giris were threading nee?
dles with One, silky hair, and sewing
them in little squares on a thin, trans?
parent gauze.
^\?Those girls/ said the professor, 'ai
^laajul^some of tb?.se beautiful arch(
> eyebrows ytiu may sometimes
ball-rooms; These sewed on,
! are the lesk^expetis'tv?^inj
- only used on special
? real brow is very expe?siv?
only be made by a person^ el
skill.' I begged him to exphmT^t
op?rai ion of giving a person eyebrows
[ who was boru without them, and lead4
j ing me into an elegantly-furnished par'
lor, iu which was a large dentista
chair, he said:
'The patient sits here. Io this cus
ion to my loft are stuck a score
of those ueedlesyou saw being thr
Each stich only leaving two strands
hair, to facilitate the operation a DU
ber of needles must be at band. A
each thread of bair is drawn through
the skin over the eye it is cut so that
when ibe ?rst stage of the operation is
over it leaves the hairs bristling out an
inch or so, presenting a ragged, r.orcu
piue appearance. Now comes the artis?
tic work. The brow must bc arched
and cut down with the utmost delicacy,
und a number of hours is required to
dc it/
.It must be very painful and te?
dious?'
.They don't say that it is a picnic ex?
cursion,' laughed the professor; 'hot
eyebrows, small as they are. are very
important in the make-up of the face.
You have no idea bow odd one looks
when utterly denuded of hair over the
eyes. The process I have described is^
painful, but it makes good eyebrows
and adds one hundred per cent, to the
looks of a person who was without them
lt is, too, much better tuan the" black
en ing and cosmetics so many peop]
use, especially people who have me
presence of brows comprising only
few hairs.'
.Do your sewod-through-the-skio ey
brows last V
'For years.'
-New Orleans Pica
PlUtOi
^P^toward a _ gross pluto?
cracy iva visible in our political . life.
TVhen a political "machine" is in per*
feet order-that is to say, when a few
managers control 'regular action so that
they eau nominate any candidate whom
they may select-they look more and
more for ?a lieu candidate. In a Con?
gressional district, for instance, they se?
lect so ra?' person who has no qualifica?
tion whatever for a seat io Congress,
bot who is rich, and wiil pay great
sums into the party treasury. Some
mao is selected who bas made a lucky
speculation, abo has grown rich by a
popular tooth-wash, or axle grease, or
a patent for bellows mending, and who
is both flattered by the offer of the
nomination and eager to draw cheeks
for thousands of dollars-io one in?
stance as much as sixty thousand dol?
lars. This is tbe man who hs ssnt ta
help make t-he-htws.
It is undeniable that tbe? HW
and proprietors of tooth-washes andi axle
grease and improvements to bellows
mending may be among the best of men
and the most patriotic of citizens. But
however saintly aod patriotic a black?
smith may he, those qualities do. not fit,
him to adjust the springs 0/ watches, or
to polish the lenses of telescopes. Be?
sides, the selection of rich men ts made,
not because they are. honest and patri?
otic, but because they are rich. 'The
machine' would not think of them as
candidates except for their money, and
because of their willingness to ?ive
their money liberally The transaction
ts a trade. The seat in Congress is sold
to the Ugh bidder. If the Kornau em*
peror made his horse a consul, the 'ma
chiuc' makes any ignorant quack who
has amassed riches in any business, and
is willing to pay, a member of' Coo?
gress -Harper s Magazine^
Cranks in the Great City.
Anybody who goes about much in
?\elH^-k, observes the Buffalo Courier
correspondent, could point-nut-a score
of undoubtedly insane persons who are
always at large. One of the queerest
is the queen of Rags, who may be seen
daily tn the lower part of the city, fairly
festooned with rags from head to foot
and carrying on her arm a basket erf
rotten apples. She picks op rotten ap?
ples around the markets and imagines
I that she peddles them. She is said to
I be harmless, but so arc all the cranks
till they do some barm. The woman
i who owns (he City Hall, or imagines
that she docs, still calls there the 1st of j
every month for her rout and wants to
see tho mayor about ir. A very strange
character is a sunburned mau of about
forty, who goes up or down Broadway*
every day noticing no one. His dress
is shabby and soiled, his trousers arc
always short, his beard never, appar*
emly, Uss than three days old. and bis
whole ensemble that of a castaway. He
is said to beau cx-lawycr I remember
him years ago as a well dressed man of
somewhat striking appearance.
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There are two directly opposite rea?
sons why a man cannot sometimes get
credit : Oue is, because he is not
known the other, because he is.
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The assertion is ma<?ethatjfi'otn an
nual cotton crop of u.fiOO.OOG bales se]
can be obtained to yield ?100,00<
OOO worth of oil. it is assumed tl
every 500 pound baie gives 1,!
pounds of seed.
The Conyers Weekly says that it
rumored around Atlanta that Mr.
phens kissed every woman that
cu him, and for two weeks a st rea
old maids have been passing in the
entire Maoslon three iccp. , Thc
man's lips have puckered hp Until
remind one of green persimmon