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.yes,' she said, 'our childreu ure married
aod gone, and my husband and I sit by our
winter fire much zs we did before the lillie
ones came to widen the circle. Life is some
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time coming around over the s;a>t we started
.. from, oaJy one dejrrcf furthcr.wp the stairs.''
That is a pretty illustration/remarked h?rr
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coals which radiated a pleasant heat from the
many-wind o w ed stove. 'You know we can
not stop toil?ni ni) the hil!, though.'
' -'Surely wecarnnot, and for myself I don't
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my body, as though the blessing of new life
> had come to me. Taking no other medicine
\ 'Hoctiooed to improve, ?nd am now in bet
t?fi health than 1 have been for a long time.'
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SLIPPED AWAY
They are slipping away-these sweet, swift
years,
Like a leaf on the current cast,
With never a break in their rapid flow,
We watch them as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past.
As silent and swift as a weaver's thread
Or an arrow's flying gleam ;
As soft as the languorous breezes hid,
That lift the willow's long golden lid,
And ripple the glassy stream.
As light ns the breath of the thistle down,
As load as a loner's dream ;
As pure as the flush in the sea shell's throat,
As sweet as the wood bird's wooing note,
So tender and sweet they seem.
One after another we see them pass,
Down the dim lighted stair,
We hear the sound of their steady tread,
In the steps of the centones long siuce dead,
As beautiful andas fair.
There are only a few rears left to love j
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Shall we trample under our rn thiess feet
Those beautiful blossoms, rare and sweet ;
By the dusky way of life?
There are only a few more years-ah let
Ko envious taunts be heard ;
Make life's fair pattern of rare design,
And hil the measure with love's sweet wine,
But never an angry word.
Al F. World.
BILL ABP
I believe there is peace most every
where now. Foiks have stopped kill- j
iug folks fur a little while and the
new year will dawn upon the world
in brotherly love. Not so much love
either I rekcon, but they are not mad
enough to figh. Egypt has had a lime
of it for tlie last few years, but Egypt
has about fought herself to death and
is obliged to quit. There is no nation
of any consequence that is now mak?
ing a business of killing folks, and I
was thinking what a blessing it would j
be if mankind would quit it altogether, j
Some historians say thal war is a !
necessary evil. That rn? government
can stand very long without a war,
for war strengthens :i government and
unites the people. If they don't get
up a foreign war the people will get
to quarreling among themselves and
overtun their government. I read the
other day that the emperor and nobil?
ity of Russia are plotting a foreign
war to put down the nihilists at home.
Some of our statesmen say that the
north and sojjth will never be recon?
ciled until some other nation knocks
the chip off of our national hat and
Ilten we will ail juin hands and make
friends and pite?? into the furritiers
may bo so, ma}' be so-war is a I
mighty had thing, bat if wo are oblig- j
ed to llave it I want them fellers, who
abuses us so much to have a fair
chance. Give 'ern the post of honor,
which is the post of danger, and if
per chance they fall let 'tm fall in dust
and glory.
I was ruminating over the coming
contest for the next presid?.tit. There
won't he a fight I reckon, but the con?
test is going to be very bitter and the
quantity of lie's and slander most a
mazing. . Both sides are getting ready
now laying in stock. Our side will
do the best they can I reckon, but they
have neither the capital not the expe?
rience of them fellers already in office
Our lie factories and slander mills
are on a limited scale and have been
I declaring such poor dividends for J he
I past-twenty years that we have sorter
lost couGdence in the business. When
we do make anything them other fel?
lers swindle us out of it, and 1 reckon
they will do it again. There seems
to- be a powerful rumpus going on
about Mr. Carlisle's election, and the
way he has fixed np his committees.
Weil, 1 never could see any differ?
ence about Mr. Carliste and Mr. Ran?
dall making a presideut. I cam see
what the tariff committee has got to
do with it. If Mr. Carlisle put free
trade men oirfhecommittee what does
lhat amount to if the majority of con?
gress are opposed to free trade. I
know that these committees have
great influence if they are abie .men
i and good men, but if they arc just
schemers and politicians their reports
don't have much weight, and congress
won't be bound nor gagged by them.
When did the speaker get to be a
man of such consequence and such
power ? How does it happen that a
committee is such a big thing, that
the whole country is afraid of it.
Ain't congress a bigger thing than
a committee ? Can thirteen men con?
trol 300 ? if a majority of members
believe that protection is right can't
they pass a law to that effect ? Of
course they can and so I don't soe
what al: the preiimiuaty fuss is about.
The people are going to have some?
thing to say about all these great
questions, and the people will speak
through the press and the press will oe
heard.
One thing is certain. The democ?
racy can't unite on a free trade policy,
neither can the republican party unite
on a protect ion tariff. There are too
many conflicting interests at stake
among the mane, fact ti re rs and their
laborers on the one hand and the
consumers on the other. There are
lots of mills idle now, and lots of
Mjorers out of employment, and lots
rr.*..o working at reduced wages.
There are millions of capital invest?
ed, and there are millions of women
and children concerned, and it won't
do for a part}' t<> mak(? a blunder in
this business. Let the democracy go
slow. There is no room in their plat
ibim lora free trade plank. Let them
favor a tai iii reform and whittle down
some things as low as they will bear
and put up somethings, but do nothing
for the sake of party. The wants and
necessities of* the humble people of
this laml are of greater moment than
any par?v. We can't whin them fe!
leis on any tariff issue. We can't
unite the south upon it much less the
northern democracy. Times are'
changing, capital is coming Routh !
every day to be iuvested in manufac
tures that need protection and can't
live without it, and we want it to j
come. Let it come, our iron and coal |
and timber and cotton and climate arc \
now looming up into view. Cur mills j
are making money while theirs' up I
north are languishing. They have
just found it out, but hardly believe it
and even accuse us of making false
reports of dividends and profils.
Things are working; all right down
here now and maybe we had better
let things alone a while. The proa
j perity of the South is of more conse?
quence to us than the election of a
piesident. T want the dem o racy
to succeed and turn out them fellers,
and I want it bad, but when Mrs. Arp
asks me what ademocratic president is
going to do forme or for her and the
children, I'm sorter bothered to ex?
plain. It takes too long. We dont want
I but one plank in our platform and that
is we want them fellers to step down
and out, b?casse they have stole
enough. That is platform sufficient
and it is all the better, because it is
the truth. Truth is powerful and will
prevail. Truth crushed to earth .will
rise again. It has boen a powerful
long time rising and prevailing, I
know, but we live in hope,-hope
springs eternal in the huma ti breast.
Hope has been springing for twenty
five long years in the democratic j
breast and is springing still, though j
I don't think the spring is as bold and j
strong as it used to be. Nevertheless, j
let us all hail the new year with as j
much hope and faith as possible. If j
Uncle Sammy Tilden is superannuated
let us hunt around for some other man.
There arr; plenty* of them. I don't see j
that we are obliged lo take a man !
from New York or Ob io. lithe best!
man lives in Ria de Island, iets take j
bim. The people are tired of being |
tied to New Yolk. If the democracy !
of New York are sound they will go
as strong for a man from Missouri if:
lie is a good man and a statesman, j
"Westward the tide of empire takes
its way." But you needn't talk toi
me about putting a Southern man on j
the ticket for vice-President. I've |
peen Joe Brown mentioned, and Col- j
quilt and Biount. Why I had just as :
leave take Dr. Carlton with his plat- ?
form of pay for oar niggers, for the '
effect would be all the same. The
New York Tribune could by itself j
make 200, OOO people believe it was
the entering wedge to get pay for
our niggers. Now, there is nothing
wrong in wanting pay for our niggers.
A man can't help wanting it, and 1
don't know anybody right now who
wouldent take it if he could get it,
but that debt is sorter like a debt that
has been paid by "a feller taking the
benefit of the bankrupt law. You
dident got anything, and you never
will get anything, but still you can't
help feeling like the fellow owed it
and ought to pay it if he could, not?
withstanding his discharge. Wilber
force spent a life time trying to get.
England to free her niggers and he
succeeded, but England paid the own?
ers o? the slaves for their value and it
cost her sixty millions of pounds to
; do it. But our folks are not them
sort of folks and so we don't expect
j anything. 1 haven't got any record
! of my niggers. Confederate bonds
I woke np from the dead somehow and
j got to be worth a title money, but
my confidence in niggers is powerful
weak. If anybody wants to buy my
claim-Filsell .it at five cents in the
dollar and lake ft in counterfeit motl?
ey-. Blessed is ho who expects little,
I and knowing them fellers np yonder
j as well as I do 1 expect to remain
i blessed thc balance of my days.
rrrarr r r- fl-i nrrmrrrm-rim
I When the Other Man's Ox is
Gored.
What a difference it makes when thc
other man's ox is gored. The cry now
i comes from thc truly loyal and pious
j Slate of Indiana for the whipping post,
j Should such a lav? be passed in a Souib
I ero State a howl would go up from the
j Northern press, but in Indiana such an
I act would he wise and just. Liston to
j the Indianopolis Sentinel :
'For Hie mao who iv Iii ps his wife cr
j garrotes a citizen on the street, let the
j penalty be thc lash. Such creatures
1 are abominations, and there is no dan
! ger of whipping them too soundly. To
; *aik ab"Ut the brutal and inhumau
j punishment of ihe post is sentimental
j ?iap-doodie. V? ho complains of the post
. m :.* lar as v. i ie beaters and sarroters
j were whipped for their crimes? Tor
j turing innocent people or torturing
j tuen tor violating laws generally has no
; advocates nowadays, but whipping men
?/ iii?
. who are guilty of torturing others is a
; very different matter. When a man
! has become so beastly that ho can whip
j his wife or garrote a citizen, civilization
' is elevated when the law declares they
? shrill be whipped.*-Aileen Journal ami
j Itccieic.
i Baron Steuben's Anecdote.
! Gu some occasions he was accustom -
: ed to dine with Wash io "itou. Once
; several guests wore present, arid among
'< them Robert Morris, who liad come up
j to consult with Washington about the
state of the finances. During tho din?
ner ho spoke very bitterly of the bank
I rapt condition of thu treasury, and Ms
; utter inability to replenish it, when
! Steuben said :
! 'Why. are yon not financier ? Why
do you not create funds?'
i '1 have don?; ail I cnn,' replied Mor?
ris, 'and it is impossible for me to do
j more
I 'What !" said the baron ; 'you rc
[ main financier without finances'? Then
! I do not think you as honest a man as
I my cook, ile cam.- to me otic day at
Valley Forge, and said;: Baron, 1 am
your..cook-, M?O you have nothing to
cook out a piece of thin beef, which is
hung up by a siring before the fire.
Your wagoner can turn the string and
o'o es wei! as ? can. Wu have promis?
ed mo a month ; but, as you have
nothing to cook. ? wish lo be discharged
and not longer bo chargeac c to you.'
That is an ?ior:est f- How, Moni-..1
Morris did not join very heartily ir>
the laugh that followed.
'Oh, will he bite?' exclaimed one of
Middletown's sweetest girls, with a look
of alarm, when she saw one of the
dancing bears on the street the other
day. *No,' replied her escort, he can?
not bite-he is muzzled ; but he can j
hug.' 'Ob,' she said, with a distract- j
ing smile, 'I dor/t mind that,' '
Wliat Our Editors Say.
i _
The General Assembly.
A hbeville Medium.
? The time for tho meeting of oar
j General Assembly should be changed
! or men sent to this body who arc not
j compelled to get home by Christmas
S and tiien return no more. Men whose
j private affairs are of more importance
? than those of the Slate, should be loft
' at home and men put in their places
j who have time to give to public af
I fairs. This way that the General
I Assembly has of hurrying through
j with important business in order to
j adjourn by Christmas will yet do
j hann. Besides from year to year
j business is carried over that ought to
i be attended to. If nothing else will
! do let the time be changed to the first
I Tuesday after the first Monday in
I each January and then there will be
j none of this Christmas hurry. The
j fanners will say that this arrangement
I will intefere with their farm work ; but
j as'we said above, if they have not the
time to spare from their private af?
fairs they can remain at home. This
matter should be seriously considered
as it seems to be a growing evil.
The State Souse.
Columbia Remisier.
On several occasions., before and
during the last session of the Legisla?
ture, The Rcqi?er has given emphatic
expression to the view that to delay
the work on this edifice was to risk
the destruction of the building. The j
entire press of the State, with not one
single exception that we know o?, has
taken the same view of the matter.
The Legislature adjourned without
making an appropriation for the work,
and now, since the present cold spell
set in and sleet has covered our roofs,
. the State House roof leaks like a
sieve, and the interior walls are great?
ly damaged. This damage, let it be
remembered, worse with each suc?
ceeding storm. Some action in re?
gard to this matter is absolutely ne
cessarv. or else the building will be
utterly ruined.
_
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Barnwell People.
i Many of our planting friends have
long faces and low spirits .'.ver the
, gloomy agricultural prospect of the
country. There is no philosophy,
I christianity, money or manhood in
I such melancholy. The cotton mania
is past and thc flush days are gone
: but there's lifo in the old land yet.
; We may not get rich but we can live
as happily on sholl; rations as on the
: fat of the land. When the blue birds
begin to sing this depression will pass
: away. Next fall the wise farmer who
makes his own supplies and glows
cotton as a surplus crop will be hap
, pier than in the days of the reign of
the fleecy kins*.
Greenville Xtws.
; The organization of the Teachers1
' Association in this county is a long
; Step toward a very important object.
. The Association is intended to include
. all friends of thc public schools and
j of education, and to enable them to
i null together with well defined aims
and the strength of union.
It is certainly a fact that the money
now collected in taxes for school pnr
i poses is not enough to give us good
schools under our present system,
which is about the best we can get.
I It is equally certain that the people
: will not stand any more taxation, and
j the prospect of obtaining legislation
I which will increase the amount for
! schools from the treasury of the State
! is very remote.
The only possible way fur the poo
j pie to obtain good schools and give
? their children a decent education is
united action io aid the public fund
! by private effort, lt is useless to dis
j cuss the causes for this condition of
: affairs or to stop and grumble about
; it. We have to taco the facts and do
j the best we can.
I What is to be done now is to im
I press on the people the importance of
! education and the necessity for indi
I vidual aid to give good and well
; equipped school he uses, good tcach
: ors and sessions that will be long
enough to do some good. The
I Teachers' Association can do much
i:: this way by active and organized
work in every township, and every
j friend of education in the county
' ought *o bc a member of it. All will
I agree that, there is work to do, and
j that it can be done better by system
? atic and united work than by divided
j and scattered attempts.
j We hope that the association will
j soon swell its ranks to hundreds of
, people working to give Greenville a
? system of public schools that she can
\ be honestly proud of, and that will
make the coming generation one of
I intelligent, well taught, and useful
I men and women. The day we banish
! ignorance from among us we w;!! be
, safe, and our strength, wealth and
happiness wi Kc increased many fold.
The Mississippi Raiders.
j jYncx ct.wi Cottril r.
Tiie Washington correspondent of the
: Ncvjxaiul Courier gives aracy account
: ol' the coming rai?! on Cong'ress by the
lobby who have the 'Father ol'Wa?
le! s' in charge. A thousand dele?
gates, in convention assembled, will
ask 1er fifty million dollars to begin
with.
Such work as is necessary for il?.
improvement ol'the navigation Of the
Mississippi and asir; ?-1 :> w : i to br
practicable should Ix.* carried out, hm
it is outrageous to expect that thc
river shall be walled in, al tue public
expense, for th benefit of land-own?
ers, and it is preposterous to ask fur
fifty million dollars in a single year.
The Al : ss issi p pi rai dc J s are clamorous 1
for ?. big appropriation, because Cou
:? ci - is controlled by Sontheim and
Western voles. They will lind that i
the Mississippi Valley does not rule j
this country, and that the taxpayers i
have some rights that Congress is j
bound to respect.
The wild cat proposals to pension \
all persons who were in the Federal j
service during the war, ano to give ?
the soldicis the difference between the
currency and coin values of their pay,1
j will ber pigeon-holed in-committee, or
! promptly voted down. Thomas, nf
! Illinois, wiro proposos tho extension
j of*tito Pension list is a Republican.
I Weller, tho proposer of equalization,
j is a (jreenbacker, and Iiis first name
j is not Samivel.
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Taxation in tho Congress.
Wilmington Morning St nr.
I Mr. White, of Kentucky, has in
I traduced a bi'l in the House to
! abolish the tax on tobacco. The Vir
I gi nia Democrats ar<* extremely clamo
{ rous for the abolition of this tax.
I There is an earnest demand up iu the
I tobacco section of our own State for
ils repeal. The tobacco men appear
to be quite willing to tax the whis?
key men but insist that their 'neces?
sary,' and a strange 'necessary'' it is,
j shall be exempt. The readers of the
; Star know our position. There is
I nothing that is made or that grows
? that can better bear a tax than the
j two articles of whiskey and tobacco,
j If they are not luxuries then there is
! none. There is not a man who
j would not be better off physically
j and financially without their use. No
! man is taxed who does not use them
j and when lie is taxed he hays it upon
j himself. It is not so with hundreds
! of other things. Man must eat and
I therefore it is wrong to tax wheat and
i corn and rye and oats. Man must
! have clothing. Decency, comfort,
; health, life itself require him to be
j clad, lt is wrong, therefore, to tax
i his hat and shoes and shirt and coat
and panis.
! The "Negro Exodus.
Aiken Recorder.
From various port ions of the ?State
! nctabhr in the case of Newberry,
j Greenville. Kershaw and Barnwell
? Counties, large numbers ol' negroes
! are moving West. Some aiso have
i left Aiken, but unfortunately they
j have not left the State, but merely
; changed their residence to Beaufort
i County, the Ethiopia of South Carol i>
j na.
j Whenever we hear of these exoduses
j our heart is filled with jo}-, because in
i tin's annual migration we see the hand
i o?a merciful God, removing by natu
i ral and peaceful agencies an inferior
i and immoral race to congenial pas
j tures, thus relieving our civilization
I and refinement of an excessive race
; preponderance which clogs the well
springs of progress and makes our
people slaves to the ruinous policy of
j exhausting theil energy and resources
upon ono great staple crop,
i Doh ind each one ol the out-going
! sable bands the anny of progress is
pressing forward with Caucasian re
: emits, who with ingenious appliances
' for skillful labor will close thc gaps
1 and ravish from the womb of
eat th her varied products, and
'? convert the slave of thc all cotton
j idea, into a s-?lf respecting in
i dependent farmer, with the comforts
' and luxuries of lifo in even* apart
! ment of his nea: and attractive cot
' tage.
Again wc say let them depart in
peace. God in ins own merciful way,
is working out the solution of this
great race problem : 60-? OOO negroes
i versus 391.000 Caucasians,
i
B-jltitnore J Joy.
\ The year 188-1 has already made
! itself remarkable for the number of
j terrible disasters which ??ave been re
I corded as happening i ri-different parts
! of the world. The latest-the burn
: ing on Saturday night ol'a convent tn
; Illinois, and tiie loss of nearly thirty
: lives, mostly those of gills-is pecu
! liarlv sad, and comes horne with loree
\ to many people whose children are
j away from the paternal roof at school
? and college. Everything points to
; the fact that no provision hud Been
: made by the managers of thc institu?
tion to guard against such a catastro
! phe. There was no watchman attach*
! ed to thc building ; the outer doers
! were as strong as those of a jail and
\ securely locked, so that it was im
?' possibly to loree an entrance, and
j the sleeping rooms of the pupils being
I also locked, their chances of escape,
j small as they were at best were thus
j materially lessened. How many of
' the educational institutiot's tbrough
i out the country are just such death
! traps as this we do not Know : but
; certainly a rigid investigation into
; their safety appliances should bc
I made. Stringent laws have been
; passed in many cities against locking
'of the doors of factories while em
; ployeos are at work. Equally strong
? restrictions should be placed against
. locking up boys or girls in a building
j constructed as (his must, have been,
: and with no efficient fire department
: in the neighborhood, and leaving
: them to perish at the dead of night in
i utter helplessness and misery.
I Some years a<ro we knew a strousr
: man of good sense, fine business ca
' pacities and training, generous and
j kind heat led, who had yielded to the
j temptations of two barrooms between
j his home and office. Strong as he
j was and with urgent demands for cou
J slant work, he was completely over?
come by thc fascinations of the tempt?
ing saloon. Position was lost, the
hume was sold, the mind became nt l
one time almost a wreck Kind j
friends took him up and gave him work ?
' and hi re patiently with Iiis weakness, \
\ and again he \'< i;. ahappy home, with !
? most lovely children growing upi
around and he has i fine position where i
ho eau dollie work he knows so well
how to do. May n?> (omplaiion ever ?
hear him down again !
A citizen ol our ti;wu recently
wrote 1" him and gave the result ol'
our late election and asked him how
thc temperance reform \\ :is moving on
where he was. Ile is ii: Campbell.j
county, Ga., and lie does not think it ;
inconsistent, fer him lo volo lor no j
license, "he following is copied by
permission fro ni his 'citer :
"Our law goes ioio effect the first
of January in tho whole county. No!
one then, not even a di uggist, can sell i
or give liquor away. If at any limo
50 voters want tb gel it back, they
must sign a petition to that effect .'uni j
present it to the Legislature ; and
if 50 other voters send in a coun-1
ter p?tition it kills thc first ; so
you s'-e it is not probable it will bc;
I sohl in ibis county nguiu. Our adjoin
{ ing counties are also dry-Coweta,
; Clayton and Fayette, and there are
\ 91: counties in the State where the
S sale of liquor is a violation of law.
I would not be surprised, if in a
I year or so, the General Assembly
j were to pass a State law prohibiting
j its sale. How any sensible matt can
j vote t>) legalize the traffic, to perhaps
ruin himself, and a dead fail for his
boys, is beyond my comprehension.*'
'-Carolina Spartan.
Just as Pretty as a Peacli and
Loving as au Angel.
'Well, this is the way I heard it.
Joe Beach and Joe Doty, of whom I
have already- spoken, were journeying
lo New Yor.v last week, in the
sleeper was a charming 3'outig lady
with whom Beach struck up an ac?
quaintance.
.ls this your section, miss V he
asked.
'Yes, sir/ was the timid reply.
'May I occupy the seat while the
porter is making up my beith V
'Yes, sir/ just as sweet as three
pounds of crushed white sugar.
From this point on there was a con?
versation. At last Beach's berth v as
m ide np, and he moved out into tiie
smoking anarl merit, where he spent
some time talking to Doty. A stiff
bearded ?dd gentleman shared the
room with them awhile; then went
to bed. Beach told the conversation
with tue lady.
'Sile's just as pretty as a peach and
loving as an angel,7 said the com?
mercial tourist in an ec?tacy. 'i'd
give ten dollars to kiss her/
.Then why don't you do it?' said
Doty,
j 'How can 1 V
4 Why, when she's asleep, of course.'
'Great head!' exclaimed Beach.
' 'By gosh i I'll do it.'
Ile said nothing more until Tue
porter came around, after having
I made up all the berths. Then he took
j the ebony individual aside and rc
i marked :
'Sam, will a dollar blind yon !'
'Yes, boss/ was the answer. 'I
; can't soe no thin* for a dollar.'
'Well, here it is. Now say noth
i ing/
i Beach went back noiselessly to
; berth No. G. Doty bad proceeded
j'dm a ie'.v minutes. Carefully push-!
. mg asrde the curtains he peeped in,
i but could see nothing ; he fell the
I form and could 'near the angel draw
! ing her sweet ?iowery-iike breath ; then
I he pushed his iicad in. and guided by
j thc birthing, sought the fair one's
I cherry lips. He fon nd them. There
i was nearly three f< et of mustache on
j them. Their owner grasped Beach
! by the head and demanded to know
! what he meant, fie m ule some
j hasty explanation about having mis?
taken tuc roon"!, and after leaving a
f lock ol" his hair in the ringers of the
! gentleman in thc berth, he staggered
j to his end (if the car, and was evi
! dently feeling very bad.
While in liiis condition, he heard
! Do'y's 1? , vh, and saw Iiis head stick
it:?; ont of tho berth which lie thought
tho you,;g indy occupied. Doty had,
through the porter, exchanged berths
wi:!: she young holy, and besides
playing n good joke on Beach, thc
1 latter was out his dollar and his kiss,
j while the porter, who could be 'stone
j blind lev a dollar/ enjoyed the fun as
j heartily as anybody could."
It Makes a Difference.
'So von have been fighting again
on your way home from school V
'Y ves, sir.'
'Didn't I tell you that this sort cf
! business had got to stoo V
I 'Yes, pa, but-'
'N?i excuses, sir! You probably
provoked the quarrel !'
'Oh, no ! no ! ile called me
names !'
j 'Names! WhaL of it ? When a bov
calls yen names, walk along about
your business. Take off that coat!'
'But ?ie didn't call me mames:'
'Oil, he didn't ? Take off that, vest V
j 'When he called me names, I never
! looked at him, but when he pitched
j into you ? - J had to fight V
I 'What? Bit! he call me names?'
I 'Lots of 'em, father ! Ile said yon
i lied ti? your constituents, and went
! back on tue caucus, and hal -
.William, put on your coat and
j vest, and here's a nickie to buy some
peanuts!' I don't want you to come
? up a slugger, and ? wish yoe. to stand
I well with your teacher, but if you
I c?an lick that boy who says I ever
? bolled a re gular nomination, or went
back on 1113* end of the ward, don't be
aft aid to sail in !'-Detroit Free
Press.
A jew days ago a middle-aged
j couutryman walked into tin1 office of
I a prominent Newport Attorney and
! tonk a seal, when the following took
?place:
I '1 called iii to seo ab mt gotta/ a
j divorce iront my wile.
'Ah, what seems to be tho diificul
! ty v
! 'Well, mc and Jinny are always
; quurrelUn*. and think it would 1>'' bet- \
ter if she would go back to her folks \
ami I'd slay where 1 am. She ken j
take the throe children with her.'
what grounds do you want a j
divorced
'Well, you sei? it's jist this way : j
J.,i.liv's ti?*.- ni"s?. skeeriest woman ol
tramps you ev? 1 SIT?. And so when
we go iif* stairs to bed alii'. :'.-.v:\ys
jumps 01 hod !os{. and then she wants
nie I > ':;ok under lite bed |;?r a tuan. !
when ! know there ain't no man
there. So yon wee thal riles mo and j
1 gei -ead. and then she gels load, j
and then thf;re's a fuss ami 1 don't j
have no peace and cami gel n.? sleep'
and I'm a hard workin' man.*
'Von can't get a divorce eui those !
g!\)0.uds, sir.1 i
*" -1 ena' V
.No, sir/ !
'Well, th i . ! know what I'll do.
? 'I! gri home ami snw thc leg's edi' the
bod. close up, so a man can't git un- j
der. ll 1 had thought of that sooner I
I might hov saved all this time corniu' \
in herc/ 1
''Sapphira's Speer's Victims."
Malia dozen muscular fellows io
ehaius were, waiting at the Ora ti d Cen?
tral passenger Station in Cincinnati.
December 30, tor the 'rain for thc
North. They had been convicted of
kakiuk outrages in Georgia, and were
bound! for thc Auburn (N. V.) peni?
tentiary. The principal one of ?lio
group, J. 3i. Yarbroagh, wai?approach?
ed and asked it ho had any objection to
talking tu a newspaper man. 'Not a
bit.' said be. 'I ain't ashamed of what
I've done, and ? would like to teil it so
you people up here may understand the
case. You see thc bill against us said
'kukluxin.' but it was nothing of the
kind. Otu" night my brother and some
neighbors' boys wore out cn the road
going 'nome with tho girls They mc?
a young mulatto named Cad Bash, who"
brushed against the girl. Neil was
with theit:. and asked what he did that
for. The nigger got sassy, said ho was
a tax-payer, worked on the roads, and
hud a right to wall; on 'eui. The boys
went that night with their hickories and
dressed him up right smart-no light
dressing, but one he would remember
and all on account of the girl, and not
on account of politics, as they tried to
make it out
'Arter that an old nfeirer, a relative
of Bush, sui;! he war gomo tr, kill me
on sight, and thu tiight of July 24 we
i started out to hunt him, and ..vent ?rst
to the cabin of a man named Cook,
?har we knew he hun': out most of the
time. We knocked on thc door, and
Cook says, 'Who's thar?' I told him
we had nothin' against him, bur. we just
wanted to seo if so and so war in thar,
and he said, 'Nc' We said, 'that's
all right, but just opon the door ami
let us see lie wouldn't d > it. so we
opened it for him, and gave him nine
licks. Then we went to Karry Sander?
son's who refused to open th s door.
Wc pried of? the fastenings and Barry
rushed out wit ii an axe. Wc didn't
know it was him and one of our boys
shot at him several times, and finally
hit him, anet that's what they cali ku
kiuxin,' and that's ail we're here fm*'
'What would you have done if you
had found your man V
j 'Well. I reckon we'd a thrashed him
j good. We wouldn't a killed him. Wc
never kill anybody, hut wc do lick a
I nigger once in a while unless they walk
; the line pretty straight. I don't think
! i'll lick another one if I ever get out.
j It's expensive. See .what i've got for
i it no;v.'
Beer and Vitality.
Thc president of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company, one
of thc oldest in tho country, has for
years booti investigating the relation of
beer-drinking to longevity His object
was tha? lie might solve thc problem
whether boer promotes vitalitj or
otherwise, an.i to know whether beer
drinkers arc desirable risks to a life in?
surance company. Wo give his con?
clusions. Lie declared, as the result
cf a series of observations carried on
among a .selected group of persons who
were habitua! drinkers of beer, that
al?hough for two years lhere was noth?
ing remarkable, yet presently death
began to strike, and then the mortality
became astounding and uniform in irs
manifestations. There was no mistak?
ing ir : the history was almost invari?
able ; robust, appnarent health, full
muleles, a fair outside, increasing
weight, florid faces ; then a t^uch of
cold, or a sniff of malaria, and instant?
ly some acute disease, with almost in?
variable typhoid symptoms was in vio?
lent action and ten days or loss ended it.
It was as if - thc system had been
kept fair cn thc outside, while within
it was caron to a shell ; and at thc first
touch of disease there was utter coi?
la pso ; every libro was poisoned 'ind
weak. And this, in its main features,
varying in -iogree lias boon his obser?
vations in beer-drinking everywhere.
It is peculiarly deceptive at ?rst; it is
thoroughly ?es?ruct.vo at last.
A Question of Antecedents.
Y?>u know, ma, that in Philadelphia
propio always asks who (-no's grand
iatiict was, and as I am going there
soon you must tell mo. Was my
grandfather a judge; or a governor, or
a president, or anything* Jf''
'.Well, no, my dear, ile became
very rich, though-, and yen may say
ho had s:;.in:1!Sting lo do wiri; banks/'
"]>ut what was .his profession or
trade V1
"Oh, never mind about lhat.7?
"But these Piiiladelphia people will
ask mc, yon know.'*
"\Ve!S the only C ade he ever learn?
ed was shoemaking*.
"Sh.'emakii'.Lr ! Oh, well he got rich,
so that ts ail right"
"Yes ; hts made shoos a great many
yeats. Ile learned {he (rade a >!
worked . ;;t it hi a penitentiary,
but you need ?ot mention that."
Piiuadelplda Call. j
A Parable and a Moral
A Sage who was on his weary
journey to Wisconsin, came upon a ;
crowd ono dav and 1 bserved a sadness !
on all faces * Why this gloom Y j
! fjuoriod the ord tuan, as Ito iai<! down his ;
I bundle and felt for tho fro nt-end of his j
? plug of tobacco. 'O Sage, we mourn |
lite loss of a good man,' was the reply, j
'Was he honored T 'ii?- was.' 'Sober. ;
iHM'iiiht, charitable and given to pence V :
w.-.s * ?Who nf y o; praised cud
encouraged hi;;? in life'/' asked tue old ;
man, as ito looked a rou ?id bini A
bosh fe?! 0>'Ot: ihe r: U-- ?lid no one
rv.i: ? '?'iai?-v that conic** ai-er
death.' ivhi.-poivd ihc ?Sage, 'docs mn.
<*ren eui down I lie undertakers bil's. !
}>etfer ???unnder vour time eu??*'*? '
wood for ;-is Widow.' Mot al : I ht
widow ?ii! be r-xpv.cied t<> take in
piai ts sewing t*? support herseti.- ,
/.? trot! Free Pr. -v.
A vounc t:*an named Darling liv.;, in .
Fartro, and when any enc cal's to i m
on the st rot t, every young lady within
three blocks blushes and looks around,
gently saying, "Sh. sh."
:
Western pad ers say that, "takon :>>
a whole, the American !o'g istie- best in
the world." Au exchange asks who,
wants to swallow a hog whole if ]
Scientific Miscellany
The remarkable storm which crossed
tho ??:iti>h isles between September
1st arid 3rd has be rj i raced by Mr.
C. I i arding, F. R M. S , to two origi?
nal centers of disturbance, one bein"
. ? ' ?
first shown at a porn' about 450 miles to
the South of Bermuda on August 26,
and the other to the eaef. of the Rocky
Mountains on the 27th. These two
disturbances merged on thc 20th, wbeu
about 300 miles north of Bermuda,
and formed ono great and destructive
gale, willoh continued to grow in vio?
lence as il crossed the Atlantic un?
til it reached the British coasts.
I'his storm crossed the Atlantic at an
average speed of fully forty miles an
hour, which is more than double thc
usual rate of storms which traverse that
? ?cen n
Among ino many substances former?
ly considered valueless but utilized by
modern science is the nettle. This
weed is now actually being cultivated ia
Germany, where its ?ber is made into
a variety of textile fi bries. A Dresden
manufacturer has produced from it the
finest thread known lo the trade, of
which a length of sixty miles weighs
only two and a half oounds.
A disease peculiar to persons who
.Jig potatoes has been described by a
Prussian physician, lt appears to be
an affection of the nerves of the legs
and feet, and is produced by the
strained position into which the lower
extremities are thrown as the laborer
gathers his potatoes. The patient finds
one er both feet and le^s to be heavy,
cold, numb and sometimes painful,
while his gait boco ia as clumsy and
Umping. Thc disease may bc of short
duration, or it. may continue for years.
The lea-plant has been successfully
acclimatized at Auckland, New Zealand.
Scheming to Evade Giving
Christmas Presents.
fe -
A boy of twelve stood leaning'
against the fence on Duffield street
yesterday, hat pulled down, feet
crossed, and his right hand going up
occasionally to wipe his nose, when
along came another anatomy about his
size and asked :
'Sick?7
'No."
'Any of the family dead T
'No, I've just been licked/
'Who duii it V
'Dad.'
'Did your ma ask him to V
'"fes. She told him I had been
aching for it. more than a month.'
? 'Say,' said the new arrival, 'you
are in luck. 1 am trying my best to
get dad to whale; me. I'd give fifty
cents if he tanned me this noon and it
was all through hurting*.'
'Why V
'Why ! Haven't I got ?o saved up
! to buy pap and and marm Christmas
I presents, and il ? can get them to
j whale me before Christmas won't I
j spend every cent of that money on
j myseif? How muon you got V
I 'Two dollars.'
j 'Bully ? You are all right I You Ve
I been licked, and they won't expect
j even a stick of gum from their pouncr
{ ed son. I'll go home and slam the
j baby round and steal sugar and kick
I the cat and sass mother, and if I can
get walloped lo night, I'll meet you
j herc to-morrow, and we'll pool in
j and buy more pistols and scalping
knives and rock-candy and nuts ami
raisins than you ever saw before ?
Yip ! peel me down, dear father ;
hang my hide on the fence, mother
dui lina*.-Detroit Poet.
Quite Reconciled.
\ Fitchburg lady, who was some
! what niven to needless alarms coucero
[ mg her health, and upon any slightest
j ailment, felt herself slipping iutoanoth
I er world, tock cohi last week, and im
i mediately co?eluded, that at length her
j appointed hour had surely arrived,
i 'Georgy.' she said, taking her four-year
I old son upon her lap. 'Tm going to die*
Georgy, and you'll have a new mother
sometime.' 'Oh. .veil/ philosophically
! returned the youngster, who inherits
! from ins father a disposition quite the
! reverso cf sentimental, and who had be
j come somewhat accustomed to bis
I mother*s moods *Oh, well; if there's
: uothing worse than :':at. I s'p'ose I eau
i nat un with that - Jritc1J>nrq Tribune.
Didn't Hit Him.
: A tough old debtor in a town near
j the Hudson liver entered a grocery
i the other morning, at.?' stood for a
! longtime looking at an exhibition of
; ping tobacco. Thc grocer felt certain
j that the old mau wanted credit, and
he def'-rmined to head him off. Ile
j therefore observed :
j '-I have to eel! that tobacco for
! cash down !"
"You do, eu ?"
"Yes, sir. Tobacco is cash on the
hail."
"How's sugar?"
"Thats cash."
"Tea and coffee V7
"Cash-all cash. Soap, mo?asse?,
candles, kerosene, butter, lard, pota?
toes, flour rice, hams, starch-all are
spot cash "
Tho old man stood and looked over
thc stock for five minutes, and then
heaved a h n\x sigh, and replied :
"Wei! Mr. Waters, thai don't hit
me worth a cent. I wish to get trusted
for throe dozen clothespins!"
?t happened many years a<:o that
('concha, when a very little girl, created
a good dca i of merri tn cu t ai thc table,
went eut. one evening taking tea with
friends. "Cornelia dear.,* .said her hos
toss, 'won't ynu 1 vt. a slice of cake or
.z tr.oroT 'Yes'm, ! think f
. ; Cornelia, frank ty, if some
louy will please anbtvk my dress/
Christina, another little girl, also out to
tea, wa< asked if'.she would have some
apple-sauce 'No, ! thank you,' said
Christi na, promptly; 'I can get plenty
ot that at heme.'-Harpers Bazar.
While thc arrangements were being
made for a party a f. w evenings ago, a
vouoc lady present innocently inquired:
'Ts thc invitation to embrace the vouug
ladies ? 'Oh, aol' replied a \?oung
mau. 'the gentlemen will attend to
that.' And uow the young woman
wonders what the youug mao meant.
'Orne
'.v "ni.