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of the night, catching cat-naps between the bites.
We might not have known when day broke, except
for the kindly interest taken in us by a stray hog.
The beast crept under the house, and the space was
so small that he lifted the boards under our feet
with his back When we felt the boards lift we knew
that another day had dawned upon the picturesque
locality.
We left the hotel before breakfast and were home
to dinner. Mr. Bowser seemed very much occu
pied with his thoughts on the way home, and when
we finally entered the house he turned on me and
said:
“ Mrs. Bowser, I’m a man who can bear a good
deal before loosing my temper, but I want to give
you-fair warning right here and now that I want no
more of your nonsense! The next time you men
tion country to me—the next time you dragoon me
into an excursion of this kind —I shall be justified
in—in !”
And he kicked the trunk, pitched his fishing
tackle into the back yard, and went out to get some
cold cream for his blisters, burns and bites. — De
troit Free Press.
A Handsome Room on Marietta St.
Mr. P. H. Snook’s furniture rooms contain some
of the most elegant articles of artisfistic furniture we
ever saw. An inspection of the room, alone, will
amply repay the time lost in doing so. The walls
are lined with elegant French plate. The shelves
are filled with bric-a-bric, while the floor is covered
with the rarest collection of art goods, parlor suites,
fancy chairs, easels, cabinets, and rare novelities of
every description. The interior of his establishment
is beicg remodeled, partitions taken out and hand
some iron colvmns substituted, making when com
pleted, the handsomest and coziest show-rooms in
the south. Mr. Snook’s display at the “Piedmont
Exposition” will be a feature of the show, and will
attract a crowd of admirers; and we hope extend his
popularity and enlarge his already immense bus
iness.
*
A popular railway conductor says * “ In the early
days of railways the idea of running trains at night
was not thought of, but at the present time the
greater part of the freight traffic and perhaps of the
passenger traffic is handled in the hours of darkness.
A similar change seems to have been begun in the
work of railway building. The feasability of carry
ing on grading and even track-laying at night was
hardly suggested until recently, but now it is not
uncommon. The rush of competition between great
lines to reach a given point, and the necessity some
times imposed of building a certain distance before
a fixed date in order to secure local aid, have ne
cessitated the employment of night hours in nume
rous cases; and it is found that men and teams work
fully as efficiently by night as by day. A contractor
who has been doing a large amount of grading on
one of the western roads tells us that the men ac
complish more between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7
a.m. in shoveling than in the same hours of day
light, because their attention is not distracted by
other things at night, and in summer the air is cool
er than in the daytime. Os course it takes the men
some time to become accustomed to the unnatural
inversion of the hours of work and sleep, and some
of them are inclined to waste the daylight hours in
drinking, and are thus unfitted for night toil ; but
these worthless fellows are gradually sifted out, and
the force engaged in the night work soon accom
plishes fully as much as those who work only by
daylight.” £
—LIST OZE 1 —
H. L Brinkley Lands
In Tesas.
I. JOSEPHUS TAYLOR SURVEY
640 acres, one mile west of Wills
Point, all prairie, $7.00 per acre
2. H. M. DOUGHERTY and
WM. JAMES SURVEYS.
606 acres, 7 miles south of Wills
Point, all timbered and watered,
splendid land, $5.00 per acre.
3. JOHN DEGMAN SURVEY.
640 acres, ten miles south of Wills
Point, all timbered and watered,
splendid land, $4.00 per acre.
4. J. R. COYGIN SURVEY.
160 acres.
5. MOSES JONES SURVEY.
30 acres.
Note.—T. J. McKAIN, at Wills Point, will
give all information about lands.
For information of above write to
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ATLANTA, CA.
Or H. L. BRINKLEY, - MEMPHIS, TENN.
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USES OF MAGIC INK.
How It la Made and How It May Be Ad
j vantageously Employed.
to make an ink, black at the time of writing, but which
shall dissapear after a short time, boil nut galls in aqua vity
put Roman vitrol and sal ammoniac to it, and when cold, dis
solve a little gum in it. Writing done with this ink will van
ish in twenty-four hours.
Thus affirms the Scientific American. At first
we could not imagine what practical use could be
made ink, but upon careful consideration,
there are many ways in which it may be advan
tageously employed. For instance, when a well
dressed, highly polished stranger, with a tongue
well lubricated, and with manners guilelesss and
bland, wants you to sign a receipt, or some in
nocent document, “merely as a matter of form,”
why do it at once, but use the magic ink, and when
the aforesaid gentleman with the lubricated tongue,
twenty-four hours later, endeavors to convert the
innocent document you signed into a promissory
note, presto! your good name has vanished!
Another good use of magic ink would be in the
writing of spring poetry. The poems would then be
valuable, because the editor could use the paper to
write editorials on.
Hasty letters, abusive letters, love letters, letters
relating your personal grievances, letters filled with
gossip about your neighbors, letters dilating upon
some scandal, letters advising young people not to
marry, and letters ordering your paper stop; ed
would be improved if written with magic ink that
the fatal characters may not again confront you in
the inevitable day of repentance.
Yes, there are many good uses to which magic
ink may be put; in general to the recording .of all
thoughts to which folly prompts expression.-
Western Christian Plowman.
A CENTURY'S CHANGES.
The Towels, Soaps and Hair Trunks Which Once
Blossomed in Hotels.
Bill Nyein New York World.
Look at the great changes that have been
wrought in hotels during the past century. llow
marked has been the improvement and how won
derful the advancement. Everything has been
changed. Even the towels have been changed.
Electric bells, consisting of a long and alert wires
with an overcoat button at one end and a reticent
boy at the other, have taken the place ot the. human
voice and a low-browed red elm club. Where once
we were compelled to fall down a dark, narrow
staircase, now we can go down the elevator or wan
der down the wrong stairway and find ourselves in
the laundry.
Where once we were mortified by being compelled
to rise at table, reach nine feet and stab a porous
pancake with our fork, meantime wiping the milk
gravy out of a large yellow bowel with our coat-1 ail,
now we ean hire a tall, lithe gentleman in a full
dress suit to pass us the pancakes.
One hundred years on their swift pinions, have
borne away the big and earnest dinner-bell.and the
Gw: y -back hair trunk suipnscd a Ulan SO when
he sat down on it to consider what clothes he would
put on first.
All these evidences of our crude embryotic exist
ence are gone, and in their places we have electiic
bells and Saratoga trunks wherein we may conceal
our hotel room and still have space left for our
clothes. .... .
Men, as well as hotels, and hotel soap, have
changed. When once a cake of soap would only
last a few weeks, science has come in and perfected
a style of pink soap, flavored with vanilla, that will
last for years, and a new slippery-elm towel that is
impervious to moisture. Hand in hand this soap and
towel go gaily down the corridors of time, wel
coming the coming and speeding the parting guest,
jumping deftlv out of the hands of the aristocracy
into the hands'of a receiver, but always calm, smooth
and latherless.
Backing: Up Their Prayers.
A number of years ago, during the grasshopper
raids in Dakota and other parts of the West, Elder
Blodgett held a series of revival meetings in a small
place° in the southeastern part of the Territory,
where the settlement then was chiefly confined He
had preached a powerful sermon, and had induced
about two-thirds of the congregation to come for
ward and indicate their desire to unite with the
church. Fearing that some might not fully under
stand the new duties the step would involve, he be
gan to explain what they must do in the future.
You must stop lyin’ and cheatin and Sabbath
breakin’,” he said, “ an’ if any of you’ve been stealin’
you’ve got to stop that, too. An’ there musn’t be
no more covetin’ or neighborhood quarlin’ and no
more swearin’ ”
“ Elder ” said a grizzled old fellow who was
kneeling in front of the pulpit, as he raised his head,
“ye say we must swear no more?”
“ That’s it—you musn’t swear at all.
0 sir. ,>
Well, that lets me out then!” and he rose and
started back.
“Me, too!” put in a dozen others, as they began
t °‘Mlo'ld on!” shouted the elder, as the fruits of his
labor began to vanish. “Come back, an’ I reckon
ve can swear ’bout the hoppers a little. Cuss em
quietly when there ain’t nobody ’round, an then
pray that they won’t come next summer. This is
the third year they’ve been here, an’ I’low myself
it’s ’bout time we backed up our prayers with a little
something kinder strong. ” Dakota Bell.
The Modern Office-Boy.
“Tommy, my inkatand is almost empty. Fill it
as soon as you can.”
Office-boy to Bookkeeper —“Boss wants smink
ritoff.”
Merchant—“ Tommy, send this letter up in the
box to Mr. Scrivner, and see that he takes it out.
Office-boy puts the missive in the box and glues
his thumb to the bell button.
Mr. Scrivner (with the voice of a ,Ute chief) —
“Well, what’s the matter down there?”
Office-boy (calmly)—“Plup box.”
The box is pulled up.
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