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. TRAPPED IN A OAR.
The hour grow lath uml Mr. Brand
paaotl his ohambor in moody silence.
The train luld come In, but his mes
senger hud not returned, and tlio mer
chant was troubled. Having heard
rumors concerning a house with which
ho had extensive dealings, the mer
chant had dispatched Lake to London,
telling him to make lnqulrles,and Inuuy
case to get the partners ot the linn In
question to settle their ueeount. The
time appointed for Ills return had
passod and still he did not come.
A lady entered and stole to the mer
chant’s side. Her own sweet face was
anxious, and there was a tremor In her
volae us she suid :
“Do you think ho will bo here to
night, papa?”
“I hope so, Mary, but It is getting
very late.”
“Is there no other truln?”
“Only the night express, and that
doos not stop, except at the central
stations.”
“Perhaps ho will come, pupa; lie
would not mind coming ten miles, even
if ho had to wulk.”
“He should not have missed the
train,” said Mr. Brund, sternly; “punc
tuality Is an imperative duty with men
of business.”
“But, papa, something may have oc
curred to detain him.”
“Nothing should detain a man who
has given his word.”
The fair pleader was silenced; her
father was ungry uml knowing his
strictness of principle and how invet
erate was his dislike to any breach of
duty or discipline, she did not venture
to speak to him uguin.
The time wore slowly on ; Mr. Brand
continued his restless walk, and Mary-
sat, subdued and quiet, watching him.
Shu suw he was listening ns the night
express went by, and from the depth
of her heart there went up u prayer
that Lake would come safely home.
The girl loved him and would have
staked her life on his truth, and knew
that ho was not behind his time through
any weakness or wrong. Two slow,
weary hours passed.
“Look!” she said, dushlng nsido the
curtains with eager hands, “look, pa
pa, I said ho would come—I knew that
ho would!”
The merchant’s stern features re
laxed with a smile of pleasure. He wus
not emotional or demonstrative, but
his daughter’s gladness pleased him.
There were a few moments of expec
tantly and yum Tom Lake came In.
He went straight to Mr. Brand, only
noticing with a how tlio lovely face
whose glance thrilled his soul.
“They have paid,” lie suid quietly,
ns ho placed a thick pocket-book In
the merchant’s hand, “but I think we
wore only just in time.”
"Indeed 1”
“There was a consultation at the
uuiiki I-- i. r u p,,., into easu
for the chock.”
“Do you think they will break?”
“Hopelessly. They have given mo
nn Immense order, hut it would not he
well to forward the goods.”
“You did not hint that we had tlio
slightest fear?”
“No; hut I was glad to get the mon
ey; £12,000 would have been an im
mense loss.”
“It would, truly.”
“And yet,” said Tom, bravely, “ibis
morning, the odds were considerable
against its over reaching you.”
“How?”
Tom took two chairs, placed them
side by side near the Ore, lod Mary to
one and seated himself in the other.
Ho had done his duty as the mer
chant’s clerk, and now was Mr. Brand's
prospective son-in-law and partner.
”1 hud an adventure,” ho said. ‘I
was the hero of a strange story In a
ride by express.”
Mary bent forward to listen. Tom
clasped her hand In his own. Mr.
Brand sat opposito them, interested by
Tom’s manner, as he began;
“When I got the check I had an idea
that all might not he well; so to mulco
sure, I presented it at the banker's.
There was. us I told you, a consulta
tion going forward. I noticed a
stranger looking at ino intently. I
knew the man In my younger and
wilder days. I had mot him at the
race-course, at the billiard-room and
in other places moro or less respect
able. Now ho was changing a oheck
for some petty amount, and wus evi
dently astonished at tho Immensity of
the order, I had presented. I left the
bank with my pocket-book full of notes
and found that I had missed the train,
Tlio next would bo the night express,
so I strolled into a billiard-room. A
man is ,just as safe with a fortune in
his pocket as if he were penniless, if
he is wise enough to hold his tongue.
There was clever playing going on and
I stood watching the players until
some one challenged mo to a game. If 1
have one spoeial vanity, it is my seionee
with tho cue. I accepted, and as I did
so a strange feeling which had been
growing upon me took a sudden turn
which startled me.
“My challengor was tlio man I had
noticed at tlio banker’s. Thoro was
nothing strange in tho fact of Ids bo-
ing in tho room, ono of his favorite re
sorts, but I was possessed of the vague
shadow of a single idea. I had read
somewhere of a man being followed
and plundered in a train, and somo-
howl associated tlio story with the
man before nio. It was tho first time
I hod ovor paid him particular atten
tion, but I gave him full observation
now. Tho more I looked at him the
less I liked him. Ho was handsome,
gentlemanly, with a fair form und ele
gant figure, full of suppleness and
strength. His manner was singularly
unassuming, Ills fuco frank and genial;
but by looking closoly at him you could
see something sinister-looking In tho
depth and softness of Ills oyes.
“I never like a stranger to bo affable
and prepossessing, and my friend was
the very pink of affability and grace.
We played Tor an hour with alternate
success. Ho was an amusing compan
ion, wall Informed, and had travoled,
hut I was shy of conversation. I loft
him, and still huving some time to
spare, wont to see a friend in the Tem
ple.
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VOL. XXXV. LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMHER 11, 1871).
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“When, nt the expiration of some
thirty or forty minutes I emerged into
Fleet street almost tho first person on
whom my accidental gaze fell was my
late antagonist nt billiards. I thought
there was more than a mere coinci
dence In this second meeting since wo
stood together at tho banker’s. He
was In a cigar shop opposito talking
with a companion.
“Not a hundred yards from tlio Tem
ple gate stood a man whom I recog
nized with a very welcome feeling. It
wus Goorgc Vixen, the detective. He
was fashionably dressed and looked
like an aristocrat of the first water. I
went up to him, and greeting him ns I
would an old family friend, held out
my hand und said :
“ ‘Come and drink u glass of wine
with mo. I have something to say.’
“He shook hands In tlio most natural
way possible. I took Ills arm and we
entered the public bar of an adjacent
hotel. I told him my suspicions, told
him of tho sum of money I hud In my
possession, and of the journey I had
to perform by rnil. I saw that, watch
ing through the glass of the door, ho
wus taking mental photographs of tile
two men.
“‘They mean business,’ said Vixen
quietly, ‘hut I sliull he with you. We
must part at tho door or they will see
j that we have scented their game.”
j “ ‘And you,’ said I, ‘how will you
I net.?”
“ ‘I shall travel to Liverpool by tho
j night express. 4
“He then left me. I lmd no fear now,
| knowing him lo he a very clever and
j determined fellow. Taking a cusuul
I glance across tho road, I saw my man
: and his companion. It was quite ovi-
1 dent that they wore tracking me,
i though I lost sight of thorn before
1 reaching St. Paul’s. I strolled along
| by the gruvo-yard, wandered nearly to
I Islington, and then went through the
city again before I made for tho sta
tion. My acquaintance of the billiard-
room did not tome in sight, though I
kept well on the alert.
“I took my tiekot, lingering almost
to tho moment of starting before en
tering the carriage, hut my man did
not appear. Two men were in the
compartment with me; I could not see
the face of one, and tho other was a
stranger. The guard had just time to
put a bewildered old gentleman by my
side, and wo wore off. Tlio man whose
face I had not seen turned towards me.
I could hardly repress an exclamation.
There was no mistaking the frank,
gonial countenance, nor tho lurking
devil in those eyes, whoso softness was
so sinister.
“He had mo at last. Vixen lmd
broken his promise, and I was left to
travel that perilous journey alone with
the man who had followed me so skill
fully, another who might he his con
federate, and an old gentleman, who,
crumbling out his indignation
against till ruilway servants uucl loco
motive traveling in general, was fast
asleep inTho corner. That tho inten
tion ol’ my billiard-player was had was
manifested by tho fact of his having
assumed a false mustaoho and beard.
They added to tho beauty of his face,
hut left to his oyes the sleepy, cruel
glitter that Is characteristic of the
Asiatla. Ho spoke to me; remarked
the oddity of our being traveling com
panions, and grew pleasantly familiar.
I answered him, not wishing to appear
churlish or afraid, knowing that I
could trust something to my own
strength if the worst happened.
“\Vo hud made tho Istoppugo, and
were rolling swiftly through the gloom,
when, among other topics, our conver
sation turned upon jewelry. He drew
a showy ring from his finger, tolling
me that it wus a very curious piece of
workmanship, having a secret spring,
which he suid I could not discover. I
took it, searching In vain for a spring,
then returning it, it dropped and rolled
under my feet. I stooped to pick it up,
and so did he, but in that moment,
while my head was down, ho hud me
tightly by the throat and threw me on
tho carriage floor. I could scarcely
breathe, and could not struggle, for u
heavy knee wus upon my chest, and
two strong, brutal hands were crush
ing the life from my throat. Although
the terror of the situation did not last
a minute, It seemed nn eternity to me.
I felt tho ruffian’s hand searching for
my pocket-book and I strained desper
ately for a chance of resistance.
“This evil work was nearly done.
Cramped into that small space I was
powerless, and tho veins In my throat
and head weto swelling like sinuous
bars, when tho old gentleman in the
corner awoke and came to my assis
tance. I heard tho low whirr of some
weapon in its descent, and my first as
sailant reeled from me stunned. Then
tho old gentleman, with astrengtk and
agility wonderful to see In a person so
old, seizod the other scoundrel, lifted
him away and pushed him down on
tho scat. There was a brief struggle,
und then I heard a sharp oliek—scoun
drel tho second had a pair of huudeuffs
on his wrists.
“They were moro prompt than I had
expected,’ said the old gentleman, re
moving his woollen comforter, with
whloh he fastened my first assailant’s
bunds behind him, ‘and a railway car
riage does not afford much scope for a
struggle.’
“Tho pocket-book was safe. The
ruffians were securely bouud, and the
gentleman, who, without his spectacles
and muffling, stood out in bold and
pleasant relief in the shape of the de
tective, kej t guard over them. At the
station they were handed over to the
oustody of the police. I wus all right
by that time. Vixen rode with me as
far as the nearest hotel, and to-mor
row ho will call to see if I am any
worse for my rido by express.”
Tho contents of the pocket-book
were Mary’s bridal dower. The detec
tive speaks of the senior partner of
the firm of Brand & Lake us the moBt
hospitable and generous man he ovor
met in the course of his professional
career.
Luko was quite cured of his love for
billiard playing. Ho had made too
narrow nn escape, and ho did not for
got tho lesson.
SARATOGA.
now A DF.LLF. PASSES IIE11 TIME AT THE j
anEAT AMERICAN SrA.
(Correspondence ot tlio N. Y. Tribune.)
The programme of a young Indy's
dny of flirting, dressing and dancing
nt Saratoga Is always the same.
The hello of Saratoga is awakened
by her hair dresser at 8, a. ni. .Tump
ing to the floor she looks In the gluss,
stretches twice, and remarks:
“Graelous, me I I didn’t get tho col
or on even last night—did I, Mary ? I
must bo more careful to-night.”
Tlion tho hair dresser commences.
Crimping irons uro limited, multiforms
are combed out, and full Information is
given by the hair dresser as to the
status of tho Jones girls from Madison
avenue, whose rooms are across the
hull.
“ ‘Nine whlto dresses In tho wash,’
you say the Jones girls had last week,
Mary? Gracious I Tho Joneses must
have a mint of money. I wonder if
Fred Jones is the only son ?”
Her hair dressed, the belle now pro
ceeds to put on her pink bunting morn
ing dress—hat, parasol, fan and shoes
to match; then she saunters down ot
meet Fred Jones for a promenade to
the spring, where three glasses of Con
gress water are drank, and a fifteen
minute flirtation indulged in.
At 9:30 comes breakfast; followed by
music on the balcony at 10. Our belle
sits with the other young ladies on the
hack balcony during the music, and
flirts with three handsome fellows
(commercial travelers), who have been
introduced as three young Chicago
millionaires. From under a pongee
parasol comes a voice:
“O, Mr. Brown, it is very naughty in
you to say that you want to marry a
rich young Indy with a hard cough.
Awful—perfectly atrocious 1”
While the young ladies spoon under
parasols on the balcony, tho old ladies
sit In tho hull and gossip about in
comes and pedigrees,and the Coukling-
Sprague scandal.
“I really believe I shall havo to out
that Mrs. Dobson,” says an old lady
from Fifth avenue, who married her
husband when she was a poor milliner
and he wus a porter.
“Why out Mrs. Dobson ? What has
she done?” asked Mrs. Camolshair.
“Oh! because I heard her husband
has lost all his money; und what do
you think? Why the woman wears a
machine made dress.”
“How do you know Mrs. Dobson
wears machine made dresses?” asked
Mrs. Camolshair.
“Me know! mol” exclaimed the aris
tocratic Fifth avenuite. “I’ll tell you
how I know-how I can tell machine
sewing from lmnd made [whispering!:
I used to ho a seamstress, und I can
see the stitching in Mrs. Dobson’s
dress clear aorcss tho room. Dread
ful, uint it ?”
At 12 o’clock tho belle of Saratoga
comes down dressed for the races. Or
ange green parasol, Leghorn lint, with
golden green feathers, orange green
satin dress, with buttonless gloves
reaching from the hand to the should
er.
Described accurately in a business
like way, our Saratoga hello would
thus sum up: Sixty yards or muslin in
trailing underskirts, $48 worth of mul
tiforms and wigs, $30 worth of dang
ling chatelaines, smelling-bottles, funs,
card cuses and straps; thirty-six yards
of orange-green satin, and $72 worth of
false teeth on gutta-percha.
Soo liow tlio changes of her wnlk reveal
Tho patent Instep and Iho patent heel,
Ilor patent pnnlor rounds her form divine;
Its patent nrelt supports her patent spltlo,
Lends matchless symmetry slid stylish gait,
And hears tho label, "Patent—’OB."
A patent corset holds her ftlinsy lorm,
And patent dress-pads keep her besom warm.
Behold tho plaintive glance ot patent eyes,
As she lifts her patent eyebrows in surprise.
She shakes her head—tour pocks ot patout hair
Ply like a hop-yard lit the August air,
And twenty grim ghosts whisper her eatdo,
"Dear Sylph I wo wore that wtg before wo died."
To whom respondolh, unabashed, tho beauty,
"Gttout, you spooks I I guess I know nty juU-y"
Nqw gnash hor patent tooth with gutta pcrclm
Ire,
And Hash her patent oyes with belladonna are!
As drops hor patent chignon In a chair.
She Jumps to pick It up—
But I forbear.
At tho races tho belle of Saratoga
bets on every race, and, as ladies are
never expected to pay, she makes six
dozen gloves, and then rides homo in
Fred Jones’ tandem dog cart, and
dresses for dinner. “O, Mr. Jones! Ido
love a hang-tailed horse!”
Dinner at 2:30. Dress, white crepe
cut tight to the form. Champugno,
sweetbreads, soft shell crabs, Phila
delphla squabs, chicken-salad and
champagne. “I wonder why I look so
sallow, and why I have such wretched
dreams at night.”
At 4, p. m., a stroll to the Indian en
campment to play skittles, down to
the bowling-alley, or over to the vil
lage graveyard. “Why does that old
sexton watch us so? He dodges around
among the tombstones and never takes
Ills oyes off us. Does ho think we
came hore to spoon ?”
Seven o’clock, tea; and then dress
for tho hop. Hairdresser the second
time. Dress, white gros grain with
long trull. “My! won’t thoso Dobson
girls be jealous ? This dress cost $300,
and theirs are homo-made—hah I”
“ ‘Dance the round dances?’ Of
course I do. I think they’re divine—
perfectly lovely—too sweet for any
thing! Oh! I do adore a round dance
with a handsomo fellow!”
At 10 p. m., tho old ladies all sit in
chairs around the ball room, gossip,
and admire their own daughters, who
go swinging down the room in the
round dunco. Old, bald-headed bach
elors come in and entertain hopeful
mothers. The old man is over in the
olub room playing draw pokor. “I’ll
see you and go you$50bettor.” Young
brother is down at Morrissey’s. “The
black loses and tho red wins. Tho red
loses und the black wins.”
“Gus, lend mo $50—I'm dead broke 1”
At 12, p. m., hop over and lights out.
Follows off to Morrissey’s, and daugh
ters In side rooms drinking lemonade
and champagne. Mother yawning in
the parlor, “O Jennie why don’t you
come to bod? I’m just tired out.”
1, a. m., all in ood. Halls silent, with
rowH of boots and shpes running up
und down each side. Some one lulltH
In her sleep. We listen. It is the
belle of Surutoga: ''O.dear! I’vo been
here six weeks, worn $3,ooo worth of
dresses, and not a man 1ms proposed
to me. I’m sick and tired of life. I
wish I were'dead!”
HOW TO BEAT FARO.
(From tho Gold Hill (Nev.) News.)
There was once a young man resid
ing In Gold Hill, who wus known ns an
inveterate gambler. For ten years he
had worked ut his . trade, and at the
end of each month had lost his wages.
Finally, becoming desperate, ho mar
ried a bright young lady who had some
knowledge of worldly affairs and hu
man nature. Knowing her husband’s
woaknos9, she determined to turn It to
good account for tho advantage of the
family. Her plan was to start a furo
bank. Accordingly, she procured a
lay-out, box, easo-lcoeper, and neces
sary checks. At thh»-pelnt'her great
est difficulty was encountered. She
had no capital. Going to an expe
rienced gainblerand stating the ease
to him, she was able to borrow $200,
tho gambler well knowing that he had
u dead thing on getting his money
back. The preliminaries being ar
ranged, the husband readily ugreed to
play against his wife’s bank, provided
she would agree to “ring the bell” for
the drinks once in a while. The fail-
dealer acquiesced, and the game com
menced. At the end of an hour and a
half the female portion of the family
had possession of the month’s wages.
Next month the same experience was
repeated. In a short time the $200 had
been repaid the gambler, und a fine
embroidered lay-out was made by the
thrifty wife. Soon after she began to
buy diamonds and invest in stocks.
Her next stroke was to build an ele
gant mansion ; then she kept her own
carriage, and finally made a tour of
the world, accompanied by her hus
band and three children, and the pros
perity thus begun has never decreased.
Tho family now live on B street, Vir
ginia, and is reckoned among the liigli-
toncd class.
(From tho Austin, Tex., Democratic Statesman.)
The Cincinnati Times, in reporting
the poker-playing conversation of Gen.
Bedford Forrest, quotes him us saying,
“I sat there.” The word “sat,” unless
the other, “verbum,” preceded it, was
not in Forrest’s vocabulary. He
always said “sot”—“I sot thar.”
He would tolerate no corruption
of the mother tongue. By the
way, there uro two “r’s” in his pat
ronymic. Forrest, tvlien in pursuit of
Straight, and telling of it afterward,
suit! that ho “cum acrost a young wo
man who told mo about tlio Yankees,
and I didn’t have time to stop, so I
1'otclinil down, title Iter up and ‘sot’
Iter behind me, and its I rid along she
tolo me all about it.”
Another illustration of Forrest’s ca
pacity to use tho most vigorous king’s
English is discovered in an order ho
wrote in pencil on the pommel of his
saddle the day he captured Murfrees
boro. It is as follows :
Colonel Starnes:
Fetch up the battery dam ’em glvo ’om hell.
N. B. Fokhest, General.
Yet the man who used those words,
and never heard of a free school till
after the war, was tho greatest strate
gist and most skillful in planning cam
paigns, and could indueo cowards to
doughtier valor than any product of
the late war.
ONE OF THE BONANZA KINGS.
(San Francisco Correspondence Troy Times.)
Summing up my estimate of Mr.
Flood, I was led to believe, from all I
saw and heard, that he is a remarkable
man. Less than twenty years ago he
was “roughing it” among the miners
and other fortune-seekers in San Fran
cisco. With but little opportunity for
book education, and only a strong,
brawny body, and a clear head to con
trol it, he stands to-day at the head of
the leading bank iu California, and ono
of tho richest moneyed institutions in
the country. I am told by those who
know him that he is not a figure-head
guided and eoutrolled by others. Mr.
Martin, who was associated with hint
iu the Nevada Bank, tells me that Mr.
Flood is an originator, a thinker, a
man of idoas and suggestions; brainy,
alert, cool but decisive, and sometimes
almost audacious. It seems almost in
credible that a successful financier
could be built of such raw material,
hut the evidence is here and beyond
question. No one can meet Mr. Flood
and engage him in conversation with
out appreciating that he has met with
no ordinary man. He is another rep
resentative of a class in all nations in
all countries, who, when lifted by a
wave of extraordinary circumstances
to a position high beyond their estate,
make themselves, by the very force of
their natures, fit for the realm itself.
The Price of a Letr.
(From tho Pittsburg Commercial.)
A widow, whose husband was killed
in a railroad accident, sues the conpa-
ny and recovers $5,000 damages. Aman
who lost his leg iu the same accident,
sues in the snmo eourtand gets $15,000.
Tho widow waylays tho Judgo and
charges him with unjust discrimina
tion in valuing a leg at three times as
much as a whole man. “That is not
the point, my dear tnadam,”says the
urbane Judge. “Even with 815,000 the
man can not buy a leg as good as the one
he lost. But a woman as young as you
are, uml with $5,090, eau have no diffi
culty in getting a now husband.’ The
widow retires satisfied.
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For years the firm of Steele & Price
have deservedly had a high reputation
for the excellence of their Dr.. Price’s
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Flavoring Extracts. They have now
added a line of strictly Unique Per
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fumes of this or any other country.
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SMALL TALK.
A hair on tho head Is worth more
tliut u dozen In tho hush.
Fall's tiles have made their appear
ance.
You always find a dollur hill in
creases after it bus been folded u few
times.
The ordinary life of a locomotive Is
thirty years. The locomotive never
murries.
Bonnets are getting larger in antici
pation of the theater seuson.
Fullness under the eye denotes lan
guage. Barbers are the most uffllcted
in this respect.
The flower numed “bachelor’s but
ton” is so culled because it is apt to
full off.
If men’s morals were half as stilt us
their shirt collars, wtiut would the
world do for sensations?
A wag being asked if there was
much jewelry visible ut Muuhuttau
now, replied, “O-nyx,”
The Earl of Fife is dead, hut the
body bears no resemblance to a drum
oorps(e).
Love, remarks a married parapruph-
er, can excuse everything except u
missing shirt-button.
New York is so small that the in
habitants are obliged to put railrouds
underground or up In the air.
“Can love die?” Inquires Mary E.
Nealy In n recently published poem.
It cannot, though it gets dreadfully
adjourned occasionally.
| Nothing mads a business man more
l than to have n fellow ring him up at
2 a. m. under the impression tlmt he
! is a veterinary surgeon.
1 Ho who cannot get up his courage
to the sticking point will always slip
through tho rungs of Fame’s ladder.
Cunning men always get beat in the
long run, because they are just us dull
on one sido us they uro sharp on the
other.
The Syracuse Herald states: “You
can now go from New York to Boston
for one dollar.” But it omits to state
whether you can get the dollar when
you get there.
Digging Graves—A tramp applied
to a physician for work. Tho M. D.
asked: “I can’t, give you any work:
wdiat can you do?” “Dig graves,”
was the grim reply.
Wives of grout men oft romlnd us,
Wo should pick our wives with euro;
So wo may not leuve behind us
Hulf our nuturul crop of lmlr.
When a Indy gets the better of a
gentleman in argument these warm
days, the thing for him to sav in ac
knowledgement of his defeat is not
“I cave,” or “I tumble,” but “I
scream.”
“Don’t he an editor,” is the head
ing of a paragraph going the rounds
of the press, and a number of men
around various .newspaper offices are
following the advice with indefatiga
ble energy.
Act ono, thoy moot as In a plousnut droam;
Act two, he’ll trout to soda uud lce-crount;
Act throe, his cash, ulus I is nearly playod:
Act four, his girl grows cold, sodute and staid;
Act fivo, Just us his love Is rlpo und yellow,
His girl is sporting with nnothor fellow.
The Boston Post says it may be that
“ono half the world doesn’t know how
the other half lives.” But if so it goes
to prove that “the other half doesn’t
allow its servants to gossip over the
back fence with the servants next
door.”
King Alfonso broke his arm a fort
night ago, but as he has just gone on
a visit to his girl the St. Louis Tirnes-
Journal concludes it isn’t the arm
tliut he finds uso for when the two sit
out on the front stoop of the palace
and look at she moon.
Circumstances alter opinions. The
passenger on the way train thinks
that it tarries too long at stations.
Not so with the man who is running
rapidly towards the depot and hears
the whistle toot whon he is yet u block
away.
Two Meriden men are in trouble over
the ownership of a ladder, and are tak
ing steps for a lawsuit. The Danbury
News says the result of tjiis will be that
one lawyer will got the sides and tho
other lawyer will get the rounds, leav
ing the holes to the litigants.
An eccentric English gentleman, a
candidate for parliament, at it recent
meeting of his constituents, was asked
by a man in the crowd, “What about
the Liquor bill?” “Well,” suid the
eandidute, “mine was uncommonly
high last year. How was yours?”
A physician having a duel on his
hands, requested two of his friends to
arrange with his adversary the hour of
the meeting. “Mako it to-morrow,”
he says, “but not in the forenoon, be
cause I must visit four patients before
going to tho ground.” “I see,” mur
mured one of the seconds, “ho wants
to get his hand iu.”
A Philadelphia miss at Long Branch
bothers tho young men to whom she is
introduced by starting off in this way
before thoy have a chance to say a
word: “Yes; it is awfully hot. Wo
came last week. We will stay two
weeks more. We aro at this hotel. I
like Long Branch. Now let’s talk
about something else.”
The Detroit Free Press says “the
chances of an editor’s catching fish,
while trying to do so, are ten in fifty,
and those of the unknown smull boy,
with straw hat and broken suspender,
forty-nine in fifty.” It might add that
if the editor assumes an old straw hat
and ono broken suspender, he’ll only
discover that attempts at deception
never prosper.
“I was once very shy,” said Sidney
Smith, “but it was not long before I
made two very useful discoveries; first,
that, all mankind wore not wholly em
ployed In observing me (a belief that
all young people have); and next that
the world was very clear-sighted, and
soon estimated a man at. his just value.
This cured me, and 1 determined to bo
natural and let the world find me out.”
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” BLACK-DR AUQHV” cures oosti. enesa
and Stck-heuduohe.
For sale by T. S. Bradflcld.
THE FIRE THAT NEVER GOES OUT.
(From tlio CUarloUQOlMtfrvoiM
About three years ago the Observer
reported the case of a citizen of Meck
lenburg County, N. who, having
1 matrled In 1843, lighted a lire on Ills
hearthstone ns soon ns he carried Ills
bride to Ills new home, and hail kept
it burning over since. The citizen wus
in town yesterday, und, being ques
tioned about the matter, stated tliut,
the fire wus still burning, and that
throughout all those tlilrty-slx years it
had never been ullowod to go out.
Questioned as to whether or not It
made the house unaomfortubly hot in
torrid weather, he suid the extra heut
thus generated wus not peroeptlble. In
reply to another question, lie suid that
in summer weather, when it was noo-
essury for comfort’s sake to keep the
tire burning very low, lie hud to get up
frequently ot night to replenish it
slightly, hut tliut lie counted this us
nothing when he contemplated the
Idea of that fire going out. He has ev
idently formed for it a strong attach
ment, and yet one would not lake him
for a sentimental man. But this lire
Is to him n constunt reminder of the
day when he first brought home his
bride. Around it his children litivo
grown up into manhood and woman
hood, and the children have guzed Into
its light. It was the Inst light tliut fell
upon the eyes of his wife, und lie hopes
it will he the last that will full upon
Ids. Viewed thus, lifts sentiment iu the
mutter can he understood, and so
strong Is this sentiment that with the
old nmn it amounts almost to u pas
sion.
THE FORTUNES OF THE PRESI
DENTS.
(From tlio Baltimore Gazette.)
Washington left an estuto worth
$800,000. John Adams died moderute-
j ly well off. Jefferson died so poor tlmt
l if Congress had not given $20,000 for
his library lie would have been bank-
! rupt. Madison was economical and
died rich. Monroe died so poor tliut
1 lie was burled at the expense of his rel-
! atives in this city. John Quincy Adams
i left about $50,000, the result of pru
dence. His son, Charles Francis
I Adams, gained a large fortune by nitir-
' riage. Jackson died tolerably well
! off. Van Buren tiled worth some
$300,000. It is suid that during his en-
! tire administration he never drew any
; portion of his salary, hut on leaving
: took the whole $100,000ln a lump. Polk
left about $150,000. Tyler married a
lady of wealth and accomplishments,
and died rich. Taylor left about $15U-
ooo. Film ore was always tin economi-
! cal man, and added to his wealth by
his last marriage. Pierce savod about
! $50,000. Buchanan left about $200,000;
' Lincoln about $75,000; Johnson ubout
' $50,000.
SCORPION AND TARANTULA.
j (From Iho Reno (Nov.) Gazette, August 10th.)
Lew Walker and Pietro Humbert
| came in close contact with some pois-
i onous animals during their recent trip
j to the 8011th. One evening as Mr.
j Walker was picking up u keg of water,
| with the intention of raising it to his
| lips, he felt a peculiar sensation in ono
J of his fingers, a tingling that induced
him to suddenly set down the keg. Ho
j saw at once that lie had been stung by
a scorpion. To suck the poison from
the wound wus tho work of a moment.
That done, he cut out the bite with a
pocket-knife,' poured ammonia into
tho wound and tied a stringurotind the
finger close to the hand. An inward
application of whisky und the prompt
measures described prevented uny ill
effects of the poison. On the same day
Mr. Humbert had tho misfortune to
seat himself on a tarantula. The ven
omous creature immediately resented
the affront by giving hint a ferocious
bite, which caused him to instantly re- I
surae a standing position. Fortunate- !
ly tho poison was not rapidly absorbed !
into his system, and the application of ;
remedial ugents prevented any serious [
ill effects.
A Peculiar Duel.
(From tho London Truth.)
I was looking over the stories that
were sent around last week for the
prize, and I wonder tliut the editor did
not insert this ono, which is really too
good to be lost: “There is a curious
duel now pending in Boston, which be
gan several years ago. Mr. A., a bach
elor, challenged Mr. B., a married
man, with one child, who replied that
the conditions were not equal, that he
must necessarily put more at risk with
hts life than the other, and he declined.
A year afterward ho received a chal
lenge from Mr. A., who stated that he
too, had now a wife and child, and he
supposed, therefore, tho objection of
Mr. B. was no longer valid. Mr. B. re
plied that he now had two children,
consequently the inequality still ex
isted. The next year Mr. A. renewed
his challege, having now two children
also, but his adversary had three. The
matter, whon last heard from, was still
going on, the number being six to sev
en, and the challenge yearly renowed. ”
A Crane Catching Fish.
(From tlio Lebanon Standard.)
A week or two since, Sam Prewitt,
son of Mr. J. H. Prewitt, residing two
miles from Lebanon, Ky., on thcOamp-
bellsvilie[tike,discovered a lurge white
crane on his father's pond, fired at it
and broke one of its wings. Since that
time the cruno has remained at the
pond, and catches fish, in which it.
manifests great skill, seizing and de
vouring daily an almost lncrediblo
number of tho small fish in which the
pond ubounds. Several persons cull
at Mr. Prewitt’s house every day to in
form him that there is a bird of extra
ordinary size on his pend, and to ad
vise him to go and shoot it.
Why Is it
That cheap, adulterated baking pow
ders are warranted equal to Dr. Price's,
when it is known that. Dr. Price's j
Cream Baking powder is the purest :
and the healthiest made ? It is be
cause the adulterated kinds aro bought I
for less anti give u better profit.
Atrial packaged “BLACK-DRAUGHT'.’
free of charge at
T. 6. Bradflckl’s.
Peculiarities of Speeoh,
(From Cnubour In Paris lN»irl<*f»»r.|l
Every one lias some peculiarity of
speech. The Yorkshire nian is known
nil over England by his curious a«net!t„
ami tlio Cockney has for centuries been
the butt of ridicule for Ills unklutl
treatment of Ills “Bitches” and Ills
transpositions of V und W. Our South
erners call us all “Yankees” above-
Mason uml Dixon’s line, and accuse us
of Buying “I guess and calculate,” and!
we retaliate by saying “I reckon tliutV.
so!” I hitve a ludy friend who lias it
weakness for saying “I say!” and be
gins most of 4tcr sentences in tliut
manner. One day some person was
asking a mutual friend wlmt Mrs. ”1
Hay” called her husband whom she ad
dressed him fainillurly. His Christian
name happened to be Hezekiuh, qr, Eh-,
enezer, or Jehosiiplmt, or some other-
Biblical nume hard to shorten into a
pet name, ns for example, “Ebby,”'or
“Hessy,” or “Phuttie.” The friend
made answer: “Oil, she merely calls
him ‘I Hay.’ ”
Roush on Chattanoosa.
A Memphis refugee came through on
the Memphis and Charleston railroad
the other evening, und was stopped at
Wanulitttchic, the quarantine station
for Chattanooga, where he was mot by
the quarantine officers of that enter
prising village. After he had beeu
thoroughly inspected the refugee re
marked :
“See here, mister, do you live in
Chattanooga?”
“Yes replied the officer.
“Well do you propose to'stop me in
that town?”
“No, sir; we propose to see tlmt you
don’t stoii.”
“Well,” remarked the refugee, "I’m
glad uf that. 1 would as soon have a
spell of tlio yellow fever as to stop iu
tliut burg. I want to go through tliero
at tlio rate of twenty-five miles an hour
with the car windows down, und I will
hold my nose then. A ntun limy sur
vive an attack of yellow fever, but an
hour in Chattanooga is certain deuth.”
An Underground Stream.
(From the Albany News.)
Last week while a negro was digging
a well-on Mr. John Walter’s place ueur
Albany, Ga., he suddenly begun yell
ing out ut the top of Ills voice for tile
bucket to bo let down, which was
; quickly done, and tin- darkey wus
drawn up to the top of the well, trem
bling and panting, with eyes as white
us cotton and as big us saucers. Inves
tigation revealed a swift underground
stream, rushing along underneath tlio
spot where the negro had been digging.
There was only a thin crust of earth
between the negro and the stream, und
it suddenly began to give way. The
darkey could see and hear the water
rushing below him. He escaped with
out injury, hut his tools sank in tho
water and were lost.
Pro-Eminent
As an elegant hair dressing stands
Parker's Hair Bulsani, deservedly pop
ular for the beautiful hair it produces,
and its cleansing and lieuling proper
ties. Commencing at the roots, it pro
motes a luxuriant growth of young
liair, and unfailingly restores gray or
l'uded hair to ils original youthful •col
or, giving a soft, rich and lustrous ap
pearance of great beauty. It is pleas
antly cooling to the scalp, cleanses it
from Dandruff, euros itching and hu
mors, und stops falling of the hair.
It is perfectly hurmless, exquisitely
perfumed, never soils the skin or gums
tile liuir, and pleases everybody by its
many excellent and attractive quali
ties. A patron nssures us he has used
twelve different hair preparations anti
tlmt Parker’s Hair Bulsain surpasses
them all. Sold in largo bottles, at on
ly 50 cents and $1.00, by all first-class
druggists. no
Take “BLACK-DRAUGHT" and you
will never be bilious.
For sule by T. S. Bradfleld.
CARPETS
OF ALL GRADES AND QUALITIES,
RANGING IN PRICE FROM 35 CENTS TO
$2.00 AND UPWARDS.
rpHIH largo assortment, Including beautiful
1 brussols, which outstrips tho pretentious
stocks of even lurgo cities, Is not to he met with
In rotail carpet stores this side of New York or
Boston, Is now to ho seen at our store.
WE HAVE COMPLETED AR
RANGEMENTS
with one of the fluent carpet houses hi New York,
so tlmt wo can show you, as It were, at your owh
door a New York wIioIchaIo stock, which Is dono
through the medium of a woudurful Invention.
RICHARDSON’S CARPET EX
HIBITOR.
This wonderful piece of Ingenuity Is so ar
ranged that wo can show from half a yard sam
ple, as it wort), a thousaud yards, or In othor
words, it multiples the sample a thousand times,
matching It perfectly and making It appcar Just
as it would made up and nailed upon the floor,
rind shows it bettor than when rollod out the old
way. This gives all tho opportunity of selecting
from a variety of
NEW AND CHOICE PATTERNS.
and varieties which no merchant would be able
to carry In stock. Thus relieved of this burden,
having no money Invested, no remuniits to take
bffpiollis. no eld stock or unsaleable' patterns
left as permanent Investments, wo can afford to
scud und get y<m any stylo or-pattern you may
u could
yourseir.
WE HAVE ENTERED ON .THIS EN
TERPRISE
>f Carpets to make purchase frofh, such ns they
could not meet with lu any-retail store of the fur-
gust cities, and propose soiling them at very low
llgurns, that we have dune them such a kindness
we if re fain to believe It will nbt tfo auappreclatt
od. -So make-the exact measurement of your
room, add wo will pledge ourselves to suit yod
lu pattern, quality and price, and furnish y«d
the carpet In the shortest possible notice. Cut'-
pots mil'to fit the room, and made up If desired'.
Very respectfully yours,
’ ‘ ' DALLIB Ii OKAY.
DRY GOOD9, CARPETS, NOTIONS fce.
lAOn.VNClK, OKOUOIA.
WANTED.,*SWS
yassurs to engage In a’ pleasant and lmUtabio
buMncss. Good mon wi.li flnd this a rare olmnco
To Mako Money.
Buch will plooso answer thin advertisement by
loiter, enclosing stninp for reply, stating whu’t
business they havo boon engaged In. None- but
those who mean business need apply.
AtfdrcttJ riNLL'Y, HabVEV k Co., Attend,