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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
faONAL CAPITAL
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[jC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
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PIIKNIUICNT CLEVELAND AP
WNTUK.STB ANU REMOVALS, BTC.
t'OMAtEHHIONAI,.
thl? s,ntu on Thursday, the pre
„oj,.,r auMuunoed theiippointment
JilfCt committee under Hoar's reso
' #8 to the lelatious of commerce
I business between the United States
c , D# ds Among the lills reported
■ committees, and placed on the cal
,r #re the fol owing: House bill
■tin.' riglit-of-wsy to Hirminghum &
[l/ltuilwav Company through the
ijlor.an mi itary reservation. Mr.
tinoiTd to proceed to the considera
‘( bills on the c deodar in their reg
tirdtr. Mr. Sherman moved to pro
|in the consideration of the lisheries
~in open executive session. The
jurnti u us agreed to; a strict party
uni the fi-heries treaty was taken
The House, on motion of Mr.
p. of South Carolina, passed the
It bill paying Charleston, S. C., for
tt . 0 [ the ciladel academy by the
nuutnt from August 20th, 1807, to
nrr 2.1, 1882. tiie amount to be dc
jiti hv inquiry. Mr. Hovey, of
im, took tiie floor to reply to the
rh of Mr. Matson, of Indiana,
ltd in the Congressional Record of
(v hut, upon the subject of pen
l which s| ech, Mr. Hovey said, had
b;tn delivered in the House. Mr.
n 'i tp ech started a long debate
ithe question as to which of the po
lities lull been tic most liberal in
tilings with soldiers of the late War.
(OMideration of the hill was then
ltd alter some debate about relurn-
Ittile flag-, and for some time ran
illilv until Mr. Dockery, of .Missouri,
Ifiitated a brief tariff debate by a few
rks on the subject of the surplus,
ig its progress, llynum, of Inuiana,
tube was not violating any confi
■of the committee room instating
then the Mill's bdj was being con
tdin the committee, the gentleman
Pennsylvania, (Kc'lcy), liad made a
unto r.p ul the entue tobacco tax,
that motion, Messrs. Kelly
Bed voted in the affirma-
Mtssrs. .McKinley, Brown and
9*i, voted against it. Ho cited
Kshowing that ihe majority of Re
ions, represented ou the committee,
mot in favor of the repeal of the to-
Itti. Mr. Dingley declared that if
tobacco provision of the Mills bill
been put in o a separate bill it could
i been passed at any time. Mr,
(ton, of Maryland, as a representa
if a tubacco-growing district, an
ltd his itailiness to meet the issue
rely in bis district in support of Mr.
Hill.
GOSSIP.
i the House, Mr. Outhwaite, of Ohio,
ku effort to secure the consideration
ke Senate bill to enable the executive
iranents to participate in the Colum
iOhio, Exposition, but the demand
the regular order, made by Mr.
%of Alabama, operated as au ob
-01.
The Mrs. Cl vcland hat” has come
Ifuhion in Washington. Just before
g for Marion, the I’resid nt’s wife
based a soft felt hat, drab in color
Alpine in shape. The result has
that young worm n of fa-hion,
to they be blondes or brunettes,
adopted the new hat, and in this
•ce, above all others, Mrs. Cleve
'i example has been felt,
tgeon-denernl Hamilton has received
following telegram from Surgeon
'•t. at Tampa, Fla.: “House in
u<n completed with negative result.
[to suspicious cases occurred last
tttg Two others this morning.
Bet village guarded by twenty-five
Suspicious houses have been dis-
Probably one hundred persons
We to take the fever. No panic
•Bthe people.”
fe Justice Fuller and Mrs. Fuller
Wiew York on Thursday. Having
Butted that there was no public ne-
Bjthat lie should, at this late diy iq
tessof tin court, qualify, and make
Met (or anew assignment of justices
* several circuits, the chief justice
™oed to po-tpone taking the oath
®ee until the reassembling of the
h October. Besides, fbis course
and most iu accordance with prece-
* WOMAN’S CRIME.
,o Thursday, May Patton. of Johns
j/ I '' s bot and killed Charles De
- ' a "sll known young man of
'(fwille, anil then blew her brains
L ~e tra K'<Jy took place in the
Hnh° i" *‘, The couple called
s ■ , l at o’clock in the morning,
lot i , re "* s t ur< -‘4 as C. Lewis anil
J “°an>town. They were given a
ao'liing more was heard from
I® n 9:80, when the guests were
, 1 - T l “ e report of two pistol shots
K succession. The hotel clerk
.‘“room, but the door was locked
j*M accessary to break it down to
feiot ®j lin ®a. On the floor was
|.s , dead, with a bullet hole In
tJ’i':’ an< f lying on the side of the
ltd(H..!!?. "euaui, also dead, with
h 0 |?R front a wound in her head,
■'r tnl tightly clasped in her
ktt,. c , Wns quite handsome, and
kapui? ■ soars of age. DcKnight
r, 1 " 11 ' 1 <!i r conductor, and lived
ku ‘ rcnts ' n awren ce v ille. lie
•thinrr. ent >' * four years of age. In
ktnj . ® room a letter was found
ilj tn, ' ant * 'f stated that she was
" 10 commit suicide.
ALL three held.
h -
of < n Cn ’ ® nt Wing and Koegle,
*>, n“S I ** charged with the Chi
iuoi|,„" n 1 “ ton * Quincy conspiracy,
Huron J “oaring iu court on Tuesday
Mtle s flic only new evidence
W„I ew s that Bauercisen pur
!ot bln 6 a P 1, . noil ' a and several pack
et it to i • Vltri ui t a drug store and
feniotß „‘! l m ’ "dh instructions to go to
fdocomno ? Utin l * le 4 ’Uks of sev-
i„,ife (Bowles) went to
tb, o engines were so closely
n<> opportunity to
JM- it,,' the prisoners were held
S, of ereise ". in $9,000 on three
atuj m,u >n l si) , lracy . malicious mis-
StlodS W ! UI handling of dynn-
S.pi t :“ g ln , on two charges
s°Ket;„) e :■ ud handling dynamite,
00 0U the c ar S e of
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUHTItIAI. I’ItOUUESI—THE KXCURSIOX
J'EVEU ItAILIIOAD ACCIDf.NTS-gUICfDKS
DEFALCATIONS COTTON REPORTS,ETC.
(■•orda.
Iho 9th Georgia hHttulion ol artillery
held a reunion at Suwanoe on Thursday.
The ladies of Atlanta have started a
h" s |,i al known as the King's Daughters’
Hospital, and the donations were very
liberal by the citizens.
.lodge Marshall J. Clark, of the Su
preme Court, Ims reversed the decision of
Oidinary Calhoun, of Fulton county,
“llint it was no crime to get drunk,” anil
the third diunk law is in force again in
Atlanta.
The melon-growers of South Georgia,
aroused thereto by the cxoibiiant freight
lutes of the season now < limit g, have re
solved uponconci rt of action in order to
gain their rights for the luture. They
have resolved upon a general convention
to be held in Thomasvillc on the 15th of
August.
The colored people of Hancock county
on Thursday held a meeting in Col.
I licch’s grove, near Sparta. It is esti
matid that there were between two and
three thousand present. Whatisstiangc
is that so vast an assemblage of them
could have been brought together and
entertained a day without the attraction
and excitement of politics. It wus a
meeting of ti c colored farmers of the
county, who came together to discuss the
agricultural outlook aud to have a social
time. A bountiful spread of barbecue
and chicken, etc., was had, and the very
best of order prevailed. Very sensible
speeches were delivered.
I o.i.in.
Many if the orange ticci around Clear
Water Hurler are* row putt ng forth
• Hi ir third crop of blooms for this year.
T.ic tol acco crop of A'acbua county
wll be short this year. Seid were sown
for plant ng a 1 irgeaiea, but thedroigbt
prevent, el the setting out of the plants,
aud in many cases the plants went to
seed in the plant beds.
C. C. Powell of Rochelle has two sun
flower plants grow,ng on his place that
are ten feet high aid six feet in diameter.
One of the ph its, by actual count, con
tained 1,136 blooms, tine other over 1,000.
The present cotton crop of Madison
county is said to be the finest grown for
years, and if the present weather contin
ues and tl.c caterpillars delay their visit
for a teasonable length of time, the crop
will be the largest gathered for many
years.
It is not improbable that there will be
a regular stampede of colored pesple
from Gainesville and viciuity for Blue
tields, Nicaragua, in a few months. The
news received by citizens residing at
Gainesville who have friends in Nicara
gua is of the most encouraging characlcr,
mid many are talking of moving to ttiat
region as Boon as they can arrange to do
so.
Tennenare*
Fifty armed men visited the jail at
Carthage and took out W, H. Handley,
who on September 17 last killed J. B.
Woiman, deputy sheriff. The sheriff
refusing to give up the keys, the mob,
with axes and crowbars, broke into
Handley’s cell and took him across the
river aud hanged him to a tree within
sight of the jail.
Mr. John liirkman, president of the
American National Bank, and a promi
nent capitali-t, was killed at Nashville
on Thursday in a flightful manner. For
some time past he has been in a feeb e
state of health and confined at home.
He was very fond of driving, and had a
spirited gray horse which everyone knew
by sight. After a two hours’ drive lie
was returning home when he stiuck the
horse a slight tap with the whip. The
animal jumped, throwing Mr. Kiikman
forward over the front of the little trot
ting wagon, his foot catching and sus
pending him head downward at the
horse’s heels. The frightened horse be
gan running and kicked the helpless man
on the head at every jump.
Non ill Carolina.
The stockholders of the Aikon county
Loan and Savings Bank of Aiken, met
ou Thursday tor permanent organization.
The bank will open its dooisfor business
on September 1, 1888.
Mtasonrl.
Several deaths have occurred in Kansas
City as the result of excessive heat. The
highest temperature recorded by the
standard thermometer has been 07 de
grees. _____
DEFIANT MOONSHINERS.
For some time, a gang of desperate
moonshiners have been operating around
the coal mines and railroad camps in and
around Blocton, Ala. They became so
bold that they defied arrest, and the last
doputy United States marshal who visited
that section was run off, and ordered by
the moonshiners never to return, ltecently
this gang of moonshiners waylaid and
murdered a prominent citizen of the
county for his money. This aroused such
excitement among the citizens of Briar
field, and that vicinity, that a strung
posse was organized to hunt down the
outlaws. They were soon found, and
after an exchange ot shots the moon
shiners look refuge in an old drift at the
Briarfield coal mines. The posse of citi
zens determined to starve them to death
if they would not come out and surren
der. Tuesday night one of the moon
shiners made a rush from thednf ,
hoping to escape in the darkness. He
was fired on, and fell dead. The others
are still in the drift, and refuse to sur
render.
MAXWELL’S CASE.
The following dispatch ws received
at the executive department m Jefferson,
Mr., on Thursday: “Washington, D.
p -Iflovernor A. I’. Moorehouse: I for
ward vou by mail to-day the application
of the British government for a respd
exact statements of the application are
The governor of course cannot siJ *W
may be his probable action in regard to
fit- _
ARRESTED.
Nineteen
arrested at Cracow. An tria, for melting
natives of that district to te to
Am. rica Bonds rcptcseoting 1,000,000
florins were found in their P 0
Otlier agents have been arrested at Brody
and Czeinowitz.
THE WORLD OVER.
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY
•PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, ItAIL
IIOADS, WOUKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
James G. Blaine has sailed for New
Voik.
Jury trials in eases of anarchists in
Austria and Hungary have been suspend
ed tor one year.
The Little & Croft lumber company's
mills at Evansville, Ind., were burned on
Thursday. Loss, SIOO,OOO.
The emperor of Germany, emperor of
Russia, and emperor of Austiulia, will
meet at some point on the Austrian
frontier, in Autumn.
Dr. O’Reilly resumed his duties as at
tending physician to Gen. Sheridan at
Nonquit, Mass., and his bulletin notes a
manifest improvement in Sheridan’s con
dition during his (O’Reilly’s) absence of
three weeks.
The Cologne Gazette confirms tho re
port that Emperor William will meet
Queen Victoria, of England, on September
29th, duiing the latter’s visit to her
daughter, Empress Frederica—Victoria,
at Baden.
The names of five Irish priests who
urged the tenants on the Van Deleur es
tate to resist evictions have been for
warded to the Pope by the clerical au
thorities. They have also sent a report
to the l’ope of the case of Father Mc-
Kenna of Kilrush.
A special from St. Cloud, Minn , says
twenty-one houses in all, were struck by
lightning during Thursday's stoim.
Two of Mrs. IClingert’s children w ill die
from effects of a bolt that struck her
house. St. Cloud is the city which was
devastated by a cyclone some two years
ago.
There is a man in Melrose, near Bos
ton, Mass., who claims to have discov
ered the coining money out of dirt, and
he has been doing it for some time in
spite of government laws and officials.
Ilis business has been conducted in such
n mysterious rnaunir as to attract the at
tention of seciet service officials, but they
have left his retreat mystified but satis
fied that he was not breaking the laws.
This man’s name is C. H. Washburn,
and his inventive genius had enabled
him to manufacture alumnium from or
dinary clay.
MORMONS DISLIKED.
At Bymeville, llarr son county, Ind.,
Elder Scott, a preacher of the Church of
the Latter Day Saints, commenced a sc
rics of meetings, resulting in many con
versions to the faith taught by Elder
Scott. This branch of the Mormon
churches opposes polygamy, preach the
mar approach of the millennium, baptize
all their converts by immersion, and in
many particulars their doctrines are sim
ilar to those of the Christian or Camp
-1 ellite church. Several days ago Elder
Scott returned to Bymeville and resumed
his meetings. Ho was accompanied by
Elder Hardin who claims Chicago as his
home, and who assisted at the meetings.
Nothing occurred at these meetings out
side the usual routine of leligious revi
vals, but the White Caps seem not to
have liked the doctrines or proceedings;
while a large congregation wag assembled
to listen to the sermon, about thirty
White Caps rode up to the church and
commenced shouting and tiring their re
volver. Several of the White Caps rode
up to the door anil threw a note into the
church, which they directed to be read.
The note gave notice to Elder Scott and
Elder Hardin that unless they left the
town immediately they would he taken
out and severely "dealt with.
COTTON.
The New York Financial Chronicle , in
its weekly review of the cotton move
ment, says that the total receipts since
the first of September, 1887, 5,488,937
bales, against 5,204,070 bales for tiie
same period of 1886-7, shows an increase
since September 1, 1887, of 284,258
bales. The exports for the week reached a
total of 27,285 bales, of which 14,819 wen
tor Great Hriiain, 7,318 for France and
2,238 to the rest of the continent. The
total sales for forward delivery for the
week are 330,400 bales. For immediate
delivery the total sales foot up 6,406
bales, including 3,430 for export, 2,970
for consumption. The imports into con
tinental ports have been 18,000 bales.
There is a decrease in the cotton in sight
of 315,283 bales as compared with tlie
same date of 1887, a decrease of 239.283
bales as compared with the corresponding
date of 1886 aud a decrease of 278,735
bales as compared with 1885. Tiie old
interior stocks have decreased during the
week 3,286 bales, and are 5,113 bales
more than at the same period last year.
The leceipts at the same towns have been
2,037 bales more than tho same week last
year, and since September 1 the receipts
at all the towns are 111,204 bales more
than for the same time in 1886-7.
WON’T SIGN.
The news at St. Paul, Minn., about
the Standing Rock conlerence is rather
contradictory. The regular correspond
ent at the agency says yesterday’s council
lasted over four hours, but nothing was
accomplished. The Indians refused to
sin-n. Speeches were made by Gall, Mad
Bear, Sitting Bull and other chiefs. Sit
tine’Bull said he was opposed to the
treaty, and as many of the Indians had
crops' to look after there was no use of
keeping them in council longer. Gall
said he would never sign another paper
and that this was final.
UNEASY INDIANS.
Further report of the trouble on the
Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona,
Show that the Indians have been stealing
cattle and preparing a supply of dried
meat preparatory, it is assumed to an
outbreak of hostilities When the part,
went to arrest U.S host, cs they opened
fire and killed three Indian scouts. Ihe
, " e returned the fire, wounding several
of the band, which immediately left the
reservation, followed afterwards b,
others, all going the mountains.
RECOVERED.
Gen Boulanger drove in the Bois du
Boloe-ne on Sunday for the first time
since he was wounded. IDs carriage
was followed by sixteen carnages filled
with rein rti-rs and admirers, wfio shout
ed • “A has Fiouquet 1” “A has Ferry 1”
“Vive Boulanger!” A great crowd of
gamins escorted the general back to
Paris.
“Jfr COUNTRY MAT BHB BVSB BR RIGHT. BIOBT OB WRONG MT COUNTRY."-J<ffw*m
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1888.
DAN’L AND L
“Which do you want f’ paid Dan to me,
An' 1 looked across the luarth at him,
“For, eince it'* got we can't agree,
We may ax well pet things In trim.
You shall have whichever farm you will,
An’ a one-half intereet in the mill.’*
Of late there had bin a hitch somehow,
An* to save our livwi we couldn’t agroo.
An’ so we had concluded now
That it was letter to part, you set*
He fakin’ one farm and 1 the other,
Btomad better than tryln’ to live together.
“An’ then there is the stock, you know—
The cattle an’ sheep, horses an’ such;
You shall have your share o’ them also,'
Or, if a little more, I don’t care much.
An’ I hope you'll find, as you think you will,
\ ou 11 be better off without me, Lill.
“But I’m thinkin',” Raid he, coughin’ like,
An’ lookin’ just like he did that day
They took an’ buried our little Ike,
“That may be, Lill, you'd better stay
In the old pla e here, just as it is,
You keepin’ the trinkets an' things o’ his.
“For I'm sure,” ho said, coughin' again,
‘ If he’d ha’ known afore he died
That this was goin’ to happen, then
You'd a got all his in the divide,
Which bein' the case I’m not the one
To rob you o' them whatever is done.”
I didn't dare for to look at him.
Though I knew he wasn't lookin’ at me;
My heart was full, my eyes were dim
With the mists an’ haze of memory,
An' 1 saw our lives as they had been
Ere a cross, harsh word had come between.
When our home was always filled with cheer,
And both our hearts were full of joy,
As Dan sat there an’ I sit here
Watchin’ the pranks of our little boy,
Now a kissin’ Dan or a makin’ me
Sit with him on his papa’s knee.
An' how he'd clap his hanis with glee,
When Dan would pull me out for a romp,
As be often did, just for to see
Our little darlin laugh an l stomp.
An then sometime, when his romp was o'er
He’d fall asleep at our feet on the floor.
Then Dan would come an’ set by me,
An take my hand in the tenderest way,
An’ talk of our joys an’ the love that we
Found a growin’ sweeter day by day.
An' now, I thought with a sinkin’ heart,
Dan an' I are a goin’ to part.
An' my heart kep’ swellin’ more an' more,
As one after another memory came,
An’ I got up and walked the floor,
Tryin’ to think which was mos’ to blame,
But his faults were hid in the lapse of years,
Or but dimly seen through the mist of tears.
For somehow, try an’think as I would,
I couldn't mind where the strife began;
Just now I could only think of the good
An' not the evil side of my man,
Till in my heart I owned with sham.
That I it was, not Dan, to blame.
An' when i looked to'ard Dan again
He was cornin’ across the floor to me,
An', to eare my life. I can’t explain
How it all happened; I know that he
Caught me in his arms and kissed my cheek,
An’ when at last I was able to speak,
Said I to Dan’l: “Say what you will,
I don't want this nor the other farm
Nor a one-half interest in the mill;
I just wan’t your protective arm
To shield me as long as we both shall live,
An’ all the love you’re able to give.”
—Owen Emmett , in Cincinnati Enquirer.
HOLLO!”
BY MRS. BERNARD WHITMAN.
Miss Jane Graham was not a very at
tractive looking woman, nor was she
considered a very amiable one. She
lived quite alone by herself in a tiny
Cottage on the outskirts of the town.
She had lived there some ten years, not
caring to make acquaintances. She went
regularly to church in pleasant weather,
and ourc a year the good old minister
called upon her. Hu always spoke of
her as "Miss Graham.” '\ he few neigh
bors called her “Miss Jane” in a distant
*ort of manner, but the aucy boys and
girls in the neighborhood used to call
her “Old Miss Jane.”
Now Miss Jane was by no incans old.
To be sure, her hair was beginning to
show a little gray, but then .Miss .lane
had had the blackest of black hair in her
girlhood, and that often turns before the
age of thirty. Some front teeth, too,
were missing—whether from lack of
care or from an accident no one knew
or cared to ask. lierfare expressed irri
tability. She looked as if things went
wrong, and I rather think her appear
ance expressed the truth.
But with all her sour looks, Miss Jane
had two soft spots in her heirt. The
first spot was the bigger, and was filled
by Dolly, tho cow. Doily was, on the
whole, rather less attractive than her
mistress
Her expression was "not kindly, and
she had a broken horn; but Dolly’s
looks belied her. She was really a very
amiable cow. in spite of one eye being in
a black setting, and the other in a white;
but no one but Miss Jane knew her
gentleness, for no one but Miss -lane
ever went near her. Miss .Jane milked
her and cared for her; put her in tho
pasture in the morning, and took her
out at night, and led her into the little
shed, where she was milked and fed
with care. If anybody bad listened, he
could have heard Miss Jane repeating
softly to her sometimes a couplet from
Mother Goose which she remembered
from her childhood:
“Cushie-cow, bounie, come let down your
milk,
And I will give you a gown of silk.”
And “cushie cow bonnic” would lot
down the most surprising quantity of
milk for Miss Jane, and turn her
head and look at her out of those great
eyes in a most loving manner.
Yes, M ss Jane did have a very soft
spot in her heart for Dolly, hilt nobody
knew it but Dolly, and Miss .lane hardly
knew it herself.
The other soft place I No one guessed
that either. It was really a very funny
hing. And this time neither Miss Jane
nor the object of h -r atiections knew it.
This time it was a boy I
He was a sturdy, treckled-faced little
fellow, perhaps eleven years old. In
warm weather he went barefoot, which
Miss Jane hated, for she said it was “a
most dirty way of doing thiugs.” In
colder wea'her he ivai fully dressed, lie
had no mittens, to be sure; no earlaps,
no muffler; but a warm jacket, rather
faded, a well-patched pair of trousers,
and stockings that now were darned,
and now had a big hole in the knee.
It was some time before Miss Jane saw
dll this; but.she did see it as time crept
on. At first she saw ouly the sturdy
little bare feet go by her cottage every
day. At last, to her surprise, one morn
ing, a rough, boyish voice called out,
“Hollo 1”
It wax no quiet, polished, or concilia
tory Vuico. It was a loud call in a
merry, careless, happy-go-lucky voice.
Miss Jane was astonished. Bhc looked
at the hoy sharply. He didn’t seem to
mind, but trudged on.
The next day he culled out “Hollo!"
again wheu he saw her, and aguin the
next day. Still the same cliccry, hearty
voice, as if he were saluting another boy
as sturdy as himself. Her surprise be
gan to give way to a quiet interest in
the little fellow, and one morning, toller
own astonishment, for she had no thought
of it the second before, she answered
back, ‘‘Hollo!”
It wasn’t very loud, nor very enthusias
tic, but the hoy heard it, and gaie a half
nod, a if to say: “That’s all right!" and
trudged on the same as before.
From that time it was a settled thing.
She always said “Hollo!” in answer to
his “Hollo I" Hers grew a little more
hearty, and he alwuvs gave her that en
couraging nod which meant, evidently :
“If you keep on trying, you’ll get
there. ” ,
if you had asked Miss Jane about the
boy, she would never have betrayed the I
interest she began to feel in him. But it
was just about that time that the weather
began to grow cold, and sometimes a
sharp frost and a good cold night made
MBs June think about winter.
“That boy s hands do look awful i
cold,” she said to herself one day. “He j
can’t seem to keep ’em warm. He’s a
blowing and clapping of 'em all the \
time.” And Miss Jane's little soft place
grew a little bigger and a little softer,
till she remembered a pair of socks up in
a chest that, years ago, she had knitted
for a brother who went away and had
never been heard from. The socks were
new.
She wondered if she couldn’t ravel
them and make that boy a pair of mit
tens? She did not even know the boy’s
name. He was always "that boy” to 1
her. He still called out “Hollo!” when
he went by, mid though lie couldn’t hear
her answer, he still nodded in his cheery
way.
Miss Jane set up the mittens. Queerly
enough, she set the first one up several
times. She guessed it was too big at
first. “No boy would want his band
all wobbling about in a bag,” she Baid.
Then she set it up so small that she was
ashamed of herself not to “have more
sense."
When the wrist was done she fell to
thinking that “that boy was so kind of
cheery that he’d like a red stripe in
’em.” He should have a red stripe, and
when Mr. Collins called that day, to
take her butter to towns, she asked him
to briDg her back a little skein of red
yarn.
After this the mittens grew, and it is
well they did, for the cold winter had
come, aud the snow was growing deeper
and deeper.
“I guess he’ll want them mittens now
if he ever does, and I’ll give ’em to him
right away." So the next morning,
when she heard his cheery “Hollo!”
she rapped on the window-pane so loud
that he came to a full stop. But recover
ing frog} hjs surprise, he started off again,
nodding carelessly. Miss Jane was not
expecting this, but she was rather re
lieved, for the moment she had rapped
she felt that she was unprepared to say
anything.
What should she say? She didn’t
know. But she did know that she had
knitted those mittens and the boy must
have them. She must think up a way
to make him stop for them. She did a
lot of thinking that day and the next
morning when he called out, she had
ready fastened on a forked stick outside
the window, the mittens.
She rapped loudly. The boy turned
and saw them. With one bound he was
up at the window.
“Are they tor me?” fie shouted, joy
fully, through the window.
She nodded her head.
“You’re awful good!" was his answer,
looking up gratefully as he ran on his
way.
“I wonder if he thinks so,” thought
Miss Jane. “He's got some manners,
anyway."
That afternoon it snowed and con
tinued to snow all night. Miss Jane
thought it looked like a heavy storm,
and when night came she made Dolly as
comlortablc as she could, fed her and
went into the house. The next morning
the snow was drifted so that poor Miss
Jane couldn't get out of her door to go
to the shed. Neither could she see out
of the window where she usually watched
for "that boy” to go by.
she had plenty to eat and plenty of
fuel till she should be shoveled out. She
did not feel worried about herse.f. But
poor Dolly 1 who would care for her?
She fairly cried as noon came on and no
one came to her relief. Sho couldn’t
hear any sleigh-bells. She began to
think the whole town was buried. Her
one little attic window looked over to
the woods which were deep with snow.
Would no ore think of her!
She remembered with a sigh how little
she thought of anybody else. She re
membered that she wanted to lire alone;
that, crushed with sorrow when one by
one of her loved ones had died, and the
dear brother was never heard from, she
had turned against all the world. She
had rebelled at her hard lot. She had
moved away from everything she had
ever known and shut herself up in her
little cottage with no thought nor inter
est in anybody el-e. She knew no one
but the minister and—“that boy.”
A kindly feeling crept over her as she
remembered the boy and his hearty
“Hollo!” every morning, and then she
said to herself: “How glad lam I got
those mittens done. 1 guess he’ll be
mighty glad of ’em such a day as this.
Anyway he will, if he can get out of the
house. I wonder where he lives aud if
he’s snowed up, too—what's that?”
She listened, and a merry voice she
knew full well called in the distance,
“Hollo!” amt Mi-s Jane screnmed back
“Hollo!” as loud as she could. She did
not know if he heard her. She heard
scraping and shoveling coming nearer
and nearer, and before long a face was
peering in her window.
“Hollo!” said the bright, cheery voice,
and “Hollo!” said Miss Jane, in just as
cheery a one as she could muster, for the
tears stood in her eyes.
Then Miss Jane told him through the
window about Dolly, and begged him to
get to Do ly to milk and feed her.
"I can wait,” she said, “and you can
dig me out afterward.”
The boy nodded. He evidently was
not much of a talker himself, but he
could work.
It was between two and three hours
before Miss Jane could open her door.
When she could, she had her table spread
with hot coffee, biscuit and a pan
dowdy.
“Brother Joe always liked a hot pan
dowdy, when he’d been a-shovelin’
snow,” she said, “and that boy’d like it
too. I know.”
The door opened.
“Hollo 1” said the theory voice, and
“Hollo, if that ain’t Jane!" called out a
deeper tone.
Miss Jane gave one look anil screamed.
She did not fuiDt. She looked just be
wildered—first at the boy, then at the
man. At last she gasped, “Joe!” And,!
truly enough, it was Joe—her brother
Joe, who never came back till long alter
she had given up looking for him.
He, in his turn, careless in writing, had
at lust returned to his native village with
wife and boy. No trace had MBs Jane
left and no news could he get of her
whereabouts. He liad been gone so long s
that he had lost all iuterest in the people ,
who used to know him, and when in the
summer a cousin of liis wife had died,
leaving her a tiny farm in another part
of the State, he had gone there, and in
the busy haying, harvesting and prepara
tion for winter, had little time to think
of neighbors—still less had he dreamed
that Jane lived liehind the hill on the
other side of the woods.
So that boy was Joe’e boy 1 His
name? Joe, too, and she had never
thought whether he had a name, —and
those mittens were Joe’s socks ?
No wonder poor Miss Jane wa be
wildered. But truth is stranger than
any fiction. Miss Jane still lives in the
tiny cottage under the hill. Dolly, too,
is as comfortable as ever in her warm,
cosey shed. “That boy” don’t know
where he lives. His father thinks be
lives at home, but he ulways has two
meals a day at Aunt Jane's, and when it
is cold or stormy or Aunt Jane doesn’t
feel just right, he stays all night and
perhaps all the week.
Aunt Jane says it always does her good
to hear that “Hollo I” — Youth's Com
panion.
A Japanese Eel Dinner.
We celebrated a recent anniversary
day by an eel dinner at a famous eel
house, writes a correspondent of the
Co^e-Democrat, from Tokio, Japan.
While we were taking off our shoes at
the doorway we could look through a
latticed partition into the kitchen and
§ee the cook, with murderous looking
knife in hand, making choice of his
living victims, that were looping them
selves into bow knots in tanks of fresh
water. If one wishes he is always privi
leged to select his own eels from the
tanks at eel houses, although the first
one that could be caught ought certainly
to answer quite as well.
When we reached the larger upper
room square silk cusionsin lieu of chairs
were ranged around three sides of the
room. The fourth side was left open
for the passing of the pretty waitresses
to and fro and as a stage for the per
formances of the two doll-like gei shas,
who sat demurely in an outer room
awaiting our arrival.
Tha.least began with a soup or stew
of eels, the bottom of the bowl being
filled with a delicate white curd and
the flavor of the dish being as mild and
evasive as flaxseed tea. Broiled eels,
skewered out flatly like a section of
flounder and laid on top of steaming
rice, next tempted us, aud inspired by
I fierce appetites we did skilful and heroic
work with the chop sticks. The plain,
broiled bits are called white eels. After
; them came black eels, or eels dipped in
soy before and during the broiling.
They acquire a rich, brown tint and a
most piquant flavor by this treatment,
and the soy, or bean, with which tho
j Japanese always improve their fish aud
birds, might be used iu the same way in
other countries. Japanese soy is the
foundation of Worcestershire sauce and
is much better before it is charged with
all the spices and cayenne that convert
it into ihe English condiment. Ome
j lette, lily bulbs, bamboo sprouts and
1 dishes of mysterious composition passed
1 in review before us, but all the appetites
had been broken on the dishes of white
eels and black eels, and we toyed with
the later courses, simply taking chop
stick practice with the shreds and lumps
of which they were composed.
“Fingerhackeln.”
The spirit of emulation is one of the
strongest in the human breast. In
obedience to it men freely risk life, repu
tation and even honor itself. A tourist
iin Tyrol, says the Youth't C■mpauion,
watched two hot headed youths, who,
having got into some dispute over money
matters, had agreed to settle it by a re
sort to what in that country is called
I “Fingerhackeln.” This game, or rather
struggle, is a simple trial of strength of
arm and biceps. The table is cleared,
and the two competitors seated opposite
each other, with the table between them,
stretch out their right hands so as to let
them meet in the center. Each, bending
the middle finger into the shape of a
hook, entwines it with that of his rival.
At a given signal each begins to pull,
the obect being to drag the antagonist
across the board.
Both were strapping young fellows,
each eager to show off his prowess, and
the fact that they were well known
adepts at it rendered the struggle
doubly interesting. Victory swayed
hither and thither; the most prodigious
efforts were made to wrest the slightest
advantage from the foe, the subtlest
ruses coming into play, the most impos
sible contortions of the body undergone;
and yet the issue teemed as far from
decision as at the very outset. With
set teeth, rigid features and heaving
breasts, the two young fellows tug and
pull, and neither will give in. Their
hands are of an angry red, the veins
swollen to double their usual size, while
drops of perspiration on their foreheads
tell of their almost superhuman exer
tions.
Watching the face of one the observer
all at once saw a lo k of agonizing pain
shoot across it. His hand dropped ; tho
struggle was at an end. l’oor follow!
his finger is maimed for life; for the
j principal muscle has been rent in the
fierce struggle. His antagonist, by a
sudden jerx—one of the numerous
stratagems of fingerhackeln—has suc
ceeded in unbending his adversary’s
i finger. One very frequently sees in
Tyrol a man with a finger bent nearly
double on the right hand. If you ask
the cause you will invariably be told
that it happened while “Fingerhackeln.”
Taking a Live Rattlesnake to Bed.
The uses of the live rattlesnake as a
medicinal agent are not well known.
The father of one of my present neigh
bors suffered some years ago from an
ulcer on his leg. He did not seem to
receive any benefit front rattlesnake oil,
so he took the advice of an old resident,
now dead, and carried a live rattlesnake
to bed with him, and kept it there
three days. The old gentleman always
insisted that he was bitten by the snake,
and that the poison simply counteracted
the poifcon of the disease that was in
the blood and drove it out. How trus
that mav be I do not know, but it is
certain that the man’s ulcer disappeared,
and he got well and lived for several
years. 1 don't know whether the snak*
died or not, but very likely it did.— JV<i
York Sun.
HOUSEHOLD HATTEH&
Oeldfllbai HonaetaolA Fete.
1 aiMteomuiend goldfish, saya a writes
h the Pittsburgh Dutftatck, to those who
Waal •MMthing to enliven a room. They
EMeiwain every way, need never be
ted, sad can be left, if a network cover
(ever the globe) is used, with safety for
davs together. They never sing, they
don’t chew up your curtains, fly at vour
visitors, bring foreign aud offensive •*'
habitant* iato your abode, ’' they sel
dom die—at least none of mine have
departed this liti yet, and I have bed
them now nearlvT two weeks. All you
have to do is to [give them fresh wr.tci j
once a week. Geraniums in pots need
more attention—r have to water mine
once a week.
Careof the Hands . . j
All sort* of housekeeping gloves now j
come for the hands—chamois gloves for
dusting, etc., rubber globes for wot
work, and even cookinggioves —so there !
is no need that women should spoil their
pretty fingers. To keip the hands soft |
aud white or get them so, wash them
regularly in lukewarm water, dry them j
wiih oatmeal and then a rough towel
and occasionally ndd a little diamond
paste, which can be procured at any
drug store. It is not well to plunge tho
hands into either very cold or very hot
water. For stains caused by ink, paint j
Dr similar substances one of the best I
treatments is to put a few drops of oil
of vitriol in water and wash tiie hands i
without soap. For any lighter stains
vaseline isexcellent. Chuagj Time . j
Encrusted Pots and Kettles.
A culinary annoyance that is more a
neglect than anything else, is rllowing
the outside of iron pans aud kettles to
become coated with thick scales of burnt
grease and dishwater, or the boiled over
food which, at the time,could have been
readily remove 1. It is easy to keep thu
outside of all such utensils as c can and,
imooth as the inside, if proper care is
observed. If they become smokey, have
a cloth specially for them, and wash,
wipe and dry them each time they are
used, anil all scaly outsides as well as iu-
Bidcs will be avoided. This also applies
to the dripping pans and cake griddles.
If, however, through neglect th y h ive
become incrusted, place them on the hot
coals for a little time and burn them
well, after which it can all be scraj ed
off. A little scouring of sand or wood
ashes facilitates the cleaning. —Prairie
Farmer.
Tomato Catsup—Tomato Sauce.
The basis of tomato catsup, Er ketch
up, is the pulp of ripe tomatoes. .Many
defer making catsup until lute in the
season, when the cool nights cause thq
fruit to ripen slowly, and it may be it is
gathered hurridly for fear of a trost.
The late fruit does not yield so rich a
pulp as that gathered in its prime. The
fruit should have all green portions cut
out and be stewed gently untd thorough
ly cooKed. The pu pis then to be sepa
rated from the skins by rubbing through
a wire sieve, so fins as to retain tile seeds.
The liquor thus obtained is to lie evapo
rated to a thick pulp over a slow hre.
and should be stirred to prevent scorch
ing. The degree of evaporation will de
pend upon how thick it is desired to
have the catsup. We piefer to make it
so that it will just pour freely from the
bottle. We observe uo legutar rule in
flavoring. Use sufficient salt. Season
with cloves, alspice and ma e, bruised
and tied in a cloth aud boiled in the
pulp; add a small quantity of powdered
cayenne. Some add the spices ground
fine directly to the pulp. A clove of
garlic, bruised and tied in a cloth, to be
boiled with the spices, imparts a deli
cious flavor. Some evaporate the pulp
to a greater thickness than is needed
and then thin with vinegar. An excel
lent and useful tomato sauce may be
made by preparing the pulp, bat adding
no spices, and putting it in small bottles
while hot, corking securely und sialiug.
If desired the sauce may be salted before
bottling, but this is not essential. To
dd to soups, stews, sauces and made
dishes a sauce thus prepared is an excel
lent substitute for the fresh fiut. It
should be put in small bottles, contain
ing as mucli as will be wanted at oucc,
as it will not keep long alter opening.—
American Agriculturalist.
Reeeipes.
Blueberries with Cream—Wash the ber
ries with a liberal quantity of cold water,
throw away all imperfect fruit, add a
heaping taMlespoonful of granulated
sugar to each half pint of berries aud a
pint of cold milk or cream. Eat with
light soda wafers.
Salsify—Scrape and throw at once into
cold water, with a little vinegar in ,t to
keep them from turning him k Cook iu
boiling salted wa:er for one hour, or un
til tender. Drain, mash and season and
fry like parsnip fritters, or cut into inch
lengths and mix with white sauce, or dip
the pieces in fritter batter aud fry in hot
fat.
Orange Cake.—One half cup of butter,
one cup of sugar, two eggs, one-half cup
of milk, two cups of flour, two teaspnon
ful of baking powderand the grated rind
of ono orange. Bake in two layers.
Stir powdered sugar into the orange
juice until quite thick and spread it be
tween the cuke, when cool. Ice the top
with a white icing flavored with orange
flower-water or cover it with orange
quarters thickly covered with powdered
sugar.
ißisn Moss Blanc Mange.—One-half
cup of Irish moss, one quart of milk,ouc
salt spoonful of salt, one tcaspuouful of
vanilla. Soak the moss fifteen minutes
in cold water, pick over and vva-h anil
put it into a double boiler with the milk.
Boil until the milk thickens on a cool
plate. Add the salt, strain and flavor,
and put on the ice or in a cool place to
stiffen. Serve with sugar and cream, or
with apple or grape jelly, or put hall
a peach or any candied fruit in the bot
tom of the cup before tilling.
Ai.paragcs Tips.—Cut the gteen
ends of three bunches of asparagus aud
put them in three pints of bo.ling water,
with two pinches of salt. Boil rapidly
for about ten minutes, and when thor
oughly done drain them aud serve with
a little white sauce. For the sauce put
in a saucepan, on the tire, an ounce of
butter. When melted add to it one
tablespoonful of flour, a little salt, white
pepper, a little nutmeg and mix it all
together, adding a g ass of water, stir
until boiling, add an ounce of butter
and the juice of a lemon; strain and
serve.
“O for the wings of a dove!” sighed
the poet. “Bosh!” said his friend, the
broker. “The breast of a turkey is
much better to fill up on.”— Harper’t
Bazar.
One plea of the bank clerks for tho
Saturday half-holiday is the solid fact
that they are exposed to drafts ail the
rest of the week. —New York Newt.
NUMBER 40.
THE KINO'S SEAT.
I’rince YalJimir sat wttii his knights
In Kief's tianquet hall.
And boasted of arms and of victoria* won
And the joy of the bugle call.
While a figure gray at the gate
Knocked once and twice and thriosy
And Valditnir snouted: “No more shall com
in
Neither for love nw for price!”
But a breath of wind blew apart
The fringe of the pilgrim s cloak.
And beneath, the lute of the singer was seen
Before the singer spoke
At, little minstrel,” then said
The great I'rince Valdimir,
“Tha top of the earthen oven is there,
Tha minstrel's plaoe ir here.
**A small anil lowly place,
For my heroes all have come,
Bloody with wounds and with honors rare
From Ilza of Murom.”
The minstrel climbed to his seat
On the earthen oven's top,
And tuned his lute and began his song,
And they would not let him stop.
For his song of battle and deatt
He sung of victories won,
Of Deuk and his Indian stood,
Aud the tale of Morga, the LivanT
And there, as he sang, as he sang,
The hearts of men bowed down
And lo! the top of the oveD
Became the monarch's throne.
—Annie Fields, in the Century..
PITH Ai\D^ POINT.
Made of awl-work—lTand-sewed shoes.
Net proceeds of a summer day—One
Small fish.
A case that needs no close inspection
—Limburger cheese.
In order to carve out a fortune one
must be sharp.— Epoch.
A hew and cry usually follow the
small boy’s acquisition of a pocket
knife. —Binghaintm Leader
The man who sets up to be the archi
tect of his own fortune has often to altei
the plans and specifications. — ltochester
Fast.
A woman who married a one-legged
man says it doesu’t take much to make
her husband hopping mad. — Pacific
States.
A writer in a scientific journal tells
“how to euchre wasps.” He will find
jt can’t be done with a lone hand.—
I*rnctical Fanner.
You are light, Julius Henry, a man
may smile and smile and be a Prohibi
tionist still, but the average man who
smiles and smiles is more like a whiskey
still.— Neur York Sun.
Won’t somebody ask us: “Is it hot
enough for you?” The new explosive
melauite is said to be ten times as pow
erful as dynamite, and we are anxious
to experiment with it.— Baltimore Ameri
can.
It is said that one pound of banana
contains more nutriment than three
pounds of meat. And yet meat will
build a man up, while a small piece of
banana will bring a man down. — Slates
man.
Said a thief to a wit: ‘'There’s no knowing
one’s friends
Until they have been tried and found
steady.”
41 Very true,” said the wit, “but all yours, 1
presume.
Have U-en tried—and found guilty—al
ready i”
We are told that the Siberian Kailroad
will connect Napirsk, Okta, Irkutsk,
Tomsck, Tobolsk and Ekaterineburg.
We think that if these names were con
nected, and had a handle adjusted to
the rear end, they would make a first
class meat saw.
It was a little girl who, going to the
Episcopal church, and happening to turn
around just at the moment when the
c ingregation bow their adoration in the
creed, took it into her head that they
were all bowing to her. And so, as she
was a polite little girl, and not inclined
to receive a salutation without returning
it, she bowed very respectfully and ex
claimed: “Good morning, people”’—
Boston Transcript.
(Jlick-olic'.k click-click!
How swift and slick
The maiden’s fairy fingers lly
Click-click! cliek-dingl
A wedding ring
Will grace her fair hand by and by.
Thus Cupid cute his conquest makes,
Sly fighter!
For now instead of darts he takes
Typewriter.
Boston Budget
Expensive Sugared Violets.
As the listener stepped into his favor
ite confectioner’s —a place where he
enjoys some acquaintance, and where a
certain degree of impertinent inquisitive
ness might consequently be pardoned
him—lie noticed in the showcase a box
containing a few curious lookingobiects,
the like of which he did not remember
to have seen before.
“What are those, please?” he asked.
“Those,” said the confectioner, “are
sugared violets.”
“Sugared fiddlesticks!”
•‘No; sugared violets.”
“Dear met Can I afford to buy a few
of them:”
“Possibly. They are imported from
England, and we sell them for $4 a
pound.”
j “Is that all? Well, you may send me
up half a ton, please; aud be sure and
have the men on the wagon take along
baskets to deliver them in.”
The listener was inclined to treat that
matter as a little joke on the part of the
confectioner, but he found that the
sugared violets were a reality and the
price actual. Upon closer inspection
one could see the violets nestled in its
coating of sugar. Dainty food for an
exquisite generation!— Boston Tran
script.
Opals Not Unlucky.
A man who makes a study of stones
and precious things tells me that the
superstition about the opal is dying out.
People are getting over all that nonsense,
he said. Ihe black cat superstitiop has
vanished, and why not the opal? He
says he has had several calls for opals
recently, some of the calls reversing the
old superstition by saying that they
want the opal so as to ehango their luck.
Their is also anew way of setting dia
monds for the cars. By this new set
ting the diamonds tremble with every
pulsation of the ear, thus giving them
additional luster. Even a stone that is
otl-color will shine up to good advan
tage when thus arranged.— Chicago Mail.
A tall hall clock that used to tell the
time in General Israel Putnam’s home is
still in use in an office iu Norwich, Conn.
It is seven feet five inches high, with a
case of polished cherry, and looks as if
it would last another century at least.