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About Semi-weekly Sumter Republican. (Americus, Ga.) 1875-188? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1882)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN; ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. | VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bemi-Weekly, One Year - - - ?4 00 Weelt, One Year - - - - - 2.00 tarI’AYABLE IN ADVANCE .OPt All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional garts of one hundred are considered one undred words; each figure and initial, witli date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising ltates t One Square first insertion, - - - -SI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .5 J3TTen Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for tei cent per line each insertion. DON’T HCY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING (MM PERRY’S LARGE STOCK! —AS THEY— WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD ! On any article in their line, hut propose to UNDERSELL! WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR Georgia Seed Rye ! COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buy ot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches ! ! For less money than they can order. GLOVER & PERRY, ssp9tf Americus, Ga. OLD BUG COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CENTS. OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. MEALS FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARDS Jc per game two games for £3 cts— cash. POOL 2X CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH. Come one, come all, and see if you don’t get the best—nothing charged at these rates. Best Cigars and Tobacco Always on Hand! BOTTLED LIQUORS ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM. J. P. CHAPMAN. AGENT FOR KING’S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY, Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BREECH LOADING FIXTURES. Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. 6.2 m Rosser & Gunnels. New Bar and Billiard SALOON. Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W; GUN NELS have opened a Bar and Billiard Sa loon in the new building of Hamil Bros., on Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine stock of pure Brandies, Wines and Whiskies ! Also the National Drink, ANHUESER BEER, the best in the land. The best Cigars and Tobacco always on hand. Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in the city—everything new and good. We in vite the public generally to give us a trial. In a few days our RESTAURANT will be opened, and we promise that it shall com pare with the best and be surpassed by none. ROSSER & GUNNELS, §eptßtf Americus. Ga. FOR SALE. 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HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Americas. - - - Georgia Treats successfully all diseasesof the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. I3TOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marll t Macon Commercial College, Macon, Gu. First-class Business School. Send for Circu ars. (June-1 y) Fiof. \V.McKAY, Prln INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1882. Written for the Republican. AN EVENING It EVE MY. BY MAUDE MIDDLETON. It was a lovely summer eve, And from the rustling groves of pine, Fell umber shades athwart the fields, To the relief of browsing kine. The dewdrops clustered and shone in The sun like diamonds set in gold, While iridescent clouds floated, O’er a purling stream pure and cold. The winds dancing across the gay Shamrock and sheaves of ripening wheat, Return to scatter odors from Flower vines trailing ’neath our feet. We sat in this fading evening, Where drooping willows interlaced, To charm or lull the bright wavelets, That splashed on rocks with mosses graced We sat and while listening to the Lab’rer’s song that fell in a strain Of melody upon the air, We thought that in this vast domain, There was none so happy as they, None whose joyous hearts, wild and free, So truly resembled the proud, Heaving waves of the deep biue sea. Their notes when the shadows lengthened, Became louder and grander still, As they mingled their musical Anthems with the echoing hill. Then faint and fainter vibrating Upon the mellow, harvest air, They ceased with either a joyous Laugh, or a thankful, wordless prayer. Ah! if to the higher classes, A heart as content was given, They’d mount the sure ladder of peace, And reach its last round in heaven. For there the laborer’s crown will Be as bright and his home as broad, As one possessed by an eastern King, or an Oriental lord. “The Widow’s Cliist.”—A Story of the “Old Dart.” It was my own cousin, Dennis Flynn, that bought the farm from Daddy Gripe, bad lnck to him for a miser. It was in green old Ireland, and it was a dacent man was Dennis Flynn. lie bought the farm bit by bit, as you may say. A great mortgage on it at first, and paying it off little by little, and every time he’d get a receipt he’d paste it in a big book be had, and the book was kept locked in the secretary that was built in the corner of the best room. At last I heard him say to Biddy and the children, a week before that blessed Christmas that was the last he lived on earth, “We’re beholdin’ to no one now. The roof over our heads is our own. Good luck to it. There’s the last of Daddy Gripe’s receipts.” Then he locked his book into the secretary, and sat down and smoked his pipe like a king. And sure that was a merry Christmas, singing songs and playing, “The Winds that Shakes the Barley” on the fiddle. Who’d have thought he’d been laying dead and cowld that day fortnight, and we wak ing him? He died in a fall from a haycock. Och hone! but it was a dreadful day. But to make matters worse, somebody got into the house and broke open the secretary, and off with all that was in it. It wan’t money so we didn’t think much of it, until one day, when the widdy sitting crying, and the children all about her, and we brewing a bowl of punch to drown the grief in, in walks Daddy Gripe, and sits down on a chair, an’ says, “Good luck to you all here,” says he. “Luck’s gone from the door, and there’s only trouble here,” said the widdy. “He was a decent man that’s gone,” said old Gripe. “Thrue for ye,” says the widdy. “It’s empty the house is.” “Are you thinking of keeping the house and farm?” “Would a bird keep her nest wid the eggs in it?” asked the widdy. “But will you be able to pay the rent regular?” asks Gripe. “Sure it’s bought the house was,” said the widdy. “Not a bit of it!” said Gripe. “He bought it iv ye!” cried I. “Where’s your proof?” says he. “The word of an honest man,” says I. “Then he’s got a bit of paper,” says Gripe. “Just find your proof, will you?” “Daddy Gripe,” says I, “the secre tary was robbed the day we buried him. I’m thinking you know that.” “It’s none of my business,” says he. “This house is mine. I’ll have my rent, or I’ll have the house; now mark that, widdy!” Poor Widdy Flynn had no proof of the truth of her story. She hadn’t a receipt of any kind at all. She spent her money in lawyers and did no good; and one by one she sold the bits of fur niture to live on, until, when the order came to quit, she had just one bigehist left. She stood with her children in the room she had been so happy in, the tears rolling down her cheeks, when in comes Gripe with a bailiff. “Can’t you leave us alone this bitter hour?” says the widow. . “Well, yes, widow,” says Gripe; “but there’s one thing more. You’er owing me a bit of rent, and the law gives me your property. I’ll take the ehist, if you please. Here’s the war rant for it.” The widdy screamed when she saw the bit of paper, but a thought came into mv head. “Biddy,” says I, “law is law. Boys take Mr. Gripe and his man into the room younder, and offer them a sup from the bottle, while I reason with your mother ahout giving up the chist.” And the minute they were gone I just puts my lips to the widdy’s ear, and says I, “Up with the lid, widdy. So” —and up it went. Now here’s a trick worth knowing, and in I jumped. “Down with the cover and lock it,” says I. “There is a breathing-hole in the top. Don’t be afraid.” And the vviddy did as she was bid, and in five minutes mote Gripe and his man came back, and away I went over the common to Gripe’s house, betwixt the two, and under Gripe’s bed, and there I stayed an hour or two. At last, when all was fast he came up and knelt down by the bed and hauled the chist by the handle. “Lord, how heavy!” says he. “May be there’s money in it—something val uable, anyhow.” And away he tugged, and when the cover flew up, out I flew, stood over him. 1 put the pistol to his ear with one hand and held Ijis threat with the other. “Daddy Gripe,” says I, “you’re in my power. We’re far from any help. I’m armed, and I’ve got the best of yon. I want the red account book, with the receipts for Dennis Flynn’s payments, that you stole from him the day he was hurried. You know you did, you divvil! Don’t deny it.” “I—l won’t,” says Daddy Gripe. “I—l’ll get it if you go peaceably.” I kept my hold on his collar, and 1 kept the pistol at his ear; and I walked him to his desk, and there he rummaged, crying like a baby, until he found the hook. A couple of hour after I walked into the Widdy Flynn’s wid her chist on my shoulder, aud the hook under my arm, and towld me little story to the neighbors; and it wasn’t mo that tarred and feathered him that night, hut some of the other boys; but sure I couldn’t blame them, and lie deserved it richly; and, more betoken, lie left the place next day and rid us of him forever. The Girly Girl. The girly girl is the truest girl. She is what she seems and not a sham and a pretense. The slangy girl lias a hard job of it not to forget her character. The boy girl and the rapid girl are likewise wearers of masks. The girly girl never bothers about women rights and women wrongs. She is a girl, and is glad of it. She would not he a boy and grow up into a man and vote and go into war and puzzle her brain about stocks fora kingdom. She knows noth ing about business and does not want to know anything about it. Her aim is to marry some good fellow and make him a good wife, and she generally succeeds in doing both. She delights in dress and everything that is pretty, and is not ashamed to own up that she does. She is pleased when she is ad mired, and lets you see that she is. She is feminine from the top of her head to the end ot her toes, and if you try to draw her into the discussion of dry themes she tells you squarely that tho conversation does not suit her. She is the personification of frankness. There is not a particle of humbug in her composition. Here is health to the girly girl. May her numbers never grow less. —Philadelphia Progress. The Law of Libel. An interesting and important libel suit terminated in the Superior Court of Detroit, Mich., last Monday, after a two weeks trial. Two years ago Hugh S. Peoples was charged by the Post and Tribune with having guilty knowledge of the murder of a girl with whom letters and other evidence show ed he had been very intimate if not on actually criminal terms. The charge was made in a long article, giving de tails of the evidence then being accum ulated by the police authorities in en deavoring to ascertain who was guilty of the murder of the girl, whose body, tied up in a sack, was found floating in the Detroit river in March, 1879. The defense justified and claimed the article was a privileged one, being written in the public interest for the purpose of ferreting out the authorsof the murder. Peoples was subsequently arrested and tried, but acquitted, the charge not be ing proved beyond a reasonable doubt. He then brought suit for libel, claiming $50,000 damages. * The jury, after a half hour’s absence, returned a verdict in favor of defendant, holding, first, that the article complained of was a privileged one; second, that the pre ponderance of the testimony submitted by the defense sustained the charge that Peoples had guilty knowledge of the taking off of the unfortunate girl. The case has excited great interest in the community. Mormonisin in Utah. Special to Enquirer Sun. Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 10.— It has come to light that at a meeting of the higher priesthood, after the late conference, President Taylor instructed them to the effect that priests and bish ops and their councellors are not entitled to hold their positions unless they qual ify by becoming polygamists. There are few such officers who are monoga mists. One has since resigned, rather than take another wife. His resigna tion was excepected. Others are in a quandary as to what to do about it. One has been appointed president of seventies on condition that he take an onther wife. One very young and new made apostle, it is understood, has complied with the condition of holding his office. This is the logic of the po sition taken by the church; It must stand by its religion, law or no law. It shows that until the government proves to be stronger than the Mormon church in Utah polygamy will not be surpress ed, but rather stimulated in its growth and expansion. There is no doubt about the truth of this. A MIRACLE OF SKILL. Two Montgomery Trout-Fisliers Ami Tlieir Singular Bait. Messrs. Cobb and Hall Develop tiie Resources of the Patsaliqa and Astonish the Neighborhood. Troy (Ala.) Messenger. The Capital City is rich in its list of “sample pilgrims.” They visit every nook and corner of the State and keep the field well cleared of all intrud ers on their domain. Asa class they are tree-hearted, courteous and wide awake gentlemen, and when their day’s “drumming” is ended are ready for fun or anything else to pass away the time till the leaving of the next train. Of this heteroclitic mixture Messrs. John M. Cobh, with Goetter, Weil <fc Cos., and William Hall, with 1). M. Snow & Cos., are about as well known in this section as any need be. they are great fishermen withal, and if Izaak Walton was still breathing this world’s atmosphere he would smile benignly on their great love for the angle. When they come to Troy they generally make short trips through Crenshaw, Covington and Coffee, and, combining pleasure with business, stop at every little mud puddle to fish and usually return with a fine string of bream or perch; and their relation of how they came by their piscatorial yield would drive Charles Warner crazy, Howbeit, John Cobh always brings back a broken pole as evidence of his catching the fish. Some few weeks since they reached Rutledge at a peculiarly happy season. Mr. Rushton was about drawing off his pond, and, of course, invite l these gentlemen to he present. They went, lhey always go. It an announcement was made by telegraph that a Barnegat fisherman would certainly scale a sheep head on the third day thereafter, they would drop laces and hardware and ride on the cowcatcher of the locomo tive in orner to GET THERE AHEAD OF THE TRAIN. The pond was drawn off and there was a fine yield, among them were sev eral trout weighing nine or ten pounds apiece. Selecting four of them Mr. Rushton asked the boys if they would take them along and give them to Jim Pendry, living some miles below on the Andalusia road. Of course, they were only too happy to accommodate Mr. Pendry, as they were to stay over night with him. Thus equipped they jogged along admiring the beauties of the "end less pine forests and hatching up new deviltry. In the meantime John Cobb’s quick eye struck his never-failing re source, and jumping out of the wagon quickly returned with A BROKEN FISHING I>OLE. Arriving at Pendry’s they tound him fixing liis corn crib and immediately reached for him. Jim’s eyes were on the fish. “Where did you get them fellers?” he asked. “Caught them in the Patsaliga,” re sponded Hall. “In the Patsaliga?” Why I have fished there for forty years and never caught any such trout. They don’t look like Patsaliga trout. What kind of bait did you use? “Why, these little scaly lizzards,” said Hall. “And John broke his pole pulling out that big one. I reckon I’d better take ’em to the house and we’ll have fish for supper.” And off he started. JIM KEPT LOOKING AT THE FISH, and finally broke out: “See here, John Cobb, did you actually catch th°m in the Patsaliga? Bill Hall is such a liar I can’t believe him; hut I can trust you.” “Yes,” says Cobb, “and we weren’t over an hour at it, either.” Nothing would satisfy Mr. Pendry hut that all hands must go fishing the next morning; but the angels of com merce pleaded their business engage ments at Andalusia, and started early for that place. About a fortnight ago they had occa sion to go the old route. They stopped at Pendry’s as usual, but not a word was said about fish. About four o’clock the next morning they were aroused by their host and told to get ready for s. fishing trip that morning. They tried to excuse themselves, HUT IT IVAS NO 00. “Why,” said Jim, “we won’t be gone over a couple of hours, and me and a friend have got the bait all ready.” The four started off and soon reach ed the Patsaliga. A fallen tree was stretched out on the water, and it was concluded to be as good a place as any. The stranger went first, carrying a box of lizards; then followed Cobb, then Hall, Pendry bringing up the rear. All hands being in position, he and his friend each drew a navy and Jim spoke; “Now, you blasted liars, here’s the creek; here’s the lizzards; now catch fish. You’ve had us fishing here a month, and not a dinged fish. Catch trout or we’ll shoot.” Crack went the revolvers. Cobb jumped in one side and Hall on the other. They got safe to land, however, and the fishing frolic came to an igno minious end. But it is as true as preach ing that Jim Pendry had been fishing there for trout with lizzard bait for about a month, when he met Mr. Rush ton one day and the latter asked Pen dry how he liked the fish he sent him. Pendry wanted to know what fish. “Why,” saidßushton, “the fish I sent yon by John Cobb and Bill Hall.” Pendry’s eyes were opened, and the result proved that for ouce these famous jokers were cornered. Dave Fleming >has agreed not to say a word about this story. A Gambler's Career. Denver Sunday World. Walking slowly up Larimer street yes terday morning, leaning on the arm of his friend, was Dick Hargrave, a gam bler whose name and reputation has been well known to the citizens of Chi cago, Cincinnati and St. Louis for some years—a tall, finely formed, ele gantly dressed man, with light blue eyes and pale, grave face, on which may still he seen the remnants of a strongly marked individuality. Late hours and dissipation have evidently brought the once elegant Dick down to a mere wreck of his former self, and it was plainly to be seen by the passers by that his ancient vigor has departed, and despite the invigorating atmos phere of Colorado his life is nearly ended. He was accompanied by his friend “Red Jack,” who is a person of similar ilk, but of a more common kind, who supported him with all the tenderness ot a woman. Hargraves is and Eng lishman, about forty-five years old, and came to this country when only sixteen years of age, landing at New Orleans. He began life as a barkeeper and followed the Mississippi river for a number of years. He soon became skillful at cards and was accounted the best short card player that ever sat down to a table. His first big winning was from a Louisiana planter named Dupny, $30,000 coming into his pos session by that transaction, and ever alter that luck seemed to come his way. Everything he touched turned to gold, and at one time he was reported worth over two millions. He lived high, sported diamonds, was tho favorite of women, but his word was as good as his bond, and he was liked by every body. A little Spanish woman, the wife of and old New Orleans banker named Arroycs, became fascinated with hand some Dick, and the upshot of the mat ter was that the old man challenged Dick to fight a duel, and was killed for his pains. Bill Vcdal, a brother of Mrs. Arroyes then seut Dick word that he would kill him on sight. They met at Natchez under the hill, aud Bill fell mortally wounded. This last occur ance seemed to cure Mrs. Arroyes of her mad infatuation for Hargraves, for she idolized her brother, and when she next met him she plunged a dagger into his breast, and thinking she had killed him took a dose of poison and joined her husband and brother. Dick recov ered in time, and during a fire one night at. Mobile, Alabama, at the risk of his own life rescued a little girl from the flames and afterward married her. She was of good family and has done a great deal to sober Dick down, but his is a restless spirit that chafes at re straint, and nothing will still him but death. When the Cubans revolted against Spain Dick was ono of the first to espouse the cause of “the gem of the Antilles,” and for two years he fought for Cuban supremacy. He was cap tured and confined in Castle Moro, and sentenced to be shot, The night before the day set for his execution, he, in company with three Americans and two Cubans, escaped from their dungeon by picking the lead from around the cud of a bar of iron that formed one of the gratings of their cell. The only thing the men had to work with was the tine of a steel fork which was found in the cell. Alter their escape they went to Hayti, and from Poit-au-Prince, went to St. Augustine, Florida, in an open boac. Making their way to New Or leans, they found friends, and Dick was soon on his feet again. He, shortly after his return from Cuba, married the Mobile young lady whom he had saved from the fire when she was a little girl, he having kept track of her all the time, and after his marriage removed to Cincinnati, where he has since lived, taking occasional trips to other cities, for the purpose of practicing his profes sion—gambling. Hargraves espoused the Union cause during the war and fought bravely, be ing promoted from a private to the rank of major, but for some cause left the army before the war was over. Since the war, with the exception of his ca reer in Cuba, he has conducted himself as a gentleman gambler should do. Finding himself in the clutches of con sumption, he has come to Colorado in hopes of getting cured. He still has plenty of money, though not near as wealthy as he once was. He is a man liked by everybody, a man with no small vices, generous, brave and honor able. lie has the reputation of always having played in a fair game, and has given away more money, in his life, probably, than any man of his age in tho world. In the numerous personal encounters he has had, he was never the aggressor, and, despite his calling, has always conducted himself as a geutle man. In the language of Red Jack, “Dick Hargraves is a square out and outer. He never coppered the keurd of a friend that he knowed would win, nor pinch ed a bet to save a nickel. He played a stack of yellows as if they were worth but fifty cents, and when ho was flush and winned a bet of a hnndred he’d give it to the boys. I’ve seed him after a winning buy a dozen boot-blacks a suit of clothes apiece, and nary widder that ever lived in Dick’s neighborhood ever suffered for the necessaries of life. He made his washerwoman a present of SIOO once, and at a church festival he paid $2,000 for a cake. His money built that church, and many a preacher has he given a suit of clothes. “Him and old death is now playing | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 19. a game of draw, and death ‘holds the ace.’ I hope the old hoy will come to time, but I don’t know; you may bet that I’ll stick to him until somebody better than either of us opens the jack pot. If he gets cleaned out, yard, don’t fill when he draws To his last flush and throws up his hand, I’ll he there when the pot is raked in. If we have to plant him you bet we’ll do it in great shape. We’ll have the biggest funeral ever seed—four white horses, silver mounted hearse, rosewood coffin and brass band, and a nionyment as high as anybody’s. We’ll have on it— “ Dick Hargraves, Gentleman, also gambler, aged foity-five, and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’ ” II oil eastern on Marriage. “Misder Hoffenstein, vat you dink,” exclaimed Herman, in a flatter of sur prise. “I shnst get an invitation to de vedding uf my lrent, Moses Powski, vot liis by de Sorapuru market. He going to marry Miss Saline Liechten telder, whose fader keeps de shoe store.” “Does she haf any money?” inquir ed Hoffenstein. “No, sir.” “Does he haf any mony?” “No, sir.” ell, den dey vas tam fools, you know, und dey vill find it oud. De more a man vas poor in dis vorld, Her man, de more he vants to get married; if he don,t vant to do dot, he vants to express his opinion efery chance he gets, veil it ain’t vort one cent on de dollar und he don’t represent any ding but an old valise. Ven people get married or go around dalking dey ought to haf someding to hack it up. People vot get married und don’t haf money vas shust likede steam boat vot don’t haf any steam und fire in de boilers, you know. De pilot rings de heel nnd turns de veel, hut lie don’t go anyvere. \ou see in de hooks, Herman, dot love laughs at locksmids. Veil, it may do so, you know, but love nefer goes around laugliin at grocery bills and de landlord vot don’t get his rent. Love vos very brave, but it gets veak in de knees ven anyding like dot happens, und you can bet on it. I dink a poor votnan should haf a velty husband und a poor man a velty vife. If I had my vay mit dis vorld, and I heard nf a poor young ntan vat vanted to marry a girl no better off as himself, I would chain him to a post, Herman, shust to keep de tam fool out of trouble. A poor man mit any pride ought to know dot if his love, und care, und protection is vort anyding, it is vort being paid for at de best price he can get in de market. De easiest vay, und de most pleasant, dot a man makes money, is ven he marries a votnan vot haf it. It vas the safest business dransaction in de vorld; you risk no capital und you make big profit. Diukuf it, Herman, and vatch your chance. Dotisands of velty und good young vomeu haf mar ried no count fellows vot were so poor dat de fleas vouln’t stay mit dem, und you must feel encouraged, you know. No von can dell vot a voman vas go ing to do.” “But, Misder Hoffenstein,” expostu lated Herman, “if a man marries a vo man vat he dno’t love, he von’t haf any respect for himself, no matter if she vas velty.” “Neffer mind, my poy, neffer mind, oder beeple vill respect you. I know a man vot dinks de same vay as you, ven lie married, und now he goes around de streets vearing blue pants mit yel low patches. Dake my advice, Her man, und don’t let a poor votnan rope you in.” A Sleepy Actor. While Joseph Jefferson was once playing Rip Van Winkle at Chicago, he went to the theatre very much ex hausted by a long day’s fishing on the lake. When the curtain rose on the third act, it disclosed the white haired Rip still deep in his twenty years nap. Five, ten, twenty minutes passed, and he did not waken. The audience began to get impatient, and the prompter uneasy. The great actor doubtless knew what he was about, but this was carrying the “realistic” busi ness too far. The fact was that all the time Jefferson was really sleeping the sleep of the just, or rather of the fisher man who had sat eight hours in the sun without getting a single bite. Fin ally the gallery became uproarous, and one of the “gods” wanted to know if there was going to be “nineteen years more of snooze business.” At this point Jefferson began to snore. This decided the prompter, who opened a small trap beneath the stage and began to prob Rip from below. The much traveled commedian began to fumble in his pocket for an imaginary ticket, and muttered drowsily “Going right through, ’ductor.” The audience was transfixed with amazement at this en tirely new rending, when Jefferson sat up with a loud shriek, and evidently in agony. The exasperated prompter had “jahbed” with a pin. The play went on then—with a rush. Tennyson’s “May Queen.” Who knows that if the beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” she might have reigned on many another bright May day. The “Favorite Prescription” is a cer tain cure for all those disorders to which females are liable. By drug gists. Teethina (Teething Powders) is fast taking the place of all other rem edies for the irritations of Teethina Children. *
