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NEWS CLEANINGS.
Extensive smuggling is going on along
Ihe Rio^Grtthde, •
A Marietta, Georgia, boy ban a roller*
tion of 500 birds’ eggs.
There art thirty-twu colored Baptist
churches in the District of Columbia.
Augusts, Georgia, will have a first-
class theater.
Of the forty '•GflSiprnls furnished by
Texas to the Confederacy thirty arc
dead. •
The negroes of Wilkes county pay
taxes on 3,000 acres of land, and $12,-
000 worth of stock.
Cedat Key and Ocala, Florida, are
said to Im outstripping any towns in the
SUte iu growth and enterprise.
Alexandria, Virginia, has loaded a
bark with grain direct for Europe, and
s «*a herself invested with a halo of com
mercial glory accordinglVi
Blind Torn is said, when at his home
in Georgia, to remain. alone with hip
piano and play day and night. He
plays about 7,000 pieces by ear, and picks
up net; ones every day.
Paul Viallou, of Bayou Uoulu,. La.,
has 500 stand of pure Italian bees. Ho
raises and sells many barrels of honey
at from seventy-five cents to ninety
cents per gallon.
Tho colored people of Nashville have
formed a'society for the suppressioh 1 of
miscegenation. It is said that the society
has so far caused the arrest of eight per-
Hons charged with tills offen*e.
Hannah Faust, said to he 111 years
old, died in *Columbin, P. C., recently.
She wife born a faw miles nboye that pity.
Her daughter, said to be near ninety,
lives in Columbia also.
Vicksburg v* justly indignant at tho
suspending - by the National Board of
Health of the inspection station at the
Point. The station is a protection not
only to Vicksburg but the whole Missis-
■MTffe./
It is said there is not a mechanic or
workman in Mapon who i>j idle for want
of ,£he ruslj of improve
ment* and the c^piand for builders and
building .ip^^eiiRl have never lief ore been
equal]
VOLUME V.
BUTLER. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30. 1881.
NUMBER 48.
TOPICS OP THE DAT.
Grant's iucomo is reckoned at $50,-
000 a year,
TttB Frenoh elections will bo held
August 21.
Parnell, tho Irish Home-Ruler, will
again visit this country in November.
The Arabs aro entertaining tho French
in Tunis and Algiers to their lioarfa’
content.
Da. Tannkii lias settled down nt Corry,
Mich. His lamp didn’t burn very long,
poor man.
Tennyson and Huxley delights in clay
pipes. This iB encouraging to the cor
ner loafer.
Mauy Andruhon, it is stated, dislikes
sea bathing. Well, .an occasional ablu
tion will do her good, anyhow.
In OatiTFounia unskilled labor is i.i
demand at $2.50 a day. Times have
changed somewhat since Kearnoy was at
tho helm.
Thr inventor of the toy pistol may
not bo a common murderer, but theu he
is accountable for a good many little
hoys prematurely becoming angels.
It is rare for the fruit market to he as
scantily stocked as to quantity and so
poorly pa to quality. Btit fruit of all
kjjnde is scarce, and there is no deny-
hi grit.' • •
Georg* WmiiiAM Curtis is of the
opinion that to raise a fund for Mrs.
Garfield while her husband is alive and
remains President would be eminently
A temperance petition GOO feet long,
and containing 60,000 signatures, wus
preseuted to the Georgia Legislature
tho other day. The members turned
pale as death.
Therh are now more British troops iu
Ireland—86,000—than there aro men in
tho United States army. In addition to
these regulars, there is a strong force of
armed constabulary.
Lovers of genuine imported Havana
oigars will bo pained to learn of a pros
pective shortage in their favorite luxury.
The tobacco crop of Connecticut will be
almost a total failure.
lie Mormon'Jicitenient issxflr obot-
ing a hit in Western Coosa, Ala. New
missionaries arc doily ox
. converts to the polygamoui
daily *dding their names to the brutaliz
ing imbter-Joll. _ _
A * ’gator, weighing 300 pounds, was
•caught in Pataula creek, Geol^hf,*tiie
other day, which contained “a rock
weighing scVefal pounds, a large soft-
shell turtle and a heaver weighing fifty
or sixty pounds. The beaver was whole
except that one leg was missing.”
The pastors of all the churches in Al
bany, Georgia, without previous under
standing, prayed for rain last Sunday,
arid n writer in the News says hardly
had their benedictions been pronounced
when a little cloud gathered over the
sweltering city, others gathered to it, and
a refreshing, plentiful shower descended.
A little girl named Malcoinh, living in
the ncighlKirhnod of Doc Hill, Virginia,
went out to the woods to play, accom
panied by her dog, one day last week,
when she suddenly came upon u num
ber of wild turkeys. The dog gave
chase, and, in the affright, a very large
gobbler perched upon a fence. The lit
tle heroine seized it from Inflow, dragged
it to the ground and boro it home in
triumph. The turkey weighed ul>out
twenty pounds.
In Walker county, Alabama, is. a nat
ural bridge said to rival that of Vir
ginia. It is in the sandstone called
millstone grit, which underlies the cara
formation. It spans about 120 feet anil
its height is about seventy feet. A small
bridge connects it with the bluff beyond
The lines of stratification ot the sandjijQne
give the structure the appearance of
having been artificially built up with
massive blocks. It is in the midst of a
region of wild and romantic beauty,
high escarpments of the same sandstone
being seen standing out in the face of
the hilltj around.
Taa iAftdonpapen ai
There are enough reputable citizens in
every oamraunity, however, aud-?kiore
than fQongh, who, if they obooHcvtolfike
a littfftrouhle about election tiina/eoirid
put to .end to ‘*bo8s’\ pnictiees apd
purgj&Jl elections.:.F« Anstaupe, .tho
f irimarvs aru usually taken possession of
iy the lowest grade of corrupt politi
cians, the henchmen of the’ “bosses,"
and clgnn hauded citizenp antl joteuuqnF
taxpayers generally g^ve. tfimU (I j>
beirli because of tneic^ouluess. There
is no necessity thus to surrender primary
or nominating coventiufis tothe-Wrds of
prey. Combinations of citizens deter
mined! upon clean business* ftpu t/ake p<M-.
sc Bfffdn of these Bodies, as they are in
duty.lmnnd to do, a id wnmel tfiora to be
representative of the voters!.
By desire of the late King of Prussia
his heart was interred ,im a hewt^hfpen
marble casket at tne toot bf his parent*’
Donn Piatt has been twioed caned,
three times horsewhipped and twice
shot at, outside of several smull affairs
|in which ho was knocked down and left
[or dead. Yes, be is a newspaper man.
are advising their
to emigrate to
they get better pay
and finally a*|krfto$niisband. Affortuqr
husband uj jafrap for English
girls.
Falatin^ sett the richest village
of its size in tne world. It lhas about
500 inhabitants, and it is said that pver
thirty of these ore worth from $5,000,-
000 to $20,000,000, while six are said to
be worth over $20,000,000.
The Cincinnati Gazette openly and
badly advises the female sex to hang a
limb on either side of the bicycle and
ride to health and glory. If the editor
of tho Gazette wero not a deacon, we
should feel shocked.
Adulterated beer has so stirred up
tho State Board of Health of New York
that a ortisade is to he mado against it.
The analyst of the Board intends to
manufacture some ptfre beer as a stand
ard for comparison.
Says that exceedingly modest pa
per, Harper'a liazar : “The bathing
dresses worn by tho little hoys along the
wharves aro very simple. They consist
of a stone bruise on the heel.” Isn’t
that just too awfully awful.
The Daytou Journal does not believe
iu supporting common butchers at the
expense of tho Government, and in this
connection, speaks of tho Apache In
dians in tho following positive terms :
“ There is nothing to ho dono with these
wild boasts hut to exterminate them. If
tho Mexicans who protect them do not
do it, tho United States should. They
aro wild beasts, and nothing else.”
A Southern philosopher says that
millions of pistols aro manufactured;
that infantry in war do not uso them;
that cavalry can not turn them; that
hunters find • them of no servico, and
they nro used only to mnko an infernal
noise on tho. ith of July or to commit
murder all tho year around. That is
truth with a golden rim tacked onto it.
Two Italians closed thoir candy store
at Savannah, Georgia, paid tho rent
three months in ndvauco, told tho owner
that they wore going to Italy to got a
stock of goods, and oautioned him to
lot nobody enter the premises until they
returned. Thoy lmd murdered a ped-
dlor, taken his $2,000, and hidden his
body in the store; hut their ingenious
way of covering their flight prevented
tho discovery until tho three months had
elapsed.
The Now York Home Journal in an
article ‘on rich American laud-owneTS,
says there is a group of seven estates in
Islip which comprise in all nearly 13,000
acres. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has
over 2,000 acres, Christopher Roberts
has 1,400, George Lorillard has 1,000,
General William Ludlow has 800, Fred
erick Nelson has 450, and William
Nicoll has 0j)00. Nenr Islip is a beauti
ful little church built by William H.
Vanderbilt. _
Mr.. Redpath’s letter from Dublin
gives an interesting, if sorrowful, pic
ture of tlio situation and condition of
the Suspeots in the jail at Kilmainham,
detained under tho provisions of a law
which is effective only by tlio abrogation
of tho holiest rights of humanity. In
“free Britain ” tho law of might is of
far more weight than the guarantees
of the Magna Charto. “They cou’t
put a man off a railroad train for not
paying his fare," onoo said a tramp,
“ but they do."
The London Truth remarks that it
may not, perhaps, ho known that a man
wearing dark clothes is moro liable to
infoqtion J/fra contagious fli^epscs than
lto wllq'wears lighVc'oloml garments,
lieaaaso particles winch emanate from
dnPMvd or docaying-. bodies ore much
—""™sr
OWIN’ HOME TW DAt.
My hustnew on tho }«ry’* dono-the qulhhUn’ is all
•lirough-
I'tp wntelnit Uio lawyers right uni loft, anil glren
t •• urk ho long unto my chair, t thought f wouli
crow In;
Audit 1 .to ■»*. know myself, they'll get me there
But now the court'* adjourned, for good, and I’ve
I’m In™, thank til. Lord, I’m going
Pro Bomeltow felt uneaiy like, elnco the flrst day I
It is an awkward gamo to play the gentleman in
And this 'ere Sunday imit of tnlnoon 8undny rightly
Bill whcu’l wear the stufl' a week, it somehow galle
and fret*.
I'd rather wear my homeapun rig of pef»p*r salt and
I’ll have U ofl In half a Jiff when 1 got home to-day.
1 linre no doubt my wife looked out, a* we'l * iny
As well us any woman could—to *ce that things were
Tor though Melinda, when I'm there, won’t set her
foot outdoors
She's V”ry caruful, when I'm gone, to tend to all tho
But nothing prospers half so woll wbon I gooff to
And 1 wi’lf put things Into shape, when I get homo
wily u
my h
t came away, we had a little limit;
i up when she I
i kiss when I g
For what l sold i
And she was iiiw’a
But then sSie's drst
iM,hnw”f’racM
to-day.
My little boy—I'll gtre 'Sin loatre to match him, if
It’s fun to see him strut about, and try to lien man;
The games!, cheeriest, little chap you'll ever want
And then they 'idiigh, because I think the child re-
Ihe little rogue! he goes for me, like robbers for
their prey;
He’ll turn iny pocket* Inside out, when I get home
to-dar.
My little girl—I can't contrlrc how It should happen
That (Jod should pick that swoet bouquet and fling
it down to iis!
My wife, she says that hatjdwnne face will some day
And then I Uugit, because she thinks the child re*
sonrbles her.
iheMl meet me half wny down tho hill, and kiss me
n upon the earth, a fellow
from homo a week, and
h, the
day.
i just
fellow meets his folks, and hugs'.
d be wright or wrong, or be It a
me -I'm going home
WiU Cartoon, in “Farm Ballad*.'
THE CONDUCTOR’S STORY.
AN KPINODK OP lUDWeiiL’S .RAH.
I think it is Emerson who sn}-8;
“When you pay your tiuket atul get into
tho ear you have no guess what good
company you shall find there. You lmy
much that is not rendered in tho bill."
I lmve found this remark eminently true
on several occasions, particularly when
my lifo-long friend Ruth hen
oompauy.
"* tlio most unconventional oj
Ruth i
xpoiwiL'.a IlfUi’ aud a* dork c6kt to thb I wonion. Slie trifi’cls as she fli
3, of. Pi* Avp miuntc8, anfl i thing else, with whole-souled
•«[tiJiLAk.oae |
ly, being in the rear car of tho long
train, she preferred standing upon the
,Bger. I platform and drinking in at one draught
* ' : —' 1 1 that nmgnifiecut vullcy through which
wo seemed flying than by tantalizing
sips, as ono has U> do ftom behind
’ fchmi * othori of tpbacdb
, t Midi U will retain tho odci
Jamb8 Parton says : “ There is no
^ork ih* the world whioh expends vitality _ ,
■o fast ail writing for tho public. It is a ; narrow car window.
Work which is uevor done. It aocom- I followed her. I alway
" T * . ,, „ _ iU l I holding .on to tho narrow railing,
a man upon Ins walks, goe. with , BO ® 0 , v | m tlike two lost comuts whirl.
And,
Rev. T. H. Tibbles, who has so long
championed the cause of the Ponca In
dians, needs offer no explanation why he
was so zealous in their behalf. His mar
riage to Bright Eyes, the accomplished
and beautiful Indian girl, is exouse
enough.
Thr sign, No Dogs Admitted,” in
the Cincinnati street cars has produced
considerable oonfusion. Mon got up
aq leave tho car without just thinking
Whit th^y are doirig 'and only discover
when it i^too late that the' thing is a
dead give away.
Rrhqrutiko a general thanksgiving
over the recovery of tho President, Lieu
tenant Governor Storey, of Texas, says if
‘a ttniteffcnll i* nitfe *roj& Ufe
wflf issue a^ocjjinafeian to A*, whole
States -regardless U the attitud^rt <^ot*
^.oiBobertB, 'I
- A mono the, dispatches of .congratula
tion received by Senatof, Lapham, was
Jhefolloi|»Rg-|rqm^aJi\^L>r«- r
x.- •. «• ofccAoW, JBtyM.
Three cheers and congratnlations of the
faqtily. , J. 7. Barnaiid,
“ ‘ Me too.’ Jane Lapham Barnabd.”
' It ia proposed to Issue a neW species
.of pQstol. mcney order, whereby smajl
amounts maybe sent by mail as conven
iently as in the days of paper fractional
qurrenoy.. When Congress authorizes
such; a step, Cite hleesiugn ct tlie iriiolo;
couujr^r will be showered down upon it.
itig through space. Hoon tho d<
hiud us hanged, aud a gentl
midsummer of life, with a face as classi
cally beautiful ns Edwin Booth’s and r
waist of Falstnflinn dimensions, joined
us. Ho beamed on us almost literally.
From tho dimple in.his fair, softehin to
tho rin^f of brown, silky hair which lay
upon his broad, smooth forehead, tho
expression scintillated with intelligent
good nature. Withal, there was such a
retrospective background to tho sunny
brightness that al ter a few coni mon-
places Ruth, the during, honest, impti-
dent creature, said, looking tip mean
while into his foee with a smile so honest
and kindly that ho would have been a
Berserker not to have reflected it:
“Sir, permit me to remark that you
aro a physical incongruity."
“Not so had as that, umdame, I hope.
I am merely a conductor, ns by this
time you have discovered, ami a pretty
well balanced one, independent of
avoirdupois"
“But your thoughtful face, sir, that
is what perplexes me. It should belong
to a liody hut one-third tlio weight of
yours,” suggested Ilutli, the wise disci-
“tt appeal's to me," snhl Rutli, meas
uring tho most precipitous sides of those
lofty and mysterious hills, “that when a
man aspires to touch the sky he would
want a higher guerdon than mere gold,
not, however, that I hold tho metal in
contempt."
“t hail, mndame, and that was tho
whole matter. I was desperately in
that was a solemn fact, expressed
few words as possible—nnu I be
lieve that she loved me, but the top of
Mt. Hliosta was not more unattainable
to mo than Jennie. Her father, an old
Philadelphia druggist, had money, and
I had none. He was as proud os Luci
fer, and as ambitious for his daughter as
he was proud. I felt that I could ‘move
a mountain,’ if 1 could find a mountniu
to move; so Jennie and I said good-bye
one afternoon under an old oak. in Fair-
mount Polk, aud in tho very depths of
my heart I believed that she would
ho true to me. It was not a se
vere seven days’ ride in a palace enr
from Now Yolk to Han Francisco in
those dayp, and the tall, slender, hungry,
Dcimilofls lad who tramped along lu re
twenty-nine years ago, seeking his for
tune like another Dick Whittington^
was a weary and homesick ono as well.'
“By 'here,' which you have twice
used, do you mean tills veritable Valley
of tlio Hneraiuento?’’said Ruth.
“The Very same. My objective point
was a place now famous In the annals of
that period, called 'Bidwell's Bur,’ «»n
nccolint of a rich bar in tho Feather
niver, full of golden sand, which wns
discovered by General Indwell. The
place was many miles from tile; Mw
conutry was thinly settled; I did not
know a soul (for even tramps wero scarfo
in those early days), and so my cournfo
and my legs gave out together, Pulling
boots about 5 o’elodk
(ho
day, t hnt'ed my blistered feet
cool evening breeze, and,
a clump of young
asleep, fioj *
creeping info
„ mojznuitas, foil
’toping that I would never nwnko
ugnin this Ride of tho stars. I did, how-
over, conscious that my toes wore being
licked in n gentle fashion, and discovered
that it was being done by a brown setter
dog, about ns hungrv-looking nmljgeiicr-
nlly dilapidated ns I was myself.
“Where he came from t never knew,
but, looking into his half-human eves,
wo speedily entered into a sort of dumb
coinpaet to trudge on together. T r
that the poor fellow (I no
I found
could call
him a brute) had a Bore knee, inflamed
and bleeding. I tore a strip off from my
last handkerchief to hind it up, and, iu
place of the Good Samaritan’s
gave him my last scrap ot cold
It is strange, hut forlorn »s I
in those days, I recall them with a
was in those days. I recall them wi*u n
tender pleasure almost unaccountable.
If 1 had been raised n Brahmin I would
have believed that some immortal spirit
of unfailing cheerful’tots and nnondiug
resources was imprisoned in tluil Jog's
body. Did you . v«r rend the fairy le
gend of the 'WhiM Hat.’ who, after
she hail persuaded tl»e young
Prince, her lover, t<» out off her
head and tail and threw thorn in the Are.
ly stood before him a wonupi, as
at
Fritz, for that
which I called the dog, looked
with Jei
bro
eyes.
him to the theater, gets iiito bed with
hlni and possesses liim in liis dreams.
If he stoops to kiss tho baby, before ho
has reached tho right angle a point oc
curs to him, and he haugs in mid-air,
with vacant face and mind distranglit.”
Parton.ought to fully understand the
subject matter. Ho is a prodigious
writer, and bus spout a long life at news
paper work.
A Fiji Island newspaper is responsi
ble for the extraordinary story that
comes from tho Tino or Drummond
Islands. This is to tho effcot that a
Sandwich Islander wont ns a missionary
to Taputcona, ono of the Tino Islands.
He was so successful ns to prevail upon
tho natives to givo up all their weapons
and to live peaceful lives. Thoro were
mauy backsliders, however, and after
trying in vain to have these retaru to his
fold, he ended by preaching a ernsade
against them. Arming his own followers,
he encouraged an attack upon tho apos
tates and it is reported that nearly a i»lo of Lavuter.
tbmiHftnd men, women and children wore 1 “My toco is all right" he replied,
murdered Tho island whore all thin is "‘ r " kl "K L , ls " ml <; lun wlth “ n “‘ r
mmuereu. ....... . . . oi marvelous self-eomplacenoy. “It
said to have occurred is thickly populated, , Btoi)ped Rrmv i ng ton years ago, but it is
and Sandwioh Island missionaries have here;" touching the region of his dia-
been working among the people since ' phrngm with the tip of his forefinger,
1857 Tho roundabout way in which “I hat contentment and my good luck
show themselves. Once I was ns thin as
Peter Hchemmel'8 shadow^, and”—he
paused, looking into Ruth’s clear, gray
eyes as if ho would sound her soul’s
depths—“I am strongly tempted to tell
you my bit of a romance, for there is a
long stretch ahead, and you look like one
of the kind to enjoy 1 tymolv, of nature.
Isn’t-it so?”
Tho conductor had strdok the very key
note of our needs. We were pining for a
veritable California story, torn iu an un
conventional way, outside of the well-
read romances of Bret Harto aud The
Argonaut. To bo told, too, under such
peculiar circumstances would bo an ad
ded spiqe, and thus besought him to im-
inediatly yiold to temptation.
“I am an old stager,” ho said, “at
least as far back ns tho spring of 1850.
With a blanket strapped upon my hack,
fifty bents in my pants' pocket and the
biggest stock of 1 tope and unused ener
gy that ever made a loti’s heart as light
as a balloon, I tepiqocd along hero in my
search for the ‘gold diggings.’ My
ambition was higher than those. buttes
yonder by thousands of foot, and the top
was to ho capped by *olid gold,” point
ing ns ho spoke to tho tbreBSh^gilnr and
isolated peaks we tfafejhstrtocn passing,
kiiijwii tui the, .Marysville. Buttes, wIiowj
uoigj^I'wjkyfl hshnincossiblo to
the story reaches tho public givos it a
fishy oharacter.
A Dog Dying of a Broken Heart,
Prof. Calderwood, of Edinburgh, tolls
of a Presbyterian minister’s dog, which
one Sunday killed some fowls while tho
family were at church. On the minis
ter’s return the dog was shown the havoc
he had made, and then taken into the
study, where the minister addressed him
as follows, in a tone of greut solemnity,
.looking at him at the same fitnc re-
nroaclrfully : “ Dog, yon are a mfnts-
tcr’s dog, and ought, therefore, to have
been an example to other dogs. This is
tho Sahliath day, and, therefore, on this,
of all other days, your conduct should
have boon most, correct. But you have
killed the fowls and disgraced yourself!”
The dog was theu jgnorainjotisly turned
out of the room. ’The next morning he
was found dead. A veterinary surgeon
who was sent for declared that the dog
had died of a broken heart.
“What a rough fellow that Sniggins
is!" petulantly exclaimed tho Hnpedaln
girl after a struggle with the aforesaid
SniggitiHut “Copeubugop."
ly Hiuolhefpd.gie!” “And did ypp kp* (
him for his smother? Risked tl^p ,
jjA horisiu
miss', naively.
rose and went out. I soon heard him
pawing and scratching and tearing tho
earth aU*ut six feet from me, ns though
lie were under sou tract to dig a tunnel
to Chim hefon daylight. Thinking ho
hnd foul il the lurrow of a wolf or fox, I
called hi a off; lut ho was ns deaf as a
rock to i iy voice. Seizing the cnndle, I
hurried o the spot, around which lay a
half bus el of gnv.-l which lie had loos
ened, wl -il my eye caught the gleam of
a dull, r4l streak that veined a piece at
quartz about the size of an egg lying
among tll> fresh earth. Would you be
lieve it? That streak wns worth $50, for
it was viitin gold. Nor was it the only
one upontthat hillsirK Fritz had found
a tody < thanks to the gopher >, and I
thereby tud found a fortune. As soon
»s possible L hnd tlio gold of
that preCMUs stone wrought into a ring
of my o'M designing—nil of it, at lEast,
but the contents of ono Hunt corner,
which, ii its native ronghnew, I had
mounted as a brooch. Hooding these to
Jennie. I—"
‘An ao| of great generosity, sir. I
_uk
glint
thought jou d have preserv 'd snob u
pi.’ce of mt o go«id fortune as a memorial
and ato\e."
“You Mitif’pnte mi madam. Tt. w«g
as a n. inoviu tliat I n ut mv first bit of
tfCfisitic but expected to get it oaok
again Withiu two years, and the girl with
it.”
“And did yon?”
“No. nor even received a line of nc-
knowledgcoien* that my offer had been
accepted. Nothing finds gold quicker
than gold, when a man hits once got a
fair siiaio ct it. and in two years 1 hod,
iu various ways, Secured $20,000. In
vesting it, ns I thought safely, I returned
to Philadelphia in all the pride of a cou-
qnoring hero. My stoiy ought to end
here; to wind tip with the chime of wed
ding bill* aud a 'beautiful Rachel’ as
my toward for faithful serving; but I hnd
scarcely arrived triton I heard, incident-
that Juuni* had gone with tier
■ to Europe, nor left no rign that
ally,
futhei
half roguish, half thoughtful, and to-
gctlier wo resumed our journey. Nor
would T have followed iu tlui w.ike.of tho
young Prince, even hud T known the re
sult would have boon si ini tar. for Fritz,
the dog, was invaluable just us he was.
All lonesoineiioss was gone now that lie
rarely left my side, and. nit hough our
shadows had grown less by tlio time wo
reached the ‘bar,’ our immaterial entities
were iu prime order tor everytliiing in tho
shape of adventure. ‘Uuve never seen
any gold dug.’ Then Til n >; at this late
day spoil your first imprt ssi ns of a min
er’s camp by describing ni no as I ap
proached BidwelPs Hi , I may say.
though, that one might lm o snp|»aSed
an earthquake or toruad .had been there,
tearing up tlio hundreds of thousands of
cut lie feet that hud been n»v«d and re-
moved by mortal hands iu their frantic
and persistent search for grid.
“The ‘liar’ was a world .a miniature.
Almost every nationality v i>s there repre
sented, and almost every nature of hu
man kind but humanity. Armed with a
pick, pan and shovel, I. I ke hundreds of
others, began to dig iti l utirrow and
wash dirt. But my lal-p’ and its results
would not balance, for a* rneliow my lit
tle ieathor bag of pol dust got no
heuvier, toil as I would Wages being
good, I stopped digging and hired my
self ns a camp-scullion. I did every kind
of jobbing within the range of a miner’s
wants. Washing dirty flannel shirts and
cottons overalls, patching leather trou
sers and cooking flapjacks is not tlio
most dignified and flower-strewn path to
fortune, you must kiimv; aud to a hoy
whose ideas of chivalry, independence
and deeds of knightly valor were purely
and intensely ByroiMC. such a fate you
must acknowledge, was a sort of poetic
injustice. My aim, t! oaflh, was to oarn
enough money wiih which to buy a cer
tain claim of wlii<h 1 knew, and that I
hnd, in advance, IsMed 'Bonanza.’
“I might have sm needed, but I was
prostrated by a malarial fever, and for
days and weeks lay tmoaJietfouB at tho
tender mercies of a few »o«gh Welsh
minors with human hearts. My little
hoard of money and pjjr energy molted
away together like spring snow. But f<
Fritz Fa have (te a dMhppuiutmeut
alone. He had aoopted the ‘Never say
die’ mottof —*\ m 4 uftse rend in his
glorious eyes the sfa}(e^, ‘You great
coward! At him a rain!’ ka a tender and
apprtM’iatiVDBytii! uttiy which the gift of
speech could not have made more OHsur-
iug. My purses had pitched mo a tout
on the south' side of a low Iitll, and hnd
loft me to get well at my own leisure.
Mv ‘iKittom dollar’ hnd dwindled to tlio
value of a dime, ray legs to thickness of
apnir of tofign (for all appetite wns
gone,) and.one evening hop.i failed inn
Believiqg I was going to die, 1 resolved
to do the fair thing by Jennie, apprise
her of the event and advise her to forget
me. By the flickering light of n hit of
tallow caudle I began the letter, the first
I. hod written for mouths. I thought
aloud and wrote. Fritz lay hesiqe tne,
his nose wedged between his paws, but
I know by the twitch of his ears that
ho understood every word I was writ
itig.
“I had reached the climax of renun
ciation and wretchedness-- of, rather,
my expression of it—when ho suddenly
for the sake of the old friend who L
gone where I hope one day to meet
human of him. I .wish you oonld sWL
off a bit and see my wife. Queer, isn tril
that I should have introduced this bit>
of private liistory upon you ? But the
truth is—. Yes—coming! I’ll be with
you again; ladies.”
A hrnkeman beckoned him inside, and
we had seen the last of our handsome
conductor.
Tho evening shadows had begun to
lengthen.
Tlie setting snn lmd turned the vast
plain of tho ftaemmento Valley into a
“field of tho cloth of gold,” ana the dir-
tant peaks of the Sierras, clad in eternal
snows, but now rose-tinted and glowing,
seemed to cleave tho azure above them
as with a wedge of burnished silver. It
wns starlight when we reached the end
of our car-rido and wero registered for
tho night.
“Tho conductor’s story was a pleasant
little episode, Ruth, wasn’t it ? Do you
believo it all happened ?” I asked, as I
leaned from my pillow to hor’s to leave
a good-night kiss on her round cheek.
“I like Fritz," wns the sleepy answer.
“There's an instinct abont some dogs
that the half of mankind cau neither
appreciate nor maintain. I trust a man
whom a good dog loves. ”
HIM OHS OF Tlie DAY.
Bad spectacles—Broken glasses.
Men who aro born equal—twins.
Opbrino a boilr-tokiug off tho tea
kettle lid.
A Civil engineer—One who gives a
fi*amp ;t free ride in a caboose.
Remaking of avarice and generosity,
b rife bee as stingy ns tho wasp?—Stcu-
bt nuitlc Jlrratil.
here Statesman.
The clown who got caught in a heavy,
rain without on umbrella, was a damp
fool, wasn’t he?—Stucbrnville Herald.
It has been established at lost that
the only disease to which you may not •
second time be liable, is the one that
kills first.
Teacher to small boy—“What does
1—y about tin 1 —
3 who livo in
Hmall boy"—Pull down
nembred
“You certainly did not let that fact
dampen t le ardor of your pursuit?”
queried Rath; “you followed her, of
course.'’
“I did ;iG such thing, mudnm. I re
turned to Ban fVnncisco, and plunged
into tlie excitement pf gold hunting with
a recklessii -ass that a woman can not
understand Hix months after and I lost
every dollar, hut by that time I had
learned that experience is worth nothing
os solid capital until it has been dearly
bought. | whistled my rhyme:
“Los* hi I gain, pleasure and p»n,
iJatani' tho neo-saw of life,
iu the sotiiitive ears of my faithful Fritz,
hugged Its brown head dote to mv
shoulder—Hlou’t lmtgh, that dig was*my
friend— up my sleeves. *ud agnin
went to work with a vigor tl-ft I know
mount certuiti sneeess if the Vein belli
out. It did, and five veins afterward I
had a bank account which ran largely
into t!u> tlio lMnnds. I : iiVested it iu
land. Ry tUut time I WM a bachpltmof
thirty. Hard kuocks aud mv ope big
diRUl'pointnnnt lmd shulcra ill flto
romance out ot mo, and wh'in | again
went East it was on business ctinectod
with the corstmotion of tHiis rm.road.”
“Aud yot have quite outlived your
boyish fancy, as heart liogan ttt lose its
youth?” sail! Ruth, with the tyast bit of
cynicism ill ^er tone.
‘“I think .Fritz know,” said tho con
ductor quietly. “I hnd become almost
misautliropd for liis sake. If J loft him
to go into Sipioty -such as wc htul—for
a few hours, 'ic cither whined like a sick
child or kcjt up such an increasing
harking and Imying that to save him be
ing shot as a inisance I went to no jilneo
where it was impossible for him to ac
company mo. 'l lie old follow went with me
oven to New York, and on the journey I
often caught myself cogitating how he—
born in a wilderness of wild mustard,
and as fond If camp-life ns an Indian—
would take to the constraint oi an old
city Well, 1 had not been in New York
a week before there was a strong tugging
at mv heart t« ran down to Philadelphia.
Not that it vas homo for me, for mv
parents had died before L first left it. I
called the dfldro 'the charm Of associa-
tion?* and it li d me. . .
“There, ns t went down ArOh street,
my poor dog fost his wits and the solior
dignity of Ins maturity. He had a re
markably fine scent. I nlwi^vs know
that; but no leoner had wo tufiied into
that particular street than, with nose
close to tho drouml and rigid tail, he ran
zig-zag to anu fro, as though he was on
the trail of n^ erratic fox. I called him,
but ho gave kobeed. People got out of
his way. Tuo gamins shouted, and,
with a wild, Vhrill bark, ho suddenly
bounded intojtl’O door-way of a large
dry-goods stive. I bounded after him
iu tiinc to soiihim rush up to a loily in
black, who wks examining some gloves,
aud danood alound her with signs of tlio
most oxtravaoant jov. There are tones
that live without tho aid of photographs.
‘Roy! Roy! bpar old Roy, wasalj. she
said, but I’d nave sworn tlio voieo was
Jonnio’s if I hid heard it ou tho summit
of Mount Rhine. A white hand was
laid njion his head and my ring was on
tlie hand.”
He paused.
“Yours? Sir, T hope you did not
claim it,” sail the practical oolloou-
tor.
“I did, and the hand wlfieh wore it,
just as I originally intended.’’ Nor did
Alexander, in liis hours of conquest, over
smile ii more sordid approval of himrtolf
than our conductor at this stage of tho
S “But the conduct of Fritz, and tho
lady’s silouoe, and all the quoer concom
itants which exist only in lictiou—h»Fl
do you roconci'e tticrn mth »n "W r true;
tale?” said Rutli, tho truth loving.
“Fritz was Roy, the Rov who had
often been caressed by.teniiinbefore his
vouug master, Jennie’s oousim got tho
^(,1,1 fever, when T did. %anq eamo td
California, nevur to return. J«nnic kul
written, but; h*r..lqttora m hid never
riaehedr .
t he dog camdflto “m, *w!
dit$l, is one moong thtet*sirfA«a ,of ray
life which T will disentangle in the here-
ftfb>r. ' • • J
“And (<• Jagr whoj»(is she V
TT«‘ stood, waiting for tho answer.
the proverb s
glass houses ?' f
the blinds.”
“Do you drink brandy?” “No, I do not
drink brandy, but my brother Andy,
who is guite a dandy, drinks brandy,
mixed with rock caudy.”—Steubenville
Herald.
She was sweet sixteon when she re
ceived a box of caramels from her dear
Claude Augustus, and she was sweet
sickteen when she turned her tired oyes
upon ita emptiness.
Wab history: “Wlmt is the greatest
charge ou record?’’ asked tlio professor
of history. And tho absent-minded
student answered: “Seventeen dollars
for lvick hire for self and girl for tv ^
hoofs. ” J
ThunK is a good deal of gush over %
drifer on one ut the street care In Kan
sas'City, who was formerly , a lawver.
Tips is all wrong. If the nvyi is ti/fng
to/do right now, why bring up his past
lif) against him ?
“IjViLL the coming man use both
mnds?” is a question asked by a scien
tific exchange. Wo do not see how the
fuming man can use both bauds uulcss
the coming woman drives the horse.—
peck's Hun.
“How como you to fail in your ex
amination?” asked tho tutor. “I thought
I crammed you thoroughly.” “Well,
you sec,” replied tho student, “the fact
was you crammed nre so tight I couldn’t
got it out.—Yale College News.
“Do you know, Mr. Smith,” asked
Mrs. S., in a reproving way, “that that
cigarette is hurting yon; that it is your
enemy ?” $K*¥s" replied Smith, oalrnly
ejecting a flcccv cloud; “yes, I know it.
and I’m trying to smoke the rascal
out.” t
Were wouicu's looks.
And folly's ull (hey (aught n
ad thor
n'd 1.1
Their j.n tty biudlnga caught n
—Slnibinx
Now look at ine
umge they wrought me.
-Drtioit "Chaff.
And yoi
—SlmbinvilU BetaId.
Bllm
o thoy'Te brought me.
-Hund.v Capital.
A boy was eating a wn v at a big cocoannt
that had been cracked open with a brick
bat, when a pedestrian felt it his duty
to halt and remark: “Boy, don’t you
know that too much of that stuff may
givo you tho colic?” “1 guess so," was
the‘reply. “Then why do you oat it7"
“Well, if my chum, who lives next door,
can stand the small pox for six weeks, I
guess I can put up with the colic for
three or four hours!” was the reply as he
hit off another big hunk. •
1 heard two damsels collaborating fc
produce a piece of poetry to a bunch
of dandeloins. With their eyes intent
upon tho source of inspiration they
achieved two verses:
•• Dandelion of g»Mcn hue,
What a lot there urunl von." J
- Wic »Wk jtolrr.
A bewino machine agent in Litchfield
proudly flings the following to tho
Domestics
For Halo and Repaired ITere.
—Dunbarf/ WQW9,
Emperor of llmril.
The present Empt ror of Brazil, Pedro
II., is descended fr.-m the royal lino of
Portugal. iPYhun tlio French invaded
that country in 1807, the royal family
fled to Brazil, which wTu» raised to the.
rank of a kingdom in 1815. .-ater diffi
culties with Portugal, th* i father of tho
reigning sovereign took tuo part Bra
zil, and was proclaim d pforactor and
perpetual defender o ' iMit' • Wmritry,
which wus declared ind ip udwoljn 1822,
and he was proclaim <1 constitutional
Emperor and crowns. 1 JTti the-death
of his father, Dorn Peril' * sWiffted the
throne of Brazil in of his. int mt
daughter, and returned t<» Portngal
assn mo the ofilco of h*Vig.
ingtho residence of Dom .Pedro I. ^n
Brazil that Item Pidto 11., thepri$ent
Emperor, was h orn , winch event ocourrc 1
December 2, 1825. He wu4 Orowne
July 18, 1841, and ^WAK Married “Sept. *
4843, to Prince** .(Jhriftina .
daugter of Francis I., Kingrn tho Tv
Sicilies. Their ode : ’ surviving ■' ctiilu.
Princess . Iaabellij,, m .horn | July, 29,
1840, and v as married in lbo4 to Pnnpe
Louis of Orleans, (fomte 1 <d’Eu, eldest
aon oi tlie D\ic »W‘ Nemours, of the ex
royal house of Botirbon-Orleartfc. 1 The
Empire of Brazil has greatly improved
uudur Tjfdo U., slavery has been abol
ished, immigration invited, railways
built, and the finances aud other depart
ments of tlm government put ou a firmer
basis. ThirBniperpr traveled in Europe
for some tiiiieduring J87l;and 1872, and
not long since visited t ho United State*,
where ho Wks Vferv’ eordihlly raiteivefl.
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