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editorial notes.
Eotson, the electrician, is enthusiastic
aver the growth of the electric light
business. The cost of this light is
being gradually cheapened, and many
small towns have found it a matter of
economy t > introduce it. In some places
the competition has forced gas compa¬
nies to put prices down to ninety-five
cents per thousand feet. Edison pre¬
dicts that within five years the electric
light companies will furnish 98 per cent,
of the light. He even goes so far as to
intimate that the electric light will some
day he cheaper than kerosene. The
prejudice against the new illuminator is
rapidly disappearing.
The chief cooks in leading hotels, res¬
taurants, clubs and mansions in Phila¬
delphia receive salaries ranging from
$3,000 to $3,600. The cooks are mostly
Frenchmen. A French chief is an im¬
portant personage. He is treated by his
assistants with the greatest deference,
he has his distinct table and servants to
wait on him. The finest wines are serv¬
ed at his meals, a d his footing in the
house is that of an honored guest. With
him cooking is one of the fine arts, and
he regards himself as the equal ot a
sculptor or a paiuter. Some of the New
York and Philadelphia clubs boast of
cooks as skillful as can be found in Eu¬
rope.
It is a settled fact that good cham¬
pagne will never be cheap. The labor
necessary in producing it and the loss
incurred by bursting bottles is so great
that prices must always range high. No
wine owes more to the skill of the maker
and less to the quality of the grape than
this favorite beverage. The “sparkling”
quality is the least of its merits. Indeed
it is better to wait until the carbonic
acid has partially disappeared, for then,
if the quality be good, it will be found to
have retained its body and flavor which
“was before concealed by the efferves
cence. But as long as people will drink
wine by the label, they will continue to
be deceived.
It is asserted that as much nutriment
is contained in twenty pounds of cheese
as will be found iu a sheep weighing
sixty pounds. The English say that the
cooking of cheese is practically an un¬
known art in America, the only form
commonly known being the We.sh rare¬
bit. A cheap, savory and highly nutri¬
tious food may be prepared by adding
grated cheese to oatmeal porridge, boiled
rice, mashed potatoes, hasty pudding,
etc. A scientific lecturer, who upholds
cheese as a staple food, also takes the
position that “bosch,” when honestly
prepared from good beef and mutton, fat
and sold as “butterine,” or “oleomarga¬
rine,” is an excellent substitute for
cream cheese.
Kitupp, the great gun manufacturer
has just taken out a patent for a flat
headed projectile. Tiiis novel form has
been given to it with a view of proven
ting its glancing off on striking the ar¬
mor-plate of a vessel at a great angle of
inclination. The form has further been
adopted with the object of penetrating
a ships armor below the water-line, an
operation hitherto attended with but
little success, owing to the pointed head
of the shot. In order not to cause a loss
of ve ocity, a point of wood or thin iron
plate is attached, which, on striking, ij
immediately shattered, and, at the same
time, being filled with oil, which is to
grease the projectile, is said to increase
its power of penetration.
Few people have any ilea of the
number ot free passes granted annually
by a leading railroad. First come the
exchange passes given to the officials of
other roads. It is nothing uncommon for
a railroad to issue 1,500 of these passes.
In Same States members of the Legisla¬
ture and Congressmen are furnished
with passes. Editors of leading papers
are also favored in this way. One of the
western road issues editorial passes in
form of little books. Each book con¬
tains thirty-six coupons, and a coupon is
taken up for each division the editor
travels over, if it is not more than two
miles. A black list of editors who sell
parses has been compiled by the national
ticket agents’ association, and this has a
tendency to restrain the editors of one
horse journals who are tempted to sell
their passes.
The prohibitionists of the country claim
that the outlook is favorable in many
States for the adoption eonstituti mal
amendments prohibiting the manufac¬
ture and sale of alcoholic 1 leverages. The
constitutional movement has been agita¬
ted in twenty-one States. In Kansas it
has been consummated; Iowa passed
it through two Legist itures and ratified it
by 30,000 majority, but the amendment
was killed by its clerical errors. Maiue
has passed a constitutional amendment
through the Legislature, and it wants a
popular vote. In Oregon one Legisla¬
ture has acted favorably, and a second
me is to take action iu the matter. Ohio
passed it through her Legislature, and
lost it liefore the people. In Texas,
West Virginia, Nebraska, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Arkansas it failed by
only a few votes
Love.— Apropos of the announce
ment of the engagement of Miss Jennie
i Flood, the bonanza king s daughter, to
I an English nobleman, a Chicago paper
i recalls the story of her love for a young
4 clerk in her father’s bank in San Fran
cisco, and says that, though she may
marry some one else, her heart does not
go with her hand. Her father discharged
the young man on learning of the at
tatchment, and hurried Miss .Jenni off
to Europe.
he
“ T stake my opinions agrinst
iv anv mans.” said Mr. Littlewait,
“I got ’em from my lawyer
tliej cost me £25Q» 5 *
GEKERAL 1STEWS.
The state lunatic asylum of Arkansas,
has 247 inmates.
An immense candy and confectionery
manufactory will be established in Knox¬
ville this year.
The total number of convicts from
Montgomery county, Alabama, senten
ted to hard labor is 62.
The city council oi Chattanooga have
increased the license of retail liquor
dealers from $100 to $250.
Zinc in abundance and of the very
riche t quality, has been found in th
vicinity of Fall Branch, Tennessee.
It is calculated that the iron produe
tion of Alabama, Georgia an 1 Tennessee,
by 1890, will reach a million of tons.
New York’s new State Capitol has
cost nearly $15,5)0,000, and keeps
steadily employed thirteen hundred men.
Within the past two years 29,800 fruit
trees have been planted in and around
Harrisburg, Madison county, Tennessee.
Christmas parties in Tampa, Florida
dined on watermelons, cucumbers, to¬
matoes, beans, early potatoes alia
oranges.
By the Cfehsus of 1880, the number of
persona of twenty-one years and upward
in the’ Southern States who wore unable
to write was 2.984,387.
TttEKE ats how more than five hun¬
dred strangers prospecting for homes
and arranging for the purchase of prop¬
erty in North Carolina.
A HInT is given to capitalists in South¬
ern seaboard cities by the American
Lumberman, which says the largest ves¬
sels ever built in Bath and other ship¬
building towns in Maine, were built of
Georgia pine.
Mr. Hamilton Disston, the million¬
aire manufacturer of Philadelphia, has
$ 100,000 insurance on his life til thirteen
regular companies, while he is good for
several thousand additional in mutual
companies. He has probably a heavier
life insurance than any man in Hie
country.
During the recent cold “snap" Charles¬
ton, S. O., had th) coldest weather in
130 years. The thermometer was 13
degrees above zero, not below, as lias
been reported. The News and Courier
seems to be greatly surprised that there
should have been ice cn the streets, that
the Rutledge street should have been
frozen over, and that the flowers on the
Mall should have been crystalized and
covered with ice.
The c instruction of new railroad in
the United States during the year 1883
was less than 60 per cent, of the new
mileage of 1882—only 6 ,OOOmileshaving
been built, against 11.591 miles for the
previous year, 9,789 miles in 1881, and
7,174 miles in 1880. In only one other
year, however, was the mileage larger—
in 1871, when 7,379 miles were construc¬
ted. 1 here are now about 120,000 miles
of railroad in operation in the country,
of which one half has been constructed
since 1871.
During the year 1883 not one Ameri¬
can vessel cleared from the great port
of New York for Europe laden with grain,
the principal article of export from the
United States. During the year tie re
were exported from New York in 491
vessels 21,545,000 bushels of wheat,
25,225,608 bushels of corn, 5.052,043
bushels of oats—a ' tots] of 51 970,081
bushels. A low estimate makes the
total amount of freight-money paid for
the transportation of this grain at least
$4,000,000.
When it is remembered that some
seventeen municipalities of Brazil have
voluntarily liberated their slaves during
the present year, it does net seem very
far in the future when a tidal wave of
popular enthusiasm will sweep the insti¬
tution entirely from the South American
empire. On October 11th, the provin¬
cial assembly of C eara took a step in this
direction by raining the tax on slaves to
$100 and by prohibiting the renewal of
slavery in all municipalities in which it
has been abolished. The new law goes
into effect on January 31, and the Rio
News thinks that thousands of gltves
will be liberated by their owners rather
than pay the tax.
Dr. H. H. U'arev, fish commissioner
of Georgia, has been interviewed down
in Florida, where he has been huntin'?
the spawning places of the shad. '
doctor states that shad are disappt
in the St John’s and will .'
unless replenished ar.ificially.
vors the introduction of artific’ ’
ing. In the course of his inte.
Carey said that a few years ago
half a million young Connect 1 c
-h id in Flint river. Three veara
fishermen along that river reported that
( y ie a y iaf j readily to the flv, some
Hung before unheard __ of with the . shad , , of ,
southern rivers. The fact shows that
Connecticut shad retain their original
ha>(itg when transplanted 1 to other
i
i waters.
The Manufacturers’ Record gives the
name and location of every cotton mill in
the South, with the numlier of spindles
j ^ m each The flgnmi as thus 314
compiled, .... show that . there are „ Rowdi*
i cotton nulla in the South having l,27o,*
Hamilton Journal.
VOL. XII. NO. (!.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY C, 1884.
422 spindles and 24,873 looms, while at
the time the census was taken in 1.880
the South had Only t§0 inills, With 712
989 spindles ahd 15,222 looms. The
largest increase in the numbor of mills
was made in North Carolina, whero ft
gain of 43 mills and 110,590 spindles is
exhibited, while Georgia made an in¬
crease of 139,156 spindles and 22 mills.
In 1880 the value of manufactured cotton
produced at the South was a little over
$21,000,000, while in 1883 the value hnd
risen to between $35,000,000 and $200,
000 , 000 . I ho record figures tip that
during the last three years ahd a htt 1
about $ 200 , 000,000 has been invested by
new and old Southern cotton mills in
machinery, the bulk of which has been
paid to the Northern and 'Western ma¬
chinery manufacturers.
At the end of thft present month A
Splendid view of Mars can be obtained
through the telescope. As the diver i
fied surface of tins distant World comes
into view it appears « real globe marked
with continents, oceans 'And islands and
partially Covered with oMtdS. 'the tele¬
scope plainly shows the ifbow cap cover¬
ing the antarctic region of the globe of
Mars. A darkening around the snow
field is supposed to be ft sea. Ijfttgw
telescopes enable the observer to see
that the two tiny moons of Mars revolve
eo close to the planet that the inner one
goes through JfU the changes fbetii nc;V
moon to old rilobn in less than a day.
Another interesting thing to be studied
is the mysterious network of so-called
canals covering a largb part oi the
planet's surface. As these canals are
about sixty miles in the width it is diffi¬
cult to believe that they have been
constructed by the inhabitants. It is
tolerably certain that Mars has reached
a later stage df planetary development
than the fiarth, and if it has inhabitants
they may have attained a degree of civ¬
ilization incomprehensible to us. At all
events, the ruddy star in our midnight
sky is a wonderful world.
A Letter* Carrier’s Story.
A rather good-looking, intelligent man de¬
related the following true story ! "I
liver in the Clifton wealthiest District, ahd soirib
of our best ftnd people are on
toy route. Two years ago I delivered a
letter at a certain residence to a beauti¬
ful young lady, who went into raptures
on recognizing the writing, and thanked
me so heartily that it far outweighed
all the incivility I met I that called day. It was
some months before again, and
dressed then with a mourning mother envelop, ad¬
to the of the young
lady. Several months passed, lady each day
of which I saw my young friend
standing in the door at the end of the
approach looking for my appearance. It
was so regular and continuous that it be¬
gan to w< rk on my mind, and I won¬
dered what was the the cause. mother, Shortly after
1 had letters for and on go¬
ing up to the door was met by both, and,
lioys, the change in that poor child’s
looks went through me like a knife.
Sunken eyes, with an empty expression,
wasted flesh and color, and an indescrib¬
able air of melancholy, which troubles
tne every moment I am disengaged. I
delivered some mail to a grocer’s place
iu the square, and could not help asking
about this poor young lady. I was in¬
formed that she was betrothed to a
young man who went to India as a mis
rionary, but soon fell a prey to the
deadly cholera of that pestilential coun¬
try, and that his death was hidden from
his affianced wife ill the hope that she
would ultimately forget him, but I tell
yon. boys, Moore was right when he
wrote:
Die heart that has truly loved close, never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the her god when he
As the sunflower turns on sets
The same look which she turned when he
rose.
And so it proved in this case. With the
kind-hearted grocer as a middle man I
regularly deliver a letter twice a month,
purporting to come from India, and
written by her mother, and I receive in
due time the answer, which I leave witli
the grocer, who privately sends it to the
mother. It is by the advice of the
family physician. who fears for my young
friend's reason.” — Cincinnati News
Journal.
Homes for Soldiers’ Widows.
Many of the Grand Army poets in the
west are moving in an effort to get a
National Home fpr the widows and
Orphans "* 8 oldiers. Seve-al
adopted -oe-eor
8 ettin<
for sole
lie 1 » ;:I
o*
sb.
York ,.i
to monopoi . <i<k and a»
to eh*tricity"fc *. „ .tie star fish that
are destroying oysters in the Sound the
dealers say that ihe electric shock that
would kill the fish would kill the oyster
also.
__ _
On the bill of fare in New York
Italian restaurants coffee is 1 cent per
enp; steaks, chops and stews, 3 cents;
pastry, 3 cents; beer, two cents; whisky
and brandy, 3 cents. These places are
thronged daily by persona of all nation¬
alities,
RUPERTS REQUEST.
A BkAUTIFUL RO!»i *NCE FKO.1t tHb
West.
BfcryPs Pa Receives a J.Fitor—She Is i\ll
Expectancy iintil the Contents are
Revealed.
__
“Come hither, Nutwood Beryl.” spoke in kindly
Stuvvesant
tones to his daughter, and yet the girl
noticed, or imagined that she did. a
slight tremor in his involuntary voice, but, thinking
it was dfle to teetll, tile hinttei- lodsening
of his false gafeo the no
further attention. She crossed the
room to Where her father Was sitting
ih hiS great ttrin chair tiesidfe the
window.
Beryl had grown up on her father’s
farm almost without society, but not
without education, for every year she
had attended 18th the seminary had at Acornville, graduated
and in her tiie honors yetrt Pbp percale dress,
With all told a
And then she had gone back to the farm
again, but Sittlsiaeibry sotaqhow Jiteb life theto tout
net aft as before. There
were times when Beryl felt a sense of
ennui mixed with an indefinable feeling
of WaMfet restlessness dfime&Jy that around woii.ld, ciiilsh lief in to
tne place a
reverie until recalled to the things of
this world by stepping on her ankle.
But though she strove to conceal even
from herself the real cause of this feel¬
ing her heart Wotijd etrsr and aiitm.gite a
great tlirfb As site tbtrttght bf Rupert
Hollingsworth, In who Western,toWn. was ndw a strug¬ There
gling lawyer words a love between them,
had been no of
but bn thfe day the Rupert time, iriradtiatlsd stanii- they
ha d met for last and,
ing beneath the shade of a grand the old
oak that guarded the entrance to
college Campus; Ilf Rupert had taken
Beryl’* hand iilft find MU tb bey;
while his dark-brown eyes seemed look¬
ing into her very soul : “You will not
forget me entirely, Miss Stuvvesant ?”
“I shall never forget you, she replied I
with grave earnestness, “ns long as
live. ”
He had once stepped on hor toes.
When Beryl hntf crossed the room net
fat ther motioned lifer to a Sfeatby his side,
and ns she cuddled up cosily on a has¬
sock, and, placing her arms upon her
knees, looked up in his face with a
wonderful expression in her great blue
eyes, Stnyvesnut Nutwood felt a great
thrill of sorrow in the knowledge that
“lie day this beautiful girl, with all her
wealth of love and bandoline, would
leave “I him forever, received lotter from Rupert
have a said,
Hollingsworth, thfe giri Beryl,*’ sudden he start, and
gave a ■ a
wave of crimson swept over the pure,
Bweet face, but she did not speak. continued,
“Can you not guess,” his ho is ?”
“what the purport of letter
Beryl could no longer look her father
in the face. She knew full well why
Itupel-t Hollingsworth had written.
He had gone away only two years be¬
fore in all the vigor of his glad manhood,
and his splendid talents had gained for
him success where others had failed.
And now, crowned with the laurel
wreath of viotory, he had written to her
father for permission to urge his suit
with her. She knew all this full well,
and yet when her father asked her the
question to which her heart hnd al¬
ready given answer she did not reply.
“You could never guess, little one,”
said Stnyvesnut Nutwood, a merry has
twinkle in his eyes, “why Rupert
written. Do you think you could ?”
A deeper blush overspread the pretty
face. continued,
“But I will tell you,” he at college to¬
“because you two were
gether. Still, perhaps, I had better bo
silent”—and again the laughing light
came into her father’s eyes.
“Tell me, papa,” whispered Beryl, no
longer able to conceal her eagerness,
“why has he written ?”
“He wants something,” was the reply.
“Can you not gness what it is ?”
Every fibre of Beryl’s being is throb¬
bing with expectancy now. The sun has
passed from sight, and great bands of
rosy light that stream up from below
the horizon's rim cast a strange halo
over the silent earth. Beryl feels the
solemn influences of the twilight hour,
but no word comes from her Jips.
“Can you not guess,” repeats her
father, “what Rupert Hollingsworth de¬
sires?”
For aai instant she does not reply. To
answer the question in the affirmative
would seem bold and forward, and yet
can i she deny, even to herself, a Knowl
jdge of what Rupert desires ? Ho she
simply says to her father : ‘ ‘Tell me
wnat he wants.”
Bending tenderly over his <l 8 ’ 'liter,
Siuyvesant Nutwood whisjiers
fii.ite pathos in Ik
dollars to get L
Tribu”
maker o.
bing his -
“There, thank %
is finished at laat. . * th.
words were well out of his mouth an cx
pression of anguish spread over his face
and he added, “Thuniieration I if
haven’t gone and left the glue-pot r insid
the fiddle.”
COUNTRY RCHOOIS.
*^he Trials of the Children and the
That endangers Tlieir Health.
Dr. S. E. Reeves in an Address to the
Public Health Association said:—Ifl
country districts school life has many
more exposures to unhealthy influences
than are suffered in tow.13 #*»d cities.
For example, it is no uncommon walk two expe¬
rience for some children to or
three mileB—sometimes double that dis¬
tance-“every day they attend school;
and) when the weather Is wet and the
toads muddy,- they ate ftecjilently (Join* Cold
helled enter elotuiilg their Classes With iff
feet and damp Slid feihaih
that chilly, uncomfortable condition un¬
til the until period tW»i of recess arrives, or, may
be, homy in the even¬
ing. In the winter time, wneii fflk toreda
are icy and slippery, or when the ground most is
covered with snow, and travel on foot
disagreeable ldng dUtvufeefl and fatiguing, Walk those hurry who
UiiVe to .must tlli’dj
their footsteps to escape being ill
their appearance felafesfeSj at roll-call, and, Whfeii and
uiey enter tlieir rirfe all aglow
perspiring. In that condition they tttkti
their seats, soon feel chilly and are too
Sleepy and stupid to take interest in the
IbSsonti; At hoOp. when hirtrtfedly the hour for
dinner arrives, they eitt the
cold food contained ill tlieir little baskets
and buckets, but not usually digestion with 08
sharp appetite and good Immediately as
when they ate they at home, tt vigorously
after ditinef engage »0
In all SdHj> oi play—running, jumping,
“Chasing the foi,” bake bull and various
other fatiguing and relaxing bi(!tcSw»*—
Bo that by the time of the call “to books !’
they ate ha tired reached Bud hidisposud to study
as when they sdliobl *'< the morn¬
ing. Then, after dismissal in the evell
iug, they are again tired out by the walk
home, and thus they aro more or less ex¬
posed to Unhealthy influences every day
during the school teilil. country
The management of schools
should provide special accommodations
for the relief and comfort of children
who come with damp clothing accomplished and wet
feet. This can be easily
in a well-appointed reception kept room for
each sex, wheto should be always
on hand and toady for UsO a sufficient
number of pair of shoo# and stockings of
different sizes, also several warm wraps
with whioh to clothe and warm the
teuderest of the exposed pupils until
their own shoes and stookings and other
garments aro dry enough to put on and
they are ready to enter their classes.
Parents who are able to do so should
bo encouraged to supply the school store
room with an extra suit of clothing for
each child they send, and no doubt in
every community tlioro could be gath¬
ered enough subscriptions of that kind
from humane, weil-to-do persons ami
families to meet the wants and needs of
the poorer children at school, whose
wardrobes are already too scantily sup¬
plied to afford them comfort and proper
protection in cold weather. Nowadays,
however, rubber shoes, gossamer circu¬
lars and gum coats have become so
cheap and common it would seem that
even the poorest families should bo able
to provide such articles of protection
for thoir children.
Gardens of the Sea.
Among the many curious analogies
born of modern investigation, those none showing are
more interesting of parallelism than in the habits
striking cases animals whose environ¬
and customs of
ments are totally dissimilar. The ocean
bed Heims peopled with forms so re¬
sembling those of laud that a modifica¬
tion of structure to conform with their
surroundinf 3 alone appears to be the
point of difference. In drifting over the
reefs of our southern border this resem¬
blance between the creatures of land and
HI I' is extremely striking. The gardens lavish
of tlio lower world abound in
growth; trees, shrubs, waving vines, are of
all reproduced in the wondrous forms
the sea. Here a forest of coral branches
( Madrepora ) raise their myriads of
bristling points, each flowered by a deli¬
cate polyp, and presenting a rich olive
green tint in contrast to the deep bine
of the channel upon whose banks *’
grow. Pure as crystal, the watei
to intensify the beauty of the v,
even in the greater depths; ga
decked fishes move lazily abou
and falling among the living 1
poising, perhaps, to pluck some
from a limb, in all their motions re
ing us of the birds of the shore. TV'
gorgeous parrot-fishes are the snu ’
jf the sea; wondrous tints—azur
golden yellow, and red—m* 1.
Home anpear iridesce”’ and
-t,s as if e
i m
$1.00 A YEAR.
HIE STORY OF A SLAVE’S LIFE.
tteiittitcft Mttfi Fiffhtitiff lor the I'roporiy of
HeiiFiHin Daniels.
The Common Pleas Court of Phila¬
delphia referred to Lawyer Jerome V.
Mosterson to7 audit an account in the
estate of Mrs. Henrietta lb Daniels,
colored, in which several extraordinary
legal questions have arisen. Mrs.
Daniels died to Philadelphia a few
months ago and left $60,000 worth of
property that is claimed by alt army of
her own and her husband’s collateral
heirs. The case is in many respects re¬
markable, and the proceedings members are
watched With great interest by
of the Wfrf and friends of the dead wo¬
man as well as by those the who estate. expect Mrs. to
receive shares of
Daniels, whose maiden name was Rob
insofl, waff born near Ohiu'iestou, S. C.,
and was one of tilt) ifliwiy slaves P f An *
drow P. Dwight, a wealthy planter. het
When Henrietta was 12 years of agd
master sent her as a Christmas present to
his sister, Mrs, Frail,y, of Charleston.
Mrs. Fraily, however, hnd no use for the
giri tffid them Wanted Said to he send had her too back. Mr.
Dwight mnny use¬
less slaves about his house, and asked
his sister to hire the girl to some services. one
who could pay well for lior
Henrietta was rented to Mrs. Furness, a
dress-maker, arid in a few years later
Mr. Dwight was receiving $-10 services n month ot
from the dress-maker for the
his slave. In six years Henrietta saved
enough money over and above her
wages to buy, for $900, her mother, who
still lived oii Mr. Dwight’s plantation.
When the last of the money was paid
Dwight refused to allow the old woman
to join her daughter in Charleston, say
ifig that it was enough for her to know
that alio Waft free, nor would ho refund
the purchase money. Mrs. Furness
heard the story, bought Henrietta from
Dwight at $1,500, and either then give brought the old
suit, to compel him to
woman bet freedom or return the $900
paid for her. Dwight won the suit, the
court holding that Henrietta’s oarnmgs
were as much his property no she was.
The old woman went back into slavery
and died. Henrietta then bought her
own freedom, Mrs. Furness allowing her
to jrttt in her wages ns partial payment. she
After purchasing her freedom mar¬
ried Asa Daniels, ft blacksmith, and five
years later she bought him ont of slav¬
ery, paying $1,609. In about 10 years
this worn ail bad bought her mother, her
seif, and her littSlmnd, at Daniels. Mrs. Him
wanted to como North OiiCc, but
Furness, who hud a gjoat affection for
Henrietta, induced hor to remain in
Charleston until Daniels hnd found em¬
ployment in one of the Northern cities.
Daniels came to Philadelphia and found
work in a blacksmith shop which he
afterward owned. A few months later
Mrs. Furness was taken sick and died,
hut not before she had given Henrietta
$ 10,000 in bank notes ns a reward for
her faithfulness. Him also bequeathed col¬
to her a house in Charleston, but as
lateral heirs of the dead woman con¬
tested the will, Mrs. Daniels camoNorth
to join her husband.
Shortly after Mrs. Daniels left Charles¬
ton it was discovered that a few days
before her death Mra. Furness had
drawn $10,000 from a bank. The
money could neither ho found nor ac¬
counted for. The 1 assumption was that
Mrs. Daniels hail stolen it, and officers
set out in pursuit of her. In Richmond
Mrs. jvirs. Daniels jLiamois icarueu learned that uu» she was >,iw, being r,
hunted. She secreted herself therefor
several weeks and was finally brought to
Philadelphia by ail agent of the Under
ground railroad. All this time she had
in her possession Mrs. Furness's written
acknowledgement ot the made gift ot Henrietta money,
but previous experience of the Charleston
dread the decisions
courts. Upon her arrival hero she en¬
gaged a lawyer, who at once notified the
Charleston authorities of the true facts
in the cose, and there the matter ended.
Mr. and Mrs. Darnels bought a house
on South street and lived there many
years. He and his wife owned two
blacksmith’s shops and a score of small
tenemc "ses in the " to) of the
city, Tad our So Wtt‘
drown Delaw
five ye. ji .
’toil a b'
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND IN THE BE .WO ROW#
PAPERS TO HiWILE OVER.
BEBEATED.
O I brightly^ learns the sunshine in the blue
^
As fragrant with the harvest time the blithe¬
all some hours fly, wondrous fan, if
And aftninil is as some
toucLd 8, the bright
Had with glowing colors
and lovely Bill land; all these scenes? To Bill
But what to are
they bring no joy the show with Jim, her
Since he saw Jerasba at
other boy.
He didn't know he loved her so, but now each
little word his had
To him was sweetest music ears ever
heard; that lounge he had that stood
Dark visions of
behind the door, another form its bending
Since now he knew »
For what to Bill were all the nights that lounga
Since now lie felt 'jenuha's arm around that
other boy?
He could not sleep, he could not live, yet waa
not fit to cat—unheeded die, stood the 'estiva
Ho cotild not
ginger pumpkin pie; the doughnut, too, the geouu
The
scatliless Johnny-cake, panned—he scorned , the .. . buns ,. m§
All hake.
mother used to and
For what to Bill were all these pomps
vanities once leaned glad. another liver
While his Jerusha upon s
pad?
Farewell, frail girl! the spell is passed, and
Bill’ll himself once more, he D
He lived for love, for glory, too, but now
live for gore : devastate thf
No bombshell or banana peel to
land— joy he joint
Not these, but worse, with fiendish
the German hand.
And now, when Jim would warble soft beneath
the mellow moon, B-flat
80 likewise doth the Bill on his big
bassoon. JTawke.ue.
—Burlinaton
WOULDN'T MOVE A STEP.
An old maid was visiting a city friend
in whose hoffse was a telephone. Early
one ......morning thef? was a call for her and
the servant went to t'.’e room. call
“Miss Jane,” she said, “there’s a
for von at the telephone.” minute.”
“ITI|be there in a
“Come now."
“I’m not drossed.” and
“You can’t wait; it’s a gentleman
he’s in a hurry.” Good heavens, then
“A gentleman? till I get
I won’t move a step down on my
clothes. Do yon think I’d go to
that telephone and talk to a man with¬
out a dress on ? I don’t know what
your citv styles may be, but I do know
what is proper in the country, and that
man ean wait till I’m ready or not see
me, that’s all. ”— Merchant Traveler.
THE DEADLT MOUSE.
A lady, while engaged in encountered the pursuit
of her domestic duties, most a
mouse in the flour barrel. Now,
ladies, under similar circumstances,
would have uttered a few genuine in the
shrieks and then sought possewed safety than
garret, but this ono more
the ordinary degree of genuine courage. and told
She summoned the man servant
him to get the gun, call the dog and sta¬
tion himself at a convenient distance.
Then she clambered up stairs and com¬
menced to punch the flour-barrel with a
pole. Presently the mouse made its
appearance and started across the floor.
The dog started at onoe in dropped pursuit.
The n"? an fired and the fell dog the
ilmul The lady tainted, down
stabs, and t •’im-.u. tlurM.....bo was
killed, and fearUg that ho wo,,... be ar¬
rested for murder, disappeared an has
not been seen since. The morn’- es¬
_
TRAVELING ON A PASS.
"I suppose you travel on a free pass
was the question put to a newspaper
man recently while riding on a train.
"Oh, yes, I travel on a free pass,
was the reply. railroads extend great many
“The a don t
,-curtesies to you newspaper men,
they?” indeed. A little ‘courtesy was
“Yes, only day two ago.
sent to the office a or habita¬
After it had assumed a local
tion and a name it appeared in the
shape of a $200 notice of the road.
"Yon get paid for that, of course ?
“Oh, yes, I get a free pass. I am
now now going going out out to to the the end of the road
on ,} pack to reduce the amount a little,
am l then my partner will take his turn.
j„ course of a few mouths we hope
to ge t the amount down so that we won t
have ■ to • charge ' over ---- half u - 1 ' of " 4 u it to *" profit
and loss. No, sir-ee, it doesn’t cost •
newspaper man very ^“eh to ride on a
railroad train— r 1 dollars •
mile.”— Philo
A W.
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