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EDITORIAL NOTES) ^
The clergymen of Indianapolis have
formally recommended that funeral ser¬
vices shall be performed on secular days
in private dwellings,and not in the houses
cf worship; that the friends shall take
leave of the dead in private; that the
remains shall not be exhibited to the
public, and that, with a view of reduc
ing the burden of expense, the serviced
shalt be on one day and the burial pri¬
vately performed on the next. May the
clergymen of Indianapolis live to attend
many funerals, and never go to their own.
The following shows the wealth of the
United States on the 1st of June, 1880,
the figures represent ng millions of dol¬
lars:
Farms. .10,197
Eesidenc* and business real estite, cap.
ital employed in busines-, {Deluding
water power....................... 9,831
Railroads and vquipments....... ... -5.5S6
Telegraphs, shipping and eanata 419
Live stock, whether on or ififuns,
farming tools stud machinery......... 2.400
Household furniture, paintings, books,
(slothing, jewelry, household supplies
■of food, fuel, etc........................... 6,000
Hines (including petroleum wells) and
quarries, together with one.haii of
the annual product reckoned as the
supply ou hand.......................;...... 780
Three quarters of the annual product
of agriculture aud manufactures and
of the annual import-tion of f reign
goods, assumed to be the aveiage
supply oft hand.............................. 6,10C
Churches, school asylum^, public build¬
ings of all kinds, and other re 1 es¬
tate exempt from taxation............... 2,€00
Specie............................................. 612
Miscellaneous items, including tool) of
mechanics ................................... 650
Total .43.553
The New York Star recently publish¬
ed the following list of foreign land¬
holders in America, with the extent of
their possessions:
Ac.-es.
The Holland Land Company, N.w
Mexico.................................... 4,600,090
An English syndicate No 3 in
Texas.................................... 3,090 000
Sir Ei ward Reid and a syndicate
in Florida................................ 2,000 OCO
English syndicate in Mississippi... 1,8 t.000
Marquis of Tweeddale 1,750,000
Phillips, Marshall & Co., London... i,3JO,000
German syndicate 1,100,000
Anglo-American syndicate, Mr.
Rogers, President, London...... 750,000
Bryan H. Evans, of London, in
Mississ ppi .............................. 700,00”
Duke of Southerland.................. 425,00
British Laud company in Kansas 3 0,000
William Whalley, M P, Peter.
boro, England.......................... 310,000
Missouri Laud company, Edinburg,
Scotland ................................ SOl.fOO
JRobert Tennant, of London......... 28J.0U0
IDundee Land company, Scotland, 237,000
.Lord Luumore .......................... 120,000
Benjamin Newgas, Liverpool...... 100,000
Lord Houghton, in Florida........ 60,000
Lord Dunraven, in Colorado......... 60,000
English Land company in Florida 50.00T
English Land company, Arkansas 50,OCO
Albert Peel, M P, Leicestershire,
England................................... 10,00
Sir J L Kay, Yorkshire, England... 5,000
Alexander Grant, of London, in
Kansas .................................... 35,000
-English syndicate (represented by
Close Bros.) Wisconsin............ 110,009
M Ellerhauser, of Halifax, N S, in
West Virginia........................... 600 000
ASootch syndicate in Florida...... 500,0 ;c
A- Boysen, Danish Consul in Mil¬
waukee .................................... 50 001
Missouri L:ind company, of E lin
haryr, Scotland......................... 165 00(
Total ,20 747,000
This total is about the area of the
estate of Indiana.
The enormous value of the agricul¬
tural interest is shown by the census
report, now in press, from which we
learn that the value of farms in the
United States is $10,197,000,000; twice
as high as all the railroads and their
equ pment, and ten per cent higher than
all other real estate projierty and the
-capital employed in busines . The
■churches, asylums, schools and public
buildings exempt from taxation are val¬
ued at $2,000,000,000, a little leS3 than
one-tweritieth of the valuation of al
property.
_
During the present session of congress
about one hundred pension bills have
been introduced. All sorts of liberal
propositions have been made. It is pro¬
posed to pension the survivors and wid¬
ows of the Seminole, Florida, Black
Hawk, Creek, Cherokee and Mexican
wars. Two of the bills go in for pen¬
sioning all survivors of the union army
at the rate of $4 per month until the age
of 60, and $8 per month after that age.
Another bill proposes to give all soldiers
and sailors who were confined in confed¬
erate prisons during the war a pension
of $8 per month, and $2 per day for each
day of. imprisonment.
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In the Rocky Mountain) the inhabi¬
tants all wear snow shoes. These shoes
are made of po ished wood and are from
four to fourteen feet in length. They
are really in the nature of skds, aud en¬
able the. wearer to s ide down hills and
mountains at a furious rate of speed. On
ifevel ground a pole is carried to aid in
pushing the pedestrian along and and defend¬ it is
also of service in a-cemling
ing hills. It is said that a man accus¬
tomed to these snow shoes can travel
fifty miles across country in a day of ten
hours.
The act of Congress, passed at the
last session, establishing as inspection
of teas, with the power to c ndemn spu
rious or adulterated goods, is accom
plishing-substantial results. Since the
passage of the act 856,281 packages have
been passed upon, representing 40,000,
00 pounds, and 7,000 packages, or 325,
000 pounds, have been condemned A
arge decrease of importations..also re¬
sulted from the act, and the quantity
eld back no doubt represents such
Hamilton Journal.
YOL. XII. NO. 8,
doubtful or spurious grades as could not
be ventured under the official inspection.
The total imports ion in 1883 was 63
000,000 pounds, in 1882, 74,0.0,000
pounds, in 81,000,OttO 1881, 80,000,000 Pofittds, and
n 1880, pounds,
The Black Flags, the peculiar people
with whom the French are at war in An
nam, have a strange history. Over
twenty years ago Leir Yuen ifem tied
with a remnant of the Canton rebels to
A mi am, where the little band obtained
the protection of the king. The B ack
Flags, as they wore called, were allowed
ter cultivate the wild country in the
mountains, and in the course of a few
years they declared their independence
and organized a government of their
own. People flocked to the Black Flags,
towns sprang Up and their country pros¬
pered. The colony now numbers about
200,000. Their army is formidable and
their natural defenses in the shape of
rocky mountain ranges and water bar¬
riers make their position almost impreg¬
nable.
Shorthand writers are in great de¬
mand, and the most expert command
fine salaries in certain positions, but it is
a mistake to suppose that mere profi
c ency in stenography is all that is re¬
quired. The shorthand writer must be
a good penman, and he must be thor¬
oughly up in spelling, punctuation and
grammar. A knowledge of business
forms is also essential. Many business
men are satisfied with slow shorthand
writers, as they get them at low salaries
Very ordinary stenographers command
815 a week, a competent stenographer
and ypewriter can ge from $20 to $30
per week, and a few get $2,000 a year,
but high salaries are not paid for short¬
hand alone—the writer must have other
qualities which make him a valuable man
to his employer In Boston 2)0 persons
earn their support by shorthand, while
in Chicago it is estimated that the num¬
ber will reach 1,600. The young man
who proposes to make money as a steno¬
grapher must make himself something
of a lawyer, a business man, and a thor¬
ough master of rapid composition and
legible writing.
The tyranny of the Mormon system
Is simply indescribable. When the mis¬
sionaries make female converts abropd
they send the r photographs to Utah.
At the Sunday services in tho temple
these pictures are displayed frobi the
pulpit, and all good Mormons who need
fredi wives inspect these portraits, select
the woman they want and furnish mon¬
ey to pay their passage to U tah. When
the female converts arrive they arc fre¬
quently dragged from the cars by the
brutal Mormons who have bargained
them, placed itt wagons and driven
away. The initiations into the church
and the marriage ceremonies at the ell*
dowment house are re, resented as
being brutal and shocking in the ex¬
treme. Mormon wives are compelled to
labor lo support their husbands. Once
under Mormon rule it is difficult to es«
cape. The government is tyrannical.
No one can build a house or plant a tree
without a permission from the head of
the church. In the schools the children
are forced to study the Book of Mor¬
mon, The yottng people are trained up
in hosti ity to the national government,
and are educated in the belief that oaths
administered by courts and civ 1 authori¬
ties arc not binding. This makes Mor¬
mons abso utely useless as witnesses an 1
jurors, and protects Mormonism from ex¬
posure in the courts.
A slashing article in a western pape
takes the position that the medical pro
fession iB over-crowded. The writer
denounces the mushroom growth of our
medical schools, and claims that
turn out every year a crowd of
ers. In promoting a reform it is sug¬
gested that the first step necessary is
take away absolutely from the
the power of granting diplomas. Let a
co lege be created, or a board of
ners be appointed. They must have no
connection with the schools, and be
paid as not to be dependent upon the
aminations Give them the power to
prescribe the lengih of course and the
studies in the sch ,ols North Car lina
has such a board, but not a medical col¬
lege in the state. No diploma is
there, and all must submit to a'
nation. In the last four years tn.
has examined 142 candidates
came from twenty-three difi
leges, and only 121 passed and
licenses to practice. Ending i
port of its work the board states;
is no discipline and little training
of the name n m st of our medico,
leaea. Ihrre is no sttuda d of exa
tiona.” This is a terrible indicts
fr m unbiased men. but the North Car¬
il na board holds, firmly to the opini'
that the examination of the M. D. degree
should be done by bodiee not connected
with the schools.
It has l cn. remarked that there was
thing about Baron Munchausen that
. uH i>“ set down to bis credit, al¬
io uh nobody c-red.ts anything he says
th it is, that- tue Baron never held
as a
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1884.
CJENEliAL NE W S.
Leon county, Ftarida, land, iieair lake
Jackson. i« wortii $5 per sere.
Nearly 300 students are enrolled at
the Athens, Tenn., University.
During the past year over 30C new
buildings were erected in Montgomery,
Alabama.
The total value of property in Ken¬
tucky owned by the colored jieopie iB
$3,380,409.
it is stated that the life insurance bus¬
iness was unusually profitable during
the year 1883.
A shipment of twenty-five hundred
rabbits was made from Henry county,
Tenn., A few day! ago.
Cincinnati is to have a fourth bridge
over the Ohio river, to be built this year
at a cost of $1,250,000.
The shipments of pine timber from
Alabama through the ports of Pensacola
and Mobile in 1882, were $32,263,137.
Since January, 1883, the bedstead
factory at Loudon, Tennessee, has aver¬
aged 4,000 bedsteads and 2, S00 chairs
monthly.
Fifteen babies were born in Robert¬
son county, Ky., during the recent cold
weather, when the thermometer was at
its lowest point.
“Aunt Milly,” a well known col¬
ored woman of South Nashville, waa
married a day or two since. She is
about one hundred years old.
Edison says that the incandescent
light is a success attd itt a year you will
see it shining out of every window from
the Brooklyn to the Harlem bridge.
Returns to the Georgia Department
if Agricu ture shows the damage to win¬
ter oats by the recent freeze to be 60 per
cent and to wheat 30 per cent.
James Rice, trainer for the Dwyer
Bros., in five years has won for that firm
not far from $400,000, and nearly all of
the amount with Kentucky horses.
Agents of a New York firm are scour¬
ing the woods of Arkansas for black
walnut trees, for which $1 each is paid,
the logs being shipped to New Orleans.
A Pulaski county, Ky., naan one day
last week killed 60 rabbits without the
^d of a guu or dog. He jerked them
out of the snow and killed them with a
stick,
About tfae iSth of Febniary the
bronze statue of General Lee will
shipped from New York to New Orleans.
It will adorn the apex of the
in Lee Place, formerly Trivoli Circle.
Of Mexico’s debt of $117,000,000,
glishmen hold about $33,000,000. Tile
rest is lield ill New York. The
annual reve uo is about $33,000,000,
mainly f torn the stamp tax And
duties.
It is stated as the opinion of a noted
meteorologist, that the railroads and tel¬
egraph lines form a net work of electric!
conductors which tend to equalize the
climate of oUr cottntry, that of the north
becoming warmer and of the s >uth
colder.
Frogs, snake3 and turtles are the
principal enemies of the carp. It is said
that a medium sized .-nake wi 1 eat 5.000
young carp in a single summer, The
fish is very popular in Georgia,' and in
almost every neighborhood carp ponds
may be found.
Mb. Depau, the wealthy glass manu¬
facturer of Indiana, predicts that gas
wells will revolutionize the manufactur¬
ing business of the country, He shows
the faith of his convictions in that he is
developing a well to obtain power for his
factory at New Albany.
A Cool Burglar.
Mr. A. B. Young, an attorney of Indi¬
anapolis, Ind., was suddenly aroused
from sleep at midnight, recently, H by the
flash of a light in his face. e was
startled by seeing a man at his bedside,
who held a dark lantern in his left hand
and a- big revolver in his right L
The weapon was aimed directly
Young’s herd.
“Keep p
lar, cool’
your mo
M
i»»y
Chronieai
applicants o' /-•
classes
allowed legs amp— W
S75; arms the
below « ■ %
cost to the State is a
money is to enable the
artificial limbs.
ST. BERNARD DOGS.
A SHORT ESSAY ON THEIR GOODNESS
Characteristics of the Animals—Their Apti*
tilde lor Searching for Lost People.
Few if fttity Varieties Of dOgs command
ft wider tegard dinong Hien ahd tVoiiieh
than the St; Bernard. There are many
that, lend theinselVefl for the. aptitude tfi special with training which they for
special purposes, are perhaps inure
familiar, and some that, of, being pecu¬
liarly fitted for making pets are in one
sense of the word moro popular. But,
that the sheep dog excepted, degree there nnd is none kind
attrasts the name
of sympathy as the grand cfeaktre. df
the Alpinb hbsptce; wherever it inay be.
These two species approach; it inay bfc,
more nearly to the best type of humau
character than any other. They are
fearless of every enemy and faithful to
every long friend. held The rank sheep ai tire dog, oliepherd’S therefore,
has
hearth as one of the household, and its
habits nnd tastes are almost as punctu¬
ally respected as those of any human
member of the family circle. When the
snow blinds the man it does not blind
the dog, and the sheep are driven home
Withotit lirtrtn ot lbsS ; and wlieit thd
gUdeiUan goes over the hill fop a social
glass with a friend he takes his collie
with him, for though the whisky may
fuddle the master he knows it will not
fuddle the dog, find so the bbttngo door
is reached in safety at last. In a very
similar spirit the St. Bernard throws in
its lot with. man. The puppies even are
singularly self-respectful. They will
play with children, but as comrades and
not as playthings. Only half-grown they
they pass other dogs by ns if wel'e
not dogtt themselves, and disregarding declining all over¬
tures to Pomps provo¬
cations to combat. They attach them¬
selves readily to horses, but above all to
man, and it really seems, studying this
beautiful animal, as if there was some¬
thing more behind those wonderful eyes
and that wise, good forehead than a
mere brute’s without brain. They walk up without to a
stranger bluster and
mettace, as it expecting a tputunl door self
respect, escort him to the house
an d await the character of his greeting
with the inmates. If it is cordial the
dog is at onoe intimate, and, without
invitation, will join the visitor for a
quiet cigar on the terrace or a stroll in
the park. If it is business-like, but not
hearty, the St. Bernard goes to its
master’s side and allows the strahger to
leave without further recognition, and
cuts him dfead the next time they meet.
But if the stranger be of a suspicious
sort, and the lodgekeeper holds him
under crois-ex nation before admit¬
ting him to 1 nail, or vicarage, or
manor hons" the dog at once drops be¬
hind the intruder, Covers his flanks alter¬
nately and takes him straight to the
servants’ dooPi The interview over,
and, just as the dog expected, pPoVinfl
unsatisfactorv. it escorts him back to the
lodge gate under the same strict gum,., the
and, having watchod him around
corner; turns to the keeper and says, as
plainly that.” as eyes cab this, say after Anything; all, the “A
Vogue But is
splendid animal its in gifts English of intelligence domestica¬
tion, using great Ill the everyday affairs of
and urbanity
life. It is uot the rough, impatient—
and yet so gentle—dog that trained the good old
monks on the Alps have to sup¬
plement human efforts in themselves saving life, by
doing that which men could
not dO; For the St. Bernard dogs are
neither fer snowstortn nor avalanche; and
but let the weather be what it may,
the storto ever so furious, little barrels they go of
eagerly out with their
cordial strapped round their necks and
search for dying travelers. Home unde¬
fined and indefinable instinct tells them
where the fallen man lies, and they
scratch away the snow with their large
paws, and find him and lick his face till
the numbed brain responds to the warmth
and then guide the frozen fingers, which
they thaw with their tongues to the life
restoring draught, and then, lying
down by the body and to give the its fast- own
warmth of vital heat fur to
congealing limbs, howl out their cry for
help to the distant monastery, and by
am 1 by the monks hear it, and the dog’s
voice guides the wandering lantern and to
the life that lias to lie saved, very
soon the monks are busy in the noble
task. One dog alone has thus far saved
forty lives, and instances are on record
of St. Bernards having actually, by
some means or another, raised frozen
children upon their backs and carried
them to the monastery doors.
Americans Who .)’■'" *n * r
re- "X >n F
now we fought the fire.
BY WILL CABLETCJt.
'Twas a drowsy night on Tompkins Hill:
The very leaves of the trees lay still;
The world was slumbering ocean-deep;
And even the stars seemed half aBleep,
And winked and blinked at the roofs below,
As veavning for morn, that they might go;
The streets as stolid and still did lie
AS they sidewalks would have done if streets could die;
The stretched as quietly prone
As if a foot they had never ktnwfl; '
And not a cottage. Within the towft
But looked as if it would fain lie down.
AWw iii Whitt) the west a stacken-oloud,
With srins drooping and hare head
leaning bowed, against—with drowsy eye—
Was
Tho dark blue velveting of the sky.
And that was the plight
Before Tilings j-tfliSed Were the in that toe mght, to tight—
fee fro were bright—
The lit) Rroktty ittfd grattd anti
That plagued, old DUactifl Tompkins.
The Deacon lay op his firs' wife’s his bod, head,
Ills 8ec"nd .Vito’s pillow beneath him
His third wife's covefl-t o’kr wide; slu?;
His fourth wife slumbering Sunday’s by lus text,
The parson visioned his
And what he should hurl at Satan next;
Tho (loetot- studying, a drowsy parity Jiaif-vigil Wfipt; kept,
Still as he
How men might glutton, ami topo, and fly
In the face of Death, ami still not die;
The lawyer dreamed that his elients meant
To club tog. tiier, and faith then had present, dim,
As small proof bright that their silver hatchet to not him; grown
A such knew,
'1 lie laborer suu mi slumber
Ho liadfl’t a dreamed—hilt Oifcain the whole I flight through; well
Tho ladies cSU’i say
What’tis they dream, for they never tell;
In short, such a general drowsy time clime,
Had ne’er been known in that sleepy
As on the night fright,
Of clamor and
We were roused the treacKfarttflS foe to flgh
The loe so greedy and grand, and bright,
And carrying such an appetite— Deacon Tompkins
That plagued old o'd court-house hell
When all at once the
(Which had a voice like a maniac’s yell)
Cried out, as if in its dim old sight
Toe judgment day had come in the night. bang
‘.‘Bang whang whang bang clang dang
ponroid Whang,” parcel of metal
The sang;
Whereat, from mansion, Cottage, and deild; shed,
Hose men and women as from the
In different stages of attire,
And shouted “The town is all afire I”
(Which came as near to being true
As some more leisurely Deacon’s stories house do.) glare,
They saw on the a
And everybody lot hurried visitors there; he
And such a of
Hail never before the these luck t .0 Roe* of flight
The DeaWtil tbceitred guests ..lii
In costtime veiy simplb scared ahtl “Alicni!" to; .
And after a drowsy,
lie asked them wlmt ho could do for thnie.
“Fire! fire!’’ they shouted; "your house’s
uliro I"
And then, with energy sudden and dire,
They rushed the through the mansion's solitudes,
And helped Deacon lo move his goods.
And that was night, the sight
We hail that
Whoh roused by the people who saw the light
Atop of the residence, Cozy and white. ,
iVlicri lived old Deacon Tompkins.
Ah mo! the way that they rummaged roundl
All mo! the startling things they found ?
No one with a fair idea of space
Would ever have thought that in one shout, place
Were half neighborly the things tost, with a
Them burglars hustled wive* out.
Came articles that the Deacon's
Had all furniture been gathering such all their might lives;
Came as one see
Didn’t grow in the trunk of every tree;
A tall (ilticH, Centuries old. ’twiiH said,
Leaped out of a winuolf, libels tt’bj' head;
‘.....■ chair, in which, when now,
George Washington bm nunuto or two;
OlJ A bedstead strong, take as his if in terminal its lap
PiflWfl, iirtie that might ih iiifefi.lt* lUtitt nap;
Tho Dfe feGii’B fathers had eaten ptl| htio,
Clothes;.ittydfe Of every cut and
1 hat coti'driv mnember wiifeh tiifcfr tfete
A mirror, scathless many a day, regular
Was promptly smashed in the way;
Old shoes enough, if properly all Features thrown, known;
To bring children good lock t<» c less,
Am! thirteen, of more dress. or
In varying plenitude that tho sight
And was
We hail that night, fight,
When roused, aloft file terrible foe to height,
Which blazed to a moderate
And turned the checks of tlib timid white,
Including Deacon reeking Tompkins. hot,
I/,! where the engines,
Dashed lip to the interesting snot;
Came Number Two, "The City’s Hope,”
Propelled by aline of men anti rope;
And after them Billows,” on a spiteful Number inn, One.
“The Ocean or
And soon the two, induced to “play”
By a hundred hands, were working away,
Until, to tho Deacon’s flustered sight,
As lie rlanc, d about in bis robe of white, _
It seemed as if, by the hand of Fate,
House-cleaning (lav was some two years late,
And with complete though late success,
Had just, arrived by the niglit express.
The “Ocean Billow.” were at high tide,
And thing their spray upon every ride;
The “City’s Hope” w. re in perfect trim,
Preventing alight likean interim; Company”
And a “II ok and Ladder came,
With hoots and poles and a long hard nano
And with an iconoclastic frown,
Were about to pull the w hole thing down.
When some one raised the assuring shout
“It s only the chimney a-burniiT out
Whereat, with reuse of incomplete injured tp s< h
The crowd went home
Hc&rce one of t hose wle ■, w •'OIK
Aaristed tiie J •on in -
Refrained W
To help the ’
THE BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
I’ll© B«y Adopt© a Poor Woman nnd Her
Jlnby« nnd Make© Them Happy.
“Well,” said the bad boy to the gro¬
cery man, “yon know that girl that ran
away from onr ward last year, and mar¬
ried that dude who thought “she was
rich. Ho deserted her, and she came
back here about a month ago, but she
was not well enough to get work in the
store, and she has had a haril time. 1
used to go to school with her, and the
other day I met her on a back street,
and she asked me for two shillings to
buy some bread and milk, and I gave it
to W, and then lives I in followed her to meat her
home. Bhe a room oyer a
market, and all the furniture she has got
wouldn’t fill a play-house for your little
girl. I guess half the time nil the meat
she has is the smell she gets from the
ffffjfit down stairs, bat when they are try¬
ing lard ill flit) butcher Well, shop the
real strengthening. sir, when leetle a
well! in the room sho was feediug a
bit of a baby sotte bread and milk, aud
oryiug and laughing all at once. By
gosh, it broke me all up. fcjiie had
pawned everything the baity to she eat, had and for she some
thing for bad shape. The baby eat was nnd
in pretty and then
laughed, and went to sleep, the
she told me all her troubles, how
dude had gone back on her, and how
she had Worked making shirts at ton
dents apiece glad to support herself and baby. look
I was darn Well, that sir, baby that, did not pale
like the dude. poor,
girl, crying there in that bare room,
was too much for Hennery, aud I went
oiit attd (tailed t our gang of had boys together, sawing
us boys that told you I been
wood for widders. told them about
this girl, and being tho boss of the gang
I gave them fifteen minutes to raise two
dollars apiece, and before the time was
up they divided all came it down aiid with told tho money. boy to
Then I up one
go aud get two dollars wortii of coal,
r.ud another one, he was a committee on
biscuit and tea nnd sugar, and I was
lightning on baby clothes nnd milk, and
the bundle you saw mo carry down the
alley was flannel clothes our baby has
kicked herself out of, and it wu’n’t no
kindling wood for incendiary tiros, and
the ketosette old yon thought I had was
milk, tegular stuff. cow ruilk, Well, and you’d none of
yot1r milk Wagon up-stairs, a
dido to set) tis fellows get things
nnd surprise that poor little woman.
My chum built a fire, and you ought used to
have seen me dress that made baby. put clothes I
to be mad when ma me
on the baby, at home, when sbe wanted
to do up her hair, but now I nm glad of
it, ’cause I can get in my work on little,
oold, poot babies, and make them think
I am an old nurse from Nnrseville. The
tired little mother just sat right down
on the floor and cried to see us hoys take
hold of running tho house, and I was
afraid sho would flood the butcher shop
below, so I took tho baby, when I had
got the warm flannels on it, nnd it looked
surprised at being so warm, ns though
something had happened to it, nnd put
it in the mamma’s lap and she hugged it
till l thought fcf’OW sho would how bust it, sure,
but monref* lust tight to hug
don’t they ? We «*ed her tip in good
shape, and each of no borrowed a blanket
off our own beds at homo ftiul took them
to her, and I guess she is tlio happiest she
Httlo Woman in this town, but I wish
would not city etii It breaks something
inside my vest when I seC flWOfljan cry,
and I feel as though my gall was all
running out. Well, us boys has took
solemn oath to lie that woman’s gardeene
—how do you spell that? Anyway, we
are going to be her perteotor, or boss,
this winter, Until she gets able to work
and earn her living, and that woman is
going to hate all Hhe can lay dressed her jaws just to,
and the baby is going to be
as well ns any baby in this town, as long tell
os ma’s baby’s clothes holds out. I
von, a baby with four had Isiys laying
for it, to watch that it don’t suffer, isn’t
in danger of freezing, and after this
you see n»o going down that alley
mglit, loaded with anything, of flour, from don
nursing bottle to a barrel
give me away, And if you hear of
habit b that's lost their end, and
know where the next meal is
from, you just XT’ ns boys, and
the w out ' ”
$1.00 A YEAR.
THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.
•/HAT WE FINI> IN THE HUMOROUS*
i'Al'EBS TO NDIILE OVER.
gOV a OF THE ALL-WOOL 8HIBT.
My father bought an undershirt
Of bright and flaming red—
“All too], I’m ready to assert, said.
Fleece dyed,” the merchant
“Your size is thirty-eight, I think;
A trifle When they re wet.
That shirt two w<?ek» my father wore—
Two washings, tbff$ was aU
From forty down to thirty-lorn
It shrank like leaf in fall.
I wore it then a day or two,
But when ’twas washed again
My wife said “now 'twill only do
For little brother Ben.”
A fortnight Ben squeezed into it—
At last he said it hurt.
We put it on our babe—the fit
wfe^wXtSiore flickering light. while yet
We see its
For if again that shirt is wet
’Twill vanish from our sight. Field.
Eugene
AX)VIOB WANTED.
A communication was received by the
Lime-Kiin Club from Sam Holmes,
boss barber at Frankfort, Ky., asking
advice of Brother Gardner establishing regarding the
profits to be made in an
orange grove in Florida.
“Dat’s sunthiu’ I can’t answer, re¬
plied the President, “1 hope de time
may come when ebery cull’d man in dis
kentry kin surround himself wid an
orange grove, an’ dat he may have lem¬
onade onde table three times a day, but
fur de nex’ few y’ars I reckon dat de
boss barber who has anything to boss
had bettor stick to his shop.”
TWO FATAL DEFECT.
Mrs. Jenkins—"Dear me, Matilda
Jane, it’s no use trying to be aristooratio
any longer. I’ve done everything did mor¬
tal woman could since your par so
well in lumber, but the obstacles is too
great. I give it up.'-’ Matilda Jane—
“Why, mil, I think we’re getting along with
splendid, I’m sure. We don’t eat
our knives any more, and we’ve got so
we dare speak to the butler at dinner.
The way you say‘James, you may go’
sounds like a queen talking. What is
the trouble now?” Mrs. Jenkins—
“Well, 1 was reading only a little while
sgo that the gout nnd a family feud were :
necessary adjuncts to aristocracy, and I
don’t see any prospects of securing
either.” _
GEORGIA ELECTIONS.
•"Yon see, boss, I was jest standin’ on
der corner, kinder observin’, when up
cum a white man. He axed mo If I was
‘redished ?’ In course I was. He says,
•Who am you voting for?’ Den he
wont on to open up the questions of de
day to mo. I was his man. He set
nm up, boss, and, I clar ’fore gracious,
it wan’t long ’fore anoder white man
axed me likewise consarnin’ the situs ■
shun. He treated also. Tiuks I to my¬
self, dis is better don they do in Mit¬
chell county. Boss, dey koep on till dm
country nigger gets so full he tinks he
was a goat.” discharged with caution to
He was a especially
beware of candidates, more
those for municipal honors.
THE HOTEL CLERK.
“Pa, who is that pretty man?”
“My child, that iB the hotel clerk.’
“Does he know he’s pretty?” Of ha
“What a question I course
doos **
“Then people don’t have to tell him?*
“Decidedly not.”
“What makes him so pretty ?
“His and his ornaments. ^
graces his ?”
“What are graces
“Modesty and truthfulness.
"How modest is he ?”
“As a government mule.”
“Is he always truthful ?”
“Certes.” ornaments
“What are his < dia
“Virtue and Chatham street
m otht- attraction ?’’
“Has he any
“He has-frequently'.
“What Is It?”
"Gall.”— Hotel Reporter.
GET HIM NEXT TIM*.
A deaf old fellow, charged with stead¬
ing a hog was arraigned before a court.
The jury, without leaving the box, re¬
turned a verdict of
"Old man," ‘
s.
jury “Hay says you t.
“The
ing in ’