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VOL. XI.
Directory.
ATTOT&rEtI* AT KITF.
tSAAC L TOOLE.
4TI Olt> E Y A T LA W
V Ga.
•Jg ,- , , -jjr c.c-BSties of HollS
t, 3* Saroter and
Wttm. A.- 'h‘ Waptvssse Court of
:•. l'Eiv ! S'ates Circuit
M fsaesfei CmMc silii tbe BkM. Au
-ra- * ■: • Lis csre will receive
wsaßm" mawitjs®. tebl if
a C. HORSE,
ATTOISXEY AT LA W,
liil ic. Ga
r* t Prsicsiee. a
, jan4 iy
M TI.N A BITSBEE.
attorneys at law,
\ GEORGIA.
■g-eIS-^f
C. C. SMITH.
4actrß: > a4 C*mx-llor at Lin,
A- s .lottos in EqriTT,
McTILLE. - - - - GEORGIA
Rcfas * nnii TUffrrT Aadtmn, tet
; . nd Waller B. Hill,
• i- . 4 Ij, Mercer Universi-
Li a Sck*'4 Xxm (it
JV 0 .■ l ira i ail business
- r . .. .- luiriita
EDWIN MARTIN,
ATTO RN E Y A T LA W,
retry, Georgia.
Wg imusoitaie and careful atten-
Imb to aB ta iTT ntni'lr<l to him in
i e ***l arij-naing counties
if . . ii.iic Journal building on
r ahiac saii'.ae. aprlß tf
-LUX A. STANLEY.
ITToi; x K VAT LA W,
Dublin, Georgia.
\* ’ •:! :ol the comities of the
0 *T,~- f r r.il. From long experience
. I’r.<:h.'e much •>!' hi
***e . ■ >e on-* isill devoted to that
hi. fcl*24 tf
JVt't *ll WATSoN,
ATTO RN E Y AT LA W,
llattrbinsvilie, Georgia.
rn-e in the counties of Pulaski,
tx. > . V k . , Dodge. Telfair, Irwin, and
H-ct-nm. IVoa.pt attention given to all
V- >iaC' ; teed in *nv banili. aprti tl*
LUTHER A- 11-VLL,
A TTORXEY A T LA W
>l> RE\L ESTATE AtiKXT.
Eastman, Ga.
't ! nrtetiee in all counties adjacent
>(, ' ■>; R. railroad, the Snpretne
(' ' the Stat<* and the Federal Court
o: • S* ’aem Do met of Georgia. For
v , ,ring, will buy, sell or lease any
r - or it me taxes opou tlie
Mr m the roomies of Dodge, Latin ns.
\\ ... | tad Appling, office in
the ■ • : t 11- >e. aprls tf
J. IL WOODWAUd”
VTT On NEY At LA W,
Vienna. Ga.
lt'H.l. pr •.. tice in the Superior Courts
\l jn t’*e t utilities of Portly, Worth.
\\ | . \. l*a , as| alt*! Houston, and by
i ) i Titrat tin other courts. Prompt
attention given to all collections,
inch 4 tl
t C. UVAN. a. n. MITCHELL.
11YAN A MITCHELL,
ATTO nXE Y S A T LA XV
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
■tE’II.L praetiM in the counties com
t > prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
‘.lie Circuit and District Courts of the
t'lr ii-ii ;cr the Southern District of
Qeorjria. feblltf
j. M. DENTON,
ATTOU NEY A T LA W,
I>i;.VCTH'i:S in 111? Brunswick Circuit
and <•!>. wlu-re by special contract.
Oilier at resiilrnr c. Coffee county, Ga. P.
O. address, lla/lchurst, M. <& B. U. R.,
Georgia. Itb4tt
\V. IRA BROWN,
A TT 0 R XEY AT LA W 5
Vienna, Ga.
L PRACTICES in the Superior Courts ot
A Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
Bute by aptcid contract. Collections
and other business promptly attended
to 3-IS-ly
JOHN H MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND BEAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
I PRACTICES in the Courts of Pulaski,
Houston. Dooly, Wlioex, Irwin,
Pelfair, Dodge and Laurens. may tt
CHARLES C. KIBBIE,
ATTO RN E Y AT LA W j
Hawkinsville, Ga.
*\~ ILL piactice in tlie Circuu and Dis
, t trict Courts of the ITilfted States
lor tiro Southern District of Georga, and
a the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
Dodge counties. june29ly
JOHN F. DELACY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
D,dge, Telfair, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwin, of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, cf the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. juuli tt
JOHN F. LEWIS. D. B. LEONARD
R. 0. LEWIS. ‘
LEWIS, LEONARD & €O.,
Bankers and Brokers,
HAWKINSVILLE, - - - GA.
Buv and sell Exchange, Bonds, Stocks,
Gold and Silver, and attenu promptly to
all collections left with us.
Will also make loans on good seen; ities.
tpro \y
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
p. or. HODGE,
| Attorney iin*l Counsellor at Law,
Hawkinsnillle, Ga.
i Will practice in the Superior Courts of
i Houston, Dooly, Pulaski, Twiggs, Dodge
and Wilcox. Special attention given to
collections. oci4 ly
A- H* WOOTTEN,
Attorney and Councellor at Law,
Mount Vernon, Ga.
Will practice in the Middle and Oconee
Circuits. Criminal defence a specialty.
Prompt attention given to the collection
of claims. sept 27 tf
RUST-PIIOOF
Heed Oats !
I have a large lot of Rust-Proof Seed
Oats, which 1 will sell for Seventy-five
Cents per bushel. J. S. WILLIS, ,
sept 27 4t Hawkinsville, Ga.
Book and Music Store.
A general assortment of school hooks
and stationery, envelopes, blank books,
slat.-s, pencil?, pens, ink and mucilage,
Dickon sand Scott’s novels, and other
literature. Best violin strings, latest pub
lications. music, L". S. Maps, Bibles, Testa
ments, Hymn Books, and other articles
usuallv found in a Book store, sold cheap
for cash. GEO. STURTEYANT,
tl Next to Thompson’s Drug Store.
1877. 1877.
F.V1.1, AM* WISTKR
Millinery Goods!
I have received from New York and
Baltimore my stock of Millinery Goods
for the Fall and Winter trade, embracing
the latest styles of Ladies’ Hats, Ribbons,
Flowers, and all goods that may be de
sired in the millinery line.
Those preparing for the Association in
October arc requested to call and exam
ine my slock. I *in prepared to show my
customers some new and attractive styles,
and I am sure as cheap ns they could ex
pect
Dresses made in the latest styles, and
satisfaction guaranteed in prices.
MRU N. WEBTCOTT.
Hawkinsville, Ga, Sept. 11, 1577.
sept 13 3m
Plantation for Sale-
By virtue ot an order of the Court of
Ordinary of Pulaski county, will be sold
before the court house door in the town of
Hawkinsville, Ga., on the first Tuesday in
December next, within the legal ltours of
sale, that part of lot of land number two
hundred and forty-nine, lying north Coney
branch and South of Big Creek. Supposed
to contain one hundred and thirty three
acres, and that part of lots numbers two
hundred and thirty-two and two hundred
and thirty three, lying on the east side ot
the river*road. All of said lands lying in
die fourth district of Pulaski county, and
containing in the aggregate three hundred
acres, more or less. Sold as the property
of Miles Sanders, late of said county, de
ceased, and tor the benefit of heirs and
creditors of said deceased.. Terms of sale
cash. September lit, 1877.
MARTHA SANDERS,
set>t2o Id Executrix.
KELSON’S
Bar and Restaurant,
AT
WATERMAN’S OLD STAND!
1 have opened at Waterman’s old stand
a neat Bar and Restaurant. Tables sup
plied with the last the market affords.
Fresh Fish, Oysters, Game, Etc. Meals
at all hours. At my Bar will always he
found the best of 'Liquors, Cigars, &c.
Beds furnished when desired. Farmers
and others visiting Hawkinsville are in
vited to Calk Satisfaction guaranteed.
D. KELSOE,
Hawkinsville, Ga., (laie of Montezuma.)
sepG if
INSURE
YOUE HOUSES
—AND—
MERCHANDISE!
-
The undersigned represents as asrent
two of the largest and most reliable Fire
Companies in the world.
The Liverpool, London & Globe, with a
Capital of $27,000,000. Amount Capital
in United States. $3,652,000.
And New York Home, with a cash Cap
ital of $3,000,000, and gross assets $(5,114,-
000.
Will take risks on merchandise, cotton
in store houses, residences, furniture, <&c.,
for one, three or five years, and will in
sure residences forever on the payment of
ten annual premiums. Rates will be as
low as any first-class and safe companies.
The above companies are prepared and
will make the deposit with the State iu ac
cordance with the act of the last Legisla
ture for the protection of policy holders.
August 30, 1877.
C. M. BOZEMAN. Agb,
aug3o 3m Hawkinsville, Ga.
jyyys kings
Jr "m
fdO-ECT j
SVyitH r r.rtffl c IlfS
of f Revision
—OFFICE OF
W. I). KINO,
Jeweler and Watchmaker,
HA WKINSVILLE, GA.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Guns, Pis
tols, etc., repaired at short notice and up
on the most reasonable terms. All work
guaranteed. WC G
HAWKINSVIELE, GA., THUltST**r MORXTNG. OCTOBER 25, 1877.
BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch will
be mailed (postage free) to subscri
bers in any part of the United States
one year for two dollars. Sis months
for one dollar.
A deduction of 25 cents will be
allowed each subscriber in a club of
six, and in a club of ten an extra
copy of the paper will be sent gratis
No credit subscribers taken. The
Dispatch has the largest bona fide
circulation of aiiy weekly papei in
the State.
Geo. I\ Woods,
tf Editor and Proprietor.
Montezuma lays claim to the
champion liar of the United States,
arid it ain’t tiie editor of the Weekly
either.
Ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown has been
elected President of the Southern
Railway and Steamship association.
A Mr. Win. M. Collins, of Mont
gomery county, recently, with
a small bird gun, killed two
large deei, both bucks, at one
shot.
Baltimore contributed five hun
dred dollars in two days for the re
lief of the yellow fever sufferers at
Fernandina and Port Royal.
The Sandersville Courier says
Johnson and Jefferson counties are
almost a unit for Milledgeville for
the capital, and the same paper is
informed that the same is true of
Laurens, Emanuel and Glasscock
counties.
Henry Girtwell and John Pop
pell, formerly of Decatur ccunty,
were murdered in Texas recently.
Their bodies were mangled in the
most horrible manner.
The Telegraph and Messenger has
discovered the latest living wonder
—a gentleman from Monroe countyn
He is fifty-four old, has been
in active business as a farmer and
merchant for thirty-five years, has
always paid as he Went, therefore,
was never sued, and had no occasion
for taking the homestead, was never
intoxicated, and never went to a
show.
The grand jury of Tattnall county
has chosen the following gentlemen
School Commissioners : S. P.
Smith, Columbus Tootle and C. XV.
Sheppard, whose term of office ex
pires October, 1878, and A. S. Col
lins and Elbett Bird, whose term of
office expires October, 1880.
!►
Milledgeville is getting ready' with
preparations to furnish Hotel accom
nfodations for the next Legislature.
The Milledgeville Hotel Company
have decided to rebuild their former
splendid bouse, to be equipped with
the latest modern improvements.
The building is to be three stories,
with elevator, and will have quite one
hundred sleeping apartments.
This from the Cuthbert Appeal:
“The Constitution says: ‘Randolph
county shows up elegantly for Atlan
ta.’ Now we will risk our judgment
upon the declaration that Randolph
will not poll fifty white votes for At
lanta in December, and doubt mate
rially Capt. Tumlin’s ability to carry
a majority of the negroes in opposi
tion to Milledgeville. We arc in fa
vor of retrenchment in this section—
both white and black.”
There is more rejoicing in a well
regulated printing office, over one
subscriber who takes the paper and
pays for it in advance, than there is
over uinety-and-nine persons tvho
want the paper at dead-head rates*
Selah*
A Kentucky girl threw a bottle
Containing her address into the Ohio
river, and it was discovered by a
youth whom she subsequently mar
ried. Now, let all our youilg men
and maidens cast their bottles upon
the waters, and after many day's they'
may in like manner return to them.
A lien-pecked husband said in ex
tenuation of his wife’s raids upon
his scalp, “you see, she takes her
own hair off so easily, she doesn’t
know how it hurts to have mine
pulled out.”
An Arkansas man lately snapped
both barrels of his gun at his bed
ridden wife. The gnu, as if endowed
with the humanity of which its own
er was devoid, refused to be dis
charged, but when the monster took
it by the muzzle and attempted to
dash out the sufferer’s brains, the
biecch glanced on the bed post, both
barrels went off, and their respective
charges of buckshot took lodging
in the would-be murderer’s lungs.
There was no wearisome delay about
the funeral preparations.
Covington has a negro who carries
an umbrella over him while picking
cotton.
A Thrilling Incident.
“Are you sure that’s the Flame
over by the shore ?’•
“Certing! I could tell her pipes
across the Mazoura.”
“And you will overhaul her?”
“Won't we, though! I tell ye,
stranger, so sure as my name is Ben
Bowers, that last bar’l I put in the
furnace has put just the smart chance
of go ahead into us, to cut off the
Flame from yonder point, or send
our boat to kingdom come.”
“The deuce !’ ; exclaimed a by'stand
er, wiio, intensely' interested in the
race, was leaning against the parti
tion of the boiler room. “I’ve chosen
a nice place to see the fun, near this
boiler!”
“Not so bad as if you were in it!”
coolly observed Ben, as the other
walked rapidly away.
“As if lie were in it! In what—in
the boiler ?”
“Certing. Don’t folks sometimes
go into boilers ?”
“I should think there’d be other
parts of the boat more comfortable,”
“That’s right; poking your fun at
me at onc’t. But wait till we get
through with this brush with the old
Flame, an’ I’ll tell ye of a reg’lar
fixin’ scrape that a man once got in
to. It’s true, too, every word of it,
or my name ain’t Ben Bowers.”
“You have seen the Flame, then,
afore, stranger ? Six years ago,
when new upon the river, she was a
real our-and outer, I tell ye. I was
at that time a hand aboard of her.
Yes ! I belonged to her at the time of
her great race with the Goliar.
You’ve heer’n mayhap, of the blow
up by which we lost it? They made
a great fuss about it; but it was
nothing but a mere fizz of hot water,
after all. Only the springing of a
few rivets, which loosened a biler
plate, and let out a thin stream upon
some fellers that had not sense enough
to get out ot the way'. Well, the
Goliar took off our passengers, and
we ran into Smasher’s landing to re
pair damages and bury the poor fools
that were killed. Here we laid by
for a matter of thirty hours or so,
and got things to rights for a brand
new start. There was some carpen
ter’s work yet to be done, but the
captain said that it might be done
just as well when we w r ere under
weigh—We had worked hard, the
weather was sour, and we needn’t do
any more just now—we might take
the afternoon to ourselves, but the
next morning he’d get up the steam
bright and early, and tve’d all come
out new. There was no Temperance
Society at Smasher’s, and I went
ashore upon a ‘lark-,’ with one of the
hand.-.” ' —■*/- —-: J
I omit the worthy Benjamin’s ad r
venture on land ; and, despairing of
being able to convey his language in
its original Doric force, will not hesi
tate to give the rest of his singular
narrative in my own tvords, save
where, in a few instances, I can recall
his precise phraseology, which the
reader will readily recognize.
“The night was raw and sleety
when I regained the deck of our boat.
The officers, instead of leaving a
watch above, had closed up every
thing and shut themselves into the
cabin. The fire-room only was open.
The boards dashed from the outside
by the explosiou had not been re
placed. The floor of the room was
wet, and there was scarcely a corner
which afforded shelter from the
driving storm I was about leaving
the room, resigned to sleep in the
open air, and bent only upon getting
under the lee of some bulkhead that
would protect me against the wind.
In passing out, I kept my arms
stretched forward to feel my way in
the dark, but m3' feet came ill con
tact with a heavy iron lid; I stumbled,
and, as I fell, stuck one of my hands
into the ‘man-hole,’ (1 think that was
the name lie gave the oval-shaped
opening in the head of the boiler,)
through which the smith had entered
to make his repairs. I fell, with my
arms thrust so far into the aperture
that I received a pretty smart blow
in the face, as it came in contact with
the head of the boiler, and I did not
hesitate to drag my body in after it,
the moment I recovered from this
stunning accident; and ascertained
my whereabouts. In a word I crept
into the boiler, resolved to pass a
night of rest there. The place was
dry and sheltered. Had my bed been
softer, I would have slept all that
man could desire; as it was, I slept,
and slept soundly.
“I should mention, though, that
before closing my eyes I had several
times shifted ray position ; I had
gone first Of all, to the further end of
the boiler; then, again, 1 had crawled
back to the ‘man-hole,’ to put my
hand out, and felt that it was really
open. The warmest place was in the
farthest end, where I finally estab
lished myself. It was foolish in me
to think that the opening through
which I had just entered Could be
closed v ithout my hearing it, and
that, too, when no one was astir but
m3 T self; besides, I never could bear
to be shut up in any place—it always
gives a wild-like feeling about the
head. You may laugh, stranger, but
1 believe I should suffocate in an
empty church, if once I felt that /
was so shut up in it that I could not
get out. I have seen men afore now
just like me, or worse, rather—much
worse—-men that it made a sfort. of
furious to be tied down to anything,'-
yet so soft-like and contradictory in
their natures that ! you might lead
them anywhere so long as they didn’t
feel the string. It takes all sorts of
people to make a world—and we may
have a good many of the worst kind
of men here. But 1 have seen folks
upon tins liver—q'uiet-lobking chaps,
toe, as you ever see—who were so
teetotally carachtevank erous that
they’d shoot the doctor who’d tell
them they couldn’t live when ailing,
arid make’ a die of it just out of spite,
wM ibM they merit Ye® <•
fellows as fond of the good things of
earln as you or I, yet. wlio’d rush as
it mud right over the gangway plank
tlf Jife, if once brought to believe that
thqy had got to atay in this world
whether they' wanted to leave it or
not. Thunder and bees ! If such a
fellow as that had heard the cocks
craw as 1 did—awakened to find
dqrkness about him so dense that he
eddd cut it with a knife—heard oth
er sounds, too, to tell that it was
morning—and, scrambling up to that
‘man-hole,’ found it closed—with not
a fivet-hole to let God’s air and light
ilit—why' he’d just swounded right
down on the spot, as I did, and "he
would have no good reason for feel
ing ashamed of it.”
ThsiJiig drops actually' stood upon
the pour fellows brow, as he now
pahsed a moment in the recital of
story'. He passed his
hand over his rough features, and re
sumed it with less agitation of man
ner.
“How long I might have remained
there senseless I don’t know. The
doctors said it was more like apo
plexy than a swoon, for the attack
finally' passed off in sleep. Yes, I
know I slept, for I dreamed—dreamed
a heap o’ things afore I woke. There
was but one. dream, however, that I
have ever been able to recall dis
tinctly. My resting-place through
the night had been at the farther end
of the boiler. Well, I now dreamed
that the man-hole was still open ; and
what seems curious rather than laugh
able, if you take it in connection
with other things, I fancied that my'
legs had been so stretched with the
long walk I had taken the evening
previous, that they now reached the
whole length of the boiler and ex
tended through the opening.
“At first in my dreamy reflections
it was a comfortable thought that no
one could now shut up the ‘man-hole’
without awaking me. But soon it
seemed as if my feet, which were on
the outside, were becoming drenched
in the storm which had originally
driven me to seek this shelter. 1
felt the chilling rain upon my ex
tremities, and they' grew colder and
colder, and their numbness gradually'
extended toward my body. I laid
on my back, and it must have been
a species of nightmare that afflicted
me, for I knew at last that I was
dreaming, and yet I found it impos
sible to arouse myself. A violent lit
of coughing restored at last my pow
ers of volition. The water which
had been slowly rising around me,
rushed into my mouth; 1 awoke to
hear the regular strokes of the pump,
Which was driving the water into the
boiler 1”
“My whole condition flashed actoss
n new *-1 tinjl
the eliciting sensation which made
me faint when I first discovered how
I wis entombed, gave way to a lovli
er*, though less overpowering, emo
tion! 1 shrieked oven as I started
from ray slumber. The previous dis
covery of the closed aperture, with
the instant oblivion that followed,
seenied only a part of my dream, and
I tliifw my arms about and looked
eagesjy for the opening by' which J
had entered the horrid place—yes.
looked for it, and felt for it, though
it was the terrible conviction that it
was (jlosed-, now a second time
brought home to rile, which prompted
my frenzied cry. Every sense
seemed to have ten-fold acuteness,
yet nojone to act in unison with an
other. I shrieked again and again—
imploringly, desperately, savagely.
I filled the hollow chamber with my
cries, till its iron walls seemed to
tingle around me. The dull strokes
of die accursed pump seemed only to
mock at, while they deadened my
screams.”
“At last I gave myself up. It is
the struggle against fate that frenzies
the mind. We cease to fear when
we cease to hope. I gave myself up
and Jbeil I grew calm !
“f-was resigned to die—resigned
qven to my mode of death. It was
net. I thought, so very new after all
as to awaken unwonted horror in a
mam Thousands had been sunk to
the bottom of the ocean; shut in
holds of vessels, beating themselves
against the battened hatches, dragged
down from the upper world shrieking,
not for life, but for death, only be
neath the eye and amid the breath of
Heaven! Thousands have endured
such appalling kind of suffocation.
I would die only as mail} 7 a better
man had died before. I could meet
such a death. I said so, 1 thought
so, I felt so;—felt so, I mean, for a
minute or more ; ten minntes; it may
have been, or but an instant of timf
I know not, nor does it matter if I
could compute it. There was a time,
then, when I was resigned to ray fate.
But, good Heavens ! was I resigned
to it in the shape in which it next
Came to appall me ? Stranger! I
felt the water growing hot about my
limbs, though it was yet only mid
leg deep! I felt it, and the same
moment heard the roar of the furnace
that was to turn it into steam, before
it could get deep enough to drown
me 1
“You shudder. It was hideous.
But did I shriek, and shrivel, and
crumble down upon the iron floor,
aiid lose my senses in that horrid ag
ony of fear ? No ! though my brain
swam, and the life blood that curdled
at rov heart seemed about to stagnate
there forever, still I knew I was too
hoarse, too helpless, from my previ
ous efforts, te cry out more. But I
struck, feebly at first, arid tlien
strong, frantically, with my clinched
fist against the sides of the boiler.
There were people moving near who
must hear mv blows. Could not I
hear the creaking of chains, the shuf
fling of feet, the very rustle of a
rope—hear them all within a few
inches of me ? I did ; but the gur
gling water that was growing hotter
about my extremities, made more
rioises ii a steam cauldron thaii did
iny frenzied blows against its sides.
,-rvtterl v I had hardly changed
my position ; but now the growing
heat of the water made me splash to
and fro ; lifting myself wholly out of
It was impossible, but I could not
remain quiet. I stumbled upon
something—it was a mallet ’ A
chance tool the smith had left there
behind him. Willi what wild joy
did 1 seize it! With what eager
confidence did I now deal my first
blows with it against the walls of my
prison ! But scarce bad I intermit
ted them for a moment, when 1 heard
the clang of the iron door as the fire
man flung it wide to feed the flames
that were to torture me! My knock
ing was unheard, though I heard him
toss the sticks into the furnace be
neath me, and slam the door when
His oven was fully crammed.
“Had I hope yet? i had, but it
rose in my mind side by r side with
the fear that I might now become the
agent of preparing myself a more
frightful death. Yes, when I thought
of that furnace, with its fresh flames
curling beneath the iron upon which
i stood, a more frightful death even
than that of being boiled alive!
Had i discovered that mallet but a
short time sooner, i would, by'its aid,
resort to the only expedient now left
me.
“it was this: i remembered hav
ing a marlinspike in my pocket; and
in less time than i have taken in
hinting at the consequences of thus
using it, i had made an impression
on the sides of the boiler, and soon
succeeded in driving it through.
The water gushed through the aper
ture—would they see it? No! the
jet could only play' against a wooden
partition, which must hide the stream
from view; it must trickle down upon
the decks before the leakage could be
discovered. Should i drive another
hole to make the leakage greater?
Why, the water within seemed to be
already sensibly' diminished, so hot
had become that which temained.
Should more escape, would i not hear
it bubble and Hiss upon the plates of
iron that w r ere already scorching the
soles of my feet ?
“Ah, there is a movement—voi
ces—hear them calling for a crow
bar. The bulkhead cracks a.s they
pry off the planking. They have
seeu the leak—they are trying
to get at it. Good Heaven !
why don’t they dampen the fire ?
Why do they call for the—the—
“ Stranger, look at that finger! it
can never regain its natural size ; but
it has already done all the service
that man could expect from so hum
ble a member. Sir, the hole would
have been plugged up on the instant
unless i had jammed ray finger
through it!
“i heard the cry' of horror as they
-saw it without—the shout to drown
the fire—the first stroke of t u - emu
waterpump! They smS cOO, > Giat t was
sensible whe tr ‘°y tool< me ollt i
i—i remembered nothing more until
they brought me a jullp to my bed
side afterward. And that julip”—
“Cooling-, was it?
“Stranger 1”
Ben turned away bis head atid wept.
He could say no more.
WHAT SHE ASKEI) TOMMY.
He was named Thomas and she
was named Jane. They sat on a ho
tel balcony for three long hours, and
giving themselves dead away as being
out-of-towners. As they sat down,
Thomas took one of Jane’s hands.—
She allowed that soit of thing to go
on without a word of protest, and the
flaxen-haired youth finally seized flic
other one. They talked and talked,
and looked clown upon the street, and
sighed, and hours slipped away. At
the end of tiie third hour she said :
“Tommy', dearest, I want to ask
you something.”
“Ask me a hundred—a thousand—
a million tilings!” lie exclaimed in
reply.
“Well, Tommy, I’ve got an awful
cold in my head,” she continued,
and if I draw one Of my hands away
and wipe my nose would you think
I was mad 1 I’ve either got to do
that. Tommy, or let my nose wipe it
self. Just one wipe, Tommy, and
then you may have it back.”
Tommy released htr hand, though
he hated tc, and her nose was sof'ly
and duly wiped.
WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS.
When the wind is high move your
tent to the outside of the hedges—
i. e., change your side according to
circumstances.
Never buy a handkerchief or choose
a wife by candlelight.
Nice reeds make nice baskets.
It's like a hiee, goo<l for nothing
unless divided between two.
Don’t ask for anything when you
can get it.
It is always the largest fish that
falls back into the water.
There may be adversity in a large
house as well as in a small one.
Keep it a secret in your own heart
and nobody will know it.
Clean water never comes from a
dirty place.
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
There is sweet peace at the end of
a long road.
An ass that carries you is better
than a horse that throws you off.
{ ‘Tommy, my son, fetch in a stick
of wood.” “Ah! my dear mother,”
responded the youth, “the grammati
cal portion of your education has
been sadly neglected. You should
have said : “Thoffias my son, trans
port from that recumbent collection
of combustible material upon the
threshold of this edifice one of the
curtailed excresences of a defunct
log.”
A Western editor throws 'up the
sponge with tlie remarks that “it
doesn’t pay to run a newspaper in a
town where the business men (?)
read almanacs, pick their teeth with
herring tails and advertise on the
court house door.”
How I Did It.
ill - SIRS. E. BURKE COLLINS.
It was years age, Bessie, when I
was but eighteen, and just engaged
to Frank Fenton. If you want to
hear about it, sit down on the stool
at my feet, and prepare to be bored.
You are very much like me Bes
sie, at your age; -petite, plump, ro
sy-cbeeked, blue eyed, and with
a little spirit of ray' own, for which
Frank liked me all the better.
Vo had been sweethearts for a
long time. Went to church and
singing schools together; rode,
walked and took long rows on the
river which ran past my father’s
house. In fact, this had been going
on for sc long a time, that we finally
decided that we might as well be al
ways together, and so the prelimi
nary arrangements were begun, arid
our wedding day' drew near.
Ve lived on the banks of a riv
er—one of the loveliest streams in
Louisiana—a quiet spot some dis
tance from any plantation; bnt as
soon as our marriage took place
we young folks were to remove to
a neighboring parish, and thither
Frank went, shortly before the
wedding, to prepare our new holn’i.
He left me busy as a bee with
the trousseau and arrangements
for the affair, which was to be a
grand one for the country, as my
father was a well to do planter, and
I the only child.
lie had been absent about a
fortnight, and 1 was expecting him
back daily, when one day father
came with a troubled face, into the
room where 1 was sitting, surround
ed by lace, and muslin, and dainty'
necessaries of the toilet, which were
just as much the fashion then as they
are now.
“Lettie,” said, he hurriedly', “I’ve
got to go over to Squire Bent’s to
see about some titles. I came near
forgetting the appointment, and
I’ll have to hurry to get there on
time. Can y r ou do without me?”
1 laughed and nodded ; then sud
denly' an uneasy feeling took pos
session of me. I remembered the
money—quite a large sum—with
which Frank and I were to “begin
the world,” and which day securely
hidden away in the house, the nest
egg of our future fortune.
I knew that 1 was destined to a
lonely night of it, for father could
not possibly return within twenty
four hours; the servants had all
gone to a “break-down” on a neigh
boring plantation, except an aged
crone, Aunt Dinah by name; my
mother was an invalid, weak ami
nervous; I felt that alone as I was,
uiJ g tnitrruvm it cio
Father observed my troubled expres
sion.
“I don’t sec how I can help it,
daughter,” he said, gravely. “Tis.
is a very important matter, and ad
mits of no delay. It is the fault of
my treacherous memory ; liad I on
ly remembered the engagement
with the squire, I would have kept
some of the servants at home as pro
tection for you.
But I was no coward ; so I kissed
him and laughed away Ins anxiety,
and saw him depart with assumed
cheerfulness; but as lie rode down
the avenue, which led to the outer
gates, I saw him turn in the saddle
and gaze after me anxiously once
more.
I returned to my household du
ties, and my pleasant task, amid
the billows of iaCe and muslin, and
so sang and wos ked the long bright
day away.
It was nearly sliiiset;
I had persuadud mother to lie
upon a couch which I had pushed
out on the vine-covered gallery,
and seating myself Ik side her, I
began to read aloud some wild old
tale of supernatural horrors, upon
which Thad stumbled. Before I
had half finished, I had worked
myself into a state of nervousness,
and as I noticed the paling face of
my mother, I tossed the book up
on a tabic, with a Contemptuous
expression, and arose to make her
tea.
At that moment the gate latch
clicked, and as I turned in its di
rection, I could not repress a cry of
alarm;
My eyes fell upon a strange sight.
The figure of a woman—a very
dwarf in size and stature—clad in
a faded black dress, with a battered
bonnet upon her head, aud a torn
shawl about her tiny stooping
shoulders.
Slowly and hesitatingly the crea
ture moved up the walk, until she
had reached the gallery.
Here she paused to gaze curious
ly' upon us, with a pair of round,
bead-like, black eyes.
Then she spoke in a voice clear
and well modulated :
“I have lost my way, ladies,”
she said, beseechingly, '‘may I crave
a Wight’s shelter ?”
I glanced at my mother. She
was pale, and trembling violently.
I had conceived an unaccounta
ble aversion to the small stranger;
but who cofild have the heart to
turn a woman away r into the path
less forest, with night coming down
dark and threatening, for the sky
was overcast, and there Were sighs
of an approaching thunder storm,
and the wind moaned drearily in
the boughs of the pine trees.
So I told her she might remain ;
but 1 resolved to know no slumber
that night, but to watch the long
hours through.
0
My'mother must not be alarmed;
so sending the stranger to the
kitchen with A uni! Dinah, to get
some refreshment, I coaxed mother
to take some tea and Carried Her oil'
to bed in triumph.
It was ten o’clock before I left her
sound asleep, and stole off to the
kitchen to take an observation. On
the threshold I paused, my heart beat
NO- -13.
wildly, my brain seemed on liie; I
trembled so 1 could scarcely stand ; 1
pushed the door ajar rind glanced in.
What a sight met my astonished
eyes - . The dwar! was standing erect,
arid young and lithe; the woman's
garments had been discarded, and l
saw before me—a man, small, but
muscular, and with a diabolical face.
He was stooping over the form of
Aunt Dinah, in one hand a vial,
which he held to her nostrils. 1
comprehended the situation at a
glance. Aunt Dinah was drugged ;
even the frail protection of her pres
ence was gone, and the next step
would be robbery, perhaps murder.
The villain replaced the vial in his
pocket with a grin on his ugly face.
“There!” lie ejaculated, “that will
work. With the old nigger out of
the way, the rest is easy. Lucky
that 1 know where to look for .the
money ; it’s in the old woman's room,
I saw the gal put it there Let me
sec, right hand corner, top drawer in
dressing table.”
It flashed over me then, my own.
carelessness, when lather had given
the poetet-book into my keeping ; the
open window near us, and some gay
words that I had uttered all came
back to me. I was so frightened, it
seemed as if I should die. Then
calmer thoughts succeeded ; and L
resolved to light for that money to
the death. Softly I stole away, and
re-entered my mother’s apartment.
Taking thri pocket-book from the
drawer I bid it in my bosom ; • nd
then paused to assure myself that
she still slept, 1 turned to the hall
where our small provision ot fire
arms was stored. Oh, heavens! they
were gone ! A low, horrible ohm kle
fell upon my cars. The robber stood
at my side, a look Of triumph on his
hateful face,
“Well,” lie sneered, “where is it ?”
“What do jou mean'?” 1 gasped,
“The money, of course ! I’ve just
been to the old woman’s room but I
find you’ve been too many for me.
Now girl ” he stepped closer to
me, and raised one hand threatening
ly ; bis awful eyes glared into mine;
his lips, as they opehed, resembled
those of some hugh wild anim .1. “I
know you have the rocks, hand ’em
out!”
With a low cry 1 turned and fled
Back to the largej old kitchen ; my
heart surging and beating madly, I
flew like the wind. Old Dinah still
lay upon the floor, in blest uncon
sciousness. I shook her, and called
aloud and shrieked for help, but no
pther sound broke the stillness, save
tl.e lbw t dreadful laugh of the rob
ber, who had followed me.
“Stop that noise?” he growled.
“You're wasting breath, you know.
The nigger’s drugged and won’t
waive up until I am safe out of this.
See here, I waut that money. Give
it to me and,l promise to leave vmi
in pence —null .
1 thought of Frank and our future,
“I never will,” I cried, as bravely
as t could. Again that horrible,'
mocking laugh: He sprang forward
and seized my arm ; one hand passed
around my waist and held me tight
ly ; the other prepared to close
about my throat. Just at that mo
ment my eyes fell upon the huge
brick oven ; something unknown in
these days, Bessie; an immense
structure occupying one side of the
kitchen, x noticed that the wide
door had been lefx open, and a sud
den thought—an inspiration—darted
into my mind, it was worth risking,
at all events.
The Villain’s hand was pressing
closer about my slender throat; i felt
a dreadful, choking sensation, i was
sure that i should die. Now or
never, i thought, i thrust one hand
quickly into the bosom of my dress,
and snatching the pocket-book there
from with a quick, sudden move
ment, I threw it into the oven—away
in—t could hear it fall upon the bot
tom with a heavy thud for most of
the money was in gold. With a hor
rible imprecation, the wretch re
leased his hold, and darting forward,
sprang into the oven, r darted
towards the door, i seized it in both
hands; with superhuman efforts r
pushed it shut, and slid the heavy
bolt into its place, x was saved t
Then i sank upon the floor in blissful
insensibility.
i was aroused by hearing someone
calling my jKame. I opened my eyes.'
Frank was holding my head upon his
knee, his face pale and anxious,
lie had returned unexpectedly; and
seeing a light burning in the house—,
an unusual occurrence at so late an
hour, for it Was midnight—and fear
ing that 1 was ill—he had ventured
to stop, i told him the whole story ;
and, old as I am, x shall never forget
the look on his face as he clasped me
to his heart, it did wot take long for
him to ride to the nearest town, and
summon the sheriff with a posse of
men. The oven was opened, and the.
wretch within, insensible and half
dead, was dragged forth and away to
justice. He was proven to be an old
offender, and soon received a long
sentence.
i was quite the heroine of the coun
try around for along time afterward ;
but heroics were not in my' line, and
i never wished for a repetition of
that night’s experience.
Spilkins says: It is a singular
fact that a girl who, when alone, can
put her hands on the top rail of a
fence and skip over like a lamb at
play, will, if her beau is along, give
him as much trouble in helping hex
over, as though she was a rheuma
tic locomotive,
Why are Country girls’ checks
like well printed cotton? Because
they are “warranted to wash and
keep their color.”
Never trouble trouble till trouble
trouble you ; trouble rarely troubles
people who lever In ulile themselves
all?ut trouble.