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KINGTON, GA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1883.
I the end of two hours Rollo
■®ly got off the Smyrna carpet and
■6 wants his lunch,” said Cissy.
|h, very good,” said Darrell, help-
I. “That's in the compact,is it
|es.”
what does he generally have?”
Biscuits,” sententiously.
But I haven’t any."
rlien you must buy some.”
Cool, for a model,” thought Dar
tbut he hastened to get his hat.
i he was going out she stopped
ly eighteenpence,” she said, hold-
Kt a small, white hand.
Be you afraid I shall not pay you V”
ily asked.
Hu might not come back,” she
Hd.
her eighteenpence and went
Hie corner to the baker’s for
he.returned she had
dog and all. Xo token of
He remained, but one expen
love ell the egg-lioxes, and
Hmurnlul face peeping out
■ up the little glove curi
Hput it into his pocket
I dear," said Cissy, gravely,
Hkig, “my imagination is
1 have had an advcn-
Hight have proved a very
Hbnly the man was a gen
visit to the artistic world
Hne eighteenpence.”
Hok the sketch home and
■ feverish ardor. For some
A*, oiintable to himself even,
Hsentioneti the matter to"
I tKnone was worked at
Hig until night. He sent it
Htdemy, where it was no
jHiung in a very good place.
received a dozen
• as many days. He de-
Vvith the picture ; it was
: V- said, lmt he would
missions.
day that lie took
Hie i i'none, expl.iin-
Hreasoii lor Ids n ti-
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Hi meet that girl
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Wramatis persona-, young
HF-ife, in whom it is easy to
and Hugh Darrell.
SfK'gi..- she says, suddenly,
■III kef from her ehain, " here
of yours.”
Hy!” ll<t’ opens the, locket.
iCjfe the 1(1 litieal shilling and.
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■ had given her.
" 'Hi sll, t laughs, “the money you
Hs|l:;r! toll’s 1 111 id. 1." I.Ond'Ut
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H to Treat a Drunken Mnn.
who is thoroughly drunk
Hu much good treatment as any
i Hilio from iliffi r< nt causi s is mi
bH take care of himself. His tein-
Wm e is lowert ‘ < l and be is liable
Hi such condition to contract dis-
Hpecially pneuninnia. He should
to bed and kept warm instead
Hng locked up in a cold cell. Of
it does not seem just, according
common way of looking at the
to treat a man well who hat
placed himself in such a
Hte; but, when you think that life
H[y be at stake, it does not seem so
■reasonable. A drunken man is almost
■variably in a condition to contract
pneumonia, the worst form of this dis
ease being alcoholic pneumonia, and
pery few of these cates recover. The
[police snould at least see that such a
person is kept warm and not suffered
to lie in the wet and cold.— Dr. A. IS.
. Nicols.
la the Lions’ Den.
i Great excitement followed in Brus
sels when it was announced that the
[Marchioness de Hautefeuille would
renter the lions’ den with Bidet, tiie
celebrated lion tamer. There are
leven lions in the den. The menag
■rie was crammed. Bets were given
■nd taken that she would withdraw
nt the last moment. The skeptics
[were wrong. At the appointed hour
Bidel appeared with the Marchioness
de Hautefeuille leaning on his arm.
She was dressed in a very elegant cos
tume of black velvet trimmed with
black lace. Bidel entered the den.
She followed. He twice made the
seven lions walk in Indian file before
her. She was pale—that was the only
tribute she paid to feminine nature,
which shrieks at the sight of a mouse
and screams if a garter-snake edges up
to her. The audience applauded.
Bidel complimented her.
TIIE BAD BOY ANI) HIS PA.
▲ FEW FKXEEDS SPEED THE EVEE
XEG AT TKEX& HOUSE.
The Had Boy Overhear* an Experience
Merlin* and the Old (Gentleman *ets Into
More Trouble.
“What is this I hear,” inquired the
grocery man of the bad boy, “about
your pa fighting a duel with the min
ister in the back yard, and wounding
him in the leg, and then trying to
drown himself in the cistern? * One of
your new neighbors was in here this
morning and, told me there was mur
der in theiiir at your house last night,
and they-were going to have the
police pull your place as a disorderly
house. I think you were at the bot
tom of the whole business."
•“ Oh, it's all a blame lie, and those
neighbors will find they had better
keep still about us, or we will He
about them a little. You see, since
pa got that blacking on liis face he
don’t go out, any, and to make it
pleasant for him ma invited in a few
friends to spend the evening. Ma has
got up around, and the baby is a daisy,
only it smells .like a goat on account
of drinking the goat’s milk. Ma In
vited tiie minister among the rest, and
after supper the men went up into
pa’s library to talk. Oh, you think I
am bad, don't you? but of the nine
men at our house last night, I am an
angel compared with what they were
when they were boys. 1 got in the bath
room to untangle my fish line, and it
is next to pa’s room, and I could hear
everything they said, hut I went
away ’cause I thought the conversa
tion would hurt my morals. They
would all steal when they were boys,
hut darned if 1 ever stole. Pa has
stole over a hundred wagon-loads of
watermelbns, one deacon used to rob
orchards, another one shot tame ducks
belonging to a farmer, and another
tipped over grindstones in front of the
village store at night, and broke them
and run, another used to steal eggs
anti go out into the woods and boil
them, and the minister was the worst
of the lot, cause he took a seine, with
some other boys, and went to a stream
where a neighbor was raising brook
trout, and cleaned the stream out, and
to ward off suspicion lie went to the
man the next day and paid him a dol
lar to let him fish in the stream, and
then kicked because there were no
trout, and the owner found the trout
were siß.en mfddaid it ts> an"' Dutch
boys. I wondered, when these men
were telling their experience, if they
ever thought of it now when they
were preaching and praying and tak
ing up collections. I should think
they wouldn’t say a boy was going to
tiie bad right off ’cause lie was a little
wild nowadays, when he has such an
example. Well, lately somebody has
been burgling our chicken coop, and
pa loaded an old musket with rock
salt, and said lie would fill the fellow
lull of salt if he caught him, and
while they were talking upstairs ma
heard a rooster squawk, and she went
to the stairway and told pa there was
somebody in the lien house. I’a
jumped up and told the visitors to fol
low him and they would see a man
running down the alley full of salt.,
and he rushed cut with tiie gun, and
the crowd followed him. Pa is
shorter than the rest, and he passed
under the first wire clothesline in the
yard all right, and was going
for the hen-house on a jump,
when bis neck caught the second wire
clothesline just as the minister and
two of the deacons caught their necks
under the other wire. You know how
a wire, hitting a man on the throat,
will set him hack, head over appetite.
Well, sir, 1 was looking out the back
window, and I wouldn’t he positive,
hut I think Ihey all tumid hack
somersaults and struck on their
ears. Anyway, pa did, and the gun
must have been cocked, or it struck
the hammer on a stone, for it went
off, and it was pointed toward the
house, and three of the visitors got
salted. The minister was lilt the
worst, one piece of salt taking him in
the hind leg, and the other in the back,
and he yelled as though it was dyna
mite. I suppose when you shoot a man
with salt it smarts, like when you get
corned beef brine on your hands. They
all yell; and, and pa seemed to have been
knocked silly, some way, for lie pranced
around and seemed to think lie had
killed them. He swore at tiie clothes
line, and then I missed pa and heard a
splash like when you throw a cat in
the river, and then I thought of the
cistern, and I went down and we took
pa by the collar and pulled him out.
Oh, he was awful damp. Xo, sir, it
was no duel at all, hut a naxident,
and 1 didn’t have anything to do with
it. The gun wasn’t loaded to kill, and
the sait only went througli .the skin,
but those men did yell. Maybe it was
my chum that stirred up the chickens,
but I don’t know. lie has not com
menced to lead a different life yet, and
he might think it would make cur
folks sick if nothing occurred to make
them pay attention. I think where a
family has been having a good deal of
exercise, the way ours has, it hurts
them to break off too suddenly. But
the visitors went home, real quick,
after we got pa out of the cistern, and
the minister told ma he always felt,
when he was in our house, as though
he was on the verge of a yawning
crater, ready to tie engulfed any min
ute, and he guessed he wouldn’t come
anjr more. Pa changed ills clothes
and told ma to have them wire clothes
lines changed for rope ones.”
Presence of Mind.
Four officers sitting in a bungalow
in India, writes Miss 0. C. Hopley in
her recent book, “Snakes,” were deep
in a game of whist. Suddenly one of
them, turning deadly pale, made signs
that no one should move or speak. In
a hushed whisper he exclaimed :
“ Keep still, for heaven’s sake! I
feel a cobra crawling about my legs!”
He knew that timidity was one of
the strongest characteristics of the
snake, and that, if not disturbed or
alarmed, it would in due time depart
of its own accord. All present were
accustomed to the stealthy intruders,
and did not, happily, lose their pres
ence of mind. They very noiselessly
bent down so as to take a survey be
neath the table, when, sure enough,
there was the unwelcome visitor, a full
sized cobra, twining and gliding about,
the logs of their helpless friend. Lit
erally, death was at his feet. A move
ment, a noise, even an agitated tremble
might have been fatal.
Luckily one of the four was ac
quainted with the milk-loving habit of
the cobra, and, rising, with quiet and
cautions movements from his seat, not
daring to hasten, yet dreading delay,
he managed to steal from the room,
while he signed tiie rest to remain mo
tionless. Quickly he crept back with a
saui er of milk in his hand, and, still
with noiseless movements, set the sau
cer under the table a3 close to the ter
rible reptile as it was safe to venture.
The fearful strain on their nerves was
happily of not long duration, for pres
ently they were relieved by seeing tiie
creature gradually untwine itself and
go tcothe milk. Never before did that
officer leap from bis seat as he did
then, the moment be felt himself free
from the coils of the cobra, and read In
tiie faces of his comrades that lie was
saved. Short shrift, however, had Mr.
Cobra, for sticks and whip-handles
were freely administered, even before
the saucer was readied. Tiie enemy
got rid of, the game was resumed, and
it is worth the while of those in India
to Fear this escape in mind and bring
milk to the rescue In case of similar
peril.
A Brief Courtship.
Night before last a sandy-haired
young man employed as a bookkeeper
for a prominent. Woodward avenue
firm, welit on a lark, and, being) of a
social disposition, proceeded to make
tiie acquaintance of the publii! by
banding his cards to everybody lie met
on the street. At the corner of (\>n
gress and Griswold streets he gave a
pasteboard to a rather comely-looking
damsel, and followed up the attack
with sundry complimentary remarks
which elided in a proposal of marriage.
The young lady “sized” up the suitor,
and seeing nothing bad about him
except his liuir she accepted. A buggy
was procured and driven to the resi
dence of J ustice l’atton, the young
man expressing his desire to marry at
once, without any unnecessary delay
or foolishness. The ceremony was
accordingly performed, and then the
happy pair went to the Brunswick
hotel.
In the morning the bridegroom began
to think that, perhaps, he had been a
little hasty, and made an investigation
to see if the marriage was legal.
Finding the knot was tied as fast as
the law could do it, lie next looked up
the divorce laws and saw nothing in
them that would get him out of Ids
dilemma. He was married, and no
mistake ; so he determined to put a
good face on the matter. This morn
ing he called at the News offic; and
asked to have the names of himself
and bride suppressed. He had inquired
about the girl, and finding she was of
good character had made up his mind
that he had stumbled to a good thing.
Ho further said that on learning the
fa<ts ids employer had raised Ids
salary, and that lie and his bride would
at once begin a happy career of house
keeping. The Mascot in this singular
case was, before tier marriage, u
seiving-girl, and lias a brother and
sister living in Detroit. Until the
parties met, as before stated, night
before last, they were total strangers
and had never seen each other before.
—Detroit News.
M dlciiial (Jualltles of the Tomato.
As an incentive to farmers to see
that tomatoes are well represented in
their gardens, a writer in Home and
Farmer dilates on their medicinal
qualities : “ Their slight acidity has a
cooling effect and renders them very
grateful in the heat of summer, and
moreover their juice lias an effect sim
ilar to that of blue mass. So effective
is this juice that I know from exper
ience and observation that an abund
ant use of tomatoes at ail meals goes a
long way toward warding off the ma
larial fevers that are common in some
farming districts. There are many
sections of the country where farm
<rs’ families suffer every summer from
mild types of malarial fever, and in
such cases, while tiie abundant use of
tomatoes may not wholly prevent de
velopment of the ailment, it will al
ways greatly alleviate it.”
There are about six hundred cream
eries in the State of lowa and tiie yield
of butter is estimated at 100,000,000
pounds per annum.
NO. 23.
THE RACE.
Tho course was open, anil the young athlete
With folded arms stood ready there;
No time had he his gathered friends to
greet—
There lay the ordeal he mnst dare.
His well-knit frame spoke high for health
and power—
His teeth were sot, and in his sonl
A purpose fixed, that from the starting
hour
His aim should be a gilded goal.
Love was there, but ho would not hear her
voice ;
And friendship strove his heart to keep j
’Twas all in vain, his heart had mado its
choice—
The world had golden fields to reap.
He cried: “ I’ll bear no ballast in this
rnce—
Life’s loves and cares, I pass them by—
Yonder is the prize, be it mine to trace
The measured distance or to die.”
(fie cleft the air with spirit all aflame—
Sees him out-distance his compeers;
Jnded and worn, and yet his eyes proclaim
A swelling heart as conquest nears.
Cheers for tho racer thander io the sky j
His soul despised them, for ho knew
They would have cheered him had ho went
to die—
All that he longed for Wfts in view.
Ah! yes, ho runneth well who runs for
gold;
He left behind him life’s purest joys,
The race was long and he was growing old,
But still he heard the siren’s voice.
Then came tho end, he oonquered in the
strife—
Shook hands with death like all his
kind—
Ho beat the record in the race of life,
And then lie left the prize behind 1
—William Lyle.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Up in arms—The midnight baby.
Frogs are proficient in croakay.—
Carl Pretzel.
The donkey never suffers from soft
ening of the brayin’.— Picayune.
It is at the quilting “bee” where
you hear the stinging remark. —New
York News.
The sexton rings the bell at chnrch,
Its peals of marriage tell,
While in the church the happy groom
Does also ring the belle.
— Drummer.
Where are our women drifting?
nsks nr anxious writer. They are
probably wtou.Ag the neighborhood
for some butter and sweet milk.—
Drummer .
It is the fashion this year for bald
headed people to wear their summits
so highly polished that when a fiy
lights on it lie’ll slip off and break his
neck. —Yonkers Gazette.
During the winter we feel that we
can hold our own pretty well as an av
erage liar, but now that the circus Dill
adorns the wall we feel our utter in
significance.—Eianseille Aryus.
Yes, my son, it is quite commendiir
Die in you that you should wish to
see the world; but remember there are
l etter ways of seeing it than through
the bottom of a tumbler.— Poston
Transcript.
Literary Matron “ What does
Shakespeare mean hy his frequent use
of the phrase, ‘Goto?’” Matter-of
fact Hu (band “Well, perhaps he
thought it wouldn’t be polite or proper
t> finish the sentence.”— London
Punch.
It is a breach of etiquette, never to
be forgiven, t > sneeze in tiie presence
of royalty, but royalty has never both
ered its' if to tell a man what to do
with h:s nose when he feels a sneezo
working along up his suspenders.—
Detroit Eree Pr s\
“ Newton was not a gourmand, but
be loved neither lettuce nor women.”
We are not surprised that he didn’t
love lettuce, hut women -well, per-
I aps they w ere not ccoki and to suit him,
though most persons like ’em raw.—
Norristown Herald.
The man that runs an auction,
Ami watches for a nod,
Mnst either lie near-sighted,
(Ir else lie’s very odd.
For when yon hid on something
He smiles witli sweet content,
And thinks jou no t a dollar
When yon only nod assent.
1 ankers Gazette.
This is the time of the year that the
young man thinks of joining a boat
ilub, and, as a preliminary athletic
movement, lie purchases a pair of
dumb bells, lie uses these about five
minutes night and morning for two
or three days, and then leaves them
alone for the rest of the year.— Puck.
From the new primer: What is
this? It is a Young and Anxious
Father. Has It a bottle in Its Hand?
Yis, and there’s a Big Label on the
Small Bottle. What does the Label
spell? I’-a-r-e-g o r-i-c. Where is the
Young and Anxious Father going?
He is going to the Bawl this Evening.
—New York News.
A number of scientific papers are
] uzzling over tiie cause of dew. We
have stopped that long ago, for we
know the cause of due is that the time
has expired on the last paper we gave
at four montiis. That piece and sev
eral others are all over due, and of
course any business man should know
the cause of it without read
ing a long scientific article on the
subject. Scientists are theorists any
how, and don’t even I now business
when ttu y have a bill of particulars.—
Drummer.