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WIND AND DAFFODIL,
A wind came up one summer day—
A nonth wind, wift and bold,
Fair with a hint of sapphire skies
And jasmine’s starry gold—
And lay at the feet of a daffodil white,
And filled her with bliss untold.
‘Oh. daffodil spill me your fragrant breath; n
And she gave it, m sigh on sigh;
“Oh, stoop from your stately purity,
And kiss me where I lie!"
But, “Nay, dear wind ! I’m a nun ! ” ho said;
“That wish 1 must deny.”
“Then you love me not,“cried the eager wind;
She trembled where sho stood;
“I know a clime where the crimson rose
Will meet me in wanner mood."
“Then go, then go !*’ said the daffodil,
And tightened her snow-white snood.
At eve he sweet south wind had fled,
And the daffodil stood alone;
He lay at the heart of a musk-rose red,
Whence the west wind scarce had flown,
And the one pure tear the daffodil shed
To the moonlight only was known.
—Boston Transcript.
THE liniUKOUS PAPERS.
WIOT WK UNI) IN Tlll'tl TO KV|II,E
OVtK THIN WEEK,
A TTHCOMAN TRICK.
Not even the Shah’s life is altogether
■* happy one. A short time ago that
monarch sent some musio-lxixcx ami
mirrors to the Khan of Bokhara. The
Khan in return scut the (Shall half a
■h'zen particularly pretty girt", not one
f whom was more than sixteen years
old. On the way they wore captured by
-v'me Turcoman*. The Shah first tried
to recapture them, and then offered as a
r: asom for tln rn a number of deeora
ti ns, including the great Sun and Lion
order. These the Turcomans scorned,
saving they preferred odalisques to jewels
very time, Finally the Shah offered
I.OOD francs apiece for the girls, which
the Turcomans accepted. But after the
money was paid and the .odalisques
brought to the palace the Persian mon
arch fairly howled with fury at discover
ing that the perfidious robliers had kept
the “sweet sixteehs” and sent him in
their stead some of the veterans of their
hart ms who were more remarkable toi
age than beauty.
CLAIMED AX OFFSET.
The Pouekkeeps" l'ar/le Bays a "hired
nan” who has been employed on a farm
in that county bn- several months en
tered suit against his employer the other
day for the balance of wages amounting,
as lie claimed, to thirty-two dollars.
The suit came to trial, and it looked at
first as if the plaintiff had a clear case.
He gave dates and figures in a straight
forward way, and seemed a very honest
man. When the farmer took the stand
he said:
"I claim an offset for that thirty-two
dollars. No mall need sue me for what
1 honestly owe.”
“What is your offset ?” asked the law
yer.
“He is an unbeliever.”
“Xu what ?"
“Why, in the Bible.”
“What has that to do with your owing
him thirty-two dollars ?”
“It has a heap to do with it. I had
six hands in my employ, and we were
lushing things when 1 hired this man.
lie hadn't been with us two days when
they stopped the reaper in the middle of
the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in
the lion’s deu, and in three days we had
n regular knock-down over the whale
swallowing Jonah. The man who ran
the mower got arguing about Samson,
and drove over a stump and damaged
the machine to the tune of eighteen dol
lars, and the very next day my boy broke
bis leg while climbing a fence to hear
and see the row which was started over
the children of Israel going through the
lied Sea, It wasn’t a week before my
win .-.aid sly didn't lielicve Elijah was
l and by r if I didn’t
find iiHra*lHr< wijjPtt’eak on Noah and
■h_-i (In >l. That's inv offset, sir; and if
In- was worth imyihii p, I’d sue him fors
thousand dtliars beside.”
The court re:, rved decision.
CONTEMPT TO KILL.
Old Uncle Isaac, the well known col
orod ragpicker, has just made his appear
a nee after having been confined to hii
house for several days.
“ Where have you been?” asked tha
('rili< this morning. “I haven’t seen
you for a long time.”
“ Oh, Use jess been genperation after
dat argyment I had wid the Washington
boys. ”
“ What argument?”
“ Why, dat ’ligions argument we had
las' week, when de biggest Washington
boy called me a liar, and sed dat I was
ole and ignorant. Den I jess gnb him
one, and dat sneakin’ Jim Washington
bit me ’cross de back wid a fence
railin’.”
“ And yrm’ve been to bed ?”
“Yes, snr; jes got out dis morniu’,
and de 'facts ob dat argvmint haint worn
off vet. But I'so goin’ now to Jedgo
Hnel' for to git a warrant for all ob dem
boys. ”
“What will yon charge them with—
getting the best of an argument?”
“ No, sab, dat I shan’t ; I shall charge
dem wid insult; with contempt ter kill.’
Washington Critic.
IN A ST.EEFINO CAB.
A traveler relating his experience in a
deeping ear says he awoke to find his
bald head atrainst the window, and his
feet out in the aisle in the liickle-plated
enspidore, and the car was colder than a
refrigerator while he had only a single
blanket no thicker than a sheet of paper.
Ib -ays: “I was stiff all over, and I got
up ami staggered to the end of the car,
and what do you think I found ?
“Why, I found the porter rolled up
on the back seat, in six blankets, fast
asleep, the fire gone out, and both doors
open, and he was snoring for all that
was out, while the car was going at forty
miles an hour across the prairie. Well,
I was mad. I took all the blankets
away from him, and covered the coon
with a piece of oil cloth off the floor, and
took a fifty pound piece of ice out of the
£hc &mmttenrille (Dinette.
VOL. X
rank and laid it on his ones) and
wrapped his arms * round it, and shut
the doors and Went to bed. Pretty soon
I heard the colored man begin to talk in
nis sleep. He sai l, 'gwnv f'um dnr wid
lem cold feet. 1 dun tole you never put
item frigeM tor oars of yours uo where
near me. Take dem right away or dere’s
goin to lie a divorce, on do ground of
cruelty to animals.' Then thccoon woke
up and Raid if he hail a ‘roarer* ho
would knife the man that put that ice on
him, ami pretty soon l heard him build
ing n fire. Now, what I claim is that
George Pullman should hove made a
thermometer in every car, and men
enough to keep the temperature about
right, and not use n colored man for a
thermometer."—/Veit’s Sun,
A CITY’S CLERKS.
\ Furry ol Young IMrn Ihnt Nerd Look-
Ins After.
Speaking of the Coupon robbery in
New York city, a prominent city official
said to a lit raid reporter, that his only
surprise was that tire Finance Depart
ment did not “ take a tumble” to tho
defaulting clerk, as the saying Is, long
Indore his death.
The reporter asked if the city official
knew of his own knowledge that Carroll
was addicted to gambling and fast com
pany, and he replied:—“ No, I only knew
him m a casual way, but I knew that he
could not have lived as he did on $l,lOO
a year, and that if the way he lived is
explained by tho fact that his father
supplied him with money tho old man
must have had to pay a mighty big sum
yearly. But to my mind there is more
ample field for investigation than can tie
found in tho books of the dead clerk and
that i3 in the various departments of the
city government. I'll guarantee that
there is not one clerk in one hundred in
ihe departments who has received his
appointment exclusively becauso of his
peculiar fitness fur his duties. Political
backing is the force which flings him
into a position, as it wore, and there lie
stays so long as his political backing is
good and on the right side of the fence.
What is the consequence of this kind of
appointment to office ? Why, that the
city government business is lining run
by a set of men who were never asked
for recommendations from their previous
employers and who, in hardly one ease
out of five, would have been able to
obtain such recommendations if they
wanted them. The city officials don't
act like business men when they want
clerks in their own offices. When a
clerk on SI,OOO a year salnrjeis known to
own a fast horse and to dress like a
nabob and live in the lust of style in one
of tho swell sections of the city his am-
ployer naturally says to himself, ‘ Hello,
somebody must be paying for this,’ and
he not only watches that young man’s
books, but finds out the kind of com
pany he keeps, and in a short time he
finds it profitable to discharge that young
man. The city officials do not act in
this way.
“A large proportion of the clerks anil
employees in the city departments in
places of more or less trust, aro fre
quenters of gambling-saloons and other
places of ill-repute, and they are to be
fonnd everywhere where ‘sports’ congre
gate, and the fast and loose methods are
considered the proper thing.”
The reporter here suggested that this
was a sweeping general charge.
“It seem so to yon,” said tho official,
“but yon can get the facts for yourself.
Go any night you please to the fast re
sorts in N. Y. city, make a round of them,
and if you don’t find city employees
‘putting up the wine’ and having a good
time generally in most of these places,
lam much mistaken. Go to Saratoga
>i the summer time anil Long Branch,
and who are the men yon trip up on every
once in a while in the club-houses and
on the road ? Why, city officials and
city employees on a vacation. It’s all
very well for the young men to tell you
that the ‘old man’ is putting up tho
money for him, when you find him open
ing wine at Moon’s every night, and
making a big swing for two or three
weeks at a time in the Grand or United
States Hotels, or at the West End. The
fathers of our city employees are not
rich men as a rule, anil the thing don’t
wash. I don't mean to say, mind you,
that these men live on money taken dis
honestly from the city, for that, perhaps,
could not be proved; but I do mean that
their salaries are not big enough to pay
for the way they live, and that the fact
that they frequent gambling-saloons, are
to be seen at the roulette table fre
quently, and wherever the ‘game of
chance' holds out. a tempting hand, is a
significant one.
Prohibition in Michigan.
In the Michigan Senate tho prohibi
tion amendment to the Constitution,
| which hail been put on its passage, was
! l'-st by a vote of 20 to 11, not a
| two-tliirds, bnt nearly a strict party
1 vote. The matter was theu reconsiil
ereil. The proposition providing for
j local option was laid on the table for
future consideration. This action has
settled as certain the impossibility to
’ carry the prohibition amendment at this
Legislature.
Raltv. — An island in Vermillion Bay,
->:i the coast of Louisiana, has a solid
: luas-i of salt at a depth of twenty feet, so
hard that it requires to lie mined with
vi.ami'i and ground in steam mills.
About 200 tons a day are taken out.
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, V EI)N ESI) A A EVENING, JULY 2A 1883.
THE LAST KISS.
now a Eiif.ni iiman sqi andi k* a
FOUTIMC.
Tired of I.lfo ll tStnrtn lo ('oitintii Ntiirhlf
mid G(ittin u U llr lantead.
Emile Peekerel was born at Saint
Michel near Monthorz. His parents sent
him to Paris to study law, but before ho
had passed his last examination he lost
suddenly both father and mother. When
a young man thus comes into possession
of $100,(WO he does not see tho necessity
of living at at. Michel. On the other
hand he imagines that his SIOO,OOO will
last forever, and pitches tho law luniks
into the fire.
| Peekerel began to lead a gay life.
I Such a life could not bust long. M.
I Peekerel soon found himself at the end
l of his resources. Ho was courageous
' enough to try and reduce his expenses.
| He sold his plneton; he sold his horses,
and at last sold his furniture and went
into lodgings.
There oue fine evening he began to
think.
“It Is a pity,” lie reflected, “ that na
ture lias been decidedly unkind in not
giving mo either uncle or aunt from
whom I might entertain expectations,
i Whero can one get money ? I cannot
gain any myself. 1 might, perhaps, earn
$lO a week as an attorney's elerk. What
is the use of that? I have known the
pleasures of this world. I had better go
and see if there arc any pleasures on the
other side of Jordan. Poison gives one
a pain in the stomach, the pistol spoils
one’s looks. 1 have one resource left. 1
have never learned to swim, and there is
the river.”
Peekerel smiled like) an anther who
lias discovered anew incident.
“ Now, then,” he added, “ I must
make my preparations. A good Chris
tian takes the last sacrament—a good
Parisian must take his hist kiss.”
But he was somehow or other suddenly
fastidious. He went on the bridge SI.
Peres and wait a I til] there should ooini
the nymph he, had pictured in his mind
should lie the recipient of his last kiss.
She was to bo somebody lie did not
know. She mnst be young, pretty and ol
a style that pleased. A score of girls had
passed him. Some liod brown lu r
some dark chestnut, some light chestnut.
None of these would suit, for he had set
his heart on a blonde.
Suddenly he started; there came tin
angel of his dreams. His death knell
had struck.
At No. 110 Hue du Hue was a pretty
little hotel, in which lived a rich Ameri
can. He had come to Paris with his
only daughter, Helen. A little garden
with great trees, a lawn on which the
sparrows hopped about, a conservatory
that was a little winter gnrden. Such
was the home of the fair Helen.
Miss Helen, aged sweet 18, accompa
nied by her governess, Miss Pealxidy,
was out for a walk this fine day. Miss
Peabody had allowed herself to bo born
in Salem without a murmur. By her
side walked Miss Helen, with her pretty
little nose in tho air, like a lark going to
take wing.
Peekerel felt all the blood rush to his
heart, and his temples beat furiously.
Miss Helen came slowly on in maiden
meditation, fancy free. Peekerel walked
straight up to her, seized her in his arms
•ind pressed his lips to hers. Then,
with a spring over the parapet, ho
plunged into the stream.
Helen gave a cry of terror; Miss Pea
body fell back against a lamp-post; the
crowd rnshed up. “Save trim ! save
him I” was the cry.
A boat shot out from the quay.
“There he is I” “He is dead!” “No,
he has fainted I” “I tell you he is
dead 1” Such were tho confused cries
that were heard by Helen as Miss Pea
body led her away homeward.
When she got home, she fell into a
fever. Her father was informed of t&e
occurrence and was bine with wrath.
Miss Helen asked if the ruffian was
alive or dead. The father said he
was alive.
“Then, papa,” said she, “I want to
kill him or marry him.”
“My own dear child,” murmured the
stem papa.
He at once set out to fine Peekerel.
“What do you mean, sir,” he began,
“by insulting my daughter ?”
“I wanted to die.”
The Yankee produced a Bible, “Un
cle Tom’s Cabin” and “ Innocents
Abroad." He made Peekerel swear on
the Bible that he would be faithful to
bis wife. He swore on “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” never to neglect his home for his
club. He swore on Mark Twain to
avoid all the pomps and vanities of the
world.
Peekerel swore freely. He immedi
ately married the fair Helen.
So says Aurelin Scholl.— Freund's
Daily.
Texas Cattle.— Since the large capi
talists came into the business of cattle
raising in Texas, great bodies of land
iiave been bought up for ranges, and
soon desirable free pastures will lie a
thing of the past. Having the money to
fence as well as buy the land, most of
the large ranges are being enclosed with
wire. More than $100,000,000 would Vie
required to purchase the cattle now
roaming over the State. Half of this
value, according to the best testimony,
is the increase of cattle within two years.
A RUSSIAN M ill LIST.
UADi: lM VI NHI.ITI, IIY Till: HKUTAIi.
ITY OK TIIIC I'OI.ICK.
Tim Story ol Vtru Siinnullfch, nnl llot
( upiiiro by Ilio Anlliorillon.
Vera Sassnlitch, who is once more re
ported as having been captured by tho
Russian authorities, Ims been as exten
sively and inconsistently “biographed”
as her French sister, Louise Michel.
She was born in 1850, according to tho
(apparently) most trustworthy authori
ties, and in 1807 was shut, up in a Lithu
anian prison for the offense of being a
sehoolinato of tho sister of Nctohaleff,
the political conspirator. Her imprison
ment lasted two years, and sho had
scarcely been liberated when sho was re
arrested on an administrative order oi
exile and hurried away from her mother’s
house so rapidly that, she would have
perished of cold but for tho compassion
of a gendarme, who covered her with his
eloak. For some years sho was passed
on from town to town as a “suspect,”
until, having spent the best years of her
life in prison, and a victim to the in
solence and brutality of tho police, she
had learned to pity those who were
similarly afflicted and to desire to avenge
(hem. In 1878 she learned of the brutal
ill-treatment of a prisoner, BogolubolT,
by General Trepoff, “Prefect of the
Town,” at St. Petersburg.
The General had entered tho fortress
and was exasperated on beholding Bogo
ltiboff and a companion walking together
and conversing, ns, not being convicts,
but merely licensed men detained on
suspicion, they had a right to do. To a
harsh question as to why this was allowed
one of tho two volunteered an explana
tion. “I do not address you—to your
dungeons I” shouted the General, furi
ously. The two prisoners walked on
quietly, when Trepoff, crying, “Hats
off !” aimed a blow at Bogolnbofl', The
prisoner’s hat fell off, lait BogolubolT
picked it up and put it on, whereon the
General ordered him to be flogged. A
romantic version made it seem that Vera
.Sassnlitch had been acquainted with
Bogoluboff—had even been his mistress
—but there was lio truth in the story.
Stic read with indignation of the outrage
and waited some time to see if the Gov
ernment would pay anv attention to it.
When no action was taken sho resolved
to do vengeance herself, and on tlio sth
of February, 1878, went to the General’s
{ reception-room with a petition, and when
ho stretched out his hand to receive it
shot him through the body. Sho made
no effort to escape and said that she
had fired upon the General premed
itatodly, without caring whether she
killed him or merely wounded him,
since in the latter ease her end would lie
obtained in ealling attention to his bru
tality. She was brought to trial in
April, 1878, and defended by M. Alexan
droff. The jury selected was composed
of six members of the civil service, twe
merchants a id a nobleman, a school-in
spector, a student and an artist, and it
acquitted her promptly amid the ap
plause of the audience, despite the evi
dence, her avowal and the speeches of
the judge and tho prosecutor. The ac
quittal provoked a general outburst of
applause from the press throughout Rus
sia.
On the lid of July, 1878, Vera Sassu
litch appeared at Geneva, where she
was received in triumph by Itockfort
and bis friends. Sho gave out that she
had been ream sted but permitted to
escape. It was reported for some time
that tlio Vera of Geneva was mi impos
tor, and that the Russian Charlotte
Corday was really in Siberia, but finally
all doubts as to her identity ceased.
In December, 187!), she published a
statement to the effect that her attempt
oil the General’s life had been made in
pursuance of orders from the Revolu
tionary Committee and that she had
been designated by lot as the avenger.
11l February, 1880, her arrest was said
to have been effected at St. Petersburg,
but tho report proved false, and she was
repeatedly heard of thereafter at Geneva
and Paris pushing on the Nihilist prop
aganda and active as one of the editors
of the Naradnala Volia, a well-known
Nihilist review.
■ ramps Taking the Road.
Reports from New England States
say that tramps from New York and
Boston are swarming the country towns,
and a number of outrages have been re
ported. Three children who were alone
in the house of their father, Leopold
Wolf, of Morestown. Conn., on Sunday
evening gave food to two beggars. The
men demanded money, and ransacked
the house. The eldest child, a boy 16
years old, got a pistol and drove the
I robbers out of doors. An hour later tin
house was on fire, and was burned to
the ground. Before the fire broke out
young George, who hail driven the
tramps from the house, had put the
other children to bed. They were, res
cued, and George saved S7OO in money
that his father had laid by in the house.
A number of men are on Hie track of the
tramps, and exect to capture them.
These and other transgressions of tho
| law, flagrant and open, gives rise to
| many complaints, but political influence
; serves to spare the offenders. This in
fluence is so great that a fanner who re
cently murdered a slave and burned his
j laxly to escape detection, walks the
streets a free man to-day, though at
times very grave threats are marie
against him.
A DESPERATE EXPLOIT.
An AifnniM lo Wplko tlio (.'onfederate Gun*
oil Inliiihl No, 10,
One night about the first of April,
says M, Quad, in his War Sketches, a
band of fifty Federate left the fleet un
der cover of darkness, bent upon sue.h a
desperate undertaking ns is seldom
planned outside the realms of Action.
Every gun upon Island No. 10, which
Commodore Foote could disable before
his fleet was called upon to push down,
increased his chances of success, anp
this little band of men started out with
tlio intention of landing on t-lie island
and spiking as many guns as possible
before being discovered.
The Confederates had a picket boat
out to discover and check any such at
tempt, but on this night the darkness
was intense, the rain was falling steadily,
and when tho lightning came it was so
vivid that men were blinded for the mo
ment. Tho Federal launches from the
fleet passed within 100 feet of the picket
boat without discovery, and made a suc
cessful landing upon tho island. The
first guns were planted about 850 tort
from tho head of the island, and the
ground between was covered with small
bushes, rank grass and weeds, and con
siderably broken. Between the landing
spot and the guns were two or throe low
spots full of water, and an attack from
this direction did not seem probable.
The Confederate sentinels were strung
along the ditch in front of tho battery,
cowering in the storm mid hearing noth
ing but the war of tho elements. Had
the party of Federals halted and sen!
three or four men forward, tlio smaller
number could have passed tho sentinels
and perhaps had plenty of time to spike
every gun. But the bolder plan of
marching the whole command straight
up to the ditch and into it was adopted,
and a Hash cf lightning betrayed them
to a sentinel. Ilia musket had scarcely
sounded the alarm, before it was taken up
all around the battery. Then in the
midst of a furious storm, the tliundei
making the island tremble and the light
ning striking trees along the river ill
most every moment, the Federals dashed
into the battery itself. Muskets were
cracking and men shouting, and it was a
situation to try tho nerve of the bravest
man living.
Every fifth man in tho command was
provided with a supply of rat-tail files,
to be driven into the vents of the guns
anil broken off. The Federals had come
lor a certain purpose—tho Confederates
could not determine at once wliat that
purpose was, and wore naturally sur
prised ami confused by the sudden
attack. One writer says that seven
puns were spiked ; another says five ; a
third says that only one large pivot gun
was disabled. Confederates on duty in
the battery at the time agree that four
guns were so thoroughly spiked that they
were rendered useless for three or four
days, or until the broken files could bo
drilled out.
After the first moment of surprise the
Confederates rallied and began an attack
which forced the little band out of the
battery, leaving three or four dead and
as many prisoners. Throe or fourotliers
were wounded in making their way to
the boats, and two who become separated
from tho command and did not reach the
boats were made prisoners next day. ft
was an exploit full of nerve and daring,
but the results were without real value
to Foote,
A Telegraph Joke.
A well-to-do young man recently roar
rieil and started West on his bridal tour.
The, happy young couple were break
fasting at a station eating-house. Dur
ing the repnst two smart. Aleck i eamo
into the dining-room and seated them
selves opposite the contracting parties.
They were telegraph operators. By
delicate poising of their knife and fork
they were able to make sounds in close
imitation of telegraphy. In the, mystic
language of the ke,\ oue said unto tho
olher:
“Ain’t she a daisy, though?”
The party thus addressed replied by
clicking off:
“Wouldn’t I like to hug arid kiss her,
the little fat angel ?”
“Wonder who that old bloat is that
she has married ?”
“Somo gorgeous grange, I reckon !”
replied the other.
The groom stood it until forbearance
ceased to be a virtue, when he also
balanced his knife, and click, click, it
went, in rapid succession. It was intelli
gible to the cute twain that hail recently
made fun of its author. When inter
: preted it read:
“Dear Sirs: lam superintendent of
tho telegraph line upon which you work.
You will please send your time to head
quarters and resign your respective posi
tions at once. Yours, Superintendent of
Telegraph. ” — Lowell Courier.
T:r would he difficult to compress more
~f the technical language of the diamond
! into the same space than occurs in the
| following, from the telegraphic report
lot the Bostou-Cleveland game on Tues
! day : “In the second Sutton got his
| base on balF, v .<-nt to second on Glass
i cock's fumble of Wise’sbotone, and took
: third on York’s wild throw-in of Morrill’s
I j]y to left, only to die at the plate or a
beautiful double-play off Burdock’)
i grounder to Muldoon to Phillips to
1 Hriody. I '—Lowell Courier.
NO 27.
i in- niiuinier tarailiiii.
“I haf my own obinion on dot vnea
tine poezness got, yet,” says the barber.
“I dink it peon brotty much hmnbuoks
npowd neeting a vacation from vork.
Vorlt tonil kill a man half so qwiok as
doing noding too much. Vot dcr pig
gest hart of us vaut is a loedlo vacation
from our bleasuros and habits, alrotty.
Der man vich dinks lie rand lif if bo tonil
got a triuk of visky effery hafo hour ho
peddor silvern- himselluf off. Chust der
same der camplor; redder lie dock a va
cation avay from his cards. Der pest
resd for der averiteh glerehyman vould
peeu to sdop making long faces lit him
self mid looking around choqst us if dcr
vorlt vos all a pig funeral, yet. Dor vrl
lers vich amuse demsellufs mif such
leedle flyers py A’all sdreet. vot dem caml
slecb dree nights a Vrek, uud der clien
dlemen vich dink only ill' preaking vim
men's hearts und pilhird hluying und on
horse races podding —if dem should
dako dwo veeks’ vacation from all dem
dings, dot vould peon der pcsd dings
owid.”
“Are you going to go into the country
this summerV” tho reporter nskcil the
monkey barber.
“Veil,” lie replied, “if der posg vill
vent avey a gupple days a veek in del
summer, yet, und gif der shop a resd mit
his ohaw, dot’s vacation enough for me
und der gusdimers. Der resd uf my hol
idays I'fo got to put in mit a blmnmer
up down. I’m shbarking a blummer for
all he is vorth, so I can marry hisdaugh
dor und retire. Tfe grushed der girl so
she scuts me sick boedry ow id from a
don eent Alpum Winder's Friend. Sho
has efon vent so far as to make me slilih
hers four sizes doo stimuli. Nmv, i'fo
got to got some (hie vork into iler olt
man.”— New York Sun.
llow to Make White Bread.
For the spongo take a pan of butter
milk or sour milk which has just turned
thick. I’nt it on the stove and scald.
When tho curd is well separated from
the whey strain or skim it out. Let the
wlicy cool until it will not scald, then
stir in tho flour, beating thoroughly. It
should bo about as thick as batter foi
griddle cakes. Sweet milk, or even
water, may bo used as wotting for the
sponge, if good sour milk or buttermilk
cannot be had. But fresh buttermilk is,
perhaps, the best of all. When the
spongo is about milkwarm, beat in a tea
onpful of yeast. One teaenpful of the
yeast is enough for three ordinary white
loaves, one loaf of brown bread and a tin
of rolls. The sponge should bo modo at
night. Lot it stand until morning. Un
less the weather is very oold, it is not
neocssary to put it near tho fire. In the
morning, wlieu tho spongo is light, take
out enough for your loaf of brown bread.
Mix the remainder with flour, taking
care not to put in too much, as that will
make the bread dry and hard. Knead
half an hour. The whiteness and deli
cacy of the bread will lie much increased
by thorough kneading. Put the dough
away to rise again. Whoa it is light, if
you wish to make rolls, save enough of
the dough for that purpose. Make the
remainder into loaves. Set them away
to riso. When light, bake.
It Puzzled Them.
Lucy Hooper, writing to the Phila
delphia Telegraph about Booth’s visit
to Germany, says:
“Some comical incidents arose during
his tour out of the presence of liis
daughter’s colored maid Betty, whose
black skin filled tho average German
mind with wonder and amazement.
Sometimes they sot her down us a Zulu,
and were surprised to learn that sho was
a harmless American. Mr. Booth’s cour
ier was several times asked, on arriving
at a now hotel, as to what the strange
creature was to bo fed upon. One day
when she was out walking with Miss
Booth, a kindly-looking German, who
had been staring at the pair for some
time, evidently came to tho conclusion
that Betty was somo kind of a large,
tame monkey, for ho darted into a fruit
erer's shop and came out with a quan
tity of fine plums, which he pressed into
her hands. On another occasion Betty
was going through tho corridor of a ho
tel, when she mot an elderly gentleman,
who stopped her with an authoritative
gesture. He then carefully applied the
tip of one finger to her cheek and gave
the skin a vigorous rub, afterward look
ing at his fingers and shaking his head
in bewilderment on finding that tho
color did not come off.”
An 01(1 Gun.
The St. James's Gazette says : A dis
covery which has just been made at
Aleppo is 'ikely to canse considerable
surprise in military circles, for, accord
ing to the Turkish official gazette of that
place, a party of engineers, while making
excavations beneath the citadel of the
town, have come upon a large wrought
iron breech-loading cannon which
must have been buried for at least 250
years. That the weapon should be a
breech-loader is iu itself sufficiently
astonishing; but the most extraordinary
part of the affair is that tlie breech
mechanism is almost exactly similar to
that which has for so many years been
fitted by Krupp and Essen to the artil
lery of the German army. Tlie gun
bears the name of its maker, Halebli
Mnstapha Osia, and is in fairly good
preservation.
A Prank of “John Phoenix.”
Tho Secretary of the Navy lately sen!
a noto to naval officers asking them for
suggestions as to a elningo of uniform.
This puts somo old-timers in mind of n
similar request made by Jeff Davis,
when Secretary of War miller Franklin
Pierce, Lieut. Derby, alias John
Phoenix, tho first great American joker,
was so fortunate as to get one. In reply
he sent a projxwition for having a two
inch iron ring appended by a stout piece
of leather to tho seat of each enlisted
man’s trousers. Long and formal spec
ifications demonstrated tho utility of this
ring, the use of which would incontesta
bly place our army at tlio head of tho
military bodies of tho world.
Each officer, instead of a sword, was to
early a long white asli pole, with a hook
at one end. By hooking this pole into
the stern-ring of a private ho could bo
lield in line of battle, or caught when ho
I l ied to run away. Men in tho artillery
service eonlil, by moans of the ring, bo
used for draught pnrposos, and in tho
cavalry could bo locked to other rings in
the saddle and kept from falling off.
Lieut. Derby was a good draughtsman,
and lie illustrated liis proposition. Offi
cers were pictured catohing infantry
stragglers and forcing them into tho
ranks, dragoous as padlocked to their
saddles and artillerymen with onmion
prolongs hitched to their rings and draw
ing huge pieces up steep heights.
This extraordinary proposition caused
considerable fun among the War Depart
ment clerks. It finally reached Jeff
Davis, who was too ‘ ‘ Scotchy ” to be
amused at it, and he regarded it as an in
sult. At his instance charges and speci
fications wore drawn up and a out-and
dried court martial was ordered. Then
Marcy, (Secretory of State, heard of the
matter and advised Davis to lot it drop
as ho would lie laughed at. Davis saw
the wisdom of the advice and Derby did
not have to suffer for his joke. His
“proposition and specifications for a
change of uniform” are yet among the
archives of the War Department.
About Titles.
Rev. I’enstook who insists upon being
addressed by his title, and who never
accords tho same honor to any of the
Judges, Colonels or Professors in the
Lirno Kiln-Club, suddenly bobbed up
and offered tho following resolution:
' ‘Resolved, Dat judging a dog-fight
or a jumping-match does not license a
cull’d man to assume (le title of Judge
wi'd a big J; and
Resolved, Dat while white wasliin’
an’ stove-blackin’ am purfeshuns to be
looked up to an' respected, do puss’ns
fullerin’ sieli purfeshuns am not necessa
rily Professors wid a big P: and
Resolved, Dat bossin’ a job of diggin’
a cellar or fillin’ an' ice house doan’ en
title de bosser to call hisself Colonel.”
Penstock was hardly down before the
thirteen Professors, seventeen Judges
and twenty-eight Colonels in the club
wore on their feet and demanding to Vie
heard. They felt tho insult and were
prepared to resent it, and Penstock was
seen to grow pale at the rate of a mile a
minute. Brother Gardner finally se
cured silence after continuous rapping,
and then said:
“Will do Rev. Penstock please explain
how he cum by liis title ?”
“Yes, sail. Ize a preacher, sah.”
“ Was you regularly ordained ?”
“Yes sail.”
“Whoordained you?”
“Two of de deacons of de Fust Baptist
Church of Richmond.”
There was a general yell over his re
ply, and the worthy member lost his
temper anil rushed from the room.
“My friends,” kiudly observed the
President, “envy ullus overreaches her
self. H it seems to please a fellow
mortal to call him Professor or Judge
or Major or Gineral, keep it up. It costs
nuflin, an’ keeps him good-natured. It
sounds much better to read in de papers
dat Prof. Ginalong Jones am at present
ongaged in cartin’ out ashes fur Col.
I lay ball Smith, dan to menshun dat ole
nigger Jones has struck a job of de gin
ger beer peddler. Let dignity go wid
your titles, howeber. Professors am
outer placo in a white man’s chicken
coop, an’ de Judge who lets his wife go
b'arfut will appear powerful small in de
eyes of his nay burs. Wo will now strike
a closin’ attitooil an’ disjourn de meet
in’.’’—Detroit Free I'rcss.
The Education of Girls.
A little paper called Girl TAfe , in Now
York, contains in its initial number an
interesting letter from Miss Louisa M.
Alcott, in which, after expressing ap
proval of the objects of the paper, she
Bays: “I can hope that with the new
and freer ideas now coming up some of
1 he good old ways may also be restored.
The respect shown to the aged, modest
women, simple dress, home-keeping
daughters learning from good mothers
the domestic arts, so much better than
the too early frivolity and freedom so
many girls enjoy now. The little daugh
ter sent me by my dying sister has given
me a renewed interest in the education of
girls, and a fresh anxiety concerning the
sort of society she is to outer by and
by. Health comes first and an early
knowledge of truth, obedience, and self
control. Then such necessary lessons
as all must loam, and later such accom
plishments as taste and talont lead her
lo desire. A profession or taste to fall
back upon in time of need, that she may
not bo dependent or too proud to work
for her bread. 'Experience is the best
teacher, and with good health, good
principles, and a gfiod education any
girl can make her own way and be the
braver and better for the exertion and
discipline. No lato hours, unwholesome
! pleasures, and dress, no mixing of school
| and flirtation, but simple amusements,
| daily duties, and a purpose in life to
keen them girls at heart even while
preparing for the work and happiness
of womou.”
Ter now law in Arkansaw fixes 640
rods as the legal distance between a
church and a saloon. Some men make
this lap in marvelously quick time.—
1 Peoria Transcript.