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Cuba’s Crisis.
Cuba is by nature a land of such mag
nificent possibilities that it is impossible
lo view without deep sympathy the
••fleets of the commercial panic which is
now running what few Cuban merchants
Spain lias not already taxed into bank
ruptcy. The jteople of tho United
Hlatcs have always to an extent aided
and abetted Cuba in Iter endeavors to
free herself from Spanish bondage.
Lopez, most gallant among Cnban pa
triots, drew a force of 600 men from tho
United States ill 1848; and so great was
American sympathy for Cuba that in this
s into year President. Polk made Spain an
otTer of 81.000,000 for the island. Ten
years litter the Senate discussed tho ad
visability of raising the offer to $30,000,-
000. The policy of seeking additional
territory in the south is not received with
favor in this country; and no thought of
annexation is now Boriously entertained
in any quarter. Meantime the Cubans
have kept their country in a constant
state of reltellion so that Spain in eight
years sent 1 45,000 soldiers to subdue the
island, and yet have been unable to es
tablish her control. All this timo the
island has been compelled to see her
trade decrease, her manufactures de
cline, her crops neglected and her peo
ple deserting to this country and to South
America. Cuba is one of the few remain
ing countries which are, loaded down with
national taxation for the support of a
government other than her own. The
dominions of Spain, Portngal and Tur
key are about on a par for werkness of
government, burdensome taxation ami
the destruction of all native enterprise.
The question is, how long will these bar
rier nations lie allowed to stand in the
pul It of the advancement of their colo
*)]■, ?—Detroit Times.
The English In Egypt.
The prestige that once surrounded tho
European in Upper Egypt, and was
worth more to us than fifty thousand
bayonets, is departed, says an English
magazine. Tito burning of Alexandria,
the t.'iuporary triumph of Arabi, the be
lief that our fleet and army were de
stroyed by liim, and that the Ivhedivo
end not England was bis eonqneror;
finally, the conviction that the defeats
in the Soudan were suffered by •the
English and not by the Egyptians, have
nil combined to shatter it, and it will be
very long before it can again be restored.
Not that the European in Upper Egypt
is exposed to any danger so long as
tilings remain quiet in Lower Egypt.
The respect due to the hope of
bakshish is as strong ns ever, and the
fellah is too cowardly to start any move
ment in which ho is not quite sure of
In ing backed by superior force. More
over, tho educated part of the popula
tion, which knows the real state of affairs,
is naturally concerned to maintain order;
.virile tho “Copts” have discovered that
their own safety and interests are inti
mately bound up with those of the
Europeans. JSut the most unobservant
traveler cannot but notice a certain in
solence in the bearing of the natives tee
ward him which would liavo been im
!>ossible only two years ngo. It is noth,
iug in itself; as a symptom, however, il
is dangerous
Clilldmi Planting Tiers
Friday, April 18, was Tree Planting
1 >,iy in New Jer viy, 111 Newark, School
SSii(M rintendont Barringer directed the
principals of the public schools to speiid
the last hour of the afternoon session in
bringing forest tree planting to the at
tention of the pupils. He suggested
that Gov. Abbett's proclamation on the
subject be read, and that the children
take part in planting one or more trees
in the school-yards, or in the street be
fore the school buildings.
At nearly every school a tree was
planted, and at several schools*there
were special exercises. At the Eight
eenth avenue school an oak was planted
in the yard. The scholars and many of
their parents assembled in the yard and
listened to addresses by the Rev. I)r. J.
1L Mclivaine, the Rev. Edward Rankin,
E. E. Coe, Oskar von Joeden, and E. 8.
Black, to a fecitation by Principal
Schulte, and to music by a band. The
pupils sang appropriate sougH.
A tree was planted at the Burnett
slreet schools and two in the yard of the
Brower Industrial School. In Verona
forty trees were set out in the school
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@!)C <sniitmmrillc CS&iycttc.
VOL XL
DR A II’.V MASK.
I llte pnsslcnnte grief beside the dying bod;
'ilio passionate longing fur tho vanishes
bliss;
| Tho passionate yearning for tho glory flod;
Of each wo ask, "Can life bear worse that
this ?”
Aye—answer weary lips and tired eves.
To v ioloiit sorrows sol.er Nature grants;
Worse than the world's supromest agonies
Are alt its empty blanks its hopeless wants
When vivid lightnings llamo and thunden
etasli,
When tho tiereo winds lash the fierce sea t(
storm,
Wo see tho beoeons by tho lurid flash,
The tossing spray-eland* glittering rainliowi
form;
Blit when below the sullen drip of rain
T he waters suit along tho hollow shore,
Tin laird to think tho sun can shine again,
The dull waves gleam to living light ouci
more.
When time saps slowly strength and liopi
away,
And the black gulf yawns by the lonely path.
When tho dumb night creeps on tho empty
day,
And the one clew of tell is hold by death,
Itook not to fatted joy or lingering love
To wake tho powers youth and faith hat.
given;
Take patiently the lot wo nil must prove,
Till the great ,bar swings back anil shown m
—heaven.
A- Doctor’s I3oy.
nr edmund lions.
Tears flew over both of our heads be
fore I called him by any other name
than the Doctor’s Boy. Tho village
knew that he was a foundling, because
he had beeu left at the door of old Dr.
Hart's house one cold Christmas-eve,
but it was divided in opinion as to
whether ho was a bad boy or a good one.
Some thought he was tho latter, some
the former. I was perfectly satisfied
that ho was a wretchedly iniquitous
youth, and I told him so. Ho burst into
tears, and said I would change my
opinion of him some day.
But at first he certainly gave mo no
reason to do so. He (Compounded for
me a doso once to cure n headache (for
Dr. nart was not uivve keeping drugs
and making up his bwn prescriptions)
that brought me to death’s door, and
the old doctor was put to his wits’ end
to cure me. But the Boy went to my
mother and told her that it was his fixed
intention to become a great doctor and
chemist, and I had given him his first
opportunity to test his knowledge of
medicine. He hail given me the wrong
drug, he acknowledged; hut it was all
in tho interest of science, and he
promised never to do so any more. So
my mother forgave him, and persuaded
Dr. Hart to retain him in his Hervico.
It certainly was not on account of the
Boy's good looks that hiß first misad
venture resulted harmlessly to him. He
was an angular Boy. He was a red
haired Boy. He was a freckled Boy.
But he was a frank Boy fat least my
mother snid so), and for two years more
he was allowed to go about tho village
distributing the doctor’s nostrums, and
making himself, as I thought, very ob
jectionable.
Dr. Hart had no particular liking for
the Boy. He snid the Boy was a Christ
mas gift, and, like all such presents,
called for something in return. Thus
he had boon obliged to board and clothe
the lad for seventeen years, and he al
ways protested that he wns not worth
the ontlay. Still, those who know the
doctor best were well assured of the fact
that if the Boy had not earned his board,
clothing, and lodging ho would not have
received them. He was called, in later
years, Ebenezer Dorking, though what
right he had to that name nobody in the
village knew.
At last the Doctor's Boy disappeared.
He stole quietly away in the night-time,
leaving not a line of writing behind him
to say where he had gone; so Mrs. Hart
suggested that he had robbed the till in
the drug-store. A search was at once
made, nnd the fact was developed that
not only had no money been taken from
tho drawer, but that anew crisp five
dollar bill had beeu added to its con
tents ! There seemed to he no doubt
that the Doctor’s Boy had placed it
there, and tho matter was a nine days'
wonder for (he village. Then the doctor
hired another boy, who interested no
body, and ho was noon discharged.
I suppose it was due to the subject
matter of conversation furnished by the
Boy’H departure that I found myseli
more frequently than before in the doc
tor’s sitting-room. Agues Hart was a
beautiful girl, about sixteen years oi
age, and she langbed so merrily at my
tales of the eccentricities of the Boy that]
am afraid I exaggerated them a little; but
by degrees the recollection of the fugi
tive teemed to pasß out of our lives, and
when, four years later, a torrent of war
swept over the country, I was not think
ing of the Doctor’s Boy when I took
Agnes Hart's hand to say good-by
before going to the front; but I was
thinkiDg very tenderly oi Agnes herself,
and I believe she was thinking in much
the same strain.of mo. A hundred times
during the past two years I had been on
the verge of asking her the momentous
question, but had decided to wait until
my position in the world was better as
sured. And now that the country in her
extremity was calling fur the brat set
vices of her sons, would it have been
fair to ask a simple girl to bind herself,
even by an engagement, to one who
might never return to claim her pledge ?
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1884.
I thought not; but as I watched her face
when we were parting, nnd imagined I
Baw what I longed for written there, I
determined to ask Iter to be my wife
when tho war was over.
OI), the wretched years of. strife that
followed 1 I thought they would nevor
end. But at last the closing scenes had
come, and the good fortune that had
followed me through a score of engage
ments, bearing mo nnharmed while
others went down by thousands, forsook
me in a measure at lost. I was hit by a
spent ball on tho knee, and a moment
afterward ridden over by the charging
cavalry.
"Your case is not a very serious one,”
said the doctor, ns ho bent over me
while I lay that night on a blanket on
tho field, where the hospital touts had
not yet been erected. “There are others
hero more in need of my services—this
ltoy beside yon, for instance; I must at
tend to him. He seems to bo badly
hurt, Let me examine you, my lad.”
"Ob, there is not much tho matter
with mo, sir,” said tho lad. "I was hit
in the side at the last fire; but it is only
a trifling wound. You see, I was a doc
tor’s boy before I joiued the army, mul
I know something about such things.”
"Indeed 1" said the doctor, smiling,
"Well, we ought to be good Irionds. J
was a doctor's boy myself before I be
came a doctor. But let me look at your
wound. Phew 1 this is no trifle. Tho
sooner we get you under cover the bet
ter. You are in for a siege of a couple
of months of it at least, my lad."
The boy was very much disheartened
at this intelligence; and the next morn
ing, when we were all under canvas, tho
doctor, having finished his immediate
duties, sat by his bedside, nnd I heard
him tell his patient how when he was a
doctor's boy he lmd not learned much of
medicine; and litnv in making an experi
ment he bail nearly dosed to death a
boy a little older than himself. When
he was about to leave the tent I snid :
"Doctor, I am the boy whom you near
ly doted to death. What have you been
doing through all these years? '
I lmd recognized him on the preceding
night, tmt he httd not known me, and lie
was astounded when 1 accosted him. He
(tad certainly improved both in appear
nitre and manners, and I found after
ward that he was a great favorite with
the command to which he was attached.
We soon became Very good friends— far
lxitter, indeed, than we had ever been in
the old days when I so candidly ex
pressed mv opinion of him. llib success
was duo simply to common-sense and in
dustry. On leaving Dr. Hart's service
he lmd hired himself to another doctor,
who gave him fairer play than his
former principal, and he was enabled to
study medicine, attend tho necessary
lectures, and finally to obtain his di
ploma.
At last I asked him why lie had left
the five-dollar bill in the drawer when
he was leaving. Ho laughed.
"It wits tho only money,” he said,
“that Dr. Hart ever gave mo. He
handed it to me, grudgingly enough,
about a year bofore I left, and 1 never
changed it. You will think it, perhaps,
a strange sentiment for a doctor’s boy;
but when I was running away without
giving him auy notice, I thought I had
forfeited all claim to compensation foi
my services; so 1 returned his money.
By-the-wav, how is the old doctor now ?’
1 lmd heard of Dr. Hart since I left
the village, and I was ablo to give Dr.
Dorking (for so ho was called) a good
deal of information about him, and,
with the rest, I told him that ho was
anxious to sell his practice.
"Oh, indeed," said Dorking, quietly.
“Then I think 1 will go and buy it.”
And then, in answer to my look of sur
prise, ho added; "I have saved some
money, and I don’t see how I can em
ploy it better than in settling down in
tho old village.”
As the woekß went past, my wound
did not improve, and Dorking was often
with me. The final scenes of the war
closed without our presence. In the
conversations wo had I suppose I told
him enough to give him some inkling ol
my old affection for Agnes Hart, for I
noticed that as I spoke of her he grew
very thoughtful, and looked furtively at
mo. My love, perhaps, was not very
deep,but it was my first love, nnd did not
easily die. As I lay on my couch, toss
ing at times from side to side, mutter
ing in a low fever, I saw always that
sweeet young face before me, and in tho
davs of my convalescence I resolved, as
Hoon as I could travel, to start for the
old village and ask her to be my wife.
At last Dr. Dorking left me, going
back, he said, to Iry to secure Dr. Hart’s
practice, and I passed three very dreary
weeks alone. All sorts of misgivings
troubled me. Oh, why had I not cast
sentiment to the winds, and asked Ag
nes for the promise of her hand before I
joined tho army ?
It did not take me long to reach the
village after I had once started, and my
heart was beating very fast as I stood
before the old doctor’s house. The
honeysuckles still twined around tho
posts at each side of tho door, and the
four yearH that had passed since 1 was
there last did not seem to have made
much change in the quiet old home
stead. The plate on the door bearing
the words of "Doctor Hart,” was per
haps a little rustier than formerly, but
that was all.
The oervftut who Admitted me umbered
me into tho front parlor with a “Hem I
Captain Dougtas I" and I saw that there
were two persons in thq room. Now I
am not particularly quick of apprehen
sion, but I know precisely tho situation
between those two the moment I entered.
Agues rose, while her companion, who
was seated very eloao to iter, remained
in his chair, and tho blushes that flew to
tho fair face of my old sweetheart were
clearly not for me.
"Yon see, Douglas,” said Dorking,
half an hour Inter, "Agnes had promised
to be my wife long before I left the doc
tor’s house, I could never liavo offered
her a home had I remained hero, and
that was the reason I ran away. Bhe
has known all my movements, for we
liavo corresponded regularly ever since.”
8o it was just as well that I had not
proposed for Agnes before the lighting
began. Even thou tho Doctor’s Boy
hiui won the doctor’s daughter.—liar
tier's llazar
Steamed or Cooked Food, Profitable.
Mr. B. ,T. Stone, Wcstboro, Mass.,
has for twelve years fed steamed food to
his herd of forty-five animals, from early
fall until pasturing time tho following
spring. He has a twelve-horse power
boiler in the basement of an It adjoin
ing the barn, over which is a six-horte
power-ongino, a plunge pump that
raises water into tho boiler, and a tank
near the steam box and mixing trough.
In the story above there is a large power
cutter, that cuts all tho corn-fodder,
straw, and second quality of hay used.
It is cut into one inch lengths. To
three hundred lhs. of this cut fodder,
one hundred lbs. of grain, four tits, of
snlt, nnd enough water to moisten it are
added, and mixed in lots of eighty IDs.
each to insure thorough mixing. This
provender is pitched into the steam-box,
which holds enough for one day’R feed
ing. Tho first feodiug is at seven p. m.,
the second at seven the following morn
ing. At noon tho animals are watered,
then fed one hundred and twenty-five
lbs. best quality of dry hay. The water
which settles under tho false bottom of
tho steam-box, front about eighty gal
lons used at n Rteaming, is converted
into a liny ten. This is mixed with suf
ficient wheat bran ip make a mash, and
is foil to milch cows anil young calves.
Tliis food being well seasoned, is very
palatable, readily eaten, and quickly di
gested. Tito warm food, together with
the warm stable, keep up the nuintnl
bent, and a large flow of milk is tho re
sult. The cause of so many failures in
steaming food is, in part, duo to not
using any grain, and allowiug the steam
to come in contort with the feed direct
from the boiler. Here the steam is let
into the bottom of tbo steam-box, and
softens the whole mass. Tho cooked
grain is taken into the stomach of the
animal, masti.iatcd with tho cud, and
nearly all of its nutriment thereby ex
tracted. Below is an estimate of tho
daily cost per head. One-half of tho
fuel consumed, has beon deducted nnd
charged to the liouss, as this same
boiler supplies steam, and heats sixteen
rooms.
800 lbs. lmv, I® fIO.OO per t0n.... 4U .50
125 “ “* On 20.00 “ 1.25
100 " grain, (’ 80.00 " .... 3.50
75 “ brail, Oi) 20. 0 " 75
125 " coal, Or 6.40 “ 40
£5.40
Forty-live animals til five dollars and
forty cents daily, gives twelve cents per
head a day.— A merican Agriculturist,
Checked Too Much.
At Macon I became acquainted with
n commercial tourist. He toured for a
Philadelphia harness house, and he had
two trunks. As soon ns I found that ho
had two trunks Idiscovcred why he enmo
up to mo in the reading-room of the
hotel, reached out the friendly hand, and
said that he had carried my photograph
next to his heart for the last seven
years. He wanted me to check one of
the trunks on my ticket as we went up
to Atlanta, and thus save him expense
on extra baggage,
Well, I agreed. It is seldom that I
try to beat a railroad, but one must do
something for his fellow-man now and
then in this up-hill road through life. It
so happened that I had a pass around to
Montgomery via Atlanta, nnd I handed
it to the baggage-checker without a
thought of what might follow. Asa
consequence, while the harness-house
tourist dropped off at Atlanta with tears
in his eyes for my disinterestedness,
only one of his trunks dropped off with
him. The other continued llio ride with
me for 160 miles, nnd after considerable
telegraphing it went back to Atlanta by
express. Just how much it cost him to
fall in love with me I don’t know, but I
assure him on my honor that whenever I
can go out of my way again to oblige
him I shall cheerfully do so.
M. Quad.
He Quit It.
One day a gentleman addicted to hard
drinking was seated in the smoking-room
of an English hotel, when a dog walked
in. The drinker gave a violent start and
shrank back in his chair, upon which a
waiter whispered to him reassuringly,
“Don’t be afraid, sir; it's a real one.”
This story was related to Dr. Fatra#,
and gave him, it is said, au utter loath
ing for strong drinks which can destroy
the mind and oonvert a man into a
palsied sot. It need scarcely be said
that the drinker in the smoking-roojfl
was afflicted with delirium ttemena,
NOTES ANDCOMMENTS.
Thu value of tub neat cattle sub
sisting on the natural grasses along the
slope of tho Rocky Mountains from the
British possessions to Mexico is placet!
at $600,000,000.
Mu. Jambs G. Blainb keobtvbs kioittt
cents a volume royalty for his book. It
is Haul that about 100,000 volumes have
been ordered already, so that the writor
is sure of SBO,OOO for his year’s work.
Tub Indians op Alaska are snid to
have used iu making salmon nets tho
bulk of 000 miles of telegraph wire,
which was laid by the Overland Telograph
Company many years ngo at a cost of
$3,000,000.
In tub fiscal tisab ended June 30,
tho United States government’s dis
bursements for pensions roaohoit a sum
which exceeds by six millions of dollars
the disbursements for all purposes in
the year 1860.
A jian in Philadelphia was paid by
mistake at the Kennington National
Bank $1,168 on a check of $468 and kept
tho money. He was arrested and looked
up over night, but returning the S7OO
overdrawn Do was liberated.
Tim follow ino resolution was
adopted by the miners of Alene, Dakota,
nnd posted up all over tho place:—
“Not a Chinaman shall ever enter the
diggings unless ho climbs a tree, with
one end of a lariat over a limb. ”
Hkue is tub wA a Philadelphia paper
raps New York over the knuckles :
Vanderbilt is wortli $200,000,000, Jay
Gould $100,000,000 nnd Cyrus W. Field
ia worth $60,000,000. Tho Bartholdi
pedestal can ho put up for $300,000.
Jay Gould is said to ho n much hap
pier man than Mr. Vanderbilt. As the
latter is worth $200,000,000 and tho
former only $100,000,000, it can bo
easily seen, snys the Evening Call, that
wealth tilouo does not constitute lnippi
ness.
A ditch to be cut in the Arkansas
Valley in Oolorndo will take so much
water out of tho Arkansas River that tho
Htreftm will not cause much trouble here
after in the way of Hoods. It is to be
sixty-five feet wide at the bottom and
sixty-livo utiles long.
Tfie Denver Republican finds, on
summing up tho list, that over one Dun
tired lives have boon lost there this year
by moans of snowslides alone, without
counting disasters of this nature that
were either too slight or too remote to
command prompt and extensive notice.
Charles L. Kusg, editor op the
Gringo and Greaser, at Manzano, New
Mexico, who was assassinated by unknown
men who shot him through a window,
was a lmriim soarnm sort of a fellow
always in troubio. While a resident ot
of Leadvillo he made over SIOO,OOO,
which he soon lost.
Twenty years ago a newspaper cor
respondent attended a country school
in Wisconsin, whore the teacher, a
minister’s wife, punished gufu chewers
by forcing them to spit out the gum nnd
chew italics, while whispering nnd other
delinquencies entailed tho swallowing of
liberal doses of castor oil.
During the past ten years Undo
Sam expended nearly $70,000,000 in
enring for the Indians. The total num
ber of Indians attached to agencies i’h
only 246,000, and of those 60,000 in
Indian Territory, 7,700 in Wisconsin,
and 6,000 in New York are supposed to
be at least partially self-supporting.
The Blue Ridge op West Virginia is
believed by the State Geologist to eon
tain n slumbering volcano. There is one
place of about an acre in extent where
the ground never freezes and the snow
always melts. Vegetation is always a
month in advance of the season. Tho
volcano is believed to be below this spot.
A New Reason.
The temperance question has been si.
thoroughly threshed out of late that it
scarcely seems possible to find anew
argument on the one side or the other.
But a certain Dr. Troth, of Berth, (Scot
land, recently delivered a lecture in
which ho advances some exceedingly
original propositions:
"The drinking of alcoholic beverages is
a necessary evil, and is not likely ever
to bo discontinued. It is like cholera,
plague, or war—one of the wise dispen
sations of Providence for preventing an
undue increase of mankind. It prevents
tiie accumulation of all the property of
the nation in tiie hands of a few * * *
By its means the son scatters tiie sav
ings of his father’s lifetime in a few
months, enabling another man to fill his
position, creates a class of drunken
tradesmen to neglect their business, so
that energetic men may succeed where
they fail * * * In short, it benefits
directly or indirectly everybody but
those who drink it, and if they are fools
enough to sacrifice themselves and their
families for the good of the sober and
industrious, why should we interfere
witli them?”
There is, says the Hour, really a
certain amount of sound sense in tho
Malthusian selfishness of this ingenious
doctor.
When a man and his wife engaged in
a debate, the other night, and the dog
got up and scratched to be let out of the
room, they concluded it was timo to stop
the discussion.
NO. ID.
Over n Coffin-Lid.
"Sho—was—a —good—wife—to -me,
A good wife, God bless her I”
The words wore spoken iu trembling
accents over a cofllu-Ud. Tho woman
asleep tlroro had borno tho boat and
burden of life's long day, nnd no one
had ever heard her murmur; her hand
was quick to reach out iu n helping
grasp to those who fell by the wayside,
and her feet were swift on errands of
mercy; the heart of her husband had
trusted in her; he had left her to long
hours of solitude, while he amused him
self in scenes in which she had no part.
Wlten boon companions deserted him
when fickle affection selfishly departed,
when pleasure palled, lie went home and
found her waiting for him.
“Come from your long, long roving,
On life’s sea no bleak and rough,
Come tome tender and loving
And I shall he blest enough."
That had been her love-song—always
on her lips or in her heart, Children
had been born to them. Bho had reared
hem almost alone—they were gone 1
Her hand had led them to tho uttermost
?dgo of tho morning that has no noon,
riton she hhd comforted him, anti sent
lim out strong and whole-hearted while
the stayed at homo and—cried. What
can a woman do but cry ?—aud trust ?
Well, sho is at rest now. But slio
could not die until he had promised to
‘bear up,” not to fret, but to remember
how happy they lmd been. They ? Yes,
it is even bo. For she was blest in giv
ing, and lie in receiving. It was an
equal partnership after all I
“She —was—a -good—wife- -to—mo.’
Oh, man 1 man I Why not have told
her so, when her oars were not dulled
by death ? Why wait to say those words
over a coffin whoroin lies a wasted,
voary, gray-haired woman, whose eyes
nave so long held that pathetic story of
loss and suffering and patient yearning,
which so many women’s eyes reveal—to
those who read. Why not have made
tho wilderness in her heart blossom like
;lto rose with the prodigality of your
love? Now you would give worlds
were they yours to give—to see the tears
itf joy your words would have onco
caused, bejoweling the closed windows
of her soul. It is too late.
Wo have careful thoughts for tho stranger,
Anil untiles for tho sometimo giiost—
lint oft for oar own
Tho hitter tone
Though tee love our own the best,
— Detroit Dree Dress
Hie Heller Man,
There mnst have been ten of ns sit
ting on our trunks in a dismnl passen
ger station in Arkansas, waiting for the
inevitable night train. Sumo of the
drummers tried to tell funny stories, but
it was no go, and those who were not
nodding aud dozing were mad enough
to fight, when a negro came iu nnd flung
a lot of wet coal on the fire, extinguish
ing tho little wo had been shivering over.
"See here, you infernal nigger, yon
ought to be shot I” growled a man in the
county map business.
"Who’s a ’fernal nigger?”
"You are 1”
"Better look out, white man ! I’m a
better man than yon is 1”
Tho prospect of another civil war
woke everybody tip in a second, and it
didn’t scorn as if the dock had ticked
fifteen times before tho map man had
his coat and vest off and his ears work
ing for business.
"What you gwino to do, salt ?” asked
the negro its he stood gazing at him.
"I’m going to sec who is the best
man 1 Boys, look out for splinters 1”
“Hole on, salt! Hole on, salt 1” called
the oilier. "Izo do bottah man, an’/
kin prove it I Sec heah, salt 1”
Ho pulled from the pocket of bis old
coat a fair-sized coconnut, llte bark of
which was highly polished up, nnd
opened his mouth and tossed the lint
into tho cavity, rattled it around over
his back teeth nnd then dropped it into
his hand with the remark:
“White man, come to taw ! If yon
am do bettah man let’s see you circum
locute dat cokcrnut nronn’ in yonr mouf
like I did I”
The proposed bloody struggle ended
right there. The map man put on bis
garments, tho whole crowd rose up, nnd
during the rext twenty minutes that
“nigger” scooped in ninety-five cents
by rattling that cocoanut and adding to
it any bunches of keys or pocket-knives
the boys could limit up and hand over.
M. Quad.
Pav of Officers.
Senator Hawley reported favorably to
the U. S. Senate, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, the bill introduced
by him to provide that section of the
act approved March 3, 1865, making ap
propriations for the snpi>ort of the
Army, which provided that all officers
of volunteers then in commission below
the rank of Brigadier-General, who
should continue in the military servico
to the close of tho war, should be en
titled to receive, upon being mustered
out, three months’ pay proper, be so
construed so ns to entitle the heirs or
legal representatives of such officers who
were killed or died in the service Da
l.ween March 3, 1806, and April 10, of
tho same year, to receive the three
eoliths pay to which such officers
would have been entitled had they lived
and been muatefetj out at tUo q(<?3o qf
the war.’
QUAKER CITY HUM.UIL
A Mr A TI'II‘"IG| T IL , AjiELPUG‘
"EVENING CAM..”
AT TIIE SUPrER TABLE.
"What, anothor cup of tea, Mr. Dum
loy ?" exclaimed tho landlady, as he
passed his cup for tho third time. I
am delighted to seo that you are enjoy
ing your supper.”
"Yen,” responded Dumloy. "I was
quite hungry to-night, aud tho tea tastes
unusually good.” „
"Not very complimentary to mo,
went on the landlady, with a sort of
second-class genteel little laugh. 1 1
generally make tho tea myself, but to
night I was busy about something else,
and tho cook made it. I wonder what
sho could liavo put iu it,”
"Well,” responded Dumloy, m ho
stirred it gontly with his spoon, "I
should jttdgo from tho taste that sho
must havo put some ten in it."
A PLEASANT DAY IN TnE WEST.
“My dear,” said a Western farmer to
his wife ns lie got out of lied, "will you
ltxik anti seo what kind of a day it is ?
"Well,” she replied, gazing out of (ho
window, "Mr. Smith’s bnrn across tbo
way is being blown into tho next lot,
but-"
“Not his now brick barn ?’’
"No, tbo old wooden one, nnd it looks
ns if the roof of his house will liavo to
go, hut I don’t believe there will bo very
mu oh of a storm.”
"Probably not,” replied the husband,
"but still wo can hardly expect sottloil
weather at this season of tho year. I
guess I lmd better drive to town to-day
instead of waiting until Saturday, It
might storm, then.”
RUMMER HOARDING RATES.
Stranger—“ What do yon clxargo for
those rooms for tho season ?”
Landlady—" Let me see. Y r ou snid
something about being at Newport all
last summer, did you not ?
“Yes.”
“My terms arc $lO a day.”
"My gracious 1 I can’t afford to pay
'hat,”
"It is cheaper than going to New
port.”
“But I meant Newport, Fn. I was at a
farm-house near there, and paid $6 a
week.”
"Oh ! excuse me. Iu that case my
terms will be $5.60 a week.’
ArrßorniATE pronunciation.
Jones—“ That was a terriabie dy-na
mile explosion, wasn’t it?"
Smith —“was anybody killed ?”
"No, but tho reverberation was felt
for miles.”
“In that case you should not call it
a dy-namite explosion. Nobody diud
yon know.”
"What should I call it?”
"A dyu-amito explosion—made a big
din, you know.”
ais EXCUSE.
Editor—“No, your Honor, I am not
sick, but I should like to be excused
from jury duty all the same.”
Judge—“ For what reason?”
“I have a very important article to
write for tho next issue of tho paper.”
"Very important, is it? May I ask
what is the subject ?”
"The jury system.’
"Alt ! And what ground do you
take ?”
"That nil tiie evils of the system
would be removed if reputable citizens
would consent to serve. ”
A SAD PROSPECT.
"I see by tiie papers that the Ameri
can Association of Umpires havo decid
ed to fine pitchers ton dollars for hitting
the batsman witli the ball.”
"Oh, I guess that can’t be true.”
"But I know it is. You can rely on
it.”
"It ia really too bad. Seems to mo
the country ia going to the dogs.”
“How so?”
"The only national game wo havo is
baseball, and now that is to bo deprived
its chief attraction. ’’
too riton RENT.
"What did you say the rent of that
double dwelling is?” asked a liouse-
Ijiinter of a West Pliiladelpoia landlord.
"Eighty dollars a month for each side,
tho tenant to pay water rent and do all
the repairing."
‘‘H’m; do you let both sides together
for any less ?”
"No, it pays mo better to let oaoh
side alone.”
"Well, I guess it will pay mo better,
too,” and he walked away.
LIEF. AMONG THE MORMONS.
"Are you going out this evening?”
asked a Mormon lady of her husband.
"Yes,” he replied. "I shall call on
Mrs. Smith.”
"I owe Miss Smith a call myself,” sho
said, “but I don’t suppose it would be
exactly tho thing for ns to go together.”
"Hardly," responded the husband
TWO ROASTS.
lowa Man—“ Yes, sir; our prond
boast is that lowa has a cow on every
bill-top, nnd plenty of milk in tho val
leys.”
Pennsylvania Man— " That’s nothing.
Pennsylvania has a pump at every cross
roads, nnd plenty of milk in the cities.”
A “help” applying for a situation the
other day was asked if she could mako
good bread, whereupon she replied :
"Yes’m, very good bread, indade; but I
think it only fair to tell yez that they
wouldn’t ate it at the last place I wuz in.
That was why I lift. I hope ye’re more
aisy here.”
———
A question for puzzle solvers: Tn
waltzing with a young lady not over 17
years, pretty, and one of the never-get
dizzy sort, does the young man go around
the young lady, or does the young lady
go around tho young mau ?—lfartforcl
Sunday Journal,