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BUTLEII ON STRIKES.
VAliv Thn nrr IH.ii.lnm, lo Hie l.nhnrln*
Mint The Ni l'll nl u Tribunal ol Arbllrn.
lion.
The following is the text of Ex-Gov
ernor Butler’s letter to a labor mass
meeting held in Buffalo, N. Y. * * *
Let me premise by saying that I do not
think a strike would ever take place if
honest anil fair-minded dealing was al
ways had between capitalists and labor
ing men, because their interests do not
naturally clash; and it is only when
some advantage is to be taken of tbe
laborer by the capitalist, or some unfair
dealing takes place, that a call for a
strike ever exists. I have been an em
ployer of labor to a considerable extent
for moro than a quarter of a century, and
I can say no strike has ever occurred ot
tbe slightest extent where 1 haVe had a
considerable interest as compared with
the whole. A strike is not a contest be
tween labor and capital, bnt between two
kinds of capital, the property of two
sets of men. What is usually called
capital is the earnings of labor with its
aggregate profits when that capital is
employed in productive industry. If
that production stops nothing is hist by
such stoppage, except profits which
might be gained if production went on.
The capital untouched, the profits only
are lost.
On the other hand, the laboring man’s
capital is the capacity to earn or pro
duce; the capability he has of doing a
day’s labor of a given value. This capi
tal of tbe laborer perishes in the using
os well ns in the non use. Tlie only ac
cumulations of the laboring man’s capi
tal, leaving out what he may have saved
of his former earnings, is the worth of
so many days’ work to be done by him.
If he loses a day the earnings of that
dav are gone forever. If he lies idle a
month, the losses to him of that month
can never be replaced. He may work
and save another month, but that does
not make good the lost month. There
fore, being idle on a Btrtke, he loses all
his capital and profits against the profits
alone on the part of the capitalist * * *
Contests arising between employer
and employed as to their rights are the
only ones of any imjiortance in which
efficient, if not too prompt, tribunals are
given by our laws. But there is no
court of arbitration, or other court, that
can decide tbe most important of all
controversies to those having them, as
well as to the country in general, differ
ences arising between what is usually
termed labor and capital. May we not
Iffipe that a law will he passed at an
early date giving some tribunal in which
those controversies can be justly an
equitably settled?
Revenue Receipts.
The collections of internal revenue
during the first nine months of the fis
cal year ending June 30, 1884, were as
follows: From spirits, $55,407,393, an
increase of $2,102 440 over the corre
sponding period of the previous year;
from tobacco, $18,854,635, a decrease of
$13,755,303; Horn fermented liquors,
$12,658,859, an increase of $895,773;
from banks and bankers, $2,392, a de
crease of $.3,741,534; from miscellaneous
sources $440,904, a decrease of *6,006,-
5.30. The aggregate receipts were $87,-
454 084. which is $20,505,253 less than
the collections for the corresponding
period of the previous fiscal year.
“I w ant a Chaucer," said a customer
to a New York clerk in a book store,
after looking over the list of English
poets. “Fine cut or plug?” inquired
the young man, putting his hand in his
pocket.
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1884.
BABY LOUISE.
Tm in love with .yon, Baby Louise!
With your silken hair and your soft blue ryes,
And I ho dreamy wisdom that in them lies,
And the faint sweet smile you brought from
the skies—
9od’s sunshine, Baby Louise!
When yon fold your hands, Baby Louise—
Your bauds, like a fairy’s, so tiuy and fair—
With a pretty, innocent, saint-like air,
Are you trying to think of some angel-taught
prayer
Yon learned above, Baby Louise?
I’m in love with you, Baby Louise !
Why, you never raise your beautiful head !
Homo day, little one, your cheek will grow red
With a flush of delight to hear the words said:
“I love you,” Baby Louise,
Do you hear me, Baby Louise!
I have sung your praise for nearly an hour,
And your lashes keep drooping lower and
lower,
And you’ve gone to sleep like a weary flower,
Ungrateful Baby Louise !
Makoaret Eytinok.
A. Wii<Vs Clmnn
A pout upon the red lips of Gerald
Sinclair’s young wife—unmistakably a
pout- for though a wife of almost two
I years, her fond, indulgent husband had
j for the first time said nay to an openly
expressed wish.
The fancy ball of the season, a grand
and fashionable assemblage, was to take
place during bis absence, and ho bad
said that he should prefer she would not
attend.
She was only 20. Let this much bo
said in extenuation of the two greet, tears
that rose to the brown eyes and slowly
tiiokled down the pretty face, splashing
ou to the dainty morning dress, which,
clinging to the dainty form, revealed so
perfectly its graceful ontlines.
Certainly, Niobe had no reason to feel
ashamed of this one of her children.
But Gerald Sinclair had only stooped
and kissed away the glistening drops, in
a half-hurried manner, perhaps to hide
his awakening remorse.
“Never mind, little wife. I’ll make it
np to yon another time.”
Thou he was gone; but she sat still
turning and returning her wedding ring,
with eyes bent upon it. It was a curi
ous ring—a solid band, set with five
large diamonds.
It had been lier charm, her talisman,
not to be taken from her finger until
soul and body had parted; but this
morning it had lost its charm. If it
failed to scatter the clouds, it failed to
bring hack the sunshine.
Even when the hour came round for
Gerald’s home-coming, he missed his
nsunl warm welcome; but he thought,
that he might trust his wife’s heart and
said nothing. The next day he started
on his journey.
“You’re not going, my dear?" ex
claimed Mrs. Martin, bursting in upon
her friend on the morning of the ball.
“And why not?"
“Gerald is away,” replied Mrs. Sin
clair, with some little show of wifely dig
nity, as though the fact were in itself
sufficient explanation.
“And why need that make any differ
ence ?” pursued Mrs. Martin, a bewitch
ing little widow, some years tier friend’s
senior. “I will share my escort with
you—Count Belzoni 1”
Sophie Sinclair looked up amazed.
She knew the man mentioned had but
lately gained entree into society, and
knew also that her husband disliked and
distrusted him.
Once or twice she had seen his eye
fixed admiringly upon herself, and had
felt somewhat as the bird might feel
beneath the basilisk glare of the ser
pent.
“Well, why don’t yon answer?” con
tinued Mrs. Martin. “Will yon go?”
“No, no," she replied, trying to speak
with firm decision. “Besides, Ido not
think that Gerald admires the Count.”
“Prejudice, my dear, all prejudice,
The Connt is the most charming and
i greeable man ] know. Indeed, i think
I should he canonized for my willingness
to share his attentions, especially as I
have heard him say all manner of pretty
things about yon.”
“Nonsense, Ellen,” retorted Mrs. Sin
clair.
But she felt the ground slipping be
neath her feet as she spoke.
After all Gerald had not said positively
no ! Bari he thought it necessary after
he iiad openly expressed his disappro
bation of her going ?
Efe had not known that she would lie
so sorely tempted. Besides she would
wear a mask. No one would know her;
and when she told Gerald he would for
give her. A sudden thought came to
her.
“I will go,” she said at last, after con
tinued nrging, and looking at the pic
ture in all its brightest lights, “on one
condition, and that is that no one is to
know me—not even the Count. Say that
you have persuaded a friend to accom
pany yon, who wishes to remain un
! known. I will come to yonr house,
where he will find me, and thus gain no
j clue.”
So it was decided; but, in spite of her
, exquisite costume of a fairy as she con
j cealed it and herself beneath a large
: domino, as the clock on her mantel
chimed ten, it seemed to Sophie that
every stroke said; “Stay ! stay !”
She was almost tempted to obey it,
but she had promised Ellen; and, after
j all, she had heard that it was well fox
young wives to assert themselves.
An hour later and, on the Count Bel-
zoni’s arm, she entered upon the brilliant
scene. So for ho had not seemed curi
ous to ascertain her identity. Sho ex
perienced at this a singular Bouse of
relief.
The ball was at its height when the
clock rang out the hour of midnight, but
for the first time in her life light and
gayoty were distasteful. A hundred
times she wished herself at homo.
“I will tell Gerald. I have already
been punished,” she whispered to her
self, as she stood for a moment alono in
a quiet corner.
“You look moro liko a nun than n
fairy—rather like one who had fore
sworn tho vanities of the world, than a
siren to tempt men to their destruction,”
said a voice close to lier, “though to tho
latter I know no one more fitted.”
“Sir !” she exclaimed indignantly, reo
ognizing, as she spoke, the Connt
standiug at her elbow.
“Ah, yon thought I did not know you.
I should penetrate any disguise yon
ivore. Besides you have forgotten to re
move a badge of recognition.”
She followed with her eyes his down
ward glance, and saw that it rested on
her hand, ungloved, as in better accord
with the exigencies of her costume.
Involuntarily she drew it away, with
the ring which had betrayed her.
Denial was useless.
“Since you know me, then,” she said,
“we will not further play a part. To
the others wo are masks, to ourselves we
are ourselves.”
“Ah, madamo,” he whispered, “let ns
rather say to tho world ive are ourselves,
to each other we are a mask. Can men,
think you, look coldly on such beauty as
you possess ? Can ”
Indignant and alarmed, slio checked
his further speech by starting forward to
escape him. His hand closed on hers as
in a vice. She wrenched it from him,
sprang among a crowd of maskers, and
so made her way to the door.
“Call a carriage for mo,” sho directed.
Ten minutes later she was within lier
own home. Her first impulse was to
tear off tho hated costume which hod
caused her such trouble; her next to
throw liersolf on the bed and sob out
lier excitement and contrition. Tho
morning suu, streaming into her room,
awoke her.
With a shudder, she remembered the
events of the past nigh*. Hhe looked
down at lier hand—the hand which had
been polluted by another’s tout'll—as
though in some way she expected to find
tho contamination brand on itH soft
white surface. It was all unmarred;
but— Sho looked again—slio rubbed
her eyes and looked—tho color mean
while fluttering out of her cheeks, and
her pale lips quivering, as if lier heart
seemed to stand still in a sudden agony
of fear; for from the third linger was
missing tne talismanic ring.
When and where she had lost it, and
how could she now find (he courage to
confess all to Gerald ? Sho rose and
dressed, revolving this problem in lier
mind.
At nny hour her husband might, re
turn. For the first time she dreaded to
meet him—dreaded to look into his
kindly, handsome eyes and read there all
his incredulous reproach, mingled per
haps with scorn and anger.
The day wore on. Her friend, Mrs.
Martin, ran in to scold her for her deser
tion; but her pale face and trembling
tones made good her plea of sudden ill
ness.
At nightfall Gerald arrived. She threw
herself into his arms m a burst of nerv
ous weeping; but when lie wonderiugly
asked its cause, her courage failed her.
Why was it that she never imagined
that he might look stern until to-day?
A week passed, when ono evening,
sitting in tho twilight, a step sounded
close beside. She looked up to dis
cover the Connt.
“Pardon I” ho began, in answer to hoi
indignant, questioning look. “Why
must yon be so cruel ? May I not now
Bee you ?”
“Sir, I command you to leave mo. I
am under tho protection of my own
roof. ”
Ho was about to answer, when a latch
key was heard inserted in the ontside
door.
In an instant ho had sprang into
some place of concealment, but the fact
that he was near lent to tho young wife
a sudden courage, born of tho moment’s
desperation. Her husoand, entering, ap
proached her, but she motioned him
back.
“Gerald,” she paid, “I have a bitter
confession to make. It is fitting you
should hear it now.”
He listened, with arms folded across
his I,roast, while she told him all the
story of that fated night.
“And is this all?” ho questioned bit
terly, when she had paused.
“No, not all,” she continued, rais
ing her voice. “My confession has
another witness, who has forced his
hated presence again upon me. The
1 Count Belzoni is here again, Gerald.”
As sho spoke she drew aside tho cur
tain; but the form she expected to dis
close was gone, the open window attest
ing to its flight.
Silently the husband drew a paper
from his pocket, and showed her a para
graph offering a reward for the arrest of
a thief and swindler known as the Count
Belzoni.
“My darling,” he said, “my little wife
: has learned a lesson sho will never for
get, I have known this story all the
time, bnt have waited until yon enme to
tell it to me. I returned tho night of
the ball, to take you with me, when I
found you had gone. Imagine what I
suffered, and my added suffering when,
arriving at the scene of enjoyment,
whero I had followed yon, I discovered
who was yonr companion. I stood near )
you, and heard the words he addressed |
to you—heard with joyful heart your
auswer; saw yon wrench your hands
from his hold, and also saw what you
did not, the sparkle of the ring he drew
from yonr fiuger. Poor little girl I I
watched yon hasten through tho crowd,
and knew that yon had already met your
bitterest punishment. It has been
through my efforts that the Count hns
been traced and exposed. Only this morn
ng I recovered yonr ring from tho man
with whom he had pledged it as secur
ity. Onoe moro I place it on your fin
ger. But remember, darling, it is only
tho outward charm. A wife’s true talis
man is her husband’s honor.
THE PLEI!KO-PNEUMONIA BILL
A TfXiiM Senator Aifnrlt* the Department
ol Agriculture*
When the 17. S. Senate began the con
sideration of tho bill to establish a
Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevont
the exportation of deceased cattle, and
provide for the extirpation of pleuro
neumonia and other contagious diseases
among domestic animals, tho House bill
was substituted for tbe Senate bill. Mr.
Plumb said that the cattle interests of
the country were unanimously in favor
of the legislation proposed by tho bill.
Mr. McPherson stated that tho alarm
ing reports spread throughout the
country and Europe some months ago
bail been discovered to be unfounded,
and those reports had come principally
from suoh people as the bill under con
sideration provided should bo appointed
as inspectors of meats for export.
Mr. Coke severely criticised the De
partment of Agriculture for spreading
false reports of the nature of the disease
among American cattle. This bill had
already boon twice kicked out of the
Senate, and should be kicked out again.
The States separately were quite effi
cient to deal with their own cattle, anil
should not be interfered with. If the
Agricultural Department would stop
libelling the cattle of the United States
no inure trouble wonhl he found with the
cattle business.
Mr. Williams regretted that tho Sen
ator from Texas, Mr. Coke, had been
carried so far by the warmth of his feel
ings in the denunciation of those who
desired the passage of the bill. Mr.
Williams said he was himself a stock
raiser, and ho knew that nineteen
twentieths of all the stock raisers of the
country favored this measure, “and,"
ejaculated Mr. Williams, “to say there
is no pleuro-pnenmonia in this country
—My God |” It was, he said, in New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Mary
land and the District of Columbia. Mr,
Williams himseif had H(-ell it.
Mr. McPherson said ho had not been
able to find any in New Jersey.
Mr. Williams acknowledged tho emi
nence of “Dr.” McPherson as an author
ity on constitutional taw and matters
affecting the Navy, bnt he did not think
that that gentlemen could recognize
pluero-pnenmonia if he saw it.
Die Pike Comity Trout.
Ed. Mott, tho l’iko county historian,
tells of a monster brook trout that hat
tantalized the sportsmen of that section
for ten years. It has been seen time
and time again. “Crack fly-casters,''
says Mott, "have come from New York
and Philadelphia every season to try
(heir skill on him. Sometimes as many
ns half a dozen have gathered at the
pool at one time. They fished singly,
in pairs, by threes, and by sixes. They
fished at daylight, at nightfall, by moon
light. Sunny days, rainy days, chilly
days, were tried. They fished witli the
wind in the north, when no angler ven
tures forth. They fished with the wind
in the went, when the trout will bite tho
best. The fished with the wind in tho
east, when the trout will bite the least.
They fished with tho wind in the south,
which blows the bait in the fish’s mouth.
But the mammoth denizen of the pool
trimmed his sail to no wind, and re
mained safety in port. One time a team
ster, who had taken a day off to go trout
fishing, came running hatless to the
Falls. He was as pale as a sheet. He
carried a piece of liis chestnut polo in
each hand. He had half of his horse
hair line left.
“‘1 hooked the big tront 1’ he yelled.
T was baited with a pieker’l’s bolly fin.
I played him till he broke my pole an’
my line, an’ here they be 1’
“People rather believed tho teamster,
and he was quite the lion of tho back
woods. He was promoted to be sawyer.
But a few days later Doc Jaggers trapped
a mink on tho creek that hail a hook in
its jaw and four feet of horsehair line
hanging to it. Then that teamster lost
caste. He was discharged from the mill.
His old place as male driver was re
fused him. He wont away, and is be
lieved by his former comrades to be a
homeless wanderer on the face of the
earth.”
“Doctor, do you think smoking is
hurtful?” “Why, of course. Look at
the chimneys. They make a business
of the thing; and yet it’s those that
smoke tho least that do the best,”—
French Wit.
NO. 22.
Valuable Dogs.
Wliilo a group of spectators were ex
amining the famous oollie, Tweed IL, at
the New York Dog Show, Mr. F. 0.
Phebus, of Newmarket, Md., who has
grown up with shepherd dogs, became
enthusiastic in expatiating ou the traits
of these animals.
“If yon onco gain the affection of a
collie,” lie said, “you may starvo or abuse
it, but lie will nover dosert you. Ho
will die nt your feet or ou your grave, if
you die first. Their intelligence, when
intrusted with the care of sheep, iH be
yond belief, except to those who work
with them. This dog lias taken a flock
of seventy-five sheep from the stock
yard at Baltimore, to a farm thirty-six
miles away, without losing one of them.
His endurance equals his sagacity. He
will cross a road sixty-live feet wide
twioe a minute, and travel all day with
out resting. With a wave of the hand
ho will fly from tho rear to tho front
of tho Hook. At another signal he will
divide a flock into two, and if I hold my
hand up thus, live fingers extended, ho
will separate that number out of the
flock. He will take a flock of eighteen
and divide them into three groups of six
each at a word, and nover touch ono
with his teeth. He once took seventy
through tho streets of Baltimore, a dis
tance of four miles, without losing one.
Ho will nlso separate chickens from
lings, and hens from roosters, at com
mand.”
WITH A GENTLE HAND.
The One Touch of Nature Thai Unite* the
Whole World liln.
They were moving; not the ordinary
and regular routine of May 1, when dis
tressed families flock from one cramped
and inconvenient dwelling into another
of the same type, but this was a going
“Out of tin: olil house into tlie new.”
And the mother's faco was serious, for
there wan one of tho little flock missing,
not lost, but gone before into the new
home, in the city whose wallß lie four
square.
Thus it happened that ono little room
was left to the lost and as a rough work
man laid his hand oil the door and
pushed it open, tho mother cried out ai
if he had struck lier a blow:
“Oh, not there I Not there I I will
move those things myself. Yon cannot
touch them I”
“That was baby Grace’s room and sho
died in that little bed,” said ono of (lie
older children.
The rough workman stayed his foot
on the threshold. Then ho touched his
hat, anil his tone was husky as ho said:
“If ye please, ma’am, I’ll handle them
things gently. I’vo a little one of my
own in glory—tho heavens be her lied—
and it’s myself will see them not a bit
damaged, and I’ll sottlo it beyond witli
yon.”
It was tho “one touch of nature" that
"makes the whole word kin.” —Detroit
Free Press.
Lady Slratlhrokc Snubbed.
London Truth says: It is quite a mis
take to suppose that “the lady of title”
who is morally responsible for the Lon
don World libel lias gone entirely un
punished. Tho Queen was exceedingly
angry with lier; she received an un
mistakable hint that slie would do well
not to attend thb drawing room, and
Her Majesty also crossed her ladyship’s
name out of the State ball anil concert
invitation lists. Indeed tho name would
have been permanently Btruck off the
Buckingham Palace list but for the
Queen’s consideration for her ladyship's
blameless husband, who has suffered as
much mortification from the affair as did
the Duo d’lvry after his siiouse’s indis
cretion at that Congress of Baden of
which we read in "The Ncwcomes.”
“My lady” lias also received tho cold
shoulder from Marlborough House, so
that altogether her position has lieen by
no means so satisfactory as most people
suppose.
Ills Spirits Dampened.
The train halted for a few minutes at
the station and a young man who had
been entertaining two fair maidens with
his cultivated conversation during tho
last ran rushed out and disappeared be
hind tbe door of an adjacent saloon. He
swung liimself on the oar just as tlie
train started and pantingly resumed his
seat and the abruptly interrupted chit
chat.
“Gracious!” exclaimed one of the
girls. “How frightened you look 1”
“Do I?” he gasped. "I don’t feel so.
T only went out to see a friend.”
“You must have met a wicked ghost,”
she said.
With a puzzled look ho mnrmnred :
“Why, that’s absurd. Yon know I
don’t believe in the supernatural.”
“Perhaps not,” she retorted, with the
faintest suggestion of a sneer, “bnt yonr
breath is awfully snggestive of bad
spirits.”
Tlie youth muttered something about
malaria, and concealed his pungent ex
halations behind a paper.
Too Young.— A Chicago hotel-keeper
who has just been sued for breach of
promise of marriage, puts in the extraor
dinary defence that the plaintiff de
ceived him by telling him she was
thirty-nine years old, whereas she is
only twenty-nine. He avers that, being
a middle-aged man, he wanted a wife of
corresponding years.
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WR FIND IN THEM TO HMII.B
OVER TIIIH WEEK.
IN TIER! 0110111.
During tho sermon ono of tho quat*
tette foil asleep.
“Now’s your chants,” said tho organ
ist to tho soprano. ‘ ‘See if you cantiolo
tho tenor.”
“You wouldn’t dnro duct,” said th
contralto.
“You’ll wakohymn up,” suggested the
bass.
"I could make a better pnn than that)
as sure ns my name's Psalm 1” remarked
the boy who pumped the organ; lint he
said it solo that no one quartet.-— Life.
VERY PECULIAR.
A was tho owner of a number of b b b,
That were infected by a curious and 0 o,
Which could not bo remedied with net.
Except by giving them fresh g g g,
Tbe f x of which h timo lie tries
Would be to swell their little ii i;
So they wore noticoil by tlie J J j,
Ami swallowed at onco in every k k k,
’This wnH leaving the bbbtoapquler fato
Ho ho thought he would with them MI (great)
To Swissland, or n n n of the earth if he please,
For Ida life’s support he o o o to tlie h b b,
Ho must do this —there iB no x q q q,
He had no p p p—bnt r r’s profuse.
He hail an x s of gold and of b b b
Ho wished to exchange for coffees and 111,
Ho f v could trade and himself m u u u
ire oould make tho trip of w w w.
Ay y y thought struck him—he took a notion
And with his bhli lie crossed an ocean,
Whero there are no J j j to swallow hiß b b b,
And lie buys all tho coffees and 111 he oe c.
— St. Louis Globe.
now IT WORKS.
Mrs. Grasp—“ How is Uncle Joe get
ting along ? I liopo lie is making a liv
ing, for I don’t want him coming on to
us in his old age. ”
Mr. Grasp—“ That reminds me; I just
hoard the strangest thing. Old Brown
recently returned from a visit to Uncle
Joe and says that instead of being poor
lie is very ricli and is becoming evtrava
gant. He got into some speculations and
made loads of money.”
"Goodness gracious I Who would
have thought it ? Extravagant, too. Ho
will squander all liis money. Don’t you
think Undo Joe always was a little
qneer ?”
“Why, so ho was. I never thought of
it. Poor Uncle Joe.”
“Yes; come to think, bis mind has al
ways been a little shaky. I am afraid he
will kill somebody next,”
“So he might, I will see the lawyers
at onco about getting him into a lunatic
iutylnm.”— Phila. Call.
LEARNING WISDOM.
A Peasant who had Seven Daughters
wearing out solo leather for him went to
the (lave of a Wise Old Duffer, and be
sought his Advice as bow to bring them
up.”
“Marry them off as soon ns Possible,
and yon can then Break np Honsekccp
ing and go Boarding among them.’’
After a few Months the Father re
turned to the Gave, and his phiz had
such a Lonesome Expression that the
Wise Man oried out:
“Ah, you must fidlow my Advice to
learn Wisdon i”
“Tho Trouble is that I did follow it,
but instead of having seven places to
board around at I have seven Sons-in-law
to board on mo.”
MORAL:
However, the Peasant had tho Wisdom,
—Deroit Free I 'reus.
NOT A WEAK WOMAN.
“You’re ft nice man, ain’t yon? Tho
idea of as big a man as yon being
brought here for whipping your wife, as
small and delicate a woman ns she is.
Ain't you ashamed of yourself?”
“Well, Judge, I must confess that I
nm ashamed of myself. Hbo’s a little and
apparently weak woman, and that's why
I am ashamed of myself, fur I know I
ought to bo able to lick lier, but I can t.
She jist laid mo out quicker; and I’ll bet
she can lick you nr any other man in
town. She’s about half cat and the other
half lightnin’."
His Honor surveyed the little woman, .
got frightened and told them both to go
homo, —Kentucky Journal.
A NATURAE MISTAKE.
Passenger (in Pullman car)—“Faro,
sir 1 fare ?’’
Conductor—" Yes, sir. Haven’t yon
a ticket ?”
Passenger— "No; I bail not lime to
get one; but I just paid my faro.”
Conductor—“ Paid your fare ! Why,
who to ?’’
Passenger—“ That gentleman there.”
Conductor—“no is only tho porter.
Ho probably regarded what you gave
him us a fee. Ho has nothing to do
with tho faro.”
Passenger “Dear, dear ! I thought
from liis actions that lie owned the whole
railroad.”— Phila. Kuenina Call.
INCUMBERED PROPERTY.
“I hear that you are to marry a
wealthy American girl,” said one noble
man to another.
“Ya’as,” replied liis lordship.
“Yon must allow me to congratulate
yon. Are there any incumbrances on
lier property ?”
"Ya'us, the lady.” —Fvtninrj Call.
A Monster Gun.
The South Boston Iron Works, by
contract with the government, cast the
largest gun ever constructed iu this
country. It will be about thirty feet in
length, of twelve-inch rifle bore, and
will weigh 212,000 pounds. Tlie cost of
the gun will bo $28,000, or about one
half the sum a steel gun would have
cost. It is calculated to throw a pro
jectile Bix miles. This company is also
under contract to tarnish a ten-inch
wire-wrapped cast iron rifle gun and
a t welve-inch rifled mortar