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A PI loiter of Blood.
“Half a pint of blood, please.”
“Como this way.”
The butcher lei the way into the hack
of the store into a temporary shambles
where a cow had just been knocked
down and was having her" throat scien
tifically cut.
Iu a few moments the small white
pitcher was returned to tho girl full of
tho smoking red liquid.
“How is M this morning ?”
“He is better and he says it’s the
blood is helping him.”
The girl went out with her pitcher of
blood and the butcher picked up an or
dinary glass, stepped back in tlie sham
bles and returned with it half filled with
tlie liquid which was now of tho con
sistence of thick cream.
“There aro dozens of men and women
in Detroit who drink blood. We used to
serve a great many customers with it.
Now wo havo only one.”
“What do you chargo for it ?”
“Nothing. Wo never sold a spoon
ful. Anyone is welcome to come here
and drink it. We let tlie girl come with
that pitcher because the old man for
whom she gets it is dying and he won’t
take any other nourishment; taste it.”
“No, thanks.”
“It is like rich, warm milk; there is
no taste or smell to it. ”
Thus encouraged the representative of
the Free Press took up the tumbler
and swallowed a mouthful of the fluid it
contained. It bad a sweet, milkish,
sickisli taste, half of which was imagi
nation and Ihe other half b-l-o-o-d 1
“The doctors advise it in some oases,”
sai l the Jefferson avenue butcher; “but
with most folks who come here it is a
tradition. They take it because some
other member of the family took it.”
“Do healthy people ever take blood
in this way ?’’
“Yes, occasionally; jnst as they
would take a stimulant of any kind.
Drinking blood won’t make a tighter of
a man. It isn’t men that drink it as
much as delicate consumptive women.
Wo drink it round tho shop when we
feel like it. A pint of blood is equal to
a good lunch any time,” — Detroit Free
Press.
At Whitby, Canada, tlie other day, a
farmer and his horse came upon a num
ber of dogs that were barking furiously
at some sheep in a pasture. The timid
ewes and their lambs were huddled to
gether in a fei cj corner, but were pro
tected from harm by a two-year-old colt.
The equine shepherd displayed great
skill iu his battle with the dogs, striking
out his fore feet at them and marching
up and down in front of his self-assumed
charge.
Boston has a man who has gone mad,
according to the explanation offered by
a fri'.nd, through making a chart of the
marriage relations of popular actors and
then trying to correct, it for publication.
BLM.MLRVII.LL, GEORGIA, W EILN ESDAV EVENING, AUGUST 27, IS'S 1.
Tin: vovxrnr sc.t room iocs ft
Ti c Rchdottionsc sLood beside tfic war,
a hlutbby building, old and gray,
With rattling ua*h and lot me hung door,
And roi gh, uneven walla and floor;
And wiiy the little honuupnn crew
It KHtiiercd were Home way more bleat
T!j*.u others you would Kcaree have
guessed;
It is a secret known to few.
I’ll tell it you. The high road lay
Stavtehed all along the township hill,
Whence the hroad lands sloped either wfty,
And smiliiijj up did Htrive to till
At every window, every door,
The Hchoolhoune with that gracious hvfo
That God a fair world would fain instill.
Ho softly, quirtly it came,
The children never knew its name;
Its viuious unobtrusive looks.
They counted not &a study books;
And yet they could not lift an eye
From play or labor dreamily,
And not find wilt in sweetest apeedbj
The tender lessons it would teachi
“He gentle, children, brave and true,
Ami know the great God lovetli you.’*
Only the teacher, wise of heart,
Divined the lamlseapo's blew ed nrt\
And when she felt the lag and stir
Of the \* ung idlers fretting her,
Out-glancing o'er the meadows wide.
The milling woods, the far hillside,
Bhe drew fresh breath of God’s free grace,
A gentler look came in her face,
Her kindly Voice caught in it w own
An echo of that pleasant tone
Jn which the great world rang its Bong
“He cheerful, patient, still and strong.”
M. E. ISKNNF.Tr.
STORY OF A BANK CHECK.
Wliat I have to toll is absolutely true.
It did happen exactly ns I shall try to
write it. The only thing I will omit nro
the names of the persons and tho place
where it happened. 1 might by length
ening out the story show tiro play if
those fell passions, greed anil covetous
ness, lmt 1 trust what I have to say will
not lose its point from brevity, The
moral is tho samo old trite one, that
honesty is the best policy. When a
man is tempted to commit a wicked ac
tion it often happens that the injury
done another becomes irreparable.
There is a sequence in all dishonest
transactions which escapes the evil
doer. Effect follows causo. This may
come instantly, as quickly as an ex
plosion when tho hammer of the gun
lock strikes the cap containing tho ful
minate, or the lire may hang back, lint
it wiil come some day or oilier. This is
a longer preamble thau I thought would
lie drawn from my pen, but ns I am not
a young man 1 may indulge in some
comments, because in tho life of any
one who lias passed tho half century
the forco of (lie inevitable constantly
occurs to him. A man of my ago lias
been long enough ill this world to Iravo
seen passing before him many a sad
drama; he has been present at the very
first scene, and Ims been an unwilling
witness of tho terrible conclusion.
1 suppose few people who have had
direct transactions with banks are cot
aware that errors sometimes happen.
The heads of firms rarely are acquainted
with such mistakes. It is the business
of clerks who have the checks cashed to
see that the amounts paid them are cor
rect. Paying Tellers if they do err are
rather likely to pay too much thau too
little. Should they give more money
than the face of tho cheek calls for, if
tho receiver of the money is dishonest,
then the flayer does not always hear
about it. If be underpays, the demand
for the difference is invariably made at
OHCe. I am rather inclined to repeat
the assertion that in such mistakes as
are made in tho rush of business it is
the commoner error to pay too much.
Sometimes a very tired man, whose
brain lias been too long on tlio stretch,
or who is ill or nervous, mistakes tho
number of the check for the amount,
and pays away some thousands instead
of hundreds. I have known this to
happen in a New York bank to a young
friend of mine. He had sufficient good
judgment not to embarrass the Paying
Teller by making any noise about it.
He resumed bis place in the line,
handed back his bank book, politely re
quested the Teller to look at the check
ho bad presented, the amount he had
received, and it was all so quietly done
that he made for life a fast friend of
a careful and expert bank Teller. I
have two or three times been overpaid
by a bank Teller. People who shop
have very often mistakes made in their
change to their advantage. Need it be
said that without waiting an instant
restitution should be made?
I was a clerk in a house when the in
cident I am about telling happened.
We did a large business in the city of
stant demand. I made ont the checks
and kept the bank account, but did not
have the signature of the firm. Gener
ally for greater security, when the
amounts were large, I drew out tho
money myself. A great many of the
transactions we were engaged in re
quired us to pay at once the individual
the hard cash.
The Paying Teller of our bank in the
business season had all he could attend
to. Tho money to be paid for an agri
cultural product very much in demand
would on some days make the cash dis
bursements of this bank amount to
87.10,000. I remembered that on one
occasion, looking at the Teller, ho
seemed tired and depressed. Presenting
my check for some amount less than
SI,OO0 —wanted by me in five and ten
lollar bills—lio overpaid me SSO. Ho
had boiinicd the iuotiey over twico be
fore passing it to me. I feooimled the
found the error, and being
pressed for time cohid not return the SSO
until after S o’oloek. The Tellef it ns
obliged to me, but I noticed that ho bore
a worried look. A month after this wo
had some balance to pay a customer liv
ing out tif lbs city, amounting to $-150.
A check was drawn by me, handed to
the creditor, mid his account was bal
lauced. The business entirely dropped
out of my mind.
Homo three months afterward tho
firm received a letter from this man
which was rather ambiguous of its kind.
There was nn error, so ho said, in his
account. Would we look it over ? At
once 1 examined tho hooks, chocked oil'
every item, went through all tho debts
and credits of his business, and ended
by inspecting the final check paid him.
My employers, who were very honest and
careful gentlemen, were satisfied with
the accuracy of the account, and I was
instructed to write him a letter to that
effect. T did so, as politely as I could,
hut at tho conclusion of my letter I
said, “You leave us in tho dark, how
over, as to one thing. Three mouths
have elapsed since our check was given
to you. If you had not been paid what
was due you wo should have certainly
heal'd from you before. Have you been
overpaid ?’’ .AI y senior employer a
shrewd business man. looking over iny
letter, remarked, “Perhaps your ques
tions here might not bo liked by Mr.
-—. However, let it go. ” I mailed the
letter. Wo hoard nothing more about
it for a month. Then there came a tor
tuous letter from tho man. “tlis ac
count was wrong,” ho wrote. “Maybe
lie had come across some money ho
could not exactly account for.” He did
not state how much money it was. or
now it happened. It was a mean sham
ble on his part, I knew that. He bad
priokH of conscience; that I was certain
of. Tho firm consulted with mo what
they should do. 1 made up my mind
that more money hud been paid the
man on tho check than he was entitled
to. T went at once to ihe Teller of tho
hank. 1 found him ill, nervous, and
tremulous.
“Yes," ho said, “my actions wore
wrong. There had novor been a big
deficit. 1 have not slept for months, l
am afraid I have overpaid someone.
Cut thank God I made it up. I mort
gaged my house and passed (lie amount,
short, to tho credit of the bank. I must
have made a blunder somewhere. Hut
the strain on my mind lias been killing
mo, I feel ns il I wore no longer fit for
tho place.” lie seemed to me to have
moments of doubt and uncertainty. “I
still cling to iny place,” ho said. “Of
course I have no recollection of having
paid that, check of $158.” I said to him
“that I had hopes of getting some of
ilie money back,” lmt I did not like to
tell him how. lint what I did do was
to go that oveniug to the President of
Ihe hank and state the case to him. As
it had been through him that I owed
my position in the firm lie had every
confidence in me. My advice was asked.
I was forced to declare that I thought
‘lie Paying Teller had bettor been given
another and lighter position. Next day
when I went to tho bank, tho old Teller
had been apparently relieved. He was
casting up some accounts in the ledger.
When I spoke to him across the railing
lie did not seem to rooognizo me. Next
day I was shocked to learn, through the
President of the bank, that such positive
indications of mental trouble had been
shown by the Teller, that his friends
had thought it wiser to confine him in
his house. His accounts had been at
once rigorously examined, and were
found to bo correct. It was perfeotly
(mo that ho had mortgaged his house,
and had paid the amount received into
tlie bank. He had concealed the loss
for tlirco months or more from the batik,
which was a mistake on his part, but lie
had been punctilious enough to even
add the interest for some 90 days,
Now, I felt absolutely certain that the
man to whom the check had been paid
must lie a rascal. If ho hod offered
restitution it came late—very much too
late. Mv firm gave mo carte blanche
to manage the matter as I pleased. I
could not havo him arrested. As lie
lived iu an isolated part of tho country,
no efficient summons could reach him.
If Iliad been aggressive before prob
ably not a cent would have been re.
turned. I wrote now, a sharp letter. I
said: “That a very large amount of
money must have been paid him over
and above the face of tho last check
given him, wliieli was for $450.” I
stated, "that I know exactly how much
it was.” I must confess outright that
this was a bluff. I wns not sure that
tho Teller had not mado other mistakes
besides this one. I wrote “that unless
the money was at once restored I would
blast his reputation. If he was inclined
to be honest, even at this late date, let
him do all he could and send baok
the whole amount.” I thought it
wiser not to let him know tho mental
condition of tho Teller. I was quite
certain that if he knew that the Teller
w as out of his mind not one penny would
lie return. I wrote to him “that he
must be in a hurry about it. That only
tho Teller and I knew of it, and that my
firm were as yet in Ignorance.”
At once, by return mail, I had a letter.
The sum was not, as be said, what I rep-
resented it to ho. ITo made some spe
cious arguments about a man finding a
purse, and tho description of it not tal
lying with the actual purse lost, or tho
amount iii it. Under such circumstances,
was a man bound to return It? If I
could prove that lie had been overpaid,
[ ought to state exactly wlmt, was the
amount. Ho might, lie added, "never
have written mo a word about it, ami no
ono would have been tho wiser. Hut lie
had a conscience,” so ho said. I replied
with a vigorous letter, I confuted his
arguments. “Ho knew,” 1 said, "the
moment ho had tho bank-notes passed
over to him that he had been overpaid."
A man might find a piece of gold in tin
dust of tho road, and could never tell
who dropped it there. Hut there was no
analogy between the two cases. I cried
“for immediate restoration, or there
would he an exposure.” His answer did
not come for ton days. “I was mis
taken,” ho said. “He was not aware
That lie had been overpaid until lie got
home. Then fifl did not know of it for
a week afterward, ft comb oui then in
his accounts.” I knew this to bo A
wicked lie, but it contained at least (lie
written acknowledgement that lie had
neon overpaid. His letter concluded as
follows; “The matter lias worried mo
considerably; has taken up a grent deal
of my time, and time for mo is money.
Don't you think there should bo com
pensation allowed me, or in other words,
can't wo make a compromise?” (Oh,
the blackguard!) “If such a thing
could ho arranged I will come to tho
city and pay over to you the money. I
am not afraid of the bank. I consider
that my transactions have been with
your firm.”
The money overpaid by tho Teller
had been some SI,OOO, and he had prob
ably counted out $1,500 instead of $-156.
I bated to do it, but I offered the scoun
drel his traveling expenses. His reply
came promptly: “To leave his business
was worth a great deal more than that.
Then, again, ho thought of bringing his
wife on with him and enjoying them
selves.” The up and down of it was
that 1 must offer him a certain amount.
“My temptations, you remember, have
been very great,” I offered him SSOO.
I was disgusted. I felt like going to his
place and tackling him myself. “This
is my ultimatum,” I said. “If Ido not
hear from you in ten days i will disclose
the whole matter and you will lie dis-
Honored.” His letter came back
promptly enough.
“lie would take tho SSOO. It wasn’t
very much. The hank was ever so rich.
Corporations laid no souls.” I consulted
with the Dunk president, who thought it
better to close with the man. Would it
be believed that that wretch and his
wife eame to apparently on a pleas
ure Irip? He had done a sharp and a
clever piece of business. He had not
the least compunctions of conscience.
He came to tho office of an evening, and
1 do not hesitate in saying that iu my
hip pocket there was a revolver. Ho
handed mo over something less than
$2,000, asserting that the amount re
ceived less the traveling expenses and
the SSOO made up this balance. When
tho money had been transferred by me
to the safe I gave him a piece of my
ndnd. I did not spare him. I heaped
on him every insulting epithet I could
think of. Then ho showed his temper,
which was an ugly one. “Now,” said I,
(remember I was 2G then and hotter
blood ran through my veins than to-day),
“you aro worse than a thief; you aro a
murderer. You have wrecked au hon
est man’s brains. 'That teller of tho bank
whose money you took has lost his rea
son. Ho will, I’m afraid, never be a
sane man again. This is your work.”
That seemed to cow him. “Your repent
ance comes too lato. 1 bate you so that
God forgive me—had you as much as
lifted a finger against me I should not
have hesitated iu killing you like a dog,
and no jury in the land would liavo
touched a hair of my head. Go out of
this city by the early morning train or I
will make you.” That wretch left the
office like a whipped cur. What was the
sequel? A sad one. The bank teller
lapsed into a melancholic condition,
which rendered all mental labor impos
sible. He had some little money hut
many friends and such few comforts as
lie required were ungrudgingly given
him. He died ten years ago. Ha never
did completely recover his senses. As
to the canting rascal, his fate was a dire
one. Somehow the whole story came
out, though I did not divulge it. In
that, section of country where ho lived lie
was discredited. Ho took to drink and
became a confirmed inebriate. He neg
lected his business and his plantation
was sold. His wife sought and obtained
a divorce. Two years ago I read that
in a brawl in the most degraded quarter
of a town in Alabama this man met his
death iu a negro danco house.
A Rapid Traveler.
“My son,” said an economical father,
“an express train attains great speed,
Lightning is proverbial for its rapidity,
comets aro supposed to hurl themselves
through space at the rate of millions of
miles a day, but, comparatively speak
ing, all these things arc snails, my boy,
all snails.”
“Why, father,” replied the young
man, lazily puffing a twenty-flvo cent
cigar, "what can possibly go faster than
lightning?”
“A five-dollar bill after it is once
broken, my son.”
No.: vi.
MARRIAGE NOW AM) TU
JI, I.I'KT HATING IIOW AN I'NGAGi:.
it 11C NT WAS ( ONSIIU KI IF.
Sonic illoilrrn lilimim C(iirrnU > l Willi Tlionr
of II) ffOtHt TlllM'B*
“The thing eau't come off,” Sahl a
young girl loudly in a crowded room,
lately, “until after Lent. It’s not, the
style at all to think of anything in Lent,
but prayers and church. But it will
come off on Easter Monday. Tlmt is if
my dresses are finished in timo. It all
depends on that."
It was not a journey or a hall that sho
was talking of, hut nor marriage; the
most solemn < ;, 'isiH of a woman’s life, the
time when all her truth and tenderness,
all her trust in God, and love for the
home she is leaving, come to light, if
ever.
“Well, I declare,” sho continued,
“the whole thing’s a horrid bore, and so
I toll Jem. Since our engagement was
announced, I can’t accept an invitation
without him; ho has to hang around
(he house all the time, or all the gossips
tongues will he wagging. I’m just
marrying him to get rid of him. Ho II
have to attend to business when lie has
me to keep I
“Then here aro eight bridesmaids, all
fighting about their bonnets and the color
of their flowers, and 1 havo to settle it
all! And Susy Jackson got three hun
dred wedding presents, and that means
three hundred letters of thanks to write !
Sho wrote sixty-odd tho morning she
was married, and was completely fagged
out. Then there aro all tho duplicates
to exchange afterward. Oh, I tell yon,
getting married is a big job, and a
horrid boro I”
Perhaps not many young girls would
talk as freely or as coarsely as this one,
lint how many of them regard marriage
from precisely tho same point of view ?
It is a matter of presents, of brides
maids, of gowns,, a stately show at
church, and somebody to pay their bills
afterward.
The recent unveiling of Chief Just ico
Marshall’s statue In Washington brought
forth a pretty, tender story of Hie great
jurist’s courtship of a Virginia girl while
she was soarooiy more than a child, in
her father’s home. How jealously the
soared secret of “the engagement” was
guarded while sho was being educated
and fitted for her position as wife and
mother. How grandparents and sisters
and cousin each brought their simple
gift, with hearts full of love and bless
ing for her; how sho went at last, shy,
tender, blushing, from her mother’s
arms to her husband, and-was cherished
by him, with a chivalry of devotion,
for more than fifty years. When God
called her, tho vacancy iu his life was
more than he could bear, and he soon
followed her into that, higher life where
they cannot he parted.
Marriage comes into almost every
woman’s life, and every woman naturally
and rightly looks forward to it as tho ful
fillment of her highest work in tlie world.
But how is she to look forward to it ?
There are two ways, tho old and tlie
now.
Which will she choose?
A Son’s Awful Discovery,
ms father's vessel sunk and all his
DEAR ONES LOST.
While a party of men wero fishing off
Ihe hanks of Capo May a few days ago,
(hey saw the masts of a vessel protrud
ing above the waves. They rowed over
to inspect the wreck, when Harry Wil-
Jiams cried out: “My God ! boys, that
is father’s schooner. I know her by the
crosstree that wo fixed with the block to
reef the halyards through before slio
started on her last voyage. God help
them, they are all lost!” And tho
young man fell fainting iu the boat.
Tho schooner was tlie Deborah Di
verdy, owned in Dennisville, and com
manded by Captain Frank Williams. Oil
his last trip Captain Williams had with
him his wife, two sons, John audFrank,
a steward and his wifo, and two deck
hands whose names are unknown. Tho
vessel is thought to have left Boston
about four weeks ago, and since then
nothing has been heard of her. It is
thonght that the schooner must havo
sprung a leak, and tlie soft coal with
which she was loaded absorbing tho
water rapidly, she must havo sunk lie
fore any of tho eight persons on board
had timo to save themselves.
A Paying Enterprise.
“Do you think you could get tho
stock of my railroad listed?” asked a
sharp-nosed mail of a prudent operator.
“What is your road?” inquired tlie
operator.
"it isn’t built yet, and I haven’t any
name for it, but it’s a good thing.”
“Where are your surveys? Whero
does it start from and whore does it
stop?”
“Haven’t got any surveys and don’t
want any; but when that road is built
it will run from a college regatta to a
baseball match, making signal stops at
tho race-track and laying over at a
sparring exhibition. Want to touch it ?’
And the prudent operator let a gross
of opportunities pass by while he and
tlie sharp-nosed man examined the plans
and specifications.— Travelers’ Maya
zine.
Misplaced confidence—proposing to
the girl that won’t haye you.
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WIIAT WK FIND IN THEM TO N.UII.H
OVF.It TIIIM WEEK.
IIOW TO REMOVE SPOTS.
All Austin youth, whoso income is not
ipiilo ns extensive ns that of Vander
bilt’s, got a large ink spot on his coat
Ho asked a friend liow tlie stain could
he removed,
“You can get a chemical preparation
for twenty-five cents, Just soak tho
spot with it, and it will ootuo out.”
"1 guess I had hotter soak the whole
coat, i can get four dollars by soaking
the coat.” —Te rns Slflinys.
an irrefutable aroituent.
Mrs. Blank—“l want some money
for Chinese lanterns, ice-cronra, lemon
ade, coke and other refreshments.”
Mr. Blank—"Grent Ctosarl Do you
think I’m a Vanderbilt ? What do you
want all that for ?”
“I am going to give a lawn party.”
"A lawn party ! Why, wo haven’t any
lawn.”
“Wo have a littlo baok yard.”
“But it is paved with brick, exoopt
whero you have beds of (lowers and
shrubbery.”
“Well, the place where you spend
your evenings drinking beer and listen
ing to a ramshackle piano is paved with
brick, 100, and hasn’t a ilower or a twig
in it, and yet yon call it a ‘garden.’
Guess our back yard will do for a lawn.”
Mr. Blank shelled out. —Pktlffl'lelphia
Call.
THE FOX AND THE PULLET.
A Fat Bullet, who set out to soo tho
country despite the Solemn Warnings
of her Aged Mother that some calamity
would soon happen, soon encountered n
Fox. I toy nurd’s attitude soon convinced
her that lie meant Business, and tiler
Frightened Pullet cried out:
“Please don’t 1 Remember that lam
Young and havo lmd no Experience I”
"Exactly I” grinned Reynard. “If
you wore an old Hen I should ho Fool
ish to expect Chicken for Dinner !”
MORAL I
If wo were all Experienced tho gam
bler and confidence man would liavo
hard luck. —Detroit Free Press.
VALUABLE INSTRUCTION.
“Papa,” asked a little boy, “a man
who steals a loaf of bread is a thief, isn’t
JlO ?”
“Yes, n dastardly thief.”
“Is a mail who steals SIO,OOO a thief,
too ?”
“Well, no, my hoy, scarcely. De
faulter, I think, is the more appropriate
word.”
“And what is ho called when ho steals
a million dollars ?”
“There is no such thing as stealing a
million dollars, my son. It is tormed
‘diverting.’ When a gentleman diverts
a million dollars lie is spoken of as a
financier.”— N. Y. Sun.
IN SEARCH OF INFORMATION.
“Mamma, is decoration something
good to drink ?”
“Why, child, of course not. What
makes you ask such a ridiculous ques
tion?”
“’Canso I hoard pa say, ‘Uncle Tom,
let's decorate,’ and they went out.”
“Well, how did you know they had
been drinking ?”
“’Cause when they came hack pa
kissed me, and his breath smelled like
tho stuff you put iu mince pies.”—(Sun
day Itepublio.
IN THE SAME LINE OF BUSINESS.
A Banana Skin lay on the grocer’s
floor. “What aro you doing there?”
asLsd the Scales, peeking over the edge
of the counter.
"Oh, I’m lying in wait for the gro
cer.”
“Pshaw 1” said the Seales; ‘‘l’ve
been doing that for years." —Chicago
News.
A GOTHAM MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
Magistrate What’s tho charge
against this man ?
Oliieer—Creating a disturbance.
Magistrate—What did lie do?
Officer—Please, yonr Honor, he yelled
so loud ho waked up all the babies in
the block.
Magistrate—When was it he yelled ?
Officer—Right after I commenced tc
club him, your Honor.
Magistrate Disgraceful I perfectly
disgraceful 1 Ninoty days. —Fhila, Eve,
Call.
TnE INFLUENCE OF ACCIDENTS.
“Tlie world owes its greatest achieve
ment to accidents,” remarked Colonel
Swiflie to his wifo as they sat on the
hack gallery enjoying a cool breeze.
“Nearly all great discoveries were purely
accidental, and Airs. Swiffle,” added the
colonel, “it was by mere chance that
wo met. ”
“Yes,” Ihe lady replied, "it was au
accident that caused our marriage.”
Tho colonel didn’t vory much like
ibis reply, and with elevated eyebrowe
rejoined:
“Accident? Why, my dear, I hardly
understand you. What do you mean?”
“Oh, I mean that if Tom Benson had
not accidently shot himself, I would
never have married you. You would
like for me to think that you married
rao by accident, but don’t want to think
it was accident that caused mo to marry
you. Wish you’d draw a bucket of
fresh water.” —Arkansaw Traveler.
Southern Industries.—Statistics of
tlie industrial progress of the South for
the first half of 1884 show that in four
teen States nearly $70,000,000 have been
invested in manufactures in the six
months ending June 30. Hie largest
amount in any single State i5513,840,000
in Alabama, and Kentucky comes next
with $13,497,000. The industries cover
the entire range of ordinary manufac
tories, cotton mills and woolen mills
being most conspiouous in the list.
The only time Courtney will ever be
married is during leap year. He will
never make a match if can help it.