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A letter trail Schenectady, N. Y.,
S. v*■ rat weeks ago people living
in ilira! district; in Chenango county
were victim:/.";! by a couple of strangers
who wf ;f about, selling cloths am] dress
p. Is. Whenever tbs swindlers found
an old or infirm person they invariably
succeeded in getting a promissory note in
put payment for the goods. The people
who gave the notes cannot explain how
they were induced to sign them, and in
no rare ore they positive as to the
amount. The victims of the swindlers
in- i. t tl.it they were mesmerized. Re
cently two men, whose plans of opera
tion are identical with those < f the Che
n:n o county sharpers, mode their ap
p, arc in Rotterdam, a fewmiles from
tins city, and in some way induced an old
O-rni'm lady, who says that they be
wib eat her, to buy some cloth, for
which she paid 814 in money and $3
worth of butter, an l signed a note,
which one of the mon drew up, for 810,
as he told her. The man gave his resi
dfiico at a number of a street in this
city which does not exist. When tho
men had gone tho old lady discovered
that most of the cloth she bought was
gone too. The swindlers attempted to
work their schemes on several other
people in the neighborhood with some
success. The old lady who was thus
cheated is the owner of a farm and is
much worried over the value of tho note
which she signed, as she cannot read
English and has no reason for believing
that the note was for 810 other than that
the stranger told her so. The police
are on the lookout for the men.
bead Roofs.
With reference to the durability of
lead roof , one of our subscribers draws
attention to a statement that occurs in
the letter of a foreign correspondent of
. ne of the. daily papers, writing about
the Tower of London. The White
Tower was built by William the Con
queror. It is a quadrangular structure
110 feet by 98 feel and 92 feet high.
The external walls are 15 feet iu thick
ness. It lias a lead roof and was built in
the year 107(). Accordingly, argues the
writer quoted, it has stood upward of
800 years and is said to ho in excellent
condition at the present time. This
writer’s statements, it may be remarked,
ire not altogether satisfactory. It is
possible that the roof in question has
been repaired in the time mentioned, if
not wholly replaced one or more times.
We speak simply from the probabilities
of the case and not from absolute knowl
edge. The fact that the building was
erected 800 years ago and covered with
a lead roof is hardly proof thatlead roofs
last 800 years.
A man named Limbnrger has turned
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Hasn’t a scent to his name.
It is claimed that the wealth of the
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SUM MLR VI ILK. GEORGIA, W EDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 188-1.
NEAR, YET FAR.
Bo near ! ami yot, I think, as far apart
Ah heaven from hell, high noon from darkest
night,
Or buried face from longing lover's sight;
I dream of you and then from dreams I start
To hear the beatings of my own sad heart,
That snatched from dreams impossible
plight.
But quickly wakes again in wretched de
light,
To meet the day’s keen pain and ceaseless
smart.
How shall I comfort, then, my lonesome years,
Since dreams are dim and sleeping-time is
brief?
For very full I am of restless fears,
Blown to and fro, as is a vagrant leaf;
And well I know how idle aro the tears
That burn my aching eyes, yet mock my
grief.
Louise Ciiandi.hu Moulton.
Sncrninei ito.
It was an mill namo for a girl—Sacra
mento.
So the girl herself thought us she
stooped down in side n spring at the
foot of n cotton-wood tree and lazily
dropped her pail into the water.
“It ought to have been given to a boy,
if it was a fit namo to give to anybody,’
she said quite aloud. “But Fra more
boy than girl, anyway.”
This fact was added rather bitterly,
as she looked at her brown, rough
lands and her baro ankle, and thought
if (lm “boy’s work” slit! bad io do.
And it was hard lo believe that this
was the last kind of life for a young
girl like Sacramento. Here slm lived
alone, for her father was down at the
mouth of tho canyon all day. The gar
den work she was obliged to do, nnd
the care of the garden fell upon her. It
was not often that she saw any person
but her father, although now and then,
in spite of herself, she came in contact
with the rude men of the mining camp
up above.
Yet, Sacramento had her dream, one
that she “scarcely dared to own,” lint ii
came to her often as site wont, about her
work.
She knew that down at Santa Barbara
and In tho towns along tho coast, and
far, far away across wide stretches of
continent to die great East, there were
girla who lived very different from her
life, and she dreamed of such a life for
herself.
“Oh, if I oould only go away from
here 1” she cried ou% almost as one
cries out for help. “If I could only go
down to San Franoiseo and go to school
there for a single year. Ah, if I had
*500.”
Suddenly there was a step—not a
man, but of a horse—on the bank be
hind her, and then someone spoke.
She knew tho voice without looking up.
It was Peto I.arrabee, a fellow who
lived down on Hahneman’s plantation,
two miles along the trail. Ho some
times rode by. He had not heard her
last words at all; yet, strangely enough
his own words were a repetition of
them.
“Five hundred dollars, Sac,” said ho;
“8500 in gold 1 D’ye want ter earn it ?
Ther’s yer chance,” and he threw
down to her a bit of paper crumpled
into a ball.
She picked it np, and, slowly unfold
ing it, ran her eyes over the contents.
SSOO ItEWAItD.
The above amount will be paid for in
formation leading to the arrest, dead or
alive, of Walter Somers, who has worked
for some time past, on Maxwell’s ranch.
Said Somers is about 18 years old and
five and a half feet high, rather good
looking, with light, curly hair, hluo eyes
and a light mustache. When last scon
he ha>l on a black slouch bat, gray busi
ness suit and blue flannel shirt andboots
with red tops marked with the maker’s
name.
The name of the county sheriff was
signed at tho bottom of the bill. Sacra
mento, having glanced it through,
looked up.
“He’s been a stealin’ horses 1” ex
claimed Pete. “Got off last night with
four of Maxwell’s best, somewhere:-,.
That reward won’t do much good, though.
The regulators’ll lasso him and string
him up ’fore the law’ll git started. Tin
are havin’ a meetin’ now up at the gulch.
I tell ye they are mad. They’ll make
quick work if they ketch him. Yer
father’s there. Ye needn’t look for him
home afore night, much.”
Then, after a word or two more the
man rode on, and presently Sacramento
took up her pail, and with tho sheriff’s
bill siill in her hand, went slowly up the
hank and across the trail toward the
house, thinking very seriously abont the
SSOO all tho while.
It was some hours after this, and the
afternoon sun was going down behind
tho tops of the mountains, that Sacra
mento, having finished her housework
was preparing to sit down on the porch
to do her sewing, when she was met in
the doorway by a young man whom she
had never seen before. And yet he was
no Btranger. The girl knew him instant
ly, although tho slouch hat was pulled
down over the flaxen hair and blue eyes,
and the gray pants, torn and muddy,
had been drawn out of the hoot legs so
as to no longer allow the red tops of the
hoots with the maker’s namo to be see:-,
ft was the horse thief.
She did not, however, express any
surprise as she saw him. She was ac
customed to the sight of rough, evii
men; and at the first glance she had felt
that this one could not be either very
wicked or very dangerous. He was nu\
very much more than a lad and had an
air of gentleness and good breeding
abont him that six months of Western
life and the plight ho was in at that mo
ment had by no means destroyed. He
seemed to bo short of breath, too, and
was trembling as if he had been run
ning.
Instinctively he raised his hand to
ward his head, and then, bethinking
himself, dropped it again.
“Could you give mo something to eal
and drink ?” he asked, in a hesitating
voice. “Anything will do, I am very
hungry. I—l have had nothing to eat
since last night.”
“Como in,” said Sacramento gravely.
In her voice there was neither kindness
nor unkindness, she trying to realize
the situation alio was in. “Como in and
sit down I”
Then she went into a olosot noar by,
and began taking down milk and bread
and meat, oh she slowly did so turning
tho matter over in her mind. Here was
Huh man who lmd bean stealing horses,
and for whose capture SSOO was offered,
in her own kitchen. Five hundred dol
lars I Exactly tho sum sho had been
wishing for—tho sum that would tako
her down to San Francisco to school
and make a lady ol her. And this sum
may be licrs if she could in some way
secure this stranger or somehow keep
him in tho house until help arrived.
Help! Why sho hardly needed help.
Ho was weak and exhausted, and in tho
drawer of tho kitchen table there was
a loaded revolver, which she well knew
lion to use.
Sho came out presently, and sot tho
things before him, bringing also tho
teapot from the stove and pouring for
him a cup of ton. Then sho went and
sat down l>y the window, and watched
him furtively as ho ato.
In spite of his caution, ho had taken
off his hat while he was eating. She
could better see what ho was like. It
was almost a boyish face, worn, but not
wicked, with the curling hair lying in
dark clusters upon liis pale brow. In
the hands, small and well shaped, and
in all his motions and manner, she felt
that sho could read something of his
story. Sho had hoard before this how
young lads in the Foot, filled with
romantic notions about Western life and
adventure, sometimes left their lux
urious homes and found their way out
to tho ranches of the Pacific. Perhaps
he was one of thoso.
As (die looked at him, fancying nil
this, and realizing tho terrible slrait he
was In and the probable dark fate that
was before him, bur heart yearned with
true womanly sympathy, and tier feel
ing found expression before she was
able to restrain herself.
“Oh, how could you do it? How
could you do it ?” she suddenly ex
claimed, her voice quite full of what she
felt.
Ho looked up at her in wonder; but as
his eyes met hers ho understood her.
“I didn’t do it. Upon my honor I
did not,” ho said. “It was that man
Dennis.” Sacramento breathed a great
sigh of relief. Horse stealing was held in
that section to he a crimo worse than
murder; and she was by no means free
from tho popular estimate of grave
nature.
“Oh, lam glad of that!” cried she.
“But- ” she hesitated, and then went
on doubtfully, “But, fhon, how was it?
Why did you run away?”
“It was Dennis’doings, their laying
it to mo. Ho did that to clear himself.
And after that you know os well as I do
that there would have been no use in
trying to prove myself innocent. They
always hang a horse Ihiof first and then
consider bis guilt afterward. I had to
mil to save my life.”
“Do you know that there is a reward
offered for your capture ?”
T know that the regulators are after
me,” answered the young man sullenly.
‘They came near catching mo, too, this
noon. I just escaped them, and came
down the canyon by the mountain trail.
I have had a hard run for it, and what
with no sleep Sor twenty-four hours, I
am about used up. I felt as though 1
oould not go another step when I saw
your house. Now--you have been very
good to me. I shall never forget—-—”
“But what are you going to do now ?”
interrupted Sacramento. “You are not
safe here.”
“I know it. But I threw them off the
track this noon, and I do not think
they are within five miles of me. Now,
I have had something to eat, I will take
to the woods again. I hope I may get
clear away. If I don’t,” his voice
trembled and tears oamo into his eyes.
“If I don’t I shall get a hanging, I sup
pose. Oh, what a fool I was not to pre
fer home to this sort of thing 1 And yet,
I wouldn’t care so much, either, if it
wasn’t for my poor father and mother.”
And there the poor fellow fairly broke
down.
“Hark 1” Sacramento exclaimed. She
had been crying, too.
They both listened. In a moment
they both heard plainly the sound of
horses coming down the trail. Tho girl
turned with instant self-possession:
“Go in there 1 Quick ! Quick ! There
is not a moment to lose. Here, tako
your hat 1”
After handing his hat to him she half
pushed him across the room and into
her own little room that led off from it.
Then she hurriedly finished clearing the
table again, barely finishing tho task
as the horsemen halted at tho door.
There were three of them. One was
her father. Sacramento knew the other
two men by sight. They woro rough,
hut of tho better sort of those who mado
ap the dwellers of Kelly Gulch. The
faces of all three were hard and forbid
ding, and thoy evidently had boon rid
ing hard. They dismounted together.
“Sac,” began her father, ns ho entered
the door, “hev you seen anything of a
young clmp afoot or a horseback coming
this way ?”
Sacramento had expected the question
and was ready lor it. And she meant, i*
possible, to answer without a lio.
“A yonng chap abont eighteen years
of age, and about five feet and a half
high, rather good looking, and with rial
top boots ?” replied she.
“Yes! yes I That's him!” cried one
of tho other men. “Hus ho boon hero ?”
“I was only quoting from this hand
bill,” said Sacramento, taking tho paper
from the shelf where sho had laid it.
“Then yon haiti’t seen him at all ?”
asked her father.
“I have been right hero all day, and
nobody has gone by except Pete Larra
beo. It was ho who gave me the bill.
Aro you suro that ho canto this way—
tho—the horse thief?”
“No; Imt wo didn’t know but he
might. The chances is that ho is sloped
off to tho mountains, moanin’ to go
through Stovepipe pass. They’ll get
him though, afore sundown.”
“It’s sundown now,” oleerved Hacra
mouto.
“Then they've got him now,” was
the sententious response. “And wo
shall be too late for the bangin’ if we
sit’d go hack. Leastways”—this was
added to his companions—“you’d butter
come in and have a bite afore you go. ”
So presently the turee men sat down
to tho supper that the young girl quickly
prepared for them. And white they
were eating, she herself, at her father's
bidding, wont out to lake tho saddle off
Bueno, his horse, and give him feed.
As she approached tho door once more,
a few minutes after, she hoard words
which caused her to stop and listen.
“1 don’t like ter say anything against
Ihet kid o’ yourn, neighbor,” one of the
men was saying, “hut it liez kinder
seemed to me all flier while’s though she
sorter bed some'at on her mind like.
Yc don’t s’poso she knows anything
'bout that young feller alter all V”
Sacramento's father laughed at this,
as though it was too absurd to be con
sidered.
Tho other, however, was not to be
laughed out of his suspicions.
“For all wo know, sho may hov hid
him somewhere on the premmysis.”
“It’s easy enough to see,” said the
proprietor of the said “premmysis,”
testily. “Where d’ye think she’s hid
him ? In her bed-room ?”
As ho said this, Sacramento, who was
now near enough to see into tho kitchen,
saw her father riso from his chair and
step to tho door of the room where sfie
had concealed the fugitive. Her heart
almost stopped beating as she saw him
push open tho door and enter tho room,
followed by his companion.
“We’ll mako a clus search of it while
wo’re about it,” she heard him say with
in.
And then she stood thero in terrible
suspense on the porch, expecting every
instant to hear tho shout that would fol
low the discovery of the fugitive.
But no such shout was heard, and in
stead of it, a moment later the two men
came out again, her father still laughing
at his friends.
What could it mean ? Had the young
man been able to conceal himself in tho
room and so evade their search ? That
was not possible. Then sho thought of
the window. Oould ho have escaped
from the room by that ? The window
was so small sho could scarcely believe
that he could have crept through it, nnd
yet he must have done so.
She went hurriedly to tho back of the
house and then down beyond the horse
sheds. No one conld be seen. She
halted a moment under a live oak tree
just at the edge of the garden. The
evening was very calm and still, and the
twilight shadows were deepening fast.
Was it tho rustling of tho wind in the
houghs overhoad that caught her car?
She listened.
“Hist! lam here—in tho tree.”
The words came in a distinct whisper
from directly above her.
Then she went hurriedly to the house..
Tho three men wero still sitting at the
table and Sacramento felt rather than
saw that one of them still regarded her
auspiciously as she came in. Sho did
not speak to them at all, but went
directly through the kitchen to her own
room, and in a moment more came out,
went about her work in tho kitchen and
took up a pail, apparently to go to (ho
spring for water.
“Ten minutes later, standing in the
shadow of tho cottonwood, young Som
ere heard a step, and then Sacramento,
leading Bueno all saddled and bridled,
appeared. He started forward.
“Hush 1” she said: “they may come
at any moment. Listen to what I fny.
Your life depends on it. Yon must ride
straight down the trail for a quarter of a
mile. Then, close by a big cottonwood,
just like this, yon will strike a path to
the left. Bueno will know it, once you
get him in it. It will bring you, but j
half a mile on, at a corduroy road that
NO. :if>.
crosses ino swamp. The end of this cor
duroy has got outof order, and there arc
some logs laid. Lead Buono across and
then pull the logs away. If you do th*t
it will make trouble for thoso who fol
low you. Beyond the swamp is a big
plain. Strike straight across it, having
the moon square on your right—the
moon will he up by that time—and throe
hours’ riding will bring you to tho new
railroad. After that—God help you to
get safe away 1”
Sacramento paused ami put out her
hand. “Cm you remember?” sho de
manded.
“I can, but I can never forgot—”
“Nevermind that. Here, take this.
It is a little money. You will need it.
New mount and ride slowly a little
way, and then for your life.”
The yonng man still had a hold of her
hand. Tho tears came into his eves.
The next moment ho was gone.
Tho next morning Sacramento told
her father the story and coaxed him
into forgiving her. And tho following
afternoon a man brought Buono over
from the railroad town, and then sho
knew the fugitive was safe.
Six weeks later a lawyer from Santa
Barbara appeared with a letter from
Walter Somers. Ho was with his friends
in New York. He hogged Sacramento
to accept, as a gift of gratitude, at least
tho amount ol the reward that had been
offered.
And so it was that sho went down to
Sau Francisco to school that winter af
ter all. — Detroit Free Dress.
Lincoln anil file Office-Seekers.
Bon Porley Poore in his reminiscences
says: Mr. Lincoln's prominent advisor,
when he first came to Washington in ’6l,
was Mr. Norman B. Judd, a Chicago
lawyer, who had served for many years
in the Illinois Legislature. He was a
short, chunky gentleman wilh abroad,
ruddy face, white hair and board, dark
hluo eyes, a hooked nose and rather
forcible mouth. Ho evidently possessed
tact, if not talent, and so successfully
assumed the position of “tho keeper of
the. king’s conscience” that Air. Seward
hastened his departure for Berlin as
Minister Plenipotentiary. The invasion
of Washington by office-seekers after
the inauguration of the Iteqmhlioan ad
ministnitiiMi was wonderful, and tho
mails brought petitions from thousands
of place-hunters who could not urge
their claims in person. At. the Postoffioo
Di-partment alone, over fifteen thousand
applications for appointment had been
placed on file before the last of March.
The most disappointed place-hunters
who came to Washington wero the little
town and ward politicians, who, having
“worked” in their respective localities,
fancied that tho whole world, including
Mr. Lincoln, must be fully satisfied that
hut for each of them the Republican
party would have been defeated. One
village in Pennsylvania sent two rival
shopkeepers, eacli of whom wanted to
ho postmaster. One based his claims on
the fact that he had presented a set of
torch-lamps to the village corps of Wide
Awakes, while the other demanded the
appointment because ho had supplied
the oil. The question was the relative
value of tho torch-lamps without the,
coal oil, or the coal oil without the torch
lamps. Mr. Lincoln finally cut tho
Gordian knot by reappointing tho old
postmaster,
Tlie New Army Step.
Oo], Emmons Clark, of the New York
Seventh Regiment, was asked lay a
Telegram reporter what ho thought of
the change of tactics prescribed for the
United Slates Army, especially that
which effects the length of step and ca
dence for marching. Tho Colonel said
that lie was not prepared at present to
speak at length in regard to tho matter,
but he was under the impression that
the change had mot with general dis
favor. In fact ho had not heard any fa
vorable opinion of it expressed by mili
tary men. The experience of two thou
sand years had taught thoso interested
in such matters that the twenty-- iglit
inch step was the host medium that
could he arrived at in a regiment or
body of men varying in height from five
feet six inches to six feet two inches or
more, Even twenty-eight inelus was a
long stride for a man five feet eight
inches and under to keep np for any
length of time, and most men of that
height had to stretch their logs pretty
well in marching. No action would bo
taken in regard to the matter by flic
militia of this city till October, when
active drilling begins.
English Mechanic*.
On tho 27th of Jnno a very intelligent
party of English workman landed in
New York city. They wero bricklayers
from Lancashire, and nearly all had
their wives and children with them.
I They represented affairs in the old coun
try, so far as regards their class, as very
bad, and said it was difficult to see how
they could be any worse. From their
statements it appears that brieklayere
are paid 20 shillings per woek in Lan
cashire, equal to about $5 American
money. This statement shows bow much
better off mechanics in the building
trades are in this country. It is some
. times impossible to appreciate the bless
ings we enjoy until our attention is called
to the privations of the mechanics of the
old world,
FARM AND HARDEN.
OnomnD and I'koit Gahohn. —De-
cide) whether to dispose of surplus and
inferior fruit by making it into vinegar
or by drying or evaporating it. Trees
will be broken by e veless pickers; saw
off all injured limbs. The appleworm
may be diminished by picking up and
destroying fallen fruit or allowing the
pi to do it. Bands of carpet, bagging
or other fabrics, fastened around the
trunks of apple trees with a single long
tack, will catch many apple worms. Ex
amine weekly nnd kill. If trees set last
spring suffer from drouth, mulch them,
or keep tho soil loose. The fall web
worm spins its nest in summer also. At
it. first appearance cut away tho twig
to which the nest is attached and crush
tho worms. Young trees may have their
shape controlled by pinching the ends of
shoots that grow too vigorously. When
tlio blackberry and raspberry crops aro
off cut away the canes that h.q'o borne
fruit. Tho now stems of blackberries
should be stopped when five feet high,
those of rnspl Ties at three or four feet.
Keep hi,aw 1 ary beds free of woods.
Plant now teals with plants rooted in
pots. Whitish spots on tho under side of
grape leaves are mildew. Dust sulphur
with u sulphur bellows at onee. Large
caterpillars and beetles must be hand
pick.,l. C 'iitiime to pinch laterals.—
Af/riovlluris/.
Oaiih op Mkadowu. A farmer visit
ing mo Inst, spring remarked: “I can
not understand how you wintered so
much stock, when you had only six
acres of grass lo cut. I kept about
three fin.c.t as much stock as you did
and mowed over just ten times as much
land.” I’.v this time our “Walks and
Talks” lmd brought us to the nix acres
which is to b mowed this year. “You
have bi-i !: rolling this,” lie said, “No,”
[ replied, “it looks iu\ though it had
been rolled, hut th, a arc the swaths of
of the 0-foot, mower used to cut tho
rowen last, fall after wheat. IYo had al
most two loads per acre of pretty good
hay.” “Well, now 1 begin to under
stand,” said he; “I wondered, if you
hud wheat there last year, what had bo
como of the stubble. But, my friend, I
cannot do such a tiling as that. Grass
will not grow like that for me.”
Knowing that it would if it had a fair
chance, I began to question him to find
out- whero the trouble was. I found
that he carefully saved (lie manure made
on his farm, and used it to good advan
tage. His ml “ion was a good one, and
he was well supplied with improved
tools, and was in tho habit of using
them freely. But the trouble came out
at last; he let his stock rnv on tho
meadows and win at stubble in the fall al
ways, and si ~ limes, when lie was
short <f hay in the spring. Now, in
his ease, as 1 frankly told him, this was
probably the main reason why he was
short of bay; why he had to mow over
60 acres to get w! it might have been
grown on 20 acre:,. No man could
think of turning his look on his wheat
or con, or 0..15, I hough thoy might en
dure to be gnaws and ofi'and f(-'".spied on
for a time and afterward make, part of a
crop. Wo give them mellow ground to
grow on, protected from the trampling
of stock, nnd from being bitten off and
injured while they wore young and ten
der. Why not, treat Iho growing grass
as well ? Why not give it the best pos
sible chance to grow and yield large
crops of Lay instead of abusing, it in
every way ? Tho grass Jot, if properly
. used - if given a fair chance will jidd
about as much net profit as any field of
the farm oftentimes, although tho
money does not come as directly, per
haps, as from the. wheat or potato crop.
Why is it that so many farmerskfill
allow their cattle Jo pick and framphvon
their grass grounds (and pastures Ino
often injured as well as i . iwing lots)
during 1 v ft I and winter at , pri 1 1
It, i:: partly, perhaps, heeanso they do
not realize that they arc losing by the
practice; partly to save work—they do
not keep help enough to run tho farm to
its full capacity—and partly because
they have “too many irons in the fire.”
They aro “ov r-busy farmers.”— T. B.
Terr)/, in the Country Gentleman.
The Tidal Wave at Milwaukee.
The tidal wave which came in from
Lake Michigan lately, and which
“caused the Milwaukee River suddenly
to assume a counter current at the rate
of one and a quarter miles an hour,”
can he only ascribed to tho effect of the
storm centre then passing to the oast
ward. TJio wind was brisk and from
a southerly point during the afternoon.
A similar “tidal wave” was reported as
observed on July 21, .1883, in Little
Traverse Bay, during tlie passage of a
storm. The probability in this case was
that the water in iho lake was pushed
ahead of the storm, the wavo oscillation
amounting to about four foot. Thero is
no reason to suppose that such waves
are p'-riodical phenomena, though by
some coincidence like intervals between
their recurrence may have boon oh-,
served.- New York llerald.
A RTISAT>T YOUNG MAN,
“Jane, I hear your beau is a littlo
void, not very steady, they say.”
“Oh, yes ho is; ho is one of tho most
toady young men I ever saw.”
“St udy ? Oh, no, ho can’t bo. I’ve
heard lie was anything else but steady.”
“Well, ho just is steady. He has
always come to tho house every evening
since wo were engaged, drunk or sober.”
Evansville Argus.
Who Can Tnr.n Writ?—“Why is it
that a man, whenever ho passes a broom
lying in the front hallway, always stands
stock still and shouts till ho is black in
tho face for tho chambermaid to come
and pick it np instead of picking it up
himself and placing it whero it belongs?
But, tin , sotno men have good reason
to he afnvd of a broomstick, however
fallen its condition.'’
Tim Japanese call a dog cart a “jin
fiki-shiya.” They have no word in their
language for tho dude who drives the
cart.