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CLEVELAND, OHIO.
A Oncer Word.
A lit'le story was related by Air.
Ij. i gfellow. A Parisian once remaiked
to him that there was one American
word that he never could understand,
or find in any dictionary. “What is it?
inquired the poet, “fhutetdo, ’ was
the rep y. “I never heard of the word,”
.-aid Longfellow. Presently a servant
came in to replenish the fire. After
i.utting on a little fuel Longfellow re
marked to him, “That w. > do.' “'.la!''
exclwmed the Frenchman, “that i- the
v*-n w- rd which iia** trouble.! ma.’
Jf you see a family in New York
which does not possess a stylish turnout,
do not suppose it is because they cannot
afford it, but notice how old the daugh-
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VOL XI. SUMMEIIVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1884. NO. 13.
«-•- SANDS' ——»
PATENT TRIPLE
i
I The only Freezer over made having three distinct
I motions inside the can. thereby, of course, produo
' ing finer and smoother Cream than any other
■ 1 reezer on the market.
300,000 in use. Catalogue and Price List
I failed upon application.
WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER CO.,
NASHUA, N. H.
I
rm. I_l I. A--im i iiibii lull iiiLJir iii —ii i.-
' rc —--—-- !■ 'nil mu mi || HHM—I
Increased Length of Human Life.
Iho stage to wliieh We have at present
i attained may be stated thus. Compared
with the period 1818 51 (the earbest for
! which there are trustworthy records), the
J average duration of a man’s lite is now
! 41.9 years instead of .39.9, and of a wo
> man’s 45 3 instead of 11 9 years, an ad
dition of eight per cent, to the female
life and five per cent, to the male. Os
j each thousand males born at the present
d iy, forty-four more will attain the ago
, I “4 thirty-five than used to be the ease
previous to 1871. For the whole of life
| the estimate now is that of 1,0(0 per
sous (one-halt mules ami om.-Imlf fe-
I males), 35 survive at the age of forty-
I five, 26 at fifty-five, 9 at sixty-five, 8 at
; seventy-live mid 1 at eighty-five. To
I put the case in another way, .-verv 1,000
I persons born since 1870 will live about
■ 2.700 years longer th m before. In other
i wolds, the life of 1,00(1 persons is now
I equal induration to that of 1,1.70 per
| sous previously; and 1,000 births will
now keep up tlie growth of our popular
j tion as well as 1,070 nsed to do, This j H
! equivalent in ro. ult to an increase of our
I population, and in the best form -viz.,
■ not by more births but by fewer deaths'
; which means fewer maladies and better
I health. What is more, nearly seventy
| per cent, of this increase of life takes
| place (or is lived) in the “useful period"
| —namely, between the ages ot twenty
| and sixty. Thus of the >2.700 additional
j years lived by each thousand of our
| population seventy per cent., or 1,890
! years, will be a direct addition to the
■ working power of our people. It is to
| be remembered that there might be a
I great addition to the births in a country
1 , with little addition to the national work-
i ing power—nay, with an actual reduc
| tiou of the national wealth and pros-
I perity—seeing that, regarded as “ecouo-
I mie agents, children are simplv a source
I of < xpense, and so also are a majority of
I the elderly who have passed the age of
I three-score. On the other hand, as al
| ready said, only one-qnarter of the
j longer or additional life now enjoyed
| by ( ur people is passed in the Useless
| periods of childhood and old age, and
, more than one-third of it is lived at ages
| when life is in its highest vigor, and
| most productive alike of wealth and of
enjoyment.—Cor/jAiZZ Magazin*..
Slrange Freaks es Nature.
A number of singular freaks of nature
are reported in the vicinity of Middle
town, Olio. The strangest is the third
leafing out of a maple tree this season.
The tree budded ami was in leaf last
spring, two weeks before any of the
other trees around it. In July the leaves
took on all the usual autumnal tints and
j fell. Liter the tree again budded and
I vzas soon covered with new leavi s.
I These soon turned as the others had
done, and the branches were left bare a
I second time. List month the tree
i bu.lded the third time and come out in
I eaf. It is now covered with a dense
| growth of rich green, while all the other
I trees are brillimt w.th autumnal tints.
; The lower branches of an apple tree in
a Monticello orchard are loaded with
I ripe apples. The top of the tree is filled
i with blossoms. For some time past a
j Middletown family has furnished its
I table with raspLeni- s from vines that
i txire heavily at the proper season. The
I ■ fruit is large and of finer flavor than the
! first. In the same garden a blackberry
i bush is also bearing its second crop of
fruit this year, the berries being of un-
| usual size. The strawberry vines in a
; Port Jervis garden recently furnished
several quarts of fruit, it being the sec-
| end crop for the year. A Sullivan
County farmer whose first crop of clover
was light and hardly worth cutting, is
u?w having difficulty in securing his
second crop. The growth is tall and
lense, some stalks being four feet in
height
Signing.—The story is told by the
, Il v. Dr. Prim- that in Albany, the snb
: ' ject of signing petitions being under re
mark, a man bet that he could get the
signatures of ten highly respected resi
’ dents to a paper asking G >v. 1) x to
’ bang ane of the leading clergymen. H>-
*■ won without d:fli -ulty, m; not one of the
signers insisted ou reading the docu-
i meet.
j
77777 OLD WIDD.
BY THERON BROWN.
By the bed the obi man, waling, tat in vigii
sad and tender,
Where his ag. d wife lay d? ing ; and the twi
light sbatlows brown
Slowly from tin wall and wind- w vbased the
sun. ct’s g LI u spli ndor
Going down.
“Is it night?” she whispered, waking (for her
spirit seemed t • h ver
Lost between the next world's sunrise ami the
bedtime cares of this),
And the old man, weak and tearful, trembling
as he bent above her,
Answered “I'cs.”
“Are the children in ?” she asked him. Could
he tell her? All the treasures
Os their house h<dd lay in siknee many years
beneath the snow ;
But the heart was with theln living, back
among her toils and pleasures
Long ago j
And again she called at dew-fall, in the sweet
old sunmier w< alh r
“Where is little Charley, fatlu i ? Frank and
Robert have tluy colne
“They are safe,” the. old man >altered—“all
the children are tngi ther,
| Safe at hoine?*
Then hn ndiriutired gent e soothingp, but bis
grief grew .-troi g and sirongt r,
Till it choked and > tilled him as ho held and
kissed her crinkled hand,
For her soul, far out of hearing, could hip
fondest words no longer
Utidetodahd.
Still the pale lips stammered questions, lull
abies and broken vert-es,
Nursery prattle -all the language of a mother’s
kwing deed-,
While the midnight round tin' mourner, left to
sorrow’s bitter mvreit'H.
Wrapped its weeds
There was stillness on the- piilow and die old
man listened loi cly—
Till they bd him from the chamber, with the
burden mi his breast,
For the life of Bev< nty years, liis manhood’s
Carly love and only,
Lay at fest
“t’are you well,” ho Fobbed, “my Sarah you
will meet the babis before me ;
’Tis a little while, for neither can the parting
long abide,
And you’ll come and call me toon, I know
and Heaven will r< store nv>
To your side.”
It was even so : The s|)i ing-tiinp| in the slip
of Winter treading;
Scaivvly shed ita orelnird-blossonis ere (he eld
man closed his <yes
Ami they bu ied him by Sarah and they had
their “diamond wedding”
In the skies.
Youth.'a CoiiijHimon.
r Coin's AViCe.
BY K. TEMPLE MOOIIB.
“A city girl 1 No wife for a struggling
young man,” sighed rich, eccentric
Aunt Sarah, sorrowfully.
“Brought up with the expectation of
becoming an heiress, too. Tier extrava
gant habits will ruin the boy 1” said
Mrs. Pry, severely.
"And a beauty I - ’sneered Mrs. Crank
ett, with withering contempt.
So the gossips down in Tom Lysan
.ler’s native village put their heads to
gether and nodded grimly and forebod
ingly when they beard he had married'
Lila Ware, j
The daughter of his employer, he had
loved her long and almost hopelessly.
One day through the city spread the
news like wildfire that W ire & Co. had
failed. He went straightway to the
house wl;< re he had ever been a wel
come guest. He found the laughing
girl whom he had known graver, and
perhaps a little haughtier than of old ; a
wonom whom the first breath of misfor
tune had not blasted to despondency or
languor, but rather had strengthened
and invigorated.
She listened silently while he told the
story which had Inin so long in his heart
unsaid. And when he had spoken she
gave him frankly the love which till
then womanly pride had veiled.
He brought her to a homo which,
though bright and c< zy, held none of
the luxury of that which she had
known ; but she made it home in fact as
well as in word—the dearest spot in the
woild to Tom Lysander.
One evening L la Lysacder came up
to where her husband Hit wearily think
ing.
Through the open windows came the
breeze, laden with promises of the sum
mer. Below boys were crying Line vio
’cts on the city atreets
“Tom, dear, what is it ?”
He started at the sound of the tender
voice, and put his arm around her as
she st<x>d beside him. ;
“Can you bear bad news, pet?”
“I can share it, Tom.”
He laughed at the brave, womanly
answer.
‘ The gun of bad hick was donble
barreled to-day, dear. Our salaries
were reduced one-third on account of a
partial failure of the firm, and—l had a
letter from Aunt Sarah ' ’
"Oh, Tom 1 what does she say ?”
“That she is making arrangements
*'ith her lawyer to discontinue the al
lowance I have had ever since I was a
boy; also, to ■ radicate my name from
her will. Thue!’
“And all this ou my account ?” wisfr
' fully.
“Ah, that’s where the joy comes in,
my darling ! I have you—the rest is
i nothing I”
■ “is she not cruel, Tom ?”
| “Far from it, She is peculiar, whim-
sical, easily prejudiced. She used to
love me dearlv. And if her blessed old
eyes caught but one glimpse of my bon
nie bride—come for a walk, dear.”
* * * *' » * »
■ Work ! for you, Mrs. Lysander? Yon
surely don’t mean it! Why, my dear
child, yon don’t know (lie meaning of
the word. ”
L l i Lysm der, standing before her
father’s od lawver, a slim, childish
figure, lookelup at him with resolute
eyes.
“But t do mean it, Mr. Mitchell
Some posit ion which will permit me to
Z>e nt homo in the evening before Tom
returns. He is working nights now to
make up for the decrease in his salary.
It is terrible to think ho should toil so
lin'd while t am comparatively idle.
Yon will help me., Mr. Mitchell, you
must!”
“Come to think of if, T know a place
that would suit you. She’s a client of
my <4ll 'e mate, Hilhouse, boarding at
the llevere. bless you, rich ! She
Wants a girl to stay with her part
of the day, while she’s in the city— Com
panion, guide, that sort of thing, yon
know. No one would ever lake you to
be married, Miss Lila. There I I’m
dropping into the name myself. Craig
—your second name—Lillian Craig.
Capital ! A harmless deception. Sit
right down here while I go and see Hil
honse. Dear ! dear !”
He bustled’eagerly off, and bustled
smilingly back.
"Hilhouse it’s all right. Hois
privileged to engage you. A companion
—a few hours a day—ten dollars a week
to the right person. That wasn’t mtuh
to you once, Miss Lila, Not much was
it ?”
| ****** *
There were two ten dollar bills on
the top pantry shelf. But Tom didn’t
it- oiL
“I’ll wait till it grows a little,” Mrs.
Lila said gleefully to herself, “and then
I'll give him n surprise party.”
One day, in her luxurious room at the
Revere, Mrs. Percival lay ill with a fev
erish headache. Her companion went
softly about the room, dropping the
ctirfilinrt and slopping the clocks, lost the
ticking of these latter should disturb tho
invalid. When she. came back to tho
couch site found two dim old oyes fast
ened on her in kindly scrutiny. 1
“Miss Craig, ’low long have you been
with mo T”
“Two weeks.”
“Doyon know I’vo grown very fond
< f you in those two weeks, little cirl?”
A thin hand win mid c iressingly on
Lila’s.
“What a heavy gold ring yon wear—
hko awe lding i lug ! 1 wish it was. I
wish ”
She grew dreamily silent
Tho afternoon slip)>ed away. Tiio
shadows gathered. Tho room was
darkened, the clock slopped, and Lila
did not pei<' ive how late it was grow
ing.
‘ D ies your head ache now ?”
"No, bat my heart does, Lillian.”
She sat suddenly erect and cast the
rich wraps aside from het' stately old
figure.
"I am rich and you are poor. We
are both lonely. You have crept into
my heait—sadly against my will, I con
fess, for I had grown very bitter and
cynical of late. Jf jou come to me, you
shall bo as my daughter ”
“Oh, no, no ! Forgive me 1 I can
not I What—what sound is that? A
bell 1 Hark 1”
“That?” surprisedly. “That is only
the angelus from the French Catholic
church I”
“The angelus I” She sprang to her
feet in alarm. “Thon it is six o’clock.
I have outstayed my time. I must go.”
She lit tho gas and hurriedly found
her wraps.
“Why, my Cinderella, what a panic!
Leave me your glass slipper. Come in.”
The door was flung wide open and a
man rushed into the room.
“My darling, how you have fright
ened me !” he said, tressing to where
Lila stood. “I got home early to
night, and forced Ellen to tell me where
you Aunt Sai ah 1”
Ho wheeled around and clasped the
old lady in bis arms in an impetuous,
bovish fashion.
’'‘Well, this is a surprise ! How did
you and Lila——”
“You know Miss Craig?”
“Miss Craig 1 ’ —mystitiedly.
Lila came forward quickly.
“I did not know that she was your
! aunt, Tom. I have never heard jeu
speak wf Mrs. Percival by any other
name save Aunt Sarah.”
“Miss Craig, you cannot be
“I am Tom’s wife I” simplv.
“You Tom’s wife?”
“J am,” with quiet pride.
“But he marnel a horrid city girl,
who was extravagant and knew nothing
about work—and .”
L'la laughed at the vague hearsays.
“I am that horrid city girl. I was
extravagant when the extravagance
meant liberality. And love has taught
me the sweetness of work.”
A sudden recollection of his aunt’s In- i
justice to his wife came to Tom Lysan
der.
‘ Come, dear, we mnst be going. I
Aunt, pardon this intrusion. Good i
night J”
But Mrs. Percival sprang up.
“NoI” she cried. tapulßiv.ely; “you!
wll shake hands and forgive an old
woman, my children !-Bless my soul,
Tom’s wife ?”
Atal she bant and kissed her.
“Jerry” MA nicy Dead.
A NOTED MISSIONARY or THE CITY'S SLUMS.
Jeremiah McAuley, the missionary,
died at the Cremorne Mission, in New
York. He has been ill with consump
tion for the last six years, and severe
hemorrhage from the lunas set in. Dr.
Halleck, his family physician, ifrtS Sent
for, and did all that he could to afford
relief, but without avail. Mr. McAuley
died peacefully in the presence of his
wife, Marin, and a few friends. His last
words were: "It’S all fight Up there,”
pointing upward. His wife said to him
just as ho died: “Is Jesus with you,
Jerry?” He nodded hie head affirma
tively and breathed his last. He opened
Cremorne Mission on January 10, 188'2,
and has done heroic work in reclaiming
depraved women. His whole aim in life
for the last few years lias been to im
prove their condition. He started a
newspaper - called “jerry McAuley’s
Paper,” which has a largo circulation
all over the world, and the proceeds of
its sale he intended to.uso in establish
ing a “Home for Fallen Women.” He
wan si persuasive Speaker and few could
resist his touching appeals to lead a
better life.
“Jerry” McAuley come to this city
from Ireland when lie was thirteen years
old. His father hud been a counter
feiter, and Iho son promised for many
years to follow in his footsteps. He
became a river thief, priza fighter and
everything but a murderer. He was
finally arrested for highway robbery and
sent to Sing Sing for fifteen years. In
prison ho became converted through the
efforts of “Awful” Gardner, a reformed
convict. “jerry” was pardoned after
serving one-half of his term, and oil his
return to NY. city he opened,in Novem
ber, 187'2, at No. 316 Water st., a place
which ho called “The Helping Hand
for Men.” The neighborhood was one
<-f the lowliest, sqnalidest, and roughest
in New York. But for many years
“Jerry” preached the Gospel every
night in his humble institution. Tho
good he did was incalculable. Gradually
as tho morals of the neighborhood im
proved, “Jerry” looked around him for
other places of sin and degradation
whore ho could do good. Tribune.
•
The Reason Why.
A good many years ago, when a cer
tain place in ’. M eX;iS Was a very small
town, quite a number of prominent
citizens Went out on a hunting expedi
tion. One night, When they were all
gathered around the camp fire, one dt
the party suggested that each num
should give the, time.and reason for his
leaving his native Htate and coming to
T< ni, whereupon e.ich <mo lit turn told
bi. experience. Judge Blank had killed
a man in self-defence in Arkansas, Gen
eral rtoandso had forged another man’s
gignalure ton check, while another came
to Texas on account of his having two
wives. The only man Who did not make
any di closure was a ssnctimcnious
looking old man who, although a pro
fcssioiial gambler, was usually called
“Parson.”
“Well. Parson, why did you leave
Kentucky ? ’
“I don't care to say anything about
it. Besides, it was only a trifle. None
of you would believe me anyhow.”
“O it with it 1 Did you shoot some
body ?”
“No, gentlemen, I did not. Since
you want to know so bad I'll tell yon.
1 Jeff Kentucky became I did not build
a church.”
Deep silence fell on tho gronp. No
such excuse foi coming to Texas ever
bad been heard of before. There was
evidently an unexplained mystery at the
bottom of it. The “Parson” was culled
on to furnish more light.
“Well, gentlemen, you see, a congre
gation raised three thousand dollars
and turned it over to mo to build a
church— mid I didn’t build the church.
That’s uli.”
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I lie Sale of Oleomargarine.
B. F. V ii Valkenbergh, Deputy
State Dairy Commissioner, says:—We
arc m iking it warm for these oleomar
garine fellows and we intend keeping it
up until the law prohibiting the manu
facture anil sale of artificial butter is
strictly enforced. The Liudsley case
that we are fighting now is likely to as
sume a new phase. Lmdsley acknowl
edges that be sold oleomargarine, but
denies (bathe sold it as butter. It is said
that the manufacturers of oleomargarine
have made a l>«oi to defend any one
who is prosecuted for selling "oleo” as
“oleo,” but they won’t assist any one
who sells it as butter. This is the reason
probably that Lmdsley is so anxious to
prove that he did not misrepresent bis
wares. They can’t sell the stuff on its
merits at retail. It has been tried.
Stores have been established for its
■ sale. They did a good business for
awhile, but as soon as people had satis-
| tied their curiosity by baying a pound
I or two the sales f4l off and the stores
i were closed up. Despite the law a large
■ quantity of the imitation is sold a< real
: butter, and there is no use denying
j that it is a fine counterfeit.
THE RED WOOD MASSACRE
TERItIBI.E .SCENES OP FRONTIEK
B AIIH Alt t TIES lti:< AIJ.ED.
John Bnnvaril’s Di scilption of a Ci te,
brim d Indian 'l'raucdx.
lam now in the famous Red Wood |
region, where the terrible Indian mas
sacre took place a few years since, and
am quartered with a family by the name
of Webster, who passed through tho
terrible scenes of those trying times
when the bloody Sioux made their foray
and murdered hundreds of innocent wo
men and children after they hud shot
their husbands and fathers defending
them. The Sioux barbarities were of
such horrid character that tho liner
feelings of the female Christian heart
here is completely blurred and unfor
giving toward Indians when these hide
ous atrocities come up in conversation.
And many Say that the “only good In
dian is a dead one.” I now believe, in
common with ail tho people of the fron
tier, that flic government policy with
them is all wrong.
Without exception the men and wo
men hefc who saw and experienced theii
I devilish works in that fiendish massacre
say that everyone of the captured should
have been hung, and, what has been
told mo of them, I say hanging simply
was too good a death for them. I have
read of and seen some of their terrible
atrocities, but the one told me which I
now relate is beyond anything I over
read of or heard of. On the frontier, in
the neighborhood of Yellow Medicine,
there was the happy homo of a settler
by the name of Sohwaudt, consisting of
his wife, several children, and a young
girl of seventeen years, a relation on a
visit to them. One of the girls was re
cently married and on the point of bo
coming a mother. This family had been
ever kind to the Indians when they vis
ited the neighborhood, always gave them
food and frequently lodged them in
stormy weather.
This house was one of the first at
tacked by the fiends, who shot and toma
hawked all except the young girl whose
life was preserved for the baser passions
of these devils incarnate. One of the
boys, who was wounded by the first fire
of the Indians, succeeded in crawling to
a hiding place in sight of the house.
He saw his mother, brothers and sisters
barbarously slaughtered. His married
sister, almost in the pangs of miternity,
he saw drugged out of the cabin to a tree
and tortured by the Indians. They made
wooden pins with their scalping knives,
ripped open the body of tho unfortunate
woman and took out the living infant
and crucified it alive against the tree in
sight of its still breathing mother (driv
ing the pins through its hands and feet),
and there left her to die gazing on the
agonizing writhings of her infant, and
there the bodies were found by the
“burial party” sent out by Colonel Sib
ley, the dead mother with her lifeless
eyes gazing at her crucified child.
No wonder then that tho people hero
hate Indians, especially as the Govern
ment only hung thirty-eight of tho mur
derers, when after the outbreak was
subdued 400 of the fiends were identified
by escaped settlers. This 400 were tried
by the local tribunals and military com
mission and all sentenced to death. But
the peaceful Quakers of I'h iladelphiain
terfered and petitioned the President,
who ordered only one in ten to be hung,
when the whole tribe, in fact, should
have been executed, and of these only
thirty-eight found their way to the scaf
fold, one escaping and another dying.
The other day I witnessed a “corn
dance” of a band of these Sioux, and an
old Indian fighter pointed me out sev
eral of the rascals who should have then
been hung, but are now receiving an
nuities from our merciful Government.
Mrs. Webster, the lady with whom I
am now stopping, says she idsntifi ed an
old Indian whom sbo well knew, hav
ing often fed and lodged him—by the
name of Shaa-dee, who had killed a
number of white women, or ns ho said
in the Sioux language, “me nepo”—
white squaw. He was one of those sen
tei>c>‘d to be executed.
I have seen many of tho various tribes
of British-American Indians, but a more
villainous-looking set I never saw than
the “Warpenton Sioux.” L >oking into
some of their “teepees” recently on the
Dakota prairies, I stuilied their physiog
nomies. Murder was in their faces, and
they need only an opportunity, when
they would again gladly redden their
scalping knives with the blood of inno
cent women and children.
J. Banvard.
Italian Brigands.—Brigandage in
and around R >me has of late assumed
such proportions that all tramps who
fail to give a satisfactory account of
themselves are now arrested and lodged
in Rome pending inquiry. What renders
brigand capture the i ;--i■■■ ’.Lflietilt in
many localities is that the -.isiuess of
brigandism is followed by persons who
are not always nt it, lint at times pursue
rural occupations, and are apparently
the most harmless of beings. The au
thorities continue to fail iu their at
tempts to capture the brigand chief
l T.biiz'. who operah'H in the neigbbor-
I hood of Viterl o. For a long tinr- the
' farmers mid landowners trie ! to resist
i iii < incursions, bu‘ now they submit to
i his terms aud pay blackmail to secure u
i quiet life.
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE KIND IN THEM TO MAKE
US SMILE.
A Great Ov< rsf« r h! -W» at a M’rror Telb
-I.tiling it to (lit* Unity % !>ry Scdm.h—
--1 < tty Appetite—-inother .’tfjrnL Ltc.»
Etc.
TYIE CAUSE OF IT.
Doctor: “Tell me exactly what your
condition is. Do you have any night
sweats ?”
Patient: “Yes, almost every night.”
“Doctor: “My dear sir 1 tjiis begins
to look serious. About how long do
they last ?”
Patient: “About as long as I have to
tote the baby up and down.”—Burling
ton Free Press.
ANOTHER MORAL.
Mr. Blank—“ What ! more money to
buy ribbon ? I never saw such extrav
agance. What did you do with the
change I gave you last week ?”
Mrs. Blank—“ Put it in my pocket
book.”
“And where is the pocketbook ?”
“Lost it.”
“Lost it; worse and worse. When did
did you lose it ?”
“The day I went shopping. I laid it
down in the first store I visited, before
I had taken a cent from it, and it imme
diately disappeared.”
“Was there ever such carelessness?
How did it get out of your possession so
quickly ?”
‘lt blew away.”— Phila. Call.
WHAT A MIRROR TELLS.
Husband—“A miiror is a curious.
thing, my dear. While it cannot tali:
it tells a great deal.”
Wife (looking at her reflected image
with great complacency) —“Yes? and
what does it tell ?”
Husband —“It tells a great deal that
isn’t so.”
SUB KNEW ABOUT IT.
“I tell you what,” airily exclaimed
Perkins, as he sat down to the supper
table, “I was in a tight place this after
noon.” “Yes, I know you were,” inter
rupted his wife, in clear cold utterance;;
that cut like a knife; “I saw you coming
out of it.” And then it flashed across
Perkins's mind that he had accidentally
stepped into a saloon with a friend for
the purpose of examining a doubtful
political statement with the aid of ti
magnifying glass, and his contemplated
anecdote slipped from his grasp lik -
money at a summer resort, while tho
supper was finished amid a silence so
profound that he could plainly hear t>
napkin ring.— dockland. Courier.
PROBABLY OOBIIEOT.
There was a goodly number of Indies
at Twenty-third street and Sixth ave
nue waiting for an elevated railway trail'
when a specimen of the New York
young “gent” of the day camo pushing
through the crowd, rudely jostling ai,
elderly lady.
“Here, sir, keep.off,” said an old gen
tleman at her side, shoving him back,
“or I’ll teach you a little politeness.”
“You will, eh?" came from Young
America, throwing a withering glance o.'.
tho elderly party. * ‘l’d have you under
stand, sir, that there’s not n man in this
town can teach mo politeness.”
Then he wondered why the girls ah
tittered. — tferald.
STARTED WITH A LUCKY NUMBER.
“1 hear Giil Fisher, who left here
a few months ago, is married and living
in Indianapolis. Did he marry well ?''
“Oh, yes; he married well. He was
well when he married."
“No joking. I mean did he get a
gooil start by marrying ?”
“Oil, yes; lie got a good start—he
married a widow with seven children.’’
A GREAT GVEK IGHT.
Prominent Citizen—“ There is one
question I would like to ask you, Mrs.
Lockwood, before pledging you m <
vote. It involves a matter of some deli
cacy. ’’
Mrs. Lock wood—“ Speak freely, sir
In matters of grave national importance
all minor considerations should be pus
aside.”
Prominent Citizen —“Are you sure
that you are old enough to be legal!
qualified for the office of President o:
, the United States ?”
’ Mrs. Lock wood—“My goodness me I
I never thought of that. Certainly 1
am not.”
tits. effect of wiitskt.
“What’s that you’ve got growing on
your face ?” inquired Yeast of Crimson
beak the other morning.
‘ Oh, it’s a swelling oi some sort,” n
pl".-d the liflbcted man.
“Why don’t you put some whisky on
it ?”
‘ Wlrit for?”
“Why to break it.”
“Will that break it?”
“Well, I should think io. I’veknow-n
whisky to ‘break’ many a ‘swellj”—
Yonkt rs Statesman.
NOT A I'.ILIABLE POLICY.
“Don’t you think," she ii quired of
the clerk, “that these shoes are rather
large ? ’
“Oh, no, miss,” he returned, “not foj
yon. ’’
After she flounced out of the store ain|
tin- proprietor had finished talking (0
him, it would have been impossible t<J
convince him that honesty is the bor4
policy.— Graphia.
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Transplanting Trees.—There is • -t
interesting passage iu the annual run. -.
for 1881 of Mr. E Iward Clark, archit. -fi
of ilie Capitol, at Washington, D. C ,
concerning an experiment iu treecultuie
begun on the Capitol grounds ten years
ago. Over one hundred trees, whoso
trunks averaged one foot in diameter,
were transplanted. To adapt them to
removal their roots were cut off at a dis
tance of 3| feet from the trunk. The
operation was regarded as hazardous,
and was characterized as an injudicious
and disastrous one. It is now reported
that all of the trees, with two exceptions,
have flourished, and are growing taw?
rapidly than others is the same park,