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VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9, 1882,
NUMBER 1.
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PAYNE A DuPREE
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
L. J. (jrAKTRELL,
Attorney at Law,
8| Whitehall St., Atlanta, Georgia
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Canton, July 22,1 “82.
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FEES same a* other Physicians,
N. B.—The old Reliable Cherokee
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.uli stock of Drugs and Medicines and
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Ailai ts, Ga.
I have coma homo. Tk* •** has ..sal
A half-wrecked ship upon the strsn t
1ly strong she »'dl mI away,
at slot eoross th • b*“
•l>ow of prom so" sp .nn-t
Somjr hear it sr<>ised-*>
flow soon its f sumlttg light Is lost!
J hatro dfttRo bomb. 6'er stormy wn eei
I1i» Vessel dnrtcth Into p >rt:
holm is gone, the sa Is are rent—
me! my fife is noarly sp ot.
For ooenu billows bu t h S|s>rt;
An>l thojeiny heart's w Id Innwingoravos-*
Alas I alssl theSii silent graves!
The little ohuroh—the dnnr old spa* I
The Tyrol hills, the tw Ilgi.tSity;
The mountains wrapped In all nlowot* tala'
And all the air by sliehqe hissed—
The snme—ah: yes—as In days hy,
but th' as I loved they have t rgot;
I call them, but they answer not.
lTie shsdowa fall aomas the snow,
Thrtr ashes lift hcross my hoart.
l have eome homo. M t Her, ort 'kiss;
U r.itber,Spa»hl I'm drehml 'g this-'
1 OSltnOthelp Ihe tern* th >t start;
The gray old clouds go sail ng slow
Above these little mounds of snow.
And thou, my love, my light o. iif*v
T hou wilt not stnlle to h<** ny tre#
R"nd Death to mo; I, ti».' V.mld vff
The place that tb >u art shroud >d
Ny I (ttle blossom, art thou .jsl?
Must I fight on. w >rk on, In llfo
Without tby aid, my wire, my wife?
A silence falls on all the air.
Thou sileno ■ cl dm, but wh it Is ss'd
Of those whose hopes ar i ’^trled all;
who sleep, yet Sleep wlt^^ ue pall?
What peace Is for l no lur «-.*id?
Why can I not thy sb niiu.-g sh ire.
When all my heart is hurt, d there?
"T was “coming homo," I thought of la*.
*T Is "going homo”—I have nouu hero.
My home U yonder, far awav.
Beyond these clouds of pearl and gray,
And Tyrol'a bills aro not as dear.
I wait Ireside the broken g ito—
god gr mt I have not long to wait.
* ‘ is . Atom* UtUOtus. tn buston TVitnserM.
A 8TltA.Nl.Ell AT TIIE BOARD.
NEW
ENTERP RISE!
TRIPP & TOLBERT,
Now have their New Steam Machin
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Plaining Lumber,
Jointing and Matching,
Moulding and preparing all
Lumber for building purposes.
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SPECIAL ATTENTION
To ginning and packing cotton.
f5rin iin x
C 3r/t
MEDICAL CARD,
DR. N. SEWELL return* thanks to the
citizens of Canton and vicinity, for their lib
eral patronage.
Being permanently located, will continue
to practice medicine, surgery and midwi'ery.
Hoping by industry, energy and etr.ct ap
plication to busiue-8, to merit an increased
patronARe aud confidence.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drug Store
Residence adjoining W. H. Wttriick.[novfi
.J. M. BURTZ,
ATTOKMY AM) COliMLLOR AT LAW.
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court House, [ma 25 ly
On the afternoon of Tuesdays and Fri
days of each wet k. we will grind all corn
brought to our mill.
Canton, Ga., Sept. SO, 1882.
COME
C. L>. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
CANTON. GEORGIA.
J. M. HARDIN,
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
Ornanental Painter.
FRESCO & SCENIC ARTIST.
CANTON, GEORGIA.
CO
A.TSTD
SEE ME.
I HAVE just opened n Complete Stock
duect from the manufactory ot Fancy
Candits, Mixed Candies, Plain Candles
Crackers o all tet s Also Freeh Rai i i*
N uts, Oysters, Canned Goods, and every
thing wanted in this line. I respectful
ly ask patronage ol my friends, both in
the store and job work. Blanks, Deeds.
& \ always on hand.
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Nov. 18,1882.
A Thank.giving Story.
It snowed the night bofore Thanks-
S ving that year. Through the ovoning
ere was a half-detinml mist in the
gray air that seemed like tho all per
vading chilliness Inking form, and
everybody who was going away, or
who was lo have company i and that
took in nearly nil of New England),
went to bed with a dim foreboding ol
disappointment on the morrow.
*' There is four inches ol snow, nt
least," said Farmer Draper on Tlinnks-
gji ing morning, as lie nine in from tho
big barn, stamping his feet vigorously
upon the stone Moor of the 1 a<'k porch.
" Four inches, at least, nntl that isn't
the worst of it. it is covered with a
irusl as th in and sharp, almost, as win
. do w glass. I tincture here is a hole
one of mv rubber boots a read.’."
••I don't know what lo do about
cooking tho turkey, ’ said Moilior
Draper, setting a largo platter of steam
ing stewed chicken iijio i tho breakfast-
table “I don t .see now Aunt < ather-
mo and the girls aro to gut down here
to day; or Frank and his wife, or the
hots, either, for thut matter. ’
" It is a bad morning for horses to
travel, to be sure," »aid William, < om-
ng in from the barn just tlion, •• but
Thanksgiving is never postponed on ac
count of the weather, so I will tell you
what 1 propose to do 1 w II tackle tin
tlio steers nil four yoke, nnd hiten
them to the long wood sled and go for
th.i company. It will bo great fun. be
sides showing m v good disposition by
breaking a track for my neighbors.
You can go. too, sis. if you have a mind
to; we will start right away after break
fast.”
" It will be pretty cold," said her
mother.
And that nin’t tho worstof it," put
.ii her father, "I evpeot she will be
needed he e about the cli eken I'xens.”
Mother will get along until Aunt
Catherine pets here; slio is a whole
team and a horse to let. So nut on
our water-proof, old maid, and come
down nnd help me ta kle. You need
ot be afra d of your beau getting hero
bofore you return. :or certainly, if ho
has to walk, he c in t make great head-
wav this morning."
Jennie, a bright, handsome, trim
little bodv, being the oldest of the
Diaper children, was a'ways teasingly
called "the old maid," by. her four
brothers, who delighted in joking her
about an expected lover who never
came. '‘Jennie's beau” was a sort of
thical scape-goat in the lamilv to
whom all imag'nable, absurd blunders
and mishaps were attributed.
8o now she made some laughing re
sponse, and when her brother marshaled
his team, consisting of alternate yokes
of red and white steers, two yokes of
each, she took her place upon a bundle
of straw in the center of the huge sled.
There, sis," said William, taking liis
seat upon tho neap of the sled and
brandishing his long whip, "you look
like tho genius of Thanksgiving going
round on a tour of inspection among
the brick ovens, and your team is
most as fanciful as the reindeers of St
Nicholas.”.
It grew r-iore and more fanciful
momentarily, for it soon began to rain
and as the line pelting drops froze as
they fell, the whole turn-out was nans
formed into an exhibition of ice newly
frozen for the occasion from the Arctic
region. After having been round the
square and picked up all tho Draper
blood in the township they retraced
their steps, stopping at nearly every
house for a merry interchange of greet
ings, "Just to break the gloom that the
storm had cast over every thing,"
William said. But at every house it was
noticeable that he threw out a few sug
gestive words to the bo v s that set them
thinking there was no fun quite so de
sirable For Thanksgiving day as breaking
steers.
The merriment of the morning was
kept up through the day by the voung
people, while Mother Draper and Aunt
Catnorine moved mysteriously about
and compared notes over dripping-
pans, sauce-pans and pipkins in the
kitchen.
Iknner was to be carlv, so that the
Draper bo>s who were employed
upon the railroad that cut in twain tho
bibnd acres of their fa hef’s farm could
bh lack fit the station at trfiitt time ih
lbe afternoon
A'nit Catherine's lovely daughters
hfilped their pretty cousin Jenny to sot
the table, of course, and they managed
slfIv to have one plate and one ehair
3 many, ami hy a great deal of ma-
uvring in seating tha company, this
( date and rhftlr were left beside Jcnnla
of the long n peoted hentl.
-"lie lias i*t come yet, and that isn’t
tbe worst of it—1 hope ho i ever will."
Mi l Farmer Draper, looking alTcction-
strlv across tho tanlo at hit daughter as
Mb owed bis head to ask Ihe blessing.
.*• 1 beliOVe he Is coming now, uncle; 1
IT illy do," exclaimed Louise the rtio-
m n tlio good fa* iner had re opened bis
•yes. a u( suro enough, as they looked
out tlio window they saw a stoutly-built
you grnau bravely breasting the storm,
yf dtowl g a eortaiu weariness as ho
walk d along tho slippery way.
i I he weather bad changed again by
M's time, and tlio air was full of great
feathery Hakes, as if alt the feathers of
all tb e fowls that graced that day's din-
Dvr in New England had boon east to
tkc four winds.
" He is coming in!" •• No, he is
hv!" “Yes, lie lias decidod local
the young man, who was evidently a
■t’a ger looked again at the polished
windows that even on tho outside eavo
afiintof warmth and good cheer within.
" ilow-wtnv-wow!” harked Pinchers,
the house dog, in a decidedly oquivoca 1
Welcome, espeo allv when taking into
oo siderut on Ids huge proporlio s aud
savage a r, and tho stranger was turning
away ns the pla za door opened and
John had culled out:—
"Down, Pinchers, down!’ Como In,
Ci me in, sir, out of the storm!”
" I tanks vor. said the stranger, giving
his hat and coat a hake, thus divesting
them of their burden of snow, ami fol
lowing John directly into tho dining
room, and, with a graceful how to the
company, seating himself by the lira
a run up to Montreal where he is in
business, and there seems to be DO
re son why they shouldn’t be married.
Hut Jennie don’t know a word of hla
larual lingo and ! tell her that isn't tho
wo 'to it l shouldn't want to, for
now he can do all his scolding in French
an I site can take it all for love salliea
—Mrs. Annie A. I'rctton, in Hpringfitld
{Mam.) lit publican.
"We were expecting you,” said
John. We have the table set for you
as \ ou may see Sit right up."
"Yes. yes" ass ntou Farmor Draper;
♦•sit right up, you aro cold and tired,
o' course, but that isn t the worst of it,
iufi.'Ll must be It mgr , too. Youciin get
* vw*in and rested and’tilled at tho table.’-’
Louise, to carry on tho joke, nnd to
treat Jennie’s lotig-oxneotod beau with
duo cordiality, pushed buck the vacant
chair, nnd Jennie, not to bo out-done,
glanced up and sooing a comely, neatly-
dressed young man at her elbow, gave
h in one of her sweot smiles, motioned
him to the seat beside lierand passed bis
plate to hor lather to be helped.
The stranger evidently understood
very little of nil the merry talk going
on aronnd the board, hut ho sat down
in tlio prollerod chair, bowed his bond
for a moment ns if invoking a si ent
blessing, and tlion proceeded with Ins
meal.
" You haf largo family.” lie said pres
ently to tho farmer, cnrefully studying
his words, "and you haf much meat."
looking around with ev dent astonish
ment, nt the groaning lablo, for Mother
Draper nnd Aunt Catherine held to tlio
old fash on that everything belonging
to the Thanksgiving dinner must be on
the table bofore the 'am ly were seated.
We don’t live like this right along,"
explained the farmer, "and that isn t
the worst of it—we don’t want to. 'i bis
• Thanksgiving.”
All this to the disgust of Willmm. who
was expostulating: "Oh, goodness, fath
er, why must you tell him that! Why
don't vou make him believe that ties is
only a picked-up d nncrP"
The young people all joined in a laugh
at this, but the stranger repo tted:
Thanksgiving? Thank you! 'lhank
God? I see! I know. I hear about
it. I not know it to-day. Every door
1 call 1 lind good smells, like Christmas
at homo. No one say ‘conio in.’ Here
dog say ‘Walk in.’ You say ‘Wel
come,’ " and tho young man looked
gratefully at John’s smiling fa* e, and
ihen went on with his dinner with a
hearty relish.
“Gracious! See him lay in for sup
ples,” said John, pas ing the onions.
• Don't intlict such a stow-away upon
is, Jennie. I verily believe it is the
Robin to bobbin, the big-bellied Ben.’
that we used to read about in tho Moth
er Goose book.”
‘•Goose! Goose!” cried the stranger
nodding toward tho skeleton of the
turkey, “ I understand, I think, this bo
Yankee Christmas ”
" Something of that sort, said the
farmer, "but that isn t the worst of it
—Christmas is yet to come."
" \\ here are vou going?’’ asxed one
of the boys, and after the question bad
been framed in various wa\s, he sa d
“ To Canada. There haf 1 friends.
A mistake I made. 1 come to the wrons
town you call it? I write letters. 1
spend all mv monots. I go walking
now tr Canada and find my frionds, m
brother. Now bow man . mil"S ’
“ ’loo many for a fellow to walk tins
slippery traveling." sad John.
4 ‘ 1 say, D ck, old boy, to h s broth
er, “what do you say to putting him
in the caboose and giving him a lilt.
“All right,” said the good-natured
young freight con luctor. It would
be a good deed lor Thanksgiv.ug Lav.
1 will transfer him at the Essex -‘u *c
tion to-morrow morning, if I don t go
through, and he will be m the ‘Do
minion before he knows it.
“Put him up a lunch, mother
enough to last biin out of the country
nnd save your tears. Jen, he will un- j
douhtedly return when ho gels a bettor *
u-eof our language. It would be lovo- ]
tbak ng finder difficulties at present." '
Jcnnio looked indigtlutlt, btlt the in
telligent young stranger, although ob
servant nnd alert was out.rely oblivious
Of fill nOrstfial allxtsions.
Mother Draper packed a strong, gond-
lized paper bag with lunch, saving,
with fears; “There was never such
good hearted bins ns my hoys." and
Aunt Catherine, who had a boy of her
own somewhere in the far West, gave
the stranger a dol'nr hs she bade him
good-bye.
Tlio steer team was taken in the midst
of another snow furry and as tlio merry
com* any went back through Ihe pretty
sheltered neighborhood ih y found an
escort in the way of a steer team wait
ing in every door \ aid so that by llto
timo they reached tho little vi) ago
about the railway station tho Draper
turn-out headed a decidedly unique
procession.
The stranger asked a great many not
very coherent questions. The hoys
amused themselves hy assuring him it
was a demonstration in liis honor, it
being a custom of (lie (own to thus en
tertain forelgnera. The girls entered
Into particulars and explained the real
occasion of the display of voting bo-
vinoi, and it would nave been hard to
find a more bewildered individual Ilian
was bowed into the fro ghf caboose by
tbe Mnding John, while all the Inns,
who were dancing around, managing
the Imlf-brokon s oors. united n a hearty
hurrah, and all the girls on all the sle Is
waved their pocket handkerchiefs in
adieu.
“ What you do with me?” tlio stranger
naked, looking around tho snug, well-
warmed little ear.
“Cnnad'ir," replied Dick, imitating
tho traveler's pronunciation.
“No moneys!" ami the young man
proceeded to turn his pockots inside out,
whereupon Dick explained to the
amusement of himsuli and Ii s comrades
and the increased bewilderment of tho
Stranger, that he had a lien on tho rail
road and all the stock until liis next
month's wages were paid.
" He was sound asleep on one of tho
bunks in the caboose when wo roneliud
Essex," said Di k, “and 1 turned him
over to Ben Loot nntl told h.m to shove
him through into the Dominion and not
let tho custom-house officer., at St. Ar
mani! collect duty on tho fragments of
mother's turkey and mince pie."
Thanksgivings came and went, nud
every vear at the Draper homestead lllllllk ...
they lalkod over that snowy » >«*■£»£ 1 parliamentary usages, vou do
ing when “ Jennie s beau sat down to [ h(S(( _ [h tr ^ u /.y),, /Y e „,
the least, and wondered who lie war
Idaho Jurisprudence.
Justi 'oft’Sniffin, tip at Blackfoot,tried
his first ease last, week. He has
some crude notions about even-handed
justice, and claims to he thoroughly up
on parliamentary etiquette.
The case was one in vthlch Don
Quixote Centipede was charged with
the larceny <*f "no sorrel mulo, the
property of Claude Molnotte Rooney,
valued at $75. at the county nnd Terri
tory aforesaid, and on tlio loth day ol
October, 1H82, ami that on said
day the snid Don Quixote Contl-
pede did tnke. steal and ride away and
drive away the mule aforesaid, con
trary V) the statutes in such ease made
nnd provided nnd ngainst the peace
and dignity of the Territory of Idnhe.
The eii'iv was tried, anti defendant
having been found guilty, the Justice
was about to sentence him to tho peni
tent ary for life, when tho counsel
called the attention of tho Court to tho
tact that, as an examining magistrate,
he only had authority to bind Mr. Centi-
I ode over for liis appearaneo at the
next term of the District Court. Judge
o’Mutlin therefore modified liis judg
ment lo the requirement of a bond for
f.iOO for defendant’s appearance as
aforesaid. Defendant’s counsel then
rose nnd stated that owing to certain
irregularities and peculiarities developed
in the case, ho would make a motion
(or a new trial.
•• Gentlemen.” said Judge O’Sniffin
to the bystanders, "you have a motion,
do 1 hear a second?”
An eccentric horso-thief on tho baok
seat seconded the motion.
Gentlemen,” resumed his Honor,
m have heard the motion. Are you
ready for the questionP”
“Question!'’
The motion has been made anti sec
onded that the defendant C entipede b#
given a now trial. All those in favor
will say ‘aye.’
Big chorus of ayes.
“Those opposed will say ‘no.’”
“It’s a vole. The prisonor will b«
granted a new trial."
The West is lull of self-made men
who are not very familiar with Kaiee’s
Blending and High on Injunction, hut
if you think they aro not familiar with
J not know
and what became of him and what kind
of an impress on of a New England
Thanksgiving ho carried away.
Last year at noon onlion where there
were assembled in Christian fellowship
people from ail p i ts of tho world, a
French gentleman said to a ludy with
whom lie was conversing:
•< I have never been in tbe States but
once before, and then 1 bad a curious
experience. I landed in Now York
from a I ronch ship with only a more
smattering of English. I wanted to go
to my friends in Be Yord. f anitda, blit
tb oti'di carelessness of officials I was
sent to Bedford, Mass. I found my mis
take there and was started for my prop
er destination, but my money gave out,
nnd being young and strong and reso
lute 1 determined not to Lo discouraged
but to nuke my way on foot. It was
Into in tho fall. 1 had no Loublo in ob
taining food and shelter at night and
pushed on bravely until a snow storm
o.ertook me. Oh, what a Bay that was!
1 called at many doors but was rot in
vited to enter. At last, when almost
wearied out, I re died a house tli t was
lo me like ivj entrance into Heaven. I
pin bed myself to see if 1 was still in
the body. There was warmth and a
iast and laughter and jest and song and
little ohil .ren and ladies In hr ght.
resses. I was welcome and a plate
wailed for me. After the feast 1 was
taken with all the guests on a huge sle i
Irawn by oxen lo the station. ' ther
imilar teams oined ours in the lo g,
wide country street. They escorted me
to tbe station and into the cars and 1
was seiit to my friends free of charge.
When I recovered from m fatigue
and wanted to write and thank mv
friends, I knew not tho town, the Stab?
nor tbe names even of my entertainers
and preservers, as I may call them. I
knew nothing of it at al* no more than
a baby, and now I will ask you as I
have asked others: do you know aught
of such a country festival, where Ion
An Arkansas Hairpin on a Render.
The prisoner in cell No. 1 was making
a great noise as court opened, aud he
was therefore brought out first. He wi»
a stout, thick-set man with short hair
uni milk-white eyes, and he believed
himself to bo a mountain lion of th®
fiercest order. He came out on the
dance, with a half-concealed war-whoop
m his teeth.
“Is your name William IIill? softly
inquired the court.
“Old man, you bet!" was the ready
reply. ,
“Prisoner, this court doesn t bet, and
if it lias to inform you of that fact again
it may have to add sixty days to your
xoutoiico. Do you plead guilty or not
guilty to drunkenness?"
“Judge, I was drtuiker’n a beer barl.
r wuh fighting drunk. 1 was just in tho
condition to chaw up half the police
force of this one-horse four-comers.
Judge, let me out long enough to flap
my wings and give a crow which can be
card four miles agin a stiff wind!’’
"William Hill, I think I know what
nils you,” quietly remarked the court,
ifter looking him over. ‘‘You are aching
, fall agaiiiHt some consumptive Detroit-
r about five feet high who will mush you
,latter than sole-leather. You evidently
hink yourself a turautula, but you are
■otbing but a rabbit. Instead of being
. terror, you are a nuisance, and I shall
send you to tlio work-house.”
“Judge, I’m from Arkansas, and I
tell you I am dangerous.”
"Pooh! I shall send you for thirty
days, the same as any common drunk
ard.”
“Don’t disgrace me, Judge. Make it
six mouths at least. Think of tho story
going back to Arkansas that I was sent
up on a boss-fly sentence.”
But bis Honor was obstinate, and the
prisoner sat down on n nail-keg in the
corridor and said he’d have to kill one of
the guards at the work-house to restore
his lost prestige. —Detroit Free J’resi.
strings of oxen are driven about, the
streets carry'ng guests from house to
house, and where it is the custom to so
bountifully provide for any stranger
bat happens to come in on that da\ ?
. wish 1 could ktiotv. for I neter
have seen such a picture of happiness,
content and plenty as the Lord led mo
to look upon that afternoon. All theso
years 1 have carried those people near
heart and prayers that the Lord
would lead me again in the r midst.”
1 wits one of the girls at that notable
feast,” sa d the lady, and she entered
into the necessary explanation to tho
surprise and del ght of tho now well-to-
do, intelligent, demonstrative French
gentlenuin.
Farmer Draper said the other day as
lie met this niece in a railway Iran.
"Yes Louise, that young tramp, as we
called him. you know, turned out to be
our own little old maid's beau after all.
1 hings do happen strangely sometimes.
You mustn’t tail to come to the wedding
Thanksgiving. He bas lurnisbed satS'
How a Whale Breathes.
Tho wind-pipo does nov communicate
with the mouth; a hole is, as it were,
bored right through the back of the
head. Engineers would do well to
copy the action of the valve of the
whale’s blow-hole; a more perfect p ece
of structure it is impossible to imagine.
Day and night, asleep or awake, the
whale works his breatning apparatus in
such a manner that not a drop of water
ever gets down into tho lungs. Again,
the whale must of necessity stay a
much longer period of time under the
water than seals; this alone might pos
sibly drown him, inasmuch as the lungs
cannot have access to fresh air. We
find that this difficulty has been antici
pated and obviated by a peculiar reser
voir in the venous system, which reser
voir is situated at the back of the lungs.
—Frank Bu del and
—To take the brown discolorations
off of cups in which custards are baked,
rub with damp flannel dipped In tha
factory credentials, and Dick has taken 1 best whiting.