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Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal.
BT STANFORD & COOPER.
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Things—Neutral in Nnthing.”
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VOL. IV.
CUTHBERT, GA.,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1884.
NO. 35
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ni! LOW PRICES!!
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James G. Mathews, Proprietor of “THEEMPIRE DRY GOODS
STORE,*Cuthbert. Ga., is now receiving a large ami well asaorted
Si.wk or FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. CLOTHING, HATS,
HOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, SATCHELS, UMBRELLAS. Ae..
which I offer to the trailing public at prices that defy competition.
1 solicit a liberal share of your patronage, ami will certainly secure
it if yon will only step into my store and see the many BEAL BAR
GAINS I am giving away daily. I was in New York at the time
when money matters pressed dawn most heavily upon the people, ami
with the CASH in hand I knocked down the best DISCOUNTS that
could be ottered. I am therefore prepared to give you PRICES that
w ill sell the Goods.
MY MOTTO IS
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sept 4- JAMES C. MATHEWS.
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“I'm tick of it,” .aid Kate,
dashing a handful of hair-pins
upon the table, and letting a big
brown braid go tumbling down
her back.
“So am I,” said Beth.
“So am I !*’ aaid Nannie, who (
waa suffering with a dreadful cold. *P oke i again-
“What is it, girls?” said I, turn
ing my book face down in my lap.
“It's the suppers/’ said Beth.
“It’s the everlasting gossip,”
said Kate.
“It’s so different from home,”
said Nannie, to whom the board
ing house life was a new expe
rience.
“It’s all three, and much more,”
was what I wanted to say, but
being the oldest of the four, it
seemed my duty to make the best
of things; so 1 said, quite cheer
fully, "I didn’t see anything un
usual about the supper to night.”
“That’s the trouble," groaned
Beth. “It was altogether too us
■isi. I am so tired of bread and
butter and apple sauce and dry
cake that I feel like gnashing my
teeth at the sight of them. 1
should like a slice of toast or a
bowl of bread and milk occasion
ally, without being made to feel
that I had disarranged the whole
internal economy of the house.”
“The suppers are bad enough,”
jsaid Kale, but they are nothing
to the gossip. I'm tired of hear-
j ing it whis|icreii round that ‘Mr.
Johnson and his wife had a quar
rel in their room last night,’ or
that ‘Miss Robinson lias worn
three new dresses this month,’ or
that ‘Mr. Jewett came in ever so
late the other night, and it sound
ed as though lie fell upstairs.’
Ah!" and Kate looked as scon -
fid as a round face with a dimple
in it would allow.
“I could stand everything else.”
said NaDnie, “if it was only home
like. Oh! if I could only sit
down in a dean kitchen, with uiy
feet in the stove oven, and see a
braided mat in trout of the stove
with a nice cat on it, I should be
perfectly happy.”
We all laughed at this idea of
bliss, lint after the laugh there
was a sudden silence, for each one
of us recalled such a kitten, and
the presence that had made it
home like.
We were not sisters, or even kin
to each other, but meeting as
strangers in a city boarding house,
a strong friendship had grown up
between us, starting, I think, in
the fact that we were each or
phaned and had our living toemrn,
and strengthened by many con
genial tastes. We were doing our
duties in rather a brave, cheerful
way, with few complaints, but to
night we were under a cloud.
Outside, a November rain was
lashing the windows, and inside,
the stove smoked.
It was pay day at the manufac
tory where Kate was book-keeper,
and that waa always a bard day
for her; Beth had worried two of
her dullest pupils through their
music lesson: and I bad bad a
time in school that afternoon with
a wretch of a boy, and was at my
wits’ end what to do with him on
the morrow; and Nannie was
more than half sick—so we sat
there quite still for a while. Final
ly Beth spoke: “I suppose we
might make these rooms look a
little pleasanter. We each have
a few pictures and knicknacks.”
“Do you suppose I would hang
my few pictures against this aw
ful paper?” said Kate. “Besides,
what would be the use? Just as I
got everything nicely fixed, some-
man would want the room, and
we should be invited to go up
higher. I've boarded in this
house two years, and in that lime
I’ve advanced from the first floor
back to the third floor front, and
two more moves will take me out
on the roof.”
“We might go somewhere else,”
said Nannie.
Oh! you poor little inno
cent!” laughed Beth. “You’d
‘change the place and keep thr
pain.’ They’re all about alike.”
At this Nannie lifted such a
woe be gone face that I felt some
thing must be done.
“Girls!” said 1, in my most im
pressive school room manner.
But here there was an interrup
tion, for Nannie left the rocking
chair and rushed toward the bed.
•Oh, Nannie!'’ cried Kate,
“don't muss the bed; it's hard
enough anyway.” But she spoke
too late, for under the combined
influence of homesickness nnd in
fluenza, Nannie had flung herself
on the bed in a forlorn little heap,
and was lifting up her voice in a
hoarse cry.
Beth and I purred over and
cuddled her, and Kate slipped
downstairs ami coaxed the cross
kitchen girl into making a bowl of
sage tea. and by the time she was
hack with it the invalid was some
what comforted.
When quiet was restored, 1
“Girls! let's go to
housekeeping.” Nannie stopped
the bowl half way to her lips, ftetli
sat upright on the trunk, and
Kate drop|>ed the stick of wood in
her hand back into the box.
“Where's the furniture coming
from?” said she.
“Who'll pay the bills?"’ said
Nannie.
“Who'll do the work?” sab I
Beth, who was bom south of Ma
son’s and Dixon’s line.
“We'll all do it,” said I, an
swering the last question first;
“and as for the furnishing, that
needn't cost so very much; and
aliout the hills—Kate, how much
do wc all pay a week?”
“Four times five is twenty, and
two dollars for washing makes
twenty-two,” said Kate, with
book keeper promptness.
“Why,” said Beth, beginning to
be eager, “lots of families live on
less than that, anil pay for every
thing out of it—clothes and doc
tor's bills and everything."
Well, wc talked till midnight,
and the more we talked, the more
fcasi hie the scheme seemed, and
it was decided that we should
commence tenement hunting the
very next morning; and after
I Beth and I had gone to our own
room, Kate came hurrying across
to say site had some spoons and
forks which had been her moth
er's, and that Nannie said she
knew how to make lovely waffles.
We expected a tedious time
it.
store room, closets, etc., and as
the house was on a corner, we hail
the sun most of the day.
Kate and Nannie painted the
floor of their room soft gray, and
covered their dreasing-table and
wash-stand with Mac and drab
chintz. The one window was
draped with full curtains of un
bleached cotton, trimmed and
loo|>ed back, with bands of the
chintz, and a low cushioned chair
and ottoman were covered with
the same bine and drab covering.
A low painted bedstead and
chest of drawers completed their
furniture, and strips of blue and
gray carpeting before the larger
pieces took away any suspicion of
bareness.
Tbe room Beth and I shared
was precisely similar, except that
our floor was painted a bright
warm brown, and onr cretonne
covers and bits of carpet were
scarlet Wnd white. But it was on
onr common sitting room that we
lavished onr greatest skill. Tile
three windows were curtained
with full draperies of cheese cloth,
over cream colored shades, a big
crimson how at the top of each
window where the draperies part
ed. Nannie, who was not in tbe
least aesthetic, pleaded to have
the whole floor covered, but as
this meant twenty-five yards of
carpeting, she was voted down on
the score of economy as well as of
art. A wide margin was stained a
most delightful dead-leaf brown,
and nine yards of crimson and
wood colored carpet made a square
large enough to come well out
around the center table. And
the table—wc saw it one day in
front of an auction-room. The
top looked as though opposing
1 forces had fought across it, but
finding a house to rent within the standard was good and solid;
wuo conducted Ms wooing with
very little nonsense. Some even
ings be would come in with his
drawing board under bis arm. and
establishing himself at our kitch
en table, put in his marrelously
fine lines and fi-.nires, with Nan
nie sitting beside him with her
sewing, making quite a Darby
and Joan picture. Kate some
times shook her fist at him from
the covert of the sitting room,
but she usually ended with “Bless
the children!”
But to turn from lore to figures.
How much did it cost?
Now I do not expect to he be
lieved when I say that our entire
furnishing, from the small mir
rors in our bed rooms to tbe big
iron spoon in tbe pantry, cost ex
actly $128.63; nevertheless, that
was the exact total. It may seem
more creditable when it is under
stood that our dressing tables,
wash stands, and ottomans were
packing boxes, and tliat t!-.» in
viting cushioned chairs were orig
inally barrels. Of course our
tiedslead* were not furnished
with hair mattresses and rose
blankets, hut we had warm cov
erings, and clean straw filled
ticks, which were simply luxuri
ous after boarding house mattress
es.
Our table was not set forth with
cut-glass and silver (except
Kate's s|ioons and forks), but it
was clean, and the food whole
some and varied.
And about the cost of living?
We elected Kate treasurer, and
every Saturday night each of us
put five dollars and a half into a
box kept for the purpose, ami she
paid for every thing out of it. Wc
questioned her often, during the
first month, l.oiv the money was
holding out, but she made no sat-
basket on the front seat.
Bnt this did not break up the
society, for another good friend
stood ready to fill the vacancy,
nnd stepped promptly in. And
did we nut find the work too bard?
Well, sometimes it seemed a both
er, bnt divided among four, it waa
not oppressive; and if tbe larder
got empty, or other work pressed,
we took our dinners out for a day
or two.
And we did not get tired of it,
bnt after a three years’ trial nl
the plan, are more and more sat
isfied, for it is home. We leave
it in the morning with regret, and
return to it gladly at night, feel
ing that it is ours, that wc are
not there on sufferance, but by-
right. And this sense of scciirtly
and permanency encourage us to
add comforts and even luxuries to
our surroundings, and I think
you might hunt up and down the
city and not find a more content
ed and comfortable set of people
than tbe memliers of the Home
Cooperative Society.—Harper t
Bazar.
the
living;
our means; but it is astonishing
how fortune helps those who try
to help themselves. That very
week a nice little scholar of Nan
nie’s stopped alter school to say
that her parents were going to
move out of the city. We knew
where she lived—a pleasant house
iu a respectable locality; so after
supper Kate and 1 hunted up the
landlord, the next day wc went in
a body to inspect the place, and
the bargain was concluded.
Between that time and our dc
parture we bade fair to lose our
reputation of being the quietest
boarders in the house, for every
night there was talking and
laughing in one room or the other,
while we stitched and hemmed
and figured—this last the hardest
of all.
Kate, with a confidence born of
much handling of money, made
nut a list in a twinkling, which
list was perfectly satisfactory to
all of us—until wc inquired pri
ces. One thing we were agreed
upon, aud that was, rigid econo
my, so we cheapened this and left
out that, until it looked quite
reasonable.
Well, the first day of December
found us in “our own hired
house,” and as Beth turned the
key in the hall door, we felt that
wre had burned our ships behind
us.
Tbe outgoing tenants seemed to
regard our experiment in the
light of a huge joke, which tbey
were willing to help along, so they
gave us a number of bouse keep
ing things, among others a braid
ed mat, and a half-dozen plants
all in blossom, and sold us their
range at a very low price. Beside
this, we had a couple of bedsteads
with the furnishings, a few dishes,
our trunks, and a half dozen
packing boxes of different sizes.
The next fortnight was
one. We rose early and went lo
bed late, and lived in picnic fash
ion, while we painted and pound
ed, and planned. We were in a
state of mind where we wisher)
for no advice, much less help,
from anybody outside; but after
jamming considerable plaster from
the walls, and skin from our
knuckles, we decided there were
times when a man could be made
useful, and at Nannie's sugges
tion a certain young architect
from the boarding house was ta
ken into onr confidence, and did
valiant service in patting up
shelves and hooks.
One Friday night, with the last
screw in the kitchen clock shelf,
the work was done, and I dqubt
if many brides, going into houses
luxuriantly appointed without
care of theirs, feel half the satis
faction that we did in looking
round on the result of our ingenu
ity and hard work. And it was a
right cosy little place. There
was a good sized sitting room
with two sleeping rooms opening
1 so home it went, and when it was
covered with Beth's old gray
shawl dyed crimson, and the stu
dent lamp set over the darn in the
middle, the effect was all that
could lie desired.
Then wc had Beth's piano and
the plants, and nobody knows un
til she tries it how far a piano
and plants go toward furnishing
a room. We had a comfortable
lounge, bought “in the cloth."
and covered by our own hands, a
big Shaker rocking chair, ami two
or three smaller rockers and camp
chairs. The wall paper, was sub
dued, and our few pictures and
brackets made quite a show, and
when we bad scattered our books
and trinkets about tbe room, it
was a decided success.
“There, Nannie,” said Kate,
when we reached the cozy kitchen
on our tour of inspection, “yon
can tuck your little feet right into
the oven, and feast your eyes ou
the braided mat, and if the cat
was only here, you would have
reached the climax of earthly
happiness.”
The young architect looked in
quiringly, and Nannie's ideal ot
bliss was explained to him. He
made no comments, but looked at
her with a peculiar expression in
his handsome eyes, nnd I felt that
the stability of the society was
threatened.
The next night as we were sit
ting down cozily to our tea aud
toast, and baked apples and milk,
there was a ring at the door, and
Kate, answering it, came back
with a basket.
“It's directed to you, Nannie,”
she said, holding it to the light.
So Nannie opened it, when out
stopped a pltlmp, self satisfied
Maltese kitten, and attached to
one fore paw was a card which
said: “The Climax.” Beth turn-
a busy ! ed the card over, and read the
young architect's name.
“Oh, Nannie!” she said, turn
ing on her reproachfully, “I hope
yon are not going to spoil every
thing.” But Nannie waa busy
filling a saucer for the new comer,
and made no answer.
I may as well say here that,
soon after, the young man came
to me in a very straightforward
way, made known hit intentions
in regard to Nannie, and askej
permission to visit her. That
night, while she was gone on an
errand, I laid tbe question before
tbe other girls.
“I move,” said Kate, who was
rather given to sounding phrases
—“I move that he be granted
leave to withdraw/’
“Oh, let him come!” said Beth,
with true Southern obliviousness
of consequences.
Well, be came, and came again,
aud the little romance unfolded
in • kindlier atmosphere than that
of a boarding house parlor, and
after a while I think we all rath
er enjoyed him, as he was a high-
minded, intelligent young fellow,
isfartory answer.
The first day of January wc
each found on our plate at supper
tbe following notice; “The first
monthly meeting of the Home Co
operative Society will be held this
evening in the kitchen, as soon as
the dishes are done. A full at
tendance is desired, to hear the
report of the treasurer.”
Every member was present,
and the treasurer read her report.
After setting forth at some ljyigtli
the origiu and object of the socie
ty, she presented the following
figures:
Ik Accockt with Homs Co-orsasTiTE
tioCIETT.
Dr.
To Cash
$>7.43
Cr.
By ton coal $ 7 .So
“ groceries. 22.no
“ meat and vege
tables . MUM.
“ milk . l‘..si
“labor} wash-
ins, ironing
an Jcleaning > *>.50
“ rent lH.un
$72.75
“ bal. on hand 24 lift
$07 «i $97.43
“Which means,” said Kate, drop
ping her official manner, “that we
have had all this good time, and
don't owe a cent for anything,
and have six dollars and seven
teen cents apiece coming hack to
us;” and she counted out four lit
tle piles of money.
“And coal in the bin, anu food
in the larder,” added Beth.
The next month we paid five
dollars a week each, and had a
surplus, and after that, four dol
lars a week usually covered all
expenses.
When we started, though we
asked no advice, we bail floods of
it, and no end of dismal predic
tions. “You’ll quarrel,” “You’ll
run in debt,” “You'll find the
work too hard,” “You’ll get tired
of it,” and most dreadful of all,
“You’ll be talked about.”
“Well,” aaid Kate, when this
was brought np, “if a good name
in the past, and orderly living in
the future won’t save us, why, let
them talk. They must talk about
something, and while we are un
der discussion somebody else will
escape.” So that waa disposed
of. And we did not run into
debt, and we did not quarrel. It
would be too much to say that we
never differed, but our differences
were never bitter.
We nsed to think sometimes
thatBetb shirked her share of the
work, but she waa the sweetest-
tempered creature living, ami al
ways willing to make amends
Then we had to bold a tight rein
on Kate, who waa apt to want lax
uries out of season, at exorbitant
prices; and I was sometimes a
’.rial about cooking, being absent
minded, and apt to burn things
np. As to Nannie, she waa never
anything but a comfoit. We
didn't keep her long, for one day,
toward onr first Thanksgiving,
there was an nnuanal flatter in tbe
bouse. We trimmed tbe rooms
with flowers, and tied a white
satin ribbon on tbe Climax; tbe
minister and a few friends came
in and almost before we knew it,
Nannie and the young architect
I gone off together in n hack,
with Tbe Climax wailing in a
Arsenic nils by the i taL
J. A. Smith, a Gainesville, Ga.,
merchant, saya: “For years
was a victim to the combined ef
fects of Erysipelas and an aggra
rated ty|ie of Eczema, that baffled
all medical skill. I consulted
the very best physicians in tbe
United States to no good purpose.
I gave every patent medicine that
was recommended a faithful trial
and received no benefit. I took
large quantities of potash and a
pint cup full of arsenic pills. The
patent medicine, pills, and potash
mixtures fed instead of curing the
disease. They destroyed my ap
petite and wrecked my system—I
lost flesh and energy—I lost three
years from my business and spent
$2,000 in a fruitless effort to re
gain my health. At last, when I
began to consider my case hope
less, I commenced taking $. S. ».,
and in a short time, I was en
tirely cured. I waited a year
alter a cure was effected, and con
tinued to take Swift’s Specific off
and on as a sort of safegnard,beforc
I was willing to make public this
marvelous cure Being assured
beyond the possibility of a doubt
that tbe cure waa permanent, 1
wrote thia history of my case for
the benefit of my fellow men.
My skin is now as smooth as it
was when a boy. I weigh more
tban I ever did in my life, and my
heal til was never better. I passed
through last winter (which was
an unusually cold one), without
losing a single day from my busi
ness. For the lost twelve months
I have had no return of the ery
sipelas in any shape or form, or
any touch of eczema.”
Treatise on Blood and Skin
Diseases mailed free.
The Swirr Specific Co., Draw
er 3. Atlanta, Ga., 159 W. 23d SL,
N. Y., and 1205 Chestnut St.
Pbila.
* • ^
The Key reseats tire #f Principle.
Grover Cleveland is a life long
Democrat, but he is the incarna
tion of those high purposes and
that noble independence which en
able the loyal democrat to lift bis
party to even higher aspirations
and grander efforts. He stands
recommended to the suffrages not
only Df Democrats, but of ail lion
est men. He is the embodiment
of the best administrative reforms
which have in the last ten years
engaged the attention of all
thoughtful patriots. His attach
meat to these reforms has been
shown by practical action. At the
risk of losing favor with the un
thinking be has dared to do his
duty with uprightness and fearless
courage. He is at this day as
much tbe representative of high
devotion to duty a* Mr. Bristow
would have been had tbe Repub
licans nominated him in 1876.—
His success would be an assn
ranee of honest government; he
wonld gather around him the best
and purest of bis political friends,
anil administer bis high office
solely for public good.—Burling
ton Gazette.
“Huckleberries.”
The soldiers, in tbe late war
established the fscttbst the huck
leberry was much mote efficacious
in chronic bowel troubles than tbe
blackberry. Dr. Biggers’ Huck
leberry Cordial, the GREAT
SOUTHERN REMEDY, will
restore the little child suffering
from effects of teething, and cur.
es Diarrhoea, Dysentery and all
bowel affections. For sale by all
druggists at 50 cents.
Behavior is a mirror in which
everyone shows his image.
Tbe society ef women is
element of good manners.
Envy feeds opon the
after death it ceases—then every
man’s well earned honors defend
him against calumny.
The wise men of old have sent
most of their morality down the
stream of time in the light skiff
of apothegm or epigram.
No woman ean be handsome by
the force of features alone, any
more than she cm be witty only
by the help of speech.
Strong minds, like hardy ever
greens, are most verdant in win
ter; when feeble ones, like tender
summer plants, are leafless.
Right habit is like the channel
which dictates tbe course ia which
the river shall flow, and which
grows deeper and deeper each
year.
It is impossible to make people
understand their ignorance, for it
requires knowledge to perceive it:
and, therefore, he that can per
ceive it hath it
Love seizes on ns suddenly,
without giving us time to reflect;
our disposition or onr weakness
favors the surprise; one look, one
glance from tbe fair, fixes and de
termines us.
A good memory is the best
monument. Others are subject to
casualty or time, and we know
that tbe pyramids themselves,
rotting with age. have forgotten.
Infinite toil would not enable
you to sweep away a mist, but by
ascending a little you may often
look over it altogether. So it is
with our moral improvement; we
restle fiercely with a vicious
habit which would have no hold
upon its if we ascended into a
higher moral atmosphere.
A Candidate’s Mistake.
“Madam, may I kiss tiiesc beau
tiful children?'’ inquired Uncle
Dick Oglesby, as he leaned over
the gate.
“Certainly, sir; there is no pos
sible objection.”
They are lovely darlings,”
said Uncle Dick, alter he had
finished the eleventh. “I have
seldom seen more beautiful babes.
Are they all yours, raarm?”
The lady blushed .deeply.
“Of course they arc—the sweet
little treasures! From whom
else, marm. could they have in
herited those rosy cheeks, those
profuse curls, those comely figures
and those mnsical voices?”
The lady continued blushing.
“By the way, marm.” said Un
cle Dick, “may I bother you to
tell your estimable husband that
Richard J. Oglesby, the Republi
can candidate for Governor, call
ed upon him this evening?”
“Alas, good sir.” qnotli the la
dy, “I have no husband!”
“But these children, madam—
you surely are not a widow?”
“I feared you were mistaken, sir.
when you first came up. These
are not my children. This is
an Orphan Ayslum!”—Chicago
Xttn.
A health journal says, “Always
have fruit on the breakfast table
this time a year.” It would be
well for boardinghouse keepers
to understand ia this connection
that oatmeal mash is note species
•f “fruit.”
Somebody hoard a Boston girl
say “I tbiak he looked like a per
fect raring angel in his uniform!
He was awful heavenly.”
A Bay’s logic.
A boy astonished his Christian
mother by asking her for a dollar
to buy a share in a raffle fur a sil
ver watch that was to be raffled in
a beer saloon. His mother was
horrified, and rebuked him.
“But,” said be. “mother, did
you not bake a cake with a ring
in it to be raffled off in a Sunday
School fair?”
“Oh. my son,” said she, “that
was for the church.'’
“But if it was wrong,” said
the boy, “would doing it for the
church make it right? Would it
be right for aae (osteal money to
put ia tbe collection? And if it ia
right for the rhorch, is it not
right for me to get this watch if (
can?”
The good woman was speech
less. awl no person can answer
the boy’s argument. Tbe prac'.i-
ces are both wrong, or they are
both right.
A Basbfal Bey.
Robert, a bashful young student
of Cupid, recently summoned wp
courage to escort a young lady
home. At the breakfast table
next morning his father said:
“Well, my son, did yon go home
with any of the girls last night:
“Yes,” said Bob.
“Who was she.
Bob hesitated, but finally blurt
ed out:
“I thought it was Annie War-
ran, hot when we got to the tarn
of the rand ahe went into Ella
Ham’s house.
“Bnt I shoo Id think you might
have told by the sound of her
voice,” said bis father.
“Neither of ns said n word,”
said Bob blosbing and stammer
ing.