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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
J03N E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. XII. NO. 12
VIENNA, GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1S93.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
'HE LOWLIEST FLOWER.
Ray, not too low!
1’alc, tender flower, halt hidden in the
grass,
The sun and dew and kindly winds that blow
'Will llnd you as they pass
Ray. not too low!
Pure, humble life, whose wayside graces
meet
Tew friendly eyes. God's watchlul angels
know
J.'ow fair yon are—hoar sweet!
—Madeline S. Bridges, in Home Journal. '
CHAPMAN’S LABOR DAY.
El' CHARLES M. HARGER.
HE Hmv-
ley claim
certainly
r~ looked shift-
less. All
through the
hot days of
July and the
greater part
of August
the wheat shockshad stood in the fierce
sun and torrid prairie winds, just as
the company of harvesters left them.
“Mother, what shall we do?” asked
Joe, discouraged, as he knelt beside
the widow’s chair in the rude cabin.
“There has been but one thing to
do so far, ” she answered. ‘ ‘It was bet
ter to help those needing comforts
worse than ourselves than to get in the
wheat.”
“So you have told us; but we have
worked for Mr. Clark all summer
nearly, and I don’t think we ought to
do any more for our neighbor. He can
pay us nothing and seems to expect us
to continue.”
Clark, the lame renter on the ad
joining section, had been ill a great
deal, and Mrs. Hawley had urged her
boys to assist him with his herding
and farming. Joe’s advice, however,
won, and the next morning the Hawley
boys pitched the heavy bundles of
wheat on their own field throughout
the drowsy August hours. They worked
slowly, and the grain rattled to the
ground from every sheaf as they lifted
it to the wagon.
“I’m ashamed to be working at this
job so late in the season,” said Joe,
stopping a moment.
Gregg looked down from the wagon.
“ Well, how was we to do it sooner?
Wo had to help Clark, and mother’s
been so miserable. ”
“I know it; but it does look awful
back-handed to see the wheat shocks
(.-.standing in the field from July until
’most September—it’ll be that to
morrow. Besides look at the grain
we’re wasting,” as another shower of
kernels rattled down when he went on
with his work.
It was discouraging—twenty acres
of grain ahead of them and a likeli-
k hood of the end of the dry weather
any day. By noon two shambling
loads had been added to the badly-
shaped stack which they had begun a
month before. By night the boys
were wearied out and had broken one
of their decrepit forks.
“That means a trip to the store,”
said Joe; and after supper they
star tod.
“I hope Clark won’t call us,” re
marked Gregg, as the neighboring
cabin came in sight.
“Well, you know he was awful good
to father before—before ho died.”
Joe gulped down a sob.
It was indeed a debt of kindness to
the friend of their departed father
that they had been paying. Their
mother realized it, if they did not,
and knew what the men had been to
each other ns comrades in the war.
There was no call to them ns they
passed the cabin, but their quick ear
caught the sound of a moan.
“It’s Clark,” exclaimed Joe. “Let’s
see what’s the-matter.”
They approached the do.or; it was
locked. Stout shoulders burst the
slender fastenings. There on his lone
some bed was Clark, crying almost
like a child with distress. They could
catch enough of the old man’s story to
learn that his daughter had gone to
the next county to visit, and that he
bad been very ill since the night be
fore.
“You go fora doctor, Gregg,” were
Joe’s orders ; and the younger lad hur
ried away through the night while the
other endeavored to make his patient
easier.
Around the store in the station
agent’s office the committee was ar
ranging for the observance of the ap
proaching Labor Day. The town of
Chapman had read the Governor’s
proclamation and proposed to make of
the occasion .a time of rejoicing. There
was to be a procession, a picnic din
ner, speeches, music and other attrac
tions. Every settler and every towns
man was to be called on to contribute
to the celebration. The committee
had nearly completed the list of resi
dents, when Merser, the station agent
called the name of Hawley.
“The Hawleys can't drive in any
procession that I manage,” said Blake,
who was to be marshal of the day.
“What have you got against ’em?”
meekly inquired the postmaster.
Blake glared at the little group from
beneath very savage gray eyebrows.
His fierce glances were most lost in
the gloom, but his words were not.
“We don’t want nobody in the parade
that can’t drive n decent rig an’ that
can’t keep their place lookin’ respect
able—that’s why 1 object to ’em.”
“Oh, well, those boys and their
mother have a hard time,” replied the
postmaster.
“Since their father died last spring
—or was it winter?—they've been buy
ing potatoes by the quarter’s worth,”
put in the other committeeman, Pier
son, the storekeeper ; and I know they
don’t have provisions enough to last
sixty hours at a time.”
“I ain’t sure they want to drive in
l the procession,” remarked the post
master, slowly. “When we asked for
volunteers Mrs. Hawley- sent word she
would send the flag her husband car-
- ried in the war, but didn't say any
thing about givin’ a team.”
“Well, we don’t want ’em, anyhow,’’
persisted the obstinate Blake; ‘ ‘my
chief reason is—”
What his reason was never was
known, for with a clangor and screech
the 11 o’clock express came rumbling
by, and Blake ran to the platform to
put aboard the mail and speak to the
conductor.
- The long line of lighted coach win
dows glided past the heavy Pullman
fats with lamps turned low, that the
passengers might sleep, rolled by him, I made a pathetic picture as their little
and the green and red lanterns on the j forms, perched on the rickety load of
rear platform were becoming dimmer j wheat, were outlined against the vast
as the train sped away across the plain. I spread of prairie sky.
Blake turned and nearly stumbled over I “Hurry up now, men! Get to
a boy—a stranger. work!” were Pierson’s orders, as he
“Hello 1 did you belong on the j set the example by doffing his regalia
train ?” he asked. ! and the brass-buttoned overcoat.
“No, I’m lookin’ for a doctor; be j Coats and vests were thrown aside,
you one?” replied a piping voice. j sleeves were rolled up; and with an
“Not much; come inside. Here j energy that astonished .Toe and Gregg
boys,” he called to his comrad*s, ; until they could do nothing but stand
“which of you is a doctor?” | and gaze in wonderat the proceedings,
“Who’s sick?” inquired Pierson ; f the farmers and farmers’ sons, as well
then, after a closer look, “bless me. j as many townspeople who had joined
if it isn’t one of th’ Hawley boys! the novel expedition, took forks from
what’s the matter, my lad?” \ the wagons and began loading the dis-
Gregg instinctively knew he had ; colored shocks of grain,
found a friend and quickly- told his Load after load was hauled up to the
errand. stacks, and one mound of grain after
“Poor old Clark!” ejaculated the another arose, until the year’s yield
postmaster, “he’s always lookin’ for a j of the little farm was concentrated in
letter with money in it. I’m afraid what looked like mammoth yellow
he’ll never get it.” eggs of straw in the midst of the
“Well come on, we’ll find a doctor,” j prairie,
said PiersoD, rising; “and I believe “Now, young men,” broke out
I’ll go out with you myself to see that Pierson, in pretended grnfiness, com-
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
“You will require careful treatment
under my personal supervision
for
A Pastoral—A Woman’s Definition—
The Reason—Answered —Dodged
Sanctum Pleasantry—A Jjaud-
lubbcriy Explanation, Etc.
Now dips and sways the laden grain,
The haycocks dot the mead.
Thro’ leafy shades a golden rain
Sprays fern and lissome reed.
One snowy cloud, like ermine rug,
Floats calmly o’er the scene.
While yet the sleek potato bug
Doth browse on Paris green.
—Atlanta Journal.
Clark don’t suffer
He was as good as his word, and
midnight saw three riders hurrying
through the dry- grass, the long, steady
“swish” of the horses’ feet making a
kind of music as they cantered on.
It seemed to Joe that his brother
would never return. Patiently he
bathed the suffering settler’s head, and
tenderly as he could he straightened
the crumpled sheets. The watch in
the little cabin, so cramped and un
tidy, was anything but pleasant; and
it seemed that the whole night had
passed when he caught the sound of
approaching hoofs.
“He is in a bad way,” pronounced
the doctor, “and must not be left
alone. If he gets much worse he can
not be moved. Is there any place
where we can take him?”
“I know mother will care for him,”
spoke up Gregg. “He and father went
to war together, and mother thinks we
owe him a great deal of care.”
“I don’t see anything else to do,”
decided Pierson, “although it seems
like a big burden to put on these
folks. ”
“Never mind,” insisted the boy; “it
is better than leaving him here. We
have taken most of the care of him
and his place this summer.”
“What’s that? You’ve heljied him
run his farm?”
“Yes. Mother said we should; he
needed it worse than we did.”
“I’ve wondered how he got along;
now I see. Well, come on; we’ll take
him over for a day or two, and then
we’ll get some one to care for him.”
The little procession of four horse
men made an odd sight as it slowly
moved to the Hawley- cabin. Mrs.
Hawley was anxiously- awaiting the re
turn of her sons.
“.I’ve got the fork, mother,” called
Gregg; and indeed he had remem
bered that essential implement.
“But there’s something else,” called
the doctor, as they lifted Clark down
and carried him inside.
“Just think of it!” indignantly ex
claimed the storekeeper, as he got the
physician to one side when the patient
had been made comfortable. “This
poor family the only- one out of this
whole prosperous neighborhood to look
after the old soldier in his troubles I
I’ll stir up the boys at Chapman so
they’ll think judgment has come to
them ; and they’ll do something, too—
see if they don’t. ”
When Pierson left for the settle
ment it was after a look over the claim
and a careful estimate of the family’s
situation. His first duty when he
reached home was to call a meeting of
the committee for that night. They
met at the depot.
“We were too fine,” he sneered,
with more sarcasm than he had ever
used in his lifo before, “to let them
into our procession, and yet those
three poor people have cared for that
siok veteran while we let him alone. ”
Blake winced, and the post-master
clapped his hands gleefully-. It was
long after the express went through
when they adjourned, and then it was
with promises “to keep it quiet.”
Pierson the next morning sent his
son Charles on horseback in one direc
tion, while he himself took another.
They bore a mysterious message to the
heads of families, and it was nearly
night when they completed their
rounds.
The day which was to mean so much
to the community as the day when
labor’s achievements were to lie cele
brated, dawned bright and clear on
the Hawley claim.
Joe and Gregg were in the field
early, struggling with the discolored
sheaves and the rattling kernels.
‘ -It’ll be a labor day for us, sure
en ough, ” remarked Joe; and he lauged
at his own pun.
“It’s been labor day for us all sum
mer,” answered the other, bitterly.
“Mother didn’t need to take care of
Clark all the time.”
“Well, but she thought she ought
to do all she could. Never mind, we’ll
get this wheat all stacked by Christ
mas if we keep at it.”
“Yes, unless we wait until next year
and harvest two crops together,” with
a feeble smile. Joe was apparently-
thinking of something e'se.
“It’ll be a big day. The storeman
said last night that they'd probably
have some fireworks. ”
“Maybe we can see ’em from here—
the prairie’s so level.”
Joe looked from his place of vant
age on top of the wagon load of bun
dles off toward the settlement, as if to
estimate the chances of such good for
tune befalling them.
Something met his sight that drove
fireworks and nearly everything else
from his mind.
“What's that?” be exclaimed, point
ing to a line of teams approaching from
the farm.
“Maybe it’s the procession cornin’
clear out in the country,” suggested
Gregg, who had quickly clambered up
by his side. Both had stopped work
to gaze at the unwonted spectacle.
“The storeman’s leading,” broke
out Joe.
He was right. Mounted on a fiery
nag, Pierson, bedecked with sash and
sword and wearing an old army over
coat to give him a military appearance
fitting the commander of so consider
able a force, was issuing orders to the
drivers with all the self-possession of
a General at review.
“Why, they’re turning in!” said
Gregg, as the long line of teams filed
into the field.
ing to the side of the boys’ wagon
when the last bundle was hoisted
to cap off the final stack, “we’ve some
thing to say to you. When the town
has a Labor Day we want everybody
to attend; and we have decided tj
punish you both, as well as your
mother for not doing so, by making
you ride in the procession.”
There was a twinkle that removed
any- uneasiness his voice might have
caused, and when lie repeated his or
ders to Mrs. Hawley on going to the
house, and showed her a wagon, half
filled with clenn straw, in which to
ride, they accepted the decree, one of
the men having volunteered to stay
with the convalescing neighbor on the
bed inside and to assist the nurse Pier-
eou had engaged in removing him to
his home.
Mrs. Hawley’s pale face brightened
as she stepped into the vehicle, and
she impulsively kissed the two boys
who bashfully clung to her side.
Down at the grove the wives and
children of the settlers were ready,
and on the arrival of the teams the
procession started. The band played,
the horses pranced, the children
laughed and Pierson shouted his or
ders more vociferously than ever.
The center of attraction was the
Hawley wagon, which led the long line
that wound about the sparsely settled
streets, and no one enjoyed the parade
more than its occupants.
It was well past noon when the pro
cession returned to the grove and the
bounteous picnic dinner was spread.
Then came singing and speaking.
The orator of the day, a judge from a
neighboring county, omitted a good
deal of the speech he had prepared in
order to tell the story of the morning’s
doings and the events leading up to
them. “The chief duty of labor as
well as of capital,” he said in closing,
“is to help the helpless and lift up
those struggling under burdens of
trouble and care. The lesson lias been
well learned by this community. This
has been the noblest celebration of
Labor Day I ever saw.”
“Mother,” whispered Joe, as they
were being driven home after the fire
works that evening, “I wish Labor
Day would come every week. ”
“Perhaps,” she answered, “we can
get along so well that we shall not
need another day like this. We are
rich in friends now, if in nothing else. ”
Her prediction came true, for the
Hawleys entered upon a brighter and
more prosperous life.—The Independ
ent.
ANSWERED.
Brown—“How often have I told you
not to play ball in the house?”
Johnny—“Every time you’ve caught
me at it. ”—Judge.
about two months before you are able
to resume your labors in the bank.”
“Doctor, you are fooling yourself.
I am not Smith the banker, but Smith
the street car driver.”
“Is that so? Well, my good fellow,
I don’t see what you came to me for.
There is nothing the matter with you
except that you are not a banker.
Texas Siftings.
stao
a woman’s definition.
Ethel—“Emma, what is
party?”
Mr.-. Knowitall—“A party where a
lot of men get together and stagnate
for the lack of women, dear.”—Puck.
DODGED.
Briggs—“What did you tell your
wife when you got home so late Tues
day night?”
Braggs—“I told her she was the
sweetest woman in the world. ”—In
dianapolis Journal.
THE REASON.
Jasper—“I understand now why
there is an eagle with outspread wings
on so many of our coins.
J umpuppe— ‘ ‘Why ?’ ’
Jasper—“It is to teach us that
money flies.”—Truth.
LANDT.rr.BEP.LY EXPLANATION.
“What do nautical people mean by
‘tacking?’ ” said one girl to another.
“Don’t you know that?”
“Not exactly.”
“Why, tacking—er—tacking is sail
ing on the bias.”—Life.
HARDLY EQUAL TO IT.
“You say yon can write shorthand?
said the eity editor.
“I can, sir,” replied the applicant
for a job. “When it comes to short
hand I don’t knuckle down to any
body. ”
“Have you had any experience in re
porting a meeting?”
“Lots of it. I can take a full report
of the proceedings in shorthand and
put it in shape for the printers after
ward. That’s child’s play for me.”
“Report any kind of meeting, can
you?”
“Yes, sir.”
“H’m!” said the eity editor,
“there is a sort of convention at
Saddler’s Hall in the next block. You
may go and report the proceedings.
Write the speeches out in full. ”
The applicant for a place on the city
editor’s staff took his note book and
went away. And he never came back.
When he got to Saddler’s Hall he
found he had been sent to report the
proceedings of a convention of deaf
mutes. —New York Mercury.
SANCTUM PLEASANTRY.
“So this is your idea of wit, eh?”
said the editor, as he read Wagg’s
jokes.
“Yes, it is,” said Wagg.
“Well, the idea is certainly origi
nal, ” said the editor. —Puck.
IN TRAINING.
A Womleriul Finny Curiosity,
A wonderful piscatorial curiosity
(long since forgotten by all except
those whose business it is to keep a
record of such things out of the or
dinary in nature, science and art) was
caught in Cape Fear River, near Fort
St. Johnson, N. C., away back in the
AO’s, and presented to Professor Silli-
man, one of America’s greatest natu
ralists. This rara pisces was nothing
more or less (it could scarcely be more
of a monstrosity) than a double catfish
—two perfect, living fish joined breast
to breast, much in the same manner that
Chang and Eng were. When the Pro
fessor made an incision preparatory to
removing the entrails of the specimens
so that they could be properly pre
served, he found that there was no con
nection whatever between the viscera
of the two fishes, but that the con
necting integment was hollow, so that
a flexible rubber tube could be passed
readily from the body of one into the
other. Exactly in the middle of this
connecting integument, at the point
where the skin of the one left off and
the other began, there was a dark col
ored streak about the sixteenth of an
inch in width which gave the queerly
united pair the aopearance of having
been cemented togeter. As one of
them had to continually swim on his
back and gather his food in that posi
tion he was much smaller than the
other—the natural result of his mode
of living.—St. Louis Republic.
‘ ‘Charley proposed to me last night,
and I accepted him.”
“Why, he proposed to me yester
day.”
“Indeed? Well, he did it so pret
tily that I was sure he had rehearsed
several times.”—Puck.
IT TAKES NERVE.
“I can’t pay this bill, doctor. It’s
exorbitant. I’m no better than I was
either. ”
"That’s because you didn’t take my
advice.”
“Ah—well—of course, if I didn’t
take it, I don’t owe you for it. Thanks.
Good morning.”—Tit-Bits.
WORSE THAN AN EPIDEMIC.
“When your practicing friend
across the way has learned how to play
th8 coronet he will entertain the
whole neighborhood, ” said Mrs.
Brown.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Jones, “but by
that time there won’t bo any neigh
borhood here.”—Texas Siftings.
ENLIGHTENED.
Jones (doing a little preliminary
sparring before announcing his ap
proaching marriage)—“Now, Brown,
you’re a friend of mine. Tell me can
didly, why did you get married?”
Brown (savagely)—“Because I was a
dod-rasted, half-baked, idiotic lunk
head !”
(Jones decides to say nothing.)
TRANSFERRED.
Park Lane—“What do you think of
this ready-made suit, old man? Since
I got married, you know, I have got
to be economical.”
Baxter—“Of course. “But you
don’t mean to say yon have given up
your tailor ?”
ParkLane—“Oh, no. My jvife has
him now?”—Clothier and Furnisher.
THE HORSE KNEW.
Watts—“I tell you, old man, I saw
the most remarkable exhibition of ani
mal intelligence to-day that could be
imagined. ”
Potts—“What was it?”
Watts—“A bridal party started
from the house across the street from
where I live and one of the horses
attached to the carriage threw a shoe.
Now, what do you think of that?”—
Mercurv.
Some (Jnaiut Epitaphs.
Ill an article on quaint epitaphs, the
London Funeral Directors’ Journal
says: The following in Penrith Church
yard is refreshing in these days of de
ceit, on account of its candor :
“Here lies the man Richard and Mary his
wife;
Their surname was Pritchard, and they lived
without strife.
The reason was plain—they abounded In
riches
They had no care nor pain, and the wife wore
the breeches.”
The owner ot this inscription, now
resting in Hebburn Churchyard, was
probably a democrat, and had seme
little opinion of himself:
“This humble monument will show,
Here lies an honest man ,
You Kings, whose heads are now as low.
Rise higher if you can
John Dale was a courageous man
This is the epitaph over his remains in
Bakewell Churchyard, Derbyshire:
“Know posterity that on the 8th of April
in the year of grace 1737, the rambling re
mains of John Dale were, in the eighty-sixth
year of his pilgrimage, laid upon Ills two
wives:
This thing in life might raise some jeal
ousy ;
Here all three lie together lovingly.”
One epitaph in Ilfracombe Church
yard shows faith.
“Weep not for me, my friends so dear,
I am not dead, but sleeping here,
My Sebt is paid, my grave is free,
And in due course you'll come to me.”
Not far from this we have an exam
pie of quiet self glorification :
“Here lies a kind and loving wife
A tender nursing mother—
A neighbor-free from brawl and strife,
A pattern for all others.”
Evidently marriage was not a failure
in this case.
What follows was formerly on
tombstone in St. Thomas’s Church
yard, Salisbury:
“Here lies three babes dead as nits.
God took them off in agie fits ,
They was too good to live wi’ we,
So he took ’em off to live wi’ ’ee.”
Who dares to utter the foul slander
that it requires a surgical operation to
get a joke into the head of a Scotch
man ? Let him or her cast an eye over
the following, and then sit silent for
ever. It is on a gravestone in Stone
haven Churchyard:
“The place whaur Betty Cooper lies
Is here or here aboot;
The place whaur Betty Cooper lies
There’s neen can fin’ it oot
The place where Betty Cooper lie3
There’s neen on earth can tell,
Till at the resurrection day,
When Betty tells hersel’.”
Dangers ot Cat-Kissing.
The ladies who with perverted affec
tion kiss their cats -and lap-dogs may
be interested in learning the results of
Signor Fiocca’s examination of the
saliva of these animals. That of the
cat is especially rich in all sorts of
minute bacilli, and contains a new form
seldom absent, and so fatal that rab
bits and guinea-pigs inoculated with it
died in twenty-fonr hours. The dog’s
saliva contains an even greater number
of bacteria, some of them of a particu
larly disagreeable character, plus oc
casional flukes and the eggs of intesti
nal worms. Nor is the horse free from
these death-dealing organisms. For
among the diverse “bacilli, strep
tococci, and spirillia, ” in its saliva
were three forms of a noxious descrip
tion. —London Chronicle.
A Unique Handbag.
The very unique handbag of a Wal
nut street gentleman attracts attention
wherever he carries it. He has jour
neyed around the world, and the bag
made the tour with him. He made it
a practice to write on the leather sur
face the name of each town and coun
try he visited, and in the course of the
trip the bag was completely covered.
The pair found their way hand in
hand to a number of smaller towns
of Europe with unpronounceable
names, and each one has been carefully
| written on the bag, until the gripsack’s
The visitors paid no attention to the 1 surface looks like a Chinese labyrinth
bewildered occupaate of the farm. who 1 vusale.—Philadelphia Record.
A CORDIAL GRIP.
Stokes— ‘ ‘The president of your com
pany seems to take quite an interest in
yon dow.”
Clarkly
so.”
The Wild Cossacks.
The wild Cossacks, living away down
in the southernmost part of the Rus-
sian Empire, spend most of their time
harassing the Turks. They are pecn
liarly savage in appearance. Their
uniform is the Cossack coat, full
trousers, scarlet undercoat hooked up
to the neck, big boots and, as an orna
ment, they wear a bourka, a circular
cloak made of coarse felt with Ion:
shaggy hair on one side of it. This
cloak is big enough to cover the rider
and much of the horse. The most
distinctive point in their dress, how
ever, is the cylindrical hat of black
astrakhan which they wear at all
seasons. The top is of cloth or velvet.
They form part of the Russian cavalry
and live principally on plunder, steal
ing, during their raids into Turkey,
anything they can find, from a chicken
to a child. —St. Louis Republic.
Electricity and Windmills.
The electric motor in country houses,
or on a farm, may be used with a
I windmill and the storage «f power
“What makes you thiuk j produced applied to sawing wood,
chopping feed and countless other
Stokes—“I notice he has fallen into j outside purposes; possibly before Ion:
the habit of shaking hands with you , it will run the mowing machine and
when he comes into the office in the the cultivator, and take the place ol
morning.
Clarkly— ‘ ‘Yes; he thinks it’s cheaper
than raising my salary.”—Life.
horses and many men. But, most and
best of all, it can be used now for
lighting a house from top to bottom,
in every closet and dark place, with
anticipating things. perfect safety, with a soft, daylight
The youth approached the father lustre, the wiring costing an average
with more or less trepidation. of $2.50 a light in the first place, and
“So,” said the old gentleman, after ' the current costing no more than gas.
the case had been stated, “you want to i What more there is for electricity to
marry my daughter?” * do in the house remains to be seen,
“Not any more than she wants to : but apparently it is going to take the
marry me,” he replied, hedging. : place of the fabled brownie, and make
“Sjie hasn't said anything to me 'i°rk easy and life twice as pleasant
about it.” * : there.—Congregationalism
“No, because she’s afraid to.”
“Aren’t yon afraid sir, more than ;
she is?” said the father, sternly.
Cold Booms the Optician’s Trade.
Cold snaps are a great thing for op-
The youth braced up. ticians. Sudden changes in the tern-
“Well, perhaps I am, hesaid, “but perature from heat to extreme cold
as the head of our family, I va got to j often causes the glass in spectacles t-c
face it and set the pegs, ” and the old
man smiled and gave his consent.—
Detroit Free Press.
WHAT AILED SMITH.
A plainly dressed man, who intro
duced himself as Mr. John Smith,
walked into a doctor’s office in a Texas
town and, having explained his symp
toms, asked the doctor hew long it j any number of inconveniences.
crack, as if trodden upon. Then it
also has a bad effect upon the frames,
and wearers of aids to the eye-sight
are often startled by having their spec
tacle frames suddenly fall apart at the
bridge. A man accustomed to wear
ing glasses is utterly lost withont
them ; he becomes dizzy after a short
while, experiences nausea and suffers
Of
would take to cure him. The doctor, j course the minute his glasses break he
who had treated the visitor sitij every rushes off to the nearest optician.—
possible courtesy, replied» i New York Journal
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
TRADE TOPICS.
Condensed from Onr Most Important
Telegraphic Advices
And Presented In Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
Advices of Wednesday state that
Prince Bismarck continues to improve.
The flint glass workers at Pittsburg,
Pa., struck Wednesday.
Six persons were drowned by the
upsetting of the Orkney islands mail
boat Wednesday.
James Houston, for many years gen
eral manager of the Associated Press
in the United States, died in New
York Tuesday.
A general strike of the American
flint glass workers has been ordered.
This action is the result of the glass
trust declaring that all factories would
be operated by non-union men.
The entire republican ticket in In
dianapolis was elected Tuesday by a
majority not exceeding 1,500. The
average democratic majority two years
ago was about the same.
The British steamer Memnon, load
ed with 2,000 bales of cotton, took fire
Tuesday. The compartments were
flooded with water. The extent of
damage will not be known until the
cotton is brought out.
A special of Tuesday from Paris
says: Count Ferdinand DeLesseps is
hourly expected to breathe his last. All
hope of improvement has been given
up, and it is believed death can be
delayed by the native tenacity of his
constitution. He is not expected to
live till daylight.
Advices of Wednesday from Buenos
Ayres, state that although the rebel ar
my in the province of Santa Fe.has dis
banded, small parties of rebels still make
life and property unsafe in the rural
districts. For a week they have been
plundering and killing foreign settlers
in Santa Fe.
Word was received Tuesday from
Tuskahoma, I. T., of a terrible triple
murder which occurred about forty
miles west of that city. The victims
were Choctaws. Governor Jones says it
was the result of the late political trou
bles and the men killed belonged to
the Jones faction. Particulars are un
obtainable at present.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Terre
Haute, Ind., states that orders have
been given by the managers of the
whisky trust to start operations in the
distillery at once at a capacity of 3,200
bushels a day, about half the full ca
pacity. Other distilleries in the trust
are starting up, aud a demand for the
product is said to be strong.
A relief train of six freight cars,
provisions and supplies for the fever-
stricken town of Brunswick, Ga., left
Jersey City, N. J., Wednesday morn-
on the Pennsylvania railroad via
Washington. It will reach its desti
nation in about three days. The train
carried a large amount of flour, sugar
and other staples, as well as tea, cof
fee, delicacies and medicines.
A London cablegram of Tuesday
says: The government has received a
dispatch from Rio de Janeiro announ
cing that one of the forts in the bay
surrendered to Admiral de Mellos.
The dispatch adds that the city of Rio
de Janeiro remains quiet in spite of
the fact that several shots from the
guns on board the rebel ships, sup
posed to have been fired at the forts,
fell into the city.
The livening Record, a paper which
appeared in San Francisco, Tuesday,
the first time, and about tbe reliabili
ty of which nothing is known,
prints a story to the effect
that the territory of Lower
California has been purchased from the
republic of Mexico by a syndicate of
American and English capitalists, who
propose to annex the pen insular to
the United States. The alleged au
thority is William Wrendon, an En
glish capitalist.
A Des Moines, la., special of Wed-
esday says: The state convention of
the Formers’ Alliance of this state has
adopted resolutions, favoring anti-op
tion bill and the Conger lard bill. A
resolution favoring the free coii. age of
silver and another favoring the free
coinage of American silver, were vot
ed down by decisive majorities. The
money resolution ns adopted, favors a
sound and stable currency of sufficient
volume for the business of the coun
try.
After taking 5,182 ballots, the first
judicial democratic convention in ses
sion at Baltimore ended the deadlock
Tuesday by nominating as chief judge
Henry Page, of Somerset, and associ
ate, Henry Lloyd, of Dorchester. The
convention started to work two months
It was made np of sixteen dele
Report of the Past Week’s Business by
Dun & Co.
It is difficult to detect any signs of
improvement. While there has been
some addition to the number of manu
facturing establishments and the num
ber of bands at work during the past
week, it is becoming painfully clear
that the orders obtained do not suffice
to keep employed at full time even
the limited force at present engaged.
Reports from other cities disclose a
distinct cheek in business. There is,
on the whole, less activity and less
confidence regarding the future than
there was a week ngo, and this is in
many cases attributed to the uncer
tainty regarding the monetary future
which the delay in the senate causes.
The stock of money in New York
banks has increased rapidly, and the
retirement of clearing house certifi
cates at New York and at other cities
shows a great improvement in the
monetary situation.
There is not as much encouragement
as might be desired in the industrial
reports for the week. An increased
number of establishments is reported
in operation, but the sagging of prices
in print cloths and, some other cotton
goods, and in the more important pro
ducts of iron and steel, discloses great
ly retarded business. The demand for
iron products is, ol, the whole, less
satisfactory than it was a week ago.
Steel billets are selliug at Tittsburg
for §18 per ton, and there is practical
ly no demand for rails.
In the manufacture of wool there is
..rill a remarkabble hesitation and
the demand for consumption is much
restricted, so that the purchases of
wool at the principal market, notwith
standing some speculative buying,
have been only 2,620,995 pounds,
against 6,727,400 for the same week
last year. The movement of wheat
has been fairly large and the price has
declined about two cents, while corn
has also yielded about one cent.
Cotton is 1-4 cent higher, with other
distinctions in crop |)rospects, and
pork products are also somewhat
higher—pork, 75 cents per barrel.
Oil has advanced sharply, and after
some reaction closed 2 cents per barrel
higher than a week ago. It is possible
that the surplus currency in circula
tion has the natural effect of stimulat
ing speculative activity. Happily, the
changes thus far have not diminished
the exports of products, which con
tinue fairly large.
Failures continue to decrease in
number and importance, though not as
much as hoped. The number reported
for the United States for the past week
was 320, against 184 for the same week
last year, and in Canada 45, against 36
last year. The disposition to include
all banking and financial failures with
those of commercial and manufactur
ing concerns during the past year, has
led to estimates which do much injus
tice to mercantile interests.
SOUTHERN NETS ITEMS.
Drill ol Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly NoteiL
Happenings of Iuterest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
TO THE NORTH.
gates and representing four counties.
Each county had a candidate. The
counties paired off, made combinations
and every vote stood eight to eight.
The political leaders, headed by Sena
tor Gorman, are credited with being
instrumental in breaking the deadlock.
The number of ballots taken breaks
all records.
The annual meeting of the Western
nion Telegraph Company was held
at New York Wednesday. The report,
which was a very favorable one, was
well received by the large number of
stockholders present. The old board
was elected with the exception of the
following persons: Norvin Green, Jay
Gould, Fred L. Ames, Henry Weaver,
who died during the year, and Erastus
Wyman, who declined re-election, and
Sidney Shepard, who resigned in favor
of his son. The places of the above
named were filled by the election of
John Jacob Astor, Oliver Ames, George
Bliss, Louis Fitzgerald, C. Sidney
Shepard and J. B. Van Even.
Religious Convention.
Second only in importance to the
great World’s Parliament of Religions
in the world’s congress was the evan
gelical alliance which opened at Chi
cago, Monday morning, and partici
pating in the proceedings are Rev. C. ;
H. Carter, the famous social reform
divine of New York eity, Prof. Henry !
Drummond, Endinburg, and other •
famous men in religious circles. Over I
two thousand representatives of tha j
vangeliea! bodies participated in the j
naugural session, and the attendance j
for tha entire week bids fair to be very j
Governor Nor then Writes a Letter Tel
ling of the Horrors of the Plague.
Governor Northen has written a let
ter to the people of the north to be used
by Mr. T. J. Palmer, of Brunswick,
who is going through the north and
east to get subscriptions for the Bruns
wick sufferers. The following is the
governor’s letter:
I understand that Mr. T. J. P.<liner, of
Brunswick, is about to go to th: north and east
on business, and (hat while there he will, by
request, present the matter of the dire d stress
of Brunswick b fore the people of those sec
tions, to the end that som ■ help may be render
ed the suffering people of that community.
The story of (lie suffering and distress in
Brunswick as told in the daily p:e33, has not
been exaggerated. The half has not boen
told. The citizens remaining in the plague-
stricken town are shut in by strict sanitary
cordon and are unable to leave the place and
unable to support themselves, as there is no
money, no business, no food in the
city. Starvation faces the enlire population.
Frost the only hope, is several months distant,
and while the people of this s ate have been
generous, the means of subsistence s nt to the
city have be n inadequate and are being rapid
ly exhausted daily.
Uiilerssomething is dine lo king to the
speedy relief of these unfortn ale people, star
vation and death from bad food or from want
of fool will add their horrors to the devas'a-
tion of the plague. It would be a work of pro
found charity if the people of the entire coun
try, real zing the destitution and suffering of
their fellow c'tiz ns in Brunswick, would come
to their relief and aid science an l the seif-
sacrificing devotion of nurses in rescuing this
city from appai ent destruction.
I should be glad to know that some move
ment 1 okiug to this end is started among our
h How citizens of the north and cas*. Besp.ct-
fiiily, W. J. Noether,
Governor of Georgia.
The Clarksville, Tenn., Farmers'
and Merchants’ bank went into liqui
dation Tuesday. Depositors will be
paid in full.
Thirty-five new cases of yellow fe
ver and two deaths was the official re
port of the Brimswiek board of health
for the twenty-four hours ending at
noon Tuesday.
No new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Jesup, Ga., Wednesday,
and no change has occurred in affairs
since last report. All the sick are im
proving as rapidly as can be expected.
An organized body of sixty-five
men arrived at Delrio, Texas, Tuesday
on a freight train on which they said
they had come through from Califor
nia without paying fare. At each
town on the road they were fed and
they practically controlled the train.
They elnimed to be mechanics and
miners on their wayto Alabama,whero
they expect to find work.
The 70th annual session of the Hol-
ston conference of the Methodist Epis
copal church south, whose territory-
embraces East Tennessee, southwest
Yirginia and north Georgia met at
Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday morn
ing, for a week’s session, Bishop W.
W. Duncan, of South Carolina, pre-
siding. Three hundred nnd fifty min
isters and delegates are in attendance.
A Middlesborough, Ivv., dispatch
says: Middlesborough’s water works
were placed in the hands of a receiver
Wednesday, James A. Chapman being
named. The works were built in
boom times at a cost of half a million
dollars, but the slow growth of the
town and the failure of the steel plant
to run, caused the waterworks to bo
run nt a loss. The liabilities are un
known.
A wreck occurred on the Mississippi
Valley road Wednesday morning at
Laplace, twenty miles above New Or
leans. The accident happened at 6
o’clock, when the track was covered
with a heavy fog, nnd it was difficult
for the trainmen to see far ahead. A
southbound freight ran into a num
ber of cars standing on the main track.
Seven or eight freight cars were de
molished and passenger traffic was de
layed. Two of the crew were badly
injured.
A New Orleans dispatch says: Offi
cer Toole had his throat cut some
weeks ago in a jiatrol wagon by a des
perate Italian whom he had arrested.
The case of the Italian was fixed for
trial Thursday. Wednesday night
Toole was assaulted and beaten, after
being waylaid aud probably fatally
injured. It is believed that the Mafia
is again at work, and that it was the
purpose of the Italian’s friends to
murder Toole in order that he might
not be able to testify against their
countryman.
A STORK ON THE COAST.
COMMENDING THEIR SENATORS
Citizens of Memphis Ho’(l a Meeting
iu Defense of Silver.
Following on the heels of the recent
action of the joint meeting of the
Me-chants’ and Cotton exchange at
Memphis that condemned acrimo
niously Senators Bate and Harris, of
Tennessee, for their attitude bn the
silver bill, now in the senate, a largely
attended mass meeting of leading citi
zens of Memphis and Shelby county
was held Thursday night to discuss the
silver question.
After lengthy- speeches a committee,
consisting of ex-Congressman Casey-
Young, Col. M. C. Galloway, E. W.
Carmack, Holmes Cummins, Thomas
Holmes, H. D. Greer and J. J. Du-
puy, was appointed, who submitted
lengthy resolutions eulogistically en
dorsing the senators named and com
mending them for their faithfulness
and firmness in defense of silver.
Some of the speeches were especial
ly- bitter in their denunciation of Pres
ident Cleveland, who was character
ized as a s’ave driver, cracking his
whip over the backs of the senators
and representatives in congress. The
meeting was composed almost exclu
sively of democrats.
WILLING TO GO BACK.
lar
The Striking L. & N. Shop Men Ask
for Re-instatement.
The striking shop men of the Louis
ville and Nashville road at Decatur,
Ala., realize that they have lost and
are now desirous of getting back into
their old places. Local officials of the
Louisville and Nashville company are
advised that the attorney of the com
pany at Decatur was called on Friday
night by tbe chairman of the shop
strikers, who said that the men were
willing to go back to work at the re
duced scale of wages. The proposition
I was also made that if taken back the
i strike of the shop men on the entire
j iystem would be declared off,
A Repetition of f lie Disasters of August
27th Apprehended.
A Savannah special says: The West
Indian storm which reached here
Thursday morning and has been blow
ing a gale of forty to sixty miles an
hour all day continued to increase in
fury, but up to dark had not done any
very great damage right in the city.
The storm was reported at Titusville,
Fla., Wednesday night and then had
a slightly northwest direction.
The City of Augusta, which left New
York Wednesday, will meet the storm
off the North Carolina coast in about
the same latitude that the Savannah
was struck by the last storm. There
are eighten vessels iu the Tybee roads
and at quarantine, and the chances are
that if the gale continues they will all
be wrecked, as in the ease of the last
blow. All the vessels in port are seek
ing places of refuge.
FEARS FOR THE SEA ISLANDS.
No reports have been heard from
any of the sea islands, but the pros
pect is that the storm will undo all
that has been done for them in the
way of shelter and that they will be as
bad or worse off than they were be
fore. No reports of any fatalities have
yet been received.
SEVERE AT JACKSONVILLE.
The gale at Jacksonville is said to
have been the worst they have had
there since 1881. Brunswick also got
the brunt of it, but the amount of
damage there has not yet been learned.
A Charleston special of Thursday
night says: The West Indian cyclone
;is on us. The wires are going down
to the southward and there is trouble
to the northward. At this writing the
wind is blowing in great gusts at from
forty to forty-five miles an hour. No
damage has been done except the
wrecking of telephone and electric
light wires.
Three tides have been banked up,
and at midnight it is expected, unless
the wind shifts around to the south
west, that the eastern, southern and
western portions of the city will be
under water. Neither of the Clyde
steamers due Thursday have arrived.
At this hour it looks like a repetition
of the cyclone of August.
ALTGELD ENDORSED
In
His Action Pardoning the Hay-
market Rioters.
A Chicago special says: That the
democracy support Governor Altgeld
in the pardon of the anarchists, and
his denunciation of Judge Gary, was
publicly demonstrated at the county
convention Wednesday, When it
reached Judge Gary’s name for re
nomination, ex-Judge Moran, one of
the most respected jurists in the city,
was howled down and threatened with
personal violence when he presented
Gary’s name.
Chicago Day at the Fair.
Monday was Chicago day at the
World’s fair. The fair officials estimate
the attendance at 725,000. Two peo
ple were killed while going to and com
ing from the fair, while the hospital
record at 6 o’clock showed a total of
less than forty slight casualties. Two
hours later the number had increased
to 125,