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VOLUME V.
'I li AT Will. OK >1 I N !•:.
Slie mot me at the d®or last night,
All dainty, fresh and smiling,
And threw her plump arms around me
tight, .
In manner most beguiling.
Then in her sweet impulsive way,
She hugged m as she kissed me,
And ffie told me how the livelong day]
She’d thought of me and missed me.
She helped me off with coat and hat,
And led me, still elose clinging,
Into the dining room, and sat
Down at the table singing.
Tin* meal was perfect; fresh cut flowers,
The fire light warm and rosy,
Made all seem bright; swift flew the
hours
And we were, oh ! so cozy !
Then, after dinner she and I
Sang the old songs together
VVo used to sing in days gone by,
My heart was like a feather !
Our happiness made earth a heaven,
And now, as I review' it,
i recollect twas eleven
Almost before we knew it.
We there on the sofa then,
She nestling close beside me,
Softly she smoothed my hair, and when
1 kissed her did not chide me,
She fondly pinched my cheek, and so,
Her dimpled hand upon it,
She whispered : “Darling, do you know
1 need anew spring bonnet ?”
tiii: vai.uk ok ai>\ kktising.
ll.imli. U-i of Mon Getting Uioii, While
Olliers are .Struggling for Kxistenoe,
The following sensible article is from
the able columns of the Savannah Morn
ing News, What it says of the merchants
of Savannah is equally as applicable to
the merchants of all other places. It is
the business man who advertises in his
local paper that secures the trade where
there is any. The News says the best
known men of to-day, with comparatively
few exceptions, are those who have been
liberal and persistent advertisers. It is
not necessary to mention the names of
those who have acquired wealth by the
use of printers’ ink :
In some lines of business her interests
are being slightly represented, it' at all, in
its daily press. Drummers are a mces
sity to all kinds of business which depends
upju terribly beyond the city of pat
ronage, but those valuable adjuncts to
1 r ule could do much better it' the names
of the houses they r* present were kept
e mtinuully before buyer.- through the me
dium of their daily .newspaper. The ad
vertisement constantly reminds them of
the articles which they really need, but
which would never be thought of until
the drummer came again were it not for
the advertisement. Some merchants pre
tend to think that they can get along
without advertising, or that to advertise
looks as though they were not doing ag
well as their competitors. The fact is that
the houses which advertise freely are, as a
rule, the mist prosperous, is all the
answer they need. Those who don’t ad
vertise gradually lose their business. To
say nothing of the retail business, the
Morning News can point t. the thiee
large cotton and commission houses in
this city as persistent advertisers for
years. They are at present the leading
and the wealthiest houses. There are,
however, hundreds of business men in
this city who are seeking trade. They
have yet their fortunes to make. To
such, newspaper advertising offers the
sure road to success, provided that in ad
dition to judicious advertising they give
their cUse attention to their business af
fairs.
WON I>KK KIT. CM A NO KS.
There L nothing in life more touching
than to see those who have reached the
acme of human positions standing again
almost abjectly at the foot of the hulder
ln Washington there is a Mrs. McNeil
Potter, a niece of Franklin Pierce, whose
portrait she wears in an elegant brooch a 1
tier throat, the last of many valuable heir
ooms. During his administration % she
visited most of the time at tiie White
House, where she assisted Mrs. Pierce in
the arduous duties of hostess, then con
ducted with all the pomp of ante-Avar
days. Now she is old, poor and almost
friendless. She has been in Washington
during the past winter, securing a pen
sion due her from her father’s gallant ser
lcts iu the war of 1812, and several In
ffiun wars. General Scott said of him,
concerning his action in the battle of
Chippewa :
“Major McNeil deserves everything
which conspicuous skill and gallantry
can win from a grateful country. The
sell-posse.-si on of McNeil, under lire, was
unequaled.”
We are happy to say that she will now
have a pension of thirty dollars per
month for the remainder of her lonely
life, li is phasant to hear this forlorn
woman talk familiarly' of the White
House, pointing out the changes and im
provements since “when we lived here.”
Of one apartment, now occupied as an of
lice, she S lid: “ This room Ave used for
family prayers. 1 wonder if a prayer
ever goes up from here now ?”
Hhc was horn at Fort Dearborn, Avliere
Chicago now stall Is, while her father
commanded what was then an outpost of
civilization.
A dispatch published elsewhere under
takes to show the great riches of the United
States Senators. It D not their possession
of riches that is objectionable, but the fact
that most of them owe their election to
their wealth and the influence that it gives
them, tiie millionaires having, with only
two or three exceptions, no eminent in
tellectual qualifications for their official
positions.
BOTH \V KICK (.0(111 WI NS
.John <>m- Hoot Off, hilt Nusan I)i*s
V. ith HoSli On.
One of die member* of the lied Ledge
i camp, almost from the staid, has been
; Susan Gump. She came in with the
rush, aid never weakened in her opin
ion that there was richness here. That
was six years u.o this spring. She look
i and then as though she might have been
30 years old, and she never changed in
appearance. She wore a man’s hat, and
sometimes in severe weather, a man's
overcoat. Her lmir was short, and it
I was tlip general verdict of the camp Hud
Susan would have made a good looking
man. She had a trim, wiry figure, a
oold gray eye, a merry mouth, and a
nerve .that all the boys said equalled
anything that they had ever seen.
About a year ago an old fellow strolled
in an announced that he was looking for
hi wife. Nobody had seen ids wife
and he got little satisfaction. Hanging
around for a day or two, be at length hit
upon Susan, and one day he announced
that she was the woman that he had
been searching for. When Susan her
self confirmed tins statement the camp
believed it, but it was iuciedulous at
first.
“Yes,” she said one day, “lie’s my old
man. I married him in Luidville long
ago, and jumped him there, too. I
know he would be after me, and that’s
why I came here. If he behaves him
self, it’s all right. If ho don’t lie’ll
wish he had. I don’t git up and
git from here for him or any other man.”
With that her hand rested on her le
volver which she always carried in her
licit, and a look came into her face
which indicated that she was prepared
for desperate work. They seemed to
get on c nnf affably, however, and in the
course of time the camp almost forgot
that they had not always been together.
Old John Gump lmilt himself a cabin,
and the two mo\ ed into it. Gump
bad some means, lut he worked hard.
Sometimas he dra k. About Christmas
it was report ed that he and Susan Avcre
having lively times, but not much at
tention was paid to tiie matter. Hasan
appeared tlie-snme as site always had.
A week ago she iold one of her friends
that old J ill l was getting ugly, and that
no o.ie need lie surprised at hearing < fa
big row t up their, way. After that she
was not seen.
Yesterday morning ore of tiie men
who hail bee.i out toward the Gump
cabin came running i;i with the wry that
Hus in and the old man were oil the war
p ith.
“It’s agu i light, too!” lie yelled.
‘•They’re at it now!”
The words had hardly Uft his lips
bef ;re a half dozen levulver shots were
heart!, a id everybody in the camp start
ed f>r the scene. A* the boys approach
el they saw John and Susan, bare
healed, with revolvers in hand, eye'
mg each other closely.
Anxious t i wiuess the fight, all hands
crept around to asp it as they regarded
as out of range, ami stood breathlessly
awatiug developments. A moment later
occured a simultaneous exchange ol
shots, and Susan dropped, but was on
her feet again in an instant.
“She’s hit!” somebody said.
And, sure enough, oil ihe i igld side of
the light gray waist which she wore a
crimson spot and was growing.
“Hold on, there!” cried Foil Ileeker,
one of the leading wen c f the camp.
“Hold on, there, John, this thing’s gone
far enough. Drop that gun or i’ll drop
you.”
Without taking her eyes from her
adversary for a moment Susan said with
a deliberation which surprised everyone.
“You keep out o’ this tiling, all of you.
It’s him or me, and I don’t want any
help.”
There was a quick motion o! old
John’s pistol aim, followed quick as'a
flash by a corresponding one on he-r
part, aad both tired in rapid succession
until their self-cockers weie empty.
When tlve smoke lifted it was seen that
the man. and the woman was both on tl\e
ground, and the boys ran forward.
Husau lay fiat on her face, her right
hand still grasping her revolver. Old
John had rolled over. Hue was stone
dead. Two bullets had pierced her
body and ope had entered her head.
Julia had four or five wounds in the
body, all dangerous. An effort was
made to move him into the cabin, but it
was useless. He gasped wiice or twice,
and whispering, “Ain’t shea good om?
I’m proud o’ tli and gir!, 1 am,” lu* relapsed
into n:;consciousness, and soon seemed
quite dead.
Just as the boys had laid Hasan out in
the Cabin they noticed old John raising
himself on one elbow with a great effort.
Tho struggle was a puii.ful one, but he
succeeded at last in getting himself in a
sitting posture. Then, with bis old eyes
almost glassy, ai.d his bloody baud
trembling, lie groped f>r his feet, and,
with an exertion that was more than he
could bear, be pulled off one boot.
“Ifis boots!” came to every tongue,
and us he foil back, Avitli his arms spread
wildly over his head, and all of the
spectators were at his side. Seth Park
er seized the remaining boot aid bad it
off in an instant, but it was too late. Onl
John ii it gone with one boot on.
Tne c imp buried them to-day sand by
CAKTEKSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1886.
side, just back of their cabin, and in the
clothing that they had worn at the time
of the tight. As Susan had died with
her boots on, and was so buried, it was
the unanimous decision of the camp that
old John had one of his taken off on a
foul and that one was buried with him
as a measure of justice to Susan’s mem
ory.
“►She Was the best man of the two,”
said one < f the boys, as t lie crowd
walked uwav from the new-made graves.
“They were both good men,” several
others replied, forgetting in thei: admi
ration that one of them had been u
woman who might in another
spere have been a. heroiue. —New York
Sun.
S A l!M MOUNTS.
'ihe liu tigers to \V liiclt 'I hoy Are Suhjet-t
in tlie ring.
Idleness is the bane oi the average
bum horse, fed us they generally are
during the winter season. 'The muscles
become soft, and there* is a general want
of tone iu the entire sysbui, opening
the way ( f getting overheated, and that
opens the way of taking <*i Id. There is,
during spring, an essential tendency in
the high-fed, lion-exercised hoise, to
perspir* profusely, and his unshed coat,
holding this excess of moisture upon the
surface, forms an important factor in
whether damaging result follows. If the
farmer could have the opportunity, at
the beginning < i Has operations with
the plow, to hitch in a stage or tiuch
horse that has 1 ecu Avorked durii g
winter, with one of his over-fattened
and idly-wintered animals, he would
speedily see the contrast to the manner
of performance, and iu tiie condition of
the two horses at night. The one
would come from his stall in the morn
ing fresh and limber, while the other
would be sore in every muscle and joint,
and if he had had a fair day’s woik put
upon him fair for a horse in condition
for work—it is quite likely that he
would by the second day , be “off his
feed.” Taking cold in such apli'ewonld
be a very dangerous cold to take. The
farm men and I ired men not ui.t'rcquent
ly say: “We mo fawning the work
horse at and feeding him up for the spring
rush.” When the tush comes, a horse
that has hud service to do, enough to
“harden him,” as the saying goes, be
ing, tit the same time, fairly fed, can go
into the field with comfort and safety to
his health. It takes u w iser hat and than
the average farm hand to “break in” a
fit ted, unused farm liorse, without get
ting him on the sick list. —National
Live Stock-Join nnl.
SA M .JON MS VIMIICATKII.
The Halt i moi ea n> Indorse His AA'nrds and
Ills .Methods.
In a sermon the other night to 5,000
people, at the rink iu Baltimore, Sam
Jones said :
“1 am abused, but, thank God, I can
stand it. (Applause.) My Savior never
got into so-called respectable society v bile
lie was in the world. (Applause ) I read
of him among publicans and sinners aud
lighting the devil forty days,but never as
sociated with the gay, giddy, godless
ones of earth. If- I never receive any
thing but cuffs and scorn from the leading
society people in the town 1 can wait til!
1 get to heaven for my vindication. (Ap
plause.) Thank God there will be no so
called society people there to cuff me.
(Applause.) What ever keeps my mind
from heaven and its issues I banish from
me forever. 'Thank God for the faithful
preachers. I want the indorsement ot the
congregation'. Thank God they are not
tiie hoodlums and rabble of Baltimore*
They are as respectable people as ever as
sembled in this city. Brethren (turning
to the preachers on the platform behind
him), as God shall judge you at the last
day, don’t you believe I have stuck to the
word of God, to the last interests of all t Ik*
people of this city when 1 have denounced
these wordly practices that are damning
your city? Those av ho eau say it, stand
up. (The an hole body arose.) Put those
seventy-five preachers down as on my
side. (Applause.) The wires last night
carried the news to New York that the
society of Baltimore was being outraged
by the preaching of these so-called evange
lists. 1 Avant all those who have felt out
raged to stand up. (Not a person arose.)
1 Avant you reporters to say that five thou
sand people in the rink to-night say it’s a
lie—it’s a lie. (Continued applause.)
WASN'T NT l IJ HO It N.
“JITs blind,” said a gentleman to whom
a negro was trying to sail a horse.
“Blind !’’ repeated the negro, contempt
uously. “Quit Liltin’ at his eyes dat way.
He kin see as good as yeise’f kin, an’ wont
wink his eyes ’lease he’s so stubbo’n.”
“Well I wanted a horse, and had no
objection to blindness; in fact, 1 wanted
a blind horse for my children to ride
around the yard ; but 1^ don’t want a stub
born animal.”
“B iss, dat boss is de hlin’est boss yer
ebber seed, an’ 1 tole yer yhat I did to
keep yer from pressin’ me inter lettin yer
hah him, lease a man down e’e street sent
alter him. Oh, yes sail, lie’s de blin’est
boss l eber seed, but lie ain’t stubbo’n.”
A woman went to a Providence Phy
sician and asked for a lemedy for her hus
band’s rheumatism. The doctor gave her
a prescription, and said, “Get that pre
pared at the drug store, and rub it Avell
over your husband’s back. If it does any
good, come and let me know. I’ve got a
touch of rlie atism myself.’-’
IT AVKXT THROUGH HI M.
A Shot (hat Killed a llrave Soutlirrii
.Soldier.
“See? That went clear through a
man and caused lii.s death.”
it was Dr. Roach speaking at At
lanta. Wednesday, tun! as he spoke he
held in his hand a grape shot of solid
iron, about the size of a small orange.
The shot was not rusty like many war
relics, but was bright and clean. The
shot has a history. At the battle of
Malvern 11:11, soon after the seven days’
fij>ht, the Eighteenth Georgia, to which
I Jr. Roach was attached, fell under the
fire of some gunboats. The shot was
fired from one of the boats and struck
A. J. Hendry, a private iq Company
B. near the left shoulder, and passed
nearly through the tody. Dr. Roach,
tin* regiment surgeon, cut tho shot out
of Hendry’s buck, and as it dropped into
bin hard he held it before the Avon tided
mans eyes aLnl said :
“This is Avliat went through yon.”
Tbe wounded man took the shot in his !
hand, and, alter looking at it a moment,
said:
“Here, doctor, take it, and when I am
dead send it to ruv mother, and tell her
that this is what killed her soldier boy.”
Dr. Roach took the grape allot and on
tlie third day after Hendry died. Boon
after his death the doctor sent the shot
to the dead soldier’s mother. The old
lady kept it until she died. Before her
death she gave it.'to her daughter. A
few days ago tine daughter sent the shot
to Dr. Roach, with a note stating that it
was the same one which had killed her
brother and requesting him to have it at
the next reunion of the Eighteenth
Georgia.
.VIICN AVIIO "WANT IT I*l RE.”
11 li.ii aii l |i-Tn ii Grocer Nays Concern
ing; liie Adulterations of spices.
“Give me a quarter of a pound of
black pepper,” said a customer to an up
town grocer recently’. “I want it pure.”
The grocer look do an a little package
done up in tin foil and adorned with a
yellow label I earing the legend: “Pure
Black Pepper.”
“This is wind sells for black pepper,
but seeing l know yon pietiy well ! don't
mind tilling yt u tffere’s not a grain of
black pepper in it. I worked for Jive
years in tin* milling room of a spice-mill,
ad 1 am on to tbo business fr< m end to
end. Now, tLis part cnlar spice is
made Ibis way: Take eighty-six pounds
of fine groin and bran mixed with pulver
i ;ed cliaicoal the last t • represent the
black hull of pepoer grain; then add
fifteen jk unds ■ f gn ni and cayenne pepper
aud there you have 100 pounds of pure
black peppier.
“It’s tbe same way with mustard.”
tne gn cei cm.lit md. “Fd';< en to twenty*
pounds 1 1 cayenne pepper, the balance
of cheap wheat ii ur Colored yellow,
makes one l ut died q>< unds < f genuine
mustard. The bight st- grades, which
arn’t < ften retailed, contain as much as
one-half ( f real mustard. But cream of
t .iter is the biggest swindle. A fifteen
pound can if the loav grade contains one
pound of taiffinio acid and fourteen of
terra : Ilia. Terra alba is a mild alkali
and ut nfiidizes the effect of the acid.
Higher grades < f the uiixure contain a
trille more turbine acid.
“You probably think you’ve eaten
some cinnamon in your time,” the gro
cer went on. “Well, you haven’t. 1
don't suppose tin.r’s ten pounds of cin
namon baik in tiie United Btutes. What
passes for cinnamon is the cassia tree.
This is aduiltndtd with a still coaser
bai k, ki.oAvn r.s carsia \ era. The article
is also mixed with peas t.i and roast bran,
r lie, and not tell you about roast coffee;
everybody knows about that. It’s jus
the same way through the whole list of
sp'ces. If you could smuggle yourself
into the 1 nscmeiffi f some spice mill yon
would find bins if bran, peas, terra alba,
etc.” .
Ol'lTK A ROMANTIC STuliV
A singular story comes from the prov
ince of Limburg, on the Dutch fiontier.
The owner of a large manufactory’, who
had married young and whs left a widow
er, had an only daughter, to whom all the
most desirable young men iu the neigh
borhood w ere pay ing attention ller fath
er noticed thai she treated them all with
indifference, and showed preference for a
young clerk of Lis, an orphan, with no
means but his salaiy. As he had always
given the greatest satisfaction in the per
formance of his duties, and was exceed
ingly well conducted, tin* father, persuad
ed that lie would liuvt r venture to raise
his eyes to his daughter, who evidently
was sincerely attached to him, made up
his mind to broach the matter to him.
What w r as his surprise when the young
clerk, after much hesitation, told him lie
would be only too glad to regard the
young lady as a sister, but he could not
marry her, because lie was not a man, but
a young woman in disguise—a disguise
she had adopted when left an orphan in
order to get a more lucrative situation
The conclusion of tiie story is that,'instead
of marrying tiie daughter, she is tiie w ife
of the father. —Chicago Herald.
It is cowardice to wish to get rid of
everything Avhich we do not like. Sick
ness and sorrow only exist to further
man’s educatk n in this world. They will
not be needed in the future.
]>ICINKS THAT KAT l I* IKON.
JOSF.PU M’ooN A(> I.K.
Corrosive banes that use up chains
In such a summary way as this,
, That liquor rings find handy things
With Avhich to do cadi business!
i To make tlicir grains, these mou put chains
On those most easily bound they think,
And that is on the men who fawn
i Upon the Juggeruaunt of Drink!
From the large crowds now making
shrouds,
Needed for victims of strong drink,
More chains are found to be placed round
I Men’s appetites than in “beer-sinks!”
’Twas one, perhaps, of rum’s -mishaps
i That these two fetters came to be
I Hi a still’s sink, where dregs of drink
I Gnawed them both up so speedily!
i
; For, when men hear that new made beer
Has such a vicious appetite
That links of shad scarce make a meal
For this vile stuff, they’ll lake affright!
And places yet, now known as “wet,”
May, through this interm, by'-and-by,
In language brief, turn anew leaf,
And each, henceforth, be known as
“dry!”
We wish to say the Witness may,
Ere long be made to see or hear
Its ’’beer sink’s” prey lias “given away”
The poison hid in.rum and beer!
Let every youth ponder a truth,
That is so plain and opportune,
Who takes a “smile” on n e in a while,
Inside of a well-screened saloon!
m
And, likewise, let those older yet.
Emp’oy aright their sight and brains,
And cease to “jiip” or take a sip
Of what so soon eats iron chains!
A PHILOSOPHKII.
A merchant Avrofce as follows to an Ar
kansawlman: “I am on my death lied,
aud would like to have the money you
owe me. My phvs’cian says I can live
but a few days longer.”
The ArkansaAV man replied as follows:
“I received your letter a few days ago
aid I expect you will lie dead by the
time you lcceive this. If not I beg
your pardon hr not sending the money.
My experience teaches me that a dying
man does not need money. If I was
dying it. wouldd’l make any difference h
me if I had ten dollars or was in debt.
I liave’nt been dying, you understand,
and cannot speak from experiei o<*, but I
am a man who can forecaste tilings pret
ty well, and therefore do not speak in a
hay-liazard way. Some fellow, I have
forgotten who, said that a dying man
can do nothing welj. Perhaps you
know more about this than I do, but
allow me to say that a dying man is a
might}’ poor bill collecter. If I were to
send out to find an efficient bill collectei
I would never select a dying man, no
matter what his stni ding in the commu
nity might be. Let me see, I have
owed you for some time. I regret this
very much, but don’t suppose T regret
it any deeper than you do. If I had
paid you, I would not owev< u anything.
At first this may not strike you as tiie
truth, lint mature reflection has taugld
me it is a fact. At one time after re
ceiving the last letter which 1 shall
doubtless ever get from you, 1 thought
that I would immediately forward tiie
amount I owe you, but then I thought
thatjyou might be dead and never know
it. When Ido a man a favor I want
him to know it. Ingratitude is one of
the roots of all evil, 1 would rather
pay a man ten cents and impress him
with the fact, than to pay him ten dol
lars and know that lie would ever remain
in ignorance < f the fact; IheV'.foie, 1
hope that you will understand my posi
tion. But wlnit is the use (fail this?
You may lie dead ly the time this
reaches you, in this event you AVould
never give me credit for all these ex
pressions of sympathy. As I previously
remarked, a dying m-n has no Meed of
money. Material things are but little
use to him. Well, I must close. If
you are not dead when you r ceivo this,
please let me know, and 1 will write
you another one.
SO M KIK11) V HIT.
Under the head of “Don’t Learn a
Trade,” tiie Rhea County News, published
at Spring City, Tenn.,fires tins broad-side
into tiie young men of the day:
“No, don’t learn a trade, young man.
You might soil your hands, swilt your
shirt collar, and spoil your complexion
sweating. Go hang your chin over a
c> miter; learn to talk twaddle to the la
dies; part your hair iu the middle; make
an ass of yourself generally', and work for
wages that wouldn’t suppoit a Chinese
laundry man on rice and rats, and leave a
big enough balance to pay his wash
woman —just because it is a little more
genteel in the ej es of tiie people whose
pride prevents them from pounding rock
or sawing wood, and wh >se poverty
pinches Avorsc than your long-legged
clothes-pin, if the truth were told.”
A rousing speech made in Albany by a
colored speaker: Jenemons, I made one
j of tiie rousness speeches in Albany tiie
| other day, what’s bin made dar since
! mancipation, tiie people dar was so looker
1 wid de contemplation ob dat speech till
de ladies, day dess took and sent on o’
| cart off in de country artur flours to dek-
I orate the stage wid and de ol’ ox curt it
! got no flours. And de jentlemens day’
dess took and chunked me up dar on de
stage wid aigs, undone ofdem hit me
right on de nose, an’ fo God Im’s got five
dollars to Let dat de hen dat laid dat aig
warnt well.
A SHOW Kll OK HI RON.
A strange phenomenon occurred at
Chic igo during the storm of Saturday
nig-ht iu the vicinity of the Board of
Trade tower light. It \us none other
than a shower of birds, Sunday when
the watchman made his rounds he
found the sidewalks and streets in front
of the tower fairly covered with dead
birds of ail soils. A little later the
electrician came down aud, when he saw
a great pile of liiuls, he said it was the
electric light at the top of the tower.
When he went up to the lantern with
several members of the Board of Trade,
tho ro< t was found to lie covered with
dead birds, and each of the lamps iu tiie
big circle of light was filled with them,
oue globe having eight birds i if.
These birds are ii every known vari
ety, and many unknown, or rather uu
familiar’speeies are. among the lot. All
simian and colors arc* tlieie, scarlet, blue,
pink, red Canary, mottled black and
white, and there were some snipe and
plovers among them. The theory is
that they were migratory ilocks, going
from south to north, and were attracted
by the great light, which the moment
they touched, killed them. The birds
are of all the small species. There was
a countless number of them, em ugh to
trim all the ladies’ lints in Illinois.
Many Bohemians were in the street
with bags and baskets, and in less than
two hours the streets were clear ( f every
vestige of tins bird shower. 1 ut Hie roof
of the Board of Trade is i.„ w covered
and the janitors will lenn.ve them to
day.
A ST It AMi K lIIIJ A M.
A Tin Toddler Secures a Fortum- for
It was only 12 or 11 yea is ago that a
queer thing happened near Medina
Ohio. A tin peddler who was driving a
wagon f*r a firm in Cleveland was taken
sick one day in summer, as he was driv
ing' on the highway, and lie sought shel
ter in a farm house, lie had a run of
fever (or seven or eight days, and when
able to get out again, lie said to the
farmer:
“I am satisfied that there is a sum of
money buried on your farm. I have seen
the spot several limes in my dream.”
“Oh,” replied U e homer, “if you can
find any treasure heie, you are welcome
to it.”
“How much will you take to w aive all
claims?” persisted the peddler.
“Fixe dollars’ worth of milk pans.”
“It you will go to tow n and get a law
yer to draw up the paj ers in due form, I
will give you twenty-five dollars in cash.”
The- farmer tried tw laugh the peddler
out > l’hia notion, but tiie man was so
earnest in wishing to buy all rights to
what, he might find, that a paper was
drawn up, the $25 paid over, and he was
told Hi go ahead, lie leplied that lie was
in no hurry, and mounted his wagon and
drove home, hut in about a fortnight he
returned with a horse and wagon and a
companion. Giving notice that i.e had
come to claim his own, he proceeded to
dig in a corner of the front y’ard, and be
fore the hole was three feet deep, lie hud
unearthed a small stone jng, tightly
corked. It was broken bn the grass plat,
and lying among the .'fragments were
three thousand dollar:- in gold and silver
coins. None of the pieces had. been
coined within less than fifteen years, and
the then owner of the plat e had occupied
it for nine years, and knew that m body
could have buried the jug there mean
while.
The peddler said that a very fall, dark
complexioned man, having a sear on lbs
forehead and a limp in his gait, had re
peatedly come to him in his dreams aud
pointed out Ihe spot. The description
exactly answered thut of a hard case who
had been in the county jail for horse
stealing, and who had sul sequi ntly died
in the penitentiary at Columbus. How
ever, the peddler Lad been so careful to
purchase all right in advance, and had
walked so directly to tLr* treasure that
the officers of the law made up their
minds to investigate him. His find was
seized and his record was lroked up, but
when nothing could he shown against
him, lie got possession of the treasuie and
used it to buy an inter.st in the bouse lie
worked for.
IIKAI.TII NOTES.
Put five drops of chloroform on a little
cotton or wool in the bowl of a clay pipe,
then blow the vapor through tiie stem in
to an aching ear and instant, relief will be
a fib rd id.
ihe French method of administering
castor oil to children is to pour the oil into
a, can over a moderate lire, bn ale an esrg
into it and siir up \\ lieu it is dune flavor
with u little suit or sugar, or currant
jelly.
It'any person who is liable to poison
with poison ivey w ill take pure olive oil
after being exposed to it. lie will feel no
bad effects, and the oil will neutralize the
evils of the poison if a tew doses be taken
even after the j c-ison has broken out.
Alexander 11. Stephens’ grave is still
unmarked, out above the grave of Harry
Stephens, his colored aeryant, a stone has
j been erected bearing the legend : “He
Was for many years tiie faithful, trusted
and beloved body servant of Alexander
H. Stephens. Like him he was distin
guished for kindness, uprightness and
benevolence. Asa man be was honest
and true. Asa Christian he was humble
and trusting.”
NUMBER 3
MM. WAS IN DKKP TliOl KI.K.
A voting woman, befurml and eye
glassed, ?it near the stove weeping. It
was not a hearty, yard-wide weep, but a
furtive dropping of half-expressed tears
upon the corner of a scented handker
chief— merely a bit of a thaw in a cold
wind.
In trouble, miss V” queried the gray
haired and sympathetic passenger..
" \ e-ves,” was the sniveling reply.
May T inquire the nature of our woe
young lady ' l’ossibly 1 can comfort you.’*
And for an answer, she snuffled up two
or three times in her nose, reached into
her dress pocket and pulled out a crum
pled telegram, saying, “Read that.”
The sympathetic passenger adjusted his
spectacles, hummed and hawed, turned
half round in bis seat and cautiously held
the ominous missive to tin light, lie
read :
“Come home at once. 1 our doggie is
sick.”
A man’s character is like a face—you
cannot strengthen it by whitewash.
Augusta wants the next Gubernatorial
Convention to be held either there or at
Macon.
Their is not. a particle of satisfaction in
telling a man he is a liar; for if lie isn’t
who does the lying?
It may be healthy to takp a walk on an
empty stomach, but we pity the man who
furnishes the stomach.
The fear that our kind acts may be re
ceived with ingratitude should never deter
us from preforming them.
“Mother,” asked a Philadelphia girl, ’*
what is a heroine?” “A woman who don’t
squeal at the sight of a rat,” was the
prompt reply.
A surgical journal tells of a man who
lived five years with a ball in his head.
We have known girls to live twice as long
with nothing but balls in their heads.
“I never know what to do with my feet
when I’m in a parlor,-” said the embar
rassed man. “Did it ever suggest itself to
you that you might steer them toward the
door!” was the amiable reply.
A Gentleman rode up tu a public house
m the country ami asked: “Who is the
master of this house?” “I am, sir,” replied
the landlord, ”my wife has been dead
about three weeks.”
A lightning rod was recently removed
from its place. To the lower end was
attached a lump of iron ore weighing
ninety-six pounds. The surrounding
earth was ferruginous, and attracted to
the Vod by tke action of electricity.
Wife—“You ought to step in and see
the doctor, Henry, and get some medicine
tor your throat.” Husband—“ What,
when there are several bottles of medicine
not yet Half taken in the house. We
must be more economical.
As one man that runneth in haste and
leapeth over a fence may fall into a pit
which he does not see, so is a man that
plungeth suddenly into an action before
lie hath considered the consequences
thereof.
I’he Bible, which is m official use in
the United States Supreme Court at Wash
ington, has been in use there for taking
the oath of office since 180 y. It was print
ed at Oxford, England, in 1709. It is a
small copy and much worn, especially
where the firgers grasp it.
The longest coffin turned out by any
factory is a nine footer, in Which the dig
nitaries of the Catinlic church are buried.
Such a colli in was used at the burial of
Cardinal McCloskey, the ex Ira length be
ing required for his crown which he wore
in death. About twenty four hours were
taken to put his coffin together.
Anew rival brass band was hired to
play at the funeral of a Conneticut dea
con. Tlnty were playing a slow and sol
unin dirge at the grave, when suddenly
the trombone man shot out a blast that
startled the liearse horses and broke up
the entire l procession. The leader turning
upon him asked him what be was doing
that for. He answered with a smile:
“Gosh, I thought it was a note, and it was
a liosstly; but I played it.”
“I’m not a sprint runner,” said Charley,
“but I made fifty yards once in remark
ably quick time. It was just that far from
the front door to the gate, and my girl’s
father held the dog and allowed me ten
seconds to clear the distance.” “I grasp
the situation,” replied Gus,” but lily yards
in ten seconds is not fast time.” “No,
but when 1 reached the gate, I bad eight
seconds to spare.”
Twohty-three years ago Mr. Lobscheld,
a. Geriran physician, married Bertlia von
Bieberstin. Six years later she became
insane and was placed in an asylum in
Silesia. The doctor soon after quit Ger
many, and after extensive travels, settled
in Youngstown, Ohio. Recently he was
surprised by his wife, who walked into his
office. The doctor says she is still insane,
but this she denies, insisting that she is
looking for her son, whom her husband
kidnapped.
A lady entered a Broadway car holding
in her arms a rather bony terrier. She sat
j down by the side of a good-natured-looking
| Irishman, toward whom the dog began to
| struggle. The mau edged away as lar as
he could, when the lady to assure him said
i sweetly: ■ “Don’t be afraid,sir. lib's very
I gentle; he’ll not hurt you.” “I know it,
| ma’aiu, sure I know it,” replied he; “the
reason I moved, ma'am, was because I
thought he might hurt a sandwich I Lave
in mv pocket. ” TLe other passengers
laughed, but ti.e lady poutiugly seemed to
feel that the prominent ribs of her pet had
I been satirized.—Aew York Tribune.