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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. VOLUME 1. //O IV TO GET MOXG. Trip lijtbliv over trroftde, Trip lightly ovef wron*; We only make grief double Ity dwelling on it long. Why clasp woe’s hand m> tightly? Why nigh o’er trtomoin’a Head? Why ding to form* tiuntghUy? \\ hy not reek joy instead. 'Pri p lightly over sorrow Though all the day le dark. The un may slnne to-roorroW, Ami gayjy *intt the la? k, Fair ItopeUbave not departed, Though nme* may have (led; Turn never he down-hearUel, tit look for joy instead. Trip ligluiy over sadness, -land not to rail at doom; We’ve pearls to string* ot gladness, On this side of the tomb; While the stars are nightly shining, And heaven la overhead. Encouraging not repining. But took for joy instead. I IRBHLDB 60891 P. John Sherman, it !s said, has the thin nest neck in the Senate.,*. Speaker < ,'arlisle 'QU’hiiy It* years of age, tmt is said to look ten years older. Gladstone suffers from insomnia, and lias been ad wised to rest from work. A picture by (Jerome, no larger than a slu-et of writing paper, sold recently lor $3,000. j*s Mollio Garfield, daughter of the late President, has entered Vassar Col lege. A New Jersey young lady is said to have traded her engagement ring for a pair of roller skates. Short evening dresses are made very full, and iiave two loose breadths putted so that they are no longer than the skirt. Women clerks are employed for tlie first time by the Georgia Legislature, and they do the work with half the cus tomary mistakes. Ferdinand Ward, the jailed partner of Genera! Grant, used to adorn his private theatte box at an expense of over SIOO a night for dowers. The Crown iTinerss of Germany goes this month to Italy, to remain until May with her eldest daughter, both seeking restoration of health. Mrs. Mary Jlowitt, the famous poet, who is 85 years old, lives with her daugh ter in her Tyrolese home. She- has one son, who lives in Australia. A Quincy, 111., debating society has decided that there is more pleasure seeing a man thread a needle than in watching a woman driving a nail. From what can be learned of the condi tion of Washington society tiiis winter, it is very much divided against itself and “filled to ovei flow ing with bitter feuds.” By ber marriage the Princess Beatrice will become sister-in-law to her own iteice, the daughter of the Princess Alice, who married the eldest brother of Beatrice’s betrothed. The Princess of Wales, acceding to numerous demands, has set the fashion of opening her parties with an old-fash ioned quadrille, instead of a waltz, and now the latter is, to a great extent, tabooed by English polite society. An ingenious reply of a clever woman: Shu was speaking in defense of an absent tricud. “All. madam,” said one; “you speak well of him because he is your friend.” “ilc is my friend because lean speak well of him.” Judge Hoar lin* decided that the reason Wendell Phillips and Ben Bufler never • [narrelled —though each quarrelled with everybody else —was that “neither ever succeeded in Hi ding an adjective in the dictionary to apply to the other. Mother—“ Why didn’t you get up * diaries, when I called you?” Son “Because it was so dark that I couldn’t see to dicss myself.” Mother—“ Why, diaries! What do you mean? It was ns light a* day when 1 called you.” Son —“But, mother, liovv could I know it was light ? I had my eyes shut, you know.” — Hot tan Transcript. George William Curtis says : “In tliis country a woman may vote as a stock holder upon a railroad from one end of the country to another. But it she sells hrr stock and buys a house with the money, she has no voice in the laying out ot the road before her door, which lier house is taxed to keep and pay for. Why, in the name of common sense, if a responsible human being may vote upon specified industrial projects, may she not vote upon the industrial regulation of the Nate'f” Doubtless, the late I’ostmuster-General of England owed his success largely to the ability, energy and devotion of bis excellent wife. But there is no truth in the current story that she once had her finger crushed in the carriage-door hinge as she was riding to the House of Com mons with him, and bravely endured the torture in silence rather than disturb him with the knowledge of it and thus im pel il the sueees.-ful delivery of the great j speech he was about to make. Such an incident did indeed occur, hut Mrs. Ben jamin Disraeli was the heroine of it, and but for her fortitude then her husband perhaps never would have become Karl j of Beacon-field. The story was first told to the American public many rears ago by the late X. I*. Willis. I'ritle in One's Wife. New York San. “Yes,” said old Farmer Jones to a traveler who was stopping with him over night, “I’ve got as good a wife as any man in these parts, if 1 do sav it.” “ 1 am not married mvseif,” returned the traveler, “but nevertheless 1 car. ap preciate the pride which a husband might take in a good wife.” “Why, stranger,” went on the old farmer earnestly, “I’ve known that wo man to git up at 4 o’clock in tlie inornin’, milk sixteen cows and git breakfast for twenty men and have the hull thing done afore sunrise.” “You don’t say so,” exclaimed the stranger. “Yes, sir. an’ not oneet only, but week in an’ week out, an’ you can see as well ns 1 kin that she ain’t a strong woman iiu ther.” Many parents who have sons and daughters growing up are anxious for them to get into good society. Parents, your daughter is in good society when •die is with girls who are pure and true hearted ; who are not vain and frivolous; Im;1io think of something else besides dress, iltrcing and marriage; between whom and their parents there is confi dence; who arc useful as well as orna mental in the house; who cultivate their minds and train their bands to useful workmanship. Neither wealth nor tine clothes make good society—they are counterfeits without eharae ter to back them. Intelligence, simplicity, modesty and goodiAs* are the true coin—and the -ame rule, with manliness, applies to Ik>vs. The Coi'hast wants working a genu and to all such will pay liberal commis sions. Writs for terms to A vents. lied ami white onion sets at Curry's. GREAT STORM IX THE WEST. Moat of the Railroads Blockaedd by the Snow Drifts. f hu ago, Feb. o.—Reports from all Western and Northwestern points indi cate that the heaviest snow storm ot the season is prevailing. Trains are delayed in every direction, and very few freight trains on any of the roads tire moving. At noon the storm was continuing with unabated three, and in this city business of all kinds was nearly suspended. The snow lies to a great depth on the streets, and the horse cars aie moving with great difficulty. Passenger trains only are mov ing. At the signal station it was learned that the storm arose in the Gulf of Mexi co yesterday, and has been traveling a IP tie East or North since, the wind blow ing u ith velocity ot about twenty miles per hour. • It has gone tar to the North west, and has taken in the St. Lawrence region, in a Non beastly direction. While it is snowing here and ail along the L ike region, the storm has produced rain in the Ohio valley, tins being so large a storm, said tin* signal oflieer, as to include a" kinds of weather in its wake. While snowing fiercely in Buffalo, for instance, it is raining in Pittsburg only 200 miles South. The rain extends as tar South as Northern .Mississippi. The temperature this morning was five degrees higher than yesterday, but it is rapidly growing colder in the Northwest region, especial ly in Manitoba and J) ikta, and in North ern Minnesota the frigid wave Is spread ing. At Fort Gary last night the mer cury had reached 41° below zero, and at Sr Vincent 38° below. This excessively cold wave is moving Eistward. In this city at RQOii the mercury stood 20° above Zero. The storm in this city showed no abate ment up to this evening. At Ip. ill. it was impossible to see more than a block away, when looking to the east, on ac count of the whirling mass of snow flakes. A walk of fifteen minutes was sufficient to turn a person into a moving snow bank, while it required a ponstaiit lliglit to prevent one’s eyes and ears from be coming blocked with the flakes. Traffic by teams on the streets was difficult, the drivers of the large trucks being com pelled to employ four horses to draw them. A train on the Illinois Central road, which ieft the city for Hyde Park at 11 :20 last night got stuck iff a drift at Forty-third street, and did not read, its destination until 0 this morning. The various branch railroad tracks running to the stock yards were completely blocked by snow this morning, and su burban trains on the Rock Island road were delayed over three hours. No freight trains have passed .Blue Island, go ing either way,since 11 o’clock last night It is said that orders have been issued both by the officials of the Rock Island and the Lake Shore, to abandon all freight trains until the snow stops drift ing. As thorough a blockade on the railroads has not been experienced in Chicago for years. No trains, passengers or freight, have gone out to-day or to-night on the following roads: Grand Trunk, Kanka kee line, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Baltimore and Ohio. Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, Panhandle, Mich igan Central, Chicago and Atlantic, Wabash, and the lowa division of the Illinois Central. The roads have been hiring every idle man who could be found to go oti the line to shovel snow The Burlington, Alton and Sc. Paul roads alone sent out 1,000 men. Under favorable circumstances,-' managers of railroads say they cannot expect to get b ack to schedule time before two or three days, and if tiie snow continues to drift it will be a week or more. The loss to the roads on business at the cost of clear ing their tracks will be something cnor ' motis. At 10k> to-night the storm here has ceased and the stars are shining, though the snow is still drifting badly. The mercury indicates four degrees below zero. The storm was the heaviest of the sea son in lowa, and caused almost a com plete blockade of the’ fifteen railroads centering at J)es Moines. The Des Moines and Fort Dodge road lias not moved a wheel to-day, and the same may he said of the Diagonal, the Osceola ami Boone line, the Wabash North and South and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. The St. Paul express on the Northwest ern road left Des Moines this morning, hut only reached the crossing of the main Hue, and still lies there. The Da kota train was abandoned. The lowa Central is at a dead standstill, and the Illinois Central the same. There were no trains between Des Moines Keokuk or Ottumwa to-day. Jauauscheck's pri vate ear attempted to reach the latter place with a double-header, but, after being out all day,returned to Des Moines to-night. Not a road lias moved a freight train all day, and the prospects are not good for to-morrow, as it is rapidly growit g ooldeMany of the North and South roads have abandoned everything ami will do nothing until the weather m nlerales and the storm subsides. In Jacksonville, 111., the blizzard was accompanied last night by thunder and lightening. The thermometer to night stood at zero, hut it was rapidly growing coider. All trains are delayed. In Franklin 111., a livery stable was struck by lightening, and one horse was killed. Two boys were knocked senseless, and the entire village was shaken by the shock. A train on the Northwestern railroad is snowed in four miles East of Dixon. Only one train from Chicago reached Rock Island to-day. The Indianapolis line, the Lake Erie, and the middle division of the Illinois Central have abandoned all trains to night. At Wenona, (III,) the Illinois Central trains were struggling along with double headers several hour behind time. The East-bound passenger on the Chicago and Alton is laid up at Biackstone, with no prospect ot being able to move within twenty-four hours. No trains reached Belott, Wis., to-day over the Chicago and Northwestern, or Milwaukee and f?t. Paul, either from Chicago or Milwaukee. At Dixon All.) the Illinois Central and Chicago and Northwestern trains are blocked. At Mattoon, in the Southern part of Illinois, there was a heavy thunderstorm last night, accompanied by rain and sleet. At St. Joseph (Mich.) the snow is re ported as drifted ten or twelve feet deep in the streets. It is the worst storm known there for a quarter of a century. At Wabash, Ind., the storm is at its worst to-night. Trains on the northern division of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan road are abandoned. The north-bound passenger train stuck in a drift at Granger, and an engine sent to its relief fared likewise. Another train i* in the snow seven miles from Benton Harbor. Cedar rapid*. lowa, is shut in from the world by the snow blockade. All trains have been abandoned. The weather is intensely cold, the wind blowing furi ously. The mercury was 20° above zero CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 19, 1885. at noon, 7° below at G o’clock, and at 11 oclock 12° below, with a downward ten dency. _ GORDON DEAD. Through Treachery Khartoum Fell and Through Treachery the Commander Lost his Life. Koim, Feb. 10.—Cols. Wilson and Wortley, with the expedition to Khar toum, arrived here to-day. They made the journey from Gubut in four days. Tney bring news ot Gen. Gordon’s death. One of the Pashas among Gen. Gordon’s forces marched the garrison to the side of the town nearest Omdurman, saying the rebel attack was expected at that point. Meantime another traitorous Pasha opened the gates at the other end and allowed Mahdi’s troops to enter, and they easily captmed the town. Gen. Gordon w is stabbed leaving the Govern ment House. Gubat is strongly fortified to resist a possible siege. The fort is constructed triangular in shape, with deep ditches in front. Brushwood and wire-work out -ide impede the enemy in the event of a.i attack- THE M UtUi’S IMPUDENCE. The letter recently sent by El Mahdi to English officers on Col. Wilson’s steamer, contained a postscript, saying it was El Mahdi’s first and last letter to the English, and unices they submitted he would kill all the Kaffir dugs. The bear er of the letter, a Dervish, urged the Egyptians on the steamers to join El Mahdi’s army, saying Uod had sent the Mahdi to convert the world, and the Mahdi intended to march straight to Stain bou 1. On the day after the steamer stranded, Sunday, Ei Malhi’s Emir landed on the island and urged the British to surrender. .Sunday evening Hemed Bey, two skip pers and seventeen natives deserted the steamer. The steamer Sofia, with Lord Charles Bere>ford on board, arrived at the island yesterday. During an engagement with the enemy r the Sofia’s boiler was struck by a shell and a great explosion occurred, followed Dy a rush and roar of steam. After a temporary patch had been fixed on the boiler, tiie Sofia passed the ene my’s work under a heavy live, towing a niggar containing Col. Wilson’s baggage. The niggar grounded 600 yarns below the fort. The night was spent in trying to float her. Perfect silence was maintain ed on board the Steamer, which led the Arabs to believe it has been abandoned, and they stopped firing and commenced beating drums. Just before daybreak the enemy saw sparks emerging from tiie funnel of the steamer, and they’ at once began to yell in the fiercest manner and opened a heavy fire on the vessel. The steamer replied effectively and soon passed out of range. It is estimated tiie enemy numbered 40,000. They had three Krupp guns. Col. Wilson’s loss on the island was two killed and twenty wounded of the Egyp tian troops and four wounded of the British. The Soudanese allies fought well until they heard of the fall of Khar toum, when they became demoralized. The Mahdi caused a massacre of all of Gordon’s men, together with their wives and children. Gen. Gordon was killed the morning of the 27th. The garrison at Gubat is exasperated over the news of the massacre. A HORRIBLE BUTCHERY, London, Feb. 11, 4 a. m.—The follow ing additional details of the killing of Gen. Gordon and fall of Khartoum, are at hand : On the day of the capture, which is variously’ stated as the 20ill and 27tii of January, Gen. Gordon’s attention was attracted hy a tremendous tumult in the street. He left the so-called palace, or government building, in which he had made his headquarters, to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. Just as he reached the street lie was stabbed in the back and fell dead. The tumult was caused by EI Mahdi’s troops, who had gained access to the interior of the town through treachery, and who were soon in complete possession, including the cit adel. A fearitil massacre of the garrison followed. The scenes of the slaughter are described as rivaling the worst hor rors of the Sepoy mutiny. The panic stricken Egyptians were captured in flight and put to death with most fiendish tortures. Some were transfixed with spears and left to bleed to death. Most of the victims were mutilated in the most horrible manner. EYES WERE GOUGED OUT, tongues slit, noses cut off. In many eases, parts of victims’ bodies were thrust into their months while they were still living. The massacre included many non-combatants, and many Egyp tian women were subjected to the most shameful indignities. More than a hun dred women and voting girls were given over to the Mahdi’s followers to be used as slaves. After the slaughter, many Arabs were seen rushing about the streets with heads of Egyptians impaled upon spears. The next night was spent in a sat urnalia of blood and debauchery. Since the fall of Khartoum the Mahdi repaired the fortifications and made the place well nigh impregnable. lie has made it his permanent headquarters, and is said to have abundance of guns, small arms and ammunition. Both of Col. Wilson’s steamers were wrecked, owing to the treachery of the pilots, who will be court martialed. THK NEWS FROM LONDON. London, Fi b. 10 —A dispatch from Korti, dated February 9, says: Lord Beresford returned in safety to Gubat, bringing with him Col. Wilson and par ty, who were stranded on an island some distance ■ p the Nile, while returning Khartout Some difficulty was expe rienced i._ fetching away the stranded party. L’he rebels on the river banks kept up a constant firing, and shortly after the part}’ embarked a bullet from a rebel’s riffe pierced the boiler of the steamer, necessitating anchoring under tire to make repairs. The British fire, however, now took effect, and the rebels were repulsed Immediately after reach ing Gubat Col. Wilson started f<sr Korti, where he now has arrived, to report in person to Lord Wolseley the details of his reeonnoisance at Khartoum. Sir Charles Beresford and party were ten hours under tire before able to rescue Col. Wiison. The enemy used rifles from behind entrenchments. The lire from the enemy’s cannon v/as effective. In addition to the hole made in the boil er. a shell on the steamer. The Rriti*h fire was most effective, silencing rebels and forcing the men to seek shelter. Mary and her Teeth. Troy Times.] Little Emma came running into the parlor the other morning, where her mother was entertaining young Mr.Bud der until Miss Mary could complete her toilet and come down stairs, and cried, “Oh, mamma. Johnny is got Mary’s teeth and won’t give ’em to her.” Both women and men can make mon ey by soliciting subscribers for The Cor bant. , Write for terms to Agents. Choose Your Place. The number of postmasters in each State receiving less than SIOO per annum, and who are appointed by the Postmaster General without consulting the Presi dent, the Senate or the civil service ex aminers, is as follows: Alabama. .964 New York .. . litis Arkansas 788 North Carolina 1325 California 44! Ohio. 1331 Colorado 224 Oregon .235 Connecticut ..12 ij Pennsylvania 2041 Delaware til’Rhode Island 30 Dist. of Columbia ... 3 j South Carolina 531 Florida 20c Tennessee. 1327 Georgia... 83S- Texas 847 Illinois ... "875 Vermont 175 Indiaua 1027 Virginia 1319 lowa 77:-!(Best Virginia.. .. 819 Kansas . 99 VBsconsin . 762 Kentucky... . .1101. Territories. Louisiana 314, Ajhska C Maine 472: vfizona 54 Maryland 290' Dakota.. 3'o Massachusetts 14 i Idaho 72 Michigan. 69 ; Indian 73 Minnesota ....• . 537 Montana SI Mississippi 543 New Mexico 72 Missouri 1327. to ah.. 110 Nebraska 571 Washington 180 Nevada ~ 64 VVyorfting 41 New Hampshire ... 10ti! Nciv Jersey. 2391 26,040 hSh LADIES’ COLUMN. + YVOJUA X. “They talk about a woman’s sphere As though it hail a lnnir; There’s not a place in earth or heaven, There’s not a task to mankind given, There’s not a blessing or a woe, There’s not a whispered yes or no, There’s not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather’s weight of worth, Without a woman in ltd 1 rmiMMMfaan A PLUCKY YOUNG LADY. A Farmer’s Home and Money Saved by liis Daughter’s Slight Knowledge of the Telegraphic Art. Wesleyville, Penn., January 28. — la the details of an attack by masked robbers that took place east of this city a few days ago the novelist or playwright could find material for a drama of tiie most sensational kind. |l r * ffiid Mrs. Guthrie, with then daughters, Idalie and Jeannie, and son Henry, liye in a lonely suburb, fully three miles from town. Owing to the isolated situation of their dwelling it was made strong and capable of being firmly secured from thieves. Mr. Guthrie is a traveling salesman, and the small farm upon wijiifii the family reside is worked by a nephew, Edward Gamp. Mr. Guthrie returned home last Saturday, bringing with him a considera ble amount of money, and in the eariy part of the evening a boy brought him a telegram, purporting to come from Jamestown, aiid imploring mm to lose not a moment in hastening to the bedside of his dying mother, who lives near tiieie. Immediately upon receipt of this distressing news Mr. and Mrs, Guthrie and their nephew left for Jamestown, New York, leaving their two daughters in charge of tiie house, the lad Henry being in the village practicing telegraphy. The principal dramatic features of the affair rest upon this young lad’s infatua tion for the art of telegraphy, a passion which liis parents and sisters have long regarded as an intolerable nuisance. About six mouths ago the boy obtained permission to sit and watch the operator in the office of tiie Lake Shore Depot, and becoming interested be devoted his whole time to the study of telegraphy. It became a passion with hjm, and occu pied ail his sleeping and waking thoughts. At meals lie would spell out messages with his spoon on the cups, and at one time ins parents wore shocked at hearing him telegraph his prayers, before getting into bed, on a noid instrument he had in his chamber. To facilitate his studies he had a wire carried across tiie fields to the house in which lived a companion named Higgins, almost as infatuated as himself, and the lads have been known to sit for a whole day telegraphing eacit other. For pastime Miss Jeannie took to the instru ment and soon became tolerably profi cient. This was the status of affairs last Saturday when Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie lef ifor Jamestown in response to the tel egram, which was subsequently asoer- tained to be bogus. About tea o’clock that night Miss Idalie thought she heard noises outside the house, and upon looking from an upper window she and her sister were startled by the sight of four masked men stand ing near the porch in consultation. In a few minutes the robbers’ council broke up and tiie men.boldly advanced to Lire door, and knocked for admission. The affrighted but brave girls called from above and demanded ot the men who and what they were. They were told to un bar the doors on pain ot death, but. this the young ladies determined not to do, having confidence in the bolts and bars. Then the masked men, failing to intimi date the girls into letting them in, set to work tiling the iron bars of the first floor window, an act which filled the young ladies with dismay, for they knew that with the bars removed access would be easy. In their extremity they were al most frantic with fright. Suddenly Miss Jeanne was inspired with an idea. “The telegraph !” she exclaimed, and darting to her brother’s room her fingers closed over the key, which she nervously work ed in hope that Henry was still at the Higgins homestead, in which case they could tell him of their danger, and the Higgins people would come to their res cue. With their nerves strung to the highest pitch, tne girls watched and waited for the instrument to answer. It gave back none. “Harry,-for God’s sake, answer! Harry, for God’s sake, answer!” ticked the instrument, but Henry had left the house of his friend some minutes before, and his chum was walking part of the way home with him. The Misses Guthrie gave up all hope of tailing up their brother, and their alarm wa- increased by a fear of Henry being ser upon by the robbers when he should reach the house. The files of the desperadoes had by this time cut through one of the bars, and the removal ot two more would ad mit the men. In their despair Miss Ida lie hit upon another expedient. In their practicing with Henry they had tele graphed with flags and with lights, as well as with sounding-keys. Getting out a small family stereopticon or magic lan tern, they darkened the room and lit the lantern, placing it in a window looking down the road which Henry would come. Then with a book in front of the lens the yotfr.g lady commenced to signal with long flashes for dashes and short ones for ' dots. When a few minutes later they discerned the glimmer of his hand-lan j tern in the distance, the young girls al most frenzied with excitement. Henry Guthrie had parted from his i companion, and was nearing his father’s house, when his attention was attracted ! by the powerful light and its peculiar flashes from an upper window. He ; watched the lights with great curiosity | as he advanced, when suddenly it dawn ed upon him that the signals were tele : graphic. His sisters, he thought, were j going to have some fun with hiia. Halt ing, he put down his lantern, and spelled out the signals: “Harry, stop! Harry, stop!” He stopped and waved his lan- I tern up and down to let his signalers know he had observed them. His sisters j almost fainted from joy when they saw i they were suceessfuL In a few moments they told the distant boy of their danger, and had the joy of seeing his light re ! cede. He had gone to arouse the Hig ginses. Twenty minutes later Dan Higgins, Grandpa Higgins, three hands and Hen ry surprised tiie robbers,who by this time j had effected an entrance in the lower j part of tiie house, and were robbing tiie drawers. Two succeeded in escaping, but the others were captured. When tiie masks were removed one of the villains was recognized as Dan Sehaw, a boon j companion of the nephew. Camp. This I fellow made the startling revelation that the whole affair bad been planned by Camp, who had forged the telegram call ing Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie and himself away. When tiie three latter returned on Sunday morning, fearing some evil from the ruse, which had been discover ed, young Camp was confronted with the statement of his accomplices, and con fessed to the authorship of the plot io rob the house. Much against the wishes of the community, Mr. and Mrs* Guthrie have, for the sake of their dead sister, resolved to spare their rascally nephew and save him from tiie just punishment which he so richly deserves. MR. JONES* LESSON. BY MATTIE W. BAKER. Five minutes after the whole affair was over with, that provoking Jones appear ed, eooi and serene. “Fig has come, eh? Weli, that’s bus iness.” “Oh dear!” sighed his wife, “why weren’t you here to sop about it? I’ve been so annoyed with telling them every thing.” “I presume so. I’m thankful I’m not a woman. It’s the height ot hardship for them to lie comfortably in bed and answer a few civil questions. What would my grandmother have said to such weak nerves?” Jones’ grandmother was his model for all women, and be often resurrected her for a pattern. ' “Well, if IM been so easily killed, I wonder how I should ever have lived through all i have,” and Mr Jones straightened up his robust six feet of stature, and tried to look as injured as though lie had just walked out of Fox’s book of martyrs. Mrs. Jones attempted tip tlefpngp o* her nerves, the u ase somehow appearing plain to ber, and a silence followed which Jones broke at length. “Well, 1 must go and cut it up, I sup pose, or it won’t be done,” and departed to his task. Mrs. Jones was not destined, however, to remain in ignorance of the course of events in the distant back room, for though 1 er husband did not come in him self, iie sent Bridget as his messenger, and tiie widow Brown quietly amused herself in counting the number of times tiie maidservant’s frowzy head was thrust in at the door, “Fieaso, ma’am, do you remember where the meat plank was put last year ?” “Will you have the back bone split in the middle, or cut on each side?’’ “Shall he cut out the shoulders to salt with the hams?” “Will you have tiie toes left on or cut off?” “Where’s the big butcher knife?” All these and more lrom the wise Jones, to which Bridget added sun dry on her own account, as, “Do you put the kidneys into the sausage meat, ma’am?” looking quite horrified when told to throw them out to the dog. “What ever do you do with the tail ? It’s a nice long one,” and “Where shall l put the soap-grease? for the tub is full“ Shall I try out tiie lard in the porcelain ket tle?” adding confidentially to this quer rv, “It’s a fine large head the pig lias, but how I’m ever going to peel it is a mystery to me.” The long-vexed prob lem of perpetual motion seemed to have found a solution that day in the swinging of Mrs. Jones’ door. By noon the valiant Jones had come victorious, though well-bathed in per spiration, and the dlsmerfibored pig lay around loosely in pans and trays. Jones went in to dinner, prudently leaving the doors open to allow the meat to cool off', and going out after dinner, found three dogs and four cats, including his own, making a happy meal from fresh pork, at nine cents a pound. With commend able prudence he refrained from men tioning this little incident to his wife. 'lt was a warm bright afternoon, and Jones pursued his way leisurely down town, while Bridget set about trying out the lard, her frowzy head well nigh ready to burst with its load of responsi bility. Three distinct trips she made into Mrs. Jones’ room to inquire for the strainer, the squeezer, and what the lard was to be put into, and each time her mistress, after giving the necessary in formation, added wise counsel, to be sure and stir the lard often to prevent its sticking, to try it thoroughly, and on no account to put in any water after it was once hot. About four o’clock an un mistakable Irish howl was heard from the kitchen, and Bridget rushed frantically in, followed by a strong smell of burning lard, and screaming at the top of her voice, ‘‘The fat’s atire and the house will burn up!” The widow Brown tossed the baby on to tiie bed, and rushed out into the dense smoke of the kitchen. Once there, she found that, like all had things, it was not as bad as it might have been. The lard in the kettles was not afire, though it was a happy miracle that it was not, but the stove was covered with a black, smoking deluge, while the lioor around might haye passed fora map of Greece (grease). The widow proved herself equal to the emergency, and the way she flew around in the kitchen for the next half hour left Bridget quite out of em ployment, except as she tried a stammer ing apology for the catastrophe. “Sure, ma’m, and I was busy at work peelin’ the pig’s head, for its a bad job, and I always like to get such out of the way first, when all on a suddint I smelt tiie lard a burnin’. I niver stopped to think I mustn’t put in wather, bnt jist dashed in a dipperful, and Howly Moth ! er! the fat jist hopped out all over tie stove, and blazed c'ear up to the plaster. Sure and I thought we were all burnt up.” The widow Brown gave a contemptu ous sniff at this apology, and devoted ; herself more energetically than ever to cleaning up the stove, telling Bridget quite severely that she hoped this would be a lesson to her in future, and that she would learn to think before acting. She had always noticed that those people who thought they knew the most, and wouldn’t take advice from any one, turn ed out badly at last, etc., all of which Bridget received very humbly, as to out side demeanor, though inwardly chafed and vexed with herself, that her own misdoing should have brought the wid- I ovv into the kitchen. Jones appeared at tea time. “There, l never thought of that sausage-cutter : once this afternoon,” said he, before his wife could a ; k him about it. “Never : mind, I’ll hunt up one this evening. Shouldn' t use it till to-morrow any way.” “I dare say not, for the lftrd and the pig’s head have kept Bridget too busy all [ tiie afternoon to do anything to the sau ; sage meat,” and she described the catas | trophe of the lard. Meanwhile, he laugh i ed over the affair as though it were a good joke. “But I don’t see,” he said, “why put ting in the water should make it do so. I should have done tiie same myself, l am sure.” Mrs. Jones remembered how he had so bravely ottered to see to trying out the ! lard, and thought that, ou the whole, it w r as just as well that Bridget had under taken it. The subject of her tea-time lecture to Bridget that evening was “sausage bags.” “I can’t seem to think where those are that were left over from last year, but you can make up ten or a dozen new ones this evening. You will find a large bun dle ot old cotton cloth in the big brown trunk in the back chamber, and you want to make them about this size,” measiu ing it off on the sheet. “You only have to run up one sine and one end. you know, and it is very little work.” “Sure, ma’am, and its very aisy,” said the confident Bridget. “Bring me a bag as soon as yon get one made, that I may see if it’s all right,” prudently advised tier none-to-confldent mistress. “Lodge meeting to-night, and I quite forgot it till just now,” said Jones, com ing in for a clean collar after tea, “I must he there.” “When will von salt the pork?” “Git bother! There’s always some thing if a fellow purposes to go out and take a little recreation; hut the pork won’t take any harm till to-morrow, it’s a good plan to let it lie till the animal heat is out be for** salting.” Ali that evening Bridget might have been seen hovering over the kitchen ta ble whereon she had piled a startling ar ray of old cotton cloth, laboriously sort ing over and measuring, and cutting away with a huge pair of shears with which her jaws worked in unison. The cutting finally over, she armed herself with a needle and thread, and set about the sewing, sighing and grunting as though it were a Herculean task, which indeed it was to her clumsy fingers. About nine o’clock she had come off vic torious over bag No. 1, and appeared at the bedside of her mistress, waving it triumphantly. Mrs. Jones inspected the unfortunate article. Alas for Bridget’s thick skull' She had cut all tiie bags J use one-half wide enough, ant! now tilts was sewed up it would hardly take in her coarse red thumb. “Oh Bridget! You’ve cut them too small!” “Bure, and it’s as bigas you measured it on the sheet,” “It was io he so large, double, don’t you see?” and Mrs. Jones took up the sheet again and showed her. “Oh’ yes ma’am, yes ma’am, I see. And I must out them all over again! Och hone!” “Not to-night, Bridget, you’re too tired. Go to lied now r and try them over to-morrow.” “Did I sew it well enough, ma’am ?” “I dare say. The sewing need not be at all particular,” and Mrs. Jones in spected it hy the lamp which Bridget held. Oh, the perversity of Irish wit! The poor girl hrd laboriously stitched up that hopeless sausage bag in her very best style. Her clumsy fingers could have done no better had she been stitch ing a tine shirt bosom for her devoted sweetheart, Johnny McKee. Mrs. Jones took the needle and thread, and with her own weak hands showed Bridget how to run the bags up lightly, then dismissed her to bed, her own head whirling in a wav which forewarned her that her share of tlie night’s sleep would be a small one. She kept her wakeful eyes persistently closed, but no sleep had come to the rescue when her husband came in from the lodge at eleven o’clock, nor did for hours after. The next day was warmer and more balmy than ever. Jones hunted up his linen coat and thought of Ms fresh meat, gave Bridget a charge to be sure and hake a spare-rib for dinner, and mental ly took much credit to himself that with out waiting to be asked he went down cellar and made active preparations for salting his pork. To be sure, he came occasionally and held counsel with his wife as to whether the biine in the bar rel had better be scalded and used again, where he should find saltpetre, etc. Bridget put through her morning’s work in the quickest possible way, to he ready to go at the sausage meat and finish try ing out the lard. The widow Brown, one of whose great pillars of character was excessive neatness, looked unutterable things at the dirty, greasy kitchen when ever she went out to prepare a dose of j catnip for the baby, or gruel for the mother, and would probably have held ! her nose had not her occupation preclud i ed. She picked her way about very gin ! gerly, and held up her skirts carefully, i making Bridget really Irish mad, but from motives of prudence she kept her indignation bottled tightly. “I’ve salted the meat, anyhow,’’ said Jones, corning in towards noon, “and I put the hams and shoulders right in on top of the rest. It’s all nonsense making a special brine for them, and I always said so. “But I always make the brine for them by rule, and use molasses and saleratus, you know.” “Yes, and I always said it was a clear waste.” Mrs. Jones did not argue the question. Of course, after s laborious a inorn ! ing, Jones must have recreation in the ! afternoon, so he spent it down town loaf i ing. Bridget devoted herself persever | ingly to the sausage meat, and at tea | time triumphantly announced that it was ! all peeled. i “What have you done with the head ?” ! inquired Mrs. Jones. “Sure, ma’m, I cut off the fat cheeks, i and picked what meat I could from the I bones, and threw it into the soap grease.” “Oh now! 1 always cut it up and boil j the meat from the bones to make head | cheese; l boil the rinds and chop with r U ’” 1 “The pig-skins do you mean ? Who j ever thought of a body eating pig-skins? Why, f put them all into the soap-grease, | to be sure.” “And where are the feet!” “The little legs, do you mean? Mr. •Jones salted the big ones. Sure and they i were niver a bit of anything but skin and bone, so I put them in the soap grease too.” Mrs. Jones began to wonder if there was anything not put into the soap grease, hut she did not waste many re , grets over the failure of the head-cheese, for Bridget had quite enough on her hands without it. | Jones wefet down town to spend the evening in the same way as the after noon and Bridget gave he self to the sausage with comfortable success. The sausage prospect brightened. “Bridget says the sausage meat is re: dy to lie cut,” said Jones the next morning, “so I must go and hi tit up a How exactly like him it was to have to go on purpose for it finally, when there bad been a dozen times that he might have brought it home : just as well! hut though this thought passed through Mrs. Jones’ mind, she j prudently' refrained from giving it ut i terance. (To he continued.) NUMBER 3. THE REASON WHY? General Science. —Why shou’il we seek knowledge? Because it assists us to comprehend the goodness and power j of God. —Why should we use Curry’s Cough Cure? | Because it alleviates the distressing soreness and difficult breathing of all spasmodic bron j chiai irritations. , —Why do we breathe air? Because the air i contains oxygen, which is necessary to life. Why do mothers keep constantly on hand Cur ry’s Cough Cure? Because they can go to bed with the assurance that if their little ones are seized with croup, they have within their reach a sovereign remedy. —Why is oxygen necessary to life? Because it combines with the carbon of the blood and forms carbonic acid gas. —Why is Curry's Liver Compound placed be fore the people as a blood purifier? Because it contains the very elements that attack impure and effete matter in the blood, and eliminates or drives them from the system. Why is this combination (C. L. C.) necessary? Because we are so created that the substances of our bodies are constantly undergoing change, and thus revolving pure for impure matter by its direct alterative effect, is the end necessary. Why is it proper to have beds raised about two feet from the ground? Because at night, the bed-room being closed, the breath of the sleeper impregnates the air of the room with earltouic acid gas, which, descending, lies in its greatest density near to the floor. —Why is Curry’s Liver Compound the best remedy for cold hands and feel? Because it re stores to tiie blood vessels their lost tone and stimulates active and equal circulation through out the body. —Why do people feel drowsy in crowded rooms? Because the large amount of carbonic acid gas given off with the breaths of the people makes the air poisonous and oppressive. —W by, therefore, should every family use Cur ry’s Liver Compound? Because the excessive impurities thrown off in breathing is rendered sweet and inocuous be fore leaving the lungs. —Why do some articles of clothing feel cold auU others warm? Because some are bad con ductors of heat and do not draw off' much of the warmthof our bodies; while others are better conductors and take up a large portion of our warmth. —Why do a great many remedies occasioually loom up with a great deal or fuss, only to soon pass altogether out of notice, and to virtue en tirely lost? Because they possess little or no merit, sometimes giving relief for awhile, yet doing no permanent or lasting good. Curry’s Liver Compound owes its continued success to the lasting and efficieut action in eradicating disease. —Why do we see blocks of ice wrapped in blankets or flannel in summer time? Because flannel, being a non-conductor, prevents the ex ternal heat from dissolving the ice. —Why does D. W. Curry guarantee to refund the money to dissatisfied purehacers of Curry’s Liver Compound? Because he well knows the ingredients will not disappoint him and that time has established a record upon which he can stand. —Why do people with torpid livers yield to the depressing influences of excessive cold or heat? Because there is that in the blood which is in direct conflict with healthful combustion in the system—those poisonous enervating elements are entirely removed by Curry’s Liver Com pound. —Why are hot roils sent out by the baker in flannel? Because the flannel being n bad conductor does not carry off the heat of the rolls. —Why should wo use Curry’s Liver Compound in hot weather! Because it relieves the system of torpidity and infuses new life into cur being. —Why are seeds generally enveloped in hard cases? Because the coining of the seed, like the shell of an egg, is designed to preserve the germ. —Why does everybody expect, such good re sults from vegetable seeds obtained from David W. Curry? Because lie handles only the purest and freshest, buys only from growers who use the best measures to preserve their seed from atmospheric and other hurtful influences. All the seed sold by D. W. Curry are guaranteed true to name, and the best obtainable. Almost all the leading varieties, especially those used by most people, of this section of the country ate kept. —Why is Curry’s Cough Cure put up in small and large sizes? Because a small bottle is in tended to cure a single individual, while fami lies prefer to keep large bottles on hand. —Why does it frequently feel warmer after a frost has set in? Because, in the act of congela tion a great deal of heat is given out, and taken up by the air. —Why do those who have tested Curry’s Cough Cure, recommend it as the best remedy of its kind? Because it is perfectly natural to “praise the bridge that carries us safely over.” —Why is it frequently cold when a thaw takes place? Because, in the process of thawing, a certain amount of heat is withdrawn from the air, and enters the thawed ice. —Why do cyclones wander around o’er the face of the earth with such terrific destructive ness of late. Answer echoes, why? —Why does D. W. Curry claim that Curry’s Liver Compound and Curry’s Cough Cure are the incomparable remedies for all diseases for which they are recommended? Because a crit ical public has tested their virtues and unhes tatingly pronounce them the best. —Why do we see the sun before sunrise and after sunset? Because of the refractive effects of the atmosphere. Why do physicians recommend Curry’s Liver Compound? Because It. W. Curry gives any regular physician Ids formula, and they do not fear to use it—it meets all the indications for which it is prepared. —Curry’s Liver Compound and Curry's Cough Cure is sold by druggist, and merchants generally throughout the Southern States. Used Him for a Foot-Ball. Hartford Post.] “My son, my so i,” exclaimed a good mother as she welcomed her stalwart pride home, “what is the matter? What has happened ? Have you been run over by the cars?” “No, mother, no, it is noth—” “There, it’s dynamite, I know, or you wouldn’t have your face all patched—” “It’s nothing, nothing, mother.” “Fell downstairs and broke both logs. Oh, those crutches —,’ “No, I didn’t fall downstairs; 1 “Then you must have run against a lamp-post in the dark, or you wouldn’t have your arm in a sling.” “Do keep quiet. Don’t be alarmed, mother. We won by two goals and three touchdowns.” “Well, I’m glad if that’s all; but why did they use you for the foot-ball?” The Japanese dentist does not frighten his patient with an array of steel instru ments. All his operations in tooth draw ing are performed by the thumb and fore flu<rer of one hand. The skill necessary to do this is only acquired after long prac tice, but once it is obtained the operator is able to extract a half dozen teeth in about thirty seconds without once remov ing his fingers from the patient’s mouth. The dentists education commences witn the pulling out of wooden pegs which have been pressed into soft wood; it ends with the drawing of hard pegs which have been driven into an oak plank with a mallet. A writer in the Union Medi cale says that no human jaw can resist the delicate but powerful manipulation of Japanese dentist.