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THE DODGE ~ 4
COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME V.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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ATTOR NEY AT LAW,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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OLD and RELIABLE
-SALE AND LIVERY STABLES.
A Largt Stock of Horses and Mules
Ko;i! Osnstaot’y 01 Hand. From the
Cfi Tip to The High-Priced.
H. & M. WATERMAN,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
i from the West in Carload lots, we are prepared
il turpentine Arms with first-ehc s Mules at the
Wii MAKE A H’KCl.M.TY IN THIS TBADK Fnforuia
I I H r i iinpt attention.
1HENRY COLEMAN.
Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots&Shoes
HATS AND CAPS,
mum, BRIDLES, CROCKERY WARE
Highest Market Price Paid IOr
Country Produce.
Hides a Specialty.
J - li Ml.dDAD A \ I'.Nl I Ju 15th. lss;
SAW MILL, CORN MILL, FLOUR MILL,
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Water Wheel, Steam Engine or Mill
Supplies of Any Kind.
DON’T FORGET TO SEND FOR OUR LARGE CATALOGUE
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY!
Best Saw Mill m Amen ind Hi Very Low Now is the time to btuf Let u
hear from you. J-. V. \. Uel.OACH \ RK0„ Founders and Machinist s, •Atlnntn, Hi
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A. L. HOBBS,
County Itond Street,
EA^TSI^A-iT, GEORGIA,
14EALKK IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods. Boots 1
SHOES, HATS,
Family Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars, Fruits, Con¬
fectioneries, Etc., Etc.
Having ju*t returned from market with a large stock of just such general mer
ehnndi»e ns the trad" demands, I now u‘k the public to give me a call, feeling as
tied that I can make it greatly to t! r inteiest to share their patronage with me,
I keep only the freshest and purest good*, and give my customers down
and full measure.
l-gr I am in the cotton market, and am prepared to pay the highest cash price
for either pack'd or in the seed. 1 also want yout hides, eggs, chicken*, butter,
and will give you for therefore liberal in cn«h patronage, or barter I hope a* much to merit as the continuance next man. of the
Thank you past a same.
•» Very respectfully,
tug 17 3m. A. L. HOBBS.
1,1 mi I'Al A • 11 A l Am
ATTORNEY AT LAW 1
KASTMAN, OA
IVietici s iii tie: Htato an«l Fcd-ral Coin 14.
I! df f »• in advuieu.
O'tt n 21 II nr in ray bricl buildings on
Wi hi It i I oad Avimi II IV17. limn
DR. J. D, HERRMAN J
I'lt.vcrmoNKit of
Medicine and Surgery.
Office at lie' (My Drug St ire of It run in A
11* ■ 11 man, 1 e( d< n e irder Is’Avenue ini
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HARRIS FISHER, M. D.
riijbirinn, JiursiM an I Armurher.
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DR. J.C MONTGOMERY f
ECLH7I1C
Cll.U NCKY. (i.\
Chronic Disci- of Women, Impo
tene v Sterility, and all private diseases,
a s| <b neiai a; illy. practice promptly attended to.
I-?** A full line of drugs and medicines
kept on hand all the time. Culls an
red all limn dav or night
MONEY LOANED
On Fa ms and Town Property,
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ELLIOTT ESTES.
M' < I It V St.. Mild.II, <i:l
July 13 Iv
HOLME’S SURE CURE J
Mouth Wash and Dentifrice
( lies Bleeding (iiims, fliers Sore
Mont Sore Throat, t'lciuisi the Teeth
and I’uiiii tlie Breath; used and rce
mmendt'd by leading dentists. Prepared
1 Di I I*. A* \\ li. Holmes, Dentists,
M ! nil, ( r sale by all druggists
Had dent |.l
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1887.
B RUNSWIC i
AND WESTERN
K A1 I - 1* O A I>.
TY TY ROUTE.
l ipy Mile* Shorter Thim any Oilier
Haute HeOrecn HV» (/cross
anil Albany.
On and after Sunday, H pt. 4tb, 1887, pam
i ngi r trains w ll run a* foil' 'in h
('EXTRA!. KTASDAKD TIME.
FOR THE WEST, SOUTH AND SOUTH.
Mail. Express
I*yle«’ Ihun-wiek, via 1! A W. . lv 118 pm 6 .TO jim
Mm sli.......... Iv *1 45 pm *6 56 pin
Wa.vneaville........... Inuniea.............. . lv 2 15 jim 7 :t3 IS pm
. v 2 55 pin 8 pm
Hoboken.............. Iv 3 55 p:u 9 12 pm
Seliiatiervillo.......... Iv 4 10 pm *9 27 pm
WaycroHs............. ar 4 88 pm 9 55 pm
Savannah, via S. 1' AW ar 7 58 j>m 6 10 ain
< liarle atoll or 12 25 am 10 40 ain
i 'allahnn. , ar 6 59 pm 4 80 am
Jackson viilt ar 7 45 j>m 5 HO am
Jacksonville, via 8. F. A W Iv 2 05{im 7 00 pm
* 'Allah,an . Iv 2 17 mil 7 40 pm
ClimT'.'stoii......... . lv 6 lo am .......
Savannah.......... . lv 1 30 am .......
Wayeross via It A \V , lv 5 (X) pm 10 05 jj:ii
I’l'UlHon . iv (S15 pm 1130 pm
Aluoalm . lv 7 30 j>m I III 12 40 am
Tv l’v . Iv 9 03 2 28 am
Sumner.. . .Iv 9 18 pm 2 45 am
Willingham .lv 9 4! pin
D»vis..... Iv in 00 pm
All.ariy ,arl0 25pm 4 20 am
Montgomery........ ar 7 25 am 7 12 pm
t'olnmbiw........... ar 2 45 pm
Macon.............. ar 9 15 a m
Atlanta............. ar 1 05 pm
Marietta, via W. A A.... ai 2 30 pm
Chattanooga......... ar 7 05 PHI
Ia.nisvillo vial. AN... ar 6 30 am
Cincinnati, via Cm. So. hi 0 40 am
FROM J! HR \YE*T, NORTH ANI) SOUTH.
Mail. Express.
Cincinnati, Louisville, via Cin, N So.. ,D Iv 9 09 pm
via I, A 8 45 pin
0 la'tanooga, via W. A A., lv 8 05 am
Matict’a............. lv 12 53 jun
Atlanta, vl iC. It. It.... lv 2 20 pm
Mae in................ lv 6 50 pm
Columbus............ Iv 12 45 jim
MnntRi.ni. ry......... lv 7 40 a m
Albany, via 1! All’.... ' lv 11 (id am 11 to pm
Davis ..... .......... . Iv 11 23 am ........
Willingham........... . lv II 4 4 am ........
Sunni' r............ lv 12 18 pm 12 20 am
Tv Ty................ Iv 12 38 pm 12 35 am
Alapaha............. Deal lv lv 2 20 pm 2 02 am
son.............. 3 34 pill 3 04 »ln
Way crons............. ar 4 49 j.ni 4 18 an*
Savannah, viaS. F.A W ar 7 58 pm 12 Of. am
* harlest.m........... ar 12 25 am li 43 pm
C.llahau via 8 F A W . ar 6 59 pm 6 30 am
.1 ink»"nvill< ar 7 45 pin 7 25 am
J.u'I.Hoiivil!e, via S FA ......lv W lv 2 05 pm 7 00 am
C 11.1 an......... 2 47 pin 7 37 am
Ch i t n ......lv 6 in mu nnoant
S i V:i I: i;:■ ii .... lv 1 30 j.ru 7 06 am
Wav.i via HA W ......Iv 5 05 pm to 00 Bill
scii'int turvill. ----- lv 5 52 I'm* III 25:011
Hils.keli..... ...... Iv 5 51 (.in la 40 am
Waviiesvillc.. .....lv 6 53 pm 11 * am
Jauiniea . ... ......W 7 53 pm 12 19 pm
Pyles’ Brnnawiek. Marali ......Iv H00 8 jh»i» 12 4f '.pm
. ......av 28 j.iii 1 1:
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*Sto’> on Signal.
1’ureUaae til-lint* at Hip station and save
extra fare collected upon tic train,
The mail train atop* at all 11. A W. station
Connections made at Wavci to and from
nil |. ints on Savannah, Florida A Western
Ball way.
I’u lm. in Palace Sleeping and Minn Boudoir
on ii j.>n Jaclisouvi.l.' and CinciutuM Kxj.reHs,
First-elms ear through to C lattnii'iog.i,
l’litt only 1 tie running si e|ier to Ciiieii.nati
(in Quern amt Ci fM' cm Itontc.
A NOIKI!, A. O. 1*. A.
j. a. McDuffie, o. i». x
A. A. GADDIS, V. T A O M
TEMPERANCE.
Cast ’1 hem Out
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The demon drink tlint stains the skin
The evil spii its kept within
HM "at the glory of the face.
l et all who toy what's just and right
( n>t out th. devils black and whits,
And help to save a suffering race.
Frniidv and whisky, rum and gin,
lad wine and l«t*r received within,
Are evil spirits out. of place,
Heaven mt to all the w ill and might
Toeaat Hit devils, 1.lack and while.
\nd drown them in the oe< nil's sjiaee.
(iri i-iir II /blli'/riii. in .Veili'll a l Aih ocntr,
One of lltiin'a I’ictitna
With wet bedraggled elotlies vero.l with
mu d.and n Imby in her arms, Mrs. l.lz/le
No Ian. wii ■ of u luinl working . loth ii iter
w>e, a j.ris Her in tlie Jefferson M irket "lieu
Court tlr.a niornin The w< man liv l ,i with
her husband, at >s Hudson -treet. but i , her
love for rum enus.il lc r to neglect her homo
and fall into tlie hau ls of the jioliee, hast
night she drairg ed herself through Thollljison
street w it li a ba by in her arms. I'nliivniau
1’epper her, and saw hen her g- from one saloon to an¬
"t w Mu iline nut with In r baby
it nearly dropis I'd f is - 1 ii bee arms, lie w as
afraid she nog gld kill tlie child and mi ar
rested her and locked her up. In t oiirt
Agent Htneking recognized her ns an old
offender, tshebad a water D.ttle full of
'vhiskV in her jMH’ket. Two of her children
nre for l.y already the husband. in city institutions, She has tss'ii Iming four tunes paid
on the Island for intoxication, and Justice
1‘ntterson sent her for another term of six
months for the baby's sake .—Sew York
Cvaphic.
M’liv Neal Dow Hates limn.
If a nmn wishesto. ng age in a business tiiat
IIIMIM'S long lile let linn 1 H (' omi' a liuld man
n.i ed ajs stle of jirohibition, writes the Port
land (oriwjsiu i. at of the B. ston llrrnbl.
Here i' < 5 lu nil N> ul Dow, now nearly elgiity
four. ns Mintliftii and as fresh as at forty.
Wlieihor von are a I inhibit ii iij*st or ntt, you
would enjoy an evening night with him. Sitting how
111 Ills i|'|s‘lied study the that < • her Ulldeitook he tel l me hi"
it I ue til’st tlie
have ol at olisliitig tlie 1 up lor trnffi public, he
I never t .Id the story m
lid, nor has it ev r been print ■d It was a
">*1 n.any years ag.x I was sitting in this
saino hrMb-" ev.-iiing quite late. In ftnswer
mg a ktioi k at tlv door I found a lady whom
1 ki ;evv very well ns the wife of it Govern¬
ment official in this city, lie was a jeri
odii al drunkard, and on this very night was
h iw n town on a spree. His wife
sFwished me to • get him home quietly,
because if he was drunk tlie next
day he might h>>. Iff. position. 1 started out
mid f"u:.d him i i the back room of a dow n
town sn'oen, hat was in the davs of
oense in Ma l lie 1 said to the sell koejier in a
qffii't way: Mr. 151: w nk ish v u Whv, would Mr. How," no more he
said, liquor "tlii« to is business; 1 must supply my
mi
eustomei l hat nil may Iw I replied
"but hel re is this g. t ltleman with a lor rge fain in
ilv dejH'i ii'ling oi hit n torsui .port. I f he goes
to his "It to n orrow tlmi'.k he will v lew his
\lr-u I widl on would sell bun no more
t a me sotll V iv lmt angry mid told me that
he. t . ha. 1 a b aiily to su \Tv i t: that lie had
a license b. s.'li inner to vv or he meddliug pleased,
and that ho d to luivo me
in h.s l.usiness
■*8o you have a license, have vour said I.
that "and unit's. yon su; j» HV’d rt v air family al«>ut tin’s.” by destroying I went
w
li. me tborougl-ly determin.il t devoti my
life to suj.priS Tig Th" the Maine liquoi law traffic originated ill the
In st wav j > ssii.o.
in that nun shop. d-al that remarkable
Th. is a c.ml is
il out till", old tvutl.'iuun with but one idea,
fin .ugh 1 Uiin through tin* war, and now
in his retired lit it Inis U- u prohibition mid
(."thing I well. ut pie iti ai with him.
T . at - w. 11. an I never fret." he
-a d in explui g his youthful old age.
"1 het |1 lots youth tor the man who
»!t» mint tret, an ie lives up to his doctrine,
His daily life - rv gtilar. i.n.l by >unset
h. . ml wii s w "i l i" til dav. He invariably
re-es at five . ■k. and spends about two
hours with his qers, I e;ng caret ul not to
miss anything t • liing on hw favorite topi,
By t h:s time I akfast is ready—a simple
meal, with.'iit : but fled vs d rink tea.
He then dears •I* Ins com sjiHidenee, which
amounts to ten. ;te "il l -t tei-s a day. Then
comes the spends reguli.: driv own town After
that be a ipi of h< urs with his js'ti
Just now he is wri ng !t history of the Ma me
law. wnien is S" n to be J* mblish.-d He
spends about four hours a '! . on this, and and
’'A 1 '"’ n r Nine' ,l,k ”* dav :1U in ther the library drive with
j a
| Nmih’. ■ dock finds him dreaming
0 f prohibition. — A (<• IVirA: Graphic.
(’ntrA< “Amrehi . pollreman are now having wh it
they call t drJI ’’ They meet in
siptads every VC’luehoOer other <lav. un t are instructed - — in
the uae of i iflie> l«s with Whiehevwj
poileeman vu tlw f«»ree is eakl to Is? su
“Justice TV) All Malice For None.”
The United States Signal Service
i embrace* 1S3 stations, from which rc
! IS'rts arc made daily, and employs about
I 400 men, exclusive of a couple of hun¬
dred clerks in Washington.
It is stated that in ten years ten mill
j ion acres of forest have been destroyed
! by fire in the United States. In the
South it is common to bum off the tim¬
ber so that the lands may grow’ better
pasture.
According to the United States Postal
laws and the United States Hevbed
Statutes, a husband or wife cannot open
one another's letters, and may be prose¬
cuted under Section 8,81*2 of the Rc
vised Statutes for so doing.
One great test of business prosperity
and ntivity m this couutrv for some
years has been the extent of construction
of railroads, and as a reflex of this the
condition of tin: iron business At pres
cut both these business, ure prosperous
and active.
The various e amputations of the
amount spent yearly in tiii' country on
>r are very curious, < tie speaker at
i temperance meeting at I’.rockton, Mass
issertcd that from *
tli inn sjK’nt every
year on liijuor 1,000 ft gold pices might
be put on each word in the biblc, and
that even then there would lie $50,000 to
spare
Washington is the best shaded city in
the world, At present there are 63.000
shade trees in its streets, most of them in
i a flourishing . condition. Of this number
1 23,305 ’ are soft or white maples, 832
sugar and black or southern maples,
! 2,786 Norway maples, 8(i4 scarlet or red.
' 422
sycamores, 4.048 ash-leaved maples,
5.121 American lindens, 7,050 Carol ini.
poplars, 5,305 American elms, European
] C lins and mixed elms, 4,5711 sycamores,
or bi'tto wood, and European plane trees,
| ,
A farmer near Hudson. Mich, got hi
wife to help him lower Ins mowing ma¬
chine from the barn loft, where it had
been stored, He fastened a rope to it,
and passing it over a pulley asked his
wife to hold the end until he descended.
She had just then taken a hitch with the
rope around her waist, when the mowci
crashed down to the floor, and simul¬
taneously she shot up where the mud
wasps do their nest hiding, There has
been only one subject of conversation in
that family since, and she has done all
the talking.
Statistics arc not always amusing, but
often suggestive, and those of the Dead
l etter Office arc depressing: 4,500,000
letters were last year scut to the Dead
I .otter Office for various reasons, of which
3,500.000 were unclaimed letters, 112,
050 were returned from hotels, 814,700
were misdirected, 133,000 were held for
unpaid postage, 14,134 were without
address. (if these 4,044,845 were opened.
1,518,825 were returned to writers, and
2.55t’.,fl'.M) were destroyed, of the above
letters 17,385 contain d money; 20,260,
draft 1,40(4, receipts, paid notes, etc.,
and 85.000 contained postage stamps.
Most of tlusc are sent by occasional let¬
ter writers, who find the writing and
mailing an irksome duty; and the loss
of a letter to them is more annoying
than the loss of a letter to a business
bouse.
Cities with 1,000,000 inlialiitatiis and
upwards have never heen plentiful in any
age of tlie world.[and their number is very
limited now. There arc four such cities
in Europe, tim e or four in Asia, and but
one on this Continent. The doubt in re¬
gard to the number in Asia arises from
tiie fact that it is difficult to determine
whether the claim of Nanking to l,i»oo. -
00(4 inhabitants is correct or not. Assum¬
ing it, however, to he just, Hie rank of
tiie very great cities of the world, based
on the censuses of 1880 and 1881 , would
stand as follows:
rig.Hl'iO II.
D>hdon... . .4,706,661
Paris...... g2,369,023
('nnton... . ,"l ,15014,4106
New- York .. 1,306,590
Tokio..... . •1,140,586
Dt'ilin.... ..1,122,5'10
Vienna.... . .1,103,857
Peking .... ,.1,000,036
Nanking?. ..1,060,006 *
T
-A keeper in the Erie County (N. Y.l
almshouse ays that in his experience one
of the peculiar freaks of it sanity is the
seeming reversal of natural tendencies.
“For instance,” lie says, “we have in the
male wards fine collections of pot’ed
plants and climbing vines, which grow
so luxuriously that they curt tin the win¬
dows. The men tend them carefully,
pluck away the dead leaves, stir up the
lirts in the pots, prune tlie vines, keep
:hcm carefully watered, and in divers
other ways manifest thetondcrest watch¬
fulness. No so with th" women. Every
attempt to introduce plants and vines as
i feature of the female wards, save in the
cottage where the mildest eases are eon
fined, has prove l a flat failure. The
women pull out the plants by the roots,
tear down the vines, and manifest other
de«tmotive tendencies entirely at vari¬
ance with the nature of the sex in gen
end.’’
Tlie New York 7 'turn says that “one
gentleman who has given much thought¬
ful attention to reeeut Southern progress
j- lie is a lie lid er of tlie New York
Stock Exchange and an investor in various
Southern ontei| rises—makes a statement
of general intere-t by saying that one of
the chief opportunities in the South now
is for the mechanic. He doesn’t mean
only for the worker in ir m and the like
that pig iron •furnace* and founderies
must employ, but the artisan in everv
branch. In towns like Anniston and
Decatur, in Alabama, as in Chattanooga,
Birmingham and elsewhere, there i* a
daily increasing demand for the skilled
mechanic. Carpenters, bricklayers, plas
erers, and the like can command as
ood wages in these prosperous Southern
laces as they are able to obtain in New
ork, while the cost of good living is
i not much more than half. In all of the
j I industrial tewns of the South houses are
) . repted ,, fsrfastcrthan . . they , be built.”
can
The sword recently presented to Hen
oral l.Iilc-s by the people of Arizona is
said to be, with one possible exception,
the finest gift of the kind ever leceivcd
hy an officer of our army. The hilt is of
white shark skin and gold, and is set
with a huge amethyst. It is ornamented
also with an engraved portrait of Chief
Natchez. The scabbard, which is of gold.
bears on one side a portrait of Geroninio,
and a series of pictures of warfare on the
frontier. On the other side is the in
scription of presentation The Spanish
blade is so perfectly temp ’red that its
poi it can be made, by bending, alino-t
to ouch the hilt. The cost is kept secret,
bu. is supposed to be not less than
lii.oon.
Within the past three years four cases
that have excited national interest have
been tried in Chicago, and in cadi c.i-e
the jury has brought in a verdict which
has accorded with the evidence and
public opinion. Tiie juries are known
ns the “Joe” Markin jury, the Anarch¬
ist jur_v, the >fc(!arigle jury and the
“boodle'’ commissioners’ jury. A con¬
viction lias been secured in every ea«e.
The results are that Markin, tried for
altering election n tyriis, is in prison,
the anarchists arc awaiting the de >n
of the court on an application for a new
trial, McGarigle has escaped to Canada,
and the “boodle’’ commissioners have
V itherpaiil their fines or arc awaiting
the issue of an appeal to a higher court.
*Thc United States Treasury agent in
chartfe of the Alaskan seal islands reports
that the British marauders, during the
last season, have taken 50,i»00 skins on
the islands belonging to the United
States, The seals are killed not in the
waters within the disputed jurisdiction,
but on the islands, The British case i
made up on the theory that the oflein c
against the statutes of the United States
arc committed within the waters which
are claimed to be part of th" high seas.
The fact ■ms to be that the British ves¬
sels land their crews on the islands and
kill the seals during the breeding sea-on.
The offense has a far larger import.mec,
therefore, than is involved in an occa¬
sional infraction of the rights »>f this
country if th British position is
agreed to, the result must be the exter¬
mination of the seals.
The Boston 77vf//w7/<( enthusiastically
exclaims What a country we hare
altogether! One section of it that was
untouched in 1880 is now producing
4,000,000 tons of iron annually, and an¬
other section i Montana, scarce’y known
in 1 880 , j> producing so,000, 000 pounds
of copper in a y ar. Another (Idaho has
a mountain of sulphur, and another
(Wyoming) lias vast areas of petroleum
within its borders. California lias sent
over $ 1 , 000 , 1100,000 of gold to the United
States mint, and is also a veritable gar
den spot, America finds iron tonic In
her iron ores she can furnish food, cloth
ing, shelter, and resources for any possi¬
ble millions of population. And with
the rapid extension of se'enee (America,
by the way, took away the live gold
medals at the last Paris electrical exjm
sitioti—took the wli.de live) lieyond the
present limits of imaginable experience,
who can but feel the great responsibility
for developing not only these material
resources, but also those moral and politi¬
cal virtues that alone tn*k blcssin^of
wealth to the common well being ?
Scientific men in Mexico are beginning
to study the inetcorob.gie.il phenomena
which are believed tobcduc to the build¬
ing of railways in the country. Hcccnt
serious damage done by washouts on the
northern section of the Mexican Central
rt«d was due to waterspouts bursting on
the track, and it is a curious fact that
waterspouts seem lo be attracted by the
iron track and telegraph wires. Hesi
dents of theinterior say that an electric
rurrenfamsalong4hc track, which makes
a eonvenint avenue for storms, and re¬
cently, in building, the Guadalajara
branch of the Mexican Central, it has
. been noted by the engineers that as fast
as^ie construction advances rain follows.
, They hold that this is due to the large
ipiantity of steel rails on flat ears, which
.are parried forward permits. as fast as the work of
construction The most noticea¬
ble fact is that the country is dry in ad¬
vance of the construction trains, and
also behind them for many miles. Rains
beat down, as deseri! ed, in bucketful*,
just where the steel rails are, but only in
circles a few miles in diameter.
How Cleopatra Killed Herself.
I4r. Yiaml Grand Marias, ip a curious
pamphlet on length the Egyptian queen, dis¬
misses at some her experiments on
slaves, death, prisoners, and persons condemned
to (plot ing from Pint arch, he
shows how she acquired the certitude
that the bite of the asp effected a calm
and painless death. But here the vvrthy
doctor's did reasoning begins How. In
asks, the asp escape, and how did
the 'wo attendants of .he queen die:
Nobody saw the serpent afterward, and
wc have th peetuole.of a closed room,
of two women inanimat i ml of one
languidly raising her head to answer
with dying feebleness tin mess ngers of
t'u'sar. All this, according to the doe
tor. shows tha* ehareoal poisoning had
been resorted clever to; for ha < 1 ieopatra, who
was a woman, studied every
possjb means of bringing about death,
M. Mas: i the will known Egyptolo¬
gist, t«. whom the recent researches of
which B iron I arr. y made fun have been
communicated, doubts the existence of
the great Nile queen, a- there are no
her. monuments or Trlr hieroglyphs relating to
— ir.it h.
How General Grant Met Ilia Wife.
The Confederate General F.ongstreet
introduced < 'eneral Grant to Miss Julia
Dent, who is now'tren‘*ral Grant’s widow.
Longstreet’s mother was a Dent. On
graduating from assigned the military academy
Loiigstreet stationed was to a command,
and w as al Je(Ter-on barracks,
lielow St. Louis. \Vhi e there he visited
hi* relatives, the Pent*, on the Gravois
road, and when Giant was assigned to
the same accompanied regiment with him l.ongs’reet, the
latter on his first visit
to the Dent place, and presante 1 “the
little man with the big epaulets,” as
Grant was sometimes called in those
days, to his future wife.
We are indebted for Euclid, Ptolemy
and Aristotle to the Arabian universities
j }„ gjvain duriug Moorish dominion.
ONE GOOD LIFE.
A sunbeam piercing the forbidden shadw
(If some drear pri lion cell h: ften brought
Quiet to troubled spirits, and tins mad
Dark, morbid brooding change t jTaeeful
thought.
So one good life will prove a guiding li ;ht.
To brighten jmths weak mortals ..ft lin l
drear—
A tieaeou in th" nan ivv way f right
To lure the falleu to a higher sphere
—Tit limre a i.
TIIE CASKETS KEY.
BY 1,1*4 Y II. Iluopt.rt.
” f Hester Sealmok,young,wealthy
. intelligent,and
ambitious «»f literary fami
"'lit „ to Italy to collect - -
materials and to
consult nut hoi i t ics In for<* Iii
proji*ctc<I tnigctly of *•< sar lim ta. Ins
friends and relatives _____
in New York wen*
far from uttinpalmg thi .•u tua results
of his researches The-(
about bis ... C r nIi ft ,T , "' l: '
l)r \lrv ,m r dV‘~e'. l | M " : U '
of Milan '
eoll'de," Who elainied ''IV 1
of the ..li 1 doeto'rs I , ,, 'll. .all f ii'' it
family This i sgiand-.laughter, :
. /u.Iaiini. . was wonderfully In nut i
nil, an Italian b.onde, glowing with
le res ini s- of extreme youth, being
mu hardly seventeen, and with nil the
!■ if t* « l'»vel ness which, as her
grandfather i declared, revived mid n-pto
dmed the charms of her ol the same
name who was the famous bride of Duke
Alfonso of 1" rrara. The tragedy ie
■named unwritten .and Chester .-Vu brook
took to wife tins d iz/.liug eieatun II.
Wedding leisure, in haste, heafu ■i wards repented
at the outsiii ie world was ties
tined never to know His married life
lasted a littli 11 i ? ,,ril1
1 1 th T' ' "'•"i'" 1 " “ , , " turned t l ,0
„ Id I " U ‘ hll 1
' ‘ -
l, Jr. < l.i .r , , n , ,r 'VT ,n '‘"’ "l *!“ 1 "-"* certainly {avt ,hat a
u. mv r lernd to bis wile m any wav,
noi to tlie experiences of his few months
of matriiiiouv .. A miniature, painted on
ivory a b.lo.T,’ 1 Mf fflo "' i, .'« yt
di.lie-.ie fH ' ' : r f; ur • 1 Luerezm, was
-
i;r? ,,u .' K ' ,1,u , lll,n “ f 'h it epNode
b l us lit.. Unit, and the bov, who lmd
received the name of Louis, and who
bore well his transfiu -f to the United
States, growing and thriving as thmi"!i
he hud been born under tlie shadow "of
the Stars and SIrija
When Lou was a little over twelve
jeai- of age hi- father died suddenly of
typhoid pneumonia, lie had one only
sister, Mrs. Rk hard M;t'-.h n, ami to lmr
and her husband he bequeathed the
guardianship large fortmu of his son ami that s n s
T It was a healthy Matured
and happy family in which tlm "bov grew
to ...........I Mrs. Marsden’* three - ous
were all older than I ouis, and did not, it
tn l< ' * V, r v kindly to the'r cousin,
But u . her -
only , daughter, little Grace was
some years his junior, and. as is often
the ea.-e in such instances with in
tclligetit, precocious little girls, she de
veIopedagre.it fancy for her moody boy
eousin tection. regularly took him under her pro
I he poor boy needed all the affection
that could possibly be bestowed upon
him. lie was never strong, and his dis
position was gloomy ami morbid to a de
gree that w xtraordinarv in one tiiat
was to so great a degrei i favorite of for
tiim He was shy and sileut to i painful
extent. and, despite his I ta] i m orig. u,
he developed no taste fo either art or
musit He decided early in life to be
come medicine a phjsiean, but, after studying
for some few years in a desuitorv,
languid way, devoting the chief part Lf
los time to investigations coneerniii" the
nature and property s of poisons. In -ml
denly aniiouina d tint, on attaining bis
majonty, linquish he hail nueb* up his mind lo re
all idea ot studying a profe-siun.
And he likewise astonished Mr. aiuf Mrs
Marsden by making formal proposals for
t£e These hand of Grace.
ind proposals dccidcdU’, were negatived at
ones by Mr. .Marsden!*
You are both ol vou too youti^
think of such a thing s marriage, oi
even of an engagement, Louis bis
uncle made answer You are only just
twenty-one. a 1 Graf e is but i ft vv
weeks over sixteen. ! Moreover, J ] have
decided objections to tli marriage of
first cousins.”
You do not know to what vou doom
the me, uncle,' was tin loomv response ol
young man. '< J race i- II tha* 1
have to liv for upon earth and if 1 1.
her--”
“ Now. do not talk i use, Louis.”
responded Richard .Maisden, briskly, but
ohiltl not unkindly “Grac • l- too much of ; '
to be allowed to listen to youi
proffers of affection Sin ires no more
tor you than she do, for Ned, or Harry,
or Frank. Vou are like a brother to her
have —nothing her mori md I do not mean to
mind disturbed by anything
like love-making. Besides ' vou hav<
seen nothing of the world, as you should
do before choosing a wife and s ttling
down to matrimony and qiiietud i,
abroad spend the next two years in
European travel, and then ——
“And then you will give (Race tome?*’
eagerly asked' the youth, his pile fa ■
spoke. flushing and his dark eyes glowing as he
I make no proini-c I will enter into
no compact with you on that subject.
You and Grace mu-t both be entirely
free, and il either of you should fail in
love with some one else*-”
“I cannot admit the existence of such
a Louis possibility as far as I am concerned,”
made answer, passionately*.
“Nevertheless such things are possible,
and have often occurred, especially
where two sin h children as vou both nn
were concerned Now let me hear noth
ing more on this subject. 1 shall send
Grace to stay with het unit, Mrs.
Elavyn, mid in Washington, until you are
gone, I shall feel seriously displeased
with you if you broach to her any sub¬
ject connect'd with love and matrimony
before her departure."
And so well and carefully did Mrs.
Marsden (who was at once acquainted by
her husband with all the details of the
affair) watch over her daughter, that
Grace went away for her visit wholly un¬
conscious of the conquest she had made
of her cousin’s affections She was. to
tell the truth, so delighted at the idea of
a with journey to Wa-hington, of a sojourn
her favorite aunt (whose daughter
Alice was about her own ag( md of
all the tiling- <lie meant to sei md do
that she lo-t sight of the fa t that Cousin
Louis was going to-ail for Europe in a
few weeks, and that she would not see
him again for a long, long time. In fact,
the peculiarly morbid disposition <>f the
young man had finally become repellent
to her bright nature, and though she was
always affectionate and kind to him, slu*
felt, relief unconsciously, in the thought a of i his ertain absence degree of
“You must not forget me Graci he
said, fervently, at tic in uncut of herd*
parture. And the voung girl answered.
gaylv: "No fear of that, Louis. Even
if you never write to any of us. I shall
always remember you. For you are my
cousin, vou know—iust the same to me
as one of mv brothers
Louis was about to utter some protesta
tion re-qi'i-ting this announcement on
Grace’s part; but a significant touch on
his shoulder from the hmd of Mr. Mar 9 -
denrecalledthat gentleman’s stern pry
hibltfous, and he contented hitnrelf with
kissing with fervor placed tlie within little hand that
Grace frankly his own,
I unheeding the fresh young face that was
held up to him for a parting salute.
How odd .
good-bye. you she arc, Louis, not todtiss
me theearrmge; cried, gaylv, ns she
sprang into “remember,you
mtut write your first letter from Rome to
III. f" r ,° vo " t< “ 11 me whnt vou
,i Hunk • , ahout , - -
, St. 1 eter s and the C’olossc
um I wish I were going with you to
see them all
•’ll you only were!” muttered Louis, as
tin" carriage drove i wav "There goes
i: iy guardian angel, and I must go forth
done to meet the demon.”
A few weeks later Louis Seabrook
sailed from New York for Europe, lie
did not fail to write to (''race more than
his "lie impassioned love-letter shortly after
arrival; but the child, perplexed, un
i svmpu'hi/.iii", and half provoked with
what slu called “Cousin Louis’s fool
ishness made no response to
ilis fervent protestations. Louis took
the hint, and the correspondence there
do r was conducted on a more tranquil
footing. To this change a sharp reproof
from Mr. Mm>dt*ii, and a treat of forbid
ding altogether any interchange of let
ters, traveler probably contributed largely. The
wrote but seldom, but he often
;* , " t t " k, ’ ns 1 emcnibranec I
. le aml
•’ U ‘"; s 1 especially to I
' H ' ," was a tine copy of
the celebrated , portrait of Casar Borgia, I
by Raphael, which is one of the noted art- 1
treasures of the Borghese ■ Unlace. And
in the strangely beautiful face, with the
evil ■ tendencies of the inner nature look
ing fiom the large eyes and curving the
fu 1 red lips, Mrs. Marsden rocog
ni/ed with a shudder a strong re¬
semblance to the countenance of her
nephew. Indeed, lie alluded to the
likeness of himself in one of the infre
quent letters received from him during
bis sojourn in Rome. “1 must be a true
descendant of the Borgias,” he wrote,
“for my likeness to tlie Raphael portrait
,ms commented upon even by total I
s,r: i"gers, and when I went to sec my
great-grandfather, Dr. Marini, when I
hist l.—c-l exclamation through Milan, beholding the other day, his
on me was,
*, Ym " iin ' lik( ' vour mother's race.’ By
the-way, what .
a wonderful old man he is!
1 have promised to pay him a long visit
on my way back to Paris, and he tells mo
that sundry lie family will then relies coniine of to my importance. keepingl
I great ■
confess that I ant very eurious to sec
him. lie is nearly ninety years old now,
but preserves all Ins faculties unim
paired
tin V few promised months visit later Louts had been wrote paid, that j
"I that Dr. Marini had placed in his |
hands some curious and antique objects, j
severd of which ha I at j one time be¬
-
longed to the fain ns f unily of Pope
Alexander Borgia, •Amongst these,” lie
went is an i very casket of cx’qusitc and
arti tie workmanship. It possess certain
singular properties which I shall describe
"lien we meet.” Next came the news
ot the death of the old doctor, who had
seemed to have lived thus long for the
express purpose of bestowing his chcr
ished heirlooms on his great-grandson
and sole direct descendant,
The two years that had been fixed as
the period o'f young Seabrook’* absence
h id nearly come to an end, and he had
already which he written to announce the date at I
would sail for home when he
received from M:s. Mar-den the news of
Grace’s engagement to a young and
talented laww r, Stuait Hastings by
name. The match was one that was
satisfactory in every wav to Mr and Mrs
Marsden, and. to do them justice, they
bad both looked upon the attachment of
Louis for his eousin as a mere boyish
passion that, had not survived the received tests
of time and absence. This letter
no response, but Louis wrote a few hurried
lilies to Grace, declaring liis intention of
being present at her marri:i"e “And to
prove to mv pretty cousin that I bear her
no malice for the vvay that she has trifled >
with my affections,’’ lm wrote;“I w jH
bring lmr a wedding present such as few
brides in this nineteenth century have
ever seen.”
But it was not till the dav before that
fixed for the ceremony that 1 ouis made
hi* appearance at the house of his aunt,
m-eived.a v^jhohad warm welcome from Mrs.
always looked upon
him as one of her own children.
You have grown tail and manlyj
Louis,” she said, after the first greetings
were at an end, “but you look wild,
haggard and feverish. Arc you suffcr
ing from malaria? You must not fall ill
o.i the verv dav of vonr return—the eve
of Grace's wedding day Your nlavmate
of bygone days would feel sorely grieved
if you were not to be present to-mor
row
“Ah, yes—where is Grace?—I had for
gotten Grace '.’’the yuitngman responded,
hurriedly. “I want to sec her—I have
mv wedding-gift ready for her, and I
want to present it to her myself.”
“Go into the library, then, and I will
send her to you in a moment. She is just
having her wedding dress tried on for the
last time, and I will tell her not take it
off, for 1 want you to see how charmingly
she looks in it.”
And with a nod and a smile, Mrs.
Marsden disappeared. j
Some ten minutes later the door of the;
library, where Louis was opened, pacing the floor the
imp tiently, Was slow ly and
bride elect, graceful and ( harming in her
vesture of snowy satin, With a mien of
grave sweet maidetiiiness, advanced with
outstretched hands to meet the newly
returned wanderer lie gazed upon her
for a moment with a lowering brow and
a bitter smile.
"So it is thus that I find you, woman
that I loved,” he said between his teeth,
"on the eve of your marriage, all radiant
and smiling in your bridal finery!”
“Cousin -Cousin Louis!” stammered
the young girl, amazed and half alarmed
at Scabrooke s demeanor.
“Oil, you need not be afraid—1 have
not come to overwhelm vou with re
preaches or tell vou all the" ill that vou
»"»'«!". m .....I;
In-ought you a present from beyond the
seas Take it. and with it such blessings
from me as you and * ytru kinsfolk richly
deserve ”
So saying, be turned toward the table,
ind brought forward to the light an
ivory casket that stood there, still half
shrouded in its wrappings. Divested of
marvel a of ;'»•«'"! artistic i», lieauly. In high rc
lief upon the lid was carved the meeting
of Bacchus and Ariadne, and the sides
wen adorned with a representation
the bridal procession of the god, iii wherein
bacchantes and satyrs, nymphs and
fauns, and cupids and panthers, were all
mingled in graceful confusion. The
mountings ol .. the casket , . antique ..
were in
silver, and on a shield just above the
lock were engraved the intertwined in¬
itials “C. B.,"atid below these a “V.”
surmounted with a ducal coronet, the in¬
signia of “Casar Borgia. Duke of Yalen
tiuois.” It was a gift worthy to be
offered bv an enamored monarch to his
future Queen.
Grace drew near and gazed with brerfth
hss delight at the exquisite workman
ship of the ivory carvings. Meantime
Louis took from his pocketliook an
tiqiie key in darkened silver. This, too,
was a veritable work of art. The tube
was held in the unraised hands of a
maid, whose curved fish-tail formed the
handle of the key. This handle on its
outer edge was bordered with small,
-earcely which would perceptible be points^ wound or the spines, hand
upt to
f any one trying to open the lock and
ot warned to take due precautions.
key l»uis carefully fitted into the lock
Cx* casket.
"Open it—opeu it, Grate 1” he cric
with feverish rttgerness. “Within vou
will find inclosed a necklace of'the
choicest pearls to be found in all Par's
Open think it—open it. and tell me whut VOU
of my wcdditi" iire-ents ”
But without touching the key llm "ir!
ffiided forward, and, r. stiii" lu r ela ped
hands on the lid ..f the casket she
looked into the dark troubled depths
of her cousin with a tender nous
ness in her glance that caused him to
turn “Dear pale and to look aside.
Cousin I ms Mi lid vou
have brought me a magnificent gift, but
do not think me exacting or ungrateful
if 1 ask you for .somethin" more. You
know I am going out t morrow to u
new life, and 1 want to take will me nil
the kindly thoughts and affect ii i ol
those who loved me vvlm a I was a I it: I
child. \on feel bitterly towards us nil
I know, because l could not lev you
better than I have don lust as I have
loved my brothers It will east a shadow
on the brightness of mv wedding d iv
if 1 think you are still displeased Vdit
my parents, an i still feel unkindly
towards me. Dear Cousin Louis mv
brother Louis—in memory of our old
pleasant days together, will vou not
grant me my request? Tike ba'ck vour
lovely casket and vour neeklaee of pearls,
and give me instead vourfraiikbrotlie.lv
affection one more. ’
He fixed his dark, burning eyes on flu
soft blue ones raised so pleadingly to hi
own.
“ho you will not open the casket,
Grace?” he said, hoarsely.
“Not till you promise to grant me mv
request All, Louis, have you forgotten
all those days when we vv■ re children to¬
gether, and little cousin Grace used to
pet you, and watch over li you llid keep
her boisterous brother- from teasing vou?
You were always very dear to me, Louis
—be my dear brother one again and al
ways
Still gazing towards’him, fixedly upon her, he drew
the casket unlocked it,
threw back the lid, and withdrew tin
key. He held up his hand with its,, pen
palm turned towards Cia-e as lm did
and the astonish..I girl could s, e upon H
one or two minute drops of blond can
by handle the punctures of the points on tin
of the key
“Take your casket and your i.eirls
Grace, and with them mv full forgive
ness. You do not know what g
service 1 have done vou t lav I hav
swept from your path a bitter and
dangerous foe. ‘Ksmcrnldlt Did you ever read
Victor Hugo’s ■ ?’ There are
four lines in an old translation of that
poem which are now ringing in mv brain:
Mine be the turn!) ami thin I light and
lib
I die. mid Fate nvong th. Tis well.
1 go, Oli angel of my life, to learn
If ileuv'n is sweet as v.eiv thv lovi Fa ro
well.’”
• So saying, he took Gra e’s head in
both liis hands, kis-ed lm tenderly on
the forehead, and departed.
A week later the community was elec¬
trified by the news of tlm sudden death
of young Louis Seabrook, wimsuectinibrd
to a rapid and mysterious malady a few
duv’s after tlm marriage of M Maisden
Tl, '“ t,isra ' i0 which proved so speedily
fatal baffied all the seienccand e. njeetures
^ l<! physicians died iii to attend him.
T,lc y W^d that bis symptoms closely
resembled those produced In the bite of
a serpent, and finally decided that thu
P»tieut and mysterious had fallen a victim to some acute
form of blood-poisoning.
was only Rich ird Mar-den wlm
,enrn<M * the truth, and that was after the
death of Louis Seabrook Amongst tlie
P*P«rs of the deceased w a: found a letter
addressed to his uncle. It set forth in
incoherent fashion these facts;
l, f broughtthe casket of t e-ir Borgia as
11 P r *'" (,|,t to Grace,” he wrote, “inter,-1
in b' dmuld m t long survive hel¬
n,,,rri,| ««n<ll©of ge. ♦)»«• The little points that stud tlm
ranged silv r key, and liand that are ar
sons to puimtnre the of any
one w ho tries, tin vv aimed, to open l bo
casket, contain a deadly venom. Bui,
once brought face to face with my fair
aud Kiltie eousin, 1 could not find it in
m y lu ' art to carry out my ptirp I’wo
natures have striven for mi .remitcv in mv
soul. The one is the cruel serpent cunning
infused there by the Borgia blood of mv
wiMteyial ancestor- I’lie -vllmi tli
frank kindliness ot my AiiiTrhnii fatlier.
What if the first-named element should
once again win the upper hand, as it did
when I planned Grace’s bridal gift? I
have deliberately tested on myself the
death-dealing properties . of the poisoned
kc y-. 1 lmv, ‘ ««cstroy« <l it. Never again
will it work harm on any human being.
And never again shall I. I would not
live to deal with fresh temptations per
hrt P 3 to succumb to them. Tlm legacy of
my great-grandfather for has wrought evil
for no one—not even myself. I go
“ ‘To peace.’ where, ” beyond these voices, there ja
—Frank J e.i? ic's.
One of Artcimi* Ward’s Letters.
The following letter from Artemus
Ward to a little Elmira girl, and recently
published for the first time, is in the pos¬
session of an Elmira (N. Y.i gentleman:
Kai.km, Mass., June is, ]sut.
My Pkaii Amelia—I cannot tell you how
much I miss you
It S^eillS tts till nigh f had lost all my l eln
tivps, i Deluding my grand mot lmr and tli
cooking Why didn't stove. f
put you in a bottle and bring
'•Off ■ down here with me? Rul I a n always
forgetting coin 'thing. The. t'ler day I vv. nt
off and foigot my aunt Small, mid she's ;v
good deal bigger than you a re. Mr. Ham
is also a very forgetful man. II" fie |ti"ii
f?s* off and forget* Ills wash' rwonmn. Mi
^tXmeof MrD fine Teen,the loo'tii Malden ig man. inurdeiei If r
When Mr. Ramsey goes to tlm |H'nitciuiary.
<oaghnuts,magazin'esninl which will lx> very soon, we must sI him
other literary doeu
Ml ' RamM '>' P ri " t
I like yon verv much. 1 shouM like v<>u
jurt 1 I as well if you were twelve years older,
am You,sw>ke very singular about about some things
Jfa.r.wS to ni" a toy who w my
SSf hopes that be will take himself ST.1 into
he will choke himself a prema
tyre tomb—that with a
large slice of pudding, but if he doe- neither
1 shall lie fonul to load him with elutiiis
i fjml^hhn.his 1,1 tl1 " ' U> That w ll
bo- its ma iv remain. but th" rest
through! will have perished mbs rnbly long ere I get
1 You must lie a good little girl, and always
Tl i..^
| - nu- if it hadn’t Imen for her you might
have drewne hadn't 1 in a soup lmd plate long :ig Ami
if you ever any mother you
"tight be * lurto 'wit" ^•' 1 urk"ys In -
fact, my dear Amelia, so conduct vmi irself
j that sV ei»on dark and rainy days the In 'iglit
mm ma y shine wherever you are, an 1 that
theaters (which are next to the sun in 1 ight
ne«a> may never flash so brightlyA»nt tli it you
eau always link steadily and hopefully to
the'" win.
Faitlifullv, your friend, A. tVAr.o
Indian Thank fulness.
The Piute Indians at Lovelock will
shortly hold a pine nut dance and a
solemn “hum a-hum t so eg prayer >.
Thi* is because of their thankfulness to
"Pah-ah” .(the goal < od who semis
water) for the abundant crop of pine nuts
j with which he has this season favored !i:s
red children, lie far pine nuts in the aie not at
Lovelock, but away moun
j tainr, where the pine ore-hams have es
taped the ax of the "bite vandals. In
; the Table mountain range aie still left
j many virgin groves After the dance and
( "bum a-Tnim ’ the Indians will go (<> the
i groves and gather herds the of nuts, the whites f ormerly took —
before the
possess on of the ranges—they had a
dance and (i praise soog for the harvest
<>f {frass seed The Piute people are very
ligious in their way. \trginm (Aes.)
terpriu.
i
i
NUMBER 22.
MORNING.
Lol from out the < Irient splendor
Comes the day,
While about his chariot golden
Huulienms play;
Pewdropson the meadow grasses
All alight,
Glinting in the yellow sunshine,
Diamonds luight.
Front around the homely eottag^,
Where they creep,
Wake the purple morning gtorlej
From their sleep:
Waken roses, fresh and dewy,
To the light,
Blushing front the wind's caresses
Through tin 1 night.
Liston to sweet nature-music,
'Mollg the trees;
Binging bird mid rustling leaflet;
Humming Uis
’M.'iig the scarlet honeysuckles, bn!>i
Robbers
Are they, with their loads of t reasure,
Yellow gold.
And the fragrance of the meadowy
Ucrfuine rare,
Riveet"! - than Cieslimeriaii roses,
Fills the nil'.
Life again has slowly wakened,
Newly bill'll,
And with every laid and blossom
( •Is tli morn.
/’. Hr Jlrruirr, in the Current.
lit MOB OF I'll I! DAV.
Il would seem n.-it ut nil for a carpenter
to walk with a liimberin ait
An unpopular “i': ill’’ i irl a buitan i
peel on tlie sidewalk I lol, I )t,H.
•’ My I irk is on th > a," remarked tin
man wlm -eui bis do m board.
M /'-/cud Tr /. r
The li ln i iuen has n lill’n ulty in mat
ill" bulb e I; meet vv lien I .itches an
eel J <
Even a <|. tor vvli ! aks onI v one
lauguagi I vet understand a ■eat.
many tomriti i i
Wli'ii tli .i s:nl .'II,-I b -n.-lv ,
l,ov a ad v II I * I I"II.Is depart
Tli -aught I :
u-n I •r Ids II lit
t’lir
Tneu is nothing eon datorv for tlie
patient iiead su fieri ug from a. \ ((•‘..ild in
to be toll tlm .Id attack the
weakest s[i"t
If von want t t i good idea of
limultous motion you .v int to watch
lie itation of (hi 1 m-tb -of (wo women
dancing a hop waltz I I ■t,
,h thinks Ii S gil'l 1 I i r!l\
n lm In r in ' mg
And s In r for lmr e I VV "I 111
Said to be thirl v llmu-aiel dollar-l
77 /-/
And what makes viut think I’m a
slow reader ■’ asked M> u Ik aie
replied Miss Snyder "I hart you book
mote than a year agi ami vou don’t seem
to have tini>ln'«l it ;> a i,
“Who is that Voim a tlm! ju I
called you a ol' Mlellllie
of the firm. ib \s l ! with lie
Sqiiarup l.if i ar i "inpaiiv.’
“Wlm' do s lie il n't know
but, judgin'? from Id •rt nieni. I
should sav lm mu I Han of tin
a-,-ui,am V t"7c'/'( I
Brief Sna!%» St I es.
The County ('!■ rk of I. A rk i
responsil th lor ay bird
killing a mil iglit f I I
\ farmer, livin ai i I I lit l ee
.ad, Atlanta. i ,o
[mi¬ in an lion I Iii- I inil r
nt ly,
A black Mi ll¬ liv f I vv in' In
Ion I 11 i f \l 'll/.' Bald
win, of Mi-.oiiri I il;. l i I wii four
pretty can.o h s that w m me hang
mg against the w a! i.
After the poull ry lion -e of V Ilis I’errrv
man, near Bonne Terr I 1 I a
ami nearly found depopulated, tlie day he (lied in li r I I
next r
a il 1 bull -Make ol enorili' U - i
i‘lit I’leree s wile ved her f.iur-yi ar
11 wlm had b I bit. II hv :l III
ca-in, by sucking tl u ;iving the.
child whisky and pnttin l toliimeo
poultice on the wound -he lives near
Macon, Ga.
The thirteen-year-old daughter of Cal¬
vin Banks, of Griffin, Ga., was bitten on
her foot by a six-foot raltl r while she
was topping applied, cotton. but thediild Den died VV inn er
promptly sliort
time.
While chopping wood, David MeGran
ri.ahan, of Yellowstone, Wi-., was bitten
a the end of hi- lingo r b> a l ittle nako.
In a second, vvilli on blow of t he axe, he
had amputated tlie li ire:', aud he never
felt any effects from iii I
M as II a .Mistake
The Jetrc rrn Wokhj relates the fol
lowing Let me tell you an incident
which occurred to me once. I was a
young man then and a ( lerk in Tiffany’s.
One morning a riehl.v nttind I nl.x tot out,
of her hand-oil lima ml intend
the store, She Walked to t II liamond
deji irtnient a I limbi': lie
|o i-e gems, in
solitain ml , I :or 1 hem. Think mg
my at tent ion v a ( alh <1 in anotlu r in¬
rent ion, she sl y I ;, ! i',' r.ipidly took a : tone tlm
and phned it in 1 icr mouth I saw
theft but hardly k 111 w vv hat to do. (':ii 1 -
ing for a mes-cngi •r. I sent for our bu.-i
ness mating iti'l told Dim vvliaf had
happened. Without an in-lant's delay
he said:
“ '.Madam, you mt - made a mi-fake,
You have one of our diut ii in your
mouth Will \<>u n t urn v it bout an
exposure:’ "The -he ’•
next moment A a 1 1
and I knew the gem hit I gotu She I
swallowed it. < if eon We weie III a
dilemma The lady became indignant
ami threaten!- I suit and violence at tic
hands of her hush md.”
“What did vou do?’’
“Sent the bill with a written explana
tion to the husband Tlie next day be
paid us a vi (it. lie -aid t list lie believed
there was i mistake, but th it he could
not afford an exp i
Stopped Jiisl in Time
The well-know u leu Ir.liner I’refc
sor Gleason, say hoi tie a< i I
word of a horse limn, ii siioul I never be
used unless In- Want- Ids horse - to Stop,
and when it is i ised th - fiors" hould ill
ways stop ( uupliauee with this in
i recently saved the life of a boy on a farm
not far from Albany, lie was on a mow¬
ing machine, and ueeiden'.-'ily fell i.i
front of the mower. A-h 1 il It" shout:-1
! “whoa" to his horses a ! a i
■
The cutting knif tli ii i tie «
resting oil top of the I when I
xvas taken up Hel t Ii taken a
single step more tic t m! I
have been in live I to |i 1 :/
Jon. i
The late lleury An 1 I .11 Wilt s
wore a s fi t fur l^a 1 i i I!
never viirit 1 t v t
tent, < hie dav h n
Breoklvn ^, m.d 1 4\1 >of hat
H( , t (i i i '! 1 : a u
scut j (U c bum six of tin There t-i.
n,, tl e bu it _• lie Ti it at h I'll
hats were sent, vvAli tli - bid U lioii Mr
fv.g.l wife jj,. received tl.e bill
nn( j ,j 1( . s imgiediiitel v re
turned five of the lints and asked for a
i corr( , t q c d bid