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POETRY.
Hilda.
BY KEllES-HAPPCCH.
[The following Christmas picture is from
the pen of a gifted little Miss, hardly in
her teens, and a pupil iu the Atlanta High
School. Already her prose sketches and
verses have attracted favorable notice, and
give promise of a bright future for her
literary aspirations .—Savannah Xerrs ]
Still fid white the winter had spread •
Hi* carpet of ermine snow,
And all the valleys and emerald hills
Did this pure covering show.
Not a footprint lay in the sacred way
To the little hill-side church,
And standing like "stately sentinels,”
Kept guard the ice-clad birch.
The wind had kissed young Hilda’s cheek
And curled her sun-lit hair,
As first of all she found the way
To the churchyard cold and bare.
The gate flew back on its rusty hinge
Under Hilda's little hand,
For even “moth and rust” gave way
To the sweetest buil'in the land.
Never before had Germany seen
So lovely a child as this.
That even the hurrying, winter winds
Paused on the way to kiss
Tp through the rows of glistening elms
The child-like footmarks passed ;
Over the hill, by a frozen brook,
•She came to the church at last.
The snow was deep where Hilda stopped
And knelt on the earpet white,
While the pale dawn broke from the shift¬
ing clouds
And shone with a wintry light. •
Prayerfully her eyes were raised,
And her hands were holding fast,
The beautiful words the Saviour spoke
In the dim and shadowy past.
She listened and waited, and listened ftill
For a Christmas bell to chime.
And the quaint, old words to fill all space
'With their musical, mystic rhyme :
‘‘Whatever you ask on the Christmas day
To you it shall he given,
E'en if the gift you earnestly pray
He tlie greatest boon of heaven."
A». length they see n '.1 to bind the breath
Of the Indy Christie n air,
And Hilda believed, in the dawning light,
She saw the Chrb t-child there.
A glory shone o’er the portal grey
Wh re the childish figure bowed,
Angelic music in choral strains
Came floating from the cloud.
Quickly tlie words sprang to her lips,
As she knelt there in the snow :
"Holy Christ-child, born to-day,
Look down just once below,
"And make me holy and white and pure
A* any child of heaven :
For I will prize the boon the most
Of any gift that’s given.”
The Saviour, smiling, looked again
Into her eager eyes :
•"Who asks that gift, my earthly child.
Must to the angels ris.-."
In the soft and shimmering gloaming
Hilda did clasp her hands,
And revently she murmured,
"Then loose me from worldly bands.”
The huod had fallen from the gold
Of her silken, shining hair,
As a sky blue violet opens its heart
And sho \vs tlie treasure there.
The wind tossed hack the bright blue cloak,
AS it swiftly by her passed
And carried out on the Christmas air
The whispered words, "At last."
“At last,” were the words the minister
said
When he looked down at her there,
As pure and cold as the winter snow,
So innocent and lair.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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.BUD CROWNER AT THE BALL,
Up in the hall of the Pacific Coast Pio
neers a few evenings ago, several of tbe
"old boys” and a number of later com
*rs, their friends and admirers were
'
talkim? over e-iilv (' ■ 2 in r> trT»' i f •
‘T shall not tore* rL.l a ■
(California ’ ” said Bud ^owner.
UTf It was at , Hangtown, 1T in 1852, In
icrossin the plains we had all kinds of
bad luck. We had some of our
Stoied by the Injuns, some died • and at
last was left behind wagons and ever*.- y
thing but what we coidd earrv “ 011 ULr
backs”
‘‘It was eve. V feiW 2d i ■ ^ „ T . f
short anon. time time, I i traveled traveled or, on foot and h tuck
the (les^ierate chances of, find in 1 grub
among sich wagons and camps as I
passed. Nearly naked and half starved
I finally got to Ilumboit I found
large grafts a
party of earn camt-ed thar
for a day or two to rest wml, ,.i •
' *" b *'
bake bread and the like”
“I was a rough lookin’ customer T
had on an old roundabout or warn us.
that I had wore all the way from Pike,
trowsers that was ready to drop off me
and a pair of moccasins I got from
Shoshone a
Injun for an old-fashun jack
knife,”
The Democrat.
Vol. 2 .
“A man at the camp took pity on me,
and, showing me two pair* of green
baize drawers, told me if I’d wash ’em I
might have one pair for my trouble. As
they were sound and much better than
my old pantaloons, I jumped at the
chance, I washed .the articles and
hung ’em on a bunch of willers to
dry.
‘‘Presently the feller came and took
one pair, leavin’the other fqr me He
was a little, spindlin’ bit of a cuss,
while I, even at that time, ’ starve! as I
was, 1 weighed n.gl. on to one , hundred ,
and seventy pounds.”
“I took the drawers and went some
distance down the river, behind a bunch
of willers to make my toilet The
wasliin 1 and (li vin' had shrunk the draw
ers to sich an extent that it took me half
an hour to git into’em. They was skin
tight and lacked six inches of reaching
down to my ' ankle J tints ” •
.
“I walked up and down the bauk of
the creek a long time before 1 could
make up my mind to go back to camp,
1 went and looked for my old breeches,
tot I toil tltrowu 'em into the met
the start arid tliev had floated off or
sunk somewhere ”
“ As G T I wiltwl walked nn up and i down , 1 ,....,, n, that al . by
the water my long, slim, green legs made
me look like a fly-np-the-creek, a crane
or some sich water-fowl.”
"When 1 went to camp everybody
roared and and laughed, some rollin’
themselves Oil the li!’ trrmnul uni mirin' ‘
till tliev wi 11 , f ■■
ro seep ute bun Horn tminin my
sot some doth and made ■traps
so I could strap the drawers down to my
moccas,,,s ;. I,| n
“In Pussin’ along bv the wagons I
overtook, I hud to stand all the fun that
l<eoj)le saw fit to poke at me.
comes the great crane of the desert!’
some \m' would sav while others l call,.,! me
U li (,fr l lr T. ™, ,,r
"Whenlgot r to Ifangtown ,r . T I found
out that there was to be a gra id ball
that night in the edge of town. Before
scatterin’ out into different farts of the
coimlry the people were goiu* to have a
big dance “e together Xlin>
"in I thought I’d slip
down to where the dance * was to come c « me
off n „ and look on , a w lnl-. ,, found , hey
set up a lot of crotches in which
they luid laid poles, coverin’ Uie whole
wRli pine and spruce bong’is, makin’ a
sort of canopy. The ground had been
leveled off arid beatetj down till it was
like it brick yard.
"I found two or three fiddlers mount¬
ed on piue box.s and with them tv feller
with a clarinet. They were m.ikin’
pretty fair music, and a great crowd
was dancing away for dear life.
"1 looked on for ;t time, but pretty
soon I got excited like, forgot all about
mv drawers, and sailed into the thick
of the business with a big Pike comity
gal, with sun bonnet off and hair bang¬
in' Half way down to her heels.
“I can tell you we made the dust lly.
I soon saw that though my drawers
might be a little tight, Iliad about the
soundest rig in the whole place. I
looked as though in some kind of mas¬
queradin' outfit, and began to consider
myself the beau of the ball—a regular
dandy.
“I made them long, green legs of mine
fly in swingin’ou the corners, and was
the wonder of every man, ’ woman and
,“ , ' , ilt . t,,e ,, b:i11 , ,, 1 , Sot excited about
’ so
the sensation I was makin’ that I cut
kinds of pigeon wings and fancy
flourishes, briiigiu’ down the house
every time.
“ ‘Go in, green legs !’ tlie fellers out¬
side would holler, and go in I did.—
Finally a couple of children come waltz
in’, along, I thought it would lie a good
trick to sling one of my long, green logs
circus fashion over tlie heads of the little
colli de.” ’
,, r o ' „ *'/ , , ( ' *■ l! ,, ‘C hall; , ,, runnin . ,
'
n, 1 " es . ... '' 1 u . S1 ®tce, 4 and don’t know
'
4 IV ® eVC ‘ r KOt Cyt ‘ S 0,1 niau W0lnan
’
or child that was thar from that day to
tbta -”
“Guessyou have,” said an old chap
among the listeners 4 ‘I was ’ thar «•.«'„ *md
the whole performance t f I,* v
'
n i,wf ~.i .. a (l .. ‘ ine ' • n , Wltb
-
„ti il,e llU “‘ , > ou tGwl to swing your
, le * over another old cock, "was
’
my child, and she is now the Wife of Sen
ittor \I r —s, of California. ”
“I am the very man that gave you
those green baize drawers,”sakl another
0 f the na. lv i.r rem.l.™. 1 *1 .. . ^
'
^, SO< ”\ n a? aSyou vnn mentioned * ■ what happened
out Ulfc Hnrobolt.
-Wonderful! wonderful!” cried Bud;
^ [ Urmn ^ to a “pioneer” sitting
near, he said: "And you?”
"Damfino,’ said the-man addressed,
" l gaeU 1 mua a b5n tl I«j«n that
'“
trad ^ voujl^cassins^
Stati ties C s!,ow tilat 4 the ,, number of
' tY * ln C reas,nfir; and vet news
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. . tC mak
® wai ’ °>* fiback
djetors. H hat is a quack doctor for
th awfordville, Georgiii, ■Ttmuaiy 11, 1878.
[ From the Kcw York World. ]
THE COMMONER OF GORGIA.
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Some Reminiscences of the A. H.
Stephen’s Ante-Bellum Days.
It is not long since the ex-Confederate
Vice-President, Alex. H. Stephens, was in
New York; willing to be interviewed, and
met with the nstial Gotham courtesies of
be * n * as ,n,u ‘h interviewed as n man can
1>of,r ' a,ld ,ive - 1 would like to give you a
fe W ""““wwiiees * hi ™- J t «’ no ‘ *°
. "fwolhlfmamthis
oecsnse nis memory is sa wonderful and his
observation s. keen that to mistake the
color of one of his dogs, seen ten years ago
P^haps^r to misname a character in one
of his ? torie *’ is t9 in,ure bein R quietly
sca 'l’ e<1 the n «xt time your legs and his are
undpr tbe mab W
I once had an invitation from him to run
aw »y fr< ”'> lb * dust « the Georgian Augusta,
'ertaindaUy
^,to }he shadows of the great oaks and the
more hospitable roof-tree of Liberty Hall.
He does not so call his home with any Flag-of
the-Free flourish, hut as a notice to all
con,ers °«t they are at liberty to do what
thcy likc inside thc bounds of ordinary
“J*- at tl,c cb,! * •»*>!‘“ of Uls great speech '»»•>■ to «* some >«»« ten
thousand souls, July 2, on retirement from
Co,, g res8 iu la5! '. and I had mainly seen
lnm at the time of great triumphs in political
or legal debate. But I had the usual ex
penence of stranger guests, who approach
«» great Georgian with th- awe that is d„ ■
t«*i»oft!ie few surviving giants of the
lla >’ 3 «f Bent on. Clay, Calhoun, Webster,
l)oaalas an, > Li " cul ", 111,1 who soon find
themselves In easy jesting or sober inter
T for a ",,»'«■» happy-lookmg scliool-boy save for a
wrinkled face, faded hair, iron jaw and
wonderful eyes.
‘ '* °“V ,ay t0 T
hi * ^1?' n- "7,,
fj, e niatt-rik, " mp vu sung
wurwhieheU^fto one ,,f the memories of ti r t i
l amuwhisvIsUorsG *
h the Peter n Bonne ..... t speech. I have seen
^her report of it, with t an Mines mostly
wrong, and wiii try to.come nearer Mr.
own relation.
A doctor named Royston liad sued Peter
Ib ‘ ,,n, ’H f "L! his bill, long overdue, for
atte nding t#T wife or the latter. Alex. II.
Stepheus was on the Bennett side, and
^^ tatl,s - "’ as for Hr. then Royston. Senator of The the Doctor
Proved his number of visits, their value
according to local custom and Ids own
authority to do midlcal practice. Mr.
Stephens told his client that the physician
made out, Ids case, and as there was nothing
wherewith to rebut or offset the claim, the
on, >' tbin « u ‘ ft ,l ” 1 " " i,s <" P»y it “No,”
I hired yin to speak to my
Mve, and now speak."
Mr. Stephen told him there was nothing
rrssrr-—.........
». 1 cter . obstinate, . and at last Mr.
was
Stephens told him to make a speech himself
if lie thought one could he made.
"I will,” said Peter Bennett, “if Bobby
Toombs wont he too hard on me."
Senator Toombs promised, and Peter
began :
Genti.emkn of the .1 l'uy : You and I
is plain farmers, and if we don’t stick to
gethcr these ’ere lawyers and doctors will
git the ad vantage of us. I aint no lawyer
nor doctor, and 1 amt no objections t<>
them in their proper place ; hut they’ ainl
farmers, gentleman of the jury.
"Now this man Royston was a new
doctor, and I went for him to come an’ to
doctor my wife’s sore leg. And become an'
put some salve truck onto it and some rags,
but never done it one (lit of good, gentlemen
of the jury. 1 don't believe he is no doctor,
no way. Tlmre is doctors as is doctors
sure enough, but this man don’t earn his
money, and if you send for him as Mrs.
.Sarah Atkinson did, for a negro boy as was
worth $1,000, he just kills him and wants
I->id ~»«—•
>ou cure liim asked Peter, with
tlie slow accents of a judge with the black
capon.
1 he Doctor was silent, and Peter pro
Ce ?. d e ! l i
" 4 s ’ " aK assayin' . , gentlemen of the jury,
"e farmers when we sell our cotton has
S°t to give valley for the money we ask,
and doctors aint none too good to he put to
the same rule. And I don’t believe this
Sa "'Hoy ston Is no doctor, nohow.”
The physician again put in his ear, with,
“ l ,uy di C ,0U,a if you «>ink 1 am no
'
diploma. exclaimed tlie new
fle<1 4 i "‘ d with great contempt. “His
diploma ! Gentlemen, that is a big word for
printed sheep-skin, and it didn’t make no
<Joctor (io ®* lt of of the the sheep as first wore it. nor
man as now carries it. A
R,,rK out J to newspaper you that he has aint more no doctor in it. and aU.” I pint
*|t
a ,„, !L“‘ an ”’° 'Y'?*."'; Ask W# my * llow P^nts iu a if fl,r I > .
’ am
„ot a doctor f '
, asked . my wife/ retorted Peter,
she “an’
.aid as how she thought you wasn't."
“ Ask *«!’ other patients,” said I)r. Roy
shack ^ ** fori ‘ * eter “raw replied that with broke look
„ , t
a hard ^reS^I -avin''!! 1 to^le £“ : 4
one
- 1-re beam tell ceased to ba
since the Apostles. Does lie expect me to
hnng the Augel tiabriel down to toot his
be<or ® t i,nt a,wl CT Y a h»«d,
, 1
Z 1 *' 8 C ° Urt aruI
,.. i ?, f “ "f , Goystons n practice?”
. .m i-ini*. amt say to am
as Is at at rest from physic and
biUs > “tiit up here, you, and state if you
died a uafcral death, or was hurried up
some by jiqefors?” lie says ask his pa
tients, and. gentlemen of the jury, they arc
are all dcr.\ r Where is Mrs. Beazley’s man
Sam;* Go &. ask the worms iu the graveyard
where he Mr. Peake's woman Sarah
was attended and’jie by him. and hei funeral was
applnted Is'tr.i/ISfcely Tsui the eorpse ready,
Where Bill as belonged to Mr.
Mitchell 1 Now in glory a’ expressin’ his
opinion of Uoyston's doctorin’. Where
are where Infant] 'f'' If’. Poet ors ° f cease n,rry , from Stc P troublin' ,,cn , s ’ s ? and she
the "Gentlemen are si rest
of the jury, he has ct chicken
enough funUhrd afifay house to pay for his salve,
and I the rags, and 1 don't sup
pose he ffErges for making’of her worse,
and even «• don’t pretend to charge for
curin’of lnr, and 1 am humbly thankful
^ ^ 'UrU^nad, ’MT er ^ JJ ' J* r
0 1 .. ai <u. ru , '" t ’ hty v ’ ,l,u
—
Hero Uu,applause made the speaker sit
down in gr,at confusion, and in spite of a
logical r. , ? fitcme..t of the ease by Senator
Toombs th doctor lost and Petor Bennett
'
Mr. Ste^iens . has many stories to tell of
negroes, ahd one is of a famous cotton ami
chicken dcrit dator, wlm since the war met
the ex-V«**residcnt h. the road. “Well,
Thomas sortr^o-hear ,* the kindly salutation, "I
was that you had been ltl
trouble "Yes,^ af ,.,t Mto^Tripp’s chickens”
sn^o^egro, Alee, hut 1 done quit all dat
now,” very penitently.
“H 0 w aiauy did you take before you
stopped ?’>sked Mr. Stephens.
rifnh ...
inn irent
J^nt Before X the war *PlXS Mr SM.hens had Jl a bodv i
to the siletit endurance depredations' „f the guests
111 ^-"> b ‘*fs his were
made that 1t seem a chronic habit. How
*v«r, a little application «f htokory wm
7 disease, ^ ; ‘° n ‘* U0 ‘ h °
The lad exlnusted the usual mixed de
nials and minis* hi vain, but at last
stayed th f,* ted hand of his master with
, mo finaI
"Just sGp one mlnltc, Mars Alee. Now,
Mars Alee if you had a dog and you toted
the dog, a t '.e did steal something, would
you V whip m dog?’’
1
and it m doubtful if the plea has had its
full parail, ■; since the famed one of the
Syropho nh isn woman, “Truth, Lord, ret
the dogs . at. nftim crumbs that fall from
the children's tabic.”
Mr. Stepuens has had few equals in either
political «r legal debate, ami some of Ids
sayings and repartees have, passed into
Southern proverbs. In a speech upon the
acts of James K. Folk he compared De
moerncy to a terrapin which has all kinds of
... was like ... the nitt bite of a mud i turtle 4 ii on :t i
negro’s toe ; it never let’s go ’till it ilmr
(lev’s. Wljcn defeated, it had its own Until*
ders of disunion. Of course he was a
Whig, then, or lie would never have said
that Polk went into the Mexican war as the
fellow with the now suspenders went into
the fight—"Justto show them, ” he said.
A storv of the transition from Whig
Democrat is told, hut I do not know how
truly. On one occasion Dawson, of
gia, was his opponent, and as his name is
AndrewH.il. the nickname Hard Head,
framed on the last two letters, seemed
earned on this occasion. Mr. Stephens had
spoken with his usual power, and his oppo
nent began with the words;
‘ ■ F ki.i,< iw-(Jmzicxs: In the days gone
by we had a great party called the Whig
party in this laud, and it liau giants on it»
roll, such as Henry Clav, Daniel Webster,
Crittenden, Fillmore ; and head and front
of the illustrious was Hon. Alex. II. Stc
phens, of Georgia. And to-day, feilow-clti
zens, we haveagreat Democratic party, and
.»”S; XZS&
host is A. II. Stephens, of Georgia. The
old Whig party is dead and gone to Hailes,
and Stephens buried its carcass, and if lie
will only lead his present party where he
le<t the other one I will be entirely satisfied. ”
If Mr. Dawson did make such a hit and
escape, his luck was rare and wonderful.
Alexander's brother Linton was as quick of
reply, and on one occasion a certain judge
had over-ruled certain of his points. On ad
Journif«J«r hotel dinner the bar seated in the
piazza, could see that the jury had
knelt in prayer before deliberating. The
Judge expressed his satisfaction. “Yes,”
said Linton, it is much to be hoped that they
wiii get the light from heaven that they
failed to obtain from the Court,”
Again, a judge made two conflicting rul
ings in tlie same case. "He is obliged to he
right,” said Linton, “for now he is on both
sides.” This brother, now dead, was him
self Judge of the State Supreme Court, but
held no Confederate civil office.
Alexander H. .Stephens once had a very
sagacious dog, named Rio, that wai bis fre
queut companion upon his journeys about
the hustings. It is said that on one oeca
sion lie wasmet byGeu. AugustuaK. Wriglit
-pet-nam.-d “Our Itause” by his friends
and the General, getting the worst of the
argument on .Stephen’s usual invincible
array of facts, attempted to postpone the
IJ < fea,d: —
1 did not have them. But I will get them,
sir. I wi; reply to you, sir. j d.-mnd a
list of you appointments, for l i..teml to
>'*eet and put you down. Yes, sir, I intend
to (% you all around this circuit.”
riant Iv printed to the ii-k i,„„n Rj„„
No. 2
at his feet, and cried in his shrillest treble
"Then I'll send Rio home, on- dog «t a
time is enough." And this is a warning to
story-tellers, for Mr. Stephens says ii Hint it
never happened. v w.
Military Surgery in Turkey.
The following details will seem incred
*kle to those who are not acquainted
with the peculiar ways of the Turkish
administration. Aa artillerest had hw
knee shattered at Sistova bv the exido
**>«•» of n shell, and after his wound had
, bee f ‘“W****^ . dresse<1 , , »'« , wna trans
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*** “f f ™“ U ‘ e fie ; W of l,:lttle to Go..
s ^‘ lIlfcinu l^ e - In spite of his intense suf
ferings, he listened with the greatest in
terest to all the nows front the seat of
war. On his arrival in Constantinople
amputation was found to be necessary.
But before the operation could be pur
fonned l* 110188 ' 011 luul to he obtained
from the ministry of war. This pmuis
sion must ’ always lie oliLnined u liefore 1 ' <U1 •»>
Wtutmn . .. , be performed , , Turk
can m a
ai " 1 ll uot “"frcquemtly
lmppenstlmt the patient dies before the
d ’" «-*«-«» “»>» <• *«►
rate on the demand of the surgeons.—
Fortunately for our artillerist, his ease
was pushed through svilh exceptionable »J,nit
vapidity and the desired was
given after a delay ' of only y eight K or ten
, 1!, . , ° br ^ toM ,,, OT W '° hi “> waltud
the J! ,tr » most >Iea ® Hre exemplary of the n<l.,.i.,istrat,on patience, bore with the
oiwrution with the most heroic courage;
there is still hope that his life will be
„
W, ' ^ sJ The fiT w’ Income T ‘ }t * Tax A " *'
»ttee , of r n the Mays at,d Means wtpml,
■* bl J import to the whole committee a
Propomtioiii to reimpose an Income tax,
Ul « ^ ohta.n byth.s tneans
a decrease of Uie tobacco tax and of one
or two other internal takes. The tav^\ urgu
ment SlheFsten made in favor of !! -m income
"'1.1™"' ” .’’’; ‘ U am T ,A"”!! " M ' d, He ‘*
tlic ^ 11 lI, wmcnj and tlieSouthern ,, Mid
dbi ^Htles , ; that property and production
»«’ overtaxed m these latter compared
«h, 1*01.1 *«■«.
and that nn income tax would equalize
the load Western ami Scuthem ' .....,« '." “
bor8 of t | l0 ,Io i IolIS " R ” „ vt '‘‘'V , rv Kmerally npr , f.‘>or f
an income tax, and the measure Is
f,aI y stro,, K HW,on * tl,e Northwestern
uu ‘ n,ber8 > wl '° >si, y thi,t government
bonds are almost all owned in the sea
hoard States; that these are empted
from taxation and that an income tax
j s the „nlv way to reach tlio bondhold
,,:u ; ;■
toying * l ffiuuuiitcd income t«ix ami bear
. heavily . . largo incomes, . which .. ,
'"8 V,,| J' on
means to push after the recess. Itut
his . bill will piobably be referred to the
M ays and Means Committee, which is
not of one mind upon the subject at
present, but it will thoroughly consider
the question, and it is not unlikely that
* 1 * , r ,, C Comprehensive -Amnmi plan i for ,■
- the needed, which it will
ra,s,,,t f rev t‘ ,,, iO
bring into the House soon after Janua
r y lb, will oe an income tax laid specif
ically for one year, and to fall unless it
is renewed by an act of the next Con
gross.
_ I B # ^
‘•Why my dear, what is tlie matter ?
^ hilt esau you tnettn ^ Y ou look so do
pressed. It cannot las—and yet—oil, re
lieve this killing suspense ! Alexander,
have you have you failed?’ said hin
wife, with clasped hands
^ niv 4 dear • mv credit i* ■,
011 rr<- ^ ***** s,l >i <l< «u, that
l’ 001 1 'tiln in the head has come
back?’
‘No.’
‘Y'ou haven’t had to pay that note for
your brother .Josfeph ?’
‘Vo’
,IV ‘ “ 011 ' ,10 ' V '' '" P ’ Al( ’ xil "<h'r
1 ac * { , have you had another attack of
vertigo ?’
‘No.’
‘Has your cashier broken his Murphy
pledge V’
‘No.’
‘Now I know- I expected it—1 knew
it till tlie time— I felt sure, it would la;
so : Mr. Debonair has asked for Sera
P h,,ia •"
‘No, nothing of the kind,’
‘Then tell me, without waiting anotb
er minute, what has happened ; I can
bear it; let me know the worst.’
‘Well, that breeches button I told you
about litis got tired of hanging by one
Uir,! ' l,1 > an(11,ere 11 1S -
----
It wa.-, court week at acountry tavern,
and a late comer was given one of a
dozen cots, which had been put up tem
porarily in the parlor. There was a
aT* After ari hour or more of th« this other up
roar ’°" e of llie I110st rousing snorers
brou « ,lt w ’itli a snort, and was sud
denly silent. A Frenchman who occu
pied a cot in the extreme corner of the
Tank God ’ you i-h dead."
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He Grabbed Her.
A good story is current in lower
Peoria, which has the additional merit
of lieing strictly true, at least we are w»
informed. It seems that a M lesian
gentleman of somewhat advanced age
has a son. who recently went to his
father and proceeded to inform him that
,e proposed to commit matrimony. Ou
reCt ‘ ivi,1 K the aunomieeraeut the old
^‘‘tlemeu said > “ w11 . "V *>"• to
* ho,u V ” “ Mi *» 80 * nA «»**«*
the * son u-J namimr l- I,,.,- L ••u, % v ,»u invo
““ Jjjj** im ‘ tion ^ '2
8 , ,e » B»od girl . “ 1 girl
t es ; as uicu a
ils * s il1 1 ”' vrr Peoria. "Well,
| ny so n ’ bo "' “» V ou « oi "« to an W°rt
, 1,w s an} ’ U J 0,H ) * "Yes,
’
l J ils 1 ‘’’’J® 0 t,ult 1 k,,ow of "
rh «n, *ud , oldjnan nsmg from
h " “«*. catching hold of h.a son and
Veiling out the words, "Grab her, my
bov £* • ’ * grab her Don’t ...J"*? wait to nsk anv- ,L
,, „
W( ,,i diu * » J ' , „ f dava „„„ *’
t , . ““
1 “ U a 06,1 her '
Cheaper Bagging for Bailing Cot¬
ton.
T,le * ,rPSent taxea tlie cotton
planter “very three-uuarters Su of a uis cent on
./ yard J of ; ,S ^y he dutHfrii amt
th ( tlC(; „ n plig P a
•
^ on jute butts, the raw
from which jute bagging is
butts, the »*»?***'«*, planter not only gains «j«. by
ebeapening the cost of secSL baggings to the
^tent mentioned, hut a better
article by rendering it less protltable to
niilllll faeture the common grass or straw
( „. tx lmy) bagging-alwut the use of
winch there is so much complaint from
tUjaIera d 1 •„ u , Um unrerore, *tor*
to ,
. wW J; 110 ‘ ..... ,n « Bowing v, d«at advantage welion that of any the legisla. whole
U °" tl,e "'"'l'** "<
«houl«l provide for the admission of jute
"free of duly,” and we trust tiiat
our representhtivea at^tire national enni
la i w j]j Hp( , ,i.., i.... °Y .. . ‘, .
| ,„ r ,
i ’ "f
( tl,is tl i "insure have . no time to Jose; all
Hd‘Tested shouW agitate the subject at
(>ncP) Hf) ft Congressional committee is
, low at work in Washington ou the re
vision of the tariff .—Chron & Con
Robbory at Daviaboro.
At about n quarter after eight o’clock
on Sunday evening the store of Messrs
tlio "ir"’;* (-ontra! Jtnurl, was ......... hrokon uw,n into th« urn
’
safe _ forced _ , open, and some fifteen hurt
dred dollars in money package* in car©
<>f the .Southern Express Company taken
therefrom. The building was then fired
in two places with the evident pur|Mia«
of destroying it. and tints preventing
discovery of the robbery Before mi* J
m ions damage was done, however, the
Ore wait discovered and the flames speedi
ly extinguished. Superintendent Demp
sey, of the Southern Express Company,
was notified on Monday, and at once set
on foot measures for the apprehension of
the guilty party, who it is believed will
lie captured
Indian Representation.
A special dispatch from Washington to
tbe York Jlnrhl says : “The House
Hominittee on lndiato Affairs lias Hubstan
Hally agreed to report a bill on the rcassem
hling of Congress allowing five lndiantribea
r
before C’ongress relating to th« Interests of
the Indian territory, in the opinion of
tlie aiih-coinmittee to whom the subject was
referred, Is much as to make it advisable
H>at the Indian tribes should have ofliclal
representation. As it is they can only ho
heard by attorneys, ami the custom has
grown of railing every effort of their friends
a steal or a job. The committee therefore
concluded that justice to tlie territory as
well as tlm credit of Congress demands tha
admission an of Indian delegate.”
Place for low wages—The Department
of Docks.
Hotel keepers are people we have to
“put up with’”
This is an “off” year with savings
bank presidents.
It was a backward debtor who said:
, ‘The dues you say,”
The Czar thinks that Turkey hasn’t
bad enough dressing.
1 he tunc the old cow died on, musk
have been written in beef-ilat.”
It was Brigham Young’s son who
wrote the line, “What is home without
a mother?”
Of what use is it to strike for higher
wages ? Every employee gets hire wages.
Brigham Young has gone to a great
summer resort — from whose burn no
traveler returns.
Woin .„ ^ , 1>ohtu;u,ls : “" 1
t}lf -
> v 11 1' a,k a riunk better than they
-ubs.-ribe, orIv ?2