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CRA WFORDV1LLE * - GEORGIA.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Chattanooga firm has sold 3,000,000
feet of lumber to one firm in Boston.
Mississippi has only twenty-three pres
Idential poetoffices.
The stock shipments from East Ten¬
nessee are increasing.
A deposit of rich phosphates has been
discovered near Selma. Alabama.
Savannah is about to build a $200,000
hotel by subscription.
The largest crop of wheat ever sown
in East Tennessee has been seoded this
fall.
The financial condition of New Or¬
leans is said to lie better than ever be¬
fore.
The number of Indians in the Ever¬
glades of Florida is estimated at eight
hundred.
The Georgia owners of the Refugio sil
ver tnine, in Mexico, refuse to sell it for
$500,000.
A farmer of Suwannee county, Flor¬
ida, lias gathered two crops of peaches
from liis trees this year.
Calhoun county, Alabama, is aglow
Ever the proposition to move the court¬
house frond Jacksonville to Anniston.
The grand jury of Craighead county,
Arkansas, declared their jail a nuisance,
and recommended that it be torn down.
Tlio sum of $5,116 has been donated
by the trustees of the Peabody school
fund to the Florida school system this
year.
Tennessee has a population of 1,541,
000, and pays about $8 00 ]>er capita as
revenue to the stato and general govern¬
ment.
Thirty thousand dollars have been
Bubseriliod for the Neuman, Ga., cotton
factory, and l)r. A. B. Calhoun lias do¬
nated the ground.
The Honth Florida railroad has used
up the timber to such an extent that
there will not he enough to furnish boxes
for the shipping of the orange crop.
Northern capitalists will locate two ice
factories, each with a capacity of ten
tons daily, ill Florida. There will bo
ono at Tallahassee and one at Gaines¬
ville.
Tin- Southern Telegraph company will
reach Augusta with their wires by the
middle of next month, and from that
point, will operate in every city of impor
tance in the qduth.
Hjsuiiffii lAy’-ierel found in urn! tlie spring some other have ush
only to lie re
cohtly been abundant in the waters about
Savannah. The fish dealers say the
cause of their spjieanuioo at this time is
tho lute long drouth.
Tho contract to build a pedestal for
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Nashville, Tomi., has been awarded to
Mr. P, Swann, of that city. It is to l>o
of Has! Tennessee marble, of a beauti¬
ful jiink color, and fourteen feet in
height.
The*work now going forward ou the
Panama canal has built up an entire
town there, with a collection of work
shojis, warehouses and connecting rail
ways for tlio reception and distribution
of material. The working force will he
augmented in December to a total of
15 000 men
1 ho , lumber , , business in the swaiuns of
the Yazoo and Tallahatidiie rivers, Miss.,
is assuming immense proportions. Be¬
sides tlie great amount of cypress lum¬
ber that is being gotten out, thousands
of walnut logs sre being cut for northern
manufacturers of furniture and other
articles in which walnut is used. One
Boston firm alone lias a raft of 3,000
logs, ready for shipment, at the mouth
of the Tallahatchie river.
The worth of the early vegetables sent
north from Mobile comity, Alabama, last
rear, amounted to $264,000. About the
same amount will be realized this season.
The prineij'al vegetables used art' cab¬
bages, tomatoes, potatoes, beans and
peas. Less attention is now given to
cauliflower, lettuce, radishes, and cu
cumbers, as all except the first are raised
in the North, under glass. Several capi¬
talists have recently put considerable
money in the business of market garden¬
ing at Mobile.
Florida oranges are moving slowly on
account of their maturing slowly. Job¬
bers are making their contracts for tlie
fruit by the Ivix instead of by the thous¬
and. The crop of one grove near San¬
ford, estimates! at four thousand boxes,
has been sold at $2 10 jwr 1 k>x, the j>ur
chaser bearing the expense of picking
and boxing. It is is estimated that fully
one half of the crop will go to the West.
From a quarter to a third of the crop
went west last year, but this year the fa¬
cilities are better and shippers are l>etter
acquainted with the market.
The Washington monument has reach¬
ed a height of three hnudred and eighty
four feet, aud cost, thus far, as follows:
Expended by the monument association
upon the old shaft, *230,000; expended
by Colonel Casey, #710,000; leaving a
balance on hand of $100,000 from the ap¬
propriation by Congress of $900,000. A
reporter who ascended to the top last
week found men shifting the massive
machinery and preparing to lay the 386th
course. The workmen, he says, ran
around the edges with the agility of
flies, and trusted their lives to the safety
netting that surrounds the top.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The total revenue derived from <lrani
nhops and wine and beer licenses from
September 1 to January 2, under the
new high license law at 8t. Louis,
amounts to $255,128, an increase of
$138,607.
The reduction of the public debt dur¬
ing Octol»er wu) $10,304,780; decrease of
the debt since June 30, 1883, $39,581,470.
Cash in the treasury. $374,347,501; gold
certificates, #82,228,040; silver certifi¬
cates, #99,579,141; certificates of dep :t,
$12,620,000; refunding c<n$iflcfttcs. 8325, :
850; legal tenders, $246,681,OlO: im-
tioual currency, $6,890,303.
China is a country of marvelous ex¬
tent. We consider the United States,
with 3,000,000 square miles of territory,
it vary large country. And so it is. But
China covers about 5,300,000 square
miles in its three parts—tlie Eighteen
Provinces, Manchuria, and tho Colonial
Possessions, including Ili, Koko-nor
Thibet, Tho first of these divisions
alone is that to which other nations have
given the name of “China,” and is the
only jiartentirel ysettled by the Chinese.
The Cubans, it is said, are about to
make a supreme effort to cut loose from
the dominion of Spain. General Bona
chca has sailed from New York with an
expedition, and others are to follow.
The friends of Cuba in the United
States are very active, and the revolu¬
tionists have groat hopes of success.
The negro slaves on the sugar limita¬
tions are said hi be ready to join in a
revolution, Meanwhile, tlio Spanish
government is in a stato of alarm, and
extreme measures are to be taken to nip
the new movement in the bud.
A New York man has imported a pair
of Indian mongooses, tlie first that ever
came to America. They aro a little
larger than a good sized rat; their bodies
are covered with brown hair, variegated
with white stripes. The importer will
breed these animals and sell them as
vermin exterminators. It is cl.-jmed
that they have no equal .1 in in that that bus* bu ness.
iW^pgivlae jMiepgo' will rid Um- iafeestii louse
its, axii t they des tAy snake* with
worn erhil avidity . and are the in vibrate
enemy of every species of vermin. , * . jri
they are gentle and harmless to
beings.
The grape crop of Ohio, representing
a grunt industry, is a dead failure, and
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for the main supply of domestn wme.
Besides furnishingau immense American
trade, California sends great quantities
of wine abroad every year, It is there
manipulated, labelled and sent back to
the l&itod States, to lie bought at fancy
nl,d “N»« l wth th ° km,wmg
«' f the pretentious American i epi
** is niton t i.it < < utra a 1 or
ma ia lu " v Pf^mg the richest quality
fu 1,0 fouud a »v"hcre. 1 lie art of wine
“ the lakll state 'K 1K thus loses much ‘‘" of l the possible ^
value of its fruitful vines.
A quarter of a million cases are now
brought each year before the consular
and commercial courts of France, and
the number is steadily increasing. Much
gat ion arises <*r in - the commercial «■*? centers,
Paris, Lyons and Marseilles furnishing
forty per cent of the whole number,
T,„:rapidly di.l-.i-d -d. »o.
over ten |>er cent, being carried beyond
a year. \bout twenty-eight per cent, of
the eases are settled by actual trials.
fort,-two OOP! ou iuduraou, b, d*
„d ,Uirt vrt»i on -on,,™.,..
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iHHHlings art' rather slow. They do, how
ever. generally end ir a dividend.
The postmaster-general lias received
the annual report of Joseph Blockfan,
superintendent of foreign mails, The
total weight of mails tlispatclnvl to the
countries iu the postal union, with the
exception iff Canada, mss 1,532,090
pounds, an increase of 320,114 pounds
over the weight of last year. Of the let
ter mail dispatched. 41 per cent, was sent
to Great Britain and Ireland, 23 ]H>r
cent to Germany, 27 per cent, to other
countries of Europe, and 9 per cent to
pi<stal union countries and colonics out¬
side of Eurojie. Of the printed matter
and samples sent, 41 per cent, was sent
sent to Great Britain and Ireland, 17 to
Germany, 21 to other European coun¬
tries. and 21 to postal union countries
outside of Europe. The amount of mail
dispatched ast year increased seventy
jvr cent, over the amount sent in 1880.
Printed matter increased seventy-fohi
per cent, over the same time. The sum
paid for sea transportation of mails was
$316,522, an increase over the cost ot
1882 of 136,368, or fifty-nine per cent
over 1880. The aggregate amounted the
balance credited to this country by other
countries, on account of mail transpor¬
tation, is $145,777. The smh paid by
the department to other postal union
countries on account of mail transporta¬
tion was *86,745. It is estimated that
the revenue collected in the I. nited
8tates from unpaid matter, received from
foreign countries, exceeded the amount
of unpaid matter sent to other countries
8123,333. The estimated amount oi
(x .stage collected in the United States on
foreign mail matter is *2,0(8,613.
Somethlng About Leeches.
Something mysterous tied up in s
white jar attracted the attention of cus¬
tomers at a prominent drug store, and
the druggist good-naturedly untied
the cloth and took out some black
wriggling worms. They were round or
elongated at pleasure, and started off
when touched with a pencil at a rajiid
pedestrian gait until headed off and
dropped back into their damp porcelain
pit. le' chefi.” explained the
“They are
druggist, “and come all the way from
Holland. Twenty years ago, when
blood letting was in voge, they were in
great demand. Now they aro only oc¬
casionally ‘In what called class for.” of disease do they ' \
‘ use
them ?”
numbness “Disorders or pressure of the hem; of blood if theif^ Wt- is i the a
brain, chronic headache, etc. They put
them on the temples and let them silck
the blood until they are full, when them they
fall off. Salt is then thrown on
and they disgorge, and are ready for
use again. ”
"How often can they be used?”
“A number of times. There is one
/ady who keeps she a pet leech. When her
head aches applies the reptile to her
temples and sits down to read. When
it falls off she drops it into a glass of
salt water, and if her headache is not
relieved, applies it again, until Some¬
times she has used it three or four times
and lost some ounces of blood.”
A more convenient way of using the
leech is now in vogue. It is slipped into a
glass bulb with an orifice smaller than
the reptile’s body. Through this it pro¬
jects its head and fastens upon the hu¬
man flesh, in which its banquet itfrivait
-ing. Usually the patient is too ill to care
for the repulsiveness of this remedial
agent, whom Webster thus describes:
“A cotyloid worm largely used is for
tho local abstraction of blood. It of a
flattened form when elongated, thickest
at tho posterior end, has two suckers
and ten eyes arranged in a horseshoe
form, and is of an olive-green color, va¬
riously marked. It has a traiugular
mouth which in tlie anterior placed sucker, at each
end of is a half--moon plate
set about the free rim with tagysverse
teeth. By the retraction of tiny laws a
stellate incision is made, throng.' afe hfc ib
tlie and leech then snote|blood off. ” til^ ^ J
*ps leeched.. ■
There are plenty of m the
neighborhood of Ecorse and other river
hamlets, and the boys often collect fifty
Y one hundred and try to dispose of
them to the drug usual stores, where they they are
refused, as a thing; then
offer them at the Chinese laundries,
where they cook them with rice and
macaroni. There are some specialtiss
JSJSSSSS?SI
nr (jf ]0 j a ] ponds where the imported
leeches are them kept. The wholesale drug
gist k©d buy in tubs They of black only earth
l ,ac almost solid. re¬
quire air and moisture to keep them
alive. When the cover is taken off
their jar, and they swarm out as lively as
crickets, use their ten eyes to good
advantage in getting away as rapidly as
possible. Boys dislike call them their blood-suckers,
and have a to acquaintance
when fishing, as they fasten on their
bare feet with a tenaoity that allows no
chance of removing them till they' have
tilled themselves with refreshment.
Advice to a Young Man.
You will perceive, my boy, that every
time man undertakes to manufacture a
little Bible ou his own account, he makes
kim to conceive his fraud, in as
ma ny hours as it took him months to
prepare it, he is exposed, nSLKVerS aud his hand
terfeiters. You see, my son, the Bible
doesn’t need any of these nineteenth
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J-’ h
.Sd’nS.ii,-"“ eI’s ui
a man manufactures a new verse or a
uewehapterwekiiowitwnot ^nuine
we detect the counterfeit. The Bible
has no need of the a
There was a oomphte Bible centuries
before Sliapira happened, and there wiH
lie the same Bible ages after have Shapiraand
his patent Deuteronomy together
crumbled The Bible into doesu mdwtmpishable t need our help, dust. our
testimony, our indorsement. And if
there had never been discovered m ait
the world a bit of parchment, a piece of
broken pottery or a scratched stone, the
Bible would l»e jnst as strong as it is
to-day, and men would believe just as
firmly and trustfully boy, iu because its truth. Don’t
you worry, my Shapira’s
aneient manuscript was written with
Loudon 111 k. and don t fret because the
ark m the g ocier turns out to be put
together with Pittsburgh nails. That
all the frauds on the Bible and its his
tory are so quiekly and easily detected
should only convince you how impossi
ble it is to counterfeit tlie work of God.
Wait until some man fools ns with an
artificial moon: and until some philoso
pher stores away the sunlight in parlor
lamps, before you believe that man ca*
successfully imitate what man never
made.— Burdette.
The Little Old Lady Traveler.
We stop at a quiet countryside that
has recently achieved a station and a
little old grandmother comes among us.
A farm wagon is at a respectful distance
with a careful old man holding the bits
of the fat and sleepy horses, who do not
even dream of being frightened. The
little old lady calls out something to the
distant old man, who smiles in the
doubtful way of one who doesn’t under¬
stand a word, and she would like to lin
ger on the platform and say more part¬
ing words to the elderly daughter who
has come to see her off, but the brake
man gently assists her within and slams
the door. She gives a little stagger as
the train moves on, sinks into the first
vacant seat and turning to the
window nods to her daughter,
who smiles back reassuringly. A kindly of
gentleman leans forward and tells her
a better seat further down, and carries
her large covered basket for her, and
partly lowers the blind where the sun is
streaming in. People are very kind to
the very oid and very young; it is the
forlorn middle-aged who are permitted
to care for themselves.
Our grandmother sits down with a
chirping “thank ye”—she is not of the
age that says “thanks”—and looks cu¬
riously about her. Possibly she had
never rode in the cars, for her old eyes
are full of childlike wonder and surprise;
and she has quite a long explanation yields her
from the conductor before she
ticket to him, and she watches him tear
off a part of it as if he were doing a great
mischief, ip he even appeals to a fellow
passei%er—after the smiling official had
passed on'—to know if every thing is all
right, and calmed by his cheerful assur¬
ance, she smiles too, and admits that
she “ain’t used to travelin’.”
A quaint picture she is !—her shirred
3Jack silk bonnet is twenty years old if
a day, but it has a fresh ruche inside
and glossy new strings; the black silk
shawl pinned across her breast with a
round gold brooch is of the kind you
remember seeing in your childhood, and
her dress is a soft silken alpaca that can
be an old lady’s best dress for many
years and give little sign of wear. Peo¬
ple sitting near her, if given to noticing
trifles, can detect a faint, homely, dean
odor as of dried mint and lavender.
She looks at the ingeniously hung lamps,
the pretty transparencies in the upper
windows, and passes her hand gently
over the velvet upholstery—smiling smile. a
little retrospective sort of Per¬
haps she is thinking of the old stage
days, of the time years and years ago
when she and her hushapd traveled by
canal and lake and river and possibly by
xjx-cart into these far western wilds and
set up their humble new home with
little capital but strong hands and brave
hearts.— Peek's Hun.
IVliy He Brought Them Back.
A small boy with an intelligent face
went into a fruit dealer’s store, aria de¬
positing a box of grapes on the counter’,
stood looking down.
“I don’t want tlie grapes, my tittle
fellow,” said the dealer. ‘Ll’ve got as
many now as L can sell. Take them
away.” aVe yo^S,” the beyseaicl,
“They look
l ° ?’£$$? Nfu .J r i
“Mtoe •
“Yes, sir. Yesterd« 5 ^'eriing I came
alcng litre and took this bote of grapes
from a stand at the door. I knowed it
was stenlin’, an’my mother always did told
me not to take anything that not be¬
long to me, but I couldn’t help it. Just
before I left home my little sister that
was sick said: ‘Oh, if I had some grapes
like them I saw down town, I could eat
’em.’ We didu’t have no money, an’
nobody knowed us, ’cause we had just
moved into the house. Mother washed
clothes, but wlren sister got sick she
had to quit. When I took tlie clothes
home the lady told me to come
next day for the money, but
when I went there the house
was shut up and the people was gone,
so we didn’t have any money to get
grapes with. Mother said ‘never mind «
we would git some money after a while.
I saw her go into the other room, an’
when I watched her, she had her face
buried in a pillow an’ was prayin’. aroun’ I
come away down town an’ stood
a long time waitin’ to git a chance, an’
after awhile, when you wasn’t lookin’,
I took a box an’ ran away with it.”
“But why did you bring it back?”
the dealer asked.
“Because,” replied the hoy, choking
down a sob, “ wheu I got home the lit¬
tle girl was dead .”—Arkansaw Trav¬
eler.
He Was the Man.
It was on a Western railroad, The
conductor had been his rounds, aud
taken a seat beside a very quiet and un¬
assuming passenger. train,” finally observed
“Pretty full
the passenger.
“Yes.”
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. 3 ^ mana* ennmt. It is the worst
manage i.rTthateo?” d line m this whole country."
“That’s so. The board of officials
might know how to run a side-show to a
. but they eau’t tackle a railroad.”
“Who is the biggest fool in the lot?”
“Well the superintendent is ”
“l’ m glad of Rial,” said the passen
’ as lace lighted up. “I was afraid
vou wnuld sav it was the president.”
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treatment daring a recen 1 ness,
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The Taidors.—T he tailors of Phil#
delphia have passed, in • mass meeting,
a resolution to “maintain the appren
keeship system, to the end that the
grilled labor which is so imperatively
demands! ia onr particular trade shall
^ tran ” jutted unimpaired to our sue
jessors.
THE JOKERS’ BtJDGET.
.VIIAT WE FIND IN THE HHIOKOI'k
PAPERS TO LAUGH OVER.
A PIONEER EXHIBITOR.
In the early days of Michigan, when
a county fair was to be remembered,
one of the southern counties, in Michi
gan held a fair one fall at which one of
the exhibitors was a man named Pro
ther. He had an entry of poultry, an¬
other of cattle and a third of vegetables.
When the judges , m . poultry ,, came
around Brother met them with:
“Gentlemen, here are the biggest
hens, the fattest geese and the heaviest
turkeys in the State. I want first pre
“'“We’ll see about it,” replied one.
“I want first premium or I’ll lick the
three of you half to death !” announced
Prother in a strictly business tone, and
it may be said right here that he didn’t
get the premium and that he kept his
word. Two of the judges were battered
until they couldn’t see and the third got
awaT alter Laving two M, toooM
°
When _ , the judges . on cattle , came
around they turned and tip their halt-starved noses at
Prother’s old cow two
calves, “Gentlemen, but he placidly remarked: driven
that ere cow was
480 miles to reach this State, and them
calves can t be beat for blood. Their
grandmother was owned by the Empress
of France.”
Something was said about hiscareless
ness in not entering tlie stock tor the
bone-yard instead of the fair and he an
swered with:
“Gentlemen, I m willing to take see
ond premium, and if I don t get it you d
better hire some oBe to hold me
They neglected his advice, and in due
course of time had their noses driven
back or their eyes put m mourning.
Prother was telling the judges on veg
etables what they might expect m case
he did not get a premium, when he was
arrested, but only after he had pounded
two constables. Within three weeks
after the fan- he had mauled the Presi
dent, run the Secretary mto the woods.
and pulverized the Treasurer, and be
fore the end of six months lie had licked
all the judges but two, and was hunting
for them with great energy when lie got
before the courts and was sent to jail for
a year. —M. Quad.
WANTED TO BE A PITCHER.
“Who is this gentleman that papa
calls a daisy ?” dear.”
“He is a ball player, my
“But papn said he had a ‘phenomenal
curve’ and that they couldn’t hit him.”
“Yes, my dear.”
“But, mamma, he stood up straight,
and I didn’t see any one try to hit him.”
“Papa meant the ball, my dear.”
“Yes, mamma, but I didn’t see the
ball.”
"Neither could the batters, my dear. ”
“But what makes every one talk
about him and call him a ‘daisy ?’ ”
“Because he’s tlie new pitcher from
Chicago, whom tlie manager of the club
has just secured at $3,000 a season.”
“But is be so very smart, mamma ?”
only cau'f^re as really " his
“But write own
name, mamma?”
“So they say, my dear.”
“And yet they give him $3,000.”
“Yes, my dear.”
“When I grow up can’t I be a
pitcher, mamma ?”
“Perhaps, my dear, but why?”
“Could I get $3,000?”
“Perhaps.”
“And not have to learn to read or
write ?”—Burdette.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
They were discussing mistaken iden¬
tity: “Hi was ’aviu’ a turn down Peil
Mell one “not*doing liarfternoon,” said Mr. Gordon
Gordon, any think, when an
old gyardsman liif came hup hand liarsked
me Hi couldn’t raise ’is pension.
‘Bless me ’art,’ says I, ‘Hi’m not bin
the Pension Hoffice. me boy.’ ‘But,’
says ’e, - m’ lud Juke, cawn’t you give
me a letter to the ’Ome Secretary ? Hi
was with vour Grace at Waterloo.’ ‘But
Hi ’m not the Juke hof Wellington,'
says Hi. But blawst me, the fellow
wouldn’t believe hit, don’t ye see?”
‘• Havre bleu," said Monsieur Bienelevee,
“I know zat myselef. I was once in ze
jardang of ze Twilleree, an’ smokeen
mon cigarette, wen I pass ze gar ol
l’Empr-r-rer Napoleong. To my gr-r-reat
constarenayshoug ze gar pr-r-resent
arm, an’ give me ze saloo. I tol ze
offeesare I was no l’Umpr-r-rer. an’ he
seem vare mooch sar-prise.” “Yes, it
was funny,” waiting said Mr. Spriggs. “Why,
I was the other day down Broad¬
me’ way. and a fellow—ought and have slapped known
too—a fellow came up
me on the back, and says he, ‘Why,
suffering Moses! when did you get
back!’ "—Life.
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J)” f ““'ai'S S
ride on the street oars.”
“Pa, why didn’t bov?” you learn a trade
when you were a
“That’s not only a silly, but also an
impertinent question. I didn’t learn a
trade when I was a boy out of regard
for your feelings. I wanted to give yon
an opportunity to say that vour ‘ father
was a gentleman.” helped now,”
“It can’t be replied the
boy, moodily, “but I wish you had eon
suited me, for if we had arranged for
yon Lave to be the bricklayer, I could
been the gentleman myself.”— ‘
Austin Siftings.
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Evading the Law. -A Pennsylvania
judge has recently put a stop to the cu
nous method of evading the liquor law
in the petroleum regions openly of that State.
The sellers have been retailing
wuhoat nn der the sign of
“Bottling Works,” and claiming the
right to do so by virtue of a statute that
bottlers of ale, porter, or beer, not
otherwise engaged in the sale of intoxi
eating liquors, shall be allowed to sell
the same by the bottle, provided it is not
drunk on the premises. Judge El well
decided that thi3 law was repealed by a
subsequent enactment.
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
WORDS OF WlMKItl FROM PARA¬
DISE 1IAI.1..
Brother Gnrdnea Gives ns His Flew of
Charity as it Is and as It Should be«
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
“De Secretary will read de follerin’
communicasbun,” said the President as
[fie meeting opened:
Bro. Gardner— Several of your friends
desire to know how you stand on the
question of charitv this fall. Does the
c ] u v, propose to donate anything to local
charity this winter ?
Respectfully.
Four Friends.
„ Ag to ^ {ngt qnerv/ , gaid the Presi .
dent - “ h e drew hlR ff U P-. “ de an
dat T T , have heretofore . mus ,
awera given of
f d , e answer now. Da chanty
roi has bred a.race of beggars who
nebber leave u . It has added to
de loafer.sm an encouraged de idleness . said .
a u gmeral shiftlessness It has to
de . heads of families: ‘Idle de summer
S^hWa?2L SCS
ent if de same persons doaa’ return
y - ar after y - ar? Ask him if men an'
women have not come to look upon a
. {and as deir right au > ; f they doan
demand deir allowance, instead of ask
itlfr {or it? chnirtv filled de kentry
wid tramp8 , when charity tried
undo p 3 work de tramps began to
burn barns an’ murder women an’
chill’en. Cliaritv has encouraged a
drOTe of five hundred beggar chill’en to
march up an’ flown ebery resident street,
^ h a8 wasted its tears upon brutes of
men an’ its prayers upon hardened
women, * an’its money has goiie to feed
ople so vile an > wicked out State’s
Prison ached to receive ’em.
« A s to de second query, dar’ am a
poo ’ ole man Jibin’ nex’ douh to Sir Isaac
Walpole. Who has paid No, his rent for
mout hs past? Charity? gem’len;
c h ftr itv neber h’ars of anybody but a bold
faoed be „ gar . Our friend, heah, Sir
Isaa hag not onIv k „ pt de roof 0 i, er de
o]e man . 8 be ad, but has furnished him
with m a mea l to eat.
“ Up on Grove street, near de cabin
0 f Waydown Bebee, am a poo’ ole woman
dat ha8 „ one bhnd. Brudder Bebee an’
0< j(jer members has chipped in to take
car - o{ her an > w hateber she has had de
pag . 8Ummer or has got now am due to
dfdr kiudness. Town charity hasn’t dis
kibered her yet.
“ Up on Scott street, clns to de cabin
of Whalebone Howker, dar was a death
de odder day an’ two chill’en war’ left
alone in de world. Charity left ’em alone
in de house until de landlord turned ’em
into de street; den charity walked off an
Brudder Howker took de orphans home
an’ will keep ’em frew de winter.
“Up my way dar’ am a sick man who
wants medicine—a boy wid a broken leg
who wants nonrishin’ food—a woman
wto has had a long run of fever widout
her rent failin’ behind or her chill’en
goin’ hungry. Let de erv of distress
come to Pickles Smith. Judge Cadaver,
Samuel Shfii, Kev. Penstock or any odder
member who kin spare from his purse
or his table, an’ it am promptly an¬
swered. We 'We know found rair nayburs no'hospitals, an’ we
ju»buriy. beggars’ headquarters, an' es¬
tablish no
issue no call for odder cities to send in
deir paupers to be supported, but our
naybur finds us at his sick bed, an’ mis¬
fortune finds our purses open. He who
has charity in his heart need not go
huntin’ far de poo’ to relieve an’ fnr re¬
porters to puff deir gifts. fo’-hoss Charity wagin dat
rides aroun’ town on a
will see a worlrin’man starve an’ feed a
loafer who has spent half liis summer in
de saloons. Let us drap de subjiek an’
proceed to bizness.”
Traveling Without a Ticket.
A “Traveler” writes to the London
Truth: “Perhaps the following read¬ story
may be interesting to some of your
ers, if they should be under the neces¬
sity of traveling without a ticket: The
other day, on the Railway, a man
got into one of the carriages and pres¬
ently began talking to a fellow passen¬ gentle¬
ger. After a time he asked the
man whether he had heard the story
about how a man traveled without a
ticket. The gentleman said he had not;
so the mau asked him to lend him his
ticket, that he might show him how it
was done, and began fiddling abont sud¬ with
it, but pretended that the story had
denly slipped out of his head, but that
he would be sure to remember it soon.
After a time the train got near London,
and as the man still could not remember
the story, he returned the gentleman his
ticket. This struck the gentleman as
being very curious, and so he watched
the man. When the man got to the
barrier and was asked for his ticket he
said he had given it up, but the ticket
collector denied it, and after a good
deal of altercation the man pulled some
silver out of his pocket and was about
to pay for his fare when he suddenly
said (producing a small piece of ticket)
that he could prove that lie had given up
his ticket, because he remembered play¬
ing about with it in the train and tearing
off a small piece, and that if tlie tieket
collector looked he would find a ticket
with the piece tom off. On looking, the
ticket-collector found a ticket with a
piece torn off, and of course immediately
begged the man a thousandpardons.”
a jtdicious „ n
.
Old Uncle Mose had never been to the
theatre, but having stuck up bills for a
theatrical troupe and having received a
complimentary ticket to the gallery, he
concluded to attend the perfonnance. Sunday
H e went dressed up m his
attire. . He had not been inside of .he
theatre more than half an hour when he
emerged shaking his head.
“Don’t vou like the performance, old
man ?” asked the surprised door-keeper,
“No, sah, I don’t like dem perfonn
ances no way ye kin fix it”
“Why, what’s the matter?
“Nuffin much, ’ceptin’ a ’oman on de
platfnm got to talkin' M family fairs
wid de husband ob anndder oman, an
I didn’t perpoee to stay. My ole marster
in Virginny got shot plum ter pieces for
doin’ dat berry foolishness. Dars allers
trouble whar dat sort ob foolishness is
gwine on, an’ Use a judishns nigger, I is.
I don’t want ter be shot in de eg by
mistake, or be brunged up as a vitnees
in de case when it strikes de com ts.
Texas Siftings.
