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CBLAWFOKDVILLE. GEORGIA
WESTERN IDEAS A BOUT CORONERS
ar* 1 -
mind for seeding a practicingphysician
for the office of cyrontr. This matter
should *mv« attracted attention
ago. Now it gratifies me to notice a
finer feeling on the part of the people
and which nwKkejfing of * those sensibilities
go to make life more highly
prized '
ai d far more eniovablm .$» 4
I hail the misfortune' at time to
be mid. r the no dical charge of a coroner
w*o*h» l prnfl elated from a Chicago
ttMffifc a'ftfi ncpi.lt practiced medicine along
with hi* business with the most
fiendish delight, i Uotcrf know which
he enjoyed best, hob Hug the Inquest or
practicing victim r.,..ly on for his lie patient quest. and getting the
One .lay he wrote out a prescription .
and left it for Be to have filled. I was
surpruMsI to find that he hud made a
mistake and left a rough draft of the
verdici in tr.v own case and a list of
jurors which be had made iu memomn
wa* farmed, y* .or V did not 7 know il'® , WO, olt that I r
wa* .in so dungcrouH a cond, ion He ha.
Xat l e w Tgivteg * n< m. a. d liriorig
. linman ... life could be susliuied under liis
ThTilwliV1laTtiiat xnatis \vny i say unit the ine proiesBlou nrofemion
of meffi. u,., shouhl not be idlowod to
conflict with f ho solemn duties of the
ooroiier lldmiging They arc constantly dashing
and upon each others tern
tory. No man ought to follow Ins fellow
down to the mysterious uvnr that de
fines (he boundary brit4e*n ihrkhown
and the unknown, and charge him pro
fcssioually till hia soul hua find, and
then charge a per dieui to the county
for prying into his internal economy and
holding an inquest over the debris of
mortality. I therefore hall this move
ment with joy, and wish to encourage it
in every way. It points toward a <lc
greef enlightenment which will be in
strong contrast with the darker and
more ignorant epochs of time, when the
pmotiee of medicine was united with the
profession of the barber, the well digger,
the furrier, the veteruiariuu, or tin
Coroner.
TJiis physician plenipotentiary that have anil
Coroner extraordinary J re
ferred to, very frequently went to see a
patient with a lung tester under one arm
and the Revised Htotute* under the
other. People never knew, when they
saw him going to a neighbor's yielded house,
whether the case had to the
Coroner's treatment or not. No one
ever knew just when overtaxed nature
-ma.® would yield to the statute* in sunh ease
and provided. When always the jury was
impaneled, however, wo knew
that the medical treatment had bei'U *ue
(MMifulIv latal.
Once' he charged the county with an
iuqncst, he felt sure of, lmt in the night
the patient got delirious, eluded his
nurse, the physician and Coroner, and
fled to the foot hills, where he was taken
care of and finally recovered. The ex
pericnces of some of the patients who
esc»i«d from tlii* man read more like
fiction than fact. One man revived
during the inquest, kuooke.1 the foremau
of the jury through the window, kicked
the Coroner in the stomach, fed him
a bottle of violet ink, and, with a shriek
of laughter, Bed. He is now traveling
under an assumed name with a mam
moth oircus, feeding Ins bald head to the
African lion twice a day at a week and
found. Bin, Nvu
Uow They Catch Monkey*.
Monkey* are saucy and iu«»leiit, al¬
ways making an attempt to bully first and
terrify people, and biting those w ho
arc Must atraiii of thorn. Au luqtorlant
curiosity runs through all their actions;
they never uhlt oan let things iilouc, lmt
must know tjft'm is going (h^ti.e, forward kud If
a ysit ov k< mt oh the
oo<>k turns lirr back, the monkey 'vhij>*
off the cover to sen what she has put
into it, even though he cannot get at it
without setting his feet upon the hot
bars of the grate. Every If monkey de¬
lights .in mischief. he takes up h
bottle of fuk, ho empties it upon the
floor. He un folds all votir papers and
scatters them about the 'room, and what
he cannot undo lie tears to pieces; aud
it is wonderful to see how much of this
work he will do in a few minutes when
he linypens to get loose. When the
wild rdoukeys osVupo to the top* of the
trees, the people below show them the
nse of glovi*. tfieflrVff by pitting them on when and
puliiok supposed repeatedly, and,
the monkey* are to have taken
the hint, they leave plenty of gloves
upow-iue ground, having flnrt lined them
with on.the pitch. gloves, The monkeys lait cannot come puli down, them
put t«g4ri, and when they surprised
off are
betaking themselves to the tree ns usual,
thev slide backward, and are
They 1 sucked at Her.
New York eitv papers make a point
the fact that a pretty young woman,
with fair 1 bunged liair, attracted ecu.
sideAhle attention iu lower Broadway.
She wore a silk dress, wkichr changed to
a different color every way it \v*.s lookvd
at. Her hat was bell shaped, and was
profnoly- Sran wcd with tvnnehes of
flowers, on which rested several butter
flies aud beetles. A latgedhrou tw* edowi,
witlw#,>M)'*d eyes, husteued a at
her rB.roaL ifoat. Stitched ou her blue par
as il^rns an enormous peacock >< ac.vk feajher, ft aUu-r,
and a lisndkereinti, embroidered cv ^«i «raw \^ifh hi * tiuy
belt, was a ”’
animals.
No, MY SON, pxn§^ imJit. w never go to
war. They know t hat a cam- >u b,il
bent on knocking a man cl ’fit in o; e
round Aitan't stop and go back to its
own C«rw merely because the man lies
dowp You never hear of a prize
fiehtor fighting anywhere unless there
is lots of gate money belaud the fight. —
Burt ing'on !la key *,
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THE MA WEN’S LAMENT.
(AFTEB “fcOCISLKf BALL.”)
Comrade*, leave me here a little, while X mine
on many thing*; .
I.e*v* me here, and when yon want me, sound
the banjo's duloet string*.
Let me cast my roving optic down the vista of
the I’ast,
, -ru
From the Akj1 first detained I would give
—•**!' b , » r .
From the day I perpetrated an umbMllwtand
1 »«h garnished,
Twa* a .lr*iu-j>ipc wftb scrap picture* neatly
, varnished.
panted on and
>
‘ Jm ,Md kh, ‘ } ,,f ,fcwjr< “ ,on ,pce ' hly went oat
Ho i Ur "* d m ’' runcd «*d palntoi dame* <m *
( »ky-b.ue tiie.
: Then a «l-t Fr d stork I painW, ’mid some
1
‘ rash-*. on * lovely’ pmitel
N ,. xt i made a study of aorue cat-tails
worked on flannel.
•‘Unconventional and worths were these
| effort*, said the croaker*,
! Bo 1 did some gorgeous sunflower*, just as
,t, sight and stiff* pokers.
i
Theu *«*»*<* took t° sketching, in a way
,
■ Withstraove »treik* and freak* of color- this
1 «« callc<1 railed “*o Jaimnes. 31 * v "
1 ha ? * ' i " zeM doyleyB ’ pa:nU " 1 four
, Jepreeaing plaaqutH.
Oov»red with Kate nnenaway children nunu
pa-tehoanl* hy the *tack*.
Don. “dawn-.ork made ribbon „, ro**, ........ bur
m*!..*! plant -r thing* with gUt,
i.»pa*f»r* on the tea-pot, and ha.o
n*de a ertzy quilt.
Thru, a* if this list of objects didn’t “write mu
d< „ in ftV/ .
r Inl , wt nf .,., u will, all tl.o other* madly try to
jammer bru *.
Comra.l..*, X am very weary, and my heart is
sorely voxel.
I* thi* game of Art 'most finished? IfitUu’l,
what come* next?
M<felt 16ry ^ d0 wood^atving? Must I lean,
to mo.1.1 non.,.?
J]ftrk , u „. ,„ inj() ,. alj8 !no onward. Comrade*
w „ aril vl come
ji^ir Bkb ’ m,k Ciixvc.kh CnA ^ , .^ in in JTarper't mrpn B*tar Liltar ’
_/_\ . tZ til 1< ~t l T 1
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by obe-’NA i.ikto.v.
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I was the happiest man in tlio city as
book I folded and laid away iu my girl pocket- the
a letter from the dearest iu
world, an.l jumped office on the horse-car, eii
route for my 1
Homo months had passed since I saw
my Agnes, for the first time, at a dinner
at, the Peytons. I hod frequently met
Miss Georgia Peyton in society, and
ha.l been several times invited to her re
options, so 1 was not surprised to re
oeive one day an invitation to dine with
her “informally,” to meet a young lady
from Aiken, S. C. Of course I pre
sen ted myself at this infoimh dinner m
full evening dress, whore I met some
other gentlemen in similar attire—Clark
son was one of them—und a few young
ladies, and was introduced to my Agnes.
If I could only make you see her as she
appeared to mo that night—so fresh an.l
blooming; the blue of her dear, peace
lul eyes; the delicious curve of the ileli
cate lq*.' But enough that then an.l
there I yielded, and became her ardent
adorer.
From the first she distinguished mo
with her favor. I was her escort to con
cert and opera. I was allowed te claim
the boat dances; they wore finalfy, always my
flowers that she earned and be
fore she returned to Aiken, I was her nc
cop(e.i The lover hail 1 flown swiftly, and
year now a
brilliant prospect seamed to open before
me. My firm were about to establish n
braneh department in another part of
the city, and proposed to make one of
their clerks a junior partner, and man
ager of Hw new ooueern. I had been
the longest in their I employ, regarded and with had
reason to think was
favgr by “Old Grnff’-as Mr. Gruffland,
the senior psrner, was called—au.l he
would be the one to make the pro
motion, and settle tlic question of salary,
Indeed, for some week! 1 had seen
tbat fie was working the management
into my hands, so I felt justified in writ
in$ to Agnes, urging our immediate
union.
course—"\vo miglu oe luamea oerr.re
vfiv loug 1” L was the happiest man in
the world, as 1 folded the dear little
letter away, reserving, if it wiis in the
power of uiau to earn promotion, I would
make plovers,’ myself indispensable to i&y om*
Well, she oarae. There was a demure
but delightful meeting at the station
and an euchauting twenty minutes unti;
T delivered her to Miss Georgie’s arms at
the Peytons’door.
Then followed day* of devotion to
work, followed by evenings of unalloyed
bliss. I say “unalloyed,” but there was
one drawback. The Peyton family were
very considerate, Mi*s Georgie e*|>eetal2y haunted
so. but my darling Agues was think her
with the fear that they would
vistt to them was ouly to enjoy mr so
ciety, and was ooustantly suggesting
that wo should “join the family in the
sitting-room.- v-id ?u»>. IV-Tton was a
j unmitigated bore. l>nf a mild one; one—pt-*.>rfai*iilia» Miss Georgie’s was ai
! benignant, but alightty tiresome. There
was only one other member of the
, family, family a pretty UtUe fellow named
j tocaliing but the girls had taken
him resembl^ce “Raphael,” from
>. ana fancies! to one
| of the Sistine cherubs. He seemed innocence a
quiet % little chap, Lid with a sweet
expression ‘l demeanor, who posed
a h| CtX deal of the time with his chtvk on
hand aft. r the manner of a cherub
aforesaid. He was devoted to Agnes.
aud him* around her more than was
Pleasant, for which 1 occasionally
snubbed him rather severely, bnt she
ad wavs interceded for him.' “He was
jucha.ltlc tadow-and then he wa.- so
, ideal boy ?”
1 lovely ! vai he not one’s of a
' Agnes had been in the city few weeks
a
I when, one morning, the telephone bell
! in onr office rang sharply. This was a
frequent occurrence, and Clarkson's
desk was stationed near it to save time in
answering the call. The rest of us
scarcely looked np as the familiar
“Hullo!” was shouted, or the conclud
ing : “All right! I’ll teil Mr. Gruffland.
Good-by 1” But this morning CiarksoD
S5S?TJSi5“ , i fc la
b nere ereandwlnta ana wants totertoSEik to try tospeat to to von yon. ”
Then Ih«trd her giving directions.
j “Stand ( a little nearer; press this close to
yonr ear-so.”
| Good morn id g, I called.
In return I heard a giggle, and my
Agnes’voice exclaiming : “Oh, oh! It
tickles my ear !” Then more directions
Mlfis “ d at tbe *"«*
est voice m the world began in as nearly
as might be a stentorian roar :
‘ bat really you Harry ? Isn’t this
perfectly sweet ? Are you sure they
CUI 1 * hf .?T, ln tb e office, Ge “0 i ® ? ”
l Well, from Georgie, I should say
.. if shout like
you
th f b
are are sure sure it’’s it s reallv really you, vou and ana that that noono no ono
else can hear, I want to tell you some
thing. Do you remember that queer
MtesB.ake in Aiken ? Do you Lear me,
Then’another “Yes ” I returned
lln little cricole Harr? “brn't it
know now
that I see how to use it, I’m going to
... . over so often Won’t it V.e
fun , p u t where was I ? Dear me how
stupid? t. Oh, I know, Miss Blake,
w \Ve 1, she . , has just ■ . sent t me the . love
lire Clarkson kno^dnltha’t muttered “Old h^would Gruffs mik
coming, '' aud and knowing that he would
a« P hp explimationjrt f my r oei g ® '
” t
1“ Q ,, Tel ,
;.i> i/ tbls H ®T? D ff ”
m
lint, . Hurry ! 1 heard . grieved
in n,
little voice; but Mr. Gruffianda foot
steps were too near, and I hung up the
reee«v.r upside down, and hurried back
Alllavl t, vJlTfilfvvt worked in nervous olm.iw'! Aesnera ■
n, fjou -^ Would she try to resume thl%on-
1 v 8 freation? lllI1 ,'' e,i at Clarkson. Every time I ho the thought bell rang that I
>* naght be her voice whispering m his
j great Ted ear covered me with cold pex
spiration. Hie fear that in Mr. Gruff
! laud’s liearing I might be called upon to
answer her chatter was still worse. I
made up my mind that I must make
Agnea understand that very night that
she could not amuse hors-If in that way.
] did so, gently but resolutely. I described
Clarkson’s ear, and I took some liberties
with it. It would be just like the wretch
to reo eive all her little confidences, and I
re tail them for the amusement of the
c ) er k a !
| Old Gruff was an ogre, capable of dis- j
without warning, if I did no!
attend', very minute to my business. Oni
hopes of happiuess depended upon his
, „ ood pleasure. Miss Peyton was cool !
, l[ld dignified, I suppose she knew I was
| exaggerating. Agnes looked hurt. Her
swee t lips trembled a little, and her eves
were suspiciously dim. I longed to have
her alone for a little while to comfort
her, as I knew I could; but there was no
e } m noe for though Miss Georgie relented j
| , „itl ( . H -ntly to go up stairs to write an
1 •‘jniportniit letter,” Raphael was there, 1
i rest ing his elbow on the table and look
| tog m, ;l t Agnes with an expression of
i ^.p pity in liis beautiful lmt sleepy dark
1 eyes
, Ami yet, the next day the thing
same
Mr. Gruffland was there, and
looked np from hig pap4 , ra w ith a glance
of disapproval * as I took Clarkson’s place
at th( M e V h 0 ne. My “Hullo” was
; ■ r „,v., % r h ; u„ Harey v « cc ! Do forgive me ! Indeed,
indeed I felt so sorry last night, and
wanted to tell you so; but you see, Ralph
wftS there. I’m all aloue now. Oh.
narry, won’t you forgive me ?”
( “Of course,” I returned, feeling
0run - s ( ,yes burning unpleasantly on
the nape of my neck.
“ 0 |, Hairy dear, don’t talk like thvt
to mo Do say yon love me ?"
| Was (here ever such wretch, a child I hurriedly ? I felt
like a cold-blooded as
j r( ,, )bed .
“All right. I’ll come np as soon as I
mn y e ry busy now. (tood-by little ?” sob
I felt, rather than heard, a
the other end of the wire. Gruff
said nothing, but I was doomed to an
wwsiaw
’
Of course, T I hume.lt ,___. .. „ .
>
determined to see her alone bbo came
rnnmng into the hall to meet me, bright
and oving, but the annoyances “‘the
diiy had nnute me cross, ana 1 aia
CU strange
“lto-illv V ‘ -tones ’ it is very you
, .. „ 1 d tl t a’man cannot
t^ke hi* buxines* hours to talk with his
fricu.ls i. \fier all T said last called’up niizht I
must sav was surprised to be
again
Agnes stopped abruptly, and said with
"
* dignity;
"I do not understand you !”
“Why mv dear little girl,” I said,
solnwed by the change in her manner,
“I do not’mean to be cross, but how
<*-,„!,] j talk to von about mv affection
or forgiveness‘through the’telephone
with all those fellows listening, to say
nothiuc of old Gruff?”
“R nt j i lftvb no t touched the tele
P nhoue to-dav Harry I”
“What I” I exclaimed
"Georgie !” call.nl Agnes, stepping
Sack to the sitting-room, and I followed
to tell the storv.
“It is very strange,” conA Ls said Miss Pey
ton; “but, of it some mistake,
The lines are ont of order or crossed in
some wav. But mamma and Agnes and
I have been ont shopping all day, and
we lunched down-town, so we can prove
an atihi ”
It certainly was very strenge. but we
1 ! all concluded that it might be as Mias
fbmrme succested. and the v!irn pater at once
began to spin long S
queer messages, till at last
I cv'axe.1 Agnes into the conservatory
: alone, said the close of the ever, mg was
.
all the brighter for the shadow with
which it began. The dear girl sym¬
pathized with me, and forgave my im¬
patience, and was so sweet, that before I
knew, I found mvself telling her the one
event of my life I had determined to
keep secret—the little entanglement I
once had with Lncretia Chase. Of
course Bhe had been the most to blame,
and Agnes thought her very horrid and
/ orwarc i BO t 'had to admit that Cretia
essays
W °? !
Again the next f day the toWW telephone an- an
no yances began, but I felt sure of my
ground, and told Clarkson he could re
fuse to listen. Imagine my surprise
when be turned to me with a ciever im
itation of Agnes’voice, saying:
“She is quite sure Harry will come
wb en he knows she wants to talk to him
about ‘Cretia. ’ ”
I was thunder-struck ! Lncretia Chase
lived in Vermont; I was morally sure no
: i „ n e in the city knew of her existence
no one but Agnes ! I rushed to the in
strnment. It was the same clear girl’s
; voice. How could any one have known
; had that Cretia once possessed written her~any some ^ic one lines but
f£ them re
peated: ed
“Oh Cretia ! fairest valentine:
Wilt thou accept this hand of mine?
nu^b^of
I jerked away m anger and surprise,
only to meet old Gruff’s grim glance.
‘his thing goes on, Mr. Dixon, it
mi « bt be well for you and Mr. Clarkson
# to change desks! and
* knew what that implied, my
buartsank to my boots
“I do not understand it myself, Ire
“I assure you, sir, that I am ex
ceediugly annoyed. I will not answer it
<‘I will myaelf, sir,” he growled, and
I went back to my desk to upset my ink
bottle, to make mistakes in my accounts,
and torture myself with the could conviction bave
tbat since no oue but A ^ es
sent the message, she was teazing me
without realizing the fatal consequences
Qrufiland to onr hapjdneas. And all confounded day Mr.
would answer that
That some of the messages
^ere meant for me 1 could tell, and that 1
the N mus * be utter nonsense I could
conjecture from his occasional com
me markable nt«: “ ‘By jimminy Johnson !’ is lady, a re
expression for a young
Mr It Dixon.” long tel . n the „ story .
won d be too to
of these days in detail. Sometimes there
would be respite, and then the nonsense
would liegin again. It was larks for
Clarkson and the rest, but to me it
seemed as if the belt of the telephone
was ringing the knell of all my bright
hopes. Agnes assured me of her inno
cence, and Miss Peyton was ready with
explanations; they had been shopping,
or calling, or practicirg duets. But I
could see that a coolness had come be
tween Agnes and me. She feared that I
doubted her, and I—what conld I think ?
Again and again the messages referred
to what I bad said to her when quite
alone. Conld sl( have repeated my
confidences ?-y U
At the office preparations hurried lor the and new
business were being on, not
one word had been said to me of promo
tion. To crown all, Agnes informed me
one evening that she was going to
shorten her visit; she had heard of
friends going directly to Aiken, and
thought it best to secure their
escort. I passed a wretched even
ing, but left, determined to make a
desperate effort to clear the mystery,
Agnes had told me that they were all to
be out the next day, so I begged off at
the office, reached the house at ten and
persusdmg the servant that I wanted to
rest, and would let myself out when I
was ready, I managed to conceal myself
in a closet in the hall where I waited
four mortal hours. At last I was re
warded. A light step came through telephohe, the
hall, a chair was drawn to the
and a clear voice, wonderfully like Ag
nes, called:
“Please connect with Gruffland _ , & .
Co.!” him
Waiting only , long enough , , to , let
actually begin conversation m his usual
style, I rushed out, and catching the cul
prit by the arm bestowed a resounding
box upon the ear of the astonished Mr.
Raphael. The little imp ! This was
his revenge for his well-deserved enubr.
I have no doubt he had heard every word
of my oouvereation with Agnes.
Of course the Fey tons were distressed
and apologetic, and Agnes vras old Gruff per
snaded not to hurry away, and
„„„ one. -rh,, inrooent is and cuileli-ss a
boy b«L*, toe the .leas less is he he to to be be trusted.— trusted.
I he Continent.
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Taming a Horse.
A late friend .. , aud 1-T,, neighbor of . mine . in .
tbo con B tr N be P 4 a m( ^ u ^ e y wb ° t.Kik to
riding liis hogs, especially one of them,
w hich he commonly singled out as fittest
his nse, aud, leaping tail, upon he its w-hipped back,
with his face toward the
it unmercifully, and drove it about till
it could run no longer. A wed-known
nobleman once had a wild liorse whom
nobody could ride. “I know not what
y° tlr lordship can do with him, said
ono, “bnt to set the monkey upon his
back.” So they put a pad to the horse,
and set the monkey upon it witn a
switch m his hand, which lie net upon
tbo bors o, an,! set him into a furious
kicking and exercised galloping; his but switch. i eg loept The
his seat, and
horse lay upon the ground, but when he
threw himsetf ou one
was up with ' him, lobrash • . him , . off but lut if if
wood occurred side,
a tree or a bush on one
the monkey shp^ to tffie other sidte
till at last the horse was w sickened,
» fatigned, bo ® e to tbe broken-spmtej J^ P f. that ta? ^
^hen the monkey was removed, ov P a buy
mounted him who =»Bage.l the horn
1 ^ be never g-^e any trouble
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The men who write circns bids will ,,, he
! glad to learn that the new English die
! tioaary will be thirty-seven volumes long.
THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC.
No Daojrer of Its Annexation to Thla
Country.
There are some hasty philosophers,
sa Js Charles A. Dana in a letter to the
;S'un, who imagine that the United States
is likely in time to annex at least the
northern portion of Mexico; and this
notion also favor among a con
This notion, ,* however, seems to be en
^rthin .. , - Sion There oTMe^wfth^ .mttn'ncr in the
«
the
^ to at^ct ^mmicratton of 0
Chihnthna The barren rpoinns tfounrn.^ rf rtaa
tofiia huU a - Ghibualraa, and and Sonora offer
, s^tef^’an^nlv
£*.£!* P ^eful for cattle ®, rancTs ' Zlln!? and
t m. t th»JZv, r!
^ c^’^nTte however ^rked iith c«°Tv I
“ be „*, y TVyL
* 1 ’ labor'
wi]1 j e demand for
^ Jring this about ch situation snnexati^? there capable is If SSltJ nothing to
n - dense were of being
sctt!ed b y * a agricultural ^ popula
bon .. the . ’ ca f^«bt • ht be.^wise, otherwise- but hut
as it now stands, mere is notmng that
to add Mexico
it to the United States,
Of course, the restless Yankees will
always have heavy interests in Mexico.
No matter what losses may be incurred
the chances of successful mining or of
fortunate hits in other directions, will
always suffice to charm a due proportion
of our speculators. nlay But whatever effect
these thlir gentlemen produce, or how
ever wishes may be seconded by a
few rich Mexicans, it is most improb
able that the northern republic will de
sire, or that the southern republic will
be willing, to annex the two countries In
together under one government. the
North the policy of adding six or eight
millions of Indians to a voting popula
tion in which there is already too much
of ignorance will not be tolerated; while
jn the South the differences of race
language, ’ Jaws aDd usages will present
on that side obstacles equally insur
mountable. Each country will, of course,
exer t its due weight in the development
of the other; and there should be no
reason in any national jealousies or fears
of encroachment, whv this development
sh ould not l>e direction healthy, invigorating, and
always in the of nrogress. 1 s
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SPOT’S CARE FOR SHEP.
Ilow (lnc Don Cared lor Another that was
in a Well.
[From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.]
Before the thaw Mark Sampson lost
his dog Shep. Shep was last seen play¬
ing with Sampson’s other dog Spot on
the crust on Bennett, s hill. Spot came
b « m ^. ba J Shep could not be found.
Mark made inquiry of every man and
boy he met, but could hear nothing of
the lost dog. Mark would rather have
lost a cow He traveled three days on
from ® no / Hb tsuep. “ es ' but.cmihj Onej^ignt not coming hear a word
late, Hungry ana nrea, he alter nonraoi himse f
unsiiccessful searching, torew
on the bea, anu aurl “^ ne 8 ‘2!'
lowed Mark creMiea trie (log , „ was v.
r. isenneus oia ananaonea wen. nu
dreamed tne same tiream twice,
Alark l.ad no laim in dreams^ dui xo
ptease msi wile ae went anaiooKea aown
in the well In the mack^ess ne couia
deep a . ee and dry He wllTil ^ J 1ml *“, u
b “ f hjtoaew the
®,* ars ”“ * b ® 1JO T. o{ he weH were
Shep* 1 t two eyes.^ Ihen Mark » k cried a
*■ ; not 10 ow 7 snoken spoken il in co^on common conrers? con e
^^ e8B t han
three minutes a steady stream of boys
^ aoen RO tog up Bennett’s hill. A line
J was broncht 8 - ami Geor"e Vhen Russell iow
bottom’he fo^dShef George
reached SS? the 2e
to death to hhn He
h “ d ) n to the well four days J and
He wasn’t hungry, but was
^ His hunger hail been
k j manner .
While he was lying J,, at the bottom of
Mr! . 1 mornin® hantono
d Bennett’s every
breakfast aud every evening just
. supper when he would always be
tbrown j' beral amouIlt 0 f f ood ; j n
bottom of the well the boy who went
pletes the story. He had substantially
remembered his companion who had had
^ misfortune t0 fall Ult0 the well.
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Horse Talk.
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A Horse who was led ont of the Ban. !
for tbe Inspection of a Person who
w j s h e d to Purchase, was Amazed to hear i
bb . ^j as ter remark be that found Snch in Another all j
g orse wa s not to the
C0UU j r y. He was Yonng" Speedy, Gentle, In
, e i li g en t i Strong, and an Easy
Keeper. The Sale was not Effected,
u OV ;ov e r, and as soon as the Animal was
re turned to his Stall the Master began
to Pound him with a clnb.
j am SU ch a Valuable Horse and
p er f ec t Animal as von Represented asked just
noWi ivhy do you Maltreat me?”
the Horse.
“Idiot! If I were Inspecting von I
cnn ; d have Pointed ont a Hundred
j FauJts ; Take that for being so
simple o>
; moral :
a lioree trade always make an Al
I Iowance jo of seventy-live per cent, for
■
1 any. M.
Consimftiox.-K ”, ochs views w nf of tv the
oacterml origin of consnmprion have re
Ce;T Ker ®‘ who 1 1 th ® nas eni l found orse ?t by experiment Ku w that t t
, tuberculous will
ik {rom cows cause
^e disease m gmiiea-pigs if inj^
«?to their veins; bnt other prominent
, Oorm.m pathologists still
rerr.ain uncon
nnced. and the questitn is et far ,rom
t*fflng se-tled. — £>■. touAo Health
f
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ODDS AND ENDS.
A Ecropean conference is to be held
in regard to Egypt.
Irvtnq, the actor, made $400,000 dur¬
ing his American tour.
The Rothschilds own $400,000,000 of
United States bonds.
Koxigsberg was founded by the Teu¬
tonic Knights in 1255.
Three-fourths of the officers in the
German army wear corsets.
Ireland's less' poonlation is now 5,100,000
—3,090,000 than in 1841,
The stealthy moth has begun flying in
clothes closets and boudoirs.
There are twenty-eight direct heirs to
the succession to the British throne.
The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in May aggregate $3,198,080.
P. Lorillabd & Co. have donated
$5,000 to the Bartholdi Statue Fund.
The Bank of England has just opened
a reading and eating room for its clerks.
It is probable that trade unions will
take an active part in politics this fall.
The New York Driving Club will give
$15,000 for a meeting Julio 18. 19 aud
20.
The order of the Kniglits of St. Pat¬
rick was instituted by George IIL in
1783.
The raising of sugar-beets in Den¬
mark promises to become an important
industry. j
Germany, it is now stated, uses paper
instead of wood in the manufacture of
lead pencils.
To keep np the supply of horses in
the United States 1,000,000 must be
bred annually.
Flowers are received in London from
Italy only as hour. fresh as if they had been cut
an
Depression in the English shipbuild¬
ing trades has thrown 25,000 men out of
employment.
The new imperial palace at Strasburg
is to be completed in three years, at a
cost $1,250,000.
There are a hundred students in the
Irish College of Paris, all of whom are
Irish by birth.
About two million sheep are at pres¬
ent in Colorado. The clip this year will
he ten million pounds.
“Brutality to mothers,” says a
Massachusetts Judge, “is more com¬
mon than wife beating.”
The convict mortality in Alabama’s
State Prison is larger than in that of any
other, except Mississippi.
Michigan raises nearly one-half of the
world’s snppjy of peppermint, the an¬
nual yield being 75,000 pounds.
The amount of Peruvian indebted¬
ness guaranteed by the nitrate and guano
deposits aggregate £60,000,000.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillabd, Jr. , of New
York city, is the authoress of the novel,
“Those Pretty St. George Girls.”
More than three-fourths of the cedar
used in the manufacture of cedar pencils
in the world is shipped from Florida.
Eight thousand Chinamen are em¬
ployed in California as house servants,
and they get from $30 to $50 a month.
imers An agent predicts that steerage pas
wilVbe abU to cross the Atlantic
for $10 or $12 befoie another year pai
The German government has for¬
bidden the transit through German terri¬
tory of early fruits and vegetables from
France.
A walnut tree eight feet in diameter
at Fort Smith, Ark., is to be felled to
send a section to the New Orleans Ex¬
position.
An Ohio postmaster’s name is Eman¬
cipation Proclamation Coggswell. He
was horn on the day the proclamation
was issued.
Captain Eads promises that his ship
railway in Tehuantepec will be in work¬
ing order within five years. It will be
130 miles long.
Mme. Nilsson has arranged with
Theodore Thomas to sing in twenty
three concerts, for which he is to give
her $28,000.
It is estimated that there now are be¬
tween 600,000 and 700,000 people in Da¬
kota Territory, .and 200,000 more are ex¬
pected this year.
In a recent trial on the Thames of an
electric launch forty feet long, with a
storage battery, a speed of seven knots
an hour was attained.
Ttrvnnl’s "' Tender roiwcience
__
, rre ttv anecdote ’s told of the
i a t e William Cullen Brvant the noet
marked:
“‘I cannot get along this morning.’
“ ‘Why not?’ I asked.
« ‘Oh.’hereplied, here ‘I have done wrong.
When on my way a little boy flying
kite passed The string "
a me. of the
kite having rubbed against mv .face I
seized it but and I broke did not_ it. The toy los
his kite, I stop to pay him
for it. I did wrong. ought to have
paid him.’”
This tenderness of conscience went
far toward making the poet the kindly,
noble, honorable and honored man that
he was, whose death was felt a loss
throughout the land .—Philadelphia
Call.
Old Soldiers Swindled.
A , lr .Yashmgton , . , dispatch ,. , , It
learned at the office;of the says: is
Second Audit
oroftheTreasurythatsoldiersarebe- extensively
ing swindled by false renre
sentations on the part of attorneys as to
“°“ e ^ ^‘^® d * o be d nc un | y, bem etc. t wilder Nearly new
oOO . « letters , ,, are received every day from
soldiers inquiring mto the status of
a dne^ ’S'/a! to file. -ru^ They are haTe persuaded tJins ^ to pay
an advance fee of from rf to 85 to the at
torneys, who pay noattenhon to the cases
after receiving the advance, as thev
know they are without merit. Soldiers
art then induced to send their discharge
papers to these attorneys, who refuse to
return them in tne hope that they may
be of benefit in the eirent c< Legislation
in the future^ sinular in terms to the
1- post J eqnacza. ^n Ivmnty i;t.