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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A J. HARP, Publisher.
A BOLD ROBBER.
In Agent Frlghteaed by a (inn Which IVas
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One of the boldest robberies that has
;omc to the notice of the police for some
time was perpetrated at Macomb, Ills.
E. V. Kinsey, night agent of thc Bur¬
lington road, at that point, was sitting
in tlic station reading, when lie suddenly
became aware that the cold muzzle of a
shotgun was resting against his cheek,
while the voice of a masked man, who
stood just outside the ticket window,
demanded:
Hint i»r. .ml a. ...
( kill von ’’
hmsey, who , was ,, brave , and ,
a man, a
TJS“’’™,X‘1 mlddl I ., ] nd till safc,took r“f
ou a sack containing about $50 in silver
and handed to the fellow
That ain’t all, growled the robber;
‘•give me the box or you are a dead
ma n :
At . the same time .. an ominous . click of ,
the hammer warned the agent there was
no time for delay He handed out the
box with its contents—$58o in silver-
and the robber grasping it, whirled it
around and disappeared m the darkness.
King at once gave the alarm. The local
police were set ou the trail and telegrams i
sent out in all directions, but the thief bar-j
made good his escape. A double
relied shotgun, unloaded, was found
it w supposed it i, the one used to inttm.
’date the agent.
CYCLONE IN INDIANA. I
I
At 11:30 o’clock on Wednesday s
cyclone struck Terre Ilaute, Ind., com
ing from the southwest. For fifteer
minutes thc wind blew a hurricane, fill
ing the air with missiles. The storm
was confined to thc central portion ol
tlio city. Numerous large buildings
were unroofed and the rain which fol¬
lowed did great damage. A careful es¬
timate places the loss at $-15,000. Thi
roof on the Masonic hall was blown oil
and the water ruined thc fine frescoing
in (lie lodge rooms.
Thc canvas of a circus was blown dow n
and a large audience left in the storm
Many of the actors were in the dressing
room, half nude, and they made a brisk
movement up the street for the nearest
hotel. Several thousand people were at
the fair grounds. An eating house was
blown down and tlie wreck caught fire
fevercly burning a woman and boy. N.
fatalities occurred,
A special from Newport, Vcrmillio.
county, reports six or eight building
destroyed, but no lives were lost. Tin
damage reported along the Wabash val
lev i.s great, and will aggregate ovei
$ 10 , 000 .
About 11 o'clock this morning a vio
’cut wind storm struck Montezuma
l ark county, this state, but did no dam
age beyond unroofing a number of house
and uprooting shade trees.
HARRY HILL’S RAIl.ROAD.
The Union Point and White Plain 1 -
.ilvoad lias suspended operations for a
nort time because of some disagreement
jetween President Harry Hill and the
stockholders. The stockholders, who
rubscribed $10,000 to the road, claimed
e bond for this amount, which bond
President Hill has given. It seems that
the White Plains stockholders think the
b ind for $10,000 is insufficient to cover
the rolling stock and otaer equipments
nt the time the road is ready to be
turned over to the company. One hun¬
dred and seventy-five hands are suspend¬
ed until the trouble is adjusted.
Four miles of the road have been
graded, and Mr. Burkhalter, the con-
t ractor, ient one of the most energetic and ef-
l'u railroad men in the south, says he
"'*11 have the remainin g eight miles
graded and equipped, ready for penning,
■a aud forty days after the trouble is ncijtateu
work is resumed.
knights templar.
At the Knights Templar grand en¬
campment day, meet ing in St. Louis on Thurs¬
the proceedings of which were not
made known until last night, the report
°f the committee on credentials was re¬
ferred back to the committee for correc-
tion.
I he'regrets of Charleston, S. C., com
mtindery, No. 1, were read, and the at-
•cntion of the committee on finance was
•ailed to the deplorable condition of
inrir brethren in that city.
miles .} * lc long. Rrand procession was at least three
The grand encampment, at its after-
mum session, appropriated $2,000 in aid
the knights who suffered by the earth
l u,| ke in Charleston.
caught between the railb.
•his. Eldridge, aged fourteen years,
who lives with his parents near Oxmoor,
•*a the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
caught "as walking between on the track and his foot
the tie and the rail. He
"'■aril the north-bound passenger train,
and ns he could not extricate his foot lie
deliberately and tried pulled out his pocket knife
to sever his foot from his an
kle to save himself. He fainted. The
engineer saw him, stopped the engine
and rescued him. His father carried him
:? lon “""'ingham, He Ala., for medical at ten -
' will not lose his foot, although
several leaders and muscles are severed.
SPANNING THE MISSISSIPPI.
A contract for a $1,000,000 bridge over
•he Missouri river at Kansas City for the
"V- Iniflge will Paul be 1,200 line, has feet been long let. with The
pleaches of ap
200 feet. It will be of the
‘"""lever pattern, eighty feet above low
""tei-. and when completed will be one
(,f the hnest structures of the kind in the
“"•ntry.
*’• W. ALEXANDER DEAD.
one/p f w ”■ 1 Alexander ?? g !lnd P ainful breathed illnesfl his - Co1 last
-pi., * nursflay at eleven remains
>vere IP o’clock. ____ His
fo| !P, f er 611 ® * en ^ rotD t. They Marietta to Columbui ol
a uff ka, went bv way
TO achin S Cohwffius in the after
ZI"l' funeral services we rr ' ^on
n 'he Episcopal c,;. u c h in Col
s ^turday morning at ten o'clock,
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER
discovery of a mysterioug tragedy
m a compartment car was made on Friday
'' ve,lln K- ^hen the (1 o clock train from
on ’ ,rrlve<1 “*“£• Quecnsford thc underground
"* wa * ! at station
lust evening, a newsboy noticed blood
class dripping carriage. from a compartment of the first-
lie raised the alarm, and
n gentleman was found dying on the floor
of the compartment. He was uncoil-
scimia nnd Mon.) u, Ewing freely fmm
.- , ’, 1 Jt , found that his fore
11 T w « on
, bead there was a deep wound four inches
ln length. This had evidently been
made with an instrument sharp and
lieavy. The scalp was not only 'crushed cut clean
through but the skull was i„
*m**£!££**% & , hi ; r >
“1 —
been disturbed. He had but very little
money . The man wag at once
t0 j a liospital. condition He is still unconscious,
“"alt his A*. Fischer is orccarious T is lul.d n,.
Moritz
of the house of M. A. Fischer & Co..
foreign %Hce agC nts, No. 35 Carter Lane, E.C.
Thf . have as ' vet been unable to
in clue to the ca se of the murder
ous attack on Mr . Fischer or t0 tho
identity of his assailant .
knocked off the TlMCK.
New A shocking accident occurred on tin
York, Providence and Boston rail-
road, at the village of Poquonnock.
wife, and the wife „f their son -tames,
while riding home from church in a one
horse wagon, were struck by the west
bound express train, going fifty miles an
hour. Air. Gardiner was hurled a dis¬
tance of forty feet from the crossing, re¬
ceiving outright fatal injuries. Ilis wife was
killed and Mrs. James Gardiner
died before she could be removed. The
horse was killed and the wagon broken
into splinters. The accident happened
at the crossing just west of the culvert,
a short distance from Noank, and as thc
railroad is banked up at that place, the
engineer on the express did not see thc
party until within twenty yards of the
cro- sing.
SCHOONERS IN COLLISION.
The Mary Ann Cut in Two by the Summerset
—liossof Life.
Friday a disaster occurred in the Bay
of St. Johns. The British schooner
Summerset collided with the schooner
Mary Ann, cutting her in two. There
were twenty-seven persons on board the
ill-fated craft, two of whom were drowned.
The others saved themselves by cling-
ing to the main rail of the Summer-
set, or were rrv' picked out of the water bv
, her boats. , The 1 Mary , Ann .______. sank within
two minutes after the collision. I wo
passengers were lost, one of them a lady.
A LUNATIC'S WORK.
Near Stabtown, AnderSon county,
South Carolina, a white man named Jap
Davis, who was released from the lunatic
asylum two years ago, went with his wife
and daughter to spend the night with a
neighbor. In the morning he left the
house in advance of his wife and hid in
the woods by the road. As she drove by
in a wagon on her way home, with the
girl by her side, Davis fired on her from
the ambush with a shotgun, inflicting
wounds which caused her death in fifteen
minutes. Miss Davis almost miraculously
escaped injury. Davis fled, but a party
of citizens is in hot pursuit of him.
WIGGINS AND THE PRESS.
Wiggins is now claiming that he has
been misrepresented by thc American
press. He denies that he ever related to
correspondents the chapter of horrors
which has been given as incidents to thc
fulfillment of his prediction of an earth¬
quake for the 29th of September. said
“I simply stated,” Wiggins earthquake to a
reporter yesterday, “that the
forces would be south of the thirtieth
parallel of latitude. I never ventured
any prediction regarding its destructive
nature on that parallel at all.”
ROBBERY of the mails.
Two rifled United States mail bags
were discovered under the platforms Ala. of a
cotton press at Montgomery, One
was unlocked, but both were cut open
as with a dull knife, and both were
empty. Their appearance indicated that
they had been very recently put. thffre
No letter or sign of the contents think was
found, but there is reasen to
they were rifled Saturday night after be¬
ing snached from the incoming train
from Nashville. Inspector Booth, at
Atlanta, has been telegraphed to send ;
detective.
UtAlS WRECKERS.
Early Thursday morning a freight train
was thrown from the track about a hall
mile from South Lyons, Mich., by a rail
having been removed from the track,
Fireman Ed Newman was killed,
brakeman Campbell was fatally and en-
neer Thos. Davis seriously injured.
The engine and fifteen cars were com¬
pletely wrecked. There is no clue to
the train wreckers. The people are
greatly excited and lynching will un¬
doubtedly follow the -apture of the
wreckers.
HE THINKS HE LIED.
The controversy between Major Luther
Ransom and Captain Benjamin Tillman,
«t Columbia, S. C., has reached that in
teresting stage where the lie is passed in
polite form. Major RaMom says that ,n
his opinion, Captain Tillman lied when
hf made a certain statement relative to
the analysis of fertilizers. The agnail
tural Moses has not yet published his rc
joinder, which it is expected will be
lively. known what course lilt-
It is not yet
man will pursue.
THE CHOLERA SCOURGE.
In all Italy during September cholera, twenty
five personR have died from an t
twenty-eight new cases been reported. Trieste.
Austrian cholera returns are:
four new cases, one death: Pe*th, tin it >
six cases, nineteen deaths; other districts,
j beven case?, two deaths.
ELLAVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1886.
MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC.
Ar .„o*i, pounds” t ne operatic star, now we.gtu
nearly too
Mlijc k hr a is acting in New England to
large and fashionable audiences.
Lord Be \cokhkikui wrote a comedy that
i 3 to be produced at a London theatre,
Mme. Javauschek is going to saygood-
a „'L V J ,;V J. ni a ' r !?,', j a on Ala y *> I 887 ' at thu Boston
1 he 1 ,. he ) will be more „ ‘‘Uncle rT , m Tom’s , Cabin’ .,
companies months on the road in the course of a few
than ever before,
Miss Mahik Waimwright played Portia
in a street dress in Milwaukee recently. costuLes. She
>»* the baggage containing her
A Venetian composer has turned out the
opera of “ John Huss," an 1 shows among other
”*** 01 “ ,ta
Her winSWJji’^“r. long illness has seriously impairef u Si
her
voice.
M AK ' K H os f; * he " in K er . ba » j™* nursed
her . husband, . . Colonel Henry Maple-on, the
^
Mrs. Ciianfrau has purchase! a play by
Deshler Welsh, which is founded on the
story of the lives of Napoleon and the Em¬
press Josephine.
Joachim, the famous violinist, requires all
pupils si applying to him for instruction to be
over xteen years of age and they must pass
a severe examination.
It is said that Miss Maud Banks, daughter
of General Banks, is very well satisfied with
her professional success thus far, and is con-
of winning future laurels,
M. Gounod, the composer, has been giving
In the ball ring, which will mat some £,000
persons.
Mas. Mo.ntieth, a Brooklyn singer, has
been engaged to sing the principal soprano
part “Messiah,"’ in the by Christinas Handel performance and Hadyn of the
the So¬
ciety of Boston.
Richard Mansfield’s change of charac¬
ter in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” it is said,
will be made on the open stage, but it is be¬
lieved that the audience will be completely
mys.ified as to how it is done.
Miss Jennie Dickerson, the American
contralto siuger, who has made such a suc¬
cess in opera in England, has studied two
new roles in which she will make her debut
with the Cal l Rosa Company next season.
Several years ago Miss Julia Thomas, a
young colored in Uncle woman, Tom’s went Cabin to Europe as the
She Topsy has remained au in Berlin since, Company.
with white and ever has played acting Topsy
a company,
in German.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Nine pupils in the Allegan, (Mieh.) public
schools are married women
Hundreds of baby alligators are sold as
pets in New York yearly,
There are twonty-one murderders in the
United States jail at Fort Smith,Ark. .await
trial "
< 'j Li r f ORNIA f f ui * 3 l !? ve taken the place
f Southern fruits in the markets of Rich-
j \a.
The estate left by the late Miss Henrietta
of New York City, is estimated at
*10,000,000.
Of the 137 counties in Georgia, 108 have
prohibition. prohibition and twelve others have
Reports from Louisiana indicate that the
yield of that State will fall about fif¬
per cent, below that of 1885.
Every day at one o’clock *300,000,090 sit
to lunch in au upper room in the West¬
Union Building, in New York.
It will cost *T,0tt) ami take ii,000 books of
leaf to gild the great dome at Notre
Univei-sity, Indiana. The work is go-
on now.
The principal contributors to the London
for the Charletton sufferers are ttie
Rothschilds and Barings. Ench house con¬
#3,500.
A shoe-i.asting ma-hine has just heen
in Ma sachusetts. By it one man
with a hel| er can turn out 250 to 300 pairs of
shoes per day.
The greatest balloon in the world has been
constructed at San Francisco by a Mr. Van
Tassel. It will hold 150,000 cubic feet of gas
and has been made for the purpose of travers¬
ing the American continent from ocean to
ocean.
A Dakota farmer, grumbliug at the poor
outlook for w heat in the early summer, of¬
fered to give to his wife all the wheat he
would have over 1,500 bushels, He has
threshed a trifle over 2,500 bushels, and the
Wtfe is going to have a new black silk dress.
hi; uni:it ed for money.
At Florence, 8. C., Tuesday morning,
the body of James Douglass, Jr., a
prominent with young man, wounds was found in his on head, the
sidewalk three
either of which would have been fatal.
A 38-calibre pistol ball was found in the
back of liis head, and there were two
other wounds, evidently inflicted by
blows. The object of the have murder win
robbery. The murderers not yet
been identified.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE VETERAN-*.
A number of citizens of Winchester,
Va., headed by the Union cornet band,
seventeen peices, left on Friday, vfa Har¬
risburg and New York, to attend the cel¬
ebration of the New Hampshire Veteran
Association on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, at Winchester, association, N. H. All
are guests of the and left in
anticipation of a royal good that time. The
Virginia invited, militia rifle team had also
bceti were obliged to decline the
invitation.
ORDERED TO LEAVE THE KM PI H
Two American citizens of German
birth, namer Schmidt and Stuhr, wb<
have been spending several weeks on a
visit to their old home, in Kiel, Holstein,
have been ordered by the German gov¬
ernment to leave the empire by the 8tli
of October.
THE ARlieHURBS MURDER.
Governor Ireland received notice Tues¬
day that the attorney for thc Arresures
iWnih had forwarded for his approval
> ciainiino $100,090 indemnity from
: i fit ■ eminent for the brutal
1 A iiesiires.
BARTHOLDI’S STATUE OF LIBERTY.
Richard Butler, secretary of the Ameri¬
can committee on the Statue of Liberty,
announces that the 28th of October has
been decided upon by the government the inaugu
and American committee for
ration of the statue.
MINE DISASTER-
fire damp , occu^ed -
An explosion of
in a roal pit near Scbalke, m Germany,
and forty -five persons were killed and
fifteen injured.
Tho Last Your.
Tender lights on sky and sea;
Milk white blossoms on the tree;
Lull of storms anil tempest bleak;
Faint bloom on a wan young cheek.
“Spring, tho blessed Spring is night”
ttuid my darling, hopefully.
Violets’ breath and primrose lays;
Sunshine trea ling loafy ways;
Gentle s teps, that, weak and slow,
Through the woodland pathways go.
“It were sad in Spring to die!”
Said my darling, wistfully.
Glorious Summer, crowned with flowers
Dreamy days of golden hours;
Sunsot-critnsoued hills afar.
Dewy eve, and silver star.
“Strength may como witn oy and bye!”
Said my during, patiently.
Growing fruits and riponing grain;
Languid days and nightsof pain;
Fields so golden, earth so glad
And a young life doomed! “ ’Tis sad
Through the bright days here to lie,"
Said my darling, wearily.
Sighing winds and falling leaves;
Yearning love, that vainly grieves!
Patient eyes, with farewell gaze,
Greeting tho nan Autumn days.
“Happy world, fair world good bye,”
Said my darling, tenderly.
Wailing storms and weeping skies;
Soft wings spread for Paradise;
Solemn whispering accents thrilled
With the nwo of hopo fulfilled.
‘"Life! O blissful life on high!”!
Breathed my darling, rapturously.
Wreathing snowdrifts, far and wide,
Mantling o’er the lone hillside,
Purer than that stainless veil—
Like a folded lily pale,
While tho moaning blast goes by,
Sleeps my darling, pc icefully.
— Chambers’s Journal.
LOVE AND SCIENCE,
Thc last day at school! Examination
was over; exhibition was at au end, and
Eifie Parker knew that she was about to
enter on the threshold of a new life.
Most girls rejoice when this last day
school dawns upon them; but Effie
unlike other girls in more respects than
one.
Effie Parker was an orphan, under
rather reluctant guardianship of a
elor uncle, and his house was all the
she looked forward to. Other
graduates were talking of their parents
and brothers and sisters; even of their
pet birds and plants; but Eifie was all
alone.
“I wouldn’t cry,” said Lucy Brown,
bouncing upon her solitude, and throw¬
ing both plump arms about her neck.
“Tell me, Etfie, what-makes you cry?”
“Because I am so—so lone—some I”
sobbed poor Etfie.
“O, nonsense?” cried Luey Brown.
“Why should you cry? You might, in¬
deed, with some show of reason, if you
were like me, booked to go out as a gov¬
erness, and earn your bread by the sweat
of your brow! For I haven’t even an
uucle to go to 1”
Lucy was a short, plump, dumpling of
a girl, with brown hair, big blue eyes and
just enough of an upward curve to her
nose to give her an indescribable air of
sauciness. And she wore gingham
dresses because they were cheap, and
washed her ribbons in gum-arabic water
and darned her gloves until they were
more “mend” than material. And withal,
she was the most piquant and stylish
looking little girl in all Madame Metour’s
establishment.
“But I’m afraid of Uncle Gerald,” fal¬
tered Effie—“to be there all alone with
him.”
“Does he scold?” asked Lucj sympa¬
thetically.
“N—no, but-”
“I’ll go home with you,” said Lucy.
“Come! My engagement to teach the
nine little boys of Mrs. McManahan does
not begin until next month, and I’d as
soon go home with you as to stay here
among the lexicons and French gram¬
mars.”
“Darling Lucy, if you only would!”
•xclaimed Effie, giving her schoolmate
such a hug as nearly choked her.
“Two of ’em!” ejaculated Mr. Gerald
Vane, dropping his niece’s letter in des¬
pair. “Mrs. Caldwell.”
“Sir?” said the trim housekeeper.
“There’s two of ’em coming.”
“Dear me, sir! is there, indeed?” said
Mrs. Caldwell. “All the better, I should
say. Tlio old house needs brightening
up a little; it’s as dull as a convent.”
“And wha’ is to become of my scien¬
tific experiments and natural history in¬
vestigations, I should like to know?”
demanded Mr. Vane, indignantly.
“Well, sir,” coughed Mrs. Caldwell,
“if it ain’t making too bold, I think
you’re too much wrapped up in them
heathenish doings. And two nice little
girls to educate and-”
“Two nice little girls? Are you mad,
Mrs. Caldwell? Why, my niece is 18 at
least, and thc other one—Lucy Brown
she calls her—must be as old, if not
older.”
“Dear heart, sir, you’re forty-six, and
I’m ten good years more,” said Mrs.
Caldwell, “and if these ain’t little girls
compared to us, I should respectfully like
to know what you would call them.”
“Hump!” said Mr. Vane. “Dinnerat
six, Mrs. Caldwell.”
Mrs. Caldwell courtesied and retired,
cogitating within herself what she should
prepare to tempt toe apjjptites of the
expoctod uew-comert.
“Oh, isn’t this nice,” said Lucy
Brown, dancing about tho broad mosaic-
paved hall in a sort of impromptu valsc-
step. “Oh, I should like to live here
always. I—dear me, what have I done?”
For her flying skirts had caught in tho
top of a large glass jar, and crash itcaine
down on the marble floor.
“Dear me,” said Mrs. Caldwell, “it’s
one of the master’s chemicals, as lie fusses
over, like they was liquid gold.”
“Will he be very nngry?” whispered
Luey, with her eyes like blue marbles—
while Effie began to cry.
“Let’s run to our room as fast as we
can,” she faltered, “before Uncle Gerald
finds it out.”
“No,” said Lucy, valiantly. “Where
is Mr, Vane? I’ll go and tell him at
once.” Mr. Vane, as a tall figure was
seen entering through a side door, “I
broke the jar!”
“Did you, indeed? Miss Brown, I
presume,” with a formal bow, as Eifie
came timidly forward to kiss him.
“Isn’t he handsome,” Lucy whispered
to her schoolmate, as they went up stairs
together.
“But he’s so stern-looking,” sighed
Effie. “Never mind; let’s get dressed
for dinner as quick as we can, for uncle
can’t bear to be kept waiting.”
Lucy Brown, whose one-dyed silk dress
required no long and painful adjustment,
was soon attired and down in the gar¬
den.
“Dear me!” said Lucy. “Here’s a
whole box of frogs. Some cruel boy has
shut them up. I’ll just run down to the
brook and give them their liberty.
She was proceeding, when Airs. Cald¬
well called to her from the window.
“Miss Lucy! Miss Lucy!”
“Off you go, froggies! Don’t they
jump charmingly!” Lucy cried, clapping
her hands as one by one the reptiles
plashed into their nativo element.
“What did you say, Mrs. Caldwell?”
The housekeeper uttered a groan of
despair.
“Mr. Gerald’s frogs that he’s been try¬
ing some scientific experiment with,these
three days!’’ she uttered.
“Oh, dear,” said Lucy, with a comical
gesture of terror, “I’ve been and gone
and done it again. I really do think I
was born under an unlucky star!’”
Three weeks Lucy Brown remained a
guest at Vane Hall—three weeks of un¬
mitigated disaster, tribulation and devas¬
tation. She broke the sash of Mr. Vane’s
camellia-house; she lost his pet Italian
greyhound. She tipped a bottle of ink
over an es«ay he had just completed
for the “Savant’s Monthly," and
ruined h s collection of dried butterflies
by accidentally sitting down on them
when they were airing in the window-
scat. Literally, she “did what she ought
not to have done, and left undone those
things which she ought to havo done.”
“How is it,” said Lucy, dubiously,
“that I am always getting into scrapes
and Effie here isn’t? What is it, Mrs.
Caldwell? Mr. Vane wishes to speak to
me? There! I knew it was coming.”
“Knew that what was coming?” asked
Effie,
“He’s going to turn me out of doors!
He can|t endure me any longer, and I’m
sure I cau’t blame him much. Well, I
shall have to go back to Madame Me
tour’s, I suppose.”
“Miss Lucy, do go to your room
first,” pleaded Mrs.Caldwell. “Your curls
are all in a tangle, and your mouth is red¬
dened with raspberry juice, and there’s a
rent in your gown a quarter of a yard
long, where you’ve caught it on the
sweetbriar bush, and-”
“Fiddlesticks!” said tho irreverent
Lucy. “I’m as bad as I can be already
in Mr. Vane’s eyes, so there’s no use in
prinking. And I’m sorry, too,” with a
little quiver of the lip, “for I wanted
him to like me just a little.”
She went boldly into the study to face
her doom, while Effie Parker sat down on
the doorstep and began to cry.
“If Lucy goes off to leave me, I shall
die of homesickness and loneliness 1” she
sobbed.
It was fully three-quarters of an hour
before Lucy Brown came out of tho au¬
dience chamber.
It must have been an awful long lec¬
ture.” thou gilt Effie with a shudder.
“How flushed she looks! I wonder if
she has been crying. Come here, Lucy,
darling, and tell me all about it.”
Lucy nestled down beside her friend
without a word.
“Was he very cross?” asked sympa¬
thetic Effie.
“No—no, not so very.”
“Did he scold you?”
“No,” Lucy made answer, in a voice
so low as to be scarely audible.
“Did he tell you you couldn’t stay?”
“No. ”
“No, no, no?” mimicked Effie, begin¬
ning to be little nettled. “Then do tell
me what he did say 1”
“He asked me to marry him,” said
Lucy, with a hysterical mingling of laugh
and so b.
Effie started to her fret.
‘Asked you to marry him I And what
did you say.'”
“I said yes.”
“I never was so glad of anything in all
my life!” cried Effie, exultingly;
now you can live here always. But you
needn’t expect me call you ‘Auntie,’ for
I shant. We’ve been in too many seaooj
girl scrapes together for that.”
So Lucy Brown was “settled in life,"
much to tho satisfaction of everybody,
Mrs. Caldwell included.
“To be sure, sho ain’t the style I evci
should ha’ supposed master would have
taken a fancy to,’’ said tlie housekeeper;
“but there’s no accounting for the whim*
a scientific man picks up!”
Coral.
The value of coral depends on its color
and its size. The white or rose-tinted
variety stands highest in popular esteem,
perhaps, chiefly, because it is the rarc-
est. It is mostly found in the Straits of
Messina and on some parts of the Afri¬
can and Sardinian coasts. Tho bright
red coral, in which the polyps are still
living when it is fished up, stands next
in value. Dead coral has a duller tint,
and is consequently sold at a lower price.
Two entirely different substances bear
thc name of black coral. One of them
is not, properly speaking, coral at all,
and it is commercially worthless, as it
breaks into flakes instead of yielding to
the knife, though it is often sold as a
costly curiosity to foreigners. The other
is the common red coral which has un¬
dergone a 66.1 change, probably through
tho decomposition of thc living beings
that once built and inhabited it. It is
not much admired in Europe, but in In¬
dia it commands high prices, so that
large quantities of it are exported every
year. These arc the four important dis¬
tinctions of color, though they,of course,
include immediate tints which rank ac¬
cording to their clearness and brilliancy.
Thc size is a still more important matter;
the thickness of tlio stem of tho coral
plant—wo use thc commercial and en¬
tirely unscientific expression—determines
its price, and many a branch of red coral
is valued more highly on account of its
thickness than a smaller piece of tlio
choicer rose color; the reason of this is
clear; a large, straight piece of material
affords an opportunity to the artificer; a
crooked one, if it is only bulky enough,
can, at least, be turned into large beads;
mere points and fragments can only be
used for smaller ones, or made into those
horns which are said to be invaluable
aga nst the evil eye, but which do not
command a high price in the market,
perhaps, because it is overstocked.
A Pine Wood.
A pine wood is oue of tho loneliest
scenes in nature, not merely as regards
the intrusion of any other living thing.
Nothing breaks up Us uniformity and mo¬
notony. It has none of tho rich variety
of life that characterizes other woods.
The seasons themselves make no impres¬
sion upon it, for it is dressed in peren¬
nial green, and it retains its shade alike
in summer’s heat and winter’s desolation.
It prevents alt undergrowth; no brambles
dare to stretch thcr long, trailing, thorny
arms—like the feelers of some creature of
prey—within its guarded inclo-urc. No
wild roses can open their trembling pet¬
als, white with fear or crimson with
blushes, in its solemn sanctuary. No
hazel bush will drop there its ringlets of
smoking catkins in spring or its ruddy
clusters of nuts in autumn. No mimic
sunshine of primrose tufts, no pale star-
beams of anemone or sorrel will light
up its gloom. No glimpse of blue sky
arc let into it by hyacinths, or bluebells,
or violets. To all the lowly plants that
find refuge in other woods, and in turn
adorn and beautify their hosts, the pine
trees in their dignified independence re¬
fuse admission. No song of bird orhum
of insect is heard beneath their boughs.
And on the ground below, strewn deep
with a carpet of brown need'es and emp¬
tied cones that have silently dropped in
course of long years from overhead, and
are slow to decay, only a few yellow
toadstools and one or two splendid scar¬
let mushrooms make up for the painful
dearth of vegetation. It seems as if the
bals trnic breath of the pines which is so
wholesome to human life—preventing
all fevers and infectious diseases—were
as deadly as thc upas shade to other
forms of life. — Dr. Hugh Macmillan.
An “Epicure.”
Speaking about New York restaurants,
a correspondent tells the following
story: Pedro’s best customers are politi¬
cians, who are trying to perfect them¬
selves in tho art of epicurean apprecia¬
tion. The average New York politician
is always attracted to a restaurant pat
ronized by brokers, and lie will nevet
knock under to nny man in praise of any¬
thing that can be eaten. The Hon.
James Oliver, better known as Paradise
Park Oliver, once told Jerry H irtigan
that none but epicures utc at Pedro’s,
and invited Mr. Hartigan there to din¬
ner. Two hours afterward Jerry met the
Hon. Fattie Walsh.
“What’s an epicure, Tom?” asked
Hartigan.
“An epicure is one of these duffers
that eat anything,” Mr. Walsh replied.
“I thought so,” Jerry remarked.
“I’ve just ate a meal at Pedro’s, and it
makes me sick to pick my teeth."
Beyond the Reach of Drug-'.
“Are you feeling better, Mr. Feather-
ly?” asked Bobby at the dinner table.
“Feeling better? I haven’t been sick,
Bobby.”
“I didn’t know,” said Bobby indiffer-
ently. “Ma an’ pa were talking about
your genealogy last night and ma said it
couldn’t be much worse, “supposed you
were sick.”— New York Tones.
VOL. II. NO. 1.
Life’s Bitterness.
This is the bitterness of life, to knov
That lore lies not In front, but far behind;
That not for violent searching shall we find
A sweet-faced rose of hope beneath tune's
snow,
Nor any flower of new Joy below
The furrows swept bv the autumnal wind,
Nor any corn-stalk where the maidens bind
The golden tars in a long, laughing row.
This Is the hi 1 terness of life, to feel
The slow-limbed noisome minutes crawl
away,
But not to mirk by any happy peal
Of silver he is the passing of a day,
Tarrying till our now consciousness doth
steal
Into death's pine wood, damp, obscure and
rey.
—George Barlow.
HUMOROUS.
A genuine hum-bug—the locust.
No man would hang • juaure frame
because of its gilt.
A friend in need is a friend—who gen¬
erally strikes you for a quarter.
An over-due steamer— the tea-kettle
that failed to boil with its usual rapidity.
Why are good resolutions like fainting
Indies? Because they want “carrying
out”
Speaking of wages, it is when the har¬
vest comes that the farmers go for a
general cut down.
“Pa," said a 6-year old son, “can a
rope walk?” “I think not my son,”
answered the father, “but it might if it
were taut."
“Man," said Adam Smith, “is an ani¬
mal that makes bargains. No other ani¬
mal does this—no dog exchanges bones
with another.”
“I aim to tell the truth,” said a New
York Fisherman. “Yes,"interrupted an
acquaintance, “and you are probably the
worst shot in America.”
“All,” said Jebokus, taking his friend’s
baby, “ho has got his mother’s eyes—
and my hair,” he added, as the youthful
prodigy grabbed him by the foretop.
Fond mother (to bachelor uncle)—
“Why, John, don’t lot the baby play
with that gold toothpick. He’ll swallow
it.” Bachelor uncle—“Oh, that won’t
do any harm. 1 have a string tied to it,
so I can’t lose it.
Policeman—Have you a permit to play
here ? Organ-grinder—No, but it amuses
the little ones so much. Policeman—
Then you will have the goodness to ac¬
company me. Organ-grinder — Very
well, sir; what do you wish to sing t
Rather an O ld Game lor Fast Riders
“We don’t havo much time for play
out on the road,” said a railway mail
clerk, “but we are a little stuck on base
ball, and we manage to carry a whole
nine with us. There’s tho catcher there
—the iron thing that catches the bags
from the crane as we go by at the rate of
fifty miles an hour—and it has to stop
some hot ones, too. The man that
throws the bags off we call the pitcher,
and lie is up on all of the curves, drops
and twists. The mail carriers who pick
up the bags on the fly and hustle them
to the postoffice are our fielders, The
man who takes care of the bags and gets
them ready for the local station is called
the short stop in every railway mail car
in this country. Our letter case clerks
are called the basemen, because they are
continually passing letters from one to
the other. Whenever one h lps another
decipher a bad address ho is given credit
for" an ‘assist,’and if a man 1 ails to
handle one of the tough ones and some¬
body else can do it for him wo give the
second man credit for a ‘put out.’ Our
basemen are deadly throwers, let me tell
you. On our line are nine important
postoffices, and we call each one an in¬
ning. We are always in dread of our
‘error’ column, for ah of our ‘errors’ are
carefully scored against us in the super¬
intendent’s office. If we make too many
errors we go into the captain’ office some
fine day and find that our names have
been ‘struck out’ from the pay roll.
That’s a part of the game that isn’t fun¬
ny.”— Chicago Herald.
Beantlfal Ans ralian Caves.
A number of large and beautiful Sta¬
lactite caverns have b en discovered near
Queensland, Australia. In one, the
wails, according to an exploring party,
were beautifully white while the stalac¬
tites and stalagmites joined in exquisito
tracery, reminding them of Chinese
carved ivory. Another, fifty feet by
thirty feet, with plain walls broken only
by niches, and meeting in a vaulted roof
of immense height, they called the ca¬
thedral. In some of the dark passages
their candles were extinguished by the
host of bats. From others they de-
sc nded sixty feet into lower caverns, but
everywere the ground sounded hollow
beneath their feet, so that the whole
mountain appears to be travered by sub¬
terranean passages and caves in every di¬
rection excavated in the limestone rock
by the action of hot springs.
A Touching Tale,
Said Fogg, “Ijustm.ta poor fellow
who told an awful tale of distress, and
woundup by asking me for aquarter.”
Brown—“And of course you gave it
to him?”
Fogg—“No; I wanted to; but his
tale was so pitiful that I burst into tears,
and in my emotion I quite forgot ho
poor fellow and hastened away to hide
my grief.”— Boston. Trantoript,