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A. J. HARP, Publisher.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
TWBVTY SOULS PERISH IX A
telscopeev train.
B1 ** .hop Whipple’s .experience Related.
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~ 5 SrS£s
is 8 the statement of an eye witness:
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Bishop W hippie, who arrived . direct
from the scene ot the Hio wreck, says:
The freight train reached Rio about
twenty minutes before the limi ed train
which was wrecked, ami the switch had
heen left open. Our train was going at
the rate of forty-five miles an hour, so
tin* train officials said, and the courage
ami bravery of the engineer cannot be
pro sed too highly. He stayed with the
engine, and I have never known an air
brake to he set so quickly and strongly
as that one was. I was in the first sleep-
er, and had a berth in the end next to
the day coach. Mr. McGinnis,of Morris,
was in a berth opposite me. The instant
of the shock he sprang from his berth
and ran to the front end of the car, but
it was had impossible telescoped. to get out at that end,
for it He rushed back
and cried out: ‘Come and help me save
these people who are being burned to
death.’ I had been awakened but a few
minutes before and Lad looked at my
watch. It was 12:30 o’clock. I followed
McGinnis in my stocking feet. He ran
faster than I ‘and when I came to the
burning coach he l*ad taken two children
from a woman near the rear of tin:
coach. She said her name was Sherer,
of Winona, and asked him to save her
children for their father was living. We
both tried to lift the woman from thecar,
but we could not, for she was wedged
beneath the broken seats. A moment
•iffcr we renched her her dre a « tent fire
and she faint, d and was burned todeath ,
In'fore nnr streaming ev<w There comTng w..
lively little from the
car, but there was a rather low moan of
suffering, and I believe that most of
those: who perished were killed outright,
he car was telescoped at both ends. Mr.
> ' T T’ T, the
])assengers • that ,h coach h and did
in so my
wife, and they think there were seven-
teen. There were two sisters of chanty
who boarded the train and were bound
for Winona. There was a mother and
whose names are unknown,
Three Shererf young men, Mother a middle aged man,
Mrs. her and two chib
dren; a man that got on at Columbus, Water!
two men who boarded the train at
:r,Ar/r ■sirs, t tV \°. C11, iw? r< ' n
. burned .
, ,' •' 1 were to
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leath. , Everything T- ., was done that could
be done for the comfort of the passengers
wh0 were le - Tbe lild)es or ! tb e train
were especially , kind in caring for the two
motherless children. One was a little
girl about four years old and the other
baby a little boy. i he passengers in the
sleeping cars had some slight bruises,but
none were seriously injured.”
Bishop Whipple said as for himself he
was in good condition, though the cx
eitement had affected him somewhat.
The other passengers say that Bishop
"Whipple was among the m st active and
cool-headed of all the passengers and did
gallant service in trying to save the poor
woman who was being burned to death,
»"i hove ceasing him liis efforts until the flames
away.
A STRANGE DEATH.
*iiu* .Mini Stum !h on the Track—Another
Killed by Kcim Hip-Pocket.
L. I). McBride, section foreman of tho
Nashville and Chattanooga road, met a
shocking He death at. Chattanooga, Tcnn. by
win was standing on the track He near
n an engine struck him. was
McBride instantly killed. It is believed that
stood on the track for the pur¬
pose nf letting the train kill him, as ho
hud every opportunity to escape and saw
the engine before it struck him.
the Mike Moore, a young man residing in
eastern portion of the city, fell down
with a revolver in his pants pocket. The
weapon was discharged and the ball
entered his abdomen, killing him instant-
iy.
T<» BE UUIET—THE SAVANNAH, DUBLIN
AND WESTERN RAILROAD.
The United States Railroad Construc¬
tion company, of New York, have signed
a contract to build and equip the Savan¬
nah, Dublin and Western railroad from
Savannah. Ga., to Macon, 117 miles,
within eight months’ time. A branch
b ne of the toad from Dublin to Ameri-
On., a distance of ninety miles, will
o<‘ completed in fourteen months from
( ‘ a h\ at which time the whole system
''ill lie in operation. George W. Van
1’ossen, general manager of the construc¬
tion company, has left Philadelphia for
the south to begin work. The new lin;
"iil Ik tho shortest direct route from the
cotton growing section of Georgia to
several Savannah, where it will connect with
important steamship lines.
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su-u K ... °" ,,IS "HMECT—HE WILL GO
TO TEXAS.
A . special . , from Columbia, 8. C. says:
Giloncl John J. Daigan has resigned his
poMti,," iW president of the South Caro-
ma l-rer Irnde association, and will
ho, v ,, mt this state for Texas, where
iVV lH maklng his future b ? me e
will ill -
edit a newspaper devoted to the ,
Quhe’r 1 '' doc tri “*' 8 Evidently, he is
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xVtaT’: 1 nte jlisgusttMl ] with the frectrnde move-
c r? ........ . in '
fi-lrt. ' ' > ml , 8 ra ’ e
,,B - M V NMNO ftB SUMES
^ annin K has assumed actual
fi,.u'/j! " fthe treasury department for the
P,1 L MnC he W " stakensick ’ alld si e"-
1 , t bic mail M requiring the signature of
hi' ' V rfe treasury . di<l Dot ’ h ? letters, weVer - write etc.,
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I THE SOUTHERN STATES.
1
Tlie New. of Interest (lathered Up In Para-
graphs.
Mississippi.
Fine iron , ore is to be found on Pasca-
, goula river, and the finest pottery clay
in lttr e e quantities at West Pasca-
),oula.
tlie change from this State to Texas.
About two hundred Mississippi bovs
who applied * ^ failed to gain admission at
the A M college for want of room
ever available place being occupied ’
y J 1 g P *
Sunflower county has only two teach-
ers in the public school service who were
al)le to pass the examination required by
la w, and both of those were colored.
Panthers are very troublesome to the
farmers around Letherton. Mr. T J.
Matthewson recently had fifty ho<ra killed
by them. Hunters have been after them,
and have succeeded in killing a number
0 f them,
A large Mexican lion was killed about
eighteenmilesfrom Meridian last week by
an old Indian chief of the Choctaws by
1 he name of Kewance. It was an enor-
mous animal, measuring nine feet two
a,ld a half inches from tip to tip and
nine iuches between the eyes,
ALABAMA.
A large , “^mberof , ,, the of T Lime- .
negroes
~ t0 ? e co “ n ty Tr g arm “ R TT
*<’leave this . fall for M.asusippi and Ar- |
hansaa '
At a called meeting of the Hardee Light
that Infantry, held in their armory in Selma, j
Upton’s company changed its tactics from !
to zouave, also its name to Ala-
barna Zouaves.
a Subscriptions , . .. in Lufaula to the St. An- ,
drew dred 8 $95,000. have It reached will a few above him- |
over go
J.™,000. the buslne8s The and country wlU come below U P is he,7tlly ripe for !
’
A two year old heifer belonging to Mr.
E. T. Glenn, of Auburn, showed symp-
tons of rabbles a couple of days ago and
c’ a,le U llVely f r° r y '■
She was caught , and tied to r a tree * in a i
safe place, and further developesare now
awaited. This is the second animal of
the kind belonging b to Mr. Glenn which I
lias gone mad. The other died in a short I
time after the symptons were observed. !
Virginia. ;
The crops * are suffering from the!
drouth.
tw.»»«,„a« u- ....
pended since frost, and merchants are
experiencipg quite a dull and unsatisfae-
to ry | fall trade, notwithstanding the great
an( 1(J ^ pred icted boom which was to
Btrik a t this time . lt secm8 rather
an 1 hill businegs just D0W
north Carolina.
„„ The Catawba , , fair , . . at
is in progress
Hickory.
The Cape Fear Baptist association is
in session at Abbotsburg, Bladen coun-
ty-
Durham coutny now has an “Inde¬
pendent Republican Anti-Prohibition”
ticket.
United States deputy msrshals made a
raid last week in Randolph county and
they destroyed a still and fixtures, and in
Davidson county, ab ut six miles from
t: e former place, they destroyed another
still and 600 gallons of beer.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The farmers’ convention will meet in
Columbia November 10th, and remain in
session about three days.
The secretary of state has forwarded to
the clerks of court in all the counties
blanks for the general election, with in¬
structions for their use by managers and
commissioners of election.
One of the famous Mason cotton gins
has been on exhibition in Columbia for
some days. It is much admired because
of the efficient work it does, and of its
absolute freedom from danger, One of
these gins will be on exhibition at the
Georgia fair.
The approaching election in this state
promises to be the quietest ever held iu
South Carolina. There is no opposition for
whatever to the democratic nominees
state and county officers, and it is not
likely that the negroes will vote at all
It is certain, too, that an unusually light
vote will be cast by the whites.
GEORGIA.
Primus Perkins, colored, is in jail at
Bainbridge, charged with incest with his
daughter, Lizzie. Hi» wile swore out
tbe warrant.
A wealthy citizen of Americus refused
to accept national bank notes in payment
for a real estate sale made the other day,
demanding gold instead. When gold
was immediately produced by the pur¬
chaser he decided that he could proba-
bly get along with the bank notes, and
no doubt did so.
Mrs Erwin Hayes, an old lady seventy
years old, living in ' Jackson county, on
the Athens and Jefferson road, fourteen accident
Atlieus , inet with an
Sunday night last that resulted m her
on day. It that
death the following seems
for f me time Mrs Hayes’mind has been
s ‘ „ kept over
d but n0 ,- es traint was mentioned
' Sunday night
( )u th e around the
' dering
. , wa9 wan
w f th a lamp in her dropped hand, the when, lamp it
is supposed, P' she eider her
. , , j scattering the oil over
that at once became a solid sheet
P ’ \j Hayes lingered in great
. r8
* l 1(1A ,K.CMd. returned to and Athens Mr. Wsller from
Childs have
Sc'te’amrandmffiing '
outfit Their gold
d formerly o/ Charleston, who
’ ied a daughter of Mr. Williams
Mr Johnson \ bear* the entire expense of
mine and pay* Messrs.
Childs & Nickerson’one-fourth f rant This mine of all was the
F tess'A or
ins
KLLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 188(1.
DEATH OF MRS. STEWART.
The Widow of the Merrlmiit Prloce Passes
Awny.
jj rs Cortielia M. Stewart, wife of the
lato millionaire drygoods merchant, A.
T. Stewart, died suddenly Monday morn-
mg at 10 o’clock, at her residence on
Thirtv-fourth street and Fifth avenue,
her way home contracted a heavy cold.
On Saturday she was so ill she was cora-
Polled to go to bed, and Dr. Milner was
»ent for. On Sunday Mrs Stewart grew
" orse. I)r. Milner remained at the house
all night. At half past nine o’clock
Monday morning, ex-Judge Horace Rus-
sell called at the Stewart mansion and
waa informed that although Mrs. Stewart
spent a restless night, she was feeling
better and was able to sit up in bed
without great effort. A few minutes af-
,( * r one o’clock, ex-Judge Russell was
surprised to learn from a messeng r that
Mrs. Stewart was dead.
Mrs. Stewart was the eldest daughter
of James Church, a pioneer merchant of
New York City. She was born in 1803
and was married to Mr. Stewart in 1823
by the late Rev. ‘ Mr. Mitchell, Since
tbe deiltb of ber husband, she has led a
retired life. In person she was small and
0 f s lender form,
AUGUSTA.
_ Tr,m« , to Nettle the Big s r.Ue--i.npor unt
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Ha " r ° Bd
At . Augusta , Ga Committeen .
ai
Wn « bt spent Wednesday auditing am.
erranging the indebtedness of the K; lglitn
of hah °[\ “ e ? 8 ?" re8 a11 b ° ,<b " g ‘
the knights here that they vu
be P aldln fuU a,ul immediately The
committeeman says he wdl call on the
P 11 " f^idents to-morrow and make nn
honest endeavor to settle the difference.
The directors of the Augusta and Knox-
ville railroad company have indorsed the
consolidation of the road into the Port
Hoyal * e8tern ^ 0 ln# ' r ' C 8
. ( , (
*, e “ . rsCa ? ; ^ a whi«d?nl ires n nmlei
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one m „ trolled gement the centering gen- in
A bv the Georgia
>nd The substance of the steps in con
bda f n ^ r nw o.
port }i ] A u railroad
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., ba 1 lea u . P , , "1 . denied ^ -i.
y y Jr e ?, er
Then the Augusta : . and Knoxville rail- _ 0 :i
road company entered into a compact
WJtb tbL ' Greenwood, Laurens and Spar
f
vannali Valley railroad company, and th«
Port Royal and Augusta railroad coin-
pa ^ nv 7
NORTH CAROLINA’S FAIR.
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I xtilbll* Fine and Atteiidanre Lar«e-Ex-
cunion of Northern Editors.
The twenty-sixth annual fair of the
North Carolina State Agricultural society
began at Raleigh on Tuesday. attend- It was
opened by Governor Scales. The
ance was very large and the exhibits,
particularly of cattle, were superb. The
state department of agriculture makes display, a
remarkably fine and complete
which fills' a very large portion of the ex¬
position buildings and contains many
thousand articles, including ores and
minerals, woods, gems, and all kinds of
crude products. Tuesday evening a large
number of northern editors arrived and
were welcomed by Governor Scales and
Mavor Dodd, of that city, They met
with the convention of northern-born
settlers in this state. Wednesday night
the city of Raleigh gave a banquet to the
northern editors.
KAILROAI) EXTENSION.
The contract has been let for the build-
Central ing of the railroad’s first 27 extension miles of the from Georgia Good- j j
water, Ala., to Birmingham, The com-
pletion of this gap with the Memphis
nn 1 Birmingham road, now building,
known as the Kansas City route, which
the engineers say will be finished by the
first of July next,will give the northwest
a direct short line railway connection
with the southeastern gulf coast. The
Georgia Central company has bought
$00,000 worth of unimproved property
.u Birmingham adjoining the road, recent pur¬ be
chase by the Kansas City to sites.
used for a depot and machine shop
CONDUCTORS’ NATIONAL ASSE.M1IEV
The nineteenth annual convention of
the Railroad Conductors’ Association of
the United States and Canada is iu ses¬
sion at Baltimore. All ex-presidents and
ex-vice-presidents were John present, Houghtaling, and An¬
drew Quintin and the
oldest conductors in the country, were
invited to seats on the platform. Mayor
Hodges delivered an address of welcome.
In the abssnee of A. C. St. Clair, who
was appointed at last convention, Ed-
Burns, his alternate, delivered the annual
address.
A BARGE SEIZED.
United States Treasury Inspector Mo-
Hale seized the Canadian steam barge
Isaac May at Chicago for towing the
schooner Severn between Chicago and
South Chicago. A foreign vessel towing
another between two American ports is
subject to a penalty of fifty cents per ion
of her tonnage. j
A MIRACULOUS RECOVERY. j
Mr. Dottery, of Athens, Ga., who had
P hole knocked in his forehead by a !
- bursting emery wheel several vgi "
Hfe’w^s'despaired 8 of^s now week. all right, Mr.
and will go to work next
Dottery’s recovery is considered as almost j
miraculous.
MOVEMENT of COTTON |
A special from London says : Imports
into Great Britain of cotton for the past j
week were 109,076 bales and exports
cotfon'havc intKSsla.oSrilSj
and exports 854,421 bale*. ,
The Betlor Ony.
A better day! AU phophets speak
Its coming with their tongues of flame;
Hover comes, it is, it came,
iiul oyes are dim and hearts are weak.
l! road as the universal sky,
Deep as the centre of the sphere,
glory flashes on theseer,
Its vital boat goes pulsing by.
Faith calls the lily from its tomb;
Tho coming day has come to them
Who see her garment’s golden hem
-'‘bake star-dust over midnight's gloom.
The little soul may draw its fill,
And crow on Nature's dandling knees
The larger life, more hard to please,
Ora ins all her breast and hungers stilt,
Iu every hope, iu every pain
The promise breathe-; our very night
Is but our shadow in the light,
We turn and all is clear again.
Tho coming day’s eternal dawn
Whitens the shore-line of our east,
Unrisen still, but still increased,
As through the unending soires we’re drawn.
-Geo. S. Burleigh, in Providence Journal.
ON THE BRINK.
“Not broken off tho engagement?”
cried Sylvia Denton, breathless*. “O,
Kate 1 And he’s the handsomest fellow
I ever saw in my life I”
“Yes,” said Kate Harley, quietly, “he
■s a very handsome man.”
“What has he been doing!” persisted
inquisitive Sylvia, Flirting with
another girl? They all do that, my
dear.”
“No."
“Gambling? Plnving cards? You
must make some allowance,
Kate, for men who have no home, ex-
cepta hotel, must be amused.”
“I have hoard no such accusations
brougllt >?■ against him,” said Kate, old-
> . What is it, then? Do speak out,
Kate Harley, and not keep a poor girl in
suspense. ”
“Because, Sylvia, I feared he was
falling into the grooves of habitual drink¬
ing,” Miss Harley answered, with an evi-
dent effort. “Because I have a horror
too great to be described of such a bond¬
age.”
“And was that all?”
“That was all.” *
“Kate,” said Sylvia Denton, deliber¬
ately, “I think you are the greatest fool
I ever knew in my life. AU men drink.
You, yourself, would despise one who
did not, and be the first to characterize
him as a ninny.”
“On the contrary, I should respect him
beyond expression."
“My brother-in-law always has wine
on the table,” went on Sylvia, impetu¬
ously. “Wo invariably have champagne
at our little evening gatherings, and
I challenge you to have a better
man or a kinder husband than Edmund
Avery. ”
“It is possible,” said Kate, “But in
that case he is the exception, and not
die rule. I have seen too
many cases of young men being lei to
ruin by the glass offered in open-hand¬
ed hospitality,the decanter ever at hand,
to approve of ‘wine always on the ta-
ble.
You are as old-tashioned as Methu-
saleh’s eldest daughter in your doc¬
trines,” retorted Sylvia, hulf laughing,
half vexed. “I, for my part, should
think ro more of finding fault with
II rvey Morrison because he takes
an occasional glass of wine, than be-
et:use hi- mustache is black instead of
brown.”
Kate smiled rather sadly.
“That is your affair, and not mine,”
said she. “1 am not willing to risk
it."
And Sylvia Denton went home and
raised a general laugh at the dinner-
table of her pretty, blooming sister at
the ridiculous Quixotism of Katherine
Harley.
i . Bhe’ll not get another offer like Basil
Hartford,” said Mrs. Avery. “But Kate
always had a streak of eccentricity about
her.”
“She had better go into a convent at
once and done with it,” said Edmund
Avery, contemptuously. “No, Charley,
old boy,” (to his eldest son, a flue lad of
fourteen), “one glass of cluret is enough
for a slip like you. As I was
saying, 1 have no taleration for such
extremists. I hope, Sylvia, you
don’t intend to follow your friend’s ex¬
ample?”
“I? No, indeed 1” cried Sylvia, with
a toss of her pretty head. “J am willing
to satisfy myself with nn ordinary man,
possessed of man’s feelings, I don’t
expect to discover perfection, and
neither do 1 believe in finding fault with
trifles.”
It was scarcely a week after this do¬
mestic discussion that Charley Avery
came to his mother and accosted her in a
mysterious whisper:
“Mamma, Biil Stickney is coming
u p f rom Piensantville to spend the
, lay in New Y(>rk- _________ I should like a
holiday to show him around town. We
used to be seat-mates at old Middleton’s
school.”
Very well, dear,” said the indulgent
mother; “I’ll send a note of axcuse to
Dr. Lessonwell.”
“And, mamma, can I take him to
Birnotelli’s for lunch? It’s so much
„ )0 re jolly than coming home, you
1<now _ j u , t f or once, mamma, dear—
™ **»' ° ld ^ rQotolli * <****> * te
your biiL”
.
“Yes, if you like,” said Mrs. Avery,
secretly proud of Master Charley’s spirit
and enterprise.
The samo day, Miss Denton, who had
been shopping for a new blue silk
party dress, chanced to encounter
Kate Harley just opposite the plate-
glass door and decorated windows
of Barnotelli'* fashionable restaurant.
“Dear Kate, do come in with me,”
said Sylvia, laying her perfect kidded
hand on Kate’s arm. “1 am just dy¬
ing for a cup of chocolate and an oyster
stew. Coine iu, and I’ll show you a
sample of the sweet shade of blue I’vo
been buying, und ask your advice about
how to have the corsage cut.
“Here’s a nice, secluded litt.o table,”
said Sylvia as they entered the restau¬
rant, pointing to one surrounded by a
semi-circular velvet sofa, und luxuriously
seating herself. “Dear me, what nasty
CreW U tbat °PP 09ite? Why ’ S ood 8 ,a *
cioU8 > ‘t’ 3 our Charley 1”
Charley Avery it was, seated with a
boy of about his owu age at a table di-
agonally opposite, loaded with all the
dainties in and out of season which Bar-
noteUi’s larder could supply. A wader
stood grinuing opposite, and M. B irno-
telli himself was evidently remoustrat-
in g with Ids young customers.
“But Monsieur Charles has of enough
already," he said. “Look—one—two
bottles of de Veuve Ciiquot are enough
f or two boys! Monsieur, your papa
would make of the great objection, could
he know. Be satisfied, M msieur
Charles.”
“Now look here, Barnotelli, that’s all
fudge,” said Charlie Avery, whose thick
voice and flushed cheeks denoted that
the little Frenchman , was right in . lus
deductions. “Give us another bottle,
and look sharp about it! Just as if I was
unused to wine! Why, wo have it on
our table every day!”
Barnotelli shook his head.
“I should be pleased much to oblige,”
said he, “but M. C.iarles has ha l too
much already. Take the word of an old
campaigner, that one more bott o would
mike you what you call—drunk, M.
Charles I”
“You are an old fool,” said Charles,
starting up—but the very motion be¬
trayed that he was unsteady on his legs.
“If I want champagne, I’ll have it.
And-”
“Monsieur,” whispered the Frenchman
to Charley’s companion, “if your aro
wise, get a carriage a id take M. C larles
home. He has already drink of too much.
When he gets in the air it will go into
his head, buzz—buzz, like one top spin¬
ning itself. He is but a boy—his brain
cannot stand the foam and sparkle, like a
man.”
“Charley, come home,” urged Billy
Stickney, an honest, heavy-featured fel¬
low, who had not indulged with the
freedom of his friend. “It’s mod time
for me to take the train, too.”
“I won’t go home,” cried Charley,
huskily. “Why, we’ve only just begun
to enjoy ourselves, Bill. What a muff
you arc.”
But Sylvia Denton camo hurriedly for¬
ward at this juncture of affairs.
“Charley,” said she, “if you don’t go
home at once, I’ll send a policeman after
you. How dare you conduct yourself so
disgracefully in a public pla e like this?
Have vou no atom of pride and decency
left?”'
And Charley, who really stood in some
awe of his Aunt Sylvia’s authority, sul¬
lenly obeyed.
Sylvia returned to her friend, to sip
with what little appetite remained to her
the frothing chocolate, served in painted
cups as translucent as egg shells.
“And this,” she said to herself, “ is
what comes of teaching boys to accus¬
tom themselves to the daily use of
wine.”
While she was thinking thus, the voices of
two gentlemen in au adjoining seat broke
in upon her meditation. Evidently they,
too,had not been unobservant of this lit¬
tle episode, and it had suggested some
kindred topic to their minds.
"It’s becoming altogether too univer¬
sal!,” said one, a line-looking, gray-hairod
man of sixty or thereabouts. “Now,
there’s that young Morrison—did you
know that Meredith & Son had decided
to dismiss him from his place as cashier
in their establishment?”
“No.”
“Upon that very account. He is get¬
ting to drink so constantly that they don’t
feel as if they could trust him any longer.
It’s a had beginning for a young man,
you know—leads to all sorts of other dis¬
sipations, and one never knows what may
be the end of it. I’m sorry for him my¬
self ; he’s a fine young fellow, but I could
not feel justified in recommending him
to any other firm, under all the circum¬
stances. Won’t you have another cup of
coffee? No? Well, then, we may as
well be moving.”
Sylvia and Kate heard all thi-—Sylvia
with deeply crimsoned checks, and K ite
half sorry for her friend’s di-tres- and
mortification, half glad that she was be¬
ginning to be undeceived si com¬
plete*.
“Kate,” said Sylvia, as at last they
arose to go, “you were right when—when
you rejected Basil Hartford; I never knew
before how right.”
Two good results eventuated from this
day’s happenings. One was the banish-
*? ent ° f wine * ,r “ m thc dni * t /' ,le °J
the Avery, 4 and the reorganization of
Master Charley’s education on an entire-
ly new basis; the other was Sylvia Den¬
ton's firm but quiet refusal to site iter
lover again uuti 1 he had signed the temper
ance pledge.
Hervey Morrison was not so far gono
but that he could see his own impending
danger, and he did sign the pledge. Aye,
and kept it too
“Sylvia,” ... he said, year, afterward, , ,
you were my salvation. ’
It was the truth.— N. Y. Nats,
Staying Power.
In a book on sheep-raising recently
published, the author mentions a singu¬
lar method in use among Scotch shep¬
herds of choosing the best dog from a
litter. The puppies are carried into a
room apart from the mother, and kept
there some time until she becomes anx-
‘ ous Bnd frightened. When the door is
®P° ned . “J sho is a loWeJ t0 COme ‘ ‘®
f be ">- fbo dl « whlch she br!,t cuinL8 out
18 invariably the best,
Donald, my herdsman, made this ex-
P®riment with a litter of shepherd-dogs.
Tbeono chosen was the smallest and
weakest of the lot. ‘The mother-instiuct
fel1 short tbls t,me . ? 1 sald to him.
“‘Awcel, no sir,’ Donald replied.
‘It’s no big bones n r big bark ye want
in a colly, but staying power.’ Time
proved Donald and the mother to be
right.’’
President C--, the head of one of
the oldest and besl American schools,
used to say, “Never choose a horse or
a boy that ‘spurts,’ for your favorite. It
is not the first mile, but tho twentieth,
that tells the blood of your nag, and it is
the years that lie between thirty and
forty which show the quality of work
which a man will do for the world, not
tho eager praucings and leaps of his boy¬
hood.”
Steady-going, quiet lads at school are
often thrown into the background and
discouraged by the brilliancy and eager¬
ness of quicker witted comrades. But
they should remember that there are
many and divers gifts in the intellectual
as in the spiritual world, aad that endur¬
ance, dogged perseverance, and “staying
power” in the long race of life, win as
sure successes as more brilliant qualities.
The old fable of the hare and the tortoise
is as true now in America as in Rome iu
the days of ASsop.— Youth's Companion.
Tho Care of Preserved FruR.
In order to keep preserved fruit in
condition i: is necessary that the jars be
airtight, aad that they be kept in a cool,
dark place. Atmospheric air is “ex¬
tremely insinuating,” and it will pene¬
trate even by microscopic openings, and
thus injure the product of labor per¬
formed in the torrid summer days in a
kitchin with a temperature considerably
over 100 degress. The t p of the very
jar with a screw or rubber fastening
should be sealed with bott'e wax. Jelly
glasses should be secured with bladders,
or with paper dipped in white of egg
and pressed about the glass without a
wrinkler Many pvrsonstuke the precau¬
tion to wrap every ga s jar or tumbler
iu paper, a id then pack each of them
in sawdust or sand, so that they will not
be nff < te i by light nnr by atmospheric
changes. Th • closet in which preserve*
are kept should not be damp nor should
it bo in close proximity to the kitchen.
Iu winter tho temperature must be a
degree ortw> above freezing point. It
is always well to keep preserves in a
closet by themselves, so that it need
be opened when necessary to store each
new addition of jars. Tlius the atmos¬
pheric changes arc reduced to a minimum
and the fruit will remain in good condi¬
tion .—New York Commercial.
Fond ofThidr Native Soil.
The Cantonese go in large numbers to
America and Australia; while abroad
they dru-s a- foreigners, but once they
set foot on their native soil the foreign
dress is discarded, and the returned
exile, with his trousers and flowing gar¬
ments, meets his friends with as much
ease und grace as if his iimbs had never
been encased in the tight-fitting bar¬
barian costume. No length of residents
abroad ever natural zes a Chinaman.
High and low, rich and poor, thev all
long to get back to China and have their
bones mixed with those of their annees-
tore. About two years ago I came across
a Chinaman who had left his native vil-
lane when a boy of ten, and had returned
a wealthy man after thirty years residence
in Boston, having almost entirely forgot-
ten his native diulet. At first he dis-
pised his native surroundings and
boasted of American freedom, : ut after
a few months he settle-1 down to the
life of his neighbors, took great pains to
cultivate a pigtail, married, Christian
though he was, a couptb of wives, and
became a model c-tizen of the Celestial
Empire .—Nmete nth Century.
Aii F t>clii»!lon.
He had been out for a day's fishing,
and as ho proudly displayed the contents
of liis basket to his wife she exclaimed:
“Oh, John, aren’t they beauties! but
I’ve been so anxious for tho past hour,
dear!”
“Foolish little one!” said John, ca-
ressing*. “Why, what could happen
to me?”
“Oh, I didn’t worry about you, love;
but it grew so late I was afraid that be-
fore you got back to town the fish mar-
ket* would all be closed.”— Boetan Herald,
VOL. 11. NO. 6.
In Harbor.
1
A think It is over, over-
^ZaJnover,
Tlie sweet and the bitter havepeesed;
Life, like a tempeet of ocean,
Hath blown its ultimate blast,
'I here’s but a faint sobbing seaward,
While deepens leeward, ^
the calm of the tide
And behold! like the welcoming quiver
of heart . pul8ea throbbe ,- throu8ll therivar,
Those lights in the Harbor at laatr—
The heavenly Harbor at last.
I feel it is over, over—
The winds and the water surcease;
Ilow few were the davg of the Roses
That smiled i i the beauty of peace!
And distant and dim was the omen
That hinted redress or release,
From the ravage of tile and its not,
What marvel I yearn for the quiet
Which bides in this Harbor at last?
For tho lights with their welcoming quiver.
That throbs through the sacrificed river
Which girdles the Harbor at last—
That heavenly Harbor at last.
in.
I know it is over, over—
I know it is over at last:
Down sad, the sheathed anchor uncover,
’
Hath outblown its ultimate blast,
There’s but a faint sobbing seaward,
While the calm of the tide deepens leeward,
And behold! like tho welcoming quiver,
Of heart-puLsee throbbed through the river.
Those lights in the Harbor at last—
The heavenly Harbor at last!
—Paul Hamilton Hayne.
HUMOROUS.
A man of principle—The banker.
There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and
the saucer.
“Yes, my child; Weddingsday was
put immediately after Chooseday on pur¬
pose."
“To-day is a good deal closer thaD
yesterday,” said Smith to Jones. “Yes,”
said Jones, “it’s nearer."
China and Japan buy our dried apples
freely. Thus does American industry help
to swell the population of the Orient.
“This is evidently a clearing-out sail,”
said the < a;itain on a yachting trip as ha
looked around at his sea-sick passengers.
It is a little paradoxical for people to
go to Europe to recover their health
when they had not been previously there
to lose it.
“Mamrae,” said Bobby, “I have eaten
my cake all up, and Charles hasn’t
touched bis yet. Won’t you make him
share with me so as to teach him to be
generous?”
“Ms, can I go over to Bailie’s house
and pluy a little while?” asks four-year-
old Mamie. “Yes, dear; I don’t care if
you do.” “Thank you, ma," was the
demure reply, “I’ve been.”
“We don’t wish to be understood M
finding fault with nature,” writes a cor¬
respondent, “but we do wish from the
bottom of our hearts that the luminous
end of the fire-fly had been hitched to
the mosquito.”
A little girl, visiting a neighbor with
her mother, was gazing curiously at the
hostess’ new bonnet, when the owner
queried: “Do you like it, Laura?” The
innocent replied: “Why, mother said it
was a perfect fright, but it don’t scare
me
Easy Mathematics.
A farmer spends $13 per year for to¬
bacco, and Ids wife spends $2 per yoar
for shoes. How much more does her shoe*
cost than his tobacco?
It is twenty-eight feet from a certain
kitchen door to a wood-pile, and 2858
from the same door to a corner grocery.
How much longer will it take a man to
walk to thewood-pilethan to the grocery,
estimating that he walks three feet per
second?
If it takes a boy twenty-five minutes
to cut three sticks of wood to get supper
by, how long will it take him next morn¬
ing to walk three miles in the country to
meet a Circus coming to town?
A cook hires out at |B per week, and
when Saturday comes she has broken
$4.80 worth of dishes. How much ia
due her, and how on earth did tbe mis¬
tress find out that she had broken any¬
thing?
A young lady who is out with her beau
drinks four glasses of soda water at five
cents each; two glasses of ginger ale at
five cents each; eats three dishes of ice¬
cream at ten cents each; four pieces of
cake valued at thirty cents, and throw's
out a hint for a box of candy worth fifty
ce[!t s. What does she cost him in all?
A tramp tackles a farm-house, and a
dog tackles the tramp. The tramp passes
over thirty-two rods of ground per m n-
me, while the dog passes over forty-eight
ro da. How long will it take the dog to
overhaul him?
Four boys who are on a visit to their
aunt discover a cake of maple sugar
\v< ghing live pounds and eleven ounces.
What will each boy’s share be if equita¬
bly divided?
If a saddle-horse has caused the death
four different ladies who were adver-
ed by their doctois to try tho saddle
: -iso, how many ladies could have
decently !<i I.- 1 in half tho time by
over rail leuces iu buck-boards?
John has an orange, and six boys lick
chops and want him to divide. Ho
it by himself, seeds, rin 1 aud all.
many pieces would he hare had to
the orange into, in case ho had
a flat, to give each boy a piece?
