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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPU m J ■
A. J HARP, Publisher .
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
newsy items gathered
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
, GEORGIA.
Statistics show that the death rate oi
Fort Gaines is less tliau almost oay town
of its size iu the state.
Over $100,000 worth ot property will
be sold nt the courthouse in Athens ou
the first Tuesday in December.
Some valuable town property changed
hands in Washington the Wednesday. Prices
were still in view of coming Wash¬
ington and Elberton railroad.
It is stated that the cane crop nronnd
Americus will not come up to what was
expected some time ago, on account of
the protracted drouth of the past sum¬
mer.
Isaiah Armstrong, the mail carrior
from Owens Ferry to Saltilla Bluff, was
arrested the mails. Wednesday charged with robbing |
The Alabama fever has struck some of
the citizens of Campbell. They will find
it difficult to find a state in the union
that w ill equal obi Georgia.
Wednesday night about forty negroes
passed through Charleston, Augusta, bound for a
point near to engage in the
mining of phosphate rock. They have
been working on the Atlantic, Greenville
and Western narrow gauge, and want to
enter a new business.
Mr. J. D. Gilmer, whiie fishing on the
Oconee ten miles below Gainesville, on
Wednesday last heard a woman scream.
On looking in the direction from whence
the voice came he saw a woman leap into
the river where the water was about teD
feet deep. She rose and sank three
times. The river was dragged but the
body was not found. There is no clue
as to who she was.
Thompson, On Tuesday a before loving couple from
irate father, fiving in the wrath of an
arrived Augusta. After
reaching wasted, Augusta very little time was
and at Magistrate Vaughdn’s of¬
fice the golden knot was tied with short
hut serviceable ceremony. The groom is
Mr. Joql 1'. liolleyman, while the bride
is Miss Lula Belle, a daughter of Mr.
-Minor Jones, of AVrightsboro, about
eight third miles daughter from Thompson. This makes
the of Air. Jones to elope.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The people of Anderson county want
vote on the exclusion of liquor.
Quite a severe wreck occurred u a
train on the Port Royal road
a mile below Varuville.
Tlie Standard Oil company have pur¬
:i piece of land in AVinnaboro, and
erect a large oil tank at an early
Several parish public spirited taking citizens of St.
Paul's are about steps look¬
ing to thr establishing of a mail route
between Cottageville und Summerville, in
Colleton county.
The official count in tlie Seventh Con¬
district has been completed
and gives the election to AA’illiam Elliott,
democrat, over Smalls, republican, by s
majority of 238.
Dr. C. II Alintt, one of the oldest
druggists in South Carolina, died at his
home in Columbia Sundily, after a short
sickness. For nearly forty years thc de¬
ceased was a leading citizen of that
place.
A grand entertainment took place at
San Francisco on Saturday, for the bene¬
fit of the Charleston earthquake sufferers.
Thc building was tilled with one of the
largest and most fashionable audiences
ever seen in a San Francisco theater.
Those who secured proscenium boxes
paid $100 apiece for them, The enter-
tainment netted about $5,050.
tknnkssre.
Jefferson Davis arrived In Clarksville
on Friday or Saturday last. He was the
guest of M. II. Clark, chief and confiden¬
tial clerk in Mr. Davis’s office during
the war, and hence his warm personal dedi¬
friend. Air. Davis will attend the
cation of Bethel Baptist church, built
upon the site of his birthplace in Fair-
view, Todd county, Ky., twenty-five this
miles northeast. The lot on which
house of worship is built, Air. Davis
gave to Bethel church as a thanks offer¬
ing to God. At Fairview Air. Davis will
be the guest of Mr. AVm. Jesup. He is
now fast approaching his seventy-ninth cherished
birthday, friend and this visit to his his birth
and to the place of may
be the last time that he will leave the
comforts of his southern home for 60
long a journey.
About sixty of the striking Chicago of
butchers are in Chattanooga in search
work.
A young man named Tucxer was ar-
rested for illegal voting at Chattanooga,
m the recent election, lie confessed the
crime, and urges in extenuation ignor
ancc of thc law.
Arthur Dixon, a fireman on the Cin-
cinnati . Southern, met a horrible death
■while lookiag out of the cab window oi
Dis engine, lie was struck bv tlie end of
tbebri lge, and was so badly injured that
fie was attacked with lock'jaw, and bit
fiis tongue off before death relieved him.
ALABAMA.
Joseph t Clark, white section employe
a
of the Mobile and Alontgomery railroad,
fell between moving cars at Georgianna
and was instantly killed.
To meet the requirements of the law
fiy tfie which the trustees got the property,
“Alabama State Land Company” is
to be organized, and thc unsold Alabama
and Chattanooga railroad lands, held by
Swann and Billups, as trustees, are to be
made over to it. A declaration has al-
toady been filed in the probate office at
Birmingham dock putting down the capital
imses at $377,000. ' The property com-
some 600,000 acres. It will soon
ou tho market again, having been
ttttwiMiiy taken off lari Ma when the
NORTH CAROLINA,
North Carolina fls arc worth $131. SO
in tin; market.
Over 7,000 balos of cotton were receiv-
isl in Wilmington last week, against
4,000 bales for the corresponding week
of 1885.
An earthquake wave visited Wilming¬
ton on Wednesday last, throwing down
n large quantity of plastering in the
courthouse.
The state auditor has completed the
'work of making out and mailing the
vouchers issued for pensions this year,
and applicants may call at their respec¬
tive postffiees to receive them. There
receive are now 2,127 pensioners, each of whom
$14.10 from the animal appropri¬
ation of $30,000.
The Ashville Advance says of the to-
banco crop in that section: “The pros-
pects are that the farmers will obtain
good prices for their tobacco this season.
The crop though is nothing like ho large
as that of last year, hut good, bright to-
baeco is bringing an advance of six to
eight dollars over the prices paid foi
same light, grades last year. is The quantity ot
brwshv tobacco, thought to be
perhaps in excess of that of last season.
Immense oyster beds have been dis¬
covered off the Forth Carolina coast, op •
posite Dare county.
The cotton mills of the state are doing
tho best business they have enjoyed for
many years.
Ten days have passed without the !
slightest earthquake shock being felt in
Columbia, and the people arc beginning
to feel easy.
Rt. Mary’s college, in Gaston county,
which was recently dodecated as a mon¬
astery, is now crowded with students,
and a contractor is nt work enlarging the
main building. ,
The corn crop is the best ever gather¬
ed in the state, so says the Person county
Courier. In some cases the crop is four
times as large as last year, and not a few
men declare that they have made as
much corn this season as in three or four
seasons past, all counted together.
Mr. T. V. Pomeroy, a miner from
Colorado, who arrived at Charlotte
several weeks ago, has made arrange¬
ments to establish an important mining
plant in Charlotte. He proposes to
erect works for the treatment of the gold
ores of the North Carolina mines, and
his plant will consist of chlorinating and
reduction machinery.
There is a feeling of unrest and a
roving disposition taking hold of many
of the colored people been in and around
Charlotte. It lias but a short
while since a large number left this sec¬
tion for Liberia. The subject of immi¬
grating to California is lieing discussed
among them bow, and a colony proposes
to start about the 20th of December for
that state. A colored man hv the name
of J. D. Sheppard is working ia the
interest of this movement, and he says
that many eoloeed people talk of going.
KI.OltlDA.’
A snake at Sanford recently swallowed
a darning egg, thinking lie had found
something rich.
A state prohibition paper is to be
started in Orlando soon by a stock com-
puny with Ii. J. Morgan at the helm.
Alore corn has been gathered in Col¬
umbia county the present year than has
ever been before in a single year.
Receipts at the cotton warehouses in
Tallahassee are steadily increasing and
the staple is of unusually fine quality.
The orange business in Alcahua coun¬
ty is getting brisk, the dry, warm weath¬
er causing the fruit to ripen very rapidly.
Hands are at work completing the F.
R. and N. spur to Lake Griffin, After
this is completed tlie steamer Emmie
will ply between Leesburg and Silver
Springs.
It is stated that it took 1,700 car loads
of sand to repair the breach in the Pana-
sofTkee trestle. At this rate, it may re¬
quire a million car loads to fill in the
whole trestle.
The leading nurserymen of the state
formed at, Palatka last Wednesday a
Florida Nurserymen’s association with
the following officers: President, A. I.
Bidwell; vice-president, F. 8. Cone; sec-
rotary, G. L. Tuber; treasurer, J. B. An
derson. Thc object of the association is
for the benefit of'all nurserymen, and to
so agree that there will be a uniformity
in prices and the description of fruits.
The association will meet semi-annually,
and the first meeting will be in Jackson¬
ville at the time of the state fair, or at
Orlando during the south Florida fair.
FLAMES IN DURHAM. N, C.
Tho Whole Town Destroyed In a Short
Time.
Fire originated at 3 a. m., Tuesday,
; n (i ie grocery store of R. H. Atwater
“ d large part of thc business
a esti-
tul (> f the town. The loss is
11 *500,000. Among the indi-
^ dual lo88cr9 are: $2,500. Jacob Levy, A. dry M. Riggs- goods
hv’ ^ 0 00; Insurance merchandise, $4,000,
general loss
fully insured. R. W. Atwater, groceries,
loss $4,000, insurance $2,000. Lombe,
Slater & Gorman, loss $10,000, insurance
$8,000. Shelburne’s art gnl'ery, loss
$2 000, no insurance. L. A. Whitaker,
nrnsic; Goldechieder general merchan¬
dise full insurance; 8. R. Perry, insurred general
merchandise, loss $11,000,
*5 000- C. C. Taylor, hardware. $o,500,
7 ' V , 0( g). (j, p. Rawls, drygoods,
" ‘ $4,000; M. G.
■ i #s insurance
’ furniture, loss $12,000,
,
i insurance $7,500. Thc postoffice is a
j total loss. E, P. Aehiey, jeweler, not
insured. Ada Smith, millinery, . J
& Meaziy, merchant tailors; a
| warehouse und prize house, a to a •
insurance $150,000. 1 he ban— o
i ham, Morebead’sprize house au • .
| Lyon’s residence were also burned,
j VILLAGE DESTROYED.
j A SW ISS
j qq ie village of Trimstein, in the
« n eruc . Switzerland, has been
C( i by tiro. A number of
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ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2 u , 1886 .
THREE MEN KILLED,
By I be Capulzlng of A Truck nt n Fire in
Baltimore.
Fire broke out shortly before noon
Wednesday, in the drug warehouse of
Burroughs Sharpe, Brothers, on Camden street,
near which was entirely burned
out. 000, which The damiuage is covered istestimated at $20, -
building by insurance. Tito
ford & Shilberg, adjoining, occupied by Wool-
straw goods manufac¬
turers, was damaged ia stock and machi¬
nery by smoko and water to the amount
of $15,000, which is also fully insured.
While the liremcn were at work the truck
of one of the ladder company’s capsized
and fell backward into the street. There
were on it at the time Captain Marston,
Charles L. Grand, Frank Kerr ana
Henry Ryan. cd Captain Marston caught
0,1 Hie £ e of tlle roof of a two *t«>ry
bouse adjoining mid escaped serious in¬
jury. Grand, Ryan and Kerr, fell with
the ladder, which broke in its fall and
a11 are supposed to have had their backs
broken. Grand and Kerr are reported
to have died since and uo hope for
Ryan’s recovery is had.
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AUTOMATIC LETTER BOXES.
The Convenient I’onui! Contrivance to bo
Tri«-d iu Brooklyn.
An automantic box is being put on the
lamp posts in Brooklyn, N. Y., to supply
the public pencil with and postage postal letter stamps, envelopes. postal
cards, a
At any hour in the day or night a citizen
may go to one of these boxes and drop a
penny into it at which there will appear a
postal card and a pencil with which to
write a letter. If he has a letter already
written and merely, wants a postage
stamp to mail it he may drop two pen¬
nies in the box at which, presto, a two
cent postage stamp will come out of the
box. These convenient boxes are already
in use in London and are much liked
there. The boxes in Brooklyn are an im¬
provement on those in London. They
look like writing inches desks, deep. and are 75 box inches
high by 17 Every is
divided into several drawers—one for
stamps, one for postal cards, one for
stamped envelopes and one for letter pa¬
per. There is a slit for dropping a coin
over each drawer. AVhen the proper
coin drops in it sets in motion a bit of
machinery which pushes out the article
wanted.
TWO BOYS BURNED ASHES.
Henry Rune and Daniel Scott, two ne¬
gro boys terrible near Orangeburg, S. C., met a
most death at tho plantation of
Daniel Green, occupied on Saturday night last.
John Green a house in the
yard of his father, Daniel Green. Rane
and Scott left Orangeburg on Saturday
evening with the intention of visiting
John Green, and went to his house, ar¬
riving some time after dark. On Sunday
morning John Green left his house about
:* o'clock for the purpose of attending a
camp meeting and at some distance, leaving
Rane Scott asleep in a shed room of
the house. Before daylight the house
took fire, and -cott and Rane were both
burned to death, being consumed to ashes,
except about half the trunk of their bod¬
ies, The head and arms and feet aud
legs of both were totally consumed.
There was but one window in the room
in which before they slept, and that had some
time been securely nailed up. It
is supposed of thc that, house, the and fire originated having reached in the
body of tho in which the boys
the door room
were asleep completely cutting off all
means of escape.
attempt to poison a family.
Tryin* 10 Poinon Phillip D. Armour’!Fami¬
ly in a Sample of Biickwheal.
An attempt has been discovered to
poison the family of Phillip D. Armour,
by means of what appeared to he a
sample package of buckwheat flour,
heavily charged with srichnine. Thc
attempt failed because tho family make a
point not to sample packages left for ad
vertising purposes. Philip Armour
confirmed the correctness of the report,
but refused to talk of the matter.
A COSTLY CHILL IN AN IRON FURN¬
ACE.
The Gem Iron Furnace in Page coun¬
ty, Va., on the Shenandoah Valley rail¬
road, has chilled, and it will require
three months to remove ilscontentn. This
furnace chilled in August last, and ope¬
rations had just been resumed when the
second misfortune befell it. Hon. ffm.
AIilnes, Jr., manager, has gone to Phila¬
delphia with a view to arranging for re¬
sumption of work. Between 500 and
GOO hands will be thrown out of employ¬
ment by tlie accident.
A mis CLOCK.
Tlie Seth Thomas Clook Co., of Thom-
aston, Conn., have prepared drawings for in
the great clock which is to be placed Phila-
tlie tower of the new city completed hall at in
delpliia, and which, if ac¬
cordance with their blans, will be the
largcst in the world- The bells upon
which it will strike the hours and quar¬
ters will weigh fifty thousand contemplated, pounds,
and the glass dials, as
measure 25 feet in diameter.
350 MEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
The Erie breaker, opperated by the
Hillside coal and iron company, Scranton,
Pa., was totally burned Tuesday night.
The loss will amount to over $100,000,
which is partially covered by insurance.
Thc fire throws 350 men and boys out of
employment. The breaker lias t>ecn in
been iii operation for sixteeu years, and
had a daily capaciey of seven hundred
tons. The origin of the fire is unknown.
AOAINST CONVICT LABOR.
An official canvass of Cook county’s
(111.) election returns shows that the con-
stitutional amendment against convict
contract labor received enough votes to
overcome the heavy opposition the among Be
the rural communities of state.
close was the vote that tho estimates
made two davs ago deolaml the amend-
mtut defeated. Only 2,884 vote*
eftft ftgftiutt it in tfie county,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR DEAD.
Hi: EXPIRES SUDDENLY AT HIS
RESIDENCE.
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Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died
at 5 o clock rhursduy morning at his res-
Ahn'k V-ity 0 ' htd'beenailimr'for siinie
lie of°
time principally from kidney a complication affection. diseases,
Arthur had lived at No. 123 Lexington
stroke of cerebral appoplexv"°sudden,
but not wholly unexpected by the at-
tending physicians, terminated his life.
The stroke came in his sleep between
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning,
and he did not rally thereafter, llis
death was painless—a slow going out of
u burned clown candle. For hours before
the end came he was unconscious to his
surroundings His son and daughter,
SiSMsSSSffi&’il'X ’Arthur's
his bedside. health had not
improved several weeks during his and stay at his New London
ago, on return, on
he kfUt 1 meitv 'improvement " As'ti'lu'r' ^eanie/' 1 assed*n<>' arid" *the ^er"
inancnt
physicians stroke the feared which some he such succumbed, sudden
as one to
In liis enfeebled condition even a light
a Adjust patWiA With the be'dnning of
the present week a marked change for
the better had set in. Tuesday the ex-
President felt better and stronger than at
any time since he was taken sick, and.
commented hopefully upon the fact.
It was after midnight when his at ten-
dant left him alone in his bedroom, and
nothing was heard of him during the
turbe“iTtUhi^attemSt W rate n red his
room found at 8 Mr. o’clock Arthur AVednesday lying morning. side,
lie on his
breathing heavily, and could not rouse
him. The family answered his summons,
ness or recognition from toe ex-Presideut.
In alarm they summoned his physician,
who responded suffering promptly and stroke at once of
saw he was from a
srSTb I reu.“S b ,s,rs
the right side had ensued. From thc
moment the discovery was made all hope
was known to be in vain, but no efforts
were spared to bring the patient back fruit¬ to
consciousness. They were all alike
less. Air. Arthur lay motionless and
speechless all day. He knew w hat w r as
going on about him, for he squeezed his
doctor’s hand and put out liis tongue
partially when asked to do so; but he
never spoke nor gave any other sign of
consciousness.
Wednesday at C o’clock enfeebled
pulse, more difficult physical failure, respiration, and
other signs watchful of of his indicated
to the eyes drawing physicians
that the end w r as near. The
change for the worse came on rapidly,
and his sister and children gathered at
his bedside. Dr. William Valentine,
Dr. Peters and partner, and Surrogate 1
Rollins stayed with them during the
night. night. Air. Air. Kucvals Arthur’s went strength home ebbed at mid- out j
slowly, and with it his life. It was 5
o’clock Thursday when the end came.
He had been entirely senseless for hours, I
and died without a struggle.
BRITISH ANARCHISTS.
A meeting called of the assemble British in Anarchists Cleveland j
has been to
Hall, London, on the 23d inst., to pro- j
test against the action of the Chicago j
court which tried and sentenced Spies 1
ihc meethiu denounces*TheTm'y t^com
victed thc Chicago Anarchists as a brib-
ed and packed body, and condemns
Judge Gary for refusing the prisoners a
new trial. Hon. Acheron Herbert
probably ”______ preside over the mceeting.
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A NEW REPUBLIC SCilEUK. j
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P a t yfiS 2dT e at
in Tc x as St Louis, j j
Tuesday, and were laden w-ith a grand I
scheme to form a new republic. They
arc commissioners from the “Socialistic
Republic of the Rio Grande. They
state their object is to take advantage ot '
the excitement produced on the Mexican
border by the Cutting incident, and to ;
invade the three northwestern provinces.
COTTON DESTROYED BY FHIK
■
F • Tuesday afternoon partially des-
,roj l 100 bales of compressed cotton
Ivin in the street ia front of the Cham-
pion cotton press. The loss is about :
$4,000 and is covered by insurance in
foreign companies. |
107 BULBS IN NINTY-FIVK MINUTES. !
On Tuesday tho Michigan Central
train on the Canada Southern division,
having on board a number of directors
nnd officials, ran from St. Clair
live r ' ' 7
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minutes, V
Time mid I.
We are two travellers, Time and 1,
Through gay or gloomy weather—
And since he hailed me at my birth,
We’ve always bo m together.
Ho led mo through tho land of youth,
llo journeys onward over,
And lielpod my t(tiling footsteps climb
The hills of right endeavor.
Wo are two travellers, Time and I,
Through harsh or happy weather.,
Unsolved the secrets of Ills soul,
Though we have waikod together!
Ho guards the mysteries of the world.
Life, Death, Disease and Sorrow;
Ho knows so much, so little I,
And we must port to-morrow.
— 1 Vm. 11. Ilaynein Youth's Companion.
HIS SECOND WOOING.
Although Farmer Tucker had long
dreamed of a visit to Chautauqua, when
he actually found himself at that Mecca of
devout excursionists, early lost Augut,
I the brawny man was tempted to doubt
his own identity. The holiday surround¬
ings were wholly unlike anything to
which he was accustomed in his prosy
New England home; the rich, crowded
programme offered was in striking con¬
trast to the dull monotony of farm life.
When this son of toil first entered the Audi-
torium, and saw that rustic amphitheatre
j cr owded with thousands of people listen-
' n o breathlessly to the full, sweet tones
| of the grand organ, his cramped, selfish
heart was strangely touched and ex-
panded. For an instant the wish crept
>n that he had asked Jane if she would
like to come too. But there was not
much time for his own thoughts, for
us the music ceased a whitc-huired
speaker arose and , was introduced . to the
audience as Mr. John B. Gough.
At this announcement Samuel Tuck-
j j er’s satisfaction was too great to be kept
to himself, and he said half aloud to hi 8
“*•», 1 *» l*t
to think that I’m going to hear the man
; I’ve wanted to see for more’n twenty
| years.” Tho youn'g lady gave an
amused little laugh, but it fell unheeded
, upon the unsophisticated speaker, whose
attention was already caught by the
j orator.
■ Mr. Gougli commenced his brief loc-
lure with one of his inimitable descrip-
tions. The story wus of a man who ap-
plied for a divorce and was advised by
fii s eminent lawyer to try the effect of
j I lna j c ; n g j ove to bis wife as he had done
before . . , her, instead . . , ol . resorting
marrying
to the measure he had proposed. It in-
eluded also an account of a later visit
when thc ba PPy husband withdrew his
application, and, fairly dancing with
glee, assured the lawyer that his experi-
ment had worked like a charm, that
‘‘ Sally had become ns amiable and
affectionate a wife as a man could ask to
have.”
Mr. Gough’s representation of the
scene drew forth prolonged applause;
>»*^ >— - -«
serious a nature to permit his joining in
the laughter. As if unconscious for the
moment, of the multitude about him, he
said in an undertone: “I’d be willing to
take my oath that wouldn’t work with
Jane. All I have to say is, that man’s
wife was different from mine; I’d ns soon
think of feeding serrup to a mummy as
to begin sparking again with her.”
It would seem that this course of
reasoning did not wholly dismiss from
the farmer’s mind a train of thoughts and
possibilities suggested by the lecturer’s
s t° r y- _ In every treat of the , following
s
days—at sacred service or popular
lecture, in the museum or by the model
of tho IIoIy Lan(1 when listening to a
concert or gazing with throngs upon the
illuminated fleet, the far-away husband
was relentlessly followed by a
vision of hard-worked Jane, look,
ing upon him with reproachful
eyes. At length he quieted his
conscience with the determination to
prove that his estimate of his wife was
correct. “When I go back,” he said to
himself, “I’ll just show the woman some
little attentions, aud I’ll see they won’t
have no more effect on her than they
would on the old bny mare. Jane’s
bound t0 be sullt ‘ n an(l obstinate, and I j
suppose I may as well make up my mind
to it.”
On reaching home thc resolution was
I)0t eas j| y carried out. When Air.
Tucker planned some gallantry towards
his wife, the very thought made him feel
so unnatural and foolish that postpone-
ment resulted; but the Sabbath offered
“«i opportunity so convenient that he im-
proved it.
The farm was nearly a mile from the
church, vet Samuel Tucker had for
years J been inttie habit of driving back
alone after the forenoon service, leaving
his wife to attend the Sabbath school,
an( j then walk home as best , she could
through mud or dust. Great was Mrs.
Tucker’s astonishment, therefore, on tlie j
Sabbath after her husband’s return, to |
find him waiting for her at the close of j
the Bible service. The faintest suspi- ;
cion that ho had driven b ck to the
churcll for her did not cross t ic good
woman’s mind; she supposed he had
business with some of the brethren, and
was hesitating whether to walk on as
usual or to suggest waiting for him.
w hen the farmer called out, “It’s just as
cheap to ride as to walk.” Silently thc
w jf a took her seat in the buggy, and si-
Jently they dfova Lome, n^stl N
husband's satisfaction, for it seemed to
him a proof of tho woman's dull, unap¬
preciative nature. “She didn’t net
pleased, but was only dazol like, as I
kuew she would be, ” he muttered as he
went about his mid-day “chores.”
At the snmo time Mr. Tucker was oon-
scious of having performed a most praise¬
worthy act, and felt so comfortable that
he resolved to repeat the experiment,
So on the following Sabbath, Jane again
found her husband in waiting, and as
she mounted the high buggy, ventured
to utter a half-nudible “thank you,” and
to ask Samuel if he had been waiting
long. To which Mr. Tucker replied
that he had just reached the church,
and didn’t know but he might find she
had started ou foot. This reply seemed
to Jane a positive assurance that her
husband had really returned for the sole
purpose of taking her home, and her
chilled heart glowed with a warmth un¬
known for years. She longed to tell hoi
husband how much she appreciated his
trouble, but imagined it would sound
“so foolish” that 9he kept her pleasure
to herself.
Tile third Sabbath was rainy, mid as
she washed the breakfast dishes, Mrs.
Tucker kept thinking: “1 wonder it
Samuel means to come for me this noon;
it would be such a help in the rain; I’m
half a’mind to ask him!” This resolu-
tion was soon stifled, however, with the
reasoning which hod silenced many sim«
ilar resolves in the past ten years. “No,
I won’t nsk no favors. If ho don't think
enough of me to come, why he neeJn’t.”
Although proudly unwilling to seek any
attentions, Jane longed for some demon-
stration of her husband's love and cnre -
(she had walked home in the rain too of-
ten greatly to dread such exposure; but
a week , . before, , the wife , , had , tasted . , , (he
joy of being considered, and longed for
some now and further proof of her com-
Mrs. Tucker’s heart leaped for joy,
when, at noon, she saw the old mare’s
head from the lecture-room window.
Indoed, her hungering heart suddenly
became quite unmanageable, and, rn-
! tering tho carriage, poor, melted Jane
sobbed out: “I’m sure it’s very good of
, you, Samuel, to come back for me
, this rainy day!” and then the tears
flowed so fust that further words were
j impossible.
! Completely taken by surprise, Mr.
I Tucker exclaimed: ( l 1 declare I I hadn't
j no idee you’d care so much about it!”
j “ I wouldn’t mind the walk,” re-
j sponded the wife, “but—Samuel—1’ui
■ so happy to have you -care enough about
me to come!”
The strong man was brushing away a
tear from his own cheek now; his tend-
erer, 1 letter nature was mustering the
hard, selfish spirit which had long pos-
sessed him, and with some coughing and
choking ho said : “June, I see I’ve made
an awful botch of our married life; if
you’re a mind to forgive me, I’ll see if 1
can’t treat you from to-day as a woman
ought to bo treated.”
This confession was all too much for
the weeping wife, and she answered
quickly : “You’re not a bit more to blame
than I am; I’ve been proud and obsttn-
nte; but I’ll tell you what it is, we’ll be¬
gin all over again.”
The ice was now thoroughly broker,,
and that afternoon Farmer Tucker and
his wife had a long talk over the
past and the future. Aud in tho evon-
ing when they were about to start for
the prayer meeting to be held in a
neighboring school house, the renewed
husband stooped and kissed his wife,
saying: “Jane, I’ve been a thinking
that married life ain’t so very different
from farming or any other occupation,
Now, I ain’t such u fool as to think a
field will keep a yielding if I only enrich
it once and plant it once; I have to go
over the same ground every season; and
here I supposed you was a-going to al¬
ways do as you did when we were a,
courting, without my doing my jiart at
all.”
“If I hadn’t changed any, maybe you
would always have been as tender as
used to he, ” pleaded the happy wife.
“Perhaps so and perhaps not; but I
don’t meun to leave you to try no such
plan. I tell you what it is Jane, I feel
as if we hadn’t never been really mar-
ried till to-day. It most seems ns if we
ought to take a wedding tower.”— Con-
yregationalist.
No Chance for the Small Hoy.
A new Western invention is a dog
which climbs trees. There is a point
beyond which even inventors Ought not
to go, and it seems to us this wretch of
an inventor lias crossed that border.
What show does it leave the small boy
in a watermelon patch? What chance of
refuge is left the “fired-out” lover as he
finds himself fleeing from tho house of
his fair one, if even the tree tops afford
him no protection from tlie mouthful of
organized ivory that pursues him? Yes,
the cauinc climber must go .—llanseilla
Breeze.
Regardless of Cost.
Clerk (to employer)—What shall
mark that new lot of black silk at?
Employer—Mark the selling price $3
a yard,
Clerk—But it only cost $1 a yard,
Employer I don’t caro what it cost,
I nm selling off regard.' of cost.-A™
ftr* ftn,
NO. 9.
The Woods.
Alone the forest depths I roam,
In ancient, mythic mood, and And
Home animating soul enshrined
Beneath each leafy, sylvan dome.
Yet thought returns, and soon revolves
Again with analytic skill,
And marks how inborn fancies fill
Tho earth with schemes that time dissolve*
So mine is past or present life
Along tho verdant avenues,
As fancy mystic dreams pursues,
Or fact with solid themes is rife.
But thus evoked by leaf and tree,
My contemplations still Inquire—
Do I tho forest scene inspire.
Or do the woods breath into me f
— C. C. Lord in Boston Journal.
HUMOROUS.
A man of metal—The stove dealer.
There is usually a cold snap when an
icicle falls.
Is a tramp idle when ho labors under
an impression?
A bluck eye is a sign of beauty in one
sex, of a collision in tho other.
Speaking of farming, nobody ever
heard of a hen complaining of a poor
crop.
“There’s very little change in men’s
trousers this fall, remarked a tailor as
he failed to collect a bill.
“Those who use our goods are very
much attached to them,” is what a
porous plaster company advertises,
An article is going tho rounds of the
press, headed “How to Manage a Wife."
Of couse the writer was a single roan,
A Los Angeles (Cal.) lady, 40 years of
age, is selling vegetables to educate licr-
self in music. She is determined not to
Slnukins and his wife ...... had just
young 4 e
P' ete their first , quarrel. I wish I
com “
wa8 dead ’” sho 8obbed ‘ ‘I wish I was
loc." h, Uubbtred. ld„„,„i, U
1 " as> and the war continued,
A farm journal gives instructions for
“Shoeing a Kicking Mule.” Abetter
aud safer way is to hand the mule over
to 11 blacksmith and then climb a tree
and stay there until tho job is finished,
An old parish clerk was courteously
thanking a church dignitary for kindly
taking on emergency a village service;
“A poorer preacher would have done
us, sir,” he said, “if we only knew
where to find him.”
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How Screws are Made.
Screws were little known or used be-
fore 1836, being rudely made by hand
with imperfect tools, The head was
forged or swedged up by a blacksmith,
and the thj^ad and nick were formed by
theuscof hand-dies and files. In 1830
American ingenuity was directed to the
subject, and the old tools were worked
in machines which gave them their proper
motion. Tho swedge hammer became
the heading machine, receiving the
end of a coil of wire and
rc-gularly cutting the required length for
a blank, which then, by a blow, had ono
end of tho wire, “set up” to form the
head, the operation continuing automati¬
cally till the entire wire was cut up Into
blanks. These blanks were thus handled
individually, and passed to machines,the
first for shaving the head, the second for
nicking, and the last for cutting the
thread. In 1846 a further revolution was
effected in this manufacture by tho use
«f machines that were entirely automatio.
By this system the blanks - were supplied
in mass by the operator, the machine
separating and handling each blank re¬
spectively, as thc nature of the operation
demanded. The heads wore turned and
nicked by automatic mechanism, and then
dropped into a machine, which turned
and cut the threads on the shank3, pass-
ing out the complete screws with wonder,
ful rapidity. The first inventor of this
machinery was general Thomas W. Har¬
vey of Vermont. Later inventors added
improvements, increasing the perfection
of the operation and its product. Among
these was the gimlet point, the invention
of Thomas J. Sloan. This sight im-
provement So increased tlie usefulness ol
screws that their manufacture immedi-
ately became a profitable and important
industry. Many modifications of the
common screw have been invented,
adapting it to a wide range of uses in
the various manufactures of machines,
articles of use aud ornament, etc. The
daily production of the various screws
in use in the world is estimated to re-
quire the consumption of 500 tons ol
iron.— Int.r- Ocean.
Lifting ExlruorUhinrjr.
One of the first things that attract tbfl
attention of visitors to Foster’s crane,
near Pairchild, Wis., is the famous
“steam skidder,” tho ouly one in the
State. It is a great sight to witness two
or three huge logs being (^ragged, from
a distance of thirty-five rods, over brush,
fallen trees, stumps, etc., as if they were
mere sticks, and dumped -on top of a
huge pile alongside of the track. And
to do all this requires only one man to
manipulate the levers ou the steam en¬
gine and one way off where the logs Jie
to put the chain around them. Thc
moment the chain is put around them
off they go, thc forward end .somewhat
elevated and tie rear end dragging over
any obstruction in tho w. 'Omotimos
the whole load makes u leap of sovflu)
rods without touching the gtouud,