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About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1886)
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 i» Uil 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. ^~ 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. rre.ldent Clevelnml Outer. Hi. I.iinl Nl*n. ot' Mourning, I IH m n & 1 . B IfPb m k. m & ■ ■ $ i i s $ t/m & 8 I a* 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. j A NEW REPUBLIC SCilEUK. j ; tl , , - 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 ' 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.” ----—'■ 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,
