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To olasp tiro stream in their embrace,
With ovory outline, curve and hue
Reflected in its placid face, 1 “
Tho plowman stopped hia team to watch
Tho train, as awift it thundered by;
Homo distant glimpse of lifo to catch,
Ho strains his oager, wistful eye.
Tho morning freshness lies on him,
Just wakened from his balmy droams;
Tho travelers, begrimed and dim,
Think longingly of mountain streams.
Oh, for tho joyous mountain air,
Tho fresh, delightful autumn day
Among tho liillsl The plowman there
Must havo perpetual holiday!
Aud lie, as all day'long lie guides
HiB Btoady plow, witli patient hand,
Thinks of the flying train that glides
Into some now, onchautod land.
Wlioro, day by day, no plodding ronud
Woariee (lie framo and dulls tho mind—
Wlioro lifo thrills koon to sight and Bound,
With plows and furrows loft behind,
Evon so, to each, tiro untrod ways
Of lifo nro touched by fancy’s glow,
That ovor sliods its brightest rays
Upon tho path wo do not knowl
—Agnes M. Machar, in the Century.
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“Yes, thoro they go I” said Miss
Pamela, lifting the comer of the win
dow curtain to look down the long per
spective of tho winding road. " Four of
’em. In two cutters, with two wolf-
robes and two sets of sleigh bells. And
it’s the third time that Ruth and Bessie
havo been asked ont sloigh-riding
witbin tbo month, and nobody ever
thinks of me I”
And it was a little strange, too, when
one came to think of it. Miss Pamela
Pipely was a plump young woman of
tbroe-und-thirty, with rosy cheeks,
snapping blook eyes, and a figure as
trim and straight as a sapling-pine.
She had not Ruth's melting, almond-
shaped eyes perhaps, nor tho peachy
pink of Bessie’s radiant complexion,
but she was universally acknowledged
to ho the best hand at piokling and
preserving in nil the country around.
She oouldn’t quote S.?inburneor Jean
Tngelow, hut she managed her widowed
brother's household with a firm yet
gentle band, and had a chestful of
patchwork, hedquilts and oroohotod
tidies, in the bigold garret upstairs.
In fact, MisH Pamela Pipely would
have made a first-class wife to any man
living—if only the baohelors around
Gray Goorgo could havo heon brought
to porceivo a fact whioh was so mani
festly to their advantage. .
Bo Miss Pipely sat before the fire of
blazing logs, all mossed over with silver-
gray fringe, and bubbling out their
resinous hearts beneath the fiery ordeal
of the flames, and knitted away at
Squire Sam’s gray-mixed stockings, as
if she weroon a wagorsgainat old Time
and was resolved to conquer at all haz
ards. And tho dragon’s head that was
carved on the old mahogany chair op
posite, and the clawlegs and the queer
little brass knobs scattered all over it,
secmed.to wink“s#erly at her, in the
pleasant light as she worked. It was
an heirloom in the family, that old chair,
*nd the Pipelys were proud of it.
Just then there came tho merry jingle
of sleigh-bells up the road, like a peal
of miniature laughter.
“ Some one else out for a sleigh-ride,”
thought Miss Pamela,- without turning
her head.
But to her infinite amazement the
tiny pearls ceased to chime; the sleigh
had stopped.
“ Good graoions 1” said Miss Pamela,
taking a hurried observation from be
hind the netted fringe of the curtains,
“it’s Mr. Hedger. And he’s coming
here, too I"
Mr.,Hedger came in—a stout, middle
aged man, with light blue eyes shining
behind his speotacles, brown hair just
sprinkled with gray an 1 a seal muffler
buttoned up to liis very nose,
« Good morning, Miss Pamela I" said
he, pleasantly.
« Good morning I" said Miss Pamela.
“I’ve called on business," said Mr.
Hedger who was one of those uncanon
ized social martyrs, a bashful old bach
elor. ,,
Miss Pamela, to be sure, was an old
maid- hnt she wasn’t in the least degree
bashful, so, perhaps, the two were not
evenly mated.
“On businessV” repeated the lady.
“ I’ll call my brother at once."
<< Oh, don't do that, Miss Pamela!”
said Mr. Hedger, deprecatingly.
« jj 0 j” Miss Pamela raised her jet-
black eyes in some surprise.
“ Because my business was with you
especially,” he explained.
<< QJj |*
Miss Iamela sat downagain, mechan
ically crimping the borders of her apron
with the linger and thumb of her leit
hand, while a very pretty blush crept
over her faco.
«i I’ve been thinking it over for some
time,” said Mr. Hedger, rather ab
ruptly.
“ Have you ?" said Miss Pamela.
And the crimping operation went on
faster than ever.
«i Of course I know it is taking a great
liberty,” said the gentleman, apologetic
ally.
“Oh, don’t speak of it," said the
lady.
“ And then, you know, we are almost
strangers," he added.
“Oh, that makes no difference I” said
Miss Pamela, hurriedly.
“I can hardly muster courage to
ask,” said ho.
“ Don’t yon be afraid,” sweetly smiled
the bright-oyed damsel, wondering what
Bessie and Ruth would say if they were
to oome home and find her engaged.
“ You will forgive my audacity ?” he
murmured, moving hu chair a trifle
nearer.
" Of oourse I” responded Miss Pipely.
" Well, then," said Mr. Hedger, plung
ing headlong into the subject, will you
sell me that old mahogany dragon’s head
chair of yours for my collection of
antiquities ? I am told it has a record
for a century and a half, and I have long
been anxious to possess it. Expense
will be no object to me, as my pleasure
lios in oolleoting these valuable articles
of vertn.”
Miss Pamela turned red and white—
the folds of the apron fell from her
hand. Figuratively speaking, she
froze over at onoo.
" I prefer to drive no bargains for any
family relics,” she said, stiffly.
" But—”
"lam sorry to disappoint yon, but it
is really quite out of the question,” said
Pamela.
“ Might I continue to hope—”
“ You may continue to hope nothing!’
severely spoke the lady.
And Mr. Hedger, beginning vaguely
to snspect that something was wrong,
stumbled vaguely ont of the room.
Whilo Pamela pnt her head down in her
hands, and began to cry ^little.
“ I thought ho was going to propose,”
she said, “And 1 did liko him—and
I was just going to say yes! And to
think ho only wanted that horrid
old dragon’s chair, after all 1”
In the wood-yard outside ‘ Mr.
Hedger encountered Squire Samuel
Pipely, who was splitting wood like a
good-natured Goliath.
“Oh!" said the squire. “Pears to
me you mado a very short stay,
Hodger?”
“ I don’t think your sister was much
pleased,” said Mr. Hedger.
Tho squire suspended his ax in mid
air.
“Not pleased?” said he. “Why
what on earth did you say to her ?’’
"I only asked if she would bo willing
to sell me the old claw-legged mahog
any chair for my eolleetion of antiqui
ties."
“ And she said no?”
“ She said no, most emphatically.'*
The squire struck his ax into a log,
scratched his nose and chuckled.
“Ah!” said he. “Well, it ain’t her
fault; sho couldn’t say yes.”
“ Couldn’t say yes ?” eohoed Hedger.
“ My Grandfather Pipely was a queer
old soul,” said Sam. “Ho left that
chair to Pamela, you know."
So I havo understood,” said Mr.
Hedger.
“ She never was to part with it unless
she married,*’ added the squire.
“ Unless she married?” repeated Mr.
Hedger, vaguely.
“ But in that case,” said Squire Sam,
seizing bis ax again, “ it was to become
the joint property of her and her hus
band.”
“ I never thought of that," said Mr.
Hedger.
“Second thoughts aresometimesbest
thoughts," said tho squire, splitting
away as for dear life.
“ I’ve always admired her,” said Mr,
Hedger, “ and I believe I’ll go back.”
“Just as yon please,” observed the
sqnire.
Miss Pamela Pipely was sitting by
the fire, with a little flush on her cheek
and a little moisture of her eyelashes,
while her knitting lay unheeded in her
lap. She started at his entrance.
» Mis9 Pipely—” said the baoholor.
“Sir!” she cried, brushing away the
dew from the lashes, which curved so
prettily at their end, and trying to look
unorfneerned.
“If you won’t give me the old ohair,”
said Mr. Hedger, “ will you give me
“ I don’t know what you mean,” said
Miss Pamela.
“Don't you?” said Mr. Hedger.
And then he sat down beside Miss Pa
mela and explained himself.
I never heard of such a thing in my
life!” cried she, hysterically.
“But don’t you think it would be a
capital idea ?” urged Mr. Hedger.
“ No—yes—perhaps 1” said the lady.
“ You’ll think of it?” said he.
“Yes, I’ll think of it,” said she.
And so they beoame engaged, and
Mr. Hedger added to his sooial status
and his eolleetion oli .antiques at the
same time. And they are just as happy
as if it had been a ease of love at first
sight.
Old-Fashioned Lsve Teste.
Referring to thense of plantain love
charms, they ate very numerous. One
popular oio consists in taking (he
leaves of yarrow, commonly called
“ nose-bleed,” and tiokling the inside
of the nostrils, repeating at the samo
time these lines:
Groon ’arrow, groon ’arrow, you boar a white
blow.
If my lovo lovo me, my nose will blood now;
If my love don’t love mo, it ’ont bleed a drop;
If my lovo do lovo mo, ’twill blood ovory drop.
Some ont the common brake or fern
just above the root to asoertain the ini
tial letters of the fntnre wife’s or hns-
band’s name, and thedandelion,as aplant
of omen, is mneh in demand. As soon
as its seeds are ripo they stand above
the head of the plant in a globular form,
with a feathery top at the end of eaoh
seed, and then are without any difficulty
detached. When in this condition the
flower stalk must be carefully pluoked,
so as not to injure the globe of seeds,
the charm consisting in blowing off the
seeds with the breath. The number of
puffs that are required to blow every
seed olean off indioates the number of
years that must elapse before tho per
son is married. Again, nnts and apples
aro very favorite love tests. The mode
of procedure is for a girl to plaoe on
the bars of the grate a nut, repeating
this incantation:
If bo loves are, pop sod fly;
If bo bates mo, llvo and dio.
As may be imagined, great is the dis
may if the anxious faoe of the inquirer
gradually perceives the nnt, instead of
making the hoped-for pop, die and
make no sign. Again, passing on to
the insects, one means of divination is
to throw a lady bird into the air, repeat
ing meanwhile the subjoined couplet:
Fly away oast, fly away west,
Show mo wbero lives the ono I liko best.
Should tho little insect ohanoo to fly
in the direction of the honse whore the
loved one resides it is regarded os a
highly-favorable omen.
Some days are considered specially
propitious for practicing love divina
tions. Foremost among these is St ■
Valentine’s day, a festival which has
been considered highly appropriate for
sttoh ceremonies, as there is an old tra
dition that on this day birds choose
their mates, a notion which is frequently
alluded to by the poets, and particu
larly by Chaucer, to which reference is
made also in “ A Midsummer Night’s
Dream:"
Good morrow, friends, St. Valontine is past;
Bogin the wood-birds but to couple now.
Thus, the Devonshire young ladies have
a fanoy that on St. Valentine’s day they
can, if they wish, make certain of thoir
fnturo. If so disponed, they go into the
churchyard at midnight, with some
h mpseod in their hand, which, after
they have walked around tho church a
certain numberof timesj they scatter on
either side as they return homeward,
repeating a certain charm. It is sup
posed that the true lover will be seen
taking up tho hempseed just sown, at
tired for the ceremony in a winding-
sheet. Another species of lovo-divina-
ticn once observed, consisted in obtain
ing five hay leaves, four of whioh the
anxious maiden pinned to the four cor
ners of her pillow, aud tho fifth in the
middle. If she was fortunate enough
to dream of her lover, it was a snresign
that she would be married to him in the
course cf l ho year. Again, some young
people would boil an egg hard, and,
after taking out the contents, fill the
shell with salt, the charm consisting in
eating the shell and salt on going to
bed at night without either speaking or
drinking after it. A further method of
divination was practiced in the follow
ing -way: The ady wrote her lovers’
names upon small pieoes of paper, and
rolling them up in clay pnt them into
a tub of water. The first that rose to
tho surface was to be not only her val
entine, bnt in all probability her future
husband.—Domestic Folk-Lore,
Tho contributions paid in and pledged
for the erection of a Christian church
in Washington, to tako the place of the
one which President Garfield and his
family attended, amount to over $21,000.
The number of members added to the
denomination in eight States during the
past year is 2,884-
MOMENTOVa MATTER a.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the re
vivalists, began their second religions
oampaign in Great Britain in New
castle, the seat of the recent Anglican
Church congress. Their meetings are
attended by large congregations.
A story of heroism comes to ns from
the English steamer Edgar on a recent
trip from the Senegal. The entire crew,
except the captain and his wife and the
mate, were stricken with sickness so
that they oould tnko no part in the
navigation of the vessel. The oaptain
suggested to his wife to take the post
of “ tho man at the wheel,” while ho
himself and mate aoted as engineer
and fireman. The three brought the
vessel safe from the west coast of Afrioa
to the European continent.
German scientists have discovered
through experiment that the eleotrio
light is healthier than other methods of
illumination, since it leaves the air
purer, and that some colors—red,
green, bine and yellow especially—
are shown more distinctly by it tnan by
daylight. Harper's Weekly thinks “ex
periments by German scientists aro not
nooessary to prove that the eleotrio
light has a great advantago over kero
sene in not being adapted to the kin
dling of fires in kitoben stoves by
servant girls, and this consideration
goes far toward establishing its supe
riority from a sanitary point of view.
It also has an advantage over gas in the
same respeot, since hotel lodgers from
remoto rural districts oannot blow it
out on retiring.”
A German paper, comparing Ger
many with Franco, observes that the
former nation is superior to the latter
in political and military power, and
that the latter surpasses tho former in
onltnre and material prosperity. This,
it says, is chiefly attributable to the
fast that the population of France is
almost stationary, whilo tbit of Ger
many is rapidly increasing. France,
which is, moreover, richer iu natural
resources than Germany, is thus easily
enabled to provide for the wants of its
people. Germany, naturally a poor
country, cannot increase her produc
tions so as to keep pace with tho in
crease of her population. According
to tho latest census the population of
Germany was 45,194,000; it has in
creased by 459,000 a year from 1871 to
1875, and since 1875 by 489,600 a year.
Daring the past nine years the increase
has amounted to more than 4,000,000
persons, which is more than the
population of the grand duchies of
Baden aud Hesso and tho province/ of
Alsace-Lorraine. It is as if Germany
had annexed the population of these
countries without annexing the coun
tries themselves. Suoh an increase of
population addsto tho strength of the
empire, but it also imposes a hoavy
burden upon Germany for the mainten
ance of her numerous children.
A Bio Three-Year-Old Boy.
A recent letter from Evansville, Ind.,
says: There arrived in this oity to-day
a man named Adam Castleman, of Ca-
sey county, Ky. His family is with
him, one of which is a young boy only
throe years old, who stands three feet
four inches in his stockings, measures
sixteen inches around the calf of the
leg, twenty-six inches around the thigh,
forty-two inches around the waist,
thirty-eight inches around the chest,
and weighs 130 pounds. Tho child, his
father says, weighed but nine pounds at
his birth, hut at six months had in
creased to forty-nine pounds, and then
jumped by rapid stages to his present
enormous proportions. The child is
bright enough, although physicians
have counseled his parents not to tax
him closely with mental effort. Physi
cally, although so huge for his age, he
is sonnd and healthy, and makes what
might be called a waddling effort at
romping around. Castleman and his
wife, though both of good size, are
neither of them large, aud oannot re
member any ancestor from whom this
prodigious boy could have inherited
his extraordinary proportiens. They
have another child, an yifant girl, three
months old, but giving no evidences of
following in her brother’s footsteps.
Germanu'c Gold.
In a dark cellar of the Julias Tower at
Spandau, Prussia, lies a vast bulk of
gold coin equal to about thirty million
dollars, laid aside from Germany’s gains
by the war of 1870-71, as a provision of
hard cash wherewith to defray the mobi
lization and other preliminary expenses
of the next campaign undertaken by
the empire. The fund is absolutely
unproductive, and may be said to have
cost the German nation half its total
amount in foregone interest since it waB
first lodged in its subterranean reposi
tory. A few days ago the annual in
spection of the treasure by the imperial
commissioners took placo. A specially
detailed section of the guard assisted
the two commissioners iu their labori
ous task of counting over the contents
of twelve hundred canvas bags, eaoh
containing one hundred thousand
marks, or twenty-five thousand dollars.
The massive iron door, closing the dom
icile of all this wealth, can only be
opened by the simultaneous action of two
keys, masterpieces of the locksmith’s
art, one of which is in the possession of
either commissioner. The exuct times
at which the door is unlocked and re
locked, as well as every circumstance,
however minute, connected with the
process of revision, are registered cn
the spot in a protocol signed by the offi
cials before leaving the fortress, and at
tested by the governor in person. Dur
ing the inspection the tower guards
are doubled ; at its conclusion the com
missioners turn their keys in the looks
at one and the same moment, are
escorted to the gates of the fortress,
and take their departure for Berlin,
leaving the infruotuose millions to dark
ness and Beclnsion for another year.
By contracting a severe cough and cold,
1 s-as compelled to give up my daily work and
keep to the house. A noigtibor recommended
mo to try a bottle of Dr. Bull's Gough Syrup
It was proonred and used ; to my astonishment
relief was instantaneous.
Edw. W. Chiton, Waverljr, Md,
WESTERN ATAGK ROBBER.
" Gentleman, Plcnse Climb Down”—A Rend
Agent With a Record.
There is in tho Detroit workhouso to
day a prisoner whose smile is as soft
and sweet as a woman’s, and the
stranger who meets him is instinctively
drawn toward him by his clear, bine
eye, soft voice and gentle smile. And
yet that very man is accounted the
shrewdest, sharpest and most “ nervy'
prisoner of the lot. The fact that two
officers rode over a thousand miles with
him handcuffed and shackled and con
stantly watohed is proof of the above
assertion. When they turned him over
at last to the custody of the superin
tendent, they left the following record
on the books:
“ Prisoner has been engaged in one
train robbery at least and in half a
dozen stage and highway robberies.
“Has broken jail throo times and
bears the soars of several wounds.
“Has the reputation of being a
shooter and a fighter; has killed at
least three men ; was a pal of Wild
Bill; is supposed to know all the lead
ing outlaws of the far West. Is sharp
and orafty and has great nervo. Look
out for him. Offense : Highway rob
bery.”
The “Smiler” has not yet exhibited
the slightest desire to see the outeido
walls of the workhouse, bnt is reported
as one of the most orderly and qniet
prisoners in the institution.
“ OKNTLKMRN, PLIASR CURB DOWN.”
The first Deadwood line stage robbed
was the work of a single'man, and if
that man was not tho prisoner we write
of then he has a twin brother. The
robbery occurred just at sunset six
miles from Deadwood. The stage con
tained seven men, all well armed. It
was just rounding a thicket when a
man stepped in front of the horses,
halted them, and quietly said to the
driver:
If yon pnll a line until I am
through I’ll send a ballet through yonr
head!”
This was accompanied by snoh a soft,
bland smile that the astonished driver
yelled hack:
“ Stop your fooling, or I’ll inn over
you 1”
THAT DBOUVINO SMILE.
But (he smile was deceiving. Up
oamo a navy revolver on lino with the
driver’s eye, and his teeth ohattered as
he loosened the reins and soothed the
horses. Yells and shouts were heard
inside the stage, but none of the pas
sengers suspected what was happening
until tho road agent palled open one
of the doors and called out:
Now, then, gentlemen, please climb
down I”
Who the deuce are you?” was
shouted at him by throe or four in
chorus, and his smile was honey itself
as ho answered:
I’ll introduce myself ilirootly.
Come, gouts—these shooters arc in a
hurry to hurt some one I”
Ho hacked off a few feet, a revolver
in either hand, aud the passengers be
gan climbing down.
Leave your arms in tho stage I"
shouted the “ Smiler.” “I’ll pop the
man who brings ont any sort of weapon
with him I Oome, now—sun’s going
down fast 1”
There were seven revolvers and three
Winchester rifles among the passengers
but that one man had the bulge on the
orowd. Men are half disarmed when
surprised. Coop them np in addition
to the surprise and plaok is gone. The
road-agent knows this, and the foot is
as good as half a dozen men behind
him. One by one the seven climbed
down and stood in a row, and as the last
man left the ooaoh the “Smiler” con
fronted the line and softly remarked:
“ I will now trouble you to deposit
yonr watches and money on the ground!’
With many a groan and ourse and
High the request was complied with.
Those who had walleth lost all; those
who had divided their money in dif
ferent pockets saved half. Two of the
seven had no watches to lose. After
the last man had “ deposited” the rob
ber pointed to the open door of the
stage and said:
It’s a tough country and I won’t
take your weapons. Please elimb in.”
As the last man mounted the step the
robber slipped behind the coach and
called to the driver to go on at a gal
lop, at the same time firing three bul
lets over the coach to start thing with a
rush. Half a mile away the coach
halted and the seven viotims jumped
down with their arms, but the “Smiler"
had disappeared with his booty.
Less than a month after the robbery
related above, the “ Smiler ” was half
asleep in a Caster City saloon when in
came a sharp known as “ Grizzly,” ao
companied by three or fonr men, whose
admiration for hjs brag and bluster
made them his backers. “Grizzly”
wanted to fight some one, bnt he
wanted to pick his man. When he saw
the “ Smiler” dozing away in his ohair
he thought he had discovered a “ ten-
dor-foot ” whom ho oould wallop. With
out a word of warning he advanced and
pulled the sleeper’s nose. The coft
mile came to the little man’s face as be
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per most be accompanied with the 4hll aslik af
the writer, not neoeeeirily for publication, bnt
ae a guarantee of good faith.
We are In no way rceponaible tor the rtotlgos
Indoiona of eorreepondente.
slowly rose-up, and his voioe was po
more than a whisper as he inquire^;
“ Stranger, did yon mean that ?" .
“You bet I" "
“Thenniob of this crowd as don’t
liko bullets had better git 1”
Three or fonr men rushed ont just as
the revolvers commenced to speak.
The “Smiler" was alone—the bally
had three backers. For three or fonr
minatea there was a oonstant pop! popl
of revolvers, and then two of “Grizzly’s”
friends rnshed ont and ran away, both
wounded. Those who rnshed in found
the bally down and severely wounded
and the other one Btone dead, while the
" Smiler ” was sitting on a bench re
loading one of his revolvers. Thirty
shots had been fired at him from a dis
tance of twelve feet,' and yet he had. re
oeived only one slight flesh wound.
One day as fonr men rode ont from
Julesbnrg, Col., they encountered a
smiling stranger, who made seyeral
inquiries regarding mines. They w;cre
giving him all possible information,
when he suddenly interrupted the con
versation with :
" Gentlemen, dismonnt and hold apt”
At the same time he coveted the
orowd with his shooters, and theta Was
no alternative bnt to yield. The crowd
left him over $1,600, hnt it was his. last
robbery. A large party were soon ‘on
bis trail, and after dodging them for
two or three days he was oaptnred find
given a sentence of ten years.—Detroit
fYee Press, m
A Remarkable Scene in Church.
At the opening of the Women’s Ra
tional Christian Temperance Union, at
Washington, on the motion of Mrs.
Foster, of Ohio, the mother of Miss
Willard was invited to the platform/ as
were also Miss Clara Barton, the
Florenoe Nightingale of America, and
Miss Snsan B. Anthony. After .the
latter appeared andtpok.her seat, a
scene followed suoh as is not often
seen in any convention. Miss Mor
rison, a delicate-looking lady, belong
ing to the Indiana delegation, rose in
her seat, and as she advanced toward
tho platform, said: “ I rise to a
question of privilege which I kfiow
yon will all grunt.” Ascending the
platform she said very earn
estly, “I want, in the presence of
thiB flag (referring to the stars nnd
stripes), which every breeze love? to
kiss, in the prosonco of this picture of
this great man (Garfield), who in the
proudest moment of his life turned
aside to kiss his mother and his Wife;
so in the presenoe of these throe wopon
(Miss Willard's mother, Miss fiartou
and MiBS Atilmuy), representing tho
motherhood, r. presenting all that is
angelic in womuu, and representing us,
to kiss Miss AutliQtij,” and suiting tho
aotion to tho word, Miss Morrison
pounced upon Miss Anthony, aud’ be
fore that lady was aware, bad plumped
a kiss on her month, which made a
smack ” that could he heard all over
tho church. ' >
Miss Williard, then rising, said she
did not know that the good women of
Illinois had brought their mothers with
them, hut they had brought her mother
here, and when tho Western delegation
stepped off the ears last night her mpther
was t here, and she bad been told that sho
was tho brightest of all of thorn. Her
mother, she said, was entering her
seventy-eighth year. Then, taking her
mother by the hand, Miss Willard said,
with a trembling lip and broken voice,
“Here is a dear heart that never failed
e.”
She then paid an eloquent tribute to
the sged mother that stood beside- her.
The scene in the chnroh was remarkable
—not an eye was dry, and many ladies
aotnally cried aloud at the touching
sceno. When Miss Willard had con
cluded, her aged mother, her voice
trembling with age and emotion, said:
Ladies of tho convention, l thank you
for the honor you have conferred upon
my dear daughter, and I thank yon for
the honors yon have paid me it inviting
mo to the platform.” She then kissed
her daughter, an act whioh sent a fresh
thrill of emotion through tho conven
tion.
The Food to Make Flesh.
In goneral we do not think health is
promoted by “taking thought’* tod much
about it. But on the other hand there
is no alvantage in ignorance. Here is
a hint from the Toledo Bl/itle; Sugar,
syrup, fresh chocs?, wheaten grits, hom ■
iny anl juicy meats are-the foods to
make flesh. Almost any Woman will
get plump on brown bread and whoaten
grits, or oatmeal twice a day, with meat
and plonty of .vegetables at breakfast
and dinner, and a supper of brown bis
cuits, cheese and oream, or coffee drank
with plenty of sugar and cream. It is
not necessary to look largely if the ap
petite does not call for it, but the food
must he tempting, and if the hunger is
keen, any one who would be plump and
spirited mnst not be afraid to indulgo
it. Uorelishing, distasteful food, though
it may be considered healthy, will not
nourish and stimulate like what is pi
quant and savory, and changed in vari
ety day by day. «Vi