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THE LUM PKIN IN DEPENDV LUMPKIK. GA;, I ? I EDI TORS. SATURDAY... -August 14tVf886^ Subscription and Advertise fnents due on demand unler. by special contract to the contrary. S PECIAL CLUB RATES. We offer the following Club Rates to scribers of The Indei’EXDest. The Independent find the Wesleyan tian Advocate one year for $3.00. pnee of the Advocate $2.00. The Independent and thf Christian one year for $#60 Regular price of the Ipdex $2.50.. Ths Independent and Southern Cultiva¬ tor and Dixie Farmer, ono year for $2.60. Postage free on all papers Editorial Brevities. Titfe man who has no opposition and enemies, has not force and inde¬ pendence of character enough to be worth anything to any community. It is a positive gain to hate the en¬ mity of some people. The peach crop in this section is ffio finest wo have had in several years. Mr. T. C. Patrick has some very fine varieties and is thoughtful enough to remember that an editor likes peaches. More strangers are seen in Lump¬ kin mow during any one week than during any year precoed ing the com¬ pletion of the A. P. & L. railroad. They all leavo somo money here which helps to build up the town. If it was not for fire aud flood, freshets and droughts, short crops and prices, bull*headed' kickers and croakeis, railroads could be built quickly, cheaply, and satisfactorily. But if we could overcome I be latter #e could easily bear with the others. Sh6uld tbo Gate City Guard, of Atlanta, conclude to make' their pro¬ posed trip to Paris next Summer, we would suggest that they go to Mexico first and smell a little gun¬ powder so as to make a more warlike appearance when they take their Furopean trip. ’ The hiss of the serpent in his eoil when ready to strike, is a dreadful sound; but it gives the honrer warn¬ ing'and'opportunity for escape. But the defaming andtraduciug hiss ofthe two logged serpen t’in some one else’s Sal’s is greatly more to be feared. «—■•• - — Ili'AMOiHr.ft that you cun bny a fine breech-loading' shot gun, single or double barrelled, ora breech loading rifle,at The Independent ofllco, cheap er than you cau get it from the tnan u a tuers You can got a Stevens, Remington, Pieper or Parker gun; and they aro known and guaranteed everywhere to bo first clas 3 guns, made of the best material, fiuely fin¬ ished aud in the iiadsomest stjles. It seems that the war-clouds on the Mexican frontier are dissolving. A tnrlis out that Cutting, about whonvso nmoh has been said, is a man of very little character, a vaiu— boasting, turbulent fellow, who vio lated faith with the Mexican authori¬ ties, and deserves the punishment imposed upon him by tho Mexican ceurt. He is full of libel, defamation and strife, and is not worth a small war, nor even a breach of good feel¬ ing between the two governments. . The President is determined that tho negro and the mugwump shall havo a showing in the distribution of offices. Mathews, the negro whom tho Senate failed to confirm as com miesioner of deeds for the District of Columbia, since the adjournment of Congress has been re appointed and commissioned by President Cleve¬ land. Mr. Hodden, collector of cus¬ toms for the port of New York, has been kicked out to make room for a mugwump from the interior of tho .State, Bovs who want to run. away from home and be tramps should warning at the experience of Frank Allen, of Lamar, Missouri. Frank was fourteen years old, had a rich father, a good home, some nice and a kind stepmother. But was too tame for Frank and a •go'be ran away with a tramp named George Hubbard, who told him he eould make lots of money in (be south. Frank came to the eunny south, lived the life of a tramp, pick¬ ed cotton at times, and was a very accomplished sort .of a vagabond. Hubbard kept the finances in hand, and is still keeping them. When he tired of the boy, be let him go. Later Frank was robbed by another 'friend’ and soon was taken sick at Memphis. Be grew so bod off that he expected to die. Then he had some one-write to bis father. The father went at once lo Memphis and took the re¬ pentant prodigal home. Tho Slcxloan XronTble. i Thera has been so mnch talk o# war witL Mexico lately tb*t a brfef .resume of the incidents that caused the complication of affairs between tho United States and Mexico may prove interesting to those of our readers who do not take the daily papers. A. K. Cutting is a resident of Pa6o del Norte, Mexico, and engaged in editing a weekly newspaper m that State. One Etnigdio Medina, also a resident of Paso del Norte, proposed to start another weekly paper in the same town. This gave offence to Cutting who denounced Medina as a fraud and saying that the Spanish newspaper which he proposed to is¬ sue was merely a scheme to swindle adtertisers, etc: For this offence Catting Was brought before a Mexi¬ can court for trial. Fearing to risk a trial,Cutting agreed to a settlement ! of the case which in Mestico to called a reconciliation, fjpon this being done the court dismissed the case and required Cutting to publish the fact in his paper. Cutting did make the publication and on the same day of the reconciliation Went across the Rio Grande to El Paso, Texas, and published tho following card in the El Paso Herald 1 . ADVERTISEMENT—A CARD. El Paso; Texas, June 28,1886!— To Enigdio Medina, of Paso del Norte: In a latd issue of El Ceuti nola, published in Paso del Norte, Mexico, I made tho assertion that Etnigdio Medina was a ‘fraud,’ and that the Spanish newspaper he pro¬ posed to issue in Paso del Norte was a scheme to swiudlo advertisers, etc. This morning said Medina’ took the matter to a Mexican court, when I wub forced to sign a ‘reconciliation.’ Now I do hereby reiterate my origi¬ nal assertion that said Emigdio Me¬ dina is a ‘fraud,’ and add‘dead-beat’ to the same. Also that his taking advantage of the Mexican law and forcing mo to a ‘reconciliation’ was contemptible and cowardly, and in keeping with the odorous reputation of said Etnigdio Medina. And should said Etnigdio Medina desire ‘Ameri¬ can’ satisfaction for this reiteration,I will bo pleased to grant him all he may desiro at uuy fiure and in uDy manner. A. K. Cutting. When Cutting returned to Paso del Norte he was again arrested and upon trial by the court was sentenc¬ ed to pay a fine of $600 nnd to be imprisoned for twelve months. Dur¬ ing tho progress of the trial Cutting claimed the protection of the United States authorities. Secretary Bayard has twice demanded his release, which the Mexican government has refused. Ho has been granted an appeal, however and bis case will go to the supremo Court. It is claimed in Mexico that Cutting was amenable to the laws of that country uuder tire constitution of Mexico and the inter¬ national treaty between Mexico and the United* States. The following press dispatch gives the latest plwae of the affair. El Paso, Tex., August 10.— Con¬ trary lo general expectations Cutting has not yet been taken to Chihuahua. The only visible change in his looks since his incarceration is a slight tinge of gray in his hair. He is en¬ joying good health, and since the extra allowance for his support has been made he manages to live very fairly. He takes his present predica¬ ment calmly,and has the utmost con¬ fidence that something will turn up to succor him. His theory is that diplomatic relations will cease, and, in that case, Mexico will back down. Sooner than go to war, it will grant him a pardon, he thinks. Outsiders do not take such a san¬ guine view of affairs. They say that Cutting is a doomed man. Should the Uuited States take the final step aud declare war, Cutting undoubted¬ ly will be the first man to bo put to the bayonet. Oa the other hand, if the government does not interfere and tho prisoner is compelled to serve out tho sentence imposed on him he will never live to see its ex¬ piration, ns no American can do tho work that will bo imposed on Cut¬ ting, cn the allows uce for food of five cents a day. That he will be par¬ doned is generally disbelieved, as the Mexicans have got their backs up. Ft. Worth, Texas, August 11,— The city was thrown into an intense state of excitement this evening by a rumor, how it started, no one knows to the effect that the Mexican troops in Paso del Norte had fired on the El Paso, killing three Americans. Groups of men gathered on the street discussing tho situation, all breathing a patriotic desire to shoul¬ der their guns and march against the 'greasers. ’ The war spirit is on tho iuerease in this city, and the news about the Cutting case is await¬ ed with tho greatest anxiety. Georgia Intelligence*. —Georgia Central Railroad Stock is'on a boom*. —There is a marked fmptovemeflt in crops throughout the State. —Morgan county has $114,105 more taxable property this year than last. —Tobe Jackson made a bold at tempt to break out of Fuhon jail on Tuesday night. *—There are at toast $100,000’wortlvof Dew buildings-in course of construo tion at New nan. —J. H. Purnell, of West Point, has shipped 8;000 crates of peaches to market this season. —Tobo Jackson, the CarteTsville dynamiter, has been sentenced to'the penitentiary for ten years. —Gold ifc said to have been found in a rich veih on a Methodist camp¬ ground in Warren county. —It is feared that the city marshal of Fairborn has-been lost in the high weeds that threaten to overrun the town; —Already $10,000 has been spent in trying to get Artesian water for Waynesboro, and- still there iff no water in sight. —A. A. Oarson esqt, of Butler, has been' appointed Solicitor General of tbo Chattahoochee Circuit to succeed Hon. T. W. Grimes, resigned. —The six cotton factories at Au¬ gusta which have locked out all em¬ ployees throw 2,73S people out of employment whose monthly wages amounts to $47,140'. —In the primary election in Sum¬ ter county last Saturday Hon. W. M. Hawkos was nominated for State Senate and Wright Bradv and E. G. Simmons esq, for the Legislature. —After tlie 26th of September the< ordinaries of each county in Georgia will be forwarded the necessary funds and a list of maimed soldiers who are entitled to receive money frortv the ( State. —There aro between fifty nnd sixty organizod military companies ill Georgia ready for service in case of war, tho total number of men in these compnities aggregating 2,289, of whom about 1,000 arc colored. —Capt. Tote Smith, of Albtthy, is a candidate for tho State ' Senate Capt. Smith was Hie oilly congress, man from Georgia who voted against the commission bill, under which Hr. Tilden was counted out of tho pres¬ idency. —Governor McDaniel has issued an executive order fixing tho State tax for the currrcnt year, which will bo three tenths of one per cent., and an addition At one huff of oue-tentb of one per cant, fur tho purpose of building tho State Capitol. Elborton, Ga., August 11—A ru¬ mor has obtained among the negroes in this county that war will be declar¬ ed with Mexico and that a draft for soldiers will be ordered by tho feder¬ al government. They are very mnch frightened and excited about it and are afraid to lenve tho county nudei any pretext thiuking that they will bo entrapped into- tho army. —Augusta, August 10'—The mills all dosed, to day as the Augusta factory hands did not return to work. The Knights of Labor are holding a large meeting with repieseutatives from other States offering aid. The master workman to night made an address counseling peace and good order during the lockout. Many oporativos are said to have left the city. There is no prospect of a set¬ tlement. —Filberton, Ga., August 11.—It is rumored that ‘blind tigers’ are nu¬ merous in Elborton, and efforts are beiug made*to broak them up. Three parties have been arrested and are now awaiting trial for selling whisky. Judge Lumpkm has ruled that the town authorities have no jurisdiction over the matter, and tho cases are consequently brougLt in the state courts. The defendants have de¬ manded a jury and will bo tried in tho county court. Much interest is mauifested by the people in the re¬ sult of the trials. —The Burke couuty colt exhibit on Tuosday last was a grand success Tho display would havo reflected credit ou any of the old stock raising oouuties of the country. There weru some thirty colts on the ground and many showed all the marks of high breeding. There are several stallious in and around Waynesboro of tlje best blood of the stock raisiog West. Tbe exhibit is ouly a side show of what will take place at the annual fair next November. Our people now see how easy it will be for them to raise their horsos, and we think they will find it much more remunerative than makiug cotton. There were several mule colts on the ground and one of them, belonging to Mr. Cry mes attracted the attention of every one on account of its splendid form aud being ulso unusually large for its age. General News Items — Ex-Governor Stephenson, of Kentucky, is dead. —Cutting fears that he will le assassinated by the Mexicans. —A British ship arrived at New Orleans quarantine on Tuesday with several cases of yellow fever onboard. —Galveston, Texas, received oi e hundred and thirteen bales of cotton of the new crop in ono day, recently. —Forest fires now raging in the northwest are doing great damage to the timber interests of that sec¬ tion. —Rollen M. Squire and Maurice :B. Flynn, two prominent Democrats of New York City, have been indict¬ ed by the Grand Jury which charges them with conspiracy to defraud the city government. Squire i6 Commis¬ sioner ot Public Wo:ks. —The forthcoming convention of anti saloon republicans at Chicago promises to be one of the most for¬ midable temperauce.reform gather¬ ings ever held in the country. Kan¬ sas alone will send thirty-six dele¬ gates, and it is expected that every state will be represented. —The suppression of tho saloon in Iowa has produced an extraordinary increase of slight maladies requiring alcoholic treatment, although the death rate of the State is uo higher than it was in tho golden ago of the dram-shop. A druggist in a town of 3,000 inhabitants filled eighty four liquor prescriptions'in one day; a d in ohe county with no large town 5, 000 piut3 were sold for medicine dur¬ ing tho month'of June. —Washington, August 11.—Ar railgeiheuts are being made at the Treasury Department for a large call of bonds in addition 'to the usual monthly call of four million dollars, to meet the requirements of the siiik iug fund. The exact date and amount of the cull have not boen determined. It will, however, be issued in a few days. Thg amount will be cither ton million or twelve million dollars, most probably ths former. — Washington,- August 10.—The President to duy appointed David Magone, of Ogdonsburg, N. Y., to be collector of customs fur tho port of Now York, vice Heddeu reraoveJ. Magone i s a lawyer by profession lie wtis one of the canal commission¬ ers under Governor Tilden, and wt a very prominent in tho investigat< n of tbo canid ring frauds. Ho was not an applicant for the collectorship and had not beeu pressed for the place. The President tendered him tho office some time ag°i and be made known bis acceptance yester¬ day. Tbo resignation of Colonel Hedden was received by tbo Pres¬ ident to day. It bears date August 7th. —Austin, August 11— Governor Ireland today issued the following proclamation for tbo relief of the drouth sufferers: ‘Whereas, it lias been made known to mo that on aeconut of tho unpre¬ cedented drouth which has prevailed in the counties of Brown, Coleman, Callahan, Eastland, Stephens and others contiguous, many families are suffering for the want of bread; now, therefore, I, John Ireland, governor, confidently call upon the people of the other sections to contribute to tbe relief of their distressed fellow citizens by forwarding without delay funds to the county judges of the several counties asking aid.’ —A mystery exists at near New Haven, Canuecticut, which may equal the noted Preller murder at St. Louis. Three brothers were strolling iu the woods Saturday, when their dog be¬ gan to whiue around a shoe box, which ho had found. The lid was taken from the box. Inside the men found the mutilated body of a man who had evidently beeu-dead two or three days. The head was not in the box with the body; the legs and arms were cut off iu as good shape as if it had been done by a -buteber, and the remains were wrapped iu tarred pa¬ per. Tho body was three quarters of a mile from any house. The wildest excitement prevails. There is do clue to the mystery. —Belfast, August 9 —During the riotiug which occurred here from Saturday evening to an early hour this morning, eleven peroons were killed aud 130seriously wounded. A majority of injured persons have shot wounds. The riotiug was renewed to-day and a fierce encounter took place between the soldiers and mob, in which a number were wounded. A soldier at close quarters fired at a boy shattering his hand. The sol¬ dier was arrested. Reinforcements of troops to the number of twelve hundred havo arrived-in Belfast to day. At noon the attempts to stop the riotiug have been and the violence of tbo mob it in ~6- •n.irir rioter. b„» wounded, xuo police Keep up h merciless fire upou tho mob. MAKING BIG PICTURES. Proces* of Fainting Panorama* of Battle Sente*. Now So Popular. The question is a natural one as to how these great panoramas aro made. Tills is about the p- ocess : A hexagonal building of brick is con¬ structed with dimensions generally about 150 feet in diameter and walls say 50 feet in length. A conical roof, with skylight a .d cupola, surmounts the walls. A canvas ot cotton cloth is then stretched inside the rough walls from groun 1 to roof, but protected from touching the walls by a wooden frame¬ work. which is so fitted to tire inequali¬ ties of the building as to leave a sym¬ metrical inside sur.ace on which the cloth is stretched. When complete there is a canvas, say 450 yards in length,by 50 in hoight, arid containing 2500 cubic yar's of cloth. This cloth is heavily sized with a heavy coating of glue and whiting, and over tins a prepared, coating of paint. The surface, thus is then ready for the artists. The d'rector-in-chiof on tho work of Shiloh, Second Bull Run and the light between tile Mondor and the Merrimac, wasunemi- eutartUt of Paris, thirteen lie brought skilled with him as co-laboreis artists, each of whom was an experr. They were the engaged fourteen already months named. in producing Their [ anoramas visit battle-iield habit is to the selected for a painting, and to spend five or six weeks in studying and sketching it. The fi"ld is divided off into two sec¬ tions, and each artist takes a section. He makes a sketch c f the surface of the ground, the trees, the fences, the buildings, and I he camera of the photo¬ grapher plays no insignificant part in this preliminary work. These sketches by sections are then ready for the can¬ vas. First of a 1 tho sky is painted in dur¬ able colors, then buildings, t:io landscape, then trees, foliage, etc. Then come tho artillery wagons, dismounted can¬ nons, broken muskets, and all the wreck which a great battle m ke i of the inani¬ mate machinery of war. Tiieii are painted the war horses in all colors and sizes and attitudes, living and dead. Some look as largo as elephants, and to the spectator out of all proportion to their appropriate tho size, but this is a necos-ity to lay foundation for tho perspective. Last all, (lie painters tho of creato human warriors. For this purpose the artists" ttiCmselves pose as models for each ot er—in a bayonet charge, in do fenso, in retreat, at rest, as wounded, as soldiers dying, ns dead. Tho models of all theso ou tho canvas were living bodies, but the faces on the bodies woro evolved from tlionrtista’ Inner conscious n sa, aud each face in form and expres¬ sion must differ from every other face. To enable all theso artists to work on the canvas at one time, a railway track is constructed upon which are placed movable stagings of different heights, so that all sections of tho work can bo reached. As each artist is unable to judge ac¬ curately, -when standing effect close of to tho can¬ and vas, of tlie proper his lights shader, the superintendent s anding on llio platform directs where the tho spectators little will stand, processes— a more red in such a spot, a little less brown in another, too much blue here, not enough of green there.■ Ho lights ids battle on canvas very much as the commandant of tho real subordinates. fougtit his, viz. through ordors to hia After tlie canvas has been completed, then com s the foreground—tho blend¬ ing of real earth and gr.vs, ,-v.d trees and rocks, ami straw-stacks and rail-fences with shadowy ones, and lie beginning and ending of each, so artistically done that tlie beholder can hardly distinguish the real from the imaginary line of separ¬ ation. All the arrangement of theso material objects are just as much tho work pf artists as tho strokes of tho brush upon the canvas. The foundation of that steep hill upon which is a firing tree and widu-spi ending branches, is a platform of hemlock boards with about two Indies of earth scattered on top. The roots of that tree aro in a wash tub underneath a wooden staging, and the moisture which keeps the tree alive goes into the tub underneath the staging, tlirough water puts. \\ hen tho foliage at last suc¬ cumbs from lack of sunlight and fresh air, as it will, sprays of aniline dye are showered upon tlie leaves, to make death look like life. i... Gold In Different ’ "" Ei.rras. Peculiarities in tho form of pold taken from mining districts often gave a name to tlie locality. Chunk Canyon, Slug Gulch and Specimen Ravine aro examples. A canyon in El Dorado county is called Siring of Canyon. This is said to bo on ac¬ count the very singular form of tho gold dust found iu that region. Much of It resembles pieces of wire, ono anti two inches in length, and some of it is as fine as thread. Observations of the form of their dust orten led miners to make very valuable discoveries. All gold, as is well known, originally came from quartz. In its natural stato in the quartz it is very ir¬ regular in form. Every rich ravine and canyon had a gold-bearing quartz vein, whose wearing away by tho elements had loosened the precious metal, to bo washed down by tho water among tho gravel and sand. When gold has been washed far from its source tho attrition causes it to be¬ come fino and smooth. As tho miner gold approaches the feeding quartz vein the becomes coarser and more scraggy till suddenly the pay gives out entirely. Then it is certain that a rich quartz ledge is in the vicinity, and in this manner veins have been struck that havo yielded many thousands of dollars in a few weeks. Gold dust buying in tho mining towns was ear!v a days very profitable business in tho of California. What was called black sand composed principally of iron, was always mingled to a greater or loss degree with the dust when it was brought to tho buyer. This had to be blown out. aitd often the finest particles of gold were blown out with it. Titus in an office where a largo quan¬ tity of dust was bought much of the fine gold wou'd bo scattered around the room. Tho dustings of a buyer’s coun¬ ter and sweepings of his floor were often worth hundreds of dollars a month. Sometimes tho buyers were suspected of cheating by in a more illegitimate manner while slyly appropriating some of tho gold examining they were shaking it around and it iu the blow-pans.—[San Francisco Post. -T- Why Horace Couldn’t Sit Down. “ Horace, why don’t you sit down? You’ve hour." been standing there for over an "Cawn’t sit down, Fweddie. Going to the rccept on, you know.” “Well, what of that? It's early yet.” Just had eweased, “ my twowsers Fweddie. Do you think I’ve got s-s-e softening of the bwain?”—[Life. Too Much ot „ SwM Jones: "How did you like your ****Z*?»1[ ^ disgusted wlth Jones: “ You surprise me; I thought ,%T Tht „ ™ such a heavy swell on, we all got sick.” —[Lowell Citizen. nGHTHTG OPF HYDROPHOBIA; i im.1. m ../n.t.r SSSpXrtS"'"" 81 * 50 "" It is the first case I liavc overheard o' a man's being able by mere will pow-i to throw off this formidable and terrible disease. The Oenet il apparently be 11 eves that hydrophobia is but a creation to a certain extent of the imagina ion. When he was a young man he wad Surveyor-General D in Southern California ring his residence there, tlirough the purchase of land, he laid the foundation for ids present fortune. II is favorite sport at that time was the hunting ot .wolves. The hunters would go out armed with lances and follow trained dogs. The dogs would run down the wolves. Im mediately following the attack one wolf would always leave the dogs and com* to attack the hunter. Tlie General said one day when a woll came towards the lance, with which he could easily keep ( ff a d destroy any wolf making an ordinary attack broke. As his Iiinceiirnkc he Started to lack the wolf under the jaw. His foot missed its aim, and Instead was caught in thf wolf’s mouth. The wolr bit clear through his mocca¬ sin and wound, d him severely. So grim was the grip of the wolf that he did not oven release his told when killed. The muscles supporting his jaws had to be cut before his teeth could be relaxed from his terrible grip. When the General lelurned lo camp as ho was alone during this experience, lie was met by a cheerful companion, who told him that the bite of an enraged wolf was certain to produeo hydropho¬ bia. The wolf was undoubtedly in a condition to communicate the rabies, as tie had been worried to a great extent by the dogs before lie attacked the General. General Beale says that he did not have any opportunity ot cauterizing the wounds, and had attached no particular importance to the bite until he had re¬ turned to camp. There was liarlly a day T passed but what his companion referred to cases of hydrophobia resulting from wolf bites. The result of this continued talk upon the subject was to produce a great de pression in General Beale's mind. Within a short time he began to feel sympion; of i.n approaching attack ol hydrophobia. He had the most exlra ordiua ry aversion to water. 11 was wit h difficulty swelling that he could swallow’. A came in his throat which threat¬ ened to close whenever lie sought to drink. It was only by an extraordinary effoi t of t* e will that he could force him¬ self to swaliow. One day the General said to himseli that unless he combated this growing feeling he felt certain he would have an attack of hydrophobia. So one morning ho walked dcliliuintoly to a spring and thrust his head into the water. He said as he approached his head to the wa et h j felt the most intense desire to jump and scream mi l run away from it. But he held himself right there and moved his head up and down in the water until he conquered this impulse and aversion. lie followed up this practice until lie felt the swelling in his throat g. ing down and hi < aversion to water lessen¬ ing. He fel that ho was getting control and this encouraged him. In a short time all symptoms of the disease had disappeared. The General was firmly convinced that If ho iiad for one moment relaxed his will power during that trying time he would have passed directly into a fit of the Ho wildes has kind of hydrophobia. never suffered from the bite of the wolf since that time, although it oc :urrel over twenty-five years ago.— IN. V. World. *■ IIow a Man line. Shopping. “ You had better put them down on a piece of paper,” said Mrs. S. on giving her first < rder. ‘ Oh, no,” said Mr. S.’, “ my memory is S°°d- Well, “ then, a spool of CO Coa'.cs’ black thread.” “Yes." “ A yard of not too light and not too dark calico.’’ “ Yes.” “ A small hammer, a can of peaches of tho I’a.ssadena -brand, a dozen small peail buttons, two yards of cardinal rib¬ bon, silk on one side, satin on the other.” •' Yes,” said Mr. S.. thoughtfully. lemons, " A pair of slippers for baby, a dozen ouiiees a good sky-blue tooth-brush, a pineapple, two of German yarn, an ounce vial of homeopathic nux vomica pellets, a-” “ Wait a second,” said Mr. S., count¬ ing Ids fingers. bottle •’ And a of vanilla extract and a yard of triple box-plaited eropo Iisse rueh'ngand three yaids of small-checked nainsook and——” But Mr. !S. had seized his hat and was running What for the station. the poor man brought home was a yard of bed-ticking, three yards of black crepe; a bottle of vinegar, eight yards of nankeen, a scrub brush, a pound of green yarn, sixly spools of coat thread, a yard of very black calico and a pint bottle of homeopathic pills. “ There, my dear," throwing down his package triumphantly, “ I don’t think you'll find a thing missing. Who says a man can’t do shopping?” -- A Change of ’Coon*. A negro, with an axe in Ills hands, stood beside the highway skirting a Mississippi swamp, and as wo came up he said: ’’ Gem'len, he run'd right up dat ar’ gum-tree.” •• What did?” “A 'coon, sah. If you has got pistols mobbe you kin fotcli him down fur me. De. family am powerful hard up fur meat jlst now." Wo dismounted and took a survey. An animal of some sort could bo dimly made out hugging a limb high up. We popped damage, away, but without doing any and, as it moved along the limb, the Colonel observed: “That may be a ’coon, but I don't be¬ lieve it. I d sooner think it was a ’pos¬ sum.” ” Hu! but if dat ain’t a ’coon you kin call dis vhil > crazy!” replied the man. We rode away leaving him to chop the tree down. It was about three hours before we returned, and then we found him seated on the fallen trunk. Begin¬ ning at tho his top ankle of his head and extend¬ ing to hones were bloody anil scratches. His ga'ments were rent tattered, his hands were covered with blood, and he was trying to bind some leaves on a bad wound on his left arm. "For the land’s sake, but did the tree fall on you I" exclaimed tho Colonel. "No, sah; I warfell on by de anamiie.” “Which was lb—a ’coon or a'possum?” " Neither one. sah; it happened ter be a wiid-eat!”—(Detroit Free Press. _ -♦.«- — ....... . SCANDAL. A whisper soft broke the air, A light tone, and low, Yet barbed with shame and woe; f Now, might it only perish there, Nor further go! Ah me! a quick and eager ear Caught Another up the little meaning sound! voice has breathed It clear; And It so wandered round, From ear to lip, from lip to ear, Until it reached a gentle hoart. And that— it broke. —[Landon. UU JB F #\ MM Iwl t mm mm IM w ttasrssemsttrttses BROWNS—. ’ tg&S&h @a|H| 9 hB M eBt IK SSrSlk jgHaSqi Ml fgflrag ' H9 BB ^ Bf /aWc'T'N ^TTTtNv^ /^/ —B iv 1 - ^ ( ' Jjjos* I (Jj A ^ -'v/rtitM^V’ *<& EL M a H jjaMggg *$S“ j@[" B”. 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