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Albany weekly herald: saturdw, june as, iSv*.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETING
IB SITUATION IN TUB SBUONO
DISTRICT DISCUSSED.
Drutscrnla Called Upaa 1a Scad Trae
and Tried Urn lo Ike Ceaprenf
ieaal Ceareallea.
TIIltBE STORIES.
The Dougherty County Deinocratlo
Club had a lively meeting at the Court
House last night.
The principal object of the meeting
was to talk over the situation in the
Second Congressional district. This
was done, and some ringing speeohes
were made.
Several Alllancemen were present,
and when the Alliance was assailed by
some of the speakers that organization
was not without defenders.
When this meeting of the club was
called it was thought that a new Con
gressional candidate would be in the
field whom the club would want to in
dorse, but the expected candidate was
not forthcoming, and the evening was
spent In speech making.
The debate between those who stood
for the action eff the Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee at its last meeting
held in this city and the Alliance was
lively, but there was no bad blood
shown.
The following resolution, offered by
Capt. Hobbs, was unanimously adopted,
after which the meeting adjourned:
Resolved, That the President and
Secretary of this club are directed to
prepare an address to the organized
Democracy of this Congressional dis
trict to thoroughly canvass their sev
eral counties, and tosecureat the meet
ings and primaries to be held on SOtli
July next good and true men, Demo-
cats of undoubted standing, to rep
resent their counties at the convention
to be held here on the 17th of August
next, when a Demoorat, true and tried,
will be selected by them to carry the
banner of Democracy to Washington,
the home of our Fathers. Dougherty
will do her duty.
There is no excuse for newspaper
exaggeration anil falsification when the
simple truth would do as well.
WiTniN the last three years 5,000
people have lost their lives in Penn
sylvania througii Imperfect dams.
The only deaf inute military com
pany in the world is now the leading
attraction at the Illinois Institute for
Deaf Mutes at Jacksonville, III. The
work performed by this silent com-
pany is simply wonderful. Their leader
is neither deaf nor mute, and he has
invented a code of signs representing
the orders given in the marching,
drill, and mnimal of arms. The cadets
never turn tlielr heads, but maintain
a true soldierly bearing, and when any
of them are so situated that they can’t
see the Captain, the order Is repented
quick as a final).
Havikq secured the abolition of
dance music on Sunday in the public
parks nnd the closing of art galleries
on that day of rest, the London cru
saders against vice have undertaken to
suppress betting in all its forms. A
bill looking to that end is actually be
fore Parliament, with debnte Immi
nent. Many people believe that almost
anything can be accomplished by
means of statutory enactments; but
the Philadelphia Record remarks that
this proposed law would be a gen
uine curiosity in moral reform if by
any chance it should get on the statute
books of the United Kingdom. Through
ail ages and in all lands attempts have
been repeatedly made to put down the
spirit that lends men lo take chances
of loss or gain for amusement; but
without success. The London de
votees of morality pure and undeflled
piny have better luck.
A percussion match lylpg on the
walk in the streets of a Northern oity,
the olick of the heel of a dainty shoe
upon it, the trailing of a silken skirt
over it, and the result—a fair form
lying blackened and burned almost be
yond recognition. Such is the tale of
somebody’s carelessness, or the result
of some boy’s mlschevous scattering of
percussion matohes on the walk to see
the start and fright of the person who
ignites one by stepping on it.
Women are surely, if gradually,
forging to the front in journalistic
circles in Georgia. The newspapers of
the State find employment for a large
corps of female writers, many of whom
are gaining distinction by the pen,
Aside from these, there are three pa-
pers in Georgia which are edited under
the iolnt management of husband and
wife—the Columbus Evening Ledger,
controlled and edited by Mr. and Mrs,
Byington; the Americus Recorder,
edited by Mr, and Mrs. Bascom My,
rick, and the Wavcross Herald, of
which Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Reid are
proprietors and editors. The Carnes-
ville Tribune has a young lady at the
helm—Miss Ellen Dortch, owner and
editress, and Mrs. Loll.ie Belle Wylie
was, a short time ago, proprietress and
editress of “Society,” published in At
lanta.
Facia.
The population of the United States
increases by 1,000,000 persons yearly.
In proportion to its size England
has eight times bb many miles oi rail-
' ways as the United States.
The theaters in London regularly
employ over 12,000 people.
Queen Victoria's chief cook receives
$8^00 a year.
St. Petersburg is the coldest capital
in Europe.
It Is the fashion now to speak of
“optimists” and “pessimists.” The dis
tinction Itself, says Youth’s Com
panion, is nothing new, as there have
nlways been two olasses of people—
those who look on the bright side of
things, and those who look on the
dark side—but the words have no
doubt puzzled some readers.
One man, a learned farmer, we may
suppose, defines an optimist as a per
son who believes that all eggs will
hatch. An exohange reports a dia
logue overheard in a barber shop:
“Do you ever study the faces of the
customers here?” said one man.
“Yes,”
“Well, did you ever try to distln-
f ruisli the pessimistic from the optim-
stlof”
“Yes; and there is little difficulty in
doing It.”
“Indeed!’’
“Yes; the pessimist is the man who
is waiting for six other customers to
be shaved, and the optimist Is the one
distinguished by the appellation of
‘next.’’’
lu OrI|la.
Any one who thinks that the Eng
lish language is musical nnd easy to be
pronounced because it is the one to
which his ear and tongue are most no-
customed, and who hears, when Ger
man is pronounced, only its harshness
and Its gutturuls, will appreciate the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon’s account of the
origin of Germnn.
“Do you know,” asked he of a friend,
one day, “how the German language
originated?”
“No,” was the reply.
“Well," said the preacher, “1 do.
There were two workmen at the Tower
of Babel, one standing above the other.
The uppermost one accidentally threw
some mortar from his trowel into the
mouth of the lower one, and he began
to Bputter with the mortar in his inoiith.
The sound is now known as German 1”
••Ba B* Bn Bb."
In the Chlneso language the same
word may be given several different
meanings by the modulation of the
voioe. The same thing may happen to
the English “yes,” wliloh may be pro
nounced so as to mean “I assent to
that." or “I am doubtful,” or “Indeed I"
Prof. Max Muller, In his “Leotures on
tlie Science of Language,” gives an
amusing illustration of these modula
tions in the Annamitio language, a
monosyllable tongue spoken by the
people of Tonquin and Cochin China.
In this language the syllable “ba”
pronounced with a grave accent, means
a lady, an ancestor. Pronounced with
the sharp accent, it means the favorite
of a prince. Pronounced with the
semi-grata accent, it means what has
been thrown away. Pronounced with
the grave circumflex, It means what is
left of a fruit after the juice has been
squeezed out. Pronounced with no
accent, it means three. Pronounced
with the ascending or Interrogation
aocent, it means a box on the ear.
Thus “Ba ba ba ba” is said to mean,
If properly pronounced, “Three Indies
[ave a box on the ear to the favorite of
lie prince^]
Clark Howell, of the Atlanta Con
stitution, and Hoke Smith, of the Jour
nal, were rival candidates for the
honor of representing Georgia on the
National Democratic Committee for
the next four years. The delegation
to the national convention makes the
selection, nnd on Monday morning
Clark Ilowell was elected. Now Mr.
Smith claims that lie withdrew from
the raoe and let Mr. Howell get the
honor to “conciliate" him and other
anti-Cleveland men on the Georgia
delegation; but the Constitution of
yesterday prints a long story about it
sent by its “special Chlcngo wire,” and
tlie special is headed, “Iloke Smith’s
Fall—Clark Howell Runs Him Out of
the Race.” According to the Consti
tution’s special, Smith saw that he was
beaten nnd then withdrew, living
Howell a walk-over; while Smith gave
out an interview to the Associated
Press in wliloh be makes It appear that
he could have had the place but gave it
to Howell tooonolllate him. It mat
ters not which one of these stories is
the correct one—presuming that both
of them oan't be entirely correct—one
disgusting faot is very apparent, and
that is that the rivalry between the
Constitution and the Journal has been
carried to such an extent that a petty
jealousy between the managing editor
of the one and the chief of the other
has forced itself to the front at a time
and under circumstances that—well, it
looks bad in company.
HENRY WATTBRNON CREATES A
SUMMATION.
Hs Om Bed Last Night Agnln.i
Clerelnad.
Chicago Telegram to the Atlanta Constitution.
Chicago, June 21.—Henry Watter-
son is a source of many surprises, and
to-day was not permitted to pass with
out a Wattersonian sensation.
When the Kentuoky delegation as
sembled this morning they were in
formed by the brilliant Kentuckian
that he must deollne absolutely to
serve as Kentucky’s representative on
the committee on resolutions and pint-
form, and so another man, James Mc
Kenzie, was named for the plnce.
Watterson, when approached by an
Associated Press reporter for an ex
planation of his notion, made the fol
lowing exptnnntion:
“I have for some time regarded the
nomination of Cleveland as assured.
If he is nominated, he and his ante
cedents will be a platform in them
selves. His annual message of 1887 in
the matter of the tariff, his silver letter
of 1891, with his many utterances upon
the anti-coinage side of the silver con
troversy, will constitute In reality the
Issues on which the campaign will
have to be fought out to square the
ticket with his record, and make the
situation logical.
“But with iny well known opposi
tion to the nomination of Cleveland, If
I should go upon the platform com
mittee and urge such a course, I should
be at once characterized by the free-
coinage Cleveland men with the pur
pose to make trouble by my extremism,
while, on the other hand, if I should
propose n free-coinage plank or strad
die, .1 should be onarged by Cleve
land’s Eastern supporters with the
purpose to handicap his eleotlon in
advance. Taking either horn of tlie
dilemma I should be suspected and
distrusted In the beginning, to be
made in the end, in the event of disas
ter, answerable for a result I am pow
erless to Influence or control. In other
words, I should be required to nssume
rave responsibilities without the con
dense and support of the gentlemen
immediately back of Cleveland. I felt
myself under no obligations to take
any false position, anu so I refused
to.”
I.EPRONY.
A Norwegian by the name of Ed.
Also‘n, died at Northfleld, Minn., on
Friday last of old-fashioned leprosy.
The papers say that the oorpse was a
most horrible sight, the flesh all drop
ping off the bones. Alson had been
hardware merohant in Northfleld for
over 20 years. To read of a death from
leprosy in the midst of a community in
one's own oountry Is shocking. And
the loathsome disease must have been
eommunloated toothers in that oommu
nity for it is communicated so eaiily.
The slow but steady spread iff leprosy
is fearful to contemplate and the com
munity that finds a leper in its midst
and does not at once shut off the vic
tim of the disease from all contact with
his fellow men is guilty of n most hid
eous orimo.
ABB THEY UBABYt
UNDERSTOOD POLITICAL ECONOMY. | 'WINNING' A WIDOW.
It T«kN » Woman to Sehsms,” 8h«
Sold* M Sh« Hoard Dim Snore.
When Fitaboodle came home that
night he sunk into a chair and said:
“Maria, I have lost my job.”
“Is it possible?" exclaimed the woman.
“It is, Maria, and with only ten dol
lars in cash things look pretty black.”
Yes," said the woman vaguely.
It is the ten dollars I gave you this
morning, Maria; you know I told yon at
the time it was all I had In the world.
You are so good to me. Maria; you keep
my money so well."
“Yes,” she said feebly.
“I feel dreadful," he went on. “Do
you know, as I passed the grocer’s he
glared at me liko mad. We owe him
thirteen dollars, and hare promised to
settle eleven times now."
"Oh, that’s all right," said the woman,
brightening. "Why, whoa I was in
there at 5 o'clock he smiled and was so
pleasant sugar wouldn't melt in his
mouth. He told me to order a big bill
of goods at auy time."
"You are crazy, Marini And then the
doctor. Why, I ran plump into him as
I turned the corner; he shot me a savage
liglk as much as to say, ‘Humph, I think
it is about time you cashed upt' Mavis.
I am a ruined man!"
“Oh, no, Charlie. Why, when I met
the dootor on the avenue at 8 o'clock he
bowed like a prince and oame over and
shook my hand and said I never looked
more charming in my life. I am sure
we can stand him off another three
months."
“You are clean mad, Maria. And
then the landlord. How he snapped his
teeth as I passed him in the hall leading
to this fiat only a few moments ago.”
“Why, if you mean dear Mr. Trotter,
the owner of the property, why, my
dear fellow, he is as sweet and good as
you could wish. Why, this afterhoon
he came in and said he would get us
new curtains, fix up the cellar, repaper
the halls and fix tho plumbing in the
kitchen. We can hold him off half the
summer, I believe."
“You are clean crazy, woman! I never
heard of such a thing. Give me that
ten dollars till I go down and give half
to the grocer and half'—
“I—I haven't it!"
“What?" i
“I-I spent it."
“Spent it? How dare yon? And the
lost money I had in this world.”
“Oh, oheer up, Charlie. I took the
ten dollars and bought that lovely new
hat you promised me. I wore it out on
the avenue all afternoon. Everybody
who saw me saidi ‘My stars! why, old
Fitaboodle must be making lota of cash,
for U there isn't bis wife all togged out
in tho latest millinery, with gloves to
matohl’ The effeot was like a charm,
Charlie. I knew you had lost your
i, and I did it as an act of polioy.
ien I called on the tradespeople they
all noted the same as the people on the
avenue. Now go to bed, dear, and never
again say I do not know all' about po
litical economy P
"Never,” he said, falling into Mr arms.
“Oh, it takes a woman to scheme!”
she ejaculated, as she heard him snoring
half on hour later.—New York Recorder.
The total Inoome of the Church of
England is about $1,000,000 a week.
Chicago now has on exhibition a
cycloramio view of the Chioago fire.
She was bound to get that fire on ex
hibition, somehow, someway, for the
World’s Fair.
Adamston, Va., toasts of a sure
enough haunted house, and the town
is considerably exercised over the
presence, or supposed presence, of un
earthly visitors. The house has been
unoccupied for years, but every night
it is brilliantly lighted from top to
bottom and sounds of violin and banjo
music and of dancing feet are plainly
heard. Doubtless the papers, ere long,
will chronicle the capture of a gang of
desperadoes in the vicinity of Adams
ton.
At 11 o'clock Monday night all the
anti-Cleveland people at Chicago ex
cept the Tammanyites had acknowl
edged their defeat. Such men as Car
lisle, Brice and Gorman said they con
sidered the contest, at an end, but
Lieut.-Gov. Sbeban, of New York,
said: “These other people may have
given it up, but New York has not and
will not. I believe we can defeat Mr.
Cleveland yet. We will manage the
campaign now and you will see some
developments to-morrow.”
From tho Atlanta Herald.'
It really looks like some of the Third
Party advocates have lost their heads.
The party in convention at St. Louis
adopted as a plank In the platform the
following:
We demand that the government
Issue legal tender notes and pay Union
soldiers the difference between the
price of the depredated money in
which he was paid and gold.
This would be an infamous back-pay
steal, and its adoption, praotloally
without protest, shows a total lack of
manhood on the part of the Southern
delegates who were at the convention.
But see this:
Tamely submitting to aproposltlon
like the above the Southern advocates
turn and smite their own comrades,
thinking, no doubt, to pleaso the
Northwestern Third Fartyites.
.The Thomasville Times prints the
fallowing resolution passed by the
People’s Party at Moultrie:
Resolved, That we condemn the res
olution introduced by Gen. John B.
Gordon at the United Confederate
Veterans’ Association, held at New
Orleans, memorializing the fifteen
Southern States to pass laws to appro-
S riate $500 eaoh as a pension to Mrs.
efferson Davis, which Is an act of in
justice to the over burdened tax pay
ers of the South.
It seems incredible that Southern
men could utter such a fling at the
widow of Jefferson Davis and at the
same time be silent in the face of the
pension plank of the St. Louis plat
form.
He la Trn Smart far Them.
The little yellow flee, well known In
Albany as the policemen's dog, seems
to bear a charmed life. Said a well
known officer to a reporter of the Her
ald the other day:
“Our little yellow flee dog has got
sense just like folks. A number of
times persons have tried to shoot, cut
and poison him, but he’s still in the
ring. One person shot him sure
enough, but he got over it in a short
while. And now they are trying to
poison him, and there is no telling
how many dogs have been killed by
prepared food intended for our little
flee. Some one threw a piece of meat
in the yard to him the other day, but
he just smelled it, cocked up one ear
and walked off.
“They’ll keep on, but mark me, he is
too smart to eat any poisoned grub.”
A Strange Animal.
A useful South American animal is
the kinkajou, which, as the dictionary
will tell you, is a prooyonlform quad
ruped with a protnislle tongue and a
prehensile tail. Under ordinary circum
stances if you ware to meet a kinkajou
in the street you would look for on Ital
ian with a hand organ, though I should
be inclined to look for a policeman, be
cause I know how unpleasant tba ani
mal can be, particularly in the fruit
season, for the kinkajou loves fruit and
eats all he can find. The chief roe
for asserting that the kinkajou is useful
is that in addition to his fondness for
fruit he has a great liking for insects for
lunoh, and when tamed is a valuable
assistance in southern homes, where fly
paper is unknown and where a mosquito
net is more expensive than a silk dices.
It has always seemed strange to me
that some enterprising person hss not
imported a few thousand of thcae Insect
eaten from South America for use hi
North American summer hotels. They
could not coat more than $100 a dozen,
and many people wonld rather pay that
amount than spend the night with a
swarm of mosquitoes and unprovided
with means of defense against them.—
Harper's Young People.
A Competent Teaohsr.
The London Times once contained an
advertisement for an assistant "capable
of teaching the classics as far as Homer
and Virgil.” Among the answers re
ceived was this delightful speebnen:
“Sir—With reference to the advertise
ment which was inserted in The Times
newspaper a few days since respecting a
Bchotfc assistant, I beg to state that I
should he happy to fill that situation;
but as most of my friends reside in Lou
don, and not knowing how far Homer
and Virgil is from town, I beg to state
that I should not like to engage to teach
the classics farther than Hammersmith
or Turaham Green, or at the very ut
most distance farther than Brentford
Awaiting your reply, I am sir, etc."
The HlfhlMl Pipers.
The Highland pipers have always been
noted for bravery in notion. At Porto
Novo the Seventy-first's piper played
with euch good will that Sir Eyre Coots
called out, "Well done, my brave fel
low; you shall have a pair of silver pipes
for thisl” At Vlmiero a piper unable to
walk coolly sat down and played, “Up
and war them a', Willie,” for which the
Highland society afterward presented
him with a set of pipes.—CorahiU Maga
zine.
Whan PcpalaMea Is Densest.
The denest population of the earth-
over 400 to the square mile—is confined
to Java, China, Japan, northeastern and
southwestern portions Of India, England,
parts of France and Belgium, the Nile
valley, Italy, Portugal, a small strip of
Germany and a small section In the
vicinity of New York and Bos ton.-r
Obinam
TO THK DISTRICT CON
And Net te Tfbce Is IVh.rr Her.
EVERYBODY WAS AT THE WEDDING
EXCEPT MISS BECKETT.
A Story of » Village Courtship from In
diana—Tha Wedding Kxclted a Deal of
Interest Baeaufte the Groom Was an
Uadartakor* Who Had Burled Many.
Undertaker Samuel Pavey and Mrs.
Sarah Milliken, who has been known In
Aristotle, Ind., for twenty-five years as
Achilles or Kill Milliken's widow, were
married rocently in the presence of
everybody in this village except old Miss
Beckett. Miss-Beokett would have been
present if she had not loft her sick
bed last week to call on Mrs. Milliken
and inquire into the particulars of the
engagement. After this imprudence Bhe
hod a rolapse and has been unable to
leave her bed. She was propped up at
the window all the afternoon, however,
and saw everybody that went in or out
of church.
Undertaker Pavey has buried all of
the dead here for tho poet sixty years.
He is now a tall, thin man, with close
cropped white hair and smooth shaven
face, and always dresses in black, as be
comes an nndortaker. Only the oldest
oitiiens can remember when he looked
any different from the way he looks
now. His wife died forty years ago,
and he has kept ehy of all maidens and
widows ever since. Years ago ho was
abandoned by the moat pereietent match
makers as a hopeless caso.
The widow of Kill Milliken is an esti
mable lady, a great maker of cakes for
theohurch festivals and clover at oro-
chetlng worsted tidies, with a large
somber of whioh the chairs and the sofa
in her front parlor are adorned. As
there has been a good deal of curiosity
about her engagement and marriage,
(he hoe consented to a pnbllo statement.
She is a short, fat woman, with hair of
a peculiar shade of yellow, whioh she
got by using the hair dye which was ad
vertised extensively in connection with
her picture and letter of recommenda
tion. She says that Mr. Pavey had never
shown any eigne of preference for her
whatever, nor had she thought of him
oa the successor of Kill until ten days
before the marriage.
.About that time be knocked at her
front door at half past 11 in the morn
ing. It woe a Wednesday and the
ldow Milliken was deep in the dongh,
as that is baking day through this whole
town. Bhe looked out through the
blinds of the window next the front
door and saw who it was. As she had
known Mr. Pavey so many years she
ust wiped the flour off her hands upon
ier apron and opened the door.
Mr. Pavey went Into the parlor and
sat down in the caneseat rocker with
the green wonted tidy with bine rib-
hone through it. He set his t*U hst
carefully on the floor beside him and
then laid:
“Good morning, Sarah Milliken.”
“Good morning, Mr. Pavey,” laid Mre.
Milliken. She .said that she accented
the Mr. so that. Mr. Pavey might under
stand that ehe had noticed his not call
ing her Mrs. Milliken, as he was accus
tomed to do. Mn. Milliken also says
that she bad a sort of premonition that
something was coming.
“It can't be that the Gompen girl is
dead?" she said anxiously. '
“No,” said Mr. Pavey. "Bat life is
uncertain, Sarah Milliken,”
“No one shottid know that better than
you, Samnel Pavey,” said the widow
with one of her ely laughs.
Bnt Mr. Pavey did not langh as he
went on:
“Sarah, yon are getting along in
years. Yon will soon he in need of my
services.”
“1 haven’t even sent for the dootor
yet, and I won't need yon till he's done
with me,” said the wtdow, bridling and
poating.
“Do yon remember the first Mrs.
Pavey?" said the undertaker, paying no
attention to her and punning his own
gloomy reflections.
“I was a little girl when she died,'
■aid Mrs, Milliken.
"Yes," said Mr. Pavey, "yon had jast
married the late Mr. Milliken five years
before. Yon remember that she had the
beet funeral this town ever saw, not ex-
old Captain Lander’s funeral,
:h cost five dollan, os I should know,
if anybody. As I said, Sarah, yon ore
Iv
A few days ago the Hkhal
misled by Information obtained .
member of the Methodist
stated that the Rev. W. J. Bo
had gone to Tybee to take tlie v
that had been given him by Ills ch
Instead of goingto Tybee, Mr.!
eon went to the district bonfereB
Cairo, as will be seen by tlie folio
osrd, wliloh we take pleasure in
llshlng:
Mr. Editor : Please mention
people that I have not been, nor
now at Tybee, recuperating, as
paper announced a any <tr two
returned this morning from
where I hnve been attending t h
trlct conference, and whore I I
enough work Ih the slmpo of re
speeohes and sermons to entertnl
keep me entirely busy. I am no
home, and will remain at home
next week, when I will emb
nloe ohsnee my ohuroh has gl
to rest a oouple of weeks. I n
to do anything I can to help
to find life a pleasant thing.
I am with you again, and trus
bo more useful then ever.
Wm. J. Rohe i.
Vw the Cmfeamte Illwnuirui
Mrs. Dr. W. L. Davis Is pr,
an entertainment, to be given
near future, for the benefit of l h
federate monument land.
The main feature of tho
ment Is to be an internatlo
drill by thlrty-threemisscs, i
Ing eight different nations. T
ladies met for drill this sftern
the first time.
The entertainment Is to be gi
Willingham’s Hall, and
hopes to have it ready f
tton by the latter part of no
Is IT not s lltlle strango that In r
convention “no Southern tnsn
Thoresro Democratic atatoiimm In
tho peer of sny In the North, Non
puts that. Why should Oormnn, -
IlrocUnridge, and Carlisle be t
such men as Doles, and Painter, and
ltiuucll are tnitdo prominent? Is tho
the great sectlonnl party?—Chi-
Ocean.
No; the Democratic la not
neotlonal party, but tho
party Is, and the Democrats,
South, dn!ro not give It a
national-politics, to raise it
seotlonal bate. If any
were given prominence in
convention such rabid
journals as the Inter C
quick to raise a howl,
onoe begin to sniff powd
stone and assume an stti
over the lmnglnatlvos
South In the saddle."
“there are Democratic t
South tho peers of any
bat thoy arc Intln
back by the prejudices
all of which the Intor i
understands.
At Mt. Vernon,
eleotlon for two memb
board was held, and
Plummer and Mrs. M
in opposition to Me
Yost. Two hundred i
of the votes were cast
ladies were elected
weeks when the g
the eleotlon, The
agreed statement of
question of tho right <
to bo passed, and It w
were not entitled to I
that Yost and Wall
and entitled to hold
will be appealed to l
and will probably m
on until Novcmt
be watched with
■I!
t writlni
getting old. If yon marry me I will do
as wall by the second Mrs. Pavey as I
did by the fint."
“Yon always wonld have your joke,
Sam,” said the widow. “What will
verybody sny?"
“We are'
n« are both getting old,” said Mr.
Pavey, still paying no attention to what
the widow was saying. “Life ii uncer
tain. There is no time to lose."
So Mrs. Milliken said, “All right,
Samnel; whenever you eay.l’
“Ten days is longo enough. I'll
the pastor this afternoon.”
en they shook hands, and Mr. Pa
vey put on his hat and went away, look
ing quite gay and chipper aa soon as the
door closed on him, for die did not know
that Mrs. Milliken was watching him
through the blinds. Two minutes after
word she had called Mrs, Meek, her
next door neighbor, to the bock fence
and bad told her all about it. Ten min
utes afterward by the dock on the eourt
bouse Mrs. Meek, having left her bakery
in charge of her daughter Lizzie, had
en her bonnet and shawl and was bear
ing down the street, telling everybody
she mot.—Cor. New York Son.
At the present 1
the Demooratio eonventl
is going to take the
land ratification i
Wlifsiilfi I
When Mr. Frederic
was traveling in Nort
years ago, he came to a «
Ing this inscription;
TOEIir
He knew that Ellz
that direction, nnd so \
out the meaning of
Eliza-Bethtown, 101
Arne led f.r 1
This morning
rested John Rainy, a
seventeen years old, a
the county jail on i
lary.
Last night Rainy !
the railroad cabins on t
road about six mi!
and stole a good
railroad checks, clo
trinkets. He had his ;i
had made a large
ready to take nwn
Walker, the seotlon b
door on him, and took 1
He was brought
warrant sworn out c
burglary.
Mowing Band Hills.
In the arid lands of central Asia the
air is reported as often laden with fine
detritus, which drifts like enow around
conspicuous objects and tends to bury
them in a dustdrif t. Even when there
Is no apparent wind the air is described ^
as thick with fine dust, and a yellow
sediment covers everything. In Khotan
this dust sometimes. so obscures the sun
that at midday one cannot see to read
fine print without a lamp. The tales of
the overwhelming of travelers by sand
storms in Sarahs are familiar to every
schoolboy. '
The Boston
whioh reminds
about the sho
A Yarmouth
coasting schoo
decided to give
general byhin
sal’s name on I
reaoh high en
did not care
After f
he went
and thii
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