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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1883)
£J)ITORIAIi NOTES. Gen DumonT, Supervising Inspector vessels, reports the ace dents of Steam four; liv slost, £84; for the year thirty ei'3 carried, 475,000,000, of which nfls-ec T 1,750,00 perished. ia ; number one K rvcfST official report says that the in South Australia often rises mercury U5 degrees in the shade, in summer to nd this has been exceeded on several _ * lons. In January, 1862, it reached E 1882, it 116 decree 5 , and in January, was 280 _only thirty-two degrees below boil¬ ing - in tbe sun. The army of pensioners amounting to 303,658 are classified as follows: Army invalids, 198,648; army widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, 74,374; jjgy y invalids, 2,468; navy widows, m inor children, and dependent relatives, 1 907; survivors of 'he war of 1812, 4 831j widows of those who served in war of 1812, 21,336. Few peop’e reflect upon the fact that the Indians are the richest landholders in the United States. We have 237,066 of them, e-elusive of he Alaska Indians, holding 151,397,768 acres of land Some of the tribes own 3,000 acres par Indian The average is about one square mile to each Indian, while a white man is not al’owed to pre-empt more than 160 acres of the public land. Professional sword swallowers per¬ form, apparently, startling feats, but it j g a well-known fact that the back parts of the mouth are capable of becoming, through habit, accustomed to abnormal contacts. By constant practice the sword swallower accustoms his pharynx to the CODtact of large objects, such as swords, canes and even billiard cue 3 . This ac¬ complishment, however, is acquired only by gradual and painful efforts. Gov. Crosby recommends to Congress, through the. Secretary of the Interior, the immediate cutting down of all Indian reservations, now covering two fifths of the area of Montana, to the actual wants of the 18,000 Indians, and throwing the lands open to settlement. He urges relief for the Black Feet,North Blegans, Assinaboines and Grosventres, and also that schools for the education of Indians in agricultural pursuits be established. John Griffin Carlisle was born September 5, 1835, in Kenton county, Ky. just across the river from Cincin¬ ; nati. After receiving a good academic education he studied law with Hon. John W. Stev nsoa and Judge Wm B. Kinkead, and began tbe practice in 1857. He was elected to tlie legislature, in 1859. to the State Senate in 1866, and again in 1869, resigning in 1871 to make the race for lieutenant governor, and was successful. In 1876 he was elected to congress, and has been re-elected at each succeeding election since. Patti’s brevet husband is Signor Nicoiini. Nilsson is the widow of M. Rozeaud. Gerster is the widow of Dr. Gardner, and has a baby ten months old. Sealehi is the Countess Lolli in real life. Mme. Pappenheim is Mine. Ahren. Ellen Terry is Mrs. Kelley. Mme. Va leria bears the unromantic name of Mrs. PI R. Percy Hutchinson; her husband is a very matter of fact manufacturer in the north of England Sembricb is Mme Stengle in private life, and is an Austrian Pole; she is a proficient violin p ayer, and sometimes accompanies herself on that instrument in opera. She is twenty-four years old. The Brooks comet of 18i2 is now visi¬ ble in the evening. It is in the north¬ west, and is pursuing a path that will soon bring it into the constellation of cygnus in which the swan is across the milky way. On December 13th it will reach the maximum brightness of 1812, and by the 14th of January will become four limes brighter. Its closest approach to the sun will be on January 25th, after which it will be seen no more forseventy ene years It has shown some remarka¬ ble feature unknown in any other ccmst. About the 20th of September it bright¬ ened rapidly and threw out a considera¬ ble tail. Tbe light was of unusual den¬ sity, and, at one time, became of a smoky color. In a few days the tail and bright¬ ness suddenly disappeared. Several times since a feeble tail has been ob¬ served to form an i fade agp.in. While there are cr wds of N w York doctors who barely make a living, some of the most successful physicians enjoy magnificent incomes. Among the lucky ones may be mentioned Leans Sayre, who makes a specialty of deformities. His income is about $40,600 a year F. Galliard, tbe leading gynecologist makes a large sum annual y, Austin Flint, Sr., the well known author and practitioner, makes $30,000 out of lungs and livers. Others run as fol ows. Cornelius Agnew, eye and ear, $ 20 , 000 . j\E.T homas, diseases of women, $50,000; Alfred Loomis, fev- is, $35,000; W. Hammond, nervous diseases, $35,000; J. Al. Caraochan, surgery of the bone, *25,000, Abraham Jawbi, diseases of Children, $25,000. From these figures it r ALT' i £ rw iH $ iSi V : & m .• -V I in V 1 m VOLUME V. will be seen that those who reach the top of the protession reap a rich rew rd for their labors. A few facts about the professional tours of theatrical people are interesting. In this country there are now 227 theatri¬ cal companies on professional tours, em¬ bracing, say, 4,' 86 members. The fol¬ lowing figures will show the expenses of these traveling companies : Transporta¬ tion, $1,221,000; hotel bills, $2,8.0,000 I hauling baggage, etc , $560,000 ; salaries and incidentals, $8,400,000; total out¬ lay, $12 981,000. These companies play on shares, receiving about 65 per cent of the nightly gross receipt-.. Some of the leading attractions make as much as $50,000 ayear clear profit. In order to lessen th 1 hardships of these professio- al tourists it is proposed to build special cars for the companies in which they can live and travel. It isbel eved that such a car could be run for $175 a week. Un¬ der this system probably $1,200,000 in hotel bills could be saved. The London Lancet thiaks that the renewed and steady occurrence of fresh cases of cholera in Alexandria affords new grounds for anxiety and watchful¬ ness. It is true that the epidemic was stamped out, hut cholera has a tendency to sustain itself after an outbreak in one season by a series of scattered cases lead¬ ing to another epidemic in the following season. The cases now reported from Alexandria are of a modified type, but it has been found that these are precisely the cases which constitute tin links be tween one epidemic and another. The laxity of sanitary administration follow¬ ing an epidemic will doubtless increase the predisposing causes of cholera, and the authorities of Alexandria caunot be too energetic in their endeavors to re¬ move these cau-es. A traveler speaks of meeting a sclnol of pompanos in Southern Florida. His yacht ran into the school and the fishes immediately left the water, flying like birds over the yacht. A numbei of fishes have similar habit*. The gar fisli has a habit of rising in the air and cours¬ ing along for a hundred feet or more. The ordinary flying fish is well known. One of the cuttle fishes is called the fly¬ ing squib. This fi-h sometimes hurls him-elf sixty feet in the air. In New England a spider is frequently seen flying in the air. Is ejects six little threads of siik from its body and by flapping it maria es to keep afloat. Certain species of monkeys and squirrels are able to fly like biicls. Recently in the Malay coun¬ try a frog has been discovered that lias a habit of flying. Its feet are provided with enormous webs which aci as para¬ chutes. The committee on ways and means is considered by far tbe most important of the committees. It frames all tariff legislation before being presented for the action of the house, and to it all bills of that nature, and all bills relating to the general financial condition of the couatry, are referrod Its duty is, as indicated by the name, (0 look after the “ways and means” of providing tbe funds for the supportof tlie government. In other words, it assumes the position ordinarily occupied by the husband in the family, o’ providing the “where¬ withal” for the support of the family, while the position of wife is filled by the committe i on appropriations, who 3 pend the money. To be sure, the duty of the latter committee is to make th se app opriations j 1 st as light as they can consistently be when the children of 1 he household—the heads of the various departments—make known their wants. But is not that the duty of the wife as well? The reckless squandering of our pab lic domain excites general complaint Last year 20,030,C0o acres were din posed of The public domain acquired from France, Spain, Texas, Mexico, Russia, and by cession from tbe States was about 1,852,310,00) acres, costing $322,000 000. Of this outlay the gov¬ ernment has received back about $230,000,030. The sales have been 200, 030,000, wh le 370,000,000 acres have been given away. Nearly all the land remaining in the hands of the govern¬ ment is of little value compared with the territory disposed of, L T nder the timber culture law an! the homestead act, it is claimed that a criminal negli¬ gence of administration has placed mil¬ lions of acres in t''e hands of land sharks. Bona fide s ttlers are in a minority, and vagabond squatters and timber thieve - are numerous. In Alaska a settler instead of being confined to 160 GA., DECEMBER 14,1883. acres is allowed under various laws to take 1,120 acres. So even in that re¬ gion the land is being too rapidly taken Northern men who rushed into cot¬ ton planting in the southwest directly after the war, lost heavily, but those who turned their attention to the cul¬ ture and manufacture of sugar were more successful. Three sons and heirs of Oakes Ames are now running tut Millandon plantation on the west side of the Mississippi, three miles above Gretna, Louisiana. Their manager is a man, who has been directing the estat for many year.. Th.s plantat.on era ploys 140 hands In the sugar house an cane fields. The machinery is all of the heavy order. The Ames brothers culti¬ vate about two square miles of land and all the equipments of the plantation are perfect. Among other c nv eniences they have their own tramway ears to convey the cane from any part of the fields to the mill. By the use of improved ma¬ chinery these manufacturers have been enabled in the years ’79, ’80, ’81, ’82, to get a larger percentage of j uica each suc¬ cessive jear, thus: Sixty-two and 2 lOths pounds t ■ 100 pounds of cane; 64 and 9 lOlhs pounds to 100 pounds of cane; 67 and l-10th, 1 nd 69 and 7 lOths This may be an exceptional p antation, but there is ni reason why the conditions ©f its operation should not become general in tbe sugar growings ction. Sevcral of the leading scientists of Europe have recently discussed the g rm theory of contagious disease from various standpoints. The opinion i expressed that in anticipation of the assault of in¬ fective organisms an effort will be made to introduce into the body substances which, though small in amount, sha 1 so affect the blood and t'ssues as to render them unfit for the development of the contagions. Subsequent to the issault of tho parasite the experimenter will in¬ troduce substances which shall effectual ly stop its multiplication. It is believed that such substances have been f uind, Alkaline sulphides, introduced into the body, are said to act power full y upon the con agia of marsh fever, typhoid, mili¬ tary fever, puerperal fever and smallpox. An Italian physician is experimenting with arsenic as a preventive of malaria. It is his intention to collect a large number of animals assailable by tbe dis¬ order, and, after dividing them, bo will treat one group with arsenic, and leave tbe other without treatment, and then determine by inoculation experiments whether ar enic really possesses the power it is supposed to possess, The re suit of these experiments will be looked for with intense interest. GENERAL, NEWS. Texas contains three lunatic asylums The average in Texas is one hanging to thirty murders. The Penitentiary farm in Montgom¬ ery is ordered for sale. Fruit dry ng promises to be a leading industry in Piedmont, Va. Boone county. Ark , is filling up with immigrants from Mississippi. Fourteen negroes will occupy seats in the Mississippi Legislature. A valuable vein of iron ore has been discovered in Farquier county, Va. A CITIZEN of Micanopy, Florida is about to set out forty acres in olives. The Birmingham machine shops will employ six hundred able bodied men. Arkansas lias a district of eight coun¬ ties i 1 which tbers is not a single saloon At tbe end of the year Alabama will bava a surplus in the Treasury of $250, 000 . The farmers of Alabama are said to be more economical now than ever be fore. The Crump cold mine, near Charlot te N, C , has been sold to Boston capita! ists. Bushels of pearl buttons are being turned out by the button factory daily at Rhea county, Tenn. Jsi.Etnousir.dp A’raMSDDHm! mnrrl, u of - Guava < ■ J iellv y gave been manufactured by Ca tain Terry, of Yalabo, Fla., this season. There are 2 030 Germans in Charles ton, and , they are said . , to exert a very beneficial influence upon the commu nity. 1 he new bridge being * bui t across the pi V hickasahay • Vo „ w river, eas. „t of ok,,!,,,,. buubu a, fell recently, when it was nearly com ,,leted ' The _ orange crop of Louisiana this this year is much larger flian was antici pated. The quality of the fruit is ex- celient. The United States Fish Commi-sion has made Atlanta its distributing point for the Southeast, and has established an agmey there. A party of eighty-five Boston manu¬ facturers have arrived in Raleigh, and will proceed to investigate the resources of North Carolina. With the completion of the new ar¬ tesian well at Charleston, S C., the water supply will be increased to 800, 000 gallons, about four times what it 8 dinner given by the Medical in Montgomery. ’ Ala., last week, tbe guegts appeared in kneo breeches, Mack s [, k stockings, patent-leather low cut shoes and buckles. Mr. A. M. Diggles, of New York, has been in Augusta, Ga . pr. specting, wi h a view to establishing a 51,000 spindle cotton factory, for the manu¬ facturing ol fine fabrics. North Carolina will levy no State tax next year. The Western North Carolina Railroad company will pay in to the treasury $600,000, which sum v ill carry the State government. The John P. King mill of Augusta commenced baling goods yesterday for the market. The mill lias 26,500 spin¬ dles and eighty looms, and is very com¬ plete. The company has a capital of $ 1 , 000 , 000 . The birthplace of Admiral Raphael J. Semmes. in Washington, Ga., was re¬ cently sold for $2,000. The Semmes family were among the founders of the Catholic church in that town. It is a quaint old chapel, which stands next to their homesteads. The board of health of New York city has been endeavoring to sue out an injunction against ^ the sale at auction of Ping ^ Suey teas, which are we 1 v > to be adul erated. The importation of Ping Suey teas amounts to one hud . of all the teas that arrive in the New York market The cotton weighers of Galveston county, Tex., have filed suits ag icst merchants in the city of Galveston claiming damages because tbe merchants had employed private parties to do their weighing of cotton, The cases will be watched with interest, as they involve some very important points. A member of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg association, in session at Cincinnati, said in the course of an address that the annual value of the butter product of the Uniied States is $352,000,000; the cheese produc $36,000,00), and eggs and poultr, amounted to about the same. As Mrs. Whiting stepped out of her residence in Baton Rouge one night re¬ cently, she felt something windin around one of her lower limbs. Sb screamed and shook off the reptile, which, when killed, was discovered to be two feet in length, and of the species known as the highland moccasin, which is very poisonous The shipment of cattle from Massa¬ chusetts to Floridr, without any change of cars, is a considerable undertaking, but it has been successfully done. On Mondaj the first through car of cattle passed over the Charleston and Savan¬ nah railway. It was consigned to John Bradford of Tal ahassee and contained thirty- ix head of fine Ayrshire and Jersey cattle, valued at $1,800. The deputy commissioner of interna 1 tvenue says that the internal taxes already collected for the present fiscal »’ear arc at the rate of $123,000,000 per annum. He estimates that the collec tions for the entire year will amount to about $130,000,030. This estimate in¬ cludes between six and seven millions to be collected in spjcial taxes in April nd May, but does not include an in rease which is anticipated for spirits orced out of build. x Impressed. , Miss Ber ha , Crowley, _ , ol , Deposit, N. Y dreamed three nights in succession ot her uncles death in auaressea a leucr to ! mm. me lettei fell into the hands ot his lawyers who notified her last week that she bad fallen heir to go O.O OO by her nnc es d eatn. A . Kansas f mder “111 drowned himself fo in ns - mi! . pono because , a darn ho had j us built failed to collect water enoug.i tu rn the wheel. He exlnoited S °° l1 Rome andZld ana jawxa S iLen rSamlkiS ivch aim &i<.tvcu the dogs clear across the room.-Am nstawn Herald. A Chicago man wanted a divorce be f ause bis The wife persisted laughed m singing fiymns> Court just at him, and he would have lost liis case had not his lawyer summoned the wife to tbe witness stand and-started her singing, At the end of the fifth verse the Court threw up the spronge and the divorce was granted. NUMBER 38. PECK’S BAD BOY. THE BOYS PI. AY “WILD WEST” SHOW. Tlie Bart Hoy's Pa l.nssoa a Cow. amt <«ct« Pallnl Arounrt in Most Promiscuous Ola tmer. [From the Milwaukee Sun.] “You see,” said the bad boy to the gro¬ cery man, “all of us boys in the neighbor¬ hood wanted to have a Buffalo Bill show, and pa gave us permission to use the back yard, and he said he would come out and help us. You know that Boston girl that was visiting at our house, with the glasses on ? Well, she this went climate home is the next day. She says too wild for her. You see, we boys all fixed up as Indians, and we laid for some one to come out of the house, to scalp, the way they do hi the show, We heard a rustle of female garments, and all hid, and when the Boston girl came out to pick some pansies in ma’s flower¬ bed, we captured her. 15m never see We a girl so astonished as she was. yelled ‘yip-yip’ and I took hold of one of her hands and my chum took hold of the other, and her bangs raised right up, and her glasses fell off and she said ‘Oh, you howwid things. ’ hen “We took her to our lair in the house and tied her to a tin rain water conductor that came down by danced the cor¬ ner of the barn and then we a war dance around her, and yelled ‘ki yi,’ until she perspired. I took my tomahawk and lifted her hair and hung it on the chicken roost, and then I made a speech to her in Indian. I said: (i ( The pale faced maiden from the rising sun is in the hands of the Apaches, brothers and they yearn for gore. Her and fathers and uncles, the Indian agents, have robbed tlie children of the forest of their army blankets and canned lobster, and the red man must be avenged. But we will not harm the pretty white maiden, except to burn her to the stake. What has she to say ? Will she give the ved meu taffy, or will she burn ?’ “Just then pa comes out with a cis tern P oJe . and he rescued the white maiden, and said we mustn t be so rough. Then the girl said she would give ug a ]l the taffy we wanted, and she went in and she and m» watched us from the back window. Pa he watched us rob a coach, and lie said it was first rate. The man that collects the ashes rom tlie alley, with a liorso and wagon, ho had just loaded up, and got on the wagon, when two of my Indians took the horse by the bits, and four of us mounted tbe wagon and robbed the driver of a clay tint pipe and a pocket comb, and a knife, he saved his ashes by promising never to reveal the names of the robbers. Pa just laughed, when we gave the ash man back his knife and things, and said he hadn’t had so much fun in a long time. Then we were go¬ ing to lasso a wild Texas steer, and ride it, the way they did in the show, and pa said that was where he came in handy. He said he could throw a lasso just like a cow-boy. We got my churn’s pa’s cow out of the barn, and drove her up the alley, and pa stood there with a clothes line, with a big noose in the end, and he headed off tlie cow and threw the lasso. Well, you’d a died to see pa sweep things out of the alley with his pants. The cow was sort of seared when we drove her up the alley, she cause milked, I guess she thought it was time was behind and when pa stepped out from the barrel and throwed the rope around her neck, I guess she thought it was all day with her, for she turned and galloped, and kicked up and bellered, and pa did not know followed enough to let go down of the the rope. alley First pa the cow sitting down, and about a bushel of ashes got up his trowsers leg, and the tomato cans and old oyster cans flew around like a cyclone was blowing. Us Injins climed up on the fences to get out of the way, and that scared the cow more, and she snatched pa along too tlie quick. and I yelled to pa to let drawed go cf him rope, under just as the cow a wagon he let go, and the cow took the clothes line home. Pa got up and shook the ashes out of his trowers legs and picked up a piece of board and started back. You never saw a tribe of Indiaim get seared so quick as we did. As I went in the hen coop and got under a barrel I heard pa say: “ 'That busts up the Buffalo Bill busi¬ ness. No more wild steer lassoing for your uncle Ike.’ “Well, no one was to blame but pa. He thinks he can do every tiling, and when lie tries it and gets tangled, lie lays it to me. Wo went out ou the street with our tomahawk?,, when pa went in to brush himself, and disbanded, and went to our reservation and piece reigns again, and the Bust or m r [ ] las > gone home with an idea that wi -• al , atliell8 out west.” ____._______ Wtot 4 Data’ Can Dn. a babv can wear out a dollar ^an pair of k(ep ifs {ather busy advertising It in the newspapers for a nurse. can occupy both sides of tbe largest sized bed man nfaotured simultalie ously. It can make the aot h 0 r of its bdng’is ] wash felling bills foot up ^ to §5 a week an( not be suffocatfon at all 11 can c ™’ d to the ^ ,• fp t f a rnilroaol trpm stations. with in d an a S enger R between two “ be insulted It an cause its father to by every second-class boarding-house keen- chii er in the city who “never takes dren.” It can make an old bachelor in the room adjoining use language that, if uttered C n tlie street, fo'r would get him into the nenitentiarv minute^ two a‘man' vears It ©an, in ten drive frail tieallv from his home and cause him to seek the companionship of a locomotive blowing off steam. Christmas Dinner. BILL op paik. Roast turkey, with cranberry and apple sauces, \Vhite potatoes, mashed. Sweet potatoes, roasted. Macaroni and oheese. Celery, pieltlos, cold slaw. Rolls and Boston brown bread. Mince Sweet and pumpkin cider. pies. Raisins and nuts. Black coffee. Our bill of fare is a simple oue, and ot course as many additions can be made to it as desired. The first article to make are the pies. Make the paste of one quart of flour, one half-pound of sweet, good butter, the same of lard, and one small cup of cold water. Chop the but¬ ter and lard up into the flour, until aa fine as powder, wet into a stiff dough, knead into a ball, and roll deftly and quickly into a thin sheet, always rolling from you. Fit on the pie plates. For the pumpkin pies take one pint of stewed pumpkin, straiued through a sieve, four eggs, one quart of milk, a little mace, cinnamon and nutmeg, and three-fourths of a cup of sugar. Beat well together and bake in a moderately hot oven without a cover. Before put¬ ting on the table sprinkle with powdered sugar. mince meat already If you have not mmiebuy from a good grocer, and mix with it a little sweet cider. Fill the pie plates and put on a thin crust. Before serving place in the oven to heat. The turkey should be ordered or bought a few days before Christmas. Have him plump and firm, also tender. To test a tender turkey, lift the wings, and if the skin breaks easily, he is all right. As soon as you get your turkey home dress it and place in salt and water, find washing it in several waters, and in the last mining in a teaspoonful of soda. Two hours will roast a ten pound turkey, if your fire is brisk. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, but¬ ter, pepper, salt, sage, thyme, sweet ma joram, one egg, and wet with a little hot milk. A little chopped sausage and onion is liked by many. Sew the turkey up tightly, and dredge with flour. Baste at first with butter and water, afterward with the pan dripping. Fried oysters laid about the dish, when the turkey is served, is an improvement. boiled until The cranberries should be very tender, then strained and sweet¬ ened. To make them jell, add a very little gelatine dissolved in warm water. The apple sauce should be made of tart apples, and not sweetened. It may be stuffed also with gelatine, and both, if made the day before Christmas, will save labor. The white potatoes should be dished as soon as done, and piled in a pyramid with a tiny tuft of parsley sticking out of the top. Allow an hour or over to roast the sweet potatoes. Keep the celery in water until the time of serving. Boil the macaroni in water until ten¬ der, drain, then place in a deep dish, mix in a tablespoonful of canned toma¬ toes, grate a little cheese macaroni, over the layer, then put on another of and so on until the dish is filled. Cover the top with grated cheese, and place in hot oven for ten minutes. Servo hot. This is a delicious dish. Serve the cider with tho pie, and the raisins and nuts afterward, ending with, a very small cup of black coffee, which is made by taking a teacup of coffee to a pint of water, boil for ten minutes, and serve without milk or sugar. A Western Congressman. Of “Gabe” Bouck, who was for two terms a Representative in Congress from Wisconsin, and who distinguished he him¬ self by voting “no” so loud that could be heard in Alexandria, when a proposi¬ tion was up looking to woman suffrage, a contributor in the Washington Post writes: “Bouck underwent a queer transformation when ho came to Wasli in ton to serve in Congress, Ho had never worn a white shirt or a waistcoat before coming here, His shirt was a black flannel, with a heavy gold coat chain twisted down its front. His was a bine frock, adorned with huge brass but¬ tons. His face was heavy and swarthy. His nose turned up a decided png, while his eyes were black and viciously crossed. Over a low forehead hung a shock of un combed, coarse, black hair. ’This eccen¬ tric lawyer—a man of ability, a sworn bachelor and howling hater of women— came to tne Ebbitt House, and was seated at (he table where wife. sat Her Congress¬ bright, man McKinley and his sunny, lady-like ways subdued at once he man who had never mentioned for fifty years a woman’s name without an oath. Grudually Bouck became trans¬ formed. He bought a white shirt and a waiRtcoat. He had his hair cut and combed. Finally he added the crown¬ ing stroke by having his boots blacked. He was while hero the chivalrous and de¬ voted slave of the charming Mrs. McKin¬ ley, who used to be called by her lady friends ‘the hear tamer.’ "—New York Tribune. Diverted His Mind. It is related of Thaddens Stevens that shortly after his removal to Lancaster in 1842 lie heard of the sad prostration of an old friend in York, a lawyer, who, pressed hard by necessity, had diverted to his own use $300 due to a certain -widow client, hoping soon to regain his financial footing and repay her. But “unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster,” until the poor fellow’s mental depression was actually tL killing clijn? bin, bunted np her from his own pocket the $300, obtained her receipt, old and went to see his friend. “Halloa! fellow,” he ex claimed, on entering his office, “you must wake up. Don’t be so down-hearted. Say, don’t you suppose you and re then really gone and paid that woman for¬ gotten all about it ?” A despairing the shake of the bowed head was only reply. “Well 3. believe you did, and I ingoing if to look through your papers and see I can’t find the receipt.” Then he pretended to ransack some pigeon holes, and a moment later exclaimed: “Well, if you’re riot the biggest fool I ever heard of! Look here, o.u man! What’s this? ’ So saying he showed tho receipt to his astounded friend, who thereupon recovered his spirits, and, happily, his business fortunes alio. Af terward he repaid Mr. Stevens, and the latter was never able to find out l pw hit* generosity had been detected.
