o O “
olcme VI.
$HE SAID AND WHAT
IT see did.
r» She said-she 'laid- I
«”*rsv» that Just suits me
cr. .Hwlf ahead
a with face bright and
t» a
^rdP*®J £^Ln • tot blue golff;
e ora very warm
kair 8 e£aflne tanor-and dance nicely,
.
S' a atnries as ever weed were I fetest, told.
for the
Kurse no remarks that aie *
ll-bred: J^ always be stylishly
4 e
vonngman!marry, • eWorld-She • said,
>hpmaid married—she did, she did—
goreold fellow much awkwardly shorter than hid
balcfer that but possibfy be
[Suo & was a creak, could and he
et ST red, and dull gray were
h „ nd 8tU pidly stare,
hgtill esmSa night claypipe. and from morn
mouth hem o. lg . esfc tobacco a
us
iuia: ie dressed- But . enough, nnmin-h he lie had had two two
“Karriedhim riadly—she did-slie
id. Harper’s Bazar.
—
THE LIST ST. BERNARD.
_
^nbis h be was a noble animal. I haf
Kpuffe'&out like again," and the cloud speaker
long-stemmed a great pipe.
i L rom Dr. Kims physician, Frolic!., a who recently- made
Lark. German seated in his
L He was
Len Jefferson, near Second street,
Um the intervals of long inha
a meerschaum with that
[broTO genuine coloring smokers, so dear he to talk- the
J Is™ of was
sitron, and the conveisat.on dnfted
rally tpdlie St. Bernard kennel, the
> animals in which attracted so
i and such favorable attention,
WUS a subject which touched the
Dr’s sensibilities, and at once
me deeply interested. He spoke
isii, but with such hesitancy as
i his meaning very difficult of com
ension, and finally had to be
ted by an interpreter. The story
h follows is an interesting one,
e onal more so by its occurring under his
observation, and it is in his own
Is;
those nogs at the Exposition,” said
‘are line animals, but they are not
St Bernards. They are onlv
se<. as the pure breed became ex
torty \ears ago in the death of the
pu noblest specimen of his race,
s’was Ins name, and I knew him
iffi [bnUie my boyish days. He was only a
had the brains of a man,
preilian his heart. He was old
p he died, but he was as full of hon
of years, and he met his death at
pdsof a fool Englishman after he
wedwne-aiul-forty tony lives.
was the property of a monas
on Mont Blanc. The brotherhood
smore than ordinarily pious one
old monks loved the dog almost
“fisif h e had been one of their
timber. Well they mio-ht for his
ht. never been seen before it
Bever to be as
/tup by them again. He had been
' "’tampering from the time he
i- useful, puppy up to the davs
®nnei that middle-aged sheltei-ea doghood
P e where all hkn first was
G^'UP his davs were passed
fat. Abbot, among and the monks and
hands took his food from
fondly and gratefully S
1‘lie was not an idle one
monastery dozen had owned breed* c nmo
a of the pure
ld ^hirom °wu ono by age and accident cut
one f ll Bari ver/Sr v
survivor and a
they wir thorp B ^we?-p 5y
, ? ^heavier? mongrel stock ’ and efnlTto
aourii. This thouoh Vo*
,.4 am speakincr particular nothin? of
neediwl
nT\ /:/? ad 0rs of his, had all nSd in to'that
il fceart and ull their fidelity
L/^ - ld Many a time 1 have
ELJ> 0 monks dwell yea? on his
nhe was only a bisav?^ old
«^ lovV? r' 0,| si »ed himself child
ag Which had
S the drifts, spared
lie dcoths Ch Carried its mother
■ i, ‘ °1 ,u th ‘ abyss whose
b ',abe on
vv e as ] ebrat lodged. ed His race
'Ph aD i d en durance, for their
®% e hnar but his was
■ i/s'^v '/' back y- Many a time
f . ar '. to the hospital
l D y oiQ ? htmumbed
^/uit£ ,,I '- !/ b k lth f ^hon, trav
; hor he had
Wte. f ? e ^y over the
Medved ' as e ’ but manv such
j ances ’ and if ever a
wit>, Martyr’s ^aonization f death. he did, ’ for
■ r years h e di( d The win
*
‘ - n one -
KeVf rknown f th , ! Col, iest and se
a m Switzerland and
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO.. GA„ JANUARY 4, 1884.
many a guest had reason to be thankful
for the accommodations of the old mon-<
astery and its fat Abbot. Barry was.
getting old then, but he was hale and,
hearty as ever. One morning, after a,
violent night, during which two ava
j anc hes had fallen and buried the nar-,
row road that climbed the sides of the
mountain, he was sent out to see if, per
chance , he might, as he had done nine-i
and-forty times before, rescue some
buried traveler from the drifts. A roll
of warm blankets was strapped on his
back, his barbed collar was put on his
neck, a hunters flask of liquor was at
tached. with and the good monks sent him
out their prayers and blessings,
Re neyer came back alive.
“ About a mile from the monastery
h came to a freshly fallen avalanche in
narrow road/ That unerring in
gtinct traveler of his lay taught under poor Barry that
some the soft, white
snow, and he set to work to find him.
Ho was - righ t, for on the night before
one of those traveling " fools of English- w
m< ' n ^ ho , think . . , everj other ,, country „
better than their own had tried to pass,
and had been overwhelmed with his
guides. With that marvelous scent
which his years of experience
had 1 trained so perfectly J Barry
' happened, vas not l«ng i lie in finding e. behind r him. % huge As a rock > a
was a
when the avalanche fell so that he had
been and, though partially covered screened under from several its force, feet
ot snow, he had not been suffocated nor
frozen with those to death. 1 forelegs i dog dug his, eag and
strong of
soon had made las way into the dozing
Englishman’s recess As soon as he
«»^Hlhun commenced l.ckin^, t e I^owZfn sno s io toe
man s face. His tongue and h^
/ «"/■
1 ° ‘ ‘ 1 J ‘ , a ■ *' c , i. , . , * t p
"
and . shotMhe^biave dog ^hom whom he be had had
m s .m< n oi . n 1 1
only tiying to icscue him from _ death. . ..
11ae shot J'as hJiad. t>J t he monk,
Englishman whohastenedto struggling the spot.and out of Joundthe thodul^.
The dog was ljw at the edge of the
pit, wnich he had dug with-perhaps
hours, of toil. He was not quite dead,
and he lived long enough to tick tne
hand ot the father who had wateneu
over him all his life, and who cried like
a child at his death.
_ “It was the creed of these holy would men
to return good for evil, and they
have cared for the man even if he had
not slain his preserver through a cruel
mistake. They took him to the mon
astery, and gave h ; m food ami drink
until he Was able to leave them, with
many blessings and a heavy purse of
gold. But they never could feel to him
quite as they would if he had not slain
the noble animal which they all so
prized. He regretted it deeply, of
j course, but that couldn’t fathers help the mat- not
ter, and the reverend were
j sorry when he left. His name wa?
| Clinton, they say, and he was a Baro
net in Irs own country, where it was a
! pity he had not stayed. Barry skin was
token to the monastery, where his
was stuffed, and some years afterward
this was removed to the museum in
Berne, where it is kept to this day. pureSt.
“He was the last of the
Bernards, but he left his descendants
behind him and by careful crossing
with Newfoundlands a new race was old,
produced almost exactly like the
only larger. A friend of mine in Berne
named Schumaohe has some superb when an -
imals of this kind, and last year
he took one of them to the museum and
compared it to Barry he found that
they were different only in size, their
color and markings being the same,
There are many of these in the Alpine
monasteries now, but although brave roads
and EiS intelligent Sm the !«i opening of the
and'les, needed
for the service which made their an
centers so distinguished. There never
has been another one like Barry, and
there never will be .”—Louisville Courier
w.________________
-John Swinton speaks as follows of
Henrv Millard; “ I met him first dur.ng
the war, in front of Richmond. He was
then a slender? newspaper correspondent. He
was a bright-faced, “follow long-legged, with
I eccentric young then, as
fight a purse as the other membeis ot
j his craft, but now, I believe, though I
have not seen lmn since then, he J
, solid < man, and over middle the neck age, in richertha_ huge on
roesus, up to
| dertakings. Poor \ illard. baie-fo
boy of Germany, Goldenbpike of Amei
ica-— N. Y. Tribune.
---•*■*--
J -The American, of Waterbury, is lett
| Conn., tells of a horse that un
hitched in a shed while its owner
efenin^ SD ends some time it? in a sa’oon every
If owner stays longer the
than ireual the ?oing horse backs out
v and to the saloon,
mount’s the steps and looks through the
; glass until his master comes out and
| drives away.
Laces.
--
LiMlarettes pointed in front are the
design in which real laces are now fash
reaching ' one< ? some only of to these the are of quite the small, darts,
^dule second extends top
a size to the waist
line, and still others fall below the
wa '; st an d form a slender vest, which is
sufficient trimming for handsome COT¬
® a S es of velvet, satin or silk. Point
laces, duehesse,, gaze or rose point, and
combinations ot these laces, are made
int .° collarettes, and sometimes some
point de \ emse is added. With these
collarettes a narrow fri.l of lace is
worn permanently standing around the neck and is
attached to it; a yard and
aquarter of w.der tr mming lace is
J" S(e ™/ added Very lor small gathering and short inside collar¬ the
ettefthat S aze combine ™st {row duchesseanda $5 to $12.60, while
“t 8 ? Wlth some \® n f* n P omt ’
l ? m <>n 1 aces, “ vi fu 1 k° iui • r ig i
,
open, f feathery designs, and these are
now A?^ shown in fichus ’ collarettes ! and ?
fi 1r ®?, mcll Y? • dth u, ^ °f f
i f or the neck and sleeves, of diesse*.
^ alenciennes is again m favor, and is
especially liked tor young * ladies.
Barnes of lace are not useful in the
prese { nt style kraigUt of dressing scarfs the throat, suddenly but
wid ’ S are
res(ored to fav r to form the soft draped
Mmming dS'rills now in vogue. * For
M J , g gathere for the ueok and
sl v thvee and a ha lf yards are re
quired l of duehesse, Honiton, or other
h eavyreai Iace; butof the lighter laces,
- Valenciennes, Mechlin, and the
damed oriental and Mauresque casil? laces,
^ or seven yards are used, as
these need to be very full to he effect
ive, and the frills usually extend down
sassr- 4 in “ setiabot OT -
With ladies who have but one set of
lo:d ^ acc choice remains for
due hesse point such as is sold for $3 or
$4 a yard. Fichus and scarfs of Honi
ton ] ace are becoming, because they are
soft to ^ gather in a web about the neck;
thege from S3d to *&) each,
trimm ing lace for the sleeves in
gponding des igns is *11 a yard. The
edect iVe Irish laces, especially muslin, with
macross> w hich is really
the des jv ns wrought in button-hole
st j tc h eS) and the spaces between cut
onp Rre worn perfectly smooth both in
collarettes, and in cuff's that turn up
ward from the wrist; these cost from $10
to $24 a set. An inexpensive lace that
makes a n ; c -e show for its cost is the
p oinpadour lace, with the groundwork and
of the meshes of Oriental lace, up
on this are raised muslin flowers, roses,
fuchsias and foliage; this Pompadour
] at >e is used much in collarettes that
have small raised flowers all over them,
and a single cluster on the left side,
There arc also wide flounces of this lace
that are deep enough to form a whole
tablier or an over-skirt, anil are sold
f or a yard. For muslin dresses,
and, indeed, for simple evening dresses
G f silk and of satin, and alsotortrini
m jug the soft surahs, are flounces
0 f Mauresque lace at $2 a yard. For
handsome evening dresses and
trousseaux there are sets of duehesse
j aee containing a flounce six inches
wide, narrow lace for garniture, and a
]ace handkerchief with corresponding and
des ] ( r, lS A bridal veil of duehesse
.
of point gauze, with orange blossoms
aud roses and lilies combined in the de
sio . D niay be added to such a set, and
tlds 5s i n shape like a great scarf a yard
and a quar ter wide and more than three
yards } long, and may afterward be used
or drap ^ ry on satin or velvet skirts
Bridesmaids’veils are most often oi
Spamsh laces, and are only two and a
half or three yards long, and cost from
to *40. hand-run Spanish
l n black laces the
i aee “ is much liked for hchus, scarfs to
d ape „ s veeW, and „ trimmto* lace,,
hut the Escunal lace with the design
outlined with a cord is the favorite
There are also many of the Spanish
guipure w laces with the silk designs out
also such as golden brown Titian red,
. >aid, fic
| nd gray laces, at S-3 a wit i l
f„ match, for #6.60. fine that t
black thread lace are .so . v
are bought for trimmings by he-most
fastidious women., Bazar.
----^
Hash Paper and Dime levels.
• noe of J th e dime novels, bad
bj) } nd t e p * -nucious Police
bazeth. bich 0 , lV news-stands
are hoode t i eonspicuouslv illustrated
!• S, re entlv made
mue\ei..ui. m l 4 fonrteen-vear-old boy,
S diippea^d' aristocratic 1 familv not’t^en «ud
feen'sinci?^ and has
^ensme^n I4e was an inveterate reader
ot a mein, u re, and under its
ult “ n ^ lairiditv into a hoodlum
with astoi“"ronS-an^a )ni<hin<T andatoncein
^ntoS^he for the increase
secret, oath-bound
bonis, plen tv of daggers, skulls
^ oss particularly inflamed
his imagination, and he soon found no
difficulty in organizing ten other boys,<
between eleven and fifteen years of age,
into an association bearing the startling
name of “The Society of the Silver
Skulls.” These rampageous idiots
armed themselves with revolvers, each
boy having a couple, for what purpose
remains a mystery. It may be that
they intended to take the road and levy
toll upon the people of Ohio, to go “ a
burgling,” to tender their services to
t h e Chinese Government, or to invade
Manitoba and wrest it from the Domin
; OI1 and annex it to this country. What
ever t beir purpose, it was something
d ark and terrible, as the following
blood-curdling oath, which was written
b y the youngster who disappeared, will
shovv:
Cursed bo friendship. Cursed be fathers,
mothers, sisters, brothers. Mav the offspring
of ourselves canker, blister and decay upon
its dying mother s breast.; may the blood of
each breed pestiferous plagues: may the hair
canker and fall from their sockets, and the
fingers grow palsied if we ever betray the se
erets of the Skulls. So do we swear. Death
to our enemies. Life to the Skulls.
Jt a 1 , P ears that one of the “Silver
Skulls,” after calmly considering the
amount of unprovoked cursing, canker
; ngi blistering and decay to which lie
j !? rid consigned his family iS' and friends
tlm exhurnn S poSleSrino hiarv ut e
Ee u e ,thed bft Softo tl to phvt the
™^unniSa'tness dire tion he^lmd ment on
upon2S 'Tew restive invoked
Xed absented himsSf and demoi
fram meetAgs
and X?^dls was not belligerently ^ inclined when
tratfon^of 'br^dUhedT nfidniriffi can™ orMes revolvereT and lioiXs
and ?? t SStoeaLaWe their proSes
e tho
other nine Skulls doomed him to death.
The warrant elaborately supplied with
ss^£rsj& ! t- 1? e s
s
jig was up and the young hoodlum who
had organized the society suddenly dis
appeared with his two revolvers" and
such other weapons as he could eonve
n i e ntly carry, and is now probably
foraging upon the State at large oris
seeking a-sociates of alike character
w ith whom to organize a general raid,
j t is to be hoped that the other “Silver
skulls” were at once stripped of their
accoutrements and set to sawing wo.-d
or some useful employment calculated
to take such nonsense out of their heads
and t b c silver out of their skulls.
This is not a solitary illustration of
the effects of the pernicious trash which
j s offered for sale at our news-stands.
c Q ] on , r as q can be had it will be read
by boys. If the publishers of the vile
s { a ff' can not be stopped from issuing
their flash papers and stories, then the
dealers in them, who can be reached by
the law, them? ought to be prevented from the
celling The only way to stop
business is to go to the fountain-head
and s top e supply. So long as they
are expose to view and offered for sale
boys will find ways to read them, how
ever strict the authorities at home may
be .—Chicago Tribune.
Women in the San Francisco Mint.
Fifty females employed called adjusters, m the mint and at
San B ranciseo are
their pay is *2. io a day, counting vveek
days and all holidays but Sundays, clock
Their hours are from eight the o afternoon, m
the morning until lour in
with the exception of Saturdays, when
they cease at two o clock. These ad
justers occupy two large rooms on the
- cond floor of the mint. One is used
for t he adjnst.njr ot silver and the other
for that of gold. The doors are car
peted, and each lady has a marble-top
table, a pail of scales and a fine, deli
cate tile. Before the gold is turned over
to them to he adjusted rolled, it goes annealed,
the process of being
cut and washed. Ihev then take it m
a state called blanks, .that is, per
footlj- »mo«l-n. »»d th,e »
done. It is • ‘ _ 1
be ot standard weight, wh ,^, ch 1 , must mn be
41 -.. g'ainsfOTiS.Ivei^ la ,
discrepancy hem , allov o ■<
_
J d ® w rej^^too
ThlsV thelfd filed es’woS to its prouer weight
J s • ’atch
g # it st w vvao h the the smaU s ma ll
?during
roo has been set a«ide d for the ladies
^ ^ lunc ronm; two long
tables are provided, and a janitress
furnishes boiling water for making tea,
and also keeps the place neat and clean,
Several of the lad es have been in the
mint for many years.— San Francisco
' '
Call.
-
-Large bears still infest the forests
of Pennsylvania. A black bear weigh
ing three hundred.and eighty pounds Nile-,
was killed by Mr. Bruce lerrym
Valley, Tioga County, recently. It
took seven rifle shots to get at the life
of-the monster, who had been playing
havoc in the sheepfolds of the farmers.
—Philadelphia lies*.
NUMBER 43.
PERSONAL AND LITE PART.
-
—The New York Mercantile Library
now has 200,141 volumes,
—The youngest grandfather on record
lives in "Trinidad, Tex. His name ia
Reese Butler, and he is thirty years old.
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
—Gerald metaphysical Massey, an English conundrums, con
structor of
is coming over to lecture on: “Why
Doesn’t God Kill the Devil?”
—Captain Mayne Reid had intended
to write his “Personal Reminiscences of
the Mexican War” for publication in
the Philadelphia Times, and was just
entering upon the work when he died.
—James W. Jones, a wealthy North
Carolina planter, and one of the largest
uien in that State, died recently. He
was generally known as “Big Jim'
j 0U es,” ’ and his weight ° was over five
, hundred , , pounds. ,
„-*• cuin ?. t ?., tho ' vord
new “I its applied to his life Jifcei in Augusta hiy . pur
suits. almost began
as a reporter,” he says, “and after¬
ward edited a newspaper. Writing is
really second nature to me. I find it
easy and pleasant work.”
—“Sarah Bernhardt,” says Oscar
Wilde, “ is all moonlight and sunlight
combined; exceedingly terrible; mag¬
nificently glorious. Miss Anderson is
pure and fearless as a mountain daisy;
full of change as a river; tender, fresh,
sparking, brilliant, superb, placid.”
—The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia,
whose visit to this country was a social
event while General Grant was Presi¬
dent, is now first to get married, at the
age of thirty-three. His chosen wife is
the Princess Amelie of Orleans, eldest
daughter of tho Count of Paris, a Roman
Catholic, and is to remain so. The
wives of Russian Princes have hitherto
all been Germans, except in the case of
Alexander III., the present Czar, whose
wife is a Dane. Alexis is now Admiral
in-Chief of the Russian navy.
—Mr. Crawford, author of “Dr.
Claudius,” is an exceedingly rapid
writer. This seems a gratuitous writes state¬
ment in view of the facts; but he
more rapidly than would appear, even
from the manner in which he publishes method¬
his stories, lie has before exceedingly lie to
ical brains, and puts pen
paper lie lias thought out, not only his
plot, but the manner in which he is go¬
ing to frame it, so that when he sits
down he writes straight on until lie has
finished his story. He writes scarcely a legible,
bold hand, and there is an
erasure in his manuscript.
HUMOROUS.
—Pater Familias to Festive Son: Re¬
member, my son, it’s not the coat that
makes the man.” F. S.: “No, sir, I
know it; it's the pants .”—Rutgers 'Tan
gum.
—Some unknown person attempted
to break into a Louisville editor’s house
recently, but discovered his mistake
and escaped before the editor could rob
him. — Chicago Herald.
—“I know,” saida little girl to her
elder sister’s young man at the supper
table, “that you will join our society for
the protection of little birds, because
mamma says you are very fond of
larks.”
1 rofessor in . Chemistry: J hesub- ,
stance you see in this v.al i-> t ie mos
deadly of all poisons. A single drop
placed to kill the on the strongest tongue man. of a cat —F is rom enough the
German.
_ “No,” said the Adolphie high-school girl, %
don’t think Miss is very pret
t y; her barbigerous upper lip detracts
from her beauty. And then the rest
«f the girls scattered to look for a dic
tionary—Oil City Derrick.
_«Yotir wife,” savs the Christian
Vnion> - is entitled to her share of your
income.’,’ Oh yes, we all know that,
but after she takes out her share wo
haye to walk home, unless we have
cred it with the street-car driver.—Life.
_ c it „ 3 „ UM by hi. biog
rapber,didnotcommeneetowrite|>oe- jifty We wish the
he was .
young man who daily sends us poems
about “haze” and “autumn days” and
kiod,y du “
_« Don't you know, my son,” said a
kind father. “ that it hurts me worse to
whip you than it does you? I would
much rather receive the punishment,
^ j whi as an example for the
other children ” “Then let me give it
to you,” the -boy replied, “ and well
explain to the other children after
ward. —Arkansaw Trave ler.
-The Editor and the Reporter:
“Though unfortunate vicissitudes flow
circumjacent to thy intuitional person
ality permit no sesqmpidalian argw
mentation to induce tliee to sever the
contiguity existing between the eques
Irian feruginous crescent and the por
tiere.” (Blue Peneil)-Cnt this down
a few lines.-Ed. tor. “Etemallyre
frain from removing tne equestrian
foot-gear from the portal. (Blue
Pencil) — Make it breezy. — Editor.
“Never take the horseshoe from the
door. N. (Bine F. PencU)-Correct!-Ed
itor.— World.
