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7AIL AT THE
(railroad restaurant.
-Under the Cur Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
there all the delicacies of the season
I be furniaqed iff the best of style and
Iheap ia*JIoal as any furnished establishment at allhours in the of city the
8 DURAND. unej.20
l BALLARD A
just Like Her Dream.
L lie st evening about seven o’clock,
I Mrs. Henry H. llealy was she return- drove
I,uki home from a ride,
Adelaide avenue into Melrose
hut Id She was alone in a box into buggy, the
just after she had turned
L Lit, r highway a man sprang into the
l grasped the reins, and stopped the
horse. He then jumped into
Biicle anil struck the lady a severe
low in the face, causing her nose to
h'd quite freely. Jt so happened that
rs. llealy had been at Attleboro dur
ftg KjUid the day. knife and for while there in connection had pur-.
a nse
w)/!i household duties. This site had
■igotten to leave at home, and on dis
■tvering Bui it in her pocket while driving
pile. laid it on the seat cushion by her
Killian On receiving the blow from the
the thought of the knife flashed
■cross her mind, and at once grasping
it she struck at him with such force as
Hu' was able to command. Ho imme
B atcly let go his hold upon the car
■age, and fell back with t he exclama
■ou: “My God, I am cut!” The lady
il frwc on, and alter passing some dis¬
tinct: from the’ pint where she had
^Ap:i ^■okctl assailed, about for pulled in the to horse assist her, and
■M, someone
■reef nobody that happening to lie on the
at time, continued on her
Wav home. .She did not see her assail
■m after she struck at him, and all that
l ■caranee 1 ' 1 ' can remember concerning his np
is that lie was a largo man
w 111 a full beard, and she thinks lie
■ <)u ’ 11 The blow which he gave
■<‘i ibd not cause any serious injury,
pit the shock to her nervous system
■ah u>rr apparent for some hours after
| arc1, n ‘ e °bject of the villa’n in
IIiu.s assaulting . her is entirely a matter
f| I P au ' ot biro. diamond She happened ear-rings, to have
'"".'casonable and it is
1 Iosm'nmou to suppose that the
of them might have been
ns object. Mrs. Healy’s husband
from u I, ^companies her on her drives,
Sue " 3 ' * Lap P ened to be awa N
»om 2 1 iT mH°V ,Iai V1 '-? \l inoideQc he assaidt e ami related that in
- is
that q r.v < a ,' 1 “ esda y night dreamed
ban 1 ( • Tended by largo
with atllll beard a
.vaihnt ’ 8Uch as her as
i (< ! 1)0 This dream she
relaUMl ' 1 )1 ' eabtast ' table yesterday
inoniiit TZ L M m ° ro over yesterday
e en l sin . S u, ’ arly eventful* appears day
|«£ or tho faJSfc l, i | ^Perienees
reminding
live s£a L s !S3 Works s tho » locomo
vausino-oon'sit bee- 111 on \ e wa disabled,
Z ld £ r \ ble u, delay- N
sequent whi?t! The con
comiect Ul 110 train *> ilod tn
and le f. tram at the junction,
Mv S u 1 aud her friends had
ml take to
' va S° n the fair
cident Then occ *rred another ac
eeasidcrable distance
011 broke **' ax e ' tree ot> the wag
nl.nl ti, le .P art Y a ^ain left
,,!1 the was
h.°ni U \, ’ Another team picked
hlmient' ni.vi ° mc ' v ^ at to their aston
Mrs Healv last p !’ tlu> y a11 - including
Bon V ’JJ^ reached their destina
dntov i tt * Kroridence
ml, — (B. l.j
Tho “ department.Clerk.
jj
1 U ftn in Washington
U ,800 v,l ‘ i He earns from
d, n . O ,i?' 0t l Ifc
to fcWt nt 1>er year * is
'4s worth* u lt as much as they
^' ot ttiem who owe board
°, raneh *y ]e Mound
^Petition 1 ii Uot h‘ h
with ln i l 01uul g 111
b ®U» * '“‘j tll, ‘ world to two
T l he clerk wear
is a polite pau
“tfier th is u,vS that for some reason or
ft* foes to TV ( !' V0S bbu a living.
niAn unless' : “J i ha f °°a a 8 cigarette iders himself in his a
ful reflet",,! r b
' “ su ^ we commend care
! n 3 police coZ a f;u d f hat came to Hght
An , . ^
Uali ‘ n Clt y recently.
an £i r i
th -‘t she shMa ;^ et ; she explained
* o’clock and ® ve r V morning about
Hghtful ck-c UD Lii J q nt the , day in this de
Ptetetl of her l0n *. and l hat she dis
f b ra rand-n usforoj e( i ti iIlL , 1 t b (>tlon ^ nt 0ut t0 persons who
Lniou. ew C Burettes—jy. ' 8tui «ps into
Y, Christian
delegate to Com
in the I,, 0, Gays tllat his
*^°st populm. , W . , * made , h'-- ” -
country.
NEWS GLEANINGS
Cedar Key, Fla., ships 40,000 fish per
week.
The Alabama insane asylum has 417
inmates.
Florida will soon be a perfect network
of railroads.
Arkansas has a two years’ supply of
corn, oats and wheat.
Atlanta claims to have the finest
clmrcli building in the South.
Jacksonville, Fla., is to have a new
court house at a cost of $50,000.
A laige bagging . factory will . soon be
added to the industries of Eufaula, Ala
bama.
Out of the 1,243 convicts in the Geor¬
gia chain gang camps, only 113 are
whites.
The graves of the 264 Federal soldiers
who were burned at Key West, Fla.,
have been marked by handsome head¬
stones.
A vast [amount of cotton will go to
waste in Arkansas, Texas and other cot¬
ton States because of the scarcity of
pickers.
A hill will be introduced at the com¬
ing session of the Alabama Legislature
to exempt factory operatives from pay¬
ing poll tax.
Between fifty and sixty thousand dol¬
lars in Confederate bonds held by the
city of Lynchburg, Va., have been or¬
dered to be sold.
The Chattanooga Times says large
numbers of farmers from Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois are settling in the section
contiguous to Chattanooga.
At Sarasata, in Charlotte’s harbor,
Fla., a Northern company is established
and engaged in catching fish, for the
pnrpose'of extracting oil and manufact¬
uring it into guano.
A Mississippi physician says the day
is not far distant when cotton-seed oil
will have taken the place of lard the
world over. He pronounces it much
purer than lard and a great deal heal th¬
ier.
Chattanooga (Tcnn.) Times : Tho
deer on Cumberland mountain are dying
with the black-tongue. No less than
fifteen have been found dead within tfie
last ten days. Some cattle are dying
with it.
A curious Indian relic was recently
found near Hartsville, Tenn. It is a
piece of stone about fifteen inches long,
hollowed out in the shape of a police¬
man’s billy. It can be blown like a
horn and evidently was used to summon
the warriors to assemble.
Moscow Lamar co Ala Nov 3d 182
Please put this item in the Journal
Mr. Elia, Chaffin of this county & State
Sayes he has made a close Astronomicle
investigation of the commit in the East
and finds that there is a hole through
the stare & the blase is caused by the
rayes of the Sun shining through, like
shining through an Auger, hole, Sub¬
scriber.
Near Chattanooga, Tenn., are several
Indian mounds which for years have at¬
tracted archaeologists from many parts
of the country. The largest mound in
the group was opened a few days ago
and many skeletons, several pieces of
pottery and other interesting Indian
relics found. The mound was dug into
but a short distance, and will be further
tunneled.
A meeting of the cotton planters from
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama met
at Memphis Monday to find some means
to successfully oppose the monopoly of
the cotton-seed oil men. An organiza¬
tion was effected under the name of the
“Planters’ Co-operative Association.”
The planters allege that the oil men
have portioned oft' the cotton country
and fixed prices bar the seed, to the
great detriment of the farmer.
—A man named Neilson and three
ladies had a miraculous escape from
death while crossing the track of t He
Denver and the liio Grande Railroad in
a wagon near Sprtngville, U. T., re¬
cently. The vehicle was covered, and
Neilson failing to see or hear an ap¬
proaching train, drove on to the track,
anly to have his wagon, himself and the
ladies hurled into the air. Upon land
ing, Neilson took an inventory, and
found that neither himself nor the la¬
dies were in the least injured, although
tho horses were killed and the wagon
broken into splinters.— San Francisco
Chronicle.
cretlv married. It was considered best
to keep the marriage a secret for a few
days, and accordingly the young lady
returned to the house of her father and
the young man leturned to h.s baeh
elor earned lodgings. liU The bride, ne -t and day lie his heart
\ a ter went to
her father’s and demanded her. The
parents refused to give her up, as she
was ouly sixteen years old. In the
meantime the ardor of the young lady’s
affection had cooled and she declined,
co with her husband. The young man
Ts nonplussed aud disconsolate.—A, Y.
Herald.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1882,
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
A PEW in Dr. John Hall’s Church,
New York, sold the other day for
$2,600.
The late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada
“cattle king,” left an estate worth about
$3,000,000.
A Mississippi man lias a “mad-stone”
for which, it is said, ho has refused a
cash offer of $7,500.
Recently compiled statistics place
the death rate from the administration
of chloroform at one pet 1 000
, .
In France and Germany, respectively,
two francs and two marks are the medical
charges for single visits, except in the
fashionable watering places,
-♦ --
Hon. Jewett Adams, who is elected
Governor of Nevada on the Democratic
ticket, is a native of South Hero, Ver¬
mont, and resided there until he was
twenty-one years old.
The story that Langtry, when a girl,
used to milk the family cow, is said to
create great excitemont among New
Yorkers who have gotten rich by milk
ing the lambs in Wall Street.
“Spinster dinners” are given by
betrothed New York girls on the eve of
their weddings to friends of their own sex
exclusively, and they are chaperoned by
the mammas of the morrow’s bride and
bridegroom.
A YOUNG missionary visiting Thibet
for the first time, recently expressed liis
horror at finding the practices of Mor
monism reversed under the protection of
the King of Cashmere. The law allows
women several living husbands.
Madame Patti, who is nervous when
crossing the ocean, before starling for
America, made her will, in which
she desires to be buried at Craig
-y-nos, and leaves a sum of money
to be expended in instructing a number
of poor Welsh boys with good voices
who may show a taste for music.
We are progressing in the science of
epigrammatic signboard advertising,
“ Society for tho Encouragement of
Wearing Clean Shirts,” is the latest de¬
velopment, as seen flauntingly displayed
over a laundry establishment at Chat¬
ham and Pearl streets, New York City.
General Grant’s new magazine arti¬
cle, entitled “An Undeserved Stigma,”
concisely reviews the case of General
Fitz John Porter, giving grounds for his
former belief in Porter’s guilt, and his
present conviction of liis entire inno¬
cence, and appeals to the Government
and the country for prompt action in
Porter’s behalf.
Mr. S. C. Hale, a veteran name in
literature, announces for publication in
March next “A Retrospect of a Long
Life, m w hich he promises to give es
pecial prominence to his recollections of
Ireland sixty years ago, when he says
he “frequently bought eggs eight for P
penny and chickens for eight pence EB
couple. There were no markets except
m large towns, aud there was no mode
of locomotion.”
Staff Commander James Charles
Atkinson, the oldest officer in the Brit¬
ish navy, has just died at the age of one
hundred years. He commanded the
Penguin, and was captured and his
vessel destroyed by the American
corvette Hornet in 1815. For the past
fifteen years he had been quite blind,
but otherwise retained all his faculties
unimpaired up to the very moment of
his death.
Mb. Oliver Ames, Lieutenant Gov¬
ernor-elect of Massachusetts, although
now a man of great wealth, was trained
to work, and did work for years in his
father’s shops as a common journeyman
shovel-maker. The proficiency he at¬
tained as a mechanic is shown by the
fact that for several years fie alone maae
all the prize shovels and other tools ex¬
hibited by the firm at fairs in this and
other countries. His example is being
followed by his son, now twenty years
old, who daily works at the bench and
anvil.
General « Nicolas _ T de Pierola, _ ex
President of Peru, who is in New
Y T ork, is described as a dapper little
man, about five feet five inches in
height, with a clear complexion, laugh
iug brown ejes, dark wavy hair, moo*
tache with long curled ends and an im
perial. His foot is as small and as
neatly booted fts a woman’s, and he has
the grace of maimer of a Frenchman.
A high, broad forehead alooe disfin
guisli'es him from the commonplace, ana
a few streaks of gray in his hair are the
only indications that he is forty-three
years of age.
Bomb patient German has collected
largest fionses of worship. First on his
list., of course, appears St. Peter’s, at
Borne, which is capable of containing
ra 000 peop ] e> Nexfc comes Milan Ca
tbtdra1 , , , ’ ith q 7n00 . o. St ' p ar ,r R
Rome, with 32,000 ,- Cologne, , with 30,
000; St. Paul’s, in London, and the
Church of St. Petronius, in Bologna,
w ith 25,000 each; the Sophia Mosque,
in Constantinople, ’ with 23,000; St. John
Jfteran, « p A ^ ‘f’ 00 */* at
Stephens, in Vienna, and the cathedral
in Pisa, 12,000 each: St. Dominic, in
Bologna, 11,400; the Frauenkirche, in
Munich, 11,000, and San Marco, in Ven¬
ice, 7,000. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in
New York^ia given a capacity of 18,000.
A Detroit saloon-keeper advertises
that he has paid $800 fora year’s license
to sell liquors, but that he means to vol¬
untarily restrict hia business within cer¬
tain moral bonds. “To the wife who
has a drunkard for a husband,” he says
in an advertisement, “or a friend who is
dissipated, 1 say, emphatically, give me
notice of such oases, and all such shall
be exeluded from my place. Let fathers,
mothers, sisters, do likewise, and their
requests shall be regarded. I pay a
heavy tax for the privilege of selling
whisky and other liquors, and 1 want it
distinctly understood that I have no de¬
sire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to
the poor or destitute. I much prefer
that they save their money and put it
where it will do the most good to their
families.
There will be an effort during the
next session of Congress to reduce the
fee for patent rights from thirty dollars
to one dollar—the fee now charged for
copyrights. The thirty-dollar fee means
an examination, but it is no guaranty of
the value of a patent, neither is it a
guaranty tnat tfie patent does not in any
way infringe on other patents or inter¬
ests. The expenses of the Patent Office
will be reduced under the new bill to
less than one-fiftieth what they now
are, and there will be more profit in con¬
ducting it, for, while the charge for pat¬
ents is exorbitant, the expenses of run
ning the office are extravagantly large.
The thousands of patents issued yearly
that are never heard of afterward mean
the support of a certain number of clerks
in the Patent Office and a certain num
her of patent attorneys who exist be¬
tween the inventor and the Patent Office.
It is claimed that there would be even
fewer patents issued under the provisions
of the proposed bill, and its effect would
be in the end to increase the value of a
patent-right*
Panama Hats.
Panama hats are principally manu¬
factured in Veraquas and Western Pan
am a. Not all, however, known to com¬
mence isthmus, by that name arc plaited in the
made by far a greater portion being
in Manta, Monte Christi and
other parts of Ecuador. The hats are
worn in almost the whole American
continent and. the West Indies, and
would probably be equally used in
ing Europe from did not their high price (vary¬
$2 to $150) prevent their im¬
portation. They are distinguished
from all others by consisting only of a
single piece, and by their lightness
and flexibility. They may be rolled up
and put into the pocket without injury.
In the rainy season they are apt to get
black, but by washing them with soap
and water, besmearing them with lime
juice, or any other kind of acid, and ex¬
posing is them to the sun, their whiteness
about easily restored. Bo little is known
these hats that it may not lie out
of place to give an account of their
manufacture. The “ straw ” (paja),pre¬
vious to plaiting, has to undergo several
processes. The leaves are gathered
before they unfold, all their coarser
veins removed and the rest, without
leaves, being separated from the base of the
is reduced to shreds. After
having day, been exposed to the sun for a
and tied into a knot, the s'raw is
immersed in boiling water until it be¬
comes white. It is then hung up in a
shady place, and subsequently bleached
for two or three days. The straw is now
ready for use, and in this state is sent
to different places, especially to Peru,
where the Indians manufacture from it
those beautiful cigar cases which some
times bring as high as $30 each. The
plaiting of the hats is very trouble¬
some. It commences at the crown and
finishes at the brim, The hats are
made on a block, which is placed on the
knees, and required to be constantly
pressed with the breast. According to
their quality, more or less time is occu¬
pied in the completion—the coarser
ones may be finished in two or three
days, months. while the finest may take as many
The best times for plaiting are
the morning hours and the rainy season,
when the air is moist. In the middle
of the day and in dry, clear weather, the
straw is apt to break, and this, when
the fiat is finished, is betrayed by knots,
and much diruinislies the value.— Jour¬
nal of Botany.
Origin of the Horseshoe Superstition.
In the very early times, says a writer
in Baldwin's Monthly, among the Celtic
race an effigy of the patron saint, so
common in churches and temples, was
nmc p ^.sed in the dwellings and shops
G f the people, as a so-called “protec
tion” against ill-fortune. these The “glory”
above the head of figures—which
^ a ^ er Avas <d ten rudely carved, in
1 .
dl“olilhcd outai, to
convey the effect of the shining halo or
nimbus frequently seen in illustrations
of the A irgin and other scripture sub
Jects. Often this metal nimbus was of
SfT
cay, the nimbus remained and was sus
pended in some prominent place at the
entrance door or other point command
ing view. The effigies in question were
not nneonuningly seen by tlie side of the
doorway. In course of time the nim¬
bus was much used as a substitute for
the latter, and was sold in shops for this
1 purpose. tradition of good luck,
The as em
j bodied in the horseshoe theory', may
thus be easily traced, since it became a
i common occurrence, in the due course
I of time, for the faithful adherent in the
belief in charms and symbols to adopt
the horseshoe worn to brightness, in the
1 absence of any other, which he nailed
over his cottage-door. Hence apiece
metal of this shape became associated
in the common mind with supernatural
1 presence and care, in keeping with the
belief attaching to the original figure cf
the patron saint.
A COUNTBY THANKSGIVING.
Ay, good man, closo the srreat barn door-,
The mellow harvest time is o’er!
The earth hag given her treasures meet
Of golden corn and hardened wheat.
Von and your neighbors well have wrought.
And of the summer’s bounty caught;
Won from her smil' 3 and from her tears
Much goods, perhaps, for many yeara.
You cornea tribute now to pay—
The bells proclaim Thanksgiving Day.
Well have you sown, well have you reaped;
And of the riches you have heaped,
You think, perhaps, that you will give
A part, that others, too, may live.
But if such argument you use,
Your niggard bounty 1 refuse.
No gifts you on the altar lay
In any sense are given away.
Lo! rings from Heaven a voice abroad:
“Who helps God s poor doth lend the Lord.”
What is your wealth? He’d have you know
To have it, you must let it go.
Th ; nk you the hand by Heaven struck cold
Will yet have power to clutch its gold?
Shrouds havo no pockets, do they say?
He to Id, I show you then the way:
Wait not till death shall shut the door,
But send your cargoes on before.
Lo! he that giveth of his hoard
To help God’s poor doth lend the Lord.
To-day, my brethren—do not wait;
Yonder stands Dame Kelly’s gate;
And would you build a mansion fair
!u Heaven, send your lumber there.
Each st’ck that on her wood-pile lies
May i aise a dome beyond the skies;
You stop the rents within her walls,
And yonder rise your marble halls;
For every pane that stops the wind
There shineth one with jasper lined.
Your wealth is gone, your form lies cold
But in the city paved with gold
Your hoard is held in hands Divine;
It bears a name that marks it thine.
Behold the bargain ye have made;
With usury the debt is paid.
No moth doth oat, no thieves do steal,
No suffering heart doth envy feel.
Doth Bing out the words: Who of his board
help God’s poor doth lend the Lord!
a
h bo bells rinsr out Thansgiviuk nay!
A . w JLij.uuiiAISLb uiuM»rn,ri, IHAAmiylAU. t vr«, T v rvn
buty Thankao-iviim weefatlSe *^k Sates jTomest'adMiH was alwavs a
it seemed to Dear that it was busier this
vear than over RKp for' m-ilrln’t Ihiv n.iifo mi
comSS derstand it either Horn -s Sum? were
home church on M-S v
she heard her mother sav to Aunt
garet, With a little break in her voice,
that she had “no heart for Thankso’iy
she ing this thought year.” Dear knew why, and
ful Thanksgiving, they would have a sorrow
Thanksgiving at all. or, perhaps, no
But Tuesday morning there could be
no doubt that they were to have Thanks
pWng Tiptop th’s called year, ..bonfire” for there made was in what the
a
great brick o\en in the kitchen, which,
since Dear s remembrance, was opened
and heated only during Thanksgiving
weotv. Tiptop mounted a c.iair so that
Av- C< Tm : ' e ,,at0 the °ven, and shouted
, <la T* ecst tdl for
getting iwi that he r had C only U 1 a chair-bottom ? s y » *
noseband hadT^o 1 be^corntkaried'^by
his
rffiMni USt WhCn ShG WftS S ° bUSy SGeding
sticks of hickory wcodTo heat the oven"
holcllll g hn end, tugging it along
With great gravity and an occasional
fall on their toes, and, if they were al
mi J stic:r into ,ho
oven, t then satisfaction r was complete,
Dear paused, in her hurried trips through
the kitchen, to look into the blaz ng
depths and think of Shadrach, Meshach
ana Abeanego.
Then they all stood around to see the
coals drawn out and the oven swept; and
when their mother, holding her hand
far in to test the temperature, solemnly
declared it was “just right,” they
watched breathlessly while the loaf-ca e
and spice-cake and cookies were c-are
fully put in, and breathed a deep sigh of
relief when the oven door closed upon
the Wednesday good things committed morning to its keeping,
the oven was
heated again, and filled with m nee
pies, which came out so delightfully
brown and **o deliciously fragi-ant that
the Gates children grew desperately
hungry, and thought Thankso-iviirr theif
never would come. And such
pumpkin-pies, and and apple-pies, and
tarts, at last, as the evening drew
on, great batches of broWn bread and rye
bread and wheat bread filled the oven
to the door
When the chicken-pie and turkey
were ready for dropped the oven next day, the the
tired mother into low
rocking her looked chair, wearily and taking the Tiptop on
aap, into lire.
“Let me hold Tiptop, mamma,” ^
said Dear, thinking how tired her moth
er was; but her mother made answer
only by holding children Tiptop with a closer
arm. The gathered around as
the twilight came on, and sitting there,
waited for their father to come. Grad
i ally silence subdued fell upon them all, broken
only by the and roaring of the fire
in the stove, the loud ticking of the
clock on the mantel shelf.
back As Dear listened, how vividly came
that sorrowful ni <? ht when she
stood and heard the clock ticking loud
er ana louder, as J.my gently breathed
her He away: and it seemed to Dear
that she would never again hear the
clock ticking in the night without think
°i tbat fT/\ She glanced at her
mot c.ei, and did not wonder that she
had no heart for Thanksgiving this
year. Indeed, she thought tney all had
more cause tor complaint than thanks
Half , b! |, nded , . , bj teai=, , she , started up,
and, going to the window, looked out.
It was a Irostv, smmght mght. There
Wa sno ' v ® u tbo ? round ’ Here
and i there patches ot new ere form ing
over the pools of still water leftby the
he /Zi / V ‘ n /
“Whvdont papa co: 0 ?” „ said ., ^ Tip
“ He will come soon, „ said the motm-r,
habit, soothingh*, and, m obedience to an old
began absent-mindedly humming
Greenville, the one tune she knew, and
hummed by whose aid she had year after year
tlio Gates babies to sleep.
“Is papa at the shop?” asked Dear,
la the first lull in the humming.
“No: I 10 went down to the cotton
mill with a load of bobbins, and he
ought to be here by this time.”
“May I go a little way and meet
him?” asked Dear.
been “ Yes, in the ”—remembering house all day—“ that Dear had
light candle and only first
a make the tea. and
put more wood in the stove, ami brino
me Tiptop’s shoes, night-dress, and untie the
boys’ and wear ycur hood, and
don’t be gone long."’
Dear had closed the outside door,
ready old Ian’s to start whinny on a in run, the when she heard
barn. Papa direction of the
“ has come, and is unhar¬
nessing Fan,” thought she, feeling a
little him disappointed that she could not
meet and ride home. Instead, she
turned to the barn.
At the stable door stood old Fan,
steaming bafh. “Papa as if she were having a < apor
had a load li o me, 1 ’
1 Fan. hought But Dear, as she went up to pat
what was that she stepped
on? A thill? Yes, a broken thill, still
hanging to the harness. Startled,
Fear glanced around the yard. The
wagon was not there, and now she saw
that only a part of the harness was on
the horse, and that was trailing on the
ground.
Before this in her heart had time to
take shape, Dear opened the stable door
and let Fan in, and, carefully closing
the door, ran for the street. The road
over the top of the hill Jay like three
narrow foot-paths, with straight ridges
of turf between, and along these narrow
paths her Dear sped with Hying feet, strain¬
ing eyes to see she dared not think
what.
At the brow of the hill she paused
and looked down. The The road road wound vvound
like a brook down the long hill-side,
turning to the right and to the left,
with here and there steep pitches and
many bars, till it was lost‘in the dark¬
ness far down toward the valley. As
far as her eyes could reach there was
noth ng unusual to be seen; but at her
feet road lay a broken harness strap. Up
tluit Fan had come, and down that
road Dear must go.
<n and on, over bars and pitches,
scarcely hit touching the ground,
stones bv her feet flying before lior,
tJ11 ’ sud <Jenlv, halfway down the steep
est 1 pitch, she came to a place in the
f 0 ^ where the ® tones and tile
, ** ™ ^ ^ plUDg
”
" p Here pj .‘ i lay ‘ /j the _ wagon seat. t A » bhIp, little
fart her on lay two or three planks across
the road - and at the loot of the steep
pitch lay ’ on its side ’ a wrecked lumber
wa o? n ’ which had run backward till it
J ?a i xslze ar >d across the steep gutter by
} lie lo ad-sidc lay a load of plank. whicii
S He/e 'a mriTof the'brJ^n
over belono-in^- wss
rc i n s to the harness ' with 1 the the
1
T p 0 wa o- 0 n was her father’s Dear
^"™tood Iho \m MSlon^tte^ wboro hm- fotbara Tallel
Ml and down iMo the
Nothing moved; there was not even
wind enough to bend the tall dead
grasses by Dae road-side, and no sound
was to be heard in all the still night but
th 0 purling and babbling Seep of the little
brooks in the water-way! that had gullied either side channels of the
on
^ ^ “
“^apa, papa, whore are you?” and
d0WU inl ° ythe vall °^’ brin g in g no an
papa, papa! what shall I do?”
she called again, and as she listened
with straining ears, she heard, or
thought she heard, a low moan near her.
She dropped on her knees, “Papa,
papa, are you here? It was a prayer
now. Surely she heard a sound as if in
answer, and* it seemed to come from
the plank that had slid over the gutter.
In an instant Dear Was over there
peering among the planks. could hear She sound could
see nothing, but she a
plainly now. She tried with frantic
haste to raise the planks, but there was
not strength enough in her small arms
for that, and almost without thought
she dai’ted, not up the hill to her
mother, but down into the black valley
at the foot of the hill, where a cart-path
road. leading ''Along from this the woods dark path, in: ersectcd the
overgrown
with alders, she went till she came to a
low shanty built between two trees,
and, bursting open the dooi', she cried:
“O Biddy McCoy! come quick; some
thing dreadful has happened on the
hill.”
“What is’t yer sayin’?’ her said the
startled Biddy, starting from seat;
but as Dear was already out of doors,
she added, suiting the action to the
-ivoa-ds: “Here, Bridget, tak the babby.
ailc [ you Mike,” to a stupid aaad boy by the
f irej *.get *and ye r lattthcrn come
thin” a i 0 nir;” without waiting followed to put Dear, any*
on her head she
xhe child was already out of sight,
but Biddy went on at a sounding gallop
till she came to the foot of the lailL
There she saw the small her figure Hying
before her and beckoning somethin’ dreadml on. has
“Shure, an’
happened,said the breathless Biddy,
crossing herself as she came up to the
wrecked wagon. “Is any one burted?”
a3 p oar c died her to afraid help. there’s
“I’m afraid_I’m some
one lln( ier the planks,” gasped Dear,
trying »ifere.gurl, sino-Ie-handed to lift the load,
f that’s no way to vrarruk,
tak - the \ one lirst . Mike, yo lazy
sow] g t a]< Qcr wid yer lanthern!” and
her v< ce W en”t down the hillside like
the b]asfc of a trumpet, | starting even the
slow Mike into a ri n .
- There, hould that,” said she, hand
dy’s ing the lantern to Dear, and with Bid
stout arms at one end and Mike’s
a t the other, the planks were ilung over
j n { 0 the road. Dear held her breath,
and before the planks were all off they
could see that a man lav there stretched
j n the bed of the gutter. The planks
were over h m like a i - oof, or the cov r er
Q f a anfk when the last one was off,
Dear saw her father’s fa-e, still and
white , but s h e could not utter a sound.
“ Howlv Mother, help us!” eaculated
Biddy. “Take his feet, Mike, and help
get him out of the wather. He'll be
orowned intirely if lie’s no kilt already.”
p or as he lav damming up the narrow
channel, the choked water had risen
ail( i spread ai-ound him in an ever-i-ising
poo ].
As they took him up and laid him
down in the road, the motion seemed to
rouse him to life, for Bid 4 j, stooping
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over him with the inmorn, saw his etes
suddenly open lie looked about him
in a bewildered way, and then clutched
nt the reins that were still in his hands,
shouting: he “Whoa, Fan, whoa!” Then
ami slowly raised himself on his elbow
seeing the planks scattered about
mm muttered: “Why! she’s got away.”
“Are ye much hurled, sur?” asked
Biddy, if she concernedly, taking his arm as
would help him to his feet.
“I don’t know, I’m cold,” said he
slowly. 1
“ An well ye might be, Ivin’ in all
that wather,” and she tohfhim ho 4
they had found h : m lying in the gutte “
with the planks c:mr him, but not ou
him, and the water around him.
“ Is that, you, De.u-P and has the horse
gone home?” asked lie alter a moment,
seeing him. the little, shak ng ligui '3 beside
“Yes, papa.” and all at once the
convulsive sobs leaped oeyoncl her con
tiol, and she fell on her knees, quite
unable to say or do anything but sob.
The s’glit and the sound of her sobs
did more than anything else to restore
her father to himself. With Biddv’s
help he slowly rose from the ground,
and, after standing a moment, he said,
steadily; “I believe I am all right, 'i’he only’
cold and a little confused, fail
must have slunned me, and but for vour
help, my good woman, I should have
been a dead man soon,
“It was yer little gurl tould us. Wo
shouldn’t have known.”
Ho held his hand lo Dear, and she
caught, it and held it under her chin,
still uliable to speak.
“Do ye think ye could walk, sur?
Ye’ve no right to be staudin here wid
yer wet clothes.”
Thus admonished they began to move.
Biddy and Mike and the “lanthem”
went with them to the top of the hill.
By that time Harvey Gates had obta ned
full possession of himself, ami he bade
Biddy her good night, telling her he would
see on the morrow,
“Now, Dear,” said he, ‘ run home
and tell vour mother, quietly, that the
wagon broke down, but that 1 am all
right, It and will be in directly.”
was not until near noon the next
day, when Dear broke into an in-erress
ible fit of sobbing, lhathernioi her knew
how near death had been to them that
night. She turned very while, and after
we UaVtt
t - ,e t iaU v ! a tot , a ^ - ,
He A hatl little been later down Harvey Gates , came m.
with Luke to oot
the planks out of the road and to SCO
Biddy McCoy. He told a pitiful story
0 p t j ic p 0rer ty j n the little ■ shanty.
.. There will be no Thanksgiving suppl¬
there to-day,” ho said. Mrs Gates
Whl ° ed a IitlIe - She wa? “ lnrilty
woraau ’ and ifc was not easy for her to
understand the blessedness of giving.
“ Aud such a bab .Y- such a Tittle mite ot
a bab T ! ’ continued Harvey Gates, as if
speakint; A tab t„ v? hiraself. " mt<!d Mra
" re P
-
- “did
pausing on hci way to the oven;
3’ 0U sa N Bldd J had a bab N ?
“Yes, and the poor little thing looks
half starved.”
“Mamma,” said Dear, eagerly,
“why can’t we have them all up here
-‘ T hanks<rivincv smmer ’ We’ve ^ ff ot
After ^moment’! hesRatffin she Zi\lb
there ain't more’n fmty o/lifty l oU e°m’
bastecUhe^rkey 3 with ener^v. °° ; ‘ Il’u-
she ca i] e , as she heard him
o-nino-toward brim? the door “telMVddy to
the baby; and here, you take that
tliick shawl in the entry to wrap it up
warm”
And so the McCoy’s had the thefr grandest
Thinkscrivina- manner of lives:
an q no more thankful company the gathered Gates
in Ncw England that dav,
f am Ry feelino- very tender over their
e jt 3 ca p e f rom a great %. calamity.— Times/ Josephine
Baker, in S.
The Beats of the Pulse.
By means of a little instrument called
the sphygmograph, permanently the pulse-beats reeord- may
be accurately and
ed. And now Dr. B. W. Richardson,
LL.D., F. It. S., of London, by adding
a microphone to a splay gmogi apli, winch has
constructed» sphygmoplaone, by feet
the pulse-beat may be heard forty
away. It that the sounds heard cor¬
seems and
respond to those of the heart, and are
three in number, one long two
short, resembling the words “bother it
The three sounds are caused, the first 1 >y
contraction of the ventricle, as it throws
the blood into the aorta, and the other
two by the closing of the valve behind
it and the recoil of the arterial column,
as the contraction (systole) is finished.
It is found that the peculiar sounds of
the heart, when diseased and by which
, its condi¬
the physician's ear ascertains sounds at
tion, have their corresponding instance, those hean
the pulse. As, for valve that al¬
where there is a defective be thrown
lows the blood, which should
forward, to regurgitate into the chamber
behind.
Another interesting fact appears, viz.,
that a person’s pulse is quickened lay jus
laughter, the sound sometimes seeming
almost like an echo of the laugh. Per¬
haps this may help to explain the hy¬
gienic value of a hearty laugh condition. to one m
a depressed and melancnohc sounds
In severe palpitation the arc
all lost in a sort of loud whirr as from a
revolving wheel. ninety . ,
When the pulse-beats is, together are with over the or
a minute, there
th a e the sphygmophone
It k thought that
of tli4? body.— Youth's Companion.
---—-— darkey, seventy , > ears . ..... .
—A venerable relation.hjp w. m
old, had been claiming fanmies ot cote
certain Washington that he -
and by telling them ’
_
promis'ng that he wo l t. t
and exaibit; . .
them in his will „ ‘ j ,
rolls of bills, which he said we e ^
ine, so worked upon then su» p *
ties that he borrowed money r gnria m
left, and was entertained as a . . *
One day he was miweu. w </
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