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Calta County Oeurisr.
J. E. MEECSIl, - Proprietor.
LEARY. I GEORGIA."
GENERAL, NEWS.
Mississippi has ouly twenty-three pres¬
idential postoffices.
The stock shipments from East Ten¬
nessee are increasing. ,
There are 1,503 more women than
men in Adams county, Mississippi.
A deposit of rich phosphates has been
discovered near Selma. Alabama.
Savannah is about to build a $290,000
hotel by subscription.
The largest crop of wheat ever sown
in East Tennessee has been seeded this
fall.
Tlie financial condition of New Or¬
leans is said to bo better than ever be¬
fore.
The number of Indians in the Evor-
glades of Florida is estimated at eight
hundred.
The Georgia owners of tho Refugio sil¬
ver mine, in Mexico, refuse to sell it for
$500,000.
A farmer of Suwanuee county, Flor¬
ida, has gathered two crops of peaches
from his trees this yoar.
Calhouu county, Alabama, is aglow
over the proposition to move the court¬
house from Jacksonville to Anniston.
The grand jury of Craighead county,
Arkansas, declared their jail a nuisance,
and recommended that it be torn down.
The sum of $5,116 has been donated
by the trustees of the Peabody school
fund to the Florida school system this
year.
Tennessee has a population of 1,541,-
000, and pays about $8 00 per capita as
revenue to the state and general govern¬
ment.
Thirty thousand dollars have been
subscribed for the Newnan, Ga., cotton
factory, and Dr. A. B. Calhoun has do¬
nated the ground.
The South Florida railroad has used
up the timber to such an extent that
there will not bo enough to famish boxes
for the shipping of tho orange crop.
Northern capitalists will locate two ice
factories, each with a capacity of ten
tons daily, in Florida. There will be
one at Tallahassee and one at Gaines¬
ville.
The Southern Telegraph company will
reach Augusta with their wires by the
middle of next month, and from that
point Avill operate in every city of impor*
tauce in tho South.
Spanish mackerel and some other fish
only to be found in the spring have re¬
contly been abundant in the waters about
Savannah. Tho fish dealers say the
cause of their appearance at this time is
the late long drouth.
The contract to build a pedestal for
tho Jackson statue, on Capitol Hill,
Naslmlle, Tenn., has been awarded to
Mr. P, Swann, of that city. It is to bo
of East Tennessee marble, of a beauti-
fill pink color, and fourteen feet in
height.
The work now going forward on the
1’anama canal has built up an entire
tow’u there, with a collection of work¬
shops, warehouses and connecting rail¬
ways for the reception and distribution
of material. The working force will be
augmented in December to a total of
15,000 men.
Tho lumber business in the swamps of
the 5 azooand Tallahatchie rivers, Miss.,
is assuming immense proportions. Be¬
sides the grant amount of cypress lum¬
ber that is beiug gotten out,
of walnut logs are being ent for northern
manufacturers of furniture and other
articles in which walnut is used. One
Boston Ann alone has a raft of 3.000
logs, ready for shipment, at the mouth
of the Tallfthateliie river.
The worth of the early vegetables sent
north from Mobile county, Alabama, last
year, amounted to $264,000. About tho
same amount will bo realized this season.
The principal vegetables used are cab¬
bages, tomatoes, potatoes, beans and
P®ftft- Less attention is now given to
cauliflower, lettuce, radishes, and cu
cumbers, as all except the first are raised
in the North, under glass. Several capi¬
talists have recently put considerable
money in the business of market garden¬
ing at Mobile.
Florida oranges a*e moving slowly on
account of their maturing slowly. Job¬
bers are making their contracts for the
fruit by the box instead of by the thous¬
and. The crop of one grove near San¬
ford, estimated at four thousand boxes,
has been sold at |2 10 i>er box, the pur¬
chaser bearing the expense of picking
and boxing. It is is estimated that fully
one half of the crop wall go to the West.
From a quarter to a third of the crop
went west last year, but this year the fa¬
cilities are better and shippers are better
acquainted with the market.
The Washington monument has reach¬
ed a height of three hnndred and eighty-
four feet, and cost, thus far, as follows:
.Expended by the mouument association
upon the old shaft, $230,000; expended
by Colonel Casey, $710,000; leaving a
balance on hand of $190,000 from the ap¬
propriation by Congress of $900,000. A
reporter who ascended to the top last
week found men shifting the massive
machinery and preparing to lay the 380th
course. The workmen, he says, ran
around the edges with the agility of
flies, and trusted their lives to the safety
netting that surrounds the top.
EDITORIAL VOTES.
The total revenue derived from dram¬
shops and wiue and beer licenses fre >m
September 1 to January 1, under the
new high license law at St. Louis,
amounts to $255,128, an increase of
$138,697.
The reduction of the public debt dur¬
ing October avis $10,394,789; decrease of
the debt since June 30, 1883, $39,58 4,470.
Cash in the treasury, $374,347,501; gold
certificates, $82,228,940; silver eertifi-
, coo .f.J’j/. r 7 o in. iLi, «-] tmea.cs . ot , nop , s:t,
cues, . r , ■ ,
$12,‘620,000; refundingcertificates h'>20,-
850; legal tenders, $246,*681,013; frae-
tional currency $6 890 ’ 303 '
China is a country of marvelous ex¬
tent We consider the United States,
Avith 3,000,000 Bquare miles of territory,
a very large country. And so it is. But
China covers about 5,300,000 square
miles in its three parts—the Eighteen
Provinces, Manchuria, and the Colonial
Possessions, including Ili, Koko-nor and
Thibet. The first of these divisions
alone is that to which other nations have
given tho name of “China,” and is the
only part entirol ysettled by the Chinese.
The Cubans, it is said, are about to
make a snpreme effort to cut loose from
the dominion of Spain. General Bona-
chea has sailed from New York with an
expedition, and others are to follow.
The friends of Cuba in tho United
States arc very active, and the revolu-
tionmts have great hopes of success.
4h iff negro slaves on the sugar planta¬
tions are said to be ready to join in a
revolution. Meanwhile, the Spanish
government is in a state of alarm, and
extreme measures are to be taken to nip
the new movement in tho bud.
A New York man has imported a pair
of Indian mangooses, the first that ever
came to America. They are a little
larger than a good sized rat; their bodies
are covered with broAvn hair, variegated
with white stripes. The importer will
breed these auimals and sell them as
vermin exterminators. It is claimed
that they have no equal in that business.
One mangoose will rid the largest house
of rats, and they destroy snakes Avith
wonderful avidity and are the inveterate
enemy of every species of vermin. But
they aro gentle and harmless to human
beings,
'I he grape crop of Ohio, representing
ft great industry, is a dead failure, and
California will have to be depended on
for tho main supply of domestic wine.
Besides furnishing an immense American
trade > California seuds groat quantities
of wino !lbvoa ^ every year. It is there
manipulated, labelled and sent back to
the United States, to be bought at fancy
prices and sipped with the knowing
smile of the pretentious American epi¬
cure. It is certain that central Califor¬
nia is now producing the richest quality
to he found anywhere. The art of wine
making is not properly cultivated, and
the state thus loses much of the possible
value of its fruitful vines.
A quarter of a million cases are now
the number issteadily increasing. Much
the larger share of this great crop of liti-
gation arises in the commercial centers
P,™. £**. »,«.
forty per cent, of tho whole number,
The eases are rapidly disposed of, not
over ten per cent, being carried beyond
a year. About twenty-eight per cent, of
the cases are settled by actual trials,
forty-two per cent, ou judgment by de-
faultand tMrtv per cent, on compromise. ’
Tho m , numl (r of c failures ... is . each . year
about six thousand, and bankruptcy pro-
eeedings are rather slow. They do, hoiv-
ever, generally end in a dividend.
The postma8tor-general has received
the annual report of Joseph Blackfan,
superintendent of foreign mails. The
total weight of mails dispatched to the
countries in the postal union, with the
exception of Canada, was 1,532,990
pounds, an increase of 329,114 pounds
over the weight of last year. Of the let¬
ter mail dispatched, 41 per cent, was sent
to Great Britain and Ireland, 23 per
cent to Germany, 27 per cent to other
countries of Europe, and 9 per cent to
postal union countries and colonies out¬
side of Europe. Of the printed matter
and samples sent, 41 per cent, was sent
sent to Great Britain and Ireland, 17 to
Gerntany, 21 to other European coun¬
tries, and 21 to postal union countries
outside of Europe. The amotmt of mail
dispatched last year increased seventy
[ier cent, over the amount sent in 1880.
Printed matter increased seventv-foui
per cent, over the same time. The sum
paid for sea transportation of mails was
■{310,522, an increase over the cost oi
1882 of 130,368, or fifty-nine per cent
over 1880. The aggregate amount of the
balance credited to this country by other
countries on account of mail transpor¬
tation, is $145,777. The sum paid by
the department to other postal union
reentries on account of mail transporta-
cion was 480,745. It is estimated that
the revenue collected in the United
States from unpaid matter, received from
foreign countries, exceeded, the amount
of unpaid matter sent to other countries
{123,333. The estimated amount oi
postage collected in the United States on
foreign mail matter is $2,078,913.
Something About Leeches.
Something . mysterous „ tied in
up a
white jar attracted the attention of cus-
tomers at a prominent drug store, and
the druggist good-naturedly untied
the cloth and took out some black
wriggling worms. They were round or
elongated at pleasure, and started off
when touched with a pencil at a rapid
P^estrian gait until headed off and
dropped back into their damp porcelain
Pu- the
“They are le chcs,” explained
druggist, “and Twenty come all the way from
Holland. years ago, when
blood letting was in voge, they were in
great demand. Now they are only 7 oc-
casionally called for. ”
“In what class of disease do they 7 use
them ?”
“Disorders of the head; if there is a
numbness or pressure of blood on the
brain, chronic headache, etc. They put
them on the temples and let them suck
the blood until they are thrown full, when they
fall off. Salt is then on them
and they disgorge, and are ready for
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“How often can they be used?”
“A number of times. There is one
lady who keeps a pet leech. When her
head aches she applies the reptile to her
temples and sits down to read. When
it falls off she drops it into a glass of
sa t water, and if her headache is not
relieved, applies it again, until some-
times she has used it tffiree or four times
and lost some ounces of blood.”
A more convenient way of using the
leech . It slipped into
is nowm vogue. is a
glass bulb with an orifice smaller than
the reptile’s body. fastens Through this it pro¬
jects its head and upon the hu¬
man flesh, in which its banquet is wait¬
ing. Usually the patient is too ill to care
for the repulsiveuess of this remedial
agent, whom Webster thus describes:
“A cotyloid abstraction worm of largely blood" It used is for
the local of a
flattened form when elongated, thickest
at the posterior end, has two suckers
and ten eyes arranged in a horseshoe
form, and is of an olive-green It color, va¬
riously marked. has a traingular
mouth iu the anterior sucker, at each
end of which is placed a half-moon plate
set about the free rim Avith of^liese transverse
teeth. By the retraction jaws a
stellate incision is made, through which
the leech sucks blood till it is gorged
and then drops off.”
There are plenty of leeches in the
neighborhood of Ecoree and other river
hamlets, and the boys often collect fifty
or one hundred and try to dispose of
refused, them to the drug usual stores, thing; where then they they are
as a
offer them at the Chinese laundries,
where they cook them with rice and
macaroni. There are some specialtiss
who use them for a valuable oil they aro
said to make. In New York there are
artificial ponds where the imported
leeches are kept. The ivholesalo drug¬
gist buy them in tubs of black earth
packed almost solid. They "keep only ‘them re¬
quire air and moisture to
alive. When the cover is taken off
their jar, they swarm out as lively as
crickets, and use their ten eves to good
advantage in getting away as rapidly ns
possible. Bovs call them blood-suckers,
and have a dislike to their acquaintance
when fishing, as they fasten on their
bare feet witn a tenacity that allows no
chance of removing them till they have
filled themselves with refreshment.
Advice to a Young Man.
*£‘«*jesl-z san
little Bible ou his owu account, he makes
a mortifying failure of it. He is caught
a ? d * a one of the time it
2* , bL^to as
prepare it, he is exposed, and his hand-
made addition to the Bible is swept
the other rubbish ot other coun-
century proofs of its truth ; it needs the
w ord of no man to establish its genuine-
J 1688 ’B lias stood by itself, “an anvil
that has worn out mauv hammers,”
through century after century, un-
changed and unchangeable. Every time
a man manufactures a new verse or a
new chapter the we counterfeit. know r it is not The genuine, Bible
we detect
has uo need of the supporting prop of a
fraudulent ark or a leather Deuteronomy.
There was a complete Bible centuries
before Shapira happened, and there will
be the same Bible ages after Shapira and
crumbled his patent Deuteronomy indistinguishable have together dust.
into
The Bible doesn’t need our help, our
testimony, our indorsement, And if
there had never been discovered in ail
the world a bit of parchment, a piece of
broken pottery or a scratched stone, the
Dible would be just as strong as it is
to-day, and men would believe just as
firmly and trustfully in its truth. Don’t
you worry, my boy, because Shapira’s
ancient manuscript was written with
London ink, and don’t fret because the
ark in the with glacier Pittsburgh turns out nails. to be That put
together frauds the Bible and its his¬
all the on
tory are so quickly and easily detected impossi¬
should only counterfeit" convince you how
ble it is to the work of God.
Wait until some man fools us with an
artificial moon; and until some philoso¬
pher stores away the sunlight in parlor
lamps, before you believe that man can
successfully imitate what man never
made.— Burdette.
The Little Old Lady Traveler.
We stop at a qniet country side that
has recently achieved a station and a
little old grandmother is respectful comes among distance us.
A farm wagon at a
with a careful old man holding the bits
of the fat and sleepy horses, who do not
even dream of being frightened. The
little old lady calls out something to the
distant old man, who smiles in the
doubtful way of one who doesn't under¬
stand a word, and she would like to lin¬
ger on the platform and say more part¬
ing words to the elderly daughter who
has come to see her oil', but the brake-
man gently assists her within and slams
the door. She gives a little stagger as
the train moves on, sinks into the first
vacant seat and turning to the
window nods to her daughter,
who smiles back reassuringly. A kindly
gentleman leans forward and tells her of
a better seat further down, and carries
her large covered basket for her, and
partly lowers the blind where the sun is
streaming in. People are very kind to
the very oid and very young; it is the
forlorn middle-aged who are permitted
to care for themselves,
Our grandmother sits down with a
chirping “thank ye”—she is not of the
age that says “thanks”—and looks cu-
rioualy about her. Possibly she had
never rode in the oars, for her old eyes
are full of childlike wonder and surprise;
and she has quite a long explanation
from the conductor before she yields her
ticket to him, and she watches him tear
off a part of it as if he were doing a great
mischief. She even appeals to a fellow
passenger-after the smiling official had
passed on—to know if every thing is all
right, and calmed bv his cheerful assur-
ance, she smiles too, traVelin’.” and admits that
she “ain’t used to
A quaint picture she is !—her shirred
black silk bonnet is twenty years old if
a day, but it has a fresh ruche inside
and glossy new strings; the black silk
shawl pinned across her breast with a
round gold brooch is of the kind you
remember seeing in your childhood, and
her dress is a soft silken alpaca that can
be an old lady’s best dress for many
years and give little sign of wear. Pern
pie sitting near her, if given to noticing clean
trifles, can detect a faint, homely, lavender,
odor as of dried mint and
She looks at the ingeniously in hung the lamps, up£r
the pretty transparencies passes her hand gently
windows, and
over the velvet upholstery-smiling smile. Per- a
little retrospective sort of .
haps she is thinking of the old
days, of the time years and years ago
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Why He Brought Them Back.
A small boy with an intelligent face
went into a fruit dealer’s store, and de¬
positing a box of grapes on the counter,
stood looking down.
“I don’t want the grapes, my Httle
fellow,” said the dealer, “I’ve got as
many now as I can sell, Take them
away. ”
“They are yours,” the boy said, look¬
ing up.
“Mine?”
“Yes, sir. Yesterday evening I came
along here and took this box of grapes
from a stand at the door. I knowed it
was stealin’, an’ my mother always told
me not to take anything that did not be¬
long to me, but I couldn’t help sister it. Just
before I left home my little that
was sick said : ‘Oh, if I had some grapes
like them I saw down town, I could eat
’em.’ We didn’t have no money, an’
nobody knowed us, ’cause we had just
moved into the house. Mother washed
clothes, but when sister got sick she
had to quit. When I took the clothes
home the lady told me to come
next day for the money, but
when I went there the house
was shut up and the people was gone,
so we didn’t have any money to get
grapes Avith. Mother said ‘never mind,
we would git some money after a while. ’
I saw her go into the other room, an’
when I watched her, she had her face
buried in a pillow an’ was prayin’. I
come away down town an’ stood aroun’
a long time waitin’ to git a chance, an’
after awhile, when you wasn’t lookin’,
I took a box an’ ran away with it.”
“But why did you bring it back?”
the dealer asked.
“Because,” replied the boy, choking lit¬
down a sob, “ when I got home the
tle girl was dead .”—Arkansaw Trav¬
eler.
He Was the Man,
It was on a Western railroad. The
conductor had been his rounds, and
taken a seat beside a very quiet and un¬
assuming passenger. full tram,” finally observed
“Pretty
the passenger.
“Yes.”
“Road seems to be doing a good busi-
ness.
“Gh, the road makes plenty of money,
“But what?” asked the passenger, as
the other hesitated.
“Bad management. It is the worst
managed line in this whole country.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s so. The board of officials
might know how to run a side-show to a
circus, but they can’t tackle a railroad. ”
“Who is the biggest fool in the lot?”
“Well, the superintendent is.”
“I’m glad of lighted that,” said “I the passen¬ afraid
ger, as his face up. was
you would say it was the president.”
“Suppose I had?”
“Why, I’m the man Wall Street
News.
“Doctor, „ „ ’ said a man to his physi-
cian wtK) had i ust presented a bill of $50
for treatment during ready a recent illness,
“ 1 ba T e not m ? oh money. Will
y ou ^°t take this out- in trade ?” ‘Oh,
y? 8 ’ ’ cheerfully answered the doctor;
think that we can arrange that,
Wbat 18 y° nr business?” “I am a cor¬
net player.” was the reply.— Harper's
Bazar
The Tailors. —The tailors of Phila¬
delphia have passed, in a mass meeting
a resolution to “maintain the appren¬
ticeship system, to the end that the
skilled labor which is so imperatively
demanded in our particular trade shall
be transmitted unimpaired to onr sac-
lessors. ”
THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.
•VHAT WE FIND IN TI5K IirMOROL>
PAPERS TO I.AL’UII OVER.
A PIONEEB EXHIETTOB.
In the early days of Michigan, when
a county fair was to be remembered,
one of the southern counties in Michi¬
gan held a fair one fall at which one of
the exhibitors was a man named Pro-
ther. He had an entry of poultry, an-
ffilier of cattle and,a third of vegetables.
When the judges in poultry came
aronnd Prother met them with:
"Gentlemen, here are the biggest
hens, the fattest geese and the heaviest
mium.” turkeys in the State. I want first pre¬
“We’ll see about it,” replied one.
“I want first premium or I’ll lick the
three of you half to death 1” announced
Prother in a strictly business tone, and
it may be said right here that he didn’t
get the premium and that he kept his
word. Two of the judges were battered
until they couldn’t see, and the third sot
away after having two teeth knocked
out.
When the judges on cattle came
around they turned up their noses at
brother’s old cow and two half-starved
calves, but he placidly remarked: driven
‘'Gentlemen, that’ere cow was
480 miles to reach this State,* and them
calves can’t be beat for blood. Their
grandmother was owned by the Empress
‘
of France.”
Something was said about hiscareless-
ness in not entering the stock for the
bone-yard instead of the fair and he am
sweredwith: .
“Gentlemen, I’m willing to take sec-
and premium, and if I don’t get it you’d
better hire some one to hold me!”
They neglected his advice, and in due
course of time had their noses driven
back or their eyes put in mourning,
Mother was telling the judges on veg-
etables what they might expect incase
be did not get a premium, when he was
arrested, but only after he had pounded
two constables. Within three weeks
after the fair he had mauled the Presi-
dent, run the Secretary into the woods.
and pulverized the Treasurer, and be-
lore the end of six months he had licked
all the judges but two, and was hunting
for them with great energy when he got
before the courts and was sent to jail for
a year. -M. Quad.
wanted to be a pitcher.
“ Who is this gentleman that papa
calls a daisy ?”
“He is a ball player, my dear.”
“ But papft said he llad a ‘Phenomenal
cnrve ’ and that they couldn’t hit him.”
< < YeS) my dear< -
“But, mamma, he stood up straight,
and I didn’t see any one try to hit him.”
“Papa meant the ball, my dear.”
“Yes, mamma, but I didn’t see the
ball. 1 ”
“Neither could the batters, my dear.”
“But what makes every one talk
about him and call him a ‘daisy ?’ ”
“Because he’s the new pitcher from
Chicago, whom the manager of the club
has just secured at $3,000 a season.”
“But is he so very smart, mamma ?”
“Only as a pitcher.”
“But cau’t he really -write his own
name, mamma?”
“So they say, my dear.”
“And yet they give him $3,000.”
“Yes, my dear.”
“When I grow up can’t I be a
pitcher, mamma ?”
“Perhaps, my dear, but why?”
“Could I get $3,000?”
“Perhaps.”
“And not have to learn to read or
write ?”—Burdette.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
They were discussing mistaken iden-
tity : “Hi was ’avin’ a turn down Pell
Mell one harfternoon,” said Mr. Gordon
Gordon, “not doing anjtliink, when harsked an
old gyardsman came hup hand
rne hif Hi couldn’t raise ’is pension,
Bless me art. says I, ‘Hi m not hin
the Pension Hoffice. me boy.' ‘But/
says e, *m lud Juke, cawn’t yon give
me a letter to the Ome Secretary ? Hi
was with your Grace at Waterloo.’ ‘But
^ not the Juke hof Wellington,
says Hi. But blawst me, the fellow
wouldn t believe hit, don’t ye see?”
Sucre bleu, said Monsieur Bienelevee,
! I know zat myselef. I was once in ze
jardang of ze Twilleree, an’smokeen
mon cigarette, wen I pass ze gar oi
1 Lmpr-r-rer Napoleong. To mygr-r-reat
constarenayshong ze gar pr-r-resent tol
arm, an give me ze saloo. I ze
offeesnre I was no 1 Umpr-r-rer. an’ he
seem vare mooch sar-pnse.” “Yes, “Why, it
was funny, said Mr. Spriggs. Broad-
I was walking the other day down
way and a fellow ought have known
me, too—a fellow came up and slapped
me on the back, and says he, ‘Why,
suffering Moses ! when did you get
back ! Life,
HADN’T CONSULTED HIM.
“You should learn some trade, my
son, said an Austin geutleman to his
young hopeful. ‘ ‘Bricklayers are getting
$6.50 a day, while lawyers can’t afford to
ride on the street cars.”
“Pa, why didn’t you learn a trade
when you were a boy ?”
“That’s not only a silly, but also an
impertinent question. I didn’t learn a
trade when I was a boy out of regard
for your feelings. I wanted to give vou
an opportunity to say that your father
was a gentleman.” helped now,” replied the
“It'can’t be
boy, moodily, “but I wish you "arranged had con¬
sulted me, for if we had for
you to be the bricklayer, I could
have been the gentleman myself.”—
Austin Siftings.
Evading the Law. —A Pennsylvania the
judge has recently put a stop to cu-
rious method of evading the liquor law
in the petroleum regions of that State.
The sellers have been openly the" retailing
without license, under sign of
“Bottling Works,” and claiming the
right to do so by virtue of a statute that
bottlers of ale, porter, or beer, not
otherwise engaged in the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors, shall be allowed to sell
the same by the bottle, provided Judge it Elwell is not
drank on the premises. law repealed by
decided that this was a
subsequent enactment.
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
WORDS OF WISDOM FROM I'ARA.
DlSii HAUL..
Brother Gardner Give* us His View of
Charity as It Is and as it ShGtild be*
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
“De Secretary will read de follerin’
communicashun,” said the Fre.-ident as
the meeting opened: friends
Bro. Gardner— Several of ynr.r
desire to know how you stand on the
question of charity this fall. Does the
club propose to donate anything to local
charity this winter?
Respectfully. Four Friends.
“As to de fust query,” said the Presi¬
dent, as he drew himself up, “de an¬
swers dat I have heretofore given tons’
stand fur de answer now. De charity of
Detroit has bred a race of beggars who
will nebber leave ns. It has added to
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do heads of famflies: ‘Idle de Rummer
away an you shall be supported durin’
de winter ! Go ask de Poo’ doan’ Superintend-
ent if de same persons return
y’ar after y’ar? Ask him if men an’
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of Whalebone Howker, dar was a death
de odder day an’ two chill’en war’ left
alone in de world. Charity left ’em alone
in de house until de landlord turned ’em
into de street; den charity walked off an
Brudder Howker took de orphans home
an’ will keep ’em frew de winter,
“Up my way dar’ am a sick man who
wants medicine—a boy wid a broken leg
who wants nourishin’ food—a woman
who has had a long run of fever widout
her rent failin’ behind or her chill’en
goin’ hungry. Let de cry of distress
come to Pickles Smith. Judge Cadaver,
Samuel Shin, Rev. Penstock or any odder
member w4io kin spare from his purse
or his table, an’ it am promptly an-
swered. We know our n ay burs an’ we
are naburly. We found headquarters, no hospitals, an’ es-
tablish no beggars’ odder cities send in
issue no call for to
deir paupers to be supported, bed, an’ but our
naybur finds us at his sick mis¬
fortune finds our purses open, He who
has charity in his heart need not go
huntin’ far de poo’ to relieve an’ fur re¬
porters to puff deir gifts. Charity dat
rides aroun’ town on a fo’-hoss wagin
will see a workin’man starve an’ feed a
loafer who has spent half liis summer in
de saloons. Let us drap de subjick an’
proceed to bizness.”
Traveling Without a Ticket.
A “Traveler” writes to the London
Truth: “Perhaps the following story read*
may be interesting to some of your
ers, if they should be under the neees-
sity of traveling without a ticket: The
other day, on the-Railway, a man
got into one of the carriages and pres-
ently began talking to a fellow passen- gentle-
ger. After a time he asked the
man whether he had heard the story
about how a man traveled without a
ticket. The gentleman said he had not;
so the man asked him to lend him his
ticket, that he might show him how it
was done, and began fiddling about with
it, but pretended that the story had sud-
denly slipped out of his head, but that
he would lie sure to remember it soon.
After a time the train got near Loudon,
and as the man still could not remember
the story, he returned the gentleman his
ticket. This struck the eentleman as
being very curious, and so he watched
the man. When the man got to the
barrier and was asked for his ticket he
said he had given it up, but the ticket-
collector denied it, and after a good
deal of altercation the man pulled about some
silver out of his pocket and was
to pay for his fare when he suddenly
said (producing a small piece of ticket)
that he could prove that he had given play¬ up
his ticket, because he remembered
ing about with it in the train and tearing
off a small piece, and that if the ticket-
collector looked he would find a ticket
with the piece tom off. On looking, the
ticket-collector found a ticket with a
piece torn off, and of course immediately
begged the man a thousandpardons. ”
A JUDICIOUS NEGRO.
Old Uncle Mose had never been to the
theatre, but having stuck up bills for a
theatrical troupe and having gallery, received he a
complimentary ticket to the
concluded to attend the performance. his
He went dressed up in Sunday
attire. He had not been inside of the
theatre more than half an hour when he
emerged shaking his head.
“Don’t you like surprised the performance, door-keeper. old
man ?” asked the
“No, sah, I don’t like dem perform-
auces no way ye kin fix it.”
“Why, what’s the matter?”
“Nuffin much, ’ceptin’ a ’oman on de
platfum got to talkin’ ’bout family ’fairs
wid de husband ob anudder ’oman, an’
I didn’t perpose to stay. Myole marster
in Yirginny got shot plum ter pieces for
doin’ dat berry foolishness. Dars allers
trouble whar dat sort ob foolishness is
gwine on, an’ Ise a judishns nigger, I is.
I don’t want ter be shot in de ’eg by
mistake, or be brunged upas a witness ts.”_
in de case when it strikes de com
Texas Siftings,