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VOLUME IV.
Vail roads,
Chickasaw Route,
VIA
MEMPHIS A CHARLESTON R, R.
TWO PASBENGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
memhais, tenn.
PASS. Ex.
JiV UhartanoaKa 830 a m 810 pm
„ gtf venson 10 00 am 945 p m
* eottsboro 10 35 a m 10 22 p m
Huntsville 12 05 pm 1155 pm
Decatur 125 pm 100 am
Florence 12 00 n’n 2 10am
„ £ on “ tl \ 5 31pm 521 am
Grand Junction .. 727 pra 725 am
Arr Memphis 930 p m 945 a m
se 010 connection is made at Memphis
with t-’ae Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad lor all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The time by this line from Chattanoo
ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, is five hours quicker than by any
other line.
Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Pars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Without Change.
No Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
®Sg“EMIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELyNG AT
THE LOWEST RATES.
For further information call on or
write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route,
P. O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Tenn.
Alan Great Mm R'y
Time Card.
Taking effect January 15tb, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail.
Arrive. Depart.
Chattanooga AM 8 25
Wauhatehie >,..8 40 do 841
Morganville 859 do* 1 * 11 999
Trenton 916 do 917
Rising Fawn 937 do 938
Attalia 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 255 do 301
Tnscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, H.Collbran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pans. Agt
NasliTiUe, Chattanooga & St, Lonis R ! y.
A BEAD OF ALTj COM PETITOKS.
BUSINESS MEN, TOURISTS. DCfIPCMDCD
EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMS, It L If! L 111 DL H
Tlie B?i( Ron( to Louisville, Cincinnati. Indi
anapolis, Chicago, and the North, is vf Nash
ville.
The Bed Ki,le to S. Louis and the West is
vln tleliensle.
The Rest Route t West Tennessee and Ken
tuckv. Miss’ssipi, Arkansas and Teirs roints
via MeKemie.
DON’T FORGET IT.
—By this Line you secure tha—
MAXIMUM ton, (or, Sails (actio
MINIIIIIM or Expense. Anxiety.
ITII H I ITI U 111 liolhcr, Fatlttnc.
Be sure to Buy your ticsets over tne
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER need not go amiss; few changes
are necessary, and such as are unavoida.
ble are made in Union Depots.
,Through Sleepers
BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and St. Louis, via Co
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis,
Union City and St. Louis, McKenzie and
Little Rock, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn, Atlanta, Ga.
J, H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn.
W. L. Danley, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. J. W. Russey, W. M.
S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month on Friday jnight on or before
the full moon.
W. U. W. M.
G. M. Cra. pee, Sec’ty.
Trentcn Chapter No. C R. A.'M.,
meets on the third Wed esday night of
each month,
M. A. B. Tatum, H. P.
W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon
day of each month.
G. M. Crabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Olerk
B. P - Majors, Sheriff,
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver,
D. E. Tatum. Tax Collector,
Joseph Kuer, Coroner,
Wm. Morrison, Surveyor.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY.NOVEMBER 9, 1882.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Four negro colleges flourish in Atlan
ta.
Talbot was the only county in Geor
gia that held a fair this year.
A stock company has been organized
at Birmingham, Ala., to build a cotton
factory.
The new directory for Knoxville,
Tenn., places the population of that
city at 17,151.
M, W. Harris, of Perry Ga , has some
Egyptian cotton growing on his place
which is ten feet high.
A lot of Confederate bonds, amounting
to $145,600, was sold recently at Charles
ton, S. C., for sl2 50 per thousand.
Columbus, one of the most progress
ive cities in Georgia, is moving to build
a thorough system of street railway.
George Crane, who murdered his wife
in Daugherty county, Ga., has been sen
tenced to life imprisonment in the pen
itentiary.
The Selma (Ala.) Times says $15,000
has been squandered by Selma people
in matrimonial insurance companies, all
of which has been lost.
At Tirzah church, York county, S.C.,
Felix Jones and Charles Starr fought
over a woman and Jones was killed.
Starr, who is but eighteen years old,'
escaped.
A meteor fell at Mt. Airy, N. C., re
cently, burying itself several feet in the
earth. The mass greatly resembled iron
ore, and weighed several hundred
pounds.
A North Carolina exchange says the
Liberia fever has broken out strongly
among the negroes of that State, and a
large number are anxious to emigrate to
that country.
Two years ago so little dried fruit was
shipped from Tennessee that it was
scarce worthy of note. The business has
now grown, however, to be one of the
most important in the State.
Near Luray, Va., recently, an eagle
whose body was snow white and wings
jet black, was killed. From tip to tip
of its wings it measured six feet seven
inches, and weighed twenty pounds.
The artesian well atThomasville, Ga ’
has reached a depth of 1,100 feet mostly
through solid rock, without getting a
flow of water. Many fine specimens of
fossil sea shells are brought up from the
bottom.
Thomaston, Ga., is overrun with rats,
and it is said the rodents have become a
perfect plague, in the country round
about the farmers are loosing heavily by
the pests, and can find no way to pro
tect their grain or kill off the raiders.
G. W. Hobbs, of Sampson county, N,
C., recently exhibited a very fine sam
ple of watermelon brandy. Its flavor is
good, it is clear as crystal, and has none
of the disagreeable smell of ordinary
brandies and whiskies, but has an odor
like that of bay rum.
The cotton planters of Mississippi are
condemning the Cotton Seed Associa
tions of Memphis, New Orleans and
other places, because they have divided
territory and fixed rates for seed. They
think the price of seed should be gov
erned by the laws of trade.
The suit brought by the heirs of An
drew Johnson to recover 160 acres of
land in the most valuable portion of the
Fifth Ward, in Chattanooga, Tenn., has
been settled by a decision in favor of
the present holders of the property. The
amount involved was about $200,000.
The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion says: A
wealthy English syndicate last year pur
chased 706,000 acres of land in the Ya
zoo delta and they are now examining
600,000 acres of pine land with a view
to purchase. The same syndicate have
bought 3,000,000 acres of grazing land
in Texas.
The French Government has sent Hn
expedition to Florida to observe, from
the classic battlements of old Fort San
Marco, at St, Augustine, the transit of
Venus November 6. The expedition
carry with them scientific apparatus
weighing 30,000 pounds. They have ar
rived at St. Augustine.
Nashville American; The grand jury
yesterday found eight indictments for
murder in the first degree and assault
with intent to commit murder. All
tnese cascs were of recent occuranee.
The large number of murders, attempted
murders and other sanguinary affairs
j which have occurred here are giving
!the capital city an unenviable prom
inece.
“Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.”
One of the most brutal crimes ever
committed is reported from Danvillet
Va., A little negro boy, aged eigh,
years, had a silver dollar, which Dave
Mills, a colored man, coveted. The boy
refused to give it up, and Mills, in or
der to coerce him into compliance with
his demand, caught him and held him
over the escape pipe of a steam engine
until the little fellow was nearly cooked.
Mills has been arrested.
A few days ago, says the Gainesvill"
(Ga.) Southron, Mrs. Martin and four
children undertook to cross the Chatta
hoochee at Faulkner’s ford to the left of
Belton. A little boy had charge of the
boat, and it becoming unmanageable
the little fellow jumped out. At this
Mrs. Martin became frightened, and her
little child fell overboard. She jumped
out to save it. Both were drowned. An
other little girl went overboad and was
drowned. Two others saved their lives
by clinging to limbs and rocks. The
bodies were all recovered as soon as the
people in the neighborhood could get to
the scene. The water was not over four
feet deep where the victims mei.lheir
death. N
A somewhat singular case, and one
whose decision will be looked forward
to with interest, was argued before th 6
Supreme Court at Raleigh, N. C., a day
or two ago. One Scott had been sued
at the spring term, 1878, of the Superior
Court of Wake county, but he died
about a month later. His death was
never suggested to the court, and in
1879 judgment was taken against him,
no administrator having been appointed.
It would appear to any one not up in
law that such a judgment would be
void, but strange as it may appear,
the question is a doubtful one and
is being contested, one side claiming
that it is worthless and the other
that it is binding on the estate.
Floor Coverings.
It is a mooted question whether mat
ting should be taken up and laid away
or left oil the floor under the carpet.
Under an ingrain th<? seams in the mat
ting undoubtedly wear the carpet, un
less three or more thicknesses of paper
are laid between them. Tapestry and
Brussels carpeting are but iittle affected
by the matting which undoubtedly
keeps better upon the floor. Indeed, if
it is left down and covered with coarse
brown wrapping paper, such as grocers
use, put between it and the carpet, it
will be found nicely cleaned bv spring.
We have found stains which resisted all
other applications disappear entirely
under such treatment.
Carpets which have been laid away for
the summer should be carefully exam
ined befo e putt rig down, and if the
moths have invaded them.should at once
be sent to the steam-cleaners. Ingrain
carpets may be nicely mended by
slip mg a patch under the hole and
pasting patch aud carpet together with
stiff flour paste, taking care that the
figures match, and ironing with a hot
iron to make the edges lie smooth and
adhere properly.
The popular fancy for rusrs and ma's
is an economical one, s lice it renders it
easy to hide any worn or faded spots in
the carpet under their friendly shelter.
A faded carpet may often be much
freshened by washing with beef’s gall
and water -one part of gall to three of
cold water. Rub this into the carpet
either with a clean flannel or a -oft
brush: rinse the la her off with cold wa
ter, and rub the carpet dry with a soft
cloth. If there are any very dir y places
wash them with gall %n ly. It will be
wise to speak for the gall a few days
before it is needed. Light colored
Brussels or velvet carpets may b ■ dyed
to form the center of a large rug, or or
a carpet with bright border. Dying
will expose any worn places merciless
ly, for the carpet must necessarily be
dyed all one color; but where the carpet
is a good one, and the light color is ob
jected to, the experiment will probably
prove satisfactory in the highest degree,
giving an entirely new effect, well suited
to the fashion of the day.
Stained floors with large rugs in the
center of the room grow constantly in
favor, and some handsome new houses
have floors of costly woods highly pol
ished for the purpose. Elegant Turk
ish and Persian rugs are used on these,
but the fashion obtains also in cheaper
fabrics, and ingrain and tapestry rugs
are shown in abundance at the carpet
stores, along with the pretty Smyrna
rugs which imitate the Oriental carpets.
—Philadelphia Press.
Didn’t "Want a Pass.
The other day an Arkansaw man se
cured a free pass over a railroad. He
was very much pleased at first, but after
discovering that if injured in an acci
dent he could not recover damages, he
approached the Superintendent and
said; “Look here! how about this
thing?” “What’s the matter with it?”
“What if I get killed on the road, my
wife wouldn’t recover damages.” “No,
sir.” “Then L don’t want the pass. I
ain’t got no wife nor no relations, but
I want to feel that if 1 had a wife she’d
get pay for my death. I’m much
obliged to yer, but I reckon I’ll have to
I walk.” — Arkansaw Traveler.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
A telephone has been run into a
church in Olean, N. Y.
lukut. Thackara has resigned from
the United States navy.
Minister Hannibal Hamlin will pass
the winter at Bangor, Me.
The revision of the Old Testament
will be completed in a few months.
Daniel Sealis, of Cleveland, is said
to be the wealthiest colored man in
America.
The new directory for Knoxville,
Tenn., places the population of that city
irt-17,151.
.Any Roman Catholic who can prove
that the Apostle Peter had no wife, can
obtain a $5,000 p>rize offered in Scot
land,
3IHERE were more people killed and
wounded on British railroads last year
than all the British casualties in the
Egyptian war.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, is lec
turing in Gulf Coast cities on “ Atheism
and Infidelity Tried at the Tribunal of
Reason and Common Sense.”
The bronze statue of the late Senator
Hill, to be erected at Atlanta, Georgia,
will cost about SIO,OOO, of which one
half has already been subscribed.
It is asserted that in the three years
ending 1880, there were 110 fewer than
252 theaters destroyed by fire, or partly
so, resulting iu 4,370 deaths, and about
3,400 injuries.
General Brady, of Star-route noto
riety, is said to have lost $75,000 in op
erating his Canadian lumber mills,
which he is now trying to dispose of to
avoid further loss.
One of the benevolent New Yorkers
who helped introduce the English spar
ro vs here, lias had to remove every
brack&t from his house and go to an ex
t -se uf SIOO for painting.
A new underground is pro
posed for Paris, to cost jmom\ s3o, ooo, -
000. The central station is to be at the
Palace de la Bourse. In all, the lines
will be twenty-four miles.
.*
Miss Gabrielle Greeley has begun
making improvements on the Greeley
swamp at Chappaqua, and has given a
plot of ground to the Episcopal Society
of that village"* on which to erect a
chapel.
In the school of Dedham, Mass
achusetts, the experiment is being made
of using daily newspapers instead of
text-books in the reading class. The
Principal thinks that the plan is suc
cessful.
A book has just been issued in Ver
mont entitled “The Resurrection of
Christ from a Lawyer’s Standpoint.” It
is an investigation according to the laws
of evidence, and it ends with a full ac
ceptance of the resurrection of Christ as
an historical fact.
The Hon. Levi P. Morton, is giving
laudable attention to the interests of the
American colony in Paris. He has re
cently been chosen as a warden of the
American Episcopal Church in that city,
and has become a patron or the “Paris
British and American Schools.”
Jay Gould stopped at Rochester re
cently on his return from the West. On
alighting from a car at the new depot,
he stepped on a sidetrack iu front of a
moving locomotive, and would have been
run over but for the outcries ef those
standing near.
Professor Reese, an astronomer, de
nies that the comet of 1882 is identical
with the comet of 1843 and 1880. From
data given after observation of its orbit,
he says it will not return to our system
in less than four thousand years. It it
not necessary, therefore, to lie awake al
night dreading a catastrophe.
Richard Wagner has sold the copy
right of all his musical productions to
Schott, the Mayence publisher, the con
sideration of the agreement being the
yearly payment to the composer of 150,-
000 marks (about $35,000). This an
nuity is also to be paid to Wagner’s
heirs for thirty years after his death.
And still it is thought the publisher has
made a profitable contract.
Drunkards are suffering in the rural
counties of Wisconsin, where the local
option law of the State enable the total
abstinence people to vote down the pub
lic sale of intoxicants. Heretofore the
traffic has been continued out of sight,
but now the railroad companies have
prohibited their employes from taking
liquor as freight, and the dealers caD
TER MS- SI.OO par Annum strictly in Advance.
therefore obtain only very limited sup
plies. _
Confederate bonds still have some
value in the South. A large quantity oi
them belonging to the estate of Jacob
Barret, of Charleston, South Carolina,
were sold recently at auction. The
whole lot, $149,600, was bought by Ed
ward Moreland at $12.50 per SI,OOO.
The bidding, which started at $lO per
SI,OOO, was quite spirited. $6,450 ol
Confederate bank bills were also sold at
$lO for the lot.
Guiteau’s skeleton is not yet articu
lated. It is ready for wiring with the
exception of the thigh bones, which are
not yet sufficiently bleached. They are
submerged in an ether bath where they
will remain for some weeks before the
process of preparation is completed. It
is not likely that when articulated the
skeleton will be placed on public exhi
bition. It will probably bo consigned
to repose among other ghastly relics of
the Medical Museum, upon which the
eye of an outsider is never allowed to
rest.
The harvests of 1882, with few excep
tions, resulted favorably, and there is
immense wealth in the granaries of the
country. Crop failures were appre
hended, but not realized. The autumn,
too, has been most favorable to the ma
turing corn, and that which the usual
frost might have destroyed was saved by
the prolongation of fine weather. But
iu the face of the great wealth which
lies back in the country in the hands oi
the agricultural classes, business is dull.
The boom that was expected to folio w
the assurance of good harvests has not
been experienced, and merchants in the
country and in the cities are complain
ing of slow sales and slower collections.
Enough is already luJbwn of the radi
cal movement in Frane% to justify great
uneasiness. The conspirators, who are
mostly young men in cities and manu
facturing villages, are united in close
organizations, which long escaped obser
vation by passing for trade unions. In
cendiary papers and tracts are sedulous
ly distributed, aud as each group or fed
eration of alliances has its distinctive
name, the existence of a national league
was not so apparent. A central com
mittee, composed of one delegate from
each federation, has been meeting
monthly at Geneva. There are evidences
not only that the objects of the conspir
ators are akin to those of the Russian
Nihilists, but that one, at least, of the
champions of the latter, Prince Krapat
kiue, is an associate of the French plot
ters. The federations of Paris and vi
cinity are known to have more than
1,200 members, while Lyons is another
stronghold.
Hedgehogs in Confinement.
Now and again for a series of years
we have had captured hedgehogs kept
in the house for the purpose of keeping
down beetles. For some time past we
have been very unfortunate with our
hedgehogs, as, whether from being
captured in traps or from in juries other
wise received, their existence has been
of very short duration. Recently, how
ever, some members of our family,
while visiting at Kheimbeck, near Ham
burg, picked up a couple which have
since been the source of great entertain
ment to us. On board steamer a few
days after their capture they became
quite tame, and ceased coiling them
selves when touched, appreciating the
passing of the hand over their prickles,
as down the back a cat, and having
their heads scratched. Within a fort
night of their arrival they have cleared
the house of beetles, which Sad previ
ously been swarming to an intolerable
extent Thej r enter and leave the house
like a cat or a dog, with this difference,
that they retire to their respective dor
mitories till dusk, after which they come
forth to enjoy a good feed of bread and
butter, the butter being preferred, and
over their meals they have an occasion
al fight, The only objectionable feat
ure, if kept in too close proximity, is
their extraordinary puffing, suggestive
of a toy high pressure steam engine.
We have put a hen’s egg before them,
but they have declined to touch it.
When they desire to enter a room they
scratch at the door, and should they cre
ate a noise by the upsetting of any arti
cle which mav come in their way, it
does not frighten them. Perhaps this
note may suggest to some of your read
ers the kindliness of this gentle and in
teresting animal, and enable the ques
tion to be solved as to whether it does
or does not attack eggs— London Field.
Meteorological Item.
There had beeD a heavy thunder
storm the night previous, and the
school-teacher asked little Johnny:
“Were you not frightened, Johnny,
at the thunder and lightning, last
night?”
“No, sir. not a bit.”
“That’s right. Johnny. You are a
good little Sunday-school boy. l r ou
know wiio causes the storm, don’t you,
Johnny?”
“Yes, sir, my grandfather.”
‘Your grandfather! Why, Johnny, I
am shocked at you. God makes the
thunder and lightning and the storm. ’
“May be so, but the day before tho
storm came up, my old grand atliei
said he felt it in his bones.” Texas
Satinas.
NUMBER 48.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—The man who worships the fortune
he has made is no more intelligent than
the heathen who prays to the little
wooden god he lias whittled into shape.
—lt is an old and true saying that
opportunity has hair in front, but is bald
behind, if you catch her by the fore
lock you can hold her. but if you wait
till she gets by your hand slips and she
is gone.
—A queen bee lays in the height of
the season from 2.0U0 to 3,0U0 eggs In
twenty-four hours. The man who will
dis over how to graft a queen bee on a
hen will make money enough to buy out
the whole continent in six months.—
Ph Hat !e ! ph in News.
—ln a village near Cork, a physician
was disturbed one night by repeated
taj-pings at his door, and on getting up
he found a laboring man. “Have you
been here long?” asked the doctor.
“ Indeed I have,” answered the caller.
“Why didn’tyou ring the bell?” “Och,
be ause I was afraid of disturbing your
honor!”— N. Y. Herald.
—A smart young man asked a gen
tleman from Cape Cod: “What’s the
difference between you and a clam?’
thinking that the Cape Codger would
say he didn’t know, and then the young
man would pity him for not being able
to see any difference between himself
and a clam, but the thing didn’t work.
The Codger took the young man and
swept a path across the street with hint,
and tlicn. after crowding him into an
empty tisli barrel, and yanking him out
again, said: “A clam wouldn’t be play
ing with you in this way. That’s the
difference between me and a clam.”
The young man had no more questions
to ask. Neir Haven Register.
—The Ass and the Cat: An Ass one
day Obser red a Cat ascend a Tree to
Escape from a Dog, and a Bright Idea
entered his head. “When my Master
comes to set me to Work I shall run up
the Tree and Remain for the Day,”
And when the Master came, lo and be
hold, the Ass Started for the Nearest
Tree at Full Speed, and Ascended about
four Feet when he foil back to t he Ground,
and was so Completely Knocked Out of
Mi ape- that his Master found it Impossi
ble to Adjust his harness on him, and
was obliged to Destroy him There and
Then. Moral—Never Attempt to be
too Versatile, and don’t Endeavor to
Dodge Honest Work when yon have to
Work for a Living, lest Peradveriture
you get Left. — R. A. D., in Puck.
A Nervous Tendency.
Not n few are born with an excessive
susceptibility of the nervous system. It
renders them, not only specially capable
of pleasure and pain and of quick men
tal and physical activity, but peculiarly
liable to nervous ailments.
Others may suffer such ailments, if
the cause act long enough and strongly
enough; but the slightest disturbing
causes are sufficient in the r ase of the
former, just as a brief exposure may re
sult in consumption, where one lias iu
herited a tubercular tendency.
Among these ailments is hysteria—
popularly hysterics—the most terrible,
when severe, that can cotne to a woman,
not only for the fearful suflerings and
the little sympathy it elicits, but for the
bad moral qualities that often seem to
be developed by it
Females are more subject to it than
males—in the proportion of about
twenty to one only because the nerv
ous element mote strongly preponder
ates in their constitution, while their in
door and sedentary life does not give
them that toughening which generally
comes to men from their employments.
Allied to hysteria is catalepsy, a
disease in which the person becomes
wholly, or partially, unconscious, and
her limbs take on a waxen stiffness and
remain in whatever position they are
placed. One form of catalepsy is
trance, in which, while, lying perhaps
apparently dead, wonderful visions are
'seen.
Other diseases are St. Vitus’ Dance
(chorea), which has been described as
“insanity of the muscles;” neuralgias
of various kinds, some forms of epilepsy,
6pinal irritations and insanity'.
As this nervous temperament, with
its countless possible ills, has been in
herited from one or both of the parents,
a special obligation is placed upon the
latter to check, from tne first, the ac
tivity of their children’s nervous system
by bringing them up to simple habits,
to ample bodily exercise, proper ac
quaintances, practical and sober read
ing, instead of imaginative; by guard
ing them against coquetry, extravagant
display and sensual indulgence, and by
accustoming them to domestic duties
and to a quiet and natural employment
;of body and mind. Youth's Com*
j panion
Incredible, But True.
The rapidity with which a Texas ne
gro can hide away a watermelon is
wonderful, and the number of water
melons that he is able to absorb on the
shortest notice baffles the numeral sys
tem. Not long since, when watermelons
were fashionable, an Austin gentleman
i bet a friend that a hired colored boy
1 could eat a forty-pound watermelon in
four minutes. The boy was called and
: told the nature of the bet. He asked
permission to retire, which was granted.
On his return, he announced his readi -
ness to accomplish the eclipse of the
melon in the given time,
i “ Why did you go away?”
“ I went away, boss, jess to try ef I
could make de trip. I’se been practicin’
on two thirty-DOund melons, and I kin
put de forty-pound melon out’n sight
wid a minute to spare,” and he did it.
but he wrs dii*'oointed at not getting
a steady conn for all day. —Texas
Sifting