NY ONLY ARREST.
A few year# ago I had a great desire
to enter the United States service. I
didn’t care in what capacity just so
so long as I got my living from Uncle
Sam. Mentioning my desire to the
United States marshal for the north
ern district of Florida, it was gratifi
ed. I was at once ushered into the
presence of the United States judgi,
held up my right hand And, witli a
heroism worthy of a better cause,
swore to support the Constitution of
the United States, though at the time
I was hardly able to support my own
constitution. Taking my formidable
commission and a supply of station*
ary, I went hark to t he village of
Dea d I'ine to await orders.
Dead Pine is a small town so nam
ed because tiiere is a large live oak in
front of the principal saloon. Dead
Pine is not an imposing place. At
that time it had a little depot, some
Stores, some mortgaged farmers
and three saloons. It also had a
malarial back country, witli plenty of
“bad men" living in it, a couple of
half starved churches, and some
Ctiristains loaning money at from 2
to any per cent, monthly to their
struggling neighbors. It was also the
center of a lumber and turpentine dis
trict, where prominent citizens steal
state and government timber and call
it business.
In a few days my trouble began. I
received a portentous document from
headquarters at Jacksonville. It had
four impressive ami sinister looking
official stamps on the envelope, and
i i . , _ i i i..
i/I ur me tw rvv uiii i; m u.u »<•«»? wwuj
of Thomas Perkins, supposed to be
lurking somewhere in the country,and
biing said body before tiie United
States court, then in session at Jack
sonville. By a careful reading of the
somewhat diffusive warrant, I discov
ert that Thomas had been guilty of
penury in violation of the statutes in
such cases made and provided.
An hour later the followiugdispatch
was handed to me:
Order or me Unitkd Status Makshal,
Jai ksosvim.b. l'la.
To United Slate* Deputy Marshal, Dead
Pine. Fla.
Umleratand Perkin* desperate charac
ter; get help necessary; take him dead or
alive.
Marshal.
That dispatch made me very indig
nant. Get help indeed! Not I! I was
0 feet 1 inch in height, weighed 185
pounds. If I couldn’t alone arrest
one man I was unworthy to wear tiie
bright red ribbon on the lapel of inv
vest labeled “United States marshal.
Besides, it I got help, there would
not he enough glory to go around. J
wanted it all for myself, and deter
mined to firing in the prisoner-elect by
my own unaided efforts, or occupy
one of tiie mislit coffins at tiie village
undertaker’s.
Tiie first thing was to locate the
gentleman, who, suffering from some
affection of the intellectual liver, had
resorted to perjury. 1 located him.
Six miles from town, in a veritable
wilderness, two miles from any other
house, lived, moved mid bad his be
ing, Mr. Thomas Perkins, in whom
this great government of our was so
intensely interested.
The next thing was to make rtlres
sary preparations. I made them. In
the morning by the bright light, of a
beautiful winter’s day, a stout wagon,
drawn by two sturdy and reflective
mules, was drawn up in front oi the
village hotel, which was very inap
propiately named “The Delmonieo.”
On the front seat, was my negro driver
and pilot, Bid. On tiie rear seat sat
A. «. .. I ’ .1. 1,1_I... A ..A .
VKO V* I ilVk l ». 1IUV4 ■» o-imnvv • • • ,T
teet was a Winchester rille
and a double barrel shot gun
well loaded with buckshot, al
though I was oppressed with
a harrowing doubt as to whether I
hadn't put the buchshot in lirst. In
the pocket of my overcoat was a
(smith «fc Wesson double action sixty
eight, and in the hreast pocket of
my inner coat a bowle knife that
had once belonged to a Texas evange
list.
A curious crowd had gathered to
see me off. They knew my mission,
though none of them knew who 1 was
alter. They cheered me with novel
suggestions And well meant advice.
"I say. tap ” said one, "ye'd better
take a bottle ot whiskyeriong wi' you.
There ain't no barroom whar you're
join.' "
y* My driver looked approvingly at
tins speaker.
"He won't look very pretty cornin'
liack here with a lum-r driv cl'ar
through his chist, will he?" said all
ot her,
" Twouldn't do fsr him to gn out
bar hunt'll' at night with that red
tiiiss shinin', would hit''"
That last remark hurl my vanity.
My nous was rathsr r*d, b it it com*
trot,i ait undue partiality for slewed
toin-atuee.iiol (torn any tit tier ceil**
••Hheti you lira at turn, lap watch
that ort mule's liiud -«v. ter lie s gum'
ter kick." said a long, lank ie-ar (Hi
the outskirts of ttie ernsnl.
Keen the negroes had •urns’innj to
•ay. Approachuw MSwIth deference,
one of ttwin whispered to mv conti
den Mali*
"Itoee ye I bee! tkiltt fntii i-.ygwr
e(«a ad- ivni' ter Uie •••at, fer suua's
he hear* a cap pop U»- « gw me ter jump
out an' run Mas d» d»htl."
Ihii yw e the mere* a stimulating
touch wi the atop and away we went
for two m ties out we had
rood roads. Att«r that, the
k rooghitl an t w« •« that t ha t #*e»
MSli. htniwM, tauwie.i toots, kills gut
(lee. swamp, toduroy, and the couhijf
, eotMmtw»mmmme know what ho. a*a I*
a ley,liar pea.a, va kit the tWm tn’i
of dyspepsia and lo»e, acini',Inca to
the iwIMg uii ttwstlet* N«aw we
wets in ths Wilderness, a•uiimn, »Sh*(
silence, broken only by (ice t re an ping
ot the n.'iVe. the creak 104 « las w **t
ma and Its ki uatn ml the d «er,
oho aas about had drunk ohen »e
I
started. It a pine wilderness, and the
underbrush all gone, no song of bird,
no scent of (tower, no flutter of insect
life, a strange, dreary desert of forest.
Here was majestic trees aged with a
century of growth. < lazing at their
stately tops, one could well imagine
that in days njonn perhaps under the
very trees we were passing, “Lo, the
poor Indian,” had once Assembled to
shake dice to see who should pay for
the beer.
I was absorbed in these meditations
when the wagon ran into a huge stump
and away I went sailing out into space.
The shot gun about this time decided
that it was tired of riding and came
along also. Neither of us were hurt,
and wo resumed our seats in the
wagon, the gun rather unwillingly I
thought.
Wo wore now getting near tlie camp
of tii# enemy ami a rattier curious
sensation took possession of me. Of
course it was not tear, hut. my heart
evinced a curious disposition to desert
its pericardium and homestead the
lower portion ot my throat. I cock
ed both the ritie and t lie shot gun,
placing thorn sideways in the wagon
to satisfy the manifest uneasiness of
tlie driver. The revolver J took out
and piaced on the seat ov me, cover
ing it with a superabundance of coat
tail. The knife f loosened <n its
sheath. About half a mile fur
ther on J saw approacning one of
ttie most villainous looking men J hud
ever seen. He was of negro blood,
neatly white, of herculean frame, ar.d
if not a born criminal and assassin,
should hav e had ins face indicted for
malicious libel. He carried a glitter
ing ax on ills shoulder and eyed me
insolently.
The driver turned around with a
whisper, "Hat's him, boss.”
My knee* now partook of the
general excitement, my hand trembled
as if my best girl was about to refuse
me, and my blood seemed determined
to go into the cold storage business.
At. t Iip ut< mi* t 11 ■ 11* ;i.i i nvcrtt'lipliniiii;
conviction reached me that this was
not the man I was looking lor, and
that It would he impolite to risk a
suit for false imprisonment.
As tie came opposite tile wagon, my
driver drew up and assumed the
initiative.
“Is your name Perkins?”
“Naw”, was the surly reply.
My thermometer immediately re
sumed its normal condition of 72 in
the shade.
“My good man,” said I, carefully
concealing all weapons, “1 am looking
lor one Perkins; can you inform me
where that most esteemed gentleman
lives?”
“In that house over yonder,” he
said, pointing about a quarter of a
mile distant, where a thin spire of
smoke emphasized a tumble down log
house.
When about 100 yards Irom the
house I halted the team and gaveu
few briel directions to ttie driver.
With the rille at full cock I cautious
ly approached the house. It was of
rough logs very rickety, with the usu
al stick and mud chimney. Outside of
the smoke from that there was no
sign of liie about the place. Hilently
I came up to the back door, with a
vigorous kick sent it of? the leather
hinges, and covered with the rille a
figure dimly seen in the semi-darkness
of the room.
“Throw up your hands!” I com
manded. "If you stir I'll shoot.”
From the tigure, in shrill, frightened
accents, came.
“For de Law’d’ssake, watcher mean
white man. I ain't dun riuflin.”
The gun dropped from my nervous
hands.
Thomas Perkins, alleged desperado,
was an old crippled negro, about 178
years old, half paralyzed and wholly
stupid.
Three hours afterward I drove into
Dead Pine witli my prisoner, to be
greeted with ironical comment and up
joarioiis laughter.
1 'Mi lie KM r» IIIIU II, t CHIU vrnxi
big lellow. while another, after eyeing
Perkins a moment in silence, said, as
he moved off:
“Yes the thing is alive, I saw its
tongue wiggle.”
Four hours later I was in Jackson
ville, and delivered my prisoner to the
United .States marshal. As the ma
jor audited my accounts and drew a
check for my expens -s he was shaking
with ill suppressed laughter.
"What do you see so funny about
this?" I inquired, rather tartly,
“I was wondering what the judge
will say when lie sees him," was the
reply.
Just then the judge strolled in. He
gave a long at the prisoner, then at
me, and inquired mildly, hut with a
merry twinkle in his handsome eyes:
"Hid you have much trouble hi se
curing this despe.ado, Mr. Officer?"
The major faiFy roared.
I took my check and left the room.
I have not seen prisoner. United
Stats* marshal, or Jacksonville since
that eventful day. ami I Mad Pine
shall know me uu more forever.—
Hamilton .lay in iMtroil Free Prc-e.
In Petticoat and Sunbonnet.
| There is now living in Pickens
( minty, tia , a man who, during the
| rsbelhnn, donned Ins wife's dress.
I kept Ins lace closeiy shaved, and
wore- % lug »niibonnet. In order to
I .1 V Old Iwung cons. i tpled and sent to
i the trout. Tie uth.ste In seaivh of
I recruit* Itecpiently visited the louse
1 and asked hi* wile where her husband
was. and at the wry moment he
imini he seen wo.king ill the field In
female garb Ity the tune lie had
' sum n il w en of htS Wile s dresacs
| he tew ante 11 fed of aia**|Uefa liaj,
i enlisted and I** ante a good soldier.
• • •
A Star limit Innovation.
Fiank If tie hton that popular
; novelist of iai.n u> qodhtt humor*,
J i» held rwspoiwihi* lor a most starthaj
| iMiuisi>uu in In* way of wedding
! trip*, rwentljf Introduced is,Vt asking
ton thsr a certain wedding
,eienuutv, «l Wl>-. U Mr klmiles was
press it. Instead of the >uuiq coop s
fotng on a aeddnsg trip, the br.de’e
,..«>♦>lf sore stmwere*! anb rwe and
obi stippsr# amt bavshed on a two
•sab*' sills, while IMi Inrale and
groom were left in i o**r*rioa of (ha
I he Frank Use.is a
I
———s^—s——
Horrible Chinese Verdict.
Advices have been received by mem
bers of theChinsMeniony in San Fran
cisco to t he effect i-xecutive
clemency is manifested, Chang 8*u
Yin-Tixu, who is well known among
his fellow countrymen in the I nited
States, will he put to death by the
horrible process known as "slicing,”
The method employed in this execu
tion is to fasten the miserable offend
er to un upright stake, securely fasten
his hands and feet, and slowly slice
large portions of flesh from different
parts of the body until death puts an
end to the victim’s sufferings. At
first the pieces sliced are small, a por
tion from the arm, another from the
leg, then a finger or |>erhaps un ear.
Then the breast is sliced 1111)9! the vi
tal parts are reached. As a method
of torture it is indescribable, the than
elapsing before deal h intervenes run
ning from three to six hours. ( hang
was a member of t Ini Chinese colony
in Han Francisco some years
ago, hut returned to his native laud
in 18H0. Ill luck seems to have come
upon him, for be was glad to find em
ployment as a day laborer in the de
partment of the k o-bian, in Shansi.
He was in great linanrial straits, and
made several applications for a loan
to Chang Wangia, a wealthy second
cousin. His importunities finally be
gan to border oiiblackmail, and Wane
fa secured fils arrest and commit nest
ed with the authorities with the view
of obtaining a public prosecution.
Friends, however, came to t fie prison
er’s assistance, and as a result of in
fluentu.1 intercession he was released
from custody. Smarting with a sense
of injury, however, he determined to
have revenge, and the day alter his
rebn.ee he purchased four ounces of
arsenic. Tliat night, in disguise lie
managed to enter his cousin's house,
and mixed the poison with a pot of
flour. The next, morning's breakfast
was prepared from this flour, and two
hours later dx out of seven member*
of the family were dead. (Suspicion at
once fell upon Chang Ssu-Yin-TIzu,
who at once «'ecamped. His where
abouts were discovered after a long
search, and lie was arrested, and con
victed, Strenuous efforts were made
by ins relative# to have tiie punish
ment fixed at imprisonment for life,
but the court held tliat the law winch
make# the murder of three or more
persons in the sume family punisha
ble by death by the slicing process
should fie rigidly upheld and enforced,
and that there were no extenuating
circumstances in the case.
France’s Sinking Shore.
I.ornlon (ilobe.
•lust lately.on the coa#t of Brittany
one of those geological discoveries ha#
been made which suggest# to the mind
period# of time making the longest
human life appear but a span, and
exhibiting processes quite dwarfing
tiie most ambitious human achieve
ments. This is the disclosure, by the
displacement of a mass of sand, of a
forest that must have been buried for
some twenty centuries at least. Tiie
situation is just opposite Saint Malo,
at the foot of the cliffs of Saint Kuo
gut and St. Luuaire. Tiie forest is
supposed to have once extended from
St. Malo to beyond Mont Saint Michel.
This discovery is considered of great
scientific interest, as it affords a re
markable illustration of the gradual
sinking of the French shore. The pro
gress of this sinking during the last
2,000 years is clearly shown in an
old map found at the Abbey
of the Mont Saint Michael. Withni
no more than seven centuries back as
many as seven parishes are said to
have disappeared by the subsidence
of this region. And in the liny of
Douarnencr. there is known to have
existed in the tiftli century quite a
flourishing town called Is, the scene
of the famous tragical legend. Even
now, at low water, may be seen the
old walls of Is, which are called by
the inhabitants Mogber Gieghi (wall
of the Greeks). The people of the
country pretend that they can some
times hear the old church hells of the
submerged city ringing with the mo
tion of the current.
French geologists estimate that the
gradual sinking ot the soilof lirittany,
Normandy, At torn, lielgium and Hol
land is not less than seven feet a cen
tury. At this rale it is calculated
that in about ten centuries all the
channel ports wilt he destroyed, and
Pans itself will have become a mari
time city. In another ten centuries
it is predicted that the French capital
itself will have become entirely sub
merged, excepting, perhaps, that the
tops of the Pantheon, of the Arc de
Trinmphe ami other such monuments
may be discernible at low water by
the |aople who will then be living.
- —' • Oi
A ytititiK woman in Brooklyn jot
a bail frijht th* other tutfht. Hh*
lut l t»mi out ui the country ami ha<!
hroojht •oiiiv «*#ti*|»04l« of the
The** are •oinvthinj like
fiiormou* b**u |»«nU, on Ihe OO table i
they are noil ami tfalvaty to the j
touch, Vitkin Mi a I»inltttn4e of :
•mall yii# • • -I it## ihi4v on ‘
a table Mt her room. *1*1141 uuiU il«« j
I aeiit *♦»»%* elwhy to •h'#|*» ‘ In th* j
' >I«ni4 ^ a*1 ami mihI It* ol the tojht« ‘ j
•tie y a* tk»uel by an j
VllilieUlll aKh h AA4 iullt)«eluUiAAl I
iy t#| the muiii4 >1 aometlltilj 4rof
l>mj u|fOit the l»#*l ami Boor. A* I
iidht tuuiHti Aii.t where AAI a AeCOMIH* |
i v|*of I, amt tb «lro|«|Uoj ol a hat j
like Aiita4 |*atlh km ol |*i a*te- |
| vtitt o i tti no mhhimhk * -ky T* * |
yoto*a ai*man i|iian from lor bed |
ant nwheel from the room IN re* j
i u*mm| to no lack lot I oat n»;ht a' I
| i#*«t Aitt) «|uarte9a h*%4 to la |
I |'»o»«*t %! »‘H eotetioai her »»AA ttMMM I
m tha atom**** mood that ha t I
! a 4utvM ol I he a-hit **>a *e»4 ha-I j
I ’ joo# oft aa4 Uh*i eon tent a hewn I
•« ar00**4 th# room, Th#** I
I o#te a it tana ♦•mho* * ary alter# - on the ?
tah, 4UIUU, iah*a * na*f* aw4 Boar* \
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I DOUBLE WEDDMB.
y- ■ - -
Almost everybody knows old man
Btringfellow. He i« ft tall, lank per
sonage, with shoulder* like a drome
dary's. His face is long, like that of
a horse, and he nn§ black hair,streak
ed with gray, on his head, with a tuft
of the same on his chin. Old man
Btringfellow wears neither mustache
nor whiskers, being very particular
to shave himself at least twice a week,
undergoing some pain, and twisting
hie long face into all manner of con
tortions—which a circus clown
would give $1,000 to be able to im.
itate—during the operation, owing to
the stiff nature of the crop,he is reap
ing and tlie dullness of the instru
ment with which lie works. He sel
dom wears a eoat, going in hi* shirt
sleeves summer and winter, only
changing the gai merit of hickory for
the garment of wool as tire seasons
vary—hi* jean pantaloons being
hoisted up with suspenders—galluses
he calls them— almost to hie armpits,
making him l<>ok at, a little distance
like soiiio queer animal with very long
legs,
lie lives in a log cabin of one room,
with a shed attachment, and ha* n
wi'e and six children, equally divided
as to sex. In the room, which is
roomy enough, he and Mr*. Btringfel
low occupy one bed, and the three
girls—Nancy, Gin, for Jane, and
Merier—another, and hero all the
cooking is done in t lie wide clay fire
iiliice of the stick and mud chirnnev.
The shod attachment accommodates
the hoys, Hill, Hen and Jim.
Occasionally a belated traveler will
stop at the Stringfellow mansion and
ask for a night’s lodging, lie will he
invited to “ ’ light an’ come in,” and
when he has done so will he treated
with primitive hospitality.
These people are poor and unedu
cated, hut there is a spirit of independ
ence about them that nothing can
conquer, and so long as their potato
hanks hold out atd their razor hacks
come home, to pick up a lit
tle fat in the liehl alter the crop is
gariiced, and then pay tribute to
tiie larder, they care not for king nor
kaiser. They i.ever treat anybody,
no matter who he may be, as any
thing more than an equal, and would
show no difference to the czar of all
the Russians should lie chance to
travel their way, with all Ins cortege.
Hliould he stop he would he invited to
‘•'light," and the hoys would ask
about the price of potatoes in town,
the old woman inquires as to mar
ket value of eggs, while the girls stood
by and giggled, and the old man put
in a request for a chew of tobacco—
that is, if they did not mistake the
whole affair for a circus as, like as
not, they would. They had walked
fifteen miles once to see a circus—all
except the old woman, who rode a
shaggy pony about as big as a year
ling calf, and witli more hair on his
hide than flesh under it.
I happened to he a guest of the
Stringfellow family once. Finding
myself near their residence one night,
when it was so dark that I could see
nothing but the glimmer of a light in
their cabin, I rode for it through
brush and brier, and when I reached
it halloed in the usual country style.
Immediately the light, which came
from the open door, was shut off by
two human forms, and I was bid to
“ ’light an’ come in.”
The family was just preparing to
eat supper, and a savory mess of
pork and potatoes weie being dished
up. 1 was invited to join them in
their meal, during which I was pump
ed pretty dry of all I knew about the
affairs of the town, which was too far
on to be visited by any or them very
often. But to this 1 did not object,
knowing that such information as I
could impart was a!! 1 would nave to
pay for the entertainment o! myself
and beast—which tiad been led oil by
one of tlm boys to share the stable of
the shaggy pony—sol let the ripple
of my talk flow in a continuous cur
rent, turning on my inevitable valve
at tiie same time, to give a sparkle to
plain facts indispensable to make
I hem enjoyable.
Killing the evening 1 gathered from
the whispering and giggling going on
among tiie young folk t bar there was
some mystery alloat— something m
which they all seemed more or less in
terested—and when they had gone to
bed (tils old woman had retired im
mediately after aitpp-r, getting into
one of the beds without my knowing
anything about it until I heard tier
snoring) old man Strm.deilow enlight
ened me alter a rather peculiar fashion
of hi* own,
“Well, stranger," lie said, *'I di*ru
inemlarr y«r name. 1 reckon you'll
stay,"
I had already told him my name
half a doom times, and lie had often
disremenitiervd it, «u I did not repeat
it, but told him t proposed to etay a
fact winch I supposed m- was already
cognisant of.
"Yes," he sai l, rubbing hislongiaw
hone thoughtfully, "I 'lowed y*r
w'utd, an' I m g ab uv it; y»#, I am.
fur the mo' comp'ny the better on
etch a ctkebw. \ • ril he welcome,
et ranger, an' a lionarnl §t**a\**
I wa* a little |>us*lwl, an-l began to
think thao’d n-aa wo* nut »is liy in
his right mind, hut I mid nothing.and
he went on
"You *•*»" l«e east, loosing at tlur
ire. while tie tail 'd, "ga>* an* btiyi
will git married sooner ee later, in
thar ain't no use a thro a in' uhst.ckw
hi thar way. an *u when Maria?,that's
the youngs*', amt Snu I*, the * the ed
*•', teiiw au to * m* that they 'iow*d
to take not* thorse ,** hVgmteats,
• halt wae I'h* tlander an' I’ete l4ru»
•fe why,*a>* I,'aft tt»b' w«' g* ahead
an' Its it to *uu yerea'tea,' fur though
tty t her one uy tinn,t ho) » cornea u y • e
good etm a i* lit# at I ns* r». I ret s
is' they'* 'test •- gem i ee ; *» II p. *
i|> he.eaUmu ' *,t they itwne like I
said, an’ ter-morrer’t the time it’s to
be.”
“Ah,” I said, "jo there’s to be a
wedding.”
“Yes,” he replied, still looking mus
ingly at the fire; "the niarrige giar
merits heve been prepared an’ the
gues’s heve t>een bidden, an’ though
you wuzn't bidden, yit., es I said afore
you'll be welcome an' a honored
gues’."
As I was in no particular hurry 1
concluded to accept an invitation so
cordially given, and laid down on the
mattress that had been spread out on
the floor for my accommodation,
thinking of the happy go lucky way in
which people in the country get mar
ried.
About noon the next day the guests
who had been bidden began to ar
rive—some on loot, some on long leg
ged hoi ses and some on short legged
ponies, while others came in rickety
wagons drawn by oxen that looked as
though they might have been import
ed from the kingdom of Lilliput, anil
from that time out there was fun and
feasting—that is, if potatoes and pork
served in various ways can he said to
constitute a feast.
About sunset a man reeling drunk
rode up and was helped oil his horse.
“Mow are yer iedge?” said mine
host.
“H'llo, BtringHer," said the jedge,
looking round stupidly at tin assem
bled guests, wno were laughing and
giggling, '•wliich’s th’ ’eused?"
“Why, you ain’t in eo'rt. jedge,” re
plied Btringle low. “This here's a
marriage fens' yer’vecome to—yer've
come here to marry my to gals, Nanc
an’ Merier.”
“That’s so,” enid the iedge, rubbing
his head. “I knowed th* wuz. sornp’n
I’d come fur. We b'gin."
“Well, come inter the house fust,"
Maid f lit* old riin.ii.
"All right, e'rn'on," nml with a lurch
And a tack the speaker got inside the
door, when he fell sprawling on the
floor. He was helped up and given
the hack of a chair to steady himself
by.
“Th’s 'ere's th' dogondes’ oner’nes’
do' I 'ver seed, Ktringl’Ier,” ho said.
".St an' ’p, pri»’n<r.”
"I tells y<-r this here ain’t no co’rt
jedge,” said old rnan Htringfedow, be
gining to get nettled, "an’ my gals
ain’t no prie’nere.”
"Oil, well, ’t’s all same,” said the
jedgy. "Stan’ ’p, gals, ’n hole ’p right
haii’.”
“Wat’s thet fur?” asked Nancy, as
she and her sister and the two bride
grooms stood up in a row.
"Guilty nr not ’—began the jedge,
and then recollecting himself: "Do
you,” pointing at Nancy, "everlast
in’lysw’ar to take this here young
f’lt-r.” pointing to Merier’i affianced.
"No, I don’t,” said the girl; "thet’s”
"To lieve an’ t' hole,’, went on the
jedgs.
"No, I don't,” repeated Nancy
stamping her foot.
"Yer don’t?”
"No, I don't,”
"Then t’s case nol pros, an* this
here eo'rt ’iourned.”
"Look a here, jedge,” said the girl’s
father, "1 done tole yer this here ain’t
no co’rt—this tiere’sa weddin’—that’s
w'at it is, don’t yer onnerstan’?”
"Yesh, that’s all right, ole man,”
said the jedge. "Y'see I knowed 1 lied
a case t’ try an’ got sorter confused,
lie's g’ hack an’ b’gin over, Wat’s
weddii/'s name?—men w’at’s gal’s an’
I’ler's name?”
"Thar's two gal’s.” said the old
man. "Nanc’ an Metier Ktringfeller,
an' they’s a going to marry Dick Dan
der an’ Pete Pringle. Thar they
stan’s right afore yer, now go ahead.”
“All right. D'you, Nanc’, take this
here Pete—”
“Noi I shan’t,” said Nanc’, "ho
ftin v
“Yer don’t ail’ y’ shan’t: thet 'pears
to be’bout all yer’re guilty ’v, pris’
ner,” said the jedge, relapsing into
court jargon, "an’ don't see noth'll’
t’ do butscharge you. Give’s a drink,
Htrinjl’ler; co’rt's ’journed.”
Stringfellow was at his wits’ end,
though his son. Hill, said it was as
good as a circus, and the company in
' Mermen uv ) uc.iuniru
with the general performance. Tiiere
appeared to he no possibility oi keep
ing the ’edge on the right tack, and the
court wae about to i»e adjourned sine
die sure enough, when 1 suggested the
propriety of complying with his re
quest, and giving the legaltunetionary
a dram, which might brighten him up
long enough to enable him to go
through with the ceremony properiy.
Accordingly he was taken into the
shed room, where the buys slept, and
in a few minutes came out again with
his face wreathed with smile. I may
use tne expression in the very trutii
In this case, for every feature seemed
to he twisted tins way or that with a
sn.de of its own, so that lie presented
a most comical appearance of would
be affability.
lie was hurried to the front while
the steam wa< up, when he went
through the usual formula in a dis
jointed way and immediately collap
sed and wo* pat to lad. where he iay
snoring through all the noise made hy
the ) H ill.' Iieop », only shouting out
occasionally, "hileme n co'rt,"
The It ultc lasted it I ll'ght. tnersbin,
I front Which ' he beds had been iwiut•
j ed. Is'iu transformed into a ball
I room, at one t otaer oi which an old
I w.pp vd 'Sv-rii s- raping a rasping
j riadie and cubing out the fight** ot
1 the dance with a stentorian raise
tha*- was somewhat ffadtevi. Hob
sit Hoggs in New Iti Iswns Times Memo
era l»
' Tbs coming i»**t|ui|«i,(" mm ar«
laid, "wilt not punt any oiitrhte
j m*td».*‘ We were aider fb* imp re*
sleii that it Is the guuu new • paper
•Hal doe* nut print any advertise
iiamts, «• ml that reason «• that the
why it is piiiq boston Ttann q t
ui*e»li here*" she es« laiat*4i **Thle
la krtti's. Von charge tne twenty hv*
, I'eute for that card ml barons, and
hat k s.cs' I * o-t d get t iws> Nit tea
urn.* ‘ Ves, ws'eui, bat it* th us
1 at the » sgaut uniats you .»‘ thi..s»d
I at wtth every tard of Initton#/ *
Decline of Famous Families.
Among the descendants of Thomas
Plantacenet, duke of Gloucester, filth
son af Edward Ilf., was Stephen J.
Penny, who was, not many years ajo,
sexton at St. George’s, Hanover
square, Lon loti.
Among the lineal descendants of
Edmund of Woodstoek, earl of Kent
and sixth son of Edward I., occurs
butcher and a toll gatherer; the first
a Joseph Smart of Halesowen, the lat
ter a George Wllmont, a keeper of the
turnpike gate at Cooper's bank, near
Dudley.
A story is told of a scion of the great,
house of Frquhart of i.'romarty who
was necessitated by bis extravagance
to sell his inheritance, and who. sink
ing itep by step to the lowest depths
of wretchedness, came at. last, a wan
desinii beggar to thu door which had
once been his own.
No race in Europe surpassed the
Plantauenets in roval position and
personal achievements, and yet not
to descend further I ban t.liu year J0H7,
the great-great grandson of Margaret
Plantageuet, daughter and heiress of
George, duke of Clarence, followed the
trade of a slide maker of Newport,
Salop.
Fraser of Kirkbill relates tnaths
saw the earl of Tarriuair. cousin of
James VI., begging mi the str-'ets ot
Edinburgh. "He was,” says Fraser,
"in an antique garb, ami wore a
broad old hat, short cloak and pan
nier breeches, and 1 contributed to
ward Ihs relief. We gave him a noble.
He was standing with Ins hat n:T, and
received the piece of money from my
hand as numbly and thankfully as
the poorest applicant.”
One of Cromwell's granddaughters,
after seeing her husband die in the
workhouse or a small HufTolk town,
died herself a pauper, Laving two
daughters,the elder the wife of a shoe
maker and the younger the wife of a
butcher’s son who had been her fellow
m.Twim-. rtiiuui*;i wnver i/rum
well'* daughter* had two children, of
whom the son became asmall workin*
jeweler,and the daughter the mlitre**
of a Hinall school at Mildenhn.il.
Before the time of the protector the
Cromwell family possessed estate*
equal to those of the wealthier peer*
of the present day, and the great Oli
ver himself inber.'ed considerable
property, which, augmented from pri
vate source*, made up a total euffl
client to maintain hi* family perpetu
ally in easy circumstance*. But with
in a century after In* death Tiioma*
Cromwell, Ills great grandson, wa* a
grocer on Hnew l*Ml and hi* son Oli
ver, the last mule heir, an attorney in
London.
When the twelfth earl of Crawford
wa* imprisoned in Edinburgh castle
to restrain hi* recklessness and prodi
gality lie left one child, a daughter,
who, having no one whatever to look
after her, received not a scrap of edu
cation and wa* allowed to run about
like a gy psy. Hhe eloped with a coin
iron crier, and at one period of her
life lived by mendicancy. Charles II.
granted her a pension of #500 a year,
but owing to her utter degeneracy, it
proved more hurtful than beneficial.
The male head of this family died in
the year 1744,in the capacity of host
ler in an inn at Kirkwall in the Ork
ney islands. The estate had been dis
sipated by the "spendthrift earl," hi*
lather, and with hi* patrimony he,
Lord Lindsay, earl of Crawford,
bought a small property, on which lie
resided for some years, until through
adverse fortune, thin went too, and to
save himself from starvation, he wa*
fain to go as a hostler.
Tea and Temperance.
An interesting token of the growth
of the temperance sentiment in Great
Britain is furnished by a correspond
ent of the 8t. James Gazette. He
shows that during the past 47 years
tiie average annual consumption of
tea per capita of the entire population
lias increased from less than a pound
and a qua: ter to five pounds, and of
cocoa, from about an ounce and a
quarter to nearly half, while the use
of coffee has fallen off from 17 ounces
to Iff ounces. The total consumption
of these three leading non alcholtc
driiiKs has thus increased nearly
three told; tiie exact figures are from
ffH.OH ounces to 90.04 ounce* per
capita annually. This may not in
dirate a fully corresponding decrease,
in the consumption of strong drink;
hut it must mean a considerable de
crease, and it prove* that, the people
are learning to appreciate the "cup
that cheers but not inebriates."
Consistency. Thy Name Is
Woman.
He wa* tier third husband and it
ooked as if hi «i u drifting away
"Henry," *sid she, weeping, "have
you any last request?"
"Only one," he murmured "Bury
me in the country under the willow*
"Henry," said *he, "! hate to refuse
your last request, hut I've alwavs
hunted my husband* m the city, and
it wouldn’t t>e fair to make an ex
ception. Now, would it, dear?
Afterward she wa* sorry for her
roncwtriiiy. as Henry got so mat
that it broke the tw er amt lie
recovered. —Brake* Maqacue.
It la quite povetbla that **'• tv* not
venue to the end of i to min ring pro
wet*, and that the u*e of e-ectrutty
may not supervene all 0t tier mat<rta w.
Glasgow has recently wtGt-*weed the
test of a new thornmant o' attract r di
ner y power. It i* obtam«4 by * be
eeapwrtton of tar. vrerksore, or othe#
h ydro vat bon u*i» The rteme is pate
white very gtiist* a d van be t art led
op to M.uiei candle power The n
I iim is lao cent* |esf hour per I,‘tut
candle tavwer. It a is the t«todo» n*
cd attilWial iijht and heat |hat # vd»
Uaiiott k<o for the l*«l twefcty dv*
yew re mc>« twatked |>rquw
It It oa the mho -to* wm »t>ad atoee
tor *ome time to ume The eo l w»#
i e treo find and tree iirbt* tor the |eo
(de ae w* nos have tree . r illelo
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