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My Old Iiovc
I saw a face in the Btrects to-night
That brought up the buried years
The face of ibe woman I might have wea
And it filled my heart with tears:
For she loved mo well, and 1 loved her, too.
But a shadow fell o'er our way;
And I linked my fate with someone else.
And she is- my wile to-aay.
few regrets
T-nnir vpnrs have oassed. and but
Have linjrerea iniuuu uij ,
For the wife I have wed is gooi and true.
And acts a womanly part.
I daro not think 1 had happier been
With the sweet flret-love of my youth.
For she I have wed is a treasure of grace.
And has served me with love and truth.
But the face that I saw in the streetsto-nlght
In my soul such dreams have stirred
That I shrink before my wire's kind gaxe.
And am stung by each tender word;
And the children who troop around my knee,
And deem me so good and wise.
Little reck of the thoughts that trouble me
Or the tears that bedim my eyes.
Were my old love wol, well, then, perhaps.
All tbese thoughts I could soon dissipate
And yet. had her fate so designed it. I fear.
The man she had wed 1 should hate.
Can her heart have been true to the past.
While mine bus fresh anchorage sought?
I must not think that, lest u breHCh
In the peace of my home saould be wrought.
How would it have been had we wod?
Should I happier bo, or would She?
God knows; but this tiuth I am bound to
confess.
My wife is a deiir and truo wife to me
'Tis not from what might have been but from
what is
That we now have to gather delight.
And yet, my old love, not the wife of my
beart,
' Will be first in my dreams to-night.
James Burnley.
THE FOREWOMAN'S DAUGH
TER. Will you ask Mrs. Graham to come
to me?"
The attendant who had answered
the bell departed with the order, leav
ing Mr. Ueliingham in solitary posses
sion of his sumptuously-appointed office.
The Ifellinghams. perhaps the oldest
importers of china and elegant porce
lains in Europe, had been favorably,
honorably known to the trade for up
wards of three-quarters of a centuiy.
The elder liellingham was in his grave;
the youngjr was in his office, awaiting
the appearance of his forewoman, Mrs.
Graham.
It is one of the infirmities of our lan
guage that we arc frequently unable to
express a comparison without attaching
some misapprehension thereto, as in the
present instance. Augustus Belling
ham was not young. lie had existed
during two score years, and it must be
admitted that ho showed his age.
Still, he was a remarkably handsome
man, well proportioned, and in the true
sense of the word a gentleman. He had
seen nothing of the seamy side of life;
he had been finely educated, and had
glided without friction into the seat of
a prosperous business made vacant by
the demise of his respected father.
Upon this particular morning he bad
summoued Mrs. Graham upon a matter
winch had forced itself upon his notice
in her department, and which, though
he could not escape, he heartily dread
ed to broach.
Therefore, the appearance of a slen
der sickly woman, neatly attired in
black, was the signal for him to rise
from his luxurious chair in some per
turbation. "Will you be seated, Mrs. Graham?"
were his first words, as he pointed to a
chair.
If Mr. Itellingham was perturbed,
poor Mrs. Graham was still more so.
Such courtesy from her august employer
terrified her, and in speechless amaze
ment she sank upon the edge of the seat
indicated.
Mr. liellingham posed gracefully up
on the edge of his desk.
"Mrs. Graham." he began again,
you loot unwell."
"Oh. sir do you think so, sir?"
Yes; and vou are unwell, are you
not?"
"I have not been quite strong for
some timo past."
"As 1 thought You er you have
missed several davs during the past
month?"
The pallid face Hushed consciously.
"Yes. sir, I have," she faltered, clasp
ing her thin hands; "but I have spoken
to the bookkeeper about it, and asked
him to deduct the time from my wages."
It was now Mr. Bellinghani's turn to
flush.
"It is not a question of money, Mrs.
Graham," he said with some constraint,
"you have served so long and faithfully;
that we should not begrudge you time
lost through illness, but we must posi
tively have someone in vour place every
day."
"Oh, I shall be there every day in
future, sir," cried Mrs. Giaham, the
ready tears starting to her eyes.
"llut you look as though you needed
rest and aire."
"I think not"
"Pardon me if I differ with you; I
think you do. You are far from well,
Mrs. Graham, and I see it"
Placing one hand upon the arm of
the chair, she rose with some difficulty
and faced her employer, a look of pit
eous appeal in her deep grey eyes.
"Am I to understand that you wish to
dismiss me from your employ, sir?"
"For your own sake I think it would
be better were I to employ a stronger
person to replace you."
The words struck home to the anxious
heart like a shaft She staggered for
an instant blindly, but recovered her
self as quickly.
"Very welC Mr. Bellingham," she re
joined faintly; "if such is your will 1
have nothing to say, but God help me!"
She turned towards the door to retire,
when Augustus Bellingham took a for
ward step.
"Mrs. Graham!"
"Sir?"
"Do not misunderstand me. Remain
for the rest of this month; if at its ex
piration you find yourself well enough
to continue at your post, well and good.
Otherwise, pray believe that I shall see
to it that -ou are comfortable for the
remainder of vour life."
He meant well; unhappily, however,
he expressed himself clumsily, and his
generosity wouuded where it had been
inteuded to heal.
Mrs. Graham raised her bowed head
and dealt him a look instinct with dig
nity. "I thank you, Mr. Bellingham," she
said. "I am glad of the pay that I
work for, but I do not think that my
services to you and your father would
warrant my accepting your charity. 1
shall remain during the month, and
shall hope to prove to you that I am not
as ill as you are kind enough to think."
"Dash me! but that woman comes of
good stock,", thought Mr. Bellingham,
as he took his hat and cane and went
out to his coupe.
"To the school of art. Parsons, as
quickly as possible," he said to the
coachman, and, springing into the car
riage, he soon lost sight of poor Mrs.
Graham and her infirmities in the de
lightful anticipations of the rendezvous
that awaited him.
Augustus was a bachelor, and it was
only within six months that his mature
heart had been touched by any sensa
tion akin to genuine love. He had al
ways been susceptible, but not until he
met Miss Gladys Thorne at the art
rooms one gloomy autumn afternoon
had he ever dreamed of exchanging his
luxurious celibacy for the married state.
The fact was that he had found pret
ty Gladys taking lessons of one of the
ladies whom he regularly employed to
decorate china to order. An introduc
tion bad followed and almost daily,
meetings.
Finally it became the understood'
thing that Mr. Bellingham should call
at the art-rooms every afternoon and
drive Miss Thorne to town to take her
train for her suburban home. .'
'The interview with Mrs. Graham had
delayed the lover upon that particular;
jar, and as a consequence, as h ,!
sd the goal of his heart's desire, he des
cried the dainty figure upon the curb,
iooking anxiously up and down the
itreet, ostensibly for a car. . J
"Oh, Mr. Bullingliam!" in sweet sur
prise.
"Oh, Mii-s Thorne Gladys! Will you
can you forgive mo for being so late?"
You are late, aren t your witu a
y smile as she nestled into the corner
reside him. and the astute Parsons
, whipped off in the direction of the.rail-
i way-station.
"Yes. 1 am dreadfully late, but I was
detained."
"Well, Til forgive you this time if
you'll honestly criticise what I have
here wraoped up in my veil."
i Thereupon the silky blue net was un
furled, disclosing a vase, fresh from the
I firing, and decorated with masterly
finish.
"Exquisite!" cried Mr. Bellingham
with genuine enthusiasm. "You don't
mean to tell me you did it?"
"All by myself."
"Well, vou're a dear sweet little won
der!" "Now, Mr. Bellingham!"
"I mean it"
' She clapped her hands in childish
glee.
: 'Then perhaps you'll soon let me
paint for you?" she exclaimed,
i "Exclusively for me and as soon as
you see fit"
, She blushed hotly.
I "I mean for your house," she stam
mered. "And I mean for your husband," he
rejoined firmly. Gladys, you must
know I love you. When will rou be
my wife?"
J "When you have asked my mother's
permission.
"Then let me go
with vou this after-
noon."
"No, mother is away; besides, you
had better write to her."
It was a little chilling to be obliged
to pour out his passion in ink, but Au
gustus did it and did it creditably. Ho
used the most expensive paper he could
purchase, and the most elegant rhetoric
at his command. Then he consigned
his burning missive to the custody of
the post and waited three days.
No reply. Gladys did not reappear at
the art-rooms, and he would have been
desperate indeed did he not console
himself with the thought that Mrs.
Thorne might bo still away from home.
On the morning of the fourth day he
was in his office as usual, when he was
aroused from a reverie by a terrible
crash of china in the outer store.
Upon hastening thither to inquire
into the cause, he discovered that Mrs.
Graham had fainted at her post and
crnnn rlnirn niniii a minntitv of rare
Dresden.
"Bring her into my office at once and
send for a doctor," he commanded.
It was more than au hour before the
poor woman regained her senses, and
when she found herself aloue with her
employer she gave utterance to her
wretchedness in pitiful fashion.
- "You are right, Mr. Bellingham," she
said, "I must leave my place. 1 am too
ill to attend to business. But Heaven
only knows bow I am to live!"
"I have told you you need have no
anxiety on that score, Mrs. Graham; it
shall be my pleasure to provide for
you."
"I cannot think of it," murmured the
lady, "unless unless you marry my
daughter."
Was the woman mad?
Augustus was about to rush to the
door and summon back the departing
doctor. Upon second thoughts, he con
cluded that she was harmless and de
termined to temporise.
"But, my dear woman, I don't know
your daughter," he began.
Was the man mad? She touched her
bosom to assure herself that his letter
was there.
"You don't know Gladvs?" she cried.
Gladys Thorne?"
"Yes. and my daughter."
"But your name is Graham!"
"I have been twice married."
What would the world say if it knew
that the elegant Augustus Bellingham
seized his forewoman in his arms and
imprinted kiss after kiss upon her brow?
What the world did say, when a
month later Mr. Augustus Bclliugiiain
went abroad upon "his wedding-trip,
was that his bride was as exquisitely
fair as uuy of the ideal beauties that
were depleted upon the plaques he sold,
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
4n Old Settler Itriulnicencc4 of Apple
Butter Making and "Finnnel-Klck-Ing."
"I have seen many newspaper ac
counts recently of customs that prevail
ed among the settlers away back, all of
them born of necessity. But there were
two that prevailed in Coshocton, the
county iu which I was raised, in the
great old State of Ohio, that seems to
have been overlooked or probably
entirely forgotten. One of them was
apple-butter boiling and the other was
flannel-kicking. Talk about the fun
they had at apple-cuttings, corn-husk-ings,
quiltings, eta, but for genuine,
uproarious fun flannel-kicking would
knock them all out in one round. Every
new house had its old one, which was
left standing, generally in close proxi
mity to the new, which was used for all
manner of purposes. The old-fashioned
loom, which almost every thrifty
farmer possessed, was set up there.
The big broad fireplace, five or six feet
wide, with its big crane on which to
hang heavy kettles and pots, was al
ways in order, and was used when boil
ing the apple butter, a large copper
kettle always being used for the pur
pose. But few families could afford the
luxury of a large copper kettle, conse
quently one served a large neighbor
hood, going the rounds every apple
butter season.
"The log house was usually but one
large room. It took two couples to boil
apple butter always two fellows with
their best girls. It required constant
stirring and a board about five inches
wide by about two feet long, with holes
bored through it, and a handle- about
four feet loug, so that the fellow and
his best girl could handle it easily.
While they stirred the other couple
were having a most delightful time off
in one corner of the room, there being
no light except a dim, religious one
from the fire. Of course, they changed
places quite frequently, for the couple at
the handle could not endure that kind
of thing any great length of time, know
ing what a high old time the other
couple were having away off in the
corner. They were being deprived of
their opportunities. This thing usually
lasted all night, and as a rule the little
party were not interrupted by meddlers
and they had a blissful season free from
the rude gaze of any one.
"But the crowning glory, the boss
fun, was the flannel-kicking. As I have
before stated, almost every old house
had its loom, on which the women wove
flannels linsey woolsey, cassinets. and
linen. I sigh for the days when I used
to wear this home-made linen. Pillow
slips, sheets, shirts, pants, and short
tailed roundabouts all made off the
same piece of goods. There were no
long-tailed summer coats in those days.
This linen was stout, and if a boy, or
even a good-sized man, caught the seat
of his pants on a splinter in climbing a
rail fence or on a nail he bung there.
It would hold him every time.
"The flannel was usually woven in
webs, or pieces of thirty or forty yards,
and of course it had to be fulled before
it was in proper condition, to be made
up into garments. Fulling mills were a
thing almost unheard of in that country
at that time, and some way must be
devised to thicken np or full the flannel,
and they did it to perfection. 1 have
attended many a "kicking" and my
recollection of them is as vivid as if it
had occurred but a year ago.
"The boys and giVls of the neighbor
hoodwhich look in a range of several
miles were notified that on a certain
evening they were going to have a flan
nel kicking, and it needed no urging to
gather in enough to make up a party.
The tlaunel was placed iu.a loose pile
in the middle of the floor usually in
that same old log house chairs were
placed around it. formiug a complete
circle. The boys and girls filled the
chairs, and then a plow line or rope
was pasM'd around the outside of the
cnairs, drawn through the backs, to .
hold them in position. Of course the
performers all faced towards the flannel.
The bos, with their trousers rolled up
above their knees; and the girls well
girls iu those days were not incumbered
with as much undertbggery as they
wear now.
"Soapsuds as hot as the operators
could possibly bear it were then pour
ed on the flannel, and then the fun
commenced in dead earnest, every one
kicking the pile of flannel for dear life
the boys laughing and yelling, the
girls screaming, ana the soapsuds spirt
ing up and out in reckless prodigality.
When the suds became absorbed and
began to cool, more hot suds was pour
ed" on, and then a fresh outburst of
kicking and spirting, laughing and
screaming began, their feet and legs
looking as red as boiled lobsters.
"This usually lasted about three
hours, the old folks pouring on the hot
soapsuds and looking on and enjoying
the thing about as much as the younger
ones. It was rare fun, and the writer
of this article remembers it better than
almost anything else in the way of
parties in ids young days. Of course
the work was not so well done as it is
nowadays in the mills, but it answered
the purpose, and everybody Was satis
fied with it Alas, for the days that
will never come back, the days when ;
all these customs prevailed in Coshocton
County."
BY ACCIDENT.
A Wild Bid by an Insane Xaa Nets a
Quarter of a Million Dollars.
"The most remarkable case of luck
that ever came under my observation."
6aid a New York broker to a Sun re
porter, "was that of one of the most
conservative men now on Wall street
He is now simply a broker, and since
Black Friday has never speculated oue
dollar's worth. You remember that
three or four men brought on the panic
now known as Black Friday by corner
ing gold, and running the 'price up till
many operators were ruined, the street
was in a wild panic, and universal
smash seemed imminent These men
relied on what they believed to be good
assurance that the government would
put no gold on the market that day.
and they bad locked up pretty much all
the rest of the gold in the country that
was available. Right in the midst of
the panic, when tho street was like a
mad-house, and many men who. in the
morning, supposed themselves rich,
were almost stark, staring mad over the
ruin which had befallen them in a few
hours, and when almost the highest
figures bad been touched aud nobody
was selling short, this broker to whom
I refer suddenly lost his head. He had
covered early in the morning at a com
paratively small loss, aud had been
looking in dpriug the day without any
personal anxiety, except that caused by
the fear of a panic that would knock
the bottom out of everything. Suddenly,
he never knew why. nor has he any
but the most vague recollection of the
transaction, he rushed into the bawl
ing, howling pit and sold right and left
at their highest figures. Ho probably
might have avoided his contracts or his
friends have invalidated them for him,
for he was undoubtedly insane when
he did this. At all eve'nts, ho was still
selling when, suddenly there came that
message from Secretary Boutwell that
knocked the bottom out of the corner in
the twinkling of an eye, 'sell five mill
ions of gold.1
"In half an hour more my friend
would have been a lunatic pauper, and
as it was, his brother, I think, or some
near relative, found him utterly irre
sponsible, and with a good deal of diffi
culty led him away to his office. There,
when he was told of the order of Bout
well, aud that the bottom had dropped
out of the panic, he did not seem to
comprehend the truth at all, but mum
bled something which nobody under
stood. His contracts, however, were
found and taken care of by his clerks,
and a rapid estimate showed that he
stood to the good not far from a quarter
of a million. Wheu they told him he
did not seem to comprehend. He had
not been drinking, for he was a teeto
taler. Suddenly they missed him. They
could not find him in the street nor in
the gold-room, nor at any of the other
brokers' offices he was accustomed to
visit Nobody had seen him. He had
not gone to his home, and his family at
midnight, becoming thoroughly alarm
ed, notified the police "that he was miss
ing and temporarily deranged. He was
found wandering up Broadway long
past midnight, muttering his calls and
recognizing no one. Nor did he know
any one for nearly two weeks. He was
on the verge of paralysis of tho brain
and barely pulled through. When,
after two weeks' illness, he woke one
morning rational, his first thougnt was
that he was on 'change. He remem
bered nothing of his operations, but re
called vividly so much of the panic' as
he had witnessed before ho began to
operate himself. It was a long time
before his physician permitted him to
be told that he had by his crazy freak
made a fortune. He has kept it, too,
for from that day to this, as I said, he
has never bought a stock except for in
vestment "There was another case that I'm al
ways reminded of when I see a young
man in the street who is a very bright
chap, and will be beard from some day.
His father was the president of a savings
bank somewhere down east and some
where in 1870 took a lot of Southern
Minnesota seconds at 90. He intended
to buy them for the bank, but thinking
he had a good thing kept them himself.
The panic of '73 knocked Southern
Minnesota down to nothing, and the
E resident threw the bonds into a box in
is library at his bouse. He was after
ward obliged to compromise with his
creditors and threw in a lot of stuff,
among it being, as he supposed, the
Southern Minnesotas. The whole lot at
that time would not have brought over
$200. Later this man came to New
York and went on the street He made
money at first but either in the summer
of '80 or early in '81 he was badly bit
ten in oil, and was, as he supposed, a
ruined man again. The very evening
that he had made up his mind to ask
the next day for an accommodation
from bis creditors, his boy. who was
then about 14, came to him to ask if he
might have a piece of paper with pict
ures on it to paste in his scrap-book.
"The father was about to say yes
without looking, when he recognized
the crisp rustling of parchment paper
such as are usually used for bonds. He
snatched the bond from the boy's band,
and it was a Southern Minnesota, worth
about par.
" 'Where on earth did you get this?1
he asked.
" 'Why, np in the attic in a chest,
where some of-your old books and
papers are. and there are a good many
of them.1
"I don't think the father was long in
making tracks to the attic, and there he
found his long-forgotten Southern Min
nesotas. They were worthless when he
put them away, bat they were worth
their face now something like $80,000. I
1 think; at all events enough to. put our I
friend on his feet, and he natn't touch-
ed a thing since that hasn't turned to
fold. He has just taken the boy into
is office, and a mighty bright lad he is,
and his father thinks he is a genuine
mascot"
WIT AND HUMOR,
We regret to say that the new maga
zine guns are not for the purpose of
shooting writers of war reminiscences.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
After all Adam was a fortunate man.
Eve never observed to him: "O, I for
got to tell you, mother's coming to pay
us a visit next week." New Haven
News. In .the country: "And is the air
healthy in this village?" "Excellent
monsieur, excellent One can become
a centenarian herein a little while."
French Fun.
Lady I ran give you a little more of
that clam chowder if you want it.
Tramp Thank vou, I've had all i want,
an' besides you'll need what's left to
wash the dishes with. Life.
Youthful Bostonian Mamma, aren't
Mr. Holmes and Mr. Lowell both absent
from the city? Mamma 1 believe they
are, dear. i. B. Well, can't I call my
trousers "pants," just while they're
away? Lije.
There is not so very much difference
between a New York Aldermau and a
tramp. One walks the street wondering
where he will find bail, and the other
where he can get something to eat
Charleston News.
"I notice that you call your fiancee
'Mag.' Jogging. Is her name Margaret?"
"No, that is a contraction for Magnet,
Fangle." "Is that her name?" "Not
at all. I call her that because she is so
attractive." N. Y. Mail.
When the rumble of the explosion at
Bayside reached the ears of a West
chester lady, she exclaimed: "John's
been tryin' ter pass that bad quarter
again down ter Purdy's. ' He hit the
road hard that time. Puck.
Riley "Shpakin' of religuu. me wife,
Mary Ann. is an infidel." Rafferty
"Shure an' that's too bad. Why don't
yez git a divorce?" Riley "On phat
grounds, Rafferty?" Rafferty "On the
grounds of infidelity, av course. "
Rambler.
A young widow in mourning for her
faithless spouse who died some weeks
before: "I am very unhappy, she
sighed, when her friends came to tou
sole with her. "But then one consola
tion remains. I know where he passes
his nights." French Fun.
Jaw kin That was a rather sudden
death of old Skin Hint's. What was the
matter with him? Hawkins Economy.
The two undertakers are running each
other, ami funerals are away dowu in
price. Old Skiutliut never missed a bar
gain it his life. Lowell Citizen.
"Some men are very careless," re
marked Dumley. "I went into a cigar
store this morning and on the showcase
lay change for a $5 bill, which some
customer had evideutly forgotteu." "I
say, Dumley," whispereu Featherly,
"have you got it j-et?" Xetr York Sun.
A young man found a handbag at
Tuscola, 111. It contained $35, aud be
longed to a widow in Antwood, and
when the young man returned it she re
warded him by marrying him the next
day. We hate to print this item. It is
such a discourager to honesty in young
men.
He (who thinks he ought to say some
thing) "flaw, by the by, have you
evah heard Miss Filz-Morris play that
little thing you just played?" She(hav
ing just finished her favorito nocturne)
"No." He "Haw. you ought to,
ahe plays it so beautifully." Harper's
Bazar.
Stage-struck lady (anxiously) "Isn't
the expression a little sad?" Litho
graphic artist "You vos going to daig
3ot Migado on der road, ain't it?"
Stage-struck lady "Yes." Litho
graphic artist "Veil, dot pordraid vill
pe vust like you iu apout d ree vceks."
fid-Bits.
They were standing on the deck of a
Cunarder that runs to the Hub. "And
what is that shining so?' lie asked.
"That is the dome of the State-house.
was born right in its shadow." "You
ion't say? Aud this is really America,
then?" "'O. dear no, this is Boston."
New Haven News.
Algernon I should like vewy much
to go for a dwive with you, old chap;
but I cah n't do it; I have to pwactice.
Adolphus Gwacious! You are not
studying anything, are you? Algernon
No, deah boy; but I pwactice an hour
a day twying to learn to keep my eye
glass in my eye. Rambler.
First fisherman What's the matter,
old man. did you forget the lines and
bait? Second fisherman Confound
my forgetfulness! Yes. First fisherman
You remembered the cards and flask,
it's to be hoped. Second fisherman
Yes. First fisherman O, well. I guess
we can manage somehow. Tid-Btls.
First dude Aw, Charlie, have you
two hawves for a one. don't you know?
Second dude (taking out his portemon
naie) Awv cawae. Fwed. rirst dude
Aw, I'm deuced glawd, don't you
know. I'm the one, Charlie, awnd I'll
be beholden to you faw the loan awv
them, don't you know. Washington
Critic.
"Mr. Featherly," said Bobby, ignor
ing his mother's signal to keep still,
"did you ever hear pa whistle?" "No.
Bobby," laughed Featherly, "I never
have had that pleasure." "Well, you
will," went on Bobby. "He told ma
that he lent you $5 last night and that
he expected to whistle for it" New
York Sun.
"Yes," said the father of the boy, "I
want my son to learn the butcher busi
ness, and if you will give him a job we
won't say anything about wages for six
months." "Do you think he is fitted
for the business?" asked the butcher.
"Fitted for the business? Why, just
look at those bands. They don't weigh
less than two pounds a 'piece. N. Y.
Sun.
"No, George," she said. "I cannot
marry you. 1 shall always esteem you
as a friend, bnt 1 cannot be your wife."
George hesitated. "Clara." he said,
brokenly, "will you grant me one favor
before I go away forever?" "Yes,
George," she replied, kindly. "What
is it" "Please put your refusal down
on paper. I'll feel safer." Harper's
Bazar.
Artless little thing (proud of her
linguistic acquirements): "I do hope
you didn't catch what I was saying just
now to Mrs. Simpson, Sig. Gavaeti.
We were talking scandal in Italian. I
had no idea you were so close. Could
you hear?"" Sig. Gavanti: "Yes, I
could 'ere; but it is all a-right I did
not know you were speakiu' my lang
uage. Professor "That man across the
street is a remarkable thoughtful-looking
person. 1 should say he would be
successful." Friend 'There is no
doubt about it What is bis business,
pray?" "O, he drives a dray, and is
just thinking on a new plan for ob
structing a street crossing or running
over some' children." Pittsburg Dis
patch. What the friend of the family says:
"It is, indeed, a lovely child, Mrs.
Yungkuple." Who does it look like?"
"Well, its eyes resemble yours; but its
mouth reminds me more of," etc., etc.
What he means: "Great Caesar! What
a pug-nosed, flat-faced little beast! It
looks more like one of the monkeys in
the park than anything else I can think
ot Fuck.
Tramp Are yon the proprietor of
this hotel, sir? Proprietor Yes, sir.
Tramp Will yon please punch ma on-
der the ribs as hard as you can? Pro
I prietor Certainlv there, how's that?
Tramp That'll "do. Now, what I'm
erotlin' at is. don't you wan'ter hiro mo
fer a penimbuiatin'" dinner-gong? That
I boiler sound would fetch people down
from the truth story. Tid-Ji.ts.
i A hrakeuiaii in the emnlov of the
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company is
a very obliging person, and thoughtful
withal. Au excursion party which in
cluded many oung men and women,
recently miid'e a trip from Albany to
Lake George, and as the train would
near a tuunul. of which there are a
good many on the line, he would call
jut in stentorian tones, "Gents, choose
vour partners for the tunnel." Life.
COCO A NUTS.
Their Sorting on the I'ler Baker's Lot
The Ship tliuMlrlnjj Tliero.
A little lead-colored steamer, drawing
no more thau nine feet of water when
loaded, lay at a pier near Coentics slip.
People familiar with shipping would
have said at a glance that she was in
the fruit or some such trade to the Span
ish Main on account of her size and
looks. A gang of men were lifting
bushel baskets full of cocoanuts over
the low hatch combing amidships and
sliding them along greasy planks to
ward another gang of men on the pier.
These men lifted the baskets up on to
the low tables made of pi auks laid on
top of cheap barrels. Three baskets
could be accommodated at one time on
each of the two tables. A man before
each basket picked the nuts up, one in
each hand, and knocked them together
lightly, and then either tossed them in
to a big coarse bag which a man held
open before the table, or tossed them to
a heap on the pier. Those thrown to
the pier were spoiled more or less, some
of them being so far decayed as to
break open. Those thrown into the
bags were sound. The light tap told
the quality of the nut to the inspector.
Each bag held a hundred, and as soon
as filled it was drawn to oue side and
had its mouth sewed up by a man who
used a needle nine inches loug and soft
jute twine for thread. Other men
gathered the spoiled nuts into bags and
loaded them into a covered wagon that
had nothing pointed on it to indicate
its ownership. A reporter who watched
the men found that from five to seven
nuts were rejected for every bag that
was filled. Oue of the workers, al
though kept busy either passing along
the full baskets or the empty ones back,
found time to talk. He said:
"This vessel brought 75.000 of the
nuts from Baracoa. We began on them
at 7 o'clock this morning, and will
have them all out by 3 o'clock. We
are paid by the hour at 'longshoremen's
rates. The boss took the contract to
discharge the cargo at sixty ceuts a
thousand."
"What is done with tho spoiled
ones?"
"They are sold to that man (indica
ting a man by the unmarked wagon).
He is a baker and confectioner. He
says they make a better and cheaper
fire than'coal. Rather curious, though,
that only bakers aud confectioners
should have learued what good fuel
they are."
The nuts were stowed loose in the
hold of the vessel, with nothing to keep
them from shifting iu case the steamer
got a heavy lurch during a gale on her
way to port A merchant who was
familiar with the trade said:
"Wo import from 13.000.000 to 15,000.
000 cocoanuts a year. On an average
7 per cent of them spoil on the way.
About one-half of them come from
Baracoa. San Bias is the next port of
consequence. The little steamers are
driving tho schooners out of the busi
ness, although the heat of the engine
rooms is detrimental to the nuts. Six
years ago there was not a single steamer
In the Baracoa trade. In 1881 there
were 151 schooner cargoes brought here
from Baracoa. In 1882 there were five
steamer cargoes brought all Ameri
can. The schooner cargoes rose to 221
in 1S83. besides 14 Yankee steamer car
goes. The next year the British tramp
entered the trade, and in two years cut
the schooner cargoes to 48, while the
number of steam tramp cargoes rose to
94. The Yankee steamers barely held
their own with 16 cargoes. It is a case
of the survival of the fittest The fact
is. the steamers, although flying the
British Hag, are in great part owned by
American capital. Cocoanuts at Bara
coa cost 2 cents each, delivered on
board the steamer free. There is very
little freighting done, the steamers and
cargoes belonging usually to the firms
engaged in the trade." N. Y. Sun.
Theodore Tilton and Wife.
It is now nearly a score of years, says
the Philadelphia Times, since a comely,
graceful woman stood between the lace
curtains that shaded the window of a
lovely home in Brooklyn watching a
slender, dark-haired man, who turned
to wave his hand before passing out of
sight There was a smile on both faces
as the hurrying feet of -the pedestrian
carried him around a corner and the
woman leaned out of the window to
watch his vanishing form. Two chil
dren played about her feet and, so Jar
as the ordinary eye could see, the house
itself was the abode of domestic content
ment, if not love. The dark-haired
man was Theodore Tilton, and the wo
man, it is needless to add, was his wife;
but what home has undergone a sadder
and greater change in the same relent
less time? After roaming from place to
place the restless Tiiton has settled
down in Paris, where it is announced
that he means to stay. In a lonely
chamber of the Protestant convent at
Newark Mrs. Tilton sits and sews from
day to day, the gray light of November
falling upon her furrowed face and
lending an ashen color to her always
pallid cheeks. Of the little girls that
played at her feet that September morn
ing in Brooklj-n, one, Florence, is living
a student's life in Switzerland, aud the
other has found a home among friends
in Chicago. They say that Tilton ex
pects to marry again, but the rumor is
ouly a rumor. It is quite too late for
him to retrieve his former errors, what
ever they were, and he best serves him
self by his dignified silence. For the
other parties to the great controversy
perhaps the same can also be charitably
said. All the elements of a tragedy are
contained iu the allair. excepting the
necessary death, and that is more than
equaled by the unoroken silence which
at least two of the principals maintain.
A Bright Young Man.
When a company hires a young man,
it is a pleasure to them to know that he
takes an interest in tho business and is
anxious to become posted. The Ameri
can Express company recently hired a
new express messenger and gave him a
station on their line. A short time aft
er taking possession of his new office,
the company received a letter from himt
asking the fate on a corpse. A post
script added, that up to the present writ
ing, nobody had given up the ghost
but an old lady in the place was very
ill. and he wanted to be posted as to
the rate in case she should die, and her
corpse was shipped. That young man
has a bright future in store for him,
and it is only a question of time when
he will be at the head of the institution.
Peck's Sutt.
Some romancer reports the discovery
of a remarkable spring near Princeton.
Ky. It is claimed that a spinster born
in 1776, who has drank of this water,
has changed to a blooming girl of
"sweet sixteen," and that au old man of
sighty. who has several times drank of
the water, feels as young as. be did at
twenty years of age, and is delivering
temperance lectures.
The orange crop of Louisiana is
said to be bnt one-tenth of an ar
crage. There are 172 specimens of blind
creatures known to science.
Mr. P. H. Goodrich,, a St. Louis
Traveling Mau, representing the
Graham Paper Co., contributes the
following, it may be ot value to yon :
"1 have been troubled with colds and
soreness of the breat the past year
and find great relief in Chamberlain's
Cough lit mpd) . I cheerfully recom
mend it to any one troubled with
coui'h or colds, give it a trial." L.
Harry, a merchant of Sweet Home,
Mo., has also used it for several
years and knows it value; he says
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never
tails to Kive quick relief, and that he
always keeps it in the house and
would not bo without it for five
tiroes its cost. Sold by Dowty &
Heitkeiuper, druggists.
A locomotive engineer on the
Elkhorn Valley road has something
to say about th late blizzard. Dur
ing the big drifts of a few days ago
he took a mile a-tr.ii.ule sfcfoot at a
huge enow pile nu.il dug a whole
through it without jarring hiB head
light. Stopping at the uext station
he fonnd the eugine'e trout atd tides
coated with bl-jod aud hair. Au in
vestigation of the drift showed that
sixteen bead of cattle had been snow
ed in and ten of them were killed
Valley County Journal
leiewN Her Yeutk.
Mrs. Phoebe Cbesiey, Peterson,
Clay Co., Iowa, tells the lollowing
remarkable story, the truth o which
is vouched tor by the residents o the
town : 'l am 73 years old, had been
troubled with kidney complaint and
lameness for many years ; could not
dre&s myself without help. Now I
am free fiom all pain aud soreuos
aud am able to do my own house
work. I owe my thanks to Electric
Bitters tor having renewed my youth,
and recovered completely all disoase
and pain." Try a bottle, only 50
ceuts, at Dowty & Ileitkemper's.
ShChErAhv Whitney is a uephew
of the Inventor of the cotton-gin.
Tkxas has a newspaper called ihfj
Bedbug. It cau only be. stopped
with brimstone.
'The light that lies,
In woman's eyes,"
is a ray of heaven's own brightness ;
bnt it is, alasl often dimmed or
quenched by aatvo wearing disease,
perhaps silently borne, but taking all
comfort and enjoyment out of life.
That light of the household cau be
rekindled and made to glow with its
natural brightness. Or. R V. Pierce'
"Favorite Prescription" is a potent
specific for most of the chronic weak
nesses and diseases peculiar to wo
men. When time euds eternity com
mences. Some time next lull we shall be
asked to view with alarm the absence
of union generals troui the United
States Senate.
A CSrcat tttarprine
Is ii store lor all who use Kemp's Bal
s:un for the Throat and Lungs, the great
guaranteed remedy. Would you believe
that it is sold on its merits and that
eaeh druggist is authorized to refund
your mouey by the Proprietor of this
wonderful remedy if it fails to cure you.
Dr. A. fleintz has secured the Agency
for it. Price 50e and $1. Trial size Jree.
Mountain lions are reported to be
unusually numerous near Lcadville.
Over two hundred men are fishing
for a living on Sagiuaw Bay.
Itch. Prairie Mange, and Scratches
of every kind cured iu 30 minutes by
Wool lord's Sanitary Lotion. Uso no
other. ThiB never fail. Sold by
0. B. Stillman, druggist Columbus.
The people ot Paris eat two million
larks every year.
A CUlt for All.
In order to give all a chance to
test it, and thus be conviuced of its
wonderful curative powers, Dr.
King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds, will
be for a limited time, given away.
This offer is not only liberal, but
shows unbounded faith in the merits
of this great remedy. Ail who suffer
from Coughs, Colds, Consumption,
Abthma, Bronchitis, or any affection
of the Throat, Chest or Lungs, are
especially requested to call at Dowty
& Heitkcmper's drug store, and get
a Uial bottle free, large bottles $1.
One hundred and forty-eight pris
oners were discharged from the Lin
coln penitentiary last year.
The PftpalalleM orCltamba
Ig about 3,000, and we would say at leat
one half are troubled with some affection
of the Throat and Lungs, as thoe coin
plaints are, according to statistics, more
numerous than others. We would ad
vine all not to neglect the opportunity to
call on us and get a bottle of Kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Price
50c and ?1.00. Trial size free. Res
pectfully, Dr. A. Heintz.
The Union Pacific railroad em
ploys 10,430 men.
Yonng or middle-aged
men suffering from nervous debility
or other delicate diseases, however
induced, speedy and permanently
cured. Address, World's Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ships were firsfcopper-bottomed"
in 1783.
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy never fails and is
pleasant and safe. Sold by Dowty &
Ueitkemper.
The Bohemian diet gives Germany
a great deal of distress.
. Senator Hawlev, of Connecticut,
has been re-elected by tht legislatare
of that state.
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