3
S
0 VA tClfMAK
BO per cent, more
THE .WATCHMAN
Is the "Organ of th
Farmers' Alliance in
6th and 7th Congres
sional Districts. -
Advertisers, make i
note, of this.
0
.tion than any
a n in Tn
T paper published
uiiiid
i -
Salisbury, ana is
Wore tuo r
Wising medium.
it.XXIlV-THIRD SERIES.
SALISBURY. N C, THUlfSD AY JA.N UARY 5, 1893.
NO 9
PI'A-
WatcliHian
,.-t"lV"1'1-''- '.'J,l4-
What i
Si
Castoria is Ur. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless sulfetituto
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing- Syrups, and Castor Oil
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use, hf
Millions of Mothers. Castcria U the Children's Panacea
-kho Mothers Friend.
Castoria.
' "CtuiUtttsi i3 so well adapted to tfhfldrcc that
I eecommead Iths superior to Any prescription
ksotrrj to me." II. A. Archzb, M. D.,
ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. V.
Castoria.
J ....
Cad tori a cures CoEc, Constipation,. t
Sour Stomacbt Ertarrhcoa; Eructation,
Kins Vorma, rives aUiep, c-id promotes dl
gestion,
Without injurious modication.
" The use of , Castoria ' U bo universal and
ft meriU so well known tli&t it se-nts a wori
. pi mipererpfffttion to endorsp it. Fow are the
IntelUcmt f amffies who do not keep Castoria
within rt-tj reach." .
Cmuoa Habttk, D. R,
"Sew York Citr.
Thx Csxtavk. Coxtastt, 77 Mtnuux H-rawr, New Tosx Crrr
"For several veaTs-Miave rocorrLmcndoc
your ' Castoria,' and fhall always continuo tc
do bo a3 it has invariably-produced bcncflola
results."
Edwin F. Pardee, H. D.,
125th Street and Tth Ate., New York Ctty
S i DmlM frhoV which represent the
&.T.7foV price, a.ked, thcu.aada
WtU !S&iVr wn finnSTITUTE. M
It---
Advice to Womeh
If you would protect yourself
from Painful, Profuse, Scanty,
Suppressed or Irregutar Men
struation you must use
w
BRADFIELD'S
FEMALE
REGULATOR
W. L- DOUCLA1
S3 SHOE .CENffflsiSH.
TKTBEST SHOE N THE WCBLO FOB THE KOHtT.
A ieilWwKI Koe, At not rfp, fine
alf. Smlei TftwSbth Inside, Oeilble, morewm
rortiUllA and durablo than njj
ioSat tn rrice. Equal custom made BhoeacosUns
4 mortTllsh.eay and durable Bhoea ever sold
kt Us prion, ihej equal fino Imported shoe coating
C9 loVolii-e Shoe, worn toy f armor and all
90i otner wbo want good heavy calf, three
oled, extension edge shoe, easy to walk in. and will
aWlcSSrTflSSiS and 0.00 Work.
S sCalBcmea'a Shoes wiU gtye more wear tor tbo
k.T. mhrp m&ke. Thev are made for scr-'
vtea. The Increasing sales show that workingmon.
ft. .Wis A.i
0e Yntba 81. W School
HnVs' ... i,v thM bora everv-
irbtrj The most serviceable shoes sold at the price.
sm a fit nn HaniidFn'ed. S'i.aO,
UOieS gi.00 and SI. 75 Shot fof
m m.ani thA rmt Uoneola or fine C alx. as
Mind. They are very BtrlUh, comf ortaH lo ana o ura
hi. TheiAOOshooeqnalscustommadeshoeaoosting
frotnS4.00toge.00t Ladies who wlaU to economize la
- w 1. nrauriM n&ma and In a once
tamped on the bottom of each shoe ; look for It
i .n hn Ttownrwnf deaiersattemptlnirtosno-
, . . . r.t. r r . C . fr f t,. Kur h subatltutlonsaro
Rsnt aid subject to prosecution by law for ob
taining money under false pretences.
WtlZ POlfOLi.S, llrockton. Mass. Sold by
C A RT E KS VI ll E,-Apr i 1 26, 1SS3.
TRia will certify that two members of my
Immediate family, after having suffered for
rears from jvieir-ai l rrca:tiiariiy,
valuer trp.ttd without, i&t b- rh vsicians.
were at length c. lpletelvcin-edby cue bottlo
of ISratUieUPs l-'eniRlo Iiei5tilator. Its
eXZect is truly wonderful. J. W. SriciJiQE.
Book to " WOMAN " mailed which contains
valuable lnfonnatiou oa au ieniaie mac-aca.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO..
ATLANTA, CA.
. TOIt SALE BY JLZI. JiRVOOISTS.
They all Testier
I I t B l trW
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f 1 IB Il M W
ii i n w if j
mi m a i. t
To the EfScacy
of the
World-Renowne4
r
Gil
9
Specific.
msWngton Life Ins. Go.
OF NEW YORK-
Jj5l.:
CONDENSED STATEMENT.
JANUABY 1ST, 1892.
111,450,638 78
Tho old-time simple
! remedy from the Georgia
ewamps and fields has
I gone forth to tho antipodes;
' astonishing the skeptical and
confounding the theories of
' those who depend solely on tho
Dhyslclan's skllL There Is no blood
' taint which it does not Immediately
eradicate. Poisons outwardly absorbed or tho
result of vile diseases from within all yield to this
potent but simple remedy. It 13 - an tracqualed
tonlc.-bullds up the old and feeble, cures all diseases
arising from impure blood or weakened vitality.
Bend for a treatise. Examine tho proof.
Books on " Blood and Skin Diseases " xoaUed froa
Jrvggiata Bell It.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga.
O Q O O O
Tha saaaEegt Pill In tho
Orra r qp9 nr? ES
-n Hifs ci n mil wmoi
THEDZACC1TS PE0P03AL5 -
"Will. Wil'ir cried Dolly, running
in Vreut lutste dowu tlie lane one bright
spring morning.
"Whoa! UikxI morning, "ssd Will.
pulling up the Deacon s old horse
Steaily at the gate. "Much obliged to
you, I m sure, for coming down here
to ?ee met as he waited. ,
"Don t tease. Will: I had a reason
for coming," of cour?. la Deacon
Braekett at home to-tlay?" !
V Yes, and likely tube for awhile.
He cut hijrfoot yesterday, chopping up
in the. birch Tasture."
. "Is it a had cut, Will?"
- "No That is, only a fleh wound,
but it-will confine him to the hous
for jl week or two; I suppose. : A re you
coming over' to see him?'
"No, of course not; but AuntSerena
wanted me to ask."
"Oh, then she's coming !" unwitting
ly iiitting on the truth. "What can
she Imj coming to see the deacon for?"
"WVU, replied. Dolly, "I suppose she
wouldn't wan't anything said about it,
b it we heard the deacon wanted to
sell the ten-acre field, andAunt Serena
will pay as much for it as any one els
can afford to. It joins her lot, you
kuow, and she always said it ought to
belong to the farm."
"So tint's it," said Will; "didn't
know, seeing it's leap year, but she
might have some idea- "
"Nonsense! I wish she had though.
She said Only this morning, jokingly,
she'd a good mind to propose -to the
first single man she met, for hired
help's worse' than no help, and it will
take all the crops she can raise to pay
for r.iisiiig them. 1
"That's about ihe case at home," ex
claimed Will. "Mary Jane's mother'
taken sick and sent for her this morn
ing; I've ju-t carried her to the depot,
and the deacon's lame ai.d that leave
mi with no housekeeper.
"Dor-o-thy !'' called her Aunt Sere
na fr m the door. "The clo'es are bi-
lin' ah' the busier has come."
"And I'm coming ! Good-hy, Will!1
"Go"d-by, Molly; I guess Miss Dame
can buy the field."
D i.v ran into the house, and while
her ;uiilsLani:ed the srolden balls ol
I CJ
butter die deft.y riii-ed, wrung and
ining the Miowy clothes on the line.
"Auut Serena," Asked Dolly at din
ner, just as her aunt poured out th--second
drop of le i, having noticed thi
w;ts her most communicative time,
"Deacon lirockett is a nice man, isii'i
he?"
-Law sakes. child, th re ain't a bet
ter nowhere tout. Sain is a
ealkil.itoi : where vou find one man h
equal you'll rind ninetA-iiiiie wit ones.''
"So I thought," observed htfr niece.
"I wonder why he never married?
"I can't tell ye that' I'm sure. Per
haps the deacon's a litt le too particular.
Taint every woman could suit him,
brought upas he was."
"No, I don't know) of but one, ai d
that's vou. Aunt. Serena."
- "Don't be foolish, Dorothy," said
Miss Oame, shaiplv. And D'mIv,
enough to overwhelm hint with con
fusion. Meanwhile Mus Serenn, hav
ing finished her dinner,
"better set off at once
over ana set. nis price
So from hi window ihe deacon;
who was nearvously vwatdiing the
The Dndenml the Ulatl Do?. fall to, but the instinct of the officer , , CuJtnre of ibc Arih l.ckT"
Vnn at.nnt ..1 inrl.ro a Ut hv ; staid his hand. He rolled his black Uoxv mr.v f7,... "... . "
. v 1,K .1, 1 1 . ' "v" . " . " "V J"uow ! tl, r. . .i: rf ' 1J"JtlO CAVe liltOr
vuvMjsuv Dc v u,ecoVert" saKi Major Tom Speedwell , rvaiiw. , . , ',U1U, aniclioLtei to stock, as
,:.,t".tb,nk,.ni at the Laclede. "Itany man despise "Horace, where did this chicken P.'y JS8-844 Winter and
'Got him outer yerbaversack?"
lest, as she informed Dolly, "to
the deacon tew long a 'time to think it any manW!io uses perfumery; wears a
flc n dude I do. I am prejudiced against
silk bat, n stand-collar, or carries a cane.
When 1 find a man doing all those
i ridiculous things at one and at the
road with a sking heirtsoon perceived sume time it is all 1 can do to refrain door and called out, "Fall in
Miss Serena sUadily f aimroaching.
Indeed had it not been for his lameness,
I am not siire'but he wood have taken
ignominously to 'flight; As it was he
felt be fliust "face the sitaation. "
"Now do ye dew, deacTou?" was Miss
Serena's salutation, 113 she cordiall
shook his gingerly outstretched hand.
v "Good afternoon, Ms Damey won't
ye, hev a dieer?!V t .
Th anlc ye. said she; u 1 1tanstop Cn
setlong, though I ain't in no. great of
a hurry, either, hut, seein' ss I come on
bizness, I might as well come tew the
pint!" The deacon winced, and Miss
Serena, mistaking the expression of a
spasm of pain, exclaimed: "Your foot's
powerful bad; ain't it, deacon?"
Considerably so," the deacon admitt
ed.
"What air yon usin' on it?" in
quired Miss Serena.
"I've been wettin' it in this lini
ment William got at the village."
"'Pothecary stuff," said sdie, sniffing
at it contemptuously; "her ye got anj
arniky flowers in the house."
The deaeon thought likely thar
might be some some somewhar and
having procured them, Miss Serena
"reck'ned she'd better lay off her bon
nit and shawl and srt'em steepin'."
"How long afore you expect Mary
Jane back?" asked she.
"I can't tell." aaid the deacon, "fur
from personal violence. 1 vearn to hit
him, just on general principles. Add
to these offenses against the canon of
horse sense a button-hole bouquet, a
curled mustache and a lisp, and niv
fingers fairly tingle fbr a grip of his
neck, my toes for a coup de grace.
Yet I saw just that kind of a biped
perform nn act of heroism that made
me think better of mankind.
VI was walking dowri Madison street
Chicago, last Summer, when there was
suddenly raised that most appalling
of all cries of terror, Mad dog!' An
old lady and a little girl were crossing
the street, down the center of which ;a
bz mastiff was 'nluniring. with blood
Jri. food? 1 nave raised and fed Ucm '
aua would notuowturu
tit tint
The cotaiit looked at the chicken. .?v 0 Dgeora alone,
.1 . . 1 m, 1 , r" tn itta tbem-i. never Lavtv
then at ttie heavens. Then he-laid hog cbvieia-Horsu na i.- J: .:..,:. ..
'down his knife and fork, sprang to ihe cribs. j 1 J
IV Again I ucBoke ni be planted eiiber iiw
: yrii. Itteyare vervhar.iv
. .v.. ... . . . I .... ........... J
"Who put that .chicken ito my i ;; k u "'Jui iUui,-
havers.tck?" he demanded.- 1 ""V"'
A smile passed down the line, but fcHiK gwwth, coniUieuctuiC rowi
there was no response. The demand lu1 jiurch vvbeu tLe ritiuti'is favci-1
was repeated in somewhat milder 'aWf -iiKy rc piantetl me eame Viy
accents- for the fragrance of roast : XZZ T u mecuiUVuiiuu
chicken was m the air. rmally the
servant sioke.
Lantaui. he sjud. we all had a hand ' tbeiu
t -
the puiulu.
Alter ihe ummer,s growth is finished
UJ the Jail, 1 iuru iuy Lus in uud let
Help tiieuivesHcie Ihev will
shot eyes and roaming mouth, pursued .""'"B hl,,K' n(Jw
in it. We thought ft .bit of poultry -ilte im ouJy a iittle'curn, and iure I
might le good for ou for a change,
and your haversack was handy."
Captain J called up a serious face,
but the chicken had a tempting small.
The lines of his countenance relaxed.
"It was a wronir thing: to do" he
by a coup
!e of officers. He made
straight for the old lady, caught her
dress and dragged her down. He theu
sprang at her throat, but before he
reached it a youngster tricked out in
the toggery 1 abhor had him by the
neck.
"The btast ra
the dude held him
came up and put a bullet through his
head. He theu picked up his silk tile,
brushed it with his elbow, and said,
with an idiotic lisp: 'Every dog in the
thtv thould be killed; every body that
keepth a dog in the thity thould be
hanged His philosophy was sound as
his nerve. I went liome and wrote
her mother's took down with sciatick I wjth a piece of chalk across the head
rooinatiz and thar's no kuowin' when I board of mv bed: kA man may dress
wuuer my brood 0vs and latl pigs also
u -uuie corn, aud luetic eptiiit
close up my feuce, aud there are tubr
euougu left iu iuq grouud U, produce,
next year'a crop. U ibeio are luiu pla
ces they cau be "replanted aud they need
no lurthcr cultivation as they outgrow;
the weeds the becoud year. 1 keep iwu
that the bird is cooked and it smells ruVrJr Lr L " , . Iuur Uoe ttud
like a gcdfOnc-it would be wicked r!-
not to eat it. ia also very hue lor letdiug cows- it la
And eat it he did. At the next roll rich aud succulent aud iucreubqs the'dow
call he animadverted again upon the of milJt' spring calves winter nicely ou
offense of plundering noncoubatants, JUel"tua- cutu eat' them with as much
and wound up his homily by say.ng: rUjSillfcm v;
ged like a demon, but "f sha11 haversack in the same aud tne large tubers nil the grouud trum
iui fast until an officer l)lace knight. Right face; brick rank row iu row. lu good soil they will jiw
Assorted Selections.
march! - a mucu as one ihousaud oushels uer
acifc. 1 dig aud pit quite uu utuouut lor
tuy wiulerfeediut'. uuu ulieu ibmuuii
lis fr.ri'ii 1.. 1...,., 1 w - ,
Fifty-seven per cent of- voting them:Yfeed7h" 0
population of Minnesota is foreign 1 iuiuk ii uur laruiera wu Id once try
born. plau .of lecdiuii, tiiev would never.
In Saxony about 70 per cent of , the au,u B hack "t the old method oicorui
work- nim pn earn ess thn S150 oer 'uiuta, rarmer.
vear.
. t m m .
There is room for tost live more dad "w w uniuamau lulls a Clnckca,
exclaim
here I'll
she can get away.
"WVU, you air unforlinit,'
ed Mis Serenn, "seein's I'm
tirly up a b-t for ye."
So little thinking the words she had
spoken in jest to her niece that morn
ing had reached the deacou's ear, he
set to work and soon restored the house
hold to its wonted orders.
"Thar, now," said she, shaking up
the pdlows on the lounge; "seems ti
me you'd be more comfortable here dea-
;on.
, . 1 r 1 M
jilebue so. s;
like a cad aud look like a fool, and still
have sand aud senso to give away.1 "
"Poet's Corner" of Westminster
Locomotives,
nearly every railroad
1
Haunted
"There are on
locotnotiues that are known as Jonahs,
Henry E. Archer, who has spent twen
ty years in the service of the Illinois
Central and i at present sojourning at
the Southern. "Locomotive engineers
re not, perhaps, more superstitious
than other Deonle. but I have known
aid he, hobbling a long more than one to throw up his position had blistered
in the
abbey.
"Soup, Soap and Salvation " is the
concise motto in the room of the Balti
more Free Sunday Breakfast associa
tiou.
Street cars in Bombay are as a rule
of American manufacture, and the pro
moters of the s? reet car lines are Ameri
cans.
Ivan Kamitzdied at Schenectady, N.
Y., of blood poisening, caused by
wearing colored hose on a foot which
ro. d
Auets, -
' Reserved for policies, N. Y.
Standard 4 per cent., amf
all liabilities, -New
InauTitnce, 1891, -ouUUndiug
Insurance, -paid
Policy-holders in 18Q1,
pul Poliry-holders siuccor-
j;nii:Oion, - . -
Income, 101 - -
11,032,520 25
11.769,691
50.586,622 -
1,447,000-45
20.615.554 95
2,684,435 74
Assets Invested as Follows:
Loans secured br mortsraires on
Ileal Estate, first liens, - $9,541,192
144.00C
10,300
tuesof tSo large Tntfs Pills which Q
- rtare eon bo t j
lndthc2n tor tho Vise of cfuldxenfej
aad nerseaawlAweakgtCTnaca.1. For
Sick Headaolio
they r inTalci)Id as tney cause ino
mimilate. coarun ino doqt
off mtn rally vrlttiont natwea
1. .Im nTnfl'a Pillfl
O arc sold by oil dr j?lts- DweimaU.Q
Price, 20e. OOctS Hi Park Place, H. Y.
GOO0
New York Citv bonds,
Brooklyn waeer bonds,
Uicbmond, (Va.) bonds,
Loans to Policy-holders on Co.'s
Policies, - - -Collateral
loans, - -
Real Estate, cost yalue, - -Caih
in bank and trust Co.'s,
Iaterest accrued, uriMiiiuuis de
ferred and inransit, etc.,
is NorfolkAUianceExchaDge
..'-11 and 13 Commerce St.,
Norfolk, Vn.,
.416
$11,459,638 78
Ter agencies nd other particulars, address.
II. D. BLAKE,
I Special District A gt.,
' - U.ileigh,X.C.
278,739 34
3,500
501,818 25
247,708 j Owned and controlled by Allianceraen
.067 77 ' for handling produce.
COTTON A SPECIALTY.
'Don't sell before writing for par
ticulars to 1 w ' '
J J. ROGERS, Mgr.
P. O. Box 212.
sitislied that her aum would siy n ih
mg Ftirti e on the subject, in ii .tai ie-i
a sagacious Mlence. In the uieaiitmu
will h;Kl hurried home, where he foun-i
the Deacon lying on the lounge,
groaning dismally with the pain in his
ri rhl foot and the t?enerd condition f
-O o
It -if-.
"DMyouge; the liniment, Wi lum? '
(juerietl be, anxiously.
"Yes sir; here it is. Shall I bathe
vour foot now ?"
"jSo. You may lev sen the the
barda.L-ea bit, though, ef y'er a mind
tew. How on aj-tu are we goai lew
et along I i; tM a r v Jane comes bavk
is m-jre'n I know."
"Will, anMVi.r ied W il', after an in
spection o! the larder, "there's plenty
of cold ham and tluee lo.tVes of bread
and I can boiLegs and masr potatoes,
so we shai'u't starve for wi.ile I guess.'1
"Me-ljbe we could get brother John's
wul'ipr awniie.
"Can't," said Will promptly;
isn't at home."
"Then it's no use, going for
groaned the de.'Con.'
"Not a mite," replied Will. "By
the way, when I came by the Dames
i 'I I 1 . 1 ..... . . t . . i 1 . . mn t n
tee, uonv came uowu in mc kci,v
coming
:o the lounge, lying 011 which he men-
rally decided it had rested him just t(
W-e Mi Serena work. Then the dea-
on remembered tlmt she Awas callet
the best housekeeper for miles around
ani that premium at the county fair.
L'o be sure, 11. inui. be lmrd for her ti
.00k aftei" everythiug indoors and out
"There ain't many women,"' thought
he deacon, "could 'a done as well a.
die has."
"Now, deacon," said Miss Dame,
having, a- she expressed it. "atraih
euecl the house out a bit," "you want
to mix equal parts of alkylnd witli
; lie arniky master good for your foo;
I'll warren t. Well, I declare, slit
went on. "in all the time I've been
here 1 han't done my arrant yet.
rather than take out an engine that was It is said that Mrs. Adair of 1 tula
rtmnW us nnluckv. Some years auo delphia, whose first husband left her at
an engine on an Illinois ro- d blew up, immense fortune, spnd ssiu.uuu a
I let! I iMitLuii' the firemuii's head off with
iegnwnt of boiler iron. The engine
was rebuilt and made as good as new,
but no engineer could be found to run
it more than one trip. It was soon
whispered about that it was haunted;
hat the headless apparition had an un
pleasant habit of appearing on the
ender with pick and shovel and insist-
r. it
,ng on tiring up. une nigiu an en
gineer and his fireuiMi deserted the
ocomotive while out on a run, and the
conductor attempted to bring the train
Hp was not afraid of CliOstSl not
year in entertainment.
Ten pairs of shoes and three suits of
clothes were worn out by J. Edwin
Stone ou his walk from San Frnn
.isco to New York. The trip was
made in 12S days, the distance travleed
!eing 3,324 miles.
A cat gave birth to a kitten with
eight legs at Logan, V.T.,theother Jay
One side of the kitten is "Covered with
black and white stripes, while the other
is spotted nearly every color of the
rainbow.
The first double-deck twin screw
been thitiKing, deacon, seein
you.
land i'ined mine, ef you wanted
"1. do," interrupted the deacon;
"what this place meeds is a mistress,
and ef vou, re a mind tew cum "
is jvo
make.-
"Wh it. ' 'exclaimed Miss Serena.
"As Mrs. Deacon Braekett," he con
tinued. As this was the first offor Miss
Serena ever had she b-.1 a ed creditably,
for she promptly answered:
"I It cum, deacon,
So Miss Serena left ti e house where
tad livt'd so many years to pass, the
rem lining ones at Dea on Brackett's
s t he df acini's wife. But the Dame
homestead was not long un fl ted,
for the next year Will and Dolly were
named and moved there. Bui
neither of them ever knew whether
Aunt berena proposed to tne deacon
a
proposed to Aunt Serena,
Majazinc.
1 11
in " o I . , . . . tt 1 1 r 1 i
he' But he side-tracked at the hrst ferry-boat in use in the united otaie.-
I've opportunity and waited until day-ligl.t is the Cincinnati, which runs over the
I 1 . 1 I II . I I 1) -LI : . ... . 1 .-1 t wm Tnr
i.l..ro pnmn Ptinir f, IR-TUn. I1H to U I reuilSY 1 vani i irtiin Mi icim iiuui uci-
LTCiWI V - I mf . - .
ne that the ghost was no joke; thai sey City to New York, blie
-very time the furnace door was thrown feet long 40 feet Wlde and
.npii thH headless apparition entered I iwelve miles an hour,
he cab, bearing a shadowy scoop o:
coal. For a mouth the engine lay in
the shops. Then an engineer, wlw
was compelled to either take it out or
lose his position, mounted it. Before
he had run a dozen miies it went
throutrh a culbert, wrecked the traie
and k 1 ed nine people. It was ueer
rebuilt.
SIT
hvr,"
Scmples Overcome
The San Jose Mercury prints a story
of a certain Capitain J ,who was a
brave officer aud a good disciplinarian,
but nervous and eccentric. He had a
mania for roll calls. One day he sa
Waverly I pieces of soft bread littered about thr
company. streets ana suouieu wuu ms
customary inpulsiveness, "Fall in.
flomnaiiv Bl" The men fell in. am:
Th ; Hate Track, .1 .11 nrjs -illfd. Thi'ii the captain
On a certain day recently the daily referred to the fragments of bread.
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and said her Aunt Serena was
over here this afiei noon.
"Com in here this afternoon?" echo
ed the deacon. "It's about that fencm,"
I s pose
"No said Will "I guess not 1 think
I that is," Then desperately, "it's
leap vear, you know. .
'Aud whatef it 'tis? queried
deacon obtusely.
"Nothing only well, I heard Mis
Dame said she'd a good mind to take
advantage of it's leiu leap year. Yo.,
seethe's plagued abcut getting help
and her farm does need a man to over
look if'
'"'William, said the deacon, blushing
like a school girl, yuu don t never
mean
tt A. Inn
n luncemeut that a horse had trotted a
mile in two minutes and four seconds.
Every reader was supposed to take
4 real internet iu this fact, which was,
for the matter of that, no donbt a
wonderful achievement.
On the very same day many newspa
pers had auotiier story of the race track
to tel : On a trottnm course near Bo
ton a young trotting mare was
driven in a race.
She had trotted the first and second
iieats under all the excitement which
pirited horses feel at such a time, strain-
nir every muscie uuu never to uo uei
master's bidding.
A third time she was brought out
A gait
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waste make a mighty good pudding.
Right face; breakraiiks; march 1"
The story was current, but probably
reus ii ot true, that Company B was
m i i i l
An account ot electricity as a me
saver comes from Scotland, where a
man, while bathing, was siezed with
a cramp and sank, being two minutes
below water. When rescued, he was
thought to lie dead, but after two . ap
plications of the electric current ani
mation was restored. The current war
passed between the nape of the neck
and ttie heart.
Tha longest horse railroad in the
world ru:is from Buenos Ayres to San
Martin, in the Argentine it-.-puuuc, u
distance being about fifty miles, an
tiie schedule time of trip thirteen hours
Trains leave Buen s Ayres every hour
in the day and twiceduring the night.
Every morning Hnd evening express
trains earn ing only baggage.
For the Bojs.
The great men come out of cabins
is a rule. Columbus was a weaver.
Haley was a soap-maker, Homer was a
begger, and Franklin, whose name
will live whil- li h ning blazes on a
One might imagine that the Cluua
muu who gorges iniuselt with broiled,
ruts aud bird s nest soup would eat any ,
kind of meat prepared"" iu any manner,
but such is nut tne case. John China
man has his religious notions about
such things as well as oiiier people.
Many of the almond eyed inhaoiUuts.
of Chicago are not very goud Buduinsta,
Since cuming to the cay they liave bt-
come apustiiie. But Wutch the ortho-.
doz Chinaman wheu ne goes to the,
market ter his buuday chicken. He.
will not take u dead oue beeaUee ths
prohubiatiea lhat'the fellow who kill
ed it was not a believer in Gautama
and may have cnopped us head oil
with a hatchet. His chicken must '
nave its he.td on and be "very much'
alive.
John will go to the coop aud stire
the feathered pnsoneis u witli a btick
if he tinds one that tat ivies and hut
ters ahout in a lively , uiunuer lie will
uuy it. He has no cu lor a duaipish,
siCKly appeunng towi. " .
ilaviu made a selection he tales the
chicken home alive, gets out a duty
tulle linage, kueeht- oetuie it, makes
some queer mouoiis wnh his handsK
iu urn hies a few words, takes ficm a
-hell or drawer a knife with a doub
le edged blade ubieii is extremely sharp
and wnh much ceremony whucks oil"
the head ot the lowl. Tii.s done h,
returns to the image, and kneeling a
giu apoioize lor waving committed
ucu a wicKed deed and proceeds to pre-
pare the cuickea for diuiie.-. Chicago
l'rtOune.
bpare the Old Orchard.
Some fruit growers cut dowa Trues
when the' ceabe to near, and it is not a -viae
pruciaee. W hile lucre is ine there
is hope. Do not cut a li uu tree down
uuleaslt is sloue deid, tor 11 takes loo
ioug lt grow new ones, lluudicds of.
old orchards are de.ilroed every vt-ar.
which with some irouolc could he im
proved aud brought into bearing, it
?eeins iiKe uao iuruiilude lo let orchard
iiee-s go on 3 cur alter 3 ear, bearing plen
tifully perhaps, uuiil tney have -exhausted
lue soil, and tneu because they cease
to yietd huii lo be cut down by ihe uwu
:r, who bus never tuiipiicu 10 the hoi I iu
.iuy way that which lue trees have lakeu
i'rom it.
It the old trees have been badly neg
lected, trim them well. Cut out uil
urusby, crowded limbs, and thiu Iho
trees toward Ihe center, laiut the wood
that it uiay i.ot decuy . Let the bark be
cleaned, uu 1 the old rou-u hurlace muy
oe cleaned od. At the right time let the
tvhoie uround be well iiai'towed, nut
once called into liue that the captain I through Harden and L i Hue. counties
might ask which man it was that owed Kentucky. We called that the land
him ten cents. of ticks aud lizards, llie soil is very
cloud, came from the printers desk.
Fifteen years ago I rode horseback, without mutilating the roots, and ferahzo
heavily. Ihe soil Biiouid be kept iooau
The
ltee lioni Weeds,
uud iu ood lime
... ...
On another occasion the same poor, so poor that it will not raise eye
had command of the guard peas unless yon take them without tin
dar-
" returned Will, not
ing to meet the deacon s eye.
"Weil, that beat's all!"
- But Will was already out of hearing.
h ivintr i:ohe to the woodshed, where
he was alternately splitting wood and
i-buckl'm" with laighterat the "good
joke" be imagined he had on the dea
eon. For he knew well the man s na
ture. Bashful to the last degree 111 tht
compa iy of the opposite sex, the mre
idia that Miss boreua might De com
iu ' with matrimonial iuleutious was
onntn n had command or tne guara neas unless yon t,ase mem wuubui tne
beim? I linf. with headauarters in the village of eves
n a . . I . . . . . , 1 . -l t
Falls church. At the post were a Hiding along tnts aay-i came upon a
sergeant and half a dozi;n privates, spot of rank weedi wh. re the sod had
Strict orders were issued iutefering been made rich by the decay of an old
with nrivate property, Soldieis ar- Calin that once stood there.
iiuman, however; plump chickens were Out of that cabin year ago came a
near, and the result may be imagined, i lean, lank, white-he ided boy. If ever
Early the next morning one of the a bov come from abject poverty that
"loyal' inhabitans psesented hiiuselt 1 one did. When only seven years of
J. ..i 11:' 1 1 u if. i n j 11
vance. riisiagene woum waiK 10 noagenvuie
fattest chickens had disappeared J with a basket o eggs to sell. Ihe
inrim' the 11 irht. and feathers had hovs laughed at him. 1 liey said hi
. . - . . t J I W ' .
eeu found just outside the picket poijt. clotlus were like Josepli s becituse of
japt ain J was indignant, and oi so many colors. But he was in
curs the roll was cjilled. The men dust rmus, honest ai;d soler. After a
were lectured on the sin of - chicken I while he went down the Ohio and
stealing, and a search of haversacks j Mississippi rivers 011 a Hat-boat. Ihen
ordered. Ihe search was made, I he returned, and crossing over into
uud
the trees wilt bear again. Unieucliud
wood ashes make an excellent ierlhizet.
Let the soil be made as rich as poeoible.
It can hard.y be overdone.
mil brifan to trot another heat.
- n 1 " .
,he bent all her energies to exceed the headquarters with a grievance
peed of the other horses. She was
bounding along the track, her eyes
aflame, her nostrils panting, her ward
in obedience to the drivers urging
word and whip, when she suddeuly
dropped to the ground deal.
She had burst a blood vessel in ner
dumb effort to do wh it was desired of
bur. Like inanv another horse on -ihe
j
race course. s;ie
had been driven to
death. But all comment which the
people about the place had to make
about the matter was that the mare
was worth $20,000, and it was a great
pity that h-T owner should lose such
Y.tiu&ble a lima!.
Novelties in YYate!ics.
One of the most ingenious and inex
pensive novelties i f-tiic day. Says a coa
temporary, is a met 1 watch, kev
ie.s', and showuig upon i s fr.-c - through
mall apertures, the d.tV . .'i..te Kiorh
and stale of -t he uiooii. Tue watch re
quires on! yto lie wound in the usual
wav, aud when the horrr of twelve
o,c lock m id .ught arrives, with a.
slight click the day and dte change in
a magical though auton atic manner.
the little golden moon a i so passes un
aided sdowtv through the quarters un
til tne mail 111 the moon appears w th
full visagH. after which he gradually
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jut not a reamer was utscovere 1. inuiau.i ue mn-j-ui i.t- nunc, ,- 7,,,.. .:, nf h;a x'w
Captain J gave a sich of relief, then on to Illinois, where he practiced ' , - ,F . ,ta
and the complainant had nothing to llaw, then on to the pre-Vential chair,
do but withdra'tf! and in hi3 name with 1 1 t of .Liberty.
At dinner that day the c ipt tin found I thank God we live in and where a
a pluma, juicy chicken, finely roaste t, b.jy can go from a tow-path, a tin-yard
waiting his attentio n He looked at ii I or a rail-cut to the pre-ilency of a
. n le i at i s tromat ard was about to 1 republic G. W. BJh-
is oiuv v.sioie, snowing unat tne . oro is
ab ut to vanish from the face of the
watch until such a time as zdiall be nee?
ce.sary to appear, as a new moon.
phitdrm Cry for Pitchers TtoriaJ-