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J r r"7 "wr . . . . V- -r - . - i 1) $ 7 V; JOHN R. ELKINS, Editor and Proprietor. Devoted to General News, Education, Literature aria Good Morals. CI. 00 PER YEAR. 1 . - . ' :i. ; r:- i. v ! . 1 . . - . : ' ! ! : " ' - --J u - . . i .-, -. : ( -The- SlPAMLl? !ObSEEER: : - i i L III. REGRET. If I had known oh, loyal heart, " Whanj hand to hand, we said farewefl ; How for all time our paths would part, What shadow o'er our friendship fall, I should have clasped your hand so close : In the warm pressure of my own, That memory still would keep its grasp If I had known. If I bad known, when far and wide, We loitered through the summer land, . What Presence wandered by our side, And o'er you tetched its awful hand, I should have hushed my careless speech, . To listen, dear, to. every tone That from your lipsf fell low and sweet If I had knofn. , If I had known when your kind eyes Met mine in parting, true and sad Eyes gravely tender, gently wise, . . And earnest rather, more than glad How soon the lids would lie abovo, As cokl and white as sculptured stone, I should have treasured every glance If I had known. If I had known iow, from the strife Of fears,-hopes, 'passions, here below, Unto a purer, higher life That you were called, oh, friend, to go, I should have stayc d my foolish tears ( Aixd hushed each idle sigh and moan 7 To bid you last? a long God speed If I had known. , If I had known to what strange place, What mystic, distant, silent shore, You calmly turned your steadfast face, What time your fcotstcps Irit my. door, -Ishouldiiavo forged a golden link To bind the hearts so constant grown, And kept it constant ever there If I had known. If I had known that, until Death Shall-with his linger touch my brow, And still the quickening of the breath That stirs with life's full meaning now, Bo long my feet must tread the way ur our accustomed paths alone, I should have prized your presence more If I had 'known. If I had known how soon for you " Drew near the ending of the fight, 'And on your vision, fair and new, I Eternal peace da wn3d into sight, .t snouia nave oeggetl, as love's last gift, inat you, before bod's trreat white throne. Would pray for your poor friend on earth ' If I had known. ClHstipn Iteidt in the Sheltering Arms, THE CLOWN'S STORY. " BY FLORENCE REVEItE PENDAR. It was at One of 'New England's pretty towns that-Nina Walters first joined our show, with her fellow performer, Louis Mason, and Joe Fuller, apprenticed like nimscu 10 oia ra ury.er, wno was won; to boast that the children he took tb .train -were, as well cared for in every re spect as his own. which statement I have nevqr had any reason to doubt : and I may say I haves .more tluin once witnessed the strict impartiality with which he admin istrated corporal punishment to his pro geny and apprentices if, they failed to come up. to the mark in ' their respective duties. . Mahy a time have I seen him in the ring, his full, red face beaming with genial smiles as he put a child through I mp.pau-act.wiin: t- "Now, Maudie,deaf, one, two, three, jump. OhU-can't? Want little help?" crack went the Whip's lash around the little girl's slender anklles, and with : "Oh! please don't, X will," over the banner the frightened child jumped. -"Lor! bless you," would this veteran v child ; trainer observe. "You've trot to . frighten some on 'em into it. it's all for thelT good. Just look at the youngsters I've turned out, a earning their hundred and fifty and two hundred a week now," after which speech Pa Dryer would beam complacently upon his listeners. But I am digressing. . Nina Walters and her fellow perform ers were trapeze artists, wonderfully clever in their line, and consequently high in favor with Pa Dryer. They were down in the bills, as "The Fays." Pa Dryer had picked Nina up out of the , streets I S believe, when she was about seven years of age, but the two boys had been legally apprenticed to him by their 1 respective "parents, ' K Before many, weeks Nina's dusky eyes and pretty ways had captivated us all and we were her willing slaves, from Ned tur. colored tentman up. ' It was evident -from the first, however, that Louis arid Joe 'were decplyin love with Nina, but .as far as 1'coiU.d sec,, she showed prefer- ; ence to neither; treating each :ts frankly as a sister might a brother, v 'hick was . natural enough, as they had grown up together during some ten yeiflfs, having : bccoftie apprentices of Pa Dryer's near the same time. Louis, who was of an open, ffank disposition, with a friendly word for everv one, had just turned twentv when thev ioined us, thus. mak-J ing hW three months the senior of Joe; his very opposite, being quick to take offence and of a singularly jealous na ture. The only thing they possessed in common was their gOod looks,, both bein; undeniably handsome. lissome six mcuths, as I stood waiting hnhiml itro Mirt:lin that SllUt OUt tne TII1& entrance by the way, I have not yet in V. V U Q tmduced mvself. Not that if is at all necessary, only perhaps some of my read ers might like to know what manner of . person is relating these facts. I am of rather a ; retiring ( disposition, although myvocation of elbwri rather belies this trait of mine. Outside of the ring l am familiarly known as "Still Done," earn- that title, I believe, by my iondness huiet life, the moment I have shaken -rxjrA YT UUSt irom uu m u.cxia. . uww;t Vvejr came to write of this" terrible reality that crossed my path 1 amnjjt r' flpite clear. Perhaps the d&J : !' K . M. ., tee ray name in print, in a different Form from its habitual one influenced me; or, perhaps, the hope that it might help some poor souls mad with jealousy, to conquer that frightful malady, maybe save them from committing a crime, had a little to do with it. . Well, as I was saying, this evening as I stood waiting, I saw Kina coming slow ly as if in thought toward me. It was something so unusual to see her pretty face without a smile, that I exclaimed: '.Why, Nina, child I What ails you? Has Pa Dryer been acting ugly?" " What ever old Dryer had done in Nina's young er days, I had never known him since he had been with us to treat her otherwise than kind: in fact he rather petted her like the rest of us. I was considerably relieved when she answered: "Oh! no! but don't you laugh at me. I reallv believe I'm nervous" here she laughed herself, but it lacked the true nnjr, "Nervous! What about?" I asked. You see she sort of looked upon me as an old fogy and didn't mind expressing her self freely as it were. "Oh! I don't know," she answered, "only I feel as if something was going to happen, don't you know? It is silly of me. Why ! when I was a little mite and Pa Dryer made m hang from my chin from the trapese, I never felt sc " Just then my act being on I had to hur ry away. When next I saw Nina she was Aymg gracefully through the .air from trapeze to trapeze. After my act I had hastily resumed my every day clothes and returned to the ring entrance, which was not my custom, for I generally left the building as soon as I was through. This night something stronger than myself bade me watch "The Fajs." I have seen a good deal of trapeze business in my day, but never anything so graceful and neat as ' 'The Fays'? performance. Nina's little form seemed to glide through the air without any apparent effort. The applause as usual was loud and frequent. Their finish as a rule was done in this wise : Nina taking a flying leap from a small platform near the roof, would be caught by Louis, who hung suspended head downward from one of the trapeze. This night the order of thing appeared to be reversed, for it wa3 Louis who mounted to the platform to take the leap, instead of going through a series of evolutions on the middle trapeze, whilst Nina prepared herself for her daring dropi I had hardly time to wonder at the change before I saw Joe, who Had been , executing a Catherine wheel on a trapeze still higher up, give a violent start. - lie too, I think, was surprised. Shall I ever forget the cry that rang through the building that night, causing women to faint , and strong men to turn white like unto death. I can hear it now, and the words : "Nina! for God's sake keep clear of the middle trapeze; the ropes are cut!" Too late came Joe's -warning. Nina's little hands were already clinging to the doomed, bar, and Louis had taken' his leap for life.. A whir as of something whizzing through the air as I closed my eyes to shut tne Horror of it out, when a mur mur like the hoarse roar of the distant sea fell upon my ears, swelling until it burst into a wild huzza. I looked and saw Joe hanging head downward "from a trapeze, while with both hands he upheld Louis, Nina clasped safe by the latter's right arm, the trapeze to which she had clung but a moment before lying in the ring some forty feet below. Joe's daring intrepid ity had saved his companions' lives. He had dropped from his perch above to a lower trapeze and swung himself to the rescue ol .Louis, thereby enabling the latter to snatch Nina from a horrible death. - Cheer upon cheer greeted the two as they were lowered safely to the ground, while one old fellow, in his excitement, exclaimed, as he caught Joe by the hand : ' "A brave act ye've done this night, lad. It ought to wipe out a heap of sins fur ye.'?v I That night Joe disappeared, and "The Fays," as far as the public was con cerned, were known no more. I For many weeks Nina lay hovering be tween life and ' death, but at last youth conquered. She is now the happy wife of 'Louis, for that terrible moment in which her fellow performer and herself had hung as it were between heaven and earth had revealed to her who had won her heart. Louis and his wife have long since left the profession and are prosper ing well in their new line of life. Two children have been vouchsafed them Joe and Nina they are named. And what about the other Joe, you think, perhaps. Well, it was eight years before I again met Joe. Oi course I tpoke about Louis and Nina, telling him how happy they were and how they had named their first-bora for him. : " She did that, Nina," he murmured. adding, "and she must have guessed all : I saw it in her reproachful eyes that night. I was mad with jealousy. I knew that she loved Louis, but I thought if he were out of her way she would for get him and then I could win her, and so, madman as I was, I cut the ropes at tached to the middle trapeze, the one on (which Louis always did his finish." An exclamation of horrified surprise escaped me as he continued with : "You know how my fiendish attempt was frustrated.. How the girl I loved ; took the place of the man I would have murdered. I learned afterward that feel ing nervous she had persuaded Louis to take the leap instead of herself. Only for that I should have been branded as a murderer." "But you nobly redeemed yourself in saving both" their Uves,"M here spoke. ! : "My God! can I ever shut out the horror of it all?" he cried bitterly. Rising, I said: " Yes, rthink you can," - taenia he J ALBEMABLE, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1884. "xMdSET wu?lSl( 1 ments." , ' A little dark-eyed fellow stood shyly eyeing the man I had left but a few mo ments before, then laying his hand upon the man s arm ne asked : : , 'Are you , my big, brave Uncle Joe? 'Cause if you are, mamma sent me to fetch you." , - 'Child! what is your name?" ex claimed the man eagerly. "Joe Mason," answered the little one, adding: "but mamma calls me Little Joe,'" then glancing up he continued naively: 44 Uncle Joe, mamma said you'd be glad to see me, are you?" I "Glad!" and as Joe Fuller uttered that one word like unto a sob, he clasped the little fellow in his arms,' while I, closing the door, crept softly away, con vinced the child had won the day. Poisonous Plants and 'Flowers. I There are many plants whose leaves, flowers and seeds contain virulent pois ons, which every one should know, so as to avoid them and keep children from them. Buttercups possess a poisonous prop erty, which disappears when the flowers are. dried in hay ; no cow will feed upon them while they are in blossom. So caustic are the petals that they will some times inflame the skin of tender fingers. Every child should be cautioned against eating them; indeed, it is desirable to caution children about tasting the petals of any flowers, or putting leaves into their mouths, except those known to be harmless. The oleander contains a deadly poison in its leaves and flowers, and is said to be a dangerous plant for the parlor or dining-room. The flower and berries of the wild bryony possess a powerful pur gative, and the red berries, which attract children, have proved fatal. The seeds of the laburnum and catalpa tree should be kept from children, as there is a pois onous property in their bark. The seeds of the yellow and of the rough podded vetches" will produce nausea and severe headache. I Fool's parsley has tuberous roots, which have been mistaken for turnips, and pro duced a fatal effect an hour after they were eaten. . I Meadow hemlock is said to be the hemlock .which Socrates drank ; it kills by its intense action on the nerves, pro ducing complete insensibility and palsy of the arms .and legs, and is a" most dangerous drug, except in skilled hands. In August it is f eund in every field by the seashore, and near mountain tops, in full; bloom, and ladies and children gather - its large clusters of tiny white flowers in quantities, without the least idea of their poisonous qualities. The water hemlock, or i cow-bane, resembles parsnips, and has been eaten for them with deadly effect, i The water drop wort resembles celery when not in I flower, and its roots are similar to those of the parsnip, but they contain a virulent poison, producing con vulsions, which end in death in a short time. The . fine-leaved water dropwort and the common J dropwort are also dangerous weeds. 1 The bulbs of the daffodils were once mistaken for 'leeks and boiled in soup with very disastrous effects, making the whole household intensely nauseated, and the children did not recover from their effects for several days. Drugman.'- , . Jay Gould's dountry Home. . Gould's establishment at Irvington has very peculiar associations. The original adding is by no means new, but its grandeur is such that it holds distinction even in these days of progress. . Many years ago William i Paulding was a law yer in this city and made a large for tune, attaining also the dignity of mayor. Much of his wealth jwas in real estate on the Hudson, and his two sons, Frederick and Philip, became,! on his death, promi nent as rich young men. But they died early, and their wealth has been scat tered The former was the grandfather of the play-actor, Frederick ; Paulding, who is now the sole representative of the family. He has retired from the stage on account of ill health, and now lives in this city. Philip Paulding had an am bition to build the finest dwelling in America. He selected a river front of extended view, and in due time a mar ble palace attracted the admiration of "tourists. Its chief j feature was an oriel window of rare beauty, which is still justly admired. Paulding. however, soon sickened of his grand house, which in fact he never completely finished, and tne admiring tourists would have been surprised, had they visited the spot, to fihd the owner a disappointed man. liv ing in seclusion in one corner of the building. After his death the estate went into the hands of an executor, who embezzled it, and the heirs are now poor. Gould bought the place, which he en larged and improved at an immense cost, and on his hands it became Lynrlhurst, the grandest establishment on the banks of the Hudson. Utica Herald. A Novel Experiment. .- i The advantages of the electric light over candlesror gas! in a ballroom were pleasantlj demonstrated at a large dan cing party given the other day at the house of Sir George Grove, at Lower Sydenham, England. The rooms were kept at a comfortably cool temperature,' and the illumination was in every way perfect. One of the young ladies, says the Philadelphia Telegram, had a small lamp imbedded inside some real flowers, the current being supplied by an accu mulator in the pocket of. her dress, and the effect is described as exceedingly pretty. j ( Colorado has to buy $2,000,000 worth of grain every year for cattle fd. IpOMICAi MISCELLANY. iNEWS D N0TS F0E aE &OTTS STORIES BT THE BITOT WAQS. Got & Tuna Out He Toole the HLnt Well Quail lied for the Dniinew SUU Solid, Etc., Etc "Been out ridiner latelvf" asked pitr- goober of Plunkett. - "Oh, yes," answered Plunkett, "haven't you heard of my late turn out? - "No I have not." "I tell you it wasVan elegant affair; executed by order and done up in style," "nnat was it? Didn't know were able to have fine turnouts." you "Xu see," replied Plunkett, gravely, "I exiled on my girl last, night and stayed rather late; and her pa gave the oldest son orders to turn me out of doors, which i he did in splendid style." ! lie Took the Knt "My darling,; you never have kissed me yet," he saidl "Haven't I?" she answered, with a gurgling laugh. " w, " he repeated ; "and I wish you would now. Will you?" She did. "Ah!" he sighed; how sweet it is to feel the pressure of your jvarm lips on my cheek." "Do. you know why my lips are so warm?" shesaid "Because because," h" stammered "Because," she broke in, "no ice cream has passed them for ever so long. " He took the hint. SomerviUe Journal. ! : ! . Well Qualified for the Doiineii. 'ctou would like to become a black smith, Iprould you?" he said to a little 'barefoot boy, as he stopped blowing the bellows for a moment. Yes, sir," the boy replied, " I would like 5o learn the" trade." , "Are you strong and healthy?" v . "Trs, sir.V ; . i "And quick? I I wouldn't have a boy around who wasn't quick." Here the boy stepped his bare foot on a hot horseshoe, and the blacksmith remarked : ' , ," Well, I guess I'll give you a trial. You seem to be one of the quickest little boys I ever saw." New York Sun. still solid. . ; A man rushed into al Wall street brokers pfhee the other daw and rubbed his ttee hard. i ,V. : . HSow is Northern Pacific?" he in quired. "Down," replied the broker. "Then I can't go by rail,'.' he gasped. "How's Western Union?" "Down," answered the broker. 'Then I can't send a dispatch. How's government bonds?" . "Steady." i "Then I'll send a letter, by gosh! How much margin do you want for a two-cent stamp?" . '"' But the broker knocked his brains out with a pile of Grant & Ward government contracts. Drake's Traveler? Magazine, A PArF That Will Support Him . "Which candidate will you support?" asked Farmer Fun o w of a bachelor boarder. ' "That's a nice question to ask .a man who is a candidate himself," replied the 6ingte man, with a mysterious air. "What!" exclaimed the granger; "are you a candidate?" "Yes, sir; I'm a candidate, and expect to be supported in a magnificent man ner." "Which party?" ',Oh, a party that is rich, intelligent and powerful." .".Explain yourself, please." "Why, you obtuse old fellow. I'm going to marry a wealthy widow!" Xeic York Journal. 4 Two Views. Colonel Clepmore, editor of the Daly ' Blue Wing, went fishing one Sunday and broke his leg. Tho- Key. Mr. Gidfelt heard of the accident, and. in his Sun day sermon, said : " Here we have a striking example of the retribution following the violation of the Sflbbath. If Colonel Clepmore had been at church, he would not have broken his leg.' The following Sunday, as the Rev. Mr. Gidfelt was ascending the steps of the pulpit, he stepped pn a piece of orange peel, dropped by T a child of . the Sunday-school, slipped, fell and broke his leg. The next issue of the Blue Wing contained the folio w;ng : "Here we have a striking example of the retribution following self-appointed censorship. If the Rev. Mr. Gidfelt had been fishing, he! would not have broken his leg.'V-Arka-ntaw Traveler. ' Foiled. 1 I see by the papers that ten thousand peoDle in this countrv have been poisoned .by eating ice cream," observed George to Angelina the other evening as they started out to walk. - ! ; 'Is that so?'; , ''Yes, and that is not the worst of it. The Asiatic chotera was caused by eat ing ice cream."; "For mercy's sake!" "Yes, indeed," continued George, more hopefully than before. "And the lead-, ing medical journals agree tha it is sure death to eat the stuff. One might as well take arsenic It is suicide to taste it.", "Oh! George, you make me feel so badly," she replied, as she steered him across the street toward the Brunswick restaurant. "You can't imagine how sad I feeL" "What can I do for you?" he inquired, with alarm. Do you want a doctor? Let me take you homel" "No, no. Not home. Lets go in here. I want to die." Xeto York Graphic Black silk stockings remain popular. Red hose are worn with dresses of almost any solor. - j Red sunshades are as rife as ever on fashionable beaches. . Low shoes, ' with plain colored hose, are worn on the street. Married ladies frequently wear black lace over shot silks of light color. West Liberty, Iowa, has , a serenading troupe consisting of fifteen young ladies. Dresses are much less draped than they have been for many seasons past. In Boston there are 20,000 working women whose wages average only $4 to $o a week. , White and colored mull pokes, with Valenciennes lace ruches, are pretty for girls hats. j . French modistes are using more ma terials of red and yellow than of any other color. ' . ' - The Medical Summary recommends the external use of buttermilk to ladies who are exposed to tan or. freckles.. ' Many elegant black lace mantles have either the sleeves alone or the bodice J only lined with red silk gauze. : Tunics with full blouse bodices of red Adrianople are worn with, two-toned gray or beige skirts of glace batiste. : At the fourteenth commencement ot the Chicago Women's Medical ; college recently there were twenty-one candi dates. A fashionable young lady in jfeir York has had her hair tinted a beautiful chest nut color to match her saddle-horse's mane. .The skirts of dresses for girls of all ages are now made longer than they formerly were, falling always well below the knees. - j Lockets are little used' except for full dress, when they are worn suspended from a small short chain or velvet ribbon around the neck. .. ; 'j Short hair for women is coming into fashion. It is very pretty and becoming to nearly everybody, worn in loose, half curled locks around the head. : High-heeled shoes are not worn by girls, and all heels are dispensed with by fashionably dressed children until they are eight or nine years old. Rough-and-ready straw pokes are much worn in the . countiy. The prevailing grarzuture is a scarf of white mull wound nbout the crown and nuua of flowers km front. Many demi-toilet dresses, with bodies cut low in front, are completed by a plastron of some lighter material, which t , . a i a l i.i t.V. is ngnieneu arounu iug mroab - wiiu a ruche. 1 i The fashion of bodices open in front, either in the shape of a square, heart or point, is very much going out. v i Dresses are now made Quite high or quite; low in the neck. A orettv fashion for girls f ten is that of adding hemmed strings of the mate rial to the under-arm seams of full dresses and tying them behind in a large tosh bow. ' The Cardinal sleeve is a Parisian nov elty. It is quite straight is plaited the whole length and set full into the arm hole, whence it hangs half way down the forearm. j Coaching parasols this season are many of them covered with changeable silks of two or three shades of some warm, dark colors, as red and brown, gold and rose or bronze and red. With light toilets small pelerines oi beaded tulle are much worn. Their lower edge is trimmed with a lace flounce fully gathered and ornamented with drooping pear-shaped jet ornaments. Lace mantles are often made upon a tulle foundation. The sleeves are cov ered with lace flounces; the fronts are lengthened into a scarf or into two semi long square lappets falling on each side . Dr. Niemeyer gives this advice, to ladies: "Thirty deep inspirations taken every morning in a pure atmosphere, and no lacing, wiU do more for the color of your cheeks than a tumbler of chalybeate or a dose of iron pills. V j There is no recipe for a good, clear com plexion equal to the one that prescribes plenty ot fresh air, soft water, whole lome food and regular exercise. Noth ing is worse for the complexion than the sating of sweets and rich foods. The accordion plaiting, just now so fashionable, is made by machipery. The iccordion plaits open and close ike the instrument for which they, are pamed, without injury. The regulation plaiting snd kilting rarely keeps its place for any length of time, and needs constant super vision. ' j Ann E. Leak, an armless woman, was married about ten years ago to, William Thompson, a steamship engineer. The couple went to Australia, and made a great deal of money in connection with the show business. Mrs; Thompson cau crochet, knit, sew and write, using her feet as well as most people who perform such work with their hand. "J Hiffh coiffures prevail in Paris. The ! coil of hair on the top of the bead is held in place by gold or suver-neaaeu pineyjn place of a comb. The forehead is covered with little round ; rings of hair j termed statue curls, which are decidedly stiff in effect and unbecoming' to most faces. New York ladies have not adopted these extreme modes, though many dress the hair high and have abandoned the regu iar bang over the , lorehead. The first. American petroleum was ex ported in 1862 i from Pittsburgh to Europe at a loss of $2,000 on t00f 000 gallons. In 1883 400,000 gallons were exported, for. which $60,000,000 were returned to this country. NO. 34. THE BLUB BOTTLE ft. BuTdtng and pay" in the early dawn. Fresh from a nap on the parlor wall. Oat for flight over garden and lawn. Fearing no tumble and dreadingio fall; .; Came a fly: A lively, frolicsome, blue-bottle flj; ' And his feet ' Were as neat " And his style As complete As his brain - Was replete -With the mischief that laughed in his tyil ? What glorious fun TU have to-day, J When the baby's asleep and the nun away; When Rover lie by the kitchen door; v 111 waken them both and make them roar! ;. Oh,whatlarksr Cried the rolicVfng, restless blue-bottle fly: "What a cry ! Said the fly,! ' There will be V After me ;- When IVe done 1 j Withmyfun'r And ha wickedly winked his wee eyel " Then m go and dance on grandpa's head. While he struggles to push me away: And tickle his ear'tifl ha'li wish I was daad! . And over the table at dinner 111 play ; Back and forth; And feast on crumbs from a newly-baked plat And m sip From the lip Of each glass That may pass 'All sweet things ': Dinner brings Quoth this riotous blue-bottle fly. But, alas for the plans he had laldt And alas for the day just begun! For this fly soon lit In the grateful shade And to dream !v ' Of the sights that should toon greet hiAeyea; . When unseen, From the green Of a limb Above him, On his head, . By a threads- Fell a spider, tVho coolly devoured that bluebottle fly. HUMOR OF THE DAT. Maintains a very high standing Tn thermometer. . ; 'Time's money," growled the disap pointed creditor ,"W1L" rplld the pgigmmtoit newwu "'liuifH 1 - always said I'd pay you in time?" Life. ' "How do you like it?" asked a yachts man of a' young lady, as the boat went nip and down in the trough of the waves. "Oh, I I it's too awfully swell!" .was the,distressed reply. 4 "As we journey through life, let ni live by the weigh," sang m tne happj grocer as he put up fourteen ounces o! coffee and put it on the customer's book as a pound. Merchant' 1 raveler.. He is a great artist." "Indeed! 1 never knew he used his pencil at all." Oh, yes, he's fine. Come down some day and see him draw his salary. It's the best thing he does." Bot.on. Budget. Bella writes : " What is the . iiidepend entparty?" It ii the party who dont owe a cent and can get money at hank whenever he wants it. He . is the kind of anN old party that most, of us would like to be. EvansvUU Argus. As they reached the other end of the bridge he said :" You must pay your toll, 3Iiss Edith." : - " What is that!" she j innocently asked Then be kissed her. j A few moments she remarked : "I don't liKe this side of town;' let's go back." "There is this difference between us," j said the needy tramp, looking the editor full in the eye ; "you fill a long felt want, i I and I want a long felt fill." The editor ! Wepi., BQU, TV A ILL WAUjr . LLf ULiiCVL PlUff, , hewed off a fragment of a wedding-cake j that had been sent in with the notice, ; and handed it to the wanderer. "Fill up on that," he said, "and you will fee i it long after all trivial fond records hare been wiped away from the subtraction ; table of your memory." Burlington -Uavtkryc. ! Odd Trace of Lost Money. Almost any one could collect and tell a good many incidents about lost money ; that has been found if he would try, but : these cases came under my own observa- j Uon, and I can vouch for the truth. A farmer in Kinnickinnick valley was paid $1,000 while he was loading hay. He put it in his vest pocket, and after he had unloaded the hay he'discovered that he had lost it, and no doubt had pitched the whole load into the mow on top of it. He went to work and pitched it all out, a handful at a Time, upon the lArn floor, and when the hired man's fork tine came 1 AAnl.t.l , .. .. up wiiu a i,vw uiu on ir. .smew that he struck a lead. He got it all. A young man one s'pring plowed -pocketbook and $30 in greenbacks uj'r and, by a singular coincidence, the next spring it was plowed out anJ. tkoiig- rotten clear through, was nt ta 4116 treasury, where.it was dicorcred that the bills were on a Michigan national -bank, .whither they were sent and re deemed. .' . I lost a roll of $100 in the' spring- ol . 1882, and hunted my house "and thef fice through in search of it in vain. 4 I went ove the road between the office and the house twenty times,' but' it , was .use less. I then advertised the loss of money, giving the different denominations, of bills, and t at ing, as was the case, that there was an clastic band around the roll when lost. The paper had not been issued more than an hour before I got my money, every dollar of it. It was in the pocket of my other vest. This should teach us, first, the value of advertising, and sec ondly, the utter folly of . two Testa tt the "tame time. IV Mercury. n u J i i ! ' .. ' ' ) ...
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