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BY MARGARET B. HARVEY.
"Dolly, come down out of that
tre. 1"
Tim speaker, whoea harae, thrdl
voice pieic. d the air like an engine
whistle, was a plain-looking, mul-dle-age
woman, who, to all ap
peanuice atleaftt, had tried to make
heiHelf oldr and hotnlier thau bhe
actually wan, Iler irou-gray hair
whb drawn tightly baok from her
temploM, and primly knotted In a
round lump lik a door knot). BVr
lonf, eliow hrck was unrelieved ty
any biii nave a low, at ifl, lined
rolar. IJer runty tlaok alpara dres
s y mil v of all adornment in tbt
w,iy ot'draper. told, flounce or rib
bou. Perhaps nhe had ouch been
pretty hr dark eynhrowa lormed
perfnet arches; her eyes were hngbt
and Mark, theie wan a faint trace
ot color in her che ks and a certain
amount of softness abont her lips
but it requiied more than a second
glance to suspect auything of tbe
kind.
'Dolly, did you hear I '
The old lady for we must cou
aider her old looked upward
through the rustling branches of
the cherry-tree, forming a netty
canopy about her head, then around
the old fashionad lawn, aa. tbongh
tbe lilac and mock-orange bushes
brought visions of switches, and
theu at the walls and wiudows of
the antiquated country mansion, an
if one could glance through them
into dark closets and dusty gariets.
J It was quite evident that she medi-
1 tated vengeance dire.
A sudden whizzing sound through
the cherry-tree, and a .oung gir'
leaped to the ground with all the
agility of a flying equirrel. She
straightened herself up proudly,
and gazed unflinchingly at the wom
an before her. As she stood, an
observer might have gees that
"Dolly" was a tall, slender maiden
of about twelve or fourteen years of
age, haying liquidbrown eyes,
creamy complexion with great
patches of crimson in the cheeks
and a thick braid of chestnut hair,
all Riving promise of a splendid
beauty to come.
'Well, aunty," began Dolly, after
a pause, "what did you want''
"What did I want !" jerked out
the ancient dame, viciously, "I
wauted you to come down out of
that tree ! Don't you know you are
too old for anything like that T It's
time you were beginning to be lady
like V
"'Ladylike !' " repeated Dolly, cu
rioualy. "What for? '
" 'What for,' indeed V her aunt
snapped. "Why, if you're not lady
like, no gentleman will have yoa.''
Dolly tossed her head defiantly,
with all the offended dignity of a
young woman ten years older.
"No gentleman will have ine ! '
she exclaimed. "Very well, then. I
won't have Aim !'
This little incident little as it
seems to ns was a turning-point in
Dolly's life. Not one of her yoonsr
friends, or older oues either, could
guess the reason why she so con
stantly reiterated the assertion : "I'lj
never marry 1"
"Dolly,'' said her aunt one day,
4'1 positively forbid your going out
without a vail. Why, you're get
ling freckles ou your nose. You'll
spoil your prospects. '
"Why don't you wear a vail ?''
asked Dolly, saudly.
"Oh. my fortune is made," an
swered her aunt, complacently. "2
was married when I was seventeen".
"Has he tried to make bereelt
ugly ever since !" thought Dolly.
"Did she think getting married at
terenteeu success euough for a lite
time! Well, it she did, I don't''
Then aloud the girl declared : "I
don't care whether I spoil my pros
pects or not. I value my health
aud my freedom.''
"Well, anyhow,'' cried her auut,
driven into a corner, "you needn't
wear white dresees to climb trees.
If yon do, you'll have to iron your
fekirts xourself."
"Do you sappose I'll stand three
hours hours; to iron a white dress to
pay for a little fan T'; queried Dolly.
"I'll wH.tr o-ilico.''
"But, Djlly," remonstrated hei
aunt, "you cau't do it. I'm telling
you this for your own good. Yon
must act properly and you must
look decent. And it's time you be
gan to lace yourself a little lighter.
Before you know it, you'll be seven
teen aud eighteen, aud what will
become ot 5011 if you're not mar
ried ?'
"'What wdl become of me how!"
"Why, who wl! kep ouf
"I'll keep uyelf I'll earn u;y
own livIUi ."
"But, Dolly, a lady can't earn her
living. A common girl might work ;
but you're not common.''
"No, I'm not coiumon,'- declared
Dolly ; "and just brcue I'm not
common, whatever I choose to do
oeases to be common. If 1 work,
any lady ou work."
"How you talk ! ' laughed auntie.
"Don't you know that a gentleman
wants a wite who nas always been
dependent."
"I don't care what a gentleman
wants," asserted the girl daringly.
"I know what 1 waut. I waut an
education."
"But you're got education en
ough," said her aunt. "A womau
ought not to know as much as her
husband bhe must look up tj him.
It's time you began to learn some-
tbiug about housekeeping and
sewing if you marry, you can'fc
expect to hire everything done."
"Do you meau to say," detnuud
ed Dolly fiercely, "that if a gentle
man wants me, he wants me tor the
work he cau get out of me ? Or that
he wants to keep me ignorant so
that I'll overrate him ? " Now, 1
never saw tbe young man yet that I
thought was good enaugh for me.'-
"What if you haveu't? A wom
au muit take what she can aud be
thankful.
"Well, God be merciful to me. a
woman!" ejaculated Dolly, despe
ately. A few years after, the neighbors
were startled to hear that Dolly
had left her aunt's house to woik
her way through college. "dhe
says she'll never marry," was said
one day by one busybody to auoth
er. "So unnatural, so unwomanly.
It's flying in tbe face of Providence
for a girl to try to be like a boy.
Why, they say she really talks of
studying dentistry
"Why shouldn't she, if she want
ed to f'
The busybodies started. Tbe
voice breaking in upon them was
that of a young mau.
"Are you taking her part?" que
ried one old tattler, curiously. "Why
don't you marry her then
"Because I know she wouldn't
have me," declared the hentot
youth, "She's too far above me."
"Yes," added his pretty, lovely
sister, "she's too good for any man
She says she doesn't like tbe idea
of trotting women out like horsey
for men to inspect their points and
pick out the ones they like or can
afford to keep. And don't either."
The busybodies shook their heads.
"You see how that girl's influence
is spreading, fleaven only knows
where it will end. You mark my
words she'll disgrace ns all 1"
Years passed- Then it was ru
mored that Doctor Dolly was com
ing back to ber early home for a
brief vacation.
"The audacity!" exclaimed her
aunt. "She didn't humbly beg me
to allow ber to come she merely
announced that she was coming. I
don't know whether to have ber in
my bouse or not.''
"I guess you'd better," said her
crouy, passing an egg-shell china
cup across the table, for a sixth in
stallment ot tea. "She goes into
society that you couldn't, il you got
down on yonr knees and begged."
"Whatt" cried Dollie's aunt,
"this to me, in my own house !"
"It is true," declared the other
old lady. "I know all abont it Our
Tom knows, for he has kept up a
Correspondence with her, ever since
ebe went away. She goe with the
Worthingtous, the Van Etting
hausens and all the rest of them."
"Well 1 never ?'' Dollies aont
gasped for breath, then suddenly
recoviog herself, cried : "I hope she
isn't Cuming (o a.nk u.e to help tci
her extiavagance."
"Not at all. She doesn't ueed to
she makes six thousand dollars a
year. You ought to hear Tom tell
-tbout ber pictures aud laces and
diamonds."
"Tom I" The old auntie picked up'
her earn, suspiciously. 'Do you
i Link there's anything between
theu. !"
"I dou't know that there is- But
he took her part from tho fir.-.t. So
did Lniie."
Dollio shall come," thought her
mollified aunt. "If she can get Tom,
be may come out right even yet.
It may be her last chance." Then,
alond : "I suppose I mut give
Dolly a party. Tell Tom aud Lilhe
to come over and help me about the
decorations.'
Mtn, Warren belonged to tha
elemei.t in Pennsylvania which in
the) days haa come to b consid
ered antiquated grandeur, if not
positively decayed. It once cou..
trolled everything that pretended
to be or relate to society at all, but
in this progressive age of Angloma
nia and shoddym, il is half forgot
ten. Still, no parvenu cau date ig
nore it altogether. If Mrs. VVarreu
had ouly known it, her ueice repre,-.
snted a power which the Worth
iugtons and Van Eltlughausens
were anxious to conciliate, while
they had never heard of Mrs. War
ren heiself at all. They would have
recognized her maiden name Sharp
lean, however, because it was the
Sime as that of her neice, and there
is but cue Sharpless pedigree.
Mrs. Warren owned a small farm
in the neighborhood of Philadel
phia ; a property inherited from her
Quaker grandfather. The old-fashioned
mansion still stood, unspoiled
by any so-called "modern improve
ments," with its long, low, pictur
esque, graytone walls, its broad
piazza, its slopiug roof and quaint
dormer windows. Oatalpa, wild
cherry, ash and maple-trees over
shadowed the hou-ie, while the ex
tensive grounds iioted in lilac bush.
es, snow-balls, privets and crown
roses.
Ou the evening of Dolly's party
this old. fashioned shrubbery and
the dropping branches of the an-
cient trees were illuminated with
Chinese lanterns. Within, the great
parlors were decorated with trailing
vineH aud plumy ferns brought from
the woods. Who, then, would uo
tice that the gorgeous-flowered
Brussels carpet looked a little shab
by, or fail to see the leal elegance
of tbe massive rosewood and'mas
hogonyf Did not the dingy family
portraits display aiisfogratic noses?
And if any guest, arriving a little
eaily, should chance to stay into
the immense, low-ceiled dining
rcooi, might he uot see that tbe
tiny sliver spoons each had a real
crest ? In snort, the whole house
looked what it was a museum of
artistic antiquities,with just enough
of modern touch to give it life and
the boose is rapidly filling,
with town and eouutry guests, old
and young, wise and otherwise,
well dressed and ill. When Mrs,
Warren appears, those who know
her Are amazed at the change. Her
black silk gown has been made a
robe of elegance, by its gracefol
drapery improvised from a lace
thaw I. Her long neck is wound
round with a voluminous mass of
white tulle, caught with a diamond
star. Her gray hair is banged and
pulled, and surmounted by a square
of real point, trimmed with loops of
paletpink ribbon. For Dolly had
said :
"Yes, auutie, you can wear lace.
And'pink looks pretty with gray
hair. And gray hair is lovely when
it's properly dressed."
And Dolly herself! Well, her
dress was a poem iu creamy crape
aud pink roses. She herself was a
poem, iu her slender figure, her
chestnut hair and ber perlect com
plexion just what any observaut
person might have expected of the
girl of twelve.
"Well, I never 1' exclaimed one
of the old-time busybodies, adjaeN
ing ber glasses. "I thought she'd
wear pants like a man !''
"IJo- did sho .iMui e 'hat mag
nifioeut c.ii li.ige t' quelled a lMiev
olentlookmg old gentleman, ad.
dressing no one in particular. He
was a little staatled to hear an an
swer from a tall young man at his
elbow :
"By using her uncommon sense
when she was a child that is, by
racing the tide- and t limbing trees.''
And then a aort of a shadow crossed
t!i young man's rugged face as he
mu! muted to himself: "I feel my
hom'iness inoie 1 Uan over.'' But
he wasn't half as homely as tie
thought he was, even if his eyes
were pale gra and his hair and
mustache of a nioro tint than an
burn. He looked honest and stur
dy, and no oue conM deny that be
was elect and w elMoruied.
"Tom !'' The young man heurdj
the soft hieper, and i a5e his wa
to Dolly's side
"Auutie wantc to see you' th
said. "I don't know what for. She
told me to call ou and send ou
out to her iu the si'ttugM'Oooi."
Suoposiug he was wanted foi
nothing more than tying up a vine,
Tom found his way to Mrs. Wan en.
Lie was a little surprised at the m s.
teiious mat ner iu which she shut
the door and uwfioued him to her.
"Tom," she began, a little ner
vously, "I ought, to tell you that I
leel guilty of gross neglect. I have
lefi Dolly too much to her own de
vices during the last few years.
Heaver: knows what she has escap
ed 1 I feel it my duty to help her
uow if I can."
"But I don't understand,'' blurted
out Tom, "I don't see that she needs
anybody's help.''
'She does!" declared he aunt.
'She ueeds yours !"
And the old lady blushed to the
roots of her hair, feeling that she
had made a teriible plunge,
"Mine 1" ciied lorn, as blind as a
bat; "how?'
"Why why you see. Tom, it
rather hurts a girl it people think
she had no admirers Now, if yon
if you would tbow her some lit
tle attention, the people her to
night might thiuk ?'
But. Tom had risen to his feet.
"Mrs- Warren," he begau, im.
presfrively, "your niece does not
n ed ;iuy sucn help from me. She
has hosts of admirers, but has nev
er been known to give encourage
ment in one. As for me, Heaven
knows, I;vould gladly show her all
tho attention iu the woild, but it
would be ot no u;e I c:uldnit
stand the ghost of a chance."
Aud he stalked out upon the long
piazza to confront Dolly, the piuk
in her cheeks turned to a crimson
rivaling tho peony.
"Tom," she said, quietly, "J heard
I didn't meau to, but I couldn't help
it. I came right after you, because
I had no idea of what auntie want
ed you for. How could she .ay
u hat she did? Why, I don't care
for admiration ! '
"I know you don't 4 assented Tom,
"and 1 never could understand why.
t always heard that every woman
did'
"You don't know why ?"murmured
Dolly. "Come out here on the side
porch and I'll tell you.4' And un
der the tangle of dog-rose and gly-
wur' AUUJ "Cl . ,
v fo
uiue."
"Never believed it genuiue !" ciied
cried tne young mau in amazement.
"Why. how could you doubt it a
woman with yonr beauty and ycur
gifts ?"
"Because because " Dolly hesi
tated a little. "Auntie always im
pressed it on me lroru a child op
that no gentleaian wouid have me.
So, wheu gentlemen said they ad
mired me, I thought they didn't
mean it."
"Do you mean to say that .your
aunt made von beleive snch stuff
as that? Did you let a chilish irn
predion influence yonr whole lite V ,
"I did it was that childish :m-
pres6ion that spurred me ou to show ,
what I could do. It gentlem-u
wouldn't have me. I could get along
without them, and do just as we l
as they could !"
"Ob, Dol'y !" Tom's voice had a
tinge of bitterness in it. "You'l
neyer know how many hearts you've
broken.'' -
"But I haven't broken yours," as
serted Dolly, with a slight suggest
tion of confidence.
"But 1 suppose you will!" ex
plained the yonrg man' despairing
ly. "But why should I V' asked Dolly
reassuringly. "Kemenibcr, I heard
what yon said. You aid you would
show tne all the attention in the
vothl, but you hadn't a ghost of a
e banco. Now, I never supposed be
tore that you would show me any
iftention at all I never beleived
-uch a th'iig possible'
"Then you irauM have cared for a
Jittle admiration from me?" cried
"om, joyfully. 44 You could have bo
ieivd it genuine.'
"Whul wis! 3011 think if I ay that
you had a 'gho-t of a chance T ' ask-
d D answering Tom's qett!.ions
ilit rniauwise.
"Hut 1 n-v r dared believe tb.tt I
'onld be more than a humtdt friend
foliowinj you at a long distance,'
declared Tom, wonderingl.v. "I am
-ifiaid to beleivo anything else now;
it seems incredible. Surely, you
would never give yonrself to mel''
"Tom," g sped Dolly brokenly,
''I oh, I felt very tnue.h the same
way tovvaid yon ! Il if no gentle
trmn would have me, ot course you
wouldn't''
"Poor child !'' thought Tom to
himse I. "U'e all beleived it was
pride bAt earned her through the
oild. But it. wai excessive hu
mility." "Well, ' snapped Mis. Warren, a
few das laser, when DollyJ saw fit
to acquaint her with the new state
of all' tire, "youi get a gentleman
to have you, alter ail !"
"Oh, no,'' Dolly laughed, but with
iceitain iiul'i'iihon of strength and
dignity ; "it wasicr who'd have me.
It was whom I'd ';iv''
Hi-Mi llorl.
Do not peddle your principles for
a living.
Te--us arc the tiibute of humanity
to Hs drstlilv.
Tbete-s many a leap 'twixt the
boat and tho slip.
Pay as on go and save enough
to come back on.
Do not permit the good luck ot
others to discourage you.
A wise man always keep on hand
enough resignation tor any emtr
k'ency.
A r.itioiiiil nature admits of noth
ing that is not. serviceable to the
rest of mankind.
For his bounty there was no win
tertoit;au autumn it was that
grew more by reaping.
Nor for thy neighbor, nor for thee,
be ! " -'rf-j '.ife designed to be a
draught of dull coniplaceuey.
Some will always V above others
Destroy tne im quality to-day ai d
it will appear again to-mono
Covetous men need money ieast,
vet raost afToet. and seek it ; prodi
gals who need it most do 1-ast re
gard it.
To an honest mind tLs best per
qni-ites ot a place ate the adv'j
fftges it gives to a man of doing
good.
lSurrel nf Muiiey.
New y a 14. The tteamer
Soree yesterday iiisvharged 1,2-18,-
in gold- While the Sore was
i charging hr c-rro here, other
brokers, on behalf of American ship
pers, wi re takiug $1,2100.000 from
the bank of E-iglaud. There 13 now
lauded or afloat between $20,000
000 and 25.000,000 mj gold coin and
b irs.
WThi!e thin vigoioua increase ot
the currency is going on io one di
rection, the piper money machinery
iu Washington is working at an ex
tra rute, nnd orders have been pouri
lug into the Trcasary Department
for bank circulation at tbe rate of
Umted be oa
i it to secure this overflow of paper
money, and already since tbe stiing.
ency because embarrassing about
40.000,000 of new money injected
into fhe volam of circulation and
j will tax the ability of the. hoarders
to get this sum salted away. In
fact tbe backbone ot tbe hoarding
craze haa been already broken,
Music At The Firenlrte.
Every family should bare Its
moiodion or piano, and every day
gather about it and listen to lta
harmonies. The child thai lias "uo
ar lor music" will develop one and
the child that has an aptitude for
music will haye that aptitude
! trenghtened. Children who sing
together every day will have a bond
(d enjoyment lhat wil! prevent many
.jai,m.iny a dissonat.ee, in their
intercourse with each other.
A lady now so iriitmrsod in dom
t stic care that shocinnot Mkeop up
ber practice," yet she plays and sings
lKaut.full, "nt." she sas 'only
the songs and pieces) I learned iu
my girlhood. 1 cnnot forjet them,
and the longer I sit at t. e piano, the
more they eome back to me. When
the children are lieiful I play for
bm. and they have their f.ivorites
Mtnong the k'te-il cimposeis, Men
delssohn, Mrart, Beethoven, Han
del, ami Maydeu,'' Fortunate chili
dren, to bt thus made acquainted iu
Itf nursery with the crowned kings
of songs 1
But it one can play only psalm
lanes and the simplest airs, better
thi-th:iit nothing. mUfic at home
w ill pr j a for music abroad, and
be a stepping-stone to higher things.
Christian Advocate.
lr O. W. lIolnis On Jleart
1 .
1 n'vr aw a garment too fine for
a mau or maid; theie never was a
chair too good for a cobbler or a
cooper or a king to sit m ; never a
h in&ft too fine to shelter the human
bs-d. These elements about us
t!iO glorious sun, the imperial moon
are not too go.d lor the human
rate. Elagance tits man; but do we
n ot value the-.e. tools a little more
than they are. worth, and sometimes
iron gage a house for I lie mahogany
e bring into it ? I would rather eat
my dinner oft' the head ot a barrel,
oi dress after the fashion of John
tho Bupti-t in the wilderness, or s:t
01 a block all my life, than consume
a I on myself before I got a homo
and take ho mueh pains with the
outside when the inside was as hoi
low ;is an eii)ty nut. Beauty is a
f'ti at thing, but beauty of garment,
house and furniture are tawdry or
uauients compared with domestic
iove. All the elegance in the world
will not make a home; and I would
give more for a spoonful of real
hoart-iovc t ban for whole ship-loads
of tuiiiiiute and all the gorgeoueness
all the upholsteret a in thy world can
gather.
MfMtimlerMtttotl.
lift had been worshipping her for
months but had never told her, and
she didn't waut him to. he bad
come otten aud stayed late, and she
could only sigh and hope. He was
irking away the next day on his sum
t:ier vacation, and he thought the last
night was ttie time to spring th
111. mentouH question. He kept it to
h lxise'f, however, until the laBt thing.
was 11; 30 by the clock, and it
w:s not a vi-ry rapid clock. "Miss
.lo'lie," he said tremulously, "1 am
go ngawa to monow," "AreyouT''
she said, with the thoughtlessness of
girlhood as she gazed wistfully at
t :e clock. "Yes," he replied. "Are
ou sorry?" "Yes, very souy," he
murmu-ed. "I tbongh jou might
go away this evening," theu she
gbzed at the clock wisttully, and he
to d ber good-uight Detroit Tribune,
The wife market is Improving
Sme weaks ago a man in western
NrtW York sold his wife for 45 cents.
A Kentuckian, the other day. sold
his better bait for 70 cents. This is
etcouraeiog. When money becomes
m jre abundant a tolerably good wife
w II peihaps bring as much as a dol
lar in localities where tbe traffic is
carried on.
There is a New England woman
whose pastor recently asked after
her health. Her reply was : "I feel
very well, but I always feel bad when
I leel well, because I know I am go
lu? to feel worse afterward."
"I never torn out for scoundrels,"
said a bully meeting a Quaker, and
stepping up square'y before him to
inaugurate a quarrel. "I do," said
tbe Quaker, and placidly took toe
other side of the way.