s -I III I
(HE CAMBRIA FREEMAN I
Aclvertisinff Rntes.
The larsre and reliable elr-etilatp.n of tha C
ltd A i commends It to tba faTora alt) -
alderatitn of advertisers, whose favors wHl be la
serted at the follow!? low rates :
j, 1'iiMlnhril Wrli!j at
pi:ysi:l':fi Cumbria Co.,
i;Y 1 1 . A. Md'IKK.
To.
1 A4v
1 Inch. time
i
t K
. s to
. IOC
, UP
. 11.00
. ae
. 11 OO
. 10 CO
. K 0
. M 00
. 40 00
. TVOB
. t to
. t 0
. 10
8 month!
6 months........
1 year
t) moothi
1 year
6 months
n !nt-il Circulation - ,OGS.
C't
Sl llSdUITKtX HATES.
1 tir.
-i eol'n 6 months..
nr. ci
nr year, run in anvancc fl.oO
cruh In advance
6 month
if not p d within ;i mns. 1.71
if nut u'1 within 6 mon. 2.n)
1 year
8 months
,. " if not p u withtu year. .
rf-r p.'rs.un re-iidiinf ontsicit, the county
Jj,. af.;i:iiiial per year will be charged lu
'si-'l-i ' event will the above term he dp.
, f-cui. "in 1 those who don't const) It their
,',r..-t"s Sy payimr in advance mint not
. t..'t c placed on t he same fnotins as those
" ' ', I t this fact be distinctly understood
,T' ,'' ' Mi' !i'l v;ir-J.
1 " 1 toir
Administrator" and fcxacutor's Notices
Auditor's Notices
Sirar and similar Notices
Hustness Items, first Insertion lc.per lie ; each
subsequent Insertion 60. per Una.
T Retotvtiont cr j-rocfeiino of cy cooperation
Or aociety. mnd commvnwationt detuned to call atten
tion to any natter of li-Kited or individual fUrrott,
mutt br paid Jor adrerf irmeis.
Job ritTi!ro or all kind neatly and erpeditt
onsly executed at lowest prices, l'oo t yon forget
It.
H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher.
"nB 13 A FREEMAN WHOM TBI TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.
SI.50 and postage per year, in advance.
Is'
i (. r "ir paper in'iurp yon stop it, tr
a mist. N'miB liut aealnwHsra do oth
i .n t t c a suitiriw s lile'a ton short.
VOLUME XIV.
E BENS BURG, PA.', FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1SS0.
NUMBER 4G,
f n
G-I
xTIE! US
WE HAVE BARGAINS FOR ALL!
N'HW FALL AND
IN (JltKAT l'liOI'USION AT
.uffonrard to the
tfif .-in fnhrr fins
'.,'s n.nd ijh-r it .is n,iili-r,ll
I'-nt the jjvh'ir 'ifiteralbi vith
AT PRICES SO LOW
tha t yo si: cax on jjaizi:
. ,;;(,?... .i,:ff ft mil .rul fli'riiil
prisin-j a
IE! GOODS, DRESS GOODS,
Boots, Shoos, Groceries
t?OTa, Glassware, weeaeiiware, Ciprs, ToDacco, Cannes Goods, &c,k
A..... KI ( Oi:N MKAIi. FISH. SALT
i.I.A.-nS 1'L'TiV, Iii:i"sHI, JiUOOMS.
nut iv
PATICTVT
t,-i-.h. trill be sold at th.t remarkable low price of CO cents each. Alto for tale, tt
EEST AND QUICKEST BUTTER-PRODUCING CHURN EVER INVENTED.
; A 1 1 r
. ..! 5:1 a hi
servers
increase of business has necessitated the enlargement of my store-room and the ereo
ri.il ariT.m, and etlll my establishment is literally crowded with choice irooda and
er haryams. till eioit determined to accommodate all who come, and especially
.- --n-i ?
1 hp
tieni me niniiestp
n my laro and commodious stable
ikful lor p:i3t furors and hopeful lor
i hunk
IliSh Street, K!iOiiln rft, S)cccnt ler.
Look! Look! See! See!
JUST RECEIVED:
A I.AUG E AI XOlillY EIXE OE
FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING.
CIULDRI-X'S AND
rx i:xitLi:ss vakiety. ovic eixe or
O ' V IEj jefl, o o J- t s
CANN0T BE BEATEN
FOR 01
1 1 C li".i:r
iC -fi'X'I o
Hats, Caps,
r mi
Young America Clothing House,
Corner lllh Avenue and 11th Street,
OPPOSITE THE OPEE HOUSE,
ALTOONA, PA.,
I j m r !. tj:;;e he fore purcha
rM ? a ivrTi oTTnivrrivrr?-!
XEW CLOTFHXG HOUSE.
320,000 Worth Fine Clothing
AXDI'RSOX's' CLOTHIXG BAZAR,
ALTOONA, FA.
A (iootl Ifrarif Overcoat - $.t.0 X ice Overall - -
Hen' Hint,, l'ant - - - UOc. A (looil Heavy Salt - -Shirt)
and Drawers, each - 2.c. A Good I'alr Kin Hoot
Custom Made Suits, - - - $10.00 to MO.iW.
-,,,. Camlrii county lVion.lM nto rospecltiilly invitetl to tnll
i"l miimlno our i-ooiIh finil It-ni'ii tjin- jrioPi".
A. J. ANDERSON & CO.
lI.'lf'MNA, I'A., (K.T. CJ, lS'O.-tf.
G-EO. "W. "STIE-A-G-IEIIE.,
-cash ii:ai.i:k in ai.i. kini of
HEATING and COOKING STOVES
AM) MANlFA
TIX ami SHEET -
l iOti lltivcMitli Ave., Alloona, lsv.
rr. 4 lF.T aI.A'E I THE riir. Itoofluic, Sponllas and Repairing; ol
' Win.! promptly and untlarnf torlly Q-nded to. 10-34,'79.-tf.
P)()lXr "VT) FT
1 V J- .L. J- Vy V
-nil: ni'w sTor:r; iji;ii.lin"' of
8, TEITELBAUM, Carrolltown, Pa.,
HAS JUST II K KIT OPEN Ml WITH VSItK.NPID STOCK (IK
SpRinSTGh'SXJMMiEJK GOODS,
n.l ;
i eir.ii ,i i.. . ...r,.t..a h the tiroiriclor to ev.-ry rra.it.-i n
"he u,, a ent'eiiTine the Vrlmis ..ualliie.. and learn !. uni.urr.aal.i.1 wBh are
... '".ttli,t -0 lTnl. ran p-wlitvely l.fl saved hy
. ' 'il eheim Is that I houtrht mv ent
hJusrht m.v entire stock
1"' t i retor j i.remred to make iul-lc sales at sin
ir i i.eer.ire.l to make oUlK sales ai
'iUI
l'-in t take mv word for this, le.wew r. but
, . . . . -.. - - i .
-'altBvU.iO'Y.f, Zlt l'i. l'0.-tf.
.A. CALL
WINTER GOODS
comhty Prcii7fti,d tUctinn fci hope or
ronrhrtlfl V runiri!,, th. .. ..f-
attention b sitpplyinf hi fritnd
ALL KlXIt OF VOODS
compete with him.
oltx - k t,f fi-f rilthi.m U, Iip fM..-1 in a,..7 '
cr.n'ph tc hnt i,f j
HflTIOHS, HITS, WiWM
Hardware, Tinware,
t.y tlte bushel ami l.ar.el, DUU(S, NAILS
A - c. I have likewise added to my stock
CORN
rices in trade will be paid tor all kind ot produce.
for the tree use or all who may wish to put up
many future ones I remain as ever.
1SS0.
BOYS' CLOTHING
ALI I Y. MAKE-VP AM) PRICE.
hrrije nnd crnp'rl'. ii,xf
Umbrellas,
11:
- insr el-OYvif re. ai we are acknowledge 1 !
"
$tvo '
- TUIir:K OF
IRON WARE,
IC)JCt TJ II !
. . I - v.- . n I, ... I
tho"
who hnv their K'-ivis from mo. 1 he reason I
f.re? - h and Intend lose , i." o-rfmv. ent ;
fiiih.i - .i i .' - - --- :
ff.m
i e l r oiir-e ves.
h. ILirCLIlHM. '
m1
Is a -stue cure lor all ordinary diseapes of IInrcs,
"attle. Sheep and Swine. It cures snd prevent ;
f'liK KEN t'noi.F!iti. Your cow la certain to yield !
I I'BR C'KNT. MOItK AND BKTTKlt MILK J511 Bt'TTKR. j
jsTIK'K FATTKNS t)N (I.NK I I IVKTH IUSS
FKK! ! j
j licluir in poscsion of a larjje nuinher of excel- j
I lent testimonial.' , I sutijoin a le: .
I I have hcen usinii your t'attle Powder for lmres. I
I cows, i-hli ken and pifj. and !ind it a nwr-t'LiM :
thiiiur. (itniKiK Hhmi, rerin.'intown, J'a. i
j 1 hnvetiei! two paek of your 'nttle I'owder on j
I my cow and chicken. The row mvB maiii.t !
! rwtrK the di am 1 1 y or mii.k f he diil hefore. ly j
lv alter 1 had
cineKen were living, nut wero n Ku i.m m ehi a i i--- j
red the nowder. I
Jonas I'.ihii b. liallas, N. j
Yours, truly.
I 1 iiiii; u"m-i
I have uied four Cattle I'owder and mn.it say it ;
horse, cattle, ahceit etc. 1 ried it I
unv eoiniilaint.-". with v-i
. WiiAVKK, llerrysvillc, I'a.
on pent me a package of your pow-
inv piiultrv
, and have not had
. one droopy tnrkev or
chicken since. Mrs. Wm.
: Kmai'P. tirunirc. N. Y.
j Send too a park or two of yonr Cattle I'owder.
, The park 1 ij.it from you la"t winter ; iie: tmk
i rnii kkn t iioi.KtiA. 1 ifiivd some nt it to a nei'h
: bor and it cured his chickens. John William,
i Sprm e Vale. Ohio.
I Address. t..r a pamphlet. V. A. MII,T..KK. 3"1
i Ar-rhSt.. I'UlI.Al'KldTll A. I'a. For sale hy.
1 J, Frkihiiofk, Kheristiur, I'a. 1 7-'.'.'w.-ly
5Fot CATARRH.
ri vs
Hit Fever.Cold in the 1
ilnad.hc, inCTt with ;
ittle tinner a pnrtieie
if the Halm intothe ;
loitrlU: draw strong ;
reaths thronifli the
aosc. It will he an- j
r? -CLS .,WaAS9"i
jorhed, cleansing and i
licalin the diseased j
nemtirane.
For Peafnt'si,
Icasii naly apply a
arl iele into and hick j
.1 the enr. riitlini? in
hroiiirhly.
KLY'S UKKAM 1ALM
Is receiving the enilorscmeiit ol tlic snffi-rer. the
drtiftjist. and physirian. Never has an article of
an Iti nrli merit hen predueed lor the treatment of
meinhrainil ilisi-ases as this never-t j i I i rm HALM.
a:nl is imiver.-aily acknowledged as iieinz nil that
Is 1 lainii.l im it. i 1.1; appiii iitimi is ca-y and
pleas;: nt. enUMU no j.in. i. sooiliins, and is fast
snpei-icdimr tlic use of jio ders. litj a id . and snntls.
rri.-c 6 cents. On rce.-ipt of 6 : cents, will mail a
package free. Send for circular, with full iiin mi
ation. F.I-YS C1JF.AM IiAI.M !.. lit. cu- , N". Y.
At 1Y):olsni T
NF.W Yt iKK Mi'lC"S-un .c I.-hhir. Hall
Kuekel, C. N. ritt. -1111111. V. II. S.diellicllll A.
'o.. I . . Sl ier en., l.aelle. .Mars!'. X rard-
lier, 'l'ii rra ni ,v Co.. Fnt.TiV. I.ee. :'.nd ot liers.
l'i: IT. Mii'.I.rill V Siniih, Kline x Cu.,.1 dnston.
i.l!mv:iv Al Co.
SfKANl'ON, I'a. Mathews Br..-.
11-1. At Uetail hy all !r-t-i ts. jly
V VN DYKF'S SI I I'll i It SOAP '
I. nipcrior to all otbT It is eo!nM:nl with
Sulphur iii i! purr. un:ihi'ltT:iTpl ?t;itn. w!nh en
trr. rhc pnrrs of thp skin, t cin Jit'Sori-i il into tlte
, rthio.l t h roimh thi minutr o:tpil!:iri"a, :t n thus art j
! upon tho skin, wln ihor it IhmUIiv or in ft iw
' pmmI c-uiitl 1 1 (?!. I'oili iiirj!!y aii-l fans; it ionallr.
ttir lv c'tiiiiimtimr nil impuritir-ja from tin 1 m-I
atul cxriii: tin- ckin hr tlThy a- ti:i. It ro-(tn-t's
:i It si purity nn! irr-1: nc- ot the f"m- i
pinion wh:-fi t" liiJf'jiMlIr:!, him! ;:?! he pmi 1
hy in t hr i..r:ui. .Nf t"i t-i. nursery r IViI h room
i." ronip'ifTt. vitht..;t it. It i:i:tkts tii'i .-Win sojr. ;
H:tr. . ii it, volute ri;i.l heathy: i1 clinMn:r.
o.hri7.inu. t T in (', iiij. -ootii-nir. liiur n nit pu- !
: riJyiiitr: rimi'vc- daii'lrun. l:ilii. nlrrs. or',
; eruption-, rnrj-hwrs t v.i ratine? of tliepkin: ru
: lic(- iri:hi. Imrnin- aii'I tininir of tho -jkin.
: an 1 irriiJtt t.it f l.;n:tu :u:i! .ti ny, ; liii i'.-f.-i1-: will
r'lit'vr Itclitii-j I'is viii'-n nothiiii: c r will Inve
nnycff'i t. Ask for Van T.vxk's sn,i n! ii Sop;
irt.-ict t.pon it. :mi1 tako no nnit:t:iot. S4.J.J hy ((ru-ir:M.-'.
A--i-li:-n'':i'h .V ?Iillr. rropriv rs. An. "1
i 'ali .w liiil S'.r-.-t. rh:l:-lr!phi:i, 1:. Kor hy
M. 1. Uaim.'.n, I.hen-hur;'. I'a. 11-5. -ly.J
: Hamburg Tea !
(ask ii i: i.i.v;i:i;';KN Tfiti'M.v ukm ik.)
The Creat BLOOD PURIFIER
And Inr-:i; ir. '.vhh-li w:is Kim wii to tho htiuous
, ohi Arai-ian p;iywo-;:ins , ':;rly thf it i r t !i cn
tnry. t- pt ---1 to tn n r.'f i Fvit-. Vn-it ip
tion. I-''t'rii-; otnplai!it-, W ;mt ol Appetite. Iro--,
sy :t imI if .'it)t;i rhiN. I: Iris a tectilf.! .nitntc
' .'rril oth-r i.uruiif-. hfin'j nioro thorou-jh in
cle;i-
94 til i
nir out th ytfiri, without protlm-inir the
i;ri!'inir p:iins and m iiiiiiir which r-
roiu p: ny fhr;' t joti ,.f ( hor c:i t ti ; rt if. V lien I i m
pi5 r other -k'i i :o.'" fr m l-o prnt. Urt n
mo thr a flectftl p-M-i-- ( fmronh ! v with Van Iyk-"ti
Sulphur Soa p. A .-r.i Mh:o-h v AIillr. proprietor,
31 and i'all.rwhiil St.. I'hilad a. I'a. ll-.-ly.
after
nil other Uniineri-. have f:i
Dir. WAKK
i!e
"S
TliY
ELECTRIC RELIEF
Hvt;ilif:i2 i:irtriia''Iy it r 111 ciif v.
merlin". ili:irrii:ir:t, ih -rT-Trry. f-r;i run. im,
plillti-ir. ui:U;fn7..l. y;i;t-:ns. :'k !;c-i.!
iicr sirk!c-. irl!'iirn. .-i.'ir sTi.in.irli.
la'L nri'l 'misrruk. Ai-ji!i-'l I'Meru:
rI:vp yon nl rliou tn:tl i -in. r.cn r:ii .ri:i.
rn. chnHra
if. u.-iltimi.
Iii-, 1'iiirp-
1 ti in t lie
ilv. it will
inrc throat.
liiir.t'ac. er.r.icln. ?imr hnrln. inlioneil lrirs! :
iituiiij.!. :riit. iilcnri-y. j'l'pnincni a, frnst 1-ltos.
hr;;i--, sprain.. Imrn. sp-iM.". wiiim:i!.. (-i-iitrni'tr'1
tcn.inns. lcr-inTlim-a. woilra inlnls. stin-j-v anil ;
lll-s , ini'.-ts. Nulil liy ilrnifuisM :ncl .sturpWop
cr s urriT:! il v. ' liolr"-: Ir dcpfif, W". rnmfr Mr.l
ami Culinwhlll Sts Pluhul'a, T.i. 9-24. -'.'Sin.)
IflliKTIU SKI I. As UKMAI H fc MlI.I.FIc'S i
FAMILY CHOCOLATE! !
I t: aitit le tiperior in qunlity and lower in price .
than any other in the market. A prominent and !
; e.Tperieneed New York phyfelan i?ive it his ;
opinion that eio?vlate i pref-rahle to tea orroflee ;
' tecatiJp it adds .-trentrth to the lfniy, inw life to -
thf exha'jstfd hrain. qiiietu the nervous ytm, I
harmonize tho working- o( the dise.e!:ve origans,
! and tfives pTt-ity to the tdoixl. j
For a iuprriin.: eonfeetion. ask your ronfetionr '
for our Sweet Spicod Va nillA 'hoeoiate. AM-)ien-
barh ?c MilhT. ad nH 'allowhiU Stf.. lhtli., I's. !
j For salehrV.S. ItAKKKKfc Him, atnt N. .1-Ki:v.n- i
; nor. KlMui-hiirt:, Pa. 7-.-ly.J i
CELERPiATED II. II. II. MlflNL
Persons n ffiicleil with nclifs and imlns. ami wlio !
lia e r.ut tried Hip yrr";it H . II . H. Jlf di-inr, do not t
kn w il" p'iwiT in r"7ii ivini; inin. live it a trial '
nr Hlu'innatism, Ne ir;iiitia.:id particularly 1'iph-
thT.n. A i:r-cur lor hur-es snfii rinu with lionr
or Hlood Spivin. foil Kvll and 'oiic. He sure ami !
ask lor Hi- 11. II. 11. !cdirhie, manufactured by
! I. I. Toinlinson. 1'hilRdolpliia. ns Iho pOilnrity I
ol ili smuc has led other parti'-s to put an Infprio'r i
artlflo into thr insrkct lifaring tho same name i
rold ny tlranKini.s every wiinre.
the eaTMAL TREATMENT
fiirrs Catarrh. Sore Thr on, Itrmir h If i.
! A.llinia and 4 onsnmptlnn, a well n tv- j
j -i. I. iter Complaint. Kidney IM- ;
, , U'onib IHstrnxc. VmiiiI 4ahiies i
nnd f rvons Cihaiiillon. No patent-medicine
scheme; I'Ut remedies prcerihrd to Mlit each
! cao.
i Address H. 1. NHIS. M. li.. Keadinir. Pa. Write,
j your fall na inc. 1 '.('., Si late and Co., in plain baud.
TOIC
; or Hvhi-kpsia ?iktk ik. n veiretnhlc compound
, whose virtues ha.s stooil the tnt of 40 years, is In
I tallihle in the cure ol I y ."pepsin, lirncral lietiility,
Chronio Weakness of Luii. Spleen and Kidneys,
; Short ltreatti, Heartlmrn, St. Yitiis' Ihinee, pains
I In the S'r.inaeS. Itaek and t'he.t. Partirufirlv
: Adapted to all Female Disease", no mm iter what
I the aw nl the patient mav he. 1'iice. T.'iels. Sold
Py DrutrniMs. " r-0.'i.-ly. j
I am.iml.Mrd wUh toHlnedV
heeausc it does its wrk .jnu-Uly and etlcctnally In
pa-e of t im-'li'. t old'. Hoarseness. IiiHikm.t.
At':ins, llrom-hlti. Whooping Cuuith. Croup
Pnins in the lireat. Consumption, nnd Kloe lina
I of the Inns. Only lO cents a hottle. Ask Tour
j ilniasist lor it. Wholes lie 1 input. N. W. eor :ird
and I'allowlilll Sts.. 1'hilnd'a, I'a. -a' ,m
JOIIX Ml'RPlTV, f. n.,
1'HYSK'IAN AMST KUKU.
I'jiiWKSiri'.fi, Pa.
j Offlee in hiilldiu ressritly oscniuod hsr la- A M
j Kalm, on Hitfh srt, west of .Tulmn. arvi Dearly
opposite h i'Aw IKj-w. NijrtA aM shoel be
I made at Wr offlee. r 20, 'lr.-tf.J
Ssmtdes wnnh s
l m . I fr
V iMV I ""'
Addrefs Sri.vnoT fc 'o.. Port-llJ-6,'7'.'.-Jy.J
laud. Maiuc.
a i,i p or ciBnos.
Tell me, lump of Carbon, burning
I.nrid in the n'c injr erate.
While thy flames rise twisting, turning.
Unench in me this curious yearning,
Ages past elucidate
Tell me oTthe time when, waring
High above the primal world.
Thou, a giant palm-tree, lifting
Thy proud head a!no ttie shiftins;
(If the storm-cloud's lig-htning hurleil.
While the tropic sea, hot laving.
Kcnnd their roots its billows curled.
Tell me. did tha Mammoth, straying.
Near that mighty trunk ot yours.
On the verdure atop and gra7e.
Which thy ample base displays.
Or his weary limbs down laying.
Sleep away the tardy hours?
1'erehance some monstrous Saurian, sliding,
Waddled up the neighboring strand.
Or leapt Into its neighboring sea
With something of agility.
Though all ungainly on the land :
While near your roots. In blood-stained fray.
May be two Ichihyc beasts colliding.
Hit and fought their lives away.
Tell me. Ancient I'alm corpso, was there
In that world of yours primeval
Aught of man In perfect shape?
Was there good ? and was there Til ?
Was It man ? or was it ape?
Tell me, lump of Carbon, burning
I.nrld in the glowing grate,
Ile? there In each human face
Something of the monkey's trace?
Tell me, have we lost the link?
Stir thy coaly brain and think.
While thy red flames rise and sink.
Ages past elucidate, Chambrrt' Journal.
A" 0BLE SELF-SACRIFICE.
"Who nnd what was lie ?"
I was stand'niK in the churchyard of a small
town 011 the borders of South Staffordshire
one bright Sunday afternoon in April. I was
a stranger in that part of the country, and
to passing through the place in the course
of a lonjr walk from the larger adjacent town,
to which my business had taken me the day
before. The extensive mining operations of 1
the last twelve or fifteen years had altered :
the little iiiipretenilini; village materially:,
and though the quaint old church and some
long and low buildings, suggestive of farms j
and homesteads slill retained an air of rustic 1
simplicity, they were being gradually ol- .
sen red and the place itself sophisticated by
the formal rows of plain ai.d ujriy tenements .
built expressly for the mining population, ;
which each year was becoming more and
more numerous.
I had amused myself by deciphering some
of the inscriptions on the gravestones well- 1
obliterated by the weather stains and the moss :
that time had suffered to find root-hold in the 1
hollows of the lettering when a man, pre
sumably a miner, in the Sunday clothes pe-
cu!iai to Ull,t cl:,ss cari.vi" a utue ciiua r
lo or t;iiee years, hiui lonowrii nuouiei
somewhat older, seated himself on a tint
stone, ami oin-ned a eonveisatioii. i
A eivilly-siiohen man enough, though with
the uncouth m cent of the eouutry. Iieadily
aeeented the invit.ition he offered, and we
chatted pleasantly, ilehad known the place
many years, he told me, aye, lon before it
had jtrown into the town it now was, when ,
it was nothing but an humble village, and '
when the lon gra.-s and ripening corn bow
ed its head to the wind on the spot where the
unsightly engine-home and tall red chimney !
now stood, and where the heap of slag and 1
cinder marked the busy life of the toilers in ,
the earth below.
That handsome marble monument, he told
me, denoted the last resting-place of the late i
rector, and this broHd, massive piece of gran
ite was the tomb of a certain local sipiire,
popularly known as "Sinire .lack," who, it
seemed, was much given to horse-racing,
corking and such kindred sports, and who,
being a sad "ne'er-do-well," a thoughtless,
reckless fellow, but withal good-natured and
easy going, was, os such gentry not iin fre
quently are, the niot popular member of his
famiiy.
As my new acquaintance pointed out these
objects and others, which he thought, I sup
pose, would interest me, he had risen from
his seat, and we had strolled leisuiely through
the church-yard. It was in a corner, ami
rather in a hollow, that, before an humble
mound of green turf, and decked with the
pretty spring (lowers, carefully planted in
the form of a eros, we both, as of one accord,
paused. It had not any gravestone, but oulj"
a piece of wood supported by two short up
rights. On this were roughly carved, as if
done with a pocket-knife, these two words:
"Fighting Joe."
"That is a strange inscription to put over a
man's grave," I said : and then added, "Who
and what was he?"
The man seated himself on a stone near by,
and was silent for a few seconds, lie had
set down the little child he had been carrying,
and the two little things, attracted by the
bright flowers, had found their way to the
mound, and were about to gather them
"Here, yon musn't touch them flower,"
he said, and, taking a hand of each, led them
a way.
"Well, mate," he then went on to say to
me, in reply to my question. 'T don't right
ly know who or what he was. lie was a
stranger down he re. and neither me nor my
mates ever heard tell where he came from or
who he was. When this here pit, Kenton's
pit we call it, was first worked we had but
few hands hereabouts, and men as could
work had no call to wait long for a job, and
got good wages as wrell. Most of the hands
were from Staffordshire, but we never know-
ed where Joe came from, and I don't know
as we asked, and p'raps he. wouldn't told us
if we had. lie was quiet and lonely-like,
and said but little that is when ho was all
I right ; out when he had a drop to drink, as
iiiayoe on a Saturday night, when lie had
i gotten all his wages, of all the hands I ever
see to swear, spend his money, wrestle or
fight, there wasn't one like Kighting Joe."
"And hence his name, I suppose?" I ak-
ed. "And of course it is the old story again
drink, a quarrel, a fight, and a violent
death ; though I cannot understand, in that
case, the evident care that is In-stowed on the
poor frllow's tomb such as it is."
"No, sir," the man said, gravely, after a
moment's pause ; "not quite all that. A vi
olent death, yes ; and such a death as I pray
God might ne'er happen to the worst of t;s :
but it wasn't drink, nor a quarrel, nor a fight
with another man that brought him to it. It
was moie the other way, poor lad more thn
other way."
The rough fellow beside mc said this with
a gentleness of tone and manner that was
sufiieicntly out of keeping with his appear
ance to excite some degree of curiosity, and
I told him I should like to learn more of the
story.
"'It's not much ?s such as you might care
for," the man replied. "Here," he said,
turning to the little ones who were straying
to the grpen mound again, "you musu't touch
them posies thou knows ; go and get some of
them," and he jerked a small piece of coal he
hail in his hand toward where some daisies
and dandelions were growing in the rank
grass.
"lie worked in Kenton's pit along o' mc,
and though we never had rtngry words, many
and many a day would pass and neither him
nor me speak. lie was quiet, as I said, and
when lie hana't had drink would keep hisself
to hisself. There was a lass living in these
parts then, ami Fighting Joo was right fond
of her. I don't know that he said much to
her, but we could see that he was about as j
fond of that lass as a lad could well be. I j
know that, for mother was living the.i, and
this lass would often be between her house
j and flurs. It seems that one Sunday, as it 1
might be this, Joe had met her and told her
how fond he had been of her and asked her
to become his wife. She told mother of this
that same night. Well, it seems she sa'd that
Joe musn't look for that, for she was already
promised, and was going to be wed that
Whitsuntide. When she told Joe this, he
said never a word, hnt he grew very white in
the face and turned quietly away. The next
1 day he had to work by the side of the very
; man who was promised to the lass he loved.
, Well, they had been to work for some time,
I when Joe's mate, turning round to get hold
' of a shorter pick that was lying near, sees
him standing behind him with his arm raised j
and the pick in his hand, as if in doubt wheth
er to strike or not, and with a look in his eyes
as he had never been known to wear before.
The two men looked at each other for a while
without speaking, till Joe said, "ciod forgive
me !' and turned away, and from that time
they never worked side by side again. I
don't know how it was, but we used to think
Joe kept away on purpose I mean so as not
to be in the way to strike the other one. That
would be a matter of three or four months
before the fire."
"What fire ?" I asked.
"What fire the other repeated in a tone
of astonishment. "Why, Kenton's pit. Did
you never hear tell of the fire in Kenton's
pit?"
"No," I replied ; "you know I am a stran
ger here." i
"Ah, you must lie, I should think," the
man said, somewhat roughly, 'if you never f
heard of that." !
He took a small, blackened pipe from the
pocket of his vest, looking thoughtfully be
fore him, and filling the bowl in th" niechan- j
ical manner of one who, preoccupied by an
all-engr issing thought, is going through some
familiar action, for his thoughts were evident- ,
iy far away, and the pitman's face, rough
and strongly marked as it was, became sad
deivtl and almost tender in its expression :
under their influence. He remained silent so
long that I at length s.id : 1
"I should like to hear about that lire if you ,
don't mind telling me."
"Was you ever down in a pit, mate ?" he
asked. j
I told him no. but hail often thought I
should like to see one,
"Hitter stay where you are. mate," the
man answered. "And !" he added, after
another pause, "it's strange how we mining
people die, but it's stranger how we live." '
"Mow do ou mean?" I a-kd.
"I've worked in the pit now for more than
twenty years," he replied : ' but I never go
lowii in the cage now that is, since the time
I speak fin but I think I may be going to my ;
grave. What with the rising of the water fir
the fall of the coal, or the choke-damp that '
means death, the lives of such as us ain't
worth innch : but all these put together ain't
nothing to a pit on lire. When the coal i.
bursting with the heat, anil the havy mass
es of earth fall down crushing or laming them
that can't get out of the way when the cry
is, 'Kvcry man for himself, anil ;! aliove
for us all'." when fainting ami struggling,
they think for a moment on wife anil chil
dren, and then fall down and die !'
"Well, that was the kind of fire I speak of.
anil all of those at work in the pit that day
rushed for the lift that Might carry them away
from the place where the flames were roaring
and rushing with the noNe of a great wind.
Well, Kighting Joe was the lat man in the
lift as they thought: but just as they were
beginning to move, they heard a loud cry for
help, and they saw that other one, hiin who
hail married Joe's sweetheart making for
the lift, ami liegging them forOod's sake not
to leave him behind. Well, I tell you, the lift
was overfull then, but Joe sprang from it,
and seizing hold of the other one, with the
help of those inside hauled him in, and all we
heard him say was, 'Tell her I did it, an' God
bless thee, mate!' ami then we heard again the
roar of the flames, and we never saw Joe
alive again."
The man sat quietly for a second or two,
and though his voice did not falter, he added,
in a softer tone :
"Hut the next day, when the fire had burn
ed itself out, 1 wa. one of those that went
down into the pit. There? was a crowd of
the miners' wives and children standing at
; the pit mouth, and when we come up again
: we laid a body gently on the ground, and the
' men took off their caps and said ne'er a word
while the women cried, and many of them
j sobbed aloud : it was blackened and burned,
I and but for where the pitman's jacket hail
! saved him
it might have been no more than
i the earth it was lying on.
liut as we stooped
. to raise ami carry ihe body away the jacket .
fell off, and there, on that part w here once j
j beat a true heart, was a lock of woman's j
; hair. lie had begged it off her, she said, so 1
1 often, she had not the heart at last to refuse i
, him, and Ood only knows, mate, what com-
fort poor Joe might have felt in wearing it :
for her sake. We buried him with that little !
curl lying on his breast, and with many a sob, j
and many a '('oil bless the poor hid '.' we low- ;
ereil him to his rest. We planted them little
flowers, and it seemed to me as if they grew ,
brighter on his tomb than anywhere else."
He paused again, and as I stole a look at 1
him I 'saw two large tears rolling slowly down ;
his hard face. Me was a little embarrassed!
at my observing them, 1 think, for he said :
"Don't you think worse of me, nwtc, be- j
cause I'm giving way a bit, but I am the man '
Joe saved."
Didn't Know Anything A not t Tpou- I
bi.e. A twelve-ycnr-o!d son of a family the i
other day stood watching his baby brother, ;
who was making a great r.oi?o over having j
his face washed. The liti'.e fellow at length j
lost his patience, and stamping his foot said, i
"You t'uir.k you have got lots of trouble, but
you don't know anything about it. Wait till
you're big enough to get a lick in' nn! then
ynu'l! r,ec what t ron" !t- i.-. - woii't '-o, mavn
iu.t ?"
DR0PPINU IT0 POETRY.
THE EXCHANGE
F.DITOK
ALLY
POF9 IT NATUK-
" If you please, sir," said the young lady,
timidly, as the exchange editor handed her
a chair, " I have composed a few verses, or
partially composed them, and I thought you
might help me finish them and then print
them. Ma 6ays they are real nice as far as
they go, and pa takes the Kagle every day.
She was a handsome creature, with beau
tiful blue eyes, and crowning glory as yel
low as golden rods. There was an expect
ant look on her face, a hopefulness that ap
pealed to the holiest emotion, and the ex- i
change editor made
crush the longing of
up his mind not to j
that pure heart if he
never struck another lick.
" May I show you the poetry?"
continued
see that 1
the ripe, red mouth. " Von will
couldn't get the last lines of the verses, and
if you will please he so kind as to help
me"
Help her! Though he had never even
read a line of poetry, the exchange editor
felt the spirit of the divine art flood his soul
as he yielded to the bewildering music of hvr
voice. Help her! JIVell, he should smile.
" The first verse runs like this," she went
on, taking courage from his eyes:
' 1 How so!t!y sweet the autumn air
The dying woodland nils.
And nature turns from restful care "
"To anti-bilious pills," added the ex
change editor with a jerk. " Just the thing.
It rhymes and its so. You take anybody j
now. Half the people you meet are " I
j "I suppose you know best," interrupted
I the young girl. "I hadn't thought of it in
j that way, but you have a oetter idea of such
' things. Now the second verse is more like
this : ' -
The dove-eyed kine upon the rsoor
' Look tender, meek and sad :
While troni tae valley comes the roar ' "
, "Of the matchless liver-pad !" roared the
j exchange editor. " There you get it. That
. finishes the second so as to match with the
first. It combines the fashions with poetry,
; and carries the idea right home to the fire-
' side. If I omy had your ability in starting a .
verse, with my genius in winding it up, I'd
quit the shears and open in the poetry busi
j ness to-morrow." ,
" Think so ?" asked the fair young lady. !
1 " it don't strike me as keeping up the
theme."
" You don't want to. You want to break j
the theme here and there. The reader likes
, it better. Oh, yes I Where you keep up the
theme it gets monotonous."
j " IVrliaps that's so," responded the beau- '
ty,-brightening up. " I didn't think of that. .
Now I'll read the third verse :
Hot sadly droops the dying da;-,
Aii ncrht springs from the ylen.
Ar.d moaning twilight stem; to s iy ' "
" 'The old man.s drunk again,' wouldn't
! do. would it ?" askeil the exchange editor,
i " somebody else wrote that, and we might
be accused of plagiarism. We must have
1 this thing original. Suppose we say now, .
just suppose we say : " Why ili 1 we spout
my lien ?"
1 " Is that new?" inquired the sweet, rosy
lips. " At least I never heard it before. 1
, don't know what it means."
" New ? 'Deed it's new. Hen is the
name for overcoat, and spout means to hock. '
, ' Why did I spout my Hen?' means why did
I shove my topper? That's just what twi
light would think of first, you know. Oh.
don't be afraid that's just immense."
' Well, I'll leave it to you," exclaimed the
glorious girl, with a smile that pinned the
; exchange editor's heart to his pine. " This
is the fourth verse :
The merry milkmaid's sombre soni;
lie-echoes irom the rocks.
As silently she trips alou
" With holes in both her socks, by Jove,"
ctieil the delighted exchange editor. " You '
see "
" Oh, no, no :" remonstrated the blushing !
maiden. " Not that.'
"Certainly," protested the exchange ed-1
itor, warming up. "Nine to four she's got
'em : ami you g"t fidelity to fact with a
. wealth of pfK'tiea! expression. The wort of
poetry generally is yon can't state things as
they are. It ain't like prose. Hnt here
we've bunted all the established notions, and
put up an actual existence with the veil of
genuine pwtry over it. I think that's the
best idea we've struck yet."
" I don't seem to look at it as you do, but
: of course you are the best judge. I'a ;
thought I ought to say :
! " As silently she trips slon
in autumn's yellow tracks."
" Wouldn't that do?"
"Dul Just look at it. Docs tracks
rhyme to rocks? Not in the Hrooklyn
Kmfc it don't. Hrsides, when you say
'tricks and 'rocks' you give the expres-
i sion of some fellow heaving things at another
1 fellow who's scratching for spfety. 'Socks'
on the other hand rhymes with 'rocks' and
these beautify them, while it touches up tiie
1 milkmaid, and by describing her condition
, shows her to bu a child of the very nature
. you are show ing up."
" I think you are right." said the sweet
angel. "I'll tell pa where be was wrong.
This is the way the fifth verse runs :
' And close t ehin I. the farmer s hoy
Thrill? forth hi" simple tunes.
And flips oeside the mai l a coy "
" Ami split his pantaloons ! Done it my
self : know just exactly how it is. Why,
' bless your heart, you "
! Snip, snip, snip. Paste, pnc, paste. Hut
j it is wilh a saddened heart that he snipsand
! pastes among bis exchanges now. The
beautiful vision that for a moment dawned
upon him has left but the recollection in his
heart of one sunlH-am in his life, quenched
bj the shower of tears with which she de
nounced I i tit as a "brute," and went out
from him forever. Joe. in Brooklyn Kijk.
A Hint to Ai'VEiiTisEus. A millionaire,
who has made every Uoilar of his foi tit'ie by
advertising, offers, on retiring from biis;ness
this bit of advice gratis to those he leaves
struggling iK-hinil, while he departs for
Europe to enjoy life : The fault of the or
di.iai y advertiser is Hv-it ho goes in for a
spurt, and while the fit is on him ho will pay
money to any journal he may fall across.
By-and-by the bills come in; the advertiser
finds he has spent three times as many dol
lars as he meant to ; and as there are no re
plies to his advertising, he thinks the spe
cialty he has lceii trying to introduce has
fallen tint on the pubiic taste, or business
has Iweoine dull, ami be fancies buyers nre
few and little likely to pay attention to his
announcements. He stops short according
ly find loses nearly all the bem lit of his pre
vious s xpfiKlitutes. I lie success reapen ey .
tlwse who-fij advertisements appear every! """ "
year should tench men of business first to be 1 Wk notice in tho Cleveland Ilrrall some;
careful in the selection of the medium they verses by iiss Annie Beaufort, entitled,
choose, and next, when satisfied on this ; "Why Do 1 Sin; '.'" We :ue not dead cer
point, to persevere, di.-reg.i riling apparent j tuhi on this poict. An.iic, but it i. nrobably
faiiur'e, and never retrenching exncn.litiirf s : 1 -ecu use your pa has pai.l about ?'-O0t-i a mil
when business is dull, as that is t'e? time '. sic U it her tot poilng a "i-d ttix kin dai n
shen ruht rti. iig im'-t net tsHiy. er.
FATE, OR HAT !
No historian of the war will ever write of
companies and battalions, and the strange
fate which followed a company of InfaDtry
attached to a regimont from Michigan need
not be looked for in history, although it would
make an interesting rage in any work.
The company wn9 mustered into service j
100 strong, and abetter lot of men never took
the oath of allegiance to Uncle Sam. Before !
leaving the State three of the men died. On ;
the trip from Detioit U Washington two were j
killed by the cars. In marching along the
streets of the capitsl another fell dead. In
going into the enmp another was accidentally
s,10t
through the heart. Inside of three
weeks there were seven deaths in this com
pany and not even a case of sickness in any
other. The regiment was in camp near
Washington for four weeks, and two more
men died out of ..this company, a third was
drowned, and a fourth was shot dead in a
street brawl. This made eleven men, and
not another company had lost a man.
lu Its first skirmish the company lost four
men, while no other company had a man
wounded. Its First Lieutenant and Third
Sergeant were two of the killed. Promotions
had hardly been made when the company
was detailed for outpost duty, and guerrillas
j killed three of its men at one volley. The
: First Lieutenant and Third Sergeant were
j two of the three. This made eighteen men,
, and only one other company had lost a man.
' Promotions were again made, and the regi-
companies had men wounded, nut mis one
had five killed. The Kirst Laeutenaut and j
Third Sergeant were nmong the number.
This made a total of twenty-three. Not a i
man had fallen sick but to die. Not a man :
had been hit except to go down. j
By this time the ill-luck of the company '
had become camp talk, nnd men were not
ashamed to believe that there was something ;
strange and superstitious about it. It was ;
hard work to find men who would take pro- ,
motion, ami three of the rank and fie were so
unmanned that they deserted. Out of a
loss of twenty-seven men in the regiment np ,
to this time twenty-six had been from one
company.
A curious change now occurred. In its ;
next tight the company lost four men. The
Kirst and Fifth Corporals were two of these.
Within a week Ihese two same positions were !
vacant, in six months five First nnd five '
Fifth Corporals were killed, while the First
Lieutenant and Third Sergeant were not
scratched. Nor did it los niiy other com
missioned officers. ;
When this company had been reduced to
sixty-one men no other company had less
than ninety. Ten recruits joined it on Mon
day and nil were killed in a fight on Thurs
day. In a couple of weeks seven more came,
but in less than a month death had reduced
the number to sixty-one again. In a light in ,
which this fated company was purposely held
in reserve, the other nine comnanies had :
fourteen men wounded and one killed. A '
rebel shell fell into the mid-t of the reserve
i
and ki:led four men from the one company.
In two years H lost TiR men, while no other ;
company had lost twenty-five, in its three i
years at the fiont is never had a man w ound- ,
ed. Whoever wss hit was killed on the spot, j
It lo-?t more commissioned and non-commis- i
sionoil officers than any six companies com-
bined. In one year the man who went out as
Fourth Corporal was First Lieutenant and
dead and almost forgotten. For three months .
the company stood at forty men. Twenty
three recruits were added and in three months '.
more twenty men had either died of sickness,
been captured or buried on the battle-field, j
When it was decided to join this conipany
with another not one of the nine would con
sent, and when it had been reduced to thirty
eight men it was transfened to headquarters
to do guard and provost duty. Detroit Fi ve
Pi'f$.
1 AMTAIIO. I. A .MAN.
SINtU l.Ml INfTKNt ES IV Willi Tt MfN HAVE
BEEN TNAB1E TO MOVE.
Having frequently seen it stated in popu
lar works and natural history, as well as in
some books of tiavel (chiefly Australian)
that certain snakes possessed Cue power of
so fascinating with their ga.e birds and
other creatures as (o be able to seize upon
and devour them without any difliculty, I
am induced to inquire if such a power is pe
culiar to the serpent tribe or not, and inci
dentally to ask if any instances of its influ
ence or extension can be traced upon the
scale of crea t ion to man himself. Being of
opinion that such is the case, w hile it has oc
curred to me that many of the fata! acci
dents that occur in the streets of gteat cities
such as London, etc., might be ascribed to
some such agency or sensation, 1 am induc
ed to call attention to the circumstances in
these pages, and to submit the following as
my own personal contributions to the in
quiry ; Describing certain incident of the
siege of Oibraltar. Drinkwater says (His
tory, page T5), that, on the Pth, Lieutenant
Lowe lost his leg Py a shot, on the
slope of the hill under the castle, lie saw
the shot before the fatal effert but was fas
cinated to the spot. This sudden arrest of
tin faculties was not uncommon. Several
instances occurred to my own observation
where men totally free have had their senses
so engaged by a shell in its descent that
though sensible of their danger, even so far
as to cry for assistance, they l:ave been im
movably fix-d to the pl.ne. But what is
more remarkable, these m n have so instant
aneously recovered themselves on its fall to
the ground as to remove to a place of safety
before the shell bursts.
1 Alluding to th first casually at the siege
of Ca wnpore dining the siege of the in
. trer.chnieiit there, Mmtl-iaj Thompson ssvs
(The story of Cawnpoie, pane rt;)that "sev
eral of us saw the ball bouncing toward us
and that he (Mi-Oniro) evidently saw it, but
like ninny others whom I saw fall at differ
ent time.-, he seemed fascinated to the spot,"
' Mid an old ileceascii departmental fiiend
who went through the whole Oilm an cam
paign, assured me that he was ence trans
fixed (fascinated, he called It) after this
: fashion in the presence of a shell that he
once saw issuing from Sebastupol, and whose
gyrations in the air he could count. Cither
military Iricmls have discussed the point
', with nie in the same wise, and I think there
, is some Boiieion to it in one or the other of
Larry, liuthrie, Ballingail, or others of that
' like. .Ytfi'im.
' .'.'.'' 'I
A L0 BRIDAL TOUR.
A correspondent of the Detroit Frt Pr?
tells this interesting story : KeadirK about
bridal tours permit me to relate a strange ex
perience. Some months after the close of the
war, a gentleman residing In Texas overtook
on the road one day a well dressed soldier.
The soldier was accompanied by a pretty,
neat-looking girl of apparently about eigh
teen years of ape. She carried a bundle In
her hand. The soldier stopped to ask dlrec-
tions about the rond.
The gentleman found
the stranger was a Confederate soldier re
turning to his home in Texas with his wife.
I He invited the stranger home with htm to
j dinner. The soldier a fine-looking Texan.
! told his story. His home, he said, was on
i the Neueces. He belonged to Johnson's -i
army, and had gone through all the various
I fortunes of a soldier been once wounded,.
and tw ice a prisoner. In one of his various
I wanderings he had met and fallen In lore
I with the daughter of a widow residing in the
i northern part of South Carolina,. The wid
ow's husband had fallen at the battle of
I Manassas. The widow, from competence
found herself reduced almost to want.
When the war closed our soldier went to the
j house of his intended mother-in-law, and
j for a month worked with all his might,
i mending fences and putting the farm in the
1 bet order he could ; then thinking It time
! to see about matters at home, and V.is eld
. mother in Southern Texas, of whom he had
I rot heard one word for two years, be pre
! pared to ret urn, but it was hard for him to
1 leave his sweetheart, especially w hen he was
unable to perceive when he could make
money enough to return to her. She settled
i the matter bv saying she was going with
: him. So one morning they were married,
j and started for Texas on foot, with kcap
' sacks on their backs, and without a single
; cent of money.
"But," said tne bride, "we found people
; very kind. We made friends all along the
, road : we were never turned ff at night wa
always got plenty to eat, and the people)
would often make us little present of
money. We would frequently overtake a
wagoner, who would give us a ride as far as
lie was going our way. When we came
! through New Orleans we had to get passes
to ctoss the river. Ti e Northern general
noticed that uiy shoes were nearly worn outr
whispered something to one of his aids, who
' went out Mid came back, with a pair of
shoes, and the general asked if 1 would
oblige him by accepting them. I have them
on now.
' Win n we lelt he shook hands with both
of us, and said we were a 'plucky young
couple.' When I g( t to my husband's home
I shall have traveled over sixteen hundred
miles nnd most ef it on foot. I would not
take anything in the world for my trip. I
have found everybody so kind ar.d good."
j The young husband looked into his wife's
; bright face ami smiled, as though he thouglrt
he saw there the reason why every one was
' so kind.
' "But went you not afraid to come so far
with a wild Texan ?" some one asked.
; ''Oh, i.o 1" was the jiniiing reply. T al
! ways liked the Ttxans they uiake such
j brave, good soldiers."
I "You have indeed proved that you liked
i one of them."
j After dinner the gentleman had his car
riage brought around, and tarried them a
' day's journey homeward. As he shook
hands with the bride, all wished her a pleas
ant journey.
"Oh, never fear that," she answered. "I
am almost home a hundred miles or two
isn't much. I am happy as a queen."
Tliey drove on the happiest couple ever
seen. Now, wasn't she a heroine? I do not
think that many women would have under
taken Mich a bridal tour.
(' YTMERINH A tKOW H.
The oilier morning two gentlemen were
looking emt ot the window of a house on
Maiket street, when they eibserved a cabbage
roll eJT a market wagon that was passing.
Instantly over a doen well-dressed and ap
parently sane iersops lM'gan yelling aft rthe
wagon as though the vegetable had been a
gold watch or a thousand-dollar bill. The
' driver stopped about half a square e-fT, look
ed back at the cabbage, yaw tied and drove
on.
"What an absurd fuss people in the street
j make over trivial occui rences," .said one of
the gentlemen. "Now, i ll bet a siik hat
! that I could get a crowd of Soo eisons
around that cabbage inside of thirty minutes,
and yet not leave this rooui."
I "I'll take that bet," said his friend, pulling
out his watch. "Are you ready ?"
"Yes; give the weird."
"it Is now 11:30, Oo."
The proposer of the wager led his friend
to the window, thre w up the sash, and, tak
. ing a cane, pointed earnestly at the niud
; coveied cabbage vith a terrified expression.
; Presently a hack driver noticed the action,
! ar.d began to stare at the vegetable from the
; curbstone ; then a bootblack stopped ; then a
; billposter, a niessenger-br.y anil a merchant.
! "What's the matter?" inquired a German,
approaching the innocent base of his nation
; al dish,
"Don't touch it 1 Lfwk out the re ! Stand
back:" shouted the gentleman at the win
dow. At his horror-stricken tones the
. crowd fell back precipitately and formed a
dense circle around the innocent cabbage.
Hundreds came running up, and the excite-
ment increased rapidly.
; "Look out there !" Screamed the better,
, waving his cane. "Take the il.-.g nway,
quick !"
Several stones were thrown nt a cur that
was snifiing around the cabbag".
"Take care '." sM a eat driver to a po
liceman, who was shouldering his way thro'
the puss. "It's an infernal machine, ritro
ciyce rine or s msething."
' Meanwhile the sidew alk w as blockei". the
st'eets Itecaine impnsable, women screamed
and rushed into shops, and a storekeeper
uiideinath legan to tie a bucke t on the end
of a long pole with which to pour water on
the ticiiil:s!i invent-on. The crowd by this
time immlcring over l.o-.m, the two gentle
man moved away i mm the window and sat
down, in a few moMents there was a hur
ried t ip at the door, ar.d there appeared a
man who had tieen sent as a delegate from
the mass-meet inc outside.
T should like to know, "cntleiuen." hn
said, "whit the f iit-ts, aie'."
"Whr.t facts""
"Wiry, what there is peculiar about that
cabbage out there '.'"
"Nothing in the woihV'was the soft re
ply, "except that it seems tn l e sun ounried
by clwuit l.ooft of the biggest foe !s in town.
Do anything else for you ? '
The loan reflected a moment, said he
"g.iesscd i:ot," t.r ! rt -tire-el. Effort? he
handed in his report, h'-wevfr, C'viptv.n
Siiort's wstcli had dispersed the n:ot and
cribbed ?! 1 s-nara'e persons fcr 'reMing a
il:Htrbar.'. e. .Sft Frjric.ico ret'.