A NARROW ESCAPE
SCORES OF LIVES IMPERILLED ON A
RAILROAD TRAIN.
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THEY ARE SAVED BY A BRIDGE
TENDERS PROMPTITUDE,
Loxa isLaxp Crry, L. 1., Jan, 22,
Superintendent isaac I, Darton, of
the Long Island Railroad, appeared be-
fore Justice Kavanagh, in Long [sland
City, this morning and swors oul wars
rants for the arrest of Theodore Red-
wood, an engineer, and Charles Willis,
a fireman employed on the Long Island
road. The two men were in charge of
the train that left the Long Island
depot at Lopg Island City yesterday
morning at 11 o'clock.
It consisted of two pass:uger cars,
one baggage car and the engine, and
was bound for Oyster Bay. The pas-
senger cars were well fillel, About
half a mile from the rallrcad yarl the
track crosses a drawbridge over the
Duteh Kills creek, which is about 40
feet wide at this point, This draw
was wide open, and the, train ap-
proached It at full speed, the men in
the cab being entirely unconscious of
the impending danger. The draw
tender fortunately saw the engine ap-
proaching, and, seeming to realize that
the engineer of the train was not
aware of the danger, jumped to Lis
post and began closing the bridge,
The train was coming on, the bridge
was closing, and, in a few seconds, it
would be settled whether scores of lives
would be cast into eternity. The hor-
rifled witnesses of Lhe scene held their
breath in fearful anticipation. For-
tunately the bridge tender was a good
man and true, and did his work well.
The cowecatcher of the engine was not
10 feet from the edge of the draw
when the bridge closed with a bang,
and the forward wheel of the locomo-
tive struck the rail of the bridge half a
second afterwards,
It was a narrow escape.
the spectators expressed if: “It was
only a hand's breath from instant
death.” The train rap on carrying to
their homes safely the hundreds or so
of passengers who were all uncon-
scious of the danger they had passed,
Redwood and Willis reside at Rook-
away Beach. The warrants for their
arrests were placed in the hands of
Capt. Owen Kavanaugh and Sergeant
Clancy, of the Beach force.
As ons of
THE INFLUENZA.
THE DE ATH RATE IN CHICAGO
CEEDS THE WINTER RECORD,
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—The Ilerald of
this morning says: ** With the air filled
with frost crystals and the stinging
prairie wind driving the Lhermoneter
down to zero, the health officers looked
for a falling off in the daily number of
deaths in the eity, but when it came to
close thelr books, at 4 o’cloek last even-
ing, there lay before them 130 death
certificates, an increase of 11 over the
record of the previous day.
“The death certificates show a con-
tinuapce of malignant throat and pul-
monary affections. Bronchitis is in-
creasing among children, and influenza,
which 1s growing more violent, is
sweeping off people at the rale of 20 a
day. There were 10 deaths within the
past 24 hours from influenza apd its
complications, This is the record
shown by the death certificates, If to
these were added the grip fatalities re-
ported due to pneumonia the number
of deaths due to the prevailing epi-
demic for the day would reach 30 or
more. Nearly one-half of the deaths
recorded yesterday were due to throat
and lung diseases. Pneumonia killed
17 persons; bronchitis, 10 influenza,
10; and consumption, 12.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan, 22 —
Thomas Rainey, one of the best known
ranchmen in Texas, died yesterday
from la grippe. Immediately after his
fleath his aged father went into an ad-
joining room and blew his brains out.
The father and son will be buried to-
gether,
AMESRURY, Mass, Jan. 22,—Mrs,
Polly Osgood, who celebrated her 100th
birthday January 10th, died last night
of influenza,
QUEBEC, Jan. 22.—The influenza
has been #0 prevalent among the mem-
bers of the Quebec Legislature that no
serious work has been done in the
House so far this session.
EX-
Oy
ts —
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
~A suburban passenger train and a
freight on the Missouri Pacific Road
collided In Omaha, Nebraska, on the
morning of the 21st. Wm. Doyle, a
local Democratic politician, was killed
instantly; J. Schwariek, Deputy Coun-
fy Treasurer, was internally injured;
J. A. Harvey aud a man named Van-
deveuter was badly crushed, probably
fatally; S, Fraher and Frank Church
had their legs broken; two brothers
named Mitziaffs, ratiroad shop boys,
were very seriously injured; one bad his
skull fractured. Several other passen-
gers were more or less bruised, The
conductor, Willlam Shields, bad an
arm broken, and was badly crushed,
An engine and several cars on the
Alabama Midland Raliroad rap off the
track pear Gordon on the 21st, killing
the engineer, Raleigh, and the fireman,
Floor,
~The river at Evansville, Indiana,
has overflowed its banksand has spread
over the bottom lands, A uumber of
families have been driven from their
homes. At Calhoun many families
are living in the churches and school
houses, having been driven from their
dwellings by the high water,
~Catarrbal pneumonia bas developed
among a herd of cattle at Eden, Pa.,
and several animals have already died,
The state authorities have Lian no.
tified,
«A passenger train was stopped near
Tulare, California, on the morning
of the 21st by two masked men, The
amount taken from the express car ls
not known, but is ssid Lo be several
thousand dollars. The robbers made
the engineer aud fireman ACCOMPAnY
them some distance from the train.
~On the morning of the 20th, ¥, W,
Parsons tied his horse to an awning
post in Newburgh, New York, and
went away. The horse touched the
iron post with his nose and fell into the
gutter. Thomas Dawson, who tried to
raise the horse, fell dead as soon as he
touched him, Thomas Saltz, who saw
Dawson fall, went to his assistance
and received a terrible shock, An are
electric light wire had sagged and lay
upon an, iron rod extending from the
awning post to the building, and the
current was passing down the iron
post into the ground. Saltz recovered
in a short time and 30 did the horse,
Dawson was a laborer. He was large
and powerful, weighing gver 200
pounds,
—By an explosion of natural gas
from a main at Sewickley, Pa., on the
evening of the 20th, Mrs, George (Gibbs
and her daughter were terribly burned-
and the recovery of the former is doubt,
ful, The ladies were on thelr way
home, carrying 8 iautern, when gas
which was escaping from a break in
the main ignited, and they were envel-
oped in flames, A telegram from Ta-
coma, Washington, says that at least
ten men and thousands of cattle and
sheep perished in the blizzard which
began on the first of the year and raged
for a week. Isaac Lockwood, who was
found in his room In New York, on the
evening of the 20th, suffering from suf-
focation by gas from a stove, dled on
the 25th.
— Kyle Terry, a nephew of the late
Judge David Terry, was shot and kil-
led, and two of his friends were badly
wounded, on the 21st, in Galveston,
Texas, The killing was the outcome
of the Fort Bend troubles,
—John Wesley Elkins, aged 12
years, was sentenced to Imprisonment
for life in Des Moines, Iowa, on the
22d. He murdered his father and
mother, and was indicted for both of-
fences, but, as he pleaded guilty to the
first, the other was not tried. Ie
confessed the erime, and gave as his
motive that he bad desired to leave
home and shift for himself, but his par-
ents had objected.
An explosion of natural gas in
Pittsburg on the 22a demolished a
three-story frame dwelling. John Slip,
aged IS years, was killed and eight
others were Injured, several it is feared,
fatally, The explosion was caused by
a leak in the cellar, the gas being igni-
ted from a candle carried by one of the
occupants of the bouse, Thomas
Rainey, oue of the best known ranch-
men in Texas, died In San Antonia on
the 21st. Immediately after his death
his aged father committed suiclde by
shooting bimself in the head, Captain
George H. Burr, of the large coal
schooner Nelson E. Newbury, was ace
cidentally drowned at Baltimore on
the 22d. He and two companions were
in a small boat, which overturned.
~The mail car on the Coon Moun-
tain train, which left Memphis, Ten-
nessee, on the evening of the 21st, was
burned near Knoble, Arkansas, on the
224. The car contained the mail for
Texas points, St. Louis, Chicago and
the West, and registered matter to the
amount of $4000, all of which was lost.
The fire was caused by the breaking of
a lamp,
The snow began to fall in Califor-
nia again, on the morning of the 224,
and continued all day. A despatch
from Nevada says that the weather was
blustery and that the high winds caused
the snow to drift badly, filling up the
roads and cuts as soon as they were
opened up to travel, The first train
for ten days over the Union Pacific
Rallroad reached Tacoma, Washing.
ton, on the 22d. Passengers reported
a snow blockade near Baker City, Ore-
gon, where eight passenger Lrains are
snowed in, the first one having been
caught on the 12th. The passengers
report a terrible experience, three per-
sons having died during the blockade,
and a number of women and children
having been taken sick and receiving
po other attention thao that extended
by their fellow passengers. The entire
{lo Grande system 18 now open, the
snow blockage having been raised, The
Union, Pacific Portland branch was
opened on the 22d and the 0Orst train
from that city for several days reached
penver, Colorado, on the afternoon of
the 23d, The San Francisco route was
opened on the 23d and the frst through
train for the coast left Denver on the
234.
~— Nicholas Meyer shot and killed his
wife in Chicago, on the 23d, and then
committed suicide, Jealousy was the
cause, While several men were shoot-
Ing at & mark near Snow Shoe, Penna,
on the afternoon of the 23d, Michael
Dordper, one of the party, ealled out
to a man named Stachick, who was
replacing the target, “What a fine
shot!” Stachick replied, “Shoot away.”
Bordner thereupon fired, killing Sta-
chick on the spot. John and Dell
MeCoy, Rice Jamison, Clark Fowler
and George Redding, bave been ar-
rested for the murder of Constable
Long aud the wounding of his wife, in
Guyandotte county, West Virginia, on
the evening of the 19th. United States
Deputy Marshal Sims obtained a clew
to their hidiog place, which was on a
shanty boat on the Tug branch of the
Big Sandy. At midnight the Marshal
and posse secured the five men as they
slept. although each man was wearing
# belt full of revolvers and the room
was an arsenal of Winchesters and
other weapons. To avold lynehing the
prisioners were taken to Richmond,
~The bollers in the flour mille at
Hallowell, Mo., exploded on the 23rd,
fatally injuring Albert Earls, proprie-
tor, and Mayberry, the engineer. The
fireman was also badly hurt,
— ger train on the Pittsburg,
Yort ayne and Chicago Railroad
struck two girls named Walker, aged v
and 10 years, at Verner Station, Pa,,
on the even ng of the 23nd. One was
killed and the other fatally injured.
They were walking on the track, A
ecariiage, containing Mr, and Mer,
George Uomstock, was struck by a
train on the Daobury and Norfolk
Raiiroad, at Wilton, Connecticut, on
the 20rd. Mr, and Mrs. Comstock are
both very deaf, and could nct hear the
i
train. Both were fatally injured,
nw; ws ——————
~ While a funeral procession, accom-
panying the remains of the five-months
old child of Mr, and Mrs, Fred. Payne
to the grave at Chicago, was about en-
tering Rose Hill Cemetery on the after-
noon of the 234, and was crossing the
tracks of the Chicago and Northwes-
tern Railroad, which pass in front of
the cemetery, am express train thun-
dered along and struck the first carri-
age containing the parents of the dead
infant, their 9-year-old daughter and
Mrs, Reprogal. All except the daugh-
ter were killed, and the driver, Simon
Anderson, was also killed, The girl
escaped with slight injuries, Fifteen
conches containing mourners followed
the Payne vehicle, but escaped dam-
age.
— Laura Linton, a maiden lady llv-
ing ona farm in Camden township,
Obhlo, was shot and killed on the even-
ing of the 21st. She feared a visit
from burglars, and asked two boys,
pamed Roberts and Gulisley, to stay at
her home. They armed themselves
with shot guns, and hearing a noise at
night arose and fired at the supposed
burglar. It is believed the woman
was walking in her sleep, as she made
no response when they called to her,
blst CONGRESS.~~First Session.
SENATE,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 21st, bills
were introduced by Mr, Jones, of Ne-
vada, to discontinue the coinage of
three and one dollar gold pieces and
three-cent pieces; by Mr. Hale, to re-
munerate navy yard employes for time
lost 10 consequence of injuries received
in the yards, and by Mr, Cameron, to
rearrange the pay of the navy. The
Copyright bill was reported and placed
on the calendar, The Senate bill to
Promote the Efficiency of the Navy,
and the Senate joint resolution for the
removal of the Apache Indian prison-
ers to Fort Sully, in the Indian Terri-
tory, were taken from the calendar
and passed, After an executive session
the Senate adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
224, a ill was passed increasing to
$100 a month the pension of the widow
of General Judson 8, Kilpatrick, The
bill requiring the Superintendent of
the Census to ascertain what percent.
age of the farmers own their farms,
and the number and amount of farm
mortgages, was discussed and recom-
mitted. Several bills were taken from
the calendar. Dills were passed pro-
vididing sn American register for the
steamer Bernard, of Philadelphia, and
appropriating $1,500,000 for a public
bullding at St, Paul, on a site given by
the city. After an executive session
the Senate adjourned,
In the United States Senate on the
233, Mr, Vest presented the credentials
of William A, Clark and Martin Ma-
ginnis as Senators-elect from Montana,
and, on his motion, they were referred
to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, Orn his motion also the
four gentlemen claiming to be Sena-
tors-elect from that State were ad.
mitied, pending the contest, to the
privileges of the floor, Bills were
passed placing General Stoneman on
the relired list as a Colonel of Infantry,
and granting ay American register to
the ship Kenllworth, The latter bill
bad passed the House, Adjourned.
HOUSE,
In the House on the 21st, bills were
introduced, under the call of States,
by Mr. McKenna, of California, to dis.
continue the coinage of the one and
three dollar gold pieces and the nickel
three cent pieces; by Mr. Reilly, of
Pennsylvania, for a public building in
Pottsville; by Mr. Funston, of Kansas,
for a commission to Inquire into the
causes of the present agricultural de-
pression, by Mr, Dorsey, of Nebraska,
authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to reduce the reserve fund;
by Mr. Bingham, of Pennsylvania,
appropriating $6,000,000 *‘for the pur}
chase by the Government of an 1m
proved educational system.” and by
Mr, Owen, of Indiava, ‘‘to prohibit
objectionable immigration and to ene
courage desirable immigration.” The
Oklahoma Town Site bill was consid}
ered in Committee of the Whole, pend-
ing which the House adjourned,
In the House, on the 20th, bills were
introduced by Mi. Butterworth, of
Ohio, defining options and futures and
imposing a tax on dealers therein; by
Mr. Morrow, of California, to prohibit,
absolutely, the coming .of Chinese into
the United States; by Mr. Stewart, of
Texas, to promote reciprocity with
Mexico; by Mr, Conger, authorizing tne
issue of Treasury notes on deposit of
buliien, and by Mr, Morjow, of Cali.
fornia, ‘to place the American mer-
chant marine engaged in the foreign
carrying trade on an equality with that
of other nations,’ A resolution was
introduced by Mr, Cowles, of North
Carolina, instructing the Ways and
Means Committees to report a bill re.
pealing the tobacco tax
In the House, on the 23a, Mr. Pay.
son, of lllinols, introduced a bill to for-
feit certain land grants to railroads,
The Oklahoma Town Site bill was con-
sidered In committee of the whole,
reporied to the Honse and passed,
Adjourned.
In the House on the 234, a resolu.
tion was adopted, at the instance of the
Committes on Patents, instructing that
committee to Inquire whether any
change or modification in existing laws
in relation to palents is , in
order to correct any alleged abuses and
render the system more perfect and
efficient. A bill was introduced by
Mr. Thompson, of Obio, to regulate
the importation of copper. Mr. Dor
toy, of Nevada, from the Committees on
Banking and Currency, reported a bill
for the lssue of circulating notes to
national banks. It wis ordered printed
and recommitted, The Customs
Administrative Dill was considered in
Committee of the Whole,
action the committees rose and
the
House adjourned,
“Why is Miss Bowearing black?"
“She is in mourning for her hus.
“Why, she never hiad a husband!”
“No: that Is why she mourns!’ |
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SAR w
AN INP
Old Year and New Yaar,
BY WM. ME BUTTS,
014 Year and New Year
It is all God's year;
His time for sowing,
His time for reap ng,
His time for growing,
For rest and quiet sleeping +
His time for soaring :
On wings of the Spirits
His time Tor adoring
The Infinite Merit,
0 world above! onr world,
Our times, and our places,
Are but as child's play
To thy marvellous spaces,
But if, as dear children,
With hearts full of yearning,
We love and forget not,
Are doctle for earning,
Then New Year and Old Year,
Their hoping, regretting,
Will all turn to God's year,
With no thine for fretting,
A GREEN GOWN.
It was like the apple-ple that A made
in the old nursery story, when;
“B bit it,
“C cut it,
“D divided it,
“E eyed it,
“F fought for it,
“G got 1t,
“H had 1t”—and so on to the end of
the alphabet,
There were not so many girls in the
Nickerson family as there are letters in
the alphabet, but there were six, And
then there was Teddy, the one boy.
But this, for a wonder, was a ple in
which Teddy didn’t have his finger.
Fallowfield, where the Nickersons
lived, is away down Hardserabble way.
They have forgotten to put it down on
the map, It is so far, up hill and down
dale, that the railroad gives out before
it gets there, and the stage that cone
nects with the railroad drops one at the
foot of a steep hill two miles from
Fallowfield, Bat Uncle Peleg Dodge
“accommodates and, although he aud
his horse are both old and fat, ons ar-
rives at last and finds that Fallowfield
is a thriving little village, although the
large clothes-pin factory is almost the
only commercial interest, and the
Hardscrabble Herald prints, periodic
ally, among its fuuny paragraphs the
statement that Fallowfield hangs on to
the world only by a clothes-pin,
The Nickersons wereamong the old
families of Fallowfield, They had
family portraits by distinguished art
genealogical tree, (Becky had, however,
almost ruined the latter by paintin
red apples and green leaves upon it
when ber paint box was new), It was
impossible to live off old portraits and
a genealogical tree, and they were so
poor, now, that they were actually
afraid that Teddy, whom they had
hoped to send to college, would have to
go into the clothes-pin factory to work,
Perley Beck, whose father owned
»
invitations for a party. The Becks had
moved to Fallowfield from a city, and
were thought “stylish.” Perley had
some city friends visiting her, and the
ps
and Kitty Bramwell.” And 14-year
old Fallowfield could not sleep nights
The Nickersons each received a eard,
from Margaret, who was 16, down to
SR RT ro
nina oriitan oS flonan
they all, even Kate made such a suc.
cessful pretence of not caring, and were
80 guy over the plans and suggestions
that were for the making of the dress,
that Dolly could hardly help forgetting
everything but the delightful time she
was going to have,
Mother Nickerson said they must
have Miss Tritchem, the Fallowfield
dressmalkcer, to cut and plawg she would
be willing to take her pay In eggs.
Much planning was necessary, for
great-grandmother Dorothy Wynne's
dress was skimpy, and was large for
fourteen,
Dolly ran joyfully down the hiil—it
was up or down hill everywhere in Fal-
low field —to Miss Twitchem’s shop that
very afternoon, Haste was necessary;
Porley Beck had been only able to send
out her invitations a few days before
hand because her friends’ visit was Ww
be brief.
Dolly went down boy-fashion on
Jimmy Jackson's double runner and
drew little lame Joey MecGinness up,
She came up on air and wouldn’t have
known that she was drawing any
weight, for Miss Tritchemn had shown
her a fashion-plate with the prettiest
dress imaginable for a girl ot her age,
which she was sure she could contrive
to make out of the green brocade,
Perley Beck and
would see that there was some “‘style”
in Fallowfield and Tilly Dowd could
not toss her bead.
At the top of the hill she came upon
little Hetty Plum, with ber hands
clasped before her in a despairing way,
her red mittens swinging forlornly by
their strings and six tears swelling
down her cheeks, Old Mrs, Grimsby
bad taken Hetty Plum from the Hard.
srcabble poor houses and had declared
her tention of “doing well by her if
she proved nothing.”
“What's the matter, Hetty Plum?”
called Dolly across the snowy road,
“I've been careless again, orfle care-
less; wors’n the chiny teapot this time,
and she said If I was more time
she'd send me back to the poorhouse!
And she will; she ain't one that don’t
mean it, Miss Grimsby ain’t]”
“What have you done? ’asked Dolly,
sympathetically, Dolly knew what it
was {0 get into ‘‘scrapes’ by reason of
carelessness,
*‘She sent me down to Hardscrabble
to carry some pieces of patchwork, The
minister’s is goin’ off and they're mak-
mm’ asllk bed quilt to give her. Miss
Grimsby sent the squares because she
used to know her, There was six
squares of green silk as big as that!”
Hetty Plum measured, pathetically
from the tip of her small, frosty fore-
finger to her small, sharp elbow.
soroR
ons
“I went through the woods road,"
she continued. *“ "Twas splendid on
the crust; and 1 see a rabbit; he was so
nigh me I could most grab him, and
He ran when 1
began to try to catch him and I ran af-
First I knew my bundle was
all in the condition of Miss Flora Me-
Flimsy -—one has not the heart to speak
lightly of it, it has spoiled so much in-
nocent pleasure, caused so much real
suffering--they “had nothing to wear.”
Even the Sunday cashmeres had to be
worn to school that winter, and Dolly's
~-Dolly was the tomboy—had a darn
that showed,
The apple-ple was great-grandmother
Dorothy Wynne's brocade silk dress,
Sweet little, tired-out Mother Nicker-
son brought it down from the attic,
The girls had not known there was
anything left; the mother had kept it
secret, her mother had thlught so
much of it,
It was beautiful—dark green, with a
tiny brocaded flower in bright colors,
Mother Nickerson looked at her
pretty, tall slip of a Margaret. Of
course, they all knew-—five sinking
hearts—that Margaret was the one to
0.
8 Margaret gave a little gasp of delight
and then shut her lips firmly,
“It's so skimpy, there isn’t enough
to make a dress for mel’’ she said,
The little mother’s eyes met hers,
They understood each other—always
preferring others, .both of them,
“We couldn't get dresses for the
twins out of it, could we? They've
had such a bard time with the meas-
les,” murmured Margaret, “And how
it would suit Penelope’s light locks!’
“And I haven't been to singing
school or anywhere,” said Kate, with
deep feeling.
“Kate has had to stay at home,"
said Margaret, “and Dolly does love a
party so, and she is just Perley Beck's
age.”
“We might have it made into two
slips to wear over white, if our old
white musiins were not impossible,”
said Constance,
“There's only one thing to be dons,”
sald Helen, who was the wise one of
the twins, “Wo must draw lots, and
whoever gets it must not try to make
anyone else take it.”
Mother Nickerson held six little slips
of paper in bier hand, One had a “B?
on it for brocade, They drew in the
order of their ages, and Dolly drew the
prize. Dolly gave a long sigh.
“It won't Do much fan when all the
rest of you have to stay at home,” she
said, :
_But a party was a purty to Dolly. and
A HES neh Daal are ved
%
Every one of the
silk pieces had dropped out, I’ve been
huntin’ ever since and 1 ain't found
I rau into the bushes, you see,
and 11's Kind of windy, too. And now
it’s comin’ on dark and I've got to go
home and tell her I've lost ‘em. And
silk for anything in the world but just
the minister's wife's quilt, Beems as
if I couldn’ bear to go back to that
poorbouse.”” The frozen tear-drops on
Hetty’s forlorn little face were being
rapidly displaced by hot ones,
Dolly had listened without a word.
Joey MeGinness bad gone limping off
homeward, and she had not known it.
She did not know that she had taken
Hetty’s half-frozen hands and was
chafing them in her warm ones; such a
Dolly did love a party, as Mar-
garet said, and with such a dress on as
that for all the girls tosee who knew
her In darned out-grown and cloudy
dresses!
“Come into the house, Hetty!” she
said, and Hetty went, forseeing only a
respite.
“Mothel girls]! all of you listen!”
Dolly poured forth the pitifal little tale
of Hetty's woes, “It’s mine, isn’t it?
the green silk? or, if any of you want
fleet?
“No, it's yours; that was the agree.
ment,” said Mother Nickerson, and
*“ft's yours,” they all echoead heartily,
even Kate. Dolly set Hetty Plum up
at the table with a great pair of scis.
sors and unfolded the shining breadths
before her.
‘“There! cut the squares Just as near-
ly the same as you can, Stay! you
show me and I'll eut, you are trembling
80.” For little Hetty Plum wanted to
sob fur joy, and in spite of her effort to
control Berself her small frame shook.
Snip! snip! went the scissors in Dol.
Iy’s firm hand,
“It tant § o'clock yet, although it is
#0 dark. We'll go down to Hardscrab-
ble on Jimmy Jackson's sled. you and
I, Hetty; down three hills and up two,
and there we are! We shall be back
again before Mrs, Grimsby thinks
you've been gone much too long!"
And Hetty showed like magie, a
sound April face instead of one. that
had been as long as a face in a spoon,
- . ed - - . .
“Not coming? Why, you really must
come, every one of youl There are not
so many gizle ln Fallowlold that pou
&
Mela ——
a3 Perley Deck
who had stopped at the door, in a little
Russian sleigh with red eockades, af
dusk on the very evening of her party.
“You needn’t stop to dross, you
know. Did Lucy Fifield forget to tell
you, as I asked her to, that I wanted
all the girls, as a favor, to wear their
dark woolen dresses? You see I want
to have a candy pull and a dance nu the
barn; city girls have plenty of dress
parties, so I want my friends to have
somo real country fun, Tou wil
come, won’t yon?”
Comel Of course they would, every
one of them, And in the merry
evening Dolly didn’t once remember
her darn!
all
ail
——
Why Lincoln Raised a Beard.
President Lincoln's ind heart always
responded to a child’s advances. He
mdulged his own children, saying, “It
is my pleasure that my children are free
and happy, and unrestrained by paren.
tal tyranny. Love is the chain where
by to bind a chnld to its parents.”
Before his election in 18060 a little
girl of 11 years, seeing his lithograph
portrait, thought his appearance would
be improved should he wear whiskers,
She uttered her childish thought in a
letter to Mr. Lineoln, and m a few days
received a friendly answer, in which he
asked:
“As to the whiskers, as I have never
worn any, do you not think the people
would call it a plece of milly affectation
were 1 to begin wearing them now?"
During his journey to Washington,
after his election to the Presidency, the
train stopped at Westfield, Chautauqua
county, at which place the little gird
resided,
“I have a correspondent in this
place.” said Mr, Lincoln, “a little girl
whose name is Grace Dedell, and I
would like to see her.”
She was brought to the station. He
stepped from the cars, extended his
hand, and sald: “You see I have let
those whiskers grow for you, Grace.”
Then kissing ber, be bade her good.
bye,
‘When be stood op at the Capitol to
deliver his Inaugural address, friends
were surprised to see that the President
was raising a crop of whiskers, Vexed
at his spolling a face which expressed
power and pathos by wearing a coarse,
stiff, ungraceful beard of the blacking-
brush variety, they made inquiries and
learped that he had ceased to shave to
gratify a very young lady.
Converted by the Angelus,
A touching incident bearing upon
fhe sentiment of the “Angelus” picture
has not found its way into print, though
it 1s more than a quarter a century oid,
Two naval surgeons, friends, were once
walking in the streets of Lima, when
they came upon two men engaged in a
furious fight. Suddenly the Aaogelus
bell rang; custom prevailed over pas
sion and the combatants fell on their
knees. The prayer conquered. When
they rose each turned and went his way;
they could not fimsh their fight,
One of the witnesses was so impress
ed by this proof of the power of prayer
that his thoughts took a serious and
devout turn; he ended by embracing
the Catholic faith—the religion of the
Angelus, These friends were soon
separated; and after long years had
passed, one of them, entered a Cathe
dral in a European city, saw bis old
comrade partaking of the communion,
His mind at once reverted to the scene
in the streets of Lima and the Angelus.
The thrall of the past, the influence of
the present hour, was alike mighty, and
be, too, became a convert te the Catho-
lie faith,
Now, both of these naval surgeons
are with the dead, and when Millets
“Angelus” became world renowned,
the son of one of them bought an en-
graving of it as sacred relic of a be
loved parent; through it, he *‘being
dead, yet speaketh,’
Energy and Luck.
When my business partner came home
from the war, in which he had gallant
ly commanded a battery, he had neither
breeches, home nor money. His wife
cut up a woolen dress she had worn for
many years and made a pair of breeches,
Gathering odds and ends from the ruins
of Atlanta, he built a shanty, of which
love made a‘home. His father gave
him a five dollar gold piece, of which
ingenuity made capital. In three years
be had built a $1,500 home, in eight
years a $06,000 home, Ho now has &
$60,000 suburban home and is well
worth over $225,000, His life is ap
epitome of the south in 1885_its
swift energy, its cheerful heroism, it
shrewd knack of tuning something
from nothing, its stages of growth, and
its present prosperity,
A Neat Compliment.
Auber, who was chapel master o
the Tuileries under the second empire,
was A confirmed bachelor. One even.
ing, as the Empress Eugenie was shad
with him, she asked if he never
regretted remaining unomarrded,
“Never, madame,” replied the witty
old man, “and less than ever now, when
I think that Moos Auber would te
neatly 80 years old,”
a
» weakness, hgh iy nar Inds