LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
After a Quarter of ■ Century.
At a fashionable summer hotel near
this city for several weeks an elderly
couple have attracted much attention.
The husband is tall and line-looking,
and his abundant hair and beard are
beginning to be tinged with gray. The
wife is a dainty little lady, with pre
maturely white hair, that contrasts ad
mirably with her clear, rosy complex
ion. Husband and wife are turned ol
ilfty, but they are full of life and
spirit. Their devotion to each other is
a pleasing spectacle. They stray about
to dark corners of the porch, or find
secluded seats in the grounds, and hold
converse, apparently, with the zest of
young lovers.
The history of their lives is roman
tic. The husband, who is now a pros
perous business man of this city, WAS
a suitor for the lady's hand more than
a quarter of a century ago. Hut her
parents objected because he was young
and poor. The lovers parted and the
lady married a suitor chosen by her
parents. Years afterward the young
man married. To neither marriage
were children born. After nearly twen
ty-live years of married life the lady
became a widow. A year ago theother
whilom lover became a widower.
Last winter the widower and the
widow met accidentally in this city.
The old love was rekindled, and a
month ago they were married.— Nor
York IS un.
IVlint H Ivri Are l or
What the true man most wants of a
wife is her companionship, sympathy
and love. The way of life has many
dreary places in it, and man needs a
companion with him. A man is some
times overtaken with misfortune; he
meets with failure and defeat; trials
and temptations beset him, and he
needs one to stand by and sympathize.
He has some stern battles to light with
poverty, with enemies and with sin.
and he needs a woman that, as he puts
an arm around her, feels that he has
something to light for, will help him
fight, who will put her lips to his ear
and whisper words of counsel, and her
hand to his heart and impart new in
spiration. All through life—through
storm and annshine, conflict and vic
tory; through adverse and favorable
winds—man needs a woman's love-
The heart yearns for it. A sister's and
mother's love will hardly supply the
need. Yet many seek nothing further
than housework. Justly enough, tvalf
of these get nothing more. The other
half, surprised above measure, obtain I
more than they sought. Their wives
surprise them by giving a nobler idea
of marriage, and disclosing a treasury
of courage, sympathy and love.
Cleveland Sun.
A Port nn*l Llnxiilit t Nrrrnlfm.
When we read of a Mithridates or a
Mezzofanti we wonder how a single
mind could grasp so many forms of
human speech, and are almost inclined
to acknowledge the truth of the ancient
saying, that with every tongue a dis
tinct individuality is acquired. Great
linguistic powers have, however, rare
ly been combined with poetical talents
of a high order, but Elizabeth Kul
mann possessed both gifts in a remark
able degree. Although she died at the
early age of seventeen, and during her
brief life had to struggle with many
difficulties, yet by her rare ability and
great industry she acquirer! a complete
mastery over eleven languages, and
wrote jtoetry in no less than eight.
Goethe and Jean Paul Richter have
both borne high testimony to her
genius; her German poems alone fill a
closely printed octavo volume of more
than 7W pages, and her Russian and
Italian poetical works are also volum
inous. Speaking with the fluency of
native French, Italian, English, Span
ish, Portuguese and modern Greek, .as
well as Russian and German, she was
at the same time well versed in Latin,
ancient Greek and Slavonian. Her
favorite authors were the great |oets
and historians of Greece. A diligent
- " student of Homer, Pindar Thiicydides,
she was engaged on a translation of
Ilesi'sl's poems when death cut short
her literary career. In her last writings
she speaks with sorrow of all she leaves
undone, hut wo may well be astonished
at what she lias accomplished. Her
original works comprise epic poems_
lyrics, ballads; and as we peruse them
we know not whether most to admire
the beauty and simplicity of the lan*
guage or the marvelous accuracy with
which she describes the events of past
ages and the scenery of the moat re
. mote countries.— Good Wards.
Fuhlon VM.
Hlack toilets are again in high vogue
Vests of white lace are worn on eve
ning dresses.
Wraps entirely of black jet beads are
very fashionable.
Velvet Is an exceedingly popular
fabric at the present time.
The rage for hlack hosiery continues.
Infants sucks are out in black silk.
W ide ribbons are folded into soft
belts and tied at the hack in very large
hows with short ends.
Classic and esthetic styles of dress
are still affected by many fashionable
ladies both here and abroad.
An effort is being made to bring into
fashion again tho bordered lace veils
worn ten years or more ago.
A charming toilette of cream canvas
batiste can be trimmed with a quantity
of line Baxony lace and ruby velvet.
Velvet ribbon trimmings, recently
introduced, have already lost favor,
having been adopted on very common
dresses.
A London dress-maker cuts open
overskirts like half shawls, knots the
corner and allows it to fall on tho left
side of the skirt.
It is now quite the fashion to hand
paint your given name upon the handle
or panel of your parasol, your poeket
book, glove-top, etc.
Watteau morning dresses have a
double box-pleat from the neck to below
the waist line, where it merges into
the drapery of the skirt.
Curtains are hung on poles and
drawn to one side when light is de.
sired. In a word, they hang in straight
folds, and not looped hack.
Rirds are in active demand among
milliners. They are used for trimming
summer hats, and promise to he a pop
ular garniture during the autumn.
There is a tendency, even in Paris,
to wear lower and broader heels on
walking shoes. Many ladies have
adopted the broad, low English heel,
ltedfern, the Princess of Wales's
tailor-dressmaker, is trimming plain
skirts with mohair braid, putting it on
in vertical as well as horizontal hands.
Satin is an appropriate and fashion
able material for the inner curtains to
| a drawing-room. The curtains are
j often triple-lined, the outer lining being
a soft Japanese or India silk.
The English fashion of saturating a
straw fan with lavender water has
been introduced; with the gentle mov
ing of the fan the face is slightly
sprinkh-d with the water and the per.
fume generally distributed.
Dressmakers are now employing pail,
ding just below the waist line in every
dress. This d --s away with the neei-s
sity of a hustle, and most ladies And it
more comfortable, as well aam>recon.
: veriient.
Waistcoats of.- almost every shape
and material are exceedingly fashion
able, but this style of bodice demands
the most careful lit and finish, other
-1 wise their introduction will often mar
j the good effect of an otherwise stylish
J toilet.
Telegraphy and Mesmerism.
Forty-eight years ago Mr. Joel Suth
erland, a member of congress from
Pennsylvania, introduced in the house
of representatives a resolution request
ing the secretary of the tre. isury to re
port to the house the propriety of estab
lishing a system of telegraph for the
• United States. The secretary address
j ed a circular-letter of inquiry to many
j scientific and practical gentlemen in
| different sections of the country invit
j ing their attention to the resolution of
: congress. Th -results of this inquiry
! brought forth many useful and pracll
i cal suggestions, and urged the necessity
I of a system of telegraph for public and
| private purposes. The idea of using
i electricity AH a means of communira
| tion between parties many miles apart
j seemed ridiculous even to many learned
statesmen at that ami it WAS
then characterized as W twin brother
ito mesmerism and milierisin. In the
, house when an appropriation of £s<•,-
000 was ask<s| to enable Prof. Morse
jto continue his experiment with tho
magnetic telegraph, it WAS moved to
| divide the amount between Prof,
j Morse and Mr. Fish, to enable the lat
ter, who was an expert in mesmerism,
to carry on his experiments in the
mesmeric art. When it came to the
attention of the Hon. Thomas 11. Hen
ton, in the United States senate, he
said: I rejoice at the invention of llie
magnetic telegraph and look forward
to the time when it will l>e of great
value to the business interests and
commerce of the country, and do not
doubt that the time will como when
electricity will bo extensively applied
in the arts and commerce of the world.
Washington Hepubliran.
Ramrod Bread.
As a curious souvenir of the war,
Albert Ross has preserved in a glass
case a piece of what WAS known in tho
confederate army as ramrod bread. It
was made by stringing out a piece of
dough and twisting it around a ramrod
and then linked by suspending on two
forked sticks. The piece preserved by
MaJ. Ross was baked in 1864 In East
Tennessee,
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The Nnvajoa Indiana make blankets
which are BO closely woven that they
hold water.
The cholera, savs somebody, lists ap
peared sit exact intervals of seventeen
years, nauiely 1 H.'iJ, 1819, 1800, and
188:1.
Many of the old tall clocks now so
much admired are made in Berkshire,
with works from Connecticut, and aro
less thsin si year old when bought for
genuine antiquities.
A good Cremona violin has ilfty
cight divisions. The back, neck, sides
and circles are of sycamore; the belly,
base-bar, sounding-post, and six blocks
of deal; the flnger-board and tail-piece
of ebony.
The Chinese have a law that if tho
elder brother in a family should have
no children when fifty years of age,
he may claim the eldest son of any of
, his younger brothers, and make him his
j heir.
You can hear the whistle of a
locomotive 33'*) yards, the noise <>f a
trai l 2WX) yards, the report of a mus
ket ami the bark of a dog 180*1 yards,
| the roll of a drum 1000 yards, tho
creak of a freg 900 yards, and a crick
et's chirp, SIX) yards.
How many (says an exchange) know
that a horse gets up b< fore and a cow
gets up behind, and the cow eats from
lor and the horse|eats to him. llow
many know that a surveyor's mark
upon a tree never gets any higher
from the ground, or what trees Ix-ar
fruit without bloom?
Bayard Taylor used to say that of
all men he had ever seen, Hawthorne
was the most remarkable for possess
ing eyes that flashed fire, the pupils
being so diluted as to render tie-iris
invisible. Gladstone has similar eyes
and some of his friends attributed to
them Queen Victoria's lack of fondness
for that statesman. Her majesty,
they say, has on several occasions
been actually tcrrith-d by liladstone's
guzf.
A Father Hubbard.
The other day .as old Major Holmau
announced his readiness to proceed in
the direction of tho church, his
wife appeared, wearing a m ther Hub
bard dress. The old man intently re
gardisl her for a few moments, and
asked:
"Mary, what sort of a coat do you
call that?"
"It's a mother Hubbard, Joerns."
"Air you goin' to wear it to (hup Ii ?'•
"Why, certainly, .Teems. The moth
er Hubbard is till the fashion now."
"Well, I'm glad to know it," the old
man replied. "Just wait until I get
ready, and we'll go."
The old man went out into the kitch.
en, took a couple of meal sacks, cut
the Ixittoms out, sewed the tops togeth
er, and put them on in imitation of
pantaloons. When he returned, his
wife uttered loud cry of astonish
ment, and exclaimed:
"Great goodness,.Joerns, what's that."
"Father Hubbard," the old man re
plied.
"You're not goin' to wear them
sacks, are you ?"
"I've got to be fashionable to kebp
up with you. I've got as much right
to wear these meal bags as you have
to go in that bran sack."
"I'll take off."
"All right; off goes the father Hub
bard," and turning away, he added to
himself, "Only one way to boat a wo
man, and that is by agreein' with her.
Kf it hadn't l**on fur the daddy Hub
bard I'd a l>een in a mighty bad fix."
—Arkamaw Traveler.
Feannt Flonr.
No doubt, ere long, "peanut flour",
will be an important product of
the south. Virginia is set down this
year for 2, 100,000 bushels, Tennessee
for 250,000, and North Carolina at
135,000 bushels, these being the chief
states engaged in their cultivation, and
those in which they were first intro
duced from Africa. In Virginia they
! are called "peanuts," in North Carol!-
na "ground-pens," in Tennessee "gob
liers," and in Georgia, Alabama anil
Mississippi "plnders." Virginians arc
iKiginrflng to turn the ]>canut into'
flour, and say it makes a peculiarly
palatable "buscuit." In Georgia there
is a custom, now growing old, of
grinding or pounding the shelled j>ea
nuts and turning them into pastry,
which has some resemblance, both In
looks and taste, to that made of cocoa
nut, but the ]H>anut pastry Is more oily
and richer, and, we think, heathier
and lictter every way. If, as some
peoplo believe. Africa sent a curse to
America in slavery, she certainly con
fi rr 1 upon her a blessing in tho uni
versally popular peanut, which grows
so well throughout the southern re
gions that we shall soon lie able to cut
ft the now large Importation alto
gether.—Sarannah {(la.) Telrgram.
BEATIIS FROM FRIGHT.
• *•!••, Anclf.nl nnil Mintern, Colls ret
troiu Authentic llMlory.
The distinction between fright and
fear ought always to be borne in
mind. Fear can be mastered by an ef
fort; fright has come and gone before
the brain has bad time to come to the
conclusion that an effort is possible.
There is no fear in human beings so
strong as the fear of death, and yet,
"there is no passion in the mind of
man," says Bacon, truly enough, "so
weak but it meets and masters the fear
of death. Revenge triumphs over
death; loveslights it; honor aspireth to
it; grief flieth to it; fear preuccupiclh
it." Pity, which is the "tenderest of
passions," led many to kill themselves
from compassion for Otho's suicide,
Fvi* indium vita-, mere utter weari
' ness of doing the same thing over and
( over again, will lead a man to defy bis
j inborn fear of death. But what pas
sion can guard against fright?
A Hebrew, according to Lodovicus
; Vives, once crossed a narrow plank
over a torrent, in the dark, and, visit
ing the place next day, saw the extrem
ity of bis last night's risk, and died of
what? Not of fear, obviously, be
cause there was nothing to be afraid
of, but possibly o( (right. So, again,
j persons have been known who always
fainted at the smell of certain flowers,
notably, that of tin- May blossom, but
it would be ridiculous to accuse them
of being afraid of hawthorn.
Surgeon-general Franc s, of the In
dian mistical service, tells of a drum
mer who was suddenly aroused from
his sleep by something crawling over
bis naked legs. He iinag.ncd i! was a ,
Cobra and his friends, collected by tln- 1
outcry, thought so too, and lie was
treated accordingly. Incantations,)
such as are customary with the na- |
tives i n such oor.i-.oiis, were rc-orted j
to, and the jtoor fellow was Ilaggcllat j
ed with twisted cloths on the arms
anil legs in view partly to arouse him,
but principally to drive out the evil in- |
flueni • i spirit i that for the time 1 ing 1
hail taken jKissession of hill). With
the first dawn of light tin- cause of the
fright w,is discovered in the shape of
a harmless li.vard. which was lying
crushed and half killed by the side of
the poor drummer, but it was ton late.
From the moment when lie ln-lii-ved
that a jMii-onotis snak' bad 1 tten loin
in-j a i-d mto ; ,t, incrc.i-ng n>llap-(
until he died. The ilrunimi rw a* not
a strong lad, and the -h k was too
mu< h for him.
The most remarkable death from 1
the in cident of fright was that of the |
Hutch painter, Pen toman, in the seven- !
tcenth century. He was at work on a
picture in which were repre.-entisl si v- i
enl death heads, grinning -keleton.*
and other objects calculated to inspire
the beholder with a contempt for the
vanities and follies of the day. In or
der t<> do bis work Iwttcr he went to j
an anatomical room, and used it for a
studio. One sultry day, as he was
drawing thus.- melaneholly relics of
mortality bv which he was surrounded,
lie fell off into a quiet Sleep, from
which he was suddenly aroused. Im
agine his hormr at lieholding the
skulls and bones dancing around tin*
room like mail, and the skeletons which
hung from the ceiling dashing them- |
selves together. Panic stricken, he
ruhed from the room, and threw him- !
self headlong from e window to the
pavement below. He sufficiently re
recovered to learn that the cause of
his fear was a slight earthquake, but
his nervous system had received so se- :
vere a shock thai lie died in a few
days.
Frederick I. of Prussia was killed
by an accident of fear, lie was one
day sleeping in an armchair, when his j
wife. Louisa of Mecklenburg, who had
1 for some time been hopelessly insane,
escaped from lier keepers and made
her way to the king's private apart
ments. Hreaking through a glass
! door she dabbled herself in blood, and
In a raging fit of delirium cast herself (
: upon the king. The lalter, who was ,
not aware of the hopelessness of her ]
lunacy, was so horrified at the appear- ,
ance of a woman, clad only in linen
and covered with blood, that he imag- ,
j ined, with a superstition characteristic (
of the age, that it was the White Lady (
| whose ghost, according to the time- (
honored tradition, invariably appeared |
! when death was around the house of ,
Bradenburg. He was seized with a f
fever and diosl in six weeks. ,
More ridiculous was the death of the ,
French mnrsball, I)c Montrcvel. J
"whose whole soul," says St. Simon,
"was but ambition and lucre, without ,
ever having been able to distinguish t
his right hand from his left, hut con- ,
coaling his universal ignorance with j
an audacity which favor, fashion and t
birth protected." He was very su- j
perstitiousman, and one day a salt cel
lar was upset at a public dinner in his
lap, and so frightened was he that he *
arose and announced that he was a dead 1
man. Tie reached home and died in a
few days, in 1716, literally scared to
death by the absurd casualty of a salt
cellar's turning over. London (jfab< .
Forced Labor in Egypt.
The conditions of forced labor do
not seem to differ much in the differ
ent parts of the country. Nowhere
do the laliorers receive any pay or food
or shelter, while their treatment by
their task-masters would seem to he
simply brutal. Mr. Stuart describes
the system as lie saw it iri operation In
the province of Keneh, in Upper
Egypt. A cut of about eighteen feet
in depth had to he made through a
conglomerate of sand and gravel; this
was flanked right and left by high em
bankments constructed of the material
taken from (lie trench, and along the
bottom and on the slopes "men
swarmed thickly, like bees on a honey
comb, for a distance of about a mile in
length," The entire strength of the
improssahlc labor in the province,
amounting to about 40,<XK) men, was
concentrated on this work.
The men toiled from sunrise to sun
set, with the thermometer at 82 de
grees in the shade, having only a brief
interval at midday for a meal of bread
soaked in untilterud Nile water. This,
with a similar meal before beginning
and after leaving off, constituted the
day's dietary. The laltorcrs provided
thejr own baskets for carrying the ex
cavated S'd, and their own tools, w hen
they used any, hut most employed
their fingers. Overseers walked aismt
among them armed with sticks, with
which they .-.trick the men while they
were carrying loads ujkui their heads,
often without any apparent reason. At
; night they sb pt ujxin the ground al
iieist without clothing, and quite with-
I out shelter, though the air was often
very cold. Mr. Stuart often seen
negro slaves at work in the cotton
i plantations of Cuba, and the convicts
it Portland, and both were to be en
vied, in his opinion, by the side of
the.se fellahs,— London (H-An.
Origin of Names of the Fabrics.
Everything connected with one's
business is of importance. Very few
i 'lry-g.ioils men know the origin of tho
names of the go.*!, they handle. They
| may seem trivial points, hut they are
"f intere-t to the man who seeks to lie
t)croughly familiar with the merchan
dise in which be deals. For the infor
ni.it :.n .'f such we give the derivation
i of the names of the following goods:
liamask is from the i ity of Dama- us;
j satins from Zaytown in China; < alico
train Calicut, a town in India, formerly
celebrated for its cotton doth, and
where calico was also prfnted. Muslin
is named from Mosul in Asia. Alpa- a
is from an animal of Peru, of the llama
-j■<( ,cs, from whose wool the fabric is
woven. Buckram takes .t* name from
lUfhara; fustian cilines from Foslat, a
> ity of the middle ages, froin which
the modern Cairo I* descended. Taffe
ta and taiiby from a street in Bagdad.
Cambric from Cambial. Gauze has
its name from Gaza; baize from Bajac;
dimity from Hamictta. and jeans from
Jean. Drugget is derived frmiacitv
in Ireland, Drugheka Duck comes
from Torque, in Normandy. Blanket
is called after Thomas Blanket, a fa
mous clothier connected with the in
troduction of woolens into F.ngland
atxiut 1340. Serge derives its name
from Xcrga, a Spanish nainc for a pe
culiar woolen blanket.. Diaper is not
from D'Vpres, as is sometimes .stated,
hut from the Greek "diaspron," figur
ed. Velvet comes from the Italian
rtlluf', wooly (Latin r- llu.o- -a hide or
pelt), shawl is from the Sanscrit sala,
lloor. fur shawls were first used as car
pets and tapestry. Bandanna is from
an Indian word, meaning to bind or
tie, Isvausethey are tied in knots be
fore dyeing. Chintz, comes from the
Hindoo word "rhett." Delaine is the
French "of wool"
The Lunges it j of Stone*.
Dr. Julian of Columbia college,
comes to the following conclusions in
regard to the life of stones, defining
life as the period during which the
stone presented a decent ap|tearancc:
Coarse brownsti ne, best uvd out of
the sun. from 5 to 15 years; laminated
fine brow nstone, from 25 to 50 voars;
compact fine brownstone, from one to
two centuries; Nova Scotia stone will
probably last from 50 to 100 years;
Ohio sandstone, the best of the sand
stones, 100 years; Caen stone, from 35
to 40 years; coarse dolomite marble, 40
years; fine marble, GO years; pure cal
cureous marble, from 50 to 100 years;
granite, from 75 to 200 years, accord
ing to variety; Milestone is a* yet un
tried, but will prove a good building
material Some of the causes that
produce decay in stones are, first, solu
tions are hydrations of the stones and
heat of tho sun.
The mammoth Russian variety of
sunflower is grown on some of the
Western cattle ranches to supply the
deficiency of wood for fuel
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I'FAKL.S OF TIIOL'GIIT.
For they conquer who believe they
can.
Tnemost difficult thing in life la to
know yourself.
Warmth of feeling in one thing, per
manence another.
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
and trust no agent.
A heart overflowing with feeling
drawn love like a magnet.
The deepest feeling often lies in si
lence; the lightest in words.
> Idleness is only the refuge of weak
i minds, and the holiday of fools.
Well-directed toil will insure suc
' cess in every walk of life, high or low.
Hardship and toil are necessary for
development of power and strength of
character.
Do go el arid he good, and despite all
that is said about this world's ingrati
tude, some one will love you and greet
your coming.
The world would l>e much better off
if the pains taken to analyze the subt
i lest moral laws were given to the prac
ticc of the simplest.
By rousing himself, bv earnestness*
by restraint and control, the wise man
may make for himself an island which
no flood can overwhelm.
Music is the harmonious voice of
creation; an echo of the invisible
world; one note of the divine concord
which the entire universe is destined
one day to sound.
Tin: S({l ATTFR'S JIAIGHTFK.
%% lil M IHil *\ot Marry a Man of Mu
nition
"Light and l<*>k at yer saddle," said
the squatter's daughter, as a man
stopp<si at the fence. The man who
had Iw-n several weeks in the neigh
! I>orhood, and who had become so well
a- quaint**] with the girl that her
i handsome face was ever before him,
advanced to where -he was sitting,
ami iingeringly shook the hand which
she < \tended to iiim:
i "How are you, Emily?"
"Fust rate, never felt letter nor
, had i -
"Where's all the folks?"
"> attered. I>.t IV gone to the still
{> ;-e. mam's g..ne to a quiltin', 801/s
lyin' ar ind ]<<*<•, sotnewhar, and
I lick's drunk. I speck."
"I.mily," -aid the visitor, seating
bimsejf jn the d<>r way, "don't you
know that dr<-sod in anything like a
, stvlish way. you would l>e one of the
haml-omcst girl- I ever saw?"
"Wall, I. r', I hain't thought about
it."
"Wouldn't you like to wear fine
dresses
"Now. you're shoutin'."
"And have a good education?"
"I don't here so much about the 1-
dycation. 'cause I'm sorter 'spicious
'bout l> k sense. Ileal old boss sense
is the kind to have, an' of a person's
got the boss sense, he don't need the
1-M>k larn.n', an' of he haint' got the
loss sense he can't take look larnin'
to any great shakes."
"You are mistaken. Education ac
complishes wonders, and without our
great colleges and schools this entire
country would soon 1* worse than it
w as when iirst discovered."
"I know j<' what I'm er talkin'
alH.ut." she replied, "an' tliar ain't no
usen you trvin' ter talk l>ook larnin*
agm ine. V ase I'se got the figgors. A
mighty eddycated feller come to see
me fur a long time, and folks lowed
we'd marry, an' 1 reek in we would cf
it hadn't er I wen that his eddycatioa
proved to Itc a failure., tine day at a
log roUin', Tony Diver, the runt of the
neighborhood, arter hearin' inv eddy
• ated man blow a powerful chance;
went up to him nn' said: 'Look a
hear, rap'n, you've been talkin' 'l>out
your eddycation for some time, now I
want to show you it don't
amount t<> nothin',' an* tellin' the
smart man to cut his capers. Tony
grablted him. They scuffled aroun' a
while.an' finally Tony flung him. Tony
don't know a letter in the book, an*
when It was diskivercd that the
fellow's eddycation didn't amount to
anythin', pap lie come home an' sea
'Emily, that smart man 'o yourn was
(lung down jes'now by Tony Diver.
Ef yer marry him I'll drive yer from
under my roof, an' yon shan't come
back no mo'.' 'Dap,' s'l, 'I ain't a
goin' ter fling myself away'."
"Emily, do you think that you could
live happily with me?"
"Look a here. If Gale Johnson
knowed yer was er talkin' ter me that
er way, he'd chaw yer niana"
"What, are you engaged to him?"
'.•lt hits me that er way."
"I must say that 1 don't think he's— *
"Hole on, right thar. Didn't he
whip the doctor at Dry Fork t'other
day, an' didn't he slap the jaw offen
the county judge? Yer can't set here
an' talk about a man with ft KU 'com
plish meats, Get on tasl ar.' mo
sey.— d *im r-aost#-