Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1879 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1879.

ANDREW FREEMAN.

A Talk With this Noted HouseBreaker His Kanlfold Methods of -Doing Work. How the Strongest Building May Easily Entered Sketches and Exploits In This Celebrated Criminal's Career. - Boa ton Glob. "Good morning, Andrew, how are you jetting along?" "Ah, how do you do, Mr. Reporter? Oh, I feel comfortable enough, although I should like to be out from behind these bars." The above conversation took place, as the Globe representative halted before the cell of Andrew Freeman, the well-known housebreaker. "You have no objection to giving me material for an article?" "Not the slightest." "Give me a little insight into the housebreaking business; your mode of work and the dangers you must necessarily encounter." "Well, to begin with, house-breaking is not a pleasant avocation to follow, neither is it the safest business in the world. Hen in my line of work take their lives in their hands, and we have many narrow escapes." "How do you goto work to crack a house?" "I generally make myself perfectly familiar with the house and its occupants in the first place, being particular to locate the sleeping rooms, and if possible, ascertain who occupies them. Then I look over the house and determine the best place to make the "break." This is immaterial, however, for men in my line of work can get into anything in the shape of a building. The window is the easiest mode, and is the one generally tried first. We carry a little steel jimmy about 14 inches in length, pointed at one end, and bent to an angle at the other. This bend gives us a powerful pressure, and we can usually pry open a window, tearing off the catch gradnally, so that no noise is made. Should this fail a thin case knife can be run up between the sashes, and in nine cases out of ten the catch can be moved. Sometimes, on a windy night, we break the glass, but this is seldom found necessary, bometimes we cut a panel in the door, by means of a bit stock and little knife blades set in it; but by far the easiest mode is to take our nippers and, by turning the key in the lock, open the door; this, of course, providing that there are no bolts upon the door. In forcing heavy doors we sometimes use a powerful jack, which never fails. Skeleton keys also play no small part in our work. On entering we look about leisurely and generally regale ourselves with a cold lunch if we find any in the closet or refrigerator. We "PACK UP ALL THK SOLID SILVERWARE to be found, and sometimes are not too proud to carry away a little of the plated article. If there is little or none of this in the house we pack up any good clothing we may find, and if the weather is cool, slip into an overcoat or other warming garment. In our journey up-ttatrs we enter every room possible, and most always are rewarded for our trouble by a watch and chain, money or jewelry. Any small article of value that we can conveniently carry away in our pockets generally disappear. Then we pass down stairs and make up our bundle and 'skedaddle." "How do you dispose of the stolen property?" "We have what is called a fence, a man to whom we carry all our swag, and who buys it of us, of course, at a comparatively low figure, but then as it costs us nothing, we don't complain. The solid silver goes into the melting pot, and is thus unrecognizable, while the rest of the stuff is disposed of in different ways." "Are you ever disturbed in your nocturnal wanderings?" "Very often, and we sometimes have narrow escapes, often resulting in our getting collared; but generally the parties are too much frighted to make any trouble. This is particularly so with the females. I remember once that I got into a house, and had made my way into the sleeping-room, in which a man and his wife were slumbering. I had picked up some stuff, when something awoke her, and she at once screamed for her husband. He awoke with a start, and seeing me. was about to get up when his wife grabbed him and said he shouldn't move. I guess he didn't care to, particularly, for I " walked oft and took my stuff with me. As an illustration of what a woman can do, I remember I once cracked a house and was just going down stairs when a woman heard me and came out into the entry. I was directly under the stairs, and she did not see me, but I guess she knew I was there, for she yelled to her husband to get up for there were robbers in the house. He said he'd be d d if he was going to go out there and get shot, and they might take what they wanted. Then he locked his chamber door And I made off, chuckling to myself. When I turned the corner of the house I saw that he had lit the gas in the room. I think about the bravest act I ever met was one cold win ter's night, when me and my partner went to 'crack' a house in the suburbs of a certain eity. I tried several ways to get in, and fin ally, being chilled with the cold, I raised my jimmy ana "CLEARED OUT A WHOLE PA2TE OF GLASS. - "I put my head into the room and listened. .. but hearing ho noise concluded that no one was disturbed. Telling my pard' to get behind a tree and not to budge till I came out I raised the sash and stepped into the room. It evidently was the sitting-room, and from it passed into the dining-room, although both rooms could be entered from the entry. I ' listened, but heard no noise, and then went to work. Out went a lot of silver to my . -para, ana back i went lor more 'swag. - I had just got my arms loaded down with coats, shawls, etc, when I heard the sound of a woman s voice, evidently talking with some one. x made tracks and put into the diningroom, and ran bump into a man standing in . ironi oi the broken window, lie had come '. down stairs so quietly that I did not hear - him, and, passing .through the entry, had reached the dining-room, where he com- '. menced to talk with his wife out of the wincow. ' -What ' asked . do you want in my house?" heWk. ." "Nothing particular, except some of your uu. L repuea. What do you want my property for? I m a poor man." "1 should think you were. Look at your house, and, here I am, a poor .devil, that has to risk my life to get a living." "Don't you know it is wrong?" " 'Yea, but it is my business, and I intend to follow it.' " 'You can't carry off that stuff with yon.' " 'I am going to do just that, and as I am the biggest man I think I can do it; besides, there is my partner behind that tree, not 10 feet from you. At this my partner stepped out and showed himself.' "'Come into the house both of you and

Warm yourself and have something to eat, continued the Draw fellow. ' f i "'Not a bit of it; says I; 1 don't propose you shall get a look at our faces, if I know it.' With that we parted, taking the stuff with us, and the fellow never reported the loss or said aught regarding it. That is what I call a brave man. "If a man meets you in his house at the dead of night, is his life in danger?" "Not if he lets us alone, and allows us to escape. "We know well enough that a man finding us in his house has a "PERMCT BIGHT TO KILL 178, if he can, but in nine cases out of ton, if he will giro us the slightest show of escape, we will dust, and almighty lively at that. If he corners us, the he must look out for resistance, and generally he gets the worst of it. I remember, on one occasion, I got into a pretty tight hole and only escaped by diving through a second story window, taking glass, sash and all with me. I was cut pretty badly and terribly bruised, but I got away." "What preventives can be resorted to that you may be kept on the outside of our houses?"

"None. We can break in with compara tive ease, though sometimes we have to work slow just to save making a noise. If a strong bolt is placed on the inside a sleeping-room, in nine cases out of ten that room will not be troubled. We can unlock the door with our nippers, but rather than force it with our jimmy, ana thus make enougn noise to awaken the sleeper, wo pass the apartment for one not provided with a bolt. Bolts on the outer doors are a good thing, for they might catch us without a jimmy ana only a set of keys, and then we should look else where. Of couse most or our nouse-DreaK-ing is done in the suburbs, for we couldn't crack a house in the city and get into the street with any heavy plunder, without be ing collared before we had gone a diock. We lay around until we get a good diamond or jewelry job that we can pocket and then we sail in.- About the best thing I know of is the burglar alarm, and if we find a house is provided witn it we let it alone, l was alone one night, and started off to 'crack a house in a small village not a thousand miles from New York. It was situated on the outskirts of the town. I tried to - force a rear window and succeeded. As I pushed it up I heard a whirring sound, but thought it was some noise in the village, it was so indistinct. I raised the sash higher and heard the same noise. 1 tumbled in a second that it was an alarm, and dodged behind a tree pretty lively you can just bet. I waited some time and concluded that I would get around to the front of the house and see if any lights were lit. I jumped from tree to tree, and just as I turned the corner of the building I felt something cold brush against my face, and on looking up saw the proprietor of the house "WITH A SHOT GUN IX HIS HAKD and my head evidently at the end of the barrel. Snap went the hammer, and I was in luck for the cap did not explode, and thus 1 have a whole head to tell you this story. The fellow seemed to think it was my turn then, for he dropped the gun and put into the bouse like a good one. 1 commenced to make lively time over the fence and down the road. I hadu't got far before I heard the report of the gun, and I think he must have got a fresh cap and put it on. It alarmed the village and they rang the bells and made a great noise, but I had no diffi culty in getting awav." "Are you not sometimes pretty desperate when a season of bad luck attends you l es: but that is only upon rare occasions. I can give you one specimen that happened to me, and, from that, you can judge now hard pressed a man must be to do what I did It was in midwinter, and in the midst ot , driving snow storm. 1 started on to go through a house that I expected 1 should get a good haul from. 1 wore no coat for 1 ex nected to brintr one awav with me. I bunked down behind a stone wall until I concluded I should freeze to death, and I determined to get into that house and get warm, whatever might happen. The wind was howling and the snow drifting about, so 1 took my jim my and broke a pane of glass in the kitchen window. Throwing up the sash 1 entered the room and sat down before the fire until I got warm. Then I hunted up the coffee pot and set that upon the stove, found some cold meat, bread, pies, etc, and set the table, and when all was readv made an excellent feast. When finished I went over the house and picked up what I wanted, and taking a pillow I laid down in front of the open grate in the parlor and stayed there until morning, when I cleared out. That was a time when I didn't care whether I was caught or not." What does a good set of burglar's tools cost, and how are they manufactured?" "A good set of tools will cost 600 or S700. Our tools must be made of the finest steel and tempered to just such a degree, or they are good for nothing, borne men have certain pieces in a set, while others have differ ent ones. In every set however, you will find "A FULL ASSORTMENT OF JIMMIES, skeleton keys, jacks, levers, etc. We have certain ways of getting our tools, and there are certain men who make a business of man ufacturing them for us. It is rarely that we pick up a set in any one place, but it is more often that we gather our collection from dozen dinerent localities. Ut course it is dangerous for us to have them in our possession, for if detected, we are liable to a long term ol imprisonment,tor it is a Mate prison onense to own or have a set about us. How ever, we take the risk ana sometimes pay aear lor it. "How do you work safes?" "lhat depends upon the sate, bona we work one way and some another. The main thing in all safo work, however, is to cut the bolt that connects the lock with the bars. We generally go to work upon the iron over this bolt and then, Jby using the blow-pipe, we take the temper out of the iron and then bore and cut until we get through, Some safes are being made now that have a double row of plates over the bolt and that bothers us, for it takes more time." "Is there any Lsafe you can not break open?" "None, if we only have the time; and safemakers now will only warrant their safes to stand burglars lor a certain number of hours.' "I am obliged to you for your information uooa morning. "Good morning, and call again." In Mr. Chas. D. Deshler's "Afternoons I With the roots occurs the following bit of criticism on ladies who rhyme in general, and apropos to Mrs. Hemans in particular: "I may say in reply that generally our fe male poet seemed to have realized the inappropriateness and, indeed, the indelicacy of their writing poetry of a warmly amatory kind; and, to avoid the difficulty or the mpropriety, they have seldom indulged in those glowing or wanton descriptions of per sons or situations which nave been elaborat ed with such minuteness by poets of our persuasion, and have sometimes been carried to the verge of impurity ' by them. No wo man, for instance at least no pure woman. or who wished to pass for one could have written "Troilus and Cresseide," of Chaucer, the "Venus and Adonis," of Shakespeare, the

"Hero and Leander" of Harlow and Chap

man, or even the love poems and sonnets of Spencer, Shakespeare, Herrick and others that might be named. Almost without exception, therefore, they have rightly excluded from their poetry whatever is supersensuous, or suggestive of voluptuous feelinm. or provocrtive of passionate desire, and when ever they have been tempted to give freer rein to their muse and to paint the operation of the master passion they have usually cast their poems in narrative form, or have resorted to translations from the bolder and less scrupulous sex. Even in her reserved verse, it seems incompatible that a woman should feign a man's passion and rave about another woman's"golden tresses," 'charming eyes, and "beauteous tints, or of the "amorous zephyrs" that played around her person; but it would be absurdly ridiculous if she were to write of a man as a n may write of a woman celebrating those special provocative, virile graces, charms, beauties and attractions of person which excite the sensibilities or rouse the passions of woman. Nor have any of our female poets with whose writings X am familiar been guilty of an absurdity so gross or an indelicacy so unwomanly. the arm ino the wkathbb. Recent Speculations of European Scientists. The summer in Europe has been cold and rainy. It was rainy ana cold last year. The'scientific men are discussing the why and wherefore of this unwelcome weather, and Emile Flammarion, the French astrono mer, thinks he has solved the problem. "If it were only in France, or in Europe that that the summer was rainy," he writes, "the'question wolud be a purely meteorological one, and its solution would be found in some atmospherical movements. But now we have to deal with facts of a very different nature. The sky has been covered with clouds around the whole surface of our globe for more than a year. The last winter was unusually long and cold in Asia, Africa, and America, as well as Europe. Such a state of things must have a general, and, therefore, an astronomical cause. The sun governs our planet; it regulates our temperature, cli mate aaa seasons. Therefore we have to turn our attention to the sun for the solution of ourquestion. We find thatHhe sun is nowin an unusual condition. During the whole of last year it seemed to be in a state of repose that is very rare. At present there are no spots and eruptions to be seen on the sun. It looks like an ocean ot light undisturbed either by wind or by storm, which is unusual. The sun's spots are the signs of its activity; they appear simultaneously with the erup tions that appear on its surface. At such times torrents of white-hot hydrogen, of magnium steam, and of fire are thrown up several hun dreds of thousands miles. The whole of our globe could be thrown up from one of these apertures, and be melted and transformed into a gaseous state, like a drop ot water in. an eruption of jtna. These clouds of gases are so hot that they can not burn, and so they fall down upon the surface of the sun as a fiery rain. The immense heat ot the sun dur ing eruptions could burn up over 11 milliards of tons of coal in a second! Sometimes the sun's surface appears to be in motion, like an ocean tossed by a storm; sometimes it is quiet as the clouds observed trom above by the aeronaut. But even in the period of repose the sun emits such an awful heat that if our globe were to approach it it would be instantly melt like wax. "JNow the cold and rainy summers coincide with the unusual repose of the sun. This coincidence does not seem to be accidental, for it appears to repat itself periodically, just as the formation of the sun's spots and the erup tions are periodical. In 1870 and 1871 the number ot the sun s spots was about aw, and there were several thousands of eruptions. One of the spots I have found to be three times as large as the diameter of the earth. Since then the number of the sun's spots and eruptions has regularly decreased year by year. The decrease goes on for 7 J years, and then it takes 3 years to reach again its maximum. It is known that 18 0 and 1871 were dry and warm years. The last min imum of the sun's spots and eruptions was in 18b6 and 1867, and these years were rainy specially 1866. The last maximum was in 1859 and 1860, those years being dry. A previous minimum was in 1856, which was a rainy year. Apparently, the maximum pe riod of the sun s spots and eruptions coincides with and causes dry and warm years; while the minimum means rainy and cold years. This explanation is offered only as a hypothe sis, however, for as yet positive mathematical proof is wanting. Another French savant, De Perville, puts forward this explanation in the Journal des JJebats: The annual apparent declination of the moon is not constant; it varies from 18 deg. 19 min. to 28 deg. to 36 min. It takes nine years for the moon to reach its maxi mum of declination. De Jrerville asserts that each period of maximum declination is accompanied bv excessive rains. This opinion he supports by observations made dunng 70 years. The rainy summers of Europe have always corresponded, he says, to that position of the moon. This year the declination of the moon is 26 deg. In 1872 and 1875, the rainy years; it was from 26 deg. to 28 deg, According to this we shall have a rainy sum mer in 1885, while the summers of 1881, '82, '83 and '81 shall be dry. An English scientific man, Henry Bay, from his observations of 30 years Dast. makes the following calculations: If the number of a year is even and divisible by three, then it is the middle one of three rainy and cold years. For exam Die. 1860 is an even num. ber, divisible by 3; 1859, 1860 and 1861 were rainy and cold. If the number of the year is odd and divisible by 3, then it is the mid dle one of three dry and warm years. For ex.. ample, 1863 is an odd number, divisible by 3 1862, 1863 and 1864 were dry and warm. According to this calculation, 1880, 1881 and 1882 will be dry years. m ' An Incident In the Life of McParlan, the De tective. rPtttibnnr Telegraph. 1 A queer story was told to a telegraph man a few days ago about McPar'an, the famous detective who broke up Jack Kehoe s gang o Holly Haguirea. The man who related the incident was formerly a member of the Hol lies, and he knows whereof he speaks, some time before the grand finale of McParlan'; work a man who lived in the same house with him, prompted by curiosity, one day went to HcParlan's room while the latter was away and forced open the lock of his trunk. After searching through the trunk the investigator came across a bundle of let ters and papers which fully explained Hc Parlan's mission among the Hollies. The man read them through and foolishly for him . I. 1 i : . l l l i no pub hucm uruk in tueir niuing piace. Boiling over with the importance of his news he hastened to a meetiug of the Hollies, which was then in session, and there he told his story. He was not believed, but was greeted with shouts of indignation, and the meeting even went so far as to put it to a vote as to whether the man should not be beaten for thus slandering a Holly in good standing. Jack Kehoe interfered and the matter was dropped. When HcParlan came home he discovered that his papers had been meddled with- and he hid them elsewhere, and when the man who had endeavored to betray him went to look for the papers a teo onu ume no coma not una them.

BEADING FOB LITTLE FOLKS.

. 1 I J Whot " -- Who Is the-sweetest baby Thateversaid"A-goof" , .... j - Who Is the dearest baby, '''' With eyes so soft and bluer Who is the prettiest baby t I think I know. Do your Who has the softest golden Little rings of helrr Who has the rosiest cheek and The smoothest forehead falrt Who has the sweetest kisses, Enough of them and to spare T Who has the eunnlngest fingers. And who the pinkest ot toes? Who has a mouth like a rosebud. And who the daintiest aoeet And who Is as sweet altogether - As the very sweetest reset Who has the prettiest dimples. Dancing in ehln and sneekf And who Is learning the dearest Of all dear names to speak f And whose blue eyes are learning Mamma's dear ayes to seek? Ah ! surely there's only one answer To the questions asked yon here; Only one true, good answer. Awaiting the mother's oar. Who is tne prince of bablesT Why, of course, my baby dear! Mary D. Brine, in Independent. Grandmother's Gold Beads. By IiMlis Tbern.l Oh, dear," said little Bessy Garland, "how I should like a string of gold beads, grandmother 1" What do little girls want of gold beads," said Grandmother Garland, good-naturedly, little girls that have got rubies in their lips. and sapphires shining in thier eves, and any amount of gold dust in their hair." .Bessy laughed, and shook her yellow curls. "Yes, grandmother,, I know," said she. "But Hary Hare has gotatorquoisering, and Lulu Price wears a real little red coral necklace, and Susie -Lee is to have a chain and locket for Christmas, and I haven't a thing. except just a piece of lace frill around my neck. Grandmother Garland viewed the little lassie very kindly through her spectacles. v "And 1 m sure you look very nice, .Bessie, said she. "Grandmother," said Bessy, "you've got a string of gold beads, haven't you 7" "Oh, yes, said the old lady; "I've got a string of gold beads that I've had ever since I was a girl. "I wish I had em, said Bessie. "Well," said old Hrs. Garland, laughing. "111 leave 'em to you when I die." But this did not suit Bessie at all. She loved her grandmother very much, and did not want ber to die; but she did want the gold beads terribly, and, what was more, she wanted them to wear to Elfie Pride's birthday party, the very next week. She was thinking how Bbe could contrive to give her grandmother a hint to this effect when the old lady said, suddenly: "Dear me, I haven t a bit of this red stock ing yarn left. Bessy, child, here's the key to my trunk; run upstairs and bring me a roll of the red yarn you will nnd down in the left-hand corner there s a good girl. i es, grandmother, said IJessy, jumping briskly up. For she knew that Grandmother Garland kept her gold beads in a little glasslidded box, in the top tray ol that very trunk, and she thought it would be a nice opportu nity to take a look at the shining treasure. There were all sorts of nice things in Grandmother Garland's trunk. Kolls of brocade, and silk, and satin, which she had promised to give Bessy, to make into patch work, when she had learned to sew a little more neatly curious old wooden boxes, which Grandfather Garland - had brought home from China, before that last sad voy age, when be was buried at sea funny em broidered pin-cushions, books full of pictures, and packets of old letters, tied with discolored ribbon. But Bessy, though she was or dinarily very much interested in these things, took no notice of them now she saw only the shining string of gold beads in its gl: covered box. Kneeling on the carpet, before the open trunk, Bessy took them out, looked with greedy eyes at them, and even tied them around her neck, and looked in the opposite glass, to try their enect. "Oh, I must wear them to Elfie's party," she cried, aloud and looking guiltily around to make sure that she was observed by no one, she dropped them into ber pocket, caught up the roll of red stocking yarn, lock ed the trunk again, and rushed down-etairs to her grandmother. "Dear me, child," sad the old lady, who had nearly fallen asleep in her chair, "what kept you so long?" "'Was I long?" said Bessy and she could feel her cheeks burn as she spoke. But when she dressed herself in her neat little blue-and-white checked silk and new kid boots for the party, she put the gold beads in her pocket, intending to tie them on when she got there. "I'll show the other girls that I can have pretty things as well as they, said she to her self, with a throb of triumph in her foolish little heart. - For Bessy did not remember what the Bible says about the "ornament of a meek and quiet spirit" being better than all the jewelry and adornments in the world. The dressing-room in Elfie Pride's house was quite full of little girls, when Bessy Garland came in. She walked straight up to the looking-glass, pulled on her things, and felt in her pocket lor the gold beads. But to her dismay and surprise, they were not there. ' She looked all along the stairs, she turned the pocket inside out, she searched in every possible fold of her dress where they could, by any chance, have got caught, but all in vain! They were certainly lost Urand mother (iarland s precious gold beads I - And I leave you to guess how much Bessy enjoyed Elfie Pride's party 1 She went home that night and cried nerseii to sleep I The next morning she had hardly made up her mind what to do. Of course the best way was to go to Urandmotber Uarland, and confess the whole truth. . But that required a good deal of courage, and Bessy was only a timid little 10-year-old girl. Just ten years old for, as it happened, today was her birthday I . -She went into the breakfast-room looking very pale ane red-eyed. "Hallo I" said her brother George. "I guess being up late at parties don't agree with our Bessy 1" "My dear," said her mother, "don't you feel well t And Grandmother Garland looked kindly at the child. "Bsssy," said she "come herel" ' ("Oh.Jciear," thought the little girl, "is it possible that she has missed the gold beads already, and is she going to scold me now?") "You are ten years old to-day," said Grandmother Garland, patting the little yellow head. "Yes, grandmother," said Bessy ready to cry. "And I'm going to make you a nice present," said the old lady. "My gold beads which you have wished for so long! ' She paused a moment but Bessy never lined up ner neaa nor answered. "Here are are my keys. dear, said Grand mother Garland. "Go up-stairs. and look in the trunk, and bring me down the box with the glass lid. where I keen them I" Bessy took the keys looked pitifulty at her

grandmother for an instant, and then went slowly up-stairs, dragging one foot after another as if they were weighted with lead. "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" she thought to herself "what shall I do? How shall I ever tell grandmother what a naughty, careless little girl I've been V She sat down on the floor in front of the trunk, with the key in her hand, crying and sobbing softly, and wishing she had never done that wicked deed which seemed to her now so like stealing. And as she sat there she heard the tap, tap.

tap, of Grandmother Garland's ivory headed cane coming slowly up-stairs, step by step, and her heart began to beat and her cheeks to burn under their tears. "WelL little Bessy," said Grandmother Garland, "what keeps you so long?" Bessy made up her mind that honesty was the best policy, so she got up and came slowly toward the old lady, with downcast eyes. "Grandmother," said she, "please, please, to forgive me. I have been a very naughty girl; I took your gold beads out of the trunk . 1 1 T . . J . 1 . . til,. vrawruHj muu x carried mem w Aiiuu Pride's party and I lost them J Instead of frowning like a thunder cloud as Bessy had expected, the old lady smiled and looked very good-natured. "I knew it, said she. "Who told you?" said Bessy. "No one told me," said Grandmother Gar land. "But Sam found the beads lying in the bottom of the carriage, after he came home from taking you to the party and of course I knew how they got there. Here they are now," and she produced them from that deep, old-fashioned pocket of hers, that held so many nice things. "My birthday present to the dear little girl who was brave enough to tell the truth, even although she was not conrageous enough to resist the temptation." So Bessy Garland got the gold beads after all. But I don't think she enjoyed them quite so much as she would have done before she lost them, going to Elfie Pride's party. Chips for the Children. A little boy was asked if he had a good memory. "No, said he, "but I have a good forgetency." A lady told her little son who was teasing for something to eat, to wait until breakfast. With a tear in his eye, he burst out: "I jest honestly sometimes think you re a step mother. A little girl was puzzling herself about her transference from Heaven to this mun dane sphere, and questioned her mother: "Did God and the angels have a funeral when I came away l The little girl who was disappointed be cause her name could not be found in the Bible, says: "Never mind! I will be such a good girl that if ever another Bible be written, my name shall go into that. A mother was telling her "little hopeful," among other things, of the leopard that can not "change its spots;" he, however, insisted on the contrary, declaring that "when it is tired of one spot it can change to another. A little girl, who had fallen out of bed, said at first: "It was because I slept too near the place where I got in." Then, cor recting herself, she said: "No; it was because I slept too near the place where I fell out!" A little girl in Chambersburg, Pa- was called upon in a Sunday-school to say a text from the bcnptureti. w hen the time came she had forgotten her verse, but from the general knowledge of Holy Writ she solemnly quoted: "Little children should be seen and not heard. Willie, aged 10, and Jemmy, aged six, were playing together. One of them was minutely examining a fly. "I wonder how God made himl" he exclaimed. "God don't make flies as carpenters make things," ob served the other boy. "God says let there be flies and there is flies. ' - A little girl found a shelless egg under the currant bushes in the garden, and in a high state of excitement brought it and showed it to her aunt. "See, aunty," said she, "what I found under the currant bushes? And I know the old hen that laid it. I'm just going to put it back in the nest and make her finish itr The small boy begins to look reproachfully ahead to the time when school will commence again. The fact is, the small boy can't see any real use in having a fall and winter term at all, and stands ready to furnish any amount of good argument in favor of adjouring the spring and summer term with out date. Bridgeport standard. A MARRYING TAB-HEEL. Crossing the Tennessee Line for a Cheap Marriage License. Newport Be porter.) Since the Legislature of 1870 reduced marriage licenses to 60 cents in Tennessee, manvlcitizens of North Carolina who are too ooor to pay $3.75, which is the fixed fee for license in that State, take advantage by steplng over the line into Tennessee, where they are united for the small sum of 50 cents. Last week, a boy, who looked as if he had not been long in his "teens," with bare feet, in his shirt sleeves and trowsers rolled up "split-mud" fashion, and long hair swing ing over his shoulders, entered tne cierki office in Newnort. when the following conversation took place between the clerk and the boy: "Howdy." "Good morning, sir, take a seat," said the clerk. After a profound silence of fifteen minutes the boy loomed on in a boisterous tone "Is this whar you sells license?" "Yes sir, sometimes." "Well, I want's to git me a pair." "You are pretty young to marry, 'aint you?" I don't know; I guess I'll do." "Where do you live?" "On Medder Fork." "In North Carolina?" "Yes, sir." "Are you going to marry in North Carlma?" "No, I fetched her over in Tennessee, "Where is she?" "I left her up on Granny's branch" (tb name of a small creek in one of the upper districts of Cocke county.). "Are you 2i years old?" No, I'se about 17." "You can't marry before you are 21, can you?" The boy lowered his head "Pap and mam's both willin', anyhow." The clerk started to get the license, and the boy inquired: "Say, mister, what s they worth over here?'1 "As you came all the way from North Carolina, you can have them for 60 cents.' "WelL that's all I'se got." "How will you pay the man who marries you?" "Guess he won't charge anything." , "Who will go your security?" "Bill, there," pointing to another boy who had come with him." He procured the license and drew out his 60 cents, all in nickels and dimes, and, with a smile, departed with elastic steps for his betrothed on Granny's brajsch.

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Influenza, Headache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Cold Chills, Ague Chills, Chilblains and Frost The application of the Readv Relief to the part or parts where the pain or difficulty exists will afford ease and comlort. Thirty to sixty droos in half a tnmbler of water will in a lew momenta cure Cramps, Spasms, Soar Stomach, Heartburn, Slok Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in tho Bowels, and all internal Pains. Travelers should always carry a bottle of Railway's Readv Belief with them. A few drops in water will prevent sickness or pains irum raun oi water, n is oetier uu franco. oranay or miters as a stimulant. FEVER AKD AGUE. Fever and Aene eared for 60 cents. There Is net a remedial scent is this world that will cure fever and asue and all other malarious. Biuoua, ccanoi, lypnoia, x euo w ana outer fevers, (mded by Rad way 's Pills) so quickly as Rad way's Beady Belief. Fifty cents per Lotttoo DR. ' RADWAY'S SARSAPAK.IT J J AN RESOLVENT, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. Changes as seen and felt as they dally oocur. after nslng a few doeesl 1. tiood spirits, disappearance of weakness, languor, melancholy, Increase and hardness of flesh and muscles, etc. 2. Strength Increases, appetite improves, relish for food, no more soar eructations or water-brash, good digestion, calm and undisturbed sleep, awaken fresh and vigorous. a. .Disappearance oi spots, oioicnes, pimples, the skin looks clear and heal toy, tho arine changed from its turbid and cloudy appearance to a dear seerry or amber eolor; water passes freely from the bladder through tho urethra without pain or scalding ; little or no sediment; no Pain or weakness. 4. Marked diminution of quantity and frequency of involuntary weakening dischargee it amictea tnat way) witn certainty or perfect care. Increased strenath exhibited in the secreting glands and functional harmony restored to the several organs. 6. i eiiow tinge on tne wnite or tne eyes, ana the swarthy, saffron appearance cf the skin changed to a clear, lively and healthy color. o. xnoee onnenng irom weax ana aioeratea langs tubercules will realize great benefit in expectorating freely the tough phlegm or mucaous from the lungs, air-cells, bronchi or windpipe, throat or head; diminishing the frequency of cough; general increase of strength throughout the system; stoppage of nigut sweats ana pains ana leeiings ot weakness around the ankles, legs, shoulders, etc.; cesnation of cold and chills, sense suffocation; hard breathing and paroxysy of cough on lying down or arising in the morning. All these dlstreosing symptoms gradually and surely disappear. 7. As a ay after day the Sarsaparilllan Is taken, new sings of returning health will appear; as the blood improves in purity and strength disease will diminish, and all foreign and impure deposits, nodes, tumors, eanoers. nara tumps, etc., do resoivea away, ana tne unsound made sound and healthy; ulcers, fever sores, ehronlo skin diseases gradually disappear. . la eases wnere tne system naa been salivated, and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Sublimate have accumulated and become deposited In the bones, joints, etc., causing carries of the bones, rickets, spinal curvatures, contortions, white swellings, eic., the Sarsapanlla will resolve away these deposits and exterminate the vims of the dlnnaso from the system. v. u inose wno are taxing tneee meaicinea for the cure of chronic, Scrotulous or Syphilitic diseases, however slow may be the care, "feel better" and find their general health improv ing, tneir nesn ana weignt increasing, or even keeping its own, it is a sure sign that the euro is progressing, in these diseases the patient either gets better or worse the virus of the disease is not inactive; if not arrested and driven from the blood it will spread and continue to undermine the constitution. Assoon as the Sarsaparilllan makes the patient "feel better," every hour yon will grow better, and Increase in health, strength and flesh. The great power of this remedy is in diseases that threaten death as in C0HSUHPTI0H of the lungs and tarberculous phtists, scrofula, Syphiloid Diseases, Wasting, Degeneration, and Ulceration of the Kidneys, Diabetes, Stoppage of Water, (instantaneous relief afforded where catheters have been used, thus doing away with the painful operation of using these Instruments) dissolving stone In the bladder, and in all eases of Inflammation of the Bladder and Kidneys. In tumors, nodes, hard lumps, and spyhllold uloers, In dropsy ; in general sore throat, nloers In the tubercles of the lungs; In gout, dyspepsia, rheumatism; in marcural deposits it is in these terrible forms forms of disease, where the human body has become a complete wreck, and where every hour of existence la torture, wherein this great remedy challenges the aatonitihment and admiration of the sick. It fis in snch eases, where all the pleasures ot existence appear cut off from the unfortunate, and by its wonderful, almost supernatural agency it restores them to a life and new existence where this great remedy stands alone in its might and power. Those afflicted with chronic diseases should purchase a package containing one dozen bottles Price (10 per dofcen, or Si per half dozen bottles, or (1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists. DE. RADWAY'S REGULATING PILLS. Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and strengthen. 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