Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 November 1878 — Page 2

" IkJC A LAVSMOCK IN THE LIFT. It's we two. it' n we two, U'd w two tor aye, All Ura world aud we two, it Nil Ileavea beear MM'. Xtlce a Jvtodk Ih tke lift, iRK, O hotmy All tkevwH w Aaam ence. wkk Kve ly

WhM' Me world, my law,, wy love what ?aa 5 ittHS?

1 RM tNIH, Ml ttMHI art Mluu: We to atweet

If

tbia, m1 thon

awn new.

ta worui

BESBSBBB55B9S99BSBBB9BS9B pursuit. I think parents commit a grave error Ih ot praettoally ed Boating their daughters a well their sons. In it mora than in legislation may be found tke solution to the vexed question that is now agitating ur sex all over the laid ami breaking out in discontented

murmurinjN everywhere." 1 earth I would

" Oh, it is all very well for people to or at least, a

work whose necessities require it,1' said hands. I made

bead would be able to attend to business. Finally, driven to desperation by our Misfortune, I resolved to do something or die in the attempt, Attached to the house we occupied was large lot lor gardening purpose), anil I mado up my mind that out of that bit of

dig our fortunes living with my own

horticulture and llori-

Frw

t

Like a

m wwrUt have wkw'a the mark, let tt , " wjuuroiuj umiu . uuu a umj , uu orueutKi up i Ht by, and wdl inherit your fortuno, What knowledge of chemistry. It w 'SuSS'1 "n KHkl(MW "o Used has she to work?11 work and small profits tlio firs

i , i ... , " Because she wi laverock la the lift, stair. O bOHHy ' mMly m j ed

.,..t we two, ifj we two, happy n4d by nhie. of fortHMe is a revolvinrl one; and

"I'll ? rt u Irldu tMiin tnii tli kk t twin. iliA .i.,..,. 111. i i k i

as nurd

nrst year:

" Because she will be happier if she is , but having onco put my hand to the

nesiues, tne wneei i piow, i never turned uhok. uur tame

was bountifully supplied with fresh vog

lwi"l!H

"All te made Htmh (Of w, ami

Himrt win." Whathe darker tiny oeme, and ho shh will Tho ttult dry my tear, leu, and fit dry It's we two,' it's we two, while the world's awav, SitUagbytht goMtm sheave on our wedding day. Jem Ingttwe, LOW IN THE VALLEr.

ekihlos and fruits, aiul.wlmt w;w better, my step had grown elastic, my eye bnsrht, and inv cheek rounded with '

Happy, happy

Huvers

time, wkea the whtto str

Lowovt'rdim elds fieeh with bloomy dow. Near the fuee ot dHwn,that drawa athwart Threading it with color, like yewberriea the Thleker onwd the uhades the srave Kiutt ileejteiiH UlowtHfc, hihI with crimson a long cloud

k though to-day we may be rolling in lux

the brave i lo-uiorrow may nnu us crushua beUeBoath miefortuno, Liston while

J I briefly relate the story of my early ' health. My husband, too, found

woniauhood. I would I might write ? a spare moment from business to

i u as wun a pen oi nre unon the brain of me. and in iloimr so found

At , 1 . - I ' . . ..

every moiner m tne innti. un, l can crowing strong aim well again

not. ten you what an intense interest 1 1 now nappy we were! Surely

fuel in the young girls growing up dignity in labor unknown to ease!

arounu me: my noart yearns to urge them to make a specialty of whatever their inclinations prompt them to do, and then concentrate every effort upon that one pursuit until they excel in it. But to my story: I was. the daughter of woalthy parents, the youngest child by several years, and of course a great pet. Of an extremely delicate organi

zation, my kind and indulgent mother

A TKRK1HLF. KXl'KKIKNCK. IIhw Two CoHfptlrntK Ht rtttrlHr.r Wnr Hurled Alive Thu llalr or Oho of Them TurHett from IelklllHt'k tu IVhlte Ih a SIhk1 '. Dr. Hugh Toland write the following to the JncteoMvllc(An.,)llcH4llic4tn: Tit your issue of the 17th inet I no

tice an article, the tirsL sentence of which asks the question; " Can a person's hair turn white in a short time?." Having scuti such mi instance and ono ' that oan be authontieated beyond all cavil, by persons now living, I will give I you and your readers the etrcumsfcuiec.s ' as they occurred, when, where, and

who they aro.

When Grant sprang tlio "mino," or blow-iii)." as nianvftall it. in front t)f

the

dug through the loow bowlders, and the light burst upon thorn. They both, overcome with tho sudden transition from their suffocation and despair to light and hops, minted. How lonir they remained there they know not When they awokn from their swoon tho first sound that broke on thoir ears was the clash of arms, and the quick rolling roivr of tho battle; as it ruged around and above. Almost in stupor, trying to realize that thoy could again see tho light of heaven, and hear tho voice of n living creature, thoy lay still until ihey recovered their minds ouough to know what was going on. Hill has often told me that when ho knew and realized that it was a buttle, tho sound was the sweetest music that had ever greeted his oars. At laittbe cry of viotorv rose hkrh

many ' retorsijurg, Va , at twilight on

, .. ii. fiAil t t ir.j h l i . l

luaisb luuiumg ui uib imn ui ""'jj iou-t, mia uuuvo vvcry tiling oiso. i ney Knew tliat

himsolf ( point iuimeiliately over it was occupied somebody was vanquished, and that

Uh, oy a Virginia battery, lne ditches on , somebody was victor; who thoy knew

there is a . the right immediately navt to the bat- not. Thov omerirod from thnii wfi

How i torv were occnoiod lv tho Twontv-seu

proud I felt when I received tho returns ond South Carolina Volunteers, Colonel

from my first shipment of vegetables to i Fleming. On tho left of tho battery, the nearest market! I counted it over the ditches were occupied by tlio Highland over. It seemod to possess a value oenth South Carolina, Col. W. II. Walthat I had never attached to nionoy iu J lace (now Judgo Wallace, of South

mo oia aays wnen latner had lavished I uaronna), oi wnicn regiment I was

it so frooly upon mo. Then I would have thought nothing of spending such a paltry sum upon the trimmings of .a single dress; now every penny was

Surgeon. All along our Hues our soldiers

nau dug out small bomb-proofs, as they callod them. Those- bomb-proofs woro ffonorally about 4 feet broad, .1 feet ligh nnu 7 foot long largo enough for 2

. , r D . I

3liioided me from every hardship, ard I hoarded with miserly caro. for we had

Maiden still the morn i; and strango she bj, i grW" into womanhood a novice in the resolved upon having1 a homo of our or 3 mon to crawl into and sleep with

a;i, vi mmsBKuuimiir. rrom a cniui i own. won. to no urioi. oaoii vour l at

and tMiuret:

jirnK" ner eyt; uhv cueexa are cold as eold aeH-Hholla, ....... Snnrays, leaning on our southern tallU and WUd cloud-mountains, that drag the hilU Oft ends thA day of your shifting brilliant laughter Chill a a dull face frowning on a song. Ay, but shows the noutuwesc a ripple .feather;! bottom Blown to bilver while the clouds areshakou and anceml Scaliag the mid heavens a.s thoy stream, there COIIIUA H HHllKet Ulh, deep like love in beauty without end.

ironi a child I ' own.

was passionately fond of roadinar, and I tomptod somethins: moro first a ooul

at school excelled in all my studios. ( try-yard, then the culturo of bees, and I'leasod with the progress I made and so on until beforo we wero hardly proud of my attainments, parents and ( aware of it, our homo was paid for. I toacheis urged me forward, stimu- had carefully concealed every trace of hting my ambition with words of ' our adversity from my parents. I think

encouragement, until, at tho iramaturo 1 J would have died rather than gone age of 18, 1 graduated the most brilliant . homo a boggar. Now, that tho dawn 1 girl in Madam B 's schoul. and cai- of prosperity iiad sot in. I wrote, nukim' 1

rying off, amid tho plaudits of friend

aaa acquaintances, the honors of my class. Hut, alas! I was superficial in many things ; for while it had been oasy

ror me to commit my lessons, 1 found i

When at dawa she sighs, and like an infant to the window

Tarns grave eyes craving light, released I equally easv

neBUfal "b" loXllke a white watr Hlv diu . 1 tills defect,

Hurfctltl mr nf hml n liovunu nf "itw. 1 1

strt-aws. When from bed she rtees clothed from neuk-

comparativo comfort and safety, which

'thoy did when off duty, during that I never-to-bc-forgotton biogo by every

man who participated therein. In ono of tho bomb-proofs on tho extremo right of tho Eighteenth South Carolina Volunteers, atid just to the left of tho mine, Lieutonant Wllhtrd Hill, Company I), and Sergeant Greor, Company A. Eighteenth South Carolina Vol.

them to come and soo tho little silken-1 unteers, having been relieved from duty

naireu girl that, liko a sunbeam, danced an hour before, wero sleeping. Tho first through our homo. They came. 1 thoy realized of it was tho shock, then Father, accustomed to his broad acres, ' a deep darkness, and then a conscious-

astonished at the products of mv ' noss that the mine had been siruiir.and

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to forget thorn. Keenly ' small plot of L'round. Ho declared f thev had bnon buriad. hnw ihnn Mmv

foot, and in order to ' was tho best ffirnmr lm knr. nil ' nonld not hniThio n.i- i

perfect myself, I wished, after leaving J should have greater scope for my pow- was a deep,indoscrihable despair heartschool, to teach, but so bitterly did my ers. Ho bought a fine largo tract of sickening, heart-rending hopelessness,

toHHkit parents oppose tins that I vicldod to land nuioininsr our ptouikis that han. that inft thum Hlmoaf nnwnrlnsa fnv

In ."irniBhtgowji sweet as boughs of (their wishes and returned home. I poned to bo for salo just then, and made time. But what could thev do? Thev

lienHtifwi sho looks, like a tall garden uiy li"igeti mto around of gayety and . mo a deed for it. This is tho origin of had nothing to dig out with but a hayo

imcji'MH ma iiigni.anu spiunutu lor tne ( iuai:uiuui, nnu uum mis wiun oi ex-1 tuu uouniry-soav you visuea UHy; - i citemont I emerged tho bride of ono , mor and admired so much.

Mother ef the dews,

dark eye-lashed twi-

whom my paronts did not look unon 1 fino horticulturist and

with fi'nr Tlin rmmff m.ri u-ui? nn T,nticuil-n.inM GUakU

Tuf.U.1. I fwlllh, .,!. . : -v jyfr " wuuuiu

itoanmnFoH th in a wholesale house in tho thrown upon her own resources in tho

lighted skylark, city of a. He was poor, but possossed 1 country sho could make a living, and I

uiuiik'U iiiu uewurniw nan iho r a n nn mtiu m it. i ..!.. i i. ..n .. i " .

however, he had no chosen trade or

uiear an

voice In him.

filddea whose rose Huah drinks the raylos planet, Fountain. fall he pours the spraying fountaiM showers. Let rae hear her laughter, I would have her ever, Cool us dew in twilight, the lark above tho Dowers. All the girl's are out with their baskets for the prlUiroHe; Up ,aHw1l's through, they troop in Joy My sweet lead; she knows not why, but now slw loiters, Eyee the bent anemones, and hangs her hands Such a look w'itl tell that the vtolete are peeplag, Coming the row; sad unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odors and for color, Covert aad the nightingale; she knows not why.

Gftrsft Mtrt4Uh, in Macmilten't Mnfoinc.

she over bo

wish her to bo equally as independent

last sum-1 nut that Sergeant Greor had in his belt,

iieiio is a i and inero was but a canteen of water in

an accomplished tho cell. But what was going on above

theini' Urant had consummated that most diabolical of all the deeds of a torriblo war. I was within lbX) yards of it on my morning visit to my regiment,

in town. We came to town to sunerin-1 and it was iust at thaL time of dav twi

tend her education. Sho thinks her light that oven treos can look like fortois journalism, and dosiros, in ad-1 ghosts, and that added to tho weird dition to this, to become a practical scene of death. Simultaneously with printer. And now can you wonder, tho deop, dead sound, and quiver of tho Mrs. Ellis, after my experience, that I ! earth, there arose in tho air a cloud of

aiu njiiiK aj Hiiro ner Mvoiu tuo errors ; uusi aim .siuoko, and tunoers, men and that well-nigh mado my young life a , muskets, and all manaer of shapes and

lauarer , ' fragments were Hying in overj' direction "No, indeed, Mrs. Moreton, and I ? and then for a moment a stillnoss

honor you for it. I Jiavo been greatly ! and it seoraed as if every cannon on the

turned loose

VOU Will seo thfl i UPOll our lims. S wUi ahriolrfttl t hrmivU

strong enough to battle irosult of it in the futuro training of tnv the air musket-balls ami fragments of

oaugnters." I'ltrenoiotjicm Jour-, shell fell in every direction, plowinsr up

i

vocanon. laienese nau made me a dreamy, visionary being, and there was a sort of charm about beginning life in povorty. It would be so delightful to toil with and for him I loved so fondly. This is all very beautiful in theory and in practice also, where there are four p.trong hands to perform tho labor ; but close application to thedeskaad breathing the unwholesome citv air had sc.

riously impaired my .husband's health. I benefited by the narration of vour carl v whole Federal line was We had married at a time when ; troubles, and I think you will see the i upon our lines. Shells shr;

noiiuer was strong enough to battle irosu with the stern realities of life. De-fown

pendencc upon tho salary of a clerk or ml.

hook-keeper in a large citv is very pre-

j carious for a family. It was a year of

. viTAUv pub u'nvvv ' "npreoedented hard times, necessitating

Good morning, Mrs. Moreton. I just run iu a moment to inquire if a bit of news 1 have heard be true. It is too incredible for me to believe; for, with all your praetical ideas of life, I can not thiak you would carry your peculiar notions to such a length as thi." Pray, what have 1 been doing now, Mrs. Ellis?" said Mrs. Moreton, as she quietly arose and offered her visitor a chair. "Your words and looks are ominous. Have 1 committed such a breach of propriety that Madam Grundy has found it necessary to hurl her thunders of fcxoomunkikm against me?" and with a pleasant smile the lady awaited her visitor's revelation. " Why, I an told that you have actually apprenticed Belle to a publisher, in order that she may become a compositor. Every one was Miking about it last evening at Mrs. Wilson's party, and all thought it a great pity that so beautiful aid accompli lied a girl as Isabel Morete should be withdrawn from that society she is so well fitted to adorn and immured within the walls of a dingy old publishing house, simply because her mother chooses to sacrifice her child to that Moloch of hers work. Belle has just graduated with the highest honors ; and with her lovely maaaers and fresh, young face, might command a most eligible match. It is absolutely cruel to sacrifice the sweet girl inthteway!" Well, Mrs. Ellis, I take up the f&untlet society has thrown down, aad shall fearlessly perform what 1 conceive to be my duty, though I am never again recognized by one of those with whom I ant accustomed to associate. Oat upon these aristocratic notions about work imported from lands where despotism g inds with its iron heel the laborer and his offspring! What business have Americans harboring such ideas? It is my aim to make of Belle an independent, self-reliant woman. As to marriage, I am not at all concerned about that. The man who would scorn her hand because that hand wae able to earn its fair possessor's support, I would scorn to reeeive into ray family. It is my desire that she may grow up a noble, useful woman, fitted to reign a very queen in the hearts of a true husband and children, should Heaven bestow suoh priceless gift wpon her. At the same time I want her oharaoter to be so symmetrical, that should she never meet one who appreciates her, she may oheerfally all oat her ltfe by devoting herself to some soble

great oconomy in business. Hundreds

lost their situations, and my husband

among the rest. Ah, then began tho i prevalent search for employment! For every va-lour day

The Poimlur Science Monlhhi remarks

that many of tho ills and disease

among women in aro no doubt traceable

v..v,u ov,uiv. vi jiutniiiO j iu iub Msuemary motie oi ura so and you invariably received the answer, i common among them. The pro'to of

iD,rua ui wjvymiBuvu wnmuu isn, jine inausinai art nas done

uvtui juigub mail weirj imuip, tramp, up and down the streets, jostled by a crowd as cold and heartless as the very stones under one's feet! I envied even the servant-girls; but alas! the

mysteries of the cuisine were as Greek

u me, ana x uarea not apply for so menial a situation as theirs. My poor

uusDanu was in wretcsed health, and almost frenzied at thought of the misery

and degradation ho had brought

upon me. tor nis sase l hid my aching heart behind a smiling face. One night after be had retired, in banging up his coat, a vial dropped from the pocket. Picking it up I found it labeled 4 Laudanum,' and then I knew he was beset with the terrible temptation to take his own life. Flinging the vile drug Into the street, I sank on my knees, and U my God! lead him not into temptation, but deliver him from evil,' was the prayer that went up from my agonized heart. How desolate I felt! In the midst of a great cityfriendless, well-nigh penniless, and, worst of all, haunted with tho dreadful fear that my husband would commit

suicide, rrom tho ttmo we would

sen.

arate in the morning until we met again at night I lived in a state of absolute

torture. At length, despairing of finding any thing in the city to do, we turned our faces countryward, feeling that our slender stock of money would last longer than in town. After many weeks of painful anxiety ray husband found a situation in a small village, with just salary enough to keep the wolf from the door. How I longed to do something to better our condition; but alas! what could I do? Imighthavo had a fine music-class in the village, but while I played and sang well, I was not proficient enough in music to teach it successfully. Oh. hnw

I wished I had given the time to it I had

spent on Jfreuch and Latin ! Many an hour of hard study had I given to these branohee, and of what practical advantage had they been to me? I never met any French peoples with whom I could converse, and had never been able to secure a olaes In either lan

guage, while all the while my knowl-

edge wae becoming rusty by non-use. It is painful to recur to this period of my life. I was so anhanev. I axrwul

every day weald be the last mv hus

tho onrth and cutting off limb3 from tho

few trees that tho relentless hand of

Hew a Sedentary Life Affects Women, war had spared. Then came the charge

icgro troops m iront. wun splendidly caparisoned troops of tho Federal army behind, driving them, as it were, to tho front, liko sheep to slaughter, with the 1 . ill. dm h .....

imv.ua ciyoi "1101110111007 r ort l'iUow," and tho few tho very few that survived no doubt remember tho crater of

av.-av with Grant full as well.

much of tho household dnidtrerv to ' Hizh abovo all the confusion nml

which women wero formerJy subjected, ' smoke and dust aad groans of the and the result is in too many cases want 1 wounded, could bo heard the battlo cry

01 tuo reucrai, and the words of encouragement of gallant officers the few that aro loft of the Eighteenth and Twenty-second South Carolina Volunteers, and f those brave Virginians whoso battery was buried in a common grave with nearly every soldier who manned it. But the Confederate linos wero broken in twain. Federals and nogroos had made breastworks of the bowlders that wero blown up by the oxplosion. But they were not to stay there. Soon came (iencral Mahone with reinforcements; and, after one of

the most gallant lights of all the war,

no cameo, me works, and the crater

turned to a grave for its captors. I had heard of pools of blood it was thero that 1 saw them. Then silence reigned, that painful silence which always follows on the battle-field after death has held high carnival. Then came the sad duty of counting up tho cost. My brigade had suffered severely the Twenty-second South Carolina had lost its gallant Colonel Fleming and many a bravo soldier. My regiment had lost ICG men. Two whole companies. A and C. Eighteenth Kont.li

. Carolina, had not a man loft, who was

on duty, to toll tho talo. Ono hundred and ono of my men, including Captains McComlch and Blrdgis. woro dead burled in the crater or scattered along the works and 02 missing, Among tho missing aro Lieutenant Hill and Sergeant Greer, Wo left them in their almost Hying gravo; Greer digging with his bayonet, while Hill passed back tho dirt, with all tho doaperatlon of despair. Thoy hear not, heed not, tho battle that is raging abovo them, but toll on. Often hopo would spring up in their hearts to give way only to despair. Hill has often told mo how, when ho awoko to a consciousness of his condition, the thoughts that Hashed through his brain liko lightning; how ho thought if ho could onlyseo ono

ray of light, or broathe tho fresh air

of sufllciont occupation for needed bodily exercise It says: Tho fruits of this state of things are strikingly exhibited in certain observations mado by tho late Dr. llobertson, aManchostor surgeon, who in his practice as a specialist for women's diseases found that in women who themselves performed all their household work there was no trace of certain complaints, that those complaints begin to make their appearance in women with one servant, become more pronounced in women who have two servants, or worse still with those who have three servants, and so on. Ho showed statistically that the death from child-birth were four times greater in the cases of women with four servanti than those with none. On the other hand, we observed a statement the other day that since the suspension of labor in the mills of New England on account of the panic many of the femalo operatives have sought employment as domestics, aad as a consequence there is much more sickness among them than there was previously. This would seem to show that housework is not as healthy

tut iaopr in cotton or wooien mills. Troy(N. )'.) Times. " Where PeaHMts Centc From. A Cincinnati firm has issued a oirnn.

lar relative to the peanut crop, which is of interest. The Tennessee cron for tho

year ending September 30, 1H78, was 305,000 bushels against 500,000 for tho year previous; in Virginia tho crop was 405,000 against 780,000 last year, and in Horth Carolina It was only 85,000 against 125,000 in 1877. The growing crop-t. c, for 1878-'79 Is estimated at 400,000 bushols for Tennessee, 800,000 for Virginia and U0,000 for North Carolina. The North Carolina crop promises to be about the' same as to quality as last year. A new feature with this crop is the, largely increased amount shelled.

one estimate being that one-fifth of tho

crop was taken in this way. The North I onco again : that if he could only let his Carolina crop of peas finds its way into j wife know how and whore he died, that

our markets through this port, there now being three different firms in Wil-

minr.n n&f1 ln bytaeT shelling and shipping the peas.

death would be a relief to him, Almost

Eurrueaiod for want of fresh air, thoy worked on ; at last it seemed to them that something had crushed them ; thoy had

retreat, weak, worn in body, ami with

minds almost craned. They knew not how long thoy hud been thero; thoy did not oven know thoir old comrades. Nor could thoy realize that it was the same day that thoy wore buried. Thoy wore brought back to mo, at the field hospital, moro dead than alive, for, atrango as it may seem, thoy wero tho most sadly chunked men I over beheld. Both wore lino-looking soldiers beforo; now they woro weak, with sunken cheeks and eyos. Lieutenant Hill, whoso hair '21 hours beforo was black, without a single gray hair in it (as ho was only ao years olil), was now almost as white as snow. Whothor it turned from horror at his condition, or tho deathly heat of his subterranean bed, or both, I do not pretend to say. I simply givo tho facts, not as I heard, but as I saw thorn, and ho still lives to verify that this is no romance, but ono of my experiences in a war whoso first gun I heard fired and tho last gun of which

sounded tho requiem of tho lost cause when I wa3 at my post of duty. Little Johnny on tho Fair. Jack Brily tho sailor ho said, "Johnny, bon to tlio Fair?" and I said was thorc smyclown, and a elephant, and somo fellers wich can jump high upper than a horseback, and turn theirselfs in hide out, and a wooman with shiny things on hor legs, and a pony wich can wock on its bed.

Than Jack ho said, 14 Lay to there, shipmate, tlio thing wich yon aro spinnin yarns abowt aint a fair, but a cirkus pformance," and I said, "That's the foller for me, but the Forth of July Is mity nice too." Ono time thero was a circus pformance come thru tho town woro wo was Hvin, and mo and Billy was a 'follerin it for to fco tho ephafent wich had a wee! house on its back and tho pilot was a natif nigger without no close, only just a table napkin. And while the circus was a stoppin for to block up tho street tho natif nigger ho slid down and was a goin in a slbon to got somo whisky. But tlio sloon man met him at the door, and ho said, tho sloon man did Aint you ono of thorn heathens in their blindness, wioh bows down to wood and stoneP" Tlio natif nigtror he looked a wile, liko ho wanted to say some thing, but mebby cudent speak our langwedgo. Then tho sloon man bo said a other lime "Yes, I see how it U, you come from Injys corral strand, wero Affrics sunny fountains role down their golden sand." Wen ho had scd that tho natif nigger man ho be gun to danco a round, and hitch up his britch clout, and hold up his hand and twiddle his thumb and lingers like ho was wirlin a stick in em, but ho didoiit say nothiu. Then the sloon man ho said "You have como hero for to call us to

do liver yure land from errors chane."

Hut fore he cttdo say any more that natif nigger had kanocked him down

an was a stompin on to his stummeck and a yellln.

"le dlnrty blaggaird, fwot do ye

mano wid yer mishnarv caramon to a

son of tho howly mithcr church? Tako

mat, yo inaio o tho world, and tho nixt toime yo want to convart a irrand nuin-

tooplo combination hippydhromo yo

uciinor stairt in on that divvle of a royal roarin' gorlller, wich is an un-belaver!"-My sister's yung man he say one day wen Noey was in tho Ark, bout a week after tho shower, he seen a feller swlmmin long sido, and ho said, Noey did Hello!" J And the feller ho said " Hello, yure ownsolf." Then Noey ho looked up to the sky, and ol round, and then ho leaned over, and wispored to the feller " Gimme yuro hand and He pul you in if you wont say nothln." But tho follor ho said " Thanks, but Us gittln late, and I ges I better paddle back, cos I loft my close on tho bank, and mebby sum mizzable goloot wil hook ray watch." And thats all I knnowa bout tho Fair. Ask Billy. San Francisco Argonaut. Tho Countoss Mario Bismarck, the favorito daughter of Prince Bismarck, who is betrothed to Count Hantaan, a young diplomatist, It is to be hoped will bo moro fortunate in her second than sho was in in her first attempt to enter the bonds of matrimony. Two years ago sho was engaged to a son of Count Lulenberg, but, beforo tho marriage could tako placo, her intended was struck down by fever in tho very prime of life. m m Commandkk Casikiion, who osmcd groat fame in Africa last year, is about to begin a journey to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a railway from tho Mediterranean to India without following tho course of the Euphrates.