Yamhill reporter. (McMinnville, Or.) 1883-1886, November 08, 1883, Image 2

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    SHOES.
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
“Thrue for you, Luke. Divil a wan
SALMON CANNING.
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
in
the
country
is
his
aiqual
at
it.
”
Dead men's shoes ?^Yes, they
The Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin !
J built a house, in my youthful dreams
Mr. O’Reilly was the owner of a pub­ An Admirer Presenta H1 h Picture of th« What can have provoked him to pro­ How the World's Fish Is Treated for every day and they mu«t be «a?
In a sunny anti pleasant nook,
lic house in Kitlogue. much patronized
Where I might listen, the whole day long,
Shipment.
Filled, did you «ay? Ye«, fille,j
Native Maiden.
fanity?
To the voice of a gurgling brook;
by the farmers belonging to the same
without delay. Somebody’« waiting
A cottage with wide and airy rooms,
The fact is not generally known that
barony
as
the
Whelans,
and
when
pre
­
And broad and shining doors —
The firms or individuals 'who own the them—old «hoes are ho eaHy, y0)1 /l0'
There is one subject upon which the Edward I was the original crowned Ed.
nuptial difficulties arose in the barony,
A house with the hidden charms of home,
Envious eyes are watching the lautite
of
Europe.
salmon canneries not run on co-operative taken by the owner of easy 9hZ?
he was invariably called upon to arbi­ American precs delights to multiply and
And the freedom of out-of-door».
An exchange has discovered the im­ principles furnish to each fisherman his There will be such a pleasure in putt*'
trate. It was Mr. O’Reilly’s interest to magnify misrepresentation, and that
Fair morning glories climb and bloom
see that things matrimonially were ar­ with a disheartening unanimity. It has portant fact that egotism is the I—dear
At will by the eastern eaves,
outfit and pay him a fixed price for them on—they will certainly fit-
of most everybody.
ranged satisfactorily, for if the intended
And on the doorstep anti window sill
each fiHh, deducting one-third of the danger about that. If they are a^i
The roses shake their leaves;
couple belonged to “comfortable” fam­ eulogized the American horse and lauded
Young
men
who
were
first
called
And fair old-fashioned lilacs toss
the
American
oyBter,
and
it
has
flown
to
ilies
an
order
for
a
ten-gallon
cask
of
“dudes,” and later “slims,” are now market rate for the use ofjiis outfit. A
Their purple plumage high,
whisky, wherewith to celebrate the the defense of the American hog, when known as “ciphers.”
While honeysuckles drop their sweets
boat properly equipped for the season
nuptials, was what sporting men term that sacred creature w*as menaced with
On every passer-by;
The s-s-st-st-stut-stut-stutterer is the costs $750. This year the market price
“a moral.”
m-m-m-man who fi-b-b-b-breaks his of salmon was ninety cents each, but a
Down at the end of a pleasant path
The Killogue publican was possessed the wrath of Bismarck. But for that wor-wor-word.
Is a group of evergreen trees,—
still
nobler
and
more
attractive
animal,
heavy run coming in, the price dropped especially if the office is “a fat one’’,
of a good deal of native wit, and he gen­
Pine and hemlock, and spruce and fir,
Bleached mouse is the latest favorite as low as forty cents during the season. with little work. What a hurry-m-u—.
erally contrived to set matters straight, the American girl, it has nothing but
With their spicy fragrances;
scramble there is to get into them first
shade. This will probably lie followed
And sweetest picture or calm content
and at the same time to put his clients libel and disparagement.
The para- by the rat tan.
The price is fixed by mutual agreement, The memory of the departed is of no
That mortal ever saw,
under
a
load
of
obligation
to
him
for
Under a low-boughed apple tree
—the point is to get into
An inquirer having asked, “What is and portly’owing to the wholesome in­ consequence
having adjudi cated so cleverly in their graplier pelts her with mouldy jokes,
«S'liil.-i tl,,\,r
_
»
Is a beehive made of straw.
and the leader-writer brings down the the liquor question in Oliio?’ the fluence of the co-operative concerns, the them while they are warm, it won’t
respective causes.
answer
for
them
to
get
cold
;
_ the
There is room in the garden for all the flowers
ponderous stuffed club of his indigna­ Courier-Journal answers, “What will result arrived at is usually satisfactory former owner must not have ■w,
*
«
»
*
«
•
thé lag
1 ever loved or knew—
you
take?
”
all round. The fishermen arelargely of rites said either before the claim»«
Dead- common blossoms and roadside friends,
The all-important Saturday arrived. tion iqion her devoted bang. Is it real­
Mrs. Homespun, who has a horrible foreign birth, Scandinavians, Italians comes for them. There should tie
And the florist’s darlings too;
The Morrisseys seated themselves at ly true that the American girl is a crea­
There is room for thickets ami beds of moss.
one end of the room, the Whelans at ture all compact of greed, deceit and de­ time every morning to get her young and Greeks being largely represented. modesty or decency thought of ; hurry
And for dells of deepest shade,
the other end, and Mr. O'Reilly stood formity? Has she feet of phenomenal brood out of their lieds, says she cannot Without Chinese labor, the vanners say, up and get into them first if possible
Where all the birds of the summer time
understand why children are called the the work could not lie done, and Chinese A man is seemingly of little consequence
Slay warble unafraid.
up, like a life-sized statue of Justice
size, and is she indebted for her com­ rising generation.
(without
the
scales),
in
the
center
of
the
fishermen are relied ujion as being more after the breath leaves his body. No
How sweet to sit in the fragrant shade
plexion to the rouge-pot?
Is she ig­
A difference: A friend of mine, when
apartment.
In the hush of a summer noon,
norant of orthography and regardless of told the other day of the death of a steady than the proud Caucasians. As use in thinking of tears then; do the
Young Tom Morrisey and Miss
To watch tiie liees at their happy task,
so large a number as 40,000 fish may crying while he lives. Tears don’t help
Ami listen their pleasant tune;
Whelan seemed the most unconserned the proprieties? Is she an organized well-known stock dealer, replied: be caught in a single day, at a market a dead man, and a damming up of the
appetite, and addicted to staying her re­ “Why, he’s worse off than I am. I’m
Aresinous smell in the resonant air,
of
the
party.
The
former,
a
sheepish-
price not less than fifty cents each, one well-springs of the soul is desirable in
From the gloom where the fir boughs meet,
morseless jaws with gum and slate-pen.
looking “boy” of about three and twenty cils during her rare intervals between dead broke; but lie's a dead broker.”
And the rippling warble of fearless birds
can readily see into what excesses the taking on office shoes. Foul is not usu­
To make the stillness sweet!
was wholly engrossed in an ash-plant, her Gargantuan repasts upm oysters
The train stops; an employe an­ lukv fisherman may be tempted. The ally- counted in such places. There it
the head of which he was busily carving
nounces the name of the station in a whisky shops of Astoria, Or., are almost no use for such a useless article in places
I have pictured it all a hundred times—
and
ice-cream
at
the
expense
of
her
in
­
with a large clasp-knife; Brigid, who
I shall do it a hundred more,
Is she ignorant of voice completely unintelligible, “Speak as many in number as the houses of of official trust at the present day.
sat next the window, divided her time solvent admirer?
But 1 shall never own the pleasant home
cookery
and
household
work, and does more distinctly,” says a traveler: “we legitimate business and residence. The Conscience, did you say? That is an
With roses over the door,
between listless glances at the passers­ she condemn her mother to the wash­ can’t understand a word you say.” “Do Chinaman never gets drunk, never article which does not usually go with
Never a dream of mine came true;
by in the street below, and sips from a
you expect to have tenors for $18 a strikes for higher wages, and never that kind of shoes. It is generally bur­
It is Fate’s unbending law;
tumbler of ginger-beer, which she held tub while she plays the piano—if her month?” growls the railway employe. hesitates to work extra hours when a ied with your predecessor.
I never shall see the apple tree,
imunding may be called playing—and
in her right hand.
Nor the beehive made of straw.
Then there are the gold-lined family
A Yorkshire man whose well lately great run of fish comes in. The white
“Come now, Luke,” said Mr. O’Reilly, drives out the insolvent admirer to whom caved in contrived to make the author­ man is less trustworthy in these respects. shoes. “The old man” is spoken of
allusion has just been made? Does she
i have pictured it all a hundred tin es—
“
’
tis
quite
easy
for
you
to
jump
another
I h 1 iu .11 do it again and again,
up with hint in a dark parlor, or ities suspect that he had murdered a The Chinamen, too, are very expert in familiarly as not likely to live forever.
twenty-five, anyhow. Make it six hun­ sit
But I never shall see my roses press
swing with him on the front gate, until man and put his body at the bottom of handling the fish. The “slitter,” as he His shoes will be worth the wearing.
dred and seventy-five, and I’ll go bail surprised by morning and the milkman? the well, and took things easy at the jail is usually called, is usually a stalwart Fortune shoes are a desirable article.
Their cheeks to the dewy pane;
Nor sinel) the creamy syringa flowers,
Jack Morrisey won't break my word.”
Does she, after having wasted hie sub­ while they dug his well out for him; he Chinaman who ranges a long row of fish They bring nice houses and lands, ele­
The odor of sweet-brier leaves,
Each family held a consultation in stance
Nor hear the swallows which chirp and build
in riotous ice-cream and oysters now talkes of suing the town for false on a table before him, with the tails gant city blocks, governments, the .eat
whinpers, and old Jack Morrisey, after
Under my friendly eaves.
toward him. With a rapid movement paying stocks, easy carriages and eaay
elope with her father's coachman? Is imprisonment.
a few moments, said in a loud tone:
he walks along the row, cutting off fins chairs, and a life of go and do as you
she habitually addicted to slang and
But yet, in the airy realm of dreams,
Tiny Things:
“
I
wouldn't
break
Mr.
O
’
Reilly
’
s
and tails as he moves. Then the fish please. There is an anxious waiting
Where all my riches be,
pie? Is she a confirmed flirt, a consti­
Little drops of water,
word
for
a
hundred
pound,
let
alone
a
X enter into the heritage
are reversed, and, with equal celerity, sometimes for the time to come when
Little grains of sand,
tutional slattern, an ingrained liar, and,
trifle
of
five
and
twenty.
We
’
ll
take
Which is else denied to me;
Maks the milkman happy,
he chops off each head with a single such shoes are unfilled by the once
in
short,
an
incarnation
of
all
that
is
un
­
I have but to dose my eyes, to find
the girl with six seventy-five down.”
And the grocer bland.
motion. Then he slits the fish open and proud occupant. Tears drench the coffin­
desirable?
We
had
always
cherished
a
My Eden without a flaw—
Then Jack Morrisey sat down and up
A Mississippi man has just invented removes the entrails. It seems to an lid at the cemetery, nimble lingers
The home, the garden, the apple tree,
liking
for
her,
collectively
and
indivi
­
and spake Luke Whelan ;
a big gun, which he thinks “will fill a observer that there is great waste here, search for a piece of paper called a will
And the beehive made of straw.
“Begor, I wouldn’t break Mr. dually. We had paid the homage of long-felt want.” The “long-felt want” us no serious attempt is made to utilize on the return home. Anxiety takes
our
admiration
to
her
fair
face
and
her
O’Reilly’s word for the girl’s whole for­
referred to is its ability to kill and wound the offal, which is rich in oil and fertil­ the place of tears until found or assured
A ROMANTIC BETROTHAL.
tune; but to tell you the thruth, I free carriage; her independence and 800 men out of a regiment of 1,000 at a izers. The average weight of the live that such a document is non eat- Then,
self-reliance
had
always
seemed
t
<
V
us
as
Luke Whelan was what is known in couldn’t, wud convayinence to meself, far removed from boldness and mock distance of 100 yards, and yet they say salmon is thirty-two. pounds each, al­ perhaps, comes the scramble of life, the
tiie Green Isle as a “«throng” farmer. lay me hand on the other twenty-five,
that barbarism is dying out.
though fish weighing as high as eighty heart-aches and heart-burns as to the
He farmed about two hundred acres of unless,” he added, after a pause, “Jack modesty ; she luid given us the impres­
At the Zoological Gardens. A large pounds have been caught. The dressed disposal of the shoes, etc. Estrange­
sion
of
n
girl
who
made
a
charming
and
good land, paid his rent pretty regularly Morrisey will take mo bill at three
piquante sweetheart, a devoted wife and man leans toward the bench where the fish weighs just about one-half less than ments and family quarrels often begin
and scraped, and saved, and pinched, months for it.”
with the will, or the fact of its absence.
a
fond mother.
She seemed in fact to bears are confined. He loses his foot­ it does when caught.
“’Tis a bargain, then!” said old
in on ler to give his only daughter,
The ¡introduction of labor-saving ma­ Memory is often fluctuating; kindred
quote
one
of
the
three
noblest descrip­ ing and falls in. Naturally, he utters
Brigid, a boarding-school education, and Morrisey, slapping his knee so violently
heartrending cries. The guardian rushes chinery has greatly facilitated the opera­ endearments so vanishing. You say it
to place his elder son, Philip, in the that some of the ginger-beer was dashed tions of womanhood that ever were up, and in u voice full of reproaches, tions of canning. Revolving knives cut is not always so? Thank God it is not.
by the reverberation out of Miss Whe­ penned:
ecclesiastical college at Maynooth.
says: “Monsieur, it is forbidden to the fish to the exact size of the cans There are some noble, true hearts and
A Creature not too bright or good
Luke bail one other son James, who lan’s glass.
throw anything to the bears.”
into which they are to packed, and an homes left on earth. These words can­
For human nature’s daily food; _
“That’s right, me decant fellows,”
was eventually to succeed his father in
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
elaborate and ingenious machine fills not wound or touch the faithful, the
THE TIME TO ADVERTISE.
the management* of the farm. James said O’Reilly. Then, grinning from ear
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
each can as rapidly as sixty men could noble, the good, the true. Only those
And now the merchant wary
troubled himself little with domestic to ear, he continued, “Now boys, let
when working with their hands. Each who scramble for the shoes will seethe
It
seems,
however,
that
we
have
been
Will deem it necessary
affairs, and was indeed possessed of the young people embrace.”
To have an advertisement well displayed, can passes through many processes, the picture of desolation and ttie form of
deceived.
If
this
is
so,
it
is
well
that
After a little tittering from each end
rather a morose temperament. His
plaved, played
total number of handlings being about human icebergs which only fire can
the world should be made acquainted
Within his local paper;
parents never thought of consulting him of the room, Brigid laid her tumbler on with the fact. But if not—if the Amer­
200. And yet, so rapid is the labor melt. The point of the pen should be
that’B the proper caper
on any subjects except the weather, the her chair, and rose blushingly ; and Tom ican paragrapher’s “best girl,” as he By which For
to catch the coming autumn trade, and so abundant the supply of fish, that sharp enough to awaken renewed sen­
crops, or the live stock ; and it some­ stood up sheepishly, still holding the calls her (What—-oh, what must his
trade, trade.
the canner is fairly satisfied if he can sibility in the hearts grown sordid and
times required a good deal of^taet to ash-plant and the knife.
Things one would not have said: make a profit of ten per cent per can.
selfish. Thrilling words should stir up
elicit from the young man his opinion ns
“Arrah, lay down the stick Tom, and worst girl be like?) is only a variety Mrs. A.—“come and lunch with us
confined to his acquaintance and cor­
the cold streams of mortality and put a
to the relative prospects of rain or do your duty by the girl!” said Mrs. rupted by his association, then in the to-morrow. You will be interested in
true and noble spirit into them.
A GHOST IN A BARREL-
Morrisey. Tom—bis cheeks now as
weather.
name of our and other people's sisters, the schoolmaster’s bride.” Mrs. B.—
The politician’s shoes are so nice to
At eighteen Brigid Whelan was re­ rosy as Mr. O’Reilly’s nose—laid down and cousins, and aunts, let the fact be “Oh, yes, how do you like her?” Mrs.
A clergyman, on taking [lossession of look at. There is a fascination, bewil­
leased from the bondage of flip board­ the stick on his chair, and, closing the
a
living
on
the
confines
of
Dartmoor,
A.
—
“
Very
well,
only
she
’
s
a
little
un
­
made known, rehabilitated, and set up
derment at times. Living or dead there
ing-school, and being a sensible young clasp-knife, placed it in his pocket.
on a pedestal for respect and admiration, used to the ways of society. I shouldn’t found it necessary to enlarge the house. is always a man waiting at the door for
The lovers were about to be pushed
girl and extremely unromantic, she
He
lengthened
the
one
sitting-room
and
like to ask her to meet nice people.”
a vacant seat and to slip into your
settled down without a murmur under into each other’s arms, when Luke cried not in a pillory for ridicule, misrepresen­
tation and abuse.
There is not a dude in Finland. made it into a tolerable dining-room, shoes.
From the President of the
the paternal roof, and endeavored to in­ out:
“Finnish dudes,” says the historian, adding a drawing-room and two or three United States dow n to the servant who
itiate herself into the mysteries of milk­
“Who is to pay the intherest on the
“never live long enough to be completed. bed-rooms. These improvements satis- cares for your office room, somebody is
ing, churning, poultry and pig feeding. bill?”
WHY CHILVERS DIDN’T.
They
are used for crab bait before their , tied his wife and children; but there aching for the chance. It matters not
Her brother Philip came home from
“You of course,” replied Jack Mor­
As the three of us rode out from buttons be disclosed, and are thus was one interested party whom be had whether the leather from which your
Maynooth three times every year, risey.
Wnterproof, La., on horseback, we over­ sensibly utilized in the liquid morn and left out of consideration—the spirit of official shoes were tanned came from
namely, at Easter, Mid-summer, and
“Divil a bit of me’ll do anything of took a citizen jogging along as if at peace dew of youth before contagious ailments his predecessor, an old gentleman who Tewksbury or elsewhere, it is all the
Ghristmas. He was a quiet, easy- the sort.”
had outlived all of his family, and passed same with the political aspirant. If you
with all the world.
No introduction become imminent.”
going, well-built young man, whose fist
many solitary years in the remote par­ are out and lie is in, there will be no
“Then it's no match!”
was needed, and presently we were
closed more naturally and lovingly
sonage. Sounds were soon beard of an questions asked where the leather came
O’Reilly was nonplussed. The in­ chatting away on the most familiar
LATEST NEWS ITEMS
round the handle of a plough than round tended couple were held back by their terms.
evening, as though a figure in dressing- from. It is even surmised that a gover­
After awhile, and when about
bis well-thiimlied prayer-book.
Mrs.
McElroy,
the
President
’
s
sister,
gown was sweeping in and out of the
respective fathers and mothers. An six miles from the town, we met a man
During oneof Philip’s midsummer va­ awful silence reigned in the room. At on horseback who bad a shot-gun lying will in a few days take charge of the rooms, treading with a soft, yet heavy, nor would not care whether the skin w«e
cow, calf or human, black, red or white,
cations, l’apn Whelan said one morning, length, after a pause of fully three min­
White House.
tread, and this particularly in thedining- provided a free path were given him to
across his lap and a revolver on his hip.
as the family, not including James, sat utes, O’Reilly, who had occupied the
The
mastodon
bones
found
at
Chester,
room,
where
the
old
vicar
had
spent
“Morning, gents,” he said as he drew
the White House.
The President’s
down to their frugal breakfast:
111., have been placed in the State the last years of his life. Uneasiness shoes seem to have a wonderful power
three minutes apparently in making rein. “How’ far is it to town?”
“Brigid, me dartin', I’m goin’ to mental calculations, said:
Museum
at
Springfield.
pervaded
the
household.
Servants
giv
­
“Six miles,” answered our stranger.
over men. Even “Dem Golden Slip­
make a match for you wud young Tom
“Ob, hang it all! I wouldn’t see two
Mrs. J. M. Hanning, the only survivor ing warning and going away; no one pern,” mentioned in the familiar song,
“Anilmought you be acquainted in
Morrisey—wan of blind Jack Morrisey’s loving hearts broken for a paltry six or
of the fall of the Alamo, died on Sunday applied for their vacant places. The could not charm some men more, even
Waterproof?”
sons. You'd better be talkin’ to your seven s'-illings.
daughters fell ill, and were sent away at the close of life. Let some men be
I’ll pay the interest
week at Austin, Texas.
“A few.”
mother about your clothes and wan out of my own |>ocket; I will, indeed!”
“Mought you know achapas is named
Columbus, Ala., is tinged with for change of air; then their mother blindfolded, neither barefoot nor shod,
think or another, in ease meself and
Then Hibernian admiration for such Chilvers—Judge Chilvers?”
jaundice, of which there were recently was anxious about them, and went to with Frank James for a companion,
mild Morrisey can come toterms.”
astounding generosity as that displayed
“
Wall,
I
’
ve
seen
him
around.
”
no less than between thirty and forty see how they were going on, and so the and they would gladly walk over the
Brigid'« heart indulged jn merely an by O’Reilly came to the front.
vicar was left alone, at the mercy of his roughest road provided the White Honne
“
Likely
to
be
thar
’
now?
”
cases
prevalent.
AjHilogy for a flutter at her father’s
predecessor's ghost.
“Begor, ’tis a rale dacant man you
“
I
should
say
so.
”
could be reached and the Presidential
The
legal
passenger
rate
on
ten
of
speech. She knew the Morriseys are!” elied both fathers, almost in the
At last, Mr. Henderson relates, the
“
That
’
s
all
—
good-by.
”
the leading railroads of Missouri is three vicar himself was scared, and his church sandals lie worn in the end. It is even
slightly, but she could not cull to mind same breath; and a wordy war ensued;
We watched him out of sight, and
which of the family it was to whom the each parent, fired by the publican's then one of the men said to the stranger: cents per mile, on the others it is four warden promised to lay the ghost. A surmised that there are those who
would be willing to suffer all the tor­
cents.
name was Thomas.
jury of seven persons were convoked,
offer, being now absolutely eager to pay
“.That chap had a wicked look.”
Her elder brother simply observed :
In Chicago there are now twenty and each sat for half an hour with a ments of purgatory for four years in
the interest.
“Ob, he’s on the shoot, he is."
“Ay, 'twouldn't Is1 a bail match at all
miles of cable roads in operation, and it candle in his hand, and it burned out those shoes.
After a considerable amount of talk,
“Is he going to shoot Chilvers?”
Shoes are useful, yet they are queer
tor you, Brigid, for ould Morrisey is as O'Reilly suggested that the charges for
is
claimed accidents are not so common its time with six, showing plainly that
“He thinks he is, but he won’t.”
things. They are often seen in church,
rich as ('riesiis, by all accounts. I'll I«1 discounting the bill should Is1 borne
as
on
the
horse
cars.
none
of
them
could
lay
the
ghost.
Nor
“Why?”
and then, a few hours later, the same
getting orders next Easter, and,” with conjointly by the Morriseys and the
“Because I'm Chilvers myself, IVr.
Another of Mr. Evart’s daughters will was tlijs any wonder; for were they not leather walks into strange paths. It
a feeble smile, “I'd like [to make mv Whelans.
all
Acquaintances
of
his,
so
that
he
knew
niit me to introduce myself.”
lie married in November, in New Y'ork.
don’t take1 some men a long time to go
maiden effort nt matrimony on one of
Jack Morrisey and Luke Whelan
“And why didn’t you tell him who This will tie the third of the eleven to all their old tricks? But the seventh from prayer to profanity, from the pure
my own family.”
person was a stranger, and a scholar
grasped the publican’s 'hands affection­
leave the parental arms.
air of heaven to the fumes of the pit-
After breakfast Luke Whelan put on ately, and, almost overcome with emo­ you was and see what he wanted?”
“That would have brought on the
The report of the Trustees of the fresh from Oxford. In his hand the Happy- are those who wear shoes worth­
his Sunday Is1«!, took a »tout black- tion Luke exclaimed :
light
went
out
at
once.
He
was
clearly
shooting
and
some
of
you
would
have
Peabody Fund shows that $71,175 were
thorn from the chimney corner, ami
the man to lay the ghost, and he did ily and walk in them manfully, with
“ 'Tis a fine man you an1, begor it is!
disap|«‘ared down the Whelan boreen, 'Tis a great head you have an’ no mis­ been hit,” ho answered. “I rather sus. distributed last year among the Southern not shrink from his task; he laid it at the consc iousness of treading the paths
pect be is a chap from up the country States for the promotion of education.
•OCompanied by the future soggarth.
once, and in a beer barrel. But now a of virtue and of peace.—[Dexter—Cam-
take.”
about thirty miles who’s brother I shot
Mrs.
Whelan then confided in
A
state
of
war
exists
in
l
imestone
fresh difficulty arose. What was to pridge Tribune.
Then Brigid was enveloped in Toni’s
Brigid that blind Morrisey—not blind arms anil a loud kiss sealed the con­ in a little fracas last year. If it’s the county, Texas, when1 cattle raisers have be done with the beer barrel and its
man he's a terrible poor shot, and if one
Morrisey’s son, mind .von—had been tract.
“Father,” asked the young son of
of them ar’ hosses of your’n should get lost $30,000 worth of wire fences through mysterious tenant ? Nothing occurred to
greatly struck with Brigid’s “nate figure
the efforts of malicious persons.
the assembled company but to roll the Deacon Squibhs, “what is the difference
The parents then, by tacit consent, hit you’d have to pay all damages.”
ami generally illignnt appenrance,” and left the room, followed by O’Rielly and
“But won’t he waylay you on your
The Houston and Texas Central Rail­ thing into one corner, and send for the between a man that dyes wool on lambs
bad determined that his eldest hop«1 by Philip Whelan, who had not once
way has informed the Governor of that mason to inclose it with stones and and a Western editor?”
should, with Mr. and Mrs. Whelan’s opened his lips, except for the purpose way back?”
“Well, now, really, my son,” beam-
“No, sir. I shall waylay him!"
State that as soon as possible separate mortar. This done the room looked
consent, of course, claim her for his of introducing, occasionally, a mouthful
very odd, with one corner cut off. ing benigngly on his offspring, “I’m not
That
evening,
an
hour
after
our
re
­
coaches
will
be
provided
for
colored
bride.
Uniformity would he obtained if the prepared to state. What is the differ­
of weak whisky and water, during the turn, the Judge led his limping horse people.
Luke Whelan and Philip returned in entire pre-nuptial debate.
other three were filled up as well; and, ' ence?”
into
town,
and
when
asked
what
the
Comptroller Knox is proposing in besides, the ghost would be safer if no
atio afternoon, looking not altogether
“Why, pa, one is a lamb dyer
The lovers for the first time were al­
behalf of the banks a two per cent bond one knew the very spot in which he was the
happy, and after some hours’ silence— lowed to indulge in the time-honored trouble was, he replied :
other is a____”
1
“
It
’
s
enough
to
disgust
every
decent
as security for their circulation, and the reposing. So the other corners were
hours occupied by the elder Whelan in custom of hilling and cooing, while in ,
“What? what? my son?”
man
!
That
fellow
had
five
square
shots
proposition is favored by the banks blocked up, and with success.
interviewing his pigs, cows, and stacks, O’Reilly’s shop, Luke Whelan was busy ,
“Western editor,” continued
at me. and yet he must go and put a themselves.
»nd by the younger Whelan in reading ordering whisky for the marriage feast. |
youth, rolling his tongue around in
bullet
into
an
animal
worth
$200!
”
The Nation— Luke entered the kitchen
There is a Justice of »the Peace in
“And I’ll make the ordher an extra
How the other party came out we
A boy was going up Sycamore street cheek ?
and said to his helpmate:
gallon, me dacent fellow,” said Luke to < didn’t inquire. The Judge didn’t act Banks county, Ga., who has held his yesterday with a glass inkstand to fill.
"Ould Morrisey and meself can't hit O'Reilly, “for the grand way you |
office for eight years and has never tried 1
P ecvliar F reak or L ightning -—
it off somehow. He wants seven hun- broughtmattiiers to ahead this niomin'. , like a man who would answer leading a case, always getting the litigants to I, Every few steps he would toss it into During a recent thunder-storm a con
questions
until
he
knew
whether
the
the air and catch it again. He did it
himdn-d pound down on the nail wud Here’s luck to us all!"
compromise.
|
horse
could be saved.—[Front the IH*.
successfully until the last time, when it worth |75, belonging to Frank Travoli.
«mrgirl, an’ I can’t make up my mind
This yer’s drought throughout the landed gracefully on the pavement in a of Wabash Township, was struck by
troit Free Press.
to go beyond six-fifty."
Southern States is the worst that has ! i thousand pieces. He looked at it about lightning and killed. The boys con-
“An’ is it broke off then, Luke?”
Even the alphabet is ruralizing.
Charlie went to aee the apple of hia occurred there in over thirty years, j, a minute, and then said: “It serves eluded to take off the hide and see where
Only four letters remain in “town."—
asked Mrs. Whelan, dolefully,
The cotton and other corps haw suf- the
I
old man right. I told him before I she was hurt. They found a small hole
“No, not quite, we're to meet and New York News. But there are only- eye the other evening, and, after a prop­ fered seriously in consequence.
i started that I couldn’t carry that thing in her head, and traced the deadly fl®“
er
amount
of
affectionate
conversation,
tiiry to settle the matther at Mr. ten in “the country,” so where are the
down her neck and out at her back-
It is estimated that the new buildings up
1 street.’’
IFRciliy’s next Saturday. You're to rest'.’—Whitehall Times." Six are in, said : “I’ll give you a ¡»air of earrings,
The skull was broken, but the skin was
««no wnd us and bring Brigid, for 'tis “Europe,” and as many more in dear, if you’ll earn them by letting me to he erected in Knoxville. Tenn., in
’the coming twelvemonth, will cost $l.-j Arei E (T stird .—Three cups of apple not broken either where it went in or
M like as not Mr. O'Reilly will make a “Jersey.” If it is fair to consider the bore your cars.” “Haven’t I earned •tl
Northern capitalists are to r . sauce, one pint of milk, four eggs; where it came out. This is a mystery
match of it; 'tis a great hand he is at latter half doaen they arc all accounted them already, then?** queried the fair 000.000.
to those unacquainted with the working»
build a $100.000 hotel there.
1 flavor and hake.
object of his affection.
for.—[Yonkers statesman.
amt h-makin’. an' no mistake!”
AN AIR CASTLE.
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