The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1894 Page: 3 of 8
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IWoh I see)M plk4 thf? rgefM as
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yiy to my almanacCurl Dun-
tnncred paccs'undTiJi comIc"cxv
tder sad pieces una adyertisemenis
vha$ selling off IiKe not mkcs
'What are you laughing at Mr
pAt dose shofces in toy almanac.
ha. ha! Oxcuse me Sergeant but
a.i a ercat hand for fun Ifl read
Moke he pleases nie."
1M1 fom.it. hirn are lokes in vdur alma
lc Mr. Dundett" solemnly queried
t &nreant.
'"Can't I make you understand Ser
ai! I hat got oudt some almanac.
j vhis-vcekly. She Vhas comic
id sad. She haf some advertise.
entt. I tola you ait aoouai ner
ice limes oafer. Dida t I come
itn here last week und read some'
idkes? Say Sergeant
"Wein" .
"Please oxcuse me. I like to sit
iwd und laugh und den I read you
imeofmy shokes."
The Sergeant turned around with
a face to the wall and for two min-
:Mr. Duudcrslapped his legs and
!tvated his feet and gurgled as if .he
id a hen's foot in his mouth Then
e gradually recovered from his emo-
on and arose and pulled a copy of
almanac from his pocket and read:
"Vhy vhas an elephant like my
:odt Sir. Schmdt! Because he vhas
der trunk peesness from $i oop to
!j5 und all warranted.
'vhat vhas dot deelerence oetweeu
aneel und a cow? Vhy one has
rings und der oirder cne.has horns of
mrse. .
' "Vhy vhas a clam on der seashore
He a lost child on der prairie! Be-
itise some one vhill come' along und
:od him.
"Sereeant ha. ha ha! how does
lose shokes hit your ribs?' laughed
Jlr. Dunder as he lookedt over the
desk.
. '-Are they jokes?"- asked the officer
u he dipped the end of a match in
& ink botde in place of lus pen.
'Vhell I should remark! My son
Shake und me tnwented does shokes
Ust night in shust two hours. I calls
a der butcher next door und reads 'em
oafer to him un vhat do you belief he
does? Say Sergeant dot man got
Mack in der face; his eyes roll und if
I'doitf pat him on der back he vhas
ishqke to death! Yes sir does shokes
teekle him till he can't laugh."
. "Hut why did he want to laugh?"
"Vhy? Because he vhas teekled
of course. You doan! belief he vhant
cd to cry do yovt? Vhen he vhas
gone avhay. I. reads 'tm to my oldt
troraans und. she shtands opp und
joes 'ho ho hoV;urid shakes her sides
till Shake has to fan her mit a towel
und cry oudt dot der house vhas on
fire Eafery times I read dot clam
hokc oafer to myself I vhas convulsed
mit ha ha ha! You vhas rio man
to be teekled Sergeant but maype
like something sad. I vhill now read
you a sad article. She vhas called
4Der Dying Shild' by Anonymous.
Here she vhas: .
"Dot lecdl shild vhas growing
poorer und weaker all der time for
more ash one yaV. He vhas going to
di'erbut no onr soospect her. By und.
W a dark night comes on. Dot rain
comes down und der wind blows und
oop in a tree a big owl cries oudt
"H'C-M-o centrall" But shtill dot
sMhl's mudder shleeps on und doan'
hear nothings. Pooty sood der kid
raises her hands to hcafen und shm)les
und says she vhas glad to bo an angel.
Hut shtill dot. rnudder sleeps 6n Den
a angel comes softly down to earth
und bends oafer dot ahild und shmiles
und says I vhill take you oop to be a
Jcedle fat shcrub mit A leedle harp to
1 on.1 But still dot tnudder shleeps
n Dot shild vhas ready to go. "e
haf measles una mumps und thicken
im mid. toothacK und he vhas tirtd
of bt tliwat. He raised oop tits
ledte hflds to be tooken but sthlll
donidkkii! shleeps on. Ddt angel
rty 'Comfii along my sluld' und In
cm whiute mme dey Mils oop to
tKfen und Vhas cured of ail diseases
d made happy. In aboudt two
hours; dot madder wakes oop und finds
lier shild gone. She cries oudt und
looks aroundt. Pooty qUeck she
shmells cologne und den she knows
how it vhas UHd dot her shild vhas in
happiness. She droops her head on
dot cradlo und weeps but he vhas
tears of shoy'
"Vhell Sergeant" said Mr Dunder
when ho jiad finished "how vhas' dot
for sadness? Oxcuse me vhile I yipe
myijtears avhay."
"Did you speak to trie Mr. Dun
der?" queired the Sergeant. as he look
ed up.
"Did I shpeak? Vhy Sargeant I
vhas reading a piece from my almanac
id make you weep!"
"Were you? I didn't know' it."
"You didn't! Say I reads dot
piece to der shoemaker on' der corner
und he cries so dot lie takes a whole
coffee sack to wipe his eyes avhay.
He says dot remind him of der time
his brudder vhas dead in Shermany by
a sawmill. Sergeant I bet you more
ash one hooncred thousand- peoples
cry aboudt'dot shitd." '
"I don't see. why they should."
"You doan'! Vheli you vhas no
frendt' of mine! If-I go.to do some-
tings you vhas always discouragement
I vhasgoing. to put your picture in1 my
almanac und call her dot fat und shent-
ly ppliceman mit a heart like a baby's
but now I doan' do it. No sir! Ha
ha ha! Lknowns some shokes vhen
I sees her und I know vhat sadness
vhas. If you doan' dot vhas all right.
I vhill shpeak good day to you und
somepody vhas be hanged!"
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THE OAPS OF GOOD HOPS.
:
Soma Facta Concorainc It That Are
Not Generally Known.
Though every school boy presum-
ably knows to a nicety where the Cape
of Good Hope is situated there does
undoubtedly prevail in less enlightened
circles some vagueness of conception
as io the exact locality of that cele-
brated headland. Even the gentle
reader is faintly conscious of uncer-
tainty and answers with a briskness
not born of conviction: "The Cape of
Good Hope? Why of course I know
where it it isj down at the end of South
Africa." Gentle reader you are not
very far out 50 or 100 miles per-
haps. And as you say it is not of the
the slightest consequence from a prac
tical point of view.
The Cape of Good Hope lies at a
considerable distance from the end;
and is in fact "the middle of three
oromontories severely inconspicuous
which jointly terminate a slender pen-
insula some io miles in length form
ing the barrier between False Bay and
the Atlantic ocean oh the west. These
three headlands lying near together
and' commonly undivided on a map of
moderate scale" are locally designated
Cape Ppinis. It was here that Bartho-
lomew Diaz first' encountered in full
force the prevalent southeasterly gales
and denounced the rugged threatening
threefold promontory under the sound-
ing appellation of Cape of Storms to
be afterward rechnstened by pious
trustful hearts the Cape of Good Hope."
The Cape of Storms the Cape of Good
Hope Cape Farewell! Is there noth-
ing in a name? Pittsburg Dispatch.
WATCHES IN THX STORM. '
Patnetlo Story of a.Womaa Craxed by
Her Lover's Death.
Truth is always stranger than fiction
and to no spot on the entire universe
is this more peculiarly adapted than to
Kentucky especially the ea?tem por-
tion of the state.
The numberles feuds of that section
have made its reputation wprldwide
and many a romance ha? had its foun-
dation in incidents pf the Big Sandy
Yalley. Tossibl)' no stranger can exist
than that which came under my notice
some time ago in one of the roughest
fti rnnoh Rpptimi. It was at the
Fj
?alls of the Rough on the Tug lfonf
of the Big Sandy the dividing hue be
tween that state and West Virginia
The plaqe is the roughest on all the
upper river With not to exceed a
score of log and' clapboard huts it
stands a sort of way station to the
deeper q&urilry and 'wild enough fbij
the most adventurous It was here
that cireumstances by tio means pleas
ing wilted that I should pass the night
To add to the general discomfort of the
situation a storm came howling over
tile mountairi topi.
The wind was terrific and the lighten-
ing appalling. From the sheltering
and. drooping branches of a soUghjng
pine tree I watched in company with
my aged host the play of the lighten-
ing upon the rapids in the .river that
had given the place its name.
On the Kentucky side o( the stream
rises abrubtly a hundred feet one of
the grandest cliffs in all that section of
the state. As the- brighest of the
flashes lit Up this ragged tableland I
saw a weird ghostly figure silhouetted
against the darkened sky thc long
hair lOosely waving in the wind and
and her hand apparently shading
her eyes as she peered off through the
darkness down the river. An exclama-
tion drew my companion's attention
and he assured me that it was no freak
of mv immagination related me the
story as strangeand and full of pathos
as any I have ever heard.
Years ago there had. been a young
man there the pride of all that cbuntry.
A perfect athlete he led ih all the con:
tests; was the best rifle shot in the
mountains- the most expert with the
banjo and the. violin and had gained
undisputed leadership. He. was en-
gaged to marry the belle of the border
arid the date was set.
His aged and widowed mother was
already preyaring for the evenft for she
was toilive'with'them." Thenycame- a
timber run and the young lover left in
high glee upon a raft (or Catlettsb'urg.:
But he never .came back. Ojne of' the
storms peculiar to that region wrecked
his raft and he was drowned. The
sudden- and terrible blow shattered
both minds and the twowomen forth-
with too&up an abode together-hoping
against hope forthe; absent one!s
return. That was half a score years
ago but1 their patience and tiustis yet
not dimmed; and upon stdrmy nights
when the aged-mother builds her .fire
high upon the hearthstote the ''now-
haggard and gray-haired sweetheart
climbs out upon the rocky pormontory
where I saw her and watches through
wind and rain in ayain hope that she
might be able to heip him' when he
comes upon the bosom of the raging
waters. .
Their untiring and unremitting vigil
is pathetic in the extreme aridnhrough
it all diey have received always the
constant care of the natives who under
stand their delusion and have never
failed in their support. Washington
Star. v
A. Homo.of Her Own
As I leaned oyer the bed and raised
one of the pale wasted hands that lay
so still and quiet on the snowy coun-
terpane the curl-crowded head moved
uneasily while the long silken- lashes
trembled softly and a pair of big blue
eyes peered piteously into mine then
past me to where stood the great broad
shouldered fellow who had summoned
me so hurriedly. When then met liis
gaze a love light of infinate gladness
filled them and a smile of perfect con?
tentment circled the perfect mouth.
For a moment she looked into the
manly face that betrayed signs of. a
fearful struggle then softly drooped
and she slept again.
Doctor" huskily sobbed the raan(
"is there any hope?"
A great throb of pity sprang through
for this man as I sadly shook my
head.
With a groan he sank beside the bed
and hurried bis face in the coyering
while his kisses carressed the clinging
hand that unconsciously sought his.
From him I learned that from their
first day of married life they had strug
glcdtQ get ahomeoftheirqwn where
this little woman could rest in the shade
of her flowers and where at eventide
he could find the sweet kiss of wel-
come awaitiug him by his own hearth-
stone. They had both worked and
denied themselves until they at last
succeeded in their yearning ambition
and one week before I was called in
they had purchased a cozy little home.
And doctor" he sobbed "we were
to move una a .wish? w. u w-
day."
He would have continued but a
slight movement on the bed arrested
his attention he sprang to her Bide
and took her in his amis.
She looked up Into his face and that
inin r in itfil'n i
Mirtniifi..
smite of w netful content beamW bright
er us she motloded hm W Mli'tow..'
"Sweetheart" she murrrittfed as He
befit cigcrly to Iter "we tant royS
tod'nv: Ita'so-tired. fh had
dropped bpl gently' to hU heavfrig
bosom and I knew the end had come'
Thb bright smile gradually faded frofn
its'' resting place but still left a mdrrio-
ryofits sweetness 6n her palld lips;
tlic beautiful cy6s looked long ' and
lovingly into his once more and then
softly closed to ppprt again in a home
of her own. .
Oyclla'g Irovertw. ' -
Grit makes a man but mars a bear-
-ingt
Neither men 'nor bicycles' steer well
with tight heads'. '
T.iltp a Mend in. need the handle
bar is only appreciated when the rOad
is rough.
The world like the bicycle would
soon come to a stop were it not for die-
cranks.
Ambitition is like a bicycle saddle;
thouch much sat upon upon it gener-
ally manages to be on top. .
Politeness is like; a pneumatic - tire;
there isn't much in it but ;it eases
many a jolt in the journey of life.
A pleasant disposition like oil in a
bicycle bearing reduces friction .and"
prevents a world of! wear and teari
Like a link in a bicyclp chain we
may not amount a much individually
but colfectiyeIv"we make the wheels go
.around.
Like balls in a bearing ths- live of
many of us must be one continued
grind that others may enjoy themselves.
Life is. like a bicycle run;' some
worry fret and scorch atongf and Soon
reach the'end whiie others take it easy
antfenjoy. themselves as they go.-rrDr.-W.
F.Prather in Farm Field and
Fireside. ' ;. J
Anarchists Arrested.
Rome Aug 14. The police raided
anarchists hous'es and captured seven
nersons en eased in the manufacture of
.infemal'machines. similar to those re
cently exploded at the parliamentary
buildings. The Italie asserts that the
prisoners were connected with a plot
to blow up the residence of Prime
.Minister Crispito avenge the sentences
imposed upon Santo and Lega who
attempted to murder Signor Crispi.
The prisoners include Giginti the-man
who. was chosen to carry out the plot.
. s.
England's Failures.
London. Aug. 13. For the week
ending Saturday last there were it7
failures ih En eland and Wales' aeainst
r7o failures for the" same period of
03.
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