The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-20
ONE or LIFE'S STIDO W8.

ONE or LIEE's SHADOWs.
AT eight o'clock tho other morn
ing Second street vito followed
her husband down to tho gnto as ho
was starting for down town and
kindly said to him:
"William, you know how sadly T
need blue bunting dress.
eyes, DEAR" ho remarked, "but
you know how hard upI nm. AS
soon as cnn 500 my way clopr you
shall havo tho dress, and n new hat
to boot. Be pationt, be good, and
your reward shall DO great.
Forty minutes nftor that no
emerged from restaurant with Il
big basket md fish polo, bound
up tho river. In tho basket woro IL
chicken, pickles, cake, fruit, pic, and
bottle of liquid Of rich color,
and he WAS just lighting n twonty-
cent cigar whom his wifo camo
along.
"What you horo!" ho exclaimed,
eyes, / was going to market.
'1 Whore arc you goingg-what's in
'T WIS going to carry this fish
polo around to II friend on Jcilor-
son avenue" ho modostly answered.
"And TINT bnskot?"
"This baslsot-wcll, T was going
to talo it to tho orphan asylum as
q present to tho children. 1t is II
donation Of six loading citzons."
"William, don't believe It'll"
"Sh! Don't talk 30 loud!"
civilian, I shall t,ll1 louder yot!
she exclaimed. "I'll bet you aro
going tishing|"
"NIary, have cvor deceived you?"
no plaintivoly asked. II never hnvc
As proof of my sincerity you can
tako this basket to tho asylum
yoursolh'
And Ill do it!" she promptly
repliod rs she roliovod him Of it.
"N[ary hadn't you-- 2"
"No, sir, hadnu You'd better
hurry up with that fsh-polc, as
tho man may want it, and ho caro-
full how you stand around in
bllC Npb SitIl!.
She left him there. Hc watched
her take tho car for homo, and then
he returned the fish~polc and CROSS
cd the stroot and said to an &C
quaintancc
''Tom, I'm suffering with neural
gin, and tho excursion is off till next
week. Too bnd, hut wo can never
tell what day may bring FORTH"
There was chicken and pickles
and othor good things on tho tablo
at dinner, but he never smiled.
Even when his wife wished sho was
an orphan, if that was tho way
they were fed, he never betrayed
the gloom III his heart. It was only
when she handed him tho bottle ho
had so carefully tucked into the
basket, and he saw it labeled;
"Good for Little Children that
he said:
MARY, it is m awful thing for
a wife to got the impression that
her husband is coldblooded lar!"
"It must bo," she replied rs she
took tho other chicken leg.-De~
troit free Press.
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Before 1862 the year III England
began on tho 25th Of March, but then
an act passed undor King George
II. provided that it should com
mence Oh the 1st of january, and
that after the 3D. Of September, 1862,
the next ensuing day should be
regarded rs the 14th, thus dropping
out eleven days. The "old style"
was settled by tho Grcgorian Gallon.
dar, but the 'new style" by the Act
"a Geo. H., cap. 90. The 11th of
February, old style, would there
fore be the 22d, new style
The change wrought sad havoc
with the meaning Of somo old
phrases, as, for instance, when it is
now said that "March CONFESS in
like lion and goes out like lamb"
reference is had to the olden timo
when the end of March was the 10Th
Of April,
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