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Griggs courier., 1893-10-06

By smoke from factories and from
steomsrs passing within . stones
throw ON the crowded river: SCOT from
one hundred chimneys blachens grass.
blade and leaf: the clangor and din of
hammers and steam whistles, Of ma
chinerv and traffic resound through
the sacred place and assail our ears as
we reverently stand above the ashes of
the ''fair-haired lassie."
Two or three faded wreaths rest upon
the grave; one Of them (placed by the
loving hands Of an American) has lain
there since the last anniversary of
Mary's death and of the composition of
the exquisite and impassioned lines
ITO Mary in Heaven" The devoted
girl has here ''moldercd in silent dust
for more than century. During half
that period her grave was unsought
and neglected; now it is found neces-
sary to protect it from the depredations
of tourists by an iron railing. Fifty
years ago resident lovers of Burns pro-
cured bv subscription the erection of a
monument over the mound. 1t is of
marble, twelve feet in height. 1t bears
u sculptured medallion representing in
relief Burns and Mary. with clasped
hands, plighting their vows. Beneath
is the inscription:
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
II AN SURE OF THIS. "

and provide and protect; but must be
master. AS am offer myself. You
will not be deceived"
Sylvia smiled one Of her sweet. elec-
trio smiles, and. with her small white
hand resting confidingly upon the
majors arm. she told him she had &C.
cepted the situation.
''You are sure?" he queried.
II am sure Of this" she said, looking
up into his face with candid fervor, II
love you well enough to marry you, and
.as>for domestic government the result
must be as the result is the world over
tho weak must depend ufon the
strong"
Hannibal Sparhawk kissed the little
woman and assured her that he would
never be tyrannical or unjust and the
day for the wedding was fixed
People wondered, when it was pub
lished, that Sylvia Aspen was to be-
come the wife of Maj. Sparhawk.
''She will be slave and ,drudge!"
va. tho general opinion.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
.skNeE DEEP"

They are calling "Kneo deep!" "IKnee ceep!''
tonight in the marsh below,
Down By the bank where the rank bulrushes
acd calaMus grow.
lark! how the aavils ring. Is the silver ham.
meTs Smlte,
summer night
Over the swampy forge the sparks OF the fre-
dies rise:
In the shadows the maiden likes lean with
languorous signs
20 their lover, the whip-poor win, who is
watched by the du1y owl.
While the night-hawk shufles By, monk in .
velvet cowl,
And the bat waaves inky weft, through the
white star beams that peep
Down through tho cypress boughs. where the
frogs all sing: "Knee deep"
Sometimes song will beckon . hcart-broken
man like mo.
Back to the bygone years and the scenes that
used to be
When this world was fenced from Heaven by
one rose hedge and through
That bourne the blessed angels looked, and
asphodel odors blew.
So. listening to the. lit OF the minstrcls among
the reels,
Ny soul leaps out Of its human husk into the
clover meads:
And see the storm-king ride tho summer
CIUuuS Id St6t,
With chariot whip Of Nvid flame, and thunder
billingsgate:
And watch the tawny tide, mid the lush sword
grasses creep,
While the frighted frogs all cling to the willows
ard sing: "knee Deep"
Knee deep I wade in the rippled creek. with
butrercup bloom o'erblown.
Heaving like gold on beauty's breast, its sheen
half hid, half shown:
tlnee deep in the saffron marigolds that pranl
the meadows fair,
Like school Of Saxon children, blue-eyed ane
with yellow hair:
eknee deep in tho whortlc-berries on the uplant
slope stand,
With torn straw hat half full, and . Quails mes
In my hand:
tlnee deep in amethyst autumn leaves, rustl,
toward the place
Where tho pert and upright rabbit sits ant
washes her innocent face.
Song OF the Quivering culms and osters! an
wading again, in truth,
zkneo deep in the stream Of memory, that flow,
from the land Of youth.
Robert Mcintyre. in Colorado Magazine
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
She Knew All About It.

A pretty little Frenchwo7aan went
into one of the newspaper offices last
Tuesday, and with positive air passed
an advertisement through the window.
The clerk looked at it for a moment,
smiled, and then said:
"The English is little bit awkward,
miss. Would you like to make any
changes?"
The pretty little woman tossed he,
head.
mo. m'sieur. I link knows how to
write ze good Inglis."
The clerk smiled again.
'An right" and he watched the lit
tie woman as she sailed out of the
door. The next morning the ''ad" ap.
peared: e......
Pupils Wanted-Mlle. Narcotic re-
spectfully announces that she wishes
to show her tongue to the young Amer
ican ladies.-Boston Budget.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
BOATING THROUGH SOLID ICE.
The 1ce-Crushing Steamboats, that Croas
tho Straits Of Mackinac.

The Ioe-Crushing Steamboats, that Croas
the Straits Of Mackinsc.
The most wonderful ice-crushing
steamboat in the world is built to carry
trains OF cars across the Straits of
Mackinac, from Mackinaw City to st.
Ignace. Mich. In those straits the ice
in winter is prodigiously thick, and
when there is not solid bridge Of
clear blue ice over the water there is
apt to be a bridge OF drift ice. The
ferryboats that carry the heavy trains
across this piece of water are obliged
to be powerful ice fighters, and they
are built in a peculiar way to do their
fighting. Their bows, which are as
solid and strong as a naval ram, are
built to slope inward and outward,
SO that the boats climb up on
the ice and beat or crush it down.
The enormous weight of the newest
boat, the Ste. Marie, which is
five million six hundred Thousand
pounds, will crush any ice that it rests
upon. Under the bow is u propeller
screw, which not only pulls the boat
ahead, but sucks the water out from
beneath the ice in order that the ice
may be more easily broken. Then
again, the screw sucks the broken ice
away and casts it behind as the boat
pushes its way along.
This new boat cost more than third
of q million of dollars. She can carry
eighteen loaded cars on her three
tracks, and can make fifteen miles an
hour. Her side planks are six inches
thick, and the sides of the vessel are
nearly three feet thick toward the bot
ton of the hull. She is all coated with
quarter-inch steel except at the bow
and stern, where the steel plates are
two inches thick. The two ends of the
boat are almost solid timber to make q
battering ram of her. Her bow screw
is smaller than that in the stern, but
with both at work she can make eight
miles an hour through solid blue ice
two feet thick, and when she encoun-
ters soft or drift ice ten feat thick, her
forward screw will bore through it
and hurl 1t out of the way without it
greatly impeding her progress.-N. Y.
Sun.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
THE sHlPeoARp PET.
4 Monkey That Was Fond Of Being In I'll


4 Monkey That Was Fond Of Being In the
Monkeys, as is well known, are like
cats in the dread OF gotting wet. On
shipboard have ofttn laughed to see
them scampering from heavy spray
as it dashed over the deck. or huddling
together under the lee of the long-boat
during a passing shower. But on the
ship Euphrates we had q monkey that
was fond of swimming.
One day while we were anchored in
the roadstead off Cape Coast Castle, on
the west coast of Africa, the passengers
were seated under the awning looking
at some jewelry that had been brought
ON board by the natives, aud offered
for sale. The captains wife had a
very rare ring made of African gold,
and engraved with the signs of the
sodaic. 1t had been brought to her as
an engagement ring by her husband,
and was the dearer to her from the
fact that he had been wrecked and
picked up at sea with it on his finger.
One of the lady passengers, who had
been looking at the ring, and whose
attention was attracted by some of the
native jewelry, placed it on the cabin
skylight beside her. The next mo.
ment our pet monkey jumped on the
skylight, seized the ring, and putting
it in his mouth, jumped ON the main
deck and ran forward.
Instantly every one was on his feet
chasing the monkey. 1t ran from one
end of the deck to the other, and then
climbed aloft. Some of the sailors
went up and drove it down again.
When it reached the railing of the
bulwarlks, it paused and looked around;
the sailors were fast closing in on it,
and without moments hesitation, il
jumped overheard.
On rising to the surface, it tried to
climb up the vessels side, but her cop
per was high out of the water, and il
could get no hold with itspaws. Then
it divcd, swan under the ships bottom
and came to the surface on the othe,
side. This performance it repeated
three or four times.
While this was going On, the cap
tain's wife remained seated. Tears
were in her eyes as she spoke to the
sailors. "Never mind" she said
"don't chase the poor monkey any
more; it doesn't know any better. Its
instincts teach it to steal"
She had hardly finished speaking
when the monkey came over the quar-
ter of the vessel and with u rush
leaped across the deck, jumped into
her lap, and putting its little fingers
into it's mouth, drew the ring out of the
cheek-pouch at the side of its jaws, and
dropped it into her lap.
With cry Of joy she placed it on he,
finger, and taking the dripping monkey
in aer arms, she pressed it against he,
bosom and kissed its little black, up
turned face.-Youth's Companion.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
THE GRAVE OF HIGHLAND MARY.
Whcrc Rests the Remains Of the Sweet
heart Of Burns.

Where Rests the Remains of the Sweet.
heart Of Burns.
The pilgrims in Burns-land will find
no shrines more touchingly, pathetic
ally impressive than those associated
with that most famous heroine of mod
ern poetry, the "Highland Mary" of
Burns sweetest and tenderest stanzas.
Fifteen miles up the coast from ''auld
in the hut of a common sailor. From
the narrow street we look across the
Firth and beyond Dunoon to the heights
of the west highlands, where she grew
to young womanhood. In the port of
Cantire, behind "Arran's mountain
isle," we find the site of the poor abode
where she spent the last summer of her
short life in preparation for her ex
pected wedding with Burns. At Coils
field we see the great rambling. white
pillared mansion where she was en-
ployed when the poet first saw
and loved her; and about it we
wander by wood and stream amid
the scenes where she loitered
with her lover, and where, after lone
day of parting love" the pair store
themselves asunder" never to meet
more. by Alloway's ''haunted kirk"
we find a memento of that parting
the Bible Burns gave her that day, and
upon which their vows were said, and
the tress of her shining hair which she
gave to him. Here, also, is her spin
ning-wheel. Near the church of 1.-The
Holy Fair" at Mauchline is the somber
old house of Hamilton, of which she
was some time an inmate, where she
and the bard often met and where, ac-
cording to his niece, Miss Pcgg, his
mother saw Mary and noted the pleas
ing description and incidents which
Miss Begg has heard the mother re-
peat. At Greenock, in a dingy side
street, was the humble dwelling of
Mary's paternal aunt-wife to Peter
Mcpherson. a ship carpenter-where
Mary, stopping on her way to a new
place of service. found her brother
stricken with a contagious fever, brave.
ly nursed him to convalescence and
then succumbed to his malady-merci-
fully saved by the fever from dying of
a broken heart.
Not far away is the spot where the
heroic girl is laid in death. 1t is in
the burial plot Of her uncle, in the
west kirkyard. near Crawford street.
A pathway. beaten in the turf by the
feet of many visitors, leads to and ends
at her grave. All about it is SO pitiably
different from the scenes she loved in
life-the heather-clad slopes of her
highland home, the WOODLAND braes
and brooks where she fingered in dali
lance with her poet-lover. Scant
foliage is about her. few birds may
warble above her here. She lies by the
wall; narrow and noisy streets closely
invest the incscsurc; the air is sullied
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06

Many Are Extravagantly Fitted Out.
Though Economy Is Easily Possible.
The house boat is comparatively
recent invention, and, being unpat-
ented. its multiplication and improve
ment go on yearly, until now some of
them are veritable floating palaces,
and prince might envy the London
sybarites who live in this style "upon
the river" during the season. Lovers
of fast yacht sailing will, perhaps, fail
to see much to admire or desire in the
commodious and dslow-proceeding house
boat, but the seeker for genuine. en-
joyment and luxury will find more
comfort ''to the square inch" aboard
one than on the swiftest-speeding
and most perfectly appointed yacht
An average Thames house boat
may I've twenty, thirty Or forty
feet long ''ovcr all,'' Us yachtmen
say, and is drawn like canal boat by
horses plodding along towpath by
the river. Small-sized house boats are
draw by hand, which requires some
skill on the part of the substitute for
equine labor, and also arc propelled by
polling. The boat itself is sort of
barge, large fat boat upon which is
constructed the 'house," a cabin Of
several apartments, comprising, ac-
copiing to the dimensions of the house
boat, one or two sleeping-rooms, q dim
ing saloon and sitting-room, kitchen,
bath and necessary Offices and rooted
veranda, front and back. A fight of
steps leads from the forward deck up
on to the fiat top or ''roof" of this one
storied house, and here, as on an upper
deck, sheltered by gay. multi.
colored awning, the passengers sit and
amuse themselves variously, reading,
chatting, sewing, sketching, singing.
as pleases individual fancy.
Some of these Thames house boats
cost ''pretty penny" and are fitted up
with every elegance and luxury that u
fastidious and extravagant taste can
require and modern art and ingenuity
supply; yet, ''houseboating" is not
necessarily an expensive luxury. A
renovated old canal boat or barge, with
the hold planhed over, is sometimes
made to do duty as house boat. Upon
the body of the boat u long room, some
fifteen or twenty by seven or eight
feet, is built, allowing passageways of
about two feet each side, SO that
the coxswain may pass safely from
bow to stern of the boat Lock-
ers, which also serve as seats, are built
around the inside. In the center the
dining table, with folding leaves, is
secured to the flooring, and at either
end of the cabin or saloon are contrived
statcrooms of moderate size, with
: hinged berths, wire frames for wash
stands, and square, cushioned seats,
which are lockers in disguise. When
the house is built and the roof timed
the whole boat is painted glossy
white or some attractive light color,
her name lettered in bright colors
across the stern, and the national COL
ors run up the towpole, which rises
about five feet above the roof.-Frank
Leslie'S Monthly.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
Willing to Work.

"Now," said the warden to the forger
who had just arrived at the prison.
''we'll set you to work. What can YOU
do best?"
''Well, if you'll give me a weeks
practice on your signature, I'll sign
your official papers for you." said the
prisoner.-Puck.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The mole plague in the southern
counties of Scotland, which for time
proved terrible scourge to farmers,
has now all but disappeared. This is
due to the fact that owls were pre-
served by the gamekeepers and became
extraordinarily plentiful.
Every deliberative civil body in En-
gland, even down to the town councils,
is provided with mace which is
brought forth with solemn ceremony
and placed on the table Before the de-
liberations begin. In one or two city
councils candlestick of silver is added
to the mace. and acts passed in the alb
sence of these objects are supposed to
be illegal.
I'm Tyrol the mother of female in
fant makes during the first year of its
life a beautiful lace handkerchief.
After it is finished it is laid away to be
brought out and placed over her head
as bridal veil at her marriage. After
the marriage it is again laid away to
be seen no more until her death, when
it is again produced and laid over her
face in the coffin.
january 80 and 81 and February
are famous at Constantinople. Brescia
and along the Danube and the Rhine
as the "blachplrd days" A curious le-
gend says that originally all species of
grackles (blaclkbirds) were white, and
that they became black because during
one year in the middle ages the three
days mentioned above were SO cold
that all the birds in Europe took refuge
in the chimneys.
AT Dauphinc, on January II, 1913,
at a place known as the giants field. a
brick tomb 80 feet long, 10 feet wide
and 8 feet high was discovered. When
opened it was found to contain hu.
man skeleton entire, 2511 feet long, 10
feet wide across the shoulders and
feet thick from the breastbone to the
back. His teeth were each about the
size of an ox's foot, and his shinbones
each measured feet in length.
On the stairway landings of almost
every Partisan chateau there are smal II
tables designed to hold candles When
guests are saying goodnight this table
presents pretty picture. The candles
are of varied colors, the candlesticks OF
odd designs and the lights are pleas
antly softened by colored shades. A
green candle in silver candlestick,
with perfectly formed pond lily for
the shade, is but one of many novelties.
"A sponging-housc was house kept
by the sherifss officers in London, to
which person arrested for debt was
taken, and where he was kept for TWEEN.
ty-four hours, SO that his friends might
have chance to settle the debt. The
place was called sponging-house be.
cause of the extortionate charges for
any sort of accommodation. When i'm.
prisonment for debt was finally abol.
ished in 1860 the last sponging-houses
disappeared.
On October 2s, A. d. s1S, Constan
tine the Great is said to have ''heard q
great and mighty noise above and te
the east of him." and upon turning hi.
ewes in that direction was astonishet
beyond measure ut what he there be
held" Clearly outlined upon the blu.
Sky was a cross of pure white, and il
the halo which surrounded the top wa.
the Latin phrase, "In hoe signo' (''By
this sign"), in letters of deep scarlet
Mackey, the great historian, says tina,
there was second inscription in
Greek, the letters of which in English
would be "En to nilsa.'
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06

Efforts to domesticate the quail
have been persisted in by many people
but generally with Indifferent results
Robert Jenkins, of Richmond. Ind,
however, claims to have recently tanned
a brood of quail who live on his prem
ises, showing no indication thu. then
prefer the woods and falds
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
A Case Of Thrift.

Wife-An' phwy do yez be talsin
thin pills when yez are well again?
Husband-Faith, would we be afther
havin' me let dollars worth of pills
go to waste? It's thriftless family OF
married into, sure.-N. Y. Weekly.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06

He stood six feet two inches in his
stockings and turned the beam of a
true and trusted Fairbanks at two hum
dred and ten pounds avoirdupois.
He was the acknowledged leader If
his party in our town and his party
was in the ascendant.
The major was not auarrelsome, but
he was opiniopated and unyielding. He
was too big man to quarrel and too
conscioas of his own powers to yield a
point in anything.
Maj. Sparhawk had lived q bachelor
to the age of forty. At length, how
ever, the erotlc dart touched his heart,
and he offered to take a wife and make
her mistress of the wife's appropriate
department of his houce.
Sylvia Aspen was a small, delicate
woman, pretty and accomplished.
For several years she had taught the
primary department of our common
school, and the experimenting commit
tee was forced to acknowledge that by
no other teacher had the scholars ever
been SO thoroughly governed.
She had seen thirty years of life and
for reasons best known to herself she
had refused all offers of marriage.
And now Maj. Hannibal Sparhawk
offered her his hand and his heart.
miss Aspe n" he said, in his blunt.
dictatorial way, ''ycu have known me
long enough ard well enough to know
something of the home can provide.
If you take me you will take rough,
blunt man who must be his own master
through life.
II have my own peculiar views of the
true marriage relation. The man is
the head of the household. can love
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06

A Capable Man.
Smith-Do you know young man
named Tom Beverly?
Jones-I do. .s,
t''Well, he wants position in my Office
~ cashier. Is he q good business man;
Is he capable?"
Capable! I should say so. He is ca
pable of anything. He was private Sec
rotary of u Brooklyn alderman for sew
eral years. There is nothing he is not
capable of doing. Texas Siftings.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
Legend of the Forget-Me-Not.

Everybody knows the pretty little
forget et.me-not, and likes the flower more
perhaps because of it's name than its
beauty. How was it SO called? The
Germans account for it by quite pa
thetic romance. It seems that once
upon time knight and a lady were
walking by the bank of the Danube
when the latter asked her gallant
gay" to pluck for her a tiny blue flower
which she saw growing in the stream.
No sooner said than done, but the
knight, overbalancing, fell into the
river, and owing to the slippery nature
of the bank and the weight of his own
armor, was carried away by the tor
rent. AS he threw the flowers ashore
to his lady he cried out with his last
breath: "vergiss mein nicht!" Forget
me not" And ever since the flower has
been looked on as an emblem of fidel.
ity.-Philadelphia Times.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
Erected Over the Grave Of
HIGHLAND MARY
1872
NY Mary. dear departed shade,
Where Is thy place of blissful rest!
HOUSE BOATS IN ENGLAND.

Home Journal.
Griggs courier., 1893-10-06
11reze' fkef!ss;s.!'
oee,,sfhe'

Al. H A n n l.
Il A L S PA R.
HAWK w a S
one of the large
and heavy men
of our town.
He was a born
hero and q war
rior. His spirit
was m ar t ial
and command
ing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
A New Kind of Sunday School.

The idea OF the industrial Sunday school Is
ments are now being with 1t, especially In St.
Louis, where Sunday school for technical
education has just been opened under the su-
pervision of Prof. G. NJ. Woodward, the head
OF the Manual Training school Of Washington
University.
The school is founded by the "self culture
club" an organization Of workers, many Of
them wage workers In the trades. 1t is re
markable In this and II Is not less remark a.
Bile because of Its incidental connection with
Washington University, which, as 1t repre-
sents the New England influence In Missouri,
might be supposed to be In some sympathy
with Sabbataranism.
AS II spreads TO other cities there may be
protests from the narrow minded, but the
young men and women who spend Sunday at-
ternoon trying to increase their usefulness by
studying algebra drawing and English litera
ture are doing God service.-New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-04
Will Force be Necessary?

We see by the newspapers that Governor
Tillman has expressed his determination to
ask the Legislature, for authority to appoint
metropolitan police in the larger cities of the
State. The necessity for this course, he al
leges is because Of his dissatisfaction with the
police Of those cities in reference to the en-
forcement Of the dispensary law.
The Press and Banner hopes that Governor
Tillman may not use more force than is &C
tually necessary to command obedience to
lawful authority, but he should exhaust ev-
cry power that may be necessary to enforce
the law.
The violators of the dispenssry law. who
sell whiskey contrary to law, should be
taught the necessity OF observing to the law
which they are breaking, and tn q law-sbiding
citizens OF those cities should express their
condemnation Of lawlessnes ess.
The dispensary law has come to stay, and
1t will be useless to force the Governor to re-
sort to force.
But force or no force. those who openly set
aay law OF this State at defiance
will sooner or later feel the force Of the law .
The country people have cheerfully yielded
obedience to the law and recalcitrant city II.
quor dealers should be required to obey it.