The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-12

boWser was on mana to say:
Il told you not to try it. It wou,d
take the strength Of three men to oct
the carpet over the line"
woman, am running this GARNET
or are you?" he demanded, as he
turned on her.
"But you can't lift it up"
Then I'll die trying! When want
your advice about beating a carpet
I'll ask for It'll"
She went hack into the house and bs
figured little. He decided that if the
carpet were spread out on the ground
it could be beaten just as well as II
hung up, and he drew long breath
and began unrolling it. He had up.
rolled about three yards when his feet
stepped on each other and he fell
down, and the number of tacks wait.
ing to receive him was just II. He felt
every one of them at once, and wa.
surprised into yell which brought
dozen heads to as many back windows
to see who was being murdered. When
Mrs. Bowser got out he was trying to
climb the back fence, but she caught
him by the legs and pulled him down
and exclaimed:
"Now, then, have you gone crazy?
What's the matter with you?"
"The blamed thing is full of tarantu.
las or buzz saws" he gasped, "and
about hundred of them got their
teeth into me at once!"
1T was tacks, Mr.. Bowser. You
ought to have looked out for them.
Look at your hands! And your neck
and ears are bloody! told youin the
beginning that"
He interrupted her with gesture,
then rushed forward and kicked the
roll until his legs could kick no longer.
She started to tell him that all the
neighbors were looking and laughing,
but he froze her with glare, and.
picking up the broomstick, pounded
away until II was only splinter in his
hand. Then he drew himself up and
walked into the kitchen and upstairs
She knew what was coming, but could
not avoid it. He was waiting for her,
and promptly said:
"Woman, you have succeeded in
your plans!"
my plans-how?'
'Tc get me almost butchered alive
and to make me the laughing stock Of
The reighborhood!"
"Blt didn't I tell you"
"No, ma'am, you didn't-not
word! I see through the whole thing.
There is your internal old carpet out
there. I am going out. lam going to
see my lawyer. I may never return.
l bid you good-by-good-by forever!"
But at midnight he came snealzing
back to his home and his bed. and
next morning when four men drove up
in a wagon to take the carpet away he
pretended neither to see nor to hear.
Words Have Different Meanings.
The history Of many words which
we are continually using, little think
ing how old and venerable they are
and what they meant originally, is
curious. Take the word "daughter."
This Is an old, old word. Like father
and mother, brother and sister, It
takes US away back to the time long
before there was an English-speaking
people or German people, before even
The Romans and the Greeks had be-
come distinct and separate peoples
and when our forefathers were still
simply "Aryans," living somewhere in
The heart Of Asia. The Germans as
we'll al we use this word, but they
spell and pronounce it "tochter." The
ancient Greeks, who were likewise
'Aryans," used 1t, too, but they gave
i still another pronunciation-"th,'-
yater"-while the ancient Hindoos,
who came also Of this good old Aryan
'tock, pronounced It "duitar." Now.
he old Hindoo language is in many
particulars more nearly like the orig
nal Aryan tongue than any other OF
The languages that descended from 1t.
Ind 1t has enabled scholars to explain
many words Of which the meanings
,ould hardly otherwise have been
yuessed. Daughter is one Of them.
This word seems to have meant orl g.
nally "milker.' Our forefathers in
hat long ago were hcrdsrnen and
very daughter was milkmaid' An