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ENQUIRER-S0>': COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1890.
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA.
RECORD OF INTERESTING EVENTS
IN TWO GREAT STATES.
the news culled fkom the bright
COLUMNS OF ABLE PAPERS WHICH
GREET THE EXCHANGE TABLE.
AN INTERESTING COLUMN.
The great need of Dawson is said to be
more houses.
A Democratic weekly newspaper is to be
established at Hepzibak.
A negro girl in Dawson sixteen years
olii weighs 193 pounds.
The Cedartown Standard suggests the
formation of a new judicial circuit.
It is understood that bottling works will
be established in Dawson at an early date.
The contract for uniforming the Uni
versity cadets has been awarded to a Cin
cinnati house.
The Savannah Cotton Mills will issue
$50,000 0 per cent, bonds for ; ‘collateral
purposes.”
The theater-goers in Macon are kicking
because speculators are allowed to buy up
all the reserved seats.
Adairsville feels the need of a water
works svstem, and a movement in that di
rection is being agitated.
TLe tax returns of Dooly county show
an increase over last year in taxable prop
erty of $000,000.
The Albany bird cage has in custody
seventeen pets, for crimes ranging from
gaming to red-handed murder.
The work of the Superior Courts in the
Rome circuit has accumulated so much
that the dockets in many counties are two
years behind.
A young man in Elberton, connected
with one of the best families iu the county,
lias been sent to the chain gang for six
months for runninf a “blind tiger.”
Among the applicants for positions on
the Americus police force are two brothers,
one six feet seven and one-half inches in
height and the other six feet four inches.
The representatives of Greene county in
the next General Assembly will introduce
a local bill providing for granting county
aid to the Greene Rifles.
It is rumored that a negro who com
mitted an outrage in Monroe county
Thursday, was pursued ami captured be
tween Forsyth and Macon that night and
lynched.
As the result of the preliminary trial
of Captain Vaughn, charged with the
murder of Rowers, in Macon, the defend
ant has been committed for murder, and
Mallory, Jhe friend who was with him at
the time of the shooting has been released,
it appearing that he had nothing to do
with the difficulty.
The Central railroad has appointed Mrs.
Mary Carroll gatekeeper at the railroad
shops in Macon. Mrs. Carroll has been
switchwoman at the Central railroad junc
tion at Macon for forty years, and has
always been faithful and efficient. The
recent change has been made to lighten
her duties.
The British steamship Starlight, which
arrived in Savannah from Liverpoi 1
Thursday night, brought four stowaways,
who, under the pauper act, could not be
landed. The captain, on being notified by
the customs authorities, gave bond for
their safe return to England. One of the
stowaways escaped before the vessel sailed.
A queer case is reported from Athens.
Sometime ago one S. D. Kurn, a mechan
ic, drifted there from Indiana and began
work at his trade with Mr. C. L. Sorrels.
He informed his employer at the outset
that he was a married man but that he
and his wife had separated on account of
incompatibility of temper, but were not
divorced. Recently Kurn began paying
attention to a young lady in Athens. Mr.
Sorrels felt it his duty to inform her of
what Kurn had told him, but notwith
standing, the couple were married at the
bride’s residence Thursday night. Kurn
now denies that he was previously mar
ried. Tne matter is to be investigated.
IN ALABAMA.
Mobile Register: The directors of the
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
Company are informed by Mr. John Scott,
the president of the Anglo-Southern Con
struction Company, that he has recently
returned to New York city from Colorado,
where lie was engaged in other entensive
enterprises, and is now taking active in
terest in the building of the Mobile, Jack-
son and Kansas City road.
The Opelika Industrial Netvs has this
paragraph: B. P. Young, of Tallapoosa
county, paid the News a pleasant call Sat
urday and extended best wishes for the
success of the new paper. Air. Young
hears the distinction of being the first
boy baby boru in the county of Tallapoosa
hud is also the grandson of Bird Young,
the original character of Simon Suggs,
lie is an excellent gentleman and ranks
among the most progressive farmers of his
COUnly,
Articles of incorporation of the Geor
gia, Tennessee and Illinois Railroad Com
pany were tiled in the office of the Secre
tary of State at Montgomery Thurs lav.
Tlie incorporators named are J. H. Plum
mer, J. M. McBride and j. C. Kibbie of
the city of Tallapoosa, Harris county, Ga.;
A. J. McBride and J. A. Burn, of tfe'e
ci'y of Atlanta, Ga., and W. B. Thomas,
of Tennille, Ga. The amount of capital
stock of the proposed corporation is tixed
at $1,003,039, divided into ten shares of
81CJ each. The incorporators ask the
privilege of increasing the capital stock
not exceeding $10,0CD,CCJ. The terminal
points of the proposed road from some
point on the line of the State of Georgia,
in the county of Cleburne or Cherokee in
Alabama, and through the counties of
Cleburn, Calhoun, Etowah and Jackson
to the town of Stephenson in the county
of Jackson, Ala.
In October, 18SS, W. H. Edmonds, edi
tor of the Anniston Hot Blast, was at
tacked in liis office by two men, Lacey and
Lawrence, and badly wounded. John
Tripney ani J. H. Chappell, who were
present, were also shot, and Tripney, who
was in bad health at the time, has since
died. Through legal technicalities, Lacey
and Lawrence have managed to stave off a
trial of the case, and having obtained bail
have ever since been enjoying freedom.
Under the plea that they could not obtain
justice in Callioun county, where the facts
of the outrageous assault were known,
they have secured a change of venue, and
tiie ease is now set for trial in the Etowah
Circuit Court at Gadsden, on the 16th of
October. Edmonds is one of the proprie
tors and business manager of the Balti
more Manufacturers’ Record.
Moses M. Clay, a brickmason at
Oneonta, who had been separated from his
wife, Victoria B. Clay, about five years
asto, was arrested a few davs since for kid-
separation, became Mrs. J. M. Green, and
took the custody of her two children by
Clay. The other day Clay happened to be
in Birmingham on business, and was about
to leave for home, when he met Jessie, his
oldest boy, who desired to go with him.
The boy said, “Mamma don’t treat me
right, and I want to go with you, papa.”
The appeal was touching, but Clay gave
the child a dollar, told him to go to his
mother, and then boarded the train.. To
his great surprise he found the hoy
on it likewise, and both went to
Oneonta. Mrs. Green issued a warrant
for kidnapping, and Constable Campbell
went up and brought back the boy and
father this morning. Justice Coleman
heard the case and discharged Clay, as he
was proven blameless of kidnapping. He
was, however, put under bond to keep the
peace, as be had threatened Mrs. Green’s
life. It was with difficulty that the boy
could be induced to so back to his mother,
but be eventually did so and all was peace.
A Hartselle special says: On Friday night
the citizens of this village witnessed a
scene never before occurring in the histo
ry of Hartselle. At the close of religious
services at the Presbyterian church the
vast audience was invited to attend the
marriage of four voting couples, just
across the street at the Baptist church. It
was well known and in a very short time
the house was filled to its utmost capacity.
At 9 o'clock the following couples were
ushered in at the right and leit entrance
and marched down the aisles: James
Simpson and Miss Alary Orr, Albert Brit-
nell and Miss Lilian Sandling, Robert
Barnes and Miss Alattie Bateler, John
Britnell and Aliss Alay Ferguson. Upon
reaching the altar each couple crossed to
the opposite side and stood facing the au
dience. Over them was an arch com
posed of evergreens and flowers. From
the center of it hung a large bell made of
beautiful white flowers. The back ground
and each side was spaciously decorated
with rich and rare flowers that were pot
ted and in full bloom. Directly in front
of the eight happy hearts that were soon
to beat as four stood*Rev. John D. Simp
son, a comparatively young divine, rather
tall and commanding in appearance, who,
with all the grace and dignity possible,
stepped forward and in turn performed, the
ceremonies in a very appropriate manner,
pronouncing each couple man and wife.
The grooms were all handsome and the
brides beautiful. Your correspondent
never before had the pleasure of behold
ing a more beautiful picture. After the
benediction the young people repaired to
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. Y.
Echols to enjoy their hospitalities.
GORDON’S CAREER.
THE FLIPPANT DENUNCIATORY LETTER
OF EX-SENATOR NORWOOD.
Editor Enquirer-Sun: The attacks
being made on Governor Gordon by the
designing politicians wffio are using the un
witting farmers to accomplish their pur
poses are sufficient to arouse the indigna
tion of all true Georgians. The con
temptible letter of Mr. Norwood appearing
in yesterday’s issue would not have done
credit to a ward politician in a down-town
precinct in a municipal election, ami yet it
emanated from the pen of an ex-United
States Senator, an author and a great and
accomplished lawyer. That the writer
should have so far forgotten the dignity of
the subject, the dignity of the distinguished
and honored citizen to whom he addressed
the letter, and the dignity of himself, is
utterly astonishing. The charges made
against Governor Gordon by Mr. Norwood
have been passed upon by the people of
Georgia. In the celebratedColquitt-Xorwcod
campaign those same charges were writ
ten about in every newspaper and talked
about from every speaking stand in Geor
gia and when the people came to make out
their verdict Norwood was buried out of
sight. So again the thing was repeated in
the Bacon-Gordon campaign. In that cam
paign General Gordon had an antagonist
far more worthy of his steel than Colquitt
had when he made his race, and yet Gor
don swept the State like a cyclone.
The cold and closely written article
which appeared from the pen of “Al-
lianceman” in last Sunday’s Constitution,
the speech of Air. Peek in Rockdale comi
ty, the letter of Mr. Norwood and every
other attack upon General Gordon has
failed to disclose any single charge against
Gen. Gordon as a public man save this
old State Senatorial trade story which has
been so effectually sat upon. Every thing
that has been trumped up upon General
Gordon is about his own private matters.
Now his enemies should reflect upon one
thing. Whatever may have been John
B. Gordon’s failures in his own business
affairs no man can dare say he eyer failed
to do his whole duty as A public officer
having a public trust. From the office of
Captain on up through all the high offices
in military and civil life with which his
to the capitoi. When the Confederate
monument was unveiled at Montgomery
and Gordon, of Georgia, was the orator,
no more eloquent and grand speech ever
fell from the lips of a Southern man.
But recently, when he went to Chicago
to speak by invitation, the largest hall in
that large city could not hold the people
who went to hear him, and he made a
speech of which all Georgia and all the
South were proud. But they say he is a
fair speaker and catches the crowd, but
can’t accomplish anything. When he
comes to work for the people he seems to
get on fairly well. In the war as a leader
of men, and in position where executive
ability was a test, he easily took first
place. In the halls of the Senate, when
he represented our State, one heard much
more of Georgia than in these days. As
Governor for the past four years his record
speaks for itself—a record absolutely above
criticism, and a? brilliant as ever shown in
the history of Georgia.
These hastily penned lines have been
written of Gen. Gordon because of the
contemptible letter of ex-Senator Nor
wood, addressed to this great man, who
belongs not only to Georgia but to the
South, and who will live in history long
after the small detractors who now throw
mud at him shall have passed out of mind.
When the time for this election comes, we
predict that he will, as he has always done
heretofore, sweep the field. He has been
sweeping fields—battle-fields and political
fields, from 1861 {to the present time, and
he generally sweeps them clean, and he
will doubtless in this instance do as he has
always done. G.
•
THE READING HORROR.
TWENTY DEAD BODIES TAKEN FROM THE
RIVER.
Reading, Pa., September 20.—The
horror of last night’s wreck on the Read
ing railroad seemed even worse when day
light dawned, the scene being simply
frightful. Up to 10 o’clock twenty bodies
of the dead had been taken from the
wreck. The injured will number fifty.
The body of George R. Kaercher, general
counsel of the Reading, was taken out
badly disfigured. He was drowned in one
foot of water in the Pullman car. He was
regarded as a very able lawyer.
The following is a revised list of the
dead thus far taken from the wreck: Jno.
W. Miller, Cresson; George Greenawale,
mail agent, Pottsville; John White, engi
neer, PottSville; Wm. D, Shorn, Reading;
Harry Jacoby, stone cutter, Pottstown;
Joseph Becker, Chief Burgess of Alahonoy
City; Solomon Hoover, aged sixty, Potto-
viile; Airs. Edward J. Fox, aged forty-one,
Pottsville; George R. Kaercher, aged
forty-five, Pottsville; Harry Loughin, con
ductor of the express;John Osborne,Phila
delphia; Airs. J. E. Fredericks, Pottsville;
J. E. Fredericks, husband of the above;
Joseph Rausman, Philadelphia; N. C.
Vanderslice, Phcenixville; John Slieedier,
Philadelphia (P. & R engineer); Michael
Summers, Alahonoy City; Frank Hassinan,
Mahonoy City.
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
According to advices received at the
ma in office in regard to the cause of the
calamity, it appears that two coal trains
left Perry, farther ‘ up the road, twelve
minutes apart, and southbound. After
proceeding some distance, the first train of
ears parted in the middle and the rear half
stopped. The second train plunged into
it and threw the heap of debris upon the
passenger track. It was a minute
and a half after this collision, and
almost before the freight crew
could turn around, that the express
came thundering along, plunged into the
obstruction and went into the river. A
melancholy coincidence is presented in the
fact that the ill-fated train, the Pottsville
express, is the same which was wrecked at
Tuckerton on the down trip on the 23d of
June last, and Engineer White and Fire
man Templing, who were killed iu yester
day’s disaster, filled the places of Hiller
brothers, Lewis and George, the engineer
and fireman who lost their lives in the first
named accident.
FEMININE FANCIES.
FASHION FREAKS FOR FALL AND WIN
TER.
From Godey’s Magazine for October
are culled the following notes of interest
to the fair readers of the Enquirer-Sun:
Black lace caps will continue to be woin
far into the autumn.
Pretty fancy aprons for little girls are
composed of squares of washing silk, of
printed muslin.
Exquisite pompadour brocades in deli
cate fruit tones especially designed for
dinner jackets.
The skir-
b'oule iiA. ve honored him hp has been a ! *wnfua of dresses are still madeeX-
Elii *'•" -1 ; - V „ Jr /..a, • ‘cess vely tight, and the bodices are fast-
whole, C.ean and true inau. Gordon is a - a ...
big man. He is by no means perfect. He
don’t know how to make money nor how
to steal it. If hq did, tie would be a mil
lionaire today. In. this corrupt age it is to
his credit that he has not “feathered his
nest” at the expense of his people, but he
knows how to represent, not only Georgia,
but the South, and he does it “mighty
well'' every time. When our entire land
Was stirred with strife, and all the best and
the bravest and the ablest were at the
front, Gen. Gordon was a leader there.
When war ended, and we were making the
fight in dark reconstruction days, this
Chevalier Bayard was again at the frout,
and what his great sword had done in
war his eloquent tongue was accomplishing
in peace. After reconstruction he stili
lead the people, and in the great presi
dential campaign his magic eloquence has
thrilled the people North and West, as
well as South. When our Government
celebrates some great national event and
the great of the nation are gathered,
Gordon is there to represent the South
and Georgia, and when he rides down the
line, as iu New York, the assembled
thousands greet him with more huzzas
than evenjfalls to the lot of the President
elect of the United states, and as in Phila
delphia, when Governor Gordon of Geor-
georgia, in that historic city, on that his
toric occasion of the celebration of our
independence, and amid that illustrious
assembly of dignitaries, was the observed
of all.
When the great Davis died and the
whole South was in tears, and the Gov-
bled in New Orleans, and the funeral
cortege that was to follow a dead nation’s
dead chief magistrate to his . last resting
place was formed, Gordon, of Georgio, was
the man of ail men placed at the post of
honor, the leader of the solemn obsequies.
But say his detractors, Gordon is good
at dre's parade—nothing more.
This may be true, but we have yet to
read any abler speeches than have fal’en
? from his lips. While United States Sena-
naping his own son. Mrs. Clay, after the | tor, his eloquent speeches drew hundreds
ened, no one can tell where.
For growing girls a very useful style of
school dress is the plain serge skirt and
jersey bodice in a corresponding color.
An open jacket of striped blue flannel
with a high vest of blue silk, makes a
pretty jacket for house wear with differ
ent skirts.
The most popular decorations for plain
bodices now so fashionable are the large
collars of lace or mull with turned back
wristbands to match.
Bronze and silver shavings is one of the
caprices which has appeared in the milli
nery world. Many other novelties dazzle
the eyes as well as the purses of pur
chasers.
Just now while silver buttons are the
fashionable caprice for buttoning coat bod
ices, it is the correct thing to wear watch,
sleeve buttons, brooch and chatelaine of
silver.
French sheath skirts, and also those
that are not so closely gored, are finished
down each seam with velvet or silk
pipings; the same being used for the cor
sage.
High sleeves are still worn. There are
many that are simply ridiculous, but the
modified styles, with soft folds around the
arm from elbow to shoulder,orjsome differ
ent shape only moderately high, are pretty
and becoming.
With the coming of cold weather we are
promised gowns which will be fashioned
CATCHING BLUEF1SR
SPORT ALONG THE JERSEY SHORE
AND AT GREAT SOUTH BAY.
of the Confederate States assem- .upon the most eccentric principles, and
stranger still, will be accepted despite
their fantastic colorings by cultivated and
refined tastes.
An extremely eleg ant toilette for a girl
of twelve years is an electric blue poplin,
simply made with four flounces reaching
to the waist, and a draped bodice; the
waistband of ribbon velvet fastened in
front with a bow having long loops and
ends. The collar and the wristband into
which the full sleeves are gathered are also
of velvet.
Oa Board a Fishing Smack—The Ques
tion of Tackle and What It Costs.
Blnefishing for Business and Pleasure
Combined—Catching Bines on Shore.
A slight breeze ruffles the ocean. The
vessels scud by under full sail, and the
fishing boats, off on the banks, rise and
fall-like logs on the long ground swell.
The surf breaks on the beach in great
combers, which throw themselves high
upon the sand and then rush back to
mingle with the more congenial * ele
ment. On the bluff at Seabright stands
a man whose eyes, shaded by his hand,
are bent fixedly upon a small dark patch
on the ocean over which are clustered
excited sea gulls. Now and then the
patch scintillates with silver spots, and
the gulls throw themselves from their
lofty height into the silver kaleidoscope.
It seems to be moving nearer shore. The
watcher perceives it to be a school of
bluefish. Soon the school is inside of
the breakers and he runs into a neigh
boring house.
He comes out carrying a long fishing
line, neatly ceiled, and ending in six
inches or more of stout wire, to which
is attached a lead squid. Removing his
shoes and stockings and rolling np his
trousers the man, carrying the coil of
line on his arm, wades into the surf, and
catching hold of the line about 6ix feet
from the squid begins to whirl the piece
of lead around his head. It whirls fast
er and faster. After the retreat of a
wave he finally runs down almost into
the ocean bed and lets go of the line.
The squid flies out straight a hundred
and fifty feet or more and settles into
the breakers.
FISHING FROM THE SHORE.
Then the fisherman hauls it in hand
over hand as rapidly a3 he can. A bine-
fish jumps from the water and the line
assumes a marked rigidity. The fisher
man hauls yet faster, and pulls up on the
beach a six pound beauty. He unhooks
the long, powerful bodied, blue backed,
white bellied fish very gingerly’', for he is
mindful of the razorlike teeth and does
not care to lose a finger. He throws the
fish high up on the beach and begins his
efforts afresh. In half an hour the blue-
fish, which have been in chase of a school
of menhaden, head for the deeper ocean,
and the fisherman picks np his catch of
a dozen or more and walks back to the
house. Such is bluefishing on the Jersey
coast.
Would yon see the sport on Great
South Bay, go to any of the bordering
towns, and engage for a small sum a sail
boat and a captain to take you out. If
you do not become seasick and there is a
reefing breeze you will have grand sport.
A 6quid and line can be used, or a rod
and reel with a squid. The boat keels
well over on its side and rushes through
the water with an exhilarating motion.
Several long lines troll out from the
boat, and the squids of bone or metal fly
through the water. Now the fish strikes
one line, now another, until fingers, pro
tected as they are by mitts, are sore and
arms ache. A morning’s sport will often
yield enough fish for a large hotel.
Another method frequently practiced
here is known to fishermen as chum
ming. Several hundred menhaden, or
“hunkers,” are secured, a portion of
which are ground or chopped up into a
kind of mush, and liberally scattered
over the surface of the water where the
boat is anchored.
the outfit.
An oily “stick” is thus formed which
floats rapidly to leeward, and often at
tracts the bluefish within a radius of a
mile. A slice from the menhaden's back
is put on a large hook and the line is
thrown overboard, and as it drifts away
the bait is seized by the voracious fish
which swarm about the boat.
Bluefish tackle is exceedingly cheap.
A dollar will purchase all that is neces
sary for hard fishing, while an outlay of
$6 or $7 will buy a stout casting rod, a
red and line, and the nec-
hoo^andsqmc& With this out
fit the most fastidious can fish.
Small snappers of two pounds weight
are quite abundantatBroacI channel and
toe inlet of Jamaica bay, and also at Sea-
warSi, Prince’s bav, the Horse at Sandy
Hook find at fiamegat. The large fish
running from six to fifteen pounds have
been found in great quantities all along
toe Long Island and Jersey coasts. The
season is usually from the middle of July
to the first of (October.
To be sure of good fishing and big fish
one should go aboard one of the stanch
little smacks that supply Pulton market
with its Friday’s bluefish. A little tact
and toe judicious use of four or five dol
lars will secure a berth. These boats go
out to the banks of the Jersey or Long
Island shore and sail around until fish
are sighted. Then they anchor.
Small hand mills are brought on deck
and menhaden are ground up. Dories to
the number often of a dozen, each car
rying a man and menhaden, mush and
bait, put off from the smacks and anchor
within a radius of half a mile. At the
end of toe day each dory will bring in
two or three hundred large fish. As the
smacks remain out from a week to ten
days, and meat, fish and fresh vegetables
comprise the bill of fare, an enjoyable
sea voyage offers its attractions in addi
tion to the fishing.—New York World.
Pretty Little Capri Girls.
One of the prettiest sights I know is to
meet a band of Capri girls, aged from 12
to 16, returning from their day’s toil.
Here they come with their skirts tucked
up on one side, the red kerchief careless
ly tied at the back of their shapely heads,
from under which the dark, wavy hair
escapes; cheeks flashed after hard work,
eyes shining, tongues chattering. As
they pass they look you straight in toe
face, smile merrily and wish you “Buona
sera,” with audible comments on your
personal appearance. But they are not
difficult to please, and as long as you
have an agreeable expression the general
verdict will be that you are “una bella
signora.”—Comhill Magazine.
■When Royalty Travels In Japan.
There has existed in Japan for many
centuries a curious law to the effect that
whenever the emperor or empress ap
peared in public no other person should
seem to occupy a higher place than this
member of toe royal family; therefore
on such occasions the shutters of all up
per stories were drawn, and the upper
parts of the houses through which the
royal party moved were seemingly de
serted. This law is still in effect. Three
months ago, when the empress went into
the country for a brief period, an elab
orate announcement was posted in con
spicuous places along the line of her con
templated route commanding the public
to observe strictly certain requirements
of etiquette, to wit:
When her majesty shall pass along no
one must look at her from the frame
built on houses for toe drying of clothes,
or through cracks in doors, or from any
position in the upper part of their houses.
If anybody wishes to see her majesty
he or she must sit down at the side of
the road by which her majesty will pass.
All children must be taken particular
care of that they do not play in toe road,
and so obstruct the passage of her ma
jesty through the streets.
No one must look at her majesty with
out taking off his hat, neckcloth or
turban, or whatever else he may be
wearing on liis head. Moreover, no one
must be smoking while he or she is look
ing at her majesty, nor must any one
carry a stick or cane. Only women
wearing the clothes of foreigners will be
permitted to retain their head covering.
Although it may rain, no person will
be allowed to put up an umbrella while
her majesty may be passing.
Dogs must not be allowed to wander
on to the road by which her majesty will
pass.
Until the passage of her majesty, the
route by which she will come will be
kept free from all carriages and jinri-
kashas. The roads which she will take
must be completely free from all traffic.
As her majesty passes, no one must
raise his voice, nor must any sound be
heard, nor must the crowd close in and
follow her carnage, for no noise must he
made. When her majesty reaches Umeda
station there will be a discharge of fifty
fireworks. — Eugene Field in Chicago
News.
One by One the Idols Are Falling!
The papers have been full of para
graphs about Edward Grubb, “the Bris
tol Centenarian,” who is described as
having died at the age of 109. Grubb
was not a centenarian, for, according to
his own account, he was living at Kings-
land, where he was born, when the
battle of Waterloo was fought, and yet
he went to settle in London “three or
four years before he was 20.” It is clear,
therefore, that, as only seventy-five years
have passed since Waterloo, Grubb can
not have been more than 90 when he
died.
A still .more conclusive proof is af
forded by the tombstone over his father’s
grave in the churchyard at Kingsland,
which records that he died in 1808, at
toe age of 34; so that if Grubb was a
centenarian he was born when his father
was 16 years old, and if he was 109 he
must have been bom when his father
was 7 years old! It would be just as
well if the papers, instead of eagerly
swallowing every flapdash story that is
brought to them, were to take the saga
cious advice which President Routh gave
to Dean Bnrgon: “Always verify your
references.”—London Truth.
DO DOGS HAVE MINDS?
“Hit Me Too.”
A certain genial old Bostonian, who
is a gentleman of leisure, likes nothing
better than to watch the sports of chil
dren and contrive pleasant surprises for
them.
At one time, while loitering near the
border of the pond in the public garden,
which is not far from his residence, Mr.
B observed several small boys on
toe curbstone, in stooping postures,
paddling the water with their hands.
The temptation to tap the hack of onp of
these bending urchins was great, and
Mi - . B did tap one briskly. The boy
straightened up like a flash, looked
arongd, ^md called out:
“WhiM^ld you strike me for, sir?”
“So iJjat you might rise and take this
piece oflqoney, my lad/ 5 said toe old
man, banding’Maia dime.
The boy, entirely apprised, grinned
broadly. And instantly all the other
boys flocked up to Ml_B——, each one
shouting at the top ofTiis voicq;
“Say, mister, hitme, will yeffmister?”
—Boston Transcript.
Good Sense.
It will preserve ns from censorious
ness; will lead us to distinguish circum
stances; keep us from looking after vis
ionary perfection, and make us 6ee things
in their proper light. It will lead us to
study dispositions, peculiarities, accom
modations: to weigh consequences; to
determine what to observe and what to
pass by; when to be immovuble and
when to yield. It will produce good
manners, keep us from taking freedoms
and handling things roughly; will never
agitato claims of superiority, but teach
ue to submit ourselves one to another.
Good sense will lead persons to regard
their own duties rather than to recom
mend those of others.—New York Led
ger. '
Genuine Generosity.
First Beggar—Why didn’t you tackle
that lady? She might have given you
something.
Second Beggar—I let her go because
I understand my business better than
you do. I never ask a woman for any
thing when she is alone; but when two
women are together you can get money
from both, because each one is afraid
the other will think her stingy if she re
fuses. This profession has to be studied
like any other if yon expect to make it
a success.—London Tit-Bits.
Strange Stories of the Power of Magnet
ism Over Dumb Brutes.
Even Mr. Jingle and Mr. Jesse never'
thought of applying animal magnetism
to sporting dogs. But this is part of
“The Scientific Education of Dogs” as
practiced and taught by “H. H.” “I
have held a lot of dogs by the magnetic
power of will from doing wrong hun
dreds of yards away from me,” says “H.
H.,” and he adds that if he unbent his
mind by making a remark to a friend
the spell was broken. It cannot be the
power of the human eye, he thinks, that
acts thus, for how can the eye act at a.
quarter of a mile's distance? He might
shut his eyes and try if the magnetic
power still lasts. “To be a first rate dog
breaker a man must have lots of animal
magnetism,” which, according to this
philosopher, is developed by force of
will. But what is will, or is it a form
of “magnetism?”
Even in dog breaking we reach at once
the debatable land of metaphysics, and
are embarked on Schopenhauer’s specu
lations before we know it. Of animal
magnetism exercised by the rider on the
horse little need be said. The man may
influence the beast by contact uncon
sciously, not by “will force.” It is dif
ferent when “H. H.” turns a distant dog
from a particular comer of a field by
simply ‘ ‘wishing” with all his force. The
whip and the will had better be kept
separate as much as may he, and some
dogs answer to the will which merely
sulk under the whip.
The cleverest of “H. H.’s” dogs was a
retriever. He was fishing in her com
pany, caught his fiy on a stump of the
opposite bank, sent the retriever across
the water for it, and she brought it
safely. When a friend’s fiy caught in a
bough of a willow some feet above the
water, the dog swam across, climbed
into the top of the bush, jumped, fastened
on the hough as she fell, bit it through,
and restored the tackle.
The dog was sent for a wounded mal
lard which was swimming below the
ice. She ran eighty yards down stream,
broke a hole in the thin ice, and waited
like a cat at a mouse hole. There she
caught the mallard as he came up to
breathe. If this was not reasoning what;
is reason? But some other power must
have been exercised in the following
case: “H. H.” left his dog at the front
door of a house, with a friend to watch
its proceedings. He himself left the
house by the aid of a ladder set against
a high window in the hack and walked
away. The dog began to be uneasy as
soon as the master had thus escaped, and
was with him in five minutes.
Could he hav.e been guided by sineHor
was he attracted by animal magnetism?
If the human mind can really influence
that of a dog from a distance, the force
which we call mind must be common to
man and beast, and “in that equal sky”'
retrievers may keep “H. H.’s” company.
The attention of Mr. Romaines and of
the Psychical Society, as well as the
study of sportsmen, should be given to
the subject. We are only beginning to
study the psychology of animals, and
yet it may he the proper starting point
of those investigations.—London News.
A Tender Hearted GlrL
Old Million—My dear Miss Yotrng-
thing, if you’d only marry me I could
die happy.
Miss Youngthing—Why, Mr. Million,
if you were dying I’d marry you in a
minute.—New York Weekly.
A Troublesome Worm.
It was funny to start with, but twice
as funny when the great mystery was
unraveled. At one of the Lewiston
school buildings the janitor, who is
painstaking and careful, had beefi ac
cused of negligence in sweeping the floor.
He denied the charge, and said he swept
the floors regularly and carefully, but
that no matter how well he did it, the
next morning the floor was covered with,
dirt and the result of his sweeping went
for nothing. He couldn’t understand it.
Only one solution, ghosts—and he didn’t
believe in ghosts.
Due investigation of his sweeping was
made by the authorities, and they found
that the sweeping was well done. The
next thing was to investigate the floor,
and here they found the solution. On
lifting some of the planks, they found
the under flooring full of borers, the
meanest kind of a worm, one that works
out in the night and drags its dusty self
all over things in general, stirring up the
dirt in the cracks so that the first foot
steps of the morning will send the dirt
all over the floor. This was the solution
of the mystery and the death of the borer,
-Lewistonjgit^.
Consumption Among Monkeys.
The monkeys in our menageries usual
ly die of consumption. Recent investi
gations which connect pulmonary tuber
cles with bacilli, and indicate that
the germs of these pestiferous creatures
may be communicated by .the breath,
render it a matter of small surprise that
the poor creatures, confined together in
the detestable atmosphere of such places
as the monkey house of the Zoological
gardens, should become thus infected
and speedily die. It is a curious fact
that the keepers of caged animals in
menageries are usually victims of pul
monary consumption.—New York Tele
gram.
How City Water May Be Wasted.
In a recent water Works report a table
is published giving in gallons and hun
dredths of a gallon the discharge of water
per minute through various sizes of ori
fices at different heads. Rough calcula
tions are also made showing the im
mense quantities of water which escape
in the small streams sometimes allowed
to ran from faucets in cold weather to
prevent freezing. It is also shown that
a stream the size of a pin running one
year with head of 150, will flow 115,632
gallons, at a loss, counting at the rate of
ten cents per 1,000 gallons, of $11.57.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
A Yachting: Costume.
Rich uncle (affectionately)—My dear,
as you are so fond of going out yachting
with the young men, I have bought you
a yachting costume, which I had made
to order.
Pretty Niece (ecstatically)—Oh, you
dear, sweet old uncle! What lovely ma
terial! But what is all this stuffing
around the shoulders?
U ncle (sententiously)—Cork. — Good
News.
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