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VOLUME XXII.
Us Borgia Enterprise.
A progressive Democratic paper, pub
lished weekly at Covington, Newton
County, (1 corgi ft. Terms, $1.50 per n
-uum, strictly in advance. Established
O tolcr 2'tii. 1805. Burnt out on
An us' Hist, 1881, and again oil Dceern-
I) :;|st, 188.1. Doth times it went down
in :i.,!n s willnmt any insurance.
Tin: KsTKnrmsnis mi uncomppomiHina
a.lv. t of tlio principle’ ,f the organized
mul Jiving Democracy of to-iLiy.
Wliilo it grants equal justice to all
tn n heforo the law, it ho! la this to In; a
W.iite Man’s Government, belonging to
him hy the light of discovery—be
qu-nthed to him by the bb <>d anil suffer,
in :of tbo Fathers. None but Anglo
Heron names were signed to the Duels ra*
ti in of linlcirendence. and none bjt
white men bled nod died to wrench Ja...
colonies from England’s cruel grasp, uj
e lMulish tire proud young Ilopubiia of
Amo.ica.
Cpon these hemes tbo paper is willing
go before the public, asking no ( tlior
aepport than that which its merit*, de
serve. The paper will lie free and out
-8), ken on all quest ions of public ini (rest,
tn: 1 will not endeavor to nccomplisti the
rrlien!oils f<> ;t of “running with the taro,
ii .1 baying with the bounds.’’
la other words, The Enterprise will
n t irn a “fence rider” in any of the po
liticai campaigns. Those who desire a
live newspaper, are earnestly requested
< jjivc it a trial.
8. W. HAWKINS, Editor,
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
happenings of interest
FROM ALL POINTS.
INTERN ANI> MIDDLE STATES.
A ldex Goldsmith. the famous ho**
who brought out an l developed 4 ”
trotter Goldsmith Maid, died tb *5? Jli ,
at I 100 nies Urovo, N V., - other day
seventh year. m hls slU >
The 2'Ji’th anniversar . _ .
the Pilgrim Fathers v / th ° > a,rJ . n 3 ° f
l.v the Cosn B r eK ati. rt-^lebratedm. Boston
s eahers iH-niffG - nal Club, the )>nncii al
JftTos G iili-’ overnor Robinson and Hon.
* i' v xie. Banquets iu celebration
!>_„ .I.l' -iso took place in New York,
( . ‘ * a und other cities.
. ' vkrkor Hill, of New York, has granted
' mi 1 til.February ‘-H t* k Mrs. D?iu v
sentenced to bo hanged for husband murder.
A New York firm has boon fined ssoofor
violating the law against oleomargarine,
selling it as butter.
A tie-up on th • Brooklyn horse-car rail
road-. lasted one da \ during which a striker
was shot by a policeman, several strikers
were severely clubbed and others arrested.
In the evening the strikers aud the eo npa
nics adjusted their differences.
A young man named Warner shot and
killed Mrs. Ella Lynch at Newtown, Conn.,
mi l a few hours later entered the house
where her body Jay and committed suicide.
Warner was enamored of Mrs. Lynch, who
had separated from her husband.
One man was killed and three were badly
injured by an explosion of fifty dynamite
cartridges which th k y were warming at a
railroad cut near Elizabethtown,Penn.
WASHINGTON.
Confirmations by the Senate: Abner B.
Williams, of Ari a 1 m, t > boa monitor of
th Uta i Gonimi-sion: Daniel J. Campan to
■<- rulJoc ..r of Cu tmu at Detroit, Mjcli.
1 V.stna>teiv: —Ivittic Bo twi k, We*^H,Miss.;
Willis .T. Beach, Conn.; Willis
Lang, Valosta, G.. < . B. Pogues. Paris,
Texas; A. ManviiP, Whitehall, N. Y.
M.iiYUY expenses of the Senate during the
] ast fiscal year worn: tal tries an l mileage
of St nators, ; sal 11 ins < f ofli ers and
employes, n.TU,-00. Ov.r $15,(D0 were ex
j'Oiultd for newspapers and stationery, $50,-
OJO for mi ellanoous items, and $2-ljooo for
special select comm it lees.
Th ; Pro i lout has approve 1 the act retir
ing Vi o-Ad i.iral Itowan and Rear-Admiral
Wordtn w.th the highest pay of their
grades.
The President has pardoned Tampa,
Lowish and Hietitet, thro 3 Pima Indians un
dergoing a smtence of ft vo years' imprison
ment in tlu ArC. na Penitentiary for a mur
derous assault on two whito men iu that Ter
ritory in 18KJ.
Congressman Reid, of North Carolina,
has been missing a 1 >ng time, and is believed
to have gone to Canada. He is in financial
difficulties.
The House Committee on the Judiciary
will report adversely on Mr. Swinburne’s
bill to erect a United Statcs penitent a:y.
Tiie Pension Appropriation bill a> report
ed to the llouso provides for a total expen
diture of E.7t>,‘154,50?. The estimates were
s 7o,2Uj’iOO, and the appropriation for last
year sffi,o<s,2uo.
The name of James Matthews (colored) to
be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Co
lumbia has again been sent to the Senate, al
though on 0 rejected by that body.
Confirmations by the Senate: Postmas
ters Mary Me A too. Bard-do .vn, Ky.: B. F.
Chur h. Calvert, Tex.; John McQuaid, Clin
ton. Mass. W. S. Sell rock, Receiver of Pub
lic Monoys. Lunar; Colonel A. P. Arbuckle,
Register oi thj General Land Office, Denver.
Obey E. Owens, receiving teller of the
Third National Bank, who in em
bcv.ide 1 $2 U.OJ > from the bank, and who has
bee 1 serving a. sentence in the Chester (III.)
penitentiary, iias been pardoned by the
President.
Rear Admiral Worden, commander of
the Monitr in the celebrated combat with
jv 1 ® Mcrrimac, ha. been placed ou the retired
TAKEN FROM THE GUARD.
Two NcuroPß Nnsplcionrd of Murder in tlio
Ilmuls of a Mob.
Some time ago two negroes, Robert
Beasley and Raymond Murphy, were ar
rested on suspicion of murder near
Vicksburg, Miss. Asa constable Wed
nesday evening was about to board a
ti un with these prisoners, at Glass cross
ing, a mob of seventy-five persons, white
iu.d colored, surrounded the constable
ami took the prisoners from him. As the
ti tin started off the crowd were taking
tlie men to a telegraph pole to hang
them. It is said that the only testimony
a: ainst the men was the evidence of a
h >y, aged fourteen years, who says he
h Id the horses of the men while they
went to the store on the night of the
murder.
James’s Narrow Escape.
A fair and buxom widow who hnd
buried three husbands recently went
a gentleman, who in his younger
years had paid her marked attention, to
inspect the graves of the dear departed.
- iter contemplating them in mournful
silence she murmured to her companion:
' h, James, you might have b en in
t nt row now if you had only had a lit
t.o more courage/’— St, AlUm Merger,
The Georgia Enterprise.
INTER-STATE COMMERCE.
SENATOR WILSON’S SPEECH IN
FAVOR OF THE BILL .
PrNfceU of Ike Meaanr* I(s|ulr|li| Hall
rea4 Trafflr.
Amontf the most important nierwuros b'v
fore Congress this K*sion is the Interstate
C’Hmnen e bill, whi;*h provides for the super
vi.-ionof ruilro.ads and freight rates in the
various States. Th * hill lias lon beloro
Congress severnl years, but its promoters
ha\obe<u imnbie h*ivtofore to secure it*
pn.SKA.gn Thi* t,-sion the < 'onforcnco Com
mittees of both Houses agreed upon a rvjioit
in its fuv r, anil on tlie lat day before the
holiday recess it < ame up in the foliate, but
after a sjmcch in its favor had been made by
Senator Wilson (he bill wont over until uf
tcr tlio holidays. Senator ('ulJom announcing
that be would thru ask the foliate to take it
up daily, and Uh*|> it Rip until a vote was
r. a lied. A Washington special said of tho
While it is evi lent that the views of many
reproM ntarives hrve < hanged since the Hea
t’an Inter-State bill passed the House at the
ia-t session, it does not se?m prb able
that the report of th. Conferen e
Committee will bo rejected. A few
extreme members complain that the
House conferees yielded too much and,
threaten t> vote am-t the report, but it is
not Jikoly that many of them will do so.
* o;ije of the Western members who were
•mon;; the most earnest supporters of tho bill,
now sa v that they are in doubt &< to whether
the measure will not injure rather than
Nmefit the farmers and stock growers of the
W est, but that the sentiment in their districts
is sostrong ni favor o* action by Congress
that they will be constrained to vote for tho
conference report.
The truth is that when the bill passe, | the
House not one man iu three understood its
provisions or caret to.
One thing whieh gives many of the sup
porters of the conference report considerable
Jiueasinese is the suggestion that the ‘ long
? nl ?., 8h , or i l “‘ ul I>rovision, if enforce!,
,1, ' l ert tllß fra- J ontiuental
tiafi ,as well os a large part 0 f the grain
an.t meat from the \' n itedStatL to
1 there to he no reason to
5 , t t -,f ny or n “ ° * the considerations
enough to do
o.in^f’ a ! e '.o-Juy Ml-. Cull im called up
u•cl,n Ufe o e f ,IC,, ' report on the bill, aud Mr.
,i ’ is “V‘ ?’ lowa, thereupon addressed
nf the D •“* * a lavor of the adoption
, ’ 1“ report. He referred to an in-
P jW published in the New York
!' .ftttne, iu which President King, of
.he Erie, re o nmen.led five boards of com
missioners to examine all the questions in
volved. That, he said, simply meant a delay.
The public demanded action. Nothing, said
Mr. Wilson, ha 1 been done more to demor
alize railrcad managers, officers and agents
than jods. Under the present system
losses on through business were
uuh aded on the budne-s of the
intermediate or local points. This
practice was, in itself, an outrage. As the
hill came from the House it authorized, by
im ilication, railroad companies to charge as
much for a short as for a long haul. But
not so under the conference report; lie ause
it provided that nothing in the bill should
be construed as authorizing a railroad
company to charge and receive as
grya’ /'cyipen’n’k*' c..;- " L bort a’ ‘
along distun e. The people recogui :ed the
healthful aid which ra lroads had given to
the development and progress of the country;
but they insisted on tho enactment of a law
which Would aid them in the recovery of
some of their lost rights. They were wiling
that the railroad companies should pros] er
and should be reasonably paid for their ser
vices; but they did not recognize them as
their masters.
As an illustration of the injustice of the
present system, he stated that on the loth of
this month corn was selling in Western
lowa,where it had been a good crop, at from
2;> to 2i cents a bushel, in Chicago at Hit cents
a bushel, and in Southeastern lowa, where
the crop ba l been a failure, at 10 t 042 cents
a bushe’; so that Western lowa corn was
being sold in Chicago at from 4to 6 ents a
bushel less than in Eastern lowa.
A VESSEL WRECKED.
3lnnj Snilors 1.0-r Their Lives in Nan Fran
cisco liny.
At 2 o'clock, the other morning, th|
whaling L#>-k Atlantic wjv driven ashore
a mile and a half bel <w the Cliff House, San
Franciscv), aud went to pieces in a few min
utes, not a s ar remaining stauding. Wreck
age was strewn a!o ig the beach for three or
four miles. Tho Captain and mate, with
eight or ten men, were saved out of the
forty two men on board.
At the time of the disaster there was a
douse fog, and a heavy sea was running. The
Atlanta ha l left San Francisco for a cruise
iu the South Pacific, nft*r which she was te
procoed to the North. Th * Atlanta was an
old vessel, having been b.iilt in 18 >l,and was
of 251 tons register. She was owned by J.
an 1 W. R. Wing, of New Bedford, Mass.,
and go mnanded by Captain Thomas F. War
ren, who said:
“tVe were towed out to sea yesterday.
There was a heavy swell and no wind, aud
the currents were so strong tiiat we could not
get out ot the swell. We let go both anchors,
but the sea s wept our de *ks, aud was so heavy
that the anchors could not hold. Wo
dragged ashore, and struck at 1:30 A. S(.
Th'men wore being washed off during all
this time by the immense waves that washed
over us. ‘ Th > vessel went to paces
an hour and a half alter she struck There
was a very heavy fog and it was pitch dark.
Wesu'ceedei lu lowering two boats, but
both were capsized before getting two boat
lengths from the ship. The first l>ont con
tained Z. H. Doty, first mate, Anton Ferry,
third mate, anil four or five of the crew.
That was tho last we saw of them. In the
second boat were myself. Second Mate
King, and five men. When we were
swamped the sea carried us in uutd we
touched bottom, when we dragged ourselves
ashore. We made no signals of distress, as
it wastio foggy for any to be seen”
Tho Captain and crew numbered forty-two
persons, and only eleven ]>ersonswere known
to have been saved. It is charged that a
large portion of the crew were intoxicated,
and that twenty-five men were below sleeps
ing off the effects of liquor when the vessel
struck nnd thus met theirdeaths.
CMIVERIBS’S EFFORTS FOR 1,116!.
Cluverius, the condemned murderer ot
Fannie Lillian Madison, has sent out cir
culars to members of the general assem
bly for the purpose of getting them to
sign a petition asking the governor to
grant him a reprieve until they meet.
When the legislature meets, Cluverius
hopes that they will recommend the gov
ernor to comuntte his sentence to life im
prisonment. Unless the governot calls
an extra session, which, however, it ia
probable that he will do for the consid
eration of important state matters, the
legislature will not meet until it assem
bles in regular session in December,
3887.
FIRE ANI> LOSS OF I.IKK,
The steamboat Bradish Johnston, used
as a boarding house, at Jackson, Ala ,
where the West Alabama railroad bridge
is building, was burned Tuesday night.
Two whites, Otie McElroy, of Mobile,
and Dan Mi house, of New York, are
missing, and two negroes, Lewis Adams
and Ben Bush, w ere drowned. It is be
lieved that ten others, all negroes, per
ished in the flames.
A RAILROAD DEPOT BURNED.
The depot at Akron, Ala., on the A.
G. S. R. R-. was burned by incendiaries
Tuesday night. This is the second time
within two months. A large quantity of
merchandise was destroyed, amounting
to over $5,000,
THE GROWING SOUTH.
THE DE VKLOPMEXTS MADE DVR
-IXU THIS TEAK.
Nearly 8130,(100,000 111 vr.t nl In New In -
trrprlar* During the Year—Alabama
Again l.raila.
In itn annual review of the industrial
progress of the South, the Baltimore Man
ufacturers Record says that 1880 lias been
the most remarkable year in many re
spects in tlio History o’f the Southern
States and more has been accomplished
for the pros/vo-ity .ad progress of the
whole south than ever before in any
year. This is shown in the enormous in
vestments of capital in industrial enter
prises and in tlie growth of confidence
among Northern and European investors
in the stability of tlio South's iron and
other manufacturing interests. The
amount of capital, including the capital
stock of incorporated companies, repre
sented by new manufacturing and mining
enterprises organized or chartered at tlio
South during 1880, including the enlarge
ment of old plants ami the rebuilding
of mills, aggregate $1211,229,000, against
$66,812,000 in 1885, divided among the
States as follows:
States. 1886. 1885.
Alabama *19.848.000 * 7,841.000
Arkansas 15,240,(100 1,220.000
Florida 1,659,000 2,019,('00
Georgia 3,599.000 2,500,000
Kentucky 2,844,000 1,833 200
Louisiana 2.240,000 , 2118,500
Maryland 8,765,000 6,663 800
Mississippi 774,000 761,500
North Carolina 8,676.000 3.230,< : (!0
South Carolina 1.208,000 856,000
Tennessee 2.124.000 2,692.000
Texas 8,694,000 3,232,000
Virginia 8,514,000 8.314.100
West Virginia 8,365,000 1,205,000
Totals *129,226 000 *66,812,000
The development of iron manufactories
employs the bulk of this new capital
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in tlie list of new enterprises organized
in the South during 1886 were 28 iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, 68 foundries
and machine shops, many of them of
large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 26
miscellaneous iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridge aud bolt works, etr.;
8 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 84 elec
tric light companies, 11 agricultural im
plement factories, 174 mining and quar
rying enterprises, 16 carriage aud wagon
factories, 9 cotton mills, 28 furniture
factories, 42 water works, 58 tobacco
factories, 92 flour mills. 448 lumber mills,
not counting small portable saw mills,
including saw and planing mills, sash
and door factories, stove, handle,shingle,
hub and spoke, shuttle block factories,
etc., in addition to which there was a
number of miscellaneous enterprises. One
cf the most gratifying features of the
South’s industrial progress is the wine
*HYVr,sil> of new industrie.- chat atv de
veloping all through that section.
BUSINESS DISASTERS.
Clmrlra 11. Raymond, of Now York, Fails—
Ollier Failures.
Charles H. Raymond, dealer in sup
plies at 121 Chambers street and 103
Readc street, has made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors, to James M.
Oakley, with preferences amounting to
$206,609. Raymond has dealt iu hard
ware supplies for twenty-five years, hav
ing for liis heaviest customer the United
States government. He dealt mainly by
sample, carrying no stock worth men
tioning. lli3 warehouse was at 103
Rcade street, and up to about a year
since lie was reported to be very wealthy,
and liis credit was of tlie best. But
since then he lias been lax in his pay
ments. uc once owned sixteen or
eighteen pieces of real estate in HroOK
iyn. liis assignment to James M. Oak
ley, of Jamaica, L. 1., was tiled in
Brooklyn. The amount of his liabilities
is unknown, but they are estimated to be
near $500,000. Raymond is a silent
partner with George 11. Creed in the
supply business, and at their establish
ment nothing was known regarding the
financial trouble of Raymond.
The failure of the J. Kellogg Printing
company and stationery Jim,Little Rock,
Ark., is announced; liabilities $20,000;
assets $30,000.
At a meeting of the*ereditors of A. P.
Martin & Cos., Boston, Mass., boots and
shoes, Wednesday, it was unanimously
voted to accept 35 per cent cash, and 5
per cent in six months in Martin’s ow n
notes unindorsed. Martin was unable to
state at present whether he would accept
the offer or not.
The assignee of the cattle firm of Pea
cock, Brocher & Cos., Colorado, Texas,
has filed a statement of assets and liabil
ities of the firm. The total indebted
ness of the company is $255,350, wliilo
the assets, at a very low calculation,
amount to $355,500.
A LIBEKAL BEQUEST TOHAKVARD.
Harvard College receives some sloo.
000 from the will of J. Q. A. Will-linms,
which has been filed in the Suffolk conn- 1
ty Probate Court. The estate is left in
trust, and after the bequest of several
legacies,when tlie rest shall have reached
$400,050, it is to be given to the presi
dent and fellows of Harvard College.
The sum of $200,000 is to he set apart
and known as the Abraham Williams
fund, in memory of the testator’s father
and grandfather, the latter being a mem
ber of the class of 1844. A fund of $40,-
000 is to be used in aiding needy and
meritorious students,who are to consider
such aid ns debts of honor, and also fot
the library of the college. In case the
college refused to accept tlie tru-t, the
estate is to go to the society for old men
iu Boston and the society for old females
in Newlmrvport.
HOC- 8 DYING BY SCORES IN IOWA.
A dispatch from Mason City, lowa,
says: Hogs are dying in large quantities
in the southern part of the county with
what seems to be a disease of the lungs.
Some drop dead instantly, while others
linger several days, refusing to eat or
drink anything, and finally die. Some
farmers have lost their entire herd. The
hog cholera is also prevalent in the west
ern part of this county, and in Han
cock hogs arc dying by the score.
ANOTHER BOND CALL.
Til© Secretary of (lie Trenanry Calls for
Ton .Millions of Three I'cr Cents.
The Secretary of the Treasury issued
the one hundred and forty-fifth call for
the redemption of bonds last Tuesday.
The call is for ten million dollars of the
three per cent, loan of 1882. It matures
February Ist. The bonds called can be
redeemed upon presentation at option of
the holder,
“ JIT COUNTRY if AY BUR EVER BE RIGHT. RIOIIT OR WRONG MY CO UNTR Y. "—Jefferson
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1887.
j HB TALI OP ill L.
Man I* to-day what man was yesterday—
Will be to-morrow; let him curse or pray
Drink or be dull, ho loams not, nor shall
learn
Tho lesson that shall laugh the vorld
away.
The world as gray or just a* golden shines,
Tho wine as sweet or just as bitter flows
For you aud me; and you, like mo, may
find
Perfume or t anker in the reddest rose.
The tale of life is hard to understand;
But w. ilo the cup WAita ready to your
baud
Driuk, and declare the summer roses blow
As red in London ns in Saranrcand*
Lips are as sweet to kiss and eyes as bright
As ever flattered Dinar with delight:
English or Persian, while tho mouth is fair,
What can it matter how it says good
night/
—Justin McCarthy ,
AN ORANGE HUMMOCK.
BY HAHItIET PRESCOTT SPOFKORD.
Julian could hardly remember the fine ]
old times before the war, although it
could not be said to be the fault of his ‘i
mother and his elder sisters, or of old 1
Mammy Dinah, all of whom kept tlie
legends of those times pretty constantly ;
before h’ eyes and ears. The splendor,
the company, the feists, the sluves, ail
seemed to him the veriest idle story be
side the fact of unvarying corn bread aud i
bacon now'.
The house was tumbling to pieces; he 1
wondered if.tlieiv was a worse ruin in all !
Florida: the almost boundless extent of
the lands was uncultivated; the slaves
were all gone.
“I don’t see why we should be poor,” i
said Julian, having made up his mind 1
for a good square talk at last, “with all
the land that is here.”
‘ That’s half the reason,” said his
father.
“hut I thought that it was off the
laud people made their money.’’
“When they already have money and
the hands w ith which to cultivate'land.
It takes hands and it takes means to
grow cotton and sugar. I can hardly be
expected to go to work myself! ”
“Then,” persisted Julian, “why
couldn twe hire people, and pay them
from the crop when it comes? ”
“U ou don t know w hat you arc talking
about, my ton.”
“1 know we ha e hundreds of acres of 1
land, and if they were mine. I think that I
I could do something with them.”
“Lou may do whit you please with ,
them,” said his father. “I give you,
carte blanche,” and he went back to
reading of the Congremvnal Record,
at least ho would have gone
Julian wo ; and have let him. But
had ifot Degun to talk without being
much in earnest, and now he
go through. V
“Well,” he said, laughing, “carto
blanche is a good thing to have, but one
needs some help to do anything with
even that. I tiiink if you will let me
have the hummock in Okemolkokee
Everglade, and will lend old Cy to
Dandridge and me”—
“Old Cyrus 1 What would your
mother do without him, and what would
Rachel and Rebecca do? Tlio only one
of all tlie hands that has stayed faithful
to us! You can do nothing without
capital.” *
“But Northern people come here, and
seem sure of doing w. 11. And we have
the land they come to buy. That’s cap
ital. If you lead old Cv to Dan and me,
we won’t ask you for more, for we’ve
been saving our odd pennies for this, j
and we’ve got enough to buy all the
araffs wo 0x..., ...,o 0.1. liurbock will
give us some besides.”
“Grafts?” said his fattier, I
his silver-bowed spectacles in perplexity.
“Grafts?’
‘ ‘Yes. ”
“What are you going to do with
grafts?"
“Look at them,”said Julian, wit’ll a
grin. “So I see you’ll lend ine Cy. What
if liachel went along with us:”
“Your mother might not approve.”
“Mother’ll approve fast i nough, T
reckon, when we’re getting five thousand
a year.”
“live thousand a year!” cried his
father, letting the Coiti/ressional lte onl
fall. “Have you gone daft, Julian:”
“Well, father, ’ said Julian, with a
great laugh, throwing back the dark curl
that was always dropping into his eyes,
“I’ll send for you to make us a visit on
tlie big hummock iu Okemolkokee Ever
glade by-and-by, and (hen we ll see.”
“I don’t knowabout it; Idon’t know,”
said liis father, picking up the scattered
leaves of his cherished document. But
Julian knew that his father would lend
old Cy to Ilnnbridge and himself, and
he made his preparations for the enter
prise, saying little or nothing. Rachel
had already agreed to come to them
whenever they should send for her.
It was a week from that day that,
with a pack of simple provisions, with
rit’es, picks, hatchets and pruning
knives, and some twine hammocks in
addition, Julian and bis party started on
their excursion, as they called it, Julian
carrying on his back- greatly to old Cy’s
disturbance, but, theu, old cy couldn't
carry everything himself—a bundle
wrapped in moss which he gayly de
clared they must save first in case of tire,
for it was all their fortune.
“Bresr ycr heart, honey,” said oldCy,
where's dis yer fire gwino to be, onlcst
Mars’ Dan knocks my pipe onto a eypress
tree? An' it's so damp in dose yer
swamps, ’speet it’ll put de pipe out any
how.”
They male their beds that night in
tlie hammocks that they slung high in
the boughs, and that Julian had brought
along against the wishes of old Cy, who
thought a bed of broken boughs fit for
a king, snakes or not.
What a scene it was on which their
eyes opened in the early morning! Ce
dars supurb as the cedars of Lebanon,
dropping great circles of shade, the huge
live-oaks, trembling with webs and fes
trons of grey moss, that mado sheets of
diamonds as it swung in tho sun, here
and there a palm-tree, lifting its green
crown in the clear air, and vis!as into
the rich vendure of the swamp boyond,
gay with every color, and sweet with
every scent o honeymoon suckle, vanilla,
heliotrope, and great unknown flowers.
In and out the thickets flashed wings
like jewels; scarlet flamingoes stood in
the pools, the great white heron rose
Heavily, and little alligators, that looked
as if they were living bronze , crept up
to sun themselves on the banks.
After they had finished their frugal
breakfast, and rolled their hammocks in
the smallest knot they could make, they
pushed on after old Cyrus, who knew
the paths and by-paths to everywhere,
and they wore only a week on their way.
addiog to their larder sfttue brought
down by their rifles heforo they came up
from the swamp they had skirted, and
fo md themselves on the hummock of
j Okemolkokee Everglade.
What a strango plaeo it was and whnt
j a wilderness of wealth it looked to
, Julian! It was a slight elevation, but a
tew feet in nil above the swamp, and its
I rich lands had boeotno a forest of tho
1 liter wild orange, at present of no good
ito anybody, except in its season of
bloom, wh n the rapturously delicious
. fragrance drifted for miles on the soft ntr.
“Wo will explore a mllo or two to-"
< sv,” >n and Julian, “and mark tho trees
. think best to koep, and thin out ull
pttie others, the first thing wo do.”
It was a busy day they had of it. and
many a busy day that followed, while
they let 6un and air into the great
i thicket, and, as far as possible, saved
trees in tho regularity they would have
had if set out in an orchard. Three or
four times before they finished Cyrus
left them and returned for provisions,
the second time bringing liis son Darius
with him. And at last tho wilderness
was cleared, and every treo remaining
iu the first section had received the bud
of tlio sweet orange, which had been the
precious freight of Juliau’s moss
wrapped bundle.
“Now,” said Julian, “while these are
accommodating themselves to the n w
circumstances, we will go ahead aud
clear out next year's extension. I don't
know exactly how long this hummock
is, but in time 1 mean to get all tlie
worthless growth cleared out of so much
of it as belongs to father, if its ten j
miles, and every Iroe left grafted, and
we’ll have every so:t of orange that
grows, the blood-red Maltese, the spicy
little Mandarin, and all the rest. This
is better lhan standing behind counters
or over desks, isn’t it, Dan ?”
“Heap sweeter work than picking cot
ton on the field honey,” said old Cy.
What a day it was to the boys and the
old servant when the whole orange for
est, as far as eye could see, burst out in
flower, with such a blossoming as would
have wreathed all the brides of the earth
with snowy sprays, nnd whose rich rare
odors one would think might have sailed
over the seas themselves, aud penetrated
foreign countries with their sweetness.
“Now,” said Julian, to Lis brother
and confidante, “we want to be fit for
whit’s coming. Don’t let’s waste any
time. Dr. Yancey has books enough,
and he'll tell us what to read, and we’ll
go and see him and begin to get an edu
cation.” And so much of their plan as
this they announced to the family.
“I’m sure I don’t see what you can be
‘thinking about,” whimpered his sister
'Frarnie, “when we’re all but starving.”
But Rachel was the only one who took
hokl of the books with them, and la-
I bored along ns near them as she cold fol
low; and before the year was out it was
Lu-prising how much tho-e lads and the
King girl ha 1 put into their memories,
kc a year Julian and Dan and old Cy
went off on what their mother
their wicked'and idle shooting,
nr which she didn’t see why their father
was willing to spare them old Cy. Rut
the father kept the secre’. They believed
it would make the mother happy enough
by-and-l>y.
Some years later, they set out early one
morning for the orange hummock, the
father having left a note for the mother,
saying that he was going with tho boys,
and go’ng to take Rachel.
Nobody en joyed the whole enterprise
more than Rachel, who was a helpful
little body, and knew of countless meth
ods of adding to their comfort on the
way. Her own comfort was secured by
the little donkey that Cy had borrowed
of Dr. Yancey and on wlii h she rode.
“Y'ou’ll have to be alot’of use, Rachel,
as soon as we get there,” said Julian,
“and so has Mr. Father.”
But when she did get there, she found
as romantic a little hut, made of orange
boughs, with two rooms in it, too, that
tlie 'bu/x iw a-- .v- , :
they were there, as one could have out
of a fairy story; and long before she
reached the place she could have found
tho way by the odors blowing toward
her; and when, all at once, the orange
forest—not an orange-grove or planta
tion, but the orange-forest—burst upon
her in full gorgeous fruit sho could have
cried with rapture, only she knew her
father liked to have her staid ami quiet.
But she knew she had come to help them
gather their foituue, nnd all hands be
gan at once.
“We made a raft, you see, f >ther,"
said Julian, “tho last time we were here,
to >. and we can fli at it: and there is a
raft tied up under the bushes there, and
that will let us into the water ways to the
St. John’s. If we sell our oranges well,
we’ll have a better equipment next year.
After that, patience patience, father!
When we’ve rafted down one lot we’ll
come back for the next. When those
first old Spanish colonists, three hundred
years ago, brought over a few orange
shoots from Seville, do you believe it
ever occurred to them that such a forc-t
as this would find a plane here?”
It was all a; Julian said, and when
they had finished their voyaging and
sold the last orange, the boys went back
with their father, and made their mother
.a visit, and stopped all lur reproaches
by telling her their story. Shortly after
that, masons and carpenters and garden
ers were at work upon the house and the
grounds; nnd then the boys had taken
servants and mules with them, and had
gone bick to -the Okemolkokee hum
mock, and I’aclicl, with her mother’s
con-cnt, had gone along, to keep tho
mildew off, Tan said, while they cleared
out the lmmmock fa ther along, grafting
new trees and tending old ones, and read
their books at night, by the light of
burning pitch-pine knots, before tlie lit
tle hut in the centre of their orangc
trc> s, that seemed to bud and bloom as
if they knew the wo k they were doing
for the family that hail two such sous
nnd such a daughter as Rachel, in it.
It was a lull and >zen years later, that I
met at New Orleans a stately old gentle
man, dres-ed faultlessly; on his arm was
a pale and graceful lady whose fare,
happy and smiling though it was, bore
traces of old disconleut and sorrow.
There was a group of young people in
tlie distance, busy over t unks and bas
kets nnd wraps,—Frarnie and Rebecca,
ad Lttle Rachel, grown as tall and
handsome ns they, and their pert and
pretty quadroon waiting maid; nnd
James, who hifd grandly thrown up the
place under Government, anxiety to
koep which had once nearly worn his
life out; and the two boys, xvho had
forgotten there was such a thing as a
shop counter or an oyster-scow: and
Darius, grinning like a masque and old
Cy, hovering round Julian and Dandrigdc
as if they xvere tho chief treasures of the
family, and losing them one lost orange
groves and all.
“Yes,’’ said the stately old gentleman,
“ves, we are on the way to seethe boys
off to Europe, to givo thorn the advan
rages of the best education. Splendid
bys, sir—deserve the best thero is, nnd 1
am ablo to givo it to them, and they
shall hare it.
“Am I still in tho cotton business?
Oh, UO; the cotton business loft me with
the war. lam largely interested in
orange growing. My boys—lino ycung
men early turned their attention to the
wild bitter orange on my waste lands,
and thunks to thorn—l mean, thanks to
Julian and Dnndri lge there you will
hardly believe it, but I receive more than
ten thousand dollars a year clear profit
from my orange groves ”
Tho steamer bore away over the old
Spanish main, to Gibraltar and Genoa,
two promising young men. if young they '
might be called, when nearly thirty.
Ten years had changed their fortune.
The old hummo. k still blossoms and
bears, and becomes a richer income year
ly, and is likely to do so until “the
boys” are old.— Youth's Companion.
Thanksgiving in 1721.
From an old newspaper, the Boston
Oateti'f, of October 9, 1721, the follow
ing quaint aud curious proclamation was
copied. Boston has never known a more
doleful Thanksgiving Day than that of
1721; for during that year six thou-and
persons, out of a population of about
nineteen thousand, had the smallpox,
and one thousand of them died. The
Indians had : eriously threatened the
peace of the colony, and Governor Shuto,
a gentleman of high tory principles, was
in continual conflict with the Lcgis'a
ture. Tho prominence given in tlie proc
lamation to the King, George, and tho
royal family, was probably a political
stroke aimed by the Governor at his op
ponents. It did not soothe them, and
the Governor soon after left the province.
l!j liis Excellency
Samuel Shute, Esq.;
Captain General and Goveruour-in-
Chief, in and over His Majesty’s Province
of the Massachusetts Kay in New Eng
land, etc. A I‘i ocianmtion for a Ueueral
THANKSGIVING.
For as much os amidst tho various
awful Rebukes ot Heaven, w.tli which
we are righteously ntlli ted, in the Con
tagious aud Mortal Sickness among us,
es;eciallv intheToxvn of Boston: The
longardlmmoderate Rains, which have
been so hurtful to tho Hus’ andry nnd
Fishery; And the threa uning Asjiect of
Affairs with Resjiect to our Frontiers;
we are still under the highest and most
indispeusable ( fill, stums of Gratitude
for the many Instances of the Divine
Goodness iu the Favours vouchsafed to
us in the Course of the Year past; Par
ticularly, For tho Life of cur Gradous
Sovereign Lord the King, Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales and their issue, and the in reuse
of the Royal Family: The Preservation
of His Majesty’s Kingdoms and Domin
ions from the terrible and de olat.ng
Pestilence, which hath fur s i long a
time been wasting the Kingdom qf
France: Ami the happy Sue e-s of His
Majesty’s Wise Councils for Restoring
and Confirming the Peace of Europe;
For tlie Continuance of our valuable
Privileges, both Civil nnd Ecclesiastical;
and the Divine Blissing upon this Gov
ernment iu their Administrations; Par
ticularly. in succeeding (he Methods
taken to prevent the Insult! ot the East
ern Indians; Forgiving so great Meas
ure of Health wijhi l this Province, and
Moderating the Mortality of tlio S nall-
Pox, -o (hat a great Number of Persons
are Recovered from lhat Distemper;
And for granting m so comfortable a
former Harvest, and so hopetul a I‘ros
peet of the latter:
I havo. therefore, thought fit with the
Advice of Hi- Majesty's Council, toorder
and Appoint Thursday, the Twenty-sixth
Instant, to lie < deserved a- a Day of rub
lick Thanksgiving throughout this Prov
ince, strictly forbidding all Servile La
bour thereon, an I exhorting lioth Minis
ters and People in their respective As
semblies on the sai 1 Day, to offer up
humble nnd sin ere Thanks to Almighty
God, for His ninny Favours, as afore
said, and for many other Blessings be
st owed on a sinful People.
Given at Boston, tho Eighteenth Day
of September, 1721. Aud in the Eighth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George, hy the Grace of God of
Great Britain, Franco and Ireland,
King. Defender of the Faith, etc.:
By order of the Governour, with Ad
vi e of the Council S. Shute.
F. Wil laud, Sect.
i S.. 1 J... t' l
A Great hea on Fire.
The shores ol the Caspian abound in
naphtha springs cxteniliiisf for miles
under the sea, the imprisoned gases of
this volatile substance often escaping
from fissures iu its bed and bubbling up
in large volumes to the surfa c. This cir
cumstance has given rise to the practice
of “setting the sea on lire,” which is thus
described by a traveler:
“Hiring a steam-barge, we put out to
sea, and, altera lengthy search, found at
last a suitable spot. Cur boat having
moved round to windward a sailor threw
a bundle of burning flax into the sea,
when floods of light disp lied the sur
rounding darkness. .No fireworks, no
illuminations, arc to bo compared to the
sight that present and itself to our ga'e.
It was as though the sea tri mbled c m
vuliivety amid thousands of shooting,
dancing tongues of fame of prodigious
size. Now they emerged from tlio water,
now they disappeared. At one time they
soared aloft and melted away; at another
a gust of wind divid and th in into bright
streaks of flame, tlie foaming, bubbling
billows making music to the scene.
“In compliance with the wi-hes of
some of-the spectators our barge was
steered toward the flames, and passed
right through the in’dstof them, a some
what danger us exp r meat, as tho barge
was employed in the transport of naph
tha, and was pretty well saturated with
the fluid. However, we escaped with
out accident, and gazed for an hour
longer on the unwonted spectacle of a
sea on fire.”
Hotv Coronas Wear Their Hair.
A letter from Corea to the New York
Poet says; If there is any feature which
points to the common origin of tho
( hinese, tlie Coreans, the Japanese, and
our own North American Indians, it is
not tho one usually pointed out—the
high cheekbones -- so much as their long,
straight, black hair The Coreans here,
too, are midway between the Japs and
Chinese in the way of wearing the hair.
The Japanese have their hair cut short
not so short us we Americans perhaps,
but still they do not wear tlie cue. The
Chinese, as is well known, shave all the
head except tlie cuedock, and wear that
as long as it will grow in a braid down
the l ack. (By the way, has any one
pointed out the fact that the North
American Indians shave all but the scalp
lock, and that this may point to a con
nection in origin b tween them and
the Celestials?! The Cos ean neither cuts
nor shaves off his ha r, but wears all his
heavy, black, straight looks in a braid
down his back until he is engaged to be
married, and then it is drcs-cd into a
knot whi h looks like a little horn on
the top of the head, while around the
head a h ir cap w th no crown is pressed
down over the forehead. The last ;s a
painful affair at first, and when it is re
-1 moved for the purpose of dressing tho
ba’i it leavei a permanent cre.isj an
eighth of an inch in depth. The pain
at iirst mti-t bo extreme, but they say
that all feeling of inconvenience is soqn
j lost.
THE HOME DOCTOR.
“Don't.”
Don’t keep tho sun out of your living
nnd sleeping rooms. Sunlight is abso
lute! v necessary for a right condition of
the atmosphere which we breathe, ami
for cur bodily well-being.
Don’t s!ee)> in the same flannels that
you wear during the day.
Don't wear thin socks or light-srtlcd
shoes in cold or wet weather.
Don't catch cold. Catching a cold is
more preventable than is generally sup
posed. A person in good physical con
elilion is not liable to col - , and will not
fall victim to them unless he is grossly
careless. Keep the feet warm and dry.
the head cool, the bowels and chest well
protected ; avoid exposure with an empty
stomach; take iare not to cool off too
rapidly when heated; keep out of
draughts; wear flannels, and with the
exercise of a little common sense in vari
oils emorg#ncies, colds will be rare. If
colds were a penal offen-e we should
soon find a way to prevent them.
Don’t forget personal cleanliness, but
use the bath with moderation and in ac
cordance with your general health. Tho
dally cold bath is right enough with the
rugged, but it is a great tax upon the
vitality of pjrsous not in tire best of
health, nnd should be abandoned if
the results arc not found to bo favorable,
and the tepid water used instead. Each
man in these things should be a judge
for himself. That which is excellent f r
one is oftigi hurtful for another.
Don’t have much confidence in the
curative nature of drugs. Remember
that Dr. Good Habits. Dr. Diet aud Dr.
Exercise are the best doctors in tho
xvorld. Youth's Compan ion.
A Cure for Diphtheria.
R. Munch, proprietor of a drug estab
lishment in Leipsig, Saxony, publishes
in the Pharmacist, a medical paper, a
remedy for diphtheria which has bad
surprising success. He urgently pre-ses
all physicians to try it for the benefit of
all patients suffering from the disease,
and also requests the press to publish it.
He says
“My little daughter, seven years of
age, has had diphtheria twice within
some weeks, with severe fever, aliout
103 degrees. Wc gave with great suc
cess rectified oil of turpentine (oleum
terebinth no* re.tificatum). Dose, one
teaspoonful in the morning and the same
at evening. Adults should take one
tablespoonful. Afterward drink a little
lukewarm milk to allav the burning in
the throat. For children the second
dose can be mixed with milk, which will
render it easier to take. The result is
really marvelous. Tho inflammation of
the abnormal diphtheric spots in tho
throat grow lighter at the edges, and in
this way they gradually shrink until in
twenty-four hours they disappear en
tirely, leaving no sign. To quiet the in
'ffiimfhetl tonsits the throat uas ’gargied
at first every two hours, and then every
three hours, with the following gargle:
One ounce chlorate of potash to forty
ounces distilled water. This remedy has
been used with perfect satisfaction both
by adults and children,not one case end
ing fatally.”
The Milwaukee Volksllatt quoted this
remedy from the German paper, and
afterward received a letter from a Sub
scriber in Mitchell County, lowa, saying
that “a child in the writer’s family was
attacked by diphtheria treated by local
physicians and died; then four members
of the same family were similarly at
tacked, treated by this remedy, and, I
am happy to tell you, all recovered.”
The Era of Millionaires.
Millionaires are as thick as hops.
There are hundreds of them in New
York of whom the general public never
heard. Thero are half a hundred, worth
from two to five millions each, of whom
IUC J’cnci Ol JTUIJIIA -vuun umumu, -*
least a score whose individual wealth
may be reasonably estimated anywhere
from $25,000,090 to $50,000,000, con
cerning whom the ordinary citizen is ab
solute y ignorant. Yet they are men of
affairs, men xvhose transactions affect
commercial relations that belt the globe;
who-e business conduct has something
to do with every industry in which me
chanics, oil, light, and fuel are factors.
It used to be said throughout New Eng
land, “the young men go to New York
to seek a fortune.” Now it is said “the
men of the country, from the golden
shores of California and tho snow-clad
hills of the Sierra Nevada range, from
the cattle kings of the great middle
lands to the coil barons and the petro
leum princes of the Middle States, go to
New Yoik to spend their fortunes.”
And they do extraordinary things. On
the one hand we find a man presenting a
near relative with a residence and fixtutes
that cast in ( ash $750,000. We hear of
a man’s laying upon the pillow of his
sister’s new-born baby SIOO,OOO in
L nitid States bonds a* a birthday gift,
nnd again a coal-oil Johnny rolling, like
a scroll together, tangible evidence of
$1,000,000, in heavy interest-bearing
bonds, nnd tossing them into the lap of
a female friend. We are told of a mod
est millionaire calling on his pastor on a
bright New Year’s morning and handing
him n check drawn to hearer for the
princely sum of SIOO,OOO to be dis
tributed according to the clergyman’s
idea among the poor and needy. In this
great city where one family', wealth ag
gregates $: 0 1,000,000; where a man,
struck with a quick flash from eternity,
dies, is buried, and leaves to be dis
tributed among his sorrowing heirs the
extraordinary accumulation of $250,000,-
000; in this city, where men, who have
lived here less than five years, arc known
by tlieir associates and by them alone,
for the general public hasn’t h therto
been taken into their confidence, to be
worth, man after man, $25,000,000,
$40,000,000, $30,000,000, is it strange
that public interest is awakened and
general curiosity excited to know, first,
how these men got these almost fabulous
amounts of money, and second, what
they do with it? —New York World.
A Baby With Three Heads.
John W. Boyd nnd family, living near
Centre, thisconnty, pa-sed through this
place on Saturday en route from Edna.
They liad with them their little three
headed baby, which they exhibited
while attending the soldiers’ reunion at
that point. Being one of the most novel
little creatures on earth, the people have
a great desire to see it, and Mr. Boyd has
exhibited the little one at most of the
county fairs the past fall. It is three
years old, has three heads, can talk and
laugh, is sprightly, and was never sick a
day iu its life. On each of the heads is a
fine growth of light hair. It cannot stand
erect, as the weight of the heads is too
much for its body. It is a remarkable
freak of nature, nnd can probably bo
classed as one of the greatest curiosities
of the age. —New Ronton (Mo.) Guide.
NUMBER (J.
THF DEATH OF THE YEAR
A cloud came out of the golden west,
A twit rang over the silent air;
The sun-god hurried away to rest,
Flushing with kisses each cloud be prest,
Amt, oh! but tho day was fair.
“How brightly tho year gees out,” they said;
“The glow of the sunset lingers long.
Knowing tho year will bo over and dead,
Its sad hours over —its fleet hours fled—
With service of even-song.”
“How sadly the year came In,” they said,
I listened and wondered in dusk of night ;
To mo no year that might come instead
Of tho old friend numbered among the dead
Could ever tie half so bright.
The sun-kissod clouds grew pale and gray.
The bolls hung silent tn high mid-air,
Waiting to ring tho year away
In strains that were ever too glad and gay
For mo—as I listened there.
Ob, hearts! that lieat in a million breasts,
Oh, lips! that utter the same old phrasa,
I wonder that never a sorrow rests
In words you utter to friends and guests
In the new year’s strange new days I
Is it just the samo as it used to be?
Have now years only a gladder sound?
For ever and always it seems to me
That no now face can be sweet to see
As the old ones we have found.
There is no cloud in the darkened west,
The bell is silent in misty air,
The year has gone to its last long rest.
And I, who loved and who knew it best,
Shall meet it—God knows where!
— All the Year Round.
PITH AND POINT.
Head-work—Bonnets.
How to get ahead--Go to bed tight.—
Puck.
People who want tho earth do not cry
to havo it blown into their faces by wind
in a dry time. —Bouton Glo’x.
“It is the rent question that demands
better home rule,” as Ilagley remarked
when he pinned up the back of bis vest.
— Judge.
A correspondent asks; “Is it wrong to
cheat a lawyer?” First cheat law
yer and we wiil answer the conundrum.
— Providence Te'tgraph.
The doctor chuckled in wild glee,
With mirth almost exploded;
“The deadly mince pie comes,’’ said he
“And folks don’t know its loaded.”
— Qoodalt's Sun.
We are given, by an agricultural ex
change, a picture entitled: “A Device
for Feeding Hogs.” Every cheap res
taurant in New Y'ork should have one.—
Puck.
A child who was sitting in the sun was
admonished by her mother: “My dear,
come out of the sun.’’ “No, mother,”
said the little girl, with emphasis, “I
got V © first,"
That the oyster is nutritious,
(Juite exquisitely delicious,
a statement that can never be denied;
But he suddenly grows vicious.
Toward your stomach quite malicious,
When he’s fried.
—Merchant Traveler.
Perhaps, if the Y'alc students are
really tired of the old-fasioned religioa
that is preached to them at the college,
the faculty might delegate a few of tin
young men to get up anew one, with
eight oars and a coxswain in it. Chicago
Aieice.
The Curse of Chinn.
Tlie growers of opium in India are
muched alarmed over the rapid decreaso
in their exports to -China. The poppy
fields of the Flowery Kingdom are driv
ing the foreign product fromthe market.
There is a law in China forbidding opium
raising, but it has been a dead letter
over since England, simply because she
was deriving an annual income of
$(>,000,000 from the tax on Indian opium,
the'drugT' S ket to
Opium growing for several years past
has been rapidly increasing in China.
About onc-third of tho cultivated land
in Y'unnnn is now devoted to poppy rais
ing. Travelers describe the valley of
Southwestern China as white with poppy
blossoms. China is now raising about "
two-thirds of all the opium she consumes.
Other foreign opium also is coming into
competition with the Indian product.
The Mozambique Opium Company is
putting 50,000 acres of land in the lower
Zambesi valicy into opium, and the
African product is already selling in the
Shanghai market.
Meanwhile tlie curse of opium smoking
weighs more heavily every year upon the
people of China. One-fifth of the popu
lation of Pekin and Tientsin are Opium
smokers. It is siid that 3,003 of the
attaches of the imperial palace are
victims of the terrible habit in spite of
the fact that tho Chinese Government
discourages the practice. There are a
number of native anti-opium societies,
which are doing a work in China -imilar
to that of our temperance unions hero.
The Government has also established a
largo number of refuges, where victims
of the opium habit may go for treatment.
Sedatives, stimulants, and tonics arc ad
ministered to cure them of the vice.—
New York Sun.
A Negro Family Turning White.
In a clinical lecture at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Henry J.
Reynolds called attention to the peculiar
case of a colored boy in the city whose
skin is gradually turning white. Such
cases are rare, the doctor said, but this
case was especially peculiar in that,
while the father and mother of the boy
were both negroes, tho moth r and six
of the twelve children were also spotted.
One of the remaining children had whito
hair over a part of his scalp, while the
other five were all black. The changes
in all the spotted members of the family
began while they were still young. Tho
disease which causes this change was
known as vitiligo.and was probably due
to an impaired function of the nerves
that presided over the nutrition of tho
part, which produced an imperfect sup
ply or distribution of the pigment or
coloring matter of the skin. The family
are all otherwise healthy. —Chicago Neics.
Boiler Explosions.
From time to time demands are heard
for a Governmental control over steam
boilers, more especially when some dis
astrous explosion occurs, drawing public
attention to the subject. In the twenty
years following 1864 there was in Great
Britain an average of 46.7 boiler ex
plosions per year, with averages, 53.14
p rsons kilhd and 112.14 injured. In
Germany, on tho other hand, where tho
law on tho subject is exceedingly
stringent, the figures before us show
that from 1817 to 18 -4 inclusive, there
were only 126 boiler explosions, or an
annual average of 13.73. The number*
killed and injured averaged respectively
i 17.4 and 49,— Indus'ries