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FARMER stebbins on rollers.
: PEAR COUSIN JOHN
A,1 ’ Isab f;low° ldeStg ’ r01 "
An’ pets'me 'with her manners all her young
An An b bKgwd^wff^has culCyways; monstrous sweet an’
It« a summery place to pass a , few cold „ wm- .
y '
[Besides, I’ve various cast-iron friends in dif¬
ferent parts o’ town,
That’s always glad to have me call whenever
hut 1 come down; the I
vesterday, when ’mongst same un
' dertooktoroam,
I could not find a single one that seemed to
he to homo!
Un’ when I asked “I their think, whereabouts, the an¬
swer was, that you’ll find
If you're a-goin’ the Rink.” down way,
’em at
lj I nsjsed what their night next tho debate Lyceum folks would
bold helped ’em wield
(I’ve sometimes gone and
Un’if the cares of church an’ state);
protracted wee tin’s now was boldin’
anywhere soul fed with fresh celes¬
(I like to get my up
hr tial tare); social they’d
when the next church was;
give a knovvin’ wink, nothin’
An' sav. ‘‘I b’lieve there’s now trans¬
pirin’ but the Rink.”
■‘What is this ‘Rink!’ ’’ I innocent inquired,
that night go,” at tea. said Isabel, “this
“Oh you must very
And u£stt^ ! .he must go, an’ skate
there with us too!”
My wife replied, "My dear, just inform me
m hen A do.
But you two go.” An’ so we went; and saw
With whichfew sights I’ve ever struck will
anyways compare.
U “Tpitf$T church an’ paster meetin had ’ house resigned, had * iven
(The from
An’ seven! I^acres^of the floor was made a
skatin’ground,
Where folks of every shape an’ size went
ski ppm’ midst round big an’ round;
An’ in the a brass band was helpin’
on tto fun,
An’ everything in was gay as sixteen weddin's
joined one.
I’ve seen small insects crazy like go circlin’
through the air,
An wondered if they thought some time
they d maybe get somewhere;
I've seen a million river bugs go scootin’
round an’ round, '
An’ wondered what twas all about, or what
But they'd lost or found;
men an’ women, boys an’ girls, upon a
hard wood floor,
All whirlin’ round like folks possessed, I
never saw before.
An’ then it all came back to me, the things
I’d read an’ heard
About the rinks, an’ how their ways was
wicked an’ absurd;
I’d learned somewhere tiiat skatin' wasn’t a
But there healthy thing to do;
was Doctor Saddlebags—his fam’lv
with him too,
3d heard that ’twasnt a proper place for
Christian folk to seek;
Old Deacon 1'erseverance Jinks flew past me
like a streak.
Then Hi;,i Is’liel Sunnyhopes put on a pair
u -Kmes, *
An started off as if she’d run through several
different States.
My goodness! how that gal showed up! I
never did opine
That she could twist hersolf to look so charm¬
in’an’so fine;
And then a fellow that she knew took hold o’
hands with her,
A sort o’double crossways like, an’ helped
her as it were. !
1 USed 1 k ' tWaS & Sp ° rt ° f which 1
Why, o iu'e wMfoml
1 could write my autograph on Tomp
kins’ saw-mill pond.
Of course to slip on runners, that is one thing,
one may say,
An’ movin’ round on casters is a somewhat
But "hen the tun that fellow had came flash
in’to my eye,
° ror *'- 1 "
*“.y found- • pair „ *«. „ » „
soon
f0r me (I weigh three
An' then here I straightened up an’ says, “Look j
i“SSflSKVSS‘ you younger chaps,
-
" awhlleT laly h6re 10 m0 Wil1 trust
111 go around a dozen times an’ show you
,10 ' v skat «-’’ I
She was a nieeish plump young gal, I’d no- j
tu-ed quite awhile,
An she reached <mt her hands with ’most too
But nfT* Ug l,eri V l smile;
K'! shed J - w j, th m *S h t an’ main
Departed n above! an’Toffic
suddenly along my
My beatTassailed the floor as if ’twas ‘ tryin’ y
to get through,
al ! tl ‘ a 8tars 1 ever saw arrived at once
, n 1<?W
•r “& ■ n^ n ° tquiteunlike l0g
a saw '
How many of the other folks was goin’ that
They stumbled over mo in one large animated
An' forS a pile o’ legs an’ arms not far
from ten foot deep;
1 n^fierc* 1 surprise*^ C ‘ imbed
[here how t0 like Hse a saw-log still—considerin’
'
Then dignified I rose, with hands upon my
An' tC£t dtm’again haste“ with large and very
painful
" r Tr« a !"’ anJstarted0flft0findaplai ’ e
Then on my gentle stomach stood, an’ tore
Vi’hen my meetin’ vest;
Sister .Sunnyhopes slid up, as trim as
I trim could bo,
An sae ai1 ’ her young fellow took compassion¬
ate charge o’ me.
Then r d K ch,° ff ^ SkateS an ’ ' e "'
out o’r ’
i a
rose, while all grew hushed an - still, an'
"My ld „
tVhi„i Str 0k l f' l ,rpttv Sfluarei,
u .
An those w„o can t. 1 rather think, had bet,
Then „ r I raped out, with very strong unpre
home my remains;
An layabed three nays, while wife laughed
An’ us- had .1 up all theTnlma’ two drug stores
An . . to sell; said, ,
w ueu Miss Is’bel Sunnyhopes
1 Won't you skate once more.
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There are eighty-two glue factories in
this country, and with the present de
pression in all kinds of manufacturing it
would not surprise us if or.e or more of
hem gets stuck.— Lowell Cituen.
®he Cotiinoton Star.
the PRIZE STORY.
One summer not very long ago I
was
and beau,iful surroundings. While
there I made the acquaintance of lal
a
™ ted young artist and his wife. He
fa was
Y ‘a" and s-ender, while she was a
dark-eyed little woman of (he dumpling
order - They seemed eminently fitted
for each other, there being evidently a
perfect sympathy between them. She
studied art for his sake, and had ac
quired a fine critical taste.
One day, when she was showing me
her husband’s pictures, I was much at¬
tracted by the portrait of a young and
beautiful girl; but the face bore a cer
tain undefinable expression that baffled
me. It was not hope, neither was it
utter despair, but rather a blending of
the two, combined with a certain mourn¬
ful resignation. I felt the tears start to
ray eves as I gazed.
“You are attracted by the expression
of that portrait,” said Mrs. Shelton. “It
is a picture of a relative of ours. My
husband painted it from a photograph
. . _ ,
taken in her girlhood. It does not much
~ ble tbia - d °<* »*” And she handed
me the photograph of a handsome, nia
tronly woman whose face bore a peaceful
*■
*
nappy expression, much unlike the other.
l ' Tbu leatures ar ® the same,” I an
swered, “but the fairy godmother has
touched her with her magic wand.”
“Since you are so interested I will tell
you her story,” said my friend.” “As
t0 the fairy £ odmother and her wand,
you shall judge for yourself.”
“When I was a little girl,” she began,
“my parents lived in the country, in the
suburbs of a small village. I was about
twelve years old v hen Catharine Haw
ky “T t0 ° Ur8CbooL She was
orphan, and had the care of her
brother, a delicate child about mv own
, but , lame. , He TT , had . be . wheeled , , ,
8 § e > to .
about in a chair. They boarded at our
,, house, for , she , was very particular . , that
Mcrliu should have plenty of fresh air, ’
ood , food , , and m,lk fres from the ,,
8 n cow.
He was wheeled to school every day by
us children » and then home again at
nmht.
W e became very much attached to
him after a while. He had such shy,
gentle ways, and, though sickly and of
ten suffering great pain, he was a better
scholar than any of us, and used to help
the older ones with their lessons, and
tell stories and draw funny pictures for
the little ones for Jo hours together la re-.
turn we woula anything in our power
for him. j j
“Miss Hawley had the finest percep
tive faculties that I ever saw in a
teacher 1 She could tell if a pupil was
guilty of , any misdemeanor . , , by i,,otinet instinct
almost Her eyes penetrated all dis
* *
guises of look , or tone or action. __ rr The Ko
boys used to wonder sometimes at being
detected in their wrong-doings. There
was a suspicion BU8 P 1C1 among them at one time
that Merlin told , on them. ,
brot hcr John, though not a quar
relsome boy, caught one of them on the
wav home from school one night, and
„,; e him » M»ete thrashing for calling I !
Mcriio a -whit, faced tcll-ta...’ Th, bn*
was larger than John, too, but mdigna
tion had made my brother brave.
“Merlin felt very badly when he heard
, ., n „„ r rel and he never rested until
uioboj. toga,he, nod had
them ‘make up.’ He told them, too,
that lie disliked tell-tales as much as
the> did) and he didn't blame them for !
.
trotting angry when they thought him
8 " of them would have
one. After that t w any atlV ot them woum
fought for him.
" brated lecturer came
, a ce i e
t0 the village. He and father had been
schoolmates together, and he took tea at
our house. He was much interested m
t [d Catharine of a famous ,
nhvsieian whom he thought could cure
to,. Catharine was very much excited
it That evening, I remember, she
ovcr _ Merlin
was sitting on a low stool by
<= She bair took ’ and both ^ his ZVZthers hands in and ^Td‘ •
lin, “ ot ‘ What all things WOU,d in y the ° U ^ woi ‘ ? ’
■
“And he answered in a whisper, wtth
a glance at his helpless feet. ^
| cried little while quite softly softly be oe
She a talk
fore she said, almost as if she were
ing to herself: He
“ ‘God will surely open the way.
will surely help us.’
“A day or two after that I saw cr
very miicir interested in something she
d in it. I slept in the room next lers,
rea M <,«.» ^
.»,! I noticed .he ... up
that night. She was veiy
writing. She was **
«n.l ” d Tber e
more co y b with
i were no ...
u» riddles to g > mtoht know
had a beautilulvoice,, J < 8
h J looking at t lose g t . had
the portrait there. llersin 8in g 0 in ..g g
in greatest pleasures.
. been , one on of our b change
,„X“ , y «£
a.
' D ZgZJZ
i love us .. -*• “
day I said as much 0 , J
face between her hands an i •
‘Can keep a secret, she said.
“ you Tb„c ora . pm.
“Then she told me.
offered for the best story, and she was
,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1885.
trying to win it. She wanted the money
tosend Merlin “way to the doctor. Pro
cured ’. And I must be her little friend,
^ Sa ' d ’ and do my d l,est he to take her
^ t° a " < clnldren.su
Uld “ 0t think of her os
th ° m '
./ V hC W0 ' dd r °f d mo tho
a T a CW l )u S es at a tune, she
us
W And when - ■» my childish
! , ' y 1 would lau h
; 8 or cry, as the
humor of the story was, her face would
lighten beautifully, and she would be
quite hopeful.
After a while the story was finished,
and I took it to the office for her. Then
came a trying time for poor Catharine.
The double work, teaching and writing,
had been a great strain, and left her
weak and nervous. As the time drew
near for the decision to be annouuced
in regard to stories, the suspense became
painful to us both. We used to walk
together in the woods back of the ho use
—a beautiful place in summer—and talk
about it.
‘“Oh, if I fail,’ she would sav, ‘what
shall I do next? The Lord will surely
help me! But he can’t be expected to
supply the lack of capacity, I suppose.’.
And the smile on her white lips was sad¬
der than any tears.
“Teachers didn’t get such large wages’
then as they do now, and Catharine
barely made enough to clothe and board
herself and brother, So this really
seemed to be her only chance.
“Merlin knew'nothing of it. Catha¬
rine wouldn’t have his hopes excited,
she said, for fear they would not be re¬
alized. But sometimes she would sit
aud look at him as, cheerful and patient,
he wheeled his chair about the porch,
with such an agony of suspense in hei
face that a lump would rise in my throat
and I w r ould go away and cry.
“I had begged the privilege of going
to the postoffice for the mail. I wanted
to be the bearer of the news to Catharine
that was either to raise her hopes or des¬
troy them. One day among the letters
was one addressed to Catharine, aud I
knew by the postmark that it was the
one. My feet scarcely touched the
ground on the way home. I rushed up
to Catharine’s room-she nearly always
awaited my returnfrom theoflice therc
an< i thrust the letter into her hand,
“For a few minutes she sat holding
the letter with the seal unbroken, as if
8 he feared to know her fate. Then, with
*».«» control them, she dTokc the
scarcely
seal. A bank note fell out upon her lap.
gh e gave one loud, joyful cry, then
fainted dead away.”
Mrs. Shelton paused in her narrative,
ostensibly to loop back the curtain, but
—well, I brushed the tears from my own
eyes, and we were both quite composed
when she resumed;
“Well, there was quite an exciting
time. Mother came running up wiih
the camphor bottle, in answer to my dis¬
tressed call for help, and the children
formed a frightened group outs.de tho
door. When Catharine regained con
sciou.nesa she look.il about for Merlin;
than. «m***m»
just swept us all aside and
stairs and by his chair in a moment,
“Mother kept us all away for a long
time; but when I did creep out on the
porch ,h. broth., and si-ta, bad their
arms about each other, and Catharines
face shone like an angel s.
“Well, Merlin went away. Catharine
stayed with us and taught, . lie c t
not nor g give herself the comfort of ueuig
with lam, for fea y wollld 110t
hold out. There was a very difficult . dp
eration to be performed, and such things
are expensive, as you know It J
during those days of suspense that l
arine’s face took on the expression in the
portrait there. The other was taken
since her marriage.”
“But Merlin—was he cured after a .
“There is no trace of his lameness ex
-pt a slight limp, as you may see fo.
vourself,” she answered, pointing to her
husband, who was coming up the walk.
“]3ut I thought vou said his sister s
^ ^ Hawleyr sister.
“She is my husband's ball
They are children of the same mother.
^ ^ waVj Cathnrineiscomingto
Tshould like you two to be
^Afterward, when I had the pleasure iriends, of l
counting Catharine among my .
^ not f WO nder at the devotion with
^t^^wasTruTy one of the noblest
women j bad ever known.__
f„ii n wintr is from the Stevens
among L- the pines of Central AN isconsm,
.... Knowl.™ ;. h.
™ the form of
ks ago. It was in a p
wee
squirrel, ami was taken fr
mon woodsmen. It
' by
heart 0 f a tree some
was of a brownish color as hard as roc ,
nnd was‘as natural as life,’ even to the
kink its , long, hushv bus! tail - The curi
m
-5 ST5.-l.irf. «««.
Iran, -bora „
letter of thacks was received las wee
^ gender- 8ay i n g that it would be
^ and placed in the
- served
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AMINE FOUND BY A MULE
A Sensational IVtininq Discov¬
ery in Arizona.
How Three Prospectors Came Aoross a
Valuable Silver Ledge.
A sensational mining discovery was
made in 1875 in Arizona. It was one
of the most interesting finds ever made
on the coast. Three prospectors Cope¬
land, Mason and another, were one day
dodging Indians in the neighborhood
of Queen Creek, Pinal County, about
fifty miles from Florence. The Indians
had been very bad that year in that
gion re¬
and no prospectors felt safe a mo
ment. One evening Copeland and par¬
ty were looking for a place to camp
when all at once one of their pack
mules gave a snort and with ears poin¬
ted forward stood stock still. A mule’s
. scent for an Indian Is keener than that
of any dog for game, and the party
knew there was danger ahead. They
dismounted and reconnoitered. While
Copeland prepared to scout on the side
of a little rise, he tied his mule to a
clump of sage brush which grew in
the cleft of a ridge of float rock, while
he was gone something seared the
mule, and the latter jsrked the sage
brush up and started down the
canyon. The party located a
“rancheria” of Indians a mile
off and wisely beat a retreat undis
covered. A half a mile away they
picked up the mule, the sage bush still
hanging to his bridle. Copeland de¬
tached it and was about throwing it
away when something clinging to the
roots attracted his attention. It was
a piece of shattered white quarts, as
big as a walnut, the disintegrated
mass being held together by a perfect
network of pure white silver threads
the size of a number eight wire. Some
of the roots of the bush ran through
the quartz and firmly attached it.
The party were greatly excited, but
they did not then dare go back on ac
count of the Indians. They staked the
locality, and Copeland fairly cudgeled
his brain to impress upon it the exact
spot he had tied his mule. Two weeks
after they ventured back and to their
joy found the coast clear. For several
hours they searched among the rocks
and scoria of the vicinity, and at last
ifi$W)tlSYi few ’nAi?Y ei»tiCup.' l 'crc ARv
minutes digging revealed the crown of
of the most beautiful silver quartz,
ledge any of the prospectors had ever
seen. They dug for several days on
the spot and laid bare a section twen¬
ty feet long and ten feet wide. The
vein was without foot or hanging
wall, was of pure white quartz, with
streaks of native silver (pure white
silver) and blotches of black sulphur
ets running all through it. This was
the discovery of the famous Silver
King mine of to-flay. This mine has a
peculiar interest from the fact that so
many public men of note invested in
it. Soon after its discovery Colonel
James M. Barney, of Yuma, bought
the property for $275,000, and placed
the stock on the Eastern market.
The mine has paid since 1879
$1,500,000 in dividends, and has pro¬
duced something like $3,400,000 in
silver. Strange to say, the ledge
stands alone by itself. Scores of loca¬
tions have been made around it, but
nothing has ever been found in any of
them. If any other evidence were
needed to prove that mining for the
precious metals is a game of chance,
the history of the Silver King deposit
alone would prove it —Chicago Herald.
The Beauties of Mexican Feather
Work.
While in Mexico I tried hard to find
out how they made the lovely birds on
cards which they offered for sale on
the streets. A friend took me to the
house of one of these artists. It was
a little hovel, where he sat on the mud
floor and toiled. But when he heard
us coming he put away all his work
and would not let us see It. He was
an Indian, with brown skin and black,
straight hair. He wore ragged clothes
and had an old blanket to keep him
warm at night- Poor as he was, no
money would tempt him to show us
t[l0 secre t process he had learned from
of ye !T (Heat
skill ’ is required to produce a perfect
rtr.t, tb. mm Umm on
f. „ , * b „ ou tline3 of the body of
uhelower pa rt and places them on,
, llme . on,,.- l.ppi.g over the
slater lays slates. Reworks
this is the secret of his perfect work.
^ reason that no other people
hate oecu » to equa • i him. The re
ult is, a bird that g
Si glai The eves are made with
-I- - •* as -
«£»-«> SUHTlBrS
P a a tw j„ or branch for it to rest
^ inak<ffl one {rom a feather, and
I his wofk is dona —Antonia Light.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
lie that wants hope is the
man alive.
He who knows nothing is
in everything.
Only whisper scandal and its
is heard by all.
Success is a gleaming head-light
which attracts the moths of adulation.
Men are like w igons—they rattle
prodigiously when there is nothing in
them.
If thou wouldst attain to thy highest,
go look upon a (lower; what that does
willessly, that do thou willingly.
He that resolves to be very eloquent
in making a speech, oftentimes cannot
speak at all, but sticks by the w r ay.
“Hold fast that which is good,” im¬
plies more than being satisfied with
present possessions; it must push
ahead and get more.
If there w r ere no enemy, there could
be no conflict; were there no trouble,
there could be no faith; were there no
fear, there could be no hope.
Whatever is coming, there is but
one way to meet it—to go straight for¬
ward, to bear what has to be
borne, and do what has to be done.
Happiness is defined by Madame de
Stael to be “A state of constant occu¬
pation upon some desirable object,
with a continual sense of progress to¬
ward its attainment.”
Among the Tucomans.
Any traveler who has crossed the
wild upland region lately occupied by
Russia on the border of Afghanistan,
and has seen the Tucoman camps and
Afghan villages with which it is stud¬
ded, has surveyed at one glance the
past and the present Central Asia.
The fortress-like Afghan hamlet, with
its huge gray mud wall and narrow,
sinister loop-holes behind which the
low, fiat-roofed earthen hovels huddled
so closely together as barely to leave
passage room between them, repre¬
sents the marauding shepherd of the
east in his more advanced stage of fix¬
ed residence In one spot, but still re¬
taining enough of his guerilla nature
to regard every stranger as an enemy
and to build every house like a fort.
The light Turcoman tent of felt and
saplings, set up or p ulled down in a
in his original characL er as a warmor¬
ing herdsman, flying from his enemy
or pouncing upon him with equal sud¬
denness, swooping off with his booty
into the desert like one of its own vul¬
tures, ever occupied with the duties
of finding grass and water for the
flocks and herds that formed his whole
possessions, and of anticipating any
foe who wished to cut his throat by
cutting the latter’s throat first.
But despite all the these bandit qual¬
ities the Turcoman at home is not a
bad fellow by any means. Drawing
bridle on the crest of one of those long,
low swells that break at times the gray
unending sameness of the vast plains
of Central Asia, you see below you a
tiny stream, sharply outlined against
the surrounding desert by the dark
belt of undergrowth fringing it On
the bank stand a dozen or more huge,
pointed dark gray objects very much
like gigantic “dunce-caps,” around
which a number of sheep and cattle
are feeding. A shrill cry from a tall
figure among them brings out of the
tents a half score guant, sinewy fel¬
lows in soiled, white tunics and caps
of black sheepskin, handling menac
ingly the spears and guns which they
have snatched up.
The Turcoman “Beg,” chief (for
such he is,) greets you with a guttural
“Kosh amedeid” (you are welcome)
mdte reassuring than the short curved
sabre within reach of his hand, which
shows by its notches that its has once
done a thrifty business. But its mas¬
ter is now a tolerably peaceable sub¬
ject of Russia, converted by that per¬
suasive strategy which might give a
hint to the invaders of the Soudan:
“We never wasteu time in pursuing
them, but beset the water-courses
whither they must repair sooner or 1 a
ter, and then we had them at our mer¬
cy.” He kindly offers you a seat on
a newly Hayed ana still bloody sheep
skin and hands you an earthen jar of
milk and a wooden spoon, licking the
latter clean as a special compliment
Should you arrive on the day of un¬
wonted plenty, which results from a
camel's death by age or disease, you
may preface with the blue, stringy
meat a bowl of “brick-tea” with salt
for sugar and rancid fat for cream.
The chief’s little brown girls who
crowd around you to play with your
sash tassels and the fringe of your tur
ban. wear a small brass coin imbedded
in the skin of the forehead,a Turcoman
lady’s traditional ornament ever since
Isaiah denounced its Hebrew counter
part. But with all this hospitality
voh will do wisely not to prolong your
call, as every Turcoman tent swarms
with “indigenous creepers” not classi
fied by any botanist, -New York
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
A cup of strong coffee, without
sugar or milk, will do much towards
removing the odor of onions from
breath. Better still will be found a
few grains of the burned coffee bean.
Small-pox was accurately described
by Rimes, an Arabian physician
about 900 A. I). It is supposed to
have been introduced Into Europe by
the Saracens, and it was spread wide¬
ly among the Indians by the early
explorers of America.
Should an emergency arise tht
President of the United States is em¬
powered by law to order the militia of
any state to any part of the United
States deemed by him necessary, ol
which necessity he is made the abso
lute judge.
It is the pride of a Maharajah of
Travancore to weigh as much as pos
Bible. When he attains as great a
weight as he thinks he ever will he
has himself weighed in public against
a mass of pure gold, which gold is
then, with much ceremony, broken
up and dispensed in charity. The
Maharajah was recently weighed,when
he tipped the scales at 185 pounds.
After Columbus had discovered the
island of Cuba he sailed eastward and
discovered Ilayti. There on the shoals
his careless sailors lost one of his
ships. The native prince,' Guacana
gari, showed great sympathy ami
placed a guard to protect the property
of the ship. The natives saved every
thing from the wreck, treated the
er ew kindly, and were requited with
cruel wrong.
A great Baris drapery house is sell
ing “bath bags,” by the use of which
“refined people” may obtain a sort of
velvety, oatmeal soap complexion
ablution for the moderate sum of
eight cents. These queer articles con¬
sist of a bag containing half a pound
of bran, some meal and a little pow¬
dered soup. On wetting and pressing
the bag a lather is produced, and at
the same time a soft pad for rubbing
purposes.
It is said that fruits, even after
being detached from the tree, give oil
both poisonous gases and carbonic acid
gas, thereby vitiating the air of a
room so as to produce death by poison
ing. wmen Such gave accidents tnr tut* have been oaused
gm. m WfJW ttf^UVa
Sweet-smelling flowers, such as jas¬
mine, tuberose and magnolia, and also
odoriferous leaves, give off a similai
deadly g as. _
A Man who saw Washington.
It does not seen possible that then
should be a man yet living who would
ever profess to remember having seen
Washington’s face. But there is, and
what is still more curious, he professe'
to have seen it only about 50 years ago.
It is W. II. Burgess, of Alexandria.
He says that he was employed in 1836
as laborer to assist in building the
tomb at Mount Yernon and removing
the bodies of George and Martha Wash¬
ington from the old to the new tomb.
“1 was but a lad,” he said, “and 1 re¬
member this was about my first pie o
of work. When the vault was com
pleted, I assisted in removing the
bodies from the old tomb to their pres
ent resting-placa It was decided to
open Washington’s coffin, and when it
had been conveyed to the new tomb,
the lid was raised. A number ot peo¬
ple were present and stood in breath¬
less silence while the workmen extract
ed the rusty screws. When the top of
the C0( p 1Q bad been lifted, I looked in.
The body was apparently perfectly
p re3erve d. The features of the face
were complete, and there was nothing
i t() i n{ ji ca te the length of the time he
had been dead The exposure of the
ai ^ however, had its immediate effect,
a m j nu t e or two the body suddenly
collapsed and shrunk into almost
recognizable form. Other than this
my recollections are very indistinct. I
do not remember how the body was
dressed or anything further about it
Tbe f ea t ure 3 , as I remember them,
were b k e tbe pictures I have seen.”
Mr. Burgess now is a white-haired
old man, 70 years of age.— Baltimore
American.
The African Slave Trade.
Stanley, in his book tells , ot , finding
fn the vicinity o a out - mi es in
land from Leopoldville, Africa, a band
of slave traders having in their pos
session 2,300 captives, “Both banks
of the river,” he says, “showed that
118 villages and forty-three districts
had been devastated, out of which
were educed 2.300 females and
children and about 2000 tusks ol
ivory. To obtain these they must
have shot 2,500 people, while 1,300
more died by the wayside. How
many are wounded and die in the
forest ur droop to death through an
overwhelming 3ense of their calami
ties, we do dot know, but tbe
from the territory, with its million
souls, must be 5000 slaves,
at the expense of ,000001 33,0 00 livesf r-
VOL. XL NO, 45.
CHINAMEN IN NEW YORK.
Their Principal Occupations
in the Metropolis.
Celestial Gambling Dens, Restaurants*
Laundries, and Other Employments.
The Chinese gambling-dens In New
York are devoted to a game called
Fan-Tan, which is to the Celestial
what faro is to some Americans. Its
basis is betting on the number of coins
left on the table, after the dealer has
put a pile of metal on the board, from
which he removes four coins at a time
until either one, two, three or four are
left. The game in the main is a “square
game,” and allows the house a profit
®f seven per cent on all business done.
It is highly popular with the Chinese,
and gives employment to about 200
persons. Chinese gambling resembles
American. Each house has its propri¬
etor, backer, cashier, dealer, cappers
and hangers-on. The largest game is
conducted at No. 12 Mott-st-, and fre¬
quently handles over a thousand dol¬
lars a day. All of the games are own¬
ed and managed by syndicates, and
never by a single individual. Chin¬
ese policy is played in eighty numbers.
The managers draw each evening
twenty of these. A player is allowed
to play on ten numbers. If the ten he
selects are all drawn he is paid $10,000
for $1. If lie draws four numbers or
less he receives nothing. Twice have
play ers drawn ten numbers. In one
CHse the lucky player received his mon¬
ey in full; in the other, where he had
bet $4, he was compelled to compromise
for $15,000. This case happened in
San Francisco.
The restaurants are practically open
day and night. Each is noted for
some particular dish or style of cook¬
ing. No 4 Mott-st is noted for its
pates and dumplings. No 11 for soups
and stews, No 14 for style and fancy
dishes, No 18 for meats, one near Mott
and Park sts, for cheap prices, and the
Fell-st, restaurant for American cook¬
ing. Prices are lower than in Ameri¬
can eating plBces. An average lunch
for an Oriental is tea, rice, chiken and
fish. The cost of these is for the tea,
nothing; rice, five cents; chicken, fif¬
teen, and fish, five or ten; in all twen¬
ty-five cents. The same meal in an
nothing: tea nothing; rice, five cents;
duck, fifteen; perfumed pork, ten;
maccaroni, ten; fish, five; meat-ball,
five; rice-wine, eighteen. The amount
served is sufficient for two guest. In
these restaurants the kitchen and
food are visible and open to the guests.
The customer wanders from the din¬
ing table to the kitchen examines the
articles he has ordered, chats with the
cook and then returns to his table.
The Chinese are particular in regard
to their meats and insist upon ail
poultry being alive in the morning of
the day on whicli it is eaten. For
this reason in all the restaurants there
is a coop from which unlucky chick¬
ens and ducks emit continual discord.
The article, chiefly used in the order of
their popularity are: Meats—chicken,
duck, pork, beef; vegetable foods—
rice, macaroni, Chinese turnip, onion,
celery. Muttons, lamb and veal are
seldom used. Preserves and pastry
are popular. Every fruit known to
the American markets as well as a
hundred indigenous to China is em¬
ployed in every forf,,—dried, smoked,
evaporated, compressed, candied, pre¬
served and canned. A price-list from
a Chinese grocery will sometimes con¬
tain as many as five hundred fruit
preparations.
The Chinese population of New
York and its neighborhood, according
to its vocations, is about as follows;
Laundrymen, 4,500; cigarmakers, 390;
200 sailors; 200 gamblers; 300 unem
ployed, who are looking for places tc
start laundries; 100 merchants; 10 doc¬
tors; 5 carpenters; 2 barbers; 4 provis¬
ion-agents; 8 musicians and one or
two each of sign-painters, interpre¬
ters, fortune-tellers, tailors, commis¬
sion men, fruit vend9rs and insurant
agents. There is also one journalist.
At present there are in New-York
about 1,000 laundries, in Brooklyn 300,
in Jersey City and Hoboken 175, and
the other near place8 about 50 more .
Eacfa laundry era pi oy3 f rom one to six
I men, besides the proprietor, and they
average three men each. These laun
dries range in value from $100 tc
$2,000 .—Hero York Tribune,
Great Artists.
Squire Pummel: “I (ell you, dea
con, my daughter Sue is going to be *
first-class artist Her cattle pieces are
so natural you can almost hear th#
critters low.”
Deacon Pummel: “Pooty good.
But my daughter Sal can beat that
She hain’t no faith in cattle pieces.
But she’s painted some green cowcum
b «rs so nat’ral that the hull family
came mighty near havin’ cboi’ra mor
bus .”—Boston Beacon .
