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GENERAL DIRECTORY
Superior Court meets 3d Monday i:
May and 2d Monday in November.
Hon. James R Brown, Judge.
George F. Gober, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge.
Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday in each rndhth
Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
in each month.
town 'OoVfffen,.
J. P. Perry, Tntendent.
M. McKinney, j. H. Tabor, I n
J. Hunuicutt, J.R. Johnson, j Oom ’
W. H, Foster, Town Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court,
H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. Gates, Tax Collector,
Jas. M. West, Surveyor,
G W. Rice, Coroner,
Vf. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
The County Board of hducation meets
at Ellijay the Ist Tuesday in January
April, July and October.
Justices’ courts.
8501 h Dist. G. M., Ellijay. Ist Thurs
day, A. J. Dooley. J. P., G. H. Randeil,
h. P.
864th Dist. G. M., Tickaneteby, Ist
Saturday, J. C, Anderson, J. P., J v\.
Parker, N. P.
907th Dist. G. M., Boardtown, 4th
Saturday, J S. Smith, J. P., W. E
Chancey, N., P.,,
932d Dist. G. M , Cartecay, 4th Sat
urday, S. D. Allen, L. M. Simmons, N.
IP.
958th G. M., Mountaintown, 4th Sat
urday, J. M. Painter, J. P,, J. W. With
erow, N. P.
1009th Dist. G. M., Tails Creek, 3rd
Saturday, Cicero M. Tatum, J. P., Jbos.
Ratcliff, N. P.
1035th Dist. G. M., Teacher, Ist Sat
urday, Joseph Watkins, J. P., Jos. I’.
Ellis, N. P.
ItlSlst Dist. G. M., Ball Ground, 2d
Saturday. A. M. Johnson, J. i\,- J-b-’-
P, Evans. N. P.
1135th Dist, G. M., Town Creek, 2d
Saturday, E. Russel), J. P., John T.
Keeter, N. P.
1136th Dist. G. M., Cherry Tog, Ist
'Saturday, John H.Whitner, ,i. P„ J. .VI.
Ward, N. P.
1274th Dist. G. M., Ridgeaway, 2d
Saturday, John M. Qiiarlc-, J. P . W.
i . O. Moore, N. P.
1802d Dist. G. M., Coosawattee, 3>i
Saturday, M. C. Blankenship, J. P., A
J. Hensley, N. P,
13415 t Dist. G. M., Diamond 2d Sat
tiiday, W, D. Sparks, J. P., Jesse Hold
en, N. P.
1355th Dist., G. M„ Alto, 2d Satur
day, Maxwell Chastain, J. P., B. H. An
derson, N. P.
SKLIGIOCS SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.—
Every 4lh i-vuiday aud Saturday before,
by Rev. C. M. Ledbetter.
Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday
and Sunday, by Rev. N. L Osborn.
Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever.
Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. R
H. Robb.
FRATERNAL RECORD,
Oak Bowery Lodge, No, 81, F. A. M.,
meets first Friday ia each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
1 . B. Greer, S. W.
W. F. Hipp, J. W.
li. Z. Roberts,' Treas.
T. W. Craigo, Sec.
W. W. Roberts, Tyler,
T. B. Kirby, S. D.
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JASPER, GEORGIA
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ELLIJAY, GA.
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THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
They have great respect for the Ameri
can flag at Andaman, Society Islands.
When a man dies there, his body is
painted red, white and blue.
According to the Hong Kong daily
Press, the empress of China has caused a
great commotion among her counselors
by her liberal idens and her conduct.
Sbo has abated the rigor of court eti
quette, has transferred her residence
from the winter palace to the castle in
Imperial park, t ikes boxing lessons, and
does not conceal her opinion that reform
in social and religious matters are
needed, and that China no longer can
keen up her isolation from the rest of the
world. The conservatives complain
th at her conduct is weakening the popu
lar belief in the divine power of the im
perial house, and are confirmed in their
belief that a woman is unfit to rule a
country.
The King of Bavaria keeps carefully
out of sight, but contrives to provide
matter tor more stories about his private
doings than any of the visible monarchy
of Europe. King Ludwig’s latest ec
centricity is remarkable even for him;
he has been photographed. During one
of his solitary walks in the Bavarian
Alps he encountered an amiable ox,
which l>arred the way ahd refused td
allow his majesty to pass. For a bovine
Bubject to make himself so unpleasantly
conspicuous was not to be endured;
wherefore the king seized a plank
which happened to be at hand, and,
placing himself in a position of attack,
as with a bayonet,he prepared to charge.
Then, of course, the surly ox sheered
oil and allowed the King to pass, and he
was so pleased with his own exploit that
he had himself photographed in the at
titude of charging.
General Brisbin recently visited the
Rosebud Indian agency to witness an is
sue of Uncle Sam's beef to the red chil
dren of the prairie. He found that the
bee'f was issued on the hoof, and the
braves were armed with repeating rifles
and revolvers to do the butchering.
First one young warrior would shoot a
hunt i£, then another would break a
leg, and so on. The poor animal would
be tortured by slow degrees, his death
being put oil as long as possible so the
sport might last longer. “And this was
the government of the United States
method of issuing beef to its Indians,
encouraging them to be barbarous and
cruel, making a gala day of its meat is
sue, and giving the young warriors a
chance to learn to shoot well and ride
well, so that they can kill my soldiers
morfe readily and kill citizens better if
they should go to war.” *
A scheme for turning, or, rather, de
flecting, the gulf stream, which for the
present, however, is likely to exist on
paper only, has been originated by Mr.
John C. Goodridge, an inventor and
engineer well known in New York. It
has for its object changing the tempera
ture of the Atlantic states, by obtaining
more of the benefit of the gulf stream.
Sir. Goodridge assumes that the reason
that those stales do not get the benefit
of it now is, that they have between
them and it a polar current, coming
down along the coast of Labrador,
through the straits of Belle Isle, and
forming the cold western wail of the
gulf stream. The existence of this cur
rent is well estab'ished, and. in fact, is
one of the facts on which official sailing
directions both in the United States and
England are based. What Mr. Good
ridge proposes is that it should be
stopped in the straits of Belle
Isle by a dam at a point where
it is about ten miles wide and 150
feet deep. The dam, he says, could be
built with the adjacent rocks, and the
cost would not exceed $30,000,000. The
effect of this would be, he calculates, to
change the temperature of the coast from
Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland. Nova
Scotia would have a climate as mild as
Cape May, and Block Island and Cape
Cod would become winter watering
places. Moreover, the St. Lawrence
would be open to navigation throughout
the year. Mr. Goodridge also thinks,
though not with much positiveness, that
the deflection of the Arctic current
nrght turn the gulf stream' further
southward, and thus cut off enough heat
I from the British Isles to give them the
climate of Labrador; and then, giving
the reins to his fancy, he sees the queen
abandoning her icy kingdom and taking
refuge as Empress of India. But all
this, says the paper Iron, is too much to
expect for $10,000,000, and very thank
ful we ought to be that there are not
enough insane men to raise between them
even that sum for such a wild scheme as
that of Mr. Goodridge.
Paris is less populous by 11 *,OOO than
it was four years ago
“A. Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
Observant travelers say that every
country in Europe has three prices for
everything sold there. The first is for
natives, the second for Englishmen, and
the third fbr Americans. It is needless
to add that the latter receive the full
benefit of the highest price.
Some men don’t know when they are -
well off. No ancient fable ever pointed
a moral with greater effect than the
story of two murderers in Missouri.
They had been sentenced to prison for
life, but, being dissatisfied, obtained a
new trial. They will now be hanged on
the 12th of March, unless the governor .
interferes.
■ ■ i— j
A correspondent wishes to knoW the
names and nativities of foreign-born
members of Congress. In the Senate
they are Beck (Scotland), Fair, Sewell
and C, W. Jones (Ireland), and J. P.
Jones (Englahd). In the House of Rep
resentatives—Davis, Collins, McAdoo,
Downey and Lowry (Ireland), Hahn and
Romeis (Bavaria), Pulitzer (Hungary),
Nelson (Norway), Muller (Germany),
West (England), and Farquhar (Scot
land).
The relative efficiency of labor in the
cotton mills throughout the world can
be seen by reference to the amount of
cotton which different workmen will
consume per year. In India the average
is 3.451 pounds per operative, in Eng
land 2,914 pounds, in Germany 1,200 to
1,500 pounds, and in the United States
4,350 pounds. The cost of gathering
and planting the cotton crop is computed
to be $113,450,000, or thirty-six pei
cent, of its gross value at nine cents Jer'
pound.
Our mercantile marine if not quite
“swept from the sea” yet, as investiga
tion shows that in the number and qual
ity of our traveling ships we still stand
Second among the nations of the world.
We have 6,284 seagoing sailing vessels
of 2,138,880 tons, and 18,862 sailing
coasters of 2,100,000 tons; and we have
855 seagoing steamers, and 4,111 Inland'
and coasting steamers. So we &rp not 1
completely annihilated yet npuu 4b*
wave, though Britannia is a good way
ahead of us.
A representative of the .New York
Tribune has made public the fact that
some of the liquor saloons of that city
sell quinine pills to their patrons. A
bartender who was interrogated by him
on the subject said: “We sell lots of
quinine. If we didn't keep it our cus
tomers would go to the drugstore for
their liquor as well as their quinine. It
would do no good to kick, so we set up
the pills. Quinine to a certain extent
acts on the system like liquor. Men who
drink much or go in for any excitement,
until the ordinary stimulants fail to
operate on their nervous system, often
take to quinine, opium or its compounds,
chloral, absinthe, and so on,”
A singular sort of fertilizer for potato
fields has been introduced on a Pomera
nian model farm. Hitherto herrings and
potatoes have bjeen known as a palatable
dish in family households. The man
ager of the farm in question has hit upon
the idea of blending them from the start,
by planting his seed potatoes with a her
ring placed in every heap, and with so
decided a success as to Cause him to in
crease the area thus planted from twenty
acres last year to 3ixty in the present
one. The expense he calculates at about
nine markß per acre, which is cheaper
than the cost of any other kind of
manure, and amply repays the outlay.
Of course it can only be employed neai
the sea coast.
A City of Mexico letter to the Boston
Herald asserts that “the ancient volcano
Popocatepetl has got into the courts.
Not that it has been bodily transported
into the halls of litigation, but it is the
subject of a novel suit at law. For many
years General Ochoa has been the owner
of the volcano, the highest point of land in
North America, together with all ita ap
purtences. The crater contains*, a fine
quality of sulphur, which the general
has been extracting, giving employment
to Indians who cared to stay down m
the vaporous old crater. The property
was at one time fairly profitable, but
now it appears that the volcano was,
gorge time ago, mortgaged to Mr. Carlos
Itecamier, who brings suit of foreclosure.
The papers have been joking about the
m itter, some asking what Mr. Rccamier
intends to do with his volcano when he
gets legal possession. He has been sol
emnly warned that the law forbids the
carrying Out of the country ancient mon
uments and objects of historical interest.
Probably there are precedents in law for
the foreclosing of volcanic property, but
you nor I have never heard of them be
fore.
ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 4,1880.
A SOSO OF THE FOUR SEASONS.
When spring comes laughing, by vale and
hill,
By wind flower walking and daffodil—
Sing stars of morning, sing morning skies,
Sing blue of speedwell, and my love’s eyes.
When comes the summer, full leaved and
strong,
And gay birds goesip, the orchard long—
-Bing hid, sweet honey, that no bee sips;
Sing red, red roses, and my love’s lips.
When autumn scatters the leaves again.
And piled sheaves bury the broad wheeled
wain—
Sing flutes of harvest, where men rejoice;
Sing rounds of reapers, and my love’s voice.
Bat when comes winter, with ljiail and
storm,
And red fire roaring and ingle warm—
Bing first sad going of friends.that part;
Then sing glad meeting, and my love’s
heart
— Austin. Dobson.
PINKIE’S REVENGE.
BY HEI.EN JACKSON.
“What a perfect shame that she got
here to-day!”
“Sh—sh—, she might bear you!”
“Nonsense! She is down in the re
ception room. I don’t suppose, if she is
from the backwoods, she’ has got ears
that can hear through doors.”
a .“ Girls, I am ashamed of you. How
can you bo so unfeeling toward vour own
cousin!*'
“I don’t care, mamma; she is sure to
be awkward and dowdy. How can we
have her at the dinner-table to-night? I
shall die of mortification to have to in
troduce her to Mr. Morris as our cousin.”
“Perhaps she will be too tired to come
down to dinner after such a long ride.
It is a little awkward to add another to
a set dinner party.”
“Oh, mamma, bless you for the
thought 1 You can tell her that she is
too tired.-. You can arrange it, I know.”
“Well, 1 11 try.”
These weie the sentences which fell
on the ears of Priscilla Bent as she sat
alone, waiting to see the aunt
and cousins whom she had come
all the way from Kansas to New
York to visit, of whose welcome she
felt as sure as if she had known tlietn all
her life. It was by a blunder of the
servant that she had been shown di
rectly up stairs into tho drawing-room,
which communicatet] by folding doo s
with the room when; were sit*.--- *
r-' - ..
“Pinkie! What a name!” continued
the first speaker. “Whoever heard of
such a name, except for a dog?”
“Her name is Priscilla,” replied the
mother, “but l’iukie was given to her by
her father, when she was a little girl, ou
account of her pink cheeks.”
“Well, 1 will call her Priscilla.”
“And 1 too.”
“Your father will not like it,” said
Mrs. Bent. “IJut we must go down."
A swift rush of three women down the
staircase, three loud exclamations of
dismay at the sight of the empty recep
tion room, looks of dismay and a smoth
ered whisper of vexation.
“How stupid of Ben! Do you suppose
she heard ?”
These were the opening scenes in the
swift little drama which here began so
inauspiciously under Mr, Silas Bent’s
roof this morning. And next to these
followed one which seemed almost a
justification of all that the Misses Bent
had said in regard to their cousiD.
Slowly rising to her feet, grasping her
umbrella firmly in her left hand, rose a
tall, an exceeding tall young woman,
who exclaimed in a nasal voice, “Well,
I was jest a cornin’ to look ye up. I
didn’t know as that fine black gentleman
o’ yoiirn had condescended to let you
know. I was here. I’m most tired to
death, I tell you; four days an’ four
nights in the cars is enough to kill an
ox. But I’ll be all right as soon’s I get
my coffee. I reckon break fast's all cleared
away bv this time, but I don’t want
much, only a cup of coffee, if the cook
ain’t thrown it out. I’m real glad to
see you. I s’pose uncle got my letter,
didn’t he?” And pausing in herbreath-
less speech, pretty Priscilla Bent looked
sheepishly.into the faces of her equally
shame-faced relatives. If they had not
been too guiltily disturbed in their own
minds by fears of having been overheard
in their inhospitable comments, they
might have detected a stiange look on
their Kansas cousin’s face, a mixture of
twinkle and terror. But they saw dr
heard nothing except what so thorough
ly corroborated their worst fears. Even
Mrs. Bent herself, who had resolved be
forehand to be thoroughly kind to the
child of her husband’s favorite brother,
was thrown off her balance, and, in
spite of herself, the welcome she gave
was curt and cool.
But nothing appeared to daunt the
terrible Pinkie. Radiant good humor
shone in her face, her tongue ran like a
clapper, and when the dinner party was
mentioned, Pinkie cried :
“Not much I ain’t too tired I I’ll just
bunk down, and by 6 o’clock I’ll be as
fresh as a rooster 1 We don’t often get
a chance to a regular dinner party out in
Emporia, and 1 don’t mean to miss one
this winter. Say—shall I wear my ve y
best? I’ve read about the kind of
clothes you NeVv Yorkers wear to dinners.
But I’ve got some A No. 1 gowns, I tell
you. Now, you just show me my room
and I’ll go straight to bed an’ stay there
till dinner-time. You let your black
man bring me up a tumbler of milk, wilt
you, along about 1 o’clock, and a
doughnut or hard tack. I’m used to
estin’ heartily in the middle o’ the
day.”
When the door was finally ehut upon
Pinkie her aunt and cousins exchanged
looks.
“Horrible!” cried the youngest
daughter, Carrie. “It’s worse than I
ever conceived. How could papa scud
for her?"
“He has not seen her since she was
ten years old,” said Mrs. Bent, dismally.
‘‘Of course he could not dream she
would he like this. He has always said
her mother was a charming woman, and
they lived in Europe for several years
when she was little. It is horrible,
girls!”
“Bunk down!" ejaculated the eldest
daughter, Sophia.
“Fresh as a rooster 1” echoed Carrie.
“Mamma, I shall go to bed myself and
be too ill to appear to-night. I don’t be
lieve Mr. Morris will ever cross our
threshold again.”
“Then he is welcome to stay away,”
said Mrs. B a cnt, hotly.
While this distressed consultation was
going on between Mrs. Bent and hor
daughters, Pinkie, sale locked in her
room, wns holding one with herself—
tears sparkling in her eyes, but her face
was full of mirth.
“I will!” she muttered. “I will do
it! It will be good euough for them. I
know I can. It will tench them a good
lesson. But I’ll have lo work like a
Trojau to get the dress ready. Let me
see what I have got that will do. Ha! I
have it! That old tableaux dress will
be just the thing.” ,
“How lucky I brought It!” she
chuckled, as she shook out the folds of
the white muslin of the most antiquated
country fashion. “Now I can go to
sleep, and rest easy for an hour. ‘Awk
ward and dowdy,’--that is what I will
be,” and in five minutes mischievous
Pinkie Bent was sound asleep.
“Anxiety and vexation had made Car
rie ill, and it was with a most unbecom
ing Hush on her harassed face that she
appeared in the drawing-room a few
moments before the dinner-hour. There
sat the cousin from Kansas? Was over
such a figure seen in a New York draw
ingroom before?
A plain white muslin, made in the
shepherdess style, very full and very
short, scarlet stockings, a broad scarlot
sash, and worst of all, on the head
a turban of while muslin, with a
scarlet poppy flaunting in front!
This is what the malicious Pinkie
had done with herself, whose trunks
were full of exquisite French gowns such
as her cousins had never owned and not
often seen. She knew at least that the
opals on her soft white neck would
j command a certain sort of respect, even
from inhospitable relatives.
“Thank heaven she wore them! That
will sho-v people site at least has
money. That necklace couldn’t have
'* ' I‘inkio, uowouaiantly.
“Ma likes ’em best of all she’s got.
They’re ma’s. I like flowers better. I’m
great on artificial flowers; always wear
’em every day. ”
The guests were already arriving, Mr.
Bent himself among them, he having,
according to the fashion of New York
business men, arrived home only in time
to dress for dinner. His heart was so
full of affectionate welcome for his niece,
j whom ho remembered well as a beautiful
child of ten, only half a dozen years ago,
that he did not at first note anything but
| the lovely uplifted eyes and thealfection
! ate voice.
As the dinner progressed, even unob
servant Mr. Bent became-awnre that his
niece’s attire was not what it should be,
and that her voice was too loud. “But
the women folks can soon straighten that
all out, aud the child’s ps pretty as a
picture.”
So also thought the Hon. Mr. Morris,
who, to Carrie’s vexation, on being told
by her that the young lady in white was
a cousin, who had arrived most inoppor
tunely from Kansas, had exclaimed:
“From Kansas! How delighted lam.
That is the State of all others I am most
interested in Bering. I am going out
there in the spring. If all Kansas ladies
have so wonderful a complexion as your
cousin, that is another reason for visiting
the region. Pray, present me to her,
will you? I should like to ask her many
questions. Perhaps, ah”—he stammered
with the curious mixture of diffidence
and audacity one often secs in English
men, “perhaps your mother will be so
very good as to let me have the pleasure
of sitting by her side at dinner—that is,
if it will not disarrange your plans.”
“I am quite sure mamma will not re
liquish the pleasure of having you chief
ly to herself during dinner.” quickly re
sponded Carrie, her heart full of anger
and mortification. Nevertheless, several
times in the course of the dinner, Mr.
Morris heard the shrill voice, and
thought to himself, “What a pity the
American voice is so high-pitched!”
When the gentlemen joined the ladles
in the drawing-room Mr. Morris looked
eagerly .for the Kansas cousin. Not see
ing her, he accosted Mrs. Bent with true
English bluff ness: “I do not see your
niece from Kansas; I hope she has not
gone; I was counting on talking with
her all the rest of the evening. ”
With mingled resentment and confu
sion, Mrs. Beat replied: “My niece
went up stairs immediately after dinner.”
In truth, Mrs. Bent, was in a state of
nervous bewilderment. Without for a
moment suspecting the real reason of
Pinkie’s withdrawal, she had perceived
that the girl was greatly moved as she.
came quickly to her when they were en
tering the drawing-room.
“Aunt, I must ask you to excuse me.
I am going up stairs to change my
dress; I am not dressed as I should have
been.”
“Never mind, child, never mind.”
Pinkie was gone
It did not take her long to finish her
transformation touches. The dainty
white surah silk, with billowy reaches of
white lace from belt to hem, the soft,
clinging gloves to the shoulders, the
opal bracelets, the white ostrich feuther
fan, the white satin slippers—all were in
readiness. But at last Pinkie’s heart
failed her.
“It was a shameful trick to play on
them. I shall cry, I know I shall; and
VOL X. NO. 51.
I’d raiher die than cry before that Png
lishmati.”
At last she stole down slowly, hesitat
ingly. Black lien caught sight- of j><*r
first, and reeled back with excitement.
It wns an unerring instinct that led
Pinkie, on entering the drawing-room,
to g ide swiftly to her uncle’s sile, and
putting both hands into his, say:
“Dear I’ncle Silas, won’t you make my
jience with aunt, and ask your friends
here to forgive me for masquerading a’,
your dinner?”
Before she had half finished speaking,
the company had gathered close around
her.
“1 must say,” begsn Mrs. Bent, in an
angry tone. But Piukie went on reso
lutely:
“I could not resist the temptation to
live up to tho New Yorker's idea of a
Kansas girl, just for an hour or two.
You know that I was exactly the sort of
person you all expected to see from the
West.” She gathered courage as she
saw smiles. “Yes, you all know it,’
embracing the group in her appealing
glance, “and we out West all know it.
Then, forgive me. You ask them to
forgive me, dear Uncle Silas, won’t
you?”
But Uncle Silas was laughing too
heartily, lie bent over and kissed hei
jorchead.
“I ask them all to forgive me for
kissing you,” he said. “A capital joke,
Pinkie!"
“The best bit of acting I ever saw, 1
cried Hon. Mr. Morris; “quite clever;
very neal. Upon my word, though, I
do not think now, really, Miss Bent, I
should not have seen through it; I
don’t think you could have deceived
me."
“I should not have tried, repliel
Pinkie, very simply. Y’et there was a
certain indefinable something iu the tone
which made the Hon. Mr. Morris change
color.
There are no words in which to de
scribe the embarrassment of Mrs. Beat
and her daughters.
“Had Pinkie overheard what "they
had said about her?"
They sounded her us far as thoy dared.
But thoy never found out.
To only one person did Pinkie ever
tell the whole. That was to the lion.
Mr. Morris, after she hud been for somo
weeks his wife.
“I thought it was so unjust in them.
Frank." she said—“so cruel. I’d just
give them a lesson, and let them see that
manners may be only skin deep—easily
put on or off. But I’d never have done
it, Frank, if I’d seen you first—never.
IsTTaw you look at me.”
“You needn’t have done so,” replied
Hon. Mr. Morris, “for I thought as soon
as my eyes fell on you that I had never
seen so lovely a face before.”
“Did you, really?” asked Pinkie.
“Really,” answered the Hon. Mr.
Morris.
How Sing Sing’s Conriots are Guarded.
Sing Sing is a massive granite struc
ture, and absolutely fire proof, from the
bedrock of the Hudson river, on which
it is founded, to the iron plates which
cover its root. Built upon a little point
running into the river, its three outor
sides are washed by the water to a depth
of nearly fifteen feet. Close under the
inner wall runs the track of tho New
York Central and Hudson River railroad,
with a station a few hundred feet from
the prison. The only entrance to the in
stitution is over a big stone bride,
which spans the track and gives the ap
pearance of an ancient feudal castle,
wiib its turrets and towers and hugo
walls in the distance and the m< at in
front spanned by a drawbridge.
The entire prison is surrounded by a
high wall of solid masonry nearly twenty
feet high and wide enough for a man to
walk upon with ease. At short dis
tances along these walls are little tur
rets with conical roots and sides of
glass. At each corner is a turret, and
from the wide windows the restless head
of the guard is ever on the watch for
some unwary convict who is so foolish
ns to attempt escape. Besides the men
in the sentinels’ little boxes another de
tachment of watchmen patrol the walls
and walk with measured step, each
carrying a sixteen-shot repeating car
bine.
The qualification of these men is the
accuracy with which they can shoot, and
constant training keeps them in practice
so that the smallest convict in the prison
can be brought down by a rifleman at
the most distant corner of the yard,
ihis fact is well known to the prisoners,
and not one ever thinks of risking him
self to the fatal aim of the men on the
wall.
Among the 1,600 striped convicts at
Sing Sing nearly every nationality is
represented. No distinctions, however,
are made, for black and white, old and
young, are all put in together without
discrimination. —New York World.
Milk!
Wherever milk is used plentifully,
there tho children grow into robust men
and women. Wherever its place is
usurped by tea we have degeneracy switt
and certain. Dr. Ferguson, a factory
surgeon, who has devoted a large share
of attention to this subject, has asesr
tahi<*i, from careful measurements or
numerous factory children, that between
thirteen and fourteen years of age they
grow nearly four times as fast on milk
for breakfast and supper as on tea and
coflee —a fact which mows the benefits
of proper diet. No diet is so suitable for
growing children as well-cooked oatmeal
porridge and milk, long the staple food
in Scotch families, but now, in many in
stances, abandoned for diet very much
inferior Owing to itaeasy digestibility,
it it of equal benefit to invalids, and
more especially dyspeptics, who often
regain health and pick up flesh at
a wonderfully rapid rate on milk, .or
milk and good bread.—CAa/W
Journal.