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OOLEMAH 4b KIRBY, Editor* ud Proprietors. VOL. XI. ELLIJAY COURIER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— COLEMAN & KIRBY. I®- Office in the Court House JLA ~ geheralT directory. Superior Court meets 3d Monday in May and 2nd Monday in October. COUNTY OFFICERS. ' J. C. Allen, Ordinary. T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court. M. L. Cox, Sheriff. J. R. Kinciad, Tax Collector. Locke Langley, Tax Receiver. Jas. M. West, Surveyor. G.,W. Rice, Coroner. Court of Ordinary meets Ist Monday in each mouth. TOWN COUNCIL. E. W. Coleman, Intendant. L. B. Greer, 1 J.' R Cobb-’jr. \ Commissioners. T. J. Long, J M. T. Dooly, Marshall. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Methodist Episcopal Church South— Every 4th Sunday and Saturday before, G. W. Grier. Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shope. Methodist Episcopal Church—Every Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. T. G. Chase. FRATERNAL RECORD. Oak Bowery Lodge, No. 81, F. A. M., meets Ist Friday in each month. L. B. Greer, W. M. T. 11. Tabor, S. W. J. W. Ilipp, J. W. R. Z. Roberts, Treasurer. D. Garren, Secretary. \V. 8. Coleman, S. I). W. C. Allen, J. D. S. Garren, Tyler. R. T. PICKENS, _ATTORNEY AT LAW, EELTJAY, GEORGIA. Will practice m ail the conrts of Gil mer and adjoiifing counties. Estates and interest in land a specialty. Prompt aitentidn given to all collections. DR. J. R. JOHNSON, Physician and Surgeon ELLIJAY, GEORGIA. Tenders.his professional services people of Gilmer and surrounding coun ties and asks the support of his friends as heretofore. All calls promptly filled. E. W. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. Will practice in B’.n2 Circuit, Connty Court Justice Court of Gilmer County. Legal business solid ted. •‘Promptness’ 1 is our motto. DS. J. S. TANKERSLEY. Physician aud Surgeon, Tend-rs his professional services to the eiti rens cf Eliijay, Gilmer undsunouadiug cann ties. All calls promptly attend t.l to. Office upstairs over the firm of Cbbb it Soil. Hi'FE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.S. DENTIST, Calhodn, (U. Will visit Eliijay and Alorganton at both the Spring and Fall term of the Superior Court—and oftener by special contract, when sufficient Work is guar anteed to justify nie in raakingthe visit. Address an above. Tmavil-li Young men Who wish a Thorough preparation foi Business, will find superior advantages al MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY ATLANTA, GA. The largest and best Practical Business Schoo in the South. <S*Students can enter at auj time. for circulars. WHITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular Resort oj NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Eliijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for ease and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Minetal Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on board, etc., address, Mrs. W. F. Robertson, Eliijay, Go. CENTRAL HOTEL' Eliijay, Georgia. In the special popular resort for commercial men and tonrists of all kind, and is the general home for prompt attention, elegant rooms and are second to none, In this place. Reasonable rates. Mrs. 1L Y. Teem will give her personal at tention to gaests in the dining hall. 1-14 Mountain View Hotel! ELLIJAY, GA. This Hotel U now fitted up in excel lent order, and is open for the rocsptioe of guests, under competent ms nags moot. Every possible effort will be made U make tbs Mountain View the moot popu lar Hotel in BlHJaj. Accommodations It every department first class. Livery, salt and feod staMssinoerneetion with hotel. Guests teaarforod to and from all tralni free of charge. • M ly THE ELLIJAY COURIER SNOW flowers, I awoke one winter morning. And I found my garden white With a host of shining blossoms That had not b?en there at night. All the barren ground was covered And the naked branches quite. For the angels in the night time, Flying softly to and fro. Bearing to the gates of heaven Spirits from the earth below, Had let fall upon my garden Lovely garlands—flowers of snow. —Minnie Irving, t'n Mew York News. A DETECTIVES STORY. I was in the active employ of Pinker ton for many years, and I took my full share of risks incident to detective work, but the very first case assigned mo had more peril in it than any four others combined. I had done some “spotting"’ and “shadowing,” and had helped ou two or three cases, when I was sent to Milwaukee to look after an embezzler. The case wa3 stated in a nutshell. A Mrs. Pierce, a widow of wealth, and a woman who trusted her servants alto gether too much, received one day from the East' by express a package of money amounting to $14,000. Srhe had been in the habit of sending her butler to the bank to make deposits for her, and now and then to draw money on her written order. • He had been with her for several years as a sort of man of all work in the house, and she had found him strictly honest. She gave him the money to de posit without a fear of liis being tempted. He was not seen after ho left the house. He did not go to the bank, and for three or four days Sirs. Pierce and others labored under the belief that he had been robbed and murdered. The hunt for his dead body was going on when I reached Milwaukee. The name of the butler was John Lane, and he was described to me as a sandy-haired, red-faced man, weighing one hundred and sixty pounds, and wearing a sandy moustache. His habits were declared to b; above reproach, and Mrs. Pierce indignantly resented my suggestion that he might have run away. So did the local detective who had the case in hand. I held from the first to the theory that he had run away. He had been told to hurry back, lie could reach the bank in a walk of tifteeu minutes, having only two or three turns to make. It was at 2 o’clock in the af ternoon, and he could be in no personal danger. No one could be found who had seen him between the house and the bank, although he was well known. But the best clue was found in Lane's room. There was a handful of sandy hair in a paper under the lavatory. There was an other paper spotted withlather, in which were enough bristles to make a mous tache. . Behind an old trunk was a bot tlo which. had containu 1 hair dye. Mrs. Pierce received the money about 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and she re marked to I ane that she would have him deposit it after dinner. He waited on the table at noon, and there was no change in his appearance, but between that time and two he shaved off his moustache, cutoff a lot of his hair, ap plied the dye, and .Mrs. Pierce remem bered that he was muffled up as he went out, leaving by the sido door. Now cimc the hardest part of the work. When you know which way a criminal is heading it is quite easy to keep his trail, but when you can’t say whether he is in New York or Omaha, or that he may not be hiding within two blocks of you, it is quite a different mat ter. From the servants in the house I learned that Lane bad always declared he bated the very sight of cities and towns, and be bad no care for fine clothes and society. lie also had a great horror of the water. This seemed to argue that he would not head for Europe, as lat first feared. It was well known that he had a holy horror of the West, having reifd of savage Indians, prairie fires, grizzly bears, rattlesnakes, Ac. That seemed to argue that ho would not go West. Would l.e go North or Sroulh? I was helped out of my dilemma in a curious way. I had been at every steam boat office and railroad depot, meeting with no success, and was standing in front of the Second National Bank when a farmer-looking man accosted me with: “ What do you.say about this bill? I say it’s good and the old woman says it’s bad?” It was a five he had, and the “cld woman ” sat in a wagon on the opposite side.of the street. “Why does.she suspect it to be bad?” I asked, as I surveyed the bill. . “ Well, it wa!.give to me four or five days ago by a chap who rode out home with us, had supper, and then cut across to the railroad station. I shouldn't have charged him over seventy-five cents at the most, and his liberality seems queer. ” I was dead certain from his first words that I had got track of my man. We went into the bank to satisfy him that the bill was all right, and then crossed to the wagon. I want to tell you that country ] eople a'-o head and shoulders above the average city residents in the matter of observation and in remember ing what they see. “Well, one reason why I suspected this man,” said the wife, “was because his hair was dreadfullv haggled and then dyed. Such botch work you never saw. His hair was all in streaks of black and red, and he'd got the dye on his ears and neck.” The fellow had tried to play smart in leaving the city by one of the highways, but accident had revealed his trail. He had taken the train at a station about fif teen mil -s away, and he had four days the start of me. The first move was to run out to the country station at which he had taken the train. I there found that he had made many inquiries about the northern and western part of the State, and had finally purchased n ticket for Fond du Lac. The description of him was good, and I was about to buy a ticket for the same place and take a train due in half an hour, when in enmo a boy who had been there on the evening when J ane bought his ticket. He was a lad who helped around the station, and it was plain that he had a good deal of na tive wit. “Yes, that chap bought u ticket for Fond du l.ae, but 1 don’t think ho went there,” lepllcd the lad when I began to question hint. “Wlmt makes yon think he did not " Mine.” ho •naweied. as he handed down n folder from the rack, ‘he wm studying Ud route, which goes to l'ort "A MAP or BUST LIFB-ITS FLUCTUATIONS AND ITS FAST CONCERNS." ELLIJAY. GA„ THURSDAY, MARCH In. 188 T. age city. I think he meant to take this folder along, but dropped it. See how he has marked it with pencil.” So he had. He could run up to Water town and go through by way of Beaver Dam. He had marked the time of ar rival at the junction and of the arrival at Portage, and it could not be that he would take all that trouble to throw any one off his trail. There was no one alter him, and he could not argue that the boy would hold tho marked folder against him. I tliereforcchanged myroute to Portage city, and at the junction I got track of my man. He had no ticket, but had paid his faro in cash. It was night, and the state of his hair had not been noticed, but the conductor de scribed Lane's general appearance, and said that he had changed a S2O bill for him. He might go no further than Pea verDam, and I got off there and looked around for a few hours. No trace of him had been had, and I was at the depot to take the train, when a conversation be tween two young men became interest ing. “You ought to have told somebody,” protested one. “Yes, and been laughted at,” replied the other. “And he had ten thousand dollars?” “Yes, double that.” “And he was counting it on the bed?” “Y T es.” “I’ll bet he was a robber.” “May be, but he was off early in the morning. Well, so long, Tom—here’s the tyain.” The one who had seen someone count ing money was going west by my train, and I schemed to get a seat with him and draw him out. He was a porter at one of the hotels iu Portage, and he had seen a guest answering Lane's description counting such a lot of money that it cov ered half the bed. The porter had made his observations through the keyhole of the door, and, being ashamed of himself, had hesitated to go to the landlord. The min had arrived without baggage, but had there purchased a valise, and his ner vous manner and the sight of so much money in his possession had led the por ter to finally conclude that there was a mystery there somewhere, although he had not spoken of it to any one around the house. The man had purchased a suit of coarse clothes, withlint and shoes to match, and in leaving had taken the highway leading toward Oshkosh. He hud purcha-ed another bottle of hair dye in Portage, but had apparently given his red hair up as a bad job. He not only left the bottle in his room, but by means of soap and water washed off what dye he had put on at Milwaukee. Lane had given the landlord to under stand that he was a hard-working young mau who had started out to look for a job, but he had departed without fixing on anything definite. I did not believe he would go to Oshkosh. He was acting like a mau who reasoned that if he could' hide himself away in the country for a few weeks his crime and his identity would both be fOfg-Jttefi. 'Yo catch -the embezzler without capturing his swag would have been no credit to me. ne had several days tho start of me, and had by this time got a job of some sort. I procured a rough suit of clothes, hired a horse, and set off on his trail. As he had gone on foot with a large valise iu his hand it was easy to hear of him along the road. He headed toward Oshkosh for five or six miles, and then turned di rectly north. It was in the fall of the year, and the roads were in bad condi tion, but he made twenty-four miles that first day, not stopping at all for dinner. He went to the northeast for six miles, to the north for ten miles, and then ho turned due west, almost on a line with La Crosse, nnd went eight miles before stopping at an inn. 1 had only made the same number of miles on horseback, but as he had to lie by the next forenoon on account of the rain, while I had good weather, I gained half a day on him. He proceeded toward Ia Crosse for ten miles more, and then went north two miles, and stayed over night with a farmer and talked about going to workina saw mill. Next day he headed due West, and reached the Wisconsin River at a hamlet called Little Bend. It was on tho sixth day after he left Milwaukee that I lo cated him, and he had then been at work in a saw mill for a day and a half. I entered the hamlet on foot, as he had done, having a few extra clothes in a bundle, and it was toon known to the seventy-five or eighty population that I was in search of work. The owner of the only store in the place also kept a sa loon and tavern, and, under pretense cf being footsore and used up. I remained idle for twe or three days, although the mill owner was short of hands and de sired me to go to work at once. It mny be thought strange that I did not at once arrest I ane and have done with it. Had I overhauled him en route that would have been the plan, for the money would have been in his valise. He had taken board at the tavern, and dur ing my first half day there I had found his room open and his valise unlocked. There was nothing in it which any one would want to take away. He had, like a sharp man, taken his money out and planted it. He could not justly suspect that I was after him, for after three or four dayß I went to work alongside of him and held him at a distance. He tried hard to get acquainted with me. but I was taciturn and unsocial. lie gave me an opportunity to ask him ques tions, but I refused to profit by it. I admitted, for a purpoac, that I left Mil waukee four or five days behind him, and after seeming to reflect for a while, he asked: “Was there any special news when you left?” “I don’t remember,” “No murders or robberies?” “There was a mystery of some sort, I believe. Somebody drew a lot of monev out of the bank, fell into the hands of sharpers, and they were looking in the river and lake for his dead body.” “Il’m!”ho coughed, and that ended our conversation, though I did not fail to notice the look of gratification which crept over his face. That he had hidden tho treasure was certain. Tjmt ho would visit it sooner or later was dead sure. 1 watched him closely during the day, und 1 saw that he was nervous and preoccu pied. 1 expected ho would go out to in spect his treasure at night, and I took my precaution* that ha should not es cape me, but lie made no move. Ho went to work on Frid iy no in of one week and I <>n Tuursday of the next, t/liun Sun day week rarae it was a bright, warm day. and I made up my mind not to loose sight of him for an hour. 'There were several acre* of logs iu the yard, aud after breakfast I weal to the mill.climbed up in the attic, nnd had the yard and the hamlet under my eye. At'about 10 o’clock Lane came down into the yaul. wandered about in na aimless sort of way, though all the time keeping his eyes opeu, and by and by I saw him in specting a huge log lyrng near a thorn apple tree, which was the only tree or budi in the yard. I had been hauling logs with the cattle to the bank and dumping them off for the elevator or car to carry them up the incline into the mill, and had noticed the big log. It had been there for years, and was worth less. Now that I saw Lane in the vicin ity I made up my mind that he had hid den his money close by, and I slipped out aud went for a ramble in the woods. That night at midnight, without any thing having happened to create suspi cion on Lane’s p irt. I dressed myself and crept out of the tavora to mako a hunt for the money. On my way out 1 paused at his door, and he was breathing like a man fast asleep. I hacLmv revolver and a pair of handcuffs ready to take with me, but missed theiil after I got outside. Everything about was so quiet that I set off, thinking to be back with the money in a few minutes. The big loglay within twenty feet of tho bunk. There was a hollow in one end, but no money. The other end was solid. I climed over it and passed around it. and had just dis covered a hollow which had been the base of a big limb, when I got a blow on the neck which rolled mo over aud over for ten feet. Before I could get up Lane was upon me. Bo was a good deal the larger and stouter man, but ho could not hold mo still. I could roll under him, nnd, while his object seemed to be to clutch my throat, I gave him two good blows in the face and got to my feet Not a word was spoken by either of us. We stood for a moment gasping for breath, and thou he rushed at me like nil enraged bull, and we both clinched. Ho handled me almost ns if I had been a boy, and it wasn’t over a minute before we were on the bank above water twelve feet deep. There was a thin skim of icc over it, and the man who went in there could not live long. In“a boxing match match I could have got the better of Lane. In such a clinch his brute strength was a terrible advan tage. His object was, of course, to Eiteh me into the river, but I hung to im so well that he was baffled. We were still struggling on the brink, when n great slice of tho bank gavo way and we went into the ice cold water, both having a firm hold, but lon top. Lane must have had his mouth open, for he i began to strangle at once, and if I ever worked hard for threo minutes it was to save him. He was unconscious when I got him to tho bank and pulled him up, while I was as good as frozen. By a | liberal use of my voice I aroused thvee j or four men, and we got I ane to ahotel, j and worked over him for half an hour , before 1.0 opened his eyes. Then I 1 tucked him up, gave him a big drink of hot whiskey, and vuviit oat and got the money, lie pad spent about S4O of it. Not a word did he reply as I told him who I wa’, who he was, and showed him the money. Not a word did he utter all the way back to Milwaukee,and it was only after Mrs. Pierce had re fused to prosecute him and he was turned loose that he sullenly muttered: “I was just fool enough to argue that no detective living could overhaul me.” —New York Sun. How to Live a Century. Professor Humphry, of Cambridge, has prepared a series of tables which con tain some interesting information about centenarians. Of 52 persons whom ha mentions, at least 11—2 males and 9 fe males—actually attained the age of 100. Others attained very nearly to the hun dred years. Only one of the persons reache I 108 years, while one died at the alleged age of 10”. Of the 52 pessons, 30 were women and Hi min. Prof. Humphry tells us that the comparative immunity of women from the exposurei and risks to which men are subjected, and the greater temperance in eating and drinking exhibited by women arc the chief points lu determining their higher chances of longevity. Out of the ;(i women 2(i hid been married, and 1 1 had borne large families, if tlie 2ii women who had been wivesß had married before they were “(>, I at 10, and 2 at 17. Twelve of the 52 centenarians w re discovered to have been the eldest children of their parents. This fact, adds Mr. Humphry, does not agree with popular notions that the first children inherit a feebleness of constitution, nar with the opinion of rac ing stables, whi h is decidedly gainst the idea that “firstlings” are to lie de ! pended on (or good performance on the course. The centenarians generally re garded were of spare build. Gout und rheumatism were, as a rule, absent. “It seems,” says Prof. Humphry, “that the frame which is c’cst'ned to great age needs no such prophylactics, and.e gen ders none of the peccant humors for which the finger-joints (as in gout) may find a vent." Of the 52 aged people, 24 only had no teeth, the average number of teeth re maining being ‘t or 5. Long hours of sleep were notable among these old j eo- Ele, the period of repose averaging nine ou:s; while out-of-door exercise in | plenty and early rising are to be noted among the factors of a prolonged life. One of the centenarians “drank to excess on festive occasions;” another was a “free beer drinker,” and “drank like a fish during his whole life.” Twelve had been total abstainers for life or nearly so, and mostly all were “small meat eaters.”— S'. James's (!a.ette. Novel Preparations For War. Batialions of schoolboys are forming in France. A number of mayors of aron dissements are enlisting youths of from sixteen to twenty years of age, forming companies equivalent to the regular mi litia. Th y are armed with chasscpots. One corps already has 500 members. They tnke their rites home with them, instead of depositing them in the arsenal after drilling. The Watch dog Battalion of tho Prus sian Army is being veiycarefully trained for service. The dogs nro intended pri marily to convey intelligence from tho udvanco post to the main body of the regiment, iutd nrc taught to trot to and fro, carrying u tiny portfolio of dis patches round their necks. 'They are al so t warn the outpo-ts of an advance of an enemy during the night, and are trained to hunt up the wounded, or those who have lo t their way. Two dogs are atta' lied to each company of < hasaeur*. —Frank J a slid,. BUDGETOF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Successful Drilling —Pa Wanted Peace—Tile Dude's Hands—llls Narrowest Escape—An Experi ment in Human Nature. Little Nell—“I caught sister Maud on gnging herself to another young man Inst night an’ she hasn't sent off t :e first one yet.” Little Kitty—“ Ain't that nice! Did you tell on her?” Little Noll—“No, sh ■ buyrd m * off.” Little Kitty—“ What did she do?” Little Nell—She said if I’d keep quiet she’d give me one of ’em when I grow up.— Tid-BUt. Pa Wanted Pence. Mr. Blitters (to his daughter)—“Eliza, did you read this article about Liszt?" Eliza (at the piano)—“Yes, pa.” “Did you notice that he said people must play the piano with their soul?" “Yes, pa.” “Well, Eliza, just put your bauds in your pocket and play with your soul till I’m through reading.”— Omaha World. The Dude's Hands. “Y’es, my hands are soft,” said a dudish nnd conceited young fellow the other night in a small company, us he admiringly looked at those useless ap-. pendages that had never done a day’s work. “Do you know how Ido it?” ho exclaimed proudly. “I wear gloves oft my hands every night to sleep in ” “Do you sleep with you hat on also?” asked a pert young woman. And tho young fellow replied in the negative, nnd looked wondcringly be cause the company smiled. His Narrowest Escape. “I presume, General, you have had some very narrow escapos, ” said a pretty Dupont Circle girl to on old war-horso of celibate proclivities. “Oh, yes; that ,is part of our busi ness,” he replied nonchalantly. “Tell me nbout some of them. Ido so love stories of adventure when tho story teller is the adventurer. Tell me the very worst of them all,” she cried, with a pretty flush of excited intcre-t. “Um—um,” he muttered, scratching his head, so as to sort them over for the choicest: “um—let me see—well, I was engaged to be married once. 1 ’ One was nil she wanted. Washington Critic. An Experiment In Human Nature., “Human nature is a queer thing,” said one commercial traveler to another while loitoring in a railway station. “Now, s’poso you and I try a little experiment. We will not let on that wo are acquainted at all, and will happen to meet at the cigar stand. You buy a n-eetrt oigatand I’ll buy two for a quarter. Then we’ll both sort of linger as If we wanted to talk with the cigar mau. Which one of us do you suppose he’ll talk with? Why, mith mo, of course, because I buy the high-priced cigar. And the chances arc, too, that, though he’ll bo polito enough to you to your face, your back will no sooner be turned than ho will say some thing mean about you. Let’s try it.” The other commercial traveler agreed, and, approaching the cigar stand, they proceeded to carry out the programme. But instead of snubbing the 5 center tho cigar-stand man turned his back on the t\vo-for-a-qui\rter customer nnd began talking with the other. Whereupon tho proposer of the scheme quit in disgust and walked away. He was presently re joined by the other. “Your ideas of human nature did not appear to pan out in this case,” ho re marked. “No. What did the fellow have to say after I left you?” “Oh, nothin’much. He said he s’posed you thought you was better than com mon folks because you were putting on style with two-for-a'-quarter cigars, and added that he'd bet live dollars you didn’t have a holeless pair of socks to your name.”— Chicago Herald. A Wile's Ttusp. Here is a little story I heard ’tother nicht at dinner: A gentleman who was going off to Russia on business desired his wife to place her picture in his trunk. “You know, dear,” said he, “I never travel without your photo, and Mare Gambier has rendered you to the very life.” “You old humbug. I don’t, believe you ever look at it. You only say this to please mo for the moment,” replied the hotter half, who had her suspicions. “That’s unkind, dearest. Before Igo to sleep I always take a long, lingering look at you. kiss you, and then go off into the land of dreams with you iu my eye, as one may say.” The little morocco ca‘o was placed in the trunk as usual. When the “hubby” returned and she unpacked his things she asked: “Did you look at my picture while you were away!” “Every night. It was my supremest comfort.” “I don’t believe you.” “Ah”—with a well simulated sigh— “that is unkind.” Whereupon the wife opened the case and showed him that she hud taken the picture out before she had placed the case in the trunk—just to “bowl him out.” But he was in a degree equal to the occasion. He remarked : “I saw the picture had been tampered with, my own love, but I used to kiss the case because you had been there.” —American Regis- ; ter. Clielronophy. It was cold and bleak without, but warm and bright within. They sat sido by side near the glowing grate, and watched the flickering firelight as it danced among the bric-a-brac on the ta bles. They were both in deep thought, and no sound was heard save the sighing of tho wind among the trees in the or chard and tho measured tick of the or molu clock whi -h rested ou a bra ket against the opposite wall, and over which was suspended a snow shovel covered with violet velvet and trimmed with pink •atm ribbons. “It was not au Hour, nor a seen* for ought But love and eaJm delight. ” I he youth was manly m u|i|>earance, and the maiden u vision of beauty, and judg ing Lem their attitude and adjacency they were lovers. Suddenly the maiden broke the silenre, the poetic silence: “Have you heard of this new science called cheirosophyshe asked, in tones sweeter than the musical tinkling of a silver bell. “I have, darling,” he answered in ac cents of ineffable tenderness; “not only heard of it, but have given it considera ble study.” “Dear me!” exclaimed the maiden. “I am surprised. You have studied chcirosophv? Then perhaps you will give me some instruction in the science.” “Certainly, my own. Please let me have your hand.” “Oh, George!” murmured the maiden, overwhelmed with confusion, and crim son with blushes, “this is so sadden.” “What is so sudden? ’ the youth asked, in surprise. “Your asking for my hand,” trem blingly responded the maiden, “but — there—what can I do but refer you to pa, and believe me, dearest, you need have no fear of the result, lie will certainly consent to my becoming your wife.” Then throwing herseTf on tho neck of her lover, the maid n gave vent to her emotions in a flood of happy tears. Let us draw the curtain over this af fecting scene. —Boston Courier. How Valentines Are Made. A factory in this city has, during the past ten months, turned out 15,000,00(1 comic and 5,000,000 sentimental valen tines. 'The many operations through which toy books and valentines pass be fore they are ready to bo delivered to the retailer aro interesting. Tho first floor of the factory is occupied by paper cut ting and embossing machines. The pa per on which valentines are printed is received from the manufacturer direct, and is not in condition lor use. It must bo cut in pieces, 42 1-2 feet, and on which are stamped aixtsen comic valentines. After being cut tho paper is taken to the second flow and printed. Three hun dred out of the four hundred employes in tho factory nro women nnd girls. While tho majority of the work is done by skilled labor,-some departments are operated wholly by machinery. On the sixth or top floor half a dozen artists draw tho pictures used in valen tines and toy books. After a drawing is made and photographed the negative is coated with a solution and exposed to the sun. The negative is again coated, this time with lithographic ink, and placed in a basin of water barely deep enough to cover it. Tho ink is washed off, except that part of tho plate on winch the drawing has been photographed. The negative is then ready for tho etcher. Tho etehing process is too well known to bear repeating here. After the drawing has been etched on n zinc plate it is ready for the press. Tho operation by which rough zinc is made smooth is interesting. The zinc is placed under uiovablo ohiery papers, which are changed half hourly. Tlicso paper* vary from hard to soft. The constant friction of tho emery wears away -Hie zinCy.no that iu tiiqf. it. becomes .as smooth as glass. Seven pSpcrs, differing in quality nnd thickness, arc used in the operation.— Brooklyn Eagle. Rotterdam's Canals, Ships mi l Houses. The whole of tho city is intersected by canals, broad, long, and deep, and capnble of accommodating vessels of heavy tonnuge. These canals divide the city into so many islands, united by draw-bridges, swivel bridges, iurning bridges, and a few stone bridges. It is curious to walk through Rottefdam and find everywhere these canals, with streets on either side, nnd trees alopg the side f( almost every street, and more cUribtist still to find that you can nevof get aWayi from the! shipping. In thd very heart of.tip 1 city large ships are dls. charging their cargoes; the masts of thb ships are seen among the houses, above the trees, beside the churches, aud all along tho centre of the main thorough fares. Many of these ships are built ex ! pressly for the Rhine and Holland; they I aro single-masted, broad, stout, and *U highly colored nnd ornamented. The prevailing style is brig! t green for' the hull, with red or white stripes,' gilded poops, varnished or highly polished decks and masts, while buckets, hatchets, barrels, and other things, tiro usually I painted a bright red, with white or green 1 stripes. The cabins are models of clean liness aud com fort, with brightly polished windows, snow-white muslin curtains and pots of flowers. Beside.the novelty of finding “a fleet imprisoned ini the heart of the city,’ there are many things to attract the attention in the streets of Rotterdam. The houses have pointed facades; are of all shades of brick, from the darke-t of red to-tho pinkest of pink; whitewashed stonq or wood ornaments. the facade, the windows and doois are bordered with broad white stripes, the windov.’-sils nro generally full of flowers; the windows are provided with little mirrors, by means of which the inmates can see all that takes place up or down the street without being themselves seen; brass plates and brass knobs in a high state of polish adorn the doors, by tho side of which bird-cages frequently hang. It is a curious fact that nearly all the houses are a little out of the upright, and lean more or less, while sometimes in a street all the houses will lean slightly in one direction. Inllnence of Foo.l Supply. A veritable plague of Brazil, accord ing to Yon Ihering, results from tho singular increase of burrowing mice of the genus Hcsperomys which, ordinarily very rare, become alarmingly abundant at irregular periods coinciding with flow ering seasons of the lierba eons plant which furnishes their chief food. This plant, a Greseiuma, reaches maturity and flowers only at regular intervals vary ing from six to thirty yoats. In May and. Jane, 187(1, the mic • appeared in pro digious numbers at Lourenco, where in a few. days they totally demolished tho fields' of corn, potatoes, rye and barley, invaded houses and destroyed ■ every thing not too hard for their teeth, and even ate fat swine, und removed tho wooden shoes from the cows. At the natural rate of increuse the progeny of a pair of the mico would reach 23,000 individim- in a season, and if their multiplication was favored by an abun dant seeding of their favorite plant every year they would soon drive all other living creatures from the ooiintry. —Arhinviw J metier. Krunp's hit. at gun sends a ball two tons iu weight through thirty eight inches of solid iron. OWE DOLLAR Par Annua. la Advaass. RECOMPENSE. Tims from my web of Ufe has drawn Fall many a golden thread, Into my treasure-house has crept, With soft and stealthy tread, To steal my gems. My garden was my chief delight, And claimed my fondest care, Yet all too soon he passed and lei For roses sweet and lillles fair, But broken stems. He gave dull tints in place of gold. For jewols, ashes gray, I wist not that while one hand bold, My treasures bore away, My flowers destroyed, Thapther held for coming days Rich stores in trust for me, Scattered along life’s dusty ways, When looking not, I see, And overjoyed I claim them, not with haughty pride, As in the morn I strode, Bnt humbly, and with grateful heart I trudge adown the sloptDg road Toward eventide. —Harriet Newell Swanwick, in Current. PITH ASD.POINT* Two heads are better than one. This is especially true iu the case of the drum. * —New Haten News. There is one branch of labor which mnst always be done by hand—picking pockets.— Boston Bulletin. The modern society girl is an accom plished actress, but, as a rule, she is not fond of long engagements. — Life. The life of the book agent is full of wormwood and gall. The wormwood ig barely perceptible.— Merchant Traveler. It is settled now that each tad every baseball association will next year have the bert club on tho diamond.— Tid- Bils. It is only when the minister- has tied the knot that a matrimonial engagement mny be considered a match-safe.— Lowell Courier. Sunday-school Supt.—“ What is the worst thing about riches?” Honest Scholar—“ That I haven’t any.”— Boston Bulletin. Until it is eaten, you can never tell The quality of the bread. So a man never knows how good he has been Till after ho is dead. —Danville Breeze. A medical journal says “going to bed on an empty stomach is a good 'way to invite sleeplessness.” Another medical authority says that “eating just before retiring prevents sleep.” The only al ternative seems to be, if a man wishes-tp get a night’s sleep, is to go to bed with out his stomach. — Norristown llerald. MHTKMPSYCHOSIS. *■' ' A chicken lived, a chicken died. Its drumsticks and its wings were fried Its feathers by a dealer dried 'AnTT, Very shortly after, dyed Soul it had none: admitting that,, How comes it? There upon her hat. Its plumes—a mortal chicken’s—rise, A glorious bird of paradise. —Detroit Free Press. Story of a Greek Statue. Vi-itors to tho Paris Louvro of late may liavo noticed a remarks l lo little statue labeled “A Young Athenian Girl." The stofy of' it's discovery and acquisi tion, just disclosed by tho Paris Temps, forms a curious pa,e in the history of antiquities. A peasant of Patissia, while diggrag in the .folds, suddenly e:me across an old statue. Knowing that the Greek law forbids the exp rtation of ancient objects of art found in the cbnntrycand that foroign amateurs are al ways ready, to pay ahigh price, for them, ' he at once took it l.omft and hid it under '■li heap df fiigots.. He - then went to.the French ambassador, who .was well known for his love, of such "relics, and offered it to him for 12, (iOOf. The ambassador re :pcired.secretly to the.peasants dwelling to examine it, and found it. vfas a .bona fide gem' of the fourth century. He tele graphed tire discovery" to the French Miniate?, of- -Fine Arts, wlio. authorized him to ccmclildo the bargain.”'But tijero whs a serious difficulty to overcOine, and .that was.tdget'oitt of the.cQimtry-with . out being detected .by the . customs .au thorities: After some reflCCtum, the am bassador instructed 'the peasant how to set to work.-,.Jfe yras to hjdo the statue in a cartload of vegetables, drive'down to a creek on the seashore, where he wduld find a boat ftom a jFrencJi siopp stationed at tho Pin.ua.waiting to re ceive him. The job was performed suc cessfully. The stato<v fh"the midst, of the vegetables, was shippqdpn the boat, and the 12,(;O0f was bmded to the peasant by the captain as he left the ■ shore. On the arrival of the statue in Paris, it was placed in the Louvre, not far from the famous Venus of Milo, while its discoverer, the pObrGreek peasant, is now/leading the life of a small gentle man, farmer on the proceeds,—Puli Jlall Gaziite. Tiie Tree or Death. . On the New Hope battlefied was a tree upon which the soldiers nailed the inscription, “Tree of Death.” •• Seven Federals were killed behind the tree by Confederate sharpshooters, Tho tree was in advance of the Federal line and was about three hundred yards from the Confederate works. It was used by Federal skirmishers, who woull stand behind it and Toad and then step out and fire. Confederate sharpshooters went along tho Confederate line for nearly a mile'in each direction, and then, being so far from the sido of tho tree that they could see behind it, by a cross firing made it as dangerous to stand behind the tree as to stand iu front of it. Seven Federals were killed behind the tree, and it came to be known as tho “Tree of Death.”— Atlanta Cone'.itutim. Man aud His Shoes. y How much a man is like his shoes! For instance, both a soul may. lose; Both have been tanned; both are made tight By cobblers;' both get left anil ri^ht. Both need a mate to be complete; And both are uiado to go ou leet. They both need heal bis; oft are sold, And both in time will turn to mould. With shoes the last is first; with men The first shall be the last; and when The shoos wear out tliay’re mended new; Whn men wear out they're men dead tool - They both are trod upon, aud both Will treed <m others, nothing loth. Both have their ties, and )>ota lurline, When jmlisUed, in the world to ahina; And both peg out Now, would you cbooae To h a man or he his shoes f —Besfow Courier. NO’ 52.