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GENERAL DIRECTORY
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May and 2nd Monday in October.
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• 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
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TOWN COUNCIL.
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j. B. Greer,
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R. T. PICKENS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
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mer and adjoining counties. Estates
md interest in land a specialty. Prompt
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ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
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ELLIJAY, <*A.
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ELLIJAY COURIER.
THE ELLIJAY COURIER
THE HEIGHTS AND THE VALLEY.
There are gray clouds in the valley,
Cloud* and mists and chilling rain,
But the heights are bathed in aunshme,
. There we took with longings vain.
Silver moonlight in the valley,
Glitters on the heights above.
While the dew-drops in'the valley,
Kiss the lilies that they love.
On the heights there are no lilies,
They love best the valley Jpw,
All that glitters on the heights, is
Diamond, ice and pearls of snow,
THE ABANDONED BRIG.
A* bailor’s story.
A more singular incident than one
which occurred while I was one of the
crew of the ship Stranger, is not to be
found in the records of the sea. We
loaded at Liverpool for the Cape and
ports beyond, on the west coast of Africa.
Our last port of call was to be Zanzibar.
Before leaving the docks at Liverpool
two or three of us took down the map
hanging on the wall at our boarding
house and traced out the course. When
we came to figure up the distance we
were amazed. When we came to figure
on the perils of such a voyage we won
dered how many of us would'five to see
the palms of Africa. The average lands
man sees a ship pull out of her . dock
without asking or caring which way she
is to go, how long the voyage is to be,
or what the perils of her course. Per
haps it is not his business to ask or care.
Each vocation in life has its profits and
perils, and it is seemingly left to each
toiler to work dut his own salvation.
Well, we had touched at Port Natal to
unload some machines, and were headed
up for .the Mozambique channel, when
Ve got cahght in a cyclone. 1 It came on
about 10'o’elock in the" morning, and we
had everything snug to meet it. Two
coasting schooners, both bound our
way, had come out of Natal with us, and
when the storm came howling down both
were in full sight. Inside of twenty
minutes one foundered and went to the
bottom, and -ihe. other .we almost ran
over as she drifted, bottom up. We had
a big craft, and she had taken out enough
cargo to float tike a cork; but within an
hour the sea got up until a mill pond
constantly washed our decks, and now
and then a wave came over the rail,
which filled her until we stood hip deep
in the frothy water. We had to knock
away a portion of the bulwarks to give
her a chance to unload, but even then
there were occasions when it seemed as if
she could not rise with her burden. I
don’t remember that any of us were
frightened. Both watches were on duty,
the officers alert, and we knew that noth
ing could be done, except to stand ready
if any sudden peril menaced us. We
were not lying to, as would have been
the case in a roaring gale. With the
wind screaming and shrieking along at
the rate of eighty or ninety miles an
hour, no ship could have been held up fo
it, even if she were not driven" under
stern first.
I had been sailing for fifteen years,
and yet had never encountered
anything like this storm. The an
ger of it was appalling. It seemed
determined that nothing made by the
hand of man should survive it. When
we slid down into the great Jiollqws be
tween the waves the wind was lost to us
on the decks, but it roared and shrieked
through our tophamper like ten thousand
mad devils. Then, as we slowly climbed
the steep hill of water, -'the ship seeming
to stand almost perpendiculpr on her
stern; the wild blasts struck us again,
until every man had to hang on for his
life. When we were in the iull embrace
of the storm the report of a field piece
could not have been heard twenty feet.
I had only one look astern of the ship. A
five-pound note could not havo hired me
to look again. A great "wall of water,
crested with six feet of froth, was rush
ing down as if to roll over us, and I shut
my eyes and held my breath. It lifted
the ship and flung her forward ft® ft boy
might toss a chip, but I would not lopk
again.
It was about noop, and I was making
my way aft to tell the Cfiptajn that we
could make out some sort of a wreck op
our port bow, when we were swept by a
wave from stern to stem. My grip on
the life line was broken ns the waters
rushed over me, and next instant I knew
I was being carried over the rail. As I
went I bumped against two of the men,
buried over their heads in water, but
hanging on for life. I clutched at one
of them, and tore a piece from
his jacket, and thirty seconds later
I was overboard for good and
trying to get my head above the
foam, which piled up on the surface like
yeast. When I did get a look around
me theship was a quarter of a mile away,
and just sinking into a hollow. I know
it has been the case with most sailors
Who’have been put'in such peril that no
hope of salyation existed, that a feeling
■of exultation was born. It WS® so with
me. I had a profound pity for the _poar
fellows on board the Stranger. Their
- danger seemed far'greater than mine.
They would drive on until the ship
grounded or struck a rock, and every
soul of them would perish on the cruri
ledges or he drowned in the clutch of the
deadly undertow. My death would be
easy and without pain. All I had to do
was to cease struggling and sink down,
down, down to a peaceful sleep below
the vexed surface. I was doubtless
drowning when this feeling was upon
me, hut somethtng occurred to arouse
me. Some object humped against me,
and instinctively I reached out toward it.
It was' a'paH of the cook’s galley or house.
The wave which had swept me overboard
had smashed the house and sent one
whole side of it after me, I pan remem
ber that I knew what the object was, and
that I grasped it and felt that I had a
chance for life, but then comes a blank.
I suppose I was buffeted about until I
lost consciousness, but I bad a grip on
the wreckage which even death would
not have released.
The next thing I remember was a feel
ing of thirst. I thought I was wandering
in the woods in search of a spring, and
the longer I hunted tlio more (thirsty I
became. I was about to slide down a
bank into a dark ravine when I opened
my eyes and found myself extended on
the "wreckage, cither band gripping ao
firmly that if wua only after ii-vcra) triala
that I could open my fingers, Ibe wind
bad gone down a good deal, and with it
aome of the fury ef the sea, but I wee
i map or bust Lirm-trs wlvotva nos a and its vast concerns.
ELLIJAY. GA„ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1887.
■till being towed about in a very un
comfortable manner. The aun waa about
half an hour high, and aa the events of
the day slowly came back to my belonged
■brain, I figured that it was now coming
on to sunset. Half an hour later, greatly
to my surprise, the sun was much higher,
and by and by I was forced to the con
clusion that it was morning, and that I
had floated all the afternoon and all night.
Hunger and thirst soon proved the cor
rectness of this conclusion. As the sun
came up the wind and sea went down,
and before noon I was pretty comfortably
fixed, though stiff and bruised from
being so much knocked about. Hope
and ambition were slow in coming, and
it was fully midday before my mind was
clear. Did I hope ! Yes. Hop* is the
last thing to desert A sailor, no matter
how desperate-the circumstances. It was
almost hope sgainst hope, however. -I
understood something of navigation, and
knew that it was a circular storm which
struck the ship. There was no telling
how large the circle, or whether, the
Stranger was on the outer or the inner
edge. I afterward learned that we were
very near the centre, and did not feel the
force as much as ships 100 miles to the
south or west. A great part of the
island of Madagascar was ravaged, and
terrible havoc was created seventy-five
miles inland from Port Natal, East
London, Georgetown and the Cape.
Two whalers 120 miles to the west of us
were dismasted, and two others went
down with all hands.
I think it was about ten o’clock in the
forenoon when, as I was heaved up on a
sea, I caught sight of a craft dead ahead'
of me and not more than a mile away. I
didn’t make her out very well for a time, j
as there was a haze in the sky and the ]
spray flying about me, but when I drifted
nearer I found her to be a dismasted brig, j
It was a mercy that I was driving straight
down-upon her, Tor I had’nt the strength
to turn my unwieldy float in either direc
tion. There were no signs of life about ]
the wreck, and I made up my wind for a
tremendous struggle to get aboard of !
her. Bhe was a hulk, and being tossed
about like a cork, and there was no telling
how long she would float, but I felt that
if I missed her I should drift awav to an
awful death from hunger and thirst. It
seemed as if Providence guided my float.
The wreck was stem on to me. This
was proof that her wheel had been lashed,
and that her steering gear was all right,
You would have thought she wouldhave
drove faster than my float, and I was sur
prised that she didn’t. It waa found, as I
may tell you hers, that one of her an
chors was overboard, with ten fathoms
of chain attached to it. This gave
her a heavy drag, and my pace was
twice as fast as hers. When I came
I drove past her stern on the’port
missing her by not more than four feet'.
There was a lot of her top hamper on the
port side held there by ropes which had
not been severed and I drove into this
mess as we went into the trough of the
sea. Climbing up the height beyond,
the wreckage slewed ip toward the hulk,
and I seized the opportunity to grasp a
rope and draw myself on board. I did
not get there before receiving several
hard bumps, and when I wag safe on deck
I had to sit down for a while to recover
my breath.
The decks were in a terrible litter, and
a good share of the bulwarks on the star
board side had been washed away. Boats,
booms and everything else movable had
gone, and it was plain enough that the
rig had been wave-swept. Asa sailor I
pould tell by the feel of her that she had
little or no water in Jjer hold/ipd that
was the main question with me just then.
The first move I made was to begin at the
ropes holding the wreckage alongside. I
had my sheath knife to work with, and
later on found an ax, and in about .half an
hour I had the satisfaction of seeing
everything gq clear. The hulk made less
work of it riding the waves after that,'
and the danger of having a butt started
was disposed of for good. It was oniy
after I had cleared the wreckage away
that I felt hunger and thirst corns upon
me, and I put away the ax apd looked
around for water. The scuttle butt was
lashed firmly in its place, with a cork in
the bung, and after a little hunting I
found the drinking can and indulged jn
a long and refreshing draught- Npt a
drop of saltwater had entered the barrel.
To satisfy my hunger I must go bejow.
The brig wag bjplt ?n the qld-fashioned
way, with the cook’s galley, steward’s
pantry, and all that sort of thing below
decks. I found everything much knocked
about and broken, but in the coppers was
a piece of beef, thoroughly done, and I
soon turned up a fair supply of ship’s
bread. With these articles of provender
I returned to the deck and ate until! was
thoroughly satisfied.
Not the suspicion that any
one living was aboard had crossed my
mind. Indeed, I was only too thankful
that l had nqt encountered any dead. 1 J
was about through with my meal, and
was thinking of making a careful inves
tigation below, when J yyas suddenly
seized from behind, flung violently to the
deck from my seat on the main hatch,
and I found myself on my back with a
man on top of me, his hand on my throat,
and his knee on my chest. It came upon
me so very sudden that I had no strength
for a time. It was only when the stranger
raised his other hand, which clutched an
iron belaying pin, to give me a blow -on
the head, that I put forth auy effort. It
was well for me that I was in the prime
of life and possessed of lots of strength,
for he was a burly fellow and determined
to do for me. I tore his clutch loose, and
put forth a great effort and turned him
over, but we had a terrible struggle be!
fore I conquered him. I did not got the
better of him until I had given him a can
over the head with the same pin. While
he was Unconscious I tied him hqnd and
fqct, and then for the fleet time got a
good lpqk at him. He was a common
sailor, strong as a bull, and without
doubt, a lunatic. Fear of death bad un
settled his mind, and led him to hide
himself away when thp others left the
brig. He bad looked upon me as an
enemy, and no doubt intended to take
my life.
Well, after I bad the man securely tied
he recovered consciousness, and it was
wall that I bad not l>een sparing of tbs
rope. 9 Be made herculean efforts to
break loose, and, being now in a sort of
frenzy, he would have been more than a
match for me. Ills screams and shrieks
and curses were awful to hear, and I left
him securely tied to the deck and de
scended into the tamo, Scarcely any
thing here had been disturbed by human
hands. I found the brig's log, and Irom
11 inads out that liar mutts was the Helot
Joseph, and that she had been up the
ooest on a trading voyage. She bad a
cargo of fine woods, hides, furs, spices,
ana dried, fruits, and carried a crew of
twelve men. The last entry in the log
told of a fair run and fair weather. Her
cargo I got from her wipers. When I had
thoroughly ransacked the cabin I went
forward to the forecastle. The men had
gone without their bags. Then I went
on deck, found the sounding rod, and
sounded the well. The brig did.not
have two inches of water in her. I'was
fussing about for a couple of hours, and
during ail thaYtime the lunatic never
ceased to scream and shout and try to
burst his bonds. When I finally'got
around to see.if I could not do something
for him he all at once subsided, and
would neither look at nor speak to me.
During afternoon the wind was
constantly filing and the sea going
down, rjafi "’ put on such a
settled at f grew very hopeful. I
was aboSpfol a lmlk, drifting I knew
not whmlp and-h;td a dangerous man for
a conuuflf.otfhere was plenty to eat,
the bioHS* dry, and the chances of
being and rescued were good. It
was a Pug afterpoen to mg, though I was
kept busy rummind n K about and clearing
up the litter When the sun finally went
dovvh the night came on hazy, and the
wind to a two-knot breeze. I was in
a greaOinaiidary as to what to do with
the aaff*who seemed to have been asleep
foivaevfejhlhours. I lighted the ship’s lan
terns, apd hung them overboard, and
theftjikijout two hours after dark, I car
riedjha man some tea and bread and
cgaiVW fruit. He lay on the broad of
hit ba-fle, and was deaf to my soothing
I held up his head and put thl
ted. to his lips, and in anstant'he seemed
[.tpfjgo wild. By a mighty effort he
iJSeiBLd the ropes—l afterward found he
hod gnawed some of them in twain—and
•negi instant he was upon me. Neither
|of us had any weapons, nor was there
I opportunity to secure one. We grappled
gfeah other, and in less than a minute I
(jpv that it was his life or miue, or per
i haps both. He was seeking to drag me
Qjhe broken bulwarks, anal was seek
ing to prevent. He had a grip like death,
ana as we struggled back and forth
amidships we tore the clothes off of each
other, and used qur hands and feet
Whenever there Was an opening. He
was the stronger of the two,
"but I could use my fists the butter,
and this evened us up. I said that we
h%dno weapons. I bad my sheath-knife,
?[ did not propose to use that until
••■j — ■ depended upon it. The
I was growing weak,
’’ as strong as ever. I
‘f'Hs ■
runbi voice
which 1 1- jWt as that of the master
of the Stranger called out;
“What is ft? Whoareyouf What is
going on?”
“Lay hold of him, Mr. Jameson; he’s
crazy 1” I shouted, and with that four or
five men seized him and flung him to the
fleck. " ! iL |
Now, let me tell you what -had hap
pened. I was lot ! overboard from the
ship about midday. Six hours afterward
she sprung aleak, and was abandoned
just before she went down. The crew
got away in two boats, outlived the
storm, and were heading up the Mada
gascar when they spied my lights and al
tered their course to make the wreck.
They had hailed the hulk several times,
afld finally canje altonrd just in time to
prevent a deed'which would have been
a burden to my pence of mind forever
after. The crew whjch left the brig wero
never heard of moie, while the lunatic
died next day after eur men came aboard.
Nat a man from the Stranger was lost,
and we rigged up tie brig and took iter
to 4he Cape, ana tno salvage more than
paid for the loss of our ship and cargo.
—New York Sun. I
H<m RothschildiWon at Waterloo.
The sudden return of Napoleon from
Elba" shattered all qt Rothschild’s golden
dreams, and so "filled him wjth anxiety
(hat he pfocepdedko Belgium and fol
owed plqse in the Wake of the English
army. As appearslfrom thgfollowjngex
irapt, the battle of watchetj
by him most anliousjy: ‘(When at
lengtb-thp fhike of Wellington took up
his position at Waterloo, Nathan Meyer
felt that the critical moment on which
hung the fortunes Sot of Europe alone,
but of the Rothschilds, also had arrived.
When Napoleon’s yld Guard had been
driven back by the/ British bayonets in
the greatest confusion and disorder,'
Nathan Meyer, who was oq the battle
field, spurred his horse back to Brussels.
Having made his way to England a® fast
as posthorsps could carry him, qnd ip
spitp ot x tpmpestuouß pea which neces
sitated his pfferiqgtwo thousand franca
|q a fidmmiqh ai ‘q bribe to take him
across, 1 b was next day to be seen leaning
against hi® well known pillar qn the
Stock h [change, apparently broken iq
health aid spirits, and looking as if he
had beei overwhelmed and crushed by
some dreful calamity. The greatest
gloom ad despondency had for days
prevailed in the city, and as men looked
at Rothsrhild, and then significantly at
each other, they seemed to come to the
conclusidi that the worst was yet to be
known.! * '"
The jajoom and despondency were not
lessened 1 'when a rumor became current
that Rotschild had told a friend In cori
fidecce Ihdt Blucher with his 112,000,
Prussian, had been. defeated on June
16th an* 17th at Ligny, qnd tha| Wel
lington could ,U°t iiopq to arrest
Napoltsonfe vlctoriqns forces. The Funds
propped rapidly. Bqt the next after
noon a cAtajn wdd reaction s®t it, It
tya® everykhfro reported that Wellington
gras viptoflouß. Nathan Meyer himself
had i>een me first to announce the good
news. Tile funds rose again at a bound.
Many pitied Rothschild for the eor
mouH losses he had, as they thought,' suf
fered, they little suspecting that, while
his known agkuts had been selling openly,
bis unknown agent* bought up secretly
every piece "of scrip they could seoure.
r®i from losing, be had by his maiHpula
tlons pocketed nearly a million sterling."
—JjOnuluK Truth. '* •' '
It 1* a mare idle declamation about
cqnsinlencv to represent It a* a disgrace
to a mau to oonfeM himself wiser to-day
thau j' -terday.
Whs* prevent# us from being trivial
la the deelfa to Apt car so.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Couldn’t Scare Him—An Unfortnate
Misunderstanding— Wauted It
Rolling—Animal Food—A Nat
ural Question, Etc.. Etc.
A talented pianist, Mme. de , sit
ting at dinner by the side of Colonel
Rametott, asked him in an amiable tone:
“Colonel, are you fond of musio f”
“Madame,”- replied thswarrior, rolling
his eyes savagely, “I am not afraid of
it."— Norrietown Herald.
An Unfortunate Misunderstanding.
“My dear,” said a gentleman to his
wife, “where did all those books on as
tronomy on the'library table come from?
They are not ours.”
“A pleasant little surprise for you,”
responded the lady, “You know, you
said this morning that we ought to study
tstronomy, and ao I went to a book store
and bought everything I could find on the
subject, ”
It was some minutes before he spoke.
“My dear,” he then said slowly, his
voioe husky with emotion, “I never said
we must study astronomy. I said that
we must study economy.”— New York
Sun.
Wanted It Rolling.
Home Seeker (to real estate man)
—“And you say that the farm will just
puitme?”
Real Estate Man—“Most assuredly.”
“I want the land to be rolling, you
understand P’
“Yes, this land is rolling.”
Several weeks later—Home Seeker (to
real estate man—“ You are a miserable
fraud and—”
Heal Estate Man—“W’y what’s the mat
ter?”
“Matter! w’y, confound you, ten acres
of my farm wont into the river last
pight.”
“I'm sorry to hear it; but didn’t you
tell me that you wanted rolling land?”
“Yes,”
“Well, then, you got it. You didn’t
say which way you wauted the land to
real. Don’t be in a hurry. Draw up a
chair and sit down a while.’’— Arhaiucu
Traveler.
Animal Food.
Old man Jupe is a noted character in
our village (writes a correspondent). He
was taken quite ill at one time and the
of a physician were called for.
was prescribed for, and the doctor
told the old man he must take no food
but gruel for a few days.
“ Gruel 1 gruel I what’s that?” asked
the patient. The constitution of that
article was explained by the doctor.
“ Slops 1 ” growled the old man.
On the second visit a slightly altered
diet was proposed, and the details given.
“Mush I” was the summur.y of the
patient,
In due oourse old Jupe’s health im
proved, and the physician announced to
nim that he might eat a little animal
food. This was too much for the
patient, now nearly a well man; ho flatly
refused, os foHows :
“Look here, doctor; I’ve eaten your
pats, and I’ve eaten your corn, but I’ll be
blamed if I eat hay 1 ” —American Maga
tine.
A Natural Question.
Little Nellie was in the court room
where her uncle was a witness, and found
much to interest her there. Spe was
especially struck by the impressive man
pet of the lawyer who was haranguing
the jury.
“Papa,” she inquired, “who is that
man that is talking so loud?”
“That is the lawyer for the defense, my
deay.”
“And who is that man with the scar
pvpr his eye, that just sfts tpere apd never
jays a word?”
'tThat is ' the defendant. ”
“And who pre those men that the law
yer is talking to?’’
' “Tpey compose the jury,”
After a moment’s silence Nellie re
newed the attack.
“Papal”
“Well?”
“What has the jury been doing?’.’—
Merchant Traveler.
The Curious Wild West Show,
About two weeks ago a Dakota farmer
Was approached by a 'strangey, Tyhb, said:
“What win you take for that little
|hprt-hprned yearling out there in the
yard?’*
• b’Bout fIS,.”
4 ‘ls he gentle l 1 ’ t
¥*,*" “
“Never kicks?”
“No.”
“No hunger of butting a fellow over
with his head?”
“Not a bit—my children play with
him whenever they take a notion.”
“Well, I guess I’ll take him. I’m agent
for. Hollerwell & Bhowpoor’s Anti-
European Circus, and wo neeb another
buffalo for our ‘wild West’ department.
By the time'vre put a hump on his
fboulde/s and paint his horns black you
wouldn’t know your calf. I hope he'll
tftay gentle, though; the laslj one we had
hooked three of opr cowboys off their
tiorsek, disabled two Buffalo Bilis and
drove Texas Jack, the Western terror, up
the center- po t le. ‘tie acted so we had tq
tip iptp up with the elephants, trivo him
a coat of ted paint and call hint The terri
ble man-eatihg jogglcwoek, eaptured in
Central Africa at great expense and loss
of life. Do you suppose the calf will
drink milk?—the sacred cow gives % lit-,
tie more than the zebra will take.”—Da
kota BM.
Staking Out HU Claim.
Aslim young man waa pc relied onastool
in one of the large restaurants near the
Tribune building devouring a strawberry
dumpling. The papodfy of the restau
rant was not sufficient foy the rush of
Customer* and behind the fortunate pos
sessors of stools formed another line of
VQJS7 candidate* glaring over the
IkouVfo* of the eaten and watching each
mouthful disappear. Behind the slim
young man. however, four hungry eyes
watched the vanishing fragment* of
strawberry dumpling. Th*t were two
contestants for the Au . a corpulent old
PW*on In spectacle* and a tali man with
a silk bat.
The slim young men completing his
lunch climbed down from his |ierch, end
the corpulent watcher with great activity
began to climb up.
“Hold on,’’ said the other candidate
gruffly.
"What for?”
"Because, sir, I have a right to the
seat. I was here, sir, when that young
man began to eat his dumpling.' Per
haps,” added the tall man scornfully,
“you think that I have been standing
here just to count how many mouthfuls
there are in a strawberry dumpling.”
The elderly man laid his hand on the
stool and said with the confident air of
one who holds four aces: “I am very
sorry, sir, but you really have no claim at
all. I was here when this young man
was unable to decide whether he wanted
■a strawberry dumpling or custard pie.”
And then the corpulent old man, hav
ing “seen” the tall man and gone him
one better, climbed upon the stool, and
his rival moved sadly along to stake out
. another claim on a man who had just
ordered fish balls with tomato sauce.
New York Tribune.
His Memory was Good.
"And you pretend to say,” remarked a
lawyer to a witness, "that you remember
the exact words this man said to you ten
years ngof”
“1 do.”
"Well, if my memory serves me, I met
you at Saratoga about five-years ago,’and
I should like to know if you can swear
to any expression which I then made.”
“I can.’’
"Now, Mr. J., I want you to remem
ber that you are under oath. Now,
under bath, you swear that you can quote
with great accuracy a remark I made to
you at Saratoga five years ago!”
"I can.”
“Well, what was it?”
"You met me in the hotel corridor.”
“Yes, quite correct.”
"And you shook hands with me,”
"Naturally I did,”
“And you said to mo: ‘Let’s go and
take something. ’ "
The crier of the court had to call si
lence for ten minutes, and the lawyer
confessed that the witness had a remark
able memory!
Culm as It la.
The island has more fine harbors than
any other country of its size, and it is no
wonder that the buccaneers of the Spauish
main selected it as the center of their
piratical enterprises. It hies two hun
dred and sixty rivers aud plenty of fresh
Vfatcr springs, It never snows in Cuba,
though the ice sometimes forms upon the
mountains. The balrtcs can go naked
here the year round, and as for the
stocking trade of Havana, its customers
are confined to the liighor classes.
Npither stockings nor suspenders are
used bv the laborers, and I doubt
whether there are one thousand pairs of
suspenders worn by the one million five
hundrod thousand people who make up
thftt island's population. They use in
stead a belt-strap, and the majority of
the workingmen of the island confine
their apparel to an undershirt and trow
sers. Idle better class of men dyeas in
white duck, with Panama huts,
The lower v\wi of women wear few
qndwloth.is, ami a calico wrapper and a
pair of heedless slippers are a wardrp.be.
There are no carpets on the floors nor
plaster on ceilings, iron bars tnke the
place of glass windows, and there is not
a chimney nor a cooking stove in Ha
vana. There are no barns, and the
horses are washed in the hqrbore instead
of boing curried. There are no bricks
ji&ed in the sidewalks, and tho average
sidewalk is three feet wide und of stoop,
The building stono used is a porous one,
and this is covered with stucco. Havana
has parka, bur there is no grass in them,
and as for shude, it can be got only by
going to tho mountains.
The policemen carry swords and guns,
and the oriel's of all kinds are filled by
Spaniards. There nro no mattresses on
the Cfiban beds, and us for feather pil
lows, therp aye uot feathors enough used
here t make a wad for the . earache.
There are few china pitchers used in
Havana, and the drinking.mug is of por
ous clay; with a hole ut the top, out of
which the water is poured into the mouth
in a trickling stream, lied briok tiles
take the place pf shingles and the tops
of the houses are used in the evenings
for sitting rooms. The gardens of Hb
vana are inside the houses, instead of be
hind them.
The Cuban takes oranges, bread and
gutter and coffee for breakfast. Ho
pares his oranges as we do apples, and
you find lfiates of pared oranges before
yon on the table when yon ‘sit down to
the morning meal. The way to eat these
oranges Is to drive a fork into them,
plant your teeth firmly into the luscious
fruit and suck the juice. The Cuban
breafefaat Is taken on rising, and there is
another breakfast about 9 or 10 o’clock.
This is more like the American meal, and
the whole'city knocks off for it. Passing
along the street at this time yon may see
families at their mcaja, through the open
windows and doom,'and an hour or two
the Whole town seems to be taking
a siesta. Dinner ia eaten between 5 ana
6 o’clock, and the stores keep open un
til about 9 o’clock In the evening.—
Home Journal*
Daniel Pratt us a Poet,
Speaking about the late Daniel Pratt,
the crank known as the “Great Ameri
can Traveler,” a writer in the Boston
Advertiter says: Years ago, when id)
writer was a “devil” in a printing office,
in Charlestown, hnrmb* old Daniel
Pratt used to puli occasionally |o talk
politics Tjith the printers. Wo oould not
than realize, his greatness, although he
Often used totell us of it. His shocking,
had, tall hat, as it loomed up over the
cases on the other side of us, was a grand
target for tliree-cm quads and slugs. It
used to make Dan I*l mad when his hat
was hit, and his ravings afforded great
delight. One day he brought in an ad
vertisement for a wife, to bo printed in
the paper, a* he had become tired of liv
ing alone. It closed with these pathetiq
lines;
' I seek a lady for a wi(
Wbo’U cheer my wJnary Ufa;
—lkinM Pratt,
Tlie late I)r. Chabuert said the throe
essential* of lw|t|iiiie* were; “Have
something Cos do, some thing to love, and
•oiin thing to hope for "
on DOLUS Per Annum. la A4vmm
THE ROSE AND THE PEARL.
I know a thing of purity,
A flower;
It grows within the heart of
Each hour.
A heart that blossoms as the roes
Is mine,
Became a flow’ret in it Mows, *
Divine.
Down in this gladsome heart is placed
A pearl:
Fit emblem of an angel-faced
Sweet girL
A precious peirl within my heart
Deep set;
A lovely rose with heaven’s own del
Is wet.
What hallowed joy is mine when o’er
My soul,
The porfurue of that thought, so pure,
Doth roll! -
—Hail anti Repress.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Never comes amiss—A married woman.
Danse ille Breeze.
A man’s funny bone, we presume, en
ables him to laugh in his sleeve.—States
man.
The skeleton in the closet is often in
the shape of a loug-uecked bottle.—
Judge.
The livery horse is not so much of a
charger us the chap that runs the stable.
Yonkers Gazette.
The population of Chicago is now in
creasing at the rate of 21,000 hogs a dav.
— St. Imu is Hcpubliean.
When you put your fingers into some
body else’s pie you must expect to get
tart rejoindors.— Burlington Free Dress.
No mnn cun be cnlled a good baseball
player until he can pitch a ball that will
curve the umpire.— Nexctn/m, Independent.
Yuu ean get more wind out of a ten
cent fan than you can from a si)o(> one.
It’s the same way with a ten-ceut man.—.
Statesman.
The man who's on tho ocean
And sea sick in his berth
Amidst tho storm’s co'. l i m( ' ) t,; oß
Is tlie man who wonts tho earth.
—Boston Courier.
"Save the young men, "says the Somer
ville Journal. All right, but if the
Journal has no objections we Should pre
fer to have a few young women saved os
well.— Biter Adcnnee.
There wus once a fair maid in South Vernon,
Who’d a hat with u Idg bunch of fern on;
The crown stood up straight,
Two pounds was its weight.
With a brim that an engine could turn on.
. Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Jouos—“ I have been making a
change in the household, and you-canuot
Imagine how- relieved I' feel. It really
seems as if I had nothing to do.” Mrs.
Brown—“ Have you engaged more ser
vants?” Mrs. Jones—“No; I have dis
charged them all. ” — Binghamton Repub
lican.
“Theodore, I don’t believe yon lova
mo any rnoro,” said a K street girl, plain
tively, as her best young man, a Post
ollice Department olerk, pulled her past
an icc-cream saloon. “Oh, don’t say
that, dearest,” said he, reproachfully.
“Why, I named fourteen postoliices after
you last week."— Washington Critic.
An Eastern firm got hold of anew
drummer who was very highly recom
mended by some friends of theirs. They
gave him a case of samples and SSOO and
sent him oil. He was gone a couple of
weeks, and they heard nothing from him.
They finally got on his track, and tele
graphed him. His answer was brief and
worthy of hia profession. It was: “Send
me another SSOO. lam still with you.’
-—San Francitco Chronicle.
Minnesota people have found anew
way to test the freshness of feggs. Wipe
the large end of an egg, they say. quite
clean, and then touch the tip of the
tongue to the central part of this big
end. If the egg is good there will be a
little warm spot inside the egg which
will be plainly perceptible’*) the tongue.
This is aa Improvement on the Omaha
market plan of holding one ear to the
egg and listeuing for a squeak. —Omaha
Mexican Bells.
In the large tower of Morelia hangs
the monster bell, which is rarely sounded,
but there are many others of moderate
size which are continually, chiming. Ali
these bells, and indeed nearly all the
bells in the Republic, are remarkable for
sweetness and softness of tone. It ia
very rarely that one hears a harsh belL
They are exceedingly melodious and
pleasing. It is sometimes explained that
this is due to the mixture of silver in the
bell metal, and that the new bells are
cast from old metal. I believe that the
chief reaaon why the Mexican bells are so
wuoh more musical than ours is that
Mexican bells are artistically made,
shaped with reference to tone, thin at
the edge, each one a work of art intel
ligently manipulated, npt mechanically
cast without reference to' the sound it
shall produce. The great bells are struck
with a clapper, and not swung. There
would be much less objection to the use
of church bells in the United States—the
harsh and barbarous jangle which shocks
the Sunday stillness—if our bells had any
of the musical quality of the
— Harper'*, Magazine.
A Question Answered.
Omaha Man—“ Are those jmu* doss in
telligent?" 8
Omaha Lady (proud owner of a pug)—
“Oh, their intelligence is almost human.”
“I am apprised to hear that.”
“I ean’t begin to tell you how much
the dear little fellows know. Mercy ms 1
Ji ne 1 Jane! Where are your’
Jane (a servant)—“Here, mum."
“Run out aa fast as you can and bring
the dog in. It't raining. "—OmaKa
The Worst f*to of AU.
The nihilist, doomed In Hibariaa waste
To livf in hi* exile gloom,
May possibly think he is t*tad to lasts
Tim inn of liittonwt loom!
wriK. tor another's gain.
Tim rsptivs hU by bU toe,
'His MifittH'sr racked uts his bad of polo*
Aiul tbs bsggsr ui went sad wos; „
Tim grief ut all tbsss turn oombtaad,
I 'mu lirvir sinount pi tbs Sum
Of tb awful Mi-inf. . om l.mssd, iwAuarf,
Of tbs mot) w lb • musical Unttnl
NO. 24.