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Newspaper Page TextWALTER 8. COLEMAN. Editor aad Proprietor. VOL. XII. ELLIJAY COURIER. PUBLISHED, EVERY THIT3SDA V —HT— WALTER S. COLEMAN. GENERAL DIRECTORY. Superior Court meets 3d Monday in Uav and 2nd Monday in October. COUKTT 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 IB each month. TOWN R. T. Pickens, Intendant. L. B. Greer, 1 [com,. Mono,i T. J. Long, ] W. H. Foster, Marshal. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Methodist Episcopal Church South— Every 3d Sunday and Saturday before. G. W. Griaer. . Baptist Church—Every 2nd and 3d Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shope. Methodist Episcopal Church—Every Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. T. G. Chase. FRATERNAL BECORD. W. A. Cox, W. M, J S. Tankersley, 8. W. W. S. Coleman, J. W. It. Z. Roberts, Treasurer. D. Gamn, Secretary. E. B. Shope, S. D. B. P. Whitaker, J. D. W.H. Foster, 8. 8. J. C. Kell, J. 8. 8. P. Garren, Tyler. R.TrPICKEHS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELtIJAY, GEORGIA. Will practice in all the courts of Gil mer ami adjoining counties. Estates, ami interest in land a specialty. Prompt attention'’given to all collections. DR. J. R. JOHNSON, Physician and Surgeon ELLIJAY, GEORGIA. Tenders his professional services to the people of Gilmer and surrounding coun ties and asks the support of his friends a9 heretofore. All calls promptly filled. E. W. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLLIJAY, QA. Will practice in Bits P.i 'go Circnit-, Conntj C'Hin Justice Com tof (iilincr County. Legal Eolicitci 'Tron>ptu," U our motto. DR. J. S. TANKERSLEY. Physician and Surgaon, Tend-rs his professional services (o the ",iti sens of Ellijay, Gilmer and surrounding con-, ties. Ail calls promptly attended to. Office cpstairs over the Arm of Cobb & Son. RUFE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.S. DENTIST, Calhoun, Ga. 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O.lb. tt Hr. U.. 1 A. Dm...... lUh.i-.i-4, Tfc. ttma M.u-r. . Hr ur. J 11. B-Miwa. Tk. r.UIWi, t.bta. * *•!. Hr U. T. c....... *‘A map or nuar urr.-ira and its vast coxcsnxs." THE EARTH A MEHRY-GO-ROUNU The earth is n.merry-Ko round. With plenty of room to gyrate; To the bub of the sun fast bound. While flying around at a high rate, And great and small Are riders all On the earth's great merry go round. We are whirled with the world around and 1 around, On this merry—merry—merry-go-round! (Spring.) We passed where tbo waking Of Nature did bring The buds to the breakin *, The birds to the wing; And May overtaking. We sang to the Spring. (Summer.) We passed fruit-laden trees, And wheat above the knees, Flower-beds ablaze; While lazy li.'e, at eas. Lay fanned by perfumed breeze ‘‘ 3 ——days. (Autumn.! ~— We passed where the woods were arrayed Like Rachel’s first-born; And fields that were bared by the blade, And banks that were cool in the shads In Autumn’s mild morn. (Winter) We passed while snowflakes fell like sand, Through snow-glas; set-up iu the sky; Watched water masquerade as land, And saw Decembor die! 01.1, cold December die! We are whirled with the world around and around. On this merry—merry—merry-go round! —Hunter MctrCallorh. A WINTER VACATION. AND WHAT CAME OP IT. It was not at all creditable to him, but it was nevertheless a fact that Toni Bron- I son wentdown to East Wheelerville on n | two weeks’ mid-winter vacation in a recklessly flippant mood, and delibpr- j atcly intending to have a good time, i whether or no. ‘‘They’re an awful back woodsy set, you know,” he had said to his fr eigl, Ernest Wilson, a dignified voungdoctor, ; whom he took with him. ‘“Oh, I don’t 1 saying it—Aunt “ally’s only a step great aunt, anyhow. Oh, yes, they're the real article, she nud Uncle ’Rastus—cowhide i boots and calico dresses, and rag carpets and pumpkin pie, and nil that sort of thing We'll have lots of fun I” “I don’t propose to ‘have fun’ at tlicex * Write us for Illustrated Catalogue, Free. pense of your relatives, Bronson, and I trust you don’t,’’the doctor had rejoined, reproVlfigTy; at which Tom' had merely laughed. The doctor need not have concerned himself. Tom’s irouical mood lasted about half an hour after their arrival in East Wheclcrville, and vanished for good. Uncle ’Rustus met them at the station witha lumber wagon and a cordial “How be you!” and twenty minutes later they were sitting, washed and brushed and hungry, at Aunt Sally’s supper-table, with Uncle ’Pastus dishing ham and eggs, and Aunt Sally, stout and bene volently beaming, turning a tin of biscuits in the oven. Tom milled the attention of his friend, in subdued tones, to the picture of George Washington on the wall, and the yellow almanac under it, and to the tin tea-pot and the mug of teaspoons, and the absence of butter-plates. “They don't have dining-rooms in East. Wheclervillc, you know,” he mur mured, with a chuckle. “They eat in the kitchen year in and year—” “Susy,” called Aunt Sally, as she put the hot, brown biscuits on the table, “you can bring the strained honey, too; mebbe they’ll likesome o’that.” There was a rustic in the pantry, its half-shut door swung back, and through it, bearing in one hand an amber-hued bottle, and in the other a blue plate and a trickling slice of honeycomb, came a girl in a long gingham apron—a dark eyed, yellow-haired, fair faced, start lingly pretty girl. Tom dropped his fork, and stared with open eyes and mouth. Wilson, with greater presence of mind, only looked admiringly over the milk-pitcher. “This is Susy Harkness,” said Aunt Sally, with brisk cordiality and straght forward phrasing. “Susy, this is my nephew, Tom Bronson; and this is Doctor Wilson, a friend o’ his he’s brought.” The young men rose and bowed; and Susy sat down, and deftly and grace fully dished* the honey, and smilingly passed it. Tom sat staring, with dazzled eyes; and continued to stare during thethrcc quarters of an hour of supper-time. He was distinctly aware of nothing save the astonishingly pretty face oppo site. He could not have been more dazed and confused had a heavenly being dropped through the ceiling. A stunning girl in East VVheelerville, and at Aunt Sally's! Who was she? Tom looked at the gingham apron. It was hard to be!'eve that she was merely * ‘help;” but the fact seemed indisputable. He knew that servants always ate with the family in the country. But he re membered Aunt Sally’s last “help”—a sleepy, dough-faced girl, with shoes down at the neel. Where had this—this angel come from! Whew 1 but how pretty she was! Tom did not know whether he was eating or not; but he thought he was probably making a passable pretense, since nobody was observing him particu larly. They were talking—Uncle ’Rastus, Aunt Sally, Wilson and she. How sweet she looked when she talked! And the doctor was conversing with her quite calmly and rationally. Tom was dimly amazed at his cold bloodedness. He' rose from the table slowly, since the rest w ere doing so, and submitted to being led into the sitting room. with h's head screwed backward to get a last glimpse of Auut Hally’s charming hited-girl, who was swiftly clearing the table. “Well!” ho burst forth, sinking into a chair by the glowing stove, and gaping at bis friend. His flippancy was gone; his jocose san ain was a tiling of the past. He eras deeply terloue, EI,LI JAY. GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH I. 188$. “Welir' tt & the doctor, collectively. ! “Good ordom!” said Tom, cxplo sively; “di. you ever ace such a dar ling." ..* y - „ “Ob, the f jokT’ said Wilson, shutting the stova tlampcf. “Yes, she’s pretty. But don't Jose your head over a pretty girl, Bron,*)!.; the woods are full of them!" Wilson picked up a “Life of Wash ington” from the tabic and began to read ■ it; and*Tolf, after a drearily wistful pause, stole into the kitchen. i-'usy stood at the sink with her sleeves rolled to her slump elbows, washing dishes. was stirring yeast and warm wntlrlnto a pan of flour at the table. ft- v. ) "Oh, let r,e help!” Tom implored, looking besevh' gly into Susy's dark eyes. ' “Help?” sbJT. mated, laughingly. But 'i om wt *u earnest. He caught an apron of _Annt S*ilv’s from a nail, tied it around him, and seized a dish towel. S:rv laughed sweetly; .Awat Sally chuckled till her ...out sid-** shook. “You’ll see IVi a *‘ -Sept!” said Tom, He,felt that,-he could'be anTßTept at flying, with such an inducement. Indeed, he nibbed the forks and pol ished the glasses fill they shone. “Da you like housework, Susy?” he said, softly. j * Su'j looked astonished —did she also look displeases ? and did not reply. Tom maac another attempt, affrighted •y‘ e . “Have you been with Aunt Pally long?” he said. j‘l—l am so glad she can have sueh' r good help.. It isn’t al ways to be procured, yog know.” He meant this to please and flatter her, and he thought he was successful. She turned her pretty head away quickly; and when she turned back her charming face wps softly flushed, and she was smiling. Aunt Sally was in the pantry. “Yes, I am glad to be with her,” she said, simply. “East Wheelervlile is beautiful, isn’t it?” said Tom, elated at his success. At that moment he sincerely consid* crcd East Whcoierville even more than beautiful. “I like it,” Susy rejoined, bringing more hot water in a tin dipper. “I suppose you vc been brought up here?” said Tom, ia low and sentimental tones—Aunt Sally was back at the ta HIC. Susy murmured i something, with hot head bent over the dishes, which their rattle drowned, it “Happy East Wheelerville—to have boon your native place 1” Tom whispered, with a look which, an hour ago, he would have set down as idiotically soft. “Oh, thank you!” said tho hired girl, prettily, washing the last pan. The" eveningby at a- lightning speed, so it seemed to the enthralled young man. He helped Susy put away the dishes, and hunt, the dish-pan on a hook that was too Jjgb ior her, and held tho-dust-pai) when she “brushed up;” and then they went into the sitting room and played a delicious game of dominoes by themselves, while Aunt Sally knit, and Uncle ‘Rastas and the doctor talked politics; and talked all the rest of the evening, after Wilson had gone up stairs and while Uncle ’Rastus dozed. Wilson was waked by a sharp shaking at half-past ten. “See here—wake up! I want to talk,” said Tom, sitting down on the doctor’s feet. “See here, Wilson—l’m gone this time!” “Where?” said the doctor, sleepily. “Fin in love! Yes—no fooling. I’m going to marry her if I can get her I” “Who?” “Why, Susy!” cried Tom, wildly. The doctor sat up, fully roused. “Bu9y!” he echoed, sternly;' “your aunt’s servant girl! Are you crazy, Bronson? What will your people say? But, pshaw! you’re talking bosh 1” Wilson lay down again. “Bosh?” cried Tom,almost deliriously. “You'll seel Eosh? I’d marry her if she was a crossing sweeper 1 She’s the loveliest, sweetest creature in the world. I’ll have her if I die for it!” Wilson laughed drily. “You’re crazy!” he repeated. “You’ll be over it by morning. If you ain't, I’ll ! put you into an ice-pack.” And he went to sleep, in the middle of i a second frantic protest from the excited ■ lover. But Tom was not “over it” by morn ing—nor by the end of the first week. It was a hard week for the doctor. “You’re making a fool of yourself, Bronson,” he said, almost tearfully, sev eral times a day. “What will your mother say, and all the rest of them? You don’t really mean to go any further with it? Come now, be sensible. You want a girl that's your equal in birth and fortune when you do marry; not a poor and uneducated girl you’d be ashamed of. Don’t, Bronson!” “Ashamed of!” Tom would retort hotly. “You don’t know her, Wilson. Ashamed of her? Never! I’m going to have her if it’s a possible thing.” And he would stride off, generally in the direction of the kitchen. The climax came on the morning cf the eighth day. The doctor had taken a walk, and was changing his muddy boots in his room, when Tom bounded in, breathless, and excitedly red of face. “She’s mine!” he shouted, leaping across the room. “She’s mine! Do you hear? ’ The doctor, in a spirit half of irony and half of real alarm, sprinkled a hand ful of water from the pitcher on the young man’s head. “Wo’re engaged!” Tom went on, pantingly. “Not quite, you know; she says she’s only known me a week, and she won’t call it an engagement; tyit she'll think about it, and she’ll write to me, and—oh, it's as good as settled!” “Is it?” said the doctor grimly. “I guess not—not till I'vo made an effort to unsettle it. You’re young and hot headed, Bronson”—tho doctor was two months the senior—“ami I'm going to : prevent your making the worst mistake a fellow of your family and fortune could make. I’m going to let your people know whut you’re doing.?’ And flve minutes later he was re-ar rayed in Isis overcost and muddy boots, anti was going down stairs with a sealed letter, followed by Tom, pouring forth a I tirade of mingled remonstrance and defi ance. The sitting room door at nod open. “Here she 1*1" said Tom, forgetting everylhing. but his happiness, and fly ing in to join Aunt Sally's charming hired girl on the rofa. Aunt Sally rat in the largest roeker. Her good-natured face w< glowing with pleasure, and she hurst out into serenely delight) and speech at the sight of Tom. Wilson | atised in the doorway to heat her, with a stern frown, which gradually faded. “Wal, Susy's been Idlin' me all altout it,” she said, taking of her glares in her enthusiasm, “an’ I don’t know jest when Fro been so glad o' anything. I told Busy. fust night the come, 1 did hope you'd take a fancy to each other. I've alius been afraid busy’d have to marry to suit her pa. and not her own self. Her pa's alius been sot on her marryin’ somebody with money. lie says, out nnd out, the match’d he onequnl if she didn’t. Susy hav in' so mud) in her own right and he bein’ so rich, he won't goiu' to have her fakin' up with no poor young man if he knew it. Ido consider that money makes foiks terrible protnl nnd overbearin’, though your pa's a vvell me—man enough, Susy, and own cousin to ’Rsstus.’-'’ —■" .* .a*.. s ptflr’ n _u broadly \ Tom was open mouthed. “Own cousin 1” he gasped. “Why— why—and Susy visiting you? Why, I thought, Aunt Sally ” The hired girl began to laugh. “I knew you thought so,” she cried, gaily; “and it was so funny I couldn’t help letting it go that way, to see what you’d do. It was just like a ridiculous man to think, just because I had on Aunt Sally's apron and was helping her, that I was the ‘girl.’ Why, 1 had on my bracelets and all my rings that very cvcuing, and a gold pin in my hair, and you never noticed. Oh, dear! it's been too much fufl all along. And I didn’t do it for that purpose, you know, like girls in stories; but I’ve found out that you like me for myself, anyhow.” The doctor looked wilted, and Tom, with one arm around Susy's waist, turned to look at him, with a calm smile. “I should have married her anyhow,” he remarked, confidently; and Wilson knew that ho would have. —Km nut A. Opptr. The Fnn of Esquimaux Votings ton. The Esquimaux boys have little sledges and go out on sledging parties. One put ting a couple of sticks over his bond runs about playing that ho is a walrus and the other boys with their sledges go out to hunt him. In tho National Museum is a little kayak or Esquimaux boat, made by some father for his little son. It is about two feet long and has a little mnn, dressed in seal skin hood and coat, sitting in the centre with a paddle in his hand. At tached to the figure are strings. Pull one of the strings and the little man works his paddle with regular motion; pull nn dtber anfl he RtrtpS pMdliSg TSnd graVely turns his head from side to side, as if looking out for a seal. Another Esqui maux toy is a sort of a jnck-in-the box. It is a fox skin that can be flattened down ami then made to spring up into lifelike proportions by means of whalebone springs inside. A roguish toy used by some Peck’s bad boy among the Esqui maux and brought to the National Mu seum by a member of the Point Barrow expedition is a whalebone bean-shooter. It is fashioned with a small depression atone end, in which the rogue puts a pebble. Then he springs the whalebone liack and lets it fly. When he hits nny one, so said the learned professor, lie thrusts his hand, with the bean-shooter, into his pocket and looks in some other direction as unconcernedly as though he never heard of such a thing as a l.can shooter. In one end of tli ■ whalebone the boy had carved a row of little teeth, with which lie also did mischief. When some young Esquimaux buck put on his new deer skin coat and strutted about, tho youngster very likely gave him a little dig in tho back with tho whalebone, giving a twist to the bone so that it would pull out a tuft of hair and spoil the smooth surface of the coat. Wash ington Star. Wealthy Men’s Ready Money. “ It would be a pleasure to accommo date you, but the simple truth is I haven’t SSOO in cash in the world,” said a Buffalo Croesus to the financial man of the firm, who was seeking a purchaser fora gilt edged SI,BOO 0 per cent, real estate mortgage. Noticing an expression of incredulity upon the face of his caller, Croesus hastened to add: “It is a com mon mistake of those having small means to suppose that a millionnairc always has $50,000 or more at instant command. It is only on rare occasions that most of us sec $35,000 in currency at one time, and for two years I have never once had SIO,OOO of my own on hand. The men of great wealth are as a rule men of large business interests. We own blocks, el evators, ships, telegraph, tclophono and railroad stocks, suburban tracts and many other kinds of property, but none of these can be converted into cash at an hour’s notice. Then, again, most of our real estate is mortgaged, because we are able to use ready money in such a man ner as to realize more than C per cent. You would be astonished could you learn how large a load of debt some very wealthy Buffalo men are carrying. It is usually the second generation of wealth that buys mortgages, government bonds and other securities which yield a mod erate income and require no looking after.” —Buffalo Ex. rest. Potter’s Clay In Japan. It is even common now to dig the clay at someone of the 250 beds known, load it on junks and ship to favored manu facturing places, where it is ground, beaten, levigated, kneaded, molded and the biscuit fired and glazed. Ozawa ! has given us a picture of such a pottery, with one of a series of chamber furnaces, which are usually built up the slope of a hill, so that the heat may ascend, and and the highest temperaturo be in the uppermost oven. The raw material, alter being ground,stamped and washed, is further treated withuoe, trowel and basket-sieve. j The finest sort Is beaten with from I 3,000 to 0,000 strokes of a club, so ns t( | he fully tempered for the wheel, or foi : those articles which are built rather than j molded. When ready for the baking, j the Arst for tho biscuit or dry else, tin j incoud for the gla/o. a peculiar kind o I charcoal is used, and the Are la kind let | from a spark (truck with flint and steel • which every smoker carries at bis belt,-* I tirrihntr. BUDGET OF FUN. IIUMOROUH HK ETCH EH FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Lender. Not a Porrower—Flat tened a Trifle—The Reason Why-Overtienrit intho Alley, Etc., Etc. WMe (to unhappy husband) —“ I wouldn't worry, John; it doesn’t do nny good to borrow troublo.” Husband—“ Borrow troublo? Great Cnr-sar. my dear, 1 ain’t borrowing trou blo; I’ve got it to lend.”— Epoch. Flattened a Tilfle. Wife (to husband who has been to New York)—“ You murmured in your sleep last night, John, about socing an elephant in New l'ork.” Husband- “Er—um—did I, iny dear.” Wife—“ Y'es, and from the appearance of your pocket-book, which you left on I think the elephant g un p i * ** i " a Air> York The Reason Why Customer—“ls your milk really pure?” Milkman—“ Perfectly pure, ma’am.” C. (dubiously)—“lt may be, but—” M.—“ But what, ma’am !” o.—“ It looks mighty blue.” M.—“ That’s easily accounted for. The cows are feeling blue. They always feel blue at this time of tbo year, whon their supply of fresh grass is cutoff.”— Judge, Overheard in the Alley. First'Newsboy—“l tell you, Billy pounded him over the head awfully.” Second Newsboy—“ What Billy ?” First Newsboy—“ Tho policeman's billy.” Second Newsboy—“ You think yer smart, don’t yer f Jimmv (old yer that.” First Newsboy- “ Wluit Jimmy ?” Second Newsboy—“ The burglar’s jimmy.” First Newsboy—“ Pooh I Think yer smart, don’t yer ?”— Philadelphia Call. Two Opinions. Wifo (to husband who has just re turned from Europe)—" Did you see any body whom you knew on your way up town, dear?” • Husband—“l saw Brown. He snid I aus looking thinner than when I went sway.” Wife—“ Anybody else?” Husband—“ Yes; I met Robinson. lie thought from the amount of flesh I had gained that my trip must linvo done me good.”— Epoch. An International Promenade. Distinguished Foreigner— ,,s fhose men across the street seem to be attracting a great deal of attention.” American—“Yesjtheonoon tho right iaMr. O’Shaunncssy, tho great American pugilist." Distinguished Foreigner—“And the one on the left?" American—“ That is Mr. Mulhooly, tlic great English pugilist.” Distinguished Foreigner—“l sec. Who are the other two?" American—* 1 One of them is Mr. Mul enhoy, tho noted feather-weight Cana dian, and the other is Mr. McMoriarity, the Australian heavy-weight."— Puck. Cold Facts. Jones—“ What do you call a cold fact, Smith—that is to say, what kind of a fact is a cold fact?” Smith—“ Well, I should call a naked fact a cold fuel.” J. —“Just so. A naked fact would certainly havo some oxcuso for being a cold fact at this season.” S. —“ What I mean is that a statement of fact, pure and simple, without auy verbiage, comes under the denomination of a cold fact; such as, for instance, you owe me $5.” J.—“ I know I do.” B.—“l’m simply illustrating. That’s a cold fact.” J.—“lf I suy: ‘I can’t pay you just now,’ is that a cold fact to ot ” 8. (sadly)—“ I’m afraid it is.” J.—“ Well, let’s go and take some thing warm.” —Boston Courier. He Explained It. “Jones,” asked one traveling man of another, “did you ever study natural history any ?” “No, I never did.” “Then you don’t know anything about the hnbits of insects?" “Nothing. Why do you ask?” “Because I tnke an interest in those things, and there is one question that has been puzzling me for some time.” “What is that?” “How do the wasps and hornets and other insects keep from freezing to death in the winter?” “Why, that’s simple enough; you never handled a wasp did you?” “No, I never did.” “That accounts for your ignorance on the subject. If you ever had any ex perience with a wasp or a hornet you’d know right well that there was heat enough there to last two or three winters if need be.”— Merchant-Traveler. A Homety Wife. A good story is told, says the Washing ton Capital , of one of tho fair dames of the diplomatic corps who recently called at the residence of a Government official whose wife is noted for her domesticity. The husband himself chanced to be at home, and pending the descent of ms dame from the nursery went into the drawing-room to greet the lovely for eigner. The following conversation en sued : “Ah, monsieur, you have one very homely wife!” The host, whoso better half was really not distinguished for her beauty of face, which, however, was more thau compen sated for by a superb figure, a graceful csrrisgo and a charming amiability, stammered in reply: “Ah, madamo! why, really—do you know—l—” “Yes,” Innocently explained hisvisitor in lu-r pretty, broken English; “yes, she very homely. In fact, she stay st homo all the lime." 11 fence “ When I am gone, oh! think of me,” walled a sernau< r over and over again under the window of a Calumet avenue house ths other plgbt. A ftar he had said SI.OO Per Asisa, fa UdMA it for the fifteenth lime • fat and furious red face appeared at Ihe upper window, and a innsi uline voice hissed out: “Yes'm, young mpn, I will remrmbet sou, and you'll remember me for a long time after you’re gone, if you don’t put out in leas’n three seconds! I’ve got an old horse pistol up here with a pound and a half of cold lead in it that I’ll give you as a memento of mo if you don’t stop tootin’ and bawlin’ under this window at an hour when decent foiks arc abed. Now you go home!” The sweet song died away into silence, the 1 1 ps of the sweet singer were and umh and ho sighed heavily ns lie slung his guitar over his shoulder and ambled off into the cold world with a suspicious policeman fo lowing in his wake.— Detroit Free Pre->e. Poor Man. A burglar got into the house of a frail looking, sad eyed litlle widow in Tucson the other night. Not finding any valua bles down stairs ho stealthily ascended to the second floor nnd entered the room where the sleeping ami unsuspecting woman lay with a sm le that toll of ”‘‘i^i,fe a .s!iL 0U > lcr n P\, . „ , trader said g.tt fly: "* 4l ~ m “ Here, wake up; now just you keep cool; no use yel ing; I know ns well you do that you’re alone in the house) just hand over the keys to—here, ston that! Ist go! help! murder! help! help? O-o-o-hl O-h-h-h!” ■When the police finally got there they found the burglar done up with a clothes line ns neatly as a grocer dees up tea pounds of sugar, lie was just opening his eyes in the “coming to” process; when they rested oa the little Widow they took on a beseeching look as he shivered and gasped out: “ Don’t leave me alone with her again, i gentlemen; please don’t. I’ve killed | Rocky Mountain lions nnd she bears ! with young cubs, and tackled two hyenas at a time, hut this is my first experience j with a lone Arizony widder. Can’t you ] loosen theso ropes a little and see how 1 many of my ribs is broke, nnd roll mo j over eo's I can keep from swallowing tho teeth Bhe's knocked out; and I'd like a | poultice on my eye soon as possible, and i I need sewing up lu a dozen places. I’m I feord I’ll never pull through this, gentle -1 men.”— Detroit Free Prate. The “Highbinders” of San Francisco. Writing from San Francisco about Chinese criminals, a correspondent says: Among the hatchet-men will be found tho desperate criminals who have fled from Canton or Hong Kong to escape imprisonment or decapitation, and who live hero by organized robbery and tribute. How potent is the system may be judged from the fact that several Chi nese interpreters in the Federal and Criminal Courts in this city have resigned lucrative positions because they declared that if they remained death would be the result. Their ouly offence had been the honest translation of evidence which served to convict some highbinders. In one case an interpreter waited until he had been shot at twice before he con cluded to give up his oii'ce. The judge offered him a police body guard, but he sadly confessed that no protection would save him from tho bullets of his enemy. The favorite weapons of the highbind er are the pistol and the knife. Nearly every Chinese servant who goes down to Chinatown at n’ght, after his day’s work is over, to gambling nt tan or dominoes is “heeled” with a pistol, while most of tho highbinders are veritable walking arse nals. They select revolvers of heavy calibre, and many of them are no mean sho:s, nlthough, as a rule, many shots are fired in their melees in proportion to the execution done. The two-edged knife, worn in a sheath, is the weapon best adapted for a close encounter, and many of these murderous weapons aro innocently concenlcd in a sheath which looks like a closed fan. Others are worn in a leather sheath with brass mountings. A police officer and a liquor seller in Chinatown have been killed with this weapon within three yea: s. One blow in each cose was sufficient, for the terrible weapon with its razor-like edge penetrat ed the heart and evidently caused instant death. In both cases tho murder was | done by unknown highbinders who cs -1 caiicd. The Chinese also use a large i sword and a small iron bar covered with j flannel or leather, when they anticipate ' a hand-to-hand encounter. They are partial to coats of mail, usually made of qtii lted cloth, with layers of paper be tween, which will turn an ordinary bul let or knife blow. One highbinder had a coat made of fine steel bands set in leather, but when he came to don his armor he found it so heavy that he could not run. Hence he was forced to discard what cost him several hundred dollars, and the armor was afterward captured in a police raid. The property clerk’s room at police neadquarters in this city is full of specimens of curious Chinese weapons as well as opium layouts and other ap paratus of vice. Maternal Magnetism. Why is a mother’s hand on the head of a sick child so soothing? Because her love supplies electricity, which is a cura tive force and a tonic. Animal elec tricity is an agency not so well under stood as it should be by women, though they use it continually. It is erroneous ly confounded with the massage treat ment, which is nothing more or less than merely rubbing the entire body. Animal electricity is imparted by careful manipu lation of the muscles, performed by gently stretching them with both hands. This produces an elasticity of action which causes them to rise, thereby in creasing their power to act. Women whose fingers are supple and yet strong can best impart electricity to their chil dren. The treatment should be applied mainly with the fingers. When the nerves are prostrated they can be in vigorated in the same way. They ahould be gently pressed in one direction and another, which tends to increase their vitality. The general circulation can be it creased by lightly moving the hands over the surface of blood vessels, not rubbing them briskly, but using enough force to quicken the circulation. Wo men can become thorough animal elec- I trlcians if they will but devote them- I selves to a careful study of auatomy. i The world ie full of half-invalid women, i who should he restored to health by this I natural method. Drugs wilt not help them, but animal elm-trieily applied ; under the right condition will.-Fa | mmft Argotg, * NO. 50.