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VOLUME XI. NUMBER 40.
Out of 700 specimens of French per¬
fumery examined at tho Paris Chemical
Laboratory, jurious 207 were condemned ns in¬
to health. Of 3,391 specimens
of wine submitted to analysis, only 357
were pronounced good.
A New Yobk lumber dealer recently
imported, from the Pyrenes mountains,
a walnut log which is twelve feet long
and nine feet in diame'er and weighs 22,
000 pounds. It is estimated to be worth
i 2,000 as it lies, and when it is sawed
into veneering it will yield sixty-six thou¬
sand feet which will be worth $5,000.
Theme are custom-houses which pay
and others that do not. To the later
class belong the following, tabulated
from a recent official report for the fiscal
year ending June 30: Atlanta, Ga., col¬
lections, $21; expenditures, §1,068; St.
Augustine, Fla., collections, $133; ex¬
penditures, $2,228; York, Me., collec¬
tions, $34; expenditures, $312.
The largest cattle ranehe ill the world
is said to be that of Charles Goodnight,
at the head of Bed Eiver, Texas. He
began buying land four years ago, secu¬
ring 270,000 acres at thirty-five cents an
acre. In the meantime the price lias
advanced from $1 to $2 p°r acre, but he
is still buying anil controls 700,000 acres.
To enclose his landed possessions 250
miles of fence is required, On the
range ho has 40,000 cattle.
The official statement of the cotton
crop of the United States for tho year en
m»g August , , 31, ... 1883, ,,,,,,, issued . . l.y , the na
tional cotton exchange, shows a total
crop of 6,949,756 bales, including re
ceipts at the shipping ports 5,009,612;
and , shipments . . . , by rail ,, routes overland , , to ,
northern s; inners directfrom producers, |
641,801 Tho report shows that the
southern mills consumed 313,373 bales.
increase iu the total crop, compared
the previous year, was 1,493,708.
The takings of the United Slate; spin¬
ners for the year were 2,073,090 hales,
an increase of 103,561.
A tabulated statement of the receipts
anil expenses of the average cost of col¬
lecting out! dollar of revenue in all of the
custom districts of the United States for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, has
been prepared at the treasury ilppajj
From this statement it appears
$216,780,869 were collected at a cost
$6,422,127. The cost of collecting one
ranges in the different districts
one cent to eight mills in New
to fifty and eighty-four cents in
the average cost in ail of the
being two cents, nine mills and
fraction. In twenty-nine out of the
hundred and thirty districts ihecost
collecting one dollar was more than a
and in thirty of them it was less
ten cents.
A Typical Mexican City.
A letter from Chihuahua, Mexico, save:
I arrived a few days ago, and am now in
the engineering department of the Mexi
Centra] Bailroad, draughting, equal at
a month in American money,
$172:50 in Mexican silver and'$186.30
Mexican paper. We are to receive
pay in Mexican silver dollars, so you
may think of me, about the middle of
~It eoing for my pay with a wheelbar
is hard for us to keep money
because everything is high and (hoy ask
than they expect to recite ; and
because one has a feeling squandering, that money
worthless and will bear
for American money is from
1 Mo 2 per cent. It pays to get Mexican
in the States at seventy-five cents they
bring them back home, w here
worth eighty-five cents. I have just
five dollars in Mexican paper for a
poor washbowl and pitcher of earthen
and eighteen dollars for a single
mattress Board is thirty dollars
mouth and very poor. Rooms are
bard to find. Everything is paid
form Mexican paper unless otherwise
There is n.o place to spend an evening band
sitting on the plaza, Tho
twice a week and everybody comes and
The city is well governed
It is very warm daytimes, lmt
nights. All criminals arrested, ex
those executed, are put to work
the streets under an armed
guard. The dirt is gathered into small
piles and a man with a wooden chopping
trav and a piece of board, gathers it and
carries it off in a tip cart drawn by a mule,
The country about the city is desolate
and barren in the extreme, and very lit
tie is raised except vegetables and fruit.
The city was built from the proceeds
a silver mine near here, hut as the
mine has been closed for years, I do not
see what supports the inhabitants now.
Boston capital is opening the mine again,
The railroad is expected to be finished
to the City distance of Mexico in a little over a
year, thousand a miles. of The eight Mexican hundred postal or a
is poor. The mail is dumped
into a box and everybody helps himself.
An opera has been in progress here and
was supposed to be fine, but it was not
equal to a variety show in the States.
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1’RorESsoB Huxley holds that an acre
of good fishing ground will yield more best
food in a week thau an acre of the
land will produce in a year. Huxley
evidentlv never tried catching fish him
seif. If be had he would know that out
ush to each square mile of water is about
the average nowadays.
A Bad Wat.—A Boston rascal got a
living for a while by hanging around the
I'ost Office, pretending to lie a clerk
and inducing silly people to give him ti.i
money they wanted to send in registered
letters. He told them that “under a ucw
jnife” they would get CO
general news.
The total voting population of Virgin
ia is estimated at 234,000. Of this'num-
128,000 are colored voters.
The Mississippi river has 16,571 miles
navigable to steamboats, and 20,221
miles navigable to barges.
The Texas pecan crop promises to be
a very heavy one. The burdened trees
t are bending under Mho weight of half
grown nuts.
A National hank has just been or¬
ganized at Anniston, Alabama, with a
capital of $100,000, D. D. Farkor was
elected president.
It is supposed that the building of
The Lady Eiisly Mining and 'Manufac¬
turing Company will bo located at Rns
selville Ala.
The Appoka (Fla.) canal is being made
twenty three feet wide and seven feet
deep. It is thought it will havo to be
further enlarged to seventy-five feet in
width.
The dried fruit trade of States* ille, N.
O., reaches annually into hundreds of
thousands of pounds, and it was never
a ivprevious year anything likens heavy
-s this.
Memhpis Avalanche: Southern far¬
mers will have more cash in the hank
this year than ever before, even if the
cotton crop be short, because they owe
less to the merchant and have raised
more food ibis year thnn|any previous
year.
Wilcox county, Ala., has a baby-boy
now 14 months old, who weighs 08
pounds. The parents have been offered
S3,000 and expellees for the privilege of
of exhibiting the child for the benefit of
the medical fraternity. They have re¬
fused.
The Eufalla (Ala.) mills are putting
In a new set of machineiry for making
patent process flour. When completed
the milis will have a capacity of 400 bar¬
rels per day, and will he the best appoint¬
ed in the country,
The Water Valley, Miss., Central is
llot satisfied with the pistol assessment.
It says: “The assessors in this state can
only gather iu their rolls a total of 227
pistols. We will venture ilie assertion
that about 10,000 lies have been told the
assessors about this pistol question.”
A special from Ac worth Ga., says:
Mr. O. P. McBoberts lias discovered
and is now opening a rich silver mire.
His show so far is the best thing we
we have ever seen in the line. He has
got his shaft open and molten Glows it¬
self in a pure state ns it does near the
surface. Acworth will have a genuine
boom,
The two cotton mills in Natches have
expended in (hat i ity in the past twelve
months over $300,000 for wages and ma¬
terial. They [ have consumed nearly
70,000 bales of cotton ond turnon ont 6,-
650,000 yards of cotton goods and cloth.
During the year Natches received 46,200
bales of cotton, 14,5t'5 more than any
previous y ear,
The trustees cf a colored church at
Winston, N. C., mortgaged tho edifice
recently to secure $1,200 with which to
have an excursion to Columbia, Half
ihe amount required was deposited at
Winston to the credit of the Richmond
and Danville Bailroad. A special train
was sent to Winston to draw the money
and take the congregation, hut it stcam
back to Bicbmond when it was learned
that the trustees could raise no more
cash.
At a recent till men's gathering at
Lewisburg, Tenn., 164 members were
iresent, the oldest being 104 years old
There were 114 between the ages of six¬
ty and seventy; 42 between seventy and
eighty; 5 between eighty and ninety* 2
between ninety and one hundred: over
100 one. Of this number 102 were born
in Tennessee, forty in North Carolina,
eight in Virginia, five in South Carolina,
three in Kentucky, one in Maryland, one
i Comal v, 11 e in Irch r.il ai:il fhicc in
Georgia.
Kscxvjiie Tribune: Yesterday Mr
Southy Nelson a youth of 113 years c f
age came to Knoxville “to have his pic¬
ture took, ” Mr. Nelson lives about five
miWfrom the city, though he seldom
comes to town, He was accompanied
by his wife, a grandson, and a great
grandson. The latter is just 100
years younger thau his great grand¬
father.
At Edward, Miss., two negroes nam¬
ed James King and George Gaddis were
arrested [charged with having robbed
the grave of Mrs. Hattie Howell. They
confessed their guilt, informing the offi¬
cer that they stole the body for the pur
pose of securing the bones of one arm
which they used in carrying on their
profession as conjurers, • One was hung
and the other shot in his attempt to es¬
cape.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The New York Times is endeavoring
to boycott the nickel three cent jiece,
which is so easily mistaken for the silver
dime. It came into existence with three
cent postage, and many people believe
tbsl it sbouM be j-etwed With the SAIL
Hamilton ' >1 » M
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10, 1883.
THE BOY'S COMPLAINT.
Here are questions in physics and grammar
That would puzzle you somewh. t, I know.
Can you ted what is meant by inertia?
Can you clearly define rain and snow?
Do you know there’s a valve in the bellows ?
Can you tell why your clock L too dow V
Why Perhaps the pendulum needs looking after?
it is swinging too low.
“They was going up bad town in the evening,”
Do you call that grammar. I s-y?
I’m Mire Mary Jones and her mother
Say worse thing3 than that every day.
Cutls’poso “wa«”*hould be in the p’ural,
To agree with its old subject “they,”
According to rule—my ! I’ve lost it,
There's two per cent, gone right away.
And,' now, only look at tho paiving,
It. will surely take in every rule:
And, down at the end, more false syntax,
With authorities given “in full”
Arithmetic, my! how'I hate it,
I’m stupid at that in the class,
So how, in the name of creation,
Can I ho expected to pass ?
Here’s a ten-acre lot to lie fenced in,
Here is duty to find on some tea;
Here’s a problem in old allegation,
And a monstrous square-root one I seo.
Clan yon tell who defeated the Indians?
Do you know who was killed in a duel ?
Do you know what the first ta x was raised on '
And how some just thought it most cruel!’
Perhaps I may pass on an average,
If three-fourths are right I’ll get through;
But my teacher calls such things shabby,
Bo what is a poor lio.v to do ?
A win If. ft-ruui'MEn
Capturing a Still.
The other night, Major Griddlewood,
who long ago won his spurs as an effi¬
cient revenue officer, related tho follow¬
ing story: time hail deal
At one we a great of
trouble with illicit distillers in Arkansaw.
There was one neighborhood ^possible especially
whew it seem0fl to discover
the outlaws. This community Officer was away
up on White river. after officer
had been sent up, and quite a number of
them are thero J yet, ’ although the depart
ment cM not rec civ0 notification that
they intended to leave the service. One
day the news came in that one of our
best men had just been killed at Drip¬
ping Springs, by which namo tho dan¬
gerous neighborhood marshal, was known. said: I
was sent for by the who
“Major, you have hod considerable
success in hunting for distillers. Now
wo want you to find those fellows and
bring them to justice. been As you know,
none of our men have able to find
them and —”
‘ ‘They’ve been found a trifle too often,’
I suggested. fact,” marshal
“That’s a the ngreod,
"hut not by the right man. soldiers Sow I
want you to take ns ninny as yon
want, go t^Tthe place and break up the
bftsiness.”
I reflected for a moment and replied:
“I think that onr mistako has been in
taking too many men. It is nlmost im¬
possible for a pnrty of men to find a wild
cat distillery. Their approach is soon
heralded ancl disaster is cei tain to follow.
I will go alone and discover the nest.
Then I can return and capture the entire
outfit. ”
“Bather hazardous,” the his marshal said,
thoughtfully scratching head.
“Not so dangerous as the course hith¬
erto adopted. ” judgment.”
“All right; use your own
The next day I started on my perilous
expedition. I went horse-back, and my
progress was very stow. When at last I
reached tho place, I found a beautiful,
rich country, with great hills nnd little
valleys luxuriantly carpeted with grass.
f could see no signs ot lawlessness, but
011 bie other hand 1 was kindly floated,
I stopped at the house of a man named
Anderson, a well-to-do fellow, with some
and a bright-eyed devoted her daughter, lather,
» ho seemed to lie to
^ 8a-w once that Anderson was an
honest man, and when I learned that hi
been in the lejma army I felt sc¬
under his roof. Still I did not care
'° llD1 my real Harness, mt in
to a question, stated that I was
for land in a i imih y sor o
way, having just been isc m g >
th e regular army and especially desiring
from that dangerous activity w Inch
army officers meurred
Well, sir, you ar ^
and I hope yo I ^
perfection, My daugb will e , cheerfully w i a row a
to con
to your enjoyme •
/ .
r rg^crnment° b offii^m have been
by^ illicit distillers in . ,, this . neigh- ,
“Yes,” he replied; “shamefully mnr
Well, I won’t say murdered, foi
the distillers no doubt considered it sol
Up in the lulls, here, somc
where, there is a large flunk, distillery, before but it
will boa long time, I it
government breaks it up. It is amis
impossible to conduct a par j oj men
through the hills, and it w aimos c
tain death, for tne distillers cau sec
almost every turn. My advice won 11
to watch for the whisky . that s sent away
capture the men handling it and comp
hem to show the exact location of tin
distillery. ”
Several days passed and still J inao- ,
no progress. I was not regarded in that
light of suspicion which I thought would the
characterize my appearance among
people, and I was soon convinced that
the farmers arounrl were not in sympa
thv with the distillers. Finally I told
Anderson my business, do
“Well,” he said, “if I can any
thing for you I’ll do it cheerfully, hut
let. Watch me advise the river, yon not that to go Is in the to only the lnlls.^ way
as
rhey can possibly ship the stuff. I am
going up the river to-day will after some s
walnnt lumber, and if you accom
pany me we may make a discovery. As
vou ' have no doubt noticed, I make a
rreat many coffins. Not for government
fficiuls,” he Hided with a smile, “toil
mi supplying cheap coffins for epidemic, the N<; w
market. During an
is aImost impossible to get coffins to
. | e cit {agt enon „h and at such times
£y f Come
; empl rpnte a numlK-r of men.
md I'll show you my place of business. '
The shop stood near the river bank,
-toveral workmen were employed m
lressing walnut lumber. Coffins were
-stacked up all around, and a flat-boat
!,cing load' d with the deathly furm
une 1 did ant go up the river with
AtiertOE, ba» took a bo*t r«i* with tut
daughter. She was not devoid of charms,
and she chatted gaily as this she rowed. place," she
“I want pa to leave
said. “Mother pined away and died
from sheer loneliness, and if I wero not
so light-hearted, I think I should go thal
way too.”
“Do you ever see any of the illicit dis¬
tillers?” I asked.
“I expect I see them, but I don’t
know them, of course. They but are terri¬
ble when they get mad, as long as
they are not disturbed you wouldn't
know that they wotp [a the neighbor¬
hood. When we ru yvt>d here they re¬
garded pa with lingering suspicion, but
finally, satisfied that he was in no way
connected with the government, they
dismissed their apprehensions and have
ever since treated him with the utmost
courtesy. Pa is making money out of
the coffin business, hut it is suoh a grim
trade that I cannot half enjoy any finan¬
cial benefit that we derive from it. Say,
you’re hunting for the wild cats, aint
you ?”
“Hush, don’l talk so loud.”
aint “Nobody can hear us, but you are,
you?”
“Suppose I wore, do you think I
would tell any one ?”
“I heard you tell father, but it’s all
right. I won’t Ray anything about it.
I haven’t any friends among the wild
cats, and for iny part l wouldn’t care if
they wero all in prison." days
“I remained several longer, and
then decided to return to tho city, report
unfavorably, take adopt the enterprise. other measures, and
again up Anderson
advised me to sell tho horse and go down
with n flat boat load of coffins. I did
not like the idea, but reflecting that it
would be safer, I disposed the of my horse,
and was soon ready for affectionate voyage. fare¬
I bade my friends an
well, and stood on a coffin big enough
for the Cardiff giant, and waved my
handkerchief at Sophia Anderson ns the
boat rounded the bend, We had started
early, and by the time the shadows be¬
gan to lengthen, we wefe a long distance
from Dripping Spriu/f. It seemed to
me that tho men on V e boat watched
me curiously, for cvefy time I walked
around it appeared thrit one of them fol¬
lowed me. My suspicions nu<j increased the as
evening came on when I saw
men engaged in a whispered conversa¬
tion, I was convinced that violence was
meditated. Happouirt? to notice a cof
tin on which several fibers wero piled,
l saw something looked dripping and jaw from it. leveled Just,
then I up a gun
it, me. In another instant a bullet
whizzed close to my h od, so close tlmt
I fell backward into ijio water. I did
not lose my presen mind and kept
myself under watoi■»
When I arose UjJwJa and surface, sinking several again
other shots were firen, reached
1 remained under water until I
the shore, which fortunately was not fat
away, when I arose under a thick clump
of willows. Through the gathering dnrk
ness I could dimly see the men, and
could hear the sploshing of an oar wliicl,
l knew was manipulated to keep the
boat from floating down. right,” said of
“I reckin’ he’s all ono
the men.
“I know he is,” a gruff voice replied, an’
“fer I drawed a bead on lria bend, a
man what kin hit a baffer dollar sixty
yards aint no slouch of a shooter, lemme
tell yer. Bet lie’s got a bullet through
his brain, ef he’s got any brain.’
“I’d rnther bet on the bullet than the
brain,” the first speaker rejoined. these
“We’ve got to bo certain about
things,” said a man who seemed to be in
authority. “You know wlmt Anderson’s
orders is”. Git a boat tbar, Jack, an’ you Go
an’ Tom paddle out tliar awhile.
out tliar to them willows.”
Tho boat was lowered and the splash¬
ing of the oars came nearer slid nearer.
My heart heat violently. Great God,
the moon came out anil shone full on my
face. I eased myself down until only
tho tiji of my nose was above the surface.
“Thank heaven,” I breathed as a cloud
obscured tho moon just as the boat
finished tho willows. They struck under
with their oars, actually struck me once,
anil just oh I was about to seize the boat
and tako my chances of turning it over
and escaping, one of them said;
"He’s all right, I tell you. Think I
can’t hit a man’s head? Shove her off,”
and”I breathed a prayer as tho dip of the
oars grew faintor.
I remained in this uncomfortable posi¬
tion about a half hour longer, then
drew myself out and was soon traveling
through the woods. After a terrible
journey of hunger ard fatigue I reache<
Little Rock and made my report. again
Several days afteiward I was
en route for Dripping Spring, this time
with a strong posse of men. Touching
White river near the place xihcre I had
fallen overboard, we dismounted to rest.
We had iiotlieeri there very long until we
saw the coffin boat returning. I secreted
myself and ordered my men to compel
the boat to land and to bring the men to
'>nr resting place, instructing them as to
a form of interrogation. readily complied
When hailed they bank. They did
and approached like the much attention, tor
not seem to so with
: hey did not move up the bank any
great degree know,” of alacrity. said of my men,
“Do vou one
• ■ What became of a United States official
na med Griddlewood, who came up here
aimetimeago?” the captain . of the
"No sir," replied heard that he bad
coffin boat, “lmt I
bought a piece o’ land over the moun¬
tains an’ has opened a farm.’’
“Did you ever meet him ?
“Believe I did meet him once at Mr.
Anderson’s house. Te«ed to me like
In- was sorter in love with the Anderson
< ‘Don't suppose that I could find 1. im,
5 him if wnster go over
“Mout find yon
the hills-” I remarked, • i
“That’s unnecessary, anil
stepping fronting from behind a tree con
the villains. They threw up
their hands and prayed that their lives
might be spared. We did not intend to
trive them the least chance of escape and
,ocnrelv pinioning their hands, we took
them down to the boat, where, after
gaining all possible information, I left
them under a strong guard We were
not long in gaining the neighborhood of
Anderson’s residence. It was a late h i d.
at night, and we surrounded the 1,ous
without Harm mg t instructed
ono of my officers to call Anderson, and
again I secreted myself.
"Halloa!”
“All right,” came from within the
peared. house, and pretty soon Anderson ap¬
“Mr. Anderson, I believe,” said the
oflioer.
“Yes, sir; won’t you come in?”
“No, hardly got the time. I’ve come
to this neighborhood in search of Major
Griddle wood. Are you acquainted with
him?”
“Oh, yes, should say 1 am, for ho and
my daughter are to ho married soon.
I'll si row her to you. nore, Soph,” and
tho girl came out. “Here is a gentle¬
man who is looking for your intended
husband.”
“Good evening, sir. Looking for the
major, eh? How I wish I could seo
him.”
“Here I am,” I said, emerging from
my hiding place and confronting my
“intended” and her father. Anderson
actually fell oil tho ground siul his
daughter uttered a shriek that made the
woods ring. They were soon mudo
prisoners and taken to the boat. Next
day the distillery was easily found and
destroyed. The coffins were found to
Vie lined with tin, and although ominous
looking casks, were not bad as vessels
of shipment.
Tho ] iris oners wero tried and punished
to the full extent of the law, and eve)
sinco then, tho Dripping Spring neigh¬
borhood has been ana ol -VT T “ r
dcni.y and law-abiding communities in
the State.
SFEAK GENTLY TO EACH OTHER.
A filory (or l hr Uhlblren.
“Please to help me a minute, sister,’
said little Frank.
“Oh, don’t disturb me,” I said; “I’m
reading.” hold this stick, won’t
“But just through ?” yon, said
while I drive this pin
Frank.
"I can’t now, I want to finish this
story,” said I, emphatically; with and my lit¬
tle brother turned away a disap¬
pointed look iu search of some ono else
to assist him,
Frank was a bright hoy of ten yearn,
and my only brother. Ho had been vis¬
iting a young friend, and had seen a
windmill, and as soon as ho came home
iiis energies wero all employed iu making
a small one; for he was always trying all to
make tops, weeelbarrows, kites, and
Herts of things, such patiently as laiys all the delight morning ill.
He had worked
with saw "'”1 knife, and now it only
needed putting together to oomplate ii;
and his only sister iiad refused to assist
trim, and ho had gone away with liis
young heart saddened.
I thought of all this immediately after
ho left me, anil my book gave mo no
pleasure. It was not intentional un¬
kindness, only thoughtlessness, and generally for I
loved my brother, refused was help
kind to him; still, I had to
him. I would havo gone after him, and
afforded the assistance, but I know he
had found somo ona else. But I had
neglected an opportunity of gladdening
a childish heart.
In half an hoar Frank came bounding
into the house, exclaiming: “Come,
Mary, I’ve got it up. Just see how it
goes 1” His tones wero joyous, and I I
saw lie had forgotten my unusual petulance, kindn so
determined to atone by es».
£ went with him, and sure enough on
tho roof of the out house was fastened
a miniature windmill, and tho arms
were whirling around praised fast the enough windmill to
please any hoy. I
and my little brother's entirely ingenuity, forgetful and
he seemed happy, and
of my unkindness, anil I resolved, ns 1
hail many times before, to be always
loving and days gentlo. passed by, and the shadow
A few
of a great sorrow darkened our dwelling.
The joyous laugh and noisy in glee darkened were
hushed, and our boy lay around a him.
room with anxious faces
his cheeks flushed, and his eyes ummt
urally bright. Sometimes his temples
would moisten and his muscles relax,
and then hope would como into our
hearts, and our eyes would fill with
thankful tears. It was in one of those
deceitful calms in his disease that lie
hoard the noise of his little wheel, and
ooul • “X lin nr my windmill.”
“Docb It raobn ,vpur headache?” I
asked. “Shall we take it aown c
“Oh, no,” he replied, “it seems as it
I were out of doors, and it makes o
feel better.” He mused a moment, and
then added: “Don’t yon remember,
Mary, that I wanted you to help me fin¬
ish it, and yon were reading, anil told
me yon could not? But it didn't make
difference, for heljied me. ”
any mamma
Oh, how sadly thoso words fell upon
my earl—and what hitter memories
they awakened ! How I repented as I
kissed little Frank’s forehead that I had
ever spoken unkindly to him 1 Hours of
sorrow went by, aad wo watched his
couch, hope growing fainter and fainter,
and anguish deeper, until one week
from the morningon which bespoke of his
childish sports, we had closed the eyes
once so sparkling, and folded his hands
over his pulseless heart. He desolate, sleeps
now iu the ((rave, and homo ia
but the little windmill, the work of hte
busy hands, is still whirling in the
breeze, just where he placed it, upon the
roof of the old woodshed; and every I
time I see the tiny arms revolving re¬
member the lost little Frank—and I re
memlier also the thoughtless, unkind
words! , be kind , to
Brothers and sisters, considerate, one and
another. Be gentle,
loving.
Voo Earnest. —A feature of the Santa
la celebration was to have been a sham
battle, intended to represent the cap¬
ture of an Indian pueblo by the Span¬
iards. The Indians climlied to the top
of one of the buildings, brandishing their
!k>ws and arrows, and emitted shrill, ear¬
piercing shrieks. The bold Spaniards
paused There was a hitch. The orig¬
inal plan was for the cavaliem to pretend Indians
to assault the pueblo, and the
were to let fly » shower of blunt arrows
nto the ground at their feet. But it oc
•in-red to the knights that arrows might
/o astray, and they declined to take the
UDk,
THE COUNTY CLERK GOT MAI).
rlie True tftory of nn Unlorlnnnfe Htiptiirv
iu a Pike County Fire Pi'piirimenl.
Ed. Mott tells this funny story hi the
New York Sun :—The County Olerk Milford ban
resigned as a member of the
Firo Department, of which he, together
witli a fiity*foot hook anil ladder truck
and tho ex-Distriet Attorney, hod long
been an important appurtenance. He
was led to sever his connection with the
department pieoo of deception by what lie alleges was a
oil the part of the ex
Distriot Attorney, by which deception
his usefulness and two panels of bonrd
anil fonco bis were dignity simultaneously eitizon, impaired,
as a ft man, and
ft grandfothor greatly injured.
According to the accepted account of
the affair, it seems that at a session ot
the boys at tho Crissman House the
athletic exercise came up for discussion,
and much difference of opinion wns found
to exsist ns to tho individual merits of
certain pedestrians. This discussion
grew warm, and tho cx-District Attorney
was when finally prompted to romnrk that
it came right down to powers of
endurance ns a pedestrian, ho felt that
ho himself would never he called upon
to take a back seat for any one, where¬
upon the County-Clerk, who had failed
to agree with tho cx-District Attorney
on lated any point during the evening, ejacu¬
rather contemptuously -iwon norm that i imngs .some
*__
with their mouths in ten minutes than
they could perform with their hands and
feet in six months. This was taken by
tho ox-District Attorney as a direct per¬
sonal allusion, and ho obtained the
floor to remark that if somo people
whom he might mention would mix
more water with what they drank they
would probably bo better qualified for
steady pedestrian exeicicos themselves.
Tho County Clerk replied with some
heat that, water or no water, lie would
Viet $5 with tho ex-Distriet Attorney, if
the latter thought he could borrow the
money to put up, that he (the County
Clerk) would walk the shoes off of him
(tho ox-District Attorney) the best day
ho ever saw, and do it easy, Tho ex
Distriet- Attorney said that was all right,
and if the County Clerk wanted to get
mad ho could get- mad and he blamed to
him; and os for money, he could show
jiiHt ns much ns any one in the crowd.
The County Clerk snul if that was the
case it might not bo a bod idoo for the
ex-District Attorney to show all a little, as
they had been hadn’t sitting there tho even
iug, and he seemed to ho very
anxious to sling much nronnd. It in not
known what tho ox-District Attorney in¬
tended to reply, or what, the result of
been, this bandying just of then pleasantries Jake Schorr, might have the
for
stage driver, who was returning from a
late train ot Port with Jervis, camo dashing
down tho road, his team and crying
"Fire!" “Firo I" at tho top of his lungs.
Then there boys. was a Tho hurrying hook and to and ladder fro
among the
ham. truck was The housed County iu the Cleark Crissnmn and tho House
ex
Distriet Attorney rushed for it at once.
Tho former seized hold of it at tho renr,
while the latter handled tho tongue.
The night was very dork. Tne truck
was quickly taken out, and tho County
Clerk shouted:
“Now let her go boys | I’ll push bo
bebind and you handle tho tongue.”
Thou ho added to himself: “I’ll sec how
much pedestrianism there Is in that Dis¬
trict Attorney, now, yon bet. He’s got
to bo a good one if I don’t wind him be¬
fore this run Is over.”
Away they went. The Are was up¬
town, three-quarters of a mile away.
Before they hod gone half a block the
County Clerk was clearing ten feet of
ground “SweetChristma8l"thoughthe, at every step. "what
an infernal gait them boys have struck.
If they keep that up the District At¬
torney’ll he d iad before he gets there,
and III Viet on it.”
By this time tho County Clerk’s foot
barely nod time to touch the ground at
all. His hat was gone, and ho swung
along behind tho truck like a kite tail in
tho wind.
“If he ain’t a runner, I’m Mowed f”
he said, “If they don’t get to that fire
blame soon, or if he don’t fall dead, I’m
a goner.” still greater burst of speed the
A on
part of the truck lifted the County Clerk
off Iris feet, and he struck out behind the
machine as straight as a coupling pole.
An instant lie hung poised. Then he
'—t his grip. He shut Iris eyes and
went right fifty on. feet. no Then ...----- he - met a
.pace for panels of it
hoard fence. He took two
with him as he went through it. As he
rested in the middle of a five-acre potato
patch he said; good
“Well I’ve heard of running,
but if that don’t rather knock the spots
off of anything ever done, I'm a threc
U 'hto“when County Clerk learned
the truck
that ho had Imen following that
with Jake Schorr’s horses hitched to the
tongue and toking it over the ground at
twenty miles an hour, an<l that the ex
District Attorney had civilly ridden on
it every step of the way to the fire, he
felt hurt. He said that if they wanted
to run a Fire Department on sneh prin¬
ciples they could, but bb for him, no.
And he resigned.
Too Fast.
About the most amnsing yonng whose man
at Saratoga is said to be the one
tastes have mn ahead of the money al
lowance which his father accords him.
He could drive one horse without ex
truvageuce, but his desires extend to a
pair- one good room would lodge him
comfortably, hut ho likes to. lounge in
two . ftn ,i so he goes, making himself
miserable when ho might bo happy,
Why does this bring him misery? Be
r-anse he could pay his bills if he didn’t
make a fool of himself; but as it is, credi
tors hound him at every turn. He came
r. ith his hair cut very short, so the
.tory goes, and bleached from its natural
red to a light blonde. This had been
done for improvement, and so it was
rudely unjust for a familiar acquaintance
cry out to
Md chap. They'll know you m a mm
$1. 00 A YEAR.
YOUNG MAN, BRACE UP.
A WESTERN EDITOR'S ADVICE TO
HIS RIDS.
The Vanns Man Who Sit* Down In Idle.
Be **, and tVbat Become* of film.
(From the Milwaukee Son.]
A lazy man is too eontemptiblo to live,
and has no rights his fellow men are
bound to respect. Young man, last, yon may that
as well understand, first as in
yon have got to work for all yon get
this world. You may not always this get
what you earn, as there nro men in
world too meau and contemptible to give
to others what really belongs to them,
but if you would keep ont of the poor
house, and have a competency in your
old age, you will have to work for it,
To bo sure thero is a great difference in
men. Somo are endowed with greater
intellectual powers than others, while
some are greater physically. Some men
are horn low down in the scale of intel
leottialism, lint mark yon the provided, physical
of suoh a man. There is a way
however, for overy man to better him¬
self. You won’t find it in the gin mill,
neither is it to bo found at the gaming¬
table. Remember ono thing, and that
is, you havo not tho capacity to take
into yourself all the strong drink made
on it. Don’t bet alf you have on a bob
tail flush, or before you know it the
other man will either raise yon ont of
the game or come in on a straight flush.
Nine hundred and ninety young men
out of a thousand, who started with an
idea of becoming suddenly rich by bet¬
ting on n sure thing, get left, find into are the
worse off than when they came
game. The bay horse is more liable to
got heat if yon hold a pool check on him
than he was before you put up your
money. Such certainties are uncertain¬
ties, and never give up a certainty for tiger; an
uncertainty. Don’t fool with tho
you can’t most always tell whioh way the
beast will jump. sits down in idle¬
When a young man world
ness, with an idea that the owes
him a living, it’s high time his whence body waa it
committed to the dust from
came. As for his soul, nothing will ever
be known of it. It is so small that it
would rattle round in the shell of a mus¬
tard seed, and when it leaves his lazy
carcass, is for ever loet on account of it#
infinite rocord proportions. of the who have
A young men
boon unfortunate enough to have a for¬
tune loft them shows that eight in in ten
never amount to a single atom the
world, and seven out of the eight die
bankrupts, financially, morally, and
otherwise.
When a father brings up his son in
idleness, never teaohing him the first
principle of economy or the value of a
dollar, he commits a terrible blunder.
The father guilty of such a crime gener¬
ally has to saw wood for a living in hi#
olu age. Nine out of ten of the boys
with fathers who bring them up in
luxury, ere they reach the meridian of
life are total wrecks. Wrecked on the
rocks of total depravity whioh lie be¬
neath the stream of life and on whose
sharp and ragged edges thousands of
lives have been w reckon mio iuiwu.
Money bags may, like bladders, keep you
above the waters of distress for a time,
but punoture them, let their contents
escape, and yon sink.
Young man, you have undoubtedly
meant to do well. No young man ever
goes astray intentionally, but in some
idle thoughtless moment he graduates
from soda water and lemonado to some¬
thing stronger, and before he is fairly
aware of it he has not only lost caste,
but has a whole menagerie on his hands
and is employing a doctor to help and dis¬ the
pose of his immense elephants cuddle in his
snakes that laughingly world too
boots. Yes, the presents many
temptations for the minds of all to with¬
stand, and the only safe way for a young
man is to keep away from the tempta
tion. If you see a man at a wheel of
fortune wm ten times running by betting
on the rod, yon just keep your hands
ont of your pocket and see him lose all
he maje at the next turn of the wheel
and on the very color or nnmber yon
knew would win.
Boys, the recklessness of youth is
what has caused so many mothers’ hair
to turn as white as the driven snow. It’s
this that has caused so many fathers and
mothers to give up by the wayside and
be laid in premature graves. The folliee
hearts of our fathers anfr'fflbiSAlfth .Alt*
tho millstone that grinds the kernel into
the finest flour. It’s a pity that some of
onr young men of to-day didn’t fall in
between the millstones before they have
caused the treuble they have.
A Way They Hare In Russia.
The St. Petersburg Herald relates
that recently in a south Russian village
a peasant was accused of a theft. Tne
sulprit kept out of the way, but sent an
advocate to plead his cause The before lawyer the
local judicial his magnate. eloquence to pm- the
ployed all convince
Judge that his client was innocent, but
his clever appeal had no effect upon the
Magistrate, who knew tho accused, and
had probably condemned him before he
heard the details of the case. He gave
the sentenoe—fire and twenty blows
with a rod. The village Solomon was
informed that the oriminal could not be
found,
“Never mind," he observed, “Justice
m ust have its course. As the criminal
is not in onr hands, we decree that his
advocate shall reoeive the flogging. defend such The
ma n who has the face to e
rascal deserves to be punished." protested
The luckless illegality, lawyer in absurdity vain and
against the
utter injustice of the notorious sentenoe.
The loss of his time and his fees, he
contended, would be quite sufficient
punishment. But the stiff old Russian
Solomon was inexorable, and the lawyer
was actually seized, bound and received
the twenty-five strokes as the represen
tative of the absent criminal,
— ♦
Tm , whale thinks itself a big fish, and
cannot make a good dive without
up blow *b«t it