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Administrator*s Sale.
uiRUKAHIiV to an order of the Court of Or-
L dinary of Jackson county, Georgia, will be
Hon the first Tuesday in March, 18S0, be
r? the Court House door in Jefferson, in said
within the legal hours of sale, the follow
tVopertv. to-vrit: All of the right, title and
terc st of Alfred Smith, deceased, it being the
inilcr. after the expiration of the dower or
e estate of Mary Iv. Smith, in and to all of that
ict of land situate and lying on Rig Sandy Creek,
Jackson county, Ga.. and the place whereon
'frei Smith resided at the time of his death, and
hereon Mary K. Smith now resides, and odjoin
jmdbounded by the lands of William T. llow-
Jon the west, by Susan Johnson on the west
id north, by the lands ol Warren Hawks, de
iscd. on the north and east, by Z. J. Hardman
ithe east, by James Thurmond and Dianah
niters on the South, and by Andy Sailors on the
est, and containing two hundred and twenty
jht acres, more or less. Said place is well im
rnved, with ali necessary buildings ; up-land and
ottora land in good state of cultivation ; sufficient
ood land in original forest to make this one of
e most attractive places in the county. The
lore land sold as the property of Alfred Smith,
te of said county, dec’d, subject to the life es
teof Mary K. Smith, tenant in Dower, and for
ip benefit of the heirs and creditors of said Al
ed Smith, deceased. A plat of the premises can
(wen at the Clerk's office Jackson Superior
ourt. Rc-sold at former purchaser’s risk.
N. B. CASH. Adm’r,
U 0 M. K. SMITH, Adm’x.
Postponed Mortgage Sale.
n r ILL be sold, before the Court House door,
in the town of Jeiferson, Ga., on the first
nesday in March next, within the legal hours
kle, the following property, to-wit :
One tract of land in said county, containing one
nndred and ninety acres, adjoining lands of 11.
. 1 iceman, A. T. Ycarwood and A. DeLapcr
icrta.id others, and known as part of the Moore
!. On said place there is a comfortable
house, with the necessary out houses ;
ctabout sixty acres of fresh cleared land in a
wd state of cultivation ; the remainder in old
•itli and original forest. Levied on as the pro
°f J- Ik Silman, to satisfy a mortgage fi. fa.
turned from the Superior Court of Jackson
iar.ty._at the August term, 1 STM, in favor of
' rsa F,. Stapler vs. J. B. Silman. Property
MUd out by plaintiff’s attorney. Notice given
■B. Silman, and Thomas Bennett, tenant in
Session, as the law directs.
T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’lf.
M>R4rilA, JarkNon County.
p • i)'; MATHEWS, Jackson C’tof Ord’y,
TKUM’K, ct al, March Term, 1880.
u ~. A’ s - I Application to cause
■ MATHKWS, Ex'r, 'titles to be made to
wu heirs at law of land, in pursuance of
0n -'lathews, dec'd. j bond of testator.
, 1 appearing to the Court that Mary Niblack,
' ! Bostick, Caroline Grant, Nancy Ed
/ 'On &ml Elizabeth Mathews, all heirs at law
ue C(*ased, reside without the State—
' 'raered, that service be perfected upon said
' >&w, of the above application, by publica
!. P° t l,s °rder once a week for four weeks in
, "io'.st N’kws. a paper published at Jefferson,
county, Ga.
,IP( ler my olHcial signature, this January
II VV. BELL, Only.
JarltMon County.
"hereas, \\ . p Cosby, makes application to
-'proper form for Letters of A ministration on
'lwe!vl l ancos Cosby, late of said coun
■ ,i t 0 c ' te persons concerned, kindred
it n, i ors ' to shew cause, if any they can. at
' U lr , torm °f the Court of Ordinary of said
to l>e held on the lirst Monday in March.
,:"hy saul letters should not be granted the
. under my official signature, this January
lifw. BELL, Ord’y.
T K °UGI 1, Jui‘k*n County.
'^ o]in Pettyjohn, col’d, makes appli
v.shi° "r e * n P r °P er form for Letters of Guar-
C\. P of the person of Dave Pettyjohn, col’d.
This; ° f Rebecca Pettyjohn, col’d—
liicnd t to c ' tea P ersons * concerned, kindred
11 * ors -> to show cause, if any they can, at
;>^ U:ar term of the Court of Ordinary of said
t:{'-' 0u die first Monday in March, 1880, why
~v ers should not be granted the applicant.
V u ’Hler my official signature, this January
h w ord'y.
JaekMon County.
\ tne^ ttas ' Thomas A. Scott makes application
lon n n P ro Per form for Letters of Administra
te, , e estate of John A. Long, late of said
jjjv*. deceased—
-10 c 'te all persons concerned, kindred
i wtors, to show cause, if any they can, at
ii ln A' Uar term of the Court of Ordinary of said
t 011 fhe first Monday in March, 1880, why
ij iv cers should not be granted the applicant.
' Ululer my official signature, this January
11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
J Jat'k.ton County.
i e \i. ', as ' Louisa Millsaps, Executrix of Mar
t; A. a P s * fate of said county, dec'd, repre
\._ . 51 *r Court, by her petition duly filed, that
tts’p Ul v administered the estate of said de
*srJiart 1 * erins fhe law. aud is entitled to a
fhi r - ~~
N . m C^e a P concerned, kindred and cred
it . lo *’ cause, if any they can, on the first
Wtnf and 4.P r 'h 1880, at the regular term of the
l:s m i Ss : Jr o>nary of said county, why Letters of
q lVen 0n I’hould not be granted the applicant,
triicf IXI V official signature, this Decem
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Q.EORGIA, JnrkNon < outy.
\N hereas, upon application made to me in terms
one-fifth of the qualified voters of the
2d‘2d District, G. M., of said county, asking that
the sale of intoxicating liquors be restricted in
said District—
It is hereby ordered that an election be held in
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27. ISBO.
GERTIE CARNEGIE’S SONG.
“ Ten minutes to ten—if I hurry I shall
catch the ten-fifteen traiD, and may manage
to be back to dinner, at two, mama.”
So saying Gertie Carnegie, with deft fin
gers, rolls up a piece of manuscript music,
and then runs up stairs to equip herself for
the expedition to town.
Gerty is in deep mourning. Only five
months ago she lost her brave, noble sailor
father, a captain of an ocean steamer, that
was lost, with all souls on board, among the
ice-bergs.
lie has left his widow and only child wholly
unprovided for, and they have to depend up
on their own exertions for the means of sub
sistence.
So Gerty, who is a brave girl as well as a
pretty one, has thrown herself with her whole
youthful energy into the task of teaching mu
sic, and the other day has even attempted a
composition ; it is a song set to Tennyson's
“ Flow down, cold rivulet to the sea,” a very
ambitious undertaking ; but what is there too
high for the ambition of youth ?
This precious work of art, neatly copied,
she is now on the point of taking it up to
London—she is living with her mother at
Wimbledon—and her heart beats high as she
gives herself up to the architecture of airy edi
fices furnished with fame, success and pros
perity.
, She hurries to the Putney station and jumps
into an empty-looking second-class carriage,
and takes her seat witli her back to the loco
motive.
There’s no one with her in the carriage, so
Gerty begins to sing her song, partly out of
the fullness of her young heart, partly with
the purpose of exercising her voice a little,
for she hopes to be permitted to sing it to
Mr. Doozy. She lias a clear and sympathetic
mezzo-soprano, and, pleased with her own
performance, repeats her song over and over
again.
Suddenly she is startled by a cough behind
her—a manly cough, and, oh. horror! she be
holds in the far corner of the adjoining com
partment a man.
Dreadful ! lias she been giving an uusn
licited concert to this abominable stranger,
who dares to sit there, and, with admiring im
pertinence, take off his hat to her ? She feels
inclined to cry with shame and mortification
Luckily the train slackens speed at this
moment, and in her hurry to get rid of tin
man. Gerty is even willing to risk her life in
an attempt of jumping out while the car is in
motion, but the refractor}' window saves her.
for, wrestle as she may, it refuses to slide
down and permit her to open the door.
“ Thank heavens !” she ejaculates as she
rapidly passes through the crowd of passen
gers, and hastens down toward the omnibus
she descries at the entrance to the station.
As Gerty nears her destination, she finds,
to her dismay, that her roll of music, which
she had fancied safe in her muff, has van
shed.
Tears rise to her eyes, and she desires the
conductor to stop, for she must go back to the
station and see—an infinitesimal chance—if
she lost it on the way from the platform to
the omnibus
Of course she finds nothing—not a trace
of the precious document, and, with dismay’,
she remembers that she lias committed an
imprudence to throw the rough copy into the
fire.
Poor Gerty, she asks one or two porters
whether they’ have found anything, but they
only replied with a stare of indifference and
a half-contemptuous “No. miss,” and pass
on ; so there remains nothing for her but to
return home.
“Oh, mama, I am the unluckiest girl in
this hateful world,” and she sobs forth her
pitiful tale.
“ Well, my’ poor dear child, don’t cry about
it,” her mother says soothingly ; “of course
it’s very provoking, but, after all, it only en
tails a second copying, and that 1 will do for
you if you have not the heart to do it. Where
is yonr rough copy ?”
“ Burned, mama.”
“ But, Gerty’, how silly’. How could you
destroy it so thoughtlessly.”
“ Oh, don’t scold, mama. Never mind, its
gone—and—l’ll—never—write another,”
poor Gerty, sobs in great woe.
“Nonsense, you’ll remember every note of
it, and just write it out again, that’s all.”
“Never, mama. It is a bad omen, it tells
me I’m not to succeed as a composer, so there’s
an end to that dream. And now let us
have 3orae dinner, and then I must go up
to the terrace, and give ray lessons at Mrs.
Harmon’s.”
And Gerty dries her tears and tries to put
on a cheerful face, and to do justice to the
frugal repast that is presently’ set before her.
In the afternoon she departs rather heavy
hearted and with lagging steps, on her daily
duty of teaching. At the Harmon’s she finds
her two pupils, the twins, Winny and Ethel,
in a state of glowing excitement.
“ Oh, Miss Carnegie, papa has consented
to our giving such a jolly party on the fifteenth,
our birthday, you know. There’s to be a
dinner party first, and then we are to have
music and singing, and wind up with adanco.
And you must come. It would be so kind if
you would just sing a song or two, and Winny
and I are to sing our duet, and then you must
stay and join in the dancing with the rest of
us—now do.”
“ I don’t dance at present, y'ou know, Ethel,
but I will come with pleasure and help you all
I can to amuse your guests, and I’ll play for
the dancing; then you need Dot engage any
one. The fifteenth, you say ? That’s to
morrow week. Very well—it will suit me
perfectly.”
And then the lessons are given, and Gerty
returns home in the dark, drizzly January
evening, forgetting all about the party, and
thinking of nothing but her lost song.
The week goes by, and on the eve of the
party Mrs. Carnegie ask 9 :
“ By the way, Gerty, what are you going
to sing to morrow evening at the Harmon’s ?”
“ Oh, I don’t know, mama. Anything that
comes into my head at the time. It does not
signify in the least. The people—the old
ones I mean—will have eaten so much dinner
that they’ll be content to doze at any ditty,
and the young ones will wish it over as quick
as possible, so as to commence the dancing.
My singing will be merely a stop-gap, and
the choice of the songs therefore immaterial.
“ What a lovely girl ?” Tom Wentworth
said tohiscousin, Ethel Harmon, nextevening
as Gerty makes her appearance in the draw
ing-room. “ Who b she ? I fancy I have
seen her face before.’’
“ Yes, she does look lovely to-night. That
black gauze dress sets off her brilliant com
plexion,’’ Ethel rejoins. “ She is Miss Car
negie, our music mistress, and I’ll introduce
you to her presently. But you must come
and sing first. You can spoon afterward.
Come, i'll play your accompaniments if
you like. What will you sing ? * Tom
Bowling ?”
“ No; I have sung that atevery" party" these
la3t tluee years. I'll sing anew song, and
play my own accompaniment by’ heart, thank
you all the same, Etty.”
And Mr Wentworth seals himself at the
piano.
“ What is that ?”
“ Flow down, cold rivulet to the sea.” Gerty
listens with straining ears. Is she dreaming ?
tier own song! How dare any' one—
But as she stands and listens, her heart
beating fast, the tears come welling up to her
eyes, and she hastily steps behind a window
curtaion to hide her emotion.
Mr. Wentworth has a good tenor voice,
an 1 sings simply and unaffectedly, nnd with
intelligent interpretation, and somehow Gcrtv
is more affected by her own song than she
has ever been before.
The song ceases, and Gerty still stands lis
ten ing. She hears the comments and plaudits
of the song and the singer, and her heart
exults.
She steps from her hiding place presently’,
and is immediately’ accosted by Ethel Har
mon, with a request to take the now vacant
seat at the piano.
“ But first let me introduce my’ cousin, Mr.
Wentworth, Miss Carnegie. Has he not a
splendid voice, and did he not sing that lovely
song splendidly’ ?”
‘‘Would y’ou object to telling me from whom
you obtained that song, Mr. Wentworth ?”
Gerty asks.
“ Not at all. It was in the oddest way.
I found it in front of a railway carriage at
Waterloo station, probably’ dropped there by
a young lady who had been singing it half a
dozen times in the carriage, fancying herself
alone, I imagine, and—”
He comes to a full stop, and a look of
amazed recognition comes into his face, as he
notices Gerty’s confusion.
“By Jove ! You are the young lady’. I’ve
been wanting to find you ever since. I tried
to trace you at the time, but you Ittd vanish
ed, and I have been advertising for you the
whole of last week. How is it you never read
the advertisements ?”
“ I never see the papers. lam so glad it
is found, for I wanted to take it to the
publishers.”
“ Then it is your own composition. I had
no idea of it. I thought it was simply some
thingyou had been practicing for y’our singing
lesson.”
Gerty blushes crimson at the recollection
of that absurd vocal journey up to Waterloo.
Then the petition for a song from her being
repeated she complies, and she sings and
looks her very best, and Tom Wentworth
gazes and listens in rapt admiration.
Later on in the evening he persuades her
to walk through a quadrill with him, and
presently say’s:
“ I’ll tell you what, Miss Carnegie, let me
take your song to the publishers. lam per
sonally acquainted with Mr. W , and
although your c arming song can stand on its
own merits, yet these publishers are ‘ kittle
cattle,’ and perhaps I may be able to manage
it better for ytn than you could yourself.”
Gerty gladly accepted the offer. The song
is published. Gerty does not know till many
months later that it has been done at Tom’s
expense, and the business necessitates so
many interviews between the two young peo
ple that nobody is very much surprised when,
in the merry month of June, Gerty Carnegie
is turned into Mrs. Thomas Wentworth.
Signs and Portents.
When tho crescent of the young moon sets
supinely", its horns in the air, it is a sign of
dry weather, because in this position it holds
all the water, thus preventing its fall to the
earth. This is also a sign of wet weather,
the explanation in this ease being that a water
ful moon is emblematic of a watersoaked
earth. Don’t forget this sign of the new
moon. It is rarely" you will find one so im
partially accommodating.
Whoever finds a four-leaved clover is
generally" a liar. It is so ranch easier to
detach one leaf from a five-leaf stalk than to
hunt for one with four that the temptation to
mendacity is too much for average clay’.
When a mouse gnaws a hole in a gown
some misfortune may be apprehended. The
misfortune has already" happened to the gown,
and may be apprehended to happen to the
mouse.
An old sign is that a child grows proud if
suffered to look into a mirror while less than
12 months old. But what the average infant
can see in a mirror to make it proud is difficult
for any but its parents to understand.
A red sky in the west at evening indicates
that the next day will be pleasant, barring
accidents of rain, snow and hail.
Ify r ou take down your shingle, preparatory
to putting it up in anew location, it is a sign
y T ou are moving.
If a hen runs across the street directly in
front of you, it is a sign that a hen will soon
be on the other side. If 9he crosses over
just behind you—pshaw ! who ever knew a
lien that wouldn’t die in her tracks rather
than cross one's pathway in his rear ?
When y r ou see a cat running around furious
ly, it is a sign that the crockery and glassware
is in danger.
When you drop a knife and it sticks in the
floor, it is a sign that someone i9 coming.
If’you arc a small bov, that someone may" be
y'our mother, and her coming be to remon
strate with you with her slipper.
To dream of a wedding is a sign of inani
tion.
To dream of a funeral betokens too much
pork and cabbage.
To dream of finding money betokens that
it is easier to dream of finding money than to
work for it.
To dream that it is Sunday morning is
heaven.
To be suddenly awakened from j’our sweet
est sleep to find that it is not Sunday is—
that is to say, verj r disagreeable. It is a sign
that you will be unhappy.
A great many more equally infallible signs
might be given, but the reader has probably
had enough for one day. . The man who be
lieves in signs is sufficiently credulous to
believe that our knowledge in that line, as
well as in every other line, is inexhaustible.
An Even Thing.
The other day two strangers were toasting
their shins on opposite, sides of a big stove
in a ferry wharf saloon, and it was noticed
that they often looked at each other os if
almost certain that they had met somewhere
before. Finally one of them got up and said.
“ Stranger. I’ve seen a face almost like
yours. Did you ever have a brother Bill ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Was he a sailor ?”
“ He was.”
“ Did you hear of him last about ten years
ago r
“ Yes, just about ten years ago.”
“ Stranger,” continued the first, seeming
greatly affected, “ I’ve sailed with your
brother Bill ? We were wrecked together on
the Pacific, and before help came I had to
kill and eat him ! I knew you must be related.
I’m awful sorry it was your brother, and
though I was driven to it and the law can't
touch me, I’m willing to pay you damages.
Be kinder fair with me, for Bill was old and
tough. About how much do you think is
fair ?”
The other wiped a tear from his eye, spat
across the stove, and replied :
“ Stranger, where is your dad ?”
“ Been dead these twelve \'ears.”
“ Died in Nevada, didn’t he ?”
“Y'es, out there somewhere.”
“Well, 1 killed hjm! L knew you were
his son the minute I saw you. He and I
were in a mine, and one day as we were going
up in the bucket I saw that the old rope was
going to break under the strain. When we
were up about two hundred feet I picked up
your old dad and dropped him over. It was
bad on him, but it saved me. Now, you ate
ray brother Bill, and I murdered your dad.
and I guess we’d better call it even and shake
to see who pays for the drinks.”
They shook, drank, and the old lake Cap
tains who could not tell a lie had to sit back
and realize how sad it was that they were
born with such tender consciences. —Detroit
Free Press
Judging
Don’t judge a man by bis failure in life,
for many a man fails because he is too hon
est to succeed.
Don’t judge a man by his speech, for the
parrot talks, but the tongue is but an instru
ment of sound.
Don’t judge a man by the house he lives
in, for the lizard and the rat often tnhabit
the grandest structure.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
I 1 SI.OO For Six Months.
Our Superstition*.
WUAT OLD LADIES SAT ARB Tffß w
The following superstitions, handed down
by tradition, are yet fervently believed la
many parts of America :
N\ liitc pecks on the nail 9 are luck.
W hoever reads epitaphs loses his memory.
To rock the cradle when empty is inju
rious to the child.
To eat while a bell is tolling for a funeral
causes toothache.
The crowing of a hen indicates some ftp*
preaching disaster.
When a mouse gnaws a hole, some mLr
fortune may be apprehended.
He who has teeth wide asunder must
seek his fortune in a distant land.
W hoever finds a four-leaf trefoil—shamrock
—should wear it for luck.
Beggar’s bread should be given to.children
who are slow learning to speak.
If a child less than twelve months old be
brought into a cellar, lie becomes fearful.
When children play soldier on the road
side, it forebodes the approach of war.
A child grows proud if suffered to look
into the mirror while less than twelve month*.
old.
lie who proposes moving into a newhous®
must first send in bread and anew broom.
Whoever sneezes at an early hour either
hears some news or receives some present the
same day.
The first tooth cast by a child should be
swallowed by the mother, to insure anew
growth of teeth.
Buttoning the coat awry, or drawing on a,
stocking inside out, causes matters to go.
wrong during the day.
By bending the head to the hollow of tha
arm the initial letter of one’s future spouse!
is represented.
W omen who sow flaxseed should, during
the process, tell some confounded lies, other
wise the yarn will never bleach white.
When women are stuffing beds, tbo rnetv
should not remain in the house, otherwise
the feathers will come through the ticks.
\V hen a person enters a room ho should!
be obliged to sit down, if only for a moment,,
as he otherwise takes away the children’*,
sleep with him.
The following are omens of death: A
dog’s scratching on the floor or howling in a
peculiar manner, and owls hooting in tbe
neighborhood of the house.
Domestic harmony must be preserved when>
washing-day comes, in order to insure fin*
weather, which is indispensable, as that cer
emony is usuall} 7 performed out of doom*.
The Greatest Attraction.
A young man took his sweetheart to the'
axposition with a cold blooded determina-.
tion. lie showed her the dog show.
* This,’ said he, * is one of the best things.'
in the exposition.’
lie conducted her to the place whereboan--
tiful Borneo Appollos holds forth.
* This,’ said he, *is one of the sights here;
which is very interesting.’
He then explained the two great engine#
seen in the industrial part ®f the building.
He showed her the art gallery and that,
pretty picture in the press room which is
called ‘ Farewell to the Forest,’ and whiob
every lady who sees it wishes to carry it off.
‘ This picture,’ he explained, * exhibits a
gem of female loveliness, and few thing*!
could be prettier. The greatest attraction
I have reserved for the last. It is by far the
most unique thing in the building.’ The
young lady became very much interested aa.
he led her np stairs and expatiated on the
beauties of the unknown object.
Soon they stood before the large mirror
he paused, and so did she. Then, with a cold;
blooded explanation, worthy of a better
cause, lie pointed into the mirror at the young
lady’s reflection and said : ‘That, I think,
is the boss attraction in the exposition.*
*lt is strange,’ she murmured, among hor
blushes. ‘ that one glass should mirror both;
the greatest and the least attraction at tha
same time.’
A Common Mistake.
It is a great mistake to suppose that littfo>
can be accomplished if a man has reached
the age of thirty” or forty years. Nine-tenth©i
of our clever men have actually exhibited,
more vigor of intellect at fifty years of age
than at forty. Franklin was forty when h©
began in real earnest the study of Natural'
Philosophy. The Principal of one of the
most flourishing colleges in America was *
farm servant until past the age when most
students have compeleted their collegiate
education. Sir Henrj’Spelmandid not begiDi
the study of science until ho was between’
fifty and sixty years of age. Greek was th.
first foreign language which Cato, fcbo cele-.
brated Roman censor, acquired, and he did;
so in his old age. Alfieri, who, writing, has
caused a revolution! in the dramatic litera
ture of Italy, was left without a father in
infancy, and wasted his early years. John,
Ogilby. the anther of poetical translation*
from Virgil and Homer, began the study of
Latin when about forty years of age, ami
Greek in his forty-fourth. Boccacio, one of
the most illustrious writers that ever appear-'
ed in Italy, suffered nearly half of his life to.
pass without improvement. Handel was
forty-eight before he published any of hi*
great works. I)r. Thoraa9 Arnold, ofßugbj’.
learned German at forty, in order that he,
might read Niebuhr in the original.
Cases are known where the bod ies of person %
after death have turned to stone, but there ar*
few cases of the petrification
of living persons/ A three-year-old child,
however, was the subject of a medical clinio.
at Cleveland, 0., a few days ago, who ts{
rapidly becoming petrified. Its flesh \%
described as cold and almost as hard as tnarhle.
The only muscles over which it has any control
whatever are those of the eve 9 and lips.
This is the thirty-fifth case of the kind knowsi
in medical history, and it is the most re
markable one of them all, for the reason thafc
it is the only one in which the petrfleatien
extended to’all parts of the body. The cau*
of this remarkable disease is unknown, hntljt
is supposed to result from perverted nfutrt;
ticn.
NUMBER 33.