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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 7.--NO. 33.
Darisn Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
AT DARIEJT, GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND NOHTHWAY STREETS.
KICHARD W. G-RITBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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To avoid any misunderstanding the above rules
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All letters and communications should be ad
dressed to the undersigned,
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
City Direc uory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. 11.
Gignilliat. James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board of County Commissioners— Spalding
Kenan.
Cierk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary— C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff— T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns— W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector—O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O’Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Poppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor— James Walker.
Ex-Officio ALlerinen —-Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain. J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance —Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Accounts— Messrs. Holmes, Gignil
uat and Aiken. ...
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Aiken
and Strain. ~ _.
Committee on Health and Cemetery- Messrs. Giguil
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Puupers-ileaara. Atwood, Holmes
and Gignilliat. ... .
Committee on Jail- Messrs. Aiken, Hilton and
Atwood. _
Committee on Streets and Lanes Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes. ~ .
Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton.
Committee on Politic Buildings —Messrs. Strain,
Gignilliat, and Aiken.
Committee on ibfe-Moasra. Holmes, Hilton and
fcttrAin. _ ... .
Committee on Ordinance j —Messrs. Aiken, btrain
mil Atwood.
Clerk anti Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Mcuter —George Crane.
Port Physician —Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George TV. Fanes.
Port Wardens —lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
an t James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. .
Board Pilot Commissio ner —L'r P* B. Harris,
Chairman, H. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, *\V. L. Fulton, James LaeKlison and liohcrt
Mitchell. Lewis Livingston, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; James Walker, Worshipful Master; m.
C. O'Neil, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District John* I •
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick. .
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Will. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch Couuty—Thursday before first Mondays
in April and October. ,
Effingham Coutity—First Mondays in April and
October. , „ ,
Bryan County—Thursdays after first Mondays
in April and October. .
Chatham County—Second Mondays in 1 euruary,
May and October. ,
Mclntosh County—Tues'Xays after last Mondays in
April and October.
Liberty County—Tuesday after second Monday s
in May and October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling. No. 1, Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o'clock a. in., departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 2hi p. m .
Sale mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad
departs Bo'clock every Tuesday morning ana
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and evening
at 8 o'clock. School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3o'clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
tor.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11a. m. and
3p. m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
Uro SB,OOO A YEAR, or $5 to S2O
i day in your own locality.
Vo risk Women do as well as
men. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
. ’ I oan tall to make money last.
Any one oau da the work. You can make from
50 cts. to s*2 an hour by devoting your evenings
and spare time to the business. It costs nothing
to try tho business. Nothing like it ever offered
before, business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Reader, if you want to know all about the best
paving business before the public, sen l us join
address and we will send you full particulars am
private terras free; samples worth $5 also tree
you can then make up your mind for yourse
Address <4FORGE STINSON k CO., Portland, Me.
June *2O
Garden Seed.
\ITK, HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
VV Garden Seed, just received, oonsmtmg
prt of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS.
CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA,
ENGLISH PSAS.
BEANS, TOMATOES.
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT,
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
-W. H, COTTER & CO..
TwofWMte- Mt? p ? tlpyarl<*;_
Professional Cards.
'yy ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts iu oases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par*
ticnlar attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april2s
yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april2s-ly
r E. B. DeLOBME,
Ij.
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad stract, near Timber Exchange.
J uly2
JQR. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and uight, at his office on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augß-ly
JJlt R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom, House
building.
J" J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-LaW,
Commercial Building,
jnne6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. _
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMARK.
tyoMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, ami in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. jeG-tf
Miscellaneous.
LOOK. OUT.
HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE,
LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
HTOTIOB.
Wheelwright and Blacksmith
IAM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at Short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
PAINTED;
Gorham’s Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to all who use them)
are kept on hand. „ , , , , ~,
All kinds of work done in first-class style. Ail
I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh
County is a trial. All work warranted.
’ ROBERT MITCHELL,
ieG-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
US a ElTrn A limited number of
UU |IM I hi lactive, energetic canvassers to
VS His LUengage in a pleasant and
profitable business; Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Snell will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address •
je’2o-ly. Finley, Harvey A Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
it homo made by the industrious.
Capital not required; we will start
you. Men, women, boys and girls
make money faster at work for us
than anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at. Those who are wise who see this notice
will send us their addresses at ouce and see lor
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Nmv
is the time. Those already at work are laying up
large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO.,
Augusta, Me. june’JO-ty
Collat Brothers.
Perform Their Fromise
Now Inducements to the Purchasing
Public!
Drives In Every Department l
Drives from the Jobbers ! !
special Drives troniour lluyers !!!
Solid Fact! Solid Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood & Willow Ware-
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
~-K OFFER specialities in dry goods
ami Blankets. Shoes of all grades.in pegged ma
sUine and hand Bowed. We keep in Rtoek a fine
selection of Eadi.-s and Gents hand-made Boots
and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents
furnishing GOODS,
Clothing,
Hats,
Trunks,
Valices,
which we carry in endless variety and constantly
receive from Nortnern markets only. Thanking
you for past favors and aaliciting a continuance
of tho same, we arc yours,
ooijat a* o *-* 3B '
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1880.
JUST OUT.
Hood’s Great Book
or TIIE WAII.
Advance and Retreat,
Persona/ Experiences in the
Eniled Sfrt/rs and Confed
erate Stales Armies.
By General J. B. Hood,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate State*- Army,
pnplished for
The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund.
—BY—
General G. T. Beauregard.
New Orleans, 1880.
The entire jiroceeds arising from the sale of
this work are devoted to tbe Hood Orphan Me
morial Fund, which ia invested in United States
Registed Bonds for the nurture, care, support
and education of tbe ten infants deprived of their
parents last summer at Non- Orleans, (the melan
choly incidents of which sad bereavement are
still Iresli iu the public minds. The book is an
elegant octavo, containing 380 pages, with a fine
photograph likeneßS and a line steel engraving,
made e xpressly lor this work, four large maps of
battle fields, bound ill handsome gray
English cloth ibree dollars, or in a fine
sheep binding with marble edge, three dollars
and fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library
styie, four dollars, or in best levent Turkey Mo
rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars.
On the receipt from any person remitting by
mail or express, o, tho amount in a registered
letter or by a postal order, bank draft or cheek,
a copy will be immediately sent free of postage,
registered as second-class matter.
The volume is published in tho best style of
typography, on elegant paper, witli illustrations,
executed at highest specimens of arr.
The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike
render it worthy a place iu every library,—on
every desk—or upon the book shelf of every
house in the country.
Agents wanted in every town an! county in
the United States, and a preference will be given
to honorably disebarg-d veterans from tbe army.
To tbe ladies, who feel a desire to express their
sympathy with The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
the sale of this book among their circle of friends,
will afford an excellent way of contributing sub
stantial aid to so deserving a cause.
For Terms, Rates to Agents, Etc., Ati
ilress with full Particulars,
Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher,
On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund.
j3O-tf. New Orleans, La.
“MUFFIT.”
—THE -
Savannah Weekly Mews
Of February 7th will contain the opening chapters
ot a charming serial story, entitled
MUFFIT,
BY MRS. OPHELIA NISBET REID,
of Eatonton, Ga.,
Author ot “My Mother’s Daughter,” “Afterward”
and “Mrs. Dare.”
rpHOSE who have enjoyed tbe pleasure afforded
X by* the perusal oi this gitted and accom
plished lady's grevious productions, will need no
commendation of this her last and most success
ful effort, to prepare them for tbe rare literary
treat that awaits them.
MUFFIT is a stor y of absorbing interest, and
its publication will run through some eight or
ten issues of the Weekly News and Sunday Tele
gram.
Subscription $2 a year, $1 for six months.
Money can be sent by money order, registered
letter, or express at our risk. J. H. ESTILL,
30-tf. Savannah, Ga.
MTntosh Sheriff Tax Sale.
FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1880.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT HOUSE
door, iu tho city of Larieu, county of Mcln
tosh, State of Georgia, betweeu the legal hours of
sale, ou the First Tuesday in March, 1880, the
same being tbe 2d day of the mouth, the follow
ing described property, or so much thereof us
will be sufficient to satisfy a tax fi. fa. due the
State and county, for the year 1879 vs. T. P. Tease:
Upon all those certain lots in the city of
Darien, county of Mclnt ish, State of Georgia, and
known in the plan of said city, at' lots number
201, 202, and 203. and halt of lots number 1; lots
number 201, 202, and 203; bounded on the north
by lots number 230, 231, and 232, on the south by
third street, and west by lot number 200, half lot
number 1 and bounded north by Green street,
south bv Broad street, east by lot uumber 2, aud
west by the other half of lot number 1. Levied
on as the property of the estate of 7’. P. Pease.
Levy made by O. C. Hopkins, Tax Collector,
and turned over to T. B. Blount, Sheriff. Terms
of sale cash, purchaser plying for titles. Property
pointed out by James Walker, Executor estate of
T. P. Pease. T. B. BLOUNT,
jau3o. Sheriff of Mclntosh county, Ga,
Singer Sewing Machine.
JULIA CLARKE HAVING SECURED
the agency for the genuine and old reliable Sin
ger Sewing Machine, is now prepared to serve all
those who are in need of the best machine that
is made, and at very reasonable prices. Mrs.
Clarke is also actirg in Darien for Messrs. Ludden
& Bates music store, Savannah, aud will be pleas
ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give
her a call opposite Mr. Reuben Walker's offices.
Darien, Ga., December 2Gth, 1879.’
The Best Agricultural Journal Published in
the South.”
THE SOUTHERN
run ii®.
A LARGE QUARTO of 3-2
pages, handsomely print*
ed, filled with choice reacl-
Js*. ing of interest to the far
mer* with an illustrate 1
r"; fashion department lor the
3?-ladies,
a year. rT’a }, year. Sample ropy lf cents.
Address: J. H. ESTILL,
3 Whitaker street, Savannah, Ga
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SOUTH. SOUTH.
PULASKI HOUSE,
SAVANNAH GEORGIA.
GOODSELL BROS.,
PROPRIETORS.
r ,X HIS HOUSE IS NOW OPEN FOR THE RECET
-1 tion ol guests. It has been thoroughly rer
ovated and is now being extensively repaired.
Liberal arrangements made with weekly headers.
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throughout the country, directly and effectively
upon the twenty-fourth Presidential election, to
be held iu November. Four years ago next Nov
ember the will of the nation, as expressed at the
polls, was thwarted by an abominable conspir
acy, and promoters and beneficiaries of which still
hold the officers they hold. Will the crime of 1870
be repeated in 1880 ? The past decade of years
opened with a corrupt, extravagant, and insolent
Administration intrenched at Washington. The
Bun did something townrd dislodging the gang
and breaking its power. The same men are now
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
\\TE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
TT friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
lamer share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, but sell a GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as low as it can bo sold. Remember
that we have constantly iu stock a lull assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
HAIR DYES.
HAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
ITescriptions carefully compounded night or
dSy ' W. H. COTTER k CO..
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
For Rent.
rpHE DWELLING HOUSE FORMERLY OCCU
nied by Mr. Joseph B. Bond is offered for rent.
Apply to tfce HILTON TIMBER A* LUMBER CO.
U.'ve • . o**D V ef ”5, ‘• ,
One of Those Lucky Old Horseshoes.
“I saw a funny sight in the street just
now,"said Mr. Patterson to his friend, Mr.
Johnson, in the Fifth Avenue Hotel barber
saop, recently. “I met an elegantly dress
ed lady carrying in her hand an old horse
shoe covered with mud. I*presume she
had just found it, and was carrying it
home for good luck.”
“Good luck,” replied ( Mr. Johnson;
“don’t talk to me about old horse shoes
and good luck. About a month ago fay
wife and I were returning' from Church,
one Sunday, when just in front of the now
Common Catholic Cathedral, in Fiftieth
street, a horse, which was being diiven at
aj lively gait, threw a shoe, audit went
ringing along the pavement. ‘Go and get
that shoe,’ said my wife,‘and we will keep
it for good luck.’ I picked it up, utterly
ruining one ofgloves in doing so,as- it was
covered with mud. This I was going to
wipe oft' on the curb, but my wile cried
out: “Ob, don’t do that, for if you do
you will wipe out all your luck,” Sol
lugged the old thing all the way home,
and over the door we hung it,mud and all.
The next morning I went down to the
store, wandering what my first streak of
good luck would be. Before night I had
a misunderstanding with my employer—
with whom I have been for several years—
we both got hot, and the result was that
he gave me notice that, after the first of
January next he would dispense with my
services. A few days after my wife went
to do a little shopping, and lost her pock
et book containg all the money we had
been saving a long time to spend for holi
day presents and amusements. In fact,
fot about two weeks everything’seemedto
go against me, and I was finally in hot
water all the time. Finally, I said to my
wife one day that I believed that it was
that cursed old horseshoe that was to blame
for all, and that I was bound to take it
down and put it Lack in the street, just
where I found it, and so I did.
The very morning my employer sent
for me to come and see him in his private
office. He said he had been mistaken in
the matter about which we had differed,
apologized for what he had said, hoped
there would be no ill-feeling about it, and
wound up by engaging me for another
year at an increased salary. I went home
that night feeling better matured than I
had for weeks. I told my wife of my good
luck, aud then she took a letter from her
pocket a letter which she had that day re
ceived from her father, notifying him that
he was going to send her a check for SSOO
for a Christmas present. In fact, I have
had only good luck since I threw away
that old horseshoe. They may bring luck
to some folks, _ but iny wife and I don’t
want any more horseshoes in ours, yon
bet.”
A Hide Wins a Bride.
The news of a curious sequel of a love
aftair has just reached us, suys the Port
land (Oregon) Bee, here from Fort Town
send. His passion being promptly recip
rocated, marriage was soon proposed; but
the young lady's parents would have none
of this. The father and a belligerent un
cle threatened to do the young Borneo seri
ous personal injuries in case his attentions
to his fiancee were continued, and forbade
him ever again entering the premisis.
The young lady has been represented as
having been bitterly persecuted' on ac
count of her refusal to discountenance the
discarded suiter. The young man becom
ing aware of this fact, determined at once
to consummate the nuptials. Accordingly,
procuring a license and the services of the
necessarily constituted authority, and
withal a good Winchester rifle, repaired at
once to the abode of the young woman’s
parents. Encountering the father and the
irate uncle in the yard, he bade them
‘hands off," declaring they lmd threatened
to do him personal injury, and that in the
eyes of the law a _he would be justified in
doing serious execution with his rifie in
case they attempted to execute them, and
right there before the gaze Of the two as
tonished beligerents.with one eye fixed on
them, the other on the fair one by his
side, and with one hand clutching his
ritile and the other hand grasping that of
his affianced, the nuptial knot was tied,
when the happy couple departed.
A Tiiamp i.NgCujs;e Quarters.— The other
day a genuine tramp with a stomach
yearning for a pick-up meal undertook to
enter a yard on Main street. A large, fierce
dog stood at the gate to give him a hostile
welcome, and after vainly trying to propi
tiate the animal, the tramp called a lad of
ten who was making a kite ou the veranda:
“Hey, sonny!”
“Yes, I’m hay,”,.was the reply.
“Say, bub, call oft’yer dog.”
“No use- no use,” replied the lad.
“Even if you got in here, ma’s ’waiting at
the kitchen door with a kettle of hot water.
Sarah’s working the telephone to get the
police, and I’m here to holler ‘murder ?
and wake up the whole street!”
A Consoling Prospect.— A young man
had been courting a girl for a long time.
One night he said to her father:
“Sir, when can Jennie and I get mar
ried V”
“I can t spare Jennie until I get some
one to take her place,” answered the girls
father, adding: When I marry, you may.”
“When do you expect to get married,
sir ?”
“When I find someone who will have
me.”
The young man thought his chances
were slim.
Dignity sedom goes out’for a holiday
and never goes off guard. It is always to
be found at its post, vigilant, prepared to
take the offensive as well as to defend it
self, should the Kinalh’st occasion arise. It
cannot believe in the innocent intentions
of its friends, but devotes its brains as well
as its time to suspicions which discover
nothing but the assertion of its own im
portance. A word or look thoughtlessly
spoken or carelessly given wounds it to
quick; and what others would pass by as
not worth a second thought,dignity main
tains to be cause sufficient for a quarrel.
“Some more cheese, please,” said a small
boy of eight to bis papa at dinner. “No,
my child,” was the reply of the prudent
parent; “you have already had enough.
When I was a child I had to eat mv bread
and smell mv cheese."’ “Well,” said son-
XIV, r 7'^ r H' r- ? nice*? to StDOli’
$2.50 A YEAR.
The Right Sort of a Mas.
Yon will find as a role that the then,
who are favorites with nw*i are tfye best,
truest in their relations to women. ¥,
the men who like sometimos to turn their'
backs on all women anil go off “with the
other fellows,” and have a good boyish
time on the water, or the mountain, or id
some other man’s “den." Women need
never be afraid to trust their happiness
to those whom other good men esteem
good fellows; but if a man is avoided by
men, however much women adtoite him,
shun him. It is ho who Las flirtations
that come to nothing, and ha* “not been
very nice” to the gills who have broken
their engngemets with him; who, when he'
marries, wrings his wife’s heart, if she has
one, and spoils her tom per if she is natur
ally an angel. Manly men are the best
lovers,the best husbands, the cO&ipanionS
for women, just as womanly women are
the best sweethearts and wives. What do
we think of women who shun their own
sex, however charming men may find'
them ? It is seldom, if ever, that your
men’s favorite ill-uses his wife. Petfcaps
it may be explained in this way: iDnend
ship of a subliiner sort is what love be
comes after a year or so of marriage, and
lie who is friendly to the very depths of
his soul enters into this state happily and*
is ready for all the delights that follow.
But a man who is capable of nothing but,
a fleeting affection which ever pursues a
new object, and cares for no woman when
she is won, hates the domestic tics and
becomes detestable in consequence. It is
the man who would die for his friend, and
for whom his friend woutd die, who
makes a miraculously happy wife of the*
woman to whom he scarcely knew how to’
make love when he courted hef.
How Indians Hunt Buffalo.
The commandant of a post generally gives
the Indians under his control permission
to go on a buffalo hunt about twice a year.
A party of from tw o to three hund/ed are
allowed to go out at a once, and may be
out for from thirty to ninety days, being
during that time accompanied by two or
three soldiers from the garrison. The
party is divided and the herd is surrounded
the circuit being almost a half mile in di
ameter. When about half around, the
signal is given to charge, and the bucks
commence to ply their arrows. The'
excited buffaloes run forward, until prob
ably one-fifth of them are kiileqp when
the hunt is temporarily over,at least
The squaws have, in the meantime,
come along and picked up their husbands
clothing, and follow after to complete the
work of the chase. The back, having
shot his hufl’alo, rushes forward to pa m
the animal over so that he will not fall on
the side which the arrow htw pierced an<f
break it. He cuts the arrow out of its/
place, puts it back in his and tbstv
marks the buffalo with his peculiar brand,
which may be a cut in the nostril, in the
ear, thigh, or some other part of the body.
Here again, then, the squaws gets her
onerous share of thw work in. She die*
tinguislies the animal her buck has slain,.
skins it, cuts the meat away from the
bones in the most convenient on ihurried
manner, an packs it to where the bucks
have already made a permanent camp,.
in the vicinity of the nearest water.
A Poor Excuse..
A well-known Sacramentan who had
been out with “tne boys" until three
o’clock in the morning, felt a trifle uneasy
as to what his wife would say upon the
subject, and determined to adopt a little
piece of strategy. He entered the house
cauciously, noiselessly removed his boots,
and then made his way to their bedroom..
He was not so obfusticated but that he
knew it would be dangreous to gfet into bed,
so, after disrobing, be took up a position
by the side of the baby’s cradle, and began
rocking it like a 4i) er. His wife, aroused
by the noise discovered him, as it waa.
part of his deep-laid scheme that she
should, and called out;
“Why, what on earth are you doing there?
“Doing ?” he replied, keeping the kinks
out of his tongue by an almost superhu
man effort. Doing? I’m trying to get
this baby asleep! She’s been crying half an
hour, and you've slept through it all!”
His air of righteous indignation was well
put on, but it wouldn’t do—luck was
against him. “What do you mean?” his
better-half sternly responded. “I have
got the baby in bed here with me, and she
hasn’t cried to-nihgt! When did you
come home ?”
How Air is Woven.
The Decca muslines of India are among
the most wonderful evidences of the hand
skill of the strange people of the mysfifti
ouk East. These fabrics, which are spun
and are the products of obscure and: curious
processes, unknpwn and unattainable by
the Western nations, like the fabrication
of Damascus steel and the camel's hair
shawls, are marvels of ingenuity and skill,
and they illustrate the poetry of cotton.
The most delicate of these fabrics are
known,as “Woven air.” It can only be
made early in the mornings and the even
ings, when the air is full of moisture
and the dew on the grass. The processes
by which it is woven are kept secret, and
the people who do the work are compel!?
ed first to go through a long course of
training and initiation. Their delicate
wares are of such ethereal texture as to be
almost invisible, and yet they are so en
during that they will bear washing and
wear in a most wonderful manner; this
precious stuff is monopolized for the nse
of the ladies of the Oriental haaroms, and
it is said to be worth hundreds of dollars
per yard.
The girl who gets married on the 29th
of February and thinks she's smart, wont
feel as proud of the job when she comes
to want to celabrate tin and crystal and
silver weddings.
W hat is the difference between a hornet
and a flea ? One difference is that when
you put your finger on a flea it land there,
but when you put your finger on a hornet
it is there.
Why is a Chinaman like a vegetable gar,
den. Because his queue-cumbers his head
u ■■'—a
The reason “the boy stood on the burn
ing deck’’ was because it was too hot to
-. it dowh.- Win Etiu.UA