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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL XXX IX.
THE 5TOI1Y OF LIFE,
Hunligbf an-! the in*
Am! t h«» ilazxlinj; *
Wh**n fancy points t mn-ll'-ss blue
With promises of glorkni S hije,
An j the work! seems v r.allo l with truth.
Hunllglit an l the noontide hiitli
Anil the wsnderias vruvs of r
In search of ph ir<- fur an 1 nigh,
They know not whore it v lUeys li.-,
Nor how. nor way, nor when
Hiiriliifht and the evening ga!<
And the dull twilight fUfe
The eyes grow dim, the ptfis'is fail,
While mournfully the damp win-la wail
That blur Ilf* !>! tel pure!
Hunlitfbf mi<l th*-* sifter glow
On the clou He* brow «*f hn iv
Though <lnrk an*! *lr**ar th* earth bolow
No pata of life hi* soul r *b;tll know,
Ills sins are all forgiven !
- M, M. Folsom, In Atlanta journal.
A BRAGGART IN LOVE.
f s5 W***HK women had gone
fi to the drawing
room, and we had
finished first cigars,
when the eon versa
tion struck on
matrimony. XV i>
were all married
__) it nienexpj happt plaining how
•lied. The
^ other guest had
' told in turn their
little story in
free confidence one
feels at the end of
ll perfect dinner. I had related my
romance, and we now turned to our
host.
“Narlin, how did you win your
wife? ’
“It’s a long story begun on hunt
ing pass in the Arizona desert, crossed
tho water, and ended in Colorado.
Light fresh cigars.”
'*
1 think it was the summer of ’86.
Geronimo was not yet taken, and wo
had been chasing in our turn until,
for lack of backs and feet, onr horses
were lagging in tho race, and we were
sot to watch water-holes in the Ban
Billion, so polluted with alkali and
arsenic a sensible savage would have
shunned it, ns my dyspepsia, which
dates from that campaign, tells me 1
failed to do.
Somehow the Geronimo campaign
always reminded me <*f « fo * - '
ImiUM'..* oufs keep : n **
UmadfrntMfrkc ‘‘il
tr> f. roe the 'ni h to * -• .... —i tr
. -
the varum troops, like muter* iu
different wind, held and lost the
place which promised first at the fin
ish. If you know Arizona at all, you
will recall how sharp and rocky are
the crests of tho divides; being lines
of most resistance in this land <>f deep
erosion, they retain tho sharp, jagged
profile often seen in the snow-ice of
mountain dritts as it disappears in
early Hiuniner. Below theso scoops lie
a colony of rounded foot-hills, reced
mg and glowing less until they end in
broken bowlder mesa, which, with
numerous arroyos, fades into the soft,
level adobe plain, and blends, as uu
suspected as the canvas walls of a ey
elornma join the rocks and logs in the
pit below you.
The Indians preferred these sharp
crests, which were for them both
watch-towers and impregnable bus
tions. Occasionally they would strike
steel across the valley, kill a rancher, and
fresh ponies, ami some troop
uould cut m and crowd them in the
open till they took the next divide
and met some barrier that balked the
pursuers and forced on them a detour,
while some other troop, through “ ’ aeci- '
dent of locality, would tuck and take
the chosen place on the trail, giving
for *■"* “ a r few ...... days 1 ----- “• its dost 1 — 1 to * 11 the other 11
pursuing columns. It was a wean
stern-chase, performed uiulev burning
skies of cloudless blue iu a thirsty
laud of heat intolerable.
\Yc h.-cl had onr little spurt; had
brushed them off the divide, aud for
three days led in the open across the
valley to the Sierra Madre, where
Hesher horseflesh cut in from our
right and took from us the place of
honor and left us, foot sore aud back
sore and winded, at the base of the
mountains where we were ordered a
da^ s march back into the vallev near
the border, to guard water holes of
the Ban Simon 111 the sullen month of
August, ^Ac -g it* were getting
btarable, . .. but the day heat still held
on with the stubborn insistence of a
Southern summer. Our camp was not
happy the water was bad; our -hel
ter halves but little thicker than
eht tst cloth, proved leaky sun-shades,
TloulZZl'T'tT \v mth «mi-'*.;mout. OUr 8!Ul ;
ixeept - to growl, n wish we were in the
! -b'nDd whose blooming
uiUlhith.il qi,.« t» d tuylown among
tula monsters and ; -aiui-,h*s to watea
wnUr .so OUI met.nr sod nor sun
would drink it.
Something was going to happen, for
l T OI V ! / uV uerves -
Th The "catnei was too h.*t tor camp
idleness, and wt wer< near the “nue.
I was first sergeant of L Troop then,
and. next to a coward or a tbiei. 1
thina I :o»thed a ue^crier. We were
near the border of Mexico, wh;v me
inust uot etos* bu. ^acre smuggling
is permitted : .d vie v. sfible.
lrritable *V T
h niun / ,V- in K a !, '7 n, ! b' , k '
KthA- Teivh.liriww w ri U ~ ■ 'V''- ” "
i Fn . ! \| . r f 0r: ^ ' r "•'"?/ u “*
in the .1 clothme -1. m. and descriptive books,
RU r .T7-T T
ki!k ki ! th-.
k ';.' ltb
Apaches o i *■ ti*. :*u . \i were
crowding tlu m t*> ciom !y in th unver
p r , win n a , V. , uckb -hpp., .1 ;
U*i cauou uud nippvc o*or pack
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FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GA. TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 8. 1801.
in r «r. We b»*>i to quit pressing iu
front to h-ive onr train. It was a
clever bit of work, and five bucks did
it, killing two men for us, losing us :
our game just as we were bagging it. j
Leighton was company clerk, a
talented, handsome fellow; had served ;
out freshness iu India. and facility He had of a expression, cheering j
and spoke with the quick, falling in- j
flection and directness of the English
in speech one so quickly learns to love, i
Ho was mechanically ruling double
rcMim*ill. . book where a life 1 .i «c
couut of fMrrv.cea liatl been credited
Hici clo-oil, much as a bank-book is
mlcd when a statement is rendered
[ r Died ;* ;u “ or ha, ?“ Deserted cc htru 1 V, k * placed , Th ? in ? vord red ?
ink in the space below showed the
cause of closing for service abruptly
terminated. The usual remark was
“Discharged by expiration term of
service” iu black ink.
“Sergeant, and whose will be the
next bloody *D’?” asked Leighton,
without a ring of feeling.
“There’ll be plenty of’em, if this
blooming beat continues and we~ ro
main iu this camp,” I replied.
We were working at this official
funeral in the sultry summer night by
the unsteady light of lantern-candles,
and were not feeling impressed or
reverent. Leighton was m his under
j shirt, open his handsome brown
, throat. As he leaned over the books
j nt the work, slack a of locket its gold from chain his and bosom fell
struck
the desk.
I noticed it, and he took it off,
j handing it so me with indifference. He
had opened the locket, revealing the
| portrait, which was that of a fresh
j J young girl, one of those sweet Eng
lisli laces, whose charm is complexion
and expression of confidence complete,
The eyes arrested you—pathetic, soft
! brown eyes, so tender they seemed tore
proach, and, as you changed your point
of view of the miniature, followed you
with their full, warm light. I have
seen such affectionate light only in the
brown eyes of faithful dogs watching
those they love.
Seeing my more than casual notice
of the portrait, Leighton added: “It’s
an old story; not worth the telling; I
don’t know why I keep it.”
He spoke with the same abserfit in¬
terest wo were feeling over this work
j for the dead. It struck me as peculiar
j should tlnR in a romance accomplished there
be no trace either of bitterness
: or remorse, only weary indifference,
I w%8 so quickly fascinated by the,face
lV ‘‘ 1 irauner joyed, me,
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' '
for somehow I resented this careless
fellow wearing about him a face like
that, with less interest than he wore
his spurs. I did not then notice the
’ resemblance of the face to Leighton’s,
j I stopped abruptly and thought of
desertion, changing the conversation
to this, the subject of my day’s inns
ing.
“Leighton, something’s got to be
done to relieve the pressure. I know
the lieutenant would like to do so. He
ieels the pulse of this camp and know
the symptoms. But what can he do?—
liis orders to remain here are iiupera
tive, and he can’t ‘p ass ’ us across the
line.”
“Hunt ing leave,” laughed Leighton.
“Hunting leave*then, let it be,” I
replied, “with no questions asked as
to our game or preserve, though I can
, tell what vonrs will be, you young
! imp! To-morrow make out a hunting
pass for six.” Leighton was humming
a catchy service ballad that had ap
peared in London music-halls the year
j before, and did not reply, .
j Next morning, I presented with the
report four-days’ ..... hunting pass for " six
men. The lieutenant dipped A i ________ his pen
in the ink and held it in contemplation
for a moment above the place for sig
"
nature, - looking • ’ * thoughtfully *• * ■- ” across
tho level plain. Then, with quick de
eision : “l wish, sergeant, von and
\ Leighton would take hunting pass,
and let no complications arise.”
signed the pass, adding our names to
the text.
The following evening found us all
in Correlitos. After dinner, while
| smoking “Zona Libra,” fragrant I Vuella Abajo of the
strolled through the
narrow streets of this old Spanish
town, wfttching'the wealth of a west
ern sunset, where the after-glow «-as
fast fading. High above the mown
tain-tops lay great billows of russet
flame with crests 1 fixe the mane of a
wmd-fanned prairie fire. Lower m
the madre spread theymre deep purple
of southern twilight, while from the
foot-hills eame the soft evening breeze
born after the heat of day. Even
sounds fell on the ear so gently you
thought that before reaching you they
mUSt have loit ^ ed to b *the in the
iiee iuia . and 1 eaugnt some of its mur
mur.
On the plaza I passed two groups of
comrades, one seeking solace m bran
dy, the other, fortune in roulette—
pleasant vast lines that might lead to
“complications while money lasted,
and would bear light watching.
1 ' valked tJ tbe Jardlu de ° ro -
a small public park, wiier. serenades
arc inspired and listeners stroll or seat
themselves on benches or the grass.
Only those who have suffered the
heat and glare of a campaign in the
desert can form any idea ol the physi
eal luxury of green trees and oi water.
[ was seated listening to the soft In
diaa Spanish as it fell about mein
slow chatter. From a.M it mingled
"■ of the fountsm.
” V?,
p* , "*T <? l m 0U P .\ } T ‘V e l»f. "'Py . left ot ! y ,he here r ,“*! y e , re e -
rY ” p sls,en ' COO, U ; 01 ,h £ ‘
lonely turtle oove -mmirnfnl , sounds .
'^y A oove h tef“tea-’dte.he the mountains lay vibrant a zone beat. of
troubled whitt. from which the moon
ha.l now risen into the full, upper
; blue, causing the leaves overhead to
| cast shadows in arabesque on the grass
-u iu>* feet, where, as the night breeze
stirred the foliage, it wove marvelous
figures in trefoil and tracery for fancy
to play with as with those made by
flames iu a grate. Now it was the lines
of a Gothic window, seen iu an old
cathedral almost forgotten, and low,
on grander scale, the design of deli
cate drawn-work recalled from my
lady’s chamber.
Leighton was there, mantilla beside
him. I could only half see the re¬
vealed oval of the face, but the figure
was slight and pretty, for I caught its
graceful outline Inter when they
[.asset! me.
Next evening, at a bade, Leighton
presented me to l’aneliita. Together
th > y were dancing--he and this pret|y
animal, with eyes for him alone. In
the desert so rapid is love’s kindling,
so quick and full its flame, no charred
or half-burned brands are here left on
love’s altar. It is consumed, and what
survives must spring, phoenix-like,
from fire or else descend from heaven,
After the danza ended, Leighton
was standing iu shirt -sleeves near
Panchita, with the collar of his jersey
open at the throat—a trick of his that
made me suspect that he had seen
service in the navy. As he leaned over
her, Pauchita’a eye caught sight of the
locket chain, and he removal th'a
locket, opened it, and handed it to
her; this time not indifferently, but
with all the pride of prized conquest,
I was watching Panchita closely as
she gazed fascinated by the portrait,
and I saw her tremble. Only as I read
her face then by what I now know, can
I tell how well it expressed all that
hopeless sense of loss which comes
with the abandonment of things loved
or desired. For an instant her eyes
showed tho rage a child sometimes
feels for an inanimate object, when
that object has lmrt it. And I thought
she would break the locket; then the
woman conquered, and she smiled as
she retutned it.
From that moment her abandon¬
ment toward Leighton was complete:
her gayety and grace became exquisite,
while a look from him would lead her.
“Oh, you Eastern dervish of hearts !”
I exclaimed to myself, as Panchita left
him and skipped to get a handful of
cascarones and then returned, crush¬
ing the pretty tinsel spangles in a
shower over liis brown head and throat.
Blic flitted about him with the grace
of a bird, and her eyes never left him.
She was becoming intoxicated with hei
own movements; her cheeks were
flushed with bright fever spots, and
h ey eves shone like stars. On and on
ihey dau^d, seeing only ejaj! other.
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At length _ Leighton proposed they
go, and she obeyed liis wish as if
hypnotized or impelled to do it; and,
ignoring her duenna, they left to
gether.
* ’■ * **.,*
Inc next week 1 ruled Leigaton s
official epitaph in the L Troop records
thus: “Deserted from hunting pass
‘ ’■» ’•
Aon see, the case was an awkwarc .
one " night of the baile he had
| ' H -CD stabbed m the park. I found his
Dodv theie, and comrades were
| stiing^uj) Aloiales, laneliitas
admirer, for the stabbing, when
-
I stopped them.
. . Hold on, boys,” I said; “remem¬
ber I promised the lieutenant no ‘com¬
plications.’ ”
So Leighton became officially a “de¬
serter,” ana I kept my word.
Besides, I doubt if stringing up
j " on ‘ d bave ‘ )een Diir to Alorales, foi
1 j }° w1 when ’” ^ n I r found l T,oicfl,w Leighton’s ground “ body, the
0 w f s J m S 011 beside
it. The clasp was open aud the portrait
I,, ‘flood-stained . . and mutilated, ... if by
| as
tke.pomt of a dagger.
1 think Leighton half knew what he
' sas fl‘A n &' "hen he flaunted that por
‘ rai * a * i aneluta lie was a
; ' chap, cM D* and nn<l loved Jove ' 1 danger danger in m a a way way tc tc
"'in any woman’s heart, But you see
H was his first affair m this land, and
| hc Wfts mistaken in their temper.
How could I let his record remain
80? Well, what could I do? Besides,
j Leighton was not his right name, ns J
found oat aft erward when reading his
home ietters to S et lns relatives’ ad
! dre8S- «nd that His locket name the was rascal Jack showed Langhorn,
me
contained a portrait of his youngest
bTs famih-^ tC
! fnneVbv e J Z 2 l ® - t? the S 5 m
;
^hree vews^ter ites' wLme'l TMk’a aiater inTnl
tu to tL-Status, t!l s t where I met met her W m Col
-orado » tbo Near a.ter I left the service
a nd imute the striKe at Harqua Hala
!, be lh - arnn now, and you mel
, ^
; kli ^ ra w s °nl% in ^ half er ’ ilie story of her por*
^ ^ STS? h 11
J_ c * Ovevton ^ eGon, m Ar onau t.
0
gaw tlm Stomach Work
( Tue sap-entso. f _ the Baltimore Col _ .
b ‘J e ol Imticians and Surgeons the
other day were treated to an inside
view of a man s stomacn at work, and
11 “. s “; 1 ^ bc ^
wa, evm: seen. By means of
a uexib.e ruboer tube a diminutive,
but powerful electric light was intro
dueed into the patient’s stomach, and
tne lights m tue room being lowered,
tdeuarimes* permitted over-0.00 stn
stomach. The experiment was °I eon- ***
^-nL *• *>..*.-5*o<* OHe^sPiS^e Orleans P. ^vune. ^ eU ’
Different T Te”, I / -
•? T s old-style-flint . . , l«a ,
. I ” h coped and pointed peunted mpe- m
onliar k hieroglyphics , n- are sold to the
Arabs^and^Amcan I he South American ribes Un.es in ^nantities. a ilainty
barrel of the smaUeet gauge, with th«
stocks also eiaboraiely carved and
ornamented. The European buys r
J j gun tracings exquisitely of gold.— finished Chicago and Herald, inlaid ir
sM\'I? 1 D VUW’JfPV lj A bl’lJC f ITUO
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j
HEROISM OF A F:»nL YOUNG COL¬
LEGE i iiX,
!
A Devotion to Duty Mid a Wrecked
Life—An Incident of a Disaster on
an Inland Lake/
I HAD for my roommate in college
at Evanstown a frail lad, born on i
the banks of tin Mississippi. He j
.
. ' had learned *u-i*s waters to swim
» u ,l Jive until helmed almost as
imwh at home in tJpitmdishments a»r «a on tan,l
q Q 0 of his Evan«tt^Xvas first ac
( . tt i Latiii, rcd at s^lftming not in Greek
or but in in the lake
in time of st* He would dive
through the bre^As or toss upon
their tops, or with prr.jWwith tiny fountain. them as a
giant might a He
was a wonderful efajie ^burner.
One day there ’nows trickling down
through the village of a great
steamship wreck; 1 at 1 o’clock in the
morning, ten mil*g out in the lake,
whose 400 pass< qfer.s were struggling
with tho wavtl | or were already
drowned. Aly roommate heardabugle
blast in his su'd that morning. He
said he seemed near these words:
“Who knowetl -st thou art come in¬
to tho kingdom for such a time as
this?” Tw< u’Nidred others volun
teered for service, oue of whom is now
a bishop in Jiff, Alethodist Church,
and after wanl-®fiecame President of
the uuiversitv 'v*
They put a i ** e around my room¬
mate’s waist tly they might recover
his frail body if- Ne should be killed by
the floating p ; eeiife of wreckage. Back¬
ward and forward he went for six
hours, helptnlfeo save human life.
Through surf lie hi gpHKt f-led familiarity to do much with the
was m more
than all tin rh® put together. Some
were saved by 2 tug far out in the
lake, but oi .-early 400 passengers
only thirty e^e of through tho break¬
ers alive, am those my roommate
saved seventeen.
struggle He put of Xifb three-score that one day the
years and
ten. Ho w;:m compelled to give
up his studies. He was com¬
pelled ministry, toPv*' which up the Christian
for ho was preparing.
To-day he isffffe wreck of a man, liv¬
ing among H-bliills of Southern Cali¬
struggling/*?/ fornia, far iy ay from a railroad line,
r fruit ranch for a live¬
lihood. I'Im price paid for that day’s
work lifetime wto _^alth saved and strength of a
seventeen hu¬
mr n:- _
he stood before a blazing fire, was
covere j w itii blankets, and drank
strong ”from stimulants in order to keep his
ii m b 8 cramping. But each time
RU uu f 0 rtuuate one came near the
breakers, if he was able to go, he threw
off his incumbrances and plunged
fl °At , ra in into the water
first he wore the rope upon his
arm> but coming to a piece of debris
to which a drowning person was clin**-
j U g, the wreckage struck him in the
f ace aU( j be commenced to bleed pro
fuggjv The crowd on shore, alarmed
j or pig safety, commenced pulling in
^be line prematurely before he liad
bold of the drowning person. He
threw off the rope, clutched the man
aud brought him safely ashore without
the help of the rope.
Walking up on the beach he saw a
gentleman sitting - in an elegant ear
riage who had evidently come to the
lake with the coachman from his
suburban home. He said to this
gentleman: “These people have al
most killed me, and another accident
may take my life without my having
(lone mv work . wm you conseut to
manage my rope for me, not allowing
*i lfl 60 vou^lo r>nll thi^you until T Bhal^have + 1 ,^
signal. signal. If if you do this you shall have
j | half the credit for anythin** - 1 mav be
al)lo a t 0 ] e to to do< c | () »» » ~~ The ^entlemftn con
Be nted, and for five hours managed Instru- Lite
rope He was t hus largely
mental in--tlie successful work my
did "
roommate
The last person saved that day was
a m an who was comm** - ashore/in a
aifficult part of the surf, where the
bank was high and precipitous Any
one reac hing shore there would be
pounded to death on the steep bank.
TW who came to this part of the
surf were absolutely lost, as it seemed
more than a man ' s life Wft s worth to
save them. AIv roommate saw this
man with one arm clinging to a piece
of wreck > whlle be held iu th e other a
b l llldle ’ su ‘fi ,osed to contain silver
j plate or some other precious thing
tv rap p ed up i n a bit of clothing.
A sudden lift of the waves brought
, the man and‘the raft into full view,
j f nd streame d on t from the
; bundle a tress of hair . eighteen , inches
i l0Dg - Then my friend knew that the
man was trying to save his wife, and
said to those about him : “Cost what
| it the may, attempt. I will save that man or die in
1
He ran down the beach, following
the retreating wave, knelt down as
closely as possible to the sand and let
the return ware pound him. When
ne ^ 6een hQ was far into the water *
He swam to the piece of raft to
which the two were clinging. When
within six or eight feet of them the
man cried out: “Save my wife! Save
my wife' The brave swimmer said:
“Yes, Fllsave your wife and you,
* °’- * aste ^ in § hands m their
clothing 1 ■ at the back of their necks, he
ft'' but von must can t swim for yonr in the lives water, and
Push up northward
and get beyond this dangerous aurr, it
we are to be saved at all To the ,oy
of the unloosing spectators he came
safely to shore with both unfortunates
for whom he had so bravely imperiled
bMlife. -
The daily papers were full of
pra^-es. The illustrated papers of New
York and London contained his pic
lure, but when we were alone in onr
, room it whs pitiful to see him. His
face would turn ashen pale and he
would turn'his great hungry eyes on
me and say: “Toll me the truth.
Will, everybody praises me. Tell me
the truth. Did I fail to do my best?
He did not ask, “Did I do as well as
some one else?” That went without
asking. -d
He did not ask: “Did I do as w
as auy man on God’s footstool?” I
tllink be llli o ! ‘ t b» ve answered that
question . in the affirmative. Ine ques
ti<m that ran through him like a poi
soiled dagger as he reniembeied t ic
300 and more who lost their lives in
sight, and most of them iu hearing of
land—the one supreme question was:
“Did I do my best?"—Northwestern
Christian Advocate.
1VISE WORDS.
Forgetting is forgiving.
A light heart lives long.
Alarriage is love’s sacrifice.
Don’t try to pump out the sea.
A good deed needs no applause.
A kiss is a song without words.
Covetousness lioaixls itself poor.
Sunshine is the leaven of living.
Love teaches us the pleasure of pain.
All true love is grounded on esteem.
Friendship depends largely on funds.
Speech is a deformity in some peo*
pie.
A woman’s smile can make a burden
light.
Love is contagious, epidemic and
incurable.
XVhat the rosebud promises it does
not fulfill.
You cannot play false, and yet
rightly win.
Help the deserving, not all those
who appeal.
“It is wonderful how' near conceit is
to insanity.
Suspicion paves the road to misun¬
derstanding.
It is not the longest life that hag
the most in it.
People are so much alike they should
be better friends.
XVhen two ride the same horse, on6
must ride behind.
Love and necessity arc the' only
cures for laziness.
It is seldom that a woman thinks so
without saying so.
We rarely find as much iu a dollar
as we think there is.
Theory ot Plant Growth.
The theory of plant growth, elabor¬
ated chiefly by American biologists,
that the motion is rhythmic and not
regularly continuous is being brought
forward to account for many phenom¬
ena hitherto deemed inexplicable. One
of the most notable of these attempts
appears in a paper in the Proceedings
’ of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, describing the manner
in which nature produces the various
forms of the Citrus tribe. It is no un
common occurrence that a small orange
is found inside of a larger one; and the
kind known as the navel orange is one
in which a very feeble attempt to form
another orange results in giving the
/navel” appearance to the fruit This
^ explained by stating that a branch
is arrested m its longitudinal growth
*' hen tlie fr mt 1S to ^ * orm ® d ’ antl
^ 1( ? P at ^ s » leaves , and stems >ecome
eu \ ft /" ed and suoimlent instead of nor
mft l leaves and stem. An oiange is
really but a transformed massi of leaves
and branches. In the double orange
; tke wave ■?' rowtl1 doeB llot entirely rest
! w makes ^f n i° another rn J m o feeble the one attempt orange, to elon- bu^
i
; oul v to b f ^rested as the first
-
I wave was, resulting m a smaller truit.
Sometimes the primary wave is the
feebler, in which case it is almost
1 wholly abortive,and the only “orange”
^suiting is the one which would be
' tbe inter io r in the double instance, or
the “navel” in the other. This ro
suits in the variety known as the man
darin ' The mandarin is the product
of fcbe n PP er > aud usually very feeble
! wave - In the lemon the “nip
! l )le ” is tbe resnlt of ft feeble attem Pt
| of the secoud g r °w th wa " a to form an
otber lemou on the ^ of the lower,
, and analogous the “navel the
is to m
variety of orange known as snxch The
author of the paper believes that much
of the vai lety we see among plants and
flowers are referable to varjin 0 inten
sitms in growth waves. New York
Independent .
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Related by an Argonant.
James Brown, of Salt Lake City,
Utah, claims to have witnessed the first
diac °very oi gold in California, having
been with Marshall when the glitter
ing scales were picked up iu Sutter’s
millrace in 1S47. He tells tho story
of the find as follows:
“Some time in January, 1S’47, I was
working with Marshall at Sutter’* mill,
on the American River. Alarshall and
I came upon some decayed granite at
the bottom of the millrace, where we
were at work. Alarshall was inter
ested iu the rock, but the rest of us
didn’t think anything of it. He said,
‘We will shut down the gates early in
the morning,’and it was done. He
was down at the race that morning
while tbe rest of us were in the cabin.
In a short time Alarshall came up with
his hat in his hand, saying, ‘Boys, I’ve
got her now.’
“I being about the youngest and
most curious of the crowd, ran to him,
and saw on the lining of his hnt ten or
twelve pieces of scale gold. Thelarg
est piece was worth fifty cents. 1 picked
it up and tested it in my teeth, and as
it did not give I held it np aud yelled
‘Hold, boys, gold!'
“At that the rest of them crowded
around. I plated mv piece oat thin
and ran to the cabin and. tested it on
a hot bed of manzanita coals, and os it
, did not burn away I knew it was gold.
j We picked up lots of it in the next two
or three days.’’—Detroit Free Press,
FI ZZLES FROM A MINE.
_
THE HISTORY OF THE DIAMOND
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.
I>oes Nature Scatter Her Gems
Broadcast From Some World
in Space?—South Africa’s Alines.
S is pretty widely known, the
diamond mines of South
Africa, situated chiefly in Gri
qualand West, consist of
large depressions, tilled with earth,
varying in color from yellow to gray
ami blue, w hich is described as a tough,
dry mud of volcanic origin, sometimes
hardened into rock. This mud, or
“blue,” as it is technically called, is
enclosed in a basin of rock geologically
known as “pipe,” which is supposed to
be a crater oi an extinct volcano, into
which the mud has been injected from
below. The four principal pipes or
mines lie within a radius of a few miles,
and are known as Kimberley, Do Beers,
Dutoitspan and Bulttontein. The gen¬
eral features of all are alike ; in each,
the upper part of the soil is yellow,
changing, at from fifty to one hundred
feet from the surface, to a blue ground
of greater density. The diamonds
were first discovered in the yellow
earth; and when the miners had
cleared that out, they imagined that
they had come to the end of the dia¬
mond ; but it was soon found that they
were even more abundant in the blue
ground; and since that time the mines
have been carried down to 600 and 800
feet without any diminution in the
yield ; on the contrary, the deeper the
.excavations are carried the better ap¬
pears the output.
The “blue,” when excavated, is car¬
ried up and spread on the ground,
where it lies for months, to be disin¬
tegrated by air and water, and is then
washed and picked over carefully by
hand to find the diamonds. Scattered
through the blue earth are not only
diamonds, but a great variety of crys¬
tals, agates, iron pyrites and other
substances, among which Air. A. A.
Anderson, the travel sr, believes he
found many well-workecl fiint imple¬
ments from different, depths ; and Air.
AI. E. Barber, as early as 1871, re¬
ported the discovery of many worn
and perfect flint implements at Coles
berg Kopje, in diamondiferous soil,
from considerable depths, which, if
confirmed, would add another to the
many puzzles \ connected with the
diamond mines, especially, if the vol¬
canic theory is to be maintained. Air.
Anderson, however, looks upon the
blue ground as occupying the bed of
an ancient lake, and that the dia¬
monds, flint implements, fossil wood
and other substances had been brought
down by an ancient river, now repre¬
sented by the Vaal, distant twelve
miles or more, the bed of which at
various points, and the rocky banks
on both sides, are rich in diamonds,
the rock of the river bed being of the
same nature as that which encloses the
mines. Geologists generally incline
to the volcanic theory, but believe
that the diamonds are of an earlier
date than the upheaval of the mud
containing them from an enormous
depth.
The great majority of South African
diamonds are amorphous, cloudy, yel¬
lowish-looking, soapy-feeling masses,
varying in size from a pin’s head to a
small pebble; but some arc perfect
octahedrons, white aud very brilliant.
These are, of course, the most valu¬
able ; and, singular to relate, although
these varieties occur in all the mines,
yet the general characteristics of the
gems, whether dull or brilliant, white
or yellow, are sufficiently distinctive
to enable an expert to say at a glance
from which mine a diamond lias come,
the same holding good of Amal River
gems, and of those from Jagersfontein,
in the Orange Free State.
Here, thou, is another puzzle. How
is it that gems so apparently similar,
having presumably a common origin
and embedded in the same matrix,
have acquired varying characteristics?
Dame Nature is au adept at hiding
lter secrets even from the prying eyes
of scientists, for although the diamond
mines of South Africa have been
known and worked for more than
t vears to’ 8CarceIv anythin- has
been mlded onr knowledge "called of the
| itself . The ancients it
damatlt> and we still regard it as the
hardest of all things; vet it is easily
smaslied by a well-directed blow, can
b e cut iu flakes by the dishonest jewel
ler, and is often found so cracked and
flawed as to crumble to pieces un
touched* nevertheless the splinters
will pierce the hardest rock, and even
when reduced to the finest powder ’
will cut and polish all other gems.
Until the discovery diamonds of the ca°me South
African mines, al! from
India and Brazil; but it was, of course,
the Indian mines which supplied the
Old World; and, strange as it mav
geem, to our belief in the superiority
of modern craftsmen, the jewelers of
ancient India, and possibly of Rome
also, had discovered the art of en
cravin'* - and even of omrcm** the dia
mond, an art which our modern jew
elers find most difficult.
Thousands perhaps millions of
rears the diamond has been in exist
ence vet its origin is still a mvsterv.
Pure carbon the chemists L cal/it ’they but
i a what alembic it distilled
know not. Embedded in mud, it re
mained undefiled • vet sometime® it
will be found tinted by some chemical
process so as to become pink, blue,
yellow, and even black, but it alwovs
remains a diamond, not to be con
founded with the commoner crystals
which often bear it company. In the
Vaal River diggings it would seem to
have a constant companion in a
onsly streaked pebble, known as the
j “banddoom ” which when a
‘ near.’ fi nds he knows that diamonds°a**e
o‘t In these “blue”° dig"itms the crems are
I u found in sometimesat^ eround as at
Kimberley bat deoH
of from twenty to seventy feet ia yeL
NO. 0
——51
! boulders, low S ronud . MU:[ under immen i
although often in shallow
beds of tine red sand or under a hard
crust of lime. The puzzle here, again, 8
is to kuoVY Uow all those gems came
, there. Chambers’s Journal.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The word Arizona means otymolo; ‘
eally, “big nose.”
A duke during the middle ages was
an independent sovereign.
The name Ptolemy was adopted ns a
title by the later kings of Egypt.
The oldest- New England Church, in
point of use as a religious edifice, is at
Hingham, Mass.
The list of English authors and
* . xvovk-s 1bo idles of 800
H>lr over
l Jocms aud essays on “Solitude,
Italian soldiers are given cigars
every day, but have to pay for their
underclothing, washing and all toilet
! articles.
Now York lias the biggest gas tank
in the world. It towers high above
the buildings in West Sixty-fifth street,
and holds 4,000,000 feet.
“ ‘A Schoolmaster’ wishes to ex¬
change his little daughter, aged
eleven, for a boy of similar age,” was
au odd advertisement in the Kentish
Mercury, England, recently.
When the ostrich is to be divested
of its plumage a long hood is placed
on its head, ami it is then confined in
a railed inclosure about three feet
square. The birds rarely show light.
A. B. Alvers, of Hanover, Penn.,
lost both liis hands in au accident
years ago. He was recently married,
and signed his marriage certificate
with a pen held iu his teeth. His
penmanship is fine.
The register of a country hotel in
Alaine one day recently contained
names of Mongolians, Russians, Prus¬
sians, Italians, Turks, Greeks, Can¬
adian, French and Germans, each
written iu tho owner’s language.
A lake of boiling mud, two miles in
circumference, exists in the island of
Java, near Solo. Alasses of soft, hot
mud continually arise and fall, and
huge mud bubbles explode like bal¬
loons, with reports like guns, at tho
rate of three a minute.
A Japanese audience, when they
wish to express disapproval of a bad
play, do not lii.su or hoot or make any
hideous and inconvenient noise; they
merely ri3e to their feet anil turn
tlieir backs to tho stage, upon which
the curtain immediately descends, and
the play is fortliwitlwijiyj^^
A cat, importeWroin Aladuga.^nr Robinson^ i«
in the possession of W. C.
of New Castle, Penn. The animal has ’
no tail and runs like a rabbit. The
eat is a great rabbit hunter, and can
follow All*. Bunny into almost any
burrow. Air. Robinson claims that it
caught nineteen rabbits one day re¬
cently.
Ancient critics said Homer was a
plagiarist. Nauerats charged that
Homer stole all his work from a pre¬
ceding poem; Aelian mentions one
iSyagrus who preceded Homer and
wrote a poem on the siege of Troy,
and Buidas says Homer got liis best
passages from a poem by Corrinnus on
the same subject.
The California Indian’s bow is made
from the white sap of wood of the
cedar, the outside of the tree being
the outer side of the bow. The stick
is scraped and polished with pieces of
obsidian. Then it is roasted in ashes
and bent into shape. Their arrows
ftre made of button willow, twigs 0 /
the buckeye and canes,
Wet Weather Philosophy.
j As recent I was passing showery through morning, F I street
j on a saw
I an umbrella-mender sitting in front
1 of the door of an office building, work
ing away 011 a heap of broken urn
brellas, which evidently he had col¬
lected from tlie tenants inside. Tho
rain was falling steadily, and the man
must have been wet to the skin be¬
fore he returned tlieir property to his
customers. I could not forbear ask
ing him why he thus invited a bath.
snlnse “Why shouldn’t I?” he asked in re
' 1
“Because it is a bad advertisement
for yonr alway^ trade,” said I. “A tailor
should be well dressed, a shoe
maker always well shod ; by the same
logic, a man who deals in umbrellas
ought to be dry when other persons
are getting soaked with rain. ”
“You’re dead wromr ” he answered
promptly “There’s no suggestion of
positive“ suffering in old clothes or
well-worn shoes—many people like
them better than new ones But when
I offer ^^1 to mend a moTof man’s 6 umbrella fmpres I
make a an
sion on him bv coming into his pres
ence with a /vet back. He says to
himself at once: ‘Is it really so wet
outside? I can’t stand that sort of
thing. It would give me my death!’
And out comes his umbrellas at once
to be put in repair. So, you see I
trade on m-** miserable anrmaranee as‘my It
is just as much of a tool for rne
nippers or my wrench.’’—Kate Field’s
-Washington.
Largest Library in the World.
The Nati/nal largest library in tim world
is the Library of Paris, con
taining more than 2,000,000 printed
volumes and about 200 000 maun
scripts. The British Museum has a
collection of about 1,500,000 volumes
and exceeds the Sfc Petersburg Volumes. taper
ial Library only bv 12,000
The Royil Library at Munich con
tains about 900,000 printed works, and
it is exceptionally rich in pamphlets,
while the Berlin Royal Library has
800,000 volumes, that'of Copenhagen
nnn tfi«+ n*’ TirwUn Gottingen*each and of th«
University Library at
has 500 009 The Imperial Library at
Vienna Sbr^v has 400 000 while the Univer
si tv in the same metropolis
has 370,000.— New York Independent