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J 5.V’ Craig "Williamson.
VOLUME XXXIV.
1894. greeting. 1894,
With the Dawn of a Bright and Happy New' Year,
J. E. MORPHY
Takes this opportunity to wish his customers many happy returnsfor
A Bright and Prosperous Season.
The year 1894 promises to be one of the brightest from a financial
standpoint. Congress will soon settle the money and tariff
question, and the confidence of a united nation will be restored.
Having Determined to Remain in Gainesville,
And cast my lot with the people of this and surryunding counties,
I Wish to Make the Announcement
That I can be found at my old Stand, in the Bailey Blook, south side
public square, Gainesville, Ga., with a full and complete stock of new
Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Trimmings, Clothing, Shoes, Hats,
Caps and Notions. Also a full line of Staple and Fancy Groceries,
including the finest grade of Flour and Coffee. My stock is new and
direct from the New York market; I have paid cash for everything
purchased and propose giving my customers the
Benefit of |ew fork Prices, far gash.
I wish here to thank my friends and customers for the phenomenally
large trade of the past three months, and trust the mutual ben
efits derived will even more firmly cement the good feeling
which has grown up between us by eight years of honorable
business dealing.
Yours, Respectfully,
J. E. MURPHY.
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We want to make
year has lied. 3m
The teacher of our <jg Bj Jm
too wise of la gH /H an
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candidate? gg _
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time to sparyj
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square, X —_ et
And though perhal y OQ T* tn
feel quite free w" ,
We want a man to pl.
a candidate? & “f
Our station agent hasft 8
portance decked, yk
He does not treat the ctkL. J iy
with respect. -*
He snaps you up e’en if you ask if the next
train is late.
We want a more obliging man.’’**.re you a
candidate?
Our postmaster so long lias had h>y salary and
place 1
He acts as if to question him was ; Imost a dis
grace. .
He tells you people; show; proc'pt, while ho
is always late. u.
Somehow we —anta different mauf Are you a
• candidate? *’
And e’en bur doctor has of late grc.wn tremen
dous. big; ' .
'He dresses like an English lord anditides round
in a gig. '
Such mighty words upon his lips appear to con
gregate, _
W*; want one we can understand. Are you a
candidate?
’lf any .place that I named you* would like
to possess, •• .» r*,
Send to the townAf Nottoofast full name
and “*
The number of'tho shoes you wear, tho inches
round your pate.
And this will tell us fair and square you are a
. Uididato.
—Boston Globe.
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THE HOUSE OF HARL.
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I was pretending to kjll trout in the
Stream flowing through" ‘the greenest
of our valleys”—Pleasant valley, on
the eastern Sierra slope—but my line
was in the tree aAd I was di earning
of the days agr*e, when old Dan
Quick, first ofj. he settlers—oldest in
habitant —caeied me fritm'the bank,
rallied mo on my careless angling
and told me to follow him • down the
brook toward Steamboat Creek, where
the trout were bigger and more plen
tiful. As we went we came out upon
the old stage road, and befo e long
my guide was telling me the of
the honor of the house of Hau.
As we stood beside tho rc id and
the old settler was saying thaLit was
no longer much traveled, everybody
patronizing the railroad, a fi ie car
riage drawn by four magnificent bay
horses came up over a little ridge in,
the direction of th\? town of Reno
and swept past us.
In the carriage were two ladies and
some young girls, while on tl ie seat
in front, “handling the ribbons,” was
a handsome man of middle age, with
beside him a manly looking ’id, 10
or 12 years of age. All in the vehicle
were laughing merrily as they passed
along, and my thought was, “A' very
jolly family party.”
The old man beside me was all eyes
as the four-in-hand dashed by. With
his right hand raised to the rim of
his hat and with staring eyes ho
stood motionless, as one petrified.
When the glittering turnout had roll
ed away southward to Carson City
the old man dropped his hand and
cried: “Ah, there they roll in wealth
and gladness! But once it was not so.
There was a time when all was very
different with them. Yes, very differ
ent, and right here in this valley—
right along the course of the very road
over which they now ride so merrily.
Yes, sir, very different times they’ve
seen in these very valleys that lie
along here under the eaves of the old
Sierra range. They rode then as
well as now—not in a kerridge, but
on hosses, and fliers they was too 1
It was a life and death business *o
them then. There was no laughin
then!
“Yes, there was cnee seen right
along hero in these valleys a mighty
lively chase —a life and death chase.
All them big peaks looked down on
thaf race, and ffii these lower ones
echoed it. Lord, I remember it all
as if it was only yesterday that it
happened.
“Yes, there is a bit of a story in it.
It is almost what you might call a
tragedy, *nd here we are right on
the stage where it was acted out.
Then to think I have jist seen two of
the principal actors go laughin by!
“Jack Lang, the< man you saw
driyin that kerridge, was young
them'days—a slashiif, dashin feller
and as handsome as they make ’em.
And the youngest of the two wim
min you saw in the kerridge was
then a young gal. She was the
beauty of the Great Basin—not a gal
between the Sierras and the Rockies
could come up to her. She was tall
and limber as a young wilier tree,
and her face was like the first blush
of a bright mornin. She could ride
like a Comancher Injun and shoot a
rifle like one of the old hunters of
Kentucky. She was the pride of her
father, the idol of her mother, an
only child and the life and light of
the ‘house of Harl,’ as old S'"
to speak of his people.
“The ranch of her fathe
Harl, lies off yander in V
ley, and the land is as fr
shines on anywhere o?
the globe. Over the
along the slopes of th
the gal, Ella Harl, rac>
about on the wildest;
her father's band. Or in
rifle in hand, she trippu
bench lands after jack
sage hens. Sometimes she
off up into the lower e
Sierras and tumbled <
Even a b'ar didn't skeer
a cinnamon —and she k.
of ’em. I guess she'd ev
warm for a grizzly if she
onto one. She was a gal ■
tiers and warn't skeerd
that traveled mountain or A
“Jack Lang came over to t
of the mountains with a big Ilex « _
cattle from his father's ranch in So
noma county, Cal. He and his cow
boys herded these cattle on the
Truckee medders, no ranches bein
took up in that section then, and all
bein free and out o’ doors like. J ack
soon met Ella Harl scoutin about,
and after he'd once segn her he spent
most of his time at her father's ranch
I l ‘ in I >*<<so.
rßtln over tlie country with Her, I
yaavin the hired men to look after
Wiis father's cattle.
I* _ ‘ ‘lt seemed a case of love at first I
insight, and we all thought the pair
Ysgde for each other. 1 guess old Sam
f soS&l Was the same opinion, i
allers seemed to like to see Jack I
'r,d Ella ridin about together, racin or |
llLasin rabbits or kyoties—games that
most allers come out fust best
)aijs EUa wasn’t to blame for fallin in
~ Tve with the young feller, for he was
r <) doubt the first real dashiu young
r Jtan she'd ever seen in all her life.
a#Xo sich young feller was to be found
among the Mormon settlers, who
mostly held the country. All the
young Mormons were reg'lar yahoos,
• and besides her people had but little to
do with the followers of old Brigham
Young. So Ella looked on Jack as a
sort of young Lochinvar. In her eyes
lie was perfect, and whatever he said
' or did was right. And no doubt her
, father was well satisfied, for Jack’s
father owned half a dozen big ranches
over in California and so many cat
tle that he could hardly count ’em.
“All summer Jack and Ella were
. out ridin about together ’most every
day, and we all said it was a match.
■ I remember one day when they rode
by laughin gayly. Barney Clow
' looked after’em with all his eyes;
. then turnin to me with a wink lie
said, ‘A match as sure as if the knot
1 were already tied!’ It seemed to us
, it would be a mighty good match,
too —good for the Langs as well as
for the ‘house of Harl, ’ for there was
lots of land and cattle on both sides.
But good lookin and fair spoken as
Jack was, it seems there must have
been something not exactly honest
. and square in his makeup—would
look thataway by the way he finally
acted.
“One day ’long in the fall, ’bout
the Ist of October, old Sam Harl,
who had been ridin about the valleys
swappin cattle and yarns with the
. settlers, went home kinder troubled
in mind over some news he had
, heerd. This news was that Jack
Lang had been pushin his cattle out
of the country and would soon have
. ’em all on the California side—the
- main herd bavin already been driven
out of Truckee med'ders and up inter
the mountains as far as Donner lake.
, Jack was goin to strike up inter the
’ montains next day, leavin some of
his cowboys to gather up and bring
. along a few stragglin lots of cattle.
“Old Sam had happened to meet
one of Jack’i-rwwboys, who told him
that Jack had got a letter from his
father orderin him to gather up the
cattle and return to California at
' once. The cowboy furder said Jack
was in a peck of trouble, as his fa
i ther was determined he should marry
( a Spanish senorita, who had hun-
I dreds of square leagues of land and
. countless herds of cattle. Seems this
marriage had been arranged by
, Jack’s folks and the Spanish family,
‘ ‘Of course all the cowboys had seen
: Ella and Jack gallopin about together
( and were glad to see that their young
boss had had the luck to win the
brightest and handsomest gal in the
, country—one that could ride with
L any of ’em and beat most of ’em when
t it came to shootin. They looked on
Ella Harl as a sort of queen among
, women —a reg'lar goddess. Not a
man among them but would have
risked his life for Ella. So they didn’t
like to see Jack fixin to slip out of the
country as he was doin; in fact, they
( had held a sort of indignation meet
, in about it among themselves.
“By askin a few questions old Sam
, Harl found that Jack had gone up to
Eagle ranch, in Eagle valley, where
Carson City now stands, and that in
’ the afternoon he would return to
Truckee medders, and next mornin
push on up inter the mountains to
. catch his main herd of cattle. This
’ news give Sam a feelin of oneasiness,
as every day for weeks he had been
expectin Jack would ask him to give
him a wife. So, mountin his
hoss, ho struck for home like a hurry
: cane to see Ella, tell her what was up
and find out jist how matters stood
between her and J ack.
“ ‘By the Almighty,’ said old Sam
in turnin to leave the cowboy, ‘it will
be a bad bit of work for Jack Lang if
• he has not been actin on the square
with me and mine!’
“ ‘Don’t be too brash, Mr. Harl,’
. said the cowboy. ‘All niay come out
, well.. Somebody has bec*i writin from
over here to Jack’s father a lot of
stuff that has caused the old man to
, order him home at once, bag and bag
, gage. I heard Jack say that much
myself.’
“To this old Sam made no answer
but to roar, ‘By the eternal, no Lang
shall disgrace the house of Harl and
live!’ Then striking his spurs into
, his hoss he dashed away.
' ! ‘On reaching home the old man at
■ once told Ella what he had heard of
. Jack's movements and intentions.
She was struck all of a heap. ‘Why,
■ father,’ said she, ‘l'm Jack's wife.’
“Old Sam then found that Jack
ad told her that as there was no one
er here to marry them but a Mor
n preacher or justice of the peace
would join hands and marry
selves after the ‘California fash
',en, as soon as possible, they
be married by a minister or
j justice, which would satisfy
her and mother. Meantime
o to say nothing to the old
o and was assured that their mar
e after the ‘California style’ was
>od and lawful as any other.
t seems that the pair had stood
j a grove at the upper end of the
v one Sunday, and that, claspin
_s, Jack had called upon God and
Tie mighty peaks lookin down on
n to bear witness that he took
for his lawful wife. She, sol
ing him, had in about the same
rds taken him for her lawful hus
•and.
“This was the. actual truth, for it
. so happened that Dick Sides and Jim
Sturtevant, who had been out huntin
5 cattle and had laid down in the shade
i of the grove, saw and heard the
[ whole business of the queer ‘Cali
: foraia style’ of marriage. But the
two men agreed to keep the matter
t to themselves until it was wanted
i and when it would do the most good.
“However, what the two men had
seen and heard did not come out till
long after. Besides this, it seems that
Ella had heard of marriage certifi
cates and had made Jack write out a
paper, which they had both signed.
Ella had this paper, and gave it to her
father, who found it was in effect a
regular marriage contract. However,
all this by no means satisfied him.
He swore that Jack should never
leave the country alive unless he
married Ella in the regular way and
without delay. No contract business
in the wilds of Utah would do for the
house of Harl!
“Old Sam took down his rifle, then
went to his stables, and saddlin his
best and swiftest hoss, mounted and
left. All he would tell Ella as he
marched out of the house with his
gun was that he was goin out to the
main wagon road to ketch Jack on
his way back from Eagle ranch and
bring him to terms. Os course this
left her wild with distractin thoughts.
As for Mrs. Harl, Ella's mother, she
had kerlapsed at the first fire and
was of no account.
“Harl came upon Jack Lang jist at
the foot of Washoe lake, and hailin
him, ordered him to halt. Jack was
about 100 yards ahead on the road,
going northward, and was mounted
on his favorite black mare, a strong
and fleet nag as you'd often find.
“On hearin old Sam's yell Jack
faced about, but seein the old man
chargin do wn at him with a gun in
his hand he put spurs to his mare
and dashed away toward Truckee
medders. Bein lighter than old Sam,
and bavin a swifter nag, Jack soon
widened the space between himself
and his pursuer. But Harl's horse
was a powerful beast, and one that
would hold out for a long race.
‘‘l can tell you that was a life and
death chase. I saw a big part of it.
Sol Geller, who is now dead, and I
were out cattle bun tin and had rode
up to the top of that big hill over
yander to look over the country,
when the two men came in sight and
passed right along here where we
stand. On to the northward they
clattered and thundered. We know
ed them both at once, and seein old
Sam, rifle in hand, in full and des
perate chase of Jack, we guessed at
the natur of the trouble, for we’d all
been expectin to hear of a weddin up
at the Harl ranch.
“On past our lookout hill the two
men dashed—on toward the medders.
As Sol and I watched the chase the
distance between the pair seemed to
be slightly narrowin, for Jack had
left the beaten track and struck out
into the open plain, and in the sand
and sagebrush the more powerful
hoss of old Sam had the advantage.
“While watchin this desperate race
we heard a clatterin of hoofs behind
us. Turnin about, we saw Ella Harl
mounted upon her beautiful bay
mare —orfe of the finest and swiftest
animals in the country. With her
hair streamin backward she flew
along the road like the wind, nor did
the long, swift bounds of her mare
seem in tho least to slacken when
she left the road and struck out into
the open plain.
“From our stand on the hill we
could see miles away to tho north.
Jack at first seemed to be headin for
his cattle camp in Truckee medders,
but when in sight of it he for some
reason turned west and struck in to
ward the foothills of the main Sierra
range.
“ ‘He is goin to try to git up into
the mountains to where the main
herd of his cattle is stationed an''
where he can git a fresh hoss, ’ sai
Sol, ‘but he'll git inter trouble before
he has gone far. He’d done a good
deal better to kept in the plains with
that nag, for everywhere close in by
the mountains he’ll find the canyons
big and deep—hard for him to cross.
But look at that gal! She’s takin a
cut off! Jehu! See her fly!’
“Sure enough, she was takin a near
cut and was a-flyin. When Jack
swung round west to’ard the moun
tains she veered and took a course
that would save so much distance as
soon to bring her near to her father.
“Some of the cowboys at Jack's
camp had seen the chase, and from
our lookout we saw two mounted
men dash out m tlie direction taken
by Jack and his wrathful pursuer.
Having fresh animals and good ones,
the two men went over the plain like
the wind, steerin so as to strike in
ahead on a straight course.
. ‘ - On dashed Jack and old Sam, now
close in by the foothills, and on flew
Ella, who was fast nearin her fa
ther, when the three passed out of
sight behind the point of a hill. The
two men who had cut across from
Jack's camp reached and passed
round the point of the hill almost at
the same moment.
“Tho old man got to the edge of
the canyon while Jack was lookin
for away up out of the bottom of it.
Fie sung out to Jack to stop and dis
mount or he'd ‘blow his head off.’
Jack paid no attention, but started
to go up the opposite slope. Os course
he couldn’t go straight up, so was
turned broadside by the time the old
man raised his gun. Just as ho was
takin aim the girl dashed up.
“ ‘Hold! father,’ she cried. The old
man turned to look at her. ‘Father,
I’m the one to do this shootin I’ said
she, and laid hold of the rifle. The
old man let go of the gun, too s'prised
at her bein there to know what he
was about, I guess. Then the girl
leveled it, and called out to Jack to
stop. He stopped, held open the
breast of his coat and nodded to her
to fire. Then she blazed away.
“At the crack of the rifle down
went the mare and Jack, but as they
fell Jack managed to throw himself
off on the uphill side, and there he
lay, while the mare rolled over and
over down the hill. Then the gal
charged down the hill and was soon
at Jack's side.
“It seems she shot to kill the man,
and aimed all right, but a move of
the beast brought Jack's leg in the
way and she sent a bullet through
his thigh. But luckily it was only a
flesh wound —the bone wasn t touch
ed. It would have bin a devilish
sight wus for Jack if the old man had
done the shootin. and the gal knowed
SI.OO I’ei - Annum in .Advance.
it mighty well. Old Sam seemecr wen
satisfied when he seed jist how Jack
had been plugged. I seed him kinder
smile when his back was turned to
Jack, and hunt him mutter somethin
about ‘one shot for the honor of the
house of Harl.’
“And so it was, for that's Jack
Lang and his wife and children roll
in along there as rich an happy as ye
please. It was the open season for
good sons-in-law that day.”—Dan De
Quille in San Francisco Examiner.
The Eleven Obstinate Jurors.
Jurymen are sometimes quite un
conscious of their own determination
of spirit. One of them, Mr. Croake
James tells us, once explained to the
recorder, who had noticed his pecu
liarity, that his behavior was entirely
misunderstood. ‘ 'No man, sir, is more
open than I am to conviction and to
do what is right in every case, but I
have not met with the same consid
eration from others. It has general
ly been my lot to be on a jury with
11 of the most obstinate men imagin
able, who will not listen to reason.”
It is fair to say that once in a hun
dred times or so this minority of one
proves to be in the right. Lord
Lyndhurst mentions a case in which,
through the opposition of a single in
dividual, the jury, who were other
wise all for a verdict of guilty, could
come to no agreement, but on the
prisoner being tried again he was
unanimously and as it turned out
justly acquitted.—lllustrated London
News.
Origin of Electricity.
Professor Elihu Thomson, the elec
trical expert, in the course of a lec
ture in Lynn on lightning and high
potentials, stated that he inclined to
the belief that lightning is caused by
the action of the sun on the clouds
through the ether, arguing that if the
sun can produce the aurora borealis
in the light, thin air, which he repro
duced by electrical apparatus, there
is reason to think that in the dense
air nearer the earth it can produce a
current of high pressure that wi 1 I
strike through with brilliant dis- .
charges. He showed a completely safe i
protection from thunderbolts in the
shape of a cage of brass wires and
declared that an umbrella held open
over the head with brass chains hang
ing from the ends of the ribs makes
a complete protection.
Bravery.
Mcßluster —I believe in maintain
ing our national dignity. I would
give those foreigners who insult the
British flag no quarter. I’m for war
to the knife, and the knife to the
hilt. I say make them apologize if
it costs us thousands of lives and
millions of treasure. I——
Mrs. Mcß. (from the next room) —
John, you leave off talking and let
baby go to sleep, and you just turn
those fellows out of the house.
Don’t let me have to speak again.
Mcß.—Yes, love. (To his friends)
I think you'd better go. My wife
isn’t very well. —London Tit-Bits.
Never Sleeps Longer Than 15 Minutes.
The Coptic patriarch of Alexandria
is never allowed to sleep more than
15 minutes at any one time, and if
the attendant should allow the holy
one’s nap to extend beyond the al
lotted time the penalty is decapita
tion. Upon being aroused at the end
of each quarter the patriarch arises
and spreads his rug upon the floor,
kneels upon it, bows his head three
times to the east and then again re
tires.—St. Louis Republic.
T’ie Opium Poppy.
Opium, from which morphia is ob
tained, is extracted from the milky
juice of the opium poppy. The juice
is obtained by making slight incisions
in the capsule while in a green but
fullgrown state. The juice soon
hardens and is scraped off, formed
into balls. The seeds are free of nar
cotic qualities and may be eaten.
The plant has become naturalized in
almost all temperate and subtropical
climes, and attains a height of from
three to four feet. The various colored
flowers which are borne appear in
July. In endeavoring to prevent the
use of opium the government of
China in 1839 destroyed a great quan
tity, the property of British mer
chants, which led to the first war be
tween these two great countries, re
sulting in the opening of that great
empire to the trade and commerce of
the world.—Exchange.
Pineapple a la Mode.
A good story is told of an old “cap
tain” of a mine in Cornwall. He had
received as a present a splendid pine
apple. A few days afterward the
donor met him, and the following
colloquy ensued:
“Hope you like the pineapple I sent
you?”
“Well, yes, thankee, pretty well.
But I suppose we sort of people are
not used to them fine tilings and
don’t know how to eat ’em.”
“Why, how did you eat it?” asked
the gentleman.
“Well,” said the man, we boiled
’em.”
“Boiled it!” said the gentleman in
horror, thinking of his pineapple.
“Yes, we boiled ’em with a leg of
mutton.” —London Tit Bits.
Not the Same Kind of Bouillon.
Two Washington young women
who are studying law were reading a
reference work on American politics
the other night. They came to the
statement that “the congress under
the federation had authority to coin
money, but was not empowered to
purchase bullion.” The author of
the book laid great stress on this, as
if it were a dire fault of the articles
of federation. “Why, that wasn’t
very bad, was it?” the young woman
with blue eyes said. “Or was it.
maybe, that they fed the soldier on
the soup principally (’’—Washington
Capital.
A correspondent of London Notes
and Queries quotes this paragraph
from Taylor s book on “The Alpha
bet,” “The comma, originally a hair
line, as the name implies, arose out
of a short line, the mark of a cause.”
NUMBER
MONKEY AND BULLCOG.
The Simian Pounded the Canino Till His
Heart Ceased to Beat.
“The most novel fight I ever wit
nessed,” remarked Mr. James Mee
han, “was between a bulldog and a
monkey down in Cuba. A friend of
mine bad a bulldog that had licked
every canine on the island, and lie
was very proud of him. A gentle
man from South America said that
he had a monkey that could whip the
bulldog, and the owner of the latter
laughed at the idea. After some talk,
a wager of SSOO was made, and the
only advantage that the monkey was
to have was that he was to be al
lowed the privilege of using a baton
about the length of a policeman's
club, but not so heavy.
“The fight was in a public place,
and in a pit that was surrounded by
an iron grating. There was a big
crowd out to see the fight. Os course
everybody thought that the dog
would chew up the monkey. After
a few minutes, however, the audi
ence was surprised at the sagacity
displayed by the monkey. The bull
dog would make a rush at the mon
key, and the latter would jump aside
and allow the bulldog to hit his head
against the iron gratings. This was
kept up for 20 minutes or more, and
then the dog began to get tired. The
monkey began to fight. lie would
let the dog make a rush and then
jump on the dog's back and strike
him several times with the baton.
This was kept up for an hour or
more, and finally the dog fell on the
floor completely exhausted, and the
monkey actually pounded him to
death. The monkey would strike
the dog several blows and then place
his ear to the canine to see if he still
breathed.
“Finally the owner of the dog
agreed to give up the fight, but the
monkey's owner told him that it was
too late, as the monkey would not
quit until he had killed the dog. Th'; ‘
was one of the peculiarities of the
monkey. They always kill their
victims. The owner of the dog said
he did not want his dog killed and
insisted on taking the monkey off.
While they were talking the monkey
belted the dog several times with bis
baton, placed his ear on the dog, and
with a sudden jump leaped on the
shoulder of his owner and com
menced to use monkey language.
The dog was examined and found to
be dead. The people applauded the
victory of the monkey, and it looked
as if the monkey understood it.” —
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Folly of Fear.
A great deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want of a little cour
age. Every day sends to their graves
a number of obscure men who have
only remained in übscurity w pecause
their timidity has prevented .'hem
from making a first effort and who,
if they could have been induced to
begin, would in all probability have
gone great lengths in the career of
fame. The fact is that to do any
thing in this world worth doing -we
must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but
jump in and scramble through as
i well as we can.
It will not do to be perpetually cal-
I culating risks and adjusting nice
chances. It did very well before the
flood, when a man could consult his
! friends upon an intended publication
. for 150 years and then live to see its
I success afterward. But at present a
■ man waits and doubts and consults
his brother and his particular friends,
till one day he finds he is CO years of
age. Then he has lost so much time
in consulting his first cousins and
particular friends that he has no
more time to follow their advice.—
Sidney Smith.
Interest In Public Affairs.
A spirit of inquiry, of interest in
all affairs pertaining to the progress
and usefulness of state and nation, is
essential to tho well rounded man or
woman. The housewife who takes a
genuine pleasure in learning, for ex
ample, that Dakota has developed
new and unexpected resources,or that
a law to better the condition of the
unfortunate or oppressed has been
enacted, is a better mother and a bet
ter housekeeper for her generous re
sponse to that which affects the na
tion and the race which she should
love. The man who has no interest
in public affairs, who boldly asserts
that he doesn’t care to know what is
being done in the world of ideas be
yond his immediate contact, is a nar
row and to a degree useless man. His
living is comparatively valueless to
his country, because his country de
mands and needs the warmest inter
ests, the closest sympathy of every
citizen, of the lowliest as well as the
highest.—New York Ledger.
A Curious Paradox About Hands.
It is a curious paradox that the
• large handed man loves small things,
details, exquisitely finished objects
and is microscopic in his tendencies,
while he whose hands are small de
lights in colossi of every sort, loving
ostentation and display, immense
houses, majestic estates and all else
that is upon agreat scale. His hand
writing is large and perhaps full of
flourishes, while that of the large
handed man is small and precise.—
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Average Eclipse.
Teacher—What can you tell me
about eclipses ?
Bright B >y—They are generally
somewhere else. —Good News.
Largest Drawbridge In the World.
New London, in the little state of
Connecticut, has the largest swinging
span drawbridge in the world. It is
on the Shore Line railway and was
built during the summer of 1889.
This titanic span, which is of steel
and weighs 2,500,000 pounds, is the
center one in the great Pequot river
bridge, the total length of which is
1,422 feet. The pier upon which this
“triumph of mechanical construc
tion” swings was sunk in 57 ieet of
water and 80 feet of sand and mud.
—St. Louis Republic.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World’s Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.