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Craig 1 Williamson.
VOLUME XXXIV.
Richmond & Danville Railroad,
Samuel Spencer, F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben
Foster, Receivers.
Atlanta & Charlotte Airline Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains.
In effect Dec. 24,1893.
N<> lIT 111 ’.<» I ’ ND. I X es ‘.i'lli £’ st 11'2 N*. 1 a
kastekx ~me. "••j® Daily.
P M PM A M
Lv. Atlanta (E. T.) 1 00 6 15 9 50
Chamblee 10 28
Norcross 6 55 10 39
Duluth 10 50
Suwanee.... 1101
Buford 7 26 11 13
Flowery Branch 7 37 11 26
Gainesville 2 22 7 54 11 46
P M
Lula 815 12 10
Bellton 12 12
Cornelia ... 12 35
Mt. Airy 8 42 1 00
Toccoa 9 08 1 28
Westminster. 9 43 2 09
Seneca...... 10 00 2 10
Central 10 28 3 40
Easleys .... 10 55 3 32
Greenville 5 30 11 16 4 10
Greers 11 43 4 37
Wellford 4 45
A M
Spartanburg .... 6 22 12 15 5 21
Clifton 5 38
Cowpens 5 43
Gaffneys 1 03 6 07
Blacksburg 7 11 1 19 6 26
Grover 6 38
Kings Mountain 1 45 6 55
Gastonia... . .... 2 07 7 21
laiwell 7 35
Bellemont 2 27 7 45
Ar. Charlotte 8 292 50 8 10
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Daily. Daily.
AMP M P M
Lv. Charlotte 9 35 10 50 12 00
Bellemont| 12 27
Lowell 12 37
Gastonia 11 26 12 50
King’s Mountain 1 19
Grover 1 37
A M
Blacksburg 10 48 12 05 1 47
Gaffneys 2 07
Cowpens. 2 35
Clifton 3 38
Spartanburg.. 11 37 12 57 3 00
Wellford 3 20
Greers 3 36
p M
Greenville 12 28 1 52 4 05
Easleys 4 35
Central 2 40 5 15
Seneca 3 01 5 45
Westminster 6 03
Toccoa 3 49 6 36
Mount Airy 7 20
Cornelia 7 25
Bellton 7 50
Lulai 4 42 7 52
Gainesville 3 29 4 59 8 20
Flowery Branch 8 40
Buford 8 54
Suwanee 9 07
Duluth .... 920
Norcross 9 30
Chamblee 9 42
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 455 620 10 15
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Cornelia ac
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At
lanta 4.00 p. m. (<!. T.), arrives Cornelia 8.15 p. m.
Returning, leaves Cornelia6.ls a. m., arrives At
lanta 8.15 a. m.
Nos. 15 and 16 (Sundays only) leave Atlanta
2.50 p. m. (C. T.), arrive Cornelia 6.50 p. in. Re
turning leave Cornelia 8.00 a. m., arrive Atlanta
9.50 a. m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—Nos 63 and 9,
daily except Sunday, leave Toccoa7.oo a. in. and
1.40 p. m., arrive Elberton 10.55 a. 111. and 4.20 p.
111. Returning, Nos. 62 and 12, daily except Sun
day, leave Elberton 1.15 p. 111. and 7.30 a. in., ar
rive Toccoa 5.30 p. m. and 10.25 a. in.
Pullman Car Service: Nos. 35 and 66, Rich
mond & Danville Fast Mail, Pullman Sleeper
between Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38—Washington and Southwestern
Vesfibuled Limited, between New York and
New Orleans. Through Pullman Sleepers be
tween New York and New Orleans, New York
and Augusta, and Washington and Memphis,
via Atlanta and Birmingham.
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Sleeping Car between
Richmond. Danville and Greensboro, and be
tween Greensboro and Portsmouth via Atlantic
& Danville Railroad.
For detailed information as to local and
through timetables, rates, and Pullman Sleep
ing Car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address—
W. A. TURK, S. 11. HARDWICK,
Gen. Pass. Agt, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt,
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
1894, greeting 1094,
With the Dawn of a Bright and Happy New Year,
J. E. MURPHY
Takes this opportunity to wish his customers many happy returns for
A Bright and prosperous Season.
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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 surrounding 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 Rew York Prices, [or fiash.
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.
|U The Largest Retail CLOTHIERS in the South. C]
a . PRICE TO ALL
• • MACON, . . | ~ ATLANTA, . . S
552-554 Cherry Street. 39 - 4 I Whitehall- 32-34 S. BroadHjj
L. STEINAU,
“TH2E EXECUTIVE.”
4D "Wall Street, - Opposite (Jai* Shed.
U r Pl?'l\ T i II’Q f No. 11, South Broad Street,)
DlljlllllLJ I ATLANTA, GA. )
The Most Elegant Saloon in the South. Everything First-Class.
Fine Imported and Domestic Winos, Liquors and Cigars.
THE ONLY SALOONS IN ATLANTA
Where you can get the Celbrated Pabst Milwaukee Beer on Draught.
TOM SCALES, foi ■merly of Gainesville, is in charge of
the Broad Street House, and will be delighted to serve his old friends who
may call and see him.
Gainesville Iron Works.
MAMJ FA. CTIK ES
Shaftings, Pulleys, Hangers, Iron and Brass
Castings, Pipe and Fittings, Globe Valves,
Check Valves, Gauge Cocks, Steam Gaug
es, and Gauge Glasses.
Stamp Mills Built to Order.
REPAIRING MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY.
Call on us at the Foundry, near the Richmond & Danville depot.
Correspondence solicited.
FOR LEFFEL STEAM ENGINES AND
Established in 1860.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1894.
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S Rev. W.G.E" the lawless Iture,
| itor Sunday s'pereabouts .-jd “The
| M. E. Church, Sou ' second
g ’grippe’ attacked me a uJ. I ®?'
a! tune last spring. One ' 4 , dia
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s] before. I feel entirelj>-iiight, strJ
g all symptoms of ‘la <H’inber a h
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SCINTILLATIONS.
Is not our city ordinance for the
suppression of vagrants yet in effect?
If so, is any effort ever made to en
force the regulation?
It is bad enough for any printing
office to be in league with his satanic
majesty, but what de you think of a
good, pious, Christian weekly being
“possessed of a devil?”' Isn’t it
shocking ?
■ For a fellow to get the grip is
■ simply dreadful, but for the French
| lady to get a grip on a Mlow far
I surpasses our ability to describe.
You see, we’ve been there and know
whereof we affirm.
I A few days ago the clock on the
| court house withdrew from the union
i—-that is to say, it succeeded in run
ning the regular number of hours
I without getting on a strike. Maybe
j the grip reduced its ardor to below
point.
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ry “Say, ma, have you got a back
bone?” inquired an eaglet of the old
r«' AG, E other day.
, course, my child, like other
yjPrtebrates.”
“Well, ma, which is your spinal
column ?’’ persisted the urchin.
“I don’t exactly know, my dear,
but I guess probably it might be
found In some of the ‘back’numbers.”
We had the pleasure not long
since of examining the extensive
library of one of the leading minis
ters of the city. It embraces nearly
■a thousand volumes, includin'’ nu
merous topics from Clarke’s ‘-Theol
ogy” to Dickens’s ‘-Oliver Twist,”
ihe whole systematically arranged,
and forming one of the best collec
tions in North Georgia. The first
luxury in which a young man should
indulge ought to be a library. Start,
one 1
We saw a characteristic newspa
per the other day. It is styled the
“Fire Brand,” and is ostensibly and
ostentatiously a religious journal
without advertisements, secular read
ing, or worldly features.” In very
bold, black type it proclaims its an
tagonism to such wickedness as “se
cret societies, choirs, concerts, wear
ing corsets, bangs, ruffles, tucks,
plug hats, neckties, metal watch
chains, long moustaches, goatees, and
fancy haircuts.” It professes loudly
to be “not of this world,” and its
editorial column iuns something like
this ; “Jan. 31. To-day we received
a gallon of vinegar, paper of pins,
and a bar of soap. Praise the Lord !
Jan. sth. To-day God sent us an
other quarter of beef, bag of hickory
ruts, pair of socks, and a towel.
Halleluiah ! Bless his name forever.”
Religion is a mighty, good article,
>.;t s>>me folks can run even a good
thing into the ground.
THE APONTEE OF.MPI.EEN.
The question is often asked, will
the Atlanta Constitution ever forgive
President Cleveland for appointing
Hoke Smith Secretary of the Interior?
We don’t think it will. The truth is,
the Constitution has reached that
stage in life that it is harder for it to
overcome a disapointment than an
ordinary paper. For a long time it
was an important factor in Georgia
•politics, but when Henry Grady died
’“'s influence at once began to wane
and it lost its high stand in the opin
ion of the people. It sought to de
feat the election of Gen. Gordon to
the U. S. Senate, but the people of
Georgia loved Gordon and turned
their backs on the Constitution. It
again sought to carry the State for
Hill for President but the people
wanted Cleveland; and they gave
it another black eye, and then right
on the heels of all this for Hoke
Smith to be appointed a member of
the cabinet, was more than it could
stand. Os late it gives whole columns
of its paper to republicans to abuse
the administration, and has yet to
say one word in its favoi; but as the
-»-ople know the reason for all this,
tTe 6 arC n ° » roun<^s ior a ’ arn, » an d
world will go on just as ithas,
if the Constitution does not for
mat., Cleveland.—Harmony Grove
the!
Ltea- , w
h*’ Lt Up for Life for Stealing i Cent.
•j tj South Dakota cow boj named De
ve t ce, out of work, rode into Cha
d! si e m e b., and -n order to get food
I, P a,| d robbed a mail carrier. He
0 1 cent. Judge Dundy, at
sentenced the poor fellow,
»Lpaid-3 p'ea of guilty, to imprison
<to tirJ or l*fe. The same judge some
T uoi-ago sentenced Mosher the Cap
. Bank robber of Lincoln,
Mo had stolen nearly $1,000,000, to
j 4 penitentiary for five years. If the
tu tiiage be t-»qe: “It is a sin to steal
the v-L» ; . cats.- eater sin P t ea ] a
Mrs. Ford x ver y hould live to be
ed had her go j 3 h and serve that
ing been com . ie Ben t ence o f
flimsy as the f s strictly according
After supper 3 has no discretion
early. ® a *’ a ,es, either of pre
n He found hi£ ncrate cr ; me of
p ous, nea , w ~f ia s the result of
0 white curtarweie
q ditto So h'tores.' , !aw I,e
n L ll ’ o «oc „Abuses like these
H than pay t>A es a
[ B o 6 o^deter m i,’; rlawand g° t f . ar
| an /A,d with onlv tO , .‘‘ XC . US G lh ®
Hl shafts wa legal just.ee among
a]| 1 Maple
alj ips in < ■
d ) ’ c^ nor Northern has appointed
11 - Hopkins °f Atlanta,
ling fiajiifford Anderson of Macon and
£ busheoe Lamar of Augusta, to codify
mous c( vg un( ] er recent act, of the
ake ,.jyature. The codifiers receive
ie sle
les OOP each for their work
ge w . .
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r. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
's Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
“SEA WRACK.”
The wrack was dark an shiny where it floated
in the sea;
There was no one in the brown boat but only
him an me;
Him to cut the sea wrack—me to mind the boat.
An not a word between us the hours wo were
afloat.
Tlie wet wrack.
The sea wrack.
The wrack was strong to cut.
Wo laid it on the gray rocks to wither in the
sun.
An what should call my lad, then, to sail from
Cushendun?
With a low moon, a full tide, a swell upon the
deep.
Him to sail the old boat—me to full asleep.
The dry wrack.
The sea wrack,
The wrack was dead so soon.
There’s a fire low upon the rocks to burn the
wrack to kelp;
There’s a boat gone down upon the Moyle, an
sorra one to help.
Him beneath the salt sea—me upon the shore—
By sunlight or moonlight we'll lift tlie wrack
no more.
The dark wrack.
The sea wrack.
The wrack may drift ashore.
—Blackwood’s Magazine.
A BAI) TOOTHACHE.
My friend, Mr. Edward Hobday, is
oue of the people who disparage
whatever is not their own. If one
of his acquaintances has a possession
—a horse, a boat, a garden, a pie, an
umbrella, which is an object of jiride
to the owner—Hobday usually re
members having owned or at least
seen or heard of a far more remark
able object of tho same kind. So
when ho found me one evening with
a severe toothache I was not sur
prised to hear him say:
“Hm! Toothache! If you'd ever
suffered from one as I have, you’d
know.”
I ventured to defend my own as a
remarkable specimen of its kind, for
few things are more exasperating
than to have one’s toothache depre
ciated. But Mr. Hobday told me tho
following story, which I know to be
true in the main, and I was obliged
to admit that I had never possessed
so disastrous an ache. He said:
The toothache took me when I was
on the Pacific coast in one of those
new cities where nothing was done
except the great work of “booming
tlie town.” The population lived in
tents and rough shanties, and den
tists and such luxuries were as scarce
as kings and dodos.
It was about half past 9 in tho
evening, when the pain became al
most unbearable —none of your mild,
comfortable aches that are merely
an excuse for idleness and a bid for
human syi pathy. I left my quar
ters and went down by the water
front to walk in the cool of the even
ing.
To my surprise and delight I saw
near tho wharf a tent with the illu
minated sign ‘ ‘Dentist” in fron t. The
tooth had transported me beyond
any fear of dentistry by this time,
and 1 entered the dread presence
with the joy that a captive feels
when ho sees the approach of tho ex
ecutioner who is to end a long peri
od of torture.
I found the operator sitting in the
one chair in the tent beside a table
where were a few dental tools, a
small bottle and a lamp. He rose
and offered mo the chair.
“Take ether?” ho asked.
"No. Hurry up and pull it, that’s
all.”
In locating the tooth he gave me
several quite needless digs and again
suggested ether. Again I declined.
“It’ll come hard,” said he mourn
fully, giving me a tweak with the
forceps.
“All right. Whatever you please,
only be quick about it.” Where
upon he poured something oua cloth
which he held to my mouth and nos
trils.
I might have known from the first
sniff that it was chloroform. Soon
the light grew dim, and I felt very
cold and dizzy. I awoke in intense
darkness, gasping for breath, and
with a sense of suffocation at breath
ing foul and heavy air. There was a
rushing sound about me like that of
a storm.
I tried to rise, but struck my head
hard and lay down again. Every
thing seemed unsteady. There was
a sense of swaying and rolling. I
tried to remember how I had come
there and where I was.
' Then I noticed that I was lying in a
pool of water that swashed from side
to side. This seemed to negative tho
theory I had begim to form—that I
had been buried alive.
1 heard tramping over me and
called out with all my might. My
voice sounded hollow and strange.
It frightened mo.
I yelled again and again, when a
square of light shone above mo and
a voice called:
“Who l>e you and what a-hollerin
at? Hold y’r noise an come out.”
I raised my head, struck it again
and flopped back.
“I'll help ye then!” shouted my
new acquaintance savagely. Ho
came down through the square of
light, seized me and hustled me
roughly up to the open air. I was
on the deck of a large schooner un
der full sail.
Six oi" eight men lounging about
looked at me with some amusement.
But the captain showed every sign
of surprise and anger.
“What T’ you a-doin of down into
my hold?” he yelled. “Whad’ye’r
mean by coruin aboard this vessel ?
You come to steal an fell down in yer
tracks, eh? Served yer right!”
1 gazed helplessly around. Then
he ordered me to give an account of
myself, which I tried to do.
“Shut up!” roared the captain.
“Yer drunk!” After more abuse I
was infonned that I should work my
passage and work hard, too, or—here
followed a number of threats, of
which flaying alivo and subsequent
pickling was perhaps the least unat
tractive.
I was then ordered to move some
boxes and sacks. But this proving
too much for my strength I was al
lowed to rest. One of the sailors
came over and looked at me as I lay
propped against a sack.
“Well, lad, how d’ye like it?” he
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asked kindly enougn.
“Where are we bound and what
for?”
“’Laska, sealin.”
“How did I come aboard?”
“In a bag,” said the man, and
laughed a little.
“What do you mean?”
“Now don't say nothin to the cap’n
about it or let on as you know or as
I told you. ”
I promised at length.
“Well, then, about 10 last night
conic a boat alongside. ‘Hello, Dav
ison !’ says the cap'n. ‘That you ?’
‘“Tha’s me!’says the man in the
boat.
“ ‘Got a chicken ?’ says the cap’n.
“ ‘A good un,’ says Davison.
“‘Here’s for him then,’says the
cap’n, an throws a rope, which by an
by comes up a bag at the end of it,
an they dumps you out on deck,
which was the first I seen of you.
“Cap’n says to Dav; -on as how you
wasn’t much to look at. Davison he
held forth as how you was a corker
when sensible, an finally you was all
paid for and Davison went ashore.
In other words, young man, you was
‘Shanghaied. ’ ”
I began to understand. The den
tist had drugged me, carried me to
the schooner and sold me for the
voyage. The practice called “Shang
haiing” waa not at all uncommon on
the western coast in those years.
Five to ten dollars a man was the
usual commission, but captains,
whose crews were very shorthanded
and could not get men to sign, often
paid much more.
“What had I better do?” I asked.
“Well, boy, they ain’t no great
choice. You kin jump overboard or
you kin stay aboard. Overboard is
terrible cold water and cramps, most
likely, and blacklist!. Aboard there’s
cap’n an hard work an mebbe pay an
mebbe not —cap’ns make their own
terms with Shanghais. Y’ see cap’n
will kind o’ keep up the idea that you
come aboard to steal. Not as he
thinks any one believes it, but jest
for form’s sake like.”
I thought the matterover. A seal
ing cruise to Alaska was not a
charming prospect, especially with a
brutal captain, who would probably
leave me in Alaska after getting the
utmost service out of me at the seal
fisheries.
On the other hand, the water is
bitter cold in the straits of San Juan
de Fuea ami my chances of reaching
shore alive would be very small.
Not that there was any danger from
i the blackfish alluded to, they are the
I meekest of creatures.
But for the toothache, which had
survived my adventures and had
gained strength through adversity, 1
should hardly have taken the step 1
took that night. But the pain made
me desperate and reckless. So I
found a life preserver and -in the
pitch dark night swung a rope over
the rail and let myself down into the
water.
Nobody noticed, though J feared
the fl ashes of phosphorescence, where
the water broke, would draw atten
tion. But the schooner sped along,
leaving a gleaming wake.
I was alone in the darkness, miles
from shore, with a life preserver for
a craft, a general idea of direction
for chart and compass, a little hope
in my heart and a maddening pain
in my jaw.
The shore had been hidden all day
in the haze and smoke of forest fires,
so I had no idea how fa’ - out I might
be. The wind was blowing from the
northwest, however, when I left the
ship and ought, if it so continued, to
land me in time, dead or alive, some
where on the Washington shore of
the straits near Squin bay.
The water was icy, and while my
head and shoulders were still campa
ratively warm and my arms had not
lost their strength all of me below
the life preserver had lost feeling.
My sensation was of being only a
head, shoulders and arms perched on
a life preserver.
Every little while a wave broke
over my head. My arms grew cold
er, and the numbness began to creep
over me. But I still paddled along
as well as I could while the life
preserver bobbed over the waves.
After a space, which was probably
about an hour and a half and which
seemed an unusually long night, I
lost consciousness again.
How long I drifted I cannot tell,
but I opened my eyes on a bright sky
and felt the warmth of the sun de
lightfully.
My limbs were still numb and with
some pain revived. Then I rose and
looked about. I was lying on the
beach where, hours before, the tide
had left me.
On one side were the green waters
of the straits, on the other the stately,
somber woods where one might look
through shade into deeper shade far
within I could hear the sound of
running water, clearly distinguish
able from the wash of the sea, the
welcome tinkle of a stream among
the rocks under the trees.
The salt water which I had swal
lowed, and which had left a light
crust on my lips, and the long absti
nence and fatigue had made me very
thirsty. On I staggered, guided by
sound, to the stream.
It seemed to be dodging about me
and laughing at my efforts to find it,
for my senses were dull witli expos
ure and weariness, and the woodland
echoes shifted the sound as I moved,
but at last I reached it and was
wonderfully refreslled.
There were trout in the clear wa
ters, but I had no means of catching
them or building a fire to cook them.
No more could I catch any of the
wild fowl that swam invitingly near
shore in the straits. But I managed
to kill a squirrel as he came from his
hole in a stump, and the flesh, dried
in the sun on a bit of bark laid on the
burning sand, was a little better than
nothing.
As night approached I stripped the
moss, which grows six inches deep
in huge mats on the ancient trunks,
and piled myself a bed. There I
slept warmly and well till broad day,
when I arose refreshed, though
fiercely hungry.
I determined to push along the
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shore to the eastward, where, if I
lived and walked long enough, I
should doubtless find either white
settlers or Siwash fishermen.
The traveling was hard, for the
sand beach soon gave way to rough
pebbles, and the pebbles to a steep,
loose, shelving shore. After that I
had to travel in the woods through
thick biush and over fallen logs.
Had I gone a hundred feet farther
in from the shore I should have found
a well beaten trail to Seguin, but I
struggled ahead on a parallel, with
bruised shins and torn clothing.
Toward night I heard voices ahead
and saw smoke blowing over the wa
ter. Fire gleamed through the forest
as I came nearer. Finally I came to
a dealing by the water.
There was a broad sandspit, and by
the edge of the woods were built two
two great sheds or lodge's. Before
these blazed large tires, and the light
shone on a number of queer, dwarf
ish figures, who were busy with an
immense pile of game and other pro
visions.
The men were hideous of feature,
with coarse, heavy, sleepy faces, their
squat figures clad in the typical garb
of the tramp—the refuse of ragbag
and ash heap. The women were let
ter dressed than their husbands and
fathers and wore blight shawls.
Nearly all, of both sexes, were bare
foot. I had come upon a “potlatch.’
“Potlatch" is the Chinook word for
“present” or “treat.” The Siwash,
orcoast Indian, holds on state occa
sions a feast, to which each member
of the tribe or tribes who celebrate
it contributes. They amass all the
edibles they can get in an oj»en place
on the shore, and then eat the pile—
an operation which often keeps them
busy f< >r several days or a week. This
is called a “potlatch.”
I found them hospitable and friend
ly. At another time I could hardly
have done justice to such immense
good cheer, but my late experience
had qualified me to eat nobly on
through bear, venison, duck, grouse,
trout, salmon, sugar, bread, potatoes,
or whatever lay at hand.
In two days I had made up for all
my lost time, so far as food went.
The toothache had left me. My kind
hosts showed me the way to Seguin,
and from that point I took the next
boat for the outskirts of civilization.
Mr. Hobday paused. I admitted
that no toothache of mine had ever
caused so much trouble. But my
friend had more to tell. He said:
That isn’t all. I was not the only
sufferer. The dentist had the worst
time of all. No, I didn’t find him,
but retribution did. Three or four
years after I was standing on a
wharf at San Francisco, when a man
came and stared at me.
“Thought you was drowned,” ho
said.
“Never!” said 1.
Then I saw that he was the sailor
on the schooner who had befriended
me. I told him how I came ashore.
“When the cap’n found you wasn’t
there,” said he, “he hadn't no words
bad enough to express his feelin’s.
‘l’ll teach Davison,’ says he, ‘to ship
men onto me that sneak away in the
night into the water with my life
preservers!’ So when we comes
south he looks up Davison, who was
still in the Shanghai trade, though
he’d give up playin dentis’.
“ ‘Davison,’ says the cap'n, ‘git me
a chick n. ’ So Davison comes aboard
that night with a man in a bag.
“ ‘I ain’t no use fur no sech chick’n
as that,’ says the cap’n. ‘He’s too
limp an floppy. But never mind,’
says he, ‘never mind—you'll do just
as well for my purposes, Davison.’
“So he clasps Davison down in the
hold and sends some o’ the boys
ashore with the chicken. And if
ever a man was a miserable, hard
worked, ill fed slave it were that
same Davison —an the cap’n's got
him yet.”
♦ * * ♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. Hobday's story was a true one.
The “Shanghai” trade has languished,
for men in search of work are no
longer scarce on the coast, but the
“potlatch” will exist as long as there
is a Siwash on earth who can obtain
a week’s provisions.—Francis Dana
in Youth’s Companion.
Curious Leaseholds.
Some of the English tenures are ex
ceedingly curious. A farm near
Broadhouse in Yorkshire pays annu
ally to the landlord a snowball in
midsummer and a red rose at Christ
mas. The manor of Foston is held
by a rental of two arrows and a loaf
of bread. An estate in the north of
England is held by the exhibition be
fore a court every seven years of a
certain vase owned by the family;
another in Suffolk by an annual
rental of two white doves. The Brit
ish government holds land in Chat
ham by paying the heirs of the man
from whom it was bought two pep
per corns. The man’s descendants
now live in Holland, and the i>epper
corns are annually sent thither in a
gold box. —London Letter.
Spool n>; ! <i»g.
Here, for instance, are huge stacks
of timber, and our ears are greeted
with the hum and birr so certainly
associated with a sawmill. This long
range of buildings is entirely devoted
to the making of spools. The ma
chines employed are various. Here
the wood is being cut into short
lengths; there a hole is being punched
through the small round pieces, while
yonder a machine shapes the rough
wcuxl into a smooth spool in one
swift stroke.
It is by means of the wood required
to make these spools that we get some
conception of the enormous output of
this factory. Each day there is as
much thread finished here as would
wind round the world several times,
and in order to produce spools for the
thread it is calculated that an extent
of forest planted with birch trees
covering 550 acres has to be cut down
every year, while on an average 12
ships of large carrying capacity are
employed each season in bringing the
wood across to this country from
America and Canada. —Good Words.