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GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1897.
TOO STINGY FOR HER.
A Strange Vindicathnn Secured by a Young
Man From a Girl. *■
They were chatting in shrill tones
in a corner of the room, not dream
ing that their convt iv.tion was au
dible to any but themselves.
“So they are married at last, are
they?” said the one they called
6-ally. “Well. lam sure I don’t envy
Mabel in the least.”
“Oh, she looked very happy add
perfectly charming,” said the ofie
they called Julia, who was a friefid
of the newly married young wom
an. “I was surprised you were not
at the wedding.”
“I was invited, but didn’t carafe
go,” said Sally. »
“It was reported that you and
Robert were as good as engaged
once,” said Julia sweetly, her mj®-
ner indicating that Sally was 380-
ous.
“Oh, we never got as far asthaM
responded Sally. “He was
er too stingy for me.” th
“I didn’t know he was stinsK
remarked Julia.
“Oh, but he was. He never MM
me to the theater, or to drivfflß
bought me any candy, and* in fUi
the most he ever did in th#*
entertainment was a street car rabb
and then only twice in the AHm
months we were half way
When he was paying court to tiQSSp
he did the same with her
tinued it after they were
Didn’t you ever hear howjjearoßEe#
came to breaking it up?”*
“No,” said Julia.
that?” ..Ai
“Well, Alice doesn’t like
continued Sally, “and when Haren
and Mabel got pretty tliick/jsqine
time after the engagement vmtaMlr
nounced, Alice went to her aiMffigi
gratulated her. She told Mabefethftt
Robert was such a nice
so good. She knew how
treated me, and she just
that girl, for she knew that Bj&ert
was treating her in the
‘He was so nice to Sallyshe«Hd to
Mabel. ‘I think Sally
you. Do you know that
to take Sally to the theater jfece or
twice a week, went out driviifc with
her ever so often, bought her gloves
and candy, and as for flow erg;’. Why,
Sally’s room was always filled with
them. ’ The next time Robert called
there was a pretty row, you may be
lieve.”
“I should think so,” observed one
of the girls. “And whafrdid Robert
say for himself ?” „
“Oh, lie denied it, OLcctase,” an
swered Sally: “And; know,
he had the nerve {o me and
ask me to sign a had writ
ten out certifying that, he jagv<r
bought me flowers or candy; that ne
had never taken me to drive or to
the theater or presented me with
gloves or anything else?”
“Well, I never!” chorused the
girls, who had been listening with
lively interest to the tale. “Did you
sign his paper?” asked one.
“No, indeed,” said Sally, “I was
not going to sign any such paper as
that. But I told him that I would
go to Mabel and assure her that
there was no truth in the story of
his generosity to me. He thanked
me, just as if I was not going to
make him out the meanest man I
ever knew. But I did as I said I
would. I told Mabel that Robert
spoke the truth when he said that
he had done nothing more for me
than he had for her. I have not
seen her since, and I didn’t go to the
wedding, and I guess you won’t
think I’m jealous when I say I don’t
envy her.”—Washington Star.
FIGHTING FISH OF SIAM.
Queer Contests on Which the Natives
Love to Gamble.
Next to the farfamed tree climb
ing fish peculiar to portions of
South America, I have failed to dis
cover that the habitable waters hold
any denizen much more remarkable
than the fighting fish of Siam. The
Siamese are notorious gamblers. In
their innocent, prattling, “fond,”
simple way, they will stake their lit
tle all upon their favorite wrestler,
their favorite juggler, their most
admired cock, and even upon their
choicest champion of the finny
tribe, for these “fighting fish” are
no myth, and I am writing of some
thing that I have seen with my own
eyes.
Walking quietly on the streets of
Bangkok one afternoon, when the
tropic sun was beginning to wane
and the shorn priests were begin
ning their weird invocations to Bud
dha in the wats of that extraordi
nary and malodorous city, I was
aware of a great commotion in the
near distance. Natives were running
about shouting excitedly in the Si
amese lingo and generally convey
ing the impression that something
out of the ordinary was in process
of being.
“What’s the matter?” I inquired.
“The fighting fish! The fighting
fish!” replied several excited voices.
As incredulous as might be, I
took the direction indicated and
forced my way through a small
throng of natives, all talking and
gesticulating their fastest, but still
religiously chewing (and when are
they not?) the inevitable and un
pleasant betel nut. What a scene it
was, to be sure! As soon as I could
get near enough to see anything
“definite” I perceived that the cen
ter of attraction was a huge bowl
three parts full of water, the surface
of which was at that moment
churned into a veritable foam
streaked with blood. In addition to
the water, the bowl contained sev
eral fish, about the size of ordinary
English river fish and of much the
same appearance, save as regards
the gills, which looked particularly
ferocious and warlike. In all save
this the combatants might at first
signt have been mistaken for the
perch, roach or small pike of our
own rivers, or so it appeared to me.
They were fighting in eWvry differ
ent way known to the smaller fish
—savagely biting, lashing about
them with their tails and losing no
opportunity of using their sharp,
knifelike fins. Anon a fish would
turn over and over, the curdled wa
ter would take a still ruddier tinge,
and the beaten enemy would roll
over on his back or side—dead.
The excited onlookers never
paused one moment either as re
garded the babel of their raised
voices, the pantomime of their ges
ticulation or the quantities of atts—
as the copper coinage of the country
is called—which they were staking
upon the fishes of their fancy. Such
as had not the actual coin employed
cowrie shells, which, being the
original currency of Siam, still find
favor with the masses and are recog
nized as legal tender. What a race
of gamblers this people is! I believe
they would part with their soulless
souls (but for fear of the Buddha)
for the chance of “a quiet gamble”
upon something or somebody. It is
a species of mania which we in the
■west cannot approach.
I never waited for the final result
of the fish fight, but walked away,
though the hoarse shouts and cries
of the gamblers lingered in my ears
forlnany hundred yards. It would
be interesting to know whether the
explanation is a “race enmity” be
tween the fish themselves. But if it
is not what can be the explanation?
In any case it is a curious spectacle
to European eyes and one not with
’ out a eemisavage interest of its
, own. Look for it beyond the borders
■ of. the Land of the White Elephant,
and you will find it not. These fight
ing fish make excellent eating.—St.
Paul’s.
SIGNS CARRIED BY MEN.
3 >
Some of the More Familiar Among Them
and Some of the Curiosities.
, The walking sandwich, the man
between two billboards slung around
the neck and hanging, one in front,
the other behind, is not seen so much
as he was. He was the most pictur
esque of all the walking sign car
riers, and he was at one time the
most commonly seen. His decline is
doubtless due to a belief that an ele
vated sign, one carried above the
head line, is of greater utility. The
sandwich man was striking when
you met him, but in a crowd you
might miss him altogether; the ele
vated sign, carried above the heads
■' of the people, is expected to be seen
by all, and in one form and another
it is now the sign most commonly
aftwitojk;.. . ... _
There are, however, still some
signs besides sandwich boards that
are carried below the heacf line.
Os these the most familiar is the
coat sign, a coat with a sign painted
upon it, worn by men who may per
haps remain near the establishment
to which they belong, or who walk
about. There is at least one man in
New York who has worn a sign coat
—a canvas coat in dry weather, a
rubber coat in wet, with the same
sign painted on each—daily for
years. Wearing a sign coat is as
much his regular occupation as
writing is the occupation of the man
who writes this brief article about
signs that are carried.
There is another sign carried be
low the head—the valise sign, which
scarcely comes within the purview
of this article, for the reason that
the carrier of the valise sign is in
costume, and signs so carried by
men whose curious outfit is relied
upon to attract attention form a
grouj) by themselves. Still, perhaps
mention may be made of the valise
sign here. It is painted upon the flat
side of an old fashioned alligator
mouth valise, whose carrier walks
about the street, visiting at intervals
the store whence he comes. Pausing
there for a moment on the side
walk, he looks up intently at the
sign over the door and then enters
in, sallying forth again. Presently
he starts on another round.
Anomer rorm or porraoie sign
which depends in a measure upon
the manner in which it is brought
to the attention, though its carriers
are not in uniform, is the painted
1 block. The sign is painted upon the
sides of a block of w flfad of about
the shape and size of a small dress
suit case, and has a handle at the
top. Such signs, to the number of
four or five, are carried by two boys,
who, to begin with, set them down
upon the curbstone 15 to 20 feet
apart. Then they begin moving the
blocks one at a time from rear to
front along the curbstone. The rear
boy picks up his block and carries
it along the sidewalk past the other
blocks and puts it down upon the
curbstone 20 feet ahead of the first
block and then goes back for anoth
er. On the way to the rear he meets
the other boy going to the front
with a block which he will put
down in the same manner, and so
they keep going, forever picking up
the last block and carrying it to the
front and setting it down at the
head and so working along the
street.
Between the signs carried below
the head and those carried above it
there are some that are carried on
or about the head. There is, for in
stance, the tall hat sign, which the
carrier wears, with the sign paint
ed upon it or panted upon some
thing attached to it. Carried at
night is the electric hat sign, with
light from lamps fed by a storage
battery shining through letters per
forated in a tall hat. The illumina
tion can be turned on or off at the
will of the wearer of the hat as he
walks. A day sign carried about the
head is in the form of a tansparen
cy, the lower part of the frame rest
ing upon the carrier’s shoulders.—
New York Sun.
CANE BOTTOMED CHAIRS.
The Intricate Method of Reseating Them
Explained In Detail.
To reseat cane chairs, first of all
procure some split cane from a wick
erwork shop, and, as two sizes are
generally used in chairs, the intend
ing beginner in this useful work
had better cut patterns of both out
of the chair to be recaned, so as to
be certain to get the correct size.
The next thing is to prepare the
chair, and it is well for the begin
ner to unpick rather than cut the
cane out, as by so doing a very good
idea of the manner of caning can be
obtained.
Now it will be seen that there are
clear holes all around the chair,
through which the cane has been
passed, and little pegs of wood must
be cut to fit these. The purpose will
be shown presently.
Now take a strip of the thin cane,
pass an end up through one of the
holes in the back of the seat, draw
half the length through, put a peg
into the hole to prevent the cane
slipping, then carry it across the
chair and pass down through the
opposite hole, taking care to draw
it tight. Then peg this down and
pass the cane up through the ad
jacent bole, then over to the oppo
site one and backward and forward
in this manner—always being care
ful to peg each hole when the cane
is drawn tight—until all the holes
in the front and back of the chair
are connected by strips of cane.
Then repeat the process, so as to
have a double row of cane.
Now begin with the side holes and
pass the cane backward and forward
in the same manner, threading it as
you go between the double lines you
have already placed. When all the
side holes are filled, you must re
peat the process, still threading
through the first lines, but being
careful to go the contrary way to
those you have just placed. When
the first row goes over a strip, the
second row must go under, and so
on.
Now, all the holes being filled up
round the chair, strips have to be
put in diagonally, and for this pur
pose the thick cane must be used.
For brevity we will call the rows
from the back to the front of the
chair “front rows,” and those from
side to side “side rows.”
Now start from the right hand
top corner hole and pass the thick
cane over the first “front” row to
the left, and under the first “side”
row, then over the second “front”
and under the second “side” row,
and so on until the left hand bottom
corner has Ijeen reached. •
Tins prodess must be repeatedYm
til all the holes are connected diago
nally ; then start at the left hand top
corner and repeat precisely thp same
process to the right hand bottom
corner, only passing the cane under
the “front” and over the “side”
rows instead of vice versa.
It only remains now to peg the
alternate holes and to bind on the
beading, which has to be bought
separately and is very cheap. The
alternate holes must be pegged with
little bits of wood of the proper size
and driven in with a hammer to
keep the cane tight, while the un
pegged holes are left free for the
cane that fastens down the beading.
This beading is placed straight
round the chair and tightly tied
down at the free holes by pieces of
cane that are drawn through the
holes and fastened off under the
chair. It is sold in strips.—Ex
change.
A WHITE RED SQUIRREL.
A Queer Tittle Pet lielonging to Some
New Jersey Girls.
Dr. Emily G. Hunt, in St. Nich
olas, describes the following inter
esting pet:
Some girl cousins of mine living
in New Jersey have an odd pet. It
is a white red squirrel.
You have all seen red squirrels—
“chickarees” they call them, from
the sounds of their chattering and
scolding as they drop nutshells on
your head or run down a tree trunk
by fits and starts, giving a little
“Chick!” with each forward rush,
while they watch you sharply.
Our little pet is like one of these
in every way, except that he is so
snowy white that the cleanest ta
blecloth looks dingy compared to
him.
He was born in a cranberry bog.
Some men cutting brush there saw
two strange little animals, one
white, the other cream colored.
They caught this white one by
throwing a coat over him, but the
creamy squirrel ran away.
When the captive was brought
home all admired him greatly, for
he was, as you may imagine, a very
beautiful little creature, with his
long, bushy tail and bright wood
land tricks.
But there is really one strange
thing about him—his eyes are not
red or pink, as are those of most
white animals, but they are as black
as any squirrel's could be. So my
girl cousins call him Beads.
When an animal belonging to a
species commonly dark in color is
born white instead, it is called an
albino. You have all seen albino
rabbits and rats and mice. Theii
eyes are pink. So that Beads is real
ly a most uncommon fellow—a
snowy squirrel with jet black eyes.
Albino or not, he is at any rate a
most winning little pet, and there
is no end to his pretty ways. As a
cat and a kitten live with the same
family, he has to be kept in a squir
rel cage, but he is let out a long
time each day. Then Beads is quite
happy. He climbs up the back of
the chair and nibbles the hair of the
person seated in it, gnaws the flow
ers on the window sill, rushes up tltf
stems of the callas and scratches in
wi .OO Per Annum in Advance.
tne eartn until it flies on ail sicies.
He will rub his head and face and
all his body in the earth until his
clean, white dress is a sight to be
hold. After that he hops to the floor
and rubs his face carefully upon the
carpet.
He loves to retire to a corner oi
under a piece of furniture for his
toilet, going in gray and coming out
white. If you peep and watch him,
it is great fun, for he scrubs and
combs himself with his paws in the
neatest way, washes his face just as
a cat does and then takes his big
tail in his paws and uses it for a
towel. One often hears people won
der why squirrels have such big
tails. All know that they are useful
as balancing poles and blankets and
are charming as ornaments, but
not many are in Beads’ secret ot
their usefulness as towels.
A BORN GRUMBLER.
The Kentish Fruit Grower Thinks Him
self • Most Unfortunate Man.
A stranger tramping in mid-June
through “the garden of England,”
as the county of Kent is called, sees
posted on boards and fences notices
announcing that the growing crops
of fruit will be sold by auction. He
also sees the fruit—cherries, goose
berries, currants and strawberries—
growing in fields and gardens, and
observes the great barns bursting
with thousands of bushel baskets
waiting to be filled with the ripe
fruit and sent to London. The
stranger, should he express his ad
miration of the orchards, hopfields
and market gardens to a country
man, will be surprised at two facts:
The peasant proprietor never thinks
of eating any of the fruit he grows,
and the more plentiful the crops the
less pleased he professes himself to
be. This report of a conversation
between a traveler in Kent and a
fruit grower—taken from the Dover
Road-shows the fruit grower a
born grumbler, who, in his own
opinion, is a most unfortunate man.
“Good day to you!” said the tour
ist, meeting Hodge, who nods his
head and mumbles:
“Morn’n!”
“Splendid crop you have down
here! I should think things must be
going pretty well in these parts?”
“ Aye,goin down hill fast now, I’se
warrand.”
“Oh, how d’you make that out?”
“Make it out, is it? Why, look
a-here at them there turmuts; d;
you iver see sich poor things ? Ay.
an all the root crops is bad’s can
be.”
“Yes, but you’re all right with
your fruit—cherries and apples.”
“’M yes, there’s a dale* o’fruit
this year. A sight too much to
please me.”
“But you can’t have too much of
a good thing, can you?”
“Can’t you, though? Look at the
price; down ter nothink, as you
might say; get it for the asking.”
“But I didn’t get cherries for the
asking. I had to pay eightpence a
pound for some I bought at Chat
ham.”
“Oh, I d’esay. Wish I c’d git a
penny a pound. But that’s jist like
them ’ere starve ’em, rob ’em and
cheat ’em folks! Wouldn’t give you
so much’s the parings o’ their fin
ger nails if they c’d help it!”
“Then why don’t you make pre
serves of some of your fruits?”
“Preserves? What’s that, mister?”
“Why, jam, you know. Besides,
surely you eat some of your own
fruit, don’t you?”
“Fruit’s to sell, not to heat.”
- “Well, then, if you can’t sell it,
don’t preserve it, and won’t eat any
of it, what do you do with it?”
“Give it ter the pigs, in coorse. ”
“Yes, but why not eat some of it
yourself?”
“Heat it! D’you take me fur a
bloomin Nebuchadnezzar? Besides,
it’s that there ondergestuble”—
“But Nebuchadnezzar didn’t eat
fruit. He hadn’t the chance, poor
fellow I He could only find grass to
eat!”
“Grass ’oodn’t be so ondergestu
ble as fruit, I reckon. You town
folks think a man can live on noth
ink. Now a pound or two o’ stek,
a few rashers o’ fat bacon an a few
heggs fur breakfus—that’s more my
line. Hexpeck a Christian man to
heat fruit!”
“But you expect people to buy
yours, don’t you?”
“Naw, I don’t hexpeck nothink.”
“Then why do you grow it?”
“Because I suppose I’m a fool.
That’s about the size o’ it. Good
day t’ you, mister!”
Convenient Arrangement.
“"What are you buying now?”
“I am looking for some present to
give my wife on her birthday. I
tell you, making presents costs a
heap of money. ”
“Why don’t you do as I do? I
have never failed to make my wife
a present on her birthday every
year for 25 years, and I am not out
a penny thus far.”
“How do you manage it?”
“It is very simple. After we were
married, when her birthday came
round, I gave her a£s note. When
my birthday came round, she gave
me the note back, and we have kept
that up ever since, and neither of
us is out a penny.”—London Tit-
Bits.
1 Rabbits.
Rabbits, which are by consent
able to get a living where no other
quadruped can, become very select
in their tastes where food is abun
dant, and soon seek variety. In the
gardens of a large house in Suffolk
adjoining a park in which rabbits
swarmed before the passing of the
ground game act, it was found that
some rabbits managed to effect an
entrance every night, with a view
to eating certain flowers. They were
clove pinks and verbenas.
NUMBER 27
THE MAD KILLER.
Methods of Suicide Are PictureKque,
if Somewhat Troublesome.
It was a thick air that hung about
the spice stalls. The smell of cloves
and sandalwood breathed over Ba
tavia like a sweetened cloud, and
the searching, pungent reek of bruis
ed pepper that hung round the inner
shops was almost painful. More
over, the Javanese is the craftiest
fisher round the rim of the seas, and
glorious are the hauls he brings
ashore from the bays and rivers
that slice Java to north and south.
But he does not approve of fresh
fish, preferring to smoke his prey in
green wood smoke. His crowning
delight is the fermenting of a seeth
ing mass of fish fry and prawns in
the sun, stewed by natural heat to a
noisome mess that gladdens ’ the
heart of Malays.
Away beyond the low houses 1
could see the long ridge of moun
tains that is the ragged backbone of
Java. Some of them are volcanoes,
extinct long eons since. Here and
there in the swarming crowds of the
town I found a man from the hills—
stark, wiry and of more muscular
limbs than the dreamy lollers that
love the plain. There was the gleam
of the higher air on his skin and his
hair was short and crisp. On his
shoulders he carried salable leopard
skins and in his eye an open scorn
for the feebler men around. This
is the way of all mountain men, even
nearer home than Java.
By and by, in the hush of tho
glaring noon, there sounded an an
gry scream up the street, three sec
onds later a yell of pain and the
sobbing cry of a man cut deep
through the lungs. It touched off
the whole teeming populace like a
match in a powder barrel; there
was a frenzied rush of swarthy loaf
ers for safety,and a shrieking chorus
of “Amok, amok!” the street cry
of the far east which means many
deaths in a short period. Out of a
byway a lithe Malay tore blindly
down the road, driving his knife
into the stomach of a water carrier
as he passed. The carrier fell on
his face with a thick cough, and the
frantic man spun forward, with
starting, bloodshot eyeballs, foam
ing at the mouth like a rabid dog, a
narrow, dripping kris in his right
hand. He dashed furiously among
the deserted stalls, and on through
the town, till a big Lascar, fresh
from his ship and hungry for a
fight, sank his knife under the mad
man’s ribs with the slipping up
stroke .which is the* legacy of all
Lascars throughout the earth.
These ten minute dramas occur 20’
or 30 times a year in Batavia'and in.
most cities of the remoter east. The--
pleasant Malay prefers this method
of suicide to any other, and after
losing his wealth at a gambling den
in the east city slums, or his be
trothed through fever, he decides
on an amok. It is far less cold blood
ed than common self murder, and
the red, rabid frenzy appeals to the
hot blood of the ruined Malay. He
buries his kris in the body of the
nearest man and keeps the line of
a maddened jackal through the
town, killing to right and left,
till a readiei- knife ends him. I
have known 11 victims to suc
cumb to one amok, and at times
a powerful hillman will cut down a
score of bystanders before he meets
the point. In all countries of the
farthest east you will find that ruin
breeds this fever for the running
kill.—London Answers.
Desperate Gamblers.
Apropos of gambling at Cairo,
Pat Sheedy, the famous gambler,
declares that “the Russians are the
most desperate gamblers that come
to Cairo, the Greeks the shrewdest.
The Russians bet the biggest money,
although some of the wealthy Turks
are as daring. The American is a
good gambler, but his game is like
marbles against billiards as com
pared with the gambling of Euro
peans. I saw old Castellane, the fa
ther of Count Castellane, who mar
ried Anna Gould, play baccarat un
til he had a roll of money amount
ing to $49,000. This money he put
in his trousers pocket and started to
go out.
“He had just reached the door
when three men who knew him
came in. They were broke, but anx
ious to play. I saw Castellane hand
them $2,500 apiece, and then start
to deal the cards for them himself.
The old gentleman actually put the
balance of his money against that
which he had loaned his friends.
They were three to one. Castellane
broke one of the three, but the oth
er two broke him, and after passing
back $5,000 to him, they went out
richer together by some $44,000.
Where in all of this country would
you find a man in whose veins the
gambling blood flowed as swiftly as
that?”
Miraculous Cures.
Reginald of Durham, who wrote
a chronicle some time before 1195,
asserts that a young English noble
man was cured of leprosy at the
shrine of St. Cuthbert in Durham
cathedral, and that a young woman
who had been for the space of three
years an inmate of a large hospital
established at Badele, near Darling
ton, in the diocese of Durham, was
miraculously healed at the shrine
of St. Godric at Finchdale, in the
presence of Ralph Haget, sheriff of
the county, and Norman, parish
priest of Hailtune.
It Went.
The new dynamite gun wheeled
into position and a moment later
there was a thundering report.
The big gun had spoken.
“And what I say,” remarked the
engine of war as the smoke curled
away from its muzzle, “goes? See?”