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VOLUME XXXVIH.
SHOES!
We have just received the largest shipment that ever came to
Gainesville. Over one hundred caseses of the famous
HAMILTON-BROWN SHOES I
From a stock of over
0,000 PAIRS.
We can fit any foot from A to E E, and any O rc $ "7
pocketbook from to o
Any and every pair is FULLY GUARANTEED
and will wear like FLINT.
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Men’s Shoes in Black and
i Chocolate, of Russian Calf,
Box Calf, Harvard Calf,
i Cordovan, Kangaroo, Vici
Kid, Patent Leather, etc , in
j all the latest toes, and any
last from C to G.
Women’s Shoes in Lace
and Button, Chocolate and
Black, wide and narrow,
heel and spring heel, heavy
and fine, cloth top and kid
I top, in the newest toes,
widths from A to E E, any
I price from 75c to 13.50.
Good line Ladies’ 1898
Bicycle Boots.
Shoes for Boys and Girls : We have them laced, buttoned,
chocolate, and heel and spring heel, in the prettiest toes.
A big line of Babies’ soft soled Shoes. Men’s and Ladies’
Rubbers and Over-gaiters. Nice and convenient places for trying
and fitting shoes. Buttons fastened on our shoes free of charge.
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11 Main St.
Telephone
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LARGE SUPPLY always on
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WILL OFFER Special induce
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C. H. WINBURN, ,
DENTIST.
CROWN and Bridge work a Specialty. A lib
eral amoun of patronage solicited.
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ESTABLISHED 1870.
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| appointed M. C. BROWN & CO. as agents to tit
‘ ant sell his celebrated Classes.
Dr.C.A.RYDER,
DENTIST,
GAINESVILLE, - - - GA.
‘ Dental work of all kinds done in a
’ j skillful manner. Crown and Bridge
work a specialty.
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
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A Small Sum of Mont
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WILL BUY LOTS OF GOODS •<
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£ Turner’s Cash Stos
AAA AAA WORTH OF GOODS ,T$
y/ n nnn be closed out ■«
UCIUjUUU AND BELOW COST.' *
In order to reduce my stock and get ready for the spring ISA
I will offer for next thirty days my entire stock of goodßt
a very reduced price. A great many things will be closed
out regardless of their former price, and regardless thf
what they cost me. For instance: Dress Goods that
75c will be closed out now at 37 l-2c per yard.
quality will be sold at 25c, and the all wool dress goods
sold at 30c will go now at 15c a yard. Linings,
Embroideries, Laces, and all such goods will be closed out*n
this sale at and below cost. Now is your chance for a
gain if you need goods in this line. bL<
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Corsets at Cost. 74
Dr. Warner’a and the R. <t G. Corsets to be closed out in this sale. The
regular $1.50 Corset will go now at sl.lO. The $1 quality at 83c.
75c Corset at 59c, and the 60c quality at 45c. A very good corseejora
be had in this sale at 20c.
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Clothing. '
$4,000 worth of Men’s, Boys’, and Children’s Suits, and Men’s and Boys’
Pants to be closed out al cost, and a great many odd Coats and Vists
and odd Pants will go in this sale at less than first cost. * • *
Ts you want a bargain this is the place to find it.
Come and see. r U’j
’ ’ ' Very respectfully, '
G. F. TURNER,'
West Side Square, - - . GAINESVILLE, GA.
Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly
done.
Thomas & Olecrls..
Next door below Post-office, - - - GAIN HS VILLE, *A.
f■ wMHbf* , flour that ;
makes the whitest] ]
X bread and cake, and<i
the finest pastry, is milled ] j
from the choicest winter wheat < [
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r cause it produces the best food and the most. <!
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GAINESVILLE, GEQKJA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1898.
Thomas & Clark,
Mmufacturers of and Dealers in
HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES,
Blankets and Turf Goods.
Established in 1860.
THE IMPOVERISHED SILVER
STATES.
They Are the Most Rapid Accumulators
of Wealth In the World, Says Mulhall.
The inhabitants of the Pacific states
of America (iu which term Mr. Mul
hall, iu his concluding article on “The
Progress of the United States” in The
North American Review, includes Colo
' rado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyo-
I ming as well as California, Nevada,
' Oregon and Washington) are by far the
i rapidest accumulators of wealth in the
; world.
■ In the 20 years preceding the last
j census they laid up four times
treasure on earth as did Americans gen-
I erally, their annual increase of riches
. per capita being $156, as against $39
for the whole Union. Their farms yield
more than twice as much grain as the
average American farm —30 tons to the
farmhand, as against 22 in the prairie,
7 in the southern, 8 in the eastern and
14 in all the states. They have nine
folded their total wealth in 20 years,
17 of those years elapsing since the
“crime” (which they invented and la
ment) “of 1873.” They were worth
$727,000,000 in 1870 and $6,811,000,-
000 in 1890. Since that year, as before
that year, they have enjoyed annually
the advantage shared by none of their
fellow Americans of taking 55 tons of
oqp precious metal (gold) and 1,800 tons
She other precious metal (silver) out
the ground. This yearly product,
'wjrth $100,000,000, “exceeds, ” accord
ing to this authoritative statistician,
“|he value of precious metals that any
country has yet produced iu the history
Qrinankind. ’ ’
But this wealth is a mere additional
godsend, a windfall, to people enriched
in the ordinary industries of
Jtheir country. Their precious metal
Output is little over a third of their
“agricultural product of $294,000,000 a
year .J|lt is not very much more than a
fpurth of their manufacturing output
‘of $360,000,000 a year, which quad
*rupled in the 20 years between 1870
ftnd 1890.
These are the “whole states” whom
and discreet “bimetallist”
English authority on American affairs,
Mr. moreton Frewen, saw “goaded in
»to fury’ ’ by the lash of poverty which
•the*aold standard laid on their ragged
badfl. These are the people to whom
22? years we, the rest of the country,
average wealth people, the 14
t»n average grain people, paid $450,-
.000,000 for silver worth $252,000,000.
These are the states which, one and all
’(saw,California and Oregon), threatened
■armed revolution because their sister
states refused to take the whole of one
,pf ifieir less important products at two
■ prices and told them to go to the regu
lar market with their silver as well as
their lumber and their grain. These are
the people who have made a national
issue and are now making an interna
tional wrangle of the question, not as
to whether this single one of their in
dustries should be suppressed, or even
suspended, but as to whether they
should receive a profit of 100 or 400
per cent on its product.
It is with no feeling of anger or
scarcely of irritation that the rest of us
—we $39 Americans —contemplate the
collected proof of the thoroughness with
which we have been “done” by these
$156 Americans, who have been crying
all the time that we were eating them
up with the interest on gold clause
mortgages. Nay, it is with a more than
national, it is with a family, pride, a
pride which a thrifty Yankee father
feels in being bested in a horse trade by
his offspring, that we contemplate this
magnificent record of bamboozlement.
And when we realize the further fact
that these brethren of ours, by plying
threats of our repudiation of our foreign
debts, have cozened the old lady of
Threadneedle street into an offer to take
some $35,000,000 of their wares off
their hands, we fall prostrate in rever
ence before their argent shrine of St.
Bunko.—New York Press.
THE BRITISH “MIDDY.”
An English Writer Draws Comparisons Be
tween Him and His American Compeers.
Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton pub
lished not long ago an interesting
conversation which he had with an
American admiral, wherein the lat
ter spoke with the warmest admira
tion of the manner in which he saw
our young midshipmen handling
their boats and keeping their men in
order and then drew comparisons
between them and his own “fine
gentlemen,” most unflattering to
the latter. His young gentlemen,
he said, knew how it ought to be
done, but ours knew how to do it.
The difference is great. The Brit
ish midshipman is brought up in his
profession, and when he finds him
self suddenly in a tight place he
knows what to do instinctively with
out waiting to reason about it. He
does the right thing at once, and as
rapidity of action is one of the most
important factors of success in nau
tical matters he generally gets out
of his tight place with credit to
himself and his profession. Thus
he gains confidence at every- step
and prepares himself for more im
portant commands. On what
grounds, then, of logic or of com
mon sense are we about to alter a
system which has produced such ex
cellent practical results?
It is only fair, however, to see
what can be said on the other side
of the question, and thus we would
frankly acknowledge that our naval
officers are the worst educated in
Europe, taking the word “educa
tion” in the sense in which it is
generally used. It is only quite nat
ural and reasonable that they should
be so, for reasons which we have al
ready sufficiently indicated. For our
own nart we do not think they are bv
Easy to Take
asy to Operate
Are features peculiar to Hood’s Pills. Small in
size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one man
Hood’s
said: ’■ You never know you
have taken a pill till it is all Z I I
over." 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., I I
Proprietors. Lowell. Mass. ■ ■■ ■
■■■- only pills tu take with H*u4’s Sarsaparilla.
any means sucii utter ignoramuses
as they are sometimes supposed to
be and portrayed as being by some
self constituted critics.
For instance, a well known civil
ian writer on naval subjects, mas
querading under the title of Nauti
cus, published lately a violent dia
tribe on the gross and deplorable
ignorance of British naval officers.
He described them as being alto
gether behind the times, as com
paring most unfavorably in point
of general knowledge with the offi
cers of all European nations as well
as with those of the United States.
They were held up to scorn for not
being “men of the world” and for
not being able to “shine in society,”
iu consequence of their faulty edu
cation, and it was further stated
that they were not sound scientific
officers. It is quite possible that all
three accusations might be true—
the third modified—and yet that
ours might be the best naval officers
in the world. We say the third
modified, as it depends a good deal
upon what we understand by a
sound scientific officer. It is proba
ble—nay, almost certain—that, so
far as abstract science is concerned,
our naval officers are surpassed by
those of most other countries and
certainly by those of France and
Germany, but when it comes to the
practical application of such scien
tific or other knowledge as the offi
cers of the different nationalities
possess it has been proved a hun
dred times over that our officers are
ahead of all. Ten thousand horse
power which cannot be applied is
not so good for propulsive purposes
as 5,000 horsepower W'hich can be
applied.—Blackwood’s Magazine.
THEY ATE HORSEFLESH.
The General’s Guests Got the Meat They
Were Asked to Eat, but Didn’t Know It.
A man who distinguished himself
as a commanding officer in the re
bellion was lunching with several
brokers in Broad street when the
conversation turned on the relative
merits of French and American
cooking, and he said:
“In my opinion the French cooks
lead the world, and they have shown
us that many things are edible
which we never dreamed of serving
on our tables. I noticed an account
in the newspapers of a horse meat,
dinner that was given in Williams
burg by a freak club, and it recalled
a little experience of my own. The
French peopkr-do not look upon
horseflesh with the aversion of the
average American. Ido not mean to
say that horse meat is considered a
choice article of diet in Paris, but it
is used there to a certain extent. I
happened to be in Paris 15 years
ago, and several of my friends there
assured me that horse meat might
be prepared in a very appetizing
fashion for the table. I was curious
to try it, and I invited a dozen peo
ple to breakfast on horse meat with
me at my hotel. My guests were all
Americans, and they were all anx
ious to see what cooked horse meat
looked like, though they were doubt
ful about eating it. I got an excel
lent steak of horseflesh and another
of beef, so that my guests need not
home hungry if they didn’t
choose to eat the horse meat.
“When we were all seated at the
table, I told the waiters to serve
the breakfast. In came a steak, and
my guests eyed it closely. It was
nicely cooked, and when it was
served four or five of the men pres
ent just tasted it and then pushed
their plates away.
“ ‘I can imagine, general,’ said
one of them, ‘that if I had been
cooped up in this city during the
siege, when the provisions ran low,
I might get hungry enough to en
joy this horse steak. It is beautiful
ly cooked, but of course one notices
at once that it doesn’t taste like
beef. In fact, I would be obliged to
you if your waiter would remove it.
I am satisfied at being able to say
that I sat down to a horse steak
breakfast in Paris. ’
“Several of the other guests said
much the same thing and the of
fending steak was removed. Then
came the other steak and my guests
ate a hearty breakfast.
“ ‘Unless it comes to a case of
famine,’ said one, ‘this beef is good
enough for me. I don’t want to try
any more horseflesh. ’
“When every one had lighted his
cigarette after breakfast, I said that
I had a confession to make. I told
my guests that they had been invit
ed t® come and eat horseflesh, and
they had eaten it and pronounced it
good. I informed them that the first
iteak which they ordered off the ta
ble was beef, and that the second,
which they had enjoyed so thor
oughly, was horseflesh. The looks
of amazement faded into disgust,
and then I said:
“ ‘Now, look here ! There is no oc
casion for you to look disgusted. A
horse is more discriminating in
what he eats than a cow, and there
is no reason w’hy horseflesh should
not be just as wholesome as beef.
Your enjoyment of it has shown
that it is a foolish prejudice that
prevents it from becoming a staple
article of food. I haven’t fooled you
under false pretenses. You were in
vited to eat horseflesh and you have
done it. ’
“It was several days before my
guests forgave me, and since that
time I have lost all sympathy tot
persons who were compelled be
cause of famine to eat horseflesh, ”
—New York Sun.
Daniel O’Connell, youngest and last
surviving son of the liberator, has just*
died at Bedford, England, aged 81
years. He was a renegade to the cause
of Ireland, accepting the office of in
come tax commissioner from Palmers
ton 40 years ago and subscribing regu
larly to th* PaioßTst fuad to fight
home rale.
•OO Per Annum, in Advance.
HE LEVIED ON THE DINNER.'
How a Tennessee Officer of the Law Col
lected a Debt.
“The most interesting levy I ever
heard of,” said Squire Bell to a re
porter, “was one that I made some
time in 1868 or 1869, when I was a
marshal of the Memphis municipal
court. I don’t remember the plaintiff
in the case, but old Colonel Cocker
ill, who used to run a hotel where
the Peabody is now, was the de
fendant. The case w r as tried and
judgment given for the plaintiff.
An execution was issued, and in
those days the court had quarterly
terms and all papers had to be serv
ed during the quarter or a report
made why they were not served.
Well, I would go out and see the
colonel and begin to urge him to do
something toward paying the judg
ment, but he would always invite
me into his room to take a mint
julep. Then he would become so
plausible and make so many prom
ises that I kept putting off the levy
till the quarterly term was nearly
up. About this time the attorney
for the plaintiff came tome and said
he was tired of fooling along like
that and w’anted to know how many
mint juleps I had been drinking
with the colonel. This scared me
some, so I determined I would do
something at once.
“I went to see the colonel again,
and after refusing the usual invita
tion to take the mint julep I told
him that he would have to do some
thing. He said that if I would just
wait till Tuesday, which was the
last day of the term, he would set
tle up.
“ ‘Suppose you make it Monday,
colonel,’ I said, for I knew that if I
failed to make the levy on Tuesday
my execution was dead, and I want
ed a day of grace. Well, the colonel
agreed to settle up on Monday.
“When Monday came, the colonel
was awfully sick, and his three
boys, who were in the office, would
let nobody see him. There were in
those days, just as there are now, a
lot of men lying round and waiting
to get on the jury. I had counted
the doors of the hotel dining room,
and I picked out a man for each
door and gave them $1.50 apiece and
took them down to the hotel. When
the gong sounded for dinner, I had
a man stand at each door and not
let any one go in. There was a great
deal of travel in those days, and the
hotel was crowded. Pretty soon the
people began to fill up the halls and
wonder what was the matter. The
doors of the dining room were glass,
and the i>eople could see the tables
set and the waiters standing round,
but they couldn’t get in.
“This didn’t last very long before
the old colonel sent for me. ‘I call
this a low trick, Mr. Ball, ’ he said.
“ ‘No low trick at all, colonel,’
said I. ‘I have done a thing never
dene before in the world. I have
levied on a hot dinner, and I am go
ing to hold it till that money's
paid. ’
“The colonel waxed wroth and
swore he would beat the attorney in
the case just as soon as he got well.
But, finding that his getting hot did
not keep the dinner from getting
cold, he finally sent for the book
keeper, who brought up about SSOO,
which lacked just $l5O of satisfying
the judgment. The colonel wanted
to get off with this, but I demanded
security. He was lying in bed, and
reached under his pillow and banded
me a watch and chain worth twice
as much as was still due.”—Mem
phis Commercial Appeal.
COMPROMISING SECRETS.
In Some European Countries They Are
Source* of Some Men’a Power.
Perhaps no stronger illustration
of the power conferred by the
knowledge of compromising secrets
need be cited than the immunity
enjoyed by M. Daniel Wilson, the
son-in-law of the late President
Grevy. While living at the Ely see
he made use of his advantages as
son-in-law of the president and
chairman of the parliamentary
budget committee to obtain from
the complaisant prefect of police, as
well as from the minister of the in
terior of the day, copies, and in some
cases the originals, of what are
known as the “dossiers” of nearly
20,000 of his fellow countrymen con
spicuous in every walk of French
life. When subsequently indicted
as a principal in those disgraceful
Legion of Honor scandals which
caused the downfall of his father
in-law and the condemnation of his
associates to various terms of im
prisonment, he himself escaped all
punishment, thanks to the posses
sion of these dossiers, which he
threatened to publish abroad if any
attempt were made to imprison
him.
The dossiers are nothing more ot
less than the result of secret police
investigation of the shadows on the
lives of prominent men, the infor
mation thus obtained being largely
supplemented by means of more oi
less anonymous denunciations. In
deed there is an entire branch of the
Parisian police force exclusively
employed in making up dossiers,
which often cover 20 and 30 years,
and it may readily be imagined how
great is the power which those pos
sess who have access to these dos
siers.
That explains better than any
thing else why ambitious and tin
scrupulous statesmen usually prefei
the portfolio of the interior depart
ment to any other seat in the cabinet
and why the chief commissioner
ship of the Parisian police has of
late become the stepping stone to
the hiahlv naid ernbas«<adorsbi’'te
AURE rheumatism by taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla,which by neu
tralizing the acid in the blood perma
aently relieves sehes aid PAINS.
NUMBER 6.
tne court ot Vienna ana to tne
equally lucrative and magnificent
viceroyalty of Algeria. There is
no statesman more hated in France
than M. Costans, whose political
and administrative actions have
been so utterly regardless of public
opinion, and, one might add, of pub
lic requirements. Yet no one ven
tures to attack him. His frequent
possession of the portfolio of the in
terior department and the access
which he enjoyed while there to the
dossiers of the prefecture of police
have placed in his hands a power
which every one of his many foes is
forced to take into account and tu
dread.
In Germany, in Austria, and espe
cially in Italy, the knowledge of a
skeleton in the closets of public men
is recognized as an instrument of
political warfare, and it is not sc
many years ago that a member of
the opposition almost caused a min
isterial crisis at Rome by suddenly
bringing to light in the senate the
fact that one of its most venerable
and universally respected members,
the Senator Achille del Guidice, the
most intimate friend of ex-Premier
Crispi, and a knight grand cross
of the Order of St. Maurice and St.
Lazarus, had a quarter of a century
previously- served not one but three
terms of penal servitude for forgery
and embezzlement. Washington
Post.
NATURE’S COMPASS SIGNS.
Different Methods of Determining th*
Cardinal Points.
The many different methods to de
termine the cardinal points while on
the mountains, in both heavy tim
ber and small bush, or upon the
featureless expanse of a great mar -h,
are exceedingly 7 numerous and reli
able enough for all practical pur
poses during an everyday life in the
bush, unless a very 7 long journey is
to be made, which would require a>
number of days, and would make it
necessary to hold on a very- fine
point while making so long a dis
tance.
We will first take notes on the
coniferous trees, pines, firs, spruces,
cedars, hemlocks, etc. The bark of
these is always lighter in color,
harder and dryer on the south side
of the tree, while it is in color much
darker, is also damper and often
covered with mold and moss on the
north side. The gum that oozes out
from wounds, knotholes, etc., is usu
ally hard and often of beautiful am
ber color on the south side, while on
the northern side it remains sticky
longer and gets covered with insects
and dirt, seldom drying out to more
than a dirty gray in color.
On large trees that have rough
bark, especially during the fall and
winter months, the nests and webs
of insects, spiders, etc., will always
be found in the crevices on the south
side. A preponderance of the large
branches will also be found on the
warmest or southern side of the
trees. Also the needles of all the
above mentioned trees are shorter,
dryer and of a yellowish green on
the southern side, while they will be
found longer, more slender and pli
able, damper to the touch and dark
er green in color on the north side.
The cedars and hemlocks, as if try
ing to outdo the others, always la nd
their slender tops of new growth to
ward a southern sky.
The hard wood trees are equally
communicative and have all the
characteristics, so far as regards
their trunks, as the coniferous trees,
except the absence of gums, but this
is more than made up by the fungous
growth of mold and mosses that is
very noticeable on the north side of
these trees.
The ledges of rocks, which may be
part of stupendous mountains or
merely an occasional cropping out
here and there in the woods or per
haps some great bowlder alone by
itself, a silent witness of the glacial
period, all alike testify to the effect
of light and shade. The sunny side
will usually- be bare or at most only
boast of a thin growth of harsh, dry
kinds of mosses that will only grow
when having the light, while the
northern sides will be found damp
and moldy and often covered with a
luxuriant growth of soft, damp
mosses that love the shade, while
every crevice will bear aloft beauti
ful and gracefully waving ferns.
The forest floor on the sunny side
of hills, ridges, clumps of trees,
bushes, big rocks, etc., is more noisy 7
under the footfall than on the noi th
em side of such places, where the
dead leaves and litter are soft and
damp, bolding more moisture than
in places exposed to the light of the
sun.
In an open country, nearly void of
timber, clumps of small bushes dur
ing summer will furnish all the con
ditions found to exist among the
leaves of the trees, being equally
sensitive to light and shade as are
the monarchs of the woods. The
landscape, green with moving grass
es and beautiful to the eye, which
feasts on the countless numbers of
wild flowers, representing every
form and hue known in the flowery 7
kingdom, also furnishes a reliable
guide for locating the cardinal
points, as most wild flowers, espe
cially- the long stemmed varieties,
hide their faces from the north and,
like the sunflower, turn toward a
southern sky.—Forest and Stream.
Governor Black of New York was a
farmer’s non and one of a family of 11
children, yet he prepared himself un
aided to enter college at 18 and gradu
ated from Dartmouth at 22. He is now
angular, tall and smooth shaven and is
often called “young Abe Lincoln. ”
Westley Richards of Birmingham,
England, who died recently at the age of
83 years, was one of the inventors of the
enfield rifle and made the first capping
breeehloading rifles and cartridges iu
1858. Later he invented the top lever
breechloader and the falling block riflw,
with the laetallie w.rtrihg* for it.