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CHINESE PIRATES.
In 1875, owing to the wreck of a Bos
ton brig in the China rea, I was left in
Ilong Kong in pretty bad shape. After I
had carried a flag of distress, as you
might say, for two weeks, an English
man offered to let roe work my passage
to Liverpool, but as I was about to accept
it I ran across a countryman who had a
berth for me. One of the largest trading
houses in Canton at that time was com-
*'ieed of three* Americans, and they owned
two small steamers and three or four sail
craft. These vessels were employed in
collecting goods from the various islands
to the southeast, and some of the voy
ages extended up the Yellow sea jus far as
Tong-chow. Just ut that time the firm
hail como into possession of a now
Btejimcr, ami she was about to make her
first voyage. There had boon trouble
with piratical craft, and the steamer hail
been fitted out to take earn of herself.
She carried two six pounders, twenty
American cavalry carbines, a score of re
volvers, and was fixed to throw hot
water over boarders. Her compliment of
men was fifteen, of whom the cook,
steward and three firemen were natives.
All others were Americans and English
men. The supercargo was an American,
who could rattle off the Chinese language
ns well as the best of ’em, and the cap
tain and some of the others could “smat-
ter” more or less.
Our first voyage was to le up the Yel
low sea, and wo carried a load of Ameri
can and English goods. The cargo well
deserved the name of “miscellaneous.’’
There were muskets, fish spears, sole
leather, tinware, looking glasses, calicoes,
buttons, stoneware, lamps, fish nets, gro
ceries, axes and almost everything else
you can think of, and the supercargo also
carried money to purchase what, wc could
not traffic for. We were to pick up in
cxcliange whatever foreign marketscalled
for in Canton, which included teas, rice,
several species of nuts, dye stuffs, roots,
barks, skins, etc.
I was in luck to secure tlu* place of
mate, for ('apt. Talior was a splendid fel
low and tho crew was one which could lie
dejiendod on. We had three or four men
who understood the handling of the six-
pounders, which had lieen sent over from
the United States, and with the supply of
small arms at hand we felt ourselves a
match for anything except a regular gun
boat. Wc got away in good shape, ran
up between the const and the island of
Formosa, and then steered to the north-
cast to fetch the Lioo-Ivioo islands, which
are seven or eight in number and deal in
ginseng, sarsaparilla and other medical
roots. Wc slop]km 1 a day at Ke-Lung,
which is at t lie northern end of Formosa,
and almost opposite Foochow, on the
mainland, and while here it was noticed
that the native memliersof our crew were
very thick with a lot of suspicious charac
ters who were hanging about us the
greater part of the day. The supercargo
overheard them discussing our voyage
and making many inquiries, and when he
Bpoke of the matter to the steward that
pigtailed gentleman explained that all our
natives were related to the strangers who
had been hanging about, and of course*
the latter took an interest in them.
I didn’t know Chinese characters as
well as some of tho others, and was there
fore' somewhat surprised to hear the cap
tain and supercargo discussing the impu
dence of tho natives aboard before we had
left Ke-Lung by fifty miles. The fire
men had given the engineer trouble, and
tin* steward had a certain sort of impu
dence in his obedience to commands. I
did not know until now that a gang of
twenty or more of the fellows at Ke-
Lung had attempted to induce the cap
tain to give them passage to the island of
Tseeusan. which we meant to visit. They
had offered big passage money and were
willing to put up with any accommoda
tions. but he mistrusted them, and firmly
declined to have one of them aboard.
The steward and firemen were soundly
Ignited by the captain and threatened
with irons if any more trouble occurred,
and there the matter was dropped. At
the close of the second day we dropped
anchor off a small island to the south
west of Tseeusan called Kung-Wah.
There was no harbor, but the depth of
the water enabled us to get within a
cable’s length of the beach in a compara
tively sheltered spot.
Capt. Tabor hail traded at this island a
year before, and he knew that the natives
were all right as long as they were kept
in awe by a superior force. There was a
trader on the island who had a large
stock of roots, and after a palaver lasting
two days and nights the supercargo
finally made a bargain with him. It was
observed by the captain that some change
lm<l come over the natives, for on his pre-
^Tous trip they had been eager to close a
bargain at any figure named. The natives
in our crew haul beeh permitted to go
ashore, and a dozen or more of the lead-’
lug men of the island haul come aboard
and inspected us. It was night of the
6econul day before a trade was agreed
upon. On the following day we were to
begin landing and receiving goods. There
was a big crowd of natives on shore ojv
po&ite the steamer, and they haul canoes,
catamarans and dhows enough to have
embarked 300 people. Just before night
closed in we sighted a large junk coming
down from the direction of Formosa, but
gave her no particular attention. At
about 0 o'clock she came jogging along at
a tramp's gut. and dropped her mud
hook within 200 feet of us. I gave her a
looking over with the night glass, and as
only five or six men could be made out on
her decks, it was natural to conclude that
she was a trader.
Being in port, with fair weather for the
night, the crew might expect that only
an anchor watch would be maintained.
The men must therefore have been some
what surprised when Capt. Tabor in
vited our five natives to go ashore, an 1
spend the night with their friends, and
anounced to the rest of us that we
should stand watch and watch. The cook
was the only native who diui not go. He
declared that he had enemies ashore who
would kill him. and he was therefore al
lowed to occupy his accustomed quarters.
There were ten of us besides him. and
soon after the junk anchored the guns
were cast loose and loaded with grape,
the firearms brought up and made ready,
and the engineer was instructed to keep
steam enough to permit us to move. The
cable was arranged for slipping, and then
firemen turned^in “all standing, and
the other five of us stood watch. Before
this occurred the captain said to me:
“Mr. Graham, this may be going to a
good deal of trouble for nothing, but the
man who deals with these natives has
got to Ik? prepared for any emergency.
If they trouble us it will not lie until
after midnight. I will therefore head
the second watch. Keep your eye on
i that junk, and permit no boat to come
aboard under any circumstances. ’ ’
I distributed my men over the vessel to
the best advantage and reserved to my
self the right to act as a free lance. That
is, I went from one part of the vessel to
another, and kept one eye on the junk
and the other on the bench. All was very
quiet up to 11:30 o’clock, when I made
■ two discoveries in quick succession. The
j cook hail prepared a large dish of coffee
: for our use during the night. We had a
j large urn on a stand in one comer of the
dining room, and a lamp underneath
kept the coffee hot. The same thing is in
J general use in American hotels and res
taurants. I was on tho point of entering
the cabin to secure a drink of the bever-
erage when, as I pass**! an open window*.
I heard the cover of the urn rattle, and
then caught tho footsteps of some one in
retreat. It could be none other than the
native cook, I argued, but I did not go to
his quarters to verify or disprove my sus
picions. I entered the cabin, turned np
the light and carefully examined the urn.
The rascal liad certainly “dosed” it.
There was a grayish powder on the cover
and on the edge of tho urn, and in his
haste he had spilled some on the floor. A
look inside showed numerous bubbles on
the surface of the liqt&l, but the=e broke
and disappeared while I was looking. The
rascal could have but one object in his ac
tions. T arranged the can so that no one
could secure a drink and then started to
notify tho captain. As I passed along
the deck I looked for the junk, and in an
instant saw that she haul decreased the
distance between us. Tho tide was
setting in. and she was either dragging
her anchor or had purposely raised it and
allowed herself to drift. The captain was
up as soon as 1 touched his arm, and
when I reported my suspicions of the
cook and the junk he replied:
“Call all the men at once, but make no
noise. That junk lias got fifty men in
her hold, and the natives on shore are in
with a plot to capture us. Take a pair of
handcuffs and have the cook secured in
liis Ix'rth.
After I had called the men I wont, to
make a prisoner of the cook, but lie was
nowhere to lx? found. HLs object in re
maining alioard up to that hour was to
drug our coffee and note wliat prepara
tions we were making. When he got
ready to go he probably swam to the shore
with his news, lmt he could have reported
little more than the fact that lie had
drugged our coffee, which all who were
awake at midnight would probably make
use of. When t he men had received our
orders we paid our attention to the junk,
and one of the guns was quietly rolled
across the deck and trained upon her.
When the night glass was directed t<> the
shore wo could make out that many of
the natives were moving about and evi
dently getting ready for some expedition.
There was no qm rion now but what we
were to lie attacked. We had a good
pressure of steam, plenty of hot water,
and the hose was attached and a man as
signed to take charge of it.
It was an hour and a half after mid
night before there was any decided move,
on the part of tho enemy. The Captain
of the junk could not have had a night
glass, and perhaps he* reasoned that we
were as badly off. lie kepi paying out
his cable foot by foot until he was so close
on to us that I could have tossed a biscuit
aboard of him. Owing to the set of the
tide or to some cross cunvnfc ho dropped
down to us stern first, while we lay broad
side to the beach. The stem of the junk
was pointed amidships of the steamer,
and our gun would rake his whole deck
at every discharge. At 1 o'clock two
men left her in a small boat and went
ashore, and then forty or fifty armed men
came out of the hold and took their sta
tions on deck. A few had muskets, but
most of them carried knives or a sort of
hand grenade, which lias lieen termed
* ‘stink ] >ot. ’' These bombs are filled with
a villainous compound which is let loose
as they are broken, and the fumes are
more,to lie dreaded than a bullet. Their
plan, as we solved it, was- for an attack
on Lath sides of us at once. A fleet
would come out on us from the shore and
the junk would drift down o:i us a: the
same timo. We had the cable ready to
slip, sent the engineer to liis post and then
waited.
At about 1:30. while the tide had yet
half an hour to ran, we saw the shore
boats make ready. At least 200 natives
wore ready to come off. They knew that
the cook had drugged or poisoned our
coffee, and therefore sent a boat in ad
vance of the fleet to see in wliat shape we
were. The boat came up very softly and
rowed twice around us before the captain
hailed and let them know we were wide
awake. Some sort of signal was given
from the boat, an l the fight opened at
] once. Just the moment we saw the peo
ple on the junk getting ready to drift her
| down upon us we gave them the grape
i from the six-pounder. They wore not a
i pistol sliot away, with most of the men
! crowded aft. and I verily believe that the
! one discharge killed or wounded twenty
i men. I was at that gun with two others,
i and a man armed with a carbine was
j near us. He fired six or seven shots
j while we were reloading, and three or
i four musket shots were fired at us. Our
second shot drove a.ll who were loft alive
j below hatches, and, believing that the
j carbineer could keep them there, we ran
! the gun to the starboarul side to beat off
! the boats.
i It was high time. "While the first
j discharge of the gun had done for a
! score of them they were a reck-
i less and ulesperate lot and would
I not retreat. They were provided with
! bombs, spears, blow guns and muskets,
: and the man who was to sprinkle them
' with hot water had been sliot dead at
; their first fire. As soon as we got our
i gun over, some one picked up the nozzle
! of the hose pipe and turned it loose on
! every boat within reach. But for the
( hot water the fellows might have carried
us by boaruling, for 200 to 10 is big odds,
i Such screaming and shouting and shriek-
; ing as they indulged in when the boiling
I hot water spattered over their half-naked
bodies was pandemonium of itself, and all
the time we kept playing on them with
: the guns and tho carbines. The fight
j^coold not have lasted over seven or eight
minutes, and as soon as they began to
draw off I ran my gun to the port side.
, loaded with shell, and sent the missile
' right through the junk’s stem Half a
dozen fellows rushed out of the held and
jumped overboard, anul I garb her two
; more. When the third was fired there
was an explosion, probably of a barrel of
powder, which lifted her deck thirty feet
; high and split her wide open. She sank
! right there before our eyes, and the wails
I of the wounded wretches who floated
about for a minute or two were dreadful
to hear.
oapt. Tabor felt that such treachery as
the natives had shown deserved the sever
est punishment, and we turned both guns
loose on the village and fired forty or fifty
shells. When daylight came not a human
11 ing was in sight. Portions of the junk
laid been driven on the bench, and the
natives haul fled and left everything be
hind them. The sharks were probably
at tracted to the spot by the sounds of
firing, and ^hey certainly had a rich feast.
I never saw them so thick before nor
since, and as they fished up the bodies
from the bottom around us three or four
would seize and tug at a single one and
quickly tear it to pieces. I was sent
ashore with a flag of truce, with four
armOT men to make it respected, and on
the sands I found the body of one of our
firemen, and not far off that of our cook.
After some hard work I induced the head
man to come in out of the forest and talk
to me. His name was NVung-Hang, and
a more humble man I never met. lie
laid it all to the people on the junk. The
Tutrrco* tgaong- our crew had conspired
with the fellows at Ke-Lung to secure
ptssage aboard and overpower us. When
this game could not be worked, owing to
the refusal of the captain to take them,
they followed on after us in the junk,
1 found a cheerful co-operator in old
V. .ing-Hang, the trader.
He supplied us with the best of pro
visions, detailed natives to do all our
work, and when we wefe ready to leave
he supplied us with five natives, and
gave Capt. Tabor full power to decapi-'
t .to them at the first signs of disobedi-
i*nce. During the next three years, or
until I severed my connection with the
steamer, we got around to the island
alieni once in six months, and oldNVung-
! Jang always had a good bit of cargo
ready for us, and would deal with no
one else.—Now York Sun.
A Practical Marino Engineer.
The first steamboat built in Scotland
• iid not venture out of the rivers and
firths except in fine weather. David
Napier, thinking that a steamer could lx?
bulk to navigate the open sea in all
weathers, determined to know the diffi
culties it would encounter. At a stormy
period of the year he took passage on a
: ailing packet, which ran between Glas
gow and Belfast. Standing for hours at
the Ikjw Iiq watched the waves breaking.
Now and then he would leave liis post to
dc the captain if it was a rough sea.
When told it was nothing unusual he
went back to the bow with an air of dis
appointment.
lie did not mind being drenched with
tho spray, but he was impatient with the
ordinary weather. At hist it blew a gale
and a wave, breaking over the bow,
swept the packet from stem to stem.
Making his way aft, dripping with salt
water, lie asked: “Captain, do you con
sider it rough now?”
“I never faced a worse sea, sir,” an
swered the master.
“Well, if that’s all, I think I can man
age it!” exclaimed Napier, as he went be
low to meditate on wliat he had seen.
On liis return to Glasgow, he experi
mented to discover tho shape of bow
which would go through water with the
least resistance. HLs “sight seeing” on
the bow of the packet hadswgested that
the round bow of a saimigvSsel- was not
die best form for a steamboat. His ex
periments led him to adopt the fine
wedge shape bow which now distin
guishes steamers all over the world.
When Napier made liis voyage days
wore often required to sail between Glas
gow and Belfast. It is now made in
nine hours, because the marine engineer
first raw what was to be done and then
did it.—Kansas City Times.
CORRESPONDENTS AT DONELSON.
O MOST FAIR!
“INSTANTANEOUS” PLATES.
What One of the Journalistic Profession
Saw After the Surrender of the Fort.
About a mile from the landing I met a
person dilapidated, demoralized, who,
bent with fatigue, was limping and hob
bling painfully in the direction of the
boats. I recognized him as Andre Mat
te-sen, a correspondent of his own paper
in Chicago. He was worn out with
hour; of tramping over the battle ground,
and withal in a state of starvation. I di
vided my rations with him and he ate
like a ravenous wolf. I have always felt
that my opportune meeting with him at
that moment saved him from death
through starvation, and thus preserved to
the journalistic profession one of its most
accomplished members.
Knox was not at Donelson, being then
on liis third march from St. Louis to
Springfield, this time under the lead of
Gen. Curtis. Richardson made a narrow
escape from missing the battle. At Fort
Henry I had managed to get my letter
off on the first dispatch boat which left:
he missed the boat, and there was no
other to leave in ten hours. He was
equal to the emergency. He went down
the river on the first steamy, took the
train for New York, writing on the cars
as he went. Although ten hours behind
at the start he made up the difference, so
tliat our letters appeared on the same
morning in New York, and by coming
instantly back he was in time for the
Donelson contest.
Sunday morning, after the surrender,
while going through the works, a man
passed me on a lively trot who carried
paper and pencil, and who halted a mo
ment here and there to jot down
a sentence. A glimpse of a jaundiced
face and a solemn countenance re-
veald the identity of Coffin, the Bos
ton correspondent, who was doing the
fortifications on the run. As far as I
could see him he kept the pace, up Hill
and down, over breastworks, parapets,
rifle pits, rocks, fallen trees and all other
obstacles. He ran with his head down,
like an animal which trails by scent. If
his report was at all commensurate in
value with the speed developed in getting
it up it must have been thrilling beyond
estimate.
Henry Lovie, the artist for Frank Les
lie, was not on the ground. I met him a
couple of days after at Cairo and fur
nished liim material with which “our
own correspondent on the spot” made a
spirited drawing of the battlefield.
Knowing personally many of the officers
who were engaged in the charge against
the Confederate right, I gave him such
details of their appearance that he was
able to present some very lifelike faces in
his sketch of the assault; and in this way
he gained a vast notoriety for the fidelity
of liis pictures, thereby, in the estimate
of the soldiers who followed Smith in liis
gallant attack, proved himself to have
done the work under the very fire of tho
enemy.—“Polinto” in Chicago Times.
Jlr.ve I found her? O rich finding:
Goddess Eke for to behold.
Her fair tresses’Fecmlj binding
In a chain of pearl and gold.
Chain me. chain me, O most fair.
Chain me to thee with that hair I
LIFE IN OLD SANTA FE.
Danger in Sndden Changes.
If a blizzard of unusual severity were
coming from the northwest that would
send the thermometer down 50 or 70
•legs, in tiiree hours, we should expect a
■-rent increase of pneumonia and other
re_juratory diseases, resulting in many
deaths. Now, instead of three hours,
supjx*a3 the mercury were to drop three
score (legs, in three minutes—or take an
other step in fancy, and suppose this
great change to take place in three
seconds—what would likely be the effect
on the health? Ami yet we bring about,
artificially, changes in ourselves quite as
sudden and ns severe ns this.
We have an artificial climate in our
houses. Wo live indoors in an atmos
phere heated by stoves, furnaces, or
steam pipes, to 70 or 80 degs.: and we
pass from our parlor or hail so heated
into the open air. At a step, literally in
a breath, the temperature of the air has,
for us. dropped 50 or 70 degs. We may
put on an extra coat or shawl and shield
the outside of the body and chest, but
we cannot shield the delicate linings and
membranes of ’ the air passages, the
bronchial tubes, the lung cells. Naked,
they receive the full force of the change
—the last breath at 70 degs., the next at
freezing or zero—and all unprepared.
V» e have been sitting, perhaps for hours,
in a tropical atmosphere: nay, worse, in
an atmosphere deprived by hot iron sur
faces of its ozone and natural refreshing
and bracing qualities. Our lungs are all
relaxed, debilitated, unstrung: anul in
this condition the cold air strikes them
perhaps GO degs. below what thqy are
graduated to and prepared for. Is it
strange if pneumonia and bronchitis are
at hand?—Popular Science Monthly.
A Paragraph About Great Possibiltic*.
It seems that there is no end to the pos
sibilities of instantaneous photography.
The artists in this line have already pho
tographed trains going a mile a minute,
horses trotting a 2:2S gait, baseballs in
mid air, and other flying tilings. Why
should they not give us photographs of
birds in flight, thereby aiding serial ex
periments in constructing air ships mod
eled upon the flying mechanism of the
air's inhabitants? Perhaps they will also
show ns negatives of bullets and cannon
balls in flight, and, to return to baseball,
of great pitchers’ puzzling curves. Dia
grams of some of these curves would be
worth looking at. This reminds me that
Douglass, the photographic supply man
on Wabash avenue, has constructed an
electric lamp, having its own reservoir of
electric energy, by which instantaneous
photographs of all sorts' of things and
places may be taken after night. It is
bis idea that detectives and the police
would find such an instrument of service
in preserving a likeness of the scenes of
night crimes and such tilings, and has
asked Police Photographer Evans and
j Detective Shea to give the apparatus a
trial. Orr. the country genius, has made
several very good street scenes by moon
light. The time of exposure was twenty
minutes.—Chicago Herald.
I '
: America’s Most Ancient City—A Mexi
can Interior—Ailotp IIou.es.
! Santa Fe is composed almost entirely
j of adobe houses. They are built like the
houses of Spain, one story in height, and
with a hollow court in the centre called
a placita, and on which all the rooms
open. They are washed on tho outside
with a white earth from the mountains
called terra alba, and from the ground
up about three feet with a shining yellow
earth called terra maria so the general
appearance is very singular. For heat
ing rooms and cooking there are cute lit
tle mud fireplaces, generally built in the
corner of the room, also -over'd with the
white or yellow earth, and they are re.uly
quite pretty and ornamental. The wood
is burned standing on end. as the fire
place is not of such a shape as to permit
laving it down. The walls of tho rooms
are whitened also, and if there is any
ceiling except the vagas (large logs) it is
of white muslin sewed in strips and
tacked to hold it in position.
There is hardly a blade of grass, a tree
or a flower in the whole town, except in
the plaza and on the roofs, which last
are made of earth, three or four feet
thick, and in the rainy season are covered
with sage brush and wild flowers, of
which the prairie sunflower is the most
luxurious. Boys fly their kites from the
roofs, while dogs, goats, chickens and
children sport over them with the greatest
freedom. There are absolutely no mos
quitoes nor rats; hut occasionally a tar
antula, a large fierce kind of ant, and a
poisonous lizard of which the Mexicans
stand in great terror, arr often met with.
The domestic arrangements of the poorer
class of Mexicans is of the simplest.
They have no furniture oscept a low,
narrow, bed against the wall, which
serves for bed at night and seats in the
day. Their meals consist of “chilli con-
camp” (mutton and red peppers boiled),
tortillas (a cake made of commcal
ground between two stones by hand),
and coffee. They eat sitting on the floor,
around one large dish, from which each
hoi [is himself, using his tortillas as a
spoon.
The height of happiness for a Mexican
is to sit in the sun and smoke cigarettes.
These people excel in politeness, and
when I see a poor, decrepit old man,
| whose rags hardly cover his wasted lwdy,
| hare his white locks with a courteous
| bow and a “buenas dias, senora," I am
I sure some of the pure old Castilian blood
' must course in those withered veins, and
I long to hear some of the legends of his
ancestors. They are full of traditions
and superstitions, some of which are very
beautiful and full of pathos.—Sante Fe
Cor. Chicago News.
Si-tting Some Satisfaction.
“What’s the matter. Bobby?” inquired
liis mother, as the boy flounced into the
nursery.
“Pa s-ent me out of the 1-library
c-caus. I made too much n-n-oise.”
“I li'ipe you didn't say anything to
your papa?’'
“N-no.” replied Bobby, who knows
better than to lie rude to the old man.
“but I s-slr.mmedthe door."—New York
The Troper Way to Read.
A gentleman who is proprietor of one
of the largest and most popular hotels in
one of our large cities must be a busy
man. Yet I know such a one who is
one of the best and most satisfactory
talkers that I meet. I said to iiim one
day. “Do let me ask you liow it is that
you find time to be informed on all the
news of the day and can talk intelli-
I gently on new books, politics, etc.” He
said: "When I was a poor boy, working
hard all day. a kind old gentleman used
to lend me his New York daily after he
had read it. One night this occurred to
me, ‘What can I remember of what I
have read for the past three weeks?
What has been going on in England, in
Germany, in France? What new books
have been published? What progress has
been made, and in wliat direction?’ So
putting aside my precious papers. I went
all around the circle—politics, arts, news,
literature, etc.—till I felt I was certain of
some tilings. I have kept up that habit
ever since. Wliat I read I make mine,
and if I cant read a book I read a good
renew of it and feel that I have perhaps
the best of it.”—Kate Sanborn in At
lanta Constitution.
King Kalakaua’.s Birthday.
The 50th birthday of King Kalakaua
was celebrated with appropriate cere-
j monies. lolani palace looked its very
| best. Its exterior presented a brilliant
] aspect. Every pillar, swathed in bunting,
' showed the national tricolor. Between
i each arc was a group of banners,
and scarcely a square foot of ma
sonry was visible. From the several
l turrets were exhibited his majesty’s
l private insignia, the royal stand
ard. and the national ensign, float-
j ing gayly in the breeze. At an early
hour crowds of natives and foreigners
flocked to the scene, having donned their
holiday attire. As the day wore on the
crowd thickened, outrivaling anything
of the kind witnessed in the city for
years past. His majesty liegan receiving
visitors at!) o’clock, the first callers be
ing the police force, headed by a band.
After congratulations had been exchanged
a hook, containing a money order for
i $570, was presented to the king.
This was followed by the arrival of the
party and the ministers, with the other
notables of the government. The diplo
matic and consular corps then paid their
j respects, and many of the visitors pre-
j sented the royal celebrant with liand-
j somely ornamental calabashes. The
king's guard gave a check for $18.50.
Tim list of presents made to the king
I included almost every imaginable article
j of ornament and use. There were about
150 calabashes in the collection. The of-
j fleers and physicians of the hoard of
l health presented a box containing fifty
| $20 pieces. His majesty also received
j many other presents in gold and silver
coin; also cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens,
ducks, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, poi,
taro, etc.—San Francisco Chronicle.
Sadly Afflicted.
“Aw. pardon me. Edith. I've thutoh
a cold in my head; and when I've a cold.
I'm always stupid, don'tchewno. ”
“Fair . ■ itliur. iiow sad! you seem always
to have this affliction.”
Queen Victoria's desert service cf old
Sevres—the finest in the world—is val
ued at $250,000.
Poisoned by His Business.
The man who earns $20,000 the hard
est of any man I know is a celebrated tea
taster down town. TtMay you see him
and he looks like any other man, but if
you meet him in a month hence lie will
strike you as extraordinary. His hat
will then appear to be four sizes too
small and to he perched on liis head like a
marking pot on a barrel. This is said to
-Be because he lias been poisoned by his
business, and the lower part of liis face
and head has swelled out of all propor
tion to his crown and his hat. He only
washes liis tongue with the tea and then
spits it out, but in the course of doing
this a thousand times a day for several
weeks the strong drug does its work and
then he has to lie off for a few weeks and
shrink liis head ready to begin again.—
Providence Journal.
Electric Light for the Eyes.
Professor Chon, of Breslau, the emi
nent oculist, lias recently touched upon
the influence of electric lighting on the
eyesight. He remarks that as diffused
daylight is best for the eye, our artificial
lighting should aim at a similar diffusion.
Artificial light should' not dazzle nor
flicker, and it should he abundant with
out beating the eye. Glow lamps should
never be looked at unless blurred by
ground glass shades, because of the in
tense concentration of light ontlie line of
filament. The electric light was, accord
ing to Professor Chon, greatly to lie pre
ferred to any other for reading or writ
ing by, if it lx? steady and abundant.—
Boston Budget.
Hydrophobia is unknown in Lajiland.
Raising Potatoes by Electricity.
An interesting experiment, showing
the influence of electricity on the growth
of roots, has been made in Germany.
Flutes of coprer were thrust upright into
the earth, and connected by wires with
similarly placed zinc plates about 100
feet distant, an electric liattery being
thus formal with the earth between the
copper and zinc in the circuit. Both
potatoes and beets planted between such
plates give an increased yield—beets 15
per cent., potatoes 25 per cent., as com
pared with other parts of the game noM_
—Dry Goods Chronicle.
A Pennsylvania coal operator has em
ployed a competent surgeon to lecture to
his miners on the method of procedure in
the many emergencies that arise from
mine accidents.
A new use for the tobacco plant has
been discovered. Its stems and waste, it
is claimed, are equal to linen rags in the
maufacturc cf paper. Tobacco waste
costs less than $10 a ton, linen rags $70
to $80. There is no expense in sorting
the former and very little shrinkage, as
against a loss of one third of rags The
yearly tobacco waste is estimated by the
census reports at from 3,000.000 to 4,000,-
000 of pounds.—Chicago Herald.
Liver Maladies in Fashion.
The kidneys liave. in th^ way of diag
noses. nearly haul their run. which has
lasted almost half a century. The liver
is now having its turn, anul err* long no
doubt most disorders will be attributed
thereto. Tliis is moderately safe, because
its condition is hard to determine, and
theory will answer in the absence of
facts. There are eras and fashions in
maladies, as in other things, and at pres
ent the liver may be said to lx? coming
in.—New York Commercial Advertiser.
In the Dead Letter Office.
Defective addressss and insufficient
postage are the main reasons why there
is a constant flow of postage matter into
the dead letter office. After reaching
the office every means is employed to
ascertain the senders or owners of the
letters and packages, and the articles of
fered at the annual sales represent the
proportion of the entire matter for which
no owner could be found. The catalogue
this year will contain some 7,000 arti
cles, a slight increase over the number
offered for sale last year, but bearing
about the same proportion to the entire
bulk of the matter passing through the
mails. All dead mail is retained in the
dead letter office for two years, if not
claimed sooner, before being finally dis
posed of.—Chicago Herald.
Some of tho Difficulties Which r.rc Yet
to Be Overcome—Experiments.
At a meeting of the Photographic so-
cof Philadelphia the question was
;■ ke. 1: “What can he considered as the
‘iustantaneousness’ of gelatine plates and
the well ascertained shortest exposure at
tained?” Mr. David Pepper. Jr., stated
tliat the picture of a bail falling liefore a
screen had been taken with one of Mr.
Muybridge’s fastest shutters in the
1-1000 of a second. Mr. David Cooper,
who was present as a visitor, referred to
a picture made by Mr. W. T. Gregg of a
projectile being fired from a dynamite
gun. The shell was shown a short dis
tance in front of the muzzle of the gun,
and was blurred about one-half its
length. The velocity of the projectile
stated to lie 1.200 feet per second.
In front, of the shell could he seen what
was claimed to lie a cushion of com
pressed air. Tills cushion lia<l the ap
pearance of a comet and was supposed tc
he the cause of the difficulty or imjxissi-
bility of hitting with a pistol bullet a sus
pended eggshell or handkerchief.
Capt. MacNutt of the Frankford ar
senal stated that he had been trying for
two years to devise a means to accom
plish tliis. The difficulty seemed to lie
in securing sufficient rapidity of ex;ins
ure, at the same time having a position
near enough to get a respectable sized
picture. The projectile, moving at from
1.200 to 1,000 feet per second, would re
quire a faster shutter than lie had yet
seen. The liigh velocities of projectiles
at the muzzle has led to the suggestion
that they might be gotten at a point, say-
500 yards off. where the velocity is con
siderably reduced, hut this lias placed
other difficulties in the way. chief among
which Is exposing while the projectiles
are in the field of view. Mr. Bartlett ex
pressed his doubts whether the most sen
sitive film is capable of recording the
presence of the cushion of air preceding
the projectile, inasmuch as the atmos
phere, even under the greatest pressure,
would lie invisible. lie thought he
might as well expect the photographic
image of the temporary vacuum wliicb
follows the liali.—Boston Transcript.
When Ingersoll Was Slek.
Col. Ingersoll told a story alxiut a time
when lie was sick with fever many years
ago, about the only sickness he ever
knew. Climbing over a porch outside pf
liis window were grape vines full of
grapes just ripening. In bis fever he
craved acids and cooling drinks, and
those grapes made him wild with desire
to reach them, hut he was sternly forbid
den to think of them or of ice water, and
ho was closely watched to see that he did
not reach the forbidden fruit. One night
when he pretended to lie asleep and was
thought too weak to move, the nurse
slipjied out, perhaps to get a drink or a
smoke. Ingersolt crawled feebly from
the lx.il. crawled out of the window upon
tho roof of the porch ay id ate grapes till
he feared the nurse would return.
“Then,” said he. “I filled my shirt tail
full of grapes and crawled back to bed
;md lay and ate them in the dark.
Then,” said he, “I went to sleep, bidding
the world good-by, and willing to do so
after the exquisite enjoyment of tliat
feast.” ,
In the morning the doctor came in,
and, after examination, pronounced liim
much improved, and evidently felt elated
in his success in treating the case. In
gersoll asked him what would he: the con
sequence if he ate a lot of those grapes,
and he was assured that he would not
live an hour. After the grajie episode
his improvement was so rapid that it
amazed the physician, and when he told
that physician about tho grapes the latter
was probably more amazed than ever.
Said the colonel: “These physicians run
by old rules. If a man dares to do other
wise he is denounced as a quack and pro
fessionally ostracized. The only wisdom
wo get in tho world which is correct
comes from the natural laws and instinct
and is the result of love.—Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Literally Wiped Oat of Existence.
George Doran was blown to pieces by
a nitro-glycerine explosion at Keel Rock a
few years ago. He was a man that
weighed 200 pounds. All that the most
thorough search ever recovered of that
200 pounds of flesh and bone was a part
of one of the poor man’s feet—less than
one pound. Charles Berridge, a well
known oil man. was blown up by nitro
glycerine one iv-inter in Allegheny county.
Tho ground was covered with newly
fallen snow. On either side was a liigh
and abrupt hill only a few rods apart.
Berridge was a very tall man. and liis
weight was 180 pounds. The remains of
the fioor fellow were searched for care
fully, but less than fifteen pounds of
them could be found. The most curious
part of the case, and one showing how
completely annihilation accompanies ;m
explosion of nitro-glycerine. was this:
The greatest force of the explosive is al
ways expended upward. However in
finitesimal the atoms to wh’ch Bcrridge’s
body might have been reduced by this
explosion, in failing back upon that spot
less snow some trace of them must liave
been seen, hut the snow remained as
spotless as before. Besides human bodies,
the iron frames of wagons, and even the
ponderous nitro-glycerine safes, have
lieen removed from human vision by an
explosion as effectually as if they had
never lieen formed, and the mystery of
their utter annihilation cannot bo ex
plained.—New York Times.
The World** Largest Gold 3Iine.
The famous Mulatos mine, regarded
by many as the largest gold mine in the
world, has been sold to a company of
English capitalists. Tne mine is situ
ated at Sonora, Mex., and was worked
hundreds of years ago by the natives,
hut was lost track of. In 1804 it was
rediscovered and sold to French parties,
who, after working it for nearly fifty
years, resold it to a rich Mexican, and
it has been in liis hands ever since.
There are 100 chambers in the mine,
some 150 feet high, yet not a stick of
;imber is used to support the roof, the
support consisting of pillars left in dig
ging out the ore. The ore is of low
grade.—Chicago times.
She Will Follow Directions.
Physician (to young woman patient)
—You have a severe cold, Miss Smith,
and are threatened with pneumonia.
You will have to remain very quiet for
several days.
Patient—Oh, Dr. Pellet, I must go out.
I have so much shopping to do.
Physician—I see, also, that your nose
has a tendency to inflame at the tip—
Patient—(thoroughly alarmed) —Oh,
sir, I will do anything that you tell me
to.—Puck.
D. 1. DOUGHERTY k CO,
ATLANTA, GA.
No Introductory Chat with oar friends. There is no apol
ogy to offer for this, either, because this isja
BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT!
And Don’t You Forget It !
CLOAKS AND WRAPS!
We can oj>en!y defy the whole state on these goods- We have an overwhelming
stock and-will dose them out at wonderfully low prices. The winter has onhr be-
•zim. The prophets and the “goose bone” all predict coM weather ahead. Come
while we can afford to give you timely bargains. Jerseys at very “low cut” prices
—away mu lei wliat they were earlier in the season.
KNIT UNDERWEAR!
Here* again we are defiant, because nobody can touch us. Knit Underwear for
Ladies, Children and Men. We do all the business of the town in this line, and
are not afraid of being touched by factory prices. We have bought out the facto
ries and are underselling them.
LOWER YET.
On Flannels and Pant Stuff, we are ahead of the closest competitors. We have
an immense stock, and everything is down to low rock prices.
A new and extensive stock of handsome holiday goods, something useful and
something to please everybody.
Water Proofs and Repellants
For ladies’ and childrens’ suits. We know we are underselling everybody bore,
:ind we say it boldly. Cotton Flannels, from 5c to 20c, immense bargains, andtyon
will not fail to say so when you get the goods. Nov Wool Hosiery. New Wool
Mittens, for ladiesan<l children. New Silk Mufflers. New Silk Handkerchiefs,
we have them from 25 to 50c, sold last season at from 50 to 75c. New Cotton, and
Linen Handkerchiefs in great variety, very low.
Let everybody blow their horns, bnt you will make a mistakejif you fail to come to
us for any of these goods. Blankets from 85c to $15.00, 10 per cent, low
er than any house in Georgia. Comforts from 50c to $3.50 and $4.00. Now these
are big values, and we won’t deceive you when you come.
DRESS GOODS.
A fearful reduction in everything we have in the way of Dres3 Goods.
We have a heavy stock, a superb selection, choice material, and we in
tend to surprise everybody who will come and look at them. New
Evening Silk in great variety. Now Silk Cord and Buttons to match
for evening trimming. The handsomest line of Holiday Millinery ev6r
brought to Atlanta.
GLOVES.
New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50, 65, 75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves
are guaranteed.
TABLE LUVENB.
We will save you 25 per cent, on these goods. New Ruohings. New
Collars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleached Domestics
Good Prints at 3 and 3)£c. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7'Ac.
SHOES.
• We are ahead of our own purposes In Shoes. We run more men and
have more Shoes and sell more Shoes than any house—than any two
houses—in Atlanta. Shoes for everybody and Shoes cheap enough to
open your eyes.
1.1 DOUGHERTY & CO.
THOMPSON BROS.
Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fornitore
Rig Stock and Low Prices.
PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS,
WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASES)
eplfi- lv
Orders attended to at any hour day or night. MfT"
THOMPSON BROS Newnan. Ga.
At a college examination: “What i.
the best insulator?’’ asks the professor of
physics. “Poverty.”—Tid-Bits.
E. VAN WINKLE & CO
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Wind Mills, Pumps,
TaDks,Etc. f
ALSO
Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses
Oil Mills, Etc.
CONSTRUCT
Public and Private Water Works, ’Railroad Water
Supplies, Steam Pumps, Pipe and Brass tioods.
Seud for Catalogue and Prices.
E. VAN WINKLE * CO-,
52-13 Box 83, ATLANTA, GA.
G.O. McNAMABA
NEWNAN MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS.
-:0:-
ISON & McNAMARA.
DEALERS IN
MARBLE&GRANITE.
MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES, TAB-
' LETS, CURBING, ETC.
jg^“Special Designs, and Estimates for anydesired work, furnished on
application.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA.