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tLo country will pt'eure a supply of
BONKOCINE, the only safe, quic k ana
positive euro'for acutii ami chronic
Gonorrhoea ami <; lect ever used. Cures
eiTcetv 1 under five days, requiring no
Internal remedies, no change of diet,
oi log* f time. Its action destroys and
antajioauei* • v ”ory atom of venereal
poison with which it romes iu con
tact, und is harm U ss to hofflir parts
POO
A rot-Office onW for $4.00 will buy
three bottles of liuSKIM IN*K, tho only
harmless vegetable compound ever
offered which positively cures and pre
vent* the contagion of or v and all ve
nereal diseases.
The constant, persevering and uni
versal uso of this rcv would effect
ually wipe out all \cncreal diseases
from the face of the earth. C. and G.
can neither be contracted nor exist
when it is used, Ikchum* it destroys by
mere contact. Itullaysall pain, pub
dne. tho ioihimtuHtiou und promote!
quiet blunt hers.
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A w-cll known railroader writes as
follow a;
Ati.avta. Feb’y 21.1883.
Bonkoefriero.:—•• Early in January I
commenced the U'O of HONKOTINE
for a bud case of 0. which had baffled
the skill and medicines of five physi
cian* and three bottles cured mes<mnd
and wall 1 lost no time, uad no other
remedy and did not change my diet.
It 1* a to those whose paths uro
not bright.”
Discard all capsules, copabia, etc.,and
use that whih never Sail*, and will
keep > • at cured for life by acting as a
preventive.
Ono bottle fl.r-O, or thro f--r ft.no.
Pold by druggbta. Expressed on re
ceipt of price.
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"I heerd on the streets flat Sam John
son gib yon a kick las’ night ?”
“He did fur a fac’. Ise suffering
from de effec’ ob it yit."
“Why didn’t yer kick him back ?”
“Hey V”
“Why didn’t yer kick him back ?”
“Bekase dar was noby dar but Sic
two.”
“I don’t see no sense in dat ar.”
"Yer don’t? Well, I does. Dar Us
ing only two of us present, ef I bid
kicked him backed, den hit would liab
been my turn to be kicked agin right
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VOL X.
now THEY TAN HIDES.
AN INTERVIEW W ITH A I*ItACTUAL
TANNER.
The Old Way nml I lie New Wav How Near
They arc Alike-The >incll ol Kiihmlu
Leal her.
The march of tho tannery has hccu
Westward, a result of natural causes.
Hemlock and oak forests of tho East
have been depleted, und as it is neces
sary that tho industry be nearer the baso
of supplies a removal to thb virgin
forests of the West as a business virtue.
There are a few tanneries in Massachu
setts, hut they get their bark at largo
expense from Maine. In Connecticut
there are only two or three—among
them one at Glastonbury and another at
Westchester. Not longer than lift years
ago there was a thriving tannery at
Windsor. If the old ones have not been
removed they have been closed and the
tanners have returned to agriculture.
Small operators cannot compete with big
ones who nse tho most improved ma
chinery.
Mr Pliny ,T< well, of P. Jewell Jt Sons,
mentioned facts of interest concerning
the industry. “We tan hides to-day,”
he said, “exactly as my father used to
tan them iu Winchester, N. H., years
ago. Of course we have moro facilities,
but the processes are just tho same. Wo
tan moro rapidly, to he sure, and (his
process is not productive of inferior
leather, ns some may argue; the product
is every whit ns good as that of years
ago. Wesimply hasten the same result,
that is all. My father’s vats, when I was
a very little boy, were out of doors, and
when cold weather came he had to cover
them over and let the hides lie all winter.
Afterward ho built a shed so that the
hides could be worked as well in storm ns
in sunshine. In our largo tannery near
Detroit, Mich.—it cost us 8150,000-
sticli a delay would never bo thought of.
There tho work proceeds day iu and day
out year after j ear.
“Again, in old times the, bate—a mix
ture introduo and to remove the lime used
to take off tho hair of the hide—would
sour if a thunder-storm came np. I re
member times when wo had to work
Sunday to removo hides from this sonr
bate so that they wouldn’t spoil. Now
tho bato never sours; scientific knowl
edge prevents it. We never uso acids
in our tannery. We leach the bark and
use tho liquor. Lot me remark just
here that you may have heard that it is
injurious to tan leather with hot liquor,
flow absurd is such a statement I
Why? yon can’t tan leather with hot
liquor; it will close tho pores so that
none of the tannin can get in. 11 is very
important that the liquor be not more
than that of u lilood beat. To insure
this temperature we have built, at an
expense of §I,OOO, several cooling vats
into which the liquor is run.
“I think that is a mistake,” he said,
when shown a published statement to
tho effect that American tanners had
never been able to closely imitate the
beauty and odor of the celebrated Hus
sia leather. “I believe Hussia leather
is now made at or near Newark. J know
ray brother, when Minister at St.
Petersburg discovered the secret. You
have hoard the manner of the discovery,
have, you not ?”
“I have heard several versions of it.”
“Weil, I will tell you the true version.
Over in Kussia they didn’t think he had
any practical knowledge of mechanics—
they thought he must ho as helpless as
they. One day he was going through a
1 tannery with some of the officials. Reach
ing a pas-ageway ho noticed some mix
ture in barrels. Ho didn’t recognize its
character, and thrust his fingers in sev
( ral times as a sort of investigation.
There was no handy washing-room, so
lie completed the tour with his soiled
hands, but as soon as he reached his
room ho washed np. In passing his
right hand over his face—as all men will,
you know—he caught liis nose between
I his thumb and finger—thus. There,
most certainly, was tho odor of Kussia
j leather. ‘Russia leather to be sure,’ lie
! exclaimed in ee.stacy. Ho repeated the
; operation, and found tho sarno odor.
I The secret was out.
“He didn’t know the agents used, but it
i proved that they were employed, not to
I produce the fragrance, but because they
! were cheap. The General immediately
i wrote to Mr. Schultz, or the Shoe and
Leather Reporter, and the process was
! tried in this country. Tho banc of it
| was asafeetida, which is also, as you
| may know, the base of Worcestershire
j sauce. Do I think the beauty of Rus
i sia leather lias ever been reproduced
| here ? Oh, yes, I believe it has, but
\ tho odor is all there is to it. You find
| Russia leather pocket books for 50 cents,
! do you not? Well, that’s not the im
j ported material hut the leather success
i fully tanned here by the Russian method.
“The acids,” continued Mr. Jewell,
! “ arc used to a great extent in Europo
and on the Continent because tire oaks
| and helmlocks have disappeared or be
cause they can bo obtained cheaper than
j the bark. Why, in England they strip
! every little twig to get the bark. Hi this
j country nothing but the trunks of trees
are stripped. Most of the hemlock bark
we use at our tannery comes Horn
j Canada. There are millions of acres of
1 virgin oak and hemlock forests in liie
I South and Southwest, in Pennsylvania
’ and New York, The Adirocdacks have
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1883.
not yet boon touched. There must be,
T should think, material enough to last*
; hundred years anyway. And then other
forests may grow. In New Hampshire
j to-day, where my father had his tan
nery, there is moro hemlock tlrnu tkcro
was when I was a boy.
“An oak forest, however, is of slow
growth. Soft wood springs up where
hard is cut down. Chicago is our head
quarters for hides,” he continued. “Wo
buy them wherever wo can, but wo get
our great supply thero. Wo uso nouo
but the best of American cattle hides
we buy none of tho imported one*.
Tanners manipulate buffalo skins, but
they are not tlio skins of our bisons;
they come from India. The importa
tion of hides is veiy largo—some mil
lions a year. lam not fearful that tho
American supply will bo exhausted."
“Sumach is used as well as hemlock,
: and oak bark for tanning purposes, is it
j not; and terra japouioa ns well, which is
j supposed to have 60 per oent. of tannin
—much more tlian any of tho others?"
asked the reporter.
“ Yes, sumach is used,” replied Mr.
Jewell, “and terra japouioa as well.
But do not cull it by that nnme ; it is
known ns gambier. It is very astrin
gent, but I am not so certain about its
exceedingly largo percentage of tannin.
I will show you some.” An attendant
brought n reddish lump. “ There it is;
that is gambier. Oh, it is vory sweet
and by no means unpalatable, although
if you should swallow any of it, it
would tan tho inside of your stomach in
less than no time. Terra japonloa
(Japanese earth) is gathered from trees
in Japan. Tlio drippings enter a re
ceptacle placed in the earth at the foot
of the tree, and when taken out in a
gumnjy condition sometimes appear cov
ered with earth. Therefore, tlio sub
stance, wliic.h is tho gum of a tree, lias
! received tlio appellation of Japanese
earth.”
In tauning, tho hides are first put to
I soak in a solution of weak lime water
and hung up iu a sweating vault so that
just enough decomposition may set in
lo permit tho removal of the hair. When
this has been accomplished—and the
critical period must he carefully watched
so that the hides will not spoil—tlioy lire
introduced after suitable cleaning to a
solution of benbaue or pigoou manure,
which circulates through the pores and
! senior es every trace of the lime. Then
the tannin—vats are employed and after
repeated chargings the hides become
thoroughly saturated with the liquor and
I are tanned—that is, the pores of the
! skin have been tilled with the tannin.
A good workman will increase tlio
; horn-dry skin 80 per cent, in weight by
the process. Mr. Jewell says in the tan
ning of his hides, which are not usually
so dry, the weight is enhanced 55 per
cent. The changing of tho hides from
weak to increasingly strong liquors usu
ally ceases after 10 or 15 days. They
are then placed in layaway vats. Upon
each is a shovelful of ground hark and
over all is tho bark liquor. There are
perhaps half a dozen layaways, consum
j ing two months or moro, beginning with
liquor of 10 degrees and closing with
one of 30 degrees. At least four months
is required for the entire process of tan
ning sole leather.
A City Moving Off on Wheels.
I arrived at Bartlett, D, TA NARUS., about tho
middle of the afternoon of a beautiful
day. I found Borne stir and activity
among the people of tho city, but it
seemed to be the excitement incident to
the emigration of a city on wheels. The
people generally had abandoned all hope
of the city, and were moving their
houses bodily to Devil’s Lake and other
places. The houses were first lifted on
to largo timbers of sufficient size and
strength to bear the weight of the house.
These timbers were then suspended
under two monstrous freight wagons on
either side of the building; four large
horses or oxen were then hitched to the
wagon on each side, and the road to
Devil’s Lake being across a smooth
prairie, the teams were able to move
along easily with a fair-sized building.
Some of them, with the teams attached,
presented to my mind sights most mag
nificent. It was the first time that I
had ever seen a city moving on wheels.
I had seen people moving on a large
scale in their so called “prairie schoon
ers,” but the sight was tame compared
with this. I thought of a remark I once
heard to the effect that “the approach
of a train of cars drawn by a powerful
engine was a magnificent sight to be
hold,” and I thought to myself a road
lined with two-story houses, moving to
the music of the steady tread of teamH
of eight powerful oxen, was a sight
equally magnificent. And such was the
fate of tho once proud city of Bartlett.
Jack had gone off and got himsell
lost, and lie also found himself and
walked homo. “Are you not sorry that
you ran away and got lost?” asked the
paternal ancestor with a tone of grief
and reproval. “I wasn't lost.” “But
nobody knew where you was.” “I
knew where I was myself.” That set
tled it. A boy who knows where he is
himself can never get lost.
A woman in Philadelphia lias charged
a roan with bewitching her, but there is
j nothing strange about this. It often
! occurs and then an elopement follows.
The Manufacture of Matchea.
The ingenuity and skill required in
(lie manufacture of matches are matters
that rarely outer into the minds of those
who use them. Yet the match-making
industry has reached vast proportion*
in tlio United States and Canada, which
oan lie better realized when it is known
that one firm alone paid $4,000,000 in
taxes during the year 1881, being at the
rate of one cent per box. From the cor
respondent of a Scotch publication, who
has been visiting one of tho largest fac
tories in Canada which manufacture*
match-boxes and matuh-splints, wo
learn something of tho labor required
in the production of this domestio ne
cessity.
The wood used is pine and spruce, the
poor ends of merchantable lumber. In
consequence there is an enormous waste
iu manufacturing. Match-boxoa are
made from a square piece of wood by
one turn of a machine, after which pro
cess, which leaves them rough, they are
placed in a hollow roller which is re
volved by water or steam power.
By this moans all defects are removed.
The match-sticks or splints sre cut
double the length of a match by a ma
chine, which outs them with wonderful
rapidity, as many ns 40,000,000 splint*
being mode at somo factories every day.
When tlio splints aro made they must
bo dried. For this purpose they aro
packed in racks placed in rooms heated
by steam pipes.
After being taken from the racks the
imperfect splints are sorted from tho
perfeot ones. This is not such a serious
task as may bo imagined, and is ncoom
plishcd by skillful shaking, by which the
bad ones aro made to go to the top.
These splints must then be dipped on
both ends into tho phosphorus and cut
into two, and tlio match is ready for tho
packers’ hands. The bulk of the lalxir
is performed by boys, girls and young
women. They work ten hours iu eaoh
twenty-four. Tho young women are
paid the munificent sum of forty cents a
day, the boys and girls a trifle more
than half that amount, which seems like
offering a premium for vice and immor
ality.
Disarmament of War.
Tho Paris correspondent of tho Lon
don Standard observes that, whilo the
Parisians are discussing tho possibilities
of a war with China, they aro overlook
ing a serious and much greater danger
nearer home. He says: “Ronmania,
Servia, Italy and Spain have become
members of the Austro-German alliance,
and I have reason to believe that this
alliance will very shortly have a practi
cal result. I am assured by a person
whom I know to be in the confidence of
Prince Bismarck that Germany has
agreed with Austria and tho other mem
bers of the alliance, which now em
braces the whole of Continental Europo
excepting France, Russia, Denmark and
tlic Scandinavian Kingdoms, to propose
a general congress with a view to a mu
tual and general disarmament. As to
the time when this thunderbolt of war
is to be launched under pacific pretences
1 cannot say; but I am assured it lias
been assented to by Austria, Spain and
Italy, and I can hardly snpposo that
somo inkling of the matter has not
reached Her Majesty's government.
Somo knowledge of it has certainly
reached Russia, and it would render the
coup d'etat in Bulgaria intelligible
enough.”
A Hotel tor Monsters.
The most curious of all Paris curionl
;ios will cease to exist when the demoli
tion of tho Grand Hotel Leguay, known
as “La Table d’Hote des Monstrcs,” is
completed. The hotel in Itself is like
any common provincial hotel, but the
guests of its (able d’hote, as described
by the reporter of the Lanteme, form
an assembly hardly to be met with in
any other place. "Dinner being an
'nounced,” says the privileged guest,
“the first couple to enter tho dining
hall with an air of perfect propriety aro
a bearded woman accompanied by a
skeleton-like gentleman. She receives
his whisper* with thoughtful eyes,
gently stroking her beard. A dwarf
with an enormous nose sits next to
them on a high stool; her neighbors are
a well known showman, who now and
then turns his face round to the middle
of his back—a convenience whenever
the waiter is wanted—and a yonng
giantess of sixteen, weighing four hun
dred pounds. Somnambulists, acrobats
and many more of the same school
complete the circle, who, after their
meal is ended, will sometimes for tli*
benefit of an occasional visitor unite in
a dance, fantastic, grotesque and hide,
ous to the last degree.”
Yoijno George Vanderbilt, fourth son
of the millionaire, wants to be a news
paper reporter. There it crops out
again; the natural, educated and
hereditary greed for gold; the insatiable
thirst for wealth, the passion for amass
ing millions by the easiest and quickest
methods, and reaching a fabulous com
petence by the shortest ways. It’s a
•amily trait.— Burlington Hawkeye.
Even if a boy is whistling “I want to
bo an angel,” it is better to keep the
cookies on the top shelf fiud put the
itepladcN - Ml 1116 6 &rr ^i
CASTING GEN. LEE’S BODY.
(JURAT CAHK KKUCIKKII TO JlAttli A
CEUKKCT CANT.
An Inlrrrnllna Operation In Merer Hlrrcl
—Haw Heavy Cnnllnsn ore .Unde.
There was a gala day lost week at tho
foundry iu Mercer street, New York, of
tho Bronze Manufacturing Company,
which is making tho castings for Doyle’*
colossal statue of General Robert E.
Lee, ordered by tho city of Now Or
leans. The statue is to be sixteen foot
high. Tho figure is being cast, accord
ing to the ordinary practice, in frag
ments, which will be riveted together so
deftly as not to show any of tho joints.
The statue represents the Confederate
General standing In a contemplative
attitude with his arms folded. His mili
tary ltoots have already been cast and
one-half of his folded arms; and on tlio
day of which wo writo tho principal frag
ment, consisting of the chest and abdo
men, was cast, requiring over 2,0-0
{annuls of metal. The visitors stood
upon a mound of somo other part of
General Lee’s laxly, which is ready, or
nearly so, for the metal, and upon such
other places as seemed out of danger.
Silonoo had been requested, as heavy
eastings uro awkward operations, and
the foreman is tho only one who is per
mitted to speak until tho metal has
ceasod to flow. Tho day mould in its
iron eastings was in the centre, showing
clearly the hole into which the molten
bronze was to bo poured from a huge
iron pot swung by strong chains from a
stout orane.
Around tho furnace were the crucibles
of fire-clay, iu which the hronze glowed
with a fierce, dull-reddish light, bright
ened by occasional flames of a blue
color. Each crucible held 400 pounds
of metal, and to each crucible were six
men grasping the callipers by which it
was to bo raised. At the great pot
swinging from tho crane were twelve
men, six on each side, ench holding n
stout woodon bar fastened crosswise to
the iron bar that went across the pot.
Four men stood with lighted torches to
fire tho plugs of cotton waste in tho
vents through which the gases must
escape when the flow of metal began.
Joan Pischoff, tlio foreman, raised a
whistle to his lips and gave a shrill call.
He then cried in French—for all the
workmen aro French—“ Raise the
metal,” and the seven crucibles went up
with unanimity and precision. “Pour
the metal,” and tho contents of each
cruciblo woro poured into tlic big pot.
“Pour I” be now shouted like a maniac.
“Firo tlio vents,” and tho lmge pot was
tilted u)i, half the men raising and half
depressing their bars. The operation of
pouring was soon over, and tho vents
were left as clean and clear as could bo
desired. “It is a good casting,” said
the president, “or there would have
boon trouble in one of tho vents.” Gen
eral Lee’s head is to be cast shortly.
Pensions Not Applied For.
A Washington dispatch says tliatPen
lion Commissioner Dudley takes excep
tion to tho charge made in certain quar
ters that tho soldier is degenerating into
a grabber and is trying to ooin his ser
vices and his wounds into the highest
possible amount of cash, often to the
prejudice of tho interests of tho national
Government. To show the injustice of
tlio outcry against the soldiers, Gen.
Dudley states that there are living to
day almost as many veterans who have
not applied for pensions as there were
soldiers on tho roll of tho army in May,
1885. There were 1,000,510 names on
the rolls on that date, and there aro at
the present timn 902,000 veterans who
havo never asked a dollar of the Govern
ment. Thero are on tho file in Washing
ton 109,000 certificates of disability that
have not been acted on, simply because
that number of living veterans, who aro
clearly and indisputably entitled to pen
sions, have not asked for anything at the
hands of the Government. Although
lists of the pensioners now on the rolls
wero printed in many newspapers
throughout the country several days
ago, not a single complaint lias reached
the pension office going to show that
persons not entitled to receive pensions
are getting assistance.
A Warning.— An exchange desires to
warn farmers against anew swindle.
Two strangers moet at a farmer’s house
to stay all night, and during the evening
they get up a trade between themselves,
which reqnires a witness, and the farmer
Is asked to sign the papers, simply to
witness the trade. If he does so he soon
finds that his name is signed to a note
which he lias to pay. The law does not
appear to touch these oases, but it cer
tainly should be made to do so.
Tint steamship Siam, while on her
wav from King George’s Sound to Co
lnmbo, passed for more than four hotirs
through lava, which extended as far ns
the eye could see. The lava was float
ing in a succession of “lanes” of from
five to ten yards wide, and its direction
was northwest to southeast. The cap
tain says: “The nearest land was tho
coast of Sumatra (distant 700 miles),
but as there was a current of 15 to 30
miles a day, setting to the eastward, the
lava could not have come from there,
and I oan only imagine it must have
lieen an upheaval from somewhere near
the spot.” There was a volcano new
the locality in 1789.
SAVING PORI UK’S FLEET.
The Wlupoiinlii Lninteerumti nml III* Print!-
live Lniii<‘<*riiijf.
M. Quad, of tlio Detroit Free Pres*,
gives us an interesting account ot the
dam built by Capt. Hailey, of a Wiscon
sin regiment, iu the Red River during
Banks’s famous campaign, which dam
saved Porter’s (loot., which had accom
panied the expedition, Tli - vessels of
the fleet had made their wax up on a
rising river, and were all above tlio Al
exandria Falls, when, early in May,
Banks received orders to evacuate tho
country.
When Porter was informed that the
army would soon take up the march in
retreat his entire fleet war ahovo the
falls. Somo of the vessels had been
taken above after great trouble and now
nil were in a trap. Tlio liver had fallen
until thero was not sufficient depth to
float the lightest cruft over tho falls.
Tho current of tho river was about
oight miles an hour and tho greatest
depth of the water on tho rapids only
six feet. Tho bed of tlio river seemed
full of rocks and the waters tumbled
over them until it seemed as if a skiff
could not find a safe channel. Porter
must either get liis floet below these
rapids or abandon it anil march his
men with the army.
Captain Bailey wiih a Wisconsin lum
berman. Ho saw at a glanco the posi
tion in which the fleet was placed,and the
danger to it. He had assisted in taking
many log jams over tlio falls in the Wis
consin river when tlio water is low,
and lie saw at a glance that the
plan followed there would answer in the
present emergency. He had plenty of
men and plenty of trees. Tho latter
were cut down and with their full bran
ches wore placed in the water and sunk.
The gathering sand assisted in forming
the dam, and in a remarkably short time
tho water in tlio rivor bed was turned
into a narrow cbaunol loft between the
dams of trees extending from either
shore.
The fleet, ns is well known, psssed
through in safety. Tlio engineers, of
course, laughed at Bailey and his scheme,
and even Porter, before tho work was
begun, scouted tho idea and announced
that lie would blow up every boat in
his (loot if tho water did not riRO in
time.
But for Bailey’s dam Porter oould not
havo saved his fleet, and Bailey, iu
speaking of the affair, modestly dis
claimed any credit for ingenuity, as the
same thing had boon ilono thousands of
times.
The Confederates wore sadly disap
pointed at the result, as they believed
the fleet of gunboats as good as iu theit
power.
A piece of similar priniitivo engineer
ing was performed by another Wisconsin
soldier, Capt. P. H. Ray, during Cus
ter’s Northern Pacific expedition. The
command came to a river that tho molt
ing snows had flooded so that it could
not he forded. Tho army was on the
eastern bank of the river mid tho neces
sity for its advance was urgent. The
engineers were unable to suggest any
plan, as they were without pontoons or
boats. Capt. Ray took tho boxes of tho
wagon train, covered them with ’paulins
and thus made boats in which tho in
fantry crossed. With rafts made of
these boats the artillery and stores wore
taken over. Although the engineers
laughed ut his plan, the army felt that
the Wisconsin Captain bad brains.
Very Plain.
George F. Barstow, of San Francisco,
who left an estate valued at SBO,OOO,
gave these injunctions in his will:
it {laving observed that ostentation and
expensive funerals are injurious to the
people, after absorbing money which
poverty cannot well spare to vanity and
pride, therefore, by way of example, for
which I beg pardon of tlio undertakers,
let my coffin be a plain redwood box,
put together with common nails or
screws, without paint or varnish, with
plain iron handles, anil all elso about the
funeral to correspond with tho plain
ness. Let there be a cheap shroud and
no flowers. What is a dead man but a
handful of dust ? Instead of a hearse I
may just as well be carried to the grave
upon some ordinary vehicle in every day
use, since life is but a journey nnd the
day of death tho final rest.”
A tougher stoky even than that
which came from Halifax a few weeks
ago about the wrecked bark Britannia
being left to licr fate by o vessel which
approoched anil then sailed away from
her while she was making signals of dis
tress, is now told by the captain of tho
wrecked bark Lizzie, who, with liis
crew, was rescued from open boats at sen
by a sailing vessel. lie says that while
his vessel was in a sinking condition,
and tli© crew were working for their
lives at tho pumps, five steamers passed
so close that they must havo heard his
guns and seen his signals of distress, and
yet took no notice of them. No writer
of Ben yarns would have dared to tell so
foul a story, and tho worst of this is
that it is trnc.
“Emile,” asks tlio teacher, “which
animal attaches himself tho most to
man?” Emile, after some reflection—
“ The leech, air.”
AN INTERRUPTED PRAYER
A HAD COMMOTION CAPHRII BY TUB
WK1.1.-MKAMNII COhONiili
tVhy a Dlvlna Could not ha Induced In
Comlnuo tho Hood Work.
Unintentional carelessness sometime*
brings the gospel into contempt. Min
isters who profess to bo no ronpectora
of clothes but “sizers np” of men instead,
sometimes make error* that drive well
meaning men away from the fold. The
other day a now minister whilo making
calls in tho suburbs of the city, visited
the liouso of Colonel Alfred Cole don,
well-known citizen. Colonol deletion
was at work in tho garden a short dis
tance from the house. Ho was dressed
very plainly, of course, In fnct ho looked
vory much like a day laborer. Tho
minister passed him without epoaking
and entered tho house. The cclionel
turned and watched tho divine while .an
expression, closoly resembling ono of
contempt, settled oil his face and soemeil
to hung in dark folds from his bulging
brow. Shortly after tho miuiater en
tered, Mrs. Colcdon, who is devoted to
the church, camo out and said:
“Colonel, Brother Rinzo is in the
house and is going to pray with us.”
“I’ll be blamed if he prays with me,”
the colonol replied, “Ho passed me
just now in his high-headed way without
even noticing me. Now ho wants to
pray with mo, eh? Confound him, if he
fools with mo I’ll wrap a- hoop-pole
around him. Fino preacher of the gos
pel. Takes me for a tramp, no doubt.
You can go on and pray all day with
him if you want to, but count mo out, if
you please.
Tho good woman was grieved, but
knowing that argument would lie use
less, she went back into the house and
was soon kneeling in devout prayer.
Just about this time a cow jumped into
the garden, and *io colonel, calling his
dog, hissed tho animal on the invader.
The dog barked furiously and chased
the cow around tlio holme. Her bell
rang like a fire alarm, and infuriated sbe
rushed on the porch. Tlio oolonel
seized n squash, from which all health
fuluess had departed, and throw it at
the oow. The squash went through tho
window and struck the minister on the
left temple, mashing all over him, and
giving to his evangelical head a coloring
that would have driven him, had he ap
peared in such a plight, from any well
organized body of religionists. Ho
sprang to bis feet just in time to meet
the cow, who, followed by the dog,
rushed into the room. The cow knocked
him down and tramped on him. He
arose with great difficulty just as the
animal, finding an outlet in any other
direction impossible, turned to go out.
She knocked him down again, nnd
pounded him in the back with tier sharp
hoofs. Tlio colonel rushed to the res
cue, and apologized, and washed tho
minister’s head, but the good man could
not lie induced to continue liis prayer.—
Ar/cansaiv Traveler.
NO 43.
Four Minutes Cost $25,000.
On the day of one of the great failures
in Boston recently a check of the insolv
ent firm for $25,000 was deposited in a
Boston bank and sent to the Clearing-
House. It was then transferred to the
aocouut of another hank and was taken
to that bank for redemption. The rules
for the Clearing-House Association pro
vide that cheeks when proved to bo
worthless shall bo returned to the bank
from which they wero received before 1
o’clock on tho day they are received.
By courtesy tho bank allows five minutes
more. The bank which received the
check in question, finding that it was
not good, roturned it to tho other bank,
where it wub received just four minutes
too late, and the holder of the paper
loses $25,000.
llees Taking Possession or a House.
Rufus Kinney’s bees have become al
together too neighborly, so much so
that there is danger of their driving
his family out of house and home. Last
year a swarm of bees established their
headquarters under the family dwelling
house, but as they didn’t disturb any
body, little effort was made to dislodge
them. This year shows a vast increase
in their numbers, and the little workers
are vigorously contesting with the family
the right to the possession of the prem
ises. Cold water, hot water, tobacco,
sulphur fumes, and many other means
of warfare have been resorted to in
order to dislodge the pestiferous enemy,
but without avail. Millions have been
killed without the least peroeptible de
crease in the army, and still the war
goes on. Mr. Kinney thinks if he can
hold the fort until the snow flies, he can
win the battle. In any event, he will
destroy the premises rather than surren
der. — Reno Journal,
Called Out.
The Statesville Landmark says:—Mr.
Patrick Henry Winston, Jr., who has
just joined the Republican party, was a
delegate to the National Democratio
Convention which met in St. Louis in
1876. He acquired prominence in that
body, according to a story of his own
telling, in this wise: While a certain
eminent statesman was addressing the
Convention, a certain person passed
rapidly among the delegates, none of
them knowing who he was, and whis
pered to as many of them as he could
reach to “Call for Winston.” When
the speaker concluded, one universal
shout went up for "Winston; Winston !”
Patrick Henry mounted the platform
and was unlimberiug for a speech, when
a delegate with a shrill voico screamed
out from tho middle of the hall. “Why,
that’s the little rascal that told us to call
for Winston!”
BAXnuMORK has discovered a woman
who has three living h.usbands. Th
tendency toward monopoly is, indeed,
mining this country.