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VOL XL * PURE x ReadyForUse Olives, Terra Cottas and all the latest fashionable shades for CITY COUNTRY OR SEASIDE. Warranted durable and permanent. Descriptive Lists, showing 33 actual shades, sent on application. For sale by the principal dealers, wholesale and retail, throughout the country. Ask for them nnd take no others. BILLINGS, TAYLOR & CO. CLEVELAND, OHIO, *-*- SANDS’ PATENT TRIPLE .MOTION^ FREEZER^ The only Freezer ever malc having tliroe distinct Diotion* inside the can. thereby, of course, prodim mg finer and smoother Cream than any other Freezer on the market. 300.000 in use. Catalopio and l’rire List I, ailed " | 1 11 apjilif at I* 'ii. WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER CO., NASHUA, N. H. CTTMSBBawvw mmnwarn SVViMMJNfJ I'KOI'LK. ! ti<• m In V-iii NoirK for I'nltnown A mom I *. A letter trail Schenectady, N. Y., S. v*■ rat weeks ago people living in ilira! district; in Chenango county were victim:/.";! by a couple of strangers who wf ;f about, selling cloths am] dress p. Is. Whenever tbs swindlers found an old or infirm person they invariably succeeded in getting a promissory note in put payment for the goods. The people who gave the notes cannot explain how they were induced to sign them, and in no rare ore they positive as to the amount. The victims of the swindlers in- i. t tl.it they were mesmerized. Re cently two men, whose plans of opera tion are identical with those < f the Che n:n o county sharpers, mode their ap p, arc in Rotterdam, a fewmiles from tins city, and in some way induced an old O-rni'm lady, who says that they be wib eat her, to buy some cloth, for which she paid 814 in money and $3 worth of butter, an l signed a note, which one of the mon drew up, for 810, as he told her. The man gave his resi dfiico at a number of a street in this city which does not exist. When tho men had gone tho old lady discovered that most of the cloth she bought was gone too. The swindlers attempted to work their schemes on several other people in the neighborhood with some success. The old lady who was thus cheated is the owner of a farm and is much worried over the value of tho note which she signed, as she cannot read English and has no reason for believing that the note was for 810 other than that the stranger told her so. The police are on the lookout for the men. bead Roofs. With reference to the durability of lead roof , one of our subscribers draws attention to a statement that occurs in the letter of a foreign correspondent of . ne of the. daily papers, writing about the Tower of London. The White Tower was built by William the Con queror. It is a quadrangular structure 110 feet by 98 feel and 92 feet high. The external walls are 15 feet iu thick ness. It lias a lead roof and was built in the year 107(). Accordingly, argues the writer quoted, it has stood upward of 800 years and is said to ho in excellent condition at the present time. This writer’s statements, it may be remarked, ire not altogether satisfactory. It is possible that the roof in question has been repaired in the time mentioned, if not wholly replaced one or more times. We speak simply from the probabilities of the case and not from absolute knowl edge. The fact that the building was erected 800 years ago and covered with a lead roof is hardly proof thatlead roofs last 800 years. A man named Limbnrger has turned up at Rochester who claims that he Hasn’t a scent to his name. It is claimed that the wealth of the United .States averages 8900 to every in habitant. SUM MLR VI ILK. GEORGIA, W EDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 188-1. NEAR, YET FAR. Bo near ! ami yot, I think, as far apart Ah heaven from hell, high noon from darkest night, Or buried face from longing lover's sight; I dream of you and then from dreams I start To hear the beatings of my own sad heart, That snatched from dreams impossible plight. But quickly wakes again in wretched de light, To meet the day’s keen pain and ceaseless smart. How shall I comfort, then, my lonesome years, Since dreams are dim and sleeping-time is brief? For very full I am of restless fears, Blown to and fro, as is a vagrant leaf; And well I know how idle aro the tears That burn my aching eyes, yet mock my grief. Louise Ciiandi.hu Moulton. Sncrninei ito. It was an mill namo for a girl—Sacra mento. So the girl herself thought us she stooped down in side n spring at the foot of n cotton-wood tree and lazily dropped her pail into the water. “It ought to have been given to a boy, if it was a fit namo to give to anybody,’ she said quite aloud. “But Fra more boy than girl, anyway.” This fact was added rather bitterly, as she looked at her brown, rough lands and her baro ankle, and thought if (lm “boy’s work” slit! bad io do. And it was hard lo believe that this was the last kind of life for a young girl like Sacramento. Here slm lived alone, for her father was down at the mouth of tho canyon all day. The gar den work she was obliged to do, nnd the care of the garden fell upon her. It was not often that she saw any person but her father, although now and then, in spite of herself, she came in contact with the rude men of the mining camp up above. Yet, Sacramento had her dream, one that she “scarcely dared to own,” lint ii came to her often as site wont, about her work. She knew that down at Santa Barbara and In tho towns along tho coast, and far, far away across wide stretches of continent to die great East, there were girla who lived very different from her life, and she dreamed of such a life for herself. “Oh, if I oould only go away from here 1” she cried ou% almost as one cries out for help. “If I could only go down to San Franoiseo and go to school there for a single year. Ah, if I had *500.” Suddenly there was a step—not a man, but of a horse—on the bank be hind her, and then someone spoke. She knew tho voice without looking up. It was Peto I.arrabee, a fellow who lived down on Hahneman’s plantation, two miles along the trail. Ho some times rode by. He had not heard her last words at all; yet, strangely enough his own words were a repetition of them. “Five hundred dollars, Sac,” said ho; “8500 in gold 1 D’ye want ter earn it ? Ther’s yer chance,” and he threw down to her a bit of paper crumpled into a ball. She picked it np, and, slowly unfold ing it, ran her eyes over the contents. SSOO ItEWAItD. The above amount will be paid for in formation leading to the arrest, dead or alive, of Walter Somers, who has worked for some time past, on Maxwell’s ranch. Said Somers is about 18 years old and five and a half feet high, rather good looking, with light, curly hair, hluo eyes and a light mustache. When last scon he ha>l on a black slouch bat, gray busi ness suit and blue flannel shirt andboots with red tops marked with the maker’s name. The name of the county sheriff was signed at tho bottom of the bill. Sacra mento, having glanced it through, looked up. “He’s been a stealin’ horses 1” ex claimed Pete. “Got off last night with four of Maxwell’s best, somewhere:-,. That reward won’t do much good, though. The regulators’ll lasso him and string him up ’fore the law’ll git started. Tin are havin’ a meetin’ now up at the gulch. I tell ye they are mad. They’ll make quick work if they ketch him. Yer father’s there. Ye needn’t look for him home afore night, much.” Then, after a word or two more the man rode on, and presently Sacramento took up her pail, and with tho sheriff’s bill siill in her hand, went slowly up the hank and across the trail toward the house, thinking very seriously abont the SSOO all tho while. It was some hours after this, and the afternoon sun was going down behind tho tops of the mountains, that Sacra mento, having finished her housework was preparing to sit down on the porch to do her sewing, when she was met in the doorway by a young man whom she had never seen before. And yet he was no Btranger. The girl knew him instant ly, although tho slouch hat was pulled down over the flaxen hair and blue eyes, and the gray pants, torn and muddy, had been drawn out of the hoot legs so as to no longer allow the red tops of the hoots with the maker’s namo to be see:-, ft was the horse thief. She did not, however, express any surprise as she saw him. She was ac customed to the sight of rough, evii men; and at the first glance she had felt that this one could not be either very wicked or very dangerous. He was nu\ very much more than a lad and had an air of gentleness and good breeding abont him that six months of Western life and the plight ho was in at that mo ment had by no means destroyed. He seemed to bo short of breath, too, and was trembling as if he had been run ning. Instinctively he raised his hand to ward his head, and then, bethinking himself, dropped it again. “Could you give mo something to eal and drink ?” he asked, in a hesitating voice. “Anything will do, I am very hungry. I—l have had nothing to eat since last night.” “Como in,” said Sacramento gravely. In her voice there was neither kindness nor unkindness, she trying to realize the situation alio was in. “Como in and sit down I” Then she went into a olosot noar by, and began taking down milk and bread and meat, oh she slowly did so turning tho matter over in her mind. Here was Huh man who lmd bean stealing horses, and for whose capture SSOO was offered, in her own kitchen. Five hundred dol lars I Exactly tho sum sho had been wishing for—tho sum that would tako her down to San Francisco to school and make a lady ol her. And this sum may be licrs if she could in some way secure this stranger or somehow keep him in tho house until help arrived. Help! Why sho hardly needed help. Ho was weak and exhausted, and in tho drawer of tho kitchen table there was a loaded revolver, which she well knew lion to use. Sho came out presently, and sot tho things before him, bringing also tho teapot from the stove and pouring for him a cup of ton. Then sho went and sat down l>y the window, and watched him furtively as ho ato. In spite of his caution, ho had taken off his hat while he was eating. She could better see what ho was like. It was almost a boyish face, worn, but not wicked, with the curling hair lying in dark clusters upon liis pale brow. In the hands, small and well shaped, and in all his motions and manner, she felt that sho could read something of his story. Sho had hoard before this how young lads in the Foot, filled with romantic notions about Western life and adventure, sometimes left their lux urious homes and found their way out to tho ranches of the Pacific. Perhaps he was one of thoso. As (die looked at him, fancying nil this, and realizing tho terrible slrait he was In and the probable dark fate that was before him, bur heart yearned with true womanly sympathy, and tier feel ing found expression before she was able to restrain herself. “Oh, how could you do it? How could you do it ?” she suddenly ex claimed, her voice quite full of what she felt. Ho looked up at her in wonder; but as his eyes met hers ho understood her. “I didn’t do it. Upon my honor I did not,” ho said. “It was that man Dennis.” Sacramento breathed a great sigh of relief. Horse stealing was held in that section to he a crimo worse than murder; and she was by no means free from tho popular estimate of grave nature. “Oh, lam glad of that!” cried she. “But- ” she hesitated, and then went on doubtfully, “But, fhon, how was it? Why did you run away?” “It was Dennis’doings, their laying it to mo. Ho did that to clear himself. And after that you know os well as I do that there would have been no use in trying to prove myself innocent. They always hang a horse Ihiof first and then consider bis guilt afterward. I had to mil to save my life.” “Do you know that there is a reward offered for your capture ?” T know that the regulators are after me,” answered the young man sullenly. ‘They came near catching mo, too, this noon. I just escaped them, and came down the canyon by the mountain trail. I have had a hard run for it, and what with no sleep Sor twenty-four hours, I am about used up. I felt as though 1 oould not go another step when I saw your house. Now--you have been very good to me. I shall never forget—-—” “But what are you going to do now ?” interrupted Sacramento. “You are not safe here.” “I know it. But I threw them off the track this noon, and I do not think they are within five miles of me. Now, I have had something to eat, I will take to the woods again. I hope I may get clear away. If I don’t,” his voice trembled and tears oamo into his eyes. “If I don’t I shall get a hanging, I sup pose. Oh, what a fool I was not to pre fer home to this sort of thing 1 And yet, I wouldn’t care so much, either, if it wasn’t for my poor father and mother.” And there the poor fellow fairly broke down. “Hark 1” Sacramento exclaimed. She had been crying, too. They both listened. In a moment they both heard plainly the sound of horses coming down the trail. Tho girl turned with instant self-possession: “Go in there 1 Quick ! Quick ! There is not a moment to lose. Here, tako your hat 1” After handing his hat to him she half pushed him across the room and into her own little room that led off from it. Then she hurriedly finished clearing the table again, barely finishing tho task as the horsemen halted at tho door. There were three of them. One was her father. Sacramento knew the other two men by sight. They woro rough, hut of tho better sort of those who mado ap the dwellers of Kelly Gulch. The faces of all three were hard and forbid ding, and thoy evidently had boon rid ing hard. They dismounted together. “Sac,” began her father, ns ho entered the door, “hev you seen anything of a young clmp afoot or a horseback coming this way ?” Sacramento had expected the question and was ready lor it. And she meant, i* possible, to answer without a lio. “A yonng chap abont eighteen years of age, and about five feet and a half high, rather good looking, and with rial top boots ?” replied she. “Yes! yes I That's him!” cried one of tho other men. “Hus ho boon hero ?” “I was only quoting from this hand bill,” said Sacramento, taking tho paper from the shelf where sho had laid it. “Then yon haiti’t seen him at all ?” asked her father. “I have been right hero all day, and nobody has gone by except Pete Larra beo. It was ho who gave me the bill. Aro you suro that ho canto this way— tho—the horse thief?” “No; Imt wo didn’t know but he might. The chances is that ho is sloped off to tho mountains, moanin’ to go through Stovepipe pass. They’ll get him though, afore sundown.” “It’s sundown now,” oleerved Hacra mouto. “Then they've got him now,” was the sententious response. “And wo shall be too late for the bangin’ if we sit’d go hack. Leastways”—this was added to his companions—“you’d butter come in and have a bite afore you go. ” So presently the turee men sat down to tho supper that the young girl quickly prepared for them. And white they were eating, she herself, at her father's bidding, wont out to lake tho saddle off Bueno, his horse, and give him feed. As she approached tho door once more, a few minutes after, she hoard words which caused her to stop and listen. “1 don’t like ter say anything against Ihet kid o’ yourn, neighbor,” one of the men was saying, “hut it liez kinder seemed to me all flier while’s though she sorter bed some'at on her mind like. Yc don’t s’poso she knows anything 'bout that young feller alter all V” Sacramento's father laughed at this, as though it was too absurd to be con sidered. Tho other, however, was not to be laughed out of his suspicions. “For all wo know, sho may hov hid him somewhere on the premmysis.” “It’s easy enough to see,” said the proprietor of the said “premmysis,” testily. “Where d’ye think she’s hid him ? In her bed-room ?” As ho said this, Sacramento, who was now near enough to see into tho kitchen, saw her father riso from his chair and step to tho door of the room where sfie had concealed the fugitive. Her heart almost stopped beating as she saw him push open tho door and enter tho room, followed by his companion. “We’ll mako a clus search of it while wo’re about it,” she heard him say with in. And then she stood thero in terrible suspense on the porch, expecting every instant to hear tho shout that would fol low the discovery of the fugitive. But no such shout was heard, and in stead of it, a moment later the two men came out again, her father still laughing at his friends. What could it mean ? Had the young man been able to conceal himself in tho room and so evade their search ? That was not possible. Then sho thought of the window. Oould ho have escaped from the room by that ? The window was so small sho could scarcely believe that he could have crept through it, nnd yet he must have done so. She went hurriedly to tho back of the house and then down beyond the horse sheds. No one conld be seen. She halted a moment under a live oak tree just at the edge of the garden. The evening was very calm and still, and the twilight shadows were deepening fast. Was it tho rustling of tho wind in the houghs overhoad that caught her car? She listened. “Hist! lam here—in tho tree.” The words came in a distinct whisper from directly above her. Then she went hurriedly to the house.. Tho three men wero still sitting at the table and Sacramento felt rather than saw that one of them still regarded her auspiciously as she came in. Sho did not speak to them at all, but went directly through the kitchen to her own room, and in a moment more came out, went about her work in tho kitchen and took up a pail, apparently to go to (ho spring for water. “Ten minutes later, standing in the shadow of tho cottonwood, young Som ere heard a step, and then Sacramento, leading Bueno all saddled and bridled, appeared. He started forward. “Hush 1” she said: “they may come at any moment. Listen to what I fny. Your life depends on it. Yon must ride straight down the trail for a quarter of a mile. Then, close by a big cottonwood, just like this, yon will strike a path to the left. Bueno will know it, once you get him in it. It will bring you, but j half a mile on, at a corduroy road that NO. :if>. crosses ino swamp. The end of this cor duroy has got outof order, and there arc some logs laid. Lead Buono across and then pull the logs away. If you do th*t it will make trouble for thoso who fol low you. Beyond the swamp is a big plain. Strike straight across it, having the moon square on your right—the moon will he up by that time—and throe hours’ riding will bring you to tho new railroad. After that—God help you to get safe away 1” Sacramento paused ami put out her hand. “Cm you remember?” sho de manded. “I can, but I can never forgot—” “Nevermind that. Here, take this. It is a little money. You will need it. New mount and ride slowly a little way, and then for your life.” The yonng man still had a hold of her hand. Tho tears came into his eves. The next moment ho was gone. Tho next morning Sacramento told her father the story and coaxed him into forgiving her. And tho following afternoon a man brought Buono over from the railroad town, and then sho knew the fugitive was safe. Six weeks later a lawyer from Santa Barbara appeared with a letter from Walter Somers. Ho was with his friends in New York. He hogged Sacramento to accept, as a gift of gratitude, at least tho amount ol the reward that had been offered. And so it was that sho went down to Sau Francisco to school that winter af ter all. — Detroit Free Dress. Lincoln anil file Office-Seekers. Bon Porley Poore in his reminiscences says: Mr. Lincoln's prominent advisor, when he first came to Washington in ’6l, was Mr. Norman B. Judd, a Chicago lawyer, who had served for many years in the Illinois Legislature. He was a short, chunky gentleman wilh abroad, ruddy face, white hair and board, dark hluo eyes, a hooked nose and rather forcible mouth. Ho evidently possessed tact, if not talent, and so successfully assumed the position of “tho keeper of the. king’s conscience” that Air. Seward hastened his departure for Berlin as Minister Plenipotentiary. The invasion of Washington by office-seekers after the inauguration of the Iteqmhlioan ad ministnitiiMi was wonderful, and tho mails brought petitions from thousands of place-hunters who could not urge their claims in person. At. the Postoffioo Di-partment alone, over fifteen thousand applications for appointment had been placed on file before the last of March. The most disappointed place-hunters who came to Washington wero the little town and ward politicians, who, having “worked” in their respective localities, fancied that tho whole world, including Mr. Lincoln, must be fully satisfied that hut for each of them the Republican party would have been defeated. One village in Pennsylvania sent two rival shopkeepers, eacli of whom wanted to ho postmaster. One based his claims on the fact that he had presented a set of torch-lamps to the village corps of Wide Awakes, while the other demanded the appointment because ho had supplied the oil. The question was the relative value of tho torch-lamps without the, coal oil, or the coal oil without the torch lamps. Mr. Lincoln finally cut tho Gordian knot by reappointing tho old postmaster, Tlie New Army Step. Oo], Emmons Clark, of the New York Seventh Regiment, was asked lay a Telegram reporter what ho thought of the change of tactics prescribed for the United Slates Army, especially that which effects the length of step and ca dence for marching. Tho Colonel said that lie was not prepared at present to speak at length in regard to tho matter, but he was under the impression that the change had mot with general dis favor. In fact ho had not heard any fa vorable opinion of it expressed by mili tary men. The experience of two thou sand years had taught thoso interested in such matters that the twenty-- iglit inch step was the host medium that could he arrived at in a regiment or body of men varying in height from five feet six inches to six feet two inches or more, Even twenty-eight inelus was a long stride for a man five feet eight inches and under to keep np for any length of time, and most men of that height had to stretch their logs pretty well in marching. No action would bo taken in regard to the matter by flic militia of this city till October, when active drilling begins. English Mechanic*. On tho 27th of Jnno a very intelligent party of English workman landed in New York city. They wero bricklayers from Lancashire, and nearly all had their wives and children with them. I They represented affairs in the old coun try, so far as regards their class, as very bad, and said it was difficult to see how they could be any worse. From their statements it appears that brieklayere are paid 20 shillings per woek in Lan cashire, equal to about $5 American money. This statement shows bow much better off mechanics in the building trades are in this country. It is some . times impossible to appreciate the bless ings we enjoy until our attention is called to the privations of the mechanics of the old world, FARM AND HARDEN. OnomnD and I'koit Gahohn. —De- cide) whether to dispose of surplus and inferior fruit by making it into vinegar or by drying or evaporating it. Trees will be broken by e veless pickers; saw off all injured limbs. The appleworm may be diminished by picking up and destroying fallen fruit or allowing the pi to do it. Bands of carpet, bagging or other fabrics, fastened around the trunks of apple trees with a single long tack, will catch many apple worms. Ex amine weekly nnd kill. If trees set last spring suffer from drouth, mulch them, or keep tho soil loose. The fall web worm spins its nest in summer also. At it. first appearance cut away tho twig to which the nest is attached and crush tho worms. Young trees may have their shape controlled by pinching the ends of shoots that grow too vigorously. When tlio blackberry and raspberry crops aro off cut away the canes that h.q'o borne fruit. Tho now stems of blackberries should be stopped when five feet high, those of rnspl Ties at three or four feet. Keep hi,aw 1 ary beds free of woods. Plant now teals with plants rooted in pots. Whitish spots on tho under side of grape leaves are mildew. Dust sulphur with u sulphur bellows at onee. Large caterpillars and beetles must be hand pick.,l. C 'iitiime to pinch laterals.— Af/riovlluris/. Oaiih op Mkadowu. A farmer visit ing mo Inst, spring remarked: “I can not understand how you wintered so much stock, when you had only six acres of grass lo cut. I kept about three fin.c.t as much stock as you did and mowed over just ten times as much land.” I’.v this time our “Walks and Talks” lmd brought us to the nix acres which is to b mowed this year. “You have bi-i !: rolling this,” lie said, “No,” [ replied, “it looks iu\ though it had been rolled, hut th, a arc the swaths of of the 0-foot, mower used to cut tho rowen last, fall after wheat. IYo had al most two loads per acre of pretty good hay.” “Well, now 1 begin to under stand,” said he; “I wondered, if you hud wheat there last year, what had bo como of the stubble. But, my friend, I cannot do such a tiling as that. Grass will not grow like that for me.” Knowing that it would if it had a fair chance, I began to question him to find out- whero the trouble was. I found that he carefully saved (lie manure made on his farm, and used it to good advan tage. His ml “ion was a good one, and he was well supplied with improved tools, and was in tho habit of using them freely. But the trouble came out at last; he let his stock rnv on tho meadows and win at stubble in the fall al ways, and si ~ limes, when lie was short <f hay in the spring. Now, in his ease, as 1 frankly told him, this was probably the main reason why he was short of bay; why he had to mow over 60 acres to get w! it might have been grown on 20 acre:,. No man could think of turning his look on his wheat or con, or 0..15, I hough thoy might en dure to be gnaws and ofi'and f(-'".spied on for a time and afterward make, part of a crop. Wo give them mellow ground to grow on, protected from the trampling of stock, nnd from being bitten off and injured while they wore young and ten der. Why not, treat Iho growing grass as well ? Why not give it the best pos sible chance to grow and yield large crops of Lay instead of abusing, it in every way ? Tho grass Jot, if properly . used - if given a fair chance will jidd about as much net profit as any field of the farm oftentimes, although tho money does not come as directly, per haps, as from the. wheat or potato crop. Why is it that so many farmerskfill allow their cattle Jo pick and framphvon their grass grounds (and pastures Ino often injured as well as i . iwing lots) during 1 v ft I and winter at , pri 1 1 It, i:: partly, perhaps, heeanso they do not realize that they arc losing by the practice; partly to save work—they do not keep help enough to run tho farm to its full capacity—and partly because they have “too many irons in the fire.” They aro “ov r-busy farmers.”— T. B. Terr)/, in the Country Gentleman. The Tidal Wave at Milwaukee. The tidal wave which came in from Lake Michigan lately, and which “caused the Milwaukee River suddenly to assume a counter current at the rate of one and a quarter miles an hour,” can he only ascribed to tho effect of the storm centre then passing to the oast ward. TJio wind was brisk and from a southerly point during the afternoon. A similar “tidal wave” was reported as observed on July 21, .1883, in Little Traverse Bay, during tlie passage of a storm. The probability in this case was that the water in iho lake was pushed ahead of the storm, the wavo oscillation amounting to about four foot. Thero is no reason to suppose that such waves are p'-riodical phenomena, though by some coincidence like intervals between their recurrence may have boon oh-, served.- New York llerald. A RTISAT>T YOUNG MAN, “Jane, I hear your beau is a littlo void, not very steady, they say.” “Oh, yes ho is; ho is one of tho most toady young men I ever saw.” “St udy ? Oh, no, ho can’t bo. I’ve heard lie was anything else but steady.” “Well, ho just is steady. He has always come to tho house every evening since wo were engaged, drunk or sober.” Evansville Argus. Who Can Tnr.n Writ?—“Why is it that a man, whenever ho passes a broom lying in the front hallway, always stands stock still and shouts till ho is black in tho face for tho chambermaid to come and pick it np instead of picking it up himself and placing it whero it belongs? But, tin , sotno men have good reason to he afnvd of a broomstick, however fallen its condition.'’ Tim Japanese call a dog cart a “jin fiki-shiya.” They have no word in their language for tho dude who drives the cart.