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paradise of the orator.
Southern Audiences the Most Easily
Enthused.
Those in the Eastern States Attentive,
But Entirely Cold and Unsympa
thetic— Those in the Western States
a Trifle Better—Mistakes About the
Horse Book Issued by the Govern
ment— Kepresentative Strait Put Out
Over His Failure to Get Ofllces for
His Constituents.
Washington, Oct. 27. —Hon. John Tem
ple Graves is in the city. He has
stopped over for two or three days,
before starting out on a lecturing tour
of some weeks’ duration. Col. Graves is
always an interesting talker. He sa„ s
there is a great difference in audiences
north and south, east and west. This is
more noticeable in the responsiveness of
auditors, than in any other way. The
audiences in the eastern states do not
respond at all. They are attentive, but
entirely cold and unsympathtic. An ap
peal to their patriotism does not awaken
the applause in the east that it does in
the south. The' most glowing periods,
and even those sentiments and sentences
which are arranged and uttered with the
purpose of provoking applause, met with
no response. Sometimes the lecturer
gives forth an utterance with the inten
tion of testing tire sympathy of his audi
ence; but it has about as much effect as
flinging a torch upon an iceberg.
The western audiences are somewhat
more responsive than those of the east;
but the paradise of the lecturer or the or
ator is in the south. There the sensibil
ities, as well as the intellect, of the
hearers is open to the impress of the
speaker. When he utters a sentiment
that they approve, they show him at once
that they approve it, and they show it
in an unmistakable way.
Col. Graves says that a tribute to Abra
ham Lincoln will always produce ap
plause in the south; while in the north or
east, it falls upon apparently unrespon
sive ears and hearts. Why this differ
ence in the people of the sections, Col.
Graves did not say. He simply noted the
fact, without endeavoring to account for
it. It is certainly a subject worthy of
investigation. It may be because it is a
fact—as some writers contend—that the
people of the north and east and the peo
ple of the south are two distinct classes
of people.
MISTAKE ABOUT THE HORSE BOOK.
An erroneous impression has got out
among the people about the book annually
issued from the agricultural department,
familiarly known as the “Horse Book.”
A statement has got into tho papers indi
cating that a very large number of these
books are now ready for distribution by
the members of congress. Th s is a mis
take, and is causing some inconvenience
to members who are getting applications
by the score from their constituents for
these books, which they can not supply.
The new members have no horse books
to furnish their people, and will not have
until anew edition is published; and the
old members have probably distributed
all that they had.
The mistake probably arose in this
way: The House passed a bill to author
ize the publication of 75,000 copies of these
books. Before that bill can become a law,
it will have to pass the Senate, and then
considerable time will be needed before
the books will be ready for the members.
The Senate may not pass the House bill
at all, and if it does, several months may
hlapse before the books are ready. Mean
while the mail of the members is increas
ing every day with requests for a book,
which has not only not yet been published,
hut is not yet authorized to be pub
lished.
THE COST OF PATINO SALARIES.
The expense of paying salaries in the
city of Washington, to the government
employes, amounts to not loss than $150,-
000 per annum. This statement will
serve to give some idea of the immense
size of our government, and of the. im
mense number of officers needed to dis
burse the salaries of the various employes
of the government.
A CONGRESSMAN KICKING.
Representative Strait, of South Caro
lina, is kicking like a piney woods inule
because he hasn't got an appointment yet.
I'lums have fallen all around him, but
none have dropped into tho basket which
he has been holding. All the other South
Carolina members have been recognized
in the distribution of patronage, except
Mr. Strait and Mr. Latimer. Ex-Repre
sentative John J. Hemphill is here, and it
is evident that he is "queering” all the
efforts that Strait makes. Strait would
like to know whether he is overlooked on
the ground that he is not a democrat. If
so. why are the others recognized! They
are all in the same boat, except Brawley.
The woes of a congressman who can’t pull
plums are grievous.
Fourth-class postmasters have been ap
pointed as follows:
In Florida—Fort White, Columbia coun
ty, J. W. Bell vice G. A. Tompkins, re
moved.
In Georgia—Adrian, Emanuel county,
M. L. Bailey vice William Smith, resigned;
Lowry, Fayette county, J. H. Spurlin
vice J. M. Spurlin, resigned.
MR. FLAGLER’S RAILROADS.
They Will Feed His Palatial New
Hotel at Fort Worth.
St. Augustine, Fla., Oct. 27.—The re
turn of Mr. Henry M. Flagler from his
tour of inspection of his East Coast rail
way system gives to the people of this
city an opportunity to again welcome
their benefactor.
Mr. Flagler says that he had no idea of
the magnitude of the work he had under
taken until now, but that he is not scared
the least bit, for the amazing beauty of
the whole country fully compensates for
any amount of labor and money that could
ne expended upon it.
The railroad, Mr. John D. Mac-Hen nan,
the contractor, informs him, will be in
operation as far south as Fort Pierce by
yce 1. and that the section between
Jupiter and East Palm beach will be
complete at the same date. "The whole
system from Jacksonville to the Hotel
Koyal Poinciana shall be ready for the
tourist travel of ’94,” he says.
the Royal Poinciana will also be in
r - illness in time, all statements that it
''hi "only be partly finished,” to the eon
trary, l[ e rinds on counting the bed
ru.itns that there are 501 instead of 400.
J nis will make the hotel capable of ac
commodating as many guests as does Sar i
ti ua's Grand Hotel. The big structure
•\ i the two recent cyclones without the
s '.inti st vibration Doing felt in tic; lofti
-1 "I its towers. Mr. MacDonald, the
I‘Uiaier, will have it ready for the orches
-1 and the opening ball on scheduled
f -’* r Hagler and Hon. E. Clinton Clark,
?! ,'aratogu. N. V., who accompanied
• " Flagler and his son Harry Flagler.
-- 1 -■ that Indian river and Duke Worth
,’ ’ " lls arc- prolific in richness and truly
■ insenery, espjc-ially Just umv. and
‘ *’ :s lo be deplored that their norlh
''■‘•‘nds can not, lie made to realize the
hts of i, journey to the lower east
‘'' in summer The Mohnimi Nr.ws
* 1 y ! ' 'pendent remarked "that all
thousands of heretofore
0 11 dram -d by the ennui and
r ' J lands, now that that
■‘ "a, e U ts, would be lust the hinds for
Jl < riuelous,” -J um fearful,’’ replied
Mr. Flagler “that the immense crops
would glut the markets, as people clad in
overcoats would not be likely to take to
watermelons out of season to them.’’
Vice President, J. R. Parrott, of the St.
Augustine route says it should be remem
bered that the St. Augustine route, the
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian
River railway and the Pineapple route,
and also the old Atlantic and Western
road from New Smyrna to the St. John’s
river, each and all go in the system known
as the Fast Coast lines. Mr. James E.
Ingraham, Mr. Flagler's financial agent,
and Mr. J. Colton Salter, Mr. Flagler's
private secretary, are of the party. Mr.
Flagler expects to return to New York
about next Monday.
This city, by the death of Mr. George
Burt this morning, sustains the loss of one
of its oldest and most highly esteemed
citizens. The deceased came here
from Rutland, Vt., in 1841, and
in the course of time acquired
a competency. He was vice pres
ident and one of the incorporators of St.
Augustine's First National Bank.
Dr. Worley, yesterday, extracted the
ball shot into the back of Sessoins by the
dying Harry Holland, whom Sessoms had
fatally shot several times and while flee
ing down stairs received the ball now
removed A full account of the row be
tween Holland and Sessoms appeared at
the time in the Corning News.
HEROINES AMONG BOOMERS.
The Women of the Cherokee Strip
Rush Held Their Own.
From the Philadelphia North American.
Abilene, Kan., Oct. 24.—The telegraph
did not tell a fraction of the story of the
opening of Uncle Sam’s last great “farm,”
the Cherokee strip. The part taken by
the women who, side by side with the
men. sought homes in the promised land,
and for the most part successfully, was
made up of many acts of heroism and of
considerable romance.
Probably the most venturesome were
the young women who boarded the trains
that ran into the strip immediately after
the order was given. These trains ran to
the new towns. Perry, Enid, Pond Creek,
etc. They were crowded to the last foot
hold—sides, roof and trucks being black
with humanity. There are two Enids,
two miles apart; one laid out by the gov
ernment, the other by the railroad.
Through the former the first train of 35
cars, covered with people, ran at a rate of
20 miles an hour. Did it hinder people
from alighting? Not much. Men and
women leaped to the ground by the hun
dred, rolling over and over in the dust
and rising unhurt to race on to got lots.
One young lady, a pretty typewriter from
St. Louis, made a flying leap from the top
of one of the cars. She had a large um
brella which she spread and which acted
as a sort of parachute. She was not hurt,
and without stopping to brush tho dirt
from her clothing, led the rush and se
cured a lot close to the center of town,
worth at least S6OO.
Others were less fortunate and were
either so stunned as to be unable to go on
or received broken limbs as a reward for
their foolhardiness. One woman let her
self from the car window holding to her
husband’s hands. When she fell, it was
to bo dashed against the ties and meet
with instant death.
At Perry a pretty romance occurred
which resulted inoneof the first weddings
in the territory, Frankie Malvern, a
young lady from somewhere in Kansas,
entered on the first train. As she ran
with the crowd across the town-site sihe
saw a lot which had no occupant. In a
moment she was on her knees driving a
stake to proclaim her ownership. In se
curity she remained for several hours,
when a voice came to her from a young
man on an adjoining lot: “Say, I’m hun
gry.” “So am I,” was the reply. Finally
it was agreed that the girl should watch
both lots while the other went for food.
So a friendship grew up, and when the
next day a surveyor came along and told
the young man that his “lot” was situated
in the middle oT the highway, his new-ac
quaintance modestly suggested that he
might share hers—and he is doing so ‘‘for
better or worse.”
More tragical were the means pursued
by a widow with three little ones around
her, who drove in from Arkansas City in
search of a home. When she had gone a
half dozen miles, and the rushing, roar
ing horde hau left her far behind with
her emaciated horses and rickety wagon,
she saw a claim upon which there ap
peared to be no claimant. Unloading the
wagon, she prepared as best she could a
frugal meal. But over a rise came a man’s
form, and a well-dressed boomer proceed
ed to demand that she depart. Finally,
when he saw her condition, he gracefully
divided with her, and each agreed to take
eighty acres of land. By and by came
his servant, bringing a tent and luncheon.
The widow, desiring to ask some ques
tions regarding their location, crossed to
the man’s side and saw him digging away
at a moist spot in the earth, whence soon
flowed a bounteous water supply. Inno
cently she inquired:
“When did you discover this spring?”
“Yesterday.” replied the other, laugh
ing.
In a moment she drew a revolver from
her dress and pointed it at him.
“Get off my claim!” she ordered. i“ You
are a sooner, and were on here yesterday
in violation of the law. I can prove it by
your man. Go, or I’ll shoot!”
She was so forcible in her remarks
that the man went, and she is holding
down her valuable claim with its spring
of pure water.
The capability of the American girl to
take care of herself, especially when she
is not alone, was well shown by the fate
meted out to a too venturesome boomer by
a party of young women who had formetl
a sort of a syndicate for mutual protec
tion. A dozen healthy and self-reliant
girls had gone to the strip together.
They had two wagons, and traveled in
comfort. For several days they camped
on the edge of the promised land, and
when the signal was given made a direct
run for three sections of rich farming
land lying side by side. That meant
twelve claims, and they aimed
to so cover them that there could
be no dispute about their own
ership. They were well ahead of tho
crowd, so that no previous claimant could
disturb them. One unterrified boomer,
however, thought he could frighten them,
and with a threat to shoot her if she did
not vacate, drove one of the girls from
her claim, and proceeded to make himself
at home, picketing his horse near by. His
security was shortlived. When night
came, he stretched out beside his camp
fire and slept soundly. He awoke to find
himself in the power of twelve sturdy
young women, whose strong arms made
all his efforts at resistance useless.
With ropes they bound him to his
saddleless horse, and hitting the excited
animal with a whip sent it galloping off
into the night, bearing a modern Mazeppa.
There were deeds of gallantry that
showed the innate manliness of American
character. One man, a gambler and des
perate character along the bonier, made
the race and found a tine lot. Litter in
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the day he saw a sad-faced woman weep- I
ing because, with her slender strength I
and slow team, she had only arrived to 1
find all the best claims taken.
"Here, mother!” he called, “are you a
widow?”
“Yes,” she sobbed, “and there is noth
ing left for me.”
“Take my claim," he generously
replied. "I can stand it better than
you.”
When another man stepped up and de
manded the lot because he was there
ahead of the woman, the gambler drew
his revolver and drove him away, leaving
the widow happy in umiistujbed posses
sion of a home.
“DE SUWANEE RIBBER.”
Sir Edwin Arnold Beholds the Famous
Old Stream
During His Trip From New York to
New Orleans, and It Reminds Him
of His Favorite Song and Inspires
Foetic Meditations Which Read Pret
tily in Prose Printed in England.
Sir Edwin Arnold, in the London Telegraph.
Among the experiences of travel, few
are more striking than the manner in
which a locality will become interesting,
not by its historical or commercial or per
sonal associations so much as by its men
tion in literature or song. A common ex
ample of this is realized by everybody who
crosses the border into Scotland for the
first time. By whichever road he enters
the “I>and of Cakes,” the tourist or vis
itor finds himself journeying with Sir
Walter Scott as an ever-present and invis
ible guide. Everything reminds him of
the “Wizard of the North,” and every
scene takes its character from the magic
pages of Sir Walter. On one hand it will
be Lindisfarne and Tantallon, Berwick
and the Scotch marshes, interesting at
every stage because of Lord Mar
mion and Constance and the border
ballads. On the other side, from
where “the sun shines bright
on Carlisle wall,” over Cannobie Lea,
where Young Lochinvar carried off his
bride, and across the Solway Firth to
Melrose and Dryburgh, and so on right
away to the high lands and in their deep
est recesses, it is all not so much Scot
land as Scott’s land— possessed, embel
lished and rflado famous by that great
genius. It really seems as if imagina
tion and art can do more to render a
place memorable and attractive than even
the noisiest historical occurrences. No
doubt it makes the traveler look out of
the windows of this railv. ay carriage or
diligence with some emotion when, say
in Italy, he crosses the little stream that
was the Rubicon; or hears from the con
ductor down in the hills of Umbria that
the rivulet under his feet flowing into the
lake is called Sanguinetto, the “bloody
channel,” and instantly remembers that
this is where Roman and Carthaginian
blood mingled in such profusion that the
mountain brook took its name from that
red day of the battle of Thrasimene. But
it stirs the artistic mind yet more to sit
on the hills near Fiesole. in the sppt
where the ladies and cavaliers of Boc
caccio related to each other the stories of
the Decameron; or to see the stone bench
in Florence where Dante sat daily medi
tating his “Inferno;” or in Verona, to re
call, at the tomb of the Capulets, tho
tender sorrows of iioineo and Juliet. To
take a more familiar instance, and ono
close at home, all the records of the
temple—the beginning of the wars of tho
White and Red Roses in its ancient
garden; tho old Templar knights that
sleep within its church, and the long roll
of famous forensic worthies with which
its courts and its buildings are haunted—
what are these to move the fancy and
touch the heart compared to the tomb of
Goldsmith in a corner of that legal laby
rinth, of the memories that cluster round
the bit of green foliage and bubbling
water in Fountain court, where Ruth
Pinch tapped her pretty foot on tho gravel
while she listened to her lover!
These thoughts come to me. remember
ing something that happened in a long
journey which I took last year between
New York and New Orleans, going round
by the south, and following what Is called
by enterprising railway advertisers there
the “Sunset Route.” Train traveling in
the states is wonderfully well organized
and fairly comfortable for long trips ; but
it cannot be said that the average scenery
of the great republic is beautiful or inter
esting. There is an aspect about the gen
eral American landscape which can be
best defined as "stringy.” The trees arc
spindly: tne wild growth of woods and
wastes is ragged, and even in some of
the prettier combinations hideous collec
tions of black and half-burned stumps de
face the prospect and make the land seem
like a collection of cemeteries in memory
of its bygone forests. When once you get
out of the large and well-built towns and
cities, the country regions are full of
mean and ugly wooden houses made of
weather board; and as you go farther
south these degenerate into ragged
farm houses, which paint upon
their roofs the names of
patent medicines in staring letters,
or negro shanties scarcely more human in
appearance than pig styes. South of
Washington there are certainly some |
charming regions under the Blue Ridge
and among the woods of Virginia, and
climate and scenery both alter a little for
the better when the train crosses into
North Carolina, and you run down by
Hendersham and Raleigh, Spartanburg,
Columbia and Augusta, through South
Carolina. The eye, saddened by the ab
sence of furred and feathered life in tho
desolate rural districts of the north, sees
here with pleasure the buzzard and the
hawk hovering in the sky, the wild fowl
clustering upon the inlets and swamjis,
and in the forest squirrels and chipmunks
playing about, with, perhaps, a deer or
two. The cypresses and great white
sycamores urea welcome change from the
live oak and maple and fir. and the negro
populat ion. growing denser, lends an in
teresting feature to the prolonged journey.
farther south your train goes "murch
iug ihrougn Georgia,” and you begin to
feel the influence* of a subtropical lati
tude in the vegetation and character of
the eouimou life. Types of tho southerner
and his belongings enter and leave the
carriage, and divert by the novelty of
their ideas and language, while the odd
mixture of American with Indian, French
and classical names for the towns enter
tain you in passing from Columbia to
Augusta, Augusta to Macon, Macon to
Vienna and Abbeville, and so, by Val
d’Osta, Traders’Hill, Jasper, Live Oak,
Tallahassee and dozens of strangely en
titled spots, to Bristol. But it is all
somewhat tedious in its monotony until,
approaching Florida and the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico, you come into more spe
cial scenery, where the Spanish moss
swings upon the dartc forest trees, and
the n.-ilmcLto shoots up from tho lagoons:
and over the interminable sea-marshes be
tween Apalachee bay and New,Orleans
flights of long-tailed, black shrikes and
gray crows fill the air. and the stagnant
water swarms with catfish and alligators.
I like America, and have good reason to
like her. but look back upon the greater
part of that prodigious journey with tho
recollection of a fatigue and ennui such
as few railway trips ever left behind. As
you get westward between New Orleans
and tho Pacific coast, passing through
Louisiana and the immense deserts of
southern Texas, things are different.
Vast as is the monotony there also, you
cannot pass for the first time across the
Colorado river and through the sand
wastes of the Apache mountains to El
Paso and the Rio Grande without pleas
ure in studying the extraordinary land
scapes. It is another world from that
which you have traversed wheu you rat
tle along through tho curious thickets of
candelabra cactus on the Llano-Estacado
of New Mexico, and thence to Arizona
and the wonderful foothills of lower Cali
fornia.
But in that part of the long journey
when Wo were passing through Georgia,
and at the moment when the tedium was
worst, tho train approached a long hollow
in the hills where one of those pleasant
surprises occurred which go to prove how
song may consecrate a locality. A rivpr,
not very broad or deep, but with a cer
tain special grace and character of its
own, lay in frout of our train. We had a
good view of it as we came near the
wooden trestle bridge by' which the line
was carried across —structures which,
until you become acclimatized to Ameri
can travel, always makei you wonder
whether they will carry' the train this
time safely over. The river ran down
from the Georgian hills in a
lively current, broken sometimes
into rapids and little cataructs
whore the red and black rocks lay across
Its channel, and then widening out into
picturesque reaches bordered by thickets
of dark green foliage and Clumps of cy
press and willow. In tho clearings, here
and there between the woods which bor
dered it, stood isolated negro cottages,
around which you could see little black
children at play, and the invariable pig,
which is the house guest of the negro as
well as of the Irishman. A punt was
gliding along on the quiet part of the
stream witli a negro on bourd dragging a
fishing line, and the black buzzards cir
cled over the maize fields. It was not a
very striking scene, but beautiful in its
way, gilded as it was by tho rays of a
magnificent sunset. Yet, I should have
forgotten it in a few minutes, as I had
forgot the hundreds of other rivers which
the rushing train had traversed, had it
not been that I happened to ask tho con
ductor what was tho name of this par
ticular water.
Quito carelessly he answered, “that’s
the Suwanee river, mister 1”
Suwanee river! In a moment the stream
had for me a new' and extraordinary in
terest. 1 nad not even known that there
w-as such a river in geographical reality,
or that it flowed through Goorgia;and
yet, here it was —real, authentic, alive—
leaping down through the southern for
ests, past the maize fields and the cotton
flats, to pour itself into the Gulf of Mex
ico. in an instant everything around ap
peared to be lull of the song that all tho
world knows and sings, “Way Down
Upon do Suwanee Ribber.” The live
oaks seemed to wave It in the evening
air; the stream seemed to sihg it as it
imrsted over the rocks; the birds in the
thickets had it in the soft musical notes
we caught, and the Qcrickets and
katydids beginning their sunset chirrup
joined in the haif-heard chorus. Tin
journey was no longer monotonous. Tr>
be "way down upon de Suwanee ribber"
w-as to have come to a corner of America
dedicated to that deep emotion of our
common humanity the love of home. Is
there anybody who has not felt the charm
of the simple nigger melody?—
Wheal was playin’ wld my brudder
Happy was I.
O, take me to m.v k ni old nrudder,
Dar let me lib and me.
All de world am sad qnd dreary
Ebery where 1 roam:
O' darkies, how m.v heart grows weary.
Far from de old folks at hotiie.
There, indeed, were tho old folks ;
home, a white-haired darky sitting on .
log by the cottage door stripping mai
cobs; and shambling about among tli
pigs and poultry, old Dinah, with a yello\
bandana on her 'silver locks, croonin
some song, which might, perhaps, be th
song of the river. So, after all, it wa
real, and there was a Suwanee rive:
and tho sunny peace and. beauty of i
were just what fitted well with the son;
inent of that touching and tender a
which has gone ail through the world b
cause it holds in its unaffected music tl
secret of the pathetic retrospects of liL
Just the spot, it was, to whigh a tire
man, be he nigger or otherwise, migb
look back to with attachment and affe<
tion. We travelers coming suddenly upo
it and leaving it at thirty " mile
an hour had. of course, not'
ing but the most flitting 'concer
with “de Suwancs ribber.” But o:
could imagine how dear it might tie to
native born, and how sincere the origin .
emotiou was of the song-writer, or else el
some darkey from whom he borrowed i .
to write and sot to such soft and sympu
thetie music “Dar s where my heart is
turniug ever.” Henceforward for m
that tirorgian stream, with tho dar!
groves fringing it, and the red crags, an
the quiet reaehesof silver water gilded b
the setting sun. has a place in though
among the famous rivers of the globe; an :
I never hoar the melancholy music of tli
popular nigger lament, witbeui a sen
feeling of what song cun do, far beyou
history und imiiortant events, to nous*-
crate a spot in nature forever, ami to in
calize a universal sentiment. Kt Ego In
Arcadia, I, too, have been "way down upon
the Suwanee ribber.”
DRIVEN OUT BY SCORPIONS
The Captain and Crew of the Boyd
Singularly Afflicted.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Tho schooner Wallace J. Boyd. Capt.
Godfrey, arrived here early yesterday
morning from Montevideo, with a cargo,
bones which were gathered from tho
plains of that locality and the voyage will
long be remembered by Capt. Godfrey and
his wife, as well as by all of the sailors.
She ship became infested with scorpions
and other pestiferous bugs which arose
from tho cargo and |>enetrat i every
available quarter of the ship. The sea
men’s rest was disturbed, and for weeks
at a time the unfortunate men dared not
rest themselves in their bunks for fear of
being stung by one of the myriads of
these bugs.
Every effort to rid the ship of tho
plague was unsuccessful, and, even on
Monday night, while lying at the upper
quarantine, the decks and cabins were
alive with these creeping insects. Cli
matic changes had no effect whatever on
them, and those of the crew who outer
tained the belief that they would disap
pear us the northern latitudes were
reached were disappointed.
Captain Godfrey is at a loss to know
how they found their way out from be
neath the hatches, which, on board ves
sels, are regarded as even air-tight, yet
they arose in thousands, and made life
horrible on board the ship. Five and six
times a day all hands were forced to
change their clothing, but this did not
prevent that horrible pricking feeling of
live vermin crawling over the bare skin.
When the vessel reached her pier yester
day the sailors at once left, and nothing
could ever induce any of them to again
ship on a bone laden vessel.
Capt. Godfrey said yesterday that
they sailed from Montevideo, Aug. 17,
and up to Sept. 5 none of the
vermin had appeared The day in ques
tion was very warm and the atmosphere
was heavy and damp. About noon around
the main natch large green bugs were
seen coming up from inside the combings
and toward evening the ship’s decks were
alive. The next morning they found their
wa.v down into the forecastle and drove
all the sailors out. The same night tho
after cabin was invaded. Since that time
this unfortunate condition of affairs has
existed and the bugs were thrown over
board by the bucket full every day since.
When the wind was blowing fresh the
air was full of the unwelcome visitors
and in calms they lay torpid on the decks.
The bed clothing, table cloths and even
wearing apparel became full of tho in
sects, but fortunately none of the crew
were bitten i>,\ any poisonous insect.
Captain Godfrey says that the hones
which he has on hoard were principally
brought from the extreme upper regions
in tho river Plata in lighters. They were
gathered from the plains'where they had
probably been for ages. Many whole
skeletons of horses, sheep and oxen are
among the collection, all of which will I o
ground up at this port. While lying in
the plains they no doubt became infesteu
with these bugs and the extreme heat of
tho vessel’s hold drove them up on tho
deck.
CHANCES OF GETTING KILLED.
In a 24-Milo Railroad Ride They Are
1 in 1,401,010.
From the Pittsburg Times,
if a man takes a ride of the average
length, which is almost twent.v-four
miles, in a railway train in this country,
what is his chance of getting killed? Ac
cording to tlie interesting report of the
interstate commerce commission, just out,
it is one chance in 1,491,910. If a young
man of 20, jilted by his sweetheart,
should determine to commit suicide with
out sin by getting accidentally killed in a
railway accident, ho might do it. Cer
tainly he might do it. If he were to get
on a train as a passenger and ride, ride,
ride at tho rate of thirty-five and ono
half mile? an l) our i day and night, every
hour of every day, and every day in the
year, if he had average luck he
would eventually get surcease from
tho gnawing’pain at bis heart some
where in the course of passing
over 35,542,282 miles, for according to
these official figures, one passenger is
killed for every 35,542,282 miles that a
passenger is carried. According to the
same lie would be injured in some way 8%
times, or H times and a bad scare. It is a
little better than one chance in three that
lie would come to an untimely grave in
consequence of a collision, but if he pre
ferred to have the train run off the track
to kill him ho would have only one chanco
in nine to be satisfied. His possible Jour
ney would have taken him around this
weary world and past the place where sho
went to housekeeping with theotlier fel
low 1,421 times, and would have cost him,
at the rate of 3 cents a mile and $2.50 a
night for a sleeping berth, $1,087,016.48.
in this melancholy state of mind he
wouldn’t care how his shoes looked, and
the porter needn’t disturb his grief for a
daily q uarter.
And when, after all his Journeying to
his death, and glowering out of the win
dow at every unsympathetic rock that
might have fallen before the engine, and
cursing every vagrant browsing row that
might have trespassed on tho track and
didn't, he finds at length "the golden key
that opens the palace of eternity,” it is a
bigger chance than there are figures for
that he will not be ready to go. For the
ON CRUTCHES 2 WEEKS
Limb Raw as Beef and Red as Beet.
l*uin, Burning, and Itching Ter- '
jiblo. Not 5 Hours Sleep In 3
Bays. Makes One Applica
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5 Minutes Is Asleep.
A Remarkable
Case.
About two years ago I was confined to my
room with a breaking out on my leg which my
physician pronounced Eczema. About three
weeks ago tne sume disease broke out again on
the same leg, and my physician has been attend
ing mo regularly, calling from once to twice
daily, the sores all the time getting worse. A
friend called to see me, and brought about
one half teasi>oonful of Citiccba, advising
me to try it, telling of himself, brothers and
mother having been cured by (t. I would
not try it at first, although I had been on
crutches for over two weeks, and at one time I
counted between twenty-five and thirty suppur
ating sores, and had not slept more than five
hours in three nights. Monday morning about
four o’clock the pain, burning and itching be
came so severe that I determined to try Ccti
ccra, thinking that if it did no good, it could
not make my leg much worse, for it was as raw
as a piece of beef and as red as a beet, so I
applied the Cctioura, and in five minutes after
I laid down I was asleep. Next day I sent and
got a box of CuticL'Ra, and I’ll pledge my honest
word I would not toko SIOO to-day for it, if I
could not get another. I commenced using
Ci Tiet'RA Monday morning about four o'clock,
and to-dav (Tuesday) my leg is nearly well, not
withstanding 1 had not walked a step without
jny crutches in two weeks. My gratitude to the
man who first compounded ( I.TIcrKA la pro
found. Mav Hod bless him.
t. T. FRAZIER, South Boston, Va.
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scenery of this world becomes interest
ing after awhile, even to one smitten with
disappointment and angry with all crea
tion. There are many pretty acquaint
ances to bo picked up in tho course of a
long Journey, also, and time is a great
healer of love-sickuess, even though a
slow ono. He would be in his l<h year
by the time his desperate purpose was
achieved, and he would have more sense
than ho started with. He would have
had leisure to reflect from time to time on
how his false sweetheart’s false teeth
became her now; how tier rheumatism
was, whether gray hair and spectacles
changed her much, and how she managed
with those great-grandchildren of hers.
A BABY SMOKER.
The Most Precocious Four-Year-Old
Urohin in Maine.
From the Lewiston Journal.
The sojourner at the hotel at Cooper's
Mills, Me., will probably experience con
siderable astonishment when Jud Alden
comes up to him and ejaculates: “Gim
me a smoke!” Now, Jud 1s less than 5
years old, and he is about half as large as
he ought to be. The man who laughs at
this precocious youngster’s imperative de
mand will receive a look of rebellious
wrath. ,
“Don’t you believe I kin smoke. Gimme
5 cents and see.”
The writer—may the patron saint of
children forgive him—gave this diminu
tive Jud a nickel. Two minuths later the
youngster came out of a grocery store
with a cigar that looked ten feet long
clinched between his teeth. Under his
arm was his primer, and away he trudged
lo school. This youngster has smoked
for a year or more, and has chewed to
bacco for a longer time. About his mouth
was the deep stain of tobacco, and his
little calico waist looked like a war map.
When he was a baby creeping about
the house he appeared to crave tobacco,
and if he found any scraps he would chew
them with curious relish.
His parents have endeavored to break
him of this habit, but he persists in
smoking and chewing. At the time of
the recent railroad meeting at Cooper’s
Mills Jud stuck a big cigar in his mouth
and led the band through the streets. It
is not unlikely that his propensity wub
due to some prefiatal influence. He
smokes as constantly as a man it he can
procure the tobacco, and he seems to
thrive in spite of the practice, that would
kill most toddlers of bis age.
Bertie Van New—l didn't mind giving
you 10 cents for a drink, but why do you
carry that deucedly big stick? Frayed
Idler Sor. Ol wor wunst a dude loike
yuresilf; an' Ol doan' know what to do
wid me hands without a cane Puck.
“What is the idea in calling a consulta
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"Ob, that's when the doctor, who origi
nal ly took the case, can't think of any
more excuses to give the family.”—De-
I Holt Tribune.
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