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r i zV • J N ort b fgiai i, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY •' i - -AT- BKI.LTON, GA. Bv MYERS <Sr BITICE. DR. D. M. BREAKER, Editor. Office iu the Smith building, east of the ttepot. TERMS—SI.OO per aunum, 60 cents for six months, in advance. After three months, $1.25; After six months, $1.50 per , annum. Fifty numbers to the volume. —— ♦ TOPICS OF THE DAY. Boston is to have a free Hebrew ' school. i _» Petv.oleum oil has been discovered in -i Colorado. There are 268,830 pensioners in the ' United States. a. I President Arthur will sign no tenl .peranee pledge. Smoking is not allowed at polling placets Tn Boston. Tennessee has supplied the Mormons , with 125 converts. Guiteac is pretty certain to live through the holidays. Judge FoLOEithns taken charge of the , United States Treasury. American oleomargairine is sold for Holland butter in England. The World’s Fair project seems to i have '.bout fallen through with. The desire for American independence 1 is manifesting itself iu Canada. Baldwin is very contrite. lie calls ■ himself both a knave and a fo»>l. - - ——— The production of raisins in California i this year is estimated at $500,000. — Susan B. Anthony wants tho name of | Pullman cars changed to Pull-man-and- i woman. Froude is of the opinion that England can not rule Ireland. May be she can’t, but she does. The New York Produce Exchange has I decided to erect a new building at a rest of $2,000,000. And so the Star Route rascals escaped the first batch of charges? Still the l; charges remain. ♦ ■ — Keely, the motor man, asks for three months more to perfect his invention. He may have it. The stars and stripes were vociferously cheered in the streets of London on I Lord Mayor's Day. It requires but twenty-six hours now to go from New York to Chicago. The distance is 900 miles. ——- ———— It ib estimated that $60,000,000 is in vested in jewelry in the United States, exclusive of silverware. - —— ■ -W Brady's anxiety tor vindication seems to have waned—gone clear out. It must have been a myth in the first place. ————-- —— . —— . New York has responded most liber ally to the appeal of the Michigan suffer ers. She contributed something over $125,000. Archibaud Forbes, the war enrrespon «lent, will write a serial for a London newspaper under the title of “ The South of To-day.” ♦— And now, for pefsorial comfort, we long for just one slice of tho warm ‘weather we hail hist summer to stir in with the winter. —■ 1 w Coal at Cincinnati sells at $5 a ton, and Cincinnati is on the river leading to Pittsburg, too. It seems that the coal crop failed also. ♦ Siberia has a population of 1,385,000, and has an area of 8,000,000 square miles. Russia claims that her object is to populate the country. The Courier-journal says that in New Jersey it is “ Over the Bank to the Poorhouse.” This-fe not quite right. For '’Poorhouse n read “Money-vault.” St. Louis has eleven murderers in jail, and the papers intimate that if there is not a “ hanging bee ” soon, the citizens may lose control of themselves. Public opinion respecting the guilt of the Star'Routers has not been ass eted a particle by the dismissal of the case on a technical flaw. They still stand con victed. A hotel is to be built in Toledo in which there will be no bar-room at tached. but in ite stead a small chapel where guests may hold religious ser i vices. Those who expect to hear Ad< 1 e < Patti sing may as well commence nov. to save up their money. From all we can learn the popular price of adtns-iii: will be $lO. Clara Louise Kellogg is soon to b married, and the happy mortal is naue d iffPJmFOQB ■ 2 , ■ ~u. 222 The North Georgian. VOL. IV. I Whitney. They say he followed her i about and deviled her till she just had ( to give up. New York seems to have eaught the disease from Ohio, The election returns show that they did a great deal of scratching there. The ticket elected is I a mixed one. • .' —- . Fanny Mills, living at Snndnshy. Ohio, Ims very large feet, ns feet go. The right one is twenty-two inches lon and the left one nineteen. She origi nally lived in Chicago, It looks now as if the consump tion of smoke in Cincinnati is io he an actual fact. Tho ordinance has passed both Boards of Common C. >un cil and been signed by the Mayor Mahonb is a man of very small stature and light weight, but there is perhaps not a man in Virginia who feels his In li more than he does. Just now there is some thing more than a ton of him. Mbs. Sartoris nee Miss Nellie Grant, her husband and two of their three chil dren are visiting the old f Iks in New York, but some how or other, are not attracting so much attention as usual. When Gladstone rises to speak he clasps his hands behind his back. This attitude prevails, however, only during the opening sentences. Once warmed up, his gestures are rapid, almost furi ous. Mr. Labouchere, in his journal, Truth, declares that tho late Baron Janies De Rothschild lost on the Bourse in October 80,000,1)00 francs or $16,001),- 000, and that this loss was the cause of his death. —— Patti will start out by singing “Home, Sweet Home,” because, she says, America is still her heme, and she expects an encore that, when sized up, will look something like a hundred thousand dollars or thereabouts. It is hard to believe that Brady was in earnest when ho demanded an early tiial and consequent vindication. He doubtless is willing to wear the stigma that has been placed upon him for the profits he has made in the Star Route business. — A negro woman living in Meridan, Mississippi, Inis given birth in thirteen years to fourteen children, six pair of the child, en being twins. The father of these children, who is sixty-four years of age, is the father of thirty-seven living children. Harvard University replied to the re quest of Miss Kate E. Morris, a graduate of Smith College, for admission to can didacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, that “the corporation arc not prepared to admit women as candi dates for a degree.” The editor of the Indiana ,S'f'ife*>nan, at Terre Haute, has been sentenced to twenty-five days in jail and to pay a fine >f S3)O, on conviction of crituii al libel. A ■ an < (liter's avocation is that of tliink : ing, what a golden opportunity this will i afford, and no annoyances, either. ------ • At thf. approaching coronation of the (Czar and Czarina the ivory throne of : Con tanti ic, tho last Fniperor of Con stantinople, is to be used. The (!z :) iea is 11 occupy a throne adorned with 876 ■ diamonds and rubies, and 1,223 sapphires, 1 turquoises and pearls of the first water. Mlle. Elise, the famous circus rider . of Paris, is credited with being a daughter of the Emperor of Austria. Her circus • dress is spangled with diamonds, and ' diamonds gleam from her hair as, stand- I ing with one foot upon her flying steed, she directs with her other toe the atten tion of her audienc i to the zenith. ——— According to the extra census bulle tin just issued, the gnat wheat States are Illinois, which raised 51,000,000 bnsnels; Indiana, 47,000,000; Ohio, 46,- 00,1,000; Michigan, 35,000,000; lowa, , 51,000,000; California, 29,000,000 ; Mis- J souri, 25,000,000, and Wisconsin, 24,- i 000,000. In three States were produced ■ nearly three-fourths of the whole wheat crop of the country. The King of Ashantee is a very good sort of a being. The State buildings needed repairing, and he desired to show I how sacrificing a personage he was, and I so he had 200 young girls, or maidens, killed for the purpose of using their blood to mix the mortar. He neglected i to tap liis own fiendish heart, however. These massacres, it is said, are custom ary with the king. It is reported that the Sultan has ordered the ruins of Solomon's Temple to be preserved, and the surrounding place to be cleared of rubbish. Near BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA.. NOVEMBER IT. 1881. the place stands the Mosque of Omar, ; the revenue of which is said to be £l5O,- ; 000 a year. Hitherto this sum has been sent to Constantinople, but it is now to be appropriated to clearing the site of 1 the Temple. This act of the Sultan is believed to be a result of the visit of the Crown Prince of Austria to Jerusalem. ] Mb. Parnell, the Land League chief, owns some house property in Dublin, on which the tenants complain of very high r. uts, but he states that the tenants are of the hiudlor.l class, and that stick property is not to ho regarded in the same category with agri ultuf.il. His agricultural property consists of 4,678 aeresin the County of Wicklow, estimated by Griffith's valuation at £1,215 per annum. The farms are let at the poor aw valuation, which iu some parts of Ireland is higher, iu others less, than Griffith's. Rents are regularly paid, Arabs are very lively in talk, quick, lull of gesticulations and arguments, in quisitive, great chatterers, shout, rs, and screamers. They surpass .the Jews in i fanciful names. From the swarms of girls in the seminary at Beirut, con ducted by American ladies, the follow 1 ing names have been set down in Eng lish translation: Miss Fascinating Fly, Miss Sociable Slider, Miss Safe ('hatter er, Miss Victor Camel Driver, Miss Benevolent Old Shoo, Miss Pink Thick 1 Lip, Miss Enough, Miss Diamond Mo hisses Maker, Miss Blessed Butter ; ■ Maker, and so on. , , Learn a I ntfle. It is very evident that a great din- ; proportion exists, as regards education, between that kind which is needed and is of practical importance, and that |, which is not; but which thousands ac- I , quire without any definite purpose; and , if they decide upon some pursuit it is , not chosen with that regard to their , (jiialitii ations and deficiencies which the j importance of the question requires. I . '1 he young man who thinks he will In a lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, and j hopes to attain success, must decide | on his choice of any profession by some- | , th.tig beside his own ambition and con- i , ceil in th" matter as to liL fituoas and i ability for the same. The desire to fill i a high nd influential position is land- I able only when it is not disproportion- i at • to one’s ability. , One of tho strongest incentives that : influences many to rir h into the pro- j If ions tithout that careful delibcrn limi v.hi.-h the subject, demands, is the iib a thin those avocations will reflect | more honor mid credit upon them than a trade, but instead of such honoring th- profession, the reverse is glaringly j apparent, that.a large proportion of them are ;Hilly out of place. It docs ln>t require much sagacity to see t ’at oil" had better be a good him ber-.miii than a third-rate lawyer, a first class mechanic than aquack doctor. There are those who have spent a great, deal of time and money iu study- | ing Latin and Greek, and many other ' thin s, Which never did them any good, i practically speaking, and have learned too late that their time might have been 1 employed to far la tter advantage. Many young men, after years spent in | misdiri eted elTort, have had to resort to i anything that off red. Os this there are . instanees too numerous to mention. I The world is full of so-called educated j men who don’t know anything of any importance, considering the kind of . knowlcge which the needs of the country | demand. There is a need of skilled me chanics, capable, active men, instead of ' doctors, lawyers, ministers and clerks. It is a question of great importance i not only to the young, but to the parents, j this of preparing their children for a ; business wherein they can not only earn I their daily bread, but secure to them- ' selves some of the comforts and conven- I iences of life, and an honorable position | in tho world. When people get out of tho prevailing | but foolish notion of thinking that it is | more honorable to have a profession than a good trade, and when the reveise of this rather is taught to the young, it cannot fail to have a judicious tendency toward correcting an error which has been fostered long, and lies close to the interests of all. 11 every man had an occupation that was chosen because he was better fitted for it than for any other, he would be in a condition to enjoy much in life, and i his sphere of usefulness and influence would be greatly enlarged. Practical education, with a careful consideration I of one’s abilities and deficiencies, with | an adaptedness to the wants and needs I of our land, cannot fail to make our con- i dition much pleasanter and our labor more renumerative. An Indiana; olis scissors grinder claim to have been with the Duke of Welling ton in forty battles, and that he received 132 sword cuts and eleven gunshot 1 wounds. We don’t believe the Duke of ' Wellington had any use for a scissors grinder. The Duke was not editing ■ paper, as we understand it. Still, if the Duke did have a scissors grinder, wh > went around with his grinding machine, ' 'inging a bell and shouting the way they do nowadays, we don’t blame t Duke’s neighbors for stabbing him 132 limes and shooting him eleven tin.<■> with a gun. He deserved it.—/'' </ > i Sun. Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of pro ’ gress in tho world, but they bear fruit only after many years. > “Prussian Ledder.” [New Orleans Times,] If there is a merchant in New Orleans who can sell goods at any price he chooses to fix on them, Rube Iloffenstein, who keeps a clothing and shoe store on Poydras street, is the man. One day a customer entered his estab lishment and inquired: “Have you any low quarter gaiters?” “Certainly, my front. I hnfany sdyle you wish, und someding dot vas neat. Now here vas a pair us gaiters vat is made us Prussian ledder, de pest kind vat is known, und 1 dinks dey vill suit you. Suppose yon dry dem on.” “All right,” replied the customer. “Vait, my front, and I’ll put a leedle bowder in. Now dry deni. Ah, vat potter shoe you vant dan dat? It vits shust as if somebody takes your meas ure.” “It’s too tight across the instep,” . aid the customer, rubbing the spot with his fingers. “It vill sdretch, my dear sir,” replied Hofl’enstein persuasively, “dot ledder vas made expressly for sdretehing.” “But the shoe pinches my toes, also.” “Dot is noding; it vill go vay de first time it gets vet. You don’ vant to buy a pair us shoos more as dree sizes too big, und go around de ladies mit your feet looking like a gouple of railroad scrapers. It vould boa shame, you know. ” “What do you ask for the shoes?” “Only seex dollars.” “Jerusalem! That’s too much.” ‘Well, my dear sir, you must, recollect dat dem shoes vas made of Prussian led der, and ledder dero vas scarce. My uncle vat lifs dere write me last veek, und said dat ledder vas so scarce dey don’t make harness mit it any longer. All de harness dere is now made of wool.” “I tell you what I’ll do,” said the cus tomer, examining the shoe closely, “PH give you four dollars.” “My g-r racious! A Prussian ledder shoe for four dollars ven it costs me more as five dollars and fifty cents laid at the depot down, mid the profit on dem don’t pay for the gas. My g-r-r-acious, vat’s de matter mit de people?” “Well, I’m not going to give $6 for those shoes,” said the customer, moving toward the door, “they are not worth it.” ‘‘Veil, my frent, take them along for $4, und call around again some odder day.” The customer paid tor the shoes and taking bis parcel, left the store. “Herman,” inquired Hofl’enstein of his clerk, “vat vas de cost brice of dem split ledder shoes I shust sold de gentle man?” “Von dollar und a half, sir.” ‘•My g-r-r-acious, Herman, dink how small de profit vas. if pisness, you know, Herman, don’t get petter it vill preak all de store up. Possibilities of Cotton Production. It may be well to remark at the out set that the production of cotton in the South is practically without limit. It was 1830 before the American crop leached 1,000,0011 bales, and the highest jsiiiit ever reached in the days of slav ery was a trifle over 4,500,000 bales. The crop of 1880-81 is about. 2,000,001) in excess of tiiis, and there are those who believe that a crop of 8,000,000 bales is among the certainties of the next few years. Tho heavy increase in the cotton crop is due entirely to the increase of cotton acreage brought about by tho use of fertilizers. Mill ions of acres of land, formerly thought to be beyond the possible limit of the cotton belt, have been made the best of cotton hinds by being artificially en riched. In North Carolina alone the limit, of cotton production has been moved twenty miles northward and twenty miles westward, and the half of Georgia on which no cotton was grown twenty years ago now jiroduces fully half tho crop of the State. The “area of low production ” as the Atlantic States are brought to the front by arti ficial stimulation is moving westward, and is now central in Alabama and Florida. But the increase in acreage, as large as it is, will be but a small factor in the increase of production, compared to the intensifying of the land now in use. Under the. present loose system of planting, the average yie.d is only one bale to three acres. This could be easi ly increased to a bale an acre. In Georgia five bales have been raised on one acre, and a yield of three bales to the acre is credited to several localities. President Morehead, of the Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters’ Association, says that the entire cotton crop of tho present year might have been easily raised in fourteen counties along tho Mississippi river. It will be seen, therefore, that the capacity of the South to produce cotton is practically limitless, and, when we consider the enormous demand for cotton goods now opening up from new climes and peo ples, we may conclude that the near future will see crops compared to which the crop of the past year, worth $300,- 000,000, will seem small.— Henry IP. Grady, in Harper'* Mayazinc. Hint to Sportsmen. A man from the country stepped into a gun-shop in Austin, Texas, to purchase a gun. A muzzle-loading gnu was shown him, but he said he preferred a breech loader. “On account of it being easier and quicker to load ? ” “ No, it’s not that. I had an old mus ket, 1 loaded it at the muzzle, but it went of! at the breech and nearly blew my head off. Instead of u gun that loads at the muzzle and fires <3l at the Ini ech, I want one that I '-an load at the breculi i and the off at the other end.” NO. 46. f Adulteration. There seem to be very good reasons why the pessimists should call a halt upon the genius of invention until some force cJh be made available to regulate his movements. It is very generally acknowledged that the world is growing better as it grows older, tad no doubt it is, but the progress of invention and dis covery, although in the main beneficial to mankind, is bringing forth things that must of necessity exert an injurious in fluence. Charles Reade, in one of his novels, speaks of some old solid silver plate, made in the ancient days when things were made honestly. ”** Not,” he says, “ because the workmen were more honest than they are to-day, but because they didn’t know how to cheat.” As the world grows older, people learn more and more how to cheat, and the people who don’t want to be cheated have to study closer and closer to learn how to circum vent it. It is a good deal like the inventions of armorers. Every few years a gun is produced, the projectile from which will pierce any known obstruction, and then other armorers exert themselves to get up an armor that it cannot pierce. And so it goes on, and the wonder is where it is all to end. It is so with in vent!' hi and discovery in other directions. Chemists are finding out more ami more how to adulterate food and its ingredients until it is almost dangerous to eat any thing but primary substances. Ever and anon accounts appear iu the papers of a family poisoned by eating or drinking this, that or tho other, until one hardly knows what indulgence of appetite may be considered safe. There is u standing appeal to legislation to correct these evils, but legislation, although it may have mitigated the danger, has not, as yet, entirely removed it. It would seem to be an easy matter to treat this subject in away to assure the people that what they eat and drink need not prove in jurious on account of impurity or adulteration. If there is an offence in the calendar calling for the most condign punishment, it is that of adulteration. Let us have laws, and an enforcement of them, that will make it safe to eat and drink what purports to be healthful and nt ttritious. — Hodon Budget, A Drop of Water. We read frequently of the drowning of good swimmers, who suddenly sink m tho water without any apparent cause. The common explanation of such an ac ei'le’it is that the swimmer is seized with er amps; but an English naval otiicer offers a different solution of the phenomenon. He bases his theory on his own experience. His ship was lying for a long time oil Aden harbor, and it was the practice for cricketing parties to swim from the vessel to the shore every evening, having their clothes sent in a small boat. Os course there was a race to see who would get to the beach first. The writer in the course of a sharp sting 'de for tho lead opened his mouth to breathe, and some of the spray flying in the wind got into his throat and took the passage down the trachea. “I could neither,” he says, “get any breath in, nor any out, and I soon began to feel that I was dying on top of the water. There must have been a dozen men close to me, but I could not speak, much less call to them. I kept swimming on for the shore. -In about thirty seconds my senses began to leave me. I censed to swim, and my legs went down, when luckily for me they touched the bottom ; a violent jump helped me to cough up the drop of water. I staggered on shore and fell quite exhausted on the beach, much to tlic surprise of all the men witli me. ” It is the opinion of this gentleman that many fatal accidents to swimmers are due simply to a drop of water in the wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they are not due to cramp is a fact that a man rescued within two minutes of sinking in this mysterious maimer is beyond all hope of resuscitation. Home Life for the Blind. In an address before the College for the Blind, at Upper Noiwood, Henry Fawcett, the blind Postmaster General of England, said that, speaking of his own experience, the greatest service that could be, rendered to the blind was to enable them to live as far as possible the same life as if they had not lost their sight. They should not be imprisoned in institutions or separated from their friends. Few who had not experienced it could imagine the indescribable joy to them of home life. Some persons hesi tated to speak to the blind about out ward objects. There could be no great er error. The pleasantest and happiest hours of his life were those when he was with his friends, who talked about every thing they saw just as if he was not present; who in a room talked about the pictures, when walking described the scenery they were passing through, and who described the people they met. When with the blind, people should talk with them about and describe every thing they saw. The speaker concluded by remarking that there was plenty of gixid will to assist the blind, but what was required was better organization. A Cheerful Set of Folks. The Lepchas, of India, are Buddhists, short in stature, bulky and of fair com plexion, their features being distinctly of the Mongolion type. They are gross feeders, gorging themselves constantly to repletion, and eating the flesh of the elephant, rhinoceros and monkey. Their habits are nomadic. They do not usu ally live longer than three years in one place. They buy their wives for prices varying rom 40 to 500 rupees, and, if they ve no money, will serve their fathers- -law as bondsmen in recom pense. Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off. r| ' "kAT’fes a~dve'i?!’'isix(;. - -“IMAOHa - ■ h imo L I >’r. HliaLdi,' lv'hius Two Incli”-*. I "7., 7.NI' <*”■ rXim XUreo i <l(C<. ; .ofbllu 17.5 ZIHM) rourii|ClK<. (sis- l.’ii'i ..s<i j ."'OO t’'ourtt’’U'>l'rm:i,' 7 ’ Iftii’ M .viiio lUH Column, un aiioi’l illlM O. e rclumn, '5-ih bmil U'li‘.Hl JtiFAH bills due after ft ir rti' Srtion. Transient nrfvehisemente ( trie tty in ad vance) $1 per inch for the first insertion; 5® cents per inch, for ear i a idiueinl irserticn. Loqbl readitu unti es 10 cents per line. Ann lineaments $5 e m'|. .Mii'-iiage notices an.l obi■ .mries ( xceeding six lines will be charged for as advertise ments. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. One oyster may lat as many as 2,000,- 000 eggs a year. A blow from tho leg of an ostrich will break a man's leg. A .wolf, like a tiger, having once eaten-man, prefers him. to all else for a dinner, and if he attacks a man it is proof that ho has already dined off oue or had hydrophobia. The sea cucumber, one of the curious jelly bodies that inj taint the ocean, can practically efface himself when in danger by squueamg the warn’.mit- of his body and forcing himself into a narrow crack —so narrow as not to be visible to the naked eye. He can throw out nearly w hole of his inside, and yet live and grow it again. According to a’writer in JVature, the small minratory birds that are unable to perform the flight of 350 miles across the Mediterranean sea are carried across on the backs of cranes. In tho autumn many flocks of.cranes may be seen com ing from the north, with the first cold blast from thut quarter, flying low, and uttering a peculiar cry, as if of alarm, as they circle over the cultivated plains. Little birds of ’every species may bo seen flying u]>to them,-while the twit tering songs of those already comfortably settled upon their backs may be dis tinctly heard. But for this kind pro vision of nature, numerous varieties of small birds would become extinct in northern countries, as the cold winters would kill them. Bank of England notes are made from pure white linen cuttings—never from rags that have been worn. So carefully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each individual workman is regis tered on a dial by machinery, and the sheets are carefully counted and booke* to each person through whoso hands they pass. The printing is done by a most curious process within the bunk building. There is an elaborate ar rangement for securing that no note shall be exactly like any other in exist ence; consequently there never has been a duplicate banknote except by forgery. The stock of paid notes for seven years is said to amount to 94,000,000, and to fill 10,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would cover over three miles in extent. In England the north side of a church yard ih objected to a placu oi‘ burial. The old ecclesiastical reason is this : “ Tho east is God’s side, where His throne is sot; the west is man’s side, tho Galilee of the Gentiles; the south is the side of the angels and of tho ‘ spirit" made just,’ where the sun shines in its strength. Tho north is tho devil's side, where Satan and his legion lurk to catch the unwary.” Some churches have still a “ devil’s door” in the north wall, which wiiscpened nt baptisms and commun ions to let the devil out. Mjles .Ever dale, in his “ Praying for tho Dead,” A. D. 1535, says: “As they die, so shall they arise; if in faith in the Lord, to wardthesouth, * * * and shall arise in glory; if in upbelief, * * * to ward the north, then are they past all hope.” The disproportion of tho costs of a lawsuit to the damages obtained was probably never greater than in a case argued bj William H. Seward in 1848. A newspiqier addressed to a Miss Felton was received at the Syracuse postofflee. The Postmaster refused to deliver the paper without letter postage, because the initials of the sender were on tho wrap per. The lady sued in a Justice’s comt for tho value of the paper, and was awarded 6 confs damages. Tho Post master appealed, and the case, was car ried successively to the Court of Com mon Pleas, tho Supreme Court of tho State, the Court of Appeals and the United States Supremo Court, each af firming the original decision. When the case entered the last tribunal $136.90 in costs had been added to the 6 cents dam- !l K eß ’ „__™—— — . The Wyoming Method. San Francisco Chronicle. They have learned how to live in Hil liard, Wyoming territory, and are pleased with their lesson. As often as they get out of meat they replenish this way. A band of wicked-looking citizens go down to the Union Pacific track a ways, to where the trains run slowly and await the passage of the through express with its palace cars and tender passen gers. As it is heard in the distance they take their places. A stuff man made of straw is laid out beside two deal coffins, a bit of baggage keeping his face from being seen, while the gang gather around a living victim, whom they arc about to hang to a telegraph pole. It is a slim chance for the poor fellow, but the pas sengers run wild nt the sight. Tho train is stopped. Volunteers run back to the the scene. Explanation: Two noted horse-thieves are the scourge of the dis trict, survivor penitent now, but tho best time to hang him is when we have him. He’s done thousand’s of dollars of damage. This suggests a ransom. The passengers take up a contribution and buy the poor devil’s life for him. Then they carried him on to Hilliard and leave him. “Citizens in carriages” come riding home later with the ransom, which they divide without a quarrel, and there is peace and pleasantry in Hilliard. Adipocf.re is an oilv, waxy substance, formed from the soft parts of animal bodies buried in damp soils or under water. It is the substance that human bodies sometimes change into, giving rise to the idea that they petrify. The king-becoming graces—devotion, patience, courage, fortitude.