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THE PAULDING NEW
Wm. A. BREOKENRIBGE, Publisher.
‘‘Onward and Upward.**
SUBSCRIPTION ; $1.80 Per Annum
VOLUME I;
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1883.
NUMBER 30.
GENFKAL NEWS.
Floroptc. South Carolina, has rained
3100,01)0 for a cotton factory.
Griffin, Ga., is trying to raise 8100,000
to build a cotton factory.
Ton million acres of land in Georgia
arc covered with timber.
Texas haft bought all the grazing cat-
tlu \A Tennessee and Arkansas.
Darlington, South Carolina, hns raised
3260,000 towards a cotton factory.
The fruit business is threatening to ri
val tho iron industry at Chattuuoogn.
Bales of fertilizers in Alabama this year
ore much larger than those of last year.
Nearly a million acres of land in Louis-
iona, have been sold recently to a Kansas
speculator,
The barrel, 1mm, tub and bucket facto
ry of Chattanooga will give employment
to 160 hands. .
Belina, Ala., has sixty artesian wells,
and the water from no two of them is
exactly nlike.
The Soutbhrn wheat crop increased
from 37,0*00,000 bushels in 1873 to 67,-
000,000 bushels in 1880.
A bagging factory is to bo erected in
Belma, Ala., and it will bo ready for the
coming season’s business.
Tho grand jury at Austin, Texas, have
indicted fifty members of the Legislature
of that state for gambling.
'Tis sa'.d the English sparrows have
driven nearly all the mocking-birds from
around Goldslmro, North Carolina.
Mr. Charles Goodwright hns 700,000
acres of land, located at tho head of Red
river, in TexaftT He has a herd of 10,-
000 cattle.
New Orleans’ commerce for the first
live months of this year exceeds Inst
years’by over 811,000,000—an increase
of nearly a third.
A vein of silver ore throe feet nnd a
half widu lias been found on the property
of Mr. Powliattan Williams, of Floyd
county, Virginia.
New Orleans is now the second grain
exporting ‘port of tho United States.
During tho past five months 160,000 tons
have been shipped.
Bay-colored wild goafs arc said to be
plentiful in Grant parish, La. The Col*
fox Chronicle says flic meat of the ani
mals is extra fine.
Most of tho tobacco stems from the
North Carolina tobacco factories ore ship
ped to Germany to bo manufactured into
snufl for the German peasants.
Six hundred hands are at work on the
Florida Southern railroad, and three ves
sels are ell route for Pensacola with iron,
cars and engines for tho rood.
A farm of KM) acres, a little more than
four miles from Winchester, Ky., sold
recently at 8110 per aero, and another
farm of 225 acres sold for 8132.
Tho value of the orchard crops of Flor
ida twelve years ago were estimated at
. alMiut $60,000. To-day a million and a
half dollars would hardly buy them.
The cattle drive of Texas this year will
lie uiucty-tive herds, averaging 5,500
hood each: Tho entire herd is estimated
at 540,000 head, against 350,000 head
last year.
In the Gulf Hammock, Levy county,
Fla., are two live cypress trees, some 80
feet high, that have cabbage palmettos
growing out of holes in their sides, forty
to fifty feet at Hive the ground.
Col. J. B. Killebrew, of Nashville, has
been visiting the Mexican mines of Polk,
the defaulting stale treasurer of Tennes
see, and reports that they arc “good for
8150,000 a year, if properly worked.”
Dming the early part of this month
the largest mule in tho world was sold at
Kansas City. It was 18} hands high,
weighed 1975 pounds, measured 15 feet
from nose to tail, and was six years old.
At Pensacola, Fla., there are at present
in cpiarauteen twenty-three vessels hail
ing from infected ports and ports embra
ced in the proclammation of the Board of
Health as subject to ipiaranteen restric
tions.
A company has been organized in New
Orleans to build a railway to the jetties.
The charter authorizes the company to
construct warehouses, hailnirs, piers,
wharves, etc., at the junction of the rail
way with the sea or river.
At tho Houth Tradegar Iron-works of
Chattanooga adifficnlty occurred between
two employes, Lafayette Browder and
William Thomas. Browder, who is
powerful man, raised Thomas like a child
and laid him on his back on a red-hot
slab of iron, holding him there until
nearly burned to death.
The pope will hold a consistory at the
end of June, to fill up the eight vacant
posts of cardinal in the Sacred college.
The total number of these dignitaries
should bo seventy, us fixed by a bull of
Sixtus V in 1656, in memory of tho sev
enty elders who governed tho people of
Israel and the seventy disciples of Christ.
General W. H. Slocum favors a confed
eration, rather than a consolidation, of
the two cities of New York tUld Brooklyn,
each to retain control of its own water
works, streets, parks, nnd other public
places, but with a single municipal head,
and the Arc, police and health depart
ments under a common jurisdiction.
Mr. Bnrchard, director of the mint,
puts the product of tho Georgia gold
mines in 1882 at 8260,000; of North Car
olina at 8190,000; of South Carolina at
825,(MM), and of Virginia at 815,000—n
total of 8480,000. This amount is an in
crease of over 100 per cent over the tig-
urcs from the sninc source for tho previ
ous year.
The Queen's navee, when all vessels on
the stocks arc finished, will comprise 36
first and second class ships with armor
averaging 13 inches in thickness, and
guns of the average weight of 35 tons.
Franco has the same number of ships,
but the armor is 14J inches thick, the
guns averaging 40 tons, anil half of them
arc breech-loading.
Atlanta Constitution; People who pre
fer lard to cotton seed oil should be deep
ly interested in the developements in
Chicago, whore it is shown that hoofs
tuid ofl'al arc chemically prepared and
shipped Houth ns a first-class quality of
hog lurch Nature has in store many bet
ter compounds for tho kitchon thun those
found with a Chicago brand.
Mr, Blaine, in a private letter, speak
ing of tho liquor question in his state,
says: “ Intemperance has steadily de
creased in tho state since tho enactment
of tho prohibitory law, until now it can
be said with truth there is no people of
the Anglo-Saxon world mnong whom so
small an ninonut of Liquor is consumed
among the 650,000 inhabitants of
Maine.
Mr, Percey E. Battaile, of Louisiana,
linH caught within the Inst twelve months
with a steel trap fixed on the top of a
cry tall persimmon tree, forty-one hawks,
five (Avis, five crows and a large number
of birds. One of tho hawks weighed
four pounds and measured four feet and
four inches from tip to tip of wings.
Many of the hawks were of the largest
kind.
Tho total miles of railroad in tho State
of New Yol k, September 20, 1882, were
7,26!), and tho number of locomotives in
the State was 3,541. This is an average
of almost one engine to every two miles
of road—a higher average than prevails
in the country generally. Tho total num
ber of locomotives reisirted at the end of
the year 1881 was 20,116 for 104,325
miles of rood, or less than one to every
five miles.
Thu richest colored man in the United
States is Aristide Marie, of New Orleans,
who has an income from his city rent-roll
alone of about 850,000 to say nothing of
his other property. He has not, however
made all this since Lincoln’s proclamma
tion, for ho was a large slave-owner be
fore the war, and is a gentleman of blood
and breeding which would throw any
number of Haytien princes in the shade,
whatever the particular hue of their skin.
Mr. Miuie lives abroad, on the Proser
pine plan, about half tho year.
Cotton has recently been adapted to a
new and most useful purpose, Manufac
tured into duck it has been successfully
introduced as a roofing material. Aside
from its cheapness, it possesses the aver
age of lightness as compared withshinlges
or slate, effectually excludes all water anil
is said to be a non-conductor of heat, so
that tho rooms next the roof are not un
duly heated by the sun's rays. The
method of laying is to plane the boards
to an even thickness and nail them down
securely. The duck is laid dry, and
drawn over the roof—not lengthwise.
Tho edges are lapped one inch, and nail
ed with sixteen-ounce tinned carpet tacks.
These tacks ore driven one inch apart.
Then two coats of paint, composed of oil
and lead, are applied. When it is desired
to protect the roof against fire, fire-proof
paint may be used in addition. Should
cotton come into general use as a rooting
material there would be a great demand
for the staple. Viewed in this light, the
new adaptation is a subject of importance
to the cotton-growers.
Editorial Notes.
The population of New York city hns
doubled six times within a century—
doubling on ah average once every seven
teen years. In other words the New
York of to-day is Bixty-four times ns largo
os the Now York of 100 years ago,
The lioom in Confederate securities
still continues in Richmond, Virginia.
There hove been sales at auction of North
Cnroliun war I Kinds at 84 per 81,000 and
brokers are constant bnyers of all classes
of Confederate coupon securities. The
house of Thomas Branch & Co., has
bought over 820,000,000 worth of these
securities.
The state board of silk culture at 'Fris
co continues its efforts to intercept some
of the 89,(MM),(MM) in raw silk that annu
ally pnss through the local isirts for tho
eastern states by offering prizes for native
grown silk nt the Hacrumcnto fair in Sep
tember, the minimum weight of each ex
hibit to be not less than one-fourth of a
pound. Ooccoons are sold throughout
tho state for from (M) cents to 81 each.
Foouiua is not the only state in which
English capitalists arc making large land
purchases. In Texas one lot of about a
tim'd of a million acres has been bought
by an English company, while in Missis
sippi about a million nnd a third have
recently been taken up by another.
These investments are made with a con
viction that tho value of all land in Amer
ica must increase,• and that, by a little
outlay in drainage and preparation, tracts
that can be purchased %ow for a enm-
parativcly small sum will soon have a
high agricultural value, mid raise fat
rents for their British owners.
How much pleasanter this world would
be to live in were it as easy to go to her
at night as it is to remain there in the
morning, and as easy to get up in the
morning as it is to talk of getting u)
when you go to bed.
The Light Went Out.
Not long ago I stood by the death-bed
of a little girl. From her birth she had
been nfraid of death. Every fiber of her
body and soul recoiled from the thought
of it. "Don’t let me die,” she said;
“don’t let me die. Hold mo fast. Oh, I
can’t go.” “Jenny," I said, “you have
two little brothers in tho other world,
and there are thousands of tondor hoarted
peoplo over there who will lovo you and
take care of you.” But she cried out
again despairingly, “Don’t let mo go;
they are strangers over there.” She was
a little country girl, strong limbed, fleet
of foot, tanned in the face; she was raised
on the frontier; the fields Were her homo.
In vain we tried to reconcile her to the
death that was inevitable. “Hold mo
fast,” she cried, “don’t let mo go, ” But
even ns she was pleading hor little hands
relaxed their clinging hold from my
waist and lifted themselves eagerly aloft;
lifted themselves with such straining
effort that they lifted the wasted little
body from its reclining position among
the pillows. Her face was turned up
ward; bntitwaa her eyes thnt told the
story. They were filled with the light of
Divine recognition. They saw something
plainly that wo could not see; and they
grow brighter and brighter, and her
little hand quivered in eagerness to go
where strange portals had opened upon
her astonishod vision. But even in that
supreme moment she did not forget to
leave a word of comfort for those who
would gladly have died in her place;
“Mamma,” she was saying, “mamma,
they are not strangers. I’m not afraid.”
Anil every instant the light burned more
gloriously in her bine eyes till at last it
scorned as if her soul leaped forth upon
its radiant waves, and in thnt moment
her trembling form relapsed among its
pillows and she wus gone.
A Lovelorn Indian Maiden’s Suicide.
The Brandon Sun says: Nows lias
come that an Indian maiden belonging
to a branch of tho Bioux on the Oak
River Reserve, in Manitoba, recently
committed suicide. The Chief desired
her to marry a certain member of tho
tribe, who was advanced in yoars, hut,
the maiden’s fancy hail already been en
gaged by a young brave, whom she
promised to wed should she wed at all.
Tho objection shown to tho Chief's
wishes enraged him to such an extent
that ho insisted on the marriage with the
older one, and threatened all manner of
punishments in the event of further con
tumacy. There appeared no possible
escapo for tho unhappy maiden but one,
and she bravely faced it. Getting pos
session of a piece of rone, she managed
to slip away unobserved, and, fastening
the rope to a branch of a tree in the
vicinity of tho encampment, succeeded
in most effectually hanging herself.
Pap Eli Tents. —Paper houses are com
ing into use in England, where for some
purposes they are found greatly superior
to tents. Shooting boxes 12 feet square
are found convenient both to use and
transport, and the material being imper
vious to moisture, tho little cottages uro
satisfactory from a sanitary point of
view. It is said that they will be used
at the seaside during the coining season,
not only for bathing houses bntas “resi
dences” for quirt bachelors of contem-
| plativc habits.
| Them have been many definitions of
| a gentleman, but the prettiest and most
i poetio is that given by a iady. “A gen-
i tleman,” says she, “is a human being
combining a woman’s tenderness with a
I man's courage.”
BLESSEDJE NIGHT.
THIS NEW FIKNT HEAD Kit.
(■"»» In Which Tells u* What Was Ilona
la a Single Main.
[From tho Detroit Froo From.)
It is night. A policeman awakes with
a stiddxn start and moves aronnd tho
comer, having a secret fear at his heart
that lie had Blopt through all that night,
all nex t day and far into to-morrow night.
It is night in a great city. Tho poker
and faro rooms are in full blast, 10,000
loafers arc holding dowu street corners,
nnd here and there an intoxicated aldor-
maij con bo seen mnkiug his wny to n
policy Bhop or a gnthoffuc .of the pave
ment ring. Under -e-Wer of darkness,
first manufactured o\ v - 6,000 years ago,
tho hotel-beat lowers fils duds from tho
fourth-story whitlow; all who have dead
head tickets start for the oi>era houses;
hundreds of young men sot out to spark;
reporters fondly lixik forward to fires,
robberies and murders, nnd church choirs
moel to rehearse and wrangle aud lay up
clubs for each other.
’Tis night in tho country. Tho stock
has boon fed, the squeal of tho pig is
hushed, nnd tho tired horso munclies nt
his corn nnd wonders why his master
throws in so many cobs without a kernel
on them. Tho watch dog sits at tho
gate, perfectly willing to chew up any
of tho neighbors for n cent, nnd within
tho farm house nil is serene, or would lio
if John Henry could find the gronso for
bis boots, Mary Ann could find her novel,
tho old man discover the hiding-place of
the bootjack, aud the mother solve tho
mystery of how bouio of her neighbors
managed to get n dross costing two
shillings per yard while sho had nothing
but oalico.
'Tis night on the ocean. The proud
steamer sails gallantly on and on, tho
captain snoriug iu his berth, tho mates
playing ouclire, tho lookouts nBloop, and
everything in rendiuoss to swear, in case
of collision, that it was All tho other
vessel's fault. Nothing iu hoard hut tho
steady lioat of tho propeller, the groans
of tho immigrants, nnd the voiues o(.
men and women declaring that anybody
who plans an ocean voyago for pleasure
ought to lie shot doad with codfish balls.
The sportivo dolphin gambols away his
hard earnings, tho whale rolls over for
another nnp, and the business-like shark
follows in the woke to pick up any op
portunity whioh mny tumble ovorbonrd.
'Vis night on the prairie. Tho red
mou gather about tho camp-fire to count
■ lie qonlps tlioy have taken within tho
'ttst week, «uid to grumblo at tile govern
ment for not furnishing them port wino
and repeating rifles. Tho white hunter
and trapper curls himself up to wonder
where ho oau find old bonus for break
fast, and to realize what a fool ho lias
mado of himself, anil the gaunt wolf
shoulders his empty stomach and sets
out in search of something to make lifo
worth living for.
Night grows apace. In tho oity the
weary wife takes her place in tho hall
with club in hand. In the country the
i Id folks full into hod aweary with the
work of tho day, nnd tho young peoplo
spark and chow pop-corn. On the ocean
the sna-siokors continue to grow worso,
and tho songs of the mormnids full fiat.
On the prairie tho Indians finally decide
lo make war in the Hpring, the hunter
falls asleep to dream of eating his hoots
for dinner, and tho wolf meets a wild-oat
and offers to toss up to boo which shall
eat tho other.
Blessed bo night. But for it the burg
lars and gas companies would fill our
poorhouses, anil the afternoon
papers would have no moniihg journals
to steal from.
Days of the Clipper Ship.
The fast-sailing clipper, Young Amer
ica, whioh for thirty years lias led tho
average records of tho Pacific coast sail
ing vessels, is now nt Portland, Oregon,
and the local tars recall the exciting
times when the 90 days’ sail from Ban
Francisco to New York was a matter of
speculation and gambling. About ten
years ago the Young America reached
San Francisco, being 99 days from Liver
pool, and the fastest time on record, and
a few days later tho British ship Esao-
cesa arrived with the next best record.
This led to a newspaper controversy in
which the relative merits of thoshipH was
freely canvassed; and, finally, Theodore
II. Allen published a proposition to the
effect that, if both ships could leave San
Francisco within twenty-four liours of
each other, he would bet five thousand
dollars on the Young America, which
offer wss taken. A furor of betting arose
which wus never equaled in the history
of deep-sea navigation. The Davy
Crockett was nearly ready for sea at tho
same time, and pools were sold on tho
throe vessels, the Young America being
the favorite. On the 28th of February
the Escocesa nnd Young America. were
tewed opt of San Francisco within half a
mile of each other. Tho wind, which
was very light, was from the west. The
British ship Patrician, wliiiffi went out
just ahead of them, was caught in acalm
and drifted in upon the Potato Patch
reef, outside Point Bonita, where she
went to pieces. Next morning' a hark
arrived from Batavia and reported hav
ing met both ships, fthe met the Young
America forty-five miles off tho Furra-
lones, and the Escorjesa three hours and
a half behind. This weather lasted some
days, and the Yankee ship never lost her
advantage, but Increased it to such an
extent that sl^e beat tho Escocesa live
yads and tli^ Davy Crockett eleven, al
though htjt time on this voyage was one
liundi'ed,and eight days.
Beino oinked the name of her native
place, she, replied: “I have none; I
am the ds lighter of a Methodist min
ister,”— I’he Traveler,
Points In Fattening Cattle.
Most animolB eat iu proportion to their
weight, under average conditions of ngc,
temperature and fatness.
Give fattening oattlo as muoh as they
will oat, and oft times a day.
Never givo rapid changes of food, hut
oliango often. , , . .
A good guide for a safe quantity of lft "Blmd at. Then ho gets mod and
grain per day to maturing cattle is one " omp otll(, r ta )‘or.
pound to each hundred weight; thus an
WIT AND WISDOM.
“Never change thy mind.” Ton
mny not got os good a cine oa yon now
have.
A New York tailor says that when he
desires to get rid of a poor-paying cus
tomer lie misfits him so badly that he is
animal weighing 1,000 pounds mny re-
ooivo 10 pounds of grain.
Every stall feeding in tho fall will
make the winter’s progress more certain
by 30 per oent.
Givo ns muoh water and salt at nil
timoH ns they will take.
In using roots it is ono guide to give
just so much, in association with other
things, ho that the animal mny not take
any water. *
In buildings, have warmth, with com
plete ventilation, without currents, hut
novor under 40 degrees, uor over 70 de
grees Fahrenheit.
A cool, damp, airy tompornturo will
cause nnimnls to consume more food
without corresponding result in Isino,
mnsolo, flosh or fat, much boing used to
keep up warmth.
Stall feeding is better for fat making
Ilian box or yard management irrespec
tive of health.
Tho growing animal, intendod for beef,
requires a little exercise daily, to pro
mote muscle and strength of constitution;
when ripe,only so much as to be alilo to
walk to market.
Keep tho temperature of the body
about ouo hundred degrees; not under
ninety-five degrees nor over ono hundred
nnd live degrees Fahrenheit.
Don’t forget that ono animal's meat
may he another animal's poison.
It takes three davH of good food to
make up for ono of bad food.
The faster the fntteniug tho more
profits; less fowl, earlier returns ami
hotter flesh.
Got rid of every fattening cattle boast
before it is three years old.
Every day an animal is kept after be
ing prime is loss, exclusive of manure.
The oxtorunl evidences of primonnss
are full rumps, flanks, twist, Hhoulder,
pores, vein and eye.
A good cattle man means a difference
of ono-fourtli. He should know tho likes
and dislikes of every animal.
It fiays to keep one man in eoustnnt
attendance on 30 head of fattouing
oattlo.
Immediately when an animnl begins
to fret for food, iinmodintolv it beirino to
lose Hosti; never oliook tho fattomng pro
cess.
No oattlo whatever will pay for the
direot increase to its weight from tho
consumption of any kind or quantity of
food — the manure must be properly
valued.
Never begin fattening without definite
plan.
There is no loss in feeding oattlo well
for tho sake of the mannre alone.
On an average it costs, on charging
ovary possible item, 12 cents for every
idditionnl pound added to the weight
of a two or Ihrcc-yoar-old fattening
lie list,
In this country the market valuo of
store cattle can ho increased 36 per
oent. during six mouths of the fattening
finish.
No Chance To Shoot.
One Sunday afternoon, at ft hotel in
Alabama, we wore talking alxint how
great disappointments somotimes soured
a man, when a chap who hod been chew
ing plug tobacco all by himself over by
the window turned around and said:
“Gentlomon, you’ve hit it plumb cen
ter 1 Up to four yenrs ago I was a man
who alius wore a grin on his face, and I’d
divido my lost chaw with a stranger.
Folks now call me mean and ugly, and I
kin hardly get a man to drink witli me."
. “Then yon have suffered a groat disap
pointment ?” I queried.
If the oily of New York is unable to
raise sufficient money to have* the Bar
tholdi Htaluo put in place, we might sell
it at public auction and divide the pro
ceeds among somoof our "first citizens. ”
-Life.
“You wouldn’t take mo for a married
man, would you ?” asked a student of a
Cortland girl last Sunday night. *‘1
rather think I would if you should ask
me,” was the response, Ho bought a
ring next day.— Marathon Independent.
Guneiut. Spinner says ho is nighty-
ono years old nnd can whip any man of
his size yot. If ho works his arms the
Hamo way ho must work his fingers
whon ho signs his nnmo he probably
can.
Whenever you seo a man coming on
of a country drug store, wiping his
month with the linek of his hand, you
may know that tho town is suffering ufc
der n combined attack of malaria and
license lnw.
A YoiiNfl politician explained tho tat
tored condition of his tMnseri to his
fathor by staling thnt lie was aiming un
der an apple tree enjoyinghimself, when
the farmer's dog oamo along and con
tested his sont.
A t.auy of experience olmcrvcft that a
gisid way to pick out a husband is to see
now patiently the man waits tat dinner
when it is behind time. If he,, doesn't
do anything more violent than kick the
furniture he is a patient and good-natured
man.—Ponton Poet. -m
“Henry," writes us,‘asking how he
can break his mother from calling him.
“ You Hon-nor-ry I” Ho says that he
has noticed that whenever she calls him
that way slio always gives him a licking
nnd sends him to lied without hfs sup
per. ,
Managrh Hahr,in says thatfioqcioanlt
stole “Tho Streets of Now York:’ from
the French. We wish Bonciriiiult, or
Home other fellow, would stenl (ho streets
of Austin, nnd the oily ooniici), too, if it
disis not put them in better oondHion.—
Stflinye. ,
“You don’t find any old stylo goods
or shop .......k in inis establish
ment,” said the voluble ftaloamau ;
"Everything is fresh bore.” “Includ
ing tlm clerks?” suggested the customer,
with an interrogation point in hi# eye.-
Hanlon Transcript.
It took yonng Farsonhy oil aback
when, at the theatre the otlier evening,
he whis|)cred to his girl that he guessed
he would step out a moment to take the
nir, and she quickly responded : “ It is
very oppressive, George; I’ll go out
with you.” _
“Never laugh at tho misfortune of
others” is a very pretty motto ; hut who
can help laughing at the full-dressed
dude who Hteps off a horse ear in the
wrbiijf direction, whirls around »s
though dropped off a cork-screw, and
measures his gracious self on the ‘Cross
ing ?—Puck.
"Here, my friend,” suys tho csshier,
bunding a customer a pile of silver dol
lars, "here is your money—830. Ckmnt
it, to be sure )t is all right." Tho‘cus
tomer liegins to count—one, two, three,
and so on up to seventeen; then he puts
tho wliolo pile into his pocket, with tho
remark; “Oh, it’s correct as far us I’ve
gone—tho rest, must he right.siso I”
Had the Stuff In Him.
A well-known American editor lately
visited the school he hod left us a boy
thirty yoars lioforo. “It was 'composi-
_ tion day,’ ” he writes, “and as ono essay
“X have, stranger—I have. Ten years ] after another waa read, I could hardly
Ago a man in this very town cleaned' me! persuade myself that a day had passed,
out on a mortgage, sold mo out on an ex- and these were not my own class-mates,
edition, and chuckled at me when I took “The hoys rend tho same stilted
the dirt road for Tennessee. I ortor liavo periods on ‘Tho Fall of Rome,’ ‘The Tri-
shot him, but somehow I didn't do it, ! umpbs of Genius,' ‘Liberty,’ and ‘Tho
nnd arter I got to Tennessee things bo- 1 Future of America;’ and the girls over-
gnu preying on my mind. Day and flowed with precisely the same senti-
night I could hear a voico saying: ‘Go j monte about violets, and faiiy dolls, and
back and plunk old Brown,’ and I lost crimson sunsets, and the lost Pleiad. ’
flesh aud came powerful near going into “Now,” whispered the old domlnW to
a decline." tho editor, "yon shall hear the olever
“Yes?” hoy of thesohool. I anticipate a grout
“ Well, that voice kept talking and I career for this lad.”
kept waiting, but iu about three yoars I The composition was on the “Indian
shouldered my rifle and turned my steps ; Problem,” or "Free Trade,” or some
this way, my mind fully mado up to ' other profound subject, on which it Was
shoot old Brown on sight. He had a impossible that a boy thirteen or four-
patch o' land out west o’ here, and used . teen could have a theory or argument to
to ride out every day. I made for that advance, except those which ho had
H]iot, ealkerlutiDg to niff him ns he drovo heard from others. These were pro-
up to tho gate. Nobody hail seen me,! duced with a flood of high sounding ir-
and nobody would know who did the ‘ relevant words. "The career,” said the
shooting.” editor, “I would prophesy for suoh a
“ Yes,"some one answered as he made boy, would fce that of an imitator, who
a long pause. | will make his trade on the brain capital
“ Well, I got fixed and waited, and I of other men.”
was feeling real good for the first time in After this boy a quiet, round-faoed lad
tlireo years whon I heard hoofs and stepped on the platform and read a fle-
looked out for tho old man. It wasn’t 1 scription of .chickens. The lad had a
him. True as you sot there the old skin-1 poultry yard of his own, and gavehisob-
llint had gone and died only a week be- nervations on the habits, food and mar-
fore, giving me a tramp of 200 miles to ketable value of the breeds he knew,
say ‘ liowdy ?’ to his executor 1 Gentle-! The little paper was full of useful faot-i,
men, I can’t describe my feelings 1 Just and he showed a keen capacity for obeer-
think of one white man playing suoh a vation, and a dry humor,
trick on another I It was wuss than Ar-1 “There is tho lad who has stuff in him
kansaw swamp mud warmed over for to make a man of weight,” I said to the
next season. I was took with shakes ' dominie.— Youth's Companion.
and chills and a cough, and here lam, . . , ,
sour, cross, mulish, ugly and realizing^ This petrified body of a man, Nub
tiiat I don’t stand no more show of going I both hands 'dh” his stomach, has just
to Heaven when I die than that thar’, been found in .the ruins of Pompeii,
dog does of swallowing a postoffice with- The deceased was probably one the
out any preliminary chawin’l” M, Pompeii Board of Aldermen after a ban-
Quad, * quet,