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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,