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w NORTH *4» I £ II GEORGIA TIMES • • it k ■ - i . %-..♦• # • ? W 1;”; “33““ '- .. 3: . mfi‘rfimmgifim _ A l.'l WW” ‘ ' ;liAt Do You lliinki ° 0Uld taTig * tf ** hteu; ^* ch l0 ° W * nde!u ' 1 ' i l JJjMttjM* hrterwcares 'fanflft*each 1»» Life’s 'long-vanished skein; mo¬ A'fril 1 W$uflives over again— gAttfld Ana we sail fiestra in arfifcfcm. unruffled, never ruled or sink, Or lurched ’gitiniP life rocljni in pur ldin 1 sink? « ' Thatenee WjHNght pilot ourselves by the ledges -Avoiding,the almost sheered our boat, * . dangerous waters * \Yl;ere lca|CeacbT.& ouw we wer^cnipted "brink. to float; 8 pass cacWbreaker in safety? •*IBN TJpw would it be,? What do you think? oceafi is strewn with the flotsam Thrown ov*b®ajdiout of her ships, ..WVHdipejfer a pilot.sjo skilful I in the'rpray^ashing'cwe^UiVbreakers lie i And strange if hears not the clink Of the prow* breSUfljg'in on the ledges, * MfV* —[Katherine H. Terry in u the * lMk! Housewife. ' . ’ BESIEGED S.Y MONKEYS. . m * V I MW A. *. f t, '• • *0^ ri. , , ttitecn me to Dhavmsala, a li^il^SlSon’Jofisiderably west of. Simla. OilAl*! retdjr*journey I turned off the • main road r at Kangra. The object of t his ex ursioii was t,> see a neighboring eliril*e,"&i^i|,^oncrated by the Hindoos and cailgAjjt jfyVlamookhee. ebme The native .. pilgrims,Vbo in thousands; lodge in the open air under the trees and cook their own food ; the rich bring ten! s for. fcheh} accommodation. But .there was lip place for Europeans to lodge.except the ustiul “district officers’ bungalow ” This is always a small bowse, with two or three rooms, .built ,$jul furnished by the govern * tnentj.-and put in charge of a man ser 'V va ^t, who. both looks after it and at i •teii'ds to the wants of those who occupy UNi. JTn it tlie officers whom duty takes ,.^l|ieifi'-"ciut-of-the-Euroj)eai|j-world’s Ibdge And transact business \ duringWftW days of ffielr periodi¬ cal Visits. -To tins bungalow, there¬ fore, We went. On telling the care . -taker who we were, he opened the house p aud, while I went in and in dnlged’ fn-a very needful and refrcsti ■ ing wash, he attended to my horse. jTIresje^ seht hrm preliminaries into the town, being for the oyer, double we • *c puhJhJao of profeitring food us some : an$ of,inquiring from the priests at - what hour we might pay ilie temple a Visit.' .. .The main road passes through a 4 " dense wood not 100 yards from this ' libitse, which was more than half a mile away from tlie nearest part of the i$ltfn. From the road a narrow avc ” -nuo had been cut among (he trees to a . small clearance around tlife house,other .^jyjse When it was quite caretaker buried in the wood. - • tho left me I found t.. the house stuffy and’damp. It had .-.probably not been opened or aired for , srf a y»- The stillness around was op¬ ’3 pressive. Not a sound was heard cx . ccpt the munehihg of our horse in the neighboring stable or the rare cry of a bird in the trees. There was nothing . in the hguse to read, and nothing to do. Moreover, I had had a long ride and felt rather stiff 1 in the legs. So rising from the chair j. strolled out of the house. After walking listlessly around it. and pacing the small cleared space in front, I fotllwed the avenue to the main road, and, then returning, passmll^fb the wood, immersed in my own thoughts. It was literally a “twilight wood;” for though it was , nearly noon on a bright August day, f. the trees stood so close and the leaves grew so thick that scarce a patch of sunshine lighted up a few favored , Tlie S iant brandies of the grand old trees more than touched; they interlaced and formed a leafy • . eafaopy overhead, with just here and there a rent,'to admit a ii-ay of light . and to give a glimpse of the bright blue sky above. 1 Sauntering under these trees, I sud¬ denly beoame conscious of noises in the branches above me. I looked up and about; but, though the branches stirred and the leaves moved, I could fee nothing. I was nfet, however, lpng lffl' in doubt or speculation. A monkey, a large male, dropped from * a bvawstm^rfround at a distance of about thirty feet in front of me. As be rivalled the ground, he squatted on his heels, resting both his hand s on and mine . Then near hint another monkey ■t'M ,4 SPIUNG PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST l , 1890. down; 1 a third and a fourth foHowid. It began to rain monkevs, In tens, in scores, ,iu hundreds; old, midtile-aged and young; large and small; males and females—-many of the latter carrying babies, some on their backs, others in their arms—kept diopping from the trees around me. 1 was sending under a mighty giant of Alie-ftrest, and against its trunk, 801110 five f cct in diameter, I set my back, as the monkeys in their hundreds semf squafled down in an irregular circle around. They did not go bo Uhnl the for its trunfc was much wider than my back, and they chose to sit only where they could see me. Around they lefi rf dlfcitv space, but at the distance of about thirty fccit tliel' snt, liuddled close together, in several 600 Rnd iu "« Wbcr - It may be said in passing that mon keys are sacred animals iu India. They. ^ fed and protected and al lowe( f (o rQam at , arge with irnpnl , ity . Vast numbers infest Dill;!, Agra, and other large towns. At Benares they are * perfect plague. In s<* favmWc a situation as Jwlainookhec, they nalu rally multiply beyond reckoning, and people the woods in sufficient hordes to account for tho hundreds that now surrounded me. At some distance be¬ yond, several voting monkey urchins, which preferred play to curiosity, kept suspending themselves from tho btanelies in long living chains, holding on io each other’s hands or tails, and swinging froj.Njl'lA'yi^’ivcre jji^niselves peilchilhiruvisg to and .qp^.the small puny'YrbjfujTs generally seeii in Euro peun menageries, but the real, genuine Indian Hanooman of which race the large and strong males stand when erect, fully four feet in height. There were many such, among others of smaller size, in the crowd around me. It had not taken three minutes to form that; solid semicircle of monkeys. They had coine down as thick -as a shower of hailstones, but so softly and bad they descended to liac gra^s and leaf-covered ground that scarcely any noise had been made. For a short time they sat motionless and : sileut, 8taring hgyd at me, and a baby mon key, having made s instant- ' ly smacked by its mother : i a most hqma|( thefii fashifeii. They lodl Jd at m|, and they began to chattel-—first one, then a few together, then mai|y at once, finally all in a chorus. They talked, chattered, jabbered, discussed, argued, shouted, and yellgd, gesticula¬ ting meanwhile, making faces and grinning. Suddenly thfejti tyas a dead silence for a short iptr^* iii during which they gravely staredm moffiurder than ever. Every now and again one or another or several at once would grip, snarl, and growl at me, showing their large canine teeth. Again th^ chattering discourses would' be re¬ newed. The laughter with which 1 had greet¬ ed the first of jpv visitors died a very sudden death, for my curiosity to watch their behavior did not prevent my realizing the fact that 1 was not ie a very safe position. Even ono or two monkeys would be difficult enough to deal with, if they chose to .attack a man, for, though small, they ore ex¬ tremely muscular aud agile, and it would be harder to prevent them Iroi® biting and tearing than it would a mad dog. True, 1 knew that one or two would hardly dare to attack a lr.an but when hundreds crowded together around one stranger the circumstances were far from encouraging; Here I was, unarmed, nothing but a- light rid¬ ing whip in my hand, surrounded by hundreds of monkeys, to which my white face and European dress were evidently objects of as much aversion as curiosity. Natives they did not mind, but Europeans they seemed to regard with the hatred due to in¬ truder’s. , I fully realized my danger, but con¬ tinued calm and collected, <and rea¬ soned the position out with myself. The only chance of safety was t’o" re¬ main quietly agafiist tins friendly tree, silently observing the monkeys, care¬ ful to give no offense or provocation, watchful to give them no advantage over me till the return of the caretake r or some other chance came to my aid. Had I attempted to strike them or to frighten thorn, or to break through them or to flee from them, I have no* the slightest doubt that I should not now be writing thig account. Their enormous numbers would have em¬ boldened them to any act. I should have been quite helpless in their grasp indeed, have been pounced upon by scores of them, overpowered, bitted and torn to pieces. So, making, a virtue of necessity, 1 kept up a bold front, watched, waited, and prated, the luoneof the intervals of first silence^, great monkey that had ar¬ rived, and that seemed to be one of the leaders, suddenly hopped nearer to mo, two feet or so. Ilis action was immediately imitated by all the inon- keys forming the front vow of the semicircle, while those behind closed up as before; and the semicircle con-V traeted around me by two feet in the /ullus. More chatteri ng and gesticu¬ lating followed, more growling and grinning, with intervals of silence. They had a great deal to sav, and they all said it, and it was all about me, too, for they frequently pointed at me with their hands, and snarled and gnashed their teeth at me. Again they contracted the semicircle as before. And so they kept.gradually coming nearer and.nearer, and growing more and more excited. Still I remained quiet and silent, and’ still in the dis¬ tance the monkey youths played the mad gambols of their living pendu¬ lum, heedless of wimt engaged the attention of their seniors. All else was silent—no sign of man. The semicircle had gradually con¬ tracted to within fourteen or fifteen feet of whero 1 stood; the monkeys indeed were so negy that in tfljb or threo leaps they could easil.v have jumped upon me. I feit decidedly un¬ easy; w ondered how they would at¬ tack me, and when? From the right, or the left,, or the-fyont? By jumping on me from a distance* or waiting till quite near? Then.I.wondered whether the .caretaker would return in lime to s(4vu off' the' assault^* fpi; 1 was still quite close. v to tfic ' 'hotjse. Of the dreadful had'^hoft results of ,tjie aittack, if once made, I re/#anSe^ thq. (Slighest ddubt. Still I leaning immovable against limin' thpllj^e, caftnja^.cool, faring straight, looking fully into their faces, all in turn, and .‘showing out¬ wardly no sign of flinching or alarm. Yet I began to think that it was now only a matter of a few more minutes. Before a quarter of an hour at the farthest they would be within touch¬ ing distance of me. They would be sure to begin to handle iny clothes; and whether 1 permitted it,or resisted, or tried to fly, I would with equal certainty be attacked and killed. But my deliverance was at hand. In the midst of one of their most noisy discussions—or did it only seem more noisy because they were now so near? —they one and all became suddenly silent and perfectly still, They seemed to be listening attentively. 1 listened, too, but at first could catch no sound anywhere; the stillness of deatli was all around, for even the young monkeys had ceased their tricks. AVhat could have disturbed and silenced the noisy throng? Or what did they now purpose? Next from afar off'came the loud cry of a monkey—evidently the warning cail' of a scout on outpost duty. Then,first faintly from afar, and then gradually nearer and louder, came down the main road through the wood ti e wel¬ come sound of the clatter of a horse’i hoofs at a swift walking pace. This it was which their quicker ears had de¬ tected long before I bad heard it. They kept their ground for a few mo¬ ments more, but their attention was now evidently divided between me and the approaching horse. Again, and hearer, the scout’s cry sounded through the wood. There was an immediate stampede. One and all the monkeys rushed off to the neighboring trees, and, scrambling up the trunks and into the branches, they were in the twinkling of an eye lost to sight in the leafy canopy overt head. They had disappeared in theii hundreds as rapidly as they had come, land almost as silently., save when th^ rustling among the leaves indicated trej their course as they passed from 'to tree and,fled further into the wood. 1 waited still against the tree till the horse and his rider—a mounted police¬ man going his rounds—had come quite near. Then I made for the house and bolted myself in,.thankful for the timely arrival and involuntary aid of the unconscious patrol. Unknowing¬ ly, but providentially, he had saved uiy life.—(Chamber's Journal. No language can express the feel¬ ings of a deaf-mute who steps on a tack in a dark room. LIGHT KEEPERS. i the Mem -Who Attend to Uncle -. .. Sam’s Beacons. A Keeper Is Expected to Stand By His Lighthouse to the Last. •* There arc fn the service of the United-Slates, 1150 lighthouse keepers. The average salary” is $000, but by a system of grading some get as high as tlOfiO. Discipline is very strict. For two offence; the penalty is immediate dismissal. A keeper found under the influence of liquor is not only dis¬ missed from the service but lie is eject¬ ed from the .lighthouse as soon as pos¬ sible. The keeper win allows his light to go out is dismissed, no matter what his excuse may be or how good his conduct may iiave been. These are the two unpardonable sins. The keeper is expected to stand by his light as long sis the, lighthouse stands. The Sharp’s Island lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay, was. lifted from its foundations, thrown upon its side, and carried awtiy by the ice. The keepers had a boat and might have made their way ashore. Instead of looking out for their own safety they remained with the lighthouse wreck, floating about until it grounded. Then they carried ashore the movable por¬ tions of the light, the oil, the library, and even the empty oil cans. They were drifting at the mercy of the ice cakes and without food or fire for six¬ teen hours. The keepers of another lighthouse, becoming alarmed at the ice, abandoned their post and, went ashore. They were immediately dis¬ missed. . It mafic no difference, that the ice Tendered the light unnecessary. The offence was the, same. The two keepers who had clung to the light¬ house tliat floated, sway were promoted to'Hie .lighthouse which tlie two uli fftidiftri keepers abandoned. * * Where the lighthouse is loea'ed on land the keeper is encouraged to keep a little garden. A barn is built for his cattle anti horses. But wherfeHhc r ' , from his door Keeper must step into a boat, the best that the Government tan do is to see that lie lias a staunch craft. Some light bouses are so far from sup¬ plies that the Government issues futl and rations to the 1 keeper. One of the interesting features of lighthouse life is the library which the Government furnishes. There are 650 of these libraries. They are kept moving. When the inspector comes along on a quarterly inspcctiou he brings a fresh library aiul takes the old one on to the next lighthouse. Each library consists of about fifty volumes of history, science, poems, and fiction in about equal proportions. The libraries are put up iu neat eases. In the course of a year each lighthouse keeper handles about 200 volumes. One of the strict regulations is that the keeper must not engage In any business whieh can interfere with his presence at the lighthouse. This, however, does not prevent keepers from working at trades like tailoring and shocniakiug, which do not require them to be away from the lighthouse much of the time. There are keepers who preach in neighboring churches, who act as justices of the peace,and. who can teach school. A nice source of revenue was cut off not long ago by an order which prohibited keepers of lighthouses from takinig summer board¬ ers. There is a fascination about life in a lighthouse for %:few weeks it seems. Keepers, were overwhelmed with applications’for $pap rooms, and some of them -were making more titan their salaries iu this* wiy, when the Board felt , compelled) to step in and prohibit the renting of Summer quar¬ ters in building* ^Jipstnicted and owned by the government.—FNew York Sun. He Knew His Man. The late Senator Beck once fell asleep After dinner in company with a couple of prosy members of Congress. One of these reproached the Sena¬ tor. “1 have not been asleep,” said Beck; “and, to prove it, I will back myself to repeat all you have been saying.” The wager was accepted, and he recited a long story which the Congressman had been telling. When he had pocketed his money, Beck said, “Well, to confess the truth, I net er heard one word of it. I went to sleep because I knew that about this time in the evening you would tell that storr.” Vol. X. New Series. NO. T, Mexican Habits and Traits. A. E. Davis, who has just returned from a trip to Mexico, told a New York Press man that for three days, at the mines where lie is interested, the thermometer registered L’>8 degrees of heat at an altitude of 7500 feet above the sea. The temperature changed sixty degrees in a single night. Sir. .Davis lias spent two months in Mexico, traveling over nearly every portion ol it accessible by rail, lie praises un¬ stintedly the educated people there, but said about the people that the masses of them were the most dirty and filthy and repulsive he ever saw anywhere. One old man whom he met, and who professed to be 90 years old, said he had not washed himself, except his hands and feet, for twenty fivo years. “He looked to bo 200 years old,” said Mr. Davis, “and I w^s fully pre¬ pared to believe from 'his filthy ap¬ pearance that he had never been even so much as sprinkled with water. " I regard the black men in this country.: as infinitely superior in nearly every partieu’ar to tlie working Mexicans. There is a peculiar trait of Mexican character whieh I can hardly compre¬ hend. You may give a Mexican a bag of gold to take to a given place for ’you.' It may be five hundred miles away. If be accepts' the trust you will find your gold delivered unless the man is killed on the way. But tho moment lie has passed it out of his hands he would stab the man who has it and rob him’of it, if the opportunity occurred.” The Prime Minister of China. Li Hnng Chang is the prime minis¬ ister of Uhiiia, ami though he wears a pigtail and wooden shoes, and dress¬ es like a woman, he must be ranked with the great statesmen .of tjho world, with Bismarck, Crispi, Gladstone, etc. If lie did not live in a land of such in¬ vincible conversation lie would do great things for the vast empire over which lie is virtually the practical ru'er. But China has awakened con¬ siderably from her lotus dreams under the stimulus of his genius. He be¬ lieves in railroads, commerce, and education. It is said that he has con¬ templated vast schemes of conquest. The late General Gordon aud the present Lord AVolseley of England have both expressed a fear of a Euro¬ pean invasion from tne irui in enable hordes of Chinn, Led by such a born leader of njen as Li Hung Chang, such an invasion would be a formidable affair. Li Hung Chang was a warm personal friend of General Grant and bad many pleasant interviews witli the American general, during iiis visit to China iu his trip around the world.— Taxed to Wear a Beard. In Russia Peter tho Great compelled his subjects to pay a tax for the privi¬ lege of retaining their beards. It proved lo be an unpopular law, but was rigidly euforced, and those who would not or could not pay were forci¬ bly deprived of this ornament. During the latter part of tjie reign of Louis XIV great fare wa9 taken of the beard. When the gallant of those days went to spend an evening with his sweetheart he usually provided himself with wax for his whiskers, sweet-scented oils, and in fact every necessary article for the lady to use in combing and dressing bis beard. What an agreeable pastime it must have been. If the custom were to be revived what a tailing off’ there would be in tlie number of barber shops. When tho practice of shaving was again revived in Europe instrumental music was employed in barber shops to amuse customers while waiting their turn.—[Washington Star. i ■ -■^ n _ l Remarkable Census Coincidence. . ■ A remarkable coincidence is report¬ ed from West Virginia. A census ol Elm Grove was taken, preparatory to incorporating the village as a town, with the following result: Number qf males over 31 rears of age, 148; num¬ ber of males under 21 years of age, 148; number of females over 16 years of age, 148; number of females under 16 years of age, 148; grand total, 582. Vindicated Himself. Mabel (mischievously)—Do yqu know something I heard about you the other day? I heard you wouffiiPt say ‘Boo’ to a pretty girl. Tom (heartily)—Boo!—[Munsey’i W eekly.' SCIENTIFIC SCUM'S. Experiments arc now being conduct, cd at Chester, England, with a com¬ pressed air system for operating street railways. It is now generally accepted that pulmonary consumption is a contagious disease and that it can be communicat¬ ed from man to man. In a single day 75,000 shad woro caught in the Delaware Hiver as a re¬ sult of the hatching jar audits appli¬ ances. There has been a rapid increase in numbers during the past three years. From recent observations it is stated that there is reason for believing that fresh dirt thrown upon potato leaves when wet starts-the mildew on the leaf, which later in the season results iu blight. Silkworms when newly hatched scarcely weigh one-quarter of . an. ounce, yet in the course of their life, " hi eh only lasts about thirty-five days, G ,(> y will consume l^etweeu 11000 and 1000 pounds of leaves. A wonderful tree is the camanba tree that in t • grows Brazil. Every part of it froni its roots to its leaves is put to some good use, apd altogether it fui'nishes .food, light' luntber, fences and medicine for the Brazilians. Steam heating of railway carriages was introduced during the past winter in Prussia. The steam is supplied from t'Jio locomotive and passes through pipes underneath the carriages, the pressure iu these being reduced to thirty pounds per square inch. An immense squid was recently stranded np^n Aciiill Island, off (he west coast of Maydj'Irelaud. Though shrunk, its long arms measured thirty . feet in length, and the body and short arms wete sixty feet in circumference. Some of -the. short arms were four feet in circumference. Ml »/• Experiments have been recently car¬ ried on at Toulon with a view of de¬ termining to what extent accuracy of aim could be attained at night with the use of an electric jight. A gun was mounted on a revolving platform, which also carried an electric projec¬ tor. The target was fixed at a distance of three or four kilometers, audit was found that the same accuracy could be attained under these conditions as during daylight. Dr. Barr, of the Liverpool (Eng¬ land) Northern Hospital, reports a number of cases of treatment of ty¬ phoid fever by prolonged immersion in warm water. One girl, aged six tccu, spent six days iu a tank, and was completely cured. A man, aged twen¬ ty-eight, was immersed in a tank for thirty-one days, with successful results. The doctor states that lie has treated iu all twelve patients to the “water cure,” and that the mortality has been nil. Felling a Forest in An Instant. The falling of a big tree under.the woodman's axe is always an impres¬ sive sight—and an impressive sound— as all country-bred readers will testify. The historian of the “Seventy-ninth Highlanders,” of New York, describes the cutting down of a whole hillside of trees under circumstances that must have made it a memorable spectacle. It was during the advance of the army of tlie Potomac after the defeat at Bull Run. Fortifications were ordered thrown up, ami the men of the Maine and Wisconsin regiments were set at the work of tree-felling, a wortcWith. which they proved themselves perfect¬ ly familiar. It was an interesting tight to witness the simultaneous fall of a whole hillside of timber. , The choppers began at the foot of Ihe hill, the line extending for perhaps half a mile. They cut only part way firough the tree, and in this way worked up to the crest, leaving’tlie trees in the top row in such a condition lliat a single brow would bring them down. Then, when all was reatfy, the bugle sounded, and the last strokes were given. Down came ’ tfio upper tier of trees. These brought 'down those below them, and, like the billow on the surface of ihe ocean, th« entire forest fell With a crash like., mighty thunder.— [Argonaut. Great Self.Pessessijin. “I bought a donkey Gurjevf yeBterday, ju8t for fun,” remarked ' “Well,” replied Unzzfffi, $la#a a remarkable instance of self-possession.” III:’ —[Bazar.