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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
The London l.ancrt discusses at eon
•iderable length the remedies by which
the habit of coughing in church may be
overcome.
'The resignation of the I’resident of
one of the journeymen barbers’ unions
in New York city became the socialistic
and anarchistic elements are getting
control of the labor organizations, is
rather startling in its suggestions, de¬
clares the Washington P.st. The last
stronghold in the world to allow anar¬
chism to capture is the barber’s chair.
When that redoubt has fallen there will
be something more than a figure of
speech in the idea of labor holding its
gleaming blade at the throat of
capital.
In an experimental observation of 38
boys of all classes of society, and an
average health, who had been using to¬
bacco for periods ranging from two
months to two years, 27 showed severe
in ury to the constitution and insuf-
feient growth; 32 showed the existence
of irregularity of the heart’s action, dis¬
ordered stomachs, cough, and a craving
for alcohol; 13 had intermittenry of the
pulse, and 1 had consumption, After
they had abandoned the use of tobacco,
within six months’ time one half were
free from all their former symptoms, and
the remainder had recovered by the end
of the year.
Superintendent Kimball, of the
United States Life Saving Service, pro¬
poses during the latter part of March to
erect a telephone line in Long Island,
from Montauk Point to Coney Island, a
distance of 103 mile?. The work is to
be done by the Life Saving Service corps,
as it has been found that it can be ac¬
complished at less cost this way than if
given out by contract. There will be
thirty stations connected by wire in this
way along ihe coast of Long Island. In
time the line will be extended to (the
New Jersey service, where a system Is
now in operation counecling twenty-
three stations.
Washington ha? lost another diplomat,
observes the New York Commercial Ad¬
vertiser. Mr. Tak, the Corean minister
has taken a long and sad farewell of the
President, aud started for Corea by way
of C hicago, where he will stop and see
the sights of that giddy town. Mr. Rak
took three of the Corcaus with him, but
left two or throe behind to see that
Secretary Bayard doe? not recklessly
jeopard diplomatic relations with Corea.
Mr. Pak’s health was bad. He wearied
of American food, and longed for some
pickled snakes, which could not be had
outside the Corean peninsula. We shall
never see Pak again.
The number of inhabitants to each
mile of railroad in 1850 was 2571, while
in 1887 this number- w T as only 412; and
the decrease has been so steady that as to
admit of representation by a curve which
seems to be hyperbolic in character.
There was a conspicuous interruption of
the curve at the time of the civil war,
and another after the panic of 1873, but
its nature is not materially affected by
these disturbances. Estimating the
future increase of population on the
basis of the past, the prolongation of the
curve would indicate for 1890 a popula
t!on of 39(5 to the mile of railroad, and
the limit of the curve would be approxi¬
mately reached in 1898, with a popula¬
tion per mile of 825. It would appear,
therefore, that the normal rate of rail-
road building for the five years from
1885 to 1890 is about 8009 mile 3 a year,
and that 9000 miles would be in excess
of the limit indicated by the curve.
Estimating the total yearly mortality
of the world to be 35,000,000, we find
that not far from 5,000,000 die annually
from consumption, or about one-seventh
of the total number of deaths. This as¬
tonishing mortality has led to very care¬
ful studies and examinations in the hope
that some means of alleviating the dread
acourage could be discovered. While
much progress has been made in this di¬
rection, it must be confessed that medi¬
cal science knows no sure means of pre¬
vention or any reasonably certain
methods of cure when once contracted.
Historically, consumption has always ex¬
isted, so far as our information goes.
Hippocrates (460—377 B. C.) was prob¬
ably the first to clearly describe the dis¬
ease. “It is,” as Professor Hirsch, an
authority, says, “emphatically a disease
of all times, all countries, and all races.
No climate, no latitude, no occupation,
no combination of favoring circum¬
stances, forms an infallible safeguard
against the onset of tuberculosis, how¬
ever such conditions may mitigate its
rarages and retard its progress. Like
typhoid fever, phthisis dogs the steps of
man wherever he may be found, and
claims its victims among every age, clan,
and race.”
Sticking Paper to Metal.
Paper pasted, gummed, or glued on
metal, especially if it has a bright sur¬
face, usually comes off on the slightest
provocation, terial the leaving back of the adhesive ma¬
on the paper, with a
surface cheaper bright description and slippery as ice. dials The
of clock are
printed for on paper the and difficulty then stuck on zinc;
but 3 *ears was to get
t\e paper and the mstal to adhere. Yt
is. however, said to be now overcome by
dipping solution the metal washing-soda, into a strong and hot
of afterwards
rubbing Onion perfectly dry with a clean rag.
juice is then applied to the sur-
t face of the metaL, and the label pasted
and fixed in the ordinary way. It is
said to be almost impossible to separate
paper and metal thus joined.— English
Mechanic.
The muff should always correspond
with the fur of the pelerine or shoulder
BE KIND TO THYSELF.
Comes the message from above—
“As thyself, thy neighbor love.”
With myself so vexed 1 grow—
Of my weakness weary so,
Easier may I tolerate
My neighbor than myself not hurt.
Take not part of thee for whole.
Tbou art neighbor to thy soul;
The ray from heaven that gilds the clod
Love thou, for it comes from God.
Bear thou with thy human clay
Last thou miss the heaven-sent ray.
— E. S. Martin , in Scribner.
MISS HOITT’S HAEVEST.
BY OLIVE E. DAXA.
Miss Hannah Hoitt lived alone in a
wide old house that had sheltered the
families of her father and her grandfa-
ther before her. Its square, low-ceiled
rooms were peopled for her with precious
memories and tender associations. She
would not shut the sunlight quite out of
any of them, so that they ail retained
some pleasant look as of occunancy. And
the rooms she really lived in were bright,
restful,sun-hiny, with enough of the old-
time quaiutness to give them a peculiar
charm, and sufficient subserviency to
newer fashions and fancies of adornment
to assure you that the owner lived in to-
day rather than yesteiday.
Miss Hoitt was mm h esteemed in the
little community of Millton as a woman
of means, of sense, of character, of gen-
erous purposes and piactice 3 . The farm
had dwindled from its once broad area
of tillage and meadow aud pasture and
woodland, to less than sixty acres. Yet
it was large enough for hc-r to manage,
for she carried it on herself, with as
careful and capable an oversight as was
exercised by any of her neighbors on
their domains. It was the standing
wonder of the neighborhood and of the
little town, “how M ss Hannah could
‘manage’ so well.” Every spring
the boldness and magnitude o;
her ventures astonished them. Every
fall the quantity and quality of
the crops she produced therefrom amazed
them still more. Her beans and corn,
her cabbages and cucumbers and onions,
her beets and her asparagus, nodded to
one another from their weedle-s rows in
blushed triumphant luxuriance. Her berries
in exultation. Her little or-
chard dropped its rosy and golden fruit
gleefully. In truth, it was the garner-
ing of her harvests that perplexed her.
She reveled in the long days when she
could dig and tend and water, and “see
the things grow.” But when the days
grew short, and the first frosts came,and
the pumpkin vines grew black, and the
potato tops died, and she began to fear
for her tenderer fruit, then despair and
dismay began to fill her soul. For then
her housekeeping tasks were more ouer-
ous, help, her neighbors could seldom be hired
to and “help,” proper, was
“scarce.” And, although Miss Iloitt
whine, was no scold, and didn’t know how to
her voice was apt to grow
plaintive as she sometimes related her
anxieties.
Hers was a bright and busy life, in all
its lovelinesss; aud many a weaker or
less hopeful heart shared its sunshine.
She had not always expected to live thus
•lone. Once she had looked forward to
a far different life. Perhaps it had been
*11 the harder that her own hand had
put aside her joys, But she couldn’t
nave done othersYi.se, she would remind
herself. There was only she to take care
of the ageing father, the querulous
grandmother, the invalid sister—all
gone Maynard, from had her his long ago. And he, Allen
own brave life to live.
She would not let him waste any of it
perhap; waiting. She had had sent told him away, and
she not him # very clear¬
ly the reason why. But she had never
ceased to think of him and pray for
him.
Over her low threshold, above which
hop vine 3 grew and morning glories
chalices hung from dawn till noon their dewy
of purple and crimson and
white, came one iate September after¬
her noon her nearest neighbor, and one of
dearest friends, Mrs. Sterne. She
was younger by a few 3 ears than Miss
Hoitt, but loved, trusted, petted, even
sometimes confided in, by the older
woman.
“Come in, Lucy! What’s the matter,
child? Something worries you; and
you’re tired out, too. Now just go into
the sitting-room and take the easy chair,
and I’ll be in in a minute, just as soon
ss I slip on my other dress.”
“You see,” she resumed, a little later,
coming back freshly attired, “I’ve been
trying and to get of in my grapes I had and pears,
in some aud m} r apples. it, to begin
season, keep at a little to a
time, and I’mwofully behind hand now;
and help I can’t stem to get, for every-
body else is busy, too. Now, Lucy,
what troubles you, and what can I do?”
“I don’t like to tell you, Hannah; you
have cares enough, without our rolling
any of ours on to you. But Jotham’s
sister, Emily, she that married a Swift,
is sick with typhoid fever, the real, r&g-
ing typhoid. They live over to Easton,
you know, and there’s nobody, hardly,
to go. but me; and it seems as if I must
go right off and stay tili she’s better.
And there’s only Mary Nelson, and she
so young and heedless, for all I’ve had
her a year and done my best with her to
learn her to keep house. She could do
well enough for Jotham and John, but
Jotham’s got men a-coming right away—
the threshers, and carpenters to do his
barn. That can’t be put off. And the
new mised superintendent certainly in board, the mills, he pro-
he’d because he
used to know him, and it would be
handy and homelike.”
“And you want me to take ’em?”
queried Miss Hannah.
“O Miss Hannah! we do hate to ask or
let j-ou. But what can we do? And
Jotham says he’ll get ail your apples and
potatoes and be glad and things and in, in shall good season, good
to, you have
pay for the men, if you only think you
could do it. And you don’t know what
s relief it would be. You see, we’ve got
to better.” take Emily’s children home till she’s
“Well, I’ll try it, and if nothing hap-
pens I guess it, I can Hannah,” carry it through.” the
“How is went on
other, “that most lone folks have enough
to do to take care of themselves? They
think people ought to do for them aud
look they out for middle ’em, and,especially when
get to age. But it’s always
just the other way with you.”
“I don’t know,’* returned Miss
Hannah, musingly. “Yes, I do try to
help other folks what I can “And I don’t
see that I’ve ever been any worse off for
it. Really, I think it’s just that keeps
me up and gives me courage to work,
It’s something to think of and plan for*
you know. Now, if I could only do for
myself, I shouldn’t feel as though ’twas
hardly that’s worth while always to, though
something something. But when I can do
for some one else, why, it
makes me as strong again, and a sight
hopefuller.” doubt
“I don’t it, Eut now, Hannah,
do take care of yourself, and get some-
body let to come in and help you. We
can’t diii you get worn out yet.”
She not look worn out as she flit-
ted about after her visitor had gone,
getting order her for cosy night. tea and putting things
in tne of her trim, Erergy was in
every and movement kind hopeful spare and figure,
a of content cour¬
age blended with the kindliness and j
humor that illumined the brown eyes,
She was adjusting herself mentally tc
the new turn affairs had taken, with that j
ready couldn’t willingness do characteristic differently,” she of her. j ;
“I was
saying to herself. “There wasn’t but i
me to do it anyhow; and the money wiil ■
something be a real help this fall. The house needs [ |
laid out on it, and I want to
send Martha's girls something by and j
by; and now I shall have a Little more |
for missions, home and fere gn, too; |
aDd I can get some of those books I’ve
been wanting.” And she paused in her
flitting to and fro, to look lovingly at
the already well-stocked shelves of the
massive secretary, and thoughtfully at
the empty space in the newer bookcase
beside it “Yes, I am not so sorry as I
m ght be. ’Twill be quite a piece oi
work, However, though, I before it’s through.
guess I can manage.”
“Quite a piece of work” it proved in¬
deed to be. The threshers came, staid
a week and departed. Close upon them
came the carpenter’s crew; and just as
they were well settled, came the m st
dreadful of all. Mr. Sterne’s friend, the
superintendent had of the new mills. Miss
Hannah word that he was coming,
and .Mr. Sterne drove over with him at
supper time. He was in haste, and
stopped only to say that his sister was
no better; the fever was having a long
run. 1 ucy w T as about worn out, too.
“And this is the gentleman we spoke of,
Hannah, that you said might stop here a
spoil. I think he’s an old acquaintance
of yours.”
And Mr. Sterne had driven off before
she had had one good look at the man
before hej. He lifted his hat then and
held out ms hand with a smile,
“You used to know me, Miss Hoitt.
You can’t have forgotten how many
times we’ve trudged up the hill to school
together, and how many times you did
my sums and helped me out with my
parsing, yonder. in the little red school house
over Or, if you’ve forgotten, I
haven’t.”
“Allen Maynard! I had no idea it was
you that was coming I I didn’t really
know who it was, come to think, but I
didn’t dream it was you!”
“But you'll take me just the same?”
For answer she led the way into the
house, with pink cheeks, shaking off her
confusion as best she could,
The little home was very cheery. The
slant rays of the setting sun streamed in
between the plants in the bay-window
and gilded the bindings of her books
and made great reflections from the pol-
ished andirons. And in the next room
was spread the dainty tea-table, with its
crimson cloth, its glittering glass, its
tempting array, and its vase of flowers
in the centre. For Miss Hannah was
persuaded ticed and that even her “those men” no-
the fragrance appreciated freshly-made flowers. And
of tea, aud
the odors of browning biscuits, of
baked apples, aud other appetizing
scents, were iu the air. And it was with
pleasure boarder not at all concealed that the
new took the seat she assigned
him. It chanced to be opposite her own.
It was natural that the days should seem
to go by faster than ever, now. They
were very short, anyhow, and Miss Han¬
nah was very busy. If any other ele¬
ment gave a new, sweet vest to daytime
task and evening talk, she did not own it.
Allen and Maynard was still “good and
true brave and generous,” though
his hair was turning gray, aDd he had
been many times across the continent,
twice across the sea, once even around
the world. He had many things to tell
of people her and countries and customs
known to only through books. And
lie liked books as much as she did, too,
and brought some of his own for her to
read, and sometimes new ones that they
read together.
The work on the new barn dragged
noticed wearily, that though Miss Hannah hardly
October was gone and
November was going, till one night she
heard the men say that they should just
about Aud get done Mrs. when the ground closed
up. 8 >erne caitie home; her
sister was convalescent, but she was
well-nigh prostrated.herself with w.itch-
ing.
And now the carpenters would go in a
WC ek or two, at most, and Miss Hannah
began to realize that the old life would
soon begin again for her, and that it
would be lonely. For Mr. Mavnard
must go. too. How should she let him
know it? Her hints fell unheeded, and
though the men spoke of going home,
and she of being alone once more, she
did not see that he noticed,
But it was her turn to be surprised a
litt!e later, when he spoke of his plans
f or the winter, and of business in Easton,
He would not be near, then, even to
drop in of au evening! She began to be
a little lonely already. offered He had had a
better position him, maybe. And
then she heard the men say that Mr.
Mavnard was owner in the mills, both
a t Millton and Faston. lie had acted as
overseer here because he was needed,
Some one less capable would do now, for
affairs were runningsmoothly again, and
the Easton mills neexled liis attention,
And they said lie had much other prop-
er ty there, besides.
One mild, sunny day—an Indian sum-
me r afternoon—he came with a carriage
to take Miss Hannah over*to Easton for
aride. They drove to the mills and
around them ; then about town. He
drove slowly past a large, stately house,
suggestive of gracious uses and gener-
0 us hospitalities.
“I bought the place two or three years
ago.” he said. “I have never rented it.
It would make a pleasant home, would
jt not? Might it not be our home, Han-
na h? I have kept it for you. I have
waited for you. Shall we not have our
Indian summer at last?”
So the question was asked and an-
swered. and a new life began, with
brighter and warmer and richer joys, and
l ar ger opportunities,
The neighbors had “always known
that Miss Hannah was smart; she had
done bet’er than ever this year, too ; but
they hadn't expected, with all the rest,
a t 'her time of life, too, she would
be harvestin’ a husband .”—Portland
j Transcript.
—
A Russian Horse Census.
The report of the haras of the Russsian
Empire . states that there are ^-,000.0* C
horses in tha. country, not including
Finland and the Caucasus. In the six
State haras there were _last year 2249
horses (bl sta lions, <55 mares, and
1697 foals), aiul 4.0 horses were so.d
from them for B’.fO. rubles. There are
sixty-two prizes hippodromes in Russia, and
run. for amount to .00,00C
| rubles, of which the State contributed
70,000 rubles. There were seventy-
seven horse exhibitions during the year,
exh bited 2012 were sold,
The to!al expenses of the haras amounted
to $ 60,000.
j Mis'.ress (after a heavv crash in th<
kitchen below)—“Bridget, I hope jot
j haven’t broken that new vase I brought
home today.” limrain Bridget —“No, pies mem
| ye’s it’s one o’ abakin’ the this afternoon.” meringe tha.!
j was
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
In An Obliging Mood—Doing Him
a Rank Injustice—He Saw
Several—Hedging on
a Bet—Etc-, Etc.
First Kentuckian—“Say, Colonel,
there's a Mormon elder down the road
preachin’ to a crowd o’ young women
an’singin: Second ‘Would I Were a Bird !’ ” kin
Kentuckian—“Well, I
furnish the feathers. You git some tar
to stick ’em on .”—Philadelphia lieconl.
_ Doing . __ Him „ Rank .....
a njus ice.
derstand Dumley (to Brown) “Brown, referred I un-
that Robinson to me
yesterday as an old fool. I dem t think
that sort of thing is right.”
Brown - “Why, of course, it ain’t
right, Dumley. outside.”— You can’t be more than
forty at the Ba.ar.
He Saw Several.
First Pittsburger—“Been on an Ar¬
kansas trip, I hear?”
back.” Second Fi^tsbuiger—“Yes; just got
First Pittsburger—“Did you see any
of the numerous train robbers reported
lately from that Stated’
Second Pittsburger—“See any train
robbers! I should say I did. There
was a peanut boy on every train.”—
Pittsburg Chronicle.
Hedging on a Bet.
“Hello, Bromley, that isn’t the fair
thing! You promised that if your side
lost the election, you'd shave off one
whisker.”
“Well, haven’t I?”
“Yes, but you’ve shaved off both of
them.”
“Ch. that’s all right. T lost the other
one in the same kind of a bet with Dar-
ringer. ”— 'Time.
Growing Desperate.
what Match-making Mother—“I tell you
you do, Charles. If you could
have it noised about that Mary is to have
$ 10,000 for her marriage portion, don’t
you think her chances would be greatly
improved?”
Sensible Father—“Wouldn’t it be
more attractive to follow the example of
the bargain shop, and put the figure at
($9999.99— Bost.-n Transcript.
Not an Auspicious Incident.
“Please don’t forget, my boy, that you
may be a future general in the army of
the United States of America,” said the
old officer to his son, during a West
Point call.
“I’ll try not to, father,” was the re¬
gentleman ply. “By the way, who was that old
you spoke to on the parade
this afternoon?”
“Oh, that was Second Lieutenant
Hoggsbv, retired, lie graduated a class
ahead of me, I believe.”
Aud the boy began to think.
Courting _ on the . Installment Plan.
‘Yes,’ ^Miss Jcilyby—— dear Claude, “And I now wish that I’ve would said
my you
ask papa as once; and, while you are
about and—er—Aunt it, you might say a word to mam-
ma, Mary has been so
kind, you know; just mention it to her
and a 3 k if she is willing; and then
Lncle George might—”
Claude—“Pardon me, Miss Jeliyby;
isn’t it a little rough on a fellow to make
him secure a wife on the installment
plan?”—< Judge.
A Wrong Diagnosis.
“Medicine may modify some of your
symptoms, my friend,” said the doctor,
as he wrote a prescription, “but noth-
ing except a change in your habits will
brir.g permanent relief. You don't take
enough exercise.”
“Don’t take enough exercise?” ex-
claimed the astonished visitor, with his
eyes staring from his head. “Why,
good heavens, doctor! I’ve been the
Chairmain of the comm ttee for collect-
ing our pastor’s salary for nearly eleven
years '.”—Chicago Tribune.
He Dus His Own Grave.
Tired tramp (in an exasperated sort
of way)—“There Ma’am, there’s your
three bushels of potatoes I promised to
dig if you'd give me some lunch and I
don’t care if 1 never see a potato again,
I’m sick of ’em.”
Woman—“Well, you sit down under
the shade o’ them gooseberry bushes and
lunch ’ll be ready in a few minutes.”
Tramp—“What’re lunch, you goin’ to have
fur Marra?”
Woman—“We’re goin’to have baked
potatoes.”— Epoch.
Two Sides of Their Quarrel.
Augustus—“I Belle.” wish you would not use
powder, that
Eelle—“If you ever speak of
again I shall never forgive bad; you—never.”
offended Augustus—“it’s too you are
every time I speak of your
powdering.” Belle—“Well, worth
and isn’t it
while quarreling for the sake of making
up?”
Augustus—“Yes; but it isn’t worth
while ‘making up’ for the sake of quar¬
reling. ”— American.
An Emblematic Sign.
Some heartless monster has been per¬
petrating a joke—it may not be consid¬
ered a jO'se—at the expense of the
Woman's Club, otherwise the Mending
Bureau, at Fourth and Chestnut streets.
On the Chestnut street side of the house,
at the entrance to the bureau, a large
sign, some six feetloDg, has been placed
against the wall. On this sign, in large
letters, the passer-by reads the words:
“Woman's Club.”
when Yesterday morning people smiled
directly they saw suspended horizontally
beneath this sign a half-worn
broom.— Louiitille Courier.
Flossy's Inference.
Little Flossy was visiting her papa’s
sister, a maiden lady, in the country.
The child was painfully impressed with
the sameness and primness of every
thing, and one day aiked:
“Aunt Maria, what makes you have
every thing all alike?”
“Because I like to have everything
match,” replied the aunt.
“Was that what mamma meant when
she told papa that you were trying hard
to make a match with every old widower
in town.” asked innocent Flossy.— Du -
luth Purayruphtr.
Plenty of Weather.
Maine Man—“I tell you down East
beats the world for quick changes of
weather. One day last spring I cut ice
all one morning aad had to rush out and
plant sun the umbrellas over my tomato
vines in afternoon.
Western Man—“Shouldn’t wonder. I
remember one day in Kansas when I
went out with a mowing machine at
sunrise and traded it for a snowplough
before night, but that wasn’t a circum-
the stance Missouri to the River day I went swimming in
and got carried so
far out by the current that I like to have
drowned.* I just tell you I never ex¬
pected to see shore again.”
“Eh? How did ye get back?”
“The river froze ever and I skated
back. ”— PhHad.Iphia Record.
Bronght in a New Connnclruin.
“I have got a conundrum,” said the
visitor, timidly sitting down on the eor-
ner of a chair, “that I think is new.
division Why is a man who lays out a new sub¬
like pickles?”
’ ‘Because he c-c-cumbers the ground ?”
hazarded the real estate editor.
“No; that isn’t the right answer.”
“Because,” suggested the exchange
editor, “it makes him sour if he doesn’t
ketchup with that the-” Give
“No, no; isn’t it either. it
up? Because he makes lots of acres.
See? Acres—achers. Spoils the teeth,
y 0U k now> Makes acres into lots-”
And then they rose up as one man and
threw him out of the window. — Chicago
Tribune.
Nature's Voices.
“Burr-r-rr,” said the chestnut. “The
cold snap is very snappy this morning. said
“Time for me to leave,” the
weeping willow.
“it’s a cold day for me. Everybody’s
gone and I am forlorn,” sadly solilo¬
quized the beech.
“I feel kinder seedy too,” said the ap¬
ple tree. There’s a tired feeling in cidei
me, “Chestnut so to speak.” the
1” yelled hemlock,
“Did you call me?” asked the first
speaker with a low bough.
And then the whole wood resounded
with “lofty larity” as the pine tret
termed the hilariousne s that ensued
had when describing that it later buy to a lady fir.— who
come way to some
New York Sun.
Found It.
Chicago City Editor (to reporter,—“1
see that in writing up a suicide you re¬
fer to ‘the cold aud remorseless river.’”
Reporter—“Yes, I always like to throw
feeling into what I write.” did
City Editor—“That’s capital, but
you ever see a river stricken with re
morse.”
Reporter —“I don’t know that I have."
City Editor—“Well, then, go and find
one, aud, by the way, don’t come Lack
until you do find one.”
[ The reporter goes away. Two days
later he returns. |
City Editor—“Helloa, got back, have
you? ’
Reporter—“Yes.” ditor—Well, find
City i did you a re¬
morseful river?”
Reporter—“I did.”
City Editor—“What river is it?
Reporter—“The Mississippi.” remorseful?”
City Editor—“Why
Reporter—“Because, years ago, it de¬
cided to run by St. Louis.”
City Editor (springing to his feet' —
“Young man, take my seat. I resign.”
—Arkansaw Traceler.
Furious Fight with a Wounded Buck.
“Talking about lively times with
game,” f said Andrew McKenna, an Ad-
ron(iack3 hunter to a New York T me*
correspondent, “I think the liveliest
time I have had in five years w T :is with a
bucK that I brought down upon the
Oswegatchie wheiTyou iu the month of time October,
want a real lively just
tackle a wounded buck. When you do
that you have got a ob on hand that
throws a hugging match between a man
aU( j a bear clean into the ihade. If I
were to c hoo-e between 1 ghting a
wounded and ugly buck or a b.ack bear
I would take the bear every time. I have
got several big scars on my body that are
the result of wounds inflicted by that
buck in the early part of last month,
an d I w jH never take any chances on a
scrimmage of that k nd again. The way
j t a !l came about was that a party of fel-
lows from down East were up in the
woods after deer aud I was along to help
them get one. We had a dog that was
true blue. When you got him started
0 n a runway, and he struck the scent he
was good for all day if the deer’s wind
held out. We 1, we got our party proper-
]y scattered through the woods for a
hunt one day, and I took the dog out to
start the game. Beer were very had plenty
up there this year, and we soon one
up. After I had let the dog loose I put
myself in a good place, and waited for a
shot. The rest of the fellows in the
party were rather green at deer hunt-
ing, and none of them managed to I get a
shot at the game we were after. had
watched the runway for four long hours
before I was rewarded with a shot; then
I got it, and it was a fii e one. The
woods where I stood were rather open
and the timber was large, so I could see
for a long distance. The deer was
about thirty rods away when he first
came in sight, and I saw at once that he
was one of the finest bucks I had ever
laid eyes on. He would have passed
within one hundred yards of me if I
had let him, but when he came up I
fired, intending to hit him back of the
fore shoulder. The shot brought him
down, but did not kill him as I supposed
it had. When I went up to the animal
he gave me a big surprise by staggering
to his feet and attacking suddenly me savagely.
“1 was taken so that I could
do nothing to defend myself. In less
time than it takes to tell it the animal
had given me two hoofs or and three good in cuts
with his do sharp was f a fair
way to me up permanently. < course
the only thing I could do was to grab
the brute by the horns and try to keep
my feet. I could hear the dog coming,
and I made up my mind that if I held my
own for a short t me I would have his
help. Those were buck business doing moments his you
can bet, for that was best
to down me, and I had to do some lively
dodging as he crowded me around
among the trees. The dog came up and
helped me If out had of that scrape in in good
shape. he not put an appear-
ance us he did, I hardly know what the
result would have been. When he came
up he fastened his teeth in ti e buck's
throat. This gave me a chance to get
my gun in hand and put in a shot that
settled the buck for shoulder good. and My first did shot
struck him in the not
reach a vital part. The rest of the party
were so tickled over the capture of the
animal that they wanted to buy me a new
pair of pants, and to tell the truth about
it, I needed them when I got into camp
that night.”
Cultivation of the Guava,
The guava is a moderate-sized bush
an d )s grown from cuttings or layers,
The layered plants bear in two years,
those from cuttings a year later, and at
five years old the bushes bear about a
bushel each. High, dry sandy soil is
best suited to them and a light frost
does Dot hurt them. The blooming
season js from April to August, and the
fruit matures from September until
January. The fruit is preserved oi
made into jelly for market. Eeing very
juicy they require only one-eighth theii
bulk of water and as much syrup foi
‘ preserving or canning.— New Yuri
! Times.
! - ■■ -*—
j steak—Underdone.— Kissing a girl on the chin is like ran
; Washington Star.
BREATHING UNDER WATER.
An Explanation of a Famous Diver**
Remarkable Feat.
[From the Youth's Companion.]
The length of time during which a
person can live under -water without the
aid of any diving apparatus is a ques¬
tion in dispute among scientific men.
Some travelers have told marvellous
stories of the natives of Eastern coun¬
tries who were able to stay ten or fif¬
teen minutes under water, but there eau
be no doubt that these are absurd exag¬
gerations. It is well know that the or¬
dinary pearl divers do for ooral, remain sponge, under and
oysters not more
than two minutes, and the “men-fish,”
who exhibit in the museums, do not ex-
oeed two minutes and a half.
The doctors differ in their opinion as
to the time at which death comes in
drowning. others five, Some say in three minutes,
in but noae set a longer
time than this, except the drowning per-
sons faint, when respiration ceases.
A Frenchman, named Lacnssagne, has
been for some time studying this sub-
ject, and observations and the results of his experiments
Scientifique. The are given in the Rente
man upon whom he
experimented was a famous Hungarian
swimmer named James, who, among
other exploits, once swam from Calais
to Dover, and had remained under water
for four minutes and fourteen seconds.
Before diving, it was observed that lie
first expelled all the air from his lungs
and then took a long breath. After he
had been under water for a minute his
heart beats became slow, irregular, and
feeble. After two minutes and tliirty-
seven seconds there was a rush of blood
to the head and his eyes appeared
sunken. Still he continued to breathe
and regularly at the rate of twenty res¬
pirations time a minute, while at the same
the observer noticed that the ab¬
dominal cavity diminished greatly in
size.
M. Lacassagne believes from this, and
from the fact that James was continually
the swallowing long his saliva, that, in drawing
breath at first, he swallowed a
quantity respiratory of air, and that the ordinary
channels being closed, he
takes into his lungs the air contained in
his stomach, and from thence again
taken, somewlratpurified, into his lungs.
That is, in other words, he makes of his
stomach a reservoir for air, a fact, which,
if true, will account for his ability to
remain for such an extraordinary time
tinder water. This process which the
diver performs instiuctively and mechan¬
ically, M. Lacassagne believes can and
should be learned by all swimmers, as
giving under them a far greater endurance
the surface than they now pos¬
sess.
The Jalf-Frlced Boy.
That fall Mr. Wilkins sold his house
and tried boarding for the winter. And
it would have been very funny, if it had
not been very sad, to hear Mrs. Wilkins
bargaining for room and board for two,
with a little child thrown in.
He was a very small eater, she said,
and could easily be fed from her plate,
and he would wait and not require an
extra seat at table, and sleep on a sofa
in her room, so w T ould be no trouble to
any one.
So he was included, like a cat or a
parrot, said with their belongings, and he
mother’s not a word, though he held his
his hand, and read her face with
great blue eves, while she
about him. And she told his father that
fashion Harley had outgrown his foolish baby
of asking questions.
But he thought! Oh, deep in his
mind he thought over the complex
mysteries One of life.
bed night he lay awake on the sofa
and could not sleep. His head was
hot and felt twice its natural size. Soon
he began to talk. His mother and his
father heard him and said:
“He is dreaming.”
But it was they who were dreaming.
The child was waking—waking in the
night. morning that has never a noon or a
His mother heard his last few words
with an agony of remorse that came too
late.
haven’t “Please, dear God, let me in. I
any ticket nor money, an’ I’m
eight years old and half-price. Nobody
wants me. There isn’t any place fora
little boy without money. If you’ll jusfc
take me up there I wont be in anybody’s
way - and I’m—so—tired—I’m so -
tired!”
His head drooped. The flush on his
cheek faded—the tired little heart was
at rest forever.
Nebraska contains 76,185 square
miles; was settled in 1854 at Omaha,
and was admitted into the Union. March
l. 1867. *
XoYids} i 0 g riv 0 K
THAT-
JONN E. REDMOND
WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
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In any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty four.
Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
lie gives Agenls an article with which they can make more money than they
ever made in all their lives. W r ith these goods Agents can make from $5 to £8 a
day. I h:s is no Northern humbug. Inclose a tavo-cent stamp for postage, and
you will receive by return mail free samples and full particulars of the business.
I also furnish Gold and Gilded letters, Emblems and Graining ('< mbs,
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Bonner Signs, and make a
specialty of Post Boards for the country. Address
JOHN E. EEDMOND,
FPIQFdEDIfcTS, S. C.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned is l*rrp tred to Furnish M i H H L K.
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HE NEEDED REST.
First Omaha Youth —What’s the mat¬
ter ? Got a day oft' ?
Second Omaha Youth—No, I’ve re-
signed,
“What for ?”
“Nearly worked to death. The store
was always crammed full of customer’s, day!
and it just kept me on the jump all
Couldn’t stand it.”
“But w hat are you going to do now V’
“I shall try to get a place in some
store that don’t advertise.
B 0 B£RTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts als < has eh .rge of tin
Railroad Eating II use at Bowersville,
Ga. Good acjoinm qmous, good board,
at usual rates in firs; class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATrOPNEY AT 1 ,A \v
TOCCOA CItY, GA.,
W T ill practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham amt Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have sp<c-
ial attention.
REAL • ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont It- ^ion,^Georgia. Also
Oivnge Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale ia FI >rida. Address
J. W, Sf.ci.AURY?
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don't Fail to Call On
V. A. MITHESON,
Who has Special Bargiins in Various
Lines of Goods.
. FINE DRESS GOODS i
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
-ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon aul Buggy Ma¬
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Locks, Bolts, Doors aDd Sash.
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES. STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE l
--ALSO--
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. GA.
EmMMuts
Of All Kinds and Styles from th e
plainest and lowest prices, up to th e
m »>-t elaborate and oo-tly. All work
delivired. set up and satisfaction guar¬
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samples and learn prices 1 e'ore pur¬
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L. COOK,
TOCCOA, GA.