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SPII [QUEST, GEORGIA.
„ . ....., tee Navy Tracy i»
Ex-Secretary of
quoted aa raying to » friend that in
addition to the work and' worry his
cabinet life cost him $80,000 evpry
fear above his salary of $8000.
“Worth its weight in gold” is saic
8o be an inadequate expression whep
applied to a copy of the first edition
of Walton's “Complete Angler. ”, The
amount of gold its viilne represents in
England would outweigh many copies.
The Japanese Government has is¬
sued an ordinance for the? purpose o(
restraining Mid regulating emigration
from Japan, and has mode a rule that
no emigrant wilt be permuted leave
his own country lor a land where hi*
coming wonld be in violation, of the
law of- that oounti^r.
'
If the inheritance tax law, jnst en
toted in England, bfld been in force in
tbisoountry at Jay Gould’s death, hi*
•state would have paid to the Govern¬
ment $5,600,000. Mr. Bockfeller’s es¬
tate would have to pay $10,000,000;
William’ H. Vanderbilt's estate would
bars pai d $16,1)00, 000. *
y has Supervisor of the Indian Bureau Schools Mos.
sent to ol Indian
>qi£tin a denial of the statement that
"Apache Kid,” the noted outlaw, was
pa educated Indian, which has been
used as to argument against flan educating
the rad into. While at Qarloi
luperintendent Moss inquired about
Ms, tod learned that the outlaw wet
ever in school a day. He was a Gov¬
ernment scout, tod white in.that po»i
WoqJtetoed to speak some English.
fjm and extremely interAtinj.
ment is soon to be tried in Ohio,
sees the New Tf>rk Tribune. It
.j 8 deptttqre in road
M w tow improve¬
ment, white is claimed t by ite author
Jo hfcv* points of marked superiority
ver the building of mseadamised
tods. The plan is to extend the eleo
ns railway tbs |f4oks from cities and
as into surrounding country,
__ to construct the roads in suoh a
— test they oan be need for wagon*
tod oarriafea drawn by, horses as well
as by oars. Of oobrse there will be a
great saving in hone power wherever
uAd, einoe far heavier
aft be drawn on steel tracks
‘ H foroe. In
two oouatiss
lie trial will bb made of this sys
he pre s to ! year. It aeed-harily
id that the result will bemwaited
■v- interest not only in Ohio,
The question of
petfvemtet is filling a large
ths publie mind nowadays,
thing in the dfraotioa of solv-'
sure of earnest tod respectful
similar to the
zzsXs'zz??.
toofii ^ > *
•
tog foots present them
social Condition of the
uited States in a study
•ten Herald, i The
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Before my scul goes sighing—
ril (Fo sorrow sheaf darkly o' sunshine wed, Jgf-; V
take a
And sing It to a tend V**
H every rose were withered, v
• And winter days were rile,
The thought that one* there was s roes
Would sweeten all my tile!
God's love! here is not given
Dark space for life to moan! ,
Earth rollaeo dose to heaven,’
It’s almost heaven's own 1
Bing ho 1 for Hie and loving!
For hearts that tendereet beat >
For this sunny World o’ honey—
Stag dfleet! sing sweet < sing sweet!
v-Frank U, Stanton, In Atlanta Conititat(pn.
A MISPLACED LEGACY
. ( nr edna A , tores. _
J GUPTILL’S
■ I little house, seen
■ dimly 7 through
Hi the Catherine
i some' fair resembled
l * overgrown
U n I vegetable pro
II duction in its
low and irregular
■ < K outline, it was
H ,by built the close which down
9 sea,
‘ seemed to have
J contributed pat
ohes of driftwood
to its construction; as well as some
bright * strips from a wrecked vessel
that eked out the uneven fence, and a
small 'igurehead which ornamented
the pefch. Over this ' hung several
whitening blade* of the 6Wuidfiou. An
old dory stood in the yard filled with
blossoming geraniums.
It was quite dark when the little
gate swung wide to admit the ample
figure of Mrs^ Chilcott. She stepped
familiarity, heavily along, and with her usual
opened the door without
the preliminary Mrs GuptiU of announcing her ap
p, £ Mh ‘ ;.. ' ftt * sm * U
ting \
•MMrnSU?* a _
the women, the one with affected cor
iiality and the other with affected
-rg^sa^BK V* , ,, . .>
eying the papers which Mrs. GuptiU
“?5^.§ “J ^dntknomwhich U r*V r * y ’ U- X. was ringing,
tht fog- bell or the meeting-bell.
I guess they was both at it. But
you vc gat time to finish your otter.
Wt mind me." Mr* Chilcott set
.tied ••if. back with to air of effacing her
“Well, I was all done bnt signing.
I might as well do that and take it
along to the postoffioe.”
The signing was slow and awkward
under tne watchful eye of the visitor,
and the ooior flamed a moment in
Mrs. “I Guptill's withered cheek.
suppose I might sg well tell you,
Saseat” she raid,, folding the letter,
“that Hiram's going to bay those
nets and tackle he was looking at
over to Portsmouth. He went over
Friday fn his dory to get clinch ’em. I
thought he might as well the
trade before fall fishing.”
Shs spoke hurriedly but with con¬
straint. Mrs. Chiloott’i face showed
surprise “I and disapproval. *
ditei’t thought yoa was raying he
calculate to stand tbA’expense
lost “Well, now,” she rasoarked.
he didn't think to right
away.” Mrs. Gpptillwas takteg down
bar shawl from tee peg by the door,.
and therefore her baok was toward the
visitor. “I’ve just writ -Hiram to Re*
tee oars and those decoy ducks, too,
whilst he was about it,” she added.
Thera was an oorinoas silence. Mrs.
Guptill’■ Toioe await* was * a little shaky sis
tee began
MI might as well tell you fust as last,
Susan, neighbors; but yon had needn't yip to the
we a littls sum come
’Tts'iH to as from tot tea Squire hundred Bean dollars, property. but
two
it oome “Why, in.handy.” ’Mandy Quptillt I didn’t
know you was aaMhtntodi”
. “Well; we wa’nl much. That is, I
kne* Squire Been by sight, aad to
Mom before to died. Perhaps to knew
I totet got some tot Hiram left”
“WalVtt beats aUl” raid Mrs. Chil
sate “Ton kept it from me pretty
well. ’Mandy. I toint heard nothing
about thewML”
“There wa’n’t wm, regular doimftj^ writ-oat
wflL He jute left a kin ran
ejasaft&r*' out into tea
bte
r way toward
X !•_ Mr* Chilcott aad
— first
teri Baler te arrive
80 m int
c
’
.
r V'
«*•- -• in. *7
a
ran
■eosnm
bidding, bat this did net dfeeeafnge
her neighbor’s volubility. tad set good
« f He appeared kind, promised »
deal by her, end as good as But there
to leave her something. ”
you can’t depend on folks.
“Where is she now?” asked Mrs.
Guptill, with interest. -
“She’s living ’long of his folks,
over to the Cove. She was a Baf
Guptill married a Cove Guptill. You
might as well say human being as
‘Guptill, in this town.”
Mrs. Guptill fixed her eyes upon the
opposite wall, butiho handwriting ap¬
peared thereon to refresh her
troubled gaze. Two bright red spots
burned in either oheek, unnoticed by
her companion, whose attention was
becoming scattered.
“What did Mr. Bean use to call
your niece when she worked there?,
Mrs. Guptill asked, finally, her voice
sounding harshly above the stillness
that preceded the opening exercises.
“ M ‘ nd y
® ut ^ r8, 9 u P t ?P whv
8he Mt in (P im ailence^ twistino twisting her
black °° tton B love3 > which she had re
moved, into a hard knot. *
Ashrill voice suddenly rang out;
I've reached the land ot okra and wine,
And •** 118 rl * he8 ,reel y P^ie, • *
and the congregation took up the
strain.
Twice during the prayer Mrs. Chil
co tt was obliged'to nudge the erect
head beside her into a semblance of
time devotion. not To in (sit accordance upright at with Buch her a
was ora
idea of the duty “professing
member.” When the service was over
and the women were out in the fog
again, Mrs. Guptill asked abruptly,
**How does you niece appear to get
along, anyway?” deep sigh,
Mrs. Chilcott gave »
“There, ’Mandy! it’s dreadful! 8be
j n8 t manages to live by pinching
along.” all know what pinching
«<l guess we
j B ” said Mrs. Guptill, abruptly turn
i ng toward her little ligty in the dis
jance.
“Bring over your work and sit a
spell, some day,” called Mrs. Chilcott,
u,e “■“?”•
4<I deolllre , Ain’t ehe 0 Jd I” de
-|mded M „. chilcott of the void
-about her, as She stood under a drip
st-ms? dosestmouthed, our’oustest kind
the
of a / person. I hope that money won’t
tur hor be ad; but for my part, I’d
excuse a little natural pride in her,
Gain's ghg’g the only Guptill on record
th , t eTer did hftve any luck.”
H iram GuptiU returned from his
trip to Portsmouth with the coveted
nets. For weeks it seemed as if he
had purchased good luck with them.
Each setting of the nets brought a
good haul of tab, for which he found
an easy market.
His mother seemed strangely luke¬
warm at his good fortune, but her lack
of enthusiasm troubled him less than
the indcecribable change that had
oome over her. Her voice and face
seemed to have sharpened, and she
grew ill and aervous. «•
One afternoon In late November the
young man announced his intention of
sailing around to the outer harbor in
his dory, and of making a landing at
the Cove on hia way baok. The sea
was as calm as midsummer when he
disappeared around the headland, but
within two hours a dull roar began
along the bar and around the shore.
At first fitful, it coon became continu¬
ous, until one ot those gales whioh
seem to be bqrn ont of a sudden ca
price of the set, rather than of the
heavens, was driving the water in
whitecap* •
Am loeg as daylight lasted Mrs.
GaptiU did not leave the little window
that looked toward the sea. After the
evening meal was prepared she watched
anxiously, with the silenoe ot the
hones behind her and thelftohr of the
breakers before.
It was not likely, she thought, that
had left the Cove. He would
stay with the fishermerf there, for it
waadartoeoori by land. Shesaidthis
over and over to hiraelf, but never¬
theless her rnstlnssn
a pitch that she pat on* her did , cloak
tod went ont upon the hilL
She stood there listening to tl the vriml
•mA enter, and coannin^ the black
stretch before her.
Some passing flehwW 'ffl' e*lly f to
her not to be anxtow, and said teat
Him was too mutel of a sea-dog to
leave the Cove. She erepfcfeaek in the
teed to match afw» tothe storm
tod eonll so increased that no small graft
live in it •* 1
•
..
toward audasfht tea went to bed;
bnt tears waa on her ariad anoth*
anxiety as great as ttot by tea
storm aad
la tor floras
SFwUras- Aa, in her pro
teteg Ek. b riZtt wa Hwa’s legacy/
ted
St
I i i
•TfL
r
scarlet for * weejc.” JO»en “ id *
herself, with a softenrogsmile» just
“But now isn’t ttot* Hiram *
regular critter of a young one!”—
South’s Companion. I
An Elephant’s Palate.
The elephant’s digestive functions
are very rapid, and the animal, there¬
fore, requires daily a IaTge amount? of
fodder—600 pounds, at least, says the
Southport (England! GuardiaD. In
its wild state the elephant feeds heart¬
ily, but wastefully. It w careful in
selecting the few forest trees which it
likes for their bark and foliage. But
it will tear down branches, and leave
half of them untouched. It will ®t r ip
off the bark -from other . trees and
throw away a large portion. animal, it
As it is a nocturnal se¬
lects its trees by, the sense of touch and
smell. Its sefese of smell is so deli
cate that a wild elephant can scent an
enemy at a distance of 1000 yards, and
the nerves of its trunk are so sensitive
that the smallest substance can be dis¬
covered and picked up-by its tiny pro¬
boscis. , delicate,
An elephant’s palate whimsical is very in select¬
and the animal is
ing Dr rejecting morsels of food. Sir
Samuel W. Baker, in his “Wild Beasts
and Their Ways,” tells an anecdote
humorously illustrative of the whims
of a tame elephant belonging to the
police of Dhubri.
This elephant was fed with rice and
plantains. The stems of the plantains
were split and cut into traverse sec
tious, two feet in length. Three
-quarters of a pound of ruse were placed
within each tube of plantain stem. One
day, while the elephant was being fed,
a lady offered the animal a small Bweet
biscuit. It was taken in the trunk,
and Almost immediately thrownonthe
ground. driver, thioking the
The mahout, or picked
elephant had behaved rudely,
up the bisouit and inserted it in a par¬
cel of rice within a plantain elephant’s stem.
This was placed in the
mouth, and at the very first crunch it
showed its disgust by spitting out the
whole mess. The small biscuit had
disgusted the animal, and for several
minutes it tried by its inserted trunk
to rake out every atom from its tongue
and throat.
Made Him Raise the Fine.
A man from Troy told this story the
other day to a small company of
friends about a police justice in a
little town in Rensselaer County ; It
was the law ot the villsge that all
showmen, itinerants aftd organ grind¬
ers must get a license before doing
business there. One day a fat polioe
man, who had been on the foroe about
six months without doing anything,
concluded that it was time he arrested
somebody/ Soon after war! along came
an Italian with a performing license?” bear. asked
“Hev yez got yer
the policeman. exhibitor of the
“No,” said the
bear.
_ priz’n^rs,” said the
“Then yer my
policeman, and he triumphantly
marched ofi with them to the village
station house, he leading the Italian
and the Italian leading the bear.
Arraigned before the police justice
the Italian pleaded guilty, and the
judge officiously gave him * most
severe and scorching lecture on the
enormity of his bffense, ending by
fining him $10, the fail ext8ftt of the
law. The culprit had a lot of small
change in his pooket, bnt being mostly
pennies and nickels ft only counted
up to $7.60. For a very quandary- few mojnent* H*
the judge was in a
didn't like to send the fellow to jail, _
nor yet lose the $10. Presently s
bright idea struck him—a happy solu¬
tion of the problem—and he saifl; fcllAa
“Here, officer 1 >ladf Take this
ont to the market p and let him
perform with his bear until he makes
up the balance, and when he gets it
drive him ont of town.”—Buffalo
Newa.
tad little branches tore off by «»e
spirit Where’d you come from.
“I come from home, Susan, and
something mind— ^
I’ve got on my
“Oh, I know, 'Mandy I Now yon
sit down, and don’t get anxious. Ja
son says Hiijfem most likely stopped—
“It aint tt Hiram nor the gale, Susan
Chilcott; it’s me. I’m a thief!”
Mrs. Chilcott opened her mouth,
words *
but no came. Guptill
“I’m a thief!” Mrs. re¬
peated, and the fierceness of the spoken
words told plainly how many times
she had said them inwardly. “I knew
all along the money wa’n’t for me,but
I kept it. Hiram had spent some of
it, and I dreaded to cast him dowc
again’, he'd had such luck. We was
near starving, Susan Chilcott, when
that moifey cotne—but that dou t clear
me. Hiram he didn’t have no luck,
and he needed them nets, and since
then I heven’t dared to tell him that I
knew it so long.” She spoke hur¬
riedly lest her courage shouldfail her.
“Arc you daft,’ Mandy? What
money do you mean?”
“I mean that Squire Bean money. 1
might have knowed I couldn’t have
kept it. I knew it that night we was
to meeting, when you told mei about
‘Mandy ’Liz’beth.”
Mrs. Chilcott stared, Whatever
suspicions she may have had, she had
stilled them.
.“It fras this way, Susan. Squire
Bean, ne really intended that two
hundred dollars to go to your neice,
’Mandy Elizabeth Guptill; bnt when
they come ’round askin’ for 4 ’Mandy
L. Guptill,' forgetting to spell ’Liz
’beth with an E, and my name being
’Mandy L. Guptill, I—”
Mrs. looked Guptill if could she go no abcu|do furte^r.
She as were
faint.
“Great earth .and seas!” exclaimed
Mrs. Chilcott; from the pantry, whence
she presently returned with a steam¬
ing portion of “composition tea,”
which she made Mrs. Guptill drink.
“Swallow it all down, ’Mandy; it
will calm you,” she said. Mrs. Gup
fill revived a little.
“ ’Twas an awful path I tread,
Susan 1” she gasped. “The stones was
gallmg to my feet, catch and the and briers keep was
reaching out to me I me
back, but I kept on. says, they was
after ’Mandy L. Guptill, and that’s
me, tod let'thera dispute it, says I;
till come last night I felt different.”
“Wha t fira set you to thinking,” de
mantled Chilcott.
“I’ve done nothing but thinjc, but
last night I had kind of a* presenti¬
ment, and I believe just as much as
anything Hiram’s gone down along
with his fathex—and all the tackle and
oars was bought xrith stolen money I”
Then for-the first time she began to
rock herself to and fro, and sob and
cry out that she could never see her
■on again, and that his mother was a
thief.
“Hush up, ’Mandy! You ain’t
neither a tWef—quit, I tell you, the
children will hear you 1 You're all up¬
set. There, sit up, and don’t let us
have any more suoh carryings on. It’s
nothing bnt the Guptill lack 1” again!”
“I shall never Bee Hiram
’Mandy sobbed.
“I don’t know about that. It looks
to me terrible sight like smoke coming
out of your chimney. I guess it’s
moat likely Hiram building your
fire!”
Mrs Guptill stood up and peered
toward the house. Without any out
waxd demonstration she drew her
shawl about her shoulders stiffly, as if
thj passion of the moment before was
as much s thing of the past as the
storm of the night.
“I must go and tell Hiram,” she
said; just then the gate clicked
and a boyish, laughing face * looked in
«t the door. *
“Is masrmy here?” he asked.*
“Well; I don’t know, Hiram,”
laughed Mrs. here Chilcott. that 44 Wqjve to got be¬ a
crazy woman seems
long down to your house.”
Hiram looked steadily at tie two
The agitation in their faces,
or some flail senra within him, told
him thatsi^isclqinre all right, ■ tod Another been dy,” made.
“Oh, ‘five teat’s all right. * We
•aid. fixed it
won’t have yon. crooning round toy
teat.” *
ftfcout • Hiram?” de
■«! It do yen mesa,
•--- . hi* mother,
what I arid. ' tike, 1 happened to
l _____. tel what yontras
akg about So F jnst straight
mse ioat That’s whet I went over
Covw foa.” * ;
Z r all tea Mad’s steel” laughed
hiloott “Yofir mother’s wasted
• ■ J of team about mj- yte-enough f| to
boet.” this «
tom Gnptii, toil me exclaimed qia
’va done!” his
began hie the youth, “I Counting
b* on Angara, heard
i store talking about
, aa d,when they
sard rotofl-” enough- .Them Here
ing
to
j*
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Subterranean Heat.
, The following is a record of the.
temperature of the earth p+ different
depths, from 100 to 2100 feet, ae taken
it the great foreman Shaft, Virginia
City, Nev. The record was obtained
by drilling holes out into the sides ol
the shut and inserting a Negretti A
Zambra slow-acting thermometer too
tee dril Dhole and leaving it there for
not lees than twelve hours:
Depth. Temperature. {Depth. Temperature. Degree*
Feet. ...a Degree* 1 Feet.
400 ... k 1.900..tin «h
• e n
800 S8 ..--JP V 4
r • e we Ti 108
700.. : 7- w mi 104!s
.
W0 * • e # • e • • VS • #• • - • m me . 100
1.000 oi; . m -
M . u*H
will to from the above table
although teen is, upon tee
whole, a steady iaeistoe of tempera¬
ture as depth is attained, tee rate of
iftguto. this
There is no way ot telling why is
ttot in
a hnn ftse d feet (ae • the
ZtSTiZ
rock in which the re
« < -m
tears
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JOT-DEN HOURS, OOI-DEN DAYS.
c*
Everything has beauty in it
In thijworld that ’round us He
lifting W each waking minute,
Giving joy to longing eyes,
That Bball fill the hodrs with praise—•
Golden hours make golden days.
By us joys are ever flying.
* Let us make our hearts their snap
Let us share the sweetness Ij'ins
All about us everywhere!
Let us wall^in happy wavs—
Golden hours make golden days.
Troubles come but they are fleeting j
Soon their shadows will go by,
A* the clouds the sunlight meeting,
Pass and show the” azure sky.
Life is full of sunny rays—
Golden hours make golden day3.
-George Birdseye, in Detroit Free Press.
HUMOK OF THE DAY,
A trying situation—The cloak mod¬
It is seldom difficult to appear nat¬
when you have nef desire to
It frequently happens that the fire
genius has difficulty in making the
My neighbor calls his cat “There¬
because from it hangs a tail.-
Traveler. •
Strange as it may seem, it some¬
times happens that an old ‘salt get3
into trouble by being too. fresh.
Almost every woman we know would
.
like to know what some other woman
has gbt to be so proud of.— Atchison
Globe.
Paddv’s latest feat was to pawn bis
, day’s shooting,
gun, preparatory to a
in order to buy cartridges.—London
Truth.^ *
Thq^e is plenty of joom at the top;
but thore isn’t enough for one-tenth of
the people who think they ought to be
there.—Puck. *
The peace maker is a commendabje
character, but he is not esteemed by
fellow who is getting the best of
the light.—Puck.
The part of a man’s salary that he
usually doesn’t spend is the part he
would receive if he were getting what
is woflh.—Puck.
“Galton had his lawn mower stolen
last night. ” 4 ‘Great .Caesar 1 What
a lucky fellow he has always been.”—
Chioago Inter-Ocean.
Speaking of bereavement, Jones af¬
firms that no death ever affected him
so sadly as that of his wife’s first.hufi
band.—Salem Gazette.
Two words sometimes make a long
sentence. For instance, when the
judge remarks to the prisoner; •
“Twenty years.”—Truth.
You msy speak as you will of pedi¬
gree generally, but in a sleeping Car
it is a man’s berth whioh. raises hint
above his fellow passengers.
An exohange tells “how tp make a
fountain pen work satisfactorily.
Another way is to give it to one of
your enemies.—Texas Siftings.
There is that ih a woman’s disposi¬
tion that induces her to give anything
she has to the poor, providing Glob* the r
w|P use it her way.— Atchison
8 I kissed her a dozen times last night,
And now It makes me sore
To think that II I’d only stared,
I might have had one more.
A woman’s idea of loyalty is to loaq
her best silverware to a neighbor who
ite i pwwf w « nd HAT noth in or
when she hears it praised.—Atchison
Globe.
Jack—“Whst sort of a girl is she?”
Jim—•‘Oh, she i& a miss with a mis
sion. ” “Ah!" “And her mission is
seeking with a mansion.’ >t
a man —
Spare Moments.
The lightning flashed, the lightning crashed,
The skies were rent asunder, blew ttw
With shriek myi w&il loud
And then tt rained like thunder!
* —Puck.
Willy Wilt—“Do yon know, I fancy
I have quite a literary bent.” Yen
Demmitt—“Allright, my boy; keep
on and you'll be worse than beat—
you’ll be broke.”—Pqck.
Madge— 4 ‘Er—Mis* Laura, I hope I
am not talking Mias too much about - my
self.” Laura-“Oh, no.
have to be talked about by somebody
of ooorse.’’—Indianapolis Journal
‘ No wonder the modest violet
, ' It Drops tt hears shyly all the oat of sight
, poems write. .
People about —Chicago it l , -
ater-Oesaa. .
_
Housekeeper—“Are-yon half sure that
this tea. isn’t copperas?” D ea ler
loonrikdlngly )—“We couldn't afford
to sell edptorw at the extremely low
pries we charge for this tea, ma’am. ”
—New York Weekly.
J/Enfant Terrible-“Hava yoa got
another face?” Mrs.' Homeleigh -
“No, dear; why do yon ate?” L’En¬
fant Terrible— 4 ‘Mamma said yon are
two-fseed; but I thought if yoa had
another one, yoa wouldn’t that
one. "—Louden Tid-Bite. •.
3 WeiM pi ms
«* riunuur, sett aad low,
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