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- imorest Times. 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 K rjf* 1890, a in S. The 8 £*•'«* » riagle, .11, TWm sm % lfl4,«W wart \ ' *inm . el t 1 g. of v .' 'a ton we fo l-VfLn a'sowntsono. 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* ‘ * ,j*3 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 " * & *<■ Ji » * 1 'AiteW 4 !i . ftr 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, njApoH m wp mar tea us this; i I it wm uTl i’ or luter to gst * A” Kf- eel n l wifi 04