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THURSDAY, AUGUS 26,1897.
HEEEISTHE chance.
SENATOR STEWART SAYS, "GO TO
SLEEP AND GET RICH.”
Twenty-five Cent Silver and Dollar Wheat.
Senator .John P. Jones Welcomes More
Chold-Say* Silver Will Continue to Fall,
hut Times Will Bo Better.
Senator Stewart of Nevada is one of
foe latest converts to commercial op
timism. He is a “bull” on everything
except silver. He is engaged in a vigor
ous campaign in Wall street and said
to the reporter of a New York paper
the other day that ha had heard so much
about better times that he has deter
mined to ‘‘gather in a part of the pros
perity which is not only rampant in the
street, but throughout the land."
When asked what had brought about
a change in his views, he said:
“There is no room for pessimism in
this country. No cue can be a ‘bear’ in
the face of the wheat famine in Argen
tina, Russia, Hungary :md India. In
view of this condition abroad, I should
not bo surprised to see silver sell as low
as 25 cents and wheat as high as §l.
There is nothing in talking silver at the
present time, and my advice to my
friends in the west is to fall into line
•with the forces of prosperity and prog
ress and receive their due share of the
reward.
“The time has passed for the old is
sues. We must torn to face new issues
and new conditions.
‘‘l frequently boar it said that this
security market is a duplicate of the
market in 187‘J. It is not. It is more of
u ‘bull’ market. All a man has to do is
to get into it—go to sleep anti got rich.
The wheat situation in the west will
make every railway not only a dividend
earner, but a dividend payer. Railroads
that have been moribund for years art*
cow taxed to their fullest capacity and
re still unable to accommodate the
traffic. I am told that there is imminent
danger of a car famine on many of the
aost important lines traversing this
country. ’ ’
“Are the people in the west alive to
this neav situation?”
“The people in the west, ” he replied,
"are wide awake. They know a good
thing when they see it. Most of them
are hanging on to their cereals with a
confidence bom of hope and an actual
knowledge of what is going on around
them. With their immense crops they
Will be able not only to liquidate their
indebteduessTa the money sharks of the
east, but will inaugurate a buying
movement that will surprise the peoplo
in this part of the country. I think that
by the late fall the truth of what I said
and reiterated during the campaign will
be generally recognized, and that is
that there can be no general prosperity
hi this country that is not born and sus
tained in the west.”
Senator John P. Jones of Nevada,
who is in New York, said that the con
tinned fall in the price of silver ought
not to surprise Buy one.
“Silver is falling in commercial
price,” he said, “because of the falling
off of the demand for it as money. Ja
pan has gone on a gold basis and so less
ened the demaud for Bilver. Besides
this, there has been, because of uni
versal bard times, a great falling off in
purchases in the east. The oriental
countries use silver money, and onr
purchases are paid for in that metal.
This demand has been out off by reason
of the hard times.”
“Would not the increase in gold pro
ductiou in Canada and Alaska natural
ly tend to raise the price of silver?”
“I think not. Even if it did the ad
vance would be inappreciable,
decrease duo to the two causes I have
mentioned would more than counter
balance any slight possible advance and
continue to force silver lower and low
er. However, there will be no general
advance in prices. In 1849, when the
mines of California and Australia
trebled the world’s supply of gold, the
advance iu general prices was only 15
per cent in 15 years. That advance,
small and gradual as it was, was a uni
versal benefaction. The only thing that
can advance the price of a money metal
is the demand for the metal for its use
as money. If gold were not used as
money, the present stock would be
sufficient for all the uses in the arts and
in commerce for 60 years.
“Yon will infer," said Mr. JoDes,
“that I am not opposed to prosperity
through an increase in gold. The Re
publicans are very lucky, and I con
gratulate them on the fact #bat this
great discovery falls within their ad
ministration. 1 believe a great deal of
gold will be found in Alaska, and it is
certain to restore prosperity, for whioh
the Republicans will claim and receive
the credit I shall welcome its return,
whether throngb gold or silver. An
abundance of money means prosperity,
and I want to see good times in this
country come as a result of good times
elsewhere.
"Another result that will flow from
an abundance of money, he it silver or
gold, will be the abeyance of this hafre.l
of the trusts. I cherish no enmity to
ward the combinations of capital. If
two or three men want to combine for
their bnsjaaw
by lessening production, tffley have n
right to do so. But the people hate
trusts, and only prosperity will drive
monopolies out of their minds.
"I have been taunted with being op
posed to an ‘honest’ dollar. 1 believe in
an honest dollar as strongly as any
man, but 1 consider that only ono dol
lar can he honest, and that is a dollar
•which demands no moro and no less
■acrifice to secure it at the maturity of
a debt than it demanded when the debt
wus contracted. I want aa good money
as anybody. ”
Senator Jones said that the miners in
Nevada are abandoning their silver
mines and are prospecting for gold.
Many of them, he said, are meeting
with success, and it is probable that a
good quantity of gold w ill soon be pro
duced in that state.
Lakewood l’ark-- Near Atlanta.
For thk Hanks County Journal.
Just at this time, somo very desir
able plums are falling from the admin
istration true into the lap of the color
ed brother; about the most luscious
specimin of this much coveted fruit,
landed n few days ago on the table of
|I. A. Rucker, a man of African de
scent, who runs a barber shop on De
catur Street; his p'u n came in the
shape of Internal Revenue Collector
tor Georgia, which carries with it ibe
snug little income of $6.000,c0 p< r
annum, a precieus morsel to nibble at
these hard times.
A negro blacksmith has received
t he appointment ns postmaster for our
jittle office at South Atlanta, which
js quite a ripe plum of itself; worth
something over $1.200,00 a year
Evidently the bottom rail is fast
creeping to tho top. And from the
present outlook, the the proud cult
ured citizens of Augusta and Athens
will he forced to pay homage to a
black official. There are lets of
other places. Sombra is reaching out
;Ok ye gods”! if it is desire : far those
who abide in the spirit land, that they
shall e-er remain in ignorance ast Q
what is transpiring on this mondan e
sphere; then it is well that Georgia’s
illustrious son, the immortal Tombs;
should have iinbraced religion; folded
his arras and passed to the great be
- ere his proud spirit should have
realized the fact that the land he loved
so well had been turned lut a modem
Hayti and St Domingo-
The question sometimes arises and
it is a mournful one io reflect upon,
are the negros to supersede the whites
in all the important Fe.deaal offices in
in the Scull}; a tace of people that can
'hot. point to a single, instance where
they have been instrumental in ad
vancmg the civilization of the world,
or advanced an idea in the directiou
of its intellectual and commercial pro
gress; they bava produced no heros iu
tints < f war no Statesmen in time of
peace; their Father's lund has been
appropriately designated as the“dark
continent- and its jungles would ever
remain the home of ferocious beasts,
venomous reptdes and man-hating
canibles; were it not for the progress
ive spirit of the Anglo Saxon race.
It is indued humiliating to the last
degree, to think that the lowest order
of human Creation is barking in the
sunshine of the administration influ.
ence. And he who by force of circum
stances has been exal'ed to the dis
tinguished positiou of president of a
great republic like out-’s, must have
10-t all love and veneration for the
traditions of his race, when he seeks
to place the negro over a people whos
ancestors sacrificed so much blood and
treasure, to establish a government to
be guided and directed by their own
posterity. It was the blood of the
white man, shed so freely upon many
a hard contested field, that arrested
this*fair land from under the heel of
a despot, the negroes wern’t in it.
If the present state of affairs are to
continue, we have a slight consolation
m the thought, that “Let fate do her
worst, there are relics of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, sh* can
not destroy." ' ' j
The people of this ccshtry have a
sci ious problem to deal with, and at
anotta. r time we may have something
more to say on the negro question.
Mr. John Thrasher, ‘ Cousin John"
as he is fanulliarly known- and who
can boast of haring more “Kin and
Relatives” in Georgia than any other
man in the state, is now visiting in
this section, and in this connection it
might be well enough to make more
than a passing mention of this grand
old patriarch cf former days; as no
doubt he is quite w“ll known to many
readers of the Journal.
Mr. Thrasher is in the 87th year of
his age; and were it not for a slight
stoop in his walk he would be taken
for a man not over sixty.
At one time he was quite conspic
uous in the politics of the state, hav
ing served several terms in th# legts.
lature when that tugust body con
vened at Mibedgeville, he was instru
mental in haviug some laws passed
which has placed his name high on
the role, as a public benefactor.
His intellect is as ejear, and his
conversation as fascinating, as it was
when he fell the first tree, and erected
the"first bouse on the very spot of
ground where the Capital City of
Georgia now stands. He relates in
a terse and graphic manner so cliarae
terie of tbe man, many amusing in
stances of the e.viy settlement of
Atlanta.
While Mr. Thrasher his been a res
ident of Florida for a number of years,
lie still manifests a very deep interest
in the great, southern Metropolis he
contributed so much to advance in
her early struggle for existence.
He is a grand and noble specimen
of the old time Sou'herti Genii eman,
and ever reminds ono, whi! v in his
presence, of those Ante helium times,
when the South was regarded as the
home of Chivalry and honor
Mr, Thrasher's amiable and accom
plished wife, who has ever been a com
fort and solace in bis somewhat event
c r er, accompanies lnni wherever lie
goes. Ami while the flush of youth
has faded from her cheeks, she min
isters to his eveiy want in his declining
years with that same gentle loving
kindness that prompted her in the
| blroin of life, among the old led hills
of Georgia, to cast her fortune with
the object of her choice.
No adverse winds have assailed
their domestic path, their married
iife for over a ha'f century has ran as
smooth and as placid as the guggling
brook that bursts from the mountain
side, and their i.nmerous friends,
cherish a hope; that a kind providence
may prolong their lives for many
years to come.
Fulton.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Road Rules For Cyclists and Others—The
Charms of Klondike The Abo
of Jean de Reezke.
[Special Correspondence.]
Ever since bicycling became almost
universal in this city there has been a
great deal of trouble between wheel
men and drivers ns to the right of way.
In the law, of course, all vehicles have
equal rights ou the streets, and as bi
cycles have been declared to he vehicles
by the courts the question was compli
cated. The local consulate of tho L. A.
W. and representatives of the Associ
ated Cycling Clubs recently got together
and formulated a set of read regnla-
tions, which with some modifications
have been adopted by the board of aider
men. Tlie most fruitful source of acci
dents has been the disinclination of
riders meeting at intersecting corners
to give way. This has all been provided
for, as has also the matter of turning
corners. The rules are so excellent that
they might be and probably will be
adopted by many communities.
They give to thoso goiug north and
south the right of way over those going
east and west and make it a misde
meanor for a citizen to refuse to yield
the right of way lo an ambulance, a
police wagon, a fire engiuo cr a doctor’s
wagon, provided the doctor lias-a police
permit. Riders of bicycles and drivers
must keep to the left when overtaking
another goiug in the same direction,
and above Thirty-ninth street they can
not turn unless lo feet ahead of a ve
hicle behind.
Drivers Called to Time.
Drivers must raise their whips cr
give some kind of signal when stopping
or about to turn a corner, and bicyclists
must carry a bell not more than three
Inches iu diameter, so that they will
not be mistaken for a (ire engine or an
ambulance.
Eight miles an hour is fixed ns the
limit at which bicyclists can ride in
the city. No more than two can ride
abreast, and coasting is forbidden be
low One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street. Bicycle riders most oarry lamps,
as at present.
Drivers of vehicles must be more than
16 years old. Heavy wagons must not
go faster than five miles an hour on the
streets, and vehicles other than bicycles
are forbidden to turn corners faster than
three miles an hour.
Riding on the sidewalk is prohibited,
but wheelmen may truudlo their ma
chines iu single file. Bicyclists cannot
oarry babies less than 5 years old on
their wheels. The penalty for violation
of any of the provisions is fixed at $lO
instead of SSO, as originally proposed.
Riders and drivers must make long
turns when goiug to tho left and the
speed around corners must not be more
than three miles an hour.
The Charms of Klondike.
Klondike offers a great many attrac
tions to the average mortal to \vhom
the possibility of acquiring wealth by
the short cut route is almost irresistible.
Naturally there are thousands in this
city as well as elsewhere who are sav
ing up every spare dollar to create a
fund on which to go to the land of Alad
din with the oriental weather omitted
next spring. They hopo to make for
tunes and possitly will. .Many others
are going there for the purpose of open
ing outfitting establishments at points
usually touched by prospectors on tho
way to the goldfields. The plan, how
ever, which seems to hold forth almost,
B certainty of success comes from some
actors. This i3 all tho more remarkable
because of the fact that Thespians are
notoriously poor business men. This
particular scheme had its birth in the
usually not too active brain of a fellow
who is a leading man for second rate
companies. He confided it to several of
his friends who are alsoactcrs, with the
result that four men and two women
will start for the Klondike region early
next spring. They will go a little ahead
of time and give entertainments at
Dyea, Juneau and other places where
the miners will outfit. They expect to
find there many of the early birds wait
ing for the season to open so that they
may be the first to get in. These people,
they argue, will have considerable mon
ey and should not be averse to spending
a little of it in the effort to while away
the tedium of the long and dreary even
ings. When the proper time arrives, the
' player folk will start for the diggings,
where they will give a play each night.
As all of them are old actors and are up
in perhaps 100 of tho standard printed
dramas and comedies, they will be able
to vary tli© bill nightly for several
months, it is tliClr present plan to in
duce the miners to “chip in" toward
(lie expense of erecting a cheap theater
of wood and to charge pretty stiff prices
of admission.
They may find that the miners are no
easier to gouge than other people, but
at any rate there is little likelihood
that the enterprise will ho a failure.
Jean do Retzke’s A fee.
A weighty matter has recently been
disposed of. For some time ihe "hang
on” circles of the upper operatic world
of this city havo been ex: rejped over the
charge that Jean de Reszke, tiie world’s
greatest tenor, had deliberately mis
stated his age. The country at large
may now breathe again, for Do Reszke’s
certificate of birth is now available.
Bir George Grove’s Directory on this
point is, of course, wrong, though this
time only by about two years. .Inn
Moozislaw Geschke was horn at C 25
lVOziya street, Warsaw, Jan. It, 1860,
the son of Jan Reschke, controller of
railways, and his wife, Emilie, nee
Ufniurskaja. Mis sponsors were Jan
Wldadislaw Kurtz and Laura Trzoinska.
This should put an eud to The Musical
Courier's charges of mendacity against
the singer, just as Nordica’s apology
put an cud to its other charges.
Joskph Russell.
Very Like a Call.
“Rev. Textly feels sure that he has a
oall, does he?”
“Well, he named the figures, and they
saw it.”—Detroit News.
Tcuillet On Music.
As an introduction to the extensive
and almost exaustlcss theme of music,
u few remarks on the disastrous con
sequences of an unsystematic and
desultory mode of study and practice
seems opportune; and may prove ben
efit itl to those interested in this art.
Present times offer feci titles for the
persuit of fine or indus:ial arts un
heard of smile twenty five years ago.
At that period eoiparilively few
persons studied nuisid. and none hail
' the advantages now within the reach
of®their children. Today, music goes
hami-in-hand with education, amt it
is the ambiiion of many parents to
have their children become good run.
sicians, and they are Filling to incur
any expense and eytii sacrifice to at
tain fhat point.
When their expectation are not
realized however, few suppose that
themselves are mostly responsible for
tiiis failure. This is especially the
case with people who know nothing
about music, and liave little idea of
the magnitude of the undertaken^.
Of > ciurse tlicsj parents are sensible
enough to want, an experienced person
to give lessons to th. ir sons or daugli
ters, ami with this object in view eu
gage the services of some good and
well recommended teacher. So far
well! now if these parents, especially
•he mother s smuoiity would he used
to enforce strict obedience and com
pliance from the children to the rules
and directions of the music master, all
ooneerne i would eventually have rea
sons to be proud of tiie proficiency
attained ir: this beautiful art.
Instead of this however, the n other
inadvertently proves herself a harrier j
to all the hopes she cherishes, by lu r !
constant interference with the system
of instruction adopted.
With an arrogance horn ofigncrauce,
she wants to govern the teacher’s
course, even supervising tho lessons
once a while. She objects to this, and
criticise thea; “The exercises are so
monotonus”! “The chords ami scales
make her nervous. She sees no use in
those studies”, and she calls for a
“roquet’’ or a “waltz’’ before the pu
pil understands the most important
rudiments. If the tutor is reluctant
about heeding her requests, elm hints
now and then, that the doctor, capt’n,
would-be-colonel or whatever title
her consort happens to have, will stop
his child from taking lessons unless
said child cun have pieces, to play for
company.
The poor instructor’s polite remon
strances are in vain, and he sees that
lie nuis either give up a good paying
scholar, or indulge the whims of the
family. He generally concludes to
dtlly dally with these people a while
longer, long enough to pocket another
ten dollars any way.
One flight it so hnppeni that “papa’' i
takes a notion to hear some music,
and throwing hi- business cares to the
wind he prepares to enjoy a few mo
ments in the bosom of bis family.
lie' calls for a tune, and the mother’s
protege, with a most undaunted air
and the assurance of a general,
thumps acd bangs a few popular airs
in a most crude aud unintelligible
manner.
Though of nnciillivdte 1 taste the
poor man feels disappointed in Ins
treat, and, influenced by his wife s
commands, eonclndes that the music
teacher is at fault, and forsook wants
another: but alas' it is needless to av
that the next one meets With the
same resubs. Well! the natural con
sequence of the injudicious training is,
that after years of expenditure for
music lessons, this spoiled and co
mposed on “student og music,” is
merely a superficial and disagreeable
performer, who cannot do justice to
the most stoipla melody, and invari
ably murders the most difficult ones.
How different it is with the patient
and earnest music pupil; who begins
on a good and solid foundation, and
builds on this from day te> day, appro
aching nearer and nearer the goal to
which all true students of music
aspire.
A. C.—Atlanta., Ga.
Note —. The above is writt. nby one
well known to the publisher of this
paper,and we are pleased to say I lint
the nutiior is one who speaks from
experience enough to make the above
article well worth the most, careful
attention of all who are interested in
studying music themselves, or who
contemplate giving their children a
cornplet and thorough Musical Kdu
ention. (Ed)
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missing word contest. This is a mid
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t rest you during the hot season,
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of the sealing of the book (tho sentence
being taken from the works of a stan
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thnee
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put to for want of same, but the point
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ALTGELD VINDICATED.
Meanwhile-Chii.-:i*a Is Using S-rimlitd by
Those Who l*roii!is**<l I’rosperi'- /..
All those terribly criminal inculpa
tions leveled at ex-Governor Altgeld
with which the Republican aud gold
bug newspapers kept the wires eo hot
between Chicago an i th© east last fall,
winter and spring appear to have been
rnly so much good money thrown away
and so much malice needlessly expend
ed. It will be remembered that the ex
governor was charged with having com
bined and confederated with one Spald
ing, a Chicago banker, to rcb the Chi
cago university and the state of Illinois
of millions of dollar*. It was nothing
better than was to bo expected cf a Bry
an Democrat, the slanderers went on to
say, and the bub Lu!j that was raised
aud the defamation that was circulated
actually .convinced thousands cf credu
lous people that tire sturdy old Dutch
man, Governor Altgeld, was a plunder
er aud a rascal.
It was all politics. Tho governor
made one.denial and an explanation of
his connection with Spalding and with
the fund of public money in question
and left the rest to be settled by the
courts. The Spalding defalcation was
examined into, and Altgeld was found
to have nothing whatever to do with it.
As for Spalding himself, he was trier*
in court on one accusation and was ac
quitted. Ho has just gone through a
second trial on another charge aud been
acquitted again. Nbbody has brought
anything before any court affecting Alt
celd. and ho stands oleared of everv ira
putution, hut our Republican aim gold
bug papers have not heard any of this
uev.s yet. These inmiaculates are under
tho same J< losinn they liuve all along
aherished, nud lLey <nke raro to leave
their readers iu the enjoyment of the
flume.
lii the mean while city railroad svviu
riirs uud gas swindles uro imposed by
tho Republican legislature and govern
or of Uliuois and by the Republican
common council of Chicago, hut cur
eastern newspapers of Ihe goldbng fa’th
hear and know uoihiug about these
trifles, and their readers are equally ig
norant of them. The poor people of Chi
cago are getting awfully swindled, not
by Aitgeld, hut by those who were go
imz to hri'uj them ernsnevitv.—New
TUe Interesting; History of a Very Young
Word—Our Fostajro Stamps—The
Tragedy of Evelina.
You are probably familiar with the
word “boycott” and its moaning. The
interesting history of this word is told
somewhat as follows by Tho Great
Round World:
It isu very young word, only 17 years
eld, having been coined in 1880, and it
derives its origin from a Captain Boy
cott, wbo lias recently passed away. He
was a captain in the English army.
I After awhile ho became tho agent of an
Irish landlord, and it became his duty
j to manage tho estate, see lo tho sowing
I and gathering of crops, keep the. houses
on the property in repair and collect
the rents from Ihe tenants.
Tiio Irish had long been eoniplaining
that their rents were too heavy. There
had been a long period of bad harvests,
l followed by a famine, and the tenants
could not pay their rents They begged
| that their hack rents might ha forgiven
them and their f-.ilnre nuts lowered,
i Irish agitators, as they were culled,
I some of them members of parliament,
j advised the people (o step buying from,
selling to or working for any landlord
who refused to listen to their demands
ami to prevent others from having any
dealings with them.
This is what is called “boycotting.”
Captain Boycott-was its first victim.
Ho would not lower the rents and other
wise displeased the peasants. Then the
laborers and tenauts refused to iiave
anything to do with him.
It was harvest time, but tho crops
were left rotting in the fields, because •
no one would lend a hand to gather
them. The farm servants left tho farm,
and there was no one to feed tho cattle
or milk the cows. Tbe country people
round would sell neither food, clothes
nor medicines to any of the family.
Finally the government came to the
rescue of Captain Boycott, thus unpleas
antly left lo himself. Laborers were
sent, under the protection of soldiers, to
gather the crops, and tho captain and
his family wero escorted by soldiers to
a place of safety.
There being no word which fitly dc
sciihed this singular state of affairs,
“boycotting”-was coined and in new
editors of the dictionaries “boycoft”
and "boycotting” appear as regular
words of the English l.u gauge.
Our Postazre Stamps.
In an article ou “Fifty Years of Post
age Stamps,” in 'J .a Ladies’ Home
Journal, occurs (ho following:
Fifty years ago—in July, 184? —Un-
cle Sain issued his r.- t poat i*u stumps.
v'iloes”cf tho new stamps
were introduc'd in 1817 —a 5 cent and
JS'S'V cent stamp, heating respectively
tho pci'amit of Franklin in a bronze tint
and V. a. kiayjcn in black.
Our pcstggtf'Stamps are now printed
by the govexututns at Washington.
Each press can print Tour sheets of 400
each in a minute, lOu/GOO stamps an
hour, or 1,000,000 a day.
No vomyn’s pr- -rait appears ou our
postage stamps, o man’s ou cur coins.
The postage and revenue stamps of
Uncle Sam form a picture gallery com-'
prising 43 great Americans—presidents,
statesmen, financiers and warriors.
Washington (appears ou 25 stamps,
Franklin on JSI, Jefferson eu 13, Jack
sou ou 10 and Lincoln on every issue
since ISG6, except the Columbian scries.
Since 1875 St lias been against the
law to have tpe portrait of any living
man on uuysef (he stamps, notes or
other securifies of the government.
There have bfen 2.50 different kinds of
postage stamps issued in the United
States since 1547.
British Hounted Tolies.
In newly settled countries, whore or
der has scarcely yet been established,
and where there are colored men, na
tives of tho place, ready to rob and bolt
off, the services of mounted policemen
are very much in request. These men
lead a free, open air life, which suits
youug fellowsVhuse birth and upbring
ing would have led us to expect to find
them iu a different position. They are
the sort of youug men who require free
dom of action and an outdoor life, and
who would rather gallop over the wild
prairie or push their way through the
jungle witli its many dangers and hard
ships than settle down iu (he city as a
banki r’s cltik, a student of law ora
physician. The mounted police force of
Australia or the Cape just suits such
young uo n, who often prove themselves
to be very fine follows indeed—brave
an 1 yet humane—ready for every emer
gency, and steady as. a lock in the dis
charge of all duty.
Tho Tragedy of Evelina.
Have you ln-urd of Evcima? She’d a cheek like
summer roses,
She had oyes like sky blue .saucers and tho
shapeliest of nose?,
And her latir was Ion:? end golden and her lips
possessed a pout
Such a doll as Evelina wasn’t often scon about.
But her haughty disposition made her enemies
in plenty. ■*
Topsy said that she had arrogance enough for
five and twenty,
And Miss R;*.;:gles, who was crippled, said she’d
give her other leg
To have lovely Evclir*a Vowered just a single
peg.
‘Arid 1 think it may be managed if I speak to
Puppy Collie,”
Quoth Miss Haggles in a whisper, ‘‘for he’s full
of sport and folly.
And she's fidl of bran and sawdust. Leave this
small affair to me.
And l promise ypn, dear Topsy, you shall seo
what you shall see I”
Bo site spoke to Puppy Collie, who was fond of
tun and fighting.
And ho seized ou Evelina, and he gave her such
a biting,
And he rolled her in a puddle, and he dried
in the sun,
And she hadn’t much complexion when his ,
naughty romp was done.
***** * *
That is why poor Evelina has so little left in
side her
That tho other dolls and Topsy and Miss Hag
gles all deride her.
That is why her nose is broken. That is why,
unhappy pet,
She is now ihv oast conceited of the dolls you
ever met.
BULLET'S GRAVE.
A hundred r< n were digging for
gold, and th-y hud named the place Joe
White’s Dream.
Singular name, lint they were singu
lar men, brnwny, rough, grizzled and
some of them wicked. They were men
from tho east, digging, delving, iu n
fort of frenzy, for the wealth of Cali
fornia.
On this day all work had ceased. Tbe
men formed in a circle on the grass, and
in the center was Jack Bullet. His
hands were tied behind him, there was
an old bloodstain on his face, and from
his wolfish eyes he sent murderous
glance from one faoo to another and at
lust called out, “I wish I lmd knifed
some of ye. ”
Nono of tho men replied. Some were
pale, others nervous, and none seemed
to relish the business on hand, which
was the hanging of Jack Gullet By
and by a meek and bumble looking
man, named Elder Graves by the hoys,
entered the circle, and, standing with
one hand on tho prisoner':: shoulder, he
began;
"Jack Bullet, tl.is is a solemn morn
iug for us all. Here is the rope, then
is the limb, uml we are ,:i gathered to
hang yeti. You came to Joe White's
Dream weeks ago, poor, hungry and
ill. We fed and nursed you, and when
you were well enough to work a full
claim was staked out for you. How
have you u paid us, Jack Bullet? You
havo stolen dust from the men, brought
discords among ns, excited rows and
riots, and last night you were detected
when about to murder your partner and
steal liis few hundred dollars. We try
to he white in this camp and use all
men right, but vve cannot turn you loose
to prey upon some other party. Tho
men are going to hang yon.”
“Let ’em hang! I nau'tdie butonoe,”
sulkily replied the prisoner.
“Jack Bullet,” said the elder, “I
am a praying man, and I want lo pray
with yon before reu swing. lam sorry
for you. Yon are a strong man, and you
are to die iiko a flog. Maybe you havo
a mother iu tho east, cv yon may havo
a wife and children. God help (hem!'’
The elder sank down on his knees be
fore the prisoner and prayed such n
prayer as the rocks have never echoed
again. Before bn. had finished there
were tears iu lho eyes of half the men,
and Big Sam lent over to Curly Jim
and whispered;
"Now, that's what I call religium—
tho real old bang up religium as vve
used to git way back in New Hump-
shire. ”
When tho prayer had ended, anew
spirit came to (lie men. They scanned
Jack Bullet's face and saw that it had
softened, and as Eider Craves stepped
aside the president of the camp cut
Jack’s bonds and said:
“We don’t want your blood, though
yon sec;7:t ours. Yeu are free to go.
Jack Bullet, but don’t yon ever enter
Joe White’s Dream again.”
The reprieved man moved away with
out','! word, nor did he look bank as
long as ho was in view. When *:ie he !
disappeared from sight, the miners re
turned to their wirk, each one so busy
with his thoughts that but few words
were spoken. That day two weeks a
ca]!,,, ~,, , c.trtUiodiS citty anti
reported that Jack Bullet list! been eat
en up hv a grizzly. Every man in the
camp felt glad then -.hat his town bad
escaped the disgrace of a hanging, anti
in (he afternoon we saw Elder Graves
shoulder a spade and turn down into a
little valley. It was a beautiful spot,
always full of flic mellowest sunshine
and the prettiest flowers.
When the boys tad knocked off work
for tho flay, .hey ail descended into tho
pi ice, for what reason no ono knew,
i tut by a common consent In tho center
■ of the valley the earth had been heaped
up like a grave. At- its head was a
board, at its foot a wild rose. Ou tho
board Elder Graves had cut with kffi
knife: “Jack Bullet, aged 40. Men may
not have given him a chance, but God
will.”
Yon wouldn't think' that these rough
men laid sentiment in their hearts, but
they saw through the elder’s motives in
an instant, and the roughest man in tho
lot stooped down and carefully rear
ranged one of the sods.
Three weeks more went by, and one
evening Jack Bullet came into Jocr
White's Dream, alive nnd well. Ho
stood on tins little square, in the center
of the town, and he said not a word till
the wondering men gathered about him.
Then ho p< inted to'the grave in the val
ley, his eyes filled with tears and ho
chokingly said;
“Beys, 1 sneaked back here this
morning to kill someone in revenge,
but I cum across that—that grave down
—thar, and—and” —
He held out his hands to the men,
and the tears blinded him so that ho
could not see a face. Eider Graves went
down on his knees again, every man
with him, and there were tears and a
prayer so beautiful and tender and truo
that Jack Bullet sobbed like a VTril 1.
His heart was broken, and all the satmj
in bis nature was hr.v ■'Tout in a mo
ment. K
Joe White’s Dream was a mining
camp many months after that, and that
Jack Bullet was cne of the best men in
it. The headboard grew gray as the rain
beat down and the sun shone, and tho
beautiful wild rose grew till it covered
all the grave, but no one disturbed a
sod. The grin - was a sign—a beacon
light, as it were—and perhaps miners
were right when they Raid of our town:
“They’ve had a revival up thar, an
they aru the best chaps an the hardest
workers on the slope..’ ’ —Exchange.
Whenever you write to anybody for
information that will be beneficial to
yourself inclose a stamp. Always in
close a stamp. If you do not, tho per
son receiving your letter will know ex
actly what you are and what kind of
manners you possess.