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15 AfIKSCOUNTY JOURNAL ’ ! Offlj)aOfja!i of County WALLACE L HARDEN, .1 Editor ard Publisher. % HttM of Bnb*crlptlon. On© y©r 50 cuti c*nh or SI.OO ontiin© •lx MDtkt 25 cents cash or 60 cents on time Jittered at the Postofflce at Homer Ga. as second class matter. Contributions ar© solicited, bat Correspon dent© should remember tlist hundreds of people ere expected to read their writing*, therefore they should be short and to the point. The editor ef this paper does not hold himself ©sponsible for the slews or expressions of con rlbutors. The jorusAL is published erery Thursday n©rntnf ©q<l*ll copies should be in this office not I.*ter than Saturday morning to Insure publica tion. Addreee all communication© to Wallace I*. Harden, Editor. 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) Hunt forget to send in your Subcs eriptinn for the BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL. At the remarkably low price fiOrout I'er annum,if paid for in tulvarte . SPECIAL NOTICE. The Weekly Constitution, published at Atlanta, Ga., has an non need its tth missing word contest. This is a mid summer scheeme and something to in t rest you during the hot season, it began June Ist, and closes the Ist of September, covering a period of ninety days. It publishes the full particulars of the sealing of the book (tho sentence being taken from the works of a stan dard author) and placing the book with Gol W. A. Hemphill.tho Business Man ager of the Constitution Publishing Company, who keeps it in his safety vault and will deliver it sealed, to the committee deciding the contents on Veptembes Ist. Ten per cent of the money received from subscribers who enter thse raising word contest during the months of Juno, Jnlyjand August'will ho paid to the person or persons, naming correctly the missing word in the followine sen thnee ‘W EIIAVE NOT ‘ ’ ENOUGH AN D AI? E PIT T TO VE R Y AWKW AR i) BHI F S F O R IV AN T O F SO M E.” There is not much doubt iu the mind of the Editor of this paper as to the word expressing that of which he has not bccnsble to secure enough, and he realizes the very awkward shifts he is put to for want of same, but the point is to find the very word the author of the sentenc used in writing it. By special arrangements of the YVeekly Constitution* that great paper and ours (The BANKS 'COUNTY JOURNAL) can be obtained for one year at a most the price of one paper. Not only that; but under our arrangement with The Weekly Constitution every person who takes advantage of this clubbing propo osition, subscribing for both The Weekly Constitution, and, The Banks County Journal at? 1,25 will be entitled to a guess at tho missing word. Ail clubbing subsscriptions should he sent to this paper with each subscriber’s guess at the missing and plainly written. The guess, the nr vr.a aqd address of each subscribe will be for warded by us to The Consti tution. The Constitution’s first “missing word contest” closed on the Ist of January, and but cue person Mr. M. L. Brittain a hard-working school teacner, guessed the missing word, receiving therefor a check for $ 1,033,50. Is a econd contest closed on the 1 - t of March, ita third contest closed in May Ist, and the Weekly Constitution of Monday, September (Ith will contain the anuoucement of the awards in which the cash is to be distributed among the sneo cessful guessers in this new contest. The readers of our paper who subscribe ointly to itandTne Weekly Constitu tion have free access into the fourth' contest just opened ; and it may be thre omc of then will get the money to b distribute!) on the Ist of September. The only condition of the contest is that every guesser must be a subscriber and taking advantage of Tho Constitu tion’s offer we present this opportunity to all who wish to subscribe to both papers. Every person should have his county paper and one general newspaper; and The Weekly Constitu tion, with a circulation of 156,000, occupies the unique distinction of be ing the greatest Amercan Weekly news paper. Plcase note tho Constitution advertisement on page 8, can’t you supply the missing word? Subscribe for both papers, at 51,25 per year, send the money and orde>- to The JOURNAL, HOMER. Ga. 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.