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THE WOOL-HAT BOYS.
. The friend* 01 Capt. Carltor
paid a most fitting and deserved
compiim to the yeomanry of thi
Sth distiict when they elected Mi.
Wooten, “a wool hat boy” from
Wilke* county, to preside over that
body, and with pleasure we say
that he acquitted himself in a man
ner highly creditable. As Capt.
Carlton's vote came Irom the farm
ers of the district, it is right and
pioper that this class be recognized
and honored by his friends. And
right here we will say that the ex
ample set by the Carlton delegate*
in the Tuesday’s convention should
be followed by oilier political bod
ies in the state. While the wool-
hat boys are the sinews ot the coun
try, they are kept in the back
ground and the politicians and pro-
fis.ionals allowed to reap all th<
honors, lienee we say that th»
election of this gallant yonng far
mer from Wilkes to occupy the
highest position in the gift ot the
convention that lately convened in
our city was a ftep that should
break the ice that has always fiozen
the honest tiller of the soil out ol
every honor. Capt. Carlton pro
claimed himself the people's candi
date, and by thus honoring one ol
yeomanry of the district his
friends proved that he did not se
cure votes under lalse pretenses.
The distinguished gentlemen pio-
posed by Mr. Keese’s friends would
have made a most excellent chap
man, but unfortunately they wcie
in a hopeless minority, and the
mantle fell on the shoulder's <,f a
young farmer. We have always
contended that this class of our pop
ulation should be pressed more to
the front, and trom this day onward
we intend to battle harder ihan ev
er for the advancement and lio-> 0 t
of the wool hat boys. They are
the ones that do the voting, and
why not let them also reap thcii
full share of all th-s? They
are the men who are responsible
for Capt. Carlton's success, and
his friends were the first in the state
to recognize and honor them.
T11K KK-.fl’OnTlOXMKNT 111'S1-
N KSS.
In going into the convention un
der the old basis ol representation,
the delegates that convened in Ath
ens on Tuesday morning last did
not repudiate the action of the exec
utive committee, but for the sake oi
harmony, and to secure the nomi
nation of the gentleman far whom
bey were instructed, they consent
ed that the old rule of 2 to 4 be
adopted. Wilkes county h3d in
structed its delegates to withdraw
from the convention in the event of
the new basis of 3 to 5 beingadopt
ed, which would have broken up
the meeting and destroyed the
party in the district. There w:s no
other alternative for the Wilkes del
egates but to withdraw, while the
other counties had not received such
arbitrary instructions, lienee, the
action ot the smaller counties, in
accepting the compromise, will he
endorsed and applauded by tbe
people, for it was a necessary and
patriotic move and prevented a split
in the convention that would have
resulted in i free-for-all race for
congress. As Cap'.. Carlton had a
large majority of the votes piesent,
nothing vvi s Aacriliced and the
wishes of the people carried out to
the very letter. The defeat of Mr.
Lewis’resolution showed that the
convention endorsed the action of
the executive committee, and this
was a decisive victory for the
smaller counties. This vexed ques
tion, that at one time threatened to
create a rupture in the party in the
Sth district, will now be referred to
the highest tribunal, the people, and
beyond their voice is no appeal.
The representatives from the smalle
counties gained a victory indeed in
the defeat of the Lewis resolution,
and at thr same time, by their con
servative patriotism, kept ti gether
the party in the district and accom
plished the purpose for which they
had convened. These gentlemen
not only deserve the applause of
their own people, but the thanks so
the democracy of the entire state.
“T11E AT11KNS CUQU K.”
the legislature, is an injustice to the "Tammany braves in -New York
smaller counties, for' in many in
stances it gives them but little over
half the representation that more
avored sections enjov. Alabama
has the fairest system ol rcpiesen-
tation that we have yet seen, viz :
A delegate for every one thousand
democratic voles that a county ma\
cast, taking the official returns ol
the last national election as a guide.
It is the duty of the executive cmn
mittee, when it convenes, to tix th«
apportionment ol every county in
the state. This is not only entire •
fair and just, but it acts as an i’icen
live 10 ihe various counties to swel 1
the democratic majority as large a*
possible, as it means an increase in
their political power. We want to
see this matter brought up in our
state convention, and in the mean
time let the press discuss it. Some
thing must be done, or the troub'e
threatened in the Sth distiict wih
spread to other sections ol Georgia.
The state convention is the tribunal
that can and should settle this mat
ter, and we h pe that at its nex
meeting a moiv equitable basis ol
epie-entation will be fixed tl an
the present basis.
when they celebrated Independent
day. He is also a spoilsman
Said lie, after characterizing civi
service reform as undemocratic ai d
unconstitutional: “If the spoils
don't belong to the victois, 10 whom
do they belong? ’ And this senti-
nent was appliuJed sine.-rely
Senator Vance had opened li s
pecch with praise of the president
;nd his honesty, and then he re'er
red, without mncli ado, to 1 lie spoils
topic. It was rather inconsistent
to sav the least, thus damning the
president with faint praise. The
southern senator is undoubtedly a
pokesman for his party, and wile"
he expressed his disapprobation ot
1 seivice reform, he voiced tht
sentiment of dim ;crats; he meant
that the public offices we:e not be-
ug;given out fast enough to satisfy
he demand ol the rank and tile o!
he party It is the muttering ol
discontent, and it is plain to be seen
that the president ivnli his advanced
ideas of reform does not suit the
O'-
ALMOST LYXCIIKD THOUGH IX
NOCK.XT.
THIS CRUEL MACHETE.
A STORY OF THE LAST REVOLUTION
IN CUBA.
MY FLOWER.
, A PUBLIC INSANE ASYLUM.
LOTUS.
Attention has frequently been
called to the danger of innocent
persons fa'livtg victims to the in s
directed indignation of the popu
ace in cases of summaiy execn-
10ns. Ciicumstances frequently
seem to point to persons as heiiii
guilty of terrible crimes, when only
the most patient investigation and
he coolest judgment can detcrmiui
the question of guilt or innocence
Men who are excited and inuignan
it the commission of a crime an
not the proper persons to be the
judges and executioners.
Some two years ago a man ac
cused of a shocking assault was
lynched at Jacksonville, Ill., ctrcn
stances pointing to him as the
guilty party. The other day the
real culprit died, confessing th
deed and exculpating the victim
that had been murdered by hi
well-meaning neighbors in thbir un
lawful and almost insane zeal t<
punish crime.
A case occurred in Texas the
other day that should impress th
above truths on the minds of tht
people all over the country. A
worthy old citizen of Collin was
found in a dying condilion, and
circumstances * indicated that h*
was the victim of a brutal murder
He made a dying declaration in
which he accused a neighbor o 1
having assaulted him. Public opin
ion was excited and the people
were terribly aroused, and sever 1
times a mob was on the eve o
lynching the accused. He was ar
rested, and fortunately wise coun
seis at length prevailed, and the
law was allowed to take its course
The accused was held at Ihe Coro
ner’s inquest, and it seemed for
awhile that there would be no
trouble to fasten the guilt on him.
Finally evidence was obtained
which showed beyond question that
the prisoner could not have done
the deed, and that the deceased had
committed suicide. It was only in
the delirium of the dying agony
that the victim conceived the idea
that the accused had assaulted him
Scarcely a day passes in which
there is not a lynching in some part
ol the country. People have got to
resorting to lynch law even in cases
of theft and common assault. It is
time to cal! a halt in the matter.
Good citizens should be law-abid
ing. and they should see to it that
the law is enforced in a lawful man
ner. There is hardly room to doubt
that many innocent people are
lynched every year, and that ire-
quently what is called mob justice
is only mob murder.—Savannah
News.
Tlx- Oy.lrr nn.l III. Slli-IL
Suppose that, placing two oyster shells
in their natural position, we insert a
piece of India rubber between the valves
at the lx.in: where they are hinged tn-
Bothcr. If we now forcibly close the
shells by pressure, the India rubber is
compressed. When wc release the press
ure of our lingers, the elasticity and re
coil of the India rubber forces the valves
ep.irt. In such a fashion, then, d
nature provide for the constant main
tenance of the unclosed condition. The
"liRaineiits" of the shell are natural
. l.istie pads existing at the l.inye hue.
lly their elasticity they keep the valves
unclosed. There is no strain involved in
the action, which is a merely mechanical
one after all.
Hut whe.. the more infrequent net of
closure has to Ik? performed, then mus
cular e;i rry requires to Ik- displayed. The
quick .-.n:.p of the valves reminds us tlutt
muscular exertion, even if necessitating
vital wear and tear, lias its corresponding
ndvonta.ye in the rapidity and elievtive-
nt-ss will, which it provides for protection
maillist tic entrance of disagreeable or
noxious elements into the internal nr-
ranuenictils of oyster or mussel l.fc.—
]-curiu m's .Mari’.zinc.
Terrible Fate Which Overtook s Hand j
Among the sheaves, when I beheld thee
first.
That happv harvest morn a year ago,
A thought crept through my heart with
sudden glow, . . ' in an asylum if there is the Vli'ghte’s'I hoM
That never sunny mountain top had oI thejr reCovery j n these institutions
An Bx-Patlent’1 Words of Warning— j I love the lotus blossom when It wreathos
How to Avoid Mental Disease. Its painted petals in my sweetheart's tresses,
I would earnestly entreat the relatives And she, enchanted by its odor, breathes
and friends of lunatics never to put them 1 Hott wonts of love, and soothes with soft
of Noble Spanish chivalry—Missive I A fresher, fairer flower—the very air
From » l!raYo'Chlca:oan«>sha(lov. i of ! Klosed thy dear face and seemc to et
u htarto‘1 Night.
fair,
nursed - eWthing^
foXTa™'shut I And **and ^t°h^aLr S sighs,
li ftjro ther co ax urn;! uv'e 5? *th ^ sy*m pa t h eri 0 j For that love's sake she has yet told to no
action would Certainly increase the vio i
lence of his disease and retard Us enre. ; I love the lotus blossom for it grows
The same thing is true of mental disca-.es. | On a lone gi-avo beside a silent river;
. -• — - - ... t u:„ n Again, a person is taken from a home 1 There my youth’s mistress takes her last re-
much blood. Whenever it is drawn, Oh! child like woman, that hast kept ttnno , wtl ere ^ lias delicate food ou a table fur- poso;
either aiiuinst the soldiery or in riot, j heart , | nished with respectable, for want of a I loved, I hated, and I now'forgive her.
somebody dies. Do yon want a little tale : So pearled with the morning aew, nij letter word I will say, furniture, clean | -Justin H. McCarthy, AL P.
of tho machete—-one that is true and flower! my flower. cloth, dainty dishes, glassware, etc. There I —
shows wliat awful havoc may be done • HowAkssing dull my heart was In that | muct cat off a |> are p i an k w i t h ill- I R©«mt «r the Hnt Boat itace.
nour.
And the serene, deep* summer heaven
“But the machete means something to ! above ... . .
the Cuban,” ualtl the old don. “It isn’t j Leaned down to gaze on thee witn loo »
merely n rusty old relic. It has drank of love.
— I .
with It? , „
“Well, at the outbreak cf our Inst re- 1 Owning thy beauty* yet devoid of art,
bullion here the Spanish forces iu the And insight to discern, that by God’s grace
Island made no headway against the ' My life’s best angel met me face to face..
bray’j work of the insurgents under the | —T. Westwood.
noble Ccspides, who, in October, 1SG8, I . ——
With but li.ty Other Stout hearts about The Protest or tho rroof-lt©ador.
him, mfscil the standard of independence ! However, since the proof-reader has
on his plantation at lXmnjagua, and by J been graciously allowed to say that, his
December had an organized army of ' soul’s his own, it is perhaps worth while,
r~\000 men—the nucleus of tho effort for m jia amusement, to hear how he puts
liberty which flamed through Cuba for ! t he case. In tbe first place he says that
i^ht bloody years, costing Spain untold „n nnthor intent on what he is writing, w
eat oiT a bare plank,
tasting knives and spoons, made of'pewter, j
while ulFhis food La mixed together on one
plate. All around him are hU fellow luna
tics, eating like hogs with their fingers
and muttering to themselves. The keep-
It is a pretty sight race days to seethe
girls who dote on rowing men—and their
name is legion—urging their heroes on.
Who thinks it is difficult to pull out
winner in a boat race? Absurd! The
ers meanwhile are cursing and swearing shells glide along so easily, the seats
throwing potatoes at the men for a
joke. Your appetite is destroyed, and the
little food you manage to force down is
not digested and barely suffices to keep
body and soul together. I have no special
fault to find with the quantity or quality
of my food, although I was never able to
as for the tea and
had enough to
I picked up until another interruption.
! This is not for a moment, but all day,
J all the week, all the year, all his life,
j After puzzling himself until he is half
l blind, his brain weary, and work pushing
IJrave and j upon him incessantly, a letter may l*e left
■'■'.’••'i'*'- • -* vroiig
madhouse. If
value of money
and what it can do for you live in a public
insane asylum. I've been a miser ever
since I left it. A good private nurse and
a skillful doctor can ofteu restore a pa
tient to reason who would never recover
if placed in an asylum.
A word or two to individuals suffering
A Georgia Oxle*' Willow Farm.
Al*>ut a mile lielow the city of Macon,
!»«., is an ozier willow farm. The willow
switches, at the end of two years, are
from fo ir t«» seven inches long, and are
cut and gathered into bunches like
sheaves of wheat. They are steeped in
wafer and the bark at the larger end
loosened for a couple of inches by ma
chinery. The leaves and bark are re
moved by a little machine, and the
switches are placed in the mechanical
stripper, and with a pair of pliers are
pulled through with A sudden jerk. They
are then wiped off with a woolen cloth,
bundled and laid away to dry. All the
leaves and barks are dried ami baled.
They are used for medicinal purjioses,
and command a price of 25 cents per
pound. The average yield is a ton to the
acre. When dried the willows command
$200 per ton, and find a ready market.—
Chicago lic&ld.
t.> take I little i tirely different character from an entirely ; sj>e”mi three months m
:;:.iv,; U,i;‘oe“,e Z I to I A want to realize the
afternoon between breakfast ami dinner,
or between dinner and the llavaua even
ing ball.
URATE AND GAT AND NOBLE.
“They were an even 5,000.
gay and noble were they. They held tho j ou t or a comma inserted in the
ivl-it a .a.T'Lr,,1'rTf , n I,ain ' i P lace . when slam-banR goes a volley at. j from nervo'asiiess7a mild form of insanity,
i, M l* a !q t arriT ,rVt I n^«nK , v the P"*.( reader! He has seen consclen- ! aIi<1 which !s always liable to develop into
1 . . and armal at ]la\ana the> nmdel ; tious, patient .worthy proof-readers shrink a 8er i ou ^ mental disease Never under
1 hey were Splendid fellows, and it IS said . rinin* when nn nnthor visits a nrillt- ) a 8e • ua * In f nial u,sctwe -
fhev rrTirnsni.tfsi ViVin (Nvi ooo i nuu cringe non an auuior visits a pniiir any circumstances, use either Lquoror
' ln * "‘'. lce -. k ' St 80metbi " K have ! tobacco; the (ewer drugs, the better. All
■ * - - • - - - escaped their notice. Ho has seen au . ti leso things render tho nerves more sen-
author scold a proof-reader for some tn- sitive and 1 can say from bittcrexperlence
iling oversight when that same dnv^ the . f | 0 f ar morc harm than good. Avoid
proof reader had corrected an historical , anoi i ynes M8 you would poison. You had
iduuder which would have cost the uuthor j letter lie t wake all night than suffer
dearly had it seen the light. He has seen , f rom tlie effects that invariably follow
ua author brag of his penmanship, and f rom their use. Fresh air, gentle exer-
when his mauuscript has been sent to ! else—violent exercise is very injurious—
him because it was unreadable, he him- • um j suitable employment are the reme-
.^elf was scarcely able to decipher it,— | that will alleviate this disease. Don’t
Detroit Free Press. j think about yourself; get outside of your-
inuch. as possible. I accomplish
was a Ticii family’s or a titled family’:
sou. Nearly every man had his own volet*
Their uni.orms and accoutrements—fur
nished at t heir own cost—were dazzling in
gold and lace. A month of the wildest
social debauchery followed their arrival.
Fetes, balls, receptions, bullfights, carni
vals, welcomed them on every hand. At
last they came out lic*re—over beyond the
cnlzadn there, near, the Guines railway—
and went into camp. Instantly this cal-
y.ad:i, all the way back to Havana, was ! .
transformed into another Paseo de Taeon, What t,ie Hlmltt Llve * ° n *
throngwl with the equipages of the aris- ! Human live is supported iu India upon
torracy rolling to and from tho brilliant • l>arvst mimnnnn of necessaries; the vil-
camp. The magnilicence of the city’s so- j itt K« population feed upon the commonest
cial gnyotics w:u* simply transferred there. I grains, never eating animal food (which is
“One night a great fete had lieen givc^i ! contrary to their religion) uud rarely tast
at the tneampment, more brilliant and ; the finer grains, such as wheat an<3
gorgeous than aujthing that had preceded ; harley. The clothing
it. Ju.-t Ufore midnight, when the fes- Best, and I was distre:
tivitfes were at their height, the com- Bie people in Hie northwest provinces
mnuder of tho resplendent troop, on re- i shivering and half naked in weather so
pairing to his headquarters tent, found I cold that I was glad to wear two topcoats,
the following note pinned upon a diniinu- ; The houses are built of clay, and almost
live insurgent ling surmounting a gor- j destitute of furniture, and I understand
geous pyramid of flowers, the gift that : that a targe portion of the population only
day of some beautiful llahanas: eat one meal a day.
“ ‘After your other guests are gone we Of course this in nn eastern country
will visit you. l)o us the honor to receive ! does not signify what it does in Europe—
us standing! Washington Kyan.’ i life can be sustained on less food and less
this by frequenting places of amusement
and losing self in the woes of the hero. I
forget myself and my troubles, most of
which are equally fanciful. But the best
of all specifics is music, which acts like a
charm to soothe the aching and feverish
nerves. Make up your mind to avoid
, everything that injures you, screwing
distressed to see many-of j your courage up to the sticking place,
— . . bearing always in your mind the mad
house. If you do not exert your will
power, its doors may .close on you, per
haps for life.—“Jaques” in Brooklyn Eagle.
move so lightly, and the oars gleam so
brightly, that it must be the simplest
thing in the world. Only when you arc
hard at it, and it seems us though the in
fernal boat were held liack by a thousand
submarine hands, and your tack aches so
that the tears drip from your eyes, and
there is a noise in your ears like the din of
n million boiler factories, and you can’t
think, speak or hope, but only make
frantic efforts to pull your almost unman
ageable arms out of their sockets, then it’s
easy—oli, so easy! Ages later, you arc
conscious of being past the finish, and you
gasp, in a voice that is certainly lfot your
own, while a drop of blood fulls from your
mouth and leaves its record on your flan
nel breeches:
“ i )i«!—wi—beat—’em—ver ’—bad?’ ’
“Beat them? They crossed the line* ten
long!hs ahead. It was a stern chase from
the :
This, after months of training and no
end of deprivation. Who cures to row
Ids first race over agaiu.—Blakely Hall
in The Argonaut.
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ORbla’ii Study of the Finoti'«ni«.
It was soon after her own disappoint
ment that Ouidn discovered that hlr
companion, a shy, grave little English
governess, was also having a love affair
with an Italian. The girl had lk*en some
what imprudent, slipping out at Late hours
to talk to her lover, for both of them were
afraid of the bitter, disappointed woman
with whom she lived. When she war. dis
covered through her own imprudence ^
lhad given Hindi a hold niton her winch
she used for her own advantage. “Only
on one condition will I countenance this
affair,” said the severe and angry novel
ist.* “You must tell me everything re
lating to this affair, every word that has
passed between you and every emotion of
your heart.”
The girl wept and raged. Otiida war.
he had no friends to go to,
an !
lvl
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Finally si
tears and angry i
pretty, tender little
hint vows of her iia:
un died
id told, amid
lions, all her
; —"U the gal-
feel-
idulteration whatever.
“I.lTe** Ivory IMfftir* from “Demi."
“That knife handle is worth twice as
much as the other,” said an ivory dealer
to a reporter, us he pointed out two hand-
* was tho hero from Chicago who ! nutritious diet than in norther climes; the j
a life for Cuba, whoso real «reat- labor power ot the Hindus is smaU; there is ! ' lllkB ' 80 tht re l‘°“er asked iu what
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Some of Mr. Reeses frientl
worked the above cry for all it was
worth, but the withering rebuke
they received Irom the people
showed that they had taken up a
cold trail. Hut we will say that
there is a clique in Athens, and the
Banner-Watchman is at the head
of it. The mission of that clique is
to take political power Irom court
house rings and place it in the hands
of the people, where it rightly be
longs. In the nomination of Capt.
A 1>1 T LTKRATKl> WINKS.
Most people outside the div
counties, and in son.e of then) lot
that matter, have long known that
most of the beer drank in the coun
try is not lager, hut bogus beer,
and that a very large proportion ol
the puie rye whisky sold is not
whisky at all, but manufactured or
“rectified” stuff that is as unwhole
some as it is fraudulent.
In some sections ot the country
the consumption of wine has been
increasing, and the sale of pure do
mestic wine is generally toleraleii
if not encouraged even by the pro
hibitionists. The truth is that good
wine is very wholesome. St. Paul,
it will be remembered, counseled
Timothy to drink no more water
(exclusively he doubtless meant)
but to take a little wine for his stum-
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GIN SAW FILING MACHINE.
The TAYlOU GIN saw one »f tne
best iri-lf. anybody c*n file Gin Saw. with |l«
Requires no p-sctice Do* a i s work hr It should
'* 51*»-« an ' ten times insier tha t by hand. t\-
•cry Vacliine warrant. «1. Price $1 k I u\» fur
iia?lf every sea-on. Or.l- r ir.»iu
-I. N. srTIIKHf.ANM, Ite’inn. R
giiize, j far less taken out of the humau machine
ami for whose memory they have t»nly j than in our lalxirious western life; it con-
xnntlo one daub of a portrait. | sumes less and produces less; besides, the
“The missive created the greatest mirth I Asiatic lias the power of (\igesting a
and hilarity. The camp and its guests . greater quantity of food at one meal than
were wild with mirth and delight over the ! is possible to Europeans; but, when due
grim wit of the crazy writer and liis pre- j allowance is made for all this, it is not to
lent ions message. They drank toasts to ! be deuied that the poverty of a great part
him: sung mock praters of his valor; the • of India is extreme and more acute than
bands blared ferociously in his honor until j what we witness in Europe. It may be
the small hours had come and all the city said with truth of a great part of tho
guests had gone. rural population that it is never far ro-
siiAixnvs of A starless night. mov^d from famine. A scauty harvest any
“Then n hush came upon the splendid | )ear brings that calamity within meas
urable distance; a failure of crops means
death to a large part of the population un
less fed by government.—Contenv' rary
Kj»vL.
camp, and wine and sleep wrought silence
under the shadows of r. starless night.
“it might have been the restless wind
soughing through the dark canyons, but
the commander could not sleep. He read
and rv-ivad the daring message until the
link* insurgent flag grew .and glamoured
into an awful menace. Surely there must
!h* a great .* form coining on. Surely it
must lx* swetping out of the night upon
the camp from everywhere. Surely
“But the storm was there! and it waa
winged death.
The trumpeters had no more than time
WINGED SCAVENGtuS Sr . nt SOUTH
1 and
Famluntentu! Facts as to the Xatio
fliilly ot the Turkey But/anl.
The so-called turkey buzzard is not a
buzzard, but a vulture. By insisting
upon this distinction the buzzard tribe
could improve its reputation for ckanli-
ness. it is against the law iu almost
to shrilly summon the heavily sleeping l every southern state to shoot a turkey
buzzard.
for tl»i:
telbi
camp to its feet when God only knows how
many horsemen were upon them—black,
brown, yellow, white—but all men—men
with awful purpose.
“Their hosts had received these devils
of the night ‘standing.’ No cry went up
from that camp, save ns each of these
flower of the chivalry of Spain saw j *-*—•
swift death in one lightning stroke cle- ihougb his knowing tills does not imply
hete gleamed ^bat he has superior knowledge—and lie is
There are t’
I rohibit ion; tho buzzards are the
ers of the south, and there is no
what sort of a pestilence a dead
turkey buzzard would bring on if anylKsly
should kill one.
The turkey buzzard is a knowing bird.
He knows lie is not good to lie eaten-
scending. Every time a mac
in tbe glare of the Dickering camp
severed a Spanish head from its body and
struck through to the heart of some
noble woman in old Castile.
“A half hour aiul all was over. The
storm was gone. These awful spirits of
the night swept away into the night again,
leaving but one moving thing—a* mon
strous insurgent flag 1 tearing these words:
“ ‘They were royal hosts. They re
ceived us standing.'
“The morning came, bringing the most
perfect peace that ever fell on soldier’s
camp. The Culmii machete had wrought
it. Onr Havanese brought two car loads
of gold laced caps into tho city that day.
These were sent hack to Spain in place of
the 5,000 who had left it. So, my friend,
you may now well remember the machete
of Ctffia!”—Edgar L. Wukeman’s Cuba
Letter in Chicago News.
not shy of mankind. He li
mfirket places in the southern cities, wait
ing for bu. incss to close; and when the
crowd of purchasers lias departed the buz
zard descends and feasts upon the odds
and ends that have fallen from the
butchers' and the fishmongers' knives.
The scarcity of hash, mince pie and li.**h
chowder in the southern states is some
thing for which the buzzard should have
credit. In Charleston there is a big pub
lic market down by the water, and the
buzzards always clean up after business
hours.
The wisdom of the turkey buzzard is
known also by one of his expedients for
getting rid of work, which is fatiguing in
the southern states. He goes to the
mouth;; of rivers, where the conflicting
forces of current and tide deposit on the
bnul:a a considerable proportion *>f the
the difference lay
“Well, one handle is formed of live Ivory
and the other of dead,” replied the mer
chant. “By live ivory I mean ivory taken
from an auiuial recently killed. That sort
of ivory Is expensive, because it Is hard to
get. It is strong, because there is life in
it, and it is used for the handles of the
best knives, and where dead ivory could
not be used. When nn elephant loses a
tusk that tusk becomes what we call dead
ivory. He sheds the tusk, and it has no
strength in it. It is brittle and breaks
easily, and can only be used for the
handles of pocket knives, or in other
forms where the ends are protected. If
they were not, the ivory would split a ml
crack in a very short time. The ivory
taken from tin* tusks of the antediluvian
mammoihs buried in Hie soil of Siberia is,
of course, all dead ivory. Its uses are,
therefore, limited. If you ever want
to buy any ivory goods, be sure to ascer
tain whether it is live or dead ivory be
fore purchasing. If the former it is
strong a:nl durable; if the latter, it is brit
tle and liable to crack, even where fast
ened.
“ The same rule, implies to the horn.
Deerhorn anil buckhoru, so commonly
used, especially in the handles of pocket
knives, is much of it made from the horns
shed by the deer, ami of lit tie value. The
live-horn is more expensive. —New York
Sun.
ing of her own p*.M>r little h«*art was ban
to relentless questioning. In Ouida's »e
novel the w.:<•!.* thing appeared r.s a care
ful study of the emotions of an innocent,
loving girl. The little governess is mar
ried and prosperous, happy mother of
beautiful children.—Cor.. New York
World.
*•! ( li •mic'ii \V *rks, fb
Paying OflT :i Church I>eht.
John Buskin, being asked the other day
for aid in paying off a church debt, replied
by letter thus: “I am sorrowfully
amused at your appeal to me, of all the
people in the world, the precisely least
likely to give you a farthing. My lirst
word to all men and !x»ys who care to
hear me is: ‘Don't get into debt. StArvc.
and go t*» he:ven: but don’t borrow. Try
first beggin I don't mind, if it's really
needful, ste ding. 'But don’f buy things
you can't p ;v for.’ And of all manner of
| debtors, pi ms people building churches
they can't piy for are the most detestable
nonsense to me. you preach ar.d
pray behind the hedges, or in a sandpit,
or in a coal hole first? And of all manner
of churches ihus idiotically built, iron
churches arv tho damnablest to me. And
of all u.v si fts and believers in any ml: g
spirit. Hindoos, Turks, feather idoiutois
and Mumbo .I audio log and tire wor
shippers who want churches, your modern
English evangelical sect is the most al>-
surd and entirely objectionable and unen
durable to nu*. All which you might very
easily have found out from my books.
Any other sort of sect would, before
bothering me to write it to them.”—Chi
cago Times.
A. R. ROBERT ON
t
Marble and Granite Work-3
>1 Mi
j carrion and other unwholesome things
To tlio Internal Cmpini; Ground.. tjuit ore toward tlie sea on the
«<» f„ii i,_j f .* ,* ... . ri\er s flood, and there lie accommodate*
,i " f r 1 ' 1 ' " ll1 .t ol,lk : r3 °*| Ids not very fastidious npnetite to the
the l uion army marrh off to the eternal I movement of the tides. Alt 'animals that
cantpiiiK dronads ever* year. 1 his j perish inland are found by the buzzards.
It is even said that flocks of these birds
Kii.tl; ?»« Mill,
**l any kliui fer Woo I c
4*u*uli ihe
* ill* ki-MiN of I-;ngii
•**»■!! Kngii.f. Ii*ii!**r or M» c’liutry of any
ri.H* l A'. i .td Hors
J. N. SUTHERLAND, Bftlton, S. C.
Mine from nn ex-official of the pension de
partment. and it was called out by the re
mark that since the war 150 prominent
officers of the old Army of the Tennessee
had died. “The boya are going.” he con
tinued. “at the rate of 3,000 or 4,(MX) a
year, and I estimate that every two weeks
a full company is mustered for the last
roll call and that every three months a
full regiment goes over the line. Four
regiments a year, forty regiments in teu
years, a grand army corps of nearly 100,-
00J :ac:i in twenty years—at this rate tlie
boys will soon Ik? gone.”—Inter-Occaa
“Curbstone Crayons.”
Carlton for congress we triumphed,
and now that *e have the politi- | ach *ake and his often intirmatie
It is stated on what appears to lu-
good authority that vast quantities
of vile compounds are being sold in
he country as pure California
dans under foot, intend to keep
them there, and they can just
squirm and rave to their heart’s
content. We have the wool-hat
boy* on our side and intend to keep
them, too. -The Athens’ clique”
embrace* every farmer in the Sth
district, and is banded together to
crush out court house rings and
prolessionat politicians. Don't yov
forget it, that “the Athens clique”
is now triumphant, and that tri
umph means victory for the yeo
msnrv of the Sth district and dis
pair and destiuctioA to the old
ringsters. They have won their
last victory, for their candidate did
not carry a single county from the
day that Capt. Carlton took up the
standard of the people. He was
nominated as the people’s candi
date, he will be elected as the peo-
ple’a candidate, and serve the peo
ple faithfully and devotedly.
THE BASIS OF HEl’lSESENTATION.
When the state convention meets
on the sStb, we hope that body will
take some steps toward more justly
equalizing representation from the
various counties in tieorgia, and
thus settle a question that has al
ready come up in the Sth district,
•nd will, it something is not done,
disrupt the democratic party. The
present basis of representation, of
allowing a county two vote* in con
ventions for each representative in
wines. It is said that iheie are sev
eral large establishments in New
York alone devoted to themanufac
ture of bogus wines. These wines
are sold as low as 30 cents a gal
lon, with a liberal discount for cash.
The wine is said to be made of stale
grapes and raisins, together will)
sugar, water, acids and other in
gredients that are cheap .and plen
tiful in all huge cities. All brands
are imitated and the cost to the
manufacturers is said to be from 10
to 12 cents per gallon.
These wines, like imitation beer
and doctored whiskies aie object
ed to not only because ih. y are the
means ol defrauding ilio-e who
purchase them, but because they
are unwholesome and therefore in
jurious. It is strange that while
the laws of every stale of the gen
eral governmen restrict and regu
late the legitimate manufacture of
beer and liquors, very little effiott
has been made anywhere to protect
the people against the spurious ai-
ticles.—Savannah News.
*• Hu* jirojK-iiy o: Joii
1 . u..u.-ustlijvm lie.
MricMi. M., lu .a or,
l.‘, 0*-A RKKcoUN 1 Y — *'» hcicaM, Mrs
A U1 Jam . U.
applies fur •l /!rMl |,* )u f.om Maid Giw
iu t* "•» vl |, r law. Tnr>e are there
c and tern j>h a'l coucvruid t«» »*»*>*
1... 1 xu nr term U the Court I or
•n.ti » utility to he held «u ihe Hist Moil
«ll*>chai|go Mieu.d
Or
hi an* of said
li, rut
admiuisirHtio
; tbe
RKEiuo.Si V—linn*.* jjiiic
biuUu* or of the tmiat.* of Joht
dec *A.ved, has api.lie l u
discharge
These are tlier<*orc lo cite aiul
««<m mail ail concerned U» »h<rw cause at ifre
■ CKultir terui oi the court of Ordioaiy of said
county. i<» ire held on th.* Hist Monday in Novetu-
l>cr next why sa ddtsctmrue bliottld not he rraut-
c 1. Given ut.dcr inr hand au otticiat Migaatur.
«t ollice this aru day of July, lagd.
* FHfcNLY.QCO.
N uTICK, to tlcbiofi and creditor*.—.vll pen»on c
hovmgdei&intaa K aitntbee*taie of John
W Nicholson lateut 1 ini tr county, drccascd. are
hereby notl ‘ierl to r rdtr n i ^eir demand* t • the
undersigned a cording to law. nd all |.eis rtain*
dehte 11* *uld c>tatc are required to untae itn
mediate pay tuQtiU .l«H\N UCUvSK.
. „ ... W D GttIFr CTlf,
Rxecntora of John W Nicholson deceased.
G nn
itn eased baa applied to iuv lo have
year* support set »«ide to her from the cata.c ol
artid dtceaawd Thi Isinerefure to c teai.d »dmon-
i-h ail • onermed lo *bo« cause if any they have
at rny ollice on tbe first Mo iday Id ’us"t next
• lie said apiditaion shaii noth- granted aud
•*‘*e rears all-iwid as fixed by the return
of the appraised lor that pun-oseJaly 3rd)886
B tk TH H ASH Kit OMina-v.__
DICKEYS’
PAINLESS EYE WATER!
KKLIEvKS AT ONCE, cures inflamed and
weak eye* in a few hours. Gives hQ FAIT
The Beat Ueuirdy in the wor d lor granulated
lid* I'drc'Mi'eatsaioule. Aak lor it. Have
bo other. m
DICKEY & ANDERSON, Pro'n
Use “seven Springs, *«,") Brutol, Teun.
WOMEN!
Senator Vance ot North Caro
lina is an outspoken and strict par
tisan. He does not believe in civil
service reform and took occasion to
say so at the great powwow cf SEgS®.*
f^eou. Louisville, Ky.
It is net necessary for you to suffer any longer
with those troubles peculiar to your eos when
ssrsrai!SKf“ "
the mlM power* ot flfinos*
Frtcef
lVliat iN.rtu-wl** Kln S Has hone.
Kiiw Luis, of PorttijBil, has done soir.e-
thimr lnsiile ruHn*^ a peaceful country.
He luis iii.Thlmtl half a dozen lan^U.-’.^es
and translated li\e of Shakespeare’s plays
into Portuguese.—Inter-Ocean.
New York and Brooklyn consume 21 |
per cent, of the malt liquor of the uuion. |
Tlie Very CnuaplcuouN Tnlly-llo.
Nothin*? conM be more unretiriuj? than
the coaching? that 1ms liecome intensely
fashioualik* to a few of the most preten
tious people a* town. A four horse drag
with glittering harness, bright vehicle,
liveried flunkies, loud hqgler and load of
women gjiyly dressed, is quite as re
splendent ns n circus chariot and com
mands as much attention ns it rolls along
a crowded street. But it is the loading or
unloading that Is jmrticularly an amuse
ment for the spectators. I have seen a
distinguished belle mounting to the top
of n cor.cli in the midst of a rabble, in
every way ns conspicuous as a queen of
the wire about to nsceml to the height of
a tent pole, with a saucy urchin comment
ing shrilly ou her appearance, like a
clown helping o:*thc exhibition, aud she
was nil the while ns placid iu» though se
cluded in her own boudoir.—New York
letter. __
John Q. Adams anil life Coachman.
A few days \x?fore the Inauguration qf
President Harrison, the horses of John
Quincy Adams became frigbteueil near the
Capitol, by the dis*.barge of Colt’s fire
arms before a committee of congress, aiul
ran away, overturning the carriage uud
injuring the coachman. Mr. Adams re
mained ftt home for two days, aiul l>e-
stowed nil the attention and time upon
the man that a child could give its father,
regarding alike the religious condition find
physicial sufferings of his unfortunate
servant. The first interview between loan
and master was quite touching. “Your
horses ure gone uud the carriage with
them,” said the servant, when lie first
saw Mr. Adams after the accident, and
adding to this that he was a “dying man.”
“Never mind the horses and carriage,”
said Mr. Adams, kindly. “If you ure a
dving man. think of j*our soul.”—Ben:
Ferley poor©
The >iirkn;Li(iea or German lU'i’lmrntii.
To take the collective list first tho
guards are designated “llatnmel.” or
sheep. Tlie cavalry christen the infantry,
as a body, by the alternative names of
“sand hares.” “sand carriers” ami “clod
hoppers.” The infantry invariably speak
of the cavuly as rooms.” The guards
call soldiers of the line “field rats.” The
cuiraissiers are known as “flour sacks.”
the hussars as “pack threads,” the artillery
as “cow soldiers,” aud the pioneers as
“moles.” Coming to separate corps tn the
guard, the First regiment of foot are
called “tin heads,” because of the color of
their helmet: the First grenadiers are the
“potato peelers,” the chausseur*s are“ green
frogs,” and the lnizzars are “glow worms,”
the uniform of the first being green and
tUnt of the second scarlet. Tbe Third
uhlans are “dnsties,” because of the dull
yellow of the facings on their tunics, and
tlie pioneers are ‘Earthworms." In the
infantry of the line tlie men of the Eighth
ure “cracknel guard.” au allusion to tlie
yellow knot of their epaulettes, uud those
of the Twenty-seventh are the “botchers,”
because they are said to patch their uni
forms almost as long as they will hold
together. In the calvary the Seventh
cuirai.vsiers are the “whitesmiths, the First
huzzars the “death's heads” (their shako
bears this emblem); tho Fourth huzzars
are the “partridges,” so called on account
of their brown uniforms.—Brooklyn Eagle
Craxy King Lutlwig an “Lohengrin.**
More picturesque, if sttll more absurd,
was his making believe to be “Lohen
grin,” in a tank constructed on the roof of
his palace, wherein he tried to go boating
in a gilded bark drawn by swans. But
the water refused to look picturesque aud
pretty and got turbid and stagnant. So
the Troubadour King caused it to be col
ored blue by means of a quantity of in
digo. Then the blue water stapled tlie
plumage of his swans and disagreed more
over with the poor birds to an alarmiug
extent. But his majesty, then the liand-
I somest man in Europe, looked into his
j glittering silver armour and swan-crested
helmet the very ideal of Wagner’s hero.
A Ciii iouN Experiment in Guernacy. | That suit of armor, made expressly for the
The history of Guernsey furnishes a cu- S was composed of solid silver and
rious and perhaps instructive instance of ! cost > * Iwlieve, some $18,000. The helmet
the kind of uses that paper money may ! nn d shield were veritable works of arts.
f * determined to build a meat I After Wagner’s death the king lmui-
will hover for days and nights over a
horse or cow that is on its last legs. A
northerner was driven out of southern
Georgia last winter by some one telling
him that the buzzards were beginning to
keep an eye on him. Last summer the
sheriff of a county in Florida disappeared
hi the woods after having loaded up a big
revolver, and told his wife he was going
to shoot himself. Some little effort wps
made to le;;rn whether he had kept his
promise, hut after a day of searching in
tlie cypres:; swamps the searchers sat
down in the shade of their houses and
said they would wait three days, when
the buzzards would find him, and then
they would find the buzzards.
The turkey buzzard, despite his fomiid-
; able look, is a harmless bird. Not only
•does he never strike a creature till it is
down, but lie hardly ever strikes it till it
is dead.—Georgia Cor. New York Sun.
The Monitor** Narrow Escape.
Since the opeuing of the Monitor-Morri-
mac naval battle panorama lost January,
the spectacle has been witnessed by many
persons who saw the actual engagement
in Hampton roods twenty-five years ago.
Not long ugo the panorama was visited
by one who actually participated * in the
battle. This visitor was Samuel Driscoll,
a fireman on tlie Monitor. He was loud j
In his praises of the mimic flglit, aud im
parted a hit of news concerning the Moni
tor. He said that Immediately after the
engagement the Monitor broke the rod of
her eccentric, nnd was laid up off the Rip
Rope for nearly two weeks In an entirely
defenseless condition. She might at any
time during that period have been de
ployed by the Merrimac, hut she deceived
SESLF keeping np steam.—New
market, amt 114,000 were devoted to ]iay
tlie cost. Notes were issued l>y tho au
thorities for that uniount, nml were suiir-
nutcod on tlie “wholo of tho projierty of
the island, said to be worth four millions.”
These notes wore worthless outside of
Guernsey, and so they were never export
ed. They were one pound notes, and were
numbered from J up to 4,000, With them
thy coutreetor was I Slid, he paid ids work
men iu the same money, nml those that
supplied him with materials. Tradesmen
took them for mods, landlords for rent
and the uuthorities for taxes.
“In due season," to quote from Jona
than Duncan, “tlie market wns complete.
Tho butchers' stalls, with some public
rooms constructed over them, were let for
an annual refit of i‘400. At the first year
of tenancy tlie states called iu tlie lirst
butch of notes, numbered from 1 to 400,
mid with the £400 of real money received
for rent redeemed the i'400 of representa
tive money expressed by tlie meat market
notes. At tlie end of ten years all the
notes were redeemed through the applica
tion of ten years’ rental; nnd since tliut
perjyd the meat market lias returned n
clear annual revenue to the states nnd con
tinues to afford accommodation without
out having cost a farthing in taxes to any
inhnbitnuL—Cassell’s Kuniily Magazine.
Frugal Habit, of David Davis.
Though in tho possession of ample
means—his wealth was rated in the mil
lions—David Davis continued to observe
the frugal manners of his early,days, even
after being appointed a justice of tlie
supreme court anil elected senator. Punc
tually at 1 o'clock every day he made his
way to tlie stand kept for many years by
a woman called “Dyspepsia Mary,” and
there ate his lunch, which consisted of
two apples, a ginger cookie and a gloss of
milk, costing him fifteen cents in all.
Tht. hill of fare was never changed.
In other ways ho was equally economi
cal. I doubt if his expenses before liis
marriage amounted to more than $2,SOO
a year. Hu lived at on old fashioned hotel
wher. a modest apartment was always
kept ln readiness for him. This lie used
as a sleeping room, sitting room and
office couihiued. It was here that he
spent must of his time when not occupied
in the discharge of his official dnties. He
was at *11 times accessible to callers.
Though fond of company, he was rarely
seen In “society.” The empty chatter of
drawing rooms had no attractions for
him. With a few congenial spirits, how
ever, he knew how to exchange the small
talk of the hour, and play the agreeable
jmst.—Washington Cor. New York
Tribune.
mered the whole suit to pieces with his
own hands and caused the fragments to
bo melted down.—Lucy H. Hooper in tho
New York World.
Ilrottivr Ganin.r*. Most Solemn Heller.
“I, lie* bin movin’ 'round on top dis
yairtli moos' 80 y’urs now, an’ it am my
solemn belief dnt de pusson who pays de
least attention to de weather tnjoy. life
30 per cent de best,”—Detroit Free Press.
Machine Cum for the IlrltUh.
After much dallying ami hesitation, the
British war office has decided to adopt
the machine gun for the army. Three-
barreled Nordcnfeldts, each weighing
sixty pounds, nnd firing *100 bullets in one
minute, and five-barreled nuns of 130
pounds, aiul firing (100 rounds a minute,
are to bo sent to E^ypt and India. The
twelve-barreled gun, that fires 1,200
rounds a minute, is Iteing experimented
wit h.—C liicago 11 erald.
Nurses, n class annually responsible for
much trouble ut summer hotels, are “not
taken” at several this year.
Mexico'* First aiul List American Colony.
In the time of Maximilian * colony of
Americans asked the emjieror for land on
which to settle, lie kindly Rave them
their own choice, and they settled at Cor
doba, where they had the advantage of
the tropical clime aud were secure from
yellow fever. They were 300 in number,
and in a short time, with true Atncricau
industry, they made business brisk.
Three American hotels were established,
ane the plantations were the finest a^d
most prosperous in the land. Maximilian
looked on the little band with favor and
gave them ample aid aud protection. Dar
ing the rebellion the liberty party made
raids on their homes, destroyed .their
property, ami not only made them prison
ers aud hurried them off to Yucatan—a
place from which there is no escape*—but
murdered them whenever they wanted
sdme new amusement. Maximilian 1tas
powerless to help those who had pros
pered under his care, aud just when he
was to be shot, the last of the colony, who
feared the liberal party, deserted their
once happy, homes and went to another
country. Only one remained, Dr. A. A.
Hassell, who has been the solitary Ameri
can here for twenty years. The hotels
have disappeared, and the plantations,
now possessed by Mexicans, bear no traces
of their once tidy and prosperous appear*
auce.—^ielly Ely’s Mexico Letter.
ck of fin's!. • l (Jri
Al.-o a large stock to s dent from.—t'ai. uud g.f m
A.R ROBERTSON, Athens, Oh
THREEiilJLLS
m a mmmm - AJtoTnvrtr for all T>i<*a*e« nf th* Liver.EI4
Rf,Ta, Mom.irh and Rowel*. 1
TflPiswmaen and Rowela. \ t>.».’r,|
>»•“ mmm v jo: j
To ISuu Alicad of tho Train*.
I have always owned fcist horses. I re
member one which achieved quite a repu
tation while 1 bad him. I sold him to the
Albany railroad to run ahead of trains.
That might seem somewhat novel nowa
days, but at that time trains did not run
as fiist ns they do now. Neither were
there the facilities for telegraphing and
flagging nnd switching trains, to prevent
accident*; ar.d that was what my horse 1
was used for. He was started out every |
day just before the passenger trains’ j
leaving time to flag the train coming the !
other way. and lie always made it. Horses
were useful animals in those days. It |
was a common thing to hitch a team of
horses to a car and pull it into New York,
after the regular trains had passed. The
father of Dan Whitmore, of the Mer
chants' Exchange, used to do his market
ing that way every night. I have had a
great deal of fun on those trips, as I was
then quite a lx>y.—E. Goddard in Globe-
Democrat.
I>r. ton (iuililrn a Noted Authority.
Dr. von (Hidden, wh<* lost his life in |
the attempt to prevent the suicide of the
late king of Bavaria, was a noted au
thority in the science of mental and ner
vous diseases. Investigations have lxx»n
carried on iu his laboratory in the minute
anatomy of the brain, spinal cord mid
sense organs which have proved fruitful
of results. Among these he established a
method of studying the connections of the
nervous system, which consists in extir
pating a sense organ or other part of an
animal when young and then allowing
the animal to grow up. At death the ani
mal is minutely examined and the nerve
filers which have failed to develop indi
cate the paths of nervous connection l>e-
tween the extirpated sense organ and the
brain center, l ie had been working for
many years by this and other methods to
determine the mode of connection l>c-
tween the retina and the brain, but tho
results of his labor have not yet been
made public.—Chicago News.
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Bitter Extract* Injurious to Digestion.
Believers in the necessity to health of
spring bitters will lie interested in tho in
vestigations of IJr. Cheltsotf, a* reputable
European physician, who lias found that
the common bitter extracts really act in
juriously in retarding digestion, while
there are no beneficial effects.—Medical
Journal.
A Jockey Winning a ltace.
One who was close to the rails on the
Derby day seems to have been au observ
ant man for he describes his impression
of Archer, who rode the winner, as ho
shot by: “To some extent,” he says, “be
has a countenance peculiarly suited for
tho expression of pain or anxiety. The
short upper lip displays nearly all his
teeth, and the face, long and thin, with
high cheek bones and yellow ashen com
plexion, suggests a grim likeness to a
death’s head. Justus ho passed he waa
still fighting for the race, and indeed one
horse was iu front oi him, but it was tbe
horse immediately behind him that seemed
to trouble him. 11c was looking around
at this horse, and, heavens, what a look!
It was like that of a man about to be
hanged; a duellist lighting with a foe
at «nce feared and bated, a man, in short,
in any position of awful strain, with the
complex emotions of terror, hope and re
solve. It was all the observation of a sec
ond, but it brought home to the miud tho
abysmal depths of life or death, exultant
joy or horrible despair, that underlie the
gayety aud the blare, the bright dresses,
the smiling women, tho popping of cham
pagne bottles, and the vacuous noises of
tlie Eosom race course.”—London Letter.
Duflulo and the Indian Qustlon.
Whatever may be said against the buf
falo destroyers of the far west, the meat
killers, the tongue huuters, and robe
seekers, they have added no small item to
the settlement of the Indian question on
the plains. The winter of 1881-2 saw their
deadliest work, and over a quarter of a
million of robes were shipped from this
valley, holding now about the sat^ num
ber of cattle. The true plains buffalo is
now practically annihilated in the United
States, there no doubt being droves of
them on the Candtan rivers further north,
but in this district even they are rapidly
disappearing under the rain of bullets
that lias been poured upon them for the
lost ten years. There is still left a species
.called the wood, or timber, or mountain
buffulo that congregates in very small
herds and that occupies the district of the
Big Horn and Wind River mountains.
They are also found in the Yellowstone
National park, and will no doubt remain
undisturbed there for years to come.—
Yellowstone Valley Cor. New York
Times.
Never calculate on a mild winter be
cause you are short of feed.—Rural New
Yorker.
In New Jersey the mosquitoes are so
bad at night that no girl gets courted un
less she has a good mosquito bar.
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