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ROUND ABOUT.
'Phe honey crop of Maine is worth $40,-
000, and is produced by 12,000 colonies of
bees.
Veterinary surgeons say the overdrawn
check-rain, by reason of muscular strain
upon the eyes, produces blindness in
horses.
A large hawk got impaled on the stee
ple of a church at Harrisburg, Pa., the
other day. As it could not be relieved
the bird was killed with a rifle shot and
left to hang.
The blue jay is now credited with eat
ing the maple worm, and even the Eng
lish sparrow is commended by the Indus
trialist for gorging himself with seventecu
year locusts.
Elder L. E. Hurst, grandfather of Lulu,
tthe electric girl, predicts the end of the
world in 1033, He declares that next year
will witness symptoms of the coming
event, such as the moon turning to blood,
the sun withholding its light, and various
other celestial irregularities.
For boldness in adulteration the bus
kins take the palm. The new govern
ment inspectors of provisions lately found
packages of tea adulterated with 40 per
cent, of pea shells. A tea packing factory
has been shut un for repacking exhausted
tea leaves.
Railway men are now beginning to con
demn the locomotive headlight, which, by
the way, is not £# use in Europe. They
say that it is of little pf po utility, and its
powerful illumination, tends to jregdpj* in
distinct the colors of signal lights on the
track ahead.
At the fairs of the Royal Agricultural
Society of England prizes are offered for
the best coyr giving not less than eighteen
.quarts of milk daily, which must contain
at ’east 12 per cent, of solids, including
butter This puts the animal upon a
test of merit j./) performance for quantity
and scientific analysis for quality.
A horse-swappers’ convention will be
held at Ced&rtown, on Thursday and Fri
day, November lh and 20. All horse
swappers and “horse-flesh” enthusiasts in
general, in North Georgia and North Ala
bama are expected to be present. Parties
ow ning trotting steeds are especially invit
ed to be present and exhibit their stock,
The three emperors were together at
;{remsier twenty-four hours only, but the
•entertainment while there cost the Austri
an Court Treasury some $300,000, or $250
a minute. There were 800 persons at two
annals, and among the wines were a thou
sand bottles of Rhine cabinet, 3,000 bottles
•of champaigne and 2,500 bottles of claret.
Rheumatism is something caused by
over cuting, and especially by over-indul
gence in meat which is certain to cause an
excess of uric acid, and render the body
liable, on exposure to wet or cold, to an
attack. Old people are proverbially li
able to rheumatism. The reason for this
is that their joints and ligaments are
harder and stiffer and very often contain
deposit—urate of soda; and, as a rule, peo
ple up in years eat more than is necessary
to support life. The wear and tear of
tissue is but trifling compared to what it
is in earlier manhood, hence less food is
required. If an elderly person would live
long and be free from aches and pains, he
or she must live more or less abstemiously
There is more joy in parting with
pain than there in welcoming pleasure.
A TEMPERANCE AXECDOTH.
By J. JI. Gough.
A friend of mine, seeking for objects
of charity, got tuto a room <f a tene
ment house, it was vacant. He saw a
ladder pushed through the ceiling.
Thinking that perhaps some poor
creature had crept up there, he climbed
the ladder, drew himself through the
hf.de and found himself under the rafters.
There was no light but that whioh came
through a bull’s eye in the place of a
tile. Soon lie saw a heap of chips and
shavings, and on them a boy about ten
years old.
“Boy, what are you doing there?’,
“Hush! dont tell anybody—please
sir. ’'
‘•What are you doing hereT*
“Don’t tell any body, sir—l’m hid
ing.”
“What are you hiding from?”
“Don’t tell any body, if you please
sir.”
“Where’s your mother?”
“Mother is dead/”
“Where’s your father?”
“Hush? don’t tell him! dont tell him!
but look here!” He turned himself on
his face and through the rags of hjs
jacket and shirt, my friend saw the boy’s
lies'll \y.v? bruised, and his skin was
broken,
“Why, my boy, who beat you like
that?” *
“Father did sir?”
“What did your father beat you like
that for?”
“Father got drunk, sir, and beat me
’cog I woulu’t steal!”
“Did you ever steal?”
“Yes sir. J was a street thief once!”
“And why don’t you steal any more?”
“Pleas sir, 1 went to the misuion
school and they told me there of God,
and cf Heaven and of .Testis; and they
taught me ‘Thou shall not steal, ’and pil
never steal again if father kills me for it.
Hut please sir, don’t tell him.”
“My boy you must not stay here;
you will die. Now you waft patiently
here for a little time; I’m going away
to sen a lady We will get a better
place for you than tips.”
“ Thank you sir; but please sir, would
you like to hoar me sing a hymn?”
Bruised, battered, forlorn, friendless,
motherless, hiding away from an infuri
ated father, lie had a little hymn to sing.
“Yes I will hear you sing your little
hymuT
He raised himseit on Ids elbow and
then sang:
“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child;
Suffer me to come to Thee,
j aia would J to Thee be brought,
Gracious Lord forbid it fpk
In the kingdom of thy‘grace
Give a little child a place.”
“That’s tlio little hymn, sir. Good
bye.”
The gentleman went away, came back
again in less than two hours, and climbed
the ladder. There were the chips, and
there were the shavings, and there
was the little boy, with one band by his
side and the other tucked in liis bossom
underneath the little ragged shirt dead.
* “Bring up a child in the way bo
should go,” and then follow' him and
keep him out of bad company. White
hall Times.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1885.
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING PROCLA
MATION.
By tiie President op the United
States of America.
Ihe American people have always
abundance to be thankful to Almighty
God, whose watchful care and guiding
hand have been manifested in every stage
of their national existence, and guarding
and protecting them in times of peril and
safely leading them in times of darkness
and of danger. It is fltting and proper
that a nation thus favored should on one
day in every year, and for that purpose
specially appointed, publicly acknowledge
the goodness of God and return thanks to
him for all his gracious gifts. Therefore,
I, Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States of America, do hereby des
ignate and set apart Thursday, the twen
ty-sixth -lay of November, i.nst., as a day
of public thanksgiving and prayer, and
do invoke the obseryance of the same by
all the people of the United States. Let
all secular business be suspended, and let
the people assemble in their places of wor
ship, and with prayer and songs of praise
an d outly testify their gratitude to the Giv
er of every good and perfect gift for all
that He has done for us in the year that
has past, for our preservation as a united
nation and for our deliverance from the
shock and danger of political convulsion ;
for the blessings of peace and for our safe
ty and quiet while wars and rumors of
wars have agitated and afflicted other Ra
tions of the earth ; for our security against
scourge of pestilence which in other lands
has claimed its deaths by thousands, aud
filled the streets with mourners; for the
plenteous crops which reward the labor
of the husbandfpap increase our na
tion’s wealth; and for the content through
out our borders which follows in the train
of prosperity and abundance; and let there
also be on the day thus set aaide & reun
ion of families sanctified and chastened by
tender memories and associations, and let
social intercourse of friends, with pleasant
reminiscences aud ties of affection,
strengthen the bonds of kindly feeling,
and let us by no means forge!, while we
gi ve thanks and enjoy the comforts which
hayc provvnpd PUr lives, that truly thank
ful hearts are inclined to 4 c p4§ Pf charity,
and that kind and tkoughtffl remem
brance of the poor will double the pleas
ures of our condition and render our
praise and thanksgiving more acceptable
in the sight of the Lord.
pone at the City of Washington, this
second day of November, oe thousand
eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the
independence of the United States the one
hundred and tenth.
(Signed) Grover Cleveland.
By the President,
T. F. Bayard,
Secretary of State.
OBITUARY.
Died, aftqr a brief at hip residence
in Bartow county, Ga., on the Bth inst.,
Col. Lindsay Johnson, aged 66.
The decesed was too well known to re
quire a lengthy notice at our hands. He
settled in this county about the year 1834
as a planter. lin af, thaf tipie a man
of limited means, but rapidly rose to a
prominent place amongst our wealthiest
and best citizens. Possessing a strong
native mind and a temperament warm,
social and liberal, he soon attained a mark
ed and controlling influence in the section
in Vbjgh he lived. This influence he
never lot.
Col. Johnson was a man of iron will
and indomitable integrity; and it is prob
able that in a different sphere or under
different circumstances of life and educa
tion he would have attained to high po
litical or military distinction. But he
shrank front office and sought no ai*tinc:
tion, though on more than one ocoasion he
was chosen to places of trust by his coun
ty. His best friends were the poor of his
own neighborhood to whom he was ever
kind and charitable. Many of them for
years were tenants upon his lands free of
charge or rent, and he va* qf'ten hhPFh
since the pressure of these war times tu
give provisions for the poor when he de
clined to sell to others.
The house of Col. Johnson was ever free
to his friends and open to the traveller.
The numerous drovers from Kentucky
and Tennessee who for years were accus
tomed in their annual trips to the cotton
states to stop with him, can neyer cease
to recur with grateful recollections to the
kind client’ and hospitable board of Cpl.
Johnson. lie leaves a devoted wife and a
number of children to mourn his loss,
and it is worthy of notice in these times
that amongst the many who felt and ac
knowledged the cad event of liis death,
none seemed to be more overwhelmed
than his own servants who gave vent to
their grief in the most agonizing and
heart-rending cries.
In the death of Col. Johnson we may
truly sav that a useful citizen, a kind and
Charitable neighbor, %
friend, a devoted husband and father and
a true patriot to his country, has gone to
that land from whose bourne no traveler
returns. Peace to his memory.
R. C. W.
Bartow Cos., June, 1868,
Education is the knowledge of how to
use the whole of one’s self. Men are often
like kniyps with many blades ; they know
how to open one and pujy png j all thp
rest are buried in the handle and they are
no better than they would have been
made with but one blade. Many men
use but oue or twe faculties out of the
score with which they are endowed. A
man is edupatpd tv |ip knows how to mak*
a tool of every faculty—how to open it,
how to keep it sharp, and how to apply
it to all practical pui poses.
GEO. B. MCLEELAN.
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THE DEAD GENERAL’S CONDUCT
DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR.
How H Was Appointed to the Command
of the Arm 7, Relieved and Reap
pointed—Gorman’s Triumph
—The Signal Service.
[Sunday Gazette.]
GENERAL M’CLELLAN.
The death of George B. McClellan recalls
to mind the early and doubtful days of the
civil war when he held the position of
commander-in-chief of the Union armies.
McClellan was & graduate of the West
Point Military Academy, and that place,
prior to the war, was tinctured throughout
with pro-slavery ideas and tendencies, all
of which McClellan naturally imbibed.
While he was in command in West Vir
ginia as major-general of volunteers he ex
pressed himself in the following terms in
an address to the people of his military
district: “Not only will we abstain from
all interferance with your slaves, but we
will, on the contrary, with an iron hand,
crush any attempt at insurrection on their
part.”
M’CLELLAN’s WEAKNESS.
McClellan’s pro-slavery views were the
chief source of his weakness and ineffi
ciency as a commander of the Union ar
mies. Besides, he had been the personal
friend of Robert E. Lee, with whom he
went to Russia, in 1856, on military busi
ness for the Government, and he evidently
cherished the illusion that the differences
between the North and the South could be
amicably settled. Lincoln had known him
in Illinois, whpp he was chief engineer of
the Illinois Central Railroad, for which
corporation Lincoln himself had been
counsel. Lincoln, therefore, remained
steadfast to him, in spite of all complaint
ofhis inactivity and notwithstanding the
protests of the anti-slavery party.
SUPERSEDED AS GENERAL-IN-CHIEF.
McClellan, with his well-known views
concerning slavery, could not co-operate
with those who thus aimed blows at that
so-called “divine institution,” and his
dreats-paraqipg apd jnfiepisive, fruitless
campaigning as eommander-m-chief of the
Union armies came to an end in the spring
of 1862, he being succeeded as general-in
chief by General Halleck, although he still
retained command of the Army of the Po
tomac.
m'clellan's popularity.
McClellan was immensely popular with
the rank and file of the army, who, alter
his retirement, sang with enthusiasm,
“Criye back pur old commander.” There
was a general demand for the reinstate
ment of McClellan, and at the time word
was received that Lee, with the Confeder
ate army, w3 about to cross into Mary
land, president Lincoln was inclined to
listen to this demand, but Btanton pro
tested. Lincoln required Stanton to put
uis views in writing, and on receiving his
written statement, went to the War De
partment, and at Stanton’s desk directed
that ap order be given sending McClellan
into Maryland after Lee. r Jfhe battles of
South Mountain and Antietam followed.
McClellan’s failure to follow the Confed
erates across the Potomac from Maryland
into Virginia excited the indignation of
the anti-slavery leaders, who were again
clamorous for his removal, and President
Lincoln, updef this pp3sgnj:e ? supplanted
him by General Burnside, another ex-offl
cial of the Illinois Central Railroad.
PRECURSORS of emancipation.
Ben Butler, early in the rebellion, had
designated the slaves of rebel masters
“contrabands of war” before McClellan
had announced that the slaves should not
bo interfered with. While on the other
hand, in the District of Columbia “free
papers” had been given to fugitive slaves,
which read about this way:
“The bearer of this order, formerly a
slave in a State now in rebellion against
the (joyeyutbent, wil} pof, bp qiplested or
interfered with by any representative of
the civil authorities of this District.
By order of
“Brigadier-Gen. Wadsworth,
Military Governor, D. C.”
These papers were put into the hands
f qf the wider fP r signature as superintend
ent of the Old Capitol Prison, and were
given to slaves escaping from Virginia
and other Southern States. Many slaves
came from Maryland into the District,
and their owners induced the civil officers
here to arrest them and put them in jail,
but Wadsworth soon put a stop to that by
causing the arrest and confinement in the
Old Capitol Prision of some of the parties
arresting tha negroes. From that time
the District of Columbia was a safe harbor
for all slaves escaping from rebel masters.
REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
General McClellan was a trained soldier,
commanding a splendid army and having
the advantage of being adored by his men,
but he was at certain times unfortunate,
at others over-cautious, and he failed both
to improve his many opportunities and to
comprehend the real character of the great
civil war in which he was so conspicuous
a figure. His antagonism to the anti
slavery faction vyhich was composed of
earnest men, determined not to tolerate
any opposition to their purpose, put him
at great disadvantage, but the integrity of
Jps motives and his fidelity to the Union
eannot be questioned, The executive or
der of President Cleveland contains a fit
tribute to his worth and expresses the
general kindly sentiment of the American
people toward Geo. B. McClellan.
*FooJs with gold can overcome preju :
dice while *nius is fastening on its
skates.
BII.L NVI ON TV : • \i.
The earth is that body in the solar sys
tem which most of u rentiers n. v.- r< side
upon, and winch some <-!'thon, l regret to
say, modestly desire to own and control,
forgetting that the earth is the Lord’s and
the fullness thereof. 8. >me men do not
care who owns the earth so long as they
get the fullness.
The earth is 500,000,(X>0 years of age, ac
cording to Prof. Proctor, but she doesn’t
look it to me. The duke of Argyll main
tains that she is 10,000,000 years old last
August, but what doe : ui ordinary duke
know about these thing ? 80 far as lam
concerned I will put Pro, tor’s memory
against that of any low-priced duke that I
have ever seen.
Newton claimed that the earth would
gradually dry up aud become porous, and
that water would at las' become a f urios
ity. Many believe this ami are rapidly
preparing their systems by a rigid course
of treatment, so that they can live fen
years without the use of water internally
or externally.
Other scientists who have set up nights
to monkey with the solar system, and
thereby shattered their nervous systems,
claim that the earth is getting top-heavy
at the north pole, and that one of these
days while we are thinking of something
else, the great weight of accumulated ice,
snow and the vast accumulation ot second
hand arctic relief expeditions will jerk the
earth out of its present position with so
much spontaniety and in such an extreme
ly forthwith manner, that many people
will be permanently strahkmussed and
much bric-a-brac will be for sale at a great
sacrafice. This may or may not be true.
I have not been up in the arctic regions to
investigate its truth orfilsity, though there
seems to be a growing sentiment through
out the country in favor of my going. A
great many people during the past year
have written me and given me their con
sent.
If I could take about twenty good, pick
ed men and go up there for the summer
instead of bringing back twenty picked
men I wouldn’t mind the trip, and 1 feel
that we really ought to have a larger colo
ny on ice in that region than we now
have.
The earth is composed of land and wa
ter. Some of the* water has large chunks
of ice in it. The earth revolves around
its own axle once in twenty-four hours,
though it seems to revolve a littl e footer than
that and to wobble a g >od deal during tlm
holidays, JFpfJjing tickles the earth more
than to confuse a man when he is coining
home late at night, and then to rise up
suddenly and hit him in the back with a
town lot. People who think there is no
fun or relaxation quiopg La- heavenly
bodies certainly have not studied their
habits. Even the moon is a humorist.
A friend of mine who was returning late
at night from a regular meeting of the So
ciety for the Amelioration mu Hot
Scotch said that the earth rose up sudden
ly in front of him and hit him with a right
of way, and as lie was about to rise up
again he was stunned by a terriffic blow
between the shoulder Hades with v n old
land grant that he thought had lapsed
years ago. When he staggered to his feet
he found that the moon in order to add to
his confusion, gone down in front of him
and risen again behind him, with her
thumb on her nose.
So I say, without fear of successful con
tradiction, that if you do not think that
planets and prbs unci one thing and anoth
er have fun on the quiet you are grossly
ignorant of their habits,
The earth is about half way between
Mercury and Saturn in the matter of den
sity. Mercury is of about the specific
gravity of iron, while that of Saturn cor
responds \i’itli that pf wrk in the matter of
density and specific gravity. The earth,
of course, does not compare w ith Mercury
in the matter of solidity, yet it is amply
firm for all practical - purposes.
A negro who fell out of the tower of a
twelve-story building while trying to clean
the upper stpjy window by drinking a
quart of alcohol and then breathing hard
on the glass, says that ho regards the earth
as perfectly solid and safe to do business
on for years to come. He claims that
those who maintain that the earth’s crust
is only 2,500 miles in thickness have not
thoroughly tested the matter by a system
of experiments.
The poles of the earth are merely imagi
nary. I hate to print this statement in a
large paper in such a way as to injure the
reputation pf great writers on this subject
who still cling to the theory that the
earth revolves upon large poles and that
the aurora borealis is but the reflection
of a hot box at the north pole, but I am
here to tell the truth, and if my readers
think it disagreable to read the truth,
what must my anguish be to have to tell
it ? The mean diamater of the earth i3 7,916
English statute miles, but the actual
diamater from pole to pole is a still mean
er, being 7,899 miles, while the Equatorial
diametar is 7,9254 miles.
The long and patient struggled our
earnest and tireless geographers anti sa
vants in past years in order to obtain
these figures and have them exact few
can fully realize. The long and thankless
job of measnreing the diameter of the
earth, no matter what the weather might
be, away from home and friends, foot
sore and weary, still plodding on, fa
tigued but determined to know the mean
diameter ot tlie earth even if it took a
leg, measuring on for thousand of wean
miles and getting farther and f irther away
from home and -then forge ting perhaps
how many thousand miles they bad gone,
and being compeled to go back and meas
ure it, over again while their noses got
red and their fingers were bcumbed.
These, fellow citizens, are a few cf the
sacrifices that science has made on our
behalf in order that we may not grow up
in ignorance. These area few of the
blessed privileges, wliiph, along with life
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are
ours—ours to anticipate, ours to partici
pate, ours to precipitate,
ALPINE CLIMBERS.
TOURISTS WHO REACH THE HIGH
EST POINT IN EUROPE.
Tariffing Account Given oy a Traveloi
Dangers of the Trip- How Climb
ers Are Afiected—On tho
Mountain Top.
Domorosl's Monthly.
It c.>ts from $lO to SSO to make the
ascent of Mont Blanc. Each person
must have a guide aud a porter to carry
luggage. provisions, etc. The luggage
is limited to fourteen pounds for esch
person. On the afternoon <>f the first
day the party ascends generally by the
Pavilion of the Pierre Pointue, a series
of huge pointed rocks, where the first
rest is taken, to the Grand Mulets,
where the night is passed in two stone
huts or cabaues, as they are called.
We any the night; properly only a
portion of the night, for the party is
roused by the guides as earley ns 1
o’clock in the morning for the start.
An American gentleman, who made the
ascent some twenty years ago, gave a
thrilling account of the night spent in
the Grand Millets.
“After the sun went down,” ho said,
“we sat a long time on the narrow ledge
of lock on which the huts are built,
to watch the daylight die along the
length of the valley. All was peace and
stillness about ns in our isolation. We
could hear the tinkle of bells and see the
glimmer of 1 ght in the hotels of the
yillage far below. Looking up there
were the three peaks cleaving the star
lit skie above us the Dome du Gouter,
Mont Blanc, and the Aiguille du Midi,
We shuddered as wp thought of what
lay between us and those silent summits
from which we were, God willing, to see
the sun rise over-the heights of Italy.
Silently we puffed our cigars, watching
the stars thicken and cluslpy in the
darkening sky, Tha guides gathered
about the lire on which our supper had
been prepared, and sat like a weird com
pany smoking their pipes and singing
wild mountain songs in their strange
Swiss patois.
“One by one. wo disappeared in the
little hut, rolled ourselves in onr blan
kets, aid lay down to rest. The songs
ceased, the fires went out, and it drew
l on to midnight. We could pot sleep.
Sleep’ W’tU the aouud of the falling
j avalanches in the distance thundering
j aud booming in our ears, and feeling as
we did that into that wild chaos and
fury we were to go out \n few hours?
One’s courage smks tow, and like the
; fill d, still picture of a lost happiness, all
| that there is left behind of love and life
j comes before us, ‘Messieu,s? il f utt
: lever!’ The voice of thq guide rings in
j our Iu an instant all w r as in ac
j tion and inspiration. Ropes, axes, pack
ages, every thing for safety and strength,
; js ayanged by the guides in the most
I business-like manner. The passage of
the broad plateau of snow, the introduc
tion of wliafc can never cease to be a
hazard undertaking is begun, Flours of
breathless strain and work
| follow, Deep crevasses, where treaeli
! erous chasms are often covered by fall of
j snow, whose lightness is only recognized
by the eye of the practiced guide, yawn
before the careless step.
ON THE MpHNSAI* T*)K
j “Fp some portions of the route un
broken silet.oe is preserved lest the slight
est vibration, even from the voices iu tbe
rare atmosphere, might detach au ava
lanche of snow aud stones trembling ip
the balance. And then tlifGastdesperate
qiimb| 4 solid wall of ioe, which must
be met with all the defi ant, resolute
courage of a man’s nature. One by one,
guide and traveler alternating, clinging
and bracing ourselves, while the leader
cuts the steps in the cold blue we go
surely, firmly npY
j The view 7, even at its best, is said to
be unsatisfactory; only the outlines cf
j the Jura and the Apannines loom dimly
|up on account of the great distance.
| But then it is the highest point in Europe.
Nothing on earth stands between one
and the everlasting firmament. It
would seem that one might look into the
v iry fnce of God through the pure ether
I of that stainless, earth-rid height,
Climbers are effected by various emo-
I Lous, it is said, when tbe climax cf cli
maxes is attained. Some gave w 7 ay to
the most violent demonstrations cf joy,
singing and dancing like au Indian brave,
while others are dazed and stqnnpd $t
tbe relation of such high hopes. One I
lady whoso spirit was stronger than her
body, was so enthusiastic that when
there was danger of her giving out on
tfie way up, she made the guide prom
ise that, should she die from exhaustion,
he would carry her lifeless body to ike
! summit.
We know of several American gentle
men who have made the ascent of Mont
Blanc, and iu each case they went to
Chamois as ordinary visitors, aud were
inspired hi undertake the trip by bearing
of the exploits of their predecessors.
With members cf the Alpine Club, who
have a yearly meeting in London, this
climbing grows into a passion, Any one
who can, during the summer, recclisome
height whereon the foot of man has never
before rested, has an account to give j
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which lie considers in some degree wor
thy the consideration of hie corps.
NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.
The wold “practicable” is literally con
strued by these Alpine climl>erß. Noth
ing “impracticable” which is in the
power if man to accomplish, and noth
ing is dangerous that can be safely done.
The air at the height of 10,000 or 12,000
feet is so ri freshing to them that to live
ia the valley prdcucea the eGect of suf
focation, and on the brink of a precipice
thousands of fee* high they are as free
from dizziness as in their beds. And so
we find in their club journal accounts
that take away the breath—of ice-bouud
clitfs, mounted step by step, as we have
said, by the intrepid guide who clears
the way for the party following attached
to each other, and to him by ropes tied
around the body. Each man plants bis
pick liimly iu the solid ice and rests
upon it while the steps are cut.
Sometimes one of the party may make
a false step, loose his hold, aud then it
is on the strength of the rope* and the
nerve of his companions that the
safety of all depends. It is but the ques
tion of a moment wether ho is to be
drawn back into place, or whether he is
to drag the whole company to the bot
tom if the precipice hundreds of feet
below’.
INSPIRATION.
BY GILBERT H. WADDINGTON.
O’er azure climes.
With May-day chimes,
Youth glides in Sin:
But late remorse
Has four-fold force,
When age draw's in.
The starlit night,
Soon yields its light,
For darkness reigns:
The brooklet mere,
Once crystal clear,
The salt sea stains.
Black death shall come,
llis will be done,
Revere the goal:
The tears are come,
The heart enjoins,
To save thy soul.
Tread light the path,
The aftermath
You’ll reap at last:
When duty’s done
Reward is won,
Repent the past.
Straight thy path should be, and on
ward, *
Veering ne’er to left nor right;
Turning ne’er to flights of fancy,
Plodding always in the light,
Thus thy life shall he made holy;
Thus thy end shall be more blast:
And from sunless melancholy
Soon thou’lt gain thy earned rest,
THIS TRAPPER’S ADVENTURE,
They wore waiting for a train at a way
back station up iu Humbolt County, and
the conversation turned to spiritualism.
A weather-beaten trapper, who had coma
in with a lot of skins to ship, said:
“Wall, fur my part, I never did go
much ou spemt-rappin’s, ghosts and all
of them kind er things, but I tell jew,
boys, I had a powerful scare wunst.”
“How was that?" asked a solemn man,
with long hair, who was evidently a tra
veling medium,
“'Wail, yer see, U was one night about
a year ago. I was layin’ in my cabin up
on the Little B ur River. 1 woke up long
or midnight aud got ter tliinkin’ about my
partner, Grizzly Smith, as died in that
very cabin er lung fever four years ago
that very night. Rutty soon I felt suthin*
teph the blankils kinder soft like.”
“Rats,” sugested the switch-tender.
“No, ther ain’t no rats in them parts.
Putty soon I felt suthin’ like a hand
a-aqeezin’ my leg. I felt kinder scarred
then, fur I know’ed ther deer dogs was
outside, and I was plumb sartin’ thar
wasn’t another human bein’ in forty miles
o 4 thar. I was sleepiu’ iu Grizzly’s blan
ks, too, so I sez; ‘ls that you, Smith?’ M
“Aud there was two raps,” said the
long-haired man,
“No, thar wam’t no raps,” but a sorter
rattlin’ sound, like a dyiu man’s
last gasp—’zactly the way Smithie let go.
Then I felt suthin clammy tech my
cheek.”
“Case of materialization,” said the
long-haired party,
“Rats,” said the switch-tender again.
“I tole yer thar, warn’t no rats up
thar,” growled the trapper. “I ’low I
was badly scared then, an’ ther cold
sweat a-droppin often me. ‘Hoes yer
w’ant ter kermoom'eate suthin.’ Grizzly
sez I. Then ther buzziu.’ begin again.
Arter that suthin’ teohed my othet
hand.”
“Rats,” wedged iu the switchman
•‘You’ll have ter heel verse!f if yer
that agin, said the hun
ts*, ominously. “Wall, gents, it got so
I couldn’t stan’ it do Jouger. I jest jerk
ed them blaukits offen mo, jumped up
and struck a light. ”
“Aud what did you see ?”
“Why, nothin’, gents but a big rattle
snake, Ruthin but a plain, ordinary rat
tler, An’ me most scarred ter death by
ther dura thing’s monkeyings, too.
“Wall, you bet I jest rolled over and
laughed till I thought I'd bust.”
“And the snake?” asked the crowd.
“The snake?” said the trapper, simply
“Wall, I disremember what—l guess I
stepped ou its head, or suthin.’ No gents,
I don’t take no stock in sperrits. Here’s
ther train.’ —[Derrick Dodd iu The Wasp.
♦Slander is the white heat of Hell.
♦When a man rubs against the world he
either becomes calloused or exposes his
tenderness.