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iin,* rnuii VOLUME IV. MR ■•V; v - - —•• ..v.- :K:i v : .nb e> J —— —: V WITH THREE FAST PRESSES, h/ITK STYLES OB 088/irOEDT/lL TYPES, and Greatly Improved Facilities Generally, 71 IT) Bit 16 711} OFFICE In prepared !□ Execute all kinds of FhJUI yi DI) oppipp/il; PHipilJG, Promptly, .Neatly, and at Prices that Can't be Beat in the State. Show Printing AN D Office Stationery ARE OUR SPECIALTIES. Thankful for tlie libaral patronage already received, we respect funlly ask a continuance of the same, TiipiTOij PUBiiisifiPG; mwFTUiY. 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. - 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 NUMBER 27 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.