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VOLUME IV. A SOLDIER’S LIFE. ( , x nGUE, DISCOMFORTS and pri vations ON THE FRONTIER. Routine Work and Drill Only Relieved by Occasional Pleasures-Some Dis agreeable Variations—Overworked Officers— Off Days and Hours. j Wliut do we do from morniug nntl every day in the army? Lots of j tilings; and if you think it is dull and idle j t,, hr at a frontier post, just come out and lot me put you on duty for a day or ; Ov',) Take a private soldier in the array, Hiihjoct to all the rules and regulations (; f ;l military post. Just at daybreak ! when he wants most to sleep the ciii tli seems to be split open by a mighty 1 mi.mi from the great gun on the parade ground, and the bugles call out merily*, j “Get up, soldier; get up, soldier;” and get up he must, and be lively about it, t 00) or the f e geant will help him out of bed. It is not yet 6 o’clock, and to give j liim a good apetite for his breakfast the j M ;rgeant will drill him for an hour. At 5:30 comes the regular assembly, when j you fall in and answer to your name at j roll-call. At 6:35 sick call will go, and if ] you. feel very bad and wish your self at home with your mother yon can go up to the hospital and the doctor will give you a pill. After that you can get some breakfast. At 7:45 fatigue-call will be, and you will be turned out to work. At 8:50 there is a guard-mounting. If you are not for guard you can keep on work ing until 11:45, when recall will sound and you can then come in to dinner. One hour and fifteen minutes is allowed for dinner and rest. At Ip. m. fatigue call will be sounded again, and you will go out for an afternoon s work, if you are not for drills. At 9 recall will go, and if you are a cavalry man you must go do wn to the stables and feed your horse for an hour. At 6 you will get your sup per. At sunset you will fall in for retreat and answer roll-call again. You will probably be drilled for half an hour at the manual of arms or attend a dress pa rade and be run about to try your wind. After that you can attend school f >r half an hour, and then reflect on home and pleasures until 9. when tattoo will sound and vou will be turned out for another roll-call. At 9:30 taps will sound, and you must then be in bed, whether you are sleepy or not. Not a light is allowed in quarters after taps, and no talking ox moving about. If you are not sleepy you can count over in your mind 1,000 two or three times until you fall asleep, or you may reflect silently on the great ness of your government. Next morn ing you will again be awakened sudden ly out of your sleep bv the great gnu, to go through the same thing as the day before. DISAGREE ABLE VARIATIONS. The variations in your life w-ill be when you are detailed in the quarter master's department to drive a team of six unruly mules all day long and take care of them after night. No matter if you do not know anything about driving teams; you must learn it. By-ancl-by you will bo detailed as company cook and made to cook for fifty or sixty men; then you will be put in tho bake-house and made to learn bread-making. If you are handy with an axe you will be sent out to cut, saw logs, or attend at the saw-mill. Should you have an aptness for .tools, the quartermaster will have you detailed as a carpenter, and you must build houses, stables, lay side? alks mend wagons, and do whatever you are told to do. If you do not do it well, or grumble, they ft ill arrest you, put you in the guard-house, prefer charges against you fur coduct to the prejudice of good order mid military discipline, and a court martial will sit on you, stop your pay for a mouth, and order you to be worked under guard for a month or two. If you are very efficient, in a year or two you may get to be a corporal, and the last year of your live years’ enlistment a sergeant but this will not ne'p you much, for you will have all the more to do and the captain will be after you constantly. TilE OVERWORKED OFFICERS. But the officers—l hear you say—they have a good time of it, with nothing to do but draw their pay. An officer is constantly' ©n duty with liis men, and that is sufficient answer. I have officers who go out as soon as they eat their breakfasts and are on thp gpall day long. 'They hare hardly time to eat their meals. Take, for example, the target-iauge officer. Shooting begins as soon as it is light enough to see a bull’s-eye at one hundred yards, and continues until night shuts out the bull s-eyo from The raßge officer is on duty all day, and a company officer for each.com pany. As there aro generally only two officers, and often ouly one, for duty with the company, you can readily see they have no sinecure. They must at tend all drills, scabies, roll-calls and pa rades. Add to this boards of survey, Court-martial, officer of the day, and other duties, and they are kept constant ly ou the go. All hay. wood, t and stores are received at posts by boards of officers. I have been a school-teacher, farmer, lawyer, editor, and various other things in my time, and I can say sincerely I never worked so hard as I have had to in the army. When one gets up to a field cflieer it is not so hard, but even then there is a great deal to do, and for the captains, lieutenant, and privates the work if a soldier’s life is simply prodigious. Promotion is very slow, and of all the young men who enter the army as officers only about one iu ten ever become a field ( fficer. Of the en listed men only one in seven or eight be come a corporal or sergeant. OFF DAYS AND HOURS. When the days work is done and ti e evening comes on, the men can gather on the broad porches of their quarters and laugh or chat or play games. They can go, too, to the post-trader’s and drink beer and play pool or billiards. They have also their days of! duty, when they can go ou pass to the neighboring village and have a good time. They can get hunting passes and go out hunting aud fishing for a whole week if they choose. They have base ball clubs aud are allowed to play ball ou Sunday. Saturday afternoon is given to the sol dier’s to clean up for Sunday morning inspection, and as the cleaning necessary only takes au hour or so, they have most of the afternoon to themselves. They have theatrical troupes, balls aud parties, aid are allowed to be out of quarters until 12 at night eveuiugs when there are plays, dances,etc., at the post. The officer’s have their weekly hops at the larger posts, dinner parties, social games at cards, picnics, and private the atricals. They spend a good deal of their time evenings at tho officers’ club room at the post trader’s establishment, and play cards, billiards, or drink beer. There used to be a great deal of gam bling and drinking iu the army, but that is now pretty much done away with, aud it would be hard to find a steadier or more quiet set of men than our army officers at frontier posts. LODGINGS IN NKW YORK. The approach of winter brings a great in crease in the straggling portion of New York’s population, and this leads to a brief notice of the accommodations which await them. These are the lodging houses for those who have money and the station house for those who have none. Cheap lodging houses abound in the vicinity of the great arteries of life, such as Chatham street and the Bowery, and in some in stances they are very profitable. For a dime bed may be obtained in a room with others—often ten beds being in one room. For a quarter you get a room by yourself with a rear window, and for ten cents ad ditional a iront room may be had. Of course, guests at such places cannot ex pect clean linen, or escape from the inev itable vermin, but men who have no homes must accept the alternative, and there are many obliged to sleep at such places who in education might be worthy of a far higher lot, Hugh Miller refers to similar scenes in Loudon in the following painful manner: “1 remember in crossing Westminster bridge that the Poet Crabbe walked there all night w'hen his last shilling w r as ex pended, and these were the very streets which Samuel Johnson had so often walk ed from night till morning, having no root in which to find shelter.” A still lower depth is found in the five cent lodging houses in which an army of les miserables seeks shelter. They are chiefly basements which are hired for S2OO a year. The tenant fits them up with benches and straw and a bit of carpet for a covering, and this is much better than “taking the plank” at the station house. A dozen lodgers are enough to pay rent and then the average crowd yeilds suffi ciently to clear $3 or $4, which is really a good business. The five cents lodgers include the .wretched oi all classes except newsboys,who have a lodging house of their own at the same rate. This is a superior institution, endowed in a permanent man ner, but its advantages are limited to this class.. BETTER ACCOMMODATIONS. When you rise to f t per night a wid range of accommodations is opened. You can find thirty hotels on the Euro pean plan, and then there are furnished rooms to let in all parts of the city. There are women who take a house and instead of keeping boarders simply let rooms at from $5 to $7 per week. Two young men can occupy each room and they' can take their meals at a restaurant. This mode of life is rapidly on the increase, and the terms advance as one seeks style, until it reaches the elegant suites at from $25 to SSO per week. All these things indicate that ten dency to bachelor life which is so prominent in the present day. The bachelor's rooms may be lonely, but he spends so little time there that he can put up with this. He has a club and bis theatre and other re? sorts, some of which aro much worse, and thus be learns to live without a home and becomes at last self ostracised from that only true form of social life in which wo man becomes the all-pervading power. [Correspondence Rochester democrat- Chronicle. A detective hired to a man in LaFayette county, Fla., to plow last week, by the name of Williams. Williams had a wile and six children. When the detective got the right drop he arrested Wffiiams, and carried him back to South Carotin , he murdered a lady twelve years ago $15,000, and where he left a wife and two children. . CARTER SVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1885. FIFTY YEARS AGO OUR FATHERS KNEW LITTLE OF TO-DAY’S CONVENIENCES. Some Discoveries and Inventions WhicJx Have Come to Modify Our Ways of Working and Living Within, the Last Half Century. The change that the last half century has brought to the commercial, social and domestic life of the world are remarkable* lt seems, indeed, in looking back over re cent inventions and discoveries as though mankind made no great stride in all the 400 years that succeed the invention of printing. Fifty years ago there was not a reaping or mowing machine to be beard irx any field, nor was there a seed-planter to be seen or any labor-saving apparatus for doing farm work except such as had exist ed for generations. FIREARMS —PHOTOS —RUBBER. In 1835 the farmers shot squirrels with flint-lock fowling pieces, Springfield mus kets, or some of the innumerable “queen’s arms” that were said to have been picked up on the field of Bunker Hill. Percus sion-cap locks had not come into vogue, and flint locks were retained in both the militia and regular service for many years thereafter. The first breech-loading needle gun was made in 1836 and in the same year Sdamuel Colt patented his revolving pistol. Fifty years ago such a thing as a pho. tograph had never been imagined. Da guerre’s process, long since abandoned, was first announced tb the French Acade my of Sciences by Arago fn 1839. Por traits were painted in oil for those who could afford them; miniatures were taken in water colors upon ivory, and for the rest there was nothing better than a sil houette profile, cut in white paper with a pair of scissors, and placed over a piece of black silk. It was in 1835 that Charles Goodyear took out his first patent for an India rub ber cement. Before that time the few “gum” overshoes that were worn came from the crude manufacture of the Indians of B razil. Garden hose, waterproofs and all the multifarious list of hard and soft rubber goods belong to the last half cen tury. PINS, PENS, FUEL AND LIGHT. In 1836 the first successful machines for making pins were put into operation in New Y’ork, but these were the kind with wire or “spun heads” which had a way of slipping down toward the point and leav ing the upper end of the pin to go into the thumb or finger. The process of making pins with solid heads, such as are now in universal use, was not patented until 1840. People wrote their letters with quill pens in 1835, and there was no note paper, little ruled paper of and kind, no blotting paper, no envelops and no stamps. Fine sand was used to take up the surplus ink, and only one sheet? or piece of paper being allowed to go by mail at a single rate, fools-cap was largely used for correspond ence on account of its size, till it was re placed by large, square sheets of letter paper. Steel pens were not in common use then, nor for a long time afterwards, for they were neither cheap nor good. The use of anajsthetics was practically unknown till thq effect of ether in render ing the patient insensible to pain in surgi cal operations was" 1 announced in 1845. Coal was hardly known as a fuel in this country fifty years ago. Everybody burn ed wood. Lucifer matches were not often seen or smelled in those days; fire was kindled with the tinder-box, and candles and pipss were usually lighted with live coals from the fire-place. There was no gas for lighting streets or houses in this country. Whale oil lamps and tallow “dips” were the universal reliance. Burn ing fluid lard oil and camphenecame later, and it was years before the dis<ffrery of petroleum ftpfl the manufacture of kero sene. HOUSEKEEPER —CARPENTER. The housekeeper had no canned fruits whatever, and no preserved meats, soups or vegetables. She could get no condensed milk, no cocoa, and but little chocolate. She would have I+ad to look long for a ba nana, and all imported fruit was scarce. She would as soon thought of putting a raw squash on her table as a tomato in any form. Ice did not rattle in her water-pit cher, and she had no refrigerator. Soda w ater and ice cream were not at hand to cool the palate in the summer, and lager beer was a fluid whose name was never pronounced on the shores. The first really practical sewing machine had not been in vented, and the household linen was spun and woven at home. The carpenter prepared every piece of woodwork that went into the construction of a house. He hewed the sills, joists, beams, posts, rafters and braces ; planed and matched the boards, shaved the shin gles ili the woods and made the sash apd doors at his bench in winter. Women knit their stockings, for the stores held no Bal briggan hose, and the only elastics they could buy were made of silk inclosing sev eral small coils of brass wice. ELECTRO PLATE AND STEREOTYPE. The process of electro-plating was un known in those days, ana consequently the cheap plated ware of recent times could not be had. Forks were made of steel and with but two sprongs. Every body put food to his mouth w’ith the knife, and the bandana spread upon the knees was the predecessor of the napkin. Indi vidual butter plates had not appeared. Stoves were by no means in universal use, and the capacious brick ovens still did ser vice on baking days. In 1835 there were probably about 1,200 newspapers in the Unite!states; now’there are five times as many. The paper mache proces of stereotyping was first used on New York newspapers in 1861 and elec trotypiug dates back not more than thirty jfive years ago. BILL NYE MONKEYING WITH LILA HURST. Very soon now I shall be strong enough on my cyclonic leg to resume my lessons in waltzing. It is needless to say that I look forward with great pleasure to that moment. Nature intended that I should glide into the mazy. Tall, lithe, bald headed, genial, limber in the extreme, suave, soulful, frolicsome at times, yet dig nified and reserved towards stangers, irre sistible as a tornado when insulted by a smaller man, lam peculiarly fitted to shine in society. Those who have observ ed my polished brow under a strong elec tric light say that they have never saw a man shine so in society as I do. I had just learned how to reel around a ball-room to a little waltz music when I was blown across the State of Mississippi in September last by a high wind aud broke one of my legs which I use iu waltz ing. When this accident occurred I had just got where I felt at liberty to choose a glorious being with starry eyes and fluffy hair and magnificently-moulded form to steer me around the rink to the dreamy music of Strauss. One young lady with whom I had waltzed a good deal, when she heard that my leg was broken began to attend every dancing party she could hear of, although she had declined a great many previous to that. I asked her how she could be so giddy and so gay while I was suffering. She said she was doing it to drown her sorrow, but her little brother told me on the quiet that she was dancing while I was sick because she felt perfectly safe. My wife taught me how to waltz. She would teach me on Saturdays and repair her skirts during the following week. I told her once I thought I was too brainy to dance. She said she hadn’t noticed that, but she thought I seemed to run too much to legs. My wife is not timid about telling me anything that she thinks will be for my good. When I make a mistake she is perfectly frank with me and comes right to me and tells me about it so that I won’t do so again. A friend of mine says I have a pro nounced and distincly original manner of waltzing and that he never saw anybody, with one exception, who waltzed as I did, and that was the recently-deceased Jum bo. I could waltz more easily if the rules did not require such a constant change of position. lam sedentary in my nature, slow to move about, so that it takes a lady of great strength of purpose to pull me around on time. I had a pardner once who said I was very easy to waltz with. She moved about with wonderful ease and a poetic motion that made my legs stand out at an angle of 450° when we turned the corners. She told me to trust her im plicitly and she would see that I got around on time. My feet touched the floor three times during the dance and one arm has been a little longer than the other ever since that time. Most of the other dancers left the floor and watched us with great interest. Finally I asked her if she did not want to sit down and fan herself till I could get her a glass of water. She said no, she did not feel fa tigued at all, and then proceeded to whirl me around some more, It makes me shudder to think of it. Every time the old bass viol would go “zzzt, zzzt, zZzt” she would scrunch my shoulder blades together and swing me around like a wet rag. I then asked her if she would not be kind enough to take me home to my par ents. I then looked her in the eye and begge'd her to remember her father. He too, was a man. “Ah !” said I, “do not’ take advantage of your great strength. Perhaps you have a brother. How would you like to have him fall into the hands ot a strong woman and be kidnapped so that you would never see his dear face again ?” She then relented and led me to a seat. I told her that my friend who had intro duced us had not pronounced her name distinctly. Might I ask her once more, so that we could some day dance again ? She smiled joyously- and gave me a large, stiff, thick, blue card and left the room. It read as follows : * * * : ; Sec • I LULA HURST. : Row j I : Seat ; ; Retain this check; I Admit One. ;as it secures your; 1 seat. : * ’. * Bill Nye. TJio Sort of Girl to Get. [Selma Mail ] Tho true girl has to be sought for. She does not parade herself as show goods, she is not fashionable, generally she is pot rich, but a heart she has when you find her. When you see it you wonder if those showy things outside were women. If you gain her love your $2,000 are millions. She will not ask you for a carriage or a fine house; she will wear sipiple dresses and turn them when necessary, with no vulgar magnificence to frown upon her company. She’ll keep everything neat and clean in your sky parlor, and give you such & welcome when you come home that you’ll think your parlor higher than eyer. She’ll entertain true friends on a dollar and astonish you with anew thought of how little happiness depends on money. She’ll make you love hope and teach you how to pity, while you scorn a poor fashionable society that thinks itself rich, and vainly tries to think itself happy," News comes from neighboring counties that the negroes are holding meetings and organizing with a view of moving out West, and & number are preparing to quit the red hills of Georgia. Shoe dressing—the best—at Word’s. ANECDOTES OF JOSH BILLINGS. Before I left New York I called on Josh Billings with an album and modestly so licited his autograph. He took it on his knees, gave his mouth a comical twist and wrote : “Thrice is he armed who hath bis quar xel just.” —[The Bard of Avon. “And four times he who gets his bkw in fust.’' [J. Billings. Josh was extremely fond of animals and had a cat iu his house in Albany which he gravely addressed as “William.” I suggested that that was a dignified name for puss, as cats were usually calltd “Tom” or “Tip” ora quick, short cogno men. “But, that’s a special, swell, blue blooded specimen oi the faline rase. I wish you to know,” rojoiued the humor ist. “Recently, poor fellow, he has had tits aud since then I call liim ‘rit::-Wil liam.’ ” When Rubinstein was over here he was presented to Josh, and the pianist was careful to impress the American with the accounts of the nobility of his ances tors. “My family,” said he loftily, “goes back to the time of the Crusaders-. My researches in this direction enabled me to discover that one of my ancestors accom panied the Emperor Baibarossa. ” Josh smiled, aud affecting to be immensely impressed immediatly remarked : “On the piano of course.” A story is told of the humorist being thrown on one occasion among a batch of students in a country town near New Haven. He was tramping along with a rusty yellow dog, and entered the bai room ot a hotel for refreshments. A group of the l”ale lads chanced to ba there on a frolic, aud immediatly interviewed Bil lings, whom they evidently mistook for a farmer. They asked with affected interest after the health of bis wife aud ehrildren, and Josh, with counterfeited simplicity, gave them a graphic account of his fami ly and farm. “Of course you belong to tliechmch ?” asked one of the boys. “Yes, the Lord be praised and my father and grandfather before me.” “Now, 1 suppose you would not tell a lie,” said one of the students. “Not for the wond.” “What will you take for that dog !” pointing to josh’s cur, which was crouch ing beneath his chair. “I won’t take S2O for that dog.” “Twenty dollars ! Why, lie’s not woitli tweuty cents.” “I assure you I would not take S2O for him.” “Gome, my friend,” said the student, who with his companions were bent on haviugsome fun with the old man. “Now, you say you won’t tell a lie fur the world. Let me see if you will not do it for S2O. I’ll give you S2O for your dog.” “I’ll not take it.” “You will not ? Here ! let me see if this will not tempt you to lie,” added the student, producing a small bag of half dollars which lie built up into small piles on the table. Josh was sitting by the ta ble with his hat in his hand, apparently unconcerned. “There,” added the stu dent, “there are twenty dollars, all in sil ver ; I will give you that for the animal.” Josh quietly raised his hat to the edge of the table, and, as quick as thought, scraped all the money into it exoept one half dollar, and then exclaimed : “I won’t take your tweuty dollars. Nineteen and a half is as much as that dog is worth ; he is your property !” A tremendous shout from his fellow students clearly showed the would-be wag that he was completely sold aud that he need not look for sympathy from that quarter, so he good-naturedly acknow ledged himself beaten. —IPiiiladelphia Times. Fifty Years Hence. Wall Street News. “Father,” he said, as he let go of the cro3S-cut saw to straighten his aching back, “they say that fish have begun to bite.” “Yes.” “Tho Burns boys caught a big string yesterday, and are going again this after noon.” “Yes,” “And I thought—being as—l thought—” “Henry,” said the old man, as he spit on his hands and reached for the saw, “you just let the Burns boys go,and you stay here and help me saw. Put the date down on the barn door, and fifty years hence see who is worth the most in clean cash. Pull away on your end.” Accounted For. A prominent Methodist clergyman tells the following story of an old Baptist minis ter who always contrived to lug baptism into sermons, whatever his text might be. The old gentleman was asked one day if he could possibly preach a sermon without alluding to his favorite doctrine. He said he could and would, if they would give him a text without any baptism in it. The first chapter of Ezra, ninth verse, was selected, which reads as follows: “And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,” He entered the pul pit, read his text, and said: “My brethren, I don’t see wliat they wanted of so many knifes unless it was to cut the ice in order to baptize the people.”—[Franklin Spec tator. is sure to cure you. Try it, boys- You can get it at Word’s. LIFE IX ALASKA. ITEMS FROM A GOVERNMENT EM PLOYE’S NOTE-BOOK. Belief in E7il Spirits-Courtship and Marriage-Bathing the Babies—Care of the Aged—Cremation—A Good Custom. [New York Tio*es.) “I haven’t been in Alaska since 1870,” s lid a former government employe who was stationed in that country for several years, “but from all I can hear the occu pation of the land by increasing numbers of white people has not had the effect of changing the customs of the country, in some portions of it at least, to any great extent. The Indians still believe in evil spirits that inhabit the water, hold their slaves secretly, practice polygamy and re tain all their social and religious forms and ceremonies. They have their sorcer ers, repudiate all relationship on the fath er’s side, and live generally as they did under the rule of the Russian. There are mussels and species of fish in Alaska wa ters which have strong and sometimes fa tal toxic qualities if eaten, which they fre quently are. Sickness always follows such indulgence, and it was no uncommon thing, when I lived in Alaska, to see an entire Kolosk village suffering from its et fects. It is this tradition upon which the belief in evil spirits who live in the water and spread sickness and disease among the people Lis founded. * They profess to hold communication with these spirits through their sorcerers, but they offer them no sacrifices and use no means to propiti ate them. “Marriage among these Indians is a pe culiar institution ; in fact, there is no mar riage—simply the taking of wives. When a young Indian wants a wife he goes to his mother and tells her so. If she gives her consent to where the lady of his heart is cooped up in her father’s house, taking his next best friend with him. Through the latter he sends word to his inamorata that he is near and would wed. If she has a leaning toward the suitor she returns word to him by the friend that she is in clined to join her interests with his. He then takes presents to her and her parents, and having delivered them enters at once into possession of his bride. There are no further ceremonies, except that a day later ■ the couple must visit her relatives, and if she then has no complaint to make to them about her husband, they are given presents and the wedding is over. This may be repeated indefinitely, until an In dian may become as well-to-do in wives as a Mormon elder. Polygamy was prac ticed even by the so-called Christian tribes when I lived in the territory, and their ev olution must have been rapid, from what I remember of them, it they have abandoned the practice. Dried salmon is the luxury of the Alaskan Indians, and the children begin to nibble it before they think of walking The way they bring up children out there would hardly suit in this region. The mother carries her child about from the time it is born until it is able to creep, no matter where she goes. Until that time she keeps it wrapped in a sort of fur sack. The moment the young one shows a dis position to crawl she yanks the fur off of it, and then begins the building up of its constitution. This is done by giving it a souse in the sea or river every morning and the chorus of yells that greets every village during this interesting ceremony is something terrific. The cries of the young ones are piteous, and, for fear that their material breasts might not be proof against these appeals for mercy, and thus fail to do their duty by their off-spring, the mothers do not peform the bathing ri’e themselves, but delegate some brother or sister to do the dousing. These con scientious aunts and uncles vary the switch with the bath, in vain attempts to make the one overawe the noisy results of the other. There is one thing noticeable among these half civilized tribes, and is creditable ■withal. Their old disabled members are carefully attended to, and orphans become a common charge and fare the same as the most favored children with living parents. These Indians are original cremationists. Their dead are burned soon as death en sues ; their ashes are interred on the spot and a rude monument erected over them. They have crude ideas of immortality, be lieving that a man has a spirit that lives forever, but they know nothing of future rewards or punishments, Their heaven is a place where the spirits of birds congre gate in one place—the common people by themselves, and slaves, if there are any, have still another dwelling place, unless a chief’s slave should die with him, and then his spirit will he in eternal attendance on his master. It was formerly the universal custom to kill the slave when the master died to insure the latter’s spirit proper at tendance. That custom was abolished by the Russian government, but it was kept up in isolated places, and cases where it has been followed were well known as late as 7876, “Some of the Indian tribes, notably the Kanaitze, traveling from place to place hunting or fishing, have the very excellent habit of leaving behind them when they break camp a quantity of kindling mater ial at each fire place for the use of the next travelers who come along, and who may possibly not be oversupplied with this very necessary item in their outfit. This kind ling consists of some pitch pine and some dry moss and sticks all wrapped up in a curl of bitch bark. The trrveler who uses this and doss not leave some for the next one who comes along, is sadly deficient in the etiquette of Alaskan travel.” NUMBER 28 JEALOIST IN THE CHOIR. Silvery noted, Lilly throated, Starry-yed and golden-haired, Charming Anna, The soprano All the singers’ hearts ensnared. Long the tenor Sought to win her, Sought to win her for his bride; And the basso Lovedsthe lass so, Day and night for her he sighed. The demeanor Of the teuor To the basso frigid grew ; And the basso, As lie was so Mashed, of course, grew frigid too. Anna smiled on * Both which piled on To their mutual hatred fuel; So to win her, Buss and tenor Swore they’d fight a vocal duel. Shrieked the tenor Like a Yen nor Cyclone howling o’er the plain ; Saug so high To outvie The bass, he split his head in twain. Growled the basso Till he was so Low, to hear him was a treat; Lower still he Went until he Spilt the soles of both his feet. Charming Anna The soprano, Mourned a week tor both the fellows ; Then she wed the Man who fed the Wind into the organ bellows. AN OII> SERMON. Dr. Munhall Tells the Story of Zart lieus in a Sycamore Tree. |Savannah News.] There has been no larger congregation in the Independent Presbyterian Church since Dr. Munhall began his meetings than was present last night. Every pew down stairs was crowded, the galleries were thronged, the aisles were filled with chairs and a great many stood up back by the doors. Those who could not get in found seats in the chapel and held an overflow meeting. Taking the story of the blind man of Jericho, whom the Lord healed, as the subject of his discourse, Dr. Munhall drew a comparison between those who are physically blind and those who are spirit ually blind. The point that he brought out was that worldly persons can be made to see as Christians do by accepting God’s teaching. The story about Zaccheus was related quite drolly, and about in this style: “Je sus had passed through Jericho and wa* going up towards Jerusalem with a large crowd following, for they thought He was going to be king. Iu the crowd was a ras cally little short-legged revenue collector named Zaccheus. He couldn’t see over the heads of the oth ers, so he ran ahead and climbed a syca more tree. He thought there was about to be a change in the administration and he wanted to see what the new king look ed like. The Lord saw Zaccheus in the tree, and he said: ‘Come down.’ Zaccheus was converted very suddenly, somewhere between the limb and the ground, and I don't think it took him very long to slide down. That conversation was sudden and it was certainly sincere, for Zaccheus said : ‘lf I have stolen anything from any man I will restore it to him four-fold.’ There were a lot of carping scribes in the crowd just as there are here to-night. They come to pick flaws in what the preacher says ; children of the devil that they are. They said he had gone to be the guest of that sinner Zaccheus. No doubt Zaccheus was not very popular in that country anyhow, because he was a tax collector and was appointed by the government at Rome.’’ A medicine that is warranted to cure itch is sold by M. F. Word. Try Pemberton’s Wine Coca. It is the elixir of life. Get it at Word’s. The best pill in the world is Word’s Liver Pill, All praise it who try it. This is the year to soak your wheat farmers, and Word has got plenty of blue stone. Paints i any quantity at Word’s. “Atlanta’s Pets” cigars are sold by M, F. Word. “Our Bob” 5 cent cigar, at Word’s. Go to Word’s and get a bottle of Wine Coca and commence life over. It is the olexir of life. The first show of the season has not come yet, but will be here in a few days. For further information call at Word’s Drug Store. TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE. I will be at the following places on the days stated below, for the purpose cf col lecting the State and county taxes for the year 1885. The rate per cent, is $8.70 on the thousand dollars. Cartersville District, Oct. 19, Nov. 3,14, December 1,2, 3. Allatoona Dit.,Oct. 21; Nov. 2, 19. Stamp Creek Dist., Oct. 22; Nov, 4,18. Wolf Pen Dist., Oct. 23 ; Noy. 5, 17. Pine Log Dist, Oct. 24; Nov. 6, 16. Sixth Dist., Oct. 26; Nov, 9, 23. Adaiisville Dist., Oct. 27 ; Nov. 10, 24. Kingston Dist., Oct. 28; Nov. 12,25. Gassville Dist., Oct. 29; Nov. 13, 21. Euharlee Dist., Oct. 20, 30 ; Nov. 20. Stilesboro, November 28. Taylorsville, November 27. Ligon’s Chapel, November £G. Hall’s Mill, November 11. McCandless Mill, November 7. Tax payers are earnestly requested to make payments before this time expires, as the law is very strict, and will be rig idly enforced on me if I do not comply with its requirements. B A. BARTON, tn 26 Tax Collector Bartow Cos., G&.