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AN ADVENTURE AT ZUNI.
In the northwestern corner of Now
Mexico, aid nestling in one of <be fertile
valleys that dot these great deserts,
it are high table-lands and those “butts”
so peculiar to the West, and uot for away
the horizon is bounded by the Zauj
Mountains, a part of the great continen
tal backbone. Emigrants have settled
wherever u fertile valley has invited a
plow-share, or a grassy hillside a much,
but this reservation Ins for the most
part remained intact.
The villages where the Zuni formerly
dwelt was built upon the top of a butte
which stands near by in the reservation.
It was an hnpregual stronghold, and for
untold centuries these people held it
against the hostile tribes around them.
The meadows along the river at the
foot of the butte supplied their wants
with little labor, aud as fast as the har
vests ripened, they were stowed away in
the granaries upon the top of the nuuu
taiu. But in taeir security they lost
the.r warlike qualities, and just in pro
portion as agriculture aud the ruder arts
progressed among them, they have
grown less savage and more timid.
Their houses are built of atoue and
sun-baked brick with the entrance
through the roof, just as they were a
thousand years ago. The householder
climbs up on a ladder, and then draws
it up after him. The dwellings were* so
constructed at first as a precaution
against enemies, and even now, with all
the protection the Federal Government
can give, ilie custom is often useful, as
the following incident will show.
In August, 1881, a party of young
men connected with the Territorial sur
veyors was stationed for several weeks
at this place. The day before their a:-
rival a band of marauding Mexicans had
crossed the border, aid made a raid
Upon the, adjacent ranches, aud driven
away some ponies and cattle. The
Zuni, having ncjvered from their fright
as soon as the Mexic ms disappeared
with the booty, had hastily summoned
their white neighbors and were organiz
ing for pursuit.
But there were only a few good weap
ons in the whole party, and when the
young men arrived with their rifles and
heavy revolvers, they were requested to
lend them to the Zuni Indians during
the few days necessary for pursuit.
Owing to the bad feeling which univer
sally prevails against the thieving bor
der M ixic uis,aud the hospitable reeption
wiiic i had been i.coided the young
men, they were easily persuaded to lend
their arms. One of them, however, re
fused :o part with his rifle, and several
of them retained their revolvers, while
allowing the Ii dians to take tlieir other
a ins to aid in rtcapturing their prop
erty.
TiFNTTPT
oaf ou.- vai ea & m j
The following day, while the young
men were scattered about the town,
some reading, some sketching tho quaint
objects around tlurn, they were startled
suddenly by a woman howling and
screaming from one of the housetops.
Immediately the cry was caught up and
repeated, as other women hurried out
upon tlieir houses, until it seemed that
tne whole town had gone mid. Frcm
one end of the vill ige to the other arose
the cries; eight bui died women and
ohildren howling, screaming, beating
their breasts, and tearing their hair.
The young men gathered at their
camp iu alarm, and inquired the cause
of the uproar. A band of Apaches W’as
coming! The women had espied them
some distance down the nver, creaping
steadily upon tlio town. Evidently they
had learned that the men were away,
aud, tired of being good, they had put
on war-paint, left their reservation in
Lincoln county and were out ou a raid.
They were coming now to butcher the
defenceless women aud children, and
c >rry off whatever plunder they could
fi id.
There was a hurried consultation.
Some of the young men advised that
they should rnouut their horses and es
cape as quickly *: possible, haying the
women and children to look out for
themselves; for if they remained, wbat
defence could half-a-dozeu boys, armed
with revolvers, make against seven .times
that number of men?
But a young fellow, whom we will call
Stonewall W , remonstrated so ve
hemently against deserting the women
and children that the rest of the party
yielded, and they resolved to remain and
make what defence they could. Hastily
collecting their weapons and ammunition
they climbed upon one of the highest
houses in the village, and drew the
ladder after them. There, sheltered be
hind the raised defences of the roof, they
be most secure, aud able to do
some damagejto the assailants.
The party of Apaches could be seen
plainly in the clear atmosphere of this
region yet some distance down the river,
but approaching still, one behind the
other, in true Indian tile.
It is no disparagement to those young
men to say that they were throughly
frightened. It - one thing to read of
brave deeds and danger laceu while
seated safely at home, but quite another
to find yourself m the heart of a wild
country, with two score of painted
savages creeping upou you, Jt was na
death alone that Ap: Cies mig it u
but torture and mutilation too hom 1 e
to mention.
It is doubtful if there exists a people
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1880.
more devoidj of 1 liman feeling, mere
cruel aid fiend sh, than these Apache
Itid’ttUH Formerly, l i their long mar
ches across the country, they would kill
the old and infirm when they .began to
impede their progress; and ou one oc
casion, when a squaw could carry no
more of her husband’s trappings on ac
count of the pappoose in her arms, the
bitter took the child from her, aud
swinging it about him by the heels,
dashed its head against the ground; then
pointing to !.i> luggage moved on.
While the young men were watching
the •preaching I idiais, some one sud
denly rimembered that two white
women aud an i. f iut were in a home
outside the town, and in the dinctun
of the savages. Tt.ey were wholly un
conscious of impending danger, and un
less warm and, would purely fall into the
hands of ilie Apaches.
But how were they tube infornud of
it? At that distal cu they could not hear
*. i a i, and a pistol shot would uot at
tract their nut.ee.
The house stood in the level plain,
about a mile from the village, and a
thousand yards or more from a defile in
the rocks through which the approach
ing Indians would have to enter the Val
iev. Already the savages had and saj -
peared behind the rocks aid stunted
shrubbery beyond the piss, and in a few
minutes more they would be iu the val
ley.
While they hesitated, Stonewall
W sprang up, and declaring that he
would see no woman murdered without
making an effort to save her, threw the
ladder over the wall aud began to de
scend, rifle in hand, for it was he who
had retained his rifle. His companions
cilled to him to come back, that it was
too late to reach the women aud return
before the Indians would be upon him.
But they might as well have Called to
a whirlwind. Every spark of chivalry
was aroused iu the young man, aud had
he known the Apaches would capture
him, it is doubtful if he would have re
turned then.
In another moment ho was upon hi*
horse, flying across the plain toward the
solitary house. As his companions
watched him from the housetop, they
broke into a hearty cheer. It was tiuly
a galleut deed. A soldier may charge
the cannon’s mouth without flinching
when two armies are watching, and he
knows his gallantry will be blazoned to
the world; but to dare such flends as
these, almost alone iu tlie wilderness, f r
iho sake of two unknown women, was
truly-, heroic. . .
These women were tho wif© uuil
daughter of a man named Dan Dubois.
This man had c sue from Wheeling,
West Yirgnia, a number of years before,
and haying married a Mi xiean woman,
settled here on the Zuni ltiver.
Throughout the frontier country Du
bois had made such a name for bravery
anil during that his presence carried
more terror to the ludiaus aud thieving
Mexicans than a whole regiment of sol
diers. Many marvelous feats are cred
ited to him, but certain it is that hec mld
draw his revolver and shoot so quickly
that the eye could not detect the move
ment of his hand. He rarely missed his
aim, and f- j ar was unknown to him.
The Mexican woman whom lie mar
ried was of a family that for generations
had suffered from the Apaches. Her
ancestors as far back as the records show
had been killed by them, and the natural
timidity of ibe Mexican had been so in
tensified in her the sight of an Apache
was sufficient to throw her into terror.
Stonewall’? companions watched him
till lie had ridden across the intervening
plain to Dubois’ house; they saw him
spring from hit liorse and enter the
house, and as yet the Apaches had not
appeared in the pass.
“I found the Mexican women engaged
in some household work,” said Stonewall
afterward, “while the baby was playing
near her on the floor. Her daughter,
a handsome girl of sixteen years, was
seated by the door tUruiniug a guitar.
‘“Hun for your liv-es!’ I said; ‘the
Apaches are caning!’ •
“Snatching the baby in her arms, the
woman dashed out of the door, never
pausing for a question nor once looking
back for the gilt
“I turned to follow her, for each mo
ment I expected to hear the yells of the
ludiaus about the house, but glaucu g
back, I obseived the girl casting after
her mother such a look of icorn as I
have never seen on any other face, and
instead of following, she quickly took
down a rifle from the wall aud fastened a
belt of ctrtridges about her waist.
“ ‘Run!’ I editd to her in Spanish,
thinking she had not understood; ‘the
Apaches are in the pass!’
“ ‘I will not run!’ she replied, in Span
ish; ‘I will tight- them here!’
Frightened as I was, I almost forgot
the danger in admiration f>r the girl.
B >ru ef a Mexican woman, she was afire
with her Virginia f ather’** Hood. A mo
ovjiore 1 had been thorough y
scared, but her spirit was contagious,
and now I was heartily ashamed of my
fears.
“I remembered now to have heard of
this girl at the fort, and that she was a
fine shot with the rifle,
u ‘i'll remain with you,’ I said, for no
man could have left so brave a girl to
light alone. No time was to be lo t
and we quickly barnc. ded the hea^
farther was sa:d, but he l
; quick, nervous movement showed
her alive for the fray, and 1 do not be
lieve a thought of fear hail crossed her
mind.
“The door securely fastened, we
clrabed cut upon the top of the l ouse,
which, like those of Zuni, was fl it and
had a stone parapet for defence. As we
came out above, the lenders < f the
Apaches were jud appearing through
tho defile iu the recks. To approach us
they would have to pass over a thousand
yards of level plain, and with the two
rifles we hoped to do some execution
among them bt f -re they reached the
house, aud theu defend i urselves us long
as possible from beliii and tho Wail upon
the roof.
“When the savages lmd entered the
valley they paused as in consultation.
There were forty-three of them.
They were evidently surprised at seeiug
a white mau there, uud were considering
if it were Dubois, for had they ;ot
thought him iu pursuit of the Mexicans,
they would nut have ventured to make
an uttuck.
“Presently they begin to advance
very cautiously, creeping upon the
ground so as to expose as little if their
person as possible to our fire.
“They knew the man they saw was no
Dubois. I was aware that we were in
imminent danger, with scaicely a chance
against savages, but so thrilling
was I by the bravery and and itermiuatiou
of the girl standing near me that I did
not feel afraid. She had not spjkm
since our’coining upon the housetop,
but, dressed in her Indian costume, was
standing, rifle iu bond, watching the
painted forms us they crawled nearer,
her lips compressed, aud her fine Span
ish eyes flashing as if she had been some
wild auim tl at bay. I carried an excel
lent rifle, and hesitating no longer, fired
at one of the savages. A little cloud of
dunt showed where the null had struck
ilie alkaline sand near a sage bush some
feet from the Indian. A derisive ytli
was the only response.
‘“Bad shot!’said thegiil, aud taking
a deliberate aim, she fired. No shout
answered her rifle, fur one of the Indians
was wounded. They seemed somewhat
diconccrted by this, and paused again;
then spre ding out their line, 1 egan to
appro: ch oi ce more.
“Presently there was a whiff if smoke
among them, aud a ball whistled so near
my head that iusti c ively Id dged.
The girl laughed at me. The Apaches
evidently had the' best rifles made, and
they knew’ Low to use them. Wt both
shielded lUrselvet iouarw’jai behind tho
parapet.
“I was sulfie eatly ; cquainUd with
Indian t: c cs*to know that when they
had approached in fair range of our rifles
they would make a lush for the house,
and uud tv the shelter of the walls try to
break tinough the door or climb up to
where we were.
“That our last hou 1 had c me I could
not doubt, and it wis horrible to tmnk
uf dying by those floods and being cut
to puces afterward.
“But the girl stood obstrviug them
as ceoliy as though they had been rab
bits, waiting till they should be within
better range of her rifle before waisting
more ammunition, I was preparing to
tire again, for in another mome .t the
savages might rush upon the house,
when a clatter of hoofs sounded behind
us, and turning I aw Dan Dubois ga -
loping up.
“The girl hurried down, and letting
her father in, both were with me in an
other moment. Springing upon the
parapet in full view of the savages, Du
bois opened a rapid five upon them.
Instantly they recognized him,and began
a hasty retreah The distance was so
great that little damage was done among
them, but quite a number, as was after
ward learned, w r ere siiglitly wounded.
“The rest of Dubois’ party was only
a short distance behind with the recap
tured ponies and cattle. As soon as they
reached the town they started after the
Apaches, and some miles away from
Zuni joined a party of troops under
Lieut. Giifeyle, who having learned
that the Indians Lad left their reserva
tion, was in pursuit of them.
“The fight which followed a few days
later is a matter of history uot necessary
to relate here. Before being overtaken,
the Apaches lmd murdered aud sc ilped
forty men, women aud children. In
every instance the heart was take out,
and the body itseif was mutilated iu a
most shocking niauuer.” —Youth’s Com
panion.
John Gallagher, a Philadelphia work
man found a pocketbook in which were
$2,689 in notes ami $4,311 in drafts and
checks. He kept it until he saw the no
tice of the loss in the papers and then re
turned it to the bank whose runner had
lost it. He received S2OO reward ahd
muclijpraise for his honesty.
A burglar in the room of Parson Was
muth, of Wenona, 111 , awoke him and
thens, id: “Lie still or I’ll shoot you.”
The preacher promptly plunged through
the second-story window, struck the
ground below w ith a dull thu-l, in the
immediate vicinity of a second burglar,
and then vaulting a fence, cscapel. The
harelars also got away.
Becaut/, a map’s coat doesn’t fit lim is
no sign that w, A thief. His wife inade
it tor him, and ho -. o t guilty of the
theft one som dimes is reiqy to accuse
I him.
For the Americas.]
WHEN THE MAIL. COMES IN.
I hear the train’s loud signal blow,
(The mail train always comes so slow*;)
But ah! how T I w’elcome the rush and din
That always follows when the mail train
comes iu.
When the mail com s in. .
When I see round the curve the smoke
arise,
And dim the glorious blue of skies,
Then the rattling sound rf wheels I hear,
Then the train bell rings so clear, so
clear;
I welcome it all with its rush and din,
Whan it heralds the train that the mail
comes jn.
That the mail comes in.
And when the engine without a swerve.
Of wheels or brake comes around the
curve,
Ry heart gives a glad, a unary beat,
And anxiously I watch the street
For a sight of the mail boy’s straw hat
brim;
And my heart grows faint, and my eyes
dim: —
If he comes and no mail greets my gaze,
To gladden the hours of the lonesome
days,
(For lonely they are, when out of my
sight,
Is the face that makes for me life bright).
Then weary is the day with its noise and
din,
If I get no letters when the mail comes in.
When the mail comes in.
But when the mail-boy comes along
With merry whistie and snatch of song,
And calls to me gaily, “hold out your
ban’
For “The Sunny South” and “American,”
And also a letter to read. I begin,
And my heart beats light when then mail
comes in.
When the mail comes in.
—Roxcy Fay.
Quissana, Ga., September, ’B6.
EVOLUTION—DISSOLUTION.
Stray Leaves from a very Ready Letter
Writer:
Newport, June 1,1886.
Miss Brown: -
May I have the pleasure of your compa
ny at the yacht race on Friday next.
Very respectfully,
Virgil O’Duud.
Newport, June 10, 1886.
My Dear Mi3s Brown:
Our friend, Miss Jones, gives a garden
party Tuesday. I should be more than
pleased if you would consent to go with
me. Hoping that it will be agreeable to
you,
I am very truly yours,
Virgil O’Doud.
Newport, June 20, 1886.
xMiss Mary:
Please accept the flowers I send you by
bearer on this, your birthday. My best
wishes accompany the flowers.
Yours truly,
Virgil O’Doud.
Newport,, July 2, 1630.
Dear Miss Mary:
The plan of reading together would be
delightful to me. lam sure we will appre
ciate Howell’s mote that way.
Very truly your friend,
Yirgil O’Douel.
Newport, July 13, 1336.
Dear Mary:
Excuse the informality, but something
in your eyes last evening told me, or
seemed to tell me, a secret. May 1 not
call to-night and ascertain whether 1 was
mistaken ?
Yours always,
Yirgil O’D.
' . Newport, July 14, 1886.
My Own Darling:
I was not mistaken, after all. I cannot
tell you how happy I am. I snatch time
to write you these few lines, assuring
you of my undying atfection,
Forever thine,
Virgil.
Newport, August 1, 1886.
Dear Mary :
Of course you know that I respect your
mother and all that, but you can hardly
expect me to love all your attachments.
Yours always,
Virgil O’D.
Newport, August 15, 1886.
Dear Miss Mary :
After the cool way you treated me last
evening I can hardly believe that the same
relations exist between us. Will you not
write and set my misgivings at rest.
Very truly your friend,
Yirgil O’Doud.
Newport, August 24, 1886,
Miss Mary:
After our reconciliation I fondly hoped
there would be no more trouble, but the
marked preference you showed that En
glish dude, Charles Jenkins, at the hop
last night, makes me doubt whether you
have any regard far me at all.
Yours truly,
Virgil O’Doud.
Newport, August 27, 1886.
Dear Miss Brown:
Your letter received. I shall be govern
ed entirely by your wishes in the matter.
Very truly yours,
Virgil O’Doud.
Ne vport, September 1,1886.
Miss Brown:
Invitation to your marriage to Mr.
Charles Jenkins received. I shall be de
lighted to witness the ceremony. Sorry
that you will not be here to attend my
marriage w T ith Miss Smith.
Very respectfully,
Virgil O’Doud.
—Walter Kennedy, in Life.
Look here, Judge, said the burglar, j
ain’t s > bad as you think I am. Only
give me time and I’ll reform. And the
Judge gave him fifteen years.
l'l*S AM) DOWN?,
How the House of Representatives Fluc
tuates Politically.
Baltimore American.
The House of Representatives ot the
Forty-ninth Congress, as originally
elected, was made up of 134 Democrats
and 141 Republicans, the Democratic ma
jority being thus 43. The death of Rep
resentative Ilahu, of Louisiana, aud the
election of a Democrat in this stead, has
increased this majority to 45. If the un
broken precedents of the last forty-fiye
years reach anything, it is that, while
there is no apparent reason why the Dem
ocratic majority may not be increased, a
decreased Democratic membership in tne
Fiftieth Congress need not surprise any
body. Never since 1840 has the party
which named the President been able to
return as many members to the Congress
elected in the middle of the Presidential
term as to that which was elected at the
same time , with ;tbe President. r l he
Whigs in 1840 swept the country and
elected & Whig House as well as a Whig
President. Two years later the House of
Representatives contained a Democratic
majority of no less than sixty-one. Al
though the popular vote, as between Clay
and Polk, was, in 1844, very evenly di
vided, Mr. Polk, on entering upon his ad
ministration, found in the House of Rep
resentatives of the Twenty-ninth Con
gress an administration majority of sixty
two. But when the Thirtieth Congress
met the administration was faced with an
adverse majority in the House of eleven,
and a Whig (Winthrop. of Massachusetts),
was elected Speaker. The Whigs in 1848,
ulthuugh they elected General Taylor
President, returned four less than one
half of the House of Representatives.
This very evenly divided House was,
however, in tv o years replaced by one in
which the opponents of the Whig admin
istration outnumbered its supporters in
the proportion of about 13 to 8. The
Democratic deluge of 1852, which carried
every State in the Union, save lour for
the Democratic electoral ticket, brought
with it a House of Rcpresentives, in
which there was a Democratic majority of
84. The rise of the Know-nothing party,
and the opposition caused by the passage
of the Kansas-Nebraska act, completely
changed the situation, and the very next
House had au anti-Democratic majority
of 75. file Democratic party soon recov
ered a portion at least of its strength,
and when Buchanan was inaugurated
the Democratic party had a majority of
two in the iiouoe then newly elected.
This was, however, lost again at the
next elections, and in the Thirty-sixth
Congress there was an anti-administra
tion majority of 51., The war now came.
After the withdrawal of the Southern
members from tueir seats in Congress, the
Republicans had a majority of 30 in the
lirst Congress of the war period. In spite
of the all the war fever, the next House
nad a Republican majority of but 18.
When Lincoln was elected a second time,
t..e country, or rather tne Northern por
tion of it, sent to support mm a House in
which the supporters of the administra
tion outnumbered its opponents by mure
than 3to 1. In 1800, although the South
ern States were not yet readmitted through
their representative to the lioor of Con
gress, the Republican majority was cut
down from 105 to 04. Wlien General
Grant was first elected there was chosen
at the samo time a House in which the
Republican majority was 03. In 1870 the
Congress elected in the'middle of his
term had au administration. majority of
but 35. in 1872 the collapse of the Gree
ley movement was fatal to the opposition
strength in the House, which found itseli
m the Forty-third Congress in a minority
of 103. The Republican triumph was
short-lived, for in 1874 came the gieat.
Democratic tidal wave, and with it a
House of Representatives which had a
Democratic majority ot 74. In the elec
tion of 1870, although the Democratic
plurality in the popular vote w r as a quar
ter ofa million, the House of Representa
tives’elected had a Democratic majority cf
but 13. In the next House, elected in the
middle of Hayes’s term, the majority was
increased to 23. In 1880 the Forty-seventh
Congress was elected, and in it the Repub
lican majority was 5. In 1882 KeiiTer,
Hubbell and Company might have read,
if they bad chosen to do so, the verdict of
the country upon their course in the Dem
ocratic majority of seventy-seven which
was then returned to the Forty-eighth
Congress. If the elections of this fall
shall result in the choice of a Congress in
which the Democratic majority is no less
than it is in the present Congress, Cleve
lands administration will receive an en
dorsement which has been given to no
President for the last forty-five years. On
the other hand, if the Democratic strength
shall be less, ho will only experience the
same treatment as the country gave to
Polk, to Fillmore, to Pierce, to Buchanan
to Lincoln, to Crant, to Hayes and to
Arthur.
Papa, inquired a little boy, if you can
say “people run for office,” why can’t you
say that “people walk for office?” Because
they are in too big a burry to walk, ex
plained the intelligent father.
A California tailor tried to run away
from his wife and boarded a sailing vessel
for Honolulu. His wife went by steamer,
got there first, met him when he landed,
and escorted the unhappy man home.
Tommy, said a mother to her seven
year old boy, you must not interrupt me
when I am talking with ladies.* You
must wait till we stop, and then von. can
talk. Rut you never stop, reConed tie
boy.
NUMBER 21
IN THEIR PRISON.
A Glimpse at tin* Indian Captives at 8t Au
(tUfttine.
Letter in Boston Transcript.
I tit on the glacis, musing, and lam
startled by a sudden genuine Aptcbe war
ery on the ramparts over my head, and
here, behind me come two braves in war
paint or dress, bearing on their lu ads a
tantastic wood arrangement resembling
horns, their faces covered ala kuklux.
■with a yellow veil and dress ofsame stuff,
slashed with dark red, belted with gleam
ing metal. They trot alojxg, and sudden
ly wheeling around several times and
shaking a noise of bells, they give the war
cry, which is taken up by their friends in
side the walls, and the shrilling yell floats
over in strange contrast to the quiet
scene,.
These Apaches was only captured a few
weeks ago and brought direct to this place
of imprisonment. They are a part of Ge
ronimo’s band, who is now raiding in
Mexico and the Arizona border in revenge
tor their supposed death. The oldest chief,
Nana, is apparently seventy years of age*
a villanous-featured old wretch; but ow
ing to his good conduct and sense of honor
in keeping his word, the government
substituted Chihuahua. 1 le is about forty
five or fifty years old, and has a well, for
an Indian, a good face. Already he has
learned to politely doff his slouch hat, and
adopted arm uniform.
IBe squaws are the jolliest set imagin
able; they come to get water Iron* the well
outside the trout, and I noticed one’s per
plexity early one morning, and went and
made signs and showed her how to work
the handle.
They all have money, and most of them
wear rosaries as necklaces. It was inter
esting when the tide went out to see how
soon the squaws and girls set about hunt
ing shells, which duly appeared as neck
laces, IS ana has two wives but excuses
himself on the ground that he only likes
one. Ihe squaws carry the babies, or
papooses, strapped in wooden frames, tak
ing them out occasionally to pull the limbs
straight. A b.bj is a helpless enough
object in a cradle, but in this impromptu
c ige on its mother s back it is simply
ludicrous. I noticed jars of clay for car
rying water. These are attached to straps
and borne on (lie back, the strap or band
stretched across the forehead.
My gracious! but for pure, simple* filth
and vermin, commend me to an Indian.
I’he squaws periorm the friendly office of
carbolic soap lor one afiolher, sitting on
the side ol the moat in early morning,
The reputed murderer of .judge Mc-
Coma v s family has one of the most vil
lainous families imaginable. The physical
average oi the Apache is far below that
of the northern Crow or Sioux. Their
otolid indifference was indicated when
Lieutenant Richards took out a gang of
them in a tug over the bar.* They were
apparently unm ved,except one who was
sea sick, although it was their first ex
perience in any sort of exalt on any water.
WORDS OF W ISDOM.
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
Ihe good paymaster is lord of another
man’s purse.
Hei r one man before you ansv.er; hear
several before you decide.
Only the lazy nope to attain prosperity
without work or self-denial.
If you would have faithful a servant, and
one that you like, serve yourself.
“Except wind stands as never it stood,
it is au ill wind turns none to gooc.”
bociety is a troop el thinkers, and the
best heads among them lane the best
places.
Unclaimed promises are uncashed
cheeks; they wiil keep us from bankruptcy,
but not from want.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public
duty; it withers the power of his under
standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Study rather to fill your mind than
vour coffers, knowing that gold and silver
were originally mingled with dirt, until
avarice or ambition parted them.
Nothing will supply i'w vvai f sun
shine to peaches; mm, to make a .ownedge
valuable, you must have the cLemfulnesa
of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last.
It is easy lo tell when other are flat
tered, but not when we ourselves aie; and
every man and woman will lend firm
belief to the soft nothings ol tue wry man
they believe to be an arrant flattered
when^ others are in the case.
Many men tail in life because, when
young, they form a false judgment touch
ing their mental capacities and inclinations
and f-n ever after engage 1 in the task of
proving to thenneives and othe at their
verdict was n j s e '
“My mamma gives me a p. ny very
day,“says a little 'io her - anion,
“for taking a dose < ,or on.’ ‘ hat
do you do with so much money?” .‘Oh,
mamma saves i* lo buy .h
A Georgia daraej p tvs wiw discretion.
He said: li I u>k th D-.-rd to send me a.
turkey, L won t get it, ..*ut it I asK him to
send me after a turkey, I always git one
before daybreak.”
I will add, ssld a vovmcr man who was
applying for a situation, “that I am a eo 1 -
lcge graduate. Oh, that won’t make any
difference, was the reassuring reply, if
you stick to yqpr work, and besides, we
want somebody who is strong enough to
carry in coal.
Bailiff, said .. ■>"- f ke
officer in ch rgc of n
i . i„ rr !h tin - fill t a
please inform jun
horse r,.‘ce h h. 3
o’clock? The j- ' forty
.••ie-hf hours, but in less than thirty min
uies they cume into court with a verdict.