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W. E. HARP, PaMUher.
VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
In Florida 3,000 pine apole's can be
raised on an acre of ground.
One thousand men are employed in
the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala.
The only drawback to coeoannt rais
ing in Florida is ilirt it takes ten years
fer the trees to bear.
Fifteen huro-ed executions for delin
quent poll taxes have been issued in
Union county, S. C.
An old man on Caney Fork, in Mid
dle Tennessee, caught $(1,000 worth of
saw logs during the last rise.
Tennessee has a State law which im
poses a fine of 1500 tor failure to report
small pox cases tp the S.ntc Hoard of
Health. ' * '
At Louisville, Miss., John D. M.
Thrasher has been sent to the peniten
tiary for life for the murder of W. D.
Triplett.
The Georgia Supreme cou;t has de
cided that the cities of that State must
stop their debts at 7 per cent of their
taxable property.
Six hundred partridges in boxes,
shipped from Danville, Ya., arrived in
Wilmington, Del., last week for the
Delaware Game Association, which is
trying to restock that State.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been
expended on the North Georgia agri
culturel college at Dahlonega. It wili
take $5,000 to complete it.
Col. ISenj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county,
Miss,, the second largest planter in the
South, employs 1,000 men, and made
2,000 bales of cotton last year.
The acreage of wheat sown over East
Tennessee is unusually large, and the
prosncct for an excellent crop was never
more encouraging for the time of year.
Within the last three years over $2,-
000,000 have been invested in manufac
turing enterprises in Georgia, and nearly
$10,000,000 have been invested and con
tracted fr in new railroads in our State.
Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in
Fanqnier county, Va., last week, in the
one hundred and fifteenth year of her
age, the oldest citizen probably in the
Old Dominion. When Ix>rd Cornwallis
passed through Eastern Virginia in the
summer of 17S1 she said she “was a good
smart gal, big enough to get married.”
The Nashville Banner, in some race
recountings, says : At another raee over
the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson
entered his famous horse Truxton, and
was hacking him quite heavily. Gov.
Cannon was on hand, hut had no money,
so he bet a wagon load of negroes with
the General. Truxton won tho race
and the General took in. the negroes.
Gold is being washed from alluvial
lands within the limits of Gainesville,
Ga., which pays 50 cents to the pari.
The city covers a deposit of gold-bear
ing material which should he utilized,
and no doubt will he as soon as the ca
nal Atlanta so much, needs passes
through that section- The bed of that
canal for a distance of forty miles will
be cut through veins and deposits-of
gold bearing ere.
There are three irreat land companies
now interested in Florida. The Disston
company holds 2,000,000 acres of the
4,000,000 acres it bought from the State.
A third company (beaded by Diss'on
also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee
chobee region and reclaim the swamp
lands. The area of reclaimation is as.
large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela
ware and Rhode Island, and the Disston
company will get half of it, the State
retaining the balance of it. Two enor
mous dredging boats are already' at
work at this, and the work will be pushed
to completion.
Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes
Eight years ago there was only $120,000
invested ifi steamers on the Sir Johns.
Now there are twenty eight steamers
plying that river, one of which cost
$240,000, and to this fleet there are con
stant additions. The Indian river and
South Florida lakes and inlets are now
dotted with sail boats, carrying freight
to and fro. In a very short time th<s
will be supplemented by steamers, and
then the quesaion will be settled, anew
region opened, the fertility, and beauty
of which cannot be put in words.
Home Influences Developing.
My Lady—“No, no, General. Do
not talk to me of school and college !
There’s nothing like home influence for
boys. My precious darling has never
left my side since he was bom—just
twenty-one years ago this very day,
General—and he has kept the heart of a
child, and never given me an hour’s
anxiety in all his innocent life !”
The General “Ah, he’ll soon bo
wanting to marry the lady’s maid, or
something of that sort. See if he
doesn’t!”
My Lady— " Good Heavens. (To
footman, who enters.) “Adams, where
is Parker?”
The Footman —"She just stepped
out for a minute this momin’, my Lady,
to git some ’air-pins, she said. But
they do say down stairs, as Master
George were waiting for her round the
comer wjth a four-wheel cab and a small
porkmaateau. Leastwise, she never
comp home, nor Master George hasn’t
neither. Lunch is waiting, my Lady.”
London Punch.
THE JACKSON NEWS.
Tones OF THE DAT.
Cincinnati reporta 188 cases of small
pox under treatment.
Denver will hold a National Mining
Exposition in August.
Tms is the season of the year to make
predictions about spring.
The persecution of Jews in Russia is
exciting general attention.
The New York bar will give Judge
Porter a complimentary dinner.
A woman in Graves County, Kentucky,
is undergoing a forty days’ fast.
Vanderbilt pays over two hundred
thousand dollars annually in taxes.
Strawberries from Florida are selling
in New York at SI and $5 per quart.
This is the year that the Mohammedans
expect the coming of their Messiah.
Of tiie 601 convicts in the Arkansas
State Prison more than 100 aro murderers.
Canada is considering the feasibility
of abolishing the dutios on tea and
Coffee.
De Lono has been traced to a definite
locality. The next thing now will bo to
find him.
A St. Louis man has started a fund
for the Guiteau jury by contributing $1
towards it.
We find that the moro the editors say
against the Gainsborough hats the higher
thoy loom up.
Cincinnati will probably try tlio ex
periment of propelling street oars by the
cable system.
The Cleveland fund for the Garfield
monument is not quite SIOO,OOO and
there it sticks.
.
Ridgeway is under the impression ho
can freeze Guitoau’s body so that it won’t
stink. It may bo that he can.
February 27 is the day upon which
Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy on
President Garfield in Congress.
The reporters of Chicago have ruled
women out of their press club. Men
want to got to themselves occasionally.
There is ono thing Guitoah may rest
assured of : He will be out up, or froze
up—-exhibited in the floah or as a (skele
ton. •
Female teachers in Boston who havo
been in servico ten yoars want SI,OOO a
year. If they can't get married they
ought to havo it.
The Spanish pilgrims to Home are
Carlist soldiers or well known friends of
Don Carlos, who urges tho movement in
letters to his partisans.
The Russian Government claims that
the persecution of tire Jews in that
country was originated nnd is kept qp by
revolutionary agents.
The work of tunneling the St. Law
rence River is to be completed in four
years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon
treal has the contract.
Wilde’s face is so long that it is said
to havo tho appearance of being reflected
from a convex mirror. Grief over lie
fading lily produced it.
Undf.ii the law District Attorney Cork
hill will get S2O for prosecuting tho
assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill
a pointer on making out bills.
Oscar Wilde thinks Walt Whitman
is the greatest of living poets—not even
excepting Longfellow. Mr. Whitman
will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some.
The Grant phalanx, known as the
Three-Hundred-aiui-S x, are to bo pre
sented with bronze medals as mementos
for their unswerving fidelity in the hour
of sore trial.
Ip Babnum could secure the body ol
Guiteau, and then engage Oscar Wilde
as lecturer, ho might double his fortune
of $3,000,000. The scheme is worth
looking into.
We beckon Oscar Wilde don’t like
America excessively. Shafts of sarcasm
are hurled at him from every conceiva
ble quarter. He must think we Ameri
cans are awful reckless.
Tobacco is a foul weed, but it seems to
yield an enormous revenue wherever it
is raised. The tobacco monopoly ol
France last year yielded a net profit to
the State of about $60,000,000.
Since Liszt went to Rome his health
nas greatly improved. But ho still de
votes hours to the fatiguing work of
composition, and forgets sleep, food and
everything else except the work before
him.
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Tiie St. Petersburg police have issued
an order forbidding tho appearance of
any actors or dancers on the stage of the
theaters of the Capital whose dresses
have not been previously rendered in
combustible by means of chlorate of
time. The same rule has been in force
in Berlin for five years.
An official report on the condition of
the eyes of school children in Philadel
phia says: “Hypermetropio eyes are
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1882.
more numerous than both myopic and
emmetropic ; that next to myopio astig
matism, distinct lesions are most preva
lent to tho eyes with hyp-uroetio astig
matism ” This will be startling news to
most people.
In its continual use in the Guiteau
trial many people have asked, what does
‘court in bano” moan? “Banc,’
brought into legal language from the
French, means “bench,” and comes to
us from English law. “Bano Regis"
was the title of the King’s Beaoh, which
was above all other courts, and appeal
to which was final. The “ Court in
banc” therefore means tho Supreme
Court of tho District in fuU bonoh.
Sixty Harvard students, wearing knee
breeches and black silk stockings and
bearing lilios in their hands, went in a
body to one of Oscar Wilde's lectures
in Boston. Oscar, strange tt> say was
not pleased. To see himself as others
see him so disconcerted him that he
failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap
plause that occasionally greeted him
Perhaps this sort of monkey business, if
pursued lony enough, will teach the dis
ciple of aestheticism a wholesome lesson.
Editor Ramsdfll, of the Washington
Republican, recently offered $5 for the
best written letter accepting an offer of
marriago, and here is the letter, by Ger
trude Nelson, whioh won the prizo :
“My Dear Donald— Fresh with the
breath of the morning came your loving
missive. I have turned over every leaf
of my heart during the day, and on each
page I find the same written, namely,
gratitude for the love of a noble man, hu
mility iu finding myself its object, and
ambition to reudar myself worthy of that
whioh you offer. I will try Yours
henceforth. ”
George Q. Cannon, one of the con
testants for the seat of Delegate in Con
gress from Utah, speaking of tho re
pressive measures respecting polygamy,
says: “Our people will be obliged to
submit with the spirit of martyrs, aa
they havo heretofore submitted when
oppressive laws have been enacted
against them, or when they have been
expelled or mobbed from their various
homes, before polygamy became ono of
their tenets. They actually rejoice in
persecution, as it iutensiflos their ad
hesion to tho doctrines of their church,
and confirms them in their beliof in its
divine origin.”
A ooTF.MroBARY tells the following
story: A man named Harsens who
keeps a saloon and a parrot in Now York
went out a few minutes the other even
ing and on his return missed seven silver
watches ho had there. A few nights
after William Cox, who was the only
person in the saloon during Harsens’
absence, came in with some friends; and
while he was drinking at the bar, the
parrot startled him by saying gravely,
“Billy Cox stole those watches.” He
hurried out to sue the owner of tho par
rot for defaming Ids character, when he
was arrested for stealing another watch
which was found in Ids possession.
AcCOBDINa to tho Now YorU ITfrald.
now engaged in examining the Clerk’s ac
count of the disbursements of the House
of Representatives, the most shameful
recklessness prevails in the manner of
spending the public funds. We quote
from the list: “Two perfumery cases,
bought for a member, S2O; three fans
bought for a member, $10.63; six tooth
picks, bought for member, $28.17; two
fourteen carat charm magic pencils,
bought for a member, $30.60; seven
ktrives, bought for a member, $lO9 67;
three card cases, bought for a member.
$10.33; one fine opera glass, bought for
a member S4O; one shaving case, bought
for a member, sl3. These are only
a few of the long list given. The
Herald, commenting, says: “Surely Mr.
Adams, the late Clerk ol the House of
Representatives, who furnished these
oxliaordinary articles to ‘a member’ at
the public expense, on the pretense that
they were needful for the discharge of his
legislative duties, does great injustice in
withholding tho ‘ member’s ’ name from
the curious taxpayers. He must have
been engaged in very dirty work to need
so much perfumery. ”
West Point Board of Visitors.
The members of tiie Board of Visitors
appointed every year to attend tho an
nual examination at West Point, aro
solicited in the following manner :
Seven persons, the law provides, shall
be appointed by the President, and two
Senators and three members of tho
House of Representatives, shall Redesig
nated by the Vice President or President
■pro tempore, of the Senate, and the
Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, respectively, of the session of
Congress next preceding such examina
tion.
As to compensation, the law makes the
following provision :
No compensation shall be made to the
members of the Board beyond the pay
ment of their expenses ior board and
lodging while at the Academy, and an
allowance, not exceeding eight cents •
mile, for traveling by the shortest mail
route from their respective homes to the
Academy and thence to their homes.
A contemporary asks : “ How shall
women carry their purses to frustrate the
thieves ?” Why, carry them empty.
Nothing frustrates a. thief more than to
snatch a woman’s purse, after following
her half a mile, and then find that it con
tains nothing but recipe for spiced
punches and a faded photograph of her
grandmother
Fritz lias named hr Vjg Non Sequit
ur, because it does hq, JolloWi
Uovoted to tho Interest of Jacknon and Hutto County^
MS HEN noI.TON.
BT EVGKNK J. lIAIU.
I remember big Ben Bolton, and the little I# online.
lie could carry off a millstone, but she ruled him
like a Qwon.
He stood seven feet lu Idast* Makings ; she wax hardly
three feet high; ;
But ahe wound him rotuiMrr Anger, and alio ruled
him wKh her eye. u
The womon used to aniok|fe and tho hardy minora
sudlod.
To see the brawny giant with the gentle little child.
And the gamblers, up from 'Frisco, when they saw
them, used to swear
That they looked a* fitly mated as a rabbit ands
bear.
He would drop bin pick and shovel when she came
In working hours;
They would go amojig tho gulches after gay and
gaudy Aoworx;
lie would climb the dizxy lodges, ho would soalo the
mountain-side.
Bearing her upon, his whouMqfes, which ho called her
" little bride."
lie could bond an iron orowbor, ho could lift a half a
ton,
He oould twist a wagon-tire, or the barrol of a gun.
With his finger*; but It often used to make us laugh
Whou wo saw .J-iOontlno lead him us a butcher loads
a calf.
When the hard day’s work was over, when the
croscont sliver moon
Arose above tho mountain pines, w met at “ Blood's
saloon,"
When Ben Bolton used to glvo us exhibitions of hli
skill
In bending iron crow-bars or in twisting off a drill.
One day Ezekiel Parsons sent to ’Frisco on the sly,
And bought a bur of tempered ateel, for biawny }jen
The l>oys who understood tho game came down to
Blood’s one night,
And stood serenely round tho bar and waiting for
the sight.
Ben Bolton grasped the bar of steel, he brought i
to his knee.
And like s locomotive puffed, the trick he could not
sea;
The sweat ran down bis honest face, upon his hands
ho spit,
He tugged and worked with all his might, it would
not budge a bit.
Ezekiol Parsons shook Ills sides, the boys all toughed
aloud,
Ben lost his reputation and had to treat tho crowd.
It out him so completely, and It mado him fool ho
mean,
He quit the camp next morning with the little Leon
tius.
n.
A storm pomes np the vnlloy, s cloud bursts on the
htn-,
The stream becomes s river, that sweeps away tbs
mills.
And downward through the hollow tbs maddened
torront roars,
O’er rocks, through glena and gulchos, and mining
camps it pours.
A cry comes from the hollow, and rushing down the
ridge
The minors see Ben Bolton like a giant at the bridge,
The water settles about him, tho bridge rocks to and
fro;
He bolds It with a crow-bar—in a minute it must go.
Beneath tho narrow ledge near by, with bright dla
lioveled hair,
They see the littlo Leontine—her hands are clasped
in prayer.
The structure quakes, tho strong mon shakes, no
fear is in his face;
"Ho! savo tho child,” ho shouts aloud, “ I’ll hold
tho brldgo in place.”
Ecke PareonH bonnds upon the bridge, the women
wall with fear ;
Ho lifts the child in bis strong arms, tho miners
loudly cheer;
lie leaps upon the t rembling logs, tho waters round
him roar;
He slips, ho falls, ho creeps, h crawls, ho springs
upon the shoro.
Tho child is saved, Ben Bolton, bat who will help you
now?
Tho crow-bor In your brawny hands breaks like a
rotten bough,
And down the glen goes bridge and man, with broken
logs and stones
That rend ami gash his stalwart form and crush and
break his bones.
Adown the bill tho minors run, with outcries of
despair;
They find him wedged between the rocks, and hang
ing helpless there.
They bear his mangled form away, without the glen
they pass
With words of pity and of love, and lay him on the
grass.
The crimson blood runs down his fare, ho shuddors
and he sighs;
His puJo lips move, he moans, ho groans, then to a
comrade orie* :
“I’ve saved the little Loontino, bo kind to her,
door Joe,
Pm bait and broke , Zekt Par ion* % for Pm ready
noyo to go /”
til" head droop, limp aud lifolo-a down, Ills eyi*
grow dull and dim,
His broad breast heaves, a shiver runs through every
broken limb.
Then, with a smilo upon his Up*, he sinks upon
the sod,
And the soul of bravo Bon Bolton is at peaco with
man and Ood.
“ Caved,"
“ It’s cavort 1 ” exclaimed Bill Beaver,
bursting into the cabin where I was leis
urely eating breakfast and reading the
news from last year's papers that were
pasted on the wall. “The ground has
caved ! it came down mighty sudden ;
and little Jimmy was at tho breast. I
was further out in the drift, and had tho
start of it; but it made such a closo call
for me that I knew ho must o’ got
ketched.”
This technical jargon revealed to me
the fact that our mine had caved, and
had buried one of our companions, for
“Little Jimmy ” was not an infant, but
a man—a miner and a friend. Ho had
been working at the “breast,”or fathr
est end of tho “ drift,” but was now per
haps sleeping his last sleep in the bot
tom of the mother of us ail.
Three years before we had come to
this creek, we hail prospected the “sido
gulches" and tho bars, anil found
“ colors ” everywhere. Indications fa
vorable, so we “ staked” a body of
ground along the main creek; built
cabins, organized a company, of which
tho writer was elected President, and
went to work to open our claim.
Those three years had been years of
toil and privation. We were in the heart
of tho Bocky mountains. Our cam)) was
pitched in a little basin of a valley,
warm and sunshiny, and just at tho en
trance of a deep and gloomy canon,
which we named “The Devil’s Gate,”
and through which our sparkling little
stream foamed and tumbled down to the
great river, tho Missouri Our ground
was deep and very wet. Drainage was
' necessary, and we had driven a tunnel for
this purpose through the earth and
bowlders that filled the primeval bed of
tho creek, until wo had attained a hori
zontal distance of 1,000 yards; hut the
slope of tho gulch was so gradual that,
we had not reached tho “ bed rock”
where we hoped to find tho gold laid in
heaps. “Bed rock, ” being the objective
point, mnst l>e reached; so we sank a
shaft at tho head of our tunnel and be
took ourselves to a pump.
As it was a couple of thousand miles
to the nearest foundry, and we oouhl not
afford to await tbo completion of the
North Pacific railroad, a pump under
j the circumstances was a problem ; so I
will tell you how we got one. We hail
I blacksmith’s and carpenters’ tools, which
most of us could use ; there was plenty
of timber growing on the mountains,
and a pair of dilapidated freight wagon*
supplied our stock of iron. Great slalw
or segments woro out from tho fir trees
ami hewn and dressed on one side to a
smooth plane. Tire other side was
rounded to on arc or convex surface, so
that, when four such segments were
placed together lengthwise, scoured with
pins at tire edges, which were first
squared and then mode parallel, thoy
formed a long, hollow trunk or barrel,
four sipinres within, but outside cylin
drical, ami tapering slightly from one end
to tho other.
Upon this wore driven hoops or hands
of iron, whioh forced tho joints close
like those of a cask, and thus wo had
pumps or pipes of considerable length
and solidity. It was easy to fit to them
valves and pistons, and to work them
with a wooden walking beam, moved by
the crank of a water wired. This crank
wns a master piece. It hod an arm or
leverage of two feet, and was forged
from the iron axle of one of onr wagons,
audits dungeons or bearings were turned
in a latlio of onr own contriving. This
was a heavy job for our own rewourocs,
but it was finished after an age (it
seemed to us) of toil, puzzling and per
spiration, and wo had produced machine
ry that was capable of raising to a
height of nearly thirty feet many bins
of water per aay, and which answered
all our requirements for drainago, so
that we were able to reach that long
souglit “ l>od rook ” at a depth of ninety
feot Irelow the present bod of the creek.
I will mention here that our pump v as
twelve inches square inside, and had a
otroko of four feet, raising the water
twouty-nino feet into our drain tunnel,
whence it flowed out to the surface 1,000
yards down tho canon.
We had reached “ l>ed rock,” but bad
not “struck it very rich,” and wore run
ning a drift or tunnel on bed rook across
and up tho gulch in scaroh of the “ pay
streak” whioh we were hoping every day
to find, when tho announcement, of a
startliug accident was mail®. Hero was
the ruin of our hopes and tho death of
our friond ; for there was littlo room to
hope for any other rosult.
It must not bo supposed that much
time W'as wasted in such reflections ; for.
telling Bill to ronso the entire camp, 1
rushed off to the mine. Such of the
men as hod hoard of the occurrence
hurried from thoir work, bringing with
them thoir picks and shovels as likely to
be needed, and the minors from wet
diggings came clad in coats, high boots
audhelmot-ihaped caps of India-rubber,
and looking like knights in armor.
Knights thoy were, too, for that matter,
for, though armed only with shovels tuid
picks, they were as daring aud os gen
erous as over belted Prince who rodo
with lance at rest to right imaginary
wrongs; and thoy wore ready now to
risk every danger to save tho poor follow
buried in the mine beneath.
On reaching the scene I found our
machinery apparently uninjured, but
looking more closely I discovered that
the pump was raising not a drop of
water, and it would not bo long Ixifore
the entiro mine would be flooded. The
pump must bo relieved at ouoo or wo
coulu not hojK) to save the mine, much
less to rescue our friend. Calling Bob
Piper, a tall, black-bearded minor, who
had worked at his trade in every mining
country from the English channel to tho
Pacific oooan, and who in skill, courage
aud experience, was tire mining oracle
of onr camp—l pointed him to the
pump, which was wearing itself out in
vain, for it lifted no water.
“ Bob," said I, “we must fix that
pump I It is our only hope to savo
Little Jimmy.”
“ We’ll fix it,” replied Bob, quietly.
“ Tho pump is starved—choked up at
the bottom. We’ll tlx it: and as for the
poor lad wo’ll git mi out.”
Bob was a West of England man, nnd
his dialect stuck to him.
“ We’ll get nil out, Benny; I think ho
bean’t dead. I’ve helped dig mon out
in tho old country and this, too; an’ God
will help us wo’ll got un out now; won’t
us, Benny?”
Benny; thus appealed to, answered
with an emphatic “You bet,” and tho
next moment lie and Bob, followed by
two others, were clambering down tho
steep and slippery flight of ladders that
led into tho mine, until their candles,
glimmering like stars, were ono by one
swallowed up in tho black shaft. Axes
had been sent down iu the bucket, and
in a few moments were heard blows
ringing on tho mass of wood and iron
that composed tho barrel of tho pump.
They were cutting holes to lot water into
tho pump below. It had already risen
above their waists, and the mouth of the
lowest drift was nearly submerged.
The machinery was creaking nnd
groaning, and tho wheel dashing round,
and it was idle show, and tho mine was
filling up, and soon tho men would be
driven out; but meantime wo could
hear tho blows of tho axes. I’resontly
tho clumsy walking beam quit groauiDg,
stood still and began to tremble. The
wheel had stopped for a momont, then
began to move slowly, and went round
with a surge. There was a great rush
of water through the pump, and it was
all right. Our old wooden pump was
equal to tho occasion. Tho flood-gates
were opened to the gTeat overshot
wheel, and it was required to do its
best. It rushed round steadily, and in
an hour the mine was freed from water
so tliat men could press into the drift.
It was arranged that if Little Jimmy
was found alive the fact should l>e tele
graphed aloft by two strokes of the sig
nal bell; but if dead, one tap should
announce it. Men were working under
ground as only such men would work.
They had been told of! into gangs of four
each, which spelled or relieved each
other every fifteen minutes; and, as tlicv
advanced into the avalanche of rock
and earth that filled tho drift, every inch
had to be propped with heavy timbers,
for the vast mass aliove them had been
shaken and had lost its cohesion, and
at every moment might crash down like
a mountain.
Presently, to those who waited "Jxrve,
there came a sharp peal of the bell—
then another, no was alive ! What a
shout went tip from the men assembled
there. Out of tiie depths of that canon,
alxive its cliffs and crags, and over the
trees that waved on their summits, and
above the mountains that towered
lieyond—far above them all it rose like
incense. It ascended into heaven, for it
was a prayer—a prayer of thanksgiving
and of praise. Not formed in speech,
uot framed in language, but tire over
flowing of the heart that con not bo ut
tered in words.
My story is done. Little Jimmy had
been overwhelmed v kth an avalanche,
his candles extinguished, and lie dashed
down with his faoo to tho earth; hut tho
vooks and timbers liad formed on arch
over him. and, resting his elbows on the
ground, ne was just ahle to snpiiort his
head above it, In a little while hq would
have drowned where ho lay. but he wns
safe now. Strong hands hod dragged
him out of this grave. They had har
nessed themselves to the “horse whin,”
and hod hoisted him into the glorious
sunshine. Thoy bore him to his cabin,
and plncod him in the tender onre of
“Doc.” Here wo will leave him.
The three drinking saloons in onr
oamp proclaimed open doors and free
whisky for the rest of that day, and, os
tlie boys woro alxuit to tnko a drink, Bob
Piper asked leave to offer a sentiment.
“ Genelmon,” said he, “I told you
we’d git un out, if so be as God would
help us, Genelmon, He did help us.”
“You l>et!” was the applauding and
omphatic response.
Spoopcndyke In the Role of a Sports
man.
“Say, my dear,” said Mr. Spoopen
dyke, as he drew a gun from the ease
and eyed it critically, “I want you to
wake mo up early iu the morning. I’m
going shooting.’
“Isn't that too sweot 1” ejaculated
Mrs. Spoopeudyke. “I’ll wear my dress
and my Saratoga waves. Where do we
go?”
“I'm going down to tho island, and
you’ll go as far as tho front door,”
grunted Mr. Spoopcndyke. “Women
don’t go shooting. It’s Only men. All
you’ve got to do is to wake me up anil
got breakfast. When I como home wo II
have some birds.”
“ Won’t that bo nice !” chimed Mrs.
Spoopcndyke. “Can yon catch birds
with that tiling?” and Mrs. Spoopefidyke
fluttered around tire improved breech
loading shot gun, tlrrnly impressed with
the idea that it was some kind of a trap.
“I can kill ’em with this,” exclaimed
Mr. Spoopcndyke. “This is a gun, my
dear ; it isn’t a nest with three speckled
eggs in it, nor is it a burn with a bole ip
the roof. You stick tho cartridge in here
nnd puli this finger-piece, and down
comes your bird evefy time.”
“Isn’t that, the greatest thing 1 I sup
pose if you don't want a purtridgo you
eon stick a duck or a turkey in that end,
too, or a fish or a lobster, and bring it
down just ns quick.”
“ Yos, or you can stick a house or a
cornfield, or a dod gnsteil female idiot
in there, too, if you want to 1” snorted
Mr. Spoopcndyke. “Who said anything
abont a partridge ? It’s a cartridge that
goes in there.”
"Oh I” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopcndyke,
rather orcstlallen. "Iseonow. Whore
does tho bird go ?’’
“ It goos to night school, if Ire hasn’t
got ony more sense than you have,”
snorted Mr. Spoopeudyke. “Look bore,
now, and I’ll show you how it works,”
and Mr. Spoopcndyke, whose ideas of a
gun were about as vague ns those of his
wife, inserted the cartridge half way in
the muzzle end, and cautiously cooked
the weapon.
“And when tho bird sees that ho
comes and pocks it 1 Isn’t that tho fun
niest !” amt Mrs. Hpoopendyko clapped
her hands in the enjoyment of her dis
covery. “Then you put out your hand
and catch him !”
“ You’vo struck it 1” howled Mr.
Spoopendyke, who had the humrnor on
tho half cock and was vuiuly pulling at
tho trigger to get it down. " That’s tho
i(l6ft 1 AH jwu nood iu f/>nr and
a gas bill to boa martingale ! With
your notions you only want anew stock
and steam trip hammer to lie a needle
gnu! Don’t you know tiro dial gasted
thing has to go off before you got a bird!
You shoot tho birds; you don’t wait for
’em to shoot you I”
“At home we used always to chop
thoir heads off with an ax,” faltered Mrs.
Spoopendyke.
“So would I if I was going after
measly old hens,” retorted Mr. Spoopen
dyke, who had managed to uncock tho
contrivance, “ but when I go for yellow
birds and sparrows I go like a sports
man. While I’m waiting for a bird,”
continued Mr. Hpooi>ondvke, adjusting
the cartridge at tho breeoh, “I put tho
load in bore for safety, and when I sec a
flock I aim and firo.”
Bang I wont tho gun, knocking the
tall feathers out of an eight-day clock
and plowing a foot furrow in the wall,
perforating tho closet door and culminat
ing in Mr. Bpoopendyke’s ping hut.
" Goodness, gracious !” squeaked Mrs.
.Spoopendyke, “ Ob, my !”
Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself up
and contemplated the damage.
“ Why couldn’t yo keep still !” he
shrieked. " What’d ye want to disturb
my aim for and make mo let it off?
Think I can hold back a charge of pow
der and a pound of shot while a measly
woman is scaring it through a gun bar
rel ?”
“If it had been a bird how nicoly you
would liavo shot it 1” suggested Mrs.
Spoopendyke, soothingly. “If you
should ever aim at a bird you’d catch
him sure.”
Neapolitan Babies.
There are millions of babies in Naples
babies enough, I judge, to supply nil
the rest of the world if the crop should
hapiten to grow thin anywhere. There
are babies in arms, babies on balconies,
babies threatening to tumble from in
numerable front windows. Babies in
wagons, babies under horses, babies
making mud-pies in the “ stradcs,” but
about lnili of them under 4 years of
ago are as naked as when thoy were
born. I don’t think there is a cradle in
Nf-.plos, any more than there is a rock
ing-chair in England; but here and
there amother, comparatively well-to-do,
carries her infant “bound in swnddling
clothes,” like the people of Jerusalem
and tiie American Indians, wiapped
tightly round and round from head to
foot, like a cocoon or a cigar, and some
times its arms are also imprisoned.
These minute specimens of thclazzaroni
are generally good-natured, like their
fathers and mothers, and where clothes
can be afforded, thoy are always worn—
more or less.— W. A. Croffut’s Corre
spondence,
lEUXN; $1.50 per iui*.
NUMBER 24.
USEFUL HINTS.
Never lean the back upon anything
that is cold.
Never begin a journey until breakfast
has been eaten.
SriniTS of ammonia diluted with
water, if applied with o sponge or flannel
to discolored spots on tho carpet or gar
ments, will often restore tho color.
Skik-Mir.K aud water, with ft littlo bit
of gluo in it, mode scnlding hot, will
restore old rusty black crape. If slapped
nnd pressed dry, like muslin, it will look
up good us new,
A taste piado of whiting and Irenzoin
will clean marble, and ono made of
whiting and chloride of soda, spread and
left to dry (in tho sun if possible) on tbs
inarblo will remove spots.
CEi.KJir boiled in milk and eaten with
the milk served as a beverage is said to
boa euro for rheumatism, gout and a
specific in oases of small-pox. Norvous
people find comfort in celery.
Never stand still in cold weather,
especially after having taken a slight
degree of exercise ; and always avoid
standing upon the ioo or snow or where
tho person is exposed to a cold wind.
A flannel cloth dipped into warm
soap suds and then into whiting and
applied to point will instantly remove
all grease and dirt. Wash with clean
water and dry. Tho most delicate tint
will not be injured, and will look like
now.
To remove grease from white goods,
wash with soap or alkolino lyes. Col
ored cottons, wash with Jukowarm soap
yes. Colored woolens, the same, or
ammonia, bilks, absorb with Frenoh
chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away
with benzine or ether.
Fon salt-rising bread, stir np, quite
thick in tho usual wav, using Cojil water,
anil plnoo upon the sitting-room ooai
stovo over night; it will beliglitenough
to sponge the bread by morning, and is
quite a help when the duys arc so short
tor raising tho emptyings ; my family
prefer this rising. When one has not a
wurm-onough place to set their milk put
hot water in to raise the temporaturo.
To make a light wheat loaf, take tho
thick buttermilk from the bottom of your
buttermilk dish; stir just as you can,
allowing ono heaping teosiKxmfnl of so
da to a pint basin of buttermilk. Pot
pie is nice made in tire same, .way, only
put about one-third sour erector. Apuil
diug mado in the samo way with dried
cherries und steamed, iu the cake dish
with a hole iu the center is nice. The
advantage of tho hole in tho center is
that the steam passes through the center
of the pudding into the steamer. Eat
this pudding with sugar and cream ;
nice tart apples will answer very well
tor fruit.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Foil several years it has boon observed
that tho European glaciers are steadily
rotreating.
The molecules of hydrogen, at a tem
perature of 60° Fahrenheit, move at the
average of 6,225 feet in a second.
Flammaiuan says that the tail of a
comet must sweep through space with
tho velocity of 16,000 leaguos per second.
Mb. Stone, hor Majesty’s astronomer
at the Cape of Good Hope, has just com
pleted his great outalnguo of Southern
stars, the result of ton years’ labor at the
capo.
Tiie algno known as protococcaeoae
havo one peculiarity—thoy do not live
in tho water hut iu other plants, some in
(lend, some in dying and others in living
parts.
Some, pnoplo have come to Douevo
that salting or smoking will kill tricMna s,
but n temperature of 212 u Fahrenheit,
or at least 160° should he reaohod in
every part of the meat to bring about
this result.
The colors which distinguish our sum
mer and autumn flora-reds, pinks, blues
and yellows—aro caused by the presence
of substances which requiro a strong
light and high temperaturo for their
production.
It was at one time supposed that
among twining plants each had its own
direction, some twining toward the sun
and others against it; but, though tiie
theory is true in the main, there are
found exceptions to the rule.
The amount of nervous action may bo
measured by tho quantity of blood con
sumed iu its performance. Tho pletliys
mograph, measuring the volume of an
organ, when the arm is brought in con
tact with its records tho amount of blood
drawn from the body to the brain, and
thus indicates exactly the effort in men
tal action..
Experiments have recently been made
to show that tho presence of ozone pro
duces luminosity in phosphorus. In
pure oxygon, at a temperature of 15° C.,
and under atmospheric pressure, phos
phorous is not luminous in the dark,
and a bubble of ozone introduced under
the bell glass produces momentary phos
phorescence.
The practical value of tho Faure ac
cumulator for the storing of electricity
is yet to ho proved. It is said that sev
eral such batteries stationed in a house
and charged with electricity during tho
dny will be sufficient to light up the
rooms at night and perform such light
operations os turning a coffee-mill or
sewing-machino.
The Next New State.
The question of annexing Northern
Idaho to Washington Territory accom
panies the other question of our admis
sion to the Union as a State, and both
will be agitated more or less vigorously
from this on. Joined to our Territory,
as at presont constituted, the new Terri
tory or State would have an area exceed
ing 80,000 squaro miles, or as great as
that of New York and Ohio combined.
The new State must be a grand one,—
Seattle ( }V. TANARUS.) Post-Intelligencer.
One old Irish dame asked another,
touohing soma person recently deceased,
the followin{Question : “Eh. dear Judy
alannah, iv what did he die ? ” " Aveh,
dear,” replied Judy, “he died it a
Tuesday, I’m tould.’’