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VOL. v. NO. 17.
A World for Worker*.
Thts worl t is good enough for those who da |
th*ir part while in it,
Who And the work they ought to do and
cheerily bogin it;
It’s far too g«.od for tho«e who spend their
days in mere complaining,
And bi tter than, unless they change, the one
they will be gaining.
The honest, earnest toiler gets itis share of
Joy and money;
The loud-mouthed drones may rant away—
'tU worlt that wins the honey.
— Boston Budget. ,
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ELFRIDA’S PLACE.
Old Mrs. Galway sat sorrowfully at
her west window, watching tho apple
gathering. Above tho lulls hung a
soft, yellow mist; tho great chestnut
tree in the lane was turning to a bou
quet of rustling gold; the asters and
dahlias along the gnrdeu-walk were
blossoming in gnu ly profusion.
“It’s the (i:st yfar,” aiiid Mrs. Gal¬
way, “that I haven’t been ablo to help
’em barrel up the red sweets and tho
yaller pippins. And I'm helpless with
tho rheumatics. Oh, dear, dear, to
think it should come to this! What’s
♦ hat noise? I 11 bet a carroway-sced it’s
the cat among the milk-pans! And it’s
time the kettle was over for tea, and
Sarah Soper’s forgot to come and see to
It!’
Sho looked piteously up at the clock,
but just a« nh'j was about to lift up her
voicu in shrill summon*, a footstep
creaked heavily on tho doorstop.
“It’s me,” said Sarah S»per, a gray
haired, sharp-feature l spinster, who
lived iu the house whose yellow gable
eud was just visible through tho maple
trees djoyond. “I'm a little lute, ou
account o’ stoppin’ to buy a paper o’
hair-pins aud two cards o’ buttons of a
peddler that came along.”
•”1 thought you never was coming.”
said Mrs. Gil way, jctuantly.
Sarah looked sharply at her.
“I tell you what, Mrs. Galway,” said
she, « • you mode a great mistake when
you set your fuco against Zenas* inar
ryiu’ that pretty factory-girl two year
ngo! If you’d a nice stirriu’ daughter
in-law, now—”
* Instead of d(!|K‘iiding upon other
folks to come and help me—yos,” said
Mrs. Galway. « » I’m beginning to think
so inysolf. But if you haven’t nothin’
l etter to do, Sarah Soper, than to re
Blind people of their short-comings, i
’
you’d better go back home aguin.”
“And there wasn’t nothin’ against
Fnuny Walters ns ever I heerd on,” re -
fleet iveD went on Sarah B >pcr, ns she
set a match to the shavings and kindling
wood in the cooking stove, “except her
good looks. Yes, Almira Galway, you
tnado a mistake there. Zenas ain't
never been the same man since.”
Mrs. Galway moved uneasily in her
chair.
Is Where is Zenas, nuyhow?” ques¬ |
tioned tho merciless catechist, as she |
settled the Sfilning tin teakettle in its [
,
place, and slid tho dampers to lot the
smoke go up tho chimney.
“Gone to town,” curtly answered
Mis. Galway.
“Eh—wliat fort” !
4 « To get a hired girl.”
Sarah Soper opened her mouth and
eyes.
4* Well, I never,” said she. “You
c’omo to that—you, as always said
nothin’ would iuduce you to keep a
girl!” ;
* * That was before I had the imflam
mat ory rheumatism,” sighed Mrs. Gal
way. “Thero ain’t no law against
folks changing their minds, as I know
ou. I can’t bo dependent ou neighbors
all the time.”
Mbs Soper chuckled softly.
“Th© idee of of Zenas Galway in one
©’ them intelligence offices!” said she,
“I would like to bo hid away and
hear how he manages itl ’
“1 guess Zenas cau manage as well
as anybody!” sharply retorted Mrs.
Galway.
But she was nettled, nevertheless, aud
more than once while Sarah Soper was
cutting the breaJ, bringing the butter
from down cellar and opening a jar of
preserved blackberries for tea, she said
to herself:
“1 ’most wish I hadn’t made such a
fuss over Zenas’ notion for Fannv Wal¬
ter*!”
Mhile these domestic preparations
were going on in the Galway farmhouse,
Zenas, the son and heir of the estab- 1
lishment, was sitting, in a despairing
attitude, on a hard, unpainted settee m
Mr. Cummings’ “Headquarters for Do
,testic Aid,” interviewing a long suc¬
cession of hopeless incapable*, of differ¬
ent ages tnd nationalities.
“Pretty hard to suit, ain’t you? ’ said j
Mr. Cummings, lifting his spectscled
•yes above the line of his ledger at last. !
“It’s no use,” said Gxlwar, in a de¬
jected way. “I don’t think my mother
would have one of these women ia the
house. * t
“Well, look heje, ” said Mr. Cum¬
mings, “heas’s a gal just come in.
Mebbe you can come to terms with
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FORT GAINES. GA.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1880.
“But,” spoke a soft voice, “I want
ed a place as companion.”
“Well, this is a place as companion,”
•aid Mr. Cummings, doggedly, “to an
old lady up country—oqjy she’ll expect
you to do the housework.”
A silence followed; apparently the
candidate was considering.
“You’ve been cornin’ arter this com¬
panion place for a week,” urged Cum¬
mings; “and you ain’t had a chance
yot,.nor the ghost of one. Cornel bet¬
ter take what you can get.”
A slight figure came out from behind
tho curtained rail and confronted Gal
way. She was a pretty, fair-haired
girl, with timid, hazel eyes, and a cheek
flushed with nervous excitement.
“What wages do you give?” said
•he.
“Eight dollars,” answered Zenas.
“1M come, ” she decided, after a
brief hesitation. “I must get some sort
of a situation.”
< • But I must take you home at once,”
said the young man. ‘My wagon is
waiting down below'. * I
“I must go homo after my clothes,”
said the girl. “I'll bo back here in
half an hour. Wait!’
And she vanished.
“Now,” said Mr. Cummings, turning
over a new leaf in his ledger, “I call
that a stroke o’ business for both of y <>u.
They all want to be companions, or sec¬
retary, or somethin’ o’ that sort. It
sounds more liigh-ton^d, you know.
But, arter all, good honest housework’s
the thingl”
Mr. Cummings hero paused to talk
with a stout young man, who desired a
position as porter in a store.
Zeims Galway sat staring at the check¬
ered reflection of the window panes on
tne floor, as they moved slowly along
with tho westering sun. And little
Elfrida Howitt tie 1 swiftly down a nar¬
row street, up a winding stair to a close
little apartment, where lay a pale,young
convalescent, trying to while away the
weary hours with sewing cut-jet beads
on silken gimp for tho nearest fancy
store. She looked up, her bright eyes
all inquiry.
“Well?” she said, eagerly.
“I’ve got a place, darling, at last!'
The invalid drew a long breath.
“It’s only eight dollars a month,’”
pursued Eifrida; “but I’ll send every
cent of it to you, dear, until you’re
wo11 c " 0u 8 h to R et back the store.
And it’s quite a small family—only one
lady. And I’ll try so hard tosuither!”
“But, Fr.da—oh, dear little Frida!—
what shall I do without you?” cried the
pallid convalescent, clasping her thin
hands.
I« Wo mustn’t think of that,” said
Eifrida, resolutely. “You’re going to
wcd ' ftnd l ^ on w ® sbad bodl do
8 P lendidI J- Ki » dear- I ve got
to pack my little bag, for the—the car
riage is waiting at the *Hea iquarters. ”’
“The carriage! They must bo very
grand people,” said the elder sister.
‘ But you haven’t told me tho address,
** ida *
Elfrida stopped packing aud regarded
hor sister with eyes of puzzled awuse
ment.
“I forgot to ask if,” said she, “bu^
1 11 scud U by mai1 ’ It will all be
right, dear. Now one more kiss.
Good-by!”
Aud Eifrida ran away, blinded by
the tears sho was too brave to shed in
her sister’s presence.
“Is it very wicked, I wonder,” she
asked herself, “to let her think Fm
K oin S to be companion to a sick lady!
But something had to bo done, or we
both should have starved.”
It was twilight when Zenas Galway
assisted his companion to alight at the
door of the farmhouse under the yel
lowing maple boughs.
“My mother is sitting there by the
window,’’saul he. “Go and speak to
ber ’ sbe can * como to you. She has
no use of her limbs.”
Elfrida Howitt advanced boldly to
tbo kind-faced little old woman in the
cusbioned arm chair,
3Ir9 ’ Qal **y heUi out h « r with
a 8mil °*
“ Who are T ° u? ’ sa!d ,he * pleasantly,
“I am the new girl.”
“I am glad to see you, my dear.
What is your name?”
‘ E frida Howitt.”
“What can you do?”
Elfrida colored to the roots of her
glossy, chestnnt-brown hair,
“I can sing,” said she, “and paint a
little in water-colors and play the
piano; I can read aloud and em¬
broider—”
“Land alive child!” cried out Mr*.
Galway, “what on earth do you sup
po«« « the use of all that? Can you
churn? Dj you know how to cook,
and wash, and make soft soap, and—’’
“No,” said Eifrida, h«r fringed
drooping and her lip quivering.
‘•But I cm learn—I’m sure X can lear^
if only you’ll show me hew. Please—
dotryme*’’
And 3D, Galway found herself cry
‘? g ! . . «°*
“Do you think 1'.. doue right.
Zenas?” said ahe the next day. “The
child knows absolutely nothing about
housework, but she’s strong and will¬
ing. She’s broken two of the h ue
willow-pattern cups already, and she
let the clam-soup bum this morning
while she stopped to play with the
kitten. But she’s such a sunshiny bit
of a thing, and she really doei want
to leum.”
• Right? Of course you are right,’
said the cheery Zinas. “Never mind
the clam-soup and the willow-pattern
cups* She’ll do first-rate whan she’s
learned the A B C of tho thing. ”
“And Zina—*'
‘•Yes, mother
“Sha told me so much about that
invalid sister of hers in the tenement
houso down in the city—the one that’s
had typhoid fever, you know—that I ve
most a mind to send you to bring her
hero. She’d get well & deal faster on new
milk and countiv breezes, and think of
the company aha’d be to Elfridal”
“it’s a capital idea, mother,” 6aid
Zenas. “I’ll go!”
“Bccauso, you know,” said Mrs. Gal¬
way, laying her hand on her son’s arm,
“it's somehow borne in on me that I've
been sort o’ hard and selfish all my life,
and haven’t thought of other folks as
much as I ought. And mebba this
affliction’s been laid on mo ou that ac¬
count.”
“Nonsense, mother 1”
“It’s true Zmas. I’ve been too set
in my way. Things might have been
very different if I hadn't stood up so
obstinate against your bein’ engaged to
Fanny Walters two years ago. If I
could only undo that mischief now!’’
Her lips quivered; she looked up to
his face through a mist ef tears.
“That’s all past and gona, mother,”
said Zenas. “We won’t fret about it
now. Tell Elfrida to write to her sister
that I’ll drive into town for her next
Tuesday with tho easy carryall, and she
must be ready to come back with me.”
When Zenas took the letter to carry
it to the postoffice, he gave a little start
of surprise.
“Why, Elfrida, ” said he’ “your sis¬
ter’s name is not tho same as yoursl”
“No,” said Elfricfh, innocently.
4s We are only half-sisters; didn’t you
know that? But we love each other
just the same.”
Zenas Galway drove into town on the
following Tuesday, with the easy carry¬
all and plenty of wraps and cushions.
Once more, in the yellow glow of twi¬
light, he brought back a passenger, and
led her up to the arm-chair where Mrs.
Galway sat knitting with half-closed
eyes.
“Here she is, mother dear,” ho said
exultantly. “Elfrida’s sister—and the
daughter-in-law you are longing for in
your secret heart 1”
“Why, Fanny Walters!” cried Mrs.
Galway.
Fanny burst into tears on the old
lady’s shoulder.
“But not unless you bid me wel¬
come,” she sobbed. “I’m too proud
for that.**
“You are welcome—a hundred times
welcome—my daughter /’’ solemnly spoke
Mrs. Galway. “But—bat—I don’t un¬
derstand.”
4 » Nor I either!” cried Elfrida, who
had danced joyously into tho room.
“Is it true? Is Zenas to be my brother?
and arc wo all to live here together?
Oh, Fanny, Fanny, I am so glad!”
“And so am I,” murmured Fanny,
hiding her face on Elfrida’s neck.*—
Saturday Night.
Rather Mixed.
In an English country church the
curate had to give out two notices, the
first of which was about baptisms and
the latter hai to do with a new hymn
book. Owing to an accident he in¬
verted the order and gave out as fol¬
lows:
“I am requested to announce that the
new hymn book will be used for the
first time in this church on Sunday next,
and I am also requested to rail attention
to the delay which often takes place in
bringing children to be baptized; they
should be brought on the earliest day
possible. This is particularly pressed
on mothers who have young babies. ’
“And for the information of those
who have none,” added the rector in
gentle, kindly tones, and who being
deaf had not heard what had been pre¬
viously said— ‘ *and for the informa¬
tion of those who have none, I may
state K wished they can be obtained on
application in the vestry immediately
after service to-day. Limp ones, one
shilling each; with stiff backs, two
shillings.”
4 Chance to Recover.
“Smithere is goigg to m^DF that
rififr M ss Buakeiv—a million dollars
cold,”
“Hoezay!’’
though a* y^^ked^^ , _ , U 1
* j '**®* i * o - i ujin.
tn Z±'°’" a -a* 1 ‘‘***4
dollars, Ihtrr. *
BROKEN CABLES.
Searching for the Severed Wires
in Mic"o:2aiL
How Injuries are Inflicted Upon
Cables.
The location of a cable break ia very
accurately determined by a process
known to electricians and by an instru¬
ment which disclos33 how far an elec¬
trical current, started on a given line of
wire, travels before it meets with inter¬
ruption. The calculation of the dis¬
tance to tho break made on this side the
Atlantic can be checked and confirmed
by a similar calculation made on the
other side, although such a confirmation
is scarcely necessary. After having
found out how far from laud the break
i“, the only other thiDg the captain or
navigator of the cable steamer wants to
know is in wliat direction that distance
is to be traveled; and as tho course of
the cable is perfectly well known from
the fact that when the cable was laid
accurate observations were taken by the
cable-layers, and records made, the
cable s’, earner starting out to do the re¬
pairs can steam directly over the spot
where the break is located.
Of course when the statement is
made, it is not at all meant that the
location can be determined within
a few inches or a fow feet, but it can
be determined within a very limited
area, so that the grappling for the ends
of the cable do not usually extend in good
weath r over a period greater than two
or threo days, and sometimes does not
last even so long as that
The grappling irons are immense af¬
fairs attached themselves to cables manip¬
ulated from the deck of the steamer, and
are plunged downward and dragged
over the bottom of tho ocean. When
the cable ts finally grappled, the fact
is made clear at the steamer end of
the line by reason of the strain to
which tho grappling-iron is subjected,
precisely as a fisherman knows that he
has a fish on his hook by the in¬
creased tautness of tho line. The only
difference is that in the case of the
grappling-iron tho strain is revealed by
an instument on board tho steamer
known as the dynamometer. When
this instrument reveals tho presence of
such a strain as the grappling of the
cable would bring about, the iron is
hauled up with the cable at the end of it.
The repairers always calculate to
grapple the cab’.e about ten miles away
from the point at which the break has
occurred. If the irons grappled the
cable too near the end, the cable would
slip away long before it reached the
deck of the 6te:imer. In some instances
no break has occurbed at all, and elec¬
trical communication hai beon inter¬
rupted perhaps by the destruction df the
insulated oovering of the cible, or by
seme defect of a similar character, so
that wheu the grappling-iron appears at
the surface of the water the entire length
Df cable comes Up with it. The break
is then spliced, or the defectsromedied,
and the rehabilitated cable is consigned
once more to the bosom of the mighty
deep. Of course many times it is not
possible to determine exactly what the
cause of a cable break has been, but
usu^.y the trouble is that the cable
has been laid too taut, and it has
broken or been damaged in a serious
way by reason of the immense strain
resulting on this excessive tautness.
The consequence is that, whenever a re¬
pair is made in midocean, the repairers
cut away all the twisted and strained
cable in the immediate neighborhood of
the break, and do away with all possi¬
bility of tautness by putting in twenty
five to fifty miles of new cable. This
may meander down the side of a sub¬
merged Mount Washington, or may curl
quietly up in the basin of a Mohawk
Valley, but, whatever it does, there is
no chance of the cable breaking in that
particular spot again lrom being drawn
too tight.
Outside of this, cables are frequently
damaged by the anchors of vessels,
fishing vessels chiefly, which anchor for
the purpose of carrying on their fishing.
Accidents of this kind occur of course
near the shore or on the banks of New¬
foundland. The anchor becomes en
tangled with the cable, and, rather than
spend the time necessary to get it free,
the cable is dragged up and cut and the
vessel proceeds on its way. Simply to
avoid a little trouble the captain of a
fishing vessel will put a cable company
in for thousands of dollars of expense.
The situition is recognized by the
•able companies, and they have a stand- :
ing offer to indemnify any vessel for
the loss of an anchor, and they pay out
large sums of money every year on this
score. It wUI bo, seen that there is no
posa:bf!i}y of ^jflfyiag such e'.aima, and
the e-nse^uence &4tbat false claims for
undoubtedly been putin
and unscrupulcu-v eaptams have col
M..whi*
never lost,
Another source of trouble to the
are the icebergs. These icebergs
floating down from the arctic seas fre¬
quently extend beneath the surface of
the ocean for many hundreds of fath¬
oms, and the base of the passing ice¬
berg catching the cable bears it onward
and finally snaps it in two. The bot¬
tom of the ocean varies in depth in a
very marvelloui way, right in the path
these icebergs usually take. Off
the banks of Newfoundland tho
bottom is reached sometimes at
so inconsiderable a depth as 75 to 100
fathoms. What this distance is may
be estimated when it is stated that,
roughly speaking, thero are 1000
fathoms to the mile, But from the
point where the depth is 100 fathoms
the ocean bottom goes down the side of
a mountain to 2500 fathoms, or two miles
and a half, within a very short distance.
Perhaps the bottom rises up again and
the cable hangs between the two sub¬
merged mountain tops, aud this iceberg
coming along quietly picks up the loop
thus formed and carries it onward until
the strain results in an absoluto rupture.
—New York World.
A Glimpse of Mikado Land.
There is a distinguished Jananeso
gentleman visiting in New "York. His
name is Prince Torn Hoshi of Tokio.
He is visiting this country looking up
constitutional government, for Japan
will have one of its own next year, com¬
posed of 500 members, 310 in tho As¬
sembly and 200 iu tho S)nato, and
Prince Hoshi will be the Senator from
Tokio. Ho wants to bo able to explain
how a government for the people should
be run. Tho members of the “Con¬
gress of Japan,” as the Prince calls it,
will be elected for four years each at a
salary of $2000. The people who will
get into that Congress will all bo rich
men like the Prince, who is a barrister
in Tokio, graduated from Eton College,
and speaks English fluently. Ho says
the M'kado had to succumb to a consti¬
tutional form of government by the
force of public opinion, aud Japan will
be a second Yankee nation before long.
The Prince has traveled pretty much
all over this country, lias sent home
copies of all national and State depat t
mental reports, from which ideas will
be derived to inaugurate similar depart¬
ments i u Japan. The Count is small in
stature, well dressed, drinks beer like a
German, and says there is not a Yankee
in Japan but is getting rich. Yankees
there, he says, are looked upon as peo¬
ple of dignity, and respected and en¬
couraged accordingly. The Count is
particularly interested in our method of
working prisoners of State, aud death
by electricity, for, he says, instead of
hanging now, Japan will use wire next
year. The Mikado, he says, has a great
affection for Americans, and everything
American—exdapt our popular Govern
ment. The Count has seen the oldest
history of any country in the world—
that of Japan—which is three thousand
years old. It is complete for twenty
five hundred years. Ho says it is a
great history, and all it wants is some
Yankee editor to “boil it down” to
make it a thrilling book .—New York
Star.
Medical Virtues of Onions.
One day I was taken with chills and
headache, signs that my old enemy, ma¬
laria, was on hand. My quinine box
was empty, and I was looking forward
to a restless, sleepless night. In des¬
peration I peeled a raw onion and ate
it, ancf then went to bed, with warm
feet and an extra comforter, when,
prestol I was asleep in five minutes, and
awaked in the morning free from ma¬
laria and ready for the day’s duties.
Our homely but strong friend will be
appreciated in time as a medicine, and
if agriculturists wout d turn their atten -
tion to raising a model onion, with the
strong scent taken out that taints the
breath so unpleasantly, families will be
putting their “pills” in the cellar by the
barrel, and the doctors would take to
onion farming. The onion acts as a
carthatic and diuretic, aud may help to
break up a cold or lessen the bad symp
toms. Said a doctor: “I always store
a barrel of onions in my cellar during
the falL We have them cooked twice
a week, and whoever of the family is
threatened with a cold eats some onion
raw. If this vegetable were generally
eaten, there would be no diphtheria,
rheumatism, gout, kidney or stomach
trouble.
“But bless you! the young men and
women are afraid to eat them- Oae
young man went so far as to say to me:
‘If my wife ate onions I would get a
yjj 0 f divorce, * » — American Garden.
The Age for Consumption,
Consugxptiou is raie in childhood, but
increases rapidly after the age of 15
and is aoet eommoa between the ages
of $5 aud 30. Those who escape it till
the Utter age are less and less prone to
it as they advance m years, and may es
c.p. it .otirelj, .»eo thou-h .t.y aay
hare a hereditary predisposition to it.
WILL B. GRAHAM,-Editor and Manager
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,
Excellent brown paper can now be
made, it seems, ont of peat fibre.
The doctors of Seville, Spain, are
proclaiming the discovery of a most ef¬
ficacious cure for hy prophobia.
Experiments by a Parisian scientist
have proved that daylight entirely
ceases in the waters of tho Mediterranean
at a depth of 1518 feet.
An Austrian railway official has in
vcnled a portablo telephone for speaking
from a railway train at any point stop¬
ping to tho nearest station.
The railway from Buenos Ayres to the
foot of the Andes, a distance of about
2T5 miles, is a3 straight as an arrow. It
forms the largest stretch of “bee line”
road in tho world.
•
Borne of ho electric cooking apparatus
contain German silver coils, which are
brought to rod heat by the electric cur¬
rent, and tho cooking Is done on a
range fitted with these coils.
There are many simple rules of
health violated because it is consid¬
ered incoveniont to obey them, but
it is a violation of these samo simple
rules that burdens life with that
greater inconvenience ill-health. Tho
busy man will find that it takes far
less time to comply with hygienic
laws than it does to suffer the sick¬
ness resulting from their violation.
As a general result of nutnorous ex¬
periments, caudle power, as determined
by means of the Bunsen photometer,
affords no correct measurement either
of light-giving energy or of tho lumi¬
nosity of the source of light, the direc¬
tion of tho error always being such as
to favor sources of a low degree of in¬
candescence when compared with those
of higher temperature.
Carefully repeated experiments made
by an experienced English navigator at
Santander, on the north coast of Spain,
showed the crest of tho sea wavos in a
prolonged and heavy gale of wind to be
42 feet high, and allowing the same for
the depth between the w ives would
make a height of 84 feet from crest to
base. The length from crest to crest
was found to bo 886 feet.
While the deepest tone that our ears
are capable of recognizing is one con¬
taining sixteen vibrations a second, the
phonograph will record ten vibration*
or less, and can then raise tho pitch urn
til wo hear a reproduction from them.
Similarly, vibrations above the highest
rate audible to the ear can be recorded
on the phonograph, aud then re¬
produced b f lowering tho pitch until!
we actually hear the record of those
inaudible pulsations.
The Moors are said to have mad) pa¬
per from linen in the thirteenth century,,
all paper known before that beiug ap¬
parently made from cotton. In the
British Museum are some specimens oi
linen paper from the fourteenth century,,
Recently Professor Church has discov¬
ered an Episcopal Register of 1273
from Auvergne, in which paper some
strands remaining show to have been
linen. This carrier linen paper back
further than was supposed.
Professor E. Hall, in a recent paper,
thinks the phenomenon of terrestrial
magnetism can be explained by the ex¬
istence of a concentric zone of rock
filled with magnetic i ron, situated about
100 miles below the surface of the
earth. If only fifteen per cent, of iron
were present, this zone need not ex¬
ceed three miles in thickness. The ex¬
istence of the magnetic poles at the
north would be due to protuberances of
the magnetic miss into the exterior
non-magnetic shell.
No Buffalo West of the Itocklen.
4 t No white man,” said W. H. Simp¬
son of Montana, “ever saw a buffalo
west of the Rockies. The Indians of
the Northwest have a legend to account
for this. Many moons ago, they say,
some Indians were hunting buffalo on
the other side of the range—they were
plentiful over there then. An old med
icine man told them where to find a big
herd which, he said, was led by a red
bull calf. The Great Spirit would give
them all the buffaloes they d esired, bat
the red calf must not be killed. If it
was killed the Great Spirit would pun¬
ish them severely. The braves started
out, found the buffaloes, and slaugh¬
tered them by the hundreds. When
they looked among the carcasses the
body of the red calf was fount}. It
was never known who killed it, but
they say the buffaloes all disappeared,
and were never seen again on that side
of the Rockies.”— Qlohs Democrat.
4 Suitable Epitaph,
*
It has often oeen said that the chief
characteristic of the epitaph is its Isck
of veracity, tut it is perhaps better that
it should err on the side of kindliness
rather than wound the living by a brutal
truthfulness, as in the case of an inscrip¬
tion written for the tombstone of a lazy
man by one who knew hhn well;
“A#'*e#p (** usual).’*
The Spinning Wheel.
f would I could awooing go,
Quick would I fare unto the hall
Where Bessie, with her cheeks aglow,
Hums with the wh el against the wallj
And down before the feet I’d kneel
Of Bessie at her spinning wheel.
The sunlight gleams the hillside athwart,
To color rosea, wheat and wine;
So down the valleys of my heart,
Do bonuie Bessie's blue eyes shinet
They shine on me until I reel
Like her own restless spinning-wheel.
The shuck upon the spindle tied.
Thereto the snowy roll is bound:
Then backward with a graceful stride,
While zoon, zoon, zoon , the wheal goei
round—
Thus Bessie, to her labor leal,
Begins to work her spinning-wheel.
Now faster flies the wheel around,
And backward go her slippered feet.
Then forward till the yarn is wound.
And bulging s an Is the broach complete
Complete upon the pointed steel
Of Bessie’s busy spinning wheel.
Fair Bessie with the golden hair,
Sweet Bessie with the deep blue eyos,
Is twisting for my heart a snare
Each time the slender spindle flies,
A snare for me which I shall feel,
Caught by the Fate that turns the wheel.
And so I must a-wooing go,
And quick betake mo to the hall
Where ivy creeps and roses blow,
And Sol flings kisses o’er tho wall,
And at the dainty feet must kneel
Of Bessie at her spinning-wheel.
—William V. Dumas in Atlanta Constitn »
tion.
HUMOROUS.
Tho cane manufacturer sticks u* hid
business.
Internal revenue—The receipts of a
restaurant- kcopor.
The balloon is never arrested; and
yet is without visible means of support.
When tho barber talks too muoh hi*
stories are generally illustrated with
cuts.
A sister’s love is very sweet and holy,
but it isn’t at all satisfying if sho is
your own sister.
After a man has been married a fow
years ho never dodgos when his wife
throws anything at him.
Another man has invented an air ship
which ho declares ia “bound to suc¬
ceed.” It can bo depended upon to
succeed—in killing tho inventor.
When a man feels like giving another
man a piece of his mind ho should think
about it. A man should keep his mind
together if he wants to be comfortable.
Policeman: “Do you take care •(
the dog?’ Nurse girl; “No. The
missis says I’m too young and inexperi¬
enced. I only look after the children. ”
A banker, complaining that the news
sent him per cablo by his correspondent
in South America was not fresh, the lat¬
ter asked, “How can you expect news
that comes through so much salt watei
to be fresh?”
The mother of & family was saying
that as soon as the youngest child
reuched a certain ago she should break
up the nursery. “Oh, mamma,” said
one of the children, “that will bo fine
sport. 1 will break up the chairs and
John shall break up the tables.”
The Turtle-Catching Industry.
Cedar Keys, Fla., may be considered
the headquarters of the business in Fror
ida, its sale of green turtles amounting
to about $25,000 a year, with a pros¬
pect Jof increasing |tho amount rapidly,
now that means of transportation to tho
north are becoming more convenient.
This town sends out over 100 turtling
vessels, and has more men and money
employed than almost all tho other
southern ports combined. Few indus¬
tries pay better interest on tho capital
invested, hence one rarely hoars tho
turtle venders complain of dull markets
and hard times, their customers being
persons who can afford to pay for the
costliest luxuries.
Turtles are captured either with
seines or “pegs” or both, usually in
from two to six fathoms of water. The
men engaged in the business aro largely
composed of natives of the Bahama
islands, who are known locally as
conks, residents of the Florida reefs, a
few “mainlanders,” and an occasional
negro.
This is probably the best paid labor
in the South if the season i; favorable,
it being nothing unusual for them to
earn from $60 to $100 a week, though
they feel little like grumbling if it does
not amount to over $30. — Chicago
Timee.
A Peculiar Anniversary.
A curious celebration occurred recent¬
ly in the City of Mexico. It was the
38th anniversary of the punishment in¬
flicted upon Emperor Cuauhtemoc by
Cortez to induce him to reveal the hid¬
ing place of the Montezuma treasure.
The meeting was held around the statue
of Cuauhtemoc, and was attended by
Indians from the most distant villages,
dressed ia the ancient dress, who exe.
cuted dances of the time of the con¬
quest. An address in the Indian lan¬
guage was delivered by the governor of
Tlaxcala .—Chicago Me rad.
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