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JOSHUA JONES, PUBLISHER.
VOL. !.
The (Juiot Hour.
Sometime between tho dawn and dark,
Go thou, O friend apart,
That a cool drop of heaven’s dew
May fall into thy heart.
Thus with a spirit soothed, and eurod
Of restlessness and pain,
Thou mayest, nerved with force divine,
Take up thy work again.
Mauy F. Butts, iu Harper’s Weekly.
A MOUNTAIN HEROINE.
BY W. J. BAMPTON.
The mau from Chicago had told his
story, and while the listeners in the
smoking car were digesting it, a quiet
man, smoking a bad cigar, gave a
slight cough indicative of beginning a
yarn himself. Tho listeners gave him
their attention at once.
“Let her go,” said the man from
Chicago encouragingly.
6 i How did you know I had anything
to say?” asked tho man.
“You looked it,” said Chicago.
“Well, I have,” laughed tho man,
“and I’ve got an affidavit to go with
mine. Have you got one for that you
told?”
“Oh, yes,” grinned Chicago, “and
I’ll show it to you when you’ve had
your say.”
“Don’t forget that, gents,” said the
man, turning to the listeners, “And
now for mine. Five years ago I was
a deputy United States marshal in
southeastern Kentucky, and most of
my business was with moonshiners. I
had pretty fair success and bagged a
lot of them, but there was one, the
chief of the gang and the worst of
them all, that we couldn’t get our
hands on. One day, however, word
came to me that he was at his cabin in
the mountains, and if I could get
there with a force of men we might
surround the place and capture him,
as he had just come in and expected to
get out again before we should hear
anything of him. In ten minutes I
was on my way to his cabin with ten
men, all armed with heavy revolvers,
and all moving out by different ways,
so as not to excite suspicion and let
him get on to our movements, We
were to meet at a point about half a
mile from his house and then swoop
dotvn on it and take him in. The first
part of the programme went off all
right, and an hour after I had heard
he was at home I had his house sur¬
rounded. Then I rode up to the door
and yelled ‘hello,’ and a woman came
out.
(C ( Where’s your husband?” I asked,
for I knew her quite well. |
“ ‘What do you want uv him?’
responded.
“ ‘I want to see him.’
“ ‘Well, you can’t.’
(6 6 But I’m going to, just the same.
I heard he was here not an hour ago,
and he’s got to come thi3 time. ’
“ ‘I reckon not,’ she said, and
dodged in, shutting the door after her
with a slam, and barring it on the i l
gide, as I could very ]ilainly hear.
“Then, before we had a chance to
make a rush, a gun went off in tb s
(
house and a bullet went ‘spat’ against
a tre<? near me. I thought it was time
to get un ft.r cover, and did so with
promptness and dispatch, and at onc^
ordered my men to close up and fire
on the house. This they did with
pleasure, but we might as well have
fired at a stockade, for the cabin was
built of heavy logs, and nothing short
of a mountain howitzer could have 1
had any serious effect upon it. Wo
banged away, though, and every now
and then a shot came from the inside
disagreeably near us. One time, when
one^f my men showed ujr where he
could get a shot at the only pane of
glass visible, two shots came after him
so closely that he stayed in hiding for
the rest of the time. This was about
nine o’clock in the morning, and we
at last concluded that, as there were
children and a woman in the house
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS THE SUPREME LAW.
FORT GAINES, GA., FRIDAY. FERRE ARY 15. 181)5.
with our mountaineer, wo coulil not
very well burn it down, even if we
could get closo enough to tiro it; we
would simply camp on their trail and
starve them out. So we took our
places to command every point to pre¬
vent escape and waited. At intervals
a shot would come from the cabin,
but we would pay no attention to it,
thinking that our man might think we
had gone and come out, but he didn’t,
and tho long day wore on. It was
raining, too, after noon, and we were
decidedly uncomfortable, but wo had
our game caged and we were bound to
get him or stay there a year. How¬
ever, it was not to be that we were to
remain quite that long, for about eight
o’clock in the evening, when it was so
dark we couldn’t seo our hands before
us, and had come up so close to the
cabin that we trusted to our ears in¬
stead of our eyes to catch the moon¬
shiner in case he tried to get away un¬
der cover of darkness, the door was
thrown open and the woman called:
i i ( What is it?’ I asked from bchiud
a stump in the yard.
66 6 You can come in ef you wantor,’
she replied.
<< 6 Tell your old man to come out.’
“ ‘I won’t do nothin’ uv tho sort,’
she said in a most womanly fashion.
‘Ef yer want him, come in atter him. ’
“I parleyed awhile, fearing treach¬
ery, but when she handed out two
guns and punched up the fire on the
hearth, nntil the cabin was brilliantly
lighted, I called up my men and went
inside, tho woman standing mean¬
while in the middle of the floor, with
four or five children clinging to her
skirts. Every man of us had his re¬
volver in his hand, and we expected
trouble, though it was hardly likely
under the circumstances. Once in¬
side, we had made a thorough search
of the one room of the cabin in a very
few minutes, and as the floor was
mostly earth we did not feel like go¬
ing for a cellar, notwithstanding there
was no sign of the moonshiner in the
room where we were- He was clean
gone, and there could be no doubt on
that point. It was so unexpected and
disappointing that I looked at the
woman helplessly. In reply she
laughed at mo.
a < Where’s your husband?’ I asked,
because there wasn’t much else to say,
“ ‘How do I know?’ she answered
provokingly.
66 6 Hasn’t he been here all day?’
“ ‘Course he hain’t. Ho ain’t that
big a fool.’
66 6 Who’s been doing the shooting
then?’
66 6 Me,’and she gave me the laugh
again.
6 6 6 You?’ I gasped.
“ ‘Course me. Why not me?’ she
laughed again. ‘Can’t I shoot?'
“I new that she could, and did
not compliment her on it.
“ ‘Hasn’t he been here?’ I asked.
“On this question she shook herself
loose from her children and stood
straight before us.
i 6 6 Yes, he has,’ she said; ‘he wuz
here not five minutes afore you come
with yer gang. I seen one uv you
that I knowed, and I shoved Bill out
and told him to run, and I’d take keer
uv the balance. Bill run, and you
•fellers know the rest, He’s got
twelve hours the start uv you’uns, and
ef yer want ter go atter him, you kin;
.but it’s powerful dark goin’ in the
mountains, and yer better stay and
take supper with me and try it in the
daylight.’
“It was a true story, too, every
word she said, and we tried to do
something with her for resisting offi
cers, but not much, for somehow we
felt she acted the heroine, and we let
her off with only a reprimand. As
for Bill, he never came back while I
was there. ”
“You needn’t show your affidavit,”
said the man from Chicago, when the
story had ended, and the ex-deputy
smiled at him blandly. —Detroit Free
Press.
Hawk and Crows.
The other morning a blue hawk
dived into a flock of quail at the edge
of some second-growth timber near
where Farmer Harrison Tabor was
ploughing, iu Eaton township, Penn.
It disabled a quail, but failed to secure
it, and tlio frightened birds arose and
and settled down around the plough¬
man. Tabor stopped the team, and
while the startled game birds sat
trembling on the soil, the crippled
quail joined them. The others IIoav
to the woods presently, and the hawk
sailed around and kojit an oyo on tho
wounded quail. Tabor ended the
disabled quail’s sufferings, and at noon
set it upon tho ground as though it were
in tho act of pecking, and with fifty
feet of fish line fixed a snare for the
hawk. When ho returned to the field
after dinner, the hawk was yanking
and fluttering it the end of tho line,
fifty feet up in the air, one of its feet
having been caught in the snare. Tabor
drove tho team into tho woods, and
within half an hour he saw eight crows
flying toward the flapping hawk with
cries of delight. They began out of
hand to whack tho hawk, and they
cawed triumphantly as they kept it
spinning and twitching at tho line.
The screaming quail-killer lowered
and raised itself, but tho cruel crows
had got at it for good, ami thoy be¬
labored it ceaselessly till it dropped to
tho ground, where they poundod it to
death. Then they went cawing to tho
woods, and a few seconds later a fox
stole out of the brush, set liis tusks
into the hawk, snapped the tish line in
two, and disappeared iu the timber
with his prize.—New York Sun.
American Hors. Abroad.
In liis report tho Secretary of Agri¬
culture says that there is a growing
demand in England for American
horses. During the first nine mouths
of the year 1891 the English market
took 2,811 American driving horses,
at an average value of $139 per head.
Last year the average price of those
shipped was $230. A sound light
draught horse, in good condition, of
the size and weight adapted to omni¬
bus work in cities, will generally
bring in Liverpool or London, $150.
Nearly all the shipments of horses
thus far from the United States to
England have been through English
buyers. Arriving in England, tho
animals are put out to grass, as a rule,
for a month at least, and are then sold
at auction. Canada has about an
equal share with ourselves in the Eng¬
lish horse market, although Canadian
shipments have the reputation of be¬
ing somewhat better in
The average price of Canadian
geldings during the last nine months
has been $100, as against $139 for
American. The English understand
perfectly well that prices of horses
have fallen in the United States on
account of tho extensive s ibstitution
of trolleys and bicycles for horses,and
it is generally conceded that a consid¬
erable demand for American horses
will soon spring up throughout Eu
rope. The great omnibus and tram
way companies of London are recruit
mg their stocks from the United States
and Canada very generally at the pres
ent time.—New York World.
Her Descendant.
Bobbie—What are descendants,
father? Eather—Why, the people ^ who
come
after you. (Presently) Who is that
young man in the passage?
Bobbie—That’s one of sister’s de
scendants come to take her for a i
drive—London Million.
;
The art of ruby making is now ex¬ I
tensively practiced.
] Duck-Incubating in Canton.
j I don’t remember having seen hulf
a dozen chickens anywhere iu and
around Canton, but 1 suppose I mUBt
have soon a million ducks, alive and
dead. Large buildings are erected
entirely for their incubation. Per¬
haps it is no exaggeration to say that
not one out of every ten thousand
Cantonese ducks ever saw its mother,
or know any other preceptor of its
duekliiig web-stops than tho duck-boy.
The incubating buildings were hoatod
by wood fires, and divided into rooms
where tho eggs wore differently nr
ranged. Formerly tho temperature
was judged by those in charge, but of
late years this method lias been aban¬
doned, and iu the house that I saw
thermometers were hanging iu every
room. In some rooms tho eggs wore
placed in flat padded baskets, in others
in deep barrels padded and lined, or
again, in other rooms, they were cov¬
ered with matting upon enormous
shelves with a high beading running
all round. This was when tho time
approached for the young ducks to
break the shell and to come out.
When fairly out, they were kept for
some little time upon those shelves,
and fed upon soft rice, but rarely
more than a few days elapsed boforo a
duck-boat came along and bought up a
whole houseful of them. If by any
chance the young birds wore not sold,
boys attached to the establishment
took charge of them, and horded them
out.—Century.
Japanese Attitude Tenant Foreigners.
Tho real and predominating attitude
of the popular mind toward “tho for¬
eigner” is still the same unreasoning
sentiment that it has over been. A few
and only a very few, even of tho edu¬
cated Japanese have any intelligent
and sympathetic knowledge of that
typo of mental life which has boon de¬
veloped by a western and Christian civ¬
ilization. Among the pooplo of all
classes, uninformed, unreasoning fool¬
ing toward all foreigners still under
lies the crust of enforced or selfish and
conventional politeness. This senti¬
ment is a mixture of surprise and ad¬
miration with repulsion and contempt.
A well-principaled, or even a cosmo¬
politan feeling toward all humankind,
an “enthusiasm of humanity” is a
rare and difficult thing to find in
Japan. What but the knowledge of
this mental attitude of his countrymen
could have influenced an intelligent
native preacher to say, in extremest
praise of the power of divine grace:
6 6 It can make you love even a for¬
eigner.”—Scribners.
Bee Culture a State Industry.
Agriculture in New Mexico is be
ginning to assume considerable pro¬
portions under conditions similar to
those which have long made that
branch of husbandry a profitable in¬
dustry iu California. 1 he field parti
cularly is in Eddy county, in the
southeastern corner of tho territory,
where there are several successful bee
ranches. One farmer, with 150 hives,
supplies the town of Eddy with honey,
and he expects to ship $1000 worth of
comb honey to eastern markets next
r> It ig an Arcadian industry, tru
dionft]ly aKSOC j ate d with the culture of
the vioe> and should prove exceed
ing ] y profitable in that region of grain
an<J alfalfft fiolds> v i n0 yard.s and exu
bercAt wild flowers.—New York Sun.
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For the Other Man.
“Doctor have you a remedy fora
troublesome cough?”
“When does it annoy you most?”
“When the man who has it comes
home. He’s in the flat above.—Inter
Ocean,
England is said to have warned the
Porte that its investigation of the out
rages in Armenia must be thorough
and satisfactory to the Powers.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUS!-
NO. D.
Use of Pneumatic Tires.
Wheelmen know that with pneu¬
matic tiros on tlveir bicycles they can
“scorch” at a much higher speed than
was possible with the old solid rims.
Records prove the wonderful superior¬
ity of the pneumatic tire over bar 1
tires, both for bicycles and trotting
sulkies. Mathematicians and theorist*
have gone into tho subject and find the
reason.
Recently an eastern man built two
experimental road wagons, and fit ted
one with thirty-two-inch and thirty
four-inch pneumatic-tire wheels and
the other with forty-fonr-incli and
forty-oight-ineh steel-tiro wheels. By
experiments he ascertained that on n
perfectly true wooden floor, pulling in
the direction of the strips, the steel
tiro wheels required less power to
move them than the pneumatic tires
did. As soon as obstructions were
placed under the wheels, however, tho
pneumatic tiros proved tho easier. Tho
tesis were made out of doors, and
everywhere save on the true wooden
floor Hie pneumatic tires required tho
least expenditure of power. The man
who made the experiments came to tho
following conclusion, which scorns to
give tho reason that pneumatic tires
are swifter than solid ones:
“If the metal-shod wheel meets a
gravel stone one-quarter of an inch in
diameter, and that stone is resting on
a hard foundation, the wheel, with its
entire load, must bo lifted bodily ono
quartor of an inch high to pass over
it, and this takes horso power; but
when tho rubber tire moets tho stone
the vehicle is not raised perceptibly,
if at all, but the stone is embedded in
the rubber, while most of the weight
is borne by that part of tho rubber
which is still resting on the ground,
and tho power required to go over it is
only that needed to dent tho rubber iu
one spot, or, if it is a pneumatic tire,
to slightly compress the body of air
which it contains.”
It is not improbable that pneumatic
tires will find mauy new uses in tho
of such experiments.—Chicago
Record.
Eighth Wonder of the World.
One of tho most remarkable cases
of extraordinary musical talent in a
child is that of Betty Jones, tho baby
accordionist at Assateagne Island.
Betty is not yet four years old and ex¬
ecutes on the accordeon all of her fa¬
vorite songs with skill and delicacy.
She discovered her marvelous aptitude
for music herself when but two and
one-fourth years old. Fondling her
father’s accordion one day she recog¬
nized tho different notes of “Jesus,
lover of my soul,” and in a very short
time learned to play it with ease and
accuracy. She has delighted nuiuer
oils visitors to her homo by her won
j cr f n i olvill, and is never so happy im
when given her instrument and asked
to play. According to the writer of
u p OV y, if he is any judge, the
ytmn g Judy in question must be tho
eight wonder of the world.—Peninsu
sulu, Md., Press.
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Make a Specialty of Clerical Clothes.
Several well-known tailors of this
town make a specialty of clerical gar
ments, and rates to clergymen are on
the whole low, though prices greatly
vary. Surplices cost from $10 to $30,
and perhaps more. The ordinary'
clerical suit of black costs from $28 to
$00, save at the most fashionable tail
ors, where it may run considerably
higher. Suits of black cheviot and
clerical gray cost from $20 to $40.
Overcoats run all the way from $15 to
$50. A tailor advertising iu an ec
clesiastical annual speaks contempt
aously of ready-made clothing'*"''
adds: “Our cathedral sn
marvels of beauty be l 1
—New York
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