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0 * <7 vS dines Sentinel 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. ----- — ■ 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. --------- 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 W