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THE DODGE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOLUME V.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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J. F. Deho r J. Bishop, Ja,
OK LACY .V HHyoi*,
ATTORNEYS AtLAW,
kahtman, a.\.
Practice in th date sn I Federal courts.
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C. (J. SMITH,
ATTOR NEYAT LAW,
Me VI LI,!y <i V.
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E. 1). GRAHAM, JR.
attorney at law
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OR. J. 3. ftfliTCMELl,
PHYSICIAN ni SURGED I,
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OLD and RELIABLE
-SALE AND LIVERY STABLES.
A Large Stock o! -oT- Horses and Mules
Kep! C'jistantiy on S 4 ^ Hand. From Hie
f .!i:ap In The mi. High-Priced.
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M, & It'S. WATERMAN,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
i I nect from the West in Carload lots, we arc prepared
at n fu ml m l turji -litinc firms with first-class Mules at the
I M tri<et It .1 W I. MAKE A H’EClAf/TV IN TllfS TRADE Informu
tii m ul will i prompt attention
HENRY COLEMAN.
Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots & Shoes
HATS AND CAPS,
SiMllS,BRIDLES, CROCKERY WARE
Highest Market Price Paid for
Country Produce.
Hides a Specialty.
All. ;<>Al» A VENUE, July Iffth, 1887,
SAV MILL, CORK MILL, ELBIR MILL,
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Water Wheel, Steam Engine or Mill
Supplies of Any Kind.
DON’T FORGET TO SEND FOR OUR LARGE CATALOGUE
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY!
Heat Saw Mill in America and i’ricis Very Low. Now is the time to buy. Let u
hear from von. \. DH.O VCH A BKO.. Founders and Machinists, Atlanta. Hi
A. L. HOBBS,
Connt,v Itond Street,
GEORGIA,
DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods. Boots 1
SHOES. HATS,
Family Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars, Fruits, Con¬
fectioneries, Etc., Etc.
Having ju*t returned from market with a large stock of just such general mer¬
chatidi't le demand*, I now ask the public to give me a call, feeling as
aiiteil that l can make it greatly to their interest to share their patronage with me,
1 keep only the freshest and purest goods, and give my customers down weight
aud full measure.
I am in the cotton market, and am prepared to pay the highest cash price
for either tucked or in the seed. 1 also want your hides, eggs, chickens, butter,
and will give you therefore in ia«h nr barter us much as the next man.
Thank you for past liberal patronage, I hope to merit a continuance of the same.
Very respectfully. ,
tug A. is. HOBBS'
HARRIS FISHER. M. U.
riiuirMii, kargton an I Jlee«icbtr.
Oifl so at “E w'mt'i I).tig Store” on It »itroa l
Av) iti It >6 I nu. corn r Church S.roet and
Fifth Aren n, Emtmin, <Ji Deb
ljlJTKIHll A.HALL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
EASTMAN, GA
Fraction* in tfv! Htate and Federal Court.*.
Half f*e tn advance. s
Office on a 1 fl «,r in uiy bried building, on
I West Rvl oati Avenue. novl7.6mo.
I DR. J. D. HERRMAN
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PRACTITIONER OF
Medicine and Surgery.
Oflioe at the City Drug Spiro of Herrnnn 1
IL rrraau. l’es d carder 1st Avenue sn 1
County l!ni<l street, Ei-tmau, Os
Rill'll, 'MT-tf
OR. J. C. MONT 0 OMERY
muii,
rilAUNCEY, OA.
Chronic Diseases of Women, Iinpo
tem specially. y, Sterility, and till private diseases,
a
(■'•neta! practice promptly attended to.
l~i*' A f ill lim* of drugs and medicines
kr| t n hand nil thc time. Calls an
vi red ali hours, day or night.
U3MEY LOANED
On Fa ms and Town Property,
IN nil II INI) AD.IOIMNO COl'NTIICB.
ELLIOTT ESTES,
561 < ii rrv St Macon, Ga.
July Iff ly
HOLME’S SURE CURE,
Mouth Wash and Dentifrice.
('ores bleeding 4 J inns. Ulcers, Sore
Mouth, S re Throat, demises the Teeth
imd Paulies the llrci — h; used and reo
iimemli d by leading dentists. Prepared
Ills .1. 1*. ,V \\ . 1;. Holmes, Dentists,
a eii, (t.i I • r 1c by all druggists
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EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1887.
TEMPERANCE.
The Last Glass.
Where A merr V crowd, a careless throng,
foaming Filled glasses, up the jest hours. and song
There gathered rough and bearded men,
And fair faced boys, within that den
Of Baton's powers.
One came as often as the rest,
To share the flowing wine and jest,
With reckless air.
As if pursued by tiends within
He sought ttie place where drink and din
Boon banished care.
One ni ight the usual glass was poured,
Amid the revel songs encored
The By those who heard.
When poison from almost his hands finds his lips—
the goblet slips,
Witbout a word.
A muttered lull—a oath—a dogged air—
A sudden general stare—
Then “Fill loud anti clear
He spoke: me another glass;
My nerves are Here's shaky—let all here.” it pass—
to
He lifted up the glass again,
But set it down and fa e t the men
Who sat around.
“ Boys,” anil his voice was hoarse with dread,
“ I cannot drink that glass,” he said—
A su iden sound.
I .ike smothered laughter—then his fn'-o,
All stern anti white, sulsitied the place,
All silence fell.
“I cannot drink it, for there lies
Within its depths a pair of eyes,
Dike Hiascn in hell.
“ I I'll nnot drink it, for the pr«* swims
A fae e atiove the foam tin it l >rims—
Die fare of one
Whose heart would ache to see me here;
Whose heart would break, 1 am so dear;
Boys, I am done—
“ Done with the poison; here's my hand;
\Vitti God's help t mean to stand
And stand by By her all whoso 1 say; dear face lies
Between mo and the revelries
1 leave to-dn iy. ’
—Emma Lyndon, in lie! I oit Free Press.
I Drink to Make Me Work.
“1 drink to niaki nano me work.” said a young
man “That's one day, to Which drink, an old man replies!: make
thee right Hearken ; thi-e and it will
work. to me a moment, and
I'll toll thee s< niething that may do thee good,
I w as once a prt isperous farmer. 1 had a goo I,
loving wife, am I two as tine lads ns ever the
Run shone on. We had n comfortable home,
and lived happy together, lint we used to
drink ale to make us work. Those two lads
I have laid in drunkards’ gn avos. My wife
•led broken hearted, and sin s now lies by her
two sois. lam seventy two years of age.
Had it. not lieen for drink l might now have
las n r.n independent gi litlcimin: but I used
to drink to make me work, and, sure, it
makes me work now. At seventy years of
age Drink, 1 am oblig' d to work f ir my d lily I rend.
and it will make thaework .”—Inland
Printer ,
I>ru«K« «l Bcei*
In ft recent numtier of the Sanitarium, in
an article oil “Drugged Beer,” K. 11. Hartley,
M. i)„ Chief Chemist of tin* Heulth Deiwrt
ment of Brooklyn, invites attention to the ex¬
tensive and dangerous me of salicylic acid by
brewers to prevent fermentation in their
f>ecr. He savs: “Unless it be thoroughly
eii red and well cleared the beer will otti h
spoil, Udore it is consumed, by a proeres of
fermentation or putrefaction. To avoid and the
bwessary cure in the manufacture, the
keeping become of the practice t eor for u longer brewers time, it add has
a among to
salirylio acid to prevent this fermentation
after the Leer is sent out.” He says that
there it can tie injuriously no doubt that <>th in large quantities digest¬
acts very 1 iqioii the
ive process! s und the kidneys, and adds In
its elimination the kidneys not rarely become
acutely congisted. Bl ight or disease.” even inflamed, In the giving
rise to acute s pre
enoa of such a danger, ev< n if the ul •I
also were not an irritant jioi-on. the wise and
yationaTAdrot mfe thing to do is to let the lieer alone. -
ate.
Temperance News and Noll's.
Out of 8,051 saloon keepers in th* city of
Philadelphia there urconly -17.1 Americana.
ty. A t.n. peculiar Only Inw Is in force In the Jtockdale eoun
one pel son in county is ul
lowed to Sell liipior. He is ; oointeil by tlm
(iraml Jury to sell for nr* rin.*l pui-|«*ies,
mid cannot k<cp more than ten gallons of
rpirlts at ora* time.
King Humbert of Italy has always been an
aJ'stumer from liquor* anil almost a total
abstainer from wine. 1 lc has smoked • •igars
quit* freely if not xcissiveiy. About tmee
months ago lie not ceil that something in his
hshits nils hurting his la i,tli. 1 hysieiuns luoder
Mint it was cigars, mul hinted at more the
ation. Thc king at ............... <1 against smoking
\IM* of all toltiirro and I lias, done no
nine .\ His health 1ms show n gl ut tying im
l>mv( incut.
RUisrswxo v
AND WESTERN IV R
It. A. 1 LHO A.D.
TY TY ROUTE.
Fifty iiibs Shorter Than any Other
Paste Between Way cross
and Albany.
On and iftar Sunday, Hay 15th, 18ST, pa*
•nger train Will ran as follows;
CNTBAI. STANDARD TI1*«.
FOR TH1 WEST, SOU I'll AND SOUTH.
lirunswiok, -ia B A W .It 6 00 am 8 08 pm
Pylaa’ Marat......... It *6 27 kin *8 34 pm
Jamaica......... .It 6 54 am 9 00 pm
Waynesrille...... .It 7 32 am 9 40 pm
Hoboken. ....... It 8 29 am 10 40 pm
8clilatterrilj...... It 8 41 am *10 55 pm
Way cross ar 9 05 am _11 25 ptn
3 1 van:iah, la 8. I*' AW.. ar 12 06 am 6 iO am
Cleu li-ston.............ar 4 0J pin 10 40 am
Oalluhnn...............ar 1126 am 4 30 am
Jacks. iii tiIU ... ....... Hr 12 0 0 in 5 30 am
JacksTiTiviili xiaS. F. dt W It 7 00 am 9 00 pm
Ikllalikii... It 7 37 am 9 45 pm
Charleston. lv 3 00 am 6 10 am
SkTsiiniih.. It 7 06 am 1 80 pm
WaycmsswBAW..... Pearson..,. It It 1115 10 00 am 1155 1 04 pm
am am
ALapaha... It 12 30 pm 2 07 am
..... It 2 03 pm 8 30 am
Bamaar..*, It 218 pm 3 15 am
WtlUnghai. It 2 44 pm ........
Daria...... It 3 00 pm ........
Albany..... ar 8 25 pm 6 00 am
Ootambaa .ar 6 50 pm
Macon .,., .ar 9 10 am
Atlanta ..............ar . 1 05 pm
Marietta, fa W. A A ... ar . 3 36 pm
Chattaocun . ar 7 05 pm
Louisrilla Cincinnati ria L AN. ..ar . 6 30 am
viaCin. So.ar . 6 40 am
FROM HE WEST. NORTH AND SOUTH.
Mail. F.xpruiM. 6:)
Cineinnkt ri» Oin. 8a. ..!» 9 pm
Lon in vi 11/ ria LA N... . It ... 8 45 pm
O lattanoga, via W. A A., lv ... 8 05 am
Mariet'a ........... ... 12 53 pm
Atlanta, laC. R. It. ... 2 00 pm
Mao n j............ ... 6 00 pm
Columh*........... Jr....
Albany,ria B A W..... “It 5
Daria ................ It 6
Williupam.............. It mils •-BBS:
Sumne*....... .... It
lAyab. Pear ... It It It
so........ .
Wayor/a....... ar am
Bav&nillt, viaS. F.A W.. ar pm 12 06 am
Charluton Oallahi.. ar am 4 00 pm
via 8 F A W..ar pm 5 25 am
Jacfc»/fHI<............. JaekwiiUe, ar_ pm 6 15 am
Calla’il................ ria 8 FA W It! It 2 05 pm 00
2 47 pm 37
Charts a....... It! 6 10 am 00 am
8avan a.............. It ‘ 1 90 ptn 06
Waya k.ria BA W......It 6 05 pm 10 00 am
SchUtwville .......... It 5 82 pm*10 25 am
Hoboa k ...............It 5 51 pm 10 40 am
Way* Us............. It 6 53 pm 11 39 am
*a mail .... „1t 7 33 pm 12 19 pm
Pylss’ irsh .....It 8 00 pm*12 46 pm
l!i unit k.. ,,...»T 828 pm 114pm
•StoAn Signal.
Pure m tickets «t tbs station, and savs
extra ti i oollacted upon the train.
Hfte Oonnf.ions i )1 train stops at all B. A W. station*.
mads at Wavcross to and from
*11 on Savannah, Florida A Western
Full •a oarkipon klsce Sleeping and Mann Boudoir
Jacksonville and Cincinnati
rtft-claas only Un *r through ale-spar to Chattanooga, Cladbna
running to
Us (Been aatf Vescent Route.
J«A. J MaDUniR, AW. AUOIEB, O. P. A 0. P. A.
fOAtolt A
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“Justice To A .11 Malice For None.”
In this country nearly thro * dollars'
worth of milk, cream, butter and cheese
together are sold and consumed to every
dollar’s worth of ltcef.
Mexico has a peculiar way of dealing
with strikes The punishment for
interfering with thc running of trains i a
that tenighted country is either long
imprisonment or prompt execution by
the military.
There was but one yacht club in all tin
United States forty years ago. To-day
there arc eighty clubs and 2.621 yachts.
But it is complained that our merchant
marine has decreased is our pleasure
fleets have increased.
A lesson against the slaughter of bird
comes from Japan In that country, iu
sect pests have become so numerous that
it is a custom to pluck the fruit for the
market before it is ripe to prevent it*
destruction by insects.
The prize of $10,000 offered by the
French Government for the mud valua¬
ble discovery relating to the uti’i mtion
of elecrieity is to be awtuded next De¬
cember. It is for any us j or application
of electricity, namely, as a source of
heat, of light or of chemical action, a« a
means of transmission of mechanical
power, or of verbal communication in
any form, or. finally, as a curative agent.
It is expected that the cotton crop of
the United States this year will fall little
short of 7,000,0)0 bales. The mills
throughout the country arc reported to
be running short of unmanufactured
stock, and extensive purchases w ill prob¬
ably be made this month. According
to the Boston Comhh reittl DoUetin, the
visible supply of cotton in the world is
now in the immediate vi unity of 1,250,
OdO bales, against 1,150,000 bales last
year and 2,175,000 bales in 1885.
The locomotive industrial works of
the United States have been very busy
lately, in the production of new motors
for the increasing traffic of our own and
forcig i roads. This is shown very forcibly
in tilt' report of the last six months' pro¬
duction of tile Baldwin Locomotive
Works-, Philadelphia. With labor force
of 2,000 men, J!18 locomotives, nearly
two per day, have been finished. Orders
for 150 more arc in hand, and it is ex¬
pected that thc output for the year will
reach the grand total of 650.
It will, perhaps, surprise many pcr*on*
to know how many spies of the French
Government have b *cn arrested and
punished in Germany since 1875— more
Ilian thirty Of course, such incidents
are kept somewhat quieter than during
any belligerent times Loison, arrested
at Metz, received ten vents in 1876
Lieutenant Tissot, three years in 188*2;
Kra/.cwski, nine years in 1881; Baron
de (Jraillet and Baron von Krettmar, five
years each in 1882; Captain Sarant,
twelve years, and solitary confinement,
ill 1886. and Thomas, of the Imperial
Arsenal at Spauduu, ten years in the
same year.
There are 400 Mormon bishops in
Utah, 2,40:1 priests, 2,047 teachers and
5,854 deacons. Salt Lake City is divided
into wards of eight or nine blocks each,
and a bishop is put in charge of ea<-h
ward. Under him there are two teachers,
whose business it is to learn the employ¬
ment and income of every resident of the
ward and report tlie same to the bishop.
Then the bishop collects thc tenth of
each man’s iticonu and turns it in to thc
church authorities. Thc same complete
system exists all over the Territory. As
the bishops get a good commission on
their collections they make very zealous
and persistent collectors.
It is asserted by Mr. Ashburner, tbo
geologist, that n >t only is natural gas not
a modern or tecent discovery, but that
even its utilizatim for the purposes of
the mechanic arts was long ago success
fully attempted in China, where, by pipes
•f bamboo, it was conveyed from natural
wells to suitable furnaces, and by means
of terra cotta burners of suitable size
and construction, was consumed. Of its
origin, concerning which so many diverse
theorh s have been advanced, Mr. Ash
burner is strongly of the opinion that the
gus arise* from the decotnp *sition of
forms of animal or vegetable life im¬
bedded in the rocks in certain situations.
English railroads do the major portion
of their own carting, collecting and de¬
livering freight at the freighter's doors.
One of the largest companies, tlie Mid¬
land. lias in constant employment no
fewer than 3,200 horses; and of these
1,00) are located in London. Some of
these horses ale, however, employed iu
switching cars, at which business a heavy
hor*e weighing about 2,000 pounds can
do good service. They soou become very
expert, and start thc car l>y standing
with the trace chain slack, and then.
without moving their feet, throw tlieir
shoulders forward, when their weight
starts the ear. They also learn to judge
when the ear ha* aquired sufficient speed,
and step aside without a word of com¬
mand, letting the curs come gently to¬
gether.
A rej/orter of the New York Tribune ba<
been making a tour of prominent business
houses in various lines of trade and sum¬
marizes thc result as follows: “Ho far as
could be learned by observation and per¬
sonal inquiry, the healthful indications
instanced ’were common to all thc vari¬
ous lines of trade. The closeness of
prices and stirring competition are facts
that aid materially in swelling thc ac¬
tivity of thc autumn market. Besides,
there are a larger number of actual buy¬
ers present from East, South, West and
Southwest, than have been seen here for
many years. Commission houses and
manufacturers report also a large increase
in the line of future orders for both for
elgn aud domestic goods, indicating that
the foundation of the present improve
ment is not of a transient and evanescent
character, . . but . that , of^ .
an area prosperity
is dawning which gives promise not only
of health and briskness but, it is hoped,
of p'n*uret#« alw."
Hotels in New Vork are now required
by law to provide a rope for each room.
With this the g lest can h mg himself,
let himself down from the window in
ease of tire, or let down his baggage in
case he wants to ‘•jump” a hoard hill.
The latest news from the Sandwich
Islands is that the people are no happier
under the new arrange cents than they
were before That probald in -ant
another upset there of some kind in the
near future. “The Hawaiian*’ thc Trov
Times says, “would be a great ileal better
aff carried in the pocket of some great
power, like Great Britain or the United
Btetcs.”
A remarkable chancier h;s just died
at Warrington, Eng'aad, iu the person of
Elizabeth Taylor, famili rly known a*
llappy Ned. Hh.* was on board one tl
the vessels which ran the blockade dur¬
ing the American war as a sailor, her sex
being unknown. 8hc afterward worked
as a laborer in the dockyards at Liver¬
pool and more recently as a farm laborer
in the Warrington district. A year or
two ago she discarded her male attire and
lived iu a little house on her savings. 8he
j was sixty years of age
The 8t. Louis Times-Demoerat tells us
that one of the most extensive and well
j appointed dairies in California issituated
^ three miles from the City of Santa Cruz,
aud is the property of D. I>. Wilder. He
employs sixteen men, milks JO6 grade
Shorthorn cows, and uses a De Laval
separator. A long tin pipe runs from his
j stables to a 200 gallon tank in the
j separator room, and into this is poured
; the milk as soon as strained. An under¬
ground pipe carries off the skim milk
and buttermilk to a tank in a hog pen
200 yards distance. Mr. Wilder is mak¬
ing 150 pounds of prime butter per day,
i and tinds a ready market for it in San
Francisco and Santa Cruz.
Miss Swainson, a lady who has labored
for some years in the Zenanas of the
Punjaub, related her experiences a short
time ago in Dr. Thain Davidson’s Presby¬
terian Church in London. The condi¬
tion of Hindoo women was described ns
one of great degradation. It was a
disgrace to a woman if she was not mar¬
ried before she was twelve. Among thc
upper classes they had no occupation but
such as was implied in braiding tlieir
hair, smoking and counting their
jewelry. She had met women who had
been in one room for thirty years. If
they fell ill they were often left alone to
die. It was believed by them that the
highest happiness was to be attained by
being suffocated in the mud of thc
Ganges, because by that means individual
woman was transformed into a cow.
The lot of the widows was so wretched
that some of them were not thankful to
the Government for thc law which pre¬
vented them being burned on the
, f,ineral of ,,u ir husba d8 V h !l
' l'> rc " ™ *
anity, Miss Swainson said, had done
much for the Hindoo woman; but much
remained to be done
] A cheese poison has been discovered
by a Michigan professor, which he de*
1 nominates tyrotoxicon. Its effects were
! first observed in 185J1-4. The victims
were taken violently ill, after using the
infected cheese, with more or less nausea
and vomiting, diarrhicu and gastric irri¬
tation, and iu some cases the symptoms
resemble those of cholera morbus. Several
theories as to the supposed cause of
cheese poisoning were ascribed to adul¬
l teration with red lead, arsenic mineral
or
poison dissolved from thc metallic walls
of the vats, poisonous plants eaten by the
cows, or to products of dcotnposition,
originating in the milk, curd or cheese,
or carelessly introduced before the milk
was delivered to the factory. Dr. Vaughn,
of the Michigan University, lias succeed¬
ed in extracting the poison with sufficient
LP ur ‘By 8< > that, after allowing a concen
trated aqueous solution to stand in vacuo
over sulphuric acid, the poison forms in
1 needle-like crystals. He discovered tlie
j same poison in old milk kept in stopped
bottles. He says, when cows are kept in
filthy stables the milk is likely to under¬
go speedy putrefaction. It is well this
fatal poison is a rare production.
A New Fuel.
Some political the economists, in antici¬
the pation of prospective exhaustion of
English coal mines have computed
thc time when their supply of coal will
give prostrated. out, and England’s great industries
be The resources of the coal
mines in this country arc on a vaster s -ale
and less easily drained, But the economists
arc sure that the end must come, and may
bring with it a result as disastrous as the
ultimate cooling of the sun's heat, pre¬
dicted by some astronomers.
I/Ong before such a time of dearth we
may be tolerably sure that some substi¬
tute for coal will be discovered, for the
providential government of the human
I race will not fail.
An inventive genius in Pocahontas,
Ind., has already shown what may la* done
in an emergency. He grinds together
corn-stalks and coarse prairie-grass, and
moistens them with watei When this
compound has been reduced ton pulp, he
presses it into blocks twelve inches long
and four inches thick When these are
thoroughly dried and" they hum readily, give
out greater heat, la*t twice a* long
as the same amount of soft coal.
The inventor claims that this fuel can be
easily prepared at a cost of two dollars a
ton.— Youth's Companion.
The First lightning Rod.
If we are to believe au Australian pa¬
per the first lightning rod was not con¬
structed by Franklin, but by a monk of
Seuftenberg, in Bohemia, named Prohop
Diwisch, who installed an apparatus the
15th of June, 1754, in tlie garden of the
curate of Prenditz (Moravia). The ap¬
paratus mounted was by composed of a pole sur¬
an iron rod supporting
twelve curved up branches, and termi¬
nating in as many metallic boxes, filled
with iron ore and closed by a boxwood
cover, traversed by twenty-seven sharp
iron jioints, which plunged at their base
in the ore. All the system was united to
the earth by a large chain. Tlie enemies
of Diwisch, jealous of his success at the
court of Vienna, excited the peasants of
the locality against him. an a under the
pretext that his lightning rod was the
caftse of the great drought, they made
ft!* rod " h ich
had utilized for six years. What , is
,„ost curious is the form of this first
lightning rod, which was of multiple
poiuts like the one which M. Me!«cn if
terwsrd invented.
4
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KEEP THE UPPER HAND.
Bear your burdens manfully
Whatsoe'er they be;
Never let them over you
(tain ascendency.
Never let them master you,
Never for them wait:
Hands of labor strong to boar,
Ring the Bell of Fate.
—Texas Siftings.
ON SILVER MOUNTAIN.
KY r. J„ STKAI.KY.
adding Heavy snows had fallen that season,
ti.mstn to the never-melted accnmula
the gulches that gashed the
northern slope of Silver Mountain. Huge,
undulating tile drifts, too. projected along
and lofty crest, threatening to break away,
start the annihilating log-Jens avalanche.
From the dingy below, the
miners road these snow-signs with expe
rieneed eves. Stout hearts had those
seekers for silver, but apprehension of
the snow-slide could shake even them.
But from two log-sl.anties, placed one
above the other in a dump of giant
pines well up on the mountain side,
smoke still arose at the morning and
evening, and from the ragged mouths of
two tunnels that were being driven in
the slope above there still came daily
thc silvery clink of hammer striking
drill, intermitted bv a muffled roar, ns I
giant powder shattered the mountain s I
breast.
In thc upper of these shanties lived
“Uncle Jimmy” Trout, with his son,
young Trail, with Jimmy; in the lower, “old man”
Ait son Sam.
These were rival claimants to the same
lead, to which old man Trail gave the
significant name of “The Last Chance,”
and which Uncle Jimmy, in more cheer
ful spirit, called “The Blue Bird,” as a
winter harbinger his of life. the spring of hope in the
of
intricate Many were the complications involving
disputed points of miners’ law about this
right claim, and which claimant had
the thereof no man could tell. The
listener to Uncle Jimmy’s wrongs would
be firmly convinced that he must be
right, until he heard old man Trail c^
patintc on thc equity of “first diskivery, ”
marking finger each “pint” with a hard fore
in a horny palm, to the utter con
fusion of all previous convictions.
Each indignantly rejected all attempts
at arbitration; and as, fortunately for
themselves, both were too poor for the
expensive luxury of litigation, it only
remained, as Uncle Jimmy declared, “to
sit right thar until they’d sot it out, re
gyardlcss of expenses.” And though
red.face Uncle Jimmy, set with casing his of rotund close-cut body aud
in a gray
whisker, was one of the easiest-going of
men, the energetic and determined air
indicative with which of he made protracted this declaration “set’’ was |
a on the !
part As of the Blue Bird. j |
for old man Trail, one look in his
cavernous eyes, as he ran his liaiM slow- !
ly over the tangles of his unkempt beard, •
would suffice to show that there was as j
little yield about him as about one of the j
granite the crags that guarded the entrance
to East Chance Tunnel.
Jimmy, who was, to use his father's j
own expression, “light complected,” '
stood a clear ten inches above the head
of his house: strong, too, of arm and
shoulder from sw ing of hammer, and
every whit as stout of heart.
That stalwart son of the Sierras. Sam
Trail, though of leaner build than Jim
liiv, was in size and strength his match,
“dark complected,” and in other re
spools like the sombre and self-contained
rhristener of the Last Chance.
Often when at sundown the two boys,
tin buckets in hand, met at the little
cabins, spring that served for the use of both
brows bent in wrath were
fleeted in that crystal basin. Eor the
feud went loyally down from father to
son,
Kvfen the two “jacks”—one of these
Mexican donkeys being owned by each
claimant, and used for packing up sup
bued plies from with the camp blow—became ini
grazed aloof partisan the animosity. growing , Eaeli
tiie breezy on slopes; bunch-grass
on and, meeting by
the cabin doors, they bit aud kicked over
the bacon rinds flung therefrom with a
heartiness that partook of the spirit of
their respective masters.
It had been “skifting" snow on the
mountain for a day or two. But the 1
morning was clear, and the sun, lmnging
oa the pines that crested the opposing
slope, particles shot of hi* flying rays frost through iuto glittering the j
door of the cabin. Within, open the
upper 1
two Trouts sat at their slab table before
a Spartan breakfast of slap jacks and
salt pork
“Jimmy, that outfit down thar,” said j
the elder Trout, indicating the cabin bo
low with his liand as he spoke—“they
sent to camp yesterday. Suppose to-day, you
take the jack and go down fur 1
our grub pile is get tin’ low, and git the
drills sharpened. I'll rustle round and
wash up some clothes while you’re
*
got.. s.”
The air of the early morning was keen,
and Jimmy waited until thc sun was j
well up before he started put the pack-saddle down. Uncle on i
the jack, and
Jimmy, meantime, set the camp-kettle
on the coals in the rough fireplace, and
prepared for washing
other Daily the two old men passed each
on the deep-worn paths leading
from cabins to tunnels, but without a
word or look of recognition. But, rigid
as was tlie silence maintained between
them, it could be broken by one thing—
\\ , nt of tobacco. After a few hours'un
satisfied craving for this universal solace
of the miner, either would yield and up
ply to the other, morning never old to >r refused. Trail, who
On this man
had sent Sum to cantp craving tin* previous whole day, day,
had resisted this a slowly
but at last he succumbed, and
sauntered up to the Trout cabin.
“Kin lloy you spar' me a piece asked of terbacker
till my git* back i" be in his
deliberate speech, disdaining paused politer
forms of salutation, a* he on the
doorstep. Jiiiimv, overalls and
Uncle in red
shirt with rolled up sleeves, was vigor
oitsly soaping flannels. He pointed with
one suds dripping hand to the rough
mantel
“It s on the shelf. Come in auu help
yourself,” lie said, endeavoring vainly to
throw a hospitable heartiness into his
tom
The old man aud stepped about iu, drew the his
sheath knife, w as to part
coveted plug, when thc attention of both
w as caught by a sound, loud and strange
among the many noises of the mountain,
coming from above.
•‘The slide !*' cried the old man.
Almost as he spoke the topmost of ihe
pines snapped before the avalanche, and
then it struck the cabin. Stout as this
was it shivered to the shock, the logs on
the upper side were driven party in, and
the centre roof-logs, already burdened by
the weight of the dirt roof, were sprung
down and splinteiel with an ominous
cracking. timbers and
But the spruce were green
tough, and the cabin hung together. The
slide.being partially closed broken by slab-door, the trees,
tore over it, the stout
and passed, on down with a roar. Then
followed darkness and silence.
All their tools were in the tunnels,
they had nothing wherewith to effect an
escape, even were hod escape possible. For
tunately the tire gone out, so there
1 was no smoke to odd to their torture,
t % t: <■ : 1- ••
But hidden thus from all the world, sud¬
hatreds denly shut away from all its hopes,
and fears, those two were to
await, together, the inevitable.
For a time the suddenness of the
catastrophe broken stunned both in silence. It
Trail, was whose at length by the old man
recognizable in gruff softened tones were hardly
this whisper:
“Uncle Jimmy, I’m mighty glad the
boys is both safe.’’
‘‘I'm with you thar, old man,” Uncle
dued. Jimmy replied, in a voice equally sub¬
The minutes, as they passed, might
have been years, so faint and far away
seemed their dispute over the lead.
^ttled ‘Tj.W this herebusiness °, - in ’ l'' twixt e . m , ,>Ught me and A
’ g0, J mt /- Tr” ,t8
gom to settle us,’ and U ncle Jimmy’s
y°we gave faltering md.cat.onsof break
. ‘ R™ce up. I ncle Jimmy ! Th* boys .
13 J «th safe, and me and you w-asa gittm
old ’, aud could,11 in natur’ V holt on
" Ul<h l< 'W r ; And art « r aU . Unde
th !? mut a P lu “ pl«y° u t i
1 8 J es L‘ sl M’ | n tue paystreak, and we II
>lrd “ rt ,he ran K e ‘”
Thc oId n,an 8 v ? ,ce was y^^fnlly , „
clear , ’ as ^ l ,al ‘ 8cd and , seated h ' msolf
composedly foped on the . bunk. Luc e Jimmy
hts way to lnm, and kneeling,
,7 ted l ' ead a “ d sho, ,lde J a on thc
b ,a, \ kcts ’ Then the hands 1 . of thosean
. ®?* . d cl,,n fi
V , ® 1 ckod fT’ 08 "“““"“S ’ B " earn -* to “ caeh a u nn as ’
they . waited for the end.
To Jimmy, a visit to the camp Was a
welcome break in the monotony of life on
Silver Mountain, and his step was ac
eordiugly drifted light as he prodded thc
down the trail with the jiointed
end of the scrub-oak stick that served him
alike for staff and goad.
As lie progressed downward, frosty
clouds giving passed between sudden him and thc sun,
the air a chill as their
shadows darkened the sparkling surface
of the snow. The summit was lost to
view, and, driven by the wind, snow be
gah to fly, coming the partly from thc clouds
and partly from drifts above. Jimmy,
however, was used to these mountain
“ squalls,” and knew that, as long as the
nimble-footed jack could keep the trail,
he was safe to follow,
A mile or less from the cabin the trail
made an abrupt bend around a “granite
crag. Firm-bedded in the mountain,
this thrust its tapering pinnacle to the
tops trail of the hugged surrounding there pines. had Where
the its base been
a “eateli” of soft sand conglomerate
which, worn away by action of frost and
air, washed had down gradually the dropped leaving out and been
slope, a shelv
ing recess. reached
Just as Jimmy this recess he
encounteged The inimical Sam Trail, jacks, coming brought upward, sud
two
denly fare to breathed face, alike laid defiance long ears
back and forth in
trumpet notes that woke the echoes of
the mountain defiles; Behind each pug
nacious little beast his equally pugnacious
driver halted squarely in the middle of
the narrow trail.
“Turn out!” cried Sam Trail, in such a
tone that Jimmy would have shot both
jacks head-first down the slope rather
than have complied. rock.” “Turn out, and
let my jack hug the
“Turn out yo'self!” retorted Jimmy,
side “My jack's got as Everybody good a right to the in¬
as yourn. turns to the
right, and I’m a-goin’ to.'’
“The pack ’ll the tip my jack replied over the
slope ef 1 take a-goin’ outside,” do Sam,
“and I aint to it.”
Both boys and beasts were by this
time half-blinded by the snow, which
was being sucked around by the the rising crag wind, and
whirled in their faces
Their passions kept pace with its fury,
Each jack stood ready to rush open
mouthed; each driver got a firmer grasp
on his oak stick and made a forward
stride.
Just then, half-broken by thc wind,
enme thc sound of muffled thunder from
the direction of the shanties. Following
it, from immediately above them, came a
crunching noise that caused the uplifted
sticks to be held in air.
The snow-caps above had given way,
anil gathering momentum with incretts
ing bulk and velocity, the slide, to which
the one at the cabin was but a plaything,
came tearing down, carrying along the
granite boulders scattered in its path.
Before its rush, thc giant pines, with sap
hard frozen, snapped like reeds, each
making a sharp report above the duller
t umble of the mass,
Counted by the beating of their hearts,
it was long before it struck thc crag,
Huge as was this, it trembled; Juft noth
ing less tliau an earthquake could have
tumbled that mighty cone from its im¬
bedded base, and the slide broke over it
aud Cowering pasied on. in the the .boys
recess, were
covered witli snow as the great avalanche
thundered post, swept the pines from the
slop:* below, and shot tip on the it opposite settled
side of the gulch, whereat last
with a sound and a shock that seemed to
shake the mountain.
“O Sam, my pa and yourn!” cried
Jimmy, in a voice quite different from
his former one. ‘ ‘That first one sounded
like it was at the shanties.”
As he spoke,with one accord they drew
nearer togctlier. Nolongerthey seemed
to be the two who had so lately met on
the trail. And the slide had wrought
other changes. Even tlie wind, no more
sougliing through tlie broken pines,
whistled in altered cadence about the
naked pinnacle of tlieir bulwark,
“We must git out and git to the
shanties somehow. J.et’stake the shovel
and cut steps in the snow-bank,” said
Sam, pointing to a new shovel with its
handle slipped through the many turns
of rope that held the pack on thc saddle
ofhisjack. brightened the prospect of
Both _ at
action. Sant, cutting the steps, was out
first, and Jimmy clambering after, they
stood booking around.
The dark green trees were been gone. Some,
torn up by the roots, had carried
bodily down; while here and tlierc thc
stump of some broken giant stuck up its
yellow splinters from the snow,
Both looked above, but the view was
limited by thc snow, driven by the furious
’ wind, which, they stepped from the
as
1 crag, struck them with full power aud
forced them back.
“We can’t go up agin it," said Ham
! “It'll fall ’fore long, I reckon. It didn’t
look like more'n a squall as I came up the
trail. And maybe, Jimmy, the slide
! didn’t strike the shanties; and ef it did,
i our “My pa’s might V been in the tunnels.”
na wasn’t,” said Jimmy, shaking
his head. “He was just going to wash
our clothes when 1 left.”
“Them shanties was both put there to
stay, and yourn was the stoutest built—
even pa always ’lowed that.” Fo^Bam,
though silent enough generally, could
speak out on .flmmy, occasion,
“Now, I was bringing up a
coffee pot. ’Taint no use standin’ doin’
nothin’, and we’ll melt some snow and
have some coffee. I’ve got some already
ground “I’ll in the pot." start
make the fire,” said Jimmy, coffeepot
ing up as Sam unhooked the saddle,
from the < rouses of the pack
“There’s a big mountain rat’s nest under
this rock. I’ve noticed it every time I
passed, and the sticks are good and dry.”
The fire was qnicklv made, and coffee
was boiled. Then, cups being wanting, cool
the pot was set away in thc snow to
sufficiently to permit of drinking from
it. Bam, meantime, cut slices of salt
pork-frmn the piece in bis pack, and
* ' * -L «.» V ■ ~
these, haring been singed in the fire, the
two ate, and drank alternately from the
same spout in loving fellowship.
In the background the jacks hung
over the feast with pleading eyes. Each
was rewarded now and then by a tid-bit
of rind from his master's hand \nd
when the pork was finished Sam got out
a small sack of oatmeal, and pouring a
little into his hollowed hand, the two
jacks licked it up by brotherly turns.
Soon after the meal the wind began to
fall, and the clouds, breaking away, the
sun, gulch. now Then declining, struck into the
sufficiently permit they widened the steps
to of the jacks clam¬
bering up, ami set out for the shanties.
The trail was obliterated, but the
snow tle difficulty was packed in gaining hard and they had lit¬
the site of the
cabins. Then their fears were confirmed.
sound Both broke had disappeared, thc solemn stillness. and no human
had difficulty, in They
some where the too, cabins locating had stood. The
exact spote
This they at length did, however, by
the aid of the torn and twisted trees.
These, they saw, had broken the force of
the slide, and deflected it us well, so that
the main shoot had turned and passed
directly over the lower cabin. The tippet
one, inhabited by the Trouts, hud been
covered but a few feet from the great
side-pressure ot the mass
After they had determined the loca
tion, shovel < Sam paused, and leaning on tin
which he had brought up, said,
with geuerous self-restraint, “ Now,
Jimmy, we aint got hut one shovel.
Which shanty shall we go at first;”
“Let’s draw straws replied Jimmy,
after a moment's indecision
‘All ... right; . ,
you hx em
i Jimmy stooped, and taking two
nee
d ' es bom a >r ? kci / 1 )I11C hough at hi*
f ee M Dirtied , .. his back,
“Short is our shanty, long is yourn.
Draw, bam, lie said, as he file d about,
* l( minutes now were
f . r?hf wBh life death to their
r “ u or ini
P rl80nL 'd fathers Jimmy’s big hand
trembled as lie held the fateful needles
l )rc -ssed between thumb and tingi ■r. Sam's
* ean ’ )IO " n drew—the onc never short quivered ns In
reached and one.
“Your shanty,” ho said, with a long
breath, and flung off his coat “I’ll taki
first sliift We’d better run in an iu
cliue, so as to strike the door, ef it’s still
thar.”
Taking short runs, after a couple of
hours'rapid work, they he ird a muffled
cry from within. Then the door was
soon reached, forced open, and there, to
their great joy, each saw his lather.
To the anxious boys the faces of the
fathers looked white and ghastly from
their confinement in the stifling place,
but the fresh airsoon revived them. The
old man Trail, struggling to his feet, was
the first to speak.
“We, might er knowed,Uncle Jimmy,”
he said, “that the boys was bound to git
us out.”
“Old man,” Uncle Jimmy replied, too
much impressed by recent events to think
of aught else, “this slide has settled it fur
me. dle and S’pose we cut fust the choice!" claim in the mid¬
you take
“I was jest thinkin',” said the old
mail, with due deliberation, “this here
thing of drivin’ in two tunnels side
and side is kinder foolishness. If we'd
consolidate on one we’d strike pay rock
all the quicker.'’
“That’s a fact, pardner, and we can
call it the Last (’bunco.'’ Uncle Jimmy
responded the christening with self-denying his find is alacrity, for
of a matter of
moment to the prospector's heart, and
that of the Blue Bird had on evolved
only after long and labored tgl.i
“I was thinkin’,” the old 5 r plied
with the same thoughtful slowness—“ef
solidatin' it’s all the the same to you, likewise pardner—of into con¬
names ‘The
Blue Bird’s Last Chance,’ and soa-lcttin’
of Silver Mountiu know this here thing
betwixt me and you and Jimmy and Sam
is done settled) now and fur good.”
As the old mfin concluded he extended
his hand to Uncle Jimmy. The “shake’’
that sealed the compact then went round.
And so. despite thc torn in trees aud drifted Silver
devastation, the sun set peace on
Mountain.— Youth's Comimniim.
Fitteli Catching in Holland.
Finch catching during October nml
November is a favorite amusement ull
day long of Dutch sportsmen who have
“finch houses Jacqueline drove us
therefore, < irlv, through green tree tun
into nels, the whence heart sandy copse downs, paths diverged, air
of tin* whore the
was fresh and stillness great. Hutting
up theeoureusc at one of the picturesque
little farms scattered here aud there—
mostly of bright painted brick, with a
broad black stripe along the base and
then ft white one.—we walked through
sandy potato clearings and coppice till
we came to a level lawn before a wooden
liuti A dozen green hutches on stands
contained the cages of as many finches,
oinging trillingly—all the better it was
supposed blinded! that these There poor little prisoners
were was a turfed bank
beliiud the cages, hiding a grass alley be¬
yond, with nets laid on either side, while
down the middle hopped dcccy finches
tied by the leg to bent wire We non
inspected the hut close by, most hospita¬
bly welcomed that by all its owners, prepared who had the
come to sec was for
season’s sport. The hut was cunningly
constructed, half open for air. yet screened
by a breastwork. Midmost win the
fowler’s chair, before glazed peep holes
in the wall facing the grass alley, and
with net ropes attached on either hand.
As tlie great migratory flocks of finches
land on these dunes iu October and rc*t
in the copses, they arc lured by the sing¬
ing deco, s into the alley where tlic'r
kind are hopping. They settle down t.>
chat. The nets are drawn over them and
their necks promptly wrung. <>n the
walls a score was painted of many years'
sport. last season, lHHff, 4,425 finches
were caught others in this here. linchery English alone. Magit- There
are several
sine.
The Home of Washington,
Mount Vernon, under the management
of lady regents, is now a model farm. In
the dining-room is the sideboard used by
the family and returned to Mount Vernon grand
by Mrs. Kobert E. Lee, the great
daughter of Mrs. Washington. The
room iu which Washington died i* fitted
up throughout xxilli the original furni¬
ture. The vice regent for husband Virginia ' 7
Mrs. Emma Read Ball, whose T
a grandson of Washington's niece. I he
estate, which includes 200 acres, is kept
in a fine state of cultivation. Thc rove: iiiii
comes from the sale of flowers and -w -1
milk, which latter is sold by the glass in
the family kitchen. Undci th" condi¬
tions of transfer thc mansion must be
kept in repair. but it must not be
changed. In the flower garden the box
plant which edges tlie walks is preserved planted
in the exact design of site lie/lg s
by Washington. Th • four big sweet
shrub trees, given to him by Jeffer on,
still grow in beauty ».‘ where they wen
planted so l /ug «g
The First Banjo Player.
The first man who ever played a banjo
was Joe Sweenev, and his instrument
wrasan excavated gourd with four strings.
Joe gave his first tunes deck in hand, public work¬ in a
circus tent, lie was a
ing on a cuual going from Richmond to
Lynchburg. He afterward was with
negro minstrel companies, and win n
great feature, both in this country and
Europe .—Baltimore A ineriatfi.
The stateliest bu Id ing tnan cau raise is
the Ivy’s food at lad,— Difktm,
NUMBER 21.
llOUSEHOliDMATTBRM.
Tomato ('atHiip.
Take half bushel tomatoes, pedl and
cut. Let come to a boil, rub through
the sieve, add one pound salt, quarter
pound ground black pepper, quarter
pound of .whole allspice, one six ounce large
doves,two pouudshrown sligar, handful
onions, twenty bulbs garlic, desired one
of green peach leaves. If very
hot, add as much cayenne pepper case-knife. as you
can lay on the point of a
Boil to removing the thickness from the required, add and three- just
before stove
quarters pound ground mustard, one the
quart good cider vinegar, wetting
mustard with the vinegar. Hub through
the sieve again. Bottle.— Washington
Star.
The bailndry.
A little borax put in the water in
which scarlet napkins and red bordered
towels arc to be washed "ill prevent
them from fading.
When removed from the person,
clothing, if damp, should be dried be¬
fore putting into the clothes-basket to
prevent mildew,
A handful of borax added to water
helps to whiten the clothes. It is used
by the Germans, who are famous for
their snowy linen.
Very pretty curtains, which can be
laundried and look as well as new ones,
are made of white muslin, with largo
round dots the size of a silver half
dollar. —Detroit Tribune.
Kecefpes.
Kuo Corn Bread.—T ake a quart of
water, boil and stir in a teacup of meal;
let boil and stir; add a teacup of butter;
takeoff the tire and let cool; then add
two eggs and a little salt; pour in a but¬
tered disli.
AV in-: Aten (Jems,—S tir into ice-cold
water enough coarse Graham flour, un
sifted, to make rather a stiff batter, two
parts water to three of Hour are the cor¬
rect proportions; beat vigorously aud dip
into hot gem pans. Set them on top the
stove until well heated, and fill them not
quite even full; bake minutes. in a very hot oven
from thirty to forty
('inn in, ait. (’rsTAttn. — Oue quart,
milk,three level teaspoonfuls corn starch,
four level teaspo nfuls grated chocolate,
Stir the chocolat into the milk, heat to
boiling, then add the corn starch dissolved
in a little milk. Let it cook a minute,
then take from the tile, add salt, sugar
and vanilla to taste. Sweeten and flavor
one cup of cream, heat with an egg
heater, and put iu the custard
Chicken Salad. The best meat of
two chickens dressed tine, tw ice as much
minced celery, five hard boiled eggs, four
tablespoons of melted butter, rubbed
with the yolks, and the whites minced
fine; mix thoroughly with one and and a
half teaspoons of mustard; salt pep¬
per to taste; moisten the whole, with
chicken broth and a little vinegar. In
absence of celery use cabbage.
I/Yon .use Potatoes. — me
milk iu a frying pan, add
ter the size of a walnut, and
pepper; let it boil, take heate tea¬
spoonful of corn-flour, mix with a little,
cold milk and add to tie-milk in a fry¬
ready ing pan. Keep stirring nil the time; have
six or seven I *i cil potatoes,
peeled the and cut with into thin little slice* ley put, and them
into pan a p:« mi
onion chop} ied small iVt - hem with
a plate and lot them stew dually for
fifteen minutes Send to in a cov
cred dish.
(jt INCE Jl l.I.Y Hub the <|IIinee with
a cloth until perfectly smooth, cut in
small pieces, pack tight iu a kettle, pour
on cold water until level w ith the fruit,
boil very suit: make i three-cornered
flannel bag, pour in fruit and hang up to
drain, occasionally pressing on top and
sides to make the juice, run more freely,
taking care not to press hard
enough to expel the pulp. There
is made not so this much need of the pressing weight a bag
in shape, as of the
fruit iu the larger part causes thc juice
to flow freely at the point. To a pint
of juice add a pint of sugar and boil lif
teen minutes, or until it is jeliv; pour
into tumblers, or bowls, and finish ac
cording to general the parings directions. and If quinces
arc scarce, cores ot
quinces with good tart apples, boiled aud
strained as above, make saved excellent jelly,
and the quinces are for preserves.
A Tramp's Bundle.
For many years I have been devoured
by an intense and abiding curiosity to
know wliat a tramp carries in bis bundle.
You may have noticed that no matter
where you meet a tramp or under what
circumstances, he has a bundle with him.
It may be done compactly up in a news¬
paper or tightly be wrapped feet in old and dirty
rags; it may two square or no
bigger than your fist, but it is always a
bundle of some sort, and one to which lie
clings with the tenacity of death itself.
I have heard a number of con jectures
hazarded as to its possible contents.
Some critics have maintained that it con¬
tains food and others that it is a mere
dummy, contrived to impose upon a
credulous landlord at a half-dime lodging
llllllSI I have read ncwspiq r stories of
fortunes ■oiicciled in the tramp's bundle,
and been told fusions when the
bundle found in the possession of a dead
tramp contained family papers and docu¬
ments to prove that the late unlamented
connections. was a person of high birth knowledge and exalted
But of my own 1
have never been able to Mitisfv itivself a*
to its actual character,so that when I was
accosted the other day by a tramp with
the usual bundle and a plea said for him; the price
of a night's lodgings, I to
“Tell me what is in your bundle and
I'll give you a dollar. ”
"Honestsaid the tramp.
1 assured hint of it.
“You won't give me away to a living
Mllll
I Well pledge r you n,” said my word. the ’ in voice
and tramp, a don't
full of : hoi mystery, “1
mind telling you It’s my full-dress
suit You see a feller in deal, position has
iim in society a g and he
must have his dress uit ready, for he
rii't know w hen he inav need it Ye if
•/: Ames.
ItuMerino Microscope/!.
Dr. Thomas Taylor,micros/ opist tothz
Department i Agriculture at Washing
tou, lias iu * last annual report of that
Depart merit shown by means of photo¬
micrographs and colored plates, illustra¬
tions of tiie crystallization of butter and
other animal fats. Ho shows that the
fats of different animals differ In their
crystallization, and usserts that if but
ter, lard, und beef-fat are separately
boiled and gradually cooled, the crystals
that are formed will show marked differ¬
ences under microscopic examination.
These differences are easily to be seen in
the photographs alluded to, and they
point out a ready means of detecting
butter which has been adulterated by
spurious fats.— (Jham'nrs's Journal.
The Last “Skeeter’s Picnic.**
T'is the last hungry ”skeeter”
fieft humming alone
All Are his faded bloody and companions
gone.
Oh, why laugh docs this “skeetcr"
Now in his sleevef
'Cause he’ll feed on the landlord
Who’s too fat to leave.
-Uotsl M*H
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