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THE DODGE COUNTY JOURNAL. VOLUME V. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ^ J. F. Deho r J. Bishop, Ja, OK LACY .V HHyoi*, ATTORNEYS AtLAW, kahtman, a.\. Practice in th date sn I Federal courts. oHlt-ly C. (J. SMITH, ATTOR NEYAT LAW, Me VI LI,!y <i V. npi 2VH3 I E. 1). GRAHAM, JR. attorney at law AND bor.irrron /v r.nuiTV. BA XI, MV A apt It l OR. J. 3. ftfliTCMELl, PHYSICIAN ni SURGED I, O V his ic ifi ■it t. !' -f Do a- cm.• • m; a .I, I t HI - II. Hindi. b I 1 l ii d i. d y in I'll.m-ly DFi.J. i. - ). DJCHAN & SON, I’HY <!i'l US \\) IMtriiiilSTv KAsT IAN GKOBG' r Ii P •es to th p i a a I > in r* c II <■ ll I, r..ii i ,«i \ pr l-1 i ti ii I Vis I I. L AI i r III d l< m di I h • -"ll- I h h i for ini llled A I 1-11. i IMA I Hi I; i h a 'i IV I • ii I; if \V. \ \ UA I N, Fashionable Barber, Kastman <;t;oi;<;!.\. II 1 00*11 I ef in sll p. I l l I I I I . T 4 i I l in lNiir,. kst a m jsi ncix 1*4 Off. 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. v ->• th 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, f fj -8 ft ,v i 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 ) 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 • 1 deiitid 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 -v A I \ . a* - “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 r 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 * A -