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About Jones County headlight. (Gray's Station, Ga.) 1887-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1888)
COUNTY ex. m /S <> 8 9 * * / ss / ❖ A \ r MtMML V ?\ “Our Ambition is to make Yeracious l ? ■'Vy-.-Y Conclusions, and Just in its Yiews. ” a Work, Reliable in its Statements, Candid in its VOL. I. Statistics show* that there are 182,000 churches, 82,000 ministers, and 19,000, 000 members in the United States. Leading British military authorities say that England’s war resources are not sufficient to withstand attack from for eign The Dakota farmers who have survived the blizzard are happy in the thought that the moisture from the heavy snow fall will give the early wheat a good start. . Mr. Froude, the English historian, in a recent work asserts that the retrogres sion of Jamaica and other British pos sessions in the West Indies has been so rapid that the Government is seriously asked to govern these places by commis sion. _______ A scientist claims that the bituminous coal field known as the Pittsburg is practically inexhaustible, according to the exploration. There are 10,000,000 bushels of coal in the barges at Pittsburg awaiting transportation as soon as the rivers are navigable to the south and westwar d. Game Warden Collins, of Connecticut, comes to the defence of owls and hawks by saying that the examination of over 200 specimens of these birds by rniscro scopists proves that they live on small birds, frogs, snakes, mice and grasshop pers. The “small birds” are mostly sparrows, and very few game birds are eaten. . Francis La Flesehe, of the Omaha tribe, who is employed in the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, is the brother of Inslita Theambn, aud is three fourths, not full-blood or even half breed, Indian. La Flesehe was edu cated at the mission school of an Indian agency in Nebraska, and was appointed by Secretary Kirkwood to a place in the Indian Bureau. He has made an efficient clerk. On several occasions he lias acted as interpreter between bis people and government officers, and has al-:o been sent on several missions to his tribe. An example of deterioratioii in values is shown in the sale of the Great East ern for less than $100,003. The origin nalcost of the vessel was three and a half million dollars, but she was a gigan tic failure from the start. The building of this ship, however, was of value in demonstrating that there was a limit in steamships iu the direction of size. She has been of use also in the laying of the Atlantic cables. While those who in vested their money in building this ship lost heavily in the venture, they can console themselves with the fact that their loss was not altogether in vain. Authentic estimates of the peace effect tives stationed in the frontier provinces of Austria, Russia and Germany show that Russia has 315,500 men, with 089 field-guns; Austria, 38,000 men, with 100 field-guns; and Germany 98,200 men and 338 field-guns. A comparison of the military situation ou the Russian side of the frontier with that on the German side, taking the forces within territories of about equal area, shows that the Russians within 119,311 square kilometers have 123,275 men, 24,198 horses aud 2,711 guns of all kinds, while the Germans, within 119,456 square kilometers, have only 81,714 men. 14,520 horses and 238 guns. The city of Mexico is madly devoting Itself to gorgeous spectacles, in which the central attraction is bull-fighting. Sunday is the chief festival day for this sort of thing, and half a dozen “rings” attract multitudes. Saleri, a Spanish bull-fighter, noted in his own country for daring deeds, was imported by Mex ican enterprise to add zest to the Sab bath circuses. He was “famous” chiefly for that particularly reckless accomplish ment which consists in infuriating the wild beast and then evading its onslaught by nimbly leaping over its head. His first experiment at an introduction of this into the Mexican Sabbath programme resulted in his being gored to death. Another imr.nrtmt P ntiotp P has hopn p.aceu , at tlie of of . the . mercy one pow erful associations of capitalists known as “trusts.” The Great Sugar Trust, re centlv em y organized or^mzett on on the tne principle principle of oi the ne B ibber Trust, moludes twelve of the nineteen large refineries in the United States-seven in New York, four in Bos ton ton and and owp one in in St. et Louis r nnia Fsch Each rpfin refin ery has put its entire capital stock into the Trust, taking certificates in payment, and the organization controls millions of canital 'The mirnose K is the “rcrula g tin tion » of r the production and r price of sugar. Whenever production is too great for the demand, or whenever there Is a scarcity of raw sugar certain of there fineries must ^ shut U down and not start d • GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. MARCH 31, 1888 MUTABILI 1 Y. I walked by the salt sea— A wave earuo leaping up to kiss the strar ■ In dimpling ecstasy, Then died away upon the silver sand. Far o’er the mountain’s height A shining cloud came floating like a dream, Then vanished from my sight, And left no trace of its translucent gleam, I watched a being fair Unfold in beauty—innocent and free, Yet e’er I was awaro She, too, had vanished from the world and mo. —Ada Iddings Gale, in Current. IN A BLIZZARD. ry MAirr ‘ Y tv mm ivn ‘ , ... g up type ’, the j office _ tbn m o A v! 0l fi day in '•!’ when I heard a voice at t > °' v s ?-’ 1 n g : Hello, beagraves! , 0 “ 0< ) down . yer claim?’ The . through J ,", ft3 \ a at mo his .. 11 Y v" ; s 100 c my head, but on ? t° r r ™ to come in, which he ■ i .if* 8 ™ i™!*? caa - ch' 0 r remons , ^ rilte i with . bim for “ his r , °" A . “Oncst Moore. t n ? a " man, I - c n want to take advantage of any one, no e\en a arummer for farm machinery, i.nu tact is, ,1 m dangerous. M liy, there ala a ,aan ln “ lls * erntory that would ‘Y m fi t0 ou " on the prairie with him U , Yu!y , i< ;' V ,ny rccor( I’m sure death.” ' \\ hat clo | you mean! Explain y’r ,. T ... c been out oti that pre eruption *• oi z mine • promptly at the end of eve'y thirty days since the last day of October, aud every time it stormed. The nrst time it rained, the next time it snowed aud bio wed, and the last time Murray and 1 went out to the claims we spent three days in his twelve-by-four teen shanty with the horses. W hy, I can t go to Heron or to Belleplaiti but a terrible storm sweeps down on the poor peopH Iherelore the boys fight shy of ule -” Moore was whistling , through _ his teeth at my yarn. He didn’t put much iin portance upon it. ‘‘Oh1 know all about that; but I don’t scare worth a cent; and besides, look at the sun sh ning out there. Now you after get dinner. your toggery on and we’ll be off rustle—i’ll Bailey's going too. Now see ye later. ’ This settled the matter, and accord i“gly possible I got things into as good shape as in the office, and went early to dinner at the Western House. The boys at the table weie also talking about going the out on their claims, and cursing find office, because of the ruling which obliged them to be on the pre enption once a month, no matter what the weather might be. “1 guess we’re about all in the same fix,” said Adams; “there s Bailey and Moore and Shelby, myself and--” ou bet I am.” “That settles my hash; if Seagraves goeq l don’t, you can bet high on that. I’m not ready to turn up my toes for the coyotes to gnaw.” “Gentlemen, I’m sorry for you, I’m going to breuk my record or try a dying.” And about 2 o'clock, belling Moore’s little team, well nigh buried in blankets and robes, we drew out of the main street aud headed west amid a chorus of veils: “Git Eli!” “Seagraves is sure death: push ou the reins,” et cietera. The sleighing was excellent, and the vast level plain, as bare as the bosom of ! a frozen sea, was sparkling under a brill iant sun shining lrom a deep blue sky. Our course lay straight into the wilder nest to the west, a distance of nearly i thirty good miles—an easy trip if the roads were all the way. Bailey and Moore kept up a lively chat- ! ter over their huge buffalo coat collars, : and hailed every passing tean with jolly shouts, and when we were about ten miles on our way, Bailey said: “I guess Seagraves lifted will head escape aud this time.” I my took a look at the northwestern sky; then said: “No, boys; “we’re in for it sure.” And we were; for, borne on the wing of the north wind, a great lieecv dome of cloud, slaty blue fieloiv and silver white above, was rising, vast, wide as thenorthern horizon, seamless, dim, and noiseless, sweeping with the speed of a shadow upon us. The day was yet brill- 1 iant, but the frost-white edge of the cloud had already slid across Hie face of the sun, making the depth of the dark blue dome the more ominous and stern, It would be dark i.r two lioms. “Well, boys, the blizzard is coining, sure, and there are just two things to do to pash on as hard as we can for the - claim, or turnback.” “There’s no turhing back touched to this crowd,” Moore replied, as he the ponies with the whip. 1 submitted, though with some misgivings. I am free to confess. The road was < r ettiti" worse noiv as wc were .rc-ttino- anefbevond bevoiul the settlers’ fc i mri ti e s the travel to and ' and f rotn the town Houses <ncw more more infrequent the wind began to ri e and the L" snow to sift along insidiou-lv! the plain, Yinot modical]v V et , u ,j before we knew it the road was full of drifts The further we went to the west the wilder and more bare the prune nrairie became became- soon soon we we would wouia be tic out- out ®Vo off at a imint about .. ■■ w orf r we readied Moore's claim His claim lav four miies due le smith from a l certain corner Z, stake which ^ were to ^*„' erv ^ ^ ut as wc c t We and I deter mined to keep bim with us, and r.ot allow of his making the venture short, at night, and Accordingly looked Wo«re immoral! puffed up friend. we both .- at our Bail* y was a brave man when there was anything he depending on the venture, but as rose to his feet and looked around him he hesitated. It was a fearful scene. As far as the eye could penetrate the stability of the prairie seemed changed to the furious lashings of a foam-white waste of waters. Great waves of snow met, shifted, spread, raced like wolves, joined again, rose, bulfeted each other till puffs of fine snow sprang into the air like spray, only to Sail and melt in the sliding streams. All less, was unreal, impenetrable ghastly. No sky but a form mass of flying snow; no earth except when a sweeping gust laid bare a long streak of blackened sod that had the effect, the terrifying effect, of a hollow, fathomless trough between the hissing waves, and overall the night and tempest were speeding like the flight of twin eagles. Our companion sot his teeth, and made as if to spring out and set forth, “sit down,” we shouted. “Do you in tend to commit suicide?” And, 1 with a lau;h at his relieved toward expression, we pushed the ponies on the west. “We must be merciless now. We are too far on to turn back, and if we are not delayed we can reach the shanty be fore deep night,” I shouted in the oar of our driver. There were now but turn shanties where we knew of people living, and both of these were some miles from our destination. One of these we soon reached after passing the corner stake alluded to. Ii was a small frame shanty banked to tlie roof with snow and sods; indeed, the roof was also of sods, laid on for additional warmth. It was low and mean-looking at ordinary times, but now, as the door opened and the red light drifts glinting streamed through out falling over the the snow, it had a singularly attractive look. The house was full to overflowing, we were told, and there were no places for our horses at all; they would have to stand out if we stayed. “But we ain’t goin’ to stay,” said Moore, grimly, as trail, he pulled be out into the road, now a mere to followed with the greatest difficulty, Just after turning into [this faint track there came a team of horses rushing to meet ns. As they passed us at a swift gallop we saw that attached hand-sled, to the liar ness of one was a boy’s upon which a long plank was bound, and lastly in a young fellow lying atop, on hill. his side, the way boys coast down He had a round red face, on which was above a fearless bis laugh, noble aud lie aud shook plunged the reins into team, the darkness of the east on his way to the settlement. The storm had steadily increased in violence, though each stage seemed the limit of its fury. The cold grew ever bitterer, aud the the night filled the was air, almost and upon could us, snow we see but a few rods inany direction; but our only resource was to press on, out on the prairie, wrapped in madly swirling clouds of snow. But we were all West ern born, aud not only knew our danger, tiail but how to meet it as well. Our was now entirely lost, and there was we had beeu following a furrow which had been plowed along the section line, and we must now leave that and bear to the southwest. Therefore, taking the wind (which we knew to be in the northwest) on our right shoulder, we struck out in a straight line for the place where we knew the shanty belonging to Moore must be. We ought to come passed; near if enough to it to see it as we not—well we didn’t like to think of that. As our course must be made with the greatest care, Moore drove, while Bailey and I took turns in rigidly aud keeping walking the wind upon the right ear, in in the track behind. The track we kept straight in this way, and increased our chances of finding the house. We were now moving in a circle of half-light, outside of which, x hundred feet away, was darkness. Within this half-light all was distorted, fantastic. A sage-bush, a clump of weeds, or a tuft of grass assumed huge proportions, gloom looked and through the treacherous like a barn or a stack of hay in the far ther reach of the eye. A bit of shingle not fifty feet from my eye looked so like a cabin on the side of a distant swell that I called joyfully to my companions that I had found the house. further It fright ened me when, a few steps on, I < ame to the wind-blown bit of wood, and my vision of the house and the 8hotvy hill faded out into the depths of thestorm. The snow flew so thickly that we could not see the ponies at times as they labored heavily though the deep snow, for we were on the unburned prairie now, and the snow would was mid-leg deep. At intervals we stop, and go as far as we dared to the right and left, and stooping the down, look Our under the snow to discover house. course since ieaviDg the section line was so slow and painful that it seemed as though we had been traveling more than an hour, and finally Moore puffed of grim up resolution and turned to me with a look on his face that told that v.e had arrived at the same conclusion. “Seagraves, we’re in for it. We’ve passed the shanty without idea. seeing it. ” “ That's about my And more Gian that; I will notyoa ingle step farther in that direction. There i nothing but a trackless prairie out then:. Our only hope now going is till to turn strike to the the southeast settlement, and keep the ponies we If keep up, we're all right.” “That’s about the size of it, if we’ve gone by the shanty, for my claim is about the last one in the township, ^ and ^ ^ ^ So we - d ttcr turn aud strike for the Norwegian settle meat south of here. But Bailey? ’ True enough! I sent my eye the circle: he was not in sight. While we were talking lie had lost sight of us, and making auetour to see the house possible, might be ahead or behind us, we could not tell. We looked at each Other an instant tu fear, then halloed in chorus. No reply. If he were to south, liiscries could not reach ns; and if to the north, ours could not reach him. Agdn we shouted and again lis tened. Ni reply, though we strained our cars in the steady ceaseless roar and scream of he storm. For the first time I-was afra'd. In such a ferocious tern pest and ii such deadly cold a man could not live tag. We took turns in shout ing, but no reply came, till a hill in the wind not only left the air clearer, but softened he tumult in the ear, aud we heard a faint cry in the distance— had “Help!” It seemed so far oil that it no non: force than the cry of u kitten. Vo could not tell whether it was on tkt earth or in the sky, or whethej we imagimd it, but soon it came again, “He’s at cur left,” said Moore, pulling the horses about, and following the cry. At every fnv rods we would stop and shout, and listen for his cry, which grew each moment stronger. But he was not approaching us; lie was waiting for us to come to him. Soon we were within speaking distance, and he was directing us where ti find him. It was strange that he didnot approach us. We thought he must have met with some accident, when suddenly he stood beside us. With a single word, “Follow me,” he started off, the horses following him. We could not see him, but we knew he was on the track of something. banked Soon, wo with came upon a small bam heavily snow, and with hoarse cheers we shook hands and yelled: “I told you so!” We had hit the barn, and the house was near by and easily reached. Without stopping to talk of our good luck, we sprang out, aud in a few mo merits the ionics were safe from the bliz zard, their noses deep in some hay oats. After rubbing the ice and from lation their coats, and starting the anew in their stiff and weary legs, we gathered our robes and things in arms and made for the house, which reached in a breathless ruu. It was a frame building, 18 by 24, Moore had erected for a summer mere shell of a thing, with the only one thickness of boards on and through there which banking, the snow the drifted; cold as was no air also streamed up through the floor; but relatively it was a palace. It was shelter and light, for there was a stove and some kindling, and a box of coal, We need not freeze for one night any- the way. We soon had a tire roaring in rusty stove, and a light in an unwashed tubular lantern. We also found a coffee can, and soon had a can of coffee siz zling on the stove. Then we took the time to ask Bailey about his adventure, ft seems that in making a detour he had caught a glimpse ot the barn, and though the storm the next moment cov erecl it, yet he determined to push on a w farther and make sure of it. Luckily he did not get ended quite fortunately, out of ear shot, and the whole but it was a big pies risk to run. As our frozen mince began to warm up and the coffee to send off a fragrant steam, Moore sang, exultantly, We made a great picture as we sat a,,(m ud the red-hot stove, with our lur ^‘ a l )R an '^ buffalo overcoats on. I lie lantern threw a red light over us through its smoky side, and the open jaws ox the coal stove though brought out every the line witches ol our faces as we were m Macbeth huddled around the caldron, P n oll J' heads the silted snow tell at intervals like showers ol red flakes of R°W, while the frail structure creaked groaned in toe blast, the siunv lashed the windows, and rushed like a pack of wolves about the door. Alter “’°d anil warmth, we sat thus talking and singing till we felt weary and s.eepy w “b the cold*; and then our host led us '<> the upper story of the house, where the bed stood which Moore used when he came to sleep on his chum, and upon this wo piled our blankets and robes,aud then under them. hen I awoke uio next morning all wa ® still still as the grave; not a sound save the heavy breathing of creaking my com- of panions _ arid the occasional the wood under the terrible cold, as Mill ns though the snow had buried us d® e P under its soft weight. And f s 'iall never forget how it looked as 1 stepped No out would into the morning dream air. that the one ever night before this calm plain had been lashed and duven by rule an appalling night tern- !>c peM- 1 lie terrible of the f°re seemed almost a dream. 1 here was no receding swell upon this ocean, as ' l l K ’ n ^ <: Atlantic; on the contrary, it looked so marble-liko and still that cine could hardly imagine it ever being moved again. The brilliant sun flashed from millions of ice-points on the snow. making a broad way ol dazzling gold ana diamonds—a loyal wry for the corn ing of the morning. Its glory was al most, not quite, a compensation for the experience of the previous night, 'ihat night, as we sat around the cannon stove in the Wamburger grocery “with in Boomtown, Mooie told our story trimmings,” adding among other things the actual fact that, the thermometer was thirty-eight below zero. Thu other trimmings which were not facts I will not mention. Moore is a good fellow, and undoubtedly regrets the exaggera tions which the enthusiasm of the mo ment induced— JIarpir’t Weekly. wCleveland's * Tired Arm ' “I should think your arm would be paralyzed,” GU,e,I),„,orr.d Qlabt-Dmocrat a Washington ventured ventured correspondent of of the the to to say say te te Mrs. Mrs. Cleveland Cleveland after after one one of of the the shake- shake band receptions at the White Home. ‘‘It istirc-d, ’ she replied, "but it is, curiously enough, the left arm, not the right. Gencal Grant was troubled in the same way-the arm that tired was the one not shaken. This mysterious puzzle can be left to the physiologists. ’ -----——---- There are 10,548 more men than women i B yf an itoha Cl’It IOCS FACTS. Morphia was discovered in opium by Sertuerncr in 1803. There aro $1,000,000,000 worth of diamonds in the world. Two hundred thousand infants under two yeavs old aro believed to bo farmed out in France. The art of starching linen was intro duced into England by a Mrs. Dinghoin, a Flemish woman, iu 1553. Postmasters say that more letters are mailed in the month of September than in any other month in the year. this A third of the said whole have wheat been product sold of in country is to six days’ time in New York City. It requires ten ears to tako $2,500 worth of grain to market, while the same value of butter can be carried in half a ear. Mrs. Eliza Waldron, who died in Akron, Ohio, a few days ago, nine weighed feet 3115 pounds and measured around the waist. Fhe was fifty-four years old. The harbor of Charleston, S. C., used to abound with blackiish. but the earth quake seems to have seared them away, for since the great shake up hardly one has been caught. There are lace curtains in I he parlors Balti of Robert Garrett’s million dollar more mansion which cost $200 a yard. Some of the carpets on the floors are act ually worth their weight in gold. A Maino man who_ owns a big and shaggy and black Newfoundland had dog, cut off the dog’s hair carefully, it carded and spun, ami got two ami a quarter pounds of jet black yarn as soft as lamb's wool. An Orlando (Fla.) newspaper man has substituted a pair of sand-hill cranes for watchdogs, and he finds that their loud clear note of warning when a tramp or a burglar comes near, is au effective means of protection. The petrified remains of a buffalo of great size were dug up at Belleville, Kan., recently by workmen who were excavating for a coal shaft, The re mains were found at a depth of 0 leet below the earth’s surface and were iu a fine state of preservation. India The first Europe;-r. settlements in were those established hy Yarco de Gama at Cochin iu 1502. These were l’ovtu guese settlements. The Dutch obtained a footing in India, iu 1002, the French in 1044. The English established facto ries at Surat and other places in 1012. Mr. K. It. Hammond, of Summerville, Ga., cut down au old oak tree on his plantation tlie other day and found iu the heart of the tvee the blade of a knife. The rings on the tree show that it is at least fifty-eight yens old, and the knife blade must have been broken oil in it when it was a sapling. One of tlie paviug professions of Paris is said to be that of trunk packer. In many of the little trunk shops you can hire for lor y cents an hour a man who will pack your trunk artistically, folding expensive gowns and other gar ments in tissue paper, and stowing away delicate bric-a-brac in the safest way. A Word lo Stiorers. It is perfectly true that no one ever heard of a snoring savage, In fart, if the wild man of the woods and plains does not sltej. quietly, he runs the risk of being discovered by his enemy, and thcscalpof the snorcr would soon adorn the belt of his crafty and more silent sleeping adversary. Iu the natural state, then, “natural selection” weeJs out tho-e who disturb their with neighbors With by making night hideous have snores. changed civilization, however, we all this The impure air of catarrhal our sleeping af rooms induces all kinds of fections. Tip: nasal passages are tlie first to become affected, instead of warming lungs the inspired air on its way to the and removing from it the loaded, dangerous the im purities with which it is nose becomes obstructed. A part of the air enters anti escapes by way of the mouth. The veil of the palate vibrates between the two currents—that through through tho month and the one still passing tire partially closed nostrils—like a torn rail in the wind. The snore, then, means that the sleeper’s partially mouth impartially closed, and open, that that his nose is his lungs are in danger from tho air not being properly warmed operation and purified. of these From the continual causes—the increase of impure air in sleepirg rooms and permitting habitual suorers to escape 'killing and scalping— s-.mc scientists have predicted will that all men (and the women, too!) teeth snore. and It goes along with decay of the bald headedness.— Fireside. Fish Living in Hot Water. There is a pond on tlie Lay ranch at Colconda, which is fed by the waters from the hot springs. This and pond the has an area of two or three acres, tern perature of the water is about eighty-five degrees, and ;n ome from places the where bottom the hot water bubbles up the temperature i; almost up to the boil in- point. Jleeenily the discovery has been unde that this warm lake is lit e-.-aily alive with carp, some of which are more than a foot long. All efforts to cat h then) witli a hook and line have failed, as they will not touch the most tempting bait. A few of them have been shot, and, contrary to the general sup position, position, the the fie-l, flesh was was hard hard and and palata- j.alata hie. hie. How How the the fish fish got got into into the the lake lake in is a a mystery mystery unsolved. unsolved. Within Within 100 10i) feet leet of of it it are are springs springs which which arc are boiling lulling hot, hot, and and the ranchers in the v i noty n-e the water to sc-.id ing: in the butchering season, _N,/r,r Slate. ——— — According to a Boston statistician “the co.-t of the femes in the t'nited i* “‘.omil debt.’ NO. 21. FORGET ME NOT. Like tho breath of the roao3, sigh To slumber against your cheek— Like a heart pulse, softly dying, —By passion rendered weak— Like a whisper faintly heard, The recoil of a tiny word— Into the distance flying Dearest, I hear you speak: Forget mo not—forget me ’Tis pleasant pain to part When love is not forgot; Forget me not—forgot me not! Your words aro in my heart; Forget me not— Not like an organ, pealing Down the cathedral aisle To the black-robed fig ire, kneeling, With tho more than earthly smile But an echo that no man knows, That lingers, and thrills, and goos Into the distance stealing— 1 boar you all tbo while: Forget me not—forget mo not 'Tis pleasant pam to part When love ts not forgot; Forget me not—forget me notl Your words aro In my heart; Forget mo notl Like a liymn of gladness, sbowtr. The strength of the holy spo'J Like tho toarful joy outflowing At tho chime of tho vesper 'icll— Like a prophecy, told anew But ever and ever true— Into the distance going— I hear your sweet farewell; Forget me not—forget nr ’Tis pleasant pain to nart When love is not forgot; Forget mo not—forget aT Your words are in my heart ; Forget me not! —Boston Pilot. PITH AND POINT. Always ou top—The roof. The game of authors—Reed birds. Ofttimes it gives ft man a cold chill to get “tired.” Was Noah's celebrated vessel lighted by an are lamp? Cleaning upsets two things badly—a bouse and a watch. It’s a warm day for a man when he makes a cool thousand.— Life. The unlucky man declared if it should rain soup he’d just about be out in the field with a hay-fork. 'There are some people who don’t want the earth. They belong to cremation so cieties.— Hodtenkr Ptrt-J'J.r/ircs.i. A wise reflection by Jones: “Doesn’t it strike you as rather odd that while tho papers are daily commenting on the de cease of celebrated men they never an nounce their birth?” Frank .James is clerking in a store in Austin, Texas. When he reaches in his pocket fora lead pencil and shouts: “Gash!” all the customers jump to their feet and throw up their hands. 4< Fire! J> bIio yelled in his slumbering 1 ear At the morning hour bewitebiu 1 , With a sudden spring be was out: “Where? Where?” Mlie replied: “Make one in the kitchen I’’ —Detroit Free Press. According to a Tucson paper “ Chief Hole-in-tbe-Snow hankers after mote scalps.’’ Ip, noble champions of Yankee Doodle! Let ms wipe .—Birmingham the ground with Be this red hanker-chief public.'in. Mrs. Cassidy—“Why don’t you come down and see me, Mrs. McGinnis?” Mrs. McGinnis —“And it’s you that’s talkin’, Sir*. Cassidy; and not a sight did I see of ye sine : last Aister! Sure, if 1 lived as near to you as you do to me, I’d he droppln’ in every week.”— Graphic. In Washington: Katharine—“Well, Charlotte, 1 hear you are to be married?” Charlotte— “ Yes; Katharine—“Will it takeB place very soon now.” you elope?” Charlotte—“ Of course I won’t. I’m not in the chestnut business. I shall get married in tlie regular way and startle society.” Wuslnnijton Critic. In the low ceilingert roof of a strange hotel, When a man is changing his shirt, Amt jatis liis tumb in the much plaster above, Hr growls, but is not hurt; train But in hustling the collar ou for a That’s nearly due by tho clock, button How mad ho gets when the goes clown, in his soc-k. Deep down, ’way down —OU Cit Blizzard. ) A tall Missourian called at the distric school, and, eyeing tlie teacher sternly, said: “My hoy Henry tells me you whipped him last evening.” “ Yes,” as--ented the teacher, edging toward the door, “ hut lie deserved it, 1 assure you.” “And he says you used a rawhide on him.” “ Yen, sir, but-” “And you slapped him with your hands as well.” “I did, but I assure you--” pointer: “Assure nothin’ Let me give you a When he you doesn’t have to punish for that rawhides.”— hoy use a club; Journal. care Nebraska Stale. Buffalo !■ arming, Much has been written about the terri bleloss of life in tlie being Northwest due during the tlie recent blizzard to scarcity of buffalo robes, which con tri bu, e the only defense against the rigors of that country. It is true that a buffalo robe or coat is now beyond the rea ,-h „f those with slender purses, andit j s true that for certain purposes the bufVa i 0 hide and fur are superior to any o!ill:rs . This leads me to the suggestion that if some of the great cattle kings of the West would buffalo give up raising they cuttle ,mdgo into farming would find it only an immensely would profitable hide obtainable business, Not every And a ready sale, but the meat would find a market in the cities, and the refuse of the carcass could lie made into the dozen articles of auords,-- profitable Globe-Drimr^t, cominerxe that the steer now
