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VOL. I.
t Look Up.
By night the heavens cradle me, the while I
dream my dreams,
And w vhen I waken, ah'how I smafl **JT my ijr Tit-
tim«ufl<**!<*ms. 4
If on your soul the changeful world casts
daily doubt and terror,
Look up to the eternal skies where never
star makes error.
ON THE TRACK.
Tho night was dark, and a drizzling
fain, was fal tag when I arrived at the
little railroad station at Kimm’s Prai¬
rie, and the first man I met there was
Abe Wilder, the drawbridge tender. I
dismounted and fastened my horse and
tho one I had been leading to a tree on'
the sheltered side of the station building.
I had come to the station full of
eagerness to meet my wife, who had
been away on a visit of a couple of
days to her sister is H-We had
bwlrain Nh^aJbw tAiwjUttlt
her short absence from our pretty home
oa tho prairie had been greatly felt by
me, and lover-like, I was full of long¬
ing and anxiety for her safe return. So
my disappointment was all tho greater
when Abe told mo the train on which
she was coming back to me was two
hours late. But, to while away tlio
time, Abe proposed that I should go
with him to the bridge, oaly a short
distanco clown the track from the sta¬
tion. To this I couse ited, the more
readily because A’>o liad beoD my rival
for Annie’s lovo before we were mar-
vied, and my winning her heart and
hand seemel to make him very unhap¬
py and down-hearted for a time; but
for all tha^jie had shown me no ill
will. Ou ie contrary, hi? had ap¬
parently been the mist sincere and
heart-felt congratulations- an l well
wishes for our fu'ure happiness and
welfare. So when he asked me to go with
him to the bridge, I did not hesitate to
accept the invitation.
We walked down the track side by
aide. I did most of the talking, for he
seemed uneasy aud nervous, and I
thought that in this way I could best
calm him, and make him feel less em-
barassed.
The distance from the station to the
bridge wjis only about ten minutes’
walk, aud we arrived there without any
interruption. I notice 1, however, that
Abe became more and more excited
every moment; and was about to" ask
svhat troubled Jyin,, when he turned
upon me suddenly, his eyes ablaze with
the light o f madness.
“Curse you!” he hissed, grinding his
teeth and bending his face close to
mine. “You have robbed me of all that
makes life worth living. Tonight you
shall prove id ’me if you are Worthy of
thatlovg.”,, t „ <{ .
Wo were standing in front of the lit¬
tle house at'the end of the bridge,, and
the light from the open door fell straight
upon his face.
“What do you mean?" I cried in hor¬
ror, for I could see that a madman,
bent upon some fiendish purpose, was
standing before me. His face was
flushed and swollen; the veins upon his
neck' and forehea 1 stood out like
cords and pulsed feverishly; his glit¬
tering eyes were rad and bloodshot,
while his lips were dr,vu and paie, and
bloodies?.
“What do I rfresu?- 1 ’ he mocked.
“Just tliis: I would give my life for a
smile—for only a smile fiom the woman
I love. Now I want to sqa what you
will give for her life. » >
“Abe, you are crazy,’ ’ I cried with
as steady a voice a? I could command.
f “Right you are. Crazy, mad, in¬
sane, and you have helped to make me
so. Only for yoh I might have been
the happiest man on earth today. If
you prove tonight, however, that you
are worthy of the love of which y ou
cheated me, I'll forgive you, aud die
with you.”
“Well,” I said, “If I had thought
that it was to listen to this nonsense
that you inv.ted me to come with you, I
would certainly have refused. So I will
b;d you good-night.”
1 turned tb walk away; but in a mf-
ment he sprang upon mo and with a
blow from a coupling-pin he was hold-
in~ in his hand, he feiied me to the
ground insensible
When I returned to consciousness 1
found myself gagged, and bound with
chataMo Uta iron rails,, und^o,
that I could not move* my feet
’ " *
but my bands were free.
I looked up and saw Abe standing
above me, watching toe closely with' a
demon’s leer upon his face.
When he saw that I recognized him,
he sat down on the ground bjesyde me,
and rubbei Is bauds in g lee.
‘ ‘I had •elV ’She
raid in exultant •ouldnot plalino
fall to catch you.
and planning",'and wnT f reg"'3tfd
over iincc the night you and Annie
were married. From that n’ght, some-
how, I could not believe that vou loved
her a? dearly and deeply as I did, and 1
could find no rest night or day for that
S'
THE ENTERPRISE i
thought. Tonight, however, I shall
satisfy myself, aud if I And my sus¬
picions, wore false, and you lovelier
better than your life, I will die with
you; if, on the other hand, they Are
true, I shall not hesitate to kill you as
one usurping a place that belongs to
another.”
I could not-answer him, and when 1
attempted to remove tho gflg from my
mouth he beat me with a stout stick
over tho arms and hands until I de¬
sisted.
“Ha, ha, bat" he laughed. „ “You
see I had it figured out very closely,
even to the providing of this stick for
keeping you in order. You mail un -
derstand that I intend to do all the
talking, and want you to pay strict
attention to all that I say. We have
an hour or more to wait before the train
comes along, so that we need not b? in
any hurry. Stiii, I suppose you are
somewhat curious to find Out what I
in tend doing .with you; b|ut wait with
patience and you shall know all about
it iu good time. 1 have to go and set
out the lights ou tho bridge now,, so
that when the train comes the engineer
can see them and come right along
without any fear of danger. But be¬
fore I leave you I must fasten your
hauds, so that you can do yourself no
harm.”
lie then fastened stout cords around
my wrists ana bound my arms to the
rails also, and in such a way that I
c iu!d not move an inch in any diree-
licrn. Then he left me.
I could-see him lighting aud placing
the lanterns on the bridge, which he
did in an easy, leisurely way. which
was a torture alone for me to behold.
My hands aud arms were becoming
tired aud began to ache, so I bent my
fingertips downward to find something
to rest them upon when thoy touched
something smooth and cold. I man¬
aged to turn my head far enough
around to see what it was. It was a
pistol lying on a crosstie just under
my hand. I could not reach it, how¬
ever, to grasp it, and I know that even
if I could it would be of no service to
me, bound as I was, hand and foot. I
strained my eye3 to see if I cruld pos¬
sibly move it somewhere where it
would be out of sight of Abe, and
where I could reach it again if my
hauds were freed once mote. Yes, if
it could be made to fall oil tlie tie on
the side nearest to mo it would be in
darkness, and witkin easy reach of my
hand. But could I get it there? 1
strained every muscle to make my bonds
as loose as possible, then I bent my
hand downward and with a snap of my
fingers I seat the pistol spinning round
and round and the next moment it fell
over the edge of the tie and was hid¬
den in the darkness.
I had barely succeeded iu hiding the
weapon the best way I, could, when
Abe returned.
“Now everything is ready,” he said.
“All we have to do now is to wait, and
while we are waiting I will tell you
wtiat Thave planned to do, with your
assistance. As I said before, I don’t
think that you love Annie as well as I
do, but I am going to give you a chance
to prove that you do, and this will be
the test:' Tlio train with your wife on
board will be along here in less than
half an hour. You are lying with your
neck on the rail, had the wheels wilt
pass over you, and, of course, you are
dead in the twinkling of ah eye, and
the train will pass on in safety. But
you cun save yourself if you like.
This rope" (and he hell the end of one
up before my l ac j) “is attached to the
end of .a bar of,, iron swinging on a
pivot at the other end of the bridge.
If you pull the rbpe the iron will
swing across the track, anl open strik¬
ing against a post right opposite will
tumble off the pivot an 1 rest squarely
across the rails. The engineer, seeing
the signals all clear ahead, and being
two hours late, will omo right on with
more than usual speed, aud there will
be a terrible jar and a crash and the
train is wrecked; but you have saved
your nec k. Very nicely planned, isn’t
fit'
When he paused to see what effmt
this speech had upon me, I jerked my
arms as if trying to get them free.
“Aii, yes! I’ll unfasten your arms
now,” he said, aud iu a momnnt he cut
the ropes that bound them withakmfe.
ll«n he MOttajjdt “ gg* 1 «*P cl
*OU !«*? wifi want h me your arms before
• tr0 * ched out in
that way is cp: to make them stiff and
”
Wheu my arms were free I attempted
once more to remove the gag from my
mouth; but as before he beat me with
a stick until TderisteJ.
I was helpless. Mingle the aftgr train minute would
passed, and I knew that
co*fe along presently^Ev^ moment
T im-gined that-Melt ihe.~utLtalic.ns of
the wheels along the rail under my
bead. Abe was sitting bes.de me,
listening intently for the first rumbling
sound to reach his cars. When he heara
it I knew ^hat h 9 would place the rope
OARNBSYILLE, GA.; MONDAY, APRIL 14.1890.
in my ( hands and give me the choice of
wreckin' n§ till e traiu or loeing my*’<4ifc.
I shall not attempt to describe the
thoughts find feeling that went thfe^Jh
my brain and body, for that wcitk j®
possible.
Presently I threw out my hand and it
fell upon the pistol, which 1 had tor-
gotten all about sfoee’ A f>e‘4 TfffflM
Now, however, my ^lingers grasped it
firmly and I began to think how I c& uld
use it to save myself and nt the same
time avert the danger to tho qoiniug
train.
I never knew how it happened, but
in a moment my hand lifted the weapon
into the air. Abe saw it, and sprang
to his feet, and made an attempt to
lake it away from me, when it explod¬
ed; then lie staggered backward a few
steps and fell to the ground,;V£ •<
When the noise of tho pistol shot
slopped ringing in my ears, another
sound leached them. The rumbling of
the (rain came to me along the rijils
from the distance. A few minutes at
the igost, and it would be upen me. I
tore Alie gag out of my mouth and
shotted.
I yet held the pistol in my han d.
What use could I make of it? I could
put an end to my life. But the rush¬
ing, rumbling wheels of the train would
ao that for me, and only too soon, htjf
eyes fell upon the signal lights on the
fridge and anew idea struck me. I
turned my head and saw the headlight
of the locomotive not far away. The
next moment 1 raised the pistol, took
good aim and fired at the signal lantern
on the bridge, but missed it. 1 fired
again and again until the pisfoj was
emptv, but with the same result, for
the lantern was still gleaming brightly,
swinging to and trait? fro in the wind,, as if
beckoning tho to come add'de¬
stroy me.
The glare from the headlight of the
locomotive seemed to bo right above
me, the roar $T the "train drowned my
voice, and the jar of the rail under my
head felt like an electric current run-
ning through my body. .1 closed my
eyes and waited for the end.
Suddenly the jar and noise stopped,
and shortly I heard voices close beside
me. I looked up and saw somo people ,
bonding over me; but I was too weak
to speak. They released me from the
rails and carried me on board the train,
and I knew nothing more for many
days.
When I returned to consciousness I
was told that the engineer had seen
the flashes from the pistol when I fired,
and had succeeded in stopping the
train when within a few feet of wh|re
I lay; but; not before it had run over
tho body of Abe Wilder.
It was several months before I recov¬
ered sufficiently from the shock of that
hour of terror to move about. It mada
me an old man in appearance; for my
steps are feeble, my cheeks are sunken
and shrivelled, and my hair is white as
snow. — Times- Devioerat.
_
A Nation of Bathers.
Among the working classes in Siam
even tho festoons of cobwebs rarely
attract attention, though tiioy may be
black with age and dust and smoke (for
there are no chimneys to the houses,
and the cooking is all done insifle).
And yet in their own way tho Siamese
are a very cleanly people.
They are a nation of bathers, and,
from infancy, always indulge ih a
regular plunge two or three* times a
day. The children are amphibious,
and rather more at home and much
happier in the water than in the house.
While the fastidious American house¬
keeper, who is forever busy with mop
and brush, would be shocked at the
untidy domestic habits of the S ameso
matron, she, iu turn, would consider
the anti-lalhing customs of the aver¬
age Americans qiifte as repulffvc; and
with good reason might plead that if
carelessness were excusable in either
case, the house would suffer less from
neglect than the person of its occrt-
pant.
• «■« Hnnt,n H<
A Po9snm ^ *‘
Louis Crawford, an old colored man
1 iving on a farm five miles from Bn-
mingham, Ala., has a freak of nature
in the shape of a razor-back hog, for
hog which is Igifias a natural-born refused ||£0 possum C ^ hunter, The
haS
bides this season as evidence of his
recently f°™\. with tes skins fnd hi» razor¬
back, which follows him’ % W i s f fre like a
dog. Tae old mag tells a very simple
story of bow he discovered tile animal’s
queer instinct. One night while going
through the woods he discovered the
hog under a tree grunting furiously and
rearing up against thetiupk. Ap-
preaching the tree and lppXtag up be
discovered a big, fat possum Having
a s.palai' exper eaee several Ume» ho
came to 0* conc.mion We aimhal was
a nature-born possum hog, aud, mak-
ing a pot of it he took it to tho woods
frequently with splendid success.
CRANKS AND
How the President is Guarded
Against Their Visits.
Six Officers Scrutinize Every
White House Caller.
“Why should not any person tvho
happened to bo so disposed attempt to
assassinato the President at ono of his
receptions?” queried a representative of
the Washington Star.
“Simply for tho teason that it woiild
be very difficult for auy individual so
inclined to reach (ho presence of Mr.
Harrison,” replied the White House
usher addressed. “You don’t see why,
but that Is because yon never looked
about you whon you have attended
a recoption at the executive mansion.
How nifiny officers do you suppose
surveyed you critically while you
were passing into the cloakroom? Six
in all. Not one of those men biit has
had years of experience in tile police
service. They are so tiained—every
man of fhefh—t-Aluit they can toll at a
glance just what sort of person each
guest who enters is. Two classos of pco.
pie are chiefly to be looked out for—
cranks and crooks. The crooks are
readily discernible by the edueatod eye
-t-their aspect always betrays them. As
for the ctauks thoy are distinguishable
with equal readiness. The task of
making them out is rendered easier, to
begin with, by consideration of tho fiict
that three-fourths of nil mild luuati<*s
are crazy on religious topics. Of course
once in a while a visitor gets in hero
who is not entitcly sane—that is una¬
voidable necessarily. But it is a very
exceptionable case. As an almoit in¬
variable rule I cau tell a crank at the
first glance, aud if I do not another of
the guards will." , The typical crank
is almost unmistakable. He, supposing
him male—or female, for that matter—
has little chance to pass tho sentrios at
the door and beyond. Each of fhdsc
sentries, apart froiti his acuteness of
perception, is a ihah of great muscular
strength. Come here, Jim?”
Tlid gliard e'aTlfetl tip one of his fel¬
lows and bade him double his arm. It
was ns hard as a rock and as big as an
ordinary man’s tbigb.
“This is (he seutty who stands at the
beginning of the reception lino in the
doorway,” he continued. “Suppose
that you are a crank, how far do you
think you would get in an assault upon
the President before you are grabbed
and disarmc l and thrown out into tho
street to &e carried off to the nearest
police station? Not very far, I guess.
Itcllyou the President is as closely
fortified in the White House ns. if it
were the strongest castle that ever ex¬
isted.
“The minute wc see a person whose
appearauce does not satisfy u? entirely
we a?k him whathis business is. Unless
hi3 reply is satisfactory wo pursue the
inquiry. A man called here tlio other
day to see the President with a tin bex
under his arm. I pressed him closely
about his errand and h» finally said he
had a new kind of religion in the box
<o show to President Harrison. That
sett'ed him. Once in .a while, una¬
voidably, a drunken man gets into the
White House at a reception or somo
such entertainment. It would astonish
you to see tho way in which a person so
affected by liquor is thrown out, being
passed along from one guard to another
until he reaches the driveway. It is
done so quickly, practice making per¬
fect, as to excite no attention. Per¬
haps the funniest of all the queer poo.
pie who come to tho White House are
those who demand permission to visit
tTie most private rooms of the President
on the ground that they, as representa¬
tives of the public, own the establish¬
ment.”
They Aro Good Swimmers.
In many parts of Now Zealand horses
are kept by the government for tlio ex¬
press purpose of liking travelers across
rivers ip which forjSs idia will often ebango
evefy,wcck, and WadHfil to see
how bold, and yet bow sagaciously
cautious such horses often bceomtv
“If you have got the sense to lot thy
old horse aione, he will take you over’
all right,” is (he marching orders
usually given to the traveler mounted
on enc of these horses, to cross a river
in which no man and no boat could
live, and in a country where more
colonists have, been drowned iu fresh
water thah in any other part of the
‘Wdrtd- Too rapid and too full of
timber and rocks for any boat, too
benumbingiy cold for the bust swimmer
and the best human lungs in the world
to live in them a quarter of an honr;
these rivers, flooded with snow water,
m | often, only, be crossed by a very
powerful, suiefooteJ, courageous hour:,
tba$ knows wliere to swim and where
to walk, or by one that has a rider on
his back tkal can show him and consult
biqi by turns,
Muuim 1 lied Cats.
A cat 4O0O years old is not alto¬
gether a familiar object to Englishmen,
and can scarcely bo regarded' as nr
every-day visitor to these shores, says
the London •VeHsgraphJ The arrival,
therefore, of 19^ tons of such cats in
Liverpool is an incident that caunot l>ul
lay a heavy strain upon the British ca¬
pacity for experiencing amazement.
Not the least astonishing foaturo of this
unique cvcqt is that tho consignment it
question, described with commercial
crispness as "a parcel of citibalmcd
cats,” ‘consists bxclusivoly of'frfim
murtnnics, aptly, but accidentally,
culled • from a Catacomb in central
Egypt. There are no fewer than. 180,
000 of thclio swathed and spiced re¬
mains in tho “parcel” that roachod this
country alow days ago, and they have
already been sold for fertilizing pur
poses to a Liverpool nianuro merchant,
tl\e auctioneer who disposed of them
using ono of tjio deceased cat’s heads
as a hammer wherewith to knock down
the “lots.”
According Id a correspondent, it has
Idng been believed in Egyptological
circles that a huge cat cemotery was iu
existence “somewhero about” on tho
loft bank of tho Nile. Oao day Inst
autumn a fellah husbandman, whilo en¬
gaged in the egricultural pursuit of
digging at a place called Beni llnssan,
discovered this ancient burial ground
by a very simplo process. The’ soi]
which be was tinning up siiMciilygave
way under him, and l.G fell into a pit
which, on further examination, proved
to be a spacious subterranean eave, ten¬
anted by tmdounted legions of dead
oats. Every one of those corpses had
been sedulously embalmed and swad¬
dled, so (o speak, in cloth cerements,
ip the very bejt style of the under¬
taker's waft, as practiced in tho laud
of the Pharaohs some 20 centuries be¬
fore the commencement of the Chris¬
tian era.
The news of this strange discovery
spread swiftly through Beni llsssnn
and the adjoining districts, whence
laborers soon flocked to the nowly-
opened cave and set to work with might
and main to disinter its venerable occu-
panjs. Why those cats had be:u mum¬
mified, and when they had ccpie to ,bo
arranged so systematically in their sub¬
terranean quarters, were secondary con¬
siderations, naturally enough, (o the
bucolic Egyptian mind—in fact, “tho
sort of things no fellah could under¬
stand;” but tho peasants of the Nile
are keenly alive to the commercial value
of embalmed “cafe and dogs and each
obscencr benst, to which Egyptian do¬
tards once did bow,” either us high-
class manure or as a peculiar¬
ly quick and fragrant com¬
bustible. 'With exemplary prompti¬
tude and 4t s P atc b, therefore, thoy
dug up souao hundreds pf thousands of
mummies, several “lots’’ of which
were purchased on the spot by local
farmers, whilo others found their way
down river to tho storehouses of an
Alexandria merchant. This worthy,
being of a speculative turn of mind,
shipped them oil to Liverpool “on sale
or return,” where they fetched a trifle
less than 114 a ton. Thus, for a matter
of three “pouics’’ Of so, a British
“bone-buyer” has baconte tho sole
possessor of nearly 20f), 0)0 lino old
crusted Egyptian cats, each one of
which, at the time of its decease, had,
been deemed worthy of special embalm-
ent and 'honorable sepulture, accord¬
ing to the riles of Memphis, Bu bast is
and Thebes, “in that ease made and
provided.’’
Tjie Stitches in a Shirt.
Tho folio wing singular calculation of
the number of stitches in a plain shirt
has been made by a Leicester seamstress:
Stitches in the collar, four rows, 3000;
cross ends of same, 500; buttonhole
and sewing on button, 150; gathering
neck and sewing on collar, 1204; stitch¬
ing the wristbands, 1228; ends of wrist¬
bands, 68; buttonholes iu wristbands,
148; hemming slits, 264; gathering
sleeves, 840; setting ou wrist*
bands, 1468; stitching on shoulder-
straps, 1380; hemming the bosom, 393;
sewing in sleeves and making gussets,
3050; sewing up sido seatas of sleeves,
2554; cording bosom, 1104; “tapping”
tlie sleeves, 1526; sewing all other
seams and setting side gussets, 1272;
total number of stitches, 20,649.— St.
Louis ICepubim flit
Nothing Like a Change!
Dr. K#owalt--My good air, wba
you want i« thorough alteration of cli¬
mate. The only thing to cure yon ia a
long sea voyage!
Patient—That’s rather inconvenient*
You sec I'm only just home from a sea
voyage round the world. — London
Pmch;
. ‘<,4 , n ,
^ Sure Sign-
Merritt You are getting rjiite a
maa - Littl»_Johnnie—-Yes. M» has
stopped ending down p »’s clothes foi
me.— Epoch,
BIRTH OF A NEW CITY.
A Syndicate ol'New England and Ss.llern
Capital of ffA.OOO.OOO.
Tlio new town of O.it'Jitf, about aeveaty-fiva
miles north of Chattanooga, T’epn., on the
Cincinnati Se.itlcni lUilroad.
A i-opr. s iiitatiVJ of this paper visited Bock-
vooil, Trim., during the week, where the com¬
pany’s offices aro temporarily located, ana bad
a v. ry interesting interview with Mr, H. C,
Youog, s’icS-rii'sident of the company and
general imnutfkrof the work now in progress.
A drive of about four miles uortli of ltockwood
’file brought tlio reporter to tho town site of Cardiff,
company lias shown groat Judgment iu
their solcction. The locality is a most beauti¬
ful one, situated iu the valley, which is about
one and one-half miles wide to tho foothills of
tin mountains oil either side, and about two
and one-liklf miles long, slightly rolling,
which insure.! perfect natural drainage, and the
numerous mountain springs, with their nevor-
eoailng 11) v of sparkling w ater, furnish an
abundant, supply for all purposes and all times.
Net alone has the, company shown judgment,
in selecting,this location for its natural ad¬
vantages as a town site, as stored in the moun¬
tains are untold millions of tons of coal and
iron. The iron ore is (lie richest deposit that
can be found in tlio whole length of this valley
—from Birmingham to its most northern point;
tin's is m gnoss work,' as for tho past twenty-
one years two largo fitrnuo.a have been located
at ltockwood, four miles south, and their out¬
put lms demonstrated tlio (ruth of this asser¬
tion. Coal is found in unlimited quantities
and of easy access; tjie quality is of the biBt,
and produces a superior quality of coke.
With abundance of limestone on the
ground, Cardiff is in a position to mine aud re-
djiro iron ore at tho lowest passible figure and
will bo able to compete favorably with any
other Southern point.
Tho company will be known as the Cardiff
Coal & In ti Company, and lias been formed
witii a capital of live million ($5,000,000) dol¬
lars; Mr. ltioe's plan involves its starting off
with no incnmbrauoes; two million ($2,000,-
000 J dollars oash iu the treasury,- to bo receiv¬
ed from tlio sale of stock; a mammoth sate of
lots is to take place on April 22d, and for this
sale it is proposed to formulate a plan which
will enable purchasers to secure lots at reason¬
able and not *p. dilative priors; the intention
Leing to give patrons of the sale a Chance to
make a profit as well as tlio company.
On tho 19lli of April it is proposed to run a
mammoth excursion from Boston to Cardiff, to
attend idle (queuing side of hits, for the accom¬
modation of whom ten truuis of vestibule cars
will be provided, freighted by tho brain and
wealth of New England, and accompanied by an
Engli-li syndicate ; at thu same time excursions
will also he run to, Cardiff from New York,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, Lexington,
Pi rtnl;for?; Ni»i!iville, Atlanta, Birmingham,
Montgoino.y, New Orleans, Kansas City and
oilier prominent points.
Mr. liiec and his assoe'ates have been at work
preparing Cor this enterprise and its presentation
to the public for several months, and while Mr.
Iiice ivus a firm believer in Fort Payne at the
start, the developments of the pant twelve months
have more than confirm *il that faith; he is
equally confident that Cardiff will be fully as
sati factory as Fort Payne lias proved.
By Mr, Young 1 the reporter wan shown the
work in progress and in prospect; a vast amount
lias already been accomplished, and everything
was found to be running in a very systematic
manner, insuring the completion of an immense
amount of building and improvements during
the next three Weeks lieforn tlio sab.
The lepresentativeH of the syndicate have
takcfn hold of the enterprise individually, and
have shown their faith in the future of Cardiff
by contracting for some thirty brick blocks,
which arc now in the course of construction.
Mr. Geo ge Baswi i’tb, a prominent architect
of B isioii, is on tho ground with a large imm-
bir of assistants, busily preparing plans for tho
.cpmpimy’s buildings and those to be erected by
others.
Tho company has now about GOO men at work,
besides alsmt 1SJ0 teams, grading tlio streots
aud putting in side tracks; the plans for a fine
hotel, to cost $100,000, arc complete; it will be
a handsome' structure and an ornament to any
city, containing tiki rooms With every modern
inqirovcinut. airo
The company lias plans for a fine throe-
story brick bu ldlng with stono trimming,
75x125 ie t, when will be located the First .Na¬
tional Bank of Gardiff, with $50,000 capital,
paid ifenn., lip, the Hon. J. F. Tarwater,of It ickwood,
will be its president. Toe offi ;eg of the
company will also lie located iu til’s bu lding.
A large exposition building is about complete
and will belli charge or A. C. Gill, tho compa¬
ny’s geologist,where a tine exhibit of the natur¬
al resources will be on display. Mr. Gill lias a
number of assis;ants cons antly at work in the
mountains, prospecting for new openings for
coal. '1 lie company has over 100 miners at work
taking out iron ore, and the number will be
grea'ly increased as soon as houses can be built
to shelter them. A largo foreo of carpenters
are at work erecting boarding houses, residences
anil other buddings.
Work lias been started ou a new depot by the
Queen A Crescent Bailroad, of a design hr keep¬
ing with the style an I c'ass of work being done
by the company, and to cost $5,000.
Mr. O. tonne,. the engineer in charge, is
working a largo forco of inch, and will have the
streets in first-class shape by tire time of the
sale, April 22 to 25, inclusive.
As soonas possible the company will start the
erection of two large furnaces of the most im¬
proved pattern*, besides coke ovens, etc.
Mr. Young is doing everything in bi* power
to b rward the enterprises already started, and,
by the time of the sale, there will be accommo¬
dations for all.
A project is now on foot to build a dummy
line from Cardiff to ltockwood, wlijch will take
. shape within
defluitc a few days.
Ak sAn as p.aeiWal a daily pa pel' wi 1 b#
started and everything established. pertaining to a first-class
town will be
*t'nat the future of <. ardifl is assored can be
readily sees from tire f kill, Bowing guarantees
from tlie Company, million wno dollar* during iu the *Ue erection first
year iron expend furnaces one costing $150,000; hotel to
of a
exist $l( 0,00i>s water works, $75,000; motor line,
$75 000; eke try: buildmg light plant, and $25,000; public
building, f50 000; lean company,
$150,000: church, $10,000; school house, $13,-
000; ice plain, $75,000, and coke of plant, Sonth $50,00j. has
Never U loru iu the bipjory, the
enterprise - f this nauutr been started nnder
such flattering cmdirion*. Tee foot of Mr. W.
1\ Bice being at tho head assures success, not
only for’(lie Company, but for evety investor
who may bepoigo interested in Cardiff in t: e fu¬
ture.
Liokel Bhouqh j* reported to be making a
small fortune put of hia perfprmaucas in
Africa at th® diamond fields.
NO. 15.
Beginning Anew.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every mom is the world made new.
You who aro weary of sorrow and sinning,
Here is a beautiful hope for you—
A hope lor pie and a hqpc for you.
All the past things are past and over;
The tasks are done arid the tears are shed.
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and
■ bled,
Are healed with the healing which night
has shed.
Yesteriluy now is a part of forever,
Bound up in i' sheaf, which God holds
light.
With glad days, and sad days, and bad days,
which never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and
their blight,
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful
night.
* * * * * *
Every day is a fresh,beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And, spite of old sorrow, and older sin
ning,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.
HUMOROUS.
Cold as it may be no mau cares for a
coat ou his tongue.
Mrs. Lumkins (reading tho financial
page). IVhat arc stock quotations, auy
way? Mr. L.—S.ock quotations? Those
from Shakespeare.
First Boarder—There’s a good deal
of heat iu this soup! Second Boarder—
Well, you should bo thankful that there
is something in it besides water.
She—Come iu! You must excuse.us.
1’vc been up in arms for two days Ho
—Yes, I heard you had three other
beaux. You’re up iu arms too much.
Yes, Augustus, wo believe it is bet¬
ter to hnve loved niui lost, than never
to have lovotl at all. it is better for
the jeweler, and tlio florist, and the
messenger boy.
Man of the House (coldly)—To what
am I indebted for tho honor of this
visit? Caller (with folded document) —
To the firm of All wood & Co.—$7. 6).
I’m their new collector.
3Iis(ress—I am very much disgusted
with you. Servant—What is tho mat-
ter? What have I dour? Sfistress—
You used the same brush in shining my
shoes that you did on your own.
“If it is true that men in a way par-
tako of the nature of what they feed
on,” said the hungry boarder, “the
men in this house certainly ought to be
plucky,” and once mire ho sighed as he
tackled tho inevitable fried liver.
Husband (reading paper)—I see they
have arrested some men for shooting
birds on thu wing. Wife—Serves them
right. They should shoot them on the
head or on the foot. You men have no
idoa how ugly a spoiled wing looks on
a hat.
In a Birmingham (England) hotel
there is an announcement thnt all pro¬
fane persons will bo shown to a room
kept purpbsely for swearers, A
drunken man was recently reminded of
this rule, and he asked to b3 taken to
the apartment. He was told to go to it
by a certain door, It was thu door to
the street.
Mrs. Tracy’s Charity.
The sad death of Mrs. Secretary
Tracy and the unselfishness of her last
hour, calls to mind an incident which
came to my knowledge two years ago
through a woman whom she aided.
Mrs. Tracy was known to be moat con-
fcientiously charitable, but few under¬
stood how thoroughly sho concealed
from her left hand that which her right
hand did, aud' it pained her to hear
some one commenting, on the lick of
real charity displayed by Ihe rich—
their deeds of charily costing them
nothing inasmuch as no personal sacri¬
fice was involved. Tho words clung to
Mrs. Tracy’s mind and she decided that
her next act of charity would cost her
some trouble. Tho woman to whom I
have abovo referred wqs one of Mrs.
t
Tracy’s humblost pensioners and at this
time she was greatly iu need of careful
nursing, for her disease was cancer and
of a most painful’ character. Day after
day, Mrs. Tracy went on foot to the
poor creature’s home, cared for her in
every way, swept and cleaned hot room
and saw that jhe was comfortable, re¬
turning to her homo with somo trifling
excuse to account former absence. Her
protege would never have known the
cause of so much unsolfish kindness,
had she not one day remonstrated with
her for what seemed needless waste of
time and labor. To relieve her mind,
Mrs- Tracy told her that it was her only
way of really paying her debt to God.
Mrs. Tracy’s last act of sclf-sacrificing
kindness to her husband, when in the
midst of smoke and flames, attests the
linccrity of those words.— Epoch.
A Reasonable Objection.
Boarder—We ate raising a subscrip¬
tion to got a rocking-chair for that
poor lodger. Won’t you give some¬
thing? mm
Land’ftjAy—Not much. His room
is rtghf over mine .—Epoch ■