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OFFICIAL FRANKLIN — OF county. ORGAN — THE ENTERPRISE. f OFFICIAL FRANKLIN Ol* COUNTY TXZS ORGAN ALLIANCE. — m
VOL. 111. NO. 27.
Uli; ALLlANCliMEN.
Current . lOnlineDt Reprdln^ .
Holes SOd
(tie , Great n n MOim t — u Movement, i
The Fort W< rth (I’ex.) - Advance snysi
The stih-treostif/ plan would benefit the
merchant more that! the farmer became
the forUi' r would get money for his goods
at once, without interest, while the Int-
lof would have to pay a low interest for
liis. ***
Tentussce is waking the up Old in u manner
is alarming to mo s backs
aud enttoies of reform. Every county iu
(be state is organiz ng rapidly and the
ivotk is being pushed for all it is wor h.
The pimps of Wall street are trembling
jo their boots.—F.c.
*
* *
The FOrt Wortli Advance says that the
club roles of thut state—Texas, shows
16,000 voters, and is increasing daily.
With this tremendous force of organized
wen which will soon reach a hundred
thousand, nothing can stand before thim.
It will be such a power as w s never seen
in the “lone star state."
*’*
the reform press of the couutry is
growing rapidly in numbers and standard import¬
ance, says an exchange; higher, The
bf editorial ability is and the
make-up and Dews collection better in
the reform puss than in the other papers
Of the day. A reform paper is sure to
have some “snap" and “get up” about it.
***
Tlie Alabama Reformer (Birmingham)
says: “Whether favoring or opposing
the St. Louis demands, all honest people
should unite in an effort to secure to those
favoring it the right to have the issue
fairly tested by a free ballot and a fair
Cotint of tbe votes polled. Anything
list is slavery, which will not be quietly
submitted to by the farmers of Alabama."
***
AS fast as State secretaries report the
time and place of the next regular annual
meeting of the different state alliances it
Will be added to this list:
Virginia, Richmond, August 17.
Kentucky, OweDsboro, November 8.
Indiana, Indianapolis, November 17.
Texas, Tennessee, Austin, August 16. 1C.
Nashville, August
***
The New York World effected a revo¬
lution in newspaperdom, and seems al o
destined to lead the great dailies in its
advocacy of honest freedom when it said:
"What possible hardship can there be in
taxing large incomes. Can anybody bet¬ in¬
ter afford to pay than the man whose
come is greater than all his need? It
really looks like the Alliance demands
will have plenty of advocates after
an bile.”
* "«•
Kro. II. L. Loucks, of South Dakota,
Vice President of the National Alliance,
will now become president. He is highy
spoken of by those who have known him.
He is editor of thej Dakota Ruralht, and the
most influential paper in the state,
has been prominently connected with tho
Alliance movement since its introduction.
He is said to be an educated man, a good, good
speaker end has au abundance of
common sense, and a fharder entirely
above reproach. President Polk had
great confidence in his honesty and abili¬
ty, It is to be hoped that he will lead
the movement in the right direction.
***
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N. L.
0.) wili be continued by Mrs. L.
Polk, owner aud proptietor, and with the
it fame editorial and business ninagemeut
has had in lecent years during the life
of Col. L. L. Polk. In a notice to the
subscribers and patrons of the paper, the
management says: “The policy of the
paper will not he changed iu any pirtic-
it ular, and no effort will be spared to keep if
up to the present standard, and,
possible, improve it. Our readers know'
what the paper has done in the past,
We trust they will continue to stand by
us nobly in the future as they have in the
past. Our columns are for tho people; Thank¬
you should use them liberally.
ing one and all for past kindness, we re¬
main yours for reform.
** *
A MONUMENT TO I’OI.K.
The Polk memorial association was or¬
ganized at Rileigh a few days ago for the
purpose of raising funds to build a mon¬
ument to the memory of the late Col. L.
L. Polk, president of the National Alli¬
ance. President Butler, of the State
Alliance, elected presided. The following were
a board of trustees: S. B. Alex¬
ander, H. B. F. Grady, C. A. 15. Branch, A.
A. Williams, Elias Carr, J. M. Ram¬
sey, A. J. Batdy, W. J. Peeie, N. B.
Executive Broughton, Harry Skinner, J. J. Goodwin, Thomas.
committee: E. M.
N. B. Broughton, S. O. Wilson, II. J.
Powell and W. 6. Barnes. H. YV. Ayer
was elected secretary and treasurer, and
the Commercial and Farmers’ bank cus¬
todian of the fund.
***
UPON LIVE ISSUES.
The Clinton, (S. C.) Caucasian has the
following editorial about the recent word com¬ of
mencement at Chapel Hill, every
which is true: “A significant fact of
the recent university commencement. was
Hie character of the speeches of the
young men. .They were all upon sub-
.bets of the live issues of the day, and
showed that mu h thought was b ing
given the reforms of our country. They
evinced much original thought and care¬
ful preparation. They were of the bigh-
<s’ A\ hen type the of moral aud political state—those character.
youug men of our
who are to soon take part in the man¬
°f agement of affairs and shaping the policy
government—show such thoroug.i in¬
formation and honest iuterest in the
highest and noblest purposes of our gov¬
ernment, fheir we feel satisfied for the lulure.
speeches were a high tribute to tbe
university, to the its training and influence, and
character of the voting men of our
state.”
■J*.
Hungs t hat are unjust and unkind.
1. Merchants fighting the farureis or-
ganization, jr-i-n their composed of men business who have and
chief patrons in
H'oin whose patronage th-y have built up
a successful business.
3, Fatmers who have been more pros¬
perous than thoir neighbors righting the
farmers’ organization which his been set
up and sought to be operated in the in-
terest of the great family of farmers and
other laboring classes who are sniggling
fof better conditions that will enable
them to make a decent and respectable
support for their families, educate thoir
children and place them on an equal
footlug with any other children in the
land, fight and thus prepare them life. to success¬
fully the battles of
SL Officers and other public men light¬
ing the farmers’ been their organization chief whose mem¬ in
bers have supporters
the prist ahd to whom they owe all their
cles. prominence in political and social cir¬
4. Lawyers, doctors and other profes¬
sional men, fighting the farmers’ organi¬ their
zation, simply and purely because
respective professions aro not put forward
to till all the offices that pay well and
give distinction and prominence in social,
political and financial cire'es. that fight
5. All trades and professions
the farmers’ organization because it is
composed of a gi-eat many illiterate and
ordinary men who are not suffered to be
well posted in tho science high of the government so-called
and do not rank in
high social circles .—Progressive Farmer.
THEY FOLLOWED COPY.
how a Space Writer Lost a Chance
to Try Married Life.
“Horrors! what au obscure hand
you write!” said the literary editor to
the new space writer as lie turned in
a bit of poetry. “ Oh, it’s hastily. plain
enough,” interjected and the the poet, will help
“The rhymes meter
the compositor out, and there’ll not
be the least bit of trouble if they just
follow And the manuscript copy.” went hustling
the
tip the tube to the composing Commercial room, Ga¬
says the Cincinnati
zette.
« * * * * * *
iias “Sn-ay, what dod-gnsied Chinese chump laun¬
been sendin’ in his
dry bill for copy?” wildly yelled of out
slug 10, wiping a sudden burst per¬
spiration from his forehead and glar¬
ing at his last take. “ I can’t make
head or tall out of this thing!” Chinese,”
“ Wbll, Chinese or no
cried the hurrying foreman, “ make
whatever you can out of it and snag
it up in mighty short order, for we’re
late how.” from
And the type fairly jumped
the case into the stick.
:.Y :Jj Js’f $
“GoodCaesar!” gasped the proof¬ Are
reader, clutching at bis brow. “
tion my eyes of failing or prostration is this a V” premoni¬ Then
nervous “By
lie rubbed his eyes and stared.
the gods! either I’ve got the blind
staggers or slug 10’s on a,royal toot!
At that instant a scream came down
the spout: “ Bush that proof along
for heaven’s sake! We’re late!”
The proof-reader hesitated, groaned, and galloped then
down the column, slip into the
desperately thrust the
tube, huskily murmuring: “I com¬
pared it with the copy and taut s as
near as I can get to Hebrew these
days.” J t- % if. £ * i' *
That night the new space writer
hurriedly wrapped up ami addressed
n copy of the issue without a glance with
and dropped it into the mail,
this brief note: and Dearest
“My Onliest Sweet
Marie: I send you a number of the
Sunday supplement containing ray
little poem. Your face was an ever¬
present inspiration to me when I
wrote and happy thoughts Here of you will in¬
spired every sentence. you
find expressed what I have ever felt
toward you, but have hardly dared to
voice before Till death, etc.”
Miss Marie Cortland Van Clifton
glanced through the tender note,
blushed with pleasure, and, hurriedly,
opening the paper, read:
TO MARIE.
AVben the breeze from the bluebottle's bluster¬
ing blim toovoomaloo,
Twirls the toads in a wbeedlesome
And the whiskery whiue of the
whim the rattatatto,
Drowns the roll of
Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-
AmftheVoice of the the stale bally-mo-lay poppy-cods blum-
Brings the smell of
mered in blie
From the willy-wad over tho way.
Ah, the shuddering shoe aud the bhnkety-
WhenThe punglimg hurricane's falls from hiclcety-hanks the bough,
In the blast of a hocketty how!
Over the hills of the
Give the rigmarole to the fiddle-de-dee; clangery-wang
If they care for such
But the thingumbob kiss of the wangery-
bang the higgledy-piggle for mo.
Keeps
V ENVOI.
It is pilly-po-doddle and nligobung
When the heart jiminy-coggles around.
If the soul can not snoop at the gigglesome
Seeking surcease iu the gluggety glug,
It is useless to say to the pulsating heart:
*• Yaukee-doodle kor-chuggety-chug.
*******
The new space writer and Miss Ma-
rie Cortlandt Van Clifton are non en¬
gaged now._.___
The deepest lake in America is in the
Cascade Mountains, about seventy-
five miles northeast of Jacksonville,
Ore It is called the Great Sunk Lake,
and far outrivals the famous valley 2000 of
Sinbad the Sailor. It averages
feet down to the water on nil sides.
It is about fifteen miles long and four
and a half wide, and looks like a mam¬
moth sheet of glass, its mountainous
shore preventing the wind from eve r
ruffling its surface. Locally it is be¬
lieved to be bottomless, thousands of
feet of Hue having been let into its
clear bosom without the weighttouch¬ than
ing anything more solid water.
For thousand of ages it has lain still,
silent and mysterious, in the heart of
the Cascades, looking like a gigantic
trench scooped out by the hands of a
giant cenii.
HOW IT a:tkcitd him.
“Speaking o£ marriage, Mr. Larimer,”
remarke l Miss Manchester, although topic, tho
conversation iial not touched that
“I read the other day of a civil magistrate
in New York City who married fourteen
couples iu twenty minutes.”
“Indeed,” repliel Larimer; "that was
-it the unprecedented rate of forty-two
knots nu hour.’’—[Pittsburg Chron¬
icle Telegraph,
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
OARNESVILLE. FRANKLIN CO.. GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 8. 1892.
0 Moon, Don’t Tell.
O moon, did you sou
My lover and me
Iu the valley beneath (tie sycamore tree?
Whatever befell,
O moon! don’t tell:
'Twas nothing amiss, yon know very well.
O moon 1 you know,
Long years ago,
You left the sky and descended below.
Of a summer night,
My your own sweet light
You met your Kndymiou on 1’atmos height.
Aud then, O moon!
You gave him a boon
You wouldn’t,I’m sure, have granted at noon.
’Twas nothing amiss,
lfeing only the bliss
Of giving—and taking—an innocent kiss.
Some churlish lout
Who was spying about
Went off and babbled, and so it got out?
Hut for all the gold
The sea would hold,
O moon! I wouldn’t have gone and told.
So, moon, don't tell
Whatever befe 1
My lover and me in the leafy dell.
He is honest and true,
And remember, too,
tic only behaved like your lover and you.
THE KAEOO BOKADAMS.
liv w, a. turns.
A bronzed young missionary lately
returned from Siam told the following
etorv ;
I was a member of the boat ctew
while at college and when I started
for Slain as a missionary immediately
after graduating, I took with me the
single-rowing shell In which I had
done my individual training for the
crew.
The missionary station to which I
was assigned was in the large town
of Ashennm on the Menam River,
some miles above Bangkok, (he cap¬
ital and chief city of the country.
The town was not at nil important ex¬
cept that there was a celebrated tem¬
ple there in which were kept several
sacred white elephants, It was a
stronghold of heathendom, and (lie
little chapel of the missionary station
looking across tho river at the Inigo
pagoda of white elephants was quite
large enough for its humble congre¬
gation. half mile
Tlio river was nearly a
Wide and afforded a tine opportunity
for exercise in my shell. Every after¬
noon at about four o’clock I took a
row, and I often hovered near the
bank upon which the white elephant
pagoda stood, watching the sacred
creatures as they took their daily baih
in the river. I never dared Venture
very near, for the priests of the pago¬
da bore no love toward the mission-
aries and could easily do me some
harm; they would justify themselves
to the town authorities by saying that
they were preventing me from work¬
ing spells against the elephants.
As it was sacrilege for a human be¬
ing to mount the backs of the white
elephants each oao was driven to (lie
river between two common elephants.
A sort of collar went around the ele¬
phant's neck. To the sides of this
collar were fastened two chains, and
the other ends of these chains were
fastened to similar collars about the
necks of the attendant elephants.
Priests sat upon the backs of (lie com¬
mon elephants, and by driving them
tor ward or stopping them could lead
or hold hack the white elephant. The
chains were very long, in order to
give the white elephant plenty of
freedom when taking his bath.
In general they walked between
their attendants docile enough, and
the drivers held the slack of iho chains
coiled in their laps.
Among the few European residents
of tlio town was a young English mer¬
chant who, having been a member of
the boat crew at Oxford, and owning
a shell, felt bound to show England’s
superiority over the United States by
beatiug ine iu a boat raco on the
Menam.
He issued a challenge and I ac¬
cepted. Tho appointed day came.
The course was to be a two-mile
stretch up river, starting two miles
below the missionary station.
The race was a close one, but my
constant training told, and I left iny
adversary behind several hundred
yards before reaching Die goal. But
for the honor of America, I wished to
make the defeat as severe as possible
and I relaxed nothing of my efforts
and shot past the buoy far ahead of
the Englishman. The momentum the
boat bad gathered carried it along in
the placid water aud I lay upou my
oars scarcely able to move. I was
completely exhausted.
All at once a tremendous bellowing
caused me to look up iu alarm. Uu-
awares, I bad floated quite near the
bathing-place of the white elephants.
One old fellow was in Die river, bel¬
lowing with rage, v. bile on Die hank
were Iris two attendant elphants tug¬
ging and straining at the chains in Die
▼uin attempt to make him come out
the wuler. Tho elephants of Siam at-
tain a larger size than the elephants
any other country, and this white ele¬
phant was even larger than
Siamese elephants. Observing how
linnly tho old fellow was planted in
tho river sand, and that tlio other ele¬
phants labored under the disadvantage
of standing on the sloping bank, 1
concluded Hint lie would protract his
bath as long as lie chose.
All at once tho attendant clcphnnts
ceased their struggles, and a cry of
terror burst from tho lips of one of
the priests, and whatever 1 had be¬
lieved before I am now certain that
those white elephant piiests love and
venerate (heir charges.
“Seot the karoo bokadnms!” cried
the priest, “the wliito king’s life is in
danger 1”
Floating down tho river, directly
toward the white elephant, was a pieco
of wreckage, part of a broken bamboo
raft, and lying coiled upon it were
two of that hideous, terribly venom us
variety of water snakes, the karoo
bokndnm.
If tho wreckage kept its course it
would float against the elephant’s side.
If ho moved ho might excite the vin.
diciiivo snakes and receive a fatal
blow.
The priests on attendant elephants
halted them, but still the wliito elo.
pliant bellowed and swayed from 6tde
to side. Truly, the white king’s life
was in danger.
I grasped my oars and forced the
stern of the shell about, and backing
water, 1 came up to (he raft with its
fatal freight, ending plae tho point of
the boat against it gently pushed it
before me out into tho current of the
river.
A shout of thanksgiving rose be¬
hind me as I drifted along down stream,
watching tile serpents on tho raft at tho
stern. The creatures moved uneasily
and started at me with their unwink¬
ing eyes, and at last one dropped over¬
board and sank beneath the quiet sur-
face.
I thought of the stories 1 had heard
of (lie quarrelsome and revengeful
disposition of the karoo bokadam, how
if disturbed it would follow boats for
miles, watching for a chance to leap
over (lie thwarts and attack (lie row¬
ers; how swift, how tireless and how
torrible it was. Even the books at the
station corroborated the stories of the
natives; from quaint old Montigny’s
“Voyage cm Siam,” to the latest
natural history from London, all
agreed in their stories of the malignant,
dreadful karoo bokadam. And yet I
did not believe these stories.
I decided to anger the serpent and
see what lie would do.
1 picked up a heavy piece of wood
that was floating in the river and
threw it al him, striking him full on
the neck. With an angry hiss ho
raised his head and then deliberately
cast himself into the water and started
to swim along tho side of the boat
toward me.
Tlio shell sat low down in the
water and lie could easily reach inc,
so 1 seized Die oars and took a strong
pull. shot ahead, but
The boat on came
the snake, swifter than before, and
1 took another pull, hardly believing
that the reptile was really following
me. But my doubt was soon laid
at rest,for he darted along on the sttr-
face, straight in my wake.
I bent to the oars and made the shell
go as fast as my weary muscles
would allow. And yet the snake
seemed to gain, and as I know that iu
my tired condition I could not long
keep up Die race, I decided to run
ashore. But the shore line was be¬
hind a forest of tall reeds growing far
out into the river and tho snake could
kill roe at his leisure while my boat
stuck in lliem.
] thought of striking him with an
oar, but there lie was a few feet be-
hind the boat, and before I could get
an oar out of its cumbrous fastening
he would be upon me, and even could
I get the oar out in time it would be
too long and unwieldy at close quar-
tors.
My only hope was to make for the
first practicable lauding ,and there was
none nearer than tire bathing place of
the white elephants.
It was my second race that day, and
the victory meant more than glory. I
put forth all my remaining strength,
thinking witli chagrin how easily I
could leave the snake behind if I were
not so utterly exhausted.
On, on, tirelessly follows the wrigg¬
ling, hideous death, and I see the hor¬
rible head get nearer the stern. It
passes (he steru-posts, and I mark its
progress by Die copper rivets in the
side of the boat. His nose is opposite
Die first rivet, the second, the third; I
give a mighty pull at the oar , and it
falls back behind the boat once more,
I hear tfie splashing of water. I
glance up. I am nearly opposite tho
elephant's bathing place, The old
white elephant is still in the water,
the attendant elephants by his side. I
must make a turn to pass them and
reach the shore, and as 1 loso headway
in tho turn the snake will overtake
me.
Something flushes past my eyes ns
I pull hard on tho loft our to make
tho turn, and the snake disappears.
Tito head priest of tho temple stands
erect on his elephant.
As my bout gratos tho shore, the
severed body of tho karoo bokadam
and a bamboo spear rise to the sur¬
face and float down tho river.
Oao good turn dosorvos unothor,
and the white elephant priest had
saved my life.
The .Siamese have a curious method
of rewarding u person who discovers
a wild wliito elephant or saves the life
of one, and so I was taken to the tem¬
ple and my mouth aud ears wore filled
with gold. For the first time in my
life I regretted that I had small oars.
Noth. —The karoo bokadam of
Siam is a vory thick-bodied snake,
some four feet long, covered with im¬
bricated scales. It is of a gray color
above and yellow beneath. Its head
is marked by a maze of criss-crossed
lines that give it a vory strange and
terrible appearance.—[St. Louis Re¬
public.
The Fishing Rod.
A rod to the angler is what a gun is
to the huntsman; or the axe to the
woodsman. The angler can fish with
a “polo” cut from tho alders fringing
the stream; tlio huntsman can shoot
with tho bow and flint-headed arrow,
used by tho American aborigines, and
tlio woodsman can cut with the axo of
the “stone ago;” but tho success of
the user of these primitive implements,
and tho pleasure experienced in the
use thereof, will be in a degree as far
from perfection as the rude tools em¬
ployed. used fish¬
Who invented, or first the
ing rod is a problem not yet solved.
If die inventor’s name had been
handed down to posterity he would
have been sainted centuries ago by tlio
unanimous vote of a respectable and
cultivated minority of men who have
treasured anil wielded this pleasure-
giving scepter.
While fishing and fishers nro often
mentioned in botli sacred and profane
history''of ancient days, thero is little,
if anything, to be found relating to
rods. Even Izaak Walton writes but
little concerning them. In his fiftii
day discourse with Venator, lie gives
instructions for painting tlio rods:
“Which must bo in oil; yon must
first make a size of glue and water
boiled together until tho glue he dis¬
solved and the size of a lye color; then
strike your size upon the wood with a
bristle, or a brush or pencil, while it
is hot. That being quite dry, take a
litllo white lead and a little red lead
and a little coal black so much as alto¬
gether will make an ash color; grind
these together with linseed oil; lot it
be thick; and lay it thin upon the rod
with brush or pencil; this will do for
any color to be upon the wood.”
In the fourth day talk, in which lie
treats of lly fishing, lie says:
“First, let your rod bo light and
very gentle; I take tlio best to lie iu
two pieces.”
While I am unable to give an au¬
thority for it, I have no doubt Walton
meant by the words “very gentle,”
pliant or limber, The first master of
the art thus, in one line, gives us ttie
three most important qualities of a fiy
rod.— [American Angler.
Remarkable Training of the Eye.
The capacity of tho human eye for
special training is even great or than
that of the hand. A young lady em¬
ployed in one of Die clipping bureaus
in New York city can see certain
names and subjects at a glance at Die
page of a newspaper. They aro the
names and subjects she is paid to look
up through hundreds of newspapers
every day. What tlio ordinary reader
would iiavc to read column after
column to find—and then might miss
—she secs at what seems the merest
casual glance at the sheet as soon as it
is spread out before her.
“They stand right out,” said she,
laughingly, “just as if they were
printed in bold black type and all the
rest was small print. I couldn’t help
seeing them if I wanted to. When I
begin to look up a new matter aud
drop an old one it bothers me a little
—the latter by being in my mental
way all the time and the former to be
hunted; but iu a few days one disap¬
pears and the other appears in some
mysterious way, I can’t tell how. I
usod to think bank cashiers and tellers
were a remarkable set of people, but
l now find that the eye is much
quickor than the hand and is suscepti¬
ble to a higher training.”—[Pittsburg
pjspatcl).
COWliOY SPORTS.
Contests of Skill by Champions
of Rival Randies.
Marvelous Feats of Horseman¬
ship and Revolver ShootirtR.
Even tho festive cowboy lias his
hours of relaxation, although per¬
chance his moro civilized follows of
“tho status" would pronounce tho
same fraught with danger and roplcto
with malicious intention to do “groat
bodily harm” to the participant. But
among tins legitimate sports in which
tlio cowboys are prone to indulge,
aside from the not infrequent inter¬
vals when >hoy reach a town and ride
around yelling like Conianclios and
chasing nil law-abiding citizens into
their suhcollars during tlieir visita¬
tions, may bo mentioned tlieir occa¬
sional contests of skill at riding,
shooting, and roping steers, got up
between tlio ranchmen of rival camps.
A certain curly-lmircd, spectacled
young lawyer of staid demeanor
yesterday described such a sceuo in
which lie had participated in a certain
sense, under conditions that tlio local
scribe was not to mention his naino.
“It was .about live years ago,” lie
began, “when I was roughing it on
Morgan Ilill’s ranch—a little patch of
some 20,000 acres—some sixteen miles
out from San Jose. Mine host’s ontftt
of ranchers were exclusively Mexican,
and an intense, albeit a friendly
rivalry, Cor a wonder, existed between
them and the American cowboys of a
neigh boring ranch, Ono Sunday
morning our boys and tlieir neighbors
of ‘tlio States’ metal Madrono Station,
and, as usual, loud boastings wore
heard on each side as to
their superiority iu all that
the cowboy holds dear, namely,
riding, shooting and dexterity in
wielding the lasso, A mulch was
finally agreed upon between one Lu-
cas Pndrono of our camp aud a picked
man from the American camp for u
contest of skill on the points of rid¬
ing and shooting. Our Mexicans put
up as wagers everything they had,
that is to sav, tlieir loose coin,
blankets, lariats, bridles, saddles,
‘real genuine Mexican plugs,’ as Mark
Twain would style them, aud all.
The American hoys saw the ante and
cheerfully raised them to Hie extent of
all tlieir wordly possessions. One
Mexican put up his silver-mounted
revolver and favorite bridle with mo
for enough coins of tlio realm to stako
all on Fadrone.
“Of course I was glnd to see the
contest, and also am rejoiced to say
that the champion from our ranch
came out victorious. Tbe first tost was
to ride around a post about 8x8 inches
on the circumference of a 40-foot cir¬
cle and to girdle the aforesaid post
with balls from a revolver. Fadrone
won both the toss and the match,
averaging at least 20 balls out of the
50 shots allowed. He won tlio second
contest also in fancy riding, but this
was due in the main to the superior
intelligence and training of his pony,
a little hay and wliito broncho, which
appeared as mook as Moses, hut which
had the temper of Satan when aroused
by its muster. It really came up to
the ideal of tlio ‘cowboy’s pony’ and
was ablc to ‘wheel on a quarter.’
This contest embraced seemingly mar¬
vellous feats of horsemanship, such as
the picking up of handkerchiefs or
small coins while galloping at full
speed, Dm vaulting in and out of Die
saddle and many oilier mamenvres—
common enough in the West, but
which would bo worth a small fortune
to a performer in a circus doing tlio
‘effete East. 1 V [St. Louis Republic.
Frog Oil as «n Embrocation.
The colored people living in Die
swamps of Mississippi and Louisiana
make, in a crude way, many strange
medicines for the diseases prevalent
! in that malarial climate, but the one
in which they have most confidence is
frog oil.
At this season of the year every
cabin is supplied with one or moro
bottles of the oil, and it is freely used
for Die chilis and fevers that in¬
variably follow tlie receding waters
of the spring freshets. All Die
“kids” who arc too small to work in
the fields are kept busy catching
frogs. Tho oil is usually made by
the old wotneu aud the black doctors
wbo practice a mild form of Voudoo-
istn.
Frog oil is made by boiling frogs
and Jiinson weeds together. The frogs
are taken alive and tbrowu into a ket-
tie of boiling water and a weed is
added from time to lime as Die cooli-
ing process goes on. Oil rnado from
dead frogs, they say, is of no value.
A lire made only of pine knots is
used to keep the kettle boiling. From
$1.00 PER YEAR.
three to four dozen frogs aro required
to make quart of oil. They aro boiled
until they become a shapeless mass of
flesh, which, with the exception of tho
skins, is perfectly wliito. One or two
Jimsoii weeds, cut into small pieces,
are added. Tho juice of the weed has
an oily appearance and mingles with
tho fat boiled out of tho frogs.
When tho boiling process is com¬
pleted thoro is a thick, greasy looking
mass in the kottlo. it is allowed to
cool and is thou carefully strained and
bottled. Tho oil is dark green in col¬
or. It is very thick and gives out an
offensive odor.
It is applied externally in most
cases, being rubbed freely on all parts
of tlio body, but sometimes the colored
pationts lake small doses of it inter¬
nally for (lie racking pains in tlio
siomiich which follow a prolonged at¬
tack of malarial fever and chills.
They say that it is an infallible
remedy for tlio malarial rheumatism
that often accompanies or follows the
tcvrible fevers, For this it is rubbed
freely on tho nll'octod joints morning
and night. Tlio colored people say
'that its etlect is quicker and bolter
than rattlesnake oil, which is much
ii- ed in Arkansan by both colored peo¬
ple and whites for all forms of rheu¬
matism.
Bruin’s Winter Bed and Summer Bath.
Tlio boar makes liis bed for the
winter in a number of different ways.
Sometimes lie crawls down in a hole,
crevice or cave and snuggles under
dead loavos and sticks, Al other
times, when trees full down mid make
tangled masses, lie crawls in the thick¬
est part, lie lias also been known to
gather great hunches of laurel boughs
and pilo them in aheap; then climb
on top and sleep, lotting the snow fall
right on him. When the bear is en-
gaged in making Iris couch he makes a
pile of brush six or eight feotin diam¬
eter and throe or four feet. high. He
will often strip a young tree so bare
of lent and branch that it looks like a
flagpole, with only a small tassel oil
top. In the summer lie has a private
hath. He goes to some swamp and
with his strong claws digs down into
the black mud until ho has hollowed
out a litllo place which soon filters full
of a black ooze. Here the bear lies
and wallows through tlio dead heat of
a summer’s day in the forest, when
not a loaf in tlio woods stirs and the
earth and the animals on it bake and
swelter. Beaton paths are generally
found to load to each one of these,
showing that the bear loves his slimy
baths ubovo all things.
He takes care of his claws in the
Kume manner in which a cat does-
.Scarred trees can be found iu the
wilds, showing that tho bears stand on
tlieir hind legs ami claw down the
bark. In tlio spring ana early sum¬
mer Iho bears live on roots and sprouts
anil tender leaves, together with the
grubs and worms which they get by
turning over the stones iu Hie valleys.
Boulders too heavy for a man to lift
are found rolled recklessly about by
boars in the pursuit of grubs. Of
course when a bear finds a bee tree
he is a iiappy animal. In tho late
summer and fall lie resorts to the
beiry patches and scrub oak ridges
ami feasts on the berries and acorns.
But when he first comes out in the
spring lie is very hungry and will eat
anything lie can get. Ho will Hints on
dead horse, or will steal a pig from a
pen or a calf from a stable, but
when other food is plentiful Dio black
bear will never touch flesh. Hunger
will drive him to it, hut of his own
free will he prefers a diet of vege¬
tables.— [New York Tribune.
Howto Find Precious Metals.
Andrew Thompson has made'an in¬
strument resembling in its appearance
tlio oil well locator, which will locate
gold or silver ore. This instrument
will acton these metals whether in ore
deep in the earth or in the shape of
coin or jewelry. Gold aud silver
money was placed on the floor and the
instrument quickly located it. The
coin xvas then placed high above the
floor, and its location was quickly and
accurately determined, It was also
tried on gold and silver ore with the
game result.
Many inducements have heeu offered
Mr. Thomson to disclose theseeretof
the little machine, but he refused all
offers, some of them very liberal oues.
He has selected a well-known resident
of the South Side to whom ho intends,
before he dies, to impart the secret of
Die unattractive-looking but most po¬
tent machine. The gentleman desig¬
nated to receive this important trust
a 3 vet knows nothing about the instru¬
ment except its effects. He can handle
it with as much dexterity as Mr,
Thompson,but possesses no knowledge
of the machine other than that im¬
parted in this article.—[Pittsburg
Post.