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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1882)
The Fiery Pepper. ---- “What do yoa do with your cocoannt . eh- ?” asked a U'-cord reporter of ft prominent candy manufacturer. “.Sell them to be m ado into pepper,” said he, sod the aroused curiosity of the reporter was not quieted b.V the further statement that the shells were really ground and o«>(i by spice men to adulterate pepper and other of th sir wares. Further in ▼mitigation sho wed that a factory where the shells arc ground up is situated at the corner of Line street, and the rail road in Camden, capacity and is a of one-story the mill brick building, the being about two tons of brought ground shells the per day. The shells are to factory in bags ami deposited they in the routing department,. Here are carefully scraped and put in great revolv lag ovens, which are constantly turned over beds of blazing coals. Some of th<- hells are roasted a light, brown, while others come out crisp and black, After bein" carefully sortdft, the dark shells are put in reduced hoppers in the grinding powder department and to fine like pepper. The brown shells are not ground so fine, and come from the mill looking exactly like ground coffee. The Camden factory is said to have been in operation fora about, a month. The nunlls cost very little, and the milling is done at an expense of about 2 or 24 A representative ot a leiumg spice house, in said sneaking of this novel prepa ration, that while his house had not used it, lie supposed it was a harmless adulteration for spices. “We have our own methods of adulteration,” said he, “and soil to the trade probably more mluIterated goods than pure. We can’t help it. There is no pretense on our part that, the lower grades of spices are 1 uro. Wo .simply .sell the retailer what tc wants. We sell them spices as low a ,.rbt and nine cents, but it h about as much something else as it is pepper. it. would ruin and, the trade to prohibit here adul tmrion, besides, I arc not ......igh spices grown to supply alone, the de lined of the United State- it nothing but pure apices were sold. Wo •i. e conatanllv making expernnents to ili, -ver the cheapest which harmlo-n make foreign in .“or with we can our g-v-Mis, in order to mpply the demand for low grades." l!,e hells powder made color, from ground and cocoa nu Ins a line on ae «o.,nt of its weight and appearance is ■ -dered by ipieo nianufaclurers to ; be eii .ice adulterating material. Philo deljilita llcconl. il< liven in Hor-es. The ailment is almo-t cvchisively’con tio si to mature an.mills. II is due mainly to the n-e of feed of a bulkv character, but dusty hay and grain, as wo I as clover hay, are a‘s<» prolific causes of it. One term of it is general¬ ly produced lo a after hard gallop full meal. or other severe exertion a In the -oiith the disease is gen ‘rally known •is “hollow-;” and In the prairie Slat es it is comparatively for it, but rare. brokcii-wiiidod There is no s-r! fin cure Jn-t *-•■») -s wid, o properlv ,ih*ni' ,t fed, do work a gren 1 j . .f ^»t *... i ' 4 - ' . * »ge rt ;i »li()l(fd bp I he ' -h.,:;!d ht* in a small coiupass. and given regui.tf'fy four times a day. It should consist, of oats, beans, wheat straw, chaff, turui,.k or e-mots, with at, night a little bright, hard-stalked Imv, tree fix.i.o d ‘st. Clean, cured corn stalks, in *mall quantity, have also proved benoli ca‘,1. Grain and grass should he the eh of feed in summer, and grain with roots in wilder. Water should he a! Anved sparingly at a time, and tin* lior-e ihnuld never be used for an hour or so after being fed or watered. Arsenic in •mall dose, is a favorite remedy with Teniers, :«s in nearly all cases it effects a temporary no e more or less complete. They usually heg n with three grains a : day, increasing to live a day in a week, and contiiiiio for three or four weeks, giving from ten to tw he grains daily towards the end. This, how ever, is mil » remedy we would reeomniend to horse owners who wish to ti-e their horses Dealers employ it because I removes Che disease at least temporarily. As lie* «P)Mtite affected is morbidly animal ravenous, tiie litter, leading rini to eat etc., EJm* bedding slioulil he removed by day and the horse he muzzled by night. A lump of rock salt at one end of the man ty r and a chunk of chalk at the other have been found beneficial. Hunt! A'.uc I'orfcer. (letting Particular. “Nevada isn't the country it used to ae,” ho remarked, as lie slowly cut a slice from his plug of tin-tag, and sol¬ emnly What’s shook the his trouble!” hold. «I “Folks business. . are getting 1 too particular I , could to do vrenty years ago sell shares m a railroad to run trout Denver to Russia, and never bo asked a question, but now they want to know all about it, even to how many locomo have doied. . , "In, u , , .ues you in it - get iU “' ^ * stock aav moie ’’ “In.teet'' riV; “Faefi I was thive m-.mths ”fri7i-c .ti.Hili'ii, ’ mill mill °inv ini Spcnst"‘ab^ in ii i.i* .iti up .t(i all at) prot.f*. Men ha-1 the impudence to ask me where 1 came from, what ma ainery 1 had, how many ' hands I . •unloved who elected iuo President • ■I's.unw-tsofi-s ; !U doubt the -.-riilicate . of , as-av that , , 1 | paid a fellow r> to write for me ” : “And voti left Of course 1 left. Why, in ' -viotlu-r week K some ui one . .h would .loui.iii.tit have had no., !ie , to t me in what uatrv oras.s as e mv •nine was ' lo- vcd uni 1 c mid ncvei i st M . S , A) i./uN —Just , . now the nnraole , and , the , E. * is two dollars it dav with tlie privilege fortnight of sleeping out-doers. who live For t!»o pa-t operator like princes at homo have been glad to their weatied t irioiKs shelter t»f or a inic boards The tone and t iih __A&otph kd ate already and rail is expcctoii S4H»n. r aId. Boihes (’omj.'.Mag - the S, !" ir The Milar m comj ri.,- ' ' • and all tfios- heavenly Indies « hicti re volvi around him, consisting of the lot lowing known members : L J no eignt principal plane's and their tv. teilitos, or moons. 2. lne Art' 1 ’' ‘ s - arm of wj dl planets, numb nog now, Recording to Professors Netvw.-mb and Holden, 220. 3. An indefinite number of c ,m<ds and meteors, revolving a orbits of much greater eccentricity t.ian those of tin planets. Incniar -t known planet to the sun is Mercury at to : mean di-tanoe of J 5 ,322,000 miles trom that body. The late Professor \Vatsou, „f jji--higaa and Wisconsin rttate bm ver-iti a, was positive that during a total eclipse of the sun be saw a planet H till nearer the sun than Mercury, toe existence of this body, sometimes re ferred to as Vulcan, is still a matter of controversy. Next beyond Mercury, Venus, traveling outward, is the planet distant from the sun 60,134,000 miles ; tin-next is the earth (with one Mars moon), (with 111 ,430,000 miles; the next | two moon*) 139,811,b00 miles ; then the group of diminutive planets called the Asteroids, numbering, as already said, a b„ut 220, at distances of from 200, o<H>,000 to 315,000,001) miles from the ann ; then Jupiter (with four moons), 475,692,000 miles ; then Saturn (with eight imams and three rings),872,13/, .„„t H fx' ’iw most of tlVe steFa'il i )00 i; H still erroneously a-sert), distant f rom the sun 1,753,863,000 milts; and finally, Neptune, the outermost planet (with one moon), 2,745,998,000 miles from our grand ecn tin) orb. As to tbo partly comets, within whose the solar orbits lie wholly there or is no,;,, system, to believe that but u small num ) )tr ,,f Uie whole bus as yet been din covered, although about 500, visible to the nake i , ye, have been recorded since <Jl0 opening of the Oliristiun era, and mor<! th .n 200 telescopic ones. New ones are discovered m-ery vear-somc times os many opinion as nix that or eight. celestial Kepler miH „f the thc ;i) ,aces aiv as full of them as the sea is g*h. As a rule, they are only visible j„ the most favorable positions. final I will v, lh<- inter-planetary contain’ spaces are know to innumerable bodies, in all degrees of density from ........ to solid, called meteoroids, i,- a v,diiip apart in vast awn raw around the mm in all kinds divergently’eccentric, of orbits from cir „ a ] ;ir to the most a t all aorta of iiiiglcato the plane of tlie orbit. Of the nature of these very little is known. When they come in contact with tho earth’s atmosphere they are heated to whiteness, brilliant and gleam ath wart thc they' sky as meteors, .Sometimes are utterly consumed before they they stnko reach the tho earth earth, with and in terrible other cases as" force aerolites. These bodies arc comnoHcd a' of the samo elementary sub stances terrestial matter, but m com lunations so peculiar to aerolites that tho mineralogists can origin^ always identify ^ hem s f meteorical Morning Stars. •Saturn and Jupiter now adorn the .'nornbyy ~ »ky hey and will are hit called min'(T the morning bright ars. - the oiirbingers during the whole summer, and will amply tins repay, riser by their beautiful appearance, early who watches for t lieir advent in the small hours l>e fore t he dawn. during The same the planets and were spring evening until stars they winter reached conjunction with the sun, Saturn on tho 6th, and Jupiter on tho 30th, of May. seemed They were viewed then close to the sun,-or so as in the heavens, for when we speak of the posi¬ tion of the heavenly bodies we mean their position as seen from the earth. Thus we say that the sun rises and sets, when it is tho movement of the earth on her axis that produces this result, and that the planets are reality in conjunction with mil¬ eaeli other when in they are lions of miles apart. in describing the planets, in we always refer to t heir position the heavens as seen from the earth. Saturn and month Jupi¬ ter were close to the sun in the of May, passed from hts eastern to his western side, and were then too near him to he seen. They- have since moved far enough aivav to be visible in the morning sky before sunrise, and will continue to increase their distance from the sun, and to approach the earth until they reavli opposition, Saturn in No¬ vember and Jupiter like in December. They the will then in manner pass to sun’s eastern side, becoming evening stars and repeat the same process in re¬ versed order until they reach conjunc¬ It will be easy to follow the track ot tlie outer planets when this simple impressed law of their movements is once u , Hlu ij\v memorv. Saturn anil Jupiter ' they j 1)n , now i )ril jj. )n t illustrations as riso earlier 911ll ilu , r ,, ase in size and brightness Surn. while drawing nearer to the : ea during the last week in June. will ri-c about two o’clock. He must }H>mt be looked where for the seven degrees south and will of the be sun rises a ' U ‘' :u ; tl them. •jVldebanin.lwing Jupiter will a few degrees wosst of r:se soon ft f( or three o'clock, one degree south of n,.* sunrise ooint-md a few decrees hrAw e-i-t n -h tlm t c l ir .-. 11 “.e t wo nlaucts and will ... be recog in/.cil at a glance. I hoy will be so far from the sun tw i„ tlie ,i„, tart n, ot July, i n i v ,i... that t Sa '. Urn wU i r,se i ' !nuh "- ' t a ’" 1 A ?hS ., 1 V ■ A 1 ! l! .’V- when e ” darkness shrouds , the earth will find . that , ,i , . x™ e 8 ,. r „ lhl U , .r. ^ lns 1,1 • - N, « ht * stan T crown. I out/is Conwauion. Etin for the King. , , 1!1 it right.” ' make The king called in his guardsau,d bade the dentist to draw their teeth, which was done amidst yells and writhing? that Cclcwayo hugely enjoyed. In fact, he : liked it so much that he pensioned the dentist, made him one of his household, and for a diversion ordered a general tooth-drawing every Saturday Afternoon, ! —. , \\ cm-es in,e ’ tn;-i»g ' 1 a -uw.i", J 1 ' a per-,ual interest ■ ugncuJl m : fi - efiion and pro- t-n- .o- n „.„. ham., rs, capUa, :-!o -t m-.k ms, merchant*. m* chanie-. minima ur ■ ,, , ra ,; .... and day laborers even, are v mg the daily bullems and reports oi - •• , ath<-r, affi-i-'ingth'- with •■speciaL refer.-uee to I o it is gr-wing wncat, ,-ori. and oafis, and I he lurt.ier plan-m r n f <■ rn. Never ht-ion- have they seen clearly that farming is the real basis ()f :tJ | other business, and that upon 11 t i„. prosperity of tec country. q compreheu-! t!ic_lac! 18<‘.fi 1-<W that and it w . iH the gon 1 crops .. jggj, i.-om the export o. wb mm re ,.<i many hundreds <>! million ,] 0 l!a,'. from other .-a: ids, which changed u-,e iinaueial depr.-y.-ui of Id o’, and jj„, years following, into a prosperous aeiivity extending through all hraneoes of trade am! manufacture. Every extra l,u-licl of wheat or com. or p am ot „,,. a *. < li—** and omter Hint went to mark.; 1 helped turn the scale. I he hurt , of in . i on- of bushels of gram that came from the interior to the -ea i„ m nl, guv pro. mule employment to u,,. railroads. Tiw-- bought and useu „,,,rc car-, more iron, more steel, and the makers of these, from head director i( , the lowest laborer, n—eived more wag -s and more constant cinployiiient, ‘ ' ,j ...‘m, ,# J ir-V’e V .,„,j „ ...i m''. ’•m.l Ina.h'- hi-ivh-r .Icm-nd ; neon ; i n„. .....' farmers’ 'i,. who received the Tr '.coeds Xf. ... ,,, ......!., ',„ y ' h ,,, jv,.'.. in i,,,,.’more ... . .... imrn n.erch’.nN ..... . . fro dv the .' ..v'," s |. or , , d,’' r wen. j,j j.', t,„„ ivd,- i v i j 1 ... *' ' a , .... . lo .]/ „f -mo Is'for c i'h nr on 'ho-i ......-m... i !,,, 7,...... « i n ’d tl-oiK-ind'inilc stimul-tcd the TmihPn- new’ of iive '"to n , ‘ ’ of .-ailro-ds ...... », e * ' ' , ... . at , ... leading , ! 1 ' pm'"’" one hou - the greid anil far-reaebuig ""j' 1,1 i;,i in.-i ii ,h , " o-li.-r hand, , (he un.a\or;io|, winter _ ?w«t '•'!• ••"«« 1 "" V»‘' '-ic ? M suro.us " n,, V' 1 ' ‘• « ro,:; heat ri« ,s anil °{ corn awl m.-at and dairy products and 11 j /.j'/!’ ' ' l< i o.i "7" • ' 1 1 ,,ni ,, , i", ■ ' ’*V’ '• '\ . ‘ u j" J• /“, 7 7 "r*’ 1 ’ .’ ! iir/7'm ill ,1 " .V.frt* ,,, , Tl L « Lf , ifni ! .,V,,Yf ,i T l , , a J_ mui i '. -V ” '’ as k l -‘i . !'i ‘ Ul< l< ‘ r< ‘ ', s !l 1|, . ™ lll ! ! ""e K ‘ , ^ " '"'Z k 'i' nVM m Ll.'.rmvts L '! ’‘ri.w,,,'', ll " , ,T * *•, 1 ’ 1,1 ll: ui.isid cost --I Imng • par! lo the advance -me m m c, ' n r uent l T on tl,c le-ei.Cil crops of last year. Is it . f any wom.rr ilia! I ins slate oi things has opened the eyes am! en!ifri)ten.;4 the > " ho 1 ;u \ e V-ii bitherto 'V, been „ ';p inclMcu i',77 .' - ! b . t, , „].on lamiing as of inferior .mportama and has con,,- .suited to for the elod-hoppers? front, and it is Farmu^f going sta>- there. American Agriculturist, t j Terrible Predicament. * Messrs. K. S. Early and S. E. Hines, who haw- ju t comjiieted Wolf a saw-mill reek, East in the mountains above ( Tennessee, furnished tho following par tknhir.s of a iceent ground-hog hunt: A few mornings ago attracted a man by living the near Wolf Creek was barking of his dogs, and going to where f hey had treed on the side of the motin tain Iu- found his game in a hollow log l\ ing upon tin- ground with the entrain-.: up-hill, lie procured til's a being long pole short, t< reach the game, but too he eniw'e.l in to lengthen the pole and hung his toes over the end of the log. In this position lie lost his hold, and down Ik* went into the logon top of tin ground-hog, and a lively fight prevailed, began The man’s superior strength hiit not till lie had been bitten in eleven places and badly scratched and scarred But tlie trouble lia-l not ended, but th ; man had. and wrong end down at that blit Ik- could not crawl backward up-hill , so he was a prisoner, and in a critical not to say ridiculous position, with ni mean-of escape. Fortunately, at thi frightful juncture, the family be cam’ uneasy and went out to see what hat happened, and were horrified at th * discovery. Finally, after a round c f cursing, praying and crying, the vietir \ was cut out of the log and “set mini] ligii t side iip,” clothed and in his dead.— right C/m! . ! but the Times. ground-hog was tanooaa ^ ' KiUt ' ,i * Eating Strawberries. “ Iliwh Griffin, street”; aged twenty months x 0 . 21 Morris cause of death, a , oxce ssi V e indulgence in strawberries, ’ ^ oi ^luuSucs^rdSf surrounding th Tho circumstances 3 ,i n «ih of little Hiuri, were neculiar. Hi ! . > -‘ , t’ nt !s ^< were 3 ie poor i, 0 or neonle people ming living in in a »ie te r . ° the l men city. . t T On 1-nday fiU afternoon o GSt l a neigl 1 boro f t he Griffin family bought son*, i-ra» —-iwberries ucrriis, imu and . called miou little um Hue-hint iiugu j , the room to eat some of them. Hews s given all he wanted, and, as Dr. F. C Sicmll said, when he was rabsequenU y summoned to attend the child, it ha ,l f tainy ir i v gorgi a (ts-if-i useu. .luuuuuuru \bout four o’eloc uw t w p. Y m. the child was seized with eonvu U !nlt itwas no t until eleveno’cloc k at night that the physician’s “I servici calk . 3 were found necessary. was i just in time to fill out a burial certi U eate,” said Dr. Merrili. Convulsions a -. up to the time it ate the strawbeme s his surroundings were conducive to di - ease. The air in the house was foi i, and the place was tdthy. The oi :y thing that could be done was to adm. a ister cathartics, but the child was e e vend the influence of such treatmet t, and death ensued soon afterward.—. y, F. 2tons. With thi /a death of Guiseppe Garibaldi disappear / l heroic figure which has lon fi u# a mace of unchallenged of pre* .,Bf the affections his coun trvmen f , deserved their love and a ,j mij . ati ® / or he was not only a high . fa Pj im.-j^nor, g i no -le-hearted patriot, Mazzini but a „ cceS) 1' and what , „ tl more than any other son of i ta i v ca fa 4ed into triumphant execution To l:m j 1 <j uarallel to the influence ex erc j se ar jbaldi’s personality in the 8 ^ a _j nj J . eve nts we must look not to j^issutlr , r Bolivar or any leading spirit 0 f the 4. |< ench revolution, for the move men ts J th which those men were asso ciated | acquired an impetus to which ^ 4 t, at f ons H | individuals seemed relat } b|g v W, ; ng ;,r U i;icai>t. But. Garibaldi „ a I«l to have revived the tradi tio £ s Jfrt-tWcn valor, odds and in in 1849 the victory under } 1(! wof/over ,L great *|{ome ^ W he taught his coun ^ , egj(0n of self-respect and ge '(f. ( .L which was never after wan i|j r£ro u en When Garibaldi, with . a vsstiv inferior force, routed a ‘ army, he wiped out the c‘ontt<i“ly tliiinphs of four centuries, reversed t ! 1( , of Charles VIII.. and con t ; nc Ji' t | J( , world that Italy was at last wor«f mio to be free. Nor is it doubtful lo who appreciate the difficulties of | oar ’ 8 position the in famous 1860 expedition that Italy ^ ier unity Thousand to against Sicily, , rf One a let 1 ( arms whose equal must be sought in |! exploits of the Vikings or of the N pan adventurers who conquered A ?Tme island eight centuries before. Ht Jl<*aribaldi’s , are few finer things in history of ’ ! willing had resignation by his * <U*atorship which ho won swH(d, Nft in order Two that Sicilies, the historiciking- after age d the an lo i 1 «veranee, might be his merged in a 1 I* Ital V - And even two nnsu !‘ cjuful attempts l - 1807 8ervod to recover tofortlf Rome m an ‘ y iopntrymen 11 thc Holy in the City resolve had become not to rest the Italian P* capital. JGaribaldi was something more and #%er than bounded a patriot. by His single sympathies n 'fi ro not a race or baesion country. of emancipation, He was animated and by proclaimed a noble lf/ nso if a citizen and soldier of every 1; id struggling to be free. Before be v jg forty years of age he had twice n !ar ]j lost his life fighting for the in de p indenee of Uruguay, and at the age /ranee"in ,# sixtv-three he offered his sword to the hour of her death grap t dc with Germany. In Hungary, in Poland, in Servia, ir. Spain, in every Dart of Europe where men have striven throw off the galling yoke of beacon, despot pm, Garibaldi’s example was watchword a ot his name was the revolution. Of all contemporary great who have been associated with the uprising for freedom, not one has had a stronger hold on the public heart, and not one has rendered more brilliant and substantial services lo the progress of huma nit x.-N. V. Sun. WlmT __ _ What iVe Wejiave Have Aon Noticed That ,f people who wear the best cloth « n , r (!o ()t , al w av s wear the best. d'hat people who boast that they al foghlf ,vavs speak mVa^oeghT-. what they think, have some f hat the nm ,7 who persistently ne glect S to live within his income wid - ,, , ivx wil , ; t . t0 1<>Ht t . . That the world is divided into two classes—those who are ambitions to as¬ cend above mediocrity, and those who arc ambitious that everybody else shall descend below their own medio r,iy. Tliat the man who barters health for fiehes is never satisfied with his bar¬ That the man who has a 'arge prin¬ cipal iu the bank sometimes .-hows no principle in anything else. That honesty is tin- best policy—in reckoned fa t, that ail rare things are the best. That learning is a powerful auxiliary his folly. to the fool bent on displaying That man and wife should not be yoked like oxen, but harnessed tandem. Tc get along smoothly, one must lead am: the other follow. That the strongest horse is generally placed between the shafts. Thatthe strangest argument again-t be sexual bail equality when is. that she woman is possessed may of as as man his That superior the opportunities. wonders why married man the bachelor does not marry, and the bachelor wonders why the married man married—in fact, that this is a world of wonders. That the girl who declares that she would not marry the best man alive quite frequently proves her sincerity by marrying the worst man she can find. That it is the same with thought either, as with money—the iess one has of the more eager he is to make a display *> f it. __ No Time to Tell a Lie. - Jesse C. had the reputation of being the “biggest liar” in Georgia, and was liever known to come out behind. One hot day Bill H. sat on the shady side of Si':- barn. After dinner he saw -less rid in"'in great haste toward town. Bill hailed him and went to the gate. Je-s asked him what he wanted. “Stop and tell us a big lie,” said Bill. “No time for lying now," said Jess. **Your Ineie Soil died suddenly an hour ngo, and l am going for the'Con ner and a coffin.” And on he went. Bill ran to the house and told his wife. >he gathered up the children. He hitched the horse to the wagon, loaded in his family and posted oft four miles through heat and dust to Uncle Soil s. On ar rivinc he found the farailv and the neighbors in the large kitchen Uncle watermelon. .Soil buried to The thc surprise eyes m J-J » b| and exiilanations followed, ' " said Bill. “L asked Jess for a big lie. and not only got it but was fool enough him to believe it. ' 1 wouldn’t believe again if I knew he was dying.— Marietta Journal. _____ l qnentlv discovered the mistake, and knew who was the owner, but neverthe less then appropriated the monev to his own use. and refused on demand to make restitution. The court held that lie was guilty of lare-aiF* - The Hungarian Plains. At first the plains softly undulating shady are dimpled here md taere with hollows: while like golden Islands in an ocean of vivid green he long stretches of yellow eolza'and ripening corn. On the gently rising upland yonder a dark round speck appears agaifis. the sunlit sky: garduallv it elongates, and we hear a voice singing in a quivering treble some national idyl. It is a husband man emerging from the hollow and trudging homeward along the crest of the undulation. Then all i; silence and solitude once more, till coming to a standstill at one of the primitive wells bv the roadside, we hear the distant rumble of a wagon as its wheels grind heavily along, the driver of it sing.ng, as it goes, a melancholy ditty in the mi no rkev. solitary Then one by one the villages horizon and farms lying on the die away, and we enter the boundless plains. 'How lonely creation, we feel, and what tiuv atoms of with no objects to measure ourselves by save birds of prey, and the white clouds sailing far up in the great, blue, glorious sky! Our carriage, though imposing only in the matter of size, proved very comfortable, its ponderous hood shielding us from the heat of the sun, save where, places taking its mean advantage of weak in constitution, it-hot fiery arrows inup on us, scarcely less piercing than those that pour down upon the head of the traveler in the desert. The sun reflects itself in the white and sale dusty road, Above the soil on either there is a flickering motion of the air like the haze from a lime-kiln. Everything is hot and dusty; not an insect is seen hovering about the low bushes which now an d then skirt our pathway. the dreamy All noontide, nature is taking and nothing its siesta in awake but the is scarlet pimpernel that with wide-open. the unblinking eye We looks straight up marshy at blazing sun. now come to a district, where a lonely heron is small con¬ templating its lovely image m a still pool, and then away we go again —out upturned into the broad bands purble patches omened of newly soil, of with corn, its and lar^e speckled red and streaks of.tobacco, leaves, and through cool labyrinths green of maize. 0 n till we come to vast tracts of uncultivated land, where wild horses with flying manes go scampering across its surface with the natural grace of untamed things. As day advances and the shadows of the clouds begin to lengthen across the plains, a breeze springs up and plays about surplice-likesleevvsof us softly, rustling the driver large white, the s garment, but not sufficiently strong which, to stir his black and flowing locks, weighted with some unctuous matter, res t calmly on his shoulders, Our nearest town is Veszpnm, but at the pace we are at present reach going before we niglit- are scarcely likely "But to what it does it matter, fall, if then. when we have the whole of to-morrow, and the next day, and the day after that, a ve, and our whole lives, to do the distance in if necessary? How dolight- of ful to enjov for once the true feeling where rest in this world of hucy-scurry. we are but too often compelled oh! let to live for at high pressure! Let, us once take life easily under the broad and peaceful canopv of heaven, and re duce the dolce far niente to a science— From-Magyarland.' Discouraging the Truth. of pencil hand . He had a stub a m one ) and a sheet of paper in the other, and he walked up to a citizen who was about to go aboard a ferry boat, and said: ••I have a document here for you to sign.” 1 sign petitions," -•But never any was the speedy reply. This is “This is no petition. that an agree¬ whose ment to the effect none names are signed below will • either swear while fishing or lie about the size or number of the fish afterwards. Please write your name on the blue line there.” “But 1 never go fishing.” “Well, you can’t tell when you may. Besides, I want the influence of your name. i » “1 guess I won’t that sign.” will, Are “Let me hope eschew you profanity you not willing to twice for an hour or two once or a year?” “I anyhow.” never swear, only* “But perhaps you lie! If so 1 ask you to tell the truth in just this one instance.” boat. “I’m in a hurry to catcli this “Never mind the boat Isn’t your soul of more consequence than a ferry¬ boat. Please sign right there.” “1 won’t do it.” “You won’t, eh? You refuse to bind and , and . jaw . and , yourself not to rip don cuss get bite. howl because you t a refuse to enter into an agreement not to come home a - .. lose your sou- for thc sake ot making somebody believe you caught a bass weighing six pounds. t hat s t.ie Kind of a Detroiter you are, is it." “1 ve a good mind to spoil J our nose, “Of growled the have. passengei. Just because I course you to lie and want to bind you not swear you want my heart s blood. It I had asked you to agree not to chea ant steal and burn bin It tings you tt nave wanted to cut my throat, bo on, sir. Take your old ferry boat and go to Windsor with it. “I 11 see you again. _ > “That's it—more threats. But x ou have tackled the wrong man, sir. lit have an eye on you tor the nex. en years, and the first time I know of' our going out to fish I B follow you. lea. hi- I d be mi J e sin V le ; Detroit Free Press J —Somebody wrides of Frau STatern i* CD I minute and they in were German. at it. Lord, AH about how Ger- that telephone many suffered! Tlie fell off j H-e wires: and some of those paint seven-cor nered words nearly broke the box. I fainted. " hen they got through the telephone WIT AM) WISDOM. —Many a man thinks him-e’f a he light in Jits society world, when in tact is only a light weight. —S. J. K., Hubbard, Texas: -TVhero can I obtain the Life of Jesse James?” We do not know. The Ford boys took it. — 1 exits Siftings. —California has discovered spider webs so stout that they can be used to tic up grain bags. The web of Fata would stand a poor show out that way. —Detroit Free Press. —There are in North America 880 different species of birds, and yet you have probably valuable seen time a in boy trying waste two hours of to put a head on one little chickadee. —Little Willie has been summarily corrected by his mother for repeated ac s of naughtiness. The punishment being over: "Papa,” could he sobs, in tones of anguish, ill-tempered “ how you marry such an woman as mam¬ ma?” —“Ma, are you going out?” “ Y’es, dear; why do yon ask?" “ Don't n you want to stay and see mean?” the fun?” “Why, “Why, I Willie; what tell do you that heard pa Maggie when you went picnic.” away they would have a regular —If those who have large families to board, with provisions at present pricey, would slop to think that many men in this city board locomotives anil railway trains every and day, they would Waterlury be more content murmur less.— American. —When a man's hair begins to grow thin on top it is a sign that he shouldn’t think quite so much. — York Dispatch. “Think” rhymes with do something much.— Phil- else which he should not so adclephia News. Think, blink, wi— ah, yes, we see; but we shouldn’t think ex¬ cessive winking would affect a man’s hair—unless the winks are given in the presence of the man who draws the soda water. —Norristown Her aid. —“ What do you do for a living?” asked an Austin Justice of a huge, bur¬ ly negro, who had been arrested for vagrancy. “ My wife takes in wash in’, and works out, by de day.” was?” “1 “I asked done you what vour trade tole yee. A man and his wife am one, and cf we am one, what do we want two trades for? My in.” trade The am de Just.ce wash in’ ray wife takes sighed overworked. and said: “Poor You need fellow. rest.”—• You are Texas Siftings. —Patrick has a great power of enjoy¬ ment, after all, and always laughs bull at the right time. One day had lie saw hold a at¬ tack a man, and ho to on to his sides with both hands', the scene was so funny. After a little the animal turned his attention in another direc¬ tion, and poor Patrick, after exploring the heights, came down with a thump on the other side of the fence. He nibbed his wounds, anil as lie he trudged said along the worse for wear, to himself: “Faith. I’m glad I had my laugh when I did, or I wouldn’t have had it at all.”— N. Y. Herald. Beginning Early. They are traditional. They walk out of the station hand in hand, and they stop at the first confectioner’s and buy soda water and red balls of popcorn and a < piart of peanuts. They rhle“ou TuS ' street cars and squeeze. They wander Hall through the Corridors of the City and squeeze harder. They Park sit on a l, e nch in the Grand Circus and y f eam an q s jgh and lock lingers and 0O k as foolish as two boys caught in a me lon-patch. J ust such a couple left tlie train at tho Union Depot and walked up Jeffer son avenue yesterday. She had long curls and a” pink dress and a yellow sash, and he had a standing collar saw¬ ing his ears off', a button-hole bouquet and a pair of new small. boots freshly They greased hadn’t and one size too walked two blocks when they of came to a man sitting on a box in front a store, and as lie caught sight of them a grin crept over his face like molasses spread¬ ing out on a shingle. “Grinning at us, I s’pose?” queried the young man as he came to a halt/ I “Y’es,” fritnkly replied death the sitter. “Tickles you most to to see us take hold of hands, don’t it?” “It does.” ] “And you "each imagine you can sre can’t us feeding other caramels, you?” “lean.” “And you shake all over at the way we gawp around and keep our mouths open?” “Well, that is me! I’m not purty, and I haven’t been cultivated between the rows, nor hilled up nor fex-tilized. j ain’t what you call stall-fed. and the 0 j,j man looks twenty per cent, worse* than I do, but it won’t take me over a m ; nu tc to jam your seven teeth into the „ roinu j. j t0 ( ( j Lucy I was going to be¬ 7 in 0 n the first man who looked cross e ,-ed at us, and-you are the chap. Pre pareto be pardon, pulverized!” but I didn't “Reg mean “Yes, you did! Luce (hold my hat wWle x mop him!” “Say—hold on—say-!" He took up the middle of th*- street like a ninawav horse, and the young man took after him. but it was no use. After a race of a block the man who grinned j gained so fast that the other g t0 p pe( s jj 0rt ant ( xvent back to his irl '. inil his p, a t. Stretching forth his g aru l to the innocent maiden he re marked; „ L ,, CV d on t0 that, and if you let go for the next two hours even to tl.e-aWcJ nn„o oi ,v ifc : -_ R Nil fZ Press - - —Good work from human beings, good just as from machinery, the requires quality and treatment, and the finer j consume will ask for more more food, nay. and because cannot they live w: on j low wages. A donkey can exist on th,s > ■ ties, ot course, and g-'e a c.on ‘ey - - j race-horse , turn; out a can no c e P^ce j on the same fare with profit to tun on . -- Denver Tribune, -
