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CRAWFORD VILLE • - GEORGIA.
4*ENE«Afi NEWS.
A 1 .nj/gijifr factory with a capital of
$2000,000 is about to he started in Gul
rcstsm, Texas.
Texae bluogrnss seed is being tried in
West Tennessee. In the alienee of lime
this grass, it is thought, will thrive best
in that section.
The largest sheep rancho in the world
is the one at Diniment and Webb eoun
ties, Texas, where 300,000 head of sheep
axe pastured on 300,000 acres of land.
The Shite Capitol of Texas will prob
ably be built of fine granite instead of
limeetone. It is claimed that this will
make it the best State-house on the con
linen t
'flie queen's health is evidently a sub
jeet of grave few in England. Her <lis
onler is said to lie of a dropsical nature,
and tbe probabilities are that she will be
a bed-ridden invalid.
About a year ago half a dozen colored
nietfl of St. Bernard parish, La., organ
ized a mutual benevolent association,
Now the association numbers fifty, and
thev have accumulated a fund and begun
the erection of a school-house for indi¬
gent children of their race.
8ix thousand baby alligators are sold
in Florida every year, and the amount of
ivory, number of skins and quantity of
oil obtained from the older members of
the saurian family are sufficient to enti¬
tle fheru to a high piece among the pro¬
ducts of the .State.
Englishmen are getting control of ma¬
siderable land in America. la Texas
31},(HI!) gores have just been purchased
by Mr. Whatley, M. P.; an English syn¬
dicate has 1,300,000 acres of bottom
land in Mississippi, and another compa¬
ny 2,000,000 acres in Florida.
A few days ago Knox vile finished work
on her water system at a cost of $150,000
'The two reservoirs were hardly filled
with water when the bottom of one drop¬
ped out. Now comes news tlmt the oth¬
er i» in the same condition, the water
having suddenly disappeared into unfath¬
omable depths.
Savannah News; Joe Brown s income
is said to be $1,(MMI a day. Of this
amount he gets $500 a day from the
Dade county coal mines. There is no
doubt that he is making money faster
than any other Southern man. His for
nowi wdi nali-il ,4t
ies the sffiTins
pear little nt.
An industrious buzz-saw in New Or¬
leans ron against an obstruction in a log
through wliieh it was passing tlie other
day, but held its temper and soon cut its
enemy in two. When the flunk dropped
off the workmen found tlmt the saw bad
biseted an eight inch spherical shell,
doubtless a relic of the war. The exte¬
rior wound bad honied entirely, leaving
no trace of the passage of the shell to its
resting place.
Thu New York Herald makes a enhm
......... us.1- -a
tlmt the gvortt bridge to mid
from Kew York ou Saturday, from which
it appears * tlmt, deducting 40 per cent for
Bight-Hoero, . the .. receipts . . fin .. toll 4 n win will nvAP tuer
•go $2,31)0 eimJi day, or $1,300,000 ay oar
Deducting interest at 6 per cent on tlie
ont lav of **6,000,000, the cost of the
‘ •
, budge, . , there , would ,, rema , n a sinking
fund toward paying that debt, $400,000 a
year.
Tbe agricultural laborers of Mississip¬
pi, 340,000 in round numbers, embracing
men. wpmou and children, including
children from ten years of age up to men
uml women of threescore, manage to
wring from the bosom of mother earth
the magnificent aggregate of $63,701,844
jier annum, or nearly I,US to every man,
woman and child engaged in stirring the
soil and gathering its fruits. The money
value of tbe farms in that State in IsSO
was $93,844,815, against $81,716,576 in
1870, which shows a wholesome increase
in value.
Of the five field generals of tin* confed¬
erate army, J. E. Johnston and Beaure¬
gard survive. General Johnston is die
j-eaj, ral agent of a prominent New York
insurance company, and General Boauro
jrard is the adjutant general of the state
»>£ iAiiuaisiui—when* he has created the
finest laxly of militia for its numbers in
America. He is also t ile ef the eomxnis
Hiouers lor tlie liquidation of one of the
old Louisiana state banks, besides wliieh
lie lias other important business connec¬
tions. There were twenty-one lieuten¬
ant generals in the ixmfe.leu.ite army
from fln>t to last, and of these all were
from the United States army but four,
vin: Richard Taylor, N. B. Forest,
Wade Hampton and John B. Gordon.
Of them the following are living: I>. H.
Hill who is in North Carolina; Stephen
Le®, Early. Bnckner, Wlieoler and A. P.
Stew art, besides the two not from the old
United State* army mentioned above.
OastaTus W. South is the ranking major
gc&eiml living, and is state commissioner
of AtsnraiK* in Kentucky. AY. T. Mar¬
tin lives in Natchez, and is a railrvv .vl
gitioers. Marmaduke Johnson is in St.
Louis and is wealthy. William Preston
j lives in kentucky and has a fortune he
inherited. Humes lives in Memphis,
I Tenn. Wirt Adams is an agent for Mis
| sissippi, and lives in Jackson. is Frank
! Armstrong lives in Ht, Louis, and e.on
leaded with the Gould system of railroads
in the southwest. Churchill was Gover
nor of -^kansas, and lives at Little Rock.
i was governor of Georgia, and is
United States senator-elect from that
state. Colston has returned from Egypt,
and is living somewhere in Virginia. Di
brell is a member of Congress from len
ncssee. Lv«n, who commanded one of
Forest’s divisions awhile, lives in Eddy
ville, Ky. I do not know what Mackall,
who was a brigadier-general and chief of
General Bragg’s stall, is doing, but I be
,
: lieve he lives in Georgia. McGowan is a
j 1 - member of tbe supreme court of South
i Carolina. Miles, W. R., is a cotton
I planting magnate on the Yazoo rizer, in
Mississippi. R. A. Fry or is a presper
ous lawyer in New York, and mirabile
dicta. I hear that he is an enthusiastic
advocate of Governor B. I. Butler for
tbe presidency. Ilipley, “Old Rip, as
he was called, is in London, the. agent of
an arnerican rille company, and Body is
there with him, John G. Walker is in
Mexico, and is getting rich in silver mi
ning, and Holmes is bis partner. Wil¬
liam 0. Wickham is a prominent railroad
man and republican in Virginia. Of the
three Lees who were generals, C-ustis,
who was Mr. Davis’ chief of staff, is the
president of the Washington and Lee
college in Virginia; William Henry
Fitzhugh Lee, generally called “Runy,”
is a planter and is prosperous on a line
estate. Fitzhugh Lee, a cousin of the
others, and a famoits cavalry officer, owns
the “Havenwood” estate, Oil tbe Potomac
about, fifty miles below Washington,
where lie is living like a fine Virginia
planter of the olden time. Robert Lee,
the HeneraJ’s youngest son, who served
in the ranks a greater part of the war,
lives oil the James river and owns a
handsome estate there. Longstreet lives
at Gainesville, Georgia, and is United
States marshal. General Early practices
law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant-General
A. P. Stewart is president of the Univer¬
sity of Mississippi, at Oxford, and Lieu
tenant-General is prisident of another
Mississippi institution of learning. R.
il. and Patterson Anderson are dead,
(leneral B. Frank Cheatham is . the ,, super
intending eommishioner of tlie Tennessee
penitentiary General Bate is governor
of Tennessee, and W. H. or “Red,”
Jackson, _ , of , Forests a, division i • •
one com
i ' w — i ■ i wng TTPil? “’-•il
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juu^iiiflcent. plantation. General Whee¬
ler, who commanded all of General John¬
ston's cavalry, is a planter in north Ala¬
bama. General Lawton, the quarter
master-general of the confederacy, is a
leading'member of the Savannah,'Geor
, bar, and , General , ,,, Gorgns, the coated- ,
gja,
crate chief of ordnance, died in Alabama
the other day. Cockrell, the ranking
confederate general from Missouri, is a
Unifixl States senator.
Risk) Marksmanship.
Dr. Frank Powell, of Lacrosse, Wis.,
celebrity im an expert marksman with
either rifle or pistol. For some the unex- sobri
plained reason ho 1ms received
quest ‘ of “ White Beaver, and by that
8 >brj {h() isfmui i iar iy kuoW n tlirough
()1 q tin- northwest. Recently a party of
grangers from Minnesota sought him
out, and for their edifioution, and especi
ally ' tlmt of one of their number, who
flU ci( , d lu , „ coulll atloot th 0 doo
, or ferave ft d j s pi av of liis prowess. After
having rapidly, at a distance of about
twenty yards, fired six shots from liis
rifle against tlie the edge target, of a imbedding silver quarter it
inserted in
deeply in the soft pine plank, liis friend
Richardson, says tlie Lacrosse Sunday
News, placed himself in front of the tar¬
get with a stump of a cigar in his
mouth ; this the doctor shot away, leav¬
ing barely 1111 inch between R.’s lips.
White Beaver then laid his rifle aside,
and, producing a calibre 22 pistol, pint placed bot¬
upon the head of his assistant a
tle cork; a report, and the cork was
blown to pieces. Then a peanut shell
was placed lay upon scattered Ik’s nose ; a the shot, floor. and
that, too, fastened upon firmly
Tak ng a knife blade h~ each it
against the target. U„ on side ot
the blade l,e plaoml a tiny bell: then
calling his office bey. he placed Masonic between ring,
tlve youth’s fingers his
previously covered with a piece of white
paper. Between the boy and the target
Richardson stood with a cigar in his
month. Stepping hack fully 50 feet,
White Beaver raised his rifle, and with an
“All ready, steady,” to liis assistants,
fired; a report, and simultaneously two
sharp rings from the bells. The ball was
found to have passed through tlie finger
ring, snuffed the ashes from R.’s cigar,
and splitting upon the knife blade nad
glanced and rung both bells.
A Lengthy Courtship.
A couple were recently married in
Goshen after a courtship extending over
a quarter of a century. The local chroni¬
clers say that so far as could be judged
tlie course of their true love lias always
run smooth, both families being “agreea¬
ble," and there was no visible obstacle to
their union years ago, except that they
were never quite ready. Friends first
Laughed, and then teased them, and at
last the condition of affairs became so
much a matter of course that even gossip
forcot to busy itself slont them. The
voung hnlv was one of the belles of the
town and had no lack of other suitors,
but she turned a deaf ear to them &1L
Shelling a Tillage.
The shelling of an Alaskan village,
which so tragic an account was
some months ago, is described by Comdr.
Merriman of the navy, who did it, as
wholly he justifiable proceeding. He
that is represented as wantonly
ing the Indians’ houses, bedding and
winter’s food, and turning their women
and children to perish in the pitiless cold
of the Arctic night, simply because
had made a vague threat to destroy
property.
The true history, as he narrates it, is
as follows:
A medicine man of the Hootsnoo
tribe, 80 miles from Sitka, was acciden¬
tally killed while whaling with two
white men, whereupon the tribe seized
the whites, demanded 200 blankets as
ransom, and finally waited to get a third
white man (as one of the two captured
bad but one eye), intending then to put
two of them to death—one for the medi¬
cine man, and another for the death of
an Indian while felling timber, some
time before.
It seems that it is either a life for a
life, or a hundred blankets—that being
the native valuation of an Indian, in
their current money. They also took
possession of a steam-launch 'and other
property to the value of several thousand
dollars. Comdr. Merriman arrived at
the scene on the day whose evening
would have seen the prisoners put to
deatlx. He rescued them and immedi¬
ately demanded of the Indians 400
blankets, told them if he burnfthe did not receive
the blankets he should town,
ami gave them till the next day to com¬
ply. They tit first said th ey ♦ m id, and
then, sending him only 80 blankets, and
those stolen from the house of an absent
chief—they bedding and took blankets their winter provisions,
info the woods and
defied the officer.
Whereupon he ho was as good as his
word, and, though says he spared a
aumber of dwellings under to shelter them,
they were left destroy the impression that
he meant to everything they
had, and lie “wanted them to think so.”
He adds that “the property-elders and
missionaries agree with me, and I l>e
lievo the lesson will last the Indians for
a generation, although they rebuilt their
houses in a month.”
He gives the Alaskans a good charac¬
ter in the main, ami declares that, if the
present prohibition of distilled liquors
were extended to malt liquors, and
schools established for the children, the
Alaska Indians would bo a valuable
population, give for they ‘honest are “at all times
willing to an day’s work for
reasonable pay,’ an attribute not pos¬
sessed by any other triWwithin my
knowledge,”
doing Into Exile,
Capt. Thomas Osborne of the steam
ship which took Arabi Pasha and his
companions in exile to Ceylon, and ar¬
rived at Bombay on January 1G has fur
lushed the following account of the voy
a g 0 . “We took Arabi Pasba and his
associates and their families on board at
Suez, and sailed from that ](ort on De
<*mber Bcnairk 27, hmmd for the fo^ J; C^^o. Jgm&r They three
wore
VH aiUa . Au—i.i
and Eventually, wt-remways in fact, mor<fTo\ they less became cheerful.
as
happy as if they were going lot to paradise.
“The dullest of the was Arabi.
The exiled party went ashore in four
squads. In the last one was Arabi. On
landing the people crowded round him.
I should call it fairly mobbing down one.
Some kissed lus clothes, some got
m their knceR and kissed his boots. The
j, ar ty were driven away in carriages to
the Cinnamon Gardens, where they were
hx-ated in some handsome bungalows.
On the whole, I don t think any of them
regretted his lot. They never exhibited
any symptoms of fear, and believed a
happy future to be before them.”
Tlie Mining Mania.
There was an ex-Govemor a few years
since whoso business frequently called
him into some of the mining approached regions of
the West. One day lie was
by n wealthy neighbor who, diffidently
suggesting that he must see opportuni¬
ties for excellent investments, finally
offered him $50,000 to be invested in
mines.
“Doyon know anything about mines?”
asked his friend.
“No, nothing.” with $50,000
“Would you intrust me
to be invested in railroad stocks or some
manufacturing enterprise, according to
my judgment.” think I would.”
“No, I don’t
“Then in God’s name, man,” shouted
tlie excitable Governor, “why should
you blindly give away your money to be
sunk in holes in the ground of which
neither you nor I know anything ?”
Ran Away.
^f.'“® ,, dna , J , . bel,1 • f. s « way that ,
„ htt 1 e st °P * he De ‘ rolt * r(x
7Ve.« illustrates: . 1 f “A day or two since
f well-known physician called to see a
ady patient the mother of a bngM
three-year-old little girl As the doctor entered
i'^m the girl, as though some
what fr.ghtomed, ran away upon being
, ' mt tlu vlsltor was Dr. . The
mother explained that the little one
through experience with a dislocated
ankle and the vaccination season, was
evidently afraid of the visitor. The fol¬
lowing day the doctor made another call
and succeeded in winning the little girl
to his knee. yesterday ‘Why did you run away
from me ?” he asked. ‘Oh, I
didn’t ruu away from yon. I ran away
from the doctor of you,’ she responded
vigorously.”
Heavy License.
Tlie most recent example of the work¬
ing of a high license system for bar¬
rooms is in saloons Bloomington, Ill. There are
thirty-two in the place, and a
population of nearly 20,000. The fee is
$‘<0 a month, or $600 a year, and this
brings into the city $19,200 a year, or
nearly one-third the whole revenue.
Tlie saloons are said to be orderly, and
generally in the hands of substantial
men, who own the buildings in which
they ly are kept, and who would stubborn¬
resist a return to low license. The
present arrangement has prevailed
nearly twenty years, and is, therefore,
110 longer an experiment.
Western Stock Raising 1 .
a picture draws of it by a practical
western man.
j A western who has had
man a
' experience in stock-raising, says that
the picture drawn of it by many news
, paper writers is altogether too flowery,
i He says it is the height of folly for a
: young man to go west with a few hun
ilred dollars in money, invest in sheep,
! and then sit down expecting to be rich
in a few years. He concluded his letter
as follows:—A young man starting for
the West to engage profitably in stock
raising should have at least §5,000. Of
courae he could start on less. U Two
thousand dollars would buy him horses
and wagon, fix np his ranch, pay his
ordinary expenses, and buy him 200
sheep; but he would have to work very
hard, save all he could, and really ought
to have a partner to help do the work.
Even with $5,000 it would be slow work
for several years. I would advise a young
man of limited means who wanted to
go west to raise stock to get up a party
of three or four and “ pool their issues ”
for a few oif years, till they could afford to
branch alone. At any rate, I think
a man ought to hire himself out to a stock
man for a year before he invests. He
will thus have a chance to learn the
business and can look around for a suit
able investment, and perhaps at the end
of a year he may not like the life and
conclude to return. For the life is a hard
one, full of exposure and discomforts.
He may have to do his own cooking and
washing unless he is fortunate enough to
have a better half to do it for him. But
tic will be his own master, sleep as he
never slept before, his cheeks will be
kissed so red that his mother would not
know him from an Indian. He will have
to work hard, perhaps, day and night,
for wliieh he will be well repaid by the
increased comfort of his flocks and
herds, and by their increase till they
cover a thousand hills. But this talk of
a man who bar no means going west, put!
taking cattle and sheep on shares,
ting up a log house on the open prairie,
doing his own work, and making his
fortune in a few years, is all nonsense.
It is and a very careful risky business will to say the
least, managers not give
stock on shares to anybody who is not
well prepared to take- care of them or
concerning whom raising they know nothing.
The expenses of stock are much
heavier than supposed. The cost of
living is higher than it is here; wages
are buildings high, fencing is expensive, corrals
and take much time, labor and
money; but to one who is willing to work,
and wants to get ahead, I say, “Go
West,” and see for yourself.
Bismarck Saving a Soldier.
A good Bismarck anecdote, showing
the prince to have been a good comrade
from his youth up, is tlie following :
In 1838 he entered the Potsdam bat¬
talion of “Garde Jaeger” as a one year
volunteer, and six months later, at his
request, he was transferred to the “Sec¬
ond Jaegers” at Greifswald, in order to
be able to profit by the lectures in the
Agricultural School of Eldena. One of
his comrades in the battalion was a
youn g man, who at the present day still
founts etors of aniong the province the great of Pomerania. landed propri-' He
then stood in the second rank immedi¬
ately behind Bismarck. In spite of
stringent orders to the contrary, the
Jaegers persisted in frequently firing a
shot at the numerous storks on the
meadows near Greifswald while out on a
march, drilling or exercising. On^ day
on the march home to the barracks, Bis¬
marck’s hind-man brought down a bird
with a bullet. The officers, although
marching a good way ahead, heard the
report, saw the stork falling down, or¬
dered the battalion to halt and forthwith
began to examine the guvs. Everything rank
was os it should be in the first
The culprit in the second rank began to
tremble all the more for his safety, inas¬
much as his promotion to a lieutenantey
was at stake in ease he should be found
out. This Bismarck realized, and while
his friend was on the point of voluntari¬
ly denouncing himself hi order to clear
the rest of the men from an unjust sus¬
picion, he whispered to him:
“Look sharp ! take your gun in your
left arm; I’ll throw you mine.”
No sooner said than done—so quickly, did
in fact, that the inspecting officer
not notice it, and the case of the killed
stork remained an unexplained night mystery. Private
Over a mug of beer that
Bismarck declined to receive the thanks
of liis comrade for a service “which was
not worth talking about.” To this day
the two are pleasant neighbors and
sworn friends.
An Author’s Offence.
I11 Dresden, Julian Hawthorne, the an
thor. is credited with the following ex¬
ploit: He had been driven from the side¬
walk many and many a time by the Ger
man oflieers, till finally one day coming
over the Elbe on one of the bridges with¬
out a friend, he vowed that the next
German officer he met should at least
give him half of the sidewalk. He soon
met one, and neither being willing togive
way, they walked directly into one an¬
other. Hawthorne did not budge, neith¬
er would the German; they glared when at
each other for a few moments the
German drew liis sword and attempted
to strike Hawthorne with the flat of the
blade. Iu a twinkling took Hawthorne his sword
knocked the officer down, his knee
away from him, broke it across
and* threw it into the Elbe. The dis¬
grace of having lost his sword was so
ereat that the officer never dared to men¬
tion the circumstance; so Hawthorne
escaped without flue or punishment.
Heavy License.
The most recent example of the work¬
ing of a high license system for bar¬
rooms is in Bloomington. Ill. There are
thirty-two saloons in the place, and a
population of nearly 20,000. The fee is
$50 a month, or $600 a year, and this
brings into the city §19.200 a year, or
nearly one-third the whole revenue.
The saloons are said to be orderly, and
generally in the hands of substantial
men, who own the buildings in which
thev are kept, and who would stubborn¬
ly resist a return to low license. The
present arrangement has prevailed
nearly twenty years, and is, therefore,
no longer an experiment
AMERICAN FABLES.
Ingratitude—The Bucket shop— The Parmer
Some Specimens op Ingratitude.—A
liis Burglar who had risen to the Head of
Profession one day called upon a
Lawyer and said:
“I have come to demand the Protec¬
tion of the Law."
“You shall have it, my Friend—fee
five dollar*. ”
“Last night, a man named Jones, liv¬
ing on Seventeenth street, shot at me.”
continued the burglar.
“And what were you doing?”
“I was about to crawl into one of his
Windows to pack up hia Silver and take
it down to the Safe Deposit Company’s
vaults for safety. ”
“Truly, such Ingratitude must be Re¬
buked and Punished,” said the Lawyer.
“We will have him Arrested forthwith,
and though he may Defend his Silver
against Burglars he cannot Defend his
Greenbacks against the Law.”
The Bucket Shop. — A simple-minded
Peasant wdio had heard a great deal
about Bucket Shops, entered one of
them one day and asked:
“What will it cost me to get a bucket ?”
“Five dollars is our lowest Figure."
was the reply.
The Peasant handed over his cash and
was told to watch the Ticker and the
man who chalked on the Blackboard.
He watched until weary of the Occupa- 1
tion, and then said:
“I guess Fll take my Bucket and jog
along home, as it is about time to feed
the Pigs."
“Why. sir,” replied the owner of the
Cooper Shop, “the Bottom dropped out
of your Bucket half an hour ago.”
“Then I will take the hoops home to
show my Wife that I speculated and
lost.”
“Base ingrate !” shouted the proprie
tor, “is it not enough that you have not
had your pockets picked and your head
mashed with a club ? After having put
us to the trouble of taking your money
you would now squeal! Go hence !
Come here no more! Hereafter get
yourself robbed on the highway or buy
Mining Stocks !”
The Farmer and the Fox.—A Fanner
having missed a number of liis fine, fat
Fowls, Depredator, placed himself to watch for the
and ere long he had the
Pleasure of Sending a bullet into a Fox.
“And so it was you who gave me this
Fatal Wound ?” gasped the Fox as he.
feli.
protested “But you were Farmer, taking my Chickens,”
the
“That is true, but I was also nursing
a litter of Foxes for you to kill. The
klrin of one Fox is worth four times tliy
price of a Chicken, and I was raising
Family of five. See what you have lac,,
by slaying me, and Behold what base
Ingratitude has repaid my efforts h
biiugyou Wealth !”■—Detroit Free Pros
A Haytian Duke.
M. Toussaint-Lagorille, a full-blooasd
negro, once the “ Due de la Grand-Terre, ”
and financial agent in France of the
Emperor Soulouque, has just died in
Paris. He was successful in securing
a considerable loan for the black Caesar,
by promising to pay the most incredible
percentage—aeeording to one account,
even going so far as 2,000 per cent. He
also bought up an enormous quantity of
old military uniforms of all European
nationalities, second-hand generals’ hats,
and other adornments, for the decora¬
tion of Soulouque’s soldiers, generals,
and officers of state. He did not forget
to procure, also, a considerable quantity
of French brandy. Soulouque w as so
delighted with the success of his agent
that he sent word to him that he had
elevated him to the dignity of a Duke.
This made the man a butt for French
wit, and ruined his credit. the Then Sou¬
louque became angry at decrease of
supplies, and, fancying that liis agent
was growing careless, he degraded him
into a Marquis, then to a Count, next to
a Baron, afterward to a mere Chevalier,
and ultimately deprived him even of
that remnant of aristocratic distinction.
Meanwhile M. Toussaint-Lagorille had
also lost faith in his imperial master,
and began to carry on his business on his
own account. When the Emperor was
dethroned, and fled to Paris, he sum¬
moned the ex-Duke to appear before him;
but Lagorille refused to obey build the sum¬
mons. He had managed to up for
himself a property of some 60,000 francs,
npon the interest of which he lived with
comfort and great self-complacency to
extreme old age.
A Secret.
Tlie following anecdote of Alexander
H. Stephens is related in the Louisville
Courier-Journal: The wife of a Western
Congressman was one day sitting by Mr.
Stephens’s bedside, when he was so very
ill in the winter of 1877, and he spoke his
quite fix ely to her of his mother and
early life.
“Why did you never marry ?” she
asked. replied
“That’s my secret,” he eva¬
sively. would all like to know it,”
“But we
was her response.
“Well,” said he, grimly and reluct¬
antly, “I never saw but one woman I
wanted to marry, but she did not want
to marry me. 'That’s a good reason,
isn’t it ?”
“I hope she lived to regret her mis
lake,” remarked the kind heart.
“Y-e-s,” responded Mr. Stephens
slowly, “I think she did, and so did I.
A London Mtstert. —A london paper
says: “A sad story of life will be found
Biis morning among the reports of in¬
quests. Seventeen years ago a baby was
found on the steps of a workhouse.
There the child was kept three years
till it was time to send her to Hanwell
School and from school the girl passed
into employment as a domestic servant,
She was her master savs, cheerful and
happy. But a few days ago she sud
denly disappeared from the house, and
next'day her lifeless There body was nothing found in to
a pond nothing'to close by. was for
show, suggest, a reason
suicide. No one can tell of whom she
was born; no one knows the manner of
her death. From darkness to darkness,
with a little space of happy life between.”
No Chance To Shoot.
One Sunday afternoon, at a hotel in
Alabama, we webe talking about how
great disappointments sometimes soured
a man, when a chap who had been chew¬
ing plug tobacco all by himself over by
the window turned around and said:
ter “Gentlemen, ! Up you’ve hit it plumb cen¬
to four years ago I was a man
who alius wore a grin on his face, and I’d
divide my last chaw with a stranger.
Folks now call me mean and ugly, and I
kin hardly get a man to drink with me.’'
“Then you have suffered a great disap¬
pointment?” I queried.
“I have, stranger—I have. Ten years
ago a man in this very town cleaned ms
out on a mortgage, sold me out on an ex¬
ecution, and chuckled at me when I took
the dirt road for Tennessee. I orter have
shot him, but somehow I didn’t do it,
and arter I got to Tennessee things be¬
gan preying on my mind. Day and
night I could hear a voice saying: ‘Go
back and plunk old Brown,’ 'and I lost
flesh and came powerful near going into
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Preserve the Forests.
One of the encouraging signs of the
times is the fact that the South is wak¬
ing up to the value of its timber lands.
“The lumber interests of the United
States, and in fact of the whole world,”
says The Southern Lumberman, “have
assumed such important proportions
that it is due to the people that our State
Governments each establish a series of
surveys and investigations, with a view
of determining the that exact amount the of their
forest wealth, and in time gen¬
eral Government, through its proper de
partment, should publish in statistical
form the result of each State s timber
resources.
“While this authentic report would be
of great value to commerce, the presence
of the botanists and their assistants
in every portion of the States anC T.j*j ’* '.
ritories would arouse contained the people in their to a -.
sense of the wealth
forest possessions, and would perhaps
stimulate them to a more economical use
•of the timber, and make them more care¬
ful about preserving it; at any rate, the
timber, its extent, variety and value,
should be made known at as early a
date as possible.”
The Cleveland Herald says:—Few,
indeed, are the people who can keep up
the round of Washington gayety without
sadly showing their weariness. An ex
leption to this rule is a young daughter
of an army officer stationed in that city.
All winter she has been busy with re¬
ceptions and dinners, kettledrums and
germans, and on Wednesday, as she
came into Mrs. Chandler’s parlors she was
fresh and rosy as if it were her first day.
My curiosity was aroused, and presently
I had an .opportunity to inquire of her
how it was that she was able to endure
that to which stronger women yielded.
“ Oh,” she replied, laughing, subject. “mamma She
is almost a crank on that
is bound I shall not look passe at the
end of this my second winter. Every
nieht when I get home, no matter how
tired I am, a warm bath is given me,
after which I drink a bowl of bullion,
and am put to bed in the guest chamber,
which is more qniet than my own. In
the morning I am not called, but arise
when I awake, which is not often before
lunch time. It grows monotonous, I
assure you, but if I go, I have to submit.
I tell mamma she treats me as if I was a
Maud S. or a prize fighter.”
A Barricade.
On the anniversary of the Paris Com¬
mune the inhabitants of blood-red Stuttgart were
surprised by a large flag
hoisted on a tower in the middle of the
town. It seems that this flag remained
there until noon, when the police suc¬
ceeded in removing it. The Socialists,
who had hoisted it the night before,
had done everythingto render the re¬
moval of the revoln on ary banner as
difficult as possible. barricaded, The tower well gate
was found to be as as
the windows of the first story, and the
police had to scale the tower by a high
ladder and enter through the windows
of the second floor. The flag bore the
inscription: “Liberty, Equality, of Paris Fra¬
ternity,” and “In memory the
Commune, 18th of March, 1871.” At
the entrance was posted a placard, five pounds “Be¬
ware of dynamite. ” About
of gunpowder was found strewn about at
the inner gate.
An elder of , the „ kirk , , , having . found , a
little boy and his sister playing marbles
on Sunday, put his reproof in this form
—not a judicious one for a chud: “Boy,
do you know where children go to who
play marbles on the Sabbath day ?’
“Av,” said the boy, “they gang down to
the held by the water below the brig.’
“No!” roared out the elder, little “they fellow, go to
hell and are burned.” The
really shocked, called to his sister:
“Come awa, Jennie; here’s a man swear
ing awfully.”— Dean Ramset.