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THI’} JOl-R* A
—rCBI.XSlIKD WEKKl.Y AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
A new labor organization is forming.
IT I to be non-partisan, and “composed
of intelligent workmen for the practical
discussion of economic questions, and to
take such action as will be for the best
interests of American workmen.”
rr1 rhe percentage of dnntl.s deaths from . attacks •
of yellow fever was about ten per cent. ^
during the prevalence of the last epi
dei-i'c ' ■ Twenty-five or thirty years ago, ac
<•( >rdmg . . the same av o, v» doothq 7
were equal to not less than onc-halt or
onc- third of the cases. This would seem
to indicate that more scientific nursing
and . doc,oring , were 1 *•' N E .....‘
even upon this terrible scourge.
A n expert luts computed some .statistic?
of the 1 Ivrir J ‘ j” in the chief cities of
. . , •
Europe _ with the conclusion 1,1 P 1,1 J
going to the dogs. T here is no good
singer in Berlin. At Dresden, Malten is
!l-v r. lv «ooil one The Saxon chorus
r
m tigers arc detestable. \ ten nrnvide* F
.
nobody worth mentioning, and tilings
are worse in Italy than anywhere, for the
great operas cannot be given there for
lark ld of ° 8 in-en -^___
The British soldier is as simple-minded .
hs ever A gunner in one of the recent
n^hfs in " EffVDt was serving n his piece
T surrounded so e.o-Ciy , , , >y
wuea it was
Arabs that lie hud to use bis rammer ns
a Hub, and lie broke it. He was selected
for the Victoria cross. When called up
to i- ceiv it bo thought that it was foi
indefensible , . , breach , ....... of discipline of ,
(he
having broken the rammer, and volun
tonreri'n a idea ‘ of iruiltv hut with cxtcnu- :
'
sting circumstances. 1 hen he , got the .
cross.
From Acting Vice-President of the i
luited Mates to collector of customs at j
, small lake port is something of a turn
blc in politics, muses the f-au Francisco i
Clonic.t. That appears to be the am
bit; a now of Thom is W. Ferry, who,
while United States Senator from Michi
wa „ , Uo8Cn t0 „ ro , ide over the !
Senate after the death of Henry Wilson. ,
II. is . camlidntc for (lie office of col- :
T* Congress . ...... . «*«». aggregated eighteen I
..TV .00 111
vi k ars.
rays the New York limes: “ i he ro
cent fall of Calumet and Ilcela sliares,
caused by a fire in that copper mine,
-hows I now the tlie value value of ot gnat ere at minin'* mining
property may be affoctod temporarily by
sales in a narrow market. At the open
ing of business in the Boston Exchange !
he the the pn™ . I |
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of shares (par was f.-0 >, but in an
hour or two it had fallen to $”55. ‘Ihis
indicated a decrease of $5,000,000 in
thc value of the property, and this ap par- 1
ent decline had been caused by the sale of
only 752 shares of slock.”
The three most powerful organizations
oi farmer* in the West and Southwest
sue the National Alliance, the National :
Wheel, and the National Co operative
l niou. Thc first named is strongest in
lu.e . ... M>n sou., , • i .,.. cat (ur tires, ... anJ and often often act act in in
combination at the poll- m elections.
All three of these bodies recently held
i joint eoiifciencc in Meriden, Mi-s.,
and agreed to unite in one organization,
under n new constitution.
There m r. great deal of interesting in
formation about ... the strikes .. of . the , past
few years in the report sent to Congress
from the National Bureau of l abor; but
the statistic- do not cover the present
year. In , the , -even yea s ending .. witn ..
last December there were *755 strikes in
the United States, involving about 1 ,-
500.000 men aud women. Over one
h:u- of Turn were wholly or partially *. „
su< essful The main causes producing
them were demands for higher wage
«nvl shorter hours of labor. The -trikes
o. -VS8W r, fewer than those of several ,
previous years.
A Washington, physician says, in the
-. , tha’ on southern ports will nevet
-afo trer.. the yellow fever until tlmv
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cut ot. _ a.’ . intercourse with Cuba. Tlie
tuba:,- do no: care to stamp out the dis
03- . t . 0 . uo: hurt them m . -h. It
kills off one thousand Spanish 1 soldiers , l,ers
everv year, ond , tha. , . is just what thc
islanders want, Cuba will never be
placed in a healthy condition until it is
annexed tc- the l nited States. Then out
Govern men: would no doubt establish a
complete system sf sewerage that would
carry to bulkheads fronting on the ocean
the refuse that is now cep'sited around
the wharves in the harbor.
H13 MOTHER
Dead: my wayward boy !—my own—
Not the Law's!—but mine—the good
God’s free 51 ft to me alone,
Sanr-titled by motherhood.
‘ Dad, IV elI. who . not'
you say? is
“Brutal,'’ with “a heart of stone?’
And “red-handed:”— Ah! the hot
Blood upon your own!
I come ™ me not wi*h dawnwar dov n ward I eves eyes,
,
I To Plead . for him - shamedly,
God did not apo.off./e
U hen he gave the boy to nia
Simply, I make ready now
For His verdict. You prepare!
; You have killed us both—and how
-\yi;i you fwe us dure'
1 _ Jam ^ ' Independent.
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BbflJM) „,i,n J.liL ARRAS. .
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.
| i foumiki* on fa< t.
I had been sent by the General
, Office at Dublin, where I was at
time an oTcial, to inquire establishing into theques
tion of the necessity of an
' office in the far lying nistrietof the West
of Ireland. :
j I left Dublin early one morning, and
after traveling pll in day the arrived at Dun- Tliis
more at about live afternoon. :
j was as far as I was able to go by train;
so by hiring and a car if possible I determined to push destina- on
| road, reach my ;
tion that night. called
| My “.Jarvey,” ns the drivers are
in Ireland, was like most of the Irish
: peasant class, a dull, anything but it
j pertinacious funny being, yet, withal, as doggedly
! ot a bargain as a Maltese. all
! My particular natured specimen fellow. was found not at him
a bad I
merely uninteresting and dull. In vain
I asked him for information as to the ;
various houses we passed—what rents
p er 11C ie were usually paid in this dis
trict? VVhat he supposed was the popu- »
iation of that? To nearly all my ques-:
tions he replied, of with expression“Well, generally very
littie variety
surr, I don’t rightly know.” Then he
would turn his mare, with a “Get up,
Molly,” at tlm same time giving his reins
a twitch, and administering what lie
would have called a “shkerrup" 1 with his
•
The road like most Irish roads. wat;
bad. Perhaps the traffic was so small :
that it was not considered necessary to
keep it in repair. Anyway, we jolted
on mnorsclessiy, ciasperaungly
,l ' 1 o
“0,’ they’re strong enough, surr.”
The man was either not altogether yet°made
truthful or no springs wee |
which could have withstood the loose
or''fiS mor'If than j i
.overo >lt, 1 found
>““ '\„ ^ApoetTud i
t d
wiili i t f 'you
“What j angrily.' are going to do now?” I
as i 4e(
“Well surr I don’t rightly know,”
replied “How the man, is it impcturbably. the village?”
far to next
Slirr i_» 1
j knew short..... what he was 0 "oiii" to say so j
cu t him
“Can’t you ask?” :
“Tluue’s ',7“ nnwan ,i°ht to ask ”
T1 .h', time. We
„ iJ nnnRrflfl tn v 10 hlfuk barren nnrt of
t country, without a human being in 1
sight, far or near. So I scrambled up to
. , , , , . r n , i fairlv cv
tensive prospect. * 1 Gaining my eyes to
the utmost, for it was now dusk, - - l dis- -- .
«,■» I
from some chimneys.
was
telling the driver to lead the horse, I
struck out for the vdiage.^ ^ ^
with a landlord sad. sallow faced, Span
* his ^ a ^aracteristie
f . !t , ; n t i.;, , V iri of the
.•oiintrv
1 ev.ffi.inod 1 ‘ matters in a few words and
ended by a-king: “Gould 1 have a bed
for the night?” he renlied
“Vrn. ojinnot ” ' not un
. ... . . .
‘“You sec the predic-thc difficulty
we - re in, • lpk.u . . . u.s . 1 5 1
• ° ‘
tor a more uncommon v on .
Snail" tl.i - m-obt''“surr ” lie SDOke as if
“. he had t wenty 1 or thirty } at his
-
dispo-ai. , r
“tome, III give ^ you asover g nl .
• u I’! ,or > all ‘
1 would .. have gnci k
f^edown sdone. but did • not - ■_ deem it
»
wisetoappta too ,.u>h ol no -•
-he man—-wnose name l saw oy tnc
.
' va f, Tr-ffibef1 his diin contcm’
pniiiyeij, 1) i nt N dv and and then UKI1 called a - voun“ r g,rl ^
ot nbout six cen and spoke , ^ . her - n
the gnl l shook Shook hei hei heid neaa sturdilv stmany • lie nc
nienlattvelv P as l .Tfeomed to me. her I ‘re
wSber , n „ r ’ K( .. <he for” <*irl covered lace
wuni.ern.iiui: Iruuls mi n instant while he
gpoi-e; it was a strange gesture m siu.i
* ’l” moXc--for
wa- °
tWesu ‘ H heir d;scn--mn
It Ttseenedtmthem sei.-ua tna. im , ... anbad i Latl won I his
point, for presently he .aid. „i
>
® l f aiocJr k'ast ^bed-at Sn
..
‘Tv'sa H a s mi rrnht ruyir. Can v au I i «r 0 up up now
* n “The room7s‘not ready vet but wc*ll
brn<r ‘ ‘ a basin an’ hot wather down here
v y,. where
It matte,ed little t«> me I washed
off the stains of travel, so 1 agreed.
It was soon arranged that the carman
was to seek shelter somewhere in the
village, at a house the landlord told him
of. We ascertained, besides, there was a
blacksmith shop, where he could get his
spring mended in the morning. inquired the
During the evening I if
room wa 3 ready yet. as I wanted to un
* *
pack my bag. right be bed time, he
‘-It’ll be aal an
swered. “It’s not reddy yet.” myself, “this
“Dear me,” I thought to
room requires , rreat n eed of preparation, pig
Arc they converting it from a sty,
and is the present occupant objecting:”
The bacou and eggs for supper were
most delectable, at least, I thought so,
which amounted to the same thing,
What a nabob the landlord must have
thought me 1 Bacon, I knew to be a
in the more remote parts of Ire
land. But a supper of bacon and eggs,
and then a call for “more.” Was it
possible he was Lill'e’nt” harboring, not an angel,
but th “Lord unawares!
Eater on, three 6r four their of the people
of the viUage came in for glasses
and pipes and conversed m low tones to
the landlord, so low that I could not hear
what they said; but, as each one got up
to go, I remarked that he said signifi
cantly, as he pressed the landlord’s hand,
-To-morrow, then.” asked
When the men were gone I nay
host what was going to occur to-morrow
—a fair, an eviction, or what? lie pre
tended not to hear me, and presently
commenced speaking of some other sub
ject.
At about half past ten Nancy MeKillan,
i ilu dlord‘s daughter, after whisper
; n „ somethin" room”was to her father, announced
that the ready.
At last. Taking up a candle,the man
p re cerled me up the creaking stairs. Be
f 0le he opened the door he paused for a
moment, then led me into a very fair
si , C( j apartment, practically two old house, rooms
knoc ked into one. It was an
]j| ac kened beams crossed the ceiling,
and ‘ the lav"e " fireplace looked as though
- t p a( j not l)een licvv . 0VC n at the time of
t i, e ‘•Kcbcllioa.”
..j s ], :in > t want two beds,” said I,
laughing, on observing at one end of the
room a tiM i e truckle bed. and at the
ot ] iei . a ] ar ,. e four-poster, with heavv
curtains diawn all round it. “Which is
m j ne z»
1 his ’. . heieplicd, ... pointing ... , o
wan, sir, theitreut
'lie Little one. ‘To tell you i,
su l r : 1U " Cllt altera short pause,
“ ,hl8 "-indTeepsail'lier J. 3 “ e dl ! ai t^.fLd ”wlfntiu^to
’ odds r.n«l cuds
an , :1 tl ies on tins bed behind them cm
tains. She would not like ye to see the
disorthcr in ’ s ®
"other * . wethro^one^thin Sii’ “hero
? nd a,10thtr a there there, a d think no of
1 la «g hed and ? sslired him thc
, TlhoTld
-a .k. «sd= “Good
(rood ii.gut, suir. „ ]!ut J5Ui a.civilian „„ cK m»n
^ ed to fi0 X beaid him heave a deep
s '»h
Isuppose I was over tired, or, perhaps,
it was the new, the strange bed; any
how, I could not sleep. At last I gov [
and sat by the remains of the tire. Then
1 walked up and dow n the room. Then
looked at thc hearse like bed and won
dered what was concealed there. ‘‘I’ve
a good mind to pull back the
»» It would -flU “!«.»•!»«< an insight into Irish /«»•
give one
manners and customs. My hand was
on Uie curtains when I desisted.
poS.’ has “ishouUlnot lent hke'ffi myself. suli'erance. The
room been me on
It’s hardly the thing to cast profane eyes
on a girl's „ belongings—little .-. - feminine 0
Scir , >
I o ened my eyes but saw nothing,
The room was not quite dark. Not even
the fitful gleams of the moon threw their
herd the faint wand of scratching; now had
ouder, now setter. How long it
been going on befoie I awoke I could
not, of course, tell; but it was tins,
doubtless, that had disturbed me.
“What’s up ?” 1 thought to myself, “is
the landlord up to any mischief ? Does
ho contemplate a raid on my bag? Thc
thought did not at ail make me nervous,
lor, with a first class revolver at my bed
side 1 felt I was sufficiently well armed
in case of an attack, even if he brought
a fr.end or two with hint. Then, after a
moment, I laughed at myself for imagin- ’
mg such a thing as likely. “Doe. a man
1 reasoned, “resort to the slow and stu
pid process of scratching a hole in hi«
own door, when one strong kick would
have forced it open, though bolted?”
“Of course, it’s rats,” I concluded,
after a few scconds .
“They are nibble-nibble-nibbling " at
tbc 0 pj boards.”
So I rattled with thc chair close
me, to frighten my visitors away. 8-till
o, , ..Is continued I felt a little un
eerie feelings commenced to take hold of
i felt T was notaione in the room
that some Jother presence besides mine
was there. Just then the scratching
grew louder, then fainter: suddenly 1
i,.„ A..., n i , ‘ i n w i"iun 'the and then all was still
JUall . iv thfSnd^ -aitin" deve eeS. opmeut of
had 1
listened attentively for tLeir recom
mcacement. but heard nothing, except
tbo monotonous “tick ’ tick’ of the
cl ic(c on s ta : rs
.
The cause removed, the uncanny feel
ing gradually left me. I even have supposed
that my - imagination might been
. . .
" me
‘‘Strange!” if” thought I to myself. “I
wonder the place has the character of
being haunted, aud the landlord aud his
daughter have been np to my hanker.
turnkey to serve their own ends. I won-
der if.wiile I was asleep, they concealed
them-”
I flew to my bag and opened by
poeketbook. Every note, every sov
ereign, when every shilling just jthe same as
I counted them last night.
I was now so impatient to get down
stairs and question MeKillan that I
and managed to shave in icy
cold water, and was soon in the inn
parlor. slightly
I thought my host ‘started
on seeing me. determined. “He shall read nothing be
from me.” I “I shall
able to get the truth out of him all the
better.”
“V're down urly, surr," said the man,
in the sad, almost sullen tone I had
noticed in him the evening before,
“Yes, I was hungry for my breakfast,
so came down at once ”
I fancied he looked relieved at my
answer. A pause; then a little laesita
tiou “Did—ye before putting the next question:
sleep well, surr?”
“Capitally, take it altogether.”
Another pause.
Got any rats about this place? I
asked presently.
“Sorra rat—nor yet a mouse—dare
show his face in the township, with
Pineher here to look alter them. Here,
Pineher!” and he called a remarkably
knowing, pure bred, brown Irish terrier
to his side,
“H’m. Is the house supposed to bf
haunted, do that, you know?”
“What’s surr?”
“Any ghosts,spectres,spirits supposed
to frequent it:” I said explanatorily this _
“I mvir heard any such stones ot
bouse, surr,” and the man threw a rapid
glance ‘VVhat at me could with his have keen, been gray I eyes, heard,
it
then?” I looked him straight m the face
as 1 deliberately asked the question.
‘vleardf he repeated, as if he was
listening to some one else than myself
speaking heard.’ (He knows something.)
I es,
“Heard?” he said again, after a sec
on d 8 pause, and starting to his feet,
“^ or the luv ( ' od ’ w hat did 7® ar ’
I was surprised at the _ man svehem- ,
eace - Was he, then, ignorant ot the
occurrence.
I told him briefly possible ... of my
as as
experiences of the previous night. Of
the sound of gnawing or scratching at
the boards, of the low moan, of the entire
cessa t; on of the sounds after a few mo
ments I was about to question him
| urt jj er> when I looked up into McKil
laa ’ s face - A cold sweat had started to
?^n Shml thehsodJcds^nd comfinto a'Sed ’ fSfiSd
his face
“Mary—Mother o’ God!” lie cried
out ’ distractedly, tiling open the door,
and dashed wi!(lly out 1 followed,
feting what was about to happen asked
As we rushed up the stairs, he
.
“Wheuwas'thh?”
1 st<> “ 1 ' 3
rpj Yic ”<”t l]un^‘ « hi “‘ and made «». tor the
ng open, convulsively
i ar g eb ed. He tugged had been fastened, at
the curtains, but they yield# Kxciting
and would not ot first
greater strength, he tore them open.
A sight met my eye foi which I was .o
little prepared that my blood froze in
my veins and my heart stood still.
A rude coffin, with the words on a
rough, brass slate . i Mary MeKillan,
borll ]P4—, died 1«<—. It. I P.”
“M? MM! M a»lto.l” the men
cr ; e d piteously, distractedly. fetch -‘There
may be hone yet. Nancy, Dr.
Growin-fetch him, dye hear, this m
Sti \vVth the speed of lightning he next
f, cw to the cupboard, and drew out some
rough implements, and with the aid of
these we removed thc coihn lid.
There lay a woman in her grave
broken and split with the splinters of
e i m from the coffin boards,
She had had a brave tight for her life,
waked when her struggles were well
nigh spent. I, who lay close to her,
listened, and tent no saving hand. Ob,
tlie horror of that woman’s second death!
Oh, the anguish of her mortal pain! J
turned to the husband, but he had fainted
awuy . I wined the sweat from his fore
head—that cold, clammy, awful sweat
that leaves the indescribable feelings on
’ the lingers that cling to them for years
after which thc scene is recalled,
j tried to express sympathy for the
unfortunate husband and the motherless
daughter, but my words were very in
adequate to tell 1to them all I felt
Presently MeKillan became so far re-
1 covered as to be able to explain to me—
what I could well believe—that he was
terrible poor. He ought not, he said, to
have let me the room, but when I offered
him the sum I did he was not able to
resist. The supposed dead wife was to
have been buried to-dav; that accounted
for the significant “to-morrow” of
men on taking leave the night before.
The custom of “waking’ had taken place
I reached the village, but during
its progress poor “Mary” had shown no
signs of life.
i 1 stayed oyer the funeral as I thought
“the family would like it, and my car
being repaired, I started on my journey
,
directly the ceremony was over. night,
I have never forgotten that awful
The horror of it clirgs to me and even
now, after all these years, if I awake in
the night I fancy I hear the sepulchral
scratch, scratch, scrr.tcti of the dying
woman on the coffin lid, and then the
relapse into silence which I now know
was but the sinking back from an awful
awakening into the sleep of death. The
distorted face and the strained eyes, for
all the world like glass marbles, will al
ways haunt me.—Aon I orl Herald.
The total number of Protestant Epis
copalians a ns is is 418 4K,o21. 531
WOKDS OF WISDOM.
In slioal water you know how deep it
1 *.
The present is the golden moment of
life.
Be content with such things as you
have.
Only very mean men always take the
half cent.
Beautiful bubbles are but glittering
emptiness.
The be-t physicians arc Dr. Diet, Dr.
Quiet and Er. .'Ferryman.
Who boils his pot with chips makes
his broth smell of smoke.
Women are extremists—they are either
better or worse then men.
A lady and her maid acting in accord
will outwit a dozen sprites.
There is no torture that a womau will
not sulfer to enhance her beauty.
Woman is a charming creature, who
changes her heart as easily as her gloves.
Liie is a series of surprises, and would
not be worth taking or keeping if it
were not.
Tne sun, rising and declining, makes
long shadows, and at midday, when he
is his highest, none at all.
Conviction is in itself a power. The
man who is sure of what, he says, gives
assurance to those who hear him.
There may be times when silence is
gold, and speech silver; but there are
times, also, when silence is death and
speech is life.
If good people would but make good¬ of
ness agreeable, and smile instead
frowning in their virtue, many would
they gain to the good cause.
A nobleness and elevation of mind,
together with firmness of constitution,
gives luster and dignity to the aspect,
and makes the soul, as it were, shine
through the body.
Meet difficulties with unflinching per¬
severance, and they will disappear at
least; though you should fall in tha
struggle,you will be honored; but shrink
from the task, and you will be despised.
A Bold Whaler in the Far North.
During the past season the steam
whalers in the Arctic have visited a por¬
tion of the ocean lying to the eastward
of Point Barrow. This is the first time
since 1852 that any vessels have been
able to go so far through the ice.
Since the time that fishing for bow
head whales has been the occupation the _ of
whalemen in the Arctic ocean mas¬
ters have endeavored to follow the big
fish that are supposed to run along the
northeast shores of the American con¬
tinent, rarely going, however, beyond
tlie Return reef. This past season the
veteran whaleman, Captain Bauldry, in
the steamer Orea, reached a point but
fifty miles from Hershel Island, near the
mouth of the Mackenzie River. He ob¬
tained but one whale, and he states that
there was considerable difficulty in
catching the fish owing to heavy drift
ice.
Captain Bauldry says that he and the
other Captains met natives from Herschel
Island and points to the eastward of the
Mackenzie River. Their facial appear¬
ance is said to be similar to that of the
North American Indians, while their
language is almost identical with that of
the Greenland aborigines. They were
very reluctant to visit tlie steamers, and
expressed great surprise at the machinery
and other gear, stating that they had
heard of the “big canoes” but had never
3 een one. The shore of the ocean is lined
with immense piles of driftwood, some
of the logs being very large in size. It
the natives that the drift- _
was stated by in the
wood is brought down to the sea
spring by the Mackenzie River, and it is
then carried by thc current to the wc-t
ward. For some time past the whalemen
have been told by natives tbat quantities
of whalebone could be procured reached at Iler-
6chel Island, but as they doubted. never his
that point the story is '1
year, however, a venturesome boat steerer
has gone with a party of natives in a
whaleboat to visit tlie island and as far
eastward as he can get. The result of
his journey will be known to the whale¬
men in August next, when they arrive at
Point Barrow, and it is safe to state if
whales or whale! one are to be had at
Herschel Island that a vessel will en
deavor to reach that pome.— San Fran -
■:ii:o Chronicle.
Incongruities in Hair.
“Yes,” said the hairdresser, as she
pomaded and bandolined a sitter’s hair,
“we have some curious features in oui
business, For example, there’s ‘the
widow's lock.’”
“Is that a style of hair indigenous tc
widows:”
“It is supposed to predict widowhood,
It is a lock that grows out straight at the
parting of the hair and will not grow
long enough to be combed back with the
other hair. Then there is the cowlick.”
“Is that another independent lock:’’
“Yes; it grows straight up from the
forehead like a tuft of grass, as if a cow
bad licked it up—and it is so stubborn
that ladies amicted with themOiten 0&. part
tbeir hair on the side to avoid
They are a great trouble, and no one
knows why they have them.”
The hairdresser took a roll of hairpins
and put a dozen or so in her mouth.
“E-v r h-e-a-r of 1-ove-locksi
“No: that hairpin went right into my
brain—what are they?”
“i.ove locks? they are not in
fashion now. Th* made by cut¬
ting a lock of tl ty the ear and
letting it fall st- st the cheek
for about an iD - :-e whitelocks?
I’ve seen a lor as white as snow
growing in 1 hair of a young
head: and y and contrary as
sin .”—DC s.
nil'W
The (OT .)* I tnas from the Island
of Jan- . the nited States last year
•mom r- 200,000 bunches.