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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
It is always’ pleasant, observes the De¬
troit Free I*ra w, to see things done in a
business-like way. A Philadelphia law¬
yer collected a claim of $1500 fora
client, made a charge of $400 for his ser¬
vices and then embezzled the remainder.
An ordinary man of dishonest inclina¬
tions would have stolen the $1500 out¬
right.
A woman’s directory is to be pub¬
lished in Chicago soon, giving the names
and addresses of 30,000 Chicago woineu
who belong to various religious, bene¬
volent and political organizations, Tbe
book was compiled for the purpose of
estimating the number of women in
Chicago who were interested in work not
purely personal and to encourage them to
a greate r unity of effort.
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The latest Government returns show
that the public debt of the Canadian
Dominion is now $286,575,955, of which
1188,713,935 is payable in England. The
interest upon the enormous debt has to
be sent across the Atlantic every year and
is a serious drain upon the country’s
monetary resources, Yet the legisla
tion of the last session of the Federal
Parliament pledged the country to the
expenditure of over $57,000,000, and
next year’s revenue will not exceed $36,
000,000, thus leaving $21,000,000 to be
borrowed. The annual interest upon the
Dominion debt is now about$13,000,000.
The total revenue from customs and
excise twenty years ago was only $11,-
112,573._
When tin history of the Panama Cana)
Company is written it will include many
stories of extravagance such as one must
go back to the time of Rome in its de¬
cadence to parallel. One of the most
characteristic instances of wastefulness
was furnished by the General Superin¬
tendent at Panama. He spent $300,000
on a fine house and nearly as much in
opening up fine roads so that his wife
might take horseback rides. She died in
about, two years, and to signalize his
grief over her loss he hud all the thor¬
oughbred horses shot which she had used
iu riding and driving. This Imitation of
the great Alexander didn’t cost the
mourner anything, however, ns the horses
all belonged to the company, and their
loss was charged to the inexorable
climate.
The present forces of enlisted men in
the United States Navy aggregates 8500
men. It is the opinion of Commodore
Schley that a force of 15,000 men, or
nearly 7000 additional, will be required
to equip the vessels already authorized by
Congress. It is more than likely that an
effort will be made to secure some sort oi
provision for these enlisted men in the
Navy, so that the Government can com¬
mand the very best, type of manhood for
its sailors. The officers are already pro¬
vided for by the retired list. The last
Congress' arranged the saving-bank
system, so that the money which was re¬
tained from the sailors until they were
finally paid off could be deposited with
the paymaster, and would draw four pel
fent. interest. This mouev is nonforfeit¬
able for any cause except desertion.
Other steps iu behalf of the men are in
(consideration.
W. O. Atwater, in charge of the work
at experiment stations established by the
Agricultural Department, assisted by A.
W. Harris and A. C. True of his division,
is preparing a bulletin,which will be pub¬
lished this year, giving a history of the
department and a sketch of the progress
of education in agricultural colleges and
schools. Under this latter head the sub¬
ject of agricultural instruction is discussed
at length. It is acknowledged that the
purpose for which agricultural colleges
were established in the several States,and
to which the Government contributed by
liberal grants of land and money, has not
been realized. The colleges do not edu¬
cate men for the farms.but for professions,
and the tendency of their teachings has
been to draw young men from their farms
instead of fitting them for work on them.
The curriculum in most cases is too ex¬
tensive for the average farmer's son tc
undertake, and in most cases also the ex¬
penses are too great for the avera_, :rm
er’s son to meet. The consequence is that
the class for whom the colleges were as¬
signed have received absolutely no bene¬
fit from thei r existence.
_
Folks who are always for-giving:
charitable persons.
peggi ng away.
0hr well I remember~the clustering face*
That In wonderment peered through the
shoemaker’s door
mxen, to sound of his whistle and tap of his
hammer
He often regaled us with bits of his lore;
As often he’d say, with a nod that was
knowing
And a smile that was bright as the sweet
summer flay
-I tell you what, lads, there's nothing
worth having
But what you must get it by pegging away.
“You may run the swift race and be
counted the victor,
And yet you but get there a step at a time;
And up the steep ladder where Fame keeps
her laurels,
If you want to get one you must certainly
climb,
The world, it is only a broad piece of leather,
We must shape it ourselves to our last as
we may;
And we only can do it, my lads, as I tell
you.
By pressing and moulding and pegging
away.”
Oh ! the years have been long, and the shoe¬
maker’s vanished;
Adown the dark road we must journey
alone;
But I often think of the wisdom hid under
His whimsical jest and his fatherly tone.
And often I’ve proved the truth of his say¬
ing,
As misfortune and I together still stray,
That all the best gifts the world has to offer
It only gives those who keep pegging away.
—The Advance.
A DETECTIVE’S LUCK.
If I had the selection of a corps of de¬
tectives I should pick out men who are
known as lucky. Certain men are thus
characterized, and the term properly be¬
longs to them. Certain men are unlucky,
anil the term also properly belongs to them.
I have worked alongside officers who were
as sharp and keen as men ever became,
who were persevering and tireless, who
had the pluck of a warrior and the re¬
liance of a slave, and yet they were
“down on their luck,” as the saying
goes; that is, the big things passed them
by and fell into the hands of others. In
detective work one must have courage
and judgment. He must know human
nature pretty well. He must be fairly
shrewd and sharp. If he is working a
blind trail the rest must be left to luck.
And the luck and ill-luck of detective
life is something wonderful. The luck
we hear of every day. The ill-luck is
suppressed as much as possible. In the
month of June, 1867, I was spending a
few days with relatives of mine on a farm
near Oberlin, Ohio. I had been in de¬
tective business about five years. We got
no newspapers at the farm, and I had not
received a letter for ten days, and had not
heard the least bit of news from the out¬
side world, when uneje and I drove into
the town one day. On the way in I got
nut of the wagon and picked up a copy of
ft Cleveland paper which w T as lying on the
highway. The first thing I saw was an
lecount of a murder at Peru, Indiana,
Several days before. An old man had
been murdered and robbed of a large
amount of money. Not the slightest clue
of the murderer had been discovered. No
one could say whether he was old or
voung, white or black, or which way he
lie had gone. It seemed a hopeless case,
and I felt a bit sorry for the two Chicago
officers who had been sent for to work
the case out.
The first call I made after reaching
Oberlin was at the Postoffice. I then
visited a barb.er shop, but the two chairs
were occupied, and I bad to wait about
ten minutes. Having nothing to occupy
my mind, I looked the two barbers over
in detail, and then turned my attention
to the customer in the nearest chair. I
began at Ins feet first. He wore No. 8
gaiters, and they were a new pair; in
'
deed, they had never been blackened,
His trousers were frayed about the bot
tom, and, as I came to look closer, I saw
that they were old and threadbare. On
the left leg, which was nearest me, be
tween the knee and the ankle,were several
itaius. They might have been made bv
either blood or acid. When the man sat
up straight after his shave I saw that his
toat was also old, and I looked over to his
hat on the hook to find it very rusty. The
barbers were not speaking to either of the
men, so that both must be strangers in
the town. My man had reddish hair,
which he had had clipped close before 1
came in. His neck was sunburned and
flirty, and, after looking him over from
toe to crown, I said to myself:
pids chap has all the looks of a pro
fessional tramp. That suit was probably
riven him, but ten to one he stole those
jaiters. Wonder if he can scrape up !
enough to pay the barber.” The j
The bill was thirty-five cents.
man gave me a furtive look as he got out
of the chair, and while being brushed he
felt in his pockets for change. He had
two ten-cent shinplasters, but as these
were not enough he half turned from me
and fished a greenback out of his pocket,
The barber bad to go out to change it.
Ihd the man was so impatient and ner
vous that he could not stand still. When
the barber returned he had the change for
i twenty-dollar note. He began to count
It out. but tha stranger muttered his con
adeuce that it was all right, and reached
aut for the pile and crammed it into his
vest pocket. He was about to go, when
t rose up and said;
“My friend, I want to have, a few
words with you, if you are not in a big
hurry. ‘
“But I am!” he replied, tiding:tb pUiii
P™* me without looking me ih the face.
“ But Y ou 11 have to walt same ‘
1 want to kn °W who you are.”
“ T her f ^ vas a back door to shop,
TT Do wheeled t and sprang for it, . but! it was
bjcbed ' be turned on me again he
P ull ? d a revolver from his bosom- and
leveled it on me, and fired a shot which
^ ent over my head and through the win
dow. Before he could fire again I had
b >rn jammed against the wall, one hand
hold of the weapon and the other on his
throat, and I choked him until he sank
down in a heap. Who did he turn out
to be? The Indiana murderer who had
been dodging about the country for six
days, and who had run the gauntlet of a
hundred officers. It was blood on his
trousers, though we did not have to
prove it, as he made a full confession. It
was simply my good luck. It was simply
the ill luck of two Cleveland detectives
who reached Oberlin two hours too late.
About fifteen years ago, w r hile con¬
nected with the force in Chicago, a
jewelry house on State street was robbed
of $12,000 worth of jewelry. Aside
from this there was a package of Govern¬
ment bonds amounting to over $17,000,
which had been deposited in the safe for
security. The robbery was committed
by professional cracksmen, who left their
tools behind but no clue. I was at this
time at Bowling Green, Kentucky, after a
counterfeiter, and I read an account of
the robbery in a Louisville paper. It
wasn’t my job, and I didn’t give it any
particular thought. I had traced a no¬
torious counterfeiter down into Ken¬
tucky and located him at Bowling Green.
At least, I traced him to that town, but
there I lost the trail for a few days. I
got a false clue, which led me down to
Franklin, and when I started to return I
took an accommodation train. It was at
night, and there was but one coach on
the train, and that contained only five
passengers besides myself. Three of these
were natives, sure enough, while the
other two talked about a coal mine in
Tetinesseee, and seemed to own land in
that State. I gave them little attention,
being three seats in the rear, and was
talking with the conductor on general
matters, when the two men suddenly be¬
came interested in something one of them
held in his hand. Their heads were to
gether, and they were evidently deeply
interested, when the report of a pistol
was heard, followed by a cry of agony
and a yell of alarm. The object of their
curiosity was a derringer, and it had ac- j
cidentally been discharged, the bullet j !
entering the leg of one of the men just
above the knee. In his pain and fright j j
the wounded man sprang up, and turned
fiercely tion: on the other, with the exclama- j I
“Curse you, but you did that on pur¬
pose ! You wanted all the swag to your¬
self.”
The conductor and I were beside them
in a minute. The wounded man fell
back on the seat, and he evidently re¬
gretted the break he had made a few sec¬
onds before, for he said, as we came up:
“Tom,old fellow, I had my own finger
on the trigger, and pulled it off. You are
not a bit to blame.”
“But what about the ‘swag?’ I de¬ 1
manded, as I stood over them. j
“He meant our coal mine,” replied the !
one called Tom.
“Yes; we are partners in a coal mine,”
added the wounded man.
“Oh! that’s it? Well, lets see what i
can be done for you.” j
It bad wound—so bad that 1 '
was a
knew his leg would have to. come off, as j
the big bullet had the shattered conductor the that bone,, he j j
and I suggested to dared Bowling
make as fast time as he to
Green, where medical attendance could
be bad. To my surprise the men asked
to be put off at some highway crossing,
near a farm could house, saying the that a country well
doctor manage case
enough, and that the quietness of the
country would be the best for the patient.
This satisfied me that they were suspic
ious characters,and I assumed the author
ity to remove the one and handcuff him
to a seat at the rear of the coach, and to j
search both. The one had a revolver and
the other the derringer, and before'I was
through searching I brought to light all
the stolen bonds and jewelry. It was
sheer luck again. Four of our men were
out on their trail, but on false scents,
They were supposed to have gone East,
while I picked them up in the South,
The fellow' who was shot not only lost his
leg but his life. The other was returned
to Chicago, and he received a long sen
tence for bis crime. There was a great
deal of newspaper talk about my shrewd
ness, but I didn’t deserve a word of
praise. The case simply came to me.
The ripe fruit dropped into my hands,
Things fall that way to a lucky man, no
matter what business he is engaged in.
One of the bits of luck which fell to
me several years ago,and which was much
talked about at the time, came about in
a very singular way. I had been sent
down to Augusta. Arkansas, to identify a
man who had been arrested there,and was
supposed to be a robber wanted in Cbi
cage. He did not prove to he the man
we hoped he was,and I was making ready
to return, when a resident of the town,
who was an old acquaintance of mine, put
forward a speculation. Ho had just pur
chased a saw mill a few miles down White
River, and he believed there was big
money to be made iu buying a large tract
of timber contiguous to the mill. This
tract was for sale at a very low figure, but
mv friend could not raise the cash. The
result of our talk was thatwe took a boat
next morning and were left at the mill
j landing. of machinery While he was I started overseeing some
change out to get
’some idea of thewalee-of the timber. Tie
Urat thing I knew 1 ! was lost in the forest,
and I did just what ail other people do
wader the circumstances—headed the
wrong way. Instead! if'going toward the
river, I went away fcom it. It was in
July, and although themosquitoes nearly
devoured me, there was/do danger of suf
feringfrom the inclemency-of the weather.
It was about 10 o’clock the morning
when I started out, and by mid-afternoon
I had walked at least ten miles, and knew
that I was entirely bewildered. I couldn’t
keep a staight course for th ?creeks and
swamps, and the day was so cloudy and
the forest so dense that there- was no
sighting the sun to guide me/ It was
just' 5 o’clock in the afternoon when I
reached a good-sized stream, and the first
thing I saw was an old house boat tied to
the bank. There was smoke coming out
of a stovepipe thrust through the roof,
and I congratulated myself that I had
reached shelter and something to eat.
There was a plank reaching from boat to
shore,- and I ascended it and entered the
cabin unannounced. A white man and a
negro were seated in the rude room, and
a fire had just been kindled in the cook
stove. There was a door at the other side
of the boat. It stood wide open, and the
instant the men caught sight of me both
sprang for the door. In the rush they
bumped into each other and both rolled ■
to the floor. The white man was the
quicker of the two, and while I stood
looking and wondering he scrambled up
and flung himself into the water and
swam to the opposite shore.
“Doan’fc shoot! For de Lawd’s sake
doan’t kill me!” yelled the negro, as he
rolled over and over on the floor.
“What does this mean?” I demanded.
“It means dat I surrenders!” he re
plied.
“Very well. Now sit up and tell me
who you are and what you are doing
here. ”
“I had to come along, boss. I didn’t
want to, but dey said dey would dun
kill me.”
“Who owns this boat?”
“Why, dat Harding gang, in co’se.”
“And. what are you doing here?”
“Dun hidin’ out, I spose.”
I was so stupid that I did not realize
what luck had come to me until the negro
gave it away. Then I secured him against
escape and searched the boat, and in that
old hulk I found over $6000 worth of dry
goods, clothing, boots and shoes, jewelry,
hardware and other stuff, the proceeds of
a dozen big robberies along the river,
There was a gang of four men engaged in
the work, and the negro was their cook.
The boat was hidden away in a branch oi
the White River to wait for a rise of watei
to get down the Mississippi, and three oi
the gang were off that day to spot a
country store some seven miles distant.
The negro and I stood guard all night,
for I soon found that I could trust him,
but if the fellows returned to the neighbor¬
hood we did not see them. Next day wt
got the boat down to the mill, which was
hardly four miles away, and from thence
she was taken to Clarendon and the goods
returned to their owners, as far as possible.
The robbers were all identified by name
and person by the negro, and within a
few weeks were either captured and sent
to prison or run into the sw T amp and shoi
down .—New Tori Sun.
Signals Among Primitive Races.
R. Andree has lately been collecting in
formation as tothe-useof signals by primi
five peoples, and the facts he has broughl
together are summarized in Science. II
appears that American Indians use rising
smoke to give signals to distant friends,
A small fire is started, and as soon as il
burns fairly well grass and leaves art
heaped on the top of it. Thus a large
column of steam and smoke arises. By
covering the fire with a blanket the In¬
dians interrupt the rising of the smoke a1
regular intervals, and the successive clouds
are used for conveying messages.
Recently attention has been called to
the elaborate system of drum signals used
by the Cameroon negroes, by means ol
which long messages are sene from vil
lage to village. Explorations in the Congo
basin have shown that this system prevails
throughout Central Africa. The Bakuba
use large wooden drums, on which differ
ent tones are produced by drumsticks,
Sometimes the natives “converse” in this
way for hours, and from the energy dis¬
played by the drummers, and the rapidity
of the successive blows, it seemed that the
conversation was very animated.,
The Galla, south of Abyssinia, have
drums stationed at certain points of the
roads leading to the neighboring States,
Special watchmen are appointed, who
have to beat the drum on the approach of
enemies. Ceochi, who observes this cus¬
tom, designated it as a “system of tele
graphs.” The same use of drums is found
in New Guinea. From the rhythm and
rapidity of the blows the natives know at
once whether an attack, a death, or a
festival is announced. The same tribes
use columns of smoke or (at night) fires to
convey messages to distant friends. The
latter are also used in Australia. Columns
of smoke of different forms are used for
signals by the inhabitants oi Cape Y ork
2 nd the neigboring island.
Y ictoria hollow trees are filled with
fresh leaves, which are lighted. The
signals thus made are understood by
friends. In eastern Australia the move
ments of a traveler are made known by
columns of smoke, and so was the dis
covery of a whale in Portland bay.
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