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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
California, it is said, now manufac
tnres nearly ai! fbe iron she needs, though
only « few years ago she depended on the
IJasL for her supply._
Viio Vonnm. says that the wealth of Ui*
finited States is $60,001),000,00(1, and
11 it half of it is owned by less than 25,-
4>i it people. These are the men to put
11 1 . urld’s fair on its feet.
Jinny an’* “Pilgrim’* Progress*’ has
Is .ly been translated into the (dune.se
dt .»■••,"? of Amoy, which JS said to |m- the
eighty third language or distinctive • in¬
ject in which this work has appeared
Nova Scotia is remarkable for the nam
|»cr ot its old people Jt has a larger
number of centenarians than iny other
country, there being one to every 19,000
Inhabitants, They are chiefly of the
forming cbt.vt, in comfortable circmn
*h , accustomed to exercise in the
«*pi;- air, plain food and plenty of it,
with good inherited constitutions
The Presbyterian Church in Pbiladel
fiftia, which the Reverend Madison ( .
Holers left to come to New York, will
try thirty clergymen and then take a
vote to see which one of tlie thirty shall
|iu called. This, says (he New York
Trihrme, looks like a simple way to get a
satisfactory pastor, but it may not be,
after all. No one man of the thirty may
please a majority of the voting members,
while, on the other hand, thc man best
•tilted for the place may refuse In enter
the handicap
In the opinion of the New York
ffarmrr “it, will not need many more
ewes like that >f the Cronin murder
C»se to convince the public that
there must be some radical changes made
in our jury system, The time has come
when it ought, to be impossible to
challenge the right of any intelligent
niiui to sit, upon the jury, An honest
and intelligent man could hear evidence
mid decide justly, in spite of any possible
prejudice that he may have conceived in
n wading newspaper reports of the crime.
An conducted at present, there is no
greater farce than many of our jury
trials. They certainly favor the criminals
•nd not the cause of justice.”
India Inis of late years been regarded
ms o»i) most powerful competitor in the
European wheat market. Advices from
41m East, t ins year, the New York Com
mierciat Adnirtisrr considers, indicate that
i»l*. have little to fear from India’s com¬
petition, the official estimate being that
’tliis season’* output will be three-quarters
of o million tons short of last year’s As
•bowing that no large marketable stock
can be on hand, the official figures of
India's wheat export for the second
quarter of tliis year are of interest. It
fcpjvars from this statement that India
amt. out in iht' three months 3,646,590
hundred weights of wheat, a decrease of
3,1159,0 i f> hundred-weights front the
•nine quartet in 1888, and 4,890,752
luimlred weights les* than in 1887,
'Wo have new- front Minnesota that
theatrics have ust. been made with cer¬
tain tribes of Indians in that State by
which 4,(100,000 acres of land will soon
)>e open l for settlement. This vast
track has been held m re$
•rvai.ion for the remnants of a few small
tribes of red men, but it has lain waste,
*nd they readily gave il up when asked
to <1 SO It is fertile soil, well watered
va il wooded, and all ready for cultiva¬
tion by the crop raisers. “Just think of
it.!” exclaims the New York Sun. “four
million acres added to the farming lands
•f Minnesota ' Here arc forty thousand
TOO-acre farms for forty thousand honest
farmers, created in a day by a stroke of a
l»ea Perhaps there are able-bodied
Mew Yorkers who will g“o out to Min
nesota ami take up some of the farms
«sh. i tii • laati is put in the market by
flr- G-. muon If they do, they will
find a nate, with plenty of
gmistun But even this big tract of
latt.l is petty iu comparison with the
other big tracks that arc waiting the
bands ot industry in the new States of
North Dakota South Dakota, Montana
am Washington, or well as in other far
■\Vufltern States and Territories. This
is h great country, and it can furnish
land to ten times more people than
non live in it.”
what?
Ohj what is the love or the hate of men?
WJiat is their praise or their blame?
Thelr blame is a breath, but an echo of death,
And a star that glows bright and is gone
from the sight—
Ah! such is the vanishing guerdon of fame,
Off, what is the grief or the joy of life?
Wliat is its pleasure or pain?
The joys we pursue pass away like the dew; .
And though bitter the grief, time brings re¬
lief
To the lieart that is wounded again and
again.
Oh, w hat is the lessor the gain of the time?
And what is the success’ fair crown?
The gain that we prize—lo! it fades and it
flies;
And the loss we deplore as quickly is o’er.
There is little to choose ’twixt life’s smiles
and life’s frowns.
Oh, men they may love and men they may
hate,
It matters little to me.
For life is a breath, and hastens death
To gather in all, from the hut and wall,
To the home that is narrow—the house
that is free.
—Boston Transcript.
A BRAVE DOCTOR,
When Herman Dean was in college and
the medical school, he was so timid and
so slow of speech that his fellow-students
made him the butt of frequent jokes.
He seemed to know his lessons, but in
endeavoring to recite them he floundered
about and clutched at his words desper¬
ately and awkwardly, and made but a
poor appearance. One could not help
smiling at the tall, clumsy, blushing fel¬
low. But he worked at some of the prob¬
lems that discouraged the rest of us
with a stubborn courage that enabled him
more than once to surprise us aud put us
to shame. “Thorough” seemed to be his
motto.
He took his degree of M. D. with
honors, and soon afterward we heard that
he had been appointed a United States
Medical Inspector on the Maine frontier.
lie entered upon his official duties in
1885, the year of the memorable small¬
pox epidemic which in Montreal and the
surrounding villages raged destructively
among the French Canadians. With al¬
most incredible fanaticism, thousands of
these people refused to be vaccinated.
They declared that to vaccinate was to
oppose the Divine will. God had sent la
picotte, and to try to prevent its spread
was wicked. Tho Canadian health of¬
ficials, in attempting to compel them to
be vaccinated, were fiercely assaulted,
their flags and placards torn down, and
the people rioted in the streets. Under
these circumstances, it was almost im¬
possible to cheek the epidemic.
The American health officials estab¬
lished a rigid system of inspection along
the Canadian border, and required that
all passengers on railroad trains coming
from Canada should be fumigated.
Surgeons with the necessary appliances
were stationed at the railroad stations,
and on the wood roads and forest trails
leading across the boundary, to vaccinate
all people arriving from Canada who had
not already been vaccinated.
Young Doctor Dean was directed to
make a tour of the logging camps in the
Moosehead Lake region, and to vaccinate
every man in their crews whose arm did
not show a fresh sear. Among these
loggers were many ignorant, lawless fel¬
lows, some of whom had the stupid pre¬
judice against vaccination which had led
the French people across the border to
resist the efforts of the Canadian doctors.
Their employers and the foremen, how¬
ever, were heartily in sympathy with the
work of the surgeon, and did their best
to compel their men to submit to his
lancet. In one of these camps Doctor
Dean encountered a French Canadian
called Pierre Couteau, who was unusually
obstinate, and showed a vicious temper
in his opposition to the doctor’s pur¬
pose to vaccinate him. He was a huge
fellow with a black beard, and a great
red scar on his forehead.
“Its of no use for you to hang off—
you’ve got to have the job done, said
Dixon, the boss of the camp.
“No!” answered Pierre, crisply and
uoggedly. it! Roll ..
«< Don t nmke any fuss about
up the sleeve of your frock, ouuu
Dl * orK
? r - Ix 1>can t00k , a SU> P tow:ud . , the .. C:m „ '
adiau.
“No. growied the follow, with ., an omm- ,
ons emp.iasis, at the sanie time grasping
his axe as if to strike. His eyes flashed,
the scar on his forhead grew redder, aud
he fairly bristled with determination.
Dixon was furiously angry aud burst
into a torrent of profane exclamations.
“Leave this camp and don’t you ever
come back, you brute!’’ lie cried, “We
don’t want auy murderers here!”
Pierre muttered a few words in his na
live patios, flashed a defiant look at the
foreman, dropped his axe with a
ful gesture, and turned to go away.
In a second Dr. Dean sprang upon him.
tripped him. threw him to the ground.
face downward, and jumped on his back,
Dixon came quickly to his assistance and
helped to hold the man down.
“Throttle the scoundrel!” exclaimed
the excited foreman.
oiu^ “ No," said the doctor, coolly. “I’m
‘
. to vaccinate him.”
friendly wood-chopper happened hold to
come along He helped Dixon to
: ™; T »hile " D»Sr ” n ‘.id ™ c°t hi Z
iTtSl XT2 the * X
In less than a minute the operation was
over.
Trembling with rage, but cowed, the
(Canadian jumped up. flung back an
angry threat at the doctor, took his
small pack of clothing, and, still
breathing vengeance, strode away from
the cam]).
“I dunno; ] guess you made a mis
take,” said Dixon.
“Why?” asked the doctor,
“That critter is liable to kill you. He’s
| a bad one! I rather, think ’twould have
i been better to let him go without trying
to vaccinate him.”
“If I’d let him go he’d be liable to
kill a hundred men instead ot one,” re¬
plied the doctor. “ He might be the
very one to spread the small-pox all
through this regon. One unvacinated
man is a constant menace. The only
safe way is for me to obey orders and
see that everyone is vaccinated.”
A few weeks later Doctor Dean was
ordered to take his station at a point
where a much-traveled road through the
woods crossed the boundry between
Maine and Canada. The Canadian
Pacific Railroad had gangs at work in
Maine, and many men were going back
and forth across the border. A log
cabin was build for the doctor’s habita¬
tion, a turnpike gate was put up, and
no man was allowed to pass without first
having bared his arm.
The cabin was furnished with a stove,
bunks and a few necessary pieces of fur¬
niture, and was well stocked with pro¬
visions. A young man known as Dan
was engaged to stay with the doctor as
his cook and companion, and he also had
the company of a large mastiff and two
less sociable friends, a pair of rifles.
The cabin stood in the midst of a dense
forest, in which were many wild animals;
the nearest human neighbors were the
men in a railroad camp, twenty miles
away. The trout which abounded in a
stream that flowed past the cabin often
contributed to the bill of fare of the
doctor and his assistant. Once Dan shot
a deer, which supplied them with venison
for several weeks. Their table was at no
time scantily furnished, they had a col¬
lection of books, the air of the woods
was invigorating, and they enjoyed their
wild life.
Almost every day men with packs on
their backs came along the road from
Canada, and were stopped and vacci¬
nated. Sometimes they grumbled, but
for a long time no one resisted the doctor
outright. At night the two young men
took turns at watching the gate, and the
traveler over the turnpike to Maine, at
whatever time he arrived, had to stop
and be examined.
Week after week passed, and still the
young men had no serious trouble in the
performance of their duties.
One forenoon the doctor’s assistant
took down one of the rifles, and saying
that he would try to get some partridges
for dinner, started into the woods. The
doctor was sitting on the door-stool of
the cabin, reading a book.
■‘I wouldn’t go very far away, Dan,”
he said.
“Oh, pooh! You won’t have any
trouble!”
“No, but our instructions, you know,
are to stick right here,” said Doctor
D ean
“I shan’t run off,” laughed Dan.
“Better not go so far that you can't
hear me if I should call.”
“Well, if you want me, you halloo.
and I’ll come.”
Dan had been absent for more than
half an hour, when the doctor heard
voices, and soon saw three men coming
up the road. He took his case, and went
out to the turnpike to meet them.
“Gentlemen,” said he, politely, “I’m
a Government surgeon, and have orders
to vaccinate you,” the
“Huh!” grunted the foremost of
three men, a stout Canadian in a red shirt
and knit cap. “Quest ce que e’est?”
The doctor explained the situation to
them in French.
The three men chattered with each
other in their peculiar Canadian French
dialect for a few moments. The doctor
pretended to pay no attention to them,
but listened intently, and caught nearly
all they said.
“Let’s keep right on,” the red-shirted
. ..
the man’s head!” exclaimed a
scrubby / little man, with a large brass
buckl on thc belt of his frock.
“But the dog!” said the third man.
The mastiff was a quiet but attentive
listener to the colloquy. can't
“Who cares for the dog? He
gt us i” sa id the little fellow with the
Doctor buckle
Dean wished that he had
brought one of his rifles out of the hut
withliim, and that Dan was at hand.
He shouted “Dan! loudly, thinking
that Dan might hear him, or that the
call might at least sei >e to lntinm ate tne
ruen.
The three travelers listened for a mo
ment, and looked sharply about tbem.
They heard no answer to the doctors
call, and saw that nobody came.
“Laissez nous passes. (Let us pass.)
the first speaker said m French with a
threatening look at thc doctor. v>ho stood
unflinchingly at the gate.
lt ’ le ? hlD ^ Dean
without " s 8 ver 7 sl his “P "' “ the ? Govern- ’
raising voice._ yaccmnate It
ment requires me to minutes. you.
won’t take me five
i He spoke pleasantly, as if he had not
j he ard their threatening taa> i L K
rio“ > ™^S about Io have se
trouble, but he rua.le two resolves:
™. was to make every effort to keep
! those meu from passing the gate in deff-
aatsa of his orders, and the other was to
manage, if he could, to get his rifle ftom
the cabin. With that in hand he felt
that he should be master of the situa
; tion.
j was possible for the men to escape
j ! b im by turning from the road surlv into to take the
woods, hut they were too
so much trouble in maintaing their diso¬
bedience. They had determined to defy
the doctor, and to pass along the turn¬
pike in spite of his opposition. red shirt
Suddenly the man in the
moved towards the gate, At the same
moment the doctor heard footsteps of
some one approaching down the road.
“Perhaps it is Dan,” he thought.
The red-shirted man started to climb
over the gate, but Dean grasped him and
palled him back. aimed
With an angry hiss the fellow a
blow at Dean. The doctor dodged
quickly—and then straight from his
shoulder came a blow that laid his assail¬
ant on the ground.
The two other men, cursing, sprang
upon the doctor.
“Take him, Lion!” Dean cried to the
growling mastiff—and in an instant the
dog was at the throat of the man with
the brass buckle, who yelled with terror.
Dean, meanwhile, was wrestling des¬
perately with the third man.
If he could only ariake him off and
get his rifle!
But his first assailant was up. He
rushed to the succor of the screaming
wretch who was strugging with the
mastiff.
Dean was left to battle singly with the
third man. His courage rose.
They were whirling around, panting
and kicking, each trying to trip the
other, when a new-comer rushed into the
melee. It was the man whose approach¬
ing steps had been heard.
Dean saw a great red scar burning
over a face covered with black hair, and
his courage left him all at once.
The man was Pierre Couteau!
The doctor ceased to struggle, and
dropped limp to the ground. His
antagonist aimed a kick at his face with
his boot, that, if it had reached him,
I would have disfigured him for life.
At the same instant the doctor saw
something pass between himself and his
assailant like a flash. Pierre Couteau
grappled with the fellow and threw him.
Amazed, Dean sprang to his feet.
; ‘I’ll help you!” Pierre cried in French;
and he yelled to the other fellows to
desist.
The poor mastiff had received his death
blow from a stone. Dean rushed into
the cabin and brought out his rifle. At
its appearance the three fellows sur¬
rendered and were vaccinated, and
allowed to go on their way.
Then Dean learned from Pierre the
secret of his unexpeted behavior. He
! had gone from the Moosehead logging
camp to Canada. While he was there,
the small-pox attacked his village. Many
of his friends died; but he, thanks to the
doctor’s vaccine,'escaped with a mild
i attack of varioloid,
j “I good have docteur,” often ask he dose said in saint his to broken bless
de
j English.
I hen, 011 his way hack to the States,
he saw his good doctor in trouble, he
w r as glad to do him a service, and thus
help the saints to answer his prayers
“borne good luck dat I come ong,
n est-ce-pas?
“Thats so, Pierre. Can you stay
here with me g while?”
Pierre said he would be glad to stay,
When the delinquent Dan came back
with his partridges, he was dismissed for
disobedience, and Pierre was installed in
his place.
AIL through that trying season, Doctor
Dean and Pierre guarded the turnpike in
| th e woods ’ and tho doctor found m ^
Frenchman a most tractable and useful
j assistant. Youth s Companion.
He saw the Gorilla.
The Fort Wayne (Ind.) correspond
j ( > n t of the Cincinaatti Enquirer savsi
w. H. Stewart, proprietor of a museum, large
residing in this city, has a very
j gorilla, noted for his strength and feroc
ity. caged, and at present the cage is in
| his barn. This afternoon a man named
j Isaiah Slade, of Akron, Ohio, Stewart's desired tc
! dicing the animal, and visited bare
his absence. The animal had
just been fed and one of the iron bars oi
the cage was left open. As soon as
j Slade entered the barn the gorilla forced
his way through the opening and
' the forcing him down
sprung upon man.
; an d punished him frightfully. His yells
brought Stewart, who with great diffi
eulty drove the animal into his cage,
Slade had his whiskers all pulled out, one
e y e gouged out and his nose badly torn,
j > \ Meteorological Mystery,
A remarkable air-wave has attracted
mucb attention from meteorologists, who
are still unable to explain the phenome
noa . At several stations in Central Eu
rope tbe barometer recorded a sudden
dip of ab out four-hundredths of an inch,
{ Louies followed later. by a corresponding Dr. E. Hermann rise a few has
traccd the disturbance from Pola to Kei
tum? separated by about five degrees of
latitude, the rate of translation between
these places having been about seventy
one m ji es an hour. In an easterly and
j westerly direction the disturbance was
confined to narrow limits. There was
QO earthquake in Europe .—Arkansas
Trat tier.
_____
Queen of Spain-“Good gracious!
The bob; E,. ha, tire ,.or»,eh-aehe «
, Lori Chambarlaia (e.veitedly)---Callthe
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