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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
W. J. Mc&FEE, Editor and Proprietor.
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Official Organ of Crawford County.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville,
Ga., as second-class matter.
On account of sickness, the editor lias
been able to devote but little time to the
Herald this w r eek. He hopes to make
it more newsy and interesting in the next
issue.
The Kansas Financier is convinced
that 4 “one of the greatest afflictions thal
can befall a State or community is tc
have a boom. The recovery is worse than
a plague. Steady growth and hone3l
business methods should always be en¬
couraged, but nose other.”
It will surprise many readers to know
that Castle Garden, New York, is noth¬
ing less than a fortress extended and built
over, and that in the early part of the
century it was considered a stronger
building than Castle William, wliicb
fronts it across the way ou Governor's
Island.
The young Apache children taken tc
the Ramona school, at Santa Fe. New
Mexico, promises to soon adopt the ways
of civilization. The only way to tame
the Apache, asserts the San Francisco
Chronicle, is to begin with the children,
and it is doubtful whether much advance
will be made with these it they are per¬
mitted to return to their parents. It is
to be hoped that some idea of regular
work may be impressed upon these young
savages, for this is the first step in any
permanent redemption from their old
life.
The latest fad of the famous manufac¬
turer, food reformer and politico-econo
mist of Boston, Edward Atkinson, is the
production of new, cheap and whole
some food from such cereals as cat auc
corn meal, raw wheat, barley and rye
The material is cleaned, steam cooked
and pressed into blocks, Out of thes(
he proposes to make dishes that will en
able a man to live well at a cost of a dim*
a day. He has also invented a uumbei
of cookers, wherewith a housekeeper can
prepare the daily dishes of a family at an
expense for fuel of three or four cents t
day. __
It is rumored that New York thinks ol
celebrating the landing of Columbus all
by herself. “Such a show in 1892
would,” in the estimation of the New
Orleans Picayune, “be a serious blow to
Chicago’s fair the following year. Tin
idea is for New York to get up a big ju¬
bilee with a lot of ancient looking ves¬
sels. There would be many picturesque
effects. Columbus and his followers
would have to be gorgeously dressed in
order to attract the crowd, but as the
Indians in the show would require no
costumes at all, the expense would not
be much.”
Possibly to show how fertile the
French soldier is in the way of resource.
M. Edmond de Goncourt relates the fol¬
lowing sensational incident in the fourid
volume of his “Journal.” just printed
“During the Franco-Prussian war the
wheel of a gun got out of order, and ac
artillery officer directed that it should
be greased. Being unable to find anj
grease, one of the gunners went up to a
‘slovenly, unhandsome corpse,' split the
skull with his ax, took out the brains
and clapped them, all hot, on the wheel.
This is very horrible, if true, and is
very powerful if tt be fiction, and might
be recommended to Rider Haggard.
Eight more frontier forts have beet
designated as useless as military posts,
and will be abandoned as soon as the gar¬
rison can be withdrawn. They are Fori
Maginnis, Montana; Fort Bridger, Wyo
ming. Fort Sidney, Nebraska; Fori
Crawford, Col.; Little Rock Barracks,
Ark., and McDowell, Thomas and Verde
in Arizona. In the case of some, civili¬
zation has got so far beyond them thai
they are no longer on the frontier, ano
others are to be abandoned in pursuance
of the policy of concentrating troops it
sufficient numbers to make more impor
tant posts schools of instruction, Thi
military reservations on which the fort;
stand will probably be devoted to th,
use of Indian schools.
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r According to the official reports, the
number of abandoned farms in Vermont
now reaches 3000.
The Milwaukee Journal is persuadet
that the hardest thing about being beaten
at an election is the going home and tell¬
ing the result to a man’s wife.
The directors of the Provisional Bank
of Ireland have issued a decree that in;
clerk in their employ receiving le3S than
$750 a year shall be allowed to marry. A
similar rule is in force in some of ths
principal London banks.
The literary production of Mexico is
quite wonderful. One of her latest bib¬
liographical lists memtions no less than
12,000 volumes by 3000 native Mexican
authors. The first book printed on this
continent was published in Mexico.
There is a growing feeling in all civ¬
ilized countries against the arbitrament
of the sword. Thousands of persons in
every country, a New York contemporary
declares, are constantly preaching the
gospel of peace. It is impossible that
this sentiment should not grow. It will
receive a great impetus by the Arbitra¬
tion Treaty, signed in Washington, and
every intelligent man who has the good
of the human race at heart ought to re¬
joice in this great step forward in civili¬
zation.
To all true lovers of genuine Mocha
the following from the Journal of Com¬
merce may prove a great disenchantment:
“The real article comes only fromYemen,
an Arabian province. The greater part of
the exported Mocha never sees Yemen,
but is brought from the East Indies to
Mocha and from there shipped further.
Not a bean of the best Mocha passes out
of Constantinople. The better kinds art
used for horn* consumption, and only the
pale, shrunken and broken beans are sent
to distant countries.”
At the annual dinner of the Butlei
Club in Boston, Mass., General Benjamin
F. Butler made a lengthy speech which
was devoted almost wholly to the subject
of the present deplorable financial condi¬
tion of the farmers ot the country. Re¬
ferring to the enormous mortgage debts
of the farmers, he said that taking sim¬
ply the agricultural lands of the Western
States, the mortgages amount to the stu¬
pendous sum of $3,450,000,000, the
interest upon which is at rates averaging
from seven to nine per cent. The pay¬
ment of these mortgages is simply impos¬
sible, according to him, and they never
will be paid for the simple reason that,
as all statistics prove, the average profits
on farming industries are only between
four'and five per cent.
Betting, according to a correspondent,
has become a real mania, which ravages
the European lower classes. “Race-course"
agencies have established themselves
everywhere; Paris swarms with them,
they exist at the wine dealers, and at the
tobacco and grocery back-shops. Before
long the bootblacks will establish racing
ageucies in the open air. The misfortune
is that all of them prosper. Clerks and
workmen take their savings to these shops
to try their luck, and those poor crea¬
tures, absolutely ignorant of what con¬
cerns sports, who for the greater part
have never seen a race-course, lose by that
stupid gambling fever all that they man¬
age to put aside. It is, under another
name, the lottery—that plague of Italy.
It is high time that something should be
done to put a stop to those agencies
which drain the poor man’s money.”
The New York Sun relates the follow
ing: “On a Connecticut railroad the
other day an old gentleman caught his
foot in a railroad frog in the face of an
approaching train. Little Mamie Don¬
nelly whipped her scissors out ©f hei
pocket, cut his shoe lace and saved the
old gentleman’s life. How many men
would have thought of their pocket knife?
A stage coach one day pulled up in front
of a cottage and a trunk was to be brought
out. The summer door, closing with a
spring, was bothersome, and the woman
present snapped a string on which a vine
was trailed, wrapped it round the door
knob, and there you were! A man must
have hunted a half-brick to set against the
door; yet a knot, made in a moment,
afterward restored the status quo. A
child was strangling with a marble in its
windpipe. Mamma catches it by the
heels, suspends it head downward, child
gurgles, out drops the marble, and there
you are again! A few men are born with
this emergency sense, but it is no great
rarity among wome
WHERE THE APPLE BLOSSOMS
BLOW.
VIeet me where the apple blossoms blow.
Softly now the fragrant boughs are swing-
ing. glow.
4reet me when the moon tegins to
And in the pines the whippoorwills are sing-
ing.
With loyal heart a teat,
Oh, haste with flying feet,
4nd shame the sluggish hours that wing too
slow.
The day was loag and dreary.
My heart is worn and weary,
t count the laggard moments as they go,
Love.
Oh.
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow.
Meet rne where the apple blossoms blow;
Let the floating petals flake your tresses,
Breathing us a benison below.
Crowning our bethrothal with caresses.
Far in the upper deep.
The stars are now a-peep,
The drowsy river murmurs in its flow.
I hear its voice repeating:
“Life’s blossom-time is fleeting.”
Ah! let us catch the fragrance ere it go,
Love.
Oh,
Meet me where the apple blossoms blow!
—Samvel Minium Peck.
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE.
The day I arrived in Adelaide, Aus¬
tralia, I was twenty years old, aud my
pocket contained a dollar for every year
I had lived, I had exactly four pounds
to begin life on in the colony, and that
was more than some of the English boys
who had come out with me could boast
of. We were a queer lot who had sailed
from Liverpool—gentlemen, loafers
clerks, lackeys, whole families, single
men, servants and what not—all bent on
a new life in the wonderful island of the
Indian Ocean. We had come in a sailing
ship aud been knocked about for mouths,
and a happy lot we were to be set on
shore in the then small and straggling
town I have named.
Luck was with me. On the second
day after landing I hired to a sheep
raiser who had a ranch on the Murray
River, near its junction with the Darling,
aud ou the third we started off up the
country. We had two ox teams—that is,
we had two covered wagons,each loaded
with supplies, and each drawn by three
yoke of oxen. A part of the goods were
to be left with settlers along the route,
and a part belonged to Mr. Davidson,my
employer. He did not hire me, not being
present, but the teams were in charge of
an overseer named McCall, whom I soon
found to bo a good-natured, good-
hearted fellow. Each of us had a native
to assist in managing the teams, aud,
though neither of them could speak ten
words of English, they were valuable
men, aud had no difficulty in being under-
stood.
It was about Christmas time, and the
weather was very sultry, aud we aimed
to make only fifteen miles a day. We had
a full week's journey before us, and noth-
ing of much interest happened until
the fourth day. We went into camp a
little earlier than usual on that afternoon,
is one of the wagons needed repairs. Our
vehicles, afer coming to a halt, stood
ibout twenty-live feet apart. While I
was building a fire to cook supper by one
of the blacks went off after rabbits, and
McCall took the other with him to help
cut and bring back a lever with which to
raise the wagon off its wheels, I was
thus left alone lor a few minutes, and
they had scarcely disappeared from sight
in the scrub when a man burst out of the
thicket on the other side and came run-
nin^ up to me. His face and hands
were scratched and bleeding, his clothing
in tatters, his hat gone, and he had such
a wdld and terrible look that I should
have run away from him had I been able
to do anything but stand and stare with
mouth wide open. McCall had told me
•f escaped convicts and hard cases who
had taken to the bush to make a living by
robbing and the man had erne upon me
so suddenly that 1 was knocked out for
the moment
“For Cod's sake, vonng feller, give me j !
a bite to eat!” he said as he sto* 1 before
me. “Don’t be afraid of me—I’m a
sheen herder who has been lost in the
bush for three days.”
I stepoed to the wagon and handed
him a piece of bacon, some hard crack-
ers, and a handful of tea, and then I
found voice to ask:
“But why not stop with us for the
night? 1 ’
“Thanks, but I’m in a great hurry to
get back to mv herd. I know where I
am now, and can get there in three
hours. Anv matches?”
I <ravc him some, and he looked all
around to make sure that we were alone,
and then said:
“Young feller, do me a greater favor
still. Lend me ' •ur pistol and knife un-
til to-morrow, when you will pass my
station. And, furthermore, be kind
enough not to mention to one that I
was here. I$o this aud y shall never
regret it.”
I handed him knife and pistol, prom-
ised what he asked, and he shook me by
the hand and disappeared in the scrub,
Ten minutes after he had gone I figured it
out that he was abushman who had been
hard run by the police, but it was all the
same to me’. He could have taken what
he wanted for all of me, as I felt per-
fectly helpless, and I was thankful that
lie had come and gone without knocking
me on the head. Just as McCall
up with the lever there was a clatter of
hoofs, and I looked up to see five
mounted men ride into camp. Thev were*
in the uniform of the patrol, and the ap-
pearance of the horses and the men
showed that they had had a long ride or
1 is it?” asked
“Well, Capt. White, what
McCall, who seemed to know every one of
the five. again,"
“Been after Ballarat Sam re-
plied the Captain as he dismounted,
“And lost him?”
“Yes; curse the luck! We struck him
near Dobney's yesterday morning, and ho
led us a chase of fifty miles during the
dav We killed his horse about dark last
ni-dit and had him surrounded in the
scrub He got out, however, and we
did not get his track until about noon to-
day. We followed it to the creek, two
miles above, and there lost it. Haven’t
seen him here, of course?”
‘•I only-wish we had. There's a re-
ward of £500 ou his head. I hear.”
“It has been increased to twice that,
Show me his body and I’ll make a rich
*
man of you.”
The patrol turned their horses loose
and had supper with us, furnishing a
part from their own rations. Then there
was general talk and story-telling until
about 10 o’clock, and then all but one
man. turned in for sleep. I had been in¬
troduced all around, but liad taken very
little part or interest in the conversation,
being sure, from the first words spoken
by the Captain, that I had met Ballarat
Sam and aided him to make a fresh start.
I thought at first of telling the whole
story to the patrol, but they were serious,
sober-boking chaps, and I had a fear that
they would give me an awful raking
down, even if they did not lug me off
and seek to have me punished as aiding
and abetting. I remembered, too, that 1
had solemnly promised Sam not to betray
him, and so I decided to keep a still
tongue and let the case work out as it
would
The patrol left us at daylight, but their
worn , for , the ,, next , three ,, days . was thrown
away. They could get no traee of Sam
We continued on up the country and
finally arrived at the ranch, and for the
next six rnontns I was hard at work as a
sheep herder, and neither saw nor heard
much of tue outside world. Lhen one
day 1 was called in off my range, which was
about five miles from Davidson s house.
Each of his herders had from 800 to 1500
sa ® 3 !> uadev lus care oa a range by him-
scb > and each lived . alone with his dogm
a iint - Once a week the “relict, as we
called him, made the rounds and left
provisions and heard our reports, bev-
end of the natives had visited me—harm-
| css feUows, who wanted matches or to-
'^co, but no white roan excepting the
relief had come near me ior three months
before I got the call to report at head-
quarters, i went in to nua a couple 01
yisi ors tnere—two gentlemen who had
bttely arrived from England. One of
them, a Mr. Cullen, was from my own
town of Shrewsbury, and thc other, a
Mr williams was irom Mancnestei + iney
.
had come out to Australia to take up a
range and go into sheep as an investment,
ue *ther 01 them intending to remain, but
do the business through an agent,
* bey bad purchased 2000 sheep of Mr.
Davidson as a starter, and had taken a
range above us on die Darling River. My
S°i as dso dia ^ ,d
heruer to the south of me, and we had
’»een called in to receive instructions,
both of us herders were to enter into the
eniployof the new arrivals, w no had already
securcd th e * r laud and built the house
and stables for the overseer. This man
had come up from Adelaide with them,
and was a Scotchman named McFarland.
The other, who was au Irish lad of
f weQ ly> was D Hara.
When w e made ready to start, the two
gentlemen were mounted on horses. The
overseer drove the bullock wagon, as-
8 * sted a black, and O Hara and my¬
self were on foot. Some of our neigh-
bo.» had been troubled with bushraeg-
er 'b but we had seen notning of them,
an,i M tlie P ollce P atro1 ln the dlstnct
! had latel J been increased we felt no fear
j that lhe 1 ’ an 3 er s would meddle with us on
! our journey. The weather was now
P rett y cold > but as the country Was bad
had to let the w r av
and S° slow - In the tirst tliree da J’ 9 we
made ouI - v ab out twenty-seven miles, but
this was thought to be good progress un¬
d f r the circumstances. On the third
u’S^t, when at least ten miles from any
settlers, and more than that from any regu-
far highway,we found a natural valley in
wb ich tne sheep could be herded, and
our own camp was made in a grove of
i roQ wood, near a waterhole. e had
finished supper and were grouped about
the fire, when one of the dogs barked and
!°°hed up to find ourselves covered
by five rifles. There were five strange,
hard-looking men forming a half-circle
about us, having crept into the grove so
s(dd y duit tb e bogs had not heard them
uutd the last moment.
“Brail up or under you go! ^ shouted a
volfe > and every one of us threw up his
bands.
“Now. then, the first one you who
makes a shy move will get a bullet!
Close in, boys!”
The five advanced to our feet, each
keeping his gun leveled, and when I
could see the man who had spoken I at
once identified him as Ballarat Sam, the
man whom I had befriended months be-
fore. He recognized me almost as quick-
ly, and, taking a step forward, said:
“Well, boy, you did me a good turn
that ^ day, and I'll not forget it. Move
over to the left. Now, then, gents who
are you?”
The gentlemen gave him their names
and told him their business. They were
pretly badly frightened, as I could see,
while the overseer trembled like a man
ill a chill. As he was a big, strong fel¬
low, and had laughed at the idea of
bushrangers meddling with us, I could
not understand his fear until Sana spoke
again. and better!” he said,
“‘Better as s
fierce look came into his eyes. “Boj-s,
here's that overseer who set the patrol on
our track down below, and who wasn’1
satisfied with that but must turn out tc
help them. I think we have made s
good haul of it.
All of our arms were in the wagon, and
we were helpless to offer any resistance,
The first thing they did was to despoil
the two gentlemen and the overseer ol
everything of value, and then each one
was lashed to a tree. O’Hara was ordered
to sit down beside me, and the black
took matters so coolly that nothing wag
said to him. The rangers signed to him
to turn to and get supper, and he cheer-
fully obeyed. When they had eaten and
drunk and lighted their pipes Sam
turned to me with:
“And so you didn’t tell the police that
you gave me food and a pistol?”
“No, sir.”
“I know you didn’t, for I was that
tired out that I laid myself down for twe
hours almost in your camp. Even when
they told you who I was and that a price
was set upon my head you hadn’t a word
to say.”
“No, sir.”
“Well, you boys have nothing to fear.
We have nothing against you. After a
day or two you may go free.”
There was no sleep for anybody until
after midnight, and I don’t think thetwc
gentlemen or the overseer slept at all. 1
know they were wide enough awake
when! opened my eyes m the morning,
us bad a bite to ei “ a ter e out '
nad finished, and then the .
1;tws wagon
was r °bbed of whatever they fancied and
hauled off about thirty rods and upset in
a deep gully. The oxen were turned
loose with the sheep, and when we sel
Qut 8am and two o{ the men rode the
honjeg and the rest of us went on foot.
0neoutlawoQ foo t went ahead and the
otherg closed ^ behind us, and the gen
( , pal directioD to the nor th. Everj
mile took us into a wMer and more un-
settled coun t rv , and it was so broket
tkat j f eb thatfl could not g et out even il
j_ urned f ree
At about f our j n tbe afternoon we
reachod tbe rangers ’ camp , which was in
wild and deso i ate spot. I don’t think
th intended the gentlemen any harm
f rom the sta rt, but that the overseer’s
doom was we all felt certain. He
reaUzed it too< for 1 observed that he was
congtant]y on the watcb for an 0 pp 0r tun-
fQ bol( . j t came as we ea tercd the
*
c Realizing that they meant to paj
ot j t h e 0 ld score, he suddenly dashed for
& thicket. He took them oil their guard,
and if an acc id cn t had not happened him
he WQuld haye t clear off . Half wa j
fo the thicket a stone turned under his
fo()t aud threw him , and as he got up one
Qf th(j men ghot him down in his tracks.
They Ieft him lying there and went into
camp, saying that they had meant to tor¬
ture him with tire.and that he had got out
of it too easy. The two gentlemen were and
very closely guarded, but O’Hara
myself were allowed to walk about as we
pleased. They had taken over £1000
from the two and bore them no grudge,
j but for five days and nights we were
prisoners and in their power. On the
morning of the sixth day, when it was
plain to'be seen they were off for another
adventure, the four of us were turned
loose and told to make our way home.
They headed us to the west, which’ was
the wrong way, and we traveled twenty
miles in that direction before we found out
the trick. We were nearly a week in
in the scrub, living on roots and berries
and decayed wild fruit, before we reached
a settlement, and were then all of thirty
miles from Davidson’s. We were a sad
looking lot when we finally reached
home, and, while Mr. Cullen was taken
with fever to die in about ten days, Mr.
Williams was so broken up that he lived
only long enough to get down to the coast.
A later Sam and two of that crowd
caught, trial at Sandhurst, and
and I saw them drop from the
.—New York Sun.
Island of Malta.
Malta is a British possession in the,
Mediterranean, including the islands of
Malta, Gozo aud Comino, and the unin-
habited islets of Cominotto and Filfa, tin
en tire group lying about six miles south-
west of the southernmost point of Sicily
a nd 200 north of Tripoli, in Africa. The
area of Malta proper is about 100 square
miles, and population about 140,000.
There are neither rivers nor lakes on the
island, and no forests or brushwood; and
most of the surface is a calcareous rock
exposed to the winds from the African
deserts, and but thinly covered with an
artificial soil chiefly brought from Sicily.
-p b j s j S; however, by careful cultivation
ma d e to yield abundant crops of cotton,
greens, beans and grass, and excellent
fruits, of which the orange, olive and fig
are renowned. In summer the heat is
excessive day and night, The sirocco
prevails, especially in autumn, and tliers
is little land or sea breeze. But in win¬
ter the climate is delightful. —New York
Dispatch.
The largest steam derrick in the world
is used by a shipping company at Ham-
burg. Germany. It is kept at the docks
and used in lifting immense weights on
and off shipboard. It can pick up a tea-
wheeled locomotive with perfect ease. -
When two racing steamers make the
same number of knots an hour, the re¬
sult, naturally is a tie .—New York You*.