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me crawfom Coiimy Heraifl PUBLISHED WEEKLY. W. J. Mc&FEE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM. 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. •q^nof) “siqdiapvpqj \\\ aSuo&f) ajvj eq} jo pwjonrera s s» ^xi^soo ‘•uuoj [vdoosida rnnq sq o^st OCO OOH qcunqo XNVXS3XOHJ V 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*.