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ROBERT S. HOWARD, )
Editor and Publisher. $
VOLUME I.
£eggf iUmfeements.
Notice to Contractors.
WILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door in Jefferson, on ."Satur
day, the 2d day of July, 1881, the contract for
building a lattice bridge across Middle Oconee
river at Tallascc Bridge site, under the following
specifications :
One span of lattice bridge spanning the river
one hundred and twenty feet, and fifty feet of tres
tling on each side of the ri v er, each fifty feet of
trestle work to be in spans of twenty-five feet
each. Said trestle work to descend from the bridge
to within two feet of the ground, resting upon a
trestle placed three feet in the ground and filled
in with rock. This approach to be continued,
with the same descent, by a stone wall on each
side, the space filled in with rock and dirt. Each
space of land-bridge to have five sleepers, equally
divided on trestle ; outside sleepers to be placed
directly over outside posts in trestle. All outside
sleepers to splice on caps, making a straight line
for hand-rail. All sleepers to be six by twelve,
twenty-five feet long.
Hand-rail. — Hand-rail posts eight feet apart,
notched out to lit over sleepers, and securely
spiked to the same. Posts to be 4 by G, 3 feet
high. Railing to be 4by 6, notched clown on top
of posts and securely spiked.
Bill of lumber for lattice to be as follows :
Cords. —Cords, both bottom and top, to be 2.J
by 12, 28 feet long ; itermediate to be 21 by 10, 28
feet long.
Lattice.— Lattice to be 2 \ by 10. 13 feet long.
All to be framed and well pinned together with
two-inch white oak pins.
Beams. —Floor beams to be 4 by 14 inches, 10
feet long, notched to fit over cords as shown upon
plans; ends of beams to extend two feet beyond
outside of cords. All beams to be placed seven
feet apart from center to center. Lattice braces
to lock across the top of each beam, so as to tie
all snugly together. Each beam to be well braced
by substantial latteral bracing, as shown upon
plans. All latteral bracing to be 3J by 0 inches,
securely fastened to floor-beams by four forty
penny spikes at each end. Every other beam to
nave a brace on outside of lattice, extending from
end of beam to bottom edge of top cord, brace to
be framed so as to lit under cord and against side
of lattice braces, the same to be securely fastened
to floor-beam at the bottom, and at the top to
both brace and cords. Braces to be made of 4by
0 scantling.
Sleepers. —Floor sleepers to be 4 by G, 2S feet
long. There must lie five lines, equally divided,
under floor, running entire length of lattice.
Flooring. —Flooring to be 2by 12,13 feet long,
securely fastened down by spiking to sleepers,
and a. strip at each end spiked to intermediate
cords.
Pins.—All pins for lattice to be made of best
white oak, two inches in diameter, holding their
sides the entire length.
Piers.— This bridge to rest upon two wooden
piers, the same to be framed as shown upon plans.
Sizes of pier posts, 10 by 12, 14 feet long ; eight
posts to each pier. Two caps 8 by 12, 15 feet
long; two mud sills, Bby 12, 1!) feet long; four
braces, Gby 10, 10 feet long. Each pier to rest
upon a crib, framed of timber, 10 by 12, 23 feet
long. This crib to be notched together and se
curely pinned at the ends. This crib to be framed
to a sufficient heighth to suit depth of water.
Size of crib in the clear to be 7by 20. Crib to be
filled with rock to surface of water. Lattice to be
wcatherboarded on both sides and capped. All
timbers to be good heart. Bond, with two good
securities, in a sum double the amount of the bid,
conditioned for a faithful compliance with the con
tract, required immediately after the letting. The
work to he paid for when completed in accordance
with the specifications, and to be completed in
sixty days from the time of letting. Full and
complete specifications can be seen at this ollicc.
11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Postponed Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door in
the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ca.,
at public out-cry. to the highest bidder, on the
first Tuesday in July next, within the legal hours
of sale, the following described property, to-wit :
One tract of land, containing twenty-five acres,
more or less, lying in said county, on the waters
of Turkey creek, about one mile below Jackson’s
mill, and adjoining lands of McDonald, Davis and
others, and known as the place where R. C. Wil
hite lived. About fifteen acres in cultivation.
There is a good mill house and dam on the place ;
also, a good framed dwelling and out-buildings
and good orchard. Levied on as the property of
K. C. Wilhite to satisfy a ti. fa. issued from Jack
son Superior Court in favor of C. IV. Hood. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintitf, and notice given to
J. Foster Daniel, tenant in possession, as the law
directs. T. A. McELII ANNON, Sh’tf J. C.
ELECTION NOTICE.
| l!OIUiiI.I, Jackson County.
It is hereby ordered that an election be held at
the various precincts in said county, in manner
and form as elections are held for members of the
General Assembly, on the first Monday in July,
1881, in which the question shall be submitted to
the lawful voters ot said county of fence or no
fence. Those voting at said election who are in
favor of fences, shall have written or printed on
their ballots the word “ Fence,” and those who
favor no fences shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words “No Fence.” Managers
of said election will keep, or cause to be kept,
three lists of voters and tally sheets, which, to
gether with the tickets and consolidated returns,
must be forwarded to this office immediately after
the election. H. W. BELL, Ord'y.
EORGIA, .laeksou County.
Whereas, C. W. Ilood. Executor of Z. S. Hood,
deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition
duly tiled, that he has fully and completely ad
ministered said deceased's estate, and is entitled
to a discharge from said administration—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the lirst
Monday in September, 1881, at tlfe regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let
ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap
plicant from said trust.
Given under my official signature, this May 30.
1881. il. W. BELL, Ord'y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, Nancy Lyle and J. W. Lyle applies
to me for Letters of Administration on the estate
of James B. Lyle, late of said county, dec'd—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said countv, on the
lirst Monday in July,* 1881. why said letters
should not be granted the applicants.
Given under mv official signature, this May 30,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord'y.
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SYAASAA W Y/L LA'Sv Y.
A DARK DAY.
Hetty Lockwood sat at the open window—
a big basket ©f unearned stockings at her
side, wliiie within reach, a bright butterfly
hovered about a newly opened honeysuckle
growing against the window. The spring
breeze breathed balmily into the apartment,
filling her senses with a delicious dreaminess
and her eyes wandered wistfully out beyond
the shaded village street, to the green fields
and budding willows bordering the sparkling
liver. On a morning such as this who could
endure to stay in doors ? Who could endure
to sit quietly down and mend stockings ?
A girlish voice aroused Iletty. Looking
from the window she saw Susie Lake leaning
on the little front garden gate.
“ Oh, Hetty, do come and walk with me to
Aunt Ellen’s. The morning is lovely and I
have something to tell you.'’
“I am afraid I can’t, Susie. It’s Saturday,
you know, and I am sewing and watching
baby asleep, while mother is jn the kitchen.”
“ Then I will have to tell ton now, I sup
pose.”
She came close under the window and said
with a mischievous smile :
“ M horn do 3 011 think I saw just now, Het
ty?”
“ I don’t know who. The new minister?”
“ No, indeed ; somebody very different from
that fat, red-faced old codger,” returned Su
sie, irreverently 7 .
“ Oh, Susie ! but who was it ?”
“It was Mr. Walter Hayes. Now, ain’t
you surprised ?”
A vivid blush dyed Hetty's fair face. She
made no reply, and Susie continued:
“ Ilis employer, Mr. Mitchell, sent him on
business from Philadelphia to C —, and as
this wasn't much out of the way of his home
they gave him leave to stop here for a day' or
two, so 110 told me when I met him just now.
lie arrived only an hour ago, in the stage
from Cox’s station, and that is how I came
to see him before you did, Hetty,” she added
laughingly.
She passed on, leaving Iletty with flushed
cheeks and brightened eye. No wonder. For
more than a year past the thought of Walter
Hayes had been the brightest spot of her life.
One year ago he had stood at that same little
green garden gate in the moonlight, bidding
her good bye before going away to the great
city to seek his fortune. She remembered
the warm, lingering clasp of his hand, and
how' lie had said to her, in a voice that was
low and trembling:
“You must not forget me, Iletty. I shall
always think of you, Iletty, and when I come
back —”
And just then her mother had come out on
the porch and called her in out of the damp
air, and so, he had left her reluctantly. But
now he had come back and she would see him
to-day.
" I do declare, Iletty,” exclaimed her moth
er, bustling into the room, Unshed from her
pie-baking, “yon are the laziest girl I ever
saw. Here you’ve been upward of an hour
darning one pair of stockings ! What have
you been about ? Drcaing away j-our time
as usual, no doubt, and with all the children’s
Sunday clothes to look over and lay out for
to-morrow, beside the Saturday’s chores.”
Hetty penitently resumed her work ; but
she was very glad when toward sunset, it was
all done, and she had leisure to run up to her
own little room and never in her life had she
taken such pains with her appearance as now.
How anxiously she listened for the expect
ed ring at the front door ! How tumultuous
ly her heart beat when at length it came, and
how heavy it sank when old Deacon Brown
stalked into discuss church matters with her
father! Then slit began to look at the clock
and her heart grew fainter and fainter as she
saw it traveling slowh r round to eight o’clock.
In Riverside they kept early hours, and when
at a quarter to nine, Deacon Brown took leave
Hetty also rose, and lighting her bedroom
candle, went slowlj’ and sadly up-stairs.
When, next morning she came down, her
mother remarked, as she busied herself with
the breakfast table :
“ Hetty, Walter Hayes was here last night.”
41 Oh, mother!”
There was something almost pathetic in the
look and tone, but Mrs. Lockwood was too
busy with the steaming coffee-pot to perceive
it.
44 He came just as you had gone up stairs,”
she continued. “He asked for you, but it
was so late I thought it hardly worth while to
call you back again. He had been seeing
Miss Mitchell home to her aunt’s —that Phil
adelphia girl, you know, and I didn’t know,
until he mentioned it, that she was a niece of
his employer, Mr. Mitchell. He is certainly
improved. To my mind there is nothing in
the world like city life for giving people what
they call style now. Make Eddie's milk toast
while I pour out the coffee.”
44 1 think,” observed Mr. Lockwood as he
took his place at the table and cut into the
cold corned beef: 44 1 thiuk 1 heard Harry Tun
stall say yesterday that young Hayes was
paying attention to Miss Mitchell. She’s a
handsome girl, and her father’s got money.
If Walter marries her ho will do well—don't
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 1. 1881.
bolt your food like that, cut it properly, sir,
before eating.”
Iletty turned suddenly sick at heart. She
said nothing, but she could not swallow her
breakfast, and her mother presently remarked
upon her pale looks :
“ Don’t yon feel well, child ? I noticed that
you were fidgety last night. You’re feverish,
I doubt not, with the spring weather.”
Iletty was glad that her mother permitted
her to go to her room and lie down. There
was never a fire in her room, but she drew
the bed-clothes over her head and wished she
could thus shut herself out from the whole
world. She felt forlorn and miserable. All
her sweet, foolish dreams of love seemed W
have been rudely 7 stricken at a blow. Walter
had ceased to care for her. lie had been
won from her by that handsome, stylish girl
from Philadelphia; and Hetty hid her face in
her pillow and almost wished that she could
die.
Iler mother sent for her to come down to
dinner. There was, she said, no use in stay
ing up stairs in the cold, and the child would
be better by the fire with some nice, warm
soup. In there all the afternoon'lletty 7 sat,
while her father and the boys went to church
and her mother read “ Baxter's Rise and Pro
gress” and sang dismal hymns to the baby.
“ Ilet,” said Bill, on his return from church,
“ I saw your old beau, Mr. Walt Hayes, at
church with Miss Mitchell, and lie shook hands
with me and asked me how the family was.
She’s a real swell, I telly 7 ou, and if you don’t
shine up some she’ll cut you out.”
“William, don’t you let me hear anymore
of such slang talk from you,” said his mother
reprovingly.
“And, Hetty,” said her little sister, as she
carefully drew off and folded her gloves, “ I
heard lvate Ilaycs telling Mrs. Green that
Walter and Miss Mitchell were going back to
morrow to Philadelphia, and Mrs. Green said
she supposed that was one reason of his com
ing to Riverside, that he might travel home
with her.”
Iletty lost all heart and ail courage at
this. She longed for sympathy —to lay her
head on her mother’s knee and tell her all.
But Mrs. Lockwood, though she really loved
her children, was not one of those gentle and
sympathetic mothers to whom their children
thus turn ; and Iletty went again to her room,
and wrapping herself in a shawl, seated her
self at a window and looked listlessly out.
A few people were passing. She hardly
noticed them until she suddenly met a pair
of brown eyes ; and she drew back with burn
ing checks and a beating heart as Walter
Hayes passed. llow handsome he looked !
and as her mother had observed, how im
proved in appearance ! And she—what must
he think of her, sitting there pale and forlorn
looking with her hair all disordered about her
face ? He might come this evening, perhaps,
and yet she hardly wished it now. It would
only be painful to see him. Still, she dressed
herself and went down stairs, though her head
was throbbing and she felt really ill. And all
the evening she waited and watched and Wal
ter never came, and she knew he did not care
to see her. And so ended the long, dreary
day.
Next morning Iletty arose feverish and ill.
But she busied herself about the household
work, and when her mother, observing only
that she wa9 dull and languid, remarked that
she needed a walk, and desired her to carry
a jar of butter to old Mrs. Simpson, she made
no objection. The day was pleasant, and ty 7 -
ing a pink-lined hood about her face, Iletty
set out alone on her walk.
It was rather a long distance that she had
to go—out of the village and across a field,
and then by a lonely pathway lying by the
foot of a hill. Mrs. Simpson kept her some
time talking, and it was late when the girl
set out on her return.
Slowly retracing the little pathway, Iletty
paused at the little stile which led into the
open Geld. It was pleasant there. The sun
shed a golden light over the beech boughs,
and a breath of spring-time fragrance floated
on the air. Somehow Iletty felt soothed as
she stood resting on the stile and looking
dreamily at the white clouds overhead.
An approaching footstep startled her.
Turning, she saw a man’s figure coming along
the pathway. Her heart gave a great throb
and then seemed to stand still.
He came straight toward her, his hand ex
tended, his lip smiling, his ej’es looking
straight into her own.
44 Iletty!”
She looked up at him, half in hope, half in
doubt, and the color came and went on her
face.
44 Hetty, I have wanted so much to see you !”
She could not mistake the sincerity of his
toue or the look of the brown eyes, and she
answered, simply and naively :
44 1 thought you had forgotten me.”
44 Forgotten you!”
She could Dot have told how it happened,
but somehow she found herself seated on the
step of the stile with Walter beside her, aud
\ her cheek close—ah, very close—to his, while
I all the world around seemed transformed into
! a strange beauty and glory. Such miracles
I does a moment sometimes work in our lives.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
As they walked slowly homeward together
he told her that one thing and another had
prevented his seeing her ; among the rest, Bill
having told him confidently at the church that
she was too sick to .come down stairs that
day 7 —a statement which he had unfortunate
ly credited, and when this morning he had
called and learned from her mother where
she had gone he lost no time in following.
“But, Walter,” said Iletty, hesitatingly,
“ do you know I heard something about you
and Miss Mitchell.”
Walter laughed.
“ Miss Mitchell is to be married shortly,
Iletty, to our junior partner. Shelias been
very kind to me, and so ha3 her uncle, my 7
employer. Indeed, Hetty 7 , I wanted to tell
y 7 ou of my 7 good fortune and prospects and to
ask you, darling, if when”—
And the words which had been for a whole
year delayed were spoken, and Hetty won
dered, as she came in sight of her home,
whether this could be the same world that it
had been on that dark, dark day 7 yesterday 7 *
A CcttonGil Mill.
No doubt but what a description of the
modus operandi of turning (to us almost value
less) cotton seed into oil will be interesting.
The following will give our readers an accurate
idea of the process by which American sweet
oil is made, and is copied from Cotton, a journal
devoted io the manufacture, sale and cultiva
tion of King Cotton :
“ The annual cotton crop of the United
States amounts to about G,000,000 bales, with
a corresponding yield of 3,000,000 tons of
crude cotton seed. It is estimated that not
more than 1,000,000 tons of this seed are
saved and sent to market; from which we
may' conclude, by avery 7 simple arithmetical
calculation, that from $ 16,000,000 to $20,-
000,000 is thrown away each year by cotton
growers in this country 7 who fail to send their
surplus seed to market.
“ With a view to utilizing as much as pos
sible of this valuable product, the Little Rock
Oil Company 7 was organized in 187 G, with a
working capital of $250,000. The mammoth
mill of the company 7 is located in this city 7 ,
and is one of the most profitable and sub
stantial enterprises in Arkansas. The con
ception and execution of the work reflects
great credit upon the energy and tact of its
originator, Mr. E. Urquhart, who is President
of the company, and among the foremost of
Little Rock’s citizens. There are many other
establishments of the kind in the South, but
this one is claimed to be. and probably is,
the best and largest cotton seed mill in the
world. During the working season employ
ment is given to 300 hands, whose wages
range from GO cents to $2.50 per day. The
capacity of the mill is 125 tons of crude cot
ton-seed per day 7 . Operations are usually
suspended from May 1 to October 1 on ac
count of the extreme heat, but during the
remainder of the year the works arc in full
blast day and night incessantly 7 , Sundays
excepted. Last y 7 ear 24,000 tons of seeds
were “re ginned” and ground, yielding 700
bales of lint cotton, 16,000 barrels of refined
oil, and 7,000 tons of cotton-seed cake. The
works cover an entire block in the eastern
part of the city, on the bank of the Arkansas
river. The buildings, being mainly of brick,
are substantially and tastefully finished and
made fire-proof.
“ Connected with this establishment, and
under the same management, are thcQuapaw
Cotton Mills, running about 3,000 spindles,
where the lint cotton from the oil works (or
a great portion of it) is manufactured into
cotton yarns, ropes, cordage, twines, batting,
and mattress and quilt laps. The local trade
is supplied almost entirely with these articles
by this enterprising company, and the resi
due is shipped to Western and Southern
markets, and even to the Pacific coast. It is
probable tiiat these mills will be enlarged and
extended within a year or two and machinery
put in for the manufacture of osnabergs and
sheetings.
“On the occasion of my visit, however, I
was more particularly interested in the cotton
seed mill, which represents anew and in
creasing industry ; and, through the courtesy
of Mr. Urquhart, I was enabled to witness in
detail the practical operations in the various
departments of this extensive factory.
“ The crude cotton-seed is received from
the planters in large, coarse, heavy sacks,
which are furnished to the shippers by the
mill company. I was astonished to learn
that the company owns some $40,000 worth
of these empty sacks, from which as many as
may be required are sent out to parties, far
and near, who signify a desire to send their
cotton-seed to the mill—the object being to
keep the seed clean and dry during its transit,
and to preserve it in better form for storage.
“The room or shed provided for the storage
of the crude seed alone is 300 feet long, sixty
feet wide, and twenty feet high. Throughout
its length it is traversed by a railroad track,
which connects with the principal local lines
of rail communication. On the river side a
tramway leads to the levee, to facilitate traffic
by boat or barge. Consignments of seed are
received by rail, by river, and by wagon, and
the transactions are invariably managed upon
a cash basis. During the past year over
$200,000 has been paid out by 7 this company
for cotton seed.
“ The first process to which the crude seed
is subjected is that of dusting or cleansing.
This is done by 7 a kind of fanning machine,
with vibratory sifting attachment, which
loosens up the matted masses of seed, and
dislodges the sand and dirt. The seed is
thus prepared for re ginning, or, as it is
termed,
“ THE LISTING PROCESS.”
“ It is surprising to learn how much of this
cotton lint can be obtained from the refuse
of the planter’s gin by the process employed
in this mill. In re-ginning the seed, machines
are used which, in principle, are identical
with those used by the planter; but the saws
are finer and more perfectly 7 adjusted, and
they are propelled by 7 steam instead of horse
power. Three hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of lint arc saved per year in this fac
tory alone, the aggregate value of which is
not less than $30,000. From tiic steam “gins”
the seed is conveyed through a long wooden
trough, by means of an endless band, to the
milling machines in another pa:t of the build
ing.
THE “HULLING PROCESS’’
consists in separating the husk and outer
covering of the seed from the kernel, and is
accomplished by 7 means of steam machinery
devised especially for the purpose. A sys
tem of drums armed with fine teeth is made
to revolve in hollow cylinders at the incredi
ble speed of 1,280 revolutions per minute.
The cylinders are provided on their inner
surface with a corresponding armature of
teeth. As the seed passes between these
concentric cylinders, the hull is torn off and
thrown out, and the kernel drops upon huge
iron rollers below, and, being crushed be
tween them, then carried on an endless band
to the press room. The hull and waste from
this process accumulate in immense quantity,
and arc used entirely for fuel. Not a stick
of wood nor a pound of coal is purchased for
this factory 7 . The hulling machines supply
all the fuel necessary, not only for the cotton
seed mill but for the Quapaw Cotton Mills on
the adjoining block. Two largo Corliss en
gines, of 125 horse power each, are required
to work the machinery of these mills ; and
sixty tons of this fuel are consumed each day
under their immense boiler3.
“ On reaching the press-room, the crushed
kernels of the cotton seed are thrown into
large iron drums, where they are thoroughly
cooked by 7 steam—the contents of each drum
being continually agitated by means of re
volving paddles or wings. This steaming and
stirring process converts the mass into
A COARSE, GREASY MEAL,
of rich yellow color, which is drawn off into
strong canvas bags, or pockets, each holding
about six quarts. These pockets of cooked
meal are then secured between the folds of a
thick, heavy matting, made of curled hair and
canvas, and placed under a powerful hydraulic
press, and the oil extracted by a pressure of
sixty tons to the square inch. Here we first
see the cotton-seed oil in its crude, impure
state ; and nasty enough it looks as it runs
from the press in dirty yellow streams. As
the pressure relaxes, the pockets are removed,
flat and rigid, from the tremendous pressure.
The canvas at the mouth of each pocket is
then turned back, and the entire covering
“skinned” off, leaving a bright yellow slab
of cotton seed cake. These slabs, or cakes,
are at once carried away into a cool drying
room, where they arc placed, on edge, in
wooden frames, or racks, to dry and harden.
When sufficiently dried, the cakes are packed
in strong, coarse sacks, and these packages
marked, weighed, and prepared for shipment
to foreign markets.
“ Returning to the press-room of the oil
mill, we find the machinery still at work, and
the muddy oil streaming from the presses
into the reservoirs beneath. Thence it is
conveyed through pipes to the refining-room,
where, by a mysterious processor mechanical
agitation and aeration, it is purified and trans
formed into a clear, rich, lemon-colored liquid,
which in taste and consistency reminds one
of the famous olive oils of Lucca and Caprera.
The refined oil is carefully stored in two huge
iron tanks, holding 5,000 gallons each, from
which it is drawn off as required, carefully
strained through fine linen bags, and then
barreled for'export to Leghorn, Trieste, Mar
seilles, and other points in Europe.
“The cotton seed oil business is not confined
to America. There are similar factories in
England and on the European continent, for
which the necessary stock of seed is obtained
mainly from the cotton fields of Egypt.”
Why Eve Did Not Keep a Hired Girl.
A lady writer furnishes some of the rea
sons why Eve did not keep a hired girl. She
says:
“ There has been a great deal said about
the faults of women, and why they need so
much waiting on. Someone (a man of course)
has the presumption to ask, ‘ why, when Eve
was manufactured of a spare-rit>, a servant
was not made to wait upon her ?’ She didn’t
need any. A bright writer has said, ‘ Adam
never came Lome whining to Eve with a rag
ged stocking to be darned, buttons to be
sewed on, gloves to be ineuded right away—
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO for Six Months.
quick—now!’ Because bo never rcail the
newspapers till the sun went down behind
the palm tree, and lie, stretching himself,
yawned out, ‘lsn't supper ready, iny dear?’
Not he. lie made the fire and hung the ket*
tie over it himself, we'll venture, and pulled
the radishes, peeled the potatoes, and did
everything he ought to do. He milked tho
cows, fed the chickens, looked after tho pigs
himself, and never brought half a dozen
friends to dinner when Eve hadn't any fresh
pomegranates. lie never stayed out till II
o’clock at night, and then scolded because
poor Eve was sitting up and crying, inside
the gates. lie never loafed around the cor
ner groceries while Eve was at home rocking
Cain's cradle. He did not call Eve up from
th.e cellar to get his slippers and put them in
the corner where he had left them. Not he.
When lie took them otriie put them under tho
lig tree, beside his Sunday boots. In short,
he did not think she was especially created
to wait on him, and wasn’t under the impres
sion that it degraded a man to lighten a wife's
cares a little. That’s the reason Eve did not
need a hired girl, and with it was the reason
her descendants did.*’
An Accident All Round.
A most ridiculous scene occurred at a
church in Newcastle. A policeman was pass
ing the church as a gentleman came out.
The man jokingly accosted the policeman,
and said he was wanted inside, meaning that
the minister would be glad to have him turn
from the error of his ways, and seek the truth
and enjoy a peace that passeth all under
standing. Tho stupid policeman thought
there was some trouble in the church, so ho
went in. The sexton, seeing a policeman,
w„3 anxious to give him a favorable scat, so
he said. “Come right in here,” and he took
him to a pew and waved his hand, as much
as to say “ help yourself.” There was another
man in the pew, a deacon with a sinister ex
pression as the policeman thought, and he
supposed that, was the man they wanted ar
rested, so he tapped the deacon on the arm
and told him to come along. The deacon
turned pale and edged along as though to get
away, when the policeman took him by tho
collar and jerked him out into the aisle. The
deacon struggled, thinking the policeman was
crazy', and tried to get away, but ho was drag
ged along. Many of the congregation thought
the deacon had been doing something wrong,
and some of them got behind the deacon and
helped the officer fire him out. Arriving at
the lock-up, tho policeman saw the man who
told him he was wanted in the church, and
asked him what the charge was against tho
deacon, and he didn't know, so the sexton
was appealed to, and he didn't know, and
finally the prisoner was asked what it was all
about, and lie didn’t know. The policeman
was asked what he arrested the man for, and
he didn't know, and after awhile the matter
was explained, and the policeman, who had
to arrest somebody', took the man into custo
dy who told him he was wanted in the church,
and he was fined $5 and costs.
Unwilling to Revise the Record.
The other night a policeman observed a
man banging around the entrance to a Michi
gan avenue hall in a queer sort of way, and
he asked him if he belonged to the Order then
in session up-stairs. The man replied that
he did, and the officer inquired, “Then why
don’t you go up ?” “ Well, I was thinking of
it.” “Haven’t been expelled, have you?”
“ Oh, no.” “ Aren’t afraid of anybody ?”
“No.” “And you haven’t lost your interest ?”
“ I might as well tell you,” said the man,
after beating' around a while longer. " I
.vent down to Toledo a few days ago, and
somehow the story came back here that I was
drowned. My lodge thereupon passed reso
lutions to the effect that I was honest, upright
and liberal and a shining ornament, and that
what was its loss was my gain. I wasn’t
drowned, as you see, but I kind o’ hate to
walk in on ’em and bust those resolutions.
I've tried it three times, and I can’t get higher
up than the fifth stair before I weaken.”—
Detroit Free Press.
A wonderfully gigantic scheme has been
brought to the attention of the Now York
General Assembly, in the shape of a water
route from New York to Chicago. It is pro
posed to utilize the Erie Canal by lining it
throughout its entire length (352 miles) with
a thick layer of hydraulic cement, at a cost
of SIO,OOO a mile, or $3,500,000 for the en
tire length. The western part of the plan
contemplates a canal of equal capacity with
the Erie across Southern Michigan, by which
it i3 estimated 1,000 miles of lake navigation
can be saved. The capital is to be furnished
by the Western capitalists, who will ask no
remuneration from New York for the improve
ment to the Erie Canal until the whole canal
debt is paid off, and are willing to trust their
reimbursement then to the honor of the peo
ple, who must amend the State Constitution
before a dollar can be paid for any such pur
pose. The canal will afford navigatien for
steam propellers of moderate size, which will
average a speed of fifteen miles an hour.
Paper is now used for car-wheels. It has
been used for tracts for a long time.
NUMBER 19.