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VOL. XVIII.
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It stops flooding and relieves sup
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For Change of Life it is the best
medicine made. It is beneficial
during pregnancy, and helps to
brigg children into homes barren
for years. It invigorates, stimu
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INDIAN GAMBLERS.
PRIMITIVE GAMES OF CHANCE AMONG
CHILDREN OF THE FOREST.
How the Aboricinal Gam* of Craps Is
Played Weird Chauting During the
Moccasin Game, From Which Our Shell
Men Probably Got a Valuable Hint.
A recent report of the bureau of eth
nology of the Smithsonian institution
contains descriptions of some Indian
games of chance and throws some light
on one of the most pronounced traits of
Indian character—the love of play. The
negro who shoots craps and whose whole
soul is expressed in the formula “Come
seben” or “Come eleben” is dominated
by the same impulses which cause a
Chinaman to spend his last coin in an
attempt to solve the mysteries of fantan
and which make enjoyable to the Mexi
can the many hours be spends risking
his little all on a turn of the cards in
his favorite game of monte. To greater
extent than any of them the Indiau is a
natural gambler—that is, he craves the
excitement of play without knowing
that he does.
There is no doubt that many of the
gawes of chance now prevalent among
various peoples, civilized as well as sav
age, were in their original form sacred
or semireligioua rites, performed for the
purpose of foretelling the future.
The Indians have many games of
chance, both aboriginal and imported,
and as among them no odium attaches
to the practice of gambling opportuni
ties for play are limited only by ability
to acquire some kind of valuable proper
ty to play for. Among the northwestern
tribes the game most popular is played
with plum stones or some equivalent
used in the manner of dice. The other
paraphernalia consists of a wooden bowl
and 40 counters, made of twigs, half of
them colored red and the others black.
The dice sometimes consist of pieces of
deer horn instead of plum stoues. These
are three-fourths of an inch in diameter,
one-third of an inch thick in the mid
dle, but thinuer at the edges, and eight
in number.
When the game is about to begin, the
players seat themselves on the ground
with the counters and the bowl contain
ing the dice between them. The dice as
well as the counters are colored or oth
erwise divided into two classes. The
first player begins a chant, during
which bets are made. At a certain mo
ment in the song deemod by the player
especially propitious he strikes the
bowl a sharp blow with his hand and
the dice fly up. As they settle the re
sult is watched with the keenest inter
est. The value of the throws is as fol
lows : Four red and four white, a draw ;
five red and three white counts 1, six
red and two white counts 4, seven red
and one white 30, eight red and no
white 40, The player takes from the
ground a number of counters propor
tionate to the value of his throw, and
the bowl is struck by the players alter
nately until one of them has won all
the counters.
Another game of aboriginal origin
and still very popular among the In
dians is a kind of native thimble rig, or
“now you see it and now you don’t. ”
A number of persons participate, and
one of them acts as musician, for the
game is always accompanied by a song
or ebant. This is commonly known as
the moccasin game, and among some
tribes is played with four bullets or
other hard substances—one of which is
marked to distinguish it from the oth
ers—and four moccasins. Among other
tribes—the Navajoes of Arizona, for ex
ample—the moccasins are used with only
one object, usually a knife, and the
game is there known as knife game.
The players are paired off by couples
and take their places at each of the four
corners of a blanket spread upon the
ground. The winner of the toss leads
and lays the moccasins on the blanket
upside down about six inches apart and
with the toes all pointing from him.
With his left hand he lifts each moc
casin in succession and places a bullet
or the knife under it, making many pre
tenses of changing the ballets or remov
ing the knife from one moccasin to an
other in order to deceive his opponents.
The latter watch eagerly for some false
move or clew which will indicate the
whereabouts of the knife or marked bul
let. During this byplay, which is often
quite lengthy, the musician keeps up a
continuous drumming as an accompani
ment to his song, and in the latter all
join, whether spectators or players. The
object is to guess under which moccasin
the “little joker” is hidden.
When the marked bullet is hidden
to the satisfaction of the player, he calls
out “Ho!” in a high note, and the chant
drops to a murmur, while all conversa
tion ceases. Every eye is fixed intently
on the moccasins as the player of the
opposing side takes a stick in his hand
and raises it over the moccasins, first
over one, then over another. The inter
est becomes more and more intense as
the play proceeds, while the song rises
and falls as the excitement waxes and
wanes, until finally a player places the
stick under one of the moccasins and
tosses it from the blanket. The winner
takes the moccasins and marked object,
the former holder takes his tarn at
guessiug and the play proceeds as be
fore.
The Navajo has a much better chance
for his money, through the reversal in
position of the players, than the average
fakir who works the “three shells” on
rural visitors is disposed to allow his
victims. It is difficult to lose a large
amount in the Indian game, although it
Is ofteu prolonged throughout the night,
aud nothing could be more picturesque
than such a game in its native setting
—New York Commercial Advertiser.
Retaliation.
An old lady once had a cat of
which she was very fond. One day
she missed her pet, and on making
inquiries she heard that a neighbor
had killed it. 'After a little medita
tion she hit upon a way to avenge
herself.
She bought some mousetraps and,
having caught about 50 mice alive,
put them into a large box, which
she took to the unsuspecting neigh
bor. He, thinking it was quite safe,
took it in.
When he opened it, he was horri
fied to see a swarm of mice scatter
in every direction, while at the bot
tom of the box he found a note con
taining these words:
“You killed my cat, and now I
have the pleasure of sending you a
few of my mice. "—London Tit-Bite.
DEVOTED TO JACKSON COUNTY AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 22. 1898.
LOSS OF VISUAL ACUTENESS.
Some of the Reasons That Tend to Make
Children Need Glasses.
It is interesting to compare the visual
acuteness of the normal eye before and
after the effect of some purely physical
cause that may be within the realm of
either nature or civilization. Takiug a
few instances of each for illustration, I
will cite from nature first. It is well
known that severe illness greatly im
pairs the acuteness of vision of an other
wise strong eye. Almost the first thing
a convalescent will do is to call for a
book or newspaper to while away the
tedium of the sickroom. Unless warned
not to try his eyes too much he is apt,
through forgetfulness, to overtask his
accommodative powers or injure the
already weakened ciliary muscle. When
the rest of his body recovers its normal
strength, the eye continues weak. After
straiuiug the eyes more in tiie vain hope
that his sight will improve, tbe person,
if he is wise, will consult experienced
help; if otherwise, he will pick up the
first pair of spectacles available, regard
less of whether they be too strong or too
weak for his eyes. Should be finally go
to an optician the latter will ofteu find
it difficult to fit glasses satisfactorily.
Other natural causes that affect tbe
eyes are wiud, dust, light and heat,
when excessive. Eyes otherwise good
enough become weak under such condi
tions. The weakness may be clue to an
error of refraction, aud under most con
ditions the accommodative power of the
eye is strong enough to ovoOome the
error. But under such atmospheric or
climatic conditions as I have mentioned
the accommodation is lessened, aud the
eye cannot find relief except by the use
of glasses. They should generally be
convex.
Having mentioned those losses of vis
ual acuteness due to natural causes,
next in ordar are causes produced by
civilization. At the outset I will say
that if tbe patieut were to change his
occupatiou and take pleuty of fresh air
and exercise the optician’s services
might never be needed, but these “ifs”
are in the way and are not to be got rid
of by tbe average individual.
Take a boy from the couutry, bring
him to town and place him at clerical
work, writing perhaps all day and into
the night. Put him behind a counter
and let him stand all day with an hour
free out of 12, or more, or let him sit at
a workbench, following a trade that
keeps his eyes fixed steadily hour after
hour 13 to 18 inches in front of him.
Take this same youth with hitherto
good eyes aud bid him use them day in
and day out, reading for a profession,
or let him occupy his time iu a dimly
lighted room, or bend over a desk be
neath artificial light all the time. I
might go on, giving instance after in
stance, without particularizing any call
ing as more harmful thau others to the
eyes.
Is it a wonder that the children of
this generation are wearing glasses
along with their grandsires? Old age is
uo longer the reason, for wearing glasses.
Iu nine cases out of teu the young man
needs a convex glass to assist his over
taxed eyes in fulfilling their duties.
In addition to these causes of weak
ened vision it is hardly necessary to
mention the common evils of tobacco
aud alcoholic stimulants. Again, if the
strong constitution of a boy cannot save
his eyes from their thousand aud oue
uses, how can frail women escape? The
ever increasing army of women workers
in shops and offices and the new avenues
of employment opening to them swell
the number of spectacle wearers. It has
been my purpose to point out that it is
not the serious and very plain errors of
refraction that cause the most of an op
tician’s patronage, and he must often
attribute the loss of visual acuteuess to
other causes.—Dr. H. Ruth iu Jewelers’
Weekly.
The Model Had a Fit.
It is seldom that an artist gets excited
about the safety or health of his models.
William Carroll, who has his studio on
East Twenty-third street, recently re
ceived a shock. He had a model posing
for him who came from Philadelphia.
She was not in good health, but he was
trying to finish a piece of work, and she
insisted on posing a short while each
day. He went out to lunch aud was
gone an hour. He was strolling back to
his studio leisurely when the boy who
assists biin met him aud exclaimed:
“Well, that Fillerdelpher model has
a fit.”
“Why didn’t you pour cold water on
her?” said the artist, rushing to his
studio.
The small boy smiled aud shook bis
head. “That would have ruined her
fit.”
But the artist did not hear him as he
rushed up stairs and entered the studio,
where he expected to see the model dy
ing. She was standing in front of a
glass with anew dress on, and turning
she asked:
“How do you like my new fit?”
“Oh, first rate; but I thought it was
epileptic instead of new!”—New York
Commercial.
Genteel Poverty In Washington.
“I never saw so much genteel poverty
before as exists in Washington,” writes
a cabinet member’s wife in The Ladies’
Home Journal. “You have no idea bow
many of these department clerks trem
ble in their hoots for fear of losing their
positions with a change of administra
tion and enforcement of the civil serv
ice rules. The departments unfit both
men and women for any other occupa
tion. You would be surprised to know
how many of the fashionable society
Hen are department clerks. Some of the
most attractive among them get a ma
jority of their meals out of society.
They rent a room for a small amount
and dine out every night, frequently
getting a lunch or a breakfast from a
friend. In return they make it their
business to be entertaining and always
in a good humor, ready to be of service
and to initiate new people into the eti
quette of the place. ’ ’
Nevertheless He Got Her.
“You say my daughter loves
youi” questioned the old man.
“I’m sure of it," replied the young
man.
“Well, well,” returned the old
man, looking the young man over
critically, “there’s no accounting
for tastes, is there?”
And somehow, although the young
man knew that to be happy
over the possession of the girl, he
couldn’t help scowling and speculat
ing on that remark of the old man’s.
—Hartford Timas.
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MEXICAN PEARL FISHING.
Tbe Annual Yield of the Galf of Califor
nia Is About $350,000.
The agent of the English proprie
tors of the concession granted by
the Mexican republic for a monopoly
of pearl fishing in the gulf of Cali
fornia recently gave some interest
ing details of the present methods
employed in their industry, which
has continued ever since the occupa
tion of the country in the time of
Cortes.
The whole coast of the gulf of
California abounds in pearls, and
the concessions control the entire
territory. Until within the last few
years native divers were employed,
and the depth to which they could
descend did not exceed 35 feet. With
the introduction of diving apparatus
the limit of depth was increased to
30 fathoms. The best divers could
formerly remain under water not to
exceed two minutes. A modern
diver thinks nothing of a two hour
stop in water 100 feet in depth,
though at greater depths the stay is
necessarily shortened on account of
the enormous pressure of the super
incumbent water. A diver when
upon the floor of the ocean looks
about for the oyster, which he tears
from the object to which it is at
tached, and places it in a small bag
hanging to a ropo, which is hauled
into the boat on a given signal.
Sometimes the number of oysters
secured is large. At other times
only a few are caught.
The diver does not confine himself
to the pearl oyster alone, but if he
sees a rare specimen of coral or a
new species of shell he places it in
his bag and sends it to the surfaoe,
where it becomes the property of
the concession and one source of its
large income.
Last year the value of the pearls
harvested in Lower California was
alone $350,000. In addition 5,000
tons of shells were exported, which
were valued at $1,250,000 more.
Pearl fishing is the entire occupa
tion of the natives, and La Puz, the
headquarters, a city of the penin
sula, with about 2,000 inhabitants,
is solely dependent upon the indus
try. The business is one of chance,
and the pursuit is a fascinating one
to the natives, who are born gam
blers.
Every oyster does not contain its
pearl, and only at intervals, and
rare ones at that, is a really valua
ble pearl discovered. The largest
one ever found was about three
quarters of an inch in diameter and
was sold in Paris to the emperor of
Austria for SIO,OOO. Many black
pearls are found in Lower Califor
nia and aro valued higher than the
pure white. The large majority are
seed pearls and are only of moder
ate value.
San Francisco is not the market
for Mexican pearls, though it ought
to be. The harvest is exported
straight to London and Paris and
distributed from those great mar
kets.
The dangers of pearl fishing have
always been exaggerated, possibly
to give a fictitious value to the beau
tiful gems. The loss of life in the
fisheries in Lower California wps
undoubtedly larger before the intro
duction of the diving dress, but it is
not an established fact that the
deaths were always caused by the
shark or octopus, though these ma
rine monsters were without doubt
responsible for the loss of many
lives. Every diver has plenty of
hair raising stories to relate of nar
row escapes from death, but as he
is the only witness of these affairs it
makes the difficulty to substantiate
them so much the greater.
The occupation at best is a hazard
ous one, and those who were engaged
in it before the introduction of div
ing apparatus were always short
lived. The demand in the world’s
markets for pearls of extra beauty
is always far in excess of the sup
ply.—Mineral Collector.
The Last Straw.
James Russell Lowell, when
American minister to England, is
said to have taken great delight in
meeting the plain, honest and un
pretending American farmer, taking
him about and presenting him as
a representative American. But
cheap, vuigar and socially enter
prising Americans were a continual
trial to him. The Spectator of
The Outlook tells how Mr. Lowell
humorously described his expe
riences with the wife of an Ameri
can senator who was determined to
be presented at court, and whose
lack of fitness for that function waa
only too obvious to one who waa
supposed to protect the queen from
underbred aud vulgar persons. The
woman was noisy, illiterate and so
cially impossible, but she was the
wife of a senator, and she was perti
nacious, unscrupulous and pushing.
There came a time when the minis
ter, worn out with her importuni
ties, was about to capitulate. In
that hour of weakness, however, he
chanced in a hotel reception room
to overhear his persecutor say to a
friend regarding a dressmaker’s bill
which had just come in, “When I
see the size of that bill, I just la
back and yelled. ” The lady waa not
presented
Forbidden Fruit.
The first important faot In the re
corded history of man was eating for
bidden fruit—not because he oared
about the fruit, but because it was
forbidden. It is a predatory instinct
in human nature. If you want an
apple tree olubbed, say to the boys
that they can have the fruit of ev
ery tree but that one. We shall be
surprised if the late designation of
a particular educational tree as one
of which, if the young men oat, they
shall ecclesiastically die does not de
velop the Adamic spirit. — Chioago
Interior.
AT STORKVILLE CENTER.
Colonel Calliper’* A.oount of a Plant For
Protection From Mosqaltoe*.
“The only plant of the kind I ever
knew of,” said Colonel Calliper,
“was one that was set up some years
ago in Storkville Center, Yt. There
was a swamp about two or three
miles north of the town that bred
mosquitoes at least as large as any
that ever were, and in summer
when the wind was right they would
come down on us in swaima, and
they certainly did give us a good
deal of trouble. When the wind
was blowing the other way and
blowing strong, they never used to
bother us at all, and tbis suggested
the idea of putting up a plant to
keep a wind blowing in that direc
tion all the time, and such a plant
was finally set up. There was some
opposition to it at first—a good deal,
in fact—but when it was finally in
operation it worked so perfectly
that the sentiment in favor of it be
came practically unanimous.
“Between the town and the swamp
and pretty well up toward the
swamp we set up a long line of poles
right across the country, extending
on either side out beyond the line of
the town, and on these poles there
was carried, at a height of about 12
feet from the ground, a perforated
pipe with the perforations toward
the swamp, and that’s all there was
to it but the power, and one steam
engine at the center of the line sup
plied that, furnishing compressed
air which was forced into the dis
tributing .pipe at various places
along the line and out through all
the perforations in front. It was
like a long sprinkler, except that it
didn’t sprinkle. It supplied air, and
all these jets of air, expanding, unit
ed at a little distance in front of the
perforations, and, still expanding,
but yet retaining ample strength,
they made a continuous and suffi
ciently vigorous blast reaching from
the ground to a height higher than
mosquitoes fly —a wall of wind
against which mosquitoes could
make no headway. One man could
operate this whole plant easily.
“Of course, we made some mis
takes at first, including one that
might have been expected in the in
terest of economy. In those days
we never used to light our street
lamps on moonlight nights—that is,
on nights that were moonlight ac
cording to the calendar. They might
be the cloudiest, blackest nights
that ever were, but if it was moon
light officially we didn’t light up.
We made a similar mistake at first
in operating the wind plant. When
the wind was in the right quarter
to blow the mosquitoes away and
there was plenty of it, we used to
save fuel and let the wind plant lie
idle, but after the wind had changed
once or twice in the night we gave
up the eoonomy idea and ran the
plant regularly every night without
regard to the weather from the be
ginning to the end of the season. I
think our season there was a little
shorter than it is about here. We
used to start the wind plant June 1
and shut down Sept. 30.
“But the greatest difficulty we
ever had over the plant was when a
town just to the south of us sued us
on account of it, claiming large
damages from the operation of it,
and getting out a temporary injunc
tion restraining us from the use of
it. During that period of suspension
we suffered from the mosquitoes,
as we had done before the inaugura
tion of the plant, these sufferings
being magnified in our minds no
doubt by the freedom from them
which we had for some time en
joyed.
“This town that sued us claimed
that they had got all our mosqui
toes. They said that of the original
current of mosquitoes from the
swamp the part that under ordinary
circumstances would have come to
Storkville Center and 6taid there
had not been permanently held back
by our wind plant, but only deflect
ed around its wings, and that the
mosquitoes thus deflected had re
united below Storkville Center and
gone on to them, and that so tlv y
got their own and ours, too, and
they asked for a permanent injunc
tion and damages.
“Storkville Center won, but for
all that the wind plant "finally fell
into disuse. I don’t know just how
this came about. I suppose they
didn't keep it in order, and it didn’t
work so perfectly, and then there
were new people coming up all the
time and more or less opposition
from them, and the others didn’t
take so much interest in it as they
did at first, and finally they stopped
using it altogether, and the whole
plant went to decay. I was out that
way toward the swamp the last time
I was in Storkville Center, and there
wasn’t so much as a single post of
it left.”—New York Sun.
An Epicure Emperor.
The emperor of Germany enjoys the
anique distinction of being the only Eu
ropean sovereign who has ever descend
ed to his kitchen and “had it out”
with the cook. Coffee has never been a
strong point with the Berliners, and it
seems that the imperial coffee is no bet
ter than the rest. His majesty grew
weary of complaining to officers of the
household and one morning actually
went below stairs to investigate matters
for himself. After the shock of the im
perial presence had subsided, William
11, kaiser of Germany, king of Prussia,
soldier, sailor, sportsman, poet, painter,
theatrical manager, orchestral leader,
telegram sender and absolute authority
on everything, demonstrated that there
was still one more thing that he knew
all about, and that was coffee.—Ex
change.
One of the Ameer’s latest acts was to
order that funeral expenses be cut down,
because of a verse of the Koran which
Modemas prodigals to tho lower world.
A FAMOUS CHARGER.
The Horae That Led the Light Brigade
Died on an Ohio Farm.
The noted white Arabian steed ridden
by Captain Nolan in the charge of the
Light brigade at the memorable battle
of Balaklava of the Crimea was quar
tered for several years in the immediate
vicinity of Cincinnati and died a natu
ral death at a ripe old age in the neigh
borhood of Morrow, O.
When the blundering order for the
charge of tbe Light brigade was given,
Captain Nolau was iu command. As
the men charged into the “valley of
death’’ Nolau, on his conspicuous white
Arab, spurred far iu advance of all—a
fine mark for a Russian rifleman. With
his sword high uplifted and a cheer on
his lips, he was struck in the breast by
a fragment of shell, thrown iu the Rus
sians’ first discharge, aud instantly kill
ed. His sword dropped from his hand,
but the arm retained its upright posi
tion and his left band the bridle rein,
as his horse instinctively turned back
and galloped toward the brigade. As
the files opened to let him pass an un
earthly shriek rent the air, said, by
some to have been the last agonizing
cry of Nolan in vain effort to turn the
brigade from its impending doom, but
thought by others to be the result of uo
human will, but due rather to those
“spasmodic forces which may act upon
the form when life has ceased. ”
Straight into the Russian guns, which
were opened full upon them, dashed the
brigade and “then they rode back, but
not the 000.” The immense loss was
“only counter balanced,’’ says one, “by
the brilliance of the attack and the gal
lantry, order and discipline which dis
tinguished it ”
The remnant of the Light brigade
was sent over to Quebec to recuperate,
and with them Nolan’s white Arab,
with two slight saber cuts in his side.
He carried the marks to his death.
After his master’s death tho horse was
called Nolau. While in Quebec Lester
Taylor, a wholesale cotton merchant of
Cincinnati, purchased him and brought
him to Cincinnati, where he shortly
afterward sold him to August Le Broot.
Le Broot was a Frenchman. The Le
Broots owned a pretty summer house
at South Covington, Ky., on the cliffs
of Licking river, and now known as
Dinmore pork. Luxurious quarters were
fitted up for Nolan. A French zouave
was brought from France to care ex
pressly for him and a handsome jet
black stallion, called Sultan, purchased
in Algiers by M. Le Broot on one of
his numerous trips to Europe. Nolan
was a magnificent creature, 15>£ hands
high, snow white, with mane and tail
like strandu of burnished silver, and
nostrils like pink satin; fleet as the
wind under the saddle—the only use to
which he was put—with a swinging,
easy gait, most inviting to the equestrian
lover; high spirited, yet geutlo withal
as a fawn. Both Nolan and Saltan were
regularly exercised in a ring laid out
on one part of the grounds for that pur
pose. So docile was Nolan that the two
little daughters of the house were much
given to climbing upon his back during
this exercise. If either chanced to slip
and fall beneath the feet of the horse
while in motion, he would stop instant
ly, and, with the zouave cry to the
child, “Tranquiel! Tranquiel!” mean
ing be quiet, would, with rare intelli
gence, bend his head and carefully push
the little one from his path.
On one of the foraging expeditions of
the Union troops stationed at Fort Mitch
ell, a few miles distant from the Le
Broot residence, both horses were taken
from the stables. M. Le Broot was
away from home. Upon his return, with
the impetuosity and decisive action of
the typical Frenchman, he started at
once with his zouave in hot pursuit of
the animals. Some four miles from
home he caino across them, tethered and
in charge of a subaltern. Le Broot cov
ered the man with his pistols while the
zouave deftly secured the horses. Then
he directed the latter to take them across
the Ohio river into Brown county, 0., he
himself riding on into Covington, Ky.,
and straight to the old Planters’ House,
where the commanding officer of the
troops, General Stanhope, was stopping.
There he defiantly challenged the gen
eral's interference in tho casa Nothing
came of the affair, however, and after a
time the horses were returned to their
old quarters. Loath to dispose of Nolan
and not wishing to ship him to France,
Le Broot left him for some months to
the care of Colonel Mason, finally pen
sioning him to a farm near Morrow, 0.,
where he lived his life out in peaceful
retirement. Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Theater Going In Japan.
It will interest many to hear that the
Japanese laws prohibit a theatrical per
formance lusting more than eight hoars.
The plays in the first class theaters be
gin at 10 or 11 and are not ended until
after sunset. There are intervals, of
course, for refreshment, and a recent in
novation is a theater yard for exercise,
lined with eating booths ami fancy
stalla Boxes are secured three or four
days beforehand from a neighboring tea
house, where arrangements are made
for attendance and refreshments during
the day. Full dress is never worn.
The following articles, unless other
wise ordered, are brought to each patron:
A programme, a cushion, a tobacco fire
box, a pot of tea, cakes, fruit aud sushi.
sort of rice dumpling flavored with
vinegar and topped with a piece of fish.
Valuables may be left at the teahouse,
and the inclusive charge (excepting the
waiter’s tip) is not more than 1.80 yen
a head. The gallery is the most aristo
cratic place, but the space unreserved,
occupied by the Japanese ‘‘gods, ” is
quaintly called “the deaf gallery.”—
Westminster Gazette.
Acquired.
Dyspepsia Specialist (irritably)—But,
madam, you must chew your food.
What were your teeth given you for?
Female Patient (calmly) They
weren’t given to me. I bought ’em. —
liondon Fun.
The United States flag was first sa
luted by a foreign power in Guiberon
bay, France, the officer iu # charge of the
vessel making the salute being Admiral
La Motte.
* The European hornet is much larger
than the common wasp and has a tem
per in proportion to its size.
The common silver dollar is almost
exactly 1% inches in diameter.
She—When you post a letter, do you
stick the stamp on yourself?
! He—Certainly.
She—l always stick it on the ea-
TIBMSI 91.00 JSk lIAB.
How the Dean First Came.
People in Raleigh, at least, will re
member with pleasure the eloquent dis
courses here some time ago of Dean
Hart of Denver—the clergyman with
nn Irish face and an English voice. He
had the eloquence of one and the ro
bustness of the other. This robustness
is not confined to his sincere treatment
and simplicity. It is in the man where,
after all, eloquence resides. Here is an
interesting story told me by a promi
nent gentleman in Raleigh who knows
something of the early life of the dean.
It was in Denver during the cowboy
and desperado days. There was a row
of barrooms—they constituted about the
chief business houses along the narrow
streets of the pioneer prairie town.
Dean Hart was then a young man, and
his force was making itself felt even
among these almost abandoned men.
The gamblers and drink honse keepers
grew restive. They could not stand any
shock of good deeds, but they had a
oertain kind of open handedness and
brutal frankness with all their wayward
habits of life. They gave the young
preacher so many days to get oat of
town. He refused to go and kept on
with his work. Plnck is a pet quality
with these men, and the young man had
it
One of the most desperate of the
dance hall keepers oarne to him and
said: “Young man, I like yon beoanse
yon are game. Come to my shanty to
night and preach, and no one shall
harm a hair of your head. ” The young
man was there, and his audience I A
cloud of smoke and wide brimmed hats,
with pistols and knives in their belts.
The stage was crowded with the same
kind. But the boss man and bis follow
ers kept their keen eyes primed for busi
ness, and the young man proceeded. He
staid there. He has been there ever
since. He bnilt at first a small chnrch.
He is now dean of the Denver cathe
dral.—Raleigh News and Observer.
The Unchanging Snowdrop.
There is no more constant timekeeper
than the snowdrop. It seems constitu
tionally insensible of temperature, for
although bard frost may retard the
blossoms by making the ground like
iron, through which they cannot be
thrust, they make their appearance si
multaneously with a thaw. On the other
hand, this curious little plant will not
respond to abnormal warmth, natural
or applied. You may coddle the bulbs
in pots and put them in a warm frame
with crocus, hyacinth, narcissus and
lily of tho valley—these last will re
ward you by auticipating their natural
season by many weeks. Not so the
snowdrop. Unless the outside be really
frost hound the protected flowers will
keep exact pace with those in the lawnt
turf. Botanists do not admit the snow
drop as a true native of Britain. From
the Caucasus to central Germany, they
.say, is its legitimate range, but there in
no pretty weed which has established
itself so firmly as a British colonist, in
those districts, at least, where soil and
climate suit it. In the Scilly isles,
strange to say, where bulbous plants
are cultivated to produce hundreds of
tons of early blossoms, the snowdrop
will scarcely live, while 400 miles to
the north, on the misty Atlantio sea
board, it spreads from garden to lawn, j
from lawn to woodland and sheets the
banks with mimio snow.—Pall Mall
Gazette. 4
Her Way.
“I have fouud a wav,” said the girl
who works down town, “to avoid being
shoved aside by men behind me when I
am trying to get on an ‘L’ car in the
evening to go home. I don’t want men
to offer me their seats in the car, and I
always avoid the appearance of staring
a man out of a seat. They have paid
their money and are entitled to their
seat if once they get it. Nor do I object
so much when a seat in front of me ia
vacated if the man who has been stand
ing up beside me makes a wild leap for
it. 1
“But I do not like being shoved
around and pushed to one side from
behind so that men who are farther
from the car platforms than I am can
get in first. I don’t try to break into a
line when getting theater tickets nor at
the stamp window of the postofflee, as
many women think it is their privilege
to do. Yet a woman can hardly fight to
keep her place on the ‘L’ platform. So
when they push me too roughly I turn
one side and, making as low a bow as
possible at such short range, say, ‘After
yon, sir!’ It never yet has failed to.
work. But I expect some day to be dis
aonointed. ” —New York Press. I
Tiro l’ointa of View.
On one occasion, at a party given by |
Sir John Millais, Ludy Halle rose to
play the violin, when to her intense
amusement she heard Landseer exclaim:
“Good gracious! A woman playing the
fiddle!” On the other hand, an old
fashioned nobleman, when he saw a
gentleman sit down to the piano, con
temptuously remarked, “I wonder if
the creature aan sew. ’'
A Rebuff.
“Violet Ray? What a pretty name!**
said the unpopular suitor.
“Yes,” replied Miss Ray, “too pretty
to obang*.”—Pick Me I Jxx
Wlred Glass.
As the result of a thorough investiga
tion of the heat resisting qualities of
wired glass instituted by the Philadel
phia Fire Underwriters’ association the
latter has made a report which must
be very serviceable to all interested in
this unique product. The report declares
that such glass cun be safely used in
skylights and in such situations will
stand a severe lire and not give way
when water is thrown on it. A wooden
framing for skylight, covered with tin,
all seams lock jointed and with nails
hidden, is superior in fire resisting qual
ity to iron framing. Wired glass in
wooden sash, covered with tin, all
seams lock jointed and uails coucealed, >
can safely be used for wiudows toward
an external exposure and in fire doors
to elevator shafts and stairway tow
ers, where it is necessary to light the
shafts; in office buildings, hotels,,
etc., where it is undesirable to have
elevator shafts entirely inclosed and’
dark, wired glass permanently built
into a brick or terracotta shaft, or
arranged in a metal covered wood
frame, can safely be used, and, again, j
wired glass plates, securely fastened in j
standard fire shutters, can safely bej
used toward an external exposure—in j
this case, the fact that a possible fire in
a building all the windows of which
are protected by fire shutters can much
more readily be detected from the out .
side through the wired glass is impor* ’
taut.— Raw York Son. J
NO. 26.