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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRIS i w
A. J. HARP, Publisher.
IAUY IMPROVEMENTS.
FIVE NEW STKEL-ARMOKKO <RIJIN
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Fifteen .tuition llollnrn to be the Sum for
Cons' ruction I'nrpoacN.
A Washington dispatch says that the
House committee on naval affairs lias nearly
completed the bill for the improvement of
the navy. Arguments have been made
by the secretary of the navy, Admiral Por¬
ter and other prominent naval officers
and tho testimony given by all of them
will accompany tho report of the committee.
The committee estimate that $15,000,000 will
be a proper sum for this Congress to appro¬
priate as a beg’-uiiug, of which $7,500,-
000 will be provided for in the bill
shortly to be reported, with the
understanding be that a like amount shall
decided appropriated next year. It was
not to adopt the idea of the heaviest
ironclad of England, as vessels of that size
so Admiral Porter told the committee, draw
so much water that there are probably only
two harbors on our whole Atlantic coast
which they cou'd enter—Portland, Me., aud
Port Royal, 8. C. Admiral Porter said that
while England it could had more not than one ironclad which,
lay off Coney Island get into our harbors, could
and utterly destroy
vessels Brooklyn, if not New York. To meet such
as this it would be l>est to provide for
torpedo of boats darkness. which make their attacks under
cover The determination not to
recommend the construction of vessels of the
heaviest class was also influenced by the con¬
sideration that such vessels have no other
capacity and than to fight—their movements are
slow speed is lost sight of.
committee Secretary Whitney, in his remarks to the
favored the creation of a plaut
at one of the navy yards .sufficient to produce
heavy This ordnance, armor plates, steel shafts
etc. idea the committee will, in all
eral probability, adopt and recommend a lib¬
000, for appropriation, this say, perhaps, of $250,-
will purpose. Five large vessels
be recommended to be constructed, one
at a government yard, hereafter to be deter¬
mined upon, aud four to be given out by
private contract. These five vessels are to be
from six to eight thousand tons,to be heavily
armored and equipped with the most power¬
ful armament attainable.
newsy Gleanings.
There are thirty colored students in the
Freshman class at Yale.
Italy has three locomotive factories and
three railway repair shops.
Massachusetts sharpshooters are to set
up a granite shaft at Gettysburg.
So scarce have wild elephants become in
India that they are now protected by law.
As many as six hundred standard Eng¬
lish works have been translated into Chinese.
In Levi county, Florida, strawberries are
ripe, and peaches are as big as hickory
nuts.
The people of this country imported paid last^year
more than $',1,000,000 for precious
stones.
South Carolina produced last valued year 409,-
103 tons of phosphate of lime, at
$2,659,169.
The little town of Searsport, Maine, boasts
of 18] sea captains among its population, or
one to every three voters.
The Pillsbury flouring mills at Minneapo¬
lis, divided $35,000 surplus profits among
1,100 employes last vear.
There has been more snow the past winter
in London than for fourteen years, and there
is great distress in consequence.
Petaluma, Cal., has two Chinese farmers.
One has 150 acres uuder cultivation and the
other 100 acres. They are very successful
grangers.
There are 1.50,000,000 tons of coal waste
piled up in the anthracite coal regions, which,
under a lately discovered process, is now
being utilized.
The fossil remains of an arch;eoptoryx,the form the
oldest known bird, which seems to
connecting link between birds and reptiles, for
has just been sold to the Berlin museum
$5,000.
Last year nearly one hundred and fifty
mills were erected in the Southern States,
Kentucky leading with thirty-one; Tennes¬
see, twenty-four; Virginia, twenty; Texas,
eighteen; Georgia, seventeen, and North
Carolina, ten.
PERSONAL MENTION
The second volume of Mr. Blaine’s “Twenty
Years in Congress” has just been issued.
Edison, the inventor, took his second wife,
the daughter of au Ohio millionaire, a few
days since.
Not less than seven German generals will
complete their fiftieth year of active service
during 1886.
The widow of General Santa Anna is in
Mexico, spending her declining years in a
rocking chair, smoking cigarettes.
Thomas P. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky.,
the oldest Baptist preacher in America, is
ninety-four years of age and blind.
Parnell’s friends say that the Irish leader
is absolutely penniless, having given away all
his cash anil realty to the Irish cause.
Whittier, the poet, is color blind. He
says that yellow is his favorite color because
this is the only one he can distinguish.
Miss Lydia Bull, of St. Louis, has been
appoiuted Garland. stenographer the to Attorney-General of his deceased
She is niece
wife.
The widow of ex-Governor John Hubbard,
of Maine, still lives in Hallowell iu the same
house where he died seventeen years ago. She
is ninety years old.
Captain Boycott, whose experiences
originated the term “boycotting,” Halt has estates been
appointed agent for the Flixton England.
of Lord Waveney, in Suffolk, coadju¬
Sam Small, the Rev. Sam Joues’
tor, is tall and slender with dark hair and
a although brown mustache. He wears spectacles, of
His not yet thirty-five yearn and attrac¬ age.
manner is nervons, earnest
tive,and his voice strong and clear.
The late Muzzafer Edin, the Emir of
domestic Bokhara, had at his death one Asia. of the His largest house¬
hold establishments in
consisted of seven sons, nineteen
daughters, 280 wives, 290 female slaves, ten
female barbers, nine female cooks, washerwomen. twenty-
two needle-women, and fifty
Powder Explosion.
twenty persons injured, three
fatally, in a store.
A powder explosion occurred in Winches¬
ter. Ky., the other afternoon, in which a
numb— of poison.; were injured, some fatal
ly. Mary Willis’ eating house aud grocery by
store as crowded at the time
countr ry people who came in to at-
tend tne county court. At uoon some
party came into the store to buy pow der, and
while the clerk was weighing it out a person
present struck a match to light a cigar. A
portion of the ignited sulphur flew into the
powder, which exploded and tore away almost
the whole side of the room. About twenty
person were in the room at that moment
nearly all of whom were more or less injured
•ad three at least fatally.
but “All men are born free and equal,’ born
the difficulty is that some are
equal to half a dozen others,
TH1G NEW
Interesting Happenings from nil Points.
EANTKRN AND MIDDLE HTATKh.
A train running between Nuntla ana
forward Rochester, N. Y., ran off the track, burned. and the
coach tipped over and was
Injured. Eighteen persons were more or less seriously
Four men and a boy were crossing the
Susquehanna when river near Harrisburg, four Penn.,
their boat capsized and the men
were drowned.
Mayor Grace, of New York, lectu. -1 in
Boston a few nights ago before an immense
audience on “Irishmen in America.”
David Wilson, an ex -fireman of Pitts¬
burg, lack Penn., discouraged through poverty and
and of employment, killed his wife
mortally wounded himself.
Hundreds of unemployed miners and
their families are suffering for the neressa
ries of life at Ebervale, Penn.
1 he employers in the Pennsylvania coke
regton have finally acceeded to the demands
of the strikers. The strike resulted in fatal
collisions and numerous arrests, and the
Hungarian workmen refused to return to
work unless those of their number in jail
wpm reieuaeH
Workmen have been attempting to recover
the bodies of the twenty-six miners entombed
alive toke, by Penn., a sudden cave-in time of a mine It has at Nauti-
some ago. been
I roved almost beyond doubt that the men
were not overwhelmed by the cave-in and
flood, but found their nay to the higher
lingering workings and in the mine, where they met ft
horrible death by starvation.
The late John B. Gough’s estate is estimated
at less than $75,000.
Governor Aiibett has sent to the New
Jersey legislature a special message concern¬
ing declaring the recent decision of the supreme court
the railroad tax of 1884 unconstitu¬
tional. He saiil ttiat the State would not
suffer even if the legislature did no? pass a
law at this session, and he considered it use¬
less to lengthen tin* session on that account.
He suggested a passage of a bill authorizing
the governor, comptroller and treasurer to
dispose be of so much of the State’s maintenance securities as
may necessary for the of
the government by reason of any adverse deficiency
that may occur on account of the de¬
cision of the supreme court, and declared
himself to be firmly opposed to any direct
State tax.
It is estimated that 2,105,000 tons of ice are
stored in the 125 ice houses along the Hudson.
Lillie T and Susie „ T Lilly, twin . . sisters, . . aged .
six the years, machinery were caught by fathers their mill clothing m
of their at Sha-
mokin Hill, Penn., and mangled to death.
Mrs. Thomas Loughlin, of New York,
attempted to throw a can of vitriol at her
husband, but iu the struggle the liquid was
spattered over her own face, and she was
frightfully burned, losing her eyesight. The
two had been living apart.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Clarence J. Sears, of Homer, Ill., over
eighty years old, hail a dispute with his wife
upon religious matters, aud becoming en¬
raged, killed her with a saw.
Prosecutions and convictions of Mor¬
mons for polygamy continue in the Utah
courts.
A Chinese mandarin interested in a large
importing firm at San Fraueisco was refused
permission to landed and return, to China.
The steamer City of Mexico arrived
at Key West, Fla., the other day, in
charge of Lieutenant Elliott, from
tfie United States steamer Galena.
There were thirty filibusters on board the
steamer. It was t he intention to laud the fili¬
busters at St. Andrews, but the U nited States
consul Mexico at Panama captured interfered, by the and Galena the City and of
was
taken to Key West.
A fire dry at St. Paul, Minn., destroyed a
large of $200,000. goods store, causing an estimated
loss
The schooner Indianola, engaged in the
gulf trade, board, Captain has been Bloom given and a crew lost. of six
men on up as
A convention of coal mine operators and
miners, at a meeting in Columbus, Ohio,
agreed May upon a scale of wages to go arbitration into effect
1 in five States. A board ot
to settle all disputes was also appointed.
George National A. Wardner, Exchange city bank, bookkeeper Milwaukee, of
the
shot and mortally wounded Abbott Law¬
rence, the assistant cashier. Wardner is be¬
lieved to be insane.
WASHINGTON.
Chairman Bland, of the House commit¬
tee on coinage, weights and measures, has
prepared a minority report, signed the by bill him¬
self and two other members, on to
provide for the free coinage of silver, which
was reported adversely by a majority vote of
the committee. The report strongly favors
the free coinage of silver.
Forty-seven ladies, representing appeared twenty, before
three States of the Union,
the House judiciary committee on the 20th,
and delivered addresses in behalf of woman’s
rights.
The Senate in executive session has con¬
firmed, among others, the Delaware, following nominee
tions: W. J. Black, of to be con¬
sul, Nuremberg; D. J. Fartello, of District
of Columbia, to lie consul, Weisseldorff; Jas
per Smith, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the District of Columbia, W. H. to
be Parker, consul, District of Columbia, to be consul
of
general, Corea; Stephen A. Walker, York. attor¬
ney, southern district of New
The President has sent the following nom-
inations to the Senate; Henderson M. Jaco-
way to be receiver of public Ferdinand monies at Van- I)ar-
daelle, Ark. Postmasters:
denveer, atHamilton, Ohio; Jason K.Wright,
at Marinette. Wis.; John H. Shaffer, at
Kankakee. Ill.; Henry P. Grant, at Helena,
Ark.
Solicitor General Goode asserts that
the charges understood to have been filed
against him before the Senate J udiciary com¬
mittee are utterly false. He says he had no
connection, directly Virginia or indirectly, with any and
election frauds in or elsewhere,
indignantly denies that he has ever been
guilty of bribery or other corrupt practices.
A statement prepared that by of the 222,739,701 United
States treasurer shows out
standard silver dollars coined up to February
20, 51,627,889 were in circulation on that
date.
Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the
United States marine hospital, keep says that we
will probably be able to America from
cholera this summer, as we did last.
FOREIGN.
A meeting of socialists in Hyde Park, and
London, was attended by 50,(XX) people
4,(XX) policemen, but there was no dis
turban re.
Yokohama, Japan, has suffered from a
large fire, the Windsor hotel and adjoining
buildings succumbing to the flames. United
States Consul General his Denny, who Corea, wasstop-
piug at Yokohama on way to was
obliged to jump from a se -oud story win¬
dow, but received no injuries.
The Rev. Hugh Stowell has Brown, died the cele¬
brated Baptist preacher, in Eng¬
land, at the age of sixty-three years, liis
greatest success was as a lecturer, and eve’-v
Sunday afternoon he collected nu ll n v- (
2,000 or 3,(XX) artisans, He had lectu re t in
this country and Canada.
A young commer. i tl traveler on his bifida
tour runed h nisfif attic gaining table o
Monte Carlo, and committed suicide.
Great c r inor ial depression exists at
Stoc kholm. ' C leu. and numerous failures
are aim- iiuced.
The Duolin board of guardians ha- adopted
a resolution declaring that only home rule,
land reform and the slippage of evictions
will satisfy the majority of the Iris i people,
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1886.
THE IHEAT PROSPECT,
A NUMMARY OF ITS CONDITION
THKOI CillOl T THE WENT.
The Outlook Hnlri to be Very Favorable
In Most Sections.
The following crop summary appears in the
last Chicago Farmers' Deview: The
returns from the winter fields are almost
uniformly good. They present an outlook
very nearly as favorable as those sent in ear¬
ly in 1885, when the prospect was exception¬
ally good for a large yield. The snow has en¬
tirely disappeared from the fields, enabling
a very dear understanding as to the condi-
x r> 0 f the plant, and from nearly every
county in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky and Kansas it is re-
ported looking strong . and . . healthy. ... The
as
disappearance only of the snow covering
Is t * 1, ‘ serious meuace now threat-
emng , the growing gTtun. and with
another general fall of snow tho outlook could
hardly of be the lietter than is presented A prolonged in the re¬
ports of correspondents. cold weather, with the
season severe fields
still damage unprotected which would, undoubtedly, cause
of the might completely change the
tenor reports.
The latest reports from California, Oregon
and Washington Territory the aro generally
more favorable than at same time last
year. Out of twenty counties of Kansas
eighteen report the crop in good condition,
while unfavorable returns are made
where from the Ottawa shows and Wyandotte injury from counties,
while unprotected. plant With freezing
the exception of
Howard and Hendricks counties, in Indiana,
the The outlook is reported to be very favorable.
reports from Ohio are uniformly favor¬
able. In Southern Illinois two counties report
a poor outlook, but the remaining From counties
make Illinois a the very good showing. uniformly Central
from returns Kentucky are and Missouri good. The
returns are gen¬
erally of a ,he glowing outlook character, considered and in the
former State t is brigh ter
l or a good crop than before in mauy years.
The Michigan reports do not indicate any
larger yield than last year, but the reports
ire generally favorable. In Tennessee the
reports indicate an average outlook. While
it is not data yet the possible to give in all anything the like
positive kdth average of Michigan, States,
the filing possible exception compared will
show a off as with last
year. The indicate that the stocks of old
exports Dakota, Kansas, Missouri,
wheat in Ken¬
tucky, Teenessee, and Illinois are pretty well
exhausted, while considerable wheat is still
held in farmer’s hands iu Minnesota, Iowa
and Michigan.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Jennie Lind ‘is announced to appear in
concert next season.
United States Senator Hawley is said
to play very well on the piano.
Henry Irving prefers the Bible and
Shakespeare to all other books.
Carlotta Patti will presently live. give up
singing and go to Florence to
John Owens, the famous comedian, who
has been so long an invalid, is slowly conva
lescing.
Minnie Maddern, the actress, has taken
to writing for Western magazines, in addi¬
tion to her dramatic duties.
Ellen Terry, the English actress, gets
$375 a week fifty-two weeks of the year, with
a vacation whenever she chooses.
Louisa M. ALCOTT.author of “Little Men,
Little Women” and the rest of a popular comedy. ser¬
ies of books, is reported at work on a
The law and order league, of Cincinnati,
has finally triumphed over Sunday theatri¬
cals. A vigorous war on the concert halls
has begun.
Miss May Tift, the daughter of a New
York banker, has made a brilliant success at
private soirees in Paris, and has been offered
an engagement at her majesty’s theatre in
London.
J. L. Toole, a prominent English actor,
has placed a fine monument and otherwise
adorned the long-neglected grave of H. J.
Byron, whose plays have made much merri¬
ment for the English speaking world.
Miss Elmira Strong, who is traveling
with a theatrical troupe in the Eastern States,
is a greatrgranddaughter of Caleb Strong,
eight times governor of Massachusetts, and a
great-great-granddaughter of President John
Adams.
Schurmann, the impresario of Patti, says:
4 ‘After Naples we are not certain of our des¬
tination. I have proposed Brazil to Patti,
and offered her $200,000, also a steamer all to
herself. She wants $300,000, but I do not
doubt that we shall come to terms.”
Charlotte Crabtree, better known on
the stage as Lotta, is undoubtedly the wealth¬
iest woman in the world who follows the pro¬
fession of the stage. Most of the money is
held in the name of her mother, who has been
her manager ever since she They first appeared far as
a little girl in California. are not
wrong who estimate Lotta s possessions af¬ at
a good deal over a million dollars. Year
ter year she has earned from $50,000 to
$70,000. ____
A Terrible Fire.
MANY BUSINESS HOUSES IN WILMING¬
TON, N. C., DESTROYED.
The steamer Bladen, plying between Wil¬
mington, N. C., aud Fayetteville, N. C.,
caught fire the other afternoon about 4
o'clock just before reaching her wharf at the
former city, and owing to the
inflammable nature of her cargo,
consisting of rosin, spirits of turpe ic aud
cotton, The pilot was headed immediately enveloped in flames. availa¬
her for the nearest
ble wharf, mid the passengers succeeded in
escaping, and others some by boats from overboard, adjoining when yes-
sets by jumping
they were quickly rescued.
The deserted steamer landed against tho
wharf of tho New York ami Wilmington
Steamship communicated company, and the fire and was quickly
to the sheds warehouses
thereon. All the wharves and sheds being sat¬
urated with rosin and turpentine the spread
of the fire was rapid,and despite the efforts of
the firemen became a disastrous conflagra¬
tion. There was a gale of wind blowing at
the time from the southwest, and soon the
blocks on the waterfront o’clock were burning
furiously. At about eight the fire
was gotten under control, but not until it
had destroyed a million dollars’ worth of
property. wafted the high wind
Owing to private sparks dwellings by caught fire and
numerous
were burned to the ground. In addition a
block of small completely tenements, occupied by colored al¬
though people, nearly was mil. distant swept from away, the main
a
fire. The general offices of the Atlantic
Coastline were also destroyed, with numer¬
ous valuable Methodist papers aud records. The Front
street church was included in the
list of buildings burue I —is a total loss.
An Appalling Alternative.
“May I (lance this waltz with you,
Miss Esmeralda?” said Kosciusko Mur-
phy at a recent ball to Miss Esmeralda
Lonjtcoflin, one of the fairest belles of
Austin.
“Oh, please excuse me, Mr. Murphy. I
do not care to waltz.’
“Then allow me to conduct you to a
scat and entertain you w iti. my conver- ■
tion.”
“Graciousheavens! No, let us waltz,”
exclaimed Esmeralda.— Texas Siftings.
Beyond.
Kinged with bine mountain*
Oft, when a little lad,
Dreamed I of something g
Hidden beyond;
Ships and ihining tea,
Town* and towers haunted
Dreamt made me glad—and
Lifts lay beyond!
Ringed with blue welkin,
Oit now, as when a lad,
Dream1 of something glad
Hidden beyond;
Something I cannot te«
Haunts and entices me;
Dreams make me glad—and ta
What lies beyond ?
~ William Canton in (Jood Words.
SCARRED FOR LIFE.
Some classes of men, like rival can¬
didates, seem to be born enemies, just
as it is with some animals—cats and
dogs, for instance. When troops are
stationed in a German university city,
the officers and students are certain to
quarrel. The same cordial relations ex¬
ist between them that might be expect¬
ed to prevail If a few Texas centipedes
and tarantulas were placed in a bottle
and shaken up well. In the year 1861
the students at the Polytechnic School
of Carlsruhe, Baden, Germany, and
the army officers stationed at that city
were in perpetual session, »> to speak.
They were fighting almost every day.
There were several students’ societies
at the Polytechnic School; the Saxonia,
the Franconia and Bavaria, and when
the members were not fighting duels
among themselves or drinking beer,
they were having “personal difficulties,’
as David Crockett used to call such
joint discussions, with the officers of
the army of the Grand Duke of Baden.
During one of these street exhibi¬
tions a corps bursclt of the Saxonia
came very near being made acorpse by
iin officer, who made use of his sword
on the street and on the person of his
antagonist. As it was, the student’s
coat, a borrowed one, was cut and
slashed in several places. Whenever
i he students and officers met in the
beer saloons, if they were sober
enough to converse at all, they rued
language towards each other that
would not be tolerated in this country
outside of the halls of congress.
The bad feeling finally culminated
in a duel between Lieut. Von Holz and
a student named Baiun, a member of
the Bavarian society, which unpleas¬
ant affair is the subject of this sketch,
the writer being an eye witness. The
quarrel started at a masquerade ball.
They called each other bad names, and
slung diatribes and beer bottles, mak¬
ing good line shots across the table at
each other. Next morning Baum sent
a challenge to the lieutenant, who re¬
plied that it would afford him pleasure
to murder Baum, but it was below the
dignity of an army officer, who was
also a baron, to fight with a plebeian;
he, therefore, was compelled promptly
and defiantly to refuse the challenge.
Several more street fights occurred,
all of which failed to calm the excite¬
ment. When the dueling societies
heard that Lieut. Von Holz would not
light there was a wild yearning on the
part of the students to challenge him
and all his friends. A secret caucus
was held, ami the students sent a com¬
munication to the colonel of the regi¬
ment, begging him as a special favor
to pick out seven of his officers who
needed exercise and excitement, and
the students would pick seven of their
number who were suffering from the
same cause, the idea being to have
seven duels with sabres.
The dueling sabre is not a safe thing
to fool with, as it never misses fire,
and in the hands of men who are not
careful, accidents arc certain to occur.
Tho i fliccrs appreciated this fact and
refused to go into joint session at all,
with -abres, but they offered a com¬
promise. There was in Carlsruhe at
that time an army officer who besides
enjoying t,.' the high reputation of being
,l a i d u ,_ -K a 1 H „ bia.-kouard u,a K H taru, generally, generally
was also remarkable for being nearly
seven leet . tali. ... Now, ____ in • a „ sabre duel . .
the man with the long arm has all the
advantage over the man with the
short arm. The former can carve up
the latter at his ease, while the other
candidate cannot reach far enough
with his sabre to make the connection.
The army officers were so kind and
considerate, and so utterly opposed to
anything savoring of unfairness, that
they relaxed their dignity to the extent
of proposing that their blackleg, Count
Leiningen—that was his name—
should with his long arm, fight the
whole seven scholastic gladiators. This
offer was about equivalent to a man
with a long range rifle requesting an
antagonist with an Indian club to
tackle him at a thousand yards. The
students met again in secret conclave
and sent back a very sarcastic commu¬
nication, suggesting that when Count
Leiningen’s friends had sawed him in
two the proposition would be taken up
from the .. table ,, on which ........ it had been
laid. Then some more street fights
followed as a matter of course,
One afternoon a few days after the
proposition for Count Leiningen to
offer up tho short-armed students in
succession I happened to be strolling
down tho principal street of Carls-
ruhe when a carriage stopped in front
of me and a head was stuck out
through the window. I recognized
the head as being the porsonal proper¬
ty of the senior of the Bavaria. “Come
in here,” he called motionhig with his
hand. 1 obeyed without hesitation.
The carriage door was closed, and the
vehicle rolled on. There was in the
carriage, besides the senior of the
Bavaria, Ilerr Giesen, another mem¬
ber of that dueling club, and Ilerr
Bium, the student who had the row
with Lieut. Von Holz. In the butt in
of the vehicle were three or four bask¬
et-handled dueling sabres.
“We want you as a witness to the
duel that is coming off right away.
You are the first corps bursch I’ve
seen on the street, and as there is no
time to lose I’ve just picked you up,”
said the senior.
“So Baron Lieut. Von Ilolz has
changed his mind about fighting with
plebeians,” 1 replied,
“No, he hasn’t changed his views,
bnt Prince William, the brother of the
grand duke, changed them for him.
Prince William gave our little lieuten¬
ant to understand that if he did not
fight he would be kicked out of the
army. That’s what brought him to
his milk. So he went over as soon as
possible. He is waiting for 113 now,
with his seconds and an army doctor,
in the gasthaus zum adler. It is going
to be a very serious matter and 1 want
a witness to see that they don’t crowd
us or lie about us afterwards. These
military men are great strategists.”
In a few minutes we drove into the
court-yard of the hotel and carried the
weapons up stairs. On the large danc¬
ing seal, where the dispute was to be
arranged, where three gentlemen,
Lieut. Von Holz, his second, and a
doctor. The latter was unconcernedly
threading a curved needle to sew up
wounds. On the table was a basiu of
water and a sponge, also an open case
of instruments. The Germans are
very business-like in all their under¬
takings.
Lieut. Von Holz, the cause of this
prospective trouble, did not impress
me very favorably. He talked through
his nose, which he held up in the air,
possibly to facilitate his flow of elo¬
quence. It was a very large nose,
with large nostrils that looked as if
they were looped up at the sides. He
was rather short and stout, and looked
far from enjoying himself. On the
other hand, the lieutenant’s second
presented an interesting appearance.
He was a fieree-looking, little old mun
with shaggy eyebrows, a hooked nose
that gave him tne appearance of
being a cross between a rat terrier and
a bird of prey. He was a venerable
surgeon relic of the Napoleonic era.
Of our party Baum supplied the
good looks. He was a dark-haired,
blue-eyed young fellow, and as
strong as a lion. Giesen, the senior of
the Bavaria, was a big, broad-should¬
ered, red-whiskered giant, whose face
was adorned with various and sundry
scars that he had acquired at different
universities. Giesen approached the
Napoleonic veteran and informed him
that Baum would be ready in a few
moments. There was a brief consul¬
tation in a corner of the large dancing
room.
“Now, my dear boy,” said Giesen,
laying his hand on his principal’s
shoulder. “If 1 had known about this
before, I would have taken it off your
hands; but it is too late now. You
have never practiced with a sabre, and
unless you do precisely as I tell you,
you will be cut all to pieces, for yosr
opponent knows how to fence. You
must not fence him at all. You are
stronger and quicker than he is, and if
you climb right on him, and cut away
at him as hard as you can, you
will throw him off his guard. Don’t
give him time to cut back at you. As
soon as I give the word, run right up
to him, and make use of your natural
advantages.”
Baum nodded his head. There was
a look of determination in his knit
brow and set mouth. The opponents
took their places in silence opposite
each other about fifteen feet apart.
The program was that at the word of
command they should advance on
each other. It was agreed that Giesen
should give the word.
“Fertig-los,” said Gtesen in a loud
voice.
The words seemed scarcely uttered
before Baum was upon his antagonist,
dealing out a succession of terrific
blows that could not be parried. Lieut
Von Holz began to move backwards,
but Baum followed him more furious¬
ly than ever, until the lieutenant had
reached the opposite side of the room.
“Halt,” called out the Napoleonic
veteran, interposing his sabre. The
combatants paused and took their for¬
mer places.
“I hml supposod this duel was to bo
carried on according to the code, but
1 see I am mistaken, Your man
should keep his proper distance," said
the old veteran.
“And I,” retorted Giesen, with a
magnificent sneer, "supposed that this
room, which is nearly fifty feet square,
was big enough for theso gymnastic
exercises, but 1 seo I am mistaken. If
Lieut. Von Ilolz cannot find room
to maneuver, 1 expect he will have to
go out in the open air, where there is
more scope for his strategic ability.
As it is I have no objection to the door
being opened, if it will make him feel
more comfortable.”
The old veteran snapped his eyes at
the audacious Giesen, and then whis¬
pered a few words to his principal,
probably suggesting that he use his
sabre more and his legs less. The lat¬
ter nodded assent and said he was
ready.
“That was splendid,” whispered
Giesen to his man, who was eager for
the second round. “Just hit a little
quicker, if you can. He will stick
this time. The next round will settle
it.”
Once more the word was given.
Once more the student rushed at his
adversary. This time the lieutenant
did stick. There was a fierce clashing
of blades. The lieutenant uttered an
exclamation of pain and reeled back¬
wards. His white shirt wn* covered
with blood, which gushed from his
head in streams. One of the sledge¬
hammer blows of the student had
caught him fair and square on the left
temple, the wound extending around
the outside corner of the left eye,
through the cheek across the nose,
which was laid open the breadth of a
finger, and into the right cheek. The
cut was at least an inch wide, and
probably much deeper, several large
arteries being cut. The doctor, assist¬
ed by the old veteran, had his hands
full to stop the flow of blood.
“I presume,” said Giesen, leaning
over to look at the wounded man,
“that there will be no more military
exercise today,” and leaving Lieut
Von Holz in the hands of his friends
we retired from the room.
That night there was a “commers,”
or general jollification, at the club-
room of the Bavaria, at which, there is
reason to fear, more wine was drank
than was good for the health of those
who participated.
It was six weeks before Lieut Vou
Holz showed his aristocratic face in
public places, and if he is still in the
land of the living he can be readily
identified at long range by the sear
across his face, which is convincing
proof, if any is needed, that occasion¬
ally main strength and awkwardness,
when backed up by pluck, triumph
over skill.
Dyes from Common Plants.
The great variety of colors and dyes
obtained from common plants, grow¬
ing so abundantly almost every where,
is apparently known to but few per¬
sons except chemists. The well-known
huckleberry or bluebe ry, when boiled
down, with an addition of a little
alum and a solution of copperas, will
develop an excellent blue color; the
same treatment, with a solution of
nut galls, produces a clean dark brown
tint, while with alum, verdigris and
sal ammoniac various shades of purple
and red can be obtained. The fruit of
the elder, so frequently used for color¬
ing spirits, will also produce a blue
color when treated with alum. The pri¬
vet, boiled in aso’ution of salt, furnish¬
es a serviceable color, and the overripe
berries yield a scarlet red. The seeds
of the common burning bush, “euony.
mous,” when treated with sal ammoni¬
ac, produce a beautiful purple red.
The bark of the currant bush, treated
with a solution of alum, produces a
brown. Yellow is obtainable from
the bark of the apple tree, the box, the
ash, the buckthorn, the poplar, elm,
etc., when boiled in water and treated
with alum. A lively green is fur¬
nished by the broom corn.
A Duck Hunter’s Odd Craft.
A man in South Bend, Ind., goes
duck shooting in an odd craft, which
he calls an “invisible boat.” He has
cut one-third of an entire boat’s length
down to the waterline. The remain¬
der is made water-tight, and in the
stern a mirror (twenty-eight inches
high and forty-eight long) is placed so
that the glass reflects the water in
front and the decoys. Behind the mir¬
ror the hunter sits and paddles his
boat toward the ducks, making his ob¬
servations through a small spot in the
mirror, from which the amalgam has
been removed. As the boat moves up
to the ducks they can see their own
reflections in the mirror, and in some
instances swim toward the boat.
When the hunter is near enough to
shoot he drops the mirror forward by
loosening a string and gets two effect¬
ive shots—one at the ducks on the
water and one as they rise.
VOL. 1. NO. 23.
Wliat Is Life,
What Is life?—i rapid stream
Rolling onward to the ocean,
Wlmt ii life?—a troubled dream,
Full of inoident und motion.
What is life?—the arrow’s flight,
Tliat mocks the keenest gazer's eye.
What is life?—a gleam of light
Darting through a stormy sky.
Wlmt is life?—a varied tale,
Deeply moving, quickly told.
Wlmt is li fe?—a vision palo,
Vanishing while we behold.
What is life?—a smoke, a vapor,
Swiftly mingled witli the air.
What is life?—a dying taper,
The spark that glows to disappear.
What is life?—a flower that blows,
Nipped by the frost, p.nd quiokly dead.
What is life?—the full blown rose,
That a scorched at noon and withered.
Sucii is life—a breath, a span,
A inement quickly gone from tlioe.
Wlmt is Death ?—O mortal nmn!
Thy entrance on eternity.
HUMOROUS.
A fresh roll—the actor’s new par..
The ghost of a smile—Smelling the
cork.
An auctioneer does as he is bid, a
postman as he is directed.
A friend in need is a friend —who
generally strikes you for a quarter.
Vesuvius is no pimple, and yet it is
very frequently in a state of erup¬
tion.
A belle differs somewhat from a
cowboy. The more powder she uses
the Jess dangerous she grows.
“I’m dyeing for love,” remarked
young Jinks, as he put a little ad¬
ditional color to his moustache.
When a miner has been eaten by a
grizzly, the western people speak of
him as being admitted to the bar.
“How do you tell a fool when you
see one?” asks a correspondent.
How! By the kind of questions he
asks.
Girls who wish to have small, pret¬
ty-shaped mouths should repeat at
frequent intervals during the day.
“Fanny Finch fried floundering fish
for Frances Forbes’ father.”
Dialogue between mamma and her
five-year-old daughter : “Mamma, do
you tell lies?” "Of course not, my
child.” "Mamma, does papa tell lies?”
“Certainly not.” “How is it, then,
that you don’t always agree?”
A gentleman generous in his con¬
tributions for church purposes, but
not regular in his attendance upon
public worship, was wittily described
by a clergyman as being "not exactly
a pillar of the church, but a kind of a
flying buttress, supporting it from the
outside.
The “Moxa” Remedy.
Although tattooing is confined to
the lower orders of the Japanese,
round white spots are to be seen on the
skin of almost every native of Japan
ic all ranks of life. These spots are
known, Dr. Baelz tells us, as “moxi,”
and they are produced by burning the
flesh in a peculiar way, with the ob¬
ject of curing some disease. The be¬
lief in the efficacy of moxa is univer¬
sal in Japan, and the Portuguese and
Spaniards must have adopted the same
faith, in its power to alleviate or cure
deep-seated pain for they introduced
both the treatment and its Japanese,
name into Europe. This is said to be
the manner in which moxa is prac¬
ticed in Japan. In May the leaves of
the Artemisia cainensis are powdered
and dried, and the mass is cut into
small blocks or pieces. One of these
pieces is laid on the body and set on
fire so as to burn slowly away. At
first the operation naturally produces
a sore, more or less deep according to
the intensity of the heat. The sore
soon heals, but there is left a scar for¬
ever. Those who have been subjected
to this “remedy” say that it is by no
means so painful as what would be
supposed in the absence of actual expe¬
rience.
The Healthiest Looking Went First.
Two years ago I escorted a lady
from the West with two of her chil-
dred to see Dr. Hammond, to whom
one of the children was submitted un¬
der the belief that she had epilepsy.
The doctor examined her closely, burn¬
ed her back along the spine, and gave
general directions for her treatment,
directing that she be brought back to
him again in a year. We were about
going away when Dr. Hammond asked
if the other child did not need treat¬
ment. She was the picture of health
and the mother said as much laugh¬
ingly, never thinking for a moment
that the second child was in any way
ailing. Dr. Hammond, however, called
the child to him, and made some little
examination of her, especially about
the lungs, and told the mother she
ought to be very careful of that child'.,
health. That was two years ago. The
child treated for epilepsy is nos
strong and healthy; the other child
has been dead a *««.— New York
I Tribune.