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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A J. HARP, Publisher.
.
HE SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWSY ITEMS
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
ARKANSAS.
The mill of tho Traskwood Lumber
company, Saline county, was burned
Saturday night. Loss quite heavy with
ao insurance.
Henry Adams, colored, was jqiled in
Pope county last week for murdering an
infant supposed to be his chi d by a white
woman.
In a difficulty in Mississippi county on
Saturday lust Tom Cation was killed by
a young planter named Lee Wilson, who
shot his victim four times. Wilson sur-
rendered.
A little boy named P.nk Moore was
caught by a revolving wheel in Hill’s gin
near Clarksville, Johnston county, last
week, and instantly killed, his back aud
neck both being brokpn.
rex .vs.
John I! nils >n, of Liana, comn.'itled
tui.-iili 1 .-it I.uiiiitSN', by taking an over¬
dose of niorpnine.
The I’ari- News announces Ilml th? re¬
port stared by one McPherson, that in an
in Arthur City three* men were
killi hi.d one wounded, was a baseless
While a slaughtered be *f w as being
up the limb of a tree in Scotts-
Andrew Humphrey mounted tho
to gu ile t ire rope, when the limb
ami Humphrey fell to tiie ground,
on his head anil breaking his
Charles Green was shot at a saw mill
tlie Natchez river, near Burke. : L-w
ago, one ball taking effect is hit
just below the left nippie, the
penetrating liis back. Tlie wounds
probably fatal. Green says be was
by a man named Strikes, a Dutch¬
once after he hud fallen. The par¬
seemed to have been drinking. Both
white.
LOUISIANA.
Three wagon* from the Choctaw na¬
filled with immigrants, arrived in
last Monday and will make
parish their future homo.
The ginhouse of Mr. Edmond Brous¬
living about eight miles above Ab¬
was burned down the early put of
this week with ten or fifteen bales
It is supposed to be the work
an incendiary.
The ginhouse of Mr. L. I). Spears, of
one, Claiborne Parish, was de¬
by fire last Friday night. Several
of cotton were lost belonging to
parties, who will suffer from
loss, as there was no insurance on the
A young man named Ratcliff, living
miles above Arcadia, wasserit udy
not fatally injurned la-t week by the
of a shell, which he was at¬
to drive into his gun with a
the brass end of the shell
him in the forelieqd.
A white man named Cornelius Coyne
section hand on the Texas and Pa¬
railroad, near Edgard, wan found
on the Carie Plantation road it 0
Sunday morning last. The coro¬
jury rendered a verdict that he cane
bis death from an incised wound in the
causing fatal hemorrhage, sup¬
to have been inflicted by one Jo¬
White, who is now in custody.
On Saturday last Sir. Reese Pong was
and killed at Oxford station, DeSoto
by Mr. B. B. Dickinson. Both
prominent young men, highly quarrel con¬
They had had a trilling
days before, and Pong became
razed with whiskey and attacked his
friend, who was compelled surrendered to
him. Jfr. Dickinson
to the sheriff, and upon Hall a pre¬
examination custody by Judges the ground was
from upon
it he acted in self defense.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Earthquake shocks were felt at many
throughout the State on Tuesday
At Charleston, Columbia,
Orangeburg the shocks were severest.
Lee Gaston, who killed his son-in-law,
"ill INtt-s, made application before
•hidge ' Witherspoon, at Chester, for bail
!’° m ag the t Saturday. The judge, after hear-
ner's g inquest, testimony offered at the coro¬
rant him bail signified his willingness to
; in the sum of $5,000.
8o far, only ninety-three persons, all
‘rid, have gone to Arkansas from the
: llie of the Port Royal railroad, and they
have gone, not from dissatisfaction with
jhe 11 eight because box of law hard or the times priority and the lien desire law,
for , new things. inducements
If similar
were offered, it would be easy to get
'"ore white people to go than the colored
People who have taken their departure.
Lie case of R. B or “Dick” Jacobs,
‘surged with the killing of tenant Dock
fiughes on Christinas day, was brought
"P before Judge Norton at Pickens,
>abeas nursday, on application for a writ of
corpus. After hearing the case,
■ "dge Norton granted the petition and
"led the bond at $2,500. Jacobs was re-
e »8ed and returned to the city in the af-
^'noon. the inquest, In view and of the the evidence verdict —-7C iven the
o
‘Toner’s jury rendered therefrom, the
'"mint of the bond has excited much
and unfavorable comment. The
«"<lunt, °! public feeling is much against the
and his release on Blight se-
n, y bl8 not tended to abate that senti-
rn
While n ,P uy Marsbal J- B Elkl „„ . " 8
Wnsriri- •
the r °“ d att £® f °,° t0f
Coil 2" J<mi 1 faiding party of Deputy
£lfh r B, T k .’ he w as fired on by a man
P P ed int0 the r0ild from
, , oVThem
2 tl
‘ His wound!; 18 * 0 '’ bu l WiHl le “ iT 688 ;
"•^tetr.l.r'i'StJlS “"““a t J
JnAi", was recognized as veteran
ftnd B
SoiiV'dcJ robab , a partner in
Black the stills-destroyed by
on same raid.
FLORIDA.
York is being rushed on the new hotel
at Key West.
The street railway at Fort Meade has
been completed.
paved Many of the Lakeland streets are being
with clay.
The tnxable property of the city ol
Cedar Keys has increased $30,000 the
past year.
The Spanish consul at Key West has
agreed to clear the steamers of tho Tam¬
pa and Havana line at auy hour of th{
night in order to expedite mails.
of Surveyors are laying out ttie new town
Hamilton Diston, called Floridelphia,
on the west bank of Lake Kissimmee.
It will have broad streets and avenue)
and five parks.
The gin house and contents, with the
engine and appliances, belonging to Mr.
E, T. Dickerson, at Greeugood, in Jack,
night son county, was destroyed on Thursday
of last week. The incendiary, one
Payne Wheeler, was caught a day or two
later and confessed that he had beer
hired by a white man to do the work.
General G. W. Bently, manager of the
Jacksonville, Tampa aud Key West rail¬
road, $5,000 has agreed that in consideration oi
guaranteed, lie will build a broad
gauge railroad from the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West road to DeLand,
and have the same in operation by the
15 day of next January; providing that s
free light of way lie furnished him to
town.
A BIG SALE.
The Largest Ever Mads In the South
The rumors of the recent sale of the
Woodstock Iron and Steel company, at
Anniston, Ala., and the Anniston Land
and Improvement company, of their
property, to a syndicate, have been con¬
firmed, the trade having .been consum¬
mated. The syndicate buys the prop¬
erty for six million dollars, which is
the largest capital cash transaction that
has ever occurred in the South. This
property includes the celebrated Wood
stock iron furnace, with its thousands of
mineral and timbered lands, the renowned
Annistsn Inn, the perfect system of
waterworks and electric light and all
other property previously owned by these
corporations. The Woodstock Iron and
Steel company will at once erect two
large coke furnaces, costing about five
hundred thousand dollars, which amount
is provided for in the treasury, and has
perfected arrangements for a standard
gauge road to Gadsden, Ala., to be
known as the Anniston and Cincinnati
railroad. This road having made a traf¬
fic arrangement for through business
with the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
will greatly add to the shipping ficilities
at reduced rates the product of the fur¬
naces here, the Clifton Iron company in¬
suring a heavy paying freight to this new
road.
AN ATROCIOUS CRIME.
A Party of Stooping Mexican* Murdered by
Negroes.
The particulars of a most atrocious
murder, committed on Saturday night,
have been received. Four Mexicans
were employed on the farm of Mr. Sim¬
mons, on the Cottonwood, in Guadaloupe
county, to plow and grub the land.
While in camp Saturday night they were
fired upon by a party of negroes and two
of the Mexicans were instantly killed.
Another of the party was mortally
wounded, and the fourth was shot
seven house times, distance but managed Before to crawl leaving to a
some away.
the murderers poured kerosene oil over
the body of one of the Mexicans and set
fire to it, burning it to a crisp, Kings¬ They
were traced four miles towards
bury, and were then lost sight of. The
.Mexican who is still alive stated that two
of the men were negroes and the third
w as a mulatto or white man.
SOUTHERN REPUDIATED BONDS.
Tti<* (*overnment Uiffi'd to Suo tke Staten to
Enforce Their Payment.
The United States government holds in
trust for the benefit of the Indian tribes
1,710,000 of bonds issued by Southern
States, on which default has been made.
About $50,000,000 of the same defaulted
sec urities are held by private parties in
New York city. E. L. Andrews, attor¬
ney for certain New York holders of re¬
pudiated bonds, nas written to Secretary
Lamar, urging that the United States sue
the defaulting States, claiming that the
United States has power to bring repudiating an ac¬
tion against any one of tho
States, while a private individual cannot.
Secretary Lamar has referred the matter
to Attorney-General Garland. If the
United States should bring the desired
suits and win them, the individual hold¬
ers of bonds would profit annually along with makes the
government, which now
good to the Indians the interest which
the States refuse to pay.
SHOT THREE TIMES.
Geo. Hill, one of the commissioners of
LaSalle county, and a leading citizen of
Tuchig, was assassinated last Sun-
Jay. Hill was an important witness at
the coroners inquest on the recent killing
of Sheriff McKinney. He was shot three
times, but lived long enough to state that
his assassins were Captain Silas Hay and
Frank li. Hall. Captain Hay was father
in-law of the late Sheriff McKinney. 1 he
State Ranger and local authorities nre
scouring the country in search of the as-
sassine who fled immediately after firing
on their victim. Hill was a man of
wealth and high standing.
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TBXAS « UAKINU
a Paige, Blight .boo* Tex., Wednesday r:r h
|t * fasted three ssconda The
wh ich two or Williams houB«
colored servants at tbe
dishesCd pan. i^ the "kitchen. In one
X °s» 2-
store,tin-ware and ^^^‘Tdown
eTf£n several miles around, and evidently
° «mth north. A few say
C-heard S8 to
rumbling noises. No senoui
damage was done.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 13, 1887.
PERSONAL MENTION.
P. T, B^rnum has built three toboggan
slides at Bridgeport, Conn.
A grandson of the late Reverdy Johnson
of Maryland is a page in the United States
Senate.
The Empress of Austria wants to visitthij
country, tho having always longed for a ride on
prairies.
Evangelist D. L. Moody has been iu-
vited to visit Australia an l conduct revival
weetiugs, but ho has declinod.
On tlie iirst of January Emperor William
celebrated tho eightieth anniversary of hu
entry into the German army.
books Massachusetts in Congress when will have Henry two Cabot authors Lodge of |
aud Governor Long meet there.
death. ma.'Sdjsas'.i: He did look, however, thau I
not more I
fifty.
Bonaaza Kino Flood’s stone house in
Kan Francisco cost $2,000,000. The cost of
Leiand Stanford’s wooden house is estimated
at $1,000,000.
It is said that ex-Senator Conkling is very
charitable toward impecunious members of
the legal profession aud gives away large
sums of money.
tWArtKrasttsifi Senators Payne and Ingalls are said to j
defatigahle walkers.
HenryM. Stanley has left London for j
Zanzibar, Africa. He is said to have declined
an offer of $400,o00 to return to America and
resume his lecturing tour.
figure Sculptor of Robert Ezekiel E. Lee has be finished placed in a front little j j
to
of the house in Westmoreland County, Va., I
in which the General was born.
Srnator M- irrill is noted for his r esc in-
House aud nineteen in the Senate.
Secretary Law ar is regardod as the best
swordsman iu Washington. knowledge There are sev- I
eral Senators whose of singlestick
would enable them to defend themselves if
attacked.
ber Mr. S. H. Puleston, the millionaire purchase mem¬
of Parliament, who is about to
$2,000,000 worth of Pennsylvania coal lands,
was twenty years ago a reporter on a small
paper at Fitteton. i'enu.
The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke o!
Westminster an 1 the Duke ->f Bedford have
Incomes ranging No from thinks 11,500,000 of trying to $2,500,- esti¬
COO a year. one to
mate their possessions in any other way.
The Independent Douglas is authority really' for the state-
meat that Dr. lost his own
health by his efforts in the care of General
Grant. Ho has gone to Arkansas and Flor-
Ida for the winter with his family, a man se-
riously out of health.
The telephone is put to a now aud conven-
lent use in Brussel . Gentlemen who wish
to rise earlv, but don't like to. can have a
row of little bells viciously, along the edge of their
beds, which ring until they rise
ami stop the disturbance.
Four of the Justices of the United States
Supreme Court are over seventy years old, 1
and as they have served upon the bench over
ten years aro eligible for retirement on full
pav. dates Thev Miller, are Field Chief and Justice Bradley. Waite and As- j
so
Before sailing for home Genorai Booth,
of the Salvation Army , claimed that during
his fctay in this country he had put in tWtf i
hours on tho cars, had spoken to 180,000 1
American sinners at 129 meetings, and had
saved 2,500 souls.
York after the without dollar, :
soon war a
aud with no introduction save his reputation
steadily m immediate^ until a^good it ;>ra>fficef brings which him haa
grown, now 1
130.000 a year.
RAILR0AD DISASTERS.
Collisions Between Passenger nnd Freight
Trains.
A fast train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at an early hour Wednesday
morning collided with a freight train
near Tiffin, Ohio, wrecking both trains.
Twenty-two bodies were burned beyond
recognition, and many more injured se¬
verely. It is a fearful sight and calls to
mind the Ashtabula horror of the winter
of 1877.
A MASSACHUSETTS WRECK.
A passenger train on the Boston and
Albany railroad was wrecked near West
Springfield, Mass., by a collision with a
freight train. The wreck caught fire
and one passenger and one sleeping coach
were burned and several person sseriously
injured, and one was killed, being
burned so badly that no one could recog-
nize him.
ACCIDENTS IN ALABAMA.
Near Livingston, on the line of the
Alabama Great Southern railway, Tues-
day night a construction tram was
wrecked and Captain Joe Lewis, an old
passenger conductor, and a fireman
named Fowler were killed. The wreck
was caused by the engine striking a cow
and derailing the train.
A flprnnd accident occurred at Rees-
ville where a freight train was derailed,
six cars demolished and two brakemen se-
verely injured.
M0RE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
Harylanders Experience Seres Shocks, bu !
No llnnmse.
At Westminster. Frederick, Emmets
burg, and other towns in Western Mary¬
land, on Monday, the inhabitants were
considerably excited over several violent
shocks and loud rumblings which awoke
them from sleep, and continued si inter
vais from 11:30 o’clock at night until
early next morning. Ne damage that was
done, as far as can be learned, but as
country is mountainous the people are ap-
bhvs ho was awakened by what sounded
like the blasting of rocks, and in pictures other
wore slmken from the walls
houses He heard two distinct shocks in
rapid succession. Tbe mercury »t West¬
minster was four below zero this morn-
>ag.
SNOW HALLS KN1> IN BULLETS-
A spec ial to the Montgomery Adver-
fiser from Demopolis says that two white
men 1m good citizens, named
and Chadwick, indulged iu a snowball
f&r-ss i,rssz The
d - ud almost iustautly. men
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another failure*
„ounce!?' The creditors LouitriU are St Louis, C' ib-
N.„ Orletn., Memphis Chicago and Philadeb b ,
oinnati, Boston, Ida-
phia merchants and manufacturers.
nfip will reach $40,000, w*, *80,
bb0-
A Man I Like.
I like « man who all mean things despises,
A man who has a purpose firm and true;
Who faces every doubt as It rise -,
And murmurs not at what he finds to do.
I like a man who shows the noble spirit
Displayed by knights of Arthur’s tablo
round;
Who, face to face with , life, proves his real
merit,
Who has a soul that dwells above the
ground.
And yet, one who can understand the worry
Of some chance brother fallen in the road,
And speak to him a kind word ’mid the
hurry,
Or lay an easing band upon his load.
-
needed,
Men ready when occasion’s doors swing
wide;
Grand" men to speak the oounsel that is
heeded,
And men in whom a nation may confide.
The world is wide, and broad its starry
arches,
But lagging malcontents it can not hold;
"s’"'"? Has ending “•“rr •“ a far-off street rf’ir*’ of gold.
—Meredith Nicholson.
MAN OR PHANTOM?
A WAR CORRESPONDENT’S STORY.
During the Franco-German war I rep-
*•««*
which, by the way, exchanged its reports
with an American paper of national
prominence, . war corespondent. , , IT Upon
as
my arrival in Germany soon after the
declaration of war I presented my cre-
dentials to the proper authorities, and
after much delay was attached to the
Royal Saxon Army Corps, as brave a
body of warriors as was ever gathered
together for purposes of destruction and
carnage. I followed the fortunes of the
gallant eorps through the fall campaign
and was w ith them at the siege of Paris,
T It is , unnecessary to pay a ....... tribute to the
bravery * of the noble Saxon lads who, ’
after repelling the savage attacks of the
courageous enemy, shared their scanty
allowance ,, of , pea-sausage and , rye . bread „,,
with the half starved French guards
who had been fortunate enough to be
captured,
As might be expected my constant
presence at headquarters and my unvarn-
ished reports of the doings of the corps
secured the friendship of of the :
me some
officers, while others found it hard work
conceal .. the . excited . , , by . let¬ .
pique my
ters. Among my dearest friends and
defenders was Lieut. Baron Ludwig von
L-, an adjutant to one of the regi-
mente attached to the corps. It had
been my v “ good fortune to render a slight
service to the lieutenant during the
opening days of the war, and with an
enthusiasm which was inexplicable to
me, he defended my every action and let
no opportunity pass by to sound my
praises. It was but natural that such
disinterestedness challenged my admira¬
tion, and soon our friendship had ripen¬
ed into an intimacy such as can only be
established amid the surroundings in
which we were placed. Nothing marred
these pleasant relations until Christmas
Eve, when a stray shell from one of the
forts struck the tent in which the lieu-
tenant and I were celebrating the great
German holiday. In a moment I realized
that he had been severely wounded,
while I had escaped unharmed. An ex¬
amination of the wound proved that his
life was in imminent peril, and the staff
surgeon concluded to send von L-to
his home in Saxony. In pursuance of
the doctor’s directions we parted then
and there, and the early morning train
bore my friend to the arms of his anxious
family, while I continued my exciting
fife among the sanguine soldiery.
The week following this was
devoid of interest, owing to the inac-
tivity of the French, but on the , ninth . t
day the forts opened fire, and from whis¬
pered conversations at headquarters I
gleaned that the morrow would see a
sanguinary conflict. In order to be pre¬
prepared I left the tent of the most ad¬
vanced Saxon outpost at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon for the purpose of preparing
topographical notes concerning tlie prob¬
able field of carnage. My work was soon
comp eted. Silence and solitude, inter¬
rupted at rare intervals by the cheery “Qui
vive?” of the French outposts or tbe
gruff “Werda?” of tbe German sentinels,
tempted me to rest under a pro-
tectinK s hed, and before 1 real-
>• > “ T„ 4 r„
a little nap. When I t awoke the daiknoss
t old me that the evening had far ad-
vancec | an d looking around 1 saw that
a snow gtorm had covered my
tracks. Escape was impossible. I knew
not how to reach my friends, and to fall
in the hands of the French meant dis-
grace and perhaps dishonor.
Making the best of an ugly situation,
I drew my heavy fur overcoat closer
aroun d me, pulled my cap over my ears,
ntrelited 0 „ce more within the shod.
position ^ when I was appalled. Was it
P ther# at the rickety door
f the shed stood, real as life, Lieut, von
L-, his right arm extended his left
jsI'XI
“Beware of the Franctireursl" Bud-
„ th. W-al <>
yanighed
feelings; I cannot de-
^ ^ j Terily b#UeY9 that my
hair stood upon end. A stupor followed
this fear and a trance-liko slumber.
How long I remained in this condition I
know not at the time, but well do 1 re¬
member the awakening from tho trance.
My nervous system was totully deranged,
my hands refused to do service; in fact
I had not the strength to light a match
to look at my watch. With a groan I
sank back upon my bed of snow, j
tried to sleep, but in vain. All I could ,
do was to think. Had I seen Ludwig
von L-, or his spirit? tho real man or
a phantom?
At last relief came. I could not bo
mistaken. I heard the footsteps of a
small body of men. They approached
tho shed. Yes, but not with the steady
tread of the soldier. Heavens I could it
be the Franctireurs, those bloodthirsty
guerrillas and hyenas of the battlefield I
1 tried to fortify myself for an attack.
I tried to arouse my physical self. Be¬
fore I could riso or raako a move tlie
door of the shed was rudely opened.
A rough face showed itself. It was that
of the leader of a noted guerrilla band.
The Franctireur entered. He ap¬
proached, cocked his revolver, and said
with mock politeness, in broken Ger¬
man: “Monsieur, prepare to die.”
Making an effort to reach my own
weapon, at this moment I was
startled by tho words; “Not he, but
you!”
Looking up I saw the pallid and
frightened face of the Franctircur, an-l
by his side—could it be possible ?—■
Lieut, von L-, pointing a pistol at
the heart of the assassin. The excite-
ment proved too much for my shattered
nerves, and just as I heard the explosion
of a pistol 1 lost consciousness.
\\ hen I revived it was 8 o’clock in tho
morning. By my side stood Maj. M ,
commander of tlie advanced outposts,
and a detachment of Saxon infantry.
“Well done, my lad,” said the Major,
and with that ho pointed to an object
lying by my side covered with a field
blanket.
“What do you mean, Major?’ I in-
quired faintly, not understanding his re-
ruark.
“Well, I mean that ypu have dis-
patched tho worst hound of a guerrilla
who ever disgraced a country.”
Like a flash the mysterious apparition
presented itself to my mind, and hastily
calling a Corporal I bade him extract the
bullet from tlie dead Franctireur’s
wound. Then I produced my revolver
and found that not a shot had been fired
from it. I compared the bullets used by
me with that extracted from the wound.
They were of different weight. Tho
mystery was unsolved. Who had shot
my enemy ?
The battle predicted by the stall offi¬
cer was not fought on that day, and I
was glad of it, lor the exciting scenes of
the previous night compelled mo to rest
for some time. On the fifth day after
my adventure I received a letter from
Huxony. Hero it is :
“My Dear Sir,— Onr dear son Lud¬
wig breathed his last at four this mon-
ing. Upon bis arrival here the doctors
pronounced his case hopeless. Up to 8
o’clock last evening his recovery seemed
assured. At that hour he suddenly grew
restless, called out your name three or
four times and exclaiming, “Beware of
the Franctireurs!” fell into a deep slum¬
ber or trance. He remained in this con¬
dition until 3 o’clock, when he arose up
with a start, fell back upon the bed un¬
conscious, aud at 4 o’clock died in his
mothers arms.
“With best wishes,
“Your obedient servant,
“George Alexander Von L--.”
My story is finished. I need only add
that the ball extracted from the body of
the Franctircur corresponded in weight
with those in tho revolverof my deceased
friend, and this discovery made the mys¬
tery still darker.
Up to this day I cannot explain the
strange transpirings of that night before
Paris. Can you?— Detriot Free Press.
Where Beer Runs In Rills.
Hartman saysinhisnew book: “What
would Munich be without beer?” As a
ship stranded. The capital of Bavaria
floats on an ocean of foaming beer. Peo¬
ple do not in common conversation spec¬
ulate over the weather, but ask at once;
“How is the beer to-day?” The Bava¬
rian does not drink beer because he is
thirsty, “but because he enjoys it, and
because he enjoys it he drinks much,’ 1
Every man in Munich guzzles his foui
quarts per diem. There are thousandi
who swallow their eight quarts and
many who will swill their ten and j
twelve quarts. I knew one man who
told me lie had been drinking sixteen
quarts daily for years. A 'student will
manage at one sitting from ten to six¬
teen quarts, which would fill about six-
ty of our glasses. A congress of staid
scientific fellows met at a Munich festi-
val and each one drank 3 6-10 quart)
during a short sitting. i I
Bl-mai ck an I the Burgom ist-r. ^
Prince Bismarck, delayed at a railroad
station between Frozenlmd and Berlin,
at Reichenbach, inquired of the burgo¬
master of the place if the sausages and
the beer were good. Having been
answered in the afliimative, the burgo-
master said: “There has been a fear ol
war, but it is not vet so near, is it your
Excellency?” “Go l preserve us fai
from it,” said the chancellor; “yoi
have time enough yet to read Goethe’/
‘Faust.’ ”
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
UI 111* to Dyspeptic*.
Much of tho value obtained from mut-
ton depends upon its cooking and previ-
ous tenderness. It should be kept till
tender, and tho time will depend upon
the weather.
The touderness of meat and Its cook-
ing cause the fibres thereof to bo more
easily broken up in the stomach; it is
thus digested without delay. Beefsteak
should be most tender before being sub¬
mitted to the process of cooking. It
should always bo done—or rather under¬
done—over a clear fire of coal cindors or
coke, which is better still.
The dyspeptic will do well to give
hashes and stews a wide berth, unless
they are exceptionally well cooked.
Tripe is an easily digested and most
succulent supper dish.
Now as to pork. For a man who is
in good health, and has the opportunity
of taking constant exercise in the open
air, this food is good and nutritious, but
the invalid and dyspeptic must bewar
of it. Ham or bacon, with eggs, iu the
morning, however, is tolerably easily
digested. So is pig’s liver with bacon;
and cold pig’s cheek is good either as
a supper or breakfast dish to those in
ordinary health.
Aftor pork comes veal in the scale of
indigestibility, so that, on the whole, my j
best advice to the dyspeptic is to leave j
both alone, with the exception of frizzled
thinly-cut bacon as a relish in the morn¬
111
Sweetbreads, whether calves’ or
sheep’s, , , . . . , assist . . .
are very nutritious ana in
( iig ea tion of other foods.
0n the whole) tho ] ;U uh-*eeker will
do well to make the flesb of the gheep
lind 0Xj j n mo derate quantities, his staple,
so far as albuminoid feed is concerned,
but be mUj j vary tbis constantly with
chicken, game and fish when in season, i
He will hardly need to be told that
beef and mutton, when good and proper-
] y c00 i £e j ) gj vc him life and energy, and
therefore comfort, and to a great degree
happiness; but I may remind him that
an undue pr0 p 0r tion of animal food ren-
ders him more liable to inflammatory
troubles, whether acute or chronic; and
again, if subject to rheumatism or other
blood complaint, he must be cautious iu
the use of such viands. — Cassell's Maga-
|
Philosophy of the Falling Leaf.
Leaves are the most important part of
the plant. A portion of the food which
plants require is conveyed through tlie
root9 > but b y far tbe iar g er P ort ‘ ou is
absorbed through the leaves. Leaves
perform for plants a like function, to
some extent, to that which the stomach
does for man and the other orders of the
animal kingdom which possess that
organ. They assimilate the plant’s food,
converting inorganic matter into organic.
Leaves are green because it is only in
green matter that assimilation occurs.
The food is gathered by the leaves from
tile sunlight, air and moisture, or rain.
The larger tho leaves the more food they
absorb if exposed to sunlight and air,
and, in some cases, the more rapidly the
plant grows. At the end of the summer
the leaf becomes loaded with solid iuor-
ganie matter and its functions are im¬
paired. Its color then becomes modified.
The green hue changes in the case of
leaves of trees into yellow, brown, scar-
let or other color, depending on the
variety of tree, the condition of the at¬
mosphere as respects tho moisture and
the presence or absence of frost. Where
the air is dryest and frosts come
earliest after the leaf begins to
change its color, the hues are the bright-
est and most varied. When ttio green
color has vanished the leaf, being then
incapable of receiving food from the
elements, dries up and dies. But not
one loaf falls unless wrenched off by
external forces without leaving behind
it in embryo the bud which is to unfold
into a leaf and perforin a like service for
the plant in the succeeding year.
liove Me, Live My I)ng,
“Will your dog bite, Johnnie?” asked
Johnnie’s sis er’s beau of that youngster,
as he met him with an ugly cur tied to a
string.
“Nary bite,” replied Johnnie, confi¬
dently.
The young man put out his hand to
pat the brute, and the result was a
a snapped finger. He jerked away his
hand in a rage and exclaimed:
“Why, you miserable little rascal, you
*ald that nasty cur wouldn’t bite.”
“Oh, no,” said Johnnie, coolly.
“Yes, you did; confound you.”
“No, I didn’t. You said, “will your
dog bite Johnnie?” and I said lie
wouldn’t, and he won’t. He never bit
John " iein a11 hia born days and it
wouldn’t be good for 'im if he did. Bet
your life that dog knows what to bite,”
and Johnnie went off whistling, with the
dog trotting along at his heels, looking
back over his stump tail at Johnnie’s
sister’s beau. — Tid-Bits.
Dog of '
A Parts.
Bagley.—“That dog of yours is a dog j
P art8 > Bailey.”
Bailey.-“Yes, indeed. How did you
comB to not ‘ ce it?
Bagley. Well, he took part of my
coat-tail yesterday. If you think he has
aiiy use foi tueothar I U bring it around.
—Judff*.
VOL II. NO. 16.
The Cry of the Dreamer.
I am tired of planning and tolling
In the crowded hires of men;
Heart weary of building and spoiling
And spoiling and building again.
And I long for tho doer old river,
Where I dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toller dies in a day.
I am sick of the showy seeming,
Of a life that is half a lie;
Of the faces lined with scheming
In tlie throngs that hurries by.
From the sleepless thoughts’ endeavor,
I would go where the children play; *
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day
I feel no pride, but pity
For the burdens the rich endure.
There Is nothing sweet in the oity
But the pationt lives of the poor.
Oh, the little hands too skilful,
And the child mind e oked with weeds’
The daughter’s heart grows wilful,
And the father's heart that bleedsl
Ho, nol from the street's rude bustle.
From the trophios of mart and stage,
I would fly to the wood’s low rustle,
And the meadow’s kindly page.
Let me dream as of old by the river,
And be loved for the dream alwry;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day.
• —John Boyle O'Reilly.
HUMOROUS.
Cooks should settle in Greeoe.
A hard thing to sharpen—The water's
edge,
The old chaps who wore armor were
the first mail carriers.
A turtle is a lazy follow, and yet he
doesn’t have a soft snap, r
A- guest at the marriage of a deaf-and-
dumb C0U P le wittily and gallantly wished
them unspeakable bliss.
A man of short stature gives as a re*-
son for his stunted growth that he was
brought up as a child on condensed
milk.
Frog’s legs are said to be unusually
high. This is not on account of the
French influx, but because the logs were
always on the jump.
Prof, Wigweover: “Robert, what was
it that made the Tower of Pisa lean?”
Little Robert Rocket: “A famine in th*
land made it lean, sir.”
An excliango gives a long list of rea¬
sons why you shouldn’t snub a boy, but
omits the principal one, which Is that
nine times out of ten it’s a waste of time
to try.
The sting of a bumblebee contain*
on ly 11 fiftieth purt of a drop of poieon.
You can’t get the average boy to be¬
j lieve that. He’ll insist on at least a
j a fluid ounce.
A Pittsburgher has taken out a patent
for a machine to crimp flour bags,
That’s all right. Why shouldn't tho
flour bag wear crimps so long as the flour
barrel has hoops?
Astronomers tell us in their own rfm-
p l e , intelligible way that the gradual
lengthening of the days is due to the
.‘obliquity of the ecliptic of the tor¬
re8tria l horizon .» Tbia ought to get at
regt the fooliah idea that the dayt ^
longer because the sun rises earlier and
sets later.
The Czar Sends for HU Uniform.
When Prince William of Prussia visi-
ted the Russian Emperor on the occasion
of the recent imperial hunt at Brest-
Litovsk,*the Czar found himself with-
out Prussian uniform, and the conae-
quence was that a messenger had to
travel a11 the way from St Petersburg
b J special train to repair the deficiency,
The Czar discovered his loss the after¬
noon before Prince William’s arrival,
® bu 2 word to his valet to have a
Prussian uniform in readiness for the
morrow . tbe ma n appeared to say that
b y bis imperial master’s orders all uni¬
forms had beon lett at 8t - P « ter «-
burg-
An aide-de-camp was sent for. “A
Prussian uniform must be here by T
o'clock to-morrow morning.” It was
then 4 o’clock. Tho aide-de-camp des¬
patched two telegrams, one to the mas¬
ter of the imperial wardrobe at St.
Petersburg, and the other to the rail¬
way authorities, and about 0 o’clock a
locomotive set off from the Russian capi¬
tal carrying the messenger entrusted
with the required dress. Fresh locomo-
tives were in readiness at Duuaberg and
Wilna, aud the distance of 950 kilo-
metres was traversed in thirteen hours, a
rat a of 73 kilometres per hour, so that
the uniform was in readiness for the
Czar at the time fixed,
Sweetened Mortal*.
An Englishman writes to the mayor
of Charleston communicating some newly
discovered facts regarding the making of
mortar for building, which he believes
will be of great importance in a oity
subject to earthquakes. He says that
the addition of saccharine matter, such
as molasses, infusion of malt, etc., to
the mortar, increases its strength to an
extraordinary degree. The hardness of
the old Roman cement, which is equal
to that of the stone it binds together in
believed to be due to the addition of
saccharine matter. Water to which
sugar has been added will dissolve four¬
teen and a half times as much lime ao
pure water. It cent experiments with
sweetened mortar have proved that walla
may be built so strong they cannot bo
tom down with anything but explosives.
—Boston Transcript.