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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPIUS rn H
A J. HARP, Publisher.
Riillng Together.
Riding tog ither In the May weather,
love nail I;
jpitlio birds singing, all the trees
Tin'll' g 1 ' 1 ' 011 hearts out to the sky.
Through tbe bright weather always togetkor,
Xever a thought of pain,
0 ?dnrkdays "hen the soul says:
• Will It ever ho spring again?”
], | a got her through winter weather,
Well (:i' , 'i II"' storm;
Notoso fearful: patient and cheerful;
fj a . 4 ,frozen—and hearts all warm,
In any weather happy together
Always— nty love and I!
Ride we content till our lives are spent,
Ride we on till we die.
— Coayregationalist.
THE TWO PEACHES.
The first time we met after a separa¬
tion of twenty-five years was at a ban¬
quet given by tho college at which wo
bad taken our diplomas.
Vital llerbclot hnil altered wonder¬
fully since the days when we were
schoolmates. I had left him young,
timid, dressed like a fop, aud excessive¬
ly modest in demeanor, as it was proper
a clerk should be who had yet to mako
his way in the office where fortune had
placed him. The man beforo mo now
was a burly, stout old fellow, his face
and neck browned by tbe sun, with a
bright eye, a loud voice, and the short,
brusque maimer of a man accustomed
to command—in short, the easy, com¬
fortable mien of a well-to-do citizen.
“What are you doing, llerbclot?” I
said to h m as we chatted between the
C urscs. ‘Still in the administration?’’
“fn tho administration ? I should say
nut,” lie responded. “Didn’t you know
that 1 had given it un ? I’m a cultivator.
Half a leagu: from here, at Chautcraine,
I’ve a farm which brings me in a round
suin. Come home with me and taste my
Burguady.”
“You a farmer! You, tiro son and
grandson of a line of bureaucra's, the
mode! clerk, the prospective ambassador!
How did it happen?”
“After the banquet I’ll tell you. Great
changes arc frequently produced by the
slightest causes, I gave up my profes-
sion for two peaches. ”
“Two peachesI cried, astounded.
“Yes, two peaches; neither more nor
less; but have patience; wait until we
are at Chautcraino nnd you shall know
ail about it.”
A half hour later wo quitted the ban¬
queting room, and lighting cigars began
our walk to the farm. It was a warm
afternoon at the end of August, but tbe
road was well shaded and a gentle breeze
blowing from the d irection of the river
prevented our suffering from tho heat,
i "You know,’’ said I ferbeiot, beginning
bis story, “that in my youth I was a roll-
ir g ball, without decided preference for
any profession, but my father, an old
employe himself, could see nothing com¬
parable to a career in a public office. As
soon, therefore, as I had received my
diploma nothing would content him but
that I too must follow in the ancestral
footsteps. As I said before, with no
predilection for :i special vocation, I
willingly consented nnd entered upon
the route of bureaucracy.
“Industrious, educated and discip¬
lined from infancy to listen wilh defer-
cucc to the wishes of my superiors, it
was not long before I was favorably no¬
ticed by the chief, and I rapidly con¬
quered my first official grade. At this
epoch 1 married a young and beautiful
girl, good and affectionate, but entirely
without fortune—a grave fault ill the
eyes of the world in which I lived. My
friends were positive that no good could
come of it, nnd openly quoted the pro¬
verb: ‘If the husband biings the break¬
fast the wife must supply the dinner.’
“As far as wc were concerned, neither
of us had enough for tho scantiest sup¬
per, counting out the official salary.
Perhaps it was reckless, but my wife
was an excellent manager; and as wo
lived modestly, with tho strictest econ¬
omy, local society ceased to rail at our
imprudence aud still received us.
“-My chief, however, was a very rich
limn, but continued in the treadmill of
administrative work because lie loved it,
Had also because it gave him an excuse
for lavish hospitality. He was particu¬
larly fond of throwing open bis doors to
society, and every now and then invited
the clerks from the office to attend these
entertainments.
‘‘I hail far rather have remained at
li'Wm with my wife, who had become
'cry delicate soon after marriage, but
"as forced, whether or no, to attend the
d rectorial receptions,for wc were bound
to amuse ourselves according to order.
“Just at the time when my wife’s
liealth had failed her most completely
invitations were issued from the direc¬
torial mansion for a grand ball, and in
spite of myself I was compelled again to
don a dress coat. As tbe hour ap¬
proached for starting for the affair my
wife, who was elaborating tho knot of
■ny necktie, said to me:
‘“Don’t forget Ilerbelot, to look at
about everything so that you can tell mo all
it, and, by the way, I saw from
>hc papers that M, le Director has or¬
dered the greatest lot of delicacies from
0aeviet’s,among H them hot house peaohes.
you love me you’ll briug me one,’
11 'My dear child,’ I vemonatrated,
'^At iiu’tto bo done, III* impossible,
TWok aow how difficult it would b« tor
a gentleman in a dress suit to pocket a
peach and escape being seen.’ But the
more I objected the more determined she
became in the fancy. Nothing could be
simpler in the midst of the coming and
going than to tako a peach as if for my-
self.
“ ‘Perhaps it is childish,’ she de-
clared, ‘but I cannot help it. Since I’ve
heard them talking of Cheviot’s peaches
I’ve had the greatest desire to taste
them. Promise me, Ilerbelot, promise
to bring me just one.’
“What could I or any other man do
under the circumstances. I loved my
wife and she was ill, and the request
was not so unreasonable after all. So 1
promised and hurried from tho roomi
the last thing I saw as I closed the door
being my wife’s great blue eyes, brilliant
with eagerness, fixed upon my face.
“It was a grand ball indeed, flowers
everywhere, magnificent toilets and a
splendid orchestra. Everybody was
there, among them the Perfect and
President of the Tribunal aud tho offi¬
cers of the garrison—in short, all the
top of the basket. Nothing had been
spared that would give eclat to the fete
over which the wife and the daughter of
the director, my chief, so gracefully pre¬
sided.”
“Supper was served at midnight, the
dancers passing from tho ball-room di¬
rectly into the saile-a-manger, and a
gorgeous supper it was.”
“I had scarcely entered the room
when 1 saw in a most conspicuous posi¬
tion in the centre of the table, the cele¬
brated peaches from Chevict’s. Ar¬
ranged in a basket of the rarest china
and delicately interspersed with vine
leaves, they proudly dispensed their
appetizing odors, the rich crimson and
white of the velvet skins betraying at
once the lusciousness of the flavor.”
“From tho end of the table where the
servants had placed me I looked upon
the <1 isli with a gaze as eager as my
wife’s, picturing to myself the pleasure I
should give her, if by a lucky chance I
could carry homo a specimen of the ex
quisite fruit. Gradually, as I caressed
them with my eyes, the desire to possess
them assumed a more determined form.
I decided that I would have not only
one, but two of those beautiful peaches.
But how ? That was the question that
puzzled me. The servants in attendance
kept the strictest watch upon the basket,
for M. Taboraud, the director, had re¬
served to himself the pleasure of offering
to a privileged few this product of
Cheviot’s industry.
“From time to time, at a sign from
him, the head waiter would take a
peach, daintily cut it in two, aud pre¬
sent the halves to the persons desig¬
nated. I greedily watched the economi¬
cal arrangement, and tremblingly saw
the pyramid grow smaller and smaller.
However, when tho feast was over and
the guests recalled to the dancing hall by
a prelude from the orchestra, the in¬
structions had been so discreetly carried
out that there still remained a half
dozen or so of the wonderful i^uit lying
embedded in their nest of leaves.
“I went with the crowd, of course,
but it was a false sortie, for I had pur¬
posely left my hat behind me—a tall
stove-pipe, which had occasioned me a
world of trouble all through the evening.
Under the pretext of regaining it I could
return to the salle, and perhaps, for I
was well known to the domestics of the
house, obtain a peach. When I re-en¬
tered the room the waiters were engaged
in carrying to the pantry the remnants
of the spread. At a certain moment I
found myself entirely alone and near the
buffet, upon which had been placed the
dish of fruit. There was not a second
to lose. I approached the basket, and,
quick as lightning, rolled two of the
peaches into the crown of my hat, ad¬
roitly covering them with my hand.
“Carefully holding the hat against my
breast I returned to the ball-room, my
intention being to cross it quietly and
slip away, liko the English, and when
once outside to run every step of the
home.
“It was not as easy to do this as I had
anticipated, for they were beginning the
cotillon, and alt arouud the grand salon
there was a double row of black coats
and wall-flowers, surrounding a third
row formed by the chairs of the dancers;
and in the middle of this third ring a
great empty space in which tho couples
of the cotillon would waltz. Cautiously in¬
sinuating myself between the groups I
glided around the chairs with the noise¬
less flexibility of the serpent dreading at
every step that somo unwary elbow
would strike the hat and dislodge tho
spoils. I could distinctly feel the toss-
ing about of the peaches as I walked
along. of trouble and
“At last, after a deal
innumerable scares, I entered the space
just opposite the door of entrance as
they were forming the “coquet figure.’
A lady was in the centre of the ring,
the gentlemen clustering in a circle
around her. As you know, when the
cavalier presents himself with whom she
wishes to waltz, she places a liat which
she holds in her hand upon his head and
away they go. of the
“The lady in the centre room
was Mile. Tabaraud, the daughter of my
chief. I bad scarcely taken a
ftcrou the floor when she me
amt running towAffl -
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 20, 1887.
“ ‘You aro just in tho nick of time,
M. llerbclot,’ said she; ‘quick give us
your hit.’ And before I could escape or
stammer a protest the lint was whisked
from my hand and those infernal ‘first of
tho seasons’ spinning over tho floor.
Imagine the tableau! The dancers tit-
tered, the Director frowned, the wall¬
flowers exclaimed, and Mile. Tabaraud
was transfixed. Hod as a beet, and with
my teeth chattering with a moral chill, I
stood like a fool, the cynosure of all
eyes.
“ ‘Take back your hat, M. Ilerbelot,
said the lady at last, in a voice choked
with emotion, ‘and pick up your
peaches.’
“At this the people no longer able to
restrain themselves, burst into fits of
laughter. Even tho domestics joined in
the merriment. Haggard and stammer¬
ing with confusion I hastily fled from
the salon.
ii i The next day the story was all over
town, and when I entered the office I
was greeted with shouts of ‘Pick up
your peaches, M. Ilerbelot; take back
your hat!’ It was unbearable, and it was
the same thing in the street. Every¬
where I went I was pointed at aud
whispered about and followed with the
mocking chorus.
“The town was untenable. Eight
days from that fatal night I resigned
from the office and entered upon a course
of farming as assistant to my wife’s
uncle, who owned a place in tho envi¬
rons of my native city. With a better j
liking for the calling of a farmer than 1 |
had ever had for official documents, it
was but a little while before I bad be-
come a creditable agriculturist. In fact,
the land prospered so well in my hands
that the old gentleman left it to us in liis
will. Since then I have constantly en¬
larged my enterprises until now I am at
the satisfactory stage in which you see
me.”
By this time we had reached the farm
of Chautcraine. Entering by tho orchard
way we passed through row after row of
fruit trees, heavy with apples, pears and
quinces. At the extremity of the in¬
closure a lxiily slope rolled to the water’s
edge, covered with a network of vines
aud masses of ripening grapes. The
clatter of machinery to the left indicated
the granary. To the right was the farm
house,- the white walls cheerfully shining
through an espalier of loadc-l peach
trees.
“The most of my attention is devoted
to peaches, as you sec,” said llerbclot,
as we passed through the gate; “I owe
to them the happiness of my life.”
“Nevertheless, my dear,” cried a
laughing voice behind the lattice, “hap¬
piness isn’t always the result of stealing
peaches.”— Fmn the French.
A Western Horse Range
The great "P. O.” range, which be¬
gins at a point not more than six miles
distant trom the city of Cheyenne, has
120 miles of four-strand wire fence,built
at a cost of $150 a mile. Iuside of this
fence about 3000 mares and colts graze,
the herd being broken up into many
small bands and widely scattered, No
stallions are permitted to graze within
this enclosure, the Pcrcherons being
kept in corrals. In describing a visit to
this famous ranch last fall Mr. Busbey
writes: “The temper of the Percherou
stallions is so docile that it has a good
influence upon the marcs. The colts are
not shy and wild, and the mothers gain
confidence and grow gentle through
their influence. As for the marcs nnd
colts, the hardy, open air life, with
exercise up and downjtho hills, is build
ing up a class of animals which stand
much fatigue with very little care. The
hips or quarters aro not yet as highly de¬
veloped as in the horses of the Eastern
States, but the bone is free from disease,
ami a horse caught freshly from the herd
and put into harness will take his share
of the load.” -Harper's Weekly.
Frame Houses in Earthquakes.
One of the most remarkable manifes-
tations of our earthquake was the utter
destruction of massive brick buildings
and tlic comparative immunity of frame
houses. The explanation of this—and a
seemingly indisputable one—is that an
car th quake lacks the propulsive'horizon
tal power of a tornado, while the up
heaval force is so irresistible that weight
counts for nothing in securing the safety
of a building. Tho fact that a building
fell east, north, south, and west proves
nothing as to the direction of the earth¬
quake force, inasmuch as a building
shaken from its foundation by an up¬
heaval will, by the force of gravity, full
along the lino 'of least resistance. It
would seem, therefore, that tho absence
of horizontal force in our earthquake
disposes almost absolutely 0 1 tho land¬
slip theory which was formulated by
Prof. McGee of the earthquake comrais-
sion. The landslip theory necessarily
carries with it the idea of a force exerted
in the direction of the slide. — Charleston
(S. C.) News.
Tlte Way Was All Clear.
Mabel—Won’t you come in Charlie?
Charlie (gloomily)—You forget that
your father injured my feelings last eve-
ning when I was leaving.
Mabel Yes, darling, but I10 wore his
carpet slippers at tho time, and now his
foot is done up in a bandage and he
goo ob a crutch, Come la OhAflie,
j COUNTERFEITING.
Making Spurious citations
of American Money.
The Marvelous Talent of a My a ter low
Pen and Ink Counterfeiter,
The counterfeiting at present is con¬
fined almost entirely to the coin issues
of the Government, writes a Washington
correspondent of tho New York World.
It is not generally known that the
nickles and the pennies arc very success¬
fully counterfeited and that there is no
possible means of detecting the spurious
from tlte genuine. Tliy niekle afford a
very handsome profit. All the counter¬
feiters have to do is to go to the Revised
Statutes aud there they find the materials
to be used in their making. All of tho
metal employed is base. A niekle costs
the Government about one cent aud a
quarter. If tho Government had the
exclusive manufacture of these coins
there would be a great profit in them.
But the coin can be so easily reproduced
that there is no means of
estimating how many of them
arc put out of tho counterfeit
class. If the government should decide
to call in this class of coin they would
have to redeem the counterfeits as well,
because they aro all made of exactly the
gara0 material as tho government’s issue,
The bronze pennies aro also counterfeit-
cd. There is a profit in this. Tho
|) ronz3 0 f which the pennies are made
cos t 8 24 cents a pound. A pound will
make 100 pennies. The only way this
p. ir ^ 0 f t bc currency can be detected
would be for Congress to change the
)aw so that buUion t0 the value of tho
coin can be put in it. The nickels to-day
represent a sort of fiat currency. They
are stamped by the government as five
cents aud they really represent only a
cent and a quarter.
One of the latest kiuds of
counterfeiting is the imitation
of old coins for sale to the numis¬
matists. One of the most ingenious
modes of deception in this class of work
is the changing of the dates of some
common issue of a certain coin to the
date of a year whose issue is scarce and
consequently high. The old liberty
dollar of 1804 is very scarce. It is said
that there are only seven genuine coins
of this issue iu this country. The coin is ra¬
ted in numismatic catalogues at a valhe of
$1300 and upwards. The counterfeiters
have been quite successful in changing
1801 issues to that of 1804. This
is not counterfeiting ill the strict
legal sense of the word, and
tho treasury officials would
not he able to punish any one for this
class of offense. But they have exer¬
cised their power to put a stop to such
work wherever they have found it going
ou.
Another form of trouble met with by
the treasury people in protecting the
currency is in the various devices em¬
ployed by enterprising advertis-
ers. A number of advertisers
will print fac-similes of coins or
of the currency iu their advertisements.
Coin catalogues very often contains em¬
bossed reproductions of the coin adver¬
tised. When these are silvered or gilded
they become dangerous, Their backs
and fronts are often pasted together and
passed in the evening upon ignorant peo¬
ple. Smaller coins of the silver embossed
character are constantly being slipped
into the street ear boxes where they
cannot have close inspection, particular¬
ly. when they are slipped in during the
evening. The Italians and tho small
fruit people are used for the purpose of
working off all the small counterfeits.
Cue of tho most successful counter¬
feiters has baffled the treasury for over
five years. He has adopted such an
original role that thus far no truce of
him lias ever been reached. His name,
even, is not known. A fairly good de¬
scription of him has been obtained, but
beyond that the Bee ret Service Bureau
has no positive information. This coun¬
terfeiter works alone, lie has no appa¬
ratus beyond a pen and a bottle of ink,
and having no accomplices, is not ill any
danger of being betrayed, His method
of proceeding is very simple. He will
take a ten, a twenty, or a fifty of the
greenback or n itional bank issue, and
in the shortest possible time
can make such successful
copy of it in pen and ink as to defy de¬
tection from anybody but an expert with
a glass. I saw a fifty dollar note at tho
treasury made by him of the greenback
issue. The general appearance of this
bill is perfect. The lines about all of the
portrait work wi 1 bear the closest in¬
spection under a glass. The letter work
is absolutely correct and tho signatures
miraculous reproductions, Even the
treasury seal is faultless, The artist that
produces this class of work rarely if ever
counterfeits the same issue twice during
the same period. It is therefore not
possible to put bank people on their
guard against him. He skips about
from issue to issue and, while he rarely
goes below $20, yet lias condescended to
make a ten dollar note. He is apparently
always on tho wing. His first note was
detected in New Orleans. Other issues
have been found in Southern cities along
tho Mississippi river, and again they
would bo found ia Chicago or tho ex¬
treme West. MU counterfeiting cab
ntver reach a very largo amount. Ho
apparently travels about a great deal
and defrays tho expenses of this trav¬
eling with his knowledgo of tho pen,
llo is a man of such talent that ho
could certainly command a handsome
salary in a legitimate business. He has
thus far been so successful in putting his
wares on the market that by the time his
note is detected the slightest trnoe of its
author is gone. This is ono of tho ro¬
mances of tho Secret Service. Thera is
not an officer connected with tho service
but who firmly believes tlia^cvcn this
evasive counterfeiter will be caught in
tho end. It will be a hard job to find
him. lie is only one of sixty millions of
people, with no connections or relations
with tho other members of the human
family to betray him. And yet every
successful counterefeiter this country
has thus far known has been brought to
punishment in the end.
The bmallest State In Europe.
The smallest state in Europe—six
square kilometres—is the territory of
Moresnet, between Vervicrs and Aix-la-
Chapelle. It contains rich zinc mines,
which aro worked by the Socicto de la
Vieille Montagne. In 1815 a commission
was appointed to fix a boundary lino be¬
tween Prussia and the Netherlands,
which was agreed upon on every point
save as regards Moresnet. Each country
claimed the zinc mines, or an adequate
indemnity; it was finally resolved to
consider the miserable tract of land,
which contained only fifty squalid huts
near the mines, independent and neutral.
Since then the condition of the territory
has greatly changed. It contains at
present eight hundred houses, nice, well-
stocked shops, and the inhabitants are
well-to-do. The territory has remained
neutral, and is patriarchally adminis¬
tered. Prussia and Belgium have
each appointed a resident commis¬
sioner, who endeavor to settle amicably
any possible difficulties arising, but who
do not otherwise interfere. At the head
of the administration is a burgomaster,
who selects his ten councilmen; he is tho
keeper of the archives, superintends the
real estate bureau, and is, in fact, the
autocrat ruler. For - the past two years
this office has been filled by a peasant
named Schmitz, who has selected ns
chief councilman an aged physician,
liked by young and old. These two men
constitute the government de facto—all
the other councilmen agree to the reso¬
lutions of the council of two, and all the
resolutions are unanimous! The admin¬
istration of tho state requires 12,000
franca per annum; each inhabitant pays
an average tax of six francs. That sum
suffices to keep the schools and roads in
repair; there is no military service; the
posse comitatus consists of only one man,
who wears a uniform as the official badge
of the “Republic of Moresnet." The
villago lies in a lovely valley, which
boasts of a pretty lake and ruins of an
old castle of the time of Charlemagne;
and the denizens of Vervicrs and Aix-la-
Chapclle frequently repair there on Sun¬
days to make jovial over a glass of wine.
This idyllic “republic" has of late es¬
tablished a post office of its own, which
issues postage stamps of a value of one
to fifty pfennige (a treasure trove for
philatelists!) and over the entrance of
which stands in big letters the name of
the almighty ruler of the state,— Ameri¬
can Register.
A Buddhist Ceremonial.
Some days ago Paris was tbe theatre
of a strange rite, which was witnessed by
many thousands. The Cingalese troupe
of acrobats and jugglers who have been
amusing Paris for some time past re¬
ceived an addition to their number by
the birth of a boy, who was named on
the day next following.
In the morning two bonzes betook
themselves to tiie cradle where he lay to
cast his horoscope. They announced that
he would live to a great age, and would
havo numerous descendants. But tho
picturesque portion of the ceremonial
was in the afternoon. The child was
laid on the grass. The women quitted
their huts, and, chanting a wild hymn,
bore in a richly adorned bag what was
said to bo the sacred tooth of Sakya
Mudi to where the boy lay. Then with
cries of joy they scattered flowers pro¬
fusely over him, while the men took up
the hymns.
Iu addition to his father’s name the
boy received the name of Paris. Then
the whole troupe went to the mother’s
tent and presented her with a great
quantity of gifts—gold pieces and orna¬
ments, bracelets, foot rings, and fruits
of the season. The ceremony lasted
about an hour, the worshippers fre-
breaking into cries of “Long live Paris-
Buddha .”—London Times.
How to Get Strong.
One of the secrets of muscular recu¬
peration is in stopping when fatigue be¬
gins from exercise. He or she who is
not the fresher in body and mind for the
exercise taken has had an overdose of
what in proper measure would have
proved ft benefit. The gain in strength
is shown aud felt in the increasing abil¬
ity to do more and more without exhaus¬
tion. The measure of success is not in
the greatness of the feat accomplished,
but in tbe ease with which the exercise ia
indulgod In and in the AbMQOC ot ojf*
hauitloa After it,
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A groat amount . of » .ulphur , has boon
found on the Island of Saha, ono of the
Antilles belonging to Holland. Lunge
states that the mines are difficult to
work on account of the heavy rains and
the hurricanes. Some of the rock is 03
per ecat. sulphur, but the averago run
is 45 per cent.
A study of the water-spouts observed
ou or near tho gulf stream has proven to
Mr. H. 11. Gibson of Harvard college,
that they are much less rare in winter
than might be supposed. Tho dates of
their occurrence appear, to coincido with
the extension of cold northwest winds,
or “cold waves,” from the land out over
the relatively , . . warm sea.
Mount Tara wera, one of the Now Ze-
land volcanoes which recently displayed
such extraordinary activity, is 800 feet
higher than beforo tho eruption. The
sccno at this mountain was one of un-
paralleled grandeur. Bills of fire shot
...mo.. .. T «
of flame, 500 feet wide, rose to a height
of 1000 feet.
Tho French government has not yet
given up tho hope of finding a really
successful method of steering balloons.
At Mcndon a verv large balloon is now
in course of construction; it is to be
steered by moans of a continuously ro-
tatincr sail rudder, driven by an eloo-
tro-motor, for which a primary battery
will current.
The English river pollution commission
teports, after full investigation, that
“there is no river in the United King¬
dom long enough to secure the oxidation
and destruction of any sewage which
may be discharged iuto it, even at Its
source,” and that “rivers which have re¬
ceived sewage, even if that sewage has
been purified before its discharge, are
not safe sources of potable water.”
Attention is again turned toward An¬
tarctic explorations, through an address
by Baron Von Muller, who points out
that by establishing an outpost at Auck¬
land or Macquarie Island, and an expe-
dition aided by si cam and electric bal¬
loons, the problems connected with
1‘oiar exploration could, in all proba¬
bility, be solved. There seems a chance
that tho Australian Government will
undertake the task.
It is proposed to make use of electric¬
ity in cremating dead bodies, Tho
corpse is shrouded in a sheet of asbestos
and laid upon a fire-brick support. Large
copper plates, which connect with dyn¬
amos of great electro-motive force, are
placed at the feet and head. On turn¬
ing on tho current, the body has the
same position as the carbon filament in an
electric lamp, ami is instantly consumed.
Tbe process is much more rapid than any
yet introduced, and is also free from any
of tho objections met in the other pro¬
cesses.
*
Faintly Femls of Alaska Indians.
The Esquimau, the Aleut, and to a
certaiu extent the Thlinket, carries the
individual responsibility of feuds, per¬
sonal or family, to the same extent with
outsiders that they have within their
own tribal relations, and unless a war—
as in contradistinction to a feud—be
forced upon them, by tho opposing side
acting in concert, one will seldom oer
cur. I have said that with the Indian
proper “even far les3" is needed to op-
pose an intruder than would stir up in¬
ternal trouble, which is not so with the
northern tribes. For instance, an acci¬
dent caused by a member of the tribe IS
overlooked, as with us, o» at the least it
is left as a family affair to settle, but let
the accident occur from somo one on the
outside, and as far as clamor and ex¬
citement is concerned the deed might
nearly as well havo been premeditated.
To use a frontier expression, » stam¬
pede” is created, equivalent to a raid of
a well known enemy on the camp. The
one creating the caifto would have to in¬
demnify the one injured or his heirs or
assigns the same as if it had been mur¬
der, nnd it is not an improbable thing
that he would pay with his life in the
excitement attendant upon the first re¬
ceipt of the news L>y the tribe. Some of
the most serious difficulties of the west
have happened in this way by some fool¬
ish accident or misunderstanding, fol¬
lowed by each party standing rigidly on
its own ideas of justice in the case.—
Lieut. Schxoatka.
Oriental Proverbs,
There are some general and almost
coustant peculiarities noticeable iu these
proverbs, such ns the pervading unpopu¬
larity of the sister-in law (who seems to
be in as bad odor as mother-in-law with
us), the perpetual allusions to the
gri or little portable Cashmcrian stove,
which ought to make tire insurance
premiums high, the appearance of a cer¬
tain female lunatic and saint entitled
Lal-Dsd, etc. Here is a delightful vari¬
ant on adding insult to injury: “I am
not so angry at the cat eating the ghee
as I am at her shaking her
tail.” “May roses be in your moqth” 1s
surely a most elegant fashion of replying
to a pretty speech from somebody else,
whether there is or is not an undercur¬
rent of sarcasm in it. “Ten wives, but
eleven dispositions,” is much better than
“Many men, many minds," though, per¬
haps, it has a rather morn limited intea>
VOL. II, NO. 17.
Flood and Ebb.
Tho !roj*esIiik*a)fn, and the long reach
( f barron ^
j n ,j w bot Kun Vwnis llko the beach
Of desert lands.
Among the rocks no children run,
Only son*' poor old women come
** driftwood dryi/g in the sun.
j ’Tii full We quiet high noon, the tide Is out,
ore,
God knows what idorms may sweep without
The harbor liar
T(u , su< ij ( .„ squall,'the veering gale , ••
May tear and wreck (he distant sail f-
Of him wo lova Our weak hearts fail
>xi8 sunset.; the returning tide
Creeps up tbe sands,
The waves gleam with warm colors dyed
From tropic lands,
Tho fresh breeze waft* t he sound* of joy
From lips of many a happy boy
To whom each wave brings a new toy.
A snow . whlte ftit8 Vroe9 the bar,
The light is past,
But ore appears tho evening star,
He comes at last,
His ship fa moored. With Imn l*side
in n, g .r;‘z:‘r:;r
HUMOROUS.
SBarp work—Grinding an ax.
A flat failure—A poor pancake.
Tho ocean is like a good housewife—
very tidy.
How to keep down taxes—sit on the
tax collector.
When a man buys a porous plaster he
generally sticks to his bargain.
Tho wind is always blowing about
something, but there is nothing in it.
It is very proper to refer to tho “smil¬
ing countenance" of a gentleman who
wears a “blossom nose.”
A coal stove is a cast iron paradox.
It won’t hum unless you put it up;
then it won’t burn unless you shake it
down.
“By the way,” exclaimed Bmithcrs,
“have you two fives for a ten?” “I
have,” replied Jobson. “Then, lend mo
one of them.’’
“You never have much to say to the
ladies, Mr. Snilax—how is that?”
“Well, I never have time—they have so
much to say to me.”
“Aftcr much research and investiga¬
tion," says an exchange, “we are con-
vinceil that the boarding-liousc chickens
are hatched from hard boiled eggs.”
Four-year-old Belle had been watch¬
ing Tom, the cat, squeeze through a
very small hoio under the house. “Oh,
mamma,” she said, “you ought to havo
seen Tom. He just mashed and went
under.”
The girls In some parts of Africa havo
to be six feet high before they can mar-
Tho Africans probably think that a
small woman cannot manage her hus¬
band. A brief residence in this country
■would soon toach them better.
Animals in un Earthquake.
The engine horses of Charleston
escaped and ran in wild affright, snort¬
ing and neighing, to the terror of all
they passed. In the country the horses
neighed out their disuse, and the cows
bellowed piteously. Animals that were
stabled tried to break away, aud failing
to do so trembled anil shivered in an
agony of fear. Thoso that were at largo
fled to the woods nnd sought to hklo
themselves from the mysterious danger in
thickets ami swamps. Half an hour afte r
the frightful shock a savage-look ing but
completely scared mastiff approached a
reporter in the city, and licked his shoes,
in mute appeal for help. Then the poor
creature moved off and stopped, whining
at everybody, and seeking admission on
his terror-stricken way. It is alleged that
at St. Johns Island at an early hour in
the afternoon the sheep came hurriedly
in from the fields, lay down in a circle
and filled the air with their moans, and
that the chickens went to roost long be¬
fore dark and cackled for some t ; me be¬
fore the shock .—New Orleans Picayune.
A Great Secret Un’.
Pretty Girl—“An old woman told me
to-day that I ought to get some lovo
powder, and she said she guessed you
kept it.”
Druggist—“You can make it yourself
by mixing half a teaspoonful of sugar
with a—a minute quantity of powdi red
starch.”
“Yes, and how will I give it to him ?”
“Yon must invite him to a supper
which you prepare, and slip it into his
coffee.”
“And will that mako him want to
marry me ?”
“It will if the coffee is good and
everything else well cooked .”—Omaha
World.
Prophets.
The country is overrun with prophets
who havo not made a success in life.
There has bean no systematic study
given to the a rf of prophesying, and tho
large number of broken-down prophets
is due to our defective system of educa-
tion. The only safe way to become a
successful prophet is to wait patiently
until after tho event lias transpired and
then declare that you foretold it two
years before. This was the way that
Wiggins made his reputation. He only
failed when ho foolishly attempted
prophesying event#iu tho future.- Lj/im