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®he Picketts Cittttlg fjetdii
W. B. MOTCEY, Editor.
VOL. I.
THE HIDDEN CROSS.
How many heart* so brave and true
Are battling day by day
To bear a cross their whole lives thro’,
Unmurmuring all the way.
The cross they bear they do not care
That all the world shall see,
As if to ask or beg a share
Of its cold sympathy.
They do not wish that all should hnow
The secret of its power,
Hor even of the hidden woe
Of many a sleepless hour.
Oft drenched with tears the steps that lead
Up to the throne of grace,
To One who hears them when they plead
And never hides His face.
John B. Hemstreet, m Inter-Ocean.
A i rnmninrnmraiinTTTmrc TERRIBLE TEN MINUTES.
-
in It the happened one afternoon last year,
month of November, that I re-
ceived a telegram calling for my presence
in London earlv next morning on au im
portant business matter. To such a
summons there was but one answer pos-
sible, so, with just a regretful thought
for a card party I should have to forego
I wired back this reply:
“Mr. J. Devon, Anderton's Hotel, London:
“ Shall leave Burtown by the 13 to-night,
and will call on you to-morrow at 8:15.
Knightly.”
fimshed Having dispatched my message, I
oft the days work with all
speed and then returned to my lodgings
TI,r™,S these consisted principally !OBS of cramming JOUrn . ey '
a soft cap and a few other necessaries
into a carpet-bag, after which followed
the discussion of a hearty meal, and the
delivery of an exhortation to my land-
lady to feed my fox-terrier, Grip, at his
usualhours. ]
The remainder of the evening was
spent in skimming over the morning’s
paper, wherein I found little to interest
floor. me. In disgust, I flung the thing on the
It alighted at a graceful angle,
on whose apex appeared the heading, as
conspicuous as leaded type could make
it: “ Shocking Wife Murder in Burtown
—Arrest of the Murderer.”
With a mental apology to the pub-
lishers of the Chronicle for the injustice
I had done them as caterers to the
the public craving for horrors, I picked up
paper and proceeded to digest the
“harrowing details. ”
lhe gist of the news was as follows:
An abandoned ruffian, Chippy Watson
by name, had, after the fashion of his
class, beaten in his wife’s skull with a
mallet, in consequence of some domestic
disagreement. Having committed the
deed, he coolly put on his coat and
hat, and was proceeding to depart,
when the neighbors and police, attracted
by the screams of the unfortunate victim,
rushed m and secured him. This was
all, or nearly ail the paragraph
tamed, except for the usual information
that “the prisoner will be brought up h
before the magistrates this morning, an
to Arwife“ us " g ,te mur -
It was now past eleven-time forme
to make my way down to the station;
rather more than time, in fact, since
that imposing structure was distant
from my lodgings by fully two miles.
.Fortunately, my bag was light, and I
shared in its pleasing characteristic of
being unburdened by superfluous weight,
Nonetheless, on reaching my destina-
tion there was only one minute left me
wherein to take my ticket and secure
a seat, lhe latter operation, thanks to
the slowness of the booking-clerk in
handmg me my change, had to be ac-
comphshed the by running the gauntlet of
began guards and porters as the train
to move
No sooner had I ascertained that my
limbs were uninjured by the uncere-
monious fashion in which the railway
officials had ‘assisted’ me to my seat,
than I discovered that the only other
tenant of the compartment in which I
was ensconced was a young lady, and
one, moreover, of no small beauty. Now.
cmicerneiL 11 Anmn^men to’snare 111 1 h^ave Se *elf is 8
the^ possession preSnce enough fadieJ and thit seff-nosaesSion but in
of
vanishes with most uncalled for rapidity,
In the presence of ladies ves ■ but hern
there was but one who was bound to
shoiild keep me makVirefittX’ fora whole hour until the Iran
So it bap
pened that, as I contemplated the charms
of mv vis-a-vis from behind the evenine-
paper, which I had found time to buv on
my flight to the station, a measure of my
courage returned, and in the inspiritin" myself*-
words of Mr. Gilbert, said I to
“I’ll take heart and make a start- ’ faint
heart never won fair lady.”
“I trust vou were not alarmed by my
unceremonious entry?” I remarked
with some inward misgivings, but much
"
outward assuranc e.
For answer, a quiet stare and a slight
contraction of the pretty mouth of my
companion—indicating and unintroduced, her opinion I had that,
as a stranger no
right to speak to her.
This to an ordinary male animal was the
the moment for strategic attack it upon the
fair one’s scruples; forme for was flight,
exact opposite—the moment Ostrich-like,
had flight been possible.
I buried my face behind my newspaper—
there being no sand available—and in a
few moments heard, to my relief, a
corresponding rustle from the opposite prude
side of the carriage as my pretty
followed suit. The sense of defeat and
disgrace fairly overwhelmed me for! a
while, and my eyes wandered over the
paper I held in my hand, seeing but
understanding not what they saw. At
length they lighted upon a familtor
name: “Chippy his Watson,” and and their
owner recovered senses almost
forgot his grief S as he read the following S
lines:
“The Burtown Murder-Escape incident, of the
of the hearing before ^ the magistrates
and the remand of the prisoner, jjendrea:
JASPER. GEORGIA, THURSDAY.. FEBRUARY ‘ 4 . 1888.
the in.jue.st, the paragraph went on as
follows:
“On leaving the court, Watson was
conducted between four officers to the
van. •lust as he was stepping in, and
when the policemen were endeavoring to
the keep back the crowd that pressed round,
prisoner suddenly snapped his hand-
culls in some inexplicable manner, and
then] knockingdown the constables who threw
by selves upon him, broke through the
slanders and fled down the street. The
t0 ° k ? laC ® ^ s « eraed in a
°“ uinute Watson, ngor- .
e ' - ’““'
ously guarded, was quietly walking into the
the van in the midst of the officers;
next, and he was tree, tearing down the
street with the police and the populace
at his heels. He was seen to dodge down
a back alley, known as Shut Lane, and
followed by the crowd of several hun-
dreds Attheendof Shut Lane he dis-
appeared round a corner, and, strange be to
sny, has not been seen again. There can
no but dou his bt, that he will and be disappearance recaptured;
present mysterious. escape understand
are most Wu
that the fellow possesses singular strength be
■ nd a S dit y i but none the less, it will
BP standing that disgrace should to our policeauthori- in broad
ties a prisoner thus, crowded
daylight, and in the midst of a
thoroughfare the hands effect his escape A reward from of
y cr y of .lustiee.
one hundred pounds has been offered for
re-apprehension. Watson is about
five feet nine inches in height, strongly
built, and when he escaped was dressed
in a gray fustian suit, with a red scarf
a nd * a [ t He may f «rt. h er be dis-
tinguislied t - by a scar across his chin, and
bv having an arrow tatooed on the back
of his left hand.”
This was about the extentof the infor-
mation contained in the paragraph, and
my readers will agree with me that the
news was sufficiently exciting to occupy
m y tb thoughts unpleasant to the complete exclusion had
of e experience I just
passed through. As I lay back read, in my
-seat to muse upon what I had my
thoughts began after awhile to wander
and my head to nod, according to their
wont at midnight, and before long I
asleep. How long I slept I cannot only—but in
probably for a few minutes
those few moments I underwent a most
discomforting dream. I dreamt mallet in
Chippy Watson stood over me,
hand, and that my traveling companion
was bolding his arm, to avert the threat-
ened blow. She struggled in vain, and
the mallet fell—yet with a strangely
“g™ touch—upon my arm. AYith
start, I awoke, and then saw the girl of
dream bending toward me with
a scrap of paper in her hand.
But ber face, how terribly was it
changed! u Instead of *e dainty pink
flush I had last seen, there was a ghastly
whiteness m her cheeks, and her eyes
seemed starting from her head with
terror. l Holding 3f. up one ^ finger, ^ as if }^ to
commanr s e ° ce > s e P assef r “ e e
P a P? r - on which were written the fol-
lowing words:
Some one ,s underneath the seat, and
UM m =
‘ h « thought that this was an ,dle alarm!
? cannot tel ; but this much I know, that
m an instant thre flashed across my mind
with overwhelming force the thought of
the Returning esca.ped wife murdere 1 . silence-sig-
my companion’s
nal by a gesture of acquiescence, I wrote
upon the paper.
w probably only a dog. Shall I
lo0 ^ undef th e seat?
«« aQSW er was short and .... to the
P°“■ ■ , . , ,,
. . .
- > 0 00 “ w.isa iam.
Here, then, , was a sufncie,it dilemma;
but by comparison with what had passed and
before1 between my fellow P^enger
myself it was a dilemma ) that I telt al-
most disposed to welcome The male
»?x in my person waa about to assume its
nghttul position would-be of independent protector to its
^ & ker, if and com-
panion. bweet was my revenge: yet,
the revenge scarcely promised to be
wholly pleasurable.
lir5t action was to remove any sus-
picion that there might be in the mind
tbe mysterious tlurd occupant of our
carriage, through the presumably acei-
dental action of having touched tho
lady’s dress. Giving vent to an awakened audible
yawn, as though I had in' just
from deep, I remarked, a tone of cool
impertinence: ad-
"You really must excuse me for
dressing you again, madam, but will you
permit me to smoke, to enliven this te-
dious journey?”
As I spoke, I accompanied my words
by a meaning glance, and was favored
with the reply:
“Certainly, if you wish it; I cannot
prevent you.” produced pipe and
Thereupon I my
tobacco-pouch and proceeded slowly the plan to
AH the former, os I thought out
of action. On reference to my watch. I
saw that the train would stop in another
ten minutes. Clearly, the only thing to
do was to wait till we reached Black-
ley - and th ere get assistance to find out
who our unknown traveling companion
might be.
lem, The the longer I curious pondered over solution the prob- did
more for its
I become, and then, heedlessof the warn-
ing I had received, I struck a match and
intentionally dropped it.
Stooping down, with a muttered mai-
ediction, to pick it up. I cast a search-
ing glance underneath the opposite seat,
and then my blood ran cold, as the faint
gleam of the taper revealed the back of
a man’s hand with the mark of a tattoed
arrow upon it.
Chippy Watson then was our com-
panion—a doomed and desperate man!
By a mighty effort I controlled mv ‘
voice sufficiently to reaching say:
“Excuse my across you,
madam, but that was my last match,
and I could not afford to let i. go out.”
The girl, into whose while checks lhe
color showed no trace of returning mur-
mured some unintelligible ivp y. and for
a few moments we sat in silence.
“WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HONEST LABOR.
Again 1 looked at my watch. Thank
Heaven, in five minutes we should be at
Blackley, and thfeawful ride would be at
an end. Scarcely had the thought
formulated itself when trembling the girl like op-
posite mo sprang up, could her: a
leaf, and shrieked, ere 1 stop
“Oh, the hand has touched my foot
again!” words left her lips I
The moment the
heard a sudden movement under the seat,
and ijuicker than thought a figure up-
peared upon the floor. In that moment
I flung myself upon the ruthnn and
clutched his throat with the energy oi
gain despair, his knowing that should he once
feet it was all over with mo, for-1 the
lighter and wfaker man. Can I ever
get the horror of that,five minutes’ ride?
The whole Compartment seemed to
be falling upon me. Then nails, foot,
nil were atta; king me at once, but
through all 1 kept and my gri isSn\med upon the
murderer’s throat, t houg
with biood, and almost lost
ness, still held on, while the girl’s
screams rang- dimly through my ears.
Suddenly ceased; the train fainted slopped ; the tho strug- body
gle and 1 across
of my captive.
When I recovered consciousness at
length, I found myself lying upon a (a-
ble m the Blackley Station waiting-room,
with a sympathetic crowd around me,
and, best of all, 1 saw a face bending girl ten- of
derly over me, the face of the
my dream and my discomfiture. After
making twojor three attempts, I managed
to ask: “ Where is Watson ?”
“ Very nigh dead,” replied a ruddy-
faced farmer who stood beside me. “You
three-quarters strangled the life outof
his ugly body; he was black in the face
when they lifted you off him.”
“Do you know that he is an escaped
wife-murderer ?” I inquired feebly.
“ Y'es, we know,” responded police my hon-
est friend. “’1 he Burtown
graphed after the train to have it
searched, because a man answering liia
description had been seen in the station
before it left. The police have got him
safe, my lad, this time, and no mistake,
Why, i saw him handcuffed, and his
arms pinioned behind him, and he
lying half dead the whileafter the throt-
tling as you readers gave him.” to hear the rest of
Do my want
my story, now that the catastrophe is
told! If so, I will inform them that
Watson, on breaking loose from the po-
lice, after turning the corner of Shut
Lane—where it will be remembered he
disapjieared—contrived, incredible effort, to scale by an high almost wall,
a
and so gam the shelter of a railway until em- he
bankment. Along this lie crept
reached the mid-town tunnel, where he
had lurked all day, until, late 111 the
evening, contrived he crept into himself the in station, carriage tyd
to secrete a
of the midnight mail, with the results
before mentioned.
There is one more incident in close
connection with that journey to be told;
it is this,.that there will be a marriage
ear.y tins spring The name of the
xtgzz'sz.'XsSS: %i:r:
never formally introduced to her future
lorn and master, and therefore it is surely
unnecessary to tell the name she will soon
cease to bear, to a passing acquaintance
like the reader. C.iambera x Journai.
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Blowing' tlie Mayor's Horn
Among * some of the numerous corp ac¬
tion cu oms in Knglandt mentioned savs the blowinf
Magarine. ^ may be \
of „ Burghnl0teHorn) -, by the somK
of which the members of the corporation
were, ’ in da vs gone by, summoned to-
f h r T ,; is ( . ,-stom probably / dates
k A }(] s hav been
. some ^ continued until our own
times _ Ki an ancient ll01 -n is pre- ‘“If
8erved ; , wl iich is sounded every cky,” day.
a vi „ it< rghoitld remain in thc writes
Mt , ^ Walbnui, ’ “during the the evening he
lna J h( ar th e 90U nding 6 of Mayor's
horn. It formerly announced the setting
of the watch, whence the chief officer of
the town derived the Saxon style of
wak ® m an ’ hut n °w,ot course,
la P sed '" . t0 a formality. I liree blasts,
dub and dire, are given at nine
“’dock at the Mayor’s door by his official
^Tiket cmss whUeThe'^ w lj Jerenth ", c ™ bell e of
t he cathedra 1 is ringing . It was oidained , . ,
l u 1458 that 1 should be blown at the
^“ch i • *the Ste
8vd »y“l within tbe ‘owne towne’was wm robbed rowed he
T^wasproved P nd
L loss that he a his ser-
n ts did did not not their their dutie datie at -it ,tfi the e time time. ’"
Tlie Art of Sermon Making. „ . .
For a number oUyeffiTY A’alfek* Rev.
A. J. F. Bchrend in the Brooklyn
“ I continued to read half of my sermon*
and to prepare the other half without
U9e 0 f the pen. But iny written and
speaking styles were out of harmony. I
found myself living a double mental life,
Mv preaching lucked uniformity and the
individuality which grows out of the
use of a single method. 80 I abandoned
both methods and adojited careful the third -
that of preparing a brief, mas-
tering its contents without special at-
tention to the language and then freely
reproducing it in speech and without
thc use of a note. This has been my
habit for over fifteen years, and lam
sure that for me it is the best. The.
written preparation ordinarily amounts
to 2,0<K) words, one-third of a fully writ-
ten discourse. The thought with is put special as
compactly as possible, and and precision. No
regard to clearness either of argument of
elaboration, attempted the time or of
imagery, composition is this is left at to the
quent review, to which an hour and a
half is given immediately preceding the
service, and very much is left to the
friciioi, o th .light which an active and
attentive audience always excites.
The way to have a good credit is to
keen out of deb
111 U 1 lNI MTfNrt Imr fNf ll\ *PH|f illhi MOTlTTi olHJllli
WAYS ,
THE “ CAPTAIN'S ’ VARIOUS
OF MAKING MONEY.
sUmoltii" Oysters arid Fisbirije for
I'eltcans.-Night Hums After
Alligators.—TheSaurian*’ Teeth,
An individual described as the “Cap-
tain” said to a Newport (Ivy.) correspoud-
eat oi the New York idlin’
ugcd , 0 shovel oysters for about
eight mon ths in the year on the lower
J.a Forclie, barrel them and send
, iH l to New Orleans where they
lnc f rom t - to VI bits a burreh
mi,, ? }u jf ovst ,, r as a rule is small- but
,, .... almost 0» nhatV «* pebbles.
, 0 tit teen miles frmn the coast <iv«ry
ii tlJo bayou in Louisiana is an oyster bed.
where the stream is more than foilt feet
d( . , t j u , 0 v S ter# .uv taken with drfedgCs
^.l.MTSuaf that way; tlie shallow but that beds is such a slow
ifi, 0 tess are more
. , ra( j_ Here one has but to wade out
(bo water with a scoop or a fork
„ n ,i shovel his dugout full in no time,
()f ,. ourse w ] 10n they only bring 15 cents
to -i j.r.O a barrel in the New Orleans
llvl rkot there is not much money in the
;„ lsincss; but a little money ' goes a long
way to the bayou dweller.
“While working the oyster beds 1 was
So near the Coast that I used to put in a
or two each week pelican fishing,
You take a long lino-a sea-grass line;
ri „ it out with about thirty Hooks set in
bunches of threes, lashed back to back;
k the line on the water by mfeaiis of
fl Tlif oa t g and bait your hooks with fry.
J* nolir-an Cops sails over aud^pouches the water ’fish sees the
down ami
hook He thinks -iiid he lias s7iit oot a sting-rav
; n i,;g nm,ch tries to it out• but
„ 0 q’l,.,,, j.., ma j {CS his
...; nl ] to t „i -' v i,j nv but sud-
i v the line hr ires him nnshort and
, j f r,. int t] watcr w j. |, a g.^ngh
'
w j iei . (| 0 flounders around until I paddle
om all q ta | <(1 him aboard with me.
“There is a bunch of fine hair like
f e;u hers in each wing of the pelican
w hich bring in their rough state 35 cents
a i JUUC h 0 r 7fi cents for each bird.
^hen I had time I used to skin the
whole bird stuff him for'him mount him ' and
t f roln ^5 t 0
“In * the summer of 18831
coast one mornine at seven o’clock
Th( , re was a jg^fi wind and a heavy swell
on the water and hundreds of the birds
we f 0 u 0W j Q „ the wave8 They fly at
a distan ,. e 0 f about a yard from the
wat01 . risinK and f a JH nK w j t h the waves
as re gul s ar lv ' as though they were floating
upon £ them When a fish shows himself
t 0 bird wiU drop scoop up thc v i c tlm,
s ih- e c j t into its pouch fen and go on until it,
hag a load of pounds r or more of
“'wf'/ sir. kut there were so many Of them
{fiat I did trouble to set the line,
b u t ,‘ paddled out among them, and before
the Jav wa3 doue 1 had settled thirty-
eigil | t 0 f them, killing them with a blue
w i8tler . It took me h all night--”
P *. b £ " sr; 0 , powder
i„ to , 0 „r cjlindor-boro sh.ngun, cover it
witha wad; on top of that you ram in
five buck , hot aDO ther light wad, live
more buc kshot, and still five; another
tight wad, and you have a blue whist-
”
]e „
“Is not buck-diot a big dose for
bird?”
“ Not for a pelican. You have to take
them breast on in order not to injure the
wings; and, like a duok’s breast, the
pelican’s front will turn a light load of
lead. Well, as 1 was saying, it took me
all night and most of next day to strip
and pack the feathers; but as i got #25
for the lot I did not begrudge the work,
But that was a big day. Sometimes,
when the oysters were out of season, it,
seemed as though everything ail went night wrong. and
I might puddle around
never find a’gator, and keep my lines
set all day without catching a bird,
Often __________________ and often I have been so poor thut
I had to paddle ° ,n illto a r * CB field,
gather a peek or so of the green ncc and
oat it boiled without any other seasoning
saltiwater-thrown the ,
than a jiint of into
pot . Sometimes I could get nothing but
Iniiled ^ ^ ' lk< “
spoiled “There fish. ...... gator hunting, but,
is money in hard
taken altogether, it is work. Have :
y /»* P^ed. a pirogue? The first!
“me a man steps into a pnogue it ducks
away irom under him and leaves lain
’ ioun<l ' ;r:n - u: m the water so smoothly
fv* 4 he oa n 1 help hollowed remembering of the
thing It is . a canoe out a
single cypress log, and is so light that the
weight 01 a man hardly forces it below
the surface at all. It practically slides
wer the water,and Jienceis die best boat
“KAb tor shallows.
As soon as it grew dusk 1 would take
“ y rlfl ? an d a little dark lantern, wi- ch
I bought in New Orleans tor d cents,
and, after seating myself on the bottom
th e pirogue, paddle up the bayou,
na8 . ’he of lantern
“ ln S eye my upon
either shore as I passed, n hen the light
would strike a gator it was only necee-
sary k « e P tfi e fla,a * n his eyes and he
wa ’ “ llnu a8 a ' ,at - -Not knowing which
wa -' move t0 ® sca P e *“ e hanger, lie
f®., n ”. move 811 ant “ 1 8 f? t a 15,11
if:l ,nt ^ hls ye wnen , he would thrash
e
ar h»”“ with his tail tor a tew seconds or
sometimes make an ugly rush toward me,
snapping his jaws, and then suddenly
* r< T > “notionless.
As so ®“ as was dead i would haul
m well ashore and keep on up tfie
bayou. , The gators are plenty enough in
,j° u !* laDa BwaD U ,s ’ about as p en y- as
r .
[ ,c en *.i n a a | n J ,n fif c ' ,u ” r y’ 80 18
^ was seldom ,, that I padaiod more than
a mile or two without killing half a dozen
<*em. As a rde I d,d not want more
1 n a ’ s 1 &
, •fan an alligator , r to salt
\ hk head?” '
<‘ Y es his ^ jaw-bones, in order to remove
fiesh loosen the teeth. After
Per Annum, In Advance*
being taken Off, the hide* are covered
^ith coarse suit, folded up and thrown
into a barrel. They bring from fifteen.
1o s j xf * con ( S enc h In the markets, and
the tooth are worth about, ns Much mare.
The large* teeth ftre u cd ftfr Umbrella
haiuiUfs—fttimotimG'sbringing as much as
$ I fo* a single tooth; while the smaller
ones are turned into jewelry, and bring
the lmntcr, in the rough, ifl a ported.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
A special !j oil is now manufactured to
, )0 m( by V0SS( q 8 nt sea to pour on the
waves in time of sftfrnt.
Tho „„ T'cslmn . of t utilizing ...... the .. waste .
P ower *he Mississippi luvoi fof h-
°P erflt . > 01 1 °f :tl .' electric light phint m fet.
Minn., . is being discussed in that
Paris , to have,.th ; s winter an interna-
tioniil exhibition of dovices for prevent-
big and extinguishing fires in theatres,
There will life theatrical performance
with sham fires.
A solid lump of coal containing weighing eighty-
seven cubic feet, and 0,351
pounds, was exhibited at the Texas Stats
Fair recently held at Dallas. It was the
largest block of coal ever taken from a
nine in the United States.
Ole l’alsen, who says that he has fished
bl t)l0 Columbia River for eight years,
unu fish’twelve „ ht n( . m - Astoria Oregon recently a
feet long, which he can’t
classify *th« It wasn’t a sturgeon, and bc-
tween' eyes was a straight inches horn, in
thirteen inches long, three
diametferat the bttsej ’ and almost as sliar,
‘ ls S ‘ needle
The common puff ball ,, a r.kmgly il us-
* , r atcs the rapal ty "lib \\hn li lungi limy
,n ’ llt, l ,l v It is said that 300 years would
-
. tlm
be required for ball, a man it to count po;-able sp ies to'
°f a 8 ‘ n S'^ if were
< ' on,:nllc . the counting (lay and eight for
that time. Y r et a iavorably plant.d double spore
P ro ce a P! a ^ 98la “'gc as the-
f st . , nl S* lt
' a Bin S 0 -
A recent public tc.->t of tho consoli-
dated railway telegraph system «{ train
telegraphy, ttlado on the Lehigh N'alley
Railroad, gave moving very satisfactory -csults
On a train sixty miles an hour
messages were sent and received b- atn
from other trains On the road, a*/’ mm
municatjou was had with this , ,4- nui
with different stations on the line,
Experiments are being made on P>nr
sian ra lways with axle boxes fitted w,fi
bearings of vegetable parchment in plao.
of brass. The parchment is strongly is
compressed before being used, and it
thoroughly dried to prevent subsequent placed
shrinkage. Wooden rings are on
the outside of the bearings, fitting the
collars of tho journals. An emulsion of
water and oil and all the mineral oils are
uged as lubricants The parchment oil, and soon is
becomes impregnated with
able to go a long time without a renewal
of lubrication.
u j 8 8aid railway 0 „ the authority of “an
American engineer,” that low
temperatures do not decrease the strength
i’i'koi’J’fJ oc'cur from'bro'te’i rails in cold
weather. This is because when the ground
is f rozen hard it loses its elasticity,
s ome thin(r must yield when the train
11 mns over the road - ’ it is the 8 "round that
yields in unfrozen weather; but during
a freeze tlie ground will not yield, ana the
the rail, as being the weakest part of
structure, has to suffer the oonsequences,
Dr. Littlewood describes in the Lineet
a method which lie has used successfully
in seven cases for the removal of needles
f rom the body. The part sUpposod rubbed to
contain the needle is thorougly
over with an electro magnet, sons to
magnetize the metal, if present. A
delicately balanced magnetic needle is
held over the part, If thencedleisprcs-
e nt, its position can lie ascertained by
the attraction or repulsion of the jioles
0 f the magnetic needle. Having ascer-
tained the presence of the needle and
rendered thc part bloodless and painless, The
an inc slon is made over thc needle.
electromagnet is then inserted in the
wound, and the needle felt for and with-
drawn. If the needle is firmly embedded,
the positive pole of a galvanic battery is
0,1 the surface of the body of the
patient, and the negative pole in contact
with the needle, which becomes loosened
j, y electrolysis, and can then be easily re-
moved by the electro magnet,
How the Sparrow Came,
The English sparrow’s advent here
was very like the rablit which Australia
is 80 anxious to get rid of. A miller
caterpillar, indigenous to this climate,
was found to he destroying the trees in
tt, c parks, besides being a nuisance in
consequence of its propensity to hang
from the trees by a web-like thread,
p ergons passing under the trees were
ji ab j e to have the crawling creatures their
drop down tbe j r ne cks or upon
c | olbeSj and gorae remedy was sought to
rid jsf e w York of these pests. Afor-
e i„ ner suggested the importation of a
f ew sparrows. Seventy-five pairs were
br0 ught over from the Old World, and
, he Revere winter which followed killed
t h e birds. A second attempt was made,
and every one was asked to care for the
little creatures and build sparrow
bouseg This was done and the sparrows
WRrft saved the next winter. The young
broods raised in the country were soon
ab j e to take care of themselves. It did
not take long for the acclimated for-
eigners and their descendants to migrate,
and now they are found all over the
rffited States .-New York Mail and Ex-
re<tw
Natives T . near Asheville, . .... Y-__ North Carolina, r , ,.
get $17-, they a pound the for woods ginseng for root,
which dig m export-
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WISHES.
Tho summer day was o’er,and twilight sweet
Came close upon its track witts dmv-bathed
l'cet; ami
Moved by the mystic spell. May, Vato,
Bess
Agreed among themselves each to confess
What they would like to lie in future year..
‘‘Oh, I would like,” said laughing, blue-eyed
May,
“To' go before the world in some gn-n* ploy.
To act so 1 well tho phases of my part,
That all the pulses of ils giant heart
Uhould bound awl flatfia- v. ith its weight of
tenrs.”
“And I would like to write-,* aid dreamy
Boss,
“Sots* grand, sweet truth, the wenry ones to
blew,
To clothe it in some softly flowing rhyme-.
As fair and tender a» the summer time,
Fi r truths, like folks, hx>k better when welt
dressed.”
Then, looking far away, said restless Kate:
-"I’d like a true, deep-hearted soul to mate,
To hare one hold me over dearest, rtsst,
And in my womanhood hi* honor rest,
For to bo fondly loved is to u. btem,
Thd years rolled oil, and our ambitious May
Found that her part was real in iifo’s great
play. thrilled small
The world she nlfl+ed and as
beside
Tho one she would have moved, as ocean
tide
Is great above the brooklet sing^mi Sweefe,
A lover came t« woo, anil Hess was v. T fcd-;
# the truth instead.:,
She did not write, but lived
Lived happy in an honest heart and name,
Content to be unrecognized by fame,
To fit her rhymes to little children’s feet.
And Kate, who would have lived for love
alone,
Gave all her woman’s heart unsought, un¬
known,
Yet she it wns who gave great truths to-men .
For, having not, her longing taught her pen
To write of Love beyond the human great.
To tell of Love, that witli a bounteous hand,
Short-sighted mortals cannot understand,
Gives ever to its children; gives, indeed,
Not always what they want, but what, they
need,
Nor gives, in wisdom, any gift too late.
— Anne B. Spearing,in Lewiston .Journal
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The equestrian takes a back seat.
The convict is naturally in a good
humor when he’s breaking out.
Maud asks: “How can I get white
hands?” Make bread, Maud. — Burlington
Free Frew.
Men who cover themselves with glory
sometimes find that they are, after all,
very thinly clad.— Boston rout.
“I saw a pretty thing in kid glove#
last evening.” observed. Fitzpercy to hi#
sister. “VV hat was it?” “My best girl’s
hand.— FiJshurrjh Chronicle.
“I see the dude has got into the latest
edition of Webster's dictionary.” “Has the
he? Well, hurry, then, and slam
cover down.”— Chicago News.
“Advice,” says a philosopher, “should
come to us like a gentle fall of snow.”
Very true; but wc usualy receive it as
if it were a shower bath. —Boston Courier-.
“ Does marriage change U man?” asks
a writer. Depends on whom he marries.
Some women would make a man bald in
six months.— Burlington Free Pres*.
“ Early to bod amt early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,'*
Campagne and oysters at midnight’s hour
Cuts a man off in his early flower.
—Merchant Traveler.
Lady (who had a sick husband)—
“Don’t you think, doctor, that you
ought to bleed my husband?” Doctor
(absent-mindedly)—“No, madamff, not
until he gets well."— Epoch.
An exchange has an article on “China -
as It Is.” Just how China is depends it is
upon the hired girl Generally that
wicked, and often so badly broken
It has to be swept out.— Omaha Herald.
In these cold winter nights true love is born
Conceive a sweeter picture if you can;
Fair Chloe at the fireside pops the com
And Stephen pops the question, like a
man. Courier.
—Boston
“I tell you what it is, Gus: Ararninta’s
father can’t appreciate us. He has no
soul.” “Oh! he hasn’t! eh? Well, if
you’d been in my place last night you’d
have thought he was all sole.”— Harper's
Bazar.
A strange child was introduced to 4-
year-old Adelaide with injunctions as to
his entertainment. With a superb dig¬
nity the suggestions were checked by:
“My dear, I have played with children
«1J my life.”— American Magazine.
Spider Web Taper.
The Hon. George West, of Ballston
Spa, is in possession of a curiosity in
paper sent him by a friend in Ilong-
Kong, China. It is a sheet II by 14
inches, made from the web of the
“Sacred White Spider” of the Flowery
Kingdom. It is as light as air and
almost as transparent, but is also beauti¬
fully printed, and contains about the
equal of two columns of mailer, Midship¬ giving
in English the story of “How
man Copple-tone was presented at the
court of Pekin.” Mr. West has made
the manufacture of paper his life work
and study, but it is safe to say that he
never ran a spider web paper factory. —
Saratoga (N. Y.) Saratogian.
Certain proverbs in the Mahabharata
parallel those found among other na-
tions. Among these there is the “ gold¬
en rule,” which, however, is formulated
negatively in the Sanskrit: “Do not
unto others what thou wouldst not have
others do unto you.” In Chinese, the
maxim also has the negative Talmud, form, where as the is
also the case in the
saying is put in. the mouth of the famous
Rabbi Hillel..