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^HlT M EE CURY. i second- class matter at the Sander*. Eu <0rcd Wlle PosUce, April 27, 1880. S»ndersTiUe, Washington County, Oa. jERNIGAN lTnUSHF.il BY & SCARBOROUGH. gabafPP" 011 • .$1.30 per Year' THE MERCURY; THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietou. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 PER ANNUM. VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., MAY 3, 1881. NO. 5. NOTICE. *y All communications intended lor this pa per must bo accompanied with the full name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, btit as a guarantee of good faith. Wo are in no way responsible for the views or opinions of correspondents. lag G. W. H. WHITAKER. dentist, sandersville, oa. Terms Cash. Office at bis Residence, on Harris Street. Aprjl,8,1880. - B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, 6a. April 8,1880. dr. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, OA. Office at SandorsvlUe Hotel, April 10, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, notary public, Nothing Lost. Never a word is nakl Rut it trembles in the air And tlio truant voice has spoil To vibrato overywhovo; And perhaps far off In otornal years The echo may ring upon our cam. Nover are kind acts dono To wipo the weeping eyes, But like flashes of tho sun They signal to the sltieB; And up above tho angels read How wo llftVo helped tho sorer need, Never a day is given, But it tonos tho after years, And it carries up to heaven Its sunshine or itstcart; While tho to-morrows stand and wait Tho silent mutes by tho outer gate. There is no end to tho sky And tho stars aro everywhere And timo is eternity, And the hero is over thoroj I 1 or tho common doeds of the common day Aro ringing hells in tho fur-av ay. —Henry Jlfirton, in Olirittian at li’orA-. Tho jury wore doubtless much in-1 Indy, thinking doubtless that slio had ( that the color seemod to dio out of his \ clover trick, and askod tho disohargo of 1 fluenced in their verdict from the testi- j said too much or that it might bo wrong-, face. his client. CURRENT NOTES. niouy of tbo detective and the phy- j ly construed into an injury to her son, ' SANDERSVILLE, OA. Special attention given to the collodion of flainw. Office in tho Court-house. FOUND DEAD. 0. H. ROGERS. Attorney at Law, Sandersville, On. Prompt attention given to nil business. Office in northwest wing of Court- Mav 4, 1880. -house. C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Samlorsvillc, On. Will practice in the Stnto and United States courts. Office in Court-houso. H. N. H0LLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, Sandersville, Oa. Office next door to Mrs. ■tore on Harris Hlroet, Bayne's millinery DR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician and Surg '“handersvillo, On. May he consulted at his office on Haviv s Street, in the Masonic Lodge building, from U a. m. in 1 p. in., an I from 8 to 5 p. m.: during .'ll,, rs his residence on Church Stroot, when not prof ssionally engaged. April 8, laso. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY 111'. PA lit ED HY JERNIGAN l'OSTOmCE HOURS. 7:01) to 11:30 A. M. 1:80 to (1:00 r. m. E. A. Sullivan, P. M. Subscribe for tho MERCURY, Only $1.50 per ftr.*nm. PUBLISHED BY JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM JERNIGAN. All Metdon was aroused. Leslie Thomson, tho wealthiest man in tho village, had been found dead under bis flouring mill, near tho big wator-whccl. Now it did not take long for Merdon to become aroused. It was a quiet, sleepy inland village of perhaps 500 souls, two miles distant from tho near- - 1 ost railway, and twelve from “tbo city” —Boxboro, from which a largo portion of tho necessaries and nearly all tho luxuries indulged in by the rural Mor- ! donites were obtained. It was on tho morning of November 0, 1872, that Mr. Thomson was found dend, and the event created greater excitement than the ontire political campaigu just closed. This state of affairs can easily bo accounted for as Merdon was pro vincialism in its purity. Everybody knew everybody else. The secrots, aspirations, hopes and fears of overy man and woman of accountable age were regularly canvassed in back par lors, and from behind grocery stoves, and social status regulated by a code as inflexible as that of Lycurgus. Known then, as tho recently deceased had been known, from a score of after noon and evening converzioue on bis merits, sliort-comings and possessions, it was not surprising that tbo shock of tho news of his death to tho easy-going burghers of tho staid old town was one which couhl not be easily forgotten, and before which the nepenthe-giving qualities of Young Hyson, and tho grocer’s best Solace was long powerless. But tho most coiTcct mental inventory of Leslie Thomson, given by tho sagest inhabitant of “the corners,” fell fur short of accuracy; a roqnisito, however, that too seldom deters an opinion when another’s character is under discussion. Mr. Thomson, although having min gled with tho villagers, and remem bered with gratitude for many acts of courtesy and substantial aid, was far from being ono of them. For four years previous to his death ho had passed his summers, or parts of them, at least, on ono of his farms on tho outskirts of the village in a pleasant old-fashioned house, which he had fitted up to please his luxurious bacholor tastes, while his winters wore passed in Boxboro and other cities. Tho afternoon of the day before bis death he was heard to say: “ To-morrow I shall leave Merdon for the season.” Alas! “to-morrow” to him unfolded sicians making tho post-mortem. But who was tho guilty party ? No body belived the deceased had an enemy in Merdon. It certainly was not for , gain, as a gold watch and about $200 in cosh wore found on the body. What, thou, was it for ? Was it for bate ? was it for jealousy? was it forlovo ? aye, for love, tho strongest of all earthly pas sions 1 It at once became apparent to tho de tective that the conviction of tho alleged murderer, should he bo arrested, was at best problematical, as nearly all the tes timony would, from the outlook, depend on circumstantial evidence. Nothing daunted, however, William Hawkins Bet about his task, strong in tho faith that “ murder will out,” and that sooner or later tho guilty party would bo brought to justice. It was supposed that Mr. Thomson had entered the mill to have a business talk with his miller previous to his de parture and been overpowered by some one in tho^inill, or perhaps the miller himself. But tho miller proved by sev eral witnesses that at tho timo of tbo murder, between 9 and 10 o’clock in tho morning, ho was absent at a black smith’s shop assisting in making some necessary ropairs on tho machinery. On his return he at once noticed tho open trap-door, and continuing his ob servations discovered tho body of his employer. The detective certainly had very little ground to work on. Ho hod one clow, in foot two, which ho carefully guarded, and devoted nil his energies to unravel ing them. Tho night before the murder, for such it was believed to bo, tho ground froze considerably and before morning n slight snow-storm raged, which barely hid the brown earth from view where the wind had allowed it to remain un disturbed. Ono such place was found back of tho mill, protected by a bigli board fence, and hero tho detective found several tracks, evidently made by a man in a liurry who bad left the mill by a rear window. Tho peculiarity of tho tracks consisted in the decided man ner in which they “ toed out," as well as in tho nail-marks on tho outer edge of tho right boot-heel, four round-head ed nails having been driven thero by the cobbler as a preventive to tho owner’s excessive wear at that point. Tho tracks were accurately measured and drawings of tho same preserved Just a week lmd passed without bringing any new developments, anil Hawkins was becoming somowliat mo rose if not dispirited, when a uewsconl was given him by tbo receipt of a lettei bearing} tho Merdon postmark and in closing a $50 bill. Tho letter was very briof and written in a feminine hand. It was as follows: Novejtbeb 13, 1872. Mr. IIawkiss: Dear Hir:—Loavo no stono unturned until tlic luuriloror of Leslie Thomson is discovered. M- As Mr. Thomson’s estate was ampli to compensate any or all efforts nmd< to discover his murderer, tho receipt ol $50 from an unknown woman left the detective in a quandary of doubt spiced with romance. Tho eighth day was passing rapidly away and nothing new had been devel oped, when, as the detective was taking a short walk amid tho falling snow, his eyes bent on the ground in an abstract cd manner, those very footprints be bad been looking for appeared before him. They were fresh and led across hastened to supplement her admission with “ not that thero was any lasting hatred between my son and Mr. Thom- far from it. They always passed the time of day with each other, bnt that was all.” The detective also learn ed from Aunt Jo’s prattle that it was cur rently believed that the wife of Marvin Wilcox, living out at tho Oak Openings, had at ono time been engaged to Thom son, but that tlio match bad fallen through from some unknown causo, and that the floral wreath that ornamented tho casket containing the body when it lay in stato in the late owner's home, before removal to Boxboro for inter ment, was contributed by her. Hawkins concluded at once on leav ing ihe house that his next acquaintance should be Jonas McIntyre, to bo fol lowed by a call at the residence of tlio lady living at the Oaks. Tho next day a call was mado upon Jonas, who lived alone with his mother in a little one-story red house, whoso interior always bore a sort of a flrst- night-after-a-movo appearance. Although it was about 10 o'clock m. ho found tho red-headed heir of the house of McIntyre in bed, dividing his timo botweon a euu of weak coffoo and “Every Man His Own Lawyer." Jonas was far from being in a com municative mood, and informed tlio do- ectivo by looks, at least, that his pres ence was not agreeable, and, by words, that he could be of no servico in aiding to ferret out tlio assailant of Mr. Thorn- His knowledge of tbo gentleman “ The murder is'already confessed, in looks, at least,” continued Hawkins, Tho justice, however, thought he had . . - in i • n i better be held, and ho was held and ro-i “and if the court please I will briefly; , , , .... .... , , . rnandod to tho county jail, stato the cause and oirenmstanoe of the * killing. "On tho morning of tho sixth of November Jonos McIntyre was return ing homo on foot from the early train. By leaving the main road at the forks, which led to the mill, ho could reach home sooner by orossing the creek be low the dam and entering his home from tho rear. His own real ostate coming down to the creek, opposite tho mill, he had long desired the mill prop erty, and had twice spoken to the owner regarding it, but each time met with no encouragement, On tho morning in question, in passing tho mill door he saw the owner inside, and thinking it a good opportunity to press his suit, knowing that Mr. Thomson would leavo the villago soon for the winter, he en tered. Ho was, as before, refused. One word led to another, until a lady’s name which shall ho nameless at Ibis time, was mentioned, coupled with an insinuation which aroused Thomson, and he ordered the prisonor from the prom ises. Mclntyro at this time seized Thom son by tho throat and strangled him. Then, to hido his guilt, he lifted tho trap-door, throw his victim upon tho cruol rocks beneath aud fled through a rear window. About a month after Molntyre’s in carceration he was found one morning dead, hung to his coil-door by his bus- ponders. Ho left a well-written defense, which was publisliod in full in the Box boro dailies, in which ho acknowledged tho choking of Leslie Thomson, but tho thought of murder was not in his heart, and remorse had driven him to self- destruction. Ho also said the conversa tion reportod by Hawkins bofore tho justice, between himself and Thomson, was untrue (and, in fact, it was in_a great measure, as Hawkins imaginod it). AH tho talk botweon the two was re garding tho salo of tho property, McIn tyre losing control of his feelings and falling upon Thomson in his anger at tho owner’s portinacity. But little moro remains to be said. Tho old mill still stands, weather-beat on, moss-covered and unused, with tho shadow of death clinging to it. Tho creek in the roar murmurs morrily over tho shallows, through tho rained dam, but tho old mill is not roused from its rovorie. Bummer sunshine and winter storm fall alike upon its irregular out lines, while within nil in dark and dismal. Oountless webs have been wo ven across its window pnnes, a'nd dopend According to tbo report of the secre tary of tho American Iron and Steel as sociation, tho American iron trade for the year 1880 wqb quite active and sat isfactory. Tho United States made in tlio past year 3,300,000 gross tons of pig iron, ns against 2,741,852 tons*in 1879. These figures indicate a consumption of about 4,000,000 tons in 18801 The pro duction of railsduring 1880 is estimated at 1,200,000 gross tons, as against 998, 909 tons in 1879. Of the total for the past year 775,000 tons were steel rails, and 425,000 iron. The consumption for 1880 was, approximately, 1,475,000 tons. Tho past year witnessed a revival in the extension of our railway system; the amount of new track laid being esti mated at abont 0,500 miles, as against 4,725 miles in 1879. Tho figures of 1880 are, with one single exception, (lit largest in tlio history of railways in this country. “There, in that cavernous sepulcher, it« benms and angles, while tho Noun ffi'imiun without our Trade Mark. Du hand mid for sale, the great secret that lies at tho end of ^ tho pathway of ovory pilgrim of earth. ^ n res i t i enco opposite. Thoy Death, tho relentless, who knocks at, woro ^ 10 8amo an d yet they were not. every heart gate, and enters unbid, de- f our _ nu ii marks were there, but Nose Glasses, Etc. Music! Music: -go TO— JERNIGAN -FOR- vastatod tho fair tenement, and wbt.ro but yesterday reason sat enthroned, and ! hope and joy were happy guests, “ to- ' morrow ” found unconscious dust. ; As has been said, tbo body bad been ! found under the mill near tbo old- | fashioned overshot water-wheel. When ; tho mill was in operation quite a quan- ' tity of water ran underneath it, but | when the power was shut oil’, a few pools I remained. The body was found on the I rocks outside the pools, and, as a conse- ' quence, was somewhat bruised. I Tho first theory of tho cause of death j was that it was accidental. That, visiting ' the mill, in the absenco of the miller, they were on the edge of tho left heel now, and tlio feet making the tracks had “ toed in” after the manner of tho most untutored savage. Following up the footprints, Hawkins boldly knocked at the door thoy led to and asked if a gentleman had entered there recently; he was answered in the negative, and to provo her assertion tho lady of tho house, Mrs. Bertman, in vited the detective in, knowing who he was, and, as she afterward said, to show the gentleman she was telling tho truth. No man appealed in sight, the company present consisting of “Aunt Jo,” known by every man, woman and BOWS, STRING-S, BOXES,&c the deceased had lifted a trap-door in ; c bild in Merdon as the most penurious the floor of tho mill, descended the steps j an( i shiftless housekeeper in the village, which led to the bearings of the wheel, and who, by tbo way, was the aunt of and in examining tbo same, which had Mrs. Bertman, who had received many recently been repaired, lost his balance j similar calls from the female in question Machine Needles Oil and Shuttles F0 'i KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale, also ordm' parts of Machines that k'ct broken, for which new pieces aro wanted. and fell from tho slightly-protected | landing to tho rocks beneath, receiving I injuries sufficient to produce death. ^ i" On the afternoon of the death of Mr. Thomson, a middle-aged, quiet-appear ing mau mado his appearance in the village, at once visited the mill, from which the body had not yet been re moved, and made a careful survey of JERNIGAN. , POINTS, of crowding I, and 6 Ini. j more IlOOM ; —» “«••*« uiuro nourishment from ths toll. I'ccomc more vigorous, produce better developed * VL>r6 8e heads. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet '* i waTTT*-* b J.A.JONES,WILMINGTON, DEL !r/th*ere°U h Jn#. T . < i r t l i wheal * about * wct ‘ k n ?°- an ' 1 j th v°u r Point* * l* 0 ”® l 110 ™ "'heat where It was drilled jMfid Tom told me he had iimusurud some rows, and the old Jh/u e Sftmo lou 8th of row against forty fiuOiHunf&atfrJ'W"* H. CLAYTON, ' with got buihou/I? ^Middleton, Del.,and Farmer." i‘Dyour Points th«. . l ^® ‘J cre ,,,ore wheat, where I drilled «howinj Tou no favor * h ° ° ld ,,ylCl 1 «» r ® them * ,alr J 0UHCa OLATTOH, Jm„ HI. I’liuuM, D«L the premises. . , The next morning it was whispored about that the stranger was a detective, and later in tl.e day Merdon society re ceived its second installment of food fo gossip from the finding of the coroners was that Mi* had been strangled to death by some person or persons unknown, his body thrown under the mill, and the trap door left open to avoid suspicion. during disagreeable weather, when a stay at home would necessitate an extra stick of wood in the tumble-down ele vated oven stove. Hawkins remained a short time and departed more at sea than ever, although he did not consider his visit lost by any means. Aunt Jo, who was an endless gossip and did not allow her click ing knitting-needles to outstrip the rapidity of her tongue at least, began a conversation regarding the murder al most as soon as the visitor was seated. From her conversation the detective learned that her son, Jonas McIntyre, had known Leslie Thomson while in the Boxboro university, that they had had a quarrel while there, and that tho friendship existing between the two had not been of the pleasantest. The old was vory limited, and while ho should rejoice in company with evory other good citizen to learn that the guilty man was brought to justice, personally ho would be unable to do anything to ward accomplishing that result. Just as the detective was about to leave Aunt Jo entered, redolent of tho stable, where she had been attending her cow and poultry, which in summer found their own living by foraging on her neighbors, and in winter played Dr. Tannor with themselves in tho moot ap proved manner. She was dressed in tier son’s clothing, lint, coat and boots, and nil approach to femininity visiblo was a small bunch of untidily-dressed hair above tho coat-collar and n dirty dress below the skirts of tbo coat. It was no uncommon thing for Aunt Jo- linnna to appear in her soil’s apparel, and her appenrnneo in it had ceased to excite comment. She took a seat opposite tho de tect ivo and commenced at once to un limber her word battery. Slio had hardly fired the first round when tho practiced eye of Hawkins thought lie discovered a resemblance between the soles of tho boots she wore and the tracks he was so much interested in, but ho gave no sign, not even when the old Indy crossed her feet and exposed tour nails on the heel of the right boot. Ho chatted a few momonts with her, and then casually telling her that lio should leavo the village soon, as lie had about given up all hope of detecting tbo guilty parly, withdrew, after bidding the amiable young man a pleasant “good- morning.” The detective at once took himself to his office for reflection, and it was not until evening at timo to “light up" that be aroused himself and going to his trunk brought forth a small bottle containing diluted alcohol in which floated what* appeared to bo human cuticle, and putting the same under a microscopo looked at it under tho light cf his study-lamp long and carefully. Hawkins was not Been for the three succeeding days, but on tho fourth Met- j don was again shocked, this time beyond seeming recovery, by tho arrest on sus picion of Jonas Mclntyro for the murder of Leslie Thomson. Tho preliminary examination took placo before Squire Tobade, and tbo small court-room over tho red store was packed to suffocation. Hawkins appeared for tho people, and before commencing the case placed in sight of all on tbo justice’s table a largo and heavy pack age inclosed in wrapping paper and a microscope. Jonas, on his examination, told several conflicting stories ns to his where abouts from 9 to 10 o’clock on the morn ing of the alleged murder, and appeared flushed and troubled. And yet the sympathy of tho audience was with the prisoner. No ono had known aught against him. Ho was shiftless, it was true, and appeared to take little interest in anything outside of books, yet bis laziness was overlooked in the thought that, peihaps, he had inherited it, and being an only child he had been potted and spoiled by his old mother, who certainly had property enough to have lived in much better style, and who would leave enough to allow Jonas a loaf coequal with the allotted age of man. When Hawkins produced the boots in court, with the peculiar heel-marks, the prisoner was visibly affected, but it was Hot until Hawkins told him that he could procure a witness who would swear to the conversation that took place in the mill between him and the deceased regarding the sale of property the very stones trickling tears of sor row, and tho great wheel, typical of that on which the proudest shall yet bo broken, in darkness and nlono, far away from tbo glad sunlight and tlio kind ministration of friends, which might, even then, have perhaps saved him from death had ho boon discovered ; as for a brief moment reason tottered on its throne, and tho spark of life flickered before becoming extinguished inter nal night, suffering untold ugony, re alizing that ho must die. Loulio Thom son endeavored to louve a sign that would plead “ trumpjt tongucd against the deep damnation of his taking oil’," and ono that would haunt his murderer until life should become unbearable, and with his steel key cheek irregularly scratched on the wall of tlio mill tho first two letters of his murderer’s name. , “ And tlioro tlioy are,” pointing at tho same time to tho stone, which the heavy noiseless bat holds high carnival in tho silences unbroken save by tho hoarso croal ings in tho pools below. Aunt Jo died a broken-hearted old woman. Her wealth to her was as dross when “ tho light of her life went out,” and slio spent the few years she lived aftor her sou’s death iu deeds of mercy, leaving her largo fortune to tho found ing of an orphan nsylum. Tlio letter in which was incloBod the $50, came, as has doubtless beon sus pected, from the lady of tho Oaks, and thvoo years aftor tlio occurrences nar rated, being a widow, slio bestowed her hand and her world ly goods (not her heart for that was buried long bofore) on Hawkins the detective; and ho, understanding womankind better than tho majority of mon, made her a happy home. Leslie Thomson peacefully sleeps in Mount Hope, his grave marked by package proved to be from whoso face | golitl Hnbf)t antial granite block, without; Inn tmrtnv wm At.nrmnd. inn Hnnalrnr 1 ^ „ . , , .. ornamentation, typical of lnm whom it “Ono quart of whisky or its equiva lent I find a lew average for the daily consumption of the inebriate,” writer Dr. Lewis D. Mason, physician to the Inebriates’ Home, at Fort Hamilton, Long Island, in a recent statistical re port of 252 cases of habitual drunken ness studied by him. This is a Start ling example of the truth of the old aiinge that the appetite grows on what it feeds upon. Funcy a normal, healthy man drinking a quart of whisky a day I And yet that is what Dr. Mason says ia a low average of habitual drunkards— not the maximum, bnt a low average, and that it is low is made apparent in an accompanying table, wherein he states that of 138 habitual whisky-drinkers, only 13 contented themselves with a pint a day, while 37 needed a quart, 76 needed two quarts, 11 needed three qunrts, and one went to tho extreme limit of consuming four quarts or a gal lon a day. No man, however, content- od himself with less than a quart a day, tho 10 who were satisfied with a pint being all women. Ontf of the 252 | eases, it was found that 98 had inebriate ; fathers, 6 inckrinto mothers, and 7, ino- | briuto grandparents. It is also note- i worthy that 55, or nearly one-fourth of ; the cases studied, had received aliberal ; education, 1 in 14 having gone through college. the paper was stripped, ns the spoakor paused for a moment to give his words greater effect. Sure enough, on the face of tho sec tion of stono taken from the mill, ap peared the dim characters in a tremu lous linnd: Jo. Tlioefi’oct was electrical, tho audience giving expression to their feelings by linnd-clapping and stamping of feot. Older was quickly secured by the justice’s gravel, aud Hawkins continued: “ As strong as the silent testimony of llio boot-marks and the stono are, I have something here (drawing a smull bottle of diluted alcohol from his pocket and placing a small piece of human curtiele taken from it on tho object glass of the microscope) that should proved beyond poradvonture tbo correctness of my theory that Jonas Mclntyro was tlie rnurdor of Leslie Thomson. “ 1 have noticed," continued Hawkins, “ that since my acquaintance with McIn tyre, ho has invariably worn a standing shirt collar. I have also learned that before the murder he invariably woro a turnover collar, it being much moro comfortablo and becoming to a person possessed of such a Baslien-like nock. If tlio court please, will ho order tho prisoner to remove his collar.” Tho counsel for McIntyre demurred against any sueli childish procedure, hut Hawkins insisted, and tho justice de cided the collar should be removed. On it,s removal three long scratches were plainly observable on the left side of the prisoner’s neck, Tho interest in the court- room was at this juncture intenso. “Iam ready to show,” begun Haw kins, “ that, tlio pieces of cuticle be neath that object glass, and taken by me on tlio morning of the murder from underneath tlio finger nails of Leslie Thomson, came from tlie neck of Jonas Mclntyro. That its texture is the same; that a part of a freckle, the same as on the prisoner s neck, and a part of a hair, cut off with the finger nail, of the samo color as tho short red hairs seen on the neck of McIntyre. All this and moro will bo explained and verified at tlio proper time, and I ask, in the name of justice, in tho name of that which protects the innocent from the guilty and fastens the crime on the perpetrator of foul doeds, that Jonas McIntyre be held to await the action of tho next grand jury." c Tho crowd, which was at a fever heat of exoitement, cheered lustily as Haw kins resumed his seat, and was not brought to order until the aged justice had nearly exhausted himself and gavel. If McIntyre was pale before, he was Jivid now. His counsel endeavored to show that nothing had been proved; that anybody could make marks on a rook and bring it into court; that the boot-heel business was a farce, and ihe miorosoope dodge a commomoratos, with tho simple super scription in the languago of Jamos Bhirloy more than two hundred years ago, but nono tho less trao to-day, Only tlio actions of tlio just Hindi sweet anil blossom in tlio dust.” —John M. Ives, in Niagara Democrat. Wasted Efforts to be Funny. Take, as a very simplo illustration, tlio case of the young man who had been offered a saucer of delicatoly salted ice cream by two young ladies, who waited in convulsive glee for tho first grimace and its attendant remarks. Not a ges ture or word betrayed ho had noticed it at all. Still talking lightly of last night’s Gorman and to-monow’s tennis, lie finished the entire sancorful, then, bowing slightly, left the room. Was over “fun” moro delicately spoiled? Take again tho case of a certain college professor, who hod almost abolished practical joking on tho faculty, not by punishing, but by fooling tlio intended fuu of tlio students. Informed one j argument night that the students woro painting tho walls of the chapel, “Very well,” ho said, quietly, “ let them paint; but tell me when they are through.” Dress ing hastily, he went about tho town, rousing overy painter in tho place,and as tho last student went out of the chapel a dozen urtisans went in. Next morning, when there was an unusually large attendance at prayers, behold the calci- mined wulls as fair as ever 1 Tho dig nity of tho college had not been allowed to bo insulted, yet never a student was ever questioned, blamed, marked or ex pelled. In tho samo manner, when tho tongue of tho bell had been removed over night, another was in its place before dawn, and’ the astonished stu dents were summoned to their devotions at tho usual hour. Again, when the wheel of the organ disappeared and the organist had been secretly informed that his services would not bo required tbo next day, ono of the very delin quents was called upon to take bis place, finding, to liis chagrin, that tho keys responded dutifully to his touch. If it is the “ silent organ” that “loudest chants the master’s requiem,” in this case it was certainly the organ’s music that chanted loudest the -humiliation of tho guilty. No wonder that the stu dents at that institution have about doeided that what may be called hazing the professors does not pay. Said the boys at Rugby; “There’s no fun in tell ing Arnold a lie, for lie always believes us!” rich in precious metal. We find pro ductive districts- in Arizona, Colorado and old Mexico, south, west and north )f us, with geological formations here identically the same, and as the pros pector lias come to stay with us he will make the best possible use of his time and develop the country. Neither hos tile Indians, land grants nor wild animals will intimidate the prospector or. capi talist from taking the gold ont of these mountains. First comes the era 6f pros pecting, which is already for advanced; and next tho era of production, which we liavo fairly entered upon, and to ho developed for all its worth. Then, too, we have coal in abundance, bituminous and anthracite. Next may be mentioned the article of gypsum, which is so com mon as to be hardly a merchantable commodity. In one part of the Territory there is a continuous marsh of gypsum some thirty miles long and six wide. The experiment of irrigating land near Paris with the water from the sew ers has proved successful. Sterile tracts have been converted into fertile plains and no increase in sickness among the inhabitants has followed, as was fearedi How to Prevent Lamp Chimneys from Break ing. A Leipsio journal, which makes a specialty of r atters relating to glass, gives a method which, it asserts, wall prevent lamp chimneys from cracking. The treatment will not only render lamp chimneys, tumblers and like articles more durable, but may bo applied with advantage to crockery, stoneware, por celain, etc. The chimneys, tumblers, etc., ore put into a pot filled with cold water, in which some common table salt has been added. The water is well boiled over a fire, and then, allowed to cool slowly. When the articles are taken ont and washed they will be found to resist afterward any sudden changes of temperature. The process is simply one of annealing, and the slower the cooling part of it is conducted the more § tive will be the workt Governor Low Wallace, who is abou to exchongo his homo in New Mexico for one in Paraguay, has [given to a news paper correspondent a flattering de scription of the Territory in which ho has lived for several years past. In speaking of the mineral resources of New Mexico tho governor said: I may repeat that the opinion that this Terri tory will equal, if not surpass, her neigh bors in her yield of various precious metals wlthin’hev mountains and ranges. Tho work of prospecting and mining has already fairly set in, and soon wo B may look for results. Heretofore var iety of causes [have contributed to pre vent thorough .work in this direction. As can be roadly understood, the native Indians and Mexicans have no interest iu the mining work. The Indians mako it a capital offense for one of their num ber to aid a prospector in the discovery of a mine, while tho native Mexican could not bo induced for any money to join a white man in tlio work. It is nonsense for any one to attempt tho tliat this Territory is not *