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FITZGERALD ENTERPRISE r
FITZGERALD, GA.
Scribner’s Magazine rotors to the
womon as making up ‘‘the unquiet
SCI.”
Electrician Tesla has cotno forward
to make tho much-needed announce¬
ment that although the X rays uro
very wonderful, they can not do every¬
thing from shoeing :» horse to curing
a case of measles.
It is a matter of some interest to
that Loudou, with . its vast
note com
mercial interests and a population
estimated estimated at at 5 o.mm.u 000 0 )0 , has nos onlv only a a few low
newspapers. The number is even
smaller than that of New York.
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Lord Salisbury has been elected a
fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society. lie ... has , learned . pointer .
a or
two on geography during the recent
Venezuela V uezu lacontr controversy m, but ut it u is is not not
stated whether or nor, this fact pre¬
vented him from receiving a < * black
ball.”
Beyond all question .Japan is get¬
ting on. She has not been content
with taking a leaf from the hook of
American and European progress.
Sho has taken the whole volume and
marked, read and inwardly digested
it. Never wits there another Nation
that showed such growth ir. almost
every direction, m so short a time as
Japan has m the last dozeu years.
For wivtceu years tlm fate of the
clipper nhij) Mohawk, which sailed
from Quebec to Troon, was held a
secret by Iho sea. Now it has been
revealed by a derelict message found
... u» An.i,™.,,, n.
steamship Wanraoo picked it up. It
was signed with the name of John
Franklin, ,, , ,. mate, , and , written just ... be¬
fore the crow left the .‘inking ship in
opeu bouts. None ol them ever
reached laud.
A society for the study of mush¬
rooms has been organized in Phila¬
delphia. It will meet every two weeks,
and members will read papers on such
topics us “Mushrooms That Have
Helped Me.” The organizers say that
there aro about h>3'» edible kinds of
mushrooms to he found around
deiphia, and that tons of the deliohBT
food go to west,I-—'iuinlr because vm
* Foully f
urn pomonoas. j
In Belgium tho 1 Anti-Alcoholic
League is directing' all its energies to
bringing about the improvement of
the main roads of the country. This
i« not because of the danger which the
aleoholist runs whon meandering
homeward along a road in had state of
repair, but, because tlie Lenguo con
sillers that iho bicycle is, if not a
!"«*■ intemperance, - ............. truly tho poteutionalx- ™>|
ties of tho biovclo are wideuing every
’
, and . need , loot , . astonished , . . ,
nay, no one
if tho wheel should eventually turn
out to be the long-sought and hitherto
tnviiseoverable remedy against sea
sickness,
The convicts of Mississippi are a
source of revenue to the State, tho
profit derived from them last year
having been $10,003. The Stato has
bought 8(K>0 acres of good farming
land Rnd rented or leased much more,
and on this land its !)(5o convicts are
worked, humanely, but diligently, so
as to seenro the best, results. Tho
Jackson Clarion-Ledger sees no reason
why other States cannot profit by
Mississippi’s experience and carry on
farming operations for profit. It
Hays: “In case tho farmers of the
ffitato object to this sort of “competi¬
tion,’ then the best thing to do with
convicts is to maintain tho public
highways with them. Good roads
benefit all classes.”
According to tho New York Times
nu ungidlaut editorial writer on a
Philadelphia paper, in commenting on
the fact that a woman teacher in
Arizona public schools is paid $72.59
a month while Pennsylvania teachers
are paid only $38.28, says that this is
probably because there are fewer wo¬
men in Arizona, and they are better
appreciated. This slurring remark
is balanced by the American Agricul¬
turist, which considers a “good, old
fashioned family of ten daughters”
worthy of a half-page picture. The
young women have all apparently
reached their majority, and it is not
probable that in the future any of
thnr. will give the Agriculturist reason
to change its opiuion of their value in
the community. Commenting upon
the iatuiiy, the Agriculturist says:
“The noblest crop of all upon our
Aim r; -an fiirni ; ,s the children. And
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Perry have cer
ta.niy a glorious harvest of them.”
THROUGH A
A Tale of Adventure on a Louisiana
Plantation.
BY MAURICE THOMPSON.
CH ’ prt i: II.—Continned.
The tornado lasted but a few mo- 1
incuts, then roflened down to a mere
gale, which continued lor a half-hour,
j, a wronco found himself half buried
under a heap of flagmentary things,
branches, sticks, lcav.-s and what not
Jn t)j( mJ(j8 , of fall ,, n Ho aroso
w il!i difficulty, still holding Lucie, now
limp and motionless, in his arms. The
clouds were as black as Ink and rushing weli
low overhead. He could not see
enough to know whether she was living
or dead.
Where was ho? If o tried to gaze
nro;|;|di b ,, t lht , i0 was nothing in view
sa- e the vague outlines of splintered
tree-poles, upturned ,}, rocs and heaps of ,
bran( . h(>s , v „, y ( |i,-e Ton his way
was blocked. With a groan he sank to
the ground, pillowing the gad’s head on
his kne.ss.
“Lucie! I.uoio!” he called, “speak to
mo, dear, speak. Are you h irt?"
Her heart was beating, but sho did
nol mu', c or speak.
Again the panther began to howl and
rage; but another heavy throb of the
gale se mod to force it inlo silence.
’l lie lightning was threading the clouds
in the distance, and by Ihe rebooted
light Lawrence saw how pale I.ucie was.
The panther seemed lo be whetting
its teeth mid la-long itself in o ecstatic’
rage. It was so near that every move¬
ment of its feet and every stroke of its
jaws when it. opened and shut its mouth
could be distinctly heard as the wind
foil away.
The track of that hividoano is still to
he seen in the hummock wo ds of iho
Toche country. It is a narrow opening,
as straight and otherwise not unlike the
lino of a railway clearing. 'Ihe young
trees Hint have grown up in it are of
walla od *h side of it show that the
Irresistible current of the storm was
less than 20ff loot wide. Lawrence found
himself on one edge of this path of de- !
strui-tion.
With amazing rapidity the clouds
were Bwc.it on and away, leaving thq
sky clear and bright, with the
1111 id In- 1
Trom ding, nerveless, cv
his body and limbs a cento*
llesh torn and bruised,
l.r ed to pu li hack
ilo d
i.o.o; . ii»‘!i. ■ i 1 ic i
loudly:
Help! )ie!}>!
“But, Mars,,
nobody. l >c J
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led and torn !
was he hen PI redoubled
ils or es and ripped'^tlto fallen branches
with its daws.
Such a strain was not to ho borne
long. Lawrence struggled with line
courage and desperate resolution, hut
presently his eyes were blurred, his
head reeled, and ho fell over insensible.
It may have been tho slight but do
elded shock lo her head when, as Law¬
rence fainted, I.ucie was let fall from
his , . knot , s, or it ., may , have been a mere
coincidence between his failure an i her
revival; at all events, tho girl Jifted
zssa
with a pained, confused stare.
Not far in 8 °me low, sheltered
tangle of greenery beyond tho track of
w in<i a mocking bird ventured to
trill faintly a phrase or two of its
wo dl sweet “° turu °-
Tlie shono down 1 through .. the
moon
awful rift in the forest upon tho pallid
and bewildered lace of the girl.
“Oh! oh!” she cried! “Oh—oh, moth¬
er!” It was tho call of child' to parent,
the old, old cry of helplessness, and it
rang through the crushed wilderness
with infinite) pathos in its quaver.
She passed her hands across her faco,
tried to rise; looked down; then started
and screamed. The upturned face of
Martin Lawrence was gleaming strongly
In the moonlight.
“Dat vo’ Miss Lucie?” called Tom.
“Dat yo’ obor dar? Is yo’ hurt, honey?”
“Tom! Oh, Tom, como, come! quick,
quick!”
“Dress de Lor’!"
There was a sound of struggling mus
gffthe limbs. With tue
a negro was
ing himself from under the weight that
held him down.
The panting snarls of the old man
eater w to not so loud now; but they
wero terribly distinct.
Tom came stumbling and tumbling
over logs and boughs and drifted heaps
of debris toward tho spot where Lucie
sat.
"IVha' is yo’, honey? Wlia’ is yo’
Miss Lucie?"
“Hero, here, qui' k!”
“Look out fo’ dat paynter! Ho closo
ronn yar. ”
,s he spoke ho flourished a heavy
club the fragment of a live oak limb
thicker than a man’s arm and four feet
long as if it had been a mere play
thing. His face was distorted with fu
rioiis excitement.
dust then his eyes fell upon the pail
flier, which was struggling feebly now
with its entire hinder parts crushed
under a heavy log dashed upon it by the
hurrtcane. All around it the earth was
tom with its n ighty claws, and the
bark and wood of tho log were scarred
ami splintered where its teeth had
gioumi them.
Tom stared a moment.
“Oho! da’ yo’is, yo’ ole villyan!” he
stormed forth. 'Da’yo’is. is yo’i Got
mo' ’an yo’ kin carry dis yo’ time, has
yo ? Moll, I jes' gwino fo’ ter sorty
help you out.”
He raised the club with both hands
and advanced.
A hoarse, gurgling howl of agony
leaped from the foaming, gnashing Tom
i :vu h of tho crushed brute. !
dropped his club and retreated.
. ross de 1. r'!” he ejaculated. “I
done fought yo had me!” |
Hi'LL'h was fait momentary, how
ever fer ho saw that the panther could
not movo. Then, with the activity of a
squirrel and the muscular force of a giant,
he lifted the bludgeon once more and
leaped forward. The blow that he de¬
Jivered echoed heavily around, and was
followed by many more.
“Take dat, yo’ ole villyan! Take dat
fo - wha t yo’ ben er doin’ ail dis time!”
I-Ie did not stop pounding away till
every trace of life hud left the hugo
boast.
CHAPTER III.
When Lawrence returned to con
sciousuess he was resting , on alow , , bed ,
in one of the cabins of the negro quar
ter, and Lucie was bending over him.
Many days had passed since the hurri- had
cane and meantime the young man
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lain almost like one dead. He was
self-iorgetfuloess under all SJ&SS the terrible
circumstances were wonderful. She
had seen her mother buried after being
rescued in a dying condition from the
wreck of liMtajnansion, an d had gone on
wit hout l^^in the care of hdr
l|Mof her father ujl
A ■ cry fast, but
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and she fell
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watch li# found Lawrence, by Lucie’s pale bedside, and ami haggard, busi¬
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ness the hour. was forgotten in the awful grifef of
It was the overseer who thought of
skinning the panther and dressing its
hide to be kept as proof positive that
the Teclie Terror was no longer tcP be
dreaded. The rug mode of this skin
may be seen to-day in a certain princely
home on Rampart street in New Orleans.
Meantime, something hail come to
pass that must make a disagreeable
spot in tho surface of our storj. It must
be told, however, with but one value at¬
taching to it, the value of truth. It
comes in as a touch of genuine old
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“GAVE HIM A SEVERE FLOGGING.”
time color. It was discovered after the
storm was ovor that the negro boy Ton. thv!t
had run away just before it, and in
way only was ho on hand to aid in Lu
cie’s and Lawrence's rescue. So with
out consideration for the succor he ren
dered. the overseer tied him up and
nave him a severe Hogging. Of course
Tom begged and howled and said that
ho would never run away again, but the
conscientious overseer abated not one
lash of all the allotted number. Tom
was an old offender, one that the phleg
matic functionary had marcod down to
be made a memorable example of for the
bene it of the other negroes.
But we are slipping away from cur
story. Let us get hack to the thread
of it.
When Lucie was sufficiently recover
ed to hear the fatigue of travel, Co!, de
Vigney chartered a small vessel by
which he transported his daughter and
his household slaves to New Orleans,
Tho plantation the hands he- the sent through
by land in care of overseer,
Lawrence was permitted to ship himself
and Star as a part of the vessel’s cargo,
but he saw that Col. de Vigny was not
over hearty in according him that favor,
The saddle-bag of money had been duly
turned over to him, and the Colonel
seemed more than willing to make this
consummation the end of their famil
iarity, if not of their friendship.
Immediately on reaching New Or
leans Lawrence and the de Vignys
separated, and no quicker was she out
of sight than the feeling stole into Law
rence’s heart that he had lost her again,
He tried to chaff at himself for giving
room to such an idle fancy, but some
bow it would not be puffed away. So
unreal, in fact, seemed the experience!
ol the past few weeks, so out of the
normal limit of life as [*, usually comos
to men. that he Mareely f< It that he
could expect the final outcome to be
anything but unusual. No doubt the
condition of his health had much to do
with the state of his imagination; more
ovor, a man in love is apt to take adis
.torled view of small matters when they
eo fleet themselves with the subject
affecting hie heart.
Lawrence toiled patiently through
some intricate notarial affairs, and
wlion everything necessary had been
“signed, sealed, and delivered” ho
heave 1 a sigh of relief, went to his room,
dressed hims if with care, and calling a
carriage ordered himself driven to the
number given him by Lucie. resi
It was a solid and stately looking
deuce before which the carriage drew
up. He thumped the door with its
ponderous brass knocker, a triiie ner
votisly, it must be said, and stood wait
ing. Strange that a man’s heart should
bo so hard to control at such a time!
Stranger still that his fancy should
weave n spite of him a web of fantastic
expectations! servant opened the door. AVas
A
Mile, de Vigny in?
No, she was not in.
Where was sho?
The servant did not know. She and
her father had gone away, it was on a
long journey—on a ship—to France,
probably. The servant loot ed
teront, his voice was inhospitable,
Lawrence pushed past him and went in.
“Ted yo r mistress," ho said, “that I
wish to see her.”
^1'minute later a tall, serene-looking
lady met him graciously, un i informed
him that Mile. de Vigny and her father
had sailed for France that very morn¬
caught a ray of subtle ma¬
/iity darting from the narrow, placid
which were scanning him between
tm ir straight, moveless lashes.
“Madame," said he, “aro you quito
sure that they are gone?”
Sin- lifted her brows a trifle, made
some movement with her lips indicative
surprise mingled with polite con- of
tempt. When she spoke the effect
finality was perfectly conveyed by her
voice.
“I am quito sure, monsieur; good
dav.”
The young man stood alone for a mo¬
ment before going. Hat in hand, lie
looked down at the carpet and around
the silent ro >m, while his thoughts
crushed themselves like a confused
blur. A delicate waft of heliotrope,
touched his nostrils as it had on that
day at the mountain hotel in Switzer
land, and he felt as one might who
should suddenly find himself left the
sole inhabitant of the earth. A sense
or enchantment, so to speak, gave ab¬
solute strangeness to the experience.
He turned and walked past ihe tidy,
formal n an servant out into the street,
wh re his . arriage was waiting. At the
po nt of moun ing into the vehicle he
turned and cast his eyes over tne state¬
ly facade of the house. At an upper
window something white gleamed. It
was a vision of beauty that followed,
an apparition seen as if—
Through leagues of shimmering water like
a stai'.
CHAPTER IV.
John A. Murrell and liis influential
coadjutors all through the Southwest
had set up a state of affairs altogether
anomalous. The history of mankind
(toes not show another example of wide
'VxoaHfc' id tj>f>rr»c,tly organize^ lawless I
ness to compare wuit, it in'boidtiess v
c!e=ign and accuracy of execution.
Murrell appeared ssissippi upon and the Louisiana scene in
Aiabiiina, M a
few years after Burr’s scheme had come
to naught, and ho found that the arch
conspirator, together with such men as
Wilkinson on one hand and tho La,
Fittes on the other, had educated a
large constituency in the various
blanches of direct or indirect outlawry.
This was .just the wind for the great
robber’s sail, and how he utilized it is a
ma ter of history. One effect of his
organi. ation was this: It became so
formidable that even the officers of the
law in many places were its t ols, and
the elections were controlled by it. Of
course, a combinat on so powerful in¬
timidated the good and fascinated tho
bad. No person was strong enough to
combat alone an influence so secret,
yet so bold, so widespread, yet invis¬
ible, so stiong and yet so hard to dis¬
cover. Men of otherwise spotless char
acter were drawn into passive, if not
active, relations with tho robbers, and
it soon came to pass that a large
part of the commercial activities of the
interior, especially those connected
with New Orleans, were more or less
controlled Murrell and his men.
The coming or Martin Lawrence to
New Orleans happened co touch a sensi
live point in the circle of illegal opera¬
tions. although the young man was
wholly ignorant, of the fact. At that
time Murrell’s kingdom was toppling to
its fall. The attention of government
had been attracted to his doings in such
a way that he was finding it difficult to
quiet 4ho fears and retain the confi¬
dence of his less desperate adherents.
Now the affair that Lawrence had come
to look after was on its face a mere
breach of faith—a. mild form of shrewd
swindle; but it connected itself with
certain operations involving enormous
sums of money, and affecting the honor
and indeed, indirectly, the lives of
some of the richest, most enterprising,
influential, and highly rospected men in
the business circles of New Orleans.
The word went out, mysteriously if not
electrically telegraphed through the city
and country, that deep-laid plans were
forming to expose and bring to grief
the principal citizens who had directly
or indirectly aided or abetted Murrell’s
schemes or shared his illegal gains. A
quiet, terrible consternation seized
many men who heretofore had lived in
security and affluence,
Some who had gone no farther be
vond the limit of propriety than to prac
tice a little in the ways of the smuggler
and the dealer in goods and chattels of
questionable ownership were frightened
almost to the point of offering thern
selves as state witnesses with the hope
of securing pardon,
In as utt r ignorance of all this as he
was innocent of any ulterior design be
vend securing his client’s money ami
righting up some records that had been
tampered with, Lawrence went about
feeling that the very atmosphere around
him was heavy with mystery,
M’hen upon turning at the bottom of
the step and looking up he saw Lucie at
a chamber window, it scarcely surprised
him, so rapidly its was his mind accommo
dating itself to strange surroundings,
The girl made a sign to him to wait, and
in a little time a note was placed in his
ban* by a little slave girl, who came
round the outer wall of the court (which
Cn those days was a part of almost every
respectable creole residence in New Or
leans), and furtively delivered it.
Ho glanced at the window again. only
to be motioned away by L>ucie.
Nothing was left to him but to iurnp
into his carriage and order the driver to
take him back to the hotel. He tore the
note open with some impatience anu
read in French:
“Beak Martin: Do not be rash, ny
fathor is not guilty. Ho is an honorable
nian; but his brother has drawn him m
to this thing unawares. Father lancies
that you have a special desire to impu
calo and ruin him. S.nce tno panther a
death he seems to have shifted his
monomania to the subjeectof being un¬
prisoned, and he imagines that you are
working to Incarcerate him. Jf 1 could
see you I could tell you a groat ch al
which I cannot put upon paper; but they
will not let mo see you, and have
foolishly thought to ova le you by their
silly story of our li ght to Europe, bo
patient and prudent, and ever believe
me your loving Lucie.
It did not take Lawrence long to ar
rive at the meaning of this, nor was he
slow in setting Col. do Vignys mmd
right, as nearly ns that could be done,
on the subject of arrest and imprison¬
ment, Two or three stolen interv ews
with Lucie gave him the fullest
knowledge of the situation, and showed
him how to steer her father out of the
complication, Descendants of the Lawrence family
—but, of < curse, that is not the real
name—still live in New Orleans, where
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up to about the beginning of the war of
the rebellion Martin Lawrence was a
distinguished lawyer and politician,
and where in the city’s famous cemetery
a noble tomb marks the resting place of
him and his always lovely and loving
wife,
[the end.]
(Copyright by the Authors’ Alliance; all
rights reserved.)
How Cyrus Laid tlie Cahle.
In Harper’s Weekly of Sept 11,
1858, there appeared the following
capital ballad from the pen of John
G. Saxe, the Green Mountain pact,
and it is worthy of reproduction at
this time:
HOW CYRUS LAID THE CABL3V
Come iislen unto ruy song;
It is n • silly fable;
"Its all about Lbe mighty cord
They call the Atlantic cablo.
Bold Cyrus Field, he said, says ho,
“I have a pretty notion,
That I cun lay a telegraph
Across the Atlantic ocean.”
Tlicn all t.lie people laughed and said'
They’d .like ty sec him do it;
He might get W 1 t-sxeim-nvr,i v put
Ho never could go tlm ugh it.
To carry out His foolish plan
He never would be able;
He might as well so hang himself
With his Allantic cable.
But Cyrus was a valiant man,
.A fellow of decision;
And hooded not their mocking word3,
Their laughter and derision
Twice (lid his bravest efforts fall,
And yet hi; mind was stable;
Ho wa’n’t tlie man to break liis heart
Becauso he broke his cable.
“Once more, my gallant boys!» he cried;
“Three times!—you know the fable”—
(“I’ll make it thirty,” muttered be,
“But 1 will lay the cable.”)
Once more they trie!—hurrah! hurrah!
What moans this great commotion?
The Lord lie praised! tho cable's laid
Across the Atlantic Ocean!
Loud rang tlie bells—for flashing through
Six hundred leagues of water,
0!d Mother England’s benison
Salutes her oldest daughter.
O'er all the land tho tidings speed,
And soon in every nation
They’ 11 hear about tlie cable with
Frofuundest admiration!
Now long live James and long live Vic,
And long live gallant Cyrus;'
And may his courage, faith and zoal
With emulation fire us.
And may we honor evermore
The manly, bold and s able,
And tell our sons, to make them bravo,
How Cyrus laid the cab e.
A Man Wl>« Ate Fire.
From the following account, taken
from Ewin’s diary, where it appears
under date of “10th mo, 8th, 1(172,”
it appears that tiroeating Leaks are
not altogether modern innovations:
“I took leave of my lady Sunderland,
who was going to Paris to my Lord,
now Ambassador there. She made
me stay to dinner at Leicester House,
and afterward sent for Richardson,
the famous ‘fire-eater.’ Before us he
devoured brimstone on glowing coals,
chewing and swallowing them. He
then melted a beer glass and ate it
quite up; then taking a live coal on
his tongue, he put on it a raw oyster:
the coal was (then) blown with a
hand-bellows until it flamed and
sparkled in his mouth, and so re¬
mained until the oyster was done.
Then he melted pitch with sulphur
and drank it while it flowed. 1 saw
it flaming in his mouth.”—Philadel¬
phia Press.
The Keason Why.
A man living in a suburban hamlet
recently went to the general store to
buy some potatoes.
“How is this?” he asked the store¬
keeper. ‘‘Y’ou're asking almost double
the regular price for potatoes. Haven’t
you made a mistake?”
“Oh, no!” cheerfully replied the
storekeeper. “You see, I bought them
potatoes when they was much clearer
than they is now, and of course I
can't afford to sell them at the pres¬
ent price. ”
The Young Abstainers’ Union in
London has uow over 8,000 members.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Our snn is but one of thousands ol
others of equal or greater magnitude!
The light of the moon is onlyabonl
one-six hundred thousandth that oj
the sun.
A large part of the finest iron and
steel of commerce is made from mag¬
netic ores.
Railway spikes aro to be mnde with
fluted sides to prevent the possibility
of their slipping or turning.
Typhusantitoxine is the latest medi
cinal discovery. It is nlieged to bo a
Bure preventive for typhus lever.
There is talk of furnishing electric
power to the City of Mexico from peat
beds nine miles distant, owned by
Boston interests.
Modern machinery on ocean steam¬
ships gets four times as much power
from a pound of coal as was the case
half a century ago.
Professor Kocb, who is on his way
to Cape Town, South Africa, intends
to study not only the rinderpest, but
also the different local forms of lep
rosv, in which ho has taken great in¬
terest for some years past.
A depot has been established in
London where motor vehicles may be
repaired and stored. Skilled mechan¬
ics, thoroughly posted in readiness motor vehi¬
cle work, will be kept in to
answer calls from disabled vehicles in
any part of the city.
The greatest depth, writes Professor
Seeley in his “Story of the Earth,” at
which earthquakes are known to orig¬
inate is about thirty miles. It has
also been calculated that u heat suf¬
ficient to melt granite might occur at
about the same depth.
It is estimated that twenty-two acres
of land are necessary to sustain one
man on fresh meat. The same Rpace
of land, if devoted to wheat culture,
would feed 42 people; if to oats, 88;
potatoes, Indian corn and rice, 167,
and if to plantain or bread-tree, over
6000 people.
The London tower bridge is worked
almost on tho Bame lines as a man of
war. Tha captain in a lieutenant of
the royal navy, and he has a crew of
sailors and engineers who are divided
into watches, with lookouts, and go
about their duties in working tho
gigantic bascules much in the same
way as if they were on board ship.
Have Bees Conscience]
This question was raised in my
mind, and answered in the affirmative,
by the following incident which I ob¬
served in the course of a country ram¬
ble on the coast of Devon. There
were several small bumble bees stead¬
ily at work among the many gay-col¬
ored blossoms which form a perfect
flower bed on either side of a cliff walk
on that lovely promontory opposite
the little fishing town of Salcombe.
Each bee kept to his own particular
flower, as (so Sir John Lubbock tells
us) all well-conducted bees should do.
But one became puzzled by the like¬
ness in color between blaelc knapweed
end purple thistles. His flower for
this weed, outing was evidently the knap-'
and when he had exhausted all
its blossoms in the immediate neigh¬
borhood ho was beguiled by similarity
in color into trying a thistle, but, on
alighting, he instantly discovered his
mistake, and flew about looking tor
more knapweed, which he might easily
have found by flying a few yards fur¬
ther. Instead, however, he returned
to the inviting thistle head, and this
time gave himself up with perfect
abandon to its luscious delights, sti¬
fling the voice of conscience which on
his first visit he had so instantly
obeyed.
These little bumble bees well repay
the time spent on watching their
small, busy lives. On another occa¬
sion, when camping for the day in a
fir-wood, my sister became aware of
two of these soft little creatures buz¬
zing round and round the skirt of her
dress in such a determined and spirit¬
ed way that we felt they meant busi¬
ness and not mischief. My sister
drew her skirt away, when the bees
instantly made for a tiny hole in the
bank, evidently their house door.
Their gentle, persistent manner of
making their meaning known to us
was most striking.—London Spec¬
tator.
Tremendous Force in a Steam Boiler.
A writer in u popular journal,in the
course of an article showing the great
amount of force developed by the
steam generated in a boiler, says;
What a tremendous force is struggling
to tear a boiler to atoms ! Take, for
example, a horizontal tubular boiler
of ordinary proportions, GO inches in
diameter by 16 feet long, containing
83 1-inch tubes. Snch a boiler has a
surface area of 40,716 square inches.
Suppose this boiler is operated with a
working pressure of 100 pounds per
square inch, which is not at all un¬
common. The boiler, therefore, sus¬
tains a total pressure of 4,071,600
pounds, cr more than 2035 tons. Do
we realize what this means? The
boiler has resting upou it tlie equiva¬
lent of a column of granite 10 feet
square and 245.5 feet high. Or to put
it another way, the boiler is holding
up the equivalent weight of 22,620 •
persons, each weighing 180 pounds.
The best authorities agree that the or¬
dinary draught horse, working eight
hours a day, exerts an average force
during that time of 120 pounds. Now,
this force acting to disrup the boiler
longitudinally is 226,200 pounds, so
that to produce an equivalent stress it
would be necessary to hitch up to each
end of the boiler a team of 1885
horses.
Confederate military Rolls.
Acting under authority granted by
the South Carolina Legislature, Gen¬
eral Hugh L. Farley is collecting and
will publish in permanent form the
rolls of all the companies raised in
that State for service in the Confeder¬
ate Army.