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4 THE MACON TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1894. THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR AND WEEKLY. Office 563 Mulberry Street* {TUB DAILY TELEGRAPH—DeHtwad b7 carrier** lit the city, or mailed, poitm trot, CO cento a month: ILTi for three months; *3.60 for tlx months; *7 for ooe , year; every day except b unday, H. pTJiE TH WlllltlJ. Mod- , days, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuca- l days, Thursdays and Baturdays, three 1 months, fl; six months, $2; one year, H {TUB BUN DAY, TsiLKURAPH-By mall, ooo year, 12. rfna WEEKLY TJSUSUUAl'H-Br nail «u rear, n. iPUHaORlfriONB-Fiyabl. In ad vane*. Remit by postal order, check or regia* lered letter. Currency by mall at risk of sender. COMMUNICATIONS should be addressed and all orders, check a drafts, etc., made payable to Tins telegraph, Macon, tit. DI WORSE CtTEJD~AG HI CULTUIIK. 'TieOarcin fiooduro railroad «oent- ljr sold tnvenly (boatand pound* of to bacco, ralacd on It* farm at Cj-olonetn, to n North Oandtm tobacco factory for 0 1-1 oonRs per pound. H« pride wag not 1M0b, but as It oont only $35 n/i aero to ra;*o the tobacco, and flroro 700 to 1,000 pound* per acre were produced, It may bo said Unit the crop was far mom profitable than the cotton crop of any farmer In Oeonf.-*. The not profit iwaa, pnfeap,, uooottUnn to ifls- nres cltvfi, $15 on acre, wherrtaa the acne of cotton which paid for tlie coat of cultivating (t and of pulUlng the crop on the morVot la a, very raro*onc In Ucorgla this year. TheOtiwjtptpcna have for many year, been urging upon the furnrera that their salvation lay indlvcmlfylngitholr crops. They bare done ao so pemtstently that farmer* Htvc tnanifeMefl some impn- tcroo of this ad vice-and Inure frequent ly shown a disposition to ridicule tho man who farmed with a pencil Instead of a hoe. But, neventhhlosH, tho pencil farmer la right, and the aim with the hoe has boon wrong. lit la a fact that In diverallliwlton of crops. In the rais ing of homo supplies, lies tho opportu nity of Southern fanment to escape from tho depressed condition In which they now Unit themselves. The fact that, as a clans, they are now batter off, In the seme .tint their position l» safer, flnaoolally, than any other class in tho community. Is duo to their partial adoption of this theory. When It Is fully adopted, when cotton becomes the surplus crop, Soinhom farmers will be tiro most indcpcralran people In Uio world. They ought to l>o the most lu- drpmdcnt. Tliey tom not, perhaps, the richest hind*, hot they ha ve a cli mate that enable* 'Aim to produce prac tically orcryiiruvs lhat Is needed on their farm*. They can lire at home, whereas the farmers of other regions cannot do no. Ami tho production of tho things nocKWiry to enable thorn to lire at homo need not exhaust all their energies or take up oil Uhctlr time. With (klIttlltaiaafMHt, with tfie ex- erriao of tho good common sense with which so many of them are endowed, it is possible to leave over a mtirgln of lime and renounces, after homo require ments are provided for, In which to produce a cotton crop ampio for the world's need* and to put into every farmer’s pocket tut least an equal share of the wo lid's livoraiso ref wealth each year. Tho Georgia Soul burn railroad, In Its elTorts to demonstouto tho capabilities of 'lira lands along its route, is not only proving lliat ilicso hunts are well aiHptod to agricultural purpise*, liut Is naehlng vahwtblo lessons which the farmers of tho South should not nttw to go unlearned. CU1UBTIMIAS AjMD THE BABIES. Today ia u day more universally Iwn.uvd <t»\n any other by the inhab itants of the civilised world.' It In Christ’s day. Its observance <n ono locality tltffera from its observance In another, and yat the general Uttorit Is itho same. Every where is tiirtstandom it ts wganlod us a liol.duy, and In tlio original sense of ‘■holiday"—ibat la, us a day of holy memories. In tho Xottteom states It U more qulelly cMlohnvtol riwn In the South. Here are have oaunon ora ok ore mid emmOR and <Uu horno and goodness kuows what builds. In addition to tho &im* Claus stocking. There It Is ten., an merely ss "childfeu's day" and :he fixiilh-ofduly feaiures are on*ia«L Dtffurwtt nation, and ill(Terect snetiona of dlfftmot natrons observe at each In 1C* owu any, but *11 Obriatuos do tt honor. It is celcbraint sa the - k.ng of holidays, because It iwoguises "ibs coming of the King." However Obrtsrian poapto muiy disa gree coooemllng ilia method most ap propriate for tt* oiebraxion, gag do not fall to celobrate it. They rocogniao the fact that it Is an occasion well wor thy of oelribcatton In such maimer as nny corswrc w>th tho customs of tho country (n which tho ceremonies are hold, and that mere ceremonial In not Important so tong t* iho OhrisQms spirit is glvon duo expnmion. It Ss a beautiful idea of the Christian vrorld to tuake iho <-hildron ural their plc«Hiro pronamr. on tho Icrth day of Christ, lie was a lover of children aud bis morality wns of to* marata* nature that men and woman are bom w.tti. but And K d.ftlouti to mil maun after rtn-j become men and women. "Minor lulu children to come usrto too." To bia pure spirit they were rta\ meet aoreptable of earthly offerings. Whether men beliovo In. him as s ©Ml or not, his was tho religion of Idcdnrew; and Into bis own keeping be took the souls of "little* children," which have Id thorn only klndnons. Lot tills, for the beautiful Savior 1 , lake, be "iWHmfs da.y.” Let it be spent In gladdunlrig Itbvlr life. If they are especially troublesome at Cbntnmaa Urae, endure it If they pop llrecrack- era, permit It os the arilt-heartcd po pcorn* ar do, Ihoirglr *tfrny deserve rv rep- rimuml—every guilty naiu at ahem—for ollowlDBr.holr bumaolty itegetuhe start of their nvrlctcin duty. Ill they beat drums, stand It as long us your patience will bold out; and oven If they blow, horns, indtAlo genial Fiuakt Stanton and don't ilotcrfero II you CUn pose.bly help U. These babies are bettor Hum you. You know tt They are not only yocr child ren, but Christ's children. They have not only received your tostructlon but his directly Imparted InstiDots. How, then, dare you take from them Iho pleasure of the only day on uhlch they are supreme. Their horns ore terrible, but their right to be oven terrtlAc 1# unimpeach able. For a limited time, they “are the people.” To say "bear wilt them as such" would be a mere wuste of words. What doth'* .MKkils of oormnero'' shew? —that those who deny thennelvcs all the year “turn loose” llrolr Iroardlugs at Christmas time for she benuht of their young ones; fbat stinginess has provou iiself comaneodable when ieatod in the Cbrlswnas crucible; ahtu parental |K>vetly pinches itself tu onlev that tire children may *t lenst be happy for a day. It is remarkable to observe bow spirited may Be (he Christens trade after a long yror of commercial depres- nlon. Tho babies are responsible. And their Santa Claus Is tho most procUms myth on record. Unlike Mid pagan genii who came from fairy land, bo oomes direct from heaven. 4Io Is the authorized agerit «f tho Lower of IJttlo Children, end ho who dares pramatnre- ly to datrroy She evholtBome Illusion by which ho is rendered tucrcd, takts upon pis tfioulders e very grieve respon- slbUfly. Hurrah foe Citrletoaa ami Santa and the kind parents and aho hap py children—for the stocking anil lie Are-poppers ami even for the infernal U‘.n of the bollikiy bn fawn ! . rnointr pl'mVishimiost. The Telegraph yesterday told two ter rible stories* of enooting affrays In Geor gia. In Auguwa, « disperato negro, al ready guilty of the murder of one of his own race, killed or wounded two or throe offtoen* who were itnylug to ar rest him. Ills crime. In resisting arrest and Shooting men who woro only trying to do diodr duty, was a tcrriblo one, but Vt was a crime -not particularly chncacteristlo of any reice, nor pecu liarly Hignlflcant of any bail comllilou in our social organization. Ho might bare been a white man, for mill to men, grown desperate In alio commission of crime, havo been guilty of conduct llko his. The other story, that freon Brooks county, was of quite a different, kind. If told at the killing of three or four, possibly seven negroes, by posses or ntoln of white m«te In revenge for tho murder of two valuable schlte citizens, who had been shot by negro rulllans wttivout provocation, and while ptuce- ably attending to tilde own business. The sioto of affnlra is cirtlrdy different from that at AuguHta. Instead of n dmper.ile criminal, rcslstlug urn«t be- eauso conscious dial if arrested ho would explato a previous crimo on tho gallon's, we love armed bodies of re- HiKwtnbhi citizens scatvthing for and klltng men of sootier race, whom riicy bellavo guilty of crimes against society, but particularly against thht part of soo'.ety mads up of white people. The affair, therefore, has the feaiturcs of a race war. In tlio first place, white men woro killed for no apparent miaon except Unit tliey wore whlto men. In the second, the persons guilty of tho munlera, or suspected of (being guilty, are 1 sauted <V>wn, not by ottlzens in geiwna.1, but only by whits citizens, whose anger ta the grea ter bccauso the Moll ms wen* white aikl the criminals black. It la wry «my to roy that mi- dor any und kU dreuanriiances, good citizens tunite strictly dwervo tho. law; amt loavo to die law the task of pun ishing crime; must rest rain their pas- gen.*, no matter what tho offense against Khoin, nnd must do tills in their own Interest. Thts is not only rosy to say, hot H Is true. No oaamtMj can take die punithmeut of crimo in its own hands safely, except through the en- foraacaoui lo the regular and orderly- way of tho laws provtJvtl for the puo- IShmcat of criminals. iy> do otherwise I* to go back to a suite of hatbarlsm— not at once, i<ertu|», buz surely, If such practices continue. But while this la true, it Is practically liurosaNo, -where the poptdatlon Is divided into two races, to secure tho strict o)M*a'MUK'o of the law under su>h iproroextlcn as has been given In Brookx comity, unltia* die eu- forcomwit of iho hiw Is pot only cer tain, but prompt. The Idea, of veti- goince elmcf.1 net otwer Into the pun ishment of crane. But under the clr- malNn .which exist In that county. It la ilKvritelde tiuit tlut ei<ineut ihould liave a part hi one onforeenwnt ef die l»w. Wo ill not mean by this that pis- »!on or pr>dodieo sh.wihl or will afftvt the d.vreo* of the courts—l<w*cn or In- cbMse (ho penalties of iho low as It is enforced—but only flvu die dtsire that tho law shall bo enforced, dx>< bloody criminals sbntl be punished, has tu it an element ot panHon. This fact may be just as Will recogulxed. U is one of the roodiucns under which Law* must be enforced In th's oiuntty. Wo will aihntt Hist It Is a bad element. Bat the host way. In our Ju-Igrocnt, to deprive it of evil influence. Is to so ad minister the law ifxi-t pereinfl guilty of 'violent Crimea sbntl Un punished promptly, so that <ho communlity which feels Itself outraged tnay see in the law and in the courts ftBlnmi'-Ji's which will promptly take rtmgeunco on the tr;ire<gTt*i-tor. The dUfloultlm In the way of burryirv up die process of the courts In criminal rases are very great. It Is ihe duty of higlSIaitora and tho courts hi 1>o most careful that the rights of Hie accused dhotild not be neg lected—tlnste Shall not reeult In tho Itunialinitiar of Imnoocnt people; but thero Is a conviction in tha popular uilml ih.it the care for the rights of criminals Is too grea<t; that it results not only In *tho froquent escape from punishment oS .men really guilty, but Injure* a delay In the punishment of those convicted, which takes from the law «nut£l of the terror that would re- strain ovll doers. HHLLT.VG ABROAD. One of the groat mining companies of'South Africa -recently advertised In France, Belgium, Dngkuul and the United Btates for bids for a million and a half dollars’ worth of mining 'ma chinery. After considering all the bids made, they awarded tho contract to a Chicago flron. AYitb'jn the -last month or two The sale by an Alabama iron making Arm -to u. Japanese city govern- inerit of iton thousand tons of water pipe has bean made, and a contract has been signed by a Pennsylvania Ann with the Russian government to fur nish tan thouriind tons or more of ship armor. Doubtless these are three of the largo*; contracts for *ron supplies that havo been made during recent monthB In the whole word, and nil of them come to the United States. But recently it has been, contended Thai the Iron works of tho United Stales, oven the Iron ore mines, would close up If brought into competition with -those of foreign countries. Here wo sec refu tation of This contention In a. form that compels belief. It is no doubt true that tt costs more to movo bulky ma- dilnery nnd Iron water pipes from Amorlcu n cities ti tun ted far In the Inte rior, Than H dots To movo similar art!- dies from 'the Iron works of England, Scotland. Belgium or Germany. Not only are i}io points of production In thoso oouulries nearer to The sea' coast, but established HteUmcr line* Insure cbm per freight ratCB Item can be ob- talnctl by vessels chartered for the spe cial purpose of conveying goods from our owu .ports -to South Africa, to Ja pan or -to Russia. Wo believe It Is true tlut only to Japan am goods bo shipped from ithls'counltiy l>y a regular lino of aUumcm. If, In spite of This great disadvantage. It Is true Huut our ntikeu* of ma chinery, of ship armor nnd of rougher Iron pipes can make ond deUvorcheai»er than" their Europcun rivals, and dem onstrate their ability to do so by enter ing into contracts involving millions of dollars, is It not about time to stop tho talk of American Industrial feebleness, compared with the strength of Europe? The possibility of making those con tracts, of soiling vast quantities of Ainiflitcm Iron anti steel 1n highly wrought forms abroad, lias grown out of tho vault reduction during the lust two or three y«ura In tho raw material euioring Into these products. There lias bean only a slight reduction ot wages, so far ns we have observed, hut tho cost of ore to 4he manufacturer, of tho rougher forms of iron, and of other crude imuterlal 1n whlch tbo clement of labor Is snitll, has been reduced to the lowcHt point known tn our hlstoiy. Nt*v- erthelas, there Is reason to bcllevo that at this low point production Is proflta- ble, and -tho fact having bevn vatab- llahcil that great quantities of Ameri can Iron and steel ran be aolil abroad, the pooplo will bo Intolerant hereafter of attempts to regulate our tariff laws on 'the hypothra'.s that our iron and steel Industry can be preserved from destruction only by duties That practic ally oonAsra-to foreign articles uhen brought Into our ports. Tho prevailing duprraalou ot biktlucrts bus brought much distress upon tee country, tut It will not bo without Its cuuipea*ntious, If It shall result In ’.nareaslng our for eign i-rade, and In dcrnoustraiti-ng tint certain Theories of protcutlon hereto fore obstiudloly defended a-re entirely unreisoitxblc. WITH POPULAR AUTHORS. Nearly tth the most popukir authors sei-m to have been drown upon by the editor Of t-he Ladles’ Home Journal to Insure tor hi* reader* a pnrucukiriy in- ten-etlng year during IS'jj. Jerome K. Jerome, for example, will resume his role of an "Idle IYltow" for the bene- Ot of American girls and women In a series of nrtictesi Bret H.irte will have a new love story, while Kn k R. StoaklYvi hss glvsa the Jouni.it not less than three of hU quaintest tales; -Mrs. Burt™ Harrison will write on cor rect deportment and usages of good society, while Mr*. A. D. T. Whitney Is -to write to girls on (nafrSSge and dress; Madame Xordlon aitd Jessie llsrMett Dfcvla will tkl of the care of the voice: Mr. Howells will continue ble nuecessful literary autobiography; Dr. IMrkhUTst. the famous New York preacher, will write his series of arti cle* for women on the questions of tho day which women ar* thinking about; U.tw.vnl BoBamy will add s chapter to his "le>>kWnr BackwardlSugtn* Field. BH Nye. John Kendrick Bangs and Robert J. BuidoU'o WUI supply the hun*»r; Conan Doyt* will give tils views of 'The l.lterary Side of America"; Frances Hodgron Burnett, ihe kite Jan* Austin, Julia tMrarnider wet Eltxo beth Bellamy will supply mwelottea; Kate <Jcsenaw*y ts To .low her quaint llttee tot* of «»mm foe the rtrw time for * m aura line, whits PUlmor CVjx will supply *ome rs-w "Browntos"; a unique art lot** on "Mrs. iTtuvkespoans" wrHl present all that is Vnosrh of Cbske spears "t* wife; M err tree Dels ml. Stwwh Oroo Jew-ett and Mr*. Ruvion Harris will Tlao* "When lardy; When Wo man"—wTu-n TTw*.. teems should b* used: E. S. Martin Is going to tell '•Wiser* Was ihe Gordon of Eden?": Regbsafld de Koven has given his new sung, whale (xher hwmous composer* will also be represented by songs, marches and waltzes. And tu this rep- resentaitlv* manner, The Ladles* Horae Journal will really cower every inter esting ptuise of contemporary life—es- liecinlly max of woman. Tho magazine wfll indeed be worth having during the new year. A ©ELIHTFtJL MELTING. "Fancy mo .Ting you Vwrr, rlour’." "It's qutte too de'ighttut, isn't 11?" They klwed one aaicTju*- raduroja- ty—a short pink on t»lh cheeks. I bad taken Uc*wn -he younw lady In the *whM« gown at a dajice eupoer. anil I k.n>tw she was from Chicago. I suMl ?» vrind her in to* corner when Cti young lady In a Mue gown stopped (bock s. pace or two aril said In (ones o fasiontthmerit: 1 Miry, you’ve got tm your wvddlng gown!’ “Yes: I only wore kt twice, yon know, and nobody knows K here. I had new sinew put In and—" Here her eyea rented ora me. awl my face crruBt have expressed the fact that I had bon addressing her for thro la.-t; half bour - as a-n unmarried "Perhaps 1 had better get you—er— an too or oancthlng" I ventured mis erably. Trying towriggle around a palm. Bat she turned to her friend brnghtiy and remarked, without tho Hll,~?i>*.*t embarruasmom: ‘So pesfectly ridiculous; Isn’t ft? But Mrs.. Blank (toe hereto®) didn’t think It nnoesskiry tl> toil any of the men tih’il I twd Taken my maiden namo after getting a divorce. I was married Iasi Febrtnoy, you know, nnd di vorced tn September at Spihngflebl. Thai’s betw I Wappm «o be wearing my wrabunt gerwn.’ I haven’t got over Ot yeft.—New York Preen. STEVENSON IN SAMOA. A Visit to the Unique Home of the Novelist tn Apia. On my wny south from Honolulu to New Zetland In 1802, I stopped over for (two rvveeks to ted Navigator’s Is lands, or Sunoi, as too ground Is Dow generally culled. The Aret object of my stay was to visit Mr, Stevenson, whom I baa mat in Atmortcu und had had some rarrrapondenco with him, and toe second to moko a <trip to tho lily of IVogo-tPango, to the Island of Tdlulib. which hud boon ceded as a coaling Hla.tlon .to toe United States. ■The batfbor of Apia, the capital ot the Cbaotio klujjcbom of Samoa, 1ns been compared to tlialt of Nuples. butt ns they have n-y-.bing in common but Shore nnd water, I could see .no ground for com.- partson, though both are imonilorftilly beautiful In a different ray. Our, Stramer bad (hardly coma to ondior wbca a nervous man, mltit rotldlsh board nnd wearing a mfiltc helmet, came on boanl. und I mus introduced to him. iHo was Mr. Haggard, Rider Haggard’s (brother, and the EngUrih commissioner who, wlllf ropre.s'vitn- tives from the United Btatcs nnd Ger many, -wus Htrtitdttcnlng out the land totalroa of forelguera on the IslaralH. “Wtiere is 'Mr. Stewonson’i* place?” was about the AWT question I pit to Mr. Hagaird. Pointing to a conical peak of Pula Mountain, wh'.eth dotnlnalra too l-antl- smpo, he called tny nlteoflon to a long silver ribbon sntdsray up Who emerald volcanic slope. 'Thai is a waterfall,” said Mr. Haggard, ‘tend tho blue smoko ptliar, rising over It, marte too alto of Stiyonson’sTiouse. lit Is ahenlt two nnd n bulf Tittles tip from Apia by a wretch ed road, I nit toe view, ami, above an, the hospitality tte.it aiwntts you will re- ptv the trip—ell! toe way from Now York.” I found everything na Mr. Haggard naltl, but tt struck mo alt the tlmo ns not a Untie strange Hiatt away tlown Iher-e In a lonely cluster of islands In tlio Southern Puciflc I should And toe brother of ono of too anoret suoceaiful writers of Action, and tho home of the most virile writer of Engl Mi of the prremt day. Before going nahore with Mr. Hag gard I was told tout Mr. Stevenson led a. very quiet life up the Rvla moun tain*, so quiet, indeed, «tea>t he rarely come down to ApMv u®d that even the arrival of the monthly streamer from America To Australia did not bring him down from the solitude of his lovely home by tihe waterfall far up tho mountain side. Learning this, I did not expect, to se Mr. tevenson nt toe landing, for though ho knew I was coming, I thought of toe precarious mate of his heath. Great, therefore, wus my sur prise when toe native rowers puttied In besMo a Hole pier, toho.vradcep, manly voice, with n decided Doric burr, calling out my name and shout ing wto boyWh heartiness: "Welcome, old boy, to Mpola. — Mpola Is toe name of the Island upon which Aptoi (a situated. I looked -up and onw a lean, -bronzed man. cltul In obits, with An* gray, eyes ami total straight features, bending over me with extended hands. He helped m« up omd so great wns ihe change for toe bettor a -two-years’ stay had made, that I Should not hove known him bu-, for hi» eyes nnd role*. tHo looked to be so writ ttvat 1 didn’t oven ask about his hc-a-tlh. The bright grav eyes, the strong efasp of toe hand, toe "hearty, generous, boyish ways, toe nlcrt movements its -he took my tirm, for an Old war wound makes me la-ne, itll bespoke a man In the prime of life, full <« teope, full of quin: vigor and with a generation of happiness and usefulness before him. I doubt If tn riU toe world there was or ts * more ntque borne Than siat which Mr. Stevenson built far himself by toe beautiful waterfall and 1 *00 feet up toe Pala monntnln. In the one-story frame structure, lo toe shadow of the palms, and presided over by a woman womanly, rhe worthy wife of ouch a nvan. I was not s little surprised to' Ami >a weK-fllted library sn.l massive pieces of furniture, to*? h«l been brought from toe old world, and far the purpose ot keeping the older world auf(sstltlOy *n toe mind of the nn who was never fa pee It riratn '•'t who -,1 *o su'ldenly and ro completely hrought himself into har monious SMCHtta with rills newest of lards i.nd Its dsrk-i-yed, genie »n*l affectionate Inhabitants. The ..lAT!om.ina need to say. they change'thelt nvI.s but not tlielr hearts, who costs to- sre." I found Mr Ste venson lnlensely ltrterested In nil that was going on In the building world which m-fa'iltii had feted him to leave. But his Intense sympathies f-irbuman- Ry found *t flttlnr ASM In the troubles of toe Bamouu.w'bom he loq-ed and *tb > lovrel him with n specie* of Idolatry. He wnmed teacher* and serth*** preach er* to home to Circs* people, snd he wanted toutisnd, Germany and Amerl- ca to withdraw, for ns he eald in his serious way. "the oomtnR of the white man has so far been :i curve to these simp! *, gtnerous people; let us send them whtte men who will prove a blcss- * U f found Mr. Stevenson rather rtieTp- pointed tfi.it hi* South Sea letters had failed ft the United State* nnd Eng land -’But," b' said, “when I planned to write those letter* I ms ooTiMsIy Ignorant of the land rate) which I was comln*.** Sitting b>* the waterfall tlic follonvin>c dny he t**M nv» of his p*3-c». His health «sii comin* hack. He *‘crew stronger e>*er>* ri-ty,” hi** own word*, and the -work laid out meant two decades Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report _ Powder Absolutely pure instead of tsro yearn. Ho was 0 Hopub- UoiO at heart and wan very fond Of America. **No doubt*’ 1 he wid with ft dry smile, “ktNcstuae you Tanks Jkive the bad uu*e to like me. W*hen. I am quite atronjj again, «• I am ?un> I be in a year or two, I shall return liomo for a vnhUe, and then make my home in 0cni4w.ro CaUfomla, which won my heart aa a young man." When I left fbr New Zealand he saw me off, and tils ku*t WY^rds were, “you hhalt find mo to New York before you know it. Laps to friends. God bless jvu, old bojrf. and ho stood waving his hat as the boat pulled away, and his eyes were ®o bright and his figure so sinewy lhat II was euro he had found The health came for and that we should m.?ot again. • Rosert Louis Stevecson died of a dis ease, apoplexy, of which he e ho wed not tho slightest trace, nor did his hab- ifs induce it. He is burled on the Pala mounuin. and It should rwnalni his monument forever. I am in no mood to speak of my fricsnd'a character. I loved him, as did all who knew him, and I believe his name will last as tong ns tho noble moiratnin on which lie sl.-ps. -.V.fud it. Calhoun, in New York Advertiser. FLOWERS AiT FUNERALS. RATTLESNAKES AND SCORPIONS. A Good Place to Find Botli Was in the Beaver River Rejgkm to.Utah. “Mhny years ago, while stationed at a poet on »tho Beaver rtver In Utalh.” said an army offloer the other day. *1 had an experience with rattlesnakes and scorpions, two things dreaded ro much by cnan, that was so i&rtlli'nK tma»t tt will be dltlk-uit to make people accept it as true. YMt it Is true, and as I look back upon the Inciden ts of those few weeks in camp I cannot understand how either my men or myaeEf had Che courage *U> a-emafln In Che place. WitfiUo tiwo miles af iha post was a mounta'jn over which It was nccossary to have a road built In order to facilitate travel between our own post and a town some mlks dtsMamt. When such work was required I was always given charge of "So I received orders to command a detiOhimmt of sixty men who were de tailed «to ibiUd this road a4ong the mountain sides. We had heard many wild stories about -the deadly scorpions and rafcHesnakes 'that infested the re gion In which we were ito work, but had put them down as exaggerated "make stories." But whon we arrievd on ihe econo we found that the tallest snake story was outdone by tffe foots. We found t'hat the entire mountain side seemed to be one (large rattlesnake meet and for variety thousands of scorpion* were thrown to. We selected Hhe posi tion for our camp In the most deslralbte situation, and hoped that the presence of so many men and homes would soon drive uhe deadly things into the wilds of The mountains. But .they did not seam to tic disturbed by our presence, and mudfe nightly vlststs to us. Were we afraid? Well, there was some fear among the men, especially after three of the privates had died from ihte ef fects of bites. "But after (this incident was erased tram tfo&r memories they took things as a matter of course, wenit about th'rir work, killing buy scorpion or rattle snake -that might make Its appearance, but otherwise not toeing much put out by their preoence. I experienced the greatest fear ait night My sleep was interrupted a* roulhr intervals by strangle sounds, the cause of which I retullly discovered. Thu canvas of my tent seemed to am plify sound so that tho scorpions crawling upon the walls of my tent made a noise which, if not loud, wus startling enough to awaken me. I alwhys slept with a lighted candle and an army fork on the table by the side of the bunk. You will agree with me that tho only scorpion tn my tent which was not to bo feared was a dead scorpion. I found that the easiest way to kill them was to Jab them with a fork, then toast them over the candle flame. The, least number of times I wus awakened during my detail there was four or flve times during the night I became an expert at killing scorpions, nnd ns I always fastened the victim to .the‘wall of 'my tent with a pin, I soon hail It very uniquely decorated. "Rattlesnakes were Just as plentiful as scorpions. To And two or three sporting about yourl tent at night waseno amuse ment, as you may Judge. I had one man In my company by the name of Cassidy; Ho was a devil-may-care sort of fellow, feared nothing, and was never happy out of adventure. He amused himself about cump by catching rattlesnakes In a clever manner back of the head, then extracting their fangs and letting them go. "A professor of an Eastern college vis it.--i thf ramp, and. Inuring of rattle- snakes being so numerous, ho asked ino If I could not get one my men to get him two or three young ones, as he wanted to us& thorn for some scientific purpose. I knew of no one better fitted for the work than Cassidy, and as he seemed to take a delight in It, I told him to And three young snakes for tho professor, <who was stopping at the post. Ithought nothing more of the matter. Several nights after this I was lying tn my bunk sleeping when I was suddenly arused from my dreams by an unearthly rattle and some thing heavy being thrown upon me. I opened my eyes to And three rattlesnakes making all sorts of evolutions over my blanket and saw the flaps fall ns a voice said: ‘Here captain, are your snakes.* I didn't wait to take a nextra snoose, but. Jumping out of bod, made after the fel low, who was Cassidy, and I am sure if I had caught him he would have nursed some broken bones or bruises. But be escaped, and after thinking over the In cident my anger left me. 1 knew Cassidy thought no more of a rattlesnake than I would of an angleworm. He had taken the fangs from those he had thrown upon my bunk when he captured them, and, without thinking of the fright he would cause, had pitched them In to me In what u is t.i him r\ irt-rft I'tiy liat’ir.d nminor. He came nround in the morning to ex plain and apologize, but it was weeks be fore my nerves regained their repose.— Pittsburg Dispatch. ANTE-BREAKFAST SMILES. Professor Itottertoy—Have you ever devoted any study -to the new wo man, Mr. Ccogan?" Grogan—Ol have not. The ould woman is enough to keep me busy etudyln*, sure .—Indian apolis Journal. "Do you expect to get anything In your stocking for Chrlstmao?" asked fi facffOaat congressman of a. colleague, "No," was the reply: 'Vnot in my stock ing. I get everything in *6he neck now- I adays.'.’—^Washington Star. | "It la almost as good as the theatre," saM the young woman who was watch ing the proceodincH from «bo tooutwitaof ! representatives gallery. "Yes." was the j reply; '^but some of these farewell ap pearances aren't of the Paul descrip tion by a long ^hot."—Washington Post. At the seseVm of rtie school for non commissioned officers of one of the cnrpin'es stationed at Fort Wayne the followln gquestlon was a*ked of Bergt. : "What is strategy? Give me an instance o? it.'* After Ftudylnu frur a moment or two the sergeant gave the reply: "When tn battle and you are out of ammunition and don't want the enemy ito know tt.lt is «md strategy to keep rlg?K on firirur." The rrvptsln gave tho scOiocC a vacation till the first 'Mon day in January.—Detroit FTee Press. The Dttsptoy at tlib Services Over the Ootnpfce life Paris. Ait Che funeral otf the CompF-te de Ruts, tbs Pipletndid floral emblecrus. of •htch • tlhfere were ov<*r nlxJLy, wvre, by order of fci/is widow, photographed and than takfetfi to Weybiiilge, where they wene put in the niausDl* urn. The beaiuitiful wreath eent by the officers of ahe American army measured twtuQffwAve fleet itn circumference anil cun.uinad more than three thousand aiUfiuiad roses. What to do with rthe great quantity of flowers and. emblems than etai oc- oonupdirxy mWny flunk-rads, nouwililh- standing the flrioqumcy of Ihe ‘kindly ombl flaw»ns" noiilce, ib ufreti a ques tion to the family of the deceased. Rocervtly a man .prcnmiineinit in a public way died, atud the house wus oi)uno»sl batfeged on the day of •Uhe funeral by mossen'gem oonytoig Vhdr burdeoa cA flowers. When the cortege wooded ilia w’ay to hhe cemetery sev’eral cami'dges wvre r<Jed ihlgii with pk»cr«, ci*fmr t'ne casket had bean UtaraLLy covered wti'Jh l’os^y flaw era. 'AH were placed on anid aboult the grave and iheiio left, which is the usuafl course. A better use ivouhl w&evn 'to (break apart the splen did masses of roses and scatter them among tBDa slok and poor. In the chec referred <0, such a course would h!ave been (pooidiaiUy apipropriate, as the dtjad man was one who never burned a deaf ear do thle suffering and whoss charities can never half be .told.—Now York Times. A CHRISTMAS LYRIC. Sweetheart, I send my greeting Across the world of snow, Love's tender pledge to break the edge Of winter winds that blow; The one word still repeating— The word I dared to say When all the hours were sweet with flow ers And melody and May. In these December ashes That fill the valley’s urn, Now sleeps the fire of spring’s deslri Which yet shall wake and bum; And when once more it flashes And lights with buds the vine. Shall you be here with love to cheer v And light thl9 life of mine? Across the frosty isthmus Of winter, white with drifts. Love, like a bird, flies with a word. To you who holds his glftB; Oh, at the dawn of Christmas, When he returns to me. Bid him sing of such a spring, And you his song shall be! —Frank Dempster Sherman. 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