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MACON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1881
VOLUME LV-NO. 0
TiEE PILOTS STOEY.
We had grown up together, as it were,
Mollie and I, our parent* being near
neighbors, and—which does not always
follow—firm friends aa well. They were
poor, and I suspect that fact had much to
do with their friendship, for opportunities
were always turning up for helping ode
another; and 1 have often noticed that,
when near neighbors are well off and
hare no need for mutual help there is rery
seldom any friendship between them;
there is more apt to be jealousy and com
petition.
Oar parents being such good friends, it
naturally resulted that Mollie and 1 fol
lowed their example. We went to school
together, read together, played together;
and, somehow, when Mollie was eighteen
and I twenty, we agreed to travel to
gether all our lives, and were very happy
in that arrangement; in fact, no other
would havo seemed right or natural,
either to us or our parents.
From the earliest days of my boyhood
I had a fondness for the water, haunting
the palatial steamboats that floated on the
great Mississippi river, on whose banks
nestled tho city in which we dwelt, and,
at the period to which 1 am about to refer,
I had just secured a position as pilot on a
small freight steamer-
It was not much of a position, to be
sure, nor was there much of a salary at
tached to it; but, small as it was, Mollie
and I decided that we could make it an
swer for two neople, neither of them ex
travagant or unreasonable; besides which,
I had hopes of better times to come, as I
had received words of commendation from
my employers, and promises of speedy
promotion.
So, early one bright morning, having
obtained a day’s leave of absence, Mollie
and i were married, and, stepping into a
carriage I had hired for the occasion, we
started off, having decided on a day’s ex
cuision to a celebrated cave near by this
being all the weddiug trip we could allow
ourselves, not that we cared in the
least, however; we were too happy, to be in
the least disturbed by any shortcomings of
stun or purse.
We had scarcely driven beyond our own
street when we were brought to a halt. A
messenger, whom I recognized as belong
ing to our steamboat company, hailed ine.
“Here’s a note to you from the Superin
tendent.” -» I
Thus It ran: ...
“Ain sorry to havo to recall your leave
for to-day, but you must immediately go
on board the Mobilia, which is ready to
start up the river. The pilot is too ill to
attend to duty, and you aie appointed to
take his place for the preseut.”
“There goes our weddifig trip all to
smash!” said I, as Mollie read the order.
“Why so?” she asked.
“You see I must go into the pilot-house
of the Mobilia.”
“Very well,” she replied. “We will
just go up the river instead of to the cave.
Drive on, Rob; let us go down to the
wharf iti state.”
“But you can’t go in the pilot-house
witli me, little goose.” ,.
“Of course not; but I can .sit on the
deck outside,” laughed Mollie, “and we
can cast languishing glances at each otli-
cr.” • •'- J v : -*•
And so it came to pass that I took pos
session of the Mobilia’s pilot-house, my
heart glowing with love and pride; with
loye, for there, just below me, on the lit
tle forward deck, sat my sweet bride;
witli pride, because the Mobilia was one
of the finest of the beautiful floating pal
aces of the Mississippi, and to pilot such
a one had for years been the height of my
ambition.
Tim steamer was fitted up w.th a double
cabin, one above the other—tho upper one
opening upon a small deck, reachiug out
toward the bow, near the center of which,
on a' raised platform, was placed the pi
lot-house. This deck was always occu
pied by passengers, and this morning it
was particularly crowded, for the boat
was heavily laden with people taking ad
vantage of the beautiful weather to make
an excursion up the river.
Some rough fellows jostled against
Mol lie’s chair after a while, and she rose
and passed down into the lower cabin,
“to gat a drink of water,” she whispered
to me as she passed; but I suspect it was
to prevent the bursting of the thunder
cloud she saw gathering on my brow.
I saw that tbe insolent fellows made no
attempt to follow my dear one, so I gave
inysclt up to my own happy thoughts, and,
looking out on tbe far-distant, peaceful
shores of the great river, over whose placid
bosom we were moving so swiftly, there
rose from my heart a glad, silent hymn of
rejoicing.
But suddenly a cry broke from the cab
in behind me that effectually changed the
current of mv thoughts:
“Fire! fire'! fire!” A horrible cry at
all times, but most horrible of all when it
rings forth in tho midst of giy, unsuspi
cious hundreds floating in fancied security
in the midst of the waters.
An instant’s awe-struck silence suc
ceeded that awful cry, and then three
hundred voices of men women and chil
dren united in fearful, heart-rending
shrieks for help.
“Fire! fire I fire 1”
Aye I there was no mistake about It,
nor false alarm. No one could tell how
it had commenced, but there it was creep
ing along the roof of the upper cabin,
with the deadly flames greedily lapping
up every scrap of awning and curtain
they could find upon their way, ever and
anon darting long tongues of flame down
to the floor to clasp the light chairs and
tables and settees in their fiery embrace.
As well seek with a sieve to scoop up
tho waters of the great river on which the
Mobilia floated, as to Uy to subdue tbe
roaring, devouring enemy that had seized
upon the ill-fated steamer.
The people darted down from the
blazing upper cabin to the forward deck
below, where as yet the foe bad made but
little headway, and there our brave
Captain—who was that rara arts “tho
right man in the right place”—succeeded
in partially quelling the panic.
“Keep quiet!” ho ordered—"keep
quiet, and stay just where yon are, or I
will net answer for the lives of any of
you! The steward will provide every
one of you with life-preservers; but
there is no reason for any person to go
overboard; not yet awhile, at any rate,
unless suicide is desired. Keep quiet, I
say! Pitot, head her straight for the laud,
half a mile ahead.” (We were at least
twice that distance from tho maiu land
oii either shore.) “Engineer, put on all
steam—crowd her on! We wtl! ran
a race witli the foul fiend who has board
ed tho Mobilia.’*
There was au instant’s pause, and then,
with a groan and a surge, with the tim
bers creaking and straining, and the win
dows rattling and as though in mortal
terror, the Mobilia gathered herself up to
ran her last race.
Each passing moment the flames crept
on and on and on, never pausing in their
terrible march. Fortunately, they leaped
upward rather than downward, so that
there was as yet but Mile danger to tho
panic stricken* crowd on the lower deck. '
But tbe pilot-house was directly in the
track of the flames, and already their ad
vance guard was beginning to surround
®e, singeing my hair and eyebrows.
Suddenly there was a murmur among
the people below, and the next instant a
light form flew up the ladder leading to
the little deck by the pilot-house, and, be
fore 1 could say a word, my precious Mol
lie had thrown open the door, aud, clos
ing it again, stood at my aide.
“Mollie, Mollie 1” I cried. “For heav
en’s sake go back, go back! Don’t you see
how the flames are creeping toward us
here? Go, go, my dearest, my own true
wife! Don’t unman me by making me
fear for you. Go down where I can feel
that you have a chance of safety.”
“Rob Thome!” she exclaimed, with her
eyes looking straight into mine, “ami
your wife 1”
“Surely, surely, thank God!”Imuttered
“But go. go 1”
“My post is here, just as much as yours
is,” she answered firmly. “I will stay
here, Rob, and if you die, I will die, too.
We will make our wedding trip togetber,
my dear husband, even if be into tbe next
world. Keep to your duty, and never
mind me, Rob. There is hope for us yet,
and, if it comes to the worst, why”—am
a grave sweet smile crept round her lips—
“we are still together, dear love.”
I saw it was no use to urge her any
more, and, besides, something swelled fn
my throat so that I could not utter a word
11 just gripped the wheel hard, and
looked right ahead, though everything
looked very dim just then, and my devoted
darling stood calmly at my side, watching
the flames that were creeping closer and
closer upon tis, leaping around the pilot
house like hungry demons impatient for
their prey.
“Thorne,” shouted the Captain, “come
down. Lower her and yourself over the
rail. We’ll catch you. You cannot stay
there any longer. Wo are very near the
shore now, aud, the rest we’ll take our
chances for.”
It was an awful temptation. I knew
that, did I follow the Captain’s advice,
both Mollie aud I would be safe,for I was
a good swimmer, and should tho boat not
reach the shore, I could save her and my
self) but then if I did this, would I not de
liberately expose every one of the three
hundred souls on board to destruction ?
True, the boat might keep to her course
during tbe short space remaining to be
passed merely from tbe rapid impetus of
her approach, but again she might not—
and then ?
I looked at my dear wife inquiringly.
‘ ” sho said.
“Stick to your post, Itob !
“No, sir! ” I shouted back. “I shall
stick to my post; 1 shall stay hero till I
rim her clear on the shore, or die first! ”
“My brave Itob—my noble Rob! ’’mur
mured Mollie.
But alas for my devoted Mollie I alas
forme! Not the pilot-house only, but
the entire deck around it was now sur
rounded by flames. It was too lato to
lower ourselves to the deck below!
railing was all ablaze.
My arms, released from their guardian
ship over tbe wheel, clasped Mollie close
to my heart; but my eyes and brain were
busy seeking for some mode of escape
from death that seemed each instant more
certain.
All at once my eyes rested on tho pad
dle-box. It had not taken fire yet; the
flying spray had saved it. I had only to
dash across the flame-swept deck, and
fling open a little door in its side, whicli
afforded ready access to the wheel, to
lower my precious charge to the water
beneath in safety. No sooner thought of
than done*
“ Take my band, Mollie,” I said, “aud
run with me. We shall be saved, after
ail. Wrap your shawl across your mouth.
Now, now—run!”
Leaping down on the deck, we sped,
baud in hand, to the paddle box. I
dashed open the little door, and, pushing
Mollie inside, passed in myself, and drew
the door close again, shutting out the
eager flames whose angry roar pursued us
as we dropped gently down iuio tho shal
low Water aud crept out from beneath the
wheel.
Our appearance was bailed with a
shout of delight and relief, for all bad
;lven us up as lost, and we must have
jeen but for the heaven inspired thought
of the wheel house.
Now that the danger was over, poor lit
tle Mollie fainted; aud no wonder. But
_,h«: soon came out all right; and, aa tbe
jeople began to find ont that the “brave
little girl,” as they called her, was really
a bride of only a few hours, and that we
were on our weddiug trip, there was a
regular ovation, followed up by niue deaf
ening cbeers.
Tiie island upon which the Mobilia had
been beached was low, sandy aud unin
habited, altogether not an inviting place
for 300 people, without a particle of shel
ter, to pass half a day upon, yet even in
this plight there were few grumblers in
our midst.
There was no room in our hearts for
any feeling but that of thankfulness for
our preservation from a fearful death,
and, after tpe peril of the last hour ortwo,•
it seemed a small matter to wait patiently
for the coming of the relief boats that wo
knew were sure to arrive before many
hours were past.
Though some miles from any large city,
we knew that tbe burning steamer must
have been seen from the farm houses
scattered sparsely along the river bank,
and that from these notices of the disaster
MAJfANTHT A.VSWMJI AtJ.TT KiK.
THY TUCKETS LETTEB,
conclusions with Mr. Hill for his seat in
the Senate. This seems like a very long
look ahead, but some people enjoy that. I
hear that Hill has been warned by a once
very potent factor in Seventh district
politics, to Iook ont for danger signals in
... ■ the Athens district. Others are sure Gov.
mous in the matter of demanding his full Colquitt would like Senatorial life, and
share of official fatness under the next | others still that Speaker Bacon is by all _
administration, and that he intends “cut-1 odds likely to prove Mr. Hill’s most form-1 yon know, on letter 'writing, but Ma is
tineuD verv rustv” in case he doesn’t tret I Idable opponent. What a blessed thing I sick and can’t write for me, and your iet-
7**? 4» knowthatwg Will flndjoot *11 about it tere keep a-coming till I bate not to let
it. I on have doubtless seen Bruce’s let- | by waiting! A. W. R. J you hear from us 111 in some way. You
Wa*Mnffton Letter.
Washington Cxtt, January 29tb, ]
1881.—Tbe man and brother is giving
abundant and emphatic notice to Mr. I
Garfield that he is going to be very unani-
AbS AStucm Imm Orlartnal Mesa -
Sbe Ala* eiiM Some Pcnmal Ex
perience*. $
Elmwood, January 31,1881.
Dear Aunt Marthy: I ain’t much, as
cans were killed twenty miles southwest
of San Marclal. On the 21st a family,
consisting of a man, bis wife, child
ter to a man in Memphis, setting forth hts
(B.’s) qualifications aud claims for aplace
In tbe cabinet, and also resolves by vari
ous negro meetings and associations to the
same effect. Sambo seems “bell bent,” as
they say out in Utah, on having first class
recognition,
things lively
knows that it was his Vote in Indiana,
Ohio and New York that
saved tho day for the Radicals,
and mado Mr. Garfield President,
'Satan In nil fcer.Wm-ks Is Benatesna
Still-—Nothing's Vain,. No t hlaar Sa-
parfwNW.
In Nature’* unlimited 'domain we have
illustrated in her works one of the distin-1
must be having a good time up there iu
Macon, and I am glad of it. It was only
yesterday I says to Ma, 'says I, “wouldn’t
it be funny if Aunt Martby should set her
cap for that Mr. Morley aud marry him?
But Ma, she said you had too much re
spect for yourself, and poor dead Uncle
l and evidently means to make 8 ui » hIn K attributes of Deity In his eon- John to ever get married again.”
lv if he doesn’t eet it Hp trivauces for use and beanty. There Is I T ^ ut . 1 *“* 8U ^® 1 don 1 t wh 7* ^ nc,e
ly u ne uoesnegee it. He I . ,. .. . . .[ John is as dead now as if he had never
probably nothing in nature or art which
confers greater happiness upon man than |
the perfect harmony and symmetry in'the
arrangement of parts, and in the assem-
bcen alive, and it seems to me If the wo
man tbe X^lble tells about who had seven
husbands was not to be bothered when
ahe got to heaven, you wouldn’t have any
and he very naturally demands due con- I blage ofgraces to please tbe eye. By night j jjr. Morley might not get to heaven; so
sideration for that service. I don’t see I and by day, we behold the traces of the IU would be all right. I don’t want to
how Mr. Garfield can go back on his ne- divine band in the assemblages of lights hurt your feelings, dear Aunt Marthy;
gro friends. They put him in the White | . nd so i 1 . nnon ;„j “ nllP bnt won’t a woman who has husbands
House, and for him to ignore this great I Xfratio^ and ^nd^ as^en ai enuY I debuted up and down in the next
service would be the lowest deep of in- vateouriBsiheticfaculties When the sun I world he better off than another whose
gratitude. There are some of them as fit 7_ e mnvrean SDlendor concludedhi*d?nr husband goes one way and she another?
to discharge the routine duties of certain ft nans tome she would feel at home
I would like to see atJy whim min put on ^dYh 'Zi S*Hf. But you know I don’t mean any
more stylo and look wiser than Fred ^ , r ,cll ‘ n v ^ 0f “” erel “““ ,0 ”^*5 ad< ?J thing by it, dear Aunt Martby; all those
Douglas, marahal of this district, not- beholding the serial lamW.nL kln ‘ l ? r thln S* ™ a ia everybody’s head
This U one of the meanest of Mr. Hayes’ “bXdTiHn her sable nmnUe acam we * nd 8nch » fellow! He b sit feet
many little meannesses. Douglas, as llnward and the dome of ’Heaven is two Mches in his stockings—if he wears
marshal, lias tbe right to officiate as mas- m n mi£S with mvriads of glittering orbs any—and rides twelve miles every Snu-
ter of ceremonies on such occasions, bnt Jay to see me. His hands are as,big as
Mr. Hayes pushes him into the hock- jTrVtlhf not much whiter
ground and devolves that duty on Colonel I fr» n Juj luminarv I 33?. Aud they have little valleys and
Casey of the army. I insist that Mr. iy * doMnnd from the emnvroan hmioht* I cre * k bottoms and cut-offs all over them.
Garfield shaft “give the cheese a fair ^SJSfff.^S^TBSSjBSfS HI J fa< ? is £*'? and ? uuda3 tl,e “TV
chance.” ^ „ F , h I and when he laughs ho shows a lot of
converted at last. I tbe humblest of this kingdom we behold I J®® 1 * 1 B1 * ke3 ®3 e think of a snake
The venerable Hamlin is just out of a the traces of the divine hand through the r ? no *» w,lh * P, aliel dow “ bere * ad tLe i; e >
sick room where he has beeu shut up by a law ef order, observed in the forms and 'hey are so broke up and crooked. He
violent attack of rheumatism. It seems to I relative positions of the leazes and petals I come A ln !°'he room and stretches the
have converted the old gentleman on tho of flowers, so arranged and shaped as best "'SS 6 ?' P alr ? f boots 1 eyer ?* w c T Iear lnt0
subject of overcoats for he lias actually I to show off the varying tints orshade and I * 10 a J! d "i? - I 23 . me like I was au
bought one and wore It up to the capitol (color that they may fall gently upon the •W* “ u Ho ““ but nineteen, and
last Thursday. It is understood thatthis delicate nerve of tho eye, upon which the 83 , bas “ ru ‘ ** a w "° u * Yon just
is the first outlay for that kind of garment I visual impression is made. Then we see °^t to see me worry him. Tlie
The he has ever made, and that it was a sore the diversified shades of color 1 ot ~ p *$ ht do ?\ , y ****
trial to him to spend money for such fool- almost imperceptibly the one into the oth- ® ay - 1 ’,“ Mr - b ' 3 na °\ e u Bi f lland
ishness. By tire way, I saw his successor, er, in contrasts and combinations so b0 1 “ uch 1136(1 to tb8 Mlster y et > HP
Eugene Hale, on the floor of the Senate a harmonious as to elicit the most Turner, were you ever In lovo /
day or two since evidently looking out for I exquisite sense of pleasurable emotions. I face-got red like a uasn ana ho set
an eligible seat. That formerly occupied We gaze, admire, and linger, and still new U P.*25 # l ^ ea . s .°. rte |' 8 f tled do 7»
by his father-in-law, old 2ach Chandler, beauties and new harmonies arise to en-1 and stretched his f«t and took hold of
is an eligible one, but old Conger got j largo our appreciation of their entrancing I another chair. Says he, Law, Miss Saman-
ahead and pre-empted that by telegram, j loveliness. 1 I tb y» what a idea,” thats wliat ho said “a
Two meaner,more malignant and devilish The opening flower that expands its T a „ ..,
men never disgraced a seat in a deliberat- beautiful petals to kiss the genial sun- L “ Bt ** were you ? says I. Ho pulled bis
ive body. It is eminently proper,therefore, beams as they play in the invisible a [ r feet up, and settled down again, this time
that Conger should succeed Chandler in emits its silent fragrance and laughs in. draw !i’ g t!ie ? l , cba,r U P 6los6y * Ho
its occupancy. joyous beauty to cheer the wayside trav- a u m , e .’ b , ut £? M t,"i a ! cll .i ns j l nl rT
BECK’S BIO SPEECH c ier as solitary and footsore he treads his bard b8 had to .L°, ok ba< ? *2? tbe , flr6 ' De
on free ships, the other day in the Senate, weary way. The roaring cataract with r du8 ,»n n ’ S * yS
Is the talk of the town. It rattled the | resistless impetuositygashing headlong in | ** „*J“^ t en e |5» »3a“, tookhishand
A Growing Industry.
Tub CuLtrvATiOK or
South.
New Orleans, January 10.—Within
party, for most of them had propoty in
that direction, and went to see after the
Rice nr the | safety of their own home*. I determined
to seek my friend, Mr. Holoomb, who had
lest been seen riding in tbe direction of
tbe claim of his brotber-in-Isw, which was
protectionists and subsidy mongers in j iu mad career; the timid snowflako with I
the liveliest aud most gratifying its fragile spauglcs floating in the air in t! { e i 6 ' a l ’ Jj, a ^
manner. Even Conklinc, who is such gentle undulations as scarcely to |J“*
usually conspicuously iuatte'ntive to the disturb tho slumbers of the infant, en- ®. ul oa a ” d tbe .“ b ? J
sound of anybody’s voice but his own, trance our vision in never ceasing Ed-1
paid close heed to Beck, and came over miration and delight. In tho gorgeous dud S 6 Pltls d663 > b “v. TJ* 01 the 1TOrd out
aud sat where lie could face the Kentuck- plumago of birds, Iu the pearly lustre of J* 6 saiu » sajs ue >
ian and catch his every word. Blame did shells,In the variegated hues of insects, in ' unci,
the same thing, and afterwards attempted I the wholo realm of Nature, we behold the
a reply to Beck’s facts and arguments, evidences of design in contrivances to
but it was a conspicuous failure. Beck I gratify tho love of tbe true and the beauti-
made one of the strongest speeches heard I fill. Seo again the admirable compensa
te the Senate for many days, and tho I lion observed in the distribution
I sorter looked hard at him like I was
astonished.
Why Jlister Tamer!” says L
He got red aud white again two or
three times, aud by and by I said sharp-
ly:
Democratic party ought to win tho next I of Nature’s gifts. The little violet
Presidential election on the issue he pre-1 hides its modest head in some sequestered
sented. By the’ way, did you ever nook, yet, though unobserved, it exhales
Iook iuto our navigation laws a perfume that fills the air with its deli-
“to protect American shipping ?” cious fragrance, rim utmel'a with Its
They provide that no American ship can snow-white or variegated petals—a model
sail the seas under the American flag nn-1 of symmetry and delicacy of structure,and, .. ,. , . , , u u-
less she is owned by citizens of the United emblem ofbeauty and purity—is des-1 and by alld by > 1 «olea lookat film,
States; that all her officers must be Ameri- I titute of odor. How many splendid spec- wa3 kuockln S 'he toes of bis boots together
can; that no American ship can be regh-1 irnens of floral beauty exhale disgusting alld he says, says lia, cause If you air—
tered in this country if a foreigner and sickening odors that repel us when 111 8°— 111 go—back—home. A lump
lias any minute interest in her as the own-I we admire or attempt to pluck them i | .vF_i. a - d
“Well, ain’t you going to say some-
I thing?” And he kinder straightened np
again and stammered out:
“You—you—yon ain’t mad—with me
| air you, Miss Samantby ?”
I looked down and didn’t say anything,
or rigging in a foreign port, shall pay I hideous caterpillar that „
fifty per cent, of the cast of such repairs 1 cate fabrics which adorn the persons of | sorry.
into the United States Treasury; that if queens and princes. The repulsive toad I „ Andthen wedidn t either of us say any-
an American vessel is sold to a foreigner, carries iu its head tho glittering jewel, I thing for a longtime. I was watching the
she can never again be entered under the and the rough and cumbrous quartz is the I flr0 , a f ld “ e y** ^ atc , n 8 »nd the fire,
American flag; that if a naturalized citl- bearer ol golden treasures. The wither- and feeling in his pockets, and studying
zen who owns a vessel of American reg- ing upas, whose fatal shadow is the pall abooi SlffGSnt But after a while, he
istry, or is interested in one, resides of death to man and beast; the majestic says > 8aya he rorter soft-ike.
■ *of this country, he forfeits oak, stretching out its Briarean arms to , Miss bamanthy, and Isold, without
right to such an interest in shelter the lowing herds from tho heat of loo ,l! 1 S up, kinder mournful like:
the vessel, and that no vessel purchased I the sun or the peltlngs of the storm; and I *What?
abroad by Americans can be registered I the trailing vine,creeping over tho surface I A nd be wa “ ed ?®!P e n j 016 » ^ nd * ald
under the American flag or receive the 1 of the earth, or entwining Its delicate I a S ai,1 > sa ye he 5 You ain t mad with
protection of the United States govern- arms around some natural or artifidal I me, *'r you ? And I told him a wasn t
meni. Isn’t it about time for “tree ships,” I support, all carry in their tendor leaflets a I a S alB » hut only mighty sorry. And after
think you? I chemical labratory that transmute* tbe I awhile b» said: “Miss Ssmantliy;” and I
i notice I most disgusting odors into pure and vital-1 toId , him *g*in, mournful-like, without
izing air. I moving: “What ? ”
*»uldte»nuo.l» p o. f »t town. And »»,IU^HlSSttlS'"i S yoi
saeBaantflgg!
knew or'heard 0 oft "He°hM beencousUnt^ nianly form, symmetrical in its proper- throe time* and when I kept roofing him
i v'fmdcr fire from twoor thr^e" misrteriL tionsand development, is an objert upon straight in the eye he got redagafn all
ind nalnreUy lSs turnedmflte 2£v & which oar eyes delight to dwell. Bat overthe head and ears:
Ugh moral I “Wlmt did you say, Mister. Turner?”
Be iald It all over again, and I moved
field^comes in GeoreU ftU^xpert^d <*hers, alld truly reflects the image 3 the “j* close and toldhlm I would like to
to ha'oartkiuHrlv Il^v^nd those^hSd- D lylne Original. But how oftw do we *° much. He shook all over’and
l^F P edereI office hid best bewttimr this spUmen ot physical perfection t°° ka tremendous grip on the other chair;
‘efdy for the bombardment? d<sbased “ d hy a stolid intellect he was going to say something awfuhbut
I and * degenerate morality. 1 at that moment our old yellow cat Tom
Uke a^piominen^hand^and haTilre^dy ' More^quentlydo we^ behold genius s« d J 6d “round his chair. Bill’s hound
market? severe! of the “ira” U m“u and high mental culture emitting Its sparks sorter raised up and showed his teeth,
d * u>rul? “ d wlth -
few hours elapsed before we found our-
seDcs safely at home, and oar adventur
ous wedding trip at an end. But the re
sults were not ended, by any means. The
terrible nervous strain I had endured,
combined with the severe burns on my
face and hands, threw me prostrate
on a bed of sickness.
When I was able to report for duty
again, two weeks later, I learned that a
noble gift from the Mobilia’s grateful pas
sengers—no less a sum than $2,000—lay
in the bank, awaiting my order. Not
only this, but tho steamboat company
had voted me a gold medal and the ap
pointment of pilot of tbe finest steamer on
their lino.
Years have gone by since my brave wife
and I had so nearly journeyed out of the
world on oar weddiug trip. From pilot I
have come to be captain and part owner
of ono of those beautiful floating palaces
that used so to excite my envy; but never
do I pass without a sickening shudder the
little island where the Mobilia won tbe
last race—a race of fire against steam, of
iife against death. *
H0KRZBLE HOLOCAUST. .
Eight People Boasted In a Burning
Building.
A Louisville Commercial special, dated
at Cancyvtlle, Ky., January 30, says: In
formation of a horrible tragedy reached
tills place yesterday, being the terrible
death of eight persons who were burned
in a house about four miles east of this
pl ACC*
Mr. Wiley Emery, with his seven chil
dren, are the unfortunate victims. A few
days ago he sold a large amount of stock,
receiving in payment several thousand
dollars, which he took home with him in
stead of placing it in a bank.
TWO SUSPICIOUS-LOOKING MEN
have been lurking around tho neighbor
hood for some time, and it is though* that
they tint robbed Mr. Emery aud fired his
house to destroy all traces of their crime.
When the neighbors discovered the
flames it was too late to render any assis
tance, and the entire house, with its in
mates, was destroyed..
.VS SO C1UES FOB HELP
were heard, it is inferred that the family
were all murdered before the house was
fired. The whole country is aroused, aud
should the suspected prrttes he found,
and tbe murder proven, short work will
be made of them.
n ■ " k.wnlTn* I ered corporeal frame. I ear and shied round behind me. Tbe
a eood'one ^hwhiseyeo^tbe ^%osL To compensate for the loss of corporeal hound ho up and went for Tom,and each
SSm symmrtry, nature endows the a y0(1 “ever heard. Both of them
nnslffor the if* chaneeis decided shadowy form with mesmeric force * screaming or growling, and over
CStjffiSS Tallis, SSL 1 $!S
ceedingly interesting for Mr. Garfield.
PABAOBAFEIC.
Randall, of the Augusta Chronicle, is
here again, and has been for several days, ^ [[iwm
I bear, for i have not had the joy ef see-1 “wit, “and surroundeiTwith the
ing him. I understand, also, be has a fat I drapeiy of a “meek and quiet spirit,” we
little bone to pick over in the Senate,upon g W admire and love. No wonder that
which I beg to offer mvmost cordial fellc- WJ3rat mM .» entranced with the im
itations. If I were king, newspaper men I personation of all that is pure, excellent
should have no other find, and pretty J a ud lovely, as In queenly majesty, fresh
much all of them, too. By the way, I see I f rom the hand of the divine Arctitect, tbe
Randall says in his last letter to his paper ^jght of his eyes stood before him, In the
that a notyery lovely state of affairs exists | exuberance ot impassioned eloquence, ex
claimed: MiB
and face. We look upon this piece of and Tom shot out into the yard-spitting
divine mechanism with eyes of wonder I and a foaming, with his tail as big as a'
and admiration, but when tbe beautiful biscuit roller. Bill came to tbe door with
casket is decked with pearls of brilliant f *chair In his hand, and says, says he,
though* aud irradiated with the oorusca-1 breathing hard :
1 ;<Gol darn that blasted yallow-eyed dev
il, I’d like to mash h—11 outer him.”
in the Georgia delegation.* What be
means or who be means I don't know.
“They say” that Mr. Maynard has re
turned from his defeat in Tennessee with
his liver very much stirred up, and that
he intends pretty soon to ease his misery
by ch pping off all the Democratic beads
“Grace was in ail her actions
Heaven in her eye,
In every gesture, dignity and love.”
But how seldom do we find in woman
this assemblage of graces. Tbe possession
in tbe p! tf. D. It is understood that I of physical beanty too often inspires
there are* good many of them, and some I self-adulation that noses ber U> be xso-
think that none will be spared. I bear | mindful or tbe more enduring morel
there are some from Georgia, bat if they I beanty of tbe soul that will continue to
hail from the right districts, I hardly I shine with ever Increasing lustre, even
think they will be touched. I wben tbe mercileae band of time shall
ex-oov. bbowy I hare beclouded In darkness the halo of
lias gone home for couple of weeks, but I physical grace and symmetry that onoe,
will doubtless keep one eye skinned in I like a zone of glory, endreted her brow,
this direction to look out for the “old Nature, in all her works, is beautiful
jlaV a nd any appropriations for Georgia I and trutbftil. Let us study and follow
rivers and harbors that may be lying her through all ber intricate labyrinths,
around loose. Wbt-n he reaches tor any | sit as humble disciples at ber feet, drink
little trifle of this sort, like Capt. Scott’s I at the pure fountain of truth that flows
coon, they had best come down. I by her throne, that we may wear a crown
I hear, I of unfading story In that land of pure de
even now, considerable speculation as to | light, where beauty and truth in queenly
who will be in thenext gubernatorial race,
and as much in regard to who will try
majesty reign forever.
Macon, January 29, 1881.
J.P.S.
And I said, says I:
• “Oh Mister Turner, I never would have
thought you swore.” ne tried to say
something, but I ran into my room and
shut tbe door, and Dili went home.
If he comes back, and I. know be will,
I’ll tell you all about it. . j
Your affectionate niece,
Samantht.
P. S.—I should so much like to see
that dangerous man. 1 ain’t afraid of any
of them, and if he tried any of bis tricks
with me I’d pull his English whiskers for
him. You ought to have slapped the
New York man in tbe mouth. The idea
oi you cutting tbe “short dog.” Why Aunt
Martby you couldn’t even do the “turkey
scratch.” Give my love to Mollie and all
of them, and it you don’t want Mr.
Morley, bring him down here. I don’t
think Bill Turner is mneb. S.
100 per cent. Before the war, and for wou m soon be hesns of smokln*
several years after, the Carolina* supplied We we^now almJrt to thaflS?
this market with rice, but now Carolina Z* £25“Xwn^usV..^
Is cut In August, and formerly it was *r 0 -m* „„ „ *
threshed by leltinghorsea tramp over it, tbe irfcket-piifand fether ^ ’ P P
as pioneers used to thresh wheat, bat in * -- l p - let -
1808 a thresher was erected on Tropical
threshing. The rico planters, like thelS"ff??gL are wrr s^ci^iwtm
wheat farmer, of tbe North, do not always seldom burned but
thresh out their gram immediately after it f* *l'v finEed bv Are ^2
Is cut, but a. we pas. by the field, in the ^ ttere^£ ^
autumn, scores of stacks may be seen - - no
tnresneu out. After tho rice is threshed it tr Li -.de a cbd in the wall of iaSuT
ish^fortoe 1 mS 0 In ^™ ”*5 tbe° oTteJ on ££
i3ut.ll for tilts market. Xu tliis city tLere j h&clc. wont LhroiicH iust ahead of m*
riC ° miIU * *“ bUllt lQ 1118 SrlT my 2f.d J and h“fdlS my
y ® a . 1 ?.' . .' ' ~ „ , breath I rode through the gateway of
Theee mills naturally owe their ex- raging fire into the whirling ciond of
!ni?i n to lan<1 * cinders and smoke behind. Right ahead
sj 16 ? 638 'he rice plauters. the lnrid flames told us that some of the
Each mill employs Irotn twenty to forty buildinca of Haves’ ranche were m
hJvo^ri^ 1 bro^i fl b ,f y * M ey StiU MS there Se scene WMtortWe.®^
havo more rice brought In than they can i an?0 stable «rranarv and fowl-hnnuT
hull. The meu employed are considered ^ in
jroflcieut in their work, and a majority, Hugo Cochin fowls, with the feath-
f not all of them, receive extra wages. ere ® burned from their blackened
The rough rico after being hauled to the k^. ie - ^ere eSne Bunidiv imn
mill is put into a largo bin from which it the fire orlottering ablfut iu .‘dW wa*
is taken by elevators to the upper floor, The dwelllnv house of stone with a dirt
fromtbeBJctaind mbhUh roof, was uufnjured’bnt almost everything
from tho sticks and rubbisti which may be I el$a WM ou li r e. ’ T he draft of toe fire
thn t ’v u >«io uo’iiui? .oif B jj! 0 ^. “ih. r ^? va “a* 10 'he wind tremendous; it seemed to
tho bearu which adheres to the graius|t*»ar un thn vi»rv ermnnd *nJ wh*n th*
like the “tail” on a barley grain; 4 the I ^ Zde me g% C Sreath H S2emS
tom ” M CV f° n I M though a shovelfulof dirt and sand were
hiard thrown into my mouth. There was not
beard, but it does not break tbe hull, con-1 much that I could do here. I soon started
sequently the “hoodlum” passes its cargo I homeward. 1 saw tbe smok* arising
on to the “stones” Which crack off the I f lom another r.™ onnnaira Mr
hulls. Like that of a set of wheat-grind- 5«’, wd a™rw.rd PP ^ leareJd
Iiig buhrs, the force of these stones is a that the modIc lrat ServthlnS^bSt
no/toea’^he^-n^ 617 ‘ PpHed ’ alld a0 “« ImplemeuL, Kir SS
i clothes they wore. Riding on I came upon
*Y!? eI x*k u Indigo I claim of two young Hollanders, ota-
seed in it, or, if carelessly weeded during b i e . hen house and corn crib were bla*.
Jndge Woods' D&auion on the Bail-
road Commission.
The impression seems to be very general
in the city among those who are posted
that Judge Woods, who is expected to. de
liver his opinion in the esse of Tilley vs,
the A. S. & A. railroad, in which the con
stitutionality of tho railroad commission
for Georgia will bo passed on, will decide
the case in favor of the railroads. Judge
Woods will be in the city during the com
ing week or the week alter, and will then
deliver his decision. It is said that he
will hold thattho legislature has power
to regulate the tariff of freights and pas
senger fares, bnt cannot delegate such
powers to a commission.
During the past week Central railroad
stock has advanced from 1W to 110, aud
it is expected that it will go Brittle higher
when tbe decision is delivered.
All tho railroads in tho State exceptthe
Central, have prepared to reduce passen
ger rates to three cehts per mile on the
1st of February. We are informed that
the Central will not, and that they have
not made any preparation to put the re
duced rates into operation.
They doubtless understand the sitnation
and know the ground on which they pro-
lose to fight. Tho case, after Judge
foods’ decision, will be carried to the
Supreme Court of the United States—it
matters not how it is decided—and it will
be some time before there is a final deter
mination of the question. Iu the mean
time the Legislature will meet in July
and may be able to amend such defects as
will appear after Judge Woods delivers
his opinion, 1.
Of pourse nothing is 1 known .hero defi
nitely about the decision, but circumstan
tial evidence points very strongly to tbe
opinion above expressed—Atlanta Con
stitution.
■ "Tn*-—< »»■ ■,
Charlie Ecu Onoe Here Discovered.
London, January 28.—Charlie Rosa bas
been found once more. A fanner residing
in the township of AUborough, named
Peter B. McCallum, came to St. Thomas
yesterday and reported to the chief of
jwlice that he had succeeded in finding
Cbarlio Ross, after tracing him for several
months. Mr. McCallum states be has
indisputable evidence that he has the
child. He traced Charlie from tho Sus-
lenslon Bridge to Tuscarora, where he
las resided for some time among the
Indians.
The boy was left there by a white man
or woman, who stated that they would
have to kill tbe boy unless the Indians
adopted him, as they were compelled to
gat rid of him. McCallum claims to bave-
possesiou of tbe clothes which Charlie
wore when be was stolen,and those which
he wore when left with the Tuscaroras.
The alleged discoverer furthermore
states that he has had correspondence
with Mr. Ross which establishes tbe
child’s Identity beyond peradventure, and
offers to pay the expenses of the child’s
conveyance to Philadelphia. Whether the
real Charlie has been captured or not re
mains to be seen.
Indian Atrocities.
8an Feancisco, Janua-v 31.—A Tuc
son dispatch says reliable information as
to tbe Indiau outrages in New Mexico
since the 16tb inst. shows the Ibllowing:
On the J9th three herders and two miners
were killed at Murcklsredo Gulch. On
the 20tb inst. two meu were killed on tbe
upper Churchills in a fight with a band of
Apaches. On the 22d Tnsfadt fire Mexi-
The simplest post-office in tbe world is
in Magellan Straits, and baa been estab
lished there for some years past. It con
sists of a small cask, which is chained to
tbe rock of the extreme cape in the
straits, opposite Tierra del Fnego. Each
passing ship sends a boat to open tbe cask
and to take letters out and to place others
Iu it. The poet office is self-acting
therefore; It is under the protection of the
navies of all nations, and up to the pres
ent there is not one case to report in
which any abuse ot the privileges it af
fords bas taken place.
the last ten years anew wealth-giving , wep t by the flames, the owner being ab-
indnstry in the shape of rice culture has | sent.
sprung up in this State, and with it has j The wind was now blowing a perfect
come that terrible deatb-giving disease, a .!, r Wa * J u , 1I 1 of flyin « du £ * ad
, . ,, . . j the blizzard was fairly upon us. Mr wav
rioe fever, which is peculiar to the rioe i«u th/ough a gap in the hills, and, as I
field. and its vicinity. How much this j rode over the burned ground, the wind
disease has Increased the death rate of! R?! 1 ? 11 e** with ashes, dust and cinders,
Louisiana we cannot now bnt it l J U 1 could * carcsly breathe, and I had to
hiouuiana we cannot now state, out 11 j draw my sombrero over my face to protect
must be quite perceptible, for the planters I it from the flying gravel, which cut like
tell ue tbait to sleep a night in a nee field I hall. When I arrived at tbe claim, I
is certain death to a white man. j found everything burned but a atone
About the, beginning of the last decade, I thtTlatter tboufhlt l ad^a^mr raoni^
3*T 1 ° d “ al ? ufact ? ( riea with tbl gre3, h ww not burned^though
SUCC8Se, rice culture j th« fire had sweat entirely amiinrl it
u t 'he fire had swept entirely around it, and
the plantedk.“w uKl4^ ;uSv£ *^ rTdi^“tr™ of'mv frfend
an experiment. It promised good returns
for labor, and on the result* of the trial i WM ^ on «,ntalnintr a Lt**-t-~ -~
beiug louud satisfactory, the culture of I^goline to tbe fir* ^rWcb
rice was begun in earnest. From then Ull up rafidi/from tbilouthW^st. It^i^
now, year by year, the old lands and t^jbie 9 j c bt to see the ereat w»« offlr.
plantations which lie convenient to water- j roiling ovfr the ridges toSJrd uTtotfc?
SassrJs.t A 0 r£.’r ,£3
soon start an immense rice plantation in | Tbe settlers had been very careless: few
Terrebonne parish. Iu the space of a few
years, as shown by the reports, the rice
crop of the United States has increased
of them had fire-guards, aiid I could not
help reflecting as we rode along that the
habitations and straw stacks that wa passed
mother-in-law, were massacred at Careso,
thirteen miles west of San Marcial. On
the 23d, a backboard was taken between
Silver City and San Marcial, five miles
from San Jose, and tbe driver killed.
Tim Mexican interpreter of the Turlomes
reservation was found dead. Forty In
dians left the reservation, and it is gener-
elly believed there are not less than 200
Indians, in bands from ten to thirty, on
the warpath, and that not less than forty
people have been murdered by them dur
ing the last fifteen days.
_ Five Weeks in a Trano*.
Physicians in Newark have been deeply
interested lately in a curious ease ofthys-
teria in that city. For five weeks Miss
Anna Ward, tho sixteen year old step
daughter of Alexander Johuson, of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance, lay in a
trance. Last winter she was seriously ill
for weeks wi'h typhoid fever. When she
recovered it was deemed best not to allow
ber to return to school until September.
Then she found that aha had fallen be
hind her classmates in ber studies. Feel
ing that she was strong, as site had spent
the summer at Long Brandi and
Saratoga, she began to apply her
sell diligently to her studies to
make np for lost time. She over-taxed
her brain, her. health failed after a few
weeks, and sho was compelled to with
draw from school. Her sickness became
serious, and in tho latter part of November
she fell into a trance. Sbe lay quietly in
her bed with her eyes sometimes open and
sometimes shut, but recognizing no one
and never speaking. No sound escaped
her, and it was evident she suffered no
pain. There was a slight twitching of tbe
eyelids, but little other movement. : : 7..1 cow. 10 m up to me creature, pun ud
Dti William O’Gorman, the family pby- ^ letdnglyrsM tramp over it, the picket-pin and let her go, remount and
alcian, called Dr. A. N. Dougherty and Dr. 8all°P on, was the work of a momont- I
E. L’. Seguin, of this city, to consult with ,f„ r n W “ fi,■ Tr °pical I gtw two ealres toddling along ahead of
him. It was quickly determined that the S®? d P 1 *“' a ‘ 1 o“. and since that time great f>— ----- - - - “* • • 18
strauge disease was uot catalepsy, for the
patient’s arms when raised, fell back upon
the bed, instead of remaining where
placed. It was concluded that she was a
victim of hysteria in an aggravated form,
resulting from overstudy. The severest
electric shocks caused not even the twitch
ing ol a muscle. After sereral days had
passed, Dr. O’Gorman, not knowing how
long the trance would last, decided to ad
minister liquid food artificially, as the pa
tient could not swallow.
11 About New Year’s Day she revived and
now she is able to ride out, and seems to
be restored to health. While she was in
tho tranco tho physicians were satisfied
that she was conscious, and proved it two
oc three times. Once Dr. Seguin said for
a test:
“She is a very pretty girl.”
Immediately she blushed.
She says she was conscious, but had
only one thought,and that was terrible. She
feared constantly that the physicians
would pronounce her dead,and she should
be buried alive. She had no physical'
pain, but this dread was agonizing. In
vain did she try to speak. She could not
even move her lips. It is supposed that
the twitchlng.of the eyes was causedby
her effortsto speak or give a sign of life
A physican said yesterday that he had
known of only one other case of hysteria
that was at all like this. Within the last
month he was called to see a lady who
became a widow within a week after her
marriage. Tito shock to her nervous
system resulted in a trance state,
and a partial suspension of all sense of
feeling, but after & few days she became
conscious. <■ . .. n ol '.?. M
the growth of the straw, it may be mixed
with damaged graius,and so a series ofTan-
niug mills is brought into use to clean it.
When hulled the grains are ot a lead col
or, and they mu3t bo polished before be
ing placed o., tho market. The method
of polishing is cleverly described by one
Interested as follows: “The polishers con.
ble, hen house and corn crib were blaz
ing, while their horses, with their harness
on, were galloping after the fire, the own
ers being too busy to notice them. I
followed the horses, ami, after a
long chase through fire and smoke caught
them safely and delivered them to a
neighbor. The wind bad now lulled and
seemed dying down. I wa* nearly home
sist of a sheepskin, tanned, stretched over I wb en the wind suddenly shilled to the
3b60 P °„ n ""iW 8y l lnde 7» \ he northwest and blew as bard as ever. This
space between tL^ sheepskins and wire I a t once changed the aspect of affairs. Tbe
gauze being just sufficient to allow the first firo !lid burned slowly along the
f 1C0 e raln3t ° findtheir way by degrees to hilIs all the afternoon, and now, hiving
ffish 0 **®® 1 -. _^ b6 F? ln3 highly pol-1 tbe wind in its favor, came rushing back
„ *gaiu»t the I w Uh redoubled violence. The narrow
Tn ,n !’ wbic h rilb 0(1 'h° bran and s t r | p between the two fires was doomed,
leaves only tho clean white grains ready 1 s ^ w th »t my work was not ended, and
j? r ,' b6 market. The bran amounts to going once more to tbe scene of action,
c gkt barrels to every hundred b »'rer* of ^ n ? the remainder of the day fighting
clean rice. It is sometimes used to adni-1 1
terete spicos. The waste in hulling aver
ages abont 5 or 6 per cent., but it soiue-
llmes reaches 20 per cent, on one man's
crop. The hullers receive from half of a
cent to three-quarters of a cent per pound
I fire.
By sunset, all my neighbors being safe,
or burned out, 1 returned home. Wben
I dismounted I found I was almost ex
hausted. For hours I had breathed, al
most said eateu,au atmosphere surcharged
A Kansas Prairie Fire.
[South Sid* (JCan.j Letter i» Newark Adver
tiser}
The most terrible fire that I ever wit-
for hulling, it would not be interesting I w j t b carbon, and my lungs felt ae though
*» g'«> estimates of crepe or y eld per acre suffering fro’m pneumaniT Twice I bid
in this connection, and we will only re-1 riddon through the bead fire; twice my ja-
muIv W d6d P°» y had fallen beneathme; I hedrid-
think wliat labor it tabes to prepare this 1 j aD miles on the gallop,and fought fire with
much-used article of food for their tables. | a n ibo desperatfon that danger and ex
citement gives, and I wa* “used up.”
But a good drink of water, an ablation
and supper quickly recuperated me. I
shall never forget that night. The wind
blew as though it would tear the bottH
, . .. . . , from its foundations. Smoke and eahee
SfthUre” fflltavl^WMhelniM^ fl,t6red through every crevioe, and car
ol tuts yea., mat aay 1 was Helping a ered c?e _ wbiu , t b ing w ith soot. With-
new settler, Mr. Holcomb, dig a well on I out| ^ scene was perfectly Plutonic, and
oTnnlamSL reminded one of the descriptions of Mil-
Wn and Dante. Great cloudsotemokelm-
pelled by tbe roaring wind, rolled overthe
J?*® southwest, and very high, and the fire I blackened prairie, while the lurid light
seemed to be running_rapidlyT We sepa- j ^f^be fires tuat raged in every directfen
w’^°*ifp« r ’h? ; 1 ** ? 111U P tbe s°sae * strange internal
e' are - It a night of urn^ All night
drove home. On the way I noticed a pe-1 a nd the following day the fires burned,
cnllar appearance in the atmoepbere to y ut damage was done. Buildings of all
the southwest. I he sky had a strange, I binds, vast quantities of b*y l grain “a fod-
bazy, brassy look, as though filled with d , ./ . r li
du# '» ^' b ‘ Peculiar lurid light and small d £ wereb^e^^ ^ ^
floating clouds. There was a strange, deprived of their oasture One woman
foreboding, electrical feeling in the air,luce | bumed to death^^olf CredT5»d
that before an earthquake or a than
derstorm. The wind was steadily rising,
and there was every sign of au approach
ing “dust blizzard.” The day was warm,
much so that I saw two rattlesnakes
it was rumored that a shepherd boy
and 600 sheep perished en the Saline; also
an emigrant family and team, butt'
rumors lacked confirmation. Certain it ia
* tu. tfjM, j ssssisAmjt
every blade of grara was as dry as tinder. I ” —•
In the northwest the fire burned swiftly I Messrs. Lamar, Rankin and Lamar,
1, great clouds of smoke rising up at in- Macon, Ga.—Gkntleuen: Wlllyou allow
tervals as the flames crossed some “draw,” | me to tell you something in regard to your
dry water course, where tbe grass was ] Brewer’s Lung Restorer? Last Monday, a
thick and rank. I despatched my dinner 1 week ago, when at my atore in Mont-
quickly as possible, and then, mount- gomery county, the following dreumstan-
ing tuy pony, taking a flour sack as a ces occurred:
'fire fighter,” redo off in the direction of Mrs. James Coleman while on a vlst to
the fire. I felt that my home was well her mother, Mrs. Conner, was taken very
guarded, as a prairie fire lmd burned en- ill and thought she would die with bar
lirely around it a few days before. old complaint of bronchitia and consomp-
Arriving at tbe fire I found a party of t ion. There were no phyaldane nearer
men busy putting ont the flames. Aa we | than Dublin, twenty miles, or Mt. Yer-
Thk royal beauties of Europe owe much
of their personal attractiveness to the In
fluence of Ayer’s Hair Vigor, whicli keeps
the liair fresh and bright.
only h*d a side fire to contend with (the
head fire was miles away to the northeast)
we sucoeeded in putting out tbe fire for a
considerable distance. In fighting fire the
men follow each other in single fife, whip
ping out tbe flames aa they go with wet
cloths, which we dipped frequeutly in s
barrel of water drawn by a team, which
follows for that purpose. It is remarka
ble to see what a long stretch of fire can
be extinguished in this simple way In a
few horrs. Only the side fire can be put
out in this way, and, to be successful,
the firemen must commence where
the firo began, aud follow it up,
one party on each side. To protect them
selves against head tires the people make
“tiro guards,’ around their premises—two
strips of breaking, with the intervening
space burned cut, so that the tire eauuot
leap across. We were abont congratulat
ing ourselves that tbe danger was over,
when a new tire was seen arising In the
southwest, right In the teeth of ilio wind.
This caused the sudden dispersion of the ,
non, fifteen miles. They sent over to tbe
store for something that would give re
lief. I gave them a bottle of Brewer’s
Lung Restorer with tbe understanding
that if it did no good I would not charge
them for it. The result was that in fifty-
six hours sbs was able to go borne twsoty-
one miles away without the slightest diffi
culty. I have sold several bottle* sines
the strength of this wonderful cure.
Mr. II. H. McCrimmon bought a bottle
aud found jalmost instantaneous relief,
The sale «f your medicine I* a settled
thing in this community, as I will war
rant it after this. Everybody will hear off
the cures made here. Yours truly,
G. U. R.VTcnFOKD, Bartow, Ga.
Physicians desiring to prescribe stuffi-
si.ms of cod liver oil, or cod liver oil with
hypophosphites, can have their proscrfD-
lions compounded, and we guarantee an
emulsion equal to any.
Laxab, Rankin and Lamab,
104 Cherry street.