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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 2,188G.-TWELVE PAGES.
It MANY WINTER BIRDS.
NGSTERS THAT NEVER TAKE THE
"^ MORATORY TRAIN.
_t« Resident* of Oar Wood* and Field.
Their Haunt, and Hablta-Flealng
from jack Fro.t-A ITiper by
Ur. Cbarle. C. Abbott.
Christian »t Work,
tith the wind blowing at tho rate of
(tv miles an hour, the air thick with
fl jtes of snow, and the temperature
ttv decrees iFahrenheit or less, one is,
L:s naturally, disposed to stay
* tt nd to take it for granted
entire bird world is of
wav of thinking; but herein mankind
errs, for even during such days,
in the woods and fields, there are
and birds. As a proof of this one
only mention crows and snowbirds;
am not Bpeaking ironically, but sober-
screetly, cautiously, when I say that
,’oods at least, in midwinter often con-
s many species, usually even more
iduals than in midsummer, and al-
eouals the early spring, when the
ward trooping wnrblei* throng every
and corner, even to the very outskirts
town The merit of tho pudding is
esence of tho plums, and winter is by
jans a fruitless batter if there be birds
the boughs. Omitting all reference
wks and owls, let me mention, with
icomments, such birdB as I have met
since Christmas during my rambles,
ans, of course. Not a poor straggler
nd then in search of its fellows, but
heartv birds, full of song, and by no
i disheartened because the frozen sod
mger yields them an abundance of
a Be it dear or cloudy, bluebirds
and go. To-day a hundred perch
the stakes of worm fences, warbling
May day songs, and seeininly chasing
as they dart into the air with snap.
er of the winter choir, the brave and bril
liant cardinal.
These are winter birds, bear in mind,
and mostly charming songsters. I think
that every winter even others may be found*
sometimes, I know they may. Do you not
bear me out as to numbers? I have seen a
cloud of linnets. No summer birds come
to us as do the tree sparrows, and where
shall we go to hear sweeter bird notes than
when the white-throat mounts n leafless
shrub and warbles in the frosty air—
"All mel Ah met
All day, whittling, whittling, whittling."
• And there are more winter birdB? Can
we omit the cow-bird, with its gurgling rat
tle; the meadow lark, that hidden aloft
cries, “I see you—you can’t see me;” the
purple grakle, ever hoarse from overmuch
chnttering;the noisy but never tiresome red
wings? The songs of them all have echoed
over tho icy meadows within u week. Again,
a kingfisher is no stranger in the land, even
at Christmas, and his harsh cry accords well
with the rattle of chafing, icy branches.
Well he knows the treacherous spring holes
in the meadows where frost falls in its
handiwork and minnows linger until
“April unlocks the icy rill." Five,perhaps
six, woodpeckers are also to be found, and
while they have nothing to say, or next to
nothing at this time, they are so noisy at
their work of tapping treeB that we hear
them often when they elude our search.
Lastly, in steps the chattering jay, quick
witted cousin to the canning ccowb; and
even after these are long abed through tho
deep recesses of somo lonely woods there
comes the moaning wail of mourning doves.
Let me recapitulate. An ordinary half-
mile stroll beyond the city limits may en
able you to see forty odd species of birds—
possibly fifty. Fully one-half of them will
be in flocks. A score perhaps of purple
finches, linnets almost us sund upon the
seashore. Many will cluster in the thick
set cedars; others will spread over the
weedy fields; many will lurk in the angles
of a zigzag fence; others come boldly to the
front nnd bid you welcome,
FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION.
Discuss.,! and Strongly Endorsed by the
National Educational Anioclallon.
Washington, February 24.—The De
partment of Huperintence of the National
Education Association is in session here.
Prof. James A. Tovett, of Huntsville, Ala,,
read a paper on “National aid to Educa
tion.” He favored the passage by Congress'
if the bill on this subject now pending.
In the discussion which followed Repre
sentative Willis, of Kentucky, made an ear
nest speech in advocnoy of this measure,
biking the gronnd that Congress can law
fully appropriate money or lands for edu
cational purposes, lion. Theodore Nelson,
"f Michigan, Hon. B. 8. Morgan of W est enrich' themselves. Their plan of opera-
Vtrginia, and Hon. II. M. _ Skinner, of In- tions was to carefully remove the lids of
diana, took part in tho discussion. Mr. 1 merchandise cases, remove a small portion
Skinner said that during Jackson’s admin- of the contents und then replace the lids,
istration Western schools received substan-1 Goods were thus not missed
tial money aid by authority of Congress, until they arrived at their destina-
the right and constitutionality of which tion, when a claim would bo
was not, at that time mentioned. I made against the compuuv. Two olerks
D. F. Finger, of North Carolina, read a were abated laat week” bit their arrest
taper on “The Educational and Religious was not made known until to-day, when
ntereats of the Colored People of the eleven more of the snBpected men were
South.” He gave an exhaustive review of taken into custody. The company can
tho actual condition of the colored people ma k 9 no estimate of the amonnt of goods
of to-day and their past history, and from stolen. A small quantity of stolen goodB
that drew Lis conclusion os to bow they 1 vrere found to-day at the home of one of the
should be educated. He held that their clerks.
condition was such that it would not
be practicable to hove mixed schools. I Served Him Illght.
Tho colored people themselves did not Indki'Endincz, Mo., February 24.—Geo.
wont mixed schools and the white people I Smith, colored, a porter at the Chicago and
would not have them. The colored people Alton railway depot in this city, recently
were not as anxious to-day to educate I sent a note conbtining endearing phrases
their children as they were just after to a tlurteen-year-old daughter of M. G.
the close of the war. | Williams, a white citizen of this county.
Kvw w a mu* sen it Laat night the negro wag taken to the barn
NEW NAME FOR IT. I and tied up. One hundred lashes were
Wliat Senator Jones Terms Courting a | administered with a cowhide, Smith has
l'rvttv Widow. j iei’t for parts nnknown.
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beaks; to-morrow not one is to be ner and we will find that fully or nearly
It matters not what may bo tho one-half ore admirable songsters. None
er, they follow the whim of the mo-1 are lazy, moping noodles, as are many sum-
not tiie dictation of Jack Frost. mer birds when the noontide heat is tropi-
I two kinglets, wee bits of impatience cal, but every feather of them awake, olive,
ped in nnt-brown feathers, clamber ready for fight or fun, and bubbling over
witter among the tall pineB, now dip- with melody or loquacity.
'own to tho ground to snap their Do you really think, then, a January ju-
j-like beaks in the cat’s cor. clinging bilee a myth? Yesterday was o fair speci-
iwig, while they warble a bar of some men of mid-winter weather, with the tem-
forgotten summer song, and then perutnre as low as 10 degrees and never
iting to the tall tree’s very top, launch above twenty degrees—that is, take the
Treary space, regardless of wind or whole range of the field nnd woods; but
.£ sleet or snow. Two titmice, the then, scattered about, were warmer shel-
tomtit, with his jaunty crest; the tered nooks, and such ore the coucert halls
ml chickadee, the former making the affected by our winter songsters. One
to ring with his earnest invitation to doesn’t bny a ticket for the roof, the light-
tkereiu, “Here-here, here!” the ningrodor rim of the chimney when, he
ever winsome as it ohirps in more goes to the opera. Why look for birds, then,
tones, “Chick-a-dec-dee-dee-de! on the north side of a hill? I found them
has no terrors for me—for me!” yesterday on n sunny slope, nnd, tarrying i
itless nuthatches, near cousins, I bit, I heard them! The clear call of tb<
es of like tastes, yet, strange to say, crested tit opened the concert Tho
t loggerheads. One with a ruddy abundant tree sparrows twittered, king-
id, if a bird had a waist, the other lets trilled a merry roundelay,
ie;ith in white, and all day long, snow birds chirped, a cardinal per-
I tven into tho night, they utter formed an inimitable solo, and to nil the
.n ely a traco of variation in their I downy woodpecker was alike attentive and
"Quank-quank—tat-n-tut.” Be it drummed a tuneful accompaniment on the
ho it clear, they caro not The most resonant tree in nil the woods. Then
may creep to zero—they -will only an interlude. Not mournful silence,’.either,
re rapidly, and going she rounds keeping one sadly shivering.as the wind
rest trees they never stop to ask it swept by, bnt only a brief waiting until a
-mie. bnt greet you as they did the hoat of linnets dropped among tho trees
who wintered in America with n and sang a sweet hymn of thankfulness
unnk-quank—tat-a-tat,” all of I that such sunny nooks os this were vonch-
ornithologist has as yet boon | sated by kindly nature to our winter birds.
‘ ‘ Yet no sooner does November roll nronnd
MISDEMEANORS AND MISHAPS.
Dishonest Railroad Clerks Come to* Grier.
Philadelphia, February 2-4.—Eleven
clerks employed in the Philadelphia and
and Reading railroad freight depot at tho
Noblo street wharf, were arrested to-day
and committed for a further
hearing ou the charge of stealing
luerohnudise which had been consigned
to tho company for shipment. Large
quantities of goods have been missed by
the company, and detectives have been
working on the caso for some time. The
detectives ascertained that a number of
clerks were in collusion and were working
igantio systematic scheme
Washinotoh, February 24.—The Star
says: Senators who attended the Michigan I
Fatal Boston Explosion.
banquet in Detroit last Monday evening I Si»«atoh, III., February 24.-The boiler
called upon Senator Jones, ot Florida, who ? f ®ogtne No. 15 of the Chicago and St.
has been absent during tho present session, L ° n “* r «“lway exploded near Kenan a few
and invited him to retnrn to Washington north “ f u h(;re - e TeDin e* Engineer
with them. lie replied that he was not yet Ashling was thrown a distance of seventy-
ready to return, and did-not see why ho I 5. v ,? ^ ari ^ over telegraph wires and
a Limy tu ivvuau| •****• uxt uwt nvu uu I
should hurry back. He said ho had devoted Kmea *
THE RED SKIN DEVILS.
himself assiduously to his senatorial
duties for ten years, and conld,
not understand why he should | Geronlmo Refuses to Surrender UncondL
not spend some time in relaxation I tlonalljr to General Crook,
and recreation without criticism; that other San Fbancihco, February 25.—A special
Senators had frequently remained away from El Paso, Texas, says: Word has just
from the Senate for months at a time with-1 been received here of a meeting between
out incurring criticism; that Senator Fid- General Crook and Gcronimo, nt Lung’s
munds once went away with his family. I ranch, seventy-eight miles sonthwest of
Don Cameron went to Europe nnd Sharon I Denting, on Monday. The report states
was rarely ever in tho Sennte, yet nobody I that the chief and fivo backs held a con-
criticised them. Sonntor Jones admitted saltation nnd naked permission to return
that he had read the Florida papers con-1 peaceably to their reservation. Crook re-
detnning him for his absence, but he I fused their request, demanding their un-
thought the criticisms very unjust. It was I conditional surrender. Geronlmo refused
reported to the Senators who interested I to gM himself up, and alter tho consultn-
themselves in the matter that Senator Jones I tion left for his camp, keeping the white
had been offering attentions to a lady ot flag flying for ten miles or more. Chief
Detroit, .who had declined them. At any Nana and others are still held as hostages,
rate, he refused to return. Geronlmo is reported to have with him
—o— ninety books, besides women and children.
Our Proposed New Navy. Nonttompt wus made to follow him, and
Washinoton, February 25.—Tho bill pro-1 what his movements will be is not known,
posed by the naval affaire committee of the
tides, and swarms of fierce, bloodthirsty
mosquitoes rise in clouds as feet wading
through the mud disturb them. There
are eight houses built here on piles
ten feet high, and made of hewn
timbers roughly put together, and
admitting air and light every
where through tho orevioes. They are ob
long squares divided into three rooms, with
batten shutters hung on leather hinges, and
no door to any doorway, except the one
tbnt leads to the rode, unroofed gallery.
The houses are mostly about 30 feet long
by 18 wide, and somo six or eight men oc
cupy each one. Almost all of the men are
away fishing at the moment, hut an ancient
weather-beaten patty greets us civilly
enough in a sort ot bastard Spanish, diffi
cult to understand. His face is the color
of old leather, and seamed as if out with a
knife. There are two or three others
lounging about with pipes In their mouths,
more or less free translations of the first
ancient mariner, but not a woman to be
seen. It is a strictly masculine community.
No woman is allowed within its borders.
There is a legend at the Shell beach that
once, yearning for the sweet amenities of
feminine companionship, one woman was
imported as an experiment In less than a
week ties of friendship that had lasted for
years were snapped. The laws of tho vil
lage were set at naught, and every night dis
putes, accentuated with knives, arose os to
the recipients of her favor. The heads of
the community consulted together. It was
evident that the dusky Helen was destined
to bring on a warfare like that of the Kil
kenny cats, so it resolved itself into a ques
tion of the first law of nature. The wltole
body, exhausted with dissension, consent
ing, tho unhappy female was taken out into
the marsh, tied to a stake, and abandoned
to the mosquitoes, who made short work of
her. They picked her bone* dean, since
which tinio no woman has been allowed to
sot foot within the village. But this is only
a legend.
The men support themselvos by hunting
and fishing, and live in a primitive fashion
ruled over by a sort of patriarch, who set
tles disputes and governs the community
in all Important matters.
Tho sole amusement is gambling with an
original sort of card, of which there aro
twenty-seven in a pack, and are unlike the
cards in general nse. They hnvo no relig
ion apparently, nnd if crime ia committed
among them who knowB? The waters of
the bayou would tell no talcs and blood
might cry |aloud from those vast lonely
marshes and no ear listen closer than the
low bine skies.
They havejbnt littlo furniture. The only
touch of high art is displayed in the dull
brown blanket suspended bofore the inner
door. They Bleep on boards supported on
trestles, with no bedclothes other than a
blanket, and, above all, no mosquito net
ting. There are great heavy tables of hewn
timber, where they eat their meals and play
their gumes, A tow pots and kettles, ana
HAPPY YEAR
-1886.-
Po ynw hear a Mg noise wav olT. I
Year! to our Ten Thonsand Patrons in
Texas, Ark., I,n.. Miss , Ala,, Tenii.. Va„ N,
II
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A!!
which we are just settled in after three
months of moving and regulating.
Hallelujah! Anchored nt last in a Mam
moth Building, exactly suited to our needs
and immense business. Just whet we have
wanted for ten long years, but couldn't get.
Magnificent Double Store. Four Stortee 'end
Basement. AU Feet Front, loo Feet Deep.
Iron and Plate Olaaa Front, steam
Heated. Electric Lighted.
House for the construction of n navy pro
vides for two Bea-golng vessels of 6,000
The Projected World’s Fair in 180*4,
Washinoton, February 25.—A number ot
tous, with torpedo outfit, to cost $2,500,000 prominent gentlemen interested in estub-
each; three protected double-bottomed Ushing a permanent American exposition in
cruisers of between 3,600 uud • 0,000 tons Washington, nnd a world’s exposition to bo
displacement, to hnvo great speed and held in 180*2. in honor of the fonr hun-
to cost $1,500,000 euck; four first- dredth anniversary of tho discovery
class torpedo boats, costing in the aggre-1 ot ’America by Columbus met this evening
gate $400,000; one torpedo cruiser of 800 and adopted resolutions strongly favoring
tons, to cost not more thae $300,000. | the project. The chairman was instructed
$2,000,000 is appropriated toward tho com-1 to appoint a committee of citizens to formn-
pletion of the monitors. One of the cruis- lata a plan in furtherance of tho celebration
The Largest,
Finest ajid Most
Complete
A fact. If we do nay It ounelycs. Visit New York,
Bowton, Cincinnati, Chicago, 8t. Louis, New Orleans
or any city on thin continent, and yott will not find
its equal in sire, imposing appearance, tasteful ar-
raugement, elegaut fitting or atock carried.
interpret.
etty brown t roe-creeper. Curtail* I then tbe poet's corner of the country week- cm is to be builtjan oned of the monitors | of Cun ipipertant anniversary,
iter of two continents. He chat- lies and the essayists' pages of tho preten- completed in the navy yards; the rest it to virc
;e to European and American; a tioiia journals teem with ragrsta at the sad ’ ’* 8 [
veler, ami yet happy in tho sparse I silence of our woods in winter, or gush
*t Central New Jersey. Like the with nonesenso about dreary snow-clad
lie, too, will pause in his mad ca- fields.
be given ont by contract, if suitable con
tracts can be made, otherwise
they too are to be
Local Option for Virginia.
Richmond, Va., February 24.—The Uoubo
built I ot to-day adopted, with some
il sing exquisitely. Like all the
fiat I have mentioned, no severity
The Age of Iuventlon.
Bssibs,.a™. | Inoculation of rabbits with the bacillus
Ini ." ?. 0 « ffec ‘ him - un - of tubercular consumption is proposed as
COTerin K our L method of exterminating them InAus.
■cry tops the brave treo-oreeper is | °
■oath,
. treo-oreeper
I saw them on the 9th I
* “A ‘ “» 1“ »“ I Crockery coffins are propored by a Phils-
vine annwnnd 11 M<nwf!i«iff Wldel P h ta inventor. His ideaiito glaze them,
be* 8 Wmtbua making a tight and imperishable re-
1 forlorn? 1 vt c«ptacle, the object being to protect under-
mh bnr?of I g™nd Water cimnU from pollution,
ajj* Jsjj Mineral wool it taid to be coming into
cnes overhead Thl^ Carolina M0 in tbe eonstruction of buildings, on
?'X'.fYh, . account of its atrengtb, lightness, and re-
pever*^ a rawsrJ 1 ‘ sistance to the conduction of heat It has
chance nndwnhinn alao the advantage of being fireproof.
i estho.a^ , ‘lK h . 8 .°„T Tha manufacture of alcohol worn wood
I™. b “ increased rapidly within a few years,
s charms the world in June. an(J |t Uuidt obe used largely for patent
ter wren, shy, wood haunting, I bitters, ginger extracts and other alcoholic
mg, sileut; and so, to many, even compounds whose strong flavor mukea it
a abroad, unseen. Yet nts bc- unnecessary to use a better quality of
well worth making, and his spirits. Wood alcohol is a dangerous pro-
»J«.cause ii" 1 to forget that now due t, and sometimes gives rise to serious
ry winter. lie only chirps, to ho disturbances of tho brain and nervous sys-
» Marty chirp is c er better than t, m
1 *°ng or senseless chatter. ABt. Louis doctor is credited with having
’tiled larks. Not one, bnt many, cat off the tails of two lizards and unitet
’”gn* dozen, hut a hundred, and the animals by sewing the stumps together,
the woods, hut out in the open tbns making a species of Hiamese twins,
on L.U.I trump knee-deep in snow The object of the experiment was to ascer
Mever mind; hunt them up. tain if blood conld be transfused by this
sail, sink, dive into a drift, method; and one writer maintains thut if,
1 as suddenly reappear, asoue for example, a weak and bloodless invalid
e labor of tho search will prove were attached in this mania r to a strong
"» grout has been yonr reward, and healthy aniniul, the result must be fa-
hird. Trim os a dandy Neat vornblo to the invalid. Dr. Roussel, of
Pin. Said to die of shame if Pari *. >■* Bai<l to have met with encourag-
soiled. Always in the com- 'Ug success in such an experiment.
An Vn»«ntlui«ntnl Valentine.
Ja es and part of the n£be * **> “ Monday Iho House ^.nd-
.ought abroad. $1,060,000 In appropriated ^ ZFSkSSXSa*,Lowth’e
£&£?*of plant- rod tools. ;Z“? I «nfwhere‘thS' 1 ltSd an op‘tio 1 n Uw
The bill is about ready to be reported, but r 0 P Uon “ w
Is still liable to further amendments.
The Kails Ship Hallway Scheme,
Fell From a Tower.
Detboit, Mich., February 26.—This
Washinoton, Febroarv 25. - The changes mom i ng Alexander Row, an employe of tho
of interest made by the House committal* on I electric light company, uscondeu tbe tower
commerce in the Bad* whip railway bill from Q re tia avenue and Mack atreot for tbe
the bill as originally published, are as fol-1 purpose of replacing the burned out cal
lows: A requirement that the railway shall He h ad jug, reached the platform at
transport a vessel of four thousand tons ^ w ], en be suddenly fell over the rall-
Irarden, instead of three thousand, before in( . can)e down hesdformost to tho
tho liability of the government begins; * I ground, a distance of 150 feet. His body
provision that tbo obligation of tbe govern- wag horribly mangled, and he lived but a
rnent shall cease unless the company shall ^ort time after, lfc was 23 years of aga
keep the road tn good repair, which shall unmarried.
be evidenced by 1U safely transporting a
vessel which, withita cargo, Hhall weigh no A QUEER LOUISIANA COLONY.
less than four thousand tons; on amend- *
meat making the lawful currency of the M ‘“
United States or its equivalent (and in case " hl0 “ *"
of Mexican vessels transported, then Mexi-1 New York San.
can silver dollars) receivable for tolls (the From prehistoric dsys people living on
original bill provided for payments in the nraretiy borders of lakes hsve preferred
i told); provision for trial before tbe United I to place their dwellings in convenient post
iutea conrta of oniitrovemies arising in tion for their boats, and have used spiles,
this country between the company and its I driven into tho edges of tl.e lakes, for tbe
stockholders, or the United 8talcs exetud-1 foundations of tluir dwellings, which were
ing questions arising in Mexico or affecting at once huusis and wharves. On tbe banks
the company's tcrrilopal rights. of Lake Muracuibo, in Venezuela, are
1 ■ -* *' villages, and they
huge earthen jars, whete their water re
mains cool and fresh, oomplete the list of
their possessions.
Twenty years or moro ago a few Malays
and Lascar seamen deserted from their
■hips at the New Orleans levee, drifted ont
here, nnd fonnd the desolnte marsh to their
taste. They have gradually accumulated
more Asiatics from time to time, until they
number now something like fifty men, who
live this single, amphibious lifo with per
fect contentment. Dwelling almost all ot
the time upon the water and crawling ont
npon the slimy hanks to eat and Bleep;
dropping into nnknown graves, and as ob
livions to all of the outer world as if in an
other planet.
A King's Romance.
According to a time-honored oustom the
capital city of Munich Invariably presents
to the King, in the event of his entering the
state of matrimony, a huge cask of the
choicest wine grown in Bavaria and selected
by a special commission. The cask is con
veyed to the palace on a richly carved wagon
drawn by six of tha finest white stallions
which can be obtained in the country.
While quite a young man King Louis, as is
well known, was affianced to a certain
princely lady, at the time residing in Mu
nich. Already the day of the nuptials had
been fix* d, and among other preparations
the traditional offerings ot tbe city of Mu
nich had been purchased, when suddenly,
on the very eve of tbe royal bridal day,
’the match was declared off,” for “state
BUSINESS.
And now, with this Grand New Mimic Temple, af
fording every facility for the extension of onr hual*
uohb; with our $2UO.OOO caah capital, our 91UO.0O0
atook of muaical warca, our eight branch houiee,
our 200 agenciee, our army of employe*, and our
twenty yean of aucceMful experience, we are pre
pared to aenro our patrona far better than ever be
fore, and glvo them greater ad vantages than can be
bad claownere, North or Houtb.
Till* la what we are living for, and we ahall drive
our buitineaa from now on with tenfold energy.
With hearty and sincere thank* to all patrona for
their good will and liberal support, we wish them
Happy New Year.
MIDDEN £< BATES, Southern Music House,
8A VANN All, <i.l.
P. 8.—If any one ahoull happen to want a Piano.
Organ/Violin. Han Jo. Accordeon, Hand Inatrnment,
Drum, Htringa or any aoiail Muaical Instrument or
Hheet Mimic, Music Hook, Picture Frame, Statuary,
Art Goods or Artists’ Materials, WE KEEP BUOI1
THINGS, and will tell you all about them If you
will write u*.
L. & B. S. M. H.
Dr. J. M. Buchan & Son
EASTMAN. GEORGIA.
Private and chronio diseases a speciality. Hun*
dredn of certiflcatea of curea. Will visit adjoining
counties. Consultation free. Medicine by mall or
, 4 a Jawiwlyf '
LAMAE COTTON CHOPPER
Thoroughly Tried sad Is Fully Giinrni.tc
Chops H acres, dor with on# mule. Psys for Itself
In s few day*. FRIGE ONLY *ao. Send for
descriptive circular. Address
1ILOUNT * HILL, Atlanta, Go.
dectlwtt
Amount of Sliver Dorian In Circulation.
| several of these
to be foiled iu
obscure places
■ ever regardless of all I
I,Sileut when at rest; lisping a
Hint when forced to fly. Never
K.auia entertaining. I would
“t enthusiast iu its praises
Ju its merits, I fear they are I
Jdeep. titill I am thankful that I
pe out in my assertion, that a
|“ l " r W a mere figment of tha im-1
A cruel monster; the foe of I
► le r in the land. A bird that
i I'i* 1 -’—n«t a phrase. Much as |
11 have one word in his favor,
c proves that other birds I
. shrikes hates an uncertainty,
i well stocked larder ever before
f * a * tall tree? The sparrows I
taugied smilax at its base. Surly
lance as an angry hawk; yet at
Ptens up; he almost looks gentle,
'““mg. It is a poor attempt,
“oulil pause a second time to |
|we corns to a long list of finches.
I, kl, ow- that in winter we have
I but do they know so mnch of
?ws of our "much, be-sparrowed
Ift one does not persist in hug-
[*<= »H winter, there is a fair
bis seeing a pine grosbeak, a
, two beautiful crossbills, a red-
white snow banting, tbe
?»Pnr. ,
> here s moment Except the
never see a single bird. If
>ou will find a dozen, a hun-
b*lf a thousand,
d qnll have its bay-winged
l Weeds -* *'
Maiden fair and full of grace,
I should bow and doff my hat.
Say "your servant” and all that
While I watched your pretty waya
I could only amlle and pralae;
And you'd never dream your lover
Could a flaw iu you discover.
But I'm bolder, lady mice,
llld behind HL Yaleutiuc;
And Ill connt you one. two, three
Faults that I can plainly tec.
Once I saw a tempest ri«e.
Clouding o'er yonr pretty eye*,
When a guest came to the ibnir.
Who was old and aad and poor.
Once I *»w you turn away.
With a cold an<l fretful nay.
When yonr little brother came
Begging for some childish games
Once I saw yon ait at ease.
With a book upon your kneea.
While your mother-patient Mint—
Did your work without complaint
Ah! my pretty Valentine,
fc’re I ask 5 ou to be mine.
1 must know that lovely face
Mines with more than surface grace;
That your captivating art
Doee not hide a cereleea heart.
Lent when treeaee brown grovwfctte.
Eyes get dim which now are bright.
Age and trouble come apace,
Btesltos bssalr tram Jour fa«.
I should bitterly nplns
Hlrnrulous Kscaps.
W. W. Baod. dreolslof Wlachastro lad.. sritM
«>»• -Y khw
Washington, February 25.— A statement D, Aimt and on the west coast of Africa,
prepared bjr tho United Hiatts Treasurer Taking tho Shell Beach cant from Now
■hows that out of 220,739,761 standard «il-1 Orleans und passing throngh a fair and fer-
ver dollars cuiutd up to February 20th, m„ country, by tbo ancient battlefield
1886, $31. 7,889 were in circulation on where Jackson won his laurels, whoso long
that date, wnercoa out of 205,784,381 ailver line of fortifications repaired by the C'on-
dollars coined up to July 31st, 1885, $39,- federates may stiU be seen, yon reach in au
284,433 were then in circulation. The hoar tho shores of LakeBorgne. There is
amonnt of standard dollars in the treasury a g ne new c iub booso here, owned by the
after deducting the silver certificates in cir- Hunting and Fishing Club, containing
eolation, February 20th, was $82,587,546, deeping rooma enough to accommodate
baaiKr" — hairth • • ■ g—
as compared with $C7,62r,842 in the treas
ury July 31st, 1885.
e club at once. From tho observa
tory of the club house can be aeen with a
strong gluss what looks like a cluster of low
New postmasters. I bats away on the distant curve of the lake
Washinoton, February 25.—The Preai- shore. This is the Malay village of lake
dent to-day nominated to be postmasters dwellers.
Edward II. Lnens at Florence, 8. C., Ed-1 There is a hotel here, too, kept by an
ward King nt Uawkinsville, Ga., rod Mary 0 Jd Spanish creolo rod hia wife, a shy, slen
Ilunaton Gillespie nt Aberdeen, Miss.
A DEAD DENTIST.
feeds along the fences, P..* ° r s lammj. lad., was s torn •oietsr wttS
theedpTof the wood; ~ ro
■[WOW. Escape,if von ■«•$•*"*1£
aowbirds need but be named; ,u **-
attention always,’ I Tn* introduction of natural gaa at riMa-
■ 2.V°5v“ U trib «. *rid tha burg haa reduced tha quroUtyofeoM ron-
**tth tha acknowladgadlaad-1 turned in that city 250,000 bnahala pec day.
8t. Louis, Febrnary 25.—Dr. Edward EL
Coates shot and fatally wounded Dr. A. B.
Keith, at the corner of Fourteenth and
Fine streets this morning. Both of the
men are dentists, and it i- stated that jeal
ousy ha- existed between them for a long
time. Coates has been endeavoring for a
year pest to procure a divorce from hia
wife, bnt has been uniucceaaful in his
efforts. Dr. Keith has, in the meantime,
been a defender rod sympathizer of Mrs.
Coates, rod although ha is sixty-five years
old, ha had been accused by the lady’s hus
band of improper relation* with her. Coates
has been despondent fur sometime and this
morning announced his intention of drown
ing himself rod started for tha river to carry
out his purpose; bnt npon emerging from
his borne he met Dr. Keith, and after
an interchange of some hot words
ha secured Keith of having caused all his
nnhappiaase, and tha latter denying it, a
struggle ensued, both men falling to tha
S and. Upon Keith’s rising and externpt-
to walk away, bis antagonist drew a ra
ver from hia pocket and discharged it
with the above result Dr. Keith was taken
to the city hospital, when ha died etJ:40
o’clock this afternoon.
dcr, brown girl with bare feet rod s calico
atm bonnet of immeasurable depth of tun
nel, and a ilim obscurity down in its depths
in which her big dark eyes look soft and
shadowy. They keep a pet alligator about
rolls one wicked small eye, lifts his upper
lid and shuts it again with a bang that is
lea-antly emphatic. There is a solitary
can, too, with clipped wings and ro ex-
aely reserved disposition, whoso bill the
hotel-keeper, with ro eye to decoration rod
exquisite Iberian taste, has painted a vivid
green. A long pier rnns ont from the hotel
a hundred yards into the lake, where a
boat may be hired to go anywhere, even to
tha Malay village, though the little French
boatman warns you they, tbe Malays, are
not sociable, rod are lamentably careless
the use of the knife.
Tbe village ia an hour’s sail across the
curve of the lake, and there, in the brown,
oozy marsh, away from any human habita
tion, v ith only tha flat, dim horizon in
sight, is tha primeval phase ot civilization.
A sleepy, crawling bayou runs throngh tha
village, arid the water marks on the piles
tell how high tha water rums at certain sea
sons, so that they are surrounded entirely
by water in tbs spring. Jost now a little
coarse grass pricks throngh the slimy
earth, leprous with tail residuum tram tha
The arches and banners were taken down
and indue time the wine rod the white
stallions, whose occupation, alas, were
gone, were sold at auction. Bio transit
gloria mundit The state reasons consisted
simply of the fact that King Louis bad sur
prised his royal bride in s suspicions tete-
a-tete with one of his subjects, tbo hand
some son of the famous ’art photographer,’
Hanfstangel, in Munich. Or, according to
others, bad come across some gnshiDg love
letters, which bad mused between tho
Princess rod her linmble lover previous to
the King's courtship. However that may
be, the cruel and humiliating blow was suf
ficient to blight the remainder of his life,
and from thut moment ho abhorred rod
shunned nil womankind. The shame,
which first forbade him to make bis ap
pearance in public, he could not overcome
until it hccuine chronic, os tt were, giving
rise to the silly report that be fiercely bates
all mankind aud is well nigh insane. Tho
exact contrary is abont tbe troth.
A Strange Tiling.
J. A. Long, of Akron, Ohio, told me to
day of a peculiar thing similar In character
to planchette, with which the little manu
facturing city iu which he Uvea is bewild
ered. Its int.odnction there is something
he does not know about, bnt he has a large
family of children, and as the bewitched
ami mysterious pieces of mechanism made
them ull so nervous that the could hardly
sleep at night, he knows where one particu
lar machine went to. He smashed it np
for kindling wood. “The affair,” said Mr.
Lang, “consisted of a rectangular board,
which may be of any size, but was usually
about two feet bv eighteen inches, on
which were placed all the letters of the
ulphnbet. A little table with three legs on
■mall rollers goes on tho top of this board.
Two persons sit down with their finger-tips
on this table. One of them asks a ques
tion to which an answer is desired. The!
they await the action of the little table to
which their fingers are glued, as it were. It
is certainly curious how that table trill fly
around at time*. As the legs point out
different letters on the board sentences are
formed,|which constitute the answer of the
a uestion propounded. You would not bo-
eve it unless you should operate it your-
self, what wonderful rod strtkinglv perti
nent answers are made. The whole town
has been filled with tho machines, bnt ‘
smashed the one at my house."
REYNOLDS’ IKON WORKS.
Iron tuitl lfrass Foundries nnd
filucliluc Shops.
kinds, ma-’iluary of all kinds. Grist
pairing ■»*•••*» anginas nnd machinery a specialty#
Iron and casting* of avary description. In
fact any an a aver) thing that U made or kept in first
class Iron *orke.
Tha proprietor has had an experience of oxer
forty yearn In the iron bnalneae.
We guarantee to sell yon Cane Mills cheaper
han anybody, and that they will give perfect aatta
taction.
A. REYNOLDS, Proprietor,
Cor. Plfth and Hawthorne streets, Macon, Ua.
oct27*w*tf
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*» a young man with two year's experience. Good
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—Mrs. Woodward, the millionaire widow
of Chief Justice Woodward, of Kentucky,
has taken u suit of rooms at tha Galt
Hotise, Louisville, to entertain Miss Mil
dred Lee, tbe daughter of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, and Miss Emily Mason, the brilliant
Baltimore bell*, who is widely known for
her work in tha interest of the Catholic
church.
Tn* Boston Traveller ia authority for the
statement that at a recent entertainment in
that city on* of the young women present
■aid, referring to her coffee, “I like to have
all composite puts of my beverage both
saturated and coagulated.”