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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. Km, I 11'; BrimB Hill .1 W01 I m siness'd KE*1 JU-WA Esy IR’ Vi ro to sfpbjj El ro. 1 i alias* I #,, •» —j — W. Divide these many birds in another man- 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 rprii 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 WANTED SITUATION AH DRUG CLERK BY A *» a young man with two year's experience. Good references given. Address J. O. 1IUNTEB, box T II 13 W*= E stasdabo SiLvaavASgCo., Boston, Hass. f>| | i^vi Instant relief. Final core In 10 1 lliJUiJt da> a,and never returns. No i>arg^ no salre, no anppoeltcry. Hufferer* will learn of a Nassau atreeet. N. Y. OPilJKi |fl|*|8**lr. for tr.iius.Kil HABIT aVKEi i.i-w*. uuw wiMt a lUw«r Mmwrir at lame gvSitlr'wS pislnl'wslw. ril rrt-rf i n *3TH0RNS«wFLESH The Great MoutUern KoOi*nc*-* vtwre of tAs Wmr, Ut rwuri ««■ i rMsh*. Answers **4 JjMfs Jhr- r*and *Un<U Tom's fVsAu.." U coaUfca /•** flat rf- ffrVt lii ffrilV S* l > llfTIfltt flfffff. By Capt. araoUrata IIUUUAUD miiis.' Atlanta. Ua. fOCH fit SON’S sWMSSKEaa I'lh. to .my aiMreae. lilin»traie» a every thing for LidM*. Or mu', Cb nnd Infanta* wear and Hawn keep* ag O-hmIu, ut nr!«•*•* hHerr than Ums* ot auf selivi!ie United Waive. Cewilef ••-ME BEST 18 CHEAPEST.” threshers Cltur BiUt.t —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.”