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About The Ashburn advance. (Ashburn, Ga.) 18??-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1899)
WY MOOSEHEAD CANOE. (More men have been drowned in Mooso- head than in any other lake in Now Eng¬ land.) Keenly purrs the wiud past the spruces of Hoe-at-e-an. Swift ride tho waves iu the gloom of Kln- neho; foama-flashing White Haunt tho flags of tho giddily, beyond like tho tails of —Flooting olT m« deer a-row. Dtp down beauty, deep! you're a-loap, Ah, my And I calmly front tho danger of tho lake, my Jove with you. Wary, scary though you he, See, I loose you wild and free, In the welter of tho waters for I trust you , my cuuoe. White are the bones in the waters tossing muter me; Pallid are the skeletons of hunters sucked below, ,, . . .... . gruesome!)- murmuring* of those The blttor, bitter who call you foe. That yoYbrougbt them them in here malice to die? That you drowned your when they risked their souls with you? Thatyou wantoned with the wave not save? j Ah, 'tls false; I'll not behove It, for I trust you. my canoe. r'uwwi ffnn%o, ,r ° m ^ R " raP ° f Nothing am I daunted as I stroke this glossy side. Thin Is tho shell, and clamorous the buffet- . lag, 1 But bold is tho breast of tho gull on which j 1 ride. Stauich my blade! I Kivonash! No I;night arrayed In tho panoply of conquest over bettor weapons boro. Thrust and parry right and left! bo, the vast gray rauks are cleft, And avo scatheless surge to heaven outlie far Tom-he-gan shore. Journal. ! —Holman F, Day, iu Lewiston A STAMP DEALER’S STORY. LY RUDOLPH C. BACH. One cold night iu November, 1851, two men Avero seated in a in a building facing the mighty St. Lawrence river. Montreal was a small city then- The principal firms had jtheir offices and Avarehquses at almost the river front, in some instances at the brink of the mud Avail which protected tlie city from floods in the springtime, and this house Avas ono of thorn. You could throw a stone from Its window av itIt case iuto what Avas then one of the deepest parts of the river iu that vicinity for there was tJ*» wharf where tlie Quebec boat moored. Tho night our story opens,the river was covered with a thin sheet of ica. Tho men in tho little room were hnv- JVg « bot argument. On a small table mood an iron box. a small affair, the lid of Avhich was open, showing it to be filled with documents of various kiudH. Beside this box lay a large package with many seals, addressed aud stain pod. The stamp on it was— the twelve pence black. This packago was evidently the bone of contention between the two men. They were strangely contrasted. One, an elderly man av it li a firm, resolute look, his hair streaked av it h gray, aud 4|te other a dissipated looking fellow of about thirty or so. It was he who was walking angrily up aud down, w^ile the other avus standing by the table, his hand resting on the pack- •g«- I 4 No, Clement,” be said, “1 cannot let yott have any of this money. It <iocs not belong to me. I Avas cu- trusted by Francois Roohette of Quebec to collect bis accounts here. which 1 have done. Tomomnv the money Avill be mailed to him. No man •ball ever say that Charles Goodwin betrayed his trust.” “But, " here broke in Clemeut, “I must have money,” and under his breath he added, “I Avill have it,too." “Von are always wanting money Clement Hanson,” retorted Goodwin, •‘Ever since 1 helped you up,you have beau drawing money out of me, and It has got to stop. When your father, who av«s mv best friend, died, his last words to me were, ’Charles, take care ©fmy boy.’ 1 promised him to do so, ami have done so. 1 gave you a posi- lion, give you money Avhenever you wanted it, and now, because 1 have no “oaey 011 hand, you demaud me to rob those avIio trust me. ! He had got excited while ho spoke, aml without kuoAvingit, had taken Ins hand off the package on the tabic, Clement saw this, A\ith a sudden »uriig he icache 1 the table,seized tho precious package. Quick as lie avus, Itowerer, Goodwin avus nearer to the door, and reached it first. He faced round and cried— “Thief, would you make me a ruined man? I, avIio have done so much for you? Give me back that package, or I shall take it from you.” 4 t Ah!” laughed Ransom, “I have it now and I am going to keep it.” Goodivin made a spring at him, grasping him by the neck, aud wrenched Hie package from him. Struggling to and fro, they upset the lamp, which fell to the floor Avith a crash, the burning oil quickly setting fire to the wooden partitions. Good- win, seeing the place ou fire, released his hold ou Hanson, aud throAviug the l ,ackake iuto ‘ he iron box, he slammed the cover, and grasping it in his arms, made for the window. Hanson Avho had reached the door suddenly pulled out ft »ud fall. lovelhng tt, fired, and hhav Goodwin Then he turned and fled down tho stairs, for the fire ' vaH «pr®nding rapidly, muttering to himself “In the morning when they search the ruins, the box will be uninjured und aviII pass into my possession. ” Rut Charles Goodwin Avas not dead, although badly wounded. With a effort he reached the window, and lifting tho precious box, put all Ids remaining strength into a ) a st. effort and threw it far out of the AvindoAV - - into the river, It crashed through the thin ice and immediately sank. Iu those days the fire department Avas different from Avhat it now is. The company reaching the scene first re¬ ceived a bonus from the insurance companies, consequently there was a great rivalry between tho various sta¬ tions. r The man who brought the alarm to the station received a shilling. When the first hose company arrived at the fire, the house Avas almost de¬ stroyed, aud all that could be done was to save neighboring property. Next morning,the mins Avere diligent¬ ly searched by % Hansou uiul others,but although found, Goodwill’s- remains were no trace of the iron box was discovered. Goodwin’s death was put down to accident. Hausou Avas killed nfter in a drunken brawl, Noav let us skip forty-one years. All this time the iron box had lain on the bottom of the St. Lawrence covered 'vitli an ever-increasing layer of mud. In 1892 dredge Number Four of the Montreal harbor commissioners, avus dredging the channel opposite Jacques Cartier square. The depth of the channel a, as being increased from twenty to thirty-two feet. Suddenly one of the men on the mud scow on to which tho earth, et. cetera, taken up by tho dredge av as dumped, noticed n rusty iron box. Nobody Avas look- ing, so,securing it, he stowed it away inside the locker where he kept his clothes. That night he took it home, well wrapped up. There, the box was opened, aud on top lay the package with a stamp on it, such as he had never seen before. This man avas honest he was not going to keep the money aud papers if the heirs of tho rightful owner could be found after these ma l, y years. He Avent to his laAvyer, Avho after a long search, found the heirs. In his gruti- tude at recovering the papers, which really Avere valuable title deeds, lie presented-the man Avith the package on which avus this rave tAvelve ponce, aud with a handsome cheque besides, Through his lawyer, the mau sold tho twelve pence t > a Montreal philatelist, for three hundred and fifty dollars, and it now rests as the gem “par ex¬ cellence” in a superb B. N. A. collec- lion. And its present owner has good reason to be proud of it. for feAV stamps lime such a history.— Wave: lev Magazine, l-'ioit Strange Work. The frost played some tricks down this way that are uoav even to the old- est inhabitant. To begin with, avc never had zero weather here before, or N at least, no such weather has ever been recorded. It avbs cold enough to freeze the palms in the hothouses; it killed the cacti, wilted the rose- bushes, froze all the water pipes, and knocked the leaves off soma of the evergreens, such as the live oak. The fall of dead leaves reminds one of an- tunui in deciduous woods, Another curiosity is that some forms of deli- cate glassware, having been frozen, have become excessively fragile, break- ing all to pieces, no one touching them. A houscAvife, finding this her glass goblets “blowing up” iu remurk- able fashion, "saved the remnant of her collection by bringing the glasses to a boil iu salted water aud allowing them to remain in the water until it became cold again.—Mobile (Ala.) Register. HORSE "KNOCKED OUT.” /klankana Have No I'm for Him Since tlie Reindeer Ha* Arrived. Some interesting factB about the use of reindeer in Alaska are contained iu the United States Commissioner of Education's report, just issued (Vol. 31, pp. 1601-1047). The report states: Siberian reindeer were first im- ported by our government in 1891 as a humanitarian movement. The Alaskans were ready to starve, for their sole food—whales, walruses and untive game—had been mostly killed or frightened away by white hunters. The progress from this initiative has been great. In July, 1897, the Alaskan herds amounted to 1466, at four sta¬ tions north and south of Prince of Wales — the most w estern cape on the American mainland. This number has since greatly' increased, not only by native births, but by an agency established in Siberia for securing animals all through the year and hav¬ ing them ready for transportation within the brief summer iu which navigation is permitted by Arctic ice. .Siberian ow ners often refused to sell their reindeer unless they were them¬ selves taken along to care for those “nieiqbers of their families,” and they became schoolmasters,as it were, to Alaskan border apprentices. It was soon, however, aseertninel that the Lapins were superior to all other nationalities as regards the most improved methods dispatched of handling rein- deer. An agent to Lap- land prevailed on seven families of the most expert trainers to teach their mystery in Alaska for three years. This service they performed with gratifying success. Then three of them were persuaded to remain, be- coming herd owners, while four, iu accordance Avith the original terms, were carried back to their homes. The reindeer superintendent Kjell- maun—w hose name bespeaks a Norse¬ man, if not a Lapp—soou went abroad Avith orders to import a permanent colony from Laplund for building up a sort of normal school of reindeer culture. It is uoav demonstrated that for the development of Alaska reindeer are an absolute necessity. Dogs, horses and mules are as nothing in comparison. They all starve where the reindeer finds plenty to eat, aud freeze where he has no care for shelter. To capa¬ bilities of our Arctic camels have never been so tried aud found not wanting as in Alaska. Iu the winter of 1896-7, Avhen Congress had voted #200,000 for sending food to starving Klondikers and 400 whalers frozen iu still further north, it pioved that no other crea- ture but the reindeer could either find food on the routes of rescue or draw enough of it for its oAvii subsistence, Reindeer gathered from the different stations then afforded the only reason- able plan of relief, aud showed beyond a doubt that they are invaluable as freighters, mail carriers aud aids to miners prospecting Avliere no other means of transportation can carry them. Early in 1897 three men with seven¬ teen reindeer finished a trip of 2000 miles, the longest knoAvn to have been ever made Avith the same teams. Their route Avas through uuknoAvn regions, pa tly to discover neAV oasis of moss pasture and partly to learn av hat could be done away from trains and timber. In twelve hours of one dav thev made eightv-llv, mile,. The cold ™ n f V B 7 r Z ,f h"‘ doer ll throve, H and at night VTt found their own food. In spite of a poorga— which is a blizzard raised to the high- ost power—all would have gone well to the end. But when neariug their goal no moss could be discovered Avhere it, had in been ruzzizzTiZ declared to abound. toodleaa teiims perished. _ Klellne-H., rowed- lvipling, when a young man and be- fore he had children of his own, was constrained to “borrow,” as he said, the children of his relatives and ac- quaiutances to satisfy his love for younglings. He loves best to gather them around him ou a rainy day Avhen the sky is dull aud the earth sodden and gust Mvept aud tell them stories aud draw pictures for them. As lie talks about jungle animals, bis favorite theme, he illustrates the stories Avitli little pencil sketches in outline. liree Denver children had toe p'.c.isu e of being his audience for a number of rainy days and of dogging ms f itsteps on pleasant ones, several Acnrs ago. They are the now grown- up children of H. R. Smith, who are the first cousins of Mrs. Kipling. Kipling and Miss Bnlestier were married in January, 1892, and started for a trip around the world. They got as far as Japan, where Mrs. Kipling was taken sick. The bridal trip was abandoned, and they returned to the United Htates and decided to spend the summer among the sugar forests of Vermont at Rapoudn. of August During the early part and it a family reunion was held there, was thus that the young Smiths be- came Kipling’s audience,, and he be- came their hero. When rainy clays came and gray show ers blew over the lake they would retire to Kipling’s own room,his work and thought room, where none dared intrude, and with his briar wood in his mouth and paper and pencil to illustrate, there would be story after story.—Denver Post. ------- Smne Tennessee Hiltemen. A yarn is ^old iu Manila, and it con¬ cerns the prison and two Tennessee volunteers. A Filipino convict had climbed the prison Avail and Avas run¬ ning for dear life through the open. Tavo long-legged Tennesseeans Avere fire. on guard duty. They kneeled to “I don’t guess it’s more than three hundred yards,” said one, quietly “I reckon it’s most five hundred,” said the other, as if he were discussing the weather. The prisoner was running like a deer, and rapidly approaching the nu- dergrowth around innumerable little huts where he would be safe, “Call it four hundred,” suggested the first Tennesseean,iu a conciliatory tone, They adjusted their sights, aimed, and fired. The escaping convict fell, and the two Tennesseeans went out to bring in what was left of him. “If he’s hit iu the head, it’s my shot.” said one. “I aimed Ioav, ncco’din’ toa’my reg¬ ulations,” drawled the other. The convict Avas found Avith one bul¬ let through the back of his head and another through the loAver end of his spine. They kuoAV Iioav to shoot in * ke mountains of Tennessee.—Har¬ per’s Weekly. A Rune'll of Violets. She Avas a pretty woman and Avas dressed handsomely. He avus a fine looking man and Avas stylishly attired. They were Aval king on Broad street, qear Chestnut, ou the way to the theatre when a vender of violets, a small boy, stepped up, calling out, “Violets! Violets! SAveet double violets!” The man said “yes,” aud he and the woman stopped. The latter entered a faint objection to the pro¬ posed expenditure, but her escort in¬ sisted, and took the bunch of floAvers held out by the lad and pressed them into the avo man’s hand, 4 4 Hoav much? Ten cents?” asked the man. “No, sir; tAventy-five,” replied the lad. “Oh, I Avou’t pay that,” sharply ve- marked the man, as he snatched the violets from the woman’s dress, to Avhich they had already been pinned, and thrust them into the hand of the boy. Then the handsome couple hurried off. “Well, dat's de cheapest guy ever I seed,” said the dispenser of the purple blossoms, before resum¬ ing his cry of “Violets! Violets! SAveet double violets!’’—Philadelphia Record. A Memorial Ctiaixtl, A meMwW c i mpe1 lo Hie „„ Em . pres* Elizabeth of Ansi, in is in ,,recess «>' ere, -lionet the mountain hamlet,) p n * .i llim , B ...hi * lle Sch " eebe , ^’r . . l tj" f ‘T ® , ? Y ltlo n >9 °n f t Y .*,*?*, l"-. lhe r cb: , W el1 ,' w ? n It the Austrian inotrinn^mn' ,.YY“ empire, Y 1 U I r> u <"hberghas Yi* ‘ U1 '\ 111 of late *Y.?.YV years developed i le ? ei V . into nto a “ fashion- lftshlon ‘ 1 __ ,»._ It „be £ poiuV'of Xvntiou'rivair'thnt oi^the famous Pilatns line in Switzerland, The scenery of the Sclmceberg is ex- tremely romantic. Archduchess Marie, wife of the popular scientist, Archduke Rainer, has taken the building of the cliapel under her charge, and,weather permitting, the structure av i11 be com- pleted September 10, the first anni- versary of tlie empress’ assassination, —Chicago Record. Very Mtu'.i Mixed. At auction ... sales things much are very mixed In a recent catalogue there was a \ onrt waistcoat, worn by King Charles II,embroidered and Avoiked iu silk,” aud “a jockey’s cap and sleeve wom b the late Fred Archer when he rode for ■ Lord Rosebery." THE CAROLINES. Itlamli Thai Do Spain No Good—Germany Likely to Bny Them. If the Germans succeed the Span¬ iards as possessors of the Caroline Islands, they will then control a new stretch of Pacific waters extending over 1500 miles, from Yap in the west to Kusaie in the easQ with 680 islets and islands sprinkled over the expanse. Most of these little lands are low coral atolls, but some of them are islands whose abounding basalt shows their volcanic origin. The basalt islands are inclosed by barrier reefs. It would not be* difficult for a vessel to sail among these little islands from one end of the 1500-mile stretch to the other without sighting land. Most of the islands are sparsely inhabited, and probably not over 50,- 099 people, whom Mr. I\ W. Chris¬ tian calls an “odd medley of black, brown and yellow races,” inhabit them. /The western islands have the darker peoples and they speak the more barbarous languages, though they are much nearer India and the Malay archipelago than their eastern neighbors. The largest island is Ponupe, near the eastern end of the Carolines. The next largest and the busiest is Yap, near the Avestern end. The chief trade is in copra, the dried meat of the cocoanut, of which about 4,000,000 pounds are produced an¬ nually, Yap contributing nearly half of it. The other exports are beclie- de-mer, vegetable ivory, nuts, turtle shell and pearl shell. Spain may haggle a little over the price, but the probability is that she really Avishes to get rid of the islands. They have been a troublesome acqui¬ sition. They have cost many Spanish lives duriug the native risings. They have made it necessary to maintain two expensive military establishments. Yap in the Avest and Ponape in the east, and Spain has really got nothing for it all except the empty honor of fly¬ ing her flag over these little groups. She has no t ade there and has re¬ ceived no revenue from the natives, and fhe taxes collected from the few German, American and Japanese trad¬ ers, Avho are doing very well,is a mere bagatelle in comparison Avith the cost of the Carolines to Spain.—N cav York Sun. The Kind He Wanted. 4 4 Everybody’s been taking a fall out o’ my chickens,” he said, “aud I want an injunction.” 4 i You do?” asked the lawyer, though! fully. . “Yes, sir, I do,” answered the caller. 4 4 Been troubling you for some time, eh?” asked the lawyer. 4 4 Pretty reg’lar for nigh onto a year,” Avas the reply, “an’ everybody seem to be able to stop everything with injunctions, so I thought I’d have to git one.” “But I don’t believe I deal in the kind you want,” returned the law- yer. “What kind do I want?” asked the caller. 4 i You Avant a double-barreled in¬ junction loaded withbirdshotor salt,” replied the lawyer. “You ought to be able to get it at any gun store. ” “By gum! I guess you’re right ~ ” returned the old man, as his fa O e lighted up. “I’ve heard tell that these, here injunctions were mighty effective Aveapons in the hands of men Avho knew hoAv to ban lie them, but I didn’t quite get onto Avliat they were before. ”—Chicago Post. Bismarck-* Great Appetile. 0ften Bismavck Partied Ms friends by the quantities lie ate. Once he 1UU * tke ^°rth American minister in Berlin, the renowned historian, Ban- croft > ' ve; e dining with the Prussian j Avarn- ^ lugly, to the chancellor, who had 1 piled two Bomethiu- h<f«e Tore "fo* comC'” “*« * T should S \ud «o ^uea ” BisnmvcV eY U J ,Y' S wurTe he P Dm 1 * ® Tlie Diving Record. The greatest diving feat ever achieved was in moving the cargo of the ship Cape Horn, wrecked off. the coast of South America, when a diver named Hooper made seven descents to a depth °/ tbne over forty-two ~00 feet, minutes remaining at one under the water. An authority states that +he greatest depth to Avhich a man lias been known to descend does not ex- ceed 220 feet— which is ecuivaleut to a pressure of eightv-four and one-l>alf i pounds to the square inch. - Wash- ington Star.
