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THE LUMPKIN INDEPENDENT. A. W. LATIMER, Publisher. YOL. XV. Ihic #wkpnukni. Pu v ished every Saturday Morning T EitMS: OMi TEAK... SIX 510JNTHS .. 75C. itntew ol'AdvcrtisinK. One inch one insertion........ $ l ot Each subsequent insertion...... 50 One inch, one month......... to One inch, three months........ On One inch, six months.......... -1 One inch, twelve months....... 10 l-O One quarter column, cue month 6 00 One quarter column twelve months 35 00 One halt column, one lnsnth... 10 0 One half column twelve mouths coco One column one month....... 15 00 jne column t.velve months.... 100-0 All bills for advertising arc due i.t any time upon presentation after first appearance of advertisement. Address all letters to The Lumpkin Inde PENDENT, or A. W. L VTlMEii, TILE ‘‘CURE-ALL” TRADE. FORTUNES MADE BY SUBSTITUTING NEW NAMES FOR COMMON THINGS. The rubllc I.ike to bo Humbugged—A Cstrhlng Title for a Simple Drug—.Tile lioad to Success Lies Through Much Advertising. People in the country can look back to the time when the quack doctor visited tlicir towns anil villages and expatiated upon the blood purifying qualities of sarsa¬ parilla from his buggy in the street. lie offered a decoction of it cheap in n bottle, or sold the root itself with instructions bow to treat it. Sarsaparilla was found to be of service, and it became, and has remained, a favorite medicine In one form or another, and indeed is found in every saloon ns a regular beverage. Only some ten years back a gentleman from Califor¬ nia with winnings from the gambling table advertised broadly a specific cure to relieve tho physical disorders for which sarsaparilla liad been so generally adopted. He gave it a high sounding name, pub¬ lished testimonials as to its virtues, gave It away to the druggists on condition that they should not sell it under a certain price, and in this way created a demand for 1t. The people who tried it as a medi Y'inc were satisfied with its results, and it js now a business paying a handsome revenue. LIKE TO TIE HUMBUGGED. Now, if you happened to be a chemist of some repute, and truthfully told the public that this medicine was only sarsa¬ parilla, and they could get as much for ten cents as there was In this dollar bottle with the new tangled name, would they be thankful? Not at all. They wouli shrug tlicir shoulders and say “Perhaps. l ' Because the public like to be humbugged. That is nil that it- is. No lawyer could make out a charge of swindling in the ease mentioned, lie does not sell some¬ thing for sarsaparilla which is an infcrioi drug. lie simply takes as his motto: “Sarsaparilla by any other name would be as good, and pay better.” It is the name ho endeavors to manufacture, and often is Is a costly process. The public buys and pays for the name, and there is no false pretense about it. “Words are words and things are tilings. The question is the connection between the word and wliat it expresses.” This is the thought upon which Mr. Sar cey has made an excellent book. So far ns it applies to such goods as depend upon large advertising, it is a thought that must have struck many people. There are many compounds in a drug store that are in no very strict accord with the labels they bear. “But the point is this,” said a drug¬ gist who lias lieen on Broadway for many years, “the people have to pay so much for advertising. The consumers pay it all in the end, of course. For instance, ejuite a number of there patented articles arc of simple ingredients, and very few of them. There are a lot of old-fasliioned remedies in general use since our great grandmother's time. The manufacturer takes one of these, whether it be rhu¬ barb or senna or friar’s balsam, or what not, and lie decides on a catching title for it. This title he advertises every* whero until people begin (o try the goods. ADVERTISING IS THE TIIING. “In many instances they grow to have faith in them. A lady came in hero to¬ day and purchased a dollar remedy largely advertised. My next customer might have been one who asked for the very same drug by its common name, and he would have been supplied with it for ten cents. No, we don't make any large profits on this patent business, because wo have to keep such a varied stock, and if the goods have not a ready sale, we are likely to lose. “Take it that the drug costs ten cents only. Here is a dentifrice, for instance. That is simply Croton water with a little alcohol, a dash of color and a little per¬ fume. very little else. But there the pretty bottle, tho engraved label, the man¬ ner In which it is put up. This will bring up the cost to about thirteen cents. You may put on all the way from ten to forty cents a bottle for advertising, and then it is sold wholesale for fifty or sixty cents. It is the advertising that costs the money. The best remedy in the world would be of no use without it. “The name is a great thing. No mat¬ ter if it bears any reference to the article or not, if it is attractive and catching. Of course a man does occasionally spend $50,000 or even $ 100.000 in advertising and his article does not take, but very rarely. With sufficient advertising you can sell anything. The patent medicine busi¬ ness is a business of advertising more than of scientific discovery or manufacture. In it the capitalist places nil his funds and all Ills hopes. The number of fortunes it lias made, from Holloway up, arc enough to fill a prescription book.’—New York gtar. Telegraphy for Army Officers. The German war office having decided ♦lint all sub officers must learn telegraphy. 100 officers selected from the Berlin gar¬ rison and 100 from the garrison of Stras burg and Metz have begun a course of tuition.—Frank Leslie's. *1KT- LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1887. A WONDERFUL CHANGE. HOW A FASHIONABLE YOUNG WO¬ MAN BECAME INTELLECTUAL. A11 Owing to the “Pumper” and the “PoUnher"—Filling Up With Informa- , tion Every Few Days — Memorizing Drlglit Sayings and Funny Stories# Julia is the most vehemently fashion able young woman I know. Her raiment ls always stunning, the glitter of her dia monds is bewildering, her bonnet aspires upward in an excelsior way that ts quite ! overpowering, and the corsages of her full i dress toilets lead the van of retreat in the j other direction Julia is and has always been brilliant and beautiful to the eye, I and nothing else. If her precious Uttlo head had been a wax form in a hair dresser’s window it couldn’t havo had less in it. But not very long ago the son aiul heir of a family that goes in for tho ill tellectual took Julia’s wealth and Julia along with it to his pocket and heart, and since then the most amazing chango has come over her. She is not a wliit less strenuously stylish than she was before, but she has actually become quite intel lectnal. and is even brilliant in con versa tion. She who was never known to say anything smacking more strongly of iu tclligence than “Oh, how lovely!” can now talk interestingly about almost any thing that society knows about, and is wittier and more sparkling than any of her husband’s intellectual circle. I said something to her the other day about what a wonderful change marriagehad made in her, and she laughed and said: “Oh.it isn’t marriage that has done that. It’s all owing to tho pumper and the polisher.” “The who 5 ” “The pumper and the polisher," she re plied, ns cooilv as if slie had been telling me what tailor had made her dress. “That is what I call them, because one of them pumps information into me me'off, by the head fill, and the other polishes makes me brilliant, tells me wliat to say to be wittv You see after I was married I found that all my husband’s family were too awfully cultured and intelligent to think anything of my dresses and dia monds, and that they were disposed to look down on me ns an empty headed chatterbox who didn’t know anything and wasn’t, very myseif sria-t nnvwav Well I tost vowed to that‘tliev 'thankful shouldn't do it, and (hat I'd make them to have me in the family. But I couldn’t think of going into the thing deep, you know, studying, and all that. I hadn't the time and it would havo been too much of a lK-re. I had heard of tho pumper; some of the girls I used to know employed him, and so I go to him three or four times a week and' just get filled up with informa tion about anything I want to know.” “But how can you tell what subject you’ll want to be filled up with?” “Oh that’s easy enon-h Yon know ‘ converscation generally starts from a™ some topic of tlie day, and if you 5;eep yourself pretty well filled on those you can keep your oar going. Occasionally I have him give me an extoa hour or so on some otl.er subject, and by starting tlie conversation in that direction and ^ ad " a1 ^', "' daadi n:? Mentor'“SI”’h^rtll*&e \ ft** t „ ■rwswss&’tsrm v « a '% “Goodness, no! I (ion't"trv don t try to ,» It If, s too much trouble If I think I sin 11 need it I let him fi!l me up again on the same subject Ton sec, lie .mows cveiT .mg I think lie must eat and dnnk looksas ivcH as rcail them. If I want to know about TV agners music or Munkacsys let listen him and talkit take a atmeforanhourw^ fewnotes, and altogctlicr I remember enough of it to pass for know ™ my dear, you o ’ ^ fectly astonished, if you know liow many patrons lie has among too very best peo pie. Society is full of them But I’ll wager my new diamond ^r rings that not one of them would admit ever having the the polisher, mdWher what w lint about about ldi^” liim? “Oli.thnt’sthe funmest partof t alk 101 know I’m supposed to be qmto a witty, entertaining person. Well that .s all my polisher I go to him regularly every day, tell him Where I expect to go and whom I expect to see, and then he ^cr httle idL if sandwto^ in" and funny stories to tell that will probably bo apropos to the conversation that I shall engage in. That man has been worth lilt weight in gold to me, and I think I’ve paid him about.that much already for his services. But I never could have got on without him.” “Does he have very nftmy employers?” I asked, beginning to wonder how many of the bright things I had admired only tlie night before hnd come from him. “I don’t know about that, because, as you can imagine, he keeps everything con¬ cerning his business as secret as the grave. But I am awfully afraid he has begun to duplicate his witticisms in my own set. If he docs that I suppose I shall havo to deed him one of my mines outright to get liis services all to myself. Oh, It’s a great bore, and it's awfully hard work, too. I don’t know whether or not I’ll he ablo to go through the winter with it. But I was ’determined I wouldn’t lie looked down on.”—Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer. Contributor and Editor. An eastern magazine writer was enter tertained by several gentlemen in a west¬ ern city, and introduced the topic of fresh periodical literature and suggested that some of the party might do something in that line. Several of the party thought¬ fully smiled at tlie recollection of neat printed missives from their guest laid away in their desks at home. There is a western story of one of these eastern edi¬ tors being so much interested in the rela¬ tion of certain circumstances by hig neigh¬ bor at a dinner that lie said lie would bo glad if his neighbor would write him an article on the subject. The gentleman liad simply lieen giving the editor all he could remember of a paper recently rejected by tho interested editor. It is possible that in these instances the contributor talked better than he wrote, or perhaps the din¬ ner table had a more soothing influence than the sanctum.—Courier-Journal. There are some men who have so much genius that they can’t do anything but sit around all day and think about it, A WeeklT Newspaper, Published ia the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County. THE HABITS OP ELK. Wliat a Western Hunter Has Observed. Cow Elk an<l Calf. Tho habits of elk are similar to those of deer, but they aro much larger animals. Cows that aro in good condition dress about 350 pounds, and fat bulls dress about 450 pounds. I have heard of bulls that dressed 600 pounds, but I nc\er saw so large an elk, and I have seen hundreds of them. In September tho calves dress from.80'to 100 pounds. Their meat is ten-, der < ’'V? tasteless and veal-like. A fat year-old elk heifer is probably the best ,ueat °» earth, at least I think so. The flood eating, hut inferior to black ^lcd deer. 3 ho bulls are rather tough at n11 timcs - -Mid their meat is unworthy of be,n S cooked during tho rutting season. tlio Shortly after the rutting season begin nccks of tho faU antlered hulls to swell and to grow hard. Then it requires a “ exceedingly hard shooting rifle to drive a baU lbrtm 8 b their necks. I saw, while this hunt four bulls shot low down on the n f ak > and iu “? “'-stance did tlio ball P”® 3 through, and m no case did it strike the neck bone. In all instances it lodged ““(ler the skin on (ho opposite suie from 1 hunter. Wo used 44-60 Winchesters, the latter figures expressing the number of grains of powder burned belaud the Ml. This rifle will throw a ball through ““ ‘ ,k « through a hear from side to sk ' e > but it will not carry through ail elk b l!c ‘' k - Bull oik „ drop , „ t.ieir . antlers „ in . January T generally, Ixxtt this, I suppose, depends on the latitude in which they live. A bull Is *} lU antlered when ho is J years old, then there are six prongs on each antler, borne times the antlers sport, as corn does, and tho horns take queer shapes. This is. » very serious disaster to the elk, as lie cannot light effectively with “sported” millers, and lie is driven out of the band, ? hnve a of fmtlcra - ‘Sports,” which ba ''.° thirteen prongs on each horn, ihe bnU that "rare these heavy, useless nut lc » spent tlie scusou in seclusion. He co, “ d not fight. One of the most remarkable spectacles . «>e pine clad highlands is to see a full a “tlcred bull elk trot at speed through a * ,rc3t ' vhcro thc trcci i Btand thickly ♦>'«■*, a horse , has ( to slowly pick its way. A have frequently seen an elk bnll, whose spread of antlers was at least four feet, at full speocl through a belt of tint ' cr ' vl ' crc 1 c °" ld not lollo -\ v on lu,r f~ hack, because the trees were too close , to ff hcr > and ho did not strike a trco ' Vlth h,a antlers. When a cow ctk ls , killed . her ca ,, f wi ... ,,<T ? lud f m ««> "roods. But it will frequently return to tl.e place where s mother ufell, and ,’ t ° tte " 1 } u "« r v search . with its life. . I shot a - fat co w oac ,norl ' in & nnd raTV two cah « not , f ,ar nom ucr ' When the rifie c ™ kcd , 1 tbc ,, . i cnlv , 1 c3 tho d,30 fac PP \ car of ^’ U . '° cah That . .f »<>' com >' a,le - Ho 3t “ d; I£ > uu v \ dl «° Ul “ 0 ” ,n S wiU probably , find both of r the caives snooping 1 around in tho woods ntar t, '. e d , c ‘ l<1 , £hc> ’ , v ( , ‘ . mp and , rp , - ’ «££ t “‘ o"f -esvlSL 'voit n- hall eo” bel wagon tol meat . „ ^ , , . n n I went back the next morning. Tlie t wo beautiful graceful calves stood by their dead mother trying to make her rise. !?";?’ ih-vi'l’ :;•% 1 vzuftiSS .Irik' Lr I"'' 11 or sharply with their forefeet. It was a ‘ ltjfuI sight V nn ,i i f,.]t like a murderer, j did have the heart to kill the ^ j drove them nway nnd wllPn n, y d came llp l with the pack ‘ animals I to]( , hjm my ri( , e did not go o(Ti which true. For four weeks I walked daily shooting elk. I stukied the habits of the * n Intelligent super comrade, who had lived them for years, and whose living, in ;• great ” measure, ’ depended \ on his being , () season w , f animals. The hunt was alrnost a slaUf; lter . yjnt wo lost no meat; wa9 , lsed to bait benrs ,'- no „ e thrown away Kvcry I)ound that e fiid not cat carefully saved and sold. Tlie meat was I,ackrd 0,1 horsc8 ’ ba<ks for from five t o ton miles through dense green timber, bnnM!d ] a „ds and across fallen tim bf . r F thero it wns bau , cdlo i, llra . j ’ Fort Coffins and Rawlings for sale, ? obtained for it was cx ded fol . p ovision8 . Tbo trailg on wo ^ ^ th(j clk range othcr pc rs0ns - Cor. New York feun. Manufacture of Artificial Ivory. IIow is artificial ivory made ? Of late years the scarcity and dearness of genuine ivory have driven inventors to manufact¬ ure artificial compounds capable of re¬ placing it for ninny industrial and domes¬ tic purposes. These compounds, which may almost without exception be classed under the name of “celluloid,” are formed of divided cotton waste or some similar substance, soaked in either vegetable naphtha, nitre-benzol, camphor or alco¬ hol. Sufficient of these solvents is used to make a soft,, plastic mass, which is sub¬ jected to hydraulic pressure and mixed witli oils, gums nnd coloring matter. Any degree of flexibility can he given to it, and it can bo made white and trans¬ parent or of any brilliant color. It can be mnde hard as ivory, or retained in so soft a condition ns to be capable of being spread in layers over textile fabrics in the same way as paint is laid on. It can be pressed nnd stamped, planed like wood, turned in a lathe, cut with a saw, carved, woven or applied as a varnish. When dyed the dye runs through tlie whole sub¬ stance, and cannot tlierefore .be rublied or washed out. An artificial ivory of creamy whiteness nnd great hardness is nownmdo from good potatoes washed in diluted sul¬ phuric acid, then boiled in the same solu¬ tion until they iiecomo solid and dense. They are then washed free of tlie acid and slowly dried. This Ivory can be dyed un" turned and made useful in many ways.— Chicaj) Tribune, Don’t Hurry at Dinner, Eat your dinner at an hour (be it early or late) when you have time to digest it. The blood, like anything else in the econ¬ omy of nature cannot occupy two places at once. Blood used by the brain cannot at the same time be in the stomach to digest the food. There is more dyspepsia from a hurried dinner in the middle of tho day than from dinners eaten at night after the brain work is over.—Ladies Home Journal. TEXAS PANHANDLE. A GLIMPSE OF SOME OF ITS SOCIAL ! INSTITUTIONS. A Population Over Which the State and Nation Ilave Practically No Civil or Criminal Jurisdiction—Everybody Ill. • . } It the truth were known, the Pan handle of Texas would be voted the poll ti¬ cal, social and material curiosity of this country. There is nothing like it in this country or any other country. It is strictly original, stands out by itself and freezes on to its peculiarities with a stead fastness characteristic of America in gen oral and Texas in particular, q'h 0 Panhandle covers a territory nbout as largo as tho state of New York. It ex¬ tends from the Indian territory on the north, almost to the Texas & Pacific rail road, on tho south, and from New Mexico on the west, almost to the Fort Wort-li & Deliver railroad on the east. It is larger than many European countries that sing loud in mi international chorus. Within i t3 confines aro mountains and forests, lakes ami streams, valleys and rivers, iron mines, copper mines, silver mines, coal mines that are known of, and perhaps much more mineral wealth that is not known of, hamlets, ranches, caves, mesas, mineral springs, steep precipices, shady groves and many verdant plains, The Panhandle is divided into fifty three counties, but not more than six or seven of them arc organized. The people of the Panhandle have a very supreme contempt for law, and have not much more use for a sheriff or an attorney than they have fora grass burner or a cattle thief. When the word “law” is used, it should be remembered that it applies to tho enactments of what tho Panhandle folks contemptuously term the “Austin law factory.” There is an unwritten code („ t he Panhandle, and woe to the man who violates it. A man must not steal cattle In the Panhandle; neither must ho cut fences, burn grass, fill up wells with earth, break dams or kill a man in cold Moo d. There are less than 100 women in the Panhandle, and they are all good women. There are no jails in the region, lines are looked upon with contempt, and the only punishment awarded to those "ho violate the code of the region is death or expulsion. If a man kills another in a flflbt he lias toanswer before no law court; right to kill a man in a fair fight is not questioned, Jl'IIGE LYNCH’S JUSTICE. If a man kills another liy stealth—that Is, if he steals up behind him and plunges a knife in his hack or shoots him unawares —Judge Lynch immediately takes hold of tlie offender, administers rigid justice devoid of technicalities or quibbles or stays of proceeding, nnd if tlie murder was cold-blooded and cowardly the murderer is more certain of being hanged than he would bo in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans or Galveston. If a man In convicted of cattle stealing before Judge Lynch he is certain of being hanged. If a man is caught cutting a fence or setting fire to grass he is shot down without hesitation,or if subsequently arraigned before Judge Lynch and it is shown oil testimony, direct or circumstan¬ tial, that lie was guilty of the offense, he will be hanged. This is about all the euro they have in tho Panhandle. A man must take care ot himself. He must fight his own battles. If lie is not able to fight, if he is afraid to figllt, if lie has any prejudice against fighting, lie had better seek some other location than tlie Panhandle of Texas for an abiding place. In fact, the Panhandle might, be described as one vast region devoid of law, defying law, getting along comfortably without law. Of course the great majority of the Pan¬ handle people are not addicted to reminis cenco. The man who receives mail matter from a former home in another state is a rarity. Blit, of course, there are excep¬ tions. No doubt many Panhandio men could prove that they are wearing tho same name now that they inherited from tlicir parents. But it is not considered good'taste in tho Panhandle to be too in¬ quisitive, nnd tlie man who persists in delving into the affairs of another man is almost certain to have a fight on his hands without unnecessary delay. The people are social, hospitable nnd generous. The ethical code of tlie region forbids any inquiry concerning a stranger. If the new arrival wants a job ut wire punching or lino riding it is taken for granted that it is his intention to become a permanent, resident; if he loafs around without attempting to secure a job at any¬ thing ho becomes an object of suspicion. Detectives sometimes have the hardihood to penetrate the Panhqndle, hut if they should be suspected they are invariably treated to hospitable graves. Detectives and law officers are not wanted and will not lie tolerated in the Panhandle. Tho permanent sojourners in the region make no pretense of denying that they are thero because of a disagreement with the rules of action prescribed by law in tho regions whence they came. It is a republic of tol¬ eration, anil mind your own business is tlie constitution.—Cor. Globe-Democrat. Where Do the Fins Go? “Whero do all the pins go to?” asked a friend of me tho othcr day; and “What becomes of all the dead birds?” I asked in reply. Tills brief colloquy led me to try an experiment. Having a day at my dis¬ posal, in consequence of a slight indispo¬ sition, and t he weather being line, I deter¬ mined to devote a whole day to looking for waste pins and dead birds. I first hunted all over the floor of my room for pins, and ns I passed out of t he house made a search along i all the halls and at tho front door; but could not find a pin. I then walked along the street all the morning, looking for pins and dead birds, but found none. In tho afternoon I took in several of the parks. I hunted near tlie seats for pins, and under all tlie trees and in the crevices of fences for birds, but all in vain. Toward e\ cuing I realized how benefi¬ cial it is to walk “with an object,” but I did not have a single pin or bird to show for my hunt. I was compelled to admit that it was something of a puzzle to tell wliat became of them. Not, however, that I never sco a stray pin or a dead sparrow. I have met with a number of people who never saw a dead goat or a i dcad , lmllc - bnt everybody , , has picked . , up a P ln > nnd at lo,, 8 Intervals seen a dead bird ' Tbe I mz;du ls that, while so many miUio " H of I’ 1 " 3 and birds ,mlst bo gotten awa >' ' vi,h every day, we find so few of them. By the way, I think I never saw a ,!ea<1 pigeon in my life.—Chicago Journal. West African Dwellings, In this primitive fashion we at length reached the closely packed mass of native huts forming the real “town” of Bonny, to which the handful of European houses around the landing place serves only as a kind of preface. The huts were for the most part of one traditional type, viz., that of an enormous basket with one side knocked out. In fact, were a monster picnic to disperse suddenly, leaving their hampers and lunch baskets scattered around in the dirt, it would represent fairly enough an ordinary African village. A few of the larger hovels had attained tho dignity of a roof of corrugated iron stuck on the side like a soldier’s cap, while patches of the same material clung to their sides like overgrown postage stamps. Tho interiors of one and all were fully open to the public gaze, which mattered tho less inasmuch as there seemed to bo nothing in them except two or three cracked pots and a tiny fire. The room in which Mr. Nat Fine Country received us was as extraordi¬ nary as the name and appearance of its owner. It had no roof, and might utmost bo said to have no lloor, cither, consisting ns it did of a crazy wooden platform around its four sides, with a deep hollow in the middle, the whole thing being ex¬ tremely suggestive of a public swimming bath. The platform was so narrow that there was barely room upon it for our chairs and ourselves, and when I unwarily pushed back mine in getting up to take leave, I came within a hair’s breadth of tumbling backward head over heals into the yawning pit below. On leaving the house we were beginning to make merry over this singular apartment, when an ob¬ ject suddenly confronted us which made us all grave enough. It was a strange looking hut of wattles and grass, hung round with broken jars and bottles, and standing all by itself ns if the surrounding dwellings had shrunken away from it. To all appearance it had neither door nor window, but through a chink in the wnt tlework w r e could see that its earthen floor was literally heaped with human skulls. “What on earth is this place?” asked I of our conductor. The answer, brief though it was, spoke volumes: “It’s a fctieli house.”—Bonny (Western Africa) Cor. New York Times. Tho Counterfeiting of Hare Coins* The late Capt. Wallace W. Hall, of the United States secret sendee,shortly before his removal to St. Louis is said to have been investigating a gigantic counter¬ feiting scheme by which alleged rare, costly and antique coins were being put upon the market ns genuine. In 1885, a Philadelphia coin dealer named Hazeltine advertiscd an auction sale of his super¬ fluous coins, including an 1804 dollar, only six of which are known to have been coined before the issue was recalled. The value of one of these dollars is $500 or more, and so great, interest was excited in tho sale. A well known connoisseur who attended discovered that some of the coins were net genuine, and on the collection being sent to the mint it was discovered that a large number of the coins had been made with¬ in a year. Similar eases were soon re¬ ported from all parts of the country, and Capt, Hall, who happened to be in Phila¬ delphia, set to work to investigate the matter. Ho found that the counterfeits included all of the recalled issue pieces, and thousands of coins of interest, an¬ tiquity and high value. The dollar of 1804 had been frequently duplicated by boring (he “3” out of a dollar of 1883 and inserting aping “4,” which was soldered with a blow pipe and treated with an acid bath to give it an antiquated appearance. Other coins he found to be counterfeited by the use of plaster molds, and all were so cleverly done that none but an expert could detect any difference between the counterfeit and the genuine. It is not known whether Capt. Hall ever obtained any clew to the counterfeiters’ mint.— Chicago Tribune. Whore Andrew .Tncksou Lived. Near by the Hermitage is a small, square brick church, which Jackson Intel built for his wife, who was said to be a devout Presbyterian. Entering the Her¬ mitage yard, through the large iron gate, one notices immediately that the carriage drives (which are outlined by cedars) form an immense banjo. To the right of the large lawn, which is ill front of the house, is the flower garden and family burying ground. There are old fashioned beds filled with old fashioned flowers, although, of course, many of them have died for want of care. 1 believe the plants which predominate now arc fig trees and box plants. In one corner of the garden is Jackson’s tomb, surrounded by those of his immediate family. The base of the tomb in which he and his wife are in¬ terred is about nine feet square, with hori¬ zontal slabs of stone on which "tho cpi ! i taphs are curved. The house and outhouses at the Hermit¬ age aro in an exceedingly dilapidated con¬ dition. The place is owned by the state of Tennessee, granting the family who now occupy it the privilege of living there during the life of the elder Mrs. Jackson. They are in rather reduced circumstances and are not aide to have the place re¬ paired. They have even been forced to the necessity of selling many articles valu¬ able both on account of their intrinsic worth and on account of their historic as¬ sociations.—Nashville Cor. Philadelphia Times. Contagion In Hag Mattresses. A newspaper man in San Francisco paid a visit the ol her day to a mattress factory, which was conducted upon n plan admir¬ ably adapted to the purpose of propagat¬ ing disease by wholesale. Ip a rough shed were two machines technically known as tensers. These implements were revolv¬ ing at a high rate of speed. Sharp teeth of iron wore tearing piles of the most filthy and disgusting remnants of old clothes and other woolen articles Into shreds, until the entire fabrics were re¬ duced to fine filaments. This material, known ns patent wool, is used principally for filling the lied coverings of chintz sold In t he stores under the nuine of comforters. The first handling which the remnants of garments receive is by tho Chinese rag¬ pickers, who convey them into Chinatown and there pick out the cotton and lluqn fabrics from the woolen ones. The former find their ultimate destination at the pa¬ per mills, while the latter are used by mattress and bed comforter makers after j being teased by machinery. Without be¬ I ing disinfected or in any wuy deodorized these materials are liable, from the uses j they are put valuable to, to become a source i whereby many lives may be lost. —Boston Herald- Terms $1.50 Per Annum. TECUMSEH'S TEETH. rhe Fart They Played In tlio First Die coTory of Gold In California. Gen. W. T. Sherman has boed promt nently identified with matters affecting tho world’s history independent of his brilliant military career in the civil war. He drew up the first official report to the govern ment of the United States of the great dis covery of gold in California, which report at once electrified the continent, while the subsequent immense production of the prcciou 3 metal in a few years revolution ized property values throughout the entire commercial world, and gavo an unprcce dented impetus to industries, enterprises and general prosperity. Gold was discovered in California in the spring of 1848, about sixty miles above the present city of Sacramento. Gen. Mason, was at that timo in command of the United States forces in California, and acted as military governor with head quarters at Monterey, tho capital of the territory. Gen. Sherman, then a young lieutenant of the Third artillery, was the adjutant of Gen. Mason's staff. Yerbo Buena, now tho great city of San Fran cisco; was then but a hide trailing port of 400 native inhabitants. As soon as gold was discovered, Capt. Sutter went down to Monterey with a quantity of samples of tho precious metal for the inspection of tho military authorities. Gen. Sherman, in a conversation with some friends at Chamberlin’s a few even ings since, referred to this important his torical event—so pregnant with results nffecting tho whole world—substantially ns follows: “Capt. Sutter brought into Gen. Mason’s office several small packages of samples and spread them out before us. The specimens presented varied in size from fish scales and split peas up to the size of beans. Gen. Mason asked if I knew how to test whether this stuff was gold or not. 1 said certainly, and imme diatcly -tried my teeth on a lump, and mnde an indentation which impressed mo that it was malleable. I then sent out for a hammer and an ax, nnd pounded several pieces out flat. This was a crude but practical test, but wo then applied acids, which verified the fact that the samples were genuine gold. “I was at once sent up to the diggings and made a thorough examination of the gold discoveries, which were rapidly being found in new localities and in wonderful amounts. I returned to Monterey with a quantity of specimen samples and drew up tho official report to tho government, which was signed by Gen. Mason. This report, accompanied with a quantit y of samples of gold, was forwarded by a special bearer of dispatches, who was no other than Henry D. Cooke, recently the first governor of this District of Columbia. He was sent off in a small sailing vessel, with instructions to intercept a British steamer on tho south¬ ern coast, and make rapid transit to Y. r ash ington, regardless of expense. Wo had not then been advised of the ratifications of tho treaty with Mexico, ceding California to tho United States, and were necessarily very anxious that the government should possess information of the discovery of gold at the earliest moment. ” Thus, less than forty years ago, “Old Tecumseh’s” teeth made the first official impress, put the first government stamp of value on to the subsequent thousands of millions of gold delved from tho mines of this modern laud of Ophir.—Washington Critic. King of tho Soapy FJt» Triclc. One of tho bitterest pangs for tho really deserving pcor must he the thought of the many Iniquities that hypocrisy commits in their name. The crnclest cf these perhaps is tho shamming of fits in the public streets. The practice seems to bo almost as old ns lying itself, yet it admits of regu¬ lar revival in each generation of impostors. A fellow charged with t!“s offense at Lam¬ beth police court was said to lie a very old hand. Au officer of the Mendicity society saw him havo three fits in succession— each followed; of course, by a collection— nnd very properly invited him to finish the third in a police station, lie uttered deep gioans and foamed of. tho mouth in a man¬ ner shocking to behold, until It bccamo manifest that his sign of suffering was duo to t ho simple, but unsavory expedient, of chewing a piece ot soap. Nothing is really wasted in a great city, and tho bits of soap that arc too small for toilet use are, no doubt, eagerly bought up by “the trade" In sham epileptic fits. Tlio practitioner in question is said to stand at the very head of his calling, and he is known professionally as tho “King of the Soapy Fits Trick.” In these stormy times the title mustseem enviable to many a potentate of wider dominion. The mon¬ arch in question has ono true note of roy¬ alty in a sort of passive persistence in a chosen courso. He has elected to live by chewing soap, and-ho goes on living by it, in spite of years upon years of prison hard labor, and even of ono whipping. On liis release from jail, apparently, lie begs, bor¬ rows, or otherwise provides himself with a piece of sorp and starts in business again. If society, on tho one hand, never wearies of correcting him, the King of tlio Soap Fits, on the other, never wearies of being corrected. It is, perhaps, more discourag¬ ing for society than him. It is strange that no ono lias thought of soliciting his testimonial to a new soap. His recom¬ mendation ought to bo supreme authority on tho question of lathers.—London News. Admiral Aube's New Gunboat. Admiral Aube, of the French navy, seems to bo a wide awako and lively old salt. His new gunboat has just been tried and found worthy, her speed being ov“r nineteen miles an hour. • He proposes to build a great fleet of these boats, each carrying a single gun of tho most power¬ ful description. Half a dozen of such boats, it is now believed, would bo more effective in a naval engagement than one large iron clad ship. A first class man-of war of the modern typo tvould, it is thought, be us powerless against a fleet of such lively little gunboats as a bull against o swarm of hornets, Tho Ger¬ mans aro also turning their attention to smart gunboats of pretty much the same kind, and possibly in the near future com¬ petitive examinations in the tactics of this new marine cavalry may form part of the programme of naval Service reform.— New York Sun. The Sun Bear’s Claws. “Yonder is the hardest animal in the world to keep confined in a cage,” said the reporter’s escort, indicating the sun bear, an importation from Borneo. “We were compelled to line his cage with iron, as you see. He has claws on him nearly a foot long and as sharp as knives, and he’ll cut his way through the hardest yipqd ip po time.”—Cincinnati Enquirer, NO 49. WOMEN WHO ARE ATHLETES. Circus Performers Tnu 3 ht the. Art at an Uptown Gymnasium. Many people have long been at a loss to know where tlie lady athletes learn the art by which they earn a livelihood and by whom they are taught. A professor has a private gymnasium iu an uptown street at which many of tho queens of the air are instructed in the art of hanging by their toes and going through various other acta well known to the frequenters of the cir cus and the variety theatre. A reporter had a long talk with this professor and was told how these athletes are taught. When the reporter entered the studio he found the professor instructing two young ladles in trapeze maneuvers. The visitor was invited into a private room, as it is against tho rules for nny ono to he present while? pupils aro taking lessens. Tlie rooms the were decorated with pi. rtographs of shining lights of t lie profession, whom tha professor had fitted for tho business, After the lesson was over tho professor took the scribe through the different apart meats. “I suppose n person must be very young nnd supple at the start to make any thing like a good acrobat?” “That’s where you are entirely wrong, sir. Aliy woman can become a good per former after a proper course of training, if she lie but healthy and not too stout. It is all mechanical and can be acquired only by constant jiraetice. I have ladies come to me who are anything hut graceful, and by following my advice and suggestions t-losely they havo become first class per¬ formers and are now earning good sal aides. Many fail because they can’t stand the hardship inseparable from the first few days' practice. After the initial lesson they invariably decline to take the rest of the course. Nine persons out of every ten give it up after the first lesson. If they would only keep on tlie pain would gradually disappear and they would bo all right and never he similarly troubled again.” “What is tho first lesson you give?” “The first lesson 1 give is to get my money—my retainer, as it were. That is also the first lesson they give me. Then they are ready for the first lesson, which consists of hanging by the hands and swinging to and fro across tlie room, which 1 have them do in order to satisfy myself of their strength. They generally swing .across twice .and fall upon a feather bed. The next figure is to hang by the hands from the bar. After they have gone so far they take hold of tlie ropes and slide up into a sitting position. After a few moments’ rest I make them get down by reversing tlie motion. “When I have progressed thus far I teach them to hang by their knees. This is not quite so difficult as tho previous " lesson. After they through have gone this motion several times they feel like going home, When a woman has gone as far as this without complaining much, it is pretty safe to say she will succeed in tho profession she has chosen. Most ol them think every muscle in the body has ‘lieen severed. 1 have had pupils come to me after an absence of a week and tell me they fdt tlie bars across their backs.— New York Mail and Express. A “Smart” Little Daughter. Then- is a family up town in which tha daughter and the father are hand in glove, lie does not teach her slang; he does not use it much himself. He is literary and learned and intellectual, and he is inocu¬ lating tlie little girl with the highest views on literature and art. The two hold long discussions on very serious subjects, and tho mother sits by nnd listens. The child is very young, but she lias noticed that her mother does not interfere with these dis¬ cussions. Doubts, indeed, have filled her mind as to her mother's education. The other day slio came up and asked the mother some very abstruse question. “I can’t tell yon, dear, you must ask papa.” “Oh, I know papa knows all about it, but 1 only wanted to see if you knew any¬ thing.”—San Francisco Chronicle. Managing a Prlma Donna. Opera Manager—It's a terrible thing, a terrible tiling to have a prima donna to manage. Omaha Man—I did not suppose a bad temper necessarily accompanied vocal talents. “Well, it is not temper exactly; but a prima donna seems to be in a continual state of nervous irritability; can’t help it, somehow.” “Oh, that’s it. But, my dear sir, you should reflect on the fearful nervous strain she has to endure at every performance when the sticks you have hired to support her begin to sing.’’—Omaha World. A Hint to Shipowners. Col. Parker, of Tlie Boston Gazette, speaks most wisely when he advocates that on all ocean steamers should bo a suitable air tight room under the charge of the ship’s surgeon, where the bodies of passen¬ gers dying during the voyage could be properly cared for. The brutal consign¬ ment of a dear ono to tho sea ought to be¬ come at least a matter of option with friends. “And steamship companies” continues Col. Parker, “should be com¬ pelled for the sake of humanity, if for no other reason, to make some such provision as this.”—New York Graphic. An Anarchist's Joke. Several months ago, when Anarchist! Parsons was a free man, ho entered a cob¬ bler’s shop on Indiana street, nnd, tossing a bundle on a bench exclaimed: “John, I want those corporation shoes mended.” “Why do you call them corporation shoes?” asked the cobbler, examining tha contents of the bundle. “Because they have no soles,” replied the Anarchist, laughing at his own joke. —Chicago Ilcrald. A Scientific View. A scientist says that a woman who weighs 100 pounds hero would weigh 2,700 pounds if on tlie surface of the sun. Bub not one woman in 1,000 will start on a journey to tho sun in order to increase her weight. Now, if ft were the moon it would be different. There is a man in that orb.—Norristown Herald. Whistler nnd Wilde. • A Boston artist tells this story of Whist ler mid Oscar Wilde, who has the reputa tion of borrowing Whistler’s bright speeches. Having heard tlie artist say an unusually dSploringly: good thing Oscar exclaimed, “I wish I could have said that.” "Oh,” know replied will Whistler it.” derisively* "but you you say