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HE Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A, G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
w. L. 8X0 BY,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
M ARK ANTHONY,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
Will bo located for the present at tho Dod¬
son Houso. Patronage respectfully solicited.
T. W. EUH8,
PRACTICING TOYSICIAN,
Ruby, Georgia.
I Colls respectfully promptly solicit attended sharo to of at tho all publics hours.
a
patronage Office in B. H. Cockrell’s storo.
jpR, J. F. GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Asrburn, Georgia.
Coils nnswored promptly day or night.
Uf"9peciut attention to diseases of women
and children.
•gENTON STRANGE, M. D.
SPECIALIST.
Cobdelle, Georgia,
Diseases of women, Strictures, NorvoU9
and all private diseases. Strictures dissolv¬
ed out in 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current
of Galvanism without pain or detention
from business; and given to patient in a vial
of alcohol. Correspondence eolicited and
best references given. Office north-east cor¬
ner Suwanoo Houso.
B. M. I'RIZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Geobqia.
Practicos in tho State and Federal Courts.
Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties.
A. AARON,
LAWYER,
AsnBURN, Georgia.
Collections {sgrOHleo, anil Room Ejectment No. 4, Betts suits n. Building. Special¬
ty,
VI. FULWOOD,
LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tifton, Georgh.
Prompt attention given to all business.
UST'Ofiice, Love Building, Room No. 1.
JOHN 11 ARBI 9.
SHOEMAKER,
Ashbuen, Georgia.
My prices nro low and all work strictly
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DIRECTORY.
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Mayor—A. G. DeLoacb.
Councilmen—Vi r . B. Dasher, I. L. Murray.
®f. W. Cockrell, E. R. Smith, J. P. Fountain,
Superior Courts—First Monday Hawkins- in April
end October. C. C. Smith, Judge,
ville, Ga. Eason. McRae,Ga
Solicitor G.weral—Tom
Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir
oviuvillo, G».
Sheriff—Jesse Deputy Sheriffs—C. Paulk, L. Ruby P rescott, , Gn. Irwin
villo, Ga.; Wm. Vanllouten, Sycamore, Ga
County Court —Monthly session, second
Monday; Quarterly session, second Monday
in January, April, July and Octobor. J. B.
Clements, Judge, Bailiff—William Irwinville, Ga.
County Court Rogers, Ir
ivinville, Ga.
Count Commissioners’ Court—First Mon¬
day in ench month. M. Houderson. Commis¬
sioner, Ocilta. Ga.
Ordinary’s Court—First Monday in each
month, Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Y. Vic, Ru¬ Ga.
School Commissioner -J. Fletcher,
by. Ga. R. Faulk, Irwiu
County Treasurer—W.
ville, Tax Ga. Mobley, Vic, Ga.
Receiver—G. J.
Tax Collector—J. W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
(surveyor—M. Coroner—Daniel Barnes, Minnie, Minnie, Ga. Ga.
Hall, Jno. Clements. Chair¬
Board of Education—
man, Irwinville, Ga.; Henry T, Fletcher, Ir
Taylor, winvillo, Irwinville, Ga,; L. fi. Tuckor, Ga.; 8. Vic, E. Gn.; Coleman, L. D.
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Oealla, Justice Ga. Dist. G. M., Second
Courts—001
Saturday in each month. Marcus Luke, N.
Irwinville, P, and cx-ofll, J. P ; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff,
Ga.
1388 Disc. G. M., Third Balm-day ineach
naontii. it. V. Hanley, J. P. ; David Troup,
Bailiff, Minnie. Ga.
282 Dit.6 G. M., Third Wednesday in each
A. month. Jones 0. & P L Royal, Royal, Bailiffs, ,T. P,. Sycamore, Sycamore, Ga.; Ga.
988 Dist. G M.. D. A. Ray, N. P. & Ex
offieio J. P.. Syc amore , Ga.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
Sycimoni Lodge, Ho. 210 F. & A. M.
Regular communications 2nd and 4th Satur¬
day. W. L. Story, W. M. ; J. F. Royal, Sec.
Ocilla Lodge, Thursday F. & A. M.—Regular the Sunday com
muiiication before 4th
iu each month. J. A. J. Henderson, W. M.;
D. W. M. Whitley, Sec’y, Ocillu, Ga.
CHU.iCH DIRECTORY.
8VCAMOHB C1BOUIT.
Cyclones*—First Svcamore—2nd Sunday Sunday. and Sunday night.
Pmoy Grove—3rd Sunday and Saturday
before.
demon’s Chapel—4th Sunday and Satur¬
day before.
Duma cus—4th Sunday afternoon and 6th
Sammy. meeting Sycamore Thurs¬
day Player Sunday at school Sunday every morning
night;
at 10 6 - u’cioosi
J. VV. Connors, Pastor.
UNIOX PIllMITIVE ml'tlUT,
Bru !i y Greek—4 li Sunday and Saturday
before
bur ■ uii Greek—Smi Sunday and Situr
duy 1 e «!. ,ell—1st Sunday & Saturday before.
in ;•
B.. —3ru Sunday and Saturday before.
Eld. W, H. HaBUkn, Pastor.
hr River—3rd Sunday and Saturday
ben,.
Tu r's Meeting House—2nd Sunday ami
San 1 r before
G . Grove—4th Sunday aud Saturday
Li
li —let Sunday Eld, Jambs and Sal Gibbs, urday Pastor. before
us otic xa.
Pai i • ■< <re warned that no hunting Nos. or fi-.li- IS,
ing " •,,(lowed on lots of land
14 17 . iii oral 44, in 3rd district of Irwin
COUlilY. VfJXJt x Plosions*.
“In Union, Htrength and Prosperity Abound,"
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA M DECEMBER 1, 1893.
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of the Day Boiled Down
Into a few Lines For Busy People.
Yellow fovor is gradually disappear¬
ing from Brunswick.
Kansas City, Mo., has had anothor
big fire. Tho loss is estimated at
$400,000.
An unknown crank tried to burn
tho museum of fino arts in Copoly
square, Bouton.
Wm. 11. Beers, tho formov presi¬
dent of tho New York Life Insurance
Company, is dead.
Miners at Hurley, Wisconsin, are
on tho verge of starvation. Tho State
is providing for them.
Eighty sailors were drowned during
a gale which swept over the British
coast tho past week.
At Anderson, Ind., Blinton Bar
wick shot Ida Smith with a “didn’t
know it was loaded” pistol.
Tho editor of tho Daily Graphic of
Hot Springs was assaulted by a police¬
man and brutally beaten with a pistol.
It is now published as a fact that
tho Confederate Voterans Reunion
will bo held at Birmingham April 25,
1894.
Tho Ryan Company, dry goods
dealers, successors to the Steve Ryan
Company, of Atlanta, has gone into
the hands of a receivor.
Tho indications aro that tho free
coinago fight will be renewed with
increased vigor at the opening of the
regular session of congress.
The governor of Florida has said he
will not permit the Corbctt-Mitchell
fight to take place on Florida soil, if
it be in his power to prevent it.
Charley Willis, 13 years old, of
Springfield, Ill., was shot and killed
while being initiated into a secret so
oiety known there as S, S. S. S.—Sev¬
en Secrets, Silent Shades.
The Chattanooga Medicine Com¬
pany, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has just
won an important law suit in which
the right to use the name of M. A.
Thedford & Co. was at issue.
There is a big freight strike on the
Lehigh Valley road between Ithaca
aud Buffalo. The strike includes
brakemen, firemen and a few engin¬
eers, conductors and operators.
From the reports in the daily press
dispatches, one would conclude that
Grand Master Workman Powderly
had had a hard row to hoe at the meet¬
ing of the Knights of Labor in Phila¬
delphia the past week.
Mrs. Barbara Hubbard, mother of
ex- Attorney-General Garland, died in
Washington Friday night. Pneu¬
monia was the principal cause of her
death, bnt it was hastened by the re¬
cent suicide of Mise Daisy Garland,
L. S. Merriam, an instructor in the
Cornell university, and Miss M. L.
Yergin, a studont, wore out rowing
on Lake Cayuga, and wore drowned
by the overturning of their boat. Miss
Yorgiu’s parents livo in South Caro¬
lina, while Mr. Merriam’s parents are
residents of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Miss Ella Knowles, who was defeat¬
ed for the attorney - generalship of
Montana by a small majority and was
then appointed assistant by her suc¬
cessful competitor, recently secured
in favor of her state, before the inte¬
rior department at Washington, a de
oision involving about $200,000 worth
of school lands in Montana.
Counterfeit tickets to tho amount
of over $100,000 have been honored
in the last four weeks by the Balti¬
more and Ohio, Erie, Pittsburg and
Western, Nickel Plate and other roads.
There was absolutely nothing on the
face of tickets to indicate that they
were counterfeit. They were accept¬
ed without question by tho conductors,
passed readily by tho ticket counters
and entered as of legal issuo by the
various ticket auditors. The tickets
are tho most perfect counterfeits of
any kind ever issued.
Hitherto tho great white dome of
United (States capitol, rising into the
blue sky like a snowy mountain, has
beon oue of the most conspicuous and
beautiful sights in tho city of Wash¬
ington. It is to have a golden rival.
The roof of the New National Library
is to be capped with a dome ef gener¬
ous proportions covered with pure
gold. Part of tho work is already
completed, and a gorgeous picture it
is. The new library building is but a
stone’s throw from the capitol, and its
golden dome glitters and shines like a
young and brilliant sister by the side
of the white hemisphere that crowns
the capitol. A dazzling picture these
twin domes present, and oue that lin¬
gers loug in the memory of the visitor
or dwei’er within the gates who is
fortunate enough to witness it.
Soldiers Who Pray.
A dispatch to the London Times
says: The germania declares that the
emperor, in his address to the recruits
yesterday, said: “I want Christian
soldiers who say their Load’s prayer.
Soldiers are not to have a will of their
own. You must have but one will,
and that is my will, one law and that
is my law.”
CURRENT NEWS.
Anarchy scorns to bo gaining ground
in Europe.
England seems disposed to try tho
woman’s suffrage.
The game of foot ball has now tak¬
en tho placo of base ball and is attract¬
ing much attention and enthusiam in
many cities.
In view of tho expiration of tho Ed
ison patents in England the price of
electric lamps has already come down
from 4s. 4d. to Is. 9d., with prospects
of greater reductions soon.
A dog’s bone has again been used
in a New Pork hospital in repairing
the broken leg of a man. The patient
in ths case was 60 years old. The
operation was performed threo weeks
ago and success seems assured with¬
in tho next ton days.
A now statue, smaller than its pred¬
ecessor, has been erected in front of
tho tower entrance to Madison Square
garden, New York. The former stat¬
ue was twolvo feot in height, which
was disproportionately largo. This
one is but half tlio size and makes a
much more effective picture.
The report that Anna Gould, the 17
yoar old daughter of tho late Jay
Gouhl, is to marry actor Woodruff
has caused a big sensation in New
York. Both families deny tho story,
but the truth of the rumor is strength¬
ened by the fact that Mr. Woodruff
has loft tho stage and entered Yale
College to study law. Miss Anna is
heir to $15,000,000.
One of the two statues to bo set up
in the old hall of the house of repre¬
sentatives at Washington, is that of
the heroic missionary, Pere Jacques
Marquette, tho French explorer, who
made with Louis Joliet and five others
a remarkable canoo trip down the
Mississippi in 1673. They are gener¬
ally considered to have been t,he first
Europeans to explore the great river,
and, with the exception of De Soto,
the fi rst to look upon it.
Progress of I he South,
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.
In its review of the industrial situation
in the South for the week, reports that
while the week shows no increase in
the organization of new plants, the
average has been maintained. There
is a continued demand for machinery
of all kinds, and a larger number than
usual of manufacturing establishments
are adding to their equipments. Some¬
what more of inquiry for iron prod¬
prices, ucts is reported, with no change in
and coal mines are increasing
their output. Southern textile mills
aro doing well. Farmers continue to
believe that cotton will bring higher
prices, and those \v ii > can do so are
holding their crops. The largo crops
of rice and sugar are making money
easier, along the lower gulf coast, and
mercantile business is prosperous for
the season.
The Tradesman reports thirty now
industries as established or incorpora¬
ted during tho weok, together with
eight enlargements of manufactories
and ten important new buildings.
Among noticeable new industries of
the week may be mentioned the
Georgetown, Texas, electrical compa¬
ny, with $100,000 capital, organized
by A. S. Fisher aud others; tho new
rolling mill of the Whitaker Iron and
steel Company, at Wheeling, W. Va.,
to cost $100,000; a wagon Faotory to
cost $60,000, at Little ltock, Ark., by
R. H. Rahn, of Dayton, O.; the
Adams Drug, Paint and Oil Company,
of Savannah, Ga., capital $50,000 by
J. W- Preston and others; the Chero
keo Mining and Milling company, of
Atlanta, Ga., capital $50,000, by
Frank Messer and Associates, aud the
Bayard Lumber Company, of Bayard,
W. Va., capital $25,000, by G. W.
Hughes and others.
Agricultnral implement works aro
to be built at Dunn, N. C., and Mem¬
phis, Tenn., a flouring mill at Fruit
ton, Ala-, a tobacco factory at Nash¬
ville, Tenn.; a lumber mill at Knox¬
ville, Tenn.; variety works and a fur¬
niture factory at Winterville, N. C.;
a sash and blind factory at Raleigh,
N. C., and saw and planing mills at
Hawkins, Texas, and Grafton and Lo¬
gan C. H., W. Va.
Trolleys for Canal Boats.
The official test of propelling canal
boats by tbe trolley system has just
been made in New York state and
proves a grand success. It was wit¬
nessed by several thousand people,
who cheered enthusiastically as the
boat glided along. The boat used was
a full sized canal boat and Engineer
Cheesrow of the Westinghouse works
at Pittsburg, hail charge of the appli¬
cation of the electric power. Gover¬
nor Flower turned on the current and
as the boat passed slowly through a
lock he addressed the people on board.
He declared that electric motor power
was an assured fact, and predicted an
increase in traffic of 9,000,000 tons of
freight a year. It will, he declared,
open a larger route for the products
of the east, which will be cheaper and
far superior to those of the Mississippi
or Canadian canals. The boat moved
at the rate of three aud one-half miles
per hour. The officers of the West
inghouse express themselves satisfied
with the success of the experiment.
A FRONTIER GRAVEYARD
T3io Cemetery at Fettorman, Where
Many a Worthy JLles Burled.
Old Fort Fettorman, or what is left of
the post, stands upon a table land which
overlooks a beautiful basin and tho
North I’latto river. The buildings of
the Fort are crumbling. Sage-brush has
sprung up in tho walks and the cactus
in the parade ground is now green and
rank. Fettorman is an abandoned post.
The soldiers moved away from there
years ago. Only one man lives at the
place now. lie is a stout fellow, with a
face as red aR one of the spring sunsets the
of the country, and as unkempt as
hair of a town lout. He has few visitors,
The days come and the days go without
bringing to this man a single thing to
break the monotony of his life. Years
ago tho soldiers returned to the post,
says the Chicago Herald, and removed
from the cemetery tho dead bodies of
their comrades. Some of tho bravo fol¬
lows were killed in lights with Indians.
Others had taken their own lives, whilo
still others had died from natural causes.
The bodies that remained in tho quiet
graveyard were those of civilians. They
died, as many of tho soldiers had done,
but there was nobody to tako them away,
and so tticy were left to lie in the
shadow of the ruins of the post and
where the coyotes run at night. The
headstones at theso graves aro grimly
humorous. They are of wood, with the
names of the occupants of the tombs
carved upon their surface. The letters
are not regular. They do not belong to
the same font. Hero is an italio II and
there a roman G, and so close are they
together that tho name is whose as irregular as
was the life of the man memory
they were made to perpetuate. of tho graveyard is
Over in one corner
a sunken grave where a curlew was
thrusting its slender bill. The head
board read: “Pete Stevenson, Killed by
Limber Jim.” To the right, and where
the cactus grows thickest, is another
board, with this inscription: “Bill Ap
pie, Suioided by a Six-Shooter.” “Lim
her Jim,” whoever he may have been,
may not have started this frontier grave¬
yard, but he had much to do with the
prosperity of the civilian corner of the
inclosure. For here and there was a
headstone with the name of one of his
victims, and always ending in the Jim.” same
grim way: “Killed by Limber
There were no days or dates carved upon
the boards. That would have taken too
much time. Anu who would care, any¬
how, whether Bill Bates died on Thurs¬
day, March 21, 1887, or on Friday,
March 22, 1887?
One old story started from this grave¬
yard. Bill Barlow, who was a great man
about Fettorman when the post amounted
to something, was striking across the
country late one night, when, exhausted
from his long ride, he drew rein on his
bronco and alighted. The night was with so
dark that Barlow, familiar as he was
every basin and draw of the country,
drew up in tho middle of the graveyard
and picketed his horse. Morning was
breaking when Barlow awoke. He
looked about him and in the dim light
saw the gravestones scattered here and
there. Started at what he beheld, hut
suddenly realizing that he was, perhaps,
the most fortunate of all men, ho cried
out:
“The rosurrection, begosh, and I’m
the first on deck.”
The story was told throughout Wyo¬
ming, and eventually found its way to
the cast, Barlow is still alive. He is a
fat man with a good naturo; and when
the nights are long he the plays big-hatted the village
piano sit and about sings the for men
who storo.
WOMAN.
The Greatest Have Thought It Worthy
to Honor Her.
I think there is nothing made in crea¬
tion that can be compared with woman
—not even man. Homage and devotion
to a woman is the first duty of man,
after homage and devotion to the
Supreme Being, whom all the different
races unite in describing as God. 1 have
fancied that woman and woman’s love
represented the ruling spirit, as man and
man’B brain ropresont the drawn moving agent,
in the world. I have pictures of
an age in which real chivulry of thought,
word and deed might lie the only law
necessary to control men’s actions. Not
tho scenic and theatrical chivalry of
(he middle ages, ready at any moment to
break out into and epidemic understanding orimo, but a 1
truo reverence o
woman’s supremo right to honor and con¬
sideration; an age where it should no
longer be said that lovo is but an episode
in the brutal life of man, while to woman
it is life itself. There is no pleasure like
the pleasure of trying to understand
what a woman wants; th ere is no sorrow
like the sorrow of failing to do that; and
there is no glory like the glory of suc
cess. It is Is a divine titsk for any man,
aud tho greatest, have thought it worthy
of them.—[E. Marion Crawford.
Tho Crazy Peer Voted.
There is only one well authenticated
case of a lunatic having voted in a divi¬
sion either iu the House of Lords
or the House of Commons. In 1841, on
tho occasion when Lord Melbourne's
government was defeated by one vote on
Sir Robert Peel’s notice of want of con¬
fidence, the Whigs brought down Lord
X--, who was a member for a Scotch
county, although he idiocy, was in a his state of
absolute driveling aud voti
was duly recorded on the governmeu
side. Mr. Charles Greville states that
“this poor wretch was brought in a
chair. They got him into the house and
then wheeled him past the tellers.
Charles Howard, Melbourne’s private
secretary, told indecent me he thought it a mon*
strous. and proceadina.
$ l .00 a Year In Advance.
VOL.IV. NO. 29.
RUN’S TALK.
Condition and General Outlook of Tho
Prospects of the Country.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review
says:
Business is gaining, but it is a con¬
stant complaint that the improvement
is slow. This is because very few re¬
alize bow heavy a load business has to
Legislative drag after it in climbing weigh up again.
uncertainties heav¬
ily, while trade and manufacturing
failures invol ving more than $235,
000,000 in nino months, besides bank¬
ing failures of enormous liabilities
and failures of railroad and other cor¬
porations haviug heavy indebtedness
to individuals aud firms, involve con¬
tinual embarrassments which men are
prone to forget.
There has been encouragement dur¬
ing the past week in the fact that No¬
vember payments aro far moro satis
’sfaotory than was expectod, but
extensions of tho mouth would have
seemed alarming in other years. Mer¬
chants who receive part of the amount
are rejoieed, but their buying power
is not as large as usual. The extraor¬
dinary shrinkage in purchases for
consumption, if lessening, has still
made it impossible for many firms to
go as before, and the largest failure of
tho woek, that of tho Thurbcr-Why
land Company, illustrato* embarrass¬
ments which cannot be terminated in
a week or a month. Monetary diffl
culties no longer hinder. It is true
the treasury cash has fallen to $9?,-
888,695, of whioh only $85,490,891
was gold, but there is no such alarm
as there was when the gold reserve
alone went below $160,000,000. Busi¬
ness Is not leaning on the treasury,
and it is well that it is not. Recoipts
for the month thus far are about $5,
000,000 less than expenses, and the
imports in October decreased about
$20,000,000, partly because of inflated
valuation of goods imported last year.
Weekly imports at New York decrease
in part from the same cause.
The condition of industries im¬
proves, but they wisely wait the revi¬
val of purchases by consumers.
Twenty-four works of all kinds have
wholly or in part resumed, against
fourteeu closing. Yet less than half
the iron working power is active, and
out of ninety-nine woolen works full at
the East only ten are working
time, while forty-five shut up Nov.
1, the productipn for four mon'hj in
men’s woolens bgiug 14,343,481 yards,
against 25,554,306 last year. Slate
factory inspectors report that out of
90,000 persons employed in textile
mills in Philadelphia only 17,500 are
at work. In boots and shoes there is
also decided improvement, in spite of
the fact that orders are smaller th an
usual and most factories are receiving
orders, though not enough for full
employment. Shipments from Boston
for the week were only 5 per cent loss
than the year before. The volume of
bnsiuess through the cleai lug house
continues, and for the past week it
increased 18.6 per cent.
The failures of the week were 364
in the United Stales, against 205 last
ear, and 36 in Canada, against 35
ast year. Besides oue bank in Ohio
and the Thurber failure, there were
four of liabilities over $100,000 aud
68 others over $5,000. Tho volume
of indebtedness of firms failing in the
previous week was $3,727,467 against
$3,467,846 the week before, being
larger East than South.
A Now Roller State.
“A rather formidable competitor of
the cycle, I hear, has made its appear¬
ance in the Midlands in the shape of a
pneumatic road skate. It has lately
been seen in the streets of Birming¬
ham, England, and Judging from the
admiration it excites, is not unlikely
I should think, to find itg way into all
parts of'tho country. The invention,
which was patented a short time ago
jy a Scotch firm, is evidently derived
from the old roller skate of skating
rink celebrity; but, whereas, the or¬
dinary roller skate has four wheels,
tho pneumatic skate has only two,
placed in line at either extremity of
the skate, The wheels are rathei
larger thau those of the roller skate,
and instead of solid rubber are cover,
with pneumatio tires. The patentees
claim for them that one can skate ovoi
ordinary turnpike roads with them the
same as on ice, and at even greater
speed, while at the same time they
will easily ascend and descend hills.
Six or seveu miles an hour, however,
is the maximum speed attempted in
the streets of Birmingham, and that
only on smooth roads. One obvious
advantage of the pneumatic skate
over the pneumatic cycle is that punc¬
tured tires may be readily replaced,
as the skater may carry surplus tiros,
or even reserve wheels ready fitted in
his overcoat pocket.—London Letter.
Ferris an Infringer.
W. D. Somers of Atlantic City, N.
J., sued the Ferris Wheel Company
for an infringement upon his patent
in the ereection of the great Ferris
wheel at Chicago and has gained his
case. The courts have not as yet as¬
sessed. the amount of damages due
him.
FOR TIIK YOUNG FOLKS*
A CHANGE OF OPINION.
A week ago, when Artie boy and joy,
First went to school, all hope .
Oh, how the children did annoy,
Bv calling him “Dunce Artie 1’*
To-day ho knows scarce more, 1 fear,
Yet “Dearest Artie 1" now I hear,
A king he reigns—the reason’s clear,
lie’s going to give a party 1
—[Youth’s Companion.
LUCK OF A BOY HUNTER.
Lelnnd Mabio, a lad of fourteen years, the
while hunting on the divide between
east fork of Brown’s creek and Duncan’s
fork of Cottonwood, had a hair-breadth
escape Friday of last week. He came
upon two cubs, who were killed climbing them, a
tree, and promptly shot and
lie had no sooner dispatched them the brush when
the mother came rushing out of
near by. So sudden and unexpected that
was the old bear’s appearance young
Mabio did not have time to get his rifle
in readiness to fire. Luckily he had a
iiorco dog with him, who promptly cams
to his master's rescuo just Leland as the and bear hug was
about to rlasp young bear and the dog
him to death. Tho
had it for a time, while tho young hunter
stood by and viowed tho encounter.
Finally the oileot of the dog’s teeth on
tho haunchos of the bear had the de¬
sired efleot and sho left tho field to the
boy and tho dog. Young Mabie took
ono of the cubs, which weighed him about
soventj-five pounds, back with to
camp, where he was the hero of the day.
—[Trinity (Cal.) Journal.
A CITY OF DOU.MASF.R8.
At Sonneberg, which is in the heart of
Germany, all the inhabitants are in the
business of doll making—12,000 dollmakers—and people
are all more or less
among them they produce no fewer than
26,000,000 dozen doll babies every year.
It is hard to realize what oa enormous
quantity that is.
After this it sounds odd to say that in
Sonneborg it takes eighty persons In to
make a doll. Yet such is the fact.
Germany labor is subdivided as much as
possible, or, in other words, a doll
maker does one little thing from year’s
end to year’s end, and thus it comes
about that it takes eighty people to make
a doll.
Little boys, when they enter the Sonns
berg faotories, spend a long time in
painting nails on dolls’fingeTs, for which
they are paid about twenty-five nothing cents fill a
week. Some girls do but
bodies with chopped hay or straw. Men
pass their lives in painting Dolly’s lashes
and brows, and others in putting rouge
on her cheeks. So it is with other parts
of a doll; each is dpno by one person.
The doll’s wigs are made by girls at
Munich, and their eyes come from a little
town only a few miles from Sonneberg
aud aro made by men in their own
homes.
Endless are the varieties of dolls.
Every Sonneberg manufacturer has about
one hundred designs. Taste varies, and
besides in exporting dolls many things
have to be taken into consideration. A
wax one cannot be sent to a very hot or
a very cold country. In the former it
would melt, in the latter crack. Then
if a doll has rubber joints she cannot bo
sent a long sea voyage, for on arrival at
her destination she would be armless and
legless. A sea journey also takes tho
curl out of Dolly’s hair and the starch
out of her clothes. Fashion, moreover,
is constantly ohanging. A doll which
everybody buys one season is not looked
at the next.—[Now York Mail and Ex¬
press.
LITTLE TIM.
Freddy lived in a fort out on the
prairies. His fathor was a soldier, who
rode a big horse, and wore a sword that
rattled and jingled against his high
boots as he walked.
One day, as Freddy’s fathor was rid¬
ing, his horse stumbled at a little hole
made by one of the prairie dogs, that
live underground. He heard a little
squeak, and looking down saw a small
animal resembling a large rat without a
tail.
He was sitting on his hind legs, and
did not seem at all afraid. Freddy's
father took him home to his little son,
who had so longed for a pet of this kind.
Freddy did not know where the to soldiers keep
him, and he asked one of
what to do with him. Sergeant Brown
told him to let the creature dig a hole in
tho ground near his quarters, where the
soldiers could watch him, as they are
fond of pets; and he named him Tim.
Soon Tim felt quite at home. sounded Every
morning when the bugles for
tho soldiers to get up, Mr. Tim would
come out from his hole, and perch up on
his hind legs, and afterwards would
watch the men hurrying to breakfast.
He seemed to know What this meant,
for, soon after, good Sergeant Brown
brought him some off bread, and But perhaps after
an onion to top with. a
while, when Master Freddy called him,
Tim would cotne out and sit up very
straight, expecting something extra, of
course. Froddy always had something
better than an onion, and treated him to
a piece of tomato or cake.
Life would have been very pleasant horrid
Tor little Tim, had there been no
dogs about. But, alas! there were; and
they seemed very envious of the atten¬
tion he received. One morning Freddy’s
dog Pat, whom he never would have
thought so cruel, jumped at poor little
Tim, and bit him so badly, that he lay
down and died. Freddy cried bitterly;
ho whipped Pat and locked him up.
But what good could it do little Tint,
who no longer was up iu th8 morning
early to hear the soldiers blow their
bugles before breakfast?
And good Sergeant Brown said, “J
would rather have given fifty dollars
than had poor Tim killed.”—[Nursery.