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♦ % Pflttfl- af ♦ J C. KEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub. VOL XII. CAPTAIH SHEET. A Itomanceof the Civii War. BY MAJ. JAMES F. FITT3, CHAPTER VI. LOVE AND LOYALTY. The op.vidlos burned and sputtered, and hardly illumined the dark corners of the room; but the moonbeams pour¬ ing into one of the small windows helped to light the the piece. Charles Smedley sat upon small box, his head leaning on his band, in much tho same attitude iu which we saw him before the rush of the mountain men upon him. Graham Bran¬ don sat carelessly on one corner of the large down box, his shapely head slightly bent as he earnestly looked at the other’s face. Only six years of time sep¬ arated them; yet there was much, very much, in those few years. For a care'- ful observer, scrutinizing both of them as the they sat there, would have seen that one face was full of hope and life, eager, earnest and enthusiastic; the other, serious, reflective, careworn, with a dash of tho bitterness of trial and dis¬ appointment in its lines. The i aptain’s sword lay between them, its hand-ome mountings glittering in the light. Brandon took it up ana placed it on the bl snkets. “I am superstitious,” ho said, with e smile. “I want no we qxm, however hon¬ orable between us. The events of the last few hours have made us friends. From this time for.h, whether there lie war 01 peace, friends we must be." Smedley grasped the outstretched hand. “You have saved my life,” he said. “The hours are not many when I thought it but a poor possession, at le ist. But, as the worid goes, you have done me th« gre itest service that man can do for man. That service binds me to you.” “There is another bond,” replied Bran¬ don. “and perhaps a better one,. We are both firm y enlisted in the Union cause; that makes us brothers.” SmoiHey’s face clouded. “Yes,” be said. “I have reached that point at last. By the sacrifice of every¬ thing—love, kept friends, possessions—I have flag. myself true to the country and the 1 am at last a soldierof the Union, but I have given up all to become one.” Iiis woeful voice deeply touched his companion. placed The hand of the latter was upon his shoulder. “Yott will be honored for that, here and elsewhere,” said Brandon. “I ki low now something of what you have sacri¬ ficed for your loyalty. I read those let¬ ters; fully pardon explain me, I had to, so that I could your conduct to those sim¬ ple, ignorant men. They have supplied me with what was lacking iu your ex¬ planation when you came to me at Knox¬ ville, Y'es, I understand you thoroughly now, and honor you accordingly. But, my friend, may it not be possible that you are selfish in your heart-burnings? May others not have suffered, too, and •till kept their loyalty bright and steady? In brief, do you care to hear about me— to know me just as I am, with all that I have put aside to be here now?" “Tell Smedley mo,” rose and said. walked shall the floor. lio “I be inter¬ ested in it. When I have heard it, you may have to be corrected about myself. “Well, then, I was bom and bred in Knoxville. My fathers were soldiers back even beyond into our Revolution. I grew up educated a love for the union. I became an attorney, and when this war began I had become well settled there at home in business, and was to of have the been misery married of in May. disappointed Yon are full your own love. I don't suppose you want to hear about mine.” “Tell me all,” said the other. “I will. Alice Clay is the best and handsomest girl in tho place. Her parents are secessionists, of the bitter¬ est kind. When the struggle came on they forbade me to see her. I disobeyed, and she did, too. With a great deal of trouble we were able to have a stolen in¬ terview once a week. I am sure of her affection; whatever may happen to me,' she will be faithful. The city was oe-! copied all by a Union large people force of Harris’ men,' sud the were put under the severest espial. Many were arrested and imprisoned, or sent away from home. I restrained my feelings and kept strict be guard over my actions, that I might not molested. I knew the time was sure to come when I must join the Union army, and fight as Alice, I thought; but it was iike death to leave and for a while I wanted to be of service to these sorely persecuted people up here, where I hail become well acquainted during the few- fears before the war. You remember what I did for you a few weeks ago in hiding you and getting you away, when you were threatened with arrest and con¬ finement; I did the same for many others. There has been hardly a week of the last two months that I have not been able to secretly send news up into the mountains of the plans and movements of our enemies in and near Knoxville. 1 did it at the risk of my neck, for theii rage was so great at being often baffled in this way that I should certainly have been hung when detected. When 1 learned of this last projected raid, 1 could not find a man I could trust, and who wan willing to make an exile oi himself from his home, to warn these sturdy mountaineers have perished of what was com¬ ing. I would rather than that they should be taken by surprise ( Well knowing the penalty of coming, I have done it. I had a last brief inter- riew with Alice in the night; there was? a parting that wrung both our hearts. Iii secrecy and stealth I turned my back upon love, home, and friends, to return— when? God only knows! I am a marked man now; never may I return to that fair city that is all the world to me but with a Union army. When shall that day come? It seems like a mockery to hope for it. All East Tennessee is overrun and held down by the Harris’ bayonets and sa¬ bers of Governor army; the Government does not answer our ap¬ peals for help; we must go and battle fox it on distant fields, while our own grand * val region lies prostratei” SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. MAY *26, 1892. .. speaker turned from the As the story of his love to the condition of his sec¬ tion, his eyes flashed, his cheeks burned, and he strove not to repress the deep ex¬ citement that thrilled him. His com¬ panion eyed him unmoved. “You suffer for the cause, to be suro," he thousands said, slowly. of “You about suffer here just as others do. Yet ( tell you, Graham Braudon,” and he raised his voice as he went on, “that il my ease were yours I should sit here amid this barrenness and desolation, supremely tight, happy only in the for prospect of go¬ ing to not a country but for love and home, in that day—if it ever come—when this people and land shall be.reunited.” Brandon was silent; the bitter force of the other awed him. “Have you given up home and friends? So also have I. Back of Vicksburg I own the finest cotton plantation alobg the river; it hae-T|een confiscated ere now, and should the Confederacy prevail it will be lost ’ to me forever. That I oonld bear; it would be the lightest of my misfortunes. And you have left be¬ hind you a beautiful girl who will be true to you in weal or woo, whatever shocks and storms of war sweop tjxe land; wlio loves the Union and the flag --Ah, but is that so? Y’ou did not say so.” “Indeed she does!” cried Brandon, with enthusiasm. “There isn’t a firmer Union woman in the whole land, though her parents are secessionists. In fact,” and he tried to laugh, “I don’t believe she would see any good in me if I were not a stanch Unionist.” “ And,” pursued Smedley, “you have the hope of somo day being reunited. Now, suppose she were an ardent rebel —do you think you would love her?” “It’s a hard question; I never thought of Alice in that way. We agree so per¬ fectly about the war that it is difficult to imagine her only being on the other side. But —there is one Alice Clay in East Tennessee, iu the world! Yes, I believe I should love her, anyway.” “Then put yourself in my place! Look at that picture.” He handed a small nmbrotype-ease to Brandon, taking; it from an inner pocket next his heart. The young Tennessean gazed with wonder upon the lineaments of that superb face, where the proud, passionate beauty of tbe South appeared in every feature—in the oval face, the wealth of dark hair, the soul that looked from the expressive eyes, Graham Brau¬ don thought as he looked that here was one whom ho could admire at a distance as lie would some Eastern queen of old fable or story; and then the sweet, ear¬ nest face of Alic Clay came between, and ho thought, !‘I could admire, not lovej her.” “Age, gaze at that countenance!” Kmedly cried, in a kind of rapture. “Not in Mississippi, not in all the South, is there another such woman. Sho is just five years younger than I; she has not alone beauty, but mind, accomplishments, wealth in and, least, of all, her own right. Her father is a pompous, invalid. chattering nobody, her moth¬ er an She has two brothers, both in the Confederate armies. With her, as with many other Southern wo¬ men, tho cause of the Confederacy is a passion; there is no sacrifice that she would not make for it. She is the toast, the reigning belle of Vicksburg. She had a dozen suitors from tlie proudest and wealthiest Mississippi families, and she chose me from them all. Think how proud and happy I was in the position of her accepted lover! Then came this accursed war, she knew niv devotion to the. Union, and she grew cold to me, as that letter says. I was tormented with the pangs of jealousy; I saw each day the men I had supplanted iu her affec¬ tions admitted to her house, proudly wearing their new gray uniforms, while I was denied admission, I wrote to her, the answer came back that you have read. “Well, I dared not rcg her. No, I dared not, for she would have won me over to rebellion in spile of myself. I fled from Vicksburg; I roamed about at the , , North, T , unable , to decide wliat to do, feeling each day drawn nearer and near- er to the only cause for which I can fight, knowing that the gulf was daily widen- mg between her and me To take arms for the Union is to give her up. “At last I have taken the plunge. I have become a soldier of tlie Union, and have put an insurmountable barrier be- tween Isabel and nte. No matter how the strife may terminate, I shall be worse than nothing to her. She will hate me. I shall never see her again, C clasne'd wv!,'d' i,f £. n tii h> I u1 0gam to . ok and tb *j “/tell it to his heart vou ” he nassionatelv cried “I have given everything for this.” ’ His head up drooped upon Iris hand; with tender sympathy in his blue eyes, Bran- don looked upon him, and be heard him W ° rds that hannted hls troubled ml “Never Never acain agam-never never to to see her again! t" CHAPTER VU, CAPTAIN SMBPPEY’S iEMV. Brandon persuaded his companion to lie down again and try to get himself rested and recuperated for the work that was before them, and he had the satis¬ faction to see him fall into a sound sleep. Then the young Tennessean sat down, meditated upon the stirring events of the past two days, thought about Alice Clay, and nodded off into slumber. It was daylight still when he awoke. His companion stirred was sleeping, and he be¬ himself to get some bodily re¬ freshment. He found Smedloy’s little store of provisions, and made strong coffee. The humble repast was set out on shook the large sleeper box, and then he went and the by the shoulder. “Wake up, Captain,” he called. “Breakfast is ready. Smedley stirred and muttered in his dreams. “No, I can’t see her. She’d persuade me far to fight against the old flag. I’ll go away; it’s my only safety.” “Wake, I say! Quit your dreaming, and come back to the mountains.” “I have not deserved death, ” the sleeper murmured. “But if you will have my life, don’t hang me! Let me die like a soldier; let mo be shot.” Brandon now made such a noise at hie ear that he awoke and sprang up. He recognized his surroundings and hie companion; he was still pale, but hie nerve and strength had returned. To¬ gether they sat down and refreshed “ TELL THE TRUTH ” themselves for the business before them. It was only an hour after daylight that by twos, threes, and singly the mountain¬ eers began to arrive at the cabin. We need not describe them; in dress,- face, a rd general appearance they were like those we have seen, and there was no uniformity in the arms that tliev carried. They were men of strong build, full oi sinew, and for the most part lean and spare; men who had been toughened to endurance by hardship and the hard con¬ flict for mere'existence in these wilds be¬ fore war came to vex them further. One and all they had promptly responded to the mountain tocsin, semo of them leav¬ ing their homes hungry, and with a hur¬ ried farewell to their wives and children, roused from sleep for that purpose. One and all they were ready and eager to take the field in defense of their homes:, and could not. brook delay. kins Captain make Smedley directed Burt Haw¬ to up all the tea and coffee and distribute all the provisions in the cabin among the men; and presently two dozen of them were sitting on the grass eating each’ liis share of bread and dried beef, and passing from hand to band the Cap¬ tain’s tin cup, often replenished with hot coffee. To the statement that these rude sold¬ iers were of a like appearance wo must make About a single exception. the middle of the forenoon a strange figure came uu through the wood. bearing on his shoulder a firelock of formidable weight and length. He was full six feet in height, and would not have weighed less than two hundred and fifty pounds. He was so fleshy that he walked with the characteristic waddle of very fat men. His face was round and rosy, a large He double chin depending from it. had little twinkling eyes, and a snub-nose almost buried in the overlaying flesh; instead of the deep bass voice that might have been expected from this bulk a tliiu kind of a squeak was heard when the man opened his mouth to speak. His dress was a hopeless mingling of hunter’s and citi¬ zen’s costume, quite seedy, the whole absurdly crowned by a battered “stove¬ pipe” hat. His appearance upon the scene, instead of causing any sensa¬ tion, was few met by tho utmost indiffer- ence. A words as to the history of this singular character will be oppor- tune, before taking a closer view of him. Years before, Ithuriel Muncy was a bappy, good-natured youth at Nashville, ou good terms with everybody, full of brag, confidence and bluster. For a time he passed for what, he pretended to he; wliat you will, there are men, who horn lazy, and who never get the bettofi of it. ithuriel was of this kind. He studied law and could make nothing out of it; medicine tho same—but did succeed in making the doctor’s patients very sick with some of the wonderful uasty doses that he compounded ‘iot grace before the end of tho week. After several more dismal Mlures he disap- good-natured, peared, and was graceless next heard of as a fat, loafer in some of the villages of East Tennessee. Among this plain, industrious aud temperate people but the for vagabond might have fared hard his never Tailing good- «»n. ‘it could not be respected. Frequenting the villages in winter, in the mild, and pleasant self seasons he would betake him- to the mountains, and there wander harmlessly and aimlessly about, at peace with the world and himself, never re- fused the shelter of the mountaineer’s cabin or a share of his humble food, His ponderous and useless firearm al- LVS-m" ways accompanied him; and the stories £ S; cun“, among hears and American panthers were simply amazing. of No one over saw any of the trophies his skill and dar- ing; but his blood-curdling narratives tion, were “It’s always concluded with the asser- true; every word of it is true, , Ithuriel Manoy says it, and he stakes! his honor as a gentleman upon the cor- ! rectness of this account.” When it is ; added high-sounding that he was much given to tho use i of words, which he re membered from his former reading cf professional books, his photograph will 1 be complete. With his ureat nnn lennino ! stalked ’ or rather waddled one gr0 up to another, a huge chunk of brand in one hand and one of meat in the other, and, with his mouth full half the time, poured out a flood of bun- I S0 J?? and k'aeconade. j al/o^vo/ al jJ ° sterif 0 ^HclVk'Tf' cnVrnands comi ! ade8 ' : e the ‘ call of dutv , (1 (lj t t . , bo found deficient in those stunen Ions and resounding virtues of patriot- ! ism ’ courage, and indomitable self-as- jertiveness-” ”Oh, shut up, Ithy!” [Go Ret lie yourself down.” out fer pillow." a toiv” «, v r a tc/dhc-r-lied. to make soap-grease “Gentlemen and comrades.” squeaked ! ithuriel, not in tho least abashed, “your hearts are in the right place, if vour tongues bosoms are a little free. Yes, your clarion blast respond, as mine docs, to the for Union anil freedom that blows among these hills. Let tbe haughty Davis and Isham G. Harris come up here if they dare! Let them strive to pollute the free air of these inaccessible empyrean regions with the hated standard of the Southern Con- federacy! of I think the" they will find a living rampart men in way; at least I know that they must first surmount the prostrate body of Ithuriel Mancy-” it’-on7mimfe7t/d g0al0ngwayst0 fin4 '“They nright take it for a puff-ball," jump “Maybe they’d have to take a run and a to get over it.” real "Laugh if you will, gentlemen. The test of valor is at hand; we shall soon know who has the divine afflatus of warlike Mars in his composition. Mark me, and you will see one who will not falter nor turn back-” “Won’t, hey? That’ll be more'n calf you did when you met my yearling in the woods, an’ thought it was a bear.” “You’re safe enough, Ithy. A bullet would wander all round in that fat, an’ not find anything to hit.” “Let's send word to the other side that Ithy is here with his gun. They won’t come at all, then.” These men were grave enough over the and prospeetof meeting and fighting a large powerful body of armed foes; but so heaviness naturally does the human mind turn from and care to mirth, that they were glad of a chance to crack their jokes upon the braggart. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Wise Sayings Well Said. There are eight million nine hundred thousand eggs in an eel. “ J umbo,” the giant elephant, weighed ten tons. They have discovered a cfiallt moun- tain iu Montana. A web-footed boy has been born in Somerville, Mass. ‘ An eagle sailing half a mile above the earth can see a field mouse. The entire front of one of the banks at Riverside, Cal., is constructed of onyx. A “tootometer” has been invented which will make a noise that will be heard ten miles. . V • A talking piano, operated by numer¬ ous kinds, keys is and producing words of all one of the curiosities of a New York museum. A hornet flew into the mouth of Har¬ rison Sands, neai;jSyracuse, N. Y’,, and gave him a sting that resulted in his death. Just about fifty years ago stoves— cooking and heating stoves—first be¬ gan to be generally used. That was when Americans began to make stoves for the home market. As late as 1820 there were as many as three thousand confined for debt in prison of Massachusetts, ten thousand in New York, seven thousand in Penn¬ sylvania, three thousand in Maryland and a like proportion hi other States. Hydraulic Clocks. A * system ot i.. hydraulically i> n controlled , . clocks has recently been-installed in the Berlin University by the I rania-Uhrou a lauer ndSanlenCojpainanuitgescllschaft(Bres- and Dr. Von Orth). The iustullu- tion consists of an ordinary clock, seven secondary clocks and four ringing nr- I ra ngemenls, all connected by a system erected m tlie \ostibule ol the to- building. At tue end.of each Complete hour tho principal clock sends an electrical bur- rent central through the electromagnet thereby of the arrangement apparatus, of wheels and disengaging opening an u water-cock. The water then flows through (ho water-jet pumps and absorbs the ait .........*»■ ondar v docks and ru gum arrangements - I a f e connected. Each of the secondary j clocks is provided with a brass casing, ] which is closed by moans of a loathoi j membrane. As soon as the air in the casing be- 1 comes rarified tho membrane lifts a bar, by means ot which the hour finger is —” i* “— p'ctmg the lioui. and the clock is wound U P to ,ho axtont If “as tun down during hour just completed. Tho ringing arrangements are also fitted with a sim- ilar casing and membrane, which, during the rarefaction of tlie air, lifts the ham- mer and causes tho bell to ring three times. When the necessary amount of rarefaction of the air has been attained and the work of the apparatus is com- *>» "1': P ara D' 3 [ s aut0 ™ at ‘ca ly closed, beveial } nstalIutlons ot ci(,cks 011 tl)is a vsttM ’» h already been made, notably . the ave at Beylin Exchange and the Potsdam rail- way station.—[Industries. , Tub r , pretended , - alchemist, Edward Pin¬ tcr > who now languishes in a British jail, evidently had very "his little faith, in the common senso of fellow-creatures, His claim was that ho could melt tsover- eians in a crucible and treble treble the flu- weio-hr weight oi fo old by tho addition „ ot a mysterious b powder. It is supposed that this powder , was some preparation of gold mixed m oil winch prevented it from SIllkin "'. but !l « otllc 'r a »d more probable suggestion is that he simply throw more gold into the crucible under cover of the doa<1 smoko and the horrible stench which the compound created. At all events, he contrived to put the gold into the eruci- of b i e 't some]low got ^10,000 or othev from ’ and on the strength and one man $3,500 from another, if ho luid been in !oss hurr T to become rich, lie might h»ve made a very comfortable living. He was sharp enough to plead guilty when ar- ranged in court, thus saving the cost and trouble of a prosecution. This was one reason, off with probably, why of the judge lot him a sentence three months’ im- ^ pr!sonmenti or porhapg tho form /V ^ ° f f" ^ ^ I"?"® 18 ,mont dld tlmn . >mt deserve unconscionable much more tools pun- ™ W1 ° encourage d him. _ THE FAISTIS0 Racket. Mike? First Tramp—“What’s Ho looks the matter wid as if life wasn’t wort’ livin' ’ ” i framp __«rm,. That *■ s jist t how , h( £ teeIs Ye mind two days ago - a pool man fainted in front o’ that big house over yonder,and the kind lady ruslmti out wid a bottle o’brandy to restore’im?’ 1 “Wall,' “I mind ” Mike, ho tried w faintin' "J ras hod 8 * out tli t . , h , is same mornin as '. aa before, ’ th’ ole lady Bui when she seed Mike, she said, ‘Poor fel- ^°' v ’ b‘ s P ores > s all slopped up so he can’t breathe,’ says she, an’ then sin turned the hose on ’im.”—[Yew York Wa<»VU SCHEDULE TIME. Hungry Traveler (at railway dininj station)—How soon will the train start conduotor? Conductor—I’ll start on time to-day. ] ain't got muoh appetite. $1.00 a Year in Advance. FOUR'.FOOTED SENTINELS ANIMALS UTILIZED IN MILITARY OPERATIONS. Valuable Aids on the Battle Field— Horses of the Cossacks as Pickets —■simian Sentries. D OGS have been utilized for military purposes with great success in France, Prussia and & Italy, but especially in Austria, where regular' drill barracks for the training of four-footed soldiers have been established at three different points —one on the Mititar Granze (the “mili¬ tary frontier” of the Turkish border), one at Temesvar, and one near Wells on the Traun River, in the foothills of the Austrian Alps. At the latter place surprising results have been obtained with Alpine collies, who range a territory of twenty and thirty square miles and contrive to discover “cripples” Tu all sort3 of hid¬ ing places. Bogs of the same breed are also trained to carry messages, in a small leather bag attached to a ring in the collar, between different detachments of a corps engaged in active service. Oil field maneuvers these four-footed adjutants may be seen darting battle front, along heedless the line of of the the imaginary crash of big Hnd small guns, but withal taking care to confuse the aim of hostile marksmen by running zigzag, or taking advantage of every bit of cover the ground affords. Knowing that the miniature mailbag is not apt to be detached by the scraping of a bush, the dog will prefer thickets to opeu fields, but in. default of a better chadce he will run along the safe side of rocks or fallen trees and occasionally stop ind look about for a moment, as if caf- tulating the best route for avoiding an encounter with a party of hostile skirm¬ ishers. Arriving at the post of the addresses the shaggy mail carrier will look about for a commissioned officer or a sergeant, ipt to be statioued near a flugleman, but privates attempting to touch the collar will be stood off with a warning growl. Should no answer be needed the dog will take a short rest and .recenuiter the ground before running the gauntlet' of another bullet shower. A reply depos¬ ited in his collar bag is, however, the signal of instant departure, and within half an hour the fleet messenger may thus make a round trip of five or six miles. Near Wells the operations of a train¬ ing party involved a considerable ex¬ pense of gunpowder to accustom the four-footed recruits to the noise of fire¬ arms. Horn signals guide the scattered skirmishers, and a stranger passing a night at the summer hotel of the little town might easily be led to believe that the neighboring highland must he the favorite rampage ground of the wild huntsman, or that all the fox- hunters of the Austro-Hungarian Empire must have met iu general convention. An hour before daybreak the echoes of rifle shots and horn blasts may be heard all along the river cliffs, and soon the shouts of the skirmishes will be answered by clog voices as multitudinous as those of a first-class bench show, the object being to conclude the somewhat exten¬ sive maneuvers during the cool of the morning. An average of four out of ten recruits will prove intelligent enough to graduate. The rest are sold or returned to their breeders, or possibly assigned to a different training post, since some ex¬ cellent messenger dogs are too deficient in scent to make good scouts. A breed of Hungarian dogs resembling our Spanish-Americau bloodhounds make the best sentries, and a competent Aus¬ trian army officer maintains that after dark their efficiency surpasses that of the best human sentinels by as much as the range of a good field-glass exceeds that of the unassisted eye. Horses, too, will scent danger before a man with his ear on the ground can hear the slightest sound of an approach¬ ing footstep. The Cossack ranges habitually take their ponies on picket duty, and more than one of our Western Bcouts owes his life to the timely snort¬ ing of his horse. Still stranger sentries are employed by the Kaffir nomads of the Orange River, Dogs being rather expensive pets in a country where every scrap of animal food is needed for culinary purposes the na¬ tives have bethought themselves of do¬ mesticating a species of their Darwinian relatives, the chacma baboons that haunt the rocks of Southern Africa and whose senses have been miraculously sharpened by the exigencies of their defensive war¬ fare against the prowling carnivora of that wilderness. Iu frosty nights, when dogs curl themselves up on tho lee side of a board wall, leopards may approach a Kaffir village unperoeived, but they cannot baffie the vigilance of baboons that seem to sleep with one eye open and shriek out their alarm signal at the slightest intimation of danger. That they are by no means deficient in the faculty of scout is proved by the circum¬ stances that they can detect edible roots under a four-inch stratum of drift sand and find hidden springs by nosing along the ground like dogs. Their hearing, too, equals that of a cat, and altogether they would make ideal sentries if their better talents were not rivaled by their capability for mischief, for in the course of a single night a pet of that sort kept on a Transvaal plantation once managed to turn fourteen hens and a dozen young ostriches into Platonic definition of a human being “Biped without feathers and without the power of flight.”—San Francisco Chronicle. NO. 12. WISE WOEDS. Riches do not insure wealth. Call any man what he is and it makes him mad. When a man attempts to fteeze you out, freeze right back. A map’s acts are the shadows cast long or short by his beliefs. The blind cry for light and declare the fallacy of the belief in its existence. If you whip a boy, he will hate you; if you don’t whip him, you will hate him. A man finds his warmest welcome at the place where he spends the most money. Some people imagine that the world stands still until it has heard their side of the story. The bigger fool a stranger in town is, the more money he usually has on him to be robbed of.. He that buildeth a bridge shall walk on it, he and his posterity. Therefore let him look well to its support. There is nothing unlovely about love save the process of unloving, and unhap¬ piness is half happy untii deprived of hope. It is unfortunate that people do not have the same faculty for getting out of trouble that they have for getting out of work. Some men put the brush in the hands of their enemies and then complain that they are not as black as they are painted. After the first baby has arrived in s family a man can’t kiss his wife without waiting for her to take a lot of pins out of her mouth. Men neglect little things every day that cause them worry at night. It is a bad custom, but we don’t suppose there is any use saying anything. • Find the cause of each wrinkle on a raau s face and you will find it was put there by worrying over something that worrying could not help. Easy Cure of Whooping Cough. A medical man at the city of Aix-en- Provence has a son who had been suffer¬ ing from whooping cough. One day the son told him that at school tho teacher of chemistry had evaporated some naphthaline and that the fumes had im¬ mediately suppressed the irritation of the throat that would have made him cough. Iu order to remove the fumes a window had been opened, after which the whooping cough had come on again. The doctor evaporated naphthaline by the bedside of the boy, who felt much relieved and went to sleep. The next morning the cough was much better. The same was done again on the night following, after whica the patient was entirely cured of his cough. Then tht doctor himself was afflicted with • whooping cough, He tried the same means ana was cured on the third day. He then proceeded to employ tbe remedy and had great success. At a boarding¬ house thirty persons were seized with whooping cough and had the naphthalina vapors applied. It cured all except two nuns, who could not stand the vapor, as they were afflicted with tuberculosis. Place fifteen to twenty gram3 in au earthenware mortar and place on red hot coal, heating it slowly. Remain in tho room filled with smoke for about twenty minutes. Although it seems suffocating, it is considered altogether innocuous.— Chicago Herald. Suicide Is Rarely Attempted Twice. ‘‘Did you ever notice that as a rule the persons who seek death and are rescued from the grave never efturt the society of the dark augel again?” The ptopounderof the question was a hospital physician, and he proceeded to explain without waiting for an answer. “What I mean is that of all the per¬ sons who attempt suicide and are toiled, but few try self murder a second time. Probably one-half, if not more, of all those who try to kill themselves art frustrated. The percentage of those who leap into the darK river a second time is exceedingly small. I have tried to dis¬ cover the reason for this from the lips of those who have gone through the terri¬ ble experience, but I have not met with success. “It is queer that persons, after devot¬ ing weeks and months to a consideration of so momentous, a question and decid¬ ing to end their existence, should, when foiled, declare that they were fools, and swear never to do the like again. Yet this is what is done in a large majority of instances. Those who have stared at death seem to live life anew. The past is effaced—a new light seems to havo dawned. The sunshine is dearer; th# air is purer. It is the convalescent tak¬ ing great draughts of the outdoor air with a keenness of relish that was uu- known before.”—Chicago Tribune. Fossil Coral. A new building material called “fossil coral” has been discovered in a small island in the Bay of Suva Fiji. When it was first removed it is sod and easily cut into square blocks or any other de¬ sired shape, but when it is exposed ta the air for some time it grows very hard aud assumes some of the characteristics of fire-brick.—Chicago Times. Isaac S. Dement, the President of tht Chicago Stenographers’ Association, hu a record of 360 words a minute, and it said to be the fastest shorthand writer of the day.