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SPRING PLACE JIMPLECUTE. •
J- O, HEARTSELL, Ed. and Puto.
VOL XIV.
"The sentiment in favor of woman
suffrage is growing rapidly,” observes
the Rochester (N. Y.) Post Express.
Western Australia, with a popula¬
tion of only 60,000, is fully nine times
as great in area as all of Great Britain.
The English and Scotch farmers are
working hard to have American and
other foreign meats exposed for sale
plainly marked;
It is estimated that, of the general
lumber product, thirty-five per cent,
goes into buildiugs, forty-five per
cent, into railroads and miscellaneous
uses, and twenty per cent, into boxes.
The late David Dudley Field said
that a good constitution, hard work
and plenty of exercise were necessary
to long life. Many men expect the
first to make up for a lack of the other
two requisites, remarks the Atlanta
Constitution.
Lord Wolseley is quoted ns saying
that to an American belongs tin
' honor of kaviug written the most per¬
fect description of a battle in tbe
English language. This American is
Captain Charles King, and the episode
described is the cavalry fight of Get¬
tysburg in “Between the Lines.”
Athletics being the feature of tin
age it is proposed to add a special
athletic department to the Paris ex¬
hibition of 1900. There . . ild be a
retrospective exhibition of athletics in
all ages, beginning with the Olympia^
games and the combats of the
gladiators in the Roman circuses.
An account is just made public by
the New York Times of how an English
man escaped from the Matabele warriors
by means of a strategic dodging learned
from football play. The young soldier
ran the gantlet of forty Alatabeles,
shooting one horsemau during his
scrimmage among them. After this it
is urged that football should be part
of the regular training of soldiers.
Returns just made to Parliament
of accidents to railway employes in
Great Britain show that the percent¬
age of accidents in proportion to the
number of persons employed steadily
decreased, with one slight exception,
from the year 1873 to 1883, but there
was an increase again in 1889, 189 )
and 1S91, and again a decrease in
1«892. During 1892 there were 381,-
626 persons employed on the princi¬
pal railroads of Great Britain, an 1 in
the course of the year 531 of these
were killed, and 2915 injured, a pro¬
portion of one killed in 711 and one
injured in 130. In 1873 the propor¬
tion of killed to employed on all the
railroads of the United Kingdom was
one in 355, in 1877 one in 127, in
1887 one in 871, and in 1891 one in
695.
A Washington correspondent says in
the Atlanta Constitution: “The idea
that Congressman Reed by reason of
his greatness is quite inaccessible to
ordinary ,. people , is . a mistake, . , , as two ,
little boys, whose homes are on Capitol
Hill, eau testify. One of the boys is
a bright little fellow, who was selected
by his teacher to take part in a debate
at school on a certain Friday after
noon, The subject for debate was
some political question, and the child,
without confiding his plan to any but
a fellow debater of about his own age,
started out for the Capitol one day last
week. At the door of the house ha
found a scrap of manilla paper upon
which he inscribed his name and sent
ittoMr. Reed. That gentleman quickly
responded and the boys explained that
they had come for his views on this
certain weighty question. Instead of
explaining to him that this was his
busy day, and that much as he would
be delighted to talk to them they
should come in some other day, he
took them into a committee room, sat
down with them, and made them a lit¬
tle speech. While he was talking,
some newspaper correspondent ap¬
proached him, but he said, “Don’t you
see I’m busy. I’ll talk to you later.”
He answered all the questions the boys
asked him, drew them out on their
views, and then dismissed them with
the invitation to come again, and
whenever he could help them he would
be glad to do so. It ia needless to add
that Mr. Reed now hag no more ardent
admirers in the country than these
Uo boys.”
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. JUNE 9. 1894.
SLUMBER SONG.
_
Who taught the first little girl how to sing?
I know, I know
The dear little birdies that come with the
spring,
They chirped and they twittered on light
feathered wing,
And sang to her stories of everything .■
They taught her to smg—
I know.
Who taught the first little girl how to dance?
I know. I know.
She saw how the butterflies flutter and
glance.
And tbe tall lady-grasses retreat and ad
vance,
She watched little Columbine caper and
prance -
They taught her to dance—
I know.
Who taught the first little girl how to play?
I know. I know.
Tbe pink little blossoms all named for the
May,
From nnder their leaves peeping at her so
gay—
The Mayflowers piay hide-and-seek every
day •
They taught her to play—
I know.
Who taught the first little girl how to rest?
I know, I know.
The bright little birds always go to their
nest,
And the flowers—no matter if dressed in
their best—
All sleep when the sun settles into the West:
They taught her to rest—
Bye-low!
—A. F. Brown, in Worthington's Magazine.
SAYING TEE CLAIM.
J RS. ASHBY stood
JmS in the open door
/$4j§ way of her little
& sod cabin and
f gazed out broad across stretch longingly the of
level K a n s a s
prairie. She was
a frail, broken
<0 woman, whose
deeply furrowed
features and great
hollow eyes told
a pitiful story of
mental and physical suffering.
Like many of the poor settlers on
the great Western plains she had ex¬
perienced the bitter trials and hard¬
ships of a long and unsuccessful war
fare against poverty. There was a
yearning, soul-hungry expression on
her sad, wan face that was touchingly
Up across the prairie from the west
came another woman. She was young
—not above twenty at tho most. Shu
was tall and slender, almost to frailty,
and her face wore that sad wan ex
pression that characterized Mrs. Ash¬
by, but without the hopeless, despair¬
ing look.
“Well, Mary?” Airs. Ashby said, in
an eager, questioning tone, as the
younger woman approached and sank
to a seat by the cabin door.
“Dick Enness will not buy the
claim, mother,” the other replied,
folding her hands in her Ian.
Airs. Ashby stared at her daughter
in amazement.
“Wny, Alary!” she finally ex¬
claimed, “how is that? I thought he
.wanted to buy it.”
“He did, mother, while father was
living, but he has changed his mind
now.”
“But why has he changed his mind?
He surely needs the claim now as much
as he needed then.
“Yes, he does,”
flow. 'Efj en ' d° esi1 1 he want it
“He does want it,.mother.”
“Then why don’t he buy it?”
Mary hesitated a moment, then ris
Wlth Rawing her indignation, form to its full
au Sry re
“Mother, Dick Enness is a rascal,
and he won’t buy our claim because he
thinks by waiting a little while he can
get it for nothing. He was anxious to
buy it while father was living because
he knew father could hold it, but he
thinks now we will be compelled to
give it up aud move away, and then
he will have nothing to do but enter it
in our stead.”
“Surely, Alary, Dick Enness did
not tell you that?” Mrs. Ashby said,
incredulously.
“No,” Alary answered. “But he
said enough to make his meaning
clear. He means to get this claim,
and without paying anything for it.”
Alary twirled her bonnet nervously,
and an expression of set determination
gradually overspread Airs. her Ashby features,
With a deep Bigh at last
broke the silence.
“Well,” she said, “if what you say
is true, Marv, I don’t see that there is
any hope for us. It is hard to believe
that Enness would take advantage of
our helplessness and deprive us of our
land when we have worked so hard to
improve it. I Would never have
thought he could be so heartless. ”
“Neither would I,” Alary replied,
“It is a poor return for the way father
helped Dick Enness when he came
here and tho way he nursed him and
helped him in his crop last year when
he was sick. He might, at the least,
pay us for the work that’s been done
on the claim, rather than to see us
turned Qut in the world with nothing,
“TELL T TCE TRUTH.”
Put, mother, he shall not have our
home. I thought it all over as I came
back across the prairie and I made up
my mind that we wouldn’t give it
up.”
Mrs. Ashby looked at her daughter
in astonishment.
"Why, Mary,” she said, “how can
we help giving it up? We have no
means of living here unless we can
raise a crop.”
"I know that, but we’ll raise a
crop, ” Mary replied, with quiet de¬
termination.
"But how can we?” Mrs. Ashby
asked. “We haven’t a dollar to hire
help, and nobody is going to worK for
ns without the money in hand. ”
"We won’t ask anybody to work for
us,” Mary said. "We’ll work for our¬
selves. We’ll sow the land in wheat,
just as father intended to do, and I’ll
break the ground and drill the gi4in
myself. ”
“You?”‘the mother exclaimed, in¬
credulously. •
"Yes, I,” Mary replied, firmly.
"But, child,” Mrs. Ashby protested
“think what a task it would be, aiid
you’re only a woman.”
“I have thought, mother, of all
that, but wa must not mind the work.
I’d rather go through anything almost
than to give up our home and leave
here with nothing. ”
“But I can’t think of you trying to
manage a farm and doing a man’s
work,” Mrs. Ashby objected.
"I can think of it much better tlian
1 can think of giving everything over
to Dick Enness. I may not prove suc¬
cessful in my efforts to raise a crop,
but I’ll try. We have the team, the
plows and the seed, and I’ll make use
of them. ”
Mrs. Ashby did not acquiesce read¬
ily in her daughter’s plans, but she
finally gave a reluctant consent, and
Mary at once set to work to carry her
plans into execution. Fortunately,
she was used to hard outdoor work,
having aided her father on the claim
the two years they had lived in Kan¬
sas, and at the same time she had
gained an idea of farm management
that stood her in good stead.
At the end of three weeks she had
forty acres of ground broken and
ready to seed, and she felt that the
worst part of her task was done.
“I’ll go over to Dick Enness’s,” she
said to her mother, “and get the drill
and put the wheat in, and then I’ll be
through with the work for the present
and have a little time for rest.”
“Goodness knows you need rest,”
Mrs. Ashby replied, casting a look of
love and sympathy on her daughter.
“You’re not strong enough for such
hardships as you have gone through. ”
“Oh, I’ve not hurt myself in the
least, mother,” Mary replied, “and
now that the hardest part of the worn:
is done I shall get along all right. It
will only take a little while to drill
the wheat, and the work is not hard at
all.”
Mary harnessed the horses, and de¬
parted for Enness’s to fetch the drill.
Enness was at home, and when she
came up to his yard-gate, he walked
out to meet her. .
“Good morning, Alisa Ashby,” he
called. “Whore are you starting so
early?”
“I came to get the drill,” she re¬
plied, “to put in our wheat. I hive
the ground ready, and I thought I’d
use the drill while you are finishing
your breaking, so that you could have
it when you are ready to use it. ”
Dick Enness looked at Alary very
hard for an instant, then cast his
glance down while a flush overspread
his face.
“I’m sorry to have to refuse you a
favor,” he said after awhile, “but I
aon t just see how I can let you have
my drill, for I shall need it myself for
several days.”
“Your drill?” Marv avr-lnimed in
surprise.
“Yes, ma’am,’’Ennessreplied, with
supposed you
“I didn’t know it. Air. Enness,”
Mary said, “and I can’t understand
how it comes to be your drill. I know
that you and father bought it to
gether and I know that he paid half of
its cost. ”
“That’s true enough, Aliss Ashby,
But about two months ago, just be
fore your father’s death, I bought his
interest out and paid him for it, so
now it is all mine.”
Alary Ashby looked at Enness in
wonder. That there was a word of
truth in his claim she did not for one
moment believe.
“Air. Enness,” she said at last, “it
surprises me that you should claim
that which is not yours. I never
would have believed that you would
be so base as to rob two helpless
women, and especially the wife and
daughter of a man who did so much
for you as my father did.”
“Miss Ashby,” Enness replied with
cool effrontery, “the drill is mine and
you can’t have it, and that is all there
is to it. ”
He turned on his heel and walked
away, and Alary, realizing her help
lessness, returned homeward with a
heavy heart.
She understood Enness’s purpose and
she knew that he had had more in view
than the simple possession of the drill,
His object was to thwart, her attempt
at raising a crop, so that the claim
would come to him, and if hs could
deprive her of the use of 1 he drill he
argued that her efforts would be balked.
But he had a different spirit to deal
with than he had anticipated and one
that was capable of surmounting the
impediments he placed in her wdy.
• She thought the matter over. Before
•she reached home she had a plan for
pmlated. It was useless, she knew, to
•light wjth Enness for her rights and it
was where equally as useless to seek else¬
for h J. ill. Yet she was de
termined to put the wheat out and she
adopted the only plan that was open
to her for the accomplishment of that
purpose. She would sow it broadcast
and harrow it in.
And she did, though it took days ol
hard work. She persevered until the
last foot of land was planted and har¬
rowed. Enness, who was watching her
movements and who chuckled to him¬
self wheu she began, thinking she
would soon give up the undertaking,
changed his tune and felt somewhat
crest-fallen when he saw the work
completed.
“I had no idea she was half so
gritty, ” he mused, “and it begins to
look like I’ll not have a very easy time
getting her off that claim, but then the
chances are that her wheat- will fail
after all.”
But Enness was doomed to a disap¬
pointment for her in wheat his hopes and of a crop fail
pro, and at last when grew prospered,
it was ready to harv¬
est it was the finest field of grain in
that section.
Miss Ashby had a long spell of sick
ftess ikrt, immediately after getting her crop
but she was well and strong again
at harvest time, and though Enness
did all he could agaiust her by hiring
her harvest hands away from her, she
was able to get her grain secured with¬
out loss.
When the wheat was all threshed and
marketed, Miss Ashby counted up the
clear proceeds of all and found that She she had $500
proud of her expenses. achievement, was justly
and it was
kith a feeling of pleasure that she
looked back on those days of hard,
tad jveary planted toil, when the seed she that broke brought the soil
i such
rich harvest.
Enness learned full soon what Miss
Ashby had gained and the information
Ciune to him as a death blow to his
Iwpes of securing the claim for noth
m
He decided that if ho was to secure
claim he would have to. buy it, and
de felt that the sooner lie" bought it
the better.
So one morning he walked over to
Mrs. Ashby’s sod cabin, and after pass¬
ing a few commonplace remarks, said i
“Mrs. Ashby, I’ve concluded that I
might, afford to take your claim off
your hands being as you’re so anxious
to sell. I don’t really need it, but to
accommodate you I’ll buy it. ”
“What will you give?” Miss Ashby
asked.
“Well, it ain’t worth it,” Enness re¬
plied, “but I’ll allow you what you
asked for it when you offered it to me
shortly after Ashby’s death. ”
“I told you then you could have it
fojv “Yes. $200,1 I believe?” think Alary remarked.
it was $200, and
though that is too much, I’ll give it
just as a matter of accommodation, as
I said
“Mr. Enness,” Alary said, “if you
want tq buy this claim yon can have
it for $1000.”
Enness started and stared in amaze¬
ment.
“You surely don’t mean that,” he
gasped,
“I do mean it. We won’t take a
cent less. ”
“But you offered it for $200.”
“Yes, because we felt that we were
compelled to sell it, but we don’t feel
so now. ”
“You will feel so,” Enness said, as
he arose and left the room, “You’ll
fail on your crop next year and then
Xou’ll Twon’t be glad to get what I offer, but
promise to give it. ”
Ho was angry and disappointed. He
had never dreamed that his offer would
, be refused, , , aud . , he really „ wanted , , the ,,
land. He consoled himself, how
ever, with the thought that Miss Ash
by would yet come to his terms aud
be glad enough to accept his offer,
and he determined to patiently bide
Ins time.
“i’m very sorry to have to decline
your generous aid, Air. Enness,” Aliss
Ashby interrupted, with a queer smile,
“hut the truth is we’ve contracted the
claim to the railroad company for a
toTii site for four times what yon
offer.”
Without a word Enness left the
house and walked back home. He
was too completely beaten to say a
word; but he thought a good deal.
For the first time in his life it ap¬
peared to him that it was very easy
for greed to overstep itself.
It was manifest to im, too, that
even a woman could jmplish a great
deal when she resolved to try, even
though she labored under adverse cir¬
cumstances,
A few weeks later Airs. Ashly stood
in the doorway of the little sod cabin
an.! looked out across the Kansas
prairie for the last time. Her face
was no longer sad and wan, for she
was very happy. She was at last go¬
ing back to the old Eastern home for
which she had so long yearned, and
the old, dark days of hardships and
privations were only a rememberance.
Alary Ashby’s indomitable will and
energy had brought better and brighter
times,-—Chicago Saturday Record.
$1.00 a Year in Advance.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
V fs a world of is, was, or will be.
Pleasure is always in sight of pain.
Cupid will lie if it pleases his fancy.
Poetry is useful as well as ornamen
tal.
A stupid woman is one of nature’s
misfits.
Know thyself. Everybody else
knows you.
The weaker the brain the more open
the mouth.
Love is the oasis in the desert of
matrimony. ,
Prosperity, as a rule, is not an aid
to religion.
What is best in money is least often
got out of it.
The honest poor are no scarcer than
the honest rich.
There is a nobler inducement than
the sense of duty.
Courtship is love in the abstract;
matrimony is not.
It isn’t what a man owes, but what
he pays that keeps him poor.
Good clothes have to be paid for, but
bad habits grow upon a man.
Death is the great certainty, as mar
riage is the great uncertainty.
Why isn’t it as easy to say a good
thing of one as it is to say a bad thing?
Other people sometimes get tired of
the man who does not get tired of him¬
self.
The apparel doth oft proclaim the
man, but it does not proclaim whether
it is paid for or not.
There are various degrees of enthus¬
iasm, but there is nothing that a man
puts his heart into so thoroughly as
courtship.
Each day is a brick in the super¬
structure of our lives, and it is with
us to see that they are not bricks with¬
out straw.
There is a wide gulf between anger
and pity, and yet we are as likely to
feel the one as the other for the man
who differs from us.
Giant Soldiers.
The regiment of Belgian Grenadiers
can boast of possessing on its muster
roll the tallest soldier in Belgium.
His name is Charles Louis Becaus, he
is twenty-one years of age, Was a farm
laborer before joining the army and is
a native of Hundelgum, a village in
West Flanders. His exact height is
one (six meter ninety-seven centimeters
feet six and a half inches), He
comes of a family of giants and giant¬
esses, says the London Chronicle, but
his mother is only of ordinary stature.
His father is two meters high (six feet
and eight inches), Of his eleven
brothers and sisters the shortest
measures one meter and ninety-seven
centimeters. No boot to fit him could
be found in the regimental clothing
depot. He is allowed double rations
on tho recommendation of his Colonel.
The tallest man in the British Army
in India is Bombardier Henry Wheeler,
B Battery, R. H. A., now stationed at
Rawal Hindi, Bengal. This young
giant was born at Reading; his height
is six feet seven and a half inches, age
twenty-four years, weight fifteen stone
eight pounds, and he measures forty
one and one»fourth inches around the
chest. At seventeen he was rejected
by the Life Guards, owing to his
height being too great in comparison
with his age. He then weighed four¬
teen stone, and the sergeant told him
that if he kept on growing at this rate
no horse in the regiment would carry
him. He then tried for the artillery
and was at onoe accepted. His family
are nil tall, his father being six feet
one inch, his mother five feet ten in¬
ches, and several brothers and sisters
averaging six feet.
Cause ot Admiral Farragnt’s Death,
The Rev. James J. Kane, chaplain
°f the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said in a
recent i ecture that the death of Ad
| miral Farragut was due to the selftsh
: ness 0 f a woman. The admiral and
bis Wlte w6r8 coming from California,
when a woman occupying a seat in
front 0 f them in the car opened the
window. Admiral Farragut was ill
and the strong draught of wind which
blew directly upon him chilled him.
Airs. Farragut asked the woman cour¬
teously if she would not kindly close
the window, as it was annoying to her
husband. The woman snapped out:
“No, I won’t close the window. I
don’t oare if it does annoy him. I am
not going to smother for him.” Ad¬
miral cold, which Farragut resulted thus in caught his death. a severe
A
few days before the end came he said:
“If I die that woman will be held ac¬
countable.”—Detroit Free Press.
Gotham’s “L” itoad System.
There are twenty-nine stations on
tha Sixth Avenue L road, twenty-eight
on the Second avenue and twenty
seven each on the Third and Ninth
avenue roads. On all roads there are
minute runs between many stations
and the longest run is the three and a
half minutes between 104th and 116th
streets on the West side. It takes
forty-three minutes to go from South
Ferry to the northern end of both the
East side roads, fifty-two minutes to
155th street by the Sixth avenue line
and forty-five minutes York* by that on
Ninth avenue.—New Mail and
Express.
NO. 14.
FOR HER.
For her thesweetest blossoms should breathe
a perfume rare,
For her the tenderest music should come
floating through the air,
For her the choicest pleasures should bedeck
and pave the way,
And brightest beams ot sunlight at her feet
in glory play.
For her the blushing rosebud should discard
its cruel thorn,
And for her heaving bosom other eager
searchers scorn;
For her a pure contentment should throw lt»
f , arm3 about
Aid circle her, while pleasure shuts all care
and sorrow out.
For her I’d make the journey through this
land of bitter tears,
A lasting day of smiling love, devoid ot
doubt aud fears;
Her path should grow resplendent, the way
be like a dream,
I’d make her life with happiness, like dear*
est heaven seem.
—Edward N. Wood, in Detroit Free Press,
PITH AND POINT.
Some men are born great, and some
have to be elected.
Ambition is the desire to do some¬
thing that you can’t.
When a woman goes to a neighbor’s ,
house for a minute, she stays an hour.
—Atchison Globe.
It is odd but true that one can best
judge of a woman’s carriage when she »
is walking.—Buffalo Courier.
We might put up with Coxey
If we were only sure
That after while he won’t
Start on a lecturing tour.
—Indianapolis Sentinel..
•‘That’s what I get for my pains,”
Bobbed the small boy as he swallowed
a dose of castor oil. —Pliiadelphia
Record.
“IsJenks in the swim nowadays?”
“Guess he must be. His best girl has
just thrown him overboard. ”—Buffalo
Courier.
A new color is known as invisible
blue. It will probably be used in the
policemen’s new uniforms.—Philadel¬
phia Record. •
“My son, if a person calls you an
ass, do not kick. That would only
serve to corroborate bis'asserlion/’’—......
Boston Transcript.
“Do you believe that contentment
is better than riches?” “Perhaps so,,
if you have them both together. ”-J
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“What, ” cried the orator fiercely,
“What, I ask, causes poverty?” And
from the back of the hall a hoarse
answered, “Lack of cash.”—Harlem
Life.
“Rabbi, who is happier, the man
who owns a million dollars or he who
has seven daughters?” “The one who
has many daughters.” “Why so?”
“He who has a million dollars wishes
for more—the man who has seven
daughters does not. ” — Fliegenda
Blaetter.
“What are you wearing dark glassei.
for?” said one clerk to another. “You
never had trouble with your eyes be¬
fore, did you?” “Never. But tha
janitor came around when I wasn’t
looking and washed the window by
my desk. The sudden glare was too
much for me.”—Washington Star.
Housekeeper—“Those eggs you sold
me were stale, and I asked you for
fresh-laid eggs.” Dealer (patroniz¬
ingly)—“Those eggs are fresh, ma
dame, not salted, and they are laid
eggs, madame, not manufactured.
Had you desired eggs recently taken'
from the nest, you should have asked
for freshly laid eggs.”—New York
Weekly.
Airs. Da Broker—“Well, my son,
how did you and the boys come out
on your peanut speculation?” Small
Son—“When we got through, I owed
the other boys fifty cents.” “Hum!’’
“Oh, it’s all right now. We reorgan¬
ized.” “Eh?” “Yes. I capitalized
at $1, gave the other boys half the
stock for their debt, and then sold
them the other half. So now they
owe me fifty cents.”—Good News.
Absorption ot Meat by Water.
The eagerness and rapidity with
which water will absorb heat is in di¬
rect proportion to the difference in
temperature between the water and
the fire. That is to say, the cooler the
water the more intense its heat-ab¬
sorbing quality. With cold water,
circulation begins rapidly, even from
a small fire; as soon, therefore, as the
particles of water become heated they
naturally strive to move up and out
of the boiler and so make way for
cooler and more heat-receptive par¬
ticles. This is the natural way for
heated water to move and in this way
heated water will always move if it is
not hindered and checked by a forced*
movement direction in horizontally. The only
which heat will move
water is in a vertical direction. Heat¬
ed water will rise and cooler water de¬
scends naturally, in vertical lines.
Water in horizontal spaces will hardly
move away from the fire at all, ex¬
cept as it is forced out by the move¬
ment of neighboring currents in verti¬
cal spaces. —Engineers’ Review.
The Alohammedans teach that Adam
and Eve once lived in a tent on Mecca] what
is now the site of the temple at