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THE HILLS OF HOPE.
,r Wliat Raw you, child, on hills of hope
(Where non* may go that ovenviae)
That a Bhining joy fades li: ringly
Out of the deeps of your <. s?”
“The hills of hope are roses and snow,
And the glad air of its own self sings,
And the dull world hid in the mists below
Is a gray, forgotten dream of things,
And, oh, but my heart was light and gay
When I walked on the hills of hope today 1”
“What saw you, child, on the rainbow hilla
(Where none may go that be overwise)
That; you lay your cold little hand in mine,
With the shadow of fear in your eyes?”
“On the farther side of the rainbowfhills
Is a forest of dead trees black and bare,
And a river cold as the riv r of death
And the ghosts of dead j <ys wander there,
And, oh, but my heart w.* terrified
Today at that cold, dark river side!”
“Now be not afraid, littla child, for sec
The dream is gone, and the warm sunshine
Is bright on the paths of every day,
And your hand is clasped in mine.”
--Charlotte Lowry Marsh in East and West.
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There used to lie, perhaps it still
Stands, an old hacienda house down in
the state of Guerrero which, for many
years, „ . held evil repute place of
an as a
suddeu and inexplicable death.
The state is now undergoing the
process so familiar in Mexico, known
as “opening up” by railway construc¬
tion. Few people used to go down into
that region of heat and mystery; few
came up from it to the capital city,
for intercourse was difficult, a matter
of stage riding over mountain roads
liberally strewn with rocks, or else, in
the lower country, deep with dust iu
the autumn and winter and, later on, as
the rainy season advanced, there was
mud—mud up to the bellies of the
horses. To many parts of the state
one had to go ou horse, or, better, on
mule back. There is no beast as safe
as a mule, except for the fallen rider,
to whom the unholy hybrid, before
bolting, stops to administer a parting
kick.
Luuse I have mentioned was on
- tropical estate devoted to sugar
t ’ 0U of ^ * ch i ". ui ' h “gunrdieutc
TLA ul.t " “f , e ’- a ,1 . nd 0C " \° donsumpt'on, v:lllH11s V Ht c for ' )l,I ‘ the t !' y
a proln utory charge
Snilio house n through 1 0 t{l i tt0n great ‘ ' °« fields 1 f? 115 green '"’ 1 ' 1011 with
the cane, over a road which, though a
private way, was none of the best, and
finally you reached an avenue of orange
and pepper trees and saw near at hand
the low, one story white stone house
and the plantation buildings, stables,
rss 1 r ’
nnlms ’|. 'r*..-', 1 1 °
.. f L 1 y'
run at will' Ti° 1 ''" ' , rl ‘ 0 " Ll 0
and cool and wholly deli-ffitful! Lug ride‘gazed The
traveler delllht weary of the t«
Zdowi with l. „ Go , ^7’ ‘ ,,,
in‘a t 1 °It
desert of blinding sunshine.
gave promise of rest for man and beast.
of cool water and rnrnl nleniv
Such was the h rf ‘” ,u ‘ “ T*‘ ’
me saints in heaven know Unit it was
a pleasant looking place. Don Diego
Prado and Maria Vuauio his o)« wife
and 40 years respectively, with sever
al children grown to a companionable
age which means nmcli in such * a soli
tary place
Travelers were welcome at Valvet
de; they brought the news of the outer
world, and months after their depart¬
ure their peculiarities of face and fig¬
ure, dress and gesture, even their
quaintnesses of speech, were subjects
for conversation over the dinner table,
or when the family gathered iu tlie
Inner patio for an evening chat, the
master of the house tranquilly smok¬
ing—a large, good natured man, quiet
for lack of themes to set his tongue
a-going. Maria Naranjo was voluble,
fond of company, and enthusiastically
hospitable; so much so that Don Diego
used to say that slic would welcome
a blind mule gone astray ou the roads.
There were several guestrooms, usu¬
ally furnished with the proper aud
decent simplicity of the hot country,
cot beds with just the canvas to lie
on, thick “frazadas” for the cool nights,
as It Is often very chilly In the tierra
calleuta after the sun goes dowu aud
night advances, a chair or two, a
bureau and a small German looking
glass warranted to make one wish lie
had never contemplated his features
therein. One could hardly use the
glass for shaving without danger of
cutting off an ear. Tlie floors of broad
red tiles, unglazed; the walls white¬
washed so you could see, even with the
feeble light of a candle, if there was
a scorpion crawling about, suggesting
how inscrutable are the decrees of
Allah who embodies oue Intelligence
In a horrid, creeping thing, und anoth¬
er in that strange biped, man, that is
as a god walking the earth, and, ns
we all know, always aud everywhere
the glory aud justification of the im¬
mense time given to bis evolution.
The room of honor for distinguished
people was a large one with two Iron
grated windows looking out on a large
courtyard nud a door which you closed
ot night, and then placed across it, the
ends resting iu each its hole, a great
beam for perfect security against in¬
truders. There were nt least six chairs
of Austrian bent wood, light colored,
two of them comfortable “mocedores,”
or rocking chairs, and there was even
a sofa of the same material, one of the
finest products of human Ingenuity.
Tlie bed was a masterpiece of brass,
witli a great canopy surmounted by
some sort of carved crown, as if <le
zigued for an emperor happening by
and asking lodging for tlie night. The
bed foundation, ns it were, was com¬
posed of boards painted green nud laid
across the frame. And there was a
mattress, very thin and hard, ns is
proper In tropical regions, if you em¬
ploy so essentially strange a thing at
all. A faded but ample rug was
stretched nt one side of the bed so that
aristocratic feet need not touch the
vulgar brick tiles on getting into bed
at night or on arising in the morning,
wben the yellow sunlight filled the
room, from the big patio. The room
pleasant, and oue would not imag¬
ine it had bad so sinister a history.
Within six years throe people had oc¬
it and had been found dead In
!u all nature. lb pealing her prayers,
Dona Maria asked i!:>• blessing of
heaven on the young people and went
out to see her maids and make sure of
a grand breakfast, so the travelers
might start away with pleasant
memories of the hacienda of Yal
verde. There was a commotion in
the huge kitchen, where the morning
repast was preparing according to
the direction given to the “nrna
de Haves’ the night before by the care
ful Maria."
Seven o’clock came, and the young
people were not astir, though ihe
nio 7 .os of the escort were long before
up and had had their coffee. Kiglit
o’clock came, ami Maria felt a sinking
of the heart; a horrible clutching sen
sation seized her bosom; she grew faint
aud called for water; then, feeling
better, she went to the big patio,
tapped lightly on the door of the
grand room and listened, her heart
thumping.
No reply! Then she knocked louder,
and then again with more force, and
no answer came. She almost droiiped,
and cold sweat CUV, red her body. Old
I’onciauo came hobbling along, his
face worried, "(let up on that chair
rue lie .ruing, ami no one could say
what had cxiaigulshed the lamp of
their life. There eras Don Carlos Aris
PG'who v:;< a planter, living GO miles
away, and win had been lodged iu the
room of the ran, pied bed as a due trib
ute to his s.a-ial consequence. He was
GO years old. and it was believed that
j (lf , ,, n as( ,. Then came a
lawyer from the City of Mexico, from
the faro IT city of palaces, on ids way to
Acapulco to arrange some business.
Surely ;o grand a personage ns a li
ccnciado of the capital of the fedora
tion nil!: ! be lodged in the grand room!
lie, too. died in the night, inexplicably,
Still he was fragile and had been ex¬
posed to the s;m a great deal, and the
transition from his somber, cool and
smoky * f’:i< *C in the capital to hot roads
and lari’ was believed to Lave
a(Tecta! 1: is brain. Tbe servants said
it was a <*a<e of cerebral congestion
due to "iiisehis-ioii,” or overexposure to
the sun. For ten nmutlls nobody was
placed iii the room till there came, one
spring aftcriE n. a robust young man.
a surveyor for a foreign company, ac
companion by two inozos. He was a
U’.i'iice, for he wore a
]i;i ,., 1!( ,, M ., lmsetts made re
VoJm . f ali(] v ,-about giving heed to
t])e g ,. iin i,; sl , MV 0 f tlie room of tbe
canopied 1, d. he wr . placed there, and
, ls ,. p l:ll( jrcss ( >il that April night he
v i lis th;d as only a happy Gentian may
and sang songs of tlie fatherland.
W hen old Uonciatm, a house servant,
went to call the surveyor in the morn
ing, ho was cold in death, Ilis mozos
viewed the remains, and in haste they
rode off l>» bring (lie judge, who lived
‘ju miles away. He barely got there in
time, for *5 in tlie tierra calientc burial
- *»«.«. >«*
nouueed it a case of sudden death (oh,
legal sapieney!) due to organic cardiac
derangement-at least that is what his
llig ' 1 soun,lin « l' hlas <-' iuiplied, and the
ROMoroBS Kouutl t]l ” words satisfied
the dead man’s faithful servants and
»11 the onlookers. There was no sign
of « "" n,ld 011 t! >< ! fair ^ of the
n \ an ’ n ° "' as b,,ned tliat ni S h t
ont ia the little cemetery where had
fatafbed.
v '"f* ■ s ' s ... h Ml ' ^ a }' sc " , since
lhe 1,,st of tl,eso Sln ister happenings
"«"■ •«»
^asou, the roads having hardened,
Hlt ° m ' et 10111 A ’.-apulco a young
D1im . d 1 '-ouple their to the
' lt ' cn way
City of Mexico. They were aceorupa*
nk '!l ,,y s!x n ™ cd lllozos ’ alld il!! w cre
well mounted. The young man, the
Captain Felix Delmonte, and his bride
were most charming people. The offi¬
cer had just taken to himself a wife,
having received news of the death of
an uncle, a wealthy man in the federal
capital, who had made him his sole
heir. 1 1 was a somewhat unusual thing
to marry at the “very root” of a kins¬
man's death, but Soledad Marquez was
an orphan, and the officer was madly
in love with Dor and hoped to make ar¬
rangements to leave the service and
settle down with this lovely young WO
man In the City of Mexico, there to en¬
joy the new wealth. Soledad was a
tropica! beauty, a daughter of the sun
and f lie sen, a girl of the Pacific coast
and with eyes deep, dark and dreamy,
fit to fascinate a king. They asked ac
comniodatious for themselves and their
escort for the night, and lion Diego
al| d his wife were only too glad of their
company. There were a grand supper
that night and much merrymaking,
and all tlie news of the great and fa
'anus l>ort of Acapulco was retailed, to
the intense interest of Don Diego aud
his household.
IIow it came about that tbe young
couple were assigned to the room of
the canopied bed is told thus: They
woro first shown i > a small room in
which two cots lmd been placed for
them and expressed their thanks for
the lodging in the gracious Mexican
way when Dona Maria,feeling a bouse
wifely pride in the fact that she had a
grander room to show, remarked, “I
could give you another recatnera,but”—
“But what ?” inquired Captain Del
inoutc, and he added: “Fur myself I
don't mind, but tin's little woman is
very tired, and perhaps you have a
mattress on which she could
rest. F.xcuse the trouble I’m giving
you.”
the married pair were ghown the
grand room, and Maria <■ .ci.iiiued,
IHiat a very pretty bed!” The good
wife dared not relate tlie story of tlie
loom, being nshmuod, as she after
ward remarked, and then, too, she re
fleeted that the mattress was a new
one and the room had been cleaned
and newly whitewashed. The .voting
couple seemed so radiant with happi¬
ness, so strong and full of the joy of
life, that Dona Maria told them to take
the ..
room and to say well their prayers
on retiring. They laughed and prom
is.A to do so. Then she went to Don
Diego, who, being a practical man,
listeued to her words of foreboding
aud laughed, saying: “Tbe spell will
be broken by this happy pair; they
ining love and life and
gladsome with them. Don’t
more about it, woman, und let us
a breakfast fit for our guests. To
to lied, and let us be up betimes!”
It was a lovely late October
the air touched with just n distant
plcion of a chill; tlie suu, big and
and glorious, rose from above the
of the great sawlike ridge of
tuins, the palm trees swayed iu
breeze, aud there was a contagious Joy
® na J 00k the window, wild Marla
family. . ol
0 lnan aa was
|'‘d^ la f ~ am. ...a, “I , hey are still sleep
r then he . inped down, and his face,
.
though very brown, became blanched
' vitk fear - lIe recalled the young Ger
lllaa surve or, the lawyer and Don
Ual ' los Arls ‘ >e -
r ien came the master of the house,
L>ou Diego, ,all > strong, and his face
somber. lie was choking with appre
henslou. Tie, too, looked in the win
do ' v a “ (1 shouted.
And there was no reply.
;0 ,ried the door, and, luckily,
,ku , y° u ng people had not put up the
"Xiodcu beam, lie went in, and touch
tu ‘ sleepers. Ihcy moved not,
They were sleeping (lie last sleep!
Diego it as a s1 rong man, but be
“ ^ eat ' 1 • Demons haunt this
accursed room.' lie cried out. Then,
1 oneiano having called the men of the
escort ' * ht 7 ea,1M? alKl e “ tered ,Uo
l00lu tonishment , was depicted on
’
lcl1 / f They refused to beUcve
that the captain an 1 Ins bride, so calm
ln *»«>. "ere not asleep. They
gioaneil in spiut, and one of the men
f 10Utci1 in ( ' a P tai " Dclmonte’s car:
( Captain, get up! It is nearly 9
o’clock.” But the captain was far
away.
The same judge who had been sent
rue before was summoned. Tbe judge
came late in the afternoon. lie re
called his previous visit, and yet he
snld: “No suspicion can attach to you,
Don Diego, nor (o your wife or serv
ants. This is au act of God; this room,
this bed, they are accursed. Let us
remove the bodies; they may be buried
iu the morning, and next day I will
draw up papers relating the mystery
of this room, which should be barred,
never to be opened again.”
The men of the escort wept like chil
dreu; they were good loyal fellows,
and fond of tbe captain and ills bride.
Old I’onciauo was so overcome that he
on ataijue and died lncou
tinently. A whisper went about that
was a poisoner, and that his heart
had accused him! So the servants
gossiped,
At 0:30 in ilie morning the young
couple were buried in the presence of
Die judge who also presided over the
interment of I’onciano, not without
some feeling of suspicion in his heart
regarding the old man. But Don Diego
Kaitl: “I’onciauo served my father be
lure me. He was tbe soul of bouor,
though poor and a servant. No, no; let
«» take down that bed, for so, per
chance, we shall ease our minds,
tliougli I believe that the room is filled
with demons.”
Late in the afternoon the judge and
Don Diego, with the men of the escort,
went to the grand room. It was bright,
ns is the wont of windowed rooms aft
cr great tragedies. Servants began to
tak o tbe bod to pieces, trembling with
•***«»«-> When the caao
ID’ was removed, everybody was petri
tied and felt turned to icy rigidity,
Concealed in the top was a nest of ta
rantulas! They scattered as disturbed,
these demons iu reality, and tlie men
ran out of the room, fearing them.
Here was the long kept secret of the
fatal room. These creatures had de
pended Oms and at then night returned and killed to their their nest vic- in
uitr cniiOliy.
All was duly set down by the judge
" o„,i n d C Y“ T i 1 ,’’ i . „n ,i the , " ,tne f es ^
this . closed the grewsome chapter ; of
Boston Herald. *;•««*-*«'
\ Story From Dublin.
It was at a Dublin dance. What lent
additional luster to the oreasion was
Hie expectation that a certain iinpor
tau1 I>ccr would put iu au appearance
and, of course, danc-e with certain
fortunate damsels. Tbe guest of tlie
evening was, however, late. An ex
cellent and fussy person saw a very
pretty gill sitting out dance after
dance. He went up aud. speaking to
tbe mother, observed:
“It is quite a shame that your pretty
daughter should be sitting out iu this
way. Vou must really let me intro
diico her to some nice young men who
will give her all the dancing she
wants.”
“Whist!” cried the mother. “Be aisy;
I'm kaplng her cool for the earl.”
A Curt Ileply.
The postmaster of Rouud Up, Kan.,
recently received notification from the
department iu Washington that lie
would be compelled to give a larger
Loud for tlie faithful performance of
ins duty, as the business of his office
was increasing. Tlie postmaster draws
a salary of $2-i a year, and he returned
Hie department’s letter with the word
“Nit” written iu red ink at the bottom.
At last accounts tlie postmaster was
doing business under tbe old bond.
Beninaim; » iiui.it.
“Buffalo” Junes, who caught and
tamed great numbers of the wild ani
muls of the plains, knew perfectly well
how liis life received its first bent in
that direction. lie says in bis “Forty
Years of Adventure:”
tVJien a lad of 12. I was sent to the
woods with tlie hired man to saw off
logs. My lather was to come with a
sled in the afternoon and haul the logs
to mill. As we were working 1 looked
tip into a tree and saw a l’ox squirrel
swinging on a limb. 1 dropped
saw and climbed,
Soon the beautiful little creature was
high up in the branches, and when I
pursued him to tbe end of a limb ho
gave a spring and caught in the boughs
of another tree. So 1 descended aud
climbed that other tree, and, as the
squirrel repeated his tactics, I did mine
until tlie greater part of the day was
gone,
At last the little fellow took refuge
in a hole in a large bur oak. I thrust
iu my band, seized him and held on,
'‘ vcn though his long, sharp teeth ncar
ly took off tlie end of my linger. I kept
a firm grip until I reached the ground,
Then 1 put him into my pocket and
pinned it together with some honey lo
cust thorns,
When my father returned and found
no logs to load, lie demanded an expla¬
nation. That was duly given, aud then
a boy of my size received a good thrasli
iug, meanwhile managing to keep bis
cap over the squirrel to protect it, pre
ferring to receive tbe blows himself.
I tamed that squirrel and loved him,
hut finally I sold him for $2 to a gentle
man who had a crippled son. That
transaction seemed to fix In me a rul
Ing passion which has never deserted
me, and 1 began catching und taming
wild animals.
Made it« ovrn Funeral Toilet.
There are certain insects that have
such a respect ffcr Mrs. Grundy and
ar ® endowed with such an innate love
of neatness and order that not even
death, or rather decapitation, can pre
vent them from making one grand
final toilet, which is clearly designed
to give them a sedate and respectable
appearance after death,
Dr. Bullion, a skilled entomologist,
discovered this remarkable fact. “Dur
ing one of my recent horseback rides,”
he says, "I frequently caught one of
those lnrge flies wh!ch annoy cattle
and horses so much, and I promptly
got rid of it by crushing its head.
One day, instead of throwing the mu
tilated insect away, I placed It on the
back of my hand and indolently watch
ed it. for some seconds the insect re
mained motionless, but then, to mv
unbounded surprise, it moved its front
legs forward to the place where the
head should have been, and, after it
had rubbed them nervously together,
apparentiy m anguish, it began to
brush its body and to smooth its wings
wU h Us hind logs, Under the gentle
pressure of these limbs the bodv grad
ually became extended and the ex
tremity curved, while the wings grad
ually changed tliolr natural position
and left the upper part of the body
exposed. Meanwhile the hind legs
continued to brush each other front
time to time.
“Naturally 1 watched this extra¬
ordinary sight with great iuterest, and,
in order to see the tin ale, I took the
insect into my study, where it lived
an entire day, spending the time at
tlie ungrateful task of making its own
funeral toilet.”
Couldn't HcHiMt.
An eccentric clergyman in Cornwall
had been much annoyed by tlie way
the members of tile congregation bad
of looking around to see late coiners.
After effduring it for some time he
said cn entering the reading desk one
day; “Brethren, I regret to see that
your attention is called away from
your religious duties by your very
natural desire to see who comes in
behind you. I propose henceforth to
save you the trouble by naming each
person who may come late.”
lie then began, “Dearly beloved,”
but paused half way to Interpolate,
“Mr. S., with his wife and daughter.”
Mr. S. looked rather surprised, but
the minister, with perfect gravity, re¬
sumed. Presently he again paused.
“Mr. C. and William I).’’
The abashed congregation kept their
eyes studiously bent on their books.
Tbe service proceeded in the most or¬
derly manner, the parson interrupting
himself every now and then to name
some newcomer. At last he said, still
with the same perfect gravity:
“Mrs. S. in a new bonnet.”
In a moment every feminine head in
the congregation had turned around.—
Millinery Trade Review.
A Mystery of the Sen.
One of the most curious finds ever
made from the sea was that which
came to the Azores in 1S5S. The is¬
land of Corvo was then in tlie posses¬
sion of two runaway British sailors.
One morning there drifted ashore a
craft which had evidently been frozen
m me ice lor a mug time. 'It was an
ancient and battered brig, without
masts, bulwark or name, but tbe
batches were on. tlie cabin doors fast,
and the hulk was buoyant. She bad lit¬
tle cargo, and that consisted of skins
and furs in prime condition.
No papers were found in the cabin,
but it was figured tbat_sho was a
sealer or trader, carrying a crew of
10 or 12, and that she had been pro¬
visioned for a year. The flour was
spoiled, but the beef was perfectly
preserved, She had been abandoned
when frozen in an iceberg and drifted
f or years. The date of tlie letter found
i n the forecastle showed that the brig
had been abandoned nearly half a
century before. The two sailors got
out the furs, which eventually brought
them .S4.000, and two barrels of beef
and then set fire to the wreck. No trace
W as ever found of its name or owners,
Jnst an Ordinal-} Steal.-.
“When in Hamburg, we supposed
we must do as the Hamburgers did, so
at our first meal there we asked for
Hamburg steak.” said the woman.
“Besides, we wanted lo see how that
viand would taste upon its native
heath, anyway. But to all our requests,
couched in our best .scholastic German,
the waiter shook his head. Like many
another prophet, the Hamburg steak
was apparently without honor in Its
own country. At al! events,’ our waiter
hadn’t heard of it. 'Oh, well,’ we said,
‘Just bring us an ordinary beef steak.
But, lo and behold, when tbe meat was
served there it was all chopped up and
made into small cakes—what Arneri
caus oal, i *" fact. ‘Hamburg steak!’
To Hamburgers a Hamburg steak was
au ‘ordinary steak.”’—New York Sun.
-
A Gooil Sclieme.
Mrs. Younghtisbaiid—Do you notice
an - v difference in the milk, dear?
Ml '. Vounghusbnnd—1 should say so.
Tllis is a '""eh better quality than we
have been getting lately,
Mrs. \oungliusband—I ihIokI it is. 1
a "ow "le.n. who said ho
would guarantee it to be perfectly
IIU.V. „ .So , I bought , enough to last for
a couple ol weeks.
A (loom.
“The undertaker is very jolly this
morning.”
“Yes. T hree hundred new doctors
were graduated last night.”—Harlem
Life.
iiefleienoj- in tlie Attic.
1 am a suit made man,” said tlie
proud individual.
"i‘ll, you are all right except as to
your head,” commented the other part
of the conversation.
“How's that?”
“The part you talk with Is out of
proportion to the part you think with.”
—Baltimore American.
Tiro ami lour,
“Two?” demanded the peremptory
conductor ns be took a quarter from
the woman who had just struggled to
a plnce on tlie trolley.
“No, four,” she replied.
Four fares were rung sharply, aud
the conductor handed hack 5 cents.
“That Isn’t right!” exclaimed the
woman Indignantly.
“You said you wanted to pay for
four,” retorted the trolley employee.
“1 didn’t,” denied the woman. "You
asked if my. little boy was 2 years
old, and I said no. he was 4. I sup¬
pose I’ll have to pay for him if it’s the
rule, but I don’t think it’s right”—
The remainder of the sentence was
lost in the discords that Issued from
the throat f the enraged conductor,
who thrust ten pennies into the out¬
stretched hand and retired to the rear
platform to relieve his feelings more
fully by refusing to stop the car for
any one for ten blocks.—New York
Press.
They changed.
At a dinner party the other day a
well known and deservedly popular
dramatist took a lady down to dinner,
neither knowing who the other was.
As a subject the theater was started,
as It is so often under similar circum
stances.
“I can’t think why they have reviv¬
ed that piece at the King’s," the lady
said. ‘‘I never liked it, and it’s so
worn that I should have done better
than that?”
"Yes,” the dramatist replied, ‘‘per¬
haps so. It was one of my first pieces,
however, and I had not had much ex¬
perience when I wrote it. I.et’s change
the subject.”
The lady was quite ready to do so
and wished, no doubt, that she had
known who her neighbor was. He
presently said:
“Are you interested in the Fenton
case?” speaking of a cause celebre
that was in progress.
“Yes. I’ve read all the evidence,”
was the reply.
“He’ll lose it, of course,” the drama¬
tist went on. “lie never could have
had the faintest chance from the first.
It’s a marvel to me how any lawyer
could have been idiot enough to allow
such a case to go into court!”
“Well,” answered the lady quietly,
“my husband was the idiot. I.et’6
change the subject.”
IIow lie Dealt With Cowards.
In appearance Osins**. Dasha, the
lion of l’levna, was handsome and pre¬
possessing, looking a horn leader of
men. Mke Napoleon, he was always
distinguished by tlie plainness of his
uniform. He bad a queer liabit of al¬
ways, even in battle, carrying a pen¬
cil behind bis ear, butt end foremost,
lie was taciturn, grave, abrupt and
disdainful of forms and etiquette. He
bated all foreigners, especially Ger¬
mans, Russians and English. As for
war correspondents, lie entertained the
utmost detestation of them, whence
the deeds of his army were never
chronicled as they should have been,
lie had a strange method of dealing
with cowards, He would getid for
them and publicly box their ears.
When really angry, ills rage was terrl
ble.
After the sortie and the surrender he
was seen to bo weeping tears of rage
and shame. He was, it may be, a
little touched by tlie Czar Alexander
II, who came up to him aud said;
“I congratulate you on your superb
defense. It is one of the finest feats
of military history.”
And that is the judgment of posteri¬
ty.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Locust* Good to Ent.
All native African races eat locusts.
AVitli ” 'Hiif tnUoa. nn.1 L*,«» (- ItiRtr,
the place of tlie British workman’s
beef and mutton. In a good many vil¬
lages sun dried locusts are an article of
commerce. The Sudanese are particu
Jarly fond of them.
Before they are oaten they are toast
ed. The wings and logs having first
been torn off, tbe long, soft body and
the crisp head form the delicacy.
I determined not to let my European
prejudices influence me, but to give
the dish of grilled locusts a fair trial.
I thought how John the Baptist had
enjoyed tliPiu plus wild honey.
The one I was eating was rather
nice. I agreed with my Arab servant
that, should the meat supply fall short,
a dish of locusts would be a very good
substitute.
By tlie time I was eating tbe sec¬
ond locust It seemed to mo absurd
why one should have a sort of lurking
pity for John the Baptist’s daily menu
unless it be for its monotony, and I
felt convinced that 1 should get tired
of honey sooner than 1 should of lo¬
custs.—Current Literature.
The Song of tlie Ynkon River.
“There is something peculiar about
tbe Yukon river that I have never
heard of in connection with any other
stream,” said Captain Gray, who lias
been running boats on tlie big Alaska
artery. “From tlie mouth of the Yukon
up as far ns there is any navigable
water the stream is constantly sing¬
ing. No matter where you are, there
is a sound like that made by escaping
steam. At lirst 1 used to think that
maybe it came from the boiler or en¬
gines. But when we were tied up at
night, with everything cold, the sound
was the same. l have puzzled my
brain to find an explanation of the
phenomenon, but without avail. The
singing goes on day and night.
“When you get up stream some dis¬
tance, you can also hear the rocks
rolling over Ihe bed of tlie river, and
tliis produces a most peculiar sound.”—
Portland Telegram.
Freak* of EiiploMiomi.
Gunpowder ox plosions have ouo re
markable feature. Tbe bodies of iter
sons killed in such an accident are
always found without clothing, but
frequently one foot will have the shoe
on. This is true of horses also. If
oue of the feet is in the air and an¬
other on the ground, the ihoe will be
found torn from the foot that was on
the ground and not from the other,
When men are killed iu powder ex
plosions, the foot that happens lo be
In the air when the shock came will
be found wearing the shoe, while tbo
other foot will be bare,
MnkiiiK It Clear.
A newly appointed French mayor
inaugurated Ids regime by a notice to
tbe following effect:
“On tbe feast of our patron saint
tbe fire brigade will bo reviewed iu
tbe afternoon If it rains in the morning
and in the mo ruing if it rains in the
afternoon.”
Soot h!njr.
He—Look hero, Matllde, I’m not
quite such au Idiot as I look!
She (soothingly)—No, dear; I’m sure
you’re not!
A man who finds no satisfaction in
hlQistlf U1 Becks Ior u . la elsewhere.
Cool Drinks, Confections, ife:
Bakery, Fruits, etc.
1
MAl'LL THE BAKER
■ak.
is still iu the ring with a choice selection ot ihe lab st ____ ____
delicious drinks known to the Soda Water trade, besides choice Cakes, Pies, Rolls,
etc , baked daily by an expert baker.
BOTTLED SODA WATER OF ALL KINDS MANUFACTURED .
and .supplied to the trade at lowest possible prices. All water used in preparation
of drinks is filtered, thereby insuring absolute hcolthfuhiesa.
LARGE SUPPLY OF ICE ALWAYS ON HAND
and for tale as follows. Block, cent lb.; less than block and over of) tbs., % cent;
under SO tbs , 1 cent. Give me a call when in town.
BANK OF STATESBORO.
CAPITAL, ! $ao,«io.oo.
Accounts ot Finns auU Individuals Solicited.
L>. It. GROOVER, president.
J. I- COLEMAN, cashier,
directors:
H. s. Hutch, D. It. GROOVER,,
. 1 . v. rrannkn, J. W. Ol.LIEK,
J. A. FCECHER. B. T. OCTEAND,
W. c. Parker.
FARM LOANS.
Brannen & Moore, Stales
boro, Ga., negotiate loans at
the lowest rates.
MONEY TO LOAN.
I have arranged to lend money in Bulloch, Effing¬
ham and Screven Counties on improved farm lands
on live (5) years’ time at eight (8) per cent interest.
Can pay back any amount of principal at any time.
No loans made on less than 100 acres: no amounts
less than Saw. Address
H. T. MATHEWS, Sylvauia, Ga.
or A. F. LEE, Statesboro, Ga.
Lover Sz Statesboro L. L.
Schedule in effect September 11th, JHOO.
Going North. I No 5 i Not 1 N o 3 | No7~
Statesboro 1510am I j d 50am | i 15pm I f 15pm
“ elite 5 25am 10 05am 3 ffitpm 7 30pm
Arrive Dover i 5 15nm I 10 25am I 3 50pm | 7 50pm
Trains No. 1 and 3 daily. Nos. 5 and 7 Tuesdvas
and Saturdays only.
Passengers for Savannah take Trains i! aim 5.
For Moron, Augusta. Atlanta and all Western
take T rains 1 and 7.
South ! No (i | No 2 No t 1 No 8"
Dover | U JOam i 11 OOain I I -Slpm j 8 lnpm
Clito I (i 25am 1J I5am 1 133pm 18 8 25pm
*’ Statesb’ro o I5am li 80am 150pm 40pm
_
Trains No. 2 and 4 dally. Nos. ti and 8 Tuesdays.
and Saturdays only.
Take Trains 2. I, li and 8 at Dover lor Statesboro.
Blast of whistle 15 minutes before departure
at Statesboro. J. I.. MATHEWS, Supt.
The Johnson House.
Permanent and transient
can get good ac¬
at reasona¬
rates at the Johnson
House, on the Court House
Ky (lie mouth, $|<> and $l«.
Single meals, t*.» Cents.
-A- , . „ tllti public ptlt
SllcirG 01
is solicited.
4 MlS, A. M. JOHNSON 4 ♦ ♦ ♦
.... Proprietress.
Shoe and Harness
Repairing.
I am prepared to do first
class Shoe and Harness
Repairing at reasonable
rates and on short notice.
Breeching straps, tie reins
and other parts of harness
kept Having on hand for sale,
added a stitching
I am better pre¬
than ever to do first
shoe repairing.
Respectfully,
T. B. UJilson.
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FOR ABOUT THE
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This paper and the Atlanta
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and this combination is the
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homo paper. Take those and
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times.
Besides general news, the
Twice-a-Week Journal has
much agricultural matter
and other articles of special
interest to farmers. It has
regular contributions by Sam
Jones, Mrs. W. H. Felton,
John Temple Graves, Hon.
C. II. Jordan and other dis¬
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Mm
— That the superior methods of the
Georgia Steam Laundry
are the triumph ot llue laundry work in Its exquisite
color and flnish. Contrast one of the Shirts. Collars,
or cuffs done up by them with those you hare been
wearing, and observe difference.
Shirts, Collars and Cuff—In fact, any thing thut
w'tl wash—eau be laundered there in a manner
equal to yonr exportations at the lowest price*.
B. P. MAULL, Agent.
Ji/" Basket leaves Statesboro Tuesday evenipg
every week, returning Friday.
Savannah & Statesboro Railway
TIME TABLE IN EFFECT DEC. 24,1899.
No3. : [a.in. n<>. i I I (Trains Standard run by Time.) Central i I No .2 Noil
j>.ui. a.iu. lEm.
5 15 OOP Leave Statesboro Arrive 0 15 !* 15
*5 iti i* )•.' Pretoria “ SI83 9U(i
5 HD 0 20 “ Nell wood l» 9 17 8 45
5 47 0 35 “ shearwood 911 8 47
r» :>3 0 4ii ” Die 9 ur» 8 41
GO!) i; so “ SUlgeii 8 56 K 85
0 15 7 05 ” Woodburn 3 44 8 24
23 7 VI ” Ivanhoe S 38 816
l(i 33 7 20 ” Otuey 8 32 8 08
0 40 ! 7 27 I “ ” Ehlora K 26 8 0S
4 I 8 20
■ 6 48 7 80 1 Blitchton T • 57 .it
7 00 7 IS “ Cuvier 8 (ID 7 45
f8 95 j #40 I Arrive Savannah Leave j 7 35 ^0 80
Ail trains trains make close connection Savannah. at Cuyler with
G. & A. to and from
\V. F. WEIGHT. GeiF) Supt.
UP-TO-DATE.
Sc . "
1^4’ ifi- 1C '.VE4 ; G.
fft \ . aM
O ial
NEW HOME.
DO YOU KNOW
that I lie New lion icSeuing Machine Uo.
do not experiment at the expense of the
public, by rt quiring a change of Shuttle*
and Needles every yem-qrtwo? The same
.-’iiuttle aud n(itile used in tin irlatest im¬
proved machines will wotkequally 11 s well
n tlu ir machines sold fifteen years ago.
DO YOU KNOW
that the cog-gearing motion as used by
the New Home mid chainiess bicycle is re¬
cognized, tive universally, ns I lie most posi¬
and unvariable power known? For
trial wry reason your watch hits “cog¬
wheels.” Why not buy the best;.’
Ollice, 120 Whitaker, for. State St.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
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IN THE SOUTH.
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So&fass 7h° E&st,
Complete Information, Rate;, Schedules pi
TralRS anil Sailing Bates ol Steamers Oheer
fully Furnished by any Agent ol tha Company
?heo. o. kune.
General Supt
E. H. HINTON. C- HAILE,
Traffic Mintgti. Gen’l P»M
SAVANNAH, CA. ■: