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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Firemen who have served five years
in Charlotte, N. C., are exempt from
jury duty.
A farmer in Thomas county, Ga., is
going to plant 800 acres in corn. More
corn in the cotton region is desirable.
The bonded debt of Selma, Ala., is
said to be about $400,000, or about
twenty five per cent, of the assessed
value of real estate.
It is estimated that the amount of
damages done in Georgia during the re¬
cent freshets will amount, in round
numbers, to more than $1,000,000.
For the purpose of protecting sheep
in Buncombe county, N. C., Commis¬
sioners are allowed, by law recently en¬
acted, to pay $20 for the killing of a
wolf.
The Legislature of North Carolina has
passed an act to prohibit the sale of
ardent spirits to minors. Eight of action
is given to the parent or guardian or
employer of such minor.
The New Orleans Times says that
there are 150 Texas veterans of the Mex¬
ican war, who served from 1835 to 1837,
living. They will each receive from
Texas 1,280 acres of land, under the new
law
According to a Ban Antonia (Tex.)
correspondent of the New Orleans Dem¬
ocrat, San Antonia contains about 7,000
Americans; 5,000 Germans and 5,000
Mexicans, with a liberal sprinkling of
Spaniards, French, Italians, Hungarians,
Irish and Poles, aggregating altogether
about 21,000 population.
A mass-meeting has been held at Dor
Chester, Liberty county, Ga., to consider
tlie question of introducing steam navi
gation f on the Ogeeehee, Sunbury, Rice
010 _ and South Newport rivers, .here
would be freight to and from Savannah,
and fruit and vegetables could be raised
for the Northern markets.
Only $5,000 is wanting, the Richmond
Dispatch says, to secure to the Univer¬
sity of Virginia the gift of the finest tel¬
escope in the world, an observatory, aud
an ample endowment of the chair of as¬
tronomy, the whole valued at $120,000.
The amount must be secured by April
1st in order to comply with the condi¬
tions of Mr. McCormick’s gift.
Steamers can now- transport freight in
unbroken bulk from St. Antilony’s Falls
to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of
2,161 miles, and from Pittsburg to Fort
Benton, Montana, 4,333 miles. Lighter
craft can ascend the Alleghany, an ex¬
tension of the Ohio river, to Olean, New
York, 355 miles above Pittsburgh, and
the Missouri to Great Falls, near where
that river leaves the Rocky Mountains.
The Wneeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer
Bays that the counties in which the dog
law recently passed by the Legislature
is now in force, by which a tax of fifty
cents and one dollar is imposed respect¬
ively upon male and female dogs, are as
follows: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke,
Grant, Greenbrier, Hancock, Harrison,
Jackson, Jefferson, Lewis, Marion, Mar¬
shall, Morgan, Ohio, Pleasants, Ritchie
Roane, Randolph, Summers, Taylor,
Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wirt and Wood.
In the other counties the law is left op¬
tional, to be submitted to the people on
the petition of 100 voters.
Remarkable Accident.
. [Virginia (Nt-v.j chronicle.]
A most remarkable accident last happened night,
at the Hale & Norcross mine
A cage wi'th o’clock—the six men was hour coming for up chang- the
shaft at 11
ing shifts. When about 600 feet from
the bottom, at a point where there is an
irregular place in the guides, the cage
suddenly lurched to one Patrick side, throwing Holland,
the men to the other,
who was on the outside, was crowded
off Instead of falling to the bottom
and being dashed to pieces, he was safely
lodged on a wall-plate. The other men into
on the cage supposed ' lie had fallen
the sump, of course. When they
reached the surface thev started not the usual
nTocatlur i d back to the
uothef laemente of the
hodv. As they " approached J * the place thev
v!* . e *® tellint/ ,.«•
eard a voice helmv them them
to go 8lo ; v They did . . . not . Vnowwhatto knowuhat to
make of this . strange .> >,
supposing anywhere it else possible than for at 1 0 the a bo to
.
When they saw him safe on his narrow
perch they could scarcely believe their
- Any V who . lias , ascended , , saft c .
one a
knows how rapidly the wall-plates flit
brum by when them the lantern 3s held so as to
to view. The cage from
which Holland w-as thrown was coming
up at the usual raje of speed. How-the
nan could possibly have been lodged on
one of these pieces of timber without
being jammed by the cage or knocked
off as it went past him is a wonder. I he
wail plate is a square timber, fourteen
by sixteen inches’ so that there was very
little standing room for Holland while
lie was waiting for the cage to come
down and rescue him. If the shaft had
l«cn so light that he could look down
any considerable distauce of the 600
feet, between him and the bottom, he
would «carcely n«ve had the nerve to
cling to his narrow footing. The dark
ness of all mining shafts is a point in
favor of tlie miners, preserving their
tonifies* when planed in tickijah putt*
tion. foot-wid* A couple plunk of pumpmunwifl shaft 2,000 throw feet a
across a
from the bottom. The darkness of the
shslt prevent* the thought of the awful
abyss oclow from beiug voustaiiU)' plus
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The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME II.
STILL SINGLE.
I stood by the “ Blake Transmitter,’ 1
For the telephone bell had rung,
And over the wire a sound cauie
As t hough a maiden sung
A musical toue quite familiar.
Her voice I -had often heard,
For in answering daily telephone wtU*
Wo had interchanged many a word.
Have you nevei received a iitter,
And paused ere breaking the seal,
As you thought concerning the tiding*
That the conteuts might reveal ?
Hid not a longing possess you
To know what was really within.
And yet to avail o! that knowledge
Tou seemed in no haste to begin ?
In some such manner I tarried
At the end of our telephone wire,
Then at last, mustering courage sufficient,
Began “ Well, at halloo once to inquire :
! well, what is wanted ?”
It seemed at least all I could do ;
When quick in return came the message,
“ Halloo ! well, halloo, who are you ?”
“ You Why, called I am only ‘forty-eight ’ ” I two.” responded,
a moment or
“ ‘Forty-eight,’ ” she repented in answer,
“ Well, surely I don’t wish for you.”
I was giving my telephone number,
As found on the company’s page.
But I fear, from her nasty answer,
She thought I was giving my age.
Alas, I that the Mow came so sudden ;
received it bewildered, aloue
As the consciousness dawned there upon
Rejected by telephone. —New York Operator.
PERILOUS ADVENTURE.
It was past noon when I started for the
home of my betrothed. But my horse
was good, and if I rode hard, I might
be at Trevesy by nightfall. There was a
sprinkle of snow on the ground, and a
feathery which shower fell lightly around me,
of I thought nothing till sunset.
Tlie short, dark day was over at five; apd
at that hour a sharp wind sprang up, and
the snow began falling thickly. I telt
somewhat blinded and bewildered by the
big flakes, ever flying downwards and
onwards, patient and around me, like a cold,
army, whose onslaught could
never be stayed or driven back.
bidl JodTsbwkMd^trembfed, rnffi
strove, in liis dumb wili. way, to reason
against my headstrong And now,
some dismay, I suddenly perceived,
by the sinking ot my horse, even to*his
flanks, in heaped snow, that, bewildered
by the whiteness, he and I had lost the
road - 14 was but a rough one at the
be st > for T Ha in a w | ld «»“£?. ^ ere
. and and dwellings
mines were many, men
few. Extricating my poor steed from
the drifted snow wherein he floundered,
I rested him a moment, and shouted
aloud for help. Again arid again my cry
came back to me, following 011 the wings
of broke the cold wind, but no other sound
the deathly stillness of tlie night.
Oh, for a saving light in some charita¬
ble window! But there was none—
only snow and darkness, darkness and
snow all around. I thought it terrible;
and yet in a little span of time from this
I would have deemed it Paradise to be
lying lonely on the heaped suow upon
this drear moor.
1 put my horse to a sharp canter, and
he went about a furlong blindly, then
stood still snorting with terror. I strove
to urge him on, but lie refused to obey
either whip or spur. Seeing no reason
for my horse’s fright and stubborness,
spurred him sharply, and urged him
with angry voice to obedience. His
wonderful obstinacy compelled me at
length to dismount, and, with my drawn
sword in my hand, prepared for highway¬
man the or footpad, I dragged him onwards
hasty by bridle. Upon this he made one
the plunge forward, then stopped, and
at same instant the earth went from
beneath my feet, and I fell—fell I knew
not darkness whither, down, down, into deep
great pit. unfathomable, terrible as tlie
I can scarcely say whether
going I thought as I fell, yet I knew I a os
to death—knew I was descending
one of those unused shafts that lie out
on many a Cornish moor—knew that my
bones would lie untliought of in its
depths forever.
But even at that instant my flight was
arrested, and I hung in mid-air, clinging
by my hands, to what I knew not. It
was my sword, which I had forgotten
that I held. By a miracle it had thrust
itself, as I fell, between the earth and
the rocks in the side of the shaft; and
there, jammed fast, it held me up.
I cannot explain how this occured—I
only know that it was so. As that cry
for mercy escaped my lips, the mercy
came. My sword caught in the inter
stices of the rock, and I wgs held up, my
feet clinging dangling over the abyss, my hands
to the hilt of my good blade.
It was firm as a wedge—I could feel
that, in spite of my trembling; yet still
my position was horrible. To remain
thus, to’hold on. was torture unutterable;
to yield-even tor a moment was deatte
There was no hope of release for hours
— there was no possibility nothing of but relief strong of
!*»*«*>; there was
endurance and courage to carry me
through. I waited-I Buffered-I
prayed. night to of fire. The
It was a me
w ' nds blew and the snow fell, but the
^ tonched me not . r had fallen too
deeply in the shaft for. that, even if my
tortured blcwd could have felt it.
Morning * broke at last, and hope grew
^ h j t iuterval8 l h . wI ,-aHed aloud
throngh all the night . but now with
scarcely any intermission, I raised my
V() ; ce f n cr j e8 for help. I did this till
weariness stopped me; then J rested m
agonized hope of a voice reached 111 reply. There I
wa s none. No sound me.
was in my grave, alone. I called again,
again, again! I husbanded my voice,
I drew in my breath, aiM shouted with
the strength of despair. There was no
answer.
The sun traveled upwards, and I knew
it was high noon, thougn to me the stars
were visible likewise ; yet tlie mid-day
ravs shone somewhat into the shait. and
showed me how I hung. The pit here
slightly was not quite from perpendicular; it sloped 1
had my feet outwards, and
found rest for one foot on a ledge of
rock. Oh, the ease to my anguish from
this merciful rest! Tears sprang to my
eyes a* I thanked God for it.
The sun had shown me that to climb
out pf the pit unaided was impossible, so
l called for help again, and called till
voice failed me. I ceased to cry, and
night fell down again.
As the hours crept on, a kind ol mad
frem tim Ul@ and . tempted sprang up
below bottible pit, glued mu to plunge
t eyes ou me ;
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 12, 1881.
voices mocked me. But worst of all
was the sound of water—a purling rill
flowing drop gently in my very ears, trickling
by (Iron in sweetest music, horriblv
distinct. Water 1 To reach water 1
would willingly die; but I knew it was a
madness, so I resisted the fiery liold thirst
that would liaye mo release my and
perish. Water ! Yes, there was water at
the bottom of the shaft, fathoms deep
below my feet, but I oould only reach
that to die : and there was water on the
fair earth, fathoms above me—water I
should never see again.
I grew dizzy—sick—blind. I should
have fainted—have fallen—died; but. as
I leaned my head against the rock, I
felt as though a cold, refreshing hand
were laid upon it suddenly.
It was water 1 It was no madness—it
was water. A tiny stream trickling
through the bare wail of rock, like dew
from heaven. I held forth my parched
tongue and caught the drops as" they fell;
and as I drank my strength was renewed,
and hope in and the desire for life grew
warm with me again. And yet on this,
the second night of my horrible impris¬
onment, I cared not so passionately, I
looked not so eagerly for succor. Mv
limbs were numbed, my brain deadened;
life was ebbing towards death; a shadow
at times fell over my eyes; and if I held
still to the hilt of my sword, if my feet
sought still the ledge that rested them,
they did it mechanically, from habit, and
not from think hope. sometimes I not in
I was my
right mind. I was among green fields
and woods, I was gathering flowers, I
was visions climbing I mountains; always and from these
awoke to darkness—
darkness above, around, darkness below,
hiding the abyss that hungered greedily
for my life. And no friendly face, no
voice, no footfall near. Not a step,
through all these slow, slow hours. If
heard passing the peasant, lonely through rising the day, had
depths, he had cry it down from the
and had set to ghost or
pixy, regardless. passed on his frightened
way And the night
and now I could was wearing live on,
no rescue. not till
morning—I knew that.
My mind wandered again. My mother
waited for me, I must hurry home; but I
was bound by a chain, in outer darkness,
and I was going to die. There was no
Christian in all the land to succor me—I
was forgotten aud forsaken, left in the
pit—and I would unclasp my hands, and
full and die.
No, I would call again 011 c# aaore.
“Help! help! fainting Mercy! help!” died in the dark
As my voice
ing depth, and I quivered up to the glimmer¬
sky. felt hope die with it, and I
gave up all thought of life. I turned
my eyes towards my grave below, and
murmured with parched lips:
“Out of the depths have I cried unto
Thee, O Lord!”
The little rill that had saved my life
hitherto trickled on, and its silvery
murmur, as it dropped on the rock be
low, was the sole sound that broke the
deathly silence around me.
My prayer was over, aud I had not re¬
linquished my hold. I was stronger
than I had deemed myself. I would cry
out again, “Help! help! help!”
I stopped. I listened. A sound was
floating on tlie wind. Coming, going,
joining tlie drip, drip, drip of Listening the rill
then dying, then returning. recognized the
with my whole being, I
sound.
Bells—church bells—chimes ringing in
the New Year. “O God, have mercy on
me! have mercy on me!”
Bells ringing in the New Year—bolls
chiming in the ears of friends, clashing telling of
sadness and of hope—bells in at
merry intervals, between music and
laughter, loving greetings, kisses and
joy- Will in father’s house take
no one my
pity on me ? Am I missed nowhere ?
The bells chime for feasting and glad¬
ness; and I am here jaws hanging the between
life and death. Tlie of grave
are beneath me, my joints are broken—
and the bells chime on. Would it not be
a good deed on this New Year’s Day to
save me? O toasters and revelers, lieai
me!
“Help! help! It is Christmas time!
Help, for Christ’s sake, good people!”
The bells float nearer and drown the
drip of the trickling water; and I cry,
“Help! help!” saying, “Now will I call
till I die.” A film grows over my eyes,
but my voice is strong and desperate, as
I shout, “Christmas tide! For Christ s
sake, help, good Christians! flash ’ _ Fora
A great light—-a death; of then, fire!
moment I deem it gazing
faces upward, oh, I see, they amid a glare angels of to torches, me!—
were
eager faces peering downward And
close by me swings a torch et down
lnto the depths: great its light shout falls rends on the my
haggard face—a
night sky. is here!-he is safe!-he lives!”
“He
I cannot speak, though my lips move,
and my heart stands still as I see one,
two, three daring men swing themselves
over the abyss—miners, used to danger
-and to a moment stout arms are around
m6) and I am borne upward, carried
gently like a-child, placed an instant on
my f ee t and then laid down tenderly on
the heath _ ifle p am so weary cli^d andfaint) and
with eyes, never
striving to sav a word of thanks.
“Go not so near the brink, madam, I
entreat!” I heard a voice cry sharply,
Then Jopen my iu . hing HdS) and between
rnP and t h e shaft there kneels a white
fkr Ure; between me and the sky there
fiends a white face, and tears fall down
upon my brow fast and warm. It was
mv betrothed, Florian. But even when
she stole her little hand into mine—mine
R0 cramped awl numlied that it gave no
rf , K[<onse to her tenderness—and even
when she stooped and pressed her lips
llnon ra » chaek, I could not breatho a
word to thank her.
y e t Florian, dear wife, let me tell thee
now A tbat ftom the depths of my happy
a rose a hymn of joy, and T
und( , rtt tood from that moment that thou
wert mine and I owed my life to-thy
love. breathed
Then thv sweet lips word*
fi-nt | c jj upon mv amfpitv hupI like tliat raatina— made
words of tenderness the
the torture of those slow hours in
Lera p q f ad ,. away Rf) m i»htv did this reward
*
tor-mv stiff, rings. frevet.v, and the
T was carried to ss
mon Imre me along, you walking tele by my
side. I heard them tell the ol mv
servants’ fright when my horse returned
home alone, and how they #8100 to your
father for tidings of me. Then they
whispered of the painful search through
the day aud night—the tracking of my
horse’s hoofs upon the snow, and the
long story of had tlie'scared heard peasant, whoailmgn
the cry of tortured
ghosts issuing from the earth. And this
story itith seized upon my Florian’s heart
the black deadly fear, and turning back upon
moor, she tracked tlie hoof
marks till they stopped upon the
brink of the old, forgotten shaft, the
shaft of the worked-out mine, well
named the Great Wheal Mercy.
There was I found ami saved by her
I had loved so long. And, dearest, as 1
Year’s slowly came back to life on that New
ot morning, and faintly whispered to
yon my long love, my patient silence,
my pity, pent-up sorrow, you, in your great
shafts, thinking poured of my all suffering* maiden in the
out your heart.
And your loving words, my Florian,
were sweeter to me than even the trick¬
ling spring had been in Great Wheal
Mercy. So
in a month you were my wife, and
now I sit by a happy hearth; aud looking
down on tlie bright faces of wife and
child, I thank God for that crowning
mercy, tlit love, dear 0110 , which saved
mo on New Yoar’s Day from a dreadful
death in the shaft of Great Wheal Mercy.
Expense of Fuel,
One of the discomforts of a winter in
Continental Europe is tlio lack of such
fires for heating as we think essential long in
American houses. If ono has a
purse, and does not mind the expense,
they can be had there as indulge here, but were
one in Paris or Bomo to iu such
roaring in furnaces fires as wo keep constantly going
and grates, it would he re¬
garded even by the wealthy as an ex¬
travagance surpassing that of the Roman
Emperors. To be* sure, the houses are
so built as not to be as susceptible of
changes the majority of temperature ns those in which The
walls and partitions of our people live. the
are thicker,
windows and doors closer fitted, and they
retain tlie ben t longer. Then the stoves
in use there for heating are constructed
so that a comparatively small part of the
heat is wasted. But even with all these
precautions an American, accustomed wood to
generous and blazing coal and
tires, finds the apartments warmed suf¬
ficient forthe comfort of the native, cold
and uncomfortable, and shivers as he re¬
calls tlie fires blazing ou his native
hearth.
He learns with surprise in Paris that
the wood with which liis dinner is cooked
or liis shins warmed is sold by the pound,
and is weighed out to the purchaser as
carefully handful ns butter, twigs, sugar, or in coffee. America A
of such as
would be allowed to rot, costs five cents,
and better wood at proportionate prices.
Bo fires on the continent are a luxury,
and in many houses, except for cooking,
no tires are seen tlio year round.
But. if tires are expensive and fuel
scarce and high in Continental Europe,
what shall we say of Japan, where char¬
coal, split wood, brush old dried grass
are. used for cooking and heating booths,
and is hardly ever used outside tlie cities,
for purely heating purposes. Tlie char¬
coal is made iu wooded regions, and car¬
ried to the settlements in straw sacks on
the backs of men and horses. It cost
from twenty-five hi fifty cents the 100
pounds. Cut wood is sold in small bun¬
dles of six sticks, each Rtick being about
eighteen inches in length by two inches
iu diameter, and is sold at about one
cent a bundle. A good comfortable fire,
such aft our people must have to keep
them warm, would cost several dollars a
day. In fuel dimin¬
But our extravagance
ishes with the years and tlio increasing
cost, of fuel. Wo will travel a good ways,
aud have then to seek communities re¬
mote from railroads, to find such wood
tires as kept the log cabins and thin
frame houses of the pioneers warm. The
great fire-places, with their wide fronts
and immense chimneys, their great
andirons, back-logs, fore logs, aud sec¬
tions of seasoned split wood four or five
feet long, piled high, settlements, are hardly But known
save iu remote we
make almost as extravagant use of coal
as our fathers did of wood, and will
probably continuo to do so till the cost
of it compels a study of economy in the
methods instructed of heating houses, and fires servant*
arc how to manage so a#
to secure the most heat with the leasl
amount of fuel .—Cincinnati Commer¬
cial.
Responsibilities of Heredity.
floN and lieir (suddenly dissatisfieu
with his stature, his personal apjiearsticc,
aud tho quality of his intellect; “Aw—
what ou earth evah eonld have induced
you two people to mawwy V"
Bir Robert and Lady Mawiall—“Tin
old, old stohwy, my dear boy ! We fi ll
in love with one miotliah -aw—aw---”
Son and heir—“Aw—well—yoii’f<
both such awf’ly good old deaws, tlmt ]
forgive you. But you weally should
have hail bettali taste, you know, and
ea’ch have fallen in love with a diffewent
fellow kind of person chance? altogethah, You and it given n
a see, is nil owin’
to your joint luuler interfenwence in my affaaws
that I’m five foot, one, and can’t
say boh to a goose, and—a justly pass
for being the gweatest guy in the’ whole
country—aw ! just look at me, confound
it.” other—and [They haven’t look at him word and then at each
a to say.!
w... r M«rr* Marry . 8 rirl ,,irl or of «hi« 1hl * Kliul K "" 1 -
The settlement of Lower Oregon is
going on at an unprecedented recently late. A
German couple has arrived with
fourteen children, the mother being only
twenty-five years of age. They were
married in the fall of 1*70, and tlie fol
following summer their married life was
blessed with twins, both girls. Less
than two years later, the woman, who
wap then eighteen vows old, gave birth
to lour cbildrou, threy gills and a I my,
the latter living only a low day*, f.uthe
summer of J8J t three more girls regis
tored al iljat bumble hearth, and m lHTo
» wy amvetrsoHlwy Hone, Hewn
ypwr* after uiairinge the arrival of an
“'her duster of four, tins time two boys
»d two girls, was su event that created
some consternation, slid two veins ago
two more little Ibumi-haircd couple. girls e«iio
to the lortuuste
A Lover’s Strange Execution.
Just before General Custer and Guer¬
rilla Mosby had that tilt about retalia¬
tion down in the valley, a Captain be¬
longing to a certain Michigan cavalry fool¬
company hardy, under paid Custer, tlie played the with
and penalty his
life. His taking off was probably put
dowu on the rolls ns: “Killed by guer¬
rillas," but there are two or three men
living who beg to differ with the re¬
ports.
During tlie particular week I write of,
the armies of Sheridan and Early were
about live miles apart. Our pickets
were a full mile beyond camp, and scouts
and videttos overlooked at least another
mile. Half way between the camp aud
the The reserve inmates pickets was a grandmother farm house.
least comprised a
nt that eighty could years old, and without so feeble
sho not walk as¬
sistance, a child three years of age, and
a girl iibout twenty calle.il years of age, whom
the little one “Aunt Katie.”- This
aunt had blue eyes, blonde .hair, white
teoth, and a handsome face. She had
every dozen officers bearing of a lady, and half a
at once fell in love with
her. Our Captain was one of the num¬
ber. In a little time he made such au
impression that lie Jvad the field to him¬
self, and 0110 Wednesday evening, as ho
was riding out to talk sweet nonsense, ha
met your humble servant, who was re¬
turning to camp from a lone foraging full
expedition, and I was ordered to in
behind and act as his orderly.
When the Captain dismounted at the
farm-house gate, he gave mo his reins,
with tins remark that he expected to bo
absent about two hours, ns ho was on a
bit of a scout to pick up information re¬
garding Early’s movements. I swal¬
lowed the assertion with that due re¬
spect which a private should exhibit
toward a Captain; hut I had scon aud
heard, well. nml knew his errand perfectly
During the first hour I heard snatches
of songand on occasional laugh from the
for house, five aud minutes twice the young time lady ployed
Two hours slipped at away—then a 011 a guitar.
another
—and another. It was now 1 o’clock in
the morning, and the house was as still
as the I grave. plumped Tying the horses to the
fence dews on the grass for a
nap, and I was yet enjoying it when a
patrol came aloug daylight, and routed me up.
It was broad and where tfas
the Captain ? Both horses were at the
fence, and I explained that my officer
must have made up hia mind to breakfast
with the family.
“I’ll see about that,” said the officer
in charge of the patrol, and ho walked
to the house aud gave a thundering
knock on the door. There being no re¬
sponse, he knocked again and again, aud
then the door was burst open. Borne of
the men ran out again us soon ns they
lind entered, and in a trioo the house
was surrounded. When wo came to
search it the old woman was foul’d fast
feeble asleep in a bod-room. Hho was too
to got up without help, and her
talk showed that she had hut little mind
left. The child and the bluo-eyed girl
hud by the departed. neck in In the parlor, hanging
a noosed rope, was the
Captain. His face was as black as ink,
liis tongue out, and the body was cold.
He had been dead for hours.
Now, then, as to the mystery, Tlio
rope was a new ono, and was passed
through a hole in tlie ceiling and floor
above. The Captain’s arms were tied
behind him, anil his ankles lashed fast,
and lie hung a clear foot above the floor.
The house was in perfect order, a lamp
still burned 011 the table, and there was
110 indication of a struggle. The old
woman could shed no light on the affair,
and the others wore gone. No men had
been seen about the house, and if men
iiad lmng the Captain there would have
been a struggle and row loud enough to
reach me at the gate. The Captain was
armed, but his saber and"rovolver were
hanging on a hook in the room.
We had-a score of theories, hut none
of them could explain the whole situa¬
tion, and a change of baso caused the
affair to bo forgotten in a few weeks by
all save those most directly concerned.
—Detroit Free Press.
Vitiated Air and Intemperance.
A working man writes to the Christian
Dt i/islcr concerning the connection of
bad air and intemperance. He says that
with working in a largo room in a shoe factory,
from fifty to a hundred others, the
fumes of tobacco, mingling with the sick¬
ening smell of leather, lie found it use¬
less to try to ventilate the room by the
windows. Every morning I 10 lowered
them an inch, but in half an hour ail
would be closed. The door had a spring,
which prevented its being left open a
minute, and there was no* way of secur¬
ing fresh air. When ho left liis work ut
niglit he felt so faint and lifeless that he
longed for a stimulant. Many of the
men went at once to the nearest saloon,
when the day’s work was ended. The
men think it is 1 hard work tliat makes
breShfeg hour, air which ^ni/^ebreathing) has been dc 'honVafter
wived of its
fifty drink shops in the town are well
supported. employers It is mubh to bo wished that
understood the importance ol
in securing their shops au abundant and supply of pure air
factories. To do so
would serve their interests, as the work
men would perform their tasks with move
vigor and speed. There would also be
loss time lost from drunkenness. Bmok
mg in the work-room should be wifi prol.il,
ited. that No intelligent person deny
tobacco smoke in an m,ventilated
room is not oulv sickening to many 1 per
sons, but daiiL'erous to all.
An tndergraduate’s Excuse.
An undergraduate was summoned be
fore one of the Dons for not attending
the 7 o’clock morning chapel. “ Bir,"
said tlie Don, “let me hear what you
have to say in excuse of your persistent
absencefrom morning prayers." " Bir,”
replied late tho delinquent, "the service is
too for me to be present."- “Too
late, sir 1 How can 7 in the morning lie
considered a Into hour?” “Well, re
plied tlie ingenious offender "were the
hour 4 or 5, or even 6, I might mamige
to be present; o'clock but to expect a man to
sit up till 7 in the morning in
order to go to chtuch is more than hit
man nature will eadur —CAamberi’
Journal,
NUMBER G.
Sawing Wood.
No ono ever hoars a boy comp lain
about the buck-bvenking, soul-killing
hardships confined of wood-sawing. All alien
talk is to adults, and it lias no
real foundation. There is only one way
to saw wood and take comfort at the
same time, and every hoy has that way.
Yesterday afternoon half a cord of four- of
foot wood was thing down at the gate
a house on Second street, and the wagon
had only departed when a boy fifteen
years old appeared with a bucksaw ill
his hand. All his actions indicated his
purpose to go through that wood-pile
like chain-lightning, but it took him ex¬
actly seven minutes to discover that he
had left the saw-buck in the wood-shed,
and five minutes more to bring it out. the
Home boys would have" dropped
saw-buck wherever it* happened and five
pitched right in, but Ihis location boy spent first
minutes in selecting a of the
water. By this time ho hail the pres¬
ence of three other boys to cheer him on
to victory. These three boys made the
following suggestions in the order given
below:
“I’d hire a nmslieen.”
“ I’d run away and light Injuns.”
“ I’d let the old nmii do it.”
But the hero went right abend with
his work. In twenty minutes alter his
first move I 10 lmd a stick of wood on the
saw-lmck. He turned it over four times
before it settled down to bis satisfaction,
and then he picked up the saw. A buck¬
saw is a simple yet ingenious piece of
machinery. by the day have Men who were sawing stand wood
been known to
and gaze at the saw for an hour at
time' _ without being able to solve its mys¬
terious points. This boy picked up the the
saw and carefully examined it. In
course of seven minutes, with the aid of
the other three boys, ho was enabled to
discover:
1. That the teoth were all there.
2. That the frame-work was of beech.
8. That it was in perfect order, as far
as a boy could judge.
When these discoveries bad been made,
a discussion arose as to whether a boy
could saw faster by sawing left-handed.
The vote on this question was carried in
the negative, and now the moment ar¬
rived for action.
The boy spit on his hands.
He removed his coat.
He humped his up his back. his
Ho pulled cap over ears.
IIo had liis kuee on the stick and the
saw in hand, when a little three-cent dog
down on the next corner run out at a
passing goat. The goat rnslied into a
yard and a girl was heard screaming.
The saw fell to the ground, boy the saw-buck tearing
was up-set, and the went
down to tlie corner like a cheap whirl¬
wind, and when darkness began to settle
down over the face of the earth lie re¬
turned to carry the saw and Imck into
the woodshed for the night ,—Detroit
Free Press.
Rich People of the Olden Times.
That wo havo some very rich people
in this country tlmro is no doubt, but
where are they, asks the Cincinnati iS'fei-,
as Vanderbilt compared with tlie Roman aristocrats ?
for may be able to give bis check
$50,000,00(1, but when Cyrus returned
from tlio conquest of Asia lie was rated
at $500,(K)0,000. Mrs. Astor may give
an entertainment at tlie expense of #25,
000, and Mrs. Maokiiy may give dinner
parties that cost $50,000, but a festival
given by Ptolemy Pliiladelplius cost $2,
‘230,000. Alexander’s daily meal, frugal
as it was, cost #1,700; and money was of
so little account to Claudius that lie once
swallowed a pearl that was worth $10,(KM).
James Gordon Bennett lias been known
to give many thousands of dollars to
people but according for whom lie had Tacitus, acquired a fancy,
to more than
$07,000,000 was give ,11 away in a similar
manner by Nero. Queens of fashion in
New Vork and Ban Francisco have ap¬
peared at balls wearing jewels estimated
to hare cost #200,000, which pales into
insignificance alleged when compared with the
fact that Lollia Taulina wore
jewels Valued at $1,662,500, aud that
when she wore these it was only on the
the occasion of a plain citizen’s supper.
Over $50,000 was spout in providing a
funeral for an eccentric New Yorker
who left directions how the money should
be spent, but the obsequies of Hcpliucs
tiou cost #1,500,000. Americans have
died and left millions to their sons who
have squauderedit all in a score of years,
but Antony “got away with” #735,000,
0(K), and Tiberus left the snug little sum
of #118,000,000, which Caligula squan¬
dered, to the last penny, iu less than
one year. The lute lamented Bothern is
said to have qient #1!K), ( M)0 in a year iu
good living, but it is said that Pcgellus,
the singer, spent money at the rate of
$10,(K)0 a week. And then there was a
Darius arid Heliogabalus and Lucullus
and Ijentalus and—well, this will do for
to-day.
Handwriting and Character.
YoU take a pen in hand and you are
£ owl ‘"S^ 1 ‘“TVZ ZiS
"! “ibm fa rna^esl^voX^ Thcrcis
‘ ZZtiZ L J 7‘haW JTmL l
experts, like Mossrs Chalmtaud Nether- h
6 ‘‘ ™> Wjf w . e f ““ aracter ^UAnly from gather the handwriting, a general
A «umsfer was commenting on a very
^oiia dispatoh in the presence of his
The 18
"aid the statesman, . “but the writer does
not mean it; he is irresolute Whence
d “ y“« resolution? said the King,
T V. hl8 1 8 -f 1 f d *
^ of humbngts !dteu‘1,dl!ed by %Z
pie who profess to lie judges of hand
writing. I showed a professor of calii
graphy a letter which I had received. Ho
took a very unfavorable view of the
handwriting. It was tlio handwriting genius, of
a man without learning, without
without feeling. "And Dow, sir, I said,
“will you look at the Lord sighitnre?” The
letter was written by Macaulay.—
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twenty nine children Htrengcrs pass
tog 11"* determine 0,1 w, whether u*bmg days it are school at a
loss to mi
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turnons of the day, t .
Damp cellars—bar-tenders.
Ice cakes should never be served hot.
“Give us a song!” is a please-sing re¬
quest.
high. The highest priced coal is about Le¬
A misplaced switch may rain a loco¬
motive or spoil a boy.
What is tiie prime object of soldiers’
drill? To make holes in the enemy.
Nothing keeps a man from knowledge
and wisdom like thinking he has both.
A journal heads an artiole, ‘‘A Luna¬
tic Escapes and Marries a Widow.” Es¬
caped, eh? We should say he got
caught.
The condition of the Utes is said to be
one of discontent. The last lot of paper
collars sent them had the button holes
omitted.
Adjectives are the millinery of litera¬
ture, and, like the trimmings of a dress,
they the original should not be allowed to obscure
fabric. — Poston Courier.
A sarcastic writer speaks of an enemy
who “iH but. one step removed from au
ass.” He'd better make it three or four.
The animal lias a long reach backward.
Did you ever see a woman slip down?
Of course you never looked, but then
you've seen them. She didn’t flourish
•ironnd like an intoxicated jumping jack,
rilling the air with arms and bad words,
as a man does; but she simply abbrevi¬
ates, so to speak, like a crushed hat or
patent and wonder drinking cup, while noticod you that stand hole by
you never
in the sidewalk before.
CONUNDRUMS.
T>'» Ifnrrjr who the allmre brolif:
“ Min KmI« why lire you like a tree V*
' B e:*M»e f bu*»u*e—I'm board,” »)ie np>ke.
“ Oh, uo; bctftUM you’re woo’d,” mid he.
“ Why m»* you like r fire,” ehe Fflld.
I iihvc* a- l.eiut ?” )’e>*ked, fo low,
11 i f miswer mad* tl.e ycund mun red:
' Bectitut* yut're »«| |>y, don’t you know ?”
** Once more,” He »0>t* couldn’t linked, *' why perceive. «ro you u now
A tree ?” quite
“ Thch l»uve Romotimen ui.tl make a how,
And you can alwavn bow—a* d leate. » if
— U. C. Do:iyr } in Whitehall Timet.
“You look so happy that I suppose
you have been to the dentist and had
that aching tooth friend pulled," said a Galves¬
ton man to a with a swollen jaw.
“It ain’t that that makes mo look
but. happy. don’t The tooth feel acres it.” worse “How's than that?” ever,
1
"Well, 1 feel so jolly beenuse he I have
just been to the dentist, and wasotit,”
and the happy man cut a jngeon-wing
on i,ho sidewalk .—Galveston News.
A discussion arose in a coffee-room as
to tlie nationality of a gentleman at the
other end of the room. "He is an En¬
glishman,” head.” said one, “I know by hia
“He’s a Scotchman,” said an*
other, “1 know by his complexion.”
“He’s a German,” said another, “I know
by bis beard." Another thought he
looked like a Spaniard. Here the con¬
versation rested, but soon one of them
spoke. American; “I he's have it,” his said legs ho, tlie “he’s table.” an
got on
They were watching circles the seagulls tlie
ing in graceful above waters
of the bay, while the rays of the sinking
sun covered the lnndseano with a flood of
gold. Finally he turned to lier, and with
a voice trembling with emotion, asked:
(ly "Darling, if we were aud seagulls bo would you To
away with uie ut rest ?”
which she answered, with her gaze fixed
on a far-off mass of castellated clouds:
"No, George; I'd let you fly away, and
thou I’d have all the rest I wanted here."
A Soldier’s Dream.
Just before the battle of Cedar Creek
a porarily cam sentinel trying who was off in duty little tem¬
dreamed and that to put went a
sleep, the right he of the out on a
scout. A mile to camp
lie came upon a log burn, and as it began
to rain just then, be sought shelter, or
was about to, when lie heard voices and
discovered that the place was already
occupied. After* little investigation he
discovered scouts hail taken up their
quarters for the night in the Tlie place, sentinel and
lie therefore moved away.
awoke with such vivid remembrance of
the details that he asked permission the to
go over and confer with one of scouts.
When tlie log bam was descrilied to this
man he located it at once, having descrilied passed
it a dozen times. The dreamer
the highway hill exactly as it was, giving
every and turn, and the scout put
such faith in the remainder of the dream
that he took four soldiers, one of whom the
was the dreamer, and set out for
place. Three Confederate scouts were
asleep in the straw, and wore taken with¬
out a shot being fired.
Ford Three days corporal before in the affair Sixth at Michigan Reeley’s
a the
who Cavalry dreamed that a brother of his,
was a sergeant in another company,
would have his horse killed in action,
and would almost immediately mount a
dark bay horse with a white nose. Within
five minutes both horse and rider would
be killed by a shell. This dream was
related to more than a score of comrades
full the y two fight days ’ before the tight. Early
in the sergeant’s horse was
struck square in the forhead by a bullet
and dropped dead in his tracks. It was
scarcely three minutes before a white
nosed horse, carrying a blood-stained
saddle galloped up to the sergeant and
halted. He remembered the dream and
refused to mount tlie animal, and soon
after white-nosed picked animal up a black horse, by The
was mounted a
second corporal in another regim ent,
and the horse and rider were tom to f rag
monts by a shell, in full sight of four
companies of the Sixth.—New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Not Married.
The street-car was crowded, and the
driver was just about to start, when Gil
hooly remarked to is a friend, ?” Of “ Jones is
not married yet, he “ course
not." “I thought ho was not married
yet, for I saw him carrying home a
broom yesterday." A red-faced woman
snapped pushed cadaverous, her eyes at timid-looking Gilhooly, and
a man
ahead of bar as she got oat of the car.
IT is better to do the most trifling thing
in tlie world, than to think half an hoax
of a trifling thing.
thousand Home men dollar are so improvident selling that i,*
notes were for a
cent a piece, they couldn't lift u mort¬
gage ou a two-ovut postage nuuup,