Georgia Historic Newspapers

    YOU OB L
If we could know
breast the swelling tide,
alone upon the oth.sule
If jt were you, view?
nia i walk softly, keeping death in
Si; to more oft express ?
should I my love you less
Or should I grieve you, darling, any
If it were you?
If it were I, ?
the moments slipping by
God’a great plan,
lie tilled with greater charity to man—
If it were I?
If we could know!
We cannot, darling; and ’tis better so.
1 slionld forget, just as X do to-day,
And walked along the same old stumbling
way—
If I could know.
I would not know
Which of us, darling, will be first to go.
) „,ilv wish the space may not be long
Between the parting and the greeting song;
But when, or where, or how we’re called
togo— not know.
I would
—Every Saturday.
A WIDOW BY PROXY.
Should you wish to know to what
height artistic gardening can be brought
let me advise you to pay a visit to Haar¬
lem (in Holland), where near the beau¬
tiful park filled with deer, which makes
such a beautiful walk, you will find the
famous horticulturist, Claereboets. After
he has shown you his astonishing collec¬
tion of tulips, hyacinths, carnations,
anemones, crowsfeet, camelias, prim¬
roses, cowslips, cactus and pelargonium,
you will be delighted. Try and per¬
suade him to allow you to see his six
remaining daughters and you will be
dazzled.
It is the story of the seventh, or
rather the first, which I am about to
tell you. Just as this worthy man, who
has remained poor, although his con¬
servatories are full of treasures, told it
me last year.
At the end of the year 1882 he had
seven daughters on his hands. How¬
ever, the Misses Claereboets were as
virtuous as they were lovely, as sensible
as they were poor, alas! and their appe¬
tites were only equaled by their virtue.
One winter evening, at the end of one
of those meals which absorbed all the
profits of the business, Claereboets
lighted his pipe, and with a mysterious
air drew from his pocket a Ietter%ith a
foreign postmark.
“Guess who has written to me ?” he
said.
Seven pairs of well-developed shoul¬
ders shrugged simultaneously, expres¬
sive of ignorance.
“"Why, Mieheels Maassen, the son of
our former neighbor, the contractor. He
is the cashier of Planter Van Meeruyr,
in Java. He wishes to settle down, and
seeks one of your hands in marriage,”
“Which one, papa?” exclaimed five
somewhat tremulous voices.
“It’s the same to him. He was eleven
years old when lie left. He is now
twenty-eight, so you may understand
that he has no choice. It is for you to
decide, and I am going to take your
opinion, beginning at the eldest. Well,
Mina, will you marry Micheels ?”
“Yes, papa,” replied the eldest Miss
Claereboets, without hesitation. She
was a magnificent blonde, twenty-four
years old.
Around the silent room six discreetly
subdued sighs were heard.
“Right, my child,” said the father, as
quietly as if it had been the matter of
delivering a hundred hyacintheh.
“Micheels is a good fellow, with excel¬
lent references. He sends his deed, all
in order, to the lawyer for the marriage.
We will avail ourselves of its being fall
to consumate the affair, so that you
shall not arrive there fn the hot
weather.”
Three weeks later Mina had become
Mrs. Maassen. When I say had, it re¬
quires some explanation.
The Dutch, the best colonists in the
world and the most practical people I
kuow of, have devised an easy means by
which their single friends settled in the
Antipodes can easily be married in the
metropolis.
To make the bridegroom pass two
months at sea, thereby to attend the
registry for ten minutes aDd the church
for perhaps double that time was a bar¬
barity. To send out the intended was
dangerous. She might find the suitor
eaten up by a tiger.
To get over this the Dutchman insti¬
tuted marriage by proxy. For instance,
you may be at Sumatra and you wish a
frue looking helpmate. You have noth¬
ing to do but to send to a friend at Rot¬
terdam or Utrecht a power of attorney
to act on your behalf. He marries her
without charging any commission what¬
soever; she carries her title deeds away
with her. He registers her in the first
steamer and four or five months after
the order is given the commission is ex¬
ecuted and delivered.
Thus the beautiful Mina, who had
seen many 0 f ber friends married in the
same way, did not consider the process
anything unusual.
She cried a little, however, as she
embarked on a superb steamer belong¬
ing to the “Koninkylke Nederlandsehe
stoomboot Maatschappy” and saw her
native land disappearing.
Presently the Batavia got out to sea
und then she was too much otherwise
engaged to be able to find time to cry
and she never came out of her stateroom
till they reached Suez, Then awful
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VOL. VII.
storms arose, the shaft broke and they
reached Colombo by sailing, arriving
jusfi in time to catch the boat for Singa
poor. Mina was so ill ,as to be uncon¬
scious. She was carried from one ship
to another again they were at sea, the
only difference she realized being that
the basin close to her v/as of china in¬
stead of copper.
She arrived at Singapoov in a pros¬
trate condition imagining her last hour
bad come. Again she was transferred
like a bit of baggage to another steamer
and two days later they arrived at Ba¬
tavia. At last a fourth boat landed her
at Samarang. Here she found herself
in the abode of the Dutch Consul, ly¬
ing on a couch which seemed to be toss¬
ing up and down, although on dry land,
till she thought she would be thrown
out on the floor.
She was just lamenting the inatten¬
tion of every one to her, when a young
man with fair mustache and straight
forward-locking blue eyes entered the
office of the Consul, who was busily
writing to catch the mail.
“I am expecting a voung woman
from Europe, whom I have married by
proxy,” said the visitor, “and I have
come to make inquiries.”
‘‘She has , just ... been brought , , . here, , „
smd the official, without stopping his
writing. “She is in a very bad state,
and you would do me a favor by taking
her off my couch as soon as possible.
Leave your address and the baggage
will be forwarded.
The meeting of the . be .
pair may im
agined. He timid, she a weakened,
prostrate ghost of her former self.
The young colonist was, however,
zr^&’srsiKSiVB
Samarang depot. The train took them
half way to Djokjokarta, where two al
most nude men lifted the well-nigh in
sensible Mina out.
An hour later she was seated next to
her legal husband on the rough ensh
ions of a two-wheeled cart, drawn by
two jogging oxen, which shook her ter
ribly. However, Mina felt better. She
looked up at her husband, and was
pleased with his appearance. Gun in
hand, he seemed to watch furtively
every nook and cranny as they passed,
but paid her no attention. This seemed
strange to her.
“You are safe?', very fond of sport, it
seems T~ she Tn a semf-reproacfifnl
tone. These wero the first words she
had uttered to her companion.
“I never was so frightened at meeting
game as I am at this moment. This is
a lovely climate, and I hope you will
like the country; but it has one disad
vantage. After six o’clock in the even
ing it is infested with tigers, who prowl
about in search of what they may de
vour, so that it is best to remain at
home after that hour. However, we
have passed the most dangerous part,
and we are getting near home.
Poor Mina! Site no longer wished to
talk. She trembled from head to foot,
At last they arrived at a fine bungalow,
raised off the ground, to avoid the
snakes . and t adders, vi with • ,1 verandahs , * all n
around. On the steps stood a pale, thin
old lady, who came forward, attracted
by J the noise of wheels. She was Mina’s
mother-in-law. ,
“What, my child, you here already ?”
cried the old lady, much surprised.
“We did not expect you until next
week.”
“We had an accident on the way,
madame.”
“That would delay rather tbanaecel
erate your arrival. However, here you
are ; that is the mam thing. Be wel
come, my child. You must be hungry.
“Oh, madame, I only want sleep. If
you only knew what a journey I have
iiad
“Don’t make any excuses my child ...,
I will get your room ready at once, ana
take you there myself.
An hour later Mina slept beneath the
waving Punkah, wrapt m sweet sleep
and pleasant dreams.
“Do you know youwiL have a pretty
wife ?” said the mother on rejoining her
son under the verandah.
“It is astonishing how little she re
sembles the photograph your uncle once
sent of her.”
“Yes,” said the young man, "she is
verv lovely. I would like to go early to
the" church, mother; because, after all,
we have not been regularly married.”
On the morrow, Mina came down all
pink and white. Did you sleep well,
dear Anna ? said her husband for the
first time kissing his wife’s forehead.
“But,” said the young woman, smil
ing my name is not Anna; my name is
Mina-Mina Claereboets. Had you al
ready forgotten it ?”
“What!” cried the colonist, pale as
death “are vou not Anna—Anna Tans
’
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“Great God 1 and you”
vl am called Hans Yan Hasselt.
Don’t you come from Edam ? Isn’t
your father a «i)4ese merchant ?”
CONYERS, ROCKDALE 00., GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1884.
“He is a gardener near Haarlem. I
have married Micheels Maassen, cashier
of the house of Van Meeruyt. Here
is my certificate of marriage.”
Hans seized the papers, with trembling
hand, and glanced over them hurriedly.
“Mother,” said he to old Mrs. Yan
Hasselt, who at that moment entered,
arrayed in her finest robes, “a misfor¬
tune has occurred. I made a Et*3take
at Samarang. The young lady belongs
to another.”
The matron was a sensible woman. In
a moment she understood all. It was
certainly hard on her son, already three
parts in love with a woman who was not
for him, and whose husband would
have to be found in an island fifteen
hundred miles away, and he woula have
to be found before the real Mrs. Hans
appeared on the scene, else she would
have two daughters-in-law on her hands.
Without losing a day, they started off
with Mina, who tnought rest would
never come to her. The only plan was
to go to the Consuls of the various
islands till they heard news of the happy
Maassen, to whom he would have to give
up Mina, to be replaced by the homely
original of his photograph.
To less resigned natures the position
would have been insufferable, but these
twQ contcnted them8elves in the ha PP i
^ of seeing each other daUy . H ans
^ more ill loV6 d with Mina<
^ ^ , of ten shed a teal . when
gbe Jooked ftt the false Mieheels .
T(m dayg bad already elapsed in visit
rag the ports most inhabited by Euro
_ Batavi C heribon, Tagot, Im¬
alon Thc trio often becamo a duo,
for Mina Btm suffered at sea. Every
Jmd been tried even to Sourabaya,
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them a clew. In the hotel where they
alighted, and were telling tke tale for
the ninety-ninth time, they were stopped
ll t the first word.
“Micheels Maassen! He was here
tour days ago. A strange adventure
happened to him. He was expecting a
woman by the steamer whom he
had married by proxy, on the other
and the agent had given him
another one. Maassen was not pleased
f° r the exchange was not for the better,
“I believe you,” said Hans, with a
confidential air. “Sut what did he do
with my wife ?”
“Oh! she’s yours? Well, he took
ber away> feeling sure that the real hus
>band WO uld follow to claim her and
br j D g b i m his own. He even left his
address. He lives on the other side of
tbe } s i and) be tween Pourworedjo and
Patvan.”
“Well,” said Hans, “here’s a cool
k i nd 0 f a cns tomer I One would im
ag j ne w itli nm that it was . rather a
matter of a cbang0 of nmbre llas in a
cafe than of fl lniman bciug . Here we
^ again> for an eight days - journey.”
some days at sea a furious tor
nado arose, sweeping everything away;
Hgbtning flashcd> thunder rolled, and
the monster waves rose like huge mount
aiiw on every side By a miracle , the
ship J was saved. In the morning all
were gmpri8ed surprised to find themselves alive, ,
the captain more than any. Everything
was .gone; the compasses were nnset;
but he knew these seas so well that it
made no difference.
“I ought to have an island in front of
me just here,"he remarked, with a deep
oath, “but I see nothing.”
After seeking for the island half a day
it was found to have disappeared entire
ly with all its inhabitants.
So they made for a neighboring town,
^ ^ tbig eyer {amoTls night the neigh
borir)gtown and the authorities to whom
^ captain bad intende d making his re
rt bad als0 disappeared. It was no
]oEger a qaestion of the plantation of
Yan Meeruyt, of the cashier of the bank
^ ^ poor Hang and Mina
widow and widower, that is to say
free j do n’t think they wept much over
_
tbeir respective and unkno wn spouses,
Tbey ^ not be able to marry for
gom6 we eks. The Dutch law enacts
^ widowg not marry within a
period of the death of thir hus _
bands BO that H ans must submit to
’
wait.
A Metamorphosed Tratnp.
An unknown man whose feet were cut
off by a freight train at Ene, Peuua.,
turns out to be John Oscar Graham, a
graduate of Dublin College and for
merly a civil engineer in the English ser
vice. He says he left Ireland five years
ago to acquire wealth in order to carry
out a fixed purpose in life, and that the
large amount of bills and bonds found
in his waistband are the savings of toil,
He has been working as a day.labore,
under an assumed name and stole a nde
rather than draw upon bis treasure to
pay his fare to Erie. He deposes that
the conductor of the Nickel Flate freight
deliberately knocked him off a running
train, raining blows npon him with a
lamp.
THE LIKE-KILN CLUB.
J5ro. Gardner Discourses at Length on the
“Age of Wisdom.”
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
“De odder ebenin’ I heard an orator
6ay da t d is was de aige of wisdom,” re
marked Brother Gardner, as the meet¬
ing opened in perfect harmony. “Let
ns analyze de assertion an’ see what it
am made of.
“Has dar eber bin an aige when de
records showed more commercial fail
nres ?
“Has dar eber bin an aige when
statesmen made more foolish speeches ?
“Has dar eber bin an aige when de
people displayed more reckless extrava¬
gance ? For ebery one man workin’ on
a salary who saves a dollar a week
twenty rm libin’ bey and what dey aim.
“Has dar eber bin an aige when mur¬
der, robbery, embezzlement, an’ de od¬
der crimes on de calendar, war’ mo’
heard of ? It am an aige in which you
may doubt your kindest naybur and best
friend.
“Has dar eber bin an aige in which
reckless speoulashun, gross mismanage¬
ment, .corrupshun in high an’ low
places, conspiracy to defraud, queer
decishuns by courts, queer ackshuns by
Congressmen, an’ a gineral disregard of
honor an’ honesty wax’ so plain befo’ de
eyes of de people ?
“De aige of wisdom—yarn 1
“An’ dat same orator asserted dat de
next ginerashnn would solve all scien¬
tific problems, make great advances in
invenshuns, oontrol de elements an’ live
on a fur higher plane. Let ns see.
“Take de present ginerashnn, an’ fur
ebery one perfeckly healthy man I’ll fin’
you nine who am ailin’. De majority
smoke, chew, drink, keep onreasonable
hours an’ prepar’ demselves fur de grave
at fifty. Consumption, liber complaint,
dyspepsia, kidney disease, neuralgia,
rheumatism an’ scrofula am ebery-day
complaints. Drunkenness, gluttony an’
immorality no longer excite surprise.
Dat’s de seed fur plantin’ de next gin
erashun.
“Fin’me one perfeckly healthy wo
, man an’ I’ll fin’ you fifty who am ailin’.
Take boaf sides of de longest square in
Detroit, or any odder American city, an
it won’t average two healthy women, no
matter how clusly de houses am built.
Newralgia, rheumatism, weak backs,
near-sightedness, terrible headaches an’
cancers, tumors and a dozen odder ail¬
ments am keepin* de dootahs busy.
Paint, powder, thin shoes, thin clothes,
reckless exposure an’ a total disregard of
common sense in eberyfing am de cause.
Dat’s de groun’ in wnioh to sow de
wheat.
“De nex’ ginerashnn in dis kentry will
need to double up our idiot an’ insane
asylums. State prisons an’ jails will
need to be enlarged. Honesty an’ mor¬
ality -will be strangers in de land, an’
friendship will have a mighty lonesome
time. De seed an’ de groun’ am ready,
an’ de crop will come in due time. I
say to you dat dis am de open doah to
de black man. Lib soberly, sensibly
an’ widout abuBe. Lib morally an’ hon¬
estly. Consult your health in your
dress an’ diet. Avoid whatever will de¬
grade you morally an’ injure you physi¬
cally, an’ de second ginerashnn from dis
will make do laws fur de white man an’
Iran his kentry. De one am deteriorat¬
ing, de odder am creepin’ up. De black
man has de bowers in his hand.”
Lead Roofs. •
With reference to the durability of
iead roofs one of our subscribers draws
attention to a statement that occurs in
the letter of a foreign correspondent of
ane of the daily papers, writing about
the Tower of London. The White
Tower was built by William the Con-,
queror. It is a quadrangular structure
116 feet by 96 feet and 92 feet high.
The external walls are 15 feet in thick
ness. Tt has a lead roof and was built in
the year 1070. Accordingly, argues the
writer quoted, it has stood upward of
800 years and is said to be in excellent
condition at the present time. This
writer’s statements, it may be remarked,
are not altogether satisfactory. It is
possible that the roof in question has
been repaired in the time mentioned, if
not wholly replaced one or more times.
We speak simply from the probabilities
of the case and not from absolute know-1
edge. The fact that the building was
erected 800 years ago and covered with
a lead roof is hardly proof that lead roofs,
last 800 years.
Who Can Tkol Whv ?—“Why is it
that a man, whenever he passes a broom
lying in the front hallway, always stands
stock still and shouts till he is black in
the face for the chambermaid to come
and pick it np instead of picking it up
himself and placing it where it belongs?
But, then, some men have good reason
to bo afraid of a broomstick, however
tailed its oondmon.”
NO. 27.
GREEDY PENSION AGENTS.
Seeking to Defraud Claimants Under tk.
New Fee Daw.
A Washington dispatch says: The in¬
satiable greed which characterizes a
good many claim agents and pension at¬
torneys is likely to lead some of them
into trouble in the near future. Among
the last acts of Congress was the passage
of a law raising the legal fee for prosecu¬
ting a claim for pension or bounty land
from $10 to not more than $25, as might
be agreed upon between the attorney
and his client, and approved by the
Commissioner of Pensions. As might
be expected some of the dishonest claim
agents have taken advantage of this law
to bleed their clients to the full limit.
Circulars have been prepared and sent
out to their clients and others entitled
to pensions, declaring that under the
new law the applicant for a pension or
bounty land is required to pay the at¬
torney $25. Blank contracts are sent
with the circulars for the applicant to
fill out, binding him to pay the sum
named, and care is taken not to intimate
that the legal fee is only $10 and that
the agent can claim no higher sum un¬
less by the voluntary consent of the ap¬
plicant. Commissioner Dudley has
heard of these attempts to swindle ex¬
soldiers and their relatives, and it is
understood that he proposes to make
things unpleasant for such attorneys as
bring cases before him under contracts
obtained by such fraudulent circulars.
In order to protect as far as possible ap¬
plicants for pensions the Commissioner
has prepared a form of fee contract
which he will require all pension attor¬
neys to nse. This form, which has been
approved by Secretary Teller, gives the
amount of fee agreed upon and whatpart
of It is charged by the agent for postage
and other expenses. The contraot must
be signed by two witnesses and is to be
executed in duplicate without additional
cost to the claimant. Some of the claim
agents object strongly to making a sepa¬
rate item for expenses but the Commis¬
sioner insists that this must be given in
order that be may know just what the
agent is receiving from the client. The
most distressing feature to the attorneys,
however, is the printing on the back of
the contract of a copy of the statute
regulating the fees, together with a
prominently displayed notice to claim¬
ants that the contract is permissible un¬
der the law but not compulsory. It will
be difficult under the forms prescribed
by the Commissioner for claim agents to
defraud their clients without detection
and exposure.
A Beautiful Snow Slide.
The Denver, Col., News says; One of
the grandest snow slides that ever oc¬
curred in Colosado took place a few days
ago just back of the Upper Twin Lakes.
Judge Harlan, an eyewitness, says it
was the most sublime sight he ever wit¬
nessed. Just back of Twin Lakes are
Pomeroy, Gordon and Francis Gulches,
on each side of which the mountains rise
thousands of feet. The sides of these
giants of the Rockies had been covered
during tbe heavy and protracted storms
with an enormous depth of snow, until
the weight had become such that it
could be sustained no longer. The
judge says that, as it happened, he was
standing where he could see the ava¬
lanche perfectly. All at once his ears
were greeted with a low, rumbling
sound tbat seemed like the roar of a
distant storm, and almost simultaneous¬
ly an immense volume of snow began to
move down the mountain side in one of
the gulches toward the road. The agi¬
tation seemed to break loose the snow
from rts moorings in the other two
gulches, and almost before one had
time to think hundreds of acres of snow
were coming down the mountain with a
roar like thunder, and filling the air
with spray as they tore through the
trees and carried everything before
them. As they descend^ them velocity
increased until the rapidity with whioh
the great field of snow and debris came
down was something terrific. The dis
tance, he says must have been a mil,
from where the avalanche started to the
valley where it stopped So deep was
the snow that a grove of quaking asp,
whose trees were from twenty to forty
feet high, was completely buried from
sight. Logs a foot and a half m thick
ness, that lay m the way of the slide,
were snapped in two like straws; trees
that were too tall to be covered up were
torn from their rooted place in the
mountain sides and carried like leaves
with the avalanche. The velocity of
air produced by the avalanche blew
down trees that were clear outside of the
slide. Fortunately, no one was in the
way and no lives were lost.
A Project. —The project of having
policemen detailed daily to weigh retail coal and
telivered to the customers at
see that the full weight is given, is now
agitated at San Francisco.
PARK AND GARDEN.
Obohaud and Fecit Garden.—D e¬
cide whether to dispose of surplus and
inferior fruit by making it into vinegar
or by drying or evaporating it. Trees
will be broken by careless pickers; saw
off all injured limbs. The appleworm
may be diminished by picking up and
destroying fallen fruit or allowing the
pigs to do it. Bands of carpet, bagging
or other fabric, fastened around the
tranks of apple trees with a single long
tack, will catch many apple worms. Ex¬
amine weekly and kill. If trees set last
spring suffer from drouth, mulch them,
or keep the soil loose. The fall web
worm spins its nest in summer also. At
its first appearance cut away the twig
to which the nest is attached and crush
the worms. Young trees may have their
shape controlled by pinching the ends of
shoots that grow too vigorously. When
the blackberry and raspberry crops are
off cut away the canes that have borne
fruit. The new stems of blackberries
should be stopped when five feet high,
those of raspberries at three or four feed.
Keep strawberry beds free of weeds.
Plant new beds with plants rooted in
pots. Whitish spots on the under side of
grape leaves are mildew. Dust sulphur
with a sulphur bellows at once. Large
caterpillars and beetles must be hand¬
picked. Continue to pinch laterals. -
Agriculturist.
Cams on Meadows. —A farmer visit¬
ing me last spring remarked: “I can¬
not understand how you wintered so
much stock, when you had only six
acres of grass to cut. I kept about
three times as much stock as you did
and mowed over just ten times as much
land.” By this time our “Walks and
Talks” had brought us to the six acres
which is to be mowed this year, “Yon
have been rolling this,” he said, “No,”
I replied, “it looks as though it had
been rolled, but those are the swaths of
of the 6-foot mower used to cut the
rowen last fall after wheat. We had al¬
most two loads per acre of pretty, good
hay.” “Well, now I begin to under¬
stand,” said he; “I wondered, if you
had wheat there last year, what had be¬
come of the stubble. But, my friend, I
cannot do such a thing as that. Grass
will not grow like that for me. ”
Knowing that it would if it had a fair
chance, I began to question him to find
out where the trouble was. I found
that he carefully saved the manure made,
on his farm, and used it to good advan¬
tage. His rotation was a good one, and
he was well supplied with improved
tools, and was in the habit of using
them freely. But the trouble came out
at last; he let his stock run on the
meadows and wheat stubble in he fall al¬
ways, and sometimes, when he was
short of hay in the spring. Now, in
his case, as I frankly told him, this was
probably the main reason why he was
Bhort of hay; why he had to mow over
60 acres to get what might have been
grown on 20 acres. No man could
think of turning his stock on his wheat
or com or oats, although they mi; lit en¬
dure to be gnawed off and trampled on
for a time and afterward make part of r
crop. We give them mellow ground t«
grow on, protected from the trampling
of stock, and from being bitten off an d
injured while they were youug and ten¬
der. Why not treat the growing grass
as well ? Why not give it the best pos¬
sible chance to grow and yield largo
crops of hay instead of abusing it in
every way ? The grass lot, if properly
aS ed—if given a fair chance—-will yield
about as much net profit as any field of
the farm oftentimes, although the
money does not come as directly, i>er
haps, as from the wheat or potato crop.
Why is it that so many farmers still
allow their cattle to pick and tramplec:
their grass grounds (and pastures are
often injured as well as mowing lots)
during the fall and winter and spring *
It is partly, perhaps, because they do
not realize that they are losing by the
practice; partly to save work—they do
not keep help enough to run the farm to
its full capacity—and partly became
they have “too many irons in the fire.
They are “over-busy fanners.”— T. B.
Terry, in the Country Gentleman.
The New Army Step.
El £ mon8 Clark, of the New York
^ Regiment) was ^fced by »
m m reporter w hat he thought of
the oh of p re8 cribed for the
United g tates Armyj especially that
whicb effec t8 the length of step and ce -
Jence for marching . The Colonel said
, hat fae waij not pre p are d at present to
Hpcak at length * regard to the matte,,
btR be wfl8 under the impression that
^ c & bad met with generftl dis
fayor Iu faot he had not heard any fa
q q{ . fc ^ by miIi .
^ t eu The experience of two thou
Y(}ar9 had ta , ht those interested
^ matterfl ^ the tw9nty .eight:
jucb was the be8t medium thaS
con , d be arrived at in a reg i m ent or
of men j iu height from five
iucbes to 81X feet two jnc hes or
Even twenty-eight inches was >*
| ! long stride for a man five feet ■ eigbc
j inches and under to keep up for an;.*,
! length of time, and most men of that}
height had to stretch their legs pretty
well in marching. No action would b-»
taken in regard to the matter hy tiuj
militia of this city till October, whern
active drilling begins.
Paper—H olyoke, Mass., is expect* I
soon to become not only the great«I
paper manufacturing, but the greatest
paper exporting city in the world.