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About Hale's weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 1892-1895 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1892)
“WBUILD THE LADDER. Heaven is not reached at a single bo..nd, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowiy earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to the summit round by rouad. < l count this thing to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul from the common sod To a purer air and a broader view. We rise by the things that are under feet, By what we have mastered of greed and gain, By the pride disposed and the passion slain, And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. We hope, we asp’re, we resolve, we trust, When the morning calls us to life and light; But our hearts grow weary, and era the night -Our lives are trailing the sordid dust. We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we pray, And we think that we mount the air on wings, Beyond the recall of sensual things, While our ieet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for the menl We may borrow the wings to find the way; Wo may hope and aspire and resolve and pray, But our feet must rise or we fall again. Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls; But the dream departs and the vision falls. And the sleeper wakes on* his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached a single bound. But wo build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. And we mount to the summit, round by round. —J. G. Holland. THREE AGAINST TEN, AN EriSODE OP THE SEMINOLE WAIL ROUND abend on the Ock- 1-iWaha, just at sunset, there appeared a dug out paddled by two stalwart % fellows in a sort t.; of homespun mmm a uniform, boy officer dressed while sat as an in the stern. Five minutes be fare the crocodiles and crune3, water turkeys, bitterns and herons had had the black, oozy river all to themselves as it slug¬ gishly made its way through the swampy palmettos and cypress. The boat bumped nlong slowly, strik¬ ing against cypress trees and fallen tree trunks. The paddlers looked anxious for the chance of finding a comfortable camping ground was growing slighter before young Will Loring began to, be sick of his escapade. He had left the camp eight miles away without orders and taken two of his company with him to do Indiau scouting on his own ac¬ count. Little more than a year befoi’e he had been a schoolboy, playing soldier iu tne streets of St. Augustine with other youngsters. When the Seminole War of 1S35 broke out, sweeping with a wave of lire and massacre across the State, he rau away from home aud joined a com¬ pany of volunteers. Ills daring and coolness at the battles of the With lacooehee and Alaqua, in connection with the social importance of his family, bad given him his epaulets at an age when other boys of the same years were still in terror ot the schoolmaster’s birch. < “Wall, Lieutenant,” drawled one of themeu as he peered wearily into the depths of the dark cypress arches, “we're in a ’orrid fix, I reckon. If we keep on we’ll run plum into a uest of then lnjin -devils, dead shore.” Both the soldiers were Crackers, bred in the woods and swamps, good shots aud skillful hunters, though thin, slouch¬ ing figures were not ornaments to a dress parade. “Keep on paddling,” said young Lor¬ ing in low tones, but with an air of stern¬ ness, which did not set well on his smooth lace aud mischievous black eyes, “and await my orders.” Then feeling that he had asserted his authority, he continued with a burst of boyish confi¬ dence, “I tell you what it is, Scraggs, we'll have to get back to that hammock, about a mile up the river, where we can fiud pine knots to cook, supper; don’t you thiuk so?” “Bless you, Lieutenant, d’ye hanker to lose yer skelp? No supper to-night but a drink of swamp water, and a chew of raw bacon. I’ll bet there’s a hun¬ dred of red varmints in two miles on us.” “You're not afraid, Scraggs, are you?” said the youngster with a lordly air; ‘‘a fellow who can bore a potato tossed in the air at a hundred yards with a rifle Ball, ought to have plenty of spunk.” “A leetle more skeery than I war forty year ago,” answered the Cracker, with a twinkle in his eye. “ Howsoiuever, as men of my inches do, I reckon I’ve got as much el’ar grit as most on ’em.” This talk had gone on in half whispers. The darkness was increasing every min¬ ute. The boyish officer in spite of his •airs was evidently uneasy, for ltis eyes shot continual glances ahead and on both sides into the swamp, as the dugout glided at a snail’s pace. They were nearing another bend in the stream, when through the tangle of leaf aDd vine there was a red gleam like a huge firefly. Without waiting orders Scraggs whirled the boat back with a powerful paddle, and turned to his officer with eyes al¬ most starting from their sockets, shaking his head in warning. “Injuns, Injuns, Lieutenant Will, a dozen on ’em,” he whispered. “I seed the hind end of two canoes jiss roun’ the bend. Tear must be. a hummock whar they’re camped. They’re jiss got through eatin’, an’ are stampin’ out the embers. Sh— don’t speak. I’ll work the old scow deep into the cypress. We’ll see what tricks they’re up to, see in’ we’re byar and can’t get away very easy. But by Jimmy, my skelp kinder crawls as if ’twould not be thar to-mor¬ row mornin’.” Young Loring nodded, and the pnd dlers cautiously forced the boat fifty feet through the mouth of a black arch into the heart of the swamp. Hidden here they were nearer the savages than before, and could hear their movements. It soon became clear that the party of Seminoles had no niglit, purpose of leaving their camp that and no suspicion of white men close at hand. One by one they dropped asleep, and their slumber chorus, which souuded not unlike the grunting of the alligators in the swamp, was music to the prisoners squatted in their gloomy covert. Three hours had passed, and the grow¬ ing light that silvered the lagoon outside of their retreat proved the moon well up over the tops of the trees. “Now is our time,” -whispered Scraggs, “to get outer this hole and paddle up stream for a sale landing place and vamouss back to camp.” Lieutenant Loring answered not a word. Ilis boyish mind was deep in thought—a daring thought which thrilled him with excitement. If he returned to camp as ho left it there was sure to be sharp reprimand, perhaps a court martial for absence with¬ out leave. The excuse that he was an irresponsible lad would alone save him, and at that fancy his heart had waxed hot with shame. But to go back as con¬ queror and hero—ah 1 that was worth risking his scalp for. “Are ye asleep?” whispered Scraggs again. “No,” the reply; “I going to was am take these redskins back to camp with me. So, Scraggs, you two can just tie your hair ou, for it will soon be in peril.” The men jumped as if they heard the whizz of Sem-nole lead. “You see it would be a shame to sneak back empty handed. We can’t exactly take their scalps, but we can take themselves as a present to the General,” said the ingenious youth. “The Indians are fast asleep. We'll paddle up and take their canoes. Then I’ll land on the hummock, you know, aud pick up their rifles. Then in the morning we can or der them to surrender on peril of being shot down, for we shall have loaded guns, and thev’ll have none.” ° groaned this The two Crackers over piece of youthful strategy, but Scraggs responded* ” The dugout left it,' covert and glided silent a 3 a shadow into the open stream. A few strokes brought them in full sight of the Indiau camp. The island where the savages lay was well-shadow ed by the trees, but their forms could be dimly seen stretched on the earth. Silently the little party detached the two canoes and towed them to a secure position, where they fastened them to a cypress tree fifty yards from shore. As the boat approached the shore on its second more dangerous mission, young Loring slipped off his b~ots and stepped into the ooze, regardless of moccasins aud rattlers. Scraggs and his comrade covering the advance with leveled guns, felt their stout hearts quake as their boy leader crept iu among those sleeping figures of bronze. A stumble or the snapping of a twig might make the difference of life and death. The lad moved as if he were a cat. The coarse hummock grass, armed with miuute thorns, cut into his flesh, but he scarcely felt them. The sleeping redskins lay partly iu the moonlight anti partly iu the shade of the trees which rose in the centre of the hummock, each one with his rifle by his side, the fierce copper face chiseled as if in metal. Hud the Indians disposed of their guns as the whites do, by stacking or resting them against a tree, the task of securing them would have been less risky, But they had kept their arms within reach, and some even had their tomahawks loosened from the belts as if for instaut use. The Indiau rarely sets a guard at night, unless iu the immediate presence of an enemy. Here in the depth of a great cypress swamp, impassable to troops, a surprise would seem impos sible. Yet even now the cunning and suspicion of the race had not forsaken them. The nerves of the young officer were strung to the highest tension. Oae by one he stealthily lifted the rifles from the earth till he had what he could carry. These he bore to the low bank and passed to the men ou guard in the dug out. No word was exchanged. Again he returned to the dangerous sleepers, a distance of about a hundred feet from shore, for a second load. A biawny sav¬ age tossing in his dreams gave a fierce sjrunt and threw out a hand, which touched the young thief’s ankle as if to clutch it. The moment thrilled him with all the agony of discovery, but he stood stock still waiting for something further. It was a false alarm, but cold sweat poured from his face. Another of the savages had his hand on the stock of his gun, and the piece had to be gently slid from under his fingers. Again, the third time, he went back to complete his work. The moon was now high up m the sky, and poured a flood of light ou the little islaud. The recumbent Indians were cut out like monstrous silhouettes against the grouud. The boy’s swimming bead -warned him that his strength couldn’t last much longer. But he resolutely went at his task, though his throat felt as if squeezed by an iron grip. He had gathered the in last a.mful, when one of the red men bis dream3 raised himself on his haunches and sac with chin resting on his knees. The moonshine flickered on his face through the quivering foliage, and his sunken eye 3 appeared half open and fol¬ lowing his white enemy. The watchful Scraggs, too, observed this movement, and his tanned cheeks turned white as chalk, as his finger was about to press his rifle-trigger. But he waited, and the savage sleeper made no further sign. At last the work was done. The ten minutes had seemed a year. The lad stag¬ gered to the boat, staggering as if with an ague. “I must speak,” he panted, I’d “or I shall yell. I thought twice have to whoop or go into a faint. But, Scraggs, I pulled through, didn’t II Help me in.” “Walll You've got the guns, snore,” said Scraggs, “and drat my skin ef the biggest bully in Jessup's camp would a done it.” No time had been lost while Scraggs was relieving his mind; the dugout was skimming out into the stream with lively paddle strokes. The plan was boldly executed in the morning. With the coming of light the Seminole3 discov¬ ered the robbery of their weapons and rushed to the edge of the swamp with frantic yells, brandishing their toma¬ hawks. But the marauders were far be¬ yond the throw of axe or Knife, and sat with levelled rifles. Then came a shrill voice, demanding in Spanish the instant surrender of the little Seminole band, for at that time nearly everyone in Florida knew some¬ thing of this language. After consider¬ able parley the red men agreed to throw their knives and tomahawks into the marsh. They were taken aboard in pairs and their right wrists tightly fastened together with stout strips of Scragg’3 homespun shirt. The dugout towed the cauoes up stream, while the young officer sat in ttie stern and guarded the captives with loaded pistols. So the daredevil returned to camp the same afternoon, and instead ot a rowing he was covered with praise and honor by General Jessup and his little army. This boy afterward became a dis tinguished General—Major General William W. Loring—who led armies in the far distant East as a Pasha in the service of the Egyptian Khedive, as well as in this country. But in his long ca reer he never did anything more daring and heroic than the feat planned and the General himself—8. F. Feme, in bt * T<ouis Lcpu me. Reversible Snakes iu India. A snake not often heard of, at least in America, is the liver-colored snake with two heads, or perhaps they should be called mouths, though it does not have two mouths at the same time. They are reversible mouths, occupying the opposite end every six mouths. It lies with the two ends crossed in each other, a3 with folded bauds. Every six months the change of the seasons reverses the func¬ tions of the two ends, the head becoming the tail aud the tail becoming the head. The mouth at one end heals or closes up all but a small opening, while the oppo¬ site end becomes the mouth for the next six months. A friend of mine in India who told me about this remarkable snake said he refused for a long time to believe that the functions of the two ends were re¬ versed every six mouths, but one day he found one of these snakes in the jungle and carried it home, where he had a physician examine it. The result was the physician confirmed the stories of the creature, and my friend was skeptical no longer. I learned no other name for this singular reptile than that of “the liver-colored snake.”—Hartford (Conn.) Times. Rubber Tires Far Carriages. The success of rubber tires on bicycles has frequently led to attempts to increase the comfort of buggy and carriage rid iug by fixing tires on to wheels, but iu the majority of instances the attempt was not a success, as the tire either came off or wore out in a very shor; space of time. Since, however, pneumatic tires have displaced the solid ones on bicycles, the attempt is being renewed, and bug¬ gies and other vehicles are likely to be seen on the boulevards in large num¬ bers before long as noiseless and free from vibration as bicycles. Carriage builders believe there is an immense amount of money to be made out of vehicles with rubber tires on the wheels, and they are likely to keep on experi¬ menting until they finally succeed in producing the desired article-—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 7j & o«s ! 0®. : i. V 41 vv m Capes are the present fad. Fashion dictates how to hang lace curtains straight, so as to show their full design. In China small, round eyes are liked. Bat the great beauty of a Chinese lady is in her feet. Six of the most successful business stores in Machias, Me., are owned and run by women. In Brooklyn, Miss Cornelia K. Hood, President of the Kempin Club, is lawyer, lecturer and writer. Mrs. J. G. Saflev, of Traer, Iona, la., owns 1040 acres of fine prairie land and does her own farming. The modern Persians have a strong aversion to red hair. The Turks, ou the contrary, are warm admirers of it. “Cricketing teams” of ladies are the fashion in England now. Lady Brassey is responsible for introducing them. The Province of Bhopal, India, is cele¬ brated for the unusually great adminis¬ trative powers of its female sovereigns. The fashion in bridesmaids’ bouquets lately has been the horseshoe, with the nails worked out in contrasting blossoms. Last year's gowns may be lengthened by a band of cloth about the skirt, while the waist is enlarged with vest and falling collar. j A college for girls is to be opened next autumn at Buda Pesth, Hungary, which is to be chiefly for the study of medicine and philosophy. i Panels of black and some light tone may be inserted in street frocks, together with a jaunty addition in the way of a stimulated jacket. I Nothing so rejuvenates a gown that is beginning to bear evidences of wear as a pointed belt of ribbon from which de¬ pend jet pendants. Tea cloths that imitate not only the Dresden china pottery, but also Royal ■Worcester, Coalport and other wares are used with services to match. } ■ Mr. JollIvet declares that American women are welcome in Parisian society because so many of them are pretty, clever and exquisitely dressed. > The long-train skirt which is now in fashion among women is said to date back to the time of Queen Anne, the wife of Richard III., of England. An artist’s rule as to color is: “Choose carefully only those tints of which a duplicate may be found in the hair, the eyes or the complexion.” The late Mrs. W. T. Sherman, and Miss Mary Gwendolen Caldwell have given more money to the Catholic Church than any other women in America. Miss Florence Nightingale is seventy two years of age. Her health is very poor, but she still continues to do a lot of writing for the nursing journals. Rice flour wafers, which are slightly swe?t, are the correct thing to serve with 5 o’clock tea. They are to be had at the Japanese shops in pound tins. The first International club for women has been founded. The incorporators are a group of American, French and German women in residence in Nice. The Prussian Minister of Education has decided that from now on the con¬ tracts with all women teachers shall be cancelled by their marriage at the end ot the school year. There has just died in Poland a once celebrated beauty, who refused the hand of Napoleon III. She was the Princess Helene Sagonsko, and died unmarried at the age of fifty-seven. Mr.'Peter Marie, of New York, is said to have the finest collection in existence of the miniatures of pietty women, un¬ less there is excepted the collection of the late King Ludwig of Bavaria. The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers and toes red and their lip3 blue. In Persia they paint a black streak around their eyes and ornament their faces with representations of various figures. Elizabeth Robins Pennell advocates that a perfect cycling dress should be a skirt of gray tweed, made without foundation, with a deep hem turned uo on the outside and secured by rows of stitching. Though the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are not particularly wealthy in a monetary way, the Duches3 pos¬ sesses jewels worth $4,000,000. They are heirlooms, however, and by the late Czar’s will they cannot be sold. Princess Margaret, of Prussia, is one of the most indefatigable equestriennes in Europe. Horseback riding was re¬ commended to her as a palliative of obesity, and the prescription pleased her so well that she has taken it to excess. Mr3. Mackay, wife of the Bonanza King, never wears any jewelry at her own entertainments. At her last party in London, which was a concert for the young Italian royalty, the Due d’Aosta, she wore pale pink, without ornament. Her guests were jeweled to the point of barbarity. One woman wore diamond ivy leaves and a diamond sun in her hair, three rows of diamonds and pearls around her neck and a colossal river a. SCIENTIFIC and Cooking by eleetricit % drcne y k inc ‘CSSias 1300 bee’s e 5es cuci mirrors. conta'i ^ 4000 ms Artesian b„ri assla Let ^ » A steam launch has w b I which makes a mile i a tvo . «ea bai ? one second. aiaiite, A London firm finds most economical a *,• , means of ' motive power necessary to ^ namo. 1 0 tJa a i It has been computed bv authorities that in a single io^ ether there are locked up energy. roti j ar alco ““" p,iM -5 Recent experiments in France velocity of propagation on of electric Wan give actly a that mean of velocity which is a l mos: ei light. The best way to clean wells an-V terns of foul air is to throw down of unslacked lime. Tue heat apecj carries out the foul bo cause air with a rush, j Experiments made by a HunganJ physician on animals seem to show thal permanganate of potash acts as aa effii cient antidote in acute phosphorus po j] flowers According is a single to Dr. pigment Hansen, theredij 3 water and decolorized soluble J by alcohol, capable of being restored by the addifid of acids. The dynamo is replacing the batted to such will, an it extent is thought, in telegraphy be that it] J use universal i a few efficient. years. It is both cheaper audnJ Investigations of rain drops lead J the conclusion that some of the J drops must be more or less hollow will 2 they fail when striking to wet the surface enclosed within the drop. J Many of the small takes of thegjfl Sti and saline regions of California, and other parts of the world are h urated and deposit their salts evaporafiil wheiuJ of the water is removed by or when salts are added from the infaw] A watch for the blind is among tha newest inventions. A small peg iijss in the middle of each figure. When a hour hand reaches a given hour the own] pa for that hour drops. The sightless er, when he wants to know the time; 'finds which peg is down and then counta back to twelve. A new alloy for use in the manufac¬ ture of wire sheets and castings has been introduced by a New England firm. The wire made of this material resembles or¬ dinary copper wire ou the outside, hasa pinkish white tinge at the surface of fracture, and is very strung without; losing much ductility. There is still a chance for invention 1 in electric railway controlling switches. The awkwardness of regulating a car’s speed by a brake which turn3 one way and a rheostat crank which turns the other is evident. Sooner or later a lever arm or some similar device will replace some of the confusing number of crant motions with which manufacturers at present equip their cars. The color Sea of varies the water considerably. of the M;di-j Da-j terranean and si>j ring storms it is deep green of times brown, and when calm a blue. In the Bosphorus and amon;*l archipelago it is of varying hnsM some places being of a liquid bms 1 uatinsf into a brighter green, uni others assuming blue so deepa’ ai» a most approach a purple. Cooking With Ice for Fuel The generally accepted theory of the cooking of meat relates to theappta ^ of heat; but Dr. attention to the fact that almo>tpiw the same chemical and physical exgr cfl- 3 cau be accomplished by the animal flesh to extreme cold. t“ aeeJ ’ sensation experienced by touching r ing is very much that ol a se mercury burn. referred to ap¬ Then the experimenter the preservadon plied bis method to to ate meats, first by subjecting them perature of thirty-three L - — Fahrenheit, and then sea ' 1D £ <1 hermetically in tin vessels. 1sJB had been so - , ^ substances which oJ for some time kept in tae=e dy P ’ examination proved to be extrex ^ table, quired and, being little heat partiaUj to P r co^e very -. j % for the table. Haagy. do* An establishment in engaged in the preparation extensive sen 0 • this method on an York World. The Horse in a Fire- o! know that it is ristic Few frenzied a the horse to become ja . rounded by fire. No a PP ea gjorf* , telligencs is of avail >- ur ‘^ pr g=eac« made to remove him from P »ni of flames. be He in is theisam terror^®^ is rf seems to beB mind as most human beings ^ panic. It is therefore use ^ a simple exped ^ that by a very of fir e. can be easily manage.* : sW put* All that is necessary to ithaB $ saddle him, and be can & ..-Qk on difficulty Iron bie the least Anicoal Friends.
