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The Ramauco of Jimmie’s Mine.
■“No, if isn’t much of'a story, but
Ml tell it if you don’t use my
name.”
So spoke a miner just from ih e
oast, though better knearn in the
San Juan. He ia broßzad and
about 40. There are wrinkles in
*his face an j spots on the palm of
ins hands as hard a3 Ilia sole of a
boot.
About a year ago I was out pros
peeling over in the ssuthwestern
part of the state. Or® day when
walking just ahead of my partner
I fell down an old shaft about 20
feet, I guess. It wasn’t much of a
fall and 1 got off lucky. But I didn’t
like tha place, and wanted to get
out, so I yelled to Bob to let down
a rope, and ho done it. By this
time I could see a little, and, by
gosh, there was a skeleton in one
corner. It had been there a good
while. I saw that it had a broken
log, and had rolled up its pants as
if to doctor itself and had- never
rolled them down again. Its cloth
es wasn’t much geod, but I went
thr >ugh them and took out some
letters. The directions on the let
ters couldn’t be read, but the con
tents were infast. Some were to
‘Dear Jimmie’and signed‘Jennie.’
1 gof interesled in Jimmie and
Jenni®, and seized it up t-liis way;
Here’s Jimmie come west to make
a raise; here’s Jennie stayed home
to wait till he makes if. Here’s
Jimmie dead in a hole just as ha
had made the raise; and here’s Jen
nie wondering why Jimmie didn’t
drop her a line, by gosh. That’s the
way I sized it up, and I says to
Bob after he hail pulled me out
and w® had looked over th@ let
ters; “Bob, says I, that's darned
hard luck for Jennie, and I put the
letters in my pocket.
“Whdn I got titna I went info
the whole batch. Thors was a p'c
ture of Jennie Say, boy! all,
I lost my head. I mada&iip my
mind that inslid of wiltin’ I’d go
back and just break the news my
self and fell her Jimmie had left
her a mine. She was handsome as
any llower tint had ever bloomed.
And—well, I went back. 1 expect
ed that Jennie would cry and
tnere’d baa arena and she'd Hop
into my arms, faintlike, and all
lliaf. She looked so gentle, too,
with a lip all a-quiverin'in thapic
ture, and big eyej with fears like
little lakes.
“Did she flop? Not much. I
went back to that little f©wn in Il
linois and hunted her up. ‘Jennie,’
I says, ‘tender Jimmie’s gone over
the range.’
“‘What’s lhat?’ says she.
“ ‘Jimmie’s gone over the range,
played out, dead; lie’s a skeleton,
by gosh.’
‘“Dead, eh?’ says eho, ‘Well,
that's too bad. I liked Jim, buf he
uI f writ in’, tnd so I married about
a year and a half ago. Daad! I’ll
go tell ma. She’ll bo aw Til put.’
“Well, 1 left. I’m lnare, and
when the effete east catches me
; gain, it’s a dandy.”
“And what do you expect fo do?”
“Dr! I’ll go jump Jimmie’s
mine, by goali.”—[Denver Eepub
i.eatu
l'ho Chivalrous ' !it*.
Tho chivulrou- k ' its who
came over with the Ocmquorer, tho
nobles who fought at Neville's
Cross and Creoy and A gin court,
were, for tho most part, the merci
less tyrants of their serfs and de
pendents. Sordid rapacity kept
pace with reckless profusion, and
in ijx® arbitrary exercise of their
feudal rights.they shrank from no
forfn of-oppressi've cruelty. Their
brutalities ivould have disgraced a
Jonathan Wild, nnd their crimes
would seem scandalous ia the New
gate calendar. To do them justice,
they were as hard on their equals
as on their from
a point ©f perhaps egotistical punc
tilio, they spared their equals Die
dishonor of actual torture. The cap
live had neither corn fort ner mercy
to expect fill he paid ins ransom
or was rescued by Iris friends.
What stories of slew misery in
the very shadow of death might be
told by the dungeons that lay be
neath Iho foundations of such cas-
ties as Warkworth or Kenilworth!
There the well nurtured knight,
like Damian de Lacy m “The Be
trothed,” shackled and ironed, al
though there was no possibility of
escape, was doomed to solitary se
clusion on fh© coarsest and seasi
des! food. Fettered iu tho damp
and darkness among loathsome
creeping things, he drew breath
with difficulty in the foulest air;
an I it was forf unite for him that,
like the coll blooded toads that
were his fellow prisoners, undevel
oped sensibility saved him from ia
!sanity.
The only access to those lone
some oubliettes was, aa At Wark-
I worth, through the trapdoor open
j ing ia the roof. What must have
j beea the tone of mind of the chiv
alrous lord of the castle who could
feast and carouse in the banquet
hall abeve stairs with such horrors
and such suffering beneath his
feed But what between hard fight
ing, free feasting and deep drink
ing fhe nobles of Middle Ages
seem to have kept conscienco at
arm’s length, as they had become
absolutely indifferent to the suffer
ings of their fellew creatures; there
were rare exceptions to prove the
rule. Same princes and wealthy
nobles were piously inclined and
munificent. They gave liberally
in their life times and made mag
nificent ecclesiastical foundations,
—[ Blackwood’s Magazine.
It is believed that tbs murderer who
has slain his vieiitn tjitb sword erdag
ger will escape if th3 body f*Hs upon
its side or back; but if the body falls
faoa downward, then the aorderer
surely soon will be'oapturei and put fo
death. This belief is said to b? so
firmly looted among the peop'e of
northeastern Mexico that when a mar
derod tnau falls upon hi.) face his slay
er makes no effort to escape, and evc-a
sometimes voluntarily surrenders bias
self to justice.
If a bride, while dressing for lv r
wedding, is pricked by a p : n so the.t
the t-dood {Dws, graat misfortune iui
| ponds.
} if two persons think of the sime
| thing at the same ti ne, a soul is looe
ied from purgatory. — [Scribner’.* Msga
Aue.
II ow Trout Remember.
“Some time before the death ef
Seth Green, the celebrated fish cul
turist and naturalist,” said a Phila
delphian who takes great interest
in piscicultural matters, “I paid a
visit with him to the fish hatchery
ofthatstate atCaledenia. In one of
the ponds there at that time were
5,000 large brook trout, every one
of which had been eaptured with
the fly—tied un barbless hooks—in
unfrequented brooks in the Adiron
dack regions. These trout, Mr.
Green saiu, had convinced him that
fish have reasoning power and
memory. When they were hooked,
and reeled in slowly by tin careful
fishermen who wore capturing
them forth® state pond, thoy had
time and opportunity to note the
form and character of the tackle that
ruada them prisoners, According to
Mr. Grsea they never forgot that ex
perience.
“Tho troni had been in the pond a
long ‘.ires, tho lemales never being al
lovrefl to spawn there, and would fol
low Mr. Qren as he walked along
tke edge of the wafer tossing bbs ol
fiver into it. To show that bis the
ory about their memory was correct,
he would carry a cane and Suh rod con
cealed behind his back. If he took
the cane from its concealment and held
it out over the water, the lish paid no
attention to it, but the moment ba pro
dneed the rod with its reel and line at
tached, away the trout would scamper
like a Cfih (O distant p-uta of the
pond. Hr. Green told me that he
Won Id permit any one to cast a fly in
pond to their heart’s content, as
he was satisfied that not one of the
treat would come near it, so vividly
did they remember their enemy of fiye
years agi.”—[Philadelphia Press.
Tr.a Tali Tower Idea.
It has been remarked of (he Eiffel
tower as a specimen of engiueeiiog it
is simply a variation frctu the criiua
rv method of iron bridge building
The American engitievrs who visited
Frarce, England and Scotland a few
weeks go, greatly admired the Eiffel,
but regarded the bridge iri course of
construction across the Frith of Forth
as far more remarkable. They do not
couaider it a remarkable thing to erect
au iron tower 300 maters in height.
It refO'fS perpendicularly upon firm
foundations, ana tho weight of the ma
terial is easily sustained.
It is a far morepbsrif menal peForui
ance to build out on the cantilever
plan a structure extending, unsupport
ed by false work, for a thousand feet
over an arm of the sea. That was the
wonder cur engineers witnessed in
Scotland, and it was imiHsnsfly more
impressive than the simple ironedifiee,
notable ohiefiy for its perfeeikm of de
tails and colossal proportions, that is
the leading attraction of the French
exposition.
We have mentioned that there was
a proposition before tbs committee of
managers of the Philadelphia censen
iiial for tbs erection of sn iron tower
1 000 feat bigH, and it was reject© J be
cause tho estimated cost, ona million
dollars, was held to be extrayagaut
It would be worth while to look
through the old papers of the Fourth
of J uly centennial, ? and see bow close
ly tho <.1011; pioposed aod rejected for
the banks of the Schuylkill ha.-, bean
followed iu that v. hieh bus been • ret t
ed • m the Seine.— [Cincinnati Gcut
morcial G az6tte -
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Harmonv Grove Academy,
Male And Female,
HARMONY GROVE GA.
J. 11. Walker, A. B„ Principals Chas. M. Walker, A. 8., Assistant. '
Miss Annie Hurst, Second Assistant. Mrs. L. A. McSmith, Music"Teacbfr.
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And Continues Thirty-Eight Weeks: Two Weeks "Vacation Christmas.
RATES OF TUITION:
First Grads—Writing, Orthogiaphy, Reading and Arithmetic $1 50
Second Grade. Embraces same topics as first grade, and Gram
mar, Geography and Composition 2 00
Third Grade. Languages, Higher Mathematics, P.hetoric, Chemts- '*
try, Physics, Etc. . . 2 50
Music, 3.00
Incidental Fees, Fall Term 20 cents, spring Terra, 30 cents.
All allowed fell benefit of Common School Fund.
Board can be had in the best fa mites at eight to twelve dolters per month.
Harmony Grove has, by taxation, built a large and commodious brick
building. *rlie school will be Ihotouglly equipped with patent desks, black
boards, comfortable recitation seats, iaap6. globes, apparatus, and oyery mod
ern improvement (or successful hashing. This school, with a full corps of
good teachers, with comfortable building and modern improvements commend
iteelf to tbe parents of Harmony Grove and surrounding country.
We most respectfully solicit tbe patronage of the emzens of Bark* County.
For further information address J. H. WALKER, Htrmony Grove, oa. * "