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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 - V aa htr cold tuicagncut Clorsdc. 0. W. Hood & Soa, HARMONY GROVE, GA. DEALERS IN vli \Aa WWArV)/ Q.Vudi \j %QVi w - % Also Coo Lme of Hardware, Tiawaie, (’rockery and Glasware, Family Groceries, Flour, Meats, Etc. Onr stock is Completn and we are fully prepared to satisfy opr Cus tomers in respect to s’yles ai:d Qualities. Everything sold for prices far below sn7 ever in this or any other MARKET IN WORT HE AST GFORGIA. IWe to Cali and ecu us beiore purenabing elsewhere. The oldest Firm in this section. 11l Kg® ensmi*wKLmnm q Lii-J a Elk J S f£a W■ (J DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Glethiag 1 • Fancy Goods, Fine Millinery, Groceries and General Merchandise. .Give us t Call when in HARMONY GROVE. spasa Eg <& A t* M a Y'h W a A/ { J =f 7 Q£* V 5 HARDWARE And CUTLERY, Lino of Stoves, Tinware, Agricultural, Implements, Etc., cun not be found in better Quality and Dniabihty, Ehewheie. We also have in stock a fine line of guns and pistols, and we are the only bouse in Haimouy Qrove that pay a LicehSS to sell Pistols and Cartridges. Call and see ns. i f| ej ® fs& otit Drug's And Medicines. Families must Castor Oil, Spirits Turpentine, Pills, Mustard and Cam position Powders, Liniments, Horse and Catde Powders, Sarsa parilla and other Patent Medicines. Before buying such supplies, call on Hr. Y. D. Lockhart at the "fe§VWtW Ai’Wva y'VGU. 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. 2l0 ! 4, 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. * "