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vof V.-NO. 29. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Great Britain has no less than 1,674 Generals in her army, but only 250 of them are >“ active service - The Inspector of Milk, in Hartford, recently found seven samples of niUkoutof thirty-five adulterated with oter or skim milk. In Massachusetts there is one oivorci to twenty-one marriages; in Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut, about one to fourteen ; in Rhode island, one to twelve ; in Maine, one to eight. A late Assistant Commissioner of Ireland says that a proper system of ar terial drainage is the most practical wav of assisting the solution of the “Iris! question.” By such a system lands could be reclaimed and farmers would take the place of laborers. An eminent French physician, win has known Prince Bismark well for near ly a quarter of a century, says that all talk about the Chancellor’s health break ing down is sheer nonsense. His nerves and general constitution are in admirabl condition, and bid fair to remain so foi twenty years to come. Whi-n Dr. Weaker, the celebrated German oculist, removed Gambetta’s right eye in 1867, the organ was pre served in spirits. “It is the eye,” the surgeon said, “of a man who is sure to enact an important part in the world’; history.” He was right, and the eye is still preserved. New York is soon to have in readiness a thoroughly drilled and equipped life saving corps to act in conjunction with its Fire Department. It will be pro vided with ingenious mechanical con trivances for scaling the highest builds mgs and bringing inmates in safety to the ground. According report of the Secre tary of ■'Tanized strength of the militia oTtJieVmted States is 87,614. Os this number 6,583 are commissioned o/ficers, and 81,081 are non-commission ed officers, musicians and privates. The number of men available for military duty, but unorganized, is 6,797,000. It is reported that there are 30,000 negroes in Indian Territory denied the privilege of franchise and schools, and are incompetent as witnesses and jurors in courts. They were, or are, descend ants from former slaves of the Indians. 1 hey ask the Government to remove them from among the Indians and settle them on Oklahoma lands. According to the Manchester Guar •dian, the latest and largest donation to the fund for England’s Royal College of Music came from New York City, and was the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Its amount was $25,000. The college will, it is thought, be opened in South Kensington in May next with about fifty scholars. •■♦ A New York surgeon, the other dav, successfully tried transfusion of blood for asphyxia. A man named Okeburg blew out the gas in his room at a hotel, was almost dead when discovered, and’ as he was not revived by ordinary reme dies, several ounces of taken from a healthy negro, were pumped into a vain in his arm and he soon regained consciousness. A general depression of business pre vails in England, one cause of which is ,e JL >C t * 3fe un f avora bi e agricul -I'7 n The weather has been ,A(l all through the winter for that inter est, and now the heavy rains prevent the usual preparations for spring planting. e prospect in other European coun tries is also gloomy, particularly France, t’ermauy, Rug e ia, and Turkey. * Immense fields and mountains of ice have already appeared off the banks of Newfoundland. The year, bound to bo hirtoncal for its floods, fires, storms a,lf accidents, will also probably oe ra 'le for the immensity and dan g'.rotiHnegg of its iceburgs. These great u,ass<'s of ice are said to be productive, -cough their atmospheric influences, of ■< ~ tempests that have of late ' ,s l i lculS 1 Auntie mariners. That it is not good for man to be alone . been the belief of 6,000 years, but it b only recently that the fatal evil of juch solicitude has been worked out by I*, S ti ßt * c * anß - “Bachelorhood,” says th ' t< r k’ "* 8 more destructive to life or h unwholesome trades an residence in an unwholesome Strict where there has never x„_ n . e most distant attempt at sani- Mr y improvement.” a vhff Robert Asa Packer, when on dav# 4’ onae<J ti cu t in his younger bread on 5? v ® the excellent - his host s table had been made She SMtoti by one of his daughters. He sought her out and married her, but they only lived together a few years, not being ible to get along at all. He afterward married a daughter of Victor E. Piolett. with whom he lived as happily as lie could wish, and entertained his friends in regal stylo. The junior M. P. for Edinburg has im ■roved upon his great colleague in the niftier of postal cards. Mr. Gladstone used to write his, to the great joy of autograph collectors. But Mr. Waddy replies to all applications from his con stituents with a printed card, as follows: “I beg to acknowledge the receipt of vour note. I receive so many applica tions of a similar character, that I can not possibly comply with your request. I regret my inability to assist you, and am, yours truly, S. D. Waddy.” There are several thousand house keepers in the land who would feel grateful to the several Legislatures if they should carry into effect the sugges tion of the Lima Kiln Club, of Detroit, which is as follows : “ Resolved, Dat de present Legischur of dis State am ordered to pass a law makin’ it a penal offense fur a grocer not to deliver oin pound of cheese and eleven cents’ wuf of halibut widin ten minits of de time agreed upon when de said articles are ordered and paid for.” A committee to plan an industrial school at Springfield, Mass., have de cided to teach the rudiments of trades, and not to turn out finished mechanics The desire is to give the boy a knowl eege that will enable him to choose a pursuit lor which he recognizes his own adaptability, so that three or four year's of his life may not be wasted after he leaves school in trying to determine how he will earn bis living, and finally drifting through ignorance and neces sity into work where manual labor, not brains, is needed. Wong Chin Foo, editor of the Chi nese American, is elated over the suc cess of his paper, which is now about four weeks old. Wong came to this country in 1874 with Rev. Mr. Gibson, and was mobbed at San Francisco for trying to liberate twenty-three Chinese women who had been sent over in his ship by business agents. Since then he has lived in the E ist as a lecturer and writer on Chinese mat! > thinks the present Chinese Em’ is to this country is a useless body, and has a poor opinion of the common Chinese American. According to the summary of the Catholic directory for 1883, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States comprises 1 Cardinal, 13 Arch bishops, 59 Bishops, 6,546 priests, 5,241 churches, besides 1,180 chapels and 1,768 stations, which are attended by priests, and where mass is occasionally celebrated. The Catholic population is computed to be 6,832,954. There are 31 ecclesiastical seminaries for the educa tion of 1,-134 ecclesiastical students. The number of colleges, 81; academies, 579; and parochial schools, 2,491. The num ber of pupils attending the Catholic schools, exclusive of colleges and acade mies, is given at 428,642. There are 275 asylums of various kinds and 185 hospi tals. A comparison of figureswill show that there is but a very slight overaver age of one priest to every church. The number of educational institutions foot up over 3,000, or equal to half the num ber of churches. A young servant girl by the name of 2\nnie Lennon, who is employed in the family of Sheriff Easton, of Newport, 11. 1., performed an act of brave devotion a few nights ago, of which it is proposed to make some public recognition. She and a five-year-old daughter of Sheriff Easton were alone in the house, the rest of the family not having returned from an Odd Fellows’ Festival. Soon after midnight she awoke to find her attic room filled with smoke. She waited only to put on a skirt, hurried down stairs, and, being unable to open the door, climbed through a window upon a back porch, jumped to the ground, eight feet below, and ran with bare feet ovei the ice and snow to rouse the neighbor*. Hastening home again, she appealed tc several persons, who by that time had gathered before the house, to save the i : little girl sleeping upstairs, and, as no ' one responded, she entered the house as she had left it, felt her way through the blinding and stifling smoke to the child’s room, and escaped with her to the yard uninjured, though the heat was intense enough to scorch their clothing. • The State of Georgia makes a very ‘ i huppy showing in the matter of develop- i ment of a country by railroads. A few i years after the war the Southern manu i factoring State began to move in the di- I rection of connecting herself with outer markets by railways. The result was that farmers began to putin larger crops, • planters to double their acreage in cotton, i DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1883. and stock raisers to increase their expor tation of domestic animals. They had a market for their products. This is the result in 1882: The State raises three times as much corn and wheat as it did in 1870, and six times as many potatoes. In all other farm products there has been a corresponding increase. Since 1870 the amount of cotton raised has doubled. A largely increased production to the acre shows also that the methods of tillage have improved. The added num ber of farm animals, horses, mules, swine, milch cows and sheep is no less striking. The tendency seems to be to cut up the great estates into small ones. In 1870 Georgia had 70,000 farms. There are now 139,000. The value of farm products has, in fact, nearly doubled since 1870. It is mostly owing to the building of railroads. What 19 Nickell Since the convenient five cent coin which in common talk is called “a nickel,” has come into general circula tion, the question above is asked, either mentally or orally, hundreds of times every day, and but few get an intelligent answer. In China and India, a white copper, called pack-tong, has long been known and has been extensively used both there and in Europe for counterfeit ing silver coin. About the year 1700 a peculiar ore was discovered in the copper mines of Saxony which had the appear ance of being very rich, but in smelting, it yielded no copper, and the miners called it kupfer-nickel, or false copper. In 1754, Cronstadt announced the dis covery of a new metal in kupfer-nickel, to which he gave the name of nickel. It was in combination with arsenic from which he could relieve it only in part. The alloy of nickel and arsenic which he obtained was white, brittle, very hard and had a melting point nearly as high as cast-iron. It was not until 1823 that pure nickel was obtained by analysis of German silver which had for a number of years, been produced at Suhl in Saxony. Its composition was ascertained to be copper 10 parts, zinc 5, and nickel 4. If more nickel be used the alloy is as white as silver and susceptible of a very high polish, but becomes too brittle and hard to be hammered or rolled, and can be worked only by casting. Pure nickel is a white metal with a tarnish readily in the air. Unlike silver, it is not acted on by the vapor of sulphur, and even the strong mineral acids attract it but. slightly. Nickel has tho hardness of iron and like it, has strong magnetic [r p rties, but cannot be welded and is soldered wit 1 , difficulty. Pure nickel has heretofore been used chiefly for plating, for which purpose its hardness and power to resist atmospheric influ ences, admirably adapt it. Within the last year, the French have succeeded in rolling the metal into plates from which spoons and other table furniture may be pressed. Nickel bronze, which consists of equal parts of copper and nickel, with a little tin, may be cast into very delicate forms, and is susceptible of a high polish. Mines of nickel are worked at Chatham, Conn., and Lancaster, Pa., and it is said to be found at Mine Le Motte, Mo., and at several points in Colorado, and New Mexico, where but little attention is paid to it. It is extensively mined in Saxony and in Sweden, but the late discoverv of a new ore (a silicate of nickel) in New Caledonia will probably supersede all the other ones. The inexhaustible supply of this ore, the ease with which it can be smelted and the richness of the ore . will probably suspend tho use of the | arsenical ores, and yet bring nickel into ( common use. Switzerland, in the year • 1852, made a coin of German silver, which is identical in composition with our nickel coin. The United States made nickel cents in 1856, and eight years later, coined tho five cent pieces. Belgium adopted nickel coinage in 1860 and Germany in 1873. England has lately coined nickel pennies for Jamaica, but at home she and France adhere to the clumsy copper small change. Natural Advantages on a Small Fann, Among the first of natural advantages on a small farm is a good husband and a good wife. One other thing I will sa y—whatever you undertake to do, do ’ it better than you did before. Never mind whether you exceed your neigh bors or not—heat yourselves. What we admire in a plant or animal we admire ! more in a man—that is growth. If you ' arc making beef, or pork, or mutton, or ■ milk or but'.er or cheese, or working I oxen or trotting horses, make them bet- | ter next time, especially if you make things for the judgment day of the mar- , ket. So of vegetable or fruit products.' Let withered and inferior goods come I bv railroad. Don’t let the market know of vour going back in quallity any. It ' will despise and never forgive you if you I do. Again, don’t try to do too much of . a kmd, nor too many kinds of things. ; To excel in leaping, you can't jump in all directions —you must throw your heft toward one point.— J. B. Alcott. The Farm and Fireside, of Spring field, Ohio, has this to eay about these : “ Take two wooden boxes, one three inches larger in every way than the other. Lino the inside box with zinc. Fill the space surrounding it with dry sawdust, or, better, with fine charcoal. I Let the cover to the inside box be ; covered with a piece of woolen blanket. Let a small piece of pipe pass from the | bottom of the inner box down through tho bottom of the lower box, so as to , allow the water from the I flow off. This is just as good m many ■ of the patent ice chests at less than one- f J fourth the cost. The Story of a Prhicesifi The several current press notices of the royal order of Kapiolani, recently presented to the author of “ Kalani of Oahu.’’ by King Kalauea, failing to de scribe the religo-romant’c incident Which imparts intrinsic value to the name, I send a brief epitome of the story for publication. The literal mean ingof Kapiolani is “prisoner of Heaven.” Princess Kapiolani, of Hawaii, was daughter o e the last Mng of Hilo, and among the first converts of the mission aries. When first seen by the white clergy Kapiolani was publicly anointing herself with cocoanut oil, while under go ng some heathen rite of her tabu creed. From this state of pa an degra dation the beautiful Princess soon “be came one of the most devout Christian converts, glowing with pio s zeal to ac complish something which m ght break through the superstitions of her people. Twenty-six thousand idols had been de stroyed by fire, by order of King Liho liho and the High Priest, Hewahewa. and yet the degrading tabu remained unbroken. It was time for some o her overt act to be thought of. In a state o’ drunken frenzy Liholiho had broken the tabu by eating with the women. A brave net for a young King, but not of sufficient importance to ailect the tabu. Kapiolani now came to the rescue, and, with a moral he oism equal to any act of h r sex, she determined to brave Tele in her own fiery stronghold of Kilauea, tesf'ng the divine power of her new-found God by defying the goddess and breakin r her tabu in the presence of a multitude. News o her intended sacrilege was proclaimed all over the island, treat ng a feeiin/of consterna tion, not only for the welfare of the Princess, but lest th? very island should be destroyed. Many came to plead that she would abandon the rash act: and none were more terrified for her safety than Naihe. her warrior-husband. Followed by eighty of her terror stricken friends, kapiolani walked a hundred miles through the moun ain wilderness on her pi gr mage or terror. Approaching the seething crater, Ka piolani was met. by a shriveled ol<l pinestess of Pole, bearing a fiery male diction from Pole—hot from the dread Haliman-man, (house of everlasting fire) —in which Pole threatened not only death to all comers but destruction of the island. The multitude stood appalled, and bevged the Prince sto des.st from her rash act. But, quoting some new learned passages from Scripture to the Kahuna wahine —woman priest—Ka piolani talked calmly and resolutely to the crater’s verge, where the sea of molten lava raved like a storm-lashed ocean demonstrating the wrath of Feb*. Gathering a handful of sa red olielo berries, ever consecrated to l ele, she ate them in derision of the tabu rite, instead of casting them into the crater as a peace offering to the goddess. Gathering up stones, she threw them into the fiery flood instead of the a cus tomed berries. Standing the e in the presence of the most awml natural phe nomena on earth, confronting the most terrible conception of a pagan deity, Kapiolani calmly addressed the multi tude as they stood appalled at their own fears; “Behold! my people, tho gods of Hawaii are vain gods. Great is Jeho vah, my Go I. lie kindles these fires, rear not I’ele; she is powerless. Should I perish, then fear her power. Should God preserve me, then break your tabu, knowing there is but one God. Jeho vah.” In commemoration of this brave act of Kapiolani, Ke Nui (the great), the King’s present wife, was named, , and the royal Order of Kapiolani was proclaimed, for the “recompense of dis tinguished merit to the St te, for hu manity, genius science and art, ser vices rendered to Ourselves or Our Suc cessors. '’ Boston Courier. Knew Ills Business. A few months ago a conductor on one of the Chicago street-cars suddenly ex perienced religion and joined a small flock in the neighborhood of his resi dence. None more devout than he was to be found in the country around, and every spare moment from his business was put into something energetic toward strengthening up the liltle church into which he had projected liimscu. Notic ing his interest, his pastor, to encourage ' him, shoved him along all he could, and in a short time the new convert was a shining light among his fellow-worship pers, and the Christian grace with which I he passed the contribution-plate evoked ! nickles from what before had been bar- ■ ren pockets. ’’ One*Sunday morning a hoodlum was i noisy, and the conductor quietly ordered him out. He went, but last Sunday ! evening he appeared with a mob of dis -1 solute companions bent on a difficulty. I The conductor kept an eye on the ' leader until the disturbance became un -1 bearable. “Put on brakes a moment, parson, said he, “till I look after this fare.” j Approaching the thug, he went for ' him, and wiped up several yards of aisle with him, and then stood him on his ,Cf *‘Five cents for the kingdom of God!” he demanded. The hoodlum said he did not have to ‘ ‘ Five cents for this ride on the Gospel chariot,” and he smashed the tltog in the countenance. i “But, brother,” remonstrated the pas- ■ tor, “you cannot compel him to con tribute.” x v „, “ Never you mind that parson. You ■ preach and I’ll collet Tl ” s dead-head on this line without, putting up. l m ie / sponsible to tlw to show ■ Fvo punched hffa ft-’M hizgot to snow j ( ooin. ’ THE WORLD BANKRUPT. Ths I.nrjr<> Amount Owed by (lowi nnienta. . A n ingenious statistician, who had been losing sleep in the pursuits of science, has added up the nations of the world, and is distressed to find out that this poor old world is really bankrupt; that it owes more than it can pay, and that, as the process of debt-making is continually going on, the inevitable end u ill be a universal smash. The gloomy view of the situation is supported by the magnitude of the figures—total amount we believe is some $20,000,000, OOOor $30,- 000,000,000 —and it is plainly true that, with the exception of the United States, the civilized goverments of the world are rapidly increasing their indebtedness. But wo believe that this immense aggre gate of debt is an evidence rather of sol vency than of bankruptcy; a proof, not that the world is so poor us to be insol vent, but that it is so rich that no extrava gance can ruin it All the great public debts of the world are the creation of the present century, and many of them of the past twenty or thirty years. At the beginning of the century France had no debt at all and England only a trifling one. Italy, which is quite active as a debtor, did not exist as a nation thirty years ago mid the United States had no public or local debt of any amount twenty years ago. If, in the course of eighty years, the nations of the world have succeeded in loading themselves up with a burden of debt to the whole of the estimated wealth of this country at the last census, it is a proof that their material prosperity and accumulated resources have reached pro portions which would have been consid ered impossible and mythical in any previous era of history. France, which now thrives mid prospers under an enor mous debt of $4,700,000,000, on which it pays an annual interest of $203,000,000, would have found it impossible 100 years ago to borrow the amount which is an nually paid for interest. England owes a debt of some $4,000,000,000, the foun dations of which were laid in the attempt to prevent the French from being ruined by a sovereign of their own choosing. But if England had had any idea at the outbreak of the Napoleonic wars of the outlay which would be incurred, we may be sure the ablest flanciers would have said that there was no credit of gover - ment or power of authority which would suffice to carry so large a debt. Now, triumphant Germany asks France for a trifle of $1,000,000,01)0 as coolly as if it were a bottle of wine, and totally mort gages the resources of a nation before a nation is established. Was the world any richer 100 years ago, when its lack of credit prevented its borrowing money? Is it any poorer now, when it has bor rowed so much that a demand fftr pay ment would bankrupt it? A very simple answer to the question may be had by merely considering where all the money came from which is now invested in the Grand Livre or ledger of France, the consols of England, mid tho bonds of other countries. Before the country could borrow there must have been capitalists who had the money to lend—and to spare. The nations could not have borrowed unless the people were able to lend, andif the world is able to lend S2O, ()()(>, 090,000 or $30,000,000,000 it can hardly be in danger of immediate bank ruptcy. In fact, the debts of the nations are merely the surplus of the people, a small part of the accumulations which have been made in a century of industry and of progress. Steam, electricity, and patent inventions have accumulated in the world such a mass of wealth as the old world never dreamed of; and, as the pro cess of accumulation is going on faster than the process of borrowing, the world is growing richer every day, richer in spite of wars and armies and kings and tariffs and tax-eaters, and other obstacles, and there is no call for any learned statis tician to sit up of nights in despair over the future of an insolvent world. Peculiarities of Deep-Sea Animals. Deep-sea animals, as a rule, have either no eyes at all or have very large eyas. As an example may be ci! d the crustacean, astacus zalencus, most closely allied to the common eray-ffsh which Prof. Huxley has lately made illustrious. It is from 150 fathoms. It has no eyes at all, but one of its nippers is extraordi narily long and delicate, and possibly tl*e animal uses it to feel its way with, as a blind man uses his stick. There are also abundant hairs on the animal’s surface, which are probably organs of touch. Many deep-sea Crustacea, however, have very large eyes indeed, evidently for the purjKise of making use of some small quantity of light which must exist in all depths. In the absence of sunlight the only other source of light must be phosphorescence of certain of the deep sea animals themselves. No doubt many animals, as in shallow water, emit light in the deep sea; and the deep-sea animals with eyes probably congregate round them or gronpe their wav in the gloom from one bunch to another as they lie scattered over the bottom, just as wo half feel, half-see our way from lamp post to lamp-post in a night fog. Homo lose their way, os we do sometimes, and get into shallow water, and a good many deep-sea animals have from time to timo been picked up near tho shores at Madeira and elsewhere, and have found • their way into museums as great rarities. No doubt the sense of touch is tho one mainly relied on by most animals. Very’ many are provided with Knecial organs of touch, such ns long / hidrs. or, in the ca«offi*h, lona fm-nva. / li»hed were “Bab.V Mine. Horn, ” “No Go," “ Buss, and Neces- fd< >ity. ” TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR WAIFS AND WHIMS. JSte Rome Sentinel says that an alli gator laughs Avhea it he:,rs that beauty Is only skin deep. Hints to housekeepers—When your favorite cats become too prolific you must “pool their issues.” Faith moves mountains, but it takes a couple of express wagons to move a fash ionable woman’s baggage. The grand and awfid difference be tween a tree and a bore is—the tree leaves in the spring, and the bore—whv, he never leaves. The two urchins who played “escap ing from the wreck” by using their mother’s holiday dough-trough for a life boat, were lashed together. A man in Baltimore has the wooden shutter of the room occupied by Mary Phillipse, who gave George Washington the mitten. Cupid’s blind. The bible tells us not to put our trust in riches, and a great many men don’t at tho present day. Their total lack of riches explains why. A Minnesota farmer who has five grown-up daughters, has sued the county on a claim that his residence has lieeu used as a “court-room” for the past two years. A Haddenfield (Capo May) sign reads: “Is cream salon cakes prett»'’'« and canddy and cigars oisters and lodg- 1 ing and horses wattered constantly on’,' hand.” > It has been said that poverty treads, upon tho heels of great and unexpected' riches; but then a newspaper man never has coms on liis heels, and he can stand it. : - Ppoprietor—“ If you boys don’t clear out I’ll call that officer and have you taken in.” Boy—“ That’s where you’d be taken in; that policeman’s my dad, he is.” The church is the pew rest place on earth.— Steubenville Herald. And one can tell how good the men are by the number of hymns found there.—CVncin nati Gazette. Somebody wants to know why we do not go to Europe. Well, the fact is if the rest of Europe resembles the part that has come over here, we’ve seen* enough of it.— Burlington Hawkeye. Hk talked love to her, and dove to her, And tried to squeeze her hand, While she sat up and ■•yessed" and ‘'noed," And yawned behind tier fun— (Because s e had sat up tho night before. Willi a fellow she had an awful fondness for.) —Steubenville llrrald. The following advertisement appeared lately in an Irish newspaper: “This is to notify Patrick O’Flaherty, who lately loft bis lodgings, if he does not return soon and pay for the same he shall be ad vertised. ” “Well, if I ever saw the like,” re marked Mr. Whiskyskin, as he mopped tho perspiration from his brow. “ I don't see where all this water comes from that oozes through my pores. I haven’t tasted the stuff for ten years.” What a pity that a big heart is so often compelled to keep company with a small income? — N. Y. News. Rather, what a pity that a big income is so often comjielled to keep company with a small heart. “Do not know commas when you see them?” said the village school teacher to the book-keeper of a banking-house, whose education had been neglected. “What are these „) on your gro cer’s bill?” “Beers,” said he. Police court scene—Judge to an un prepossessing tramp : “ What are your means of living?” .“I am an inventor.” “Ah, indeed. And what have you in vented?” “Nothing as yet; but I am on the lookout.” Mits. Domesticity calls at the kitchen furnishing store. “Have you Cook’s stewers?” she asks. The dealer is dumb founded till he is shown an advertise ment of “Cook’s Tours,” when he di rected her to the nearest railroad office. Ten residents of Waverly, who wouldn’t do a day’s work for anything, recently hauled over twenty cords of wood to get a red squirrel that wasn t there. Then they crack ed a command ment. — Otvcfjo liecord. Why is it that whisky straight will make a man walk crooked?— Bouton Globe. Why is it ? Why, it is because you drink it. Did you never think o that? You leave the whisky in the jug, and it will not make you walk crooked. Don’t blame the rooster for bragging over every egg that is laid in the fami y. Only human nature, nothing more. You remember that when that bouncing boy arrived at your house it wasn t the mother who went about doing the crow ing. . . .. An Indian came to an agent m the northern part of lowa to procure some whiskv foi a younger brother who he said had been bitten by a rattlesnake. “Four quarts 1” repeated the agent with surprise; “much as that? i*s, replied the Indian, “four quarts; snake very big.” —lt is cruel to keep checking boys. Little Frankie F. was .astride the sota cushion. and was making his steed ap parently take a 2:10 pace, with kicks and sloshes of his whip, and yelling at the top of his lungs Dis poor mother bore it awhile, and then said, sternly. •• I rankie: stop making a noise. Dnve your horse if you b " t hI/ T’ still.” it wbc very quiet for a while, nnd I rankio’e mother looked see her hoc Atting nstr.de , ushion, but the is the nuke him go, m 1 ,/