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WINTER JOYS.
When the window pane is a.
With a fairyland of snow,
And- the wizard
Of (ho blizzard
Has shut off his bltinsfblow.
When the morning’G go' ' has busted
Like a billow on the swamp,
From my cozy,
Rosy, posy
Nest I fly with Persian pomp.
Oh, my spirit’s bright and bunny,
And joy’s eoboes in me wake,
When I pour tho shining honey
On the
v Buckwheat oake.
1
Oh, the frosty air is bittej,
And tho poodle’s eyeballs shino-
An d the chicken,
Zero-stricken,
Roosts upon the hotse’s spine.
Oh. the snowdrifts gleam and glitter
With a gleaming, glaring glit,
And the sparrow,
To his marrow,
By old Boreas is hit,
Yet I listen to him chirrup
In the bramble and tho brake
While I pour tho maplo syrup
On tho
Buckwheat cake.
OI), I watch the dumpy possum, ’
As ho wags his tail in glee,
While he’s rooting,
Or a-scooting,
To escape tho fricassee.
With his nose a frozen blossom
Doth the small boy now appear
At !ha gateway,
And he straightway
Moulds of snow the deadly sphere.
And I see tho man who passes
On his ear tbit snowball take,
While I pour the rich molasses
On tho
Buckwheat cake.
—B. K. Mimkittrick, in New York Journal.
the; hank mystery.
UDGE, I’ve
to ask if you’ll
me tell you
no oaa oa
|j| don’t know
- me; ’bout
—- _ g|| jg?*-- bank “Yes, mystery,
. you, I will
down. A fine
feels good on
night liko this. ’Tnin’t often such
I have a chance at this kind of
fort and luxury.
“What do I know about the
mystery? Land sakes, Judge,
they opened the bank that day
years ago and found the hank
broke into and the safe Mowed up
not a dollar gone, I could have told
all. The people of Tiverton
done talking and wondering ’bout
yet, and there ain’t never been no
livin’ ns could tell what’ it all
* but me.
“I bought some papers—here
arc, Judge—where it’s ali
down and I can swear to it if you like.
I don’t want them never used, though,
unless I die and something comes
as would make it best for my family
know, though there’s things in it I’d
i'uiher die than have ’em know. If
it’s all (he same to you, Judge, I’d
like to tell it to you. Seems I’d get
rid of a load and would be
and die easier feelin’ I’d spoken it
out to one livin’ human.
“You’ll be glad to listen?
good of you. 1 knowed you was
kind man and a just one ; that’s why
come to you. No, thank you, I
smoke; I put all that money away for
mo wife and children.
“Do you hear that storm?
.eetns like all the evil powers was let
loose. You can’t judge ’bout it here.
7t comes kind of muffled like through
those thick curtains and it don’t shake
this great house as it does some.
“It’s this kind of night as makes
men huddle together, Judge, and plan
how to get rich and have Sue things
such as the likes of you. I’ve been
through it all; 1 know. I’ve felt as
I had as good a right to ’em as
one and 1 was bound to have ’em, too.
I warn’t brought up to no trade nor
nothin’, nnd fair means soemin’ to
fail, I took to tho other.
“Yes, Judge, I started out in life a
thief and a robber. I prospered
fairly in a small wav, nnd no ono
didn’t catch up with mo for gome
time. Then 1 joined a gang in for
anything. Lord, but it was fascinat¬
ing! It was liko drink; I
give it up nnd I couldn’t get enough
of it. I was in prison and out then,
tho old story, till I married and be¬
gun to have little one 5 '.
“Then, Lord knows what helped
me—something did—and for the sake
of my wife aud children, I broke
loose from everything and came here,
wbero no one didn’t know me, to
start oyer again. I hud seme money
and opened th^ ' ’stauraut just oppo¬
site the bank.
“Long as i didn’t read the papers I
got on well; but let me sec them and
I’d hunt through ’em for the
and I’d he crazy for a while, aching
to be in it all again. Seein’’bout
old pals gettin’ iD trouble didn’t make
no difference.
“Time came, though, whoa I
to enjoy life differently, and to
myself more respectable. The
for the old life begun tev go till
could read about it without
fired up. I thought then I was
ht.
"'mil they came here, part of
1 belonged to. First I
■in’ ’em in the restaurant.
‘V weren’t here for
ost took my
"me quick
uliin’t do but
s tao very
help ’em and
Cwas* the
>rtaken vet;
jn to examine
situation, knowing that Mr. Dnrkee, 1
the new mill owner, would make a
big payment soon and tho mmey for
it would bo in tho bank here. If
there warn’t anything else, that would
be a big haul, a haul worth bavin,’and
me bein’ here decided ’em.
“I do think the devil brought, all
his friends and relations with him
that night to tempt me. 1 forgot how
to go to sleep, and just couldn’t stay
in bed. I wonder I warn’t in tatters
by mornin’ with tho devil tuggin’ at
me as ho did and tryin' to keep me
out of the room where my sleepin’
children lay.
“Yer see, them bank people come
over to my place for lunch best part
of the time, and they all knowed my
little people, and the mill people
knowed ’em too, My oldest boy
worked in the mill and they’d been as
kind as could.be when he’s sick. Christ¬
mas there time warn’t they’s good to him, too, and
a bank officer but had
remembered my little people, even
to the watchman. Seemed like rob¬
bing my own people,* somehow. I’s
bound not to inform on the gang, and
they’s bound ter rob tber bank; but 1
cursed ’em in my heart for cornin' just
when I was gettin’ rid of the old life
for good and all. ’Twas awful!
"Well, Judge, you know how them
rooms over the bank was rented to
start a new daily paper. I made ’em
swear solemn as my name warn’t io
appear nowhere. I’d plan it ail out
and give ’em points and be on hand
at the last, but I had to be cautious.
“They found out when the money
was to be paid and ’greed on the night
before for tho robbery. I had it ali
mapped out for ’em where and how
they was to loosen up the boards of
the floor in their room above, so we
could break through and lower our¬
selves into the vault when the time
come. Then yer see we’d only havo
the safe to get into and the great iron
door between us and tho watchman.
"Everything was ready, and wo was
pretty sure the money was paid.
"Do you hear that storm now,
Judge? ’Twas like that ten years ago
to-night, dark as Egypt, with tho rain
and wind a perfect hurricane ; a terri¬
ble night; the kind of night for any
sort of crime. Tho men chuckled to
themselves. ’Twas a forture sure this
time, and they’d ali be on the way to
comfort and safety before day. I ain’t
never seen ’em so excited. Nothin’
hadn’t gone wrong and nothin’ could¬
n’t now.
“We had sentinels stationed round
to giro the alarm, but there warn’t
much danger on a night like that.
“Wo had planned so as to have the
doors of the safe ready to blow open
when the watchman wont down cellar
to see to his fires. I knowed the time
of night he did so, seem’ him often
from my house across the way through
the window of the bank; but to make
sure we stationed a man where ho
could give the signal at the proper
time. With the watchman downstairs
and we shuj in that vault, with solid
masonry below us, ’twarn’t in the
range of possibilities for no human to
hear us.
’Twas planned that when we broke
the ceiling me and one of the others
was to go down first with the lanterns
and tools anfl get the door ready for
Jim Groogah, the leader of the gang,
to come down and use the dynamite
and be on hand to take out the money.
“It was just the night for such a
piece of work, and after I had exam¬
ined to see if nil was safe, lsnowin’ the
dangers bettor than the others, we
broke through the floor and lowered
the ladder, and there we was—right in
the vault. ’Twas well for me I’d hit
it right, for my life warn’t worth much
if any o’ my planuin’ failed work,
“Tom Doolau in a hurry wen. down
first and when I was half way down he
started back, sayin’ in a hoarse kind
of whisper:
ft < Who called me?’
“ ‘No one, you fool,’ said Jim.
“ ‘TneD,’ he said, and ho ran past
mo on the ladder, ‘some one is down
there. Twicet I heard some one say:
“Go back, go back. > It
(i ( We’ll gag him,’ said Jim, and me
and him wont down and turned our
lanterns round, lookin’ everywhere,
but there warn’t :ao one there.
t > t What’s the matter with the fool?’
growled Jim, ar.d went back and tried
to send him down again, but he just
wouldu’t go, so Jim cursed him and
come himself, and he nnd mo begun
to get the eai'o door ready to blow up.
“That’s a thing ns takes time and
care, Judge, hut wo went at it with a
will and never a word. It was so still
you could almost hear your heart beat,
when all of a sudden coiae a smothered
cry like a woman’s. We stopped work
and looked at each other, Jim’s face
white nnd scared.
tf ( What was that?’ ha said.
“ ‘I often hears ’em on the street
like that,’ stid I.
( l l That warn’t on tho street; it
sounded clo33 by,’ said Jim. ‘We
couldn’t hear nothin' outside in this
place.’
“ ‘Nonsonse,’ said I, ‘don’t you
make a fool of yourself, too, and spoil
all,’ and I went to work again,
“I could see how his hand trembled
for a while and then got steady again,
“‘That must havo come through
tbe room upstairs,’ he said presently,
‘Queer, though; it sounded so close.’
“Then we worked on aud there
warn’t nothin’more to he heard. Rest
of tho gaug might ail havo been dead
men, for all the sound (hey made, and
we didn’t say nothin’; and so the
night went on.
“At last we had it all ready, and
were only waiting for the signal to
blow it up and then—money enough
to make ns all rich. 'Tain't such as
you can realize the excitement nnd
i the strain of such a moment. To know
j | to it’s wait! all there, It’s ready, easier and walkin’ then to have red
hot coals. It’s all right to oyer and
go on
work, hut to stay still nml only
breathe and listen gives a man the
’ shivers.
j “Presently Jiui caught my arm,
POPULATION AND DRAINAGE.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1897.
“ ‘Say, I thought I heard voices, did
you?’ ‘The he whispered.
" men upstairs,’ I said.
“ ‘Sounded down hero. Have'youi
pistol ready.’
“I took my lantern and wen* round
the vault again carefully, and then
held it up to examino tho walls. Then
I shook my head. There warn’t no
way we could hear no one.
t { s It’s the queerest place I ever was
in,’ said Jim, ‘and, by Jove, I’ll ba
glad when we are out of it. Why
don’t that signal come? Suppose
there’s any hitch? I swear I hear
voices again.’
‘‘Just then come tho signal and Jim
begun to apply the dynamite ; but his
hands trembled so and bis eyes looked
so wild and excited his own wife
wouldn’t know him.
“ ‘The money, the money,’he whis¬
pered, ‘we must havo it now.’
“We got out of the way just in
time and then out came the door.
" ‘The inside door, quick,’ said
Jim, but the explosion had mads that
fall inside, and we could iust lift is
out.
K I Have the hag ready,’ said Jim, as
he leaned forward to haul out the
great piles of bank notes and silver we
could see by tho light of the lanterns.
IX ( Hands off, or you are a dead
man.’
‘‘It wits a voice that would most
have waked the dead. I dropped my
bag and Jim. drew back his hand,
caught hold of me with a grip like
iron, find we began to go slowly back
to the ladder.
“ ‘The combination is all right; we
have them now, they can’t escape us.’
‘‘We were half up the ladder when
we heard the click, click of the lock,
and as we drew the ladder after us we
could hear the rasping of the hinges of
the iron door.
(I 4 Fly, fly, for your lives; wo are
discovered,’ said Jim, as he went
round to warn the men; and in the
darkness and the wind and the rain
they went awayjand I ain’t never seen
one of ’em since. I heard, though, as
when they found thero warn’t no one
there and the bank people didn’t know
nothin’ 'bout it till the next morning,
they just believed as the hank was
haunted, sure.
“Do I know what it was, Judge?
There ain’t no one else as does know,
that’s sure. ’Taint much after all.
"Yer see, playin’ round wtth my
little ones, I found as I could make
’em heer nil kinds of noises anywhere
I wanted, and people cryin’ and laugh¬
in’. It was fun for them and I often
done it; ventriloquizin’ I believe you
■'call it; but that night’s tho last time.
Yer see, none of the gang didn’t know
'bout that, and I don’t keer ever to
have ’em.know it now. It saved tho
bank without my informin’ and that’s
all I care for.
"Oh, no,‘.Judge, the bank don’t owe
me nothin’. You’ll take care of the
papers? Thank you. I’m obliged to
you for listening, too. It kind of
makes me feel easier.
“No, no, thank you, I won’t stay
and take no more of your time. Don’t
get up; I can find my way out.
“What’s that you say, Judge? You
honor nnd respect me—me? And the
bank—Land Judge, twarn’t me; ’twas
my wifo and children saved tho bank,
and I’m proud of ’em—proud of ’em,
Judge. Good night.”—Philadelphia
Times.
Mineral Wealth in Siberia.
D. M. Ivah and Peter ICulahoff, mem¬
bers of the Russian Geological Survey,
who havo been for some time past in¬
vestigating the mineral resources ol
Siberin along tho route of the great
Siberian railway, arrived at San Fran¬
cisco, Cal., recently on their way to
St. Petersburg. They traveled a vast
distance of mountain region. Their
duty was to explore the country for
100 miles on the strip along which the
road runs or is surveyed so as to get a
good idea of what the country afforded.
“We found it a wonderful country,
both in point of scenery and resources
of gold, silver, copper, lead, coal and
other minerals,” said one of the gen¬
tlemen. “It was all we could have
desired. We collected many speci¬
mens of different descriptions of ore
which we are taking back with us to
St. Petersburg. Besides the minerals
thero are many acres of magnificent
agricultural ground available chiefly
for growing wheat, oats, barley and
other cereals nnd vegetables. The
great rivers of the country afford fine
opportunities for commercial develop¬
ment. It has a thousand interests
than can only bo alluded to.”—New
York Mail and Express.
Black and Wli'te l'eppsr fie Same,
“It has always amused mo," re-
marked a botanuicul experi, “to beai
people talking of their preference for
black pepper over white, and the
various explanations they give for the
same. Littio do they know that both
black aud white pepper grow upon
tho sa ne shrub. < Over tho pepper
seed grows a black covering, The
seed itself is white, or nearly so. To
make black popper the seed anfl its
external covering are ground up, while
white pepper is the seed alone ground
up. White pepper is milder than
black, tho greater part of the pun¬
gency being in the covering. A pep¬
per made of the coverings alone would
be such—to use a slang term—hot
stuff that it would burn the mouth.
The black covering of tbe pepper seed
eontain.s most of tho oil.”—Washing'
ton Star.
First Use ol Niagara’s Power.
The first use of Niagara’s power was
made in 1723, a primitivo sawmill
being operated. " Nothing more was
done in this lino until 1312, when
Augustus Porter conceived tho plan
of hydraulic canals, aud in 1861 ono
was completed. The Cataract Con-
struction Company, from whoso plant
power has just been delivered in
Buffalo, was incorporated in 1889.—
Scientific American.
II IP’S WEEKLY [IM
IIE TALKS OF THE RECENT JUDI¬
CIAL INVESTIGATION.
GLAD THE JUDGES WERE ACQUITTED
Tho Trial Will Result in Milking: Legal
Lights More Circumspect In tlie
Future, Says William.
A few broken remarks by Senator Carter
has cost the state about -f5,600. The senator
never would have made them if he had been
a Democrat. His motive was not so patri¬
otic ns it was partisan, but maybe tho inves¬
tigation of the ei,.„gcy against the two
judges have will do good in the long run. Guy
been acquitted, as they should have
been, but still they will no doubt bo more
prudent and circumspect In the future.
Thero was sufficient evidence to humiliate
any sensitive man, and no doubt those men
feel it so, and will hardly claim It as a very
triumphant 'The acquittal.
ally judges of our courts have boon gener¬
they a very high order of men, but after all,
are just human, and are subjoct to like
passions with tho rest of us, but, because
they are in high position and entrusted with
unusual power, the people watch them with a
critical and sometimes with an envious eye.
The public requires and expects more of a
judge learning, than from a private citizen—more
decision more dignity, moro patience, more
of character and,besides these qual¬
ifications, he must be exemplary in his hab¬
its and conversation. Tho community must
look up to him as a man of purity and integ¬
rity—the enemy of crime and the protector
of the poor and helpless.
In recalling the many circuit judges whom
I have known in Georgia during the last half
century, I do not remember one who failed
to fill his position to the satisfaction of a
largo ly majority.of his constituents. Certain¬
none were charged with incompetence or
corruption. the Whigs Party spirit ran before high the between
and Democrats war,
and sometimes one party was in power and
sometimes the other, but no charges were
ever brought against any judge. His politics
left him as soon as lie got on the bench, and
he commanded tho respect of the bar and
tho people.
But wo had better material to make judges
of in those old ante-bellum times than we
have now. Thero is no doubt about tills,
and nobody need take any standard offense at the as¬
sertion. We had a higher of schol¬
arship and literary attainments. Knowledge
was not go diffused to the many, but was of
a had higher grade to the few. We have never
a supreme court that and equaled Nesbitt. the llrst.
one—Lumpkin, Warner They
were classical scholars, and could read
Latin and Greek as well as English. (Go
could ali tho old-timo jurists—Story, Mar¬
shall, Pickney, Taney, Wirt, Kent and many
others. It required something more than
politics to make a man a judge in the ofden
time. In the old Athens circuit we had such
great men as old Tom Harris, Charles
Dougherty, Augustine Clayton and Junius
sie Hillyer upon tho bench. They difference were betwedh all clas-
scholars,and knew the
“nolens volens” and “bolus noxious”—gen¬
uine Latin and dog Latin. They understood
law as a science and had mastered its funda¬
mental bulges principles. Nowadays many of our
who have been made out of
scheming lawyers. politicians are nothing but caso
for trial. They have to bo books re-educated have
ovary Books upon to
be read to them from both sides, and at the
last they go it blind or split tho difference
and aro reversed by the supreme court.
Judge Underwood, of the Borne circuit, was
a great lawyer—a lawyer by intuition as well
ns education, and nothing irritated him
more than the long continued reading of
cases and authorities. He knew the law,
and could have made it, n«d did not have to
lie educated. I remember v.hon a ease law¬
yer had a trunk full of books brought into
court and began to make on ostentatious
array of them on tho long table before him.
I looked up at tho judge and perceived his
disgust. When tlio case was opened for ar¬
gument he leaned forward and said: “Broth¬
er few Jones, you that can select think from your pertinent library a
cases you are and
read the syllabus of .the decision,but nothing
moro. Tho court understands the law of
this case and nothing that you can find in
those books will change it. The tlmo of tho
court is too valuable to be wasted in perm is-
cuous reading.”
It never availed anything to read law hooks
to Judge Underwood. IIo said It affected
his spleen.
doctors “Now, Major,” said ho, "these modern
will tell you that the spleen lias
nothing lias to do with a man’s serenity, in fact
nothing to do with anything, and had
just as well been left out of the human anat¬
omy, but the ancients knew better. The
spleen is tho seat of melancholy and peev¬
just ishness, and is connected with tho brain,
as tho heart is. If tho spleen is out of
order the man is splenatic. Ho is fretful and
morose.”
it?” “What is tho spleen?” said 1; “and whore is
“Tho spleen,” s.ai.l he, “Is a soft spongy
or;?ait located in tlio left liypochondruirn— hypochondriac
nnd that is where the word
eomes from. It is just below the diaphragm
nnd above tho colon, and lies between the
hiberosity of tiie stomach and tlio the cartilages kidneys.
of the false ribs, anterior to
Now, you understand it. I have studied a
good deal of anatomy and brother surgical Jim, jurispru¬ tiie floe-
dence, anxl can deal tell my than ho knows. In
tor, a good more of poisoning
fact, a lawyer who has study a ease
or of stabbing lias to anatomy with a
zeal that the average doctors know nothing
about. I havo confused doctors on the wit¬
ness stand until I was sorry for them.”
That tho judge was sometimes splenatic
we all know who practiced Judgo Reese under said him. he The
witnesses against and crabbed and was
sometimes 'the very cross cut a I
lawyers and the constables in a very
hostile manner. 8o did Judge Underwood.
I remember that ono tlmo when a long-
winded lawyer who had been boring tho
court and jury for baif an hour started to
tell a fossiliferous anecdote that was of ques¬
tionable propriety for said: ears polite, tho judgo
loaned forward and
“Brother —-—, you had just as well omit
the rest of that anecdote. It lias no bearing
upon the ease whatever, and it is now half-
past i o’clock. Anecdotes that are not fit
for women to hear in a courtroom are not fit
for men. Proceed with your argument.”
Underwood was emphatically perception a learned
judge, and his quick all its bearings. always
grasped the ease in Of
course it provoked him when a young law¬
yer or a cone/dted one sought to teach him
from the books or asked him to charge tho
jury something that was not the law. Un¬
derwood was a good schoolmaster and oould
take the conceit out of a man with a soft,
delicious sarcasm tiiat sometimes was mis¬
taken for a compliment.
It is said that justice head is blind, or has a
bandage around tho that hides tho
eyes, right while she holds a pair of scales in her
hand. She docs not know tho parties
to the case, but weighs both sides with an
even, impartial band, but Judge Underwood
said that when thero wiis a combination of
lawyers to acquit a criminal and cheat the
gallows could not or help the ohalngang, raising the a bandage patriotic judge little
a
bit and he did it. Hornetimes when a defend-
ant was aeon itted ids lawyers would say
with aggravating Impudence, night. Tho “Wall, judge,
you lbst that case last Jury have
comedown with a verdict of not guilty.”
“Yes,” said the turned judge, “and you seem to
glory in having ''“"uuuulty.” loose another scouti-
drel B J>°® ,1 “>
Ho could not altogether suppress his zeal !
for tho state and good morals and his last !
speech when charging tho jury on a crimi- |
na\ ease was convincing and convicting if
ho believed the defendant guilty. Tho last
court he ever held was at Dallas, and the
entire week was spent in the trials of eight
defendants who riot were charged violence with done a most tho '
outrageous and much
good people of the town. The entire com¬
munity demanded their conviction and pun¬
ishment. But these fellows had some prop¬
erty and they combined and.employcd every
lawyer in the town also Colonel Winn and
Judge Lester, of Marietta, and Judge Wil¬
liam Wright, of Atlanta. These lawyers
combined, and with the help of one of the
court officials stocked tho jury on the solici¬
tor, and one by one the rioters were acquit¬
ted. On Friday tho ringleader was put on
trial. The judge and solicitor felt abso¬
lutely sure of convicting him. It was can¬
dle-light when the judge closed his charge
to tho jury, and an expressed pity for the
people of Dallas, upon whom seven of
1 loosed told' tlm'jury
tvirned Finally he
was not well, and if they found a speedy
verdict tho foreman con 1 bring it to his
thehiwyem not the g oAogoffi 0 r°'‘and’R
still was stocked^ same jury, but the cards were
and so about 9 o’clock the
foreman came to th • hotel and knO'*h -d id
U “VVhafis itrsald
the judge. "Foreman
of tho jury, sir,” was the reply. •• Well, sir,
what is your verdict, Mr. Foreman?” “Well,
judge, under the law and the evidence, wo
guilty.” was ableeged to llnd tho defendant not
Tho judge turned over in his bed and
groaned, “May the Lord help xis ntid save
the country. Mr. Foreman, you can keep
that verdict in your pocket, sir, until morn¬
ing. I do not wish to sleep with it in this
room. From all such verdicts may tho good
Lord delivor us.”
The judge was an early risor and at the
first sound of tlio breakfast bell took Ills
scat at tlio head of the tabic. IIo was alone.
Ho orderod his eggs soft boiled and was
preparing in them when Colonel Winn came
and with soft, sweet voice said: “Good
morning, Judge Underwood.” “Good
morning. Colonel Winn,” said tho judge.
“How did you rest last night, judge?”
“I did not rest well, sir; not at ail well.”
Winn took a seat and after a pause said:’
“Well, judge, 1 understand you lost an¬
other ease last night.”
The judge looked at him with undisguised
contempt. “I was not aware, sir, that I liaJ
a ay case in court. I do not understand nor
appreciate your effort to be witty at my ex¬
pense, and—”
“Oh, judge,” said Winn, “I didn’t mean to
offend you. I heartily beg your pardon.
You know you have been against us in all
these cases, and—”
, Just then Judge Lester came in and with
his rough, honest voico and his empty sleeve
slinging along, said: “Good morning Judge
Underwood. How did you rest last night?”
“Not well, sir; not well at all.”
“Well, judge, I hear that you lost another
case last night.”
Tho judge laid down his knife and fork.
"Well, sir, this seems to be a combination
to insult me. What caso have I got sir, or
am presumed to have, that you and Colonel
Winn seem to take such an interest in? It
is the state—the state and tho peopie of this
community that have a case, and vou gentle¬
men have resorted to questionable means
and methods to—”
Just then big Bill Wright came in. He
was six feet six and weighed 250 pounds,
nnd had a voice like a base drum.
“Good morning, Judge Underwood.”
“Good morning, Judge Wright.”
“Well, judge, I understand you lost an¬
other ease last night.”
That was the feather that broke the cam¬
el’s back. Judgo Underwood rose from bis
seat and said:
“Gentlemen, official I have been accustomed all
spectful my and professional life to tiie re¬
This consideration of tho members of the
par. I have always received in iny
Own circuit. Neither of you belong to ft.
All I can do is to sympathize witli the judges
who have to endure your insolence all the
year round. You have only afflicted mo for
a week and I am pleased to say will never
have tho opportunity again.”
But that was not tlio last of it. Winn and
Lester and Wright saw that they had gone
too far. They all loved Underwood and ad¬
mired him. They hurried to the door and
stopped his exit and bogged his pardon and
■apologized and explained and before it was
juxlge over they were all friends again, and the
was constrained to tako his seat at the
table and more soft-boiled eggs wore order¬
ed, and thero was peace—delightful peaeo.
Mas! these good men are all dead.
—Bill Aar in Atlanta Constitution,
Artesian WcIvJ.
The irrigation problem in the Da¬
kotas lias been solved by artesian
wells. There are now about 1,100
wells in South Dakota, and about half
as many In North Dakota. These are
all the result of experiments covering
three or four years in the one state
and half as long in the other. They
are divided into what are called shal¬
low wells, varying in depth from fifty
to 300 feet, and taking moisture from
an upper stratum of water, and deep
wells, varying in depth from 1,000 to
1,500 feet, and taking water from the
Great Dakota sandstone basin. Brule
county alone lias thirty of the latter
class, with a flow on au average of
2,000 gallons a minute. Had it not
been for the difficulty of placing bonds
under the new artesian well act during
the past season there would now be
nearly 2,000 wells In South Dakota,
Insuring magnificent crops over a wide
area.
'ffiiose great wells stand unrivaled in
the height of their pressure and the
copiousness of their flow. Their vast
flow inis already given rise to fears
that they might not last long, aud that
by the time the farmer had dug his
well and constructed liis farm for the
use of 'irrigation, they might fail him
There is power in these underground
waters to grind at the harvest fields
every bushel of wheat that is raised in
the fertile prairies of the Dakotas.
The Immense sources of the waters
are the sandstone layers in Hie so-
called Dakota geological formation,
which average 300 feet in thickness.
The water comes up often with im¬
mense pressure, from 175 to 200 pounds
to the Inch, and at some wells is lifted
in a solid eight or ten-inch stream
score® of feet above the ground. Why
should it not ere this luive burst forth
and spent Itself? Is often asked. From
400 to 1,000 fe--* of l 'clt and heavy
clay resting above the iiandst lie lias
bran sufficient to bold it do\ n till
tapped.
*q have knowed some people," saut
oyearv .1 Walk tin ‘Unit was ho »■ merstill
ou . ' 1 ^ 1,l *‘ l ,<J / would:. I be.,u
work ou 1’ _ relay . ”
“1 wouldn’t myself," co
mul DaWVou “Ncr on • atur.ia. , j
,| VMacW. ft y Nir Monday Aer Tup ex 1
Ner Thursday.”
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
SPANISH COMMANDER JOINS THE
FORCES OF GOMEZ.
DISGUSTED AT WEYLER’S TACTICS.
Cuban Junta at Jacksonville Sends Out
Another Load of Ammunition Under
The Eyes of tho Consol.
Passengers by the Olivette arriving
a t Key West Wednesday night report
that Gonzalo Moreno, one of the most
prominent citizens of Puerto 1 nnerpe,
for ten years mayor of that city, and n
S*® ^ 10 msuigents. 1 colone \ in th He « la became . at Wflr > indignant
at the outrages cv" initted by the Span-
.iards ii\- distinguished ladies
and gentlemen, reported last; week
Venancio Sorenz, a bpaniurfl, com
mantling a detachment of troopk-. 111
g nn ti ag o de Cuba, has joined ‘ the
surgents, _ carrying tho arms ___. and am¬
munition of the fort he had in charge,
consisting of one hundred rifles and
five thousand rounds of ammunition.
An expedition is said to have landed
at La Caleta, near Cape Mavsoe. It is
also reported that lluis Rivero gave a
severe thrashing to General Melguizo,
near Cinales,and inflicted heavy losses,
the Spaniards losing thirty dead and
eighty wounded, This is known at
the palace, but the fact has not been
given out officially, because they still
persist in making the people believe
there is no fighting in Pinar del Rio,
the rebels being all demoralized and
scattered all over the country.
Advices received from Sagua la
Grande from a trustworty source give
shocking details of the doings of the
notorious Captain Carreras, of the
local guerrillas of the palace, and well
known for his participation in tile
outrage committed on the American
citizens during last year. On the
10th instant, passing by the
town of Malpaez, six miles south¬
east of Sagua, he ordered it
burned and at the same time arrested
and carried off a number of the peace¬
ful citizens of the town. Amongst them
four wore well known in Sagua. Ho
had them all hacked to pieces with
matehetes. One named Erancisso Diaz
was a quiet, inoffensive man, highly
esteemed for ljis honesty and hard
working qualities.
Arms On a Fruit VcbhcI.
It was learned at Jacksonville, Fla.,
Wednesday from a confidential source
that the Cuban junta has sent out an¬
other expedition to Cuba under the
very eyes of the Spanish consul and
his spies. The expedition is to bo
landed and stored on Florida keys.
Fruit schooners arrive at Jackson¬
ville almost daily and on return take
provisions, lumber and other cargoes.
Well concealed under what apparently
was a large lot of lumber on an out¬
going fruiter were 500 rifles, 100
machetes, 25,000 rounds of ammuni¬
tion, 25 packages of giant powder and
some medical stores.
The schooner passed out at night.
Searchlights from the Dolphin and
Newark at the bar played on her, but
being only a "harmless fruit schoon¬
er,” she was allowed to pass.
The cargo will he stored on the key,
known only by the junta, awaiting a
good cbance to be carried to Cuba.
MURDEKEItS REPRIEVED.
Bulk, Fain 1 »I«b, Grant ami Dead Got Short
Respites.
Governor Atkinson has issued an
order respiting the four murderers,
Tom Delk, Gus Fambles, Sam Grant
and Will Deas, who were to have been
executed on Friday the 29th.
Delk, Fambles and Deas are respited
until the 26th of February, Grant until
the 12 th of February.
Tom Dolk is an important witness
in the case of the state against his
father, Taylor Delk, charged with the
murder of Sheriff Guinn, of Pike
county.
Tom Dolk was convicted in Pike su¬
perior court for the murder of Sheriff
Guinn, and lie owes his new lease on
life to the ponding case in which he is
a witness.
Gus Fambles Was convicted along
with Mrs. Nobles for the murder of
Mr. Nobles.
The governor has said that he would
reprieve Fambles, who is a friendless
and ignorant negro, as long as the
lawyers could keep Mrs. Nobles from
the gallows.
WAYLAID BY ASSASSINS.
Two Farin«r« of Ifaborftluiin County, On.,
Killed by t,!i« Lee Brother#.
Nows of a double murder has been
received from Tugugas Valley, in Hab¬
ersham county, Ga.
While returning from church with
their families, John Bohannon and C.
Robinson wore waylaid by George and
Burgess Lee, two brothers, and mur¬
dered, one of them being shot to death
and the other stabbed.
Harris Formally Elected.
Both branches of the Kansas legis¬
lature in special session Tuesday cast
votes for United .Siates senator. A
Harris, popuiist nominee, received a
majority.
>Y. J. BRYAN IN TEXAS.
IIo Delivers An Address Before the State
Leglslature.
Hon. W. .T. Bryan visited the Texas
legislature Wednesday morning and
all business in tbe two houses was
suspended while ho made a speech
characteristic of his last campaign.
lie took'oecasion to say that he noted
with pride that Texas was in tho lead
the matter of laws to regulate the
corporations that were doing the
country hurra.
WANT MONETARY COMMISSION.
Business Men Favor One to Investigate
Finances.
The National Board of Trade at its
moeting at Washington adopted the
report of the committee on banking
laws. It was the opinion that a com¬
mittee should be established to con¬
sider a deliberatively planned finan¬
cial system. The plan presented was
briefly as follows:
First, That gold coin shall remain
the standard money; second, that steps
should bo taken to retire all United
States notes in such a way as not to
disturb the business relations; that na¬
tional banka shall be allowed to issue
currency to the par value of bonds,and
the tax on circulation be reduced,
and that the banks be allow-
e( ] to j S8Ue currene y based on
aglets under such national super-
vision anfl restriction as will make it
safe, elastic and redeemable in gold at
tho bank of issue and at tlio city of
New York; third, that such banks of
issue with a capital of $20,000 or more
be authorized to establish in towns
nml villages of less than 3,000 popu¬
lation.”
The committee on the subject of a
monetary £qmmisp ; -”’ ■n-dq a repiv*
in which congW
commission to <
sons to bo appoi
two of whom shall
the senate committee
two from the house ban
rency committee.
Of the other seven n.
shall he hankers of re
rience and ability,
of prominence, two .
ufacturers of standing,
member to be selected o..
his recognized ability and lea.
the science of political economy.
In ease congress for any reason l
to authorize the appointment of this
commission, the board declared its
approval of the alternative plan of the
Indianapolis convention to appoint
such a commission itself.
TO EIGHT IN NEVADA.
Legislature Removes Restrictions ami tho
Uorbett-Fitzsiinmoma Mill Will Occur.
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons glove con¬
test will take place in close proximity
to one of three Nevada towns, viz:
Carson, Reno or Virginia City. A bill
permitting such affairs has been intro¬
duced into the assembly at Carson,and
there is every indication that it will
become a law within the next day or
two. Such being the case, all specu
lation as to where the big mill
take place may safely Bo said to
come to an end.
Dan Stuart’s par*
lock, has been in
days past nnd tv
Wm. Kenyon. 1
that Nevada is i -
the contest, an' 1
the sports of ‘
laut.
It will be tL
finish of that •
anywhere clo;
ami it is safe to
cisco contingent
he larger than f
side of Nevada.
SPANIHH GUNBP.
A Now Ironclad Which i
a Commissi
A special to tho Now -
from Cadiz, says: Spain’s fa:
stronges inronclad, the Carlos
which was constructed at
yard out of entirely nutio
just twenty months ngi
completed and sent to Cai
(L shed for the finishing tor
She will return to Cadiz lie-
to mount her guns and to hav
official steam trials. Then she DO
commissioned. The vessel is powerful
in appearance and is of high speed.
The bastiaus were crowded, the church
bells rang and bands of music played
as the ironclad steamed out, and every
one was justly proud of the local
workmanship.
AGAINST THE PACIFIC ROADS.
Further Proceeding Are Rein# Instituted!
IJ y tiie Government.
Joel F. Vnile, attorney for the Unit¬
ed States, lias filed with the clerk of
the United States circuit court, at Den¬
ver, Col., under orders of Judson Har¬
mon, attorney general of the United
States, a bill of complaint of the gov¬
ernment against the Union Pacific
Railway company.
The papers in the ease were similar
to those filed some days ago in Omaha,
foreclosing the government mortgage.
To Decrease Cotton Acreage.
Hon. William A. Broughton, ex-
treasurer of tho Farmers’ Alliance;
Mr. Hector 1). Lane, ox-state agricul¬
tural commissioner of Alabama, and
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, will
have a conference in a few days, for
the purpose of trying to induce tbe
farmers of the south to reduce their
cotton acreage.
Blockade Drill at Charleston.
A Washington dispatch says: Admi¬
rable Bunce’s squad of evolution is
timed to leave Hampton Roads early
next week for two week:' blockade
drills off Charleston, S. C. The fleet
is expected to return to Hampton
Roads February I5th.
THE RIVERS ICE BOUND.
Effect of the Cold Weather on River Xav-
fgalion.
Observer Cook, of the weather bu-
reati at Washington, 1). C., issued the
following bulletin on tho cold wave
and western rivers,
“The Ohio is now open to Pittsburg;
the Missouri to Kansas City, and tho
Mississippi to Davenport. The prob-
abilities are that the present cold
weather will clouo the rivers as far
south the mouth ef the Ohio,”