The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924, February 04, 1886, Image 6

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He wnu thin almost to transparency, and h»* had one of those economical fa< * for whatever his now dropped his chin caught He bad it whi«k broom beard that poked out in front as if it dared anybody to c me ne »r it. *’ Tain’t much ova story”’ he began, as hr scored another bullseye, but it got me inter trouble. Now, at hum Ive alien hed a bed wot sooted me. It w i«fT» much ova lied, ter !>*• sure, but my gradpop alp' inter it an’ it’s good eno gh fur me Ihdn t proud es lam han •» im. It is one ov them high posted bed* an* whin I gits inter it I hain’t huv tip ter the wall like somebody wus under it bo siiii' ov it “Wall, one day I hed ter go Io taoun I on bizncM, an’ ez I wus goin' ter be uout all night. I takes my grip along, with m night gownd an’ nigh'rap in it. I wen* ter ther circus, walked around an' aren the sights, hed rny till ov peanuts anil bolivars, an’ about 11 o'clock I sashays up Io the hotel wat’s kep’ by Mr •'t. Micaylas, on Broadway str <• I walk* up terthr de».k and sez to the fil ler behind the bar *••/ I. *1 want i room ' ■ How high/’ m’z he. “’1 don’t care.’ sr/. I ‘cnnywhnr be t« ixt yer an’ the roof.’ “He lilfs and -<•/. ‘I mean ther pr.cr W il. (10 *<M»t yer?’ • I tolr htm that I didn’t want ter buy th** house, and that | onlv kern to stn\ our night Hr srd he’d compel mi-' on f . an I finally gev it ter him • 'XV ant rnr tin keep thrin vidlcybiilsi’ aed h« pint in' to my grip. “I wuin’t a* green as thrt ind I tuck It up with mt A nigger showed me up to thei a'ti an’ to make a long story •hoU, I got inside ind lock' d mvselt in I’b' win abe I in oar ?»nd o' the r« om, but it loukr<l tno puity to muss up. an' Ig i« ». it wuz ul th r fur show i h iiit« d through ?hr other room, an’ tbai I found a l»e I ft wus a tu <n\ lookin' tbititr an wu« mrd ov tin with wo 'U ti side* I didn't like ther look* o* it. .'tit I wusn't g in' to be green, so I • ndrran jumps in lli t folks at hum had tolr mr not t blow thrr gas ouX ait ter urn it out. nn’ when I ge’s in I looks fur thfo crank I limls it ail right an l give* it a vank What hap pint 1 wasahuirit dmonded Some t>od\ ip Mairs I gues pours about a in Ilion piihof wa’et ovci ine, an' I yells an yell until the hired man cum in an' \ auks me o it *• I'iyhi t»> commit sewerdde, hay’’ hr <M«z. ■’’Who th mc I that w »ter sc' I; ‘aho'> :nr tin r man wot throwed that watri <r II p Lcrizr him I will, by gr»-«l> ■I'lH r- '' ' Ill'll hi* <>ill< <1 mr n (mil tin' xiliii it wm h Inth tub Then I lu-.i ter iro down In ther kiloh u move nn »la tlur nil in;*lit ter uil dn \o more ho tel* fur me, an' if I'd .1 . a ioht "Id St. Nickvia* I d a maahed him, I would, by chowder I" "I* that alls" •I» that all? 1 ahould holler! Ther ■ext night I iterred clear ov hotel* an’ tiethought im ov my granddarter wot ma 'ied a a onehrokcr or nothin' "i th t kind on It ad street, *o I >koot* up to her homie in lirookhn I'hi" was rale glai? to arc me, an »s they hed a )»arty I went to lied urlv. after I hed winked at ther gals all around I Was showed up t. my room In mv g’ *ii<l darter after she had su n hat everythink was all r ghi She p’ii.to.l out ther bed. wot wus ten times nicer than ther one in ther hotel l> t I wmn't goiu* ter in* fooled ag m if 1 busied it all ter pieces 1 told her lei turn iher gas out .in’ put a lamp on ther stand. Then 1 undresses an anps iu. • hat d'yer think ha -pint •” "Couldn't aay." •'1 her lied dies up in (her air an' ketches me last. Ihe lam * was unset an Ida bin burned up alii, fl hedn't rea. bed out an' put the He o it with my hands, hornin' ov ’em ter blisters. ■ w tent did I ,i..- Wall I wusn't foin’ ter let ’em h ive the- lad on .inter me like ther hotel folks did I didn’t know but it was an the hath-t *b r ick t. h t when 1 laid still fir awh !e a > I wura’t drowndet. 1 thought me be it wua a new kind of Icd an’ 1 jest made nnself as comfortable as possible an slop' 111 » le down most of ther nigh' In ther morula they had ter break therdoor ore ter let me out in’ I've never been tbar sj D ee You can l»ct vi r boots f het my lad's good enurt fui me. an' I don't s!»ep upside down again es tis fashions b .in' von heat mi sho ;t " ,). it I. Mister, (job? ' is an ~| in r-sembiuu gol in appea sne, ami wight, and WI tamis the at leer's test ot strong a< - Its anab S S a ghen as follows' •sili r. .'.4* platinum. .'<2 '.’.copper, bv d -’ence. i Mi. Strong ts'iung in uitrtc acid, even wl eu an a tiv’e made of it s lefi th ,t | ( .r some t tne, has ip paren iy noetfeit npon th allov, which is coming extensive!i iat iuse [BOUNTIES FOR WIIJM'-il 1 BUM’tBO TUB WXt.t> BBABTB ? ' ehsisrLVA» IA roassTS cr-n. n. i !»••• nay* ° r UlldrMia V iffbtlHC <>ne Inolbrr. I mler the new game law of penn-vl vama .. large boon y is autfa rtz.erl to be P„,l for the killing of wildcats and foxes These siiimals say a recent I <>• ■ lo m-w York .•.«», nave inm-'sed arcativ within the past few years in the bar k woods of the State, but wolves have entirely disappear!, lie annual loss sustained by farmers by the on. aught of catamounts and foxes on s’ ■ 'folds nn 1 poultry yards ha- !»■ <:n no gi that the placing of a premium on th.- d th of tip s" animals, by the re co actment of substantially the same law w in. h protected the farmers in the early days of the backw-.ois settlement#, but which wa- repealed as unnecessary yean ago, became a necessity, and huntersand tiappeis are now paying especial atteo non to the killing of foxes and Cata mounts. The general impression that the cata mount, or wildcat, is aggressive it. its nature, except upon the small game and domestic animals which it seeks for food, is an entirely erroneous one. Ihe catamount is so shy and quick in its movements that one is rarely seen >y hunters. Coon hunters frequently en counter a wildcat that has been treed by the dogs, but they may roam the woods tor weeks without seeing one cn any other occasion except by accident, or by luring the animal into ambush by bait ing for him. But while habitually keep ing itself out of the way of human be ing*. ami only approaching their haunts when pressed a catamount wounded and brought to bay is some thing that the bravest hunter fears, for then it will tight with fierceness -mr passed only by its ferocious and bloo I thirsty cousin the panther. I here are cases on record even in this region where hunters have attacked a wounded cata mount and given their lives as a forleit for their rnshness. Few dogs care to try conclusions with a catamount,and no dog will enter the second time into n contest with one. Catarnonnts rarely attack larger wild game thana rabbit, but they will quickly thin out a sheepfold. They have been known to spring upon a deer when made savage and bold bv hunger, and they will lurk on the outskirts of him tier and hunting carnps watching an opportunity to carry off such game or meat as is frequently left exposed in the absence of the campers. Cutainounts will follow in the trail of hunters, and if a deer is killed and hung up during the day they pounce upon the carcass as soon as the hunters are out of sight. After making a meal they will drag the rem mints of the carcass to some secluded spot and bury it for some future feast. A carcass of any kind placed iu the woods will call to the spot every i iitamount in the neighborhood This «eli known (haracteiistlc of the animal is taken ad vantage of by trnppers, who set their about the carcass, and rarely fail in gathering in one or more catann.tints, (hie wildcat trapper has captured thirteen very huge ones in this way d'ning the past week, m the neigh borhood of the Iligii Knob, in Bike county. The meeting of two or more cata mounts at the same dead body of an animal in the woods is always the signal for frequent and tierce contests between them dining the meal. While eating, they keep up a constant snarling and growling, and if one of them tear- but a morsel which another one covets the lane, proceeds ut once to secure it for himself il he < in. The cries of two buttling w Ideals i e blood-curdling and may be heard for a mile or more. Breaking iu upon the stilness ot a mid night in the wilderness, these sounds arc an tiling but conducive to the repose ol a party that may be camping within hem ng di- am e of the tight, especially if the sounds of the combat are heard for the first lime. The other div Ed Quick, the pioneer hunter of the Knob region, was a wit ness to a tight of this kind between two big eiitamuunts. He was hiding behind a tree “laying for'' wildcats to come to . the dead body of a sheep he had placed in the woods to draw them together. The animals both iqipenred on the scene at one time The hunter was not fifty feet away. The snarling and growling began a! once over the carcass, and sud denly one of the catamounts sprang upon the other. The battle waged lien ely trom the start, and both animals seemed determined to make it one to the death. The hunter watched the light for ten in uutes, and then ended it with n rille ball. At a moment w hen both animals | wore clinched closely together Quick tired. The bullet entered the back of one catamount's bend, crashed through its brain, and, coming out at its nos’ril, buried itself in the other one's brain, | killing both animals at a shot. In tlie old days of paying bounties for I w bleat scalps, the trapper produced his scalps before a justice ot the peace, made attidavit that he had captured the animals, nad received a certificate to that etfect. He retained the scalps, and it is told of tn-.iny an old trapper that one lot of scalps served to secure him bounties from the county every year for many years, or until long use wore them out. In the days of wolves, n.> hunter who had tbe interest of him - If an l his fellows at heart would kill i ■mammy'' wolf, which was a she wolf with young. Their litters were always laig . and they kep' the stock of scalps replenished A tra-> e. who could trap a -he wolt aid her liter was c.'ii-i lered a lucky man. for he raised the young omsand killed tin n wheneverhewanred to collect m nev on scalps One am bitious in I enterprising trapper, who-e ' des eudsnts still trap and huut in th s region, ct illy captured a male and fe ms < w.> f and kept them ill captivity for i-an. ree ;i.'.g wolves for the bounties c -clips brought. But nowadays th- law t- different Any scalp on which a bounty is paid is retained bv the coun ty and destroyed, thus curtailing a rather luctative ba. kwoo.is industry . In the German universities there are now 15? professors between eighty and ninety, of whom 132 continue to give lectures. The nutn'er of cattle on the plains is e»: -i te-i to be over 40,t)00,0tW, ot a , value of (1,190,000,000, Tbe Chase estate in England i- repute.' Io be worth (M 00.000,000. and there are ibout HOO persons in this country who -laim to Im- heirs to it. England wi! have to mortgage some of her furnit ir< if she pays all these demands in cash Will some one write a history | China? President Angell considers tins i fair field for the future historian. He • will have to struggle w ith the lists of th* | Han. the How-Chow, an I the Tae I Mug , dynasty, but that is nothing to an enthu- ! siastic spirit such as is needed to con struct any living picture of the past. A prize of ♦’i.OOO was offered some time ago by Mr. I.oril'ard. of New ork, for the discovery of the key of the an cient Maya alphabet. The offer is still standing" Dr. I.e Biongeon, who has recently returned from a twelve years, study of the ruins and monuments in Yucatan, is thus far tbe strongest com petitor for the award. A noble instance of courage and pres, ence of mind is recorded in a New Zeal and paper. A child, which was on the track of a down-grade train, was rescued when the ongine was within two yards of it. bv the engineer leaping down and ■ seizing it. He was himself thrown off I without severe injury by the cowcatcher. An English paper frankly says: "Had the affair taken place in England, where engines are not provid' d with cowcatch ers, the driver would have paid the pen alty for his bravery with his life.” According to the New Y'ork Cemmer iia> a company of fruit grow era has been formed in California, witk 1 capital of |250,000, to carry on the business of shipping fruit to the eastern markets. They expect to run fruit trains laily from Sacramento, made up of cars for the principal points of distribution in the Eastern and Middle States, and by putting them through on passenger train time to supply at the metropolis in good condition and at reasonable prices the vast quantity of fruit that now goes to waste in California for lack of some such system for utilization. A traveler entered a town in south western Kentucky on ‘‘court day,” when the streets were full of people from the country and the stores were crowded with customers. There was quite a bri- ! gade o' horse traders on hand, and from the well-to do farmer, with his prancing 1 roan, down to Ihe dilap'dated darkey, with his rickety old tnuie, that looked like a reli'- from Noah's ark,all had their say and their trade, and imagined that ! they had the best of it. That is one of the mysteries of the business. One him died men can make fifty trades, and everv man of them make money by it. It | reminds me of a group of boys I once knew who boasted that they could meet I together every Sunday and make two or three dollars apiece trading jackets.” Crater lake is thus described in ape tition that is being numerously signed in Oregon to make a national reservation of the wonder. The surface of the lake is (1.300 feet above sea level, and it is about eight miles long and six miles wide. It contains a circular island GOO ' feet high, on which is found an extinct ! rater which is ninety feet deep and 475 ■ feet in diameter. In another portion of i (lie lake is found a conical shaped rock whicli is perpendicular, and rises to an i a (itudc of 2,2 '0 feet above the water’s j uirface. Other rocks of remarkable : form and elevation tower high above the i l ike. The lake walls are nearly pernen- , ilicuhir. and vary in altitude from 1,000 ; to 2,000 feet. The microphone—an electric stretho scope whose sensitiveness to the faintest sounds as making "the walk of a fly seem like the tramp of an elephant” —is likely to become of great use in medical diagnosis. In the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, Dr. Eve describes an I interesting series of experiments made i by him with the instrument. He was able to detect the nature of obscure fractures by the character of the sounds conducted through the instrument, and I could differentiate aneurisms from tu mors by tne sound of pulsation. Intra cranial and muscular sounds were made out with great clearness, and in diagno sis for stone the instrument worked with mathejnatical accuracy. The doctor sugge-ts that an audiphone constructed on the principle of the microphone would prove inestimable to people of impaired bearing. Many cases of heroism occurred in the city of Saragossa. Spain, during tbe re cent cholera epidemic. Every citizen gave money, food or labor to the suffer ing. A poor washerwoman, bringing li une c o.hes to a lady whom she found m i s ate of collapse, in which it was mi ossible to warn her, threw off her • l es- mmpi'il into bed, took the dying woman into her arms, and chafed the i n l-nibs until circulation was re- -,n I When ihe disease had spent it- Hi- '•;> nish government offered re- . •- ’he principal officials, who .in ■ v refused them. Il then be -el egr ind cross of the Order of . nee on the entire city. This -- - civen on y t > n few individuals, | w~o ii.i e risked their I ves for the help t . - 01 re is no order more highly 1 v .1 n Spain. Never before h-.is it in i i- red on an entire town. The Boston llccrd gives the following , good illustration of the confusion which the blending of o.d and new fashions in some of our modern hruses produces in the minds of plain people. "A visimi at a fashionable West End mansion, th’ other day. was from the country, an hud not l»een in Boston for several - ears. During thi* period his host had built a spick an span new house on the site of hn old one- After going over the gayly decorated cs'.ab’ishment, surveying thr sumptuous drawing rooms and the (es thetic attics, th ■ guest came down to the lower floor, where the rooms, in-tead of h iving large plate glass windows like those above, had exceedingly small panes, in imitation of the fashions of a century or more ago. The innocent rural visitor naturally supposed that here was a veritable vestige of the past. "Well, John,’ said he, ‘l’m real glad vou've kept part of the old house, though it’s an awful small part.’” The wild beast pest but slowly disap pears in British India. There is, how ever, a slight decrease in the loss of life from the bites of wild animals and ven omous snakes. The numbers are 22,1)05 for 1883 and 52.125 for 1884. The num bers representing those due t• su ike bites are 20,067 and 19,629 in the two years respectively. The reported loss of eattle amounted to 49,672, against 17,778 in the previous year. Os these, 47,944 are said to have been cuused by wild animalsand 1,728 by snakes. Tigers and leopards are shown to have been about equally destructive, having killed 19,680 and 19,699 head of cattle respec tively. In the number of wild animals destroyed there was a satisfactory in crease from 19,8 q 0 in the previous year to 22,775. The destruction of poisonous snakes is enormous, but the numbers have declined from 412,782 to 380,981. Wherever the system of rewards have been pursued the figures have shown a satisfactory increase, although it natur ally happens that here and there a too adventurous snake killer pays for his daring with his life. Rescue of the Monitor's Survivors From a paper on the “Loss of the Monitor,” in the Century, we quote the following: Aftei a fearful and danger ous passage over the frantic seas, we reached the Rhode Island, which still had the tow line caught in her wheel and had drifted perhaps two miles to leeward. We came a'onjside under the lee bows, where the first boat, that had left the Monitor an hoar before, had just discharged its men; but we found that getting on board the Rhode Island was a harder task than getting from the Monitor. We were carried by the sea from stem to stern, for to have made fast would have been fatal: the boat was bounding against the ship's sides, some- I times it was below the wh el, and then, 1 on the summit of a huge wave, far above the decks: and once, while Surgeon Weeks was holding on to the rail, lie lost his fingers by a collision which swamped the boat. Lines were thrown to us from the deck of the Rhode Island, which were of no assistance, for not one of us could climb a small rope; and beside, the men who threw them would imme diately let go their holds, in their excite ment, to throw another—which I found to be the case when I kept hauling in rope instead of climbing. It must be understood that two vessels lying side by side, when there is any motion to the sea, move alternately; or in other words, one is constantly pass ing the other up or dawn. At one time, when our boat was near the bows of the steamer, we would rise upon the sea until we could touch her rail; then in an instant, by a very rapid descent, we could touch her keel. While we were thus rising and falling upon the sea, I caught a rope, and rising with the boat managed to reach within a foot or two of the rail, when a man, if there had been one, could easily have hauled ;ne an board. But they had all followed after the boat, which at that instant was washed astern, and I hung dangling in the air over the bow of the Rhode Isl and, with Ensign Norman Atwater hang ing to the cat-head, three or four feet ! from me, like myself, with both hands clinching a rope and shouting for some j one to save him. Our hands grew pain ful and all the time weaker, until I saw his strength give way. He slipped a foot, caught again, and with his last prayer, “Oh, God!” I saw him fall and sink, to rise no more. The ship rolled, and rose upon the gea, sometimes with her keel out of water, so that I was hanging thirty feet above the sea, and with the fate in view that had befallen our much beloved companion, which no one had witnessed but myself. I still clung to the rope with aching hands, calling in vain for help. But 1 could not be heard, for the wind shrieked far above my voice. My heart here, for the only time in my life, gave up hope, and home and friends were most tenderly thought of. While I was in ibis state, within a few seconds of giving up, the sea rolled forward bringing with it the boat, and when I would have fallen into the, it was there. I can only recollect hearing an old sailor say, as I fell into the sea bottom of the boat, “Where in the deuce did he come from?” The Season’s Peril. Now the neat and careful housewife, As she often did before, Rises in the morning early, Sweeps the sidewalk at her door, Pours upon it pails of water Just as hot as hot can be. Then admires that shining sidewalk. All so clean and fair to sea Scarcely is the job completed Wtieu the water warm and nice, Parting with its heat directly, Soon converted into ice. Forms a film upon the sidewalk Thin and cola as charity. And a slide is there established By the urchins speedily. Then the good man. outward going. Somewhat old and short ot sight, Strides that sidewalk and discovers 1 AU the stars that shine at night I Harsh and wild the words he utters. Not a bit like songs of praise, As he rubs himself and wonders, IVonders at a woman’s ways, —.Vnr York World. SllffiTlXG Till! DESERTERS, av extbaobdiwaby xscipbyt oj THE CIVIL WAS. K«cr «l«n o Two B >u»r» ' “ - < ne of Them *hol O©ad ouij After ICrpented Efforts* | , In September, 1663, wr.ics I.l*. Gal wev, in the New Yoik Tribune, the third divis on of the Second corps, in camp near the Hapidan river, had its first execution. There were two con demned both "bounty-jumpers” who had enlisted in a regiment of this division and had escaped after receiving tbe advanced bounty, hoping probably to repeat the game with some other regi ment. Esrlv one fine afternoon the division marched out to the chosen ground and formed three sides of a hol low square, the fourth side being a little ridge. At the foot of the ridge were two open graves about twelve feet apart. The division, consisting of about 8,606 men, rested in place until the notes of the dead march were heard. "Attention ! ’ was sounded by the bugles, and all was rigid silence as a procession, composed of the provost-guard surrounding two two ambulances in each of whicli one of the culprits sat on a rough coflin, entered the square at one of the angles and halted near ihe graves. A coffin was placed at the end of each grave and the two desert ers were made to stand up in front of the provost-guard, facing the long lines of attentive counte ances of the division, while the findings of the court martial and the orders for the execution were* read. After religious services the two were arranged sitting on their coflins, their eyes bandaged, and their arms pinioned behind, in front of each a firing party of the provost guard took position, and the word of command from the provost marshal was given. One of the deserters fell back on his coflin, but only wounded, for he sat up again. The other, who was not hit, jumped to his feet, burst his pinions, and snatched away the white handkerchief from his eyes. There was a murmur of disap proval throughout the division at the awkwardness of the provost-guard, which was now adding unnecessary de lay and torture to the penalty of the un fortunate men. The wounded man was placed again, end his party dispatched him with its next volley. He lay mo tionless on his coffin. But the other seemed almost invulnerable, for the second volley from his pirty, thewgh it may have scratched him, left him still struggling vigorously to free himself. A brilliant idea then entered the provost-marshal’s mind. He brought up his men one by one close to the condemned to have them shoot him successively. But, for some reason, the muskets would not go off; merely the caps flashed. It had rained hard the day before, yet that was no excuse for ‘he provost guard, who had known for some days what they had to do and ought to have had their muskets clean by this time, rain or no rain. Seven or eight men went up one after the other and presented their muskets within a foot or two of the deserter s head: but only to snap caps; a low growl of indigna tion ran along the ranks of the division and became tierce when one of the pro vost men's guns went oft' finally only to wound the poor fellow who sat there on his coffin squirming about under the slow murder. The general of the division was m a rage and sent his staff one after the other galloping up to urge the pro- vest marshal to do the disagreeable duty promptly and properly. Minutes went by and still the repeated efforts of twelve veteran soldiers to kill this sit ting, blindfolded, pinioned, helpless man were all in vain. A superstitious feeling spread through the division that he would not be killed, because he could not be. Nearly half an hour of volleys and file firing had passed, when the pro vost marshal, placing the muzzle <f his long-barreled seven-shooter to the un fortunate man’s head, discharged all the loads. The victim fell back, and at last all was over. Over-Exertion. In the London Lancet is reported the case of a healthy boy (belonging to a robust, healthy family), who had never suffered from rheumatism, scarlet fever, or indeed from any disease save chicken pox, who died suddenly under the sad dest circumstances, because his death was so thoroughly preventable. After coming from school one day, he ate a hearty dinner and immediately began to play cricket. Finding the time draw | ing near for the afternoon session, I he ran to school (a quarter of a mile), and as he entered the yard, i fell unconscious to the ground. In a very few minutes he was dead, notwith ' standing the persistent practice of arti ficial respiration. The Medical and Sur gical Reporter states the results of the 1 post-mortem examination, and adds: ‘‘Here clearly was a death due to exer cise, the loaded stomach and bowels being the needed exciting causes. We have ere this sounded the warning against violent exercise; iron muscles generally indicate an hypertrophied heart; the athlete is not destined to be come the long lived respectable, and useful citizen: the slugger is all right in 1 his place, and is a popular beast, but he is doomed to an early dissolution. It may be accepted as a general truism that i any kind or amount of exercise that ' will cause the heart to jump and thump against the chest wall is exercise carried ! to an excessive and alarming extent.” The “Thompsonian” Cancer Cure. Dr. Samuel Thompson, the founder of ; the 1 hompsonian school, grandfather of the modern eclectic, botanic, and phvsio medical schools, describes in his book a i method of treatment which may have I something in it. It is to make an extract 1 in the following way: Fill a brass ket- I tie heaping full of the blossom of the red clover add a little water, place over a tire, and let it boil for some time- re- 1 move the heads of the clover bv strain ing. and evaporate the liquid c’arefully to a solid extract. With this material he directs a plaster to be made, which acts as a caustic to the growth to which it is applied: the patient to drink freely of a tea made (fom the red clover blossoms, lie cl .ims to have cured many cases of i cancer in this way. No recent menticn of this cancer cure appears to have been made. It certainly should be tested again, now that the difference between tumors are more readily made out than forty or fifty years ag., when Thompson flourished.- St. Loui, Globe-Democrat. WISE W »RDS. Method is the very hinge of bnsincs*. ami ihere is no method without punetu ality. A little praise is good for a shy tem ■ it teaches us to rely on the kindness o; others. Whatever you would have yourcl,;'. dren become, strive to exhibit iu yo own lives and conversation. There is no manner of speaking s ., offensive as that of giving praise, a:ul closing it with an exception. He that blows the coals in quarrels ho has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks-fly in his face. Good nature and evenness of temper will give you an easy companion for life: virtue and good sense an agreeab e friend: love and constancy ( a good wife or husband. The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has pa-tied in company. t<> distrust one’s own opinions and value others that deserve it. Women govern us; let us try to render them more perfect. The more they are enlightened, so much the more we shall be. On the cultivation of the minds of women depends the wisdom of man. Retribution is one of the grandest principles in the Divine administration of human affairs; a requital is imper ceptible only to the willfully unobservant. There is everywhere the working ot the everlasting law of requital; man always gets as he gives. How Vanderbilt Met His Wife. There was considerable of a romance attached to the marriage of the late Wil liam H. Vanderbilt, the railroad mag nate. On a bright moonlight night, at about 10 o’clock, Miss Kissam was walk ing through the quiet and deserted streets of Albany. Suddenly she was startled by the clatter of horses’ hoofs. Soon she saw coming up the street a break neck pace a bay horse, on which was seated young Vanderbilt, handling his horse with ease and grace. When the horse and rider had reached the corner where the young lady stood, she, being of a modest, retiring nature, withdrew in the shadow of a doorway. The horse saw the movement, and being a spirited animal, shied and threw its rider, who fell heavily on a pile of stones, striking the left side of his face. Miss Kissam screamed and sprang forward, supposing that Vanderbilt was either dead or very badly hurt. Hardly had she reached his side when he jumped up, shook himself and brushed the dust from his face. “Are —are you hurt badly;’’ timidly inquired the young lady. “Not at all, Miss —Miss—a—” stam mered the youth. “Miss Kissam,” whispered the young lady, while many blushes suffused her pretty face. “Well, I’m not hurt, Miss Kissam,” said William H. Vanderbilt, as he intro duced himself, “but I’m pretty badly j shaken up.” Miss Kissam appeared embarrassed and insisted upon young Mr. Vanderbilt going to her home, as he suddenly ap peared very faint. It did not take much persuasion to induce him to escort her home. Here he was introduced to Miss Kissam’s father. A pleasant evening was spent, and William proved such an ex cellent conversationalist that when he took his departure that evening he was invited to call again, which he did re peatedly until they were married. A Sailor's Wonderful Escape. Captain Sterling, of the schooner Mercury, which arrived at Chicago re cently, tells an exciting story of the marvelous escape of a seaman who was washed overboard in Lake Michigan during a storm. About midnight a tre mendous sea struck the vessel, which was laboring heavily, and carried John Anderson over the side. It was impos sible to round to, and his companions gave him up for lost. Captain Sterling, who was at the wheal, was thunder struck a few minutes later to see the man holding on to the port quarter fen der and endeavoring to climb over the side. Captain Sterling sang out to the mate to take the wheel, and rushing to the fender rope, reached over and pulled Anderson on board. The man says that the sea which washed him overboard carried him about fifty feet from the vessel in the direction in which she was sailing. He is a good swimmer, and when he came up on the crest of the wave he could see the ves sei’s lights shining faintly through the driving enow storm, and struck out as best he could to get as near them as pos sible. In his life-and death struggle he was materially assisted by the undertow, or back sea, which, being strong, drag ged him toward the vessel. At this mo ment another wave swept over him. and as he came to the surface his head struck against the side of the schooner. He re tained his presence of mind and began reaching for the fenders. Fortunately he succeeded in grasping the last one on the port side and was helped on board more dead than alive. _______ The Delusion of Growing Fat. If you continue your present dietary and habits and live five or seven years more the burden of fat will be doubled and the insinuating tailor will be still congratulating you. Meantime you are “running the race of life”—handi capped by a weight which makes active movement difficult.respiration thick and panting. Not one man in fifty lives to a good old age in this condition. The typical man of eighty or ninety years, still retaining a respectable amount of energy of body and mind, is lean and spare, and lives on slender rations. Neither your heart nor your lungs can act easilyand healthdy, being oppressed by the gradually gathering fat around. And this because you cominue to eat and drink as you did, when youth and activ ity disposed of that moiety of food which was consumed over and above what the body required for sustenance. Such is the import of that balance and unexpended ailment which your tailor and your foolish friends admire, andthe gradual disappearance of which, should you recover your senses and diminish it. they will still deplore, half frightening you back to your old habits again by Baying: “You are growing thin; what can be the matter with you?” Insane ami mischievious delusion.— Nineteenth Century.