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(Tolmnbia Sentinel. HARLEM, GEORGIA PUBLISHED It VERY THURSDAY. BaßArd «*> Allilnaon, HokMIWU. A rather curi ><i« upecimon of highway robbery i» reporter I from Idaho. A man Mccrtaim-d that the • express company was liable for low of money from rob bery, whereupon h< sent u package pur porting to contain $12,000, and at a con venient «pot attacked the coach with a Confederate, and made off with the box. He then came to town to enter suit against the exproea company, only to find hit trick had been found out, and that he had atepjicd into a trap. The climate of New Zealand la alrmit aa different from oura as an April ahowei from an October breeze, and yetthecolo niata are having an experience which in North America waa unheaitatingly as cribed to climatic influences. In nine out of ten cases their boya outgrow thoir fathers. A aquat little emigrant takes to farming, succeeds, gets married, and is soon surrounded by a bevy of six-footers. Bevcral recent travellers agree that the agricultural fairs of Dunedin assemble an astonishing number of unprofessional giants, cordnroy-cisd sons of Anak, whom any British showman would be glad to engage. Chickens am valuable outside the question of eggs and flesh. A full grown hen will yield from two and one half ounces to four ami one half ounces of feathers and down. The feathers servo for bonnet decorations, the ornamenta tion of military shakos, and for dusters. The average sized feathers are used for bods and bolsters, the down for pillows. But the latter classes are not held in as much esteem as the same from geesn and ducks. When the feathers uro plucked they are placed for a short time, in a baker’s oven, after the broad has been withdrawn, to kill the insect germs be fore they arc sent to market. There is a flourishing escort supply agency in London, the object of which is to supply escorts to Indies who visit London or who reside in London but have no male friends upon whose time and courtesy they can make sufficient claim. Prices arc according to the quality of the escort supplied. The youngi r sons of peers come as high ns $25 a day or $5 an hour, while common er articles can be hud nt much lower figures. The escorts nre dressed by a fashionable tailor, and are guaranteed to lie very Chesterfields in manners. Here is an answer to the well-worn question of the London press. What shall we do with our hoys! Two patents have been issued to Alex ander G Bell, C. A. Bell and S. Tuintei for reproducing sounds from phonograph records nnd transmitting und recording Sounds by radiant energy. The invention is an improvement of tho phonograph, and the new instrument is called a “graphophone." The vocal sounds are received by meansof a transmitter similar to that of the telephone ami are recorded upon a cylinder of wax, whence they are reproduced with complete accuracy. No electricity is employed, the means being mechanical throughout. The invention is attracting a great deni of attention on account of remarkable power of reproduc ing human speech. In tho year 1800 the world's output of pig iron was 785,000 tons. Lust year tho yield was 20,000,000 tons. This huge increase in iron production tells a marvelous story of the growth of manu factures. British statistics gathered by the Iron Trade Her lew show that in 1800 Gnat Britain produced 24 |« r cent, of the pig iron of the world; in 1850 the production was about doubled in its relative proportion; it attained its maxi mum proportion in 1873,when that coun try yielded • little over 58 per cent, of the total; ami while it has fluctuated since, it,w<u> inlNtH about US per cent. The United States has been pushing toward the front ns an iron producer,the yield in XBBJ reaching 21 per cent, of the total Not many newspaper readers will be prepared to believe that among the grout eat land-owners in the United States are the Duke of Sutherland, Duke of Hamil ton, Earl Dunraven and Marquis of Tweeddale, the last of whom is said to own a tract exceeding 2.300 square mile*. The largest landowner in Great Britain does not own so much as that one man, whose English holdings are only sixty seven square miler in extent. Tire four are reported to own in exceasof 33,000 square miles of our territory, equal to the area of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Deleware, nearly half of the original thirteen colonics. This is an almost in credible story, but it is declared to be strictly true. The immense tracts lie west of the Mississippi, and are mainly wild lands; but their vast extent stag gers belief, and may alarm some of our Anglophobic inhabitant*. The invest ment will doubtlero prove profitable to the noblemen, whose sole object in buy ing was presumably speculative In the city of Pesth, Hungary, practi cal scientists are engaged on sn experi ment which should l»e regarded with tho utmost interest in this country. It is to supply the city with warm water derived from subterranean sources. An artesian well, the deejtcst in the world, has been b r< <1 to a depth of about one thousand yards. The work wax undertaken by two Hungarians, the city of Pesth con tributing $200,000 toward expenses. Al ready there is a supply of 175,000 gal lons a <lay at a temperature of 101 de grees, rising to a height of thirty-five feet alxivc the surface, and the work is to be continued until the temperature, which progresses regularly as the lx>rings descend, rises to 178 degree-, and then no doubt is felt that there will be a bub bling perennial stream sufficient to meet all the wants of the city and to convert the surrounding region into a tropical garden. ______________ The judges of the United States Su preme Court are thought to lx: among the sleekest, most contented, most ur bane anti most esteemed citizens of Washington. Their glace* are tor life, and they receive SIO,OOO, having the privilege of retiring at 70 with a continu ation of the -ame salary. This freedom from an uncertainty about the future and removal from any temptation to dabble in politics doubtless have much to do with their smiableness and serenity. Judge Bradley is 73; Judge Miller is 70; Chief Justice Waite and Judge Field will b<- 70 in November, so that President Cleveland will have it m his power to appoint their successors, provided they retire. This fact causes tho Supreme Court to be a source of unusual interest just now to many lawyers all over tho land. The judges enjoy excellent health they average 200 poun Is each, Bradley being the only thin man among them— nnd have, as a whole, been remarkable for longevity. There have been but forty-three occupants in all of the Su preme Bench, and but seven Supreme Justic s. The government has already paid them more than 1,000,000 in sal aries, one-third of th • entire number hav ing served beyond thirty years. For i.-a-e, comfort ami dignity, no political position in the republic equals that of a judge of the Supreme Court. Speaking Through the Eyes. Prof. Hugo Miiguiw recently' delivered In Berlin a lecture on “Tho Speech of the Eyes.” First he showed how various thoughts und emotions mny find their expression through the eyes, how rage, joy, sadness, sympathy, all may be indi cated by one look, nnd how a question may be asked or be replied to simply by one scarcely observable movement of the eye. Hut the most interesting part of his lecture was a point with which many a physician may not be acquainted, not from ignorance, but simply because he has never given the subject any thought, viz. : the fact that all the vari ous expression of which the eye is cap able are not all imide by tho eye itself, i. c., by the eyeball, but by the movements of neighboring parts. The eye itself may be station ary, not the least motion may be ob served in it, nnd yet this rising of the lids expresses our surprise, half closing them together with contraction of tho brow indicates our displeasure, and a peculiar abrillar-bke movement of the lids, the orbicularis palpebrarum, and the parts around the nose together form what we are in the habit of calling "a merry twinkle.” Many a one who will read these lines will at once acknowledge that such is the case, anil that the facts arc as stated, but at the same time he will acknowledge that he had never thought about it, and had never imag ined that ns all the manifold expressions which wo ascribe to the eye—the mirror of tho soul—the eye itself has no share. When a criminal has his character pic tured in his eves, it is not they that tell us the moral depravity of tho man, but the play of the neighboring muscles, which, perhaps for years, always obey ing the impulse of the brain, form to gether the group wo call physiognomy. - .V. dical Reporter. Misunderstanding About a Flag- “I tell you, Damnger, tho red flag’s got to go. We've hud enough of it. “Bromley, I'm xvith you there. It has cost Uie a heap of money. My wife may protest, of course, but—” "Good gracious, Dirringer, your wife isn't on Anarchist, is she?” “Why, of course, not.” “How does it co t you a lot ol money I" “She s;>ends it, don't you see? Buys tilings she's no manner of use for, and-’’ “Sakes, alive, man, what red flag are you talking about?” “The auctioneer's. Weren’t you?”— Call. She Was Busy. May and Edith arc sisters, four anil live years respectively. May had been very naughty and in unma had taken he) over her knee to adminster corporal pun ishnient. when Edith suddenly pushec the door ajar and peeped in. Turning her chubby face as far arounc toward her sister as the peculiar position would admit. May said very gravely: “Go right out, Edie! Don't you set I'm busy?” It is needless to say that tnamnu granted a respite.— Boston Record. Thu Weald I Leadt Coms, little love, let us go Where the full throat of the wool warbles on In its devious singing, Where the soft chime of the brook on the bells of the pebbles Is ringing, Where the faint hum of the l«e on the breeze of a perfume.!* swinging, Higher and low. Come, little sweet, let us roam Far to the shade of tho oak that beckons with bows that are nodding, Where the fat, rollicking bee with the weight of his plunder is plodding. Where the woodpecker, so fierce with the drumming delight of his prodding, Ta|» his brown home. Under the Ixxighs of the green— Sweet with the fragrance of woods and the murmur and rustle | Cool with zephyrs that played through the ancient Acadian bowers— -7 here are the minutes found that are only the hearts of the hours, Throbbing unseen. Come, dainty one, at my need, Fain would I show you the way where the fern-leaf LuAadow reposes. Where the bhmflbuzz of the bee is hushed in the pause of his dozes, Where you can see the half-shy, half-petu lant face of wild roses — There I would lead. Thus would I take you through life; Giving you only, my love, the honey and roses and singing, Only the smoothest of paths where the scent of wild flowers is clinging, Nearer anil nearer to peace, and ever your innocent bringing Farther from strife. —II. M. Smith in Chicago Newt. THE BENDERS. A PEDDLER'* ADVENTURE IN KANSAS. “I have been a pack peddler for more than twenty years,” said the old man, as he whiffed away at his pipe to get it alight, “and you may suppose I have met with some stirring adventures. I have travelled a great deal in Missouri, Kan sas, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and for weeks and months I have been on tho alert, notonly-to preserve the contents of my pack, but to defend my life. My line of trade has been Yankee notions, with jewelry added. I have had with me at one time as much as $2,000 worth of gold and silver watches, ear rings, finger rings, 4c. I have sat on a log beside a highway in Kansas and sold SIOO worth of stock to three or four men, and I have disposed of SSO worth of ladies’ jewelry at a pioneer cabin which had neither floors nor partitions. “On two different occasions I ate din ner at the cabin of old Bender, the Kan sas fiend. On the first occasion the old man was away, and I saw only two wo men about the place. Six months later, when I called again, it was about 11 o’clock in the forenoon. Then I saw old Bender for the first time. I have heard him described ns a pleasant-faced old man whom no one would suspect, but I tell you tho very first look at him put me on my guard. For the first time in a year I felt that my life was in danger. Tho same two slatternly women were about the house, and there was a young man whom I took to be old Bender’s son. This young man disappeared soon after I arrived, but whether he hid in the house or rode off across the prairie I never knew. Bender’s women purchased about $2 worth of notions, and the old man dickered with me for an hour over a gold watch. It seems he had but a small stock of cash, but he offered mo personal property in exchange. He had three or four silver watches, all of which had been carried, two or three revolvers, two bosom pins, made of lumps of pure gold, and three or four pairs of valuable cuff buttons. We had nearly effected an exchange when ho suddenly decided to leave the matter open until after din ner. “Months afterward, when the discov eries of his crimes camo out, I thought the matter over, and could remember just how nicely ho played me. Without seeming to interrogate me for informa tion, ho asked how long a trip I had made, what success I had met with, who I was, where I lived, and whom I knew in that locality. The old murderer was figuring up the chances of my being missed in case he put an end to me, and he had a curiosity to know beforehand what the harvest would be. While I told you that I did not like his looks, and that I had a creeping feeling in his presence, I had no idea of an attempt to murder by daylight and in the manner he was planning for. I had a trusty re volver and I had tho courage to defend myself. Had I met him out on the prairie, or had we been jogging together along some lonely highway, I should have been prepared to pull my pistol at his first movement "Dinner was announced soon after 12 o'clock. I took my pack with me into the dining room, where I found the ta ble set for one. There were three rooms in the house. The front room was a general sitting room and office com bined. Bender kept a sort of tavern, you know, and travellers had this front room. The next room back was the din ing rootq and family room combined. There was a bedroom leading off. On the walls of this family room were a few old-fashioned prints in old-fashioned frames, a shelf on which stood a clock, and a few scant evidences of women's presence. The back room was the kitchen. “I had my eyes wide open when I en- tered that dining room, and the very first thing I noticed was that the table was set lengthwise of the room, and that my chair and plate had been so placed that my back would be toward the kitchen door, which was not over five or six feet away. Had it been at the other end my back would have been toward the office door. The first move I made waa to turn the chair around to the side and sit down. I now faced the bedroom door, and had the other doors to my right and left, where there was no win dow behind me. The younger woman was in. the room, and she looked at me in a queer, strange way as I upset the arrangements she had perfected. Bender did not look into the room for two or three minutes, and then retired without speaking. A minute later he passed around the house and entered the kitchen by the back door. While I could not see him, I heard him and the woman whispering together, and I caught tho words as spoken by her: “ ‘I tell you he did it himself 1’ “I could not catch a word from him, and directly he went out and she came in with the rest of the eatables. Hei face was flushed and her manner very nervous. She put on a plate of bread and a platter of meat, and then went out for the coffee. As she set the cup and saucer on the board, she partly up set the cup and spilled half the contents on the table. “ ‘Excuse me—l’m sorry,’ she said, as I shoved back to keep the hot liquid from dripping on my legs. “ ‘Never mind—no harm done,’ I re plied. “ ‘lt was so careless of me. You had better change your scat to the end while I sop it up.’ “ ‘Oh, don’t mind. I’m not hungry and shall eat but a few mouthfuls any way. I forgot to tell you that I pre ferred water to coffee.’ “ ‘But —you —you’ “ ‘l’m all right.’ She gave me one of tho queerest looks I ever got, first flushing up and then turning pale. Spilling that coffee was a put-up job to get my back to the kitchen door. I suspected it then; a , few months later I had plenty of horri ble proofs. Before the meal was finished old Bender looked in from the kitchen door and drew back, and when I shoved ( away and entered the office he was not there and did not show up for five min utes. When I went to dinner a double barrefled shotgun stood in a corner of the office. When I came out it was gone. The old man came in after a while, and it was easy to see that he had to force himself to converse. I paid him for the meal and was ready to go. It was a lonely road I had to travel, with no other house for miles, and it sudden ly struck me that the younger man had gone on to lie in ambush and shoot mo in case I escaped assassination at the house. For a minute or two I quite lost my sand, and you can judge what a re lief it was to me to see a team drive up with three men in the vehicle and room for one more. They stopped to water the horses and chat a few moments, and readily gave me a lift on my way. I did not impart my suspicions to them, and it was not until the horrible stories came out that I felt sure in my mind what a close call I had had. “Do I know what became of old Ben der and his family? You remember that they fled the country, or that the paper, so reported, and for months we used to hear from one locality and another of the fugitives being seen or captured. I have reason to believe they never got out of the State, nor yet a hundred miles from that lone tavern on the prairies with its horrible cellar underneath and its graveyard in the rear. Bands of men were riding in this or that direction, bent on vengeance, and one of these overhauled the party. I have been told this on the best authority. As Bender had shown no mercy toward the unsus pecting travellers who were shot in tho back from that kitchen door as they ate nt his table, none was shown to him or his. They were wiped out and planted where their bones will never be turned up to the light of day.”— New York Sun. His Reason. A jury composed of eleven business men and an old fellow from across the creek retired to the jury room. The foreman, when selected, remarked that he thought the prisoner ought to be sent to the penitentiary for five years. “That ain’t long enough,” said the old fellow. * “Let’s put it on him fur ten.’’ “Oh, no, that won't do.” “Wall, then,” stretching himself out on a bench, “I’m with yer." “What, you going to hang the jury!” “That’s about it.” “My dear sir, we are anxious to get back to our business.” “Then send him up for ten.” “But that would be a great injustice.” “Then squat an’ make yourselves com fortable." “Have you any special reason why the prisoner should go np for ten years?” “Think I have.” “Will you please name it I” “Yea, fur it won’t take me long. He is my son-in-law an’ I have been suppor tin’ him ever since he was married." He went up tor ten yeara.—Arfcazuou: Traoelar. “HITTING THE PIPE.” An Old Californian Tells His Experience With Opium. How he Became Addicted to Smoking and How he Broke off the Habit. “Oh, yes,” he said, as he sauntered through Chinatown and was assailed by its unsavory odors, “I have smoked opium. I recognize the familiar smell.” “And still continue to do so?” “No, thunk God, my experience with the drug was short and decisive, but sharp while it lasted. The opium habit Is like getting into a quicksand, once in its grasp escape is almost impossible.” “You got out, it app ari. But not without a struggle. I feel the effects of the drug even to this day, and it is many years ago since curiosity induced me to try the first pipe. Os course, I had to give some excuse for my foolishness: I wished to learn the se cret of opium’s control over the minds and bodies of its votaries. This is how it was, and I might as well make a clean breast of it. lam not a DeQuincey, but I’ll tell you as clearly as I can my feel ings while under the influence of the drug. I had become acquainted with a gambler, one of the most expert in the state, whether in front or behind the game. I noticed that he often left the table, when dealing, and after he re turned, say in half an hour, his manner had undergone a change; he manipula ted the cards with greater steadiness and case. One day I asked him the plain question: “‘D , why do you call on a sub- stitute, and quit the table so often?” “ ‘Opium, my boy,’ he said, in a fe verish way. ‘I can do nothing without it. Steadies the nerves. Deprive me of my periodical pipe and I’m like a fiddle minus strings. Ever try a whiff?’ “ ‘No.’ “ ‘Then you’d better take my advice and continue to let it alone.’ But my curiosity was aroused, and af ter accompanying D to his favorite opium haunt several times, I resolved to i realize the sensations derived fr<?m smok ing, whatever they might be. I ‘hit’ my first pipe, as the slang goes, about 4 o’clock one afternoon, and shudder i now as the remembrance of the terribly sickening experience I passed through recurs to me. It was hard work in the beginning to get the pipestem properly adjusted to my mouth, and the method of smoking is different from that when you are enjoying tobacco. In inhaling opium smoke you draw the fume into the lungs by a long pull, and then inhale it slowly. A pipeful will last about one minute, and then you have to roll a new pill, and so on, till the desired effect is obtained. Like most beginners, I smoked too much at the start, but hard ly felt the power of the drug till I arose from the bunk where I had lain. Then I became comparatively helpless, and staggered like a drunken man, zigzag ging toward a water-pitcher, of the con tents of which I drank a cupful or more. Nausea followed, and when I reached my wooden couch again, my lower limbs gave way completely, and I fell insensible and helpless. I lay in that state for three hours, or ’intil D , who had missed me, and suspecting where I had gone, found and brought me to myself. With his help I got to my room in the hotel, where I again fell into a sleep, disturbed by restlessness and horrible dreams. I would aw ike screaming and with the idea some one was in the room seeking my life. In fact, I made such a racket that the night clerk threatened to have me ar rested for being drunk and disorderly and alarming the house. He summoned D , who sat with me till morning, when I still felt the effects of the drug, but was able to rise. “ ‘Well, old boy,’ said he, in a banter ing way, ‘how do you like it as far as you've gone?’ “ ‘lt’s a pretty rough introduction,’ I replied, ‘and I guess I’ll go no further.’ “ ‘That’s right,’ said he; ‘you’d better stop now; but Til bet a twenty you won’t. Os course, you smoked too much, and then drank water to make the matter worse If thirsty after the pipe, all practiced opium smokers drink only good strong tea.’ “ ‘Well, I’m done with the stuff, any how.’ “ ‘No, ray boy,’ he said, quietly; you’ll tackle it again; you don't like to give up beat.’ “D knew me better than I did myself. The time came, sure enough, when I did tackle the pipe again, think ing myself strong enough to smoke without getting sick. I pulled away for about three minutes, consuming three pills, and this time I got a glimpse of what is called the opium devotee’s para dise. With my body and limbs com pletely relaxed, I dropped into a state of delightful dreamy half-sleep, langti dly knowing all that was going ou around me, but caring for nothing. I was above and beyond all worldly considerations, all responsibilities. Then there came a change. Restlessness supervened, and this dream of delight was rounded off by horrible mental images that resembled the harpies of Dore, as he picture! them In the Inferno. Then I came back, in a dazed way, to real life again, drank the strong tea, as I ha! been advised, and went home with all my nerves h state of protest. “Dating from that time, I indulged , tt the pipe for three months, and I felt the habit was gradually binding me chains. One night, however, not feel ing well, I retired earlier than usual and missed my regular hour for smoking, which was about ten o’clock. Then came the tug of war. I was seize 1 with cramps as if all my intestines were in a vise, had hot and cold flashes, while & cold, clammy perspiration streamed from every pore. After two hours of this agony D happened to come in. “ ‘What's the matter, old fellow?' “ ‘Don’t know. I’m dying, I think.’ “ ‘Did you have a pipe this evening?’ “‘No; turned in early and missed my smoke.’ “ ‘That’s it,’ said he, ‘it’s the opium. You have been treating the drug with ingratitude and it is taking its revenge.’ “ ‘Oh, for God’s sake, D , bring me something hot to drink. I shall die else. lam like Stephano, nothing but a cramp.’ “Putting his hand in his pocket he took out an opium pill, saying: ‘Here take this. The pill’s the thing you want.’ “But my resolution seemed to strengthen in proportion as my pain was severe. “ ‘No more opium for me, D . If the agony I am suffering now be caused by the drug after the short experience I have had with it, what must the victims feel after a year or two? I’ll never touch it again. lam in pain now, but I will get over it without your pill, or die,’ “I did get over my illness, but it was three days before I could leave the bed. Neither by pipe, potion nor pill have I renewed acquaintance with the drug since. Perhaps some constitutions are more sensitive to the effect of opium than others, but if any one has suffered from it more than I did during the time being I pity him.— San Francisco Call. Tell Yonr Wife. If you arc in any trouble or quandary, tell your wife, that is, if you have oue, all about it at once. Ten to one her in vention will solve your difficulty sooner than all your logic. The wit of woman has been praised, but her instincts are quicker and keener than her reason. Counsel with your wife, or your mother, or sister, and be assured that light will flash upon your darkness. Women are too commonly adjudged as verdant in all but purely womanish affairs. No philo sophical student of the sex thus adjudges them. Their intuition or insight, is the more subtle, and if they cannot see the cat in the meal there is no cat there. In counseling one to tell his trouble to his wife, we would go further, and advise him to keep none of his affairs secret from her. Many a home has been hap pily saved, and many a fortune relieved, by man’s full confidence in his better half. Woman is far more a seer anil a prophet than man, if she be given a chance. As a general rule, wives con fide the minutest of their, plans and thoughts to their husbands, having no involvements to screen from him. Why not reciprocate, if but for the pleasure of meeting confidence xvith confidence? We are certain that no man succeeds so well in the world as he who, taking a partner for life, makes her the partner of all his purposes and hopes. What is wrong in his impulses or judgment, she will check and set right with her almost universally right instincts. “Helpmeet” was no in significant title, as applied to man’s com panion. She is meet help to him in every darkness, difficulty and sorrow of life; and what she most craves and de sires is confidence, without which love is never free from a shadow.— Arkansaw Traveler. Tyler’s Second Wife. A few years ago a friend loaned me a book containing the reminiscences of Mr. Wise. In it he says that he was riding out one evening with President Tyler, who informed him that he was going to marry Miss Gardner. “Why,” said Wise, “she is too young for you.” “Not at all,” replied the President, “I’m still in my prime.” “That reminds me,” continued Wise “of an old colored man down in Vir ginia, who was generally consulted by his old master on any affairs of importance, to both. The old master was a widower, and when he got the consent of a young lady to marry him he communicated the fact to the old man. ‘My sakes,’ said Sambo, ‘she is Coo young for you;’ ‘Not a bit of it,’ answered the master, ‘l’m still in my prime.’ ‘Yes,’ responded Sambo, ‘you are in your prime now, but wait till she gets in her prime, then where will your prime be.”’— Cour let Journal. Stating a Problem with Exactness. “Bessie, if there were three apples on the plate, and you took one, how many would be left?” “If Fred was here, mamma?” “That wouldn’t matter.” “Yes it would, mamma.” “Well, with Fred here, then.” “Mamma there wouldn’t be any apples left.” “Why not, Bessie?” “’Cause Fred wonld take the other two.”— Philadelphia CM.