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HARLEM, GEORGIA PI’BI.ISHED KVKIIY THURSDAY. X9«.ll*rcl <** AlUln»on. rnopuno*b. Report* of two taxes of recent out rage* on American* in China have been forwarded to the St cretary of Htatc. The Presbyterian minion house at Kwn' Ping wi» looted and destroyed, and the Rev. A. A. Fulton nu I wife and Mis* Mary A. Fulton were forced to flee for their live*. A lady missionary at the Methodist hospital at Chung King waa atoned by a mob and quite seriously in jured. In neither of these two caaea could the authorities lie induced to pun iah the offender* or give protection tc the missionaries or their property. A'cording to the Urrrlai-d China Mail a method of suicide of tin original char acter has been invented and carried in to rueersaful effect in Hoag Kong by a Chinene servant of the name of Yeung- Yan-lling. In the first place he attempted to pats out of life by the commonplace method of a dose of opium. Ilu was, howeve.r brought round by prompt mean lire* taken by a Chinese doctor, who re aided in the sume house. But he was not to bo balked in his intention, and two days later he procured a heavy ham mer and a long ri.nl, ami with the for mer he drove tin’ latter so d -eply int i his skull that, although every effort was made at the government civil hospital to save hia life, be expired the next day. A man must, Indeed, bo bent upon self ilcstruction who will hammer n nnil into his head. It would be difficult to imagine any form of suicide demanding greater nerve and resolution. Wiggins, who knows all about it, say* that cartliqmikea arc caused by the shift ing of the planet’s center of gravity. Wiggins is the Canadian weather prophi t —-or, to speak with precision, he is one of the Canadian weather prophets. Undis covered, a year ago last March, that the planet wasabi ut to shift it* center of gravity. Forthwith, he set his prophetic faculty to determine what the consequen ces of the performance would be. Start ing upon the self-evident fact that a mov< - meat of the center of gravity ono mile from the normal ccnlerof volume would cause “the parts of the surface at the end of the longer axis to be heavier, mid the parts nt the end of the shorter axis to l>o lighter, than normally,” lie discerned nt once that “these disks would grind upon etch other," genurating heat and hivn that would produce an earthquake in South Carolina when Jupiter should be near his ' inferior conjunction, nt the end of August, 1886. Which settles the question of the South Carolina earthquake, with out any help of the disagreeing seismolo gists, to the satisfaction of everybody. SIUiTJ. 'J - ' A Spanish flow. The latest novelty in plows is nt pre sent being used In Spain. It works the land to n depth of 30 inches, mid turns a furrow 3 feet wide. It is drawn by two 10 horse power engines. The instru mentis constructed on the patent balance plow principle, but of very strong pro portions. It is n one furrow plow, but’ fitted with two skifes, the first turning a furrow 16 inches wide rind 14 inches deep, tho second following to a depth of 30 inches and turning over a furrow 21 inches wide, leaving tho land com pletely loosened to n depth of 2 feet <1 inches. Drawn by the steam engines, the account in a foreign exchange says it is possible with this plow to turn over four acres per day. In cases where it is not necessary to turn up the hind to this great depth, but simply to stir up tho under-soil, all that is required is to take off the last skifo and In its place tlx a aulisoil tyne, which will go to the depth of 34 or 30 inches. Mockery. Pompous Banker William, I’m going to the Exchange. From there 1 go to the Directors’meeting of tho Glide In surance Company, after which I shall look on uty associates iu tho Bull beef Syndicate, and then go home. If any body calls you will know where to find me. Good-day! Cashier—AH right, sir; good-day. (Aside) I am going to Delmonico's. From there 1 go to the office again, afte which I shall look in on th- th ket etlicc of some reliable scalper, and then go to Canada. If anybody calls you tfe'i’t know where to find me. Adding Insult to Irjary. Never wa» true delicacy of consider ation better Illustrated than by a thief in tho French capital a week or two ago. A ruffian was struggling with M. Autel for h.s watch. M. Autel was proving 100 much for the acoundre), when an Vther Gallic Bill Sikes came up, and the honest man was laid on the pavement. The conqueror* disputed over their pray, without much chance of immediate set tlement, when a happy thought came tc rascal number one. “Sir,” said he tc the groauing and bruised Autel, “w< beg you to arbitrate in this matter."— A’rr )'ri CemmcrvML The Southern cotton mills have in cr-ased in number in six yean from 161 io 310, and In production from ♦!«,- 387,598 to *80,726,250, or 88 per cent. ‘I hey have weathered severe storm*, re st! ting from h too rapid growth, have secured new markets, and are now ex porting goods, Think of a counterfeit buzzing in the head to cure a cold! A sensation ha* been produced in the Izmdou drug mar ket by the accidental discovery of a sub stitute for quinine. The substitute i" al leged to have like medical projrerties, though tho cost of production is not ove six cents nn ounce. Colorado bus 800 miles of first-class irrigating canals, 3500 miles of second ary canals, anil 40,000 miles of smaller ditches, which have cost in the aggre gate abcut 811,00 ,000, and will irrigate 2,200,000 acres. Tin: operation of this great water system has developed con flicting claims of various ditch com panies in regard to the use of water, which it is very difficult to settle. Tho famous shell heaps at Damariscot ti*, Me., are to bo ground up into hen food and fertilizers by a Boston tom puny. The largest heap is 341 feet long by 126 feet wide, ami is from four to twenty feet deep. The o-igin of these shell heaps has been a subject of much discussion among si' Im- ilogists. The Peabody Miis-um is to have all the relics and curiosities that may be found in the heap*. It has been deemed impossible that carrier-pigeons could rival the telephone, but a wholesale baker of Brussels,having fifteen branch establishments, sends to each, with the first morning delivery, a pigeon, which during the day returns with any unusual order. At the bakery its alighting closes a circuit through a vibrating bell, and announces its arrival. The entire expense of purchase ami in stallation not having exceeded the cost of two months’ rental of the telephone, the happy baker felicitates himself on his happy evasion of the hello business. Our consul at Chemnitz, Germany, writ'-s the Department of State: “Horse meat is extensively consumed by tho laboring classes, the prices ranging from four to five cents per pound. I can also vouch for the fact that u large number of dogs uro annually killed for consump tion. Dog meat is publicly exposed for sale in the markets, and I mn informed that many well-to-do jicople frequently eat it in prefer-neo to mutton; and tho fact that it is sold from ono to three cents )H-r pound more than horse meat, would seem to bear out this assertion ‘Roa«t dog and dumplings,' is frequently advertised in the papers by keo|>cra of restaurants, and the Chemnitz paper* contain n weekly statistical account of all the horses and dogs killed for con sumption in that city. Dog meat is supposed to possess a curative power in cases of pulmonary complaints, and to judge by the number annually killed in this neighborhood, the disease must be widespread.” Electric power ha* la-on applied in a very novel manner of late on tho estate of the marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield, England, where it has been in operation for some time past in various ways and works; but the last is p<-rlmps the most peculiar of all. On one of the farms en silage has been stored in large quantities, a farm building being turned into a silo for this purpose; ami, it being decided that tho green foo l shall be “chaffed" before placing it in the silo, a chaff cut ter has been erected about twenty feet above the ground. This machine is not only driven by tho electric power, but the same motor is employed to elevate the grass to the level of the chaff-cutter. This is done so effectually that about four ton* of rough grass are raised and cut per hour. A sixteen light “Brush’ machine is the generator, driven by a huge water-wheel, and both are on tho banks of tho river Lea, a mile and a half distant. Nor is this all, for the same electric power is ingeniously applied to I work the “lifts” in use at the many hay ! stacks on the estate. A problem which is attracting to its study astronomers, relates to the earth as a timekeeper. \\ < measure time by di : riding either the period during which the earth revolves around the sun, or that in which it turns on it® axis. By the first method we measure a year; by the second a day. The earth, according to some astronomers, is losing time. Through two causes, the sun’s attraction and the fricti n, so to speak, of the tides, the earth each year revolves more slowly on its axis. The speculative question which tin-e astronomer*nredis cussing is whether .a the end the earth , will stop its tevolution upon its axis and I will present always the same face to the ! sun. Wlt-.n that event occurs there will l be per|>ctual day in one part of the earth 1 and perpetual night iu another. Bat there is no occasion for immediate alarm. The rate at which the earth is supjioaed to lose time only shortens the year by half a second in a century. There are more than 31,000.000 second* in a year. Therefore, if the earth ever doe* cease to revolve on its axis it will be more than six thousand million years before it will stop. A Little While. If I oonld *ea the® once again A llttto while, once more, Thy tend nr heart I might regain And my lost peace restore; You would forget the scorn you felt So penitent I’d tie. You would forgive while low I knelt, If I might only we- Thy bright eye, smile on me: Only a little while, Only once more. If I should see thee once again And find thee stern and cold; An ever dead -sh, bitter pain— Th, bright, strong love of old; Yea, even while I felt your scorn, —All bitter though it be— And my sad heart with grief were torn I’d welcome misery, If 1 thy face could see: Only a little while, Only once more. H'. .4. Hunt, In Detroit f-re Prett. __* SUSIE DALTON’S RIDE. . We were sitting out on the broad piazza —grandma and I—and ns Barney went by with the horses to water at the spring grandma *nid: ■“Why! how much that hor.se does re mind me of Blupher!” I saw by her ] peculiar smile that she recalled some pleasant reminiscence of the long ago. “Do tell me!” I said coaxingly. She laid down the scarlet stocking she was knitting for Pearlie, and let her eyes wander to the hills, golden with the 1 October sunlight, as she dreamingly went 1 back over the long stretch of years inter- | veiling. “I/?t me sec, it’s sixty years and over, for I was coming on fifteen and Susie was two years older. Susie was an orphan brothers and sisters who had found places among relatives and friends -living with Weymouth Brewster, her cousin Pauline’s husband, who was a merchant in Lime Rock. She wu* a quiet, capable girl, and they set great store by her. Her sister S illie had mar ried during the summer and gone to housekeeping over in Massachusetts, and Susie had been longing to go and see her lor quite a while. So when it came a slack spell on the farm, late in Septem ber, Weymouth told Susie she could take Blucher— a great roan horse—and go over to her sister's one day mid come back the next. “Susie was wild with delight, as she ran over to get me to come and help along with the work during her absence. She did look sweet, to be sure, as she came out with her batiste dress of soft, silvery gray, her jaunty velvet hat, turned up to show the pearl satin lining, with its os trich plumes a-nodding in the wind You see, that hat was bought on pur. pose for her in New York, when Wey mouth went after goods. There was not another in town to compare with it. “Well, the hired man held the horse while Weymouth helped heron, and she was off down the road while we were calling out good-bye to her. Women in those days mostly rode horseback when they went anywhere, and Susie went on* happy as a bird, until she got over the state line, when her ear caught the sound of drums and fifes, and her horse began going as though he was ‘a-walking on egg*.’ Then Susie remembered all at once that it was ‘general trainin’ ’ day over in Massachusetts. “Her horse had been owned by an officer of the troopers for several years, and always stepped in time to music. Site spied tho troopers now on a cross street making for tho main street. If they only would pass before she reached them! She tried to restrain her horse, so that he would not overtake them, but he beard the martial strains, and as though the sweet elixir had filled all his veins with life, ho pricked up his ears and swept on like tho overwhelming leap of a cataract, to join them. On he went, never pausing at tho rear of the glittering column, on, past tho array of men sitting so proudly within their saddles, on, to tho very front, and there, beside the tall form of the gallant captain, he deigned at length to form in line and sweep on to tho martial tread of inspiring strains; for, 10l he would have his accustomed place 1 “Poor Susie! what should she do? ; She longed for a moment to have the I earth open and swallow her up, as it did Korah of old. There was a perceptible smile on more than one lip, as the men glanced at their perturbed captain, who was an old bachelor of the most ortho dox kind—rich and hard-hearted—yet terribly afraid of all women. When Captain Drew saw how terribly fright ened Susie was, and that, try as she would, she could not make that incorrig ible horse budge, ho pitied her. aud essayed to say something comforting. “He saw,too, that she was very come ly to look upon, and modest and very tastefully dressed. He kept looking more and more. Finally, a bright thought came to him. aud he said, very respect folly: 'Miss, if you are willing, I will exehaugo horses with you, as mine I am using for the first time in this way, and he has not become so attached to martial music a* your*.’ Si. helping Susie off. ' and exchanging saddles, he inquired her nam? and place of residence that he j might come to exchange them again. “Well, Susie went on and had her vis , it out. We all wondered a great deal i when she came back on a strange hor*e, ! yet she never tried to enlighten us any. Weymouth said, ’Susie made a very good bargain in trading horses, aud any of them are at her disposal if she doe* as well every time.’ “But the next day when the handsome captain came driving up and we saw Su sic’* blushes, we knew just as well how it would end as we did the next May when we saw her stand up beside the captain in the little church, while the •ih-mn words were said which made them one. “Yes, I was one of the bridesmaids, and wore a silk dress for the fir-t time. Well, Captain Drew took her to a home of love and plenty, and she said many years afterwards, ‘I never had cause to regret my first ride with the troopers.’ That was her first ride but not the last. “For, every general training, the men would have their captain bring out his sweet wife just as they had formed in line on the village green, and the way they would cheer her! So this is what I thought, of when I saw the horse that looked like Blucher.”— Good Chter. The Shark and the Pearl Direr*. “The reason why big strikes in pearls don’t create a boom, us a gold discovery would,” said an old hand at the bust ness, “is because most everybody knows the danger of it, and if you don’t super intend it yourself you are at the mercy of a pack of the biggest thieves that ever ! lived. The principal dangers are sharks, rays and drowning. The -.harks are the worst, and some grounds have old man eaters that hang about them for years, at least the men think so. “I remember one season we got on the grounds early. I was owner of an outfit comprising ten men, but when we got ready not a man would go over. I didn’t I blame them, as they pointed out the fiu of a big man-eater that was swimming ; about. I wouldn't have gone over myself for all the pearls on the farm. The shark had a notch on his top fin where some one had put a bullet through, and one man said it had eaten his brother, another that his cousin was killed the year before by the same brute, and you would have thought that every man in the place had lost a relative of some kind, so I con cluded it would be a charity to put the old murderer on the retired list. I had a harpoon with me that had barbs that fitted into the iron so that it would go in easily, and then when a slight pull was made they would set back. This I rigged to a pole and fastened to a line about one hundred feet long, having it fastened to a keg. Heaving the toggery into the boat I got one of the men to pull | me to the shark that was swimming around and around, and as it came by the boat I put the spear into its back as well as I knew how. “We didn’t bother about haulingin, but just threw over the rope and keg : and let him go, and that’s the la-t we I oversee of the old man-eater. I reckon i he ain’t stopped yet, as we kept bearing of the keg up along the coast for several weeks.”— San. Franeitto Call. A Senator’s Signature. When Senator Don Cameron of Penn sylvania writes his name in a hotel regis ter, he invariably puts a dash in front of it thus: J. D. Cameron. The dash is very long, and begins where the page of the book is fastened in its place. If the register is a very wide book, the eccentric dash of the Pennsylvania senator is supplemented by nn affix: J. D. Cameron. Whenever he writes his name on the Fiftli Avenue Hotel register, which is a wide book, he uses the double dash. A gentleman gives this explanation: “I have lived in Washington; know Senator Cameron well, and the reason he uses a dash before his name. He never uses a dash except on a hotel register. At tlie capital nearly every man has a handle to his name. When a senator or general registers at a hotel, the clerk politely adds the prefix, whatever it may be, and it appears that General So-and-so has deliberately written his entitle. Sen ator Camcron, instead of being a vain man, is very modest and unassuming. The polite clerKs put the prefix, Senator, to his name frequently on the registers, which was exceedingly repugnant to him. His simple request to leave off ali appendages to his signature did not h ive the desired effect, and he hit upon the happy idea of the dasli to keep anything from being written in front of his name. The front dash worked for a time on narrow registers, but finally the ingeni ous clerk wrote the word Senator after his name. This required double vigil ence, so the retiring and genial Senator added the affix dash.”—WasAinyton lie publican. I 4 Horseshoe* of Sheepshorn. Various trials of the new French horse shoe, which is made entirely of sheep’s horu, are said to show its particular adaptness for horses employed in towns and known not to have a steady foot on the pavement. The results of the experi ments ate, therefore, regarded as very satisfactory; hors s thus shod have been dr ven at a rapid pace on such pave ment without slipping. Besides this ad vantage, the new shoe i» spoken of as more durable, and, though a little more expensive than the ordinary kind, seems destined sooner or later to rep ace the iron shoe American Hrtfidet. THE CHOCTAWS. Something About the Indians of Indian Territory. Their Language the Best for Oratorical Purposes in the World. The Rev. John Edwards of Wheelock, Indian Territory, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church, said in the course of a recent interview with an Indian apolis Journal reporter: “The Choctaw is a fine sounding tongue, declare*! by Walter Lawry, once a United State* senator, and fully cap able of judging, as being the finest language in the world for oratory. It is easy to learn enough of it for trading purposes, but to learn it thoroughly is very difficult. It has more words than most Indian tongues, the lexicon con taining about 10,006. The Choctaws for over fifty years have had publications in their language. They use the Roman alphabet, with some modifica tions. There are twenty-two letters. They now have a regular representative form of government, and have had for many years. Their principal chief is Edmund McCurtain. This officer is elected every two years. Thoma* Mc- Kinney has recently been elected his suc cessor. The Choctaw capital is Tush kahomina. They have a general council, consisting of a senate and a house of rep resentatives, and have county, district and supreme courts. The Choctaw na tion had the prohibitory liquor law thirty years before Maine, and it was in their constitution thirty year* before Kansas had it. It is enforced fairly well, par ticularly as the United States intercourse laws prohibit the introduction of intoxi cating liquors into the territory. As to the general laws of the nation, they are not as well enforced as they might be. “One of their young men, brother of the recently elected principal chief, graduated at Yale divinity school last spring. The fact that a white man by marrying a native woman, se cures the rights of a citizen in the na tion is a strong inducement to many men to intermarry with the Choctaws. This, in course of time, will eliminate the Choctaw blood and bring about a solu tion of the Indian question so fur as they are concerned. Os the five civilized tribes of the Indian territory it has been found by enumeration that 55 per cent, of them can rea I. The proportion of the Cherokees who can read, as com pared with the Choctaws, is greater than that of the latter nation, while the Creeks who can read are fewer in num ber than the Choctaws. Sequoya, or George Guess, as he was called, was a Choctaw, who invented a syllabic alpha bet for his people. It contains eighty five characters, and to read, all one need do is to mention the names of the letters. A smart Cherokee wiil learn to read in a few hours. Sequoya formed a better alphabet for them than a white man could have male. The Choctaw alphabet is phonetic, ami therefore learned with greater ease than English. I suppose that fully 10,000 of the Choc taw nation do not understand English. “The Choctaws live almost wholly by agriculture. They are all farmers and generally poor farmers, though some of them are quite good. A few are large farmers. There is an erroneous impres sion concerning Indian territory. The land is not, as many suppose, very fer tile. There is a deal of waste land there and a great de il of poor land. There is a considerable admixture of white blood witli the Indian race, and it is constantly increasing. The Choctaw lauds are held in common, and a white man, by intermarriage, gets Choctaw citizenship and equal rights in land, holding them as long as he does not marry a white woman. The native population of tho nation is between 13,000 and 14,000. They have two boarding schools, each with oue hundred pupils—one at Spencer for boys and one at New Hope for girls. They have an orphan school at Wheelock for boys. It has fifty pupils, and a similar school ! for girls at Wheelock has fifty pupils. They are paying much attention to edu , cation. There is a provision for neigh borhood schools that wherever there are ten pupils a school may be established, tie teachers to be paid |2 a month for each pupil. The law makes attendance of children at school compulsory, parents being fined for not sending their children. “The Choctaws are generally quiet aud orderly, except when under the in fluence of liquor. There huve been a greater number of crimes since the war, owing to feuds originating then. They wear citizens’ dress, and only in color would be distinguished from white peo ple. They no longer wear mocassins or hunting shirts. Since I have been back, I have not seen more than half a dozen hunting shirts. The old shawl head dress, once so popular among them, has been given up. There sre no blanket . Indians among them. Their dwellings are mostly log cabins; a few have very good dwellings. Scarcely any of them now pretend to make a living by hunt iog- _ Opportunity makes the thief. A woman swinging a fat purse on her little finger is an opportunity. An Asia Minor Furiosity, The recent destruction of the-besm’ I fn! white piuk terraces atTorawer* ,s Zealand, has drawn from a trav..i|* cr ’'' Asia Minor an account of an ttnc ; white terrace which he saw n-,.r ; ' ruin* of Hicrapolis, called by the Turf I’ambouk Kulessi, or hot springs, is s j uted on a low branch of the , mountains overlooking the Lycus and the ruins of Loodiccia, immediate opposite to Colos-se, which wu, bmh the slope of the Khono* mountain, mu to Denizii (D ospolis) ou M mnt Cad w f First seen from the ophite mount.,* some twenty miles off, it looked lik, ' breastplate of silver on a great mount,;, giant. A nearer investigation show„| that it wai formed by hot springs of s u : phur and lim», which descended f rom great elevation in dazzling white cat,, acts, and formed in their passage down, ward by their petrifying power iee-hk, cliffs ami seemingly frozen waterfall, running into natural basins of beauty and varied g ometrical shapes, all stab, etiejeovered petrification* of fantastic forms. On the high plateau whence th t springs descend are the ruins of a temp'., once appropriately dedicated to I’iut,, Tlie holy hot bath which stood in the temple courtyard, surrounded by a Cf) | onnade, is still in fine preservation, and beneath its deep, clear, bine waters can still be seen many a fluted column and finely-carved cornice. Gas is continual); bubbling up from the bottom of the bath. The chief source of the sulphnt springs (the ancient plutonium) is a car from which a vapor issues fatal to a#:- mal life. This was considered :i short cut to Pluto’s infernal realms. Not fat off is a ruined fountain ami cistern neat to a cave of sweet water which supplied the whole town with that necessary *,l life. The writer adds, as interesting tc the Christian archceologist, that on » ruined lintel near Piuto’s temple he saw these words sculptured: “Js. Us. nika— Jesus Christ Conquers.”— London Tele graph. Spires. The tall spire, conveying to the mind an idea of immeasurable height, and seeming to fade away in a jxiint, is, per haps, the most perfectly beautiful exter nal feature of the pointed or Christian styles of architecture to which it prop erly belongs. In ail ages and countries there has been an apparent tendency to carry buildings to as great a height as possible, and hones have originated the various architectural forms of pyramids and obelisks, towers in endless variety, domes of various shapes—classic, Byzan tine and Saracenic —the minarets of the east and tall monumental pillars; but the spire, obvious as its form seems iu it pure simplicity, was unknown in archi tecture till toward the end of the 11th century. There have been many dis cussions, somewhat unprofitable, though interesting, as to the source whence the mediaeval builders drew their first ideas of the pointed arch and spire, and gen eral opinion has apparently settled to the conclusion that the pointed arch was simultaneously suggested to the various nations of Europe by the sight of the Saracenic arch during the crusades. It this were really so, it must be added that the Christian builders improved so vastly upon any hints they may have re ceived from the east that all traces of such origin rapidly disappeared. The spire, however, is a purely self-envoived feature, which originated in the general tendency of pointed architecture, com pletely independent of external hints or examples. Among other suppositions it has been said that the form of the spire might have been suggested by the pyra mids 05 obelisks of Egypt; but there are so many points of dissimilarity between these objects and the true spire that it is extremely unlikely.— American ArM ted. Virtues of Cold Coffee. A good mark for Gen. Boulanger! la the instructions sent to the officers com manding the regular army and the mili tia reserves engaged in the autumn manoeuvres they were told to prevent, a’ much as possible, soldiers drinking at the first well they meet, and if the weather was hot, to make each mau take with him before setting out on a long march a provision of filtered water. If he had said, “a provision of cold cof fee,” it would have been better. There is no such safe and sustaining drink as coffee for the marching soldier, tourist or sportsman. It prevents, in places where food is scarce and bad, typhus fever, by counteracting rapid waste of the tissues. The internal waste caused by fatigue is the most dangerous of any, inasmuch aS the vitality is too low to throw it off, and so all the dead stuff ia the body poisons what is living. I have seen persons, after walks greater than their strength could bear, suffer a’ if from violent poison. In point of fact, they were poisoned, but merely through inability to get rid of the detritus of wasted tissue in themselves. Tourists should, no more than Gen. Boulangers soldiers, when out on holiday excur sions, drink water out of the first well they meet, and to prevent the rapid using up of their own bodies they ought to fill up their flasks, before starting on long walks, with coffee, which is, perhaps, nicer to drink cold than hot.—-■ft'"** Letter. ~