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BOTH I HAWKNOWN -TOM WILSON
BY THE ODD FELLOW.
If I must believe what is told me,
I -must have been a very quiek-tem
boy I was mall.
•ver, I have grown out of that stage
wf life’s development long ago, and
how I can view almost everything
with a philosophic equanimity that
must save the wear and tear of my
constitution very much.
lint whenever I sec a boy get red
in the face and fly off in all sorts of
unexpected directions, like a bad
rocket, I say to myself, “Ah, my lad,
you’ll learn better some day; you’ll
find out that losing your temper
doesn’t help you to gain your object
it is the cool, self-restrained boy who
gains his end soonest.”
However, all this is introductory
to the description of a lad I used to
know. He was at— But wait a mo¬
ment; suppose I tell you about him
into jn rhyme. poetry” Why for shouldn’t Silas I Wegg “drop
once, as
puts it in “Our Mutual Friend?”
Tom Wilson is tny hero’s name—
A decent sort of boy—
His biased mother said he was
Her pride and loving joy.
But Tom was known to every lad
Who went to Storcombe School
As Etna Junior, for he ne’er
Could keep his anger cool.
fly out like a prisoned bird,
* His temper was so hot;
As long as he made some one smart
He didn’t care a jot.
f*o, when he went to punch Smith’s heart.
If Jones came in his way!
The latter lad would c jinc to grief,
Whilst Sniitn went off to play.
This kind of'conduct did not work;
His enemies increased*
For when he quarreled with a hoy
He made three foes at least.
His dictionary lost its hack
From being shied about;
IJis various classics lqd such lives
.- That they were all worn out.
The edges of his collage hat
•Were getting limp and curled;
You should have seen how skillfully
That article he hurled.
He lovort to see its blackened form
' Across the schoolroom fly,
And how lie joyed to see it land
Within a comrade’s eye.
But, sad to tell, it made one day
A wild, erratic flight,
Like to the wondrous boomerang,
Or like a tailless kite.
.
It liiade a wild and rapid swoop,
. Then rose into the air,
And smashed the glass upon the clock,
'Whose hands flew anywhere.
Then down the dreadful doctor came,
Ilis cane was held aloft,
And Wilson thought it very hard
That it dirt not feel soft.
Tom crept off slowly t’ward his home,
A-tear in'either eye,
And buried all his sorrows in
A monstrous apple-pie.
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Cut In Two by a Saw.
East St. Louis, III, Feb. 10.—
Henry Thielan, a farmer living at
Casevilles, yesterday stepped into a
planing mill and sat down on the
raised counter covering a buzz saw,
which was not running at the time.
While sitting conversing with some
friends the saw started, and a few
moments afterwoods 'the counter
moved to its customary position. The
saw flashed up through a slit in the
counter and cut Thielan in two. He
died instantly.
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A passioii for flowers is, I think,
the only. one. winch long sickness
leaves untouched with its chilling in¬
fluence. Often, during a weary ill¬
ness; I have! .-looked upon new books
with perfect apathy, when if a friend
ftP'Sent me a few flowers, my
has and leapt odors, up to their dreamy
with a sudden sense
renovated childhood, which seems
me one of the mysteries of our be
ing,—Mrs, Remans,
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Wrightsville, Ga., Thursday, February 18, 1886.
a Story for boys.
“Ned, will you take something?”
“Yes, Sam, a good, long walk.
Come, let us cross the bridge, go
down to the old flat landing and
thence by the trail on the hank of
the river to jibe island. (-Your invita¬
tion to ‘take something’ has awaken¬
ed in my mind bitter recollections of
long ago, when life, to me, was hut
a dream. Let us pause here a few
moments! In 1858 four lads, myself
among the number, stood beneath
this holly tree, examining its prick¬
ly leaves and admiring its deep green
co]b j, v V" a . mprry growp.on
our way to the island to bathe. It
was a beautiful Sabbath day; tho
swamp was filled with the melody of
the mocking bird, tho linnet, tho
thrush, and many other Southern
songsters. The breeze wafted the
odois of the magnolia, the honey¬
suckle, and the wild rose to our grate¬
ful nostrils. Aftor'a'short pause be¬
neath the tree, and just as we were
to continue our journey to the
island, the youngest of the boys drew
from some recess in his clothing a
flask of whisky.
“ ‘I brought something along for
said he, showing how
he could follow t thc example
men given to fishing and hunting.
“1 had been taught that whisky
was the root of all evil, and I looked
upon the flask as it was passed from
to mouth with a feeling of in¬
dread. When it reached
me I refused to touch it, and was
at by my companions, ouc
whom remarked with an oath that
expected to drink whisky as long
he lived, whether the ‘old folks’
it or not, and the others echoed
sentiment. Before we finished
my llivee companions were
a maudlin state of drunkenness,
the, ‘ovening’s entertainment’
wound up with a fight, in which all;
part. I, as peacemaker, did all
I could to terminate the disgraceful
proceedings, only to get knocked
with a billet of wood.
When I regained my senses I depart¬
leaving the unfortunate hoys on
their hands and knees. Involuntarily
to mother earth the pois
potations they indulged in.
“A few years sped by and the call
to arms resounded through the South
ere lono I found myself, w-tli
thousands of others, en route to
Richmond. The winter of 1803 was
severe one in the Old Dominion.
cold morning, as I was about to
cross the Rapidan river on the ice,
en route from Orange courthouse to
Stevensburg, I chanced to look a lit 1
tie to the right of the ford, and saw
a soldier with lus face turned to the
sky and apparently dead. Hitching
my horse I examined the body, and
found that life was extinct. There
was no wound on the body, and this
made the case perplexing. Just then
my eye lighted on a canteen lyingat
a little distance from the body. Draw¬
ing the stopper and placing the
mouth of the cantcdn to my nose I
found that it had last held apple
brandy. That explained everything.
There was something in tho face of
the corpse that looked dimly famil¬
iar. Looking at one side of the can¬
teen I read his name. It was he who
drew the flask of whisky from his
clothes, under the holly tree, on the
banks of the Flint, in 1858. lie had,
while drunk, frozen to death.
Number one,’ thought I.
“Down in the picturesque Shenan¬
doah valley, near Bunker Hill, we
went into camp, to remain several
days. One day, while 10 or 12 miles
from camp, I came to a place where
an outhouse had been burned the
night before. The owner of the place
informed me that about dark the pre¬
vious evening a soldier rode up to
his house very drunk, using blasdhe
mous language, and demanded a bed
foi the night. lie was assisted from
his horse, placed on a bed in the out¬
house, and a lamp left burning in the
fireplace.
“About midnight the farmer awoke
and found tho outhouse burned to
the giomx]. Only a few charred
bones remained of the
soldier. Going to bis saddle, the
mer drew frdm one of the saddle
bags a letter and handed it to me.
U < Good God!’ I exclaimed, ‘it
he—the same youth who, with an
oath, declared, under the holly tree,
in 1858, that he would drink whisky
all his life.”
“‘Number two’ was written on the
tablets of my memory.
“The fortunes of war finally led
us into the enemy’s country. One
day, while riding along the summit
of a range of hills somewhat like the
sand hills beyond the Flint, except
that they wCre covered with a growth
of oak, hickory, chestnut, etc., I
heard a horso approaching rapidly
through the woods on my left. In a
few moments the well known Con¬
federate yell awoke the ochoes, fob
lowed by a hoarse voice shouting:
‘Hurrah for Abe Davis! Three
for the Confederate United
of America!” Before I could
at any conclusion as to the
meaning of the jumbled expressions
I had just heard, a horse, bearing a
cavalryman, rushed
past me, his rider veiling like
madman and spurring the animal
unmercifully. In less time than it
has taken me to write it, I saw the
body of the soldier dangling from
limbs of a tree, while his arms
listlessly by his sides. Hurry■
to the spot I found that in pass¬
under a large oak the Soldier’s
(lead had been caught in the fork of
limb and that the fearful momen¬
had broken his neck. His eyes
burst from their sockets and
were hanging on his cheeks, and his
protruded below his chin. It
was a horrid sight, one well calculat¬
to cause the stoutest heart to
Seeing a small memoran¬
book protruding from his jack¬
pocket, I drew it out and a glance
the cover almost caused my heart
cease its pulsations.
“It was he—number three, and the
of my comrades who stood be¬
the holly tree, on the banks of
Flint, that bright Sabbath even¬
ing in 1858.
“Sitting on the slope that leads
into the valley of death, I see
my face mirrored in the limpid wa¬
of a gurgling brook that goes
murmuring down to join the river
It is the face of an aged man.
feet are plainly visible near
eyes, and wrinkles only add to
withered appearance of the sunk¬
jaws. A mass of white hair Boats
in the breeze, and the gaunt, palsied
hands and bowed head all tell me
that my life’s work is nearly done.
As I sit and gaze away off across the
valley before me, my mind wanders
back to the scenes of iny youth, and
the group under the holly tree rise
up before rnc like spectres from a
damp, mouldering tomb as one by
one they re-enact the horrid scenes
that surroinled their last moments in
lifo. ‘Why,’ I cry out in an agony
of horror, should they have met
such cruel fate, while I have been
permitted to live out the aloltcd
years of man?” And from out the
shadows the voice of an invisible be¬
ing, natural or supernatural, answers
sweetly:
a i Because you refused to take tho
first drink.”
“Maybe so, maybe so.”—Albany
Medium.
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Some Terse Proverbs
Silence is the ornament of the ig
norant.—Sanscrit.
There are two good men; one
dead, the other unborn.—Chinese.
The handle of the axe is the ene¬
my of its kind.—Tunil.
A 'pound of learning needs ten
pound of common sense to anply it.
—Persian.
The best part of repentance is lit¬
tle sinning.—Arab.
'Two watermelons cannot be
under one arm.—Modern Greek.
—--o-
The best recipe for going through
life with beautiful manners is to feel
that everybody, no all matter how rich
or how poor, needs the
he can got from others in the world.
IS KRAO THE MISSING LINK?
curious’freak of nature found
’ •=*1 IN TIIE WII.DS OF SIAM.
K¥no, who is called Darwin’s miss¬
ing liiik, is a little ten-year-old Asi¬
atic- -ftiaidcn, with big black eyes,
black; rosy hair, a prodigious silken
moustache, and bangs that might
niike an average Now York girl feel
ehvidus. She has besides bundles of
silken feathers or. her back and spin'
al Column. In her cheeks arc small
cavities in which she sometimes
stofes nuts and bonbons. She is
bright and intelligent, and can speak
German and French fluent
] y
Krao was captured tliroo years ago
in the wilds of Siam by Professor
Carl Bock, tho English scientist, and
Anthropologist George H. Shelly.
She fought hard to get away, and
succeeded in inflicting a few ugly
bites upon Mr. Shelly’s arms and
hands. Her parents, both specimens
of an alleged new hairy tribe, were
also captured hut the king of Lao,
being superstitious, would not allow
them to leave his kingdom. The
tribe to which they belonged lived
in nests, formed by winding togeth¬
er the tops of trees. They are both
barbarrous and stupid.
Krao was on exhibition yesterday
in the Ashland house. Representa¬
tives were present from various col¬
leges. Tho men of science thought
Krao was the queerest freak of na¬
ture they had ever seen. She was
clad in a neat, loose-fitting short
gown and had a big blue ribbon
wound about her flowing black hair.
She welcomed the visitors and shook
hands withjcach, with as much grace
and condescension as if she had been
brought up in New York, and was
20 years old. She said New York
was a fine place, and that she would
like it better if she could htivc a
sleigh ride.
Professor Way, of the Normal
college, said it might be that Krao
was a distinct species of the human
family, hut lie wasn’t sure of it. Any¬
how, ho was puzzled, he said, and
would like to study up Darwin and
other scientists before ho made up
his mind. Anthropologist Shelly,
who is an out evolutionist, said there
was no doubt in the world that she
was the missing link between man
and monkey. lie felt enthusiastic
about bis discovery and wanted all
the scientists in creation to come and
be convinced. Krao will enter a
Bowery museum.—New York Star.
On'April 30, 1789, George Wash¬
ington took the oath of office as Pres¬
ident of tho United States in New
York city, at the place where now
stands the sub-treasury, on the cor¬
ner of TFhll and Nassau streets. A
statute of Washington was placed
on the sub-treasury steps in 1883,
and in front of it, on the pedestal,
rests the identical slab of stone on
which the Father of his Country
stood when the oath was administer¬
ed to him. The day was the com¬
mencement of the constitutional gov*
ernment of the United States, and
on April 30, 1889, it is proposud to
celebrate tho centennial of the groat
event. It is understood that steps
will be taken to arrange for one of
tho grandest celebrations ever held
in this country.
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The Ohio excursionists havo not
returned from Amcricus yet, hut are
expected back to-day. Several wbo
came dmvn with a party a few days
in advance of the regular excursion
train was in the department of ag¬
riculture yesterday. They intima¬
ted in their conversation that if they
came to Georgia it would be only in
the nature of an experiment; that
they would rent for the first year or
so, and if they liked it would then
invest. They stated that they had
money enough but would not put
any of it in Georgia dirt until they
had first seen whether they liked the
climate, soil and people.
Certain people study all tlieir lives;
at their death they have learned ev¬
erything except to think.
Terms—$1.00 per annum.
An Incident of the War.
In the coming of the excursionists
from Ohio brings to mind a pleasant
reminiscence of the war as told by
llenry Barnes, a colored man of this
place. It was at the second battle
of Manassas, when Henry, seeing
that a Union soldiefc'was about to be
run over by the Confederate artillery
sprang forward, took him up in his
arms and carried him to a place of
safety. lie had been wounded in
the ankle end was unable to walk.
Henry belonged to Captain) Jones
and the man was captured by Capt.
Jones’ command, Company A. of.tlie
Seventeenth Georgia volunteers. He
was kept a prisoner about three days
and then exchanged. During the
time, Henry waited on him and did
all he could to make him comforta
hie. Among other things, made him
a crutch out of a paling, with liis
pocket knife, Tho soldier took
quite a fancy to Henry, and tried to
get him to go with him when he
was exchanged, but could not induce
him to leave his master, llenry has
forgotten his name, but remembered
bis regiment. It was the Twenty
Ninth Ohio. The bare probability
of his being one of the excurtionists
suggested the idea of publishing
this, for no doubt lie would like to
again see tiic man who, in all prob¬
ability, saved his life.
Roscoe.
Smithville, Ga., Feb. G, 1880.
| Amcricus Recorder.
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After traveling this country over
and visiting all the educational cen¬
ters of America, Mr. Hurst returns
to hii quiet country home in Collard
Valley, and send his wonderful mag¬
netic daughter, fi/iss Lula Hurst, to
Shorter college to take a thorough
collegiate course. Air. Hurst was
doubtless able to have selected any
one of the most famous female im
stitutes of the east, but he knew old
Shorter by her fruit. Of course the
announcement that Miss Hurst had
entered Shorter college revived the
old interest our people took in the
movements of the young lady when
she was before the fooliglits. The
public was curious to know some¬
thing of Miss! Hurst’s intentions in
the future. With a desire to satisfy
this curiosity a Bulletin man called at
the college yesterday morning and
asked Dr. Gwaltney, the able presi¬
dent, his permission for an interview
with Miss Lula. I felt confident
that the doctor was going to say
“no,” and sure enough he did say
“no,” in a very pleasont way. But
I knew that lie meant it. “I don’t
think that it is right to pull the
young lady out fiom the privacy of
her study-room to again endure the
unpleasant criticisms of a curious
public. Slie.is a pupil of Shorter col
lege now, a seeker after knowledge
and not after notoriety. And as
Miss Ilurst is within the walls of
this institute and under my charge
she shall be protected from the crit¬
ical gaze of the cuaious public.”—
That was what lie said. Of course
I admire the feelings of delicacy
which prompted Dr. Gwaltney to
refuse this interview.—Rome Bulle¬
tin.
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Savannah, Dublin & Western R
A New York special says: Ool. A.
15. Linderman, of Philadelphia,
ed for London on tho
Alaska this afternoon. The
who for years was connected with
his brother, G. B. Linderman, in
Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel works,
who has had fifteen years’
as a railroad man, *s interested in
Georgia railroad, that is now
construction, that is to run from
vannah to Macon, with a branch
Amcricus. There w ill be 254 miles
steel rail track. Mr. Richard
don is the principal capitalist in
enterprise, which will ho
on a cash basis. The
will assume all tho business
of construction, and expect to lay
track for $10,000 a mile,
the usual cost is.$01,000. The
nel’s trip abroad, it. is reported, is
price English rails.
Legal ADvEnTiteM^mi
The rates of which are
ted by law, are payable in
vance.
Bills for advertising are due
any time after the first
tion, unless otherwise
ed.
Terms: lycar, $1;
50c; 55 months, 25e.
A Blasphemer’s Terrible Death
A Harrisburg, Pa., special says
that news of a strange and mysteri¬
ous occurrence at Millersburg, Dau*
pliin county, lias been 'receiver! here.
On Thursday morning there was a
jovid crowd ?Kcy in a hotel at that placo
and while were imbibing Sam¬
uel Mottcr entered. J/btter was well
known throughout the county as a
patent medicine peddler and was
about fifty-five years of ago. His
wife died in the almshouse some time
ago, and since then he has been lin¬
ing near this place.
Shortly after Motter entered a dis¬
cussion oil religious subjects arose.
The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
was talked about. Motter became
very earnest in his talk, and finally
dared the men to indulge in an iraii
tation of the Lord’s Supper. They
agreed to havo it with beer and bread
and accordingly a glass was filled
with that beverage. They then knelt
in mock humility, and with the beer
in one hand and the bread in the
other Motter went along distributing
a bite and sup to each.
Suddenly, when he was about half
through, a strange noise was heard,
and looking up the men saw a sight
that “made their blood run cold and
froze the marrow in their bones.” As
near as the scared men could desribe
it, they declared it was an immense,
ill-formed and foul beast with great
cloven feet, painted horns and eyes
that flashed fire. With wild yells the
men rushed out into the oden air and
scattered in every direction. Finally
all of them reached their homes ex¬
cept Motter, who was away for a
long time, and at last he arrived, a
maniac. lie was put to bed and nhyi
sicians summoned, but they could do
nothing for him. lie raved, howled
and prayed, declaring that he had
seen the Evil One and that he was
lost. Ilis torture was terrible, but
nothing could be done to relieve him,
and he died in the wildest agony.
The death-bed scene is said to have
been full of horrors that can hardly
he described.
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One of tlie Unreconstructed.
A plain countryman came to town
a week or two ago, while the ques¬
tion of sending a committee to At¬
lanta to meet the Ohio excursionists
was being discussed. A gentleman
inquired what he thought of it.
“I am utterly opposed to it,” ho
replied, “It is just as I expected.
These Yankees have been loaning
their money down here for several
years, and taking mortgages on tho
best farms of the country. And they
are now coming down to spy out the
land and arc preparing to take pos¬
session. No sir, I fit ’em four years
during the war and I am willing for
me and my chlidren to stay down here
and let them and their children stay
up there. There is room enough for
both of us between the big waters.
Them’s my sentiments and I don’t
care who knows it.”—Lawrenccvill©
Herald.
o
Silver Certificates.
Washington, February 11.—The
House Committee on Banking and
Currency to-day discussed Mv. Rea¬
gan’s hill providing for the issue of
silver certificates corresponding in
denominations to United States notes
The object of the bill is to provide
for the issue of §1 and $2 certificates.
Several changes of an unimportant
character were suggested and dis¬
cussed. The sentiment of the com¬
mittee seemed to be strongly in fa¬
vor of tho passage of a measure of
the nature of Mr. Reagan’s bill, but
no final action was taken at to-day’s
meeting.
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One of the oldest houses in Savan*
nah has just been torn down to give
place to an elegant new Odd Fel¬
lows’ Hall, to be erected on tho cor¬
ner ,of Barnard and State streets,
fronting Telfair Place. It was a di.
lapidated two-story or basement
frame building, having all the char*
acteristics of the last century. It
was here that Gen. Washington was
quartered in during his visit to Savan¬
nah 1789.