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VOL. VI.
WHAT IS LOVE?
n talk of love that know not what it is;
'or could we know what love may be
We indeed
weald not have our minds so ted amiss
U till idle toys, that wanton humors
feed;
But in the rules of higher reason read
^ hat love may he, so from the world
concealed,
j| ail all to< too plainly to the world revealed.
■* * *****
Cs too too cl clear a brightness for man’s eye;
loo oo bigl high a wisdom for his wits to find;
M deep deep t a secret for his sense to try;
tfd all ell too heavenly for his earthly
/(s lipind;
a grace of such a glorious kind,
gives the sou! a secret power to know
it.
t gives no heart nor spirit power to
show it.
tis the height of God and hate of ill,
Yrhimph V of truth and falsehood’s over
/ throw;
only worker of the Highest Will,
knd only knowledge that doth knowl¬
edge know,
Ynd only ground where it doth only
f grow;
in sum the substance of all bliss,
jthout mg whose is. blessing all things notb
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■"-Nicholas Breton (1542-1626).
A CONSPIRACY AND
WHAT CAME OF IT.
OW CAN you tol¬
erate It, Lu?” ex¬
claimed Mrs. Gor¬
man. “If he is my
brother, I say it is
* a shame!” Then,
% allowing her listen¬
er no time to reply,
the energetic little
lady rattled on; "I
suppose you and
Clarence must
have a a under¬
standing, or you would have discharg¬
ed him long ago. Here has Sidney
Lawrence been waiting and serving for
you no less patiently than Jacob for
Raphael; these seven years and more,
and yet my recreant brother is the fa¬
vored one. Unless you take him In
hand soon your lilies and roses will
wither, and even faithful Sidney will
route to worship at a younger, fairer
shiflne. Every one supposes that you
•“h&l Clarence are engaged, and yet he
h.^1 offer never of in marriage. so many words made you
au Now, while we
know that he considers you his be¬
trothed, he does not seem to realize the
embarrassing position In which this
tedious courtship places you, and
should therefore be brought to a knowl¬
edge of it or punished for his delin¬
quency.”
During the earlier portion of her
friend’s remarks' a smile hovered
around Lulu Brandon's lips, and she
continued her task of cutting the leaves
of the last new magazine; but as the
final sentence was pronounced her face
flushed deeply.
”My private affairs need not concern
the public. Belle,” she replied with
dignify “But I agree with you that I
have been too patient. I acknowledge
myself to be considerably at fault, for
I proved an easy conquest, and Clar¬
ence may have grown lukewarm in his
effeerlon, feeling so secure of mine. Of
course a word or two from me and I
might become a wife within the next
twenty-four hours; but all such words
must come from my lord himself.”
Her brief displeasure gone, with a.
merry laugh she arose and linked her
arm In that of her friend, and drawing
her to a cozy sofa in one corner of-'V-h®
room, proceeded to formulate plans by
which she should bring her lover to
terms without his knowledge of her
conspiracy.
That evening, at tea, Mr. Clarence
Curtis suddenly inquired:
“Been over to the Brandons’ to-day,
Belie?”
“Yes, and by the way, Clarence, Lu
requested me to tell you not to call
this evening as she will be engaged.”
“All right, sis; I’ll go around to the.
theater with Roberts.
There was a significant twinkle In
her eyes as Mrs. Gorman rejoined:
“I hope you'll enjoy the play. The
Kendals are drawing large houses.”
Two hours later Mr. Clarence Curtis
was leisurely scanning the crowded
theater, bowing to those he recognized,
when, just previous to the rising of the
curtain, his friend Roberts exclaimed:
“Why, as I live, there’s Sid Law¬
rence! Who knew he had returned? I
wonder who the lady is! Can It be
possible?. It’s Miss Brandon! I never
supposed she would accept any other
escort save yourself. What Is It, Cur¬
tis, a lover’s quarrel?”
Veiling his surprise with a forced
smile, Curtis nonchalantly replied:
“Not to my knowledge.” Then he
added, impatiently, “I am no ogre. Lu
has a right to go where and with whom
she pleases.”
In spite of the indifferent manner aDd
careless tond, Roberts noted that his
theater-loving friend took far less In¬
terest in the play than In the couple
who occupied one of the boxes nearly
opposite from where they were seated.
Lu had surely never looked so ex¬
quisitely dainty and beautiful as to¬
night. She seemed the embodiment of
health, all aglow with happiness. Yet
tho lovely face and graceful figure Ir¬
ritated him by the very beauty of
which be bad always been pround.
This radiant piece of flesh and blood
did not seem so exactly his property as
formerly. Was it because Sidney Law¬
rence was so attentive? They had
been children together, Sid and Lu* and
lie knew she had always regarded
studious, dignified boy and man as an
elder brother, while she gave the love
of her yoa-ng likart to his comrade apd
churn. How well he recalled the days,
yefirs ago, when Sid had told him with
eyes and tremulous voice that Lulu
rejected him! He comforted him
he could, *mhl 7
ra RES0RD. i
thought that he possessed her lore;
unsought. Strange that his
never seemed quite so valu¬
able as to-night! He wondered what
Sidney was saying to make her smile
and blush so deeply. Well, the act
soon be over, and then he and
Roberts would go and see them, and so
give the public to understand that mat¬
were as usual between him and
Miss Brandon.
With this thought he resolutely
turned his attention to the stage, and
perseveringly held it there until the
curtain fell. Then, turning to Roberts,
be proposed that they should go over
to the opposite box.
As they entered it Sydney greeted
them In his usual sincere and hearty
manner, while Lulu, with a smile, gave
her hand first to Clarence and then to
Roberts, at the same time motioning
her lover to a seat by ber side. As
Roberts for a few minutes engaged Sid¬
ney in conversation, Curtis managed to
ask Miss Brannon why she had not In¬
formed him of her desire to come to
the theater. She frankly replied that
she had felt no special wish to do so
until Sidney unexpectedly called and
asked her to accompany him. This she
told him with a manner so devoid of
coquetry that he felt reassured, and
left her with a complacent feeling that
he was quite sure of her affection.
He called to see her the next evening
as usual, and nothing was said of the
recent incident. Clarence’s brief Jeal¬
ousy was forgotten, and be calmly ac¬
cepted the old condition of things.
Why should he be in haste to marry
even the most charming girl In the
world?
He hesitated to give up the freedom
and luxury of bachelorhood for the re¬
straints which marriage must Inevita¬
bly bring. Lulu was such a delighted
companion and sweetheart! Would
she be equally charming as a wife?
Whether or not she wished to marry he
never conjectured. He had always
lived for his own comfort, and self was
his first consideration. So when he left
her that evening the words were still
unspoken which would bind her to him,
and he was yet a free man.
A fortnight passed as usual, with no
change In the relations of the two.
Lulu was a proud girl, and Mrs, Gor¬
man’s look of inquiry every time they
now met was hard to bear. Matters
reached a climax on the day when
Belle Incautiously said:
“I have been scolding Clarence about
you, Lnlu. I tell him he will rue his
Indifference when It is too late.”
“Indeed!” Lulu's laugh was rather
forced. “And what did my lord say?”
“O, that he was sure of you, or some¬
thing of the sort. He is abominably
conceited though he is my brother.”
“Are not all men so?” asked Luftt,
lightly; but her eyes were like tparks.
When at 8 o'clock next evening Clar¬
ence called to see Miss Brandon, the
maid informed him that she had just
‘Went out with Mr. Lawrence.” Again
the green-eyed demon seized the tardy
wooer, and this time it wonderfully
quickened ills latent love. He resolved
to ask fhe important question at once.
Early the next morning he went to the
home of his sweetheart, only to find
that she had gone out for the day.
Clarence was seriously disturbed. He
felt that something was wrong. If he
could only see Lulu for a few minutes
matters would be settled to his satis¬
faction, be assured himself. But, alas!
that little word, “if,” has often proved
a barrier stronger than prison walls er
iron bands.
For weeks he was baffled in every at¬
tempt to see Miss Brandon alone, until
he was forced to admit that she pur¬
posely sought to evade a meeting with
him. This only made him more eager
and determined to bring one about, but
more than two months elapsed before
he succeeded in securing the long and
much desired interview'. At last he
wrote her a note, requesting somewhat
Imperatively to be allowed to see her
privately. The reply was brief, simply
stating that she would receive him that
evening at 8 o’clock.
Promptly at the time designated
Clarence entered the familiar parlor
and was greeted cordially by Lu, who
yet evaded the accustomed lover-like
caress.
“ ‘Great minds run in the same chan¬
nel,’ Clarence. At the moment I re¬
ceived your note I was writing you an
Invitation to call.”
This little speech quickly dissipated
the suspicion which had arisen In his
mind at his reception, and he resolved
to state the object of his call without
delay.
“Dear Lulu,” he said, taking her hand
in his, “I have come this evening to
ask you to name an early date for out
marriage. I want my wife as soon as
possible."
She allowed him to retain her hand,
but the crimson deepened upon the fair
cheeks as she replied:
“Clarence, I have something to say
which may give yon pain. During the
last few years I have been dimly com
scious that we are not exactly suited to
each other, although a month ago I
should have Indignantly refuted such
an Implication from any one else. I am
now fully convinced that if united we
should not be happy. More than this,”
here she spoke very softly and tender¬
ly, “I have been mistaken In the object
of my affection, and I now know that
I have never truly loved any one but
Sidney Lawrence.”
Speechless and pale Clarence's eyes
sought hers beseechingly. At last he
realized the magnitude of his love for
the woman his selfishness had put for¬
ever from his life. But he read no hope
in her face, and in silence he rose and
left her.
Years have passed since then. Clar¬
ence Curtis has never married, and the
gossips say the handsome bachelor si¬
lently worships the wife of Sidney
Lawrence.—-Waverley Magazin e.
‘ - .rerr, .ger than o
■Is more sue
crowd together.
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTS’ AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
WRIGTHSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, MAY
ET AL.
VIEWS OF OUR UNJOINTED
SOCIAL SYSTEM.
Clippings From Various
Kowspapers Which Tend to Show Up
McKinley Prosperity, in Its True
Light.
The fortune of John D. Rockefeller
is supposed to have increased $25,000,
000 in a single night by the recent rise
in Standard Oil 6tock. His daily in¬
come is already placed at $41,095.
A Toledo dally newspaper thus gaily
holds up the reverse of the picture:
“The tramps are getting desperate
again. One Btole a goose from Henry
Pusteoska and sold it to Landlord
Weiting last week and then hung
around to be arrested. The mayor sent
him out of town. Another tramp broke
lights in the billiard hall because
Sheriff Winters would not lodge him
and now he is lodged at the expense of
the county.”
In an account of a railroad wreck the
San Francisco Examiner says:
About an hour after the bridge fell
it occurred to somebody that it might
do no harm to cut young Leland out of
the wreck. He seemed to be alive.
Half an hour after an axe was found
and the wounded man was extricated.
Fifteen minutes afterward he died.
Shortly before the end the dying tramp
opened his eye—he had only oue, the
other having been gouged out when
the car went down.
“Friend,” said he to a stranger who
was bending over him. I’d like some¬
thing.”
“What would you like” ho was asked.
“I’d like some bread.”
Then he ceased to hunger, for he
ceased to breathe.
That the daily press take the com¬
mon people for idiots is emphasized
every day, but the Chicago Tribune of
recent date emphasized that fact a lit¬
tle more than usual. In an editorial
headed “The Return of Prosperity,” it
dwells lovingly and vividly on pros¬
perity now among the people. As
evidence it quotes the higher price of
wheat and its Increased shipments
abroad, but how making me or any
other workingman pay more for bread,
and shipping tons of flour away from
the millions at home whose hunger is
never satisfied, constitutes prosperity,
I confess I am not bright enough to
understand, says J. A. Way land. “Rail¬
road earnings,” it says, “are over 17
per cent larger than last year.” This
fact does not evidence prosperity half
so much as it does that improved ap¬
pliances are enabling the roads to do
17 per cent more work without either
an increase in the number of employes
or the wages paid. Besides, as the
majority of our railroad bonds are
held in foreign countries, an increase
in earnings should be hailed with more
joy abroad than at home. The Trib¬
une then devotes a stickful to dwell¬
ing on the enormous demand for iron,
It probably does this because the next
six lines admit that thousands of cot¬
ton operatives are unemployed and lack
bread, “owing,” it says, “to southern
competition and no demand for the
goods.” This last sentence Is true. But
if the people are so prosperous as you
infer, Mr. Tribune, why don’t they bay
the clothes they so badly need (I’d
like a suit myself) and start the de¬
mand to demanding? As the gold
standard which you uphold allows the
competive system to remain, won't the
southern mills continue to compete,
and southern Iron works, and western
farms, against the small eastern ones?
Is this the prosperity you are so proud
of, Mr. Tribune, that allows thousands
of human beings to suffer for neces¬
saries of life? The “prosperity" of the
present industrial system is being
weighed, and it is found sadly want¬
ing.
The condition of the laboring people
in New England is alluded to by Sena¬
tor Lodge as a national calamity on
account of the encouragement it fur¬
nishes to demagogues. The dema¬
gogues, we are told, take advantage of
the misery of the people to preach
“dangerous social theories.” This
means that when the “demagogues”
tell the people that a social system
like ours is productive of misery for
the masses, the prevailing misery must
seem like a confirmation of their words,
says the Twentieth Century. But to
the capitalistic mind the things which
confirm the statements of the agitator
are to be taken simply as evidence of
the dangerous and delusive nature of
the agitator’s teachings. The misery
which exists among the working peo¬
ple of New England is not to he re¬
gretted for Its own sake. It Is t# be
regretted “chiefly as the opportunity
of the demagogue, who profits by in¬
dustrial depression to propagate delu¬
sions.” We have yet to learn what
adequate motive such a creature as the
capitalists call a demagogue can have
for existing. He is portrayed jn lurid
colors as an Individual with a noisy
voice and a wild air. But what does
he get his delusions from? And what
are those delusions? The demagogues
we read about spend most of their time
in declaring that the lot of the poor Is
miserable and inequitable. It should
require no overweening art to persuade
the masses of the truth of such “delu¬
sions,” particularly If they live In New
England just now.
Dangerous to Republics.
‘•Neither will I remind you thai debt
la the fatal disease of republics, the
first thing and the mightiest to under¬
mine governments and corrupt the
people.”—Wendell Phillips.
TO NTS FROM THE PRESS.
“Satan finds some mischief still for
Lands to do.” says Watt?. This
Is about the only standing offer of a
that there is left these days.—In¬
dustrial Advocate.
There is nothing in the report that
General Lee was assassinated in Ha¬
vana. Had the rumor been true, the
administration would now probably be
taking steps to hold a post mortem ex¬
amination on the remains in order to
ascertain if the fatality could not he
attributed to an accident.—Kern Coun¬
ty Californian.
“Jubilate Deo!” Loud’s villainous
bill to suppress progressive literature
has been killed by 162 to 119. “The an¬
nouncement was greeted by bursts of
applause."—San Francisco Star.
When a deserving person dies of
starvation in this land of plenty, the
crime lies at the door of somebody.
It were better to be a “dog and bay
the moon” than be the one upon whose
shoulders rests the responsibility of
such a crime.—Pacific Union Printer.
Senator Hanna says the sinking of
the Maine was an accident. Most
Americans independent of politics con¬
sider Harfna’s election a calamity. So
misfortune after misfortune strikes us.
—San Rafael Sun.
Have we become a nation of Shy
locks, that national honor can be main¬
tained and the righteous wrath of the
people appeased with Spanish gold?
What a spectacle! the president in case
Spain Is found guilty of blowing up
the Maine will demand only millions.
Can murder be atoned with filthy
lucre? Honor is worth but little when
it is measured in gold.—Phoenix Ga¬
zette.
Now that McKinley 13 president and
a disgraceful war is being carried cu
at our front door, innocent people are
being butchered and commerce pros¬
trated, McKinley refuses to take any
action to put a stop to the war for
that it may make securities in
his moneyed saviors are
fluctuate. Finally, when the subject
thrust upon him in such a way that
can no longer escape It, he
that Cuba be purchased. It is
money all the time. The United
under this man who has achieved
high position with money, feels
patriotism, $ willing to endure
and is not disturbed by having a
vessel blown up and 25?! brave
destroyed. He simply suggests
Cuba buy Cuba, and the United States
guarantee the payment. If this is
the culmination of mendacity and
pusillanimity, then we should wait
the next communication from the
house to get it.—Cleveland Recorder.
The bondholders and the breadwin¬
ners are two separate and
classes of people. The bondholder
a citizen and a patriot. Tho breadwin¬
ner is also a citizen and a patriot. Our
dear, good government, which jails its
producing classes when it finds them
out of employment and money, has a
very tender regard for the foreign
holder of bonds, who is.not a citizen
and presumably not an American pa¬
triot. For the war it takes the lives
of the toiling poor, but not the lives
of the rich; neither does it take one
cent of their cash. On the contrary,
it borrows from them at an exorbitant
rate of interest. By what strange
process of civilized reasoning does it
arrive at the conclusion that the dollar
is greater than the life? Why is it
that one class of patriots Is drafted for
a service extremely dangerous to lifj
and limb, while another class of pa¬
triots may test in li»ury at home,
drawing a revenue from an investment
of cold, inert metal ?—Coming Nation.
Just the Same.
Yes, you hate to be bought and you
hate to be sold,
And you hate to be forced to pay Shy
lock in gold,
You hate the hard times, hut you’re
hound to die game,
You hate ’em—hut you vote for ’em
just the same.
You hate politicians that swagger and
rant,
You hate a good deal of tho old party
cant.
You hate a large share of the ticket
you name—
You hate it—but vote for it just the
same!
You hate to be trampled in a financial
way,
And you hate giant frauds going on
day by day,
You curse in your soul the corruption
you blame—
You curse it—and vote foj it just the.
same!
You long for good laws and prosperous
times,
And you want to see boodlers sent up
for their crimes,
You want more reforms than we’ve
space here to name.
But—you never vote for them Just the
same!
You hope for a change, and you pray
for relief,
And you swear you’ll bring partisan
schemers to grief,
Then you march to the polls to put
blockheads to shame
But—vote tho old ticket again just the
same. —Ex,
The Tree Is in Danger.
If the roots do not eat and drink, the
tree dies. The roots are the poor.—
Zola.
OP ADYENTUKE*
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
An Old BhiUavl’jj Hairbreadth Escape
From a Tiger in India-^Garried Oft and
Buried Alive by the Animal—Onick
tritted Sailor Bads on Uncle Sam’s Ships
I knew an old shikari who had
fought many a battle with tho royal
Bengal tiger, aud had many a hair¬
breadth escape from the latter’s jaws.
One lino afternoon, having nothing
better to do, he went out fishing with
half-a-dozen of his friends—this is
not going to be a fish story, but a
real, live tiger story, the fishy part
coming in only incidentally. They
chose a small river some couple of
hundred yards in width. One bank
of the river was flat and open, but the
other was somewhat undulating aud
shrubby—in fact, it was adjacent to a
jungle. The fishers sat in a row
about ten paces apart on the former
bank; each had a loaded gun by his
side as a precaution against unwel¬
come intruders. Now, our friend
heard a swish aud, turning round, be¬
held his rod scudding along the sur¬
face of the water like a racing-yacht.
Such a catch was worth a little exer¬
tion; so he plunged into the water and
struck out for the rod. lie came up
with it almost at the other side of the
river, but at. that instant a terrific roar
was heard, a tiger leapt on the swim¬
mer from the neighboring bush, and
was off with him before his startled
companions could raise a finger on his
behalf.
The shikari v/as a little stunned by
the tiger’s onslaught; he recovered
consciousness, however, in a few min¬
utes, when he found himself lying on
the tiger’s back, and in full sail to¬
wards the heart of the jungle. For¬
tunately, he was not seriously hurt,
the tiger had gripped him by tho arm
just the elbow. There he lay,
quite lK'ftless; what was he to do?
made Any movement on his part might have
his condition far worse; so he
lay perfectly quiet, and shut his eyes
as if he were dead. Soon, however,
the tiger arrived at his den,
was no more than a hollow scooped in
the sand at the foot of a large tree.
There the tiger deposited him
covered him over loosely with
sand. Luckily for him, his face was
uppermost when he fell, otherwise
would have had no other
between death by suffocation
death from the tiger if he had
to move. As it was, he could
to breath gently, and even to have
occasional glimpse under his eyelids.
After this operation of partial burial,
the tiger ran ahead a f#w yards,
returned instantly, as if he had
misgivings in his mind. Seeing,
ever, all safe, he bounded forth,
again returned to make
doubly sure. He kept up this
of self-persuasion for a few times, till,
feeling quite certain about the matter,
he finally went away on his mission.
After waiting a few minutes to see
that the tiger was really gone, our
shikari spraug up and climbed the
tree just over the den, and hid himself
well among the leaves. He had
long to wait for the denouement,
the tiger soon returned, accompanied
by a tigress and a couple of cubs (like
a generous and exemplary husband
and father, the tiger evidently scorned
to eat on the sly). They came along
with many a joyful, cat-like gambol in
anticipation of a great feast, and
found the den—empty! Such a la
mentation over the lost dinner then
arose as was never heard before in the
whole animal kingdom; in fact, the
tigers persisted so long in their pit¬
eous cries that our shikari began to
have some doubts as to the righteous¬
ness of defrauding the poor creatures
of their hard-earned wages; but he
was prevented from offering himself
to them in a moment of misguided
magnanimity by the thought of his
own wife and children, whose claim
upon him was obviously higher.
any rate, he stuck in the tree all
night, as it was too risky to venture
out in the ensuing darkness;
next morning, when the coast
clear, he fled home to tell me these
undoubted facts. -
Quick-Witted Sailor Lads.
A veteran officer relates to a Chica¬
go Record’s Washington correspon¬
dent what he calls “a little incident”
to show the nerve of an apprentice
boy. A division of the crew of one of
tho battle-ships was overhauling the
after magazine one day, breaking out
fixed ammunition, cans of powder and
gun-cotton, and cleaning house, as it
were, under the direction of a lieuten¬
ant aud a gunner’s mate. The latter
stood leaning over the hatch, singing
out orders to the men in the magazine,
when he accidentally knocked his lan¬
tern against the steel side of the
hatchway. The spring that held the
lamp gave way, aud it fell into tho
pit, bottom-side up and still burning,
upon the top of a large tin can of pow¬
der. The men in the pit were busy
stowing, with their backs turned, and
did not seo the accident. The lieu¬
tenant, gunner’s mate and others who
were looking over the fiatch were stu¬
pefied with horror, but, fortunately
for that ship and its crew of 500 men,
an apprentice boy had his wits with
him, and quicker than you can tell it
“shinned” down the tackle, seized the
lamp, extinguished the flame with his
fingers, grabbed tho heated can of
powder in his arms and sang out:
“You lubbers, haul me and this here
can to the deck, quick.” Two jerks
upon a rope lifted the boy anct his
dangerous burdou to the deck, and in
an instant he had east it over the side
into the sea. The commanding officer
did not complain of the loss of that
powder, aud tho boy now wears the
sword of a gunner’s mate.
“It was only the other day,” said
another officer, “that another gunner’s
mate, by a hit of swift head and band
saved one of the battleships of
North Atlantic Squadron, which is
cruising around Key West, from
awful peril in which it was placed
sheer carelessness. The ship was
iu big-gun praotice at sea,
solid shot were being fired from
main battery. The gunner’s mate
to was stationed in the con¬
Hie big with the skipper. One of
guns was loaded with a solid
and the skipper was about to
'-he electric button held iu his
vhon the boy noticed that the
breech of the gun was not locked. He
have let loose a yell of warning
that would have startled the skipper
caused a contraction of the mus¬
of the hand that would have
the button and discharged the
but he had too much sense for
that. He did not utter a souud, but
with a quick spring he seized the'elec¬
tric wire aud broke it with his hands,
cutting the circuit, Then he
sank on the floor of the conning-tow
without a bit of blood in his face
and as weak as a kitten. The skipper
thought he had fallen in a faint or had
gone crazy, but the boy recovered
in a moment and explained
how near the captain had come to rak¬
ing his own deck with a solid shot. II
that gun had been fired very little of
the ship would would have been left,
and 100 or 200 or more, including the
captain, would have gone on the list
of casualties.”
Captured a liig Buck Single-Handed.
Word has been received of the won¬
derful capture of a big live buck sin¬
gle kauded and without weapon or
trap in Upshur County, W. Va., by
George Lalham. He secured the ani¬
mal barehanded because it is now un¬
lawful to shoot dear in West Virginia.
When the last legislature made the
law they did not calculate upon any
one like Lalham capturing a big deer
by mam strength. His feat is with¬
out parallel in the State.
Lalham was at work in a lumber
yard, when he heard some dogs run¬
ning away over in the woods, and all
at once he saw a fine buck coming full
speed up the valley. It passod him
within a short distance and he gave
chase. It ran a mile up the valley,
when two shepherd dogs, belonging to
a firmer, joined iu pursuit. It would
run a long distance, then stop and
fight off the dogs, and in that, way
Lalham kept within comparatively
close distance of it. A mile farther
up the valley it was chased by the
dogs to where a farmer was working in
the fields, and then stopped to fight
the dogs again. The farmer was afraid
to taokle the animal, but another
farmer, named U k.er, who had joined
the chase, came up to it, when it
reared ou it hind feet and made for
him.
By this time Lalham appeared on
the scene, and as Baker made quick to
get out of the buck’s way Lalham tried
to catch it by the legs, but missed and
received a knock on the head from the
animal’s hoofs, but he was not hurt,
and pluckily he continued the pursuit.
He grabbed at his leg again and this
time got a hold, and when it struck
at him with another hoof it went over
upon the ground, and Lalham on top
of it. The animal was exhausted, aud
Lalham got it into a sled, thinking he
had a fine pet, but that night it died.
The animal was overheated, and Lal¬
ham thinks its swimming through the
icy waters of a creek in its flight
caused its death. The hero of the
chase is having the buck’s hide tanned
for a rug.—Washington Star,
Pyramidal Pirates.
A writer in the Sphinx, of Cairo,
Egypt, his gives this amusing account of
experience with the Arab guides
that attended his ascent of the Great
Pyramid. In taking the visitor to the
top, he states, the rascals wait till they
get him about half way up on some
particularly “skeery” portion of the
ascent, obviously what the latter-day
novelists call the psychological mo
ment, and make a unanimous demand
for baksheesh. One does not feel like
begrudging a few piastres at suoh a
moment. Your glance strays uneasily
down the appalling length and breadth
of that huge, steep stairway of jagged
boulders, and you shudderingly won
der how many piastres it would take
for repairs to your anatomy if you
were to take an impromptu toboggan
slide to the bottom. To keep up their
enthusiasm and give them an object iu
getting you back alive you promise
them something. You find the whole
village waiting for yon with open
palms at the bottom. They swarm
over you like Siberian wolves on a be¬
lated traveler, whine aud bully you
out of all your change, your last cigar¬
ette, everything you’ve got, aud then
nearly mob you for not baring more.
You shake off the last of your pur¬
suers at tho doof of the hotel, pull
yourself together with a sigh of relief
and journey homeward, vowing that
things will bo largely otherwise and
better managed before you appear
amid (he pyramids again.
Curious iilorriase Customs*
A curious marriage custom obtains
in the island of Hitnla, just opposite
the Island of Rhodes. Tho Greeks,
by whom it is peopled, earn their liv¬
ing by sponge fishery. No girl in
this island is allowed to marry until
she has brought up a certain number
of sponges, which must be taken from
a certain depth. In some of the other
Greek islands this demonstration of
ability is required of the men, and if
there are several suitors for tho hand
of a maiden her father bestows her
on tho man who can dive best and
bring up the largest number of
sponges.
Costliest Cablegram,
Sixteen thousand dollars is the
record price paid for a cablegram, that
price having been paid for a message
sent by Heniker Heaton to Australia
iu behalf of the British Parliament.
NO. 12.
AGRICU LTURAL TOPICS.
A Thought For Farmers. v
Here is a thought for farmers wh®
sell eggs and poultry: Our cold stor*
age m.au bred lately invested about $100 in
pure poultry, with the intention
of getting male birds introduced
among the farmers’ flocks. He says
one who is not in tho business can
form no idea of the number of small
eggs that come to market. The num¬
ber of dozen “seconds,” or eggs that
will not bring the top price, is simply
incredible. This man purchases car¬
load after carload of eggs, and ha
claims that scrub stock aud the ne¬
glect to iutroduce new blood is the
cause of this loss,—Home and Farm.
KSS The Hotbed.
Glass gives more -warmth to hotbed#
than auy other covering, but where
plants are desired to be grown that are
somewhat hardy, such as lettuoe or
early cabbage, a light frame covering
made of oiled muslin answers well and
is cheap. It can be prepared by
stretching the muslin and painting it
on both sides with boiled linseed oil.
It is claimed that cheap frames, cov¬
ered in this manner, can be success¬
fully used for forcing strawberry
plants. fresh horse If a warm hotbed should is be required plaoea
manure
at the bottom of the frame and oovered
with rich soil that has been sifted.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Burned Lime As a Fertilizer*
Wherever limestone abounds it. will
pay farmers to take some of thes#
stones and subject them to as intense
heat as possible. This decomposes
tho lime in the stoue, turning it white
and making it into fine powder by
putting water ou it. This makes au
excellent fertilizer. It may be
thought that lime is not needed oa
land where limestone abounds, But
in its natural state limestone dissolves
by rains much too slowly for the best
growth of crops. Lime is a necessity
for the wheat crop. It is also valua¬
ble in the garden, especially for cab¬
bages, which require it to prevent)
them from becoming club rooted,
■when grown on tho same land too fre¬
quently.—Boston Cultivator.
Farm Manure.
We farmers all know that the ma¬
nure made by our various domestis
animals upon the farm is the best all
around fertilizer we can get for all
crops. But manure varies very wide¬
ly according to how it is made and
kept; and we must estimate carefully
all the facts*in the case iu determin¬
ing what a given quality of manure i#
worth to us. Especially is this trua
when the farmer is to purchase ma¬
nure from city stables or other outside
sources. Obviously some manure is
easily worth double, yes, three times,
what some other grades would be
worth. Now, what makes good ma¬
nure? In the first place we must feed
the horse or cow, or other stock, upon
rich manurial feeds,if -we are to secure
rich fertilizers in the droppings.
Bran, oats, linseed, cottonseed and
gluten meals, clover hay, pea hay and
grain are all foods that have high shall ma¬
nurial values. Consequently, we
get much better manure by feeding
these foods in reasonable proportion
than if we should feed straw or tim¬
othy hay exclusively. Then the quan¬
tity of foreign or bedding material
mixed with the manure influence#
value very largely. A cord of manure,
largely straw, would represent a very
low money value, whereas the more
or less clear dung shows a high proportion# money
value. Yet straw in proper
in manure is all right. It absorb#
liquids and gives to the soil an abund¬
ance of humus, which is good to hold
moisture and lighten the soil._— M.
Perkins, in The Epitomist.
’
Seeding Clovef.
Clover is one of the best forag#
crops that can be grown on our farms,
aud it is one of the evidences of im¬
proved farming when a rotation of
crops includes clover and manuring,
for this means a minimum of waste in
the matter of farm fertility. Clover
seed is comparatively hoped that cheap at reader pres*
eut, and it is every
will be able to sow as muoh as a
bushel of it at least. We have found,
flax the best nurse crop for clover,’
since it is out of the way early in the
season, and the habit of the flax plant
is such that it parts with the leaves a#
the process of ripening goes on. Thi#
benefits ting in the the sunshine young clover and thus plant harden¬ by let«|
ing it to a full exposure later off, Th#
ground should be well prepared as a
seed bed for clover, and labor ex¬
pended in this direction will be amply
repaid in the tax yield. The clover
seed may be mixed with the flax seed
or other grain in the desired propor-’
tion before going done to in the field. Thi#
mixing can be elsewhere, a bin, on th#
barn floor or only let it
bo thoroughly done. If the ground
lias been reduced to a fine tilth, ther#
is little danger of getting the olover
seed too deep, even if the cultivating
shovels o£ the seeder are used. Th#
best results in sowing olover have
came when the seed was covered
about one and a half or two- inohetr.
Like other seeds, the germinating
process depends upon the amount of
moisture in the soil. In a wet seed¬
ing season, clover, as well as wheat,
oats, etc., will start and grow when
lying on the ground, without any cov¬
ering at all. But such growth, fol¬
lowed by a dry spell, is pretty apt to
meet disaster.—Nebraska Farmer.
Russia’s Wool Supply. '*
Russia lias 60,000,000 sheep, of
one-fourth are merinos, aver¬
six pounds of wool each, and
the 450 woolen mills of European
employ 50,000 workmen, and
goods valued at 45,000,000
rubles.
Coldest Hour At 5 o’ClooK. ,1
Taking all the year around, th#
coldest hour of the twenty-four is 5
o’clock in the morning,