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nvars—Red river and Kiomatia in tfjr>
I’enUcryr Tfawe m«3- are soni&> u
tasiteUeidmt aiiaa foeqaeaiiy uiustba"
are subject to rises probably
caused by the Earatoig es water-spouts
in the These risM.'are fre
quently with loos of life and
I hfd been, at Spencer but a few weeks,
’** H teecamo rwwary to «}-to
Faria. "Two wagons were ertri— Ernest
Black, a young man, driving one, my
self the other. I had been intimate with
him in Texas, but had lost eight of him
since his coming to the Nation, some
years before.
We started from Suncor early in the
morning, intending to make our noon
day halt at Kiomatia, twelve miles on the
way. The road crosses the nver ob
liquely, so that it is 300 yards/rotn where
it goes down into the stream to where it
emerges again, with high, steep banks
osteteh side.
Midway of the river, when it is low,
I* a flat, sandy island. J propoeed to
Black that we would stop hereto ludch,
•a the water would be convenient for onr
teafiis. .
“ltd•said be “I tried that once,
a»l will never do it again."
™b, s seeing my look of hfqufrv, he I
added
“Wait until we get on the ether
bank, where there is a good spring,
and. vMhffin- taaar gre «ttng,-T Wfl’.
tell you why I have such a dread of that
island."
So, while our mules were lingering
over their fodder, he gave mo the fol
lowing story of his experience with Kio
matia :
“ Two years ago I flrat began driving
tor Spencer. I had been in the Nation
tor several years, and know the country
pretty well, but was not aware of ths
tudden changes in thia river. It was, I
Kink, my third trip to Paris. Kiomatia
tad been low all sumuor, and no one
bought of a rise A yvuag lady—Miss
Ellen Cotter—hod been to Bpeuaer on s
visit, and was desirous of returning
home. As her home lay directly on my
r, <d, I offered her a seat in my wagon,
which she accepted. I was in love with
“ her then—she is my wife now—and ol
course was glad of the ■
‘ong ride and talk with her.
“ We started one on ranch such* dap
as thia, just 000 l enough to make Tbs
won ptoOsaart. When we reached Kio
!r-*tia, T stopped djlbat island to lunch.
1 oosened B>e tnutotosLmjr trom, threw
tbs mules a
and the* helpgAanaß eail^dbow*g' lll
"W. .at thee* jlfe.
for a Ummb to jp*-
"~dy to fMrOw
Wand was ooturiderably lai**r
—l. «*
I fauad that to* near was riatag rapidly.
I wan not atanaed. bat • little ar.
fswuta
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IHM!,rI ’WMww Wit) >»
word of |
nhouted to ln j-
urged on my I A.-.i, but the
nver was getriMß.Br A it WM
soon over th Am- jtag Mules dot
not like to K ymgn water end,
tn spite of my alow prog
ress. But very near
the bank, and UoFwould make
KBBSbwfiii»iJkr-
j from
fffe. I kxiked around andt |
Jo my terror that the water had ’
-w^vrapidly
">yy arllu g shout to mv team, ,
ty** force of the
rtreSnt T wax vtteffl off niy feet in a
thruftrfly t |
r to J” u 'h a along!
sitißri|iug Itethiml it; hut
thna iKgadile, thalori'u of rite Uiuhw w 4
tuo groat, I soon found Lvaa gelhtog
exhausted, and uUtnbed into tha -
bed. Jahan was mneh.teghtente. bai
calm. I reassured her tote ine . <tent,
!>▼ telling her there was <no danger,
ttiough hr from-frehag eaffruiyteft’rir I
“Two prinaipß! trtWfited
th-vmaelvte Pjfrt. fhtfVo WWWik >
teccndly, that the drift* Iff,
wns coming flown in ciJisWMwe
qnSiititita, wo«M cxysli the
■«-’< _a* 4--®')
" w the U»l wterw I too<wbtedw4
was but little danger, as the wagon wai <
1 Mriiote water-tight X|ip.
fecmeil more'scHcmß. There r vra« a Miff
1 blt >wiUg up k»pf
less
surface exposed and running deeper,
drifted faster, and kept running against
us, and every now and then gave a se
vere shocT.
" I seized a pole which was floating
by, and managed to keep off some of
, them, though aot all. J jdao irietL to
stoer our novel craft toward the L«te
but it was as unmanageable as a ferry
boat The current, for the most part,
kept us in the middle of the stream,
though every now and then we would
run close to the bank, Just but of reach
of the branches which hung down so
temptingly.
" I knew there was a ferry about thir
ty milee below us, where we would be
stopped if we could keep afloat until we
reached it. There were also houses
along ths bank, but too far off for. my
voice to have reached them, even oouid
the inmates have helped us.
“ I was but a poor swimmer; Ellen
could not swim at all, or I would have
been tempted to leave the wagon-bed,
sad make «n kttempt to reach the bank.
Naturally, too, we wished to stter in the
wagon as long se possible. It seemed a
barrier, though a frail one, between us
ami the seething waters.
“ 1 began to And the water was oom
ing in much faster than before. We
blows ol the drift bad rq aneii the seam*.
a»Ut soon became necessary to bail it
out.” To dd thla. 'T had nofmng but my
b»V an * ’* keptme b«sy, «" I wee often
SbAgwl to stop and ward off soma large
log which threatened to swamp uh. <
" While thus engaged, my eyes fell
upon something which gave me a gleam
of hop#. Thia was tha rope which I al
ways carried in the wagon in ease of w
ctdenta.
■ ‘ You know I used to lie a good hand
at throwing the iasso, anil mv knack
had not entirely left me. I thought I
might be able to throw the rope around
seme limb or log. and by that means
draw the bote to tha bank. Ellen. 1
meanwknlfr bad been etiuding in one 1
end of the wagon-be.l -it was ux> wet to
make sitting comfortahi*— mil. as I I
j ronid from her earnest face and
folded hands, praying, I hoped for me
as vraß tehaWrlt
“ Giving my hat to her and asking her
to ix*tMu> taftng. mails the rope into
a laaao. As soon as the current oarried
n, near enough to the bank, I l>egan
throwing. My *">' attempt wa* to
throw M«■ a Mtonwood Imb. In this
I wmßWeetoahiVssHi as the rope tight .
enad fa W Kafab, I felt a wild fanU of
tenltteii f lfcsc." ’ we wrrasavad .
wwbegan to near the beak,
I an enonnous log came fl- .attog down tha
stream, which we both failed to see ft
came down wfth sniffl fores thkt, as I
held on with the grip of ilesfWfr, •>-
brittle Hmb parted and dropped into the
www. I w 4wswMtd, itw tomM
JB ~-te. ■ w
Xe Crests tfGokunhia County and the State of Georgia.
lIARLEkf TUESDAY. J UNE 21. 1881'*"
J I oouid «snoy Ahrow toe rope aver an A
ctoar. Bui my sxpectatlmu ware fa'
.Wn. I throw opts sad agate, fayfadk
eoßaettaMl toe end «f« limb, sometime*
wtepitaab sateotaßSs a stam»; but fas
sriflnate.M tbs stew, with faefom
pf the wind, rsadieedaU my efforts
, etootual. Probably, too, the peril x«j
wees in BIT hwiß
“ AffamSrt* to <Wrled toW-dts
niitefe of the teream, and I went tr
p w «*■*•fa «wv ail. HUen, taking offl
BlMiilißll ft* <l, imteiiteifftsitototeJ
mi ffudkototeheM i
aw; Lui Uwas apparent
< *“*«•
, r lyj osi this part of the
tellter dfafWleMd knew thpt there was
'tms plaeeteiiere the lasso oouid probs
ally be ueodtoth advantage This was
where there was an old clearing on th*-
bank thicjdj I
" r ‘W bi 4 eteenitito '
.™ rt'xxl l
quite st the ’wale2s. wiga v touudi
ui low water oonsMijmlM atete* tk>t
strown. n|fl7[ J
“ I knew we must lie nearly level with
*T'-Bidaghi 'fbat berv> we
B
’ rinaiufft nfako lasU firttlSkiff"
ShWf '‘■’ft’fa? MWH ih toy 1
jilSV a tJtwplfMo Mort to
HBffT *'’t 9 ’ W - * f *v~ <•* »to
feafll Ui ul >a ui«
4. tno
cli-anng, ana I prepared again to Throw.
-1.. « 1 1 m 1 . wy.i
toa|r so. > »q?h ; but h< avy te<feßw ton*, ita
wwght nag Ky Ito Wfag wet,
and ■my-nfrhtet efforts wotM ■arw
tetor rtiquffU • yt-iiwe
“ I throw Lma and again, nearly
tl roWirig it wear iMtumpeuateUmaa, but
’ iffiteytT ffffllhg alilfta' iEorf. ~ "We •00 n
run by the clearing, and but one chance
seemed left to us. The wagon-l>e.l was
fast filling and would sown sink, whether
we left it or not.
“ I looked at Elton, and in that su
preme moment each read in the other’s
eyes llie lovu as yot unspoken totwivn
u«. With tha whisjiered words, ‘ Dar
ling, if I cannot save you I will die with
you," I chia|Hxl her in my arms, and was
just preparing to plunge into the river
when her dear voice said:
"•Waltr
“As she sjKika she pointed at a large
cottonwood tree, which was drifting rap
idly down stream at an angle with the
current, and nearly on us.
“ This only seemed to me a reason for
greater haste, particularly as our sink
ing craft had been caught in an eddy of
the htream and was almost stationary.
Again I started to plunge in, and again
she restrained me. Bhe told me after
ward sho had an Uutincrive belief that
the log would save us.
“So, ndead, it proved. Tt drifted
nearer the bank, until one end ran
agauiateii, *n4 on fa.lv, as a pivot, it I
swung artotnd, inclosing us between it
I and the bank.
“The tree came with such rapid:tv 1
that I feared we would be crushed
But, before it reached ua. the long
’ Itranches began to drag on the bottom,
and it eame mure slowly. Soon it struck
•1 the wagonteed, and bore tu slowly, but
stoadil/, toward the bank. In a few
moments rmwoit grontiileik, and I leap, d
orit with Ellen end made my way up the
bank.
“Not a too frxip. Scarcely
were we out oikdroktod wfan Use tr. e
I" ■ fl* 1 # 11 *4 '"•’d down th.
' ear, <Buryri< to r boat with it Tim
c‘rl!t bartly fifty yards before it sank,
just as »o turned al the top of the bank
I to get • last gluope* °f M.
| “We atade our way to a house a tew
rntles lUrtaist, where we ebtained dry i
i clothing. I hired a horse sad went
site* my-team The sue leu were well .
trained and had kept the road, until
pnaeing a house, where the ewuer knew
I them, they had Ireea eto{>|»d. . f'liej««> I
pie were just organtring * search for me
WI.M Ttdte up-,
■'Rinoe then, whenever I have tecroes
deep wste% 1 have always tied down tiia
wagon-bed; and I never stopped on tfce
| island to Kiomatia again.*
Wild Beaoonafleld was young, dis
Duke of Rutland sneered at him. Iris
rash had a long memory. Re tor nA ng
from Berlin in triumph, after years,
somebody said he would be made a
Duke. “I, a Duke I" be axoitemed, |
with feigned resentment, “ make me a
Puke I WAX. fiuUaad t » Vukff I”
I TBa syllable “lea” la olootnargariiia
I means that it ia strong as a lien.
Txk fellow who was much struck by a
1 5 onng lady wanted to return a kiss for
Ithc blow,
J h RXNKX-iN ha« Ron jamiu his philoe
iophy into everybody ever (inoe we can
tramember,
X Ihm evening had been convivial.
S' And aow,.ganUeßlcu,” said the Chair
#aan, “I'll protoee a post."
fl Wiit does the new moon remind one
aH a giddy girl? Because aho is too
to allow much reflection.
R Motto of the good collector—Never
off until to-morrow what ean be
IteMed to-day.— PMkuhlpMa Chron-
tUvKjia sod the ptpphet Elijah in an
etont but golden eagles feed the
jpphetaof the present <inj.— WMtrhall
Tirnei.
ißkbchbb says, •• Wo prav too much."
Sos eiptetns why tiie average news
Jx-ix r man’s breeches always bag al the
iMUees.
| 1 ARbooklyx fashion paper stated that
4 ‘ktaaiden'a blush" wa* a fashionable
■ at»d n<BM> of the readers had any
nKVKKir, notable happy marriages
h«te» bate a&ie Ot 1 1 wa honrs’ <w»tship,'
11 tele to kuteribe
tor‘ffßi(*#*l fhrlto fftiy.v and a p!cW>.
hate yon toad the
I "Oil, yes, unde."
i ‘‘Rell K Utotj, shut wrong did they do
.L/ltou ihay their “They
lAoid him toocheap.*'
<l* Boary yng lady, who moved to
JlfThrtuiu Wisconsin town, is du>ap|>oint
'* UflffTliWTSfli ydTing toen of' whom
1 ! she is most Fond-du-Lac culture, and
,aho is going back.—Cincinnati >Satur
aM lfight, f
\ Jr would never do to select women to
t i < iflicC. If a female Sheriff should rum
.*itrkaiduncerW I Hfciflfntne •Bto” and
, explain to his wife that she had an at
tuchmenl far Idm, there Would boa va
cancy in the ofiioe in about two minutes.
“A lutumi named Mivart will soon
i»siio a work on the cat," says the New
Haven Kegitier. We’ve done that al
-1 o ady. It was a heavy copy of Bhak
qieare’a plays, and we issued it from a
Hind-story window, and it took her
nght between the two shoulders, and we
hope it broke her blamed back.—Boston
I‘oft.
I‘atbbnxl wisdom : "Pa, what is en
i<ilage?" “ Why—h'm—ensilagv, my
mjq, ia—un-i-euailage is—oh, aomothing
like mucilage, my son ; sosMthing like
mucilage ; used to stick tilings together,
you know. There, now, run away to
your play, and don’t disturb me now,"
And that boy thinks his pa u a very «n
--cvplopadia of wiadom.
Tua teaches had grown eloquent in
picturing to his little pupils the beau
ties of heaven, and ho tumlly asked :
1 '' What kind of little boy a go to heav
en?” A lively 4-year-oM boy, with ,
kicking boots, flourished hi* flat "Well,
answer,” Mid the teacher.
bead ones 1 " the little fellow shouted,
at the extent of his Innin.
roo rir rou run cuauactkh.
Sir Julian Benedict, writing in Scrib
ner of Jenny Lnul, says of the produo-
Uun of an operatic adaptation of Sclnl
ler’n “ Bobberh'* in which she took part:
“A wide uncal circumstance quite
mitrriM what wan to be one of the inoat >
' striking scenes of thu drama. Old Moor,
who, liko King Lear, has discarded hu
younger wsd d»vw»--d eon f » the yfd r,
Fdtflz, a de man In human form, i» pun
ished for lii* oredulity by being thrust
into a dungnon by thia villalia there to
starve Ourl, the rejected sou, who has
ixxxime the chief of a band of outcasts,
di*»vera Use wbar aixrate .if fats on
happy father, wboee pna<m-di>oru be
(..roes open. Th* old man, on appear-
1 tug un the alag'-, half crazy by lux suffer
mg and f—in*, exclaims, * I am start
. lug I* Now jiere Lablache, having the
| circumference of two Falataffa rolled into
one, looked anything but a picture of
starvation, and, when he made the pite
ous appeal, naturally Mt the whole hones
roaring.
■ ■ .ii emi . ..a,. ■ - •
A MiasiMrrri planter wanted to tarp
his land into a .took farm. His neigh
bors, who stack to eotton, applied to a 1
court for an injunction to restrain him
from growing grass seed, on th* ground
‘ that the grass wpuld spread over adjoin- i
ing plantations ami until the ground
| for cotton. The injnMtaon was granted.
. Th* only railroad in Grogju U but five
or hattku.
Notwithstanding the constant return
of plant and animal to the parent earth,
all the mineral matter they contain dore
not remain where they are deposited.
Rains and rivers daily remove from the
soil a portion of the materials which are
so essential to the i»en»etuation of animal
and vegetable forms, and transport them
to the sea Thus ths natural store of
mineral food liecomes daily smaller, and
tha land in oonsequencn leas fitted for
the growth of plaiita. But for this con
tingency also there is a provision. The
solid rocks which form the cruet of the
earth contain all these essential forms of
inorganic matter in minute proportion.
As these rocks crumble and mingle with
the sod they yield constant mall sup
plies of each ingredient—of phosphoric
acid, lime, magnesia, etc., etc. These
springs, which trickle through the rooks
from above or from beneath, dissolve
and diffuse wbcr.ever they go. Thus, in
many localities, a moderate supply is day
by day brought to the suriaci to replace
that whieh, by natural causes, is con
stantly removed. And the great seas
help in this work of restoration. They
heave their lofty waves into the air, anil
break in foam, that the rough wtud may
take up and liear back again to the land
11 pirtion of the salty spoils with
the rivers are ever enriching them. Alto
tluwi, leal til are email dady restoration*
should not suooned in perpetually main
taining the necessary rii hneas of the eoil
in mineral plant-food, periods of convul
sions come at last to their aid. Orest
physical revolutions from time to time
intervene. Now all at onoe and now by
blow degreea, the bottom of the sea be
ontnea Land and water ehanga
places, OB they have often done during
Um geological history of the globe; and
after each change now races of plants
forthwith liegin to take up what rivers
mid rains have carried down into fanner
sua-beda The samo mineral matter be
gins to plky over again the samo port as
before in the constant sucsoMion of ani
mal and vegetable life h fate wo eee
another long oycle, through which car
tain ingredients of the solid earth are
over slowly moving.
A KKwararxn canvassing agent, being
told by an old lady that it was no use to
subscribe for papers now, as Mother
Rhlpton said the world was coming to
an end this year, said: “ Bui wont
you want to read an account of the
whole affair, ss soon as it comew off Y‘
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end she subscribed.
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THK rorcK or JC4JBXT.
Borne years ago the manager at a woll
regulstod theater, in a well-known town
in the Midlands, engaged a young lady
as a supernumerary. It happened that
the young lady had formerly oAciatod
in some oapeaty as a “ hand ” on board
a canal boot, a fact which ahe was anx
ious to conoeto. Bho was duly promo
tod, and fa time beoame a general favor
ite. One night, when she was to appear
in a favorite part, a couple of boatmen
found their way into the pit near the
footlights, anxious to eee the famous
oomedienße. The house was urowded
and, aipix the subsidence of tha general
applause which greeted her appearance,
one of the boatman slapped hie oom
ixnion on the shoulder and exoteimed.
loud enough to be heard over half tin
house: “Bill, I know that girl I"
“ Pshaw r said Bill. “Butlfasurol
do, Bill. It’s Bal Flukins, as sure as
anything. Bhe'a old Flukina' daughter,
that used to run the Pretty Polly, anil
she used to sail with him.” “Tom,’
said Bill, “you’re a goose." Tosn waw
silenced, but not convmoed. Be wetohed
ffte actareo in all her motions with iq
.fapse mterest, and ere long broke out
fffaiu ; t"I tell ye, Bill, that's her ; I
jreow 'tie. Yon can't fool ma. Ton
wait; keep your eye on me ” Bure
edough, he did acttiwfhc potnt. Watch
ing hi» opportunity, when the octree,-
was deeply absorbed in her part, he
sung onk fa a votuawhush rung through
the galteris*, “lx>w bridge!” From
force of habit the actress instantly and
involuntarily ducked her head to avoid
the ajiticijioted collision. Down came
the house with a perfect thunder of ap
plause at this hit,” high
shove which Toto’s voioe could be heard
“Didn’t 1 tali ye, old boy, I knowad
’twaohgrl You oouldu't fool mo."
A SM4T I»DU»TMr.
According to n resent estimate, the
number of spindles employed fa ootton
spinning, over the whole earth, is about
Qf this, in numbers,
K),000,000 belong to fcflgtand,‘lo,<WOO
to the United States, fl.OOO.OfX) to Prann,
5,000,000 to Germany, 9,000,000 to Roh
ms, 3,000,000 to Bwitserlaad, etc. For
every 1,000 inhabitants there sre : In
England, 1,180 spindles; ia Switzer
land, 075 ; m tha United States, 318 ; in
France, 135; in Germany, 108; in Spain,
108; in Holland, 57; in Sweden and
Norway, 48; in Austna-Hungary, 43; in
Russia. 80; in Italy. 35.
Nbwb, like other aaimsto matter,
when it to onoe dtopatohed to dead.