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DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1883.
A APELE
1OU ABE
SEXTANT.
TO TEE
BY A. GASPER.
[This poem ought to he printed every year
or so, on an average, and then its lessons will
not he too well learned.]
O Sextant of the mectlnouse which sweeps
And dusts, oris supposed to! and makes fires,
And lites the gas, and sumtimcs leaves a screw
loose,
In whieh case it smels orful—wus than lam-
pile
And wrings the Bel and toles it, and sweeps
paths;
And for these servases gits $100 per annum;
Wieh them that thinks deer let em try it;
Gil tin up before starlite in all wethers, and
Kindlin tie. s when the wether is as cold
As zero, and like as not groan wood for kind
lies,
(I wouldn’t he h'erd to do it for no some;)
B t o Sextant, there are one kormodity
VTuth more than gold which don’t cost nothin;
Wutts more than anything creep;: the Sole oi
Man!
I moan power Are, Sextant, I mean pewei
Aro!
O it Is’ plenty out o dores, so plSM-y It doant no
What on airth to dew with itself, but llizo
about
Scaterin leaves and bloin off men’s hats;
, In short its jest as free as Are out dores;
But O Sextant ! in our church Its scarce as
piety,
Scarce as bankbils when ajunts beg for mis-
huns,
Wieh sunt say is purty often, taint nothing to
me.
What 1 give aint nothin to nobody; but 0 Sex
tant !
You shot 500 men, women and children,
Speshily the latter, up in a tite place.
Some has had broths, none of em aint too
sweet,
Sum is fevery, sum is scrolius, sum has had
teeth,
And sum hnintnone, and sum aint over clean;
But evry one of em brethes in and out and out
and in
Say 50 times a minnet, or 1 mllion and a half
broths an hour;
Now how long will a cherch full of Are last at
that rate?
-I ask you; say 15 minnets, and then what's to
bo did?
Why then they must bretlie it all over agin,
And then agin and so on, til each has took it
down
At least 10 times and let it up agin, and whats
more,
The same individihle doant, havthe privilege
Of br.-thiu his’own Are and no one’s else.
Each one must take wotever comes tq him.
-OSextant! doant you know our lungs is bcl-
lusses’
To bio the tier of life and keep it from
Coin out; and how call b’eliusses bio without
wind?
And aint wind Are? I put it to your konsbens.
Are is the same to us as m lk to babies,
-Or water is to lish, or pendlums to c:ox,
“~-ir mobs and airbs unto an Injun Doctor,
Or llttlg pills unto an omepaih,
Or Boze to gurls. Are is for us to brethe.
What signifies who preaches ef I cant brethe?
What’s Pol? What’s Pollus to sinners who
are ded?
Ded for want of broth? why Sextant when we
dye
Its only ooz we cant brethe no more—that's all.
And now o Sextant! let me beg of you
To let a leetle Are into our cherch;
(Fewer Are Is seitin proper for the pews,)
And dew it week days ami on Sundys tew—
It aint much trubble -only make a hoal
And then the Are will come iu of itself,
(It loves to come in whore it can git warm.)
A nd o how it will rouse the people up
Ann sperrit up the preeeher, and stop garps
bind yoms ana fijjilr- as eftect<jwt--n=-«.
(tesL-oaTE8-dr,J»JiSfci:;3-ttJe Profit teltf
Of. o
—Mrs. ArabellaTnilson. in Christian Weekly.
PUSH AND PLUCK.
efforts in bis behalf by immediately
tumbling himself over the hedge, where
he lay concealed.
As the thing came near it ran to the
side of the road opposite to which Jim
had turned his horses, and there fell to
pieces, and while one part of it leaned
against the fence, the other, in the shape
oi a well-looking, blue-flanneied boy,
ran toward Jim.
“Oh—did I frighten your horses?”
he cried, in a tone of frank politeness.
“Well, I’m sorry. 1 ought to have stopped
sooner, hut where I live the horses are
getting used to them and I didn’tthink.
Whoa, now—poor fellow,” patting
them, and the well-meaning creatures
looked ah immediate recognition of the
friendly voice and touch.
“What have you got there?” asked
Jim, looking in great curiosity at the
thing leaning against the fence.
"‘ A bicycle—havn’t you seen any? I
guess there are not very many about yet,
but my father’s amacliineman and that’s
how I came by the luck of getting one.
We’re boarding at Farmer Merrivale’s
down there, and I can make the distance
out here in loss than no time. ” This was
indefinite, but .it was three miles, aud
Jim had seen for himself how like a
thing of life the wonderful skeleton
steed moved. He examined it with
thoughtful eyes.
“It doesn't have to eat, does it?”
“No,” said the boy, laughing, “only
alittle oil once in awhile.”
But its cost was beyond that of a
pony. Jim watched in delight and
longing as it, with its owner, were
spinning down the road, while Pat crept
from his hiding-place with many an ex
clamation over the “wan-legged wheel-
barry.”
From that hour Jim had never given
up the idea of possessing a bicycle,
ancl in dreams had seen more than
one picture of himself flying over the
roads carrying on his back a bag of
mail-matter and a sachel of school
books.
“Push—push—push! Yes, it’s got to
be push all the time with me if I’m ever
going to amount to anything, and I’m
bound 1 will!”
Jim Brand drew as close as he could
to the little end window of the garret in
which he slept, trying to catch the. last
rays of light on his worn book.
“It’s a tussle!” he presently ex
claimed, looking off into a dark corner
of the room, with a face which showed
a mind hard at work over some knotty
/roblem. “If I only had some one to
show me a bit! The words aro all
• straight enough—I’ve got them pat, but
where the sense comes in’s more than I
can see. ‘The square of the hypothe-
nuse of a right angle triangle is equal to
the squares of the other two sides.’ To
be sure, but how to get at it is what
beats me.”
Jim closed the book, one he had dip
ped into because he had exhausted
everything else within his reach. But
the expression cf full determination to
conquer some day what now baffled him
was fixed on his bright, homely face
and seemed to extend to every stout
limb of his stubby frame. The boy’s
sturdy resolve to obtain an education
grew and throve under what might be-
considered great disadvantages, were it
not that it has been abundantly proven
by many brilliant examples that to the
best order of minds obstacles seem only
to furnish stepping-stones to higher suc
cess.
He lived with his widowed mother in
a small country village, and for the last
two years had worked for a farmer—
hard work, poor pay and a scant taste
of schooling in the winter. His aspira
tions now were for something better in
the way of instruction than tlie country
school afforded. Four miles away, in a
larger town, was a good teacher, and
Jim wanted now to stay <jt home, study
harder and recite to this man, but how
to accomplish this he could not see, for
he must still earn his living and help his
mother.
A tri-weekly mail was carried
through their village, it being off any
regular routes. The carrying of this
had been offered to Jim and had excit
ed him greatly, for the same road would
take him to the teacher he was anxious
to reach, thus enabling him to kill two
birds with one stone. But difficulties
were in the way. A scrubby pony had
been placed at his disposal for a very
low price —his carefully hoarded sav
ings would cover it—but its keep was a
serious matter. Jim had been cherish-
ishino-another project for a year past
Last summer lie, in company with an
Irish farm-laborer, had been driving an
emutv hav-wacon along the road when
something appeared in the distance
which astonished both. It was surely
neither man, horse nor dog. It came
toward thorn with marvelous speed, and
..as it drew near developed a human, yet
inhuman, aspect which had something
frightfully comical about it. The horses
grew restless at the. uncanny sight, and
■Bin sprang to their heads, while Pat,
'iiqtly invoking the protection of the
> T wgk>A4a.ry arl (i a n untold number of
saints, 0 f faith in their
“I think I’tfgo down to the State
Fa’r next week, mother.”
“To the.Sta*e Fair, Jimmy?” she said,
in surprise. He did not olten go os a
frolic.
“Yes, I’mgomgto try if I can’t make
a little money there.”
“How, my boy?”
“I’m told the fair-grounds are more
than a mile out of the city, and that
there’s always a great demand for teams
to carry passengers to and from it.
I’ve been talking to Deaeon Granger,
and he’s willing to trust iffe with his
..-paLc_of grays, knd I’m <
Brow&fibjg nfw sprmg^WagonJand I
believe FiRmi make a go.-ts deal over
what I shall liaV&Jo pay for iteam and
wagon.” A-
“ And their keep, ana'* s ?"our own—?”
this mother and son were used to very
close calculating.
“ Yes, I think I can do it.”
He was on the alert for passengers
early on the first morning of the fair.
Exhibitors only were arriving on that
day, but he found plenty to do among
those who desired the carriage of light
articles and fancy wares. On the sec
ond day the people came pouring in
from all directions, and the accommo
dating boy With the well-governed, light-
stepping grays was in constant demand.
The third day was brilliant in sunshine,
and city and fair-grounds and the space
intervening seemed alike overflowing
with the busy, merry, chattering crowd.
About the middle of the forenoon
eame a lull in Jim’s work, the arriving
stream having about ceased and the re
turning one not yet begun. Jim went
for a look at the machinery, much of
which had arrived sin e he had been
around that way before. He gazed for
a while awe-struck at the great power
eng ne, quietly moving its ponderous
arms and wheels in such fearfi '
ful strength for goo 1 or
then examining with i:
the beautiful, perfect!
proved farming implei!
attention was drawn to s'
moved in and out amof
on-lookers with almos^V^^ 111688
and lightness of a sunbeam. It was a
graceful, boyish fig-ire mounted on a
bicycle which gleamed and shone in
polished steel and nickel-plating. And
as he came nearer and sprang lightly to
the ground, Jim’s face beamed with
surprise and pleasure as he perceived
that it,was the same boy whom he had
seen more than a year before.
“Halloo!” he said, as Jim modestly
approached to look at the bicycle.
“Havn’t I seen, you before somewhere?
I have, I know; why yes, don’t you re
member the time I frightened your
horses?”
Jim was charmed by the cordial rec
ognition, and the two boys were soon in
earnest discussion over the merits of
the different machines. Harvey Glenn
was able to point out to Jim many ex
cellencies he had not before appreci
ated, laying his hands familiarly on
srune of the swift, moving intricacies
with a daring which made Jim tremble;
imp essing him deeply', too, by the in
formation that his father represented
the great machine company which had
sent a number of these magnificent
things on exhibition. The bicycle, a
model in beauty, strength and adapta
tion to the use for which it was intend-
f
wheel, during which he felt as if he or , fo / "’flat was justly his due, ancl would,
his fairy steed, or both, had taken : course, liave^been wdlingiy paid for
wings, the big wheel’ began to wabble
unreasonably and Jim to incline wildly
first to one side and then the other.
Then the little wheel grew skittish, and
as it rose obstreperously behind Jim
went down defore, amid shouts of good-
humored laughter.
But it was hushed all of a sudden,
tor there came a loud and terrible
sound wh'ch struck fear to every heart
—a stunning report, then quick rend
ing—tearing—crashing. And as Jim
gathered himself up, dazed, deafened
and bewildered, cries of alarm and suf
fering arose on the one moment of
dread silence which had followed the
shock. It was some little time before
those who gathered frantically' around
couuld understand that a steam-boiler
had exploded with awful violence, deal
ing destruction and death among the
assembled multitudes, but it was only
a breathing time before a wail of
anguish went up from stricken cecs
whose own had been smitten down at
their very sides.
J m was blinded by quick coming
tears as he bent over the apparently
lifeless form of his just now joyous
companion. A dark iine of bfood slow
ly trickled from under his hair, and
Jim turned half faint as he saw blood
gathering under him on the grass. He
was about to raise a cry for help when
a tall man knelt down by the boy with
a white face and trembling hands.
Tearing open his coat he applied his
ear to his chest.
“I am a physician,” said another
man, hurrying up, and together- they
made a hasty examination of injuries
which were found to be serious but not
probably fatal.
“What shall I do?” said Harvey’s
father, looking about him in distressed
perplexity'. “I ought to take him to
the hotel at once—and then again, I
ought to be seeing after more of these
poor souls—and the mischief my wares
have worked.”
,,If you will trust him with me,”
said the physician, “I will go and take
care of him. See, there are already
-more doctors than uat'ents here.”
Harvey opened his eyes.
“Yes—I ll go, father. Dont be anx
ious—I’ll soon be all right.”
Mr. Glenn asked Jim to run for a
hack which stood a little distant, from
them. But as he pointed to the
wounded boy witlva few eager words
the driver stood stolidly and sb ok his
head.
•b»— I can’t j have my carriage
otWv .yfeji-1
v, In vt cl I" ..1,.. ! h i A .
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. can 6
his most valuable services in 'a ‘time of
such a need. The loss would throw
him back a year, perhaps more, in bis
pursuit of learning. But he was made
of the stuff which occasionally sends a
boy from the prairie or the log cabin to
the White House—more of them to high
p aces in civil and military life, and,
perhaps, better, sends boys all over the
length and breadth of the land to fill
worthy p aces as exemplars of all that
is noble and honorable in American
manhood. .
Arrived at home he made terms for
the complete putting in order of the
wagon. This, with his horse hire, used
up a Title more than he had made at
the fair before the accident occurred.
“Halloo, here—Jim? You’re Jim
Brand, ain’t you?”
r “Yes,” said Jim, thus hailed by a
farm-hand who drove up to his moth
er’,s cate and spied him at work in the
garden.
“ Well, here then.” He turned away
a, Jim took a bulky letter from his
hand,
“Any answer?” shouted Jim.
“Guess not. Not as I was told of.”
Jim carried it in the house and sat by
his mother as he opened it. This was
nearly a month after his venture at the
fair.
Several sheets of paper, headed each
with the device of a steam-power and
business-like lettering, were covered on
one side with boyish-looking hand
writing. From among these fell a
small piece of paper. Jim had never
seen many like it, but h’s hand shook
as, first looking at it, he passed it to his
mother.
This was the letter;
“Deaf. Old Fellow: Father wanted to
write to you just as s-on as lie could think
straight about egrt-'-iae. An . > e ■; ed him to
wait t ill could do it, so that’s you haven’t
heard from us before. Father expected to e. 0
you again at the fair, but couldn’t find you.
Other people wanted you, too. They said you
ifi In’t go for your pay for helping folks. Why
didn’t you? You were agoose. Father’s had
quite a time finding out how to address you,
but the Merri vales told him.
•T vo been brought home, but the doctors
think Vi) have to lie still a longtime yet. L
no i t like jt. at all, but mother says it’s sure to
NUMBER 49.
Toads ami Frogs,
ed, came in for its full share of admir
ing attention.
“This is an exhibition machine,”
plained Harvey. “Most of those made
for sale are a little heavier built, for
greater strength, and a e not got up
quite so finely.”
And in the course of chat Jim con
fided to Harvey his hopes and inten
tions as to himself owning a bicycle
some day. And Harvey insisted on bis
mounting this one, giving him instruc
tions iii the way of managing it; which
Jim did, and after a levy turns of the
eojmW’t usfe it atHin to-day and
afford it.”
With a face ablaze with indignation
Jim hurried to another driver with much
the same result.
“I’m here with a party—can’t do any
thing else.” Some drivers quietly
moved their vehicles to another part of
the prounds to avoid being called on to
assist m tne removal ot wounded and
dead.
“I’ve got a light wagon,” said Jim,
going back to the doctor, almost choked
with anger. “May 1 bring that?”
“Yes—quick.”
The seats were torn out with little
ceremony. Straw was placed in the bed
of the wagon, upon which Harvey was
tenderly laid. ‘Then the horses were
led round to where other sufferers lay
and two more were added to the load.
Again Jim’s heart grew sick at sight of
torn, bleeding bodies and anxious
friends trying to improvise comforts and
bring some relief, and he turned his half
dizzy head the other way as they passed
a building in whieh he knew were lying
those suddenly called out of the sun
shine and the summer air and the busi
ness and the pleasure.
“ Come back,” whispered Mr. Glenn
Jim took his slow way to the town,
'here’s hardly one of these heathen
ers will bear a hand.”
eame back and carried two more
d men, unknown by any one
so far as he could learn. Then
,in for others whose mourning friends
followed in a carriage. At night, over
excited by the sad scenes through which
he had given such ready, self-forgetting
aid, he went to his bed, feeling as if he
never could close his eyes again. But
sweet sleep watches in kindliness on the
steps of such, and the country boy’s
rest was unbroken by dreams of the
day’s tragedy. When he awoke _ the
sun was beaming as benignly as if it
had not last shone on hearts shadowed
while time should last on what it had
then witnessed.
He first went to the hotel#t which he
had left Harvey, and was cheered by
hearing fair accounts of his condition
and that his mother had come to him.
Then he turned his attention to his
wagon, spattered and dripped with the
marks of his fearful loads of the day be
fore. It took him hours to wash it, re
quiring such an amount of energetic
scrubbing that he soon perceived that a
thorough repainting would be necessary
to put it in condition to return to its
owner. It was not fit to offer for pas
sengers now. He drove out to the fair
grounds, thinking he might see some
thing of his seats, and did, indeed, spy
what looked like them in a huge pile of
ruins from the disaster, but they were
quite beyond reach. He caught sight of
Harvey’s father, who turned at his ap
proach and gave him a warm shake of
the hand, but his attention was instant-
ex ' ly claimed again by those who passed
about him.
As Jim turned his horses homeward
he was ashamed of himself that he felt
much depressed at realizing how utter
ly his expedition had been a failure in a
money point of view. Ashamed thit
his heart, which had so stood still be
fore the woe of others, could give!a
thought to his own light loss. In his iji-
nocent respect for the afflicted he had
(not for a moment thought of applyin'
ifc oUiarig&ttmietovr <r it wouldn’t be so. Mr
mother's tiiat sort. I'm clad, sue is. 1 tiff nk -•
that sort is the best to have, when you’re in
trouble; and when you’re out of trouble, too.
“ But what I want to tell you most of all is
that the Co. —— that means, you know, ah the
folks of the machine works, think you did the
ng-nt up ana down square tning- oy tnem ana
!.y everybody else that day of the explosion.
Bo they sene you this two hundred dollars just
to make sure you didn’t lose anything by it,
and father hopes its enough, and he says you
behaved admirably, and if you ever want a
friend you’redo come to him, .and lots more of
- ?h Jletter ymyira n
ijnd liiy bi^cle wading for ybu at the railroad
illation, so you’d better g*o and get it. Father
was going to send you one himself but
yiow you needn’t mind about it at all, for I
Idon’t'believe it’s going to be so at all—but some
jbf the doctors think perhaps I won t ever ride
bicycle any more, and I’m fond of mine and
c|on’t want any other boy should have it but
you.
“ We’ll all be up to Merrivale’s next summer
and then I’ll see you. Mother says she’ll nev
er be satisfied till she sees Jim’s mother to tell
her how you stood by us that time. I can’t
write any more now. You write to me and I’ll
write again. Harvey Glenn.”
“Ho! Bother it, mother,” said. Jim
with a great assumption of indiff erence,
“ they must bo the queerest folks—mak
ing such a fuss over what you’ve done
when you haven’t done anything at all!’ ’
But “Jim’s mother” was crying as
she kissed him and thought of the moth
er whose boy might never again ride a
Bicycle, and Jim went out into a corner
of the garden and looked very hard at
nothing for a long time.
Less than a year afterward Jim, fly
ing swiitly along with a mind intent;
upon a knotty Latin construction, wa;
scarcely aware of being overtaken and
passed by something; which then van
into the side of tne road, where a bicy- >
cle fell into the grass and its rider sud- I
denly confronted him. In his over
whelming astonishment Jim entirely
lost control of his own vehicle, and
went down in the dust with it. Picking
himself up, hardly knowing whether
h s eyes did not deceive him, his hands
were warmly grasped, and two happier
boy-faces never, surely, looked into each
other.
“Harvey!”
, “Jim!”
Jim stopped to gather his books in
the little silence which followed.
“Pegging at them yet?” said Harvey.
“Yes, pushing away—but it’s slow
work.”
“Ah, but mother says you’re a chap
that’s sure to go sffitmg straight up to
the very top notch—I don’t mean, you
know, that she says just those words,
but”—his face grew grave at the
memory of the circumstances under
which he had last seen Jim, “she says
when folks push with their heads and
heartsboth they’re sure to win—and
she says you’re that sort.”—Sydney
JDavre. in Ohicaao Standard.
“ Early in the spring tlie marshes re
sound with vocal noises, which many of
you have doubtless been told were made
by frogs. I tell you, how,ever,” said
Prof. Bickmore to his attentive audience
of school-teachers at the Museum of
Natural History Saturday, “that these
sounds most always come from the
throats of toads, not frogs.” Only the
male toad sings, and, when visitors to
the country seat themselves on door
steps in the pleasant evenings of May
and June to listen to the singing of the
frogs in a neighboring mill-pond, they
are in reality listening to the singing of
male toads. The curious process of
natural development in frogs and toads
was fully described and illustrated by
Prof. Bickmore. Toads lay their eggs
on the leaves of trees or plants that
grow in the water or by the edge of
ponds. When rains come the eggs
are washed into the water, and
there they undergo successive
changes, until from little black balls
they take on the form of small animate
objects something the shape of a tad
pole. The development then rapidly
continues until full growth is attained.
At first toads and frogs live on animal
food, but as they approach their normal
condition they" evince a fondness for
vegetable food as well. Animal feeders
have very simple and straight alimen
tary canals, while in vegetable feeders
the alimentary canals assume a compli
cated form. Not only are the changes
in form among frogs and toads very
curious, but sometimes they grow
smaller after arriving at full growth.
Most of the toads have tongues, but not
all of them. The tongues are attached
to the anterior part of the mouth, and
point down the throat. A toad takes
its food into the month by a quick mo
tion of the tongue, somewhat resembling
the snapping of a whip. A frog’s skin,
the lecturer explained, is always smooth
and soft, while a toad’s skin is covered
with disagreeable-looking excresences.
These excresences are tilled with an
acrid fluid of whitish color, whieh in a
measure protects the toads from the
storks and other birds and beasts that
prey upon the frog's. Snakes are the
toads’ wtff at-enemies. A small snake
can swallow a very large toad.
Prof. Bickmore called attention to a
singular kind of toad that was found in
the northern part of South America.
When the female lays her eggs the male
toad, takes them in his hand, one by
and places them carefully upon
.other’s back. A soft glutinous
"on in the fcin causes the egjjrs to
id hero gradually they Is'nk
intolthe female’sAack and are covered
ovef by a thin sk:n. In due time the
heails and arms of young toads make
theft; way through this thin skin, and
complete birth soon follows. The Pro
fessor gave a large number of interest
ing illustrations of creatures belonging
to the class of Batraohians, and extract
ed a great deal of instructive and en
tertaining matter from a brief study, of
fossils and fossilized foot-prints in the
mud of ages gone by.—A. Y. Times.
Pass Out at the Bear Door.
A conductor of the fast train of the
Susquehanna division of the Erie Rail
way has his brakeman say, after ^an
nouncing the name of each station,
“Passengers will pass out the rear door
to the station.” Much has been said of
the desirableness of uniformity in enter
ing and leaving railway car?;, but it is
probable that it will never be secured
until trainmen adopt the plan of the Erie
conductor to whom reference is here
made. It was noticeable that almost
without exception the request as to exit
at the rear door of the car was observed,
leaving the front door of each car free
for the entrance of passengers at each
-station. The plan not only saves time,
but it prevents the jostling whieh is so
'disagreeable to everybody.—N. Y. Mail
and Express.
--The Connecticut new j£w requires
that the doors of saloons be sealed by
officials, every Sunday'.
Blasting Stumps.
A correspondent inquires for the
modus operandi of blasting stumps with
dynamite. Make a hole an inch in di
ameter, near the stump, says the South
ern CuUivatQrAygfifig at an angle of
* :g, so as to reach
the stump. This
fwith a crowbar
there be a large
essary to continue
body of the tap-
a long auger. A
ning three or four ounces
then inserted to the bot-
tom'lSifie hole and a slow match hav
ing a peculiar percussion cap on the end
is inserted in the cartridge. The hole is
then tampered with earth, and when all
is ready the outer end of the match is
lighted and the operator retires to a
safe distance. The explosion usually
not only extracts the stump from the
ground but tears it into pieces small
enough to handle easily. The dynamite
costs about forty cents per pound, so
that a three or four ounce charge with
its fuse would cost about ten cents—
making the cost of blowing up a stump
about ten cents, beside the labor.
A man who has not a piece of property
big enough to put a mortgage on is con
sidered poor.
ia Product of California.
The gold product of California, from
the discoverv eff tho precious metal by
James W. Marshall, in the tail-race of
Sutter’s Mill, January _ 19, 1848, to
Juno 30, 1’iSl, amGunteu'4<(Y.$l,170 ) -
000,000. Of this sum $9O0,U0(ktio8Msc
estimated tc have been extracted from
the auriferous placers. The remainder
represents the yield of gold-quavtz
mines, of which the State contains
many'. The yearly product, of gold iu
California is from 815,000,000 to $20,-
000,000. From the date of discovery to
1861 inclusive, the gold product of Cal
ifornia aggregated $700,000,000, derived
chiefly from the moderja river-beds and
shallow placers. A lasge proportion of
the remaining $200,000,000 has been ob
tained m the deep gravel deposits,
the hydraulic method. Strange as it
may appear, an induslry which has con
tributed so largely to the wealth of the
world, and has been the means of the
settlement and development of Califor
nia, has reached a period in its history
when it is elaimedvby a large portion of
the community to be a greater evil than
blessing, and the question of suppress
ing the hydraulic method of gold-mill
ing has been the subject of earnest dis
cussion in and out of the halls of legis
lation. The law ha.s been invoked to
suppress or control it. Even the State,
through its Attorney-General, has com
menced a suit to sunpro-s it. The
trouble grows out of the immense
amount #;jdebris which the hydraulic
miners aClff discharging constantly into
the " wafer-courses of the State. — The
Century.
—The Kennebec (Me.) Journal tell
of an old fellow who hired out to saw
wood for a maiden lady of the town, the
terms being so much money and so
much cider per day. The veteran sawed
and drank and sawed and drank, and
presently, when the lady thought he had
drank the stipulated amount, she began
to charge him for his potations at' a low
rate. The result was .that the wood-
sawyer came Out in debt, after having
manufactured enough fuel to ran a
school-house stove all winter. The poet
who said woman was an angel in dis
guise, evidential taw what he was
writing about.
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