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FAWNING TO NONE-CHARITY TO ALL,
VOLUME vm
DOUGLASVILLE, GEQRGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1836-
NUMBER: 24.
Church Directo
ry.
*nd E fi ™°^^ DOTCIjASTILI ' E - Firat ' *<"?
before SFBrS0S_8600113 Sunday ’ alid balm a
MrowAY—Pourth Sunday, and Sairmlav ■
e * . W. B, JU)0 IE, Pa»toiv
BAPTisT--p o uglasvaie > first and fourth Sun
days. Key. A. B. Vaughn, pastor,
Masonic,
DoiiglasYille' Lodge, No. 289, F. A. M. .meets
on Saturday mght before the first and third
hundavs in each month. J. B. Carter. W. M.,
W. J. Camp, Secy.
M A FEDERAL SPY.
. .. ■
Obtaining Shelter in an At
lanta Bomb-Proof.
The Two Soars which Revealed His
Identity Tears Afterward.
County Directory,
Ordinary —H. T. Cooper. ,
Clerk—jJL N. Dorsett.
Sheriff-—Henry Ward.
Deputy-Sheriff—G-, M. Souter.
Tax Be ca ver—E. II. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon,
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
( Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SOTEEIOIS COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and Juh
and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
SoL Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Beid.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
8herig—Heiiry Ward.
. COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth Mon-
- v ,V 1 ?, li ' ebr ” ary > May, August andNovember
and holds until all the cases on the docket are
called. In monthly session it meets on fourth
Mondays in each month,
Judge—Hon. B. A, Massey.
Boh Gent.—fionl W. T. Boberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ordinary's court
" Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday,
and for county purposes on first Tuesday in
each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
JUSTICES COURTS.
7S0th Hist. G. M. meets first Thursday in each
month. J. I. Feelv, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P..
D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. 0.
736th Diet. G. M ., meets second Saturday.
A. B. Bomar, J. P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., S. C.
Yeager, L. C.
784th Hitt. G. M. meets fourth Saturday.
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett, N. P.,
J. 0. James and M. S. Gore, L. OS.
1253th Dist. G. M. meets third Saturday. T.
M. Hamilton. J.P., M. L. Yates, N. P., S. W.
Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan, L. 0,
1260th Dist., G. M. meets third Saturday. N.
W. Camp, J. B,, W. S. Hudson, N. P„ J. A.
Hill, L, C.
1271st Dist. G. M. meets first Saturday. C,
C. Clinton, J. P. Alberry Hembree, N. P..
, L. C,
1272nd\Dist. G. M. meets fourth Friday.
Geo. W, Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson. N. P.,
If -, L. C. S J ....
1273rd Dist. G. M. meets third Friday. Thos.
I White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J. Harbin,
L. C. ' v ‘ t- ’
Professional Cards.
. ROBERT A. IVIASSEYs
ATTORNEY AT LAW
©OUGLASVILLE, GA.'
(Office in front room, ©prsett’s Building.^
Will, practice anywhere except in the County
■Court: of Douglass county.
wTTJMs,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office on Court; House Square,
©OUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. T, ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILL^ GA.
Will practice in all the Courts, All lega
Business will receive prompt'attention- Office
in Court House,
O- D. CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVfLLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts. All business
tntrusied to him will receive prompt attention.
§. 0. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
©OUGLASVILLE, 'GA.
Will practice in nil the Courts, State and
Federal. '
JOHN m EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
©OUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to ail business entrusted to his care.
J. S. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
©OUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
Adjoining counties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
J. H. McLARTY,
attoknky vr LAW.
POUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice iii all the courts, both State and
Federal. GpRectiops a specialty.
JOHN V. EDGE. ~
attorney at law,
DOUGLAS VILLE, GA.
JOB PRINTING
NEATLY DONE
AT THE “STAR” OFFICE
During the session of an important re-
iigious body in our city I made the ac
quaintance of the Rev. Mr. Dubuque, a
delegate from one of the northwestern
states, says a writer in the Atlanta Con
stitution. What attracted me to the man
was. his amiability and meekness. Mr.
Dubuque came up to my ideal of a
preacher, and I found his companionship
very pleasant. One afternoon my west
ern friend asked me if I thought that any
ef the bomb-proofs dug by the citizens
during the siege of Atlanta were still in
existence. He desired to see one, as he
had been requested by his friends at
home to sketch it. “I know of ope that
we can reach in a ten-minutes’ walk,” I
said. Mr. Dubuque was delighted, and
we were soon on our way to the place;
11 had slight acquaintance with the
old lady upon whose premises the bomb
proof was' situated, .and when we reach
ed the place and stated the object of our
visit permission was readily given to ex
amine the queer-looking hole in the
ground which had served' as a refuge
from Sherman’s shells. The bomb-proof
fortunately was in a fine state of preserva
tion, and the old. lady pointed it out to
us with, a good deal of pricle. At first
we saw only a huge mound of earth cov
ered with grass, but at one end we found
an Opening to a crooked underground
chamber, about 6 feet deep, 10 feet long,
and 5 in width. No ((falling shell had
.sufficient, force to penetrate that mound,
composed of red clay, timber, . and scrap-
iron.
When we scrambled out of the gloomy
place the old lady remarked that when
she occupied it the walls were lined with
old carpels, and the floor was covered
with rugs. . With a few 1 chairs, and spine
blankets her family had found a flight in
the dug-out, as she called it, very endura
ble. ' f ,‘j ‘ ‘ «
.‘‘Those -were' stirring 'times,’? said Mr.
Dul5trqrtur~-*--"'“- pj • [
“They were indeed, replied our host
ess. “I can never forgive Gen. Sherman
for shelling a city full of women and
children, "rfi*.
“One of the necessities of war,” saM
the preacher in an undertone. “By the
way, did any of your/soldiers ever seek
shelter in this snug little hole?”
■ “Only one,” replied the lady, “and he
turned out to be a Yankee spy.”
“Is it possihiel” her two listeners ex
claimed. .'
'.‘“Yes, I was never so surprised in my
life. One day the shelling was unusual
ly hot. Two spent shells struck the
house. A soldier who was passing ran
into our yard and made for the bomb
proof. He requested our permission to
remain for a few minutes, and of course
we had no objection. Ho was a fine
looking young man and made himself
very agreeable. When, he left he ex
pressed a wish for something to read,
and I let him have ‘The Aid-do- Camp,’
a confederate novel. He promised to re
turn it, but I did not expect to see it
again.”
“And did he return it?” I asked^
“Yes, and I wish he hadn’t. Why,
what do you think? Two weeks later,
after Sherman had occupied the city, I
was out in my front yard one morning
looking after my plants, when who
should ride up to the fence but a young
officer in a x spick-spank new Uniform. I
wouldn’t look at him until he saluted me,
and Said: ‘ ‘Madam, I have called to re
turn your book. I enjoyed it very much.’
I took the book. It was •“The Aid-de-
Camp.’ Then I looked the officer full in
the face. ‘So you were a spy?’ I said.
‘That’s what they call It,* replied the
young rascal, with a laugh. He bo wed,
waved his hand, . and galloped" off. I
never saw him again, but I would know
him anywhere by the two scars on his
right temple.”.
: “A very interesting incident, ” said Mr.
Dubuque. “It is to be hoped that your
spy abandoned the tricks of his business
and settled down into a good citizen af
ter the war.”
“I don’t believe a word of it ” re
sponded the old lady. “If i had know
what he was at first I would have had
him-turued over to Gen, llood aud.shot.”
By this time we had seen all there was
tb be seen and were ready to take our
departure. As he turned to go, after,
thanking the mistress of the house fop
her courtesy, Mr. Dubuque, before w-
placing Ins hat, brushed away his curly
locks from his right temple, revealing
two little ’scars, and gazed at the o-ood
lady, who was smiling upon him.
“My goodness!” exclaimed the excited
woman. “Why, you are the snv: the
very man himself 1”
Supplying Seeds to Congressmen.
The business of supplying seeds to
Congressmen is growing, and has already
attained pretty large proportions. Ac
cording to the Washington Star, thirty-
two men and 140 Women are busy in the
annex of the Agricultural Department
building supplying the Congressional de
mand for seed. Six thousand: paper pack
ages of vegetable seed, 500 of flower
seed, 300 of tobacco, 80 quarts of sor
ghum, 20 of corn, ,50 of grass, (28 quarts
of sugar beet and 82 quarts of cotton
seed. That is the allowance of each Sen
ator and Representative in Congress. If
put up in one order, each member’s: al
lowance would fill eight large mail sacks.
As there are 40.9 Senators and Represen
tatives, the seed division of the. Agricul
tural Department is a very busy institu
tion at certain seasons of the year. The
seeds distributed through members of
Congress comprise about two-thirds of
the whole amount disposed of-by the Ag
ricultural Department. The remaining
third gOes to persons in various pants of
the country who act as agents of the de
partment, but receive no compensation.
Members furnish to the department the
names of those to whom they desire to
have the seeds Sent,' though sometimes
they have the whole or a,part of their al
lowances sent to them, and ’attend to the
distribution themselves.
The force of the seed division is requir
ed to receive, assort, pack, label and pre
pare the packages for the mail sacks in
which they are hauled away from the de-
partmeht. The little paper bags or pock
ets are cut and made in one end of the
large room where the seeds are packed.
The printing upon thein i?; executed in
the printing office in the department. At
one long table is- a company of young
women, pasting .the. bags or pockets,
which are arranged 1 in boxes-'and sent at
fet once to the'printer. Upon their return
they go to | other tables, where they ar«
filled, 1 -with the seed intended for thein.
The labor.is divided and subdivided so
as to facilitate the work as much as pos-
• sible.. One lady who has a pm^of se%L
before her and. | tiny measure lulls -the ;
bag of pocket •; ileKieighbor , pastes'- (ftwn
the flap on the bag." At another table th#:
>-olts
department.'frank is quit, on, and so.
Uiitil the package is finally placed in tii«5
mail sack-. All of this work is : .carried, on
with little? noiSe and no confusion.—JVcm
York Sun. ■ '
Wiiat the Blind Oan Do.
A shining example of what the blind
who have courage and determination, can
do could be witnessed in the late lament
ed Henry Fawcett. He refused to allow
his infirmity to interfere materially with
his career and Habits, though of course it
modified and altered their channels. It
is well known that he was an admirable
horseman and fisherman, and if he was
undeterred by the drawbacks of his con
dition when they were suddenly thrust
upon him in early manhood, surely chil
dren who have never known the, blessing
of sight can toe Brought np to regard
blindness as nothing' that; need prevent
their taking "their place comparatively on
a par with the rest . of the citizens.
Henry Fawcett is not alone. Othertolind
men have, to ail intents and purposes,
lived their lives as thoroughly as thou
sands with their eyes have done. We
have heard of ‘ sightless travelers and
writers, innumerable. There were Milton,
Prdscott, the historian; Huber, the natu
ralist, and Braille himself, t quote only
a few that occur to me. Dr. Artnitage,
again, has traveled far and wide, fre
quently visiting niost of the European
centres, where he could acquire informa
tion and, so to speak, see for himself how
the blind are educated and cared for. Two'
years ago he made* a prolonged journey
through the States of America with the
same object, though he, did “not fail to
enjoy the pleasures of travel for its own
sake. Only in very rare instances in the
future need* there be any occasion for al
lowing a sightless person to become a
burden to his family or tlie charity ol
the benevolent—“the night comctli when
no man ean work.” ' Then, of course, the
blind, if* they have not: acquired resourc
es of their own,. must be provided for.
At the same time it cannot bo gainsaid-
that they do not require immense assist
ance throughout. It is on account of
,this assistance, not having been hitherto
always rendered upon a wise aiid logical-
system that so-many mistaken ideas have
prevailed as to what are the real capabil
ities of the blind.—Fortnightly Review.
if One Little Tiling that Told,
, Bagcley—You may talk all you like of
the great enterprises, the fact remains,
however, that all of them had small be
ginnings. No, sir, I tell you it is the
little things that,tell. • ; .
Baiicy—You’ra right. ' If that little
snip of a Bertie Howland hadn’t told
thflt I kissed his sister, old Howland
would still have, in me a great admirer,
But its all over now.—Tid Bits.
MAKING SOAP.
How a Very Useful Househpld
Article is Maufaetured.
The Various Operations by Which a . Bar
of Soap is Produced.
Soap.making is .essentially a chemical
Operation. Soft soaps are those which
have for their base potash, while hard
soaps, have for theirs soda, and are made
.by open pan boiling, in which the glyce-
rifle i| eliminated,, This class probably
includes 90 per cent, of the total soap
made in English speaking countries,' and
i^divided'into 1 three different kinds, viz.:
CurdJinottled and yellow. Whatever
kind pf hard soap is made the first stages
°f th| process are the same for all'.
To commence a boiling of hard soap,
melted, fat hnd caustic soda leys are sim
ultaneously run into the copper, . the
steam is turned on and the contents boil
ed until a small | satnple cooled between
the fingers has a to crably iirm consisten
cy, and ^iqij applied to< thc tongue hqs
no caustic taste or only a very.faiflt one.
The, operator is obliged to be very expe
rienced £o v judge of the completion of
this first optotion, called, py some past
ing, and by Tubers killing the goods or
raw material, ip this condition the Soap
eoiiains about nine-tenths of the total
soda necessary for , complete saponifica
tion, with a large excess of water, which
is separated-from it by .the next Operation.
To effect the Separation a quantity of
common saitps sprinkled into the copper
while still lloiljng, or the strongest brine
is-runi in; this addition is made cautious-'
ly and gradually (care being taken to al
low solution of the salt), and continued
until a slflajl sample removed upon a
spatula or teowel allows a clear liquor to
run frMpi it^ .During this operation of
graining, the^ontents, of the copper flic
K ™ fele tp boftviver with-,; great Violence,'
hen Jliis point is, reached the:Whole
process is stemped and ,the steam turned
Off; the coppc^is allowed to stand from
three- hours. .; Its contents then
)thentetlves into two -portions, the
, upiyi cpii fi. i uig of s,.ap' p.i-io. liblding'
r ‘ 4" p i cut. v in. 'S-;! c. t, and. the
enfe
'contaimng conuSSiJI^^'oarhonate iffd
other scida,Salts present in the original
leys as impurities, and nearly all the gly
cerine of the fat employed. At (his
• stage rosin is added for the yellow soap,
being broken into lumps and-shovelqd in,,
unless it is combined with soda in a sepa
rate copper and mixed with the iat soap
in the next operation, which is termed
clear boiling. All the goods having beep
killed and the spent leys removed, a
small charge of leys is then run in and:
the copper boiled for two or three hdurs.
At the-end of this tim6 the soap has a
faint but decided caustic taste, and a
small sflmplc on a spatula allows clear
leys to run off it..
This, operation communicates addition
al soda to the soap, and washes out as it
were some-of the 1 salt entangled' in it.
After some hours’ subsidence the half
spent leys that sink to the bottom are
pumpetlpfT, and^are used in another cop
per for ‘ killing more fresh goods; the
soap made from such leys however is of
inferior ■ color. The,.copper is' boiled
with open steam until' the contents' are
perfectly homogeneous and in. a state re
sembling a stiff paste. A small stream
of leys is now allowed-,id trickle in, until
the paste again separates into cakes , of
soap apd: clear leys; the soap now tastes
strongly of caustic soda and feels hard
when cold; this is technically called
“making” this soap. The mode of finish
ing depends entirely upon the kind of
soap required-, - .
The soap having been finished in the
copper the next stage is transferring it
info the cooling boxes, pr frame?, as they
are usually called. Curd soaps are al
ways carefully skimmed off the, leys by
ladies, as they are too stiff to pump, and
most mottled soaps are in this condition
also. In large.factories yellow soaps are
invariably transferred to the frames by
suitable pumping machinery.
Curd and yellow soaps arc cooled rap
idly in cast iron frames,, of any desired
shape or size. -One frequently adopted
is almost water tight, the superficial
measure being 45x15 inches and the
height 50 to 6,0 inches. The four sides
are held together by bolts and.nuts, and
when the soap is cold (after the lapse of
three to seven days for this size) these
are unscrewed, the sides are removed and
a olid block of soap,is left standing on
the bottom of the frame. This is at once
cut into slats and bars, or may bo slid
bodily to store. Occasionally, - such
frames are mounted upon wheels for con
venience of transport a lout the factory.
When it is desired to cut the soap, the
sides of the block . a re marked with a
scribe the teeth of which are set at the
thickness desired for the bar of soap. A
brass or steel wire is then takefi by two
men and drawn through the block, which
is thus divided into slabs; these are re-
rfloved to a machine which divides them
into bars. The cutter itself; is' worked
by a lever frame, which contains wires,
or for very hard soaps, thin steel knives;
the sial) is placed longitudinally and
nearly Upright on the base board, and the
lever frame is then drawn through it.
The bars thus farmed fall back upon the
shelf behind, Whence, they may be re
moved and set aside to get cold. The
bars when removed from the maeliirie
are placed across each other in open pile
in such a way that air freely circulates
among them. When thoroughly dry
they are stood away in close pile or pack
ed.
The bars of soap when freshly cut and
still soft are Usually impressed with some
words ifldicating the name or quality 1 of
the soap, and-the trade mark or name of
the manufacturer.—Brooklyn Ragle.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
1 Near-Sightedness. .
Near-sigfitedness is increasing . in our
country to an alarming extent.' It was
comparatively rare a century ago, but
now it afflicts a large proportion of the
children in our public schools. It is one
of the evils ereated by civilization, and is
almost unknown in savage life. An of-'
ficial inquiry in ^Germany indicates that
this evil is more common there than in
the United States, and that it is the
direct result of bad habits of study.
The physicans who made the examina
tion report to the Government that in
children of five years old the vision is
generally perfect. During the' school
age,the defect increases steadily. In the
lower schools from fifteen to.twenty per
cent, of the .scholars are affected; in the
higher * schools the proportion reaches
forty to-fifty per cent.
It is far worse in the. professional
schools; reaching fully seVepty per .cent,
of theological student?, .‘and over ninety
per bent, of medical students.
The physicans ascribe the trouble to
the poor print of the text ; books,‘ arid to
the general habit of Holding: books too
near the eyes. ; It Alight be wiki to make
a similar, examination' in our own
country, in order that public attention
be aroused to provide, if pos
sible, a cure for this growing evil. It
is a grave misfortune if pubiicVeducatipn
creates a near-sighted nation. Youth's
Companion.
A Ball’s Golden Teeth.
A Nevada City, (Nev.,) butcher re
cently killed- a steer whose teeth were
completely incrusted with gold and sil
ver bullion. The animal came from a
ranch on Carson River.
It is supposed that the-precious metal
on its teeth was collected while drinking'
the water of the : river, which is irapreg-,
nated with the tailings of the mills re
ducing Comstock ores. It is said that
most of the cattle along this river have
gold and silver on their te’eth.—Chicago
Herald,
Something About Chinese.
Chinese is*a,queer language. All its
words are only one syllable long. But
the sounds in the Chinese language are
not very many, some four hundred and
sixty-five at most, and their written lan
guage' contains about eighty thousand
pictures, each picture representing a
thing or idea. And these pictures must
be committed to memory. This is hard
work, and not even the wisest Chinese
professor ean learn them all. But now
comes a difficulty. For, of course, where
there are so many words and so few
sounds, many different words have to be
called | by the same sound. How then
are they to tell,, when several different
things have exactly the Same name,
which of them is meant?
We have such words. For instance,
there is Bill, the name-of a boy; and bill
the beak of a bird; there is bill, an old
weapon, and bill, a piece of money;
there is 1 bill, an article over which legis
latures debate, and. bill, a Claim for pay
ment of money; besides bills of exchange,?
bills of lading,, and. so forth. | But Chin
ese is full, of such words of a single sylla
ble, yen, for . instance; Which, like bill,
means many very different things. So
they chose a number Of little futures,
and - aifl eed that these should 1 bf f.sed as
“kCysti^ .Each : “key’,’ -.-meant jfegmt the
sigfltiorj: signs' aeai' which it
longed to some large general set Of things,
like things of the veg^i table,' mineral; or
animal kingdom, forests,, mines, or seas,
air, or water, or of persons, like gods or
men; It was like the game called Throw
ing Light, in which you guess the article
by narrowing down the field until certain
what.it is.. ,
But there Chinese Writing Stopped
short, thousands of years ago. There it is
to-day. There are now two hundred
and fourteen of these “keys;” and, by
intense application, Chinamen learn to
use their method with surprising quick
ness and success.—St. Nicholas.
A remarkable, case of longevity is re
ported from the Caucasus, that of a shep
herd who has just died at the great age
of 124.
The first piano made in this country
was constructed in Boston in 1800. , Be
fore that time the violin was the favorite
musical instrument of torture.
A young woman in San Francisco has
not spoken for seven years, although in
full possession of her vocal powers. The
cause of the singular freak was a quarrel
with her family concerning a lover.
In harness a man has lifted 3,500
pounds, this result having been achieved,
only by allowing every muscle to act
simultaneously, to its fullest capacity,
rind under the most advantageous cir-
cuiristances.
A ' golden-winged woodpecker -was
known to lay seventy-one eggs in one
season at Dighton, Mass. An ornitho
logist kept robbing its nest of all but one
egg, and the poor bird kept laying in
order to raise a brood.
Dr. Burney , Yeo, of, London, reports
the curious observation that thero are
persons who. usually drink tea without
injury, but in whom, when in a depressed
mental condition, it occasions indiges
tion and palpitation of the heart.
The first printing in America was done
in the City pf Mexico, in 1539. There
was then about 200 printing' offices in
Europe. The second press was set up in
Lima, Peru, and the third was erected in
Cambridge, Mass., in 1639.
Lane, Raleigh’s governor in' Virginia,
first introduced tobacco iflto England.
He had learned to smoke it and taught
Raleigh.- When the servant of the latter
first saw his master enveloped in tobacco
smoke, supposing him to be on fire, he
dashed u pail of Water Over him. Raleigh
taught Queen Elizabeth to smoke.
In ancient times a person accused of
robbery had a piece of barley bread, on
which the mass had been said, given him
to swallow. He put in his mouth, utter
ing the words : “May this piece of
bread choke what I say is not
swallow it with-
lie g
pronounced
true,” and gSpuld
III
innoepflj; ■ 'ttian ascribestihe death
:pf (heffia^gGbd-§:ih>J@ pjjpikMg,. -atith a .
piecel.of broad ;riftor = this-.■ soleflip^^rej
peil.
It has happened, ‘tpat/i-i
inquisitive men, examining with a flam-'-'
beau ancient sepulchres which have just
beefl opened, the fat and gross’ vapors
engendered by the corruption of dead
bodies kindled as the flambeau 'ap
proached them, to the great astonish
ment of the spectators, who frequently
cried out “a miracle.” This sudden in-
flamation, although very natural, has
given ropm for the belief that perpetual
lamps were placed In the tombs of-the
ancients.
Igift:::
Jefiy
11
IV
Retreats of the Moonshiners'*
A Chicago Herald correspondent, writ
ing from the Kentucky mountain regions,
■ says: There flre thirty-five to forty illi
cit stills in Perry and Letcher counties.
No man believes the government has a
right to tax the product of their own la
bor. An army of men could not discov
er all these. stills, hidden away as they
are in the most inaccessible mountain
caves and fastnesses. The tales of the
Arabian nights are not more labyrinthine
than the hidden ways to these whislcy
tubs. And the big, loose-jointed moun
taineers living in the Cumberland range
just -where Kentucky and Tennessee and
Virginia meet; are as splendidly armed
as any men in America. The finest re
peating Winchester rifles; are common
household ornaments. Living' cheaply,
with nothing to lose at homo, they can
hide away for months at a time; in the
mountain recesses absolutely impregnable.
Why do not the authorities send the
1 militia up here to see justice meted but?
That has been tried over and over again.
Breathitt County had a court trial a few
years ago that took a band of soldiers two
campaigns to finish. The mountaineers
have no quarrel with the military or any
other authorities: All they ask is to be
let alone, to live ns tbey please and to
settle their private feuds without outside
interference. , And'it looks as if they
would do this for years and years yet to
come.
The 01 her Fellow.
“It’s awful—awful,” groaned Smith,
with despair in his voice: “Note due
to-morrow—three hundred dollars—can’t
pay it. What on earth I am to do is
more than I know.”
“Why not let the other fellow walk?”
inquired Bro-yvn.
“Let the other fellow waif?”
“Certainly. Why not?”
’ “Why not?” repeated Smith, striding
- op and down in great nervous excitement;
“He is walking. I’m the other fellow.'
—Puck.
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