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FAWNING Tj
[NEl—CHARITY TO ALL.
VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST—Dotjg1.astii.le—First, I
third and fifth Sundays.
Salt Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur-
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTIST—Douglasville—First and i
fourth Sundays. , “Rev. A. B. Vaughn rs!
pastor. % , 8 ’}
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M. , meets cn Saturday night before the
first and third Sundays in each month.
J. R. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec
retary.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
.. . Ordinary—H. T./Cooper.
, Clerk—S. N. Dorsctt. |
Hperifl-4Henry Ward.
~ jP'-MMI^heriff—G.' M. Souter.
BP Receiver—E. FI. Camp.
Tax Collector—"W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SngEpiOja COURT.
Meets on third; Mondays in January and
July and holds.-two, weeks.
Judge—Hon.-Satnson W. Harris.
| Sol. Genl.—H'orf: Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—S. N.'Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
.COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and. holds until all the cases
on the^ docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Monday*
in each month, g
Judge—Hoir, R- A- Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon,-W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff-D. W. Johns. -
ORDINARY’S COURT.
■^Meets for drdinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month.
Judge—Hon, -H, T. Cooper. 1
- justices’ courts.
IggsagSS&th Dist-;G. M. meets first Thursday
IA'Hph mofithr J. I. Feely, J. p. W.
H. agash, N. P., D, W. Johns and W. K.
"■'Utp r 1 L. C’s. '
to6th Dist.' Gl M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Boiiiar,. J. P,, B. A- Arnold.
N. P., S, C. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P./C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. C. James and M. S. Gore, L.
C’s. ’■•■■■
1259th Diet.. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. M: 'Hamilton, J. P., M. L.
Yates, N. P., S ( . W. BiggerS, L. 0., S.
J. Jourdan, "L; CP '
1260th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day, N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud
son, N,_R.,J.A. .Mill., L. C.
1271st Dist. G. M. ^igdi's [ Ai$tfef3atur-
day,-....C- C. CMoton'ijt|fe : iRaL.aEm6iTy-
iyfc 12^2d jDtst.pg§. M. uiee|fifotirtl! FrK
day, George AV, Smith, J. P;,*C. J.
Rdbiinspn^ N. P.j^—,, L. C.
1273d Dist..: G.. M. meets third Friday.
Thomas White/IL P., A. J. Bowen, ft.
P. W.-J. Hailin',’"L. C. ' ’ |gjg
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
LOUISIANA.
About one hundred hands on Fairview
plantation^ one mile above Berwick,
owned b? Captain Pharr, have been on a
strike. The cutting, hauling and grind
ing of cane has entirely ceased. The
hands are all Knights of Labor, and the
strike was instituted by order of a local
lodge at Berwick. The men demand an
I advance of fifty per cent in wages.
I phe barges Mineketian and Marinette,
> in tow of the steam barge Manistique,
i laden with lumber, atOsoda, for Chicago,
broke loose yesterday morning, twenty
miles south of Manitou Island. They
waterlogged and went ashore four miles
! south of Frankfort. Both barges are’
total wrecks.. The two crews, number
ing fifteen men, were all lost except one
man named C. W. Annis.
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1886-
NUMBER 43.
Professional Cards
ROBERT Jrt&SSEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
douglasville, ga.
(Office in front room, PorBett’s Building.>
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Cour.t-.oj* Dpuglaes county.
“ fell.: James,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will praptice. in., all the courts, State an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT I AW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA "
Will practice in all the Courts. All iega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
O. r>. CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the courts. All busineat
in trusted to him will receive prompt dilution.
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
" DOUaLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal
JOHN i, EDGE, ’
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVIIXE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his care.
j. s. mts,
ATTORNEY AT IAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice ip the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding. Cobb, Eniton and
adjoining c^ihtiCs. prtHnpt attention given
to ail business.
J. H. McLARTY,
attorney at law,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, both Slate and
Federal.- Collections a specialty.
JOHN V. E0G1.
attorney at law,
douglasville, ga.
JOeTRlNUNB
NEATLY DONE
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OFFI®
ALABAMA.
’Troy has received 21,000 bales of cot
ton this season.
Thirteen new electric lights will be er
ected in Selma at an early date. All gas
lights are to he disposed of.
• Thursday morning a negro trespasser
named Neilly was fdund dead on top of
a boiler at the Alice furnace, near Bir
mingham.
Mrs Presley Perry, wife of one of the
oldest and most highly respected citizens
of Marion, was accidentally burned to
death Thursday.
Since the 30th of September/three
new manufacturing enterprises have been
started in . Montgomery. They are a
broom factory, a paper box factory and a
sausage factory.
Mr. Dan’l H. Workman, an old and
respected citizen of Montgomery, com
mitted suicide last Saturday by taking an
overdose of morphine. He washed and
dressed himself for burial, and then took
the deadly drug.
The railroad commission of Alabama
submitted its annual report to the
gfeneral assembly today. It says that
more miles of railroad are now under
construction in Alabama than at any per
iod in the states history.
A man who has been living without a
skull died Saturday at Hartsell, from the
effects of a fall from a train. Up to the
hour of bis, death, which resulted from
causes npt renjotely .afEepted by the ab
sence of a skull, the. convulsion of the
brain'COniithe-iiaSlIy discerned tmff fts*
throbbing clearly seen.
Jim Stevenson, an employe of the Lou
isville and Nashville company, was un
loading a car of slag in the company’s
yard at Birmingham. An approaching
engine struck the car on which he stood,
throwing him forward on the track, and
the engine passed over his body, causing
instant death.
It is reported, that Smith & Eastman,
of Birmingham, have organized a stock:
company with a million dollars capital
stock, and will erect two large furnaces
immediately. The Sloss furnace company
is seriously considering a proposition of
a northern syndicate, which offers two
and a half million dollars for the plant
and ore-lands. It is generally thought
that if, the trade is consummated that
the Sloss company will erect other fur
naces. ■
George Hart, of Loachapoka, the mur
derer of young Waldrop, is still at large.
It was ascertained last Sunday that he
was still in the vicinity of the crime.
The citizens arrested a negro by the name
of Anthony Williamson. He told them
that he was with George on Sunday, and
that they were to meet on a certain spot
Monday night, and on-the Tuesday night
following they would go to Mr. Goin’s,
murdpr him and take his money. A ne;
gro woman, since arrested, confessed
that they had hired her to go to Mr. Go-
in’s, in order that she might- open the
door when they came. Then , the mur
derers were to go to Mr. Hay’s, kill him
and take his money, And leave the coun
try. §
TENNESSEE.
The hog trade has opened briskly.
Rutherford county will ship a large num
ber of hogs this fall.
Cheatham county has one invalid, one
widow, and 17 dependents of the late
war, one survivor and six widows of the
war of 1811—6 in all—receiving a month
ly pension of f 76. •
. The apple crop in Murfreesboro county,
in some localities, was fine. Some very
choice apples are brought to market now.
Murfreesboro -merchants are shipping
turkeys and eggs south.
Dr. N, E. Knox, a well known physician
at Daisy, left for Hot Springs, Ark., and
carried with him a large sum of money.
Last Saturday he was found dead in bed
at the Hot Springs hotel, and his pocket
book, money and all valuables were mis
sing. His widow was advised of his
death, and notified that the body would
be forwarded U. O. D. $83, to pay for
ifeSSr. trans P° rtation - She had
out $40; but her neighbors raised the
balance, and the body was sent, reaching
there on Tuesday last, but instead of $85
charges, the amount was $389.
The Baltimore and Ohio express com
ply “ ave sc< >oped the express franchise
of the Queen and Crescent route, and
will take charge December 1st. The
general superintendent of the Southern
division of the company will have his
headquarters at Chattanooga. The tax
aggregate for the stlte, for ..the
past year, are Acres of land 25 122 -
Rvalue $140,994,711; town’lots’ lt
566; value $59,123,554 ; value of other
$2 .\ 990 > 914 ; ^1 value $224,-
State . tax $67,472, 702.
Mm fl gures show a decrease in state
tax of neariy $6,000 from that of 1885
This decrease is all in middle and west
the east Tennessee tax for
ate yew is $3,00? larger than for last
1 ?“»*!
south caroltsa.
A number of wild geese are reported
on the Catawba.river.
r> Uj? residence of Thomas Kinnear, in
Dublin county, was accidently burned
with contents. Loss, $2,500; no insur
ance.
A fiat owned by Williams & Murchison,
took fire a short distance above Wilming
ton. The flat and cargo of 124 bales of
cotton and 178 barrels of rosin area
total loss except ten bales of cotton and a
few barrels of rosin. Insurance $6,000.
Governor Scales has received official
information from W. D. Pruden that the
survey of tl^e disputed boundary line
between this state and Virginia, has be
gun. The line in dispute is the northern
border of Currituck, Camden and Gates
■counties. Fit is thought that it will re
quire a.fortniate to complete the survey.
• A. letter from .that place dreaded by
navigators—Cape Hatteras—reports that
the great porpoise fishery located there,
has resumed operations for this season
and with marked? success. In the first
six days it has caught 405 porpoises,
and hands are kept busy. The tanners
whp prepare the. hides for market are all
Englishmen. The leather manufactured
is said to he superior to any made at any
other factory of Hie same kind. '
Robberies of postoffice boxes at Ashe
ville attracted attention and plans were
made for the capture of the thief. The
robberies began August 3d last. C. E.
Graham & Co., were the principal suf
ferers. Checks Were taken from the
stolen letters, and in two or three cases
the amounts of these were raised, in one
case from $26 to 426. The discovery has
been made by the detectives that the
thief is a negro school teacher named W.
A. Saxon, of Asheville.
NORTH CAROLINA.
North Carolina 6s are worth $121.50
in the market.
Over 7,000 bales of cotton were receiv
ed in Wilmington last week, against
4,000 bales for the corresponding week
of 1885.
An earthquake wave visited Wilming
ton on Wednesday last, throwing down
a large- quantity pf. plastering in the
courthouse. / ■ ■-
The state auditor has ■completed the
work of making out and mailing the
vouchers issued for - pensions this year,
and applicants may call at their respec
tive postffices to receive them. There
are now 2,127 pensioners, each of whom
receive $14.10 from the annual appropri
ation of $30, 000. - ~-
[The Ashville Advance says of the to
bacco crop in that section: “The. pros
pects are that "the farmers will obtain
good prices for their tobacco this season.
The crop though is nothing, like so large
a#-that -oflast: y^af/hhi?
bacco is bringing an advance of six to
eight dollars over the prices paid for
same grades last year. The quantity ot
light, brushy tobacco;- is thought to be
perhaps in excess of that of last season.
The people of Anderson county war t
to vote on the exclusion of liquor.
Quite a severe wreck occurred ,o a
freight train on the Port Royal road
about a mile below Varnville.
: The Standard Oil company have pur
chased a piece of land in Winsabhro,” and
will erect a large oil Lank at K an early
date. r
; Several public spirited citizens of St,
Piul’s paiish are about taking steps look
ing to thr establishing of a mail route
between Ctottageville and Summerville, in
Colleton county.
FLORIDA.
The impression is increasing that there
will be a lively contest for the presidency
of the Central railroad, and the friends of
"the present management are working en
ergetically.
The entire debt on the Pandora, the
university annual at Athens, has been
Cleared off and steps are now being taken
towards issuing volume 11 in the early
part of next year.
The western extension of the Am>»ri-
cus, Preston and Lumpkin railroad will,
in about a week, be ready for the rolling
stock all the way to Antioch, a distance
of 48 miles.
The end of this week finds twenty
miles of track laid on the Georgia Mid
land railroad. The work is being pushed
steadily, and it will not .b e many days
before regular trains will be running-over
the road.
The contract for the Augusta and
Chattanooga has been let, and five hun
dred men are at work. The line is to
reach Gainesville January 1, 1888. When
-thirty miles is completed, rolling stoch
will he put on.
The incorporators of the Savannah and
• Western railroad company, chartered, in
1885, and proposing a line of road from
Savannah to one of three points named in
the charter, Eastman, McVille or Lumber
City, will meet in Savannah December
6th for the purpose of organization,
John Ogletree and Kate Ellis, of .Lou
isville, eloped Saturday. After riding
'over about half the county, .trying to get
some one to marry them, they came
across Rev. Mr. Sargeant, the evangelist
of the colored people, who tied the knot.
The bride’s mother wants them married
again.
Mr. W. L. Byers, who resides ten
miles north of Gainesville, lost his gin
house by fire Saturday. He lost , about,
6,000 pounds of seed cotton and 100
bushels of oats, besides six or seven bales
of cotton, which belonged to Mr. Lewis
A. Keith. It was a total loss, there being
no insurance. v
General T. M. Logan, Alfred Sully and
J. B. Pace have purchased twenty-five
thousand shares of stock of the Richmond
and Danville railroad^ company- This
gives them absolute control of the Rich
mond and Danville, settles ^11 differences
and preserves and consolidates the sys-
tem. General Logan, who built up the
•system, but lost. control iq 1883, again
Mlfip the front.
CHESTER L ARTHUR' DEAD.
HE expires suddenly at his
residence. ; w,
President Cleveland Orders the Usual Siena
of Mournin
IN ADTUM,
A fairer face than ere did fancy frame
To me in day-dreams on the gracious queens,
Who reign o’er noble realms of song and fame
Sweeter the sight than all imagined scenes,
As she stood stately in an autumn field,
Her golden ringlets dancing o’er her brow
As sunlight plays about a burnished shield.
The forest spread about her and each bough
Showered its hundred colors at her feet,
A leaf, bicod-red, lay in her dainty hand,
And from the lips of lily-mold, a sweet
And mellow strain of music filled the land,
While cer the hills the floods of sunset came,
And all the mighty West was red with
flame.
* —John W. Dafoe, in. the Current.
« ill
Ex-President Chester JL Arthur died
at 5 o'clock Thursday 'morning at his res
idence, No. 123 Lexifigtou avenue, New
York city. He had been.ailing for some
time from a complication of diseases,
principally kidney affection. „
Arthur had lived at No. 123 Lexington
avenue for twenty years’ or more. A
stroke of cerebral appoplexy, sudden,
but not wholly unexpected by the at
tending physicians, terminated his life.
The stroke came in his sleep between
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning,
and he did not rally thereafter. His
death was painless-^-a slow going out of
a burned down candle. For hours before
the end came he was unconscious to his
surroundings. Hte son and daughter,
his sister, his former law partner, and his
closest friend, Surrogatejloliins, were at
his bedsidej Arthur’s Health had not
improved during his stay at New London
several weeks ago, and on" his return, on
October 1st, he was no bgtter than when
he left the city. A&jtpne:mssed.- no per
manent improvemenl', cmwe, and the.
physicians feared -S&e ’;»ich sudden
stroke as the one tOjWjwch® succumbed.
In his enfeebled cj^tlitii’cr^ven a light,
strike of appoplex^wobldifp’ove fatal to
a robust’patient.- \?ith thSpeginning of
tbfi present week 4 marheu ; Change for
the better had “
President fellfIpStl&nJli|8fpi}ge£than|S1
ajjgAtJme pnM _ a Pf!r
commented
IJ was afteifjmidfiM§|5^5§|h - his atten
dant left him -'lom- in Li-, iaedrooin, and
nothing was heard of hirtr during the
early ^
turhed until his' a|toid^||fU entered his
room at 8 o’clock 'S^eSh'es.dly morning.
He found Mr, Arthhrfiiymg 1 : on his side,
breathing heavily, and cmild not rouse
him. - The family answered his summons;,
but failed to elicit any sign of conscious
ness or recognition from the ex-President.
In alarm they summoned Ms physician,
who responded promptly and at once '
saw he was suffering from a stroke of
cerebral apoplexy. A small blood vessel
in the brain had burst, and paralysis of
the right side': had ensued. From the
moment the discovery was made all hope
was known to be in vain, but no efforts
wete spared to bring the patient back to
consciousness. They were all alike fruit
less. Mr, Arthur lay motionless and
speechless all day. He knew what. was
going on about him, for he squeezed his
doctor’s hand and put out his tongue
partially when asked to do . so; but he
never spoke nor gave any other sign of
consciousness. .
Wednesday at 6 o’clock enfeebled
pulse, more difficult respiration,’ and
other signs of physical failure, indicated
to the watchful eyes.- of Ms physicians
that the end was- drawing near. The
change for the worse came on rapidly,
and his sister and children gathered at
his bedside. Dr. „ William Valentine,
Dr. Peters and partner, and Surrogate
Rollins stayed with them during the
night. Mr. Knevals went home at mid
night. Mr. Arthur’s strength ebbed out
slowly, and with it Ms life. It was 5
o’clock Thursday when the end came.
He had been entirely senseless for hours,
and died without a struggle.
THE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE.
Prize* Offered for Essays by Students in
Senior Class ot Colleges.
The executive committee of the Ameri
can Protective Tariff League of New
York, have decided to offer to students
of the Senior classes in all American col
leges a series of prizes for approved es
says on the subject of the “Advantages
of a Protective Tariff to the Laborer and
the Industries of the United States,”
each essay not to exceed 10,000 words,
and to be sent to the office of the league
on pf before May 1, 1887, the awsfi'ds to
j be made June 15th 1887, as follows: For
I the best essay $250; for the second best
i $100; for the third best $50; and for
other essays deemed especially meritpri-
j ous a handsome silver medal designed for
1 this purpose and representing the most
I artistic American workmanship. The
league reserves the right to publish, at
its own loss, any of the successful essays,-
and' to include the first prize essay in thr
feunual publications of the league.
THE SOCIAL PROPAGANDA IN GEIl-
■ i n i 'MANY, i
A MYSTERIOUS CLOCK.
UT J. A. TRUESDELL.
. It was not until father’s patience had
ceased to be a ] olite virtue ,that Fred
and I decided to carry out our plan.
He had said so many times at breakfast,
just as he laid down the carving-knife
and fork, after waiting on '•iis. all:
“Flora, my daughter, 10 o’clock is late
enough for any young man to stay on an
evening call.’’.: ,
And Flora had as often looked un im
ploringly, her pretty face on fire, and
said: “Why, papa, how can I help it?”
To this defensive inquiry father would
not deign to reply, while mother, Aunt
Elizabeth and we boys maintained a pio-
found silence, each doubtless pondering
how the difficu:t question might be
solved,
Roger Pettijohn was a sophomore in
the college town in which we lived. He
“led his class,” was the son of his father,
Judge Pettijohn, a ;d a general favorite
with the young people. Fred and I
rather liked him; his boats, were always
at our seryiie, and it was one of our
choicest pleasures to spend an hour in
the study which lie had fitted up in one
of the college dormitories, to “be with
the boys. ”- There was no end of curious
things there, for Roger was not a mere
“dig,” b t an enthusiastic student of
nature, and a famous good pitcher in the
college nine. Besides a well-stocked
aquarium and a large collection of stuffed
birds, his room was; decked out with
fencing fods, patent oars,boxing gloves,
a fine pair of antlers sent him from
Texas, and a good many things that
would inteiesfc
: But the one to our enjoy
ment of Eoger^^JijqJn was that he
came to sec our l^hij^ora not less than
three evenings and the town
cIocl( usually he"went whis-.
tling homewar(|,^Fo| Gat we: boys or
the h .usehold put out by his
calls. Nfe nevei^^Srd anything- from
aHBfoiff-itmnhnr of
anHAijgn':
...
Bui it was one
ujf!--tif#'
^3-edtetory in hel-ip^%;
and we «R.hnev«n^9p
could get time tos|!«iplt lhtnh,l Rut,;
with-all the-Tam^^h^ houkekeeping
duties, which shtFifddiv!? up.m herself,
there was often n® w^ysfof a study hour
left her. - So Ro^r'Relliijblm’s cal’s, en
joyable as they were not so
cordially thought v of or mentioned in the
family circle ; s they would have been
had they been fewer or shorter.
All this accounts-for the plan which
Fred and 1 determined to carry out. ‘
s aid tint Mr. Roger Pettijohn
shpuld be made aware of the flight of
time, if such a thing were possible.
It Was several days before we hit upon
a scheme that suited us. Any number
of rude jokes that might easily be
worked out came into our minds; but we
Were not ante that we should enjoy rude
jokes ourselves.
One day at school Fred looked up from
his algebra with, a peculiar grin., In a
few minutes I saw a note working its
way from desk to desk toward me, At
last it came, and I eagerly opened it al
most in plain sight of the Argus-eyed Mr.
Winter, who," we thought, spent more
of his time in prohibiting “evil commu
nications,” than in explaining equations
and construing our difficult Latin sen
tences.
Fred's note was as follows:
the parlor, save,
talking or rea
the melodious f
In spite of the closest watch kept on
the barracks at Berlin, Spandan and Pots
dam thousands of copies; of Socialistic
pamphlets have been found among the
troops. The matter seized consists
mostly of a newly issued appeal to
soldiers to'join the workingmen hasten
ing a social levolutiou. The’ source of
the pamphlets has been traced to men
frequenting soldiers’ beer bouses, and
several men have been arrested.
Japan has .188 Protestant, ebjirches,
§111 membership of 11.878,
“I’ve got it! You know the old clbhk?
Well, I’ll make it strike P. so hard he’ll un
derstand. Don't forget it. More later.
I hardly understood; but I gave my.
consent without hesitation to Fred’s plan!
whatever it might be; for he had what
we boys call “a long head and a safe
heel.”
Among the treasures in our workshop
was a worn-out clock. The old time
piece had come down from another
generation, and had been in its day
quite valuable; but in the days when:
Roger Pettijohn came to see our sister
Flora, an old-fashioned, tall clock was
not so highly prized as now. 'Bric-a-
brac hunting was an unknown mania,
and a clock that would not tell the time
ol day, no matter how ancient and hon
orable its history, was well out of the
way in a boy’s workshop.
This old clock Fred and I had taken
to pieces and put together again times
without, number, in the hope of making
it keep time Bo that we could put it in
our room. Sometimes it would go nicely
for several hoars, and then some unlucky
pinion would slip its place, the pendu
lum would slowly come to a standstill,
and the piteous, patient-looking old face
would, stare at us as if in blank disap
pointment at being left behind in the
march of time. But, worn out and use
less as it was as a time-keeper, it could
strike as loudly a'd boldly as in its
younger days; and we had no small
amount of fun in turning the wheels so
as to hear its silvery ring and asthmatic
wheeze. ,
After school we discussed Fred’s plan
thoroughly and enthusiastically, ft is
doubtful if we enjoyed its fruition more
than we did talking it over, and eagerly
adding suggestion after suggestion unnil
it was, in'our estimation, perfect.
“The plan is just this, Jamie,” said
Fred. “Take the works out of the case,
fasten them in the fireplace, put a long,
stout string on in place of the striking-
weight corj, wind the reel on the strik
ing side as full as we can, then pass the
line up over a pulley at the top of the
ehimney, and put on the weight. The
old thing will strike as long as it takes
the weight to run down.”
It took some time to get everything
ready. No spy was ever more secret or
cautious in Ms movements than we. We
never talked of our plans where any one
could,hear. In the workshop, with doors
Itet ic*k*4, or at iiuadown, drjyiag
home the cows from the, pasture lot, or
at night, buried in the bed-clothes we
discussed it.
The preparations, too, had to be made
in the night. We nearly broke our
necks climbing out on the roof night
after night to arrange our “crack o’
doom,” as Fred called it. Nailing the
works of the clock in the parlor fireplace
required all our skill in amateur burglary.
But we managed to accomplish the task-
although I was shut up behind the fire,
board half the night, and Fred sprained
his ankle, jumping out of the window
when mother came into the room after a
book.
At last all was ready. By means of a
string which one of us could pull from
the kitchen (where a ladder was to
furnish a safe retreat to terra firms), a
shingle, holding the weight at the top of
thp chimney, would be jerked out; and
as the weight began to fall the clock
would begin to strike.
The next thing was to get the oppor
tunity to put our scheme in operation.
Strangely, Mr. Pettijohn’s skillful feat
of pulling our door-bell just so as to
cause the bell to ring out three distim t
taps and no more, was not performed for
a full week., Fred and I were in mortal
dread everd day that our preparations
would be discovered. Any day father
might take a notion to clean out the
parlor fireplace and the chimney. Fortu
nately he did not, and Mr. Roger’s
peculiar ring at the door-bell at last
pealed on ears that were " most intently
listening for that welcome sound.
We boys slipped out of the kitchen,
where we had been' engaged in a fierce
debate with Aunt Elizabeth on a propo
sition to keep our pet chickens in the
cellar next winter instead of in the barn.
Our first impulse was to plant ourselves
in position on the roof of the kitchen
ready to pull the string. On second
thought we reflected that -our intended
victim would probably spend the even
ing, and we concluded to make the best
of our situation by waiting until we
thought he ought to be getting ready to
depart.'The better to ward off suspicion
we spent the .evening several blocks
a,way, with some of our boy friends.
As we approached the house, a little
before ten o'clo'ck, we saw the light
streaming from the parlor window, and
knew our prey was still there.
I took my place at the string,^ trem
bling with expectation of the critical
moment, when Fred, who had station'**!
himSelf in the lilac bushes under the
south window of the parlor, should give
me the signal by throwing a pebble .on
the kitchen roof.
Time, always slow when waited, was
never so slow, it seemed, as during the
/till hour I waited for the thud of that
pebble on the roof. The night-train
came thundering- up the valley while I
sat there, and I counted echo after echo
•M/Afae .sMrill whietleof its locomotive,
:„afjd tracMirit^snate-Tikerinmof- light-un-
Prii®p,®^r^|:^rouifed a distant hill arid
’o 1 1 r -.<■! -iuiii. How the dogs barked
f:i)kMGi^ik|^l<buaied myself in distin-
rgaMnngane "'S'eo’re or more of canine
! voices whose nightly hayings were fatnil-
| iar in oifr neighborhood Now and then
old Boze, our family horse, would sfiSk^
| himself in Ms stall and munch Ms pro-
vender for a moment or two, and then
I ceasej;o taake'.ju$lYiog"SW*nd«w-AlJong^
[story could behold of the pictures that
| were eallecUfciefore my mind by the noises
j I heard in That single hour.
I Suddenly, in the midst of one of these
j mental pictures) Fred’s pebble fell, strik : .
j ing me so that I pul ed the string with-
i out a thought of what I was doing.
Hurrying down the ladder, I found
Fred in the lilacs.
The old clock was striking with a ner
vous staccato that fairly made us dance
for joy. It had then struck up to eleven.
! Fred had given the signal just as the ijj§
j ting-room clock began to strike.
I Flora and her caller were engaged in
: a duct, she at the piano and he with his
j flute. As long as the music lasted we
’hardly expected they would be disturbed
| by the clock.
For several minute* piano, flute and
and clock kept up the peculiar trio, we
; boys enjoying it with gigantic grins and
i frequent chuckles. Through a fold of
: the window-curtain we could see the
I faces of our victims,
j “Ha!” whispered Fred, “Flo hears'
it! S.ee! She thinks something’s wrong
[ with the music. ”
% The players kept on a few minutes
fnpger, when suddenly Flora stopped.
I The Mute and the clock now had it alone
s for fiKmoment, and then the sound of the
clock was left master of the situation.
I We Were where we could see Roger’s,
face plainly The puzzled expression that
passed over, it and lingered a moment
was indescribable. F lora had not moved
from her place/And sat, with one hand
! uplifted from the;, piano keys, listening
{ intently and wonaeringly to the meas-
! ured striking, wMch now seemed louder
I than ever. Then we) saw Roger’s lips
| move, and Flora turned blushing and
[ said something which, ’of course we
I could not hear. Whatever it was, they
| did not seem to understand each other
1 any better than We dtd.
All of a sudden both face* turned
I toward the sitting-rcom door. Father
I was coming! In a moment be was in the
| room, in his dressing-gown, and hording
a lamp, as if he had been searching the
j house over for the cause of this unseemly
I disturbance. What he said we did not
| hear. It must have been sometMng se-
I vere; for Flora Mushed redder than
| ever, and a deaerate gleam came into
Roger’s eyes,
Fred and I began t realize that we
were in sometMng of a scrape. But we
i were bound to enjoy it while we could,
I and we managed with a sharpened stick
| to pry up the window so we could hear
| what was going on.
“What on earth does this mean,
[Flora? - ’ shouted father.
| Poor Flora: had buried her blushes in
j her hands, and gave no answer.
I Father looked from Flora to Roger
[ and back to Flora again, and said, louder
[ than before: .
“I want ag answer; what does this all,
mean?” );v : '-l s "' )
“Oh, father!” cried Flora, “I don’t
really know, unless the sitting-room
clock is bewitched,”
}. “I have stopped every clock in the
house,”- replied father, in stentorian
| tones.
Roger's face turned white and red by
! turns; but lie did not attempt to say
: anything. Father turned to him:
i-Mr. [Pettijohn, can you tell me what
j this unearthly din in my house at nearly ,
midnight means?”
pogl? bad W* Md
laid each bright silver section careen?
in its place in the ebony box "'n |C
had himself made for it^. , - A s ^1
ished his qiSfestion. Roger Su:ipf)<*d a
the cover of the box,- and retort® *
stiffly : V , . . £&§&
“If you allude to the duct which >li-
Flora and I have been practicing, M
at least thank you for as niucli ot voi
compliment as includes myself. D 1°
■allude to the misfortune which, seems M
have overtaken your clock, excuse me it
I tell you that you or same pf your nouse-
hold know more about that tban I do.
I wish you a \ ery good evening, Mr,
Shaw. Good evening. Miss Shaw-’
And the wrathful Mr, Petti john turned
on his heel, and a moment later the front
door shut behind him with no uncertain
sound..
‘‘' ‘Miss Shaw’i” I whispered to Fred,
“That’s murderous! He’s fearful mad,;
or he never would say ‘Miss Shaw’!’’
R6ger' did not whistle as he wa ked
briskly down the gravel path.- We could
just see his form as he passed in the dark
ness.
When we looked again into the parlor,
Aunt Elizabeth, prim and straight, in
her morning wrapper, candle ip hand,
and her eyes snapping and gleaming like
a cats’s back in the dark, stood between
father and Flora, looking inquiringly
from one to the other. Mother had also
come info the room, her face the pictute
of bewilderment and despair.
We thought it was time to draw the
curtain on our joke. We- carefully low
ered the window, and taking a last look
at the distressful tableau,' hurried into
the kitchen, twitched off our boots, and
hastened up stairs. In a minute we
were well abed. -The clock was striking
as we dropped off to sleep.
Our experiences-next morning do not
need to be described. We were found
out, of course.) Flora wore an injured
air for a week. Father was stern, but
we half suspected that he indirectly ap
proved our course. - Roger Pettijohn’s
ring did not disturb our door-bell for
months.
When it was certain that Flora had
vanquished all competitor- for the head
of her class, Fred and I managed to let
him know how “misfortune” came upon
, our clock. We put the works back into
| the case, and witii proper ceremony mads
Mm a present of it, and it was given an
honored place in his room. When at the
academy cpimnencmeut Flora bore off
the valedictory, tier largest; boqquetdp^
Roger’s card neatly attached with a blue
[ribbon.
The funniest, part of the affair was
that when the clock began to strikwioh'"
I that memorable evening,, Aunt Elizabeth
j began counting the strokes, -according
to her invariable habit, and; although
| she went down into the parlor and re-
j turned to herVooin after half an hour,she,
averred fiWf! ifffff^liad connted every
j stroke, and fhat the dock strugk exactly
nine bundled and ninety-six times; Nine
; hundred and ninety-six o'clock becamsL
L ifif mnijy-hy-word. —-rifgcqg
Wealth in Ws&te. > ; c,A-.
j | A peculiar class of boolr hunters haunt
the large junk shops in search of rare or
[[odd books and the popular monthly
I magazines. These genteel chiffonieres,
jifthey may be called such,'occasj^^lly
stiikp valualiie finds"; in old ltel . -I;e.,
j whicEY6sts;thnm-Msth»^iaAo^ef-^i;yDtafts*'‘
! per pound. Another class of buyers look..
I up the monthly parts of magazirfies, An.d -
j upon completing the set dispose of fh'dui'.
usually to) the Cornhill second-hand
book-stores. These buyers often tackle
a pile of old paper stuff that keeps them'
busy for n week or longer, and it is of
ten the case that their labor is unre-
[ warded. The law of compensation seems
I to he a factor in the old junk business,
for many people get a good living from
other people’s waste, and some even get
| rich out of it. Even the old tin Cabs,
j which were formerly condemned as use
less, and millions of which have been
| planted in the creation of the Back bay
j district of Boston, are now utilized, and
! the metal sheet made from them can be
! japanned, or tinned, or galvanized, or
| treated in any way that the material
made from the original ore is treated/
| Out of the iron are made buttons, stioe-
! lace ends, show cards, telephones, electric
lights and letter boxe3, small ware, etc. |
! There are parties in Boston who make
[ the collection of old tin, tin cuttings and
I old tin cans a regular business, and make
j money out of it. The material is sent to
| New York, where it is utilized. So ttie
' utilization of tin-plate cuttings aud the
i recovery of the tin has grown out of the
I same channel of scientific thought and
! experiment that long ago took the rags
i from the dunghill and converted them
[ into sheets of paper.— Boston Herald;
South African Gold Discoveries.
! The gold fever that has laid hold upon
I South Africa threatens to rival m its Seat
I and intensity the earlier days of the Aus
tralian and Californian gold fields. Every
! mail brings the news of fresh “rashes.”
In addition to the established fields of
the Transvaal, gold appears to have been
1 found at Witwatersrand and in the Hei-
| delberg and Waterberg districts of that
Repub ic. Discoveries are also reported
| in the reserve territory of Zuluiand near
ttie Natal “border, in distant Amaswazi-
land (a native State east of the Trans
vaal now being slowly “eaten up” by
[the Boer), in ttie Knysna district of the
\Cape Colony, and even in the Orange'
free State. Such a’luring miners’ names
a^“Queen of Sheba Roof,” “The Wheel
of Fortune,” and others; are upon the
tongiiqs of every one, and speculation
grows rampant. It is to be said, to the
credit ofSouth African newspapers, that
i.ttiey are wanning their neighbors to ex-
[ ercise caution. It is pointed out that of
six thousand people now in the Trans-
vaal gold fields only a small proportion
are earning wages, and many will return
I to die of starvation_on the road. It is a
characteristic of South African gold that
it is usually found in quartz reef, and
powerful crushing machinery is there
fore demanded for its extraction. The
- new fields consequently are not likely to
' afford great facilities to the small digo- er
who works his own claim. —St. Janies s
Oaeette.
Eve, Midnight and Next Day.
The small boy, with complacent mien
At twilight eats the apple green. ’
The doctor pours, at midnight dim
Jamaica ginger into him, •. ’
He vows, while mrihe cotic’s power "
No more green apples he'll devour. ’ •
Next day, recovered lK§ Kun
ij Jlfthww for pft | ’ J