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VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST—Douglasvu le —First,
third and fifth Sundays.
Salt Springs—Second Sunday and
Batifrday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. .. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTlST—Douglasville—First and
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
dm tor.
' " * MASONIC.
Douglasville' lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M., meets cn Saturday night before the
frst and third Bundays in - each month.
J. R. Carter, SY.-M.,' W. J. Camp, Sec
retary.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—;g. T. Cooper.
Clerk—B.'N. Dorsett.
Sheriff.—Henry Ward.
DeputyJJberift—G. M. Souter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Ooliactor-TxW-A. Sayer.
Treasurer-o-Samuel Shannon.
$1 rvoyor—John M.. Huey.
Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SUPER# .COURT.
Meets on thinOfor Jiys in<January, and
July and holds t n-6 weeks.
01. Geifi.'’-—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—B. N. Dorsett,
feeriff-—Henry Ward. ~
• COUNTY COURT.
Meets-jn quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and holds,until .all the cases
on the 'docket are called. .In monthly
sessidtf it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each month.
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. Ocul.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
* ; 7 ORDINARY’S COURT.
Meetsf for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and. for county purposes on first
TueaQiiyf in each month. •
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ COURTS.
780th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
m efteh ! month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
a. (ta, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K
C’a. *
780th Dist. G.M, meets second Satur
day. A. Ji. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
N. F., ‘S, 0. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. SL meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P., 0. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. 0. James and M. 8. Gore, L.
o’s.
1350th Dlst. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. M. Hamilton,' J. P., M. L.
Yates, N. P.y S. W. Biggers, L. C., S.
J. Jourdan; L. 0.
1360th "Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day. N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud
son, N. P., J. A. Hill., L. C.
12715 t Dist. G.'M. meets first Satur
day • 0. C. Clinton, J." P., Alberry
Rembreo, jfr, P., L. C.
Gkt—G, M. ;n<x>ia fourth Fri
day. George W?“t3mith, J. P C. J.
Robinson N, p», ——L. C.
1278 d Djst.«G. M.'meets third Friday.
Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N.
P. W. J. Harbin, L. C.
Profbasfonai Cards.
THr a. massiv?
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett's IhiiliUug. >
Will practice anywhere' except Ju |he County
Court ef'Donglius county.
“7 W. £ JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all the courts, Slate tu
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
~ ' DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
~wi. T. ROBERTS, ~~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All lega
bustnew will receive prompt attention. Office
Ma Pour t Rugae,
<X I>. CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
• Will prtvtic® in ait the courts. AU business
iutr'istea to him Will receive prouiplsttentioa.
. b. g7lrlgg£
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■ * DonatAßviLtr. <ia.
W practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to AU bnsineas entrusted to his care.
J. S. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVHXI, GA.
WIM rwaelkw in toe courts of Douglass,
UmswWS. Carroll. PaulJiag, Cobb, Fulton and
ftiwrekw coundea, Prompt attention given
ton bnteoM.
~j~ h. McLarty,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
IWUUYIUE GA
W nmetko tn at! the c.-uri*, toih Si ate and 1
JOHN V EBGL
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DoeaiASViixa ga
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NKAH.I OOMS
I! IB “STO” ffiNl
THE WEEKLY STAR
THE SOUTHERN STAwT
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
ARKANSAS.
The mill of the Traskwood Lumber
company, Saline county, was burned
Saturday night. Loss quite heavy with
no insurance.
Henry Adams, colored, was jailed in
Pope county last week for murdering an
, infant supposed to be his child by a white
woman.
In a difficulty in Mississippi county on
Saturday last Tom Catton was killed by
a young planter named Lee Wilson, who
shot his victim four times. Wilson sur
rendered.
A little boy named Pink Moore was
caught by a revolving wheel in Hill’s gin
near Clarksville, Johnston county, last
week, and instantly killed, his back and
neck both being broken. >
TEXAS.
John Harrison, of Liana, committed
suicide at Lampasas, by taking an over
dose of morphine.
The Paris News announces that the re
port started by one McPherson,that in an
affray in Arthur City three men were
killed and one wounded, was a baseless
canard.
While a slaughtered beef was being
hauled up the limb of a tree in Scotts
ville, Andrew Humphrey mounted the
limb to guide the rope, when the limb
broke and Humphrey fell to the ground,
striking on his head and breaking his
neck.
Charles Green was shot at a saw mill
on the Natchez river, near Burke, a few
days ago, one ball taking effect in his
breast, just below the left nipple, the
other penetrating his back. The wounds ,
are probably fatal. Green says he was
shot by a man named Strikes, a Dutch
man, once after he had fallen. The par
ties seemed to have been drinking. Both
are white,
LOUISIANA.
Three wagons from the Choctaw na
tion, filled with immigrants, arrived m
Vermillion last Monday and will make
that parish their future home.
The ginhouse of Mr. Edmond Brous
sard, living about eight miles above Ab
beville, was burned down the early pait
of this week with ten or fifteen bales of
cotton. It is supposed to be the work
of an incendiary.
The ginhouse of Mr. L. D. Spears, of
ward one, Claiborne Parish, was de
stroyed by fire last Friday night. Several
bales of cotton jvere lost bfejflagW to
different partie 3Mrt!c*tnTfMffer from
the loss, as there’was no insurance on the
property. - ‘
A young man named Ratcliff, living
several miles above Arcadia, was seriously
if not fatally injurned last week by the
explosion of a shell, which he was at
tempting to drive into his gun with a
pocset-knife, the brass end of the shell
striking him in the forehead.
A white man named Cornelius Coyne
late section hand on the Texas and Pa
cific railroad, near Edgard, was found
dead on the Carie Plantation road at 9
o’clock Sunday morning last. The coro
ners jury rendered a verdict that he caam
to his death from an incised wound in the
abdomen, causing fatal hemorrhage, sup
posed to have been inflicted by one Jo
seph White, who is now in custody.
On Saturday last Mr. Reese Poag was
shot and killed at Oxford station, DeSoto
parish, by Mr. B. B. Dickinson. Both
were prominent young men, highly con
nected. They had had a trifling quarrel
some days before, and Poag became
crazed with whiskey and attacked his
former friend, who was compelled to
shoot him. Mr. Dickinson surrendered
himself to the sheriff, and upon a pre
liminary examination by Judge Hall was
discharged from custody upon the ground
that he acted in self defense.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Earthquake shocks were felt at many
places throughout the State on Tuesday
morning. At Charleston, Columbia,
and Orangeburg the shocks were severest.
Lee Gaston, who killed his son-in-law,
Will Estes, made application before
Judge Witherspoon, at Chester, for bail
on last Saturday, The judge, after hear
ing the testimony offered at the coro
ner’s inquest, signified his willingness to
grant him bail in the sum of $5,000.
So far, only ninety-three persons, all
told, have gone to Arkansas from the
line of the Port Royal railroad, and they
have gone, not from dissatisfaction with
the eight box law or the priority lien law, •
but liecause of hard times and the desire
| for new things. If similar inducements
were offered, it would be easy to get
more white people to go than the colored >
people who have taken their depart ire. j
The case of R B or “Dick” Jacobs, ;
ciiArged with the killing of tenant Dock ’
Hughes on Christmas day, was brought
up before Judge Norton at Pickens, i
Thursday, on application for a writ of ;
habeas corpus. After hearing the ease, ;
Judge Norton granted the petition and
fixed the l»ond at $2,500. Jacobs was re
leased and returned to the city in the af
ternoon. In view of the evidence given
at the inquest, and the verdict of the
coroner’s jury rendered therefrom, the
amount of the bond has excited much
surprise and unfavorable comment. The
tide of public feeling is much against the
defendant, and his release on slight »e
--curity has not tended to abate that senti
ment
While Deputy Marshal J. B. Elkins
was riding along in the read at the foot of
Glassy mountain, twenty-five miles from
Greenville, Wednesday morning, on his
way to join the raiding party of Deputy
Collector Black, he was fired on by a man
who stepped into the road from the
buslii s behind him. The gun was loaded
with No. I abtA. and a dozen of them
were lodged in the deputy’s lack and
shoulders. Captain Elkins’ returned the
fire with a pistol, but with lesa success.
His wounds are not serious, and be at
once returned to the city. The would-be
wssswain wm as a veteran
mooadjiaer, and probably a partner in
one of the illicit stills destroyed by
, Cfebnel Bade on tbs ame raid.
FAWNING TO NONE OHAItITV TO
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JANUARY «. 1887.
FLORIDA.
Work is being rushed on the new hotel
at Key West.
The street railway at Fort Meade has
been completed.-
e Many of the Lakeland streets are being
paved with clay.
The taxable property of the city of
Cedar Keys has increased $30,000 the
past year.
The Spanish consul at Key West has
agreed to clear the steamers of the Tam
pa and Havana line at any hour of the
night in order to expedite mails.
Surveyors are laying out the new town
of Hamilton Diston, called Fioridelphia,
on the west bank of Lake Kissimmee.
It will have broad streets and avenues
and five parks.
The gin house and contents, with the
engine and appliances, belonging to Mr.
E, T. Dickerson, at Greengood, in Jack
son county, was destroyed on Thursday
night of last week. The incendiary, one
Payne Wheeler, was caught a day or two
later and confessed that he had been
hired by a white man to do the work.
General G. W. Bently, manager of the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail
road, has agreed that, in consideration of
$5,000 guaranteed, he will build a broad
gauge railroad from the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West road to DeLand,
and have the same in operation by the
15 day of next January; providing that a
free right of way be furnished him to
tewn.
A BIG SALE.
The Largest Ever Made tn th® Senth.
The rumors of the recent sale of the
Woodstock Iron and Steel company, at
Anniston, Ala., and the Anniston Land
and Improvement company, of their
property, to a syndicate, have been con
firmed, the trade having been consum
mated. The syndicate buys the prop
erty for six million dollars, which is
the largest capital cash transaction that
has ever occurred in the South. This
property includes the celebrated Wood
stock iron furnace, with its thousands of
mineral and timbered lands, the renowned
Annistsn Inn, the perfect system of
waterworks and electric light and all
other property previously owned by these
corporations. The Woodstock Iron and
Steel company will at once erect two
large coke furnaces, costing about five
hundred thousand dollars, which amount
is for in the treasury, and has
perfected arrangements for a standard
gauge road to Gadsden, Ala., to be
as the Anniston and Cincinnati
railroad. This road having made a traf
fic arrangement, for through business
with the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
will greatly add to the shipping ficilUm
at reduced rates the product of the fur
naces here, the Clifton Iron company in
suring a heavy paying freight to this new
road. ,
ASSIGNMENT OF A CATTLE FIRM.
AFailsre Which Cnnnea Much Surprlacln
Texas.
Tho Dolores Land and Cattle company
or Texas, which was chartered last year
with a stated capital of $3,000,000, have
made an assignment. The ranches and
cattle belonging to the company are situ
ated in Demmit, Kinney and adjoining
counties, and were assessed last year at
$250,000. Th’j ranches comprise over
300,000 acres, stocked at present with
16,000 head of cattle. The papers of as
s’gnmcnt as filed here and signed by
Messrs. Seabright and A. F. Robins, show
in round figures liabilities of half a mil
lion dollars, and the assets float up at
about $510,000. The assignment creates
great surprise and regret, cn account of
the high standing of the persons con
cerned in the enterprise. The assets,
however, as compared with the liabilities,
indicate temporary embarassment, which,
it is hoped, will be eventually overcome
without much loss, if any, to the credit
ors.
SOUTHERN REPUDIATED BONDS.
The Govornmeat Ur*ed to Sue tho Star®® to
Enforce Their Payment.
The United States government holds in
trust for the benefit of the Indian tribes
$1,710,000 of bonds issued by Southern
States, ou which default has been made.
About $50,000,000 of the same defaulted
securities are held by private parties in
New York city. E. L. Andrews, attor
ney for certain New York holders of re
pudiated bonds, nas written to Secretary
Lamar, urging that the United Statessue
the defaulting States, claiming that the
United States has power to bring an ac
tion against any one of the repudiating
States, while a private individual cannot.
Secretary Lamar has referred the matter
to Attorney-General Garland. If the
United States should bring the desired
suits and win them, the individual hold
ers of bonds would profit along with the
government, which annually now makes
good to the Indians the interest which
the States refuse to pay.
LOUISIANA ORANGE CROP.
But One-T«®th the Quantity «f Last Year
Prad«e®4.
The orange crop of Louisiana i* ail har
vested and in market. It is, as predicted,
less than one-tenth of the. average crop,
nnd oranges are retailing now at thirty to
fifty cents per d izen,against ten to thirty
cents this time last year, and scarce at
these figures. There will be none for
shipment north, as usual. In fact a great
many Florida oranges have been import
ed and are for sale this year, a decided
novelty in New Orleans, which has hith
erto been exporter; but while the crop is
a failure a more favorable report comes
from the Plaquemine orange district, for
the trees are not as severely injured and
not as many of them killed by the cold
of last January, as was imagined at first.
AN'CmiEft FAXLURE.
The failure of Lonnon Pels, a leading
dry goods merchant of Newport, is an
nounced, The creditors are St Louis,
New Orleans, Memphis. Louisville, Cin
cinnati. Boston. Chicxigo and PhHadel
iJ»i ♦ merchants and manufacturers, Lis
hilitiea will reach $40,(50; a»eU.
■
RAILROAD DISASTERS.
Collision® Between Passenger and Freight
Trains. -
A fast train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at an early hour Wednesday.
f morning collided with a freight train'
near Tiffin, Ohio, wrecking both trains.
f Twenty-two bodies were burned beyond
5 recognition, and many more’ injured se
verely. It is a fearful sight and calls to
mind the Ashtabula horror of the winter
> of 1877.
‘ A MASSACHUSETTS WRECK.' ' <;
A passenger train on the Boston and
Albany railroad was wrecked near West.
1 Springfield. Mass., by a collision with a'
freight train. The wreck caught fire
and one passenger and one sleeping coach
1 were burned and several person sseriously
injured, and one was killed, ■ beiag
. burned so badly that no one could recog
nize him.
ACCIDENTS IN ALABAMA.
Near Livingston, on the line of the
! Alabama Great Southern railway, Tues
-1 day night a construction train was
1 wrecked and Captain Joe Lewis, an‘old
passenger conductor, and a fireman
1 named Fowler were killed. The wreck
. was caused by the engine striking a cow
• and derailing the train. • . „
[ A second accident occurred at Rees
ville, where a freight train was derailed,
six cars demolished and two brakemen se
verely injured. - - ■
i T>
A FEDERAL VETEKAN’S SUICIDE.
Caleb* L. Bryant, of Belleville, Ohio,
died at a restaurant in Birmingham
Thursday, from an overdose of morphine.
He took eighteen grains of the drug, it is
supposed with suicidal intent. Among
the papers found in his pockets was a
certificate of honorable service in com
pany I, seventh regiment of Ohio, which
showed that he enlisted June 19, 1861,
and was discharged December 20, 1862.
There was also found in his pockets a
United States pension certificate,showing
that he drew eight dollars per month
from the government. Others papers
showed that he was a member of the
Belleville Masonic Lodge, with All dues
paid up.
SHEFFIELD BOOMING< E .
, An interesting feature of Sheffield's
boom was the meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Sheffield and Tuscumbia street
railway company Thursday. The capital
stock of fifty>thousand dollars was all
represented, and a further subscription
of thousand dollars was re
fused. Os tfic capital stock twenty per
cetu , er ten thousand dollars' was paid
in. The board of directors' was organ
ized with of F. D.
WrSr- AlmoUf secretary, and
the route 1- taken to prosecute
dispatch.
TEXAS QUAKING
A slight shock of earthquake occurred
H Paige, Tex., Wednesday morning
which lasted two or three seconds. The
colored servants at the Williams house
were greatly alarmed at the rattling of,
dishes and pans in the kitchen. In one
store a number of cow-bells, suspended
from the ceiling, chimed. ' In other 1
store, tin-ware and stove pipes around the
caves of houses were shaken down. Sev
eral clocks stopped. The shock was felt
for several miles around, and evidently
passed from south to north. A few say
they heard rumbling noises. No serious
damage was done. \
SHOT THREE TIMES. _
Geo. Hill, one of the commissioners of
LaSalle county, and a leading citizen of
Tuchig, was assassinated last Suh-
I day. Hill was an important witness at
the coroners inquest on the recent killing
of Sheriff McKinney. He was shot three
times, but lived long enough to state that ■
his assassins were Captain Silas Hay and
Frank R. Hall. Captain Hay was father- j
in-law of the late Sheriff McKinney. The ;
State Ranger and local authorities are
scouring the country in >earch of the as ;
wissins, who fled immediately after firing .
; on their victim. Hill was a man of I
! wealth and high standing.
BNOW BALLS END IN BI LLETS.
A special to the Montgomery Advcr
: tiser from Demopolis says that two white :
I men, an 1 good citizens,’ named Cochran |
i and Chadwick, indulged in a snowball |
I battle, which wound up in a serious dif
j.ficulty. Cochran was shot by Chadwick
1 and died almost instantly. The men
I were brothers-in-law.
OUR INDERTEDNEAB.
The debt statement just issued shows
the decrease of the public debt during :
the month of December to be $9,358,202,- I
I 32; cash in treasury, $444,015,791.1’9;
i gold certificates outstanding, $97,214,-
605: silver certificates outstanding sll7, - ;
246,670; certificates of deposits outstand- I
j ing $6,510,000.
The Tillie Mnilh Mouuuicnt.
! A design by Sculptor R Schmid for a
I monument to 'T'illie Smith has beep ac
I cepted by the committee in Ilacketts- I
town, N. J. The plaster cast is now in
New York. On a granite base will
f stand a bronze figure of the heroine who |
i sacrificed her life in deren<» of het
I honor. At her back will rise a tate i
I white cross. The figure of the girt is a :
I trifle more than six feet tall, and the
whole monument will be about thirty .
| feet high. The sculptor desi«ned.4he I
cross to be of w hitt marble, but it may |
have to be of iron, if there is not money I
enough raised to make it of marble. f
The heroine is represented as. being
forced backward. With her left hand t .
she grasps a serpent, and with he?
right hand she presses to her Lead a
myrtle crown. The upturned face Lm» >s
to the cross. The figure is drappt-d. |
Thia nK’niment will cost more money I
than has been pledged to pay for h, aud 4
Mr. Schmid propose* to place the piss
ter cast on exhibition to add to the |
monument fund.
M St •
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| - THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
; Not like those temples of the olden times,
Built by the bleeding hands of toiling slaves,
The corner-stones laid over new-made
graves,
In bold commemoration of dark crimes;
' • Not like the mystic Sphinx, whose
' face
Left to the world no lesson and no grace.
Is this majestic emblem of the Free!
No history of wrongs, her wearing mars—
“. But, rival and companion of the stars,
She lifts her glorious torch, that all may see
This symbol of a Nation’s Motherhood,
Fair Liberty, the beautiful, the.good!
Stupendous triumph of ambitious art,
Helped by a million eager, eanest hands • - -
Up to the lofty height whereon she stands,
She knits two great republics heart to heart
And, smiling frorfi our country’s open door,
• Welcomes..the homeless wanderer to onr‘
. shore.
> ’ ’ —Ella Wheeler Wildcat.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS.
“I tell you, Hawks worth, I know what
I’m talking.about, and I don't believe
in any. chicken-Tieartedness when it
com eq to a clear matter of justice; and
if I caught tramp, beggar or thief on my
premises, and could prove he'd been tak
ing anything belonging to me, I’d show
him no mercy whatever.”
And Captain Whip pieton brought his
strong fist down on the railing by which
he happened to be standing with a thump
which made the metals ring again.
'*’ He was on his way home from the
Mariner’s Club rooms, and had encoun
tered the Chief of Police, Marshal Hawks- :
worth, who had been telling how some’
young thieves were destroying the peace
of some of the residents of Prince ave
nue, but how hard it was to arrest mere
boys.
Captain Wipperton’s fine house was
a little way out of the city proper, and
npw, after having chatted with several
friends on the shipping news at the club,
he was on the" way home to eat his
Thanksgiving dinner. ' ' ‘ ■
The Captain was rather given to blus
ter and flourish, but was strongly sus
pected of being a kind man at heart,
though some wondered that, well off as
he was, he never seemed very charitably
disposed. His housekeeper dispensed
small charities occasionally, but the Cap
tain, a bounteous provider where his own
.table was concerned, thought but little
Os thewantsof the.“ Great Outside.”
“Rather a strange time to be talking
of justice and tramps, ” said the minis
ter, as he cheerily joined the two men at
the railing on his way home from
church. “I hope,” he added, a genial
smile overspreading his benevolent coun
tenance, “we shall not forget the Giver
of all gbod-giffs this bright Thanksgiv
ing Day,” and the minister passed on?>
I i Hawksworth started for phe
| fetation, and Captain AVhippleton turned
I toward home, visions of a savory meal
’ preceding his heavy footsteps. * . •
Athirt distance from his own door his
reflections received a sudden shock as he
saw a boy dart out of the side gate, a
suspicious looking bundle in a fiandker
cbief dangling in one Land. The boy
without looking either to the right or
left darted along the road, soon turning
into a'side street.
“ Oh, I’ll catch you, you young ras
cal,” said the Captain to himself as he
i sprang along with surprising i gility, con-
I sidtring his we'ght.
The boy, still without turning, sped
along, the Captain following with equal
.swiftness. The child led him a long
race, and many persons along the lower
part of the city where he was now
traveling gazed curiously at the large,
I well-dressed -man evidently bent on
reaching a given point within a limited ’
time.
The narrow streets grew still narrower
as the boy, apparently fancying himself
more secure on his own soil, slackened
his pace, so allowing his unseen fol- |
lower to gain upon him rapidly. At
length he turned into a contracted court,
■ and entered a door just as Captain Whip-
Sleton entered the alley. The boy also
isappeared round the top of a flight of
■ stairs just as the Captain entered the
i outside door.
For two reasons the Captain went
over the stairs guardedly. He wished
■ to make no noise, and he half feared the
rickety stairs would give way beneath
what he styled his “ uncommon heft.” \ I
i At the far end of the first landing was
a room with the door ajar. The Cap
tain approached and listened, a boyish
voice was saying:
“Now then, let’s sit right up in our
-little bed, and see what we’ve got for a
I nice Thanksgiving dinner. Up-a-diddy;
that’s it! Now then, what’s in this bun
dle. we wonder.” '
The hall in which the sturdy. Captain
was Standing'was almost as dark as pitch,
but a window at the end of the little
room into which he peeped enabled him I
•j to se..' the boy he had been pursuing. I
He w as, while talking in this cheerful '
| stra'n. also lifting from a bed of raga I
the emaciated form of a young girl.
At first the Captain thought her a mere '
child, but when she spoke he found him
self mistaken.
Opening the handkerchief, the boy ■
held up some fresh looking biscuit, the ;
remains of some broiled chicken, a few j
fried potatoes and a mass of potato I
i skins.
“Now you see, Janie,” he ran on, ‘Tm
a-goiu’ to hyper round an’ git a smart;
lire i:i no time, then I'm n-goin’ to boil j
these pnrin’s an’ have a feast. Rich ■
folks they don't mind how they peel [
potatoes , "why, there’s mos half the in- »
side left on these skins''
i. “Where d d you get these nice things, I
p little brothers’’
The voice whic h put the question was |.
thin, weak and anxious.
i „ “Uh, I ketched them up in a kitchen j
jtist in time to save somebody the trouble |
o’ throwin’ them ou
‘ Ob,. Bony I” sa’ l the troubled voice. I
I “dan t you know < al will be grieved if |
youdo so! I could i*t eat things you took j
' without they was ,rive you. ’ Why didn’t ’
• you ask some one ”, • . . I
’ “I tell you t.M only Ravins. J in- i
’ listed tbeehild. -thing! as was pitched
into an old basin to be headed but. Hope ■
you don’t c dl that nothin’ wro-. g, talcin’* f
i what was goto’ to the piggies. Why. 1
; you ain’t got no idea, Jaaie, you ain’t, |
whnt feast* r’ch folks thrown away; bull
like's not if I’d a-aiked they’d a sent me »
> aWuy Without even the leavin’a’’
I ' Uaptaiu Whippletou easily recognized I
the remains of his abundant Thankagiv- 1
ing breakfast,and not being used at all to
such seenes, his eyes were getting blurred
disagreeably, and a great lump In his
throat seemed threatening to choke him
every moment. But the low -voice be
gan, again:
“You know, little, brother, mother,
she knew all about the Bible, and nights,
when she lay, a-dying, she used'to repeat
things she knowed to me, and I remem
ber, ma, she. used to say as ’twas better
to starve than to take what wasn’t our’n,
and Miss Limpscy, my Sunday-school
teacher, she said what I've often and
often told you, Bony boy, we must obey
God first of all, and He certainly will
care for ms.” .
.. There was a tremble in the poor voice
which made ■ Captain Whippieton swal
low so hard he nearly strangled in his ef
forts to suppress a cough. “Bony,”
pausing in the midst of the fire he was
making,- asked in a voice so piteous its
tones lingered in. the Captain’s memory i
long afterwards.
“Why don’t your teacher ever come
to see you, I’d like to know; and say, j
Janie, you don't ’speck God wants a cove i
and his poor, sick sister to starve, do I
you?. I worked like time’n Caesar all last!
week an’ only got money nuff to buy
these chips and coals, for I won’t let
you freeze, Janie, a*nice ole sister that’s
took care o’ me from a baby, when I
nothin’ but a bag o’ bones an’ got
named after my own ’pearance. Why I !
bless you, Janie girl. I could a-flccced j
- these rich folks like sixty! Therewarn’t j
no one in the kitchen, an’ there stood a
big chicken pie all ready for the table—
my! how she looked, and how it must
a-tasted!”
Bony paused, a dreamy look of
delicious imagination transfixing his far
ioff gaze for a moment, then he went .
i on
.“And then there was vegetables, dr-I
anges, nuts, puddin’s, pies. Gracious! i
You never saw anythin’ like tke things I
they had—but all I took was a pan o’ ole
leavin's. You don’t call that bad for a
hungry cove, do you? Thanksgiving Day i
too.”
Only to God alone was known the ;
heroism involved in the sick girl’s re
ply -
“I’d rather you’d take them back
again, dear little brother.”
“Well then, I will!” impetuously burst
out poor Bony, gulping down a great
sob*. “I’ll take’em all back and beg i
’em—” -
“No, you won’t!” thundered the Cap- '
tain, bursting pell-mell into the little
room; “no, you won't, because I won't
have it! You just come with me, little
feller, and I’ll give you half that chicken !
pie you saw, and a few slices of turkey
beside. -Then you shall have some!
potatoes and turnips and squash and *
onions and cranberries. I'll sling in a!»
jiie and a taste of pudding, too, and a
few oranges, and jim cracks, like tea
and sugar, for Janie over there. Come,
we’ll start right along. You needn’t ;
look-so frightened; I only hollered like
a hurricane because my throat nurt, and
I couldn’t in aster my voice somehow;
and I tore in wilder than a nor’easter
because I—l was in a hurry.”
Then ho added in a voice tender as a
woman’s, turning to nanie: ' |
“My poor child, how long have you
lain here, and what’s the trouble?” *"
: *Tt's my hip, air,” answered Janie,her
eyes dilated, and still only half recov
ered from the Captain's unex
pected entrance had given her. “I fell
and broke it; but one of these days I may
walk again when I get a doctor to it.
But please don't blame poor Bony, sir; i
he meant no wrong, I’m sure. We want •
to belhonestpeople, indeed we do, sir!” \
“Well, well,’’ said the Captain,gruffly, •
“the first thing’s to get some dinner
down both your throats. Throw that
stuff away, there. Come on, my boy.”
Marshal Hawksworth, on his way from
•the station-house to his Thanksgiving
dinner, suddenly encountered Captain;
Whippletof striding along by the side of
a small, ragged boy of about ten years,
as between them they carried a great
market basket, which evidently taxed
the Captain’s herculean strength, for it
was evident the boy's share of the burden
was only a mere pretense.
For the first time since he peered into
Janie’s narrow room, his conversation
concerning his tenible threats as to
tramps and thieves, recurred to Lis mind
upon seeing Hawksworth’s face.
■ “Halloo!” -shouted the Marshal,
“what’s up ??’
“Oh, we’re bearing away to a shallow
port,Bort o’ loading up for a fresh cruise, ”
shouted back the Captain without stop-;
ping. :
When Janie’s astonished eyes beheld
the wondrous supply contained in the
great basket, her first remark was:
“Qh, how splendid! mw what a
’thanksgiving dinner Granny Beers shall
have'.”
• “Who’s Granny Beers? inquired the
; Captain.
She was an old bed ridden woman on !
the next floor above, who at the time of
her mother’s death, years before, had
been very kind to Janie.
Impelled by some sudden impulse,
I Captain Whippieton told Janie to keep
what he had brought, it was all for her
and Bony. He would attend to Granny f
Beers.
Slowly ascending the creaking stairs,
he reached another miserable room, |
where a very old woman was slowly fad- * ■<
ing out of life with consumption.
Before Captain Whippieton had sat by ;
her side fifteen minutes, he had heard |
more of genuine thankfulness, and seen ] ’
more of real resignation and content i,
than ever in his life before.
The housekeeper declared afterward '
that “Captain Whipjrieton. dear soul, ’
did act the queerest that Thanksgiving !
Day” of anything she ever heard*. Run- :
ning about with first one basketful of j
provisions,, then another, until she ‘‘ter- '
taiiily thought the man gone Clean
crazy.”
When Captain Whippieton started out
the next day to consult his doctor about
Janie, and to call again on Grandma;
Beers, he came upon the minister and
Marshal Hawksworth, and the latter be
gan sportively: ' i "
“Well, Captain, c lught any thieves or
tramps yeti I thought my>elf something
>of the kind had you pretty well in tow
; yesterday.”.
To the Marshal’s surprise the tall, pow
der ftil Captain flushed visibly through his
swartify skin, and finally replied with a
huskineia. which claimed tfie hearer’s
; gravest attention: 4
I “Yea, Hawksworth, I suppose I did
. c->tch a little tramp or something akin to
one, yesterday, but it was only that the .
Almighty, who JUndly feeds us all,
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— —..
might teach me a lesson. I believe, now,
that vengeance is not always justice;
what looks like justice is not generally
what GoiJ calls mercy.” Then no added
with charming humility from such a
.towering figure :
“Here I’ve been taking God’s boun
ties for years and years without ever a
truly thankful feeling in my sinful old
heart. Since I gave up the seis I’ve
often fretted over not having enough to
do. Bless your heart, man, some of the
best, most graceful and loving of God’s
creatures are a’l but starving within
sight of my own door! I’ve found oc
cupation. From this time forth I pro
pose to recognize some of the claims,
human and divine, which, in my ignor
ance of their existence, I've shirked like
a thief heretofore. ”
“They do say,” remarked the City
Marshal, a few months later, “there
ain’t a kinder or more charitable man in
the place than old Captain Whippieton.
j He didn’t used to be just like that, but
I guess something kind of woke him up
i about Thanksgiving time. I suppose he
! knows all about it.” —*“
Yes; the Captain knew.— Golden Rute.
English Rural SnperstitifW.
There are workingmen in secluded
hamlets who - still cling to their ances
tors’ faith in astrology and in the “voices
of the stars.” as translstcd to mundane
I comprehension through the medium of
I the prophetic almanacs. And this not
vaguely, tentatively, but with a robust
credulity which can shape and govern
their every-day actions, their buying and
selling, their sowing and reaping, their
! contracts, whether social, commercial
-or We quote » boos fide?
A skilled country mechanic, a ntan of
distinct pretensions to ability;'"lost his
’ situation after fifteen years of apfwoved
! service. He sought another, but at first
! unsuccessful y. Trade was depressed,
and the outlook sombre. An opening
offered in a somewhat novel quarter. The
inquiry was made if he would commence
work on the Monday succeeding his en
gagement. He hesitated, and lugubri
ously demurred.
“I will come on Tuesday, without
fail,” he said.
“Why not on the previous day?” curi
ously asked the employer.
“It’s a bad one, sir.”
“Abad one I How? .1 don’t under
stand.”
“By the almanac, sir. I wouldn’t
marry on that day if I were ever so deeply/ *
smitten by ‘Cupid’s arrow,’ as they call;, -
it on the valentines, and if it were a
choice between then and never; and I
wen’t start at a new job on Monday next .
for any master in the country. Sorry to
disoblige, sir.” ’ *■
* ‘ Remonstrance and ridicule were alike
vain. “No, no; I mayn tbe able to ex
plain it—there’s a heap o’things in the
world that we can’t tell just the why
and the wherefore of—but I’ve proved,
and that’s better than explaining it;” “iu
fact, there’s a proof here in this little bit
of business. My almanac told me I was -
to have changes this year. I 4
round, but couldn’t so-MUch as guess "
where they w&IX to come from. But
you all the almanac was
and I’ve noticed it scores of
times.”
Thia same artisan stood sponsor on
another occasion for a statement so cu
rious as to be worth reproducing as a
specimen of the humor noi simply of
rural, but of technical superstition, also.
He was descanting on various occult in
fluences of the heavenly bodies-ia fa
vorite topic with a congenial audience. < ‘
The moon’s power is Very remarkable.■” ,
he said; “as is well-known and admitted,
it rules the tide*. And it likewise
makes a wondcrul difference to timber.
You may hardly credit this, but it’s a
matter of experience again. Timber
felled when the moon is waxing planes
or cuts up nigh as easy again as the very
same sort, and age, and growth of tim
ber felled when the moon is on the wan?.
It s queer, but true.”— Ctuvdl,
Sugar Statistics.
The ordinary sugar of commerce
made from sugar cane and beets. There
is very little difference id tht cf
the two varieties. The bulk of the cane
sugar is grown iu the tropical
North and South America, the Fast and
We«t India Islands, British India ahd
Southern China. The beet sugar ispro
duced chiefly in France, Germany, Bus
hian Poland and Austria-Hungary. The
relative amount of cane and beet sugar
i? very nearly epial, the prospective crop
of cane sugar for the current year in
what are known as exporting countries,
being 2,44-",0t0 tons, while the prospec
tive crop of beet sugar will not be far
from 2,523,000 tons, making a total
available supply for the year of 4,080,000
tons.
.Statistic-s show, however, that sugar,
like some other good things in the world,
is not distributed evenly. Great Britein
consumes more sugar per capita than any
other country, and the United States
come next in the list.
For the year 1885 the consumption of
sugar, so far as it can be traced by rulia-’
ble figures, was as follows:
I one. Ton*.
United States.. Other European
Great Britain.. .1,•»:}.«« countries 333,000
Fraace...... .. l»7O,OO0 Hon - exporting
German Empire 338,000 counUlee I,GOO,''IOO
AuatHs IsS.OOO ———-
Holland 4 ;,ouo Total 5.432,009
This statement, allowing the last year’s
crop to have been as great as the prospec
tive crop for 1880, would lexve 1,14'.',000
tons on hand or to have gone into con
sumption unaccounted for. The per
capita consumption of Great Britain was
a trifle over GO pounds; that of the
United States 4V.J povgds; that of
France was scarcely 80 pounds, and that
of Germany still 1< sa. The consumption
for the United States varies somevhat,
according to the condition of business.
While in 1885 it was 84L& pounds per .
capita, in 1804 it was 51 and in 1883 only
47.6. — Philadelphia Timet.
The I‘ragcdy of Life. -
(S<ene First. )
Fonsonby--“Ybu' see the fbntisen
ta!?’’
DeTwirliger—“Ya-as.” j|
Poasonby— ‘ My father was aboijt the
irst man to enter that hotel when it was X
gened.”
i Scene Second >
First Old .Mechanic—“see that yoang ‘
iudc across the way.”
Second Ditto—“ay.”
First Old Mechanic—“l knew his
father well; he used to be a porter in tfef
Uotilincntai.”— Pkiladeiphta Calk