JOS." A. HARRIS, Edxtob.
FOB THE PUBLIC GOOD.
$1.50 PER ANNUM, HC aDTANCJE.
CHAPEL HILL, N. G.VSilTURDAY; APRIL 24, 18S0.
NO. 28.
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THE ENGINE.
lotalhe gloom of the deep, dark sight -
With panting treath and atuttla4 acraam;
Swift aa a bird la sadden flight
Darta thia creature of eteal and aiaam.' ...
Awful dangers are larking nigh, "-.
Bocks and chiams are near the track.
But straight br the light of .its great white
" eyei '
. It speeds 'thro tha ahadowe. dense and
Terrible thoughts and fltroe desires
Trouble Its mad heart many an hour, -
Where burn and tmoulder the hidden Area,
Coupled erer witn might and power." v
It hates. as the wild horse bites the rein,
vThe iatrrow track by.rale and hill ;
And ear eks with a cry of atartled'pain.
And lont to f ol ow its own wild wilL
Ob. what am I out an engine shod
With muscle and fleah by the hand of God.
Speeding ou thro the dense, dark night, '
Guided alone by, the soul's white light ?
Often and often my mad hetrt tries.
And hates its way with a bitter hate,
And longs to follow its own desires.
And leaTe the end in the hands of fate.
i
O, pondrous engine of steel and steam
O, human angina of . flesh and bone
Follow the white light's certain beam
There l.ea safety; and there alone.
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The narrow track of fearlrss truth,
Lit by the soul's great eye cf light,
O. passionate heart of restless youth.
Alone will carry yon thro' the night
Tillage. As soon as darkness had settled,
rthe few who had been warned assembled in
Aianon's store lor consultation. It was
not many minutes before a rap was heard
which Morton readily recognized as that of
the woman of whom we have spoken. - By
her devotion -and fidelity she had saved
him from many dangers and many- losses.
She was admitted and began at once to re-
veai me inaians' plans in detail, r it was
not their intention . to make a general at
tack : their designs were onlv uoon Mor.
Married San'g Indicator.
An Indian Romance.
In the old times when uieveiana was
verv voung. the settlers along the lake
shore had much more communication with
the aborigine j than whites. Long rows of
canoes, instead of steamers were- wont to
lie along the shore where the Union Depot
now stands and the railroad runs, and the
traffic. was in blankets, beads, venison and
furs, instead of wheat, iron, coal and pe
troleum. There were winding paths in
stead of v streets, and wigwams and log
cabins were the business blocks and dwellings.-
Natural forests were the parks, and
while there was 110 grand water works, the
Cuyahoga was un contaminated by vile
sewage.
One bright afternoon in the aulumn of
A. D. 18 , there came into the village a
neat-appearing squaw, apparently 25 years
of age, with a lithe, half-breed boy of 10,
tons store.. .They expected to find him
sleeping in the little-apartment Off the
main room, terrify him into acquiescence,
ransack the establishment- and ' carry off
such booty as suited them. Should he
resist,, they would' kill him, if necessary to
the accomplishment of their purpose.
! Word was instantly sent to such others
as could be trusted in an emergency, and
within an hour some 25 men who knew
the use of gunpowder were assembled at
jMorton's all fully armed, and with Mor
ton's stock of ammunition to back them.
They decided to take their stand outside
the building, and post sentinels in every dK
rection 40 rods away. , The woman was to
retire to a safe distance and remain se
creted. ' Morton commanded.
! All being in readiness, they had not Ions
to wait. Within an hour a sentinel eame
in with the tidings that a party, some
twenty or thirty . as nearly as he could
-judge in the starlight, were approaching.
By a preconcerted signal the other senti
nels were called in, and the' men deployed
in such manner as tb give an impression of
the largest possible numbers when a simul
taneous fire should be delivered.
It appears that the savages, thinking it
an easy matter to rob a single man; had
cot come in force, but had detailed a few
braves for the purpose. On they came,
with their stealthy tread, until their forms
began to be dimly outlined. As they came
within easy range, llorton estimated their
number to be not more than twenty. When
all was ripe, Morton gave the word ta fire.
As the twenty-five rifles, scattered in a long
line, blazed out upon them, they seemed to j
think that an army of a thousand men had
opened fire. With one united horrible
yell they fled to the woods, and no trader
of that village was ever thereafter molested !
by them. The men had purposely aimed !
high, as they desired rather to frishtcn i
than iniure those with whom they were awiuiiy awtui or all uie cabalistic signs on
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- Miraculous inventions are thejorder of
the day. Even Edison has been surpassed
by a genius who has invented what Is
called a "Married'Man's Indicator. " , It is
a wonderfully sensitive arrangement of the
ordinary thermometer, in . convenient
pocket size,.andls.grade(TtQ a scale of
cabalistic marks, which show the exact
state of the domestic atmosphere at any
hour of the night. The hard-worked and
belated husband arrives borne,' say about
midnight.- He takes oufihisJ 4 indicator,"
thrusts it in the keyhole, leaving;' it there
a few seconds. Pulling it out quickly, he
scans the dial by the moonlight's fitful
gleaming. If it marks "S. A." (sound
asleep) the poor husband pulls off his boots 4
noiselessly : uses his night-ker with bated
JME;gjYSMbfr dopra quick shgye
lb 11 tali,! 1 1 PLtqiO tilCLUMUUg UCUf
and when his dear little wife wakes , up
about two seconds1 afterward and wants to
know how long he- has been home he is so
sound asleep that Gabriel's trumpet couldn't
wake him. If the "Indicator" scores "A.
A. C. B. D. K. W. T." (awake, awful
cross, but does not know wLc time ft Is),
the husband puts a few more grains of
coffee in his mouth; opens the door boldly;
walks in with a slam-bang ait hits his foot
intentionally against a chair ; wants to
know why the devil the chairs ain't kept
out of the way ; gets desperately mad on
general principles; scares his wife clear
out of her crossness and intended curtain
lecture ; refuses to let her get up and strike
a match never did like a light all night,
nohow ; remarks groffly in response to a
timid query that 44it's about twenty-five
minutes after ten," and then turns into bed
with such an apparently awful state of
mind that the wife Of his bosom is afraid
to speak to him at, which he is very sad,
of course. There are nnraeroua. other
marks on the Indicator, showing just where
it will do to "play the Lodge dodge;' or
the 4 'sick friend;" or!'been standing on
the corner talking with so-and-so for more
than an hour;" or General or Honorable
this or that from, you know where, was in
town, and had to go away on the two
o'clock train, and he insisted so strongly
that the whole party stayed up to see him
oit, aunougu it was a great bore, and we
only did it through courtesy. But the mo$t
not at all anxious to inaugural a a bloody
feud. As a consequence no blood was
shed and no serious ill-feeling engendered.
I mi 1? 1 1 j
xne inuian. woman, wno Jiau proven so
faithful a friend, was provided with a home
in the village. She was given a rudimen
tary English education, adopted the dress
and civilization, and subsequently married
who either walked beside her or capered on Morton, who was in fact the father of the
lutle fellow who had followed his mother
to the vilkure on that eventful da v. Some
of her descendants still reside in Cleveland ;
others are scattered elsewhere, .
before. The little settlement was unusu
hxaciiveTrfW'ti tbatHlay, and - the Octfiber
sun-light resied upon a scene of surpassing
beauty. The lake and the landscape were
silver and gold, and the skies were blue and
Indians were gay in their
of feathers- and blight
the dial is the one at the top. about two
mark3 above boiling point. When the
weary husband comes home about 4 a. m.',
from the direction of the butuher-shop,
with a roll of meat Jield high in the air, so
fiat every one he passes can not fail to see
it, aud sticks the "Indicator" in the key
hole, he is almost too w'eak to draw it out.
With hair on end he reads it by the faint
light streaming in upon him over the
I Eastern hills, and sweat breaks out on his
f vi 1 - vi - . r i "-: l i
amber, and the
holiday attire
blankets.
" The face of the young Indian woman
' Uore an expression of sad anxiety, that was
quite in contrast with the brightness around
her. She did not mingle with the crowds
of Indian, but sat down near the entrance
to the, principal trading house, and. while
surveying the motley scene, talked kindly
and soberly with foe who spoke to her.
There was something in the appearance
and demeanor of the Indians which showed
that they regarded this as an important day.
Their gay. attire, the almost complete ab
seuce of weapons among them, their com
parative silence toward the whites, their
freedom . and sportiveness among them
selves, all went to teach the experienced
observer of Indian character that they
were moved by some uncommon though
undisclosed purpose.
After her arrival had ceased to' attract
attention the young squaw passed '.quietly
into' the store, the boy remaining outside
playing with his red companions. As, soon
as- she could do so unobserved, she strolled
as jf . inadvertently, to the rear of the store,
where, in partial concealment she caught
the trader's eye. ,He knew from her glance
that her signal must be heeded. Ashe
contrived to come close to her she commu
nicated to him the plofrof the Indians.
They will all-pretend to go home to
night ; but they will not go home. They
will come back in the night. They want
your goods. If. you will give them up,
they will not -kill you, if you fight they
will kill you. I shall bo with JOU.,,
Having said this, she sauntered slowly
out, with a face sadder than before, and
resumed her former seat. Soon the boy
came near her, and she whispered to him
secretly. lie went into the store, where a
number 'of squaws were pretending to
trade, and stood, as if by mere chance,
where she who sent him 'stood. The
trader, still busy, came close to him and
whispered the names of .certain white men
of the village. - The boy soon strolled out
to his play again, but somehow sport
seemed to take him near and into the shops
of the men wbom the trader had men
tioned. He would give the chief trader's
name secretly, with an intimation of danger
and then go wandering on with his play
ing. His momentous little task was soon
accomplished, and the shouts of-himself
and his fellows were soon echoing again in
front of ihe store of the chief trader
The sunbeams -were 'nearly as level as
the lake, when the -Indian woman, beck
oning to her happy protege, began to loiter
toward the trail by which she came; one
heart how light, and the other oh how
heavy I They kept the way until well out
of sight, Ahenlfet it and took "a circuitous
course, stopping finally at a wigwam upon
the shore about one mile eastward from
the village. " . .
'John Morton was the foremost trader m
the village, intelligent, trustworthy, and a
leader among his fellow settlers; so that
when a warning of danger with the sane
Hon of his name went round to a certain
trusty few, there was a certainty of prompt
and effectual response.
At sundown the. Indians began to de
part, and by dusk not one remained In the
Saving; a Train.
Not len ' aso an incident occurred on the
Western railroad, Georgia, that will cause
surprise wherever it is spoken of. The
train was within about thirty miles of
Montgomery, running at a rapid rate, all
unconscious of danger. The engineer spied
a white handkerchief on a pole, fluttering
in the road some distance up the track.
On getting nearer he discovered it was some
one waving the train down. The shrill
Whistle was sounded, brakes put on, and
the train brought to a, standstill. The
heads of passengers were popping out of
the windows, inquiring what the trouble
was, no station being near. The conductor
came out, and seeing a ttamp was the one
who had caused the train to stop, inquired
in probably a rather angry manner what
Was wanted. This man, who belonged to a
class almost universally despised and sub
jected to cuffs " and kicks, astonished the
conductor by informing him that about
eighteen inches of rail was broken out a
short distance further on. The broken
place was repaired, the train about to move
off, - when the conductor saw the tramp
standing on the roadside, and asked:
4 'Where do you want to go to?"
The tramp replied, 44To Pensacola."
' "Then," said the conductor, 'why don't
you get on the train?"
:'The reply was, "Because I have no
money.' v
The conductor told him to get aboard,
that he would take him to Montgomery.
On arriving in the city the. fact was re
ported to the general manager of the road,
who asked the man which he would have,
money or work. The man answered he
would rather have employment. A posi
tion was at once given him. At last ac
counts he was at work and doing well.
urged him to give him the money.1 The
garter refused to part with the hard earned
savings winch lie had laid up lor, a i rainy
day. ; Determined to get the little treasure,
John Waibel conceived the murder of his
Jjrother's family, and in the dead of night
perpetrated it in cold blood. He provided
himself with a hammer and an axe, and
stealing upon the slumbering members of
the family, itrewed the ' floor with their
crushed an d mangled " corpses. Then he
biirit ' open- the bureau drawers "and ran-
ch.eu ine piace tm ne iounu me - treasure,
afcd fled. : He had not been gone long when
the neighbors discovered the wholesale
murder and" notified the police. The sight
that met the gaze of the officers when they
entered Waibers dwelung, was a ghastly
one. " Mrs. Waibel bad been slain on - the
lounge in the sitting-room : her head . was
,tan and .cut in.to an unrecognizaDie
.pulpy jnass. There- -were thirty-eight
wounds on her skull, representing so many
blows from the. axe. The innocent babe
had not been spared ; it was dead in its
cradle is skull fractured by a blow of the
hammer. V On the threshold leading to the
sleeping room lay the, bent body of : the
husband, whose skull was split, .open by
two .tremendous blows -df the axe Bloody
marks on the wail indicated -the struggle
Detween .tne murcierer ana nis victim, anu
blood pools were everywhere. The corpse
of a child three years of age was found,
with the skull fractured, in the sleeping
room ; a third child, about six years old,
was . breathing ;yet, but its injuries were
such that death ensued in the course of a
few hours. - ,
The oldest child, a girl of thirteen years,
was left to tell in part the bloody ; tale.
She. had been wounded., but not fatally.
She said that her uncle was the murderer
of the f amilyi. Police inspector Kern
learned that at 9 o'clock in the morning a
man . answering, the description of Waibel
had bought a pair of stockings and suspen
ders in Bender's store, in Kcenigstrasse.
An expressman named Zahner told him
! that a man on, leaving the store entered an
eating house lin Weinstrasse, ; where ' the
fare did not suit him. He inquired of
Zahner for a better place, where he could
get all he ordered v Zahner recommended
him to Bardili's restaurant in Tuebinger
strasse. Thither repaired Inspector' Kern,
accompanied by Zahner, and found a man
enjoying a good breakfast. He was cleanly
shaved and had a slight abrasion . of the
skin on the right cheek. He looked just
like the man the Inspector was after. On
being questioned he gave the name of Kurz,
and pretended to be a business man from
Hall. The inspector said : "that i s not so
your name is Waibel, not Kurz, and you
are wanted for a five-fold murder. You are
my prisoner." 'Waibel threatened and bul
j lied ; but the inspector put the handcuffs
f nn him antl naid no attention lo his nrotest.
nuuie uruw iu un;ps as irgu as waiuuu, 1 lib was uresseaul a SUH ucioogui iu ma
he sees the bulb of the Indicator ' jammed j murdered brother, and his, undergara-ents
smack up against 4R. H. S. W. F. Y. J. j and his naked feet were spotted with blood.
I. D," (red-hot and still a heating and He was taken in a coach to the house in
waiting for you just inside the door." The which the butchery occurred, after he had
inventor of the instrument says that when been - dressed in the striped garb of a
A .New specie of Sloukey.
There are now in the Alexandra Palace,
London, six live specimens of a monkey
new to science, the macacus gelunda a
native of the mountains of Abyssinia, where
it livef at an elevation of from 7000 to
8500 feet above the sea-level. One of these
monkeys is an adult male. It is hairy over
the whole of the body, with the exception
of a pink patch, free from hair on the
chest, and a space around the throat of the
same color. : When the animals become an
gry or excited, these, pink patches turn
bright red. ' The nostrils are high up from
the upper jaw, and the upper lip is so mo
bile that it is often turned up so as to show
the whole of the upper teeth and gums.
The tail is long and thick, and ends in a
tuft resembling somewhat a lion's tail. The
color of the hair is brown, except around
the breast where it is gray. - The bare part
of the chest shows two male indications of
teats. The female has not such long hair
as the male, and on the bare spot in front
are two well-developed teats. The young
monkey takes one in each hand and sucks,
r Jxth at nnra. While these animals
have rejected all fruits, they have eaten In
dian corn and grass, pulling, it apart, an id
aaking it into little balls. In their habitat
these monkeys sleep in caves, and in Lon
don they sleep in a Irrge box, the old male
reinalning on guaid near the entrance
this terrible misfortune overtakes a man he
feels that there is nothing left in this life
worth living for, and appreciates the full
force of those beautiful lines :
This world is all a fleetiug show
For mail's delusion feiven. . .
He slings the meat out into the yard, and
braces himself for the coming fray, but
says nothing, for nothing pan be said. Be
he ever so gifted a liar, his accomplishment.
is more than valueless. Iso lodge,- no sick
friend, no talking on the corner, no sitting
up to see the General off, no swearing that
he will never do it again in fact, nothing
will avail. It is an absolutely indefensible
case. ' He is caught in flagrante delicto.
Even the ghastly gaiety with which, two
hours previous, he had said to the boys
that he 4 'guessed he'd see it out now
might all well be killed for a sheep as a
lamb" had all vanished. The Indicator
having told him the exact situation of
things he knows just what to do, and that
is nothing, but get into bed at once and
wrap the drapery of his couch about him,
pull the pillow over his ears and wait for
his wife's breath to give out. It's awfiil
while its last, but it has its use in relieving
the unfortunate husband's mind of part of
its load. , The Indicator is a great inven
tion, and no family should be without one.
For sale at all stores where they are kept.
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Five .Murders for SIOO.
The inhabitants of the beautiful capital
of Wurtemberg were thrilled with horror
on New Year's eve by the fiendish deed of
a monster who butchered the family of his
brother, consisting of five personsfather,
mother, and three small children. John
Waibel, the murderer is a millwright,
thirty-seven years of age. like every able
bodied German he served "his time in the
army. His military record was of the very
worst kind. He was reported for conduct
unbecoming a soldier, for yiolating he
rules, and neglect of duty about 200 times
and was fined in each .instance. In 1861
he served in the. Third . cavalry regiment,
and during the campaign in 2 806 he was
transferred to the Chasseurs. At the expi
ration of his term of service he enlisted
again in the Third cavalry regiment and
took part in the war with Prance in 1870-1.
He was a brave soldier, and for courage Sn
battle was decorated with the iron cross. At
the close of the war he was mustered out and
returned to his place of nativity, Kupfer
zell, where he resumed his trade. Toward
the end of December last he visited his mar
ried brother, who lived with his wife and
four children in Weber street, Stuttgart.
The brother was employed as carpenter ; he
was a hard working man and took good
care of his family, imd was well liked by
his neighbors. He received his wayward
brother, some years his junior, very kindly.
Mrs. Waibel sacrificed her own comfort
in many ways for her guest; she surren
Wpd her bed-room." to her brother-in-law,
while she wss content to sleep on a lounge
in the sitting-room; beside which she placed
the cradle with her baby, three months old.
John Waibel knew that his brother had 400
v. .kah( 1 new in hia nosaession. and
lfi.w-f y -v JC .
prisoner. An excited crowd nued ine
street. As the murderer appeared they be
came furious, and threats of lynching-Were
made. They rushed at the, vehicle, and
tried to drag him out. but a strong guard
of police protected him jrom personal vio
lence. When he alighted from the coach
he laughed sneermgly" at the spectators.
Even the coolest among them could no
lorierer control themselves v the outburst of
indignation was terrific. .The5 crowd
shouted, tiNo mercy to the brute I" 4 'Kill
himl" 4Tear him to pieces I" When the
prisoner viewed the dead bodies in the
presence of police and court officials he ex
pressed, no regret, but looked with repul
sive smile at the bodies of the three infants
and denied his guilt". Then he turned on
his heeL snapped his fingers and said with
a sneer, 44Pshaw, I've seen such sights
often before." When he was placed in the
coach again he grinned once more at the
infuriated crowd. It was with the great
est diflicultv that the police succeeded m
taking their prisoner safely to iaiL where
he is now awaiting trial.
How Englanc Takes Her Censua.
! In "Great Britain a census has been taken
every ten years since 1801,' arid the system
is now one Of the most perfect in existence.
Until near the close, of the last century,
there was no real method, an4 all previous
estimations of the population of the United
Kingdom were mere guesswork. It seems
the more strange' that such j should have
been? the fact, considering that, in the
American colonies, enumerations of the
population had often been made by order
of the home government. In 1790, a be
ginning was made in Scotland by Sir John
Sinclair, who, through his personal efforts
in s enlisting the co-operation of all the
clergymen, of the established church, col
lected returns which were of-great value,
although necessarily incomplete. After
seven vears he completed his I compilations.
and - publisbed thef results mtwenfy'-diie
volumes, probably the greatest statistical
work ever undertaken and carried through
by one private enterprise Under the sys
tem adopted m 1851, the census in Great
Britain is now taken in ope day, the 31st
of March. In 1851, 30610 enumerators
were appointed in England and Wales 1 by
the .2, 190 district registars in those coun
tries, each enumerator having . a t distinctly
defined district assigned to him. in Scot
land the thirty-two sheriffs . appointed the
temporary registars generally parish
schoolmasters and 8,130 j enumerators.
For the smaller islands, the government
appointed. 257 enumerators, and in Ireland
the census was taken by the ( constabulary.
Some days before . the census, day printed
schedules were delivered at every house or
tenement ; m Wales these were printed in
Welsh for the benefit of .the lower classes.
These schedules contained questions about
the name, relation to the head of the family,
condition; age, sex, occupation, -and birth
place of every person in Gat Britain, and
also to the number of deaf , dumb arid blind.
Measures were taken cMoecurfe -accurately
the names of nighClaborerS; persons out of
the country, travelers, seamen, soldiers,
etc . These schedules were all filled up in
tfie night of March 30-3 1 and were taken
up at an early hour on March 31, the col
lector filling . up the parts that had been
left blank through their negligence or in
ability, v'-' Ail unoccupied houses and build
ings n course of construction" were also
noted. iThe floating pcpulation persons
who spent the nights in boats " and barges,
in barns, sheds, eta, were required to be)
estimated as nearly as possible. The enu-'
merators were allowed jonejwfeek to make.
their returns . in, all : transcribed, and the
summaries and estimates co ripleted to de
tailed instructions. The district registars
had to complete their revision 01 the re
turns of their subordinates in a fortnight,
paying particular attention to'nine specially
defined points! These revised returns were
again revised , by the 'superintendent reg-
regi8tars," and then transmitted to the cen
sus office. - The' census as the most suc
cessful, in quickness and acQuracy, accom
plished in any country up to that time, and
the same system has been pursued, with
little variation, ever since. The digestion
of the census reports by the central autho
rities is conducted most, thoroughly and
he compilations are of the Igreatest value
. . a . a mi . v
to statisticians and economists, ine Dnusn
system has served as a model for many
other countries, where the census is now
taken in one day .by means of printed
schedules. I
Spools.
i
Bow to Make a Microphone.
: Drummendville is situated on the St.
Francis river, and the Northern Division of
the Southeastern railway, Canada, passe
through itv Several years ago the prevails
ing-wood which grew in the vicinity was
white birch, which does not, we believe,
make first-class fire-wood, but which ap
pears to be the best for th manufacture of
spools. This probably was the reason why
Drummondville was selected as the place
in which to locate these factories, and the
farmers In the vicinity can always find a
ready market for this kind of wood st about
$2.50 to '$3.00 per cord. ' The wood, after
being delivered to the factories, is first,
sawed into pieces about four feet long and
from an inch to an inch and a half square
according to the size of the spool it is des
tined to make. These pieces are put Into
a dry-house and ! thoroughly dried, from
whence they are taken lttto the factory and
given to the Toughers,' who, In an incredi-,
bly short space of time bore . hole in the
center a couple of inches deep, turn about
the same space round, and then cut off the
length required for a spool. The machines
used for this purpose are revolving planers,
in the center of which is a 'revolving gim
let or bit, and immediately to the right a
small circular saw with a gauge, set to the .
proper size for the spool. The; "rougher"
received a cent and a half per gross for
their work, and experienced men can turn
out from 100 to 1 130 gross per day. The
round blocks pass from them to the 4 'fin
ishers," who place them in machines which
give them .the shape of spools and make
them quite smooth. It is quite interesting
here to notice the men at work. A man .
stands with his left hand upon a small lev
er, and with the right he places the blocks,
one at a time, in the lathe, then draws
the lever toward him for an instant, and
the work is done; the lever is pushed back
and the spool drops down into a box below,'
while the right hand is ready with another
block. These blocks are handled at the
rate of twenty-five or thirty per minute.
The "finishers" also receive one cent and
a half per gross, and they can each turn out
from 100 to 130 gross per iday. The spools
are thrown loosely into a large cylinder,
which revolves slowly so that the spools,
are polished by the constant rubbing upon
each other for some time. On being taken
out of the cylinder they are placed. in a
hopper with an . opening at the bottom,
through which they pass down' a slide for
inspection. Here the inspector sits and ,
watches closely to see that ino imperfect
spools are allowed to pass, and a very small ,
knot or scratch is sufficient to condemn
them. The spools then pass into the hands
of the packers, who handle them very
lively. They are packed In large boxes '
made the proper size, so that the layers of
spools exactly fill the bdx and no addition
al packing is needed. These boys receive
a quarter of a cent per gross for packing, -
and a smart boy who is accustomed to the
work can pack about 200 gross per day.
One . proprietor ships over two million
spools per month to England, and another
firm,' Ships over one million spools to, Glas
gow, "Scotland, : .
A Drunken Elephant.
A Specimen Corii-CracKer.
Genial Major Neely. of Houston & Co.
the 'contractors, tells a good story j of the in
nate verdancy of certain o the inhabitants
of the Tennessee hills on the line of the
Cincinnati Central railroad., A
lhe -Major was engaged in tunneling a
mountain right on the bank of the Cumber
land riveiy said river ndw being spanned at
that point by a- fine bridge, i though then
there was no sign of the structure.
One morning acorn-cracker rowed across
the river, and upon approaching the major.
the following colloquy ensued:
Native Morriin' "
' Major Neely Good morning.
N. You seem to be scatterin' dirt and
gravel around here pretty peert.
; M. :N; Well, yes. We are getting
through the hill quite lively, l r
N. Who's payin' for all this fuss?
' M. N. The city of Cincinnati
N, Wall, it must cost a heap of money.
What's it fer, any how? v 1 .
'The Major thought he would enlighten
the native, so he told him that he was en
gaged in building a tunneL and he further
explained that it was cheaper to bore a hole
through the mountain for the cars to run
through than to level it or make' a 4cut
down the grade. The native took it all in,
and ithen queried: - i H '
'So tne steam Kyars .is going to come
right through this tunnel away north?" -
"Yes. that's just it," responded the
Major. . i . I .
44Well, Major, that's askin' too much for
a man to believe, replied the corn-cracker.
4,I don't swallow it xro how you can fix it,
that every time that ere iron hoss of yourn
jumps across the river, he's going to strike
this little hole right squar' and fair. No,
sir, I can't swallow that." I
The Major didn't try to make him; .
. Go to a toyshop, and buy a child's toy
tambourine. Take a thin piece of white
nine wood, sav two inches by one and a
naif inch. With a pair; of . scissors cut
piece of thin sheet cooper about half inch
broad, two inches long. Keep one end
broad, cut thf other by taking off the
corners to a blunt point, drilj a hole toward
the Droad end, large enougn . io taice
small brass screw ; at the other end another
hole but only large enough to receive the
.end of a small; copper wire. Place this
piece of copper thus shaped, in a hand
Vice. anu. turn uu iu a urui auxic iua
pointed end to the height of half an inch.
Now take another piece of copper plate the
same breadth, a little short ;of an inch in
length, turn one end up in the 1 same way.
Bore a hole in this to take a brass screw,
get a piece of carbon, file it to one inch
long, half inch brOad. , two-eights deep ;
drill hole thiough it for.screw. jn ow place
this piece of carbon across the larger piece
of copper plate, and crew infirmly onto
the board, passing, of course, through the
plate. Take the other piece pi copper and
screw it to the board at the other end. Two
very small blocks of wood may now be cut,
into which fix binding screws. With coa-
galine fix these one at each edge of the
tambourine, and then by thei samefprocess
fix the board in the center, (with its. two
ends ; towards the binding screws. When
thoroughly firm bring a thin copper wire
twisted into a helix through the hole'in the
upright and twisted firm to that hole.;
Bring the other end round the screw of the f
binding sere w.and screw it woudown upon
it. You nave tnus connection witn jne
carbon plate. - Take a smallflle and cut a
nick in the center of the upright at the
other end of the board, just deep enough to
carry a piece of stout brass wire. Connect
the copper in the same way as the other to
the binding screw, in a line wun iv ine
distance between the two copper plates cn
the board being about half an inch. You
have only now to. cut a piece of stout brass
wire,: which, falling into the nick, shall by
another nick in itself so balance, that one
end, filed to a knife edge, shall just touch
the end of the carbon. This s a long story
to tell of what, when seen, is very simple.
As to the effect, although I have purchased
some micropnones irum j wen
makers, and found them very good, for a
large'field, for fly walking, jetc., the tam
hnnrine T find far the best. If the tam
bourine was supported on (four pieces of
Oak I think it would improve it." ,
A moderate wind blows seven miles
perhonor. ;
The factories in' Atlanta. Ga.; enl-
pioysLWO girls.; V : . 7
I saw little Betsy as drunk as a fiddler
one time, and she was a funny sight. We
were showing late in the fall in Indiana, In
very severe weather. Some monkeys and
birds and snakes had frozen,- and Betsy
showed that she was suffering greatly from
the cold. Long John went .to JIanager
Older and .said to him:
4Ybu'd better get some whiskey for
Betsy, or she'll freeze .
"How much?": 'J
4Herears are just beginning to freeze;
get' three buckets." '
Well they knew that was two, for Betsy
and one for Long John; but when it came to
elephants be was boss, and the .whiskey
was got, as he ordered. Only you should
have seen the tavern keepers's eyes stand
out when they ordered three buckets of
whiskey for two drinks. Betsy drank all
they gave her, and got staving drunk. She'd
stagger .and roll over, and picked herself
up, and pick Long John up, and' toss him
on her back and sort of laugh, arid it was a
nip and tuck between them which w& the
drunker. Elephants are very fond of whla-,
key, or any sort of liquor especially if It
has lots of red pepper in it; and they are
not only fond of getting drunk themselves,
but they are very considerate cf drunken
men. I never yet knew of an elephant
hurting a drunken man. Tha Long John,
when he was staggering drunk, would go
right up to Sultan or Canada, when nobody
else dared to go near them, and would fool
around them, and swing. on their tusks.
and toss their trunks about and go to sleep
right down by their feet, and they would
not only not do bun any harm, but
wouldn't let anybody else go near him un
til he chose to wake up. And any real
drunken man can do prelty much as he
pleases with an elephant, y
Blind Tom at Home.
Blind Tom when at home In Georgia,
lives in a building about two hundred yards
from the house, and there remains alone
wifh his piano, playing all day and night
like some one possessed with madness.
Bad weather has an effect upon his music.
In cloudy, rainy seasons h'e plays sombre
music in minor chords: and when the sun
shines and the birds sing, he indulge, in
waltzes and .light music. Sometimes ho
will hammer away for hours producing the
most horrible discord Imaginable. Sud
denly a change comes over him and he In-' .
dulges in magnificent bursts of harmony.
taken from the best productions 01 in mas
ters. Since his childhood he nas Decn an
idiot and he played nearly as well at ins
age of seven as he does now; but now. hit.
repertoire is much larger and he can play
anything he has ever heard. He now; ?
nlavs about seven thousand pieces and picks
up new ones everywhere. It Is a cunou.
f.of tht he will not piar dudu -v"
mnne if ha can helD it. having a great
like for it. i
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