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VOJL. XIL:
GRAHAM, N C , THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1886.
NO: 6.
ifR. BOLDON'S EXPEDIENT.
"I am fairly dished ruineddone for.
I had better order my coffin while I can
pay for it.' This was the sad soliloquy
of Mr.- James Uoldon, solicitor and no--f-
tary public, as he sat alone in his office
In High street, Westborough, one October
rooming, v- -
And truly Mi". James Boldon's position
Was not a happy one. He was a young
" man", lately admitted as a solicitor, and
he had spent all: ibis little capital to no
purpose in trying to make i a practice
' for himself in the town of Westborotigb.
He was almost a Btranger in the town,
and, although he had been! there nearly
. a year he had hardly succeeded in mak
ing an acquaintance, much les3 in gain
' ing clients. The report that there was
"an opening" in the place, on the strength
of which he had come there, had proved;
- to be entirely fallacious. .The- town was
just large enough to hide him. ' It was
' ill vain that he went regularly to St.
-' Augustine) Mission chapel, in the hope
of having His name put on the building
committee of the new church; in vain that
he frequented (at proper hours) the
- billiard-room of the new Royal hotel;
in vain that he seduously attended the
county court and the police court with
a glazed black bag that held nothfhg
but a newspaper and one or two law
books. Business would not ooine to him.
Nobody knew him, and nobody cared to
know him. . . ..
There was," indeed, one man who knew
him one who might, if he had had any
business whatever have proved a useful
friend Mr. Lionel Winn, editor of The
Westborough Independent. The young
lawyer had made the acquaintance of
Mr. Winn over the billiard table- Bat of
what use was it to have tli3 means of
fretting a flattering notice in the news-,
paper when there was absolutely notliing
to notice?
It was nearly 12 o'clock, Mr. James
Boldon had been looking over his ledger,
and even his sanguine disposition failed
him, as he marked the stale of tilings
there disclosed. He rose from the table
with a groan, put on his hat, and, telling
his solitary" office boy who was improv
ing his time by boring holes in tlio lid of
his desk) that he would not be in till
after lunch,- he sallied forth into the
street. ..':...- . '-
I "Of courso you must pay the whole
j fare. There's a by-law on purpose,
I made and provide!."
I Mr. Boldon mournfully ' shook' his
head. "Oh, no, sir," ho said meekly. "I
really can t dQ thatJL
Not having any particular object in
view, he thought he might as well go to
the railway station and get a London
paper, and thither he directed his steps.
After buying his paper, Boldon ob
served on the platform the station-master,
whom he knew by sight, engaged in
an angry altercation with an elderly
man,' who looked like a farm laborer.
A little Crowd surrounded the disputants,
and Boldon Sauntered up to see what was
the matter. .
"A tell'ee' a've coom from Lainborne,
an' a'll pay no more," said the man. -
"You must pay your faro from London
all the same," returned the station-master
angrily. - "Here's the by-laws. You
can read it for yourself that is, if you
- can read."
"Naw, a caan't." - -"Well,
it says that any one traveling
without a ticket must pay the fare from
the station at which the train started.
How am I to know you only got in
at Lamborne?"
The dispute went on, the station-master,
who had been a sergeant in the
guards and had a great ' idea of the im
portance of his office and tho necessity
of enforcing the law, having evidently
thfl hpKt, nf it. The vomit? solicitor vent-
urad te say eSRiethiiig 'fur the mail" and
was roughly advised to mind his own
business. This rather nettled him; and,
as tho poor man protested that he could
not pay the fare from London 7 slul
Jings and 10 pence and there was every
prospect that he would be taken before
the' magistrates, Boldon good-naturedly
paid tho money for him, and the matter
M as at an end.
Our hero walked abstractedly back to
his oflice, pondering over tho hard case
of the poor man whom he had succored;
and his deliberations lusted lor some
time.
On the following Saturday morning
Boldon omitted to shave, and stayed in
doors all day. After a substantial early
dinner he proceeded to make some
changes in Ills raiment. He put on an
You have to go to the lock-up, then,"
rejoined the station-master, roughly.
"You'd beat pay up."
Mr. Boldon only shook his head again
and sighed heavily.
As the lawyer expected the official was
exasjierated by his obstinacy and en
couraged in his liigh-handed manner by
tlio meekness, with which he was con
fronted. None of the railway people re
cognized in the shabbily-dressed, un
shaven individual before them the spruce
gentleman who had paid a poor man's
fare a few days before.
"Bonnor, go for a constable," said tho
station-master, with the air of an in
flexible judge awarding a term of twenty
years' penal servitude!
"Don't do that; I'll give you my name
and address, I'm known in the place
that is, I'm quite respectable, you know."
"Oh, I daro say," returned the station
master, with true official supercilious
ness. There was an awful pause while the
porter was gone to fetch the constable.
"Don't you think." suggested Boldon,
almost timidly "don't you think it
might bo as well to telegraph to London,
for instructions?" -
The staion-master frowned. ' --
"They couldn't complain of you in that
case, at any rate," pursued Boldon.
The station-master hesitated.
"I'll wait in the waiting-room till you
get an answer," said Boldon, as he led
the way to that cheerful apartment.
The oflioial darted a suspicious glance
at the prisoner. Still, the advice was
'prudent and- he acted upon it. In half
an hour the answer came back: "The
passenger without a ticket must pay the
fare from London, or be charged before
the magistrates."
"Just let me see the message you've
got, said Boldon, when the result was
announced to him. "If it is as you say,
I'll go quietly, or pay."
They showed him. the message.
"No, I really can t pay all that monpy.
you know," said
nonnce'l that his client had never in-,
tended to put the damages in his own
pocket, and that he would sond a check
for the amount to the treasurer of the
comity hospital. .
This well-timed generosity spttled tho
question of Mr. Boldon's popularity. The
ladiest-eommittee of the hospital nomi
nated him at once as one of their malo
advisers, and his name was put on the
list of life governors. The amateur
dramatic and choral societies sent him
tickets for their entertainments, given
for the bcnehVof -charity. The West
borough Independent printed in a promi
nent position the letter of the hospital
treasurer gratefully acknowledging Mr.
Br)ldon'8 munificent gift, and added a
few laudatory words of its own.
Finally, after a pleasant little supper
in Mr. Boldon's lodgings, there appeared
the following paragraph in that excel
lent organ of public opinion:
"We havo heard it rumored lately that
a few of our more prominent townsmen
have been talking of according to Mr.
James Boldon, solicitor, a substantial
A TROUBLESOME INDIAN RACE.
mark of their appreciation of bis public
spirited behavior in a late trial, and of
his disinterested conduct in handing over
the fruits of his victory to iTne of the
most deserving of our local charities.
We have 'heard it whispered that W. II.
Bracebridge, Esq., J. I., who has already
publicly ...expressed, his sympathy with
Mr. Boldon und Algornon Traoiy, Esq,,
tho treasurer to the Buteshire county
hospital, have expressed some intention
of heading the subscription list. We give
this to our readers with Mill possible re
serve, but we have no hesitation what-
ever in saying that such conduct on the
j part of the gentlemen we have named
(-would reflect honor upon themselves.
and would not bo wanting in appropri
ateness, as tho names of both of theso
gentlemen have been associated with tho
public vindication of Mr. Boldon's honor.
Our readers m.iy depend- upon our keyp
ing them acquainted with the progress
of events."
This promise was so faithfully carried
out and the proposed testimonial was so
thoroughly taken for granted that Mr.
Bracebridge and Mr. Tiacey' found them-
A BLOCKADE STILL HOUSE.
read tho telegram; and accordingly he
was marched off to the police of lice,
guarded by a policeman on the right
and by a constable in the imposing uni
form of tho Great Railway company, on
the left.
As it was Saturday night, nothing
could be done that day, and Mr. Boldon
did not choose to disturb tho Sabbath
rest of Mr. Lionel Winn, his on'y avail
able friend, by asking him to bail him
out on Sunday.
On thrtlonllayTnorning, however, an
early message was sent to Mr. Winn, and
he promptly appeared and bailed out the
young lawyer, who was heartily tired of
his incarceration. - Later in the day tho
case -vune on before the magistrates,
and Mr. Boldon attended with tho land
lady of the inn at Lamborne and on? of
tho shopkeepers, who were able anil
willing to prove that lie could not pos
sibly have traveled from a. greater .dis
tance than Lamborne on tho preceding
Saturday night. The cliargo was t.f
courso dismissed, one of the magistrates,
a jolly old fellow named Bracebridge,
remarking that Mr. Boldon, who seemed
to be a respectable solicitor, had been I
treated shaiuefuHy, and that if he stood
in Mr. Boldon's place he would be in-
st-lvcs compelled to take the honorable
Boldon, sadly, ns he j place which had been assigned to them.
The mark of esteem took tho form of a
purse of sovereigns, which reached the
respectable 'figures of 100 pounds sterl
ing. A dinner was held as a matter of
course, to celebrate the event, and the -
presentation was made in proper form.
Mr. " James Boldon returned thanks with
a becoming modeaty, declaring with
some humor that more by far than even
their generous gift did he value the
happy consciousness that his humble ef
forts in the public service had been ap
preciated, that he had gained the good
will of neighbors and that he was now
no longer a stranger in their midst, bnt
one of themselves, a Westbororian to
j tho backbone, accounting tho esteem and
; respect of liis fullow-citizens his richest
j possession. ."
j In this Mr. Boldon was perfectly right,
i Clients came in annco. lie had ifut his
Interesting Information About the YuqwJi
" -w-Modo of Warfare.
Tho Yaquis do not want to have local
snlf-govq-nmontJmt they- absolutely re
fuse to obey the laws of Mexico and ' to
recognize the sovereignty of the Muxican
governmet. This Indian tribe numbers
about 23,000 people, who Uye in tho 8is
trict between tho Yaqui and Mayo rivers.
Their territory is divided into eight town
ships, of which Bidem, Tiron, l'alanin,
Robcira are the . leading ones. Each
town is governed by a patriarch, elected
for life, and those patriarchs in turn elect
a generalissimo, or chief, , likewise for
life. :
Tho chief of tho Yaquis enjoys abso
lute power over tho property and even
the life of the members of the tribo, and
his will is checked by no law. He is en
titled to one-fourth of nil tlio crops raised
on Yaqui territory, and cau take all the
land nnd even personal property ho may
want, besides. : The present chief makes
full use of his power. lie is alxiut 40
years old, is married, and lias ono
daughter. In cattle aud real estate ho is
now wop about $2.1,003, but bis re
sources are practically only limited by
tho power of tho Yaqui people to fulfill
his desires. " , ' "
The Yaquis who live in tho river val
leys are the most civilized and as a rule
quite Industrious farmers. They are
rather good-looking,' dress fairly well,
and take great pride in h.-tving their wo
men dres3 in American fashion." They
are peaceably , inclined. The mountain
people, however, spurn all civilization.
They go nearly naked, and think of noth
ing but fighting. -The feeling of indo- i
pendence isyery strong among tho
Yaquis, who, besides, jrailnusTy guard
tho purity Of their race. There is a little
mixing with other Indians, and even
with white people in times of peace, but
nobody who has not pure Yaqui blood
in his veins is ever admitted to full fel
lowship. No "Yari," that is, a foreigner
or person other than pure Yaqui parent
age cau fight in tho Yaqui army or hold
nny'position of trust, and in all quarrels
about property or other matters tho
"Yari" has no standing Ixifore the Yaqui
authorities. This absolute seclusion of
the Yaquis and their tenacious" resistance
against all civilization havo boon the
principal causes of the trouble they havo
given to Mexico ever since the Spanish
conquest.
The fighting strength of tho aquw bi
somewhat in excess of 0,000 men. In the
open field Yaqui troops cau not stand up
: l a :.. , ...!: . ;i- ......
gaiusi. .iiiiucu soiuiers, even n iney
I.vuuuuuuer tiicni two to one, out in
I guerilla warfare they are next to uncon
querable.' Only about 1,500 firearms are
..in the entire Yaqui army. These arms
have been obtained by Vaqui fanners ! tributes until soini
i for Chief Ciijemo in (iiiaymus ami ether
market towns, where they sell their
i grain and other produce, for sumo time
i past, and as a consequence Cujemo lias
plenty of ammunition. Most of the
i Yaquis are armed with bow anil arrcw
anil tomahawk, most terrible weapons
in their skilled hands. They fi-rht. liko
Wate
A Hnrtnr ami rtle .Worked by
Iowir -"Mountain Dew."
But these unlettered sons of tho moun
tains who are tho manufacturers of illicit
wliisky are not of tho worst type of
criminals. They believe that they hav
a right to do as they choose with their
own, and hencu distill their corn instead
of hauling it over almost impassable
roads fifty or 10J miles away to market.
The moonshiner calls in his neighbors,
and with their aid and that of his wife
and sons and daughters there is soon
built a rude structure now so common in
this mountain 'section, and popularly
called a "blockado still house." Tho
malt is ioundeI4te a powder bymeans
of mortar and pestle, which is operated
by the water in the brook always hard
by every still. A beam like an old
fasliioned well sweep is arranged on the
bank of t he stream and poised on a ful
crum. On the end of the beam furthest
from the brook is the mortar, largo
enough to hold several bushels of malt,
nnd into this falls tho huge pestle, a
L three or four feet section of a tree's
trunk, soma eight inches in diameter.
On tho ot her end of tho beam is a bucket,
sullicionUy largejojiold water enough
to bo heavier than the pestle, and this,
being in position to catch the diniinutivo
waterfall, gently presses downward whoir
full, and, bearing the polio aloft, sinks
until it rests upon an incline plane,
where: tho water pours out, nnd the pes
.tlo falls, only to be pulled tip again as
the bucket takes in water anew. This is
a sort of pcstlo that will boat and pound
awny whether tho moonshiner be with it
or, in fear of the coming of the officers
of tho law, has hied himself awny among'
the higher hills.
- When a suiiieiout number of gallons of
whisky havo been made to justify a trip
to market tho macular moonshiner nnd
his force carry tho precious fluid by the
jugful to his humble homo far down the
DIAMONDS NOT ALWAYS RICHES.
How Few Stone, by Belli? l&eset Often.
8erve for klfoct.
A gentleman walked into a ' jetyeler's
ctore-iu Maiden Lane tha other day. and
handing over threo diamondwshirt studs
asked to have them reset. Ho wanted a
new design, and minutely described how
the work, should be done. "You have no
idea," said the joweler, "how many per
sons come in here to change tfca setting
of the gems. A stud is mado to serve in
a cuff button, a collar button or a ring,
according to the owner's fancy. But
this practice of changing the Butting is
not caused all the time by fancy. . There
is method in it. A show of wealth, you
know, goes a long ways toward bringing
it in. ' ;
- "Evidence of prosperity is a sure road
to success nowadays. I know of one
man who has -had five diamonds sot in as
many different ways in ono year. The
stones are good ones and are worth the
work; but, you seo, ha makes his ac
quaintances think ho is loaded down
with diamonds; For a few months ha
will wear plain ' diamond shirt studs;
then ho will liave a set of fancy enameled
studs, differ-out finger rings aud culf
button's. A man who can afford so many
diamonds must havo liiopevjtlinenif "
olusXitpVuplu-4MNMian'i ho is thus
given Chanel's to make more money,,
which otherwise ho would n.t Inive.
Ladies do the same thing, but lima a
different motive. Of coium v it'.iySome
of the men vanity. 1ms ' Hoiiiclh'ng to do
with tho matter, but with woman it is"
all vanity and hardly ever caprice,
- "Some of the designs are very unique.
The man I referred to a while ago is al
ways studying up some new and -unusual
design for the -setting of his gems. Not
long ego ho was wearing two shirt studs.
The upper ono was a linu enameled gold
piece made in the form of a man hang
ing to a tree, with two diamond eyes
. .. PEACE. ' i
Two travel worn and weary feet at rest,
' I'rom paths of pain now shrouded in the1
p,ist; .... ,
Two cold hands folded on a colder breast,
From which the soul has token flight at
' - ';' last: ; - ;v ' i : .' .
Two eyes from whose dark vacant celU
the glow
Of an nli glit seems forever to' have fled;
Two mute lips meeting like an unstrung
bpr . ' ' i
From which the final arrow, speech, has
' ; - fled. ' '-'...
This is the subtlest of all mysteries; I
8omo call It Death, . aud . others name it
I'eace. ,
Daniel E. O'Sullivan la: ' gontherri
Bivonac.
NANTUCKET" OUT 0F SEASON; I
Rt:trtiiifr nut nf tlit head. Tho whole
mountain side, where tho road begins, j BtlJ(1 w.lfl amlt ml ilK.h i(,ngt aml tho
Onto the canvas-covered wagon tho kegs j tu.0 BmaijPHt of his diamonds were used,
are rolled, and down tho mountain go j The second stud was a little child with
......... e i iin.:...i ..ii -i ..: : .
WmB up loi .Kuu. Wium.u iview.-7t fl-vila ne.ti-n.ite. and know l.nw to t.-i'm
the slightest chance for nmbmh and
treachery. They neither give nor nsk
quarter, nnd are cruel in the extreme.
The Metbnd of Bonthura Pronunciation.
Many of us still cling to the old myth
alxiut tho inabilityof the average north
erner to speak good English, but we are
gradually giving it up. We have learned
that some localities in this country were
settled by immigrants from certain Eng-
clined to let the Great Railway company .; lish counties and that the peculiarities of
hear of the matter again. . I speech brought from -tile writing cimiu
JiJJext Ju-eThewtiwrouffnhaepena-'tliy have been handed down from father
cut contained a long account of the' "in- to son. Some of the oddest and- most
creditable and really scandalous outrage, 1 uncouth., provincialisms, both northern
to which one of the most respected mem- j.and southern, are accounted for in thi
bcrs of the legal profession in our town
lias been subjected;" and it need hardly
be said that, in a day or two, tho course
at which the worthy magistrate had
hinted was adopted. Mr. Boldon brought
his action against the railway company
for false imprisonment and malicious
prosecution,
way. llieu, we have no deimitstandard
to go by, no one dictionary, no ono city
to lay down the law of pronunciation.
Even tho opinion of Fowler, expressed
In his universal grammar, that the ybest
English pronunciation is to be found in
Maryland must be taken with some
grains of allowance. It is plain that the
for wear, and a pair of boots that had
seen better days. His hat he took from
a well-merited oblivion, nnd finally he
adorned liis neck with a red and blue
woolen comforter. Thus equipped, he
-t nut for A waIIc in ?AmlMtriu & small
town about ten miies off.
He reached his destination about 7
o'clock in the evening, and lus first pro
ceeding was to go to an inn and order
some tea. Having refreshed himself,
he left the inn, after exchanging a few
words with the landlady? and visited
two or, threo shops. : la each shop he
made one or two small purchases, di-
. : -1 i. , .i i t t a. a.
him at VY est borough: and m each case
he was careful to take a receipt for tho
money be paid. Then he went to the
railway station, at which he knew the
London train for Westborough and the
west would stop in a few minutes, made
one or two trifling purchases at the book
stall, and managed to engage tlie man who
kept the stall in conversation for somo
tune. The train came in as he was still
talking to the man at the bookstall, and
Boldon quietly took lus seat in it, with
out having gone through the formality
of taking a ticket.
When the train arrived at Westbor
ough, the young solicitor explained that
he bad joined the train at Lamborne and
tendered the fare from that town. As
be expected, the monry was refused, and
iit full fara from London demanded.
This Mr". Boldon positively refused to
pay, and accordingly he was detained
"till the station-master was sent for.
That official, in all the majesty of gold
laced coat and tall bat,, soon arrived,
much annoyed at being disturbed at bis
exert ing meal. :
- "What is all this about!" ba demanOod
sternly, as he came upon the scene.. .
"They want to make ms pay the fare
all the way from London, and I re only
As everybody knows, Westborough is 1 northern brogue or twang, or whatever-
it is, has the upper hand at present. In
company with Boston baked Ix-ans it is
gradually permeating every nook and
corner of the south. The rising genera
tion in Atlanta und the rising generation
in Boston talk alike. Atlanta Constitu
tion. .
an assize town, and the case of Boldon
vs. tho Great Railway company excited
a good deal of public interest. Every
body wished to know how the law stood
on the question, for everybody had had
occasion some time or " other to travel
without a ticket.
At night they never fight, running away
when attacked between sanset and sun
rise. Their mode of warfare makes it
hard for the Mexican troops to battle
with thcin, yet there is every prospect
that the troops now ojierating against
ihSnrwill gtiwwuilf BOlitif i;4sihg tiiemT
The Yaquis arc nominally Catholics but '
their rites nre largely taken from heath
endom, and their fainiticism is bound
less. .Among themselves they observe a
fair moral status, and enforce strictly
laws against robbery, adultery, .wind- i T "T ,i Z
ling, etc., but the "Yaris" have in their j ',' .'"r t0w S'T"'
. , , . ,. v. . . . . , (treat Western rmhvi
r via in, rinm wjiicu iuiu lire iiounu
to rcsict. Mexico Two Republics.
tho oxen or the miiles, carrying into the
palo of civilization this Itiglilander's
tribute to commerce, A'ay across tho
Illuo mountains, tlio boundary linu ho.
tweeh tlio Carolinns, this freight is
borne until driver und team aro aiuid
the cotton fields of the l'uhii'-tro state,
where' tho thirrfty planter hails with
gladness tho liioonsliinu wagon, whilo
the gay and festive villager, oppressed
by local option views, extends the heart
iest welcome to tha contents of the Jchm,
and considers the dispenser of the dew
a veritable nlcheniut4 whose magical
distillation flings over the commonplace
of life the glamour of gilt t dg".
Tho moonshiner tinn ' disrillt an 1 dis-
cveiui'! ilii"i,tl over
takes him in his trallliv Th -n a trial at
court, and, if he is convicted, a t'u-ui at
Albany, but if he is a q'litte'i, as r.-ir !.i' k
of sullicient evidencti he is IikcU to ne,
tho moonshiner returns to lit f.-mo'ij
habitation, and, far up nui'ei.c t:'' pro
jecting mountains, kiii'il"., ugii:n . '
iirea.M'JuiMMtinlMtrs- artr-twtirtrrjrt.-tr-rfr
lives with small crops nn l.i hj-'re family;
with little information a'll many a;.t.-,
with the least of nmhilioni an 1 s uiii-Jest
of appetites, until lui pax.e. nw.'iy and
sleeps with his fathers under the shadow
of the mountains wbera lies first saw tl.o
light, and where his uneventful da) a
have been Spent. Chicago Herald.
2a lp-JIIll lti:t.; CVrrtMit.
pidtwced suit cormidt'rably the-woreo H - Mr, Bustard, Q.O.rwaa counsel foniio
plaintiff, and nobly ho performed his
task. He pictured his client, a member i
Ponaeuor of Carlyle'a AVrltluc-Tdble.
Sir James Stephens is proud to possess
of an honorable profession, a gentleman ! Carlyle's writing-table, and thus relates
of delicate and sensitive feelings, dragged how " came to him: "J,r- Carlyle," he
by the ruthless handa of the police "V" "akud ne to be his executor, and
through tho crowded streets on a Satur-! somo liule time ftftcr 1 1,aJ accepted that
dav niirht. exposed to the rude eazo of i ""'J fwkoi n,e- in llU drawing-room, to
the jeering mob, and shut up in a cold,
lonely cell for the greater part of two
whole days. And nil for what? Because
this gentleman had the courage, the pub- :
Uc spirit, to resist an .unreasonable and '
illegal impost. It was the interest of !
every railway traveler- he might, there-'
fore, say of every man, woman and child
in the three kingdoms that the rights of .
the traveler and the lilerty of subject ,
should be vindicated in the person of his
cjient. "My client doesn't care for ,
damages, gentlemen," said Mr. Bustard
in conclusion. "That is not lus object in !
choose one of the articles of furniture or
pictures contained in it, to keep ns a ini'
morial of him. I chose the Uib't or
rather desk in question, partly because
it was of liardly any intrinsic value it
was valued for probate at 2 pounds ster
ling and partly becauso it is of rather
peculiar make, and hail for many years
been associated with him in my mind.
He told me he was ghvl I liad chosen it;
that it was remarkably solid aud well
made; and that he had written all of his
books on it except Schiller." Detroit
Free Tress. -.
Discovert! In Central Ainerlf-9.
A French explorer in Central America
said: "I have found the first Maya cem
etery that was ever discovered by ex
plorers. From my excavations 1 have
taken, nnd have already Kent home to
to France many curious and niiwt inter
esting things that go far to sustain my
theory as to tho newness of tlm civiliz:i
tion thererTbewost tmctfnt ritira prTitF"
ubly date from the eleventh or twelfth
reutury, and the last one wero-still tun
ing builded at the time of the arrival of
the Spaniards. Among the things I
found in that cemetery were pottery,
axes, and utensil of copjier and bronz,
and other nb.ji.-cts of use and aditrnrnent
in stme. There were also U-autifully
made toys, representing small animals,
that were doubtless put in the graves of
children." Exchange.
--FiTliialtiiig iliij BlilU'V of l.ij brtijiole
Wbirljiuot - railway at Niagara falls, i
which will run along the bank at the edge I
of the riwr from the inclined railway to !
Hie Whirlpool, -the --engineer! havo run1
serosa somo facts which will surpriso
scientists. When the survey was made
111011 bridge of tlirt
nv, tt was claimi'.l
from the' surveys that tho river wr.s
higher at the HiiKjMMiHioii bridge than at
the foot of the falls, nnd tins theory was
an each) plucking out its rye. The dia
mond glistened in the eagle's beak at tha
points of its contact with the child's eye,.
1 io had a ring in thirfonu of a tkeleton,
and serpento for sloevo buttons. Ho
called this his horrible set, and wore it
fur about three months, when he had
the settings changed. If any curious
person asked him about it he would an
swer that ho had got tired of wearing it,
nnd left it at homo in his collection.
That man's fino diamonds, which aro
worth about $.! j0, havo represented ten
or fifteen sets, thu valuo of which would
bo ubout 10,000... Ho has spent about
li5 in having them reset, and procured
alxiut $10,000 worth of reputation on it.
I It pays, I tell you." New York Stur.
I A Itrllo nf tho Miihlle Agt.
! "Andorra" is an indepciiavnt state, in '
! tho l'yrenees, adjoining the Hpanish .
province of Iicredu. It is not dependent '
1 un either Franco or Spain and has been j
' self-governing since the time of Charle-j
f mngno. That great monarch recognized I
I tho Andorrans becauso they helped him f
! against the Moors. This little state has 1
I an area of about COO square miles and an
I estimated population of 7,000. Thrice
I who indulge in dreams as to what tho
' future may bring forth believe that it is
I the fate of modern Europe to break tip ',
j into Miiall communities which will bo '
w4f-goveniing locally while acknowledg- !
f-tinrB'Trmml riitiltiffi?hh''
domiimto the western world. The most
A Trip to the ' Cot Flnliery Clams fo
'' Unit Amlil tho Breaker. -,
In May the cod fishermen, are in. pc
session, and it was to have a view of the
fishery that we drove out. On the wide
biach under the bluff, perhaps a scoro
of narrow, sharp pointed dories were
drawn up. Four more we saw rising
and falling on the swells outside the lino
of breakers. "They aro coming," said
our friend -as ho hastened down to view .
the operation. A horse attached to a
lish cart stood on the sand where a dozen
bronzed and sturdy fishermen wera
watching the incoming boats.
Codfish strike in here between the
middle and last of April, the pollock ft
little later. They are caught with hooli
and line, though on the south short
some trawls are set. The bait used is;
the long clam, which has to be brought
from Tuckermuck and Muskcgat islands,
which lie to the westward of Nantucket:
Gathering them form? tlie . business of
quite Of number of tlie toilers who build
littlo shanties on tho islands and live
there for days, digging clams between
tides. By tho time wo have learned this
. tho foremost boat lias reached tlie break
ers, and we watch anxiously to see how
the boatman would get through without
being swamped. Both skill and strength
aro required to effect this.
Tho orasmaii balanced his boat on tlirt
. swells juttt -outside tho line of breakers
nnd waited till the biggest of the "threo
brothers" camo towering on, when be
rode triumphantly in on its crest, being
carried far up the strand where his wait
ing fellows seized the boat and ran it up
lioyond tho reach of succeeding waves.
Tho second and third did equally well,
but the fourth miscalculated, and tlie
prow of his boat dashed into the sand
and was hold in the midst of the surf.
In a moment tho succeeding wave
pounded upon it, filled it und swept man, .
boat, fish and oars far up the beach.
The man, however, gathered up tha
scattered cargo, ' emptied tho dory by
turning her over, and soon had her out -of
the waves' reach. Sometimes, in
coming through the surf, the boats are
thrown end ox-er end. ,
Tho dories contain from twenty to
.thirty largo cod and pollock, with an 00
rasintiat ugly skate or big-mouthed scul-'
pin. The cart is backed down to the
boats, the cod and pollock are thrown in ..
and carted to tho cleaning" and pickling
room whore, after being, dressed and
raited, they are dried on flakes in tite
sun, and marketed: Very little fresh
fish is exported from tho island, but tha
cured fish has the highest reputation of
any in the markrt. Cor. LVtroit Fre .
4'SMifag--''-m"" ' -
perfect form of democracy known to
ancient or modern times was the Now
England town meeting. Tho neighbors
in the several localities met and managed
their own affairs. This seems to lm im
possible in . densely populated cities.
ix-morest's Monthly.
Mortnllty Among French Chlhlren.
landing minds in France have become
very anxious in view of the ascertained
accepted, it being claimed that "the im- j fact tlmt the population there is dccrwia-
j mense pressure frwr. the falls curried tho ; ing, and, 111 order to apply a remedy, are
j water up hill." . inquiring into the best wuy to lessen tho
j The present survey, which gives -tho mortality among children in their first
first levels ever taken through the wat-
line, explodes tho Up-hill theory, and 1
shows that, from the foot of th'j incline 1 1
railway to tins Cantilever bridge, two ;
inili-H, tlw-iin4ine is sixr roet,"'nadffoiii ;
the Cantilever bridge to the Whirlpool, !
a little bus than a mile, it is fifty-fOur .
and a half feet, thus giving the. water
the terrible force it attains in going
through tho Whirlpool. 1'itUburg liis- :
IaCcli.
Drucrl i1 ln of the "Klot Cnn."
When a Chicago dispatch saying that
Iiisjiector- Boulield had "received a sanl
pic riot gun" from a Connecticut linn
was read by n Broadway gun dealer ha
said:
"It is a repealing shot-gun recently in
vented, and is very good weapon for tlio
purpose. A short steel fubo under tha
barrel holds six cartridges loaded with
buckshot or any other size of shot A
small cylinder just right to take bold of
with the baud is slipped over the car
tridge tills., a steel rod running from it
to thrf mechanism of the gun's breech
. By sliding this grip piece along the car
I tridgu tube aud back to its place again a
! discharged shell is thrown out, a fresh
tinguishe medical m.nof Jat vtamifl4rtreigejns..rleUana tne ..gun-cocked.
tht, t.. ir.. ,.t n.n ,h.t,lr. rli cartridge holds an ounce and a
year, averaging 14 ler cent., ami esti
mated to amount yearly to neurly 1T-V
000 deatlis. This has also led dis-
I
coming here. 111s object is to expobe an . uutribotion of iaforM.
abuse, an illegal abuse, gentlemen, which Deafness appears to be f-xre it'o il
lias been too long continue! to clear his 1 i,.- . L- . ,,')na
, . , . ; prevalent in Kennebec county, Maine.
owft character of the ignominy which .' , .r..rfi... , , ' . .'
. , : .. . " . . .. . and in Martha s ineyard. A recent wi-
has beer icarf Upon it-to vindicate the. enUfic investi(:ation of tuemr show.
J 1!i,rTiPto - T ' 1 both disi""- abun.lant
! evidence or lieredity and especially of
ho was for the rail
slavism. In the families alfucte.1 ilutu
was for the railway Company, t i. ..,.. 1 1 i:.i. 1 .. , ,.
ImrHlv v.ntiirvl tA Ml nnnn it. ! ... . . J
bas been hed over and over again," said
Mr. Justice Port man, "that this by-law
is bad and illegal. It affects to inflict a
fine of arbitrary -and varying amount,
where there is no breach of the criminal
law, for here, as m most such -cases,
there is no pretense that there was -any
attempt to defraud. You will find a j
veiuici iot mepiainan, genuemen, no
' ocy, and deformity, and in some eaant a
; long history of consanguineal marriagoa.
; In Martha's Vineyard the distnlmtion of
; deafneM "coincides with that of rertain
I soils, and its eastern boundary is also the
typhoid fever line. Chicago Tiinea.
If outlclile KiHinu of tha llotela.
I Tlie trutii IS, tiiere is hardly a hotel of
any age in the country that has not one
or more murder or milcido rooms. Tiio
', old-time niemlH Ts of the traveling f ra-
1 temity know alxmt them and some tlie- f
1 . . . ... . .
; atncal people usually nave tiiem, on the
.Jist. The latter are t-spe-uilly iifs iti
, tious and would hold up both fun.Ls in
i holy horror if they were assigned to any
! apartment with any such a history,
j With the rest of the public ignorance is
MiKS. A g"l hotel c! rk is alu aVs care
ful never to put a rson In such a room
1 who knows Biiytjiin about ft, for the
' reason that imagination might gi-t in iU
. m ork, and vne Kh.jt story uVkh inc.ili u
: bible thunage to tlie reputation of tiui
bous,;. lioiel Clerk CuiniinghaJii in
1 Globe-Democrat.
- fironnded MclitnlnK-ltoil Cntiiif.thn.
j Now is a good, tiuiu V nialso Mire of
lightning-rod connwtions. nnd raMvinlly
t that they nre well groundisl. The great
j majority of roil now erected nre d--I
ficient in their ground connections, an I
; ronwfjtiently are practically useles. Tiiisi
. is the reason of so many instiineir of
i datg.ige, even when buildings have ro.ls.
' In, general, the rod is simply stuck down'
! two or threo fis-t de-n into dry earth,
which is ubout the same as if tii louver
end of tlie imt were inclosed in a ljtte;
such rods are fatally h fes ti ve. Tite only
chance for safety is with good grouud
conms ti-m. The risk of ihonago is les
without a rmt than with one LaIly con
nected wiili the earth. Chicago News;
i depl
able general practice, which still prevails 1
extensively in France, of putting ehil- j
dren out to nurse, and it bas been ton-
demiied in tho writings of many of !
them. Their aggregated views . bnvo 1
been formulated tn this conclusion: "It
is of public interest that mothers should
nurse their own children." New York
bun.
quarter of buckshot. The six cartridges
n be fired six times ui three secomls.
They aro now in use by the express com-,
pani.-s mid postoffice ngnts in tho west
where road agents abound, and not
equalled by any weapon for demoraliz
ing a gang of evil d.xrrs."
A w Drink la Atlanta.
The newest Atlanta drink is "milk
shake." You get it at the soia fountains.
tV'oiua I tha Weaker Veaat.
A well-to-do roan was Dr. f tgood, par
son of the First church. In his time
Kjiringfi jjhl was a mere village and Indian
Orchard a sheep pasture. Tlie parson
owned the main portion of that ward,
conducted it as farm and sheop ranch,
and employed John Corey and his wife
All VmsI for Military farfntra.
Balloons, pigi-ons, bicycles, anil degs
are all to lie used for mihttry puqueH.
The euij.loym.-nt of balloons in our civil
! war is well known, and F.urrj;-nn na
tions have gen'Tnlly esUililishe 1 a lid
I loon corp. Carrier .ig(on.4 nrr regit -;
tirly trained by the (rermon. French, und
' otiu.-r armies.- In tlm rent Austrian
maneuver it is ai I that tro.i'n niount-l
on bicycles and tricycles outdid cavalry j
Aendurant-o, and now the 'cyw'o it
, formally .i4ej in th Airstrian niili- '
j tary tlih.iiimi-nt. Finally. . in Ilan-'
over dogs are being trained to ais-oin- !
pany sentries oa their beat. Exchango.
A Itevulutjoa In fia-l.hrhtlnc
An invention whieli, it is claimed by '
gas engineers, will rvilutioniz the
present sj stem of gas-lighting .has just .
bet ri jieifected by iJr. Aie-r in the!
cheuJcul laboratory of the 'ienna uni- j
versity. Briefly descrilied, the Invention ;
may lie said to consist ifi ren Jfi ing a r
cotton wick incombustibli by impreg
Hating it with a m tallic liquid. Thus
treated the wick, instead of burning, ;
men ly glows, emitting a radiance not 1
unlike tiuit of the electric light. Tho ,
whole pr.cs is very simple; and the ;
gri-ut-advantage of tho invention is that
il may be applied to any gas-burner. ;
Chicago News. j
KoMlcr I nitrr the Klrt Xanaleon.
There are at presentft740 old soldier in
Frain e who have aerreJ under the first
N:iilton, and each of whom receiresa
I.fe unnuuity of 2.V) franm. Il U ttateil
that this veuerable battalion lostn an-
nunilyon an average 1S5 of its niembers.
and it may thus bo exp-cted that within
tlie r.cxi four years tlie bwt veteran will
A fjlliiipe of John Uukln.
Mr. Ruskin is the very preux chevalier
nctsicd for linglish girlhood, grizzle.1
tiiough his beard may now be. Has be
not said someVhere "I would make my
lody a bridge for the passage of a girl
.that was pretty nnd good." His attitude
toward his young dcciples at Whitelands
may lie' typified in a story Mrs. Severn
tirewf n;in her meuiorj-. "When I was
very young," said Mrs. Severn. "I was
onre walking through a garden with
Ruskin, when- I observed him to stoop
low down and glance sideways at the
sky. Wondering at this movement of
his-1 heard him say: 'Do put your head
down here and you will see what 1 see.
And so I bent down also and saw what
be liad discovered tlie wondrous loveli-
j ness of a tree's buds against the sky. It
is this seeing for sweetness and light tliat
has given Mr. Ruskin the secrets of power
, over human nature m re than any of bis
critical theories. London Standard,
Origin of the Caaaeal Meat Raaiaeaa.
"Chicago now cans more meat than all
tlie rest of tho world put together," said '
a merchant on .ilichigan- arenueV "and
take his departure from this life. New manufactures more tin cans than any
Orleans T11r.es- Democrat.
added to the jury, "with such damages ( The mixer of cooling beverages pours out
' as you, loosing at an tne . circumstances s gUm of sweet miJk. Mils in a spoonful
I of the case, may think will fairly com- i cf crushed ice, put in a mixture of nrp-
pensate the plain tiff for the wrong be . known ingredients, draws a bit of sny
j suffered." desired syrup, shakes the mi'k in a tin
The jury promptly found their rer- can like a bartender mixes lemonade.
tJict-damages fifty pounds. The result ; gprinkJea a httle nutmeg on tU foaming
come from Lamborne," ansSreTtsd Ik i was received with some cheering, which taiik, sets it out for you, and y.at ynj J
don in a humbls Una. - ... . 1 Ucame general wbca Mr. Bustard ' cents. At Ian fe Cotiatilulion.
to run iu The narson drove out there to
view bis possesions one dav, and found Uow ori -' Keep Poatej.
old Corey drnnk, tating bis' wife. "Wefl, I a-iety ladie of DmX-m are so much
well, Mr. Cotpt," said the parson, a ' 'Kr"'' " iUpir tli'- that they
man wlupping his wifef "Yes." "Mr. ,li,T no tijne 10 r"a,L tiny employ
Corev, recollett that Woman is the Iadu ot tnteKigenoe to give up one day
weaSer vessel" "Well, let her carry lei ( fa th wk P" them as to news,
sail then!" Dr. Osgood used to tell this I literature, books, etc. Inter Xeua,
story often, and never omitted a woid of
other city in the world. But the meat
canning business did not start in Chi
cago, nor in tins county, either. It be
gan' in Australia. Tne first canned
meats ever put on the market were front
Australia, and tlie meat was mutton for -the
English anuv. Anerica caught on
old Corey's reply. The Argonaut.
England owns-ai.Oju.tn) fowls, and
l.UUV.otV.CA) cgS m ere imported in lSji
' . A CflpvilraMBt Home for Homee.
In London steps have .been taken to
! procure a convalescent home for horsea.
The object of the home, as set forth at a
meeting of those interested, is to enable
the poorer chuwes cabmen, tradesmen to go heme, i"nj has beaten tlie for-
an'J others to procure, on moderate 1 pjners at their
u-rrrs, rest and treatment lor nones Uuit Jlenild.
arc toning from overwork or accidental
ran, and which are likely to )s bene
litel by a fear weeks' rt-ti v.j! care.
Farijjn Letter..
own gauie. " Chicago
Mural's sword handle, set wit h pr
Stones and pnld. w-s i j-i I. '
otiicr d.iv f r