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AMANCE
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VOL. XV,
GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1889.
NO. 14.
JAS.E.B01TDV
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Greetieboro, 2T. C.
Will k. at Orhni on Mimd) of escli w--k
te attend to professional biiKliiri-s. Sep lBl
C'AMOUR.
JT. D.KBBNODLE;
aTJuUMlI AT LAW -
. to u.
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will faiihfiillT and promptly alirml (u all imi
scsriurusleo li Iiim. '"' - -
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tho country atteiiueut
Ureriieboiu.
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jacob A. iorvi,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
an ah am. ; " - N. C
Mav 1?. '83.
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GREENSBORO, N. C.
Fire, LIFE, Accident
- Ecprsssats onlj TvUtei CoEpasia,
ua.Offii opposite the Court House
North Elm btreet,
Oct 13
Tntrathor they staal at the rardea gate,
? nun uictrocin vinrpn lo nia orooaiDe; t
Anil Ilia rraprancc of blossninlntr anplo tree
la wafted aweot oa the ersnlnn- hrsttia.
Tho ahadoira rrovr lonjr on tits orchard i
A bevy of itrhito winged swallows hum. .
And siUI they linger while minim fty
Pwtpoulns ever the last "gootl-br." . "
For fevers are lovers the wkle world o'er,
And having each other, want nothing mora.
And tluio llica by on Ita wuirrlug wins,
While tho apple trees Islooui and the robins shur?
And coittlou they ramble hand In band,- ..
Like innocent beings of fairy land.
Ah: kivo Li a charm whnac bewitching open
Oilda every apot whero ita ToUtriea dwell.
Cut summer stripped of Ita bloom will bo,
And birds be cone from the apple tree; .
The mow will cover the orchard gross, .
To a summer sky will awallnws pass;
The winter will ooine with its Ice and snow,
no years will come and tho years will go;
Through all the chance and change they bring
Will lore seem ever so aweot a inlngt
Will the lovers then to their vows be true.
When from life U worn its rosy hue? '
When Ihe bitter U uiinsuxl In every cop.
And the duties wait to bo taken upt
Wiii the love provo strong as tho need will be.
And a pilot sure o'er each stormy seal
Though a aves roll hi,-h and Oerct tempests rise.
Will thoy see tho sun iu eax h other's eyes?
Flora K. Caadee in Ouce a Week.
A GREAT TREASURE.
Durham Garble Works,
Whitaker & Enlin, Owners,
snu-easors to R. I. Koters.
Durham, N. C.
. aSTMs, J. W. CaU-a, at Burlington, ean
bow you ieslgnaand b1t you prices, Ma81j
,
J. T; SHAW,
JEWELEB,
WEBAJJE,
N.C.,
IValer In watches, clocks, jewelry, spec
; tacHts, eye-Klawes.
i UEPAIKI'OA8PECIALTy.
f Any wrt of watch, clock, or of
frwelry can be rupleji-ed at mv fcenti r,ie
ally nd aseheaulr a yoa ran hsve It dona
- vntwhern. All w.nk ent inron'h th mail
iaw by rxprejaa ilml' a T prmiit alteolioa. ;
Toi truly.
. Oct 4 I, "SHAW.-
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As, A- li'ifis sTuli I 'si.
Before the occupation of India by the
British it vn tlie richest country in golJ,
precious stones,. rare jewels, fine cloth
and cutlery of any on earth. While the
poor. wore miserably jioor, the rich were
immensely rich. This was so even up tc
the breaking out of-the great mutiny.
When the British troops wcro fairly in
lino to strike at the rebellion, the watch
word was ''Eovongo and loot. " It was
understood all through tho service that
whatever a soldier could lay hands on
should become his plunder. They didn't
fight any the worse for that, but they
struck a doithlo blow nt the Indians.
They crippled them financially as well as
iii a military sense, .end tho people have
never recovered, and never can. . The
amount of loot taken out of India during
the rebellion and directly afterward lias
been estimated nt ?200,o6o,000. As much
more was contributed to tho rebel cause
by thc3e who could give. Twice or three
limps' as much was lost by live and sword.
England reasoned that an imiiovcrbilied
people could not rebel, and hot was a
part of her wnr policy. ' . .
Ten years after the mutiny I was talk
ing with a iiiaharnj.ih in the district of
Punjab about the financial change fit the
condition of theiieople. end he said:
" ''At the outbreak of tho war our peo
ple buried or hid away at least a hundred
million dollars. I do not believe that
the tenth part of this great sum has vet
been recovered. Thise who secreted it
were dead before the close of 'tho war.
and this vast treasure itt lost to na.''
I nd not tell him that I hud put in a
year In India, and s'icn: upward of
000 IooMd? for Homo of that treasure.
Such was the fact, however. A couple
of Englishmen and myself, forming an
acquaintance in Bombay and having a
spirit of udventure. pooled our cash and
followed up several pointers looking to
buried treasure. .. Wo had thus far failed
to make any discoveries, and our part
nership had been dissolved and the men
had returned to Bombay. I was in the
Punjab on budness connected with aa
American house, and had given up the
treasure business in dispust. The words
of the maharajah recalled all my enthu
siasm, however, and within an hour after
I left hint I was determined to have one
more pull for fortune and to go it alone.
This determination was hastened and
solidified by another incident. ' I was
talking with a captain of a native in
fantry regiment regarding some ruins I
had encountered, and he Baid:
"You may have left a dozen fortunes
behind you. At the outbreak of the war
these people concealed a groat deal of
their wealth in caves and temples, add a
big share of it is there yet. When yoa
stumble on a pile of ruins again civ the
place a good looking over for loot.?
. ' "But the natives have dono so a hun
dred times over, I should say."
lou are wrong. Where the knew
of treasure they may have unearthed it,
but they fight shy of raaiblins about lian-
hazard. They believe all ruins to be
taunted, and even if they are not, you
wiii do certain to una Hyenas and serpents
aoout."
Have you ever heard of any treasure
nemg recovemir' l asked.
Half a dozen instances, sir. The
former captain of this company went
home with 50,000 after doing two hours'
asked tbem to forgive caste as to have 1 chest. It was cloned, nut not locked,
expected them to locate the ruins of a ami as I threw up the lid my eves beheld
nignw K-uipie iiv a wiiiu: man. vs) men a sigui as wiu seldom come to man
nai been out about twenty days, and at
tliia time were in a permanent cnuip In a
grove of nuingo trees on the bank of a
creek, when a ryot, or common laborer.
passed through our camp on his way to his
village, about five miles away, ile had
had a narrow escape from a tiger, and was
greatly excited. When I asked him to
locate the beast he placed him among the
ruins of an old temple to tho west of us
and not mure than two miles away. The
ruins were in a heavy jungle, but lie to!4
me how to strike a pnlh which led near
them. But for his excitement he would
not have betrayed the location. In r.bout
three hours he returned to toll mo that
he had been mistaken in the location,
which was to the south inatend of the
west, and if ho hud said ruins he meant
rocks. I was not deceived by his second
statement. lie wanted to keep me away
from the ruins, and of course I was de
termined to visit them.
If I went, I must go alone. Neither
the professor nor his young mnh had evci
fired at anything more ferocious than a
jackal, and they had no idea of risking
themselves with a tiger. I had killed two
or three during my jaunts about the
country, atid was quite certain of my
nerve i;i case of another meeting. 'The
native had described this tiger as an old
.niHii eater, who had carried elf many vil
lagers, and. as I must visit the ruins by
duy. he would certainly bo tit home.
Bright -and early next morning I was
ready to start. My excuse to tlx profes
sor was that I intended to look for a crr-
tfiin bird which he had been very auxioaa
to secure, and he never noticed that I took
my heavy rifle instead of a bSotgun. I
also "had a revolver and knife, and it
was tit more "than tin hour after sun
rise when I wt ont. I followed tho creek
down to where it irauclied. and there I
struck tho pnlh which the native had de
scribed. As near as I could determine it
That chest held a good solid ton of loot,
how many tens of thousands of dollars
worth I cannot any. There were braoa
letantid rings and earrings and charms
and ban of gold. There were diamonds
and pearls nud rubies and other precious
stones. Borne were In leather bags,
some In parcels, some tied together, and
on the lid of the trunk was a list of ar
ticles with the names of owners, , ,
I hnng over tho chest for perhaps half
nn hour, hardly daring to breathe for
fear it would fly away. I was rich rich
beyond the wildest dream a poor man
ever had.' This was loot. It was all
mine if I could keep tin: find from the
government officials. I could' not re
move it without help. I was a stout
man, but I could not have lifted one end
of the chest clear of the ground. I took
a paper containing four diamonds, a
package of gold coin which counted np
about $1,230, and a couple of bars of the
metal, and started back to camp on a
run. I had been so taken up with my
work that I had given- no attention to
anything else. I now discovered that
tho heavens were rapidly darkening, and
I had only just reached camp when a
terrible Etorm set in, and never let up for
n moment until after midnight. Tho
story of my discovery, told only to the
white , men of the party, created
intense excitement, but the storm
and tho darkness ' prevented any
more. As soOn as daylight on me, how
ever, we were off, but a terrible di-np-pointment
wa3 ih store for us. Tiie chest
was there no I k;i it, Lut ererythlnn
in tho shape of contents had been re
moved. Without a doubt some native
had been spying on mo the day before as
I worked, and he had given the alarm
and brought a party to the spot during
the ni-ht. I got $23,000 out of it as it
wnn, but it only served to annoy mo. At
5 o'clock in the .afternoon I had the
DISCOVERY OF SACCHARINE.
Aa Interview with Dr. F'ab.lbera A Tary
rartnaa AeeMsns,
In a recent wtnrrlew with Dr. Cbo
stantlne Fahlberg, the discoverer of the
new sugar attracted from coal tar, fee
aid concerning his relation to this aew
product: "I had worked a lenir Hms
upon the compound radicals and substi
tution products of coal tar, and had
made a number of scientifio dlecovwioa
ftnasrll flag and Ma. TTeatth.
A clow as to whut dlsionition Mr, Sag
proposes to ruako of his wealth was fur
niahed at the fnnernl of his brother,
William C. Sage, last December In Troy
lie mot Samuel Chapin here, who mar
tied his sister Fanny, and who Uvea lu
Oneida. Ur. Chapin Is ' Independently
rich, and therefore fwla In a position lo
say pretty much what he pleases. As
ho is also quite deaf, any conversation in
which he engages is necessarily carried
on in rather a loud tone of voice. The
tliat are. so far as I know, of no commer
cial value. ' One orenlnr I was so tutor- I conversation, therefore, which he carried
estcd in my laboratory that I forgot I on whh Mr. Saice at the timo of tho
about supper until quite lute, and then ,
rutuieu uu ivr a oiou irniHW etumuiiB;
to wash my hands. I sat down, broke
a piece of bread, and put it to my hps.
It tasted unspeakably sweet. I did not
ask why It was so, probably because"!
thought it was some coko or sweetmeat.
I rinsed my mouth witbwater, and driod
my mustache with my napkin, when,
to my surprise, the napkin tasted
sweeter - than the bread. Then I
was puzzled. I again robed my
goblet, and, as fortune would have it,
applied my mouth' where my fingers had,
touched it before. Tie water teamed
syrup. It flashed upon me tout I was
the cause of the singular nniversul sweet
ness,' and I accord,? .gly tasted the end of
my thumb, end found that it surpassed
funeral was heard by a good many peo
ple, and the details of It have been very
industrtouidy distributed. Mr. Chapin
spoke point blank :
, '-Brother Russell, yon are accounted a
very -rich man. Why don't you retire
as I did and seek comfort in your old
age? What is the use of slaving along
from day to day? What will you do
with all your money?" : '
Jit. Suge said in reply to this that very
few-men had achieved marked success
in life such as he bad. . He was tlie only
one of his name who had done so, and
his great success was his glory. lie was
happier in harness than he would be oat
of it, and was not at all ready as yet to
relinquish the pleasure of accumulating.
As to whut he was troim; to do with hia
any confectionery I had ever eaten. I j money he soid that tho present genera-
hud been made by wild animals coining i wealth of two or tliree kings In my
ana going Detween tho jtinglo and the
creek, and et tho first soft 6pot I found
lhe imprints of, the tiger's paws. They
were fresh, too, and there was no doubt
of his being at homo. ' As I proceeded
the path wound nlut iu the 'most eccen
tric manner, while the jungle grew
thicker. 0"e could not see five feet in
any direction and tho air was ehut oil. '
The first Mat Ihnt I had reached tho
ruins cuiue in the shape of a block of
dressed stone lying right Acres my jKith.
As I stepied upon it n great cobm wrig
gled elowly away from- my feet, and I
mw half n dozen columns and lengths of
..i, .... .
wuji ensmg among mo uuslirs. fifteen
hands. ' At sunrise the next morning all
Iiail vaniglied all but the trifle I bad
carried uway to provo tlie fact of my dis
covery. It was my first and lust find in
India, and I never think of it without
bring inconsistent enough to hope that
ctcry dollar f the spoil canned tlie death
of a native. Jfjw York Sun.
''- . Secrets of Confectionery1 Dialling. .
The -"penny banana" is a confection
dear to tho heurt of childhood. It la
made on tho morshninllow plan, but
without gum arabic. White of egg Is
lifted ill ha niRnnfiir-liiro. and tho aurrar
cream, i'ennv imnanes were piled mv-
rears before hero had bicn a clearing of 1 eral feet deep on llio uinrbleslub. Rolled
peniaps iuo acres, wiih a village of
icvcrul thousand people and a temple
covering half an acre of ground. A man
Sating tiger now held sole possession,
wliiio tho charier; hnd gi-owu up fc
jungle, atid fire cr explosion hr.d laid
the great temple i:i ruins. Ten feet ahead
of me was a second block. I pnaxod to
that, and then tlie path turned to the
right and ran over a fullen wall. As I
reached this . latter place and looked
around, the tiger was stretched out on the
eartli before mo m a little ojien space.
out in "ehcelB," after being kneaded liko
great hutches of bread dough, tlie mass
was stretched und shaped into the form
of bananas by machinery. Imitation
cigar ate made of the sumo material,
and finished with u coating of chocolate.'
Into many iliflerent shapes, embracing
half the urojiial kingdom, and taking on
tho semblance of fiowrr, of ships nnd
of geomtti'lcul figurcu, is this fluff paste
transformed. ,
Great round hoppers or pans are used
for Dolitihmi: and mtrariuic hard candies.
His legs wcro drawn up and he was gasp ' They revolve and revolve unceasingly.
saw the whole thing at a glunoe. I lutd
discovered or made some coal tar sub
stance which out sugared sugar. I dropped
my dinner and ran back to the laboratory.
There in my excitement, I tasted the
contents of every beaker and evaporating
dish on tbs tabe. - Luckily for me, none
contained any corrosive or poisonous
liquid, " -
'One of them contained en Impure
solution of saccharine. On this I worked
then for weeks and months -until I had
determined ita clionilcnl .composition, its
churacteristics and reaction, and the bent
modes of making it scientifically ; and
commercially.
"When I first published ray retenrrhes,
sorao people laughed as if It were a scien
tific joke; others, of a more skeptical turn,
doubted the discovery and the discoverer,
and still others proclaimed the work aa
being of no practical value.
"When tho public first saw saccha
rine, liowever. everything changed. The
entlro press, European and American,
described me and my sugar in a way that
may have been edifying, but was simply
amusing to me. And then came letters.
My mall ran as high as sixty a day.
People wanting samples of saccharine,
my autograph or my opinion ou chemi
cal problems, desiring to bucoino tny
partner, lo buy my discovery, tj t my
a ;ent, to enter my Inbrntory, and the
like" Hall's Journal of Health.
lion of tlie Muges would va well pro
vided for, and he proposed that his name
should be a monument that would en
dure fi.r all timo. What he meant by
this he did not explain, but obviously it
shadows forth somo interesting scheme
which perhaps now is scarcely formu
lated in his mind. New York World
Interview. .
Lstdlaa of the Sab-Trraaary.
Passing the sub-treasury recently I no
ticed near the entrance a number of
young women whose appearance was so
peculiar that it Immediately arrested uiy
attention. If the reader should ask me
whut that peculiarity was I could hardly
explain It. Perhaps it might be termed
a nonchalance or free manner that indi
cated disregard for observation. They
had a cool audacity wliich, though not
brazen, was bold enough to face any op
position, and though I could see at a
glance that they wore not stage players, '
yet it was evident that they were in
Cublio life, and could be at homo even
it ore a 'crowd. In a few moments I
aw iiiem step up to the cashier's win-
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MANlaR.K9 , AT WASHINGTON-. 1
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Hani Gossip A bowl the Letrwtlosj tVsss sM
Central FloWery Blnfdsssw
The members of the Chinese legaxlott
In Washington are frequently seen at thai
Capitol. listening to lira debates either U
the senate or house, though they do no -understand
much of what is said unless'
they happen to have an interpret witH
them, which Is not frequently the ease
when they are going about the city sight -seeing.
The Chinese is perhaps the larg
est of any of the foreign legations a '
Washington. They occupy the iintnease .
residence here known as ''Stewart cas
tle," and which was formerly tho dwell
ing place of the senator of tliat name'
from Nevada, Before they took this1
house the Chfneso legation were quar
tered in a commodious . houso at tlui'
corner of Massachusetts avenue and Four
teenth street, afterwards for one seasoii
the residence of Congressman Wheeler;
of ' Alabama, and at present the hcaoV
quarters of the Union leturue.
The members of the Chinese legation'
are fond of goiug to the theatre. They;
InTariabty occupy boxes, and night aftee.
night they can be seen at places of
amusement; sometimes taking in
comedy or cotnlo opera aa often as twd
and three times a week. They are great .
dressers, too, In their own peculiar way'
and several members of the legation or
tho possessors of magnificent diamonds.
It is a custom of theirs to wear an hn
mense diamond in the front of tlie little
round cap invariably to be seen on tlieir
beads, and which is never taken off, no
matter where they go.
One of their number b a man of enori
mous flesh, and he has a Tory broad t acuf
with a rough looking skin. Iloisf ettins;
along in years, and he pant and blows
when walking down tlie street with his
official associates. The minister is a Ug
man also. Several of the attaches are'
nice looking men, and have graceful
figures and comparatively smooth faces.
They are fond of going to inceptions, and
of course havo a great many mritatioos.
The younger ones are expert dancers, and
tlie giddy girls who think it Is just "toe
awfully charming" to waltz with at
Chinaman seem to be in ecstasy wheti
they are asked to whirl around with these
foreigners. They are scon often durbur '
the winter months at the weekly hop ,
given at the leading hotels. , '
Up at the legation tlie Chinees give
onoo a week a grand bail It is gottezr
up regardless of expense, and there w
now to Extinguish lire.
An intelligent physician said to me a
few days ago, "I think I can give you a ', conccl
i,"and I replied that I was al- taiy
bm .. aav-' asj U S. MOM IIS, SP niu- j V 1"" - v
dow, where each presented a check and plenty to drink, too much, in fact, from
an accounts oi me wuu orgies wtucn go
on there. Two yeart ago many of thff
"Melican" men and women who went to?
tho Chinese minister's ball made bogs of
themselves, and ever since that rather
disgraceful affair the lines have been
drawn, and tlie Mongolian minister is as
least sharp enough to know who the peo-'
pie are that receive invitation bids to the
bull. It is, therefore, bound to be a I
hig, and, though I was greatly startled
for a moment, I soon realized that he
was dying. Indeed, ho did not live ubovo
two minutes after I set eyes on him. As
I afterward learned, tlie natives had
poisoned the body of a man he had killed
nnd only half devoured, and in finishing
ms repast no had met Ins fate. Ho had
Fifty or a hundred pounds of sandy ia
mrown inlo each and some confectioners
mgur. Round and round they go, and
the Migar olishes the i.ui fac of the con
feci ion until n becomes as smooth as glass.
Then tbut which is to bo colored is put
into the dye. All coloring matter comes
from Holland except that derived from
doubtless just returned from satisfying ! thecodiineal bug. Tho dyes ure pure veg-
his thirst ct the creek. It was well for
mo that I did not come a few minutes
earlier. I examined the body closely and
found tlie tiger to be old and mangy J with
many of his teeth decayed. Theso were
sure evidences that he was a "solitary,"
and had no mate. I need, therefore,
havo no fear that any other animal mots
savage than a hyena wasconceulcd in tho
Ticinity.
The temple seemed to have been blown
up with gunpowder. Tlie walls were
torn and rent and knocked down In every
direction, and column and block and
carved work lay heaped together m
strange confusion. I,was bewildered to
see tho vegetation growingvup through
uie nuns so profusely, and it
good item,'
wars on the lookout for useful informa
tion. He then said tliat bo had studied
the subject very carefully and was con
vinced that it would be well for every
house to keep its own fire extinguisher,
and it could txj easily done. It would
certainly be invaluable tc persons living
In the country nnd fur removed even from
nngnixir. ine doctor tlicn told uio
tliut he would give mo the exact
recljie of lite solution now used in
tlie fire cxtinguUn rs now being offered
for cilo: Take twenty pounds of Common
salt and ten pounds of sal amnion lac,
(muriate of ammonia, to be had of any
druggist) and dissolve, in seven gallons
of water. V lien dissolved It can bo bot-
drew tlie money, and tlien I learned tliat
they were tho custom house inspec tresses,
who were collecting their month's pay.
No wonder they had such noncbulnnt,
resolute faces! . These are tho women
that coolly order a passenger into 'a pri
Tute room and strip her sufficiently to
reveal fraud. These are the women who
find laces packed in bnstl"? and dioraonds
concealed in tresses of hair, and I need
soy that they are the terror of
becom
smugglers. Iu a recent case they found
a passenger wearing a petticoat that I
weighed twenty -five pounds, being muds
double so aa to carry smuggled goods.
These inspectrrsscs are among the most
uxeful publio servants, aud they have
almost broken up the once extensive sys
tem of woman's smuggling, which men
could not do, for Shakespeare says, "to
maite a sweet lady sad is a sour otionse."
Now York Cor. Troy Times.
etublu liiutfcir. und Uio llirifir Dutch ahmn
know how to prepuro tliouu A good ' tied and kept In each room in the house,
sum, too. does tho world pay these self
same Dutch. A most wonderful people
are these Dutch to keep secrets. Chicago
Herald.
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laiMvoM ikuhMs a uow a, )u
work in the ruins of a tern Die near Bhaul-
pul.-"
The next day I started for Delhi, and
i aero a bit or good fortune awaited me.
I fell in with a German naturalist who
was making a collection for a national
museum, and wflen he- learned that I
liad had considerable exnerience in that
line ho engaged me as assistant. Ho had
two young men with bim, thus m.fripg
a party of, four, nnd when we struck to
the south west of Delhi, intendimrto take
in tlie plains and jungles between that
city and Jodpnr. we had aix native st-rr-anta
to carry the baggage, Our progress
was slow and easy, as it was bis inten
tion to make a tctt full collection. The
country over wblbh we j'seed had no
lines of railway then, and wes unknown
to white men except as tisryiiad limited
through it. There were ligct and ether
wild game in plenty, and it seemed lo be
the nursery of all India for serpents.
Tlicre were days when we fauld not
march except as the ground was beaten
by tho natives in our front. Tlicre was
tli in population, with tlie viilasn far
spart. Let as an oCsct the natives were
glad to render any aid, enrrially ca sooo
as thoy k-amcd tor t we did not belong
tr l'a ruling rare. The I .ate they felt
for tlie Cngbah was snmething terrible
This district hes been rJt&ost ck-j ovulated i
end quite imrtcverv.Iied hr the war. !
Petty rulers laid bcrn imposed, taxes lev
ied with a heavy hand, and the rstives
worked theewHvrs r.p tt i'iO Ligbett
pitch of indignation as they ulked
about it-
My ono object wrs burie-J trWure.
Vbdc doing my !uty by tlie pofeoor I
had opportnnity for extensive raoLles cil
the biK cf march, and I never filled t
I make rnqnirae of f.atlrei Tlits, u I
I efterr.-arJ Icamrd. was tho worX policy
I could have cdoptcd. .Every ruin was
r.Tcrrd ti ilwni. and evrrr white nan
w nana vo move caKTuuy in sucn a
snako Infested spot 1 picked my way
carefully to the center of the ruins and
here I got a pretty fair idea of what the
building Had been. Hero were the re
mains of a shrine or altar which hod
once been the cleanest of marble. It
was now stained and moss grown and
covered with creepers. To look for
buried treasure in such a jungle was like
looking for a needle in a Lajtack ; but
I had come for that purpobe and felt
that I must make a beginning. Fling
ing several stones into the bushes to
frighten any lurking serpents sway, I
put down my gun and began at the
creepers. In a liltlo while I uncovered
what I said was an altar or shrine.
It may not have been. From the stone
floor tliere was a solid wall about four
feet high, inclosing a space about six
feet square. Tlie stone which rested on
these four walls was a fix thick, and
carved around the edges. I could not
tell whether the walls mcloscd a space or
the whole cube was solid as a support
for a pillar, but after a ckxe inspection I
discovered a spot sabcre the end of a
Amid tbm Alpine UcIeMs,
We talked low, we even whispered our
thought, as we slowly proceoded. For
we ail know that ws were, so to speak, on
the thresliold of a world in the pr.cees of
formation and over which countless een
raiioa must pass before it will be ready to
receive the first germs of life, animal or
egetable. Yes, what we iters contem
plating was once the appeot of Ibis entire
stood me ; K'obc, a vast frozen solitudo, wailing tlie
i as vsA4 vl vcstcv ir m w sZU 1 IUUI m
i long, cold lumber. . We crossed abysses
byTirid ges that were almost as trans
parent as gloss, jumped crevasses, wan
1 dcred among great blocks that looked
i like the fallen fragments of some enor
moos ice palace. We searched for plants
j and insects. Wherever a little spot had
i been laid bare by tlie heat of tlie sun a
sort of vegetation allowed itself. In the
midst of glacial snow we plucked flowers
that were almost colorless, and which,
the better to resist cold blasts, were
growing In tufts close together. The
rugged flanks of all the rocky tables
were adorned with velvet like lichens and
Dclicato arborescent plants over
hung icy gulfs; we found spiders, and a
couple of butterflies with carmine wings
fluttered about iu a cone of eternal snow.
Cor. New York Times.
Aa r.ye to Barinsss Dns..
"I confess, sir," said the widow, with
shyness, that I rnJcht in time
learn to lore you, but, cr yoa are quite
poor, are you not'
"Well, yes; my incorno b not large.
to be ttsed In an emergency. In case of
a fire occurring, ono or two bottles should
bo immediately thrown with forco into
the burning place so al to break them,
and the fire will certainly be extinguished.
Hill Is an exceeding simple process, and
certainly worth a trial. We give it, hop
ing it may prove successful to anr who
may take tlie trouble to try it. Atlanta
Constitution.
Oa the Me a Madia, '
The people must be very frugal and in
dustrious; no doubt they are both Ingeni
ous and pcniovering as well, for it is sax!
tliat out of every steamer load of pas
sengers that stops at Malta on its way to
or from India or Coustanthtoplo they
maks not less than 300, cren thongh the
ship remains hi port but six or eight
hours. They certainly seem, to have tlie
happy faculty of easting corroding core to
the winds, as they are always ready for a
siesta after their frugal lunch on a crust
of black bread, or an onion, or a garhc,
whenever tho noontide overtakes them.
Wo found them asleep on the steps of
publio buildiofrs. in shaded doorways,
even on the crowded sidewalk, happily as
nnoonscious of tlie passing throng as are
the dogs of Constantinople. How slum
ber thus Indulged in can refresh one is a
mystery, but they soon awoke and cheor.
fully resumed their toil. Cor. San Fran
cisoo Chronicle.
Merchants and the Aeaclea,
As tlie business of the mercantilo agen
cies is becoming better umlcretood, the
attitude of the merchants toward them
has undergone a very great change. It
used to bo that the agencies were re
garded as pernicious spies in tlio com
mercial world, and tbo polite Interroga
tories of our agents, asking for state
ments of business standing, were looked
upon as impertinent Very often tlie
business man, when so questioned, would
flatly refuse to answer. Of eourso this
fact we communicated, as m duty bound,
to the creditors, who had made, through
us, the inquiries, and tlie tffect wca not
to quiet any alarm that might havo been
fell about tlie debtor's condition, bat
often an uncomfortable squeezing of the
merchant resulted. Wltldn the last ten
years the sgencies have been recognized
as powerful and legitimate aids to the
mercantile trade, and the questions of
our agents touching the condition of this
or that firm are mot with answeis that
are straightforward and, in the main,
candid and satisfactory. Whenever a
business man Is known to desire a con
cealment of his affairs, the manifestation
of that desire creates morn suspicion tlutn
even a lame statement W, A. Sisson la
Globe-Democrat
.tt raicni ue inscncu. i noil oroucm i.u a i- ,.,
a hatchet to be nie through the- jungle. ' li
v rui tins t rut and trimmed a tmall , 1'rtrn
1, 'f !7rmTK',Crt. lfTd -Ab-" krrupted the widow, with a
cap unul r could see that the walls 1 .-,!,., k. .
car'
hx-kxwd a space. On tlie surface ct this
cayattone I clearly made out wlurrc tlie
foot of a pillar, which Lad irohsbly
helped to support tlie roof, had rested.
It L-.y near by, but was broken by its
It wes net more Own 8 o'clock in t!a,
morcL-vr whew I rcaclw-J the riica. but
it was t o'clock Li Cte afternoon-hrfure I
ivuJ l.'ie heavy rtone U-wi-J rmurd far
cnurjTth to racx-t its cquiJibriam ar.d force
tt I ti.1 c.T. I eras ri a lmnl of cz
eitenirnt from l! Crw, try4 r I stewed
the store ferthrrend fcrthcr nroop.d I
filt ciorn anJ nxxctanccioe if a large
cavity bcDcaV'u I woual cot rok in,
howrvcr, cnlil t!3 stouj was rlrrr oj.
V, bra 1 Cid bend orrr tl wiJl and lonk
i!own it was l fjid a waatco clsrv ce
crrrr. ing uecily t'4 t'.te fjace. I sonndrd
tt Lb '. pulp, and it gsve bock such
a arl:J rdto thst I tr.w 1 -rurt rr.U it
well ilowu to ret 1 1 if. Tli took arte en
boor or c!, ta 'a: u r vras t hard
aicb, -tliat wockl he riving hcsUgrs to
fortune. I em drawing (13 a month
pert ion, end I wouldn't like to give up a
drad sure t.'.ing fcr a rank unevrtaint.''
The Epoch.
Cassias; ithJag far ltehlea
A short time ago In counting up the
coin In one of the boxes at the exposition
in which you drop a nickd and take out
a raekace of rum. no less than 120 ono
cent pieces were found. Now the Im
mutable law of these devices Is that
nottiisg goes except a genuine nickel of
toe realm, (be msfale arrangements being
such that corns of all other denomina
tions slip throcgh into the money box
and no gum responds. Consequently all
these one cent pieces were pure gain and
the cum box oromietor can eount hinaaaif
just so much ahead of the game. This
shows quite eloquently the universal de
sire of the human race to get something
for nothing,and It also exemphues the old
tviage tnat "erteaters never prosper."
noneer tress
Alaska esaj Cfrlttsatteew
. A'3is- with lu fUhlng and hnntlng,
is weil r&ptrd l-J a parage population.
Ccks t'.:tmr tta r-Jnra, it b ilOZcuh
lo roe bow b eou snwa-rl any coasidVr
ablo rumbrr t civiasrd proj-le. The
nctirrt aie ftlrrr traciial Ic. but the moat
CiCcult rruUcm b to find eccrretio. I T.L," .".ill
lkb wid snrport Ibrm fas advdiacd 1 L I.TiTirTr v ,"rT
As delicate a charity as I remesnbsr
was the act of a gruff, taciturn old pfay-
ii) a cojoraoo mtnttir town. A
way. Dotrut I rer 1'reaa.
TwUrasM of Wall Street,
But few gain sufficient experience In
Wsll street to command success until
they recall that period of life in which
they have one foot in the grave. When
tliis time odmee these old veterans of the
street usually spend long .intervals of re
pose at their comfortable homes, and in
times of panic, which recur sometimes
oftener tuan once a year, these old fel
lows will be seen in Wall street, hob
bling down on their canes to their
brokcrs' offices.
Then they always buy good stocks to
the extent cf their bank balances, which
have been permitted to accumulate for
just such an emergency. The pauio
usually rages until enough of these cash
purchases of stock b mado to afford a big
'rake in." When the panio has spent
its force, these old fellows, who have been
resting judiciously oa their oars' in ex
pectation of the inevitable event, which
usually returns whh the regularity of tbo
seasons, quickly realize, deposit their
profit with their bankers, or the overplus
thereof, after purclisainz more real estate
that b oa ths up grsdo, for permanent
mvestmsnt, and retire for another season
to the quietude of their spsaadid homes
and families. Usnry Clews,
select gathering since it hss
harder to procure an Invitation,
The predecessor of tlie present Chinese
minister once rave a ball that b often
talked of in Waalilngtou. It was an
affair tliat laid out more than half of tbo
members of congress, and prevented ar
quorum in tbs bouse for two whole daya
Tlie trouble was tlie American ststesmenf
didn't know to what extent the Ounces
punch was loaded." It' b an insidious?
and seductive drinksweet and pleasant
at first, but lasting in its effects. The'
minister could speak but little English. -Ho
bad been taught to say a few sen.
fences, to do spoken when ths guests ar
rived and departed. The congressmen
would come up and say: "I am now
going." and before they could say any
thing further his Chinese highness would1
ejaculate: "Glad to hear it," not know
ing what it meant, or that he had spoken
tlie wrong sentence at that particular"
time. It was very eornicaC and thos
who attended that famous ball will never
forgot the Chinese punch and the biz, '
anhiiig heads tliat followed. New YoraV
Graphic,
Heat Centera In Mask
In a recent meetinjf of the Americas
Neurological association, the paper that
probably was of most popular interest
was that read by Dr. Isaac Ott, of Ea,
ton, Pa., on "Heat Centers iu Man. H Hsr
showed by cases of disease that in lhar
brain of man are points whose functiot
it b to preside over tlie temperature of
tlie body, aud to keep Ita beat constants
These centers were portly located upot '
the surface and partly at tbs base of the? .
brain. He alto related cases on record
of a temperature aa high as 128 degs. P.,
and as low as 04 degs. F. He explained
how these great changes of temperature -could
be produced through disease of the
tlie nervous system. Coses of cliildren
were detailed whose temperature wae.
llOdrgs. F. for a short time and rccov'
ered. Fever was stated to be mainly at
disease of tlie nervous system, causing;
increased chemical changes in the tissues)
of tlie body, and thus elevating thai
temperature. Science.
How to Settle Quarrels,
The Burlaw club of Philadelphia ought
to be popularized and imitated every
where, and burlaw should be once more) .
an institution of all civilised lands. It
was a custom in Scotland formerly to
settle any common disputes among the
people by vote id an assemblage of neigh
bors. 8o quarrob were closed up at
once, without deby or b ligation and.
the Irritation of courts and bwyera. The
custom was rational; it was a sort of.
common Uw. Lawyers had no chance
A tfdssal W She Sesh
7n the coarse of a dbcnadoa about the
Holy Writ, recently overheard by The
to swallow a farm while settUnc bound
ary lines. Ws have too much kgialatJcn,
too many bws and too many methods of
delaying Justice, To recover ten feet of
bad a man must expend fifty times it
vaiue. lx us bars more burlaw and
common sense, especially in rand dis
tricts Gkt Democrat.
There b a peculiar idea among somn
folks who teklom have to boy drugs.
Somehow or other they are averse to k-
was.a deCk-r. Ou,- mit: as will atrt I al Uvi.tcr-f, Ut f.L.i I was ul the
Tf hfasn as ssjss.
Dr. Ethchee. cf Vienna, advises
strongly tlie !rintir; cf brrr out of
mug i:fad ft gknvcs. Beer deteriorates
n-ry qnicl ly an':cr I be biflocncei f tight,
rnd mugs psrta-ubriy covered mugs,
are r-roc I c. feral U to trantam4
glasses .Jew York Cca.
by the initabb doctor. When the !
veacher had sufltiently recorded to
dispense with further medical attention
he asked for hb biO. "Yosrr bill? Here
k b," mid the doctor, opening his pocket
book and handing tits minister's wife a
f 10 tall. A
The greatest rrcnta. of an age are its
best thoughts. Thought finds its way
Into action I lice.
Bazar, a lady remarked that the Bible j ting people living in the vicinity know
tiuu tuey nave to use medicines at all.
When they get a prescription they either
go to a drug store out of the aetgUbar.
hood, or, tf that b too much trotible.
they send one of (he family, more fre
quently the children, with the object of
m lUHuy ms-ia, IHH jprr srx waal
rarely and but incidenUUy mentioned, as
compared with the space devoted to men.
"1 confess." she added, that it strikes
me as bring most Angular. There inifri j
awvu uuw StUUUl US,
'yJh, i oou I know," replied her conveyuig the idea that some nteuilc r f
friend. '-The authors of Die various j Ihe family rubor than then Ivra u IX
books had prouaLlv studied womankind, I Under no dnramstanors wi.l t!-c-e pr-; ie
and knew they'd bo ahle to speak k j be cu"lit entering or b-iTL -j a (!,-.-;
Ux-mssirfs.' lUrp-TS lie-- . J store. Drugjwt tn CkJ-l-, -.--u