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"JLIViC A.II13 LET LIVE."
G. K. GRANTHAM, Local Editor.
VOLUME I.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1891
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DIRECTORY.
CIRCUIT i
CHURCH
Mrthfxiitt KpiWojtnfllEV. J. I. PEQRAM,
I'astok. Charges Dunn, 2nd Sunday night !
'-nd -1th Sunday and night. Sunday .School j
-v-ry Sunday at .' oVloeit. Prayer Meeting ;
"every Wednesday night. Block's Chapel, 1st ;
Sunday niornin. A vera ' School House, 2nd !
Sunday morning. Elevation, 3rd .Sunday j
morning. Henson, 3rd Sunday uftemoon.
.Vistiinniiry Jtapti.it ('it'rt, Carthage, X. C. !
Kev. W. F. Watson, l'Asroi;. .Services '
-ud .Sunday moripii? nnd ni-ht. Sunday
Sciiool every Sunday morning at 9i o'cloelt. I
I 'iayjr meeting every Thursday night. j
i', fshit-;riin Ki:v. C. A. liOVtai. PASTOR !
servietj every 1st Sunday jiiorninj' and nickt
siin lay seliool every Sunday morning at 9J
.,-iir. Rkv. .1. Ff. TlNGLi:. PASTOR.
S'-rfices every ord Sunday tnoricng ami mnt.
Mioday School i':.'J0 o'clock, every Sunduj".
l'r.iyer meeting every Thursday night.
Frtr Will ll tp'isl-i-liEW 11. A. JOHNSON.
PAsrtn. Services every 3rd Sunday. Sun
day School every Sun lay morning.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
I.VCKNOW I-OliGK No. 115, I. O. O,
F.
Ilegular meeting everv Tuesday night,
.ones N. G.. I. V."Tylir. V. ti..
F. P.
(i. K.
(imntham, Secretary.
Palmyra I.odwk .'o. 147. A. F, and A: M.
r.. tular meeting. .'!rd Saturday morning and
I'ridnv night before 1st S'nidav. :. ".
Tn.lr, V.:.M., F. P. Jones, S. W.. J. L.
I'liillipK. J. V.. It. A. Johnson, Treisurer, S.
V. I'aiker, e :t etar.v; YV. i. . .lolina.n and
1 l lrige Lee, Mewai t ; U. PI. Xorris, TyJr.
QUEEN OF WASHERWOMEN.
ICIrli and
Pwrfu' Corporaliuii with
an
A:umul Sovereign.
HE washer
women of Fa.ii
form a rich and
powerful cor
poration, and
once a year they '
enjoy a splen
did frolic. '
Long before the
day, of Mi-Ca- ,
reme dawns,
they have hell
their elections,
arranged their
order of pioces
sion, and de
cided tv here
they will hold
their evening revel. In each quarter
of Paris there is a "lavoir," or public
wash-house, and along the Hiver Seine
there are also many others. In these
thirty or forty establishments there are
always many robust types of feminine
beauty, and a woman who wishes to
become the talk of the town can do it
most effectually by getting the nomi
nation of "Queen of the "Washer
women" for the season.
The pageant generally represents a
strange mixture of pagan mythology
and mediivval splendor. .
There are S-M)00 women in the cor
poration of washerwomen. So it is no
light honor to be chosen their queen,
and to have absolute power over them,
if only for one day.
Mile. Ssiccard, this year's queen, is a
cplendid brunette, 2Gyears old, with a
profile worthy an antique statue of
Venus and a bust of almost as heroic
size as that of the great statue of the
Kepublic, near which she was crdwned
queen the other da-. She was the
unanimous choice of the women in all
the Faris lavoirs. In the procession
she rode in a great coach garnished from
top to bottom with camellias and
draped with red velvet sown with
golden stars. The coach was drawn
by four magnificent white horses.
Crowned with a golden diadem,
dressed in a cream-colored satin gown
with golden embroiJeries, the beauti
ful blanchisseuse perhaps fancied, as
she rode enthroned on her coach past
the hundreds of thousands of laughing
Parisians, that she was indeed a queen.
But that did not hinder her from
taking her usual place next morning in
the wash-house and attending to her
business as usual.
j-.ncoura&wiK tun w.tt Man.
Parent (sorrowfully) This is a very
poor testimonial you bring home this
week. I hope that vou will do better
next week, Johnny.
Johnny That'a right, pa. Keep a
btiff upper lip. Never tay die.
BLOSSOM TIME.
Spring came with tiny lances thrusting,
And earth was clad in peeping- green
In rjraet bark, the twigs encrusting,
Tenderest blossom points were seen ;
A roDin courier proclaimed good cheer:
Bummer will soon arrive for I am here.
And now from cherry boughs in flower
The languid breeze arousing shakes
"With every honied breath a shower
Of feather snow in drifting flakes;
And apple trees in bloom like ricks of white,
Are veiled with smoky, amethystine light.
Ah, little soul, on thy first Spring.
Unclosing merry, puzzled eyes.
Would that a father's thought could bring
Prophetic counsel more than wlsa
To guide thee as a father's love would yearn.
Thou hast so much to suffer and to learn !
I cannot live thy life for thee,
My precepts would be dull aud trite,
Barren a last year's love to me
Beneath the apple blossoms white, -
But in thy new horizon's vaster range
Our hearts close knit shall feel no chilling
change.
I,'. Lurremure, in Aew England Monthly.
A GOOD NIGHrS WORIf."
While in command of a small scouting
party in Arizonia I went into camp one
bright day on the flio Puerco, very near
the New Mexican line. The tents had
been pitched and the animals sent out to
graze unaer a strong guard and I
was
waiKing ueiore my tent,
imnaMentiv
waiting a summons to dinner, which I
Knew oy tne strong odor wafted from an
adjacent cofiee pot would not be much
longer delayed.
We were about ninety miles from the
nearest fort and hundreds from any set
tlement. There was no ranches whatso
ever in this par, Anly some cattle and
sheep belonging ;o .exicans, which were
herded through the Territory. These
were in charge of the Mexicans, who lived
much the same kind of life as did their
stock. Their blankets were their only
house, and when night came ou they
would lie down wherever it might over
take them. For miles around tiie land
was a3 level a? the bed of a billiard
able. 3Ioun tains were seen iu the dis
tance, which were inhabited by Indians.
But my little command and a few rattlesnake-
and tarantulas were the only liv
ing things near.
'Dinner is ready, Lieutenant," was
the welcome summons with which my
cook greeted me, and I was soon doing
justice to a field dinner of bean soup and
41 slapjacks."
I was in the midst of this savory re
past when I noticed a stranger approaen
ing me. lie was a well-built, powerful
looking man, about forty years of ago;
his face was intellectual and extremely
TionH.-rrt ho n'nrf" i fill! linnl ;iint
moustache,' both of which were iron-gra-.
He wa? coarsely clad, and carried no
weapon. The latter circumstance wus
the most remarkable thing of all, for in
those days in Arizona one scarcely
moved without his arms.
Nearing me, he asked, in a pleasant,
quiet manner, if I were the commanding,
efficer.
I replied that I was.
'I came to see it you could lend me
a pistol, or a carbine for a few days," be
fcakl.
"Ton don't mean to tell me that-you
are entirely without arms?" I said not
unreasonably astonished.
4 'Yes; I have nothing of the kind," he
answered. '-I have been annuyed for the
past three months by those infernal Cali
fornia lions, and if I had a shooting iron
I might kill some of them."
"Are you camping near here?" I
asked.
I live just "round the bend of the
river; will you walk down with me?"
Greatly astonished, I asked if he lived
there quite alone.
"a, no," he replied, ,"rny wife and
mother live with me."
Little dreaming I was so near a res
idence, I accepted his invitation, and j
filling my pipe anil leaving the Sergeant j
in charge of camp, I started forth with i
my new acquaintance. As we made the j
turn in the river I saw a large shelving i
rock rising from the level prairie. It i
was not more than 100 vards from the 1
river's bauk, and was really quite impov;
insr in its-dimensions. It struck me a?
so peculiar so entirely out of place that
I expressed my surprise to my companion.
".Yes " he answered. 44 1 fancy it is
a meteorite. I am under great obliga
tion to it, whatever it is, and however it
came here, for it has protected me for
months. That rock is my house."
By this time we had reached the nat
ural dwelling. At what might be termed
its opening, the rock was ten feet or
more from the ground, and it sheltered
a space about twenty feet iu breadth,
gradually sloping backward and down
ward. As I stepped under the protect
ing roof I saw two women sitting at
work.
'My host presented mc to his mother
and. wife' respectively, and I saw at a
iriance that they were Mexicans; not of
the class, however, known as greaseis,
but representatives of a much higher
grade. Like most 3Iexicans, they were
disinclined to. converse ia any language
but their own, but wheu thej learned
that my knowledge of their tongje was
too slight to enable me to understand
; them they overcame their reluctance,
and we chatted quite pleasantly.
i I learned that they had beeu living
there for three months. They came
with the intention of farming, and later
; proposed erecting a suitable dwelling.
i The Indians had not molested them,
: 1..-. tKirtw wor TcrrriH lixr thtf lions.
which came by twos and threes nightly i lcne
i . r v,: vv.:-: .i their lac
j IO inc opcuiug i iuen uauuauuu, nuu
i there howled till daylight, when they
returned to the mountain.
They told me it was necessary for one
of them to be up all night to keep the
fire, burning, which was their only pro-
; tection from these monsters.
Consequently they had taken turns sit-
! ting up nights for the last three months.
' Havinir listened to a graphic descrio-
' tion of their far-from-plea?ant neighbors,
I tcid them frankly that if I had a pii-
tol oi carbine of my own I would will
ingly lend or give them one, but all the
weapons in the command, even those oa
ray person, belonged to the Government.
and that the orders respecting them were
go stringent that I was utterly unable to
accommodate them.
4kI had a pistol when I came here," said
my host, "but I lost it crossing the
river. Since then you are the first per
son that ha3 been this way."
I felt really sorry for him, and also
felt that they might think I had given a
very flimsy reason for refusing the loan
they asked.
That three human beings should be an
noyed night after night by wild beasts,
and a company of cavalry unable to give
them protection seemed incredible, yet
such was the case..
At length a happy thought struck me.
4,I tell you what I will do," I said. 4'J
will send the company in charge of the
Sergeant about five miles further down
the river to encamp; then I will bring
Curley with mc, and we will stay here
to-nkrht with vou. Curlev is an old
frontiersman, and is acting guide for me.
He is a good shot, and wifl enjoy the
sport.
3Iy proposal -was joyfully accepted,
and I returned to camp to give the nec
essary directions. About an hour later
the company moved out ani Curley and
I were alone. i
"What sort of an outfit is that down j
there?" said my companion, pointing to
the stone mansion I had recently left.
"l cannot tell you," I answered. "The ;
people say they are worried by the lions, I
and I have told them you and I will stay
with them to-night and sample a few."
'Some escaped jailbird, J suppose,"
said Curley. 4 'The country's full ol
them.'
4 4 Yes," I answered, "the country is
full of them, but I am sure this man is
no criminal. His manner and his ap
pearance, barring his clothes, are those
of a gentleman, and his wife seems more
than ordinarirv reGned."
"Well," said Curley, "if they will
trot out the lions we don't care what
they are."
With that we started toward the rock.
The California lion may have a legiti
mate name, but this is the only one 1 have
ever heard applied to him. ne belongs
to the panther and wildcat families, be
ing, I believe, a cross between the two.
They gave us coffee, bread and fried
bacon for supper, and our host surprised
and delighted us by producing from his
trunk some cigars. Xot a lamp nor a
candle of any description did they have.
When darkness came on they went to
bed or on watch. a3 the case might be.
We told them all to retire whenever
they felt disposed, and they wanted not
a second bidding. We saw that our
rifles were in good order and that our
ammunition
was handy; then we rer
rlifl wf wait? we had not
Isot long
been on guard more than half, an hour
when Curley whispered to me
"Did
you see that thing sneaking up here?"
I had already seen it, but it was only
a coyote, so I said : "It is nothing but a
coyote. We must not shoot; it will
frighten the lions."
"I believe you are right," said Curley.
"But how about this Senator that is ap
proaching?" j
Sure enough, here came a large lion,- j
walking proudly along, scarcely thirty .
yards from us. ' i
"Do not fire," said Curley. "Wait ;
until we get more of them."-
A few minutes later four large lions ,
were in our immediate front. The man! j
had certainly told the truth thus far, j
whatever his intention as to farming: j
might be.
"You take the one on the left and I'lb j
take the one on the right," said Curley.' ;
"Arc you ready?"
"Readv," I replied.
"Fire!"
The report of our rifles and the screams! i
of the startled sleepers were almost; i
simultaneous; the three, were sleeping;!
soundly, and the shots naturally started j
them. I threw another cartridge into' j
my rifle and fired at an escaping lion,;!
b'ut I doubt if I injured him. We re
built the fire and dragged two fine speci-''
mens of the brutes where its light would; i
allow us to inspeet them. I had shot one
through the heart and Curly had sent a i
bullet through the brain of the other.
"I think we had better leave them; ;
outside," said Curley; "the others will '
scent the blood and come back." I
Whether they scented the blood or-;
not, I am not prepared to say, but backi
they certainly came. Wc waited until a .
good opportunity offered, and then, at a
given signal, tired again ; two more large
lions fell, and Curley succeeded in load-'
ing and shooting one that was endeavor-i
ing to escape. This made five that we '
had killed. After watching another hour
without any result, we made up the fire ;
and slept until sunrise. The little family
were overjoyed at beholding our night's
work, and succeeded in convincing us of
their sincere gratitude.
After breakfast Curley skinned the five
animals and gallantly presented the pelts
to the young wife. As wc bade good-by
to the rock family he said, "if you rub a
! little strychnine over these carcasses, and
j stake them at little distance froirK your
j ranch you will not be troubled 'much
: longer by Hons."
I Then, with a cordial farewell, we
proceeded down the river to overtake
the command. Drake's Magazine.
His Work.
In a pretty church on the island of
Auityum. in the New Hebrides, is a
tnVIpt prected bv ?rateful natives to the
memory of their missionary,
Rev
John
On this tablet is
written
in
their laecrurc the following
When he landed . :
inlfMS :
There were no Christians here, :
and when he left '.
inlS72 :
There were no heathen. "
Missionary Link.
Teachers' salaries in the United States
annually amount to more than f SOjOOOj-
yyy.
THE MERRY SIDE 01? LIFE.
ST OKIES THAT ABE TOLD BY TES
PUNHY ICE IT OF TEE PKESS. .
When He Loses Patience A Cheerful
Disposition A Cold Blooded
Threat, Ktc, Etc "
'Tis not when the patient in bed is lying
Anl tossinz at night on a sleepless pillow.
Or when for the light of the moon' he s sigh
ing While the sun's still far 'neath the foam
tipped billow;
'Tis not when he's feeling' his aches distress
ing That the grip his cheerful patience mas
ters, But when he 13 np and convalescing
And tries to get r.d of bis porous plasters.
New York Press.
A CHEERFUL DISPOSITION.
"Can you bear sorrows with
tude?"
forti-
4 4 You bet I can at least
they're other people's sorrows
I can if
A COLD BLOODED THREAT.
Dr. Sawbones (in a crowded room)
1 'I can't talk to you in this crowd, Jones
I must take you apart for awhile."
Jones 44 What, take me apart! Help!
Murder!!"
TOO
COMBATIVE.
Jawkins "My health is very poor.
Nothing seems to agree with me."
Dawkins "Well, what can you ex
pect? You know you are so fond of an
argument that you never agree with any
thing." WHAT HE MARRIED.
Blinkers "Helloi Winkers, I hear
you married a woman with an independ
ent fortune."
Winkers (sadly) "N-o; I married a
fortune with an independent woman."
Yankee Blade.
MENTAL GRAVITATION.
Enthusiastic Father 4 'Don't you think
I ought to make a scientist of that boy
of mine? I suppose you've noticed his
way of going to the bottom of things?
Teacher 4 'Yes, Lve noticed it about
his classes." Life.
FAILURE TO SOME ONE.
"Is
failure?" asked
the
youth.
"Yes, to Alice Ponsonby," answered
the maid as she gazed down at the ring
which Horace Fledgely had given her.
Jetcelers' Circular.
TnE WniRLIGIG OK TIME.
4 'Time brings strange reversals.
There's poor old Henpeck, for instance,
who married his type-writer."
1US"WI1 -where does the reversal come
"Why, it was he who used to dictate."
Life. r . . .
SOMETHING NEW IN CHILDREN S
SHOES.
Customer "Do you remember the pair
of child's shoes I got here recently 1
want to get another pair just like them."
Salesman (reflectively) "Do you recall
anything special about them, sir?"
Customer-44Well, I should say I
Why, they lasted a week !" Puck,
did.
'twas
A DARK SECRET.
"What, mv
angel," exclaimed the
vounsr husband, bursting into the kitchen,
"doin the cooking yourself? What is
it?"
"Why, Edgar, how' foolish of you!
How in the world can you expect me to
tell until I see what it turns out?" Flie-
gtnde Blaetter.
SHE NEEDED THE WHERE fWITHAL.
"This is about the worst dinner l ever
sat down to," .he said, a3 he surveyed
the table, "but I s'pose I ought to make
certain allowances."
"Yes, Jdhn," replied the wife, "if
you would make certain allowances .you
would have no occasion to find fault
with your food." Chicago Hetct.
A PRUDENT MAN.
Old. Gentleman (to 'bus driver) "My
friend, what do you do with your wages
every week put part of it in the savings
bank?"
Driver "No. sir. After nayin' the
butcher an' grocer au' rent, I pack away
what's left in barrels. I'm afraid of them
savin's banks." Yankee Blade.
ONE WAY OF PUTTING IT.
'There goes a man," said Jones to a
friend the other day, pointing out some
one whose head and shoulders only
could be seen in the crowd, "there goes
a man who mourns the time when he used
to" have corns."
"Indeed? How extraordinary !"
4 'Yes. He's since lost both feet through
an accident." Judge.
AN APPROXIMATION,
Small Boy (holding up hand) "What's
B. C. hitched onter them dates in
Greek
history mean?"
Teacher (a trifle confused) 4 'Well er
Sammie, you see them old Greeks were
queer kind of creeters, so whin they
didn't know a date fur sartin they put
H. C. 'bout correct' arter the num
bers." Chicago 2?etcs.
GREAT IN AN HUMBLE WAY.
"Mv son," said the venerable man, a
he seat his bov forth to do battle with
the world, "select your calling, stick
to that one thine alone, and you will
succeed."
The boy selected the calling of village
lawyer, stuck to it faithfully, ana now
he is known for mile3 around as the best
checker player in Pike County. Chicago,
Tribune.
IN THE
WAY.
Miss Kajones was doing her best
to entertain the two younj; men.
to
' "Bv the wav. Mr. Ferguson," she
asked, "do you take any interest
in
nolitics?"
"I don't take any active part in pohti
cat iratters, but I am strongly ia faypr of
a third party movement," answered Mr.
Ferguson, glaring at young Hankinson.
Chicago Tribune. ,
THEIR NUMBER IS I.EGIOX.
Mi Passee "I hardly know how it
is, but I must follow the fads. Now,
every one is wearing birthday rings and-"
Billyboy "And are you wearing them.
too?"
Miss Passee "Yes, I hive bousrht one
for each year."
Sillyboy 4 4 You could almost open a
jewelry store, couldn't you?" Chicugo
News.
HKK PA. AND HER LOVER.
Henry (as Ethel enters) "My darling.
it has been years, centuries, since I saw
you last."
Ethel's Papa (upstairs, calling to ser-
I vant) "Mary, whom did you let in just
now?"
Mary "Mr. Littleton."
Ethel's Papa "Good gracious? that's
the sixth time he's.been here this week."
Harvard Lampoon.
HOW ONE LOVES SYMPATHY.
Wife "Did vou change the dress
pattern and blow the man up for the mis
take?" Husband "I had it changed, but the
clerk declared that he knew vou were
wrong." " -
Wife "Well, what did you do about
it?"
Husband (grimly) "I shook hands
with him." Cloak Review.
M.' KES A DIFFERENCE.
Bjones "What will you take for that
hor3e of yours, Bjenkins."
Bjenkins 4 'Two hundred and fifty
dollars."
"Two hundred and fifty dollars! Why,
man, you told me last weeic that you
were disgusted with him and would sell
him for fifty dollars."
"Yes, I know I did; I have found a
man now who wants nun. bomercillt
journal.
THE REJECTOR REJECTED.
' ' I understand that Miss Passce was
quite a belle once."
"xes, indeed, with swarms of ad
mirers."
'Why did she never marry?"
"Declined rapidly for several years-
then heart failure set in."
"That was sad but she seems to have
reached a good age." I ,
4 'Ah but her admirers had .the heart
failure." Life.
LESSON FP.OM THE HENNERY.
Mrs. Suburb "My ! Such a time a? I
have had to-day. Every now and then
the hens would get into the garden, and
moremey,wuuilirti gd,vui ojua ntu
and cackled and fluttered and went
hither and yon in every imaginable di
rection but the right one. Iso matter
which way you try to drive a hen, she's
bound to go some other way
Mr. Suburb (thoughtfully) "I donTt
believe roosters would act like that."
New York Weekly.
HE SIMPLY WANTED TO KNOW.
A tall, broad-shouldered young man
stepped up to a smaller man at the corner
oj Spring ana tngn last nigni ana saiu;
'I believe you re the man that stepped
on my foot awhile ago, over oh Chest
nut street."
44 Well, if I did I'm sorry for my awk
wardness."
'That isn't it.- I want to know if
you're the man.
"Well, suppose 1 am. it i apoio-
gize
4 'That
isn't what I'm after. I want
il you are the man that
on my foot on Chestnut
to know
trampled
street." ' -
44 Yes. I am!" said the Utile fellow,
"and if you don't skip I'll make a pedes-
trian excursion from one ena oi you io
the other "
"Give us yer hand, stranger. No
harm done.- I was early1 taught to be
methodical, and I just wanted to get the
record straight and know 'who did it.
What'll ye have?" Columbus Pott.
A 2JEW SCHEME FOR TRAMPS.
no soap, no
pictures,
said the hard-faced woman,
to the strange
young man at the front
door.
"I am not an agent, madam," said the
stranger. "Mv business is oi an entirely
remember
weary, ragged and hungry tramp calling
door about six we'Mts
KiW c t xvniua
aso?"
She didn't remember. - -
"Let me refresh your memory. . You
i i . i a r
were dressea in an oia morning wrap,
tied at the waist with a string, your front
hair was in tins, and there was a dark
smudge across your nose.
She tried to slam the door, but his fool
happened to be in the way.
"You had a rolling pin m one nana
and a kettle of hot water m the other.
with which you threatened to sgald the
poor wayfarer."
"Well, I didn t scald him, anynow.
You can't get any assault and battery
against me."
Nothing of the sort was intended,
ma'am. I merely wisnea io lei you Know
that I was that supposed tramp. Tht
bundle I carried on that occasion con
tained a camera. 'See? I have already
nArutn 3 50 i
obtamed,? but if you want it for J.50 i
been offered $4 for the picture of you J
is yours
He made the sale. Indianapolis Jour
nal.
A few rears ago
a gentleman bought
100 acres several miles below Macon.
Ga., on the East Tennessee Road, loi
which he paid $10 an acre. He improved
the property at a cost of only $7 an acre,
-.i - r i .u . .
and within four Years from the date o:
yeara
the purchase cleared $27,000 from thi
sales of fruit grown on this land.
The number of passengers carried bj
all the railroads m the wolid avtragei
6,500,000 a day.
CONVICTS BURIED ALIVE.
A. TETiKUBLE SIDE OF PRISON LIPB
IK CHILI.
What a Visitor to the "Moder Penl.
tentiary at Santiago Saw Pun
ishment Worse Than Death.
Writing from Santiago de Chile to the
Washington Star, Fannie B. Ward says:
One of the institutions of this famous
capital to which the citizens point with
pride is their model penitentiary. It is
an enormous structure of red brick a
rare building material in these parts, the
houses being universally of stone or
adobe, covered with grayish plaster
surrounded by a massive wall of the
same, on which soldiers are continually
pacing to and fro. The visitor hardly
knows whether to be most impressed
by the immensity of the concern, it
being nearly large enough to hold the
entire population, its scrupulous cleanli-!
ness or the dead silence that prevails, as
unbroken as -if there were not a living ,
creature within a hundred miles, though!
at present there are about 2000 human !
beings inside the walls. .' f
In this splendid 4 'model" building
there are slimy, noisome cells where da-y-:
light never enters, in which human beings
are iiierauy Dunea alive. Having heard
of them we requested to be shown ono
of these cells. The gentlemanly Super
intendent denied there were any such
and showed us the interior of two or
three twilight cells, w"hich, he said, were!
the worst in the penitentiary and de-jj
signed for those condemned to "solitary
confinement." But we knew better, and
later on the judicious investment of a!
dollar induced a subordinate to give us
a glimpse of what we came to see. Un-'
der the massive arches of the enormously
thick walls, where perpetual twilight
reigns even in the outside rooms, are in
ner cells, two feet wide by six feet long,
destitute of a single article of furniture.
Until recently those confined in them
were walled in, the bricks being cemented
in place over the living tomb. Now
there is a thick iron door, which is se
curely nailed up, then fastened all around
with huge clamps, exactly as vaults are
closed in the Santiago cemetery, and
over all the great red seal of the Govern
ment is placed not to be removed until
the man is dead or his sentence has ex
pired. The tiny graced window is cov
ered by several thicknesses of closely
woven wire netting, making dense dark
ness inside, so that the. prisoner cannot
tell night from day. There is no ven
tilation, except through this netting,,
and no opening whatever to the tomb.
Low down in the iron door, close to the
ground, is a tiny sliding panel, a foot long
by two or three inches wide, arranged
like a double drawer, so that food and
ami lue re i use ivturuvu. mtc u cci
tweeter houn, .hi, "Pe
and if the food remains untouched,
certain number of days it is known'thei
man is dead, and only then can his door
be opened unless his time has expired.
If the food is not eaten for only two or
three days no attention is paid to it, for
the prisoner may be shamming; bnt be
yond a given length of time he cannot
live without dating.
Not the faintest sound nor glimmer of
t i - - - - . ai r n t -
ign penexraies xaese awtut wans, iu
the same clothes he goes in, unwashed, j
uncombedJ without even a blanket or
handful of straw to lie on, he languishes
in sickness, lives or dies, with no means
of making his condition known to those
outside. He may count the lagging
hours, sleep, rave, curse, pray, long for
death, dash his brains out, go mad if he
likes nobody knows it. He is dead to
the world, and buried, though living.
Six months is the usual sentence, and
until lately two years has been the limit.
They told us that but one man has ever
been known to live a year, and the ma
jority do not outlast the second month.
Those that survive the six months are
almost invariably driveling idiots or
dangerous maniacs. The door is always
opened at night, when the sentence
has expired, because in his enfeebled
condition after long' darkness the glare
of day would be torture if not death.
They expect to find the wretch stone
blind, emaciated to the last degree, un
able to stand, hair and beard grown long
and white as snow, nails like talons, and
garments rotton with mold.
One man of education and refinement
kept himself in tolerable condition
through his half year of solitary confine
. ment by means of a handful of melon
seeds. Ashe was going in. somebody
give mm pan oi s muumwu; D"Tk
IO saj b was uui cu nuu
carefully horded the seeds, which he put
to a variety of ingenious uses.. With
them and reckoning from the number of
time3 the food pan slid in and out he con
trived to keep track of the number of
days of his incarceration; he invented
games of "solitaire," which he played
thousand of times in the darkness, and
to vary the dreadful monotony he would
throw away the precious handful and
i if i a - i i
fTTone around on his hands and knees
until they were all re-collected. He says
that to those little 6eeds alone he is in
debted for bis almost miraculous escape
from insanity, idiocy or death.
On the day of our visit to the Santi
ago penitentiary there was one man in
solitary confinement, under two years
sentence, whose time had expired with-
in seven weeks.
it was the only case on
record and a marvel to all who were ac-
ouamted with it. A ereat deal of speco-
i hat Pr wreU
: fa jpenedf ,f
he manages to exist so long blind no
donbt and hopelessly ruined in health j have managed to quell the Indian opn
and intellect, il he does not die of the ; jDp9! a force of fifty thousand men
shock of liberation.
At a recent art sale, in Florence, Italy,
the so-called throne of Giuliano de Med-
j ici (a sort of sofa, with a nigh back sup- ,
i nnHwl vm iiliimV mTTPa ht BsCClO 1
nnrtAd bv columsi. carved bv Baccio
d'Agnolo in the sixteenth century, was
soli to an Englishman for $7000.
The average cost of constructing a
mil Af railroad in the United States at i
the .present time is about 530,000.
WISE WORDS.
Motherhood is woman's throne.
No woman is really "beautif ul until she
is old.
3Iost won cn are ambitious ; they wart
to be men. - .
Sweethearts and wives are entirely
different women.
Anger is like rain, it breaks iteelt upon
that on which it falls.
A woman is seldom prosaic until she
is some man's mother-in-law.
"To keep your own secret is wisdom,
to expect others to keep it is folly'.
if only women fought battles there5
woiuld be only wars of extermination.
ilod esty is to merit as shades to figures
in a picture.giving it strength and beauty.
He that calls a man ungrateful, sums
up all the evil that a man can be guilty
of J
! Some women are born fools ; Eome
achieve it and some have it thrust upon
them. i
Fruitless Is sorrow for having done
miss if it issues not in a resolution to
do so no more.
Families are a good eal like clocks.
too much legulation may easily make
themgo wrong.
There is a difference between happi
ness and wisdom, that he that thinks
himself the happiest man i really so,
but he that thinks himself the wisest is
generally the greatest fooh
It may be remarked for the comfort of
honest poverty, that avarice reigns most
in those who have but few good quali
ties to recommend them. This is a weed
that will grow only in barren soil; .'
There are peculiar ways in men, which
discover what they are through the most
subtle feints and clever disguises: " A
block-head cannot come. in, nor go away,
nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man .
of sense. .
Know that flatterers are the worse kind
of j traitors; for they will strengthen tho
imperfections, encourage thee in all evils,
correct thee in nothing, but so shadow
and paint all thy vices and follies as thou
Bball never, by thine
will, discern good
from evil, or vice from virtue.
Sailing in Ilolllnx Water.
It seems somewhat of an anomaly to
enumerate earthquakes among the perils
of the sea, nevertheless, submarine earth
quakes are quite often a source of consid
erable danger to navigators. Instances
like the catastrophe in the Sunda Straits
r.nd the seas surrounding the Island of
Java are not common, but in some parts
ofj the ocean earthquakes aud volcanic
disturbances are of quite common occur
rence, although not often thecause of
rr,L-- -: from - fit: PjiiI
'S KSSriSSTK
"T. I, 1-.. m u,t
oweaisn uariv liituujm mv u
had an
ence with an earthquake in that vicinity
on a recent voyage. Captain Petersen
says that one evening between 7 and 8
o'clock, while the ship was sailing along,
at! a three-knot rate, with a light wind
and a calm sea, a noise was heard on he
port side like a heavy sarf, and almost
immediately the water began to boil and.
bubble like water in a huge kettle.break-
y , fl ftnd reaching a8 high as the
deck No distinct shock was felt,
S bnt the shiDContined to trsmble as long
j as the disturbance lasted. It continued
' for about an hour, and after the same in
! terval the bubbling and foaming of the
I water began again. It was then dark",'
and the sound could be plainly heard,
I but it wa not possible to observe
j whether the water was muddy. Next
i day the sea was calm and weather fiuej
I iLast fall a number of violent shocks
l were reported-from this rcgun. One
i was felt at Barbados and in various
places throughout the region between
Demerara, on the mainland of South
! America and the island of Martinique,
j The American bark P. J. Carleton, Cap
j lain Crosbic, reported feeling a severe
! ibofik. The sea became like a boiling
; pot, greatly confused and tumbling
1 about in a teething mass, and a grating
I sensation was experienced," a3 though the
1 vessel were going over a reef. Other
' ressels reported similar experiences at.
i ibout the fame time. A particularly ri
! alent submarine volcanic disturbance'
; would have such disastrous effects that
1 no reports would ever reach any port
from vessels unfortunate enough to be in
the locality. And how far such disturb
bances may be responsible for the melan-
choly litt of i ship 4 'missing" is matter.
i Cor conjecture. Jew ion iteeoraer.
Tiie Frontier CaTalrjman.
Our frontier
cavalryman is the beau
regular. The irregular
ideal of an
horseman of all ages was recruited from
among roving, unintelligent classes, and
had, except in his own peculiar province,
as plentiful a lack of good a he had a
tiinerabundancc of bad qualities. Our
'' hooper is intelligent, and trained in the
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hardest of schbob. Few civilians, who
find it so easy to critic'ue the operations
i)t the army in the West, would make
much of a "success in hunting a band of a
few hundred Indians in a pathless wild
erness or a waterless desert bigger than
New York and New England combined.
And yet, thus handicapped, what splen
did work our cavalry has done! While
ne civil department of the Oovernment
: ta, fQr years been busy sowing the seeds
; 0f strife and furnishing the, red mau
Harms of precision, the best of catridges
, of how ably taod-
; fQi cf bluecoats, under orders of another,
' -1 M i 1 A V-A tuun nnnM
constantly on iiwt huuiu uae
vn rrpt tn do iustice to our Indian
problem since the war; the actual iorco
has been less thsn a third of this num
ber. Let whoso is tempted to criticise
the army make himself familiar with
some of the deeds of heroism of the past
twenty years by our soldiers on the
Plains. Criticism blenches before their
recital. But the soldier is no boaster.
You must seek hi story from other lips
than his, garpcrs Magazine
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