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"'-.:'-!'.. ' --. - . . v ' , ' .:-.. ... . : : , : i ' .. ... 7 . f : - f s : esse?- 1 ' - ADYERTISIXG RATES, i V f ... .. u-, " v ?; Oae faeb,oeinertioa............ 1 00 . Oae Inch, each abseqaent insertion... 10 Quarterly, Semiannual or Yearly eon' tract will be made on liberal terms. . Obituaries and Tributes of respect chargedf or at advertising rates Noommnnicauon will be published unv less accompanied by the full name and ads dress of the writer.-These are not requested for puDiication, bat as a guarantee of rood I Hit". , f ' All commnnseationa for iha rraric ...,' business letters, should be addressed to " - - ' THE BANNER' ,' ! Rutaeforrdtoii, .0 1 THE LOST GARDEN! There was a-fair green garden sloping . "From the southeast side of a mountain ledjre, And tbc earliest tints of the dawn came grop in Down through its paths from the day's dim' - edga. The Muest skies and the reddest roses -. Arched unl varied Its velvet sod. And the glad birds sang as the soul supposes The angels sing on the h'lls of God. I wandered there Viion my veins seemed bursting "With life's rare rapture and keen delight. An 1 yet in my heart was a constant thirsting For something oyer the mountain height. , 1 wjintert to stand in tb.3 blaze of splendor ' , T bat turned to crimson the peaks of enow; And, the winds from, the wpst all breathed a Story i i r ' ( : . Of Realms and, regions I longed to know. 5 I f aw on the garden's south side growing Tte i;rightest blossoms that breathe, of Jim ; .... i . , E ; . ,. 1 saw on the C3st how the sun was glowing And the gold air shook with a wild bird's tun?. ' I heard the drip of a silver fountain,.. '. I And the pulsa of fa young: laugh throbbed with glee; ' - But still I looked out over the mountain . Where unnamed wonders awaited me. . - 1 came at last to the western gateway That led to the path I longed to climb, But a shadow fell on my spirit straightway. For close at my side stood greybeard Time. 1 p.ius id with feet that were fain to linger, rinrdbyt afgirfieu's golden gate; . Eut Time spoke, pointing with one stern finger; "Pass on!" he said, "for the day grows late." And now, ou the ehiil gray cliffs I wander, The heights recede which I thought to find, And the light seems d.m on the mountain yonder " Ven I think or the garden I left benind. fbiuld 1 stand at last in its summit's splendor, 1 know full well it would not repay For the fair lost tints of the dawns so tender That crept up over the edge o' day. I wculd go back, but the days are winding; If ways there ara to that Jand in sooth. For Whatman ever suce eda in finding ' A path to the garden of his lost youth? Hut I think sometimes when the June stars glisten That a rose-soent drifts from far away. And I know when I lean from the cliffs and listen . . That a young laugh breaks on the air like . s-pray. i E la Wheeler, jn Our Continent Spoopendyke Crab-Fishing. Coming up the river the other day, saw a middle-aged gentleman in a plug hat and business suit seated in a , jcow beside an attractive lady," feeling ' iround among a lot of strings pendant ?. from the side of the boat, and warning :he bdy that she could not keep too quiet. - ' "Xow, my dear," observed the gen tleman,' "don't you move, because I feel a crab on this line. I'll pull him up until he is jn sight and then you slip the net -under him. See?" " Yes, dear," . replied the lady, a little flustered as she contemplated her share of the performance. "Bat, Mr. Spoopendyke, what shall I do when I get the net under him?" , " " Scalp him!" retorted Mr. Spoopen dyke, drawing slowly on the line. "Now wait, he's there," and Mr. Spoopen dyke became even more cautious in his movements. "See him! There he is! Scalp him, quick ! " Mrs. Spoopendyke jabbed the net into the water and swashed around t with great vigor: "What ye doing?" yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, straightening up : and glaring at her, as the" crab struck a line for Newark Bay. "What'd ye think I had there, the bottom of the river? What'd ye suppose ye was trying to catch, a church? Take it out! " Give it here!" and he grasped the lady around the waist and took the net away from her. "Did, I scalp him?" asked Mr3. Spoopendyke, flushed with her exer tions and trembling with her excite ment. "Show him tome! let me see what he looks like!" . " Looks like!" roared Mr. Spoopen dyke. "He looks" like Sandy Hook by this time ! Why didnt you scalp him"? What's the matter with yon?" "I I couldn't tell . which was his head," faltered Mrs; Spoopendyke, who hadn't seen anything at all. "Pull him up again, and you'll see if I don't scalp the last hair on his skull ! " The English language lost its last ?.harm for Mr. , Spoopenkyke, and he turned to his strings with a withering look of contempt, for his wife. "Now you. be careful," he said, at : . length. "Here's another varmint, and ' you musn't let, him get away. When I say 'Scalp!' you shove the net under him and just bring him aboard." "Can you see him yet P" asked Mrs. ; Spoopendyke, waving the net over her head and psfering into the water. - "Wait! Yes, there he is! Careful, remember. Now, scalp!" He must have been a crab of phe nomenal scholastic advantages to nave gotton rid of that swoop,for Mrs. Spoop endyke, with a view to redeeming her self, went for the end of the string blind- : ly, but with a strength of purpose that made failure impossible. She not only got the, crab, but she slammed net, crab and all over Mr. Spoopendyke's head. . What ah-h ! !" shrieked that gentleman, as he felt himself im- pounded. "Lost him again!" exclaimed Mrs. Spoopendyke. who hadn't the remotest idea what a crab . looked like. "Why, dear, what's that awful big spider in the. nfet! Good gracious!" "Take it off !" howled Mr. Spoopen dyke, "Take it wow! the thing ha got me by the ear! Haul him off, will ye?".-' ..: Mrs. Spoopendyke dropped the han dle of the net as if it were an old-iash-ioned bonnet, and gazed upon her hus band in consternation. . "Gastthe crab!" yelled Mr. Spoop endyke, tearing the net away. "Let go, ye brute! Wah-ha!" and the unfortu nate jnan wrenched the fish from off his - ear and dashed it in the bottom of the . boat. "What's your scheme in doing that?" he demanded," holding his ear with one fist and shaking the other . at his wife. "Think you've got to eat 'em right out of the water? Got a notion that he came, up cooked and you must down him quick or he'll - spoil?" yelled Mr. SDOokeridvke. enrasred beyond all control by the iight of the carnage that . trickled down his fingers. . "What'd ye mean bv it P" and h Bprariff into the air and alisrhted oa tae unhappy crab, slipping up and sprawling full length ia ise Docwm ox tae wat, ' ESTABLISflED1 ili. bpoopendyke, assistinp; her Husband to arise and contemplating the mangled fish with anything but favor. "Is that what you call a crab? I thought " ou,tho1uSht!" ripped Mr. Spoop endyke, kicking at the bewUdered crab. "That's the trouble with you you think ! Did ye think I was coins to stand here and let that crab chew on my ear till his legs ached P P'raps ye thought he was whispering to nc! Maybe ye though 4 he was telling me a funny sto ry! Well, he wasn't, and if he was his voioe was so hoarse I couldn't enjoy it! Ye thought, did ye!" sauealed Mr. Spoopendyke, his wrath Rising as the pain and fear -subsided; "thought a crab talked with hisrtoes, like some wo men think, did ye! Oh, you thought! If I had such a head as that I'd fit it up with shuck bed3 and a stick of gum and start a female boarding-school! With your ability to 4Jiinkt you only need a squint and lour lone word3 to be a Con cord School of Philosophy!" and Mr. Spoopendyke plunged the. oars into the water and began to row vigorously. " Where are you going, dearP" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke- timidly, ., af tec. her husband had pulled hard tor some time. Home!" grinned Mr. Spoopendyke, with a horrible expression of visage. " I'm going home to show the people how much damage a . rusticating idiot asylum can do with one measly crab When she pins herself down to it4" "Of course," assented Mrs. Spoop endyke, humbly, "trat say, aear, wouldn't you get on faster if you untied the boat?" Mr. Spoopendyke turned and gave a sharp look at the bow. Then he hauled his hat down over his ears, stepped ashore and struck out at a brisK waiK. " I don't know," sighed Mrs. Spoop endyke, as I took her boat in tow, "I don't know, but I don't think I care ; much for crabbing, though I'm not sure home on the wrons: side of the river with no bridge within sevett miles either waj!" Brooklyn Eagle. Applying Manure. Some farmers (or who pretend to be f&rmers) scoff at the idea of improving the production of prairie soil by stable and barn-yard manures. This i3 only the outcroping of shiftless and improvi dent farmers. Others never have any time to haul out manure. . In the winter it is frozen in a solid mass, so that it can not be moved. In the spring the ground is so soft that it is almost impossible to haul it, and making mortar ol the soil to be farmed. In the summer there is no place to spread it, as thel crops oc cupy the ground. In the f all vweli, what is in the way now? It is probable, how ever, that the manure pile has bean bleached and soaked in sun and rains until there is none of the virtue left iu it. It has been filtered by the heavy summer rains until it is not worth any thing. The right way is to haul out manure as it accumulates, when it is,fresh and valuable. Then the soil, just where you want it, gets the leechings. Kocp stables and yards clear during the winter. Take it to the fields before it freezes. Then !jhe farm gets the full benefit. Keep up the practice in the spring. The current accumulations can be taken our, if the soil i3 muddy. And a good farmer can always find a place to spread usefully the summer manure. It is fashionable for farmers to ride in their wagons to the fields when plowing. The manure can be as easily thrown into the wasron in the morning, when cleaning stable or cow yards, as it can be thrown in a heap to waste. Take it daily to the field, and it is a rare thing if a good place can not be found for it. But if it has accumulated during win ter, spring and summer, now is the time to haul it out, if it is not worth half price. In the older parts of the United States good stable manure sells for eight dollars per cord, and the farmers find that it is profitable ito pay that for it, and haul ten or twenty miles, borne men let manure accumulate until they have to move their stables. But this class generally soon move to Kansas or Nebraska, as mortgages accumulate about their farms as fast as manure piles .about their stables. Iowa State Kegislcr. Caring liny. The question of whether hav could not lae cured by other than the common ancfoften d.struetrve method now in vogue is being closely investigated by the experts and farmers of Eng'.and. The old and original method was 10 let the grass first get well ripened, then cut it with the reaping hook or scythe, turn it frequently with the fork to dry or ripen in the sun and the next day put it in cocks. 'After a few days make the wholeinto stacks or ricks, or put it m the barn. After this came mowing machines. horse-rakes, tedders, self-loading wagon3 and hay-forks, and tackling for unload ing and placing the hay in the barn or ricks. f Under the first sys em there was of en heavy loss and always some injury from exposing the grass to long to the weather, which could not always be de p nded upon. Modern applian es h ve materially hasten d the process or get ting the hay cured and in" the barn, but. with continuous wet weather there is still much risk that should if puss ble be avoided. To overcome th-.s trouVe many experiments aro now under trial -with more o - leis success. One method proposed is to stack the grass whi e per fectly green, with considerable layers of straw between layers of the grass,; with an open passage in the center of the stack for the moisture to pass out. This has not been discovered to pi event a certain amount of mold forming on the hay. Machinery with drying apparatus at tachment has been tried, but not suffi ciently economical and expeditious' to prove a success. Fanners, however, should put their wits to work to com pass this subject, for it will neve do for all time to let thchay crop the most im portant one often on the f ami, t3 en- l tirelyat the mercy of a spell of bad weather that is liable to come at the time it is most hurtful. American Dairyman. . .-Virginia has 172 tobacco factories, which consumo 43.000.000 pounds of PUBLISHED AT RUTHERFORDTON, J, fil, EVERY FRIDAY MORNING;, Professor IlaeckePs Life In tJeylon. , . My great resource as au article of diet, was the fruit which abounded at every meaL Next to the bananas of every variety, of which . I consumed several at every meal. my. standing dessert consisted of mangoes (Manqife ra indica), egg-shaped green fruit, from three to six inches long; their cream like golden pulp has a faint but distinct aroma of turpentine. The fruit, of the passion-flower (vassiflora) was verv pleasant to my taste, reminding me of tae gooseberry. ; I was less pleased with the renowned custard-apple, the Annona squamosa, and with the Indian almond; iho hard nut of the Tzrminalia caiappa. There are singularly few ap ples and oranges in Ceylon; the latter remain green, and are not juicy; but want of cultivation is doubtless chiefly answerable for the inferiority of this and other fruits; the Singhalese are far too easy-going to make any pi-ogress in horticulture. . Refreshed with my mod est repast, I employed the hot hours of mid-day from twelve to four o'clock iri anatomical or microscopio work in making observations and drawings, and in the preservation and storing of my collected objects.- The evening hours, from four to six o'clock, were gen erally occupied with some lovely country excursion; sometimes I made a water-color sketch, sometimes I sought to perpetuate one of the beautiful views in photography. Now and then I shot apes and birds in the woods, or collected insects and snails or hunted-among the coral reefs on the sliore, adding many curious objects to my colle tion.; Richly laden, 1 re turned to the Rest House an hour or less; before sunset, and worked for an other hour at the preservation - and ar rangement of my specimens, At e:ght o'clock my second chief meal, or din ner, was served. The piece de - resist ance at this was again the inevitable curry and rice, followed sometimes by a fish or" a crab, which 1 1 enjoyed im mensely, and then by some dish com posed of eggs or meal, and finishing again with delicious fruit. The important question of what - to drink ' ' ; seemed likely at first to prove; a difQcult one. The ordinary drinking water of the low lands of Ceylon is considered very bad and unwholesome, the highlands, on the contrary, teing rich in springs of the purest and fresh est water. The great rains which " fall daily on the island bring down a mass of mineral and vegetable deposit into the river1, and the stagnant water of the lagoons is not unfrequently in com munication with them. It is not cus tomary to drink the water unless fcoiled or made into tea; or with the addition of claret or whisky. My friend Scott had given me an abundant supply of the last-named jteverage, but on the whole I found no drnk so pleasant and re reshing, as well" as wholesome, as the fresh milk of the cocoa-nut. My frugal dinner at an end, I usually took a solitary walk on the shore, or de lighted my eyes with the sight of the il lumination of the palm woods by myriads of fire-Hies and glow-worms. Then I made a few entries in my note book or tried to read by the light of a cocoa-nut oil lamp. But I was gener ally quite tired enough to go to bed soon after nine o'clock, after another careful . shaking of the clothes for the expulsion of scorpions and millipeds. The great black scorpion (nearlv a foot long ) is so common in Ceylon that I once collected l half a dozen in the course of an hour. Snakes exist also in great numbers. Slender green tree snakes hang from almost every bough, and at night the great rat-snake (Con phbdon Blumenbachii) hunts rats and mice over the roofs of the huts. Al though they are harmless and their bite not poisonous, it is by no means a pleasant surprise when one of these rat snakes, five feet long, suddenly drops through a -hole in the roof into one's room, occasionally alighting on the bed. ,On the whole, however, ray nights ix Belligam were but little disturbed by animal intruders, -although I was o. ten kept awake by the howiing of jackals and the uncannv cry of the Devil-bird (a kind Of owl, Suruium Indrani), and other night-birds, i The bell-cry of the prettv little tree-frog, which make their dwelling in the cups of largo i'owers, acted rather as a slumber song. But 1 was far oftener kept awake by the whirl of mv ovn thoughts, ,bv the recol'o tion of the many events of the past day. and the anticipation of that which was to come.. A brilliant succession ly s enes, of interesting obserPfes. and varied experiences mingled in my brain with plans of fresh enterprise and new discoveries for the morrow. Deutsche llimdsohdu. The Old National Pike The opening of the Redstone branch of the Pittsburgh,. Virginia & Charles ton Hailroadmark3 a still further decline in the famous old National turnpike from Cumberland to Wheeling. "An act to regulate the laying out and mak ing a road from Cumberland, Md., to the State of Ohio," became a law in 1806, and the first stage-coach carryiug the United States mails over that route made its first trip on August 1, 1818. The distance was one hundred and thir ty miles and the total cost of construct ing this great highway across the Alle ghanies . was . $i,:700,000, Its traffic soon became encirmous, and inns to accommodate - the traveling t: public sprang up so thickly along its line that they were 6aid to average two to a mile. The pike was . admirably constructed, but th ) heavy traffic which demon strated its necessity put it in need of frequent jepairs. 'and the Government finally turned it over to the States of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio, and they established toil-gates to pay for its maintenance- ; Injl852, with the open ing of the 5 Pennsylvania Railroad to Pittsburgh and the Baltimore & Ohio to Wheeling; its- decline began. A steamer that was sunk in eighty feet of water two years ago in Lake Huron has been raised, and tier cargo, consisting of 500 barrels of porter, fifty cases of gin, and 100 cases of brandy; all imported goods, has been found un harmed, and, having lftin. p 6 long under water, ling escaped duty. The present owners pa:d 8 000 for the steamer and cftrcrn. and SO.000 lor tha work of raislflff. IT MM if. r A Family Hewspapefi Devoted' to Home Interests Ylolins. ;Lduis Blumenberg, the violoncelol virtuoso, has been' spending his between seasons here at his home. , When the Sun correspondent droppdd in 3xe was contemplating his instrument!; with a dissatisfied air. The aha be r varaish on the violoncello shone with its wonted mellow luster, its long neck I was firmly erect, its carved head thrown back in true Stradivarius pose, and the strings, as they were fretted by virtuoso's fingers, emitted sonorou;s snores." "What is the matter?" was asked. "I can't; tell exactly," was the reply. "It is tired and needs rest If ,1 lay it aside for a week or so, it (will -regain its perfection of tone, without anything else being done to it Its bard thing to explain, and it is a; fact familiar to every artist. If you use in instrument too much it loseyits tonef-not enough, perhaps, for the average 'auditor to per ceive, but the artist knows -ilj." I? May be the trouble is then' with the artist himself losing the precision of his touch from over-practice' said the caller, i . ;--.; "That is the explanation', which most naturally occurs to' one.but it: is not good. The trouble is with , the --instrument. Every artist meets with. 5 it. and has to keep more than one In use. WilhelmJ has to lay his Stradivarius vio lin aside occasionally. ; and use his Gemunder until the Stradivarius. is rest ed. Every . man who vuies a. razor knows that it gets tired frpm too much use. and regains its temper from being laid aside for a while, and itis'the same with musical instruments, j Tone is a puzzle anyhow. A crack- in the ..belly of a violin or 'cello you-: might think would be fatal to tone from .its intercep tion of sound vibrations, put! somet mes cracks seem to cause; an improve ment. Instruments that; are well treat ed improve by age. It may 'be that the rich tones of aline Stradivarius or Gnarnerius are due largely to the r age, and the exquisite mellow" quality'whieh i c- j 7 it : we of his find in tnem is the acquisition years, time. Guillaume, who was, in a celebrated? Paris i maker. jis now tone 'he in disrepute because .the line imparted to his instruments was not lasting, tie nad some;process for medicating the wood of his instru ments that gave them strfhgth and softness of tune, but age, instead of improving them, impaired theiiquality. Then, again, the tune rpl instruments seems to-result from hapy chance ad justments of their parts whielf cannot be repeated with anyjgertainty. The masterpieces of the Jffremona: school now in existence may tfc strokes;vOf good fortune that the old makers themselves ould not always certainly effect. You see that the bridge of mv cello here is not a particularly fine'-iooking bit of wood. Some time ago . wherl hap pened to drop into an' instrument maker's shop, he said: vf' I have got a splendid piece of maple- one hundred nd fifty years old, just ; the Ithing to make you a new bridge." Well, he made the bridge and! it . looked right, and seemed to lit right but whea I tried it the strings didn't--sound Sight. I worked with it some tftne, but finally had to give it up. Theij the bow has a great deal to do with -the tBe. It wood must be Strong, ,and at 4lie same time slender and light, it',must?be firm without Tjeinof riid, an must lave i er- fect evenness of textuye, so as to give the. same quality of percussion from whatever point it may be applied to the strings. There are celebrated; makers of bows as well as of instruments. The Lupot bow is famous. -The maker is a Frenchman who flourished in the first quarter of this century. He go hold of a tine lot of Pernambuoo wood and all his bows were made of ', selectee! pieces. A good Lupot bow is worth one hundred doll ars. An ordinary bow, whtfth would look as if it were iusfas goody can be bought for five dollars. f " Tjj'! "It is a hard thing to get hold of a fine old instrument," the virtuosa went on, the 'cello strings now sounding - in mel ancholy chords under ' his straving fingers. "I believe 1 told you that Wil li elm j plays a Stradivarius. Remenyi has quite a collection, -but generally plays-an Amati. Ole Bodl hatffa large violin by one of the earliest makers of the Cremona school, Gas par d ;de Salo. Some fine instruments are in the hands of amateurs. Assistant-Secretary-of-State Hunter has a violoneelloqf Stradi varius tone, if not of that '.make- Ex Mayor Havemeyer. of New- York, al though not himself a Velio playjer, I be "ve, paid about $2, 560 'for ai Guar- nerius. It is the rich amateur who runs np the price of such instruments until they are out of reach of the podr artist. There is a manufacture.? .of garden tools in Hartford who has "st splendid collec tion of violins, and yet, go far as his own playing is concerned, an ordinary fiddle would do him lust as well as btradi' varius. In his collection is the famous Am? Joseph uuarnnus violins it is a wonderful instruments I can1 tjdescribe to you the power, softness, and sweet ness of its tones. They are exquisite. I suppose he could get &f,000 or $5,000 lor tnat violm at - any? time; at is almost impossible to-appreciate the value ofuch an instrument ' He has a collection, of 'fifteen bows that ; would bring from $1,500 to $2,000;, i No in struments could be better eared for than those of his collection; but. strange as it may, seem, theretare; per sons with a mama for totecting lnstru ments who don't. know how to take care of them when they get them. -- ' I knew a Baltimore collector who had violins a'l overhis house, often-in places where they were liable to Dej proten: at nny ,time. 1 was up-stairg -:jn his house once, and was groins: o sit down on bed, when he shouted v to mei to look out--that a violin was f in these. - Sure enough,; a violin was 'jstUck under the bed-clothes because he; was top careless to get a bag for it I once came, across a fine 'cello in a ( town , in Central New York, owned by a man who can't play it, doesn't take proper care 6i it and yet won't sell it If "it-were .not for such men artists would not have j to make great sacrifices to ; get instruments with wjhich they can realize .their con ceptions. Of course'tbey , must . have fine mstruznents. Nothing - jless will content them, even' though Vjiudiences should be jost as well satisfied to hear any well-mado instrument as the diving voice oi a otraairftna. vmmm 'I II I ' : I i t.I j t - ma mm w m 1111 rv I I 1 1 -111 II te. Ill I T.I r,- ,m m.-t , I I t I and Grnfral Sews. SCHOOL'S TOOKEN UP. j. The boys bav4 come back to their schools, : Ah. me! i To violate grammar and rules, . ! So free. ; The lawless joke, and tha stealthy grin. The clinarlnir wax. an1 the crooked nin. ' . Tha capsized ink, and the whispered diu,': An, me i The faces chalked on the outer wals, , . . : I see; H And the ceiling stuccoed with paper balls. An, mo i ? The shuffling feet on the gritty floor, a The inky face at the class-room door, ' The sudden pinch and the muffled roar, Ah, me I y. -r, The questions brisk and the answers slow, .r Ah, me I, 1 . ' , i The "I furjjot" and the "I dun'no," ' Just seel v . ti " N four turns seven is twenty-nine;" " Home is a town on the River Rlne;" . ! " George is a verb 'n agrees with wiae," ;t Ah. me J . j Grimace and giggle, grin and wink. Dear me 1 ; Buzz and whisper who can think? Ah. mel ' ! Wouldn't it be a better rule To let the boy grow up a fool, Bather than Bend him back to school And me? Burtirfon Hawheye. A BIG NUGGET. -4- Two Hundred and Twenty-seven Pounds of Solid Gold. 1: In the early limes in California claims were small and road-agents numerous, and men, if they found a nugget of ex traordinary - size, were atraid their ground might be jumped or themselves robbed and perhaps murdered going below, and thus kept JJie largest gold finds a secret until they could get out of the mountains and tha State. The fol lowing facts, that have never be 'ore been in print, I came across in a most singu lar way, and I can rely on , the word" of the narrator: .In 1851, and 18o2 . 1 nrned with a man from Massachusetts named John Dage on several flats and glacers around Down'eville and ithe iddle Yuba. In 1853 I lost sight iof him. but heard that he had gone East. n 1858 I went with the rush to British Columbia, and worked -out a good claim, and then took a trip to Australia. n sroina: from Sydney up to the mSnes we camped on a creek by the roadside, where a great many teams stopped on their up and down trips, as water sup ply m that dry climate was a long way apart. The great teams and American wagons arrived, along toward evening on the creek in a porfect stream. as we were eating supper we aearu teamster's voice that I thought w.s familiar, anil driving into camp, I strolled among the teams, 'and almost the first man I met was my old Dowhie ville partner. He was most glad to see me, and 1 being so recently lrpm Downieville ho requested, me to call after he had fed his animals and eaten his own meal, to talk over old times-; in California. He owned the whole fitput that he was driving was freighted :tip, carrying hides tallow and other jco- onial products on his own account for back freight. He had married in ithe country, and was doing a profitable business with his team. i; After talking of old times here in Cal- fornia, the whereabouts of old friends and acquaintances, he Said: "By the by, George, you never knew why or KOw leit California so suddenly. 1 an swered, ,,jSto;" but he had not slipped from my memory; but raan.v men in;the mines use ourselves were missett, ana often turned up thcrusands.ot miles away. He saidi 'l can give you the eventful story now. j : . I . - I "Well, when we worked together in the summer of '52 on the Middle Yuba I heard vou tell of the rich claim and coarse gold you found on Slate, Castle itavine on the botith rone, one mue above Downieville. 1 Mvself and "Bill Hopkins, together with a German partner, went quietly; to work m the summer of 'od, . and-occupied au t ola cabin that had been deserted and j, the ground abandoned. We stripped the claim in another direction, and came across the lead containing coarse gold, as you had described, and made for two weeks per dav per raan from one to three ounces. The ground was getting aeeper ana neavy to strip, ana l startea a small drift to see how wide the lea l was before we stripped iurther ahead. It was Saturday, about noon. , The ground continued still to pay, and. we were down in a soit slate crevice, when I struck the pick into a bright lump of gold that seemed to run into the solid gravel. 1 tried to pry it out, but it was too firmly imbedded. " Then I worked carefully around it, and it appeared to grow larger as dug the gravel away. We placed one on the lookout td see that no one surprised us, and I",tell you wo were startled; land 'after some time I got it loose, and by hard lifting, ; and there it lay, almost pure gold,- nearly the shape of a heart, and it fitted ex actly the bottom of the crevice. The quartz attached to it was crystallized,; and would not exceedf three pounds in weight. We got it in the cabin as quick as possible, in a sack, and placed it under one of the bunks, intending to ex amine it more thoroughly at night.' ' "We staid away from town on Satur day and Sunday, "and brought it out at night to feast our eyes Upon it again, and each guessed "it; would weigh at least two hundred poUnds. We; con cluded not to take it to town to wei?h. but divide it some way; for if it ; were known there would bo. intense excite ment We, had gbld t scales, ; but they would only weigh only one and a half pounds. Afts $me time spent in con sultation, - Bill ' Hastings suggested a rough pair of original .scales; we piled on rock and iron weighed by the1 gold scales till we gpt the balance, and the nugget brought down two hundred; and thirty-one pounds gold weight pi We burned. the quartz, and thoroughly picked it out with the point of a knife; the pure gold brought, down two : hun dred and twenty-seven pounds, and the grand specimen looked more beautiful than ever. It we had taken it to the London express office there would have been the wildest exe'tement On Mon day we cleaned up the remainder of the crevice, and it paid well, but to us: the pay now seemed small in comparison Now each had enough. We had ; at least 50,000 to.tfivide enough to make all three comfortably irieh, No doubt we could hare made more by exhibiting I it bfit w9 9oui4 &ot m $9 riifc Wo TERMS J2.tS0 PerlBnm. came to the conclus'oa to cut it up. di vidolt, roll each one's share up' iu his own blankets, and start for the steamer to Panama and the Atlantic States. I went to town on Monday evening, got a sharp cold-chisel made to cut and divide the prize in e jual shares, and it took us about al'. uighr to cut and weigh-it with our rude appli ances. "it seems like vandalism to destrov the grandeur of such a precious speci men of Nature's work. At the first blow of the chisel it sank deet into the pure yellow metal, it was so soft and yielding. Before daylight we had com pleted our singular dividend. We caved down the bank near the mouth of the drift, took a brief sleep, got breakfast, rolled up our blankets, and passed through town early, net caring to bid any one good-by. and then no explana tions were required. We left the cabin and everything for the first lucky ones to possess. There was plenty more gold no doubt; for the ground we le?t contained big pay; but we had $16,000 or $17,000 ea.h, and we were satisfied with our good fortune. We tried to appear like three prospectors, carrying our blankets, and passed Goodyear Hill and the dreaded Nigger Tent (then the beat of the road agents), and hurried to San Francisco, arrived in time to board the next steamer, and landed safely in New York. I have many a time regret ted the way we destroyed that natpral gold specimen, perhaps the largest ever lound in the world, in ancient or modern times. ; "When I returned to Downieville after fourteen years' absence, I visited old Slate Castle Ravine and tried it once , more, but twenty years had nearly ex hausted its riches; still I tried, and; made small wages, but its glory had de-; parted. My old partner. Dodge, was i an ' earnest, truthful man. L believe I tons of gold were carried below in early times by the lucky ones, and all kinds ' of advices were adopted to evade .the i highwaymen, and often large parties1 went below together, well armed and, perhaps, many a largo nugget, besides j millions of dollars in" gold dust, never j saw the light until it was safely de-j posited in tfce banks or mints of the AtH fantic States." Downieville (.Cal.) Mes- senier. . m j He Sat Down. We were running through South Car-j olina, when a great big giant of a fellowi with a terrib'e eye and a voice like afog-j norn boaraea tne tram at a smau sta tion. I think' most of the passengers' sized him up a3 a chap whom it would be dangerous to argae with, but the' giant wasn't satisfied with that. He blustered at the conductor, growled at .the brakeman and looked around as if seeking some one to pick a fuss with. Everybody answered him civilly, and he had two or three seats to himself, but the man who wants a row can generally find some pretext. About the center of the car a pale-looking chap about twenty-five years old occupied a seat and was reading a newspaper. After a time the giant rubbed along tc where the young man fat and growled out : . Stranger," what may be the first cost of such a hat as yours?", j The young man looked up with a flash in his big blue eyes, and then turned to his paper without replying, j " Ileyl ;,Did you hear me?" roared the other, as he leaned over the seat and lifted the hat off the young man's head. i Quicker than one could count six a shining revolver came from you couldnt tell where, liftedltself on a level with the big man's eye, and the white fin gers clutching the butt never trembled a hair's breadth as a quiet voice uttered the words : " Drop that hat P" ! The hat fell from the giant's grasp, and the quiet voice continued : j " Now you sit down or I'll, km you s r The miuzle of the weapon was not six inches from the nam's eye, and I saw him turn from red to white in ten sec onds. He backed away at.the command, sat down in a seat opposite, and never stood up or spoke another word during bis ride of twenty mile3. He had a 'navy" under his coat, but something in that quiet voice and blue eye warned him that the move of a finger on his part would crash a bullet into his head.-- Dctroit Free Press. Indian Marriage Laws. A paper, on this subject, read by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey before the American Association, notices some remarkable customs in relation to marriage and kin ship as prevailing among the Dhegitha Indians, particularly the umanas ana Poneas. ; When a tribe is hunting it camps, by gente or nations, in a circle, each gen bearing the name of some animal. All the members of one , gem are relatives, and marriage between members of one gens is absolutely forbidden. Memb0r- ship in a gens is by descent in tne nuue line, not in the female. The relations of a man are denoted by colors ; for example-r-black, grandfather or grand mother; blue, father or mother. His connections are denoted by mixed colors, such as pink head and skirt, with light blue triangle on the body, for sister-in-law. A man can marry his brother's widow, and her ohildren call him father even before their, father's death. His sister's children are only nephews and nieces. His mother's sister .is always called mother for the same reason, and even his paternal grandfather's brother's son is his father. These, and many other distinctions, show that the terms of relationship are far more numer ous and ! complicated with the Qma has than " with us. A man : may marry any woman belonging to an other gens, whether connected with him or not ; though marriage into his motX er's is also forbidden. A man can not marry any woman to whom he is re lated by. the ceremony of, the calumet dance. Sometimes a man may take the children of his deceased brother without their mother herself. Sometimes the dying husband, .knowing that bis male kindred are bad, tells bis wife to marry out of bis gens. ; If a widower remains 'sinffle for two. three or f ouryears, he must remain so forever. ? widows, now ever, must wait four yean before remar ryisg. The tame system prevails among the Was, Oto. aud Uouxi$,pular Mm ninthly, 7u-- : j - tibiis of fTOBscBiraoar. v One Teir........ .......... .. $2 00 8ix llonth...'.....,. r....l 00 . Special Bequests - 1. Jn writing on btrsrnsu be rare to (Its the Poetoffioe at which you fi your mail matter." , . ; r' ... 2. In remitting money, always firs both name and Pottoffice. 3. Send matter for the mall department on a separate piece of piper from any thinf for publication. 4 Write communication! eily oa ee side of the sheet ;,- .. . ' r PITH ASD P0IST. Eloquence is the best speech of the best soul. ' It is difficult for a woman to keep seoret, and I know more than one man who is a woman. La Fontaine; " The astronomers at Harvard Uni versity have figured out that the comet went around the sun at the rate of 400 miles a second. Probably the sun had a bill against the oom&t."-i-Chicago Tribune. , . .. . ; An English woman says i "English, women can't hold a candle to French women in the matter of flirting.? Per haps if they could it would throw soma light 'on the subject. Norristown Herald. There ia a cow in Pennsylvania that goes limping through life with a wooden leg. What a bonanza the owner would have if he could turn that ler. into a pump and make the animal stand in a stream oi water while he was milk ing. tf. T. Advertiser v . A great many things are accepted by us as a matter of course in thU coun try. An Austin notary was called to take tBe acknowledgment of a'witnes to a deed. He wrote out : "To me, well known, personally appeared by the way, what is your name, anyhow P" Orchestral players are getting to be intolerably conceited. The piccolos are dreadfully high-toned, the trumpeters are always blowing their own horn, the fiddlers complain that they are sub jected to such violint exercise, and the drummers are all on a strike. N. T. Post. ' Which arm the right or left should be given a lady when walking in a crowded street P George. In Phila delphia and other orderly cities give, her the right arm, so that she may not be jostled by the passing crowd. In Chi- -cago and St. Louis give her the frjffc arm and carry your right hand in your pistol-pocket. Philadelphia News. "What makes you ask such a high price for this little roomP'i asked Ko slusco Murphy of an Austin landlord. "Well, there is a young man next door who plays on the accordeon. You don't expect to have your innermost soul stirred up from the bottom every even ing and not pay anything for it, do youP He sings, too!" Texas Sitings. A great many of the scandalous stories current are built on this formula: "I say, mother, John told me that he heard Mr. Johnson say that Mr. Handy's aunt was present when the Widow Burnham told Captain . Ball's cousin that old Mrs. Oxby understood that Sam 'Trifle's wife said, in so many words, that her mother heard on the best of authority that you weren't any better, than you should be. If I were you I should look the matter up, for the thing comes pretty straight, you see."i N.' T. Herald. . The Guatemala Boundary. From that epoch which was signal ized by the fall of the ephemeral empire of Iturbide until the signing of the re cent treaty between Mexico and Guate mala, the people of these two countries have been engaged in a constant dipute concerning the true bondary line be tween the republics. Several times com missioners from either country had traced the boundary line, and definitely marked the northern limit of the ambi tious little nation, but as often Guate mala refused to acknowledge the de cision of the arbitrators. When Gen. Barrios had destroyed or intimidated the enemies of publio peace and begun the work of reforming and and regen erating Guatemala, his Government re newed this vexed question, and began persecuting Mexican citizens who rev sided in the territory in dispute. The property of "Don Matias Romero, Mexi can Minister at Washington,' was de stroyed by the troops of the Guatema lan Dictator several years ago, and Mr. Romero's losses amounted to a large ' sum. Nor was he the only victim. Many other Mexican citizens were ruined by raiding parties from Guatemala, ana several times Mexico was on the point of declaring war against her trouble some neighbor. The bonndarv line claimed by Mexico is the same that has since been conceded . by Guatemala. Thus a sanguinary war and complications with our own Gov ernment has been avoided by the firm ness of the Mexican President, the states manship and tact of the Mexican Sec retary of State, and the diplomacy and r good management of the Mexican Min- . fster at Washington. Now both Mexico and Guatemala are na oi mis -duk-bear" of a war-cloud that constantly hung suspended over them, and are at last on friendly terms. The work of re form that has been going on in iruate- mala for the past few years win oe con tinued. Mexico, which has made sucn vast strides forward in the path of po-. litical and material reform, at peace Tvith the entire world, can also devote her attention to the grateful task ot de veloping her vast internal resources and reticulating her beautifnl territory with iron bands. While the American people have the deepest interest in the welfare of Mexi co, and rejoice that she has at -length, under the progressive rule of Porfirio Diaz and Gen. Gonzalez, assumed ft proud position in the sisterhood of na tions, they are also pleased that mod erate councils have prevailed in Gaute malan Government circles," and" that war, which once seemed so imminent, has been averted by the prudence, and good sense of the statesmen of both countries. New Orleans Times-Democrat. m' At a, Virginia watering place a gen tleman asked another who was sitting near him three questions concerning sulphur waterand discovered that he had been consulting the resident Thysi-f cian when he received a bill for f 15. t N. Y. Sun. An old hag. while begging in front ) of a gentleman house on Walnut street, was told by the owner to move on," when she turned upon him and. dramatically ottered the following ter- rihla curse-. "May y're dauzhteri mnow firw With om wj jrr j sons jj totef fmWi9 i t At
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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