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The Press and Banner. _ f< ABBEVILLE, S, C. DRUNKENNESS SURELY CURABLE, p h Story of a Man Who Conquered Bis Appetite. n 0 Aorth American llcvicw for October. a For twenty years I had been a victim a to the disease of drink. It seized me at s< odd time?, usually the most inopportune, f, and in spito of all my struggles would e gain the temporary mastery. Months of ^ peace might pass, but suddenly the fever p would break loose and run riot in my e veins, and I knew then that it must have rj its course. I have a3 much will-power cs the next man, but my will was a straw n in the gra?p of this horror. MeD who ^ have not fo!t the clutch of drink as it ? sweeps through and possesses the whole ^ system, Lave no conception of the agony c of the struggle which the victim makes. w There are no grauder heroes under God's 8i sunlight than the men who honestly fight ^ against drink. I had battled for years, j, had gone voluntarily into exile in fcomes ? and asylum3 to escape my enemy, and ^ only in late years recoguized the fact y that drunkenness was a disease, increas- u ed no doubt by indulgence, but for which t a man was no more responsible than for jj a fever he had caught by exposure. I j, regret the disease. It has brought sor- v row and less tome for years of my life ? that should have been most prospered. ? But it has not been the unalloyed curse 0 that fanatics would persuade man to be- ? lieve. Out of my sufferings the pictures y drawn by Felix Olriboy have been g wrought, and through struggles as fierce w as death and blackness that was despair a have come gleams of the sunshine of a memory, painting the quiet old home in u which the little lad sat by the side of his n grand-mother and her cat. If the pres- w ent had been prosperous, 1 snouid not n havo carried ray life into memories of ? the past. And so, as I believe, God jj sends compensation for the battle he p gives each one of ua to fight. u AN UNAVAILING FIGHT. jj It was because I had found no perma- h nent benefit from seclusion in an asylum Q or home, but rather the contrary, because a I fretted against restraint that could be of o no use to a periodical drinker, that I was ? ready to give a fair trial to the promise tl made me by Dr. Leslie E. Keely, of h Dwight, that he would guarantee me a f< euro for my disease. I told him that for "i more than two months my life had been \ one of entire sobriety, and asked him if h he would undertake my cure under these e circumstances. He replied that he would, d It was something of an assurance to find si that bis experience of thirty years as a a man on/*) f.M? faronft? raora o Qt,pa I n tucuivm uinuf ulv ava mvuvj j vu*? m v- v/ cialist in alcoholism, coincided with ray g experience as a sufferer. His ideas were lj common sense. My own diagnosis told 2 me tbat my trouble was a disease, and I d felt that it was an insult to medical science to suppoi-e for a moment that no remedy could be found for it. * * * UXDER THE KEELY TREATMENT. r The patient:3 first visit is paid to tbe " office of Dr. Keeley, where his case is v stated and where he receives a hypoder- I mic injection in the upper left arm, and ' there is given to him a bottle of the t bichloride of gold mixture, a dose of a which is to be taken every two hours J while awake. The hypodermic, called in r Dwigbt the "shot," is tbe supporting * medicine, which sustains the frame un- 1 der treatment. Its preparation, and the f form in which the bichloride of gold is t made up for its special purpose, are Dr. < Keely'a secret, and it is manifestly t absurd for those not in the secret to pre- n tnnrl priMpiao if Tho t.rentmonf. io ad. \ ministered four times a day?at 8 a. m., 12 noon, 5 p. m. and 7 30 p. m., and for j three or four weeks usually, though ] sometimes a week or two longer, accord- J ing to the personal diagnosis made by the * doctor from day ^o day. If a new arri- t val needs whiskey it is given to him in a \ .bottle, aud he can have more until his < palate loathes it and he returns his an- t opened bottle to the doctor. From this t point the work of his physical recon- j structior. begins. He finds that the 1 treatment is not a mere tonic, as some \ have supposed. Sometimes his eyesight t is affected, but only for a few days; in A some cases the memory is temporarily j weakened ; in every case iie becomes t conscious of a feeliug of lassitude and i ccnecious of indifference to the outside \ world, as the gold searches into the f weaker parts of his frame, and purifies ] and builds theru up into new strength. \ Nor is this all. The treatment at Dwight j removes such physical ills as arc caused f directly by drink. Dr. Keeley's pro- t gramme promised this, but I had scarcely < been able to credit it. As a matter of f fact, I found myself relieved of twenty ( pounds of superfluous flesh, and am the | 1 better for it. xlnother patient, a native j ] of this city, a relative of America's great- ( est prose writer and bearing his name,! j came to Dwight on crutches while I was j < there, suffering from partial paralysis ; ] caused by driuk. Ia ten days his1 crutches were abandoned, and in four weeks lie weut away sound of frame, and , ^ wilh new life in his body and freBh hope : ] in his heart I j FELTERS STRANGELY BROKEN The physical experience varies in dif? ;rent cases, but to each there comes at ist a time when tho patient discovers liat all weakness and depression have anished, and that the fetters of old apetites and habits have fallen away from im, and when he steps out of the darkess of the wilderness into the full light f day and knows that once more he has man's strength to do a man's work mong men. My own experience was jmewhat rare, because I went to Dwight :ee from any direct effect of alcohol. I xperienced no loss of memory or defecion of eyesight, but after a week bad assed I felt that if I had been anywhere I?? T mAiiU kftnA Kft J ft vfifm?r* f Ko no. I IOC i nuuiu ijnvc uau a iciutu wx tuv ^/v i iodical appetite, and might have yielded ) it because of my depression. I relember the terror this feeling gave me. l8 I stood in line I said to Dr. Keely : I am glad that I came at this time. I liink that I have hit one of my periodial attacks, fur I feel bo blae and rretched that if I were in New York I bould yield and drink." "And the oy," inquired the doctor, looking searchagly at me, "you wouldn't leave him ?" Of course not," I said; "I do not intend a drink, but I thought it right to tell ou the symptoms." He bade me weit ntil the line of patients had gone hrough their treatment, then took me ato his own office, poured out nearly alf a tumbler of whiskey, with a little rater added, and said: "Drink it." What is it?" I asked. "No matter," j&3 the reply; "drink it." I drank half f it and said: "Why, it's whiskey." Drink it all," said Dr. Keeley. "When ou need whiskey, I would as readily ive you that as anything else." I drank, rent to dinner, went walking in the fternoon, and never thought of it again otil I went back to the office at the reglar hour. Nor did I want any more, or want to take the two ounce bottle of 'hisky which was handed me at noon est day with injunctions to take the oso in about twenty minutes. That was tie end of my drinking, and all that haB assed my lips since the 31st day of Jan* ary. Formerly a drink of whisky would ave set my brain on fire, and in an our's time I would have walked ten riles to get the second one, and had it at 11 hazards. When I saw that it had ?p 1 ... 1 , 11 ? AN UNDOUBTED CURE. t No one who has not been similarly ' cursed with the disease of, drink can * know the joy of the moment in which my t cure came to me as a fact. I do not bo- * lieve, I know that I am cured, and am ' satisfied as to its permanency. I did not ' doubt twenty years ago that I was cured 1 | of the chills and fever; I did not doubt, c when this last ^Iay came around with its blossoms of spring, that my cure was permanent, and that the appetite for drink was eradicated. I do not understand the processes, but I know the fact. Said Mr. George Work, of this city, who was one of my companions atDwight, "I tell my friends that all I know about it is that I went to Dwight, and there Dr. Keeley cured me and as he said this I thought unconsciously of the blind man by the pool of Siloam. and his reply to the doubters who gathered around and tormented him. To all of ub who suffered and have been healed it is a resurrection. As I passed aloug the street a year ago, and was greeted by my friends, I knew that tbey looked upon me as a slave to habit. Tbey knew how well I had fought, but tbey bad uo belief in my final victory. However strong and healthy I might appear at the time, tbey looked on me as doomed. I felt it and could see the pity in tbeir eyes. I always moved among them as the gladiator of old Rome, who, with the blue sky of Italia over bis bead, Ciesar before his face, and a shouting multitude surrounding him, fc-new that whfltflver temnorarv triumphs he might win, the white sands at bia feet i would ODe day drink his blood. Always, 1 aa I walked among my fellows, the wordB j of doom came to my lips, 'Morituri de I salutamus." To day I meet my fellow- < man with open g8ze, knowing that I have < conquered the black lion of the desert; I and my sense of freedom and happiness * no man can paint. * * * * ( John Flavel Miles, (Felix Oldboy.) ; A RABUN COUNTY FROLIC, From Dave V. Sloan's Fogy Days and Now. In olden times, dancing was by odds the favorite amusement with the youDg people, and in my youthful days I engaged in all kinds of terpsicborean felic- 1 ities, paiticipated in the fashionable co* 1 tillions, waltzes and polkas, at the balls, ( weddings and parties, with the elite of 1 that day; have been to the piney woods frolics, shin digs and stag dances, but in Raybun county, Ga., where once lived our Chief Justice Bleckley and the silver-tongued H. V. M. Miller, I attend- 1 a frolic that, for intensity of enjoyment, cast a glamour over all the balance of my experience. I bad recently returned from California, and my father was a contractor on the old Blue Ridge Railroad, in South Carolina, and had taken a contract in "Rfthnn mnntv Or trnnwn ah thfl Whit mire fill, and said by Col. Walter Gwinn chief engineer, to be the deepest railroad fill then known, measuring 108 feet from the culvert top of the grade, and a description of which waa given by our Judge George Hillyer, in an Athens paper, in bis youthful reportorial wort, and where I first made bis acquaintance. In this contract I was to be a partner as weli as a manager and bad made a horse-back trip into Rabun. I was ridiDg through the rich valley, at the very bead waters ot the Tennessee river, with a resident young man named Major Gibson. Late in the afternoon (dusk bad already commenced to throw Its sable mantle over the beautiful valley), as we passed a store we were informed of a log rolling and quilting close by, and decided to attend, but as we had participated in the labor of rolling logs, and did not like to intrude without some equivalent on our part as a contribution, so bought a jug of mountain dew and bad it sent over to the frolic; we were welcomed and our present was well received by the boys. We were introduced as the men from Californy and we all took a familiar smile from the aforementioned jug. The quilts having been finished and removed, the frolic had already commenced. Our host, Jack Bradley, was the fiddler ; his tune was an old time famousone, and widely know as "Rye Straw," and Jack's performance was entirely confined to the bottom part of the tuna, but #ft?r a bit (like the ArkanBaw Traveler) 1 ventured to ask him if he ever went up st?rs on that tune? BLe answered that be didn;t because he didn'? know where the steps was, and banding me the instrument asked me if I could play the fiddle ? I answered that somelimes I sawed n'little and put the upper story on "Rye Straw" the best I could. It proved a ten-strike, as I discovered that I had become a ve^r popular person. I showed Bradley the stairsteps and soon had him educated so he could go through the wpper story of the tune. Suddenly I felt ? flap on my shoulder and turning, discovered 017 assaulter to be a splendid specimen of fresh mountain girlhood, a beauty with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. She said, "Californy, less you aod me take a turn." " 'iTough eaid," says I, as quick aB a cat could wink his eye, and calling on Bradley to give us the b.ept he had in the shop, be promised to eippty ; ' I eased to make me its victim and slave, I ould have cried for joy. I knew from bat moment that the bichloride of gold ad gotten the upper hand, broken the jttere of disease and made me whole. ret I was not entirely oat of the woods. ?hen this hour of temporary temptation ad gone by, I passed through such an xperience as is apt to follow a prolonged ebauch, and fyr two weeks could carcely eat or sleep. Then, suddenly, s if I had stepped out of the blackness f an African jungle into the quiet sunbine of Central Park, I broke out of my tving tomb and knew that I was cured, 'he knowledge came to me like a beneiction from heaven. LIFE WITH A NEW MEANING. I had taken with me for company my on, a little lad who had not quite eached his 16th birthday, and who, as Master Felix," is known to thousands pho have raver Been him. He saw and leard everything at Dwight. The stake pas a large one to him, and he watched V* r\?A/iAoa nnviAtialiT TU V?nn ma noma uo glutton auAiuuoij* IT ugu no tamo .way life bad a Dew meaning for us both. Is h&s bad a happy summer, for he has tever doubled, and has never had a fear, vbether I was with him or absent. To lim, as to me, the memory of that hand* ul of white houses set among stately cotouwoods on the prairie, will always :ome up steeped with the fragrance of he May blossoms that first taught hope, ind then impressed faith in the work that vas doing. Master Felix knew every patient there, ind studied them all without prejudices. Sleeted an honorary member of the Bichloride of Gold Club, to which I had ilso been elected, he attended every neeting, and by a gift of books laid the "oundation of the club library which was sailed by his name. His companions ;here and mine were Mr. Opie Read,edN or of the Arkansas Traveller; ex Congressman Tarseny, of Michigan; George iVork, of New York; Judge J. D. rhayer, of Warshaw, Ind.; State Seua;or Rust, of Wisconsin j Captain Robert lyres, late of the United States Army, a graduate of West Point and a veteran of ;he war, and many others who have given ne permission to use their names, and ivho are Bound and enthusiastic in the 'aith. They are all members of the Bichloride of Gold Club, at Dwight, a roluntary association of patieuts and ?raduate of the Keely Institute, intend;d, like other clubs, for the convenience md benefit of its members. The number )f its members enrolled in the books up ;o August 27 was 850, and of this total jnly six had come under discipline and iad their names stricken from the roils. Dr. Keeley guarantees a cure of 95 per :ent. of his patients. The club keeps a paternal and watchful eye on all who go Kit from under its roof, and it reports a lo&of less than 1 per cent. Those are from the ranks of mensei?t there unwillingly by their parents or guardians, and in no case of men who voluntarily songhfc freedom from disease. mt the gourd for us and added: 'Go it, Californy, if you beep op with bat gal there aiot nothing in this valley oo good for you." Now the floor of the louse, like many others of that eection, iraa made of puncheooe, split out from * deforest trees and laid on chestnut or g irild locust sleeDers. and couscouentlv . / ? L inite springy. Chairs in Rabun county ^ ben were not as plentiful a* ihey now c ire in Atlanta, and it was not an unpopilar custom for two of the young peo>le to sit on the same chair together and n a dance, frequently a couple would ocjupy the floor, especially in a break lown. I had been challenged by the be'.le of he valley to single combat and 1 knew I vaa in for it, but bad fully determined to 3e on hand when she got through. I ed Mies Mary D. a few turns up and lown the hall, stopped in the center ffhere we made our bows, forwarded and back, swung corners and circled all, jroased over and back, then the fun commenced. I made a pass and phe croquetted, I cornered and she chaeaed, I shuffled and she tidewized, I pigeon-winged ind she wire toed, I double shuffled and ihe gave the toe whiz, I gave a jim crow lick and she kill krankled, I struck a 5reak down and she hit the hurricane, I ivent into a jig and she jiggareed, and for ?ver lead I'd make she would call me md go one better; now and then we'd change sides and cross back into another breakdown, and it was go it Miss Mary, tiurry Californy, and Jack Bradley seemed to have got the inspiration on 'Rye Straw." Major Gibson beat the addle string* with straws, one leilow beat a triaugle, several were patting and avery gal was keeping time on the floor with her feet, and the heads all aroand the room were bobbiDg ap and down with the spring of the elastic floor. Now and then some chap would sing out, "go It frolic, yer dady's rich and no poor kin," "hurry Miss Mary, come down to it Oaliforny," and we were both doing our very level best. Miss Mary was a pic ture?to say she looked A thing of life would be but a feeble and emaciated expression. I can still see her after the lapse of time in the midst of one of those dead setto's her lithe and willowy form swaying from aide to side in the qoiver of action, athletic and graceful in her every motion, head and shoulders a little inclined to the front, the folds of her ' blue checked home spun frock grasped in her hands on either side, a little raised to clear her shapely ankles, her skirts artistically spread out and in, to a per- , feet harmony of motion, and her dainty j feet woald strike tbat puncheon floor i with the quick beat of a knitting machine, and she skimmed the door as 1 a full-rigged brig, as she cuts the great 1 deep, rocking from side to side before 1 a spanking breeze (talk about yourGer of this advanced day and of the enjoy ment of your young folks, all tame to tbat). And I was right about there, i too, head and shoulders thrown back to the break-down, a little to the front in 1 pigeon wing, arms flying to help the feet keep time with the music, the weath er was getting equatorial, the perspiration streaming, and we were just getting down properly to our knitting in what ; is called the cyclone movement, when the music suddenly ceased. Jack Bradley had sawed bis treble string clean in two and it was a draw between me and the belle of Tennessee Valley. We retired to a chair amid the plaudits of the crowd, were pretty well blowed and a little fatigued, bnt I found a delightful repose for my arms, and my partner rested one of hers on her lap and the other i round my shoulder. Miss Mary felt a little warm but not all agreeably so; our temperatures ranged about the same degree farenheit. The caloric gradually cooled down to its normal state and we 8peat several very agreeable momenta together watvchjDg the other couples as they would take a turn. I We 4a*ced all oight till brp^J daylight and went home with tfie girls in the morning, and as jy# passed the store treated the girlu to torter shell side combs and sacrament wine. The lliea Mary P., of the valley is still there, but now a silver-haired matron and a faithful mother of a crowd of excellent children. My locks too have changed to frosty hae, though now and then I still saw on my old fiddle and and never strike old "Bye Straw" but I think of Miss Mary and the Rabun county frolic, and when I compare the good old usages of those old days with the 1 present fash^ona^e arm plut<ch, It is ip* possible for me to restrain a feeling of ; contempt. J ? Thoi'G is a fonialo In ^guisvilie who 1 haa a vary cosily $nd elegant diamond i ingeniously set in one of her UwRtifpl i upper front teeth. When she smiles?nnd J she always does?the brilliant rays that ( come from her handsome mouth are i brighter than the glittering beams that ] come from the electric headlight on a 1 sternwheol boat at midnight. 1 ? And now Kentncklans, who have ' heroto/orp Pfjd.ed themselves on their ' blue grass, whiskey and fi#e Jjopos, art 1 beginning to experiment with ih'e raising ^ of cotton and say thoy will succeed. If ' they do, wo who aro further south can try ^ the culture of oranges and bananas with ! hope of success. We must maintain our j wonted preponderance of variety in our ( (jountryr8 production at all hazards. < ????? BILL ABP. America the Place for Poor Boys. Atlanta Constitution. Dr. Nunnally was telling about a poo: >oy who was working his way tbrongl 3ollego. Ho worked for hire on a farn it $20 a month and his board, and savo( lis wages and went to school, and darini mention he hired out and lived hard an< lid bis own washing. That boy is in ear lest and needs watching. I am going t< vatch tbat boy ir I live and see what be :omes of him. They are not common. ! mew one in college forty-five years ago le walked from North Alabama t< Athens, Ga., and his clothes were al lome-made and coarse and didn't fi veil. I remember that his pants wer< oo short at the bottom and too long at tb< op, and the waist seam of his browi eans coat was high up on the back. Tbi joys laughed at him on the sly, but the] iident laugh long, for be soon took thi end and kept it. If he hadent got killo< n the war he would have been a leade n his State right now. This is a great and glorious government rhere is none like it upon the face of th< >artb. Tho fact that the highest places h he nation are in the reach of the hum )le8t citizen?tbat a tailor can become i resident and a millboy a senator, and i ad who plowed a bull for lack of "some bing better" has held more offices am ligber offices in Georgia than any thre >f her most Rifted citizens?is a ironderfu biug. England ana uormany nave gooi {overnments, but over there a poor bo; las got to have help to rise. He most b tin to somebody who has power or influ mce. He mast have a coasin in Berlii )r an uncle in parliament, bnt the field i >pen here?open to all. Aristocraoy i lot the passport here. It is merit an lillgonce. Sonorand shame from no conditions ris( A venerable gentleman quoted that t n e and said: "I used to be proud of m; ineage, and was inclined to boast of th ;ood blood that was in my veins ; but on lay I was talking to an old kinsma: ibout our ancestors, and he said: "Wei pea, my son, there was some good peopl iway back there, but the stock sorter ru lown. Your pap and your grandpap b( baved mighty well, but some of the boy iident. Your Uncle Dick stole a bag < waters offen a fiatboat, and they cotch hit it it, and took him down in the canebrak ind whipped him. And there was s much talk about Tom's marking ever 9tray sheep and shote in his mark thath took a sudden notion to move to Arkai jas, and I haiut heard of him slno Some of the stock was good, but som was powerful covychus." Well, of course there is something i Luck, for Solomon says, "Time an chance happenetli to all," but as a gene: al thing merit and diligence are rewarde in this country. Andy Johnson becam a president, and John Tyler, did, too, bi John was reduced after his time was ou and the County Commissioners made bh an overseer of the public road, whic shows the ups and downs of fame an politics. But good conduct and goo principles pay in the long run, if the don't in the short. I was rumlnatin about this yesterday as our train passe a lot of convicts who were working tt road between Atlanta and Decatur. It: a sad and melancholy spectacle to sc them in their striped uniforms and hea the clink of their ankle chains as the came down with their picks into the bar ground or tossed the earth away wil their shovels. They looked healthy an Btrong and contented, but I don't kno1 hnw thflv ffilfc. Tlifiv werfl all necrroe and they don't feel much?not much per itence and less mortification. There ai 1,737 convicts now In our State?thi many In our State system under leasi There are some more on the public road of the Counties, and nearly all are ni groes. There are only 170 white convict and not a white woman. Nearly sixtee hundred colored are wearing the stripe and forty-seven of these are womei What is the matter with the negroes When will they do better ? Nearly all < these convicts are between sixteen an forty, and but a very few were ever i slavery. They have been to Bchool mo: of them, and most of them are from tt cities and towns. The old-time negro< are not in the chaingang. They had n schooling, but they had moral traininj y/hai is ?p become of the negro ? He hi less e^ciiap for crime th&q q, white mai ?2is wants are few; it takes less to d liim: ha Is not eramnfld bv aooietv n< social temptation; a day's honest wor syjll support him for two days; liepaj no tax ; and yet the devil seems to be i ibfgj. ffrprp #re 30 per cent, more white j;hgn RPgrojep |p till? and yet tb negroes commit nine limes more crime: The problem is not solved. Ihavebefox me a very able paper on the race problei by a humane and gifted citizen of Louis: siana. It was written some years ag< and he then thought that education woul solve it. Ho is mistaken. Crime amon the negroes increases with their educs ?iop. Jt does that at the north among th whites. Thefr orimlpal* are nearly a numerous/ according to population, a among tho negroes at the South! Eisho Turner is a very smart colored man, an Is a good man, and we see ho wants th tjegroea to go to Africa. I believe tha Dur people *j,e wfllipg and ready fqr th 9zodus, Twenty-five years'has madp n satisfactory progress, The south has don her duty. Where you And one good lione9t, industrious negro you will fim ten shiftless, immoral ones. We are tir ad. I saw a crowd of them in Atlanta th ather day who were gathered around black man with a plug hat, and I hear< him $ay, "Wo must all get away from thi soun try?a" colored mail has no clianc here at all. The white man has got hin iown and his heels on him, and we i bound to go." He is as much an anarch 1st as Herr Most. Every one of thos Jarkies can get 91 a day and live on 2 :GOts. There are millions of white people across the water who would thank God for so good a chanco to make a living. If this restless, triflng, insolent, crime-lovr ing class would go somewhere it would 1 bo a great relief. Tho fact is thoy should 1 be made to go. Abolish the chaingang j and ship lh;m to Alrica. I wonder if it , can be done. England used to send her j bad mon to Botany Bay. We are tired of . having to use lynch law for their outrage^ 5 Lynch law does not reform or intimidate. _ There has been more of these horrible I outrages within the past year tbau any year since the war. And yet there are 5 many good negroes, negroee whom we 1 respect and love to befriend, and there is +?.smiVi1a y>i~u ? -1? ? uiu btviAuxc uii.u uiaaup JLuruoi o piaut 0 He wants the good ones to go and set up 0 a government We want them to go and j the good ones to stay, and that would B take a large majority. At all events they j should be thinned out, and we will give 3 the bishop choice aud h^lp him to thin j them. It is the common sentiment by r our people that the whites and the blacks cannot live together in peace much long;# or. The generation that is now cotn0 ing on right oat of the schools is a worse than the last. Every town is . full of young negroes who are vagabonds a and they keep the police continually on h the watch. The jail and the calaboose are _ never without boarders. Over five hun2 dred colored convicts have been sent to e the ohaingang daring tho last twelve ,1 months. When will this thing stop ? ^ Their own race, with few exceptions, y don't seem to bo much concerned about e it. I overheard one telling his experience _ as a convict, and he had a good time. He n said: "Now, children, you know I was a s trusty, I was. I dldent wear no spurs, B nor chains, I had oharge of de dogs, and a when a nigger got away my boss holler for me, and I jump for de mules and put de saddles on qaick and ontle the dogs, and away we go. We had two doge?a o Dig, long-earea noun' aog, ana a smaa 7 dog, sorter half flee, and a short tail. Bey e was both powerful good track dogs. One e mornin' about daybreak de alarm waa n given, two niggers got away. De boss I, call me, and I got de mnles and the dogs e quick, and he bounce on one mule, and I n bounce on de other and we let de dog i- smell of de niggers bunk whar dey sleep s and den put em' on de track and away we >f go. Be niggers and de dogs run and we n keep up behind. De niggers run and de e dogs run. Bime by do track got hotter o and de niggers run and de dogs run. Be y old houn' opens his mouth wide and say, e come on, come on, and atter we had run i- em about four miles de ole dog change his 3. tune, and we knowed dem niggers waa e treed. Shore enuf, when we got dar, da . two niggers was up in a postoak settee on n a limb. Be ole houn' was settln' off a d piece lookin' up in de tree, and he say r. t-o-o-o-o of'em, te-o-o-o of 'em. Be litd tie dog was setting on his short tail, and te he say, dat's a fak, dat's a fak. Well, we it make dem darkies get down from dar and t, and take 'em back and de boss give 'em n a right smart whlppen and put 'em to h work again. Bey was mean niggers and d dare ain't no other sort dare hardly. I ,<3 neber 'sociate wid dem convicts. I was a y trusty, I was." Bill Abp. ltelics of the Buffalo. 16 After travellers on the Canadian Pals ciflc are fairly launched upon the great 16 plains west of Manitoba they see many ir reminders of the buffalo. Stretching y over the plains as far as the eye can reaoli, u crossing one anoiuer m a perieci noth work, are the innumerable paths in which ^ the buflaloes trod one behind another in w almost countless numbers. The little 3> knolls, too, are thickly dotted with buffal" lo wallows, where the animals had dug 'e up the earth with their horns and rolled lt in the dust, or, what salted them better, 9* visited the wallow after a shower, and s enjoyed the luxury of a mud bath. Here 3" and there, too, one sees the skeletons of 9> the noble animal. Bnt not many of them n are seen from the railroad cars, for near* s? ly all the skeletons within seven miles of ! thn tror?1r hova VtAAn CPofTlArAH tnCTAtllA* and brought to the railroad, where they are piled up, ready for shipment, At d many of the places far from the stations, n these great piles of buffalo bones are 3t heaped. They are laid up as regular aa 16 so much cord wood. The piles are about *3 eight feet high, twelve feet wide and any10 where from fifteen to fifty feet long. The outer layer Is made by piling up the 18 skulls, with the frontal portion outside, 1* i.tUklM nroll Ufl lwnna oi*o lioon. QUU Vt ibUiU buio VUW wvuw """I' lo ed promiscuously, >r It will give an idea of tfye ejjqrpaoug k quantity of these skeletons when the faqf 's is mentioned that within a radius of twp n miles of a station on the railroad to Prince 18 Albert 3,800 skeletons were picked up. 10 Out of sight of the railroad tr^ck tl^esg s- skeletons may still lqe found In coujitlesj} 0 numbers, and the industry of gathering n them will be continued until they have l" all been removed from the prairies. These animals were the victims very ^ largely of the Indians, who killed the 8 Btupid beasts frequently, only to get their l" tongues, which were esteemad by the In6 dians as a particularly delicate morsel. s The bones are ty!?en to Chifa^o and otfcer a places where sugar is refined, are ground P up and play some partlh the Work Of rei ^ fining. A favorite diversion of many of 0 the tourists when the train stops is to visIt ono of the bone heaps, knock out a few 0 buffalo teeth and carry them away as rel0 ics. 0 The wood buffalo, closely allied to th* '? bison, now exterminated, still roams In ^ the forests far north of the Saskatchewan, His numbers, however, are constantly e decreasing, and thero is overy prospect a that he will meet the fate of his prairie 3 relative. In the course of time, as ranohes are extended and grasaos are sown, the buffalo paths and wallows will be oolite0 ratod, and no rglics of thecisqp will thep a be found oil the great prairies vthioh w'ere 8 once all his own. ? e ? Some genius has discovered that the 5 ordinary watch gives 116,1.44,000 ticks year.