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THOS. J.~ADAMS, PB?PEIETOB. EDGEFIELD, S. C., ft HUBSDAY, JULY 13.1893. ? VOL. LVHI. NO. 24. IC IIP. F. HOBBS He -MM Soi Caro M ai a li A Legendary Fighting Chief-The Greatest Living Traveller. He's a Lexingrton Boy-Educate* - in Newberry-Lived in Edge field, and is of Good Old Soutl Carolina Stock-Twelve Yean a Literal Rambler-He Gather ed Fame, Fortune, and Health Fearing that the illustriouf yoong Carolinian who is now well known on three continents would probably not reach Edgefield on his hurried visit to his native State before proceeding to Chicago, the ADVERTISER made special effort to have him interviewed, knowing that what he might say would be read with interest in this State and abroad. The great traveller was surrounded by a bevy of admiring listeners and friends, but grace fully excused himself when our representative called and solicited the privilege pf an interview. "He's the same bright, brilliant, spark ling John Hobbs pf old, only more so," writes our representa tive, "and travel and fame, have not turned his head nor made a fool o/ him. It never-will." "Col. Hobbs, on behalf of my self and the oldest newspaper in ^ Sonth Carolina, I , am happy to welcome you back to your old State after yonr ..years of adven turous wandering." "TTmnV TQp^-*-?fc ~ Tove this old State, and am happier here than elsewhere/' ' You must now be the most ex ?. * tensively travelled man in the world." May be so. I can't say. In twelve years I have been in nearly ' every nook and corner of the world." "I thought so. I am requested by the ADVERTISER to solicit an interview with you on any matter of travel or experience you may feel inclined to talk about." "I have a high regard for the Edgefield ADVERTISER? and don't mind saying a bit as you haye come so far. I feel somewhat timid in dashing too recklessly i???o woh .-flers." "Why?" ~ "FM tell you. Travel is an "awk ward and complicated piece of ma chinery. It teaches a man the ii size of the world, and the small ness of the mon on it. ?.? The indi vidual who has not travelled will admit that the world is full of wonders. But he has fixed the size, color, and amplitude of thoso wonders in his own mind, so he rejects any sacrilegious vio lation of his models involved in descriptions by an eye witness that shatter his own conceptions of that same wonder. The eye writes a thing on the brain -and the tongue talks it off. For this reason ones description should be ac curate and his impressions. true, yet, when a traveller sits down and relates his own experiences, and pictures what he has Been to the average crowd they smile at each other and murmur 'snake.' Thej don't believe you. Why, theothei day I was relating to a mixed au dience of lawyers and educated business men that I saw a girl ii the New Britain group of island; who was a mother at ll years ol age. Some one (I believe it was t university doctor) said 1 thumb? up gentlemen.' I then related thc fact that the natives of the soutl sea islands have never seen ai animal larger than a hog, and i small one at that. So one day was relating to them the fact tha there existed an animal as big ai their wari is (huts) called an ele phant, when one of them remarket 'gentlemen, thumbs up.' My in terruptor saw the point. That i the trouble the traveller meet among the untravelled. And fha is why I feel a timidity .in steppiu; > too far beyond the experiences o my audience. The human mini reasons by analogy. If you ge \ beyond its experience, its ^[cannot reach yon and ig f j slams the door of unbelief j face. Yon then realize first time, perhaps, that, t j listener, 'a fact is a lie and You've written your inscrip j the stone, but the stone dc think." "There are volumes of philosophy in what you sa onel." . '.It involves the human barring the moving and th exceptions. There is anothei brought painfully home \ j traveller." L "What is that?" . "Why the accumulating i curacy of books. Errors j into the works of noted at J They then find their way ini , I encyclopedias and standard J where they are perpetuated j quoted back at you by peopl , j read ; and have travelled in libraries, but ho_where else. 'How manyj Papuans are in New. Guinea?' said a mi me the other day. I 'I don't know.' 'Well, I do. There are 2,600,000:' 'How do you know?' 'He took down his authority I 'But how do they arrive ai conclusion when New Guinc I practically unexplored?' T don't know,' he said, there is the undisputed au tho; 'The authority knows not about it,' I ventured to add, continued 'N?w Guinea belouj Uhe English, Germans, and Bt J The Germans have about tri lit to England or abandc I their interests. The island is miles long by about 300 wide, J no one has been across or thro it. A census enumerator woul< J ge'tiar before he'd be roasted f< Xmas turkey. - All these aborigi I censuses are taken in this ^ ?The population of friendly tri ire taking on a known area country and then this is mu )lied with the whole area whicl longitude distances of .marinea veys. . But all native' tribes 1 near water-on the coasts a rivers. Well, all early explo tions are confined .to the coasts a rivers, because navigation is ea and it is therefore safer. The et mate of native population therefore, based on the thick people'd part of the islands and the presumption that Bettlerin is uniform. There are not rn? than 100 whites in British N Guinea. German New Guinea i less, and Dutch New Guinea, p haps/300 white souls. This is o instance of book error, and wi is true of New Guinea is true every practically unknown lai I know His Excellency, Sir W liam MacGregor, Governor of Br ish New Guinea, and Mr. A. Mt grave, the Piemier. They smile the statistics of the authoril The Encyclopedia Brittannica sa 'all is frozen into bricks in Tt mania and shipped to the otb Australian colonies.' But, to J Englishman, this book and I Bible are twins in his unshakab faith." \ "And it is not true?" "No. It is ridiculous on the fa of it. But there it is. The gre 'pedia is full of them." "You surprise me." "It used to surprise me a lot u: til I\became used to it. I had long siege of literary sea-sickne by having my early school ar, I book learning so unceremonious! ? shaken up after having so much < j it settled into a bed rock of lite ary faith." ? '- "How are we to do?" r ?''Go on believing the books uni . you or the books learn better. 1 I know something is better than t i know nothing, even if-the som i thing you know doesn't exist. 1 f that case you have some kind of t storagexjf knowledge that destroy s the horrid vacuum .ignoram r createsj.you know nature's feeling i on vacuums."., i "Why don't you give the worl i your valuable experience in son [ books?" t "I have preferred to perfect m s information first, balance it, an - 'mature %it afterwards before si i j. 1 pingjoay head between book coven - There are two sets of dangeron s writers. One set have spring-boar s brains. A thought hardly jump t on the plate before it is jumpo g off either into- a book, or a newe f paper, or a magazine. Its life dc i pends upon the temperature o t that subject in the public minc . - -- ; y or upon the general- respect e which the writer is held hy 1 r readers. He writes as it strik e him, and it strikes him by the lig r of his previous experience and u by the conditions producing t' i very thing he sees, because he do t not, and cannot" understand the conditions on a pop call,Archiba i Forbes is a conspicuous examp - of this lot. The other clasB co sist of men who have made a lite i, ary name by industry and stuc \ in the sphere of their life-long li I bors; have unbounded faith j i their own opinions ; have impres ed the public with, their powei receive their own impressions i ? axioms, give them out as sud ) and look for them tb be accepte . unquestioned. . They are a sort < > tpse dixie crowd that write with tl j fever and daring of a Divine ii 1 spiration.1 J. A. fronde, the em ? nent English^historian, is an illui ' trions example of this class. H spent years writing the great hil tory on which his name ?r^?l fam ! rest, then he rushed off to^ Aut tralasia for the first time.in hi life, catching literary feathers a he went on ? flying tour of thre months, then dashed, off wit equal authority but greater speed his work "Oceana," which is laughing stock for every swagmai in the country and every one els who knows -anything about tha country. Sol was amused whei Froude asked me 'What do the peo pie down there think of m] Oceana?' They think that if yoi had written 'Fraud' across it in stead of 'Fronde' under it, th( book would have been accurate. The answer didn't amuse him The man believed hie own dictunu SQ implicitly that he couldn't see how they could ever be questioned by others." "I suppose you do meet a lot. of queer people and get strange glimpses, of the' human' family?" "As a matter of course. "The most annoying man in the world, ?perhaps, is the man who has made jSjW?QfcgffB^^ im press you with the fact and insists on telling you all about it. I was once in Mauritius. This you know* is an island in the Indian ocean and belongs to England now, though it once belonged to the French. They traded it for some treaty concession. The Mauritias really consists of one large and a group of small islands. The capi tal is Port Louis, which, you know, was nearly wrecked by that fearful storm that tore up the Indian ocean so recently down, there." "What do they grow there?" "Sugar, spices, deer, and rum. They have a deer park with over 1,000,000 deer in it. The meat is exported; also the skins. The population consists of 400,000 peo ple, mostly Creole French and whites. The government is Eng lish, with English and French or native laws in force in two sets of courts. The laws are in English, the newspapers are in both, and the language of the people a patois French. But I am drifting. While steaming from the English posses sion of Mauritius, then under the governorship of Sir. John Pope Hennessey, (whom I had the pleas ure of meeting) to the French possession of Remnion, (Bourbon) a well educated Mauritian thug accosted me on the steamers' deck : 'I understand from Capt. Baner that you are a gi eat traveller.' 'I have travelled a bit.' 'So have I, and I thought we ; might be mutually entertaining tc , each other.' 'Yes. There is nothing pleas anter than comparing old diaries I to see the impression each received ( from the samo thing,' I remarked , then proceeded to find the lands ol his wanderings: 'You've been tc j Australia, I presume. I've jusl L come from there.' j 'No,' he hadn't been there. j 'Doubtless you've travelled ii j Africa.' *No.' He had not been there. ? 'Then you know Asia well.' i 'He hadn't been there. Yet h< had told me he was on his way t< 7 Europe, for the first time. In dis 1 gust I floored both of us by asking - in desperation :* 'Have you been t< i. Bourbon?' Bourbon was abou 3 150 miles up in the Ocean. 1 . 'No.' He had not been there, s 'In the name of goodness mau 1 where have you been?" Disgust spread over his face a . ho rose with a dignity becominj f Chesterfield, and'said I, 'Why, I've been all around th a island.' The island is aboul s miles in circuit, s . This story got into the pt t Some men absorbed it 1 ike a t pad and one or two have de e out to me as original.. This i s class of immovables who sil 3 crowd and hang on to your n I tive with their mouths wide B in unfeeling ignorance of the:! - of flies using that mouth as-? - seat." ", II "A man of your daring ni ? must have met and overcome t i obstacles." " I "You can't penetrate into ai t hospitable country, among i J hungry, human-eating people, ? scarcity of water and sup] U.yrithout meeting something ' tasteful and hair-splitting, sc > times hide-splitting. To get an idea of that conn Australia, you must remember 1 ' I the island-continent is over '2, ' miles north and south by ? 3,000 miles east and west, and c tains 3,200,000 squar? miles territory-larger than the Uni States. Now roll our Amen ' history back behind the Rev< tionary .war to the time when had only 3,000,000 people her? they have there. Then settle th m a crescent around the east co as is the cas? there, and was he with a few pioneers and frontic men sneaking the white . bani further, west, and you have .1 land with its white invader. Spre over the whole Western wild fierce, savage, untamable race cannibals, instead of Indians, a you have the land and people Australia, to-day. Place a fox hardy and reckless man of adye ture in the middle of it, and y have me. Now you have the poi tion. The last is the fourth exp dition I have made into the unci ilized interior of this wild and h land. The first and last were tl most noteworthy to me, personall because I faced death more thi once on each expedition. I wi treat them all together_asJL?g I had learned early in1882 'Si none of the South Sea Islande; made long distances at nigh They go into camp and are on! too glad to stop there. It woul be only the most horrible appr< hen s ion of danger that would mo\ them. They are mortally afrai of darkness. In darkness lurk all their superstitious ideas of evi Night is filled with evil in the: mind. All good is in light. Heno their Great Spirit, or (Jod, is whii and eternal. Their fear of dari ness is BO great that you never se see their village or camp fires on .They are always burning. I use to keep my camp fires going to< until I learned that greater se curity lay in shedding no Hgt abroad. "This information was gc in a fight with the Cloncurry tribei It was a close call, and an uneve fight, a fight of twelve men agains about 200-rifles, revolvers, an knives against spears, battle axel and boomerangs. We must hav gone down evontually, as the closed in and fought front am rear, fencing in the circle of on camp fire. While standing astrid of a wounded companion, thus lei ting my defence of self also defem him, two spears passed througl my clothing and a boomeran? whizzed past as I dodged a viciou throw from another spearmar The weapon barely grazed the skir as the other instrument of deaf] sang its terrible note over my head Had I not ducked to give th javelin clear way, that merciles boomerang would have gone grind ing and burning into my stomaci Their speed is so terrific that the; burn into their object. At thi critical juncture, a cloud {mrs over head and the torrent of rail that fell put out our fires. Th . battle ceased and'our adversario ; left. It was a close call. We coul< not light up and they did not re turn. We lost 'two men, and ha< i five wounded. It was in this figh that I caught a flying spear am rammed it into a black fellow wh< was beating down one of my mei ) with a stone axe. ) In this encounter I fought witl ? a revolver and tomahawk. We di( r not know their casualties as the) ) took their dead with them. The] t also got my Chinese cook who, get ting frightened, cleared away- int( the bash and was promptly killed , The day after the next we came or a camp of blacks. I opened up i B parley with them. We became y friendly after awhile. I was suri they were a portion of the crowe B we had fought so desperately M 0 They had mistaken us for po escort on the nigh of the enco i. ter. These occasional invac r under escort of 'black trackers' t treated as their natural enen e and are attacked at all hazards, ft "How did you suspect that ~ tribe you were now friendly w 1 were your enemies ihe day or 3 before? They'd be war like c should think." "Not necessarily. These peo; 3 are shrewd. By their very frier t liness they throw you off the see They read in your face whetl ? they can trust you. And wh they don't want to fight you th j succeed In making you think th j never did fight you. They are tr \ physiognomists. But how did know them? I saw some of 1 Sue's clothes about. The blacks a perfectly nude,soit was abielu< i crous to see Ah Sue's coat used f ' female trousers. " I found that th camp was a portion of a tri whose dialect I could understan I If they had spoken during tl \ weird night of the battle, we cou ; have saved that encounter, bi these people fight in silence. \ Approaching ahead of my me : I called out UgaUa Watton. Tl [?treaty man stepped forward au rfltood in front of me in* all tl strength of "his naked magnii cence. I explained to him th: we were friendly and only travel ?lng through the country. Th -tribe stood up and advanced ur armed. Our squad advanced be hind them and took our seats. Th warriors had just resumed thei keats for the first rest in the feas dance, and now moved off into th second stage. As the curiousl; colored and Zebra-striped mei ;?Jjbwly moved out, their bodie t?fembliiig and twitching all over 'and swayed from side to side-, thei twisting into a wild and fantastic [contortion, bounding the whole ibojly over the ground as if sud denly impelled by erratic electric .tba|teries, my eyes rested patheti yafe^on ft, low frenh moiinjLihf Tj&ougnt this was the ;grave-ot some of their dead. The foot steps and contortions ofcthis weird dance ?ept time with the uniform beal of leather and sticks on the ground accompanied by the sad, low moan ing chant of the women with now and again a mad shriek of a war rior, or group, denoting some wild joy or maddening delight ol his soul. The dance had ceased, Four stalwart men advanced to the little fresh mound and began un covering it. When down about a foot a hot stearn 'rose on the air. But a little further and the smell of the cooked meat floated up wards. The chief gave the command tc raise ?the feast. The four cooks lifted from its earth-oven and laid on a straw mat the roasted body of Ah Sue. The sight nauseated and sickened me. It was my first sight of a cannibal feast. I prayed [it to be my last. But it was not. :This was no time for sentiment. My heart was stronger than my stomach, which I gradually mas tered^ the feast progressed. Dave, one of my party, turned to me with a pale face and said, 'Captain I am sick,' and vomited. 'Courage my man. We are at their mercy, and must simply look on at this horrible thing.' The warriors gathered around, and we were in vited to partake. I declined. You can safely decline to eat an Aus tralian black's food. He takes it as a compliment, and feels it is more food left for him. The head master now began carving up my late cook, UBing stone knives and stone axes. The meat and limbs were torn from the body, Certain choice parts were parcelled out tc the chief men. The smaller limbs and bones felt to the less impor tant warriors, while the head, feet, and refuse went to the women. He had not been disemboweled in the preparation. Cleanliness is nc part of their domestic economy. .Though it has been now eleven i years ago, I still see these hungry, ravenoas cannibals sitting Turkish fashion in that unexplored land knawing the half cooked flesh with fiendish delight from the bleeding bones of my good old , Chinese cook. Ah Sue was an ex cellent cook, and he Beemed to be ( excellently cooked." "What did they'do with theil I own dead, eat them?" ; "No. They never eat their own i tribe, unless under the most starv ( ing circumstances. They will kill i and eat an illigitimate child in . their own tribe, because they do e not recognize it as their tri! - blood. s They eat an enemy, or white, 9 Chinaman.. All the South ? s islanders prefer Chinamen. Ido know why, unless it is that tl 3 do not eat salt in their food, a i their opium eating makes t ) flesh tender and soothing. B [ they love it." "How do they cook?" I "Different ways. Ah Sue w cooked by digging a hole h ; length, building afire in it ai burning it down until the ov< 1 was baked and hot. He was th< put in the place and covered x until done, then uncovered ai I brought out. In the same way the cure fever. The excavation is a lowed to cool to a certain warmt The patient is put in and coverc up, leaving.his head out above tl ground. H? sweats-the devil oi of him, as they call it.' In Fiji, popular way of cooking is to stra the human carcass to apole-hanc and feet outstretched-and tur it over as it^bakes. Cantibalisi only exists in the out islands ( the Fiji group'now. "You say you have seen othe Cannibal feasts?" "Yes. Many of-them. I one saw a brutal mother help to eat he own child-an illegitimate ont There ls only one Australia] tribe I know of that is guilt; of such low abnormal taste. Thi was two or three years ago. stumbled in on these people whil on my- reckless journey into tb Pituri country. I had been trav elling, earlier in the journey, witl a raiding squad of police am black-trackers who were tracing the retreat of a tribe that hac made an excursion into the settle ments, and speared a lot of cattle and some whites. While on thal expedilion, and in a battle with the natives, I was run through with a spear, which I broke and pulled out fron) the back. It was about ten feet long and passed * right in this combat that I performed the accidentally extraordinary feat of fencing down the fine sharp shooting boomerang now in Sifley Museum, Newberry College, South Carolina. I got one; the othei got me-the spear did. I walked over 2,000 miles on this expedition. Subsequently, after my recovery, while tramping further back, I wandered into a large village of Warleys and was well received. The old king at once knew my face. These people never forget a face. I was welcomed. I had been so long in the country of branches of this tribe, or "nation, that I could speak the language quite well. So I was doubly welcomed. Tou IguanaV he asked me. 'Me Iguana,' I replied, for member? ship of the tribe meant protection, and I was glad to avail myself ol the opportunity of being natural? ized in so simple.a manner. On seeing my boomerang, which I carried and could throw quite well, he shook with that dull coarse delight characteristic of a morbid nature. The boomerang was his, and I had astonished him and won his admiration by cap turing it. He gave it to me. That is he didn't take it from me. Aftei showing me his royal mark on the end of the boomerang he called up his warriors and introduced me in one of the most flattering stretches of the imagination that ever struck the ear: 'This,' he said, 'is the great White Chief (Nana Wallaby) of the great White Spirit. Spears dance in -front of him, and gc round him, but they will not toucl him. (That was a pretty good lie as I nearly died from the one- that crashed through me). Bomerangf lose wings, play around, and die before him. (Showing the prized right and left weapon I captured) See I The king's mighty flyer re fused to come back home. See I Nana Wallaby! pointing to me Iguana. Big White Spirit bring him, great white chief, to Iguana He kill great bad chiefs this way, that way-(pointing north anc east) and he will kill all enemy tc Iguana nation that way,' (pointing weat. He made no reference tc tho Soutlj?- A fanatic dance set ir and before I knew what was up, ] was duly installed and paie homage as Nana Wallaby, the Great White Chief of the large and powerful tribe of the Iguana in the wilds of Australia; thc heaven sent chief whose imaginary past feate were chanted in thc camps, and whose conjured up powers over fanciful enemies ?E il now being woven into the firesid legends by which the old stor >r teller 'of the tribe entrances th a lone night hours, and moves th 't warrior spirit and courage of tb jr tribal fighter. Well,' I wouldn' i destroy that romance by my pres e ence, fora lot." t "So you are a groat Australiai chief?? "They've made me so. T didn't B What I did was to save my life g and I was pleased rith my success - The Iguana are great cannibals." j "You are a king in the Ne* i Hebrides, too, aro you Colonel?" . "Yes. I believe so. I haves y royal mat down tnero, and abso lute authority over a few thousand people." "What is your royal name?" "Oumalia. It sounds better than it looks. And the natives are bet ter than they look. I am fond of my 'boys?'" "I suppose, Colonel, your adven turous career has led you into some close places." "Naturally, I have been ship wrecked twice, standing once nine hours on the aft of a steamer that broke in two on a rock at night, in a fearful gale-all forward drown ed-and only thirty feet of deck above water astern ; battened down three times, from a day to two days at a time under hatches in storms at sea; floated once on a cask of butter in the English channel ; the only man to escape from the eruption of Terawera volcano, in New Zealand ; miracu-1 lonely escaped when the volcanic tidal wave swept over nearly half of Java to Borneo, and drowned thousands; had a few narrow squekes in fights with the natives ; nearly perished from thrrst twice in exploring a waterless country ; mixed up in a few other things, j Well, yes, I guess you can put me down as having had a few excite ments.* But nearly twelve years) rambling in this universe will do [ that, you know." um. ?He is sorry he . cannot come to Edgefield just now as he has so much literary work to do and has to unofficially represent he Aus tralian government departments at the World's Fair. Besides he is writing books. He says he never forgets old friends in Edgefield. It Costs You Nothing. We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements by which we are prepared to supply free to each of our subscribers . a year's subscription to that well, known monthly home and farm j Journal, the American Farmer published at Springfield and Cleveland, Ohio. We make this offer to each of our subscribers who will pay up all arrearges on subscription and one year in ad vance, and to all new subscribers paying one year in advance. The American Farmer is strictly Na tional in its character. It is a high-class illustrated journal filled with entertaining and instructive reading matter, containing each month much information that is invaluable to agriculturists and of special interest to each member of every.home. It is suited to.all localities, being National in ital make and character, thus meeting j with favor in all'localities. It is' strictly non-political and non sectarian. It has a trained corps of contributors and is carefully edited. The various departments of Farm, Horticulture, Sheep and Swine, The Home, The Horse and the Dairy, are filled with bright and useful matter. The readers of the American Farmer are uni versal in its praise and look for its monthly visits with keen anticipa tion. The regular subscription price to the American Farmer is $1.00 a year, but by this arrange ment it costs you nothing to receive that great publication for. one year. Do not delay in taking ad vantage of this offer, but call at once or send in your subscription, Sample copy of the' American Farmer can be seen at the ADVER TISER office, or will he supplied direct by the publishers. No telling What May Happen. PbilacJhia. Record PITTSBURG. June 27-While a farm hand in the employ of H. D. Burns, at Imperial, was milking a cow this morning the animal kicked him. Her hoof struck a box of matches in the man's pocket, igniting them and set fire to his clothing. He was stunned by the kick, and in a few minutes his clothing was burning fiercely. He ran through the barn screaming and before the fire wae extinguished the man waa per. haps fatally burned. Every man having a beard should keep it an even and natural color, and if it is not so already, use Buckingham's Dye and ap pear tidy. AT GREENWOOD. I General Gordon and Other Con federate Leaders Make Eloquent Speeches. Augusta Evening News. The Fourth of July was a great day in Greenwood, and the celebra tion was a glorious success. Every feature was fine and everybody in all the crowd was happy. Gen. John B. Gordon was given an ovation, and his post as orator of the day was a proud one, especially as some of Carolina and Georgia's most eloquent speakers were also heard. "The General was happy over the re ception given him, and ttiere is no doubt about his being almost as popular in Carolina as in Georgia. Gen. M. C. Butler was at home, and he too, was given an ovation. Capt. James Armstrong of Charles ton, and Col Phil Carroll of Augusta also made big speeches and made themselves very solid with South Carolians. Augusta came in every strong in the celebration, and the Ex position banner waved proudly across the principal street of the city. General Manager John W. Clark of the Exposition- attended in person, aLd his popularity in Carolina told when he made every body promise to come to Augusta next fall. General Manager Clark secured big exhibits also from the Green wood Cotton Mill and the Ander son Cotton Factory, and the promise of others from over the river. In the bicycle races, Beal], Field and Harker won all the races they entered, and bore Augusta's banner to victory. Our Y. M. C. A. Band furnished fine music, and Augusta was "in it" all around in Carolina and Georgia en the glorious Fourth. ? From 6,000 to 7,000 people were present in Greenwood, and 1,100 old soldiers registets|rl and enjoyed' Fcc tn the San Jose Record. A curious serpent has been seen on Mount Hamiton. It- is re presented to be twelve or thirteen feet long, with large red eyes that shine like stars in the night out of ahead as long as. a man's fist. This curious reptile was seen by a stockranger named Jack Wandall the other day when he was out after some cattle. Wandall had only a long rope with a ring in the end. He was on a horse, and when the beast saw the reptile it stopped and snorted and refused to proceed that way. The snake, was lying almost in the trail, apparently asleep. Wandall backed his steed, swung the rope, and let go at the monster, hitting it npon the head, whereupon the reptile rolled down into a deep gully at the bottom of the mountain, where the chase ended. An English inventor it tempting the cyclist on Summer excursion with a rose colored scheme for increasing the luxury of his fascinating pastime. An umbrella can be fitted to the frame of the bioycle wiiich is to keep the rider dry and cool in all weathers, and increase his speed of transit. It is light and stroug, the stock and socket being made of steel tube; it can be put up or down instantly and entirely removed from the machine in less than a minute. Ayer's Pills possess the curative virtues of the best known medicinal plants. These Pills are scientifically prepared, are easy to take, and safe for young and old, They are invaluable for regulating the bowels, and for the relief and cure of stomach troubles. All the possible charities of life ought to be cultivated, and when we can neither be brethren nor friends let us be kind neighbors and pleasant acquaintances._ HUMPHREYS' Dr Humphreys'Sp'ciflc* are scientifically and (Jrcfuny prepared B; oodles, used for years In =tratepn.etloe and tor over thirty years by the monle wita entire success. Every single Specific anectelcure for the disease named. 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