The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, November 24, 1881, Image 1
-ImVTM ocLrx A TO TU ENERAL INTIERET OF THE COUNR Y
BD. P. BRADLEY & 00- PICKENS. -"C
0, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1881
NEWS GLEANINGS,
A Hancock county, Ga., farmer has
a pair of oxen which weigh 3,900 pounds.
Athens, Ga., has prohibited the riding
of velocipedes on her streets.
Eighty bushols of rough rice to the
acre is thAe average yield in Florida.
Ark-ansas produc.d 705,000 bales of
cottcn during the season of 1880-81.
'he German carp planted in Tennos'.
M-e ponds do not propogate well,
Farm lands in the neighborhood of
Athens, Ga., bring from $100 to $400
jper acre.
It takes $30,000,000 for freight and
insurance to place a year's cotton crop
in the New England cotton market.
Over fifty thousand bales of cotton
were exported from the port of Savan
nah last week,
There are fifty females in the North
Caroli-a penitentiary, two white and
fort3 eight colored.
'Wild turkeys are plentiful in the
<country adjacent to New Orleans on
-account of the protection accorded them
by the game laws.
A rattlesnake six feet long and
twenty inches in circumference was
killed recently in Rutherford county, I
Tenn.
4 Deer, squirrels and pheasants are said
to be very abundant in the Shenandoah
Valley regioni this fall. Partridges are
scarce, while wild turkeys are about an
aver ge.
The Alma (Ark.) Independent knows
-nen who saw their wives and children
put in, make and harvest ihis .year's
crops, and are now investing the pro
ceeds in cheap whisky.
On the wharf at. Key West, Florida,
are two sticks of mahogony. One
measures twelve feet in length and is
fourteen feet two inches square. The
other is three feet eight by three feet
two inches in thickness.
The cotton States consume 42,252,244
- bushels more wheat than they raise, and
pay to the North for wheat, corn, oats
and hay $150,000,000 annually, which
is equivalent to that amount of m-mnev
being literally squandered by Southern c
people. I
The net profits of the cotton factory
owned by the Tennessee Manufacturing to
Company, Nashville, for the year were d
*46,000. The company declared a divi
dend of ten per cent. Arrangements
have been made for the erection of an y
other mill at a cost of $250,000. e
In a quarrel between Capt. Frank Sul
livan, of the bark Potter, at Charleston.
S. C., and a Portuguese seaman namedL
Sylvia, the latter drew a knife. Sullivan
said to him that he didn't have ''spunk"
enough to cut anyone. To prove he had, a
the Portuguese drew the knife across 0
his own breast, inflicting a deep and $
painful wound.
The Natchez and .Jackson, V icksburg d
and Ship Island, the Mobile and North- I)
western, the Durant and Lexington, the o
.Greenville, Columbus and Birming
ham; the Aberdeen and Elyton, the
Columbus, Favette and Decatur; the 14
Zazoo City and Canton, the Meridian 'y
and New Orleans are some Mississippi v~
railroads that for the present only exist
on paper.
Mrs. Jane Gornto, a widow living r
near Wrightsville, Ga., sent her son for e
quinine. The clerk gave him a bottle
of morphine, which he made in pills andl
gave his mother. She died in forty- a
y eight hours. n
In A tlanta the rain drops that fall t6
off the western side of the roof of the
First Baptist Church find their destinai- y
tion in the Gulf of Mexico, while th we
which fall from the eastern side of the y
roof meander to the Atlantic ocean.
Gen. Jubal Early lives at a Lynch
burg hotel and practices law. Although j
not yet seventy, he is as bent and t
bowed as a man of ninety years. His e
drooping shoulders, his Ie gray beard
and flowing white hair, and the strong
staff on which he leans, makes him look
like the ideal Rip Van Winkle. Hea
wears the Sonthern gray yet, and his a
still vigorous mindl is full of fire.v
Marion, Georgia, i'; only a shadow
of her former self. in days gone by "
twenty faro banks flourished there. It
was no trouble at all to raise three or v
four ,;housanddtlr for~IITjoli tical
barbecue, and the floatingivoters of th'e
County were entertained in regal style- I
wined and fed upoin the fat of the land 6
at the hotels and public houses uinder
the survellance of the agents of one or
the other political parties for a month
or more in ad vanice of elntioan (ay. .
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.
Bos TON is to have a free Hebrew
school.
PETROLEUM oil has been discovered in
Colorado.
THERE are 268,830 pensioners in the
Unitud States.
PRESIDENT ARTRun will sign no tem
perance pledge.
SMoKING is not allowed at polling
places in Boston.
TENNESsEE has supplied the Mormons
with 125 converts.
GUITEAU is pretty certain to live
through the holidays.
JUDGE FOLoER has taken charge of the
United States Treasury.
AmERICAN oleomargairine is sold for
Rolland butter in Enghuid.
Tin.E World's Fair project seems to
lave about fallen through with.
THE desire for American inde pendence
s manifesting itself in Canada.
BALTDWN is very contrite. Ho calls
iimself both a knave and a fool.
THE production of rai ins in Califoruia
his year is estimated at $500,000.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY wants tle name of
?ullman cars changed to Pull-man-and
voman.
FROUDE is of the opinion that England
an iot rule Ireland. May be she can't,
>ut she does.
TrE New York Produce Exchange has
ecided to erect a new building at a cost
if $2,000,000.
AND so the Star Route rascals escaped
he first batch of charges? Still the
harges remain.
KEELY, the motor man, asks for three
aonths more to perfect his invention.
Io may have it.
Ta stars and stripes were vociferously
hoored in the streets of London on
jord Mayor's Day.
IT REQUIRES but twenty-six hours now
> go from New York to Chicago. The
istanco is 900 miles.
IT Is estimated that $60,000,000 is in
ested in jewelry in the United States,
iclusive of silverware.
BRADY's anxiety for vindication seems
> have waned--gone clear out. It must
ave been a myth in the first place.
NEW YORK has responded mnost liher
Ily to thes appe~al of the Michigan suffer
rs. She contributed something over
125,000.
ARCmnBALD F0I'InEs, the war orrespon
ent, will write a serial fo r a London
ewspaper under-the title of " The South
f T1o-dlay."
AND now, for personal comfort, we
mg for just one slice of the warm
~eather we had last summer to stir in
ith the winter.
COAL at Cincinnati sells at $5 a ton,
ad Cincinnati is on the river leading to
ittsburg, too. It seems that the coal
rop failed also.
SInERIA has a populatign of I ,385,00
ad has an area of 8,000,000 sqluar,
iiles. Russia claims that her object is
> populate the country.
TmE Courier-Journat says that in
row Jersey it is "' Over the BanIk to theL
'oorhouse." This is Lot <quite righit.
'or "Poorhouse " rol " Mone~y-vault.''
ST. Louis has eleven murderers in
til, and the papers intimate that if
icre is not a " hanging bee " soon, the
itizens may lose control of themselves.
PUIBLIC opinion respecting the guilt of
Lie Star Routers has not been affectedl
particle by the dismissal of the case on
technical flaw. They still stand con
icted.
A JIoTEL is to be b)uilt inl Toledo) in
'hiehI there will be no bar-room at
Lohed. but in its stead a small chapel
rhere guests may hold religious ser
TrosE who expect to hear Adelinam
'atti sing may as well commtence now
>)save up their money. From all wve
an learn the popular price of admission
rill be $10.
CILAnA LouisE KELLOGG is 14(oh to h
Whitney. They say ho followed he
about and deviled her till she just ha<
to giva up.
NEw Yonc seems to have caught th4
disease from Ohio. The election return;
sihow that they did a great deal o
scratching there. The tioket elected i:
a mixed ole.
FANNY MAIrrns, living at snndu(V.
Ohio, has very large feet, as feet go
The riht one is twenty- two inches lon,
and the left one nineteen. She origi
nally lived in Chicago.
IT LOOKs now as if the consumlp
tion of smoke in Oincinnati is to b<
an actfual fact. The ordinance has
pas aed both Boards of Common Coun.
cil and been signed by the Mayor.
MAHONE is a nan of very small statur(
and light weight, but there is perhaps
not a man in Virginia who feela his het1
more than he does. 3ust now there it
something more than a ton of him.
Mas. SARToRis nee Miss Nellie Grant,
her husband and two of their three chil
dren are visiting the old folks in Nev
York, but some how or other, are no
attracting so much attention as usual.
WrEN -ladstone rises to speak h<
cl:tsl)s his hands behind his back. Thi
attitude prevails, however, only durint
the opening sentences. Once warmet
up, his gestures are rapid, almost funri
ous.
MR. LABOUCHERE, in his journal,
Truth, declares that the late Baroi
James Do Rothschild lost on the Bours<
inl October 80,000,000 francs or $16,000,
001), and that this loss was the cause o
his death.
PATTI will start out by singing
" Home, Sweet Home," because, sh
says, America is still her home, and sh<
ex)ects an feorc that, when sized up
will look something like a liuudre<
thousand dollars or thereabouts.
IT is hard to believe that Brad.v wa
in earnest when he demanded an earl'
trial and consequent vindication. H(
doubtless is willing to wear the stigm,
that has been placed upon him for th
profits he has made in the Star Rout
business.
A NEGRlO woman living in Meridan
li-ssissippi, has given lbirth in thirt-ecij
years to fourteen children, six pair o
the children being twins. The father (J
these children, who is sixty-four years 0:
age, is the father of thirty-seven living
children.
H A RVARD UNIVERSITY rep~lied to the re.
quest of Miss Kate E. Morris, a graduat<
,f Smith College, for admission to can.
didacy for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy, that " the corporation arc
not prepared to admit women as candi
dates for a degree."
THEi Ceditor of the Indiana &la/esman
at Terre Haute, has beeni sentenced to
twenity-five days in jail and to pay a fine
[)f $300, on coniv~ict ion of criminail libel.
As tan editor's navocation is that of think
ing, what a golden opplortunlity this will
jford, and no annioyanices, either.
A'r 'rrE approaching coronation of the
(Ozar aind Czarina the ivory throne 01
Constantine, the last Emperor of Con
stant iiople, is to be used. The Czarina
is to Oceenpy a throne adorned with 87(
Siamonds a nd rubies, and 1,223 sapphires,
turquoises and pearls of the first water,
MnIurT. EntIsT, the famous circus ridex
Iof Pariis, is (reditedl with being a daughtei
if thle EmpLIeror of Austria. Her ciremu
lress is spangled with diamonds, and1
I tiamonds gleami from her hair as, stand.
ig with one foot upon her flying steed,
-dhe directs with her other toa the aitteni
tion of her audienio) to tihe zenith.
AccoRDINGf to the extra census hulle.
t in just issued, the great wvheat State
are Ilinois, which raisedl 51 ,000,00(
h'ushiels ; hIdiana, 47,000,000 ; Ohio, 40,.
000;Miebigan, 35,000,000 ; Iowa
31,000,000) ; California, 29,000,000 ; Mis
souri, 25,000,000, and Wisconsin, 24,.
0)00,000. In three States were p~rodulcei
nearly three-fourths of the whole wheal
e~rop of the country.
TrE King of Ashantee is a very gooi
slort of a being. The State building
needed repairing, and he desired to shov
how sacrikficing a personage he was, and
so he had 200 young girls, or maidens
killed for the purpose of using thei:
bloodi to mix the mortar. He neglecte<
Lo tap his ow-n fiendish heart, however
These massacr-es, it is said, are custom
try with the king.
ITr is reported that the Sultan ha,
'rdered the ruins of Solomon's Temnph
to)1) he reserved, and1 the surrounding
place to be clearedof r...ish e
ethe place stands the Mosque of Omar,
the revenue of which is said to be 4150,
000 a year. Hitlierto this sum has been
sent to Constantinople, but it is now to
be appropriated to clearing the site of
the Temple. This act of the Sultan is
believed to be a result of the visit of the
Crown Prince of Austria to Jerusalem.
MR. PARNELL, the Land League chief,
owns some house property in Dublin, oin
which the toants complain of very high
rents, but he states that the tenanta are
of the landlord class, and that such
property is not to be regarded in the
saime category with agriiulturi. His
agricultural property consist.s of 4,678
acresin the Countyof Wicklow, estimated
by Griffith's valuation at X1,2 15 per
annum. The farms are let at the poor
'aw valuation, which in some parts of
Ireland is higher, in others les.41 than
Griffith's. Rents are regularly paid.
ARABS are very lively in talk, quick,
full of gesticulations and arguieits, in
(1isitive, great chatterers, siouters, and
screamers. They sur)pass tlie Jews in
fanciful names. From the swarins o1
girls in the seminary at Beirut, colt
ducted by American ladies, the follow.
ing names have been set down in Eig
lish translation : Miss Faiscinating Fi
Miss Sociable Slider, Miss Safe Chat tr
er, Miss Victor Camel Driver. Miss
Benevolent Old Shoe, Miss Pink Thtiel;
Lip, Miss Enough, Miss Diamond MTi
lasses Maker, Miss Blessed Butter
Maker, and so oD.
Learn a rrade.
It is very evident that a great dig
proportion exists, as regards education,
between that kind which is needed and
is of practical importance, and that
which is not; but which thousands ac
quire without any definite purpose; and
if they decide upon some pursuit it is
not chosen with that regard to their
qualifications and deficienies which the
importince of the question requires.
The young man who thinks he will
he a lawyor, a doctor, or a minister, and
hopes to attain success, must decide
oil his choice of any profession by some
thing beside hiis own ambition and con
ceit in the ma)tter as to his fitness and
ability for the saine. The desire to fill
a high and influential )osition is laud
aI)le (:nly when it is not disproportion
ate to one's ability.
cOne of the strongest incentives that
influences many to rush into the pro
fessions without that careful dclibtera
tion which the subject demands, is the
idea that those avocations will reflect
more honor and credit upon them than
a trade, but instead of such honoring
the profession, the reverse is glaringly
ap~parent, that a large proportion of them
are' sadly out of place.
It des not require much sagacity to
see that one had better be a good lumi
b~ernman than a third-rate lawyer, a first
class mechanic than a quack doctor.
There are those who have spent a
great deal of time and money in study
ing Latin and Greek, and many other
things, which never did them any good,
prac.tically speaking, and have learned
too late that their time might have been
emiployed to far better advantage.
Maniy young men, after years spent in
misdlirected effort, have had to resort to
anything that offered. Of this there are
instances too numerous to mention.
The world is full of so-called educated
men who don't know anything of any
implortance, considering the kind of
knowlege which the needs of the country
demand. There is a need of skilled me
chianica, capable, active men, instead of
doctors, lawyers, ministers and( clerks.
It is a question of great impo)rtone
not only to the young, but to the parents,
this of preparing their childlren for a
business wherein they can not only earn
their daily bread, but secure to them
selves some of the comforts and conven
iences of life, and an honorable position
in the world.
When p~eople get out of the prevailing
but foolish notion of thinking that it is
more honorable to haive a profession
than a good trade, and wvhen the reverse
of this rather is taught to the young, it
cannot fail to have ai judicious tendency
toward correcting an error which lhas
been fostered long, and lies close to the
interests of all.
If every man had an occupation that
was chosen because he was better fitted
for it than for an other, he would be in
a condlition to enjoy much in life, and
his sphere of usefulness andl influence
wouhl be greatly enlarged. Practical
education, with a carefual considIeration
of one's abilities and deficiencies, with
an adaptedness to the wants and needs
of our land, cannot fail to make our con
dition much pleasanter and our labor
more renumerative.
AN Indianap olis scissors grin d(-r clii mns
to have been with the D~uke of Welling
Lon in forty battles, and that he received
132 sword en1ts andl( eleveni gunhoit
wounds. We don't bl)'ieve the Duke of
Wellington had ainy use for a scissors
grinder. The D~uke was no.t edihlo' ar
paper, as we undlerstand1 it. Still, if the
Diuke did have a seissors grinder, wvho
went arour.d with his grinding macbine,
- inging r. bell alnd shout ing the way
bhey do nowadays, we dlon't hlame the
Duike'F neighbo)r5 for stabbing lhim 1 :2
simeP and slhooting Ihim eleven times
with a gun. Hec deserved it.-P'e-k's
MEN of great genius and large heart
~ow the needs (of a new degree of pro
gress in the world, but they bear fruit
Sonly af ter many year.
Adulteration.
There seem to be very good reasons
why the pessimists should call a halt
upon the genius of invention until some
force can be made available to regulate
his movements. It is very generally
acknowledged that the world is growing
better as it grows older, and no doubt it
is, but the progress of invention and dis
covery, although in the main beneficial
to mankind, is )ringing forth things that
must of necessity exert an injurious in
fluence. Charles Reade, in one of his
novels, speaks of some old solid silver
plate, made in the ancient days when
things were made honestly. "Not," lie
says, " because the workmen were more
honest than they are to-day, but because
they didn't know how to clheat." As the
world grows older, people learn more and
more how to cheat, and the peopl who
don't want to be cheated have to study
closer and closer to learn how to circuin
vent it. It is a good deal ike the
inventions of armorers. Every few years
a gun is produced, the projectile from
which will pierce any known obstrictioi,
and then other armorers exert thenimselves
to goVt up an armor that it cannot piorce.
And so it goes on, and the wonder is
where it is all to eid. It is so with iii
V''itioni an1id discovery in other dirce': ions.
Clhemiists are finding out more amd miore
how to adulterate food and its iigredients
until it is almost dangerous to eat any
thing but primary substances. Ever anid
anon accounts appear in the papers of a
faniilv poisoned by eating or drinking
this, that or the other, until ono hardly
knows what iniigence of appetite ma'y
be considered safe. There is ia standing
apple! to legislation to correct thmes
evils, but legislation, although it n1111V
have mitigated the danger, has not, 's
yet, entirely removed it. It would seem
to be an easy matter to treat this subject
in a way to assure the people that what,
they eat and drink need not prove in
jurious on account of iiiipurity or
adulteration. If there is an offence in
the calendar callhig for the most condig
punishment, it is that of adultenation.
Let us have laws, and an enforcement of
thei, that will make it safe to eat and
drink vhat purports to be healthful and
nutritious.--Boston Bud (jet.
A Drop of Water.
We read frequently of the drowning
of good swimmers, who suddenly sink in
the water without any apparent cause.
The common explanation of such an ac
cident is that the swimmer is seized
with cramps ; but an English naval
officer offers a different solution of the
phenomenon. He bases his theory on
his own experience. His ship was lying
for a long time off Aden harbor, and it
was the practice for cricketing parties to
swim from the vessel to the shore every
evening, having their clothes sent in a
small boat. Of course there was a race
to see who would get to the beach first.
The writer in the course of a sharp
struggle for the lead opened his mouth
to lreathe, and some of the spray flying
in the wind got into his throat and took
the passage down the trachea. "I could
neither," ho says, "get any breath in,
nor any out, and I soon began to feel
that I was dying on top of the water.
There must have been a dozen men close
to me, but I could not speak, much lessi
call to them. I kept swimming on for
the shore. In about thirty seconds my
senses began to leave me. I ceased to
swim, and my legs went down, when
luckily for me they touched the bottom;
a violent jump helped me to cough up
the drop of water. I staggered on shore
and fell quite exhausted on the beach,
much to the surprise of all the men with
me." It is the opinion of this gentlenman
that many fatal accidents to swimmers
are due simply to a drop of water in the
wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they
are not due to cramp is a fact that aL man
rescued within twvo minutes of sinking in
this mysterious manner is beyond all
hope of resuscitation.
Home Life for the Blind.
In an addl~ress b~efore the College for
the Blind, at Upper Noiwood, Henry
Faweett, the blind Postmaster General
of England, said that, speaking of his
own experience, the greatest service that
couldl be rendtered to thet blind was to
enable them to liye as far as possi-ble the
same life, as if they had not lost their
sight. They should not be imprisonedl
in institutions or sep~arated from their
friends. Few who had not experiencedl
it could imagine the indescribab le joy to
them of home life. Some persons hesi
tated to speak to tie blind about out
ward objects. There could be no great
er error. The pleasauntest and happiest
hours of his life were those when he was
with his friends, who t alked ab~out every
tihing they saw just as if lie was not
present ; who in a room talked about
the pictures, when wedking deCscribed
the scenery they were passing through,
and who described the people they met.
When with the blind, p)eople should
talk with them about and dlescribe every
thing they saw. The speaker concluded
bmy remarking that there was plenty of
good will to assist the blind, b)ut what
was required was better organization.
A Cheerful Set of Folks.
The Lepchas, of India, are Buddhists,
short in stature, bulky and of fair comn
plexionl, their features bein~g distinctly
of the Mongolion type. They are gross
feeders, gorging themselves constantly
to repletion, and 'ating the flesh of the
elephant, rhinoceros and monkey. Their
habits are nomadic. They do not usu
ally live longer than three years in one
place. They buy their wives for prices
varying rom 40) to 500 rupees, and,
if they ve no money, will serve their
fathers- -law as bondsmen in recoin
OLD men's eyes are ike old men's
memories ; they are strongest for things
a long way off'.
V U. ZVI. J "I i1.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
ONIP oyster may lay as many as 2,000,
000 eggs a year.
A BLOW from the leg of an ostrich
will break a man's leg.
A WOLF, like a tiger, having once
eaten man, prefers him to ill else for a
dinner, and if h atticks a man it is
proof that he has already dined off one
or had hydrophobia.
THE sea Cucumber, one of the curious
jelly bodies that iiliabit the ocean, can
practically effrco himself when i:n danger
by Squeezing the water out of h6; body
and forcing himself into a narrow orack
-8o narrow as not to be VisibleC to the
naked eve. He can throw out nearly
whole of his inside, and yetlive and grow
it again.
ACCORDING to a writer in Natuire, the
small miaratory birds that are unable to
perform the flight of 350 miles across tho
Mediterranean Sea are carricd neross on
the backs of cranes. In the autumn
miy flocks of cranes may be seen com
ing from the north, with the 1rst cold
blust from that quarter, flying low, and11
uttering a peculiar cry, as if of alarm,
as they circle over the cultivited plains.
Little birds of every species may be
seen fiving up to themi, while the twit
terig so ngs of I hose already comfortlbly
settled upon their backs nmy be dis
tinctly heard. But for this Kiiud pro
vision of nature, nunerous varieties of
simill birds would becomo extinct in
northiern countries, as the cold winters
wouldkill them.
BANK OF ENGLAND notes are made
from pure white linen cuttings--never
from rags that have i,>ei worn. So
carefully is the paper prepared that even
the number of dips into the pulp made
by each individual workmiai is regis
tered on a dial by inclkiery, aid the
sheets are carefully counted ad booke^
to each person through whose hands
they pass. The printing is done by a
most, cu0rious process within the hank
building. There is an elahbora to ar
rangement for securing that no note
shall be exactly hko any other in exist
ence ; conseqiuently there never ias been
ia duplicate bank note oxcept by forgery.
The stock of paid notes for seven years
is sa11( to amount to 94,9000,000, an11d to
fill 10,000 boxws, which, if placed side
by side, would cover over three miles in
extent.
IN England the north sido of a church
yard is objeCted to aIS Ia htJCe of burial.
The old ecclesiasticl reason is this :
1 The east is God's side, wlwe His
ithrone is set; the west is ui's side, the
Galilee of the (eitils; tie soutl is the
side (f the angels and of the 'spirit
male just,' where the sun shinst in its
strngth. The north is then dlevi's side,
where Satan and his legion lurk to catch
-the unwary." Some churches have still
a " devil's door" in the no:th wall , which
was cpelnedi at biptisiis inld conimlmn
ions to let the devil out. Miles Ever
dale, in his "'Praying for the Dea'id,"
A. D. 15315, says: "' As they die, so shall
they arise; if in faith in the Lord, to
ward the south, * * * andmi shiall arise
in glory; if in unbelief, * * * to
ward1 the north, then are they past all
hope."
THE disproportion of tihe costs of a
lawsuit to the damanige's obtained was
prob~ably never greater thanii inl IL caso
argued by~ William 11. He want in 1848.
A newspaper adidressed to a Miss Felton
was received at the Syracnso postoffice.
Th'Ie Postmaster refused to <deliver the
paper without letter pa st age, hsejiuse theo
'iniitials of the se;nder weore onl the wrapl
per The lady suedl in a Just ice's couirt
for tie value of thme piaper, and1( was
awarded 6 cents dimn-,es. The Post
master appealed, andl ti .caLse was car
ried successively to the Court of Com-.
moni Pleas, the Supremo Court of the
State, thme Court of Appeals1 and1 theI
United States Suphremle Court, each af
firming thme original decision. WVhen tihe
'case enteredl thme last tribmunal $136.00 in
' costs had been added to the 6 cents dam
ages.
The Wyoming Method.
San Francisco Chronicle.
They have learnled how to live in Hiil
liardl,Wyomning territory, and1( are' leased43
with their lesson. As often as' they
get out of meat they repleniih this way:
A band of wicked-looking citizens go
down to the Union P aciftic track ai ways,
to where the trains run slowly and
awiait tihe passageI~ of the throughl express5
gers. As it is hieai ill the (distan~ce they
take their places. A tuff man maude of
straLw is hll out beside two decal cofihus,
a bit of banggage keeping his face from
being seen, while the( gang gather around
a li ving victim, whiom they are ab)out to
hang to a telecgrapih pole. It is a slim
ebanice for the poor fellow, but the pas.
sengers run wild at tihe sight. Thme train
is stopped. Voluniteeri run back to the
the scene. Explanaiutioni: Two noted
horse-thieves are( the scourge of the is
trict, survivor peniitenlt now, buIt thme
best time to hang him is when we) have
him. He's doneo thousandli~'s of dollars of
damiago. This suggests a ransomn. The11
passengers take up a contribution and1
b uy thme uoor devil's life for himi. 'Then
they carmd him on to Hlilliard andt
leave him. ''Titizens inl carriages'
come riding home later wvith the ransom,
which they divide wit hount ai pum rel, and
there is peace and1( plea.'i'itry in Hilltiard.
ADIPOOERE is an oily, waxy suibstance,
formed from the soft parts of animal
bodies buried in damp soils or under
water. It isi the substance that human
bodies sometimes change into, giving
rise to the idea that they petrify.
Tiis king-becominlg graoes-devotionl,
patienCe, cousag~e, fotd e.