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i BY E. B. MURRAY & CO ANDERSON. S. C. THURS!'?AY MORNING. FEBRUARY 7. 1884. VOTJIME XIX.-NO. 30. M i Letter rroni urnuaiij. I Editor Intelligencer : LEIPZIG, GERMANV, Jan. 2,1884. Leipzig Uss on? hundred and sixty I thousand inhabitants. It is situated itt a B flat nud somewhat sandy but fertile couti I try, and is surrounded by prosperous I manufacturing towns of twelve to twenty B thousand inhabitants. In Lindenau, a SH town of aboui twelve thousand inhabit 3 :ui(s, within less than half a mile from I this city, I noticed eight tall furnace 1 chimneys within a circumference of a I few hundred yards, und iu Plagwitz, a ? city adjacent to Lindenau, arc largo wa I goo, iron and other manufactories. S Like Goettingen, Leipzig hus rm old I and a new part, though there is no line I here which substantially makes tho di i vision between the old and the now, as I the wall around the older part of Goet I tingen does, llowevor, the observer H needs no such determining feature. The 5e difference in tho stylo, cost and appear I ance of the buildiugs, together with the I broader and more regular streets of tho I newer p rtion, are apparent to every H one. Some of tho streets of the older I portion of the city are broader and long I cr than the others, and are, accordingly, I denominated "strasse" (street) ; others, I neither so broad nor so long, are denom I hinted "gasse" (lane), and others, still 9 narrower,'by the diminutivo of "gasse," I which ?B "gaeescheu" (little lane or B In some of the older cities of Germa-' Wi ny, it is quite pewible for people living ion opposite sidea of these narrowest "alleys" to shake hands with each other from their respective bouses. Lot so great a proximity of the houses is found in but few of the cities of Germany and in the oldest alleys only. I believe none of the alleys of Leipzig are so narrow, though some are hardly broad enough to allow wagons to pass persons on foot. At present, in some of the cities of Ger many, there are laws regulating the erec tion of houses and the width of the streets, which have in view, not only the prevention of such narrow streets iu the future, but the widening BO far as possi ble of the old, narrow passages. In Leipzig it is tho rule that a house shall uot be built higher than the Btrect is broad, provided it is erected immediately upon the Btreet. It is fur?berthe law that the owners of bouses, upou Borne of these narrow wovs, which tho city seeks to convert into streets of good width, may not increase the height of the build ings, and that every new building must be placed far enough back of the old line to aflbrd the required width of street when all the old buildings on both sides shall have been removed and new ones built. It is also required, under certain regulations, that if a house situated on the old line becomes so old that it must be taken down, the owner may not build a new house upon the ground occupied .by the old one, but must erect it upon tho new line. This last requisition has the tendency of keeping many old bouses upon the streets so sought to be widened, but as the house, in most instances, may ? be built taller by being moved buck, ? there is also a counter iuducemeut to |H build a new house. But there is a por ? tion of the city where little change is to j be expected, and where some of the I. houses are several times higher th a a tho streets aro broad. This portion is some what small, however, and the same fea ture is observable iu perhaps most of the old cities. Much more regard is had at present to the healthful as well aa restbetical condi tion of the cities thau formerly. In fact, some of tho German physicians have given estimates ?S to tho direction in |which thc streets should run in order to jgL-iavc tho greatest amount of sunshine Hand to be penetrated most thoroughly by sSBths most, usually prevalent winds. ! Tte manufacturing and educatioual BHclaims of the city are great. Situated upon two small rivers, the Hj Fleisse and the Elster, from which two ?SH canals are conducted through thc city, it ?BM 1X3 * considerable amount of water pow 191 er> which is well utilized. The principal JH motor, however, is steam, and the manu fggnfactories using steam are always abie to "??compete with those using water ns a mo Bl ti ve power. ? Leipzig claims to have the largest bus JH|inea8 in fur goods in the world. Here it ?8Bmay not ho out of placo to remark that fHflaoft felt bots rarely, if ever, coat moro In nine "marks," or about two dollara 1 a quarter. The fur from which this is mado is that of the European hare, animal which I have never seen in lerica. It is like our rabbit, but is ec or four times as large, and would, haps, weigh from six to twelve pounds, o hats made from thia fur are not as ??otb and flexible ?a our beat quality felt hajts, but cost only half so much ; Je of the cheapest costing about fifty 'ts. The hare is a very common ani 'i and is often found in the market for B, as an article of food, though not in ?h numbers as the rabbits of Balli ire. tn mentioning this little contributor to J hat industry, I do not mean, of ?nie, to suggest that it has any percept e hearing npon the great fur trade of ip^ig, which comes from Russia on the 9 ?ide, and America on the other, ich felt is sent here from America, .'s it is prepared for market and re 'Pped for the American markets. The cost of psper and printing here is nparatively small. Books are accord l'y cheap, and two establishments in 3 city claim to'have as larg* a book de as can be found anywh ?rt . In the elly ?re two large parka-"Jo ?na Park" and ?'Rosenthal," and in s '"Uer a zoological garden of no ?cisl merit. These parks afford pleas 1 drives and walks, mid IR each are J! groves, consisting principally of ile oaks. Not far from here ia an oak Vestas to require rix persone, with joined hand?, to reach nround it. It ia called "groase eiche" (great oak). A pleasant path through tho forest leads to it, and numerous signboards point out the way '-to the great oak." The parks aro not handsome, though they afford fine opportunity for recreation in the open air, and "Rosenthal" has a pond much enjoyed by the skaters, when the weather is suitable for this sport. There are set eral ponds for this purpose here, and the city has devoted one to the use of poor children, who aro unable to pay for the privilege of skating. Many of the public buildings and somo private residences are of stone or stone fronts, and are quito handsome. The Court House of this circuit adjoins tho jail and church, where service for the imprisoned has been provided for, and is a ?cry handsome stono building. This city, as your readers may know, is thc seat of the Supreme Court of tho German Empire. The Court halls aro situated one story high from thc ground, generally called by us "second atory," but by the Germans "eine treppe" (one pair of steps). In the lower story aro business bouses, and tho building is not very fine in appearance. A nt ~i hall is to bo built for this Court, which bas not been organized for many years. The Theater is a handsome stone build ing in the Renaissance Htylo, but is not to be compared to the Royal Theater in Dresden, which is one of the handsomest in tho world. The Museum, which io opposite the Theater, is ?aid to bs very fine, but ha* been closed einco October, in consequence of work upon the building. The large, open, unpaved, unimproved square, be tween the Theater and Museum, is the Augustus Platz, which is reserved by tho city to rent to those who take part in tbe "Messe"-a Fair, of which 1 will write in a subsequent communication. The city possesses two bronze monu ments of considerable merit: one is that recently erected to the memory ol the great jurist, Leibnitz, and the other is that known as "The Luther Monument," which was unveiled upon 'ho four hun dredth anniversary of Luther's birthday. This monument represents Luther seated and holding a book in his hand, whi'le Melnncbthon stands by bis side, holding a document and bending forward to show it to Luther. The figures are much be yond life size, and are mounted upon a square, pyramidal section of colored granite, into the sides of wbi?h are placed plates of bronza with dales, which are connected with some of tho more prominent events of the reformation. The monument was designed and finished by the renowned sculptor, Prof. Schill ing, of Dresden, who was also the sculp tor of the famous monument and sur mounting figure, "Ger,nut,?a," recently placed upon the "Niederwald" on the Rhine, to commemorate the victory of the Germana over the French, "i871. At the unveiling of the Luther monu ment on the 10th of November, 1883, the procession was tho largest I have ever seen. By order of tbe City Council, tho Profesi?n; and students of the Uni versity headed the procession, and the various associations and sociolica of the business men of the city followed in their appointed order. The bouses of Leipzig are usually of brick, and a few of them are faced with stoue. The roofs are for the moat part of tile-some are of slate or other mate rial. Wooden houses or roofs aro not often seen. Tin roofs are not so frequent as with us. In the country here as in Belgium and France, one Bees occasion ally R thatch roof, but the etymology of the word "thatch," which is connected with the Gerai?u word "dach," meaning ?'roof," suggests ita primitive use. A few private houses hero are built only two stories high, and aro occupied by singio tam ii i es, but most of the houses are built directly upon the street, and aro usually from four to five stories high. The lower floor in often used for a store or other business, and the families live above. It is usually the case that one family occupies one or two stories, and another family the story next higher, and a third the story uoxt higher, and so oo ; one staircase and one door of exit from the house serving for all the families, There are, therefore, fewer doors of exit than we usually find in America, ant many of ihe blocks of bouses look verj much like the business blocks of out cities. The custom of families occupy ing a story, or stories, of a house and noi the entire house ?B, primarily, a matter O economy, but the houses are erected witi this manner of living in view, whicl gives rise to the principal differences be tween tbe new houses here aod many o those in bur own country. This mode o living is also furthered by the fact tba these different stories are often built ant owned by different persons. Upon the octagonal, brick cupola o the "Thomas" church, at a height of per haps a hundred feet, dwells a man ant family, whose business it is to keep tb fiie watch. This mau occupies hiinael in his dwelling at a trade of some sort and his wife and children seem to enjo; their "high life." At some subsequent time I will writ of the educational position pf Lelp^? and of the Fair denominated "Messe. J. 8. M., JB. WUY HE ATTRACTED ATTKNTIOH. A slightly absent minded but highly rc spectable gentleman near the suburbs c Columbia started ont for a t<iroH yeitei day. and after getting a short dutenc from borne he discovered that he was ai tractlng great attention. Somewhat sui prised/be took an Inventory ofhlipti Bonni appearance, when he was bornas to behold that he had on his best coi and bat but bad forgotten to put on b pants, and it was bia red fiance! drawei which attracted so much attention. Til gentleman hastily escaped to cover, an kept in the house all the next day. Cbtumbia IUgitier. - Never take a crooked path whi you can see a straight ono. LONG TIME AGO. Tb? Dave ot tua Cherokee Indiana In South Carolina. lh. Uaw iea A. Moon, in itu YorMUe ?Vi ?utrir. It waa iu tb? summer of 1776, a battal ; ion composed mostly of men from York, i waa ordered to oppose the Cherokee lu , diana, who had been induced through . tbe machinations ot two Scotchmen, 1 Alexander Cameron and John Stewart,1 ; to espouse the British side, and raise the j : war club. This body of men was under I j the command of Major Frank Ross. It ! i was in July they took up their line of ! march, and before they arrived at the ! "Block Blouse," in the Northeastern part : of Greenville district, tho residence of Colouel Hoight, an Indian trader, they : met with tho excitiug intelligence of the murder of Colonel Height-a Whig -the pillaging of the station, and the abduction of Mrs. Height and her two daughters, by the savage*. In addition to these awful tidings, they heard the tale of the murder of a son of Colonel Keiglb, which caused the heart of each brave soldier to beat with sympathy and a desire to avengo these outrages. Young Height had beard of the base purposes of Cameron and Stewart which contemplated a rising of the Indians ; and having from boyhood known tho chiefs of the Cherokees intimately, he hoped to have iniluence enough to undo Ibo work of the wily Scotchmeo, and fearlessly went alone to the Keowee towns, for the purpose of persuadiog them against taking the war-path. Ho was too late. The evil spirit was not to bo subdued, aud not only were bis efforts as peace-maker among them unavailing, but they barbarously murdered tho unof fending youth, who bad confidingly gone in their midst. His early death waa tho more sad, because of the broken life and wrecked hopes that felt upon another. He was affianced to Susau Barris, the daughter of another Indian trader, whoso poBt waa at another "Block House," sit uated whero the town of Greenville, S. C., now stands. After the deed of blood, like the wild animal smeared with crimson gore, the insatiate thirst of tbeir appetites must bo appeased. The Cherokees set out to carry horror and desolation along our frontier settlements. One of their fi ret encampments was at tho house of Barris. He being a tory they looked upon him as a friend and confederate, and told him of their slaying young Height, unfolding, too, tbeir plan to kill his father and de stroy all his property. The heart of gent?o Susan Farm was fairly paralyzed by the unexpected blow of ber lover's death. Bul woman like, she forgot ber own woes to avert disaster and sorrow from others. Those threatened now were doubly dear by their common loss. She quickly fell upon a plan to save them. From her father, on account of his politics, ?ho knew she need not look for assistance. Therefore, unaided, oho must achieve her design. As soou ss. dark came, she took a horse from the stables, and all womanly fears being swallowed up in ber great apprehension for the fate of ber friends, through the dark, wild forest paths she hurried along hoping to apprise them of the threatened calamity in time to enable them to es cape it. Sad indeed, to relate, ber act of beioism was in vain. The Indians knowing the relations existing between 8usan Barris and the murdered, on dis covering a horse had been taken from the stable, and guessing who bad done it, surmised her design and destination. They hurriedly gave the alarm to the others, broke up their encampment, went through a nearer way, and when sbe ar rived a bleeding, lifeless form, and smok ing ruins, tola her agonized heart ber efforts lo save were fruitless. Major Ross pushed on with his com mand in the hone of rescuing Mrs. Height aud her daughters, from their captivity. As they passed Parris' Sta tion, it was with difficulty he could re strain hts men from visiting on Parris the fate of the dead trader. But the brave attempt of t? nu au Parris to save the Heights, and sympathy for her sorrows, induced them to bold ber father and his property sacred and pass bim unmolest ed. Some miles beyond Reedy river, the battalion joined General Williamson, who bad twelve or fifteen hundred men under his command. The combined forces proceeded rapidly, and as they drew near the Keowee towns, every effort was made to avoid falling into any am buscade which might be laid by their cunning foe. An advanced guard was composed of one hundred and twenty five men, with ??n adi" 1 iou of twesty-Ssa Catawba Indians, who were valuable auxiliaries in such a campaign as this. They were placed in the front ranks, and with the characteristic cantion of their mode of wsrfare would often pause in the march, and examine with the greatest care the bark on the tallest trees, toas certain if they had been recently ascend ed ; for it was the practice of the South ern Indians, in their warfare, to have a certain number of "climbers" to look out, as well as "runners" to bring in news. It was not long before they descended a cove. . Here the Catawhaa made a halt, and pointing to the wild pea vine, aaa rank weeds freshly broken and trampled upon, which gave evidence that some numbers of feet bad recently traversed this place, they advised that the advance guards should remain here until themain body of the army came up. But the whites were impatient to go oa ; and al though the Indians insisted on going no further, they ?ero finally overcome by persuasion, and again took up the lino of march. The trail now descended into a small valley covered with grass, sitaste between two bald mountains and by a gushing rivulet, Following the coarse of the branch awhile, they came to the spring around which large smooth rocks were Tying in abundance. The quick eye of the savage warrior was caught direct ly by a few corn-field beans scattered here and there, which attracted tbeir attention, a minute survey showed them on a flat rock the foot print of a naked foot. It being noon day, and the rock fully ex posed to the scorching rays of a July san, it was incontrovertible proof that the enemy was near at hand. The Indians now refused to gd on till tho remainder of the army came np, which by this time was two or three miles ia the rear. Thia refusal of the lud?aos to advance caused a parley of half an hour or more, when a proposition ros made by a young Frenchman, an aide-de-camp of Moul trie'n named St. Pierrie, who waa a vol unteer in the expedition, that the captai" of the advance guard should lead on the men. The captain hesitated to take tba responsibility of so hazardous an under taking. "I will lead I" at last exclaimed tho impetuous St. Pierro, "if the rest follow." To this all readily acceded. Accordingly he went forward, following thc plainly marker* trail. Thia lead di rectly tip ? bald mountain, with no growth, except rank grass and wild pea vines higher than a man's head. In single file, with trailed arms, and in perfect silence, they.ascended the moun tain. They bad gone about four haadred yards, when ?pana/ went the report of a rifle, and the raab, but brave and g?ner out St. Piarrie foll dead. A quick sue cession of shots reverberated from cliff I to cliff, poured forth from the guns of the concesled Cherokees. The clsmor i was enhanced by their yells, producing a j terrific effect. The whites found them selves "each mao bis own commander," ' and in their confusion, leaving the path beaten down by their feet on their ascent, ran helier skelter through ibo Ioog grass j cud luxuriant pea vines, making poor speed, cu they thought, lor at every ten or twelve steps they would become so en tangled in the vines, that the only way to extricate themselves quickly, was to hold their guns tightly in front against their thighs, throwing themselves forward and roll, heels over head, rite as quickly as possible and run, then when again entwined, another somersault and race. The hostile Indians had planted them selves uroughout the tali grass above, with tomahawks and scalping knivea in hand, and seeing their foes rolling and tumbling pell-mell down the mountain, of course imagined them to be severelv wounded, and bounded forward to finish them v?llb a tomahawk and secure the coveted scalp, for which the britiah gov ernment, to their chemo ia it recorded, gave a guinea apiece. Major Rosa was with the advance guard, probably the commander, till tho voluntary assumption of that position by young St. Pierrie in the disastrous at tempt just recorded. He was among tboae who rolled to the bottom, and in a littlo ravine was attacked by an Indian. They grappled. In the struggle both dropped their weapons, but not till from both the blood was flowing freely ; the Indian was lees muscular, but naked and greased-a custom of Juerokee warriors -and holding bim waa like holding an tit. Tba aavego was about'?) gain the advantage, when a soldier, coming up, (or rather rolling down), daw "tba a'Aua lion," clubbed bia musket and knocked the Indian down. Major Boas, faint from loss of blood, fell at the asme time. Me bad received a blow on the head from the Indian's tomahawk which he thought fractured bis akull, and behaved death waa upon him. By this time the Chero kees had ceased the pursuit and with drawn up 'the mountain. The mon, bruised, wearied and disheartened gath ered around the Major, who was a man much beloved, among them the Surgeon. After a short examination he exclaimed, "Pooh ! Rosa, you can talk ; now if you can bite, your head's not broke and you'll not die." The Major seized the finger the good Doctor thrust in bia mouth and bit so vigorously that the old Surgeon screamed loudly with pain. All felt tor feet confidence in the Doctor's smeary, never doubted his theory, and were de lighted at tho evidence afforded of their friend's certain recovery. Rots, himself, felt much improved by his successful ef fort, waa helped to bis feet, and walked to where bia late antagc:dat wu lying, .vho, though in the agl?i?C3 of doalu, grinned defiance at bia adversary. Ress took the Indian's tomsbawk, and to ter minate his mortal sufferings, buried it in bis brain. The main body of the army having arrived, they forthwith, thougv with more precaution, pursued tba ?^ -?es up the mountains, but d' ' ce them that day. Lat?* jg they arrived at the first *n, containing about seventy-five RI JO. The entire population had fled, a jd the only human being to be seen, was an old Indian aquaw, whom they secured as prisoner, and after nulling green corn from the Broiling fields, sufficient to feed their horses, destroyed what remained growing, and burned the huts to the ground. They placed the old woman on an Indian non;- and directed her to pilot then: to the nearevt Indian town, promis ing to let her go uninjured, if ahe did their bidding, but threatening death, if abe dealt treacherously with them. The old aquaw smiled with contempt at their overtures and warnings ; and when the encampment broke up next morning, and the men started on the march, they felt it was with an ambiguous smile the' old woman beckoned them on. All day through a roost broken and rugged country, the army pressed for ward, still incited by the hope of the re capture of Mrs. Height and ber two daughters ; twilight found them two or three miles from the town, where the Cherokees had aaaembled. Aa night came on the old guide led them into nar row defiles, amongst fallen treea, broken rocks, and here and there, a precipice. It waa useless to try and proceed. The troops could not travel through the dark in such a trail, besides they felt satisfied the squaw bad missed them, and they must bait for tue night, with their arms in their bands ready for use, for they were, by this time, in sight of the town, could plainly see the Indian fires, here their fiendish yella, and later in the night, what was indeed heart rending to them, they could hear the wailing and acrecma of a female voice. Thia drove the offi cers and men to fair deaperation, for the wild country and darkness were auch that, although many made superhuman exer tions, they could not find their way acroai rock and chasm, that encountered them at each step, and rendsred their attempti tb proceed worse than useless. At thc first glimmering of day they pushed on and before saera? they were at the Indi an town ; it was deserted, but the nakec corpse of tho ill-fated Mrs. Height laj not far from the fire, around which ?rough the night, the cruel aavages bat need their war dance, and ended thc Bufferings, of their poor victim. A sol dier pulled off bia coat and threw it ovei her body. . They dug a grave and piouslj buried her near the scene of her sad death. For a few days longer our mei pursued the savages, then rolnctantlj gave up the effort; out in returning completely devastated the Indian cou n tn -burning all the towns and destroy i n| the green corn-after which the Ititi* army wa? disbanded. I Not long after, the Cherokees sued fo peace, and wera compelled to cede tbei lands beyond the mountains of "Una cays," to South Carolina, of which an now compoaad the counties of Greenville Anderson and Picken*. The .daughters of Gol. Height wer sold from ono tribe to another, and a last got to the Mississippi river, where : French trader happily met, and benevo lently, bought them from the Indians am carried them to New Orleans, whence b tient them to their relatives in Souti parolina, five years-alter the massacre c their p?renla. ; - Compositora are the most generou people in the world. They ?r " alway setting em' up. WASHINGTON, D. G., May 16,1880. GENTLEMEN-Having been a suffer? for a long time from nervous prostratio and general debility, I was advised to ti Hop Bitters. I have taken one boult and I bave been rapidly getting betU ever since, and I think it the best med eine ' I ever used. I am now gainie strength and appetite, which was a gone, and I was in despair until I tri? your Bitters. I am now well, able to | about and db my own work. Befoi taking it, I waa completely prostrate HES. miy STOW. TUOSE BOYS. A rp ftolnte? Illa KsporUnce With Them. Atlanta Constitution. How can a o?an ruminate and bo a philosopher and lumintle his thought? upon paper when numerous and lovely offspring of all sizes nud sexes aro danc ing around tho room to tho music, and laughing and squealing and sipitlliug, and every now and then au infautile haul ia heard as one of the little chaps get* a bump on the floor. It is all apart of tbe battle of life, und every patriarch must fight it out on that lino and bo recon ciled. You can tame one child, but you can't tame a dozen when they they are all in a bunch. There is no getting away from 'em here by day or night, io thia kind of weather, for they must stay in tbe house, nud every room belongs to 'cm, and if 1 lock 'cm out they beg and bang at lite door until I get sorry aud have to let 'em in. 80 every night I turn 'email in to the big parlor and let 'em frolic un til they tire down and get sleepy, and then peace reigus in Warsaw until morn ing. ' I am scrougod up, right now, in 1 the chimney corner in a big arm chair 1 trying to writo while thone hilarious 1 chaps of two generations arc making | enough racket to make a lunatic asylum < ashamed of itself. I often wonder if any 1 other patriarch ha? auch a lively irre? | pressible set around bim. Does anybody 1 elso's children slam the doors as hard ? and talk as much and get hungry as often 1 and are as everlastingly on tho go, mov- ' ing to and fro like a fiddler s elbow. 1 Mrs. Arp Bays they get it all from their j paternal ancestor, and tolls how I got up j in tho morning with the chickens and go bruising around and shutting doora and 1 Huging the breakfast be!! before break- < fast in put on, and ever and anon peep- i ing io pfc her bed room door to s*?e ( whether ?he ia awake or asleep. "Of I courte I am awake," says she, "for how J could anybody sleep after you get up, the I very timo of all times when I want lo I sleep." < "Sly anxiety," said I, "my anxiety 1 about you for fear you are sick or penni { venture aro dead, and then besides I am I so awful lonesome without you." Mrs. Arp never replies to the liko of I that, but ehe looks at me, she does. t As a ben gatberith her brood under > her wings, so doth Mrs. Arp look after < her brood. She knows uo other joy, and ' is everlastingly working over some old f garment and making it anew. Carl is > strutting around now in a bran new over- ' coat that looks like it come from the ; tailor's, and it was cut down from one of f my old coatB. What would have become i of tho children if they had never bod ' any mothora ; who would scold 'em when 1 they deserved it, and take it all back ? when they put ou a penitential fuco ; 1 who injinu about to whip 'em forty times ? a day, and winds up wita sugar or candy ! or apples or something else she has bid r a-a ny ; who exclaims with pitiful horror, t merciful heavens! and did I evorl and 1 what is to become of you ? and didn't 1 r tell you to keep out of that branch? Who washeB their chapped bands and 1 annoints 'cm with glycerine and vaso- v line, and puts 'em to bed and tucks tho s covor all around 'em so good, and then ' spreads on another quilt uc'v?? b?e goes r to bed herself? Who makes 'em set a down by her and spell and road, and then fi explain it all as they get into deep water I and can't fathom tho big words? Who v teaches 'em manners and how to behave 1 and repeat it over and over again every .? day and all tho year round and never i getsti;ed? ? How these boys do strut round aud ' brag and play tho hero when they begin { lo wear gallu&ses aud can shoot a gun c and have ! illed their first birds. I "Dog wy cat if I can't wheel a bully 1 load ol wo"d to tbe houso. I csu wheel 11 moro'n you can." 1 "Bet you five dollars you can't. I can ' wheel moro'n a mule can pull, dog'd if I cau't." I "Confound that confounded old nail, ,J it's toro my coat, and grandma will go I for me. I'm going to get Aunt Honey (: to sew it up." t "That disguation old billy goat went H and th row'd mo th it morning. I was a v riding him .and he didn't want lo go in ? the branch and get bis old feet wet, and 0 I give bim a cut and he mado a big jump I to jump over and landed me right in tho u water, confound his old dingnation hide c of him." C "Jerusalem, what a big hawk ! Aiu't < he a rip-snorter? If I had a gun now 1 and he was to light on that sycamore I t could just plug him from away back." "Bet vou coutdnent." "Bet 1'could, D?g my cats if Icou'.d ent just get away with him; I'd cure bim of sucking eggs." , "Hawks don't suck eggs." t "Bet you they do." g "Bet you they don't." < "Well, I know that crows tuck eggs, B and hawks ain't no better than crows." ( One day Mrs. Arp was in hearing of 1 scraps and fragments of such elegant 1 conversation among her children and t grand-children, ind che suddenly ap- t neared and lifted up ber voice and said : 1 "Come here boys. Como right hore, ' every one of you. Did I over near such 1 lauguago in all my life? Where in the 1 wide world did you leam to saycouibun i * and dingnation and blame my skin and ' dad burn it all? Did you learn such < ugly words in any book at school ? Why ! I'm afraid you will get to swearing if you 1 keep on." < "Well, mama, it ain't no harm to say ' confound, is it? I beam papa say "con- j found the luck" the other day when be slipped down the hack steps on tbe ice." '.Well, that's a very different thin?;. Your papa bo-well I reckon he wai taken by surprise-I reckon it just , slipped out as he slipped down before be knew it." j "Grandma I heard grandpa say devil ] the other day. Don't you know he said j there was some folks just like the devil, ( for when the devil was sick he prayed, ] and when be got well he went to cussin , again?" , "And mama don't you know we got , some devil turkey in the closet?" , "Well, that don't mean the bad man," , said Mrs. Arp. "That means the way , they fia up the turkey-it is devilled , turkey." I "But it's got the picture of the old boy on the can, and be's got horns and a tall.",: "Grandma, what makes 'em call bim an old boy ? is he a boy ?" "I reckon so children, I reckon so. 1 I'm auro be is not a girl. I reckon they eal! him a boy boca nae he curses, and says dingnation and blame my skin and 1 dad burn it and all such bad words. Now I want you to quit using such lan f[uage, for it is not smart nor msnly, and t is not good manners." They all promised of course, and the next thing they rustled up was to fasten np a cat in their room and lie paper boots on bis leg*. When I went tn to ? discover the cause of their hilarity, they j said they bad just been having a little . inn with the cat. "Where I? the eat?" ?aid I. They said they didn't know, reckoned hs got away, for they couldn't find him, and had looked all over the room. That night wt heard a cat somewhere and I'mally located old Tom up in th? wires of the spring tnatresa, snd we had to talc: the bed all to pieces to got bim out, and he had bis feet and legs all done up in paper, and was scared nearly to death. Merciful heaveud! did I ever I what will those boys do next, and so forth and so on were the !sst netos I heard before thc family curtain fell. Weil, those boys ere just like the mon. They slide into mischief just ai easy. In fact they hunt for it and always find it. I remember about a boy who wanted to uso cuss words mighty bad, and be asked his mother if it was any harm to say coller dam, and she said no, and then he ?nid well our old cow Sukey got choked this morning and liked to have cougher dam bead off. Bo all we can do ia to talk to 'em and lick 'em and pray for 'em and then let 'em rip. BILL ARI?. The Houto or a Circus. Ou an expresa train which vms dashing aloin; tho iron rails toward Nsw York, James A. Bailey, of the Barnum Show, said to a reporter of tho Tribune : "Tba public, as it watches the tour of a grest circus through the States, bas Tittle knowledge of tho immense amount of |ilanning which a manager roust do to arrange the route which bia show ia to follow duriug the Bummer. There are tonio people who have an idea that all tve havo to do is to mako out a list of ivailablo cities and send out our advance igenta to do the advertising. This is ust where they make a great mistake. Tho fact is, it requires as much ability to ny out a wei I-paying route for a season's ?bibition f.? it does to organize the show, tself. That statement sounds oddly, I i now, but it ib true. There arc many .binga to be taken into consideration. In tho first place, only thoso towns must JO visited which can be relied upon to ill your tents. There are hundreds of lilies in this country which have a large population but would not prove to be rood 'rihow towns,' should we pay them i visit. How do 1 know this? Along leaded manager must keep himself poa ed upon ibo financial condition of every lection of tho country in which h's show a to travel. He must know how the :rops are likely to turn out in Illinois, vhat the condition is of the mining io* eresta in Pennsylvania, and mauufaclur ng industries in New England, and the igricultural productions of the Middle ind Southern States. As it would be olly for him to take his show to a oity n which there had been within a year a ong strike among workingmen by which he amount of surplus money had been icriously reduced, the manager must so ay out his route as to avoid that city, >veu though it might be on tbe direct ine of travel. To do this often requires i very long run between ono exhibition own and tba next ; but it is better to bllow out such a plan than to run the ink of a failure. "When, after maturo deliberation, it ms beon decided what route the circus viii take the following season, agents ire sent to visit thc sities in which wo are o exhibit, to mako tho necessary arrange* Denla. O?? ?grui secures the grounds, ind mahen contracte with butchers and ;roccra, and others for supplies ; another ilaus excursions and makes contracts vith the railroads for transportation, following these agon ts are tho advert? lng cars, which in our own show are five n number. When at length the circus trrivea at a city tn which an exhibition a to be giveu, everything is in readiness br its reception. Tbe eilis contracted luring our stay are all paid before we eave that sight. Tho route which tho jaruum Show is to take next season is ill laid out now. I can tell you j tint ?.here we shall be on any day you may tamo. "The show business, like many others might mention, has become a science. There is some difference between the taphazard way the circuses used to be Iragged over couutry roads by spavined torses twenty years ago and the present ystematic express train arrangement vhich whirls them across one State into mother in a single night. Now instead if one tent capable of seating 2,000 peo >lo, we have three, the seating capacity if which is more than 15,000. Yes, the lays of the old road shows are numbered. )ne by one tboy disappear from their dd haunts, Soon tho last one will have mused its golden chariot and struck its ent forever." A Big Hors* Bs-so. The biggest quarter race that was ever nade in Georgia was that race in Angus a a number ol years sgo between the stamper mare and a horse from South karolina. The'Stamper mare was con idered the fastest quarter nag In the iountry, and her owners had plenty of noney to back ber. The South Carol! lianB came over with a full determina ion to win or get broke. Savoral gen lemeu from Athens went down to the ?ace and fortunately backed the right tiorse and came back with wealth. Prom ono of those who attended we earn that it was the most excitiug race iver run in Georgia. The South Caro ?Diana bet all their money and then :ommenced putting up their watches, i orees and other valuables, all of which he Stampers took, putting ap one bun ked dollars against a watch and' chain ind $150 against a good horse. The -ace was run and the Stamper mare won JV about a length. Tbe South Caroli nians were very much crestfallen, and lur informant telle us he saw one young nan who sat down in a fence corner and :ried like his heart would break, for his "ather had just died and left him $10.000, iii of which he bsd staked on the South karolina horse and lost. The yonng fel low remarked that he bad lost overy cent lie had on earth, and did not have money to get home with. The Stampers gave nm enough to supply his wants. The light nitor the rsce the Stampersfcame jp into the city with watches and watch ?hains hanging all over them, and with thousands of dollars that they had won m the .ace. It is often said now by men srbo run quarter races, that the 8tamper mare was tho fastest quarter horse ever known in Georgia.-Athens, Qa.,Banner. Afraid o? His Partner. A gentlemanly farmer from Onion ?reek, who happened to be in Austin last week, called at the office of a distin guished Austin law firm. Both members af the firm were io, but the granger only knew one of them. "Come across the street and take a drink," said the farmer. "As soon as I put on roy overcoat." . "You don't need any overcoat. It's warm ont doors." "Oh,yes, Ido." . "What for? r?ttln* on etyle, are yon?" "No. lt's not that," whispered th?law yer, as soon as they got outside} "but rou saw my partney in there, didn't you ? Well, If I wera to go out and leave that overcoat with him, when \ carno back It would be in the pawnbroker's office,'1 Industrial Schools. Tho following presentment of the question of industrial education is from tue pen of Mr. H. M. Cobb, in the Jour nal of Progrtu : The effort to give art ! industry an organised form is, so far as 1 the technically useful arts are concerned, I of comparatively modern origin. The \ old system of apprenticeship pur?, i by I tbe various trades down to a period not so remote as to be purely a tradition un doubtedly gavo good results, though sel dom the best. But in our time tub vari ous trado organizations have so circum scribed apprenticeship, and so weighted it with disabilities, that it can hardly be said to exist. Undoubtedly there are ap prentices, but they bear little resem blance to those known under the old system. The trades unions declaro that they only seek to defend the public and their guilds against imperfect work and unjust competition. In limiting the number of apprentices to be employed in any establishment, however, they have closed tho avenues to thousands of boy? who Qj?itt eh: n a living, by narrowing the field of choice. The question con tinually recurs, "What shall be done with the boys?" and to this question the demoralisation of tho youth in great cities lends a sinister significance. Every day some newspaper deplores the increas ing number of b <ys who have no trades, sod no visible means of support. And it ii common enough to bear the blame for this waot of occupation laid upon the parents of tho boys, who are said to be ambitious of a more brilliant future for their sous, or upon the boys themselves, who are said to despise, manual labor. Of course there ia some truth in these cammoo enough charges. But there muet have boon truth ?dora a century or two ago likewise, Yet the evil we cpr.ss of is uncbrtiibly of vi??sta origin, and we are not to assume that it is deriv able from a contempt for labor solely, or even chiefly, until the fact ia apparent. The fact is that thia evil began to increase with tho spread of trades unions and other organised efforts to limit the num ber of working members in any guild. The rules of these organisations are re pressive. They go so far as to take from tho father the selection of an occupation for his son, ifitso happens that the father be the proprietor of kn industrial establish ment where tha unions hearsway. Th eso rules are fbucded in selfishness, which would not 00 much matter were they not diametrically opposed to the exercise of that freedom of choice which goes before all healthy progress and prepares the way. The establishment 'of art-indus trial schools was forced by the narrow ?olicy of the various artisan guilds, heir utility !ta been demonstrated be yond any question whatever, and they nave, in fact, given a breadth to the field of choice 'for youth which bas alresdd borne abundant testimony to their excel lence. But they bava done much more than thia. Avoiding the rigid rulea of other organisations, they not only prac tically make choice of occupation free, but give opportunity to the pupil to dis cover for himself to what occupation be should devote his energies. These schools are conducted strictly' on the in* ductive system. A boy entering one of iiium, uncertain as to what ho can best do; soon finds bia metier, and if destined to profit by opportunity and instruction cannot fail to go forth full armed and equipped for a victorious campaign in the industrial domain. The schoola of industrial art now in operation have taken many a lad with nothing to do and no opportunity to do anything, and givon him a new object in life. That theso schools will, at a not distant day, banish apprenticeship from our shops and factorisa, and give te tue artisan world a greater amount of skill .nd enterprise than it ever bad, and that it can ever have under the systems of ap prenticeship now in vogue, seems unde niable. They may be regarded as the beginning of a revolution in art industry, but, if properly encouraged and sustained, they may be made a most prominent fae* tor in the solution of the social problem. The question, "What shall be done with the boys?" is fundamental. The boys of to day, exactly as we equip them, - HI be the men of to-morrow. It ia for us to say whst order of men they ahall repre sent, and what shall be the measure of their manhood. A Tobe In the Man's Brain. NEW YOBK, January 28.-On Thurs day morning last, Bruno Koorr, a young German, attempted suicide at the corner u? iwity-Bcu-ouu street cud Second avenue by shooting himself through the forehead with a French self cocking revolver. The ball entered tho eerie of the fore* hexd. An officer took him to tho Fifty first street station And placed him in the back room. < ' He could only say "I have po money," and become unconscious. An ambu lance. , was telegraphed for and ,be was taken to Bellevue hospital with a portion of his brain oosing out of the wound. Dr. Fluher, on examining the wound, decided to maka an attempt tc find tho bullet. The skull at the entrance of tho wound was trepanned in tho ordinary way, and it was found that the probe, which was inserted towards the back of the heafl, went so far that lt was decided to mst* a counter opening with the tre phine opposite the point of tho probe. When the opening had been made Uso bullet was found lying in the brain, just below the opening 'in the skull. Then (the bullet having been removed) n drainage tube wes passed through the brain in the track of the boll and Left in place. The tube passes through ?he head and projects both front ana ?ck shoot an inch. Since the operation the patient has been constantly' improving, although stupid and semi-unconscioua. When spoken to be opens his eyes, and when asked if he wishes water can say yes or no. The surgical particulars of this interesting case were. refused at Bellevue Hospital last night, aa DA Flu hes wishes to write a full and complete, history of it; to be read by bina before the New York Surgical Society ? at tho conclusion of the case. The hospital surgeons hone to save bis life and are doing all in their power to do so. His sympt?me are watched con stantly and his temperature is taken every two hours. This is the fi rat opera tion of the kind ever performed. The bsir was shaved oft." from around the place where the trepanning, was to be done.. The instrument used is small, and bas sharp.. teeth. It is made of highly polished steel, and cuts a hole about the sise ci a cent through the skull in 4 won don.tl ly short time. The operation oc cupied about four hours' time, and waa, witnessed by a fargo number of the sur gical s t a fi" of Bellevue Hospital, h A friend of Koorr said last night that be formerly lived at No. 242 East Fifty second street, and that last fall he went into the country to find work. .Ho kept company with a young girl. -When he returned to New York be found ?bat the gjrl had been kcoping compai.y wita another young, maa Barned Frank Des mond. This, together wi th b ia being out Of work, er preyed upon hie1 i ai nd that bo attempted to lilli himself, Tho Cherokee's Flight, or tho Small Boy on the Warpath. I shall not soon forget a stage coach ride from Forth Smith, Ark., to Musko gee, I. T. I had thought that I would be the only passenger, out when a woman and boy, and subsequently a half Indian, entered, I very naturally revised my for mer impressions and declared that I would have company. The half Indian had been educated at an Eastern school and was a very intelligent man. He was, I understood him to say, a member of the Cherokee couusel, and waa returning home from a viait to Washington, to attend a aession of that grave, if not potent, body of Indian legislators. When tho boy learned that tho man was an Indian be began to exhibit a restlessness which I soon discovered would result in the red man's annoyance, "Did you ever kill anybody ?" he ask* cd. "Tommy," aaid (he woman, "don't be rude." "I think not," replied tho Cherokee, "Than what makes you bo an In dian?" "I am only a half Indian." "Which half?" "Thomas," exclaimed tho woman, turn ing him around, unbuttoning his coat and bunning it again. He remained quiet a few moments and then said : "Maw." "What dear?" "A half Indian would only bali kill anybody, wouldn't he?" "If you don't huBh I'll put you out." "Then I'd have to walk, wouldn't I ?" "Yes." "An' tho bears might get me, mightn't they ?" "Yea, they would." "Would you car? ?" "Yes." J "Then what makes you wanter put me out? Do the Indiana scalp folks ?" again addressing the Cherokee councilor, who exhibited a social side of his Indian nature, but yielding to the white and of courae political half, replied : "Tho wild onea do." "But you are not wild, aro you ?" ' "No* "Why ain't you ?" "My little man, I muat aay that you'ro aaking too many queationa," casting a reproachful glance at the woman. "If you don't hush I'll whip you. Do iou hear me?" taking bia bat from the oor and putting it ou bia bead. "Yeaaum." He remained quiet for a fow momento, but dropping bia bat on the floor, he reached down, took it up and aaid : "If you was a wild Indian you'd cut me with a knife when I atoop down, wouldn't you?" The Cherokee looked far ont over the landa of bia fathers, but made no reply. "if I waster hit you, you'd hurt me any hov?, wouldn't you ?" "No," tho red man replied. "Why wouldn't you ?'r "Another word out of you and I'll whip you. Never mind ; I'll tell your father," aaid the woman. It waa impossible to keep him quiet, and after a while he asked : "Have you eot anv bow?" "Yes; two." "Are they Iudian boya?" "Their mother ia a white woman." "As white as my maw?" "Just another word out of you and I'll box you," aaid the woman, blushing. He had evidently tested bia indulgent mother on many an occasion, for after the ahorteat possible siienco on hia part, he asked : "Did you ever aee any scalps?" "Yes, I think ao." "Did. tb i* y ha?e blood on 'em ?" "No, they were dry," replied the Cher okee, plainly shewing that his political readiness in answering questions bad ris en above his Indian stoicism. "Do they neel 'em like apples when they dry 'em ?" "Hush your mouth." The Indian nature was endeavoring to assert itself. "If you aak another queatiou, I'll whip yon, you little rascal," said the woman. "Are you going to huah?" "Yessum." He twisted himself around, scratched the coach door with a nail he mysteri ously produced, and asked : "Would you rather be an Indian than a white man?" "Hold on," demanded the Cherokee, calliog to the driver. "Let me ride out sits." "It's goin* to rain, I think, colonel,'' the driver responded. "Makes no difference," snrl ht?, got out and climbed on top of the coach. I then thought my time had come, but be was after oetter game ; our red mau of the forest was hts affinity. He screwed himself around for awhile and then lean ing from the coach window, he called : "Say, does indians scalp niggers ?" "Whoa." said the Cherokee, "Let mo get down." "Want to get back inside?" the driver asked. "No. I'm going to walk. Drive on, and ii I don't overtake you all right. D--d if I wouldn't rather be a witness in the United States Court."-JV*. Y. ?Mercury. ? Five Cenia a Day* The cumulative power of money is a fact very generally known but not gene rally appreciated. There are few men living at the age of sixty-five hanging on to existence by some slender employ ment, or pensioners, il may be, on the bounty of kindred or friends, but might, by exercising the smallest particle of thrift, rigidly adhered to in the past, have set aside a rea pee lacie sum which would materially help them to maintain their iudependence in their old age. Let us take the small and insignificant sum of five cenbs which we daily pay to have our boots blacked, to rido in a ear tho distance we are, able to walk, OL' to pro cure a bad cigar we are better without, and see whatlts value ia in tho course of .yeera. We will suppose a boy of fifteen, by blacking his own boots or going with out his cherished cigarette, puts by five con tu a day; in a year eaves $18.35, which, banked, bears interest at the rate of fire per cent, per annum, compounded biyearly. On this bania, when our thrif ty youth reaches ? the age of sixty-five, having set his five cents per day religi ously aside during fifty years, tho result is surprising. He has accumulated no less a sam than ?3,893.17. A scrutiny of the progress of thia result is interesting. At the age of thirty our hero bad ?S95 ; at forty JS877; at fifty $1,667 ; at slaty, $2,962. ? After fifteen years' saving, bis annual interest more than equals bis original principal; ia twenty-five years 'it is moro than double; in thiriy-fivo years it is four tines as much ; in forty flvo yeara it ia eight times as much, and the last year's interest ie $86, or ten and a I half times aa m neb aa. the annual amount ho puts by. Tho actual cash amount saved in fifty years la $912.60, the. diffor on'ce between that and tho gwiid total of S3.89P.17, xi?. $?,980.67, ia accumulated interest. ; What a magnificent, premium for the minimum of thrift tba* ca?; be well represented in flgnres, I t.:.? Vt*}-?;? . 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