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FIST A RT2SIIED 1865. 1TEWB3ERRY, S. C., 2TP-SDY, FEBRUR 0 19.________
A GREAT TRAVELER
Who Has Been Twice Around the Globe and
is Still Going-Colonel John F. Hobbs
Tells Some of His Most Wonder
ful Experience..
LFroni the Atlanta Constitution.]
"I have made two tours around the
world covering a period of between
seven and eight years."
Colonel John F. Iobbs is one of the
most extensively traveled men in
America. His life has been full of ad
venture, and a few days ago while in a
communicative mood he gave an ac
count of some of the trials through
which he has passed.
"I have been," he continued,"under
thirteen governments and on twenty
three islands and sets of islands. Of
course the largest of these was Austra
-lia, which is as big as the whole United
States with Texas left out. The conti
nent-for so it may be called-is very
sparsely settled, and while traveling
among the aborigines, blacks or kana
kas, as the natives are called by the
white settlers, I had several very nar
row escapes, and many interesting ex
periences.
"I was drowned, given up for dead
in two or three sicknesses, stood nine
hours undressed on the aft half of a
broken steamer at night in a storm,
been in storms and railway wrecks,
had my head split open, and enjoyed
sundry ugly wounds in my body, but
for intense suffering and pain nothing
comes any where near the terrible ago
nies of unquenched thirst. Once I was
picked up on an arid prairie out there
after being two days and a half with
out water in a parching sun, with my
tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth.
It took three strong men to hold me
' from jumping into the river to which
I was carried. When my tongue did
come loose the report was like the
crack of a gun."
A SINKING BOG.
The mention of his mistakes made
the colonel communicative.
"I'll tell you," he continued, "of one
trying time. It was once in the wild
parts of Australia, when I rode for
hours among the narrow gorges of a
low range of mountains, passing be
yond into a lovely valley or plain, en
tirely housed in, excpt at one point, by
a solid wall of rock some 500 feet high.
I stood to look at a fire beyond. The
night was dark. Just then the moon
rose through a cleft in the huge moun
tain wall; and cast a flood of silver light
over that little plain that held me mes
merized for half an hour. Then I
pushed forward towards the fire ahead,
with the hope of its being the house of
the only man in that section. I came
to a little marshy place, and urged my
horse forward. I was not long in real
izing that I had entered one of those
sinking bogs so common and fatal in
Australia. I rode a powerful (seventeen
hands high) Cleveland bay horse. I
could feel him sinking at every step,
and feel overy nerve of the horse em
phasize that struggl~e for life. The re
lease of every foot seemed like the
crack of a rifle and the terrible ride I
made through that death-trap was
never accomplished by any one before
me.
A LOT OF SAVAGES.
"I rode on about a quarter of a mile
to the light I had first seen. Judge my
amazement when I found myself con
fronted by a tribe of Queensland blacks.
There was no time for retreat as I was
in their power. I called the chief or
king and doctor of the tribe showing a
bottle I had. It was a bottle of whisky
I carried for snake bites or any acci
dent. They came to me. Taking a
drop or so myself to show that it was
all right, I gave a drink to each, and
their antics as it went down made me
-laugh outright. By a motion of my
hand I called up the whole tribe of
some twenty odd males and females, I
gave each a taste. Then turning to the
king I handed him the bottle, at the
same time saying "MIcCabe"-pointing
over the hill. "3Marcaber," he said in
reply, and then by gestures and a jar
gon that I did not understand, gave
me the directions I wanted. That bot
tle of whisky saved my life and kept
many a poisoned spear out of my
body.
"That same night I found the gentle
man's house I was looking for, and re
lated my adventure.
"'You didn't ride through there,' he
said. 'It is impossible. Why, man
alive, four of my stockmen and their
horses are under that bog.'
"'Yes, I know it," I said facetiously,
'I rode over on them.'
"'And," he continued, 'there must
be no bottom to it. for I've lost enough
cattle in' it to fill it up.'
"When I showed him next day
where I entered and where I came out
fifty feet distant, he looked dazed and
repeated his story."
SOMETHING OF AUSTRALIA.
"There are only 3,000,000 whites in
all that vast territory," continued Col.
Hobbs, "and of these- over 2,500,000
~ive wIthin 300 miles of the coast. So
you cam imagine how sparsely settled,l
so far as the white man is concerned,
the country is. The rest is taken up by
the wild and never-to-be civilized abo
rigines."
"The aborigine cannot be civilized?"
"There is no chance for it. Experi
ment after experiment has been made,
but to no avail. They can be made to
wvear our clothing, but are absolutely
no good for anything excepting those
few who are used as mounted police.
Here their savage instincts come into
play and they can track criminals with
far greater accuracy than bloodhounds.
THE BLACK MEN.
"The Australian black man is the
seond lowest in the scale of human
species. I believe the flat-headed Pats
gonian is at the bottom. He serves n
god, no idol, has no future state or hop
of any kind. When he dies his name i
gone forever, and is never, by law, r
peated in the tribe. If another has
similar name he drops it and assurm
some other. Oblivion forever holds tha
person."
"Do they all belong to the sam
tribe?"
"Oh, no; there are many tribes and a
many languages. About the only thin;
they have that seems at all like civill
zation is commerce, and I suppose tha
is as old as the world. Each tribe has
postman. He generally understand
the language of all the tribeswithiu
radius of 150 miles. These men ar
sacred, and their persons are neve
violated by any tribe, though th
tribes be hostile. Ngalla Wattow negc
tiates all matters of barter or trade, o
tribal treaties. And a most singula
thing, too, is that these tribe linguist
are almost invariably imbecile or silly
The articles of commerce generally con
sist of reeds for spears, red ochre an<
chalk for painting their ornaments
tomahawk stones, cord and net fibr
from the trees, skins and general wvoo<
implement material hardened ant
ready for use."
"How are the tribes governed?"
"Though the Ngalla Wattow is th,
most sacred, most important and mos
central figure in the tribal life, yet hi
is not chief or king. They have no lav
of succession. The oldest man in th,
tribe is king. Their theory for this i
that being the oldest, he knows mor(
adventures and can recount more thrill
ing experiences, being always the her<
of his romance, than any one in thi
tribe. He directs the movements of th<
tribe.
"It is a case of the man who can tel
the biggest lies. You will thus see tha
the Australian aborigines are merely i
people of the day," said a friend to me
"to whom events of the past, howeve
interesting, are as though they hac
never been." I may add, figurativel3
speaking, a people to whom grand
fathers have not been vouchsafed.
"Are those people brave like our owi
Indians are said, by tradition to hav
been?"
"On the contrary, the Australiar
black is a physical coward, but he car
endure privation, frequently doing
without food for a week rather that
stir out of .his tent to get food. H<
never looks beyond the day he is out.'
"What is the status of the womer
among them?"
"A woman is simply a beast of bur
en. They have no courtship, and, J
nay say, no marriage relation of:
definite character. Though thosi
tribes have different languages, ye
they differ very little in their genera
customs and habits. In none of th
dialects does any word answering t<
>ur wvord "love" occur. The yount
ouple never think of anything lik
ourting or company keeping. It is;:
ase of swap. Any man having a wife
aughter or ward can swap her o
them to any one else for a similar num
er of females within his gift.' If ;
young man has no sister or wvard that hi
an trade for a wife, he is an enforce<
achelor. When a trade is to be made
an understanding is arrived at betweer
he male traders. The girl is then tok
to take up her things and go to his hut
f she hesitates she is gen erally knocket
own with a bludgeon and taken over
There is no ceremony. This binds th<
woman. The man can send her hom<
when he likes, or take in another if h<
has a daughter or wasn't to trade fol
er. In case of a child from the union
she goes with the mother, and i
rakes no difference to the next hus.
and, because no one rears the off.
spring. They grow up the best wa)
they can. If the husband dies, the
widow goes back, with all encum.
>rances, to her former owner to be
raded again. A husband can chastist
is wife to death and no one notice it
t is treated as his individual, and nol
a tribal loss. The least blood relation
hip is a bar against marriage, but no1
gainst incest. They have no idea o
irtue, morality, or sh,atme. From what
I have said, it is plain that the nativi
Australians are not an attractive peo
pe."
"You say that you are going for an.
>ther globe-girdling expedition?"
"Yes, I'm soon off again. But I in
end to settle down some day, ani(
,hen 1(do, it will be in Atlanta."
The World's Most Powerful Tribtunal.
Eaton S. Drone in the February
Forumxi.]
The highest court of the United
States, whose05 cen:ten nial comnmemnora.
ioni is at hand, holds a unique place it
our government and one not found it
any other governmental system. I1
wields a power greater than is exer
ised by any other judicial tribunal it
the world. In no country of Europt
r the East has any court authority t<
make or unmiake the sup)remle law o:
the land, to limit the prerogatives oj
the sovereign, to control the powers o1
the legislature, to shape the form 0
overnment.
These functions are exercised by t.h
opreme Court of the United States.
t holds a power above that of the chiel
agistrate of the nation, superior t'
tat of Congress, higher than that oi
any State, and equaled only by that
which nmade or can amend the Con
stitution. It can enlarge or limit the
prerogatives of the president or the
powers of Congress. It can change the
relations between the State and the na
tion. It can extend or restrict either
the central power or State sovereignty.
In short, it can make or unmake the
constitutional law of the country. It
can introduce radical changes into out
form of government. Not only can the
Supreme Court wield these vast pow.
ers, it has long done so and may long
ontinue tn dln o
BILL A\K) THE GRIIP.
e Tha "l'revaiiing" Attacks the Philosoph<
S -Says He Would Like to Get a Grip
on Speaktr Reed.
a
s La grippe, la influenza, la catarrl
t !a epizoot, a nose and mouth and throz
and chest-la ten handkerchiefs a da
e and one under the pillow at niglht
la blow and sneeze and cough and e:
s pectorate, and nobody wants your con
pany and you want nobody's compani
When will this thing stop? The rai
t ged edge is worse than the beginnint
a the tail is worse than the comet. Tali
s quinine! Done taken it, and it makt
a me sick at the stomach. Put some tu:
e pentine or kerosene oil on a strip
r flannel and apply it to your throat an
e breast. Done done it until I am burr
raw and smell like a drug store. MayL
r you had better take a Dover's powdt
r and go to sleep, which I did, an
s dreamed of fighting a black snake tha
was trying to make me swallow it, an
- I wouldent, and finally I got choke
I with the slimy thing, and woke up an
cleared my throat in the foot tub. Bu
I am convalescing now, sorter, an
cross enough to spank a grand-child
I the mother wasent about. I think
would enjoy a small light with som
body. I would like to try Tom Ree
if he was in reach and wasent too bir
t I reckon its all right to fight Toni Ree
and to abuse him and denounce him
and raise as big a rumpus as possibk
a but for the life of me, I can't see wha
a good it does. Toni Reed is only th
mouthpiece of his party. His tyrani
- cal rulings have already been agree<
> upon. They have got the power, an
where there is a will there is a way
Why not give them rope and let then
run the machine for three years longer
I We don't care about the offices, nohow
t but what does trouble me, is that th
administration is manifestly agains
, the South, and does not want peace
r Mr. Harrison has disappointed us. W
I had hoped for him as a Christian gen
tleman. He had an opportunity
- glorious opportunity-to n4ake peac
and harmonize the sections. W
thought that he wasent a politician
but a pure man and a statesman, bu
he seems to be small and selfish an<
vindictive. He wants the Southerl
Republican vote in the next nominat
ing convention. That means the voti
h of the negroes, and so he must throv
them a bone or two to pick. Buel
tells him that Matt Davis must hav
the postoffice at Athens or else Mat
will kick and Matt is a high kicker
There are a score of clever white Re
publicans in Athens who would lik<
h the office and are fit for it but Buel
says they cant control the negro voti
t and so Athens-classic refined Athen
I -must be insulted. A negro is to hav<
the postoflice-an office that bring
him in daily, hourly contact with si.
;thousand white people. Ah, my coun
Stry-somebody hand me the cologne
Smy head aches and my eyes are run
,ning water.
r Now General Harrison knows tha
-the surest way to make a race troubli
t at the South is to appoint negroes t<
s such offices. Our people will not stan<
I it. We have enough to bear withou
,being insulted. It is enough that wi
1 pay our part every year of one hundre<
I millions of pension money to Northerr
-pensioners. That we pay our~ part c
I the public debt that grew out of th
-war. It is enough that our land wa
Sswept with fire and desolation and ou
Snegroes set free without compensation
And now we are taxing ourselves t<
Sto educate these very negroes and thei
,children, and wec tax ourselves to pen
sion our own invalid andl maimed so)
-diers. But the time will conic wher
-our people will rise up) as one man ari
say: thus far shalt thou go, and nio far
ther. Please hand me the campho
-bottle, somebody, oh! miy long-sufTer
ing nose.
Yes, boycott h im. Let every South
ern merchant boycott John Wana
nmaker. He has proved himself an un
principled, unrelenting enemy. H<
has been entreated and importuned t<
give Athens a white man, and will no
even give a respectful answer. Now
if Buck is mnoving him, then let th
people of A tlanta boycott Buck. Don'
speak to him.. Ostracise him. Rub
him out of all respectable society. Le
him feel what it is to insult our peophl
with his apploinltments. This is not
party q1uestion-why even in Missour
Judge Field has just nonsuited a negre
who sued for damages because lhe wai
not allowed to sit in the diress circh
with the white folks. All honor t<
. Judge Field. Yes, boycott him-]
wouldn't buy a hat or a cravat from
merchant who wvould trade with Wan
I amaker. Let the South stand firm 01
-the color line. The North does nol
iunderstanid us on this question arx
never wvill until they come down an<
stay long enouigh to see it just as it is
General Grant knew all about it, and(
ence lie declared that lie was not fight
ing for the negroes. There are thou,
sands of Northern people who don't
know thait General Grant was a slave
ow ner whlen the war began. I was
tlking* to a Boston man the other day
and be smniled a smiile of utter incredu
ty~ when I told him about it; and
had to ge~t Appletonl's biography and
read old Jesse Grant's biography tc
him-the( letter that the old man wrote
to General Grant Wilson in 128S, and
told him how Ulyses broke down ii
S. Louis in 1860 and couldn't make
liv ing, and so lhe sent him i to Galena tc
clrk for his brother Simpson at $800O
*year, and told him that lie must live
on that aiid the hire of his slave in St.
Louis.
Then I told him that Mr. Lincoln9
brother, Captain Todd, fought on om~
ieall1 through the war, and he moc
amazed. It is mrost astoiiniig no.w
little the average man dores kn.w ab). l
,r the war or what it was fught r..
Why, you can't make a ne.:ro b"'i,:ve
that General Grant ever oWied dlavi s.
They have been made fools aid pup
1, pets of for twenty-five years :ri :.;rt
it fools yet. Historical lies are still :i
v force. Even so responsible a g:azi'
- as the Century is still all(ing ti-r
C to be published in its columns. Tie
- January number has dark hints i'nu
Hay and Nicolay that Jell'erso ih vis
countenanced assassination during ihe
; war-and the February number has a
e rehash of that s:ane old lie about Mr.
5 Davis being arrested in woirtmi's
e- clothes. A lie that has been long since
>f nailed to the wall by Senator Rcagntr
d and Burton Harrison and the faithful
it body servant, Jiinmy Jones, and ni
e since the great man's death, his slan
,r derers have come to life, arid evet, arl
d mit that they searrdhed \Irs. I ravis's
t trunk to find the clothes while sie was
d their helpless prisoner. Oh, thi-shunrirte
d of it-somebody bring ine anotiitr
d handkerchief. Oh, my poor thri"t:r.
t But we are glad to see that the "t'r;rn
d federate Veteran,'' of Atlana, is e<rtal
if to the occasion, and has in the 'eiru
I ary number republished the true ver
- sion of the capture. When a "ran hap
I pets to be the hero of any L, thing he
. will naturally overlook the occurreince
d and make himself a bigger hero thani
, he was. Those men who arrested alr.
, Davis have told that lie so long and so
t I often that they are just obliged to stick
e to it. In fact, they have told it so
often that maybe they believe it.
, Some men will do that. I knew :n
I old man who, fifty years ago, used to
tell us how he settled in the forks of
the rivers at Rome before the Injui s
came, and that he knowed the ('oosa
river when it was a little spring branch
e and had jumped across it a thousand
t times. Old Uncle Jake had told that,
and told it and told it until he ht:i:ved
3 it, and would get fighting mad with
- anybody who intimated that lie was
a mistaken.
3 But the question is not about that re
a vamped lie, but that a great national
magazine should lend its columns to
t to the publication. For suppose it was
all true, what does it amount to-who
1 is benefited or who is injured by it?
- Mr. Davis was trying to escape capture,
3 and what of it? The Northern pap-ers
used to publish how Mr. Lincoln dis
guised himself in a Scotch cap and
a cloak when he first went to Washing
t ton as the President-elect, but suppose
- he did and suppose he didn't-what of
- it-but they are a curious set of people.
3 only a few days ago the Northern press
told us how Mr. and Mrs. Blaine were
a hissed in the Catholic church because
a they did not make the sign of the cross
as they entered the church on the oc
a casion of their daughter's funeral
i what kind of people are they, have
- they no feeling, no consideration for
- the grief that was mostecrushing. W\ho
- is not sorry for Mr. Blaine andu his
wife-who is not sorry for poor Mr.
t Tracy? When such afflictions conic
a let all hearts throb with pity and with
a sympathy.
IBut the South is fast coming to the
t front, and the true history of thte war
a is being written-even Brick Pomieroy
has dared to publish a beautiful tribute
to Mr. Davis. A few more y'ears anid
our slanderers will be dead, and then
maybe the nation will hlave peaece.
9 The Confederate Veteran of Atlatnta
has nmade a good beginning in miailng
-up the record, and it is to be hloped
a that our people will patronize it, and
rsustain it. It will certainly be worth
the $2 a year for its influence upott our
children and grandchildren. The vet
Ierans will soon pass away. Ours w ill,
I know, for they are not tempted by
- pensions to over-live thleir tinie. Th ie
r federal government has 489,725 penl
~ sioners upon the rolls--twice as many
as we had soldiers at the close of the
- war. Just think of it. And thley in
- creased thirty-seven thlousand during
- the last twelve months. These are the
afigures from the New York WAorld.
> They do not seem to be dying, but are
t multiplying. Like a feller whlo took a
,contract to gather up the bones of the
a scattered dead, who were buried for
t miles around Missionary Ridge. He
Swas paidl by the coffin, and so lie dIi
t vided the bones and niixed dog's bones
and cow boiies with them anid so miani
t aged to fill t wo coffins fromt every grave
le dug up. They say there is niany a
grave in the National cemetery at
Chattanooga thlat has ito skull ill it.
But let us all have peace. I wish that
I could unscrew nty head _and clean it.
111L.1 AR '.
- Secretary B.laine Hif ned in Church.
[ From the Globe-Democrat.]
I WAsHIxGoN, Feb. 4.-A disgrae
I ful incident occurred durinlg the fumn
,eral services of Mrs. Coppinger, the
t daughter of Secretary Blaine, to-da:y.
-Mrs. Coppinger was a Catholie. The
-services took place at St. Matthew's.
The galleries were p)acked withl people.
Pewvs were reserved for thte miournlers.
As Col. Coppinger, who is a (athtolite,
enter'd the pew he miadie theC usual gen-x
uflection andi sign of the~ eross, as ill
C'atholies do. Secretairy Blaine and t
[Mrs. Blaine followed him. They are
Presbyterians. They did not bendit the
knee or cross thlemlselves. The omnis
sion was immediately followed by tin;
outburst of hisses from the right hand 1
gallery. So loud was the demtonstrat ion
that it wvas heard all over thle church,
and people looked in the direction tile
ugly sound came from. Mr. anld Mirs.
Blaine were overcome by grief an d a p- I
parently did not notice the hissing.
Trifles make perfection.-MichaelI
Angelo. t
A i'tx !! unt in North: Carolina.
ii.l,h- liatfhotne in Ilt-trlit -'e
l'r*eMs.]
Th'!-statr; woryet shinini cle:ar atiol
b,right in thi- dark buit- of a winter
i r,l iwd ky, \w!i- :a grtat ('over."Il
I rid - that 1p:: tli- (':ttce Fear river
re-oura111in1 w\Iithi to ela ue o:1 'tf ho,Irte'
> an t h . iuorry v"ic,s of tlir
at ie r :aI t hat sire heI away likea
wh it ri tl Iowaird :t belt of plin
f1e. Iilhind Il:S t!a he towtn-asleep,
for' ", 1't"|ut" ha! tt y"Ft -iu mn lc": froma
iheol mnariot hiuii-e t,w.r beforl' us
a cornpoitel coun11try\; t,ton litl.ls,
s:u tly w;astes, piny \wootis awl eyris
swalitjis.
A1 w:titintg t ih, reti:linilt"r oft Ihe party,
an< ili e aippoitdt hour fnr th- ".starit,"
tho horses ,aw\etl. itnpatiei; the
lioulis tilled tht (.car, erispair with
tiir .slort yelps OIf e:,gerness denierd;
the hailies patted theit' lunl:ters' gltssy
ne( ks, :ntl di\'i<b-d. g:ines betw\el-n
their eav:tliers:uid tit ir rivals for the
'"hrish," wit" the r"llerlten relate-d
alte: dottes tf fo,rn-rt "rur's,"' arnd feats
of horsein:iasltIj,.
One candlidate for' fuId hltoos, wvhose
"jolly' rouiil face fatirly h:arned with
good hurnr, and who bestrode a gray
Mexie:ia pony of dininutive and Lony
iroportitos hearing the high sounding
title of I)otn, frankly confessed that this
was his first hunt, and innocently in
quired if they Juniped fences, solernaly
dcelarintg that if the fox was on one
side of a fence ani lie on the other the
fox was safe.
D1oe, a beantiful hay hunter of Ken
tucky pedigree, was the mount of a
typical North Carolina gentlernan of
the old regiine. Suave, dignified and
chivalric, conbiiiing gentleness, firn
Iess, pride and kindliness under a
miea gracious, manly, handsonie, lie
rutde with the ease of one accustoiietd
to the saddie, and as though lie felt
the Snows of inuy winters but lightly
upjon his head.
Jugle, a powerful coal black animal,
proudly carried a dark-eyed Carolinian
belle, wh-ose Ii.tbit set off to advantage
t beautiful foril.
Itocket, mounted by the whipper-in,
escribed ever wideniing circles in his
impatience to be off ; and Dandy, a
prited sorrel, enrvetted and coquetted
pranced, pawed and tossed his head
under the firm but gentle rein of a
dlender lady in navy blue habit and a
()cky cap.
Five o'clock ' We are oft'! Don. Doe,
judlge, Rocket and Dandy-hounds,
horses and riders-away over the level
sandy road, with the ghosts of hun
red-year old pities barring our way as
the waning moon sheds it pale light
through the stately, solemn aisles of
the forest. The hounds are out of sight,
but their baying startles the echoes in
he lonely cypress swamps and sounds
across the opien spaes with thrilling
if 'eet. The horses' ears are pointed
forward. The ridetrs no longer com
plain of the chill morning air, but, firm
and( and erect their saddles, listen in
tenitly for the unify of sotund that shall
idicate that the dogs have started the
~ame.
Tr1e it is ! A burst of triumplh that
penetrates and resounds through the
pini'y recesses. .Toy, eagerness, hope,
itnxiety, doubt and determuination
blend in that pulse-thrilling cry.
A way ! away ! What is that ? A stray
loir' "A fox, by jing.o !" cries the
foremost rider. "Crossed the road
righlt uinder myI horse's nOse-coinfound
it !-they've nmissed that fellow-there
le goes-hle's safe !"
"Thou art so near, and yet so far!'"
Mocki ngly hums a rich contralto.
''The wotrdls arc full of them!'' rings
at a merry voice andl Don speeds
fast.
"KReep the roadi till you reach the
river, then to the left, or you'll miss
them,"' is the warning shouted as Doc
[bundls forward for the lead.
A way! awayj Trees, fences, stumnps,
pools, seen to fly. The wind whistles
in our ears. The horses spurn the
grounid, while every nerve is tense.
nway! ptast thet cabtin, where an opent
lotr reveails in a flash a group oif wool
[y headhs hiudidled over a freshly lighted
pine fire. TIhrough a long shallow
pool of swamnp wvater that covers the
rod for twenty yairds. How the water
lies! F"aees, hab its, horses, riders-all
.et their sbar.
Who) cares? Thai:t deep full-thlro:ated
ryv is urgen~iit. The hound ili(s-the fox
lie brtush thitnk of them! Away!
A way! ( ver a narrow woodencu bridge
vithI a brief' elattIer--one-Iwo-three!
WVhire are the rest? No timeii to look
-we are ait the heels of! the hounds
Doe, Dandy and l)on! Off thle road
ow-thiroughi the baire brown stalksof
Scottonl til-otve.r a dividing ditch.
aid aero ss a f..t if plowed1 land. Hark:
"Thecy are doubitlinig back!'' cries
Don's rider. "We must crouss that
~wamip or lbe too lhite!'' Already D)on's
.oofs arc trampijlinig the stars that
leami iere atnd there f'romi the blacek
ater. l)andy f<lhows (diise. D)on
:meti.fonaidering over the furrows a
it tic in thle reair, a comicatl lo or (lie''
~xression! onl his rider's -- e. Tlhe
~iat t p15ins met overhiead. T1. -cypress
-ata weird shawlow in thu watersi
hey darkeuned. The sptongy turf yields
teneaet th the hiorse's feet. ren'cher'ous
oo!is await the fir'st miistep. Onzi! On!
urely the shade of sone old forest
.an gur leads ite way! N ow thle houn zds
weep ini t, lull sight-atnd see! not l100
ads awvay the fttx is treed! A deep,
wift stream intervenes, but, yonder, a
ridge, onily a few rough hewn logs
utoh lotise btoar'ds on it. ''Steady ! ('are
u!'" Ditot ha:s overturnied a planki
eaving:a gap, atl D)andiy , a struiggle, a
>unge, the blue hiabit and the sorrel
re 'out of sighit: How swift the wvater
si Will they niever rise! Yes, see!
3ravto tt o l one! Thn k ( otd! he'r
otcauight inthe stirupL adDad
Lid the rest.
The "brush?" O, yes! Dandy got j
he "bu." (
A RAT'S COSTLY MOIRSEL.
It Waw a I)iamiond Stud, ar,d It Cost the ']
Rodent Ilis Life.
rep
[ l' roml the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
When Louis Braharn, the old-time 1
l,awnbrokcer, opened up his shop Mon- arg
d:y mr'nrring at 2 Fast Fourth street vot
he missed a quarter of a carat diamond
shirt stud, valued at from $35 to $50, s
which he was positive was in the win- are
'low late Saturday evening. Bo,
He called1 his son, and the two and
serch"d the shop high and low, but pou
cosll'l not find the diamond. sun
liraharn began to get crazy over his treE
loss, and went to Vie Hill's to take a ers,
elass of heer and brace up to continue tha
the search. rob
"olad quite a time last night watch- He
ing a rat inl your show window," said star
Vie, as the old pawnroker qluaff'ed off wis
his beer. inec
"Rat inl ly window? What's that?" Tha
iA nurnher of us were sitting in front try<
of the St. .lares Hotel about 8 o'clock a d<
Sunday evc ning. The electric light he
was burning brightly in the window, for
when along came a woman, and, stop- turc
ping a rmlorent, looked in and shriek- libe
ed: ' A rat!' We all rushed over, arid, whi
sure enough, there was a big gray fel- ling
low, ab< ut a foot long, skipping around the
anong the diamonds and breastpins, you
smelling of the silver spoons, ard is- of y
tening to the ticks of the clocks. aboi
Brahaml took off his hat and flung it did
on the counter. "I wonder," he said, Y
then started out. and
"What's upl" doll
"Why, I've lost a diamond stud out ries,
of that window.'' com
Hill, who used to work for Pinker- mir;
ton, said: "Why,the rat hasswollered of r<
it. Catch the rat and you'll get the fron
stone." inst
"Nonsense! What do you know teac
about rats arid diamonds?" and Bra- rmin
ham rushed out; but be acted on Hill's door
advice, fixed up some poison in an B
attractive manner for a rat, and at 4 fun(
o'clock out comes the rat, hunting for wa;
water, weak and sickly looking. you
Young Braham rushed up and kicked it poor
with his foot. The rat was cut open, ing
and safe and sound in its stomach coffi
was found the stud, as good as new. are
"Gott im Himmel!" shouted old man ther
Braram. "I'll set 'em uI)." And now my t
all the guests of the Sr. James and hos
people around Vic Hill's talk about is B
rats and diamonds. dels
del;i
feeb
How Many Newspaper Have We?
crea
We copy from the-London Times the
compilation of newspaper statistics, in- son
tended to show the comparative energy lion
with which the presses of journalism low,
are working in the different countries Ing
of the world. The alleged facts were then
gathered at Paris, in connection with. de
the Exposition. So far as the United mor
States are concerned they are conspicu- of t1
ously arid even grotesquely inaccurate, like
This comparison credits Europe with kno
over 20,000 periodical publications, like
Germany leading with 5,500, of whichan
800 are daily newspapers. Next coe nig
England with 3,000 periodicals, 809 of T
which are dailies. Our own country is you
credited with 12,.500 papers of all sorts, in hi
1,000 of them daily. the
As a matter of fact, the aggregate any
number of newvspapers issued in the you
United States, instead of a little more you
than doubling Germany's total, nearly the
equals the aggregate of Europe; and jokE
our daily papers, instead of exceeding in
the German or the English total by a or h
couple of hundred, more than equal whc
Germany and England combined. gavi
The figures presente.1 by the London whli
Times for the United States are those
of seven or eight years ago. Nine years wer
ago the Tenth Census included an cor
enumeration of the newspapers pub- tinuh
lished in all the States and Territories mno
in 1s80. The total number of periodi- forn
cals then registered was 11,514, of which swe
971 were published daily. The enume- 'stea
rat ion of Howell's Newspaper Directo- phil
ry was less complete than that of Mr. elus
North for the Census. Rowell, in his Pos~
edition of 1880, gave 9,723 periodicals, the
and S43 dailies. That is to say, the ca
figures of the Census were more than ing
sixteen per cent. over Rowell's figures w',ill
for the total of publications, and niorepr
than fifteen per cent, over Rowell for gOi
the nurmber of dailies. mer
This year Rowell's Directory mien
tions rnot less than 16,319 papers printed
in the United States including 1494 [Ge'
dailies. If the deficiencies of his enu
nmeration count in the same proportion T'
as they (lid in 1880, as compared with viev~
Prof. North's enumeration for the last tion
Census, the number of periodicals is- fair.
sued in the United States to-day is riot less
far from 17,000), arnd the number of of an
danily niewspapers rnot far from 1,700. to ti
The 1Lond1on Times' figures for the dust
U.nited States, therefore, are about fifty intei
per cent. short in regard to the total this
number of paipers printed, and about appe
sevenity per cent. short in regard to our as tI
'Jaily nJewsp)apers. all tl
How accurate these statistics are ship
with regard to foreign countries we are then
niot able tro determiine. The staterment somii
thiat 54 dlaily niewspapiers are p)ublishedI brati
ni Athens, a city of per~hmaps 75,000 owe
iceople, does rnot inspire confidence in adve
lie comipiler; arid his assertion that Man
'miost" of the 700) (anadian journals exer1
tre French, shows that he does not a seh
monw what lie is talking about. Not the:
mei in every ten of tihe rnewspap)ers of thron
lie Carnadiani Domninioni is F'renmch. jductu
Nevertheless, even frorm the very- cosn
rmperfect statistics presented by the trial
~ondioni Tinmes, t lie main fact stands dloes
iut very clearly. This nation is away mlCe
head of every oither country of the propx
~lobe ini t lie enterprise of its journa:listic large
ress, as well as in the character, in-' an es
erest, arid ability of the inky product chiefi
fits tireless energy. velop
How to Treat Ingersoll.
he following question having be
mitted to a college professor,
lies as follows in the Albany Jot
)ear Professor: Are not Ingersol
unents unanswerable? What a
going to do about it?
SEVERAL STCDENTS.
o you are out half a dollar apie(
you? No, no; I cannot answer hir
-s, I recall the incident in my eag
impetuous youth of wasting
nd and a half of bird shot on
1Il owl. I followed him from tree
, and shot away a hatful of feat]
and when he died of fatigue I four
his body was about as large as
n's and I put it to no earthly us
was a deceptive target. If I unde
d the gentleman from Peoria, l
ies to liberate youth from tl
ibus and thraldom of superstitioi
t devastating influence of the coui
lergynan's on $500 per annum an
nation is what worries Robert, an
roposes to cure it and eradicate
he trifling pittance of $250 per le,
. For fifty cents he proposes I
rate your mind from that influen<
ch filtered into it from the tremi
lips of your mother, and free fror
charm of superstition loaned upo
r soul by the rough but loving han
our father. Of course he worri(
it you more than those old fogi(
-for fifty cents.
:u look around you in the city her
you discover several millions <
irs invested in hospitals, seminf
asylums, forced 'on the sufierin
munity by the same mythica
culous and superstitious incubt
ligion. You ask the gentlema
Peoria where his little publi
tutions are, founded by his peculis
hing, and he says in an absen
ded manner, "Fifty cents at tI
>ys, you see sometimes a poor man
ral procession, with a democrr
on, and a little coffin in it so sma
can carry it under your arm.
couple walk behind it with hreal
hearts. Their baby is in the littl
n. It was their all. Their hear
roken. Oh, if we only had Bo
e to tell them about liberty an
hs and miracles-for .fifty cents
it would cheer them up.
it you say there are so many infi
Boys, you are mistaken. An int
s an abnormal growth, and Natm
funny once and a while an
tes a freak, e. g., the living skeletor
rat. woman, the two-headed gir
here is about one infidel to a mi
sane men. The most of these fe
> are amateur infidels. They tal
!rsoll in fair weather, and pra
aselves hoarse every time it thur
. A well-developed ease of choler
bus will knock their infidelity of
em and leave them in a cold swes
a china dog in an ice-house.
~v them. The most of them ar
the boy who runs away from bonm
comes back to stay with fath<
.ts.
len, again, boys, take a look aroun
when you invest another fifty cent
berty, and compare the crowd wit
kind of people you find in almoi
church. Is it the odor of sanctit
smell? Hardly, boys, hardly. Br
can eat peanuts there and choke o
shells while you applaud the funn,
s about the heaven where you kno'
our heart you hope your mother i!
ear the humble Nazarene ridiculec
,you think, and always will thinl
a home to your weary old fathe
n he left the earth.
as, boys, his arguments are unan
Lble, and I think the season wil
e along, and the churches will cor
e to bloom, and all nature wi
t exasperatingly and calmly pe:
her functions if Robert is not at
ed. You know when the firn
ner crossed the Atlantic a gres
osopher was delivering a most cor
ye argument to prove that by n
ibility could a steam vessel croi
cean, and that provoking steame~
e snorting and sizzling and splurg
right into the harbor. Boys, a
God's f,,olish children go right o
ing and preaching and dying an
g to heaven in spite of argt
t.
ivhat the World's Fair Should Be.
r. Francis A. Walker in the Febrt
ary Forum.]
vo things should be prominentlyi:
.First, that it is a real celebri
we want, and not a mere peddler:
We can be content with nothin
I han a grand, dignified celebratio:
event of transcendent imrportanc
te whole world, riot alone to its it
rial, but to its political and socia
ests, as well. Secondly, that, o
occasion, the United States shout
ar, not for themselves alone, bu
e head arid front of the people c
2e Americas, assuming the leader
as is right, but associating witi
selves, in the initiation and, ti
degree, in the conduct of the cele
o)n, all the other nations which
their existence to the daring am
nrturous voyage of Columbus
y per'sonis think of a world's faira:
ing its economic influence only a:
o01 of industrial art; but this i,
~maller part of its mission. It ih
gh widening the markets for pro
through educating the taste 01
m rers, th rough inspiring inudus
ambitions, that the world's fair
its greatest work. It is not as ai
s to ends already desired, but as
sing new ends, as setting up
and finier objects of desire, than
hibition of arts and manufactures
y contributes to industrial de
ment.
QUIETLY JOINED THE CHURC,
'n Mr and Mrs. Grover Cleveland- Worship
e Unostentatiouiy.
r-New
[New York World.]
l's Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland at
re tended the morning service yesterday
at the Central Presbyterian Church,
No. 220 West Fifty-seventh Street.
e, They arrived early and did not attract
any unusual attention, although they.
yr walked from their home in Madison
a avenue. The statement was published
a yesterday that Mrs. Cleveland was to
oU formally unite with the church at the -
. morning service. The error was prob
d ably due to the fact that she had de
a cided to join the church on the first
Sunday in the month, which proved to -
r be a rainy, unpleasant day, and it was
1e supposed. that the bad weather would
e have kept her away. It did not. Even
had she been absent the formality of.
receiving ;her into this church would
d have been gone through just the same.
d Her name, with that of twenty other
it new members, was read by the. pastor,
the Rev. Hilton Meree Smith. The
o twenty-one names were those who had
come to the Central Church from other
cities, bringing letters of transfer from
a their pastors. During the reading of
the announcement Mrs. Cleveland did
d not leave her pew, neither did any
other of the twenty-one whose names.
were read. Mr. Cleveland was with -
his wife.
e t was a strange thing yesterday to
see the man who twelve months ago
. would have been followed by a curiois
g crowd, walking calmly and slowly
1 with his wife across Fifty-seventh sy
s Street. . Few of the many hundreds
n along the way from the Clevelands'
c home on Madison Avenue, recognized
.r them, and the few who did stared po
litely and with friendly interest. The
e ex-President wore a silk hat, not too
new, his inevitable and statesmanlike
s frock-coat. Mrs. Cleveland, hand }
ermer than ever and as young looking,
wore a quiet gown of seal-brown cloth .
and modest hat.
The Clevelands occupied yesterday a
e pew half way between the door and
the platform. It is on the left sideof
b the church. The ex-President looked;
d tranquil and paid heed to the sermon::_
Mrs. Cleveland -joined in the congre
gational singing and paid devout atr
tention to the services. When the
i congregation was dismissed the er
Presidential family walked away
d the bright February sunshine mucb.
the same as the other people did.
Thanks from Airs, Grady..
ATLANTA, February 12.-Mrs. Hen-_
ry W. Grady has received since tle
death of Mr. Grady so many kind ex
a pressions of sympathy from various
States and municipal bodies, organm
, tions, societies and individuals all over'- .
the conutry that she desires all wh
e know o kindly remembered her may
kno thorw touching and comforting
rterwords have been to her, and how '
inexpressibly dear to her is all thatas'
been so beautifully said and written of
Mr. Grady. She also wishes in thns
way o rturnheatfei thnksto these
tkind friends everywhere.
Asking too Much of Ex-Partner BisseH.
t
[From the Philadelphia Ledger]
ilson S. Bissell, Cleveland's former
laIpartner, was served with a sub
pcena last week at a railroad station in
'Buffalo to appear as a witness in the
'Ball-Post libel suit. As the train
r moved out Mr. Bissell said to the offi
cer:
"You may go to thunder. I'm nof ~
going to put off my wedding to testify
1in a libel suit. I'll get married to-night '
iflIgo to jail for it."
Col. Ingersoll Recalls a Story.
S [From the Washington Post.1
"Harrison's selection at Chicago,"
said Ingersoll, "reminds me of a story
rof a newly married couple who quar
relIed about what they .should have ~
for dinner the next day. The husband
swore he'd have terrapin and the wife
vowed she wanted duck. The quarret
got hot and they finally compromised
on cabbage. That," said the Colonel,
pointing scornfully in the direction of
the White House, "is cabbage."
John's Pledge.
[From the Kansas City Times.]
"I promise to run the Post Office De
~partment on busines principles," said
Holy John Wanamaker when he-took
' charge of that important branch of the
e Government service. And the bus!- {
- ness that flows into his Philadelphia
establishment from 50,008 fourth-class
2 postmasters is proof that he has ful- -
Sfilled his promise.
t ____________
f Census Supervisors.
WASHINGTON, 'February 11.-IL is
understood that the names of F. W.
Macusker and S. T. Poiner have been
submitted to the President for appoint
ment as supervisers of the census for ~
the 4th and 2id districts of South Cary
The Whole story.
[From the Washington Star.]
Mission Worker (kindly to prisoner
at the rock pile)-What are you doing
here, my friend ?
Prisoner (shortly)-Time.
Sixty-five out of seventy-six mem.
bers of the present Senate are lawyers,
and of the three hundred members of
the House far more than two him
dred are drawn ftom the same profess
sion.