The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, December 06, 1888, Image 6
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H. T. Thompson, Ed. A. Prop
A Orrinan itaUrticfin Aguregup ths
England has caused the death of 50,000,-
000 people and has wrought $10,000,-
000,000 worth of destruction.
Twenty of the leading restaurants and
cafes in Paris are being united into
company. Its capital will be $1,500,000
in $100 shares, 18,500 of which are to be
offered to the imblic at nar.
Upon September 8 there was born in
New Haven, Conn., to Arthur J. and
May English Tuttle a son, who is seventh
in descent from his groat-great-great-
great grandfather, ^N. 8. English, who is
but seventy-seven years old. Many per
sons lire to see the sixth generation, but
this is thought to be the tlrst case of
the seventh on record in America.
Forty-six of the prisoners in Arm riean
penitentiaries last year were over eighty,
and 88iJover seventy, and the New York
Obmt0r recommends ns an act of justice
and humanity the e-tablishment in our
criminal codes of a de inite nge, on arriv
ing at which every piisoner should be
allowed to go free, rega'd ess of the
nature gf his erbuc or the length of the
sentence pronounced againsi him.
Some of the engineers think that
Augusta, (In., will hare to build a dyke
to protect hcnelf against future freshets.
The VKronirle, however, takes the posi
tion that a dyke is insecure, and when it
broaks the consequent es are disastrous.
There is a disposition in Augusta to
trust to luck, in the hope that it will be
forty years or more before another bud
flood comes.
IN DARKNESS.
I will be still;
The terror drawing nigh
Shall startle from my lips no coward cry;
Nay, though the night my deadliest dread
fulill,
I will be still.
fading
Father Hchleyer, parish pried of C'c*
stance, Switzerland, and inventor of
YoUpuk, is dead, but his verbal or rather
lingual invention is so very much uli c
that the whole commercial coricqioud-
ena of many large french, Ui-rman,
Italian and bpanish bon us .s oven n w
earned on in it, and th • i umber of i v
students in the Int d ttales is pi,
dowu by the New \ o. ic C u ,< r tai.-
Mrti*/ at 10 ,0 o.
German steiraera are crowding out
British th ppitig at Naga-aki, .tap.m,
Gen an emstwise shipping is advancing
by leapt and bounds. In 1880, 2iu
Br tish ships of H' .OI J tons entered
Nagasaki, against 34 German vessels of
12,083 tons. During 1887 there were 207
BrH1«h vwsflsof 289,7t)9 ton -, and 21?
German of 102,380 tons. The German
•ttimers are smaller, but th -y do more
business, as they are Letter adapted to
the .rads.
There bas been a terrible flutter am^ng
foreigners miding in France, accoid.ng
to the New 1 ork llentld. It seems that
in a total population of 87,030,750 there
ware not leas than 1,120,531 foreigner*
»n the country. It is therefore fair to as-
eumo that IBl ^svery thirty Frenchmen
France to day counts at least one resi
dent stronger enjoying all theadvautnges
ot-eltzenship without any corresponding
share of its burdens or responsibilities,
end this proportion ie increasing with
extradrdinary rapidity. «
Proffesor Pasteur is the greatest living
practicel demonstrator of the godlike
power of scieece, asserts the Chicago
Timt\ The man who cured the silk
worm disease and restored prosperity to
gmillion people In France, who discov
ered the hydrophobia microbe and hsa
saved hundreds from horrible deaths,
has now succeeded in crushing out the
rabbit curse in Australia. His is not
the tc'race that hides itself behind am
biguous book language. He not only
s*ya a thing can be done but he does it
gy... ... m
A retired government clerk died in
Vienna a few days ago and bequeathed a
considerable sum of money in tiiese terms :
“Up the second flight of stabs there
Hves at door 01 a widow who has two
daughter*. I leave the sum of $10,000
to the one who always nodded in such a
friendly way when she met me.” The
two litter* fell out as to which of them
the old gentleman had left the money.
Legal proceedings are impending, but
th* lawyers are said to be inclined for a
compromise by dividing the money.
For oh! I know,
Though suffering hours delay,
Yet to Eternity they pass away,
Carrying something onward as they flow,
Outlasting woe!
Yea, something won;
The harvest of our tears—
Something unfading, plucked from
years;
Something to blossom on beyond the sun.
From sorrow won.
Theagony,
So hopeless now of balm,
Shall sleep at last, in light as pure and calm
As that wherewith the stars look down on
thee,
O-thsemnne.
Harper.
Wlllillli ULUXN1E WAS,
BT JOHN BARBERTON.
’Twns down in Louisiana, not many
years ago,” to quote from an old song,
that set era! companies of us wicked
Wnkees were posted in a small town
ju4 fur enough from New Orleans and
other important points to be of no strate-
P<: consequence for its own sake; yet,
icing ou a direct route from the enemy’s
lines to the Mississippi Diver, was im
portant us an outpost. The war was al
most over, so we were not as vigilant as
we might have been had we been sta
tioned in front of Lee's army. The
natives were loyally Br-utheru, every
man of them—perhaps J should say every
woman, for the only men in town were a
few who bad passed their three-score
years and ten, one physic an, and one
preacher. Hut the natives did notallow
us to feel uncomfortable. The doctor
disagreed radically with us on principle,
but he rook professional and even friendly
mte eat iu such of us as had more malar a
than our regimental surgeon could roan
age; the preacher ga e us a sermon that
icuiindcd us ot Sundays at home, and the
0 d men would smoke and chat with us
all day long, »o long us we did not *av
wliai we believed about ti.e future ol
mihtary events.
As lor the women—bless them! they
wcie exactly I ke the ma u ity oi Women
everywhere else—very leiiacious of iheir
opinion- so far a* the wa wasco cerued,
out oiberw so hospiiao.e. gracious, and
charm ug. They didn't mean to g ve us
the nt it of local society, but souubo.v
* got there . u*t the same. We did it
so quo t y that none of them knew how
It began 0 r who begun it, and 1 d m t oe-
c>e tn. t alter the first taeuty-four
hours a y , f the u took pains to inquire
We allowed no mn au I nj, wore clean
clothing, pun bused eiiouith supolit* to
set bus ness boom ng and wme ou our
good behavior iu every way.
’the couseqi e ce was that we officer-
so n knew everybody worth know n/,
and were enterialned with as m ch
ccuitesy and sell possession as if the
native cohee had not been burned rye or
other suostiiute. and ti.e table cloths
bad not long be ore been turned into lint
or i and age* lor r-outhern ho-piiab. We
found inoffensive ways of introducing
leal . ava, white sugar, Oolong tea, and
other dm ng room specialties dear to the
Jeuiluiue heart, and we unloaded count
less novels and newspapers in eager
, hands. More important than all else, I
believe, we could talk. Ho could they,
but for some reason women’s talk with
women did not seenj to have been eu
tirely satisfying. w k e talked eo indus-
triouMv, and to such good elfect, that
any chance visitor who might have
dropped into town in the middle of our
Urst week would have thought from ap-
P* nance that we were lifelong acquaint-
Every regiment had some officer
generally a young lieutenant, whose
ability, appearance and spirits compelled
bis comrades to pronounce him the
flower of the flock. Ours Was Will
(•lennie. ’ihe natives approved our
choice of their oivn accord, and we ac
cepted their dictum without a bit of
jealousy, fearing only that the youngster
might cause some fruitless heartaches.
Jjut he didn’t. He was ofliper of the
hrst picket line we threw out. end so
impressed was he with the defensive
possibilities of the place, that we were
have him relieve us of some re-
sponslbiUty,’ by taking charge of the
slight earthworks it seemed advisable to
crot-t. He spent a full half of every day
^'slde the fines, l6oking for additional
points of vantage, and as no enemy had
been la the vicinity for weeks, he never
cared for a guard.
Time passed so delightfully for a fort
night, that there wasllttle but roll-calls
saw emergihg from the forest, nearly half
a mile away, a hor-e. a r.der, and a tiny him out, and as be stood before us, with
white rag.' The Major raised his glasses, crystals of light brown sugar glistening
the
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you
col-
cers
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‘Hie Kentucky Governor who has modi
fied a prisoner's sentence so that it will
allow him to spend the winter months of
each year at home, is not, observes the
Atlanta Conetitution, the ouly considerate
oflicial in that Htatc. There is a story
told of a Kentucky Judge who, in pass
ing sentence of death on a convict who
had been convicted of murder in the
month of October, remarked to the
prisoner that it was customary to have
three or four months elapse betweea the
paseing of a death sentence, and the ex
ecution, "but as we have no appliances
fot warming our jail, and as the court
desire* to spare you the discomfort of an
unwarmed apartment in this cold
weather, the court will order your execu-
tioa on Friday, the 1st of November.’•
! Belgium wise men are quarreling as
to whether schoolmistresses should be I Ul W10
married or not. One party complains t0 re j';ivc at having rcpuised the
» -... it.ui. *_ i. - i_ enemy. 1 lie entire force w*-nt •»
skirmishers for a mile cr
and picket duty to remiud us that we
* ere soldiers. Everything was too pleas
ant to last, so one day a rattle of mus
ketry warned us that there was trouble
On the picket Hue. By the time our
bugles had recalled us from our hospita
ble lounging places, and hurried us
toward the front,* soldier with a broken
arm came in and leported that some cav
alry had tried to force their way into
town by the western road, and, being
repulsed, had dismounted, and were dis-
agreeing, iu the usuaj military manner
with the pickets, who had fallen back to
Glennie a breastworks.
‘‘Bless Glennie for the breastworks!"
exclaimed our Major in command, after
he had shouted “Double-quick—
march!"
The resistance made by our entire
force seemed to disgust the enemy, for
in a couple of hours they ceased tiring.
A 8)>edal roll-call showed that none of
our men had lieen killed, and only two
or three wounded, but a Captain ap
proached the Ma or and said that Lieu
tenant Gleunie was initsing. He hid
gone nearly a mile to the front, to alitt e
elevation, where he hr.d thought a how-
)t. er might advantsgcou ly be posted
gone two or three hour* be ore Ihe euemv
appeared.
• Captured, then, of coarse,” groaned
the Ma or. “c onfound it. gentlem. n,
for the good ot the se; vice I'd rather have
been captured myself.”
Most of us ft-l, the same wav. and we
were too dismal for the remainder of the
went out as
two, asking
that married women are liable to be in
terrupted in their duties by the incidents
of married life. Another declares that
aid maida cannot know how to handle
and manage children as a woman with
eome of her own. It seems that in
Broteela the law allows every school- t turned to town. What woul.ftheyth.nk
the number of °[ u *» L as •"idiers, when they learned
that the o cer whom we all cheetfullv
peered through them a moment, dropped
them, and exclaimed:
•‘That flag is earned by a woman?'’
Then all of us wished we had glasses.
The rider advanced slowly, until we
could see that she was not armed: then
that she hud a fine figure, and finally
that she was young and pretty.
“Wants protection for her property,
I suppose,” growled the Major. “Those
raiders are probably cleaning out the
family’ll barn and smokehouse, there
bemgnobody at home but women and
children. What do they suppose a few
infantry cin do against nobody knows
how many cavalry i”
Nevertheless he went slowly out,
slone, to meet her, at which Glennie’s
Captain exclaimed:
“This isn’t according to custom. Who
knows but she’s a young man, disguised,
and will drop the Major with a pistol/
Come on, boys. ’’
Several of us followed him. As we
saw him twirling the ends of his mus
tache and tipping hii hat slightly to one
side, we followed his example in the^e
respects also. Wc overtook the ma or
just as the rider halted, looked very
pale, and said;
“It wasn't his fault, sir—really it
wasn’t.”
“Who# fault, madam?" said
ma or, raising his hat.
“Mr. Glennie’s,” said the girl.
“Oh! Confound it I 1 mean—i
they got him, did they?”
“Oh, no, sir, but he wishes they had.
And they would have done, oaly—
only-”
“Well, madam?”
“Only they were prevented.”
“Indeed? How was that/’’
“Why, you see, sir, he stopped at our
house, just for a drink of water, and
while he was standing by the well, the
Hangers—”
“rangers!"
“les, sir; the Texas cavalry—they
came across the hill just then. He
started to run this way, but—but ”
“Well!”
The gi r i looked down a moment, col
ored, raised her bead, and then said
lap! ily
“ I told him he would never get tlie-e
alive. 1 said the.’ were a hundred to
one, and he’fl suie y bo kided 1m a
true 'outhem woman, sir: my father is
aptain Gray-on, of the ait llery bat-
tal on, but . don’t l>elieve tnun er is war
>o I mide bi n c ms int > ihe house tie
declared he wouldn’t: d arh was no’h-
ing to duty. But I made h mcome in.”
•'Indeed? What argument, d.d
use, limy I aik ?”
Again the girl looked duw i and
"red deeply . ome «.f the yuuug o .
begau o eve a ge win «.
“He duclnr d he wou dn’t,” t : e
resumed, “but 1 made him l.e strug
gled w th nil his in I ht but ’’
“I beg ymi: pardon for Lite riipting,"
-a d In . njor, b t ug h.s lip, “out—ue
esca|MU, then.”’
“les, sir, but not a second too soon.
1 hadn't more than got uim lu^o t,; 4 e
hogshead ’*
“■ lOgsiiead
“Ye-, sir, a big sugar hogshead, in
the cellar, llrot wc had meant to keep
>vvcet potatoes in—wuea two oi tin.-
..angers came in the f ont door. They
-ad they'd seen a Yankee at the we f,
and wnuted h m. I told tnein he ha i
seen them and made a du-h for h s own
lines. He rea ly did. you know, for r.
step or two, wuen—when——”
“When you warned him of hie dan
ger.”
“\es. sir. Well, they took my word,
when I told them who my father was,
and they went away.”
“Ah! 1\ here are the Hangers now?”
“They went back—I don't know
where—hours ago.”
“And caught him as they went?”
“Dh, no, sir; they couldn’t. But he
was in a dreadful excitement. He said
ho had no right to be outside the lines;
he could be court-martialed for it, and
disgraced, and maybe shot, if things
went wrong in the fight. He went on so
that I wouldn’t listen to him, and I was
afraid some of the Hangers might come
hack aud hear him, so I wouldn’t stay
and listen to him.”
“But why didn’t ho return after they
retired?” J
“Because he couldn’t, sir. I wouldn’t
let him. 1 didn't want him to be court-
.nortialed and shot, and all of tho^e
•dreadful things, go I thought it would
5>e only right to come and tell yau it
wasn’t his fault.”
“The enemy has been gone for several
hours,” said the Major, turning with a
suspicious look to us. “I’m afraid there’s
Some ruse iu this.” Then lie turued
again to the girl and sternly sa : d:
doung woman, if your story is true, he
should have returned by this time. He
knows he has nothing to fear, and there
is nothing to prevent him coming back,
if he kuows the enemy have disap
peared." *
“Oh, yes, there is, sir; there’s a cover
to the hsgshead aud ajpadlock ledde.”
'‘Oh—h—-hi” said the Major, with
jnany intlections. “He’s your prisoner,
is he? But, heavens, madame, if hehas
been locked in a hogshead all this time,
he’s probable sulTocatcd. Confound ”
“Oh, no,” said the girl with an assur
ing smile. “There’s a big bung-hole to
the hogshead, and I know he has sense
enough to breathe through it, because
when I went down and whispered
through it that the Hanger* had gone
home again, he ”
“What did he sav?”
“Nothing-he—but I know he was
alive and just like his old self.” Then
the girl suddenly dropped her eyes again
and colored deeply, while a very young
lieutenant murmured:
“Im!"
“I see,” drawled the Major, very
slowly. “Attend*..*’ First (oinpany,
deploy as skirmishers. Forward ."
The girl turned her horse’s head
quickly, looked backward, set her lips
tirmly, and e.da llied
“n-ure not going to court-martial
and shoot h m ”
“Suppose l were ’’said the Ma’nr. as
the men began to tilefr m behind the
“cur a n’’ that commanded the oad,
“I hen.” said the girl, “I'll gallop
ahead, at th j ri k of my life, and let
him e-cape on my pout.”
“.Ladam,” said til* >la or, lifting his
ba\ “1 gi e you the wo d of a soldiei
ai d ageutlemau that you shall be his
sob* udge. ’
The ski m’sh line advanced, a-'d the
all over his uniform coat, the major re
marked :
“You’re a eweetlooking object 1"
Misa Grayeom smiled as if she thought
so, too.
“You see, Mejor—” began Glennie.
“Yee,” said the Major, “I certainly do.
I see, also, that one of two things must
; be done, for the,- good of the service.
] Either our lines most be extended a mil*
I or two farther Into the country, or you
! must persuade this lady's family to move
to town.”
The family moved, Miss Graysom
finally moving all the way to New York.
The wedding present from the brido-
gmom s orotner officers was a miniature
sugar hogshead, in gold, with a rosebud
for a padlock.—One*A- Wed.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Cattle are now slaughtered by elec
tricity in Russia.
A doctor says that the older a roan
grows the smaller his brain becomes.
1 he number of lightning rods manu
factured is diminishing year by year.
Gilsonite is found, on analysis, to con
tain about eighty per cent of carbon or
asphalt in pure form.
Icebergs are a great source of danger
to transatlantic navigation from March
to August every year.
1 nglish chemists have made the inter
esting discovery that fluorine will dis
solve metal, of any sort, even gold.
I iring is only done properly when th*
fuel is consumed in the best possible
way. that is, when no more is burned
than ie necessary to produce the steam
required.
At the meeting of the British Associa
tion, Frofessor G. 1’. Fitzgerald dwelt
on recent experiments of Hertz, in tier-
many, as proving conclusively that light
is au eiect o-msgnetic phenomenon.
At Halle the skeleton-like, fibrous
covering of a species of tropical cucura-
I ei is now being converted into a sub
stitute lor sponge, and is already being
exported in immense quantit.es to Log-
land and other countries.
A TUBTLE rail’s A BEAR
A VOVSL Ain> CZOITIHO BATTU
OH A FLORIDA BEACH.
( omplete combustion m st be obtained
in the pe fe t furnace, and this is going | **nd the Uiter. t'h ustin
on when he luel.s burning with a bright
lame evenly all over the gate. Bi.e
r nines, da k spots ami smoke aroevi-
de res of inrompl to comOu.t on, due
to lack of air,
August Belmont, tie proprietor of a
fine or.cdiiig a ru in iventucky, ciuons
tout he has kept bis horses I ee lr».m
Uisiuse ami in um ika le good health
• y giving t' cm a d >-e oi qu nine icgu-
la. y. it is said to Le pariicu.a.ly etfec-
ti.e in c Se of pink-eye.
'ih« m ih-onian Institution at Wash
ington Las sent an e ped ti n to ova
in t a and -ecured i«c tutu le* of the
"la ry rui ks." on whi h me curious
n eroglypliic charnc e », e ideutly very
■ id, which may throw some lignt on toe
h story o. the eaily d sto.enes oi
.unei iia. 'I he iuur..in<:8 a e i ut in upon
a rock of hi hi.-polished sla e, a. d the
ntu lio is ucoat u sixteentu ol an inch
deep,
• n the gold case factory of the Wal
tham watch w..r s in New Aork can be
ueu the largest belt e er made for the
direct tiausiniS'iou of power, Jt is Um
tret 1< n', with a 3-t inch face, and was
made hy the t-chiertn E .ctric i.eltt oni-
pany of Aew Aork. The belt contains
uo ri.et*. the laps are cemented, and
the joints of the outer edges are made
more secure by brass pegs forced into the
leather by means of machinery.
^ Collating all known observations, Dj^
E. von Martens, of Berlin, finds that
of twenty-seven species of molluscs
found in the Suez ( ami nine esme fiom
the Mediterranean aud eighteen from the
Led tfea; aud that of sixteeu species of
lishes icparted from the canal six were
from the Mediterranean and ten from
the Red Sea side. Tables of the distri
bution of there species in the canal show
that the admixtme of animal life of th#
two seat is far from complete.
According to tho Xritixk Medical
Journal, half of those who live d e be
fore seventeen. Only one person in
lo,000 lives to be 130 years old, and but
one in 100 reaches sixty. The married
Lve longer than the single, but out of
every loot) born only 1. o are ever mar
ried. Of 1000 persons who have reached
seventy there aie of clergymen, orators
and public speake s, forty-1h e#; far
mers, forty; workmen, ’thirty-three;
soldiers, thirty-two: lawyers, twenty-
nine: piofessors, twenty seven; doctors,
twenty-four
A Big Black Bear Attacks a Mon
ster Turtle, and Geta the Worst
of the Combat.
A recent issue of the St. Louis Olole-
Democrat says;
The schooner Mabel F., Captain Zeko
Dickerson, came into Charlotte Harbor,
Fla., on Saturday, with a load of huge
loggerhead turtles and fish. I he turtle*
were monsters, several of them measur
ing ever nine feet from end to end, over
the shell, and five to seven across. Such
ones will weigh from 700 to 1000 pounds
each, and it is no child's play to capture
them. Several of the crew had severe
wounds on their hands, caused by th#
sharp claws with which the turtle's flip
pers are armed,and one sailor was mourn
ing the lo s of his thumb, which he
lost by fooling with one of the captives.
The mate, Jim Wheelan, and a sailor
named Dan Bryan had the unusual luck
of witnessing a fight between a big black
bear and a mon-ter turtle. It occurred
at Key Mina. Theschooner wasat anchor
on the inside shore, .while the men went
acros* the island, half a mile or so, and
secured turtles on the gulf shore. The
second night these two, by eome choice,
wandered down to the end of the island.
While going along cautiously they heard
a confused sound some way ahead, as if
some kind of a fight was going on. A
deal of thrashing about was audible,
and a sort of roar or grunt that sounded
like a bear was heard. Pushing forward
they soon rounded a sharp turn that the
beach made, and the cause of the rumpus
was before them. At first they could not
tell what it was, but saw that two big
forms were struggling together and
fighting furiously. From the grunts
they knew that a bear was one of the
combatants.
Cautiously and silently they came up
nearer and to the r great surpr »e they
i perceived that the fight was between a
huge loggerhestl turtle and a big.shagtry
black bear. From their routions it
would seem that the he ir had spr ng on
the turt e as it was retreating to wa'er,
and had t led to overturn it. In ai>me
way it had stepped mfn ntof the turtle,
its head out. bad
FUN.
Men sow their wild bats 'and women
eew their tares.
The exercising of horses just before a
race is the preamble.
If a young lady’s maiden aim is suc
cessful she bos no maiden name.
The chiropodist should take hie
aquatic excursions on a towboat.
The miser's heart must indeed be made
of marble, there is so little give to it
The heat of debate is apt to cause a
coolness between friends.—A«s Tori
Sun.
The man who has loet his left arm has
a left arm that is a right um.—Harper'*
Batar.
Words generally express themselves.
But do they pay the express charge*?—
Nev> York Sun.
A mud puddle has a great many points
for people to fall down and ad-mire.
Jewish Tidings.
Kansas Teacher.—“Where does all
our grain go tor’ Scholar.—“Into Ihe
hopper.” What hopper? Grasshopper.
THE LAST OF THE WAPITI
A FORTY-MILS CHASB
XiOHB BX.X.
AFTB*
q uetiy sei/.idoue of brums hind i ga
and held on. At ihi- the bear roared
loud y and pawed fuiionsly at the
tur.le's buck, t y ng to for eh mover on
h s hack. Thin the turile esisied with
all hs strengih and weight, fettling
down olo e to the g O'lnd wiienc er the
b’-ar made an extra erfort, aud ilivn, as
the la ter rela ed h s e oris the turtle
would sudde ly Mart up and endeavor
to get m are the water, keeping h a firm
hold ot tne bear’s leg all the while. Th s
move would arousebru n’s ire again, and
the fierre coolest woiod be renewed vvi h
increased fury. The bear's disengaged
h ud leg p owed ihe sand deeply as he
endeavored to stop the turtle s progress
waterward, wh le his fo e paws clawed
loggerhead madly, vainly trying to find
some vulne able spot; for, judging by
his angry grow ing and the de pernte
efforts ie made to ie.&sehi* l<g trom
the repti e’» grip, the tuitie was hold ng
on for keeps.
By a sudden push and a powerful
muscular effort of h s head and piws
bruin managed to get Ihe t irtle half-set,
one side l<eing rair-ed a foot or so. Fur-
suing his advantage he seized one of the
turtle’s big flippers in his jaws, and the
snap that followed showed that bruin
felt that things wee evening up. The
old loggerhead plainly didn’t like this
The Loon, or Great Northern Diver,
F'rom the arlicle on “Bird Music” by
Simeou Reuse C heney in the Venturi/ we
quote the following: “The loon ie not
a singer, but his calls and shoutings
exhibit so gieat a variety of vocal quali-
tics that we must consider him a member
of N ature’s orchestra. In the summer of
1887 I spent a few weeks on the borders
of Trout Lake, St. 1 awrenee County, N.
Y. This beautiful little island-dotted
lake, some three miles long has been
inhabited for years by three or four pairs
of loous. There they lay their eggs and
rear iheir 'young, and their I found s
good opportunity to study them. On
one occasion a small party of us discov
ered a nest. When we wereyetagood
way off the wary sitter slid from sight
into the water, darted along beneath our
boat,and was far out into the lake before
she came to the surface. The nest, sim
ply a little cavity m dry muck, was ou
the ruins of au old musarat house, not
more than e ght or ten inches above the
water. Th>re were two very dirk eggs
in it—nevermore than two are found in
the nest of tlie loon—nearly as large as
tho e of a goose.
“the time of aitfng, as J was in-
formed, is four week*. Wilson says of
the loons that ’thei light upon their
ne ts ’ but a careful ob>erver. who had
H*veial times tern the .female ma'se her
w iy Lom the water to her ne t. told me
that they t-hove themsei e$ to it - n their
b
change of tactics, for its free flippers
moved like the fan of a threshing ma
chine. Its big body plunged from side
to side, while it scattered the sand in
showers all around as it tried to throw
off its big antagonist The bear whs
dragged around consideiably by the
turtle’s movements, and the pain in his
imprisoned leg evidently put him in very
bad humor. He kept chewing the turtle’s
flipper and endeavoring to get the latter
overthrown. The old turtle worked
sround and finally got in a stroke with
its sharp claw that badly rip; ed the bear’s
under side. This infuriated bruin so
much that he let go his grip on his anta-
gonisist’s flipper, and reaching his head
dowa, tried to fiee his hind leg. But he
made a bad mistake, and the fighting-
mad loggerhead quickly improved his
opportunity. As bru n’s nose came
within reach he let go the leg, and quick
as a flash fastened his iron grip on the
bear s jaw.
The boys say that then ensued a
circus. r l he bear war thoroughly taken
by surprise, aud he roared lustily with
f>*in aud rage. The turtle pushed ou
and dragged his unwilling captive along.
| r Ihe latter saw his danger and felt it,
i too, for they were so near the water’s
edge that the waves splashed over them.
The combat continued at this point for
several seconds; it was plainly to be seen
that both were pretty well tuckered out,
and either would have been willing to
cry quits. But neither dared let go.
The loggerhead dragged him along and
finally nad him in water knee-deep.
Here he had things more his own way.
The waves coming in dashed the bear
about so that he maintained hit footing
with difficulty. He frantically danced
about, endeavoring to get free, and
using his terrible claws all he could, but
the turtle's coat of mail proved impene
trable. Bruin's strength now began to
fail, and his big foe took advantage of
every relaxation of his efforts to escape.
Slowly the turtle worked his way out
into deeper water, his flippers helping
him wonderfully in his native element.
A shelving rock or slide was soon
gained, and there the last struggle
took place. The turtle, half covered
with water, was raised time and ngiin a
foot or ao by the frant c struggles of
the partially drowned l» ar, whose head
was kept under the water longer each
time. It was plainly to be seen now I
that the hear was doomed. A fter a
lew minutes longer of the struggle, as
the bear re ted a moment, the tu tie
p unned off int'* deep water, (iragg ng
ins prey under. As the bear went down
hi* hind iegs kick' d convuts veljr, but
in a very feeble wnj. The wa che s of
ttii< ferocious encounter waned lor an
hour, to see if the l> dy of the bear
—Siftings.
Physician — “IVhat’s the matter?”
Patient — “Rheumatic#.” Physician—
“Causer* Patient—“Attic room.”—
Baton Courier.
This is a funny old world, any how,
but it is very hard to realize it when
you are reading the comic papers.—
Somerville Journal.
A physician has discovered that the
older a man grows tho smaller his brain
becomes. This explains why the young
men know everything.
Teacher—“Johnny, give the parte of
the verb ‘to grind.”’ Johnny (short
•iop in hi* nine'—“Grind, ground,
j grounder. ”—De ‘roit Free Frees.
I J ittle Poy—“I say, mister, do you
know why you are like warer?” fat
man—“No, my liitle boy, I do not.”
“* e ther of you can run up h 11."
End .Man.—“Will an, can yon tell me
why a man sitting ou a re-ihot sto e is
likeaman who has gone t> heaven?”
Middle Man. — “I don’t know, Mr.
Bones. A\ hy is a man sitt ng on n red-
hot stove 1 ke one who has gone to
heaven?” Lnd Ma t—“Ue’> better off. ’
At the ('item.—“One t cket for me
and two chi d.cn's tickets for my two
little sous.” “Excuse me, but your
older sou is certiioly older than twelve.”
“Oh\es, but the little one is as much
younger than twelve at the big one is
older, boit’s ah the same.” — AYteve-icfe
B utter.
“Chinchin” is the Indian word for
“The young man wuo sets out to take
thesialpof an e emy.is met by a bear
and told to return and comes back empty-
handed to tell a bigsti ry ” Why can’t
we get some such short word to express
our feelings towards the chap who says
he will pay it back by Saturday
troit Free 1’rea.
The Growth of the Country.
The Philadelphia Tlecord says: “The
Census of 18110, preparations for which
are already lieing made, promises to show
in the lotted States a population of
more than 70,000,000. The population
in 1880, according to the census of that
year, was 5 ,155,783 persons of whom
43,475,810 were native and 6,679,043
foreign born. The natives had increased
10,484,698 fiom the figures of 1870—
32,991,142—or 31.5 per cent The for
eign element had gained more slowly,
however, bringing the percentage for
the entire population down to 30 per
cent Tho same rate of increase applied
to the Census of 1880 will give an
increase of 15,046,639 persons during
the ten years ending in 1890.
“The immigration between 1870 and
1880 was comparatively light, only
1,112,714 persons having come to this
country during that decade. For the
past few years, however, it has been
unprecedented. The immigration since
the last census has been as follows: |
188D
)N81
15=82....
]8>3....
l v 81....
1885...
. 4)7,257
, 669,431
788,992
, 60 v!22
618,592
.... 395,316
1683 334,203
1687 490,109
1888(8 m’ths) .S80,(KX)
ca*t% ie y m .ch ei they push them-
rcivei in the water. 1 was alto infum ed 1 i . i a v,
that the young a e no , r led up-n the | !** ,,Ut "!*•
. Th<: next 'J however, the fiajments
ot the lieast wa bed
questions at every plantation hon-e and
n* Ul PO 0lie C ,‘ H ^ te 1 "hether or ! officer, of the o her coinpan.cs fo lowed
noth# enemv. as tlmy galloped away, j the girl and the ma or, Th ■ Lute,
(■h'.uld have ordered us to r main with
enemy, as
ha-l a * niou officer with them.
We felt «o ugly at our lot* that
feared to face the natives when we
mistress who adds one to the
Ua Be gian Majesty’a subjects a fort
night’* leave, but then she has to pay a
pound weekly until she comes back. It
la net vary liberal. In Pruaaia it is evan
harder. If they marry they art dis
charged, and in Saxony a marriage works
a forfeiture of their right to a pension.
Considering these facts, remarks the
York Sen, American teachers will
that they have still many things
a< knowledge*! was the ab.ast soldier
among us, had fallen into the enemy’s
hand*. The Ma or was ao amazed that
h# actually bit off the mou’hniece of his
pi|iestem in a fit of anger; but this s*.
vere action did not return to ua the
flower cf the regiment.
Just before sunset a sentry on the road
start ed *11 of ua. as we lay behind the
works, by ahouting:
comuJi*" 0t ^ gU " d! FI *« ot truce
. our own men, but he didn't. \\ a
: reHche.l ihe hou«e, more hmu mile out
s tie the lines, without anno a ice, aud
when the girl ha l lightid a cnnd>e, we
lollowed htr and the ma or to tne cellar.
The in. or a su.gextbm that the g rl
ih.'Uld first whGpjratthe bung hole and
tee it' the captive was still al.ve, was
acted upon. Instead she said cheerily,
as sue turned the key and raised the
cover:
“You’ve nothing to fear, Will."
“ ‘Will:’ ” murmured’the very young
lieutenant *
Juat then Glennie's face appeared above
the edgo of the staves, and seemed some
what disconcerted at th*
ne t, but are inkea to the water on the
Lack of ;he mother, where they rema n
and are ted for a ti . e. and then a e
launched upon the waves for liie. At
this age one can mw up to them and
lake them in the hand, whirl, they de
light in giving haid nip* with their long
and linv er b Us: but when a month ;dd
tb»y *e. m as wild and tunning u their
patent*.”
aud cut ad to pie es.
jmeuts
ashore, mutilated
The meaning of the word pyx ia two
fold. it it the casket it, wh ch prie>ts
keep the rom-ecrated wafer. It is in
Eng and the chest in which gold and
silver coins are deposit, d. TI • veriti, a-
tion by a ury of fodsmiths of th*
standard of these coin* is called “the
trial of the nyx." The coins are in cus
tody of the lord* of the treasury aud the
comptroller general, and are deported
M'sf 'Icniatlon.
D d you ever ^e one xnuke swallowing
another? A cw ,ta.ys ago Liana iviere
Caught a kiiiKsnuKe in ilieactoi swallow-
rag a gr.en snake. Bolt, were-ina l.bnt
the “
the given wa* considerably longer than '
ih® k ng. When the king had got hum-. *l' r “ n K on Ihe public, and when I
•elf about full iheie w ns abo.it o"!,# th^rd
ot the gieeii still sticking out Tho
king was help es*. and Mr. Riviere
brought them to Air. Hightower’s store,
where they were on exbib tion. After
awhile Carvers Hightower he d the green
down with a stick. *ad then the king
H hi Gtrspxrssi'l . J-! A. A I S ^
4,637,252
Estimated for 2 years imei 4 months. 1,100,00)
T< tal for 10 years. 5,737,253
“Adding this total to the increase in
the native born population at the rate
which prevailed from 1870 to IS-'O, and
it will be found that the probable
increase in population during the pres
ent decade, after making due allowances
for births and deaths, will have been
40,246,630, and the total population in
1890, native and foreign born, 70,322,-
479, divided oa follows:
„ ^ lsW - 1800.
Native 82,991,143 43,475,840 58,531 470
Foreign born. 5,517,2-3) G,fiT»,943 H.tXo'oK)
Total 38.758,371 (MU'5,783 7n,:i22,4:9
“It is very evident that the foreign
ch roent w.ll form a lunch larger propor
tion of the popu atiou iu 18„0 than ever
before, in 18)0 this proportion was
alMiut 13 per cent.; in 187o, i, percent;
and in IBS',about 15 |H*rcent. In 18^0
it will be not for from 13 per cent”
Yellow Fever and Rj'-H'alsd Glrfs.
“Hel-bealed girls are exempt from
yellow fever,” remarked a prominent
Jackson vide, (Fla.) doctor to a > ew
York Sun repo ter. as the latter wa*
nroui.d the MeU cal Bureau thas ng afiet
items.
Acs,’ continued the fever #■ port.
I hcatil this claim ad ..need man. yeart
•go, bel«re the wh te horse theory was
. cam* j
here I d. term ned to fully rave t gate
the matter. ] have done »o. anil among
my patients, -JOo in number, not one of
them h<d a ‘carro y wig,’ at we uie(1 tc
cull red hair in col ege. I huvo a*ked
Story of tho Extinction oftheRaeo
In the Great Forests of Penajl-
▼an la.
“I will tell you the story of how tho
last elk that ever startled the huntev
with his whistle in tho forests of Penn
sylvania was killed, it you would lika
to hear it?” said an old resident of that
sregion to a New York Timet oorre»
pendent as they sat smoking together Is
hie cabin after a hard and not very auo»
cesaful day’s hunt. /
“By all means,” I replied. “Nothing
could be more to my wish.”
“The killing of that last elk occurred
as late as the winter of 1867,” continued
the old hunter, “although elk was be
lieved to have been extinct in this State
twenty years before. Sixty years ago
they were still very numerous iu tho
Northwestern Pennsylvania forests,
especially in the wild Sinnemahoning
region, in what is now Elk county.
“Elk County was formed from other
counties in 18)3, and it was because elk
was still numerous within its bounda
ries that the name was given it. Tho
j site of the present county seat, th# villago
^ of Bidgeway, was an unbroken wilder
ness when this county was formed, and
no better place for elk could bo found-
I shot an elk on the site of the old Elk
County Court House six months before
the land was cleared on which it Was to
be built. F rom where Ridgeway now ie
to the present city of Bradford, th*
metropolie of the oil region, a famous
elk paffi or runway extended, leading to
a salt lick in what is now Washington
Park in Bradford.
“In 15)45, the country having been
settled very rapidly, aud elk hunting
having been pursued persistently by
i«*«ov exnert hunters without regard to
the mean# used to kilt the animals, what
was believed to be the lust elk iu tho
State was killed. 'J he hunter who shot
it wat .-eth AeUon, a famous woodsman,
who had a record of » elk from t '->0 to
18 , a ,d wh > wa* st 11 living the last Z
knew, I having vi*itcd him at ound
island Elk Co ntv, in l v8 . Nelson 6#t
h a traps and hu ited ihe ridges of that
rez on year in and year out alter kitting
that elk, and wassaiit-fied that the wapiti
race hod been ann h luted along tho
Biunemah xiiug.and if it bad disappeared
fr./m that wild section it w’as certain
ttat it had no repiesen’at.ve in any other
part of the State, harly in 6e|itember,
| i m> , however, a* he wua netting hiatraps
in Bennett’s Cieek. near Flag Swamp,
hz heard the peculiar aod unmistakable
whistle ihat a bull e k iuak>a at that
lime of year, and then onl. for three or
four day*, itisitscui for a mate, and
the ludmn hunters cull it “the Ion#
Joug " Nelson returned to hi-* cab n, got
hl« h lunds, a- d started buck for 1 lag
Fwamptoput them on the trail of tho
elk. in the meant me, unf Ttuustely
for the old elk hunter, a heavy rain
had commenced to fall and by tbe time
he hud readied the spot, where he had
heard the bull's whistle all scent of his
trail had been obliterated and Nelson
was forced to abandon b s hunt.
“it was something that Nelson never
forgme hinuelf for that he d d not keep
his ducovery tohimseif, for had hedono
so be Lei eved that he would have round-
his icc<>rd as an elk hunter by billing
tbe last one of that race in I ennxylva--
uia. But he told other hunters, aud the
news that there was a bull elk still in
this Sinucmahonrag woods soon spread
throughout the regrau, and the wood#
were scoured for week* by scores of
hunters all anxious to lay the lone elk
low. Among the hunters who made tho
woods of Northern and Northwestern
Pennsylvania their camping grounds as
late as 1867, were many old-time full-
blooded Indians, who lived on the Corn-
planter Reservation in Warren County,
and on the Cattaraugus Reservation,
over the New York State line. Promi
nent among these was an Indian known
as Jim Jacobs, who lived on the Catta
raugus Reservation, lie was thegreatest
hunter that ever roamed the woods of that
country, and he was then over seventy-
five years old. He, in company with
another Indian hunter, started in after
the elk. Other hunters tired of the
weary and unprofitable search and left
the woods, but these two Indiana knew
no such thing as weariness or ‘letup,*
and they kept relentlessly on the hunt.
In the latter part of November, on one
snowy day, the long search for the elk
was rewarded. The Indians struck ite
trail, and the chase began. Elk, unlike
deer, did not fly from danger by tremen
dous leaps, but kept up a peculiar trot,
which they could maintain without
fatigue for' days. It never directed it#
j course for water when pressed by hounds,
as the deer doe«, but kept constantly
on its course as long as it was pursued,
or until it was brought to bay. When
tne dogs succeeded in drawing near to
the flying elk it invariably sought the
summ.t of a rook or elevated point,
where it would stand and defend itself
against the dogs with its forefeet. This
was the stege of the chase in which the
doom of the elk was sealed. The dogs
would harass it, but, if they were trained
to the business, kept at safe distance
from the quick aud powerful blow of its
sharp hoofs, for one blow would kill the
f imest dog that ever followed the trail.
he dogs would then keep the poor elk
at bay until the hunter* came up, when
the well directed bullets ended th*
combat.
“Jim Jacobs wns learned in all th*
tactics of the elk, and having discov
ered the trail of tills ‘lone elk of the
Sinnemahoning.’ as this ore had been
named, they knew that only t.me and
persistence were necessary to eventually
Yecure the r g me. Toe umuial ba i ed
pursuit for days but the Indian huntere
we e as tire e-a a the rgune, and > n the
fourth day attersta ting iho elk, two of
tbeM thiougn a heavy s-iowsio m, tho
•rnntm via urouirbt to bay in the ture»l#
of Inrion County, pear the head waters
«.f the i arion i .vc , F rty m les from
tne point where the trail was ru struck,
although twice tnat ri »t.<!-ce, if not
more imdlmen covered n th" cha«e.
“When the two Indian* arrived on the
spot w mte the e k had i ten forced to
turn up n its pu suers, »hey tonnd itsnr*
inuuded by the dogs end riorce y light
ing tlx m tm scobs was anxious to
Hscurethe noble animal alive, a d hours
were spent by the two Indian* in efforts
to that end, but tbev we c u elees un
■ acoos shot it through the heart, ana the
last of tbe wapiti race in reua ylvaai*—
the ’lone elk of the . iiintm^oou g’-—
died, defying its e icmies 10 the end.
uim acuh*, tne proud s ayerof the ani
mal, hunted throughout that pa t of
I ennsvlvan a until > * 2. and, alrlwugh
Ihen nlneiy years old, showed ■<> signs
ot loss of x igor. He was run over by
the care at Fa amanck Itst year and cut
to cie e» almost with n sight of Jueown
houee on ih* reservation.”
uown wiin a sue*, aud then the king my brother physicians if the* h»rl ....
d-'gorged him, and seemed glad to get reff l...>4^.1 !.* . , * h “ tnJ
rid of Ids “filling.” h was cerUlnlv a headed patients, aud could find but
AtrartrvA /*/ - «... * * OHO (h’U'tn* wrlvrt 1.1. a a
Wo 11 apnmg upon the perapti, nod * 1 ^ * W " tmU " Ut
Strange sight.— I'/inmat/on Times.
The Mexican Government I. preparing JI i mned it WiU1 an
io introduce the postal money order eye- j by • I have
tem into th# country, ^ utee,”
one doctor who said he had had tbii
rare avia. On further questioning h m
Wed, good-
The Roeaitn imperial family bav# a
uabit when among themselves of eeeing
who ena roll up the greatest number of
silver rouble# in n quarter of an hour, by
an appointment in ten miu- j rolling the roublM between the ptim* of
the hand*.
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